The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Morning Markets Kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Thursday morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, company alive from TFNN. Thanks so much for kicking off your trading day right here. And we kick things off with a little bit of action in both directions right now. You get the S&P slightly in the red after quite a record close yesterday on the futures. You're trading right now negative by just four points on the S&Ps. You're trading at 5,011, 5,011. Pretty remarkable. First time I kick off the program with the S&Ps trading at 5,000 in the futures right now. You're negative by four points, quite the acceleration yesterday in the futures. You traded up 50 points from where you were at 7 a.m. this morning. Came into the opening bell. We're at about 5,000. Just shy. You accelerate above that price level right at 10 o'clock as I get off the air. And we held on to that price level. And we traded up to 5,020, almost 50 points, almost a full percentage point. From where you were at 7 a.m. just yesterday, we're trading right now. As I mentioned, negative by four. NASDAQ 100. We're negative by 18. That's just one-tenth percent of the red. 17,823. You have the Dow trading higher. 38,800 on the dot as I speak right now. Pretty remarkable, right? We're 1,200 points away from 40,000. NASDAQ is only about 2,000 away from 20,000. 5,020,000, 40,000. The Russell needs to make it to 2,500, man, to get those highs. 2480, I think, is the high in the Russell. And Russell, negative by two this morning. You jump over to Crude. Crude catching a little bit of a bid this morning. Off of the lows of Monday, we're talking about higher highs and higher lows in this market this week. We're pushing nearly $75. You just got up to a price point of $74.99. And we're at $74.77. Crude up 91 cents. We'll talk about Bitcoin. Quite an acceleration. We're back above $45,000 right now. Bitcoin trading higher. Got a couple of headlines from Bitcoin pulled up that we'll talk about. Gold, a little bit of a different story. Gold right now trading down. We got some action, man. Gold down almost $20 from where it was at 5.30 a.m. this morning. You see the action on a 15-minute basis on the thinkorswim platform. 2036, we're down by $15 on gold. Gold continuing to be extremely volatile. And what do we have going on? We have lower price and we have higher yields coming at you right now. We get the 10-year. Down an additional 10 ticks from where we were just yesterday. You're pushing near the lows of Monday. We're at $110.28 right now. We have the 10-year basically back to 4.15%. I think we're at about 4.11 yesterday. Well off, of course, last Thursday when we were at a $113 price tag, that had the yields at about $3.8 just above that price tag. $3.81, the yield on the 10-year. So what do we have happening? We have rising yields. Now this is where, you know, we talked to Teddy Keggs yesterday on Wednesdays. He talks about forex. We always talk about yields. That ties into commodities. I know we got a lot of gold investors out there. It's amazing how one thing leads the next and you got to know those relationships. And that's why they're all so important right now. What do we have? We have gold down $20. Well, if gold's down $20, I know the dollar's stronger. I know yields are up. Now when those relationships don't always exist, but it's important knowing them and expecting them because usually when they're not all acting the same, one is ready to recoil in one direction or the other because they all matter, of course, you know, to a certain degree. So what do we have? We have yields back at 4.15% right now. You jump over to the dollar. Dollar spiking higher from 104 to 104.40 right now and you jump over to the gold contract and that's putting some weakness in the gold contract down to 2037 this morning. You jump over to the dollar again. We got dollar again pushing 150 again. Oops, did not want to do settings. We want to go to that. We want to back it up a little bit. The highs from November 151.91, we'll call it. We're pushing 149.31 just like that. We back it up on a three-year weekly and you see those highs 151.93. We're basically at the highs right now though. You know, I was looking at this last night. That's why I wanted to pull it up. Don't always jump through the dollar yen in the morning market kickoff as we really do the roundup to see what's going on in the market. Don't always jump to the dollar yen, usually include the dollar, but check out where we are. Technical analysis is an art, not a science, folks. We have come into an area where you're now, you know, we're not up to the highs that we got back here in November, but folks, this is a weekly basis and you could make the case that from September 25th until November 25th and 27th technically, the week of we're talking about here, two full months, the yen chopped around with a high of about 150. That's the similar area that you chopped around one year prior to that in October of 2022 and we are right back at that area. Do you trade a little bit higher? Yes, of course you do. It's a range, folks, okay? We are in that range though now in the yen. It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out as they possibly go forward with a differing strategy in their economy. In this case, we've had a little bit of a fall start here. The first one back in October of 22, the last one back in November of 23 last year. Now we're back right back in that area. Eventually, I think you're going to see that trade lower, folks, but things taken a little bit longer than we expected, right? You take a look at the dollar index since then. Look at this dollar, man, just chopping around. Since basically December of 2022, we've been chopping around between about 101. You made it to 100 at one point, the upper boundary line about 105. There's a lot of there. One thing's got a little out of whack in October, according to the market that is, but we're at 104.37 right now. Backing things up a little bit. Just wanted to put some context into where the dollar has been historically, folks. Now these are periods of time when we have very low interest rates, okay? So what happens when you have very low interest rates? Well, we all know it now, man. You have low interest rates. There's going to be less demand for your dollars and interest rates. What's interesting is everybody had low interest rates, though. Okay, Europe had much lower interest rates than we had. Nonetheless, you see where we are in this chart, okay? Do not get fooled by the fact if you look at a three-year weekly. We don't always spend so much on currencies, man, but the action going on right now when it ties to yields, which is the Fed, which is so much in the market right now. You know, you look at this chart right now, okay? And you can say to yourself, well, geez, we've already come so far off the highs, right? From 115 down to 104. Folks, this was an extraordinary time we lived through. Okay? We're at 104.36 right now. And on a historical basis, going back 20 years, we've only been higher in the dollar on two occasions. At the end of 2022 and the spike you got last year, everything else is lower, and everything else is dramatically lower. And I imagine at some point in the next year or two, going longer picture here, okay? Year or two, I'm talking about. Probably a year, but things are moving slower than we expected. And it seems like that's always the case. I've got a couple of cool articles to talk about here in terms of the market being wrong. Taking a look at some of the charts as we get through the program. We got plenty to talk about. And where are we going to kick things off? Jobless claims. Why not, man? Thursday morning, 8.30 in the morning, initial jobless claims dropped for the first time in three weeks. That would make sense following quite the strong jobs number that we got for the month of January. Filings for unemployment benefits falling to 218,000 last week. Declines and initial claims were broad-based across states. The number they were looking for was about 220, basically bullseye, right? You're talking about 2,000 jobs on a weekly basis. You take a look at the chart. Initial jobless claims, 218,000. You see we had been up, up, up, slight down tick on a relative basis, though. Just very low numbers. Almost below a health level. Almost below a health level. Almost below a healthy churn in a healthy economy. And on a continuing basis, well, still a little bit lofty, 1.871 million on a continuing basis. You can see well off some of those lower numbers we had prior. All right, folks, stay tuned. We'll be coming back. We got a lot to talk about, man. We got to talk about Disney shares. We got to talk about Chipotle, Mexican Grill, both of those trading higher. Look at Disney, up above 107 this morning. They're getting into gaming with Epic Games and Taylor Swift and Chipotle, Mexican Grill, 2700 bucks. We got a lot. Stay tuned, folks. We're coming back with Kevin Inks. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities & Options report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. 