Super! Can you do that? Super! Tea's ready.  I'm Rick. Sorry, I forgot to turn the volume on. Oh well, apologize about that. That's our first silent intro. No, we've done it. That long. It was a long silence. That's what she said. Today, I think this is like a little bit of an interview-ish style thingy. Okay. It's called Rare Moment with Legends, Amatak Bakcan, Raj Nakan, Superstar Raj Nakan, and Kamal Khasan. And this is about Rajasar. Oh! So apparently all these guys got together and they're talking about Rajasar. During the Shamatab Music launch in 2015, the celebrations in Mumbai were doubled by honouring Maishro Rajasar for his 1000th movie film composition. It was a rare and memorable moment to watch the three legends of Indian movie industry sharing their experiences about Rajasar on a podium together. Shamatab was actually the one with Amatak Bakcan and Dhanush, I believe. Remember that one? Yes. Yeah. I remember that one. This is like them, I guess, talking about, obviously all of them, I believe, had experiences with him and talking about him. Cool. But I've never seen it. No. We've said recently how much we want to learn more about him. Yeah. So this is great. And also to see all three of them together. Yeah. Deja vu. Whoa. Twice. Is Raj Nakan the bald? Yeah. You didn't know that? See where's the toupee? All right. Where's the wig? Yeah. He's 70. Yeah. I didn't know that, though. He's a good toupee. How old is Rajasar now? This is another opportunity for me. Rajasaric novel and myself, perhaps, many of you are not aware. We work together in one film and that's the first and only time we were together in a film called Gifthar. And here we are on stage. And we are ready to be able to talk to these two great legends about another great legend who is amongst us today and in whose name we pay tribute today. Ilay Rajasar. Rajni, you've worked with Rajasar in many films. Rajasar. What is it that you find special about him? What about his music? What about his nature? Tell us something about him. I know Rajasar. Rajasar is very naughty. Really, I'm telling you. And very mischievous. He used to gossip a lot. He used to, I mean, to be frank with you. We had a dream still morning. What's the car this morning? All that. And suddenly one transformation actually took place. I saw Rajasar completely changed even his dressing and everything. When I saw him, I never felt like calling him Rajasar. I called him Swami. Swami means saint. Even now, till then, I'm calling only Rajasami, Rajasami. His real saint, that Narada Saraswati, is there with him and in him. I'd like you to say something about you, Rajasar. Mr.  Out of this 1,000, about 10% belongs to me. I say belongs to me. He created it, but we own it up so much. Actually, may I just interrupt? Many of you don't know, but I think that between the two of them, Rajini and Kamal, I think you've both done about 100 films each. Must with Indra Rajasar. 100 films each. With? With Indra Rajasar. We're still counting, so we're not talking about that. Most people haven't done 100,000. As he said, I was about to say, he's told my story because it's his story too. But I have done all that. He claims to have done that with Mr. Raja. I used to call him Mr. Raja, then after that, after the transformation, he was talking about he became my brother. I never called him that. And today I had the opportunity of hugging him, which I have never done. He's a bit finicky and a shy man. But today I took the opportunity to hug him. I had a long overdue after nearly 35, 40 years. I always wanted to do it to him and I did it today. And I knew that he would go to this 1000. 786th film was mine and I told him soon, 1000. And it is that day today. Fantastic. Thousand. Between the two of you, as I said just now, you've taken Rajasar away for almost 200 films. Is that what you think? What are the reasons why Rajasar couldn't come to the Hindi film industry to give us music? Because he was so busy making music where you are. He's never done a Hindi film? Actually, as Rajasar told, actually he's... So it's all Tamil to Lugu. He left everything to God's hand. He completely surrendered to Almaty. So that it was his mistake, Almaty's mistake. He couldn't try to move on before. Do you want some math? Raji, to connect with that, I just want to say that there is a certain kind of divinity. That's 20 films a year for 50 years. Something very divine, something godly. That's two films a month for 50 years. If you've been to a music room, if you've been to a house... That's about two weeks for 50 years. I'm sure that both of you have also. That's a lot. There is a peculiar divine atmosphere. Actually, you two have been very close to divinity. Are there any similarities that you find between yourself and Rajasar? Holy cow! In that respect. So maybe, Mamiji, I don't know, after seeing all the worldly things, after enjoying it, after seeing that, okay, this is it. So we aspire for the bigger thing, higher thing. Probably that is the case. Even the Rajas case also probably. Kamal, you've sung for Rajasar. Yes, that's his most fortunate. He's not all the time fortunate. And you've never had an opportunity to sing with Rajasar? No. Only once, actually, just four lines. Further, actually, it took eight of us. Tell us something about your singing experience with Rajasar. See, it's very difficult. He's been a friend, he's been a brother, but the truth is also my guru. In film singing, I thought I knew singing till I met Rajya. To sing for the mic, to correct yourself, I learned little, little tricks, which makes me look like I'm a master when I go to other people. I watched about a hundred re-recordings, a background scoring, whenever I'm shooting, I used to go to those background scoring sessions. And that's helping me now as a director, because I sound like a music director, which I'm not. But thanks to Rajya. There are some other details of Rajasar which perhaps many in the audience are not aware of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe for four years continuously, 52 weeks, 56 films Rajasar has given music for, continuously for four years. And that includes background music as well. And many of those films have all been great box office successes. How? This is a great achievement. That's kind of out to what I can't comprehend. And that's common, like all these legends, all have this like massive number that I can't comprehend. What you did with one of your films, music... How do you have time to do anything? Yes, I'm glad you brought this up. I've been waiting for nearly 15 years, because of that man, he said, don't talk about it. That's his good quality. We have the liberty to talk today. Today it's my stage, our stage. I had gone to somebody else to do the music. That's the first time I've used in Raj Kamal films, my company, another music director. Something went wrong and I had a problem. I had shot all the songs, but I was not able to use it in the film. So sheepishly I went back to Mr. Raja and said I made a mistake. So he helped me out. So he was looking at me and he said, how much did it cost for you to shoot all the songs? Is that what you're going to ask of me? No, tell me. I said, I'm going to reshoot it, so don't trouble me now. And he said, no, you're not going to reshoot it. I'm going to dub it for you. I said, no, I won't hit songs. I'll give it to you. And I've never heard of this. It's a textbook kind of work for any music director. The song was recorded. He saw the lip-sync like a dubbing film. He started making music, which was totally different. The song I recorded and shot was different. And he made hip songs of them. I've seen people in circus, walking on wire and throwing tea cups onto their head and balancing. That kind of a balancing act with fantastic music. Off of what they were doing. I think that many that are not aware of how films are made, I just want to repeat what Kamal has just said. Kamal went to a music director, recorded songs, went to a location, shot those songs, and then decided that perhaps he was not happy with it. He went