Now let's go back and see how the IC type 5 gave her briefing and deployed her resources All right, you're three minutes are up You have all been dropped off at this point the helicopter is gone this represents the incident commander and this represents your crew and Christina, I'd like you to deliver your plan of action to the crew Okay, guys, we've all seen the fire when you flew around it. This is a squid fire just to remind you The terrain is steep. There's a creek at the bottom. We all saw that there wasn't any water on it Usable for us right now the fuel type we all saw was light pondy and There are some grass down there. So heads up the wind is going to change later on today So just make sure you keep a heads up The temperature for the weather is going to be increasing to 98 degrees The RH will be dropping to 18% from 20% and the winds are going to change from the southwest That you're seeing right now three to five to ten to fifteen to the northwest out of the Northwest and That's probably gonna occur around three o'clock, but again heads up because that grass could be tricky But we're gonna do right now My intent is for the crew three of us will Come down walk down to the bottom and anchor in at the bottom and Flank it on the right side Deb I'm gonna break you off in the crew and You are gonna go scout out this subdivision and make sure there's no people make sure everything is Has good defensible space and just come up at the plan I mean, I'm gonna be calling for engines to kind of relieve you So just come up at the plan that way we can give the strike team leader when they come Okay, okay The Escape route and safety zone Stay in the black if the safety zone is a black this escape route You it's only a one-acre fire. So you're not gonna have to run anywhere We hope so just keep black with you at all times wherever you go Deb You will need to come down scout out a safety zone for you Make sure you have a safety zone wherever you are if you feel like you're in danger Just hit that safety zone and get a hold of me on the radio as far as radios go. We have the scene of action That's what we're gonna run this fire on make sure you're scanning air to ground and Also, we have tack one when the other resources come in as far as if medical reasons occur we are going to Assess the situation we are all first responders and we'll figure out how serious this is and We'll come up a plan. Just let me know right off the bat Are there any questions so far we get down here you want us to just start punching line or Right around the bottom of it right we're gonna anchor in at the Origin of the fire and we're gonna flank on the right hand side Just to protect the subdivision right now. We are not going to worry too much on the left flank Because there's only three of us. So we're going to call in more resources To help us out when they come in they're going to flank the left. I'm going to have them flank the left and We will probably transition into type 4 at that time Squid fire. I see pleasant belly dispatch pleasant belly dispatch squid fire. I see go ahead Yeah, we're assuming you're on scene now and the fmo is in here waiting for a status report Okay, right now currently the fires at one acre it is Not threatening the subdivision at this time. It is going Headed in east up the ridge And we will be needing More resources to come in we need the two type fours and the volunteer fire department We need another crew to come as soon as possible and if there is a type four I see with that crew that'll be great. We appreciate if you bring them to possibly a type three Uh, copy that we'll get those resources headed your way one clarification. You said you wanted another crew What type of crew are you referring to? Uh, we have a hand crew available. I would prefer them but as far as my understanding the There's a heli attack available right now if you want to send them in we can get them in right away Via the helispa on top of the ridge where we landed Okay, we'll send boundary waters heli attack crew engine four two engine seven seven and the mud flats volunteer fire department. Okay, copy that pleasant belly dispatch Please notify the engines that debiote or is now Currently at the subdivision and she will be their contact When they arrive on scene copy debioter in the subdivision Okay, let's get going. No more questions All right, you've briefed your crew and everybody's going to work So that means that uh yoder moves down the ridge into the subdivision And you and your crew move down the ridge And up to the anchor point It's now 12 30 the boundary waters heli attack crew has just landed on top Engines four two and seven seven Are in the subdivision And the mud flat volunteer fire engine is on the other side of the bridge Squid fire. I see mud flat volunteer fire department Mud flat squid fire. I see go ahead Okay, we have a problem here. Uh, we're not sure that this bridge is going to support our engine and uh We're not going to take the chance