I'm going to Rome, Italy today so we are in sight of the Colosseum so aesthetically pleasing like the place and itself is beautiful but like the food is so cool now we're on an activity with the EF school but right in front of me is the beautiful Spanish steps hey guys happy saturday we are on our way to the airport because he is dropping me off that literally doesn't feel real at all i'm going to Rome Italy today we're actually gonna stop at the varsity because i want to take a picture with like my passport and all my suitcase and stuff like that and i heard there was a really good view of like the city over there at least i hope so um so we're gonna stop there and take a picture before we go to the international airport also ryan got a haircut he buzzed off all his hair and funny story i tried cutting his hair because i cut it like um another time and he actually liked it so i was like okay let's cut it again like i can do it and then my personal barber yeah and then i messed it up and she was supposed to cut like a two-hour to the middle and she went all the way up with it yeah and i was like i don't like that bad so i you know wore the haircut she gave me like two days yeah and i was like i can't do it it's too bad yeah so we had to buzz it but it should grow up fast because his hair grows really really fast if we ever have kids our kids are going to be so hairy like i'm indian got that indian hair jean my hair grows crazy i'm low key really scared to travel alone this bar like i've traveled to like california and like you know places inside the states but never to like a different country alone and i don't know it's just a really long flight without any parental supervision i guess i did pack snacks i got popcorn apples granola bars and all that stuff and i think they do give you like a meal on the plane if i'm not mistaken i also downloaded a lot of shows on netflix i downloaded jane the version season four is on netflix and i've been binge watching it i'm like halfway in right now so i just have like seven more episodes to watch but ron has actually been watching it with me and he says he like actually likes it last night we were in episode eight she fell asleep so i saw him i don't know what you don't know damn yeah but we won't give any spoilers but it's a really really good show like drama packed af so it's like over dramatic it's like funny yeah yeah true we have arrived at the varsity the varsity turned out so cute thanks to ryan for taking them you're gonna miss you more so i just got to the host family's house really super sweet we just had lunch and we had like pasta we're eating pizza tonight i'm definitely gonna be eating a lot of carbs this trip you know when you're in Rome gotta eat like the romans do it's currently 2 p.m and they're gonna show me around at like 6 p.m ish so i don't know they said i could like sleep right now but i don't really want to because i'm not trying to like let the jet lag hit me like i really want to like overcome it so i don't want to like sleep this whole trip away but i probably will take a little nap just because it is my first day but i feel like i slept a good amount on the plane also their place is so so nice like my room is actually really really big and their bathroom is super pretty like i'll show you around let's go so don't mind my mess that i already made but this is the room that i'm staying in i have my little bed over there and it has like all the storage which is really cute and yeah hey guys i just got ready just did my makeup just did my hair it feels so nice to not feel shitty you know because like when you're traveling you just feel kind of gross i ended up taking a nap i knew i was gonna fall asleep because i was watching youtube it was definitely inevitable but it was also very needed so i'm glad i actually went to sleep so i realized i didn't even tell you guys why i'm in Rome it's like super loud i'm here with ef language centers and basically i'm on this two week trip to Rome and i'm gonna be learning Italian and all about the culture so that is why i'm here and my first day of class this tomorrow actually it's like orientation so technically not really my first day of class but um yeah i don't really know what to expect like i would have been in contact with the ef people and they've been telling me like you know what to kind of expect but it's kind of like sorority or crema you don't understand until you like go through it yourself so for my vlogs that is kind of my main goal is just to like show you guys what this program is about and how my experience is if you guys are interested in doing like one of these trips like a two week trip or like study abroad or like a gap year or anything like that you can get 10% off of any program with um my code senali in Rome or just mention my name senali and yeah so that's pretty cool the link will be in the description box below if you guys want to check it out so i'm with my host family right now we're gonna go get dinner where are we going you just save it in 30 a.m and i just like didn't want to go alone the first day so ala saundra actually at school and she had to leave earlier than me but i was like you know what let me just like leave with you because her school and my school are actually like close together so we'll probably get off about like the same stomp or something like that i was just kind of nervous to do it on my own because yesterday i was just so distracted with like seeing everything for the first time i kind of forgot to like actually like look around and make sure i was prepared for today i think they only open at 8 30 so i think