 Welcome to Think Tech on Spectrum OC16, Hawaii's weekly newscast on things that matter to tech and Hawaii. I'm Jay Fiedel. And I'm Raya Salter. In our show this time, we'll cover our continuing adventures on the street, made possible with our live view LU500 video transmitter. We'll take our LU500 and camcorder for walks around Honolulu, and we'll talk with the people we meet to see what they're thinking. So our show this week is about Think Tech on the street using our LU500, the remarkable technology that lets us talk to people and broadcast that live from anywhere in Hawaii. Live View is made by an Israeli company that has created a small footprint video transmission system that makes it possible to live stream video from pretty much anywhere. This changes the world of remote video and opens new doors for television broadcasting and for Think Tech too. Live View uses what they call bonding technology. It combines multiple cell phone modem signals into one really fast broadband connection and allows us to stream video signals so clear that it's as if we were back in the studio. Our LU500 is the size of a cigar box and can go anywhere. We became aware of this technology from news network videographers who have come to Hawaii and stream their signals live back to the East Coast. We have also seen it at the NAB show. That's the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas every spring. And we started to get an idea of just how good it is. With a grant from the Cook Foundation we were fortunate enough to be able to acquire this equipment including the remote transmitter and a studio server to receive the signal. And we have been using it for remote location shoots since the beginning of this year. The possibilities for remote video in Hawaii are limitless. We started with on location shoots in the downtown area including on the Fort Street Mall just outside our studio, Tamron Park at Bishop Square, the State Capitol and City Hall. This technology is driving a video revolution providing live feed for television, mobile, online and social media transmitting high quality live video content from anywhere in the world. Remote live video offers promising possibilities for online news, events, sports, education and more. The in-the-moment effect is a big boost for delivery of content to audiences everywhere. We are here outside Fort Street Mall talking to folks about fake news. I mainly get my news out of real news sources so I don't spend a lot of time getting fake news off of social media. Fair enough. What are the sources that you prefer? You've got to watch four different TV channels to get any real news anymore. The real news used to be when Jay Fidel and I were around, he listened to Uncle Walter Cronk I tell you the news and that was the damn news. Well you see it a lot especially via social media with a lot of different things because a lot of people they'll go ahead and post stuff like even in terms of like the elections they were saying okay well there was a big turnout there's oh well you know CNN said it wrong or New York Times printed the wrong numbers or the picture was fake are falsified and I think the the issue is that people don't really do you know their research. So what about all those people from those seven countries that he banned he banned what about them how do you feel about them? It's not fair like especially if they are American citizens too just because they like if they're dual citizenship just because of the other country they come from then all out in you know yeah I think it's unfair too yeah you guys are you are you from the US? No. Where are you from? The UK. Have you been banned yet? No not yet. So let's talk about Europe for a minute you know there are a lot of issues in Europe yeah Germany and France and for that matter Belgium so but they're not it's not in Scandinavia Scandinavia doesn't have issues like that yeah no I think it's because of the strict politics you know when the Syria crisis we didn't take that many people in in our country personally I don't think that was a good way to handle it. You think they should have taken more migrants yeah I think Germany took so many and we didn't take any compared to those so what are you studying? Environmental studies. What are you going to do with that? I have no idea. I wanted to work in the federal government but that may not be so easy at all. Well it's an open market you know you come out here you get local produce you got local fruits you know we pick it up we bag it and we're bringing out here and you know and we distribute it to the people of the island you know and I feel that you know everything local is a lot better than buying stuff from the mainland. I do a classic popcorn which is cooked in sugar and then lightly salted a caramel where it's cooked the same exact way and then salted a rainbow so five different colors five different fruit flavors. Bike share we'll have public bikes there's gonna be a thousand bikes in urban Honolulu spread out across a hundred stations between basically here in Chinatown downtown to Waikiki. When you're riding your bike around it's always good to see other people on bikes and to have a thousand more bikes on the street is going to be great. We're here talking to folks in the park about their plans for Valentine's Day. First ladies maybe you can tell me are you single? I'm single. Oh my fellow she's single Mary. Oh off the market. I think he's making a lot of big decisions that influencing this country negatively. From my personal perspective growing up in Europe we always looked at the United States as the land of freedom the land where no matter what your background is or where you were from or the color of your skin you could actually be someone if you worked hard. And I'm Marcia Joyner and today we are at the Hawaii State Capitol and we were here to hear the decision making about the bill medical aid and dying. Doctors deal with this issue all the time in hospitals you know they're controlling people's pain but that control of pain often results in them dying and they call that a dual effect but I mean you know you don't do this to patients without their consent but they say you tell them look we're going to help your pain but if we control your pain we give you enough medication to control your pain you're likely to stop breathing. Well we're hoping that the vote for the Senate will be favorable it will pass by a strong majority vote and then at that point it crosses over to the House and the House will get their opportunity to hear the bill and really see the amount of support that there is for medical aid in dying and ultimately pass it. At this point I can say that the majority of the House I think I believe feels favorably for the passage of the bill. Well I think most people are focused on national politics people are out you know really making their voices known on national politics national issues has been kind of quiet over here we hope that they we're starting to see a pick up an activity but hopefully they'll come out to their legislature make their voices known there's a lot of things we can do to add to their voice the legislative process even though it