 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and Hawaii. I'm Jay Fidel. And I'm Keisha King. In our show this time, we'll review the most recent top five Think Tech talk shows and staff pick. We'll check out the elements of the best of the best and get a handle on the public issues and the guests involved. Think Tech produces more than 35 talk shows every week in our downtown high-tech green screen studio. Our Think Tech talk show offerings are very diverse, and their coverage is also very diverse, covering things you might never have otherwise known. Every week, Think Tech chooses its top five Think Tech talk shows from the week before based on the number of views each of them has had on the internet. For this week, the winning shows are as follows. Number one, Beyond the Lines, hosted by Rusty Kamori. It was called USDA High Performance Coach Brent Hunter, Beyond Tennis, with guest Brent Hunter. Rusty spoke with Brent about developing the full potential of athletes and creating a culture of excellence. Brent shared valuable insights about looking forward to challenges, being resilient, and the importance of a person's mindset. You've coached many, many students, hundreds of students, and you've taken a bunch of beginners and turned them into number one ranked players in the state. How did you do that, and what did you focus on with them? Well, I think development in the beginning, if you know what it is you're doing, I think can be great, because you're working with a clean slate. You can build fundamentals the way that they should be, and look at the big picture, the big overall picture of where that player wants to be, and then map it out. Yeah. Why is tennis such a great sport in your eyes? Oh, for a bunch of reasons, but I think that it's a great exercise. I like the individual aspect, even though there is a team aspect to it, I think it's unique to find a sport where you're on your own, having to problem solve, and find ways to battle adversity. And you've got to hit it in. You've got to hit the ball in. Cannot hit it out and win. We would talk about that to our players all the time. Just hit it in one more time, right? Yeah. Now, when you were coaching the Punahou JV and Varsity team, what would you focus on in terms of team, because tennis, like you said, is such an individual sport, and it's so special when players can come on a team like that, but what was your focus with the team? Well, I think when you're on a team, I think that's a great opportunity to build leadership qualities within the team for everyone. And I also think that it's important that everyone, regardless of what position they're playing, feels equally important, because a win is a win, and you're only as good as what your weakest player is. What are your thoughts, Brent, about the physical part of tennis versus the mental part versus the emotional part? I think they're all important. I think you have to have balance in the mental and emotional part is extremely important. The physical part, I think, is constantly changing and growing, and as tennis is evolving, so are the athletes that are playing. Number two from the series, Ukulele Songs of Hawaii, hosted by Walter Kva'i'ea. It was called Bobby Hall, Nihoku o Kalaipohaku. Don't miss this fundraiser concert, Nihoku o Kalaipohaku, with guest Bobby Hall. The Nihoku o Kalaipohaku concert was July 27, 2019. Walter and Bobby spoke about community support for an iconic academic institution. Nihoku o Kalaipohaku was basically a creation with St. Louis Alumni Board and school president Glenn Madaris. It was talked about for years, but it never really materialized until I had the opportunity to share my past talents with the school, and with Glenn Madaris at the helm. It made the venture even much easier from an entertainer's perspective. Last year's event was the first time. People tried to get St. Louis entertainers back to perform. They showed up strong, represented the school, and for me, it was such a unique event, possibly something that couldn't be duplicated only because it was the brotherhood, playing for the brotherhood, with the brotherhood, all red and blue throughout, and what was most unique to me was the caliber of the entertainment, very versatile, very well renowned in Hawaii, and everybody just basically made up their show sets backstage. Yeah, that's true. I was backstage, so I don't keep talking about it. I mean, it was awesome just to see guys, and most of the time, we were just catching up on stories, reminiscing. What's all you gonna play? Oh, what about this one? And then boom, boom, boom, boom, you're on the 10 minutes, okay. And I think that transcended into the audience for a night that probably might be too hard to, yeah. So tell us, these, I mean, I'm sure it wasn't your intention when you created this venue, but simply to have a night to showcase the entertainers that are in the field that graduated from St. Louis. I mean, it went far beyond that. It was, the intention was to raise funds for... Like all private school institutions, many of them have to fund raise to help supplement operational costs, tuition costs. There's a balance on what they can charge as far as tuition, and a lot of the costs get picked up through donation, alumni support, what have you. And St. Louis has always been a school that benefited from donations and fundraisers and things like that. So this was intended to be a fundraiser for the school. And at that time, last year, the primary needs of the school was to support their STEM program, and particularly the robotics program, which was