We have computer down, so we apologize for that one guys Yeah, sorry, sorry for the technical difficulties Stupid computers it went boom Fix it later. So yeah Actually, I think we're just gonna sign off You know, we'll do some more stuff here Computer gasket that computer head gasket. How many people are in here? It depends on that Mine shows to clear the faults clear all the faults 13 people okay 13 people showed back up into this one. So we'll keep this. We'll keep the stream going here Because like I said captain Ron's computer just went boom and we don't we don't We don't want to leave you guys hanging You all broke the internet pretty much my fault. Yep. Sorry way to go captain Ron Go figure. Yep Fired we're gonna have to figure something out though for next weekend now I'll see if I can't get a fix and if not then We'll figure it out. We're gonna have to figure it out. So next week Yep next weekend guys that one's gonna be the fun weekend So we are taking a trip up to the old Chi town and we're gonna go see mr. JRC 1554 up in his villa and we're gonna be cruising on over to the Chicago auto show getting some live footage and everything from the New vehicles and everything being able to be put up there at the auto show maybe doing some other live stream stuff at Mr. JRC shop or you know who knows we'll figure something out something fun between all of us and our three channels But we're definitely gonna be doing a live stream at least yeah for what we're doing And if not, we'll bring we'll definitely have some footage for for videos later on down there You know next week so for the the auto show what kind of vehicles? Do you guys want to have specific things seen at that thing? So they're definitely gonna be having some new stuff come out from? Ford is gonna be having some new stuff and Dodge is gonna be able to have their new Cab chassis's heavy-duty models out are definitely gonna be coming I've heard some really cool things are coming out with Audi. They're gonna be pushing there The minis in the key is we'll find them and we'll make sure to show yeah We definitely want to see the new ram 25 and 3500s and like I said with those new cab chassis's Yeah, the new Ranger can even take There's new Rangers. Mr. Rust belt says we need a tool. Hey tool tool heads C-Tate flag for the garage streams great Mm-hmm, we'll get there we'll get some new background What'd be really cool is that if we could sit in the pier there? We'll have a back screen I'm pretty sure green screen. Yeah, how we can do that back drop a key. I can do that We do super all we gotta do all we gotta do is get a green sheet and just hang it up from here And then we can chroma key it Yeah, I'd like to see some of the new McLaren's that they're hopefully gonna be having there also Did your stream have a PO 300? Yes. Yeah, this fire. Yep Sure did The guys that reads the teleprompter No, I try to come up with cool fancy Lingo to come up with here and there From time to time I create enough do that Yeah, you are you could be could be but Put your own thinking head to it a huge player right in the middle of the screen It's from all the Right from the floodlights we have floodlights that we have here in the garage to keep things lighted He says I'm slick I'm grease pigs like Mrs. Rust belt she she's on the sass train tonight McLovin she just woke up so She's been sleeping for the last three hours Because you know some days I guess Streams still going strong 28 people so you guys we thought that you guys were all just gonna Cut out and go watch the Super Bowl, but you know what you guys are awesome. I like read in the face What do you do about stickers so go over in in the description of literally every single one of my videos I have a link to my Facebook page where I have the sales for those and then you can DM me which color you want so I I'll get your order through my Facebook shop page and Then like I said, I've got white black red green blue and orange stickers For sale that I'm able to send out from there. They are $10 apiece. They're over at my Facebook shop page Somebody asked to see the rust belt mechanic tattoo and how it's doing the rust belt mechanic tattoo It's actually doing really good, and I can't wait to do more on it Can't do it So there's the rust belt mechanic tattoo It's all it's all very well healed up right now So we're needing to schedule an appointment to get some shading and some color done. Yeah Probably won't be taught to get back from the other show though, probably not He's a diesel event this year UCC what is UCC I See I'm not huge up on the diesel community. I'd like to But This year I'm definitely going to be going back up to Michigan to do some stuff with truck master and some of his stuff if you guys follow him on The YouTubes or the Instagram. I've done a couple of truck shows and truck meets with him All the ultimate call-out challenge. I've heard of that one between the PA boys and all the YouTube call-outs and stuff that and I'm Really sure that we're Well, I'm probably sure that we're going to be going down to Georgia at one point to catch up with Dalton and Couple of the guys down south Bertrand 850 to do some of their they've got a big truck show I think that they're going to be having this year as well Jacob said I bought two stickers in November. Just curious about them must have gotten lost in translation Jacob I I did not get any orders through Facebook. I I'm all up to date on On my Facebook orders So I don't know where you put orders in but I have I've not received any orders From that one. I apologize for that one Cory says we got to come see him Yeah, come down through the Seed him down in the South land Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's right Corey. You still need to come up and get your rust belt mechanic tattoo also I want to see that one. Who wants to see Corey get a rust belt mechanic left cheek? JRC on the right JRC on the right Captain Ron pill in the middle Captain Ron tramp stamp Yeah, man, yeah, definitely send me a send me a screenshot on that one You know if it's something wrong in the system or something I'll have to have a look at it But I've only got one more order that I've got to send out on Monday because I received it late on Friday What is your work ABC? What if we don't have Facebook? well, I guess you could message me on If you don't have Facebook you could message me on Instagram or email you or email me And I'm sure we could work something out through PayPal to be able to do that one and I could I could send it to you out through there. That's fine, too I had just tramp stamp I Had just you know set up the Facebook page because it's just easy payment method through there It's all you know kind of just displayed up on up there for that one just made it a little bit on the easier side So yeah, I'll have to look at that message here a little bit because I'm using my phone to you We'll see you guys because of the boom boom computer Yep, Ryan. You got your giveaway one.  It's not a pretty one You can see so many people find some sort of word. It's like five letters long with the O is in the middle We had to do is tattoo all in one session boy, that'd be rough man Darcy says Andrew it's because we plan on sending underwear that says my drawers go eight inches deep Better than 10 millimeters Tools that's perfect five letter word tools with the O right in the middle or The nuts right in the middle Russ belt yoga pants my pet pants only go up to extra large bummer for me because Yeah, budget tool says we need to make tranny panties That says these are my tranny panties I love it. That's bad You know what we might have to we might have to hit up with the tools as a consultation as a consultant for some of the raunchiness that we need There you go, there you go nut huggers Let's see that's the thing that we love about this in skid marks You know, you guys are you guys love the humor in this and if you guys have seen the website, you know My wife she she's all big on the raunchy humor and everything too We we love that so being able to put the sarcasm and the raunchy humor into the tool heads great stuff I know I think is one of the biggest things that we'll enjoy being able to do for these because it's not like it has to be You know PG friendly on absolutely everything. This is what we want it to be Put a mini on the front Warren says put a mini on the front Yeah, I want to see my mini yeah Seriously, just what JRC does put on there if you guys have ideas or stuff that you would like to see Different products different ideas just ideas in general then feel free to send it to us because like we said we're making this Subscription crate service for you guys for you guys to enjoy and you know, we want to keep you guys happy with it So send us your ideas send us, you know, whatever you guys think would you know Be a cool addition for it put a horn symbol on the front say blow my horn blow my horn Nuts and bolts down under the rust belt We should send out rust belts. Oh Rust-colored belts rust-colored belts.  We're gonna write that down Right there. There's one in there doing stuff. I'm sure she's right. I guess this this does get recorded So we so that really doesn't matter a pick on the pick of a transmission on the shirt that says ask me how I feel about trainees And It has to be a 68 RFE. I still like beard balm for no shave November. I need some some nutty beard balm And make belts from old CV boot bands it'll work a Rust belt banana Has to be a borat style though one that comes up over your shoulders To in the party boy style 10 millimeter air freshener while there's gonna be a whole lot of funny stuff with 10 millimeters We can we can get guarantee that one What's Caitlyn Jenner's orgasm juice called Am I afraid to ask let's let's see it though captain hats captain captain I'll have a little little crossed to wrenches on the front on the back of it. Just super glue Tranny fluid Hey fluid Yeah, 410 auto tech who was in here earlier He won the the 10 piece 10 millimeter set and he did a pretty good review on it He said he he messaged me the other day and said that he's been doing doing a lot of youth for that set It's filled out some of his extra sockets that have been missing for a little while clip on man buns Whatever now you're that came from your wife that you're demoted on that one Under where this is I have six points in the front and 12 in the back What they say about that you're in I got that set in great your inch Yeah, 10 millimeter set the 10 piece 10 millimeter. That was budget. What I was you still set it. Oh Yeah, budget did say it. Okay. You're not demoted anymore Can't wearable fake beards for guys like Ron who don't have one yet He isn't fully grown into it. Yeah, dude.  