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03:30Very, very interesting story.
03:33So, I mean, that is a book that I've read when I was a teenager in South South Korea.
03:43okay uh let me look up the name of that book
03:50is that kids of heaven or something kids of the kingdom
03:56kids of the kingdom uh is that book
04:05uh kiss to the kingdom the kids of the kingdom
04:12uh mr aj cronin okay 1941 okay yeah
04:24yeah that's wikipedia for okay so the kids of the kingdom
04:29mr aj cronin yeah published in 1941 okay so
04:34okay yeah the kids of the kingdom yeah very into a highly movie okay so
04:39but uh from what i remember because i uh yeah i looked up in the internet uh
04:47months ago okay but i read that book translated in korean language back in 1990s okay
04:54uh i think i borrowed that book from my sister okay yeah it's a bestseller
05:00uh worldwide mr aj cronin he's he's a doctor okay in uh united kingdom
05:07okay and uh yeah also christian okay catholic tradition old school okay
05:14uh so he uh i guess he did maybe serve as a missionary at some point i guess i don't know
05:20okay so they partially based on his experience okay so and it's like a it's a fiction long
05:29fiction novel okay and uh it was page tunnel i read in in my teenagehood maybe high school middle
05:39school somewhere on there okay so and uh translated into korean language and i borrowed that book from
05:46my sister who's five years older than me okay she's absolutely fantastic lady okay that's very smart okay
05:53very inspirational yeah i i learned a lot from my sister who's five years older than me okay she's
05:59fantastic okay so uh and uh yeah so uh page tunnel okay it's like adventure of this catholic priest
06:08uh he uh in that character okay catholic priest okay uh missionary in china okay yeah and uh but in his
06:21younger days he's very yeah in that that character very smart person in younger days yeah doing manual labor
06:30okay i remember uh
06:32uh mr aj cronin the writer of that book the kiss of the kingdom okay uh so he introduced this main
06:47character or later on catholic priest but uh from what i remember that long novel it was like this thick
06:57okay okay so but still page tunnel okay so maybe not that thick but this day okay but two to three
07:05hundred pages i don't know okay but yeah uh translate to korean language when i was a teenager in south
07:12south korea middle school high school summer okay so page tunnel okay it was international bestseller and
07:19then later on hollywood movie okay yeah
07:22so maybe i watched that movie okay uh okay where is amazon.com i don't know okay so i don't think i've
07:38watched the movie yet okay so but i read the book it translated in korean language okay so now time check
07:44yeah so uh this later on like catholic church missionary to china and later on maybe coming back to
08:00united kingdom i don't know okay this main character i don't know i don't remember the main character's name
08:07but in the main characters earlier days younger days smart person doing good in school but for some reasons
08:14economic hardship financial hardship uh maybe in late teens maybe maybe early 20s working uh physical
08:24labor okay and uh from what i remember i'm 47 now okay so if i was 17 like 30 years ago
08:38but i remember where i remember some passages in that book
08:49i think it's worthwhile to remember okay yeah although it's a fiction okay but it's not like i was in like
08:58some english literature class where i'm obligated to remember some plot summary
09:03no no it's ex-class cultural activity okay but it i think it was worthwhile to remember okay so
09:14uh so that later on the catholic priest
09:21before that yeah missionary to china okay yes later on maybe catholic priest back to united kingdom in europe
09:29okay uh okay uh but younger days of that character yeah smart doing good in school
09:37academic but maybe some financial hardship uh he had to work in uh physical level long hours
09:46and that description in that novel with a.j crony british writer okay so
09:58maybe he's irish i don't know okay somewhere on there okay they're both great countries ireland
10:06united kingdom they're both great countries now let me look at what i don't know i don't want to miss
10:12it's called is this from a.j crony is called is this from a.j crony united kingdom you know kingdom okay
10:28this causes yeah it's official medical doctor okay so okay yeah back in like 1940s okay all right so uh
10:37uh so the way he described this character later on became catholic priest before that yeah missionary in china okay so
10:50uh but that character's younger days probably in united kingdom okay yeah uh academically excellent but
