everyone, and welcome to Hawaii Together on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Keely E. Akina, your host and president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. My guest today is Alexander Silver. He's a retired federal public defender who has practiced law for 33 years in Hawaii. Now many of you have probably heard of Alexander because of his involvement in the investigation that brought Louis and Katharine K. Loja to justice for trying to frame a relative of Gerald Puana for the theft of their mailbox. I'm sure you've at least seen some news coverage of that. Louis K. Loja at the time was Honolulu's police chief, and his wife Katharine was a city deputy prosecutor. Alexander was Puana's defense attorney, and after the trial he wrote the mailbox conspiracy, the inside story of the greatest corruption case in Hawaii history. That's an intriguing title and we're going to get to talk to him about the book, and about much more than that, about corruption in general. Alexander joins me today to talk about the corruption covered in this book, and more importantly, we'll talk about how we can put a stop to that kind of practice here in the state of Hawaii and the county of Honolulu. But please welcome to the program my guest, Alexander Silver. Alexander, welcome. Aloha to you. Alexander Silver. Aloha to you too. Thanks for having me. Alexander Silver. Well, I'm so glad you're making time for this. You've got an important message. First, tell me why public defender work? I mean, there are far more lucrative careers where you can wear even shinier shoes and design your suits. But public defender work, what drew you into that? Alexander Silver. Well, I come from both my parents were professors and left wing at that, and I grew up in the late 60s, so I was a part of the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam movement. And so it was very natural for me to want to do defense work. And when I went to law school, I wasn't going to be a lawyer. I went to get a PhD in political science, and then I fell in love with trial work. And that's how I became a public defender. Well, that's great. You've been serving the public ever since. And even now in your retirement, though, which you've been in for a couple of years, you're reaching out to the public, especially with this book. Now, for those who may not be familiar with the case and perhaps not familiar with your book at all, could you give a very quick synopsis of what it's all about? So everybody knows a little bit about the Kahloa case and what happened. But it was the case of U.S. versus Poana, Gerard Poana. That is the case that I represented, Mr. Poana. And that's the case where we uncovered the evidence of the frame up and the fact that he was actually innocent. So the book is really, it's not a law book for those who are afraid to read it because you think you're going to get deep into law. It's really like a murder mystery. Even though we know who did it, you walk with me step by step as I uncover all the evidence that the Kahloas did to frame Gerard. And I walk you through it and then I walk you through his trial to explain what happened there. And then I talk about how difficult and how dangerous it was to for me to expose the evidence we had to get the U.S. Attorney's Office to believe us and then to get the FBI involved and how that led to the prosecution of the Kahloas. So there's a lot of information in this book that you've never heard about, that you've never seen on television or any of the news stories. So it's really kind of like a who done it. Well, you have a very intriguing opening to the book. I love the first phrase, which is, I didn't do it, my client said. I was framed. Tell us a bit about what you thought in that moment when the client came to you. In fact, did you believe him if you're allowed to say? Right. Well, I have a lot of clients who I represent. I was a federal public defender, so I get appointed to cases. And as a result of that, we represent over 85 to 90 percent of everybody charged in federal court. And a lot of people will come in and tell me that they're not guilty. And I have to do a lot of work to investigate the case to show them why the government's evidence is strong enough to convict them. What the public needs to know is 96 percent of everyone charged in federal court actually ends up pleading guilty. So very few people go to trial. And of the people who go to trial, it's less than 25 percent are found not guilty. So when a person comes in and tells me, like Gerard did, that he's not guilty, it's hard for me to believe. And in particular, in this case, because the evidence that we were told that they had was a video of the actual crime being committed and three people, the KLOA's high ranking police officers, a prosecutor and another police officer, all family relatives were going to identify the person in the video as being Gerard. So that's not a very promising case. So my view of the case when I took it was this is a guilty plea. Now we're just going to fight to try to get him a decent sentence. Well, the case itself involves some interesting features and the one that stands out the most to anyone is the mailbox. You know, why try to frame someone for stealing a mailbox? What's the significance of this mailbox? There were two reasons that happened. The first was this was supposed to be a prosecution under state law. So stealing a piece of property from another, which is the mailbox, is a crime. And if the value of that mailbox is more than $300, it's a felony crime. So this was supposed to be a state court case investigated by HPD, prosecuted by Catherine's office or the state attorney general's office. So that's why it was a mailbox. The other reason it was a mailbox was there were actually two reasons.  So the easiest thing to do here was to say that he stole the mailbox, which is outside. And then secondly, Catherine claimed that there was a piece of mail in that mailbox that Gerard wanted. And that was his reason, his rationale for stealing the mailbox. It's all very fascinating. In fact, there's surveillance of that very act, which you have kind of pared down to a minute clip. Let's go ahead and show that. Let me let you introduce that. Sure. So this was one of the, there were six cameras outside the Kailoa residence and three of them caught the alleged crime. So you're seeing one of them. This is the clip that was shown at trial. And this is the clip of the person stealing the mailbox, which is allegedly Gerard Puana. What I want you, the viewers to see is I want you to take a look at how he rocks the pedestal in the mailbox and how it's taken off. Because that's a very important clue as to how this crime was actually staged. So Alexander, what's taking place? What do you... So here he rocks the pedestal, takes it off the mailbox, off the pedestal, walks back to the car and drives away. You'll notice also that you can't really see the license plate or make of the vehicle. That was intentional. That blurry light was done so that we couldn't see the license plate or the make of the car. So what you've seen is what we proved was that this was completely staged. And unfortunately, to this day, we've never recovered the mailbox and we don't know who actually stole it. Case of the missing mailbox. Yeah. What flagged you in the very first place that your client might actually be telling the truth? Sure. So when