Welcome to Toffy TV for today's chat. I am joined by Sam Benjamin, actor, writer and evertonian. You'll see Sam in Peaky Blinders, BBC's War of the Worlds and he's due to start in this year's action movie I Am Vengeance with the Dinnie Jones retaliation. So that looks like it's going to be a big one. Sam, welcome to Toffy TV. How are you mate? They're in good under the circumstances bars, how are you? Yeah, just all doing the same thing aren't we? Just watching as many box setters we can or playing on my PlayStation or all that kind of thing to stay out the way and can only do what we've been told to do make aren't we? Yeah, exactly, yeah. So where are you at the moment here in London? Yeah, yeah. I'm in me flat in London. Nice. No garden. No garden. No, no. None of this fancy stuff that other people have but yeah. So you're getting out for your hours exercise a day, that's the most important thing. I am yeah, it feels like prison doesn't it? Like you've got to go out for your hour out on solitary. It's mad, it is mad. It's such a mad situation.  Yeah, I know seeing a lot of people walking who have never seen walking before but fair play, fair play. You do what we can. I saw someone post the other day and she's like a fitness instructor and she said something like 40 years I've been in this industry trying to get people to exercise and all it took was the government to lock everyone down and say you can only go out for an hour. Yeah, and everyone's on it. Everyone's on it. So let's have a little chat about your career and how you got into acting and stuff. So how did that come about to see you'd gone off to university and went to a drama school or something like that? Is that how you were acting before then? Yeah, I mean there's obviously the long version, the short version. I mean essentially I was, ever since I was lucky in the sense that ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be an actor. I can remember thinking it in primary school and I think it was a combination of just loving films and not having any confidence as a kid. So I prefer being other people. That's where I could be confident and be whoever I wanted to be. So I'm just growing up with you know all I used to go to meet dads every other Saturday and we used to show me inappropriate 18 rated films like Alien and Die Hard and all those kind of action films from the 80s and I'd be like oh I want to do that. So but then you know dad was a taxi driver, forklift truck driver, my mum was a hairdresser and everyone thought I was mad to want to be an actor which probably that's true and so yeah I basically went to school, I did like, I didn't really study drama in school, I did it outside of school especially as a teenager when a mate of mine was like age you want to come to this drama group and I was like and he was like it's like 80% girls and I was like all right yeah I'll be there on Tuesday yeah so did that then and yeah and then in school I was quite good at like the written subjects and I was kind of being groomed to be going to law because I had good grades but then I kind of thought now I can't let, I need to follow me dream at least attempt it so I and then so no one in my family had been to uni so I was like right I'm going to go to uni I'll do a proper subject which was history because I thought no point going and doing some Mickey Mouse even though some people say history was Mickey Mouse but it's not as Mickey Mouse as you know some like media studies or something like that so I thought go do a proper old school subject but in me spare time do as much acting student plays short films all that kind of stuff and then yeah first play I was in was Angels in America which HBO did a version of it with Al Pacino did that and I was lucky that the director was knew what he was doing and he invited this national student drama festival and then I got picked and then I ended up doing a summer training with Patrick Stewart and that was like the moment where I was like oh my god it's doable it's actually doable and just meeting someone like that and having a you know face to face with someone like Patrick Stewart it's like oh and then and then like I remember him talking about you wouldn't expect it but he's a working class lad from Hothersfield and then you're like oh no yeah because obviously all that generation got taught to you know speak in that accent so it was like all of a sudden it's like oh it is doable so then at that point I was like right I'm going all out for it and then when I finished uni I had no money I was in debt and then I moved back um up to the world got a job in a bank um because I just thought I've just got to make as much money as possible I tried to get a job and I was on the dough for about a month and a half couldn't get a job and then um and then eventually blagged a job in a bank and then money audition for drama school and then went to drama school the year after that and then I've been working as an actor and there's a writer and creating stuff as well for the past 11 years so obviously I mean I'm amazing you didn't want to be a football I thought we all wanted to be footballers first and then maybe acting was second it's weird like I think my I had I had a bit more of a realism in my footballing dreams than in my acting dreams for some reason and you know I used to play I played for a team called Bevington Rovers um and I was for a period I was the captain I played defensive centre mid was kind of a bit of a Lee Carsley in the sense that I was I was never like I always knew I was never a natural but I knew that so I had to work at it so I was always like I was a good tackler I was a good passer and I and like I could I had a good engine on me so I just I just was a nuisance basically rather than but whenever I got the ball my instinct was always right I'm giving it to him because he can create something um so I always knew on a football pitch I was I could hold my own but I wasn't you know I wasn't a flashy player or a natural on the ball so I never had any illusions even obviously I dreamed of it and you know number five on the back of all the Everton shirts because that was the number of war for me team as well outstanding so acting acting was the yeah it was the more realistic dream so what was I mean obviously oh yeah you know right well listen I mean you've achieved it so so there you go dreams it's all about dreaming isn't it um what was your first what was your first real acting job then uh the first one uh the literally the first one was I I did a a play called glass house in at the Bristol tobacco factory and I got it just as I graduated from drama school in the September of 2009 and the guardian gave it a one star review but um but I did say the producer was devastated but in the review they did put that I gave the best performance of the night so I was like get results and he was like what are you talking about it's one star and I was like yeah well um because I did uh did that but then my first tv job was doctors um which I did in 2010 and I played I played like a a womanizing pizza delivery boy whose my first line yeah whose first I was on my first line on tv ever was um this uh girl opens the door and then I'm standing there in the doorway and I just look down and then go large pepperoni and then uh it it went on from there so that was that was my first job um I don't remember as well my agent at the time who got me the audition she said oh I've got an audition for you it's for doctors but she was like don't worry too much about it you're not going to get it and I was like all right great keeping it real for you then there you go you got it though proved her wrong didn't you yeah proved her wrong yeah yeah yeah and it was good to get something it's it's always good as an actor for like get like get on the rung and get your first tv credit because then people are like oh yeah you can do it he's on there you know i mean so that as it just progressed from there then is it is it a case it's just do you read for everything to get script sent here is it is it literally through agents it's it's a bit it's a bit of both i mean it's been it's been um it's been a struggle like especially in the early years it's uh you get you get the one thing and then you think oh i'm off to the races here i'm going to be they're going to be bringing me in for you know the leo the caviar movies and all this uh but actually it's not like that at all um so yeah it's sometimes you're feeding off especially in the early days you're feeding off scraps um the next one i did was little crackers which was with john bishop which i think was about a year after that right and for a while you kind of get brought in for stuff that's you know it's a lot of stereotyping like they you know they look especially within the industry they'll look at me and they'll go you know even though i'm from the world and i don't have a particularly strong accent but a lot of people especially down south as far as they're concerned they they'll go oh yeah oh yeah he's Liverpool we'll bring him in for you know the the rough Liverpool guy on the estate and we'll bring him in for the you know all that kind of stuff so i kind of rode that a bit and um and it's good to you know if you get him brought in so yeah i just did bits and bobs and slowly but surely you know then did uh did a like a one episode couple of scenes in peeky blinders as a Liverpool policeman uh nice so yeah and then it just builds and builds and builds but you're doing a lot of you know a lot of hustling a lot of emailing directors going to events uh working three four jobs at the same time whilst waiting for the auditions and then calling your agent and going oh i wasn't a scene for that why wasn't a scene for that and even now like i've just started uh when i was watching the interview with you in sam whore and i've just started watching the english game and started watching i was like oh where was my audition for that so uh you know you're classic isn't it even if you're uh you know you you know years into the game yeah now and i wish back like you just said spoke to sam whore spoke to anzu gawet as well um another evertonian actor and he was saying very similar to you it's looking at arm for stuff and and it is it's very difficult to to get stuff but i've had a lot you were in war of the world of course which was filmed up in Liverpool as well on BBC one that was before christmas so that must have been good as well being back up north