Happy holidays to all my St. Lucian families and friends. My dear constituents of Souffre-Foshe-Jacques, fellow St. Lucians, believe it or not, we are blessed with life to celebrate yet another Christmas. And for this, we should be eternally grateful to the Almighty. The past year has been difficult with COVID impacting all of us in various ways. We are surviving it because Christ is in our midst. Let us celebrate and show our love by sharing what we have with one another in a peaceful and joyous manner. Souffre-Foshe-Jacques, Bhoutan, Chateau-Bellet, Barron's Rive, Souffre Town, New Development, Palmis, Fourbennier, E-Tanks, Belfont. As your parliamentary representative, I thank you for your cooperation, patience, and support, and for the opportunity to serve you. As the minister with responsibility for commerce, manufacturing, business development, cooperatives, and consumer affairs, I have been encouraged when engaging our various stakeholders to witness this re-emergence of the St. Lucian spirit firsthand. As new business ideas, ways to enhance efficiency emerge through these engagements. I have witnessed employers committing to retaining their staff despite mock reductions in revenue, each with that deeper understanding of putting people first. Quite significantly, I have witnessed positive changes in our consumer behavior as an increasing number of you show great patriotism by supporting our local producers and service providers. And you are gradually embracing the idea of being sustainable consumers by eating what we grow. I am very proud today because you have demonstrated great resilience and capacity to navigate these turbulent times and I salute you. To the St. Lucia business community and aspiring business minds at home and abroad, I wish to remind you that the team at the Ministry of Commerce remains fully committed to continue supporting you while ensuring that your enabling environment is sustained. In so doing, our private sector will thrive maintaining its place as the engine of growth for our local economy and as a vital stakeholder in building a St. Lucia that our future generations truly deserve. I wish to thank the Honorable Prime Minister, my cabinet colleagues and my entire team at the Ministry of Commerce and our allied agencies, Exports St. Lucia, the Bureau of Standards and the Cooperative Movement for their tenacity and strong support. I wish to express my thanks and gratitude to Ambassador Peter Chen and the Republic of China Taiwan for their support to my ministry and to the government and people of St. Lucia. I also want to express my appreciation to all essential workers who continue to serve with distinction and to those who will be working during this holiday season. This Christmas season, let us give thanks for all our blessings and let us be optimistic that 2022 will be a brighter and better year filled with peace, good health and happiness. Merry Christmas and a happy, happy New Year to all. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.


I'm not sure if you'll be able to tell or not, but we drove down those gravel roads yesterday. Several hundred miles. It's been most of the day on the gravel roads from Thompson to Gillam. It's highway 280 up there. That highway is about 200 miles or 300 kilometers long. It's a little bit of dirt on it. It's like I was saying, this is Grand Rapids, Manitoba. We've had about five hours left to our yard where I'm going to drop this trailer and someone else is going to deliver it into Winnipeg tomorrow for me. I'm going home to get a reset on my logbook and get some work done there. There's always work to be done. And speaking of, old blues all warmed up, ready to go. Kind of dirty today, so we're just going to try to sneak home. All right, dirty. Hopefully nobody sees us. Just like that. We're going home. I was focused today. Laser focused. Going home. I didn't even clean the truck out or anything. I parked it in the shop. I grabbed my laundry like a missile. Straight on target. Going home. I'll go back to the shop tomorrow and clean a few things out. It was a good day though. Uneventful. Well, I guess you could say it was pretty eventful. A lot of construction. A lot of construction.  Okay, be good. The signs that no one listens to. There's some roaring past you. I had someone pass me. Remember when someone passed me when they did that on the trans-Canada a few years ago when a rock came up from their tires and smashed my driver's side window? People don't care. Yeah, these construction companies, they're still being told to replace our main provincial highways with a layer of gravel. And I get there's a technique to what they're doing, right? And yes, I'm complaining about it. Is it really a Trucker Josh vlog if he doesn't complain about something? You know me by now. Excuse me. Coming in. Coming. Just gonna merge right in here. See, that's how you merge. Be aggressive. Be aggressive. Going home. Stay out of my way.  Just blows my mind. It's a really, really cheap way of fixing highways. And that's what Manitoba is known for.  I was available. I got lucky. I didn't get any chips in my windshield, but I did chip my brand new convex mirror on my driver's side. I'll have to show you next time. Maybe tomorrow. But since my rear axle doesn't have anything covering it, rock spray up there because the RGN doesn't have anything covering that, right? So rock whipped up from my rear tire on my driver side, passed my cab and smoked my convex mirror and put a dent in a crack in it. Brand new mirror that I just got put on. But that was the only thing. Other than that, the truck seems okay. I'm going to go back there tomorrow. Like I said, wash it off and take a good look at it, tighten all the nuts and bolts. Or I guess tighten all the bolts. Is that how it is? Or do you tighten the nuts too? No, you just tighten the bolts to the nuts, right? I'm almost home here. Who's discovered their voice box? Who learned how to make sounds? He knows how to make all kinds of sounds. They don't make sense yet, but it makes sense to him. He definitely discovered his voice box. We had this jumper that just arrived. So excited. I hope I fit. So a jumper is just what it sounds like. It's that little disc circle device. You put the baby in the middle and they learn to use their legs and they jump, right? Yeah, extra saucers, I think are the old words for them. I think that's what they were called when we were kids. Extra saucer. Why would they make me think of exorcism? Why would they call it an extra saucer? It's in the shape of a saucer, I guess. And an exercise is the daemons. An extra saucer. Do you guys know what is an extra saucer? Why would they call it that? That's what I call them. But I guess they're called jumpers. That's funny. Jumper makes more sense to me, but we're gonna put it together now and let them try it out. Little guy is learning to use his legs. He'll be running around before we know it. They put it in a bag inside a box. My question is, if it's already in a box, why do you need the bag? Kind of a waste of things. It's not even sealed or anything. Okay, so this is what we're working with here. This is gonna match his thing we got right over there. What's that called? A play gym. That's a play gym. So he lays underneath there and lights go off and he's really liked that thing. Loves it. So this will match. We're gonna figure out how to put it together. You can do it, dad. We have this. That's the seat. With massive, look at all these tags. This tag, this tag, this tag, that tag, this tag. There's another tag in there. There's another tag over here. Every child thing. I didn't know this until we had a kid, but everything you buy for a kid comes with these giant warnings.  Yeah, because you read through these and you're like, who would do that? Who did this that they had to put this on here? It's like, never leave child unattended. Always keep child in view while the child is in product. You don't say. Never use near the stairs. Yep. Somebody had their baby fall down the stairs in one of these because they put them right beside the stairs. And I think this thing has wheels, right? It moves. Nope. Those are totally stationary, but they can still move if you're on what else does it say? To avoid tipping over, place the product on a flat level surface. Where are you guys setting these things up? On picnic tables, side of the hill in a ditch or something. These warnings are for people that shouldn't be reproducing, but for some reason are allowed to because human rights. We were talking about this a lot when we because we went through IVF. We had fertility issues, unexplained fertility issues. It seems like the people who are prepared and ready to have kids have these fertility issues, and they're in the fertility clinics. We met a whole bunch of them through the process. And the people who shouldn't be having kids have no problem and have like six of them. They're crazy fertile. Yeah, they can have kids no problem, but the people who are prepared and responsible, $30,000 per kid. Am I taking too long? Daddy, set up the toy. Let's go. There's also a strangulation hazard. Strings can cause strangulation. Do not place items with a string around child's neck. So, you know, they have to put this on here. In case you didn't know this already. Do not suspend strings over product or attach strings to toys. Humanity. Okay, we're gonna set this up and then I'll show you what it looks like. This is very technical and scientific. And there's no instructions that came with it, just so you know. I put together all of that without instructions. Okay, so we got like a system right up there. What's his name again? Mr. Ray. Mr. Ray. That's easy to remember. That's Pearl. And I'm not sure. I can't remember that guy's name. Pearl and Colm Daryl. He does look like a Daryl though. Looks like a Daryl. Oh man, I'm gonna have so much fun in this thing. It's your size too. There we go. This thing is huge. Look at this. We got Nemo right here. Mm-hmm. You got Dory. Oh, she doesn't spin. Thought she did. Fun little toys right there. We got whatever this guy is here. Okay, okay. Now we got... And Daryl. Daryl. Mine. Mine. And then we got this guy here. And this thing spins around too, so he can like face whatever direction he wants to. So that should be fun. You forgot about Bruce. On Bruce. Hey Bruce. Fish are friends, not food. So I think Theo's really gonna enjoy that, but we gotta wait. He's napping right now. And last night when I got home from a trip, I woke him up from a nap and that was a bad life decision. We're not gonna do that again. We're gonna wait till his nap's over and then he can try out his new jumper. He needs it today. He's pretty grouchy. He's teething. So I mean, our baby's version of grouchy is nothing compared to some babies, but he's still not himself right now. It's heartbreaking. I don't remember when I got my first teeth, but I know what a toothache feels like. I can just imagine the feeling of the teeth coming through the gums. It's awful. I think it's gotta rip the skin apart right to get through and get all swollen and I can just imagine it in my head and it's not fun. So he's in that wonderful stage right now. And then after that stage, we have the toddler stage to look forward to. And he's a very active baby. So he's gonna be a wild toddler. He's gonna be a good little guy. I just think he's gonna be really, really active and I'm gonna get really, really skinny running after him. At least we got the fenced yard. We just have to keep him out of the front yard. Keep him in the backyard and he can go crazy. We're trying this outside. Okay, my boy, here we go. First time. Mom and dad got you. No, put your legs in. Put your feet in. Wow. Whoa. Are you at the right level? Yeah, looks like it. Is that Dory? Wow. See at the right level, can he reach? I think he might need to be a little bit lower. Yeah, I think the other one was up. There we go. Low as we can go, right? How low can you go? One level. Wiener, I never had a jumbo exact. Oh, yeah. Holy smokes. Oh, wow. Can you reach the bottom now? Oh, yeah, there you go. There you go. Wow. I'm gonna turn you a little bit. Okay, buddy. Let your face and dad out a little bit more. So much to see his eyes. Whoa. Whoa. You like the seahorse, buddy? So it's quite the jumper. There's a lot to take in. It's just blown away. What is this place? Whoa. Is that a shark? That's Dory and a seahorse. Since when does our son sound like the turtle from Finding Nemo? And it's good to be home. It always feels good to get home. I'm always kind of in a rush, just be lining it on my last day before getting here. But we made it. It'll be home for a little while now, so it'll be a little bit of home time content coming in the future. Got a few things that need work on the truck. So taking care of that before we go out again. I'll see you guys real soon.


