What they gon' do with me now, I'm still a talk of the town I'm gonna assist us, I'm hoakin' them down Reachin' the smiles in the frown Alright, what's up y'all, we're on a new episode of To- On Talk of the Town And we have a very drunk guest What's up, man? Nigga, straight up in back, we'll with it Alright Let's warm up, let's get a little icebreaker goin' for the people Alright, first icebreaker First icebreaker I'm gonna ask you a question, answer it as fast as you could First thing, come on, what's your favorite liquor brand? Cosm... liquor Couldn't even say it Alright One word to explain woo Woo That's the answer? That's it Okay Celebrity crush? All of them bitches I like, if they dog skin, I'll like them If they got the farts, I'll like them If they a thot, I'll love them Matter of fact, my talk too I like, if I need a regular joint, she good toxic too She said she toxic, I like toxic bitches I like Cali Cali?  Mom Odeon? Oh, Odeon? Too much?  Answer? Nah Oh, you gonna answer it? You gonna take a shot? And answer?  Well, I'm not saying anything I'm just asking the worst song It could be a famous person It could be a nobody It could be a Nah, we gonna skip I ain't gonna violate nobody Y'all niggas all try That's nice, I guess Okay, last song you listen to? Last song I listen to? Yeah Last two songs No, matter of fact What's the name of this song?  Boy Huh? What song?  I think they all sound like that, matter of fact Oh, my gosh And then they got another niggas I think Waheem Waheem?     Lekka Okay, we see Okay, what award Should Costa Mato be now made For this year from Talk of the Town Mr. Hem I think we need to make a category called Mr. Hem And I think I need to be that nigga But you know Time gonna come Best rapper to come home from jail Best come home appearance matter of fact Best come home appearance? Yeah, cause a lot of niggas came from jail Where he's been locked up and they don't know how to do no drills Or he thinks he's locked up Alright, so who else in that category? Oh, I don't know Man, I just came home You gotta tell me I don't know I know nobody did better than me Yeah, first day home Rolling on stage Lay So what happened?  What happened?         I would like At least one op Niggas ain't my ops They just people I live over there Okay, so Um Do they not Deserve flowers For contributing to the church?      Not once I left Brooklyn Okay Because I was The Fed Fed is like Where Remember Lust?   And that's not what this is, bro. Niggas, I'm a grown-ass man, you know what I mean, right?  So we show love to each other, bro, we brothers, you know what I'm sayin'? Okay, so you feel like it's genuine, for sure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause you know what happens? People feel like, oh, Wednesday, man's goin' up, it'd be like a lot of jealousy, a lot of weird stuff goin' on. You don't, you never, ever got that vibe?  And I was getting money, you know what I'm sayin'? So it's like, when the road switch, it's like, nigga, it's all right, you know what I'm sayin'? Like, how can I be mad at you goin' up? You don't owe me nothin', nigga.  Okay, okay, you know? Yeah, I feel like, you know. A lot of people don't understand that. They feel like, all right, my man get rich, he's supposed to take me with him, you feel me? Your job for real, for real, is to show me the opportunities and I'm supposed to find my way to take advantage of them. That's your job. Your job ain't to motherfuckin' bring me. You put the fuckin' Cosmigo ball next to me. My job is to go like this. Or open it, yeah. And drink. What's with my gums? We are the Cosmigos, y'all. We know. Oh, we know. But. Yeah, so, I'mma drink. You bring me to the water, I'mma drink. He kinda responsible for me getting some. You feel me? Like, he definitely brought me around the nigga that. The people that, yeah. And I did what I was supposed to do. So, you were originally from Brownville? I'm originally from the Fluss. From the Fluss, not bad. But, I jumped off the porch. Now I jumped off the porch in Brownsville. You feel me?  I was in Brownsville doing nonsense and hollering in Fluss. Okay, so, people, I guess, have their own theories of JD and Fabio, what it should be like. What do you say? Because you was there from the beginning to the end. It's just bad communication, that's all. That's the best way to describe it? It is bad communication. So, you think it was fixable? It's fixable right now. But, there's no but, they just not. They just gotta fix it. So, what is it? Like, they're just not communicating? Like, what is it? I don't know how they're next. Like, I'm not being cool in here nothing. For real, like, that's just the topic I'm, I'm, I'm gonna, nah, I don't got no parts in it. Like, like, Fabi's not gonna ask me to take sides.  You feel me? Not saying you have to take sides, but I'm saying people feel like, Fabio could've looked off of JD's. JD makes songs saying what could've, should've, could've happened. May Swinton did interviews. Like, I'm sure you see what's going on. So, from you, you know, being there, being both sides, do you feel like anything could've went differently or? Fabi did a lot for, for Niggas, bro. Yeah. But, what Niggas wanted from Fabi was for Niggas to, for Niggas to go. To hold hands?  Like, you feel me? It's not that easy, bro. Like, Fabi walked me in. He walked me in the Columbia. Like, when the day Pops Smoke died, the next day, he walked me in the Columbia. Sawing him, I'm not gonna know it without him. You feel me? I'm not, I'm not dying. I'm not gonna know it without him. You feel me? But it don't work like that. You know what I'm saying?  Like, first of all, we know who he is.   Like, so it don't work like that. It don't, it don't work like that. So do you think it's a lack of, like, not understanding the business or, and I guess, or you think it's just a hood mentality thing? It is also niggas in your ear. Like, like, I know somebody said something, man. I know you just get up and just talk back. Feeling like that, yup. Cause look, I didn't know what was going on. So you came to my door. Yo, you got to call the town and talk to your niggas, bro, they welling, bro. It was a lie going on.  Yo, come to the office. Come to the office. I go to the office.  Video song. Man, I'm like, she's niggas.  But I never, I never said nothing about it. I came out of my clothes. I felt like it was something that was gonna work itself out. You feel me? I'm like, it kinda did that. It will. So you have faith in will. Judging over the last track he made, God did. Sounded like you wanted to fix it. I didn't agree with every ball in there cause he said I even did Shepard Cosmodo and I'm like, I was a feature on the same song, man. I was only so I got with you.  You my little, JD, my man, JD, JD was definitely going viral, so I can't take nothing from him. You know what I mean? I think JD is a good artist and he knows how to like vocalize how he feels. And I think we was just more so surprised to hear it from Fabio. Cause he, I mean, he said a little bit. I don't know what Fabio said back. I heard JD said. JD made a couple for him, so. Yeah. They was going back and forth for a minute. It's hard to keep up with it. But all in all though, I think that they both want to work it out, but I think egos and pride get the best of both of them. This is my opinion. You know them. I feel like niggas do need to work it out. That's just my opinion. I can't, I ain't saying no more than that. You feel me? I love both of them. I was, I was that little, I told you I came home. I got booked immediately. JD heard I was in there. Bunked into somebody from my crib. I was like, go tell him. Make sure you come outside. I mean, I'm trying to see him. I don't know how. So now I'm like that. Chop it up, man. Yeah, but I went to, I saw D-side. I went to D-side crib.  So D-side, D-side. It's still love. You feel me?    It's still, no. Cosmon, what's up, bro? It's all love. They really don't got like the whole brands but don't got a problem with all of them. It's not that. No, they don't. Yeah, they definitely don't. It's a personal thing. It just needed to be, it just better communication. Yeah.  So when you was going up, when you and Tida was going up, when y'all was traveling with Bobby, was like some of your like, I guess friends back home jealous or moving weird or.   Bro stop. You have.       Nah, I didn't stop talking like that. Yo. Look though, that's facts though. Like for real, if I was on hots, that's how I would feel. But for real, for real, like nobody, I didn't, because I brought niggas around. I used to bring niggas right out the trenches. Come on, you're going to be going to. Wherever.  Come on, we out, you feel me? I never was on some like, I never got bougie with this shit, you feel me? Never, I ain't never get bougie. To this day, you'll catch me in Bransville at the G-Spot tomorrow, you feel me? Like. Oh my God. Allegedly. I'm in there. Now I'm in the fuck, I'm in there. I'm in there like, and I'm rolling straight deadies. I'm in there.  Bro, the rich should be borrowing to me like. What's born about? But let me tell you. Like what? I'm gonna tell you, let me see the best way I can say this because I don't want to ride my sofa. Yeah, like what are you saying? I've been getting money. Okay.  Oh, yeah. Because I was doing this when I was still chilling in the trenches. I was going to different states and. Travelling stuff. And hanging out in the ballroom. I used to go buy the ballroom every hour. Go outside, do whatever I gotta do. Come back and spend all my money in the ball.   So what's the difference?   You feel me?  Nah, but I gotta understand that you will die. Keep going back to the hood. I watched my favorite rapper's dog, like Stackbun with Dodd in his hood. Ching's drugs, Dodd. Nipsey Hustle. Nipsey Hustle, Dodd. In front of his store. Do you feel like, I feel like a lot of. I'm a little more sturdy with it.   You disagree?  Straight up, listen to me, gang. You don't owe nobody in there, nothing. Because the hood is backdoor and cutthroat.    If you make it out the hood, you got your own decision if you want to go back or not. But you don't owe nobody nothing. If you owe, then just trust me, it's a spreadsheet somewhere with your name and prices on it, nigga.  That's one thing. Niggas feel like you get on and you're supposed to take care of everybody. Money, how much money you think they giving all people?  