No, hey everyone what is pop and welcome back to another video if you're new here My name is Cara. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe So we are having a productive day. It doesn't stop here because I'm on my way to the coffee shop But I have to take my vitamins before I need out a yard No, I don't play when it comes to my body when I take my vitamins They just help me show up to be my best self and I feel good because I have so much stuff to do and I'm a one-person team right now So I have to just always be on the go vitamins that I love are my care of vitamins And I like care of vitamins just because they prioritize you and your needs and your health goals So care of it's a vitamin subscription But they help you find a vitamin routine that works for you All you need to do is go on take care of comm and you fill out a quiz so they can get to know you and What you want to accomplish when it comes to your health and your health goals made with no GMO No preservatives so you don't have to worry about all the extra ish beginning your vitamins I just know you're taking in quality products because they are thoughtfully sourced and they are research backed products to help you feel Your best self and if you're somebody who struggles with taking your vitamins every day I suggest downloading the care of app They'll remind you to take your vitamins and they'll help you be a little bit more consistent And they also reward for consistency this little pack right here is a vitamin routine Made easy I have a vitamin D level because last year or two years ago I just wasn't feeling my best it went to the doctor and blow my hold I was low on vitamin D So I wanted to make sure Vitamin D was in my vitamin routine and I also have rhodiola because it helps with stress And then I also have magnesium because you know and y'all already know I'm on a health girl era So gut check and digestion Absolutely, I need a probiotic in my vitamin supplement routine I really like their two co-packs on their gut check Because I like to throw these in my mouth when I feel a little bloated and it's also sugar-free on their website They have a collagen powder They have the chia flax that I love and you'll be able to get your own as well All you need to do is go on takecareup.com and you'll be able to use my code to save 50% Of your first order So make sure you're prioritizing yourself and you this year for 2023 because you Deserve it your body deserves it you deserve to feel good and you deserve to have vitamins that are unique to you Because like I said, it's a vitamin routine made easy So thank you so much care of for sponsoring this video and I need to make my way out the door So let me just take these really quick and we out. I Just got my eyebrows done They look so good and my upper lip. I don't know why I'd be so embarrassed be like Please tomorrow. I'm actually going for the first time to get Laser on my face and also my underarms. That's typical and also I'm getting my bikini area laser, okay, so tomorrow is going to be a Exciting day and then I'm gonna get a wax before though because I think they want the hair to be removed so and I don't want to shave because I go to Lotus wax and she has transformed my Down there area So that is nice and smooth. I was supposed to get on a call with YouTube But my mom is on the car right now representing me because you already know my mom Um helps me what it's gonna stop at Home goods and the container store because I want to organize my wellness drawer to be like all of my wellness Little packets or whatever, but I'll probably just do that tomorrow because later on today I have another appointment to go to I have to get my Tattoo removal finished. I don't know if I've explained this to y'all But I've been on a tattoo removal journey. I went to a doctor eraser, but now they changed their name to Remover or something like that remove removal I don't know, but I really like the staff there. So I'll be going there later today, but I need to go home in Film something about to go pick up my Chanel bag that broke. I wanted to check in with y'all Turn right onto windward Parkway All good. I love getting my eyebrows them because it feels like a fresh cut. I feel Like a non-hairy beast Okay And also the lash to merge on to stay around 400 so So y'all why did I get pulled over right after I cut the camera off? I knew that police officers seen me His name was officer bias He was like, I'm pulling you over because I didn't have never seen nobody Pull out they saw on a selfie stick. I'm like what selfie stick y'all don't know how fast I threw y'all in the backseat I said, oh because at first I had it on my purse But y'all know police be so nosy all in the car. So I'm like, he's definitely gonna look over. Oh I'm making this for lunch. I'm making this with some eggs in it. That's all right But anyways, he's like, oh my god. I'm saying I'm like, yeah officer bias. You're hallucinating I don't know what you're seeing like I really don't I was like I was probably like Putting my phone in the air to look at my GPS cuz I was getting ready to plug it in for apple far play. I Was lying through my DMT. I'm just making this for lunch And what I like to do with the fried rice is I just like to put a little Just a little bit cuz this can be a lot and I don't like I don't know saw all my fries like And then I have that tattoo And I don't like the chicken fry right, I mean the rice with the chicken And I'm gonna add two eggs and I'm probably not gonna eat all this rice, but I'm so hungry. So I'm just gonna sit down and edit Okay It's been a minute What I'm gonna do now Energy No So you don't have the I Must they tell me actually And then we will see you again in a bout Okay, yeah, we can do Okay, or we can do I So I just got out of my Tattoo removal appointment if you're looking to get your tattoo removed I highly recommend them.  I'm gonna be on my way home. I just have so much work to do so much to plan So I'm just gonna head home And I have to post a video today the video is already up I just have to make sure it's like good to go and then I gotta start editing the next blog I feel like I had a productive day though and this traffic is nuts So I'm just gonna listen to my music and also see y'all later and we will splice today Okay, I like this this mark probably my favorite jacket. I'm probably gonna run this back And this outfit is from my outfit online y'all see the video later today So, yeah, cute Okay, so I just got home came from Huffles because I had to read up on some drinks girl I don't have anything to drink. So of course, I have Fiji water my favorite mountain valley water I have that right now and then I really love these flow drinks live with her. These are collagen infused Spring water. This is the lemon flavor. This is my first time trying this 10 grams of college of collagen protein Okay, and then this one is the And it's also grass-fed collagen and then this one is the What's it called Grapefruit But yeah, sometimes I bring these with me to a second bar if I feel like drinking a flavor Drink so I got four of those two of each flavors they're not like a Like strong drink like if you would drink a poppy like flavor. It's like a Just like a little hint of something like if you had lemon water They're not like an actual like strong flavor, but give those a try if you like collagen Um, I got a few poppies my favorite the ginger lime I got the strawberry lemon and then the raspberry Rose with the ginger lime is my favorite and then I also got some ground coffee because I want to start Drinking coffee before I go to my actual workout. So like I told y'all before I ordered this thing on Amazon Cold brew. So what you do is put the grounded coffee in there and then you put water on the inside and then it turns into cold brew So I'm gonna try that And then you just pour it from right here and yeah, so I can't wait. So I'm definitely gonna be trying this out tonight. I Got this vanilla cold brew almond latte Um, I don't know this brand is very cute the packaging is cute, but they have this mushroom matcha. I'm so nasty And it's from natural up sweeteners. It's not it's sweetened by date It's not bad It's better than the matcha. I'm just gonna put all the stuff away and then I'm about to get to work So I'm drinking with you later. I'm it is Saturday. I'm on my way to cycle bar I missed the one in this morning, but I really like my set. It's cute.  Actually, I missed the ones this morning But I'm going to the one and done Woody is the last class of the day So I and also I've been suffering from like anxiety. So I really just want to Get this tightness off my chest release it and also I do want to go to the sauna today And I did do my lashes this morning I was like, you know, let me throw a pair of lashes on cuz the ones that I did in the last video at the end It actually they lasted for like two three days So I just decided to add some and I also have some new ones coming in the mail that I want to test out I'm on my way to the done Woody location. I don't know how it's gonna be I love the vibes of Buckhead, but I don't know. I don't know. I'm always nervous to try new go past this light Cuz I'm at the next one like turn right when I know what I'm walking into. You know what I'm saying I like being familiar. I'd be too comfortable. I gotta get out of there But anyways, I'm about to go get this workout in And yet also I want to go to Zara today Zara man, the light use the right lane to turn right. I haven't been to Zara all year All 2023 so we're gonna probably stop by there sometimes today I made you a big one cuz I had some left. Thank you. You're welcome my mom Thank you I'm about to start cleaning my house doing like a home refresh for Sunday like a Sunday reset But before I get started, I want to do a unboxing And also y'all know I was doing the whole Making my own so this house turned out But I need I don't know if I like these coffee try this in here I'm gonna dump this out and also I need to figure out how I want to make my Yeah, I try this out. It wasn't giving but I mean But I'm gonna dump that out and do that, but anyway, and I definitely had to read up on this body wash yesterday This smells so good like if you like my Rito's Gypsy water or the Creed silver water You'll love this as a body wash to layer under As your first layer when you get in the shower.  