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The earnings, you see the doubt because they're up even though NASDAQ and the E-minis are down. That's because of Disney. Trading over, let's see, I have it about 107. Right now that's much bigger than the expected move. So Disney outperforming on some of their good news today, I think I was just talking on the Schwab network about big numbers and what 5,000 in the S&P means. And humans see big numbers and they're attracted to them because that's where a lot of order flow comes in. There's a lot of reasons why people should be paying attention to 5,000 on the S&P. And if you work Tommy on a chart I want to bring the dollar and the Euro into this because a lot of talks are there about the Euro going to 105. Remember the European economy much weaker than the U.S. economy that would pressure the Euro down the dollar up. If you look at last September to basically the first week in November when the Euro was down around 105, 106 and the U.S. dollar went up to 106.5, 107 the S&P went from 45, 30 to 41, 15 during that period. So it just automatically thinking that the markets are going to go up and there's not much to get in the way. Your viewers traders in general should be watching the relationship between the Euro and the U.S. dollar. Euro's down this morning, dollars a little higher that is going to cause a long term for this market. If yields which are higher this morning go with it. I appreciate the awareness man. I was jumping through those charts as you were mentioning it. It is so interesting I think right now and you make some great points how important these currencies are. When you're talking about the dollar, the Euro, they're driven by yields of course. We've got a bunch of gold traders out there. My goodness gold is so impacted by what the dollar is doing. So really interesting to see how that plays out. When we have a 10-year right now at 4.15%, not that bad man in terms of where we go from here. If you get some higher yields from 4.15 it will be interesting to see if the dollar rises and how the market handles that. As you said, you mentioned Disney out there. I thought it was interesting quite the news announcement in terms of what was coming beyond just the numbers. The numbers themselves profit. Boy, they really trimmed to bring in some profits. They doubled their dividend. They got a high back 1.5 billion for Epic Games. They missed a little bit on revenue and they missed a little bit on their subscribers. But I think that's not what was driving this company. I'm sure the price tag this morning would agree. But what do you have? Have they kind of turned a corner there, Kevin? Do you have any feelings longer term? It's going to be quite a morning to the upside of course but we're still sitting at like 107 well off the highs. Are you reading into any of that action going longer term for Disney this morning? Well, Disney has certainly set the table for recovery, but remember a lot of this earnings became from cost cuts, right? They're saving billions of dollars and projected ahead of pace. Remember, they projected $6 to $7 billion in cost savings. And so, Bob Iger said yesterday that they're well on their way to outperforming that in terms of cost cutting. So listen, Mark Zuckerberg made a very good year of efficiency. So Disney doing that and I described Disney yesterday because of streaming as Michael Jordan with a broken leg, right? And the minute they can heal the problems with streaming the rest of this company is actually doing quite well. I don't know if they're doing $8 for quite well but they're certainly doing pretty well here. And the recovery in Disney it looks like at the beginning, Tommy. Yeah, great points. I thought it was so interesting. I mean, in days past, boy, if you ever missed on revenue and you missed on subscriber numbers on Disney, watch out, but that's not where they are right now. And you make that point, they had to trim, they got it done and we'll see where they go from there. With that in mind, we go forward, Kevin, it's Thursday. Would you guys have equities you're talking about at 12 noon today on Fast Market? We have three good names today, Tommy. Like Folio in our middle section of Mexico, they have earnings before the open tomorrow, the consumer stable massive company that is so much more than soft drinks, as you know, free to lay makes up a big portion of their earnings. We'll also trade Pinterest that has earnings after the bell today and Expedia that has earnings after the bell today.  And Kevin, I know you have quite an extensive history with Pepsi for those that aren't familiar. You are in the pits, man, and I know I pulled it up right now. We have a $3.84 move you talked about, you know, not a lot of volatility in this equity, but for those that don't know, we are a market maker, are you in the pit? What's your history there? And then as you look for a company like Pepsi, only about a 2%, 2.5% expected move on this equity for those listeners out there because sometimes you look at equity like this and if you want to sell premium you say, do I sell premium? Well, it's great. It's not a very volatile stock. Maybe that's a good area to sell premium. How do you look at maybe a little teaser for a very low volatile stock like Pepsi going into their earnings? How maybe you look at that as a trader, depending on what's happened in the market? Yeah, I spent 20 years trading PepsiCo in the pits of the CBOE and I was also a specialist in PepsiCo options. So yeah, I've traded this many, many, many times in my life, many quarters of earnings and the history on this name is, they don't move very much off of earnings. They're consumer staple. They're very consistent. Now, that's not all the time. Probabilities are not high for a big move. That's why you don't see that embedded in the options, but there's always that opportunity, but historically this is not a big move off options, Tommy. I appreciate it, man. And I'm sure the listeners appreciate hearing that. And boy, I just put this thing back on a monthly chart, Kevin. My goodness, this equity from 43 bucks at the lows of 2009. And yeah, we had plenty of pullbacks. Yeah, the COVID pullback as well, but almost a straight one-way trip to 200 bucks. We got a little bit of volatility in the last six months, though, back to 171. Kevin, I appreciate the time as always. I know the listeners and viewers do as well. And we'll be watching at 12 o'clock today and we'll talk to you next Tuesday, man. Thanks for having me on, Tommy. Have a great day. Always a pleasure. Folks, check it out. Yeah, look at that chart on Pepsi, man. Consumer products, they got a lot going on. Pulling back at the last six months, though, off the highs of 196, but boy, that is almost a straight one-way trip. You talk about a channel from 2009 of 43 bucks almost quadrupling. No, quadrupling. Yeah, to 196.88 at the highs of last year. But yeah, off of those highs a bit, we've got the market popping. Pepsi, not so much. We're coming into their numbers. And yeah, Pepsi this morning, basically flat. We back it up to a five-minute chart. 171.49. We see how Disney's trading going to be an interesting open for them.  They even got a Taylor Swift in the mix in there. So we'll see how they open. We'll talk about them as they're teaming up with Epic Games as well. We'll take a look at Chipotle, Mexican Grill. They're higher in the market. We'll be right back to the open. Are you ready to take charge of your financial future? TFNN is your gateway to the world of trading and investing. 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Don't forget, you can listen to TFNN live on your mobile device 24 hours per day. Go to TFNN.com and hit WatchTigerTV. That's TFNN.com and hit WatchTigerTV. And welcome back, folks. We've got markets open. You look at the retail market. LibreP is off by just three points right now. You get the Nasdaq 100, negative by a similar three points. Dow, as Kevin mentioned, up by 41 Disney giving that a lift, you get the Russell right now, negative by less than one point. You jump over to Crude. Above 75 bucks, 75-12 for Crude right now. You jump over to Gold. Gold Ketchum Bay. What's going on with the dollar, man? Gold just popped, right? We were just looking at 2036. We're 2043. Dollar just dropped. Yeah. Nothing too dramatic. We For that dollar index, you jump over to yields as we open, yields sitting at a similar down about 10 ticks and that is putting us with a 10-year yield just above 4.15% right now. Let's see where we're at exactly. I think we're just above it, right? Yeah. No, sitting just under it actually. So 4.15% right where we're sitting. All right, we jump over to Disney. Let's see how they're opening to kick off their trading day following some strong earnings. 107, you hold the open basically so far. You're up about 8%, but we will see where that goes as the day is young. Chipotle we mentioned, we'll go over their numbers. What's going on here? I don't know. Their numbers were the night before? Yeah. Forgive me. Okay. Yeah, they were. But Disney was last night. Somehow I got caught up in that. All right. Disney catches a bid to 107 and let's go over some of those numbers for Disney. So as I mentioned, earnings rising, okay? It was all about earnings, but revenue actually missing. So keep your eye on this one to a certain degree. Not right now, but if this trend continues, that will not be good. Of course, revenue little change, $23.5 billion. Market was looking for $23.8 billion, okay? Held back by Disney's struggling TV business and two theatrical misses, the Marvels and Wish. Thanks to cost cutting, profit this year going to be up 20%, $4.60, market was looking for $4.27, okay? They raised their dividend by 50%, a $3 billion stock repurchase program. They're investing, this one might be the most spicy of all, $1.5 billion in Epic Games, part of a collaboration with a company that makes the popular Fortnite title. And one of the things Iger said is, you know, he was surprised by how many games young kids play. You bring them into your ecosystem, right? You introduce games with all of your characters, the Marvels, Star Wars. They also are going to have Moana out there with a Moana 2. They were going to make, I'll tell you, if you got little kids in the house folks, Moana, absolutely amazing movie, absolutely amazing movie from Disney. The Rock is in there, it was Maui. He's coming back for the second one. They were going to make it into a show. And I guess Iger came back, he's talked about to a certain degree that he liked it so much it had to be a movie. They saw the potential for a box office, man. You got the Rock in there. I don't blame him for trying to make the use of that out there as well. Yeah. And as Kevin mentioned, the bright spot for Disney last quarter, international parks. Parks in general though. We're just crushing it. Profit rose more than fourfold. Sales increased 35 percent. Yeah, you talk about it. 4% gain in revenue in domestic reports, 2% drop in profit, but they're gaining revenue in domestic reports, okay, resorts, excuse me. Well attendance falling at Walt Disney World in Florida. So it looks like you got a little bit of a availability in Florida. Keep that one in mind. Revenue from content sales and licensing fell 38%, domestic TV networks slumped 14%. That's not where the future is, right? Pretty remarkable when you look at that. Now, a couple articles to go through. This one was interesting. This is, this is