And welcome back to the Think Tech Hawaii studio. I'm happy to be back in here. I've been traveling, been working hard for you out there. Anyway, today on this episode of Security Matters Hawaii, we have a very special guest coming to us out of the East Coast time zone from the Center for Aggression Management. We have the founder and CEO, John Burns is with us. John, thank you so much for joining us today. To me, this topic is one that everyone needs to engage with, families, friends, co-workers, fellow students, we've all got to pay attention to that. I think the work that you're doing down here is something not enough people are paying attention to. They're really a little too reactive to this escalation to violence problem that we're seeing in our communities. So thank you so much for joining us. I haven't had you on before, so maybe give us some background on yourself as much as you care to share and the work that you're doing down there with the Center for Aggression Management. Wonderful, thank you very much. It's an honor to be on here, Andrew. I started this journey, if you will, 25 years ago when I was invited to find a solution. I've always thought and I've claimed to be solution man. You give me a problem, I'll come up with a solution. So on the basis of that, a friend of mine who was police chief said, John, I have a problem. My officers are getting into altercations with my citizens. So I've always believed that only when you can measure something can you truly manage it. So I went seeking for measures. I came across a person who I'm sure you've heard of, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman. Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman had written a book but he and a guy by the name of Bruce Sittle had done the research. He'd found a connection between aggression, the production of adrenaline, the increase in the heart rate and the resulting body language and behavior that we can both identify, but most importantly, we can measure it. Okay. When I was working with the military, we were using infrared. And if we could get a square inch of skin, we could identify a person's pulse rate and watch it go up and down based on the stimuli. So this was hard science. But the moment we discovered this, which we call primal aggression, we realized that this aggression based upon adrenaline, i.e. the adrenaline rush, represented someone who was losing control. Okay. So what about conscious deliberate aggression? It didn't fit. With this, we developed cognitive aggression. Quite simply, intent driven aggression. And I'm with, in other words, what is your intent with this person or persons? Is it in your interest and theirs there for a win-win is it ought to be? Or is it in your interest and to their detriment? In other words, you're going to victimize this person. You're becoming a victimizer. So there are nine stages of this cognitive aggression, but the first grouping are the victimizers. Okay. And so these are those folks at that lower level that we've probably all met. Perhaps we've in our mind wanted to victimize someone in a certain situation. We're angry at them for some reason or something like that. Okay. And our behavior tends to be more about our personality, Andrew. Okay. Than it is. I mean, we have a destructive personality. We are inconsiderate. We are distrustful. These are things that generate this kind of response. Okay. Then we have the predators. And that's a whole host of people, all obviously intent driven. Yeah. And in a criminal setting, robbery, things that are criminally intent. Okay. At the highest level in the ninth stage, cognitive aggressor, we have the perpetrator of murder, suicide, or terrorist. Sure. A person whose goal it is to give up their life for a cause and their body and behavior reflect that intention. I often tell military and law enforcement that you do not want to approach a ninth stage cognitive aggressor in uniform. Sure. They may set them off. That's the final stage, perhaps. That's right. Yeah. Because there's a high probability they will instantly start shooting. Okay. Or if they have explosives, push that button. Hmm. I see. Yes. The eighth stage. Now, we might want to bring up that image that I shared with you. Yeah, let's go ahead and show that to the audience real quick so you can kind of see. So we've got primal aggression on one side, still a nine step escalation process. And on the other side right now, we're kind of talking about cognitive aggression with this nine step process. Exactly. So the ninth stage is the perpetrator of murder source like Sung Hee Cho that we see at the top, the horrific shooter at Virginia Tech. Yeah. Or Masawi, the 20th hijacker. The interesting thing here was that the ninth stage, as I said, the behavior reflects is reflected in their intention. The eighth stage is to murder or combatant who is prepared to give up their life for a cause but intend to survive in the case of the combatant to kill more of you tomorrow. Right. Keep killing, sure. And that difference in their behavior, Andrew, is descriptive, is reflective in their behavior. They will avoid security as an example.  Do we know much about, John, I'm sorry, do we know much about that leadership role that they play?  And is there much known about do they get something from it or is it almost just purely ideological or there's gotta be, it seems to me there's gotta be a little something behind that. You know, I'm the helper of the mad man, you know? Well, they're the helper but often they are the mastermind behind the event. So they are a lot more than just getting off on their basis but they don't wanna get their own hands dirty, so to speak. Is there a sense of superiority there? They think that they're better as the mastermind than the dirty hands or do we know much about their mental state? I don't know about the mental state in that sense. I haven't done the research myself but what I can tell you is that these are people who are fully committed. Now, one of the things that we did 25 years ago, one of the things we discovered was that this was simply aggressive behavior. Now, anytime we talk about aggressive behavior, Andrew, we need to make a distinction between assertive behavior and aggressive behavior. Okay, for sure. Assertive behavior says I'm gonna win because I'm gonna be the best that I can be. Whereas aggressive behavior says I'm gonna win because I'm gonna take you out. Ah, very, very different, yes. Yes, it is. Aggressive behavior is always destructive and negative. If something is constructive and positive, it is assertive behavior. Gotcha. Great distinction.  Yeah, I saw Serena Williams got fined for hitting her tennis racket on the court at Wimbledon, $10,000. So, aggression or assertive, you know, I don't know, there's an interesting line there sometimes. Well, the difference, the line difference is intent. Yeah, oh, of course. And that is the key that we've learned. And as we use aggressive behavior and we judge on honest merits, we do not use mental health because frankly, mental health has been notoriously inaccurate. Sung Hee Cho at Virginia Tech, the horrific shooting there, was mental health assessed on three different occasions. And in each and every occasion, he was deemed to be depressed and stressed, but not at risk of hurting himself or others. And those are all, I believe, proximal to the event, like within the year prior to the event, to him going to town. Yes, he was very near the event. And Nicholas Cruz, a horrific shooting in here in Florida in Parkland, was mental health assessed by the Florida Department of Family and Children and was deemed not to be at risk of hurting himself or others. So mental health professionals play a very important role in helping us to fuse and helping people become whole. But as far as assessing future risk of violence, they have been notoriously inaccurate, we don't use them. Therefore, we do not violate HIPAA regulations. Ah, yeah, very good. That's pretty critical.  Because of it, we do not violate FERPA in our schools or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So we are able to record and track aggressive behavior with a certain impunity. And that's an important aspect of identifying who our aggressors are and how to track and identify them and diffuse them before they become violent. Yeah, it seems that that role of that mental health professional should be, once the assessment leads us to the point that this person is on a path, now this mental health expert can work on the issue that's driving them up that path. Absolutely. Yeah, that's their role.  And they do that beautifully. The problem is they are not good predictors and that's the bottom line. And they're caught up with so many other things, the HIPAA regulations and others that really make it very difficult for them to be as candid as maybe they would like to be. Yeah, and similar problems for HR professionals, right? In a workforce, similar sort of difficulties, I think. So one of those things that we discovered was as we look at someone at this nine-stage cognitive aggressor, again, realize we don't care what culture, gender, education, age, sexual orientation. When any human being rises to the intention where they're prepared to give up their life for a cause, their body responds to that intention and is based not on motives and other things we get caught up in, but simply on intention, that when any human being rises to the intention, their body responds to that intention by losing animation. In essence, the body says, I'm dead and the body takes on that look. What the military referred to as the thousand-yard stare, what others call dead eyes, but it's more than that, Andrew. Their whole body language and behavior loses animation. The Israelis call it the walking dead. And if you see any video, any stills of individuals in that stage of their attack or pre-attack, they will have that body language and behavior and they cannot avoid it. It is their own body reflecting their intention. Ouch. So I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're at a good spot for a break. We're talking about recognizing what intention does to a person and how it changes them and how you can recognize that. We're talking with John Burns from the Center for Aggression Management and we'll be back in one minute. Aloha, I'm Keisha King, host of At the Crossroads where we have conversations that are real and relevant. We have spoken with community leaders from right here locally in Hawaii and all around the world. Won't you join us on thinktechhawaii.com or on YouTube on the Think Tech Hawaii channel. Our conversations are real, relevant, and lots of fun. I'll see you at the Crossroads. Aloha. A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea program. My program airs every other Monday at one o'clock on Think Tech Hawaii. Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience. Recently, I interviewed Alex Jampel, who I have known for over 30 years about his voyage across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii. Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about. Human stories about law and life. Aloha. Hey, welcome back. We're talking with John Burns from the Center for Aggression Management. And today, we're learning about what that behavior looks like in a person once they've made that decision to become cognitively violent. And there's a difference there.  