It's in a man section But yeah, it it just gives you that luxurious shower feeling and it's moisturizing and it doesn't dry your skin out, so Hmm, I really like that. This just smells so good. It feels so fresh and clean and luxurious And I also got this coffee OG X I really like their products. I like this Body wash too. Oh, and I also got a juvious place lip gloss I'll probably be using this later on today and y'all I got this simple gum These are what they look like. I was always curious to see what These were giving Cuz I just look so cute and nice and neat But anyways, okay, these are from Anthropology So I'm on the wait list for those Bottega earrings, but in the meantime, I guess I'll shop for dupes and Y'all look at these How cute are these I'm wearing these today wherever I end up going These are bomb. Oh wow. These are fire. These are from Anthropology. I love the chunky This is so cute this just gives elegant and I'm not even a silver jewelry girl, but I'm trying to get into like mixing my gold and silver jewelry So this is a detox that I'm gonna be doing this upcoming week My mom found this for me and it's a 14-day detox. It's a holistic herbal blend So once I try this out, I'll definitely be giving y'all a review And this is the tummy tea talks So what to expect you can get a full experience a dull headache You could experience a dull headache nausea stomach cramping Detoxification can also cause fatigue listen to your body and rest the teas are better However, your taste buds will adjust up by day five mucus being expelled via the sinus lung skin and stool Itching and short-term breakout. Oh as a toxin As toxins leave the skin drinking additional water sweating and rest help to alleviate detox symptoms What you will need two thirty two ounce jars natural spring water.  Oh Charlotte Silbury sent me a package Thank you. Hmm. So they gave me their new pillow talk matte beauty blush ones and another Boutegas do on Amazon both a good deal. Oh my god. These are so cute Okay, these are super heavy For these to be on Amazon And this heavy is give me anthropology try them out Lands are a cute So these will be linked in my Amazon storefront super heavy good quality.  Oh where it's a bad mother protective cells that actually work and this is a black-owned as well So yeah, it has sat in the inside and then Um, you know a regular on the outside and also y'all cuz like satin is good for your hair And sometimes I won't pull out my slip pillowcase I'll end up just wearing my bonnet and then going to sleep on my pillows if I'm like real tired Um, yeah, that's how easy I can get but I Would rather have this one cuz my bonnet literally slips off my head Hey, you already know if I feel like going outside of my body, I will but it is like, okay, girl Take that one for the bottom at all But then maybe it's secured Okay, I can definitely go to sleep in this so I'm happy she put the girls on this Produces dryness breakage fridge bed head and tangled so I bought a bunch off of Also beauty these are the kids and press press on falsies So this is in a style glamorous cuz y'all know I really like to Give me that cat eye shape and I'm no lash artist. So I don't really know like the whole Designs on it. I'm just really applying stuff. This is a more natural lash and these are the voluminous So I just willing to combine Them and see how I like them Tune into the video on my nails fix. They look so cute Tim snacks and these are Jalex I did go to Sophie for my first set She did the Russian Jalex on so I think I'm just gonna start doing that I'm gonna go to her for the Jalex and manicure and then go to Tim for the design. I Got new lights. Okay. I got new batteries for my lights So I really y'all know I got two like spotlights and then also I liked how the yellow light was looking on When I turned it on so I had two spotlights on and then a yellow light in the middle And I liked how that looks. So I think I'm gonna do that for now on I wasn't able to finish the whole video with that quality Because oh my god, we got to take a break Okay, y'all We're back at a you know, I Had a single bathroom break And then I start making a playlist, but anyway, so yeah, I got new batteries for My light juice. Yeah, so this is the battery that goes in my light So I'm so happy. I got a new set of batteries because the other one was just not Working I'm like living jittery right now that coffee was wrong Literally, I need to eat something Now also got some stuff up here package from Brio Gio. Y'all know Brio Gio products and I'm gonna use my hair mask today And y'all Brio Gio is also black on through. Oh, this one is from the pharmacy I got some honey. Hello. This is one of their bestsellers hydrating moisturizer And then they sent me some raw honey from California Cute. Hello Hello, this is a superfood avocado kiwi mega moisture hair mask I don't know if these products are for me and then I'm going to Use this scout revival because this stuff really makes your scalp squeaky clean So I'll probably use this in this today after I get Wax I mean my Appointment, but yeah, those are all the packages that I have so I'm just about to get to picking up my house doing a refresh reset and Yeah, so I'm gonna talk to y'all Hey girls, so we are on our way to a sweat house We're about to sweat it out today. I just feel like having a body detox So I'm going there now and then also I did put the my elm Hair rosemary drops in because obviously in the sauna my pores are gonna be open So I wanted to take a deep dive in those pores, baby Okay, those hair follicles cuz they about to die You know I'm saying so Also, they asked me that I want a hydra massage. So it's supposed to feel like you're in the jacuzzi But dry At it on the tab, okay No avocado But yeah So I'm excited Later on I want to practice my makeup. So I am gonna be looking at some makeup videos on YouTube Let's go So I just got off the sauna and oh my god y'all they were shooting a music video in the parking garage But anyways, it was so good.  Okay. I love them Definitely good for the body But yeah, I was in there watching the makeup videos and our watch Tasha's makeup video actually so I like a mad face me personally. I like Matt because I'm a very oily girl So I'm about to run a Sephora and grab all the products you used and it's crazy. I tried to Use NARS matte foundation before but it was too dark for me So I'm gonna go in there and try to get matched because I don't have any foundation on But yeah, I'm gonna do that now Melted it to watch my coach Because it's a wetty girl and I it's so bad for you to like Be in sweaty clothes after but my logic sometimes is like I'm running around and I'm sweating so I might as well stay in my sweaty clothes until it's coming in the tub But we gotta hurry up because you can't be it up in this situation for too long, but y'all seen my disaster like I Need to go get a new spray bottle now. My spray bottle is deformed. I had to throw it in a refrigerator I thought I had two, but it's okay. So I'm just gonna Take the rose. I really want to go get a new one. This is just too much rosemary water to waste Like I can't be wasting water So I'm probably gonna save this and go to the beauty supply store tonight But hold on Yes, so time is just going by so fast. This type of stuff that I don't know Oh Too much, but anyways, I'm out to do a face mask hop in the tub and then Oh, I'm gonna try this. So we're gonna do this deep dive AHA PHA exfoliating mask by bumble.  Okay, my spray bottle really Shriffled up. Oh my god, but he's still spraying. So we all good. We go cheat I'm going to wash my hair Do my little routine because I'm gonna get cute today Well, I'm filming that make-up video I told y'all wanted to do but I'm just about to relax before I get started And oh my god, y'all my card of the day What did they say? Abundance and opportunities are all around me period Opportunity and abundance is all around me and I need that and for this to be a quick read y'all This is holding up strong. I don't know what to kind of glue Dallas used I don't know if it's gorilla glue or what but baby.  I'm going swimming and I'm underneath the shower head You know doing my thing Washing my hair no track has fallen out. No track has fallen out And y'all asked me y'all was like wait, hold on. Isn't this a quick weave?  I'm like girl. I don't know what she did, but she did what she needed to do She's worth it. So go home mess with her Text her and book an appointment because I'm ready for a new hairstyle.  I already feel it. This week is gonna be amazing. This is gonna be an amazing week for me I can just feel it I'm excited Yo, that coffee that ice Old milk checking espresso from starbucks. I forgot to Update y'all yesterday. I had that baby. I was up until 4 a.m 4 o'clock. I'm like, whoa, like cleaning my house everything I was nice and not gonna sleepy and also y'all the goodness was on yesterday My neighbors was disturbing my peace They were literally singing their heart sorrow god bless them. They got a taste because they were singing Beyonce but they Mm-hmm. It was given Karisha. I swear. I'm gonna post the video If you follow me on tiktok or if it made your fur you page because I'm I'm Um, hopefully you have seen it finally.  But yeah, bro. That was Crazy But yeah, we both chill out I'm excited Yeah Good morning um, it's been a while since I've talked to y'all because I've been I'm about to take my vitamins and I'm gonna head over to the coffee shop because I need to get out the house. Um, yeah, we got to get out this house. So I just got my workout in It's only 10 o'clock. So I'm about to go to the coffee shop and then work on my stuff And we have a five o'clock appointment So yeah, bro, it's gonna be a busy day and I just want to stop at a couple stores that I haven't Didn't get a chance to stop at during the um weekend also today. I have to Um, I have to clean out my closet So on twitter if y'all want to follow me on twitter and be engaging me on there in the conversation Make sure you follow me But I had asked people to send me their address so I can send them close because I need to do a call to clean out But chelsea she had commented um Under that and she told me where she dropped off her donations at so I might Just end up taking my clothes there Um, but next time when I do a closet clean out I think I'm just because it was so many I was I was overwhelmed It's basically clothes. I just don't wear some of them still have the tags on them Let's have on this body suit. Um, the jumpsuit from Eurythia, this one's so old, but whatever And then also I need to take my bag to Chanel because my stitching on this bag I went back every single day though. It's so easy and convenient. So I just throw stuff in here So, yeah, this is my coffee shop fit and I'm going to put on my other platforms So let's go. We're gonna have a good productive day. I'm excited Um, but yeah, let's go and I have on YSL opium. I don't know. I just Good morning. It's the next day. I don't know what happened yesterday, but time just flew and I was just vibing And here we are today. So anyways, I'm getting ready to Um, drop off these clothes to the donation center and I want to put some more stuff in there too And then I got a skincare Um, little care package going out so much stuff in here As well, I just want to give stuff away. I just don't want to hoard this stuff in the middle of Looking through my closet and see what I don't wear It's so hard getting rid of things because you be like, maybe I might wear maybe I might but no stop And let it go let it go like this Zara Top I'm like, yeah, I can wear it on vacation.  