to Rajasar and said, this is the music, I want to change it. Rajasar said, don't change anything. I will change what you have shot. So he looked at the ethically- It's like turning the sound off and writing something to match what you see. Looking at the lip-sync of the artists that have been shot, Rajasar composed fresh music. I want to see it. Which synced with the already shot portion. And everything became super happy. That's an incredible feat. I've never heard of this thing before. No, neither have I. It doesn't happen. No music directors would be like, oh yeah, okay. No. If you went around my music, if you match a song to the visuals, they'd go, are you nuts? I haven't registered that. I know you've described many personal insults to Rajasar. Maybe it's not twice to repeat them now. But... Were there any moments when you felt that, when you're sitting in a composition that he has made, that you've disagreed with? Or you felt that maybe you wanted something else? Nice question, big break. No, I mean I never interfered with the music. Actually, that was not my field. I never entered into it. I used to let everything to him. What about you? I thought I was interfering, but I was only learning. We used to say the silliest things and he would say, tell me what you want and I'll give it to you. And it's always been that. And I learned a lot. And by arguing with him, I learned. So, that's my only learning technique of saying something knowingfully well that he's right. But I'd say, how about this? And he'd say, why that is not right? And that's how I learned. I had a very small, similar experience with Rajasar. I have never dared to sing in front of him because I found that very embarrassing. And every time a song was composed, I would ask him to send the produce somewhere else. Nadeesh Srivastava was here. We used to sit in the studio separately and record it. But there was one occasion in Paa when I had to sing a song with Rajasar in front of me. And I cannot tell you how frightening that was because you're looking at a genius who stands there and catches every little moment and wants to correct it.  Thank you so much, Rajasar, for that input. And thank you for giving me this opportunity to have stood in the same room as you and perform in front of you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Kamal. And thank you so much, Rajni. That was cool. As you'll never heard of it, probably never hear of it again. Okay, so there's multiple crazy things that were said in there. The fact that one he's done a thousand, I don't know if he's still alive, but that's insane. I don't know if, like, John Williams has done a thousand films. Can I almost guarantee he hasn't? He might have done a thousand songs. How many films has John Williams scored? Was it a thousand songs or a thousand films? A thousand films. He'll give you his albums. Because... I don't think it's a thousand films. Because Hollywood does not produce that amount of content. That fast. Nor do I think most artists want to. Do you have any films? Usually it's four in a year with a lot. Big, big mountain decline. What Akshay does now would be considered oversaturation here in Hollywood. His management would be telling him, People are seeing you too much. Let them want you. And that kind of stuff. So to put out that amount of quantity of stuff, and I'm sure most of it being really high quality stuff, is insane. And then also to take a song with visuals already shot, and make an entirely new song just based off of the visuals, is insane. That is... That does not happen. Ever. No. I've never heard of it. Like Big B said, I've never heard of it. I'd like to see it. Yeah. I'd like to see the end result. I'd like to see the beginning. I don't know if that's ever been released. Like the original version. And then what was... Because I would like to see how much of a transformation he made. That would be cool. I'd love to react to something and then find out afterwards that was one of those songs. Oh yeah. You know what I mean? And have not picked up on the fact that that was one of those songs. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be cool. Wow. Well, the man's impressive. Yeah. So... Understand the respect and the level of adoration. I'm sorry it took us as long as it has now. Yeah, sorry. Realize he's at the level, if not above, I remember him on like in terms of prestige. Because the dude's impressive. And let us know more from him that we should react to down. But now...


Welcome to Lackable Science here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Post Ethan Allen. Thanks for joining us here on Lackable Science where we try to show that plants is all around us everywhere, every day, part of our lives. With me today is Susan Scott. Welcome Susan. Thank you. Susan's back here. This must be your third appearance here. And talking about her new book, Hawaii's White Turns. Beautiful book about a beautiful animal. So Susan is an amazing person, author of this and seven other books or something, I think, eight other books. Okay. Biologists volunteer for various biological projects out in the northwest Hawaiian islands. Right to weekly column that you may have seen, the Ocean Watch column. Nine books, yeah. Lectures on marine biology, registered nurse. Person of many talents, obviously. So maybe you can tell us sort of what peaked your interest in these animals. Well, I was working as a volunteer for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2003. And so I was working at Turn Island in French for the Kills which now does not have any more biologists because I cycle and knock down all the buildings. A couple years ago. But my job there, I was assigned the White Turns, monitor the White Turns to count the eggs and count the fish and see how long it took to hatch. And so one of my jobs was to go around and look at who was laying eggs. And so, but in my room, we were in a Coast Guard barracks. There were White Turns in the window sill. I could see them from my room. So I thought every day I could see them every hour. And so I walked around the outside and first picture will show you what I saw. It was an amazing thing that the White Turns parents love those window sills. And so the problem was they would lay an egg and the window sill was just a bit slanted for the water to drain the water off. And so they would sit on the egg and nine times out of 10, they would just roll off onto the ground and break. A female can lay up to six eggs one at a time. They only raise one chick at a time. And so she would lay again and it would happen. Sometimes they'd incubate them for a couple of weeks and so there'd be a half-formed chick struggling, broken, and so one day the Refuge Manager and all of us felt really terrible about that.  And so the chicks did much better after that. And they had a much higher excess fletching rate there than in other parts of the world because I think because of that. Excellent. And that actually is an interesting thing about these birds, right? These birds have really adopted or adapted, I should say, to human habitations. They've adopted human buildings as nesting sites. Yes, they have and that's one of the great things along with our colea, our plovers, and some other animals that are adapting to people and I think in this era of our planet, the ones that adapt to human things are gonna do much better. Yeah, their advantage. Right, and so that's what happened with the white turns is in 1961, there was one pair that a bird are found on an egg near Cocoa Head. And so over the years, they sort of expanded from, that was out near Cocoa Head, not into Waikai, but more into Keppelani Park. And so people were watching them and they did some studies in the 80s and now we're up to, the last count was 2,300. And they are only nesting in, they don't actually build a nest. So I say nest, you know, not really a nest, but they breed in between Waikai and Hikomiraflora. And then nowhere else, they've not come over to the windward side or any other parts. And so no one really knows if they are, chicks that have fledged and are coming back to breed where they were born, or if there's other birds coming from other places, recruiting, because the species is indigenous to the world. But this is the only place where they've urbanized. The only city where they've settled in. Yeah, we're the only city that has them. And they're our official bird. They were made the official bird of Honolulu in 2007. Yeah, that's wonderful. And they're beautiful. Yeah, they're beautiful and they're, and since they don't have a nest, it's really easy to see them. So they, you can go to international marketplace. And there's eight pairs in there right now. One of the researchers told me, and so you can go up the escalators there. I don't know if you've been there lately, but you can see them at different levels. And the nice thing is you can just look eye to eye and the chicks aren't in, the one chick that the parents are raising aren't in a nest. So they're out in the open, sitting on a branch. And one of the reasons the researchers think they like Honolulu so much is because we have about 250,000 trees, most almost all introduced species in Honolulu and they're constantly being trimmed.  