i'm gonna have to wait to open those doors but look at the skew right outside the school it's crazy one emperor won no one wants that the future person reminds something that the woman emperor lost okay so this is of Marco Aurelio it's one of the imperatory but the most famous is traiano hey guys good morning it's may 23 curling my hair but i didn't end the vlog yesterday because when i got home i was so tired i had dinner then it worked on my computer for a little bit and then went straight to sleep jet lag definitely hit me yesterday i went to get a tim card with one of the girls in my group and i was like literally like falling asleep in my chair waiting for her so hopefully today will be better um jet lag wise because like i went to like 10 but then every night i keep getting up around like 2am and then literally can't fall back asleep until like three or four which sucks like i'll have my eyes closed and like we'll actually go into deep sleep until like two hours later which i don't know it's like the worst thing but yesterday we walked around a lot so that's probably all the b-roll you saw yesterday and we saw the pantheon which i think that's how you pronounce it um and it was really cool because it has like a hole in the top of the ceiling and it kind of like lets light in and it shines the light on a specific like part of the inside if that makes sense it's kind of hard to explain i also had my first lesson yesterday and i'm not gonna lie it was really hard because they kind of teach it like a college class i remember in spanish in college she wouldn't speak english she would just like speak spanish when she was teaching spanish and that's how they kind of teach it here so it's kind of hard for me but since i did take spanish for like four years and high school and two years in college um the languages are a little bit similar so i can kind of pick up on some things especially like when they're going slow which is nice most of the time i'm kind of lost but yesterday we learned like numbers nationalities um what else about the verb to be and to have which is like probably the first verb so we've we learned in like spanish today four classes back to back but i do get out a little bit earlier and then hopefully i'm gonna do some sightseeing and after that at six thirty we have like the welcome drink which i'm excited about to meet more people so that should be fun i'm also really surprised that i got home and got off on the right um bus stop because i was like really worried the transportation here is a little bit weird to me it doesn't announce like the next stop it doesn't have anything like when you're sitting in the butt um train that tells you like what the next stop is so like you really have to like be aware and like kind of like look outside and like know where you are which sucks for me because i've only been here for like a day but if you do come here well my recommendation is if someone showed you around definitely take pictures of this roundings and the bus stop name because then you can just get off and like check where you are i think today i'm going to leave a little bit later because yesterday um i thought they're at eight thirty or like even earlier than that and the school wasn't even open and classes only started at nine so i think i'm going to start getting on the bus at eight ten because i'm not really sure how long the bus takes in the mornings um so i might even get there earlier today too hi i'm taylor i'm from america i'm sarah and we are at this panini shop and it was like six euros for both a panini and a juice so we just got out of class and we're going to the bus stop yeah we're gonna go to the coliseum we're getting on the bus so it's good luck to us so unfortunately the buses we're all late so we waited there for a while we're just gonna walk now though we are on a vuna passeggiata oh oh yeah so we are in sight of the coliseum right there so yeah this is so pretty this is i'm not really sure okay yeah a picture on one of these walls because i saw it on pinterest and we're gonna find this ball all the vloggers take pictures on it so we're gonna try to find it let's go look at this water fountain oh my god i just stepped in the puddle but this is probably the coolest water fountain i've ever seen this is it this is so cool so we just pinterest did some ins smell and we're gonna take a picture right here we even influenced some other people yeah more three days or something so this is so aesthetically pleasing like the place and itself is beautiful but like the food is so cool uh it's fries with avocado and chicken i think i bought black rice with strawberries and cod balls i don't know why to say that and she ought to know the end it looks so good we're on a street with oh koochie yes oh i thought we passed koochie strada so shay ganna yeah so we're at the street and we just passed all the really nice stores but right in front of me is the beautiful spanish steps we are here almost but very pretty view already but the spanish steps this is honestly so beautiful and the sun setting so perfect time all the lights are coming on over there it's a really cool view very high up so it started raining so we had to take cover in this like rooftop bar which was really nice but we are gonna yeah we got kicked out but we um are gonna go home and i'm gonna take the metro for the first time because i've been taking the tram tram the whole time tram the tram um and yeah so i'm gonna figure out the metro thing and the bus situation here we go good morning guys it is may 30th and it is my fourth day in rome italy but my third day of the ef