Item number SCP-3092, Object Class, Euclid, Special Container Procedures SCP-3092 is to be contained in an empty room equipped with a single compatible power outlet. It is not to be plugged in or stocked with toys unless actively being tested. Testing with SCP-3092 must be pre-approved by at least one Level 3 staff member, and at least one Foundation Agent armed with a net launcher. For correction, mock tranquilizer rifle, see Addendum 3092-01 and 02. Must be present in order to subdue and contain resultant SCP-3092-A instances. SCP-3092-A instances are to be contained individually in standard containment kennels modified with two additional locks, at least one of which should be biometrically operated in order to prevent further containment breaches. There to be provided amenities in exchange for compliant behavior, but none that could serve as tools or aids in an escape attempt. Should one or more SCP-3092-A instances successfully escape containment, a team of agents armed with net launchers, correction, mock tranquilizer rifles, see Addendum 3092-01 and 02, should sweep the site until they are re-contained, and all personnel should be notified of the situation, be aware of their surroundings, and report any suspicious activity or SCP-3092-A attacks immediately. No plush toys are permitted within 200 meters of any SCP-3092-A instances outside of testing purposes. Description. SCP-3092 is a black-tie toys brand arcade claw machine, measuring 1.8 meters tall, 0.8 meters wide, and 0.9 meters deep, and weighing approximately 144 kilograms while unstocked. The machine's body and mechanical parts are all non-anomalous in nature, primarily composed of steel, plastic, and various electronics, all possessing wear and tear consistent with multiple years of regular usage. When provided power and coins of valid United States currency, SCP-3092 may be operated as is standard for commercially available claw machines. Its anomalous properties only activate whenever the operator successfully picks up one or more plush toys with the claw and deposits them in SCP-3092's prize shoot. At this point, the respective plush toys will immediately transform into instances of SCP-3092-A. SCP-3092-A instances are cotton-stuffed, felt plush gorillas, possessing no identifying tags or logos sitting at roughly 0.3 meters tall and weighing 0.4 kilograms. They are sapient, communicative, and capable of sight, hearing, touch, and ambulation of all four limbs. Additionally, they possess notable manual dexterity despite seeming to lack distinct digits and relevant muscular structures. Outside of this, all instances are conventional plush toys lacking any biological components. SCP-3092-A instances are remarkably proficient in various activities related to guerrilla warfare, such as stealth, weapon improvisation, trap setting, and the maintenance and usage of a variety of small arms. They also appear to possess ideologies crudely resembling various real and fictitious guerrilla rebel groups. They are capable of developing and staging complex plans individually or as a group and regularly attempt to breach containment with limited success. However, thus far, all SCP-3092-A activity appears to have been intended to annoy or inconvenience rather than cause legitimate damage to its targets. All weapons employed by SCP-3092-A instances have been non-lethal in nature, causing only minor injuries. Opportunities to cause severe damage to foundation assets, such as through arson or the containment breach of other SCP objects, have been ignored in favor of more superficial attacks. Attempts to question SCP-3092-A instances on the subject have failed, with all instances insisting that their attacks are massively damaging with many casualties. Implements and tactics frequently used include sink shots, small catapults, trip hazards, correction, c-adendum 3092-03, graffiti, glitter bombs, and buckets or canisters of various liquids placed atop partially open doors. All SCP-3092-A instances created by SCP-3092 have thus far possessed distinct personalities, beliefs, objectives, and identities. However, when an instance of SCP-3092 comes into physical contact with a non-anomalous plush toy, that plush toy will immediately be transformed into an identical instance of SCP-3092-A, with similar baseline personality, ideology, and behavioral patterns to the SCP-3092-A instance which created it. SCP-3092-A instances appear to be aware of this property, and will attempt to make use of it in order to bolster numbers. Many instances will, after being created, attempt to re-enter SCP-3092 in order to convert any applicable toys remaining inside. SCP-3092-A instances can be ripped, torn, or otherwise damaged with no greater difficulty than a conventional plush toy. Reactions to damage have been universally and melodramatically negative, with instances typically expressing hyperbolic pain over even superficial damage. Severe injuries such as deep punctures or tears to the torso, detachment of limbs, or decapitation will result in, quote, death, with instances falling to the ground and ceasing to move, typically after a long period of exaggerated expressions of pain. However, in cases less severe than complete incineration, instances appear to be only playing dead, as repeated disturbance of these corpses will result in them briefly returning to activity and requesting that this disturbance stop as they are, quote, out of the game. Due to this information as well as SCP-3092-A's lack of a nervous system, it is not currently believed that they actually feel pain. Repair of damaged SCP-3092-A instances through conventional stitching, patching, and restuffing is typically sufficient to alleviate instances expressed pain and death states, and is interpreted by them as medical attention. Currently, 23 instances of SCP-3092-A are in containment by the Foundation. Recovery. SCP-3092 was retrieved on 5-3-2000 from family restaurant and arcade in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after animal control officers responding to a call there noted anomalous activity. Upon Foundation agent's arrival to the scene, it is believed that 21 SCP-3092-A instances had been created through both SCP-3092 and their own duplication properties, and restaurant facilities were considerably defaced. After killing several aggressive instances with small arms fire, the remaining instances surrendered to Foundation officials and were contained along with SCP-3092 after it was determined the source of the anomalous activity. Civilians present were amnesticized, and a cover story of an escaped pet chimpanzee was distributed. Addendum 3092-01 On 5-18-2000, one SCP-3092-A instance initiated a containment breach and fled via an adjacent hallway. Agent Megan Cho, noticing this activity while standing guard outside SCP-3092 containment chamber, fired on the instance with the tranquilizer rifle she was armed with. Curiously, the subject appeared to pass out, falling to the ground and ceasing all activities besides occasional twitches and mocks snoring. Subject was recontained without incident and awoke several hours later. Due to increased effectiveness and lowered risk over net launchers or firearms, it is recommended that Foundation agents use tranquilizer weapons in the recontainment of SCP-3092-A instances in the future. Addendum 3092-02 After testing, it has been determined that any weapons firing feather-tipped pneumatic darts is sufficient to induce a sleep state in SCP-3092-A, regardless of whether said dart is actually loaded with tranquilizers. Like the aforementioned death state, it is believed that this sleep state is performative on SCP-3092-A's part. To minimize the potential for collateral damage to Foundation personnel, mock tranquilizer rifles should be used in place of actual tranquilizers. Addendum 3092-03 On 6-9-2000, two SCP-3092-A instances simultaneously escaped containment and fled through the building's ventilation system before setting up a tripwire in the office of Dr. Martin Helmer, intending for him to trip, fall, and land face-first on a pillow with a crude insult written on it. Upon entering his office, Dr. Helmer tripped, fell, hit his shoulder against a bookshelf, suffered a fractured collarbone, an injury much more severe than any induced by SCP-3092-A containment breaches prior. Upon discovering this, both instances immediately expressed remorse, informed other Foundation officials of the situation, and were compliant in recontainment. Investigation revealed later that several amenities within these instances' cells had been converted into gifts and apology cards intended for Dr. Helmer. Further breaches by SCP-3092-A instances have not been noted to employ trip hazards of any sort.


California has now declared itself a sanctuary state for adults who want to sexually mutilate their children in the name of gender ideology. One father in Texas called Jeff Younger now fears that his ex-wife is taking advantage of this deranged law law that we will all be ashamed of a generation from now. She's just moved to California with their nine-year-old son. She is convinced that the boy is actually a girl.  No. I'm a girl.  Mommy. And when did she tell you you were a girl? I love girls. Oh, I see.  Does mommy do anything else like with a girl with you? Like what? Like dresses. What does she do? She puts dresses on you. Oh, wow. Oh, that's just the saddest thing. That's a child. Well, Jeff Younger, the father of that boy, went to the Texas Supreme Court to try to protect his son. He wanted an order to prevent his ex-wife from having the boy sexually mutilated in the state of California, but the court rejected his petition in an eight-to-one vote. Shocking. Jeff Younger joins us tonight. Mr. Younger, thank you very much for coming on. Will you watch that video when it just hurts? Yeah. I mean, it's the first iPhone video I ever took.  And, you know, it escalated to eventually she registered him school as a girl. I had to put, shut that down. So the Capel School District began to secretly transition my son. I'd bring my son to school and boys' clothes, and they'd give him a dress and make him use the girl's restroom. And it even escalated further where she began to present him to the world as a girl.  And, you know, my, my, his twin brother got completely confused by all this. We wound up going to a 2019 trial where the courts gave me 50-50 custody and joint conservative rights to check her ability to transition my son. And the corrupt Democrat establishment in Dallas County transferred my case into the 301st District Court with Judge Mary Brown, and she never implemented the trial with a jury verdict. And as, through temporary orders, stripped me of all my parental rights and eventually allowed my ex to move to California right before, just a, just a few days before, the sanctuary law in California went into effect. So, it's, it's, it's so upsetting. I mean, we're talking about destroying a child's life. Nine, you know, even last year, people who were in favor, who believed that you could change sexes by active will, even they would concede nine was too young. Now we're just completely off the rails. Did any adult in authority step up to help you and protect this nine-year-old boy? No, she started transitioning when he was two. She tried to enroll him in a gender clinic when he was five, the Genesis Clinic in Dallas, Texas. The pediatricians record show that she intended to chemically castrate him at age eight or nine, his current age, and then he magically moves to California. You know, I don't think this is an accident. Absolutely no one in the state of Texas has stood up for me except for Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General. I went to the legislature on two sessions, and by some quantitative measures, I generated more political power for a bill against transgender child abuse than for any bill in Texas history. Some officers were courting 300 lobbyists a day on my bills. We could not get that bill passed because the speaker of the house, Dade Feelin, blocked those bills from passage. So the legislature did nothing. The governor did not mobilize the agencies to protect Texas children from these abusive procedures. Sterilization and chemical castration did nothing. I could not get the executive branch to move. I thought I would get relief in the appellate courts, in the judicial branch, and I go up to the Texas Supreme Court, and they determined absurdly that my wife is no more likely to transition my son in California under the sanctuary laws than she would in Texas. And absurdly, not even really reading Senate Bill 107 claims that we can enforce an injunction against her in California when a plain reading of the bill says that they will not enforce these adjunctions. They will not obey subpoenas. They will not obey extradition, and they will not return the children to me under any circumstances. At some point, all of these children will be adults, and they're going to look at us, the adults who should have been protecting them. They will. With rage. Yeah, but not you. You've done your best, and our heart goes out to you, for real, and your boy. Jeff Younger, thank you. Thank you, Tucker.