and so we're stuck on the west side of the creek Do you have any instructions for us? Okay, copy that. I'm gonna have you be our water tender for right now if you can find You might have to dam up an area in the creek so you can Draft water out of and we'll just have the engines come back to you and be If they need water Um at that point We might have to pull your two engine crew members up to help with hose lays if needed So go ahead and stay on that side of the bridge for right now We'll find a draft point and uh, wait for the instructions Squid fire. I see boundary waters hill attack Foundry waters hill attack squid fire. I see go ahead Yeah, we just landed up here on the ridge at the hill spot. Uh, what are you wishes? Okay, yes, I did see you fly over.  Uh, it's starting to pick up a little bit. It looks like the wind's starting to push it more towards the Step towards the ridge top Okay, copy that. Um, did you get a visual of me at the anchor point? Yeah, I saw the line construction action you got going on down there What are you wishes for us? Okay, copy that. What's your highest qual? Um, I'm ic type four of assistant captain who's a Crew boss and then uh, two firefighter type ones and two firefighter type twos Okay, copy that if you want to head west down the the ridge line and come tie in with me at the Anchor point we can do a face-to-face and I would like to transition with you at that point Uh, copy that. We have a hand tools a chainsaw and some burning equipment. What would you like us to drag down with us?  Is your ship leaving? Yeah, the ship will be taken off and returned to hill base Okay, copy that. Let me know your status. Copy that I see yoder on tack Yoders, good fire. I see go ahead. I have engine four two and seven seven on scene We are going to improve the defendable space of the houses on the north end Do you have anything else that you'd like us to be doing? Yes, yoder. Um, I haven't Got word with you yet. How is the access up into the subdivision there? The access is all right. The engines were able to make it over the bridge I understand that the volunteer engine is going to be the water tender at this time Are the structures threatened at this time? As far as is there going to be a lot of improvement needed? Um Minimal improvement will be needed. Um, just trying to prepare ourselves for the windship predicted later on today Okay, um How about um hydrants or any kind of water sources up there Did you happen to see any? I didn't see any water sources. Um, except for the dry creek Okay, um yoder if you could also talk to the engines and see what their highest qual is I would like to just Get you back here with the crew and leave A strike team leader if they have one in charge of the subdivision and relieve you of your duties there Copy that. I'll get back to me Okay, there's now 1500 The temperature is 94 degrees Relative humidity is 18 percent The winds are starting to come out of the northwest and they're picking up And the fire is starting to grow. It's now approximately Four acres consuming most of this bowl Transition is complete between christina and the new type 4 ic And dispatch is calling with the fmo and wanting to know if the new ic has a status update


Let me answer any of your questions to the best of my abilities, and we'll go from there. Charles, this looks like a planned theft. Aren't they all planned? It's not like you're just walking along the street and going, you know what? That bank looks like a good place to rob. Do that right now. Yeah, I think it's planned. But there have been some issues with some vulnerabilities that were expressed on as far as atomic wallet. They may have already fixed those things. I would assume they had, but I've been wrong before. So who knows? I think over time we're going to see what it is, but that's neither here nor there. I can't change the event. The only thing that I can change is how I react to the event, and that way is to warn you guys and maybe take it off of atomic. Holy smokes. Psychedelic astronaut says, I had 4,500 eta-staked and it's gone. Eta is even listed on my wall. That was another thing, astronaut. This is what I heard from a lot of people is that the ones that got wiped out were all talking about it was staked. It was staking, and it wasn't just the Cardano, it was a litany of different cryptos. So I wonder if there's some kind of, I don't know, something that happened within the wallet itself that makes staking vulnerable in some way, shape, or form. Andrea says, how to transfer out staked assets right now? Well, for Cardano, it's very simple. You just go there and undeligate, and it's pretty quick. Cardano, in my opinion, knocked it out of the park with how they do staking. It's so simple. You're actually always in control of your staked assets, but I guess not here on atomic. I always recommend, me personally, I like the deadless wallet. It's super slow, and people don't like that, but guess what? Super secure. I've never had a problem