taken off and literally taken off and going international and being renowned and with some expense, of course. So the first time, first try, there were the beneficiaries of last year's Nahoku. Nice. Going forward, there's a commitment from the school to have Nahoku support arts and music and arts. Number three from the series Trump Week, hosted by me, Jay Fidel. It was called the Week of Jeffrey Epstein and the Sex Trafficking Scandal. How Close Is Epstein to Trump? With co-host Tim Apicella. We discussed the sex trafficking scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein. Trump spat with the U.K. in the decline of our relationship with the U.K. The U.N. human rights issues at the border. Continuation of Trump's double down on the census question. Shijing Ping's new courtship with Abe in Japan and why. New lies from the new press secretary. Trump's strange increase in popularity in the face of all that and much more. Well, let's go through some of the other issues. I mean, a high point this week was the whole thing about Jeffrey Epstein. The multi-millionaire, billionaire, if you will, who was currying favor with Clinton and also with Trump, who most recently distanced himself after Jeffrey Epstein got in trouble with sex trafficking of minors. That's pretty gross and he's been pretty close to government. What effect is that going to have on Trump? Well, you can distance if you want. And Bill Clinton is not out of this either. I mean, you watch Fox, they're saying Bill Clinton went to the island with Epstein 27 times. Now, I don't know where that number comes from. But the Republicans say, hey, it's Bill Clinton. The Democrats are saying, hey, I think it's Trump. And Trump doesn't help himself when he has quotations like this out there in the marketplace. I think this was with back in 2005. Remember, Donald Trump was the owner of the Miss Teenage USA pageant. And when you have quotes like this that come back up in lieu of these kind of environments of Epstein and child molestation, it doesn't help to have these kind of quotes. And that is, I'll go backstage. Everyone's getting dressed and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. They're standing there with no clothes and you see these incredible looking women. They sort of get away with that kind of stuff, 2005. And some of those girls, those children, were 14 years old. So as much as he would like the moon walk away from his association with Epstein, we have quotations like this that won't let him do that. And then he made a comment that's been quoted many times about how Epstein liked beautiful women, especially the young ones, and he admired Epstein for that. What degree did he have knowledge of this going on? Yeah, well, there's more that we don't know about. Yeah, we don't. Number four, from the series, Community Matters, hosted by J. Piedle, it was called the politics of the millennials. What young people think about the state of the presidency and of American politics with guest duration, duration is a millennial and has many thoughts about the presidency and American politics. She shared these thoughts with us and told us what she intends to do about it, like it or not, the millennial generation will have to take action to straighten things out in this country. We need 10, 20, 30 percent of our leadership to be standing up for people and not compromising on our values. And then that will lead to the critical policy changes and government and maybe campaign finance reform, specific changes in the way our government is run and financed that will then allow all the other changes to happen. And one of those things is, of course, getting money out of politics. And that would be a really basic level of returning citizens united. So something like that, like those key renew deal, those key things could be enough to shift, you know, the 10 major issues we're facing today. I'm glad I want to dwell with you on that. Let's pick one that you mentioned, getting money out of politics. Yeah, I sure agree that money is is corrupting politics, has been corrupting politics for your lifetime and maybe longer. Right. And a lot of that these days has to do with, you know, Citizens United, right? Citizens United was a case in the Supreme Court. There is no indication whatsoever that Supreme Court is going to overturn that now or in the lifetimes of, you know, the majority of the court. You know, we're not going to see a bunch of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs here. We're going to see Republicans who are not inclined to turn over Citizens United. So assuming Citizens United last, how can you change that? I mean, what's the plan? If could there be a plan? And if so, what kind of plan would it look like? You know, for July 4th, I read the Declaration of Independence. Did you really? Yeah, let me just read this. And I've never done it before. I'm 27 years old. And in it, it says, if a government something, you know, I'm summarizing, if a government fails to meet the needs, the basic needs of its people and the basic desires of its people, and it strays from that in any way, then the people within the Declaration of Independence, its states, the people must overturn it and change it on a fundamental level. And I don't know if I don't think I'm the expert to say we're quite there yet. But I think we're pretty close. I think that what the people want is consistently at odds with what our politicians do. There are certain people that have significantly more power than everyone else. So within a House of Representatives or a Congress, you're not going