international language program and today i have a full schedule of classes and then i actually have my first ever activity so basically like the school plans um activities throughout the day there's like maximum to a day i think and you can just sign up for them some of them you have to pay extra for and some of them are free like just like sightseeing stuff so the one i'm doing today is free i'm not really 100% sure what it's called so guess you'll just have to wait to see in the vlog but i know it's like a church so we have to cover our legs cover our arms and so i'm wearing this red like scarf and i i knew i would have to cover my arms so shout out to my mom she like let me borrow this but i'm also wearing another jumpsuit so i could cover my legs without it being too tight like jeans or something like i brought jeans but i really thought it was going to be a lot cooler than it is it's really hot gets really hot during the day and especially if you're walking everywhere which we do um it gets hot so hopefully from now on maybe i'll wear shorts and skirts and stuff like that it's just these jumpers are so comfortable like obviously and you don't have to like think about getting a top or anything like that like it's all one whole outfit so that's really nice but i'm actually gonna straighten my hair for the first day of this trip last night i came home and got straight into the shower i came home like the latest maybe like 10 30 or something like that but that's pretty late because like usually i go to bed at that time and i actually like stayed up like editing and doing work um until like 1 a.m but honestly i'm kind of like thankful i did that because i didn't wake up at all during the night and that's like the worst thing like that could ever happen because like it's so hard for me to go back to sleep so i'm really happy that didn't happen because i was worried that was going to happen like every day of this trip and i was like i can't do this we're back at the call team guys school ended at like what time was it like 3 20 3 20 and now we're on an activity with the e of school and we're going to tour a church and this silica yes this silica so we're like literally where we were yesterday we're going to take the metro to the basilica so i think it's like an hour walk so yeah when i do that jf four basilica all over wome one is san pietro e paolo and the other three are san paolo fuori lemura fuori lemura means outside of the wall and then we have santa maria maggiore and san giovanni lateral actually inside these four churches the italian army italian government has no position has no power it's vertical state okay now we are in italy inside no more the most simple one it was like so intricate so it's really really pretty you will find out yes i'm the activity manager or if romp actually new friend of sonali amazing girl and now we are doing an activity in one of the basilica of te patica new home basilica di san paolo please come to romp because it's beautiful bye bye i finally get to get my first gelato so we came to the place now we were here no yesterday


I used to run multinational companies, I've been a Royal Marine Officer and all of those jobs had a reason to be. But I've never been in a place where you get out of bed every day and you know that you're going to make a difference to somebody's lives. A positive difference.  Probably around about 2008 when we had a bit of a recession. This area in particular really struggled and I think it was from that early days of his enthusiasm got everybody else enthused to say well yeah, this could happen. We identified that the Antarctic landmass had been discovered by a ship from Blythe that was built here and a skipper from Blythe back in 1819. So we've gone back to those original skills that would be needed from boat building to gansy knitting to sea shanty singing when you're actually on the boat. All those skills are part of what we do on this project including sailing the actual ship itself. We did some research to show that our volunteers were getting a lot out of it from self-actualization to feeling more confident to actually being healthier, not having to go to the doctor as often. And we realized that this was something that could be really important to us. And this whole project has been the catalyst for all this that you can see around here. We've got hotels, we've got houses, we've got new buildings in a STEM education centre going there. I attended some sessions at the Job Centre and there was a person who came down from Blythe Tall Ship, did a presentation and immediately I was brought into the idea. Because these sort of heritage skills are starting to go by the wayside, if it wasn't for places like Blythe Tall Ship to be able to train people in those heritage skills, I feel like this art would probably just die off eventually. And I think with Clive sort of being at the front there, he's the one that enables us to be able to do these great things here. He's always had this drive from other jobs that he's had and I think that's been the main strength. We sealed this vessel across from Denmark, we had these ropes pinging, we had head blocks flying all over the place, we had engine breakdowns, but we got through because of that leadership quality that he's got. We set out with an agenda which was all about people transformation using maritime heritage skills. The best partner we found was the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It's at the heart of what we've been doing for 12 years and it's helped us expand and grow and expand and grow. Every time we do a project we're reaching new people.