with it so far, so I just use that. Yeah. Games, no different than YouTuber TV shows me. Yeah, exactly. Like when I've been talking about Web3, Blockchain Gaming for a bit now, because I think it'll be big. Let me show you why. Let me show you global. I think this is the right one. Here it is. So it was stats by truelist. And what I'm trying to show you, I can't find it right now, is that the amount of gamers out there in the world, and this is just from hardcore gamers to average Joes to the casual gamer, it's 3.1 billion people play games. So when I look at that, I'm like, hmm, and that's everybody in the world. So when I look at that, I'm like, what's the difference between someone who plays a game and then somebody who plays a game and earns a crypt of token? I think that might help with adoption. I'm just guessing. Ah, mandatory says maybe someone working on atomic wall, develop, put a back door in there or something. Maybe you never know. Darren says I'm still sticking with ledger without the update. Me too. I'm getting a, oh, Elipel. Elipel, I think that's what it's called. Now they're going to send me one so I can review it and I'll put on there just to spread things around, probably get a treasure at some point. But for the most part, I know people are all up in arms about it, but I don't know. I don't know. I think the best, the wisest decision would be to diversify your safety, just like you diversify when you are investing. But I don't know. Some days I just look at it and go, is this me just being way too over worried, but who knows? I mean, look at atomic wallet. Hey, Rob, do you know what happened to BKX exchange? No idea. Proxima says offline generated paper balls are the only sure way to go right now. He might be right. I will tell you this though, for mass adoption, it's so awful. It's just like, can you imagine us, like you trying to explain to people like this is going to revolutionize the world, the economic system that's out there, it's going to revolutionize the payment rails. And it's called crypto and digital assets. How does that work? Okay, well, I'm going to give you this piece of paper and let me unrule that. And you're going to write down these 24 words in this piece of paper. And don't lose this because this is your life savings. This is the future.  But that could be it. But it just seems crazy. Nicholas says, let's just run your private keys to three companies. That's true. So describing it to three companies, they are one of them. And remember, that's if you opt in. I know some people will say, yeah, but that means that they can do it. Yeah, they can do it, but they're not going to do it because you're not going to pay them. It's $10, $9.99 a month or something like that. And if you go for that route, then they will break up your private keys, set them off to three different companies. And then when you want to reestablish or reconfigure, if you lost your password or lost your mnemonic phrase, they will get it back for you. It's $10 a month. I'm not going to do that. But I can see how other people, I just think it'd be, here's what they should have done. And I think everybody knows my stance on this. They should have just left the ledger the way it was.  We don't care. Or it's steel engraving, whatever. And then they said, you guys do it because you're OGs and you know what you're doing. For the next group of people, because they're trying to bring more people in for a revenue stream. I get it. I understand. I own businesses. I get it. They want people to come in and pay them $10 a month recurring for them doing nothing. Nice. We're not nothing. We know what I mean. So they would just say, look, we're going to make you a ledger Nano X3 or something. And those are the only ones that we can reestablish your private key. And it's $10 a month. But it's a little bit cheaper. That's how I would do it. Like these, I think they're like $100 now. I forget. Ledger's around $100. I don't know. Maybe something like that. They say these new ones, these X3s, they're $60, $10 a month. You don't have to worry. We take all the worry and so on and so forth. That's what they should have done. Never be happy. Whatever. See? And now, Judah, I haven't lost anything. Great. That's just it. Some people have lost it and some people haven't, just very odd. Oh, no. Zach said $10 million was hacked or taken. Look at his replies. Lazarus, I think it was a mine. Somebody lost a Bitcoin? See? That's just it. Everybody's all over the place. This is why I love the livestreams. Mine's all gone. Man, I'm sorry, Michael.  