Catherine called 911, the police did their usual report and they took photographs. And if we can go to the photograph of the pedestal, this is from the police report. We were given a police report and the photograph of the pedestal. And what we were told is that this was a Gaines mailbox valued at $380. Catherine Kellow wrote a statement under oath saying that HPD wrote a report saying that HPD hired a detective as an appraiser. He wrote down that it was a Gaines mailbox valued at $380. And that was very important because under state law at that time, a theft of property over $300 was a felony. A theft of property under $300 is a misdemeanor. There's a huge difference between a felony and a misdemeanor. So when Gerard was arrested, he was actually charged under state law with felony theft. So that was very important. And the mailbox was important because in terms of how we got, we decided that something was really wrong with this case, right off the bat, was we sent that photograph, the police photograph of the pedestal to the Gaines manufacturing company and just asked them to confirm that this was their pedestal and that the mailbox that would be on top of that pedestal would be the mailbox that's described in the police report. Because this is an expensive mailbox. It's an interlocking system. One pedestal belongs to one mailbox. You can't interchange them. So we sent it to Gaines manufacturing company saying just confirm, which we expected them to do. But instead, they called us back and said, no, this is not our pedestal. This is not our mailbox. And we know who it is. It's another arrival company that makes cheaper models. And they were able to refer us to the solar group manufacturing company, where we confirmed from them that indeed it was their pedestal. And if you can go to the next slide. This is the Gaines mailbox that the Caloas and HPD claimed was on that pedestal. When you can see it's a two-tone mailbox with a particular shape of a roof with a gray flag. If you can go to the next picture.  This is the solar group mailbox. These are actually photographs, a compilation of photographs from family photographs that we obtained. We also went on Google Maps because you can go back by year. You can zoom in to the Caloas residence from 2013.  So we were able to confirm not only from the witnesses from the mailbox companies, but from photographs that they had lied about the make, model, and value of the mailbox in order to make it a felony crime. And that was our first big red flag. Then there were other indicators of your clients and innocents that you came across. What were they? Yeah, in the book, I walk you through every police report because every police report that we were given was either a lie or omitted facts or falsified evidence outright or altered evidence. I walk you through in the book how that was done and what we uncovered. But in giving you the biggest red flag from the book is that Officer Silva of CIU, the Intelligence Unit from HPD that was specialized in this case, a officer went to recover the video that you saw. And Catherine Kahloa reported the crime on June 22 at 1.29 p.m. to 9-1-1. She called 9-1-1, just like you and I would, to report a crime. And she made an affidavit and it was all reported by the 9-1-1 officers. But Officer Silva from CIU had actually gone to the house and retrieved the hard drive, had retrieved the evidence of the video. But his report said he had retrieved the evidence at 8.59 in the morning, more than four and a half hours before Catherine called 9-1-1. How do you retrieve evidence before a crime is reported? So that was a second red flag that really told us that something was up. If we can go to the next slide after this one. Well, that's the comparison of the two. I'm sorry, go back to that for a second, just so viewers can see. The mailbox on the left is the solar group. That's the one that was actually in front of the Kahloa residents. The one on the right is the one they claimed. And HPD claim was in front of the Kahloa residents. You can see clearly they're different if you can go to the next slide. So this is Catherine actual handwritten affidavit to the 9-1-1 officer. She signed it at the bottom on your oath and you can play detective yourself. If you can see it on your screen, you can see on the arrow that goes to the right that she says it's $380. But I want you to look at the eight under 380. And then look at the eights that are in the 18 inches on the line above to the left. They're different. So the eight that says 380 was altered. Why? Because remember, over $300 is a felony, not $300. So I think she had written 300 and they put a snowman zero to make it 380. It had to be over 300. Now, if we can go to the next slide for one second. This is Officer Silva's report. And here you can see that the crime is reported at 1300 hours. But he writes on the left that he retrieved the evidence at 8 59. So as a defense attorney, when I'm looking at police reports, these are the kind of nitpicky small details that I'm looking for inconsistencies in the report. And we found that every single report had inconsistencies, significant inconsistencies that were wrong. Well, in addition to the inconsistencies, you also had a tough time getting a hold of records, talk to us a little bit about that, particularly records from the HPD. The process in federal court to get a subpoena, because if I go to HPD and I ask for records, they're not going to give it to me. I have to get a subpoena. So the process in federal court is I actually file a document under seal so no one sees it, but the judge and I ask the judge permission to get a document to subpoena a document. And the court has to first approve it. I can't just issue my own subpoena. So when the court approves it and I issue a subpoena at HPD, it's actually a federal judge's subpoena. It's not my subpoena. We had subpoenaed a whole bunch of records, different kinds of records from HPD. We do this routinely in cases. And in this case, initially HPD comply. But then what they started to do was redact the reports we got, which means they blacked out information on the reports, which you're not allowed to do. Secondly, they started. We wanted an affidavit from the custodian of record saying that these were all that he did a search and these are all the records because we knew they were not turning records over to us or that records hadn't been generated that were supposed to be prepared. So we wanted an affidavit from the custodian of record saying these are all the records. Well, at first he did it. But then when he realized what we were doing, he stopped doing it and saying, well, there are three custodian of records at HPD. You have to subpoena everybody. And I'm only going to respond for my department. We had to litigate all of these issues in front of the judge. And we want all of these issues forcing HPD to comply with our subpoenas without redaction, without multiple custodian of records. And even then we were appealed to the Ninth Circuit by Catherine because we were subpoenaing her medical records and her employment records. And she took us all the way to the Ninth Circuit trying to fight us. So we issued 26 subpoenas for documents, which is the most I've ever issued in a case. And HPD and Catherine fought us on almost all of them. But we mostly won all of those battles. All of these hearings took place under seal in secret. So there