I Can't scroll up on my phone. It's all video. I can't do it. He's supposed to be running questionnaire here. I am What's up, Tony? Stop Tony another person yet Unimpressed by said Super Bowl going on right now. Mm-hmm Or along with the other 38 people just in chat or 41 depending on whose screen you look at Is it still tree tree? No, they tied it up someone said earlier. I said, is it still tree tree? probably Don't know don't care. It's Super Bowl. Yep. That's Super Bowl Greg says game is so boring Wait today's a Super Bowl again What's up, Neil Enjoying life loving it. We're working hard so we can play harder We've got the tool heads great thing going on next weekend. We're going up to CJ RC Helping for some warmer weather so we can do some more outside videos things Do you think a 2018 Camaro? One SS convertible is a good buy for 27,000. I don't buy I don't buy I do not recommend convertibles.  Yeah For some reason gotta get their oil changes in before that Super Bowl rolls in yeah Hotel JRC 54 is open vacancy Yeah, I'm skippy I said, we're gonna be doing a really awesome live stream from there. I know that one's gonna be coming Yeah, Steven's back after he won the giveaway Steven, where are you putting your jumper cables in we gotta know cuz he won that he won the giveaway tonight for the jumper cables sup, lewis Up from Chicago as well up in JRC land Have to say this game really sucks. You guys don't like football. I have we just don't watch football I don't care don't really get into it. I grew up in a town that didn't have football So I didn't really get into it from the beginning My daughter's 2018 Ford Focus.  I gave away the ones at the phone sitting on right now That's the extra set of jumper cables 12 volt nipple clamps nipple clamps What? Yep, they're going to Steven Allen's house Getting them out of my garage guys love the 60 degree day today, dude. It was so nice I really wanted to wash my truck too, but I just ran out of time trying to get the video stuff done I had to go down to the Apple store to get my AirPods changed out because they went All sloshy anyways, and they were under warranty, so I had to go get those She said then I'll be the son. I got you for Christmas bitch whatever No extra one that I've got But yeah, it was a busy day. It was a good day though. We got a lot of stuff done 15 in New Hampshire No, I'm just trying to read all the tiny words on the screen because we're we're watching this live stream on a phone Like this big so it's yeah up there, and he's not reading him very fast or at all I'm hitting the high points if it's something important.  No, you don't Touchdown Somebody actually got a touchdown in the Super Bowl today. What not like we really care happy face happy face We've got the touch yeah warren go swim with the sharks. Oh god Pats not yet This is working for you. Yeah. Yeah, it's working, but you need to put an English gotta be in the Captain Ron movie voice, bro, okay Captain Ron or an English accent Same Super Bowl every year boo Pats Patriots teleprompter Ron Ram's got this game Ron. You're the best commentator ever now.  Thanks See just get him into the mood.  I knew that was coming Too late are you ready? I'm he retracted it and I read it already too late I'm surprised more people haven't put those comments in well. He's wrong on burgundy Stay classy, San Diego Yeah, let's say it warrants Let's say warrants comment the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup In a world where you don't get tools in the mail tag each month that would be horrendous That would be absolutely horrendous. I deleted this message I Know this question why a D-max why a Duramax because I ran into an awesome deal I never thought I would own a Duramax No, sorry. I know you can't get that one Sorry, you can't have that one whoever I ended up came girl is I ended up buying a Duramax because it was traded in our dealership I had a 2004 Ram 2500 prior to that one and It was it was kind of crusty rusty It was it was gonna need some pretty major help in the near future and then that truck got traded in a guy Got moved from his job in California moved to Ohio and didn't need the truck anymore traded it in on a Brand-new Wrangler. So this Duramax had under a hundred miles. Just jacked up this No, it was a it was a blue Wrangler. Well, so does that one? It wasn't that one. No he Ended up not needing it. So he got a Wrangler, but it was under a hundred thousand miles Always been in California. It's one of the things where you just don't see those trucks around here So it was a deal that was too good to pass up. I ended up that's what actually got me turned on to Truck masters videos right then because I just I had to learn all about it from what I could right away So I sat there on YouTube for like a week and a half watching truck masters Videos on Duramax's Warren says is it still under 100,000 miles? No, it is just over it's at a hundred and four thousand miles now or no hundred five I have put 9,900 miles on it in the last year of ownership rocking it go Josh Yep He's pretty cool guy.  Everybody always tells us. Yeah, whatever you're you're tall.   That's discrimination. It is chicken wing. Yes chicken wing.  We really need to have you know guys with with smaller hands in the shop You need a whopper junior hands Whatever whopper junior hands Six seven and big hands. Yeah.  We're gonna say a lot Wonder I don't have brain damage. Maybe I already do Warren says I'm five four and everyone asked me for my hands Yep And you know how hard it is finding good gloves especially shop gloves that actually fit it sucks Mark says I'm five four at work at Cadillac and I fit in all types of engine bays.  Yep That happens How do you like the new Matt co-dealer? I like our new Matt co-dealer. He's a nice guy I'm still not always sold on the matco tools yet. I have bought a couple of things. I bought I bought some shallow half inch Sockets off of them that I just hadn't had any sighted good set of half inch shallow Impact socket so I got a set of those off of them and I got a couple of electric Testing tools some relay switches that I'm hoping to be able to do a video on some time soon A set of those they've been helpful in a couple of diagnostic processes ten three bats Pats and suck it Yep, but I do like our our matco guy He does a lot of good discounts and giveaways and he's a brand new truck owner So he he's been in the business for not very long so he doesn't understand The shitty side of a lot of these things either so I like that about him. He's always got pretty decent deals Chad says you still in love with your new epic. I Absolutely love my new epic.  I did it. Mm-hmm.  Yes, you did and you've not gotten re up retaliation for that one yet. Okay. Mm-hmm. There's Yoda Yo, hey What's up Yoda? What's up, man? Good to see you buddy So was everybody snacking on for the big games because speaking of I'm feeling some snacks should be We should have snacks. That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of controls all of a sudden. We're all everybody's a little bit of a troll Yeah, JRC's toolbox is like it these notes Why is there a lot of deleted comments? There's a lot of Obscene like overly obscene Comments in here. I see how it is. I'm not seeing them.  I get one Okay, he's just jealous because Tom Brady's better than you Tom Brady drives a Kia Yes, yep, I catch better than Tom Brady So what are some what are some other things that you guys want to see out of out of the channel here in the next Month or two when it starts to get warmer out. I'm looking forward Let's talk about that one the Ram build I want to know what you guys think about that one with the possible eBay Turbo billet on that one There you go, I'm gonna steal Justin Dowsline Cheers to those who have your beers or who are old enough for that one. Yeah, that's where it's at Look nice Well, right now the favorite beer is the one that we have and that's just Every orchard hard cider because that's all we have right now We have not been able to go out and purchase any more at the moment We all want to see that one We've got a pool here at the house So enjoying time with the family out of the pool is something we really enjoy Snap-on bottle opener. I actually gave that one away on on a giveaway on my early ones I had one, but yeah, Ron's favorite beer is wine coolers Yep, so what do you guys think about that the Ram 3500 bill? What kind of stuff do you guys want to see? I'm asking how much you were able to lower the price down in your box Must feel nice. So when you go to buy the the toolbox is through snap-on at least I would recommend only buying a toolbox when the Excuse me when the rock and roll cab express comes around because not only are you able to get the Good price based on your trade-in if you have a trade-in from your current snap-on rep But also the mark down from the rock and roll cab express guy They're able to give an extra amount of discounts and what not from snap-on corporate on the corporate level For those boxes depending on what they have in stock Up at the plant some things that they have more stock of they can give more discounts on as well So just depending on what you can do Let's see percentage wise. I would say a Good markdown percent to get for those boxes is At or around 25% off if you can get 25% off then you're starting to get in the good deal range 30% is something to work towards if you can start see I like to go for the 25% right off the bat and then You know start working for more things and then on top of that also Getting them to add things on for free like lights you like lights You're like, oh, we'll do it that one and then I also want you to throw in the epic locks You're the echo locks into it you get them to throw that in you know how much those snap-on lights cost that go into the epic series boxes Those lights are not cheap at all. They're like four hundred and some bucks. They're pretty expensive So George wants to see us both drunk. So I got an idea I got an idea News are always bad. Yeah, so every time we get a donation What is it now every time we get a donation we either Take a big drink or we you'll find something takes shot drink a whole beer. Yeah, no take like Drink a beer and if we run out little guy get another one. Okay So do you guys want to see us drunk? Donation to the channel super chat and we'll get Pretty sure you drinking I'm 95% sure that this is pretty proud upon by the YouTubes milk and fishing did it Yeah He's got more subscribers than you do. That's true. That's true. He did Yes, you're drinking game Nope. Nope. Nobody. No, because she's the one that has to clean up the mess mess us I'm gonna start. I'm putting it myself me too YouTube drinking games That's the way to do it when when the Super Bowl is Why not? It'd be 99 cents could be $10. We don't care. Oh Audubon Dan Get them red cups Half beer gone. All right half done Thank you Audubon Dan. Yes, thank you off the party Rick Eric Like clink it sink it. Oh, I stole that from red link, but what up?  