That was a hard sort of, you know, windowsills. Yeah, windowsills and ledges. And so yeah, throughout the book, we have pictures of birds laying eggs in weird places. But the great thing is people can just look out their office window or look out their condominium window and see, watch a parent raise a chick. And I think the next picture has a good picture that I took from the international marketplace. And that's just standing on the upper ledge and one parent was there and another one came in with a fish. And that's the other cool thing about these birds is they don't follow the fish and regurgitate it like a lot of birds, but they feed them the whole fish. And so researchers can see what the species are. They didn't take the fish. Right, you talk in here about they found some species of fish that were quite unusual in this area. Yeah, yeah. They seem only essentially the white terns are basically located there. Yeah, they're locating them and then they're bringing them back and hanging them out of their mouths so we can see them. And the amazing thing is they can apparently have one fish in their mouth and still fish further without losing the first one. It's amazing. And they can stack multiple fish at times. I think the record is 16, some small ones.  They're slippery little things. And so I was really curious and I heard they have ridges in their beaks and so I know a researcher from HPU who was at some dead birds that he was going to dissect for his graduate students and he said, I could come over and look at the inside of the beaks. So we took some pictures of these ridges and they're almost like teeth. Right. And the tongue is really flexible and bends and so I think the tongue holds the first fish up against the teeth. They're all ridged backwards. Backwards and so they can't fly forward. Because you can't imagine how they can hold for like eight fish and still catch an eye. Yeah, still have. You think as they open to be wider, something's going to fall. And they don't dive. They just sort of they're just... Just grab them off the surface sort of. Yeah, they're just different. So they often actually are found in conjunction with where there's larger predatory fish being blow right and that's pushing the little fish up to the surface. Right. Yeah, the Polynesian voyagers really love them. And the fishermen like them, white turns as well as some other species because they all congregate in what they call bird piles. And that's where the big fish are driving small fish to the surface. So the fishermen like them because that's where the tunas and mahi mahi are. And the navigators like them because the white turned parents don't go more than a hundred miles or so offshore to catch fish to feed their chicks. So if you're in that planet, find an island and you see a white turn with fish and it's easy to know you're within a hundred miles. If you have some general idea of which direction. Yes, a really big moment. So everyone's watching the white turns. Excellent, excellent. No, they're really wonderful birds. They were revered by the Hawaiians in the past, right? Yes, historically there's not much in the Hawaiian legends and lore about them. But one of the early birders in Hawaii, I forgot, in the late 1800s I think, asked people on Niihau if they would kill one because that's what they did in those days as a specimen and they said, oh no. So no one really knows if they nested here but they were here historically. But were the only island, Oahu's the only island and Honolulu's the only part of Oahu where they nested. But people have a great view of them so that they're getting really popular. Really, that is they're not on the big island or Molokai or Maui or that they're out in the free of case. Maybe offshore, yeah, maybe offshore but not in the Northwest Hawaiian islands have a lot. Midway has about 50,000 individuals and there's a lot of ironwood trees that were in trees there. So what the hurricane that came through recently and really hit pretty hard in the Northwest Hawaiian islands that must have changed the ecology there. Is that disruptive to the population? Yeah, it knocks the chicks down and the eggs, rolls the eggs off but the females can lay up to six and the birds in the Northwest chain usually have a peak breeding season in the spring. We have two in the spring and the fall and our success rate are meaning the ones here in Honolulu is much higher than other birds. So they have probably have really good fishing off the city front and they have those pukas in the trees to lay their egg and the other theory is that there are not as many predators in the city as in the countryside because people, you know, they're on feral cats running around in the city as much and people trap rats around the restaurant so we don't have the kind of predators that probably are more in the winter or lingered. That's great. Yeah. Why don't you move on? I think you have another photo or two here. Yeah. Again, show how beautiful these animals are. They're so beautiful and they're really fun to watch because you can hear it out in the open, you know, unlike birds in a nest, but also they're nesting in the monkey pod and kukui trees that are outside of people's eyes and condos and office building. So one woman wrote me that she had watched and photographed parents raise a chick and she'd made her own picture book of it and everyone in the office would come in every day and see what was happening. Yeah, I've heard of people setting up falcon cams in like New York where the falcon falcons would adopt a building and they'll suddenly, yes, outside of some office in the 50th floor, they'll set up their nest and pigeons. And then people can watch it, you know? And yeah, then people set up cameras. And there's a white-turn cam at KCC, Capulonic Community College, that the students have set up wonderful. So we can watch it.  That's super. And they feed the chicks fish that are almost too big for them.  