now the information is available to the public under freedom of information. But at the time it was all hidden from the public. Well, the mystery goes deeper. You write in your book that there's a quote, secretive black ops unit within the Honolulu police department. End of quote. Now, this gives me Tom Clancy like feelings. I'm reading and I'm waiting for the movie to come out. But can you explain a bit about this black ops unit? What exactly is it? What did it do? And is it standard procedure? So the criminal investigation unit, intelligence unit, CIU is a unit within HPD, which is supposed to do these very top secret investigations of high crimes, you know, mafios, those kind of things. Gangs, but it's a unit that does not write reports. Their activities are completely unknown. The members are chosen specifically by the chief of police and are responsible only to the chief of police. So CIU would go out and do things and even other police officers in other units wouldn't report in their reports. If CIU was involved, their activities were kept secret. Since there was a long history, you can go back and find newspaper articles. CIU had been involved in a number of corruption issues before, because of their activities. After this case was over and all the officers charged in this case were from the CIU division. So it wasn't just the KLOAs who were charged. There were a number of officers in the CIU who were also charged. Since this case broke, the CIU has been first renamed. I don't know what that does other than paint the pig a different color. But it's kind of been disbanded or reorganized. It's not solely picked at the behest of the chief of police. There is now supervision. They do write reports. So some of the problems with this kind of a unit in HPD has been addressed. I don't know if it's fully been addressed, but it was one of those units that you couldn't believe in a domestic police force that such a thing existed. Well, fast forward. The KLOAs did not do well in their respective jury trials, and they are now behind bars. Do you believe justice has been served? I do. I mean, many people think that their sentences should have been longer. And in some regards, that's true because I represented a lot of people who were first time offenders, minor drug offenses, and they got 10 years or 20 years in jail for their offenses. And yet some people who try to undermine the system and use their power of law enforcement in the exact opposite of what they're sworn to do, you would think that would warrant a very harsh sentence. But for me as a public defender, they did get harsh sentences, even though it could have been more. So I'm satisfied that the justice was served in that respect. Now, where justice has not been served is Florence Poana, who is Gerard Poana's mother, who was the grandmother of Catherine Kahloa. Catherine stole over two hundred thousand dollars from Florence and Gerard. Florence had to sell her house because of what happened and what Catherine did. She lost her house, which was her only inheritance for her family. That has never been made whole. Even though the KLOs were convicted and they have to pay restitution, they have no money, so they're still out all of that money. And so in that sense, justice has not been served. Well, let's talk a little more generally now. Last month, I had the opportunity to interview Professor Randall Roth, whom you know, co-author of Broken Trust and also an expert on crime in our community on corruption in particular. He has a pretty dismal view about the extent of corruption in Honolulu and throughout the state of Hawaii and feels that it is very extensive. What are your thoughts about that? Well, I grew up on the East Coast in cities like New York and Philadelphia. You know, you talk about corruption. We're talking substantial corruption in those cities. I don't think Hawaii is worse. I don't think it's better. I don't think it's worse. But we have some unique problems here that other places don't. We don't have a lot of whistleblowers in Hawaii. And there's a reason for that.  You can move your family and relocate them to another part of the state or to another state. You can keep your job most of the time. You can keep your friends and family in Hawaii.     You're going to lose the state. You may have been born and raised it. So we don't have a lot of whistleblowers in Hawaii. You know, none of this stuff took place in secret. There are a lot of people who knew what happened. And if we talk about the old Bishop of State, you know, broken trust case, there are a lot of people who knew what happened and no one came forward. That's part of the problem. The other problem we have is as a one party state and I'm a Democrat, so I'm OK with the one party state, except for this with a one party state, you don't have checks and balances. And if the Democratic Party won't police itself, then you have a problem because those people who are in law enforcement or at the state attorney general's office or at the prosecutor's office who would bring these types of corruption cases, they got to worry about their future because the people they're going to be charged charging are mostly going to be part of the Democratic Party or the bigger organization of the Democratic Party. And that may impact their future as a lawyer. You know, lawyers want to become judges. They want to move up in a partnership. That's problematic if you start charging people in corruption who end up being the status quo, the power elite. So we do have some unique problems in Hawaii that we have to deal with. Well, you mentioned that there are very few whistleblowers in Hawaii and you speak of a culture in which people simply don't want to stand up. And that may very well be the environment which breeds the kind of corruption we have where everybody seems to know about it until finally something breaks. And we find that there's been a grand jury trial and so forth. What can be done? Let's talk about the solution. What can citizens who really care about getting rid of corruption as well as public officials do? Well, one thing I've been really pushing for is there were all these oversight commissions, you know, the Police Commission, the Ethics Commission and ODC, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel that oversees lawyers who should have been involved in this case, who should have stepped in and should have tried to prevent what was happening from happening or at least stop it from getting worse. And they all fail. Every one of those public oversight commissions failed. And the problem is nothing has been done by them since this case broke to correct their inaction.  