Yep, just happen to say five bucks for five shots Who we have anything in there saying worth taking shots of I really don't know Duty poor mouth Yeah first for his uneventful and not fun as the Super Bowl is going on This is way more fun than that. Yeah Are we starting to look prettier? No, we're not No, no, we're not that far in yet. No budget tools five bucks. Okay Finished hi No My videos every time you say um gotta take a drink in the first 30 seconds you're gonna be drunk Apparently we got All right, hold on we're you gotta get more drink he's getting more drunk If we're gonna be going through that you should get a bottle opener We had one it's a vise Okay Here's mine So as for warranties times Chrysler warranty times They were a lot worse, but they've gotten a lot better especially for the The warranty times on recalls they've gotten a lot better Ashley said it. I'll leave you both in that garage.  Yeah, we got this But yeah Excuse me Ron hasn't had to deal with warranty times very much But um going going through it for the last four or five years Uh, they've gotten better to do the t21 recalls of the old sprinters. So hunter We were able to up until a couple of weeks ago Those recalls we were doing them on an old PC that ran windows 7 And then it had the emulator on that hold on i'm talking first and then i'll drink It had you drink it for it It had the emulator and we were able to run that through our pc But something happened with our um internet setup to where our output on our white tech server has went out to that computer So now we can't we can't do any of the old updates anymore Your two drinks behind by the way Ron's giggling his drunker. I am not Jesus christ We don't have enough liquor in the house for this Jacob just donated another dollar How many drinks do you take some more? Might as well finish that Thanks for coming in but i appreciate it Do i look like a lightweight?  We don't have enough time for bourbon. Nope. Nope. We don't have enough to go off without I started this didn't i? You did I'm loving it. Yeah This has been like one of the most enjoyable ones that we've done in a long time We need to hear the uh the bob and tom beer runs song Be double a double are you in beer on rushes eyes? No, it's not Yeah, see that's a great idea a vice. He just ruined that one Not mine Captain ron's got to go get a bottle opener because Evidently the drinks are getting to him and him opening beers has gotten a little bit on the rough side What's in there? Yeah, that's true. You can't fit enough beer in a mini cooper It it's not even working Did you get a cup? Huh? Did you get a cup? No, if it broke it's that glass in it more than likely Clash mass Glass started all around it Yeah, we're good Take it down Huh? Little glass doesn't hurt anybody Gina c'd make sure said make sure you grab your sippy cup Sippy cup She is savage. She's awesome. That's why I love her She's like watching a train wreck and slo mo uh-huh Choo choo Yeah, exactly. I always sleep good. See I'm one of the guys where If there's just any kind of soft surface whatsoever I can sleep there the front seat of a car As long as I'm not too cramped. I can sleep about anywhere. We went to a uh a family christmas this last year And I'm like yeah, I'm tired. I'm Can I can I sleep right there on the ground and I literally slept right in front of the christmas tree Jacob says more interesting than the super bowl.  We're not saying How many do we have left? I don't know Into bottle three right now I can use some air out. Hey, thanks for all the donations Nah, we're good. So You can also drink this beard silk curl. We have a whisker curl See my beard it is so unbelievably curly anyways that you know It doesn't really matter Ron's looking like a skinny santa Keep drinking motherfuckers.  Let me see two three four five 10 10 fingers Yeah Still working tomorrow. Yeah tomorrow's monday tomorrow's monday monday is always a good day mac co day What else do we have to work on tomorrow? Uh, we still got the 5500 to work on So this 5500 that we've gotten to shop right now He says gonna have to buy them. This is a consolation prize The 5500 that we've got in the shop right now We've got so many salty people in our dealership That this truck has caused so much hassle for everyone.  It's a 2005 ram Uh, I think it's a 45 or 5,500 5,500 cab chassis somebody traded in and it ended up having The turbo blow While it was being ran in the detail department after it got detailed They were letting it run for three or four hours. So it dried the carpet out So they did that one and the turbo ended up blowing What If someone said 20 would you guys pound 10 bottles of 10 bottles each high school style As we says, I want zero text tomorrow of how rough you two feel Or how much Ron has puked in the shop trash can and someone needs to be sober enough to pick up the kids No, no, we would not be doing that one and it would take at least that much to do it Pink can you shotgun a bottle? Actually, I think you can I think it requires a straw Yeah, you can shotgun a bottle. You just have to have a straw Yeah, portrait is pretty easy to drink. What is this like? Three and a half is it I mean, it's three years. I was on a trip to the er or stitches five percent five. Wow five. I'm impressed by that So this uh, as I was saying this 5,500 It got traded in the turbo blue the radiator No, not even 20 bucks still not gonna do it um the radiator it blew a pinhole and the What else was it the water pump was leaking Water pump turbo radiator and ac compressor ac compressor mm-hmm And then the wiring to the bed for the the seven pin that was 50 dollars. Do you wish uh, the wiring to the seven pin was cut off the Aluminum flat bed that's on the back of it the welds are broke loose So you can physically lift up the back half of this flat bed So it's about coming off there And then it's missing four out of the five Tail lights on the back so they all need wired in and new lights need to put in Yeah, it was jeep pretty hard Ashley says I'll give that price because I'll be the one to clean it up a thousand dollars minimum any cool pocket knife I've always got the same pocket knife in my pocket. I don't have mine on me I have a kershaw blade on my everyday carry pocket knife This one right?     We don't do sick.  I don't know the question. What's the question? I don't know you have chat Jim you're a good guy and I appreciate it. Yes, Jim. Thank you You are super awesome open the mall now so you guys can drink them fast I won't lie. I think this is the last one we have This is literally The last pair of beers that we have right now. I don't think captain ron thought far enough forward for this one No, I didn't How much is it uber for the three minutes over there? So another funny thing I was talking to Jim about this last week. So in in and around the bigger cities He was talking about how if he if he wants an uber and he calls a cab or something like that They're there in like no time flat here Have you ever seen a cab? Yes, like like very often at all in this area. Not like a yellow cab, but I've seen like people Like have cab like taxi on top of your vehicle And drink rubbing alcohol ron. I want my money's worth God damn, dude For the amount of money that you gave we might have to postpone that till you get to see this one in person Next weekend and then you can see ron hammered in person at your house The last time I was like actually hammered hammered I was in I was in chicago of all places At a uh, you were at camp last time you got hammered. That's true. You were ship-based hammered. Yeah, I was okay So the last time I was hammered like passed out drunk hammered Was uh, what's that last question? That's an important question Which one from oh, do you recommend if I'm at school for two years if I get my work? If I get work my first year and slowly get my experience while I'm starting my second year Or should I wait until I finish my second year? So a lot of guys um, when they start into a lot of the apprenticeship programs they They're offered certain things ahead of time and if you're able to step up and do it then go ahead and And get the work experience, but make sure you still have that mentor to fall back on If you don't have that support system to be able to fall back on especially if you don't have all the experience quite yet In the flat rate department of everything then it's going to be a little bit on the rough side You're going to make more money working. Yes, but I would say that I would recommend holding off until you think that you are actually Capable of running and working flat rate. Flat rate is a whole different game, especially when you're talking coming out of school That's just this open new browser to look for new converse What are you of mine doing next to the Duramax? um for the Duramax, I want to do a build for the toolbox I'm looking at doing a build on that one to maybe put an air compressor redo that one maybe some power locks that I would say it earlier put some Power to it some extra speakers be able to build to that plus This summer. I really want to do some power adders to it as well. Maybe do an upgraded turbo I'm not sure we're going to see where it comes to your beard looks really gray in the video No, it's the the sheen from the light Enjoy them shoes ash. I'm out. Have a good night. Thanks for the live stream So he drops the mic drops the mic walks away and walks out leaves it Thanks, Jim Appreciate it, buddy.   That's why I love her so much. I really do The charitable donation for the month Yeah, I don't know. Is this a super bowl over yet? We're not exactly watching. We don't care. We don't care How much would you drink for jrc? We've got some catching up to do We don't have enough alcohol in the house to drink the hundred dollars worth. Yeah, but But we're gonna be catching up on it next weekend If you guys didn't hear earlier next weekend, we're going up to Chicago to see jrc And we're gonna be doing a live stream through that as well Hopefully we'll be uh starting the live stream after captain runs already drunk So that's gonna be that's gonna be the plan. We're gonna get him drunk And then start the live stream just for you guys Thanks for stopping in guys. Appreciate it.  That's a good point Yeah That means I have made my activity Achievement for the sitting here Just sitting here if I'm tattooing next weekend.  Nope No, she's an awesome awesome one Thanks, man. I don't know how I deserve my speech at all. What are you talking about? Very much so I seriously if we didn't have her the whole tool heads crates the service and the website A lot of that wouldn't have been able to have been happening If you guys haven't checked out the tool heads create website All of that artwork legit was all of her hand doing And that's not one of those things where if you were to put in an order for Um artwork like that, you know, it had taken a week or so for them to get back some ideas back and forth We just end up a can you draw something up? That's like this ish And she just literally five minutes worth of work on her ipad and she's just so what do you think about that?  