Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea. I'm Howard. And this is Harrison, and we are with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And we are here today with a taste test from the Dollar Tree. We did one, like... A year ago. About a year ago, and it was pretty successful. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, so I'll make sure to link that one in the description box. But we have a 2020 version that we wanna share with you guys. If you hear some noise from the Peanut Gallery, it's this guy right here, but it's real life. We waited until he went to sleep or was quiet. We never record a video. So anyway, we are gonna get started. We have tons of stuff. We have ice cream. We have chicken. I'm looking forward to try some of this stuff. Yeah, so we are gonna get started. Okay, so you ready to get started? Let's get started. All right. First thing up is Alice's Caribbean Kitchen Jamaican brand Spice Beef Patties. So I'm Jamaican, so we'll see how this tastes. I've never heard of this brand before. And these are very small patties and we'll see what it tastes like and if I like them. And so the package directions say that you can microwave them or you can cook them in the oven and I bake them in the oven.  Do they look like a traditional shape? No. They don't look right, but hopefully they taste good. Okay. All right. Oh, she doesn't look like beef. It does not look like beef. I just broke mine open. This is what it looks like. It's not beef. Okay. Okay. Cheers. Cheers. Not bad. The texture is weird. It's like a paste. It's not like a beef. It's not to be mislabeled because that's that chicken. I don't know. But is this the texture of the beef patty? It can be, yeah. You think so? Yeah, it's not like you expect sometimes you do have all the ground beef. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you don't really get that. It's more mixed up. Yeah. Well, that's definitely. It doesn't taste too bad. It's spicy, but I'm not sure it's beef. But it's not bad. Okay. So next up we have. Oh, it's like a hot dog. Yes. It says fast. I can't see. It says fast bites classic hot dog. Yeah. I've never heard of a microwave me either. So, and I'm not big on microwave food. I prefer to put everything in the oven, but Howard followed the package directions, microwaved it, and this is what it looks like. As you can see, it kind of split a little bit. Yeah. But we both like hot dogs. Like we grill hot dogs and stuff all the time. You want to cut it in half here. Ooh. We can't even cut it. That's how hard the bread is. Maybe I followed directions too well. Oh my goodness. Cause it said what, 75 seconds? Yeah. That's a minute and 15 seconds. Oh, this is hard. It's hard. And it's burnt. Look, show me yours. So it burnt. You can see the bun kind of, well, it didn't kind of, it's burnt. And it's like. Hard is the, I don't think we can eat the bread. Maybe I over microwaved it. Well, we'll see. I'll try the. The hot dog? What if I get it from the, yeah. Okay. Yeah, this don't follow the microwave directions. Cheers. Maybe I'm microwaved it's too strong.  It has a smoky flavor. Maybe cause it's burnt. It has a grilled flavor. The hot dog is not bad. But this bread. The bun is inedible. Oh, the bun, the bun is a no go. The bun is burnt. So. All right. I don't think I've repurchased that again. I don't think I do that. Would you do the Jamaican beef patties again? Maybe I'll try it. For a little snack.  All right, next up. Now, these are boneless pork riblets. So I remember growing up, my dad used to love the McDonald's McRiblet. When it would come out once a year, he would look forward to that. And so this comes in like a tray. Yeah. And you get like little riblet patties. How many? One, two, like seven. You get seven little riblet patties. Riblet down. And this is what they look like. And you microwaved them for, how long was it like three? I think about two minutes. Like two minutes. So we're gonna give these a try. Yeah. So if you were a fan of the McRiblet, like my dad was, you might like this. Let me see what they taste like.  Here it is. I'm gonna give it a taste. That's no bad. Cheers. It tastes barbecue sauce. Some questionable meat. It's not bad. Not bad. I would clean the sandwich or something. I'd try it. And I would eat it like that by itself. It does have a good flavor. It definitely has more of a beef texture than those beef patties. For sure. I think it has a good flavor. Now I, like you said, I don't know what kind of meat it is. It's probably textured vegetable soy protein or something like that, but. I did like the McRib stuff, so I like this stuff. Yeah, it's actually not bad at all. Okay. So the next thing that we're gonna try are these fast bites. They are mini chicken biscuits. You get two in a pack and you microwave them.  So actually these are spill. It's still soft. Yeah. That's still soft. Same brand as this one. Yeah. Same brand of fast. It's a hot dog. Fast bites. Maybe it was operator error. Maybe I messed up somehow cause I don't know, that's wrong. That is wrong. But this is what the little patty looks like. So you get two of them and we're gonna cut them so that you can see with the inside. Now it's a little chewy. I mean to the cut. I don't know, that didn't make sense. But just a little kind of chew. Yeah, spongy. It feels spongy. Yeah, it feels spongy. They look like cheaters. So I think it needs some sauce or something. Catch up. Something to very dry. So I can taste the biscuit, but I can't taste the chicken. So let me try to taste that bite. That's true, I don't taste anything. I don't taste chicken. Has no taste. Is it real chicken? I don't know, but you taste it cause you can't even taste the chicken. Like there's nothing distinguishable about it. Has zero flavor. Yeah. Mm, okay. Okay, what's next? Next up. It's a pepperoni pizza stick. From Tombstone. I recognize the name. Did you microwave that too? I did. Two minutes on the microwave. You want to show them what it looks like? Oh, it ends up with this pepperoni stick. All right. It's about, I don't know, five inches long maybe. Oh, having trouble cutting it. I don't know. Did you cook this in the package or out of the package? No, they said remove from the package and microwave it. And the contents right there. Is that pepperoni? Oh yeah, you can see the little pepperoni bits in there. Oh, pepperoni. So he's having trouble cutting this. Yes. It's very tough looking. Right, you want to choose? Okay. This one. Here's what it looks like. I just pulled my top off. Like mushed up pepperoni. Cheers. The bread's very tough. Tough, right? If you taste pepperoni though. Mm-hmm. I wonder if I need to lower the time for the microwave. Maybe the microwave is. Is there cheese in here? Let me see. The picture of that is. The picture shows that there's cheese. Our thing is nothing like that, picture. But you see, I don't see any cheese in here at all. And I don't see this whole big thing filled with pepperoni and cheese and stuff. Mm-mm. I would probably not buy this one again, would you? No, let's keep it. Mm, okay. So we have some stuff that we baked in the oven. And so we're gonna take a pause and go grab that and we'll be right back. All right, we're back. Okay. So we have some chicken strips. Yes. From.  I would say coch food. Chicken strips, you get, you can microwave them or bake them in the oven. I bake them in the oven. And you get about eight pieces in a pack. And these are about what? Two, three inches long, maybe two, three inches. Maybe. So let's give these a try. So cut one open. A little bit better than that. Chicken biscuit. Chicken biscuit. Yeah, definitely the chicken has more flavor than the chicken biscuit. But it's still questionable chicken. Well, I mean, it was a dollar. I mean, I'm sure it's not pure chicken. And then we also have some chicken nuggets from the same place. Yep, same company. And you get the same amount, like about eight or nine chicken nuggets. And this is what they look like. And so... I bet they're gonna taste the same. Probably gonna taste exactly the same. But two chicken nuggets are the size of these little strips.  So anyway. All right. Oh, it's my chicken nugget. I was playing the chicken nugget. Oh, you're gonna cut the chicken nugget to see what it looks like. Sure. Yeah, I just tore it apart. It looks like the other one. Yeah, it looks just like the chicken tender. So cheers. Tastes exactly the same. Mm-hmm. Even though they taste the same, I think I'll prefer the tender. The nugget? Yeah. Actually, I don't think they taste the same. I think the chicken tender tastes better. Is it psychological? To me, it just tastes the same. I don't know. Okay. All right. Next. All right. Next thing, we have some pot stickers. We have two different ones. One's pork, one's pork, and one's chicken. And you get a six in each package. You get seven in each package. This is what it looks like. One's pork, one's chicken. I think this is chicken, and I think this is pork. And so you have to try. Yeah. And so you can either pan fry them or microwave them. We did pan fry them. I will say Howard and I are big fans of... Asian food. Yeah, we love Asian food, and we like want, I mean, dumplings and things like that. So I was excited to see these there for a buck. All right, so I think this actually is chicken. Oops. I cut it, but I got some... Show them. Yeah. So this is what it looks like. The contents came out. Yeah, so the contents came out a little bit. So I'm gonna have to eat mine with my fingers because it's gonna break open. Okay. Ready? Cheers. Not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. I think I would probably prefer the pork. All right, let's try the pork one. So he's cutting it open for us. We're cutting in half, I should say, for us. Right, the pork. Looks just like the chicken. It does. Hold it with your finger. Here we go. Looks just like chicken. Well, yeah. I thought it would be a little different. Okay, you ready? There you go. Cheers. Tastes a little different though. Mm-hmm. Tastes ginger or something. Mm-hmm. I think I'd prefer the pork to the chicken. Mm-hmm. The other white meat. Yeah, you can taste ginger in the pork. The chicken, not so much. Okay, not bad. Yeah. Okay, so the last thing that we have as far as food is concerned is pizza. And these are, I'm looking at the back of it. It says distributed by Greenbrier International, which we all know is a Dollar Tree. And for the cheese, you get low moisture skin mozzarella, and then you get mozzarella substitute. So I don't know why it can all be all mozzarella, but here it is. You can bake it in the oven or microwave it. I baked it in the oven. I over baked it just to smidge. This is what it looks like on the front. This is what it looks like on the back. The back looks like the front.  Let's see how it tastes. I know. So cutting open, cutting in half. Peace for us. Here's my little slice. Not much cheese or anything. We'll see how it tastes. Cheers. Not so good. Now I will say I do love a cheap pizza.  This is not a Totino's party pizza. The crust is very different. It's very thick. To me, a little flowery. The sauce, how does the sauce taste to you? Non-existent. And the cheese. Imitation cheese. I don't know. I can't taste any real mozzarella there. I don't think I would repurchase this pizza again. No. Okay. So now we have, did we get all the food? We have the food. Next up. Dessert. Dessert. Ice cream. Yeah. So we have three different ice cream products to try. So, stay tuned. All right, we're back. So next up is butter pecan ice cream. And I'm a huge ice cream person that is probably my favorite treat. I think they get the point.  Butter pecan. Okay. Ooh, first thing I see is like, pecans right in the middle there. And it says real ice cream on here, made with skim milk, cream, corn syrup. So it's starting off pretty good. All right, let's see. So I like butter pecan ice cream. And we'll see how this one tastes. I had to get a pecan. You know what? There are two pecans on top. I think that might be the only two.  