What happened? Once you've identified the failure, then you can correct it. You know, when a bridge falls down, engineers go out, they look at what what happened and why it happened, and they make corrections in Hawaii, our institutions have absolutely refused to look inside and conduct any internal investigation of themselves so they can correct their inaction. So that has to be done at all levels. To determine what needs to be done to take corrective action, because you can't just take corrective action when you don't know what happened wrong in the first place. And the system, the establishment has been really powerful in stopping that from happening. So we need the public to come in and say, no, we need this done. We want to know what happened. One of the big problems with all of these commissions is that it's the mayor who appoints all the commissioner and the mayor alone. And there is no criteria. Other states around the country, the people who appoint the commission as it's broken up between city council, the mayor, there's a freelance person and there are criteria for who can qualify as a commissioner. We have to do that. If we don't do that, then what happens is what happened to Loretta Sheehan of the police commission and why I won't be part of one of these commission. The mayor appoints one or two rabble rousers like Loretta Sheehan or Judge Levinson to be on the commission. He looks good, you know, everybody's happy, but you're only two of seven or one of seven, your voice is going to be drowned out when it comes to the major issues. And if as long as that procedure keeps going on where the mayor gets to a point, city council, of course, approves, but they approve everybody unless there's something drastically wrong with the person. As long as that's the way commissioners are appointed, we're never going to have change. We're not going to have introspective. And we're never going to solve this problem so it doesn't happen again. Because right now there's absolutely nothing preventing this from happening again. On one level, that's a dismal thought. But on the other hand, you've told us exactly what we need to do and what we need to fix. And I hope that our public officials are listening. I hope that many in the public get to review this video and read your book. Alexander, thank you so much for your years of service to our county and our state, and thank you for being on the program today. Well, thanks for having me. Well, everyone, you heard it. My guest today is Alexander Silvert. And I hope you get to read his book, The Mailbox Conspiracy, the inside story of the greatest corruption case in Hawaii history. And I hope we can start doing something about this. My name is Kaley Akina on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network, saying aloha to you until next week. 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Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and we just got the very exciting news that a sequel to the Five Nights at Freddy's movie is now officially in development. So we're going to be talking about the announcement, everyone and everything set to return in this upcoming film, filming dates as well as our own personal thoughts and theories for what we think is going to be happening in this sequel film. So if you guys are excited for the second FNAF movie, don't forget to scroll down and subscribe to the channel. It's kind of crazy to think that only one month ago we got the release of the very first FNAF movie and now here we are already talking about news on a second film. I guess maybe it shouldn't be that surprising seeing as how the FNAF movie is now the highest grossing horror film of the entire year. I mean that's surpassing massive IPs like The Nun 2, Scream 6, Saw 10, like there's a lot of very good horror films that released this year and FNAF's on top. It's also past 2016 split to become the highest grossing Blumhouse film ever. And as I'm recording this video we're almost at 300 million dollars made worldwide at the box office. Taking into account the budget for the FNAF movie was roughly 25 million and they already made that money back by just selling the streaming rights. I mean it's kind of no wonder why we're already getting the announcement for the second film like this first film has been massive. It just released on digital, it's still running in theaters. On the 12th of December it comes out on Blu-ray and DVD. And also in the past we've heard Scott Cawthon and Matthew Lillard say that they do have plans for three films total. Again it's kind of no wonder we've already gotten the announcement for the second film. But anyways now let's talk about the announcement itself because we got reports from the Hollywood Handle over on Twitter. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is in the works with Emma Tommy returning as the director. And in the article itself they say the horror movie hit adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's is getting a sequel. And director Emma Tommy is coming back to helm the project. The Hollywood Handle has exclusively learned that Tommy, who directed the first film adaptation of the popular video game series, will return to direct Five Nights at Freddy's 2, which is expected to start production in 2024. It is currently unknown which other cast and crew will be returning for the sequel, but once production commences, more should be revealed to the public. So that is actually the whole announcement we don't have too much to go off of. We know that Emma Tommy, who directed the first FNAF film, which I thought she did a wonderful job directing this film, she is coming back to direct the second film. We also know that production is set to begin in 2024. And actually we had Insider and Tom clarify what that exactly means. They took to Twitter to write the FNAF 2 film has been in pre-production for about half a year now, prior to its announcement which just happened. However, filming is aiming for an early-ish 2024 date. We've even had reports about the current script for the second film. Once again from the same Insider, despite being in development for quite some time. The script for the FNAF sequel is currently being reworked in response to feedback from the first film. And Tom clarifying once again that the plot in story is relatively the same and has been planned out. However, the screenplay itself is undergoing reworking from Scott. They are not starting over completely from square one. And this lines up pretty perfectly from what we've heard from Scott himself over on Reddit. Where in a Reddit post earlier in November, he wrote anyways, thanks everyone for making opening weekend such a big success. It was beyond my wildest dreams. I do read the comments and critique, so while I'm glad that most people had a great time at the movies, I'm definitely paying attention and I wanted you all to know that. Because as I'm sure we're all aware at this point, FNAF fans absolutely adored the film. We ate up every single second we got to see Freddy Fazbear up on the silver screen. The audience score on Rotten Tomatoes sitting at, ironically enough, an 87%. But quite frankly, critics kind of panned the film. Right now it's at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is very, very low. Seems like Jason Blum and Scott and everyone working on the film really wanted to make a film for the fans. In fact, we kept hearing them say that over and over again during the lead up to the release. But if you make a film for only one very select, very niche market, everyone else is not going to enjoy it so much. So as honored as it does feel as a FNAF fan to have a film catered towards you, I really do hope the feedback they're listening to involves, you know, making it more accessible to people who aren't familiar with Five Nights at Freddy's. But anyways, getting back on track, let's go back to Emma, because she has revealed in the past kind of her plans for the second film. She said we're definitely excited to keep making more movies in this world. Should we be lucky enough to do that? Keep in mind this article was released on Halloween, so before the FNAF 2 movie was