What's up everyone? It's your girl, Kenty here from Layton sports cards and we are ripping brand new release today of 2022 panini select baseball hobby 12 box case break number one pick your team gonna go over the teams and we'll get started here got Adam M. Red Sox, Bill B. Reds Bradley S. Phillies, Brian and Ray's Christian S. Athletics, Cliff S. Royals, Daniel V. Metz, Derek J. Dodgers, Derek K. Yankees, Edgar B. Mariners, James S. Cubs, Jeff M. Astros, John G. Cardinals, Johnny H. Padres and Giants, Jonathan B. Braves, Jordan S. Dvax, Kyle G. Rockies, Leonie G. Nationals, Michael M. Angels, Michael M. also with the Pirates, Nate Z. White Sox, Roy M. Brewer's and Blue J's, Ryan M. Marlins, Ryan P. Orioles, Ryan B. Twins, Scott W. Tigers, Thomas B. Guardians and Tony K. with the Rangers. Alright, best of luck everyone. Let's see what we got going. As I left my knife right here to open up the case. Alright, now the talks of Kyrie and KD and what's going on with the Nets. There's always something going on in a sport, huh? What's this here? Best of luck everyone. Select time. Two autos in two mem per box. Let's see some nasty patches. Colour wheel. It's a couple short prints that are what they call ultra rare in this year's select. Here we go. Here's Tom Kingerby Jr. Nate Pearson. We have a Devon Williams out of 99. 99 on the neon green. I like that. And they have three different levels. You know, usually with select, you have Premier, Concours, Field Level. All that goodness. There's three of them this year. It's the base Premier and Diamond level. We've got Rookie of Jake Meyers. Rollhouse. And we've got Silver Max Scherzer. Max Scherzer. This is what the base looks like. I hit already. Alonso, Aronato. We've got out of 99 for the Phillies on the RPA. Matt Veerling. Matt Veerling RPA. There we go. 49 out of 99. That is player warm. And a Cody Bellinger on the Phenomenon. Hope everyone's having a great Friday so far this morning. Almost the weekend. Colton Welker Rookie. We've got Tricolor of Andrew Benintendi. Royals. And Adam Frazier on the numbers inserts. The classic select baseball insert there. Rookie. Fridal. Balmain Rookie. We've got to 99. Rookie Jumbopatch here. Luis Frias for the Debacks. Frias. And En Fuego. Anthony Rendon for the Angels. Cool one there. Fuego. Luke Williams Rookie. These are Sanchez. We've got to 199. Sparks signature of Brandon Marsh. Angels with another hit there. Brandon Marsh. And Aaron Judge on the moonshots. Another classic select baseball insert. We've got Rodolfo Castro Rookie. And Silver Miles Straw. Cleveland's. Watcher. And we've got Red Vladigrero Jr. Nice red there to 199. Sub Luca. AJ Lexi. We've got the nice, the light blue Ryan Velay for the Rockies. Light blue's out of 149. 43 of 149. So be done. We've got Tricolor of Mike Mosina for the Orioles. Tricolors are not numbered. Still a nice design. And moonshots of Garcia. We've got our case in already. We've got a zebra coming out. We pull from the back. Silver Rojas. Come on give us a big rookie. Not Santa rookie. We've got a Jacob de Grom for the Mets on the tiger, or tiger on the zebra. Who's got him? Daniel V. That's sick. I feel like it's more like kind of pops a little bit more than usual. I like that. It's a sharp look. Nice zebra on that one for the Mets. All right, I want to see a color wheel. Those are sick. I ripped about like two or three cases of this last year and then pull a color wheel. So I don't believe their case hits. Probably one every few cases. We've got four Detroit to 99 on the Tricolor Jumbo Patch Mat Manning and a Trevor Story on the Phenomoms. All right, it's all the first box there. Bugs two. They're usually an RPA and like a base auto or color auto and then two patches. But it typically is. So we'll see. Doing good, Liza. How are you? Did you hop in any baseball beat up? We've got Silver Cabrine Hayes for the Pirates. Hayes. Again, that is the premier level look. Wonder if the football is going to take the same design. We're going to take the same design. Seven beer, Rookie, D-Max. We've got Boston, Nut Numbered, Rookie Patch, Gerenduren, Red Sox, and Enfuego Manning Machado. So crappies, nice. Tommy. Got Tricolor, Vladdy. Blue Jays going for the rainbow on those already and Numbers and Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth is in the color wheel this year which is called Matt Brash, Rookie, Ashby, Rookie. We've got the Neon Green of Billy Williams for the Cubs on the Neon Green of 99. Hot color wheel. Yeah, be done. Connor Wong, Rookie. We've got Rookie of John Heasley for the Royals on the jumbo patch. Thanks big boy patch there. And Nolan Ryan on the Silver Numbers. We've got Silver Brooks Robinson on the base. Base is the Concourse level. We've got Red, Tony Centilian. Rookie for the Red. It's a little red color match there to 199. Nice. That sounds fun, Luca. Where are you going? Auto Lopez. We've got to 99 Rangers on the Silver Patch Auto. Colby Allard. Rangers. Alarm. And Spark, Sprint, and Marsh. And Hour Drive. I like wintros. We've got to 99 RPA Ranger Royals again. Sorry, Jackson Coar. And we've got Kershaw on the Select Stars inserts. Oh, he was in South Africa. I didn't know that. Cool. That's sick. Detmer's Rookie. We've got a light blue Rookie of Mike Bauman for the Orioles to 149 on the light blue. We've got Siri Rookie Ichiro. We've got Tri-Color of Veroldus Chapman, Yankees, and Loom Shots Pete Alonso. We've got a Sheets Rookie. Silver Rookie of Jake Meyers. Jake Meyers on the Silver. Let's see some low numbers. There are gold vinyls in this. There's black Finite as well. Let's see some one-of-ones. Blade Rookie. We've got Silver Peralta. We're gonna say two one-of-ones this morning. What do you think, Lizzie? I think that's good. Yeah. Red, white, and blue are Tri-Color of Shane Baez for the Rays on the Rookie Patch. And Enfuego of Ken Griffey Jr. Nice one there. He's on the thumbnail today. He's got a color wheel insert too. Tri-Color of Sosa, Cardinals, and Tatease numbers. Polanka of Williams Rookie. We've got light blue of Tristan McKenzie for Cleveland to 149. Ozzy Albee's Silver for the Braves on the Concourse. We've got Silver Kyle Tucker, Concourse, Astros. Some color coming up. Deakman, Babe Ruth, Lance Lynn. We've got Red Rookie of Patrick Mazzica. Red to 199. That is the Premier level. Lezica. We've got Truhan. We've got to 199. RPA for the Phillies of Hans Kraus. And Sparks of Otani. Seeger, 299. RPA for the Braves, Kyle Moller. And Sluxards of Mani Wachado. Stuff for your Rookie. We've got Red of Emmanuel Clossing. Guardians to 199. Oh, it's 11 p.m. when they start. Jeez. We've got Tri-Color Rookie Gavin Sheets for the White Sox. Chicago Moonshots. Alright, last pack of Box 3. Brash Rookie, Ashby, Musgrove. We've got to 250 on the Silver Patch of Logan Webb for the Giants. And Silver, Paul Goldschmidt Moonshots. Cardinals. Can we get two Zeebers in one case? Pull the Zeeber out of what? Is that the first box? First or second box? Alright, Box 4. Rookie, Albans. We've got to 299. Pirates, RPA here. Redulfo Castro. Pirates and Enfuego, Joyvato. Reds. Sherser, Molina. 299. We've got RPA for the Guardians of Eli Morgan. It was Jacob de Gronblake. And Sparks of Ryan Sandberg. And Grom on the Zebra. He wanted to say Tiger for some reason. And Zebra though. New Bar Rookie. Got Silver Yordon Alvarez for the Astros. Conor Siebold Rookie. We've got Raze, Jumbo Rookie Patch by the Bruja. And Tatis on the Phenomenon. Phenomenon. The Grominator. Marsh Rookie. We've got Tri-Color of Tyler Glasno. Raze. And Tray Turner on the Numbers. Jake Berger Rookie. We've got Light Blue of Mikey Stremski for the Giants. To 149 on the Light Blue. We've got Red Justin Berlander to 199 Astros. Adolfo Castro Rookie. Got Light Blue Lubab White Sox. To 149. Tri-Color of Ronald Acunha Jr. Braves and Moom Shots. Paul Volschman. Lopez Starville. Wow. We've got Braves on the Rookie Jumbo Patch. Spencer Strider. And Silver George Brett on the Phenomenon. Boils. Glen Otto Rookie. Silver Garrett Cole on the Premier level. That's concourse, I'm sorry. Concourse. Troutes. Satelianne, we've got Silver Ryan Sandberg. Cops. That was box four on the box number five. What's your guesses? What's the over-under on the one-of-ones today? Where's Brandon at? The one-of-one tracker. I haven't pulled one yet. My guess for the morning is going to be two all day. That's first select baseball. What's up, Ryan? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They're a lot of sleeper teams. People don't realize he's in this product. We've got Rodolfo Castro on the Rookie Red, White, and Blue. Or Tri-Color, sorry. Pirates. Nice. Thanks for coming to member, Kyle. Reyes on the numbers. Paul's Rookie. Got Padres on the pen to straight patch. Rookie of Reese Kenner. And in Fuego, Silver of Patel Marte. I've got four cases. I believe he's got four half case breaks. I believe maybe like six or seven cases today, I believe, Blake. And Silver Rookie of Spencer Strider for the Braves. That is a diamond level. I like the look of that. Nice diamond level there. Oh, the Rookie. That one's Rookie. Got Neon Green, Jake Kronoworth for the Padres. To 99. I don't know what my guess on one of the ones is. Got Silver Rookie, Romy, Gonzalez, White Sox. I feel like one of ones in this product are definitely harder to pull than other products. One and a half. Let's say I hit that over. Yeah, I guess two for me. Jose Ciri. Got out of 250 Braves, Rookie, Jumbo Patch, Kyle Moeller. And Sandy Kofax on the Select Stars. I vote this one. Schluman, Jake Berger. Got a cracked ice coming out. Colton Wong for the Brew Crew. First cracked ice that we've seen. I believe he's got 23, 25. 21 of 25. Love the cracked ice look. Nice one there. Brewers. That's the lowest serial number we've hit so far. 25 on the cracked ice. Everything else has been like neon green and higher. So 99 and higher. New bar. New bar. Got Tri-Color Rookie, Drew Ellis, D-Backs. And Mike Trout on the Phenomenoms. Exactly. That's funny. Matt Olson. We've got Red to 199. George Springer, Blue James. Seaball Rookie, Marsh. Okay, we've got Silver Calahendrix. Get everyone. I'm all sold out for the daytime breaks. And all of Forrest's baseball breaks are also full. He's got just spots left for football tonight. Some really nice football breaks going with him. Got to 25. Cracked ice auto Tim Anderson. White Sox. Nice auto there. Z with the White Sox. Tim Anderson. Heck yeah. Again, that is one out of 25. Go White Sox. And Cedric Mullins on the numbers. There's a cracked ice box. And we got a base cracked ice and an auto. I love to see it. Got a 2. 2.99, RPA, Lars New Bar. There you go, Cardinals. And Enfuego of Jazz Chisholm. That'd be a fun set to collect all those Enfuegos of. All right, box number six here. They are heating up. They'll want to hit eight color wheel. We can do it out of the first case. Got to be patient. Yeah, they are. There's a cracked ice, RPAs, too, that are really sharp. Blade rookie. Tri-color rookie Curtis Terry. Rangers. And moonshots Chris Bryant. Padres on the Reefs counter. A rookie jumbo patch. And Enfuego silver Mike Trout. Nice hit angels. Silver Javi Baez on the Diamond level. Got light blue for the Yankees, Labor Torres. To 149. Strabsky, Williams Rookie. You've got Silver Christian Yelich. Babe Ruth. Light blue Salvador Perez. For the Royals to 149. There's Gil Rookie out of 250. Raise again. This time, Silver Rookie jumbo patch. Reese Kenner. And Bregman on the Select Star. Chris Terry Rookie. Tri-color Dalton Varshow. D-Vex. Wanda Franco on the Phenomenon. First Wanda. Wanda. Wanda that we've seen today. Raise. Wanda. Brash Rookie Ashby. Got red to 199. Jeff McNeil. Metz. Silver Rookie of Aaron Ashby. Brewer's. Ashby. Concourse level there.  