But John's got a really good take on what this cognitive behavior looks like. John, thanks for joining us and welcome back. It's my pleasure. Let's pick up where we left off. What might be a good idea is to step lower in our continuum now if you'll bring that image once again. And let's go down to the fourth stage of cognitive aggression. This is where bullying, abuse, harassment, discrimination, conflict itself all began. Now the key to understand this is that there's stages three, two and one. You see, bullying represents someone exhibiting bullying behavior.  The same thing goes for abuse, discrimination, harassment, and of course, conflict. So would you like to prevent these for the first time? Understand what stages three, two and one look like. You're seeing the precursors.  Yeah, so necessary. And I think so much of the world is built to respond. You know, we're, I don't know if that's a part of our, you know, our language is subject verb object, right? So the way, I don't know if that's just the way our thought process are, but we seem so reactive as a culture versus proactive in, you know, really this is just finding someone who's in distress and getting them the support and assistance that they need and then making sure that that's working for them early on. Yes, yes, you're absolutely right. As an example, at the fourth stage of aggressive behavior we have what we call planting the seed of distrust. Now, how will we use this? If I may use you as an example, Andrew. Sure.  At the fifth stage, we come out from behind the curtain and we become more overt, but at the fourth stage we plant the seed of distrust. So what does that look like? I would come to your, because I don't wanna come to you directly, it's too daunting.  Those people who you like, respect and even love and who you want to like and respect and love you back. And I come to those people and I say, you know, I just don't know about Andrew anymore. And they say, what do you mean? We like Andrew. And I say, yeah, but I don't know if I can trust him anymore. What have I just done? Yeah, planted that seed. Plant the seed of distrust, which is gonna grow like wildfire. Now, this is common practice in every organization and every institution across our land. But it is outright overt aggression at the fourth level.  And in the time we have left, let's drop down even lower on this continuum and talk about trust. Hey, Rob. Can we see the element? There we go. There's one element that all relationships require, whether it's a personal academic business, regardless, there's one element if it's gonna be genuine and true, it requires that element of trust. Aggression in the lower levels undermine trust. Trust is integral to things that we think in terms of a human resource aspect of teamwork, leadership, loyalty, all require trust. So if we can identify these elements in stages one, two and three, we could actually get out in front of and avoid losing trust. Also, we come to a critical area today that we're all trying to get our arms around, which is cybersecurity. How do we prevent, how do we prevent an Edward Snowden or a Bradley Manning from occurring in our area? Well, we know on the higher side of this continuum, we know that it is not instinctual for one human to attack another. You have to disconnect, depersonalize, turn this person into an object in order to attack them. So we can start to see those disconnections at the very outset of aggressive behavior. When we see things like hardening their point of view, what does that mean? That means you're disconnecting from the assertive, mutual, cooperative relationship to disconnecting with someone and then getting harding on my own point of view, not on the collective idea of everyone else. Now, Andrew, that's very subtle stuff. However, if you can be cognizant of it and engage, then we've developed what we call the judicious interview, which uses scientific cause and a frank principles so that we ask specific questions, our take specific action that produces a predictable result in the minds and bodies of the people that we're dealing with if someone's intention is to harm. So we can do something as simple as say to that person and we see them disconnecting and we can say something as simple as help me understand the intent behind what you just said. You see, I'm asking that question in a non-threatening way. In fact, help me help you kind of way. And at the same time, I'm addressing it, I love the word intent because it tends to take someone right to the core of their motivation. So by asking that question in that way, it enables you often, more likely high probability that you'll get the intent behind it, get an understanding of why they're moving so we can find people that yesterday were worthy of our trust that moved to disgruntled and now are moving to treachery in the word of cybersecurity, which is essential to us. Sure, and even in the physical space, I mean, we spend a lot of time, Stephen Covey's been in the studio actually, speed of trust, the 13 elements we worked on those. Now we're using Brené Brown. These difficult workspace conversations that aren't, if people shut down, as you talked about, right, they go in my idea is the best idea instead of a collaborative idea to work out what's best for all, a customer typically, but for the rest of the organization as well. That's just problematic in everyone and it's easy to see in a workspace. I think it's easy to see across the dinner table with family. You've got to find, if you communicate frequently, it ought to pop right up. You know, and maybe it's situational or sometimes it's certain topics people have triggers on. You know, these things vary a little bit, but you know when someone's not being honest and you know or when they're maybe not sharing the truth 100% and then that trust starts to erode. Precisely, this is human-based. So it applies to all humans, whether they're sitting across the dining room table from us or they're in our classrooms together or they're a co-worker, all of these elements can be used and applied in all settings. You see all of this malicious behavior, whether we call it bullying, harassment, abuse, cybersecurity or violence itself are simply aggressive behavior. And when people realize that aggressive behavior comes with precursors, which enable you to get out in front and prevent it in a reliable way, that is the essential thing to understand. Yeah, let's talk a little bit about that because you've got some great training programs there, you know, from the observers to the managers. Talk a little bit about the program that you've built there and how people can get engaged with that. Absolutely, thank you. We have, first of all, we've come to realize that having people all come to Orlando, Florida, and now, although people love to come to Orlando, Florida, send their families to Disney and then take a class with me, frankly, we've gone to webinar-based training because, well, I just had a few months ago, someone in Nigeria take my course. Awesome. So we have on our system, four-day train-the-trainer's kind of programs that you can, we called our ambassador's workshop and you can take that or we have a two-day program where you can become a certified aggression manager or we have a one-day introduction into aggression management. So we have all these variations in webinar-based. You can be anywhere in the world, be sitting in front of your laptop, you have a camera, I have one like we are doing and we can communicate, create a virtual classroom or I'm hired to come out to your organization and conduct training and incidentally, I would love to come now to Hawaii and conduct that training and play a little golf while I'm out there as well. Sure, sure. We've got about three minutes left. So let's get in a little bit to the response that you get. So someone goes to the class and like is everyone a good observer, for example? Is everyone a good manager? Because you've got some software you've built to help them gauge this sort of the path a person's on or where they're at and then how they're improving or maybe escalating or whatever. Yes, absolutely. We've built a mobile app where I should go through a vision right now to make it even better. So our system is called the Critical Aggression Prevention System. There are three components to it. Two are training, one is software. If you're in a corporate setting or a school setting and you'd like the system, we have one that we call Aggression First Observers who are all the people on the front lines, they're taught objective measurable observables. We don't want to go down that rat hole if he said she says. So these are objective measurable observables. They call it into a small core group of certified aggression managers who are taught to engage and diffuse. And then they use their software to identify what level of aggression this person is, thereby the presumption of threat, low, moderate and high. And that's essential because it gives us a sense of urgency to get involved and get involved now. And then it offers corresponding skill sets. So you're never using a sledgehammer when a tapping hammer will do. And therefore you're becoming effective. It scientifically validates the process in real time using face validity. It's an excellent tool. This is awesome. And we need more of this. And it also, it stops that silo problem of different types of measurements, right? So you get everybody in an organization on a standard measurement. I really encourage, if you're watching today and your organization has not been able to deal successfully with workplace violence or you have no program, reach out to caps, aggressionmanagement.com, get ahold of John. Look at the videos on the website themselves, first of all, just to get yourself acquainted with what he's doing. I think it is a game changer for stopping this cognitive problem that we all run into. And really for helping out each other, which is what it's all about. John, thank you very, very much for joining us today. I really appreciate your time. And I'll probably get you back in here, maybe in Q1 or two, to look at the update and the software. Sounds wonderful. Thank you so much. Great, thanks everybody. Aloha. Thank you.