Now, the International Human Rights Protection Forum and independent non-partisan organization is focused on advancing peace, justice, human rights and democratic values in Nigeria, Africa and the world. The newly elected National President, Ambassador Blessin Joseph, pledged to lead with integrity, empathy and commitment to its mission. She called on the government to engage more in technology to reduce corruption and uphold the fundamental right and freedoms of every individual, regardless of their background, beliefs or circumstances. We will work tirelessly to address the pressing human rights issues of our time, whether it be combating discrimination and bigotry, promoting gender equality, ensuring access to education and healthcare systems or advocating for the rights of refugees and marginalized communities. Our system is mad by corruption and we say if the government should use technology, it will be able to clear like 50% also of the corruption because corruption is the main thing that causes poverty. When people still, when people are given money to do a project or to do a certain contract and they pocket it, it will definitely affect the society.


Bingo, we're back Think tech think tech Hawaii think tech rocks think tech now think tech forever Think tech aloha united way think tech aloha united we stand the name of the show at Thursday 12 o'clock noon today special We have J. King never met a J. I didn't like okay. We have Monique Weissman I never met a Monique I like so great to have you guys on and you are from aloha united way Alon is a contract involved. Keska say the contract is a $5 million contract with the state for operations of the coordinated statewide homeless initiative and so but I work for Running that contract the statewide program for aloha united way. Yes, but why why to address? Homelessness to to help people who are at risk of homelessness and prevent them from becoming homeless and to rapidly Rehouse those that are homeless that that need that economic assistance. So Monique you know Jay. I know Jay Yes, you work together in some fashion, right? What how do you work together? Well, very well. I mean we compliment each other. I Knew that he's awesome at his job Okay, you're a program manager of aloha united way. I am I'm program manager for the 211 department And he's doing 211. No, you're doing connected. Yeah I oversee the 211 program and he oversees the coordinated statewide homeless initiative And it's connected with 211 because people call the 211 line in order to get connected with the Agencies who can help them out with funding what I know everything about but what is just defining terms of glossary coordinated statewide homeless program Is that right initiative? Yeah, what is that? Okay? So we have we provide up to three months of assistance rental Down payment rental payment a security deposit or utility assistance moving in for people who may be homeless And have the means after three months of assistance to sustain their their rent themselves Or we also help with people that may have an eviction notice pay up to three months of assistance as well to prevent that eviction We have 18 agencies statewide that we have contracted with that manages program and work with our communities throughout the state to help make sure that this is accessible and they Clients individual clients go directly to these agencies or they can call the 211 line to be connected to their most local closest agency So you're the triage. You're the entry point two on one and they need they come they come to your Organization sure we're the information and referral. Okay information referral and aloha another way likes this. Yeah, this is Absolutely because it connects us to the community. Okay, that's our main goal and 211 has existed since what 1840 just about 1990 1990 it was and I didn't know this but there's a telephone line since 1990 You could call 211 right and aloha united way has been administering this all the time And aloha united way has been involved since 1990 it used to be funded 80% by the state and 20% by aloha united way And it was called ask 2000 and that was the actual phone number that people could dial which is actually That's still actually the number that we use but now it's 211 so it's easier to remember Oh, yeah, but aloha united way was involved because they were funding it and it was run by Hawaii Community Services Council at that time and then in 1999 Aloha United Way took it over 100% both in funding and administering the program This is interesting because you are a referral organization. Yes, you know, and you are an organization that supports a lot of charities 242 as I recall but something like that And this is a little bit different. This is a little bit different for you to actually be an operator and have all this Engineering around you and have people answering this. That's unusual. Well, because we're providing a direct service which has been a little bit different and It's our way of really connecting with the community. Yes, and there are actually 211 lines as Jay was saying I was the statistic 94.6% of the states have a tool in all the states nationwide and so 211 is a number in 2000 is when the FCC Made that number available nationwide for information and referral lines to use So the telephone industry has to connect this has to be part of it. It's a national initiative Yeah, yeah, okay, so I want to get to exactly how it works.  This woman called me she's I'm about to get thrown out of my house and you know I'm a nice person and I don't know what to do Many calls but that's certainly one that that we would take and give her referrals. So this person I don't know her name or anything this person. We don't use names. So our line is completely anonymous. I love that Yeah, so this person calls and one of your operators will pick up that 211. That's right How does the conversation go? So she picks up the line and the first thing they'll say is aloha united way 211 They give their name ask how they can help them and they get a zip code because we are statewide So we offer services on all the islands. So we need to make sure we're connecting her with services, right? In the right area and even on a wahoo, you know want to get them in the right area So they ask for her zip code also get her age Because depending on the service it may be for elderly or for family So we want to make sure that it narrows the search because we have a database of four thousand over four thousand agencies and programs so we want to make sure we we can hone in on the right ones and They start a conversation and listen to what her need is so she will start talking about what? What she's looking for some callers know exactly what they're looking for and they want you know How do I get in touch with? You know with a food pantry or you know a particular food pantry and then we can look that up for them if they're asking about rental assistance then we make some additional inquiries and Actually Jay has come up with a survey that he can talk about that helps Determine a number of different one. I'm getting when he cuz that this is not like when I call information and You're not just getting aside will type in the name it comes up on a screen push the button and I'm connected It's it's that's mindless. Sorry In fact, that could be done by a machine should be done by machine But in this case it sounds like anything and everything could come in on this 211 That's right because you get a live person. Yeah, and they're listening to what your needs are and they've been trained to assess You know and ask questions about what is it that you really are looking for and they may know about other Resources that might be useful to you So they have to understand they got to be good with people absolutely a good listener Mm-hmm. They got to know the community. They got to know who's in the four thousand record database Well, you don't have to know exactly Yeah, and what they are I mean when you finally call one up and it seems to come up on whatever subject you called Yeah, well, there's a database probably describes them anyway So there's a setup when you when you search them you'll get a number of resources that might be That might look like they're the right choice. And so you think it the They're called information and referral specialists. So when they open it up, there will be a description of the services Of course contact information eligibility information What was the intake? This is like your best friend waiting for your call at three o'clock in the morning open at three o'clock No, we're not we're 7 a.m. To 5 p.m. There was a time after 9-11 we were open 24-7 for a few years and so we had an expanded staff But we find that we don't get that many calls at that time. Yeah, how big are you? How many people are on the staff? We have three information and referral specialist Well, we are the statewide hub right there's only one call center and that's one call at your office on Vineyard Whatever correct. Yeah. Yeah, that's fabulous. I really and so now now how does that play for you Jay you the calls come in and One of the 4,000 databases is you or are you more than one? So what actually we've done is by Distributing granting the funds to 18 agencies statewide that have experience as a homeless service provider We now they're in our database and there are one of some of our primary referrals So when somebody asked for homeless or housing assistance, we would look up the closest one And so this is a way to directly connect them This is the coordinated part or I like to think of as kind of strategic compassion. How do you play off this telephone call? I'm this lady. I'm getting thrown out of my house. I'm really distraught about it. So I call and I'm rational I'm not I'm not desperate or wild like but I figure you guys can help me How do you get involved in that conversation that process so myself? I oversee the 18 agencies that we would be referring to to make sure that they receive her her contact after we Do the referral but they'll get anywhere from two to four agencies within a five ten or 25 mile radius to their zip code Where they can connect with and apply for those those services that assistance So if this person says I I'm homeless or about to be homeless. I need homeless help Then the operator the what's the title again? Information and referral specialists. Yeah, what will I do that's a trigger to ask them You know, can I ask you a few additional questions because there might be some other resources in the community? Like I can certainly help you look for Either Actually, I should back up, you know, they're gonna find out. Well, what exactly is the situation, you know If you're almost homeless, you know, are you living someplace now? Is what is the situation? Are you about to be evicted? She's emoting. It's fabulous. I feel like she She really cares Well, that's what we're all about Sorry But it's you know, it's wonderful. It's like the people who answer the phone They do really care and they want to find out. What is it that? Can really help out the person on the other end of the line? Yeah, and there's a gratification that there's a Psychic benefit right there to be able to help somebody and very efficiently actually but but I still want to know How does it