I'm just gonna give it away Still has a Zara tag. So I'm about to go through my clothes I'm I'm wearing this like but like pieces like this I'm keeping because These are like things I can definitely Reware so I think I'm gonna get this sorted too So, yeah, let's go through these clothes It is wild bruh So I was just at the gas station. This is why I don't stop at the gas station at night Um, but I was just at the gas station and I noticed this man Sometimes I'll leave my door open and just you know scope the scene or whatever at the gas station Make sure nobody is able to get in the back because y'all know me when I get in the car after Going to the gas station, you know, you gotta get that look back just in case because you never know I've seen so many people Hopping people's cars at the gas station. It's crazy. This police officer is always right here conducting traffic I hope they're paying him good. Yeah, I noticed this van.  So I noticed it I'm like what like it doesn't because this man never got out the car to pump gas or nothing like that So I'm like, um, so he thought I was going the other way and I said no pump that's the baby. Okay I used to play basketball. I was a point guard, baby. That was my favorite move a pump fake No, you know it. So I ended up going this other way to go to my yoga class, but it was crazy But yeah, I packed up all the clothes Let's get it. Be safe out here for real crazy I'm back home and I'm about to go To sephora if you watched my last video You already know the team I was Ween my makeup And I loved my finish love the nars Finish I love the nars matte foundation But this perfecting powder, I think I got the wrong color So you need to normalize exchanging your makeup for your right shade and that's what we're gonna do I'm gonna go exchange for My right shade and then also pick up a few new items. So I have to go to the one in alpha red a girl It's like 30 minutes away and also y'all I'm seeing all the girls in new york with nars Nars really did they think when it came to that their guest list Girl, I'm seeing so many, you know I'm seeing so many black girls And I'm living it. I'm living for it and y'all know aliyah's out there my girl. She out there slam She's with their mornay Alyssa ashley all the girls is out there And I'm just so happy for them like I I cannot wait to experience something like that one day So, you know, it just it just makes me, you know, just want to go hard I just love seeing the girls, you know The hard work pay off because being a social media influencer is not easy And when you're rewarded for it and like when brands take notice like it's probably an amazing feeling I can only imagine because I never had that but Yeah, but I'm living for it. But yeah, so I'm going to go to the container store because I want to organize my wellness drawer Um, because I just want that organized for the week and I also already told y'all I gotta go to Sephora so Um, but yeah, and then after that, I was gonna show y'all these perfumes These perfumes that I got um, y'all gonna have to tune into the Next vlog. I don't know what's gonna be posted.  It's it's obviously sugar-free And obviously sugar And you can tell the difference between sugar-free and sugar if it has sugar any gum But anyway Today is gonna be a chill night. I really want to take myself to the movies, but Maybe I might wait till tomorrow because I want to go see two movies. But anyway Let's get this show in the road I'm at Avalon and I with my girl y'all her face Is flawless and you already know I'm trying to get in a routine Something like bags. What did you put on? So it's the beautiful skin, right? Yes You know, I think I tried this but I just I think it was too dark for me But it was probably my skin's the color shade. Did you get like in the summer or something? Yeah, and it went mainly orange. I could shake my cheek. Okay. Yeah, let's do it. All right. Let me go get the device Okay, cool. Oh, and I need another one of these. This is the last one Yes, the word Yes, girl Okay, thank you The support and Avalon got everything this Is this the chocolate yet? This is the hot chocolate lip-lumper I need that so But she's about to shade match me Then I did the confetti or Lip mask Okay, you ready? Yeah, let's do it. Wait, let me put this on And y'all got this too the hot chocolate isn't so nice. So wait, it's not inside here Okay Well, I'm kind of sick of right now. Why don't Okay, because yeah, I think yeah, y'all and she just started learning makeup like how And I started working here in November. Oh, I like I like double this one. Yeah This is give me Should we do one more?   Yeah, I like this Want this one or gotta come see my girl. Come get a color match.  Yeah, period. Y'all so fancy We got their purse set up in the store Let me go smell this new replica. Um on a date first And I'm gonna see which one I'm gonna get. Oh, you don't just the yeah, but I think we do sell the This is like the perfect vacations I like this. I want it. Yeah. Okay. So y'all gotta see to me Here at the Avalon y'all on a date Y'all gotta come get this even if it's the little sample. This smells so good Hey, y'all. So I just took a quick shower And got dressed for the night. I think my outfit is like super cute and cash So this jumpsuit is from Skins their new drop and then I just have on my white sequins and then I have on this Um, I think this is from nasty yellow Um, because it's not that cold outside, but it's a little chilly. So I just want to put that on And I thought this is really cute For a little movie night. So I'm just going solo So, yeah, cute And then the sun for the night is time for luxury literally my favorite Um It just never gets old if you want if you want y'all know valentine's days around the corner I didn't tell you I bought those other furnaces But if you want him eating now show your fingers, baby Time for luxury But yeah, this is cute. I'm going to see um, I knock on the cabin knock at the cabin Um, yes, I just like action Movies, I know it's probably gonna have a twist to it But yeah, cute Hey girls, so I just came from my cycle bar class. This is my first time taking this instructor.  Her name is angela In today's Saturday. Um, and I wanted to show y'all the things that I got from sephora. So I stopped at sephora Y'all I looked up in this sephora at pond city Girl so the one at the abalone, I want to go exchange the nards and stuff like that or whatever And let me check On the beautiful skin that I got because Yesterday when I went to go get match I wouldn't want to make sure I don't have this one because I'm like Yeah, because show the silver he had that sent me Their beautiful skin, but they sent me two shades. They sent me The eight and the 10 and it's crazy because I went with the nine Don't blow out the nine gem all because this was too Orange on me 10. It's too orange and then this one was too light So I didn't like it. So yeah, we went with the nine. So my girl timmy Shout out to her go mess with her if you go to the abalone. So today and then I also got the um bronzing cream and the color Laguna three And then I just got my perfecting powder In the color high tide. Hopefully it's let's see y'all a little coat on So Can't wait to use this. I love nars packaging. It's just so Soft and matte. Um, I got some of my five products. I got the rafai primer It just glides on and then I got the lip sculpt in the color sepia. This is the fenty Plush putting the intensive recovery lip mask. Let's actually try this right now. I just wash my hands I thought this was gonna be bigger than what um It looks like so this is what it looks like y'all. This is all sold out So when I went to the avalanche, she was like, yeah, we just got that back in the stock Yeah, how do you work this? Oh, I know how to do it Oh, okay, you got to keep twisting I don't know why I thought it was one of the twists it for it. It's come out like that Then let's see my lips crusty Okay I actually should have got two of these because I didn't know was this thing all small And I'll hardly just use that night. Hmm. The lips are definitely lip. I got another lip wand from charlotte livery And then I got the patrick to y'all.  And then I got Another tower 28 Whatever, but this is like the work daily rescue So if you have like a pimple coming on you just spray it and it just helps with that And then y'all I looked up on this product right here. So I got the mario Lip serum in the color nude glow. Let me see how this looks on my lips Oh Wow What? What? With a little brown lip liner immediately. Yes Mm-hmm. Yeah This is cute. This is not Yeah, this is bomb. That's cute I'm gonna show y'all And this is the lip plumpy one. This has been sold out For the longest time and this was the last one in support girl So that's how it looks So pretty Maybe Had to have come home with me. Y'all needs to go get this this replica mason Margiela on a date Let me let me see what the notes are because this is like bomb This is like on a date. It smells so romantic. It smells like you're on a date on an island So it's warm florals And it does have a rose petal in here the key notes are black currant liquid accord rose petal patchouli But it's not given too rosy And I like that.   You need to go grab this you need to go smell this it just released so In the Valentine's Day is right around the corner. So you want to leave somebody mesmerized by your scents? Grab this. I don't really know the longevity yet But mason Margiela scents last a long time with me, especially Um by the fireplace and also jazz club love mixing the two Can I wait to start mixing this with others? So go take a smell? It was sold out at the one in avalon. So I had to go to Um, I had to go to the one in font this morning where I looked up on the fenty hot chocolate I have to work a little bit and also I get my hair done today But shall we see that in another video? We get this drawer together because I want to get this I'm sure together really quick because I'm dying to do it. 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Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel, and here it is. Oh my goodness, it's Tuesday morning. And it's Community Matter. It's a very important show. This time, we're talking about Hapamana, which is designed to help the keiki of Hawaii. And we have Jordan Connolly of Hapamana, and we have Peter Hoffenberg, who's going to help us explain the philosophical connotations of Hapamana. But before we get to the philosophical connotations, welcome to the show, Jordan. Welcome to the show, Peter. Thank you. Good to see you again. Good to see Jordan. Thank you, thank you. So Jordan, Hapamana and keiki. And I looked at your website, impressive. We need that.  And that's what I'm talking about, that sort of embodies the concept of it. And what's the website that we can all look at? It's Hapamana.org, H-A-P-A-M-A-N-A dot O-R-G. Okay. So now that we've looked at it and gotten the gestalt of it, why don't you tell us what it, when you formed it, what it does and what you hope to achieve? Okay, so we formed in September 2016. We started as a sports organization, mostly basketball and like footwork drills and whatnot.  