Okay, you're welcome irish car bombs was the start of the night. Um, we ran out of supplies We had jameson left because obviously there's the the ratio of Guinness to jameson is is never correct There's always more jameson to go around So ran out of Guinness and what do we have left? We had woodchuck cider So Being the drunk a-holes that we were at the time We're like, you know what we're doing some american car bombs So we put some woodchuck cider and dropped in our jameson and What's the not kalua, but the irish Creme cream. Uh-huh bayleys bayleys That's what it is the irish car bomb is the bayleys and the jameson drop it into the Guinness drink it tastes like a chocolatey caramel-ish drink very good But we ran out of Guinness. So we ended up dropping that into a cup of it wasn't the angry orchard.  Yeah, it was it must have been just that horrendous So evidently projectile vomiting occurred after that happened. So obviously wonder why I wonder why that happened On my part. Yeah, that's the last time that Severe projectile vomiting passed out 10 minutes later and then vomit fountain less than five minutes later. Uh-huh passed out vomited everywhere immediately, you know Got got changed fell asleep for the night then and then the next morning as my normal old man routines kicked back in So a little bit of a hangover, but woke back up at 6 30 in the morning Bright-eyed bushy tail said all right. You guys ready for the day. Let's go and everybody was so pissed off at that point that they had to clean up all of my Projections all your experiment. Yep. All the extra mint all over the chairs and everything that they got a shitty night's sleep They just drag it outside and hose it down Uh, they probably should have evidently from what I heard, but I legit don't remember any of this Like I really don't that's like me getting drunk and ripping the towel rack off the wall of my buddy's house I don't remember. I don't remember doing that at all.  I've ever It takes a lot to get me there. So prior to that that was Fives in Plus five Irish car bombs in and one American and no No, that was not only the only one I did multiple of those two I think I did three of the American style car bombs, which was and that's the hardest side you're in in Baileys God, I imagine that like maybe immediately curdles It does but the the whole point of the Baileys and the Jamerson Mixing that together. It's it's more of a chocolate caramel-ish style if you can get past the consistency of it You can get past the texture The rusty car bomb, that's what out of bondan's calling it the rusty car bomb if you can chew through it. It's fine It's all good. It's all good Dude, this this time of the year They can take Cory Thanks for stopping me, man.  He forgot about that until now your mom That's funny. So another funny detail New revelation to the story. My mother is tuned into the livestream right now I'm Arlene. Yep. My mom of all people who's tuned in the livestream listening to the fantastic Rust Belt stories that you guys are enjoying as well lovely Absolutely, lovey. Hi mom. Uh-huh ban her I don't think I can do that says hi Ron She won't talk in chat. She just takes you directly. I don't know. She knows how Have you figured out how to do the chat live chat? Or are you signed in under my sister's account? Uh-huh.  Listen to that.  She's in here. April's phone. She's She's directly texting Us on my sister's phone. So she uh, can't exactly figure out how to do the Messaging in chat one month till I start tech school. Awesome That's really exciting You just started in the fall local tech program cat program or are you doing like gma sap or forward program anything specific Come on, Ron. You need to talk more. I still need to post a video tonight I just remembered that so Captain Ron's gonna post a video tonight And you're gonna get three fours the way through it And then you're gonna know that point The point at which he starts editing And his wait, no, it's the point where I start doing my own footage of myself Because like yeah, you know his his editing skills Start going into play where he's like ooh buttons we've got uh Premiere pro is the The editing software that we use for a lot of our editing for videos So this program it it does way too much stuff for the beginner and the even the the medium For the beginner Made for people who like actually make movies huh So it does way too much anyways, so he's gonna start button clicking at that point.  Yeah, have you finished editing it? Yeah Oh It's ready to go. I think you need to re-edit it. No If he re-edited it, yeah, that's how if I re-edit it the quality is gonna go downhill There would be a whole lot of bazingas in there. There would be bazingas in there The wife calling into the bedroom Jump on it yo go show her your 10 millimeter Did you just like this bump with that one? Yes, he nailed it nailed it So much better.   I said that earlier on the stream I don't remember. I know he doesn't remember anything. Let's see if we're gone guys I Never We can hear the peanut gallery laughing like a door the garage That's just that good evidently. I don't know if we're that funny But evidently they think we are Dude, I would love to have an instinct handle bottle opener. You guys know how much I love The instinct handle. I had to put that on my 3 eighth ratchet I I'd rock one All the time.  They say I'm drunk. He is I am not Whenever he starts his high pitch voice I am not That's what drunk wrong.  Yay Hey, what is that? Whoa, Lindsey. What did I call the super bowl? Whoa So his wife's in there and I told her before the super bowl started five minutes before I said Pat's where did this come from 10 points? I called it 10 minutes before the super bowl started You need to you need to try mid-lensy and and verify this one I called Pat's 10 points and if Pat's actually won by 10 points I should have been a bit see Warren says i'm not drunk because I still caught it If I was drunk, I couldn't have caught this and it would have smacked me in the head a door A closed door. Yeah, so no, I should have done on the game because I'm I don't know I get visions of things like that No, that bottle opener is going for a hundred dollars on the ebay. Really? No, no way it is That's what they're saying. No Do you believe everything you hear on the internet? You said the zero. No, I said win by 10 You said 10 to zero. I said 10. I said by 10. I know the physical words that I said Nope, they wasn't written down Isn't it recorded? I said win by 10. You know I did I should have written on the whiteboard. Yeah, you know I said that No, I said by 10 They say it Or a second. That's just a hundred dollars that bottle opener.  Give it back here The internet does not lie Oh, we can make out of that Mug full markers, bro Oh, I know that next time there's there's no going around that one. She's always right I'm not going to deny that one guys if you guys haven't been married or in a serious such relationship They're always going to be right That's right.  Me too, Ryan. They run that.  Yes, I am because Tom Brady's a douche Is this really what it goes down to?  Yes by hearing the fact that they won. Yes Thanks for coming in man appreciate it. Are you working?  Yeah, I'm dude. I'm from Indiana so I wrote it for the Colts Don't care about that one too. We don't have enough stuff to go in there Nice tea in it Yeah, fill that thing with fricking run go for it I would take a set of those snap on kitchen knives. Dude, I would take a set of those I didn't get more use out of them. Absolutely. I wanted those things for I don't know how long So I I do enjoy all this snap on Little memorabilia that they hand out I really really hope that I win the snap on popcorn machine Right if you guys haven't seen the dream drive event that snap on Right now on the truck If for some reason I haven't paid enough money to win enough tickets to win This popcorn machine There's going to be some sorry soul who needs money and post one of these things on the internet And I'm going to buy you don't need a toaster We have no not the toaster toaster is kind of lame to be honest toasters are pretty overrated Just in general as a toaster if you don't if you don't have an air fryer Just get one of those now snap one came out with an air fryer He hasn't shut up about this flicking popcorn popcorn maker I I I seriously it's a pretty awesome popcorn maker. We saw it last week Even if it wasn't snap on it's like the it's like the size of This won't mean anything to you guys and chap. I mean something to ashley It's about the size of sheen and shellies But not on a cart So it they had the the mini fridge and they have the popcorn machine If we won the popcorn machine, I would just bring it home and I would rock that I would I would use it like every night here. We'd have to get the cart for it though Like we'd have to find the play a legit place to put it I'd make something for it I'd make a spot on the wall mount it put it up there But then the other one they have is the mini fridge. So if for some reason I win the mini fridge That one I'm going to do a youtube build on that one.  I can't think about that So jack Jackson says the title of the live stream is Super Bowl I wonder how many views you'll get for people looking up Super Bowl You know, I didn't even think about that. I didn't either not until now Super Bowl I'm cool like that eyes. Yeah Is that why we have 34 people watching a couple we also have like we also have like some random People that's true show up like people. I've never seen the name of before. That's true Like that big boom cam girl Legit came across the screen big boop cam girls Came across there. What a monster energy mini fridge That would be all right. The one with the monster view I'd like one of those but I think that epic one. I think that would fit into my epic cabinet Perfectly like it would just that power cabinet. Wait, hang on. That's what's happening. Hold on If you want that epic mini fridge Where in your toolbox would you put it the left side cabinet the power cabinet? It would fit there. You know that stuff can spread out just as much as anything You'd have to take out a drawer a shelf a shelf. Where are you gonna put the shelf? Not in the cabinet. You're gonna have it sitting on the side. No, I'm gonna throw it away Throw away a shelf.  That's what we need I I'd rock it. I would probably a day to make this one. I can make one of those Hmm I have a ton of snap-on cups knives dice cards bottle openers kuzies. They're grilling said he's got the right idea What buy another cabinet? Huh problem solved Right there works Yeah, but then I gotta open up a cabinet to get in the first How many of you guys have a lot an epic like uh side locker that you would actually be able to use I know right an extra drawer in I need that grilling set The grill set. Yeah, you have said that you wanted that grill set. I want those knives I would throw away all the knives we have to get those knives I'd throw away my ginsu knives. I yeah, we don't use that popular machine We have because the damn thing's too small and the fact that Ron never cleaned it out last time I didn't too clean it. It's nasty. I cleaned it.  