10:59uh finding hardship from from his parents hard times maybe yeah working in uh physical level i don't know
11:10what kind okay long hours
11:13so the way mr aj crony uh described this character
11:29yeah this young man
11:36who used to excel academically in high school
11:39i'm kind of paraphrasing look that was like 30 years ago when i read the novel okay
11:49cover to cover okay yeah page tone yeah
11:58so once academically excelling student in high school
12:03uh after graduation yeah his parents went through some bankruptcy so
12:12uh they cannot
12:17pay the tuition although this young high school graduate got
12:25admission to top school maybe oxford cambridge in united kingdom
12:29um but yeah uh because of their parents bankruptcy yeah
12:36this bright young man need to go work in a factory
12:46full-time
12:49because
12:50they need to survive
12:55they need to survive financially
12:57financially
12:58yeah going to cambridge ask for uh
13:01uh
13:02son
13:06we your parents sorry we cannot pay your tuition
13:14so yeah so yeah you have to work in a factory
13:19and making minimum wage
13:22hard physical labor
13:29okay
13:34yes dad yes mom i'll do it i'm still young i'm young i'm like 18 years old yeah i'll go to factory
13:41because we need to survive we need to make money
13:46uh
13:47to survive
13:49to buy bread
13:51milk
13:53water
13:54i do it
13:55and he did that in the novel okay but
14:00most likely based on true story yeah because i i i know yeah i i read some real stories biographies
14:07like that like that okay yeah so yeah okay now let's have five minutes break okay
14:13then we continue this memory of that wonderful book
14:19the kids
14:21of the kingdom by mr a.j cronin
14:26scardis medical doctor physician and writer okay
14:32time check
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14:40you're more than 30 minutes left okay yeah fine is correct thank you
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19:03Yeah, so, uh, yeah, action, okay?
19:09Acting, okay, yeah.
19:10So, yeah, so this character, yeah, like maybe 18, 19 years old, excelled in high school academically, but their parents, his parents went to bankruptcy, so he should work as opposed to going to Oxford, Cambridge, because his parents cannot afford the tuition, okay?
19:33So, yeah, so he had to work, so he had to work, so he had to work full-time and, you know, factory, okay?
19:37Yeah, so he had to work, then he felt that his intellectual, his intellect, brain department, kind of like being erased or slipping away
20:07in a factory working, okay, so he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling he's been more like a mechanic, robotized, okay, like day-to-day, nine-to-five, repetitive work, physical labor.
20:27So, so he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling as if one's very sharp brain department, kind of diminishing.
20:36So, that was his concern, because he's a, he wants to be an intellectual, he wants to go to college, but as he's doing this physical labor, day after day,
21:06he's feeling he's feeling he's feeling he wants to be a part one capacity, kind of like being muted, kind of dumbed down as opposed to wise up, okay, so he felt sorry about it.
21:24Okay, yeah, now, scene called, okay, so that's my interpretation of that scene.
21:36It's an exceptional level.
21:41Look, I appreciate all different kinds of professions, factory workers, they are great, they are very smart people, I know.
21:51But it's just one fiction scenario, that's all.
22:01Have I felt that way when I used to work in Woodman's Supermarket in Madison's Council?
22:11No, I did not, okay.
22:14Because, yeah, it's a physical level, yeah.
22:18Collecting shopping carts, yeah, bagging the grocery items in the Madison's Council supermarket, okay.
22:29Yeah, I did it for a year, okay.
22:31But did I feel like my intellect was diminishing?
22:34No, I did not build it away.
22:37Why?
22:38Because, yeah, I worked an eight-hour shift, five days away.
22:48Yeah, back in 1998, four years, okay.
22:55But when I clock out, punch out, eight-hour shift, I came back home and I studied English language.
23:03It was like 1998, 1997, okay.
23:07When I first came back to America in Madison's Council, okay.
23:10Yeah, because I wanted to get back to school after learning English so that I can understand lectures.
23:19Because I got admitted to Madison's Council University, okay.
23:24My English was not good enough to understand the professors.
23:28Yeah, so, yeah, one year, Madison's Council in the city, Madison's Council in America,
23:38Woodman's Grocery, Woodman's Supermarket, okay, it's a big chain, okay.
23:42Not that big, but small.
23:44Not too small, okay.