Coming on Neil. Got to 25. Cracked Ice Patch Auto Six Toes. Sanchez. That is beautiful. Miami. Ryan M. On the three-colored patch. We're just talking about cracked ice. Patch autos too. We go Miami. That is a beautiful car. Really pops. Again, 22 of 25 on that one. And then Whitmerefield Numbers. Nice. Eating up with the cracked ice. Beachman Rookie. Got to 299. RPA. Going back to Miami. Brian De La Cruz. Miami taking home both autos out of that box. And in Fuego, Metz Scherzer. Tri-color of Liam Hendricks. White Sox. And Numbers of Nolan Ryan. All the Lopez. Smith to 199. For the brave Silver RPA. Spencer Strider. And in Fuego of Jacob DeGrone. Metz. Ooh, we've got a gold vinyl y'all. Here's the first gold vinyl of the day. Come on, let's see Rookie. Not a Rookie. Brewers. One of that's Brewers. Of the gold vinyl there. There we go. We'll mag that. First one of one of the day. Let's see. I am. What is that? What do we have here? I believe we have some tape. Short print. Another Zebra, I believe. We've got a Tyrone Taylor. Going to the Brewers. And Roy, killing it. Back to backpacks there. On another Tiger Strab. Concourse. Heck yeah. Magna one too. And Silver on the Colton Welker. Rockies. On the Premier level. What a box. A one of one and a case hit. Marsh Rookie. France, we've got Twins. Rookie Jumbo Patch. Joe Ryan. And Fuego, Griffey Junior. Yeah, Brewers. Brewers been doing well. I'll break so far. Mirafail, Brantley. We've got Tri-Color Rookie Glen Auto. Rangers. And Sparks of O'Connor. Gonzalez. We've got Rangers Tri-Color Rookie Patch. A Jalexy. Rangers. And Silver, Ivan Rodriguez on the Select Stars. One of one was a gold vinyl of Hunter Renfra. Brewers. On the Warm Sprayer. And Silver, Starling Marte. And we've got Jose Ciri on the Red Rookie there. 199 Astros. Berger Rookie. Got Red 199 Color Match for the Phillies. Rhys Hoskins. Silver, Hunter Renfra. Brewers. Black here. That seems pretty thick. We've got to 99 Tri-Color RPA Jose Ciri Astros. Houston. And a Bruhan on the Select Stars. Yeah, LeBron one of one. Yeah, that's who I was hoping they were going to take Ryan. But I mean, I'm just glad we got a big man. We only got two, I believe, last night. I know we really need some size for sure. At least they made the right decision to get the big guy. Knowing the magic, they're going to go for another guard. Got Tri-Colored, Hebert Ruiz, Nationals and Fuego Jacob de Grom. We've got Ryan Sandberg on the Tri-Color and Rizzo, Select Stars. Got Rookie Jumbo Patch, John Hesley. Royals and Silver Moon Shot, Salvador Perez. Yeah, it's not a case hit like, what is that? And Fuego Phoenix. We've got Red 199 Enrique Hernandez. Boston. Just another insert. Yeah, it's just an insert in baseball. Got to 199 Patch Auto Jose Berrio. Reds, Patch on that one. And Fuego, Josh Donaldson. Dillon C Silver. 299 for the Angel Silver RPA Reed Debtmers. Silver RPA there. There is a slight little indent right there. You can kind of see right there. So I will send a box with the Angel Spark Sequoonya. Well, how am I missing this many packs? I just really can't see it from there. I've got like 10 packs on the floor right here. Clean up my mess. Scooter trash can closer, I guess. So, beer rookie. We've got Neon Green. Mike Bauman for the Orioles on the rookie. 1099. Wander Franco. Rookie Jumbo Patch Rays. And I was hoping to see some ink there. There you go. Rays on that one. Clare Warn. And Babe Ruth on the Moonshots. Alright, so we pulled up base Wander. Now the Jersey. We need some ink for Wander. We've got White. Cedric Mullins for the Orioles. First time seeing a white parallel here. These are to 50. 25 of 50 on that one. That looks sharp. Williams. Silver Rookie Jake Berger. White Sox. And Silver Whitmerfield. Royals. Alright, box nine. Let's take a sip of my coffee real quick. Alright, I guess we're like cross-referencing a sports team now. I'm going to compare two different sports. Which team is worse? Sports Center is always funny. Got to 299. Miami on the Patch Auto of Luindiaz. Sparks. Smoky Betts. Get everyone. All baseball is sold out today. All the daytime breaks are filled. So, let's start getting forced. Brakes filled for tonight. 29 Glen Auto Rookie Rangers. Next select. Baseball that will be available are some half-case random teams with Caleb on Saturday. Asked for tonight. We've got Carlos Carran. Silver Astros. Boris has a bunch of football going.  He's got two full cases of optics. Some NT. A little bit of everything. Definitely check that out. A little Pirates. And Enfuego Altuve. I want to see that really sick Pirates. Like, Logo Patch, basically. Got Tri-Color Rookie Auto Lopez. Blue Jays. Frank Thomas. Big Hurt. We've got our first tie-dye. Freddie Peralta. Brewers. Killing this break. These are the 22 out of 20 on the tie-dye. Nice look there. All right, starting to see some more of the color coming out here in the second half of the second half of the case. Silver Josh Hader. Blade to 2.99. D-Bags on the RPA here. Luis Frias. And Molina. Carlos. Light Blue Max Kepler for the twins. To 1.49. Tri-Color Sandy Alcantara. Miami. Moonshots, you're done. Logo got to 250 White Sox Rookie Jumbo Patch. Romeo Gonzalez. Silver Sparks. Ronald Acunha Jr. Braves. My last pack. Box 9. Silver Larry Walker. Box 10 here. Got Red 199P Alonso Metz. Silver Josiah Gray. Washington. Silver Jumbo Patch. Wanya Pets. Christian Yellowch on the Phenomenals. Tri-Color Johnny Bench. Reds. And Enfuego Shane Beaver. Got another White here. Justin Verlander for the Astros. On the White. That is 38 of 50. Astros. Second White of the day. Out of 250 for the Red. Silver Jumbo Patch. Washington. Silver Ryan Valade. Rookie for the Rockies on the Concourse. Feels thick. What we have here. We've got to 99. Tri-Color Patch Auto Braves. Tucker Davidson. Tucker Davidson for the Braves. And Enfuego Kyle Lewis. We've got Sparks. Auto here. Connor Siebel. Red Sox. 126 of 199. And we have Back-to-Back Autos here. We've got to 99 on this Silver Sparks Auto Yankees. Louise Gill. Alright. Back-to-Back Autos there. And Moonshots. Giancarlo Stanton. Got Neon Green in 99. Corey Seeger. Rangers. Tri-Color Rookie Tony Centilian. Reds. Garrett Cole on the Select Stars. Last Patch there. Silver Wade Millie. What? Number 11. Two boxes to go. Then we've got a Recap here. Again with four hits per box. You've got almost 50. All over 50 with some of the mags and stuff. Cards to Recap. Could be hits to Recap. Red 199. Matt Olson Ace. We've got Lightning Strike. Matt Olson. There you go. Lightning Strike. That is one of the ultra-rares or short prints in this year's Select Baseball. Very nice. What's a sharp-looking car? There you go. Oaklands. On the Lightning Strikes. Very nice one like that. And Silver Gary Carter. Got to 250. Ricky Jumbo Patch. Connor Siebel. And Freddie Freeman in Moonshots. Tri-Color Larry Walker. Rockies Ann and Puego. Mike Trout. Then we've got Cracked Ice to 25. Whitmerefield. Royals. Love the Cracked Ice. 24-25 on that one. Silver Kinterfilefa. Got Silver Max Freyne. Freed. Nice hit, Freyne. Got to 99. Youth Explosions Tri-Color of Sam Bachman. You know, Angels. Youth Explosions. Another new insert auto there. This year. And Trevor Stewart on the Phenomenals. You've got to 25. Moonshots. Cracked Ice Auto. Aaron Judge. Bowies. Derek. Thanks for the subs, Stephen. Man, how many autos is that? Is that the fourth auto in this box? I think so, right? We have the back-to-back, the Lightning Strikes. That's our fourth auto in this box. Or am I thinking of the last box? I don't know. I'm pretty sure that's our fourth auto in that box. We will mag that one. Aaron Otto on the numbers. What? Yeah, I guess. We did get some jumbo patches, too. I don't know. We've got Tideye. Jake Cronoworth for the Padres to 20. What a box. 14 out of 20. Ultra Rare. Lightning Strike. We have Josh Hader on the Tri-Color. Bichette Sparks. And the last pack here. It feels like we have another hit. We've got to 10. Lars Newbar. Gold Jumbo Patch Cardinals. Nice letter patch there. That's sick. On the gold. St. Louis. John G. Night's Gold. Six of 10. Heck yeah. Mag that one. And Jared Walsh on the Silver Moon Shots.  And then we'll do a recap, everyone. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was four autos. And two mem cards. And we had the Ultra Rare Short Print and a Gold. That is nasty. And we also had a Gold Vinyl this first case. And two Zebra. Case X2. Got to 99. Jumbo Patch Rookie Tri-Color Luke Williams. And Fuego Wanda Franco. There you go, Raze. Few Wanderers coming out of this case so far. Got to see some ink at him today. I'd love to pull some Wanda ink. Out of 99 V-Backs Tri-Color Rookie Patch Jake McCarthy. And Silver Acunia on the Select Stars. Silver Rookie Matt Verling on the Diamond level. Got red to 199 Byron Buxton. Twins. We've got another tie-dye here of Jameer Kendall-Rio for the Tigers. Detroit. Five of 20 on that one. Silver Crisp Flexin. That'd be a cool last name. Mr. Flexin. We've got Cracked Ice Oven Henrique Hernandez. Boston. 20 of 25 on the Cracked Ice. Tri-Color Matt Olson and Moonshot Scaven Sheeps. Tri-Color Matt Chapman for the A's and Fuego Jose Altuve. Got Silver Shohei Otani on the Concourse. Angels. To 25 we've got Hey Lord Perry. Selection Signatures. Giants. The Giants of 25 is Johnny H. and Frank Thomas. Last pack here. And then we will do a recap. We've got Sparks to 199 Otto Cow Ralee. Mariners. Real Mugo. All right. Very solid first case there. Yeah, we got Short Print. We got a couple Zebras. Nice color. All right. Let me do the patches here first. All right. Jay McCarthy. D-Backs. Luke William Phillies. Connor Siebold. Red Sox. Fridal for the Reds. Wanya Pez. Cardinals. Romy Gonzalez. White Sox. O'Neal Cruz. Pirates. Wanda Franco. Ray's. John Heasley. Royals. Alexi for the Rangers. Joe Ryan Twins. Reese Kenner Padres. Kyle Muller Braves. Reese Kenner Padres. Spencer Strider Braves. Bruhan for the Rays. Logan Webb. Giants. Shane Bosz Rays. John Heasley. Royals. Jared Durin. Red Sox. Matt Manning. Tigers. Louise Frias. D-Backs. Now we have our Otto's and our P.I.S. Kyle Raleigh. Mariner's. Gaylord Perry. Giants. Sam Bachman. Angels. Louise Gill. Yankees. Connor Siebold. Red Sox. Tucker Davidson. Braves. Louise Frias. D-Backs. Lewin Sosa. Marlins. Reed Detmer's. Angels. Jose Berio. Reds. Jose Ciri. Astro. Spencer Strider. Braves. Brian De La Cruz. Marlins. Sixto Sanchez on the Cracked Ice. Pacha. Sick one there. Marlins as well. Lars Newfar. RPA. Cardinals. Guardians. Eli Morgan. Rodolfo Castro. Pirates. Kyle Muller. Braves. Hans Kraus. Phillies. Jackson Coar. Royals. Colby. Alard. Rangers. Brandon Marsh. Angels. Matt Veerling. Phillies. And then for our Math Cards. We had a gold. Patchier. Lars Newfar. Rookie. A Aaron Judge. Moonshots. Cracked Ice. Auto to 25. Yankees. Matt Olson on the Short Print Lightning Strikes. A's. Our First Tiger Stripe. A Tyrone Taylor. Brewers. Gold Vinyl. Hunter Renfro Brewers. Our other Tiger Stripe or sorry Zebra is a Jacob DeGraw Metz. And a Cracked Ice to 25. Auto White Sox. Tim Anderson. That'll do it for the first case of select. Another case coming up in a bit. Thank you.