We partner with Challenge Islander Wahoo and Rise Above, which is a tutoring group. So they'll come to our camps and they'll do different sections with our kids like artwork or like read books or different things. I let them kind of do their own thing. While I coach, I do basketball coaching and different like workouts with the kids. And then I have other teachers come in to coach different things and teach different things also. What qualifies you to do this? I mean, both in terms of your desire to do it and also your skills and experience. So I've been a, as a people person, from my first job to about 30, I was working at restaurants. I was a server bartender, so I'm real good with people. At about 30, I got my personal trainer's license and I started training kids and adults. And I've always played sports my entire life. So from about five years old until now, I still play sports. I played football, even played in the HGO, which is a Hawaii Great Iron League. So I played some semi-pro football here. And I played years of beach volleyball here. So I just bring the kids what I know. I just, I love kids. I'm getting most sports and I know sports pretty well. So that's what I bring. But then what I'm not qualified for, for like, you know, different teaching things, I bring other people to teach them things that I don't even know about. So let's talk about the kids you want to serve and help. Who are they? Exactly. All of them. Any kid. I love all kids. So right now, I got it, we work with IHS, the Institute for Human Services, and they run the homeless shelters and whatnot. So we work with a lot of their kids. And then we work with Punea Village Development Corporation. And so I'm actually out here right now. And we work with the kids at the development. And there's a gym on the property here. So I got a key to the gym. I open the gym and the kids come and you know, we do sports and whatnot.  So we try to just bring as much opportunity to kids that they don't already have. But and then we also invite kids from like say Punea Ho or the East Side, because one of the big goals is that we want all the kids to meet each other, like be you from the wrong side of the tracks to the right side, because if you grow up and we want to play on the same team of sports, right? So if they play on a basketball team, then they'll build those bonds that a team builds, their parents will go to the same games, their parents will go to the same practices, and then we can just hope the community to just mesh that way, you know, get to meet each other, get to talk to each other on a good time. Yeah, I went to a Jewish Federation summer camp in New York when I was a kid. And that was beyond recon, you know, historic memory. And what they did is they wanted to have that diversity. So they invited on a kind of scholarship basis, people from every walk of life, everywhere. And it was before that sort of thing was happening in general. I must, I must say it was a great benefit to everyone to have the diversity to have everybody meet everybody. Just as you say, this is a really good thing. So how old are these kids? So we take school age kids. So basically five years old to 18 years old. If you have a little brother that's say like four or three, which just are either one, if you have a little one that's with an older kid and the older kid can kind of watch them a little bit will let you bring a younger kid as long as your other kid can kind of watch them or if your four year old is like really tentative and they already play sports and they know what to do kind of and we're going to stay in line, we'll let them come. You know, if you're like three or two, you're probably not going to be able to pay enough attention to stay around, you know.  We're trying to start teams. We actually got some basketball jerseys donated to us. We're trying to start basketball teams and we have a tennis team also.  We all come together when not, but when we start playing, we'll probably play separate, you know, boys and girls. Is it is a competitive? You have leagues, you have you give away, you know, awards and the like. We're not yet. We're part of the AAU, the Amateur Athletic Union, which is like a worldwide sports league. And so basically they have tournaments and they have different leagues that you can just join through the AAU. And we didn't have any jerseys that we just got our jerseys right at the beginning of the pandemic. And so we haven't been able to do anything yet. So now we have the jerseys and now we're ready to do that. We can all we're ready to do some tennis too. So basically we just got to wait for tournaments to open back up and then we'll start playing. Yeah. So what are the challenges here? I can imagine that some kids have a problem with sports, you know, the Woody Allen dweebs, you know, they're not very, they're not very well coordinated. If you leave them in a group of other kids, they'll usually be marginalized. That's a challenge for you. How do you handle that? We talk about that. I tell all the kids so we have kung fu, we have taekwondo, we have tennis, we have football, basketball, we do ladder drills, we got like where we work out. But then we have, like I said, we have the educators that do projects with them and stuff. I tell the kids that you're going to be good at some things. You won't be good at some things and that's fine.  But what you're going to do is get some exercise. You're going to get to hang out with the kids, be friends and whatnot.  So I tell kids, and one of the things we say is that we're here for everybody and that it's not, when we do our camps and we do our practices, it's not competitive to like where they are not allowed to make fun of each other. They're supposed to help each other, stuff like that.  I want them to sit next to somebody that they either don't know or don't see a lot. So they can just talk and mingle and whatnot. But yeah, so it's all about fun. It's all about getting better and if like you're the worst basketball player on the team, then it's fine. I'm not, I don't mind. You know, I'll tell them to let you get a couple of shots off. You're making, you're making, if you're doing, you're doing, it's not a big deal. One of the questions before we turn you over to Peter, I'm sorry about that. This question is what do you do with a kid who is obnoxious?  How do you handle a kid like that? Because that can be very destructive in a group of kids now. So one, you can kind of hear my voice. It's pretty deep and kids will listen to it. Two, I'm a pretty big dude and kids, when they look at me, they're like, they're like kind of in awe. And when I tell them what to do, they just kind of do it. But when I do have a rowdy or rambunctious kid, I'll either, you know, I'll take him to the side. I'll talk to him or we'll just put him in a drill where we're doing harder work where they can't be rambunctious or rowdy. Like, I have a personal trainer that comes, he makes the kids do pushups and burpees and all this crazy stuff. Whenever a kid gets too rowdy, I point to him, I say, it's now your turn to go there, but do you want to go? And they're like, no. So they'll just start asking. Plus, we have so many kids and so many kids that have been here for so long that they keep the other kids in order because they know that we're going to have fun. They know what we're supposed to do and they want to keep doing it. That's great. So Peter, how did you run into Jordan? Were you in one of his teams? I ran into him because exactly what he said, he scared me. He scared me. He scared Judah. Jordan years ago was one of the summer school coaches and teachers at a program I put Judah into. And Judah would do everything he could to avoid Jordan because he was so scared of Jordan. And then finally they became good friends. And I think in a way, the folks who live here will understand this. Jay and Jordan understand this. I mean, it's just a typical Honolulu thing, right? Your kid knows somebody. You start up a friendship with your kid. You have a very powerful, if not profound connection and that's basketball. Jordan, Judah, I love basketball. And from that powerful yet not profound connection, well, we believe in education, believe in teaching. Jordan is fully committed to what we call tikkun olam or pairing the world. And it was a kind of synergy which happens here. I'm sure it happens elsewhere as well. But it's kind of a special Honolulu thing. If you're willing to do what Jordan just said, kind of get out of your bubble, like there's the Punahou bubble, right, which is not the DOE bubble, which is not the IHS bubble. So you got to have somebody or some program, right? I mean, we're seeing strange because physically the city is really small, right? But socially you know it's not. I mean, socially there are silos. So I became involved when Jordan and I became friends mostly through basketball. And then we started with a completely illegal project which was trying to develop better basketball in the state of Hawaii. The eventual implication being and your engineer now has to stop recording. No, no, no, no. And we flood you age with good basketball players from here. No, but we start talking about basketball here and basketball here led to well, maybe kids are not so interested in basketball per se, but sports and fitness. And then I am the Woody Allen. So Jordan, I sat down and said, okay, you know, Sports Club is great, but I would like them to do art. I would like them to read. I would like them to have some kind of relationship with the teachers. But this is all in the future and Jordan has some big plans and we got to do it slowly. But we talk, you know, we talk about once a month taxed or something, you know, at some point tied into schools, right? So the kid gets to participate if he or she keeps his grades up, right? Jordan, I had talked about about this. So it really is a holistic, complete tie in. And it takes again, very Hawaii. I mean, it takes a dynamic figure like we talked about last week with Carl Ackerman. Well, Jordan is this week's Carl Ackerman and Jordan is committed to it. Jordan talks to people.  You can't do everything. And one of the beauties of this program is that getting back to where I started, he has, he can't break down the walls in our community, but she can put some pretty big holes in them. So we have Kunahou kids.  