from the journal and the headline here is Disney's moves give Bob Iger a quote unquote sporting chance, okay? Talking about how much they lost in that direct to consumer segment, they've greatly improved that problem folks and that was a big problem that they were facing, okay? Disney strong results for the December quarter, full disclosure. We had a buy in Disney, okay? I'm giving you the bull case. We had been out of it for a while. Last night I finally said maybe we had an equity and an option trade. If you want to try out my newsletter folks, rocket equities and options, give it a try. So I'm giving you that case with a position on a bullish side in there for some context and disclosure, okay? But this is part of the reason why most notable was the sharp reduction in the streaming red ink, okay? This is what they had to stem. I mean, we all saw the stories. What did they spend something like $250 million on? What was the movie? Was it She-Hulk or something, She-Hulk, right? Something that like nobody's even ever heard of for a season of it. They spent $250 million in their streaming segment, okay? They only lost $138 million in the company's direct to consumer segment, a third of what the analysts had expected, vast improvement from the billion dollar loss they had a year ago, right? So they lost $1 billion a year ago. The market thought they were going to lose $300 to $400 million, somewhere near the higher end of that. And they only lost $138 million, okay? So it's a big one out there. You add on to that. They're going to have the errors tour, March 15th. Remarkable that this thing took in $260 million at the theaters. I mean, it was everywhere. We saw the crowds. That's a blockbuster movie in its own right. She is something else, man. What, fourth Grammy for album of the year just last week. So they get the errors tour, start streaming March 15th. I'm going to watch it, man. No shame in that game. I'm going to watch it for sure. Five new songs that were not included with the film. And she was out there literally at 415 herself, pushing that out to her Twitter followers. You got to have Taylor Swift on your side. And then you talk about Epic Games. And that might be, as I said, the most spicy thing of all is they're going to team up with Epic for some more games, not more, for games, right? Licensing that content, bringing the younger viewers into the ecosystem, getting them ready to be part of whether it's Marvels. I mean, they got so many brands, right? Cars, imagine.  He still, he was playing with McQueen this morning. He loves Spider-Man, Marvels, OK? His two biggest things right now are, check it out. So he goes from cars, OK? And this is just the natural progression of things, man, where I'm not influencing things, this is just what he's finding. He has access to HBO, Netflix, right? Disney, I mean, the brands in Disney. But you go to dinosaurs, which is ever present, OK? And that's going nowhere.   He's in a good Spidey kick right now. You have Spider-Man. And then you have Spidey and his amazing friends, which is geared towards a younger demographic of toddler like Tommy. And now he's on to Toy Story, too. So he's got Buzz. He's got Woody. The movie Toy Story, folks, was made in 1995, almost 30 years ago. And I look at it and I said, that is remarkable that he can. I better look that one up. Story year, let's see. I think it's 1995, that almost 30 years later. That, yep, 1995. That story can withhold. You get Tom Hanks in there as Woody. You got Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, those two alone. And so now he's got Woody. He's got, they're all Disney prints, right? They're all Disney prints. So it's like amazing how that stuff shakes out to a certain degree. But nonetheless, you can see. And now what he's getting into is he is getting into games. He's just turned three and he can really start controlling digital games. And, you know, listen, screen time, man, set your limits, set your time. Make sure it's healthy screen time. But healthy screen time can be a good thing for sure. You just make sure that it's not bad screen time. And don't let them go down the YouTube rabbit holes, OK, unless you're watching because, boy, there is some horrible programming in terms of just for kids that is just not healthy, in my opinion, to a certain degree. But nonetheless, some decent numbers, man, for a longer term prognosis. And when you look at profits, yeah, rising even higher than that. Disney hits 109.5 on the open. You're at 108.56 right now. The market knows that they're going to be OK when it comes to streaming numbers and when it comes to revenue, I think they had a big problem with spending. Yeah, 250 million for She-Hulk. I'm going to find that article during this break, folks. We'll be right back. Stay tuned. Are you ready to take charge of your financial future? 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This program is brought to you by Vista Gold, traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Folks, we got the S&P's negative by just five right now. Back to a five-minute chart. A little bit of a negative action following a positive open. You trade up to 5,016. We give up about seven S&P points since then. These are five-minute bars you're looking at as we dip a little bit lower. NASDAQ 100. Got to change that setting. Somehow it's always firing up orders when I hit the... Yeah, it's the last. Fires up an order. NASDAQ 100. We're trading right now negative by 25 points. Again, a little bit of a dip lower on the open. 17,818. Dow barely in the positive. And that's only because of Disney, man. That's Disney. Hold on to about 107. Yeah, 107.60 right now for Disney shares with the Dow up by four and the Russell negative by four at 1,954 right now. And jump it back to some of those headlines. So I was looking up and it was $250 million for She-Hulk. And it's something like She-Hulk, attorney-at-law or something. What do they sell? What do they call it here? She-Hulk, forgive me, but it is She-Hulk. And it was $250 million that they put in there for an entire season. And I love Disney. Pull up Disney all the time. My kids watch it all the time. Never even seen that thing on the platform. OK, so then I'm looking at that and then I find articles. That secret invasion. Never even heard of this. Yeah, too many Marvel series on Disney Plus, Diluted Focus. Now, this is going way back, folks, OK, to last year, July of 2023. But again, how much did they spend? $212 million. I don't even know that movie, man. I don't even know it between this. That cost more than Oppenheimer. Is that what this one says? I've read one that says it cost more than Oppenheimer to produce. So they had a massive problem. They lost a billion dollars a year ago. They just lost $180 million. I think they're going to stem it from there. As Iger is the adult in the room, it seems like. Dr. Strange cost $349 million. I don't know. I don't know what that is. But nonetheless, they had a massive, massive problem. Now, keep it on your radar, man. We got about two years, 2025, 2026, late into 2026, potentially. But you're going to get some gangbusters, man. You're going to get two Star Wars movies. You're going to get an Avatar movie. I've done the list before. I'll do it again at some point in the future, because it's worth noting that as you approach those timelines. I mean, Star Wars, we haven't had a Star Wars movie, I think since I'll have to look it up. When's the last Star Wars movie? Was it 2019? I think it was. I mean, why are they letting? Was it 2017? Don't tell me that. Really? 2017? Maybe it was. Maybe somebody can help me out in the den. I feel like there might have been a 2019 movie. Let's check it out. Last Star Wars, 2019. Yep, there it is. The Rise of Skywalker. I think that's the last one in 2019 that they came out. Yeah, right at the end of the 2019. 2019 was gangbusters. Look at that. That movie grossed a billion dollars, folks. $1.077 billion. JJ Abrams. $416 million budget. Now, that's how you crush it, man. You put $400 million into a movie, you take in a billion. You don't put $250 million into She-Hulk so nobody knows what's going on. Nonetheless, they do a billion dollar movie and then somehow they allow like seven years to lull between the next one, I guess. But they're going to have two coming out. So get ready for it. The hype will be extraordinary, especially with two on the horizon. The movies have to deliver. But that's the business they're in. So they better get it done. All right, what else do we got? Let's jump around. Let's talk a little bit of Bitcoin. Bitcoin approaches $45,000. US Spot ETFs showing steady inflows. Yeah, net positive inflows for nine trading days. Bitcoin, we talked about it this morning, up above $45,000. Let's check in on what it's trading at right now. I think the future is bright for Bitcoin on a longer-term basis, folks. I do. We cleaned out some of the bad actors, it seems like, some. OK, we are now absolutely remarkable. I can't believe it, man, that we're this far. We're almost, yeah, we're six years past when futures have been trading. Six years futures have been trading on Bitcoin. I remember when that started, man, bonkers. $45,330 right now. See, well off those highs, quite a trajectory. Short-term basis, yeah, you're going to face a little bit of heat to the upside, man, in terms of quite a run from just where we were at $16,000 in the start of last year. But Bitcoin, holding up relatively well, up another $900 so far today, as you see, inflows to those ETFs. And boy, ETFs are going to control a lot from here on out. That is for sure. All right, let's talk a little bit of Super Bowl, man. It's Thursday, we got the Super Bowl, quite a Super Bowl, Kansas City out there and San Francisco. And this is talking about celebrities, and it would make sense. An ad is, I think, $7 million this year.  Mick Lobaltra, that's going to be a big ad, man. As in, they have some real ads, check it out. So Serena has been in the most, with seven ads. Yeah, seven, let me see, they talk about it. Yeah, and then Brady is going to be in his fourth ad since 2016, and he's going to be hocking, get it online betting, of course he is. MGM Sports, but he's going to be in his fourth one since 2016. Christopher Walken, he's going to be an ad for BMW, that's going to be his fourth, and they break down the different celebrities. You got Romo out there, he's going to be in three this year. Good for him. Alex Morgan, Paul Rudd, look at that, Charlie Day. He was in four ads in 2020, so he had quite a run when Tide got him. But I'm going to kick, yeah, so check this out. You have number one, you're going to get the most viewers ever, okay, you're pushing 115 million viewers, something like that.  