You're not getting the whole em. Then you're managed to get some of that bread.  So niggas ain't getting all this money, niggas think niggas is getting, but the hood ain't seen that. All the hoods see is $2 million. He got two ems, and he got a bus down or, why I don't got a bus down. I used to be with that nigga outside. Why do you ain't take the charge for me then? That is very true. Niggas gotta know, you don't owe these niggas nothing, bro. I owe you a friendship, you feel me? How real of a friend was you though? If I don't, if I feel like I could leave you, that mean you really wasn't that much of a friend to me anyway, you feel me? Cause I'm not leaving my real friends.   I'm gonna try to like take back, I keep taking back out the hood as much as I can. Yeah, the best you could. All right, so what is something like, back to the music though, what is something like musical goals right now? Right now, cause you kind of did a lot. You did a lot.  Like, so right now I'm trying to find a balance. But bro, I'm trying to go viral, bro. Like, it ain't nothing else to it. Like I got to go viral. Like I don't want to do nothing else but rap. So I have to do it. I'm saying I have to do it as best as I can. So I'm looking for the best way to do it and just keep going crazy after that.   Okay, and you don't want to go back to what you was on before. What's that? The dissing in the drill. But I stopped that before I went to jail. I know, you didn't do the project, but again, but was you here to see like the feedback from that? What, like what? Yeah, from the project. No.  Would you do something like that again or? I feel like if I'd have been a home note, we could have pushed it in a different direction. We could have been way more crazier with it. You feel me? Like, see that was rocking with it because I was rocking with it. You feel me? He didn't want to do it by himself. You feel me? Like once I left, it wasn't, it wasn't Kobe and Shaq no more. It was just Kobe by himself. You feel me? Like, you see how Kobe by himself was? He wasn't really jacking, you know what I'm saying? So, like. He was sacrificing. Yeah, he did what he did. He comfortable with the gods. You feel me? But yeah, he wasn't really helping on music once he got left. I mean, he was doing songs, but. And he didn't drop them like that. Yeah, he wasn't going crazy. He wasn't like, super job. I think if Tida was super job, we definitely would have. Yeah, that song could have been a little bit better. But so do you want to do another project? Do you feel like you put too much time into that project and the cops took it from you? Like, what do you feel? Oh, like the way I feel is like for real with the project that I had before I left. Because I had to take Ko Suvi, you feel me? Like, besides Kobe and Shaq, we had the Suvi tape. And my manager's got that tape ready right now to just go.  So we're going to take some songs off that motherfucker and put some new shits on it, you feel me? Because it's like, I feel like it's not going to represent me. So you're going to sit and wait for her to take that? Oh, no, for more than 103. You've been heard that song, though. It was in the studio. Yeah. I wasn't home when he made it. I know, but you heard it in the studio. Yeah, like when the first video came out? I was playing and making a snippet of song. Yeah, when that first video came out, a bunch of the studio, like literally, I probably got there like 40 minutes after that first snippet. Oh, wow. OK, so moving on. I guess. What would you say is your biggest hurdle right now being an artist fresh from home? It's not going to happen. Deciding if you want to catch up or just do you. And that's everybody's thing. I'm not going to say no rappers' names, but it's a couple of rappers that came home and took my big names that was like, you can hear it in the music, where it's like, he trying to do what niggas is doing, but you're not. And he had to catch up and get right.  Yeah, right. I'm not saying nobody made no. Why you don't want to give flowers? Why you don't want to give flowers? It's not flowers. It's more like weeds. We don't hand out weeds over here. For you. Because weeds get looked at as bad flowers and then niggas fill away. So we ain't going to hand that out. Because I'm not really.   It don't matter if I'm trying to be sincere with what I'm saying. It backfires. So I watch what I say. OK.  Yeah. OK. So we're going to play a little game. I'm going to say a category. Are you going to tell me who? Take a shower with me first. I ain't even finished directing. So I'm going to say a category. And you say, like, who's, I guess, Mr. Him, quote unquote, of this category? Let's do it. You get it? Got it? All right. Chicago drill. There's no dirt. That was quick. Schmerkeo. All right. Drill beats. Axel beats. OK. And mercury. Labels. Leave me out of that one. Oh, you don't know? Take a shot. No comment? Yeah. Let me take a shot. Hold on. Hold on. Yeah, I forgot what you got to tell them. No comment, you got to take a shot. Like, no comment. You know, people would say, like, the Mr. Him labels like a lantic. Everybody would get mad numbers. But some people say this time. You want me to take another shot? I'm just, OK, whatever. OK, no comment. Don't stop me from getting one of them off my face. Who is the Mr. Him of Brooklyn drill right now? Fabio. OK. Of course he's going to say Fabio. OK, who is the Mr. Him in New York right now? I guess under 21. Nick is under 21? In what, Brooklyn? In the whole city. 41. OK. OK. I mean, I can't say the whole city. I don't really. From what you know of? From, I'm going to talk about, OK, I'm going to stick in Brooklyn. 41. OK, so who's the Mr. Him of the Bronx? 41's Ops. I'm going to leave it at that. That's an honest answer. Yeah, I love Nick as I ain't going to lie. I love Nick as the Bronx. What's going on? They have a lot. They got, like, a Nat Ops in the Bronx. A Nat Ops, yes. So, which one are we talking about here? Now I ain't going to lie.  Oh, D.D. Osama or no? D.D. Osama. I mean, Nick is doing numbers out there. But, that's only because K.Flock's locked up, I'm saying to them. You see what I mean? Yeah, K.Flock's is definitely, I don't, I heard, like, three songs on the face of the Bronx. From what I see, a nigga cut a fresh home. Son look like he got it.  You see what I mean?  You see what I mean? OK. I could be wrong, man. So, from the outside looking at it, he definitely look like K.Flock got it. Yeah, it's not. I'm, I'm. What's your opinion? I'm not in his face in this question. Oh, OK. Yeah, you got to, you got to talk show the run. Yeah, so, because K.Flock locked up, what do you say to you or someone? Now, I just say, I just like the little niggas you've used. Yeah. I don't really know the other niggas. I know, I heard of a nigga named G's. And he say he the face of the Bronx.  Yeah, and I don't really know what he's saying or his tracks. Them other little niggas, they, I go understand them. OK. So, you can't get with the Batman voices? Come on, bro. I was looking at my archives, bro. Remember, I wasn't jacking them since, like, 2019, bro. I can show you a fucking, I saved it on my phone and all that, like, I can literally show you. Since 2019, remember, I was like, all the lights getting niggas and the white people are rapping like this. Batman.  I never jacked it, you know what I mean? Especially if you could talk like this, you know what I mean? You talk like this. Like, when I get loud, my voice really get raspy. You feel me? Oh, we know. We saw you yelling online and stuff like that. It's like, for you to make that voice is real to me. All right. So, Moomong, who's the Mr. Hymn of blogs? I don't know how to pronounce his name.  But something lit from what I seen, Kai Sanat. Kai Sanat? That's how you pronounce it? He's not a blog, though. What he do? He a Twitch streamer. But he don't play no video games. I thought Twitch was video games.   But he's not a blogger. I'm talking about, like, academic, state cheese, no jumper, upper class, Kirkland. Like, who's the Mr. Hymn of the blogs? Right now?  So you haven't been able to come on? Kirkland been bringing me on his live, but it'd be too much. I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'm going to be sharing.  Yeah, I was supposed to something out right there. So y'all good? It's not, it's not, I can't say it was never no beef. It was definitely up. But we ain't got no beef. I was in jail with Kev Hondo. OK. Like, Kev Hondo was in the crib with me. And big homeboy, Rocco, he was in the crib with me. And one night, we was on a crib time together, you feel me?  Like, I'd be not doing that, you feel me? But they got beef from my means. Like, that's my means, man. Yeah, we know.  Like, leave them niggas alone, you feel me?   But leave that alone, you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm at with it. So, but we chopped it up. I even gave him his flowers.  Like, you were one of them Batman kids. I'm not used to Batman kids, I'm not funny. All right, so who's the Mr. Hemo drip?  You can't say who be having on drip? You think it was, I don't be seeing niggas in no drip.  But it don't, even from before you went to jail, like Gunna and I was drippy. Oh, you want me to sing rappers like that? You don't have to keep it local. Keeglock. Keeglock? Yeah, Keeglock. That's the, Young Dove was the goat. I'm gonna hold you. Young Dove had it. Like, hands down, Young Dove was the drippiest rapper. You know how I read from Brooklyn, I read the old fibers, the drippiest rapper on the heart. But Dove get busy. Like, that's the D&G bass to himself, like. And I love D&G. But Keeglock got it now that he gone. Keeglock definitely picked up where he left off at. Pick the way he left off at, that's cool. So how do you feel about like, well, I know you're hearing about all the artists dying and stuff like that. So like, you feel like, how do you feel?  Yeah, bro.  That's outside, go stick them. Like, why you want to go get the rapper for? Like, this nigga, like nine times out of 10, bro, you see a rapper nigga, he been through it, bro. Like, I don't know a lot of rappers that didn't go through it, bro. Like, he was never broke. He was never homeless.  You feel me? And niggas be really making it out.  Like, niggas be going through it to make it to where niggas is at. And niggas be getting hit for nonsense. Like, when P&B died, like, niggas in the feds ignorant.  