What's going on everybody? Got Callan, Jake here with Layton Sports Cards, and we are ripping 2023 Bowman Draft. This is Jumbo, case number 39. Pick your team stuff. I've got Alex M with the Cardinals. Allen V has the Brewers. Anton H has Guardians. Caleb N has the Twins. Charles F with the Angels. We've got Crispy with the Astros. Christopher L has Braves. Derek J has White Sox. Duke F has Reds. Eric W with the Nationals. Gary G has Padres Rates. Jared S has the Rockies. We got Jason C with the Yankees. John Charles has the D-Backs and the Red Sox. We got Jeffrey H with the Rangers, Tigers, Mariners, A's. Pirates and Giants. Got Matt S with the Royals. Matthew B has the Marlins. Naoki has the Dodgers. We have Ramar's with the Mets. We got Robert S with the Orioles. Roy M has all-paper-based. Ryan D with the Blue Jays. Sean P Phillies and Sioufan has the Cups. Alrighty guys, good luck, good luck. Let's see what we got. Merry Christmas, Alvin. Hey, what's up, Alvin? Merry Christmas indeed, Chippy. How are you doing today? How's everything going for you, sir? SES, good luck, everybody. Some Jumbo. 39. Box one. Good luck. You know it's about an NHL. Has the best officiant. That's fair. That's very fair, Alvin. Paypa. Bowman Glassness on Zontello. Fracter Montgomery and Jason Barofin. So last baseball break with Spotslet will be definitive PYT. That has five teams left. Nice. Got Cubs, Dodgers, Brewers, Mariners, and Rangers left. That's white. Langford, got a Greenson 99. Canard Delgado for the Yankees. Hey, no worries, Alvin. I understand that, my man. There's a Cravey and Muth. No problem, sir. Appreciate you hanging out with us. Oh, worries at all. How was Christmas with the Fam, Alvin? There's a light blue first, Lindsey. James Wood, first Woodward, and Mahone. A lot of insurance coming in today. A lot of insurance coming in today. There's Otto. It's gonna be first one with base Otto. Colin Hauke, last team, Mojo there, the Mets, or one of them. There you go, Ramaris calling Hauke on the first. The Mets first draft pick. Oh, Halloran and Kate Morris. Yeah, yeah, always, man. I'm glad to hear you had a good time, Chippy. There's a mood ring. Now it's gonna be Cole Emerson, Mariners, first Castro, and a Matt Schauver fracter first. So Aqua, Wave, James Wood to 125. Rainer Aria, Celestyn, and Jacob Wilson. The fracter first. Noble Meyer, first of fracters, Owen and Marcus Brown. Good luck, everybody. Let's see a monster here. Boards keeps taking all the super fracters, man. It's a red. That was pretty immediate when I asked. There's a 99. We got a green Christian opper. That was pretty immediate. And it's gonna be Drew Hackenburg. Nice one there, Braves. Number to five on the true red auto. Three out of five. ATL Drew, ATL Drew. There we go, Braves. Nice one there on the true red. We'll mag that on the true red. Very nice. First Levi Wells and Christian Napsit. Good stuff. All righty, I asked for a big one. We got a red immediately, not bad. First mag of the night. Not bad, we'll do that. First mag of the night. Paper. Max Clark, first Savakul, and Jake Cunningham. True red, that's right. Nothing wrong with the little true red. We like the reds. Paper. There's a Lunar Glow. That one's gonna be Homer Bush, 125 or Lunar Crater. Why is he signed as Dak? I don't know. And Eric Patansi, first refractor. He does, doesn't he? I don't know, Shane. And he goes by Dak. There's a light blue paper. That one's gonna be Kemp Alderman to 499. First Glow is gonna be Walters and Lead Better. Hey, what's up Jonathan? How are we doing today, sir? What's up, what's up, what's up? How are we doing today, Jonathan? Nice, got a Bowman glass auto. This one's gonna be Jacob Wilson. Nice.  That one is number to 75. Take that nice one there for the eight, six pick in the draft. Mr. Wilson. Fractor, Marcelo, and Kemp Alderman. Alrighty there, good first box. Hauke auto, red, and then Jacob Wilson. That was a really good first box. Go with box two, guys, good luck. Yeah, no, can't complain, how about you, Shane? Yeah, I like those, I like those a lot. Bowman glass, especially with the autos. You don't see them too often. Look good with color. Bowman glass and Rickey Bradfield. First Hunter Holland and Jayden Ham. How's this still a wreck? Oh, you hosted, Shane? Oh boy. Yeah, you know, that's how it goes, man. You gotta take the good with the bad on that one, I guess. And a Roderick Arias to 199. Future crater. Drew Jones, Winniger, Maureen Boyd. Ready for a break, which one you in, Jonathan? There's a Green to 99, Jacob Berry. And light blue is gonna be Turmar Johnson. First Brock Roden, Kevin Perrata. Which one you in? Okay, Anthony grabbing the spot. It's like in, definitive grabbing the Dodgers, thank you, Anthony. Grabbing the Dodgers. Definitive getting low. Definitive getting low up in Francisco. Low, low, low. And Otto to 499 is gonna be Colin Hauke. For the Mets. Two boxes, two Colin Haukes. Here you go, Mr. Ramars. Listenin' to us, there's a louder. And the pile of pets. We're sayin' the Mets, that's got potential. Don't show Joe. Here you go, Mr. Ramars. Sir Fracture and a base Otto already. Don't show Joe. He dustin' takin' a mosaic football spot. First K-Shul, Alfredo Dunn. Here you go, Mr. Ramars. There's a green grass, gonna be Grant Taylor in 99. He's pitching prospect for the White Sox. First Gonzalez, Emmanuel Bonilla. No, his house is a wreck from him raging over for that. That's probably true. Killed by Peely. First White Lankford and Cole Schumwetter. Killed by Peely. What happened, man? Nobody likes him. Otto is gonna be Grayson Hit, first woman base out of there. A hit, hit for the D-becks. First Ahuna, Jackson Merrill. First Homer Bush and Xavier Isaac. Purple with two fifties, gonna be Gabriel Benzales. Mariners, Jacob Wilson, Hackenburg and Grayson Hit. There's a James Wood and a Lunar and Glow Dylan head. Padres, Watts Brown and Menachi. Alrighty there, guys. That was one pack left. I don't know why I stopped there. Almost two boxes down. Stop with one pack left. Soon as the other day, man, I had like a box on the table and I go, all right, that's it for the break. Oh, wait, no. I don't know what I'm doing here. Winnaker, there's a Max Clark first. And base out is gonna be a Jackson Bowmeister first for the Oats. Jackson Bowmeister, Tommy Troy Refractor and Tanner Hall. Now that'll do it for box two. All right, guys, box three. Good luck. Oh, let's keep it going. Seen some nice calling out so far. Let's keep it going, everybody. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you, Andrew, taking spots. So light blue paper first, gonna be Andrew Pickney. It's a 499. Refractor first, early and Smith. Sold out on no huddle, five box. Awesome. Isaac, five boxes sold out. We also have a no huddle and choice mixer. So three, nine and 15 on the three breaks we have left for tonight, y'all. Nice. Spots are flying. Got a first base auto Jackson Wiggins. Three, nine and 15 for spots last night. Thank you, guys. T.J. Nichols and Cole Foster. Refractors. Everybody had a good weekend. You'd like to stream, guys, if you are enjoying. Always helps us out. Yeah, he dips. Actually, no, he should still be here. Yeah, Joe should be here for another couple of minutes. So light blue first, James Wood and Lunar Glow Christopher Torn. Montero and Waldrop. Hey, it's black auto to 75. This one's gonna be Cole Carrick. Nice one there. Rockies on the true first to 75. Called the Blacksman. Very nice one there. Nice one. Rockies second round pick. First Guanipa and Blake Mitchell refractor. Does he work at those stores? No, Timmy, they're pretty far apart. He's just a sports guy. About 30 minutes to the gaming shop they've got their own retail employees and stuff. It's a bit bigger of a store, so more retail employees there. There's a light blue first, AJ Ewing. Braden Taylor, first read and burns. He's only here. Paul Skeens first. Yeah, this is a big store. And first auto is Christian Campbell. Yeah, quite a bit bigger than here. On the Red Sox, there's a Nelson Rada and refractor O'Donnell. Paul Skeens insert. Jacob Berry, Mack Horvath refractor. Good luck, everybody. There's a Colton Leadbetter to 199. Aqua Crater. Go Rays, Howie Lee and Charlie Soto refractor. Hello, Milan. From Australia. What's up, Milan? International today. There's a Christian Campbell, another yellow to 75, for Red Sox. Espinosa, Braden Taylor. Niki James taking two in the Mosaic and Choice and Know-Huddle mixer. Andrew taking that last spot, Know-Huddle. Jennifer taking a NT, first off the line, for Tamarubli. There's a Speckle first, Christian Vicaro, Nationals. Colin Hauke, Salas, Max Clark refractor. Yeah, like the stream if you have not, guys. Like the stream. Yeah, the retro gaming nights do get pretty crazy over there, Timmy. I haven't seen a couple of, a couple of really crowded nights over there for sure. Bowman Glass gonna be Chase Davis, Cardinals. First case dad and Tommy Hawk. Pack number three. There's a Yellow Crater gonna be Cole Schoembletter for the Rets. Oh, my boy, Louder out here. There's a First Paul Wilson. We'll get him though. Louder's coming. Come on, Fred. Louder. Alrighty, box three, box four now. Box four now. Niki John also taking a Rain of Team NT. Leave those up for tomorrow. Bye, Donnie. Bye, Donnie. Bye, Donnie. Here, guys, box number four. Max Clark, first Cooper Ingle and Lazaro Montez. There we go. Here we go, Jeremiah. Genius and Math or Michael. I'll go with Michael. How we doing, Michael? There is the 499 gonna be Cole Young. What's up, Michael? How's everything going? I'm Kyle and this is Jake. There's a Aqua Crater Ethan Salas to 1 to 25. I'm actually Sean. He's Jake. Picney and Sermon Johnson. I'm Sean. Dolphin's Son. That's not all you're saying this weekend. You're saying that a couple of weekends ago. Not anymore. Light blue, Davidson Day, Los Santos. Camilo Diaz, Winnaker and Davis and Day, Los Santos. Refracted. Electrating cards as well, nice. Nice, very nice. Well, you'll get to see a bunch of them here. You're in the right place. Yes, indeed. Paper and Otto is gonna be Joe Redfield based out of there for the Angels. Our last team's taken, nice one, Angels. Langford, Ty Floyd and Basile. Maybe one second here, guys. Nice to meet you, man. Nice to meet you. I won't be leaving here. Down to two in definitive. Two. Man, nice to meet you too, sir. Appreciate you hanging out with us, stumbling upon us. Cubs and Rangers left in definitive both on sale. Hope you had a good Christmas. Everybody here, hope everybody had a good Christmas. Hope you guys have good plans for New Year's coming up as well. We got an Almanac on New Year's. Yeah, we do. Almanac on New Year's Eve, Almanac. There's a Cole Emerson, first Kendall George and Young Kale Fernandez. That should be listed here later in the week. Screen to 99, Brady Smith for the Dodges. Jackson Holiday for Sean Sullivan and Picard. Yeah, Rich, it's a personal Almanac, right? I don't know. Oh, never mind. I don't know. I thought it was a personal Almanac, not 100% sure, though. I think it's a normal. Never mind. I'm pretty sure it's a regular draft. So never mind. Don't listen to me, guys. It should be a regular hit draft style of an Almanac. Should be. I think it's right around like the one. Thank you, Nick. Take it to Bruis. 