Have a good night. Mm-hmm My youngest daughter calls dawn dish washing soap ducky soap See he's got an epic fridge or have mini fridge in his epic locker. Yeah, but he's probably the only one that gets in it So I'm gonna be the only one in it I have keys to your I have keys to your toolbox not right now.  It's called an epic fail.  Your beard does look super great. Eventually this beard is gonna be gray. It will be eventually. I'm just saying Oh It's gonna go gray. Hashtag old man Oldish man 32 years old. The funny part is is that I'm older than he is Not over A lot meaning Five and a half years Four and a half Whatever he can math too. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm Wait I'm 30 I'll be 36 in May. How old are you? I'll be 33 in july That was like four and a half years Like I said math Not math We're most iPod I'm gonna get oms old man syndrome You already have old man syndrome.  Really? Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, it was borderline like child abuse.   I pay taxes to you. I don't care.  I wish we didn't have neighbors half of the time eventually now We have one really cool neighbor my one neighbor on this side andy really cool guy He's the guy who I've done some work on his white Chevy truck with Recently headlights. Mm-hmm his headlights and I've done the the tonneau cover He's a really cool guy. A lot of the other neighbors around here Not so bueno don't really care about him rather not have neighbors But that's such as life eventually maybe here in the near future What we have in a uh, that's how they cost a day rust belt with a nice garage 10 acres of land Gotta have lifts with lifts That'd be pretty sweet being able to do all the youtube videos in a shop Whenever the hell we want to I'm in it's my tool says I'm in an HOA and I fucking hate them.  I've gotten some Little inklings of yeah, I'd like to do it I always thought that I would be able to be a teacher be able to go to back into the college programs And help teach some of the guys coming up through the ranks But you know, I kind of priced myself out of that within three or four years of being in the in the business So then I thought okay. Well, I could open my my own shop. Well currently my boss He's gotten to the point where he understands the worth and the amount of training and the kind of work that I do To where he notices how much of an asset that is to him and his dealership So I came to him with this proposition of purchasing this This shop that went out in town to be able to do an extensive Accessories different different layout shop than what the dealership standard layout was And he said, you know what that's a pretty decent idea I think I might be able to do that You know, I had I had pitched to him where I could run this shop I could be able to do that under under the name of the dealership where I worked at but you know for that shop So he thought about it and then a week later I get noticed that um The shop had been purchased my my boss actually bought the shop And then immediately rented it out So big slap in the face. What's there now?  So that was cool enough in that part Yes, I I normally have one on but my um rubber qualo ring on this hand actually broke Two weeks ago. So I need to get another one too much bunch of them too much brake clean now They've got thrown away those cheap amazon ones that I had Dude, I bought it. Well, you want the amazon ones? I actually got a qualo and It had a it had like a little like emblem on there or something. I should name my shop bitches bigger and brakes And uh, it actually did wear off like this one here's actually got some nicks in it. I'm gonna have to replace it sometime soon Yeah, bro So I thought about it, but it just one of those things where it didn't happen. It wasn't meant to happen So it didn't so right where I'm at right now is pretty much where I'm happy I'm at I'm not looking for a change I've kind of gotten past that point of Man, I'd really like the Really like to see my name on a doorway on a sign but Yeah, it's It's one of those things where I'm making good enough money now doing that and doing Doing the youtube stuff where I'm happy at where I'm at. I don't need my name on the doorway I'm making them the same money that I would in open my own shop Without having to have the headaches of owning my own shop paying employees having to worry about insurance having to worry about IRS the tax man all that kind of BS. I don't have to deal with that stuff I'm much happier in this boat trying to do that one That's why I have been putting out a lot of those other videos where if you put your time and effort forth into a place that Understands your worth and your knowledge that you have Then it will make up for itself right there employees are the worst Having to deal with all them employees Yeah, I can hear you there from time to time Well guys, I think it's about that time. It's a little bit past 10 30 We've been rocking up this this stream for 84 minutes. I think we were on the other one for almost an hour So yeah, I've been a long enough stream here. Well, we started at eight. So yeah Well, it's two and a half hours. I appreciate you guys tuning in enjoying our rant and drinking experience enjoying what we have to Say rather than watching the fantastic super bowl. So that is your bowl Wait, wait, that's the same way. What are we waiting? What are we waiting on? I don't know. She said wait tight faster George has a question. Oh, would you ever just seriously would you guys see this would you guys ever do a meet and greet? Yeah, definitely. Why not? Yeah, I mean we go to that enough stuff where Yeah, so hopefully this year and depending on where everybody's at Um Throughout this year. I've been invited to a couple of other truck meets a couple of other car meets and tool shows No Yes, Warren, we will come to Hawaii Warren as much need to pay for it as much as I would love to go to Hawaii I don't think that's in the cards at this point But hopefully in over the next couple of months We might be doing a little bit of traveling depending on Vacation time and what's allowed through the shop to be able to go to A couple of the tool shows around here. I'm working at possibly even a SEMA run over into Vegas So going out west that way going down south towards Towards Georgia always we're going to be going up north into michigan for some meets with truck master You know a couple other things here and there. Uh, we are actually 20 minutes north of Dayton, Ohio B F E Ohio Warren says I think it'd be more economical if I came to you it probably would probably would Thanks for tuning in hunter. I appreciate it I do appreciate it. So yeah, if you have uh, if you do have ideas on meet ups or Different tool shows car shows truck shows in the u.s. That might coincide With that all you live in michigan. Well Have a look over at truck master's channel A lot of the shows that we have done before prior With us together, you know has been up near It's like Lansing ish area. It's about three and a half hours north of where we're at right now Not too bad of a drive Might be something that we might be able to do But anyways guys, I appreciate everybody tuning in to the stream. It's been awesome and amazing again And uh, make sure you guys go check out my channel new video. I'm gonna be posting probably in the next Half hour half hour at the very latest Depends on how a drunk he is and how fast he clicks buttons. I can Okay


Alright, welcome back everyone. This is Christian. So in this final video on lesson, we're going to do two very simple implementations. We're going to update an existing item or pet and list here. And also we're going to return or search for a pet using the index position. Okay, so it's quite simple. We have a lot of the other operations already in place so we can easily do that. Let's do the update first. I think that's pretty simple. So let's go over here and implement our code over here. I'm going to do a function called replace and replace the current key with the new key item. Okay, so we're not actually creating any, any new, you know, node which is basically it plays a content. So that's all I'm going to do. So first is we're going to search the list, right? We search it and then we're going to return the node from the search result. But before that is the base case. So if the self.head is none, then return nothing. Otherwise, we're going to do a current node is equal to self.search. We have the search key already. Okay, so it's going to go out there and do a search. It comes back. We can check that the current node is not null. I mean, we found the key. Then basically just to occur node item is equal to the new item and then that's it, right? Pretty simple because we have our operations already in place. So let's see if this works. Let's go over here. Okay, so we have our list already empty. If I run it again, right? So let's, let's remove some of these functions so we don't want to remove them. So I know this already working. So I'm going to delete them. You know, all of these guys up to here. Okay, it's going to comment this out. And right below here, we're going to just replace. Let's say let's put this again. Let's see what it looks like first. We've got a pretty long list right here. Okay, so if for this year, let's replace the cat again. Sorry, Katie, with another, another pet. So let's copy this for now. And we're right here. And we'll just say replace. And we're going to replace the cat. So the cat, I'm going to copy the cat here. And we're going to replace it with a different path. Let's go back to a emoji site. And let's choose a ladybug this time. So right in here, replace a cat with a ladybug. And then we're going to do a print and we'll see if that's correct. It's clear the list here and run. It didn't happen. No, it didn't happen. It didn't happen right. Okay, let's see. Did we do it incorrectly? The key is the cat. And we're going to return the cat. And the, oh, it's not currently none. Supposedly none. Right, one more time. Let's try again. Here we go. Here we go. We replace the cat with the ladybug. So we're good to go. Right. So that's pretty simple. Now the next thing is we're going to choose an item on this list. So let's say that again, I'm going to turn all these off. We're going to save a lot of these pets up here. I'm going to do right after let's say, okay, this is pretty long, pretty good list. Right. So this is the pet one, two, three, four, five, six of them, right. So the index of that. I don't know if our size is correct. I think there's some errors. And I would check. So I doubt it. I think there's a few bugs in there. But let's see. Pets. It's that size. And we'll put around that we'll see you happen sizes for a second. Yeah, it's not right. So again, this is something that you may or may not choose to do. I probably missed by two. So maybe the insertion part is not right. And you can also