and in the jays of the Boise community in Oriawan local government area where those states have called on the state government to make clear situations surrounding the seeding of its farmland to investors. Recall that in 2022 the state government said it had infused 500 million dollars into oil plantations which commenced the development of a 10,000 hectare oil palm plantation in Oriawan local government area of the state. Most of us here is saddened here, we are farmers. Now, Obezaki is coming to collect the land without our notice. Obezaki is coming to cause problems in our community without telling the youth. Obezaki is taking us aware, where our parents, our youth, everybody is eating, is collecting it from us. We are begging Obezaki, we are not forcing him, we are begging him. He should carry sorrow to a distance of between data and those states and leave the area we are occupied for us.  Don't leave the bush, leave the farm for us. I'm begging you, but we may not, we shouldn't eat there, you know what I'm saying, yeah.  I call surprise, where they give this company so, our people, our mama, our papa, we're not going to work for this community, now how they carry it. On their part, the state government lauded the community for a peaceful protest while noting that the state government will always place priority on the interests of its citizens. It's a peaceful demonstration to actually bring some positive development to this community. It's not that the youth are protesting for their own selfish interests. Whatever they have demanded now, no one that is going to be a private or individual post, you understand me. It's just that MOU that we need to put in place and that, as I speak, is on the pipeline and I'm sure within 90 next few days, that will be done. They are asking for their rights, they are not doing anything negative. They are asking for their rights and everything they demanded for is not personal, you know, it's for the community where the investment is going on to go forward, benefit and participate.


Johnson County Trailed Town Committee will be holding a Valentine's Couples hike on Saturday, February 10th. Getting outside, maybe that's some resolutions. Getting outside more, exploring more. So I think it's a really good start to the year. Getting people into the swing of things. Couples will take the 1.3 mile hike to the crag where they will have the opportunity to have their photos taken for $10. The hike makes the perfect date for you and your loved one or even you and your pet. And what a fun place to have a couple's picture or a loved one's picture or a picture with your pet.  The hike will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 10th. For more information and directions to the hike starting place, you can visit the Valentine's Couples hike event page on Facebook. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Fidell.


I'm Mark Shklav, the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. Today we're going to talk with Rhonda Griswold, a lawyer who came across the sea to Hawaii and is now the 2023 president of the Hawaii State Bar Association. Rhonda is a partner at the Cades Shuddy Law Firm where she practices trust in the states. And I want to welcome Rhonda to this program. Hello Rhonda, how are you? Hello, Mark. I'm great. Thanks for having me. Well, thank you. It's really good to have the president of the Hawaii State Bar spend some time with us and talk. And my first question, why did you want to become the president of the Hawaii State Bar Association? I confess they had asked me several times over the years and the timing was never quite right. I have been active in the Bar Association in some capacity for my entire career as a young lawyer serving on a quality of life committee which was unheard of at the time. Section chair for the estate planning section of the bar and the elder law section of the bar. I served on the board of directors and it just seemed, I saw all the good work that the HSBA does and thought that I might be in a position to take it even further. Okay. Now let's talk about the bar. I mean, what is the role of the bar? Both for lawyers and just generally in the community. I mean, I hear what you're saying that, you know, you're leading the bar and you want to take it, continue to take it, doing positive things, but what are those? And what are the roles? Please explain that. So basically our mission is to unite and inspire Hawaii's lawyers and we're a broad, diverse bunch to promote justice, to help the public and to improve our legal profession. That's the mission. How do we do that in a number of ways? I mentioned the sections that we have for various practice areas. That's the mechanism where you can join a section in for estate planning, for example, and really improve your skill set and network with other practitioners. We participate in limited legislative activities, all focused on improving the justice system. For example, today we submitted testimony to the legislature asking it to approve a bill that would add another district court judge for our first circuit. And the first circuit district court is really what I think of as the people's court. That's where a lot of us find ourselves, landlord tenant issues, TROs, misdemeanor criminal cases. A lot of people are in those courts and we need additional judges so that we can get timely dispositions of the various cases. Those are just a couple of examples of what our bar does. I hear you saying that it is to bring lawyers together and also to help the community. One of the areas that I have always been interested in is international law and international practice. Here we are. We're in Hawaii, right in the middle of the Pacific here. And what is there anything that the bar does with respect to international law and relationships? What can you tell us about that? I know it does, but I want you to give us your perspective as the bar president. First, we do have an international section of the bar that brings the various attorneys in our community who are doing cross-border work under its realm. And then we have friendship agreements with three different international bars. Mark, I know you're familiar with at least two of them, I think. One is the Daiichi Tokyo Bar, another is the Shanghai Bar, and the other is the Seoul Bar. The benefit of those friendship agreements is really, I kind of view it as two perspectives. One is the global perspective, where it's a mechanism where you have attorneys in different countries communicating and learning about each other's legal systems and learning from that. And let's face the communication across the borders. It can't be a bad thing. That's a good thing. And then from a business perspective, it helps our local lawyers with networking with practitioners in foreign bars, provides kind of a cross-border referral service, provides an opportunity to collaborate with our international lawyers, and ultimately to provide better services for our clients. Yeah, and I've experienced that myself participating in some of these meetings with the different bar associations that you mentioned. And as a matter of fact, in June of this year, the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association is coming here to Hawaii. And we're going to have a what we call a friendship meeting, I guess, with them. So I'm looking forward to that. And I think what you said is really right on.  And I only wish that the rest of the world was more like that at times, because when you meet and have educational programs and then social networking, it's really great. Now, you know, okay, and I've heard you talk a little bit about a recent submission of testimony that the bar has done with respect to a new district court judge. Now, there's lots of other things going on in the world today. And in the United States. And now, does the Hawaii bar take any position with respect to these recent events? I mean, we got the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we got mass shootings, we got questions about guns, abortion, police action. What, what does the Hawaii State Bar Association do? What is its position? Does it take any position with any of these things? Unfortunately, we have a very limited role. And it has to be that way because of a United States Supreme Court decision called Keller versus the State Bar of California. Hawaii is a mandatory bar. And what that means to practice is that to practice law in the state of Hawaii, you have to be licensed in this unified bar. And then you pay dues. And we cannot use a member's dues to lobby or weigh in on, frankly, any of the major controversial issues of the day. We can only submit testimony and lobby on issues that are germane to the practice of law. And that means issues that relate to the regulating of the legal profession or an improving the quality of legal services. And so with every, you know, every submission where we're asked to testify, we have to do what we call the Keller analysis and see is this germane to the practice of law. And then even if we determine yes, it is, then we do an additional determination. And that is, would this legislation generally be supported by our members? Because we're trying to act on behalf of our members. So a perfect example of a bill that did pass the Keller analysis recently on our board, we haven't submitted our testimony yet, but we will. And that's improve it. That's a bill to approve the judiciary's budget, where Chief Justice Rectonwald is asking for, I think it's a 4.4% increase in the budget. And he's asking for many things that he's asked for previously. And I certainly hope they pass this time, things like fixing the elevators in the first circuit court building. I personally take the stairs. I don't rely on the elevators. Fixing the roof. If you go, there's, you know, buckets in the hallways. I don't know, probably today, there were buckets in the hallways because of the rain. There's all, and staffing, you know, this, you know, the staffing needs to be more robust to meet the needs of the people. So those are the types of things we can testify on. With respect to things like, you know, the war in Ukraine or Rover's Way, the Dodd's decision or anything like that, you know, our membership is simply too broad and too diverse and has very different views. You know, so all we can do is encourage our members to take an active role in way in and, you know, lobby for what they think would be improvements to our laws. Yeah, I didn't, I wasn't aware of the Keller, Keller decision. And I can see how that could frame your positions of the Bar Association. I was aware of the problem with the elevators when you wonder if you're going to get to court in time. Yeah. Now, and so I, yeah, we have a diverse Bar and we have lawyers that don't agree on things. And so I can see where that might be difficult, even without Keller, to try to reach a consent. And, but you are saying that attorneys should speak out and not just keep quiet on these issues. Is that