Geez. Mr. Stronger had two-factor authentication and my computers were off. Well, that's the case. There's something bigger. Crypto military. Check mine. $64 of USD. Maybe they just look at this. People have low amounts of whatever. That is sad. Ah, see? And Neil says it's different. I have a coin that probably wasn't taken because it staked. The other gentleman, Astronaut, said his was staked and they took it. Although I will say this, all the ones that I see that are taken, they're Cardano. Oh, come on, Trogner. You couldn't have lost millions. I doubt it. I don't think you kept millions of dollars on a warm, a hot wallet. It is getting old. It is. Let's be honest. If this keeps happening in our industry, our industry becomes a joke. It does. Like, I mean, we make fun of the banks because there's run on the banks. I understand that it's a different situation. People potentially could lose it. They haven't so far. But let's just say they did and people lost their money because they kept over the $250,000 FDIC insurance limit, right? And we were laughing at them. Ha, you should have been in Bitcoin. And then we put it in these wallets. These wallets get hacked. You have a cold storage wallet gets hacked. We got problems. Then they can say, look at you. Look at you because you lose everything. So yeah. And to be fair, Traser has been hacked in the past. But that was because this special company took a Trasor and they had the physical device. And they were able to get into the physical device and do a lot of whatever they did, whatever kind of hacking and programming and whatever else. But they had to add the physical device to get into it. It wasn't easy. So it wasn't like they just were like, one person was in, I don't know, Australia and another person was in Canada and they hacked it all the way across the world. That's not how it worked. Ah, man, millions. What? Whoa. So Neil did get it. I have two. I have an atomic wall and one of the coins that I would draw for the bulk of it. I wanted some address.  Everybody's talking about it now. Someone's like, let's go back to that. Yeah. So the part about Shelby said this. Not so it's a, it was a post from somewhere else. And it was some kind of security audit. During the current state of the design invitation as detailed in the issues and suggestions and our founder audit report, we consider the atomic wall to be insufficiently secure in protecting user assets and private data. Before I go on, I don't know what year this was. I don't know what the response was. They could have already come in and go, yeah, we knew about that and we fixed this. I have no idea. This is the problem with Twitter, unfortunately, is that people will put this out without much context. And they recommend atomic wallet, merely notify users of existing security vulnerabilities. Who knows when that was? I have no idea. No idea. Let's see what this guy said. Wow. 50 plus people have already been hacked. You know what I'll do? If you've been hacked, everybody, follow ZachXBT and I will link that here, ZachXBT. And you can message him and go from there. And I'll also put it in the comments.  Crescent says, people who store money on hot wallets aren't paid right. We shouldn't get too down on them.  Me personally, and I did a video on this. It's in the Dante Descripto, the website, DanteDescripto.com that's free. I said cold storage is like a bank. You're gonna store the majority of your funds there, right?  That's dumb. The hot wallet is like keeping 20 bucks in your wallet somewhere. And that's it. I honestly don't use that much money, but I mean, it's still the same analogy. But yeah, some people do like to use hot wallets for whatever reason. Neil says, I have contact support to report the on-the-rides transaction. Everybody from me feel it. That's good. I don't know what that wallet's gonna do. I would definitely reach out to ZachXBT so he can have more data to see where this comes from. And maybe they can figure out who the hackers are. Ooh, I like this. The Crypto Bureau. Conspiracy theory. Banks are hiring hackers so their system looks better. That could actually happen. Who sent this? RJ Bernard. Probably not a big crypto fan. Maybe he is, I don't know. So much for self-custody. These crypto guys are clueless. I'm telling you, the more of these hacks that happen, the more our industry looks like a joke. It is.  I get all that, you know, but it doesn't do a damn bit of good if anything gets stolen from us. You know, see if the government's gonna steal it from us, but the hackers are gonna steal it from us. Beardy is a Pepe whale. I can see that. The hacker's based in El Paso. Trust and Exodus seem pretty self-seemed. Yeah, Sean says I got both walls because it's hard to put some things on walls. That's true, because sometimes you get some really wacky coins out there. Can't put them on your ledger. So what do you do? Hot. What do you think of BitBoy's Shurella's poop coins? I don't know. I didn't see it. Eos. Scams are coming from inside the house. That could be it.  My current is gone. Hey, speaking of Eos, I was gonna show this to everybody. Now I'll wait for tomorrow. Now I'll show it right now. This is, I was just messing around. And I was looking at, let me see. I was just kind of comparing like the cycles. Cause you know, four year cycles lasts. Last, last one we had a, 2016 was the halving, 2017 was an all time high. 2018, we have a big reset.  