and back here and doing a bit of filming here yeah it's always great to come back up and the amazing thing about the war of the world was it was they filmed the scenes i was in in in an old uh hangar in camilleads in like a big old shipping container that they converted into a studio and my uncle my dad and my granddad all worked for camilleads so it was like and i was telling everyone on and they just they were just like oh i was like oh this is camillead this is where my family you know and my uncle was here but you know and they were like all right yeah sounds yeah save our winner but yes yeah i got a big kick out of it filming up there and it was uh it's also a bit weird as well because they you know i live in london i audition down here and then they send you all and then i went all the way up to drop my accent and play like a real posh southerner that was uh that was fun as well madness a sy'n gyfer in lachimant fresh meat parents is in things like that as well so you have i mean well like i and i know is it the viny jones film coming off this year i am vengeance you didn't know is that right yeah um it's called i am vengeance retaliation it's got viny jones and xwwe wrestler stew bennett um he's a preffin north end fan but he loves he does know he was like oh i do love that i've always loved everton since the moe's era so we had a bit of football banser on that but yeah that i don't know when it's coming out it's coming out at some point later this year and then i just did a um i filmed a part in a new show it's called antonie it's a drama based on that lad antonie walker um so it's quite a serious that that'll be coming out later this year um right so yeah yeah it's um so even though it's paused for now i've got a couple of things coming out so it's just about looking for what what the next thing is as well you need a death in paradise spoke to sam about this the other week mate 10 days in guard the loop that's i mean it sounds all right to me i love that as well so that's a good one to get in mate or admit some of matters with hands we was in as well they're all right as well exactly exactly well um did you ever hear the story of uh michael cain with uh joe's four and uh he always gets loads of stick for me michael cain gets loads of stick for being in joe's four um i think it's joe's four yeah because obviously it's like a crap sequel and um and apparently somebody said to michael what why the hell did you take that part but he goes they gave me the script i flipped it open to page one and it said external Bahamas and i was like yep i'm gone yeah well that's what sam was saying you know sam or was saying he was in you know death in paradise for about five minutes it's a like dead on the floor all day but he got 10 days in guard the loop out of it so not you know not a bad one not a bad one um so what what's the i mean i'm looking through 32 creditors an actor seven writing credits five creditors a producer one is a director so you've done you've done the full the full spectrum already within your industry haven't you there's acting the one now acting the one acting's always the one um i'm just i'm just actually uh directed a short film uh it's in post production now it's called screw job it's about a professional wrestler um kind of like a rocky kind of story um so i've tried my hand of directing there and i do like it um but it did make me realise that it's acting is number one acting is always the thing but sometimes it's like you know you've got to try try different things and also occupy yourself as well and i like to you know you you don't just want to be a passenger in your field you don't just want to be receiving stuff and doing what stories other people say are good because sometimes you'll be like i'm going to minute why aren't we telling this story why aren't we telling this story um so that's that's where that comes from sometimes you've got to and actually i uh sent a message to rob the director of howards way um because i wrote a little i wrote a little short film about Dixie Dean um as one example of like i don't know you and Sam were talking about it as well but there's like you know i want to get in all my everton propaganda and shape you know shape the industry and put that out there as well um you know looking at and i don't know about you but when i saw creed and like Tony Bell you in that i was just like oh like this is always it was so like it was such a big thing to like be in the cinema watching one of my favorite franchises but you know In Goodison Park with the blue colours and you know Sylvester Stallone movie all of that kind of like i want to see more of that so anything i can do you know to shape that so that's where the writing and also it's a good way to earn extra money as well uh you know when you get a good writing job it's it's good money you're just pitched for a writing job for a superhero film um like a not not like a marvel or a dc but it's a different type but um you know if you get one of those big jobs it can be big money so it can keep you keep it going between the acting stuff fantastic it it it is great see and obviously yourself Sam Ho and Andrew Gower have all mentioned Dixie doing a Dixie so the three are going to have to get together and create this this film for Netflix or something because it's uh it's definitely a story that's that's where telling it's incredible no one will ever do the kind of stuff he did but his life as well his life was mad you know he had a motorcycle accident and never nearly played football again and come back to be the greatest centre forward ever so i think if it was tied in a little bit like the english game in that kind of thing but with with the football i think it'd be i think it'd be really interesting an incredible story and surely there's a there's got to be one about Howard Kendall maybe you can get Rob maybe you and Rob can work on something for the Howard Kendall yeah there's no reason why Howard's way couldn't be uh like a film like what was that the damned united that kind of thing where there's no reason why not that it's obviously a completely different story but there's no reason why that can't be it and and you know what else like because i i get i get pretty angry sometimes being down in London in terms of i remember wrote an article like an article for a website a while ago i can't remember what it was but um you know about how you wouldn't believe how especially in London how people don't know how illustrious Everton's history is it's like people people literally think that we're like we're like a west hammer and new castle in terms of what we've won like and i was mentioned to a guy the other day i'm mate of mine who knows football like really well he's got a great knowledge and i told him about Howard's way and i told and then he would tell about the 80s and what happened with Heisel and all this and he was like he was he was like what he was like i didn't you wouldn't and then he and then he as he was speaking to me he was googling it and he was like bloody hell you got nine league titles and five FA cups and all this so i think anything we can do but that's a great idea that Howard's way thing um for sure maybe you should have a chat to Sam about it um but also the Dixie thing definitely and i've done some research on on some like old Dixie interviews and one thing i love about when you read about what he used to say it's not a lot of stuff but i think he actually hit on Everton spirit way back then because there's a there's an interview where he said something on the lines of he said something like you know people are talking about the beautiful game and Barcelona and you know passing it around beautifully and all this and he said something like he said that's not the beautiful game the beautiful game is getting the ball in the net as directly as possible fast pace get it in the net and i was like well that's that's Everton isn't it that's what we love yeah that's what it's like it's that blend of like no get it in the get it in the net in a faster fishing way that's beautiful football um so i think even even he had maybe there's something i don't know something that's seeked in from from there i don't know well that's it's that's the psyche that's our DNA as they like to call it well he's he's felt that in the 30s late 20s 30s so it's been it's been around for exactly so it's like 100 years or that so maybe maybe there is something Rob's a good mate of mine Rob's slowman so i'll definitely tell him to have a little chat with you and see what we can come up with um and also speaking to speaking to Chris Mason who's another Evertonian actor who's living in LA at the moment but he's another one he had a film out of a while ago he had his Everton kit on in that just a little getting up out of bed with it this year so it's great that all you all you uh thespians are getting Everton into a Everton into every every film and every show that you do it's it's fantastic just just on to just on to the Everton things Sam what was what's like your earliest memory of Everton you know how did you become an Evertonian and the earliest one of my early memories was i remember getting the um i don't know i don't know what to refer to it as but the i remember getting the the big n-e-c kit as i call it this was my first kit the one where the n-e-c was the big letters for the first time with the with the outrageously detailed goodness and park in the uh like sown into the into the kit um i remember me and my cousin Mark we both had matching shirts of those with our with our names on the back i remember getting that for my birthday um so that was my first kit and then a part like whenever anyone says oh so how did you end up i can't remember making a decision you know what i mean it was just like uh yeah like because my my grandad on my mum's side is a big Evertonian and he actually had he got i don't know how it worked then but he actually was offered um to like join the equivalent of the academy back in his day his name was John Armstrong um but he had to get three buses to get to the training because he lived on the world and his dad at the time said there's no money in football so i'm not gonna i'm not giving you a bloody list if you want to go to that training you can make your own way so it was just he just every time he went he was late and he couldn't he couldn't make it work with whatever else he was doing um and then so on on on um on my mum's side yeah my