The content is very crunchy. It doesn't taste like butter pecan. It doesn't really taste like anything. No, I don't. It doesn't have any flavor. It doesn't taste sweet. It's like a mild, mild pecan flavor. It's like. I think it's a mild ice cream flavor. It doesn't even taste like ice cream. I know that frozen milk. That's very weird. I know. What does it say? It's naturally flavored. Enjoy our rich and delicious ice cream made with the finest ingredients. Oh, real ice cream. It tastes like. It tastes like fake ice cream. It does. OK. So next ice cream. I've seen this in there a million times. Arctic classic, excuse me, cookies and cream. Now this one says a frozen dairy dessert. It does not say ice cream. First ingredient in this one is corn syrup. First ingredient in that one was skim milk. So let's see. Pulled it off. This is what it looks like. There. So I'm nervous. Texture is very different. Yeah. This one is sweeter, I guess, because the first ingredient is corn syrup. It's icy. I think that's because maybe dig deeper. It has a weird taste. Been in the freezer for a while. Weird taste. Maybe a little bit deeper in, you'll get past the iciness. No, it tastes like cheap ice cream to me. It does. But if you had to choose between the two, the butter pecan and this one. So the butter pecan, I didn't have the fake taste. Just didn't have any taste. So I don't know. I'll just stick to how to get the other or something. That's my favorite brand. But if I had to choose between, if I was craving ice cream and I had a dollar, I would not get that butter pecan. I would get this Arctic classic stuff, because at least it's sweet. That butter pecan had no sugar in it, something or something. I would save my dollars onto that a couple of dollars and buy real ice cream. OK, so the very last thing that we have are these ice cream sandwiches. It is by Party Treat, which is a different brand. I'm a big ice cream sandwich person, but I'm a big one. Yeah, I like ice cream sandwiches. Yes, this one is a, I mean. You get three in a package in there. I don't know. They're not very big. They're not the size of a traditional ice cream sandwich. They're smaller. So I'm just going to open these up. Open this up so I can cut it open. See what it tastes like. It's wrapped very well. I'll tell you that.  Let me show you guys. So this is what it looks like. I started cutting it with the spoon already. But this is what it looks like. It looks pretty good. OK. So here's my ice cream sandwich right here. Cheers. Cheers. Not bad. This is not real ice cream. It says a frozen dairy dessert. Same thing as at Arctic Stuff. But if I had to choose between the three ice cream products, I would probably choose. I would probably get these again. They're not bad. What do you think? They're not bad. They have more taste than this one. Yeah, that one's terrible. I would never buy that again. And it doesn't taste as fake as this one. Yeah. So this one tastes more ice creamy, less artificial, so it's just better all the way around. So I think we did everything right? Yeah, we're good. We had food and we have dessert at the end. Yes. Oh, awesome. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Like I said, what I'll do is link the 2019 taste test, Frozen Foods from Dollar Tree in the description box. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. We do have another one coming up with sweet and savory treats coming up pretty soon. So be on the lookout for that. If you have not subscribed to our channel, I certainly hope that you'll do so. Thank you so much for watching. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye. Bye.


So you're managing those ruts obviously if you got deep tracks out there you're gonna have to do Some type of soil work to get them back into planting shape What do you see in for for options that produces you're doing? We went after small just small areas that we had had problems with Glad I did I just went out with a box scraper and tried to Put some of that back in the hole and then just lightly disc over it to finish filling that in That's some of that settled. So I'm gonna probably have to touch it up again this spring That's probably what I'll do is try and pull what's mushed up dirt or whatever and close that up best I can maybe feel cultivated a little bit and just small areas Just to level it up a little bit for the long term anyway Now with the way things have settled and worked out through the year We'd probably use a vertical till on that and then be able to plant right into it is would be the goal. I Don't like doing tillage, but if I have to go out and fix areas I make sure the road the direction the rows are is the direction To do my tillage if I have to I think that probably the biggest thing is to get a living rut back in them areas and let the ruts do the Do their job besides growing a plant is to open up the soil so My combine even where I drove through some water to harvest Probably still only got some six inch ruts and I just Real happy with that. I won't even I won't even bother with them. So you just let them heal themselves. They'll heal themselves. Yeah, yeah Because your rows are probably in line with them anyway Yeah, I ride on the rows a little bit to drive on top of the rows a little bit to my narrow rows So that helps carry it also so you're not Right on the soil either that way Use the organic matter or the reds is usually a residue to be your carrier to absolutely


This is ThinkTech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Good Monday. I'm Jay Fidel. This is ThinkTech. And this show is Mina Marco and me on Mondays, of course. And we have Mina Morita on the phone from Kauai. Hi, Mina. Say hi. Hi, Jay. I knew you'd say that. Mina Morita is a consultant in energy dynamics. And she's also a former chair of the PUC. And she's also a former legislator. The Hawaii State Legislature. We also have Marco Mangosdorf, who teaches energy. He runs Provision Solar in Hilo. And he knows tons about energy models and every other thing about solar and batteries and what we're doing in the world on energy here in Hawaii, and that's Marco Mangosdorf. Marco, say hi. Good day, Amiga, and Amiga, with a lot of love. Hello, you guys. Great to be on again. All right. So our agenda today on Mina Marco and me is to find out what's going on and the sea changes around the state on energy, especially renewable energy. And Mina, you're up first, because you have to tell us about the Tom Gorak case that's pending in the courts. Okay. Okay. So about a week and a half ago on December 7th, the Hawaii Supreme Court heard the oral arguments on the Morita versus Gorak case. And this is where Thomas Gorak, who was named the commissioner by the governor after Michael Champley's term expired on June 30th, 2015, removes Champley despite a state law saying that the incumbent commissioner stays beyond his term until his successor is appointed and confirmed by the legislature, by the state senate. And so I challenged the governor's action and lost in the circuit court and was appealing in the Intermediate Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court accepted our petition to hear the case because it is a case of first impression in Hawaii. So we were really pleased with that, that, you know, we didn't have to argue before the ICA how it appealed by either party, but it went straight to the Supreme Court. Well, who argued on December 7th, who were the lawyers who appeared on the case, Mina? Basically, what the state is trying to do is change the definition of vacancy, which really means an empty office, and it's pretty well established in jurisprudence. And they want the term vacancy to include the end of a set term. So the state appears to parse each paragraph in the interim appointment clause in the Hawaii state constitution and ignore a previous paragraph, where the words also say as provided by law. So a lot of the questioning from the justices dealt with trying to define what nomination, appointment, confirmation, and qualification means. I thought one thing that was really interesting was when the Chief Justice, Chief Justice Wreckingwald questioned the state on whether the PUC, the Public Utility Commission, was one of the nine principal departments of the state. And of course, the answer is no, because the PUC is legislatively formed. And said that the constitutional provisions seem to apply just to the nine principal departments. And he asked, pointedly, if the state was invalidating statute, which the state said no. And then he asked them, why aren't we referring to the statutory provisions? And how can you read and avoid as provided by law in the Constitution? So I think it comes down to the state defining vacancy. And if this new definition by the recent Attorney General's appointment will stand up to the court scrutiny of the state relying on the Justice Interim Provision Clause and ignoring state statute, which allows the incumbent commissioner to stay on until his successor is appointed and qualified. So do you feel that the court is sympathetic and understands your argument? You know, the questions were all over the place. But I think when you kind of delve into the key issues on, you know, was the governor correct in relying on the Interim Clause, Appointment Clause, in this case? And whether they accept the Attorney broadening the definition of vacancy? That's the key question. Who appeared, who appeared for your side and who appeared for the government side? Well, the question who argued for my side and who argued for the state side. Yes. OK, for my side, my attorney was, my original attorney was the former attorney general, Mike Dennett. And then for the appeal, I used Harold Bronsting from Kauai. And then the state had two deputy attorney generals there. And the one that was arguing, I believe her last name was Marie Eha. So what's the time? Sorry, Marco, you had something. Yeah, if I could ask a clarifying question of you, Mina. So practically speaking, if the court ruled in the direction that you'd like them to decide, you have a PUC commissioner whose term ends on a given June 30th, which is outside the normal legislative. And that particular commissioner chooses not to. And does that essentially mean that the governor, the chief executive of the state, does not have their own nominee? She, the governor, wouldn't be able to do that the next legislative session, which is not of his or her own choosing, who's starting on July 1st. That's maybe kind of a convoluted way to ask a question. Understand what I'm asking? OK, yeah, yeah, so, you know, you rely on the governor's good faith that he will make a timely appointment. You know, that a timing, I'm sorry, not an appointment, but nomination, that, and this is what is typically done, that knowing that the term ends on June 30th, not only for the commissioner's position, but a lot of boards and commissions. What the governor does is send down a nominee during the legislative session who gets reviewed and confirmed, given advice and consent by the Senate, in time for them to take their position on July 1st. Prior to that June 30th, yeah. So if a given member of the PUC doesn't want to resign after his term is up or her term is up, then he can stay in office until. It's not that he doesn't want to end when his term ends, but the law states, the 269-2 states that the incumbent commissioner remains as a commissioner until his successor is appointed and qualified. So, you know, I'm concerned about this. I mean, this might affect, if you win on this, if this turns out to be the scenario, then it would affect not only the PUC, but all interim appointments, right? And that would be a real Pandora's box kind of problem, wouldn't it? Right, right. So the thing is, you know, we rely on everybody doing their job, right? Everybody has a job. The governor has to send down timely nominations and, you know, the reverse can happen where this can be abused, where a person can sit almost a year in a position without receiving advice and consent. So under your approach, what do you think politically? I mean, the decision to remove Mike Champley, I think, can't be viewed in any other way that it was highly political. What do you think the governor's motivation was prior to that June 30th, 2016? What was the governor's motivation during that prior session from January to May of 2016 to not go ahead and nominate, propose and nominate to the Senate a replacement commissioner for Mike Champley once Champley is termended?  That's something that has to be asked about the governor, but they went through great lengths to throw out two previous Attorney General opinions that have stood for more than 30 years, almost 40 years, regarding the appointment nomination confirmation process. Well, I take it, even if you win, the solution for this governor or any other governor would be just to appoint the successor before the term of the sitting commissioner is over. I guess you're saying that if he had appointed a successor during the session in 2016, and that successor had been confirmed, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Exactly, exactly. And if the commissioner, as they do sometimes, decides to vacate their commission or ship, so to speak, their position there at the PUC, sometime other than the end of their given term, then there is a vacancy and at that vacancy time, if it happens outside the time when the legislature meets, then the governor is within his or her power to go ahead and put in, as soon as possible, an interim appointment, which is not subject to Senate confirmation, at least until, unless the Senate were to convene a special session or the Senate convenes during its normal session. In other words, if there's a vacancy outside of the legislative session, then the governor can go ahead and fill that vacancy as soon as possible, right? Because, you know, vacancy is created, it means that the seat is empty, the vacancy is created by either death or resignation, and he has every right constitutionally to use the interim appointment clause. Nobody, nobody really arguing that, but just for the fact that now they're including, the state is including, in the definition of vacancy, the end of a set term. When do you anticipate a decision? I have no idea, you know, it's just out of our hands and you just sit and wait. Okay, well speaking of waiting, why don't we wait on a one-minute break now? We take a short break with Mina and Marco and me. We'll be right back after these messages. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on ThinkTech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. And with the show's host, Martin Desbang, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4 p.m. on ThinkTech Hawaii. Okay, we're back, we're live. I'm Jay Fidel. This is ThinkTech. We're talking Mina, Marco and me, and we are joined by Mina and Marco. That's Mina Morita and Marco Mangelsdorf by Skype, from Kauai and the Big Island, respectively. So let's talk now about the 10th anniversary of the HCEI, the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. It feels like all of 10 years. We've been through a lot in these 10 years. So what are your thoughts here at the end of 2017? What are your thoughts about the 10th anniversary of the initiative? Marco, you go first. I've certainly been an interesting 10 years, and as I've said a number of times before, I believe the progress that we've made as far as offsetting combustion, fossil fuel-based power generation has been laudatory and been fairly impressive. On the transportation side, it's been far from laudatory or impressive. I think things are more complicated now than they were 10 years ago in terms of our finite and isolated electric grids being able to accommodate the degree of rooftop solar and renewable energy distributed energy resources. 10 years ago, the penetration of rooftop solar and ER in general was considerably less than it is now. So the practical in terms of integrating renewables in finite grids, we're seeing a lot more of the challenges now compared to when the parties, the governor, then Linda Lingle and Connie Lau from HCEI and others signed that document. So in a more challenging space right now, I think a lot of the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and it's much more challenging. Yeah, Mina, how about you? And on the question of transportation, Mina, I note that Ford Fujikami, who was, he was talking a lot about trying to bring transportation forward and making it clean and including requirements for clean energy and transportation. Well, he's now moved to be Mike McCartney's successor as chief of staff, so he's no longer with the department of transportation. I'm interested in your thoughts about how that will affect things. I think, you know, I agree a lot with Marko. It was probably the best move at the time to, you know, really concentrate on research in getting moving the political will in one direction at that time, and that definitely now the issues are more complicated, especially when we bring in the transportation piece, because you're no longer dealing with regulated entities or dealing with, you know, the marketplace and important infrastructure issues, and I think where we have our biggest challenge is there's still a lot of coordination, research, and application of the research that needs to be done, and we no longer have a federal partner in this, you know, this is strictly a state initiative now, and can we do it on our own without, you know, the help of the national labs in the department of energy? Yeah, right. This is a difficult time and maybe difficult for years to come. But what about the Department of Transportation? Does Fort Fujikami's transfer mean anything to the energy initiative for clean transportation? You know, one of the biggest concerns I always had as a legislator with the clean energy initiative is the changing administration, that, you know, usually when there's unique continuity, when you're talking about these really big complex infrastructure issues, and, you know, election year coming up, you got the governor playing musical chairs with some of key people that, within his cabinet, and, you know, you wonder if they can, if the momentum can be sustained after election. Yeah. But it's all about trying to avoid distraction, you know, trying to stay on course. So if HCEI was a big deal for the future of the state, it's easy to be distracted, and then, as you say, we lose momentum, so we're at risk for that now. Yeah. Right. Well, let's go to our last topic today, which is the Tesla Powerwall, and we have a real live witness to how it works with Marco. He installed one. So can you talk about that, Marco? What's it like and how is it working? I'd be happy to, yes, kind of a little bit of background. So there are somewhere around 80,000 plus grid type PV systems across the state, across the island chain. And the vast majority of those PV systems have no battery storage, which means that if the grid were to go down, their PV system would produce, provide no value to them. And I think this is especially kind of timely in that there's been a fair amount of coverage recently in New York Times, Washington Post, the fact that Puerto Rico, which got clobbered not by just one, but two hurricanes within a couple of weeks, they're only 60 percent back online. In other words, 40 percent or so of the population have no access to power. Still, months later, more than three months later after these hurricanes. So it's a timely discussion that brings in the possibility of adding existing PV systems. So I've had a NEM system myself for the past two plus years and I decided to plunk down some money to add a Tesla Powerwall, which is a 13 and a half kilos with an integrated DC-DC inverter. So essentially, you can take this Powerwall and you can add it to battery less NEM systems across the state. And not that it's going to produce additional power because batteries don't produce power, they distort. But it will provide the capability of having backup power in case the grid were to go down. So an interesting question that I've been pondering philosophically these past months is we live in a society where you pay insurance for lots of things in your life.  We're probably the most insured society and culture in the history of the planet, not necessarily down to states because of the insurances, it has become a part of daily life, right? So to what extent will a homeowner who's already paying all these insurances see the value in plunking down money, either cash purchase or finance it, to essentially buy an insurance policy by having battery storage like a Tesla Powerwall or others out there as well, not just Tesla's offering this, that would provide power as an insurance policy in case the grid goes down? That is a question that I think is going to be very interesting to see as to what the adoption rate is going to be from these 80,000 or so grid type EV system owners across the state, will they be spending thousands of dollars of insurance cost to bear in order to have that peace of mind? Now as we know, as long as the grid is on as stable as it is, 99.9 something percent of the time, people don't think too much about losing power, but we all know that when they do lose power, because of high winds like we had on this island a week or two ago, I read that recently there were power outages in Honolulu that caused Alamoana to go down and some of the vendors lost sales there. So when we lose power, we can become much more acutely aware of the vulnerability and the dependence that we have on having electricity at our beck and call. So I had a chance, like I said, to order and install the power wall, so I'm just going to be playing with it, kind of putting it through its spaces and see how it performs. And let me ask you what kind of demand there will be for retrofitting existing NEM customers across the island with battery backup to provide them something that their existing PV system is not able to provide them. It's kind of a moving target though, Marco, because as we speak, the utility, I mean, KIUC has already installed a Tesla battery, big Tesla battery in Kauai, and it's working on another one in the thought that the battery function resides with the utility. And I think Hawaiian Electric is going in a similar direction looking for big battery installations. I think some are underway now. At the same time, the utilities are trying to be more resilient so that the failure, the blackout rate is smaller, hopefully going forward. So the percentage of risk for a given solar owner or homeowner in general being abandoned and not have any power in a crisis is probably, hopefully, getting smaller. So here we have an expense that might be as much as your original solar installation, effectively doubling the cost of your solar installation on your home. I think a lot of the 80,000 people are not going to be willing to do that because they believe that ultimately the utility is the place where the battery system or to reside. What's your answer to that? Well Jay, you faded out a fair amount in terms of me being able to really understand everything you said, but let me take a crack at what I think you asked. Yes, the Kauai Island utility co-op has been at the forefront in the state in terms of integrating utility-scale battery storage with their newer utility-scale PV arrays. And Hawaiian Electric as well has been dabbling with utility-scale battery storage, but it hasn't been designed and we're not there yet where utilities in this state at least are, and I don't think in the rest of country as well, are installing megawatt hours of battery storage as a backup in case one of their generators were to go down or they were to have a fault in a particular part of the grid. The utility-scale battery storage which has been installed to date is typically there to write out and smooth the variable nature of renewable energies when the winds will pick up to a certain value and then die down within seconds or when the sun plays peek-a-boo behind cloud. So there is no utility-scale storage that I'm aware of, certainly not in this state, and not in the mainland where you have megawatt hours and megawatt hours worth of storage that are sitting there waiting in a fully charged mode to be able to provide power in case there are other failures in the grid. Amina, what are your thoughts about this issue? So Jay, I mean basically in the Kauai system that the utility is relying on is to give the system operators enough time to bring on their quick start generators because it's just far cheaper for them to bring on their quick start diesel generators than to rely on batteries. So they're just looking for that window of storage to bring up their quick start generators. But Amina, you know they've got a very substantial battery facility with DeSauro and they're doing one with AES and I heard also they're doing what? Pumped Hydro. They've got a big project for Pumped Hydro in Kauai and it all suggests that even if they don't have batteries and storage systems in place now that will work overnight that seems to be a sea change that we should be watching and maybe utilities around the state will be doing that. And I agree. And I agree we should be watching. You know this is fairly new they've only come on within the last year and so this is for dispatchable power from these power purchase agreements and so yeah these are developments that we should be watching. Yeah but I agree with you that right now we don't have it. I agree with Marco that we right now we don't have it and we may not have it in substantial quantity, substantial enough to really cover the basis. So it's a legitimate question for every homeowner who doesn't have storage to see what what the economics are for him or her and maybe take a look at that in order to give you know to be more resilient in his own home. Well anyway we're out of time you guys. Thank you Amina as always. Thank you Marco as always. So enjoy having these conversations they were lucidating for everyone including me and I look forward to talking with you guys again in two weeks hence and in the meantime I wish you a happy Christmas and the prospect of a wonderful new year. Aloha you guys. Aloha to you both very much really appreciate being able to have these uh do these shows with both of you. Thank you Amina. Happy holiday. Happy holiday.


