We meet again and today is October 1st, which means I'm recording the same day This should be uploaded which means that everyone's gonna have fall before in the background which I do not have which means that everyone's in The onesie which means that everyone's fears her out. That is like the longest time I've gone without jump-cutting But today is October 1st and I see all these youtubers with like leaves in the background having brown yellow red Black and all lives matter to court. I'm sorry. Did I offend you? I don't care and I'm just here sitting like I'm gonna be real with you guys. I don't want fall decor in the background for the sake of a video I don't want my room to be brown and yellow and red. All I have to do is just wear this onesie and I'm fine So greatest fears obviously I'm making this video because it's October So you want any more fall themed videos leave them down below because I have no more ideas anyways Let's get started Do you remember monsters inside me on animal planet? Yeah, neither do I It's way too hot in here Basically it was a show that talked about all these diseases inside of your body and how you would die and since I was a little child I was so gullible. I didn't want to go outside I didn't want to go into a lake because I'd be like nope I'm gonna die there moving on to other things that make you want to die spiders That I'm not scared of snakes. I'm not scared of cockroaches. I'm not scared of any other Crawling insect but spiders and yes, I know they're considered arachnids. All right I don't need no science people up in here My mom was always the person who killed spiders in the house because my sister and I we'd run into our room scared But I mean look at this thing. Does that not scare the heck out of you? I see eight-year-olds on YouTube cuddling a spider saying it's cute and I look at you like you're crazy If the spiders are outside of my house, that's cool.  I don't want to die. God save me But very unlikely situations that might not ever happen to you ever in your life I'm talking diseases the whole continent Australia because every deadly animal is on there for some reason Airplanes because movies like to see those things crashing to building. Oh god Okay, I didn't mean it that way natural disasters like San Andreas in 2012 How everyone thought that the world would end because a big tsunami would just or the series final destination Because apparently if you cheat death death comes after you again and kills you one by one by one And the only way to survive is to kill someone else to take your place fear of ghosts or the Spiritsha world for you hipsters if you watch Supernatural if you watch American horror stories If you watch any horror movie, you will know what I'm talking about the fact that I'm living next to a cemetery does not help And before anyone dismisses. Oh ghosts are unreal.  I can believe what I want I've seen Annabelle the conjuring the conjuring to so don't talk about it Tripophobia, which is the fear of holes now if you're not sure if you have Tripophobia or if you are sure you have Tripophobia keep on watching or skip five seconds because I'm about to show a picture in three two One look at me. I'm like a DIY person boom If that triggers you in some way which obviously I'm gonna get triggered by that trying to find the photo for you guys Then you have Tripophobia because apparently your mind things that when holes are sorted in certain ways your mind just Some people are scared of bath bombs because they make bubbles because apparently bubbles trigger your mind now And if you're scared of bubbles, I'm sorry, but I like bubble baths So we're not gonna be friends and the reason why I found out I have Tripophobia was because one day on the bus my best friend decided to show me a picture of it and I almost I'm not gonna say the word because I know that people get triggered by it Why are the words triggered and shook the two words of the year right now? This one is related to ghosts as well and it's fear of darkness as in night as in no lights in your house if I'm watching a horror movie in my bed right now and there is no House but me and all the lights are off and I want to go eat something downstairs I can't go because I'm scared that something or someone's gonna come from behind me and murder me every time There were no lights in the house. I would run for my life to get into my room I can't explain this but I'm sure people have it but fear of injuries in the near future Have you ever just thought of you hurting yourself or dying while you're doing an activity like right now I can be like oh if I'm filming this a bus is gonna come through my house or if I'm walking with my friends Oh, I'm gonna trip over the sidewalk and break my face these thoughts run through my mind way too much And I always block them out and I know they don't happen, but for some reason I get scared I always tell myself not to jinx it, but they never happen in the first place. I'm mind is special. Okay, and the last one fear of clowns two weeks ago There have been many Clown signings on the East Coast going from Georgia all the way to New York and apparently these are grown men Who dress up as clowns near houses and stores and wait and then people call 9-1-1 because they're scared They're gonna die and now it's starting to be an uprising where people are saying they've been attacked by clowns at night schools are closing down and That's Halloween for you I don't know if this is gonna subside or it's gonna keep on going across the United States But I do not want clowns to be a trend this year.  So those are all my fears and now everyone on the internet knows how to scare me If you enjoyed give this video a like leave a comment down below about your greatest fear and better get subscribed I love you guys so much. Thank you for 500 subscribers and everything is less than three And yes, I'm gonna take the onesie off now because I just wore it for the sake of a video


Finally, always be thinking about the impacts to others. It's those others that the boss is going to be thinking about when we're making a pitch they're going to be thinking about how is it going to impact other teams, how is it going to impact the larger organization, how's it going to impact our customers, our vendors, the community, that kind of thing. So always be thinking about when you're pitching something or pushing back on your boss managing up a little bit, what are the impacts and how can those impacts be mitigated and if they're positive impacts how can they be amplified.


Aloha. Welcome. I'm Glenn Martinez of Olimonic Gardens and my specialty is aquaponics. Today I've got a special guest of Vincent Mina. He's from the Hawaii Farmers Union. He's our current president and he's going to be hosting a big convention this weekend and he's got congratulations and order in that I understand that you guys are going to be chartered. Yes. So this is kind of a convention and celebration all at once, right? Good fun. So happy you're going to be presenting there too. Yeah. Yeah. And along with a long list of people coming. Long list. So can you give us a version of what we're going to do this weekend. It starts Friday, at eight o'clock in the morning at Leeward, no not Leeward, but West Oahu campus. West Oahu campus. The brand new campus, right? So it's an opportunity for people to go see the facilities there. That's right. But it starts at like eight in the morning, right? Yeah. Registrations at eight and then opening is at nine o'clock. And then basically throughout the day we're going to be exploring the relationship between our food and the soils and how to rebuild and restore the soils and vitality in the soils, plus aquaponics delivery as far as ease of application and aquaponics, which you've developed. I think it's just brilliant. And we're just really excited about the level of expertise we got coming in. We have a veed trellis fruit production happening from Peter Solars coming from Australia. The farm comes Saturday, right? And Friday he's going to be doing classroom presentations. So during Friday he's going to be all in the Class Oahu classroom. Lecture hall at first, right? Everybody together. That's right. And then you're going to break in in the afternoon into workshops. That's right. Well in the afternoon at West Oahu campus will be breakout rooms, because we have so many presenters, there's going to be concurrent presentations happening at that time. And then Saturday will be hands-on workshops. You're going to be having a hands-on workshop in aquaponics. We have a natural farming chicken coop workshop. We have veed trellis fruit production workshop. And then also polyculture cover crops being happening on Saturday. So it's going to be very diverse and at the same time having this theme of regenerative, regenerating our soils, regenerating our aquaponics systems, how we can be able to grow nutrient-rich food without having to deplete where we get it from. Yeah, the regenerative. That is close to your heart, right? Now you put on, when I first met you, you were putting on over on Island of Maui the body and soil, SOIL, like body and soil, SOUL, SOIL. And I attended, I think, three of those. You did. And presented some of them. And it was when the Farmers Union was first started in organizing. It came out of Maui, Loha, Aina, our non-profit into body and soil, that we were, our soil conferences that we were putting on. It was kind of funny, it was a statewide organization, but quickly Maui had more members than all the rest of the state combined. Yes. You know, you have a great farming community there. Now at the last state convention, which we did down in Hilo last year, we had the same fellow that's coming up this year from Australia, right? That's right, Peter Solaris. Now when you say the V, when you describe what that is, I saw it. Well, basically, we're putting posts in the ground and from the center point, it's 17 and 8. It's like six by six inch posts, right? Yeah, they're thick posts. That's right, out of the ground. That's right. Actually around, yeah, nine foot, eight to nine foot canopy. But from the center, it goes out 17 and a half degrees one way, 17 and a half degrees the other way, because that's where they find most maximized light can get into the trellis. So the trellis is the plants are on wires, 50-foot section. So it's like a bean pole wire. Exactly. It's a drum wire going back. That's right, four wire high. And then they get... Now they train the tree to go to home. They train them. That's right. And they get double the fruit production on a lower canopy, so ease of harvest. Plus it's ease of when you're furtigating, when you're foliar feeding, so the plants stay real healthy. It's just to... So instead of having a tree just be how borrow your hat here so much, instead of having a tree with a count around service, the tree gets too tall, it gets much harder to harvest. Yeah, I was trying to surprise a fellow man to mention, anything over six feet cost you 50% more to harvest it. So even though it looks good, the birds get it. We don't get it, right? Because these cost too much to get it. That's right. And the hazards and the injuries and everything. All that. So when you do the bee, now you have more surface area, right? More surface area. And the inside area. And then you have double the fruit production. How do you pick the inside? You walk down the inside. You walk right down the middle of it. Right down the middle of it. Wow. And you have to be happy. He said to me, he said, Vincent, if you guys were, if Hawaii was