You feel me? But I'm in there and I'm like, damn, I'm in that nigga. Brought us out, you feel me? Brought us to Philly, gave us Mad Ross the pasta from his spot in the shop. You already show love and I was cool as a manager. I was supposed to go there. But we shot like, whoa, I was supposed to go.  I'll be reliant to come to the credit, you feel me? Like, he was showing love to niggas, you feel me?  So I don't really be jacket niggas clapping the rappers unless it's like, matter of fact, I ain't going to say that. I don't be jacket niggas clapping the rappers. You feel me? Like, nah, go clap. It's niggas to clap. If niggas is rapping, trust me, they're not really trying to kill everybody. So go clap the niggas that's clapping niggas. That's knocking niggas off. Those the niggas you want. It is certain rappers that's out here raping. Go get them to that. You feel me? OK. But all in all, like, you know, rapping, people say it's dangerous. And then, like, you know, we're losing people constantly. You're also an artist. Do you ever feel like, do you ever, like, have those thoughts? Like, you got to keep watching and back and stuff like that?  From the moment I walk out my house, I literally look out the window before I walk out my crib. I can't go, like, I ain't.  I know only, bro, you got, you don't even know. You feel me? I done been, I done got into it with niggas.  You feel me? Like, luckily, I ain't easy to care.   Niggas would just be, like, banged out and think they are ops. Or a nigga would just be, like, he too tough.  You feel me? Yeah.    You feel me? Just cause a nigga want to try.   Like, a lot of artists have been open to play with you about how they're depressed, and they suffer from PTSD.     You feel me?      I ain't get to do that. I ain't get, I couldn't cry every day.  You feel me? You feel me? So, this is my way of, you know?   But why? How are you dealing with it now?  Do you feel like you just wanna spread all the advice that you could, like? I be trying to stop this from going to jail, bro, because for real, for real, niggas be telling, and niggas gonna be so surprised who to have.   How you wasn't ready to go to jail?  Like, so, you never know the type of niggas you around and what can happen, because the dangerous feel we in. I'm not sure.  I feel like, I talk to a lot of artists, and I see a lot of artists, I guess the way that they deal with it is, like, they take perks, or they smoke, and stuff like that, like. I'm on probation, that's even the worst part, I can't really, see how fast I've done this little bottle? I'm not even drunk, I'm gonna keep it to myself, like. So, like. Hey, I can't really, I couldn't do it off the rip, you feel me? The drugs they got in jail, I don't take that. You feel me? Not saying we want you to take drugs. No, listen to me, slow down, slow down. I know what you're saying, but it's like, I don't see niggas family dying, they going to sell and smoke the K-2, you feel me?  Couldn't go and do it, yeah. Couldn't do it. I'm not into that, you feel me?    Yeah. You gotta know how to be a different level strong. I mean, is that something you would want to share in the music, or maybe we could expect that, or? It comes in, it comes in, it comes in, it comes in, let it it to you. I got a lot of marches on that song. Okay. Definitely need to let it to see that song.  I feel like, yeah, a lot of the city is real judgmental nowadays, but you never cared.  You never cared. You never cared.  Okay, and then now when you come home, I feel like before you got locked up, everybody was posting you from different blocks to different people. When you come home, do you feel like you're getting that same love? Do you feel like it's a whole bunch of new pages now? Like, what do you throw some whole blog culture right now? Cause you was not filling people's before. I ain't really, all I know is y'all on the radar. I don't know nothing else, like, I don't know who else is lit. I mean, other blogs, like, you know, what music sounds like. I seen that. I thought that was a rapper. No. I seen, like, every time I look on there, I see white people. No, you don't. I swear to God, I do. What NYC sounds like is not, um, white people? I be seeing white people. I think it's the name is Non-17 Racks, and then there's some other kid. I be seeing on TikTok, and then, um. So you seen a post, man, white people? I be seeing white people. Every time I seen it. I mean, we got white people doing drill now. For what? White people. All right, I can't say nothing about the Non-17 Racks kid. He from Sheepset, but he from The Peas or whatever. But the TikTok, the motherfuckers I seen on TikTok, and then I seen some other, man, I don't know.  Okay. That's what I could say for sure.  Watered down, that's not creative, or watered down like anybody trying to do it now.  And I think I wouldn't even say, because of Brooklyn, because of me. Like, there's no somebody, there's nobody, there's not even feeling myself real, real, real, real. I wasn't jacking nothing. If I thought you was on post, I'm going to, there's nobody going, you're whack. There's nobody going, why are you here? There's nobody doing that no more. There's just everything that's out. No artist are doing that. Like, Apocard's very much be telling that he's when they whack. Yeah, but it's like, for real, for real. I feel like everybody be trying to play his thing. I'm Jack, upper class, that's my son. You feel me? Like me and him, you know, we got into it too. You know, I got into everybody. Everybody. Yeah, we got into it. We ended up meeting up with each other three o'clock in the morning, middle of flyboats, in the eyes, like, you feel me?   The way he do shit? Yeah, but he's not a nigga with, just because you said this nigga's whack, nigga's is gonna go, I'm not gonna bump him. Nigga's is just gonna go, oh, upper said you whack. You feel me? For real. I don't think nobody had that super impact where a nigga said he was trashed and the niggas wasn't jacking him. I feel like the only person we really did that and stuck with it was 6ix9ine. When 6ix9ine came out of the city, nobody listened to him no more than that. I feel like now people don't care. I feel like the only thing that really, like when I used to say niggas is pussy, cause I would never say a nigga that's not pussy, was pussy.  You feel me?  But I'ma stop that. If you pussy, you gotta pass. Just right. So you giving niggas a pass?   I don't want no problems with nobody.  You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Okay, so what we gonna want? Costumato, five years from now. What do you see? What does it look like? Five years from now. Costumato records, you know what I mean? All the record label? Yeah, I ain't about to crack the whole way through. You gonna sign niggas?  Like low key, my first little bag, that's what I want to take and do with it. I want to just start the label because I know who hot. I know who hot. So who hot right now? Who hot right now? From the city? What is it? My 41 niggas man, shout out to us out there. Shout out to y'all, shout out to y'all.    Those is the Glock it out boomers, you feel me? You got to pass into the Glock it out boomers. You can't just sit here and try to, yo pass that hanging bro, just give it cause you drop the drop it, just give me it. Don't worry about it, keep it going, don't worry about it. Don't worry, you see, y'all saw it. I got you. So those the Glock it out boomers? Yeah, the Glock it out boomers, you got to give it, like ain't nobody else, if he, you know if he, if he falling, if he gets busy, that's my, that's my little brother. You feel me? That's baby bro. But he about to get consistent. All right. You know what? He about to get good. Yo, if he sturdy up, you know what? They out here playing on your name, they saying you ain't getting good. Anyways, the reason I ask who you would sign is because do you feel like you know what it takes for someone to be a star? Or do you know a star when you see one? You got to know a star, I swear to God, I called everybody off the red. Like who?  So you ain't giving him a song though. Give him a song.  No, look, me and pop, not Mac, me and pop saw each other in the motherfucking gas station of course, you're from Brooklyn. You know both of us don't even belong over there. You feel me? We in the gas station and motherfucking, he like, yo, cause, take my number. You feel me? Y'all met in the studio tonight. You feel me? I didn't really know pop have you like that. I knew when you was from the hood, you feel me? But I didn't know I'm heavy, feel me?  So, who I knew from the floor was like from here and there, seeing niggas and all, being around. So, like, I see something like, yo, come in the studio, let's do this.  You feel me? He pulls me up in Miami like, December of 2019 or something like that.  I think it was like November or December. He's like, yo bro, we just supposed to do that.  They go, we supposed to do that track. And fucking, I don't say bro. He's like, look, I'm gonna go to Cali. I'm like, I'll be going to Cali too in January. I think I'm gonna be out there.  You feel me?  So it wasn't like I regret it because it couldn't happen. You feel me? We could have gotten it done.   I knew Pop was gonna be like off the interview before he had a song, you feel me? I said, Oh, the Mel C.B. energy? Remember, yeah, the Mel C.B. energy. He was like, I'm gonna be there in a while. And I'm like, yeah, son, son go crazy, you feel me? He got you, got no trace. Once you say that, you gotta step up and go crazy, you feel me? And he did. When I heard Big Drip, I was in Florida. I'm down in Florida doing my thing, you feel me? And I heard the R1 probably dropped the EP or LP or whatever it is called. I'm bumping in her two cars.  I didn't hear Big Drip before. So when I heard Big Drip, I'm like, honestly, it's out of here. I called them. I say, listen, bro, I got 20 grand for you right now, or I give it to you, you feel me? And take care of everything. I'm about to stop rapping. I'm about to try to make it to nigga. That's when he was fuckin' with Pete Gutter. And I'm like, I ain't stepping on Pete Gutter toes, you feel me?  