get from this call where I say I'm homeless or about to be homeless? I need help to Jay. How does that go? Well, it doesn't go directly to Jay, but it will go to a survey that Jay has created And which the operator has yes, the operator has it available to them And so when they hear that somebody is homeless or about to be homeless Then they'll ask them if they can ask a few other questions in order to be able to provide You know resources that could be of help to them and are they willing so it's completely voluntary, okay? community benefits inventory and Once they answer these questions takes three minutes Then at the end of the question part it also produces a response based upon your answers You may also be eligible for these programs or services that can support you in the situation So people call asking for one thing, but they don't know all that's available all that they need to ask This is kind of a smart survey where it produces You go to the next step so if you fit in this category if the answer questions a certain way go to the next step they may ask one thing they give me answers and Yeah, we treat them holistic screen. Oh, of course it is but silly question and I was gonna say it's also helpful for for the The information or referral specialists because they don't then have to keep all that in their heads And that's a mistake of a high-tech part too, you know So it automatically will populate where the some of the appropriate referrals really like and we can text or email Or if they don't want to write it down to via phone we can text or email on those referral information So they can you know use that wherever they are So how does it has it actually play out? So, okay, the specialist is you know fills out the form or whatever she's looking at these questions survey and she's You know, you got some stuff here that we can help you with you know under the Coordinated statewide So we don't usually use that terminology whatever under this program Jay runs Okay, and then the specialist says okay. Well, I have certain benefits that are apparently useful for you What happens then in the conversation? Well, one example of this would be so in the past approximate 10 weeks We've had 350 callers and they have been Received the information or further the information over 900 agencies that can provide them that direct assistance Related to the problem that they called about in addition of those 340 callers 320 people have received housing assistance. Okay, but the question is How do they get to the yeah, how do they get to the agency from that call? How did they get to the so the Information or referral specialists will give them phone numbers. They'll look up for rent payment assistance, for example They will look that up. We hit we use an indexing system on the database. They'll look up agencies will pop populate for that particular area of the caller and They'll find the ones that are nearest them Tell them about them and ask them, you know, would you like a referral to this particular location? Here's the phone number. Give the phone number Yeah, and would you like to give them a call and they can help you and they'll talk a little bit about what some of the basic Services are yeah with the services and just just very Lightly like they won't go into a lot of detail But just there there's some documentation that if they have it and they go into the office They don't want them to go in only to find out. Oh, they don't have what they need and then go back Yeah, we want to prepare them for a referral Yeah, because additionally they do they tell about the other things this agency may have so they may be going for money But they could also they also everybody who receives this program has to go through financial and budget counseling Has to work with a housing case manager to follow a housing plan But that's the second that's that's that second step But when they go there is that sure step is we have to take a break absolutely I always gotta take a break every once in a while. You guys agree. Sure. All right Aloha, I'm kawi Lucas host of Hawaii is my mainland every Friday here on think tech Hawaii I also have a blog of the same game at kawi lucas.com where you can see all of my past shows Join me this Friday and every Friday at 3 p.m. Aloha Aloha My name is John. Why hey and I actually had a small part to do with what's happening today Served actually in public office But if you don't already know that here's a chance to learn more about what's happening in our state by joining me for Talk story with John. Why hey every other Monday Thank you, and I look forward to Your seeing us in the future Okay, speaking of numbers What kind of numbers how many people are you helping and what's the you know? What's the dynamic on it right now just in approximately 10 weeks have helped over a thousand individuals? 45% of them and were children so what we're finding is right now 75% of the people that we helped are facing evictions They actually had a legal eviction and 50% of those involved have families with children of the homeless that we've helped 75 households of the homeless that we've helped 50% of those actually involve families and children as well So this is really directed at the authentic need and it is rapidly rehousing, but it's all it's truly preventing homelessness But what's happening is it's so tragic actually, you know, I mean I heard recently actually from my Hs You know they were sure last week That you know, there's a lot of retired people, you know who sort of frail They're getting old and they're out there homeless and they had nice middle-class lives all their life But they got sick and it cost them everything and now they're that that desperate person on the other end of the phone This is for us. This is exactly for us people like that in respects that this is for people that encounter an economic event You know it could be nineteen point six percent of our homeless actually have a job Or a lot of these evictions relate to somebody with a medical condition or something economic event happened And so by giving them three months granting them three months of assistance We can keep them in housing or help them get back into housing before they have to have an extended period of homelessness And all those things that go with that's really important. She was somebody in the paper was it yesterday some young fellow He was 21 years old and he'd been homeless since he was 16 And I think we're developing a whole community of people who've been homeless for a good part of their life I like to think this as a actually it's like a choice line It gives people a choice now the choices that they want may not always be there But it gives them a choice to move forward to if they call and they maybe they don't have the income to sustain housing But they'll also get referred to an employment specialist Maybe a program near them that can help them find a job or if they're disabled and they don't have disability yet We'll link them up with let's say legal aid or some other work How many people of you know the ones you talk to and refer out actually, you know Prevent are prevented, you know are saved from being homeless after the 90 days period No, actually so we follow them for six months at minimum of six months But everybody that is in there they have to demonstrate sustainability when I say demonstrate They have to they work with a budget counselor and make sure that they can pay their rent and sustain that rent We look at their rental cost burden and we really make sure that we can say you agency can say I'm sorry No, that program's not for you because you cannot sustain that rent independently. So sustainability is job one on this We're not just no money to the wind, you know sink a swim. It doesn't work But if they can't sustain it we would get them into other programs that would help them get into a sustainable position, right? And this is actually one of the questions that the Information or referral specialist would ask up front, you know Just let them know if you get assistance for two or three months Would you be able to continue to pay your rent after that, you know, do you can they answer that because sometimes that's hard Yeah, and yeah, I mean that's gonna be something that the agency that we refer them to will have to actually Determine but we're just giving them that bit of information so that they kind of know what to expect But if they say no, I I don't think so That benefits inventory will also determine do you have a place to stay for the next seven days You know it will do any mature on everything that they can benefit from and tell them how to get there And they they have to take that personal accountability and get there or if there's maybe an outreach team needs to go to them Then we can contact that outreach team and maybe outreach to them. We'll do whatever it takes But there is definitely you got to meet us halfway But it's you'll get a choice from this line on the things that are out there available to you What is good about this is that we use technology to leverage this program. Well, I you know I'd like to say first we include technology right now in a few minutes, but you know Anybody could be faced with this desperate moment anybody could be a caller on 211 I mean the woman who called me. I told you about you know, she was educated She had been married Her husband deceased her pre-deceased her and she was just all alone And it was just a set a flukey set of circumstances that put her there And and I you know there, but for the grace of God go all of us So you can remember 211 just in case What was that number again that is Okay, let's talk about technology, so you've been using Hawaiian telecom on this we have and that's that's So we have two systems. We got a phone system That's through Hawaii Intel and then we have a database system. Okay, right? They both operate for the specialist. She has both of them, but they're not integrated, right? You mean yeah like in the information system, they just push a button on the computer and it dies But you don't care about that because there's too many choices too much judgment being applied So it doesn't have to be integrated. It can be separate. I think but the question really is is the the VoIP phone You're told me how you're gonna get a VoIP. We have what we love for it It's capable of anything it's a computer you can program it any way you want, right? How do you plan to program it? well, one of the things we plan to do is It's going to help us to do surveys with our callers to determine if they the referrals that we gave them were actually useful and In the past when we would do it the the INR specialists would need to Schedule a time and make the calls back within about a week or so of making the referrals with the new system We'll be able to program it At the time that we make the referrals the INR specialists can ask Would it be all right if we call you back in about a week and have you do a quick survey of two or three questions to ask? How things turned out in terms of the referral and if they agree to it then it will be programmed They can actually tell us what day they want to be called back What time of day and the system will automatically do it and will automatically Offer the survey to them so the INR