check to make sure that when all these are on, right. That means at the very bottom, I should have a size of zero right down here. Okay. And if you check that you see that I have a minus three. Yeah, so you can see that it's not correct. This should be one right. So that when I delete it's not update when I add my new ones, you can see when I move, we move the head and tail. It's not correct. Right. So that means something in the code so over here you can kind of look at this. Yeah, that's why when you add new nodes. So we only update when we see a pen looks good. Yeah, that's a prepend. Same thing here at the end. We don't do here. Did search nothing answer after. Okay, we saw after here. Yeah, so we did not update here. So after we added the new note you're right here we need to put here. Self that size plus one. That's the one to return actually. Okay, so that one there. And so before we got it here looks good. We move head reduction here. We move tail we do the same thing here looks good remove item. Okay, item. We did one here. Okay, but notice that we did remove head and remove tail. So when we did that, and we subtracted again right because the remove head and tail already subtracted that so that means this one only applies to this part. Okay, not the entire if it goes here we already moved it, moved one. Otherwise, we will move one down here. So this part of the years. Okay, so let's replace it. I think so let's try again. Right so list and run. I think it's almost one off right. No, actually it's correct. Yes, because they won but later back in the end. So that is correct. If again if I turn. If I turn these off. Right besides should be one still if I turn all of these off. Okay, so you can see that we have six here. So that's correct. Okay, that's good. So now we can turn this one off. And then we can also turn these off. And let's do up here. All right, so way up here, we have a good list of pets in our data. Okay, so we have a lot of these here. Maybe I should really put that one so I can know what the size kind of hard to see how many sites we have. Size. Okay, so the size in here is going to be a size of eight. Okay, so good. So now we can have a user ask, you know, up to a pets. Okay, so we can do that by going something to something like this I would say index is equal to input. I'm going to ask my integer input enter number. Okay, between one eight for that example. And because we do index positions going to minus one right away. And then we're going to do a something like pets, this dot, and would do here. Search, maybe search by index, something like that, and passing the index to that function. Okay, so I'm going to copy this function, make sure I do it right over here. And let's go and create a function down here. Search index, and then we're going to pass the index to this function here like that. And so it's quite simple now just say if again itself head is equal to none, then return nothing. Otherwise, we're going to check the index we will make sure the index is within the boundary eight here right, let's say we don't accept negative index, you know, also will accept any index larger than eight. So this can be as minus seven right. So index number we already decremented by one. Okay, so you make sure we do it right. I mean that if the index is negative. If we don't get it, we don't allow for the index is greater than the self that size minus one right. If that's the case, then we just return. It's out of bounds. Otherwise, go ahead and do the operation so just copy this so head. And then we're going to search again. We're going to loop through that all the way to index. So if they pick like the position number four. That means it's going to be from zero, one, two and three right all the way to that and then we return that position, and then we turn the pet. So here will be doing for loop for I and the range of index. So a current node is equal to current node that next just key out from a comment at updating what advanced the current node until the end and finally down here we find it we're going to return the current node. That's it. Right. And we will see if this is correct or not. Go and take a look. And let's see around this. And here we go. I asked one number. Let's put one. I should get a lobster. And I did not get that because I didn't have printed. Perfect. So I returned that position. And I put here. He's quoted that. Okay, so we turn current. Yeah. Let's do it again for kind of do that. And one more time pen number one is the lobster. Here we go. One more time. What to the eighth position that should be the lion. And one more time for the rooster maybe as clean this up rooster is number 1234 so the rooster isn't the four and there it is. So you can see we had a lot of operations using linked list there are mainly we can do we did not do any sorting. Maybe I'll leave that as activity for you to do that sorting does tell me effort. The couple ways to do it. Remember this is not an array so you can't really do like binary sorting things like that but you can certainly sort using you know above a sword or merge sort of things like that a little bit. But there you go. I hope this is helpful and hope you enjoyed this course. If you have any questions feel free to ask and put a comment I'll be more happy to answer. Thank you and enjoy.


Hello, and welcome to Town Meeting TV's coverage of Town Meeting Day 2024. This program is part of a series of forums we are bringing you in advance of Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 5th. Town Meeting TV hosts forums with all candidates and covers the questions you will see on your ballot, introducing you to community decision makers, and connecting you with issues that shape your local community. You can find all of our forums at cctv.org slash 2024 on our or on our Town Meeting TV YouTube channel, where auto-generated captions are available. On tonight's program, we will hear from two candidates running for the Burlington School Board. These candidates are Monica Ivancic and William Ochen, who I will refer to as Bill. Thank you both for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. We have prepared a list of questions for each of you, and you will have 90 seconds to answer each question. If you are tuning in live, we also welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you call in, we will do our best to prioritize your question, though we will screen calls to ensure questions are not repeated. We ask that you share your name, the town you live in, and that your question be directed to all candidates, not just one candidate in particular. Let's get started with our one-minute opening statements. We'll start with our incumbent, Monica. Thank you, Emily. My name is Monica Ivancic, and I have been a Burlington resident for nearly 10 years. I have served on the Burlington School Board for three terms, representing the New North End residents in Ward 7. I am passionate about education in our community and believe that a robust and equitable education is the basis for a just, engaged, and thriving society. In my position in the chemistry department at UVM, I maintain research instruments similar to MRIs and educate students in their use. My husband also works at UVM in the Howe Library, and our daughter is thriving, receiving a robust education at Downtown BHS. I have made connections and established relationships with many different people in the city of Burlington from my colleagues and students at UVM to parents across the city and neighbors in the New North End. Having served on the Board of, having served on the School Board for almost six years, I have institutional knowledge of how our district functions and believe to be the best candidate to represent our diverse children throughout this city. Thank you, Monica. Bill? Thank you. I graduated summa cum laude from UVM in 1998, served as a classroom teacher, paraprofessional, and for five and a half years as a substitute in every Burlington School. While navigating the different school cultures here, I got to observe up close how administrators, faculty, and staff operate. I saw some of the highest levels of professionalism anywhere. I also witnessed some policies and procedures that left me with questions, questions that I hear resonate with parents and taxpayers as we talk informally. I can't promise to single-handedly influence the direction of the district. I do intend to communicate what is going on in the decision-making process in clear English without the jargon and buzzwords that, frankly, many people have tired of. My most important role may be thought of as an interpreter. Thank you, Bill. And so we have some questions around the school budget. Do you support this year's school budget of $119.6 million and associated tax impact of 13.97 percent? How will you address the challenges facing the State Education Fund and the impact on Burlington Schools and taxpayers? Bill, we'll start with you. On Town Meeting Day, Burlingtonians will be asked to approve the proposed school budget. I wish I could say that we'll be voting on the school budget. From the evidence that I've seen, we'll be voting on carefully crafted statements about the budget, distributed for public consumption. How many voters have actually seen the budget? I made some attempts to find its precise language. The superintendent replied that my questions were sent to a subordinate and that person would get back to me by midweek. I'm still waiting. Here are a couple of examples of my concerns. To the best of my knowledge, a previous budget was increased to offset the termination of COVID-era federal emergency funding, which was only ever intended to be temporary. That increase was permanently rolled into future budgets. They didn't really tell you about that. A social emotional learning initiative is implemented across the district. It usually comes as a package program centrally devised and delivered by an army of highly paid consultants. SEL may be a positive force. I don't know. But I ask, why couldn't we unpack the principles and devise our own program? A little creativity might have saved the taxpayers the expense. So no, I cannot support the 2025 budget. The process was not transparent. Thank you, Bill. Monica. I wholeheartedly support our FY25 school budget of $119.6 million and urge my fellow Burlington voters to join me. Despite the steep associate tax rate of, actually, it's 1.6% more than you had mentioned because of this detail with Act 127 and the 5% tax cap going away. So I must say it's a 15.6% for those who pay based on property taxes. There are many factors putting negative pressures on our school budget this year. The pandemic federal ESSER funds have expired. We are paying a large interest on borrowing money for building BHS BTC, $9.5 million, and the CLA, which stands for Common Level of Appraisal, which is a measure of how closely property in a community is valued at fair market value is driving school taxes up across the state. Since our home values