Well, first day. Time to go to work. Find out what we'll be doing from now on. Definitely need to start this day off with some tips. No idea what I'm gonna be doing today. I'm starting something new again. I got a large coffee with two cream I shot of espresso please. No, that's it. Thank you. It's cold out this morning. Come on, debit. It's only minus, it's about minus 22. Thank you. It feels a lot colder though. So now that we're supplied, let's go to work and find out what they want us to do from now on. Let's go drive some trucks. So my start time is now a little earlier. Uh, so I have to get up an hour earlier, which is fine. It's something to get used to, but you know, we were just starting to see the sun coming up right when I was going to work last week. Now, when I got up it was pitch black again, but by the time summer hits, it'll be bright, sunshiny by the time we had to work. I can't wait. I'm looking forward to this summer. I think it's going to be a good one, exceptionally good one. Well, here we are. Nice view sitting right here. All right, so one of my tasks for today was to bring one of the T680s we have into inland Kenworth. And you know who's at inland? Hey guys, it's me for real. This mask is hiding my face, but uh, safety first, you know? Andy the Kenworth guy. You know, I always talk about him when we drive past here. We're on route 90 up in the north part of Winnipeg, and he sells Kenworths. I sure do. And I was actually talking with him when I still had my Volvo about getting a W900 through him. He was the guy and then life took a different turn, but well that's okay. Yeah, I'm in it for the long haul. You know, Josh, we can we can make a deal when you're ready and down the road if that's in a year, that's in a month. I don't care. Well, I ain't going anywhere. And I don't think I'll be switching my favorite truck anytime soon. Yeah, but we got we got quite a few on the on the yard for stock, that's for sure. Definitely. They got the, is it still the T680, that new one that you got in, or is it a different name now? Well, it's the T680. We're gonna, we actually have our first T680 next gen showing up in actually beginning of April or middle of April. We were just talking about it in a meeting today, so yeah, we're gonna be getting those in shortly. And the T680 I brought in to get looked at, had an engine light on from what I could see. It wasn't my truck, but I brought it here for the driver and it felt like driving an electric truck. It was so quiet, so smooth. It would almost put you to sleep. That's the only problem. Driving on a cloud. Yeah, driving on a cloud. Exactly. Speaking of engine lights, my engine lights on in my truck here too. It happens. You gotta love it. Oh, but it's hidden from view here though. Oh, you can't see it. Well, I see it every day. It's kind of pain, but can you do? So I had to drop off the Kenworth at inland and pick up one of our trucks at Beaver here. It's the Volvo dealership in Winnipeg. I have to protect myself here. I don't want anybody to see me here going into enemy territory. What a good guy though. Hey, he's bringing me to the competition. We bet you. Where do you need to go? Uh, service department. I guess that's right here. But yeah, he was nice enough to give me a ride down the road, so appreciate it a lot. Anytime. And we'll see you again in another video. I'm sure very soon. Sounds good. Well, take care everybody. Hey, check out my channel too. If you haven't already done it, it's just the Kenworth guy on YouTube. So see you around. I'll leave a link for you down below in my description. Go check out his channel. If you need a Kenworth, you know who to go talk to. So how cool was that? That wasn't planned. I just showed up to work and they told me to take the truck to inland, and I knew that Andy works there, so I was going to go and find him and say hi. And then I needed to find a ride over here to Beaver to pick up this truck that I'm in now, and he offered a ride. So really good guy. Hope you guys do go and check out his channel. That was pretty cool. And he might actually sell me on the Ford F-150. That was a nice pickup. Wow. All right, I got you strapped onto my head. Hopefully a view is all right there. Doesn't this truck bring back memories? The Volvo truck is identical to the one that I drove for years. It was pulling flatbed with it. Remember we used to pull those wide loads through northern Ontario? So I had to bring that T680 into Winnipeg and pick this one up and bring it back. The T680 had a engine light issue that needed to be looked at, and I'm guessing that this truck was the same, but this one was all fixed up and they needed back at the yard. Driving this truck sure brings back the memories though. I lived in a truck exactly like this. How many of you remember that? Were you guys watching at that point? I lived in a truck just like this for, what, three years? Oh, more than that. Three and a half years while I was pulling flatbeds. We went coast to coast in that thing. We had that thing out in Newfoundland, out in British Columbia, way down to Georgia, all over the U.S. and Canada, Prince Edward Island. This thing rides exactly like it. I think it's the same year even. I mean they bought them at the same time, right? It is the same year or the same model anyways. Absolutely identical. And we've got a train. Fantastic. I'm not sure how the video will go today. There won't be too much of a video. It's my first day. I'm just getting settled in and after I get back with this truck, I've got some meetings in the office yet and we'll see where we get to from there. But it was a real treat today to see Andy. I'm hoping that we can do that collab sometime soon, but you know, sometimes life gets in the way of doing fun things and it doesn't work out because of time and stuff. But now that I'm home