Rhaodda, Llynedd Morgant dwi gwneud o giechyd a gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn Llywodraeth Cymru. Diolch i chi am ymuno gyda ni i'n weith eto. Thank you for joining us again. Today, I want to highlight the services and support available to anyone in Wales who is suffering from the longer-term effects of COVID-19, what's known as long COVID. Long COVID affects people really differently. The symptoms can vary from person to person and they can range in severity. Fatigue is the most common symptom reported, followed by a loss of smell, shortness of breath and difficulty concentrating. Overall, the public health situation in Wales is stabilising and we've been able to move back to alert level zero. The First Minister will be here on Friday with a further update. But there are thousands of people who are still suffering from the longer-term effects of this virus. We also don't know what impact the recent Omicron wave, which caused a huge surge in infections across Wales, will have on the number of people with long COVID. Diolch i chi am eu bawb sydd ar COVID-19 yw bod nad ydy ni wedi anhofi amdano chi. I want everyone with long COVID to know that we haven't forgotten you. Last year, I announced a £5 million investment in services for people recovering from long COVID. This is the ADVERIAD programme. Every health board is committed to ensuring everyone who is struggling with the long-term effects of COVID-19 can receive support and care, which is tailored to their needs and symptoms as close to home as possible. The funding has provided additional staff time, training, therapeutic and technical equipment, and supports the development of digital resources. Mae hyn yn golygu gael rwy'n sydd ar COVID-19 ymweld a'u meddig teulu, cael ei asesi a chael trynedd gan y persón mwyaf priodol ar gyfer ei symtome. Bydd yn nhw'n cael y cyngor, yr adryniad, yr archwiliad, ar gyfal arbenigol cywyr sy'n adas ew hanghenion penod onhwr. Nid un gwasanaeth sydd rin beth i bawb ew hun. This means that someone with long COVID can visit their GP, be assessed, and receive treatment from the most appropriate person for their symptoms. They'll be provided with the right advice, treatment, investigation and specialist care to suit their own particular needs. They won't get a one-size-fits-all service. The service includes self-help programmes, exercises to help with breathing and anxiety, fatigue management techniques and rehabilitation, including psychology, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. If people have symptoms that require further investigation, a direct referral to secondary consultants and clinical teams can be made by GPs. This method ensures that most people can access services on their doorstep and they won't need to travel to a clinic or wait for a hospital appointment. Last week I had the privilege of meeting people and healthcare professionals at the Long COVID service in Swansea Bay University Health Board. They told me about their own personal experiences, but they also told me that our model is working and that is reinforced by the external assessment of the service. This doesn't mean that we have all of the answers or that there isn't more to learn. Wales is taking part in UK-wide Long COVID research studies, which will help to increase our knowledge of both diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Closer to home, I've set up the COVID evidence centre, which is part of Health and Care Research Wales. It will soon begin a Long COVID work programme to explore our specific needs. When I launched the ADVERIAD programme, I said we would regularly review it to make sure it was delivering for people in Wales. The first six-month review tells us that just over 2,400 people have been diagnosed with Long COVID by their GP or healthcare professional. Of these, 2,226 have used our Long COVID rehabilitation services in the last year. Only 3.5% were referred to secondary care services. The vast majority were treated by primary care professionals such as GPs, psychologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists. These figures are much lower than the number of people who have self-reported that they are experiencing some Long COVID symptoms. This is likely to be due to the huge range of symptoms this condition can have and may reflect whether people feel able to self-manage their illness without support from a clinician. Our COVID recovery app helps people to manage their own symptoms and the app has been downloaded more than 10,000 times. However, we know that some people, particularly those who develop COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, may have struggled to access the support that they needed. We know there are things that we can and we will do better. Mae'n gwasanaethau yn eile'r ben hyn a dwi am i sicrhau pobl sydd ar symtomau parhais neu sy'n cael amser anodd ar hyn o bryd yn bod yn gweithio'n galed yw helpu. Os ydych chi'n dal i ddioddau symtomau COVID-19 a bod y rhaen yn effeithio ar ansawdd eich bywyd cysylltu'ch ach meddig teulu. Mae'n gwasanaethau ar gael i'ch helpu'n hob rhan o Gymru. Mae'r gwasanaethau ar ddiwedd, ac os ydych chi'n gweithio'r sydd i'r cymdeithasio o'r cymdeithasio o'r tyfnodol o'i bydd ymgylcheddau, mae'n siarad o'r helpu. Yn ymgylchedd yma, mae'n fwylo'r syfath o'r sydd COVID-19 a fydd yn effechtyn i chi'r cyfle o'r ffyrdd. Fy hoffi'n ddych chi i'w GPs. Mae'r gwasanaethau yn dod i'w helpu arall o'r gael. Ie, mae'n meddwl ei gallwch arweinwyr hynny, mae'n meddwl yr ydychydigol yn f易 opole i gynhyrchu cwyd i gynghorddololion. Mae'r gynghorddus hwn yn ei dweud gynnwyd-gweithio ag unig gyfnodol cyfnodolol yn fwyaf'r gyrwydd hynny. Mae'r gynghorddolion ei gyddion yn y dweud arweinwyr hwn yn fawr. Mae'r Gymuned yn ystod yn cyŵr, oedd yn gyfnodol o gyrwydd, ac yn ystod sicrhau yn ddweud â'ch sgwrs safbwydd yn y bydd. Yn ymwylwyr, ydy'r unig ffordd o bryd gyweb o bobl yn oesol gynnig i'r gymuned ddyddol gyda ffodol o'u cyfodol yn ei weld, a'r cyfodol yn ei ddydw i'r bwrddfa ar y cerdd yma mewn i wneud. Mae gennych i safbwynt ymdill i'r cyfrifiwyr, ac yn adaelu i'r gyfrifiwyr yn eu gweld. Rydym yn ei ffrifiwyr eu meddwl gyda'r cyfodaeth o'i gondol o'r trio cyngondol, cards, lleol o gyrfaenol, ac roedd ymdraethol. This group will also be looking at how we treat children with long Covid. Un i dal i ddysgu am Covid-19 a bydd y grwp arbenigol ar adolyged adferiad sy'n cynnwys adborth a ffrofiad a pobl yn ein helpu ni i wel ar gwasanaeth ddim helach. Trwy barhau i ffonitr o'r cymor sydd i angen ac adasu yn unol â hynny, gallwn sicrhau bod gosanaethau ar gael i bawb sydd angen cymor. We're still learning about long Covid and the expert group on the adferiad review, which includes people's feedback and experiences will help to improve services further. By continuing to monitor the support required and adapt accordingly, we can ensure that services are available to all those who need help and support. Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi gyd, ac rwy'n rhaid i'ch gweithio cwestiynau ar gyfer journalists. As usual, all questions will be broadcast on our social media. Diolch yn fawr. Our first question is from Dias Main, ITV Wales. Thanks, Minister. We know that tens of thousands of people in Wales have now self-reported symptoms of long Covid. As you say, the numbers accessing services are much lower. Are you confident that people aren't falling through the gaps and facing this alone? I think the message that we're trying to give very clearly today is that since July, we have these new approaches that have been developed in every health board in Wales so that you can get that support locally. Clearly, at the beginning of the pandemic, we were still learning. We didn't quite know what these symptoms were. We didn't know how to treat them. Now we are learning with the patients, and it is a learning experience, and we're confident now that those facilities are in place. And certainly the reports that I heard from those people who have experienced the support that was given, particularly in that Swansea area, the feedback was very, very positive. And I would suggest that anybody who does feel like they have quality of life issues as a result of Covid-19 should perhaps go and refer themselves to their GP, who will be able to advise them on that multidisciplinary approach that we are providing locally. Does Welsh Government have any plans to invest further into research around long Covid medical research so that we can better understand the symptoms and the long-term effects? Well, we're already participating in many research projects. We've already invested millions of pounds in making sure that we are part not just of processes here in Wales, but also across the UK. And I know there are many people who have symptoms who have engaged with that research experience. It's early days, and as I say, we still don't know to what extent Omicron will produce long Covid symptoms in people. So all of this is about us learning as we go along, and we're making sure that that funding is available because we don't know the long-term effects of long Covid yet. Caitlin Parr. Thank you, Minister. I don't have a furlough scheme in Wales anymore, as the majority of people aren't out of work for the length of time that they were in the first lockdown, for example. But will there be any support for employees and their employers when it comes to people needing longer periods of time off now with long Covid? Well, we're very pleased to say that, in particular, the health boards have been working with the trade unions to make sure that there