So we have halving, all time high, a dip and a big reset. And in 2019, it's like two years after the all time high. Right? So what I'm looking at is in the four year cycles, 2019 to me corresponds to this year, 2023. Cause it's two years after the all time highs. And I was just messing around with some numbers. Did you know when I was dollar cost averaging that Bitcoin was $8,670 on June 2nd, which was yesterday? Imagine that. And then we had Ethereum was only 268, Chainlink was under a dollar, Theta was 14 cents, Eos was $7 and Cardano was 9 cents. And I gotta tell you for the cycle, just looking at these years, cause 2019 is the reset year, 2023 is the reset year, two years after the all time high. You know, we're still up pretty big time, right today. And that's like a three X for Bitcoin. Ethereum is a seven X, Chainlink's almost seven, six.  Sorry, Bertie. And Cardano's at 4%. But I was just thinking about, I'm like, you know, if this holds true, well, I'll save it for a later video, but I don't know, I think just the looking pretty positive. That's all. All right. I can't, I don't know who can make Eos great again. Honestly. And you know what? I mean, I talk not positively about it. Maybe if you own it and it'll do really well, maybe. I don't know. Daniel says, Rob wants more likely to happen in the next few months, 30K Bitcoin or 20K Bitcoin? Probably a 30K Bitcoin initially. And then, I don't know, because that jobs reports came out, and it was kind of interesting. We added a boatload of jobs and then our unemployment rate went up.  Maybe if the, I think the CPI comes out before that, that'll be more telling. No way. Ruben says, my adage has disappeared from atomic law. Was there five minutes ago? I didn't do it, Ruben. I mean, I just make the videos. Beardy says, Balanji says, data is too fake to know. Could be. There was a couple of people that, I know James advanced answers to the video on how the data was skewed not accurate, which that doesn't sound like the government. Ah, Crypto Burger says, looks like the only one after the top 10 coins. Probably because there's more liquidity. This is a great question. And this is why I was gonna do that video. Rob, are you DCing as much now as you did in 2018 and 19? And 20. You know what's funny? I'm probably 10 xing more dollar-cost averaging right now than what I did back then. Cause you gotta understand, when we went through 2017 was my first cycle. And in 2018, when everything collapsed, I was like, what just happened? John McCaffey says go do a million dollars and he wouldn't lie to me. And then everything just collapsed.  And then, you know, you would get the talks about how China was banning it. Again, I was new. I didn't realize that China banned it every month. They would talk about how the US government was going to get involved and strike it out who knows. And then you would talk about how the liquidity had dried up and that it was just all a big scam. So at that point, and no one was really talking about, there wasn't government reports being put out. There wasn't any positive. Bitcoin miners were really just all stuck in China. So we didn't really get the great data. So in that time, I was like, well, I should probably put some into it because, you know, I lost, I'm down so much. I might as well just be stubborn. I did pretty good, right? And I actually ramped up into the Bitcoin halving. And after that, I put more in. But now, knowing what I know now and how things drop, this is where me and Ben differ. This is where me and Ben and guy differ. They believe they're gonna wait until it really starts to drop down, which it could definitely happen. And then they're gonna take that bulk of their cash and stick it in there. I am under the mentality as like, look, every time we think the market's gonna do something, it doesn't do that. So what if we just move sideways for a while, maybe take a dip down to 25 or 20, I don't know. And then it just shoots right back up. So to me, I'm like, I just gotta do this now because I have a real hard time saying, okay, I'm gonna take the $20,000 or whatever it is per month or whatever that $1,000 per month that you're gonna put in. And you're gonna save that up for 10 months and then just in one fail swoop go, here's 10,000, here's 5,000. I just can't do it. I just don't work like that. So I dollar cost average every single day. And I'll tell you exactly what I am dollar cost averaging. Let me pull it up, cause I always forget. And in no particular order, well, there is a particular order. Bitcoin, Ethereum, I started on render just to get a little exposure. Polygon, Cosmos, Solana, I added that. Chainlink, Near, Dot, and Cardano. I recently stopped Algorand, Optimism, and Avalanche for some reason. First of all, Algorand's gonna have a hard time cause they think it's a security, but whatever. But I still want a bunch. So that's what I've been doing. Good question. Jess says, no one wants my Dash. Dash