right? Absolutely. Absolutely. And one thing I'm actually going to put in my president's message, I think, for February, because we're just starting the legislative process. And that is, for any issue that we can't weigh in on our members can and should, and especially to improve the laws that we're going to then be enforcing or having applied to our client, get in on the ground floor, help the legislature make good laws instead of having to wait until they enact the law and then finding the ambiguities or things that you think don't make sense, you know, try to be a resource for our legislators to make good laws from the outset. I like that. That that seems like a good idea. And it seems like a proactive approach also. I mean, it, it makes sense. I mean, you know, you have the expertise, or lawyers have the expertise in certain areas and why not share it? Why not provide it, especially to the legislature that sometimes I wonder about whether they have that background or not. I'm sure it'll help them. Yeah, I think there are a number of talented lawyers in our legislature, but they're not all lawyers and, you know, different perspectives are always good. Well, you know, and I want to now talk a little bit about your own practice, estate planning and trust. And, and as a lawyer, I mean, that wasn't that's not my area of law. And lots of lawyers don't practice in that area. But guess what? They, they want trust in the state planning. What, when you have a lawyer come to see you, do they have any particular point of view? I'm just interested, you know, what if lawyers are the same as ordinary folks? Or do they have a particular question for estate planning? I think they're, you know, I think the lawyer, the issues for lawyers are very similar to every other client, but lawyers, doctors, architects, do you have a particular concern about asset protection? Unfortunately, people make mistakes, you know, even the best practitioners might make a mistake or the best doctor, best architect, whatever. There's exposure there and people want to protect their assets. I have to tell you the revocable living trust that everyone hears about and wants and is a good thing does not provide credit protection. And so that sometimes a misunderstanding in that respect, there are asset protection trust vehicles, but they require you to do something irrevocable and give up an element of control that most people don't want to give up. The easy asset protection here in Hawaii is we have tenancy by the entirety protection for married couples. So if you're married, just own your assets with your spouse as tenancy by the entirety, and that's kind of a simple asset protection tool. Otherwise, people want to minimize taxes, we all want that. And I would also say, and this again is not unique to lawyers at all, but one thing I've learned over these years of practice is that every family has a level of dysfunction, every single family. And maybe on the outside it all looks like smooth sailing, but every family has their issues. And so for an estate planner, we're trying to figure out what those issues might be in advance, so we can mitigate any problems after mom and dad are gone. Or if we're in the midst of that dysfunction, which often happens, then it's our job to try to help the family navigate through it and try to do the best in them and help them see the best in each other and move through what can be a very painful process. You know, I've seen that also in my practice, although I'm not a state and trust practice, but I've seen it in litigation. And so what you say is right on. You know, and when money is involved, people sometimes can't agree on anything. Yeah, it's really sad.   No problem. And even though we've got the plan, even Steven, what could go wrong? When mom and dad are gone, the dynamics can change. And I don't want to say every case is like that because it isn't. But there's enough of them that, you know, it's just not unusual.  But, you know, maybe there's kids on the mainland that want the house to be sold. There's kids here that don't ever want the house to be sold and nobody can afford to buy each other out. It's a real quandary. So I, what I hear you saying, first of all, is that lawyers are like ordinary folks with just wills and trusts. And they pretty much follow that same line and that there are issues within families that come up in wills and trust planning and I guess probate also. There is one point, Mark, if I could make it, I'm sorry. That is unique to lawyers, I think. And that is especially for the solo practitioner. It's really important that they have a succession plan for their practice in case something happens to them, you know, and if they don't have a plan, you know, it hurts their clients, but more importantly, it hurts their family. You know, it costs money to wrap up a law practice. And if you don't have someone, you haven't named another attorney to help you take it over, it's just going to increase the cost of trying to transition. So for lawyers, especially solo practitioners, you really need to have a plan, a colleague that's going to take over your practice if something happens to you. That's a very good point. I've never really thought through that. But yeah, that is a good point, a good thing to have. Now, talking about families, you were recently quoted in the Hawaii Bar Journal saying that your grandmother called you the family optimist. And I like that because my mother used to have lots of words of wisdom for me, but I was wondering, that was one thing you mentioned about your grandmother, anything else, any other words of wisdom that your grandmother shared with you? My grandfather called my grandmother the queen of England because she dressed really well and she wore lots of jewelry and she had flaming red hair.  And as you can tell, I'm doing that. I'm doing that. And that was, I guess, yeah, that's kind of a way to continue on and make a good impression is what she was saying. Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's right. And you also quoted saying one of your favorite expressions and what we've used in the title of our program, spread kindness like confetti. Explain that a little bit and what that means. It's kind of a hard one. I don't know. I just know I appreciate it when people are kind to me and I try to be kind to them. And it's kind of a variation on the golden rule for other people the way you yourself would want to be treated.  My secretary, for example, last week, for no reason, gave me a vase of gardenia, my favorite flower just for no reason. Well, that's pretty darn kind. She knew I was stressing because of this interview. And then I have a partner, a shout out to Keith Yamada, who sometimes will just leave the Haitian gardenia blooms or plumeria blooms on staff desks or my desk or anything. And what a nice thing to do. But the way that also translates to the workplace, I think, is I think we can all show a little more empathy for one another.  I think being a young lawyer is particularly stressful. And what I try to tell my team is we are all going to make mistakes. It just, we just make, you know, it just happens, we're human.  But don't try to hide a mistake either. And, you know, tell the partner in charge. And then to the partner, like, okay, what, what are we going to do to fix it? Most mistakes can be fixed. And then, and my team will say this, I say this all the time, okay, gang, what's our takeaway? What's our takeaway? What are we going to learn from this so that we, you know, that so that we're better the next time? And, and, and this isn't a message just for young lawyers. My team knows I, I will, during our weekly meetings, I'll tell them about my mistake.  And I think that's kind of a way of being kind and trying to make sure, you know, especially that younger generation, you know, we all know where we will all went through the same thing. And it is hard. And, you know, again, just try to be the best you can be and learn from the mistakes that you're inevitably going to make. I like that. And what you're saying, basically, I mean, be upfront, be, be a friend. You know, it helps everybody and probably helps the person who's doing it a lot also. Exactly. Now, let me ask you, though, I mean, we're involved as attorneys, and then you've talked a lot now about attorneys and our lifestyle, our work style, I don't know how you'd phrase it best, but litigators, we're involved in an adversarial profession. How do we spread kindness like confetti in that relationship? What do we do? I think we're talking about professionalism and stability, and not personalizing the litigation. You don't have to personalize it.  There's a ton of gray there. Our job as advocates is to sort through that gray, make the best argument we can for our clients.  That's not the analysis. And I, and I, and so I just encourage people and I, and I try to remember to do it, and I haven't done in a while, I will confess, but I do remember when an adversary complimented me on an argument that I had made after hearing, and I've tried to do the same. So I think it's mainly just don't personalize it and be nice. You can be an effective litigator, but still be cordial and nice, and don't serve pleadings on late Friday afternoon. I appreciate that. Yeah. Let me ask you that, you know, the spreading kindness, do you have any other favorite expressions? I love favorite expressions. I actually ran across one fairly recently that I really like. This is from Ellen or Roosevelt, and it's to handle yourself, use your head to handle others, use your heart. Wow. Isn't that profound? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. Very deep. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then my other one is, I'm a big fan of Michelle Obama. And I think everyone knows this quote already, but the one where she said, when someone is cruel and acts like a bully, you don't do to their level. No, our motto is when they go low, we go high. I love that too. I like that one too. Now, you know, you've talked a lot about just dealing with the profession and your advice to your team. If you're an attorney dealing with stress, and maybe feeling your life is not worth much, or the profession doesn't have a meaning for you, what's your advice? That's a tough one. The first thing is, you've got to just take a break. You've got to step back. And my message to the employers are, you have to respect that. You have to give them space. The other thing I try to do with my team, because we deal with difficult family situations. And this actually, I mean, maybe my practice area, because for me, it is meaningful. And I actually think every practice area is meaningful. But I think sometimes you need someone to remind you of that fact, that what you're doing is important. Whether it's a commercial case where you're helping a client or helping a business, whether it's the public defender who's enforcing constitutional rights, the prosecutor who's keeping us safe.  