has to do with the federal government. I miss Sam you know Sam has a self-deprecating humor he has a oratory voice and he is kind of the bell weather of all the conservative issues in the state of Hawaii so he's dearly missed but we had him at the beer summit last week and he was jovial and giving his sense of what the world should be like according to the Lone Ranger and he's going to do well we're trying to get him a Trump administration appointment. There's an ordinance existing now ordinance 0701 that means it's the first ordinance that became an ordinance in the year 2007 specifically states that there are only two mechanisms of funding for rail construction that's monies derived from the state general excise tax surcharge and monies derived from the federal government so that means that there are no other funding sources that can be used for rail construction that's rail construction well what about operation operation and maintenance we will need to utilize real property tax revenues as we do now for the operation of our existing city public transportation system this is all giving us a great opportunity to learn how to best use this technology and stream this content to our think tech viewers here are some of our recent interviews on the street we're here with john and john i like to ask you how are you feeling about supporting local agricultural here and also local farmers well i think it's really vital the fact that most of the food we eat comes from overseas so finding the the space and the people that can do that can produce what we need to eat is vital here and i think that means supporting the farmers as well well that's a good question because a lot of restaurants and a lot of food products within stores like whole foods and things like that they specialize in local products do you go seek that do you support and seek those specialized products you know i do and i think you know there's definitely a taste difference as well that obviously is fresher and such but restaurants also we make sure that you know we're not trying to order something that is not normally available this time of year and see what the local local produce for that particular season is i don't have a particular opinion about the vehicle that's before the legislature now but i think that people should have the right to choose to die if they meet a certain list of criteria like if they have a terminal illness i think it's about giving people that personal choice to decide how they in their life as opposed to just forcing people to live in chronic pain i think that puts individuals in a tough position and also family members if they were to ask them to pull the plug on them but that's not legal it just puts i think families who are grieving and in tough situations into gray legal waters organ is one of the few states that have actually passed that that bill and it's been on the books for i think at least for at least five or six years what do you think other states i think they tried to put the bill out and try to get them passed but with no success i wonder what they were doing differently i'm not really sure but from what i've heard from the organ example is that they haven't had any cases where they've been very concerned like where it's been flagged as maybe there was some like ethical issues i think a lot of the opponents of it like to talk about how people are going to be pushed towards killing themselves because family members or the state isn't interested in paying for their care going forward but from what i understand of the organ bill there are a lot of checks and balances multiple doctors that have to approve and i think if we were to do the same thing here and ensure that there are checks and balances and that no one gets forced into anything then i think people deserve to have that right to decide the fate of their life you had any thoughts about the medicaid proposal being cut through the trump administration i think it's really just a shame that we've made the affordable care act into obama care and politicized it because if you have people just look at the proposals that are in the bill a lot of them support it pre-existing conditions staying on to your 26 and i even saw recently that like 40 percent of republicans were interested in a single payer option for health care i think people just generally want to be taken care of and know that at a very basic level they are going to be okay and i think it's really indicative that we're moving towards a a societal consensus that health care is a universal right former police chief of seattle was in the federal government and i can't remember his exact role but he came out very strongly for the decriminalization of marijuana so do you draw a distinction between decriminalization versus medical usage or do you see they're on the same plane well i see there's a little difference i mean i'm actually four bold i've been in law enforcement for 35 years and i think the big thing that i recognize as far as marijuana use is is that i see when states have gone to that that the hard narcotics which is really destroying a lot of what the country and what's going on i think that drops immensely when you legalize marijuana i think obviously you got to have restrictions and control it and you know just like alcohol so yeah and i've always been for uh medical marijuana right you know i see people that are on medical marijuana and instead of them having to be on prescription medications and different type of narcotics that seems like they have reverse effects a lot of times uh americ marijuana makes them calmer have a better uh healthier outlook for life what do you think about the epidemic of um oxy cotton overdoses and things of that nature what what do you think still the cause of that suddenly well from the state that that i'm from indiana we've definitely seen an increase in it and i think it's gotten cheaper it is an extremely addictive narcotic i think um medically a lot of people uh it became a prescription drug of choice through prescription legally and then it became abusive and people that uh learn how to use abusive drugs by selling their drugs to uh and just taken off i mean our state right now we're having an epidemic our county the city i'm from we're having an epidemic to the extent that uh we just went through training where all of our officers now carry narcotic which is a quick remedy for heroin overdoses that we're finding on the streets and it's so sad because uh there's several people we've probably saved three or four times within the last month or two and they're just a strong addition to cheaper drug now so that's what they're going to and that's one reason i'm kind of in favor of legalizing marijuana is i think the states have done that it's dramatic what uh how did uh the hard use of narcotics prescription drugs to uh all the other you know heroin crack cocaine do you think i think it's do you think there's a legislative fix to this or is it just going to have to come from societal from the ground ground up well i think you got to have legislation involved and have rules like everything society has to have rules that to make things function because uh