 exciting off-the-scale episode of Hibachi Talk. I'm here with my good old buddy, and we're here with Josh, and we're going to meet Josh in just a second. We're going to talk about Rotary, but please grab yourself a libation, pull up a chair, and join us for another fun-filled episode. So a couple things. I'd like to do, so Josh will just bear with me in just a second. Man, you've been at the beach. Yeah, a couple times. Man, look at this guy. He's kind of like snow. Sorry. I've been working. Yeah, right. You've been working, traveling the world, enjoying yourself. Anyway, I got a couple things going on. A little shout out to Hamish McGullible. He's under the weather. Hamish, get well, brother. Hamish, get well. Well, we're going to have you. He's one of our only live fans. He's one of our live fans. He drinks libations while he watches this show. Tweets us once in a while. So anyway, Hamish, get better. And then also, I usually have a rant or something like this, but lately Bitcoin has been pretty popular. And I've been getting asked and doing some speeches on it and things like this. So I thought I would just give a little cryptocurrency note of the week on what's happening in this space. Do you know this guy by the name of Mark Cuban? Yeah. Heard of him? Yeah. So Mark Cuban said a long time ago that he was not interested in Bitcoin. How much does he own today? Yeah, well, he won't say. But he wasn't that interested in Bitcoin. Now, Bitcoin almost hit $2,900 this week. So now it's hovering around $2,600 per Bitcoin. So now he's saying that it's a transport mechanism, a digital transport. It's a long shot. It might work. We're not real sure. But he's now paying attention to it. He's paying attention to it. Do you think? So what I've found notice of interest though is anytime Mark Cuban says something about Bitcoin, it goes one way or the other. So if he's positive on it, it kind of goes up. So Twitter is controlling the market somewhat on what's happening in Bitcoin. Anyway, gold is trading at $1,200 an ounce right now, and Bitcoin's trading at $2,700. A Bitcoin? A Bitcoin. That's awesome. Market cap of $34 billion. And we got kicked out of the market by Hawaii. Thank you. Thank you. Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. What can I say? Not fair. Not fair. Not fair. Well, you got kicked out. I moved to Great Britain. You're more fluid. Well, you know, it was Angus. He moved to Great Britain. I used the Scotland address. So we're all set. Right on. We'll talk to Angus about that when he comes on. Okay. So anyway, today we're going to talk about Rotary. Yeah. And I was involved, was involved with Rotary for decades ago, decades ago, a fabulous organization. And Josh, you're new at that. But before we get into this side, let's get a little background on who you are, where you grew up, where you went to school. What do you do besides go to the beach? I'm from Wahua originally, but I grew up in Denver, Colorado. And went to college at HPU. Yes, alumni. Yeah. And then I went to UH. Okay. Then I finally graduated from Portland State University. You made a round. I made a round today. Did you go to Leyland Hood? No, I didn't. I grew up in Denver. Oh, okay. Now that I'm back in Hawaii, I work at Altress and I'm a business analyst for their simplicity HR site. And so I get to work with technology day in, day out, trying to find solutions for our clients on HR and people. I have a client looking for a CIO. We should talk. Okay. There you look at that. I mean, you work and you work. Business 101, how it works here. And so just recently, actually last year, I went to the change of command for the district governor, Clint, and I heard him speak about Rotary. And so I was looking for, I guess, some place to do community service. And after some time, I went to two Rotary clubs. It just wasn't my fit. He reached out to me and said, hey, there's a new Rotary club starting. Why don't you see if it's something that you're interested in. And so I went, we started back in August. And just in March, we chartered. Chartered a new Rotary. So let's pause there and come a little bit forward. But you're a newbie, so it's great. So what is Rotary? So I'm, and you don't see a lot of millennials, people your age in Rotary. It's usually the seniors. So what is Rotary? Yeah, seniors, I Well, I'm still learning what Rotary is. But that's good. So when I tell people that I'm a Rotarian and they're like, well, you don't fit the mold. You are. You're not. You can see down the street. But what Rotary means to me is that it's just an outlet to do stuff for the community, to do international service, to meet wonderful people that have the same values that I do. And that's what Rotary is to me. But Rotary truly is, I'm still learning. Okay. Well, and one of the things I'll mention, because you know, one of the things that Rotary is famous for is the fact that they literally wiped out polio worldwide. That was one of the things that Rotary did around for decades and so on. It's a great way for people to get together, share values and good ideas. It's just a phenomenal way to get educated about all the different businesses people are in and what they do and so on. And again, very community oriented. There's the read programs. There's just a whole number of programs that the local Rotaries, that the local Rotaries do. District 500. District 5000 is here. We have 51 clubs now with the new club. Yes. And, you know, the fellowship