Yo, Pete Gutter got involved in anything that was happening through Brooklyn. Yeah, Pete Gutter was definitely, anything that was Crip, he got it. You got a free Pete Gutter, man. But yeah, so yeah, just know what a star was. Yeah, you gotta know, it'll be a song. Like you gotta hear it and go, you're gonna hear it and just be like, this thing's out of here. It's no way. Like, it's one nigga that we pushed. Like, he could act like, it's not, I'm Cat. Fame Cobain. You gotta push him, you feel like? What? If he tell you we didn't push him, he's Cat. I'm not, you're my man.  I didn't say, I didn't. No, no, no. I'm surprised. I didn't even think that.  And he started going up.  When people start listening to him, he run up, he do what he's supposed to do. You know what I mean?  You know what I'm saying? I know it. So, people feel like, do you feel like there's a thin line between like being inspired and like copying? Is it thin line? Yeah. No, if you copying, you copying. Because people feel like, you know, once Pop Smoke died, everybody had this whole Pop Smoke. I'm not. Don't get me started. I'm just asking, what are your thoughts on it? Junior Choice is a dog, but it holds the rep. You know who that is? No, I'm telling you, like I don't like the Pop Smoke sounding people. I don't like them. I'm not jagging them. So, you don't think that they're just inspired by Pop Smoke?  Why you didn't do that when he was alive? Maybe it wasn't inspired yet. Pop, we ain't going for that. We ain't going for that. It will be like, you should have been inspired the whole time.  You should have been inspired. So, it's not a thin line. You see the copying?   Like, all right, we're not going to go with the Pop Niggas because it's a couple of them. You're not going to try and burn nobody's bridge. You know what I mean? So, what are your thoughts on like people jacking Pop Smoke stuff? They can only be one. Of course. And what's your number two, three, four, five and six? They were six little me. Not counting. It's four of them. Pickle, what's that? You know you didn't get me to say anything. No, no. I'm going to say what? No, no. Junior Choi is a dog. Junior Choi, J-N-R-C-H-O-I. I heard him since I was in the fans. He's from the UK though. I don't know what he's on. I'm not jacking him in no kind of way, bro. He's from the UK, he's not from the top. I don't know why. Oh, he's from the UK.   Fabio did a song with him.        All right, how you know?    I don't like anybody that tries to sound like Pop Smoke. OK, OK. This is where I draw the line, though. Because you have to understand this. Like, if you ever really been around Pop, you know that's really his voice. He wasn't pretending, you feel me?   Yeah, turn off the drink. That's why he doesn't have to know you, man. It's something not right, man.  It's very inspired.  It's not fake, it's inspired. What was that shit? What is it, man? What is it? I don't know.  Would they be like inspired? They wouldn't call it fake. They'd be like, this shit's inspired. I don't even know what you want. It could be, that could be so many things.  They wasn't saying like fake. The official, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they didn't be like it's inspired. So he was inspired by Papo? A lot of motherfuckers, I won't say he young one. I'm not calling anybody out. I'm just saying like it's a weapon. Yeah, man. Have you ever been inspired? Have you ever been inspired?  It's your own sound. So tell people what they're going to see, what they're going to expect this for the year in. I'm giving you Kobe and Shaq this year. Me and Tia are coming out this year. Okay. Bro has to be heard. It's story not over yet. You know what I mean? Okay. And you're going to get a song for me before Thanksgiving. A song before Thanksgiving? Kobe and Shaq this year. Kobe and Shaq this year. Tell the people in this camera where to find you. How can they tune in?  Well, if I'm on Instagram and Instagram over, I don't deal with nothing else. TikTok? Not yet? I haven't TikTok. I just haven't signed into it. Okay. Yeah. I think it's young costumato.  Am I on the gram, you know what I mean? Shit about to get lit. And if it don't get lit, it's going to get lit another way. So, and that's positive. That's not negative. Just in case the police is watching. They be wild and they take anything and turn it into anything. If it don't get lit in one field, trust me, I didn't learn 10 other fields in my little term locked up. So I'm going to make sure it happens for sure, for sure. Okay, that's fine. Sure, sure. All right.


Hello, welcome to Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Cynthia Lee Sinclair and this is Finding Respect in the Chaos, a very special, special episode of Finding Respect in the Chaos.  And right now I have someone with me, Heidi Kuhn. Thank you so much for coming. Heidi is the CEO of Root to Peace, which is a nonprofit that is removing landmines and replacing them with crops once the land has been cleared. And she has done so many amazing things. Today, we are doing a little bit of a follow-up because of her effort to neck Afghanistan and how they are at risk at this time. Heidi, I cannot thank you enough for coming on today to share some of your time and I'm sure it's precious time at this point. So thank you so much for coming on with us today. It's an honor to be with you once again, Cynthia. Well, Heidi and I know each other from high school. So we've known each other pretty much our whole lives almost, it seems like, right? And I feel just blessed that you are still in my life and that I get to be able to have a conversation with someone who I admire so very much. You've been doing this work for 20 years now. And you wrote a book just recently and I wanna show everybody the cover of your book so that they know what to go out and buy on Amazon and I cannot recommend this highly enough. I not only have read it twice but I have gone back and highlighted, you know just the parts that I love the most so I can flip through it and read them again because they're so inspiring. It is now a New York Times bestseller, I believe, right? Amazing, amazing. So your mission statement and I wanna read it because I think it's important for people to understand. It is replacing the scourge of landmines with the bountiful vineyards and orchards worldwide and providing exports to new markets, peace through agriculture. Love that so much. So now you launched this whole roots of peace and is it NGO or nonprofit or how is it NGO? But it's kind of both, right? Yes, yes, most definitely. So we have a slide of that launch date, that slide. There's some pretty important people in that slide. If you look, you'll see Nancy Pelosi in there, Mrs. Kofi Annan. And so two short years later, you got an incredible endorsement from Kofi Annan. Yes, his excellence in Kofi Annan and that was another one I wanna read because it's so incredible. If you could pull out up for me, Eric, that'd be great. There we go. You have turned mines into vines by replacing the seeds of destruction, the seeds of life. And you have shown the world that even with modest beginnings, a partnership backed up by persistence can make a real difference. Persistence is your middle name, right? I think maybe so. So you've also won a lot of awards, right? Like, the list is so long, it would take too long to go over all of them right now. So I just wanna like, there's a couple of them that are incredibly notable and that you won a Nobel Prize, which is remarkable. And that's you with Klaus Nobel. They created a special award. Can you tell us about that? Well, first of all, Cynthia, it is so wonderful to be invited on your show. And just to be the dear and best friends we were in the 1970s growing up as young teenagers in a place called Marin County, California. And to be dreamers at that time in our world and to dream a peace and to dream of love, that was our generation. And that has never been needed more than now in this world we share. And yes, the honor of Marcus and Klaus Nobel of being presented the inaugural Earth Ethics Award by the Nobel family. Of course, their descendant had created the Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize. And it was just so, such an honor to be in the presence of really greatness standing there on the balcony of the United Nations and the fourth floor overlooking the beautiful river and just thinking of the global vision that is so needed in the one world we share. I had just returned back from India bringing Afghan farmers and traders to negotiate deals in India and to bring forth a harvest of hope and just to hold that beautiful global ball in my hands fresh off the airport. And it was the 21st of September and that date happened to have coincided with the memorial service of the late Secretary General Kofi Annan. So it was just so full circle to have been there at the United Nations during his memorial to receive the inaugural peace award and to remember the opening of my book which was the generational wisdom that my granny McNear had taught to me and that is coincidence is a miracle in which God prefers to remain anonymous. And Cynthia, as you know, I've never ever faltered from that. There are no coincidences and the Aloha spirit that has brought us both back together from teenagers to women in our wisdom years and to bring that generational wisdom forth to our children, our grandchildren and once our footsteps are done to leave a legacy behind, a legacy for planting the roots of peace on earth now. Here, here. We want to say amen. It almost sounded like that. Namaste. My next part that I want to go to because you got another rather remarkable award that I do want to talk about and I'm going to read a little section from your book that introduces this award. As we're continued to spread regarding our genuine efforts to heal the wounds of war for humanity, more unexpected affirmations appeared along the journey. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, a mystic from India traveled to meet me to bestow the Mahatma Gandhi Siva Medal from Gandhi Global Family as a tribute to my beliefs which were in alignment with their founders beliefs. Boy, they got that one right. Of anyone in this world that I know of right now, you get closer to that man's beliefs than pretty much anyone I've ever seen before, ever. And we have a picture of that, I think, don't we? Yes, we do, and I want you to tell us about the little girl that's in this picture. Oh, goodness. Well, that was such a joyful moment because it was 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi and that was a place called Rashgath which is the sacred place of his permanent burial site. And of course, he was tragically assassinated in January and buried at that site. And to be there to celebrate his birth a day on October 2nd, 2019 was just such a phenomenal experience. And I just did not want to accept this award. I was the first American to receive the Gandhi Sava Award for peace, but I didn't want to accept it for myself because it's not about me. So I found a dear little girl I had just met age 10 years old and Zahra. And I said, Zahra, come with me, little Afghan child. And we accept this award on behalf of you and future generations of Afghanistan to truly live in a country of peace. And that is just makes my heart swell right now so much. Cynthia, I'm bringing forth another call to action, another vision similar to the salt march that Gandhi had taken to the sea for the purposes of taxes and the British. And he was so frustrated by the situation he just needed to lead the world in a non-violent effort to break the chain of violence. So of course that is in the history books, but I would like to call forth another call to action. And that would be on the advent of the 20th anniversary of 9-11 that we as Roots of Peace and as global citizens call forth all those on the face of the earth to drop to their knees, whatever faith in our hearts, to touch the soil, to feel the earth and to dig deeper for peace like never before, to plant a seed, to plant a flower, to plant an olive tree, but to join in hands in the one earth that we share and to celebrate the seeds we have in common as opposed to those which separate us. I'd like to call upon people to hashtag Roots of Peace. And if we can make an ice bucket campaign, though viral, why cannot we call people to plant a beautiful plumeria, that's beautiful flower in Hawaii, a beautiful cactus in Arizona, a beautiful, whatever the seeds of life bloom from this earth. We live in COVID times, we live with wildfires. We live with such a rage above the earth because to me, in my humble opinion, we have not properly taken care of the skin of Mother Nature and we have violated that skin. We have pierced it with landmines, 60 million landmines in 60 countries. So as we bow to our knees right now, which is so needed with what is going on, the atrocities in Afghanistan, I think the world needs to get to their knees because that's the only way you can plant a seed. You have to fall to the ground on your knees and whether you're just falling to the ground with a good heart or you're praying to Allah or Buddha or whomever that path to the divine, it is our one creator that allows the seasons of the harvest and this is a harvest of hope that we can either greet this fall or accept the violation that we have done to the earth and that is manifested in real time with what we are witnessing and the atrocities that are happening in Afghanistan to good and loving people. So on the celebration or no, it's not certainly a celebration and the solemn tribute to the 20th anniversary of 9-11, let us bow to our knees and let us plant the roots of peace on earth and hashtag use the tools of social media, take a photo of yourself, take a selfie, be with friends, plant a garden, plant a little, hold up a little daisy, be creative, but let's get the world inspired. What is your global garden? How do you do peace in your backyard? Because I started roots of peace in my backyard right here in San Rafael, California and Cynthia you were right here with me holding hands and going out to the backyard and just praying for peace and we stumble, we fall, we make mistakes as human beings. Many mistakes were made in Afghanistan but this is not a time to point fingers to say which administration was right or wrong. Mistakes were made, but what are we gonna do tomorrow and what are we gonna do as global citizens to cultivate a harvest of hope? Cause the choice is within our hands, it's within our means and it's how we embrace the one earth that we share. So let's, you know, Gandhi taught us with that incredible vision of the salt march to the sea. Let us go wider, not just by land by sea but let us all inspire global citizens to plant the roots of peace on earth now. Now that was a prayer that I say amen to for sure. We have a slide of some of the interfaith stuff that you have been doing throughout your whole career and I was actually gonna ask you a question about that but you kind of sort of brought it up too of how that, you know, I was gonna ask you how that that interface, I mean like I'm a Methodist, you're a Catholic but we are under the same ecumenical God and so I wanna know how that ecumenical spirit has aided you and helped you in Afghanistan specifically and especially now. Well, I personally have been praying that God would just make a new Passover. They wouldn't even require the blood on the doors, right? Just after all the innocents that are gonna be hurt and just somehow in a miraculous way protect them and that's what I pray for so many. And I know you do and Cynthia, that's why today I've been on ABC, NBC, CBS and my favorite media desgeur is you because you are the real deal and you are the true spirit and I know and I have faith that I know you're praying for my footsteps and it's not easy to be a CEO and a woman of an organization that's leading the way in Afghanistan. You know, the Taliban traditionally has not respected women. Now today they announced that we will respect women and they will welcome development in Afghanistan and why they haven't had the greatest track record in the past, let's say lightly. I have to believe on the promises of people's greater angels because I think it's a defining moment for the Taliban and I think they too have children and Roots of Peace carries no flag, we're just here to help feed the children of the Taliban, the children of the world. The children carry no flag, right? And we just need to, as you say, with the spirit, the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the earth, the spirit of the Native Americans, we are all daughters and sons of Abraham and the sooner we get back to the garden, you know? And those were the songs that we danced to when we were teens at Santa Fe High School, you know? You know, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden because a garden without landmines is the garden I wanna dance to. So you and Roots of Peace have removed 1.1 million landmines, is that? We've hundreds of thousands and actually by the advocacy we've done millions of landmines around the world, you know, certainly in partnership with the Halo Trust and MAGS at Mine Advisory Board where there are implementing partners that we raise the funds to eradicate these seeds of terror that we've sown into the skin of Mother Nature. But what we do after that is what's critically important and that's the expertise of Roots of Peace because we train the local farmers to grow high value crops for export and trade. And in the situation of Afghanistan, we've trained over hundreds of thousands of Afghan farmers. We planted 6 million fruit trees in all 34 provinces impacting over 1 million farmers and traders. And you know, this is a vision, this is my living room of my home. You've sat here many times, Cynthia, and you know, this was just a dream in a mother's heart on September 21st, 1997. And to nurture that seed, that dream of turning mines to vines, replacing the scourge of landmines with bountiful vineyards and orchards worldwide, that seed in the ground took nurturing and the nurturing was my husband, Gary, and our four children who watched it bloom. And you know, they often say that they had a fifth child in the family other than my four children because they had Roots of Peace.  They were jealous of it because it took their mom's attention. They had to forgive it a lot when I was out in a war zone. But in the end, it was unconditional love and without the support of my husband and my four children. And now three grandchildren, you know, my other little darlings are pregnant again and their wives and next year at this time, they'll have six grandchildren. So from three to six, you know, so I have a responsibility with the footsteps in my life. What is left in the footsteps that God will grant me and those footsteps are to be taken for peace. And I'm very clear about that. It's grounded wisdom and that's how I feel. You're amazing. I think we have a picture of you and Gary actually. There we are. Well, we're in Angola there and we're demining actually the field where Princess Diana had once walked in Hwambo Angola. So that was just a really incredible moment. And you know, taking a husband and wife and taking your love to a minefield for the greater good of making the land safe for the children to walk. Pretty special. Very special. Now that's only the third time I've almost cried today so far. Okay, so I have a clip from our last year's show that I wanna show. And then let's talk about it on the other side, okay? Sure.  No, show it quickly. We'll turbo through it. It's the alternative crops one. And it's three families. Families. And grapes, right? Yep. But it's pepper too, didn't you like it? It is pepper in Vietnam, but you know, the Afghan farmers, the fresh grapes are indigenous. Afghanistan is a country, 80% dependent upon agribusiness. And if we're gonna lift Afghanistan up from the rubble and the political landmines, it's through this harvest of hope that we are, you know. So from that little toast of mines to vines today, I'm managing over $100 million under contract in Afghanistan. So, you know, this isn't a time in our world to think small. We need to think big, but we need to be humble in our footsteps and step by step, plant the roots of peace on earth now. I totally agree with you. Okay, so I want you to talk to us a little bit more about what was just said in that clip, about some of the process of planting the grapes and some of the process of all of that. And how worried are you now that some of that might fall to the Taliban? And are you, what can you do? What can we do as Americans to support you in this too, to help you to safeguard all that work that you guys have been doing over there for the last 20 years and to safeguard the people that have been lifted from poverty because of what you have done? Going forward with, what can we help you with? Oh, Cynthia, thank you so much. Well, you know, the one thing that we have, the legacy we've left behind in Afghanistan is sustainable peace. We've trained the farmers to grow the high value crops, you know, to prune the vine to double the yield as you saw the economics of peace and providing access of exports to new markets. Afghanistan was and is and will remain a country, 80% dependent upon agriculture. So the land is ripe, just like Napa Sonoma Valley, San Joaquin, the fruit is ripe right now in August. And either we cultivate a harvest of hope on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, or we step away and let the fruits rot in the field. And it's a very defining moment for me because I have a choice. I could say, you know what? This has just gotten too hard. I'm done. And check out and go back to a very beautiful life in Marin County, or I go the distance and inspire global citizens to turn guns into shovels. I have to stop you. You would not just go home to your house. I won't fall for that, sorry. I got it in a hug. I know you've been down in Guatemala, you've already, you just got back from Guatemala a couple of weeks ago. You've got other programs everywhere in Vietnam and all over the world.  