So he works with Jordan. And then we got people in the arts who otherwise wouldn't even know where Kunita Village is. They're coming out, all right? So like we talked about with Carl, it's a little program, but it's really good, solid little program. And it can be replicated. Like there's nothing Jordan is doing that can't work in Philadelphia. It really can't. I mean, you could export it wherever you wanted, right? The idea of people from different backgrounds with different skills, get in together, to give kids a chance to, I think importantly, learn the basic skills, like regardless of what sport you play. You need hand-eye coordination. You need footwork. You need to be able to grow into your body, regardless of what you play. Jordan's really good about that, taking kids, giving them balance, giving them footwork. Then you can do what you want, right? You don't have to be on duck. So that's a model really could be applicable. Now it does, of course, cost money, right? I mean, we've got to talk about that too. So Jordan and his board have to go out and they got to raise money, right? Some of the teachers and coaches are really good saints and donate their time. But that's not really a fear to them. They should be compensated. Like we talked last week, the parents got to buy in. Jordan's out in Canilla Village. The kid wants to go, but the parent doesn't want to get to go. You can't go down that path. You've got to bring the whole family in. So there are all these challenges like we talked about last week, but again, great success. And I'm a sucker for basketball. So all Jordan has to do is talk about a draft choice of the Lakers. Jun and I are right there. I'm a sucker for social work and I think what Jordan is doing is social work. In the old fashioned sense, you know, the 1930s, 40s type sense, you're offering them a role. You know, you're there, may I say, going back to camp. You're their camp counselor. They can come to you and they can get away. I think every kid needs to get away from whatever his home fire is, whatever his family shtick is. He needs to get away and find himself.  He's got to play with those other kids. He's got to learn team building.  He's got to know that. This makes him a better person. Whether he can throw a basketball or not. Right. That's what we're doing. Jordan and I, it's kind of, it's a challenge now, right? Everybody's listening knows about the pandemic. So the challenge now is for Jordan, myself and the board members to do what we can by and soon. So as soon as you and I and all this get off, Jordan and I probably have a text try to get, say an art instructor who normally would be at Kandia Village to do a zoo. So we're completely agree with you. But of course, one of the problems with this pandemic is kids are not getting out regardless of what that means. Okay. They could love their parents and have everything in the house. But I agree with you.  So the challenge right now and I think probably we're facing a lockdown pretty soon. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So the challenge now is to keep this going and do what we can. And really, when you think about what Jordan said he does, he does, you really could do almost all that via Zoom. You don't have the social connection. Can you play basketball by Zoom? You could teach basketball by Zoom. I'm trying to get Judah to meet with Jordan. Jordan tells Judah how to dribble. Judah dribbles and you zoom it. That's, you know, in the old days that was long-distance education. You're stuck on Malachi, right?  They had a TV camera, right? And that's how you learn. Now it's not perfect, but it's certainly better than not learning. Yeah. And I think that Hapamana is going to have, I don't want it to have the fate that our restaurants have in the sense that you know if a restaurant doesn't do takeout right now, it's gone, right?  I mean, it's one of the reasons even though takeout's not the same volume, right? At least you remember that restaurant exists. So when the pandemic is over, you can go back to the restaurant. That was a great point. The same way, very strongly about Hapamana, we can't do the programs, but I don't want Hapamana to disappear so that when the pandemic is over and kids want to play basketball and learn and do art, I don't want them to forget that Jordan and Hapamana are there.  Let me throw one at you guys that just occurred to me, just came to me this morning. I was watching my wife's favorite to Japanese TV channel. All our channels are Japanese. NHK it was. And they were revealing an idea that is taking hold in Japan. Now you know that people in Japan travel to all corners of Japan all the time. You always see troops of kids going hither and yon taking bus tours and the like. So this company has invented a virtual bus tour. And at first you say that's ridiculous. That's silly. That's ridiculous, but not.  The tour guide driver will talk to you. Some guy next to you might talk to you. You get off the bus. You go to the shrine. Some tour guide person takes you around the shrine. You get as much as you would get at least visually in terms of the sound of it as you would if you were on the bus. And remarkable. It sounds so simplistic and yet really quite eloquent. Elegant is what I mean. Right. And the bathroom is probably cleaner. That's wonderful. They didn't cover that in the show. But you know. Okay, great. No majority. Yeah majority. There's no reason. I mean, Jordan, we're going to talk to Heather in a little bit about art. So she used to run an art place up in Kainuki.  And do the project. Right. It's not the same as walking around the table. But people will have a chance to be that creative. No, I think that's right. And I'm sure some of the folks who are listening have kids or grandkids applying to college. That's what colleges are doing. They're doing virtual tours of college. During the submission time. Yeah. So the one thing I would miss, Jordan, is something you referred to a minute ago is when Johnny is a little bit off the mark, where he's not playing fair, not playing good ball, you have the possibility of taking him aside and one to one. And talking to him as the counselor, as the towering, all powerful sports figure type counselor has a huge impression on him. He'll never forget this conversation. Can you do you? Will you conduct conversations like that one-on-one virtual with some of the members of Hapamani? Sure. Like, so if we were doing like say a group or maybe a kid was acting up, I might have to wait till after the group and like do him one-on-one after, you know, talk to him after we get done with the group. And then that way, you know, wouldn't interfere with the group then, you know, because you want to keep it going. You don't want to stop the other kids from getting their part because one kid is doing I guess it's online. If online it got too ready, you might have to tell the kid they got to leave this session and then go do a one-on-one with them after so we could do the talk and all that stuff. There's so many ways to reach kids, you know. All you have to be is authentic and have consistency. Let me tell you guys about a movie that I caught last night on Netflix called, ready for this? What was it? The life I had. Now, to say that in Italian, it's not exactly that. Vita Avanti or something like that. And the star of this movie is none other than Sophie Loren. You heard about the movie? You've seen the movie? I haven't seen it, but Sophie Loren, all you need to do is say Sophie Loren. Thanks. Yeah, right. I'll be leaving you guys now. She's well into her 80s, maybe in her 90s. She's not a sex opt. But she plays the role of an aging Jewish survivor. And I want to say it must be what's the city south of, south of, in the sun, it's a water city in Italy. Venice. And no, no, it's the way south. Somewhere in Sicily? No. It's not as far as Sicily. Anyway, it's a big city. Okay. And it's got a slum. And she has no money. She lives in Slumman. And this young kid from Senegal somehow is deposited on her by a good mutual friend. And he's having trouble. I mean, he's into all the wrong things. And the whole movie is a story about how she brings him back and makes a mensh out of him. It's beautiful. What's wrong? The life ahead. A life ahead. Okay. The life ahead, you can't miss it. Sounds beautiful. Yeah. It is beautiful. And at the end of the day, there's a lot of love there.  All you have to be is strong and consistent, which is what she was. And more than that, she was a person they could relate to because she had been through things. You know, she had heavy experiences in her life. So I guess this whole thing about bringing kids back, bringing kids in the right place, and if they have a hard time, even here in Hawaii, in a homeless environment, and they need you. They need you.  They need us all to care about them, and you're stepping out. So that's really valuable. And we need that. So thank you. I try to do what I feel like I would have wanted as a kid. Coach kids, how I wanted to be coached, bring them the opportunities that either I didn't have or the opportunities that I did want. Because kids don't choose their parents. They don't choose if they're going to be poor or rich. And so they shouldn't lack opportunities just because they don't have money because no kid has money, really. Do you have a few more minutes? Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. Jordan, I was wondering if you could tell Jay, myself, and the audience about the two major groups. So what kinds of kids and how many at IHS? Because they're not the same, right? The IHS are homeless. Cunea Villages is a home. It has a chair over there. There's one I think you could just tell us about the different groups, IHS on one hand, and then Cunea. And some of the folks in the audience might not even know and where Cunea Villages is, right? Somebody should tell them now. Who wants to tell them? I hope so. So if you could tell us a little bit about the kids you actually work with. Sure. And tell us about Cunea Village, what it is. Okay. So IHS is the Institute for Human Services, like I said, they work with the homeless kids or they work with all homeless people and then they got kids. So there's a village right by the airport and it's been, do you remember the name of it? It's been a while since I've been out there. But we go out there and we were doing tennis practices and then a workout practice for them twice a week. So tennis was on Tuesdays and the workout was on Wednesday. And then Cunea. So Cunea is when you go west, it's right before Y and I. So it's going to be a couple of exits before the highway turns into a street and you go to Y and I. So it's like a couple of exits before that. It's by Eva. So it's Cunea then Eva is the next exit. And so at Cunea Village, they have their own gym. So we got the key to it. And my Taekwondo coach is going there every Monday. I was going, I figured what day I was going, but I was going every week to do basketball. And then once a month, we were doing the sports camps, the all day camps, which would be a Saturday and Sunday. And that's when we bring in all the other coaches and all the other teachers and stuff. We bring all the kids. So at the sports camps, IHS, they have a van, a 15 passenger van. So they would always bus at least 14 kids out to the camp. So we would have the IHS kids come for the camps. And then we have the Cunea kids at the camp. And so Cunea has, I think, about 148 kids here total, something like that. And I'd probably say I know about 100 of them by name. Just when I say my other name, I talk to them or walk down the street and just, you know, we just chat and whatnot. But yeah, Cunea Village is really cool. It's an old Dalmatian plantation.  