assault, baby. Things got a good point. Any screenshots of all those hacked wallets? Not saying everyone's lying, but wouldn't be surprised if the competition has their trolls donation. See, these are things you gotta think about. Yeah, we'll see. You know, if it's true or not, I will say this, where'd it go? So like, I mean, we don't have them, but this guy, or Gal, I forgot, I don't know. Zach XBT, they said, hey, can I send you my screenshots? And he says, yes, please deem me, I have 50 plus right now, trying as many as possible. And these are screenshots of the other transactions, or the hashes. Rim McCaffey, yeah. Down here, see, yes. One of those boys, there'll be fast to be over. Soon, sooner or more than later, we're going through liquidation. So we're probably gonna get around 30% of our funds back, whatever. Glad to get something back. God, those guys are morons. Ugh, what a, awful. How do you give away $640 million in an uncollateralized loan by a guy who puts a piece of paper and says, we have 640 million? John says, did you personally match your issue to the back wall? I can't coordinate, it's just luck of the draw. Naughty Tube, this is another thing. All the push against crypto makes me wonder if these hacks are essentially carried out. Could be. But you know what? Even if they are or not, it's irrelevant. It's not the events that we can change. We can't change those. That's how we react to them. So what we really should be doing is going, if these hacks are happening, or if it's a bug or something like that, how do we fix this and how we get forward? How do we make sure that doesn't happen again? And where do we go from here? Because we don't want this to keep reoccurring and reoccurring. So maybe it's all cold storage and we move toward the ones that are more trusted. I'm not saying any bad about atomic wallet, but we'll see what happens. CTS, anyone missing their stake card? I don't think there's like three people in this live stream right now who are all missing their stake card on them. Yes. Why no more Avax? It's because we just started up an avalanche stake pool. That's why. And I'll put a video out, but I had to stake a ton of my avalanche as a delegation. So I'll let everybody know about that moving forward. Still here's the area to contact support, so to transfer the wall as well as they should. Beardy's got a good, this is pretty smart. ETH Classic, that's a good one. Bitcoin Cash, probably gonna overtake Bitcoin at some point. Shiba Inu, Doge. I know Beardy has Pepe. That's probably his number one pick, but those are all good ones. Fantastic. I mean, really the Doge could be the big one. I'm Canadian. They go on to the smart counters act, not the wall, the staking processes. I don't know, I'm for sure because it's not just staked tokens, it's other just regular tokens themselves. I don't know, we'll just, we'll update the story as it comes out. And that's why it was concerned, like I wasn't gonna talk about it because I assumed that Atomic Wall would figure it out and just say, oh, it's this thing, we stop this and we're working with blah, blah, blah. That's it, but that was 11 hours ago and they haven't done it yet. So yeah, was Snake. Did you guys see so meme coins? Snake did really huge. And then there's a new one that was on MIMSwap called Coq, like a rooster, yeah, that's right. And they did like 10 acts in the first 15 minutes and then it just crashed down.  That's some serious gambling. I have, oh, that's good. I have staked FET, it's still there, that's good. But now Lucky says my eight of a stake, 21,000 gone. Wow. Wow. Is any hot wall even safe now than Atomic Wall got hacked? Again, we don't know what it is. This wall is bigger than others like Exodus. I don't know where to store a crib to this point. I don't really use hot wallets. I use Metamask, but again, it's kind of like my little stuff that I keep on there. So if that's a really hot wallet, maybe Exodus will be the next better one. Stay gold and says understanding how wallets work and the opposite behind the way you choose to download that wallet. If you use Google Play Store, then it's bad, opposite. I would just, but that's just it. Like on all the different wallets, that's where they put them. And they don't, and of course you go to the website and you pick the specific one instead of going to like, Google Play is the worst. You can go in there and look for Atomic Wallets. There's like 10 Atomic Wallets. And one's definitely a bad one. This is true. That's also true. Oh my God. Jules Callie says, Rob, look up Shugi. It's the only token on CoinMarketCap like it. Unique name and Southern Sheba Inu and Sheena. So it's gotta be good. I'm just kidding. I don't know what that is. That's the memes of memes. Oh, very nice. Dark Mags, I traded on my Aida to Ethan since Cold Storage. That's pretty good. And mother. Grant says, I just checked in my Aida is all gone at 125,000 Aida. Deadless, deadless, D-I-E-D-A-L-U-S, deadless. You can find that on, let