specialists won't be involved if they have any questions at that time Or if there's any indication that maybe they're not happy with what happened They'll have an option to speak with one of the information and referral specialists So then it would automatically connect if Somebody is on hold for too long for example if all of the lines are taken in they call when we're open And they want to have the option to be called back They again can either just get a call back as soon as somebody is available or they can Have the option of being called back at a particular time technical support. It's really great Yeah, and then if that's the case if they say, okay, you know, I want to be called back at Three o'clock this afternoon because I'm gonna run out the door now that they can program that from their phone And you know the the system will ask them those questions It'll be programmed and then at three o'clock Our phone will automatically or the system will automatically dial them and it'll ring to one of the operators So we don't have to the the INR specialists don't have to think about when they're going to call somebody We don't have to do the scheduling the phone will do it for us. Okay, so the phone now has a computer system It's not the same computer system as the database with the four thousand records So now on the on the desktop there's two computers essentially, right? Yes, that's good And so the the operator can I mean the specialist can use either one of them question though As we go forward on this I can answer it wouldn't it be possible for this person to get the calls at home Away from your call center would never work just as well Yes, that is an option and it's very portable and not only that we are working with a 211 Department in Utah and they are our backup system if something happens to our system For any reason then they can take our calls for us And they they could do that with the current system now But it'll make it much easier because they're on the same they're you gonna use the same event Or they use the same vendor that we're gonna be using so the same it all suggests There's so many things that this kind of system would go national, but we don't want that right we want it to be local Well all the referrals I mean the resources are local By and large important and in every state Not all two-on-one services are statewide some of them don't cover the whole state some of them are by county and So yeah, it's it really varies. So you have to have that local aspect. It's gonna be very exciting for you This way this is gonna change things. It's gonna even gonna change things for Jay, you know His numbers are going to increase now. Oh, it's hard to say everything the two-on-one. Absolutely. We want more work Yeah, it's more opportunities working hard at work. It's more change for that. We're moving the needle I'll tell you another way. I think that it can benefit us and a lot of guys This is also just gonna be in terms of getting the message out is that right now about 85% of our calls are on a Wahoo So we really need to get the message out to the neighbor islands as well because we do have resources in our system for the Neighbor Islands for all islands, but we aren't getting as many calls in and I think it's mostly because people don't know Now I know Well, thank you guys that was a great discussion It's very important that we know about this. It's very important. We know what you're doing You know, you're building an infrastructure that will take care of our of our homeless and we want to be the We're connecting our infrastructure connecting.  We want to be there for them all the time Everybody deserves a choice. Yeah, and for everyone in the community. Yeah, we're all potentially there Everybody has a need of some sort That's right And as you mentioned to me before the show that the two-on-one is it turns out to be a Catch-all because if you have a problem, you're gonna call it two-on-one Even if it's not all works for every everybody wins with this one It's a win-win you know and when there are questions We recently had this hepatitis hepatitis a outbreak people call us to find out where can they get the vaccines We do that for flu calls for the Zika virus with Dengue when it's coming out and so we are listed as the hub and Even crisis calls sometimes will come through us Even even if you don't call but that you know there is someone you can call Gives you a certain amount of comfort gives us all a certain we even have a warm line I mean, it's not ours, but we will connect people with a warm line So somebody who just wants to talk to somebody, but it's not a crisis We have a number for that too. Oh Okay It would go on on the show one time Well, thank you. Thank you so much Manika Manika Wiseman and J. King Let's see Manika's with Program manager the 211 program one program manager and and J is the program manager for housing And it's all with Aloha United Aloha United we stand. Thank you so much. Thank you J


what's up guys we're back with another epic video and today we have some insane mail and i'm going to be showing you guys some epic openings we're doing in the future we have some mail from some viewers and we have a giveaway we're giving away an ultimate rare blackluster soldier super soldier if you're a longtime fan of the channel this is one of the two we pulled in that epic search for the bls in what set was this again dimension of chaos the one where we opened a ton of packs and pulled like four ghostries it was crazy so this is one of the two i pulled and you guys have a chance to win it all you have to do is like the video be subscribed let me know if you're an og if you watch those videos even if you're not an og if you watch them later when we open those dimension of chaos packs and if you have it go check those out it was a really fun opening and a fun series all right the first piece of mail we have is if you guys haven't seen we are opening up this first edition pharaoh's servant box in a live stream tomorrow so it is going to be pretty awesome it is starting at 6 p.m central the usual time that we do it it's going to be pretty crazy this um hopefully has a genzo inside so we have it open to a pharaoh's servant first edition box since i believe yeah it was in 2019 when i opened my first pharaoh's servant box and we pulled a first edition genzo in a grade of 10 so hopefully one of the people who entered in this can do that and grade of 10 as well because that card is worth like seven grand now which is crazy and also we could pull the buster blader yeah i've never done it so maybe i'll do it for someone else that'd be pretty awesome so we have first edition pharaoh's servant box really beautiful hobby box by the way i'm just gonna mention now if you don't know 24 pack boxes are hobby boxes which means they have the 000 secret that is the set code so it'll be psv-000 genzo and the retail secret will be the last card in the set which is in period order so that works for every single first 11 set so the very first card in the set is the hobby secret last card in the set is the retail secret so that's just a little tidbit if you guys didn't know that and the ratios for 24 pack and 36 pack are the exact same a lot of people weren't sure about that and uh it turns out our pgd was even better um that's not usual though so that was pretty cool the next piece of mail we have is actually for a battle we're doing this weekend probably on friday maybe saturday not totally sure yet but we have an invasion of chaos special edition this contains three special edition packs which are just three unlimited invasion of chaos from 2003 or four whenever probably four when this came out oh yeah 200 invasion of chaos came out 2004 so yeah 2004 is when it came out so that's that's part of it then we have generation force eight packs of those so you know obviously the leviathan dragon we have some of our old nemesis the enemy of justice first edition i don't know if these are hobby packs let's look uh i think these might be retail packs i can't really remember what the code is for enemy of justice but uh yeah for shining phoenix of course or our old enemy we could never pull them then we have some big ones we have the shadow of infinity that is an unlimited pack so i don't know what the code would be you guys can check that out potential um sacred beast even if it's not an ultimate rear we have a first edition cybernetic revolution this looks like a retail pack so there will not be an ultimate rare uh cyber dragon or yeah not an ultimate rare cyber dragon cyber or cyber end or whatever but there could be a ultra rare super rare and of course the bubble man is in the hobby as well then we have the big ones we have two unlimited original konami logo packs two first edition ferro servants from 2002 and two first edition magic ruler they all have that original kb toy sticker on them so that's going to be pretty crazy we're doing that against gg vision so you guys can check him out prepare for the battle it's going to be pretty fun and hopefully we'll pull some crazy stuff and finally we have this box right here from the one and only booster box bros if you guys don't remember they sent me this dds blue eyes white dragon maybe i'll show that on the screen um when i first unboxed it because that was in the video where i opened the fake cards and i don't think a lot of people made it to the part where i opened the actual part with the dds blue eyes so you guys can go check that out or maybe i'll pop it up booster box bros dds yeah come on can't be a real dds right it's got to be like gotta be like acid trap hole or something right right and they sent us a card as you can see very beat up card well what card is it dds it could it be a blue eyes white dragon dds an annihilating yet it's a dds blue eyes they sent us a dds blue eyes the booster box bros they're crazy so let's see what they sent this time all right we've got something cool in here it's two envelopes let's see what they say this is for you to send to your subs thank you rucksack okay this is from the booster box bros they have a youtube channel you guys can check them out so they sent us some packs to send you oh look even included some stamps so they're covering the postage for me i appreciate that that can add up so we have five packs right here that are going to you guys in a giveaway so all you gotta do in that giveaway like the video be subscribed and uh mission something about the booster box bros maybe go check out their youtube channel and that is really nice of them to send a giveaway and we have another pack oh let's see rucks bro so we have the booster box bros and you got the third bro rucks bro here we go this is your pack love your channel you inspired us we're doing a case giveaway for the 1000 sub mark guys that's insane they're giving away entire case so if you guys want to check out their channel they're under a thousand right now but out of a thousand they're gonna give away a case so that's just nuts i don't know what set it is and i'm sure it's for something pretty epic let's see what they send us all right hit the like button for rucks and 34 and subscribe guys remember what i said about that like button it can because i'm staring stuff can happen you press it it might not be lit up it's