Where are the ads? You got 2021 on the left, 22 in the middle, and 23 on the right. And you can see that where's the influx, beer and wine. It's going to be a bigger number for beer and wine than it has been the last couple of years, man. Food is up as well, financial services down, check that out. Auto manufacturer is down from 2022 to where they are 2023, in terms of where you come in. And then you go to, I wanted to one more chart I had up here. There it is. So this is talking about how many celebrities are in your ads. So you're going to have about one out of four, one out of three ads with no celebrities. Almost 50% of the ads are going to have more than one celebrity and they talk about Uber in here, check this one out. They talk to Dar, they talk to the CEO. Here we go, Dar Kar Shahi, maybe I got to get that name. So they're going to run an Uber Eats commercial, six dozen celebrities. Seems like they're going to have a little bit of a friends mix things. Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, David and Victoria Beckham, Jelly Roll and Usher all in their ads. Six of them for Uber Eats in 30 seconds. Is that going to be a 30 or 60? Probably a 30, but nonetheless. So get ready for that on Thursday as we get ready as well. All right, this is what this one's a good one. I talked about the beginning of the program. I referenced this one as well. Investors are almost always wrong about the Fed. Some pretty cool charts in here. And we're going to go to break in about 30 seconds. We'll start this, we'll finish it up on the other side of the break. The federal funds rate, it's so interesting. So the black is the effective rate. Everything you see in blue here was the expectations that the market has. OK. And what's interesting is, look at how wrong the market is on a consistent basis. 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Yeah, strong numbers for Disney, man. Up almost 10% to 108.64 for Disney shares. And jumping back real quick. So we were talking about this article from the journal, just talking about how wrong everybody was. That's the starkest chart of them all, man, right? The effective rate versus the expectations, how often the market is thinking we're doing one thing and look at how it keeps doing it. And we're just not coming back just yet. Okay, we'll see when that market finally catches up. It usually does, but this one took seven years from where we were to lower rates. It would be remarkable if you ever had this low. I mean, just look, folks. The market thought we were gonna start lifting off two full percentage points, many occasions. And it tried to get ahead of it and it never happened until you got the taper tantrum, right? Where was that taper tantrum? Somewhere in there, right? The next one you get down to real quick as we finish up, wage growth. They got a long way to go, man. Okay, hourly wage growth. This was one of the biggest shocks last time when we got the jobs numbers for January. Well above where they need to be. And you could argue that we got some lag going on, right? We talked about earlier in the week, Boeing's gonna have a problem with their employees coming back for higher wages. There's a lot of people that still need higher wages in this market. And the last one is you look at domestic banks tightening standards for large loans. On the upside is tightening here, okay? On the downside is easing. We are in an easing cycle. That's not gonna tighten the economy, man. Okay, we are easing right now as banks loosen standards right now as rates have come down. So yeah, we got a long way to go in terms of what the market is looking for right now. Pretty interesting when you look at that. And the last news we end on is Google. They're rebranding Bard, good for them. Cause I was like, Bard, what is that? Gemini. Yeah, Bard AI is now Gemini. I think that's a much better name. Google shares flat right now at 146.70. Look at this market. Nasdaq, Dow, Russell, all in the positive as we end the session. Stay tuned, folks. Basil's up next. Larry is back today. My dad back at three. Have a great Thursday, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow morning.


Winner home on afternoon express with three design contestants are turning three empty properties at Valdivia state in the Cape Wilins into dream homes using finishes provided by Caesar stone and Plaskon both for your favorite and you could win Today is the big day that we reveal the final products of our design contestant's kitchens But before we get to those let's take a closer look at a collaboration between me nendclé one design and grass to create his unique kitchen How kittens have changed over the years is that the kitchen used to just be a workspace Somewhere stuck in the corner of the house Whereas now it is an extension of the home itself families very rarely these days sit at a dining room table So lots of islands breakfast nooks eating areas are incorporated into the kitchen itself What people neglect most is actually what makes a kitchen move and that's the whole way There's a lot of focus on the outside look of a kitchen on the design on the colors Yet the hardware is the thing that they skimp on and that's where a lot of people make the mistake When you choose your hardware it needs to be a good brand the quality brand and that'll make your kitchen last longer And this home here what we've tried to do is take pieces of furniture freestanding and Amalgamate them with the built-in cupboards Which is a modern take and blends in with the rest of the lounge and dining area This technology has changed kitchen design your kitchen becomes more practical using optimal spaces You're using all your corners from that point of view That's how the the technology in our hardly has changed the look Feel and the design of the kitchen with the technology that we use in a kitchen like this It makes it extremely easy for anyone using the kitchen To operate nice opening and soft closing hinges and drawers runners makes it easy to use And then the integrated appliances that we use aren't just Something that's an afterthought it has to be considered in the functionality of the kitchen and the aesthetically pleasing value that it adds to the kitchen Other system incorporated is the corner solutions. We can store items not used regularly And then we also have the recycling bin systems the spice pullouts and then also your lot of pullouts There's many varieties of an exposed storage behind glass doors open floating shelves it all depends on the environment and There's an extension of the home. It can be modern floating shelves or you can have beveled glass cottage pain doors Or you can have hanging pots above the island something different just to bring in a little bit of copper or steel To break up the monotony of stone and timber without running systems You can go very wide you can go up to 1200 millimetres and that also then gives you a Option of going with a 60 kilogram version and that allows you to optimize the packing space in your drawers The contestants have incorporated international trends by using stone in specific ways so what Manantley has done is Demarcated in a breakfast nook eating area as well as an accent over the side of the island With stone then there's something different and adds a different touch What Rudolph has done is brought in a minimal look with an industrial look slightly rustic and then using lighting in specific areas under counter strip lighting and brought an overseas trend into something that I find is quite uniquely South African Well now it's time to find out if our design contestants took this to heart to create beautiful modern kitchens That are both functional and on trend. Let's head over to Valduvie The kitchen countdown is complete. Let's go see what creativity has been unleashed. Joanne is up first Joanne, how's it? Neighbor, I came to ask for a cup of sugar.  So I went for a very clean Layout we have two panels here of cabinets and the island is very practical It's in the middle and it works very well, and then I went for something different and dramatic I went for the dark cabinets and to contrast that I put in the white Caesar stone And then I've also added white appliances just to finish it off And then the last element that I love is the black tap That matches with all the other plumbing fixtures in the house in the previous challenge The judges said that you've been quite minimalist in all your other rooms and I wanted to see some bravery come out of you What do you think arc is going to say about this space? I think I will like the sleekness of this design It's a bit different to the other understated spaces that I created the shiny copper Elements that are hidden here and the image you can still see them if you're sitting at the right angle Just to add to the glamorous Valduvie lifestyle And I think I will dislike the difference the dark the dark kitchen with the white contrasting Caesar stone Simon's going to want to know how you've added value to this property and increase its marketability How have you added value to the property? The elements I love in this kitchen is the feature behind me that is made of seasoned stone and it's Permanently fixed here, so you can't remove it. Also the snake appliances you can't go wrong with that in any space If there's one thing that I've learned from my discussions with Anne is that color and mood are Intrinsically linked you've gone for a very nice dark feel here And when I walked into this kitchen it just felt like I walked into a chocolate slab So when I was working with wood lab they suggested I go for it for the dark kitchen because it just adds that dramatic feel that you need in a in a living area and In my other space as I went for the very white colors and now in this space. I'm doing the opposite I'm going for dark with a bit of white. Well, even if I do say so myself. You've got a very sweet kitchen. Good