190 mark, I think, 200. Yeah, chef. Hey, appreciate that. I appreciate that. There's an auto. Gonna be Ethan O'Donnell on the base first. Appreciate the kind words. Justin Crawford, refractor first, James Wood, or sorry, Ewing. Anna James Wood. Got the mood ring. It's time. It's gonna be Jacob Wilson on the mood ring. For the ace. First cold, Emerson, doggado. Amateur hour. That's about right. That's about right. You know how we do, Rich. You know how we do. You're not interrupting. You are not interrupting. There's a Aqua Wavy and Solstice 125. Rainer Arias, first Bovee, Jackson Holiday. You're more than welcome to chat. We appreciate it. There's a Aqua Oil Paper to 499 Emmett Olson. First, Blue is gonna be Winnecker. Meyer, first McLean, and Spencer Jones. And Blue, there's Max Anderson for the Tigers. Detroit to 150. Max Anderson, Max Clark, different Tiger. Dylan Campbell first. Alrighty guys, halfway done on this one. Good luck, good luck on the second half. Box five. All right, come on, super. Red came out pretty quick when I asked for something good last time. Let's do it again. Led Bed Error, Redfield first. Same as Lavalla. That's me. That is me, known by many names. We're gonna take Greengrass Chase to Worsky first for the Astro Forest. We like to call them Ech. Stroke, Forester first. Mikey Romero. Like to call them Ech. Have been known as Dennis Actorsley once or twice. Lunar Craters, Jake DeLeo, first Farmelo, and Rainer Aris. Come on now. The base out of Brock Vraedenberg, another Mylon. First Bowman base. Paul Skeens, first Chase Davis, and Yo-Nju Vargas. I'm trying, Mark, I'm trying. Not bad so far, but get some more color going. Not the greatest darts value-wise day. Yeah, that's probably, probably does get that way a little bit later on when it gets a little tighter. Competition gets a little closer. There's a first Hurley. Jackson Churrio. If you find out you like something, Mitchell, you let me know. No, you did not a genius. I think if you're talking about Rich, he was just messing with me. He was messing with me because I was saying I didn't know what Almanac was. If that's what you're talking about, Paul Skeens base. When they make you a breakers or a ceremony. Blue to 150 is Gavin Cross. I don't know what Timmy's got going on. There's a Sabios Crawford. No, I don't think there's gonna be a ceremony. I won't be over here, I'll be over there. Yeah, Jacob Wilson, there's a first Reimer. Elijah Green. I'm sure Rich will be in the room. He just will be like clocking me, watching me. Oh yeah, staring. Making sure I'm doing the right thing. Staring at him. There's a Justin Reimer, first base out of there for the Red Sox. Jake gets knighted, I'm in. Batrano and Bomin. Jake gets knighted with a classic knight from the break room in there. Yeah, it'll be declared for the holiday. Jake day, jaker day. Ladies, sports cars will be closed. I'm in. Kidding. There's a Bowman Glastry of Gonzales, White Sox. First Moratus, Austin, Trosser. Mitchell's giving us picks. Say first light blue to 499, Mack Horvath. There's a Speckle first, Lucas Gordon. Williams most 180, Chiznall most 180s. Van Gerwin under five and a half sets. All right. Say less, Mitchell. Say less, I'm in on the darts. I'm in on the darts. Is there anything you would like to know about me? Do you have any favorite sports teams? Genius, what are your favorites? NFL, NBA, LV? There's a light blue first, Sean Sullivan. Soccer. First Lord, Denton. Hockey, sports teams. How long do you just like the league? There's a Refractor out of the 499. You need Travis Honeyman for the Codds. First Rock Regio and Vecara. All right, guys. Five down, three more. Good luck, good luck. Box number six, let's see what we got here. After this, guys is going to be Super Jumbo random team case. We'll keep the Bowman draft going. Super Jumbo. There's some super next. Yeah, so I'm going on out there. I'll see the helicopter or semi-triple the plant. I'm thinking helicopter. I don't know. Always hearing things around here. Forrest or Sean Tavoli for me. Sean might leave the room. Yeah, that's true. There's a Tommy Troy Bowman glass. Toran and a first of Eldridge. So if you think about it, I'm just going to be a worse version of Sam. Really? He really has, Jeremiah. We need to do a little visit from Mr. Langford. I got orange here. Come on. It is going to be Spencer Nivens on the True Orange of 25. Nice one there, Royals. First orange, that'll work there. The fifth round pick for the Royals. First orange of 25. Valdez and a first refractor dillon head. He's talking about breaking the box around the things. Yeah, I usually, I do that. And then, they need a non-broken box. And I always break them all. So, messed that up a few times. There's a Blue Cooper angle. Camilo Diaz and Kevin Sim. It does work nicely, though. You just break the box right around the packs. Works pretty nicely on these. It's going to be a True Gold auto. It's going to be for the Twins, Brandon Winnaker. Nice one there, Twinny's on the True Gold. Third round pick for the Twins. This one there to 50. Spencer Jones, Jorge, refractor Schlager. First refractor, Emmett Olson, Alberto Rios. And Tony Pollard did not have a good game. There's a light blue to 499, Montgomery. No, we did not. Purple at 250 is going to be Chris Clark for the Angels. First Jones and Michael Carrico. I don't know how I'm in the final with no running basket. I mean, Pollard's good, though. It's been rough all year. Madison and Yvontae Williams have been a receiver team. So why Langford refractor and Jake the Leo. Come on, come on, let's keep it going here, guys. Got Bowman and Super Jumbo next. Some soup, but auto is going to be based out of Elyon Soto. It'll be for the Nationals. Wansil brother, Elyon Soto. Luke, what up? Langford, first opper and Walters. Hey, what's up, Luke? Merry Christmas to you, sir. Merry Christmas indeed. Hope you had a good one. A little New Year as well. Got that coming soon. So 999 got Kendall George, Dodges. Happy what the heck ever. First Gordon, first Clemmie. To all those. Yeah, appreciate it. To all those who celebrate. Appreciate it. There's the 250 at Tommy Troy. Draft picks refractor. Chase Davis, Baez and J.B. Shears. The Padres. Get Billy by the spot and follow his collegiate. I believe that's for tomorrow. Lunar Glow, first nice one there. Baldritch for the Giants, two-way player. And a first Hunter Haas. Really, Bellingham is nice. He's been on fire, man. That's awesome. And there he is. For the Reds. Is a base first bowman auto of Rhett Loud. Come on Kyle, pump Rhett. Loud. Pump Rhett. Here we go, Reds, first bowman base auto Loud. Let's go. Marcelo Maher, Gonzalez and Quinn McDaniel. It's time. Alrighty guys, two more. Two more, that is it. And we are onto Super Jumbo. There's Jeremiah. Get it going. There we go, there's Spencer. Everyone's feeling it, I like it. First Riley, Seth Keener. All the way to the place for Sunderland, really. Okay, okay. Aren't they in a lower division? Aren't they in the championship or something like that? I remember they had a Netflix show at one point. There's a first Saban Sabios. Braves, first bowman base. Zach Thornton, Taycheon Bolton. Hey guys, Bowman draft Super Jumbo up next. There's a Aqua First K Cooler and Lunar Glow Oper. Brooks Lee and Zonatello Refractor. I haven't played in eight years. Oh man, haven't played the rival in eight years. That's kind of wild. That'll be a wild game.  This one there, Padres. Second of the blacks to 75. Jabez Shears that time. Gilbert and Max Anderson Refractor. Max Clark first. There's a light blue Coleman Picard. On Hellacunia and Levinson Refractor first.  I've played in eight years. Imagine Florida State don't play for eight years and then play it would be something. There's a blue wave to 150 Cooper angle. First there for the Gaudians and a first Jonah Cox. Police will be everywhere. Oh boy, that kind of game. I like it. I like it. There's a first Hypeete. Nice one there Mariners. First round pick on the light blue. First, Mejia and Saltobon. It's like the last time Jake was out for a UCF or his USF. Lisa had to restrain the man. He was getting going. There's a purple first of 250 Connor Burns for the Reds. Virgoia or Rocco Forte Refractor. Most fierce derby game in England. That's pretty crazy. I know there's some fierce ones for sure. I know they get going. There's a gradient first to 199 Jovatrona. Fractor first, Noble Meyer, Travis Honeyman. Looks like a green insert. That one's gonna be Max Clark. Nice one there, 99 draft insert. On the draft, 12 and 99. Max Clark. First, Refractor, Christian Campbell. Oh, definitely Mitchell, definitely. Those kind of rivalries. Even those Cup games, man, those can get weird. Those can get weird for sure. Especially if a team doesn't bring everybody. Kinda expect to win. There's a Noble Meyer, Bowman Glass, Clifford, and first Grant Taylor. Seen plenty of times where some bigger European clubs go down in those tournaments. There's a nice one, Paul Skeens. The 199 on the Fuchsia Crater. You go Pittsburgh. Nice Skeens. First Hudapool and Joe Whitman. Alrighty guys, one more. Box number eight here. Bowman draft, 39. We'll do Super Jumbo next. Do a quick random and we'll run it. I ask that beat by a fourth division team, really. That is not good. It's not very good. Imagine the fans don't like that. Fourth division, man. That sounds like not the best team. Joe. There he is. First McGraw, Philip Abner. Pretty solid actually. Two Hounds. There's one. So Speckle first, TJ Walton. There you go. That pays for the spot. First Hero Wyatt, Chris Clark. White choice from ours. Here you go. I'm gonna sign this up for like 175 on the area now. Nice. I ask it to get relegated. Oh geez. Oh yeah. There's a blue first pickney and a Lunar Globes on Ichi Valdez. Morgan and Arroyo. That's kind of crazy. They're kind of like one of the, I'm necessarily like on my farm team, but kind of like a lot of young, a lot of young players for big teams start there. That's kind of wild. First light blue 499, Hurston Waldrop. And blue auto to 150 is gonna be Tommy Hawk for the Guardians. Tommy Hawk pro player. Pro player there to 150. Got first Bradenburg and Gavin Cross. All right guys, two stacks left and we're on to Super Jumbop. Super Jumbop. Light blue is Fallon Celeston, 499. Bowman Glassbright and Taylor. First Caefus and Arias. Niki Dan buying into 10 box Tuesday. Got him spotting football. Appreciate you, Mr. Dan. Not a ton of spots left for today. We got a Rosegoal as well. Rosegoal should be number to 10. It is gonna be Emanuel Bonilla. Nice one there for the Blue Jays. 10 out of 10 on the Rosegoal. Sick. Nice looking bat there for the Blue Jays, Bonilla. There's a Camfisher Refractor and Gutierrez. All right, you guys, just a few more then we're on to the Super Jumbop. Super Jumbop. Super. This is Jumbop. The other one is Super. Let's hit a Super out the Super. First wide Langford. That is a good idea. First Dwarfski and Detmer. Down it is Super out of Super. Forever. Always. My shooting percentage is not very high. There's a Zach Levens and a 499. Another one for the Cardinals. Refractor Otto. First bowmeister and Carlos Jorge. Last one. No, I got you. Yeah, I mean, still man, it's still kind of crazy. They usually make pretty easy work of that league at least first or second. Later. Refractor Jayce Young, Yasser Mercedes. Later. Hi, Jazz. This one's gonna be Jacob Wilson. This one is a mini diamond. That's a 150. Had the Otto this one. Now we got the mini diamond. You go Ace. First Paul Skeens Refractor and Cole Miller. The last couple, then we're on to Super Jumbo. Thank you guys.  We'll do a random right away. You gotta clean up your mess. Light blue is Lazaro Montez. Jacob Wilson, Santana and Gutierrez. And last pack, Peppa Peppa Peppa. And by the last Otto is gonna be Jack Hurley. The 499 Refractor First Otto for the D-Bex. Hey, what's up, Derek? Yes, yes, chillin'. Yeah, filling is a good way to put it. Cole Carrick and Cam Collier. Did eat a little bit of food yesterday, that is true, Derek. What's up, Derek? Hope you're havin' a good one, sir. All right, guys, we'll do a quick recap and then we're on to Super Jumbo. Do a random right after this and we'll be right back into it. Later, Joe. See you later, man. To 99, Jacob Berry, Kendall George Offer. There's Max Clark, Grant Taylor, Jaworski, Delgado, Bobby Smith, or Brady Smith, all 99 to 75, Cole Schoenwetter, Christian Campbell, 25, Nevins, Bonilla. Otto's, Jackson Wiggins, Justin Reimer. Otto's, Sabios, Braydenberg, Soto, O'Donnell, Lauda, Redfield, Bowmeister, Christian Campbell. There's a Colin Hout base. Racing hit to 499, Honeyman, Zach Levinson, Hurley. Another Colin Hout, got to 150, Cooper Engel. Tommy Hawk, Max Anderson to 75, Jacob Wilson, Bowman Glass, Otto. 75, Cole Carrick, Jay Bashers. Gold to 50, was Brandon Winnaker, and True Red, first bowman, Otto's, gonna be True Hackenberg for the Braves. All righty there, guys. That'll do it for the Bowman Jumbo case. Give me just a moment, set up a random, we'll get Super Jumbo. Super Jumbo next.