really scary so i want you guys to make sure it's it's lit up over there let's see what they send us one pack of rage of raw weighed heavy for ghost and skin okay let's see what we can get here guys rage of raw can we get something good let's see if we can pull the ghost rare by the way how actually graded the first ghost rare wing dragon of raw he is in the discord he's a youtube channel member so if you guys want to become one get in the discord you can have disc discounts on the box breaks you get first access to it click the link in the description it says how to become a member he sent me a message on discord while you put it in the discord he said i just graded the ghost rare ps8 10 the first time raw has been graded so that's pretty awesome so that can we pull one right here and grade it here we go mech load fortress jenzo and psychic mega cyber okay all right no ghost that would have been cool that had been cool no wing dragon raw this time but maybe we'll get in it we'll get it again another time because the one i got had a huge scratch on it but that's it for this video it's a shorter video remember tomorrow is the live stream for pharaoh server first edition it's going to be awesome check out just subscribe to the channel put there on notifications you'll get a notification when the stream goes live um 6 p.m central which is my time that's what i'm starting it up and look out for that awesome battle this weekend with all those old school first edition and original packs that's going to be crazy maybe we'll pull a jenzo out of there maybe we'll pull blue eyes tune dragon who knows it's 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Okay so the problem that we have right here is that our component doesn't have a smooth transition when we render the first time but every subsequent time it works and that's because of the way that we have this set up only after we click are we setting the scroll height for the first time. Now our assignment from yesterday was to implement use effect to get that value on the first time that we render. We're just going to do every time. Now use effect we use react dot use effect we put that right before our return right here we don't need any props right here and we're just going to open that up and put that right there so we literally just moved it out of our on click and we moved it here now this isn't going to happen every time we click anymore it's just going to happen the first time and that's really all we need because once we have that value unless they resize it's going to be the same value now which is that one move we should see that this works the first time i'm a refresh just so you know that i'm not you know pulling your leg here yes it does it works every single time okay so the next assignment is we're going to do something a little bit more ui related so if i render another show less component and this one had significantly less content in it hi there i would expect this not to have a show more or less button right because it's not big enough to justify hiding some of the content and now that we have the content height available from our first render on you should be able to conditionally hide this based on whether or not it's past that threshold of 100 pixels or you can make that dynamic however you want that's it for today pretty simple one i think but if you want to know what we did yesterday to get to this point you can click on this video up here if you want tomorrow's solution it'll be here when it's ready see you in the next one bye


Today's podcast is brought to you by FreshBooks.com. Get a 30-day free trial at gofreshbooks.com forward slash David Feldman show. The David Feldman radio program is made possible by listeners like you.  Joining us is our resident film critic, Michael Snyder. These are the movies he's going to discuss with us today. Sully, Kix, author of the JT Leroy story for the love of Spock and Demon. How are you, Mr. Snyder? I'm good, Mr. Feldman. How are you doing? How's New York City? It's, you know, hot and muggy. Were you in Los Angeles? I am indeed splitting my time between LA and San Francisco as usual. What are the giants doing this year? They are half game in front in the wild card race over the New York Mets at the moment. So it's excitement plus. And we're going to be saying goodbye to Vince Scully this year. You know, the young man from New Orleans, the way I'm not even going to do a Vince Scully impression. Vince Scully is an institution out here in Los Angeles and it's never more clear than when you're driving near Dodger Stadium to see the road signs for Vince Scully Boulevard or Way or Avenue, whatever it is. They adore the man here and he is kind of a local institution. You know, I'm not a sports fan, but I do remember Groucho saying the one thing that keeps him going in his dotage is Vince Scully. As far back as the 70s, Groucho said that the only thing that makes life worth living is listening to Vince Scully doing play-by-play for the Dodgers. He goes all the way back to Jackie Robinson. Oh, yeah.  Does it matter? Why does he have to say goodbye? I mean, do you have to be that good? Harry Carey got everything wrong, but people didn't care, right?  Yeah, I know. So does anybody really care that Vince Scully, does he make mistakes? I don't listen.  I mean, even driving down the freeways here in Los Angeles and switching on a Dodger game just to find out if they're losing or not for a guy like me, a Giants fan, if there's still that wonderful cadence of Vince Scully, I hate to say it, but it's true. Wow. We have Carlos Alzaraki doing Vince Scully impersonation for the radio show. I think we did it like three or four years ago. I've got to find it. But we had some sketch. Benzel Levansky wrote it. It was how... For some reason, the Dodgers were cutting back. The previous owners were getting a divorce, and we did this whole sketch about how the Dodgers were trying to save money, and we have a Vince Scully impersonation. Can we find that, Alex? Hey, who would get custody of Vince in the divorce? That would have been the question, right? Yeah. There was a couple that owned the Dodgers before Magic, right? Yeah, horrible, horrible people.  And do you mean that? I mean, I'm a grown-up. I'm no longer a kid.  I do. It's the most heated rivalry in sports, and as a Giants fan, I bleed orange and black the way that...   No, no, no. The Dodgers actually plan crimes. They abuse babies. The Dodgers are not nice people, seriously. But this is just grown men doing their Michael Jackson Peter Pan act. Oh, yeah. You mean, are you talking about me again? But the truth of the matter is that, you know...  No, no, no. I love the Giants' organization. I admire the way they play. They play with spirit and heart. They always have top-notch, you know, quality people on the team. They are very, very different in each individual player, but they play with cohesion. The manager, Bruce Bochi, is one of the finest minds in the sport. It's appreciating the sport for what it is, and it's embracing a rivalry that's been literally over a century long. And you've got to love that. All right. It's a character flaw. I have a character flaw. Let me tell you something. I went to Dodger Stadium to see the Giants play on the Giants' time. Management provided me and a couple other people with tickets. I used to write for Giants Magazine. I have a real connection to the Giants' franchise. And one of the things I did with the access I had was to go into the club level. And let me tell you this. Even though people have an affection for Dodger Stadium, yeah, they're broken cup holders. So don't get too hoity-toity, guys. Yet, on the club level, on that corridor that circles the stadium is a Dodger's Museum, a collection of memorabilia going back to the 1800s. And I thought it was absolutely great. It's the first time I've ever said anything like, oh, my God, this is of great value, and it's connected to the Dodgers. I want to say quickly that one of the most delightful aspects of things, other than learning that the team changed its handle from the Brooklyn Baseball Club to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms to the Brooklyn Superbos to the Brooklyn Robins, the Brooklyn Dodgers, finally, and of course the Los Angeles Dodgers, was to be reminded that they had not won a World Series in decades and decades, and their fans in Brooklyn were so embittered that they tagged them with the name Bums, Dem Bums, the Brooklyn Bums. And, oh, my God, in the 50s, the franchise decided to own it, and their mascot on all of their schedules and yearbooks was a filthy-looking hobo. Really? Yes, and I totally love it. This guy, you're looking at this image on the smirking hobo with a cigar and ripped up clothes. You could almost smell him off the cover of the yearbook, and I just thought that was completely hilarious, and I kind of wish it had been extended to their Los Angeles tenure, but alas, no. Nonetheless, kudos to the Dodgers organization. Right, you heard me say that, for their wonderful in-house museum, which features relics from Ebbett's Field and stuff from, again, the previous 100-plus years of Dodger history. Like, wow. And where do they get the name Dodgers from, do you know? I believe that they changed from the Robbins to the Dodgers because of the trolleys that surrounded Ebbett's Field, the Dodgers' home stadium in Brooklyn, and I think it was meant to mean the trolley Dodgers. Nope. Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all played for them, and they were draft Dodgers. Oh, yeah, the draft Dodgers. That was also possibly in the 60s. No, it was the trolleys. The trolleys were treacherous. To be a fan, you had to be able to dodge them. I think that's the origin of the name. I think you're right. It's interesting how hobos, at one time in this country, it was perceived that, I guess, being a hobo was almost romantic, right? Well, this guy looks pretty filthy on the Dodger programs. Being a hobo was considered a choice. There's a certain romance to it. The romance of the road, carrying a stick over your shoulder with a kerchief and all your belongings stuffed into the kerchief. Oh, yeah. You can't get enough of that. So in 2009, the country was falling apart. We had a new president. He had just been inaugurated. And I remember this. I remember they used to say that Ronald Reagan was lucky, and you need a lucky president for the country to turn around. And I remember thinking George W. Bush was unlucky. Maybe we'll have some luck with Barack Obama. And shortly into his presidency, I don't know the exact date, but I remember this vividly. The stock market had collapsed. We were losing a million jobs a month. There was no faith in our economic system. We had this young, inexperienced president. But maybe he was going to be lucky. And I remember there were pirates off the coast of Somalia. And very early in his presidency, Barack Obama sent the seals in, and they killed the pirates and freed the merchant marines. And I remember thinking, ah, he's lucky. The sun is shining on Barack Obama. The way it did with Ronald Reagan. The way it didn't with Jimmy Carter, who tried to rescue the hostages and failed in Iran. And then I remember Sully Sullenberger landing his plane on the Hudson River, and everybody living and surviving. And it was a hero, and the Obama administration was new. And I remember thinking, this, we have a real hero who embodies this new generation that Barack Obama is going to bring in. I find it curious that the movie Sully comes out at the very end of the Obama administration. Tom Hanks and I are often on the same page when it comes to history. I haven't seen the movie. But is it tied into the Obama administration and how we need heroes and good luck and good fortune? There is no specific connection to the president in the movie other than the fact that this happened at a time when you are correct. The country needed a bit of a boost. It's telling that the director of this movie is acknowledged Republican Clint Eastwood. Who makes one bad movie after another. Everything, he makes great elevator pitches.  