grandfather was an Evertonian and then on the dad's side his dad was an Evertonian he was an Evertonian um and my dad also my dad died two years ago but they did a great thing uh a little mention in the program for him when he died because he had he had trials for Everton as well um so it's in your family go on what it's in your family then isn't it the same it's just it's just there and i actually remember i remember when i was a little kid and and i actually remember only really knowing like that there was Everton and Liverpool but that was there was a blue team and a red team and that was that was it and then um yeah and my cousin my cousin's family um who i used to have a season ticket with um my cousin and my uncle and they're both from Fazzacoli um so we used to they still go um but i used to have a season ticket with them um so yeah it's just been you know as i'm sure most of well the majority of Evertonians there's no decision you just are and then there you go born born a blue oh my first game my first game was my grandad took me and my cousin to i must have been maybe 92 or 91 or 92 and it was against Arsenal and uh we drew one all and i remember being devastated i was like what what oh that's crap one all and then my memory was walking with i remember walking with my grandad and loads of people asked him oh what was the score and he was like oh one one and everyone was like oh right and i was like what not happy when happy with the results no no no you were uh though you were heroes then Everton heroes growing up your favourite players um i mean it's like the i suppose the when i was really young obviously Duncan Ferguson was a big one um i loved i loved David Unsworth i loved it okay uh yeah and also i think because when i was playing for my team uh one of the other lads always said i was like David Unsworth because of my tackling and i just used to like like go in like really hard and i just loved that that rhino like uh like thing that he had where he just then he just had so much passion about him um and he scored some and obviously the pens just i just loved that he was just really oh just brilliant at pens um was it but yeah and then who else uh i loved um i loved Graverson loved Tommy Graverson i loved his distinctive run something about the way you know every time he got the ball he was like he ran like no other player yeah he was strange strange run but good yeah and then who who else um i loved this and then there's other players where like i think the player that i love like in hindsight so much more now is Cahill yeah yeah i think he like i didn't appreciate like i loved him when he was with us but i didn't appreciate just how how awesome he was um he almost made it look easy his ability to just be in the right place at the right time and um and i think we he summed up the Everton spirit and i think we we always need to have players like that and that's as long as we've got players like that going forward with with with some flash players as well then you know that's what that's what's exciting what have you made of um Carlo Anciolotti was surprised Everton were able to get him and are you excited for the future with him it's easy for me to say this but i when we got going back which i'll bring it to Anciolotti when when we got Martinez in i was like why are we getting in a manager who's been relegated and and i obviously did sit in hindsight but i was like why are we getting what and why are we getting why are we going for him and then and then obviously first season i was like all right he's doing all right um but then obviously he went downhill and then ever since Martinez and my my my theory has always been and i've always said it to you know to my mates and my cousin whenever we're ever talking about it is why don't we get a winner i mean like i've had that for the up and coming um young promising you know whatever whatever so when we got Anciolotti and i was over the moon and i was like we should have got we we we've needed to get someone like this for years because i think as well it's a statement it'll attract players obviously but just just getting someone who's a winner and i think when where Everton are and obviously i'm of a generation that has only really got a 95 FA Cup to enjoy you've got a whole generation or maybe two generations that don't know an Everton that regularly wins stuff so i think i think that's why it's imperative that we've got a man at the helm to whom winning is not a big deal like oh yeah champions league yeah i remember when we won them yeah so you know that i mean even said something like that after a match oh yeah i remember yeah we lost i remember losing the lead once in the champions league or whatever he said but then we won it the next year it was so i think um i was made up from the get-go and i was loving it because i remember before there was that weird switch where um there was rumors of Arsenal getting Anciolotti and i was getting our tether and even though i love our tether i was like nah we need to be getting Anciolotti and i really thought Arsenal were going to get Anciolotti so when that flipped i was like i think we've we've done the better business there so i think like i don't think it's going to happen overnight but i think i think there's it makes me a lot calmer about the future like and i think there is a more of a calm around the fan community i think just because we've got to trust him because he does know what he's doing he's got the track record to prove it so i think we kind of got to go all right let's see let's see what he does and i think i think it is going to be a challenge for him um but he seems to genuinely want to bring us back to where we should be yeah everything you've said i was the same with my partners couldn't understand why we were getting someone who'd been relegated and didn't know how to defend and at the end of the first year i was thinking oh maybe i've just got this right but yeah but you've got it we've got someone in is used to winning and that's a massive thing um and hopefully when this you know when we we can retain to playing football and and moving forward hopefully he'll get us back to where we feel we belong and that brings me on nicely to my final final question for you really you mentioned it before but Howard's way film because it's that should be the standard in my opinion of where we hold Everton up to so how enjoyable was that theatre watch because obviously you were uh you weren't born at the time so did you enjoy watching that film and and seeing Everton's history played out on the on the screen uh the funny thing is my cousin who i mentioned before he's got the season ticket um Mark he he got me Howard's way for Christmas on DVD and i brought it back down to London with me and i put it on my shell and it took about three months for me to bring up the courage to watch it because just i was staring at it and i was like i don't know if i can take watching us win stuff because it's gonna it's gonna employ me um and and and and lo and behold i started playing it um and within within second i was feeling shivers and emotions because i was like oh i've obviously heard stories about it watched matches from the era and you know heard interviews and with the players at the time and stories from a granddad about you know when we went it wasn't if we're gonna win it's by how much we're gonna win um so i yeah i was still getting quite emotional from the get go and then once i got into it um yeah it was it was obviously glorious as well to like experience it and like whoa just go through chronologically how it went down um and all the little nip like uh details about you know how when we sold Alan ball and how you know loads of people including uh you know David saying oh you've made a mistake you we're not gonna win the league or whatever for that was my that was my lad that was my little boy oh yeah was it yeah yeah one is running to the phone box uh act and debut so there you go oh well there you go um yeah so it was um it was it was an amazing story and just um all the players and the personalities of the players and the team spirit and all of that and um i think i think that and that era again it defines it defines Evertonians character it seems to the generations because not only have you got the memory of the winning and being on top but then it is that you know people talk about the bitterness as well and you know it's it's a thing but um i remember i heard someone um uh is that is a random reference but i'm a big wrestling fan and uh c m punk who is the wrestler who left wwe and very like they hated each other's you know part in ways and everyone was saying to c m punk oh you're bitter you're so bitter about leaving and not being on top and all this and then he did this tell all interview and the first thing he said was he said first of all i just want to say it's okay to be bitter it's like it's okay to be bitter when there's been injustice which i kind of like um so you know i think there is a reason for why we have that like feeling that we are better than where we are now and also and also that inner anger that inner fury almost which i think you know it spills into you know the way that we have that passion and aggression and how we respond to those kind of you know when dung took over and it was like yeah we've got that fire in our belly because we are angry we are angry still um so basically to bring it back to howard's weight it's also a tragedy in the sense that like every time you relive that story you're like oh how did that happen and hardly anyone seems to speak about it or know about it and you know it's never spoken about it's never referred to even when you know that whole city potential ban i don't know whether it's going to happen or it wasn't going to happen i mean linica did a a crying emoji like referring to um you know when he played for everton but aside from that i didn't see any mainstream media going oh well isn't this interesting because in the 80s they did this remember when not there was nothing so no howard's weight is an important film and i think it's a great like i want to see it on you know i'll flick on netflix and on the recommend it says sundown until i die at the moment and i'm like well howard's weight should be in front of that um so yeah it was an emotional thing but it also gave me a i really enjoyed it as well and it was really uplifting to see those players and just hear those players talk about it now um