every weekend, he says that usually once a month on Saturdays, he's in at work and maybe we can go and test drive one of those new next-gen T680s or something else that he has there. We'll see. So I don't think today was what a typical normal day will be like, but I have no idea. It's my first day in this position now. I had to do this swap with the trucks today. I delivered one loaded to Winnipeg when I first got going this morning. It was a really cold morning though, so even the truck that I'm supposed to be driving didn't start this morning. This train is just about stopping to Winnipeg there. Yeah, as far as I know, by the sounds of it, it sounds like I'll be pulling a lot of vans, some flatbed, whatever they need me for. I feel like I went home and now that I'm driving this Volvo, it really brings back the feelings of nostalgia from the days when I was living in a Volvo just like this. It's not the nicest truck out there, but I really like the transmissions that they got in these trucks, the iShift transmissions. They shift really smoothly. They make it very easy to drive. I actually kind of like it better than the Peterbilt automatic transmission that they got going right now. But once I get back to the office, like I was saying, we've got some meetings. We're going to go over a social media policy and once we get that all straightened out, I'll be able to make more of a storyline, maybe starting tomorrow, because at that point we'll have on paper everything that I can and can't say and can and can't show and stuff. There's some sensitive things that probably I don't need to share, but at least I'll have a guideline then of what's acceptable so that I can create a good story for you every day. Oh, they did stop now. They're almost over the intersection. The engine is literally on the road. All they have to do is move it just off the road.  Shoot. After all the delays I've had today already trying to get this truck going and in the morning when I first got to work this morning, I got assigned, it's a Peterbilt. It will be a day cap. It's got a stretched wheelbase. It looks pretty cool. I like it, but it didn't start in the morning because it was so cold overnight and I guess the batteries got a little bit cold. So I'll probably be in that tomorrow. So there's that delay and then I got to Volvo and I couldn't get this truck going because it was too cold. So there's that delay. Now I got a train stuck on the road. Another delay. I see the trucking has not changed and it probably never will. Nothing but delays. So we didn't have time to do our sit-down today and go over our social media policy and guidelines. So I didn't film too much. It was my first day there. I'm getting used to my new position. Getting used to the truck I'm in. The truck I'm in is a day cab extended. I think I told you already, right? Peterbilt. I'm excited to show that to you in the near future. Weasel. Not a lot of substance in today's video but the highlight of the day was meeting Andy, the Kenworth guy. I'm serious. He makes some pretty awesome videos and he sells some awesome trucks. Chevy's knocking at the door one second. Hello. Come on in, bud. All right, Diesel wants to go. Come on in, Chef. You sure you want to go there, Diesel? No makeup your mind. I'm gonna close the door. You good? You sure? Children. Like I was saying, the meeting Andy today was the highlight of my day. We do plan on doing another collaboration like I was telling you down the road. I'm not sure exactly when yet but it'll probably be once the weather gets a little nicer. I think it'll make for a better video. You can show off some of his new the T680, Nex Gens, maybe some W9s, whatever he's got on the wall, whatever he wants to do. I'll hand over the reins to him on that and whatever he wants to do I'm down for and then we can sort of promote each other and also obviously promote Kenworth because who doesn't love Kenworth, right? Anyway, so I did show you the truck there just in the last clip. I edited this video a day late. I wanted to wait until we had to sit down about social media. Very important that that got out of the way first. So now that we've got that established and we have an agreement I can share a lot more with you. So tomorrow's videos got a little bit of a truck tour, just a walk around. The truck is really dirty right now because this time of year it's it's just a mess. All the snow was melt in the salts all over the road. It's impossible to get your truck clean. So I'm going to do a proper truck tour inside and outside once the weather clears up and we can get that truck nice and polished and shined. But I do go around the whole truck tomorrow and show you the whole truck and a couple of the other trucks that I've driven in the past and looking forward to that. So I think from now on there will be a whole lot more content and a lot better storyline for the vlog here and also an open invite to all of you if you want to come work where I'm at and help us out. We'll talk about that more in upcoming videos though. Just wanted to swing in here right at the end for the ending clip just to let you know that today was Monday when I filmed this whole vlog and there wasn't a lot of substance but tomorrow's another day. I hope you join us. All right we're showing off the truck tomorrow a little bit. I know a lot of you would like to see that. A lot of you have questioned rightly so in the past why I don't show the outside of the truck and stuff and I had my reasons before but those reasons have now gone and I can show you the outside of my truck. I can show you more of what I'm doing and I've got the green light to do so. We're really looking forward to it. It's going to be fun. Take care everybody. We'll see you in the next video. It's coming up very soon. I'm already editing it. It's already coming down the pike here.