luck Thanks. I'm still another one. Don't tell anyone Man what a beautiful kitchen and I hope you loved it too Minente is up next who's got a lot to prove after winning the previous challenge Minente, this is such a bold design. I really love it. It's almost like it's in Mint condition Tell you what was the inspiration and what is so mean and clear about this spot? What I chose to do is go for a U-shape Kitchen and have that one wing relate to the dining area and the lounge because the kitchen is becoming a space That's relative to the rest of the home. So things are now more open plan But at the same time I chose to keep my storage at the back so that the swing is very open in terms of design I've incorporated an Integrated dish Russia and I've lifted the drying air so that you have more space on the countertops Because I really wanted to create this open space where one can interact with the dining area and the lounge As the one of the previous challenge the judges are keeping a close eye on you What do you think each judge is great to say about this space? What I think someone will like is how I've included the overhead shelves which Maximize the storage and how I've integrated the appliances which adds value to the space What I would like about this space is the detailing I've gone for with regards to the flooring in terms of Defining the kitchen as a space, but at the same time having this Transition detail that links it to the rest of the spaces and taking that up with the paints on the wall Just to define the kitchen vertically what they'll also like is my bold use of color and the Materiality of the whole space with the timber and the Caesar stone tops which add a contrast of texture But at the same time they all come together with the The color of the paint well, I think it looks fantastic. It's all up to the judges now, but I really think you're on a roll Now that is some creative use of Caesar stone our final contestant is Rudolph Let's go see what he's got cooking in the kitchen This piece is amazing. Thank you. We were sitting you celebrating already. Yeah, I'll celebrate with you Well done. So talking through how this all came to life What were your ideas and how did it all come together when a brief bath in the beginning? I asked her to think about how we can incorporate more traditional Living but also have a space where people can be entertained and live around the kitchen And then we looked at the brief of incorporating very nice make appliances that gives a more traditional look to the space But also air contemporary lighting and contemporary fixtures that would actually go with it. So Beth with all those great ideas How did you interpret this brief and the challenge was we had a compact space in which we had to make more open and Create an illusion of more space and here what we did was we used kind of modular units for free standing open some Interesting open displays and we combined all of that to create like a fresh relaxed feel All right So Anna's going to want to ask you about your color scheme in here You've gone for sort of dark fixtures with a little bit of light Yes Well that contradiction between the dark and the light is something that's really excited interior space But I also have a popping color of blue What do you think arcs thoughts are going to be when they walk into the space and just explore? I feel really like how we looked at the inside of the cupboard space and contact living and how we can make it more Functional with the limited space that we have Simon's going to want to know how you've added value in this kitchen We've added Integrated appliances into the space but also some free standing units and we've also looked at the materials used like the Caesar stone that we Incorporated in full slabs and we also clad at the wall since Caesar stone. It's just great So Beth how is this kitchen going to stand out? Well, I think a lot of people tend to take kitchens and floor-to-ceiling of units and I hear we haven't done it We've kind of gone with a modular look. It is different It's not keeping in with the safe kind of designs that we all go towards and your personal favorite thing about the space For me, it's the island I think it's beautiful this beautiful elegant Caesar stone and with the open and you can sit around it We can actually move it if we wanted to for entertainment But it's a prep surface and an entertainment for everyone that kates us all well. I'm very impressed guys. Congratulations. You pulled it off Thank you And cheers to you if you want to win big on win a home in afternoon express Go to private property dot co dot z click on the winner home link and vote for your favorite kitchen That'll enter you into the grand prize competition to win a home right here at Val de Vee until Monday when you guys get judged It's time to see how well our design contestants stuck to budget team VC had a projected budget of 81,000 round without appliances her actual budget spent was 43,200 round so she spent a lot less than planned team real estate had a projected budget of 56,500 round in the end they spent 56,449 round which is the closest to budget anyone has stuck to so far team L decoration had a conservative budget of 32 5500 round and ended up spending only 26,262 Remember that you are also a judge on winner home You have the chance to change one of our design contestants lives forever So head over to private property dot co dot z a and vote for your favorite now vote for your favorite design contestants kitchen on private property dot co dot z a and Standard chance of winning a tulip dining chair by guideline to the value of 6,890 round you also automatically get entered into the draw to win one of the three finished apartments valued at over 3,000,000 round when a home is proudly brought to you by private property in association with netbank express


Hi, this is Carl Ackerman, host of Journeys of the Mind, and today we are welcoming Judy Kramer, who is a someone who grew up, and her parents grew up in Lahana Maui, to get her reactions not only to the terrible fires, etc., but also to, you know, in our notion of our title Journeys of the Mind. You know, we want to ask her all about her experiences in Lahana Maui, so we'll have a collection of these memories, you know, after we do several of these interviews. But the most important interview is with Judy Kramer, who was taught at Kamehameha for many years, started their service learning, coordinated service learning, and is now the educational director of Youth Service Hawaii, which is a non-profit dedicated to service learning. I hope I got that all right, Judy, as I get it all right. Yes, you did. Thank you for a wonderful introduction. Well, I'm going to start right away. So tell us about your growing up in Lahana Maui, then eventually getting to going to Lahana Luna as a high school student. Oh, growing up in Lahana because it was, you know, 68 years ago or so. Lahana at that time was a very sleepy town. In fact, there wasn't any tourists at that time in 68 years ago. I remember that the hotels at Kanapali were just being built and there, it was just one of those things that was just starting to become a tourist place. So it was mainly a plantation, sugar cane plantation town. Many or most of the people who live there worked in the plantation and we had it was a very slow moving and very sleepy town. Everybody knew everybody. In fact, when I lived downtown, we lived in these plantation homes downtown right behind Front Street. And when I was four years old, I would go every Sunday morning and I was given a quarter, 25 cents. And I would go to this bakery called Hapwo Bakery and they made the best bread. So we would, I would go in my nightgown and I would walk down to this bakery by myself when I was four and I would buy a loaf of bread and bring it home, which is the reason why I think I just love the smell of baking bread because it it conjures up all these wonderful memories of Lahana and and the slow moving town that it was when I was growing up. Went to Kamehameha Third School, which is right next to the Banyan Tree, played Chase Master, which is tag on the Banyan Tree branches. We would well not run. We would walk fast on the Banyan Tree branches and we would play tag on it. We would swing on the hanging roots that came down from the branches of the Banyan Tree. We'd have lots and lots of fun. Our May Day programs were held underneath the Banyan Tree. We had lots of good times. My brother learned how to swim in that right outside that harbor in Lahaina and many of us learned how to swim right in front of the of the school, which was right up against the the beach in Lahaina. It was a great time and lots of good memories with lots of good friends and you know our slow moving. We could ride our bikes in town with not having any problems and didn't lock doors because we didn't need to. That was a great thing. Then we moved up to Lahaina Luna Road. Our home was right on Lahaina Luna Road. I moved there when I was five and we were there until August 8th when the fire took the home. But that is where we grew up and many many memories of that in that home and lots of good times. Now if I'm not mistaken, Judy, also you were born in 1955. Yes. And so you were born actually in the territory of Hawaii before Hawaii became a state. Yes. That's absolutely wonderful and not something that many of us can say including myself. Not because I'm older than you are, but of course I didn't move to Hawaii until later on in life. But so you mentioned that you were able to walk as a four-year-old down and get a loaf of bread. So I have two questions. One is, what do you think inspired the safe conditions for you to do that? And number two, I mean everyone was like you know what Hillary Clinton said about a village and things like this. And the second question is, what type of people that meaning ethically you know worked on the plantations and then made up the majority of people in Lahaina? Okay. So what made it made me able to at four when I was four to walk without having any worries about anybody jumping me or you know stealing my quarter for the bread was that it was a town in which everybody looked after each other. People knew when I would be going out and they would kind of keep track of me. My brother who is six years older than