So today is our Dahabon Sunday, as we've labeled it. It is the day where we are going to be introducing the work, or at least formally introducing the work that we've been doing in Dahabon. I should say that the Lord has started in Dahabon. This is a little interesting. I've never done a PowerPoint presentation at church. I'm used to just simply teaching the Bible. It's gonna be a different way of going about it today, but I'd like to start off in the Bible, if you will, and turn with me to the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation, chapter seven. And I'm gonna read verses nine through 14, says this. After this I looked and behold, a great multitude that no one could number from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands and crying out with a loud voice. Salvation belongs to our God who sits on a throne and to the Lamb. And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God saying, amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever, amen. Then one of the elders addressed me saying, who are these clothed in white robes? And from where have they come?  They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. So when, usually when we talk about missions and we think of Bible verses or passages in the Bible that speak about missions, we tend to think of the commands to go and evangelize, right? Like usually the first passage that pops up is Matthew 28, right, the Great Commission passage where we go into all the world and we make disciples, right? Lately, and by God's grace, I hope you are all growing in this as well. I don't want you to only think about the commands to go and evangelize or the process of evangelism, the process of missions, the process of church planting. I want to encourage you to think of the goal, the goal of it. There's an end to missions. Missions isn't the end to all of this. Missions is a means to a great end. And that great end is Christ receiving the reward for his suffering. It's him receiving worship from the innumerable multitude, him receiving all that the Father has given to him. And in this text here, we see a little piece of that. Every tribe, tongue and nation, an innumerable multitude, you can't count them. Just like Abraham looked at the stars in the sky, God told him to try to count them and he could not count them. Just like all of the grains of sand, you can't count them. And so it is, so it is with the worship of the Son for eternity. So I want you to think, I want you to think in those terms when we think of missions, when we think of Dahabon. When you look at our work in Dahabon, I want you to think of what is this going to mean in the end for the Lord Jesus Christ? What is this going to mean for his glory?   So I'm just throwing out words. I mentioned this town called Dahabon. Some of you don't even know what I'm talking about. So to introduce things, we are working on planting a church in an obscure little town on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. And this town is called Dahabon. It's a very small town, but it's a very dense town as well. It's an official border town. There's a border crossing at this town. There's a population of Dominicans and a population of Haitians in this town. There's lots of languages being spoken in this town. And in the last three years, we've had the opportunity to work in and around this town for the gospel, for the sake of Christ. And what I'm gonna do today is I want to start from the beginning, if you will, and tell you a story. And the point of me telling you this story is to give you a picture of how God has been working in this place for some time. And I want you in the end to be excited for the work that is going on in Dahabon. So this started, and I'm gonna be a little confused here. This is again, it's my first time doing this. This all started in Haiti. This all started in Haiti. There's a number of, we have a Haitian population in our church, and there's a number of brothers and sisters who have been praying for the opportunity to do gospel work in Haiti and to see Haitians saved. And through prayer, through the opportunity of a hurricane hitting Haiti and a number of events, some brothers, namely Oliver and Wes, they ended up getting to know, uh-oh, a brother in one of them at Haiti, named Tony Hippolyte, Tony Hippolyte, and a brother on this side of, in the United States, actually in Titusville, named Bob Swung. Tony is the guy in the blue shirt right there in the middle, and it's a little hard to see him with the lighting. Tony, Tony is a pastor of a church in English. It's called Grace Baptist Church in Haiti. And we've made a number of trips to assist Tony, number of trips, a number of exploratory trips, some evangelistic trips to assist Tony. And during that period of time of making trips, we had a visit here. I don't know if some of you probably remember this visit from Bob Swung. And Bob Swung's introduced to us what the spiritual conditions look like in Haiti. And what he described was a very dire situation. You have a country where Little Gospel is largely unpreached. Haiti, people say Haiti is 90% Catholic and 100% Voodoo. There's very little gospel being preached in Haiti. On top of that, Haitians don't have a good Bible, a good whole Bible. They have a Bible, but it's very poorly translated. And there is a good translation of the New Testament that we found, but that's it. Imagine only having the New Testament. How dire of a situation that would be. So when Bob came and he spoke about that, I was very, I wanted to help personally. And at the time I was thinking about ministry and I wanted to see what would it take to try to plant the church in Haiti and to try to work in Haiti. So I started coming along on the trips that the brothers were making to Haiti. But in time, we figured out that Haiti just wasn't going to work. The safety situation in Haiti is not good, especially for an American. There's a lot of government corruption. There's just a general lack of stability in Haiti. Even on one of our trips, we almost got delayed and coming back due to a riot that happened in the city where our flight was flying out. There's many beautiful things about Haiti, many kind people in Haiti, but it's not a very stable place. It's not a very stable place to be. So as we took trips, as we considered planting a church, it was becoming pretty clear that the door on Haiti was closing. So the question is what's the plan? What's the plan at that point? So through a number of meetings, there was a dinner at Robinson's house. There was lunch with Pastor Mark and Oliver where we came up with ideas, with the idea to potentially plant a church in Dajabon. And you might say, well, why Dajabon in the Dominican Republic all of a sudden? Well, Pastor Tony's church is in a city called Wanamit. And Wanamit is a border town on the Haitian side. And directly across the border from Wanamit is Dajabon. So the closest that we can get to Wanamit, that was a safe and stable place. So after these meetings, after eating lunch, we decided that we were going to contact some Dominican pastors who we assume probably worked in Haiti. So the first thought in our mind was let's contact Suhail Michelin. Some of you Spanish speaking brothers are familiar with that name, Suhail Michelin. He's kind of like the, from what is described to me, he's like the Latino John MacArthur. So we picked the most popular name we could. And when you pick, when you want to talk to someone popular, you find someone who knows popular people. And there's someone here that's very good at knowing popular people. Some of you know who I'm talking about. It's Edgar Nazario. So after eating lunch with Pastor Mark and Oliver, I give Edgar a call and I say, hey Edgar, we need to get in contact with Suhail Michelin. I think you know him. So, and you know what Edgar says? Oh sure, I just had lunch with him. It turns out that while we were eating lunch, Edgar was having lunch with Suhail Michelin because Suhail Michelin was in town for the Ligonier conference. And guess who was translating for him? Edgar, Edgar. There's a video on YouTube you should check out with Edgar translating for Suhail Michelin. So Edgar gets in contact with Suhail and Suhail is with another pastor from his church. Name Salvador Gomez. Both of these men, their church is Ibese Jota. In English, it's IBSJ, their church in English would be the Lord Jesus Bible Church. So they gave us two contacts. They gave us the name of a man named Angel Castillo and they gave us Francisco Guzman. But before I called either of those guys, I came to church one day and there's another gentleman who was at our church at the time, Edwin Guerra. And Edwin, Edwin was very excited and he was talking to me about his friend that he knew from the Dominican Republic because Edwin is Dominican. He had just moved here from the Dominican Republic and he went to Suhail's church. So he said, you have to meet my friend Jean Pierre. This guy is a Haitian. He works in Haiti. He does a lot of mission work in Haiti. I'm gonna give you his contact info. I'm like, sure, I'll take any contact info you got, Edwin. So I get that contact info. And then, so the first person I contact actually aren't the contacts that Suhail gave me. I contacted the guy that Edwin gave me just because Edwin was so aggressive. So we met Jean Pierre. And Jean Pierre is the Haitian in this picture. Can you pick out the Haitian? Yes, yes, the bald guy in the middle is the Haitian. Jean Pierre is a Haitian. Jean Pierre was born in Port-au-Prince and he grew up in Haiti. He's obviously not Haitian by ethnicity but he considers himself a Haitian and when he talks about Haitians he affectionately says we instead of they. So he's not, Jean Pierre is a very cultured man too. He speaks four languages. He speaks Haitian Creole, French, Spanish and English. He went to college in the United States and he's also a very, very sweet brother. So I haven't gotten contact through WhatsApp of Jean Pierre and I also contacted those two contacts that Suhail Michelin and Salvador Gomez gave us, Angel Castillo and Francisco Guzman. Angel Castillo didn't answer the phone. So, but Francisco Guzman did and when I talked to Francisco Guzman, it was not easy because he didn't speak much English and I didn't speak any Spanish. So as I was talking to Francisco, I said by any chance, because I thought he went to Suhail Michelin's church. That's why he, Suhail gave me his number. And so I said, do you know Jean Pierre?  