And then the chick sits there and digests the first half and then sometimes it takes a couple hours. But it's pretty cute to watch. Yeah, I used to keep large constrictors. I would eat things that are much bigger around than they were. Yeah, yeah. It's always impressive to see what they could get in. It is, and the long it takes. Yeah, right. Exactly, it's a somewhat same kind of idea. So how long did you work on this book? Well, I write a weekly column for the Star Votizer and readers would start asking me questions about the white turns and I didn't know the answers. And so I would talk to some people who were doing research and the literature was pretty piecemeal. And since the birds are found in the Atlantic and Australia and around the world in the tropics, there was literature in journals from around the world. So I joined, there was a Huey that got together and said, hey, well, this is our city bird and no one's really paying a lot of attention to that. Let's get together and get the information out. So this Huey is teachers and BLNR, state, federal, and people like me, just all joining together. We have meetings every few months of what we can do to help this. So I joined the Huey and that's when we decided that there was enough literature to probably put a book together so people who love these birds can find things out and look them up. And so it took me about a year to do it and University of Hawaii Press designed it and published it. And the royalties to me are going to the Hawaii Audubon Society. We're trying to raise money to buy a satellite bag, probably only one at a time. They cost about $2,500, but they talk to the satellite so you don't have to recapture the bird to get the information. And those are the more expensive ones because if we can catch an adult in the first place, which is really hard because our monkey pod trees and other mature trees are really tall and even the trimmers can't always get up there, you'll never catch it the second time. It'll be wise to do it. If I say you have to lose the tag, put it on its leg in a biodegradable manner and then let it fall off. Interesting. And we're going to dig more deeply into the white turns here when we come back. I'm told we need to go to a quick break. Susan Scott, author, biologist, adventurer is here with me in the studios. I'm your host, Ethan Allen, and thank you for joining us likeable science. We'll be back in one minute. Hey, loha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. 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It's a lovely book filled with all sorts of good information, lots of pretty pictures. Tremendous gathering together of the knowledge that these almost mysterious animals, where bits and pieces have been known from different places at different times, but hadn't really ever been pulled together. And you've done a remarkable job there. We were talking a little bit on the break, this hui you mentioned just before the break, this gathering of people who are interested in who want to support these birds. This is sort of, it's almost an orphan project, right? That is, there is not a lot of big focused attention on it. And this group has come together and tries to bring some attention, raise funds to get these things you were saying. They want to get a satellite tag, a tag. They'll beam signals up to satellites. They can really track more accurately how one of these birds actually, where they go and when they go. Right, the hui has a lot of really interesting people from different walks of life. And one of the great things about it is there's a man named Rich Downs who's retired, but he's pretty much given a second career of monitoring them. And he set up a website called whiteturns.org. And there's lots of information on that about how you can help. And so he has also started, he's done a lot of work. And he's done a citizen science group. So people who have a white turnout by their office window or their condo can join the citizen science and tell him where it is. And when there's a white-turned family in a tree, they're federally and state protected. So it's against the law to cut down that tree or the limbs that, or disturb it. And so he has gotten from BLNRs, picked in, and made this blue tape that goes around the trunks. So if you see blue tape in the city of Yolani Palace and the city center, that's where the turns are. Yeah, I was just walking really the other day. It's a wiki-ki on a tree just by one of the condos there. I had this big blue tape around. I wondered what it was for. I saw some writing on it, went up and looked and it said, whiteturns nesting there. And there were trimmers to be very careful not to disturb it. And the website's on there, so you can do that. But the phone number on there is a rescue.  And there's a team of people who will try to either take it to a rehab rescue center, a bird center, or get it back in the nest. If you can put a bird back in the nest, and the parents will feed it. Right, of course, I have no nest, so it'd be hard to tell where it fell from. I keep saying nest to that. I mean breeding sites. Actually, if you put it on even a nearby branch, it'll be okay. I was going to say, I would guess the parents must be sort of flexible. Yeah, they are flexible. And as long as it can balance on their hatch, it's really huge feet. So the chicks hang on. That's how they're adapted. An intriguing piece of their biology, right? Because they don't do any nesting. So literally, they're all on these bear branches. The chicks are incubated there. The chicks are born there. And somehow must have some very reflexive, instinctive, ripping. They do. And one of the theories, a couple of theories of why they've evolved that way is that they don't get nest mites that are in the nesting material. There's no parasites to infect them. And another is that they nested traditionally in cliff. So they didn't need nesting material. Right, nesting material, they don't make nests. But now they're nesting in artificial cliffs. Yeah, or artificial cliffs. Or artificial cliffs. Or building, yeah. They nested in the Hawaii State Art Museum. And there was an $8 million renovation planned. And so when there's a white-turned family there, no one messes with it. And they put that off until it's wedged. That must have made the contractors a little edgy. I think it does. But on the other hand, the tree trimmers are into it. So they like the blue tape. So they know there's a family in there to look out for and not trim that tree. And the tree trimmers have really come on board. It's good. Yeah, because the family would always come back a few months later and trim the tree. Yeah, and they don't want to hurt the birds. They just didn't know where they all were. So Rich's blue tape and his citizen science of, I think I have a picture of them where he shows them on the website where they all are. Well, that's the proclamation. Yeah, and that's the one. So each pinpoint is where there's a nest and the different colors are whether there's a chick or a chick or a chick of the age. So he keeps track of that. You can see it's between Hawaii Kai and, you know. Yeah, with a nice, dense area along Wai'kei. Yeah, nice, dense area. And the university, I gave a talk at the university on this week, and there were white turns all over the place. So people knew them there. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. Well, that's great. And so people can get to that website. They can get to this hui if they want and join it. And active supporters become citizen science. Yes, and there's been fantastic professional photographers who have joined. There's lots of different kinds of people there, and they contributed greatly to the book. So the book has really nice photos. Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah, all donated, which is very nice. And so these birds almost pose, you know, and act really cute for the pictures. So they let the pictures stop feeding the chick. And then you're actually donating profits from this book to the Audubon Society, right? To the Audubon Society, yeah. So this is all doing a lot of good for a lot of good organizations.  Oh, well, that's right, yeah. New people from different countries. Right, because these birds, particularly because of their urban adaptation, will draw sort of different kinds of people, people who just haven't had them outside their office or outside their condo or whatever. Right, and teachers are teaching. There's a family of several white-turns, I think, at the moment. Oh, OK, so it's a great way to engage kids and all. There must have been that the original settlers, the original ones who came and did this were probably abnormally, we say not shy, abnormally tolerant of disturbances near their nests. Because, apparently, sometimes they'll be doing major construction right near these trees and they'll seem to bother the birds at least at most of the rays. They're not bothered by 24-hour light either because they have ticks on top of light poles. And Rich says there's traffic and commotion there in Waikiki, of course, the birds. And they don't care about the light or the traffic or the noise.  