in the southern hemisphere, I wouldn't be speaking at your convention because of the competition. He said, but because you're in the northern hemisphere, I don't have a problem with it. But we're putting in thousands of acres in Australia with this system. So really cool. And then plus it protects from wind damage because you're on wires and you don't have any issues with when you have big storms. Well, when I went to Korea about two years ago, and we toured like an apple orchard place, and I assumed the apple orchard would be outside typical Washington state type apple orchard. No, we walked in. It was a hoop greenhouse 200 feet long, and they had about six rows of apples going down, beanpole. But they were the single pole. But they had apples on both sides, and they harvested it from two feet to six feet. And they put mylar down on the ground. What's that all about? Well, that makes a lot of the apple red. And you get more for a red apple thing. You do a bit of it clear on the bottom. But I imagine when they see this, if you did the V, you just got that much more going for you. Now, when I saw it down there, that was quite productive. It was on yellow. So now, where is this going to be at? Where is this point? This is going to be a Kahumana farm on Saturday. He's going to do, we have trellises in the ground. So people will get to see how it's done. And then I noticed I was out there a couple of weeks ago, and you volunteered. You came over for a mile, and you were helping to put them in. They were digging holes, wooden poles, gravel, concrete, the whole thing. That's right. And anchors. Anchors. Yep, for the wires. Because there's a lot of weight on this thing when you go down to it. Well, what we did, we just dug a hole three feet deep, put a rebar with a half inch galvanized chain that came out of it. It sticks. The chain goes down in the hole. It's buried. And then it sticks a foot out of the ground, and the wire is attached to that. That's it. So there's a big clothesline in the V. There you go. There you go. And then the real beauty, too, is, before we put that trellis in there, we're building our soils with the polyculture cover crops. So, you know, people talk about the whole idea with... When you say polyculture, that just sounds like Polynesian, you know. Well, yeah. But why do you? Poly means many things, right? Many. It's just like permaculture. When I was growing up, farmers were growing up doing soybean, period. Right. Or they did monocrox. Monocrox. And you got one thing out of the monocrox. That's right. So when you're doing poly, you're talking about doing a mixed variety of things. That's right. You know, legumes or things, etc. Mixed up together. So what kind of polycrops would they do? Well, the nice thing about it, Glenn, is it's set up, if people talk about permaculture, different levels of plantings that's happened from the annuals up to trees. Well, this is, in essence, kind of a microcosm of that, because you're putting in polyculture this ground cover, and then you're coming up with other level of cover crops, Sudan grass, and Sun Ham Cove. Do you plow all that under? Or does it stay there year-round? No. The ideal is to roll it and crimp it. Roll it and crimp it. Yeah, you roll it and crimp it. You enjoy literally rocks it into the ground. Yeah, what happens is every seven inches, it crimps. And so it lays down as a cover crop, as a mulch, and then the roots are in place. You're not damaging the soil. And then you come with a yeoman's plow behind, and you can cut a line right through it and drop your plants right there. A yeoman plow? Is that the one that's like a disc that makes the thin slot and open at the bottom? Yeah, it basically goes underneath the soil. But it's not open plow. No. Not open plow. So normally you say plow. People think a rotor tiller coming up, disturbing, killing all my worms. That's right. And we don't want to do that. And I asked some fellows over at a certain university, I said, how do you integrate worms? He says, hey, when the worms hear my tractor coming, they go beep. I go, oh, this is terrible. That's right. But what I was interested in is when they do it, when they before, like they were burning things. I hear a sugar cane. You're burning this sugar cane. We go down to Philippine. They burn the rice. And then somebody comes along and found out if they would just roll and crimp the rice. And just let it rot into the soil. It did a lot. And all the roots are in place. You got all the nitrogen fixing. And you don't get the wind blowing the soil off. Yeah, that's right. It seems like a given. It seems like a given, doesn't it? And what I love is you don't have to weed. That's right. So you say, no, that's polyculture. That's not weed. That's right. That's right. That's polyculture. But tell me about this fellow that's coming up from Australia. Yeah, Peter. Yeah, Peter. Yeah, great guy. And he's doing hundreds or thousands of acres, right? Well, him personally isn't. He has a farm that he has acreage in this. He, I think he's 40 acres of his farm. But there's thousands of acres going in in Australia of this way of doing fruit production. And he's very conservative on the water, too, right? Very conservative on the water.  That's right. And no aerial spraying in there. No. Now, the foliar feeding is really valuable with this. Now, foliar feeding, that's a great term. I know what you're talking about. But what would you describe it to a layman? Well, a layman, it would be a nutrient-rich, microbial-rich tea. Worm tea. Worm tea, compost tea. Now, when you see foliar spray, you're spraying it on the foliage. Spraying it on the foliage. And natural farming inputs, fermented plant juice. These things that we're making, basically recycling nutrients back onto the farm, we get it from the farm like purslane. Now, what does the plant get out of spraying something on the leaves? Well, that's the thing. Does it absorb it? Yeah. Like, for instance, purslane is a weed. People consider it a weed. Well, we make it, we ferment it with sugar. And then we put one ounce of that per five gallons of water. When we spray it on the plant, it opens the stomata of the leaf. So anything else that's in there goes in the leaf. So that's part and parcel of why we do that. On all of them on the gardens, we found out that we did worm tea, because we raise worms. So we compost everything with that. And then we make 50 gallons of warm tea. I put five gallons on my backpack and I walk around. And we found out if we sprayed the bottom of the leaf, whereas like the tender underbelly of the leaf, it absorbed it in. So one day I'm reading, and it says, a plant absorbs about a third of its nutrition through its leaves, which would be like us absorbing something through our skin. That's right. Right? That's like when it rains and the leaves turn up. Purn up? Right. And so when we did that, it went to Jurassic Park. All of my holly guava, the limbs all broke because the fruit is so heavy. We went out to BYU and we did a farm out there, an eight acre farm. They had bananas all the way around. Banana trees, they had no bananas. And their yams were sickly and they were yellowy. And every time somebody sees a yellowy leaf, they go, oh, it's iron deficient in that, right? Or they test the leaf and it needs calcium. So they put more calcium, but really it was magnesium. It was missing to release the calcium. So it's all this balancing act. So what we found out is the shotgun approach. We would just make up a good quality compost heap. That's right. Whatever compost you got. You put minerals in it? Put the minerals in it. There you go. Whatever the additives. That's right. We put it in there.  Right. Where you get, boom. That's right. We went out, we sprayed it on it. And we would wait three days. And if the plant regenerated itself and new leaves came out and it changed color, that was when the ticket, right? Well, we went back out. And when I first went out there, all the beautiful trees going around, this is out in Kahuku here on Oahu. And you can imagine five acres, you know, with the, you know, the windbreak of banana trees around, but no bananas. When we went back, it looked like a junkyard. They had pallets and two by fours. Holding them up? Holding them up because the banana racks were this big around and three feet long. That's so good. And they were just shoved bananas. When we did. It's the way to do it. We did the yams. They took a backhoe. They dug a trench, put their yams into it, and they started crowning. When the yam went down three feet and hit the hard, hard grit we hadn't broken, it pushed up. And they were crowning up on the surface. Too good, huh? And it was just. So how is it? How is it that we're not growing our own food here in Hawaii? Ha. Right, Glenn? Right, right. So our agricultural budget right now, as you know, is 0.37%. Yeah. And we're importing 90% of our food.  The amount of food that's grown. How much food we did. Well, this is great. I've got a few more things I wanted to ask you about. We're going to take a little short break here for about one minute. We're going to be right back with you. So don't change that dial, as they say. Be right back. Thank you. This is Think Tech Hawaii. Raising public awareness. Some say scuba divers are the poor man's astronaut. At DiveHeart, we believe that to be true. We say, forget the moon. DiveHeart can help children, adults, and veterans of all abilities escape gravity right here on Earth. Search DiveHeart.org and imagine the possibilities in your life. We're all part of your community. We all play a role in keeping our community safe. So protect there every day. If you see something suspicious, say something to local authorities. Hi, I'm Glenn Martinez of all the Monica Gardens and I'm here on Think Tech. We really appreciate you all joining in and joining us. I've got a special guest, Vincent Mina. He's the president of the Hawaii Farmers Union United. And he's here to share what we got coming up this weekend. We have coming up a big convention and it's at Lewa Community College all day Friday. I'm sorry, West Oahu College. West Oahu College all Friday. Just classroom lecture kind of thing, PowerPoint presentation, life speakers and that. And then on Saturday, we're going out to the farm. And we've been talking about with the v-trellises and that they're going to be on the farm. But let's talk about some of the other people that are presenting. Because this reads almost like a rock concert of everybody who's presenting. Yeah, we have, so God, there's like 18 presenters. Yeah, yeah. And it covers a whole system of agriculture. As you can see all these sponsors that are on this poster, it's a very well supported event. Department of Agriculture is very much involved. West Oahu campus is very much involved. And then we have just people who value Olson Trust from Big Island. He's the largest agricultural landowner in the state at Olson. Very supportive, Ulupono, very supportive. Yeah, this is a little small for y'all to read all the little logos that we've got here. But from down the earth, University of Hawaii, Department of Agriculture, Ulupono, as he just mentioned, what are these here? Okay, so Hoppy is Haiku, Permaculture Institute. And then Don Nelson, basketball player. From Maui, he's got the first hemp house. Well, they're supporting them. He built a hemp house? Yeah, he built a hemp house, first one in Hawaii. And then the YNI Medical Center, very supportive. And hey, Jerry Bernetti's business. Very good. Yeah, Jerry's going to be present. Jerry Bernetti was a