23:45Yeah, two chains back then, okay.
23:47Maybe nowadays expanded, okay.
23:50Yeah, that great measurement.
23:53Yeah.
23:54I met the founder of the supermarket, Mr. Woodman himself.
24:01Maybe in his 60s, okay.
24:03He's fantastic.
24:04Is your stature?
24:05Yeah, he's brilliant.
24:08Business person, okay.
24:11Yeah, I met him, okay.
24:14Yeah, he's cool, okay.
24:16Yeah.
24:22But it was nice, okay.
24:25Yeah, the management, good management, okay.
24:28Mr. Woodman and the people on the ramp, okay, the managers, good management, okay.
24:37So, yeah, so, yeah, it was very fair treatment, okay.
24:41Yes.
24:42Okay.
24:43Yeah.
24:44So, yeah, I did work, physical level, at the age of 18, 19, something like that, okay.
24:53So, yeah, courting shopping carts, yeah, as a bagging person in the counter, okay, and the parceling to load these bags to their car, great, okay.
25:10So, but after I clock out, punch out, eight hour shift, came back to my apartment in Madison, Wisconsin.
25:23Yeah.
25:24Yeah.
25:25Take on that.
25:26After that, a spare time, learning English.
25:29That's challenging.
25:34Intellectually, yeah.
25:36Maybe not too intelligent, it's not a philosophy.
25:40It's a translation between Korean language and English language, but still, brain department, okay.
25:47So, I did not think my brain was dumbing down, dumbing down.
25:53No, not at all.
25:55I'm learning English.
25:58It's not philosophy, science, but still, it's spelling, pronunciation.
26:05Still, brain department, okay, so.
26:22Okay.
26:24It was nice, yeah, beautiful fond memories.
26:36Yeah, the literature, yeah, the kids of the kingdom, and also my own experience, 30 years ago, in Madison, Wisconsin.
26:51Yeah, working as a physical liberal in Woodman's supermarket.
26:57It was very nice supermarket, okay, yeah.
27:00Fantastic.
27:01Good measurement.
27:03Good education, okay.
27:04Good education, okay.
27:17Hmm
27:19Good edge cares to get
27:23Good people
27:27Hard working, okay, yeah, well, I'm kind of getting drunk. Okay. Now time check. It will take five minutes away, okay?
27:43Yeah, more than 10 minutes left. Yeah, five minutes back. Thank you. Yeah
27:47Oh, very nice
27:49Yeah
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30:35Let's talk about management.
30:37Let's simplify.
30:39There are many different settings, context, industries.
30:43Let's talk about fast food restaurants.
30:47To simplify.
30:49They are great people, great professionals.
30:53Mostly.
30:55But I've been to some fast food restaurants.
30:59It was not managed very well.
31:05Once in a while.
31:07I've seen them as a customer.
31:09Like, fast food restaurants.
31:13Yeah, they serve American fast food.
31:15Like hamburgers, which is fantastic.
31:17Chicken burgers, french fries.
31:21Okay, soda pop.
31:23Drinks, okay.
31:25And...
31:27I've been to some...
31:29I'm 47 years old, okay.
31:31Yeah, I came back to America when I was 19.
31:33Okay, so I've lived more than half of my life in America.
31:37Okay.
31:38And I've been to other countries too.
31:40Okay, I'm 47.
31:42Yeah, observed.
31:44Good management.
31:46Not so good management.
31:48Okay, so...
31:49I've been to fast food restaurants in America.
31:52Where it's done, very well managed.
31:55Once in a while.
31:57Okay.
31:58But most of them, very well managed.
32:01Okay.
32:02I've seen some poorly managed fast food restaurants.
32:13Okay.
32:14Yeah.
32:15And it was like this.
32:17Okay.
32:19It's American fast food restaurant.
32:23Fantastic hamburgers.
32:27I did enjoy the hamburgers and fries.
32:30I did.
32:31But...
32:32Not very well managed.
32:36From customer's point of view.
32:41Okay.
32:42So a good manager needs to supervise employees.
32:50Are they doing their job?
32:53It applies to any other industry.
32:57Okay.
32:58But to simplify, fast food.
33:00Restaurant.
33:01In America.