is a big piece of it. You know, obviously getting to learn about other people in the community and what they do. But then learning, then you go give with them too. So, you know, we do local projects. We do group projects. It might be district wide, which would be the state of Hawaii, which we combine club work on. We also do national projects and international projects, which is really amazing. So, I know when we were in, I was in, formerly in the metro road, and we did a whole project in Cambodia. Built a huge facility, learning center with beds and rooms. It's amazing some of the stuff Rotarians take on. You know, like, let's rid the world of polio. Wow. Let's take that something small. It took a while. But they got it done. Got it done. You know, and so this is it's an amazing organization. I I in particular like the fact that the money that we give in to Rotary Rotary has a foundation. So, they fund all their operations for three years with all the money they collect. And then the fourth year 100% goes back out the door. And that for me was a good thing. You know, you a lot of nonprofits, you know, have they all have overhead, right? So, you know, how they deal with that and how much money they keep, you know, you give them a dollar and 60 per 60 cents goes out the door. I like Rotary because that 100% I think that's just a great model. So, Josh, you've been part of Rotary now for how long? I love this fact that you're the new kid on the block. So, you don't have any bias. Yeah, go to a couple clubs. Essentially two months. Okay. So, since March, we we chartered. And what's the new one? What's your one you've chartered? Rotary Club of Hickam Pro Harbor. So, we are primarily military people, whether they be retired or their active duty. It's sort of a bridge for the military community with the local community. So, this is, for me, this is cool. Having lived here since 1979, been involved in Rotary for a long time. I don't know of anyone that was a military, initially a military focused one. I think it's a very cool thing because of the military and what they do and how respected they are throughout the world and in this community. So, starting with Hickam Pro Harbor is a pretty neat idea. What about all these kids that come in that just get relocated here? Yeah, super motivated. Yeah, they're motivated. I come in, I'm just thinking right now. I come in, I'm from Des Moines, Iowa. Yep. What do I know about Hawaii? And what do you know about Rotary? Nothing. You know about growing corn. Well, a lot of the people that are coming in, they are being referred by another friend that's in the club. So, we started with four core people. And then from there, the four people invited two other people and then they kept inviting more people. We reached 20 people and that was the minimum we needed. And they all come from some type of military background. There's about maybe four of us that don't have a military background. I'm one of them. But I'm there more for, I guess, fellowship and community service. And they're community minded. I mean, the DOD, the military has always championed community service. And so, for a lot of those folks that are aspiring to raise their grade in the military, their pay rate, right? So, they report in their annual things, the community service work that they do. And so, they actually get a benefit as well as the community from the work that they do. And they're young, they're able-bodied. And so, they're quite a workforce when they show up. There's nothing better than 50 marines come and paint your building. Because, brother, it gets painted fat. Yeah, that's right. They can't. So, now, we have a sense for what Rotary does. But so, when you get together once a quarter, once a month, these are leaving questions, obviously. How does it work? So, we meet every Thursday. At the beginning, we- At what time? At 6 p.m. on Thursday. You say 6 p.m. and someone worries me early. But we sort of struggled with finding a home for our meetings. So, we first started at Harbor 6, Restaurant 6, so 6 on Pearl Harbor. But then, it was just too loud and we started growing. So, then, we moved over to Dixie Grill. And then, it was, again, getting too loud and we started outgrowing it. So, we now move to one of our members' warehouse conference rooms. Okay. And so, we meet there every Thursday, 6 p.m. And- Yeah, we do have a geographical area that we're supposed to serve. So, we're trying to meet in our geographical area. Ultimately, we hope to end up at the golf course over at the neighboring golf course clubhouse. Oh, the Sam Sneeter, what it was called? Yeah. So, it's currently under renovation and they're going to bring in a vendor. And then, once that happens, we should be able to have it. We have a liaison there, but we just- they- it's not open. So, there's no- It's not open. You know, we have to wait for them to open again before we start to use it. So, you've transitioned- you're transitioning from another rotary to help this rotary? I started in Metro. You started in Metro? And then, I went to- I lost my- I was a Thursday morning group and I just couldn't deal with Thursday mornings anymore because of work. So, I started- I went to a Monday morning group and then I- I lost my Monday mornings. And so, an evening group, I ran into Alan Hayashi, who's been in rotary for probably 50 years. He's like, we're starting a new club. It's on Thursday nights right in IA. I live in IA. I'm like, dude, I