I'm Command Sergeant Major Stan Williams with the 184th ESC. So this weekend we had the 184th ESC as well as one of our battalions, the 298th CSSB, occupied the M17 and M4 ranges for qualification. Why is that important? Why do we need to qualify with our weapons? Well, it's all a part of readiness. Having our soldiers ready to go at a moment's notice and learning to use their weapon and use it effectively and efficiently is very important as part of that readiness. What goes along with that as well is safety. We preach safety from the get-go. We want our soldiers to operate that weapon not only efficiently and effectively, but safely as well as we go through the qualification process. Overall this weekend was a great success. We have very high morale going right now in both of our organizations. A lot of good soldiers out here training and training hard and qualifying with their personal weapon. So I think this weekend has been really good for both organizations, not only from a training standpoint, but from a morale standpoint as well.


Hey guys Oh, this is a little extra video I decided to film today because I know I've had some comments in the past of people saying hi You're not in the comment section enough, and you know what you're right and in the past. I'm guilty of Saying it's overwhelming. There's so many comments. I can't respond to them all So I decided you know what I? Should make a video maybe once a week Maybe once in a couple days and not a trucker Josh responds type of video, you know Go through some of the comments with you guys and answer them on camera So let's go through a few here I'm on my my page here Josh diesel that's me Okay, let's go to video manager Let's Pull up a video here Let's say I just spent half an hour. I spent an hour just going through the comments of today's video and I'll be What is it 109 litter bug answering every single? comment in there I Wish I had time like this every day to do this because it's fun interacting with you guys, right? That's what YouTube is all about. It's about interaction. Okay. Let's go To the load fell through vlog. How about that? Open up some comments in here. Well, I've already responded to a lot of these I'll answer them again Let's see Someone asked me a question. Will I be able to bring my truck home? Ricky Julian with a picture of the trailer park boys Is that really Ricky? Is that really you man? It's not sure if I missed it or not But can you bring your new truck home or your truck home to your new place? Yes, that's the whole reason I bought my new place is because I want to bring my new truck home to my house And skip the whole part of moving everything into my car and then my house and eventually one day I'm gonna build a shop in the back send a winter time My truck and my fuel can stay warm when I'm at home enjoying home time The next one here is the garage vials When are you getting the APU and I already answered there? It's in the air right now What I mean by that is I don't know if I am gonna get an APU on this truck after all You know, I'm so back and forth with it. I know I really want one I know it would save me in the long run, but honestly with my truck nearing 2 million kilometers and nearing 1.2 million miles An APU is an auxiliary power unit It pretty much keeps my engine my cab and everything warm in winter time and in summer time It's the opposite keeps my cab cool without the truck idling right you save like 75% of your fuel or more or something like that and Yes, I want an APU But I think I'm gonna wait till I get a new truck because I'm probably not gonna be in this truck forever Unless if I rebuild the engine if I do an in-frame rebuild. Yes, then I'll put an APU on the truck Absolutely, but I'm still trying to figure out whether or not I'm gonna keep this truck, right? So I am gonna keep it for at least a year, right? I'd like to keep it for two years, but if I get a new truck after that I'll just buy a different truck with an APU already installed on it, right? But right now my mind is just focused on moving all of this stuff into my new house So I'm not really thinking about an APU right now Maybe I'll reconsider it after I'm all settled into my house. We'll see but for now I'm sort of thinking it might not be worth it It might not pay off because you sort of have to have the APU for at least two three years for it to pay for itself, right? So we'll see Zantech, are you not allowed to film at the border? Honestly, I've never heard any laws against it, but I'm sure there are laws against it They're government officials doing official government business And you don't want to give them any reason to hassle you because they have every right to hassle you and you Can't say anything about it a Lot of them I think know who I am when I cross the border I'm suspicious of it because they give me that look some of them are like, hey trucker Josh I don't know if they're just saying that because it says trucker Josh on my door or if they actually Know who trucker Josh is But still if I'd be recording at the border I think I would be infringing on some kind of law or something It's makes me very nervous. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't recommend anyone else to do it either Turn the cameras off and put them away before they can pick up who's in the booth, right? That makes sense shouldn't film with the border. I don't think it's a good idea See, let's do you see your comment here? I'm I have read them all already Yeah, this guy here Daniel Oaks Says the flying hook in Winchester We're talking about how they do not like it if you park outside the lines in Winchester I was very disappointed with the way they treated me the one time I went there because usually sometimes you're all guilty of it When the truck stops full we sort of make a spot Some drivers are very bad at making a spot You're supposed to be out of the way of everyone else so that you're not interfering with any of the truck stop traffic that there You can still get through both ways, right? You know what I mean common sense some people Block things block people in this annoying don't do that But I was way out of the way in the back corner alongside the curb two lanes of traffic that still get past me one in each direction Oh, that was good to go. I was sleeping already They came and banged on the side of my truck door. I rolled down the window. I said, what do you want?  I'm out of hours. I can't legally move this truck and Well, they threatened to told me with me in the vehicle and I said you can't do that They said well in the state of Virginia. We can blah blah blah adding few choice words in there again. I was very disappointed With customer service at the flying J in Winchester, Virginia They could have handled that better. All they had to do was just explain to me in a nice calm voice You know I'd hear we just don't appreciate it if you park over here Like there's another parking spot Or another parking lot there you can go here you can go there and give us options But when I told him I can't legally move He cursed me up and down said he didn't care much about them I was very disappointed with the flying J in Winchester, Virginia very rude staff there and Even the manager came out and Wasn't much better. He wasn't cursing, but yeah, what are we supposed to do as truck drivers when you park? And you know, you're out of the way and you legally can't move your truck You can't go on public roads if they force you off their property and then you go into their store and The big sign on the door says welcome professional drivers and we serve professional drivers here to serve you and all this stuff You really don't care about the professional drivers. Do you? Anyways, I don't want to go on about that He just brought that up in it. I never go there anymore. I never stop at Winchester Flying J anymore I do not need to be treated like that at the end of my day Chris 32 898 what kind of dog is diesel a lot of you ask this what kind of dog is diesel? I don't know. I know his dad was a purebred Rottweiler and his mom was a mutt. She was a part border collie part lab Part something else. I don't know but he's mostly Rottweiler border collie and lab That's diesel So, uh, I know Ed Crawley answered here Rottweiler and German Shepherd. Yeah, he could have some German Shepherd in him, too I think I've said that before so he's right. It's Rottweiler German Shepherd would be a good way to Try but if you guys ever see people asking that in the comments go ahead and answer for me I won't mind just like Ed did here That's good. I like it when you guys answer questions for me I'm not trying to be lazy, but sometimes I just can't get around answering them or for some reason it's Doesn't I don't see it. I try to see everything. I usually do see everything, but some days They're just like super busy days, right and I appreciate when you guys do know the answer when you answer on there Respectfully answer like Ed did here. He just very nice Thank you, Ed Crawley for Answering that for me. I do appreciate when people do that. Let's see Wait a second wait a second Danny Hansen Josh, can you show more of you backing into the dock if you can love seeing your vlogs? Thank you very much That's a very good idea. I I need to start messing around my camera angles again I know I had stopped doing that in winter time because it's just too cold to go out there and set up all these cameras and In rainstorms, you can't see anything anyways And this summer I've been so Consumed with this whole moving thought and everything that Stressed me out a little bit. I'll get on that for you I'll get on that for you I feel very careful because I signed a contract with who I work for that I do not show any of the customers that we deliver to right that's revealing sensitive private information of Contracts that we have right and they do that for a specific reason, right? They don't want the whole world knowing What their bread and butter is You know people are dogs out there.  They'll try to do everything they can To come take that money away from you and take it for themselves, right?   What is it there? Richard don't feel sorry for your employer. I used to do that. It came back to bit me Yeah, some employers. They'll take advantage of their employees. I however Like who I work for a lot. They're not just friends and employers there. They feel like family. That's my work family They treat me really really well there and so I want to return the favor to them See I do feel bad when I can't be there for them when they need me to do something Sorry, I got a move guys. I'm sorry And I know vlogger fare and moving happens in the same month two weekends in a row And I hate doing that to them because They do so much for me. They're always there for me like I never have to chase them down for a layover They usually tell me. Oh, hey, you were sitting here for so-and-so time. Hey, we're gonna pay you a layover Cool, sweet. They chase me down to pay me the layover. Yeah, I'll take money. All right Dispatch is very on the ball. I have great dispatchers. There's a great guy Leading the company great president the great director of operations. I can't say enough What how much I like this country and this isn't product placement or a brand deal or anything Like I don't have to say anything about them if I don't like them But I choose on my own will to say they're a great company to work for I love them So, yeah, this was just a quick little video that I wanted to do to engage with you guys a little bit interact a little bit because I have An hour or two today, so I figured you know what let's answer some questions. Let's talk to them Let's get out of the regular norm of the everyday vlog. Let's do something different. Let's Answer some questions. So what I want you guys to do is down below if you guys have any questions that you want to know about me That's what this comment section is for in this video and my next question answer video will be Answering questions from in this video You know what I mean, so I don't know how often I'll be able to do these I'd like to do them once a week maybe twice a week. We'll see trying new things out always trying new things out So, yeah, if you got a question for me If I can answer it what not I'll make another video next week And I'll do my best to answer it then okay guys. Thanks for watching this. I'll see you next time