greenlit, this first film was tied into the first game, and we would probably focus on tying the second film into the second game, and so on and so forth. But anything could happen, we'll have to wait and see. Now, quite frankly, that makes a whole lot of sense. Having a Five Nights at Freddy's 2 movie, focus on the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 game. But there are a few complications with that. Number one, in case you may or may not be aware of, the FNAF 2 game is actually a prequel, so happens before the FNAF 1 game. There already has been a bit of timeline changes in the film universe. For example, FNAF 1 actually takes place in the year 2000, while the events of the main FNAF 1 game take place in the early 1990s. So already there's a bit of changing with the timeline, I can definitely see them making the second film actually a sequel instead of a prequel, because imagine having another FNAF film without Mike, without Abby, without Vanessa. Because the first time Mike and Abby learned about Freddy Fazbear's pizza is in this first film, so I definitely do not think that this second film is going to be a prequel, I do think it's going to be a continuation. Now that William Afton is dead, of course he will come back, he always comes back guys, come on. I can see the second film having a brand new owner of Freddy Fazbear's pizza, he tries to reopen it, you know, introduce all the brand new shiny toy animatronics who are definitely, definitely safe. Because they feature that facial recognition, you know this is probably a couple years, maybe only a couple months in the future, I don't know, technology has advanced, and this ends up bringing Mike and Abby and Vanessa back to Freddy's.  In the post-credits scene we do hear a voice spell out, come find me, I think the general consensus is that that is the puppet, especially because we can hear the puppet's music box during that credit scene actually play while the voice is talking, that could possibly mean that maybe the FNAF 2 location is already open, you know the puppet is at that FNAF 2 location, come find me, I'm in a different location. And actually going back to interviews with Emma, she did touch upon some loose ends in the first film that it seems like they're going to explain in the second film, the first question about Aunt Jane, did she actually die? That would obviously be a big problem for Mike and Abby if the person challenging for custody of Abby wound up dead in their house. If she survived, it would still be a problem, although maybe she'd be traumatized by what happened that she dropped her claim and deceitful plan altogether, to which Emma responded with, we have a few loose ends that I think are going to have to come back in the sequel to be tied up. And the article laid that out perfectly. If Aunt Jane is dead, that's a big problem. Mike and Abby have a lot of explaining to do to the court. If she turns out to be alive, does she still want to try and get custody of Abby? To me, that seems like kind of a niche plot to still continue into a second film, so if she is still alive, I hope they do something different with her character. Another loose end was about Garrett. Garrett's ghost slash body wasn't in any of the animatronics, right? I suppose you would have had a moment between him and Mike if he was. Emma responding pretty vaguely, I feel like that could also be a nice thing for the fan base to mull over. I'd love to not shut down anyone's theories. The article neglects to bring up Vanessa, even though I'd say that's another pretty big loose end that needs explaining. I do think Vanessa is going to live. I feel like if she was going to die, they would have had a more conclusive scene like a funeral. Plus, like I said at the start of the video, fans have fallen in love with the actors and actresses in this film. Getting Elizabeth Layle back, I'm sure is on Blumhouse's mind. Also, speaking of ghost kids, it seems like there is some unfinished business between Afton and the spirit possessing Golden Freddy, like we see at the end of the film. And of course, is a major plot point in the games and something that I'm sure we're going to see expand upon, maybe not in the second film, but probably the third film. I think something that I've been struggling to wrap my head around is how they're going to do the withered animatronics. The toy is very easy explanation. Someone reopens Freddy Fazbear, they've got brand new animatronics, they're cute, they're cuddly, they're friendly, you know, they have facial recognition to make them safe. A theory I had, which I'm not completely on board with, I'd love to know your thoughts. At the end of the first film, we see the building kind of collapse in, or at least the roof caves in. It seems very likely that the animatronics would be damaged by something like that. So maybe when we see them next, when someone goes into that abandoned Freddy Fazbear's pizza place, they sort through the rubbish, they find the FNAF one animatronics, they take on the appearance of the withered animatronics, you know, Bonnie's missing his face, Chika's missing her arms. Though a major problem with that, and I'm sure you're shouting at your screens right now, despite the FNAF two withered animatronics and the FNAF one animatronics, presumably being the same animatronics, they look nothing alike. And so having them reuse the bases for the FNAF one characters and turning those into the withers, I feel like could look a bit off. I guess the withers could just be another set of, you know, Freddy Bonnie, Chika Foxy, but then it's missing the spirit kids we saw in the first film. So again, I'd love to know your thoughts. What do you want them to do with the withers? Another thing we got to think about are all the secrets, all the Easter eggs. We've heard in the past that Markiplier was supposed to be in the first film. He was planned to be the Freddy's security guard we saw at the start of the film before Mike gets the job. However, Mark was filming his own movie at the time, though Scott Cawthon did say he wants Mark to be in a future FNAF film if they happen. So I really do think Blumhouse Universal Scott are going to try their absolute best to get Markiplier into this film. It seems like Mark wants to be in it as well. The first film also had plenty of secrets and Easter eggs for fans to spot like Sparky the dog, Ella, as well as Shadow Freddy. FNAF 2 is kind of known for being the game that really bumped up the Easter eggs like Shadow Bonnie and JJ and the Endoskeleton. There wasn't Endo in this first film that you could spot in a few shots, though in FNAF 1, you know, in the game, there wasn't an Endoskeleton that walked around the pizzeria, so this was a bit out of place. Though it was welcome, but at least in the second film, they now have a reason and an explanation for why there's just a random Endoskeleton walking around. Because in FNAF 2, if you didn't wind up the puppets music box, an Endoskeleton 02 would pop out, he'd make your way towards your vents.   