33:02Okay.
33:03Yeah.
33:04It could be like...
33:05Whatever.
33:06Like Burger King.
33:07Or McDonald's.
33:08Wendy's.
33:09Subway.
33:10Kentucky Fried Chicken.
33:11Whatever.
33:12Okay.
33:13So...
33:14Okay.
33:15I'm not gonna name names.
33:16Okay.
33:17Although I remember.
33:18What Jordan's Day was.
33:19Okay.
33:20Yeah.
33:21It could be Subway Sandwich.
33:22Or others.
33:23Okay.
33:24Whatever.
33:25Okay.
33:26I love fast food.
33:28Sometimes.
33:29Okay.
33:30It's quick.
33:31Affordable.
33:32Mostly 90% of time.
33:34Maybe 99% of time.
33:36Professional.
33:37Yeah.
33:38Yeah.
33:39But maybe one person of time.
33:40All different restaurants that I've been to in America.
33:45Past like 30 years.
33:46Okay.
33:47Yeah.
33:48I've seen some poorly managed restaurant.
33:49Fast food in America.
33:50Okay.
33:51Not gonna name names.
33:52Brand name.
33:53Okay.
33:54Yeah.
33:55Like ketchup dispenser.
33:56Is empty.
33:57Bathroom.
33:58Too smelly.
33:59Too dirty.
34:00Like on the floor of the bathroom.
34:01Yeah.
34:02Too smelly.
34:03Too dirty.
34:04ketchup dispenser is empty bathroom too smelly too dirty like on the floor of
34:19the bathroom yeah they're like you know floor bathroom in this rest fast food
34:28American fast food restaurant through the bathroom yeah some litters and does
34:37not smell good outside the restroom yeah the ketchup dispenser empty
34:46and the employees there are making fun of their customers
35:05this experience they were even making fun of my accent yeah I'm Korean American okay
35:18yeah I have Korean accent making fun of my accent when I'm a customer and their
35:27employees they are making fun of my accent really I'm kind of like
35:33telling you my real experiences many different brands American fast-food
35:41restaurants okay just I love American fast-food restaurants okay many
35:48different brands okay some not so nice experiences my like well past 30 years in
36:03America okay
36:14some of them more scale diner okay refusing to serve me because I was with my friend
36:24okay I remember that restaurant name okay more upscale maybe not too high class
36:32maybe middle class I was with my friend I was expressing my religious opinions and they
36:40they refused to serve us maybe they thought I'm an occult religion person okay trying to convert my friend to my occult religion whatever okay refusing to serve
36:57whatever okay refusing to serve we waited there to get served for one hour okay so we call the manager
37:03actually that happened in Madison Wisconsin okay okay I'm not gonna name names with the restaurant joint
37:11I'm not gonna name names with the restaurant joint it's quite famous one okay but yeah but my friend
37:20my friend although and me is very smart gentleman okay my co-worker in
37:26Woodman's supermarket again that gentleman yeah he was like guys very good gentleman content man and very
37:34civilized careers okay and he asked the manager okay we are not being served food we have money but he was buying me food because you older than me okay
37:38more money okay okay well but yeah if you can't he's higher than me in Woodman's supermarket okay so
37:45medicine is considered okay yeah we are co-workers in Woodman's supermarket okay so he uh yeah we have been not being served we are talking about
37:55religion it's occultist whatever whatever okay we've been waiting for one hour and you're not serving us
38:17discrimination okay so yeah uh yeah yeah he said yeah
38:24He said, yeah, hey, we want to talk to the manager.
38:28Really just discrimination.
38:30Again, I'm paraphrasing, okay, so.
38:32Yeah, the manager came and then did not say, yeah, we're not discriminating against you.
38:37We're sorry.
38:39And that gentleman, my colleague, was a higher-paying job in the Udman supermarket.
38:47It was back in, like, 1999, early 2000, whatever, okay, so.
38:53Yeah, he said, yeah, would you give us, like, coupons, okay, this is wise gentleman, okay, older than me, maybe by five years, okay.
39:05Yeah, because you mistreated us, okay, we waited for one hour, we have money, I think he was about to buy me food, okay.