are increasing rapidly without being reappraised, this year's CLA for Burlington came in at negative 7.87%, which drove the tax impact up by 9%. Thus, the overall tax impact for the FY25 is at a total of nearly 15.6%, which is a daunting figure. To drive this number below 10%, our district would have to cut staffing by 50 FTEs, which is nearly 12% of our BSD staff. I urge you and my fellow Burlingtonians to please support our school FY25 budget in this difficult year. Thank you, Monica. So we have some questions around strategic priorities. The Burlington School District's current strategic plan identifies five priorities, belonging and well-being, deeper learning for every student, reimagined high school, educators who look like our students, and relationship-based communities through restorative practices. Which of these are you most excited to work on and how will you do it? Monica, we'll start with you. Thank you, Emily. Regarding our robustly developed strategic priorities and being the co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, my entire tenure on the board, I am most excited about Priority Area 5, Relationship-Based Communities Through Restorative Practices. Our district has been working on using restorative practices as an alternative to punitive punishment for about eight years now. Features are using restorative circles in their classrooms to build community and to give each student time to be part of the conversation. Sometimes these circles are led by students, empowering them to have a voice amongst their peers. Years ago, I was part of the RP leadership team, participating in planning meetings with district leaders and BSD's hired consultants. Since then, we have hired an RP coordinator for the district who earned her PhD at UVM developing restorative practices, has now worked in our district for about four years, and has been instrumental in the rollout of the restorative code of conduct, which pertains to the entire BSD community, including parents and families. As a board member, I am an advocate of the use of RP in our schools. We'll rally for funds driven to expand RP and we'll continue to educate our community on the advantages of RP and how these circles should be used in our broader community, like in our city of Burlington. Thank you, Monica. Bill. I spent 20 years in public education, served on various committees, and endured a lot of professional development workshops. Every few years, another shiny new thing is marketed to us, and we're told that it's the next magic bullet, and that we must all get on the same page. Compliance among teachers and staff. Compliance is incentivized, but critical inquiry is frowned upon. This question, the list of strategic priorities reads like a word salad of comforting buzz words and euphemisms. People wonder, what does it even really mean? That criticism aside, the area of deeper learning for every student holds my attention. I supplemented my teaching with a lot of enrichment. Some of my most rewarding moments came from coaching students to extend and integrate knowledge beyond what is packaged in the program. I would be genuinely excited to work with teachers to cultivate that love of learning in all students. Thank you, Bill. Do we have a question around challenges? What is the biggest challenge facing Burlington schools and how would you use your seat on the school board to address this issue? Bill, we'll start with you. I worry that our kids are not learning up to their potential. I worry about tension and the threat of intimidation and violence. I worry about an unquestioning acceptance of a social, political agenda inculcated into this district's culture. I worry that many students' hard work is sacrificed for a few who are disruptive. I saw all of those things in the classrooms, in the hallways, and out at recess times. As may already be apparent, what worries me most is the lack of transparency in the language and reporting. From the top down, from the budget to discipline to academic performance in the district, we continue to project an image that doesn't match the reality as experienced by many of the kids. How can we address the rest of it? Here's a heads up for everyone listening. The buzzwords and euphemisms don't impress the folks who talk to me. They do not inspire confidence in what the district does, even when we get it right, which we most often do. We need clear communication without all the insider jargon. Thank you, Bill. Monica. Some of the biggest challenges facing our Burlington schools is the cost of maintaining our deteriorating buildings and renovating these buildings. A good example of this is the involvement of building a new high school. The high school should have been built over 10 years ago when construction costs were much lower, yet the state stopped contributing towards new construction back in 2007. When I was new on the board, we worked on a plan to renovate the old high school building. You might remember the BHS-BTC Re-Envisioning Project, but once contaminants were found in terms of PCBs, the school was shuttered, and with that, our remodeling efforts. Thus, we're now on the road to constructing a brand new school which this city desperately needs. These are challenges include dealing with numerous societal issues, not only educating our children, but also ensuring their mental and physical health are primed for learning. Schools nowadays must cover costs of social services, costs of food for our lower income students, costs associated with educating students who are non-native English speakers. All of these combined result in the cost of educating our Burlington student to skyrocket. Unfortunately, because of the hard work of my co-commissioner Kendra Sowers and others from across the state, the statewide pupil waiting formula got fixed with the passage of Act 127. The FY25 budget cycle is the first year that BSD is experiencing the benefits of more Ed Fund dollars coming to our district. However, the money outweighs our debt for the new school. Thank you. I believe we have a question from a caller. Hello, you are on the air. Could you tell us your name and where you live? The question is on the paper. Oh, we received a question from a caller. Thank you. Can you explain your position on supporting transgender children in the school district? Monica will start with you. Our school district supports transgender students in the district. Our district also educates people about what transgender means. I have been working on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, as I told you, for the entire time that I have been on the school board. We embrace children from all backgrounds and with all, we embrace children from all backgrounds, LGBTQA plus community, new American students, and so we are supportive of transgender students in our district. Thank you, Monica. Bill. I support the well-being of every student, and I am very concerned about how girls highlights are being affected in athletics and in areas where privacy should be respected. Thank you. Our next question is about neurodivergent students. How can Burlington School's best support neurodivergent students? Bill, we'll start with you. The district has a lot of strength in this area. There's a large, dedicated, well-informed staff, support staff. Here are some of the highlights. Neurodivergent students often have unique approaches, and by the way, these are things that I've witnessed in the schools. Neurodivergent students often have unique approaches to problem-solving, so it's helpful to remain flexible, expect the unexpected. Teachers make themselves aware of students' unique strengths and encourage their use. Teachers also make the effort to learn and incorporate students' personal interests. They try to stick to a preset schedule so that students feel comfortable and safe knowing what to expect. This is complicated, but they offer multiple ways for students to absorb new information, including a variety of media. But something we should be very mindful of is information technology may cause sensory overstimulation. That becomes more crucial as schools generally become more dependent on computers, iPads and such. My experience has been that the schools communicate regularly with parents and guardians. Staff seems to be kept informed of developments and practices as they emerge. I do question if students with exceptional aptitudes are challenged enough. I'd like to see more opportunity for those kids as well. Thank you, Bill. Monica. Our school district has an excellent Student Support Services Department, which deals with supporting neurodivergent students. These students typically have an IEP, which stands for Individualized Education Program, or a 504 plan, the latter not requiring so special ed services. Many neurodivergent students qualify for one-on-one help, so they have a para educator working with them throughout the school day. This para ensures that the neurodivergent student can receive an education alongside their peers in a regular classroom. BSD now has an excellent Executive Director of Student Support Services, Kelly Klassen, who oversees the education of neurodivergent and other special needs students. Each school has trained special educators, licensed teachers who oversee the education of students with special needs. Each student, sorry, each special educator has a case load that may vary in a number, though typically this case load is approximately 15 students. This year, the Office of Equity is putting on a workshop about neurodivergence for families to get educated and learn more about the issue. Please come to this workshop or tune in online. It is offered on Wednesday, March 20th from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Integrative Arts Academy. Thank you, Monica. My next question is about public safety. How can the school district ensure the safety of its students and teachers in our schools and the community? Monica, we'll start with you. Thank you. Our district takes safety of our students and teachers very seriously. This branch is administered out of the Office of Equity and the district employs a district safety lead. BSD has a long and thorough Emergency and Safety Protocol Response Procedure Manual, which is a 46-page document, and includes a BSD Emergency Rapid Response Manual that is available to everyone. Each classroom is equipped with a classroom emergency guide that is reviewed by teachers and staff on a regular basis. All of our schools practice regular drills, such as fire drills and lockdown drills, because when actions are practiced with the school kids, they are easier employed when an emergency actually happens and people's nerves are on edge. Just last summer, BSD updated Policy F3, which is our Fire and Emergency Preparedness Drill, and the district safety lead presented BSD's preparedness in these emergency procedures at our August E&I meeting. In that meeting, we also learned about options-based drills, such as run-hide fight, which our