good friend of both of ours and really helped us a lot in our lives. Icon of agriculture. And he was just a super champion guy. He passed away a few years ago. But he lives on. Yeah, truly. That's all the work he's doing. Center for Food Safety. Mono Foods from Maui, big supporter. So we have art with a cause. Okay. The wife of Kyle Data has this artist group. They bring the art for silent auction. They get half, and we get half. So it's to help organizations. Well, let's go down the list here. We've got Gabe Brown. Yeah, Gabe Brown's coming from North Dakota. He is the cover crop specialist. He had a workshop recently in North Dakota. They expect the 50 people to show up. 500 came. So he's a rock star at North Dakota around cover crops. He's office synthetics on his land. Other farmers are coming to him. Will you farm my land? Right. You know, so he's a great guy. And then Glenn Martinez, this guy's from Waiman Hollow. Going to do airlift. Hey, he's a full hot air. Well, no, the whole beautiful thing what you brought to the table is this airlift. And I'm implementing that on our farm with our compost tea. I love it, Glenn. So you're doing great stuff with that. You're in Hawaii with the expense of electricity. People need to save the money and find a cheaper way to do it. So your brilliance there shines. And then Mike Dupont, he's from Ag Extension. He does natural farming education. So we do a big supporter on the natural farming convention we had down on the Big Island. That's right. That was one of where we hoped to get 100 people to show up. 350 people came. And then I, my wife, we ended up following with him. Twice he's gone to Korea to all the natural farms there. So I went for one week here. We saw like 11 farms in one week or something like that. It was like three farms a day. This guy walks the talk.  No smell, no flies. No odor, deep litter. It's a wonderful thing. Wonderful thing. So he's not just like a, something that you think, oh, we're having somebody from university come out. They're like coming from a classroom out to the farm. This guy truly lives on the farm. And then we have Albie Miles. He's a professor at West Oahu campus. And he's doing a really wonderful program, sustainable program with the students out there. So I'm really excited for Albie. And then Christopher Spanzano, this man, it's Forman Matter. It's the light bulb here. They're a big sponsor. But Christopher is developing this computer-based system that's going to connect all the dots for farmers to make it easier for them to get through markets to be able to know what's available. So it's a wonderful thing. People scab at it every now and then. Yeah, but Christopher, he pulled it off. He did, this guy's a brilliant mind. No doubt. And then we have Jennifer Kuchira. She's the soil health expert for NRCS West Coast region. She's coming. Jennifer's beautiful. She does the grass, right? That grass and that? Yeah, she does all. Just anything having to do with soil health. And then Bob Schaefer, body and soil fame. He's an agronomist that's just doing kawaii coffee.  He's done all the food waste compost for San Francisco. So Bob, he's coming. He met a fellow here in the sugar business who used to be a Forman or a supervisor for the big sugar cane company. And they closed down. And one of the guys said, when he was in the sugar cane business, he hated the California grass. It grows up, right? And Bob changed his whole life on that. Got him to do, again, flower it back down. And in less than three years, they have worms on the property. So it's amazing, the connections they did. Truly. And Sheole Mula, she, a beautiful young superstar, changing poop water into drinkable water. So she's going to be. See, I don't even know what you're asking me if I drink my worm too. I see you're drinking some. Yeah, well, I'm still trying to work that out. Doug Fine is the hempster. He's going to, he's the hemp rock star from the mainland. And Doug is going to come and have, there's going to be a panel on hemp production in Hawaii. So excited about that. And then Lely, Lely Vi, she does extractions. You know, they're doing sandalwood oil extraction up in Montelua. They take the old sandalwood trees when they're dead. And they still have oil in them though. They harvest a tree. All the babies come up. So it's reforesting the sandalwood forest. That's something else. And at the same time, it's got whiteout on this side. Yeah. No, it's just whiteout. Beautiful what they're doing. Fantastic. And then Jamie Burton from Hark, she's doing the polyculture cover crops used into tropicals. So she brings that expertise. And Ted Radovich, you know. I've worked with him for like 20 years. Rock star. Yeah, yeah. Ted's great. He is like Mr. Organic University of Hawaii. There's about six people over there. But Ted Radovich has been, and he's become the chair of his department over there. That's right. And it's kind of funny. You go to University of Hawaii and all the ag departments you think of and that, it's only him. And who's the other fellow? His name is flipping my mind right now. Oh, Jonathan Dienek. Jonathan Dienek and one more. He was with the Farmers Union. Oh, Hector Benzuela. Hector Benzuela. Yeah. Real champions. That's right. I mean people who really lived the life. That's right. Yeah. And then we got David Fisher is doing a wonderful class right now for HFUU members on business development, regenerative business development, business plans to get farmers more in the mentality of making money. You know? That's it. And then we have Tulsi Gabbard going to open up the Saturday Farm Festival at Kahumano. And Rep Kreegan who's the ag chair of the house and Senator Gabbard who's the Senate ag chair. Otherwise known as Dad. Yeah. Yeah, Tulsi's Dad. Yeah. And Scott Enright, the director of agriculture. You got the trifecta. You've been our friend. They're all members. Richard Kreegan is the vice president of the Kahoo chapter. I'd like to give a shout out for Scott Enright. Natalie and I went down and you were there. Vincent is on the Department of Agriculture Board. And we got two things turned around. We saved the circuses. That's right. The tigers and elephants can still come. But what we were there for at the meeting was the champion getting the Nalodocus fish off the A list super restricted. Can't bring it to Hawaii to the B list. You can bring it in as long as you meet conditions. And it was here anyway. And it was here anyway. That's right. And so we got it moved over. So nobody can explain how it ever got on the list. And as far as the animals go, you know, I mean, that was pretty contentious. I think, you know, I abstain from that vote because it was the film industry can still bring them in. Well, if the film industry can bring them in, then why are you trying to come down on the circus? Right, right. Plain fields got to be leveled. It's got to be leveled all the way across. Edible Hawaii Islands is a sponsor. Armstrong Produce is a sponsor. Yeah. We have Oahu R.C. and D. Produce. Yeah. They don't grow anything. They're wholesalers. They're wholesalers, but they buy a lot of local produce. But keep in mind to the farmer to have a place where you go and they'll buy everything you got as long as it meets your quality standard. And it really helps with the food safety issues because they will take care of the handling and the people they sell to trust them. That's right. That we will deliver it clean. They'll wash it. They'll package it. They give it to Disneyland Hotel or Eolaniya, wherever it's going. And so having a good wholesaling is good stuff. Truly. Pamela Boyer from Farm Lovers Markets. They're a sponsor. Local IA. They're sponsoring the Fish Ford. North Shore Livestock sponsor in the beef. Sunfresh Hawaii helps sponsor. National Farmers Union, of course. Kahanoa and the Greens, our farm. Scratch and Peck. Mariah Raftree is going to be part of the presentation on Saturday. She's a big player for fermented grains for the chickens. So this is, you know, this is just, this is all about body and soil. This is like a rock star poster. Here's what's going on. Truly. This is all the people. It's going to be good fun, man. I tell you what, something Natalie and I going to the convention sit together here for about the last eight years. Yes, we attend to classes and we certainly learn something.  But in the breakout sessions, in the donut and the coffee session, they're strolling around the farm where you meet and you become personally acquainted with the people. Well, let's talk about the food, Glenn. Yeah. The food right now, we have all local wars. It's not going to be coffee and donuts. It's going to be like the kind. We're going to have good food. Good food, brother. You know that. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then also, it's a really great point, the networking that happens. Let me jump into, how can people find out about how to do this thing and how to sign up? H-F-U-U-H-I dot org. So it's Hawaii Farmers Union United, H-F-U-U-H-I for Hawaii dot org. Can register. And either one day or the whole weekend, I think the key is, like you say, Glenn, you know, as a farmer, I'm a family farmer, you're a family farmer. We're in the trenches. Yeah. So these get us up in the clouds. Yeah. With one another. We get the network of people throughout all the state. We have 14 chapters, so all those presidents who are farmers are going to be together. Yeah. Come on, this is Electric Avenue. Yeah, that's right. Then we go back to our farms, we're kissing the walls of the trench. We're happy to be back on our trenches, doing what we're doing. Comfort zone. Yeah. But this way we have a chance to share, you know? When I met Jerry Bernetti and you get that personal relationship going on, to me, it's the difference between buying a book and just reading it and having lunch with the author and getting to talk to him and ask the behind-the-scenes question. That brilliance is going to be here. Yeah. That brilliance is going to be at this event. By the way, down here, the National Farmers Union in the corner, let's talk for a moment about the celebration we got this weekend of being chartered. What do you mean? You know, as well as I do, because you were past president of the Farmers Union, that it's a national organization that's 115 years old. And so they are extending us. They're coming to deliver a charter. And what that means basically, since I've been president, I go to the, and you've been at the, when you go to the mainland for national board meetings, well, I'm at that board table but I don't have a vote. Right. And now? We have a vote. You have to vote. We have a vote. So you know, as well as I do, if I'm sitting here and you have a vote, I listen to you a lot closer. There you go. You don't have a vote, right? Yes. And so it's cool. And so we've met all of the membership requirements, financials, the governance. We have the core leadership. They said, you guys are ready. We're going to charter you. Well, that happens Saturday at 2.30. Congratulations. Thanks, Glenn. It's been great. Well, we're just about out of time. They're giving me the wrap it up sign, as they say. And so I want to thank everybody for coming to us. Think Tech has put us on the air and we're really happy to share this and we're going to have some other good people coming in here. And we're going to share some more. And I'll be doing the follow-up report, hopefully next week, how this all went and have some scenes for you. Thank you all so much for tuning in. We do appreciate it. Thank you, Glenn. Thank you.