And we still need explanation for the connection between Mike and the Afton family. You know, why did Afton go after Garrett? What's up with Mike's dad? Is he actually Henry? If he is, does Charlie exist in this universe? Is she possessing the puppet or is it Garrett? There are just so many answers that I really, really want to see in this film and I'd love to know, what do you want to see in this FNAF 2 film? Like we've mentioned, pre-production is already well underway. Filming starts early next year. So pretty damn soon, we're gonna be getting a lot more info on this next film. So again, subscribe so you don't miss out on any updates regarding the FNAF 2 movie. That's gonna be it for this video. So thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Moerler and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. ***According to a new survey, 44% of flyers would rather take a longer, more expensive flight than fly united. Heck, I'd rather take Amtrak. I'd even settle for Greyhound. A South Carolina family got an Easter visit this week from a 9-foot-long alligator that broke into their upstairs porch and then refused to leave. Even worse, the Easter Bunny never showed up. ***A person aboard a Southwest Airlines plane was arrested after security staff found a loaded gun in his hand luggage. By the way, Eric was to be the plane's pilot. Incidentally, this is the second gun that has been found by Albany baggage screeners in four weeks. Seeing as it has been proven that the TSA is only 5% effective, imagine how many guns are still getting through security. Have a nice flight! Kendall Jenner says she's not as girly as her Kardashian sisters. In her words, she says, I get that from my dad. ***I'll just let that one sink in for a moment. The U.S. fleet President Trump supposedly sent to North Korea spent days sailing in the wrong direction. ***Well, it's a round world. The fleet would get there eventually. An Oregon man died peacefully after a friend falsely told him that President Trump had been impeached. Are you sure he died peacefully? Maybe once he passed on, his spirit got really ticked off at being lied to in his final moments on Earth. He's going to torment his friend now until Trump leaves office. Watch your language in Louisiana. Deputies arrested Jared Dillon Smith after they say he yelled an F-bomb while sitting next to a 75-year-old woman and, quote, clearly disturbed her peace. He was arrested. In Louisiana, the penalty for disturbing the peace is up to 90 days in jail and $100 fine. Yep, all of that for a single dropping of the F-word. If that's the case, I can only assume Louisiana doesn't allow cable TV or movie theaters. Over $43 million in American cash was found inside an apartment in Nigeria. And you are way late if you were thinking of a Nigerian prince joke. Starbucks unveiled the unicorn Frappuccino this week, a multicolored salute to something that we believe exists but have never seen. You know, like the president's tax returns. The Avondale Police Department in Arizona has shared photos from the swearing-in of its newest and most unusual officer, Iroh, the drug-sniffing lizard. By the way, lizards don't actually have a better sense of smell than dogs, and this all started off last year as an April Fool's Day joke. But apparently, they just couldn't let this little guy go, so now he's on the police force.  Egyptian archaeologists have discovered eight mummies in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the ancient city of Luxor. Tom Cruise could not have wished for better timing. Scientists say they have discovered that salt doesn't make you thirsty, it makes you hungry. Finally, an explanation of why I always need some pretzels to go with my pretzels. A guy in China hid about $6,000 in the kitchen trash can before he and his wife went away on a business trip.  That's just too bad. That $6,000 could have come in handy for buying a wall safe. Or maybe opening a Christmas savings account. Jake Bowers of Ohio wanted to set a good example for his children, and it cost him $14,000. That's how much money he found on the side of the road as he drove his family to a park in Worthington, a Columbus suburb. Bowers says when he initially saw the blue felt bag on the roadside, he thought it might contain someone's laptop. Instead, it was filled with $100 bills. Bowers and his family drove straight to the Worthington police station and the bag was returned to its owner. It wasn't too hard to find him, a wallet containing the owner's ID was inside the bag. It could have been worse, the guy could have kept his money in a kitchen trash can. So what would you do, weirdos? If you found $14,000 in cash on the side of the road, would you turn it in or would you keep it? Let me know in the comments below! If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe if you want to see more. And click that little bell next to the subscribe button to be notified when I post new videos. And if you're already an official weirdo, be sure to leave a comment and say so. Have you signed up for the Marlar Sheet? It is the official newsletter of Marlar House. Subscribers to the Marlar Sheet are automatically entered in monthly prize drawings. Sign up for the Marlar Sheet free today at MarlarHouse.com. For more weird news anytime, visit DailyToseOfWeirdNews.com. I'm Darren Marlar and I'll see you next time, Weirdos!


The challenge of the Yukon on King on New Huskies The Wonder Dog King's whiftest and strongest of Eskimo League dogs Blazes the trail through storm and snow for Sergeant Preston as he meets the challenge of the Yukon Sergeant Preston was typical of the small band of Northwest Monty Police who preserved law and order in the new Northwest country where the greed for wealth and power led to frequent violence and bloodshed but in spite of the odds against them Sergeant Preston and his Wonder Dog King met that challenge and justice ruled triumphant It was a pleasant spring morning as who boys walked along the main street of 40 mile accompanied by a frolicsome dog of doubtful pedigree The dog however was the only one whose disposition matched the weather as the boys were decidedly belligerent I don't care if you aren't in the city. That doesn't mean you know everything Well, I certainly know more about thoroughbred dogs than you do these things they have up here in the Yukon are all Mongrels, some of them are half wool. What if they are? They're better dogs and no sissy things they have in the city Hmm, they wouldn't stand a chance in a dog show who cares about an old dog show Happy'd be insulted if I even took him near one that old cur or they wouldn't let him near the door Happy's not a curry. He's a good brave dog and he could look ten once. Huh that mangy mongrel Watch him run What's the matter with you? I'll show him if you'll keep a rocket my dog. Let me add him You'll be sorry for this. I'll tell my father that dog tore my pants. Don't want to tell your old father you sissy I'll tell me what's wrong. I had to hit him sergeant Preston.  Why we're fighting. I guess you'd better run a long home young fella before I let go of Billy I'll get even with them. Don't worry. I wish it. Let me get him. Don't Billy calm down I'm going toward your house. I'll walk along home with you here King. Come on.  Well, I can see your point Bill But from the looks of things I'd say you taught him a lesson just cuz he's rich and from the city doesn't mean he can get away Well, who is he Billy? He's Bruce Norton his father was up here buying minds and claims. Oh, yes. He must be Fred Norton's son Norton's doing business with your dad, isn't he? Yeah, I guess so dad had his own his claim Ever since he hurt his shoulder. He can't do any heavy work. Oh, here's your cabin Billy. Bye. Good luck.  