That has to be great.   This is a much better movie in my mind than the Jingoistic American Sniper. If that's what you want to hear. This is an old guy directing a docu-drama about another old guy.  And the story is inspiring. And it's also a story of a guy whose confidence level is very high, but an unassuming guy. We love our heroes to be self-effacing. We love them to go, hey, just doing my job, ma'am. And that's Chesley Sully Sullenberger, the guy who somehow made an emergency water landing on the Hudson in the heart of the New York City Metroplex with over 150 people inside the plane. And, you know, Clint, his movies can be pedestrian. They can be good. This is one of the good ones. And Tom Hanks is just dandy as Sully. This guy is a quietly efficient, thoughtful man who does his job to the best of his skills. And after all this happened, he was a totally unwilling celebrity in the wake of, what do they call it, the miracle on the Hudson, right? And, you know... He used his celebrity to justify before Congress on the dangers of pilots being overworked and underpaid. Is that talked about in the movie? Well, this is interesting. What's really good about this film is that this guy, truly with the right stuff, was targeted at what was probably an insurance-driven investigation of the landing, despite the fact that it was clearly total engine failure because a bunch of birds slammed into the plane's engines. And these officials are questioning whether ditching the plane was necessary. Was this in the movie? Oh, yes it is. What about... What about... A needless endangerment. What about, you know, his being in Miami, stuffing a stewardess doing all that cocaine, mixing vodka and orange juice in the cockpit. No, that's not in the movie. That's in your movie. Oh, that's the Denzel Washington movie. Yeah, that's a different film entirely. What was that movie called? Drunk Pilot. Flight? What was it called? More like Crash. We fly the plane upside down and... Yeah, great. Flight. Listen, let me tell you something. This is probably very close to taking transcripts and certainly when the screenwriters did this or screenwriter did this, they clearly must have spoken to and interviewed Sully, his co-pilot Jeff Skiles, his wife Lori. It's pretty straight up. What about the geese? The geese were portrayed by animatronics and they were very, very upset that they were made to be the villains in this thing. How many geese did he kill? He slaughtered a bunch of them and PETA is protesting outside this house right now. Disgracefully. Actually, actually. He's a butcher. Well, really, the truth is they're delicious when properly prepared. Aaron Eckert plays the co-pilot. You know, it's interesting. We know what happened, but Eastwood and his crew do a spot on recreation of this incident and the tension over the hearings into Sully's handling of the crisis and his personal life and how it's being impacted by the tension. And there's even a sequence. By the way, I watched it in IMAX and it's a great You Are There way to appreciate this film for what it is. There's a sequence where they're all on Letterman. You know, and it's before anything's been settled with the investigation. And of course the technology is such that they were able to put the five actors playing Sully, his co-pilot, and the three flight attendants onto the Letterman stage with Letterman and interacting. So it's Tom Hanks on Letterman yet again. Tom Hanks is actually very good in this and there's a good supporting case. Laura Linney as the wife. Again, Aaron Eckert as the co-pilot and various other actors. You know, one thing I want to point out before we move on is with the white hair and the trimmed little mustache, I think Hanks is now a natural for the inevitable Gail Gordon biotape. Tell everybody who Gail Gordon is, please. It was Lucy, Lucille Balls-Foyle in her show, Lucy. Mr. Mooney. Mr. Mooney. Also, maybe the Gerald McRaney biopic. Or, okay, are you ready for this? Monopoly the movie, portraying the Monopoly man. I mean, the Hanks is quite good in this film. You know, I walked away from the film feeling this was a solid entertainment, gave us insight into something that we all know about from the newspapers. I thought it was good. Yeah, you know, I've always heard, in case of a water landing, there's never a water landing. Well, here it is. There was here. Was he show-boating? Not at the least. The investigation reveals that he made a decision brought on by circumstance. He was agreed with by his pilot, and it really did. It was the only way to save the flight and the people. Any attempts to go back to LaGuardia, which is what they were kind of contesting, that would have been a good idea. They ran all these simulations and stuff would have resulted in a crash.  Yeah. I think he could have brought it back. Sure. Why don't you watch the movie and decide for yourself? I think, what are they going to do? Who benefits if they say why, if they do an investigation and he's not a hero? The insurance company. How much? Oh, millions. How much? Millions, I'm sure. Okay, but how many more millions does everybody make if we have a hero? Well, we do. We've decided he's a hero. Yeah, but they still lost the plane. You know, there was all the rescue work here. It was just, it was a So everybody, okay. Let me ask you a question. Okay. By the way, I love Sully Sullenberger. I agree, you know, it was fantastic. But there's no way that plane lands in the water. It becomes a hero.  They did, and they were going to actually castigate him. I think that's all on the record if in fact it turned out that he was not right in his decision. That's basically the heart of the film. I don't believe, I believe the investigation had to be slanted in his favor. Well, at first it seems like it's not in the movie, but maybe this is all fictionalized, but for whatever purpose.  I don't like you demonizing the insurance industry. I mean, these people are good people, and it's not fair. I really, I mean, they've given us Obamacare and all my dealings with the insurance industry have been upright and it's not about money, it's about providing safety and security. So I just think it's a cheap, easy target to go after. Yeah, big pharma. Those guys, they're the best. It's so easy to demonize the insurance people. He could have landed the plane on the tarmac at Newark airport safely. He was showboating. He wanted to do a water landing because he wanted a book. He wanted to be a hero. We all want to be a hero. So I'm going to land in the water. I will say this, while he's landing the plane on the Hudson, he is speaking to an agent on his cell phone. So maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. I don't know. All right. So I should go see this. Yeah, you know, I think you should.  It's a solid entertainment. It really is. The only, I think the only Clint Eastwood movie I loved recently was Million Dollar Baby. Well, this is maybe his best film since then. How's that grab you? Does it have an uplifting ending as Million Dollar Baby?  I bet you were. Kicks. Kicks is really kind of a little marvel. It's a very creatively rendered coming-of-age story which is set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the East Bay and specifically the economically depressed inner city neighbor. Excuse me, the East Bay or as Sally Sullenberger calls that runway two. Yeah, right. Very nice. You don't want him hitting the inner city neighborhoods of Richmond and Oakland which are rough areas and this movie is tough, but it's pretty tender and it's made with a lot of compassion and excitement and a modicum of wit by the director and co-screenwriter Justin Tipping who was born and raised in Oakland so he knows the turf. So it's all about this 15-year-old kid named Brandon and Brandon is played by a very impressive newcomer named Jaquine Guilery and this kid pulls together all his money and doing odd jobs and such because he wants to buy really expensive sneakers and impress his peers and impress a girl he likes and get a little swagger because he's a little guy and he's sort of bullied by people so anyway he does this he gets the sneakers from a hustler and shortly thereafter a local thug steals the sneakers from him abuses him, it's all on YouTube and this essentially this person kid takes the fall so now his thing is I've been humiliated I'm getting the sneakers back by the way Kix is in the Patois euphemism for the sneakers so these are expensive like Michael Jordan's sneakers you remember back in the day Air Jordans were like a whole deal you used to have reasonably priced canvas sneakers and then you have expensive, highly priced celebrity endorsed athletic shoes starting in the mid 80s I think with Air Jordans and the footwear was so valuable that it became the target of theft and violence I mean I remember news stories about this stuff sneakers have become collector's items, I mean they're investments now well this is great so the challenge is holding onto the shoes when you have them when you're a kid in the hood so we see the kid and his two best friends who become companions on his quest and this is right out of the hero's journey and they learn hard lessons about growing up in a disadvantaged, dangerous realm about the burden of loyalty about the cost of coveting possessions at the expense of your own well-being because things get really really rough but the kid is determined and that's kind of hopeful in a way and you've got like hip-hop recordings old school and new school and like little kind of brief quotes from various tracks in on-screen text to kind of reflect and comment on the kid's mission and that's a little distracting but it kind of gives you a breeder as the movie goes from chapter to chapter and you know one of the better things about the film is its sense of place and its depiction of like what are basically singular cultural elements, there is a sideshow, you know what a sideshow is David? On a like a carnival has like a little thing off to the side it's a gathering of locals and their friends with tricked out cars in a street ritual of what amounts to fancy driving so people are like doing figure eights and circles with the doors open driving as they like hang outside it's like this sort of it is kind of a carnival and so there's a sideshow where a lot of the action happens and the kid is going after his adversary who took the shoes and you find out that this guy's pretty cruel kind of a kind of alpha male but when he gets to