Good evening and welcome to channel 17's continuing coverage of town meeting 2019 and tonight We are talking with candidates for winiski city council. There are two There are actually three open seats for winiski city council But we're talking to the two candidates for the two-year seat and there are two seats So you are not contesting each other. There are two open seats Okay, and Jim Duncan and Amy Lafayette are our candidates that we're speaking with this evening And of course if you have any questions for them, please feel free to give us a call at 8 6 2 3 9 6 6 We'd love to hear from you here at channel 17. I think um It's the 12th or the 11th. I don't even know what day of the week Sorry, it's okay. You just call us. We'll talk. So Jim why don't you start and let us know why you're running and what qualifies you for the position of winiski city council Sure. Thank you. So I believe that winiski is on the edge of great things at this point And I really believe that we have seen a council and a staff to get some really good strategic planning and see up some Projects that are really ready to go and hit the ground running and make the city a better place And I want to step in and kind of continue that trajectory forward and provide a way to help manage and Oversight oversee those changes as we're going forward so that we can see this city kind of live up to its potential And I think that being responsible and effective in that means being a good conduit for the community And that's something I think that we're starting to see more of as this engagement with the city council through its commissions And also directly with citizens that we can continue to improve that. So I'd like to see our Community being more involved in these decisions as we go forward. So that's one reason I'm running is to try and be a voice and be a conduit for all those voices coming from our community I believe that I'm qualified because of my current work experience I work at running a five-state environmental monitoring cooperatives. So I've been overseeing partnership building across the five-state region here in the Northeast and That means working with a lot of partners. It means managing complex budgets small staff and working with federal and state bureaucracies to figure out What we can do how we can leverage each other's works and get the most done in terms of all these environmental monitoring projects So that's something that I think I can bring to the table Professionally and I've also worked in transparency and accountability for governments in international development before so that's also something that I can bring to the table In my volunteer work, I've worked on the South Burlington Natural Resources Committee I'm running the Winooski tree board currently trying to do tree plantings and tree Inventories around the city so trying to get that up to spec and finally I'm a parent I have a kid in the Winooski school district We own a home really invested in seeing this community succeed for all these good reasons And I want to I'm excited to have the opportunity to be on council and be have a hand in making that happen Thank you. Just nailed two minutes really good Amy Lafayette tell us why you're running and what qualifies you for the position of Winooski City Councilor Thank you so I'm running ultimately because I love Winooski and I really see this as a way to give back to the community more and community service capacity essentially You know, I think as Jim was saying we have a lot of projects on the table And I want to see them through to completion and make sure that all of the good work can continue for me affordability is something that I think a lot about and Accessibility and I really want to work to make sure that Winooski remains an affordable accessible place while pushing these projects forward In terms of my qualifications, I'm a board member of downtown Winooski, which is a nonprofit organization Dedicated to promoting the vibrancy of Winooski businesses I've done everything from event planning to strategic planning for that group and I've met a lot of great people along the way I've been able to build up a lot of relationships with business owners and with some of the city staff And I think both of those Sets of relationships would really lend themselves well to a transition on to city council In my professional career, I do marketing and communications work And I think that that could also come in handy with not only communicating with the city staff and my fellow counselors But also just being able to talk to the you know to a common Winooski citizen to hear what's on their mind and make sure that their Voices are being lifted up So both of you before we went on the earth Mentioned this question of affordability and so what does affordability mean to you? I'm gonna ask you both, but why don't we start with Amy? Yeah, so for me affordability means ensuring that we have a mix of affordable housing Essentially making sure that if we're thinking about a new development That we're not Inadvertently pricing out our own citizens, you know, we want to keep people here We want more people to be coming to our city and I think that Housing is one of those areas that we are at risk of gentrification. We could easily be pricing out our folks So for me affordability really is tied into housing. Thank you. What's your view of that question? I think that is definitely the biggest driver of affordability in the city is going to be the ability to rent and own Housing stock in the city. That's decent quality and livable quality I think there are two other kind of pillars of affordability in our community one is going to be property taxes and being able to Support the budget of the school the budget of the city and we do have some that's directly where we can make an impact But ultimately the differences that we see in property tax rates are going to pale in comparison to a hot housing market and a tight rental market So we need to figure out how to provide those units at affordable rates Both for sale and for rent and making sure that they're good enough to actually want to live And I think that's another challenge that the city can look at and then I think the third component is actually affordability of Services and making sure that we're continuing to provide affordable services Affordable rental space at the community center affordable access to the pool affordable access to classes that community services run so that we can Provide as many opportunities to residents once they're here and they don't have to pay Exorbitant fees or go outside our community to access those services So what are the top three issues that are important to you? You've mentioned some of them But we could just summarize for us and for our viewers I'll just remind people you could feel free to give us a call at 8 6 2 3 9 9 6 6 That's 8 6 2 3 9 6 6 if you have any questions For the candidates for winiski city council these two candidates are are Fying for two seats, so they're not opposed to each other Just FYI. All right, so tell us what your top three issues are Jim Well, so the first is affordability. We have a housing trust fund that's ready to be populated But we don't have money to put in it so figuring out how we're gonna put money into that Fund so that we can support lower-income folks in our community is gonna be a key issue Something we really got to get right so that we can balance development and the needs of people in the community I'm the second issue that I would like to focus on is Successfully closing out the downtown tiff on the tax increment financing district, so that's going to be coming up in Four years, I believe five years So we know that we need to do a couple more things to finish out that district to make sure that We're set to close it out successfully and then use funds that are going to be coming to us from those increased property taxes Appropriately and to benefit the city and balance the budget The third piece that I would like to focus on is Creating tangible connections in our community. So how do we? Think about our community from everything from the infrastructure to the services We're offering to the spaces that people have to connect and that we're making as many investments in those as well So looking at our streetscapes and making sure we have good landscaping public trees Multiple multimodal use is accessible to people of all abilities Making sure that we have Services that people need and want and can utilize so that they can connect around classes and then also providing venues that people can participate in from the senior center to the community center to the pool and Seeing those as places that we build social cohesion and have a community that's united. Thank you so much Amy Well, yeah, what would are your top three? So I would say my top three priorities would be affordability Communication and inclusivity, you know, I've already touched on the affordability piece, but I will just say I think the next city council and the city of Wynuski in general is gonna really have to take a hard look at all of the issues and policies coming forward through an affordability lens to make sure that our folks can still stay here and afford to live here And to Jim's point, you know affordability is something that affects all of us when a property tax bill goes up That has a trickle-down effect to renters as well, you know landlords are not just absorbing that cost out of the goodness of their heart So I think that affordability is something that affects all of us and is something that's really crucial for Wynuski to be thinking about My second priority in terms of communication, you know, I think Wynuski does a great job compared to a lot of other cities informing residents of What's going on through front porch forum through social media? You all record our city council meetings and they're available for public view But that being said, I don't think the average person has three hours to watch a council meeting or to read pages and pages of meeting minutes So I would really love to explore ways to pare down that pertinent information and get it to folks in a really tangible way So that they can be informed of what's going on in their community and create a two-way dialogue so that we can get their feedback To hear what their thoughts are And then the third piece for me inclusivity, you know, Wynuski is one of the most diverse is the most diverse communities in Vermont But I think there is still a there is a still a language barrier for non English speakers so when we're reaching folks on front porch forum or on YouTube and Non-English speakers are not communicating in that way. We need to think of more creative solutions to reach those communities and I would love to look into translation services to be able to Let those folks know what's going on and again create a two-way dialogue so that we can lift up their voices and and hear What's important to them? So given your concerns about affordability. Do you support the Wynuski budget as it's proposed? I do you know, I think that the budget is It it there's a level setting for some of the city services, which is great and then also included in the budget are Capital expenses that voters have already, you know voted in favor for so the capital improvements include the Myers pool and also Main Street revitalization and one thing that I really like about the budget is that it includes a local sales and Local sales tax and also rooms and meals So a lot of other surrounding communities Burlington, Williston, South Burlington They have these taxes and Wynuski doesn't so I think it's a really great idea to roll that into the budget to try to get some Of that earned revenue And take it off take the burden off from local taxpayers to have to foot the bill of some of these big projects That again voters have already voted in favor of Putting forward. Thank you. Jim. What's your view of the FY 20 budget for the city of Wynuski? I also fully support it. I think if you look at the total tax impact it is high I think around 8% but most of that is through bond votes that the city's already the voters have already approved And you look at the actual city budget is about a 2 percent 2.6 percent increase And that's barely above cost of living adjustments that we'll likely see across the board Here in businesses around the county So I think that we're looking at basically Maintaining these investments and making some strategic choices about how to close the gap