can't not join that club. So, it was just a perfect fit for me in my schedule. So, this is one of the values of rotary too, is that you can find a rotary club, it's 51 in Hawaii, number 51. Yeah. And so, you can find a rotary that fits your schedule. Yeah, breakfast- there's breakfast clubs, lunch clubs, dinner clubs, after dinner clubs, ours would be called a dinner club. I think there's a few of those in Hawaii in Honolulu. So, cool. So, what do you guys think you're going to focus on? Because you're- like, how old are you now? I'm 35. No, not your age. Oh, am I supposed to sit there? You're like, I don't care. Your club is like that. We are two months old. Two months old. But we've- we've done a lot. We've- we've established that we are going to be- what is the word? Adopting Kalihi Elementary School. And we've already- we started our first fundraiser just three weeks ago and we were able to raise $1,700. Okay. That was a great program. Talk about- So, when we went to go visit the school, the principal told us about some of the needs that the school has. And one of them that really, like, yanked on my heart was that kids come to school without footwear. They'll come to school barefoot and just go throughout the day and walk back across the freeway without any shoes. Wow. And so- Welcome to Hawaii, the only third real country in the nation. Anyway, go ahead. I know. And it's just really sad because you- you don't know what kind of injuries they could- they could have. They're all blisters on their freaking asphalt. So, what we decided to do is to raise money so that we can donate slippers or some type of footwear for them. And so, we started this raffle, or not a raffle, we- donation, people bought a $10 donation, so that we can go ahead and- Buy slippers. Buy slippers. And $17- and $17,000. That's a lot of slippers. That's a lot of slippers. And then we- you worked a deal with a slipper- Yes, so- Oh, so we got some good deals on slippers. We're going to be bringing in about 600 slippers for the school. Think of that. So, this is Kalihi Elementary. And this is this guy. It's a good idea. So, this is an innovative- We're going to take a- we're going to take a break in a minute, but I want to- I've got to say this. It's a robbery club that's three months old, and in the course of three months, you've got over 20 members, many of which were military, probably have been relocated here. You raised the money, you bought over 1,000 slippers? Or I want to- 600. 600 slippers for kids that were coming to school barefoot. Yeah. How cool is that? And you're 35 years old- And he didn't start it. It's just the old guys that started. The robbery club- He's just getting started. This is getting started. This is getting started. This is getting started. This is getting started. What a great story. What a great story. Okay, believe it or not, we've got- We're at the happily market. We've got to go take a break. Angus has a question for you. All right. He's been slaving over it for a long time. Anyway, go to the tech czar, Andrew the security guy. That's me. And Josh. I'm here in the house. From robbery, three months old, we'll be back in a minute. 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So, you know, I keep telling me, you know, give me a security password that has eight characters and at least one capital. So I came up with this idea. Okay. How about Goofy and Sacramento? Oh, those are your characters and your eight characters? So it's going to be hard to remember all those. I just want to warn you. Okay. And it's, I'm not sure if that's that exact idea, but you know, I'm sure that, you know, your enterprise has a policy that's written that, you know, tells you what to do. But you can be one of the characters. I like your choice of characters. I just don't think I could remember them. What do you think of the state? I don't know if that's the capital of a state. Well, it's not a state. It's not a state. I mean, it's a state. It's going. It's a state of confusion. I think you're doing a fine job. I, I, I cannot remember. At least you're paying attention. At least you're paying attention to the old Huey, Dewey, Louisian, whatever. I'm glad you're paying attention. All right. Well, I got it. All right. I think, anyway, that's it. No, we're always talking about security. You get there. Hey, man, for this, so you better change your passwords. You better. Anyway, that's what they... So if Angus is worried about his password, you should be worried about yours as well. Trust me. That's one of the biggest entrees we find is still weak passwords out there or people using the same password on multiple accounts. So thanks for the, thanks for the reminder, Angus. And great choice of characters. Okay, back to Josh. Josh should be one of the characters. So here Josh, we're talking about Rotary. Yes, we are. Rotary, you're part of the founding of the 51st Rotary, Rotary Club in Hawaii. So where do you see it going? I mean, this is a, you know, you're military focused, so it's going to be kind of cool. Well, I think we're going to have, we're going to struggle with, with military people rotating in and out. True. So hopefully the people that come here and join Rotary, when they leave, they'll, wherever they go, they'll find a Rotary Club so that they can continue the work that they started here. Yeah, I thought maybe we might be like an onboarding club a little bit, you know, get them a couple years, get them indoctrinated