is an approach because many people have, of course, contracted Covid in our health and care services. So there's been a comprehensive approach to that. Generally, the kind of broader employment issues are issues that the UK government lead on, and so we do need to be working with them in terms of making sure that we're clear about what support is available for employee employees in the longer term. Thank you. So, do you have any initial advice at this time before the further research that you were speaking about earlier is conducted for parents or teachers on how to care for young children with long Covid potentially, or maybe anything that they should be keeping an eye out for when children with long Covid are in their care? Well, thankfully, we haven't seen too many examples of long Covid in children. Obviously, when they do show themselves, then that's devastating both for the children and the parents. We're making sure that the support is in place. Again, this is very much a learning process, and they are being referred to centres which have a specialism and have a better understanding of how children may be responding. So, I guess fatigue is an obvious example of what people should be looking out for in children, but there are many other symptoms that I think people should be aware of. Felicity Evans. Minister, thank you. I'd be grateful for answers in both languages as well, please. On the ADVERYAD programme, you referred to the funding that you announced last year, but what about future funding? Can you guarantee that there will be more to come to keep this project going? Well, thanks very much. It's clear that this has been a highly successful programme from the feedback that we've had and the very comprehensive evaluation that we've made of the programme. It would be, I think, remiss of us to take away this programme when it was so highly successful and when clearly there is still a very much of demand for it. I've asked my officials to give me some further advice on continuing this programme, but I have no intention of stopping this programme anytime soon. So, it's clear that the ADVERYAD programme has been a very successful programme. It's not about the people, it's about the health of the programme. So, I think it's very important that we know about this programme. I think it's important that the people continue to support this programme, and I think it's important that we make sure that the programme is safe and secure. Thank you. And could I get your reaction to what happened to Sir Keir Starmer and the colleague outside Westminster yesterday with the mob there? The speaker in the House of Commons within the last hour has condemned what he's described as intimidating and threatening behaviour. Does this highlight the safety issues surrounding politicians at the moment and what do you make of it? Well, I think those scenes were disgraceful outside of Westminster. I think there is a responsibility on us all as politicians to behave responsibly, to understand that our words have impact and that we've got to be very, very careful in terms of inciting people. It's clear that intimidation is not acceptable. People are elected to represent the public. This is not about individuals. It's about people representing the public. We are here representing you.  Democracy just thrives and really only works when it is treated with respect and dignity. And I think it is important that people understand that politicians are under huge pressure constantly. And I do hope that people will understand that kind of intimidation doesn't help politicians to do their work. Yn gymaeg? Please, thank you. Mae'n glir bod y goleg feith wel o'n i'i tyfas i sian Stephhan yn anerbyniol. Mae'n bwysig bod gledyddion yn diall bod ei geiriau nhw yn gallu cael effedd ar y ffordd ma pobl yn ymdwyng. Mae'r ffordd ma democratiaeth yn gweithio yn ddigbynol ar y ffaith bod na barch teagat gledyddion. Mae'n bwysig hefyd i diall bod gledyddion dim ond yma i gynychol i'r pobl. Mae'n bwysig i bod ni yn gweld mwy o barch teagat gledyddion sydd yma ar ran y pobl yn un cynwchio li. Mark Smith. Thank you very much indeed Health Minister. Face coverings are no longer legally required by law in any setting in England except public transport in London specifically. Given the latest review period is almost upon us, do you envisage Wales removing the legal requirement for masks to be worn, or do you believe there is still an important tool in our fight against the virus? Thanks very much. I think what's important is that people understand that face coverings have made a major contribution, certainly to people being aware that COVID is very much still alive in our communities. The Cabinet will be making decisions this week and the First Minister will be responding to the 21 day review determining what we'll be doing, not just on face coverings but also on COVID passes, the risk assessment, the need to self-isolate. All of these things will be covered in the review. But it is clear that face coverings I think make people understand that COVID is still very much alive and we need to of course make sure that we base our decisions on evidence but I would like to make it clear that the COVID is very much still with us in our communities. Thank you very much indeed. And secondly, despite the success of the COVID vaccine rollout, there do remain many thousands of people who have yet to have the booster jab, including a quarter of 50 to 54 year olds, a third of 40 to 49 year olds and half of 30 to 39 year olds. People are reporting to us that vaccination centres are also in some cases dead or far quieter than they once were. Do you believe vaccine apathy is setting in perhaps among the Welsh population and do you believe any further investment is needed by the Welsh Government to further encourage people to have the booster? Well, I don't think it's all bad. I think we have a situation where 84% of healthcare staff have received their boosters, 89% of over 70s and of course here we're talking about people who are most vulnerable, 90% of our care home residents have received the booster. I think what was heartening is that even in January what we saw is 20,000 people came forward for their first dose and so whilst you can point at the negatives, I can point at the positives, 65,000 people came forward for their second dose so that gives an added protection. Clearly we are concerned though that not as many people as we would have liked have come forward for their boosters. That age range that you particularly point out, the 50% amongst 30 to 39 year olds, I think we've got a bear in mind that there were a lot of people who suffered with Covid during the period when that offer was being made and they were unable to take up that offer of a booster for 28 days. So, hopefully they will take up the opportunity and come forward for that booster. It is absolutely essential to give that additional protection to support people so that if they catch Covid and let's face it, there's a real possibility that people will catch Covid at the moment that they are far, far less likely to be hospitalised if they've had that booster support. Harry Hansen. Thank you. Good afternoon Minister. I wanted to ask you a bit about your recent visit to Bayfield Hospital in Swansea to look at their long Covid department as you mentioned before. What positive outcomes came from that visit and how will you now use those outcomes to tackle long Covid as a government? Thanks very much. What was very heartening is of course I've been looking at the data and the response in terms of the evaluation of the programme that has only been going for six months. It was important not just to look at the data which was very heartening. 85% of people who took part in the programme said that they would certainly be happy to recommend it to other people but actually hearing first hand from people about their experiences and the difference that it had made in their lives. A lot of these people had contracted Covid in December 2020 but they hadn't been given that additional support until this programme came online and that was the thing that was transformational for them and the understanding that it was tailor made to them to suit whatever their particular personal needs were. There were even a husband and wife who'd suffered Covid but suffered in very different ways and what was good is that every single programme responded to that individual need. Thank you for that and I suppose on a different point. You've spoken about the health side of long Covid but how about the employment side and what are the concerns around people being unable to return to work due to long Covid? Well we're very focused on this and certainly the health boards are very aware of the need to put that occupational therapy support in place to help people to return to work but not to push them into work if they're not ready for it. I know that those discussions have been going on between health boards and trade unions but making sure that we put in place all of that support but it will go beyond people who work in health and care we must make sure that people are empathetic and understand the fact that actually people may genuinely have been affected by long Covid. The key message that came from those people who I met last week was that actually it was great just to get people to listen to them to be taken seriously and I think it is important that that message is heard very loudly and clearly by people across Wales that the Welsh Government is taking your long Covid very seriously. Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi.