district participates in. The drills happened during certain designated weeks, and our parents are getting notified about it the Friday before it happens. For incidents reporting, the Office of Equity gives folks two options. They can fill out an equity ticket, or there is a say-something phone number that people can call to report any issues. And then I was just going to say, when students run into stalkers in the community, many students know to report that to their schools, and we often get a community update immediately when these incidents happen. Thank you, Monica. Bill. I have high hopes for the potential success of social-emotional learning, or at least the principles on which it stands. There is a large body of evidence, most of it not very rigorous, that suggests that SEL may be a positive way forward. I grew up very close to my grandfather, who often said, the mark of the scientific mind is a healthy dissatisfaction with everything. Twenty years in public education confirmed that grandpa was right. If SEL can prove itself in the field, I'm all for it. I want to interrogate the content and materials we use. I want us to be guided by meaningful benchmarks. I want to know if there are students who do not respond to it, and that they are held accountable. Thank you, Bill. My next question is about mental health. How can Burlington School's best support student mental health? And Bill, we'll start with you. My experience in the schools informs me that we are doing a good job in this area. We network with mental health agencies and communicate effectively with parents. Some evidence-based approaches to consider. The CDC recommends that as early as appropriate, we should incorporate mental health literacy. Mental health literacy includes learning how to recognize emotional stress and the effect of stress on the whole body, providing information about causes and symptoms of mental illness, emphasizing that mental illnesses are treatable, exploring stigma as it applies to mental illness and taking steps to reduce stigma. Learning help is crucial. We should encourage students to talk with trusted adults and seek help. This should be a pathway for that. Help seeking is available, especially for vulnerable students. Mindfulness exercises in small groups, especially when students are encouraged to reflect on which activities work best for them, helps students to develop a mind-body connection. I have hoped that social-emotional learning practices can help kids develop self-awareness, self-management, and successful social skills. Thank you, Bill. Monica. I believe in supporting our students' mental health. And I just wanted to talk a little bit about how at each school, we typically employ psychologists and student support staff. If a student misbehaves and has to be pulled out of the classroom, there is an adult at the school that will support the student and that happens in a different classroom. Our students come from varying backgrounds and many deal with very difficult situations at home. So I also believe that the use of restorative practices circles with peers could support students that are experiencing mental health issues. Each school also can be utilized to support and track the mental health of individual students. And I would say our schools are equipped with dealing with mental health of our students. Thank you, Monica. My next question is about measuring success. Last year's standardized test results suggest that the proportion of Vermont students proficient in math and English decreased during the pandemic and has not made significant improvement since. How do you measure the success of the school district? Monica, we'll begin with you. Thank you, Emily. Well, the pandemic had an enormous effect on our students. When the shutdown happened, the students were sent home and fortunately, I believe our district still provided meals, but they had no interaction except for online, which was detrimental to their studying and to their learning and to their development. And so, and then the next year, fortunately, we did have some in-person education, but that was very limited two days a week for middle schoolers. I think four days a week for elementary and then less for high school because our high school got shut down. And so that really affected our kids' learning and their education. And so, I'm not surprised that our standardized testing are showing lower scores after the pandemic because I believe it's going to take several years for such effects to bound back and for our students to perform better. We are looking at literacy, we have special literacy training from ARC, an American reading company for our elementary teachers. And so, we are really working to get every third by the third grade to people for students to be up to par with reading. And so, hopefully that will result in better results that we're getting on the standardized testing. Great. Thank you, Monica. Bill. Common core and the accompanying interruptions in learning caused by the frequent periodic standardized testing were major factors in my decision to give up being a classroom teacher. Teaching to the test was not why I joined the profession. But all of the testing does at least quantify a student's mastery of material even if through a narrow lens. Relative to the rest of the state's public school districts, a cursory examination leads me to believe that Burlington is about on par. The elephant in the room is how our district compares with equivalent private and independent schools. They seem to engage a set of priorities that leads to more success. I think that we would do well to keep that in mind. Thank you, Bill. My next question is about language access. How can the Burlington School District meet the needs of students and families whose primary language is not English? Bill, we'll start with you. Most of the research-based conclusions available are from research that was done 10 years ago. I acquired them when I was frequently called to substitute in ELL classes. ELL students are more successful when learning in an environment where there's an adult who her or himself had been an English language learner. ELL students have greater success when they are grouped together by language. This is important and paid attention to this. When they're grouped together by language, not just for ELL classes, but also for academic instruction. This is supported by the evidence. I recall that the high school did just that, but then a complaint arose that the students were being ghettoized. The controversy was taken up across the community and the practice was halted. That unfortunate turn could have been avoided by effective communication and outreach. Here's an interesting approach that I think we should look into. English language learners develop conversational English much faster than they do academic English. But when they're specifically instructed in higher order use of their native language, they are more successful at transferring their ideas into academic English. Naturally, demonstrating respect for their culture is an important component. Some of my most joyous days were when I subbed in ELL classes. I loved asking kids about their experiences. Thank you, Bill. Monica. So by law, the school district has to provide language access to all non-English-speaking students. Our district has an excellent ELL, so that stands for English Learners. And it used to be ELL, English Language Learners. And for some reason, they dropped the language part. So we have an excellent ELL director who cares deeply for these students and the access that they and their families have to translate in materials. The students who arrive with no English knowledge typically go through the STEP program, which for elementary kids is at IAA. Students in this program get introduced to the English language gradually. And then with a testing process, they get determined when these students are ready to get plugged into the regular classroom. In our district, there are over 25 native languages spoken. And so BSD employs about 12 multilingual liaisons, each covering different languages, although for some, such as Bhutanese Nepali, there are more than one liaison since we have a large number of these students. Similarly, for the Somali Maimei, the liaisons will ensure families have the information needed for their children to succeed in our schools. They often need to translate many important school-related materials, although they often also help with other things, such as car registrations, applying for driver's licenses, and other applications that are needed to get incorporated into our community. Thank you. My last question is about teacher well-being and retention. What do you understand to be the current level of morale in the district? What is the role of the school board in retaining good teachers and support staff? Monica, we'll start with you. I believe the morale amongst teachers at this point is pretty good. I got on the board during a time where the morale was quite low. Our Office of Equity does have a survey every year where we ask teachers and staff about the climate. The climate has improved throughout the years. We've hired an excellent superintendent who's working well and is very good at communicating. Also right now, we're on a three-year contract for the teachers and other unions. I think that's a good sign because I think since I've been on the board, we've never before had a three-year contract, and often teachers would have to work without a contract falling back on the previous year's contract. I believe that the morale and the climate in our district at this point is pretty good. The board supports our teachers. Some of our board members are teachers in other districts or are retired teachers. I think that connection helps to have such folks on our board who've gone through the lived experiences. Thank you, Monica. Bill? Morale is an elusive thing to measure. The single reference to it in last year's district report depended on self-reporting. The research and guidance that I'm familiar with focuses on the contribution of administrators and school leaders and how they are, first, the single most significant factor in teachers' sense of satisfaction, and second, highlighting and demonstrating respect towards teachers is a single most productive way for leaders to support teachers' well-being and satisfaction. Going back to last year's report, the snapshot is not encouraging. Our staff feel intensely supported by each other. That's great, and my experience there confirms that. But there is a huge and unfavorable gap between that and how much they feel supported by school leadership. I would take this as a sign that we should prioritize better communication with our frontline people and help facilitate school leadership to convey the respect that I know they have for their staff. Thank you, Bill. Thank you both for this conversation about Burlington School Board. 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