I got to do it again now. Cynthia, you're the best, you are the best. Well, if we went to Guatemala because we don't want to build higher walls, we want to build longer tables for families to eat together at home in Guatemala because if they cultivate the coffee and the avocados and the beautiful onions, then they won't have to come leaving their families to come to our borders looking for jobs. They'll be quite content to stay at home. But Cynthia, people can help us, especially in Afghanistan right now because please go on our website, www.routesofpeace.org. Not only are we managing the harvest, which we will not walk away from, but we are also dealing with a huge crisis. It's not a crisis, Cynthia, it's a catastrophe in Afghanistan and all of the remote regions of Afghanistan, the people have fled in fear when the Taliban took over their provinces and they thought they would be safe to congregate in the capital city of Kabul. Well, we've seen what's happened to Kabul, the devastation and 500,000 IDPs and that's the acronym for internally displaced persons have converged upon Kabul. And these are very poor farmers, poor people just fleeing their land for their families' sake. And they are aligning the roads, the dirt roads leading into Kabul, sleeping in the cold night, no blankets, no tents, no food and just a heart-wrenching story last Saturday that my director of communications, Yasser told me he was walking to our Roots of Peace offices and he looked on the side of the road and a mother was cradling her baby in her arm and weeping, weeping and he stopped and he said, what may I do to help you? And she looked up, he said, with the saddest eyes and said, my baby just died a few moments ago. I had come from Badakshan province and for three days I couldn't find milk in the city. My baby had just died and she offered the child I have nowhere to bury it. And he busted up, walked into our office, told them the story and these are people as a non-profit. We don't, they're not rich people, but our office at Roots of Peace in Afghanistan got together and they raised $500 and they told Yasser to go back out in the streets and take care of the other mothers with their babies so they don't have to suffer the same destiny of holding a child, cradling a child in their arm who had died. So that motivated us to action. We had received a generous donation from Jeff's school of 25,000. My dear friend in China, Frankie who was one of the Godfathers of the semiconductor in the Silicon Valley matched those funds. So I have $50,000 to bring the tents and bring the food because all the United Nations, everybody's fled. Afghanistan is a disaster. The airports closed, the banks are closed, the supermarkets are closed. So what are those 500,000 people doing tonight on those streets with families, cuddling together to keep them warm because they're freezing and starving. So Roots of Peace, the good thing I guess I can say about having those 360 expats that are trapped there which I'm trying extremely hard with President Biden to appeal to get them on planes and safely out of Afghanistan. But these are incredible people and while they're there, they have access to trucks and they have access to transportation. They're excellent at logistics and we are determined to bring those tents, food and shelter to those who unspoken voices that's not even covered in the media, this story. So 100% of the donations to Roots of Peace, www.rootsofpeace.org will immediately, not in a few days, allowing more children and babies to die, immediately will be sent to our team. They will deploy the emergency necessary equipment and we will get the job done. We're gonna plant the Roots of Peace on Earth and by God, by Allah, we're gonna make sure those, nobody, at least to the degree that we can mitigate this catastrophe. People are dying left and right in those horrifying videos of people falling from the sky just clamoring to get out of the country. My husband and I collectively, and he far more than I, has 75 trips to Afghanistan over the last 20 years and just to think of ourselves flying out so many times of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, but people falling from the sky, we should be ashamed of ourselves as global citizens, but rather than staying in that shame, that guilt, that blame game, let's take this moment on your show, Cynthia, and have it that defining moment, let's plant a seed, let's plant a garden, let's bring ourselves to our consciousness as global citizens and plant the Roots of Peace on Earth now. So I know that on March 28th, 2014, something terrible happened in Afghanistan for you guys. Can you tell us about that? Well, Roots of Peace was tragically attacked by the Taliban and again, we were sitting in the living room at the same home where the toast was made in 1997, but the worst information came from a call very early in the morning. We are under attack. The Taliban is at our door and it was a four and a half hour gun battle. Listening to it live is nothing I ever would want anybody to have to suffer what we had heard, knowing that our five expats were trapped, and hearing those gunshots and those last calls by desperate young men, Ali Akbar, and hearing them detonate themselves with the bombs that were strapped to their bodies, but it was a defining moment for me. It was terribly, terribly stressful and beyond words, PTSD amplified, but I looked a few months later, my first born grandchild, Jai, was born and you look into the eyes of that little child and you think about the fact that to whom much has been given, much is expected and it was a real giddy up moment for me to get back on the horse, get it together and ride ahead and with my husband Gary and our incredible staff of now 360 Afghans, we took the agricultural crops from 2014 to an average of 250 million, up to $1.4 billion in ag exports and that's the economics of peace, that's the business of peace, that's the business model that we have implemented and that will be our legacy in Afghanistan because when we step away, we know in our hearts that we have trained millions of farmers to grow high value crops with modern agricultural techniques and that's a business model. One day we do hope to put ourselves out of business because we wanna pass that transfer of knowledge to farmers and have them have the dignity to walk the earth without landmines one day, inshallah, and just to celebrate the one earth that we have in common, a beautiful earth that still loves us, that produces fruits and flowers and I think that should be our call to action, how we honor the 20th anniversary of 9-11 with our better angels. Right, so I have another clip I wanna show. It's also from last year. If you could bring that one up for us, that'd be great. We'll talk about it on the other side. And so there was 5,000 women that have had their lives changed because of what we learned over there. They're now farmers and they've been empowered and women, like you said, women don't even get invited to the office. I know, I know what roots of peace I must stress is humanitarian, it's not political. And that photo with the women in the Somali plains you can see with their burkas on, we don't make them take them off. We respect their culture, but we're training them to be proud farmers. And just like microcredit lending, the men see the value of the women working from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. in those fields before their children wake up. And it makes their lives easier. And then they go back home and throughout the day they cook the meal and they come home and together as husband and wife they're able to celebrate the harvest. And the women have something to talk about. They feel part of it, not just home, inside cooking but they're contributing to the fruits of the earth, the fruit of the vine and the work of human hands. Okay, that's cool. That's another one, can I be crying? I think I'm on number five or six now, I'm not sure. So I wanna talk to you about what this means for the women in Afghanistan. And I know we're kind of starting around a little bit out of time, but that's okay. I think this is very important. And I know we get a little extra time to talk about it tonight. So tell us what this means for the women and for you as a woman business owner in Afghanistan. Well, it's sunshine and shadow as life is Cynthia. I'm so proud that Roots of Peace has inspired so many women to get an education to believe in their dreams this past weekend. I hosted a young woman whom I met at 11 years old and she was part of our Roots of Peace girls Afghan soccer team. And we train them on high walls, so none of the men could see them playing competitive soccer. And she was 11 and just so inspired to get an education and pursue her dreams. And coincidentally, we had a beautiful celebration that was planned days before of the Afghan-American friendship and that was the day that Kabul fell. And the solemn sadness is these beautiful women dressed in beautiful Afghan clothing entered my home and then talking about the great sadness. But in meeting, her name is Beebe. She was now 26 years old. She had brought her two children and I hadn't seen her since the soccer fields in Kabul. And it was just such a joy to see that those seeds that you had planted so many years ago. My husband was the soccer coach in Marin County. You know, he taught all the kids how to play. He's kind of a legend here in Marin but he had taught those girls in Afghanistan to play and see her as a young woman and deeply inspired. I have since hired her today as our Roots of Peace Afghan women's program manager and we're going to join hands the two of us Afghan-American women and we're going to take it up an inch, you know because with the Taliban takeover, you know the threat that I have on my head is not only being the CEO of an American organization but being a woman. And let's just say positively that in the past that was not such a good thing in Afghanistan but I'm again counting on the higher angels of the Taliban to deliver on the promise they made today to respect women and to support agriculture. And I had not one to live in fear and one to live in faith. So let's be the inspiration that we wanna see in the world. Let's feed the children, including the Taliban children.  