Hey coach welcome back to the channel if you haven't yet make sure you subscribe to stay up all day with all the latest content and If you want to get in contact with me to discuss your business Then there's a number of ways you can do that visit the Description below this video. There's a number of ways that you can get in contact with me If you want more business help with your football coaching business now today what I want to do is I want to share with you three reasons why the Block booking system Doesn't work for football coaches anymore now. I speak to coaches every single day in our industry some coaches are starting their business other coaches are looking to grow and something that I see That is very common is 99% of all coaches that I speak to and not only just here in the UK But in the US in Canada in Australia the way they're running their their business is through block bookings So if you're a one one-to-one trainer and you're running one-on-one coaching Service if you're running a one-on-one coaching service Then what I want you to do is I want you to take notes of what I'm about to share with you today Because I know it will hit home But also it will make you realize that I need to make changes Okay, as a business owner We are constantly looking to learn we are constantly looking to grow and If you feel that there's a system such as this block booking system that isn't working anymore then it's a good time now to then change it and Implement a system or a business model that will work right and I can help you with this I've been helping coaches for a very long time with this so getting contact me description below number of ways You can reach out so the first one is The problem with block book a block booking system is you have a tendency inconsistency now what coaches who run a Block booking system think is that their customers or their clients are going to consistently show up Every time per week right once a week. They're going to be there They'll do that. They'll do the training session and they'll complete that training session for that week, but What a lot of coaches come across is that they might be weeks where? Things happen parents can't make it to the session players get injured and What tends to happen is those block bookings that were five sessions Then end up dragging because of rescheduling Now if your clients fail to attend the block booking then your sessions could go on for Two months three months until those five sessions are complete, right? So if you're selling a block of five sessions That ultimately means that your your players are going to be training with you for five weeks If your players attend every single training session Now say they come to the first two and then for whatever reason they don't attend the next two three weeks because of You know, it could be a personal matter. It could be an injury It could be an illness it could be anything in your sessions of now and now that block booking instead of It being a five-week block booking now it's going to turn into a longer block booking right and The reason why this is going to have an impact on you is because that's going to prevent you working with other customers in the following month or You're going to be fully booked working with players That already on those old block bookings. Okay, so if you want to make sure getting contact with me There's a number of ways I can help you to transition from this So you avoid this problem, right? The second one is you're continuously Selling your services, right? So if you offer a block of five to ten sessions then when those sessions run out you're then having to sell yourself again to that parent and That is something that a lot of coaches don't like doing but coaches don't like selling themselves to parents Because they they don't see it as part of the coaching But if you're running a business then you have to learn how to market promote and sell So there's a number of ways you can do this Where you're not having to sell yourself continuously But if you're running block bookings, then what happens is at the end of that five sessions Then you're going to have to call up mrs. Jones or text mrs. Jones And try to sell her on Another five or ten week block booking Right, we want to see if we can transition away from that and implement a newer type of system where we're not continuously selling ourselves every five to ten weeks Right now the third problem with a block booking system is lack of commitment right At the moment 99 of all football trainers Football coaches who are running coaching businesses They the norm is to off our block bookings, right now That is a model where I feel is quite old, right? It's it's it's very old. It's very out of fashion and also it's a model that doesn't Allow commitments to be created Right, if you speak to the most successful trainers in our industry Then you they will tell you that the most important part of their business is client retention, right? So holding on to clients for long now A block booking of five sessions ten sessions ultimately means and what parents Mentally picture in their head is that right after those five to ten sessions? I'm then free to go and look for another trainer now Yes Whatever model you implement into your business your parents your clients are going to have that freedom to go and look for someone else but how about implementing a system where you're getting your customers to commit for longer Like because ultimately what you're then telling the the the client or the parent is that if you want to get good results With our training with our coaching Then you have to be committed for longer Right, we aren't going to get results in five ten weeks The process requires longer. So if they if they're willing to commit for longer Means that they're a good customer and also they're invested in what you're doing Which ultimately means that in the long term they will become a good client and hopefully They'll refer other like-minded parents into your business right, so I feel and this is just a personal Opinion is that the the five to ten sessions block bookings is something that For for parents they treat it more as a taster session right because really and truly you can't I don't believe you can transform a footballer In that short period of time Okay, and ultimately that's the industry we're in we're in a results-based industry. We've got to get results with the players That we're working with So if you want to get better results if you want to get more committed customers clients in your business You have to find ways to get them to stay with you for longer and not just five to ten weeks Okay, so again if you need any help with this reach out to me This is pretty much what I do every single day Speak with coaches connect with coaches And working with coaches so reach out to me There's a number of ways I can help you to create a more sustainable System within your business, right? Thank you for watching and make sure you subscribe to the channel to stay up to date with all our latest content


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Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Elliott. In this video, I'm going to show you how to build a best friend in two minutes. This is called the meet and greet. If you can get this down, you will be unstoppable. Check it out. Okay guys, so a master sales person. Master sales person is a student of the game. They've mastered the craft of obviously connecting with their client. That's all it's about. Connection. That's it. So let's go to that, okay? And by the way, what does this person look like? What's the difference from here to here? This person says hi. They raced over to the car. The customer's beating them up on price objections. They don't have any rapport. They don't have a connection. They don't care about you.  It's a dead-end deal. And in spite of the price being cheap enough, they may stay and buy. But other than that, they're going to go buy somewhere else and who are they going to buy from? You. From me, somebody who does a good job and who makes them feel valued. Somebody who makes it fun. So right off the gate, a master sales person, write this down. Is somebody who will make it fun? Write that down right now. Fun. Make it fun. Make it fun. Look guys, buying a car, it doesn't have to be serious. It's actually very, very fun. It's always been fun.  The whole time you're spending money, you might go in and spend three times as much money as you planned on, right?  You don't even think about it. Look, everybody needs a car. We sell something that 100% of the people in the world have to have. Have fun.  So right off the gate, what we're going to do is we're going to slow down. I want to explain this to you. Master salespeople, slow down. Slow down. We know the customers want to speed up. We want to slow down. We're going to have fun. We're going to have energy. But we're going to slow down and we're going to make a connection. That's the most important thing. Listen, I don't care about selling yourself. I want you to understand this. When I walk out and say hi to you, I'm going to go out. I'm going to listen to everything that you tell me and I'm going to remember to remember what I've heard that you said. But all I care about is connecting. That's it. I want to connect with you. And by the way, I have a rule. Two minutes. Two minutes. You can connect with your customer in two minutes and build the best friend. I assure you. So whenever they come in, guys, real simple, nice little meet and greet right off the gate. Hey, guys, what's going on? My name is Andy Elliott. How are you doing? Welcome to the store. Thank you for being here with us, ma'am. How are you doing? What's your name, sir? Is that your daughter? That's your wife? Oh, my God. That's crazy. She looks like your daughter. You did good. You married up, man. Ma'am, I'm grateful for you being here with us today. Who else do we got with us? See what I'm saying? Having a little fun, got a little humor. Ha, ha, ha. Having a good time. He's like, yeah, she is pretty great. I did marry up. She's like, yeah, dude, look good. Guess what? I'm having fun. Who else do we got here? How are you guys doing?  What's going on? Hey, I got some cool coloring books for you guys inside. By the way, what brought you in? Where are you from? Where did you guys drive from today? Tell me about it. Look, tell me about this car. I haven't seen one of these in a long time. Wow. Guys, start the conversation, okay? Now listen, I'm going to move on here real quick. Slow down, make a connection. Hey, guys, sorry to interrupt the video. Right now is the time to take yourself to a whole new level. Listen, the market is going to demand you to get more skill right now than you've ever needed to have.  I would love to talk to you. Tell me what you need help with. Text me right now. If you see on the screen, my cell phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let me say that again,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Shoot me a text message. Tell me what you need help with. I'll reach out and call you. Let's take you to the next level. Let's get back to the video. Shake everyone's hand. I just told you to do that. You saw how I displayed that deal. Look for something to build common ground and rapport with. I'm going to give you some examples. I want you to think about this. Car pulls up. I'm walking out. I'm looking at the car. I'm looking at the customers. Watch this. I'm not judging them. I'm looking for things to build common ground with. It's called a conversation piece. Look for a conversation piece. That's what it is. Write that down. What we want to look for is we're going to look for shirts. We're going to look for a saying on a shirt. Maybe it's a sport team or something like that. We're going to look for a bumper sticker. Maybe a bumper sticker. Look, if people put a bumper sticker on a car, they're repping that. It could be like, my kid's the best and was in honors.  