So we ended up taking a trip to the Dominican Republic, me and Oliver. Half of the trip was to have some discipleship time with Tony, the Haitian pastor. He drove over to Santiago to meet us. But then the second half of the trip, we were going to go down to Santo Domingo to meet Pastor Guzman, Francisco Guzman and Jean Pierre. And Jean Pierre was going to translate for us. So we meet Jean Pierre, we pick him up from his house and he, like I said, he is just the sweetest brother that you would ever meet. He comes in with a big, like a big manila folder. I was even wondering how he fit all those things in a manila folder, like everything was gonna fall out. Full of resources, full of things to talk through. He was very excited. And we were talking about this all on the way to Pastor Guzman's house. So we get to Pastor Guzman's house and they welcome us in. His wife, Claudia, fixes us a really nice meal. And we spent a long time meeting with him. And Pastor Guzman, he gives us some really good advice. So we asked him about our plans in Haiti. And we were already having second thoughts about Haiti. And he looked me in the eye and he's like, brother, don't go to Haiti. He was telling us of his pastor's academy and how that would be a great thing for Tony to be trained up in, which was something that we were looking for for him. And we also brought up our idea about D'Ajabon. And he said, this idea about D'Ajabon, this is an excellent idea, but this is the kicker. You see, D'Ajabon is a very, like I said before, it's an obscure little town. Some Dominicans don't know where D'Ajabon is. And he mentioned that they had been praying for over 20 years for a church in D'Ajabon. And his wife is from D'Ajabon. And his brother-in-law lives in D'Ajabon. And what an event of God's providence, isn't it? So it would almost be as if someone here were from Crestview, Florida, five, six hours away. Let's say Karen Brashear, pastor Mark's wife, is was from Crestview, Florida. And she had been praying for a church to be planted in Crestview, in a little obscure city. Most of you don't know of Crestview, Florida. You've never heard of Crestview, Florida. You've driven through it, maybe. And after praying for many, many years and having family there, someone seemingly out of the blue comes to you with a real intention to plant the church. Someone from a like-minded church, confessional like yours, reformed like yours. It's a clear answer to prayer. So we were extremely, extremely encouraged. In fact, we were encouraged that Pastor Guzman was positive about anything. Because the first time that, when you meet Pastor Guzman for the first time, he's a very stoic-looking man.  He doesn't change his face, looks precious as much. He sits back in his chair, very measured speech. So there's like a real intimidation factor when you meet him for the first time. So we ended up coming home, very encouraged. I was extremely excited to come to the elders meeting and to report how well things have gone with our meeting with Pastor Guzman. And my next plan was, well, what are we gonna, I'm gonna take my wife to the Havon. I'm gonna take her and I'm a shower. You know, I'm a shower of this city. So I bought plane tickets, I reserved the hotel room, I reserved the rental car, I'm ready, I'm ready to go. Not much later, literally a week or two later, Pastor Guzman sends me a text and tells me that he is going to be in Coconut Creek, Florida, right outside of Miami, down south, because he's meeting Jeff Smith and Dan Wakefield and Victor Garcia about a church plant that he's working on in Honduras. They actually just sent one of their pastors, Dante Paz, to Honduras, Hudi Calpa. And he, so he said, you maybe we can meet and it was a great opportunity for our elders to meet him. So we went down to Coconut Creek, Florida. We brought Pastor Mark and Pastor Mark got the chance to meet Pastor Guzman. Pastor Mark kissed his ring. No, no, no, no he didn't. Pastor Mark only kisses Ms. Karen. But we met Pastor Guzman and we started talking about what it would look like to plant the church in Dajabon and I mentioned to Pastor Guzman, hey, I'm really excited. I'm actually gonna bring my wife during on 4th of July weekend to Dajabon. And at that time, we had went earlier in May. So we're talking within a month and a half-ish, two months, something like that. And I'm missing up my times, yeah, a month, a month time, went to end of May to early July. So when I tell Pastor Guzman, I'm gonna take my wife to Dajabon that weekend.  I'm like, oh, really? So the next thing you know, I canceled my hotel reservation. I canceled my rent a car. My wife and I are flying to the Dominican Republic on 4th of July weekend and he's picking us up from the airport.  His wife, Clara, she has a brother named Wascar. That lady down sitting at the left of that bench is Idalia. That's Wascar, his wife. That's Kimber Lee in the middle there. And we spent a good weekend with them and Pastor Guzman spent the whole time smoozing us. This was us at the beach and this here, I brought Anita to Haiti. We crossed the border. We actually went and we talked to Pastor Tony and we talked to him about attending the Pastors Academy. So we were very encouraged on both sides. Pastor Guzman, he spent the whole time saying, Jerome, this is your city. Jerome, the president of the hub on. And we were extremely encouraged. We can see that there's no such thing as coincidence. There's no such thing as circumstance. And many of these things were coming together very well. So we saw it as the hand of the Lord on the work that we were attempting to do. So we end up coming home and we get to planning. We end up taking a trip that November, November 2019. And for this, it was very difficult planning this trip because just because of the timing of it, we couldn't find anyone from Cornerstone who was going to be able to come and help translate for us. And Pastor Mark went to a Pastors Conference in New Jersey and he met a gentleman named Luke Peterson. And Luke Peterson, he pastored at the time a church in Costa Rica. And Pastor Mark explained how good of a brother he was. I remember how Karen spoke of his wife at the time. And Luke actually accompanied us to the Dominican Republic. Some of you remember Luke? That's Luke on the left there. And I tell you, Luke was a major, major encouragement. Luke, he, being a pastor himself, knowing what it was like to plant the church, he had done work in Nicaragua previously. He actually had to flee Nicaragua due to danger for some time. He knew many of the pitfalls to avoid. And he also knew the troubles of having to learn a language later in life. So the brother was filled with encouragements. He was filled with advice. At times I would doubt of the, whether this was a good idea or not. And Luke was able to chime in with wisdom much of the time. It was a great time. It was also very odd too, because I met Luke on the way to the airport, picking him up from Edgar's house. But it was almost like we knew each other for 20 years on the trip. Also encouraging was WoWoo, Ron Kazmir. Ron is one of the most faithful, positive thinking brothers that I know. He was a good servant and good companion on the trip. And I'm very grateful to Ron for the encouragement on that trip. That trip was a very important one for me to want to continue in this work. And on that trip, we ended up preaching the gospel. This is a picture of us. This is a picture of the folks that I preached to in the countryside, right outside of the Havon. Some of Clota's family, some of Clota's family lived there. I actually preached that sermon in Spanish. It was horrible, absolutely horrible. It was very bad Spanish. I used many wrong words, some Catholic words. Pastor Guzmán had to correct me. He was very encouraging. And at the same time, very clear, he sat down next to me in Huascar's house and he said, Jerome, never use resar. Only orar in Spanish, resar, it's like a rosary prayer. And I use that throughout the whole sermon instead of orar, which is a normal prayer. So, and since my Spanish was so bad, Clota, she sat down, and this is Clota helping me with my Spanish, very sweet. She is very precious. So, from that trip, we understood our need to seek and to seek a home base, if you will, in Dahabon. We needed a church house from which we can send people to go, to send people to do evangelism there from both Pastor Guzmán's church and from our church. And by God's grace, in about a month's time, we started getting prospects for houses that we could potentially rent. And we ended up planning a trip for February, 2020. And on that February trip, I went with Pastor Mark and Oliver also two extremely encouraging brothers. Pastor Mark and Oliver, some of the best companions you can ask for. It was encouraging, it's always encouraging to have brothers that you've labored with in the past to labor in something new, especially something that's a bit scary. And these brothers have always been very encouraging. This is a picture here of Kala evangelizing at outside of one of the homes in Dahabon who were following her around as she did that. She is extremely excited. One of my favorite memories of all of these trips is just following around Kala while she knocks on doors and introduces herself. She tries to get people to remember her. And if they don't remember her, she makes sure they remember her father. And she invites them to the services that we held some of the nights while we were there. And when we did evangelize, like when we did go door to door evangelizing, we would go the same day. We would invite people to our services that night and people would come. Imagine that.  We would, there were a few times where we would talk to people about half an hour before and they'd come to our service a little bit late but you can't blame them half an hour. So also we finalized papers on our little church house and that's the house that we're renting right now. It's in a perfect location. It's right across the street from a giant lime green store. And you don't even have to give out the address. When I talk to people about it in Dajabon, I just tell them it's in front of the Alma Senera Felito. And they know exactly where I'm talking about. So while there, on the February trip, we also got to preach the gospel at the house that we had just signed the papers on.  He accompanied us on that trip as well and he's translating. So we returned, we returned and then the world changed. Like the next week, COVID-19 and it was difficult because after that trip, we were actually planning on taking a bunch more trips that year but everything had to take a halt.  The Dominican Republic was even more shut down. But things started to open up, especially as we neared summertime and I had recently or my wife had recently had a baby. We had Johnny and my job is very generous with paternity leave. I had a lot of paternity leave time that I had to use before Johnny's first birthday. So that gave us a great opportunity to spend a long period of time in a Dominican Republic. So what we did was I took my oldest daughter, Samantha and we went to Santo Domingo and we attended a Spanish language school in Santo Domingo. This is a picture of me trying to get everyone in focus and our teachers, our Spanish teachers in Santo Domingo. Our Spanish improved quite a bit on that trip. During that trip, we spent the whole month in Santo Domingo. We attended Pastor Guzman's church during that time. We spent a lot of time fellowshiping with him. We also took two trips to Dajabon and in that time on the weekends and I tell you the most encouraging part of that trip actually wasn't the Spanish though. It was the fact that we were able to gain confidence that we could live in the Dominican Republic because we were living in the Dominican Republic. We had an apartment, we had to go buy groceries. We had to answer people's questions. We had to assuage people who were getting angry with us here and there. So it was a good trip. We had to drive all over the place. During the two trips to Dajabon, we also had a very good time. At top picture, probably a little hard to see. There's a lot of people. There was a funeral. One of the ladies that stayed, the mother of the man that owns the church house that we rent, she passed away. We actually met her in February and we ended up going to Dajabon for her funeral. The first week that we were in the Dominican Republic, it turned out to be a great opportunity. Pastor Guzman was able to preach a very beautiful gospel message. Very simple, cause even I could understand it. And there were over 50 people there. And they were, they seemed to be listening very intently. That gentleman to the bottom right that I'm standing next to is a guy named Frank Kelly. Frank Kelly is a brother from Pastor Guzman's church. And he's one of the brothers that travels there almost every week now to have whole