I had a fight a fight. Oh not with Bruce Norton. I couldn't help it mom He's mean and he threw a stone at happy and he said all kinds of terrible things about him and Billy You know daddy's trying to do business with his father It's very important that mr. Norton buys our claim well if mr. Norton is anything like a son. I feel sorry for dad Mr. Norton thinks the world of that boy of his he'll be furious. Yeah, I know. Well, we can't take any chances Billy I think you'd better apologize and make friends with Bruce Apologize to the elderly You'll do it for daddy, won't you? Oh, I guess so but I don't like them You go over tomorrow morning and make up The following morning Billy trudged along beside his father reluctantly as they headed for Norton's cabin I can see your point son. I don't like to ask you to do this I guess you had a perfect right to hit him. Well, I guess I shouldn't have lost my temper The trouble is Norton is the only man with money enough to buy this claim of mine for cash Kind of a bad spot. I know dad. Don't worry. I'll fix everything. Here we are Hello, mr. Norton Well, Jim wanted if I'd see you today This is your son. I suppose. Yes, this is Billy. Hello, mr. Norton. You step in I wanted to see you about the disagreement our sons had just at the gym Seems to be rather an odd way to treat a newcomer Billy came over to say sorry mr. Norton Sorry about losing his temper. Well, I should think he would be It was hardly a gentlemanly thing to do Billy, I'm sorry. I hit him so hard mr. Norton I thought maybe let me take him around today. I'll call him in you can apologize to him Bruce Bruce.  I was rather upset about all this In fact, I was almost ready to call our deal off all together. What do you want? Oh Bruce? Here's a Bill he's come to apologize. Oh, he has Billy, yes, you better I'm sorry. I lost my temper Bruce. I wondered if you'd let me show you around today I don't think I feel like going out now, son.  All right. Come along punk. Why you Okay, I Think they'll get along all right now About that clean of yours Jim I'm afraid I can't offer you more than 10,000 for 10,000. It's worth much more than that. Well, that's my deal Well I'll have to think it over mr. Norton. You've got a couple of days But I think you'll decide to do it Why you brought that silly dog alone. I'll say anything about happy huh Here's dad's claim. He started a mine over there, but it didn't work So we had to begin all over again. They are about 300 yards.  You too now you're both down there.    I'll teach you to hit your bettors. Goodbye It just can't get out. I just can't climb this wall. I've tried and tried I Hadn't pushed you in too. You'd have brought somebody here. I bet all I've got is this old broken pick We just got to get out mama worrying I Know maybe we can dig a slanting tunnel Here's a place that's soft. Come on boy. Take happy you get it started fella.  Oh Sergeant Preston I stopped buying guts aren't impressed and Mary Hello, Mrs. Nice sergeant. I'm so glad you're in town. I'm so worried Billy'd never stay out this late at something I'm happy. Don't worry. I've got King. He's good at trailing and we know where Billy went Oh, you know I stopped at Norton's Bruce got home hours ago He said they went way up in the hills east of town and when he wanted to come back Billy wouldn't come so he left him He said Billy and happy went on east. That was the last he saw of them up in the hills We must have fallen down the crevice. Don't think up things that could have happened, Mrs. Nice if you'll give me something of Billy's so the king can get his sack will start for the hills and pick up his trail Oh, yes Here's a sweater, please. Come on, Jim. All right, King. Let's go Must have gone to sleep. I know fella. You're hungry. So am I. Oh, why can't they find us? Maybe we'll stay in this deep old hole forever No, we won't we're gonna dig some more. We've got about eight feet. If you could only dig up Woman get some sleep King and I will keep looking. No, I couldn't sleep This idea of searching in the other direction may be a good one Yes, he couldn't have been in the hills or King would have picked up his trail We went over every inch of them, but Bruce said that's where they were He's been gone almost 24 hours. Wait, King's picked up the trail. Yes. Look. He's running west through those trees. We're coming King Hurry, Jim sounds as if Kings found something Did you hear that Preston? It's Billy King seems to be looking down a hole. It's not all mine I started and had to abandon that North and Brad must be at the bottom of this He deliberately still listen the wrong direction Billy Good work, King son. Thank heaven. You're alive There's a rope son. Hang on. We'd never have found even if it hadn't been for King Your ability hang on. All right, Jim. He's you've had quite a night. Are you all right Billy? I'm kind of tired. I tried to dig my way out. We made a long tunnel, but I rock I should have taken it out of my pocket. It's so heavy. I was carrying it out of the tunnel I bet you're hungry. Preston look what this piece of rock. It's gold. There must be a vein running through there Billy, how did you happen to fall in there? Bruce Norton pushed me in, but then if we found golden It isn't important as finding you son But it means that old man Norton will really have to pay if he wants this claim You'll see Mr. Norton your son did a very serious thing. I Hope you punish him for all that sissy. He wasn't hurt. No, but my pocket book was That land of his were ten times what he'd have taken for it before Billy found that gold. I ought to take you over my knee. Yeah, you and who else me I Represent the law on this part of the country and you young man need punishing. Come here Go on me. You can't horn cop Father stop him.  No, no, don't I'm sorry there. Wait Well, that's the first time he ever That's the first spanking. He's ever had and I hope for his sake. It won't be the last Maybe you're right. You see if it hadn't been for King. I don't know what would have happened to Billy Think that over mr. Norton All right, follow. Let's go. I think we've given mr. Norton a few good ideas These copyrighted dramas originated in the studios of WXY Z Detroit and all characters names places and incidents used are fictitious They are sent to you each week at the same time and reach you from our transcription studios This is this is the Michigan