So that's nice. Alrighty, let us know when we're all set. Yep, and we're good to go. Okay. Good morning and welcome. Today is Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. And this is a public meeting and hearing of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission because we're holding this meeting on a virtual top one. I'll take a roll call and to all my fellow commissioners. Happy New Year. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. Happy New Year. I am here. Good morning, Commissioner Hill. Good morning. I'm here. Good morning, Commissioner Skinner. Good morning, I'm here. Good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning and happy new year. Thank you. You know, we were just as we were coming on, I felt commissioners and I had a chance to reflect upon the incident that the bill is experienced. And, you know, we, there's a lot of sad things that have been, but given what we're working on right now, this particularly hits home. And, you know, I think that we all are thinking of that young and talented player, I'll let Demar Hamlin, and wishing him and really wishing his mom. Well, so we'll get started with our business. We have only one item on our agenda for this morning, and that is to offer an opportunity to interested members of the public to provide comment relative to any or all of the applications that have been submitted to the commission for an untethered category three, sports, wagering, operator license. This part of the licensing process is governed by the commission's regulations at 205, CMR 218.05. And I do have these opening remarks to read into the record, so I appreciate your patience. We have six applications that have been submitted for an untethered category three license. They are from Valleys Interactive LLC, that their interactive US LLC doing business as a stand-due, Benner, Holdings, Inc., Brown, MA, Gaming, LLC, doing business as DraftKings, Digital Gaming Corp, USA, and Points Bat Mass chooses LLC. I may know the commission has authority to issue up to seven untethered category three licenses that permit the operation of sports, wagering, through a mobile application and other digital platforms approved by the commission under GL Chapter 23. Beginning Friday, January 6th, and then over the course of the next several days, the commission will evaluate individually each of the applications that have been submitted. To be clear, the commission will not be voting as to whether to award the licenses today, but will do so only at some point after the respective evaluations. In preparation for those upcoming evaluations, the commission is interested in any information or comments that the public may wish to offer relative to any or all of these applications. Affordingly, your presence here today and the written comments that have been submitted will be helpful in making those decisions. We thank the public for being part of this process. Before we begin taking any public comments, I'd like to lay out the process and establish any great ground rules that will be applicable. This meeting is intended to afford an opportunity to offer input and comment on the untethered category through applications to any entity or member of the public who is interested. This meeting was not designed to offer opinions about sports wagering in general, about the way the commission has gone about its work or about an entity that's applied for sports wagering license in the category other than an untethered category. Instead, we are solely interested in learning as much as possible about the applicants presently before us. Momentarily, we'll open up large public comments. We'll keep the meeting open until 1 p.m. today. To make the best use of all of our time, we ask that any member of the public proceed as following. First, I don't think we have any prerequisites, but if you wish to participate, Crystal, how should they meet us? They can email MGC comments at massgaming.gov. Massgaming.gov. Yep. Okay, that's the best way. There's also a phone number on our agenda today. Do we want to save that in case they want to call too? Sure. Thanks. Sorry. Okay, I have a different tab up, so give me one second. Okay. All right, so. Thank you. Anyone looking to comment may also call. That is the meeting ID. Okay.<PHONE_NUMBER>. And the meeting ID is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And that's also posted on our website, right? Okay. Excellent. And if you do wish to participate, we'll open the floor to comments from any individual calls in. The only thing I ask is that we ask that you state your name and tell us where you are from or who you're affiliated with. Do you want to remind the public that, go right ahead, Commissioner? Madam Chair, I just wanted clarification on the phone number because I have a different phone number than what was just put out into the public. I have it as<PHONE_NUMBER>. On the meeting hearing notice. That's correct. We have a standing number as well. So either number will work. The notice number or our standing number, which I have repeated before, but you can call, yes,<PHONE_NUMBER> or<PHONE_NUMBER>. I just wanted to be clear. Thank you. No, you're right. That's absolutely correct. We're all right. That's good. So this is just a reminder that this will not be an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions of the applicants if they do appear or are accessible at today's hearing. If you have questions for the applicants, please address them to me and I'll determine how to proceed from there. Any commissioner may ask any question of a comment or at any time. And again, we are grateful for the public's participation and value of your input. For those who have submitted written comments about any of these applications, please note that the commission will review and consider each and every one of them. We thank you for taking the time to send them in. And for those now interested in submitting written comments, we are continuing to accept them on a rolling basis up through our licensing process. And again, the email address is available on our website. So now I turn to my colleagues. Do you have any additional remarks or questions to add in? Okay. And at this time, I think Mills told me we did not have any registrant. I know we received a written comment this morning, which I believe was distributed. Any new member of the public asking to participate, Crystal or Mills or Todd or Noah? No. Okay. So as we've done in the past with our other two public hearings we'll put up a screen. And if you could just stay by your computer to listen in and at any point in time up until 1 p.m., members of the public are invited to participate. Makes sense? All right. Thanks everyone. And thanks, Dave. Hi, Dave. Also. Thank you. So we're just waiting for Commissioner O'Brien somewhat in transit. I'm here. I've got the car park. So I'm not going to turn the video on, but I am here. Okay, great. Thank you. I'll be joining us shortly. Sorry about that. No problem. So Mills and Crystal have we heard from any member of the public that wishes to speak or any additional written comments? Not to the MGC comments email chair. Okay. And nothing to me. Okay. Thank you. So it's after one. I know that we have another meeting at 1.30. So we need to move out of this meeting. Do I have a motion to adjourn? I'll move to adjourn. Second. Thank you. Okay. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Lainer. Aye. And I vote yes. So five, zero. Thanks everyone. And thank you to the public for the written comments. And we will be convening at 1.30 to start the review of a category three tethered applications.