Bible studies. And it's just a good, encouraging brother. It's a beautiful testimony of his conversion. And Sammy also at the bottom left, that's Sammy on a motorcycle. It's kind of, you can, you can, there's a lot of motorcycles there. And the age for driving a motorcycle is rather young. So that's Sammy on a motorcycle and Wascar 16 year old daughter driving the motorcycle. I didn't let them go too far, but she, Sammy got a good chance to meet some Dominican kids, talk to the Dominican kids, play with them, especially in Dajabon, which is very nice. So all in all, we were very, very thankful to be able to take that trip. We're also very homesick. We were very encouraging, like we were very encouraged, I should say. Like I said, it was the biggest benefit was being able to live there for a time and to gain confidence that, oh yeah, I think we can, we can actually live here. We can, we can make this work. And also, like I said, the improved Spanish was also a boost. So what's going on right now in Dajabon? Well, there's Bible studies every week at the church house in Dajabon. Right now, right now, there are people gathering at the house and they are being led in Bible studies by brethren from Pastor Guzman's church. This is David Rosario teaching a Bible study lesson right outside. Sometimes they, they have the lesson outside because it's a little cooler. And sometimes they do that because the landlord turns off the electricity. So we'll have to work with them on that. So, but yeah, they're having Bible studies every single week. There's a rotation of men. I previously said that there were 12 men who were going down there. Right now it's three. There were 12 men before COVID hit that were lined up to go. But right now it's three brothers and, but they are very faithful, very reliable. Having taught a Bible study with Frank Ely who's one of those brothers, it's very confident that these, these people are getting good Bible teaching every, every week. And they are very, very excited for the work. Every time I've attended Pastor Guzman's church, I'd have a number of these brothers coming to me telling me how every single Wednesday night prayer meeting, they pray for the work in Dahabon.  They're full of, when are you gonna move down? You know, and it's very, very encouraging church, very encouraging brothers. So the work continues today. The work continues today. And I want to, I want you to prayerfully consider how you can support the work. There's many ways to support the work. One way to support the work is to prayerfully consider moving down with us. Perhaps if you're Spanish speaking or even if you're not Spanish speaking, but you think that there's an opportunity for you to do that, please prayerfully consider doing that. What a good use of your life to, to have it involved in gospel ministry. And what a great opportunity to go and to preach the gospel in a place where it is not preached. So I want you to be encouraged, amen. I want you to be encouraged. I want you to be encouraged to consider coming down, prayerfully consider it, get counsel, but encourage coming down. Also, I want to encourage you to hold the rope for us. That means support the work through your finances. Think of, there are many, many logistics that are involved in moving down there. And some of that includes money. And I want you to consider how your gifts, how your offerings can be used to further the kingdom of God. And by God's grace, we have a pattern of doing that in this church. And I want to encourage you to continue that pattern and to see how you might be able to do that here in Da Habon. Lastly, I want you to consider, well, not lastly, second to lastly, I want you to consider taking frequent trips to see us in Da Habon.  And I remember multiple times going up to see Pastor Rick and how encouraged he is when brethren come up from Cornerstone and how much of a boost that is to him. I'm sure it would be a boost to us. So please consider how you might visit us, even if you can't move, visit us and encourage us in the work. And lastly, but definitely, definitely not least, consider how you may pray for us. And in your prayers, I want to direct your prayers in certain ways. So first, I came up with four Ps, four Ps, like a good Baptist. Consider the prayer for the purpose that Christ would be glorified, that he will receive the reward for his suffering, even in this obscure area, that people would be converted and that a core group, that a core group would be formed. And pray for the pastor, that would be me, but not just the pastor, but his family, my family. Pray for my preparation and ministry, everything from theological preparation, to the Lord growing me in wisdom, to being able to acquire the Spanish language, and for my family to do that too, for my wife and for my kids to be able to adjust to the environment there and to the culture. And also for the process, all of the logistics involved in moving, it's enough of a chore, right, to move across town. It's a big chore to move out of state, right? It's a huge chore to move to another country, especially when another country is overseas, or over AC, if you will. So please pray that the Lord would guide our steps in all of the logistics and things of that sort. And for those of you who are interested in supporting us, I want to encourage you, we have a giving website set up at missions.habon.org, and that is a site where you can sign up to give on a regular basis to us and have those things automatically taken from your account. In the end, just like I started in the beginning, think of the potential for the gospel in Daha'ubon. Think of the potential that has for eternity. Think of the glory that Christ receives for eternity, the innumerable multitude that will worship and praise Him. Singing, crying out, relishing in the fellowship that they have with the Lamb. That's what I want you to consider. Think of how this obscure town, yet a bustling town with a big market, and with much pass through, has so much opportunity for people to hear the gospel and for people to be saved. And I pray that the Lord will use our work in Daha'ubon for His glory. So I don't have a whole lot of time for questions, but I want to open things up for questions. Yeah, Lewis. Ah, yeah, thank you, brother. So this is the blessed card. Yes. We have a table. You pick it up, fill it up, and put it on the open plate. Yes, sir. Bring it to the membership. You want to see as much as possible. Yeah, so Lewis just reminded me, we have these commitment cards here, and there's a table out front with these commitment cards on them. At some point today, we're going to pass these out, and this would be a perfect, we would like for you to fill this out. If you could, consider, or if you can't today, that's okay, but fill this out, and I want you to consider, consider how you might be able to give, which you might be able to commit to the work in D'Ajavon. But again, I want to open it up for questions just for a few minutes. Any questions? Any questions about the work? Sergio. When do I plan to leave? Not much, I'm trying to kick you out. Yeah, I understand, man. Yeah, you wouldn't be the first. What's the goal of clients to live over there? Like, when you see yourself over there? Yeah, the goal would be to move January 2022, so a year from now. That's the goal, you know, that can change. It could be a little earlier, it could be a little later, or much later, we don't know, but that's the stated goal. Any other questions? Ms. Lila. Not Ms. Lila, Ms. Lila. It's a, what book are they studying? What book are they studying? That's a good question. They have what is a discipleship manual that Pastor Guzman has, what it is, it's sort of like a mix between a catechism and filling the blank answers, you know? So it's not a particular book of the Bible, but they are going through basic Christian doctrine. So, and the flow is very similar to the flow that you'd see when you go through the catechism. Yeah, Barbie. Yes. Are you talking about the, to plan a trip there? Yeah. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah, our first trip this year will be the week of March 17th, March 17th. Spring break week is going to be the first trip this year, and it is open to everyone who would like to come. Thank you for asking. Very good question. Brianna. Are you guys going to be able to set up anything with sermon audio so we can listen to any preachings that you do or physically record it for us? Yeah, that would be the plan, especially since, you know, assuming that the Lord continues to work things the way he's done, I would likely be the only the elder there starting off. So, both for encouragement for others who might listen, and also for accountability. The plan is to record sermons and to put them on something like sermon audio. So, the question right here is, Nick? So, this might not be relevant in a year from now, but right now, you know, they have the Tocque de Queda at like a very small time, but the churches are even allowed to be open on Sundays. So, it would just be, I guess, thinking about that, like what would be like, you know, the planning case that's still extended because this COVID thing has been going on for, you know, quite a while. Yeah, Nick mentioned Nick is refusing to speak English. Nick mentioned Tocque de Queda. Yes, that means that's the curfew. I'm messing with you, Nick. That's the curfew in Dominican Republic. And so, the question is, how is that going to affect how we continue working there? We'll just have to work around it, you know? And right now, they're having curfew, but you know, it hasn't stopped by God's grace the guys from being able to travel down there. So, we'll work around it. When Sammy and I went, it was under curfew for a while. So, it's not pleasant by any means, but we'll work through it. Thank you, brother. Mr. Kina. How safe is it? How safe? Dajobon is a very safe city. There are, there is an element of crime because it's a border town, but not, there's not a real big violent crime problem. There's a, there's like a drug trafficking crime problem. And it's usually relegated. The problems tend to surround those who get themselves involved in criminal activities. But there's a very heavy police presence in Dajobon because of it being a border town. Even the electricity, unlike the rest of the Dominican Republic, even the electricity doesn't go out in Dajobon because it's a border town and the police want to make sure that it's always on. Any other questions? All right. Well, I think we're out of time anyway, let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, thank you for this work that you have started and that you would have allowed, have allowed us to participate in. Lord, I don't want to be a man that assumes anything about you or assumes anything about your ways or your plans. At the same time, Lord, we have seen your hand work as we worked in Dajobon. And we see that it is a good and a wise thing for us to continue in this work. And we're very thankful, Lord, that you would give us this opportunity, this privilege. So Lord, we ask you that you would continue the work that people would be converted in Dajobon, that Jesus Christ would receive the reward for his suffering, that you would prepare me and prepare my family to go and anyone else who you would lay on their hearts to come with us. And Lord, we also pray that you would provide in all of the logistics, all of the guidance, all of the resources needed for moving. Lord, very thankful to you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.