There's all sorts of meaning. But I just think you need to let your team know when you're feeling that way, so that they can step up to the plate to help you navigate it. And I like what you said. I mean, a lot of the lawyers work, we're helping people. And that's a good thing. But there can be stress in that practice, which I understand well also. And so that's some of the good stuff about being a lawyer is that you're really helping people. And I hear you say, if you're not feeling well, for some reason, talk to people and talk to others and maybe take a break also. I hear you saying, is that right? Is that at least stepping back saying I can't work? Well, number one, I can't work 24 seven. And by the way, nobody should be working 24 seven. But trying to get a schedule that is going to give you the time to take care of yourself. Okay, now we just have a couple of minutes left. I'd like to ask you basically, what are you looking forward to as president of the Hawaii Bar Association? And is there any other words of wisdom that you'd like to share just based on your own experience in the practice of law? I guess what I'm hoping is to continue the conversation about work-life balance and the tools we need to be caring, effective lawyers and take it beyond the top and look at if there's ways that we can improve our system, to be friendly to us as lawyers and still effective for our clients. And I hear in all of what you've been saying is not just stand back, but be active. Be proactive. I mean, if you see something, say something, do something and do something productive. And is that maybe, is that what you, is that, am I right? Is that what you take from your practice of law? We have lost talented lawyers who didn't speak up and they left the firm and were successful outside of the firm. But I always wish if they had spoken up, we could have come up with a plan. And I will say the real issue that also keeps me up at night, I think it keeps up the whole state, and that is just the cost of living here and the inability to keep up with mainland salaries. And so we lose a lot of talented lawyers, young lawyers to the mainland. And I don't have an answer for that. And that's kind of affecting all industries, not just law, but we definitely see it here. Well, I really appreciate you talking with us today about these issues. I think that's critical is that we talk. We talk to each other and what we talk with each other. And so thank you, Rhonda Griswold, the president of the Hawaii State Bar Association for 2023. Appreciate your time, your wisdom, your thoughts and talking. Aloha. Aloha, Mark. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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Ellsworth is i'm Russell Benton. Oh, yes, mr. Benton. Mr. Ellsworth is expecting you This way mr. Benton. I don't bother. I know the way Am I on time matt? You're early. Sit down. Yeah, this uh, this is one appointment I didn't want to miss nervous Yeah, a little relax. It's not gonna hurt a bit You know, I've got a lot of confidence in you russ. I hope you're right. Funny, isn't it?  I don't know. I think this screen test will be everything I want it to be I hope so and if you make it russ you'll be right at the top It's a smash vehicle this one. We're testing you for I think you're right for it It needs a leading man with a touch of character and in my opinion, you can't miss Dark moon three years on Broadway and still going we spent a half a million for the picture rights of dark moon, you know Tell me matt. There was uh, there was another guy don bradford. Yeah He's up for the part two, isn't he? He made a great test, but I think you'll top him The new york people seem to think he's terrific. I'm not so sure Uh-huh What about my test? When does it happen soon as they're ready on the set? It's a little like waiting to be hanged relax. I said By the way, uh, what do you think of the part? It's a natural for me Shame I didn't find you when I was casting the play in the york It wouldn't have been hard. I was there at the time. Oh, I made you leave Circumstances matt theatrical matrimonial Oh I didn't know you were married. I'm not been divorced for two years couldn't make a go of it, huh? Or uh, am I on a touchy subject? No, no, no, no. It was simple She liked mink my pocketbook didn't an actress Yeah, she's probably still back there. I haven't seen her since we split. Oh, that's too bad I've only been married for about a year now, but I think I have a pretty wonderful girl an actress too. I met uh, excuse me Ellsworth Yeah, she's in my office Good. We'll be right down. Let's go boy. They're ready to shoot. We'll do on the set in 10 minutes And in 10 minutes the miracle begins to happen As soon as you face the camera the second matt gives you the cue to begin You forget about everything except the scene you're doing Forget about kathy and the marriage that failed Forget the struggle the futile hopes and even the miracle that placed this opportunity in your lap As you get into the scene all you know is that you're giving the greatest performance of your life And when the cameras finally stop grinding you can tell from the look on matt's face that you made it That the name of russell benton Is as good as on a thousand theater marquees over the magic title dark moon Cut all right printed How was i matt what do you think terrific as far as i'm concerned it's settled who else is there a handful of new york backers I'm flying back there tonight with the prince. Call you as soon as it's happening It's happening right before your eyes russ the wonderful night before christmas feeling is real Not a dream anymore and now with a big hurdle behind you. You know you can't miss it's too good to keep russ And early that evening you drive over to laura's home in beverly hill She'll be proud of you now and that's important you want laura to be proud Russ darling, I heard i'm so happy for you me too. Have they said anything definite matt's gone to new york with the prince Oh, you mean about don bradford. Uh, yeah Well, the new york people have held out for him all along But don't worry darling matt'll make him see the light come on now the party's out by the pool. Let's join them shall we Wait a minute laura. I thought you said a small party come on. They won't bite. I'll introduce you to some of the nicer ones well if you Say isn't that francis connor's the columnist queen francis herself. I want you to meet her How do you do it laura? Now be nice to a darling. She can make or break any actual Do I kneel down and kiss her hand? Just give her a captivating smile a 26 darling the impressive one francis Francis, I'd like you to meet rustle venton francis connor's rust Mr. Lucky himself How do you do russ? I've been waiting to meet you. How do you do? I've heard the good news Congratulations. It's a great story and a great part darling. I'm all for you. Thanks.  I love it. Well, let's have the story What did you do up to now russ? Oh the usual stock Several years of theater work in new york. That's about all ever been married divorced kidnapped shot at Married and divorced. Yes russ. You never told me you never asked angel. Why should I mr. Benton? Excuse me, please. Yes, you're wanted on the phone. So said it was important. Oh, uh, you'll excuse me Of course darling. I'll think up some questions while you're gone. Be right back Hello, this is kathy Kathy Don't sound so happy darling Where are you in front of my fireplace in hollywood? But I thought you were in new york How did you know I? What made you call here it wasn't too hard to find you dear What do you want? I just want to talk to you if it isn't asking too much Well, you better forget it. I told you once I was through and I meant it You're being very foolish, you know This is business business You're part in dark moon Maybe I didn't make myself clear I don't want to talk to you about that or anything else. I think you will russ It's so nice. You're a success now Matt Ellsworth seems to think so Does he anything odd about that? No, I just wonder sometimes whether mr. Ellsworth knows you as well as I do Perhaps I ought to have a talk with him. What makes you think you could talk to Ellsworth? Well, that shouldn't be hard darling. You see, I'm his wife With the prologue of dark moon the signal oil company is bringing you another strange story By the whistler But now let's tune in on another strange story. Listen That's strange I just bought that battery a short time ago and it's dead already nothing so strange about that lady Chill nights and mornings put quite a strain on batteries and some batteries hold up better than others You mean all batteries are not alive indeed. They're not That's why when you're investing money in a new battery, it's not good business to take a chance on new or unknown brands Make sure that you're choosing a real quality article such as a genuine signal battery Every rugged signal battery is made from the very finest materials according to exacting specifications laid down by signal oil company And signal batteries are guaranteed for long trouble-free service Who stands back of that guarantee signal oil company? 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She can ruin you with a word You make a hurried excuse to Laura hasten down to your car Drive to the number Kathy gave you high on the hills overlooking Hollywood And as you walk up the steep stairs to her front door, you make a decision, Russ That if Kathy tries in any way to keep you from getting that part, you'll do anything to stop her even killer Sit down darling Thanks. Nice of you to come I thought you'd change your mind. I simply wanted to find out what was on yours Well, aren't you even going to say you're happy to see me? I'm not a hypocrite Kathy Just as sweet as ever aren't you suppose you get to the point Point I don't want to stay here any longer than I have to Well, as I told you It's about dark moon naturally My husband doesn't often make mistakes for us However, I think he's making one on this picture and I've told him so What kind of a mistake? There's a charming young actor. I've come to know very well in the past year I think he's made the order for the lead and the new york backers seem to agree with me Don Bradford. Yes I want him to have that part.  I like him. I see I might mention that Matt doesn't seem to agree with you at least not after my screen test this morning. Yes, that's right So I'm afraid there's only one way to convince him Oh You're going to tell him you don't want the part Russ. You've decided not to take it. What? You think I'm crazy? No, that's why I'm talking to you I put some high cards in front of Matt Russ But I haven't played the ace. What do you mean? He doesn't know we were married There are some things I could tell him You wouldn't do that. I don't think I'll have to Because you're going to gracefully decline in favor of don Bradford I think I know why you're doing this. I told you I like don Bradford. No, no, it isn't that You know as well as Matt that I'm right for this one and this part will make me overnight and you'll resent that Don't you Kathy? Nothing could hurt you more than seeing me successful. It's not a boost for Bradford. It's a kick at me All right, call it anything you want But Matt gets back from new york tomorrow night at 9 30 I'll give you until nine to make up your mind Where can I get in touch with you right here?  