it gets it into the gets it into the blood stream and gets me fired up whenever the the football resumes and i am positive about the future i think i think we can do it and i think we we kind of have to do it because it's been far too long it's like we've got to get on with it now it's you know just got to get it done and we've done it we've just got to win something that's we've got to break the deadlock and get the that doesn't matter what it is finish finish 16th and win the league cup and then we're off to the faces you know what i mean i really do think that i think it's breaking the deadlock that's all it's going to take yeah you're right it's it's been far too long on that that film the team that slipped through the cracks almost it's good that it's back out there and um i know that skyd documentary i've picked it up now so hopefully netflix will in the future and yeah so more people hopefully fingers crossed more people will see it and not evertonians i'm talking about other people because i've watched clough and and forest documentaries and things and go actually yet ever not a massive club fourth most successful english club which gets shoved under the carpet so it's important we keep banging the drum and important you keep banging the drum as an actor in that industry keep telling keep telling this story well no i'll do i'll do um obviously like trying to squeeze it whenever i can it was funny actually because i am i remember there was when i was doing little crackers with john bishop and i was playing as brother eddie bishop and this other lad uh uh was playing him but in the 70s when they were younger and obviously they were he's a red isn't he and we had this one scene where we were going door to door and doing um penny for the guy i think it was and um and and john was threatening through the hole because uh myself and uh josh he was playing the young lad we were both evertonians and so john was like threatening us through the whole shoot oh when we're doing that scene i'm getting you a Liverpool shirt and we were like you're not no way it's not in the and then um but we did so basically the the compromise was we he gave us like red and white scarves but it was like there was no Liverpool branding on it so we were like who but um but yeah loads of my friends have threatened me they're like uh yeah but you you know you're gonna you know you're gonna get off at the park with having to wear a Liverpool shirt and i was like oh no um so hopefully uh yeah we can uh all uh that's what it is in there it's about the community um you know doing what we can and i think all the other things that all the extra things like being in the in the presence in the media and in films and in tv like that film creed i think probably did more for the Everton brand and most things that the club have done in the past 20 years just just because people to Sylvester Stallone movie people will see it um and i've always thought about him as well like maybe he'd be interested in you know helping get some of these you know a Howard's Way drama or a Dixie Dean film getting made going to put it on you then Sam to show that that's your that's one of your tasks one of your tasks when we're on lockdown put the feelers out while you're on lockdown listen thanks for taking thanks for taking time out your day to uh to talk so it's been lovely to chat to you and uh hopefully we'll share in uh on our screens more and more and with some Everton branding on will be lovely of course yeah well thanks for having me on and um i'm a regular watcher subscriber and support of toffee tv i think it's uh you guys have probably done just as much um as creed you know in terms of the fan base and it's it's good it's a good it's always my place to go to not only when i'm feeling angry after a game but also i think it's also the place to go as well for like thinking right how you know how can we move forward and the people you're getting on the thing you're building you guys are building the the the future community that we're going to you know win stuff with with this club well listen thanks very much for your saying so um well like i say pleasure to have your on i will definitely definitely have your on again be lovely if you get an act on job up here come in and see us in the studio as well that would be nice it'd be nice to uh to have a sit down in the studio with you look after yourself good luck with everything else you've got going on and uh stay safe most importantly cheers by the youtube say hi to ped for me will do cheers sam take care mate so a big thanks there to sam benzymen for joining us at Chattabarrish Korea and of 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Hi everyone, I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with Kaka wow phantom Disney 100 two-box random pack break number two a lot of fun stuff here from the happiest place on earth here at Jaspys Jaspys is the happiest place on earth, right? Disneyland 2 maybe big thanks to this group for making it happen now. We're gonna open up the box first label up number up all the packs All right one through 20 and then we'll we'll do the randomizer randomize your names and the pack numbers and And match you up Good luck, we're gonna go in alphabetical order so apologies to The people on the back half of the alphabet Just makes it a little bit easier for me to organize all this did a Did a Jaspys showed up on your Disney Plus subscription? Yeah, we're gonna be streaming on Disney Plus now Should we just stream exclusively on Disney Plus? Yeah, just live stream on Disney All right, just right next to Mandalorian It's tonight Good you're good you're good Whoa Just too many edibles before good. I mean that gator team was awesome in after one very opening scene I thought you thought that was it. You thought that was a gator You thought that was a gator Yeah, no, did you not see the shell on time since that's a giant tortoise It's like a terrapin It's like I think it's I think it's a turtle No, look at all my like Wikipedia look it up on a Wikipedia. It's a giant space Look at the shell right there. No But there's a there's a turtle. Yeah, okay. All right. All right shake my hand. Okay All right, it's real life. It's real life. It's real life. All right There are the names there the packs. Let's rando It three times one and a two three times her names and pack numbers one two and three After three we've got Levi down to Edward and then one and a two three times for the pack numbers one two and Three got 15 down of four Levi with 15 Connor with two Tim with 20 Josh with nine Mark with three Adam with seven Tristan with 12 Levi with 18 Edward with 11 Mark with 16 Levi with five Tim with 14 Tristan with 19 Chris with eight Darren with 17 Tim with 10 Levi with one Adam with six and Dan last spot mojo 13 and Edward with four Let's order these alphabetically All right, and we're not gonna do a trade window because no one traded last time I don't think I was gonna trade this time, but I am gonna print out those labels. So bear with me here So Adam you're gonna be up first with some Disney cards We're looking for numbered cards. We're looking for Autographs You'll see what I'm talking about if we if we find one Good luck ladies and gentlemen And obviously if you're re-watching the video and of course you can just fast forward to wherever your name shows up All right Good luck, Adam. Here's seven and six. There's Aladdin and there is Mickey Mouse and friends classic Commander tongue All right. Thank you, Adam I mean just cuz you know, obviously, I'm not sure what the market is gonna be like for this set, but obviously Look up all the cards or any any like Refractors or any inserts look them all up because who knows what this sort of stuff is going for on the secondary market. There's Chris with eight There's your that's what some people are like if they don't do well in a group break and We got a die-cut joy from inside. I haven't seen inside out. I do need to check that out Nice die-cut and then this is pretty cute. There's one of the poo. All right.  All right, Dan pack 13 last spot mojo Got chef Bogo. I think that's Idris Elba. I think does the voice In Zootopia and there's snow white and the seven doors these postcards really cool and the Cheshire cap All right. Thanks, Dan. All right Darren and then Edward you're up next Darren pack 17 Sam, what are we doing? What aren't we doing here? What aren't we doing? It's mr. Potato Head We got scar nice from the Lion King and there's Nick's crush right here All right, there you go Darren It's creepy, I don't know that we probably just opened another dimension right now 11 and 4 we're gonna fall into like some sort of Disney wormhole All right, Edward the Disney multiverse That that movie was I loved it the movie was very emotional for me At the end of that movie What if I started breaking like flash they're slots they're all slots I got a watch this I haven't seen this Coco All right Edward. Thank you I did not see the Rocks jungle cruise is that good Emily Blunt in it right she's a good actress That's right, she is wasn't she in Devil Wars product What Hathaway's in it not a fan of Hathaway Not a fine street. I like you like Hathaway interesting Streets a nice lady when everybody praises somebody. Oh, you're just over it. Just overhyped streets overhyped Whoa spoilers spoilers for key But everyone was so mad He has a question All right, all right, Josh. Thank you. There's your pack right there. All right Levi and then mark your next Levi 1518 I don't like hori that's too scary too scary 1518 5 and 1 1518 1515 1515 Levi. Good luck. Oh I want to see that I Need to why no, I've heard I've heard good things about inside out You know, you know the conspiracy behind that right It's been politicized already apparently one of the big backers of Top Gun Maverick is a Russian oligarch So they didn't want Maverick to win No, I didn't think it was gonna. I really loved it, but there's Dumbo baby Dumbo Falkie Falkie ask a question It's on Disney Plus. Check it out. It's Jack Jack He's That's it that's it that's from everywhere. All right, there you go. Levi. Thank you Brennan Frazier All right, thanks Levi looking for some Wally, but no one is Wally even in the checklist maybe No, I read that he was wearing a suit for like 18 hours a day for he asked a question What's the Brennan Frazier? No, but what's he was in the mummy? What's the movie where he's like a high schooler as a caveman and see no man I think there's mark pack three and sixteen Tim. You're up next or actually Yeah, Tim and then and then Tristan There's been in full the photorealistic Handshake that's handshake handshake three and sixteen This flash they're all slots Candy Mowgli and this is this is pretty cool to China. It's numbered to six six six Yeah, so you think it's it's 999 out of 9-1-1 All right, so numbered card mark. There you go Mickey and a rooster All right, Tim and then Tristan Tim three packs for you 2014 10 20 14 and 10 good luck. Yeah, probably probably that might even be a good luck number for all we know You know a lot of hotels in Vegas don't have a 44th floor because in a in Chinese culture Believe for means death or something like that Does Yeah, a lot of hotels won't have a 13th floor either there is a Wally die cut. Nice. Wally Like that good Wally voice right there. Wally.  