But then if you go and you talk about what's going on in the enterprises, you know And then you start talking to some of the people that I talked to about running all these power plants and power grids And they got sensors all over the place and and each one of these power companies generates more data in a day than they Had in the previous 50 years or if you talk to other segments of the population about What's going on in medical and in the amount of medical information that's being generated every day and that all has to be handled that's really what leads into the discussion of Why open and Linux and open source is so important to us If any one company even one to scale or the size of IBM is Pretending to handle all of this data Generate and solve all of these problems. You're nuts and they could have happened You need to invoke the entire open source community You need to invoke everybody to go and solve these problems and that and then integrate them And that's what you know the speed and integration is about of course There's the choice point as well that that people don't want vendor lock and people don't want to be tied to one spot And that's a real important point also But definitely the ability to get the right amount of innovation and make things happen is Is really the core of the discussion of why a Linux and open software are so important IBM has a has a long history as well and participating with this crowd we've been talking about a little bit and and over dinner last night and I've been looking up looking things up a little bit. We started in 2000 and with our first effort and it was really led by a gentleman by the name of Irving Wadowski Burger and In my preparation for Coming here to talk to you. I started looking up and reading up on the start of IBM's first investment in Linux, you know, we made a You know, roughly a billion dollar investment in the year 2000 To to start our Linux effort and I was reading up on it What it went we're Irving Wadowski Burger did when he first started he wrote a whole article in 2006 About the start of that and I wanted to read a little bit of what Irving had to say I thought it was real important and and I kind of wish I was gonna say it but Irving got called by Sam Palmosano after spending four years starting leading at IBM's network division and We announced in 2000 a strong commitment to Linux and it didn't go so well It was mixed met with a pretty mixed reaction and so Irving spent a year Evangelizing in the year 2000 and here's what he said he did during that year in the year 2000 evangelizing on February 3rd I gave the keynote presentation at the Linux World Conference in New York Saying we did not view Linux as just another OS any more than we viewed The internet is just another network We viewed Linux very much as part of the evolution towards open standards to help integrate systems Applications and info over the internet Linux was and continues to be the only popular operating system that runs every single platform Regardless of vendor a property it shares with just about all major software associated with the internet so Irving said that in 2000 It's very very true today. I could you know if I were just to say that today I think everybody would agree when he said that in 2000 and That was the start of IBM's commitment to Linux and I think what he said is very true Linux is not just another OS any more than the internet is just another network. It is a way to develop It's a way to do things that couldn't be done otherwise and it's very important. Oh Couple other points on this One of the other things you can notice about this timeline of IBM's commitment to open source. It's accelerating If you look right there, we got it in the past two years We've we've committed to four or five different open source projects including, you know Helping form the open daylight consortium and I want to talk to you a little bit about the open power consortium That's an effort that I've been leading at spending a lot of time on here of late and we're pretty pretty excited about that The open power consortium is very powerful that in that it's taking a lot of the principles that I just Talked about Irving talked about around open software and we're moving them into hardware to make it more pervasive more innovative and more things to happen What we're doing is we're taking our our chip IP the power chip IP That powers all of our big IBM systems and we're we're making that open and available for people to innovate with to drive more innovation in the industry You can see the partners that we're launching this with this is the initial core set of partners One of the things that you we learned from that previous page of launching many of these open source Consortiums is if you get too many people in the bed all at once to try and launch an open Dot org it you don't get a lot of consensus right away So we're we kept it to a smaller group and then we'll grow to a bigger group later But that the need that we're trying to fill is is that you know today You know if you look at what's going on with a lot of the big web 2.0's and many companies in general There's a lot of innovation taking place You know at the system level hooking together different IO sources different network sources and such together at the system level But as technology continues to shrink and integrate more and more of that innovation is taking place at the chip level And now this is going to allow that innovation to continue on at the chip level We give people choice in the manufacturing people choice and design and we're going to help them do it It's a pretty exciting change in the industry Likewise, you know, we are creating choice then we also you know just like in with the Open-source software the choice is just as important as is the innovation in technology To go with this. We're creating the first open source Software stack including firmware to be accompanying the chip design So now we'll have a full open-source firmware stack OS hypervisor management stack all available with a consistent set of hardware and Then that should enable people to be able to do an open innovation Around chip design as well as system design. We expect this to have a very big impact So moving forward What why is why is IBM? attacking Linux and moving the Linux so hard as well as Innovating across this whole stack and it's really there's two reasons one is Both of them are the important ingredients to a successful adventure One is is that just this past year? I don't know if everybody knows this But Linux did surpass the size of the Unix market in this past year The Linux now market now is bigger than the Unix market. So there is a much bigger business opportunity The Unix market is relatively flat We continue to take share in it, but it is not a growing market The Linux market is growing much much faster, but the second thing is there is also a technical need which is Most of the Linux x86 market is serviced by commodity hardware That is not designed from the ground up to be attacked by servers our systems are designed from the ground up to be server quality Systems largest caches in the industry largest Mount of threads per die in the industry etc etc etc We have server targeted designs from the ground up as as the big data in this explosion of applications and explosion of things takes place in the industry We believe that the power system hardware on the Linux open software stack is going to be the solution to make make things happen and As you can see here We got no KVM Linux the whole open software stack upon which we can build the applications that the industry needs you know and the the flagship right now of our Linux Application IBM's developing is Watson if you get in front of a keynote conference like this And I don't say Watson at least once I get in trouble. So we're gonna talk about Watson a little bit Watson you know right now is Most famous I think most you know for playing and winning at the Jeopardy My mom found it to be a very important point for 20 years I've been building microprocessors and IBM and I call her up and say hey mom I just built power six the highest frequency microprocessor in the world and she go that's nice Then I'd say hey mom, you know called up and said Watson I think there's a one on Jeopardy we built the brain for it. She goes. That's great. Can you send me one and You know It's funny. I told that story to Jenny when she visited IBM Austin and And that actually made her first all hands meeting that the importance of Watson was now that everybody's mother understood what we did So it's good stuff But but we're moving now Watson into more than just the game show market We've conquered the game show market with an unblemished record and and they could see the first task that we're taking on that's worthy of ops Watson skills and capabilities is Is the curing treatment of cancer and No, we got a set up with a memorial Sloan Kettering and well point where you know doctors you know can put in the patient's symptoms, you know describe it all to it and the Watson feeds back an analysis of These kind of treatments are what you need to do to treat a patient with these systems But what's really cool is is it's also interactive in real time You know patients it's down across from the doctor and then it comes out No, I got a little blood in my flim, you know And and then they type that in and then a new treatment comes back and it's it's a very very powerful tool And it's a very exciting thing that we think it's really going to improve the cure and treatment of cancer You know right now there's statistics like you know like one and one and five patients know isn't getting top-level Treatment for cancer and this so hopefully in a level that playing field as it becomes more and more pervasive We also have other applications for Watson that is built on the the Linux and the Apache stack Which is also the the call center business? We have some of the largest call centers in the world are using Watson like technology to improve the level of service there My laptop just broke a couple weeks ago So I'm all for you know buffing that industry up a little bit We could go a little better there, and we hope Watson will be able to do that also Got a few more examples of various Applications around Linux on power that we're going on just for just for you guys and see you know the top two are you know taking Linux applications and really applying them and leveraging know some of power's core strengths of performance and scalability the bottom left one is is a small business that's growing really rapidly and They just needed security and a good database to hold a customer secure data and good performance and That little car company in the Netherlands is using power Linux for that bottom right is you know a classic consolidation play Which is you know what really has fueled the power business for IBM for the longest time You know IT informatic recently consolidated onto a power Linux platform and got you know about half the course half the IT operational cost With that consolidation play, but all of the things that we've done with power We are now doing as well on the power Linux platform. That's what we're doing with these Examples here So so IBM is is very very heavily invested in the success of Linux You know every one of our systems just as Irving said you know 13 years ago every system we got runs Linux and we got 400 plus software products That's a from our software group that are all Running on Linux as well and as well as we've you know given a whole lot of patents to help with the protection and the legal issues around Linux and as well as we have lots of people developing at 600 plus because we're continuing to move more and more Developers to the Linux platform every day So so then we go on you know Jim alluded to That that we had an announcement to make and so then you we were announcing today as well That we know we're gonna donate donate We're gonna invest a billion dollars How may we'll donate you know well Well Dan Dan fries in the back in a room And I think he brought his checkbook so everybody in the room gets their share of a billion dollars here That was Dan fry See there you go see even the hardware a guy can make the software a guy's happy. That's good. Give him a billion dollars Okay, so we got that equation solved so so power systems is we are investing a billion dollars around power systems and Linux and It's it's coming out in many many forms. We're shifting more and more development to to power Linux as well as We're creating some development centers. We've created three or four of them around the country. We're announcing the opening of one more Linux power adult development center in Montpellier, France If any of you guys haven't been to Montpellier, France, it's a good place to go I would suggest if you want to work on your Linux apps on power go there good spot very nice And also We're also creating a Linux developer cloud. We'll give people very very quick access to hardware So they can do development on power, which is extremely important to the effectiveness of Getting more and more people in this open-source environment innovating on power So this is an important piece of what we're doing with this money will be spent over the next four to five years with our development teams and with Our partners and ISVs as well And you know the first investment we made you know back in 2000 had a tremendous impact on Linux in the industry and we believe that this investment as well is going to have a strong impact also a Few other things that I wanted to share with you is as we're doing a little bit of a promotional here a Little contest to see what the next best power app to put on Linux on power Now the cool thing about this was is I was going to say you know Hey, everybody could come up here to the screen right now and and click on that thing You know says clicked it right, but they tested it beforehand. It works all the way to about the back of the room so from your seat you can click on that and get to this website and and You know put your idea in for the next big app and you get a chance to win an iPad Let's do some fun stuff come out of this and see what great new apps can come up And we'll be working on some of those ideas with the power development team finally We got a little booth Here set up and we got the Watson Jeopardy challenge at the booth, you know, that's kind of fun I've done that myself go and take on Watson see if you can answer a few more questions than they can and See I think that's everything on that never I talked about so I really appreciate your all's attention Appreciate your time appreciate the invitation to be here and thank you very much