to Rotary, and then that way when they go out wherever, because there's how many Rotary clubs in the world now, I don't even know. Oh, thousands and thousands, they're around the world. It's huge, it's global. So maybe our club is that on ramp for them, and so that it's something that they take with them and we create a great Rotary community out there that was, you know, kind of born out of this club. Yeah, I think that's a, go ahead, go ahead. Well, no, and as people do come in here, hopefully with our presence in the military, they'll start talking to each other and inviting people to come and join our club, join activities that we're doing, service projects that we're doing. So to spread the word to the younger crowd. Yeah, I think of someone that, you know, initially gets into the military, gets stationed here, you know, early on, and then they, you know, how do I get into the community? At least I go to Rotary. Now, if I get restationed in Germany or Korea or wherever around the world, there's Rotaries all over the world. The first thing they would hope they would look for is like, where's the local Rotary? I'm still a Rotarian, I'll get involved with that. They're going to love the fact that they've got a Rotarian transferring from Hawaii. Exactly. And well, we have one Rotarian right now. She travels a lot. She's a secretary, she's our secretary, and she's been to three different countries already for Rotary. She's done two service projects in a couple of months. In a couple of months. She's busy lately. This is a busy lady. And so she does a lot, and she is always telling us, like, about the opportunities that are out there, and that whenever she does go to a new club, she feels very welcomed, and sort of like a celebrity, because we're from Hawaii. Yeah, yeah, well, that's true. Hawaii always has that magic piece. And it's always fun to host. I've done, because I've gone to other clubs when I, you know, and you, so Rotarians, we actually have a fly. We don't, we don't even have ours yet in Hickam-Parbaro. We have flies, but you, when you go visit another club, it's traditional to swap the flags with that club. And so you bring them back, and you kind of accumulate flags, and you accumulate stories, and you build friendships. And she's, I think we have already a fly from Nepal. We have one from Nepal. Wow. One from, oh, I forgot the other one. We have two. Jenny, with a fly, you know, the fact that you've got a flag, I don't know about this, they're about the size. But from Nepal, which goes to my point, there's Rotary in Nepal, and there's Rotary everywhere, too. And I'm thinking, what a great way for the military to start finding a way to start giving you comfort when you go from one reassignment to the other. Mm-hmm. That's good. I mean, you didn't have that. I didn't have that. Not at all. No. Sure. I mean, you had USO, but that was different. Yeah. I mean, you sold, well, I was Canada, we didn't have, we had CSO. I don't even know we had CSO. We had beer. But it just, it worked, which works. But being able to go somewhere and say, well, now I'm here, what do I do? How do I know? Yeah, how do I meet people? You know, how do I meet people you trust? You would have some of the values, like Josh talked about, brought him in originally, right? So, you know, we have a four-way testimony, we'll talk about that a little bit near the end or something, but there's, you know, there's people that are selfish, you know, and some people are just busy with their lives. I'm not saying everybody has time to give. Right. But there are others who find value in taking some of their time and being able to give to the community. Others can give money, and people give in many, many ways. So, there's a lot of avenues of service of able, as Josh alluded to, through Rotary, and it's good to find, to meet with people who kind of have that same bent, you know, that same interest in the world. And, you know, we, it's fun, the people that we meet, you know, it's just great Rotary, just chock for great people. It is. And we just got a new application recently, Chase, and he researched community service opportunities out in Hawaii. He found Rotary and then found our club and came and joined us. And he came to a couple clubs, our club meetings, and realized that he did like it and decided to join. And so it's just putting your name out there. People that want to do stuff for the community, wants to network with businesses, they'll look for us, and we're going to open arms all the way for them. Sure. So, this is, I find this interesting, because, you know, there's, and I've had this discussion with people your age, and it's not a knock, but it's not a cultural thing or a upbringing kind of thing to volunteer for organizations like Rotary and things like that. I don't see a lot in that 35 to 45 range that are doing that. That's the whole reason why I joined Rotary is because I was volunteering here and there at homeless shelters, at churches, at different events, and I didn't feel connected to the organization as a whole. And so. Effort, sure. As soon as I found Rotary, I felt like I had a say, I get to help drive where we're going to be going and who we're going to be helping. Yeah, and we have a few thousand Rotarians in Hawaii. I mean, it's, yeah. Right. But I'd love to do the analytics on it and show how many are above the age of 50 or 45 and how many are under the age between 35 and 45. And that to me is a