There's been a series of budgets that probably have under invested in the city And we're seeing that impact now from the water main breaks up on Main Street to the school There's there's deferred maintenance that needs to happen And I like that this budget not only tries to tackle some of those key issues like on Hickok Street with the water main replacement there But also identifying strategic points which we really need to make investments in our fire trucks and other Components of our infrastructure so that we're not going to be facing these issues again in 10 years to 5 years down the road So I think it's a I think it's a pretty responsible budget I think they've managed to do a lot with quite a little so the swimming pool is something that's You know very emblematic of Winniski. I think it gets a lot of Attention because it's seen as a community resource, but it hasn't been entirely figured out how to pay for it So Jim had how important do you think that the pool is and? How do you think we should pay for it? Well as a parent of two young kids I think it's extremely awesome to have the idea of a pool being back in our community We made use of it when our oldest daughter was young and it's been kind of hard to not have it these past two summers But even more so I think that it's a huge asset to the community I look at all the people who show up at Maple Street pool on a hot summer day and Pay some substantial amount of money to go there and I think that Winniski's ready to take advantage of that too I think there's people in this area who will attend that pool become a regional resource not just for our community So it's something that I think that does need to be rebuilt And it doesn't quite matter what I think because the voters have approved it so at the job of the city council is to figure out how to make this work and I think that's Where we've seen some really great work by the pool committee to do Philanthropic fundraising we've seen a grant that's probably going to come in to help offset those costs So I think that the city is making reasonable efforts to try and lower the cost of the pool of the community And I think that's great and then down the road as we look at the pool being open and how to keep it going I think there's some potential room to adjust rates in the future if we see that utilization is high And we can support higher non-resident rates. I think that's something we could look at too How about you Amy? How do you think we should get that project off the ground? Yeah, so, you know very similar to Jim I do support the pool. I Voters supported the pool so I would definitely want to move move that project forward I think getting creative about looking for funding sources is something that we're gonna have to do So as you were saying the committee the independent committee to fundraise that's great I think they're responsible for something like three hundred thousand dollars of the budget And I learned this morning that we were just awarded a grant of a hundred and forty seven thousand dollars to go toward the pool Which is amazing, but you know again That's sort of a drop in the bucket if you look at the larger budget So I think we're gonna have to get creative to look for these outside sources that maybe we haven't explored yet And I also think we can learn from other communities. So to Jim's point that Essex has a thriving pool They've had one for decades and it is successful. So I think we should be having some conversations with them to understand What their structure is like and how they how they maintain a successful pool? So You've talked a little bit yours and already about the diversity of Winiski and how to include people from different backgrounds in The cultural life and the political life. Is there more that you want to add to how the city could practically make that happen? Sure. So, you know, I think with reaching non-English speakers Our first idea is to turn to technology and to think what's out there that could help us bridge this gap But I think what's gonna really make a difference is kind of going back to old communication models and just having face-to-face conversations. So looking into a Language liaison, I know that the school works at the school district has some folks In the ELL program maybe utilizing some of them to be kind of our on-the-ground folks To have these face-to-face Conversations and meeting non-English speakers where they are if they're not online But if they're at a community event making sure we have a presence at that event and making sure that we can create Pathways for them to give us their impact input. Thanks, Jim. What's your view on how to create a more inclusive city? Sure. Well, I think that Amy's idea of translation services being more widely utilized as a key one I'm I'm really glad to hear that one coming up. I think that Continued training for the staff is going to be important in the council. I think that they've done some work on Unconscious bias is a great way to look for your weak spots And I think that's probably one of the biggest challenges We have is that it's difficult to know what you don't know and it's difficult to know your blind spots And so I think that continuing as a council and as a staff to try and find those and be very aware of them as we Do the job of governing of building budgets of Legislating what we should do in our city that we need to be Thinking about those things on a regular basis and know how to incorporate it into our decision-making so that it's not Something we're trying to build in post-hoc I want to see it be something that we're thinking about all the time and that Once we know our weak spots then we can make sure we're ensuring alignment Between the services that we're offering in the communities that need them So we have some great programs and through community services and thrive and others that are providing ways for the community to Be engaged and involved both in taking advantage of the city and contributing to the city How do we make those better aligned with the wide range of cultures we have in the city? And I think continue to support those services like thrive that operate at the school that provide these venues for cross-cultural Communications and integration are really important So there's a kind of related question in terms of including and engaging young people and How do you think when is he is doing in this realm and what more could we do? To support the young people in the city. Mm-hmm. I think that This is a harder one for me to answer because I think there's also a context around substance abuse and kind of these issues with Youth and I think that it's not totally my area of expertise But what I have looked at might have been thinking about this question and trying to figure out what we're in the city That we're seeing good examples of this I think things like the what the Winnowski Police Department have done to do events within the community to Get officers in contact with youth in positive situations And in trying to do more community-based policing is really a great way to connect youth to a key Segment of our city that can help support them at times of need and then I mentioned thrive I think that we're I think it's a great program It just earned another star from the Vermont Department of Education So it's improving its quality as a child care program and I think that's a way that we are providing services for our youth I think the pool becomes a great resource for keeping kids Engaged in the summer when there's no school in session and providing safe opportunities for recreation And again thinking about that building our spaces for connections So having ways that we can have cities that are putting people in contact with each other on the street and through classes Making those social connections that provide greater cohesion. I think a ways that we can continue to support youth Amy, what's your view on that question? I know I think in terms of supporting youth and making sure that they are involved in our community I think it's great that one of the school board members is always a student I think that's one of the best ways to really make sure that we're hearing from From folks what's important to them when it comes to drug and alcohol and substance abuse, you know for me I'm very concerned by the levels of Middle schoolers and high schoolers vaping and trying that for the first time I think that the city definitely could be doing more you know to to educate and Let folks know about the dangers of vaping in particular It wasn't that long ago that you know smoking in restaurants and bars was commonplace and it took some Pretty forward-thinking cities to kind of stand up and say, you know We're not gonna stand for this anymore, and then it became kind of common across the country So I think that the city of Winooski could could potentially take a similar approach with something like vaping or you know even other substance-a-use disorders by educating and letting folks know about the dangers of these issues I also to agree with Jim about Utilizing police officers and their partnership with the Howard Center in particular To help folks when they are in crisis Let them know that there are resources available So I know that you're not running against each other, but I just wondered if you had questions for each other Because you seem to be pretty aligned. Yeah So I'm just wondering if you have if you're curious about what each other's thinking about a particular issue that you care about Well, I was actually struggling with this and that I think because there's a difficulty in knowing how much space there is between candidates in this election and think that I mean that's a sign that we're all kind of pushing in the same direction That's just great But one question I think that I would like to see kind of talked about is what you think are some of the key Qualities or values that you feel like you are gonna take on as a leader Like what is it that you are gonna do or things that you're gonna have in the back of your mind when you're Thinking considering a situation to think about how to solve a problem or make a decision. Mm-hmm. It's a good question I think first and foremost. I'm a critical thinker. I don't do anything, you know, just off the top of my head I really research every decision Whether that's you know buying a car or something like running for counsel I would want to consider all sides to an issue and really make sure that I've put the work in I also think I'm a good communicator and I can easily talk with lots of different types of people. So For me, I think it's gonna be really important to make sure that we're lifting up the community's voice and I want to you know, I wouldn't want to put forward any policies without getting their input So in the back of my mind, I'm gonna be thinking what would voters say about this? How can we get their input? how can we have them turn out turn out to these meetings and You know, just make sure that we really are serving the people Have a question for Jim My question for you is what do you think is when you ski's greatest asset? I honestly this is probably gonna sound tripe at the people I think that what has shocked me over and over about when you ski so I grew up in Essex So I drove through a new ski. I came to the Champlain Mill when I was growing up I loved coming here, but it was a very different place and coming here to live and try and settle a family here I was amazed at how Involved people are in very different ways and how aware people are of what each other are going through and what their neighbors go through I feel like we're a small community. So we are tight quarters We're close to each other and I see a lot more neighborhood cohesion and Community cohesion here than I've seen in other communities even in South Brilinton where I live for a little while in Essex I think it's just the nature of being a small one square mile city but we have people living close together who really actually seem to care about each other and That we are also this diverse and really interesting group of people and I think that that's kind of a fun place to live But it also makes us I think a pretty vibrant and energetic group and I think you got to look at the Distribution of people trying to serve on City Council is pretty uncharacteristic of Vermont So I think that says something to the quality of our community and what we're trying to do Thank you so much. So Jim Duncan. Do you have any closing comments? Well, I wanted to start by thanking you Lauren Glenn and CCTV for having this and Amy for your interest in expertise I'm really excited to see you running. I Would like to say basically that I think that we're really are on the cusp of doing some great things here in the city I'm interested in being a part of that and I'm excited to be invested in the outcomes of what happens whether or not I'm on City Council so as our community continues to Consider who to vote for and as we knock on doors over the coming weeks. I really look forward to meeting Some of our community members and really look forward to the opportunity to serve on City Council and and help Continue to do this process of making great change in the city. Thank you Jim Duncan. Amy Luff yet So I just want to also say thank you for having me and for this opportunity You know again, I'll just say I I love when you ski. I think we're a really special town city very special community and I just really I just want to serve to be able to advance those plans That we've talked about earlier and make this an affordable place for years to come. So That's you know, that's essentially why I'm running and I hope that both Jim and I will have everyone's vote on March 5th Well, thank you so much. Thank you both Jim Duncan and Amy Luff yet are running for City Council in the city of Winniski And they are running for the two-year seat the two-year seat has two two openings so two positions two years and They will join other city counselors.  Thanks for watching