Hey, what's up, Rick here, the founder of Your Inception. Welcome to my channel. Today we're gonna answer some of the most interesting questions that we received about metropics in the past weeks. If you wanna have your answer questions, or if you have any questions basically, and you want me to answer your question, then I suggest using a hashtag ask your inception, just post it below any of the videos that you're watching, of course on my channel. And once a week or once every two weeks, it depends on how many questions I get, I will try to find some of the most thought-provoking questions and answer them. I got some pretty cool questions this weekend, let me ask them, or actually read them to you, and then I'll try to answer them. So there's one question from, I don't know what's his name, Savus, I think it's Savus, and he asked me if I take Kratom, and he said, I know it's not a metropic, but it is worth trying because it has a lot of benefits. Now, I don't know how much you know about Kratom, this is a tree basically, and the leaves of this tree, as far as I know, are often used because of its potential benefits. Now, I've done my research, I found a lot of cool potential benefits, and Kratom is often taken by people who were taking drugs before, apparently it's very strong, but it can be very unsafe, and that's why it's illegal in many states, for example, in the US, it's illegal in many other parts of the world, so I'm not taking Kratom right now, I think it's just too risky, maybe I'm gonna try it once, but I think it's just too risky, and my opinion about taking risky ingredients, risky metropics is like this, if you know something has, or well I try to weigh them, the risks, and see if the risks are higher than the potential benefits, I will definitely not take something like that, that's just my opinion. Cool, so another question that we receive this week is, give me a sec, there's one guy, Padilla Family Adventure, Colleen, and he said, if for a board exam, if I recommend quality of focus or minor pro, so here's my opinion, when it comes to exams, you usually need to, well you need to prepare for exams usually, right, so you need to have a lot of focus, a lot of energy, brain power, the best working memory before the exam, and then during the exam, so this is usually, I don't know, it depends on the exam, but usually this takes like one to two weeks, the preparation, then is the exam, and that's it, so for such short periods of full focus, I would probably take quality of focus, it contains caffeine, it contains creatinine, it contains some other ingredients that minor pro doesn't, and for the short term periods of high focus that you need, I believe quality of focus is better than minor pro, if you want to try any other high quality and tropic supplement, check the links below, you're gonna find more information about them. Cool, another question I received this week, and actually that's the last one we're gonna answer today, it's quite interesting, so the question was, if you should combine Rodiola Rossea with Bacopa Muneri, or if you should combine with Ashwagandha, which combo is better? So I have a lot of experience of combining Rodiola Rossea, which is an adaption herb, with Bacopa Muneri, another adaption herb, somehow it really works well, this combo, both adaption herbs are pretty similar, the way they work, so this works really, really well. Now I've tried Ashwagandha on its own, I tried it with Bacopa Muneri because it was part of one Neutropic stack, and I tried it also with Rodiola Rossea, it was part of another Neutropic stack, it's hard to say if you should combine all three, or at least Rodiola Rossea with Ashwagandha, but based on my experience, I think better results are seen with Rodiola Rossea and Bacopa Muneri, why is it so? I don't really know, because there is really a lack of science there, especially science that would look at both ingredients and try to see how they work together, but based on my experience, I just saw better results with Rodiola Rossea and Bacopa Muneri, but keep in mind if you take this combo, you need to take it for at least six to eight weeks, preferably even longer, because Bacopa Muneri takes some time to provide the benefits. Cool guys, so we answered three very interesting questions that we got in the previous week, if you have any other questions as I said before, just use a hashtag, ask your inception, and once a week, maybe once every two weeks, it depends, I will gather some of the most interesting questions and answer them. Cool, don't forget to follow your inception on Facebook, Instagram, don't forget subscribing, and I hope to see you soon guys, take care.


Hi, my name is Wendy. I'm from Mexico and I just graduated from the 120-hour Tefal course with Tutor. I just wanted to make this video to tell you guys about my experience taking this course. Prior to taking this course, I had no experience and zero knowledge on teaching English as a foreign language. But right after completing it, I realized that I learned a lot. I learned a lot, especially about grammar, about problems with students, about lesson planning, about course materials, books, resources. I really, really thank this program because they taught me a lot and I definitely know that it will help me be a good teacher. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for Tefal and TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


Aloha and welcome back to Politics in Hawaii with Dennis Asaki on Think Tech Hawaii. Today we'll be speaking with Ron Kochi, the state senate president from Kauai. Ron has been the Kauai county council member and its chairman. He was appointed but it's to the state senate where then governor lingo when there was a vacancy in 2010 I believe. September 10th but who's coming? Yeah in 2003 I actually ran against Ron for seat on the island white KIUC board for island utility cooperative board along with 31 candidates. He came in first, I came in second, he had 138 more votes than me so we both got in. Well they took nine people so you know. Yeah I got it. Comfortably, so I didn't view you as running against me. You know part of the nine that we're going to be able to undertake that brand new adventure of the cooperative which now that we can look back almost 20 years later has become such an incredible success story and as climate change is featured so much in the news lately not just here in Hawaii but globally you know the ability of Kauai island utility to cooperative to be pushing at 60% or more renewable 25% higher than Hawaiian electric really speaks well for the cooperative and for the people of Kauai. Yeah thanks for your help in that. That's why I have a green shirt on today. Anyway welcome to Think Tech Hawaii. We welcome your thoughts on some of the issues facing us in Hawaii. Let's start with political decisions you have to make due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Well I think the biggest challenge has been in doing the best we can to protect the public health and safety. You need to shut down the movement of people and the activity and interaction of individuals whether it's visitors or residents and that shutdown of activity has you know tremendously strong adverse impact on economic activity and there's no threading the needle as we've opened up you know the case count has gone higher it's just how much higher for quite a while it was a number that was manageable where you know we thought we struck a reasonable balance between having economic activity well still providing you know a pretty safe environment but with the Delta variant clearly it's spreading rapidly and you know with the last seven-day average at 500 statewide as compared to 60 a month ago and a positivity rate above seven percent when we were a little over two percent just a month ago just shows how quickly this Delta variant is spreading and our hospital bed capacity which was not challenged for the longest time is now being challenged. Yeah but most of the decisions now is talks from the governor's office and the mayor's right. It was a recent emergency power bill limiting the power of the governor I guess, but you did it overrided and he talks on that. Yeah one of the concerns would be exactly what's happening now we adjourned at the end of April we did come back in early July for a week to consider a veto override or four days and at that point you know we went home thinking that you know we've got this under control the average case count as I said statewide was about 60 the positivity rate a little over two percent the council of revenues you know was saying that we were in a lot better economic position you know we did get the federal assistance and so our budget was you know in a much better place and now as the Delta variant has quickly overtaken us to get the legislature to come back into session to enact laws and to try to deal with what is occurring now you know that was one of the concerns that it would just take too many days to try to have the legislature work on something if you know it did go quickly and got out of control and clearly we're in that situation now and so that factored into not overriding the veto. So actually the governor has all the power but as you mentioned it it affects the state finances and economy and which you will have to deal with in the legislature right? Yes but at this point the governor and the mayors in their recommendation are going back to the gathering sizes of 10 indoors and 25 outdoors 50 capacity in the restaurants and when Oahu was in tier two as you recall you know they were in tier one they were still at five people indoors and outdoors and so you know they're in the current executive order they're hoping to take a more balanced approach to try and see if we can't get our health numbers in a better place without a complete shutdown of the economy. The other thing is that the governor and the mayors have still decided to continue to keep safe travels in place where trans-pacific travelers with proof of vaccination are not you know subject to quarantine or if you use a trusted partner 72 hours before you travel and get a negative test result then you are you know still eligible or you know not required to quarantine and of course in some of the confusion you need to load your material onto the safe travels app or get it done before you travel and print out your QR code to ensure that you know you would not be subject to quarantine and so that's a significant decision on their part although in the presentation we got from General Hara last week Thursday to the Senate's COVID-19 committee 85% of all of the positives are residents and 15% are visitors and you know certainly Hawaii residents enjoy vacationing in Las Vegas and quite a few of the infections are occurring with Hawaii residents who have traveled to Las Vegas on vacation have contracted COVID in Las Vegas and then brought it back home. Yeah well you mentioned you know the tourists versus the residents of course they could be transmitting it and as you mentioned there when our residents go on trips and return with it um so that's still going back to the governor or is it the adjutant general's decision and they're making these decisions in consultation with the department of health I haven't seen a memo yet when the COVID-19 committee hopes to reconvene you know they went through the superintendent or interim superintendent of schools they had General Hara and you know a few other Hilton ratio had given a health update but they ran out of time and didn't get to the department of health so I think our community and the members of the senate are certainly interested in hearing the report from the department of health but all of these decisions are made with the adjutant general the health department and of course the consultation of the mayors as we know on kawaii back in December Merakawa Kami chose to opt out of safe travel so any of the mayors still have the option of requesting to the governor to opt out of safe travels but right now you know everybody is in the program and you know that was in the joint statement from the governor and the mayors yesterday yeah you know still stuck on tourism you know it's a big economic engine as they call it when we had the shutdown state was starving you know hotels businesses that were closed and now when it's opened up it's uh overtroped so what is the solution well one of the solutions and it was piloted on kawaii is the reservation