These guys are the next Elon Musk. You guys see what he's worth, right? Man, richest guy in the world. That's what I'm talking about. You guys are going to crush it. Amazing children. Hats. Look for hats. People rep hats that have things on them that they like and enjoy. Look at the hat. Whatever's on that hat, I assure you. If it's a hunting hat, they probably like to hunt. They probably just don't like camo patterns. They probably like hunting. I'm ready to go in hunting mode at any time. Parking stickers. Maybe like a college parking pass. Anybody that works for a hospital or something like that, they'll have a parking pass. Guys, just check it out. Be aware.  Your job is to make a connection.  God gifted you with eyes. Look. Look. Observe. Check it out. See what's up. Hat. Shirt. Pants. Shoes. You know, car. What's going on? Stickers in the car. Let's say the guy's got a military hat on, okay? Military. It says veteran. You know what I'm saying, right? Write out the game. What do you want to do? Stop. Massive respect. Write out the... And I give this from my heart. These are genuine compliments. Sir, before we do anything today. Number one, thank you for serving. Thank you. Grateful. Just wanted to stop. Don't care if you're going to be here for two minutes or we're going to hang out all day and we spend the night. Doesn't matter. Thank you. Thank you for serving. That's awesome. Boom. Recognition. Respect. Common ground. Write out the game. Is that sincerity from me? Absa-freaking-lutely.  Remember what I said? People buy from people that remind them of their friends, right? Look. The hat's a military deal. Now, what I would say is I would say something maybe like this. Hey, if you don't mind me asking, obviously I want to help you get a vehicle of things you want, when did you serve? What years did you serve? I'm curious. I'm not a history buff, right? But I love people that have served. When did you serve? Okay? Were you in the Army? Were you in the Navy? You know, what would you do? Were you in special ops? You know, I could ask some questions, guys. What do people love to do? Talk. Who do they like to talk about? Me? The car? Or themselves? Yeah, I talk about themselves. This is a time for you that you can ask a couple questions. I wrote down something right here. Look for things to build common ground with. Like a shirt, a bumper sticker, a hat, a parking sticker, okay? Get your customers to talk about themselves. This is very, very easy to do. But it's also very, very easy to skip this step and did not do it and speed up the sell and end up shaking a customer's hand and then watching them leave because you didn't do your job. Now's the time to slow down and learn the meat and greet. Guys, we haven't even got to the fact to qualify yet. This is the meat and greet. This is a time for you to learn how to make a connection because the rest of the steps, whether there's eight or there's a hundred, they don't matter if the first one is done wrong. Look, guys, people ain't going to buy from you if they don't like you, just the way it is. So always start by asking them questions, by observing certain things that you can ask questions about, right? And then lastly, just never skip a step. There's a road to the sell for a reason, all right? It wasn't something that we made up just to make your life miserable, okay? You know how during the road to the sell, there's a walk around, right? There's a walk around. If you look through my training, you'll see a walk around video where I let the customers envision for the first time them owning the vehicle and I get them excited and I take them on the roller coaster ride. The walk around was there for a reason. Why would we have put it in the process if it wasn't important? Guys, why is there a meat and greet? There's a meat and greet because building a best friend, building common ground, people don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care. People want to buy from people that remind them of their friends. Your job is to be a chameleon and connect with your clients. They need to want to not leave you. They need to want to pull the wall down and decide to not see you as a car salesman, but see you as their business advisor. They need to want to do all of these things and you're the person that's going to create it. And if you skip this step, you know who you'll be? A typical sales person. You're going to get a $600,000 a year, okay? And those guys making $500, $600,000 a year, they've mastered the craft.  Guys, the meat and greet will change your life. By the way, I have a meat and greet packet. I can send it to you. It may help you. It'll have all of this printed out and I have more that I wrote down. You can shoot me a text,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Shoot me a text. I'll send it to you.<PHONE_NUMBER>, guys. Go build the best friend. Crush it. Let's break some records.


Appreciate y'all joining us here this morning for this absolutely exciting milestone in this recovery process. I'd like to open it up by welcoming Paradise Mayor Jody Jones up for welcome. Thank you. Good morning. It's a beautiful day, a great day to celebrate the end of the debris removal program. I want to welcome you all here this morning to our beautiful town that is free of debris. It's great to be able to say that. When this disaster happened, my only knowledge of federal and state disaster agencies was what I saw on TV after Hurricane Katrina. So I didn't know what to expect but both Cal OES and FEMA were waiting when I arrived at the at the Operations Center on Friday morning after the fire and they've been with us ever since. The partnership has been fabulous. This debris removal program I was told there was two and a half times the debris there was at the World Trade Center and it's in about nine months and there were a lot of rain delays and it's all gone. The efficiency, the partnership, the knowledge, and just the can-do spirit of Cal OES and FEMA in helping us to get this accomplished is phenomenal. This house that's behind me under construction, it wouldn't be there. My house is under construction as well as over 300 other homes across this town and that wouldn't have happened without this debris removal program and the expertise of Cal OES and FEMA and Cal Recycle. So I just want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of Paradise. And at this time I'd like to introduce our Assemblyman James Gallagher who's also been helping us with all kinds of things since the disaster and I appreciate him as well. James? Well thank you Jody and it's a pleasure to be here with everyone this morning. Thank you. Welcome to Paradise. You know this whole situation, the aftermath of the campfire is something that we would never want to happen and the devastation that we've seen and I remember in those early days as we were meeting in the emergency operations center and starting to discuss how do we help this town and this community in the other areas affected, Magalia, Kongkau, Yankee Hill, how do we help people recover? It seems so overwhelming and as we were talking to people in evacuation centers and dealing with the many different needs in the aftermath of that fire, we certainly just felt a deep sense of despair. But in those moments as we began to work together and as we started to outline all the things that needed to be done and started to work with our federal partners and our local partners, I was just amazed at how well everybody began to coordinate their efforts and how everybody be able to fill their role and this was a big part of it. Is this debris removal? I think when we first just looked at how much debris was going to have to be removed in order for this community to recover, it seemed insurmountable. But with this team that was working together here, FEMA, Cal OES, Cal Recycle and all and then the contractors who ultimately got the jobs, you saw that seamless organization begin to work and it wasn't without problems. We had, I was telling Director Fenton, we had our ups and downs. There were frustrations as there always is because nobody would ever want to have to deal with the situation of this type. We certainly didn't ask for it and there were those frustrations but we worked through them and as things came up as we were trying to help people recover, we were trying to deal with different issues that people might have had with their particular property, we worked together as a team. At times we had some arguments with each other but we didn't let that get in the way of the overall picture and this and certainly this team behind behind me kept our focus on kept their eye on the prize, kept our focus on the goal and it's amazing that we're standing here a little over a year later with all the debris removed. I think anybody that would have looked at this said, hey you're looking at least 18 months to two years and it's ahead of schedule and I and I and I give a lot of credit to Director Gilarducci, to FEMA and the team that worked on this. He would probably say he's had too much experience in this of late and certainly we've, as I said, none of us would have asked for this but I think that there's been lessons learned from other areas and it and it was brought to bear here as we've completed this project but the greater thing about all this is this giving people the opportunity to rebuild, a home being rebuilt behind me. We're seeing you know over 300 building permits moving forward by the end of the year maybe 500 building permits and you're seeing the strength of this town as it recovers and rises from the ashes stronger than ever before. So it's a pleasure to be part of that. I want to thank everyone that played the did the real hard work of making it happen each and every day and we are truly grateful and ready to move forward. Thank you and I'd like to invite up Director Mark Gilarducci from Cal OES. Well good morning everyone and so happy to be with you today and this very monumental accomplishment. You know a year ago as we approached responding to this fire and the enormity of the situation we look back and we think you know at the time such complexity such sense immense scope and scale to be able to have to respond to this how we we pull together an organization that could rapidly address the recovery because we know that recovering cleaning out the debris after these events and getting the community back in a place where it can effectively rebound and begin that recovery process is critical but it was a daunting task and look we had you know over 11,000 structures that needed to be removed and we had winter on our heels starting the process we were slowed by it seemed like one major storm after another snow rain and we're very very concerned that we were never going to be able to get and meet the metric but we we thought you know maybe a year and a half or two years before we could get this this cleaned up but I'm really happy today to talk about getting it done in a nine month time period less than a year from the time that the fire ravaged the community and it's been done by a team a team in California which is I'm always so amazed about the way we come together public private non-governmental and the community wrapping around together to be able to accomplish this task this wasn't done by one specific agency or one specific organization but about a collaborative effort of many with a common set of objectives and a metric that we were all going to very be very specific on on and focus on getting this community cleaned up and getting it ready to get rebuilt and seeing the rebuilding that's going on behind me and listening to some remember Gallagher talk about 300 500 in the next year building permits working on being able to address the ability to have better water systems better sewer systems these are all fantastic accomplishments that go along with the ability to one get the community cleaned up there are other parts of the country where they have had disasters that they're still working on getting their debris cleaned out still addressing their recovery priorities but here in Paradise and here in California and let me just say that while the recovery here was going on it's not like we haven't had plenty of other activities going on in California including additional multiple fires a major earthquake something called the PSPS that's affected all of us all of these things are happening in the backdrop but the focus of this community and the focus of this team has been to