This is the SF Productions podcast network It's the 6th annual Oscar predictions show From the pop culture bunker I'm in and I'm Mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my way three comics on iTunes or in our website SF podcast network comm well. It's that time again Oscar predictions Our system as always is we don't see the nominated films We see who won the awards leading up to the Oscars We say who has the most buzz and now a new category. Are there any controversies with a whole me-too thing? Your your whole Oscar campaign can be derailed very quickly very quickly Now the Oscar rules pretty much are if you died you're in yes Biopics rule portraying an illness works well and multiple nominations without a win always helps. Yes So we're gonna list the previous Oscar record where applicable and that's in terms of nominations and then wins as well as odds as of the 23rd of February based on an average from Nyser odds dot co dot UK, which is actually a Meta site of various other betting sites All right starting with Supporting actor William Defoe's two nominations zero wins six to one odds This is all for the Florida project He won the New York's Critics Choice Award Woody Harrelson two nominations zero wins and 37.5 to one odds for three billboards outside ebbing Missouri Richard Jenkins He it got one nomination and zero wins. He's 19 to one odds for the shape of water Did he play the monster? I don't believe he did okay, and Christopher plumber He's gotten nominated twice and won win 23.5 to one odds for all the money in the world, but just as an aside That one is a real tricky one. Yes because he replaced someone at the last I mean they had to reshoot. Yes the film. Yes, so I think that kind of gives him an in a little bit I mean, you know other actors have to recognize that this was difficult. Oh, absolutely Then finally Sam Rockwell zero nominations his first time a 1.1 to 1 odds for three billboards outside ebbing Missouri, and he got the Golden Globe He got Critics Choice and he got the SAG award and Both of us are picking Sam Rockwell, you know as an aside there Normally if there's two actors nominated from the same movie, right? They tend to split the vote a little bit So I'm not quite sure if that's gonna work, but he's just been overwhelmingly the favorite so right and the fact that Harrelson has such lower odds of winning Yes, so I think that kind of negates the split potential split vote Yes, so for supporting actress the nominees are Mary J. Blige who has zero nominations and zero wins and She's nominated for mudbound. I don't know that I've even heard much about this movie 21 to 1 odds Then we have Allison Janney nominated for I Tanya Allison has zero nominations for Oscars and zero wins, but she's won lots of Emmys and One to one odds and she's won the the Golden Globe the Critics Choice and the SAG awards already That's a pretty good run. Yep Leslie Manville again no previous nominations So no previous wins twenty three point five to one odds on phantom thread Laurie Metcalf zero nominations and zero wins 4.7 to one odds on Lady Bird and You know since Allison took all the other awards these haven't won any right Octavia Spencer has been nominated twice in one once She's got 30 to one odds for the shape of water And again, she didn't win any previous awards for this either I think as Allison Janney is just such an overwhelming favorite that we all have to pick her to win, right? Plus, it's a biopic. Yeah, there you go Okay animated movie Boss baby at 23 to one odds The breadwinner 14 to one odds never even heard of it Coco one to one odds Golden Globe Critics Choice producers Guild New York Critics Association all winning Ferdinand at 42 to one and loving Vincent at 18 to one. We both picked Coco I think that some of these are just too overwhelming to go against The common consensus. Yeah, so for original song Mighty River from mudbound has 16 to one odds mystery of love from call me by your name I'm always hard to say the name of that movie as 14 to one odds. Remember me from Coco has 1.5 to one odds it won the Critics Choice Award stand up for something has 23 to one odds That's from the movie Marshall and this is me has 2.7 to one odds and that's from the greatest showman and it won the Golden Globe So what do you pick mark? I am picking this is me from the greatest showman I think that's because it has this message of inclusion and The political correctness the environment right now. I think that's why they're gonna go with that Yeah, now a lot of times this always does go to an animated movie Maybe because there's more actual songs and animated movies. The greatest showman is a musical so it does Go