gap. Yeah. Recruitment, I think, is going to be, recruitment's going to be huge. There's no initiation fee. What is it though? Initiation fee. Not an initiation fee, but there's a annual. There is a fee to join Rotary. Yeah, it's like, it's nominal though. It's like a couple hundred bars. Yeah, a couple hundred bucks. Yeah, it's like, ours is $250. Yeah, I think it may vary per club, depending on what type of a lunch that meeting they have, right? Right. So if they have a breakfast meeting and breakfast is included, maybe that's part of the annual dues or whatever. But yeah, and we're getting into it is relatively small and it all goes for a good cause. And it's charitable donation. Check with your accountant. But you know, all those kinds of things are there. And some people don't want to actually join the club. So some will actually just come and join us on the service projects. Okay. So that they still get to make a difference. Right. Get to get back. And that's a, so we, you know, the Rotaries, there's, there's, they work with other organizations to get grants, you know, for example, right? So there's a, there's a project at the Weinbergs. They fund a few of these every year that where they actually put in money. So you go and do, you get a group of like 50 together, you go do a large project for a day. And the facility that you're improving, perhaps, you know, maybe you're painting or you're doing a landscaping project or something, they're going to benefit from that labor. But then the Weinberg, because you've done that work, will give you some funds that you can either give to that group or to another group. So you get like this double benefit for this community effort that you put out. So it's really, there's a lot of outreach available to organizations that need help, especially through Rotary. Rotary is a very giving organization. Like I said, there's 50 clubs here and they're kind of focused in there. 51. 51. And they kind of focus in their little areas, right? So, so again, sort of geographically, so the, you know, the Wacky Key Club is picking up that park, for example, right? They're trying to promote that, take that. That's right. They announced that they're going to do that one. Yeah, it's like a 600,000-hour project or something, right? So, you know, some are bigger, some are smaller. Slippers at $1,700 and three months old is no shabby. That's right. That's not shabby. That's not shabby. I don't care what anyone says. Just go out and get $1,700 and put shoes on these kids. Yeah, just think of it. It's pretty amazing. It's not the impact. The impact. And these kids must be thinking, who's Rotary, right? Right. Well, the Klee Elementary has had two other Rotary clubs. I think Metro is one of them that went out there and donates dictionaries as well as they painted a stairwell for them. Okay. So, they do have some idea of what Rotary does. And there's Youth Rotary too, right? Yeah, RILA. RILA. What's this called? RILA, R-Y-L-A, Rotary Youth League Association. I'm not sure the last two. Yeah, so there's a youth organizations that they can become members of and get involved in the community. Rotaract and interact. Rotaract, Rotaract, is that college level? Yeah. So, I love the fact that we're the novices in here and we're just talking about this and the Rotarians that are watching this show are going to go, we've got to get on this show and correct these guys. Yeah. That's okay. Come on and help us later. You're welcome anytime. So, I had a train of thought and I didn't write it down. So, hoping when I talk it'll come to my brain. So, three months, you're the president-elect. I'm the president-elect. So, I will become president 2018-2019. Awesome. But, you ran a really hard campaign. I really did. Yeah, it was one of four people and lucky me. But, I get to watch what our current president, Tim, does this year and he's building a great foundation for me. So, when I take up next year, I can just hit the ground running. Now, Tim's not a former Rotarian, right? No, he is brand new as well. We're learning at the same time. So, that's the beauty, it's the beauty of it. Is it fresh? Like, I'm not coming in being indoctrinated into whatever. This is fresh. We've got ideas and we as the club and the members can equally contribute to what you're going to create here. Right, and we do have Andrew who's also in their club who's... Well, we got to bring in somebody. Yes, who's actually... It's our Alan. We also have Alan from another club who's... Oh, Alan's great. And Kelly, they've all have experience in Rotary and they're not shooting our ideas down. They're just like saying, yes, that's a great idea. Just run with it, keep going, give us more. And... So, this is cool. Anyway, believe it or not, we've gone through 30 minutes. We walked through it. Yeah, we went through it. Let's give them the four-way test. Let's go get them. The things that we think, say, and do, is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it be better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned? So, that was it, but we're not closing out yet because you get your autograph. So, we'll try. So, number 120. Thank you. And we didn't give you the heads up on this, but we also say something at the end of every show. Thanks guys, by the way, for putting this together and making it work again. As we say at the end of every show, I know your puzzle. Just point it to the camera. Just point it to the camera. How you doing?