continue to get the community cleaned up and it's been a herculean effort and I want to thank specifically all of the contractors I want to thank the community the patients of the community the mayor the town manager our county elected leaders our recovery coordinator Cal recycle Cal EPA and the National Guard everyone coming together and of course our partners at FEMA who have navigated us together with this this graphic really shows an amazing amount of debris that was cleared out 59 trips to the moon that's pretty phenomenal right you know for Golden Gate Bridge is worth a debris it puts it in a context of how complicated this effort was and and so now we move from completing this and there's still a few little wrap-up things we need to do doing some waddling around properties and you know there's a few batements that need to be made but fall intent purposes the program has met its objective and met its goal and now we'll we'll look into the phase two and that is identifying those hazardous trees that need to be removed and it's another herculean effort quite frankly of bringing the same organization to bear and bringing that group together to be able to address those hazardous trees and get the trees out of the way so that the remaining building process can take place so with that I just want to thank the community for your patience I want to thank all of the partners and and just really you know I'm excited about paradise coming back as the paradise that it was but with that I'm going to turn it over to my partner from FEMA the Regional Director Bob Fenton I'm proud to stand here today to recognize the completion of the largest debris mission in recent California history I applaud as Mark did the planning the cooperation the hard work and the patients of the residents the local leaders the experts the operators and the many specialists that contribute to this mission we knew that the debris mission the 2017 fires would be the largest since the great San Francisco earthquake in 1906 but we did not expect in 2017 when we did that operation that we would have another post-wildfire debris mission nearly twice as large and tons of debris remove would be necessary the debris mission included the removal of fire debris tolling more than 3.6 million tons and over 11,000 parcels the debris was removed safely to a high local state and federal standard so that people air water would be safer in paradise and around butte County FEMA authorized the reimbursement for debris removal costs for prior property because the fire debris threatened the public health however we also know an additional benefit is coordinated debris removal facilities rebuilding and it's good this morning to see concrete lumber steel and other signs of construction I'm also happy to learn that the first 13 homes are complete and as the assemblymen talked about paradise has hundreds of permits already submitted for future rebuilding I applaud the local leaders the residents who are committed to staying in the community they love and are committed to ensuring the community is safe strong and resilient as you know well the recovery of paradise and other butte County communities will take years and we will stand with you with disaster assistance and mitigation programs with technical support and with the respect and the compassion for the losses suffered and the hopes that drive your efforts starting next month FEMA's long-term recovery efforts will run from an office in paradise and the staff in that office will work to implement the FEMA's programs with other federal state and local government programs along with nonprofit organizations businesses and the public to ensure what started with a successful debris removal effort transitions to success and other recovery priorities. Let me just end with saying I applaud the leadership of Cal us and my partner Mark Iliducci Cal recycle as they have shown again as fire debris experts the dedication of local officials throughout the months of debris removal and the persistence of survivors from all communities impacted by the campfire also I just want to recognize and thank us EPA and Cal EPA who at the beginning removed all the household hazardous waste and record time in order to allow us to allow Cal recycle and the operators to remove the debris and record time so with that thank you and next I'd like to introduce Ken de Rosa from Cal recycle. Good morning everyone I'm Ken de Rosa with Cal recycle you'll indulge me a moment I'm going to read this passage here and now the Sun with more effectual beams had cheered the face of earth and dried the wet from drooping plant or dropping tree the birds who all things now behold more fresh and green after a night of storms so ruinous cleared up their choices notes in bush and spray to rejoice the sweet return of morning. That's a passage from John Milton and Paradise regained. I want to amplify Bob's closing point and acknowledge the work of our partners at the Department of Toxic Substances control. In this process they are phase one they are the tip of the spear that sets the pace for this cleanup they come in and remove the gross hazards that are there moving us then to phase two. You're familiar with the numbers I'm not going to kind of go into a great level of detail about them because you've heard a lot about them but it is a significant effort and I think it's important again to amplify a point that was made just a moment ago. Yes we did finish this within nine months well ahead of schedule but in no way and at no time did we compromise the public health safety and environmental objectives that we use and that guide us through this process. We come in we remove the the metals the ash and debris we scrape the soil we test that soil we confirm that it is clean we leave a clean parcel that now a resident has the decision to make whether they return or whatever next choice they're going to make but we deliver that consistently every single time. I also want to talk about the compassion and the empathy demonstrated by the teams here today their commitment to getting this work done they cared about delivering this operation all of them public sector and private sector behind me I am joined by some of my very dear colleagues who have been part of this including Stephen Edo Lisa Garner Andy Merino Chris McSwain Jared Ramsey Lewis Todd Thalheimer Pauline Totten Anthony van der Schaaf Luke Wayne Scott Alan Zambuanga Candace Houghton and I also want to acknowledge Serena McIlwain from CalEPA is who are here today we couldn't have done done this without them and a couple dozen other people that are back of the house doing contract management invoice review it is a tribal effort to make this happen it is a community effort to make this happen I also need to acknowledge our private sector colleagues tetra tech ECC series SPSG and also our tribal monitors who were critical in ensuring cultural legacy and cultural heritage was protected throughout this all of them recognized what it meant to the community and what it meant to the individual residents and empathy and compassion aren't usually what one thinks about when one considers the government operation but these teams delivered that every day talking with homeowners talking with residents holding a hand from you know a crying individual who had lost every tangible possession could not be more proud of these colleagues lastly and and most importantly we want to thank the community we want to thank the people of paradise concaw Miguelia Yankee Hill Honey Run and others we want to thank you for your patience for your cooperation for your support this was not an easy operation there were challenges there were delays but you stood by us you believed in us and you trusted us we want to take today and thank you for that trust that belief in that support we're grateful we are humbled humbled by your trust and faith to get this done and your trust to clean up the remnants of your lost homes I had the opportunity to attend a few weekly all hands meetings and many of those are conducted in a local church and I often mentioned there that there was something fitting appropriate and profound about those all hands meetings happening inside a church that is a place where community gathers that is a place where community is built paradise and surrounding communities let us in to help prepare the damage you helped us to restore the landscape you helped us to rebuild this community and there are no words that can bring back those lost tangible memories that were lost in the fire there are no words that can see the pain and grieving of what happened here the pain and grieving of who was lost not just what was lost all we can offer our deeds that demonstrate faith in each other and faith in community a community that survived in a community once again rejoices the return of the morning so thank you all very much for being here today I'd like to turn it over now to Daniel Newsome from butte County thank you Ken that was beautiful Daniel Newsome with butte County you know the campfire burned 19,000 structures last November of which 13,000 of those were homes and businesses and it became necessary for the contaminated debris to be removed in a safe and healthy manner to keep our community safe and healthy and so I want to start off to just think all of our survivors of the campfire and each and every property owner who went down and visited a right of entry center or the disaster relief center mitigated their way through asked questions and started the process of completing their ROEs and finding their forms and making it possible for the state and all of our partners to clean the debris thank you similar to what you just said I want to thank you for your responsibility your trust your courage and your partnership throughout the process the county also would like to thank our state partners starting with Cal OAS and Cal Recycle Cal EPA DTSC and our federal partners FEMA Army Corp US EPA for successfully executing and partnering with us in this process for the largest debris removal mission that California has seen the county set up a right of entry center December 10th less than a month after the campfire event and from that day until this we've collected over 11,000 right of entry forms and all of the necessary materials for that and we've met with all of the survivors and heard their stories and that was a real important part of this process and we really appreciated that throughout the debris removal mission while we were doing all of the right things for all of the right reasons that we partnered with our survivors and our state partners to really make sure that we kept our eyes focused on being survivor sensitive and helping to everybody that has been affected by the campfire look forward to the future so this is a really significant moment for debris removal and all of the hard work and long days and long nights for everybody that it impacted because it signifies something very different for each individual but as a whole and throughout our communities it signifies another step through recovery and another step towards rebuilding and hopefully new beginnings it has been an honor to participate in debris removal with all of our state and federal partners as well as each of our campfire impacted thank you so the actual completion day was November the 6th what he said but so total with everybody involved close to five thousand yeah and it varied in times and that was for all the different agencies and private partnerships contractors across the board so you think about the enormity of this particular event starting with the fire itself the massive state and federal response to the fire suppressing the fire addressing all of that and then the the the next phase which was the recovery you know there was close to when we had the fire up here and there was several fires around the area close to 30,000 responders and and in fact we I think we moved the OES move 35,000 different fire responders or law enforcement through the mutual aid system for the fire itself and then you know five thousand or so on the scene here in the recovery probably another several thousand back again monumental effort by many many people focus on a set of objectives with very tight metrics