39:16Yeah, yeah, but, yeah, yeah, so, how about some coupons, okay, some, uh,
39:23And they did comply to his demand.
39:27Okay, yeah, uh, so, yeah, just two, uh, coupons, okay, like, free, you know, and they complied to him, his demand.
39:39Just back in 1998, somewhere around there, yeah.
39:46And that wonderful gentleman, in medicine, Wisconsin, my upper colleague, he was, like, more money, okay, so.
39:56Kind of my senior in Udman supermarket, okay.
39:59Yeah, so, yeah, so he got his two, free, you know, ticket, okay, from that.
40:05Kind of, like, more upscale than fast food, okay.
40:10Kind of medium level, okay, not to way high, but kind of in the middle, okay.
40:16Dino, nice dino, okay.
40:17And then he gave
40:21Do they gave him two tickets? Yeah for two free dinars. Okay, and
40:27Coupons, okay more than coupon is two free dinars. Yeah, and he gave it to me
40:37So thank you
40:47You
40:52Yeah, so this is a very wonderful good-hearted charitable hard-working
41:02People in Madison's constant
41:09Me
41:10I'm kind of an immigrant America
41:12I was born in America, but grew in South South Korea. Okay. Oh, they know about me
41:20Yeah, so
41:22Do you know how I use this to free dinars?
41:27Tickets this is kind and generous gentleman who's older than me five maybe five five years, okay
41:34who worked with me in
41:37Madison's constant supermarket
41:39Woodman's
41:41Okay, okay
41:44Who are kind and generous to
41:47Listen to me my brand new religion theory like human analogy, okay
41:54It was very generous, okay
41:58Yeah, so
42:00But he made more money than I did okay in the wonderful supermarket was most smoking I have many friends
42:08Like him both males and females okay in the correct people co-workers
42:14Okay, and some of them. Yeah making more money than I did. Okay. Yeah hierarchical guess
42:20Yeah, so
42:22No time check
42:24Uh, we can like a more than five minutes left. Okay, so I need some vocalist. Okay, so
42:37We'll take two minutes, okay
42:40But yeah, they are tell you the rest of the wonderful story very humane
42:45Alive civilized
42:47Beautiful story
42:49Two minutes break. Okay. Yeah for co-workers
42:51But
42:52And
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46:42So, I do not remember that wonderful gentleman, my co-worker, but still a little bit higher up.
46:50He was not in management, okay?
46:52So, still physical level, okay?
46:55So, I think he was in his 30s, okay?
46:59Yeah, who demanded to that restaurant, it's kind of a dino, okay?
47:05Yeah, kind of middle class, yeah, so you are not serving us for one hour because we are talking
47:15about some religious topics, okay?
47:18So, yeah, so, yeah, so he demanded to meet the manager and the manager was nice, okay, so he demanded, yeah, give us two free dinner tickets and they complied to his demand.
47:34And I'm like, great people, okay?
47:38We're talking about Madison, Wisconsin, back in 1998.
47:40Yeah, they're mostly white people, Caucasians, okay?
47:44So, yeah, so, my friend is Caucasian gentleman, white person, okay?
47:48In his stories, I think, okay, so, and yeah, so the manager was also Caucasian male gentleman, okay?
47:57Yeah, yeah, two free dinner tickets and handed over to my colleague, older colleague, kind of like higher ranking colleague in Oodman supermarket, okay?
48:13So, and then he later on in the parking lot, he gave it to me, okay, yeah, two tickets, okay.
48:23and the way i used that to free dinner ticket maybe uh several months later yeah my mother
48:31from south south korea came to visit me okay yeah in medicine wisconsin is this in 1998
48:38somewhere around there okay so we went to the same restaurant and i we did not talk about any religion
48:45okay and then and daddy suffered two dinner meals my mother and me and we ate good free meal
49:00we didn't talk about religion okay so so it was not race discrimination just because we
49:07asians it was not there okay religious discrimination okay
49:23i remember that okay now time check
49:28interesting story right yeah
49:29oh my goodness it's been two hours oh yeah i'm gonna have to split this episode into okay
49:42because in dailymotion we have two hour limit okay so okay i'll do that okay yeah thank you i'll see
49:48you tomorrow thank you yep
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