It's not it's not for everybody. It's it was a little more high brow You have to be You have to be you know on a different On a different level intellectually. Yeah, you know, it's a lot of astrophysics involved All right Tristan the last two 12 and 19 Yeah, there's so many moving parts in Wally Yeah, I don't know why Nick hates Wally so much she though. I don't get it Unbelievable And he's not like some hero.  Oh, look at this retro poster 82 out of 99 there you go Tristan well worth the wait Yeah, it's like watch the world burn today If Wally was you know came in the store, I just welcome them but just what a bully just a bully Little cuddly all Okay, you're going inside the mind of this take is recorded right now This this this takes being recorded right now everyone's gonna know about this take I'm Joe for jaspscasebrinks.com inside. I'll see you next time for the the next Disney break. Bye. Bye


No, he's in a different class. What's going on everyone Sam here with Lane sports car driven 22 Bowman chrome baseball sapphire edition Five box break number 25 random team style. Here's a look again at your random results As always you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat Good luck. I have a question for everybody because I'll share my opinion to I think I've shared it before but I'm very Passion about this. What do you think is the most overrated sports moment in history? Sports overrated sports moment in history. I don't think Okay across the board for sports. I don't think I know enough moments the Like my moments probably not as Igor close to what could be. Yeah fair Got an orange coming up. It is trade Turner to 75 for the Dodgers racing stop rookie I know Brian de la Cruz rookie, there's your boy. I'm J. Melinda's Donnie's boy Brian de la Cruz Wolfard Verra's got a purple JD Martinez 12 to 25 a nice one there for the Red Sox guys Paulson Carson Williams and one yeah, because I'm really interested to see what people say about this I'm gonna be processing you son more about great No, that's fine. Take some take some time to think about it I want everybody to take some time to think about it. I'm just thinking right directly that's I mean, that's what you That's what your expertise is so I would say yes stick to a football moment if you can think of one Michael Hernandez Luis Mesa first and J ran Yeah Louie Louise Robert Rossman for Jugo to 99 nice one there for the Padres First teal Samuels of all the first and Brandon Crawford Nice one there Shkiela be with the Jags in 55 we're down to just nine teams to go and NT that's crazy dude One two three four five six seven eight nine nine to go Well, because I have one that drives me absolutely insane No, no, it's hawks related actually it's surprisingly to it say it's a Atlanta hawks related moment Overrated right very yes over like something that like Pete like if it's like something people still quote or something people like like oh, this is the craziest highlight But it resulted it didn't result in anything important like stuff like that Pergleson rookie jazz chiseled Alex Thomas Dustin Harris Yankeel Fernandez first nice one there and hobby bias The ones I'm thinking over all is like either properly properly rated or Joey Weimer first underrated or underrated Daniel basket first Gavin Sheets rookie Alex the asus first. Yes or Mercedes first Miracle on ice. That's fair. Okay, that's fair Jason Cheerio first Louise Mesa for the Blue Jays to 99 on the Aqua Danny DeAndrade Brian Acuna first and Leon Leonardo Balcazar first Yeah, but I ever said getting stepping over Tyloo. Yeah, they got absolutely smoked and that's we got a red rookie For the White Sox Jake Burger three of five. Congrats Chicago. Nice one there Cal Raleigh and Ellie Daylock cruise nice one there Um, I would say you could probably because it's a red rookie.  I called the game I think that's the mode. I think that's the most ridiculous ridiculous moment in sports history. So essentially what happened was It was a year stimulus of offers. It was the year the Hawks are really good They were like a two seed or three seed and they played the Wizards in the first round They played the Washington Wizards, right and Paul Pierce kind of nearing the end of his career That's a your daddy. De Los Santos first your Donnie De Los Santos Paul Pierce was nearing the end of his career. He signed like a two-year deal with Washington Oscar Coloss and they made like they were like the five seed four six seed something like that and I think it was like game two Hawks one game one Jordan Walker Um, yeah, I'll explain the whole thing sky warp. Don't you worry? Oh, this gets me so so mad Josh Donaldson to 75 and it was like game two or something and Paul Pierce it was like the Hawks they were going back and forth the entire game. We got a yellow rookie Hunter Green to 50 44 50 Yes, exactly Randy and essentially Paul Pierce hit a game winning like a buzzer beater off the backboard Okay, and during his interview at the after the game He was like all pumped up and everything and whoever the reporter was just like yeah, I noticed like you know You hit the shot one off the backboard. Did you call bank? And he goes I called game. I called game And then I was like 14 in high school dude And that's and everybody knew I was a Hawks fan obviously and that's all I heard And then the they'd lost the series in like five games, dude They got smoked the rest nobody remembers the Hawks won that series everyone remembers.  He took one game of five. Oh My god, they got me so mad so mad Now I feel that Jenkins. I'm a Yankees fan too and I've heard that from other Yankees fans before too So, you know like every time someone would shoot like a piece of paper into like the trash game I called game. I called game anytime anybody would bank shot it if we're playing basketball. Oh, I called game I called game.  Oh my god Traumatizing warming Bernabelle That's orange rookie Bryson stop to 75 nice one there Red Sox winning anything is overrated Mackenzie Cora rookie I Grew that for sure. Yeah, we don't really have much room to talk this year. Unfortunately though skywarp and Jenkins I hate to say it, but we really don't like the death cat is always annoying to hear about was cat Volpe M. J. Melendez. Yeah, true Because I mean it is kind of debatable Well, it's embarrassed Marcella Meyer to 75 I wouldn't necessarily say it because it wasn't ruled a catch. That was a thing You know what I mean? Carson was that had been ruled a catch And like the Cowboys went on and still lost then like yeah, that would be an overrated moment You saw more about Juan Yepes, John Kenzie Noel Ryan Reckley, Aaron Ashby, Willie Vasquez That's Luba up to 99 nice one there on the teal for the White Sox Yordon Alvarez and Luis Mesa first Onto our last box of the break pretty solid so far some nice rookies got a red in there as well There's some cool ones Definitely some cool ones again guys last time I checked just nine to go an NT which is awesome Yep, still nine to go an NT everybody got to get that sold on out that is a full case pick your team style We got another purple coming up Ricardo Cabrera. It is a Urabella and Hellace 23 of 25 for the A's Nice one there. Congrats Oakland. Nice low number color come out here too a couple to 50 couple purples to 25 Simon Juan Nelson Velazquez Triantos first sees our pre-do first Yeah, that's fair Skywarp Michael Hernandez first the 99 nice one there on the teal I think that's I think that's a fair judgment Ellie again and Rainden Cohen first. I Think that's a fair assumption to make You got another yellow Hose al-Tube 21 of 50 for the Astros Nice yellow there Freddie Freeman and William Brigoya first Turner, Cantana, Otani, Wanbin, Cho Denzer Guzman, what is what if the situation calls for a lock and it happens Wanda Franco rookie and Eddie's Leonard. What do you mean like so like a situation like a situation That happened that was successful was all based on kind of lock-up like here. I'll go through the recap then explain Quick recap of our color guys got 90 teals to 99 Michael Hernandez Lou Bob Luis Mesa Rossman, Verdue go to 75 Oranges Marcello Meyer Bryson's thought rookie Josh Donaldson and Trey Turner yellows to 50 Hose al-Tube hunter green rookie We had purples to 25 Urabella and Hellace JD Martinez and a red Jake burger three of five I'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the feel coming up next. We've got tops chrome sapphire