and it really speaks to the ability that performance metrics and and a clear concise plan is very very important to be able to address these very complicated and you know enormous type situations there's always less is learned the you know I mean certainly we will we'll do an after-action sort of review on this and figure out where we can we can you know best stream by even further for the next one unfortunately there probably will be a next one just we have the nature of California and each one is has its own sort of unique signature fire debris is a little different than what we would maybe see in an earthquake with heavy concrete debris so or what we would see in a flood but the principles and the problem the way we approach these things are have commonality and you know we learned a lot from 2017 which was at the time the largest debris operation we ever done and we applied those lessons learned immediately in the 2018 which were which was a phenomenal step forward and so we'll learn from this as well and move forward in the next round I think we're looking at currently I think it's around 1.3 billion is the estimate that could be a little bit more could be a little bit less less than what we originally thought it thought I would just say that you know coming in under time and and what I think our original budget projections were is really good that also speaks to the efficiency of the overall effort yeah tree removal will begin in the January timeframe again we want to make sure that we are organizing in a effective way and sometimes you have to go a little bit slow to go fast in the long run and that's exactly what we're doing here different set of contractors different set of approaches we you know you have to determine which trees first of all need to be taken down and which ones don't so you need technical expertise arborist and other kinds of foresters and then of the trees that that are going to be taken down some are will be biomassed or put to some sort of that kind of use but some are viable to be able to be used as timber and and and so that that needs to be worked through in the process but our hopes that in January timeframe will begin that that tree removal process and that's probably going to take about you know I'm going to give a metric now nine months hopefully we'll get it done in six and and and we're talking about somewhere around you know 300 350,000 trees give or take a few well in 2017 in all of the fires that we've had over the course of the last several years there's been some level of trees that have to be removed but probably the biggest effort was after a fire was in 2017 in the North Bay fires but I will tell you that the state of California has been working diligently since the end well actually almost the middle of the drought so 2016 or so where we started to see massive tree die offs in the Sierra front some 250 million trees have died due to bark beetle and and all of the drought related impacts and we've we've had a very extensive tree removal operation that's been going on and that's been private contractors has been the Caltrans been Cal fire we've had folks from the you know private sector loggers everybody's been working on that on that effort as well so trees are you know it's a and and each one is unique the ones on the bug kill can't necessarily be used for building because of the what the bugs due to the trees but they can be used for other sources so we try to we try to leverage everything just like the debris here concrete was all recycled steel was all recycled happy to show you some phenomenal photos of the massive amounts of steel that was just recycled from this event thousands and thousands of cars etc all of that goes through recycling process it gets used as something different down the road so we're really happy and proud of that we do that here anything else okay thank you everyone thank you


Hello, Lone Fox family, welcome to my apartment. All right guys, so quickly before jumping into my apartment tour, I just have two announcements. The first one, which is the smaller one, is that my website Lone Fox is having a 10% off sale using code just because. So if you use this code at checkout until the 15th of April, you can actually get 10% off of your order, $75 ships free in the US, all that sort of stuff. I'm not gonna talk about that for too much. If you wanna check it out, link is in the description box below. So, the reason I'm doing this tour is because I'm moving. And yes, a lot of you guys are gonna be like, what the heck? You just did a bedroom makeover. You just did a bathroom makeover. Like, why are you moving? And I asked myself the same exact question. Why am I moving? I actually have a full empty apartment tour going up next week of my new apartment, which I am extremely excited to share with you guys. And I'm going to just be diving into all the information in that video. So I think we should just jump right in to this apartment tour. And we're gonna actually have to start packing it up soon. So I just wanna share it with you guys before we did so. And that is why this apartment tour is here. So let's get started. Quickly before jumping in, I just wanted to share with you kinda like the details of my apartment. Me and my roommate actually live in a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment in the West Hollywood or Hollywood area. And the apartment's around 900 square feet. And we do pay almost $3,000. We pay $29.50 a month. And it's actually raising, which is one of the reasons why we are moving. But I will discuss that in the next video. So, at the front door here, this is the front door, of course. So there's a lot of built-ins in this apartment, which is really nice. But this just honestly has a ton of randomness in it. We've kind of also been compiling things in here that we wanna put in boxes. So that's why it doesn't look super organized. There's all of our paint up there, which we literally paint the entire apartment with. A sewing machine, some of my DIY products and things like that. And then right here is actually that dresser that I DIYed. And I wanna keep this for the new apartment for sure because the new apartment is quite a bit bigger than this one, which I'm super excited to share with you guys that empty apartment tour. This is staying here. And this print is from Society 6. It's like a canvas print and we've had this forever. This is kind of by the front door area. We did this entire space in a living room makeover. And the wallpaper, the entire wall, the wallpaper is from Society 6. These prints are also from Society 6 as well. And I love this wallpaper. It's really cool, kind of like geometric and very graphic and bold. And then the table here is from World Market and I've had this table forever. We've literally had this for like four years or so. And there's a lot of decor on the top of it. This is actually from my website. I love these little Rapia grass bowls that are hand woven. And then these are some chairs that we actually got from a friend. She was getting rid of these when we lived in our downtown apartment. I have this little stool, which I actually had in my downtown apartment as well, but I just couldn't get rid of it. It's from Target and it's actually still available, which is crazy. So that just is there. It's kind of decorative. We have some hanging plants too. These are super cute. I love this one. This is from Target. The actual planters from Target. And then we're going to work our way over. And this is kind of like part of the living room space. So this is a media console from Article. And I really like it. It's very, very low profile and pretty small. And it has like some modern elements to it, which is nice. And then I have some DIY decor over here from 8 Video. And I always wanted to mount the TV on the wall. That's something I always said I was going to do. And I never ended up doing it. So I really want to do that in a nice apartment for sure. This piece right here is another one of those woven pieces that I actually sell on my website, which I love those. They're just super, super like natural looking. And I have my Ice Moon Live Beautiful book, which I love this book as well. Big fan of her. Then over here, there is the fireplace area. And this is really nice. I love having a fireplace instead of an apartment. Our next one actually has one, but it's like not a working fireplace, which you're going to see. This little slot was actually created for this image. As you can see, it fits perfectly inside of it. And just a couple pieces of decor. This is from LoneFox.com. It's super cute. And then just a little candle here.  Like it does not smell good at all. Below that, there's a couple pieces of decor. I got this globe at a thrift store with my grandpa a long time ago. So I've always just kept that. And then this piece right here is from West Elm, when I used to work there. As you can see, there's a balcony out here. And all there is on the balcony is this little table and chairs from Ikea. I was working on a patio makeover a couple of weeks ago, but it has been raining nonstop in Los Angeles. But I actually love going out and sitting out here, which is super nice, especially while we're in isolation at the moment. So then moving over to the right of the window, we have a lot of stuff over here. So there is a Popeson chair from World Market. I get asked for this from all the time. And I love this chair so much. And then we have this fig tree, which is also from World Market. And my Ikea Rattan shelving system. And we literally had nowhere to put this, but we loved it so much that I literally had to keep it in this apartment. But it is really cute. And I'm excited to bring it to the new apartment because it's going to go perfectly in there somewhere. The whole living room space is actually on top of a rug from Article, which is really nice. It's actually very squishy. And it's like a braided material, which I think adds a bit of texture to the space. And the couch and coffee table are also from Article. Now this coffee table I film all my videos on. It's super, super nice. I love it. It cleans up really easily. And in the center here, there's a lot of decor that is also from Lone Fox. So this is my favorite candle we sell in Lone Fox. It's the Lavande lavender candle. It smells incredible. And this is a new item on the site.  It's a mango wood and some DIY coasters that I created on my channel. Candlelighter, which I've shared with you guys before, but it literally is a rechargeable candlelighter. That goes in there. And then we have the couch. And this couch is amazing. I'm obsessed with this couch. We literally love it. It's an article. I will link the exact one below for you guys if you're curious. And there's just a couple of random decor pillows on here. This one's from CB2, Target, Target, Amazon. The entire gallery wall is from Society Six. And I have a whole video of me creating this when I did the makeover here. So make sure to check out the tag if you're curious about how I redid this whole space. This little light here, this is the Mantis wall sconce from CB2. It's really cool because you can actually swivel it out and in. And this is gonna come in really handy for the next apartment as well. So we have some alcoholic beverages here if you would like one. Some little tools. These are from Target and also our speaker. So when our friends come over, we could play music and stuff. Then moving over from the bar over here, there is the kitchen. And this is a really nice size kitchen. I actually really like it. And I like how it's kind of like tucked away in its own little cave over here. So we have a refrigerator and I have an entire video makeover of this kitchen for you guys, which is gonna be in the card up there if you're curious. Basically in this kitchen, I redid all of the walls with a peel and stick tile which looks incredible. I'm absolutely obsessed. I also DIYed this little hanger here, which is still here. I know a lot of you guys are like, oh my gosh, you still have that? And yes, it's still going strong. Love this so much. It stores some stuff and it adds like a cute little vibe. And then yeah, I mean, there's not much other stuff in here. We just have like a toaster oven over here. This really, really super pretty copper kitchen aid, which is amazing. Obsessed with that. I'll link that below if you are curious. Also my Magnolia table book and I wanna get her new one, which is coming out soon. I'm just a huge Joanna Gaines fan. So we have that little pasta here and some knives. Here, I think we're gonna start off with my roommate's room first because why not? Now, this room was actually a video that I filmed a super, super long time ago on my channel, which again, will be in a card up there somewhere. And we filmed this like probably a couple of years ago when I had like 80,000 subscribers. It was one of my first room makeovers ever on this channel. We did this really cool accent wall on the wall, which is called Tsunami. And I'm not sure what brand it's by. I'll put it on the screen for you guys. And we're not wearing this headboard from Urban Outfitters, right? Yeah. Yeah, so this is from Urban Outfitters. And then Marie's betting, it's like this is all basically from Target. Target, Target, Target. Where's this? Target. Target. Where did you get your nightstands from? Way fair. Way fair, because these were a recent, not a recent edition, but they were after the makeover that we did. And then this is from Target too. And we got a couple of these decor pieces from the thrift store. Over here in Marie's apartment, she had an apartment in Marie's room. We got this at Target. This little Rhino is from the thrift store.  