Whoo, on that note, I'd say go Bulldogs. I think I cried six times. I was bruised all the time I had. There was a couple of times where I felt like my heart was just gonna swell up out of my chest when I got the little girl and just so many incredible things that I don't even know how to recap them because there's too many of them and they're all so incredible. So Heidi, thank you. Thank you bottom of my heart for coming on today and sharing your story with us. I promise I will send this out as far and wide as I possibly can. And I'm gonna put that up on the screen again, please if you wanna donate to rootsofpeace.org and I mean everybody, okay? So I'm just a simple nobody who lives on a very, very small budget. But if I can donate $25, everybody can donate. Cynthia, thank you so much. Nothing compared to the $25,000 but you know it's my $25 and it might as well be $25,000 for me. Yes, oh Cynthia, thank you. And when you hold, when you do that donation take a photo of yourself, a little selfie over your beautiful backyard in your turtle sanctuary. Show me what flower you're going to plant. I'm gonna be really interested to see your global garden because I wanna inspire the imagination of people for peace. Roots of Peace on September 11th this year. And I will continue to put that out as we go along to September 11th. Both in my Facebook and Twitter accounts and Instagram and can't believe I'm on this many social medias as old as I am, cause I didn't even learn about it from a few years ago, but oh well. Okay, moving on, Heidi, thank you so very much. Okay, just thank you dear friend. Thank you dear, dear friend.  And then I know, I can't wait to watch what you're gonna do next. Cause I know it's gonna be as incredible as the last 20 years. So just come in. Cynthia, thank you so much. And I just have to say as to, from the heart of two young Santa fell girls, always to remember San Rafael is the namesake for the angel of healing. And together, let us join hands as young girls and young girls always in our heart to remember our roots of peace and remember the angel of healing and bring that forth into the world which we share. Absolutely. I wanna end this show with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi. Today, the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. This has been Finding Respect in the Chaos on Think Tech Hawaii. I am Cynthia Lee Sinclair and I hope you will join me for my next show.


Well, this weekend is the kickoff to the unofficial holiday in Minnesota, the fishing opener in the Brainerd Lakes area. It also represents the start of long lines, crowds and traffic, better known as tourist season. Sarah Winkelman has more. You might have to wait a little longer in line, or you might have to wait to get into one of your favorite restaurants, but that's all the sound of tourism and it's the sound of economic development. It's officially tourist season in the Brainerd Lakes thanks to visitors that come for the fishing opener. In our business, you know, it's an important weekend because we have a long extended winter like we've seen this last year and so it's nice to have, you know, busy times like this and hopefully we'll see a spike in business and that just helps throughout the whole year. Just as local bait shops will see a jump in revenue. Many local restaurants are also excited for the anglers to get into town. This is when we start paying off the winter bills to build up all winter. As the unofficial kickoff to summer has finally arrived. It's wonderful to get things started and start seeing boats at the dock and people on the patio here. Opening weekend is a time the local business community is hoping to make a good impression on the out of town guests. So it's a huge opportunity for the Brainerd Lakes area to attract new people and really shine when it comes to fishing. Local fishing guides are also preparing for their season of work, but for some this weekend is all about family first. This is going to be something I'm going to just do from here on out with my boys. And so two years ago I started fishing with my boys and I look forward to that probably more than anything. Making local businesses the first stop on the road to new memories. The love of fishing that you see in people that come through the door and the excitement, especially when they bring kids with them. It's pretty cool to see. And time to celebrate after a long winter. We just wait to get on the boat and stick the ice on the lake and now it's time to get out on the open water. No matter what your traditions are on this opening weekend, they are sure to make a big splash in the Brainerd economy. Reporting in Niswa, Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. And now our team coverage continues with Josh Peterson in Bemidji. Thank you, Sarah. Here in Bemidji, D&R and City of Bemidji Parks and Recreation crew members have been working round the clock to make sure Lake Bemidji is accessible for the big opening weekend. Once Lake Bemidji officially declared ice out on Tuesday, it's been a race against the clock. To fix ramps, place docks and prep the parks for the big fishing opener. With multiple locations to prepare, City staff prioritized to make sure key locations were set. The ice went off the lake on Tuesday and we were able to get six of our seven docks in with the exception of what we call the third street dock down in Paul Bunyan Park. But the late ice out dealt another blow to park staff by damaging the concrete ramp at the Nymore Boat Access, leaving only one ramp open at that location. With the short window we had, we had one day to try to get all the maintenance work done there and the wind wasn't really cooperating with the contractor so he did the best he could but unfortunately we'll have to close that that the south ramp at that access. While the water crashes against the docks at the city boat landings, it's a different story for the landings overseen by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. People should be aware that the folks that take care of the landings haven't had the time to prepare landings, get the docks in and stuff that you would usually have. Here at the Lake Bemidji Northwood's public boat landing, the docks still sit here along the Lake Bemidji shoreline, but that's not discouraging boaters from still using the access. Across from the landing, traffic at Northwood's Baton Tackle has been steady, despite the dock not being in place across the street. You know, I'm not expecting too much of an impact to the amount of boats that have been going out here the last few days already, favorite thing from the resort, people dropping off new docks for people, dock companies, so they've been using the access just fine. Yet the late ice out has caused another issue. Bait chops across the state are dealing with a shortage of bait. At Destination Sports, they say the fishing opener is a chance for anglers to get creative with their fishing tactics. Yeah, you know, it's going to be very similar to the way they've fished in the past. It's just learning to change and adapt a little bit to what's available. With an interesting dynamic in place, the 2018 fishing opener should be one that many will never forget. In Bemidji, Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. Anglers that choose to use an access that currently does not have a dock in place are asked to use caution when launching your boat. In coming up in sports, AJ Feldman will have details on where to find the fish.


Hi everybody, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Mosaic Baseball Hobby Pack Break number 3-0, it's a random team break. That's the last one we got to do. I think the only one we had to do to unlock, yeah, the only one we have to do to give away the last 10 spots in the hit-pray duel case break coming up in the next video. Big thanks to this group here for taking a shot at this filler. All 30 teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams two to three, five times. They're diceful for the giveaway part, but for names and teams five, one, two, three, four, and five, two and a three, five times, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time. All right, here's the first half of the list right here, second half of the list right over there, no trade window, let's just get at it. One print out, hot off the presses. We got a Willie Stargill back here, 78 out of 99. Pirates, that's going to be for Joel, and a Cabrion Hayes, rookie debut insert. Another one for the pirates. It's not numbered or anything like that, but it's one of the upper tier young talents in the game. All right, now let's flip back here, let's see who's going to win those spots. Let's gather everybody's names again. Nice roll. All names are in, and it'll be the top 10 after five, two and a three, five times. Good luck, one, two, three, four, and fifth and final time, after five. So from very close, Nick, no cigar. So sad times from 11 down to 30, we'll get them next time. Many times though, for the top 10 you're in. Rex, you just barely got in. Joel, Joel, Mark, Joel, Steve, Jason, Joel, Sean, and Danny, congrats to the top 10. Thank you for taking that risk. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, and I'll see you in the next video for that hip parade break. Bye-bye.