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Okay. All right. So, yeah, like the guy that introduced me, who I'll get to know later, I guess, mentioned I did a Bitcoin threat model a couple of years ago. That's how I ended up, you know, going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. I've got a couple of decades of working in software security. And so that was the kind of appropriate response to something that seemed too good to be true is to do a very systematic security design analysis or a threat model. And what a threat model is, is it's a list of all of the potential attacks, all the things that, you know, the solution is doing to prevent those attacks, safeguards or safety measures, and then kind of a conclusion for each. What I want to do today is revisit that a little bit, but we're going to be talking about how you could attack Bitcoin, even though two years ago I didn't think that it was possible. And I've got a couple of quotes to kind of frame this. This is one of my favorites. Freedom is the freedom to believe that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows. That's from Winston in 1984. And then this is a paraphrase of Mises. They're all along the same theme. Government intervention always produces the opposite of the stated intention. And then government that engages in additional intervention justified by the problems their previous intervention created. And this is a steady march towards the socialism of the Nazi state. And then finally give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God, what belongs to God. So there is a, there's a huge conflict that's been going on for centuries since the beginning of man. And we're, we have Bitcoin and it's a, it's a part of this bigger conflict. So that's, that's the context with which you have to really look at this stuff is in the broad sweep of history to get a better, better view of it. So Bitcoin is an incredible technology. But one of the limitations that it has as a technology, as a tool, is that the most it can ever do is amplify human freedom. It can't create it from, from nothing. So here's some examples, personal firearms in the United States, people who believe in the Second Amendment, people that don't believe in the Second Amendment, all agree that it would be more difficult to some degree to establish a totalitarian state in the United States, because there are more guns in the hands of, you know, regular average Joe guys than there are regular average Joe guys in the United States. Another maybe less palatable example is RPGs in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, you know, is not super popular in the West, but it is a country that brought down, played maybe a bigger role than the United States in bringing down the Soviet Union and appears to be playing a significant role in ending the US empire. And a big part of why that's possible is that individual people, individual guys out in the hills have access to pretty cheap technology that makes them relatively powerful. They're still not better than a Apache attack helicopter. But in relative terms, RPGs make the individual more powerful. Now, if, if these guys weren't already pretty intense fighters and pretty capable in their own right, RPGs wouldn't be able to do anything for them. But technologies can amplify an existing freedom or an existing capability. And Bitcoin is the same way. If, if you're living in a totalitarian regime, you're not going to be able to take advantage of Bitcoin. And what we're going to see is that there's a couple things that are coming together right now at this point in history. One is information warfare being used by the state in an unprecedented scale. And they're accomplishing things that we never would have thought possible maybe five or 10 years ago. Most of us anyway, including myself. And then we also have things like Bitcoin. And that's going to bring about the couple technologies or a couple concepts less scary sounding but much more powerful solution that we're, we're right on the cusp of having to empower individuals. So when I did the Bitcoin threat model a couple years ago, these are some of the, some of the things that I looked at. And so I'm just going to do a quick overview of some of the ways that, that people have thought of trying to break Bitcoin. And again, a threat model is a, is a basically a library or a systematic list of all the ways that anybody can think of to break. There's been one or two things that we've added over the last couple of years. But by and large, if you thought of a way to break Bitcoin that's not in the threat model, I'll be shocked. But I'll put it in as soon as you, as soon as you throw it my way. But here's, here's an overview of some of the highlights. So quantum computers, guessing private keys, it's not going to happen. It's not a viable threat. Getting private keys through violence or hacking can happen to individuals, but it's not going to happen, at least in our current environment in a scale that would actually break the Bitcoin system itself. So yeah, you can get burned, but it's not going to bring down Bitcoin if your private keys gets stolen, inserting security flaws into code directly. So this would be, you know, you put a gun to a developer's head and you say, Hey, I want you to check in the security flaw. If you guys have been at Bitcoin for more than about 10 minutes, you've asked that question, you already know that that's not possible. Inserting a security flaw through a fork, we saw that play out with Bitcoin Cash, Segwit 2x, and then a lot of things that were before my time, like Bitcoin Unlimited. So we know that it's not possible to do that, that it's just not going to work. Malicious mining, this is, you know, still could be interesting, but there's a lot of reasons and a lot of safeguards in place to believe that even if nation states started using, you know, their monopoly essentially on nuclear power to maliciously mine Bitcoin, it wouldn't bring down the system. Malicious investing. So governments using their ability to print money to buy at Bitcoin, that could be interesting, but all they would do is devalue their currency and make Bitcoin more valuable. So that's not going to work.  And that kind of is a good transition concept, right? Because this, it shows that when you look at all of the things that you could do to bring down Bitcoin, you have to get more and more psychotic, you have to get more and more totalitarian. Because in our current environment, when people have access to the freedoms that they have, this is a very empowering thing. And in order to remove all of the safeguards that keep Bitcoin safe, you're going to have to do some really wild and wildly unpopular things. And these are some of the ways that, or these are some of the safeguards that if you look through the threat model, you'll see come up again and again and again. These are the things that allow us to be sure within reason that Bitcoin is not breakable. Because people have the freedom to write software. Anybody can write software. Anybody can check in software. Anybody can code review somebody else's software and say, hey, this is good software and encourage other people to run it. And then anybody can run software. And this is unapproved, right? We live in a world where we don't have to check this into some government authority and then they sign off on it before all of those interactions take place. But Bitcoin heavily relies on those freedoms. Another one is speculation. The reason that the Bitcoin Cash event was such a non-invent is that individuals were free to buy and sell Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin. And those speculators were financially incentivized and they had the freedom to determine that Bitcoin Cash was a fraud. And so they sold their Bitcoin Cash and they bought more Bitcoin. Or when they went to buy, they only bought Bitcoin. So that freedom to speculate, that freedom to invest on different coins or different assets is something that's a bedrock freedom that if that was taken away, obviously there would be no Bitcoin. Another way of saying that is if you couldn't buy Bitcoin, there would be no Bitcoin, which is kind of apparently and obviously true. But it's a freedom that we take for granted that you can buy and sell whatever you want. And that hasn't always been the case at all points in time in history. And it's not even the case in all places on the planet right now. Speculation, investing in Bitcoin mining hardware. So if nobody on the planet has the freedom to buy Bitcoin mining hardware, there's no secure Bitcoin network. And even more fundamental things are required, like peer-to-peer education, right? Like what we're doing right now, what people are doing on Twitter all the time, on Reddit, blogs, on YouTube telling people, hey, this works well. This could resist government interference. There's only 21 million coins. We take that for granted. But when you read dystopian novels like 1984 or Fahrenheit 411 or any of these nightmare scenarios where the state takes absolute control, that's one of the first things to go. And if you read history and learn about how things happened in the Soviet Union, in Germany, under Hitler, all these other scenarios, what's going on in North Korea right now, being able to just educate each other and openly talk, right? Which is why freedom of speech is held so sacred in the United States and elsewhere. Having that freedom is absolutely critical for a lot of things. But it's also critical for Bitcoin to work. And then freedom to trade Bitcoin for goods and services, the freedom to sell a banana and accept Bitcoin and accept Bitcoin for a banana. And people have speculated that that Bitcoin could be brought down because of this, because of these, you know, let's say weaknesses. But up until recently, it seemed pretty far-fetched, I would say, that there was going to be some sort of global government. Because if you try to shut it down in one country, it can just easily move to another country is the typical response. And I think that's, I still think that's a legitimate response. But I think that it's a little bit, it's a little more disconcerting now. So let's look at how these powers, these like very basic human freedoms that we totally take for granted have been messed with in the past. Because it's not, it might seem totally far-fetched, but it's not even far-fetched in the United States. So it's obviously critical that we're able to buy Bitcoin and sell Bitcoin. In 1933, you know, the executive order 6102 on Twitter has made pretty popular, at least the number, that were basically FDR prohibited gold investing. You could still buy gold, I think, in paper form and you can do some other things, but you weren't allowed to hoard it. You weren't allowed to actually take possession of it. I'm not even sure that you were allowed to invest in it in paper form. Now, there's a difference between having permission to do it and being able to do it. And obviously, people still did it. So simply outlawing it isn't enough, but the fact that it was outlawed is sobering and should remind us that it's not totally far-fetched. We would see something like this in the future. 2001, we had the Patriot Act. This completely, you know, brazenly eroded a lot of our freedoms that we take for granted in the United States. But one of them is that you can be imprisoned indefinitely without a trial if you're, if you're labeled a terrorist. There's all kinds of other things that are also related to the Snowden revelations in 2013. But one of the things that we know from those leaked documents is that all your conversations are recorded with the help of Google, Microsoft, and AT&T and basically every other major company.  You're not allowed to say anything. This is a national security issue. You know, sometimes they're very threatening, implying treason could be involved. And the employees of these companies roll over and the companies themselves roll over. And so now we know that there's taps from all of these companies into huge data centers in Utah and other places recording everything. Now it's just recording. It's not actually preventing us from having this conversation that we're having right now. But it's clearly a step in that direction. And you can kind of look at it as permissioned communication, right? Yes, we're having this conversation right now. But if government agencies are listening to everything that we're saying, one, it's going to have an impact on what we're comfortable saying. But two, it's kind of like on by default, right? If you can be arrested and imprisoned indefinitely if you're labeled appropriately from some bureaucracy without even getting a trial. And on top of that, everything that you say is recorded. It's fairly easy to understand that, you know, if you say something that's offensive enough, you could find yourself in the jaws of this pretty nasty system. But I think Julian Assange is a pretty good example of that to everybody. So that's not a current event. And then in 2016, we've seen threats of nationalization if it doesn't censor better. So Twitter is a really important communication medium at this point in history. And even though they censor a lot of stuff really badly, I think whether you like the way that they censor or you don't, the bigger picture issue here is that they will get nationalized. There's a lot of people that want them to be nationalized. If there's enough people that buy into this idea, it will become essentially a government institution. So just the threat of that will make Twitter respond to whoever's in power or go out of business, right? So Twitter is, you know, certainly in a tough position, whether you like what they're doing or not, it's not, it's not clear what they should do. If they don't censor anybody, they will get nationalized. They'll get taken over. If they censor only the left, then the right wants to take them over. If they censor only the right.  