No, Kathy I won't disappoint you. You know, she's deadly serious as you leave the house Know that this woman will stop at nothing to ruin you and calmly without emotion now As you guide the car through the dark streets back to your house. You decide to kill her It will involve a risk a terrible risk But you're ready to take any kind of a chance now with destruction 24 hours away Yes, all you can do now is improvise Prepare in advance for the questions that are bound to come The next morning you call Laura Hello. Hello, Laura. This is Russ Uh, I wonder if you could give me a hand. Oh, why not anything planned for the night? Free as a bird good This this may sound a little premature angel, but I uh, I thought I'd drum up a little thing at my place You know for 10 or 20 or so a celebration. Oh sounds like fun. I'll be busy all day though I have to get a few things for the party. I might not get there until around uh Around nine Could you uh be a pal sort of get things started for me? Well, what time? 8 30 or so I'll leave the place open have everything ready for you And I suppose you could round up enough people to make it interesting Free party darling. They'll be standing in line at the door. Then I can count on you. Of course, dear Um, we won't be long though. No, Laura I won't be long Russ, uh, you mind if I admit I'm a little confused. It's very simple. Jeff is it You're not the biggest agent in the world, you know You were saying the other day you'd give anything to handle me after all 10% of my salary after this picture is shot. I know russ I I just don't understand why you you'll sign up with me now after you turn me down I can trust you jeff. That's why I want you to do a favor for me. Oh I'm having a little party tonight. I I can't get there until after nine and I want to tell them I was tied up with my agent say from eight 30 till nine o'clock.  What can I lose?  Isn't it?  I was on the phone Come on in. No hurry kathy Let's go into the living room. Shall we? Any way you like Sit down. I'll stand All right Now What about it? I want to make very sure of one thing kathy You are going through with this. Well, of course I am Matt will be here in half an hour russ. There's no way I can change your mind. I told you the way It's too bad kathy too bad Good evening, angelo Open a little late, aren't you every night to mr. Benton Take my advice of my friend never go into the delicatessen store business Work all the day work all the night too. I thought you closed at nine. It's 10 after isn't it 10 o'clock a week Oh, well, that's a break for me.  What do you suggest? Or maybe some a salami a swiss of cheese a beer great great a pound of each of those Some kosher dills if you have any a couple of loaves arrived bread Take it easy and some champagne angelo champagne.  Oh, that's my boy. Give me your hand. Will you Dave? Oh, what do you do? Champagne? Will I give you a hand here let uncle Dave be gentle. Oh, man. I don't want to christen the floor Always always get this way when I hear that magic word. Where's laura? I'll stand the wilderness somewhere laura Hey, yard, Dave. Take care of the champagne. Will you you better? Oh russ You did a great job on the party. Thanks when you're a great man. I'll be your secretary Did you take care of everything darling? Huh?  Oh Oh, yes. Yes, uh, everything is fine Did matt call yet? No, not yet When did you get in?  Well, it'll be over in an hour or so Was nights of frances conners to accept tonight? Is she here yet? No Let's see. There was something I oh, yes. I knew there was something I had to tell you Okay, I'll take it in the den excuse me a minute laura Yeah, russ. Yes, this is matt. I'm calling from the airport. What are they saying matt? Brother, did I have a fight on my hands? We went round and round for six straight hours with me talking russ benton while they talked down bradford How'd they like my test? Great. They thought you did a great job. It's all set then Now that's why I called you russ. I didn't want to keep you in suspense any longer. That's nice of you matt I uh, just wanted you to know I tried my best Tried your best. They were too much for me kid I'm afraid it's going to be bradford bradford as I said, they love the test and all that But they were set on bradford from bradford and after all they're putting up both He couldn't have done it better with a sledgehammer russ the room swims before your eyes There's a buzzing in your ears wiping out the sounds of the party in the next room And you realize matt's voice is still coming out of the receiver on the table you pick it up Lay it in the cradle You've committed a murder russ You've killed kathy and for what? You stumble up to your room where you can be alone and sit smoking cigarette after cigarette While the party downstairs goes on without you You can almost see matt on his way now on his way to find kathy You picture his car cutting through the night winding along the treeline streets high over hollywood You can hear his steps as he walks up the brick path to the door the key in the lock You can see him as he walks into the living room calling for her puzzled And you can see the sudden stroke of terror in his eyes as he finds the answer You don't know how much later it is that the sound of your own doorbell downstairs snaps you out of it And as you hurry back down Dave is letting two men in one of them is matt the other a grim faced man in a gray suit is unquestionably a police officer Well matt welcome home. Hello, Dave Hello matt russ can I see you a minute sure Let's go in here You made it here in a hurry come straight from the airport.  Yeah Right after you gave me the jolt about bradford And it was a jolt too, you know That's no reason to hang up on a guy. I guess we were disconnected. Oh, I'm sorry. I this is inspector harden rusk homicide detail Homicide that's right I'd like to ask you a few questions if you don't mind of course But I don't understand. I'd like to know where you were tonight, mr. Benton Why is something wrong? It's my wife rusk Kathy was Murdered tonight murdered Uh, why are you asking me? You didn't answer my question, mr. Benton Where were you all evening? Here uh, why practically Practically. Yeah, I was uh, I was tied up with jeff harris my agent until pretty late. You can check on that And I stopped on my way here and bought some things for the party Look, why are you asking me? We had to ask a few questions rusk My wife had written the name russell on a mammal pad after it Nine o'clock good lord matt. I don't even know your wife until this moment. I didn't even know her name What about it mr. Elzer? I'm sure her now than I was before What are you talking about matt? How could I I had to do it rusk? The inspector insisted we talked to you as a matter of routine Even though I knew it was ridiculous It wasn't rusk here inspector I think I can vouch for that Okay Sorry, we bothered you mr. Benton. Uh, uh matt You don't know how this makes me feel. I know rusk. Thanks Come on harden We better get down to headquarters The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending to tonight's story Meantime see if you can pick the winner in this discussion That's a smooth running motor you have there mary. What kind of gasoline do you use signal jim? I like the goatee puts into the old buggy. Hey, that's interesting. I use signal too because I like its good mileage Mileage or performance, which is the better yardstick of gasoline quality Well fact of the matter is it takes superior performance to give you extra mileage You see the only way any gasoline can give you quicker starting faster pickup and smoother knock-free power Is by helping your motor run more efficiently And when your motor runs more efficiently naturally you enjoy extra mileage the thing signal gasoline is famous for That's why we say to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality There are just two things to remember one in gasoline It takes extra quality to go farther and two signal is the famous go farther gasoline And now back to the whistler Well russ you've brought it off somehow somewhere you found the strength to face matt and the inspector And as you guide them back to the front door, you know the worst is over That in spite of that damning piece of paper with your name on it. There's still no reason for them to suspect you Still no known connection between you and kathy still no discovered motive And even though it was futile russ even though the reason for the whole terrible night vanished into thin air with matt's telephone call You're safe and with matt still on your side. There'll be a future for you somewhere As you open the door for them laura comes up to you looking a little worried What is it russ? It's say it's nothing laura matt aren't you going to stay? No laura What is this? What's the matter? It's it's nothing laura. There was just some question about where I was tonight at nine o'clock Oh, well you told him, of course. Yes, you uh, you know where he was miss Of course he was at kathy elsworth's front door. She told me so when I called to ask her why she hadn't arrived at russ's party Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the whistler each wednesday night at this same time Throught to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil And fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life possibly your own Featured in tonight's story was frank love joy the whistler was produced by george w allen with story by john w heart Music by wilbur hatch and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service Next wednesday for a full hour of mystery tune in a half hour earlier Enjoy the saint as well as the whistler marvin miller speaking This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system


For sailors, going under way is an important aspect of continual training in their day-to-day lives. We have not been under way for about six months. The people who are experienced, they may have forgotten things. I know myself, but I forget things. So knock off the rust and at the same time help train the younger guys we haven't done before. Sea trials are just one tool used to keep sailors learning and in practice while at sea by combining an array of different knowledge into one comprehensive exercise. Take sea trials as an opportunity to do training or learn anything that I need to learn. Evolution-wise, pin-wise, rate-wise, nothing in the Navy is difficult. You just have to learn it. It's important to take opportunities like these as a chance to better ourselves as professional sailors and foster a greater Navy every day. Seaman Kyle Palasty, Commander of Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan.