So one of the things that we can do to help them is to try to get them to the cats' doors. I think the trend is to ask the cats' doors. Actually, better for the cats to do the cats' doors a lot longer. It is better for the cats and definitely predators. Cats are predators. Oh, yeah, they've devastated. There are stories, I know, on the Outer Banks North Carolina, of cats bringing in every specimen of a particular species of bird that's ever been found. And apparently eliminated the species of bird off the face of the earth. And they also carry toxoplasmosis, which infects the monk seals. So that's a really big problem. We have now a couple, several hundred monk seals in the main Hawaiian islands. And they're really worried about that. So it's another issue. This isn't for how they're talking about birds. You go, yeah. Cats. Well, it's all connected, right? This is a nice example of how nature is all around us now. And we're all part of it. We connect to them. And especially here on the islands. Yeah, these small islands are particularly vulnerable. Their connections are usually very close. And they're easier to study because it's an island. There's an edge to it. They can't go too far. So they probably, you say they only fly maybe 100 miles for food. But then do they migrate seasonally at all? Well, that's a good question. That's one of the reasons that it would be really nice to get a satellite tag where it could get a healthy adult and see where they go, because no one knows. Ninoa Thompson said they go 110 miles. That's the furthest that he's seen them in the voyaging, glaya. And researchers think they fly 1,000 miles off shore. But having sailed a lot that distance off shore, thousands of miles off shore, well, I've never seen a white thing like that. But it doesn't mean they're not there. It's this global distribution. But they have a global. It does suggest that they're pretty good flyers. Pretty good flyers. They get around. Yeah, they get around. But they're on offshore islands in Australia and the Ascension and Atlantic. And so they've gotten there. And the reason they're mostly only on islands, offshore islands, in those parts of the world is pretty good. Right, right. They would be very vulnerable. Yeah, they're vulnerable on that. And they're not that big. They're not that puffer bird, basically, right? No, right. Although they'll attack dogs in the city. They've been seen. Dive bombing dogs. They're better. They don't have a lot of defense, but they're plucky. That's good, that's good. I got poked in the head. It didn't hurt me, but when I was taking a picture of one one center and I opened it. That's right, I recall you have a story in this book here. Excuse me, sorry. You don't want to truth. Let's see, we have another image or two, or was that it? Maybe that was it, OK. Yeah, and this was when the Mufi Hanuman made it. Yeah, OK, there you go. This was Nainoa Thompson's mother. Laura Thompson worked with the Mufi Hanuman and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Keith Wendell, to make this the official city bird. And so that was 2007. And of course it still is, but we're trying to make more people aware of that. I think we do have one more image that we saw before. I guess. That's the home website of the Pui. Honoku is the, and that's interesting. These birds, just for people who've lived here a long time, are what we used to call fairy turns. And I called my original book title was the Tinkerbell of Sea Birds. And I did that because people don't know always that white turn is the same as what was fairy turn. But there's an international society of ornithologists that name birds, or common name, English common names. And everyone agrees on that. And so there's a fairy turn in Australia, so our turn became a white turn. It's a very confusing thing all in biology. They say an animal is called by different names all around. And I used to think, oh, why can't we just call them fairy turns? But we don't have that for fish. But so where you could go as much as I travel, the same fish is called all kinds of names depending on where you are. So it's kind of. Well, thank you so much for being here, Susan. I've learned a lot, as I'm sure our audience has. Again, Susan Scott's new book, Hawaii's White Turn, a lovely book, truly beautiful, truly great images, great texts, very informative. And this has been an enlightening and fun conversation here. I enjoyed it. Thank you for coming back. Thank you for having me and letting me continue the white turn talk because it's really fun to help people. Excellent. Well, thank you for coming. I hope you'll come back here to Think Tech Hawaii for a likable science next week. I'm your host, Ethan Allen. Till then.


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all right guys we are out here in Paris we're walking over to the um i can't remember we're walking over to hey guys thundie here and welcome to my pixel seven pro in paris video as you can tell i went to paris and right now i'm heading to the american express century and lounge and gfk uh big shout out to phillips evnia for sponsoring this video we're going to be checking out some of the cool monitors later on so our flight was in the evening from gfk so we spent some time in this insuring lounge i got a seat here to check out some of the planes i didn't have too much time but i heard there's a speakeas in the lounge and i wanted to go check it out it's the 1850 it's not really hidden uh the door is clearly stated there but it's a really cool lounge kind of small i didn't want to record people there were tons of people coming through but you're going to see the camera of the pixel seven pro in this video in various situations photos the zoom lens all that fun stuff as we take the strip to paris and back so i had to get the express martini which is the signature drink here at the lounge of course has 1850 on there uh but i had a quick drink the lounge is pretty small uh but it's really nice though um and i had to head over to my gates it was really cool spending time at the sensory lounge i'll capture more next time because my gate was all the way at b 39 and if you're in terminal four in gfk it's a bit of a hike uh you got to go all the way down and you know just looking at the stability of the camera using some of that one zoom functionality there c and b 39 can zoom all the way to 5x you can see that that's the plane we're taking that's an a 3 3 30 i believe yes um so why buddy plane a bit smaller than of course an a 350 take me out on the flight with me as well as a cousin cam got to board i had premium select seats which is nicer more space biggest screen which is also pretty cool uh you've got charging and of course i have to bring my anchor charger that's the i believe the 757 charger great multi charge and i love that sticky thing that they have with it uh dinner menu that was served um i think i went with the chicken on this flight it was good um nothing crazy but i would say the best thing on the menu uh for me was the ice cream was really really dope had some champagne took a quick nap and then we landed in paris um and this was char to gold's airport we headed over to our hotel again i'm capturing everything on the pixel seven pro and it does a good job in the different situations i'm not trying to be cinematic anything i'm just capturing everything i see around giving you a more natural feel and one thing about paris you see cafes everywhere but anyway checking to the hotel and the first thing we're going to do was of course see the site so decided to walk around the city we're pretty close to a really cool landmark and of course there is a pastry store that sells eclairs we didn't get one here we'll get one later but we walked over to the arcade triumph and it was a great place for us to take photos do some time lapse here as you can see all with the pixel this is a solid 5x charge you can see the