I he is fond memories of when he was really young that he would my mom would go to work at a like a department. It was a department store but not really a department store. It was more like a sundry and store that had all kinds of it was like a plantation store that had all kinds of different things in it. And then my brother would go my mom would go to work and my brother would he woke up would just grab his pillow and his blanket and he would just walk to my mom's store. So it was one of those things that everybody looked out for each other and you could wander around because people knew who you were and you know who people were. The people and most of the people worked as I said in the plantation and so many of the people were of Japanese, Filipino, Portuguese, some Chinese, some Hawaiian people of that ancestry. But yeah people knew everyone and we lived in a plantation camp. So again in the plantation camp because everybody worked on the plantation they you know we knew each other and everybody knew each other. My dad worked in the plantation office as sort of like an accountant bookkeeper. My mom in the beginning worked as I said in in that store behind the store and later worked for a dentist. So she everybody knew her and she knew everybody. It was very funny because people would come up to my mom because my mom was a dental assistant for first Dr. Uno and then later a Dr. Kehoe and people would come up to her and they would say oh this is Takatsuka. That's my maiden name. They would say this is Takatsuka. I have this thing in my tooth and can you look at my tooth right here? You know they would open up their mouths and they would they would when she was like shopping at the grocery store they would do those kinds of things. You know and they would say oh and she would say oh just come to the come come to the dentist and we'll help you. So yes so I know that because I would be standing there waiting waiting for her like this you know and people would come up to her and talk to her about their dental problems. So it was one of those things and people knew you know everyone knew everyone. So that was what made it a safe place in a safe town to live in. And then when the hotel started to open up people would then work in hotels. But the majority of the people still worked in the plantation and then there were immigrants who came later on and they started working in the hotels. My dad worked part-time. He worked full-time at the plantation and then a few hours a night in the hotels as my brother got closer to going to college and they needed more money for that. Save money for that. So yeah so that's how things were in those days and very safe and very wonderful place to be to be living. Also a little bit more Judy about the plantations because you know that is often referenced by people and politicians in Hawaii but we rarely get a sense of what it was like living on a plantation and you know what you were growing and things like that. Not everyone knows about you know our major industry before tourism. So yeah people lived in the plant. So everybody worked not everybody but many many many people worked in the plantation. My grandfather came over from Hiroshima and he worked and came up specifically to work in the plantation with thoughts of moving his family back to Japan. But once his family got settled here nobody wanted to move back to Japan. So he ended up staying here. So he and my grandmother both worked in the plantation. My dad worked in the plantation and my brother worked in the plantation. My my grandmother and grandfather lived in a plantation camp called Pump Camp and it was called that because there were there was a there was like a reservoir above the plant above the camp that would pump water down into the camp. In the camp there was there were all different sections in which people lived. So there was a section that had mostly Japanese and there was a section that had mostly Filipinos and mostly Japanese and Filipinos in those at that time and they and that was part of Pump Camp. It was a whiny village they called it and it was right in the middle of the Kingfields. So people we lived they lived there we lived downtown we lived in the town and but that still was a camp and most of the people who lived there I guess were like office workers. But my brother and most of the people who boys especially when they got to be high school age and then got then went out away to college during the summer they would come back and they would work the plantation they would cut sugarcane they would help harvest the sugarcane and stuff like that. That was one of the things that happened. We had you know we knew that there was going to be harvesting of sugarcane because they would you know actually burn they would it would be a controlled burn of sugarcane the leaves off so that it would be easier to harvest the the sugarcane stalks and we would when we're little it was so much fun to catch the sugarcane ash that you know that would float down into your yard and we would try to catch it without it the sugarcane the ash disintegrating this integrated and we had so much fun doing those kinds of things. Yeah it was it was lots of and lots and lots of fun we had we did have a time in which every so often because to keep the mosquitoes down they would have these fogging in nowadays that would be awful people would not be able to do any of that but there was this I don't know what it was insecticide or something that would just with a truck would just fog up our our our roads come down the roads and just fog up the the camps and stuff and and we just like oh you know it was it was bad smelling but it didn't last very long so we just kind of let it go and just kind of breathe it in but we okay people live you know there are people from plantations my mom lives to being 95 my dad lived to be 90 and so you know it seems like you didn't bother us I guess I don't know but that's what kept kept the um the mosquitoes down I guess yeah fogging these foggers they were called. I said you know I know I know the chemicals that were involved with that and you know I think you know day you know we in Hawaii as you well know tend to our houses by putting in poison or gassing our houses and then coming back because we have somebody bloody insects and putting cockroaches that fly yeah so that's just great um Judy tell me about your experiences at Lahaina Luna high school because that's such an unusual school and I remember distinctly about 20 years ago or so we were in this big conference and the president of Punahou school on Oahu stood up and said you know I'm with the oldest school west of the Mississippi and you said uh I'm afraid not uh you know so tell us about like of course because that is Lahaina Luna that Punahou school so uh tell us about your experience at Lahaina Luna because it's such a wonderful wonderful school. Yes Lahaina Luna is um here's the oldest school west of Iraq is it was established in 1831 by missionaries they wanted to have people become educated so that they could actually in the beginning wanted to spread the gospel but then it became one of those things that to me the third said that he wanted to have his people be educated so you know people like Samuel Kamakau and David Mallow who are very well noted um historians of the Hawaiian history went to they were the in the first graduating class at Lahaina Luna and um going there uh so that was the first graduate class and then later on Lahaina became like a um industrial school in that we had a farm we had a dairy um and there were boarders who came who lived on campus and there were 144 122 boarders that lived on campus and uh there were two dormitories and they um and they worked on the farm and uh they did various um chores I just was at a reunion uh with um some of the boarders and we were talking about um their memories as as boarders at Lahaina Luna and so um the because the school was had was a farm the boarders would wake up early in the morning before six o'clock and they would um they would make their beds and fold their clothes and they were it was very regimented and they went down to um to punch their number in this huge it looked like a clock with many numbers around it and it was like a punch clock and they would come they would punch their number in and then they would go working uh my last year as a freshman in 1969 I think it was um was the year that um it was the last year for um for the dairy uh the boarders would milk the cows and they would pasteurize the milk and we would be able to drink the milk that um the boarders um got from milking those cows and um there was a pigory there were chickens there was a farm that grew all kinds of different vegetables they it was pretty self-sustaining uh for the boarders there and um and uh we you know benefited at even in our cafeteria the kinds of foods that um that was being produced by our the farm that was right there the the boarders also got to learn a skill different skills and I remember one time where on the intercom we were in school and on the intercom the uh yes it was the principal said will all boarders report down to the punch clock because we're going to need to round up some cows because they had gotten out of round up some cows so apparently these cows had gotten out of their out of their pasture and they were roaming around somewhere and so these boarders had to go and round up these cows um right during school time because they they needed them done right away so my friend who uh I was talking with them just recently at my reunion and they said that um they went to uh to the military right after um right after high school and many of them said military was a breeze for them compared to how regimented their um school was like in um uh their regimented their life was like at uh as a border in school so they really um had lots of uh good skills that they learned in fact one of the boarders who became a principal or vice principal of a school in San Jose, California said that he still falls his clothes the way he was taught when he went to Lahain Luna so those kinds of skills are still there for in him uh as as he continued to grow older yeah so it was it was a great school Lahain Luna is still continuing to be a great school um and um yeah we hope that you know as as a town continues