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. And welcome to Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday from 2 to 2.30 live from the downtown studios of Think Tech Hawaii here in Hololulu, Hawaii. We focus on success stories in Hawaii of both individuals and companies. And there are a lot of success stories here in Hawaii. There are negative news stories out there about how challenging it is in Hawaii. And that's true. There are some challenges, but of course there are challenges everywhere. And we have successes. We have people that have figured out how to be successful in Hawaii. And those are the stories we want to hear. So today I've got a guest that will probably be recognized by many people, Reisuchiyama. He and I have known each other for many, many years. He also is a frequent guest host and host of other shows on Think Tech Hawaii.  So Reisuchiyama, it's great to have you on the show. Thank you for inviting me. It's an honor to be here because you're such a proponent and advocate for a small business and for creating new jobs in Hawaii. Well, the small business environment here, which represents about 97% of all businesses in Hawaii, is a big economic engine. We really need to support it and do what we can to make it thrive and be strong and keep people working. And we can't ignore that.  We met originally in the 1980s, believe it or not. And I've kind of followed your career and I've seen you go places and do things. I mean, you were in Hawaii for a long time and then you lived in Asia for a while and worked for some pretty well-known companies and then you just recently came back. So can you just give us a quick little background briefing on you and where you were born and how you grew up and that sort of thing just for the people who don't know you? Yes, to summarize, my father was born in Maui but he grew up in Japan and came back to Maui before the war. He was in the U.S. Army for 20 years during World War II and Korea. And during the Korean War, he was stationed in Hokkaido, which is a beautiful island in the northernmost part of Japan. That's right. Lots of skiing, evergreens, beautiful island. And that's where he met my mother. And my mother was born and raised in Hokkaido. And I was born in a city called Hachinohe, which is on the seacoast of Aomori prefecture, again, up north. But I came here when I was 10 years old and I grew up in Kalihipalama. And I went through Fern Elementary, Kalahakawa Intermediate and Farrington High School, and even went to Honolulu Community College and KCC afterwards. So I'm a very local person in that regard. And then I left for the mainland and spent about 10 years on the West Coast and the East Coast. And through a professor in graduate school who told me, why don't you go and check out computers? And that's how I got into Digital Equipment Corporation, Route 128, which was booming at that period. And then I did that, worked in computers, came back to Hawaii. And during the 80s, I was involved in real estate development for Kasselin Cook, in fact, and Mitsui Real Estate. And among many things that I did was to promote Hightech Park for Kasselin Cook at Millanian in Onahu. And also a launch that I'm very proud of, a magazine devoted to R&D and startups called the Hawaii Hightech Journal of that time. So you've got a strong history in the technology side of things in business development. That's right. So I combined what I learned at DEC, but also I learned how to sell real estate, which I did on Kapilani and King and Mapuna Puna in warehouses. But I left in 91. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted me to run their Asia office in Tokyo. See, MIT, now that's Ivy League stuff. This is some of the top universities in the world. And they brought you on board to do exactly what in Japan? Corporate relations. MIT is an unusual institute in that 45% of the university is a school of engineering. It's very big. So one out of two students is an engineer at MIT. And MIT is famous for entrepreneurship. In fact, there's more startups in Silicon Valley launched by MIT graduates than Stanford and Berkeley. Because Stanford and Berkeley are more normal universities, maybe 15%, 70% are engineers when you think about it. So they've had a rich history of interacting with business, with corporations, with lots of R&D, so that these corporations see the future at MIT. And MIT faculty and researchers see what's going on at corporate labs at Fujitsu, Toyota, Hitachi, Sony, Mitsubishi, the leading edge companies in Japan. And this is where success breeds success. I mean, when you've got MIT and they've got this focus and they're good at it, it's going to attract those types of people to come back and or to go there to learn these skills. When you were traveling throughout Asia, working with MIT, what were you doing there? Were you looking for opportunities? Were you working with MIT to kind of plant some development seeds, or what was going on there? I was involved in a quid pro quo where corporations pay a fee to access research and development at MIT and also to identify areas of interest for MIT professors to go in and begin dialogue with companies because when you think of a university anywhere, the best are global. They really have to know what's happening in materials in Toyota or semiconductors at Hitachi. They have to know the best. It's global when you think about it. So MIT is unusual because they saw the future in Japan back in the 70s before it became very big in many areas. I also, after MIT, began to go into semiconductors, joined a startup, which became part of AOL and AOL Time Warner. There was a great merger as you. Spend a minute on that for a second. That's intriguing. So there was a company that you were involved in a little bit through MIT that morphed and grew eventually into AOL? No. What happened at that point is that I left MIT to join to go back to the private sector and I joined analog devices, which was in chips, semiconductors, digital signal processors. Digital signal processors are the heart of a chip set for mobile phones. So I began to become part of the mobile phone revolution of that time, the mid to late 90s. That led me to a startup, TGIC, communications that was doing mobile phone software and they were based in Seattle. And they wanted me to run Asia to start the Japan operations. So that's how I got to become part of a startup. But when I joined, little did I know that six months later, AOL would acquire the company. And so we became part of AOL. Within another year, AOL and Time Warner would merge. And I became colleagues with people from CNN, Warner Brothers, films, Time Inc, all kinds of people and, of course, Cartoon Network. So all of a sudden I was part of a giant conglomerate in media. And there was a giant experiment led by a person from Hawaii, actually, Steve Case. But there was another person from UH named Dick Parsons, who got a degree from UH and he was from New York City, who would later be the CEO of Time Warner. And I worked with him also. Very good. That's a very intriguing and interesting background and experience. I mean, you must have picked up some pretty interesting skill sets along the way. I mean, working with all these diverse companies in the high tech industry and with startups and some of these are well known large companies.  Well, I think, number one, I look at products from a global viewpoint. That's number one, that if you're going to have a product, how can that sell in different markets? And again, it's not so simple going to a new market and then launching a product in India or China, Africa, Russia. And the dynamics are different in every country. And how do you identify the right person to run your operation? I went out and went to China and hire people in Shanghai, Beijing, in Hong Kong. I visited companies throughout handset manufacturers from Dalyan, to Senzen, to Nimbo and did deals. And I do not speak Chinese, but I had enough background and negotiation skills to really negotiate with anybody. And I would, of course, later on go to Southeast Asia, to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore set up operations and hire people in India and so forth. So I'm a person who really can go out and really analyze the market. But again, it's something that I was doing way, way back. In fact, I was studying about China in the mid 90s and published an essay for the Pacific Telecommunications Review on the mobile market in China and published it, but I had never been there. But I was thinking ahead. I was thinking ahead that I should be part of that revolution. Yeah, and you bring up another interesting point, is that you've been published a number of different times. And has that helped you in building your skills and, I guess, your brand, so to speak? You're correct. I really go out and try to find problems that businesses face in other parts of the world or in product development, leadership in the internet or telecoms market, and make it easy and simpler for people to understand. I think that that's where I come from. And I've been a blogger for Forbes.com. I've published in New York Times. I've been quoted in the Financial Times and Newsweek. And also, I've been writing for Civil Week on all kinds of issues, too. So I think I'm unusual in that I can write for an audience in Hawaii, but also for an audience in London, New York, and Tokyo. Maybe it's about time you consider writing a book. Yeah, you've done so much writing, and you've got so much experience, and you've seen so many different things. You could actually write a book that would be a great, I guess, map on how to approach getting a business set up and operational in a foreign country and what are some of the risks to avoid and what are some of the best practices. And you could look at things in a fresh way and provide that advice on how to expand internationally. I think you have a good idea. And looking at, you know, from the Hawaii viewpoint, there are companies like Uber or Airbnb or Amazon or other companies that come out of nowhere and really grow so exponentially and globally. But I don't think it's just technology. I think it's like Airbnb or Uber, flexibility and customer service. They're giving customers more choices and so forth. So it's not technology alone. It's thinking for the customer and solving problems and issues. And I think we think too much about technology. I think, you know, we do need to stay focused on the customer, but let's loop back on that right after the break. We're going to take a short 60-second break and we're going to come back and continue our discussion with Ray Tsuchiyama on some of the international aspects and mentoring that he has that can help companies out there. We'll be right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Hi, I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark, and every Monday at 1 o'clock, I present Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Manila, where we bring together researchers from across the campus to describe a whole series of scientifically interesting topics of interest both to Hawaii and around the world. So hopefully, you can join me 1 o'clock Monday afternoon for Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Manila. Aloha. I'm Marsha Joyner, inviting you to navigate the journey. Spend the time with us as we look through and discover all of the ins and outs of this journey through life. We're on Wednesdays at 11 a.m., and I would love to have you with us. Come navigate the journey. Aloha. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We just took a short break speaking with Ray Tsuchiyama. We're getting a little bit into the international area. Ray, your experience is extensive in not only the technology side, but also in the international side. And we were talking a little bit about customer's focus and needing to have a balance in there. For a company that wanted to expand and move internationally, what are some of your thoughts on how they should approach this? I think, number one, they need to identify maybe two or three customers in that market first and really use them not to sell, but to give advice back. Nobody wants to be sold on something, but everybody wants to give advice and be an expert. And the questions to ask are, if we did this, A, B, and C, would you buy it? And say, yeah, I would. At what price?  Now, another one is to test it out with people, with consumers or B2B customers, big companies in a foreign market. And finally, to get some kind of channel. Are you going to go direct? Are you going to go through a distributor? Do you go to set up a joint venture, a partnership? There's many, many forms you can, channels you can go through. But again, that is another analysis you can take. And who do you, what are the right profile of person that you hire for that market? Well, and these are all things that, because of your background experience, you could probably help a company go through this process. And that sounds like a very exciting type of a career to have, as well as a very valuable service for companies that are thinking about going international. You seem to have a teaching element in you somewhere, in your DNA somewhere. You like to share this information, you like to write about it, you like to talk about it. I mean, you could probably be a very valuable mentor. I mean, do you see yourself as mentoring people and helping them through this process? Currently, I mentor several UH MBA students, in fact. And one of them is in Hong Kong today, studying Chinese and attending classes there. Another one studied Japanese and starting out more in that direction. I also mentor a woman who's a graduate of Molokai High School at Columbia University. Super. And she's gonna be studying mechanical engineering. And there's another young man also from Molokai High School who I introduced to people who helped him in advancing his math and science credits. And he's now entering as a freshman at the Syracuse Engineering Bachelor. So I try to go out, but I think what I try to do is that I am from Kalihi. I'm from Kalihi Palama. And that I feel that there's a reservoir of people who really can go up several levels. But there's a lot of things to do. And in terms of attitude, in terms of mentoring, in terms of programs and so forth. So I see that partly as my payback, back to my community where I grew up, but also I enjoy working with young people to really let them see a bigger world and get them going on that role. Because it's themselves in the end who really are going to be making a mark on our society. Now you've been successful. You've come from the Kalihi environment. Others have come from the Kalihi environment and become successful. What do you think the secrets are to their success? What do they have that's different that makes them a success? Interestingly, I tell people, and people get very kind of surprised when I say this, I did well in global markets in India, China, Africa, Russia, or Southeast Asia, or even Europe because of my background in Kalihi. Because in Kalihi, you're taught to respect others. That's something that comes naturally to me. So I don't impose my culture or where I come from. I ask questions and kind of understand where this person is coming from, what language, what culture, what religion, what background. And so in Kalihi, there's all kinds of people and people who've been there for ages or people who just came as immigrants very recently. It's a dynamic mix. And I think that is what really was a factor for success, speaking for myself, but other people also.  But I think our feeling for or drive for respect for others is something that I take from my Kalihi background. And that's all kind of folds into that attitude of respect, listen more, talk less, find out as much as you can about something before you act on it. I mean, it's the attitude of can do, but let me do it right. No, you're absolutely right. Mentoring especially, it's not just listening. It's great listening.  It may or may not help at that instance, but you have to get more out of that mentee in order to frame the story that helps that person. And it's a actionable response. That's what I wanna say, an actionable response. You can say, oh, do this, do that, but it may have worked some time ago. It may not work today, but that's the focus. I don't care where you came from, but we're talking about today, now, and where are you gonna go in the future? Exactly. That's where the key is. Well, and on that theme, you've got this international perspective. You've worked with very successful individuals and businesses in the past. Now bringing it back to Hawaii for a second. In my opening monologue, I mentioned that we've got challenges here and it's not an easy environment, but there are people who have made it. What are your thoughts? What do you think Hawaii needs to do in order for it to move in the direction that's gonna be, I guess, positive for the economy and positive for the state? Do you have any thoughts on that? I think we have to leverage what is Hawaii, first of all. And Hawaii is, indeed, a melting pot of languages, of cultures, of all kinds of different people. And yet, if at UH or even at Bishop Street, what we don't do is to combine these strengths in an innovative fashion. For example, if I was a leader at UH, I would take the best in software engineering, best in Chinese and Japanese languages and the best in travel management and come up with new mobile apps for the tourism industry globally. You see what I mean? But that's all here, but they're unconnected with each other, you see. But it needs a vision to propel for innovation because we cannot compete on those things by itself. We cannot be like Stanford in computer engineering or software engineering, but we have different elements that we can really count on and be advancing in environmental, in coastal areas, maybe become a center for disaster management training for the Pacific. We have all kinds of different elements in Waikiki for training. We have people at East-West Center. We have people to put them all together. Right now, they're very different. There's a lot of things at Paycom also. And the DOD that we're not leveraging also, they should be in a normal society, a ring of high tech startups around Camp Smith and Schofield and others getting off of leveraging DOD research for commercial use, for products to export. Well, especially on Kauai. I mean, Barking Sands is a perfect location for this type of high tech development presence. And we seem to be missing that opportunity a little bit in some respects. But I think that's a very novel insight is because sometimes I hear solutions to diversifying the economy in Hawaii. What I feel is some unrealistic expectations. I mean, we have to realize that we do have limitations and there are some challenges here, the cost of living, the availability of resources. So we gotta take a look at what we're good at as you've already said and capitalize that and expand on that. We don't have to create something new. We just need to do what we're doing now a little bit better and smarter. Correct. What are our strengths in Hawaii? That's the first thing. We cannot go off and do better on weaknesses, the strengths. And how can we combine the strengths and make it ultra strong? And of course, the other element is what we talked about before is customers. We have to be customer-centric. And the history of Hawaii is that people came here, we didn't go out to knock on doors and say, well, how can we solve your problem in Japan or China or Southeast Asia or Europe or Latin America? I think that's an area where we really have to do a lot more training. But you see, in the late 19th century, Kinkalakawa sent dozens of young people, Hawaiian people, to study Japanese, Chinese, go to Italy, go to the UK. For sustainable agriculture, for exports. He was thinking back then. It is not something brand new. It is something in our- Is that a radical thought? No, no. I mean, something's been around. And he was very technologically savvy. He put in electric lights in the Elani Palace before the White House. So in the first car in Hawaii was an electric car, not a gasoline now, a car. So these are a lot of things in our history that we can point to. Like Governor Burns said in the early 60s, he desired a Hawaii economy, quote, based on research, unquote. This was barely five years after statehood.  He will be admonishing us to take advantage of our state to go ahead. I was just gonna say to look at the lost opportunity. If we had gotten started back then, I mean, the research capabilities we would have in oceans and astronomy and other different areas, it is perfect for us here. We just don't seem to be, have taken full advantage of those. To commercialize it, that's the key. I'll give you an example, Gatorade. You drink that, you know where it's from? University of Florida. They developed that, it's from the Gators, the football team. And now they get millions of dollars in commercialization and licensing royalties back to that university. Again, that's a product. So we are not looking at research as a way to create products to sell and get revenues. That's a culture of innovation that we should have in UH and all throughout our society in Hawaii because that's where we're gonna go because you said at the beginning, this is a small company, small business town in many ways. But that startups are the same. The startups are identical. But Ray, I wish we had more time to talk but we've reached the end of the show. I think the next step is to you write a book that gives us the map on how to make this happen here in Hawaii. And then maybe after the book gets published, you can be our next governor. Well, thank you and in the meantime, I'll be happy to help out any organization in Hawaii. Super. Thank you very much, Ray. This is Business in Hawaii with Reg Baker. We broadcast live every Thursday from two to two 30. And we focus on successful individuals and companies that have made it work here in Hawaii. So hopefully I'll see you next week. Until then, aloha.