details of the architecture and we took some photos and honestly it was just great to capture photos so why did you guys just take a look at some of the photos i'm here shopping on champagne and um look this is jammy store right really jammy yeah it's a jammy store jammy store right here yeah of course there's you know chanel kathie uh you know everywhere yeah yeah i did some shopping but it was cool i'm in paris so the very next day we were taken to the start of france this is the french national team stadium for for course the football team yes it's called football and this was a great experience this is was the event with philip's uh evnia uh they can see jacklyn uh we've got to go through the locker room of the french national team now these are the jerseys of the 1998 world cup team uh that won the world cup against brazil ah man i was so sad that they really wanted brazil to win but you see the really cool jerseys also jerseys of different consoles as well so that was pretty nice starter france is a beautiful stadium and i love the opportunity to check it out and also uh you know being a manager here i kind of look like one with my outfit at least for the day uh being able to go ahead and call my players in and change formations all that fun stuff but the big show here of course with the philips evnia monitors this is the 42 inch monitor 138 hertz refresh rate uh this also has a 2.1 it's a great monitor uh you can see it's got you can tilt you can adjust it uh it's really bright and sharp and you've also got some really great viewing angles on this monitor as well uh great gaming experience at least we got from there the show you can see the viewing angles there next up was the acuity OLED monitor yes they have acuity OLED 107 i send five hertz refresh rate on this monitor and a little great plain doom eternal look at how that looks really nice and crisp all together and the first monitor that we're releasing is this one this is a mini uh led monitor a hdr 1400 comes with a built-in kvm as well uh this bad boy looked really nice all the monitors look good really sharp and very vibrant they all also have some lighting at the back and they also announced a few accessories including uh this of course cherry red uh switch keyboard which was nice uh it felt really comfortable and good as well as a gaming mouse and a gaming headset definitely check out the stuff that philip's avenue have uh some really great accessories but also some great monitors coming out so stay tuned for more from them and then i run into tech chap at the event yeah exactly what do you think pixel big ol stadium i like the pixel you know i really love the battery life i did a test and the versus the six pro realistic like two hours longer that was like my biggest complaint so what do you think enjoying it how's the camera i was looking at you said to me myself uh thank you very much tech chap now we got to check out moulin rouge um and this is courtesy of our friends at philip's avenue and i know what people say this is a tourist trap but it was a great show it was a lot of fun i definitely would recommend it especially if you get a table you get some champagne absolutely gorgeous so you can also see some shots low light shots with the pixel seven pro we had a good time was a big crew of us so again big shout out to philips for this now um we had dinner i had dinner twice with some friends as well as also with tech chap and tech me out and uh it was a fun experience just uh sitting down and eating and enjoying paris just capturing the time with friends so that was actually pretty cool but again the camera is being put to work so i i definitely know what you guys think at the end of the day because the food was also amazing well i still had to see more of paris so definitely went to another cafe cut myself in a clear as you saw earlier of course some croissants but we headed over to the eiffel tower and uh the zoom lens here on the pixel was quite useful works pretty well honestly also took some really great photos and big shout out to count me again for being an awesome model for me for this pixel seven pro video and also using the time lapse feature uh it's great i like it with this i think it works pretty well i think a lot of people like it too now paris is fun but i have to head back and i caught a flight back with air france different from delta and i got a business class seats i want to be more comfortable coming back home and just try out the product i like trying out different airline products very spacious private um and guys if you want me to do more videos on airlines uh using different smartphones let me know but it was about time to take off we took off had my champagne in hand the menu was impressive somebody good food on this flight lots of drinks lots of alcohol but honestly the food was impressive tasted great the pasta was fantastic and then eventually landed in the united states of america so i just landed in new york city i'm back from paris and i should be taking an uber but i'm actually gonna be catching a ride on a helicopter back home let's go find out fly blade is an interesting service offering five to six minute helicopter rides from gfk to the city they pick you up from your terminal and they take you to their own helicopter terminal and this is where all the fun begin but this was the coolest part walking over to the helicopter uh my luggage was put into the plane you can bring your luggage with you you just have to kind of let them know exactly what kind of luggage you're taking with you whether it's a carry-on or checked-in luggage but you're walked out by the staff and there's a lot of safety protocols to get to the helicopter but this was the coolest part taking off gfk and flying over the runway in the helicopter and looking all the planes and jets and it was a fantastic view honestly this was a great experience there's actually another runway pretty close to the airport that's abandoned the views are great the zoom lens on the pixel 7 pro really does a very good job now i'm just shooting across the way zooming down and looking at parts of queens and brooklyn also is pretty nice this is also the bqe which is a pretty cool view look to see the statue of liberty and that zoom honestly i was impressed with the pixel 7 pro here and what actually brought to the table but for me this was a fun experience altogether uh and uh i think one that much experience so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and you got to see the pixel 7 pro do different things that you haven't seen before and you got to see something new with philips evnia sponsored this video check out the products if you want to pick up at least the new monitor that's coming out the mini led i'll leave a link down for you guys below and if you guys have any questions and comments about the pixel 7 pro let me know otherwise if you get to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment


What's going on everyone? Sam here at Layton Sports Cards, ripping 22-23 up in the impeccable basketball hobby, 3 box case break, number 13, tiered random team style, there's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Alright, let's do it. That's what I'm saying, dude. What are we doing here? You broke me. Got guys hurting their hands. Take a bus here or something. Walk here. You need to start just checking your heads. People are hurting their hands. Walk here and just immediately slap. Like a big machine with a hand on it. Yeah. As soon as you walk in. Empty.  Just two fillers. Keep those, honestly. Are we running long? No, we have the box over there. Hi, we got 29 or 75 KD. For the Nets. There you go, Brooklyn. Still a net in this, of course. Can you explain that one? I can't. That one was shocking. That was shocking. Devin Macel to 75 for the Spurs. It's uninged. Cat 41 to 49. Carl Anthony Towns for the Timberwolves. 71 of 99. That is going to be Chris Middleton for the Bucks. That's one here we got a bet hit. Going to the Rockets. That is going to be John Lucas. Impeccable selections, 1976. 18 of 99. It's a gorgeous card. Nice auto on that, too. Congrats, H-Town. Daniel L. Daniel L taking the next card. That is going to be Ralph Sampson. Indelible Ink, 47 of 75. Another one of the most underrated players in history, Ralph Sampson. Indelible Ink. Congrats, Daniel. Next up, going to Bradley R and the Spurs. We've got RPA. That is Malachi Prandom, 32 of 99. Grats on that. Spurs, RPA. Can you explain that? Going to the Rockets again. That is going to be Terry Eason on the Stainless Stars, 63 of 99. And sunglasses, too. sunglasses, too. sunglasses inside. Daddy Yankee in here, sorry. It's like Polly Dee in the situation. All right. We've got Benedict Matherin. Impeccable rookie signatures, 71 of 99. Congrats, Pacers. And why? Oh, man. Just surrounded by steam everywhere. Come at this one. Nice, Matherin. Also, how do you talk that you're going to be so good in fantasy than coming last? Dead last, like smoke. All right. Again, that is going to be a metal cord. Nice. Oh, that's pretty solid. 6 to 25. Yanis on the orange. There you go. Grats, buddy. Crispy taking some random player style again on Friday. You'll have random player style breaks with me in the morning and more at night with Forrest on Friday. Here is Julius Randall, 10 of 49 for the next. And Ochaig Bajie, 73 of 75 for the jazz. And here is the empty lid. Nice. Jeremy Sohan, that is going to be 87 of 99 for the spirits. Really cool hit coming here for Orton W and the Mavs. That is going to be 5 of 99 that's pre-bad boys pre-Adrienne Dantley trade. Mark Aguirre canvas creations on for the Mavs. Again, this is going to be from last year's Impeccable, 21-22. We've got a buddy healed, 13 of 49 impeccable stars. Congrats to the kings on that one. Nice buddy. This is a kind of Korea halibut and and sabonis trade. Very cool. We've got Anthony Simons. That is going to be 47 of 75. That's going to the Blazers on the auto. Congrats there. Nice, Simons. Anthony. Next up, going to the jazz. Walker Kessler, 17 of 25 on the RPA. There you go, Harper. Nice elegance, Walker Kessler. Two color on that one. The redemption at the end. Could be good. Let's do it. Let's see what we've got. Impeccable rookie signatures. Card number 29, Keegan Murray. Going to the kings. There you go, Sacramento. Eric B, nice one there. Two really good rookies in this. Congrats, Sacramento. Let's go, Eric. Congrats, buddy. Keegan Murray on the redemption. Should be number 299. Box three and five. It's cheese, man. That was bad, too. There's our bar card. What's up? I told you it was a bad luck. What do you say? What's happening? Josh Giddy, second year to 75 for the Thunder. And Anthony Simons, 21 of 49. The Blazers. Shrae Murphy, 19 of 99 for the Pelicans Second year, TM3. Next up is going to be going to the Warriors. Matt Barnes, 88, or no, 80 of 99. We have two redemptions. Back to back. First redemption is Dominique Wilkins. Watercolor signatures, hollow gold. For the Hawks. For the Hawks. Checklist up yet. Can't imagine he's anywhere but the Hawks. Nope. I have to imagine that's going to be a hawk. Have to imagine. Be shocked if it wasn't. We've got a Frans Wagner watercolor signatures. That's going to the magic. That's definitely going to the magic. Nice one there. Frans. Nice one here. We've got stainless stars. Wow, that's weird. Two Jabari Smith juniors. Nice. There you go. Rockets. I'm assuming that's a mistake. 19 of 75. 65 of 75. Not bad, dude. I mean, hey.  Very nice. Dub. 16 of 20. Jaylin Williams. I talk about it pleasant surprises, right. Nice. J Dub. 16 of 20. On the silver bar. Going to the Thunder. There you go, Steven. Let's do a quick recap. We've got Matt Barnes, Keegan Murray, Anthony Simons, Buddy Heald, Mark Guire, Terry Eason, Malachi Branham, Ralph Samson, Jean Lucas, Dominique Wilkins, Frans Wagner. We had Benedict Matherin, 291. Two Jabari Smith juniors with the same box, back to back. Jaylin Williams. And nice. 17 of 25. RPA, Walker Kessler. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Up next is 14.


Good morning, Lake. Good morning, Bumblebee. Good morning, world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. Good morning, Bumblebee. Good morning, Bumblebee. We're here at Togtukul Reservoir in Kyrgyzstan. And we had a beautiful night last night. Nobody was around except some overlanders from France over there. There was quite a lot of people around in the evening. People were down here swimming, having picnics. But then, yeah, as soon as the sun set, everybody left and it was peace and quiet and it was just amazing. And what a view to wake up to this morning. The sun hasn't made it over the mountain just yet because we've woken up early again. Yes! Because today we have a super exciting day because we're heading back into Kazakhstan. Let me show you guys our route for today. So we are here and today we're going to be taking this road, followed by this road, to hopefully make it back over the border into Kazakhstan and to the city of Taras. If we can make it across the border today, it means that we can get to Shymkent tomorrow because we've been what-sapping with a mechanic in Shymkent. And the guy's super awesome because he's already ordered the chain and sprockets. So he actually has everything ready to repair Bumblebee's chain and sprockets. It's about 170 miles to the border and the navigation says it will take us four hours. We have still to pick up everything, so better hit the road. Let's go. I think they're over after this trip. No. Yeah, they're getting to the end, hey? Oh, this side looks good. Not that bad, hey? Yeah, look. Just here, Greg. Come on, former, give us some boots. Come on! Just an obstacle in the morning. Yeah, that's where we came up, that one, but it's a little bit easier on this side. Bumblebee's got unlimited power, so we've got nothing to worry about. Unlimited power. No hill can stop Bumblebee. Oh my god. Okay. No worries. No worries. A beautiful morning, hey? Yeah, a nice little trail to start the morning. Look at this. Yeah. I always like going to these camps, down some nice tracks, because then we always get to start the morning like this.  Yeah, especially when we reach there, we know on the way back that we can actually make it. Yeah. You know, because yesterday I wasn't really sure if we can actually make it. Yeah, it's definitely a four-wheel drive track, but yeah, it's doable for us. It's doable just about, hey? Yeah, it's like my little challenge of the morning. Yeah. Hold on. A little bit technical. Yeah, now we're back on Dunlop Trail Max mission tires. It's just like, I feel so confident with these tires. They're just amazing. They're just the best tires in the world. Oh, I don't actually know where I came from this time. I think we came from there, actually, didn't we? Do you think so? Not sure. Maybe we didn't, just because the way looked a little bit more comfortable, actually, than this part here. Yeah, I don't think we came this way. No, no, we didn't. But anyway, I think it's the same, anyway. Yeah. No idea. Getting lost every day at least one time, but most days, actually two times or three times. We're heading over that direction. That's the important thing. Yeah. Very good, my love, hey? All right, mission successful for the morning. Didn't drop it. Yeah, it's always nice when you don't drop the bike in the morning. Exactly. Kazakhstan, we're coming. Now into the amazing mountain landscapes. Look at this. Amazing. Wow, so pretty. Yeah, I think it's going to be a pretty crazy ride to the border. It's just amazing how quickly everything can change. It's like this beautiful lush forest around this river. It's so nice.  Yeah, there's like sort of little cabins with fireplaces. Yeah, maybe we should move to Kyrgyzstan. And it seems like the main business they're doing here, as you can see here, is bee farming. Look all these bee boxes. And then they're selling their honey on the side of the road. Pretty much that seems to be what everybody's doing here. Yeah, incredible.   