It's not even paved. So the kids just walk down the street on the roads and stuff. And they walk up to the gym and the gym doors open. They just walk in. But yeah, it's a great group of kids. Most of the kids, most of the families are Pacific Islanders, no? Yeah, most of them are. Yeah, it's an interesting demographic place. I mean, again, your audience might not know because it's not in the newspaper or anything. But it's run as a home. First of all, people who might very well be homeless otherwise. By possible, homeless otherwise. Or certainly in a multi-generational apartment with far too many people, meaning the kids aren't going to get attention. And it has become a home for primarily micro- and macronesian immigrants, which is a group that does not really get much play here, right? No, they don't get socialized here. And but also they get picked on a fair amount by other groups. And the compact with the Micronesian islands is about to expire. So we'll see what the Senate does as far as what your audience probably knows. We have a special relationship in good part because the U.S. use those islands for nuclear testing. Right, so if you look up COFA Act, C-O-F-A Act, it'll tell you all about that. Right, and so it's a particular group. I mean, the IHS kids could be everything. I mean, white, Japanese, Polynesian, Black. They could be everything. And that is really homeless, homeless. Konea is a particular demographic group. And I really appreciate it. What Jordan is doing is really for the long-term health of Hawaii, really important to take a group which most people just ignore. And trying to assimilate and integrate them.   To each, according to his need. I'd like to exploit this opportunity and just ask people to take a look. Just Google Konea, K-U-N-I-A Village. And think about that's a kind of village could also be replicated. Is that a private charitable event? It is. It's like Dwayne Karisu kind of. It's run by a corporation. Which is not a public Konea Village. Right, 501c3 nonprofit. So again, your audience will realize that doesn't mean that can't be anybody, right? Just the goal is not to make money, but they have professional staff, right? The buildings have to be kept up. There are some issues about kids going to school. So one of the things I like Jordan doing is tying it into kids going to school. Very often the parents don't have schooling at all. And so what we're doing is, you know, encouraging the parents also to participate. So the kids future can be a little brighter for them. I know we're running out of time, but K-U-N-I-A Space Village. The organizer there is Stevie Whalen. And you can tell Stevie... He's going to be on the show later this week. Right. You can tell Stevie you met Jordan and met me. And look, no, nothing is perfect in this world. But they do pretty close to perfect work. Well, Jordan, let's touch on something that Peter was talking about before. And that is you raising money for your organization, for Hapamana. So who are your supporters? Is it public, small contributions? Is it large foundational contributions? What is it? So a little bit of both. I started writing grants about three years ago, maybe. And I've got a couple, actually. So that's pretty cool. We get a little bit of money through the community, like the people I know and talk to and stuff, and they'll donate some. And actually, I've had businesses actually start calling us talking about, oh, they've seen our website and they want to donate something. Like, we actually had a business donate us some jerseys and they put their logo on the jersey, our logo on the jerseys, or whatever. So we're just trying to... And we build community partnerships. And so people just donate their time a lot too. So I don't have to pay for people's time as much. They just donate it. And then the kids get their teachers and all that stuff. So basically, like doing stuff like this, if you like what we're doing and what I'm saying, go to hopamana.org. There's a donate button there. You can donate right on the website. I think it's at the bottom of every page. Okay. Well, we are out of time, pretty much. And I want to offer you this opportunity. Maybe you've already said what you wanted to say, but what else would you say to our viewers? What other message would you like to leave with them about Hopamana? So basically, we're just a community outreach group. We want to get with everybody who has a light mind that they want to help people. So we've partnered with so many groups. And what I say you like, call us up and we'll partner with you too and let you come do whatever you do with our kids as long as it's kid-friendly stuff. And then, like Peter said, it is replicable. Or it's not easy to do, but it can be done again in other places. And so I'm actually from Dayton, Ohio. And I spent a lot of the time, this pandemic there. And I was going around talking to people, trying to set some things up. I was hoping gyms had opened up, but they haven't opened up yet. So we couldn't do anything. But I got all the stuff ready for a camp out there and all that.  Ready to do it in Dayton, because I got family there. I got people who can do it. But a huge goal of mine is to replicate it, like Peter said. And eventually, like I got a friend, I got family in Gary, Indiana, which is a very low income place. And my main, main goal would be to get to Compton in Chicago at one point and be able to do this there and show that it can be done really, really anywhere. Yeah, you know, Jordan, if you wanted to raise some real money, you get Peter and me to do some pickup basketball in public. They'll come for miles around, won't they? A Compton channel, for sure. So Peter, what would you add? What would you add? I would only add, and it's completely consistent with what Jordan said, is if you are interested in participating and we're all facing some challenging financial times, please consider donating your skills. And please consider, as you go through your house, donating in the old art supplies, preferably paint that's not dry, pens and pencils, little things really do matter. Now, if you're listening and you can write a check for $50,000, I don't think Jordan would refuse that. But if you're listening and you, for example, know how to throw a frisbee really well, well, call Jordan. And those are very important non-monitors, particularly maybe for people who are retired or part-time work. There's a lot of contributions you can make. And that would be my only, which it goes fully with what Jordan's saying.  I think eventually the library would like some books, some more books, so things like that. You know, it's all possible, even during the pandemic. We just have to be a bit more careful. Yeah. You know, so Jordan and... So call the number on the website and they'll talk to me directly. Jordan, and I know that, well, in Dayton, Ohio, do they ever use the word mitzvah? Probably just the Jewish people. Peter, Peter, would you explain the relationship of Hapamana and mitzvah? Well, mitzvah is not translated as chair. A mitzvah is an act of justice to repair the world. So it's an act where you do it not expecting anything in return, right? It's not charity. Not that your soul is going to happen. It's kind of an old testament, or in this case, say, kind of a political left-wing desire, which of course will be erased now, that you just do justice. And you do justice because, well, to quote one of my favorite directors, Spike Lee, it's just the right thing to do. You know, you don't do it because somebody's going to say that's the right thing. You don't participate in Hapamana requiring a kid to write a thank you letter. You do it because it's the right thing to do. That's a mitzvah. And the world is built in our tradition on small mitzvahs.  That's not political or partisan. It's just a sense of what we call tikuna law, which is repairing the world. Do we have any time left? We don't. Okay. I'll just say really quickly, it goes back to the story of Noah. Wow, that's going back. Right. After destroying the world, right, there was allegedly a rainbow, which all of us listening to this could appreciate Hawaii. But if you live in Hawaii, you'd appreciate rainbows much more. And the idea was that, you know what, God's done his business. Now that's up to you guys.  I repaired the world once. Now you've got to repair it. And if you don't repair it, you know, kind of tough luck. And the rainbow is a sign of that. So what you're doing is a mitzvah. But I think it's also a mitzvah, not just for the kids, it's for the participants. It's a mitzvah for the art teacher to help spread art and beauty. It's a mitzvah for Judah to teach other kids how to toss a frisbee. So in a way, it's building society. And it's really necessary now with the pandemic to try to figure out how we can keep society together. So when we actually get going back again, we can get going running. We don't have to learn how to walk again. I'm worried we have to learn how to walk again. Amen to that. Yeah, I'd like us to try to keep walking now. So when we get over this pandemic, which we will, right? I mean, at some point, we can really hit the ground running. We don't have to relearn everything. Thank you, Peter. Peter Hoffenberg, Jordan Conley, Jordan, it is a mitzvah. However you define it, what you do is a mitzvah every day. Thank you for doing that. Aloha, you guys. Aloha. Thank you very much. Aloha.