his home he gives the shoes he's stolen with love and care to his little prepubescent son so it's shaded in gray and our hero Brandon goes to see his uncle who is sort of a drug dealer and you know gun totan guy played by the way by the veteran actor Mahershala Ali who's in a lot of really cool miniseries and stuff and he asked for help there so there's all these different kind of shades and balances I really thought that this was a very solid movie done on a shoestring and done really well on a shoestring or a sneaker string sure that is well nicely done all kudos to Jordan tipping and his cast particularly jacking wheeler and obviously Mahershala Ali and the guy who plays the thug kofi syrup oh I've never seen him before he's also scary and then you see the human heart beneath the angry kind of thug when he confronts his child and has to deal with keeping the kids safe so yeah you know it sits very well done stuff I thought author the JT Leroy story well I actually have kind of a personal connection to this story because I know this writer named Laura Albert who lives in the Russian Hill area where I am part of the time up in San Francisco and this woman has been at the center of what is a literary storm since it was revealed that the author of a series of acclaimed fictional books and short stories was not the person he or she claimed to be and that is at the heart of this documentary author of the JT Leroy story directed by a guy named Jeff Fersik now Laura Albert had real experiences as a teenage runaway living in group homes and on the streets and that's a lot of sordidness you know we're talking about teenage prostitution drug use the dissilute life on the road all things that she sees while growing up and she takes this stuff and writes about it but the books are presented as the work of one JT Leroy who is I guess we call that a pen name she published under that name and also found the work embraced by critics and readers who assumed JT was a real person and then she proceeded to continue that deception rather than reveal her real identity as the author at public appearances Albert has her androgynous looking sister-in-law as Savannah Newts put on a wig and sunglasses and played Leroy when the situation called for it so the identity is eventually revealed and she has all these celebrity fans by the way like Courtney Love and when known a writer and a bunch of like literary figures who embrace this wonderful raw gritty writing by the way always couched as fiction it always has fiction on the books so you have this person and she's basically hiding behind this name and she continues the deception but you can make a case that JT Leroy is part of the tradition of pen names that includes what? Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain and more specifically you remember George Elliot who was in fact a 19th century female author named Mary Ann Evans regardless of that this is like the celebrity driven 15 second of news by 24 hour news cycle world of the 21st century and people are screaming hoax anyway this movie gives Albert a chance to tell her story through interview footage journal entries archival photos and testimonials from her friends and allies and celebrity fans I mean it's a crazy story and I think I have no problem with her doing this I think if you look at it as a performance art piece or as you know some kind of avatar there's no reason to vilify her the stuff was always considered fiction as it was released and you know everybody's said everybody's accepted the idea of pen names so why is this different you know why are they making a big deal about this that's my question and that's the question asked by the movie as well for the love of Spock for the love of Spock is a very sweet very personal documentary about Leonard Nimoy and it's done by his son Adam Nimoy who is an actor and a director and basically Nimoy and of course he died fairly recently and it's a terrible loss because he by all accounts and certainly by virtue of this movie we see a pretty wonderful guy and this is his life and his story and also a lot about the creation and Genesis if you will of Mr. Spock and so a lot of people weigh in on this and there are a lot of famous folks who were connected to Star Trek which was the platform for the Mr. Spock character by the way we're looking at 50th anniversary right now of the beginning of the Star Trek franchise anyway you get some terrific biographical stuff you get Nimoy himself on camera archival clips here and you see in wonderful relief between the father and son Leonard and Adam and that's very very sweet I haven't seen anything this personal and this familial and this kind of accomplished in terms of filmmaking but at the same time almost like a home movie because you do get so much with the two of them and maybe there's not all that revealed but it's a wonderful feature length experience and kind of a conversation with and about Nimoy and I think it's kind of lovely and you know the personal relationship you have with your father isn't always going to be good so and the man's career had ups and downs and all of that is in for the love of Spock I really enjoyed watching this immensely I walked away from this thing with a smile on my face and missing him as a presence in show business because of his passing as well demon well demon is a weird duck demon is a movie that was shot in Poland with a largely Polish cast although the central figure is an Israeli actor was it was it was it was it lit was it lit were they able to light the movie oh yeah they actually had cameras they had they had Klig lights but were they able to actually put the bulbs into the Klig lights oh yeah they were able to figure it out it's amazing how many how many people Polish people on the set to take to screw in the bulb into the Klig light well I will say honestly David as the credits around you know what hang on hang on you don't get that Alex oh he doesn't get it no no no I on the credits was a light bulb Wrangler 30 people there very good so anyway it's okay it a weird kind of darkly funny and ultimately frustrating horror movie and it's about a this young guy of Polish descent who arrives from England where he lives and he's in Poland to marry his Polish girlfriend but they've only really known one another for a relatively brief time they're set up by her brother chipper tooth and a vibrator is that the not that's the wrong one but anyway he shows up and and the family is giving the couple their country house which is in really terrible shape and it's going to be a fixer-upper because it's in the city because it's in the city it's in Warsaw their country house is in Warsaw because it's Polish we'll see how many of these you can come up with to do that anyway so it turns out this wedding that they're going to have and they're going to have it at this bombed out looking country house is the wedding from hell because a demon from Jewish folklore the Dibbock is unleashed on these people and it begins possessing him Peter the guy who has come from London to marry Zanita and they continue with the wedding while this guy is possessed and there are some really outrageously good performance are they Jewish? well I think there's certainly a Jewish well the Dibbock is Jewish or what is Jewish but are the Polish people there are very few Jews left in Poland no no I don't think so but the Jew intercedes the Jewish spirit intercedes in the wedding it's crazy I mean the guy freaking out it looks like some sort of epilepsy to everybody so anyway you know it still was kind of you know when a Polish person when a Polish person has an epileptic seizure they try to swallow somebody else's tongue very nice a lot of absurd stuff goes on in this thing it's funny it's weird but it just sort of left me dissatisfied it was neither fish nor foul but you know nicely done by the way the writer-director who is clearly talented someone by the name of this creator's name Marcin Rona died rather young this is the last film from the director and you know I see what's going on here and there's a lot of skill and talent involved it's just a very weird movie it's not going to be everyone's taste and there are subtitles yes you know how he died I'm really not sure no he had a submarine with a screen door okay well that was your last gas I guess hey this was fun well yeah why would you forget how much fun we had when we do these things yeah it was fun alright we'll talk next week okay well certainly whenever you want to get together give a little holler on Michael Snyder you can check out my twitter account at cultureblaster if you want you can go to Michael Snyder's cultureblast on facebook and like that page or just tune in with David Feldman and we'll knock your socks off with more film and culture stuff how's the great Alex Bennett doing he's fine he's good we do something for Roku and you know we are in contact pretty frequently I'm sure he'd love a call we need a call depending on his mood well I wanted him to do the show with Slayton and he wouldn't come by and do it wow well you know here's here's something you gotta remember about Alex he's Alex Bennett dude yeah tell him to he's mad at me because I've been in New York and we haven't gotten together if you'd only go on for a nosh with him nice corned beef what the hell I'm here to social climb and I explain that to him by the way if I may this is this is not for your listeners or whatever but oh my god the work you've been doing with the Smigel during the campaign is some of the best stuff I think you've ever done I agree and I agree brilliant and here's another little note at least a third of the sketches on my and Marty were very good I assume you wrote them I will as a creature of show business I take credit for anything that's great even if I didn't even work on the show I will take out I know you I know you work with Martin short some of that stuff worked but you know and some of that stuff didn't but that's the SNL sketch comedy TV show curse you're going to have a couple hits and you're going to have some misses yes and I've been misses you I've been missing you yeah okay it's been a long life I think that's it Michael Snyder is our resident film critic we'll talk to you next week thank you sir you bet I'm going to tell you about a podcast that I listened to to my friends hosted and I think you should listen to it Andrew Goldstein maybe you remember him as my Jew on some of our more popular episodes of the David Feldman show Goldstein is a brilliant comedy writer from MTV and race wars and Matt Matt Goldich writes for late night with Seth Meyers brilliantly funny comedian and comedy writer they have a new podcast you can download it on iTunes it's called sorry I've been so busy you know everyone always says they're so busy but what exactly are they so busy with well in their past sorry I've been so busy writer comedians Matt Goldich and Andrew Goldstein talked to their interesting and funny friends to find out what they've actually been so busy with everything for major life and career events to everyday minutia sorry I've been so busy is the only podcast that will never blow you off unless something comes up