I didn't know when I was going to be back. I just put it in God's hand. And tonight, just tell myself to be bold, be courageous and let God have the rest, you know, and make the place for the team. AJ, you guys have been through some serious stuff over the last 16 days since you guys played a game. What does this win mean to you, even though, you know, it's only four game or five weeks into the season? I think the team mindset is just another game to be honest.  So, us getting this win was just what we expected to do. Come on and play hard, play physical, that's a great team over there. No shout out to them. But we just try to come out and just do what we do. John, Glennon. Yeah, AJ, I mean, sort of following up on Vux there. I mean, how impressive is this as a team to be able to do this?  I don't know, is that impressive to you? I'm a very humble guy, so I mean, you're going to get the same answer out of me. Like I said, we expect to win every time we go out there. We get a chance to play, we expect to win, no matter who we playing. So, that's just our look on the game, you know, regardless of what we was going through, like through the week. None of that matter, you got to find a way, you know, so that was our motto, who we going to find a way, that lot of play, we going to play. TD. Yeah, AJ, can you kind of take me through the rehab process for you? Because I know it had to be difficult not being able to be in the facility this last week. How did you manage to get ready to go for today? I kind of, funny story, I kind of did more than what I was supposed to. To me, I didn't expect me to be back this soon, but during the time I couldn't go into building, I go to a field, I go to a field, I run routes and just to see where I'm at. And I ice my knees, like every hour, I mean, every 30 minutes into the hour, like I'm icing, because I'd be sore afterwards or whatnot, but I kind of did more than I expected, and I came back and that's so tired of them. I think I'm doing a lot better than a lot of people think, so I want to give it a go, you know what I'm saying? I have good days, I have bad days, you know, so. And they had a veteran corner on you and basically cat coverage and you still did what you did after missing two games.   I let God handle all that stuff. I let people talk for me, you know, I got to talk to myself. Terry. AJ, how much did you work even harder to get back knowing that the Titans wouldn't have Corey or Adam tonight? I kind of put it on me. Just seeing those guys end up being, I kind of put it on myself because during the week, I was kind of having like a bad week. I was having a bad week and I told myself I'm going this week. I'm going this week. So I have to, you know, a lot of guys mean a lot of people like depended on me and Brian just kept talking to me, we need you, we need you this week, we need you this week. And I just told myself I'm going and that's that. Paul. Hey, AJ, I know you weren't there for the first two, but that's 106 points in three games for you guys. Is that now the standard? Should you guys be scoring 30 or more a week? Every time we touch the ball, we expect to score. I don't know about that, but every time we touch the ball, we expect to score. Kyle. Yeah, before you guys took the field, I think you came out of the tunnel. It was a huddle of wide receivers. It was you and three undrafted guys. You know, and those guys had to do more than they normally do. A lot of people had to do more than normal. I was curious just about what you all said to each other or what you said to them coming out and what you thought of those guys and how they rose to the occasion. I told those guys, when we leave this game, we need to be mentally and physically exhausted. There's only four of us, and that's all we need, no matter where you come from, no matter. None of that still matter. You can't mess with heart, and that's what we brought to this game, our heart. So it was only four of us. We rotated a lot. Shout out to those guys who were helping me out because I couldn't breathe out every time, but shout out to those guys lifting each other up, playing as a group, as a unit. We did really well. Luke. A.J., you all talk a lot about the belief that you have in each other and in this team. I think we maybe saw why that is a little bit tonight, but what is it about this team that is so special and that leads you all to have the belief that you do? When you go through things, you grow through things, to be honest. A prime example of what we just dealt with. We stayed together as a team. We communicated, we zoomed a lot. We just tried to stay on top of things, you know, just try to keep positive mindset, and that's what we did. And I definitely feel like this whole episode of COVID or whatever definitely made us closer. Is this guy the limit for this team, do you think? Guys are limit. Jared. Yeah, A.J. I know you don't get too caught up in stats or anything like that, but Ryan never puts up the stats that wow people. And yet you guys keep winning with him as quarterback and beating guys like Lamar Jackson, who won the MVP award last year, or even Josh Allen today, who people were talking about, maybe an early MVP type player. Do you think that Ryan's value when you're talking about most valuable or high end quarterback, do you think that gets lost simply because he doesn't throw for a lot of passing yards? And how do you feel about his value at that position in this league? Ryan's a really good quarterback. He may not come out and throw for like 500 or whatnot. I'm like, other guys, but we can't win. Now, that's what it comes down to. We're not here for any visual stat. We are to compete as a unit and go out and do it as a unit. So whenever we have a big game, who cares if you don't throw for 500? As long as we get the win, we do what we need to be done. All that matter. So that's the only thing that matters. So I don't know about to the league, but he doesn't value it to our team. He's a general. He's a head man in charge. He leads us. He's a great leader. So. Last one, Jim. AJ, what's the challenge now of recovering from this one and now getting ready to play a game here in about five days? I don't know about the other guys, but I'm about to go getting the coach up like tonight, right? A couple of times, but we definitely going to be definitely going to recover, try to shake back, watch this film and try to clean up the little things and get back out the present and clean it up and move forward. You know, we got a big game coming up to be in the game.


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Can I be on YouTube? Yes! Please! Yes! Yes! Absolutely exhausted. It has been such a long day. Today, as you can see by my beautiful t-shirt, was freshman move-in day here at Timothy Joy College. So all the freshmen were showing up, and they had so much stuff. Like, it was actually a funny scene, everything. Some of the freshmen would, like, have everything, like, perfectly organized in their car, and it was just super easy to bring up.   It was great to kind of help the freshmen out, because it started annoying them, because, you know, they're going to be part of the TEE community. And also, it was just great to see our whole sophomore class back out there, helping everyone out to move in. It was just, I love those people. I love the TEE community. And it was just great to get another chance to kind of just hang out and stick together and do something like that. It's kind of weird being on the other side of things this time, but it really just makes me appreciate how much work and how much of an operation it was just to, like, move people. And I remember last year I got out of my car, people were immediately grabbing stuff, and literally all my luggage was in my room before I could even get up there. And it was the same way this year. It was just cool to be that guy loading everything in, getting to know everyone. It's just such an exciting time to be back here because, I don't know, the start of freshman year and moving to college is so, like, magical. You can just, like, feel it in your hair, especially at a place like Yale.  It was cool to meet everyone. A lot of people had watched the videos, and that was great. I love just meeting people who enjoy my content. And, you know, I'm just glad to help out. The lighting is absolutely horrible right now because the sun is going straight through the window, but anyways, I could not really film that much. I didn't even bring my camera down there because I knew I'd be carrying stuff. I didn't want it to be broken. And honestly, my job was to be working, not filming. So, fortunately, it didn't get too many clips from there. I might throw in some pictures if I have any. But anyways, it's like 6 p.m. now. I need to shower, and I might even take a nap, to be honest. So, I'm all showered and clean now, but fortunately, fortunately, we have a problem. You see, I got here on August 22nd, but the problem is dining halls don't open until August 29th, which is the first day of classes. Wow, something is going on up there. Pretty much the dining halls are just exclusively for freshmen until the classes start, which means that I have to get food somehow. Fortunately, I thought ahead and managed to get some food for the next couple of days. So, basically, I just went and bought a bunch of food in advance, so I can feed myself for the next couple of days and not have to drop like $15 on lunch and dinner every day at like restaurants, because I don't have that type of money. Alright. So anyway, now that you guys have watched me make a sandwich, I'm sure that was super interesting. I've told you about the day. That's pretty much it. I'm just going to be chilling until later tonight. Actually, tonight is Friday. And this weekend, right before classes start, is known to the Yale community as Camp Yale. It's supposed to be the time when all the freshmen adjust and you have a couple of days of slack before classes start. But honestly, it's Camp Yale part two for me. I'm excited. Hopefully, there will be some shenanigans. Hopefully, you'll see some characters from last year's vlogs reoccurring. And with that, I think I'm going to finish the sandwich, take a quick nap, and I'll see you guys tonight. It's been great. Alright, we're having a great time right here. And at Camp Yale, it's always a great time. It's one of the reasons that I chose Yale. Right now, people. Oh, you guys got to use that. Why did I cut that part of the video? Wait, that's one thing. Come to Yale. Josh, please, please, the man. Like, comment, subscribe. You know all that. Please, please, my girl. Follow me on Instagram. Twitter. Snapchat. Kick. I don't know. Make sure to like and subscribe. Is that what she said? Make sure to like and subscribe. It's a great time. What does it say, Max? This is spectacular. This is spectacular. This is amazing.