For almost 200 years now, human lifespans been increasing at an astonishing six hours a day in most developed countries. And so we're seeing some remarkable lifespans. And I think this is something to be celebrated as a crowning achievement of civilization. But it is coming with the downside because healthy years are not keeping up with the overall increase. So there's a growing period of disability and illness at the end of life. So by the age of 80, most Europeans have at least eight different medical conditions. So we tend to take the ills of old age for granted as somehow natural. But should we? Why aren't we up in arms about aging? If young people lost their teeth and went deaf, got cancer, dementia, couldn't work or even enjoy themselves, we'd be up in arms. So why are we accepting that deal for old people? What if getting old didn't mean getting ill? So aging isn't inevitable. There are a lot of creatures out in the natural world who don't age at all. Things don't get worse for them as they go through their lives. And people who die at very old ages in the 90s or over 100 often have very little wrong with them at the end of their life. They're relatively healthy. So it's possible to stay healthy as you get older. And really quite simple interventions just putting an animal on a diet can produce a remarkably broad spectrum protection against cardiovascular disease, cancer, brain atrophy. And the animals are stronger and more active at the end of their lives. So a simple intervention can protect against multiple different age related conditions. We don't know whether dietary restriction would work in people because there's never been a successful clinical trial. And people find it incredibly difficult to adhere with a dietary restriction regime. So the kind of research that I do is actually using animals to try to understand how dietary restriction works so that we can potentially target it with drugs in humans. And the animals that we use to do this are much shorter lived than recess monkeys, much more practical. So yeast, worms, fruit flies and mice. And what this cast of characters has told us is both how aging works and how interventions like dietary restriction can ameliorate its effects. So what dietary restriction does is to go for the basic mechanisms of aging, the deterioration in the genetic materials, in cells, in tissues and in the ways that they communicate with each other. So it orders the expression of genes that are involved in the aging process and hence protects against it. And of course genes are remarkably similar in animals and humans. We can often take an animal gene or a human one even, put it into a different laboratory animal and it works just fine in its new environment. And genetic studies of aging human populations have shown that people who live to great ages often have specific variants in the genes that have turned out to be important in animals. And that means we can target them with drugs like rapamycin, which is a licensed drug. It can increase lifespan in mice if you feed it to them. And it also boosts up the rather poor immune response of elderly people to vaccination against flu. So the thought here is perhaps instead of waiting for these age-related conditions to crop up in the first place and then treat them individually and as they arise. Perhaps we could use drugs to protect people against groups of age-related diseases simultaneously. There are going to be some challenges in doing that, particularly if we're talking about developing new drugs. So we'd need very safe drugs, potentially administered almost population-wide over a long period, very expensive clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry. But happily it's turning out that many already licensed drugs that are used to treat age-related diseases can have this kind of protective effect. And the principle of very widespread use of safe drugs to prevent diseases that haven't yet happened is very well established for cardiovascular disease. So there's been a massive decrease in cardiovascular disease as a result of the use of statins to deal with blood lipids and blood pressure lowering. Now, ageing is quite a complicated process. There are a number of different things that go wrong in parallel and interact with each other. So we'd probably be talking about a cocktail of preventative drugs in a single pill. It would be a poly pill rather than a single drug if it was going to be fully effective. And obviously this is something that communities are going to have to discuss. There are social implications. We would have to be talking about very safe drugs, but we're living much longer than in our evolutionary past. And our bodies simply are not engineered to last this long. They really do need help to stay healthy in this new period of long lives. Thank you.


The Creation Navy, they're awesome. They are very motivated. They want to be here. They want to learn because they do know they have a large problem in the latorals they need to clear. So they're really after the information and they want to learn and they want to do well. The demo is always fun getting out, blowing stuff up, seeing the live ordinance they're able to bring, but a lot of us actually get a lot of personal satisfaction out of training these guys and knowing they're going to go do good work. I've been lucky to do training all over the world and I've had guys from India call me and tell me that their training they received from us helped them and that's always very nice to hear. Our team is training the Creation Navy EOD personnel in basic demolition and unexplored ordinance disposal techniques. It's really awesome working with the creations. They're super eager to learn, super welcoming, and they've really made it a joy to work with them. One thing we're trying to accomplish here is to build up the Creation Navy's unexploded ordinance disposal techniques so that if they encounter ordinance underwater they're able to get rid of it. The best part about these trainings is number one getting to travel and integrate with our international partners and experience a different culture and also to learn other things from the people we're teaching because they have different experiences than we do and they've seen different ordinance items or had different experiences on their own deployments and we can learn from that. And also it's a great way to build your own skills like you definitely learn by teaching so it really helps us develop our own disposal skills. I'm really excited about the progress they've made during this training and I'm super excited to see what kind of progress they make in subsequent trainings especially as I get towards underwater disposal. I'm a captain Ivan Milanovic, I'm a commander on mine clears diver platoon in Creation Navy. Oh it's a it's a very good we get a lot of knowledge and with your experience guys you do this job all around the world and we don't have so much experience we just started a few years ago since we since five or our guys have been sent to United States to UD school so we are in the beginning but we're learning fast thanks to your guys. A relationship for me is perfect yeah yeah your guys are very hard working so they just pushing us and we like it three with I don't care two four we need to close it six of these for the uh for the shot this is the one how many followers on instagram you have time to use burn we'll give you see your chest burn right here there's one guy


But I'm curious. I know some of you listen to this show and either other people with you choose to listen to it or they are indoctrinated by force or by just not by force, but, you know, by by association, by osmosis. I'm curious just in general, not necessarily with this show, but it would be interesting to know about this show, too. With for those of you that listen to podcasts, is it a thing that you share with others like a radio show that's just going on. They happen to get in the car and there it is. You might turn it down a little, but you wouldn't turn it off. Or is it the kind of thing where it's like, oh, no, like I I'm paying attention to that. You're now here. We're probably going to talk. So I'm going to turn it off. You know, is the is the podcast a a one person podcast, listening at one person activity or a multi person activity? I guess that's going to be my my question to all of you. And that's a weird question. The answer is it depends. Yes, I'm sure it does. So yeah, for me like this one, everybody should be listening to together and sharing with more and more and more friends. I don't disagree. Right. I mean, that's ought to be state law, state law. Yeah, we're we're working on that. We've got our lobbyists hard at work down and down. And we're we're going to make it federal law. Pete, we figure we just do it once. We don't have to do a 50. There you go. Right. Yeah.