When Uber's practices of conducting business are in violation of local regulations, what do they do?  And just a few weeks ago, customers began to delete the Uber app from their phones during travel ban protests. Obviously, you know, today's action is about what's happening in Saudi Arabia. $3.5 billion buys a seat on the board of directors here at Uber. Now what happens in this situation? It's not that just Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women to drive. That realized benefits Uber because there's a reliance on the system which is the infrastructure that's provided by Uber. You see, it's bigger and deeper and eviler than what you think. We're here today to say no to any corporation that is profiting from the exploitation of any group of people, but today the women of Saudi Arabia. But we are united today to say that Uber, we will not support you Uber and we will encourage others in our communities not to support you and not to use your services as long as you continue to profit from the human rights violations of women in Saudi Arabia and women anywhere on the planet. Here are all kinds of things in our mainstream media regarding globalization. They rarely talk about the globalization of issues to protect workers from the predatory practices of major multinational corporations. Here's what it says. Dear Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, we, the undersigned, are appalled by the partnership that is developed between Uber and the government of Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. Saudi women have been fighting for decades for this basic right that women have all over the world. They have gathered petitions, they have solicited the king, they have conducted acts of civil disobedience, and they have gone to prison for this. Uber should not be on the side of their oppressors, but should be supporting the brave Saudi women. As CEO we call on you to release a statement in English and Arabic urging King Salman of Saudi Arabia to lift the ban on women driving. Let him know, let him know you are eager to hire women also as drivers in Saudi Arabia as you currently do in over 60 countries worldwide. Do the right thing Mr. Kalanick. Stand with Saudi women and advocate for Saudi women to have the right to drive. Yes! Hi, we're supposed to meet. I don't have a dad, but we have a meeting with Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber to accept our petition. He's not right, well can you call his office? I don't have a letter. All we want to do is present our petition to the CEO. If Travis can't come down here, we can also speak with Jill Hazelbaker. Jill Hazelbaker is the spokesperson. Nikita, if you could call Jill Hazelbaker and let her know we're here. Can you step back? Yeah, I'm sorry, get the step back. I'm sorry, she won't be able to see you today. Sure about that. Betsy Masiello. Betsy Masiello's communication and public policy. Well, how do you know that you haven't tried them yet? No sir, you need to go to 950 John Daly Boulevard. That's where we take these inquiries. Can you? You know that's driver support. HQ is right over there. Dorothy Kalanick. Let us in. Let us in. Listen to that. Let us in. Let us in. Let us in. Excuse me, ma'am. Are you an Uber executive? Let Michael in. Is that one person in? Could you at least accept the petitions and take them upstairs? There were a lot of people that took time in their lives to let Uber know how they feel. You can't accept that and deliver it to Uber. That's how democracy works is to really hear each other's voices. And we can't even deliver some petitions to Uber. What kind of a company is it? We're going to use this another time. It's over 4,000 people who want Uber to ask the Saudi government to allow women to drive. It's the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. And Uber needs to use their influence to make that happen in Saudi Arabia. We're at the Uber headquarters here. And they're not allowing anybody to go upstairs to deliver these petitions. So we'll use them another time. Thank you.


The guy in front of me at the grocery store was buying some condoms. And the checkout girl said, do you want a bag with that? And he said, no, she's not that ugly. Canceled.  I'm Rick, follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks, sunpatron. Follow us on Instagram, subscribe if you haven't, and hit that juicy like button to help out the old jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjji algorithm. What? You said it, not me.  What movie is this? Girls of Komisutra? No. Better answer. No, it's a very small moment in a movie that's out right now. Baphane. She just goes, what is it? Banshees of Anashiron. Oh, okay. Yeah, gotcha. Ah, today we're doing a movie review.  It was, but this is one I needed to get to before Rick was out of town for a week, so we got a little behind, but it's only a few days, so get over it. We got a little behind like babies. Yes. They have little behinds. But today we are doing the Telugu classic, Swathi Mathyam. Sounds right to me. Right, close enough for hand grenades, and it's interesting. Yeah, and RIP, Om Shanti, to the director. Kay, and forgive me if I'm mispronouncing this, but Vishwanath. And we're not doing this because he passed. Just, we were already watching this, and literally right after I was done, I went to Twitter and I saw Kamal Hassan and so many people posting about his death, and I was like, oh, wow, jeez. So yeah, this is not like a plan thing. That's what happened. I'm very sorry for his family. It looks like he lived a long, happy life. Yeah, he was 92, wouldn't he? Really old, and this is not the only film of his we've seen. We've seen, I can't pronounce their names, but the one where Kamal Hassan was a dancer, and then also the one where the guy was a classical singer as well. All very difficult names for this one. Yeah, that's always me too. But this is also composed by Rajasar, and he did the screenplay for the director, did the screenplay for this one as well as well. And then it's starring Kamal Hassan and Radhika. And it says, Alu Arjun, was he the kid? Is that, because he's only listed as actor. It doesn't give him the credit in there, and when they roll credits, it's not in English, so we don't know what, I'm guessing he was the kid. Yeah, I'm guessing he was the kid. 86, be about five years old maybe. How old do you think he is, 37? Alu Arjun? Yeah, late 30s. I put up a 38, 40. Oh, he's 40. So absolutely, my suspicion is that's him. The kid, yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's wild. Anyway, it's obviously, this came out in 1986, so this would be a hundred spent spoiler review, obviously. If you haven't watched it, go watch it, come back. And Rick, your initial thoughts on the film, please. I so badly wish I could tell you, I enjoyed it and liked it, and it was my cup of tea, especially in light of the fact that, number one, we love Kamal Hassan. Number two, this director being legendary and having just passed, but for me, this was not my cup of tea. And for those of you who love the film, I don't wanna pinpoint too many of the things as to why I didn't like it. I will talk about those things, but it just, for me, never engaged me, and there's a lot of things that I had problem with, and I can get into them if we need to, but this was one for me that I didn't like. No, I actually enjoyed this film. There was, I think it got a little long, for sure. Two hours 40 about for this film. I mean, it's a classic, so it's hard to really rip it for that, because I expect most classics to be about three hours. Yep. But it did, I think it had certain parts, did drag, but I did enjoy the story. I thought it was actually very similar, not very different films, but almost a similar concept to like a PK a little bit of a guy, obviously in that one, he's an alien. Right. This one, he's a mentally, I don't know if he has autism or what he has. Yeah, one description said he has autism, another description said he had brain injury when he was a kid and it made him a simpleton, so I don't know what they were going for. I don't know what it was, obviously, and then he tried to come up with different things to help out these persons from different religions and all that kind of stuff, and so that concept was nice and everything, so I did enjoy that, and overall I enjoyed the film. I thought he was very sweet. He seems to like doing characters that have some type of mental disorder. Yeah, this character was a few times. Yeah, this character for me was pretty much no different. It was a bit pulled back in terms of, he wasn't as large with some of the things, but the majority of the affectation and the behavior reminded me of the character from the movie with Sridevi and Rajnikanth that we saw. His character in that? He plays a simpleton who, it just pretty much reminded me of that character. In that film, he's a bit bigger with the behaviors, but I saw the same behaviors just in small scale. I didn't make that connection. Maybe I just don't remember that film as well. I remember liking that film. Yeah, I liked that film a lot, but I enjoyed his performance. I also really enjoyed, and it was a pretty big part because it kind of came in just all the time, was the music of this, which is by obviously Rajasar. And it was, I don't know what instrument he was playing, but it was basically a violin that he obviously came through and all that kind of stuff. And I thought that the, and there weren't any really big numbers in it. It was a lot of just smaller and once again, it's really unfortunate. It happens all the time with classics. The songs were not subbed. Yeah. It happens. And I look all over and I try to find them and it's just that the only ones that are available are the ones without, why? I just, I've said always confound those. It doesn't make any sense to me. You subbed the film, why didn't you sub the song? Especially since the songs are easier to sub because it's going so much slower than the spoken word. It just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. But no, I enjoyed that part of the film. And so, just talk about the performances here. Did you, we already talked about Kamal a little bit. Did you like her performance? I liked her. I didn't, there was nothing about her performance for me that was, there was a lot of points for everybody, not Kamal. The only thing about Kamal was that the character reminded me of other characters. And I wasn't sure if we were going autism, if we were going mental inefficiency, if we were going brain injury. But for her, as well as a lot of the other cast, she didn't do it as much, but there were moments, especially in her dying sequence where I just didn't believe what I was seeing. So she's very lovely on screen. However, there were just moments throughout where I couldn't stay connected because I saw an actor acting. I didn't see a human being experiencing. Even for the time that it was? Even for the time that it was, because I can think of other classics that we saw back then that may have had moments where I was disjointed, but at least I felt connected and caring and believed some moments. There wasn't anything, well, the dying sequence was hard, but the rest of it for me, and there were some other characters that we could talk about in a little bit. She seems very lovely and she's very pretty on screen. There was just nothing about the performance for me that jumped out at me. I will tell you, one thing that jumped out at me was the sex song.  I don't know if it's come all, obviously this is not his film, but he seems to be at the forefront a lot of times of those. Yeah, almost every film we see. But literally the first thing she does, and it caught me and my wife both, he had a cut and she just went.   