So it's a nasty situation. And our ability to peer to peer communicate is not guaranteed. In 2017, Elon's got to come up a couple of times in this talk. But in 2017, he called for a government body to approve all artificial intelligence-related code, because he's afraid of the singularity, artificial intelligence getting to a certain point. And his solution that he publicly proposed was that anybody that's writing artificial intelligence code, that code needs to be reviewed and essentially approved by, you know, some government-ish body. The problem with that is that artificial intelligence is a very, it basically doesn't exist. It's an algorithm. It's a set of algorithms. And so it's not clear. It's not as if you could say, okay, I'm only working on, you know, atomic bombs. I'm going to have these reviewed. And now I'm just working on some code to figure out whether somebody's standing in my front door. There's so much overlap. And it would be, it would be absurd to try to segregate that in any way. So effectively what that would mean, if it was approved and if people bought into it, is that we would lose our ability to write code without somebody approving it. Because somebody's at least got to approve that it doesn't have any artificial intelligence code. So that was very chilling and terrifying. And then 2020, we have something that makes all of that look like nothing as far as I'm concerned. I know a lot of people don't quite believe that Corona is a hoax. I'm not going to spend a ton of time talking about it. But just, you know, for now, play along with me that Corona is a hoax. And what we've witnessed in the last few months is a global disbanding of the economy. And when we say economy, we're not just talking about factories or something. We're talking about some of these freedoms that we had in the last slide of just being able to make stuff and sell it to whoever you want, be able to buy things and use it however you want. That's what the economy is. And the more that the government, as Misa said, intervenes in that economy, the more they'll have to intervene in that economy. And eventually that will lead us in a steady progression towards totalitarian state. So Corona. Corona is pretty profound to watch from an information warfare standpoint. War is always information war. When the United States went into Iraq and, you know, famously the hearts and minds concept came back up, something that was talked about in Vietnam and is essential to any war, right? If you go into the occupying area, you can't continue to occupy that area if the locals won't support you. And so this idea of, you know, we're going to go, we're going to hand out water bottles, we're going to set up cable TV, we're going to, you know, do whatever we have to do to win these people's hearts and minds. That's a way of talking about getting their minds, right? It's not getting their brains, getting their meat computers. We need those people that are processing information about the world around them to process it in the way that we want them to process it. So sometimes that means dropping a bomb, but sometimes that just means putting up a poster. And the end goal is the same. So the corona hoax is the pinnacle of the, of information warfare. It was done on a global scale and we'll get into that a little bit more. The pinnacle of, let's say, freedom producing or freedom empowering technology, I believe is going to be free market insurance. So we've seen corona, we'll probably see more versions of that. We haven't seen free market insurance yet, but we're going to talk about it and we're getting very close to it. So a couple things about corona itself. One is, again, for the purpose of this presentation, because I can't, you know, it'd take me two hours to make the argument that it's a hoax. It's very complicated as all information warfare is or it wouldn't work. But for now, just imagine how easily it could be a hoax, right? If you believe that this virus is highly deadly, if you think it's way more dangerous than the flu, that's fine. Keep that idea. But if you, if you have the intelligence to do so, set that aside and just imagine with me that it is a hoax and think about how easy it could be a hoax because all of your information channels on this are from government agencies, social media and old media. All the old media is obviously, you know, very political. And, you know, some of the, some of the previous leaks we have tell us that the CIA, for example, this is not conspiracy theory stuff. And, you know, if you worked at the CIA, you'd think it was a good idea, has people embedded in media agencies. It's been done multiple times and leaked multiple times. So you have the old media that's a fairly central point of contact that's pretty easy to control. You have social media. And these guys are just trying not to get nationalized. And then you have government agencies like the CDC that have really the only authority and the only credibility. So all you really need in this information-based attack is to have something like the CDC come out with certain proclamations and certain statements. Now, I don't think it'll be as easy to do next time, but this time they had a lot of credibility and they were able to use that to great effect. If they came out tomorrow and said something, I think there'd be more skepticism. But again, whether you think that this is really deadly or not, you have to know that everybody relied on the CDC. When the CDC said don't wear masks, everybody believed that masks were a bad idea. Now that they're saying wear masks, everybody believes that masks are a good idea. So there's clearly a very centralized weak point, single point of failure in the system that could be used if you don't believe that it was used. And what's incredible about this situation is that it was a global coordinated response. Everybody, with the exception of Switzerland and a few other small countries, almost everybody globally responded to coronavirus in exactly the same way. So we had global lockdowns, which were basically house arrests, sort of like you're allowed to leave your house, but only under certain conditions. We didn't have like declarations of martial law, but what would you do if you did declare martial law? You would do things like curfews, right? And people would freak out supposedly according to the movies. As soon as you implement the curfews, we all know that Hitler is rising to power and we're going to rise up. But no, they did house arrests and they didn't say you couldn't be out after a certain time. They said you can only be out under certain circumstances. And everybody mostly went along with that, which is I think pretty sobering and pretty terrifying. I wouldn't have expected anything like this could have happened in such a smooth way. They also closed non-essential businesses. The concept of non-essential businesses is something that is very fascist. The whole idea that government can determine which businesses are essential and which ones aren't. If they can do that, why haven't we shut down all these non-essential businesses already? They're just using up resources. So there's a lot of really creepy concepts built into this. But for the most part, there was overwhelming public support for this. And basically, based on data that came from the CDC and just a few other government agencies. And this might sound super conspiratorial, but for Bitcoiners, we should be able to step back and say, well, wait a minute, central banking itself is a global conspiracy to control the world's economy. Like they're very blatant. That's the case, right? And the way that this works is it's not always people petting cats, smoking cigars. You have the Federal Reserve, they're controlling their money supply. They have relationships with other banks that are able to play games to some certain degree and profit from that to some certain degree. But that coordination of currencies and that coordination of economies is more than enough to if they were going to look for an excuse. So one possibility is that the coronavirus problem started legitimately, but central banks throughout the world knew that the jig was up, knew that all of the signs were there that the economies needed to turn down. And they were just a fan of that and promoted that, right? Maybe with a little bit of help from some government agencies. So it doesn't have to be a very crazy conspiracy theory, at least not compared to what we know is really blatantly conspiratorial. And as far as something that's really chilling that came out of this, I think the most chilling thing for a lot of us is that we saw that you don't need to have a China surveillance state, that that is all just wasted funding. If I was running the NSA right now and I wanted to establish it to a totalitarian government, I wouldn't spend a lot of money on cameras and things like that. Because with information warfare, all you have to do is make everybody scared.  So you can you can turn the population into an enforcer class very, very quickly.  So not great. Not a great, great moment in history. But there is there is a flip side to this, this battle that we're that we're seeing. And that is something I'm going to run through fairly quickly. I'm going to try to do it in the next five minutes. But it's a very complicated topic. And I have I have interviews online with Tim May and Jim Bell, spending hours talking through this to, you know, cypher punks from 30 years ago that really got the movement to where it is. So assassination politics. This is a terrifying concept. If it doesn't scare you, then you're not quite understanding it. But the basic idea is that as soon as people are free to gamble, they're able to bet that somebody dies or that somebody doesn't die. And this is one of the reasons that insurance and gambling are actually controlled by the government. It's not because they care whether you get get addicted to gambling or not. So if you can picture this, let's let's imagine that you're in Nazi Germany, and you have a you have a factory, and you're worried that Hitler is going to nationalize it. And you bet that he is going to nationalize it.  What that would do is it would create this huge lottery for somebody to win or a group of people to win by taking the opposite side of the bet, by betting that he is not going to nationalize it. Or in the case of assassination politics, betting that Hitler doesn't wake up tomorrow, right? So the basic idea is you could be a chef, and you could you could do slightly different things to make it less likely that Hitler lives, right? You could give him older muscles. The doctor could prescribe him slightly less effective medication. There could be a death by 1000 cuts as all of these people have taken the other side of the bet, whether Hitler is going to live or die, and they're incentivized to not treat him very well. Or it could be something as, you know, direct and harsh as just a bodyguard flat out, don't not frisking a gas that comes in and kills Hitler. So it is it is a very it's a very terrifying concept. But it is something that is enabled and will be a reality. To some degree, I think it will be insurance as soon as people are free to gamble anonymously, which they can't right now. But that's going to be a that's going to be a massive shift in the way that our world works in the next 10 years at most. But good news is that insurance is more powerful. So that that very scary scenario of just people betting whether somebody dies or not, it's it's not very likely to play out at scale. I think, you know, it is something we should be concerned about in the short term, because things get messy in a transition with new technologies. But insurance itself is actually more powerful. So in this scenario, instead of betting that Hitler doesn't wake up tomorrow, instead, you bet that your own business is nationalized. So life insurance, for example, is betting that you are going to die. Auto insurance is betting that you are going to get in a car accident. Health insurance, when it wasn't health care, when it was actually insurance was betting that you were going to get sick. So you bet that something bad is going to happen to you. And that means that you put, you know, basically money on the line that says you think this bad thing is going to happen. And the other person is able to take the bet that this bad thing isn't going to happen. And if it doesn't, that's the insurance company, right? If it doesn't happen, they make a profit. If it does happen, they lose. But the reason that insurance is more powerful is that you're actually betting for the thing that you care about. You don't actually care whether Hitler dies or not. What you care about is that your business is not nationalized. And if you bet more specifically, that gives a lot more flexibility to the other people taking the bet.  You can just leak information that would make him not get elected as chancellor, you know, an old girlfriend or a business partner or something like that. So this is more powerful. And that's why I think that assassination politics is terrifying as it is, will be short-lived if it exists at all, and is only really useful as a thought experiment to understand how powerful insurance is. So to bring it to kind of current day, Elon Musk right now is opening his factory. From what I understand, he's actually working in the factory. He's expecting that he could get arrested. Imagine if he could bet $100,000 that he's going to get arrested today.  His chances of getting arrested would go down today, and they would be more likely to win. So insurance is very powerful when it's free market. We don't have that yet, but it's coming. It requires that we have government hard smart contracts, and we are going to have that soon. Simplicity is- A-W, quick note, you need to come to an end. I hope it's not too much anymore. Okay, great, perfect, sorry. So yeah, simplicity is coming soon. It's going to enable a lot of things when we do have government hard smart contracts. Simplicity is the only real effort that's ever been made towards it. And so when you think about stuff like Ethereum and EOS and all that stuff, it was always garbage. It may not work, but we are about to see the first legitimate attempt to build something that could enable it. That's it.