What's the word y'all? Hey, congratulations to the Golden State Warriors. Six finals appearances in eight years is insane. I dropped the video a couple of days ago talking about their dynasty and how fascinated I am with it. Nothing has really changed. I kinda knew that they was about to probably go out there and gain number five and put it away and they did exactly that. So instead of us doing the recap of game that you watched, I decided to deep dive into this Bleach Report article. It's called Every NBA Teams Dream Off-Season Trade Target. Now, the reason I'm diving into this is because I saw one of the 30 and it was the Chicago Bulls. And it was Anthony Davis as a dream target. This off-season, oh, that's interesting. They must be thinking about it like a Zach Levine side of trade, which I guess if we had to get rid of Zach Levine as he told the world, I wanna go to LA, get back Anthony Davis, don't see that bad. I don't know why the Lakers would do that. But they didn't really, they put that as an option, but they had an option before that that was Gustavic and Patrick Williams. So shout out to Bleach Report. I'm just curious to see what the other 29 teams dream off-season trade target is. Shout out to Zach Buckley over here at Bleach Report. Every NBA team's dream off-season trade target. And I'm gonna go out on the limit and guess that this is for the New York Knicks. Because I feel like all the rumors are there for the New York Knicks and the Utah Jazz. I'm not saying it's a realistic thing or that it will happen. But hey, he's from New York. Mo Bomb is in his Instagram, laughs and come home to New York. I'm just saying that would be a dream for them as a team. Remember, this is their dream off-season trade target. First one is Ben Simmons with the Atlanta Hawks. Okay, that's interesting. I thought it was gonna be something like Bradley Beal. There's a couple of different ways the Atlanta Hawks. I think this is a very interesting off-season for them. They could come back with basically the same core, but you saw what they got them. But they were a relatively young core. I know they got to the conference finals, but they were still a young team. Or they can like make some potential moves. They already got rid of Kam Reddish, which I thought was gonna be a part of an overarching, bigger trade because Kam Reddish was a valuable piece. I'm sure there's other teams around the league that were interested in him. But you look at the young assets on their team, I can see them potentially going up and then try to make a splash.  Ben Simmons makes sense. They needed some defensive help this year. It's basically like click a pedal in DeAndre Hunter versus The World. And say what you want about Ben Simmons. We don't know what version of Ben Simmons we're gonna get once he finally is hooping there in Brooklyn or in this case, if he gets to the dream, yada, yada, yada. He can still, he's gotta defend, regardless of what he's doing off the side of the ball. I can understand if he did get traded hypothetically to the Atlanta Hawks of fans, just looking at that one clip of him passing up on that layup and be like, why are we trading for him and giving up assets for him? But the defense will still be there regardless of what his offensive role looks like. Malcolm Brogdon for the Boston Celtics. Okay, I don't really, hmm, I don't really think about this as a dream. You have to think about that. We're talking about dream off-season acquisition. Malcolm Brogdon is interesting. If there's one hole in the Boston Celtics game which is saying something, they're one game away from the finals. Obviously every team has holes, but they've been okay. They've been okay plugging these holes because they're one game away from the finals. Is that they don't have a ton of people that are like really good ball handlers, right? Earlier in the Milwaukee versus Celtics series, we saw like the earliest games that the Bucks won.  I don't know why he fell out of rotation. They were picking up people full court and the Boston Celtics felt their pressure and they struggled. It's really just like Marcus Smart and Tatum as the two people that have legitimate ball handling ability. Malcolm Brogdon has that too. I like Malcolm Brogdon because he's like kind of an old school guard and a sense that if you try to add some pressure to him, he gonna put the ball right here, his body between his defender. Like the way they teach it when you're seven years old, that's the way Malcolm Brogdon do it and I'm saying it as a compliment. It's like Mark Jackson. Mark Jackson will back you down from 94 feet to get that ball past half court and I guess Malcolm Brogdon kind of do that. Rudy Gobert, Rudy Gobert for the Brooklyn Nets. That's very interesting. I thought that their dream player would be more of a wing just because the Brooklyn Nets to see is it was like, it was KD, Nick Claxton and then like a bunch of people that were six, five and smaller and felt like they needed more big wings. But Rudy Gobert makes sense too as far as defensively his impact.  He's really good defensively. Even if that really good is just regular season, for some reason, he's really good defensively and I am a firm believer. If we see a world where Rudy Gobert has a competent other four defenders with him or give him two other good defenders, you're gonna see his value way more, way more. Could Brooklyn be that place? I don't really know. The straight up swap, Simmons for Rudy Gobert. I'm sure Rudy Gobert is, I mean, Simmons might be in a couple other ones as well just because the idea of trade of been Simmons is very interesting. Next, Shilohorn is Yandre, 18. 100%. I ain't gotta think twice about this. Everybody knows that Shilohorn is looking for center play. This would literally be the dream. This is the best case scenario. Fist of timeline with Lamello and Miles Bridges by the boom by the bam. And I mean, I may be in this world, how do they even make this happen? I know it's a dream, but there has to be some type of avenue to reach your goal, your dream. Hard to get a sign in. I don't know. This is the one that I talked about in the intro and I just thought it was interesting. If the bulls think they need more than a healthy version of Lonzo and Alistaruso to contend, they can put together some prime, prime trade assets. They talk about the Colovus of it, to say prime trade assets. That was comedy to me. I also don't like the idea of having Lonzo, Alistaruso and Anthony Davis because all of those players feel like they're gonna, well, Alistaruso is, I'm giving them a pass because this year is basically, it's first year of being super injured. But like Lonzo misses half the season every year. Anthony Davis has always nicked up. So I would hate, you know, be 10 games to the season and then now everybody's injured. But the other one is like orchestrating the sign and trade in case activity wants out. Whatever. Either way, Chicago can assemble a formidable offer. I mean, I would be interested. Hey, if this is the package, I'm somewhat interested. I love Patrick Williams to death but I don't know what his ceiling is. I think the optimistic Bulls fans, the super optimistic Bulls fans look at him and see like Kawhi the Leonard or something. I don't think we're gonna get that. Hopefully we do. I mean, I'm praying for it. But it feels unrealistic because Kawhi Leonard is such a robot and I don't see a lot of that robotness, robotness and Patrick Williams. Cleveland gets Gary Tran Jr. Flamethrower, actually it's kind of interesting. Okay, I forgot about Malcolm Brown. That's gonna say every single one of these other people were like higher echelon, all star caliber. I know DeAndre Aiden has never been an all star caliber players and then they get Gary Tran Jr. But it makes sense, man. We talked about this about a month or two ago. Gary Tran Jr. has one of the quickest triggers in all the basketball. He shoots the ball extremely well. And this was actually a rumor that they were interested in Gary Tran Jr. I don't know how you get him, pry him away from Toronto because I feel like the fans of Toronto love him, the organization love him and he's only like 24 or something years old. I know he's on the last of his deal but I mean, unless he tells you, oh, I don't wanna play in Toronto anymore. I don't see a world where you have to trade him because he's so good at what he does. Rudy Gobert, absolutely, absolutely love this for the Dallas Mavericks.  And yes, they are one of the teams that kind of expose the weaknesses. Cause like, I love Rudy Gobert and I think he's the most he's even protecting all the best but he's not the perfect defender. The Dallas Mavericks expose some of the things that make him not the perfect defender. But if he was on the Dallas Mavericks, a lot of those things go away because they actually have perimeter defenders that are actually solid. He won't have to continue to rotate and rotate and rotate because everybody on the perimeter sucks, you know? So I would love this for them. I don't know how you make it happen but I think this is a real possibility, low key. Jay Crowder for the Denver Nuggets. Everybody else is getting like, even like Gary Trenjunius a step ahead of Jay Crowden. I love me some Jay Crowden, man. He's one of those guys that you add to the team and immediately you're better. But to have him here feels interesting. I mean, he can elevate you to help you make a conference finance appearance sometimes. I don't hate it. I don't think too much about it. Detroit makes sense. Bring this boy back to the Michigan area. 100% a dream place for him. I think Detroit is a perfect place for him to blossom other than Charlotte.  You feel me?  But I think Kay Cunningham and Miles Bridges together will be kind of dope. So if there was one other team that I like Miles Bridges with, it's this team right here. Miles Turner for the Warriors. Sure. I think Kevan Looney did great. I think Kevan Looney had a legitimate chance to winning the Magic Johnson Conference Finals Player of the Year. Conference Finals Perform of the Year, whatever it is. Conference Finals MVP. I think Kevan Looney had a legitimate chance at that. Miles Turner gives you a different look. But I think I mentioned this months ago when this was a rumor, I don't love the fit just because every single person on the Warriors team that plays are so good at reading and reacting to what their teammates are doing. And we haven't really seen that version of Miles Turner throughout his career. And it seems like the Warriors in those two years where they were struggling or hitting the, not even a reset where they were injured basically with their some of the top dudes, they tried a couple of different options. They tried Kelly Ubrey and Kelly Ubrey couldn't adapt to the reading and react so they shipped him off.  I feel like Miles Turner will be one of those players that would not, maybe not struggle, but Kevan Looney is the better opposite offensively for the reading and react. But I understand the idea of Miles Turner for sure as a rim protector that can stretch the floor. But I don't want the ball in his hands as much as I like the ball that Kevan Looney's hands, you know? James Wiser for the Houston Rockets. I mean, sure. Shout out to James Wiser, man. Conference or NBA champion appearance, championship appearance from him, even though he hasn't played. I mean, if I'm in the Houston Rockets for sure, why not take it fly? It's not even really, is it really flyer? I don't know, bro. I don't know, bro. I don't know what the value of James Wiser would be.  