even with rules people always push the limits on that which usually creates problems and creates a bad image for that rule so yeah i think you got to have legislation and then the rule you have to have rules and it's breaking down last question do you think your peers on the force share your your thoughts or um do you think uh you're a minority in that thinking no i i'm the i'm an old school cop i've been on a long time and seen all the changes uh definitely the younger officers coming on i feel feel that way and and and i'm probably one of the last uh old horses that have started looking that way and and feeling that way and i felt that way for years and i i think before i retire which will be in a couple years i think it will happen in our state it's it's going that way and and law enforcement is not really the roadblock for that steve like to ask you about the memorial day weekend and usually it represents the beginning of summer but as you know is a very solemn uh holiday and do you think the holiday still has relevance to some people it does um to me i remembered my dad he was in the military so uh to me it does i don't think people have a an appreciation for history like they used to is a young i taught in college for a number of years and young people know nothing about the second world war they know nothing about pearl harbor they don't know who dwight eisenhower was they don't know who macarthur was it's really kind of sad seems like a lot of people are having picnics and you know doing all the things that summer represents and you know that's a good thing and that's you know and that's all right but do you think that people are taking the time to really sit down with the meaning of the holiday and and try to reflect on those that gave their lives for this country and through whether it be the revolution or civil war all the other conflicts in between do you think people actually take the time to reflect that and fortunately i think they don't these parties that you say and and picnics um they're just there to meet family and friends and they don't reflect on the past nowadays do you think it's time to change the holiday or or try to give it a new significance and meaning somehow they give it a new significance in meaning you see this we just came from ross it's full of people as they took her almost 20 minutes to get through the cashier so people maybe think more of the fallen heroes than some of the younger people because we've known a little more of the history we're on the cruise ship and the first announcement i heard this morning was today is memorial day it's a day of morning for the lost heroes um no i think the past is the past and pretty much everybody's moved on do you think it's time to come up with a new holiday or keep the keep the memorial day holiday in existence um well i worked so it doesn't really matter about a holiday or not for a lot of people it's just another day off for them have you seen or experienced road rage here on our our roadways or highway unfortunately yes um i live out on the west side of the island and i drive um back and forth daily it's it's uh it can be it can be challenging particularly when you have um drivers who are aggressive um and other drivers who um aren't polite in letting people in yeah definitely witness it um i wouldn't say daily but at least once a week or so on that's quite a bit actually yeah usually happens you know either early in the morning you know when everyone's rushing or usually after work time you know when it's uh packed with traffic what kind of things are you seeing i mean you see them directed at other people or have you ever been involved with some of these events well of course you know if you drive long enough you you certainly are and what i try to do is i try to just say hey you know god bless you you know and and just let them in and let's let them go ahead i my thing is i just don't want them to take me with them when when they when they have a bad accident or you know i'm not going to get into uh a beef with somebody you know we're driving uh there was one there was one time when i was coming from kanioi and i was going over the h3 and this this guy was just really tailgating me for for some reason um what i what i did was i i held up my phone and and just to show him that i was you know calling calling the uh calling the authorities and then he sped off and left but if it was really bad i just i would just call on 911 and and tell tell them where i am and what's going on and or the you know drive to the nearest police station i've seen i've seen it all i've seen people you know like cut other people off and then get out the truck or the car and start calling them out or swearing at them um say people you know honking their horns the usual swearing and stuff like that i guess we all kind of have some type of road rage and we deal with it differently um but yeah usually when you see it you see the the higher end of it what do you what would you guess is the number one thing that irritates people the most when they're on the road um i'm guessing well mine personally is slow drivers you know really slow drivers and stuff like that um nationwide that ranks 13 percent so you're part of the 13 percent nationwide okay well that's good um yeah i guess maybe another one would be um you know when you cut somebody off or something don't use you know your blinker whatnot that's probably a big one also that is that's number two so i'm gonna give it to you uh the number one reason people are irritated is they see people looking down at their phone while driving or at a stoplight okay yeah that makes sense yeah yeah that would probably be one of mine's too yeah if you are the direct recipient of someone's rage what do you think you would do uh do you know kind of the steps that you would want to think about before things escalated um definitely think if i'm going to go to jail or not probably not do anything that would be that bad but um you know probably just try and mellow out the situation as best as you can i'd like to know how you feel about how president trump is doing so far in office since his election i give him a nap i just don't think he's qualified i think he has poor listening skills i believe he projects his issues so every time he points a finger and calls another country something else or somebody else something else he's really talking about himself he even said that he hasn't changed since he was two years old so we're dealing with the two-year-old president one segment at 12 40 and one at 140 p.m on Tuesdays and Fridays and we also use it in our breaks and overnight feed we're also planning to expand our walkabouts to trips to other areas in oahu and on the neighbor islands as usual we make our think tech on spectrum oc 16 movies on these trips but we'll also stream some of our footage back to our studio for live broadcast want to see more of our on the street segments see our think tech on the street playlist on youtube.com want to know more about live view check out live view.info stay tuned for more not only our expanding array of talk shows and think tech 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