Welcome members of the Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. This is a little presentation of the April Painting Challenge winners. I'm going to start with beginner category. I want you to just enjoy all of these paintings until the end when I announce the winners and next it will go after all of these beginner category honorable mentions. The next will be intermediate and then advanced. But these are all the beginners that I chose from the over 200 like I don't know may have been close to 300 entries into this month's or April's Painting Challenge and I'm just amazed at some of this beginner work. It's crazy how awesome this is. But I don't want beginners to get frustrated because some of the level of this work is so good they could be right at the tail end of being a year at a beginner and just some amazing work here. So and after this one I think right after this one is the intermediate honorable mentions and I want to mention that sometimes it's very hard for me to keep up with who has won before and who hasn't and that's a little hard. So sometimes someone may win a couple of times so that's just kind of the way it is when we've got almost 10,000 people in our group now to like keep up with. But you're all winners you know I always say that everyone who participates because you are growing and getting better look at all these beautiful intermediate category entries oh my goodness it's so great but like I said everybody who entered a painting you are a winner as far as I'm concerned and I I love this task but it is hard oh my goodness to go through and choose all of these just to pull out some because they're all so good but these were to represent spring and I thought it was a hopeful type of category for the painting challenge because of so much that's been going on in our world I will be announcing the new painting challenge for the month of May as soon as I get done creating this but again look at these are the intermediate entries outstanding and you probably know intermediate is you've been painting more than a year but less than five years oh and I don't think I mentioned that I'll have the grand winners for each category at the end of this video so now yes this is just a presentation to see all the ones that I pulled as honorable mentions within each category and this is I think towards the end of the intermediate yes this is the last intermediate honorable mention and now we're going into the advanced category now it's so hard to how do you pick just a few of these you know they're just all so good so there were quite a bit of the advanced paintings that I pulled out to showcase you know I want you guys I know a lot of times when we have our painting challenge album there's so many that you guys you're painting and you're uploading that you don't get a chance to really go through all of these and look at them so this is kind of like my opportunity to showcase all of the gorgeous works that were submitted each month for the painting challenge albums and I'm telling you what it is just beautiful work so you guys just enjoy this and then at the end I'm going to announce the winners all right here we go and the winners are for each category beginning with the beginner category is Ronetta Chirruta I believe Ronetta may have won before but man was this painting not amazing can you believe this is beginner work she's just oh she's got pastels down pat that's for sure absolutely beautiful and for the intermediate category Penelope Matalana now Penelope had two paintings submitted they were both gorgeous she may have had more than two but two that I pulled out that you may have seen before and quite a few artists had a few paintings and the winner of the advanced category is Toby Reed Toby had three paintings submitted all gorgeous and I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it I didn't even know it was from Toby but many of you may have followed Toby's situation and story over the past probably over a year now Toby was very ill and I know many of you including me prayed for Toby and it is just so amazing for me to see him creating such gorgeous work it was gorgeous before but you know what trials often help us to reach new heights with art and other things so congratulations Toby now this is an artist or an admin special mention can I do that I'm the admin well I'm gonna do it I thought these paintings represented the category so well it's two paintings from the artist Enrico Paul Mary I mean just look at these adorable bunnies now this one to me stole the show and I know you guys know about my faith I'm not shy about that but that's not the only reason why I picked this painting it's outstanding absolutely beautiful congratulations Enrico on the admin special pick alright Monet cafe family I hope you enjoyed that presentation congratulations to the winners and to all of you for making Monet cafe a place of beauty for the world happy painting


Hello, my name is Matilda and I will be talking about puncturable key wrapping and its applications. This is joint work with Felix Ginto and Kenny Patterson. In the full talk at Asia Crypt, I will try to tell you what puncturable key wrapping is, how it can be used, and why we think it's interesting. But in this teaser, I'm going to focus on the last point and tell you why I think we need puncturable key wrapping. So starting with a motivating example, let's take a look at the setting of Cloud Storage. Imagine that you're a user of a cloud storage service and that you have some files which you would like to upload to the cloud. However, the files might be of a sensitive nature, so you'd like to encrypt them before you outsource them. To do this, you generate a unique per file data encryption key, or deck for short, and use this to encrypt the files. Now you can safely outsource the storage of the files in the cloud. However, you're left with a bit of a key management problem because you have to store all of the data encryption keys in some protected storage. To get around this, you can generate what's known as a key encryption key, or a kek for short, and use this to wrap up or essentially encrypt the data encryption keys. Now the data encryption keys are also protected, and you can safely outsource the storage of both the data encryption keys and the encrypted files to the cloud. Now imagine that you want to delete the file and you send this request to the cloud. The cloud might respond that the file has been deleted. However, since the cloud is not trusted, you cannot actually be sure that the file was properly deleted. For example, if the cloud is malicious, it might simply choose to ignore your request to delete the file. And even if the cloud is honest, it might have been compromised by some external adversary that took a snapshot of the ciphertext before the file was deleted. It can also be the case that the file is kept around for backup or disaster recovery purposes, or that it's simply not properly deleted because of faulty processes. And this is a problem if your key encryption key were to get compromised, because it means that all of the files that you keep in the cloud, including the one that you wanted to delete, are potentially vulnerable. And this is a problem because it means that your deleted files lack forward security, which is something that we'd like to be able to provide. So imagine that there was a way for you to make sure that your deleted files were completely gone without having to trust the cloud at all. For example, you could imagine there was a way to punch a hole in your key encryption key to update it in such a way that it could no longer be used to unwrap the data encryption key corresponding to the file that you wanted to delete.  This is exactly what punctual key wrapping gives us, namely find great forward security in an efficient and generic way. And with applications, both places like cloud storage, which I show you now, and also things like CLS session resumption. If you found this interesting, which I hope you did, you can learn more. Our paper is on e-print. Here's the QR code in the link, and I'll be giving a talk at AsiaCrypt 2022. Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed this video. I'll see you in the next one. Be quick, but there is a price, not forward secure. That's not really nice, but here comes a new scheme to rescue you out. The PSK is punctual, and that leaves no doubt. Don't worry, you really don't have to trust me. We managed to prove this in MSKE.