I was not expecting that. Well, that's actually a subplot. She basically went, oh, wow. There was a subplot from there on afterwards that most people don't know, she's a vampire. Oh, wow. Yeah. I didn't know if you knew that. No, I really enjoyed that whole scene. It was great. I loved that scene. I was not expecting it. Because I didn't even know if they were gonna consummate their marriage ever if it was just almost like a mutual relationship. So people didn't treat her bad or stuff like that. And so I never knew if they would actually end up doing it doggy style, but they did. And well, I don't know, they didn't show that unfortunately. I would have liked to have seen that. And that's come all being doggy. That was something for me that was missing as well. I didn't have sparks or fireworks or chemistry that for me equated a rooting for or even an expectation of them to be romantically linked. I saw them caring about each other, but I didn't see anything. Well, I think that was that moment that ignited. But I didn't see anything preceding that. For me, that indicated to me that they were both sexually attracted to each other. Other than her saying his face was like the moon early on.  Yeah. So it's more difficult to there. But I don't think she was at first attracted to him. I think she was more wanting obviously help from, she saw that he was a nice person and everybody, her situation was terrible. Right. And I think she grew to love him. And I think at that moment, she got the spark that she was with everything that he was doing for her. The closest cinematic approximate, I think it could be comparable to would be say, Jenny and Forrest. But that's as far as seeing people who consummate a relationship, spoiler alert. But even that, that makes way more sense chemistry-wise and relationship-wise for me than this did. And that's just me. I may be the only one on earth who feels that way. But I just, I didn't catch any romantic inclinations other than just genuine caring for each other. So. No, I caught it.  But the one other thing that I wanted to talk about, did you like the whole, did you see the PK kind of, not saying it's like PK, very different film. Nothing really like it outside of, it's a person trying to find certain things through religion and the different kinds of religion. Which is something I did really enjoy about the story of him kind of being almost naive and trying to do whatever he could. People say this helps. Right. And so I'm gonna do it for you. Yes. I enjoyed that part of the story. What did you think about that? I can see that comparison as well as I think it's a lot more subtle than in PK. Oh yeah, yeah. And I- It's very at the forefront of the PK. The moment, the moment, really the, if I point to a moment that actually mattered to me and I felt a connection to it's when he keeps running across the hot coals. That desire of, well if walking across the coals is gonna help make a God answer this then I'm just gonna run over them over and over and over and over and over and over again. Yeah, I liked that. Yeah. And then her whole, I was nervous there at the end because I thought the father-in-law was just gonna come in and get a redemption arc, kind of like they do in Indian films a lot. Right. That they just, they give people redemption arcs that I don't think deserve them. They didn't, they were about to for a second. But I was nervous there at the end because I was like, he abandoned you. Right. Do not give him a redemption arc. And then they tried to get him to go away and all that kind of stuff. And that's when they did it hard doggy style. I really enjoyed that scene quite a bit. I do really wanna find out if that is a Lou Arjun. So please obviously let us know down below. But, oh wow, that's interesting. I have Shiva, it looks like we're here in the poster. Shiva going down and putting the bendy on her head. That's interesting. I mean, I guess it kind of makes sense, right? Yeah. But I liked his and the boy's relationship.  And it's progression as a story, not just for time. I just think as a story, it's progression was extremely slow to unfold. And I didn't sense any particular, I didn't have much connection to or believability toward the majority of the challenges that they face. And a lot of that had to do with things that pulled me out of it. For example, I don't know the character's name, but the first half of the film, he's in it quite a bit. The man who gets mad at him for wasting the oil and it's on the ground and he puts the oil on his head, he, it was, I had a difficult time with that actors portraying that character. I just, I didn't believe him for one moment. I saw an actor doing stuff. And that was for the majority of the time, even for the things where I've watched, there were moments I didn't know, like when his character, when Kamal's character is older, I saw him playing, the beginning of film, I see him playing an older man. And I always give grace to make up and hair of the period. But I didn't see him when he was the elder character. I didn't see the same behaviors with him as far as the mental constraint that he has that he did when he was younger. It was almost as if the mental constraint seemed to not be there anymore. He just seemed to be an old guy. Oh, I don't agree. I saw that. I think he was just older. And so he was, I didn't see it. I think as young, he was able to move around a lot faster and saw it a little more. Not the speed with which he moved. I mean the affectations that convey the mental incapacity. I just didn't, or even in the verbiage or certain behaviors, certain inclinations that he had with his facial expressions that I saw earlier that also reminded me of that character he played in the Shredevi film. Even though I know he's gonna be older and he's gonna be slower and he's going to convey those things, which he did, there was, I didn't catch the totality through line of him being the same person in terms of his mental incapacities when he was the older character. That's why when I saw him early on, he starts off the film older and then it goes back to who he was as a younger man, I was thrown as to the fact that the character has something wrong with him mentally because I didn't see that one as the older character. I just saw an old guy. I saw that he still had mental stuff as an old man. I think he was just an old man. So he was, I mean, even at the end, ripped up the basil thing to take it with him because that's what his wife wanted him to do. And I think he was just an older man. So people obviously, as they age, your dad, who has mental issues, doesn't act the same as he did when he was 20, even though he's had mental issues when he was 20, I'm assuming, right? He had mental issues when he was 20, right? Obviously I didn't know when he was 20. Yeah, I'm not talking about specifically. Yeah, I'm not talking about mobility or level of energy. I'm talking about affectation in state of mind, which also then translates into mannerism and not the speed of mannerism or the health of mannerism or the flexibility of joints, just when it flashed back to him as a young person, I thought, oh, I didn't realize this character has, and that's when I looked up the character and saw it said that he had either a brain injury or autism, depending on which place I read, because I didn't see it in the character at the, when he was an old man. I disagree with, and also depending on what, this is a mentally slow man, and so. Yeah. Who knows exactly what it was. I don't know what it means. Which to me conveys also the fact that there's, that's the third, it doesn't. It's signed to be though, so who knows? Yeah, I just, why isn't there clarity on what his challenge was? I mean, I think it was more of subtle challenge than even one of the kid in Stars on Earth, who they said had dyslexia, but it was definitely autism. Yeah. I don't know, I'm still confused by that. Maybe it was just bad subtitles in that film. But when they, because they kept saying he had dyslexia. I know. Yeah. I was like that's it. Then he was clearly on the spectrum. I mean, obviously he might also have dyslexia, but that is not his issue is right here. No. And so obviously that, I think had a more severe case. I think he probably was just somewhere on the spectrum, maybe on the lower end of the spectrum. And so, and also, or if it was a brain injury, I don't, I couldn't tell you. But yeah, I saw the same man as an older man and a younger man. So I don't really know what you saw there. Maybe you are blind. How about that? I just know when I've seen other performances when people are playing any kind of a physical or mental affectation, if it goes, I can point to it. Like rock. Exactly. To do tooth failure. No, I can point to examples where the character, irrespective of their age, is behaving in a way that's exactly the same as the character throughout. And I just, when he was old, I didn't see it. Make sure I got everything here. Was there anything else you wanted to talk about in the film, so if you liked it. No, cause, yeah, no, cause I don't like to talk about what I didn't like. I know, but I just wanna make sure we got to all the points of the film. Yeah. Performances directing, writing, music. Yeah. Cause people often get upset if we don't talk about a certain element of the film. Yeah. And so I, at the end I always try to do my checklist in my head to make sure I've talked about it. No, you mentioned the music and I liked the music. I know there's. What was your favorite part of it? Millions who love the music. For me, it wasn't a love thing. I thought the music was good. But again, there wasn't anything in the film that drew me, made me inclined or connected me emotionally or entertained in a way that other films have done. So my favorite part, the part where I had some kind of a connection which made me think, okay, good, I'm connected now. I can keep moving forward and hopefully this will deepen was when he ran across the coals. That was a moment for me that I felt a level of empathy and care and felt, ah, it's sparked. Now we can build this up and it'll go through, but that was really, it just was that moment. His feet would be way more charred as well. I didn't even think about that. When I saw his feet, I'm like, hmm, but. Also, what do you think they, I was trying to figure out. I was looking that out. I was trying to figure out how they filmed it. Did he really do that? No, he did not. I think they, it was just, because I was trying to figure out what they did there. I think it's just, it was like maybe a darkened saying and under the. Lit from under. Lit from under is what I was thinking. I don't know. He definitely didn't do it. Because once again, his feet would have been extremely. I would hurt. Well, but there are people who can do that. Well, yeah, but I mean, come on, can do a lot of things. He can. Who knows? Maybe he did it. He did not actually run across the coals 10 times. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film. What should be our next Telugu film from this director or others? And what should be our next Kamal Hassan film that we should watch? Please let us know. And once again, Om Shanti to say his name for me. To V, and again, I know I'm mispronouncing it. To K Vishawad. Vishawad. I can't pronounce it correctly. I haven't heard it pronounced enough times. Legendary director. Yeah, forgive me. Somebody a lot of people love, so Om Shanti to you and thinking about your family. Goodbye. Goodbye.