to have the same level of power for each person in there. So I think those people who have a lot of power tend to have the most the most influence by companies and big money, and then their values become tainted and they're not able to listen clearly to the will of the people, which is not their fault. I'm not blaming them. I understand it's challenging to balance it all out, but it's not who it's not who why we voted people in. And so I think that that's why I want millennials to vote, because locally we've had a lot of elections, even in this last cycle, where the progressive candidate lost by 20 votes. So to say that voting doesn't matter. Sometimes it's true in the Electoral College and the presidential election. It's kind of true, but in local elections, it really does matter. Just a handful of people. There's a lot of elections here locally where it's just a few dozen votes off. Number five from the series Hawaii Together, hosted by Kali Iakina. It was called Free Market Economics with Mark Scousen, Hawaii Together with guest Mark Scousen. As a renowned economics professor, financial analyst, author and successful investor, Mark Scousen is one of the leading financial minds in the country. In this interview, he discussed what free market economics is all about and why we should promote it. I wonder if you'll tell our viewers what exactly this thing called the free market is a lot of times people get their views from television or from the movies. I remember that movie a few years ago entitled Wall Street, where the main character Gordon Gekko was credited with having the philosophy of the free market. His main phrase about the free market was greed is good. How would you describe the free market, Mark? Well, having been in the financial markets for over 40 years, I can tell you that greed is a very dangerous vice. Anybody who's greedy ends up buying at the top, are tempted to get involved in speculations that turn out to be unprofitable. I know I've been greedy before. I've gotten involved in these kinds of deals. And a lot of people are if you get greedy, you're tempted to get involved with the Bernie Madoff scandal, which promises high returns and little or no risk. So greed is not a virtue. Selfishness is not a virtue. When we talk about the free market, yes, you are free to be greedy. You are free to be selfish. But you learn very quickly that that doesn't necessarily work out to your advantage. Adam Smith is the heroic figure of free market economics. And he taught us that a free market is where you have the right to decide what you're going to pay your workers, what you're going to produce, who you hire, who you fire. It really gets to and how you're going to share the profits. If you're going to share the profits with your workers and so on. So there's there's always a variety of what is chosen. And government regulation is essential for a thriving economy. I'm not an anarchist and neither was Adam Smith. But, you know, you need to be careful that you don't over regulate where in today's world, too much is prohibited or mandated. So we're being squeezed from both sides when it comes to economic freedom. Staff pick from the series, Sister Power, hosted by Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. It was called a conversation with Dr. James McCoy, the National Medical Association's annual Convention and Scientific Assembly with guests, James McCoy, the National Medical Association's annual Convention and Scientific Assembly is acclaimed as the nation's foremost forum on medical science and African American health. Each year, African American physicians and other health professionals from across the country convened to participate in the scholarly exchange of medical advances and to discuss health policy priorities and to share experiences through networking opportunities. NMA is an awesome organization and you did excellent in explaining what we do. And this is the thing. NMA was founded in 1895. You may want to know, well, OK, there's another organization that is called AMA, American Medical Association. So why would African Americans have to create their own organization? The reason simply discrimination. Because we weren't allowed to join AMA. That's the white counterpart. So we. Did put together our own organization. And that discrimination really continued from the AMA all the way up to, I would say, the 1960s. But interestingly. The first African American position. In 1981. Became president of AMA. A black man, a black man became president of AMA. Around 1991, 1991. Yes, Dr. Brasto from California. Now, wait, I tell you this. In 2008, the president of the American Medical Association. Came to the NMA convention. And apologize for their contribution of racism, discrimination, disparity in health when it comes to African American. You can always find the links to these shows in our daily email advisories. If you don't already get our daily email advisories, you can sign up to get them on thinktecawaii.com. These are only samplings from the top five and staff pick from across our 35 weekly talk shows. There are, of course, many more. To see these top five and staff pick shows in their entirety, go to thinktecawaii.com or youtube.com slash thinktecawaii. Great diversity, great community, great content at ThinkTech. If you have questions or comments about these or any of our shows, please let us know. And yes, it's OK to share them with your friends and colleagues. Thanks so much for watching our shows and for supporting our efforts at ThinkTech. 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