Marie had this Vogue print already. And this plant as well. And I believe this is from like Home Goods, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's from Home Goods. Another Way Fair. And then this was in my old apartment. This is a leather director's bench from CB2. And then right over here, Marie has this piece of furniture as well. And it just has like some of her other bits and bobs and trinkets and options and items on there. And then she has one of these IKEA dressers. I believe this is like the six drawer mom dresser is what it's called. And this mirror here, this is actually thrifted as well. I got this a super, super long time ago and it just looked really good in here. So we added that up there. We, she hasn't really changed much. So I'm assuming that she likes it, right, Bry? I love it. Oh. So, oh, I guess we could share Marie's bathroom too really quickly. There's also this little piece from Amazon which I've shared before with you guys. And Marie's bathroom, both of our bathrooms are like super, super simple. So she really just has like a little Target plant and we found that at the thrift store. A little candle here. And then we have some wall art up here, all of which is from Society Six. Right outside of our bedrooms is actually these two built-ins here. This is another one that kind of just stores more cleaning supplies, toilet paper, and stuff like that. And then we have my bedroom which I'm excited to share with you guys. I know I already just did a whole makeover on this room but a lot of you had questions on where my closet and bathroom were. So I thought I would share that too. And walking to my room, I have this hanging plant here and this has been going strong for like nine days or so now since I did my video. A lot of you guys were concerned about that hook up there and it is super, super sturdy. So I'll link those because they are the best removable wall hook. Over here is kind of like my little desk space. I love this. I actually work here every single morning till like two or three hours right when I wake up. I answer emails, watch YouTube videos, respond to you guys and just do a lot of fun things over here. And the desk is from Ikea.  I take this with me everywhere and a little wall macrame hanging that I DIYed on my channel a while back. And moving over to the right side, I have a clothing rack. This just has some pieces that I've been wearing a lot of. I switch these out per season and try to just make sure that they look really cute in here. And then right over here is my next stand. This is from CB2 and it's brass. And then I have a little DIY planter I created. The bedding is from Brooklyn. And I know a lot of you guys actually had questions about that in my makeover. I love this bedding. It's like all of it is linen 100%, which is really nice. I have a CB2 pillow, a Target Christmas pillow that I flipped around because I liked this brown color. And then another Target kind of accent pillow here. And also a lot of you guys had questions about this ostrich. My mom got this for me a long time ago. It's from Anthropologie. It still has a tag on it. I've had this for like five years. And then this is a DIY I did on my channel too.  Right over here is my dresser area and gallery wall that I designed, which I really love. I actually kept it as is because I really like the way that it looks at the moment. I have this little piece here. This is from Amazon. It's one of those ones that you can kind of redo yourself. And I also have a mirror here. This is from Anthropologie. All of the decor here. I have a couple of my favorite design books and then my architectural digest and a couple of other things, including this little DIY candle that I created. The stain I used was this one. It's Golden Pecan by Varathane. And so many people asked about which stain I used on this because I didn't feature it in my most recent video because I've had this for a while, but that's the stain color that I actually use on the entire dresser. This is my DIY storage. This storage system is from Urban Outfitters. I love this because it literally has 15 different drawers so you can really section off a lot of your stuff. This drawer I have tools. So there's like scissors, exacto knives, needles, things like that that I use all the time. This one's a fun one. It has all my embellishments in it. So it's little clips and things. And then up here I have a little DIY that I created. It holds all my jewelry. I really, really love this piece. And this is actually a little one from an Amazon favorites. It's a really pretty little box. And I have some of my jewelry in there as well. Mr. Kate actually got me these little 70s inspired huff links which are super cute. And then over here is a little triad. This is the Alexander triad from my website. And then I have a couple pieces here. Mr. Kate got me this as well. I was on her show for like two episodes. So she got me that as a little present for being on her show, which was really sweet of her. And lastly in my bedroom is my floor link mirror which I shared how I spray painted it. I did a matte black coating on it in my last video obsessed with this. I think the black frame just popped so much against the screen wall and I love it. Okay, so then through the entryway here is my bathroom. And I have a bathroom to where the actual bathroom space here is outside of like the toilet room area. Over here I actually had started taking off the contact paper when I found out we were moving and I was like, wait, I need to do an apartment tour but I couldn't re-stick it on. So this is where we're at. And I'm actually extremely excited guys because I'm going to be doing a full video of unmaking over my apartment and removing all of like the added details that I added. So anything peel and stick, all the paint. I'm going to do a whole video on how to turn your apartment back to rent your friendly to get your goals deposit back. I have a little tray here from Target and some of my favorite fragrances are up here. And a little hack of mine is to actually use picture shelves in your bathroom because they're super low profile but they hold a ton of products, which is nice. And then in here is the bathroom. So I have this piece from Target that just kind of acts as more storage. And I also have a little moon over here. I did this DIY on my channel a while back. And then quickly I just want to share with you guys these little wall hooks. They're so cute. And F's for my last name and a little Leo one. Those are both from Anthro. Okay guys, and this is my closet which is absolutely crazy right now. It's the craziest space in my apartment. As you can see the full doors filled with shoes. Like there's just a ton of shoes and there's a ton of clothes in here. And there's even more clothes on the ground that I just can't even show you guys because I've been going through my closet over the past couple of days and just trying to really kind of Marie Kondo my closet a little bit. So there's still a ton that I want to go through in here but all of my clothes are in the closet here and I have storage at the top as well which is really nice.  So I have all of my pants in here. Oh, and then also the little cute campus tote bags which I use these all the time to store stuff in. We have the tools tote and the visual interest tote and that's really my closet which is kind of like the last space in my apartment. And guys, that was my apartment tour. I literally feel like I've been talking for the past 45 minutes because we read it takes so many times because I just can't shut up about my apartment. I am obsessed with it and I hope that you guys like it as well. That was today's video. I hope that you guys enjoyed this one. Definitely give it a thumbs up and let me know which place in the apartment you liked the best. And every single piece that I actually featured in this video is going to be linked in the description box below. I tried to do my best to find the links for everything if you guys were curious about it all. I'm only gonna be in this apartment until May 1st. So I already have to start kind of like taking things down, repainting walls, patching up holes, packing items. But the nice thing about our new apartment is that it's only about a half of a mile away, maybe even closer than that. So it's really, really super close. So I think the move will be very, very easy for sure. I'll be talking about all of that in next week's video which is going to be the empty new apartment tour which is also gonna be so exciting. But I will catch you all in the next one. Thank you so much for spending some time with me today and I hope that you enjoyed my apartment and I will catch you guys all in my next video. Bye guys.


Anthony elimination game on the road. No easy task. How key was it for you guys to strike first in this one? Big time. I think I Just liked how we were before the game or calm demeanor everyone came in loose relax just ready to play and Our backs are against the wall tonight. They're gonna be against the wall tomorrow but we just said just get back to the Bronx get back to our fans and Like our chances. How do you keep it relaxed and loose knowing what's at stake? Um, it's just what we do. I mean, this is what you this is the dream playing in the postseason and Obviously, we don't want to be an elimination game, but I just think our guys are just had that look in their eyes tonight and Starts with Garrett, you know his performance was amazing and just our bullpen and Wandy However many pitch either yesterday coming in for that save is big for us You mentioned Garrett Cole. He needed to lead the way for you guys knowing that bullpen was a little compromised tonight What did you see from the way he was throwing the ball? He had a good view from first base He was in control of all his pitches. He was he was throwing everything where he wanted and I know he gave up The home Ramirez is such a good hitter. He gets those hits up But it's just it's a complete win for us and that's that's who we are and that's how The wins we need to have Bader has come up big in this series has had success against Cal control He seems to have fit in seamlessly since coming off the aisle. How has he been able to do so? I just think credit to all of us in the clubhouse and when we get guys in here just open to them Welcome them with open arms and just you're here to help us win and we have one goal and that's a win ball game So to see him have big swings like that is incredible and he's not scared of the moment He's not scared of the bright lights. How do you like your chances in the Bronx tomorrow? I love it. I can't wait for the energy I'm assuming it's a night game, but I just can't wait for the energy and the passion. Good luck


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