Always staying like nothing can surprise you anymore. And then you turn the corner and you have something like this, hey? So we didn't really realize, but we climbed up quite high now. Yeah, it looks like we're going over a mountain pass. How high are we? We are at 10,150 feet. Yeah, so it's quite high up. My fingers feel frozen. Yeah. My fingers are so cold. Oh my god, look at this car. Oh, this car's like really sticking out the back. Look at that. Yeah. Wow, the trucks, they have a little bit of trouble to go up here for sure. Oh, there's some chilly winds. Wow. Yep. Wow, look at this landscape up here. Turnoff is coming. Yeah, it's time to find out if it's going to be tarmac to the border or not. No, please, please, please, please, please, please. Okay, looks good. Looks good. Looks like tarmac. Is it tarmac? Wow, look at the statue of this guy on a horse. Wow. Amazing. Looks really, really cool, actually. Yeah, it looks like tarmac. Yes. Because from here it's about 110 miles to the border on this road. So we were like, if this was going to be a dirt road, then our day would be very different. Yes, for sure. These beautiful mountain yurts. Such peaceful living, hey. Totally. I really want to live in a yurt. Yeah, maybe that's an idea for the future. You're at camp in Scotland. There we go. So we just reached the top. Ottmock pass, 3,326 meters. Lavionolli sticker going on the pass. Nice. There you go. Forever happy and alive. Nice. So we're just going to take a break here. We've been on the bike now for two hours already this morning. We've covered 63 miles. So we're doing pretty good. We've got about 100 miles more to go to reach the border. Awesome. Okay. Had some cookies. Now it's time to get down to the warm pay. Quickly, quickly. It's freezing. Freezing. So we just stopped here in a town called Talaz. We're trying to find something to eat for lunch. This looks like a lot of grilled meat. Let's check it out anyway. It does smell good. Ah, perfect. Hello, how are you? Good? Oh, you guys speak English? Oh, cool. What's your name? Norik. Nice to meet you. And your name? Nogmat. Nogmat. They're our friends. Nice. Very nice. This is our menu. Thank you. We just take the lahmaner. The fried one. Yes, please. And tea. How much time we are in Kyrstan? Maybe two weeks. Two weeks? Yes. From Bishkek. Is it cool? Song cool? One motorcycle. Yeah, one motorcycle. Two people. Yeah. We go around the world. Around the world? Yeah. All continent, everywhere. Your hobby is hobby? Yeah. Tourist, yeah? Our life. Yeah. It's like now we're around the world. It's a YouTube channel? Yes. YouTube, Instagram. Cool. Amazing. This hot tea is us present. Okay, thank you. That's really kind. Very kind. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Rahman. How are you? How friendly, hey? I'm still cold. Have a hot tea.  It's nice warm, tasty, sugary. Nice hot tea. We've ordered a nice fried lahman. A national noodle dish here in Kyrgyzstan. So I'm really looking forward to it. Like one? Thank you. Thank you. That's some good stuff. It's like the best meal ever. What a beautiful lunch, hey? Nice. Really nice. Really nice. So now we have another 50 miles to get to the border. It's half past 12, so we're doing pretty good today. Making good progress. This road is so patchy. So patchy. Wow. Look at that. At least they've done something, hey? I think this is it. The Kazakhstan border. 170 miles after and six hours. I think this is our longest ride we've had to get to a border, hey? Yeah, I think so too. Because normally we tackle them like first thing in the morning. Because it's always difficult to go to a border in the afternoon and you've ridden all day. Yeah. But to be fair it has been a really spectacular road today and it's been quite easy going. A little bit bumpy, but quite easy going. Right, well what's going on is that we've got to get as close as we can to those green gates at the end without angering anyone. Can I get through here? That's the question. Good question. Let's give it a go. Is that right? Yeah, it's all right, yeah. Okay. Yeah, just about, yep. The gate's still quite a few cars down, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I kind of got ourselves stuck now to be honest. It's true. No, hi.  So that's as far as we can get for now. Okay. All right, let's wait here then. Yep. Okay, everybody's moving. Okay, seems to be about as far as we can go. One, two, three, four, five, six. It's only like seven cars. We moved forward a little bit. Yes. One eternity later. Still waiting. Yeah, it's really crazy because there's like this fence in between, but you have still a lot of people actually going the wrong way down here like this guy. Wrong way, buddy. The bumblebee is stuck.  Yeah, it's really crazy because the other side has a stone wall as well. So now we can't move at all. It's like, no, skip into the front this time. And so we wait. One hour later. Hello. Okay. Okay. Camera off.  Camera. No, no, no. No, no. Bike passport. Bike passport. Yeah. Plate. This one, the bin. Win, win.   Thank you. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Okay, thank you. Bye, bye. This is a big lean. Thank you. Ahmed. Thank you. Thank you. Wait, water, water. To work in a chocolate factory, we have a chocolate brand. What brand is it? Cadbury. Yes. No, no, no. No, no. Please. So we've just crossed the border and we have already managed to sort our insurance and our SIM card for Kazakhstan. So this word here. Insurance. Insurance with these guys. These guys are absolutely awesome. Welcome to Kazakhstan. Thank you. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Bye, bye. Oh no, no, everyone parked here. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Nice guys, hey? Totally. That's so cool. So, so nice. That was just basically the first building that we came to as soon as we crossed the border. We translated on the board at the front and it was like, yep, insurance. So all in all, that was a super easy start. We got our insurance for Bumblebee for one month here in Kazakhstan. And that cost us 15 pounds. 15 pounds? Yeah, really cheap. That's really cheap. And then the SIM card was about 8. Yeah, 8 pounds. I think that's 10 gigabytes for one month. Yeah, so pretty good. Pretty good, but we didn't talk about the border yet. The border process was pretty long waits in those queues, I tell you. I'm so happy that we are not a car. The process was just so, so slow. Yeah. They were just, I don't know what they were doing. They were just only letting a few cars in at a time and then you had to wait like 45 minutes before they opened the gates again. Yeah. I think we arrived at the border at about 2 o'clock now. Yeah. And now it's quarter past five. So that whole process including getting the insurance and the SIM card and getting all that set up took us about three hours. Just over three hours. Okay, here we are back in Kazakhstan. Nice. Nice to be back. Yeah. And this is going to be a long leg in Kazakhstan now because our destination here in Kazakhstan is Aktau. And Aktau is about 1,500 miles away to the west. And that is where we'll be putting Bumblebee on a ferry to cross the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan. If everything works well. If everything works out, that's going to be the plan. Yes. But we've got a lot of road to cover here in Kazakhstan. But I'm excited. Me too. So we are riding now pretty much to the next town. The town is Taras. Just a few miles down the road here. We found an accommodation on our overlander. And we're going there now to check it out. And see if they have a room available for us. We're so excited to go and get pizza that we totally forgot to even record the evening vlog. So we just found the closest place. We've got a lentil soup. We've got a pizza to share. And this is super crazy. It tastes good. It's supposed to be kiwi fruit and passion fruit lemonade. But yeah, it's really green. Anyway, we drove all our stuff successful off in the room. And the room was really nice. But that's it for us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up. Share the video with your friends and family. Comment below. And we will see you next time.