there, but I picked Coco the song from Coco. All right moving on to director Christopher Nolan three nominations and zero wins 7.5 to one odds for Dunkirk Jordan Peele zero nominations his first time out 46 to one odds for get out Greta Gerwig also her first time out 13 to one odds for Lady Bird Paul Thomas Anderson nominated six times and never won 84 to one odds for Phantom Thread and Guillermo del Toro He's been nominated once no wins 1.1 to one odds for the shape of water So if we were looking at the whole nominated thing and not winning yeah, well, then it would be Paul Thomas Anderson Yes, but he's not gonna win right and Del Toro won Golden Globe. He won the critics choice and he won the director's Guild Awards by the way Sean Baker for the Florida project won the New York critics choice, but he wasn't even nominated for an Oscar So, what are you going for? well, I'm going to I'm going to Spit at common wisdom here, and I'm gonna pick Greta Gerwig Okay, because there's been so much choice talk about women directors Yeah, I think maybe some of them will just vote for her cuz she is a woman Hmm, I don't know. Well, I'm going with the the common track here and saying Del Toro is gonna win So moving on to Actor actor Timothy Shalamet has zero noms and zero wins 17.5 to one odds for his role in call me by your name He won a New York's Critics Circle award for that Daniel Day Lewis has been nominated five times and won three times, but he has 26 to one odds for his role in phantom thread Daniel Kaluuya First time nominated 19 to one odds for get out. I'd really like to see him win that I don't think he will no Gary Oldman has One nomination in zero wins. He has even odds to win for darkest hour He won the Golden Globe the critics choice and the SAG award and finally we have Denzel Washington At eight to one odds. No, that's eight eight win eight nominations in one win For his role in Roman J. Israel Esquire His odds are forty seven to one. Yeah, so not a good outlook there We both picked Gary Oldman staying with the standard. I think that's pretty much a lock. Mm-hmm best actress Sally Hawkins with one nomination in zero wins and 16 to one odds for the shape of water Francis Francis McDormand for nominations zero wins 1.1 to one odds for three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri She has pretty much won most of the lot here Golden Globe the Critics choice and the SAG awards Margot Robbie her first time out three thirty three to one odds for I Tanya even though it's a biopic Sarsha Ronan Two nominations zero wins ten to one odds for Lady Bird and Meryl Streep 20 nominations three wins. She is 59 to one odds for the post I kind of think Meryl gets nominated for whatever she's in now You know, they pick a movie that she's in that year nominator No, yes, she was an automatic spot By the way, Shashi also won the Golden Globe and she was able to do that because there are two different Film awards in the comedy and drama exactly and she also won New York's Critics Choice However, we're both going with Francis Francis McDormand. Yes Then we have the big award best picture. Yep. There's lots of nominees Yes, there are call me by your name has 84 to 1 odds of winning darkest hour is even worse at 150 to 1 Duncork is 37 to 1 get out is 16 to 1 Lady Bird is 12 to 1, but it actually won the Golden Globe Again, that's a comedy drama situation right? Yeah, the New York Critics Circle and the Central Ohio Films Critics Association Okay, that coveted award Yeah The Phantom Thread has odds of one forty one to one the post a hundred nine to one the shape of water is two point four to one and it won the Critics Circle Award and the Producers Guild of America, right and then last nominee is three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri with 1.8 to 1 odds. It's the favorite it won a Golden Globe and it won the SAG award So mark, what did you pick? I'm going with three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri And I did that a because it's the the best odds and also because it also makes a political statement And now they're big on making political statements in these movies and I picked Lady Bird because again, I'm thinking that the whole Women's Movement thing is gonna kick in and give it for Greta and that sort of thing. Yeah, I don't know Well, we'll find out. Yeah, and maybe we'll eventually watch some of these movies By the way, I really enjoyed Black Panther So you should go see a movie and after that you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife's read comics on iTunes or on our Website sfpodcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm Mark Thanks for watching and I'd like to think wait.