system to now get to k-a beach back in April of 2018 when we had the catastrophic flooding and part of the north shore got cut off because the bridge washed out finally created the opportunity for people to say we're going to limit the visitors to k-a at 900 a day we were getting upwards of two or three thousand a day you know they were parked all over the place an emergency vehicle couldn't get to the end of the road if there was some kind of medical emergency and you need to pay if you're a visitor for that parking and the reservation to go to the beach they took that to wainapa-napa on Maui the ways the means committee in 2019 visited k-a to see what was going on so senator english put that in place wainapa-napa between a $20 parking pass for a vehicle and $5 entry fee per individual is scheduled to make $3.5 million this year they just started at diamond head and diamond head generated just under $400,000 in its first month of operation you know we're looking at k-a and other state parks throughout the state for assessing parking fees and visitor entry passes and this could generate upwards of 40 to 50 million dollars but also would give us an opportunity to manage how many people can actually access the resource and give us an opportunity to better manage the resource by limiting the amount of people who go there and with the money being generated gives us the revenue to reinvest into the natural resources but i think that's you know one faction of it for one part and again you have some of the local guys who live there you know they kind of get their water heater fix you know call me to do a job i reluctant to go out there to do it you know because all the shutdowns and uh there's more to it than you know just that one piece right yes but that is the first step in how we manage it i mean we still have uh general issues the airport is controlled by the FAA which is federally controlled so we cannot really stop planes from coming in we don't control the private market so what the airlines decide to sell the seats for is critically important and then when you take a look at what the hotel rooms or other accommodations are going for all of those factor into the attractiveness of whether they're going to click the button to go to hawaii or to go to somewhere else and you know what is uh certainly something we're closely monitoring this is with almost no foreign visitors this is almost all domestic travel okay yeah um okay we passed a little bit on the finances uh can you discuss state finances where do we go from here well we um i guess what is really misleading is that the council of revenues when covid first hit and we shut the airport had a minus 14 growth and hawaii and nevada are the two largest service economies with hotels and restaurant and so it's been the biggest challenge for us to uh get back to a healthier economic path so as the numbers have gotten better people are asking me what are you going to do with all of the surplus well we don't really have a surplus they finally went from minus two in the last report to plus two and when they said we had six hundred million more to spend next year than was anticipated in the budget we adopted we uh generally pay 500 million dollars to the health fund and the retirement system and we did that this year but we did not make that payment next year so of that 600 million the first 500 million will go to pay our obligation in the health and the pension fund and then we had to use all of our rainy day fund and so a lot of that 100 million really should go back to the rainy day fund so that we're prepared when the next catastrophe hits and who knows the way the delta variant has been spreading we may be in the next new catastrophe right now so we've relied a lot on federal federal money going to people and they got to pay taxes on it right yes and you know we mentioned the like things opening up but we have problems with employees and uh housing uh was that the uh you cannot uh kick out the tenants right I would not say kick out there is an immoratorium okay yeah you're politically correct so you're there and I'm not as we've discussed before your uh SAT scores were very high yeah you know that uh you gotta look at all those things and uh people have uh this is hard time finding uh employees so they get it closed some days or shut the doors early what do you got to say about that I all I have to say is it's challenging uh ways and means they were on kawaii visiting a few weeks ago and the real question we had is what are the programs we need to put in place in k through 12 to start better training our uh students as they graduate to be workforce ready where are the jobs where is the need and uh you know hopefully we're gonna do a better job of delivering the education there to get a better workforce in the near term it is simply going to be a problem finding workers we have had people because of the cost of living we've simply left kawaii and gone to other areas where the cost of living is less and uh we don't have as many people here as we used to in uh in the workforce and then uh the unemployment benefits do not run out until next month so we still have people who are being uh you know paid that uh added benefit on the unemployment and uh you know I think if the unemployment benefits run out in September then maybe you know you'll see more people who are going to resume going into the workforce and uh you know I I get that there are those who are reluctant to go back to work who are concerned about their health and their safety and you know we need to just work uh to or to continue to strive to make people feel confident and comfortable that they can resume uh working uh and uh that they're gonna do so in a way that's safe I would be remiss if I didn't take the time to say I would still encourage anyone who does not have an allergy or other adverse reaction to the vaccination getting vaccinated is the most powerful way that we can fight the COVID-19 variants and it is the best way that we can try to get people safe and hopefully get to a point where people can resume more normal activities in their lives in a safe way. Yeah thanks. I'm getting back to housing and we all look at the median price climb higher and higher the million dollars now for a single family home uh you know granted the county and the state doing a lot of work on the lower end than a cold affordable which is just a rare affordable because you know the prices of uh houses in that range it goes up pretty high. I think the government would do more in in a for the middle class working people as far as housing you know to make it more available to them and they'll have to do less on the lower end. Any comment on that? Well no I agree with you Dennis and I know that you have represented uh the island of Kauai on state boards dealing with housing throughout the state and are very well versed in on this subject when uh D. R. Horton opened those homes next to King Kamua Lee School in Hanama'ulu at 400,000 or so people were screaming you know it's not affordable it's not affordable uh the low end affordable for that rezoning project had been built at Kaleppo Village many years ago so they did have the 80 and below or 65 and below units built uh for those who aren't aware of the numbers that we use 100,000 is a median income for a couple of two and uh at this point you know at 80 percent your combined income cannot exceed 80,000 dollars right now if you've been teaching for a few years you're making 50,000 plus you know a husband and wife or a teacher they exceed 100,000 dollars in income and they can't afford to buy a house uh police officer starts at about 65, 70,000 like a firefighter does all of a sudden we have people who are teaching our children and first line responders nurses as well if they're a married couple who are priced out of the affordable market and I completely agree with you that we need to have some of these units that are in place and then for those who were able to purchase those D. R. Horton homes where we see the market today you know though that would have been a really great investment on their part and uh you know to get into a home at 400, 450 dollars compared to today's market uh you know really really would have done well we're in a worldwide marketplace we have more people because of the safety numbers in Hawaii and Kauai in particular buying site unseen million-dollar properties to work remotely you know that global market is one we'll continue to compete in and I wholeheartedly agree that we need to have units available to uh you know our white collar workers and then first line responders who are they're protecting us each and every day yeah the phrase you mentioned site unseen we hear that all the time now you know guys buying it I hear from guys putting their homes on the market and they get it offers bidding wars and getting a lot more than what they asked for or was listed for yeah we're gonna I think you know we're gonna do that uh with leadership from the top you know but the other thing when people said let's go cap the uh prices but for someone who invested 20 30 years ago into a house and envisioned that as their retirement as a rental the market just paid off all of a sudden uh you know when they're offered that million dollar price for the house how do you tell that person who's 60 70 years old don't don't sell your house don't make a profit I mean you know they sacrifice a lot to to get it and there are quite a bit of people who are age 60 and older that uh investing in you know rental properties was a comfortable investment strategy one that they could see touch and they were familiar with you know there are people who are uncomfortable in the stock market and and that's all part of the challenge I mean it's not just rich people getting richer and they're you know they're offering this kind of dollars for old plantation homes yeah no that's you know that's not what I'm saying to do you know oh yeah yeah and yeah it's one of the things they talk about but I'm thinking uh like all the things that a cool uh developer although that word is kind of a bad name um has to go to land use change all the permitting and I think years to do it you know and which equates to money but the other thing Dennis I think that still you know the the biggest or best point that you've made is so much of our focus is on 80 and below or with the 9 tax credits 65 and below that we are not paying enough attention to those in that 100 to 140 group and well it may seem like it's not affordable to sell that high these are our friends and neighbors who are making over a hundred thousand dollars a year as a as a couple but they can't pay a million dollars you know for that market home and so we need to see things in that the price range so we are committing a lot of state resources for rental assistance but we're also committing money in the development revolving fund and we're trying to help look at financing interim uh construction uh costs for infrastructure and partnering with the counties across excuse me across the state to try and build more of these affordable units okay thanks we get the several minutes left um what one topic that comes up very so often is gambling another uh gonna elaborate on your thoughts on that uh i i'm not somebody who supports gaming and certainly pre-pandemic i enjoy going to uh las vegas and playing video poker and you know wagering on on uh sports events uh at the sports book but at at this point i think we can solve our problems without uh gambling the other one that's going to be i i believe uh you know top of the list again accession is the legalization of marijuana as another method of uh raising revenue and uh you know personally i have not been a big proponent of marijuana but i can tell you that an overwhelming majority of my caucus in the senate supported and i'm aware of uh you know how they feel and so i i'm sure that this is going to be something that will be widely debated next year okay but see if we're gambling here then guys don't have to go to Las Vegas to bring back the covid well i have no uh argument to refuse no and um i mean one uh one thing the dj shell was talking about gambling and on their property i know you had some thoughts on that uh again it's not something that i was supportive of but my uh hawaiian affairs chair senator shimabukuru senator kawaii who's the chair of the hawaiian caucus in the legislature they wanted to uh hear what the thoughts were and they had asked for a hearing and i supported them proceeding to try and get the information but in the end uh chair shimabukuru did not have the support of her committee to move the bill along after the hearing was held so what uh what was the plan or the discussion about on that uh it was that they were going to dedicate the funding to uh the department of hawaiian homelands for the development of housing for their beneficiaries and that's what the intended use of the revenue was going to be so i don't mean to deflect on the gambling uh issue i've said clearly it's not something that i support but i just know there's more support in uh senate caucus for legalization of marijuana than to consider legalized gambling at this point all the time i went by really fast uh round thanks for joining us in the closing remarks well just thank you for the opportunity to continue to connect with uh everyone out there and appreciate the invitation and uh happy to do it uh sometime in the future if you run out of new guests thanks again senator ron pochi thank you to uh thank that hawaii uh see you again in a couple of weeks aloha and mahalo