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Phenolparasitam hydrazide supplement review. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. Today I want to do a little review on this phenolparasitam hydrazide. This is probably one of my favorite supplements that I've come across in a long time. This might even be my favorite mood boosting supplement that I've come across since Kratom. I absolutely love this stuff. If you guys might follow my channel, I just did a review on something called FL-Adrafenol and FL-Adrafenol kind of blew me away. It gave me this long lasting stimulation but also relaxation effect that I had never really had in a stimulant. Like, tell me a stimulant that stimulates you and relaxes you at the same time. I haven't found that and I found that with FL-Adrafenol but I was taking the FL-Adrafenol quite a bit. I was getting a little bit of brain fog. I was feeling a little bit weird. So, ended up taking a break from the FL-Adrafenol and slowly introduced this phenolparasitam hydrazide and when I was first getting into it, I was kind of mixed. When I first took this, I didn't really feel it that much. I felt almost nothing. But again, I didn't really notice the dosage. I think I maybe under-dosed it. And then on top of that, if I was used to FL-Adrafenol, FL-Adrafenol lasts, I mean, hours and hours and hours way longer than this. So, if I was used to the Adrafenol coming over to this, I just needed to get the dosing down right. So, first I took it, I didn't really notice it. Then I would notice about 60 to 90 minutes of really good, slightly euphoric stimulation. And what's cool about the euphoria that I get from this is that it's not like so much euphoria that you do something dumb. So much euphoria that you just end up making mistakes or you're not thinking clearly. You do have a little bit of that with here just because you do feel good. But for the most part, you're very balanced. You're very in control. This stuff has absolutely blown me away. It actually feels like it's healing my brain and from the research that I've done about it, it's supposed to increase receptors in your brain, which is kind of like the opposite of a lot of other drugs.  And your body is like, we have so much dopamine. We could start shutting down these dopamine receptors because we have so much dopamine. Like we don't need all these receptors because we have too much, but you only have too much because of the artificial drug. So when you stop taking it, your body has literally gotten rid of these receptors.  This is supposed to, from my understanding, again, feel free to correct me. This is supposed to increase receptors in your brain. So the thing that you feel that's good is your body creating more receptors and then that's chemical is activating with you more because there's more receptors. Basically in order for you to feel anything good, it needs to be in your bloodstream and it needs to connect into a receptor. That's all what makes you feel good. That's everything, that's how everything works. So having more receptors naturally, it's almost like healing your brain or kind of like reversing the damage that dopamine drugs would do. Like if you took Adderall or meth for a long time, from the literature that I've studied, this actually will heal your brain from years of that abuse because it's actually going to increase the amount of receptors in your brain. If you combined it with another substance, say this substance puts a bunch of something in your body, one out of this one increases the receptors, so now they work better. This supplement puts things in your body and this supplement creates more receptors for it to be activated in. Kind of hard to describe, but it seems to be more of a neuroprotective. That's even noted online. It's supposed to actually help protect your brain. So it seems like it is kind of like a mix between a new tropic and a drug, but it's much more closer to a new tropic than something like FL, a drafinal, which in my opinion is a little bit closer to something like a drug. And also this is a prescription or phenolparasitam by itself is a prescription in Russia and I think somewhere else. This is the hydrazide version, which is very, very, very similar, but at the same time, it isn't exactly phenolparasitam. So it may have a little bit of extra benefits, but from my understanding, from when I've compared this to what people talk about phenolparasitam, it's pretty much the same thing. Phenolparasitam was created by the Russians, I think the 80s, and they were looking for a stimulant, a brain booster for their astronauts. This is a prescription in Russia, I think somewhere else. And when they sell it in a prescription, they sell it in 100 milligram pills. So because this is powder, you can choose how much you want. So I would kind of use that as kind of like your baseline. You know, the normal pills about a hundred. So you're probably gonna want, you know, around a hundred, maybe it's 200, I would say that's about the go-to. I've been using like a 30 milligram scooper and I do these like two or three huge scoops. I'm kind of aiming for about 150 milligrams. That's kind of usually about where I go. Again, I'm guessing I haven't like waited out. This is, I'm really unlike any other stimulant that I've ever come across. It is not really that jittery. It's not really that anxious. And you feel stimulated without something like pushing you. It's hard to describe. Let's jump into the pros I have with this supplement. The pros is that it is the strongest rastatam. So again, I have not done tons and tons of research on rastatams. They are in almost no new tropic blends. And I'll ask you right now, have you heard of rastatams? If you are just a subscriber on my channel, you probably haven't heard of them. If you've Googled this, then you probably have heard of them. But phenylparastatam is supposed to be the strongest, most stimulating rastatam. And I think there is something called parastatam. And that's kind of on its own, just a new tropic. But they added a phenyl group to it, which makes it much, much more potent. And I think most rastatams is like 500 to maybe 1000, even up to more of that. So you need a higher dose of this. But because it has that phenyl group, it makes it much more potent. And you only need about 100 to 200 milligrams. So it does provide very, very good effects for mental and physical stimulation. One of the first times I took this, I went to the gym, had a great workout. And I've seen other people say they take this before I run things like that. Absolutely love it. Then another probe, this is that it has kind of like a balancing effect. It's very hard to describe, but it has like an anti-anxiety effect in the Russian literature on this one, that they said that they found that as well. And so for me, finding a stimulant that's also anti-anxiety is just like, wow, that is next level. It feels so much more like, it's something that's helping my body instead of something that's like getting me high and that I'm gonna have to pay for later on, if that makes sense. People have claimed that if you take this a lot, there is gonna be some withdrawal symptoms. And I could see that because it just works so good, so I can see there being some. But again, I found that my brain felt a little bit more balanced after taking it. So if I were to jump into the mixed aspect, it's mainly the half-life of this one. When I was first getting into it, the half-life's about three to five hours. And I would feel it for about 60 to 90 minutes. And I'm like, man, I just want a little bit more feeling out of it, just the hair, you know? But after taking it a lot, it has a little bit of this lingering effect. It's hard to describe. Like sometimes I can feel just a little bit more awake five, six, seven hours later. But again, it's not like any other normal cracked out stimulation. It's just like, oh, like I don't feel as tired. I feel a little bit more awake. But besides that, I don't really feel much of anything. So I'm kind of mixed on the half-life. There's times where I wanted it to be longer and then other times that I wanted it to be a little bit less. So I would say actually so far kind of like it because I get the option to take it later in the day. And then the cons they have with this one only a few and they're pretty obvious. So one of the cons they have is the taste. I wish the taste was so much better on this one because it would be so easy to just put it in a drink and sip on the drink all day. But it is really bitter. When I do those big scoops, I have like a flavored drink right there. Put the scoop in, chase it, put the scoop in, chase it. It is very noticeable. It is nasty. It is probably a little bit worse than DMA and DMHA. And not as bad as Tiacrine in my opinion, but with all the other pros and such little cons, okay, I'll get around it. And then the other con that I have is that it is the Hydrazide variant. Now I do think that the Hydrazide variant was also studied in Russia and I think it maybe was patented, I'm not sure. The main one they go with is just phenylparasitam. So the Hydrazide variant isn't as studied. So, you know, typically you want something with lots of studies on it. Something that's really fleshed out. So there may be a little bit of aspects to this that isn't really researched, but when I look at the chemical structure, these are very, very, very similar, almost interchangeable from my understanding, but again, I'd have to try the original. So the only cons that I have is that it has bad taste and it is the Hydrazide variant. It is not the normal phenylparasitam. But anyways, guys, I was absolutely blown away by this supplement. If you see my video on ethyladrathenol, I was freaking blown away about that supplement. I was literally on eBay, trying to buy multiple research chemicals that are close to ethyladrathenol, close to ethyladrathenol. It's like, this is like my favorite, most interesting drug was the FL ethyladrathenol. And now it's been completely destroyed by this. I love this stuff. This stuff is like me in a stimulant. I don't know how anything can even touch it. You feel so good, you feel so balanced and you feel so normal. How could you go wrong? But anyways, guys, we're on the road to 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do it without any of you guys' help. You guys are the best. Having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.