And when he did play in the G earlier, he was all right, you know? But yeah, if I was a team that is as young as the Houston Rockets or as young as like, okay, see I'd be calling the Warriors like, hey, can we have a conversation about James Wiser? Because I think there's some untapped potential, a lot of untapped potential. Indiana, this is kind of a cop-out. Sure, this is a cop-out and it's a draft that sets. Give me a player. Ooh, they're talking about involved Russell Westbrook, a trade to shed salary. Oh, we talked about this like a couple weeks ago. Cool. Next, Monte Morse. Hey, the Clippers, one of the biggest holes in the Clippers game is the like, okay to below average point guard play. Reggie Jackson was up and down. He had some big shots for them this season for sure. Monte Morse protects the ball. I think Monte could be a starting point guard in this league, like legitimately a starting point guard. I know he played a lot of starting point guard because Jamal Murray was out. But I think like, as a healthy team, I think he could be a starting point guard somewhere. And the Clippers might be that place for real. Lakers, Buddy Heald, you had this trade. You had this trade, bro. It was right there. And you went with the Russell Westbrook trade to say, I ain't got nothing to say about this, dawg. It was right there for it to take him, but you went with the name. You went with the name instead of the player that probably fit the best for you. Memphis Grizzly Pascal Siaka. Now that's interesting. As a dream scenario, I love it.  I'm unsure. But as a dream scenario, having Pascal, Job Desmond Bain would make me a person that never missed a time that the Memphis Grizzlies were on TV. 1,000%. Would they even have an idea of how to even get there? A slew of draft assets and strong nucleus of uppercumbers that can sweeten the offer. I don't know, man. I don't know. If you're the Raptor, so you're like, oh, okay, Pascal is slightly older than our core players of OG and Scottie Barnes and blah, blah, blah. Who on that team do you want other than Desmond Bain? And they're not giving you Desmond Bain.  Ziya was really good. He was really good. I don't see it as actually happening, obviously, but I love the idea of this right here. Next one, Bradley Beale. Bradley Beale is up for like the biggest contract in the history of basketball this year. And I would stay away from that.  I'm not saying that he can't hoop or he's not, you know what I'm saying, qualified to have a lot of money, but I would not pay this man the biggest contract in the history of basketball. No way, anything close to it. I'm passing. But hey, what you're seeing in Miami right now is that they struggle to score the ball. Bradley Beale scores the ball in the half court. Boom. What does that trade look like? Probably dealing with Tyler Hiro, right? It might require sacrificing Tyler Hiro to bring Beale to South Beach, but Beale is the type of offensive weapon Miami hopes Hiro one day will become if the heat hoped to make a championship run with the 32 year old Jimmy Butler, then trading tomorrow's potential for today's product production is the route to take. I would agree with this. The Miami he tried this season of Bridge to gap between the two. They have the older guys who's like PJ Tucker, a 32 year old Jimmy Butler and 36 year old Cal Lauri. And then you also got 25-ish year old Bam and the 20 whatever year old Tyler Hiro to try to bridge it. It's hard, bro. It takes a very special group of guys like the gold estate warriors to successfully do that. And I would, if I was them, I think I'd sacrifice Tyler Hiro to bring him in as long as I don't have to get his man in the biggest contract in the industry. I don't know. Can you tell me what's called a pope for the Milwaukee Bucks? I mean, okay. He shoots the ball, he plays good defense. Damien Lillert. Whoa, man, that would be interesting. What are you asking? D'Angelo Russell? Like, how do you make this deal happen? They don't even say how you would even make this happen. I'm guessing that's something to do with D'Angelo Russell because of the money. Yeah, I don't know how you get this to work for that makes it good for the Portland Trailblazers. I'm sure they'll probably be better offers on the table on the trailblazers and we had to trade Dame. Then the Minnesota Timbers can give us. Alec Burks, that's so random. Oh my God, that's so random. Give me the reason. Finding a plug and play two-way wing. Since modern teams haven't had enough of this archetype, veteran Alec Burks will be plenty. Okay, sure. All right, I'm cool with that. There, yep. This is where I predicted Donovan Mitchell. I don't need to explain it. I feel like everybody's talked about this since they got eliminated from the playoffs. The idea of Donovan Mitchell getting traded to the New York Knicks, it will be basically the best guard they've had in so very long. And I think it'll be cool to see him in the garden. I'm not trying to take him away from Utah Jazz fans, but I think it'll be cool to see him in the garden, bro. Legit, I think he fits the garden vibes. He's a New York kid. They love him. And he'd be the best player since Mella, basically. Or I guess last year, Julius Brandon, whatever you want to say. Draft picks, you know what? I disagree with this. I wholeheartedly disagree with this. You got enough. You got enough. Let's go turn them into players now. What are you going to do when you have five first-round picks in this year's draft four first-round picks in the year after that, three in the year after that, and then four more? How do you do anything with that? I'm team trade some of them picks away to get players that can materialize. Go get some people. There's no way you can draft and develop that many people. It's literally impossible. So no, not more draft. You know what? You know what? Actually, everything I just said is kind of... The reason you get more draft picks is to increase your odds of you getting the first pick. If you have five first-round picks and the 20-25 draft, some of them are going to be lottery picks and then you just got more odds, I guess. But the ones that you don't have the first overall top five pick, trade them away, man. Trade them away. Maio's bridges for Orlando's is... I don't love it, bro. I would not love this. If this is how this offseason goes for him, I wouldn't necessarily love it. They just going to have such a log jam. They got the first overall pick that might be Chet, it might be Jabari, it might be Paolo. I don't really know. I ain't been reading the tea leaves. I don't know what people were saying over there. You got John Isaac, Wendell Carter, you figure out Mobile, but Franz Wagner, like there's just so much going on from the wing position already. I'm not trying to get another player into that log jam, especially when I believe in Franz Wagner and every Orlando Magic fan that I know, I've talked to, still believes in Johnathan Isaac as a court piece of the scene. So where does Maio's bridges fit in? I don't know. Bradley Beal, you just went harder. How do you... It's going to be like Tobias Harrison, this and then Monte Stiball and then, but now what do you run those to? Maxie and then whoever at the four and then Joel or is this implying personally? This is interesting. I said that I would trade Tyler Harrow to get Beal. I don't know if I'd trade Tyrus Maxie to get Beal because of the circumstances. I wouldn't trade Tyrus Maxie to get Bradley Beal. I would, I would. And I don't think this is what they're implying. They don't even mention what the potential package could look like. Clinkapella and more. If Aiden is to move, then Phoenix needs him to exit via side-to-trace, sending him to Atlanta. A potential suitor according to Jake Fisher could deliver both replacements of like Clinkapella and Bogdanovitch or something. But I don't think this is a dream. You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't look at this as the dream scenario. But I think this is a realistic scenario, but I don't know if it's a dream. Jeremy Grant, sure. Why not, right? Why not? You know, if the Detroit Pistons see the last year of his deal and now they got a top, I think they have the fifth overall pick and they draft somebody that's a wing. I don't know who's out there to draft. They draft somebody to take this spot, then sure. They got some of the other things that Jeremy Grant was looking for. He wanted a blackhead coach and you'll get that in Portland. And now you play with Damian Lillin for a season? Sure. Yeah, don't give up the seventh overall pick to get Jeremy Grant. That's a, if the seventh overall pick is on the table for the Detroit Pistons, you better say yes before they hang up that phone. But the Portland Trail Lays has just signed somebody to be the assistant GM that I mess with, so shout out to them. Next, a top three pick. That's the perfect trade scenario. Pairing De'Aaron Fox a bonus with Jabari Smilch at home with Paolo will be a tier. Yeah, but how do you get there? How do you convince one of the top three teams to trade you their pick to move to number four unless somebody in the top three is not convinced on one of those guys and they'd rather have Jake Nivea. They'd rather have Shaden Sharp or whatever. That's the only way. But what have you even given up in this other than your fourth? You give up two extra picks, one extra pick. Do you give up Damian? I doubt, you know what I'm saying? Next, Zach Levine for the Spurs. I would agree with this. I think this is their dream scenario. And I think it's a possibility as hard as it is to say it for me. I think it's a real possibility that Zach Levine ends up with a sentence on your Spurs. I legitimately do believe that the no state tax matters to a lot of people, bro. I understand why it will matter. Texas has that. Pairing up with his homie Dejante Murray. You know, I think it's a possibility, bro. Only thing I would hope is that it's like a little signage trade. You feel me or something? You know what I'm saying? Make it work well for Chicago as well. Harrison Barnes for the Toronto Rafters. Now this feels the opposite of what they should be doing. Low key. But it's the last year of like Harrison Barnes' contract. I don't really understand that one. Wiggins? Yo, Wiggins with the jazz will be interesting. But I don't know how you get there. But I would be very interested in seeing this fit because you know Wiggins defense. They've been looking for people on the wing to defend since I don't know how long. So I would like that. Wiggins and James Wise before Goldberg. Wow. Interesting. Malcolm Broglie that makes his second appearance there. I don't really have anything to say about that. Second appearance ended up in Washington. I'm curious to know what y'all think though. For your favorite team, who is the dream offseason target? You don't have to really necessarily give me an avenue I had to get there. Just let me know. Don't say like, we want Yanis, but we play for the, I'm a Wizards fan. Don't do that, but like, you know what I'm saying? Give me your dream scenario for this offseason. I'll be in that comment section. I appreciate you watching. Peace.