So just in case anyone was really questioning just how selfish my videos are right now This week I Decided that I wanted a new pet. You know, it's been a long time since I've had a little pet I used to have them growing up. They were my best and only friends. This is literally what happened this morning. I Want a hamster? I want a hamster. I want a hamster. Where do we get a hamster? Do we have to catch one? Can we get one? There's a little pet. This is like the fourth thing you've said to me all day. As long as they have a cage. We have so many big friends Let's get a little friend.  I'm going right now. You're buying it. Kidding. I like want a bird though, too. No, we're not doing that. I want to go to the pet store and whoever speaks to me I want to get them. You mean like if something touches your heart and you want to take it home? Yeah, so we don't know if it's a hamster now. Like what if I like a Boardy. I'm fine with a bird, too. I had two birds growing up. What were their names? Jenny and Poppy. Poppy has spelled it in big poppy. Okay, what have you said, Poppy? We just got to be pet smart about it. Wow, ad. I'm a walking ad. Let's go to their competitor now. Just so that you know for sure. It's not an ad. I'm naming the bird ad. Let's name him ad. Can we name him ad? Please can we name him ad. Okay, but only if we get him a friend that's named Spawns. Are you ready to welcome a new member to our family? Are you excited to be a daddy? I'm excited to be a ad. Let's go. This is actually playing in the car. Here, I have other ones. This We have great music we can listen to in the car. You like this one? You do. I didn't even think about getting one of you. You're awfully handsome. That one looks exactly like the two I had. They were like light blue with a tiny bit of green.   Oh, oh. I had one that looked like him long hair. Wow. Look how pretty he is. Look at these guys though. Can we please name him ad? Look at that. See that like nasty thing coming out of his butt? Yeah, what is that? I don't know, part of his butt. Love hashtag. Good hashtag ad. Aw, he's pretty. All right, get the cart because we're gonna have to get a bunch of hamsters stuff. Ooh, let's just get him this and then he can like live in the living room. Yeah, that's a great idea. So we're gonna hop over and eat him. We're trying to figure out what kind of house to get him. The hamsters I had growing up, we kept them in like Glasterariums because they like bit the bars and like push their bedding out and stuff. But like what is going on here? Julian just called that a to-go container for your hamster. Yeah, so you ever want to take him to go and make for here? All right, we're getting him. We're gonna take you home and love you. Hi bud. Are you excited or what? Yeah, I'm excited. I love you. So I know it's just a little car ride and then you're gonna be in your new house, okay? When I was a kid, I used to get a hamster. It was like the best day in the whole world. And I'm having it right now. Julian has never had a hamster and don't worry, we are gonna keep him away from the dogs. Ad is our baby. I'm fully prepared for his two-year lifespan. It's gonna be hard, but it's okay because we're gonna give him all the love he deserves in that amount of time, right? Yeah. This is definitely not for you guys. Yeah, he's mommy's new baby, okay? That means mommy forgets all about you. Who are you? I don't know who you are. I have a new baby now. I'm kidding honey. I'm kidding baby. I'm kidding honey. Trying to put this together as fast as we can. How are you gonna do this?  Oh brave. He's a hamster. Hi little guy. Hi. Bring that body. Oh he's so cute. He's a weird bud. I love him.  Is that dark?  Kermi's sit. Good boy. No, he's not your baby. This is mommy's baby. You have to be very nice to him, okay? He's not food. He's a friend. Kermi.  I'm gonna put some of his crunchy and nibble variety pack. We're gonna give him a little bit to acclimate. Then I think we're gonna have him go in his wheel and then we also got a little outdoor area. So he can hang out in the grass. Oh my god.   Stop it. I love him. And I'm so happy you like your wheel. And what a nice way to pass the time for your two year lifespan, huh? We just hang out and look at him. All right, so what's up next? I think I'm gonna let him hang out, eat some dinner maybe in his cage. And then I think I'm gonna try putting him in the ball and see if he likes it. We told the girl in the store, they were like, oh, what are you gonna name him? And we were like, oh, we already named him. His name is Ad. He's like, oh, Ed, cool. And I was like, no, Ad. We should have named him promo code. I know. It's not too late. We can change his name. No, his name's Ad. His full name is Adward. No, it isn't. Adward scissor hands. Adward, come here. Adward, come. Ad. He doesn't know his name, dog. He never will. Here you go. Oh, you did it. Julian. Oh. I'm proud of you. Thank you. That wasn't so bad, huh? No, he's easy to hold. The whole thing is just getting over the eye contact for me. Hold him nice and low to the ground. You don't want him to jump. It's amazing to me that, like, you don't know how to handle a hamster.  He's cute. Yeah. You guys are cute. It's been a lot for him, so I think we're gonna let him eat some dinner soon and then we'll try his ball later and see if he likes it. Sometimes they don't like it. Sometimes they do, so we'll see. I like you an awful lot. I'm just really glad that I got a little hamster because I was thinking about my dream life and I really just want to be surrounded by all the animals. So if that's my dream life, why aren't I doing it? So I did. I just went out and got a little hamster. He seems like he could use love in a good home, you know? So that's what I'm gonna give you, bud. We're actually gonna let this little one say hello because he hasn't yet. My ball. It's so big compared to the little guy. See? Boy, that's a good boy. Good boy, Mumbo. What the... What is that? What is that? What? Look at his left foot. We moved Ad's permanent location in here because although the dogs are very sweet and I trust them to not be shifty, I only half trust them to not be shifty. So we don't want them being able to like visit him while we're not looking. No, guys, he's having a little bit of quiet time right now.    But you guys gotta let him relax, alright? No, he has to relax right now. He's had a big day. Alright, have a good little sleep ad. We'll see you in a little while. Somebody had a little nap. Give a little nap. Oh, so cute. Got a little tiny friend. This is my dream. I'm living my dream life. My little ad will never skip you. My god. You should make more ads like this. It's a great ad. Does it take a lot? Congrats on the first ad ever on your channel. If you can tell me what this is an ad for, I'd be so impressed because it's not an ad. We got stuff for Ad, like his house and everything, but the majority of supplies that we bought at the pet store was dog supplies. So don't worry, they're gonna get plenty of love and attention. Ad. He doesn't know his name, dude. I disagree. I think he does ad. He looked at me. Oh, he's cute. I don't know what he's doing. Oh my god, he's so cute.  A quick update on Lil Ad here. So I'm so glad that Julian posted his vlog because we started seeing comments of people being like, you need a bigger cage and you need a bigger wheel or like, feed them less food. It's all very helpful because we didn't know what Ad was gonna be. He could have been a reptile or a bird, so we just did the best. And nobody at that store helped us pick out the right cage for him. We just did the best that we could. So we're still gonna get him better stuff. But I came in here because I put like some toilet paper in there for his like bedding or whatever. And Ad is just standing on top of his cage. And I was like, Ad, what are you doing? I don't remember owning a hamster being this complicated. This is all very complicated. And I feel terrible because he's like so little. He must have just been able to squeeze through here. And this is, it's like pretty fine. It's like a standard hamster cage size, but he still managed to get out. So I can't leave him in here overnight. That's terrifying. So I think, thanks to the internet, I have like a storage bin that I can use at least for overnight until I get him a bigger cage because we can't have him just running around in the house. Ad, oh my God. But he's enjoying his bowl right now. She's so sweet. I know, I don't want to push him. I just want to know what he's doing and where he's going. So we're cleaning this out right now so that we can put his bedding in here and at least keep him in here overnight till we get him a bigger cage. What? I'm just like imagining him standing on top of a cage. I couldn't believe it. I could not believe it. I feel so bad that I've done so wrong by him. Ad, we're gonna make it right, bud. We're gonna get you a nice big cage with all kinds of stuff. No one told me. Well, he's really enjoying himself. There you go. Okay, he spent a long first day with Ad but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love him very much.  We debated whether or not to put the top on there. So really maybe he could just climb out. I don't know. We're doing the best we can given the current circumstances. It doesn't look like he could climb or jump out of here even with the top off. And my solid plan, C, is to temporarily have him just live in the bathtub. I promise this isn't in your home forever, okay? This is probably the last time I'll ever upload a video like this. I hope you enjoyed it for any reason. You know, we got a hamster. It's really exciting. We're just figuring it out because we're new hamster parents. That's all. Be patient with us. But make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put out a new video every Wednesday, slash Thursday. And I'll probably keep you updated on probably Snapchat or something of Ad and how we go with him. That's Jenna Kerr Marbles on Snapchat. So wish me luck. And I promise that I will get at a much better living situation. I hope you liked meeting our new family member. And Julien Haikiloki, I think, is in love with hamsters. That's not the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life. He's like Peach if Peach were a hamster. It's true. And now we're going on a long, long life journey together. As soon as we get at a better place to live. So I'll see you guys next week. All right. Bye.