Still, about the National Assembly members of the House of Representatives have cried out to the FCT administration to commence renovation of the National Assembly complex, and they want it as a matter of urgency. The lawmakers were forced to hasten their legislative duties at plenary following the lack of functional air conditions in the chambers. At the resumption of plenary, Speaker Femig Bajabiamila expressed worry over the heat in the chambers, particularly at a time when COVID-19 is still raging. Bajabiamila further pleaded with the lawmakers to avoid debates on matters on the order paper and just go straight to the point. Sir, we are suffocating because the place is extremely hot. In my opinion, sir, we could have a way of either adjoining the business of the day or whatever given time so that the air conditioners can be put in the proper shape, whatever things are that you can do to save us from this difficult situation in which we live. We would expect that the landlords and owners of the structure, which is the FCT, would take appropriate action to make sure that we stay in a very clement environment to do our business. Enumerating these issues, this building belongs not to the national assembly but to the FCT and they make it conducive for us. Those in support, please say aye. There's a guest who's saying aye. Aye, sir, aye. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hi, my name is Steve Willoughby and I'm here with DuPont this year, so we've got a lot of really exciting things to talk about that we've developed over the last year since we last spoke. So this technology here is called in-mold electronics. What this does is it allows you to take and print graphics inks and conductive inks together on a sheet of polycarbonate. Those go through thermoforming and ultimately through injection molding to create a part that literally contains electron. Now what's super cool about this part is, first of all, you can develop shapes that are otherwise impossible to achieve with any other technology and it eliminates buttons and switches. So this can make a part inside of, for example, an appliance, an automobile, about 70% lighter and about 50% lower cost. 70% lighter, 50% lower cost. This goes into a real shower? So this particular part is a demonstration to show how robust the technology is that it can operate in one of the probably least friendly environments possible for capacitive touch. In a real world, I'd see a part like that probably going into, for example, an appliance, or an automobile, or even for consumer applications where you want to add functionality to plastic without adding complexity. Nice. That's awesome. So can we see some of the... What is that? Sure. So over here, we have a few different examples of printed electronic applications. This one here is a seat heater. So this is actually an automotive seat heater that would be found inside of a car. So it's light and it goes into the seat nicely? It's light, it goes into the seat nicely and what's really neat about this is it uses a very specific carbon that's a special heating material. So that heating material self limits. So the very specific properties of the material actually cause it to unwind at a very specific temperature. So the seat heater gets uniform heating across the seat and also it cannot overheat no matter what you do. You could stab that thing and basically what would happen is the other little heating patches around it would pick up the load and heat it in a local way and it's physically impossible to overheat because those carbons unwind and don't allow it to do so. And then we have a couple of other samples here and what's really cool about these two samples is that these two samples represent radically expanding the range of substrates available for printed electronics. When we spoke last year almost all printed electronics were on a PET type of substrate that needs to cure between about 120 and 140 degrees C. Today this sample, the black one, is actually printed on PVC with a set of inks that will screen print on normal equipment and cure at 60 C. And this material is our new capton ink that will operate at temperatures up to 230 degrees C. So over the last year we've gone from printed electronics being material that operates the low 120 C and cures in that range to material that can go on plastics like PVC, polyolefins, acrylics, polystyrene and can go on to capton and operate in very high temperature and challenging environments. Nice. So how many devices are going to have this kind of technology? How soon? How fast is it moving with the printed electronics? Sure. So each of these technologies is pretty exciting in its own way. We're already working with almost 40 companies on the in-mold electronics and we see that number increasing radically because we just launched that a few weeks ago. The printed electronics applications are starting to take off and we can see a wide variety of heaters being some of the early applications but certainly see it expanding more broadly. And then the other story that's really especially interesting right now is our wearable electronics. So when we spoke to you guys a year ago, we were launching our very first wearable electronic materials. Today over 150 companies are working on real world products using these materials. We see the first applications of these rolling off the line around Christmas to be purchasable by consumers and when you think about it, think about smart phones, right? We all have maybe one smart phone but think about clothing. We've all got a lot of clothing. Within five years we see smart clothing outselling smart phones. So you're totally going to be into smart shirts, smart jackets, smart everything? Smart pads? Absolutely. And we're continuing our investments. As a matter of fact, yesterday we finally launched five new products for our wearable electronics line, increasing the performance with stretch and adding a carbon material and a silver-silver chloride material to give highly sensitive sensors as well as highly washable sensors. So what is that? So this is a particular demonstration piece on Lycra showing the stretchability of these materials that demonstrates some of the newer conductors in the system. Nice. And when you look at the applications for these, what's really cool in the breadth of applications, here just in real applications that customers are doing with us, we have a foot sensor. This is real. Yeah, this is an application company called Bebop's working on. So this goes and has pressure sensors at your feet all the way through an EEG sensor for your brain. This is the muse. So from your head to your feet. This is the muse. And it's real Panak, right? Yes. What's going on here? How did you, what did you enable with that? And so that's actually the conductive traces in the sensors and then here we also have a smart glove that's being used for gaming applications we're working with the company on. So a fairly interesting, fairly extensive array of materials and then of course this is part of a smart shirt. You can see the shirt actually on the mannequin back there, the red shirt. I mean you have the guys that... Yeah, so where is it, the technology? And this specific shirt is actually made by the Holst Institute and it's a demonstrator of a smart shirt bringing additional capabilities and a very comfortable, pleasant form factor to the market. Awesome. And what is that? The lights up over here. Yeah, you definitely don't want to... So this is another example of in-mode technology. This particular product was made by a company called Tactile Tech and it demonstrates how you can get very beautiful... One thing, some of us come to us, it's almost like you can believe the tail or the neck or body. It's the same technology we saw in the shower demo over there. Now where it's not really the most ideal connection. So a lot of things are happening in the printed electronics industry and you're very busy at DuPont. Absolutely. We're very excited about the potential that the industry offers. Our customers are really excited as you've seen around the booth. We really see a lot of potential this year for this to be a breakout year as these materials get to be embraced in a lot of new applications. What's the best way to accelerate? And get this to market even faster. Customers just need to be more and more excited about this and just say, come on, we want to have it. So we would say a few things. First of all is collaboration. We've been working very closely with a number of different companies on these applications and we're really eager to find the right partners to bring a lot of these things to market faster. We also could see a lot of new applications coming just from the market adopting it and consumers starting to adopt them in the smart clothing space. That's particularly exciting. Think about the use cases, right? Even today you have a baby monitor. Imagine if you could track the heart rate and the breathing of the baby. All of a sudden that's a compelling use case. Does that work? Is it possible to do all that, like hot tracking? Absolutely. It works already? That is possible today with these materials. And on the bottom shelf you can see some materials that are in yellow at the front. The materials in yellow are printed electronics on Kevlar, the same material that's used for bulletproof vests. Can we bring it out? Absolutely. Yeah. So these are materials, this is on Kevlar. So Kevlar is the material used to protect, for example, our first responders with bulletproof vests and this has printed electronic materials using our technology on Kevlar. So Dupont's invented Kevlar, Dupont's invented the electronics, we bring those together, a powerful solution and you can imagine some really interesting applications for that. We've got a similar application with Nomex, which is the fabric that protects our firefighters as well. So they definitely need biometrics monitoring. Along with other types of monitoring and sensing, so we can see that being a really interesting area as well. So how many sensors work with printed electronics? You have heart rate, you have breathing, you have temperature, what do you have? That's possible. There's EKG, EMG, we've seen temperature, heart rate, breathing and as our customers are trying to do new products, we're seeing things that are so creative that we've never imagined that are going to be coming out in the not too distant future. For example, like these dots over here, sensors basically? That's correct, these dots are sensors, in this case it's measuring heart rate and breathing rate. But how can I do that with a dot like this? What's going on inside? So what's going on inside is essentially it's measuring electrical activity inside of your body, the same way it would if you were hooked up to a heart monitor in a hospital. But if you just wear a shirt, is it tight enough to kind of like get good readings? So typically on these shirts there'll be a compression shirt, so it'll be tight enough to get a good reading, but the materials have to have some stretch to work with that and that's where some of the material challenges come in that we've solved with these particular inks. And the battery life is going to be great? Are you working on flexible batteries or some other guys? So we're not working on flexible batteries, but we've worked with a number of partners where we've seen some really interesting innovation in the space and of course we see that that could become very ubiquitous and be in everyone's closet in the next few years. Awesome. This is going to be really interesting to shop for our clothes. It's going to be more interesting for the geeks to go shopping. I can't wait till Christmas season this year because I think I'm going to be getting some cool stuff under the tree.