to rebuild that you know the kids at Lahain Luna will continue to uh carry on the legacy that that is so important for Lahain Luna High School. Well Judy that notion of getting an announcement at any school asking people to go out and herd cattle and in this case dairy cows you know that's just a crack up I mean it's just that doesn't happen anymore well may happen in the in the Midwest you know because but having met a lot of the um university students in Iowa and Nebraska when I've gone back for AP readings of of history as I'm a historian as you know um you know it's just the salt of the earth and I think that many of the things do you let me go back to you so you know as part of your work now um you um are uh you know the ed of a of a organization that is you know devoted to service learning and it seems to me that you and you talk about this that you grew up with service learning and you know it was learning to produce the food on the tables and so that's were quite remarkable. Yes yes um uh I think it's part of who I am as um in terms of a servant service learning and servant leader so um yes um part of youth service Hawaii which is what I'm is executive director of and you are a treasurer of we um we honor so much and we think that that's the best way for people to learn because as I said that person still to this day um still incorporate some of the things they learned in the high school in terms of the service that they did and and the kinds of skills they learned um being of service to the school and so um service learning is such a wonderful way to to learn and to um to have civic engagement and to and to actually um use whatever uh things you learn in school in a very meaningful way because uh you're being of service to people or the to the environment so service learning is certainly I'm very um I'm very uh whatever the word is but um I very sold on the idea that that is the way to go in terms of having kids um having the impact of education on kids is through service using their knowledge that they learn in a serve meaning in a meaningful way doing being of service to their community and Judy before I start to um ask you about the fire because you were in it and I know about your house I just wanted to let our audience know that you you after Lahainah Luna you went to the University of Arizona in Tucson you came back to Hawaii and served as a teacher for many for four decades if I'm not mistaken Matt Kamehameha Schools which if for people on the continent must realize that you have to be a part Hawaiian ancestry to go to those schools and you served once again and um you know when I was talking to you one day I remember years ago you were mentioning that you know a certain like a quarter of your class uh you know came from really um very poor um poor in terms of economics not necessarily poor in terms of culture or and wealth of family love um that always has to be a distinguished quality but now let's return um to recent events in Lahainah and I'm just going to let you describe what happened um in your own words and um we at ThinkTek Hawaii um really like to develop ideas deeply meaning we want to hear the full story we don't want just a sound clip and that's the you know that's the legacy of the men's Jay Fidel but I'm going to stop talking about Jay and talk about you so uh let us know what happened Judy because you were there that day in you. Yes so that morning um there were actually two fires I don't know if people know that there were two fires the first fire was of early in the morning uh there was some electricity that went out and it was about eight o'clock when we I think lost electricity my nephew and his family so that means my nephew his wife and his two children ages seven and three uh were leaving to go back to Iowa they were staying with us in my family home and on Lahainah Road and they were leaving to go back to Iowa they were leaving um Maui at 12 o'clock noon um but we wanted to make sure that they wanted to make sure that they were that there were no glitches so we left about eight o'clock in the morning and even then the wind was very strong and there were some downpoles we had to do some detours actually to get out of Lahainah because of the downpoles that were already um across well it wasn't the poles but it was the wires that were across the roads um I'm not sure if the wires were live or not um but I'm sure that um that the police officers were were directing us and so we got out of Lahainah there wasn't a problem getting out of Lahainah then and uh we dropped them off uh had breakfast came back around 12 1 o'clock came back to um and that by at that time the bypass was still open um came back no I'm sorry the bypass we had to detour a little bit and so the bypass excuse me at when we got home there was because of the wind there were downed uh there were shingles that were flying around that were blown off people's um roofs there was um when we got back to my family home there was broken lumaria tree branches uh leaves that were all gone uh off the branches the um the netting that was on top of the greenhouse uh that was part of attached to our patio had blown off so it was a fairly um substantial wind and I thought to myself oh my gosh we're gonna have to clean this mess up we're gonna have to wait for the um for the wind to die down so that um because no sense we clean it up then then at about 2 o'clock no excuse me 230 we saw uh we heard um fire engines racing up Lahainah road which is where we live on on Lahainah road and um then we saw some smoke coming down but I thought oh good the that's okay because the you know the um the fire engines were up there and they were gonna take care of this fire and it was a brush fire we've had but Lahainah has had brush fires before so it was a brush fire they're gonna take care of it fine when we um but then the smoke got to be really really thick and it started to race down uh Lahainah road because of the winds that was blowing and then it became a little bit hard to breathe because of all the smoke that was coming down I didn't see any flames it was mostly smoke and um when we got when it got into our patio the smoke was so hot that we decided okay it's time for us to evacuate we did not have there was it was our decision there was no um there was nobody was that coming was coming to say evacuate your home nobody there were people that was coming down Lahainah road that was already evacuating so um we got into that line coming down Lahainah road to evacuate got to the main intersection of Lahainah road and um Honua'a Peelani Highway the police officers that there were the those were the first police officers that we saw there were two of them they um because there were downpoles on either side of the highway and that's the reason why a lot of people got caught in that traffic and with all that lines of cars that you always see that were burnt because of the downpoles that were all over the place so um we had to dodge uh we had to go down front street dodging um poles and we had to actually when we got to um front street we were stuck because people who were turning towards who were turning north to go to the evacuation center which was a civic center um that line of cars was not moving at all and that was I I suspect that was a line of cars that were burnt that you see in in many of the pictures um so we waited for about 10 minutes and we just didn't move we couldn't even get into the line we were trying to get into the line but we couldn't so um my brother said I'm going to turn around and he said and we looked on the towards Wailuku and we saw that there was a little bit of movement of cars as well as blue sky way down far down towards Wailuku so we decided to turn around and even then as we went around there were many many many downpoles we'd go down as we um head down a street and we saw downpoles so we had to turn around we had to go down another street to find another street that wouldn't have downpoles one of the streets Luokini street was um a one-way street but we went the opposite way because that was the only way to get out and um there were people thank goodness for these people because these were people Hainatown was not taken yet so this was about 3 34 o'clock Hainatown was not taken yet and so there were people who were actually cleaning the roads to let us through I hope to God that they got out because they were helping us get through didn't seem like they were getting into their cars to evacuate and that was because the the fire had not come down yet so we finally got out to the highway and there were Hiko people and these people were also helping us you know there were at least eight downpoles down on the highway and so we were trying to get out and the Hiko people if they were helping or moving the poles and moving the lines there were light down lines all over the place down cable lines all over the roads and um because we saw the Hiko people we thought okay these must be dead lines the lines that didn't have any electricity in it so we went over the lines we just pulled those over over the the cables and there were quite a few of them that we had to go over we finally got out of Hainatown and um and it was uh it was a long ways um we we were after we got out of Lahaina and we took many many detours but finally got on the highway to get to Wailuku and and um even then the road was very slow moving because the they were trying to so people were coming into Lahaina because at that time it was maybe five o'clock or so people were coming into Lahaina were workers that didn't know that there was a big fire and there were and tourists who didn't know there was big fire and they had reservations at the Kanapali hotels but the police officers were turning them around and ally us so that um that was the road that we were on so we were all trying to move on the same road which is why it took us a long time usually takes about 45 minutes to go from Lahaina to Wailuku it took us from 3 30 to 7 o'clock that day to get to Wailuku so we were trudging along um but i'm very very grateful and very glad and very blessed that we did not turn right on that line of cars because i'm sure would have been one of those cars that would have been stuck and and been burnt and uh people had to jump in that's where people had to jump into