Hey, okay. He's still stuck in that overhead. Yep Whoa, you go home How's it going everybody? Dato do it here with another round of Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches today We're playing a team of Zamasu Bardock and Yamcha We're playing this specific team because this they actually have a really nice touch of death together But you can get off of a standard jumping heavy attack with Zamasu's just busted That's basically the gist of the story. He's just a really good character now, especially in the corner but unfortunately We're gonna have to work to get there. It seems like we're already there though. Oh Nice wake-up DP starting off with that, huh? I'm sorry, but that one actually offended me We talk about how that heavy hitbox offended me Really? Okay. That was a nice block. I thought that down heavy would punish it for sure Wow, we clash. Damn. This batch is like a slugfest. I was coming in here I was like smooth and calm. Let me hit some Zamasu combos combos but no Okay, that one was very patient of him. I think we should spark up right away. Nah, we'll down tech We're not gonna we're not gonna get a chance. Oh There we go. Now we're getting a few reads of our own. I Try jumping away. It was scary dude. You got that reflect and he could cover all ranges even a jump in would have been uh, I Tried guard canceling Zamasu. No, oh We're definitely dead I'll have to use no wait. No, he'll have to use a level three Yeah, I was gonna say he might want to save and just go for a mix, but nah, we're dead Okay, one character down. We still have two pretty healthy ones though and sparking We get a quick hit. Maybe we can get a turnaround All right. Well, that was an accounting for the long legs daddy long legs. All right. We got to switch them out, dude Like I said, we need to move quickly Nicely done Our knockdown he'll either use the sparking. I don't think he will he'll probably sit there and take the mix up So this right here is our chance to make the comeback boys Darn we're gonna have to switch him back and we don't get the bar though. Oh, this is working out pretty well All things considered it is going super well Never mind. We got with punished Please punish that. Oh man, my random supers aren't getting anything We go seller gohan seller gohan Gohan down heavy doesn't come out. That's the end of Bardock. Oh, man I feel like we were almost getting the pieces in place, but we just never quite got there. All right. All right That's fine. We still got a character. You know where you don't want to be against the sparking gohan Right here. Oh, never mind. Yomcha doesn't care That was very awful the kid boo is his back it above dude. I was done for I'm still yamcha Are you kidding me? You have to level three because a level one won't kill. Oh, man Well, I guess we fought our way back to a 1v1. So that's that's always good, but I Could have saved some bar. I would have been such a happy camper. I would have been the happiest camper Wow, just a raw overhead. I never saw it coming. Level three can kill from this range If he doesn't drop it He's really going for it wait.  We can do better Okay, they got to get him back into the corner again. Oh the light jab catches the super dash Yikes, that was my last stitch attempt to keep him blocking Don't punish me. Oh Damn My over re overactive defense. I didn't know which way to block. I'll be completely honest I think I could have just held back and cross-up assist would have protected me there But uh, I panicked He was behind me. Yo, how can cell be this big of a character and just be going behind people like that? I had ample room. I Was feeling nice and defended right there. Let's give me go on back. I got to make some waves Gohan's got them legs, dude.  I never mind Don't mind this I can just spark three overhead hit. Yikes.  He was leaving so much dead air. Oh man We dead now.  I was trying to wake up level three. Yeah, hey Please tell me I can vanish. It's been a while. Oh my goodness Yeah, okay, that one was worse than the first round and surprisingly Surprisingly somehow worse than the first round Damn, I feel like We're playing good until we like mess up one thing and then we just get steamrolled in return How do we stop the steamroll boys? How do we stop the train from running us over? Let's play a let's play. Let's do what we always do back up. Wait for that super dash. Okay. We didn't do it Oh, no. No, why the 17th freight? Okay, I was gonna be so upset if that didn't work. I was like, wait, what is it like lagged for a sec? Yeah, that's pretty obvious That was kind of obvious No, I didn't take that either. Wow.  I don't have he was not the correct choice there. Oh man that back dash killer And that sweep I'm just throwing out too many buttons Shout out to the tag mechanics. We are really out here. I Can never catch these dudes on delay wake up. I'm always trying to like sneak in a couple jabs There we go. That woman was not only what did the lag like give me a gaze into the future, but Oh, oh, we're safe We are safe right we're fine Do bars one kill nice. Okay. He's still a sparking. That's all we got to worry about though One sparking one man one cop. Oh One two three Do we doubt medium though? What kind of man is this from everything? I've seen I think he will try to do something I don't got the bar for this dude. I can't kill I think we bait sparking. Oh He held it. Ah man. All right.  That's that's always good Okay, that was pretty smart Yikes, okay, what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do it help? Oh cross up How was I supposed to know?   I couldn't get in here. We go again boys. Wow There it is nice, I was looking for that. Let's go Zamasu. Oh, you hate to see it I always don't I always did I always discount him. I'm like nah, he won't do it.  Let's keep going for the stupid sliding Nice sells out pretty early Okay, I think this is the first time we've gone out into a lead. Usually we fall pretty behind That wasn't slow enough. Oh down heavy didn't catch guys. I try to I try to like do a little Kick in the air there three three three I don't know why I always do it there. It's it always looks like he's gonna commit. Oh, but that's just kid boo bite I Need time to react. I said that level three incoming Wow DP God, I was trying to quick tag. So, you know, I wasn't blocking. I didn't think you throw it out Oh, gotcha. He's like if I see him move by so much to see him flinch No, that was a big risk There we go. That's what I want to see no bar though Yikes that overhead is killer, dude.  He has the DP. That's always so scary, dude. I'm not gonna do it There we go No way. He was just mashing it out. It was just like I'm DP. He hit yopcha I was like we're in he hit yopcha. He doesn't even know what's coming next No, no, not the beam Wow any caught my heavy. Oh, no, it's all crumbling apart at the seams boys.  Here we go. He's killed, dude Okay, nice yonkin nice That didn't happen. My spirit would have been crushed No down heavy comes out. Oh and he's just doing it. Oh, we need another match. Oh We need another one. I Can't let it be I Can't let I can't let this lie One more match one more match one more match one more match One more match Hey Just had to add a little uncertainty in the voice. Wow the down medium didn't come out I got clocked Kind of just want to go off to an early lead again didn't help me last time a Sanko Always forget that they could throw up. Oh That was a conversion and a half Off the board Yeah, fast fall. That was the first fast fall all game. I was not prepared Is it sparking time already boys just let me free let me free Wow that crossed me up. I think it is time to spar. I'm just getting drained For all level three this dude is a genius.  Okay, maybe you have I wasn't aware that you've been to Yamcha school It's true. I am a bar doc player Everything you've heard. No back to what you back there Oh, no, no, no Guard cancel that gets blocked is like the ultimate.   Yep, please. That's a safe jump. That has to be There's no way that's not Whoa, we took What did that happen? What did that happen? Are you kidding me? Yamcha didn't come out. Maybe I do got to change quick tagged it down. That would be so helpful Because then I could do it without fear.  He still has level three sparking if i'm not wrong. I think I saw that. Yeah. Yeah, that's a That's big Come on. Why you be jump? Yo, okay Look at how fast kid boo is Just on it.  Like it is just awful. How bad I am on level three.   That's uh, okay Oh, no No, no, no, okay There we go. We got the down heavy to go off This kills. I will love you. I'm gonna cry dude Yamcha it's You were made to be the best character in this game Who made you Yamcha? Think of all the good times. Can you remember the good times?  I was oh, I thought he was gonna keep hitting me. I was getting my tech fingers ready Rough I definitely tried to down heavier and that was not the correct option dragon ball dragon ball Give me that gohan Go on got him. I got you now gohan It's all over the character that's been giving me so much trouble on a team of full of characters That give me so much trouble Superdash superdash Where was my down heavy when I needed most? Oh, wow. That was a cinematic clash Uh, no sparking and no sparking dude Don't ever try it on me again.  Oh god He loves that vanish.  I think it did stop the damage We live in in paradise overheads Damn should have uh, that would have been sick. No time to think about what if sagas though Sock this man. I'm going this way No way he actually got that light jab off Good stuff Be down tech or just we get out Oh, we didn't have a choice tech that punch that guy in the face That reflect caught that okay He'd still win. No, we can't we're dead Uh drop it I'm not confident in solo zamasu with zero health, but Stranger things have happened Nice nice nice Is that gonna kill Okay, did that's pretty sick Zamasu is a clean character, dude Lightning of absolution Zamasu Zamasu Get him up out of here.  This is fighting games This is what fighting games be This is what fighting games are dude.  It's still kid boo ladies and gentlemen. Oh god No way that hit it's clicking all the training is clicking whatever Not whatever. I'm so sad. Oh no tech. All right. Zamasu's dead Unfortunate, but it's just the truth We'll have to spend some decent cash Yeah, that's the cash. I want to see Cash money All right, we don't have spark. We have two full health characters though. So we're not exactly the underdogs here Oh, yeah, we're not the underdogs Really no respect. He just didn't respect me at all. I thought he was gonna reflect I really wanted to see that respect He dropped that we did What's happening? Oh, no, see there's the reflect Oh, that works. I tried to level three because you're wondering what that was I just got eaten alive by stray hits. I started mashing and never looked back I did not plan on finishing that match alive You can get sell back in nice blue health chunk.  I low mix No tech though Oh, man. All right, again, we will live this Maybe not. I I really don't know my cooler No, why did I hit a button that ends the session, dude? Hopefully you guys enjoyed it though. I know it was a beating I know it was a beating, but we got some licks back in I could have won that last one too.   I think I'm gonna play him again Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. 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