the ocean because uh their cars were were on fire so they had to jump into the ocean um and uh we were very blessed and lucky that we did not take that route we went to Wailuku and um we got out safely there were quite a few i mean my cousin has another story and that's for him and i know i'm not sure how much time we have so i i do want to wrap it up but there's lots of everyone in Lahaina has a has a story to tell and so um it's sad why whole my whole home is totally destroyed there's nothing left nothing uh no house no structure the our refrigerator looks like it was a piece of metal that had been crumpled up nothing standing at all uh well i take that back our wash house was just made out of concrete is standing but i'm not sure what it looks like inside um because of the fire so um we haven't been back and we haven't um because i am and i'm very lucky and blessed that we have a home here and my brother has a home in Iowa um but because i do not have a Lahaina address on my driver's license i could not get back into Lahaina to check on my home um i've seen pictures of it but i've um not been able to go and actually buy my on my own or literally go and be there and i'm not sure how soon we can do that i heard that now there's some openings there's some places that open the people who could go back or the people whose homes were standing but my home was not standing so we could not um i'm not able to get back there yet so that's our status right now well judy the heartwarming part of your story was these people who were there and much not caring about their own personal safety were clearing the road yes and you eloquent i you know i haven't heard a better description of what happened that day than your description and that's not hyperbole that's truth and i want to just tell our audience before we end today we are running out of time that um yet it i guess it was the 20th of september jay fidel and michael stupe's really talked about what's happening in terms of insurance things on the ground how people are recovering and it's one of the best reports that i've seen um and it's on think tec hawaii and it's um um from the 20th of the up september and that's a great interview the other thing is i just wanted to share with you judy being a local girl me being a local guy here at oahu um is that um ryan schatz gave a speech in the u.s senate on september 5th and he outlined and gave pictures of many of the things that have happened and you know it was a heartfelt speech from a senator and it was you know there were republicans and and of course our president came and and visited the site and things like this so um you know the the tragedy um may may um and i hope will bring uh people together and i'm going to leave you with all the last words on this um on your story judy um but i i think the words that are a subtitle for this show is now strong but i'll leave the ending to you yeah so we are very blessed that you know i have a home to come to there's many people who have not and so one of the things that we um i hope that people will have is continue to have hope and continue to be strong so that um la jaina can be rebuilt um and we can rebuild as long as we continue to have hope and faith in each other and um and continue to um and the wonderful thing is that there are so many people who have been so generous and so i want to thank those people who have been so very generous whether it be for goods or for monetary um donations um it's we're gonna need it for a long long time so um we need to continue to have the fortitude and the perseverance so that we can continue to um build and not give up hope um and to know that la jaina can come can come back but we must all stand together to to do that and not um not give in to um what people might think might be a quick buck but um if we really love la jaina we can do this we just it's it's gonna take time and and perseverance and um yeah continue to move on yeah in one thank you word thank you judy and thank you for the for this wonderful journey of the mind


All the things that happened in this movie are just that you couldn't do them any better. Council guys, it's Josh here today. I wanna do a little review on Scream 6 and Scream 6 absolutely blew me away. Now I've reviewed lots of movies on this channel before and on paper, I would have almost guaranteed that it would have sucked. And if I didn't like Scream, if I didn't have like an easy way to watch this movie, probably would have like skipped it. Actually at the time I had unlimited movie pass so I could go to it. As many movies as I wanted, which was pretty cool. So Scream 6, now there's a lot of reasons why this movie's good. Number one, if you like mystery movies, this is a fantastic mystery movie. You can get over the violence of the kills and the kind of like teenage lingo and things like that. It's a great who done it.  And if you haven't seen Scream before, almost every movie has two killers. So, you know, you don't know if it's one, you don't know if it's two, you don't know if it's more. You have no idea. So Scream 6, I mean, so for the mystery aspect, top notch, no matter who you are, doesn't matter even if you like scary movies or not, the mystery aspect's great. Number two is that I really just could not stand the cast of this movie at all. I really hated Scream 5 on pretty much all levels. Like I just couldn't stand it. Everything about it just irked me as wrong. It just was not for me. And then on top of that, this is the first movie that doesn't feature Sydney, which is the main character here. And I didn't really feel like she was needed as much in Scream 5. They kind of bring her back halfway through it. In this movie, I'm kind of realizing that it might've been a great call that Sydney doesn't come back and doesn't come back for future movies because she just was absolutely unneeded. And it's funny that this movie might even be in my top two or three favorite Screams of all time.  I have no other way to put it. On top of that, every single time I've watched the death scene in this movie, it just has so much emotion in it. I have no idea why. I can't put my finger on it. But every time I've watched this movie, like every single death that's supposed to mean something, you just feel it in this movie. And like, I just don't think that was the same way as the other Scream movies now.  Like that was probably the most violent. After that, I mean, it just, you know, it was okay. It wasn't like supposed to be fake or slap sticky, but it just wasn't as intense as this movie. And on top of that, like the motion behind each death scene, like I can't get into every single one, but there's just so much emotion behind every death scene. I just think it's absolutely great. If you're a fan of like violence and more realism, this one is probably again, the most violent, the most realistic. So I appreciated it for that. Wes Craven also wasn't in this movie. He made all these other old movies. I think this is the first one without him. If not, this is the second one. I was kind of up in the air about that, was ended up being great. Dewey died in the last movie, which was just like sucked because like I actually like Dewey the most in the last movie.   And so now it's like, I don't know if he wanted to die if that was just a good idea for things. If you can make Gale Weathers be more single now, like they do in this movie, I have no idea. So one of my favorite parts is like, how they tie in all the screen movies into this movie and how they utilize the main character as being like related to one of the killers, but not being a bad person in this movie. So one of the main characters is related to Billy Loomis from the first movie, She's His Daughter. She has a little bit of this like natural, aggressive violence in her. And she kind of doesn't know where it comes from.    Like I don't think they could possibly do a movie better than this. I just don't think they can. I don't think there's any possible way that anybody could, because they tie in all the screams. There's no way to really do that again. All the things that happen in this movie are just that you couldn't do them any better. But for the cons, really not many. Like I would say like after you get past the first kill, you kind of deal with a little high school stuff for about 20 minutes. Personally, I thought that stuff was kind of boring. It wasn't the most boring thing ever, but it's just like I could have done without it. Another thing that I didn't like was the way that everybody survives, like or almost everybody survives. Like there's so many times where people get stabbed, like, I don't know, like 20 times and they're just dead and left for dead. And then it's like, they just end up surviving. Like almost every single good character that goes down ends up being like, oh, there he is in the gurney. Oh, there he is in the hospital. And like when you see how badly they're attacked with no excuse or no reason for anything, it just was a little bit like hard to believe. Besides that guys, this is honestly one of my favorite screen movies of all time, if not, if not my favorite screen movie because it's just really that good. I've watched it at least two times. I've skipped through the kills again and again and there's just nothing bad about this movie. And they're just fantastic. If you've never seen them and you like mystery movies, each one is its own mystery. There's never the same killer. They're always really, really well-hidden. You know, it's a blast to find out if you're a mystery lover. And honestly, I only could guess part of the mystery because I was coming in here expecting it to be freaking crazy and it was. So, Stream 6, absolutely love it. Top tier, one of my favorites ever. Great mystery movie on top of that. Great violent, like scary movie. Just hits the nail on the head 100%. And Stream 5 was one of the worst ones I've ever seen in my whole life. They pretty much bring the same people back for this one and it's the best. I don't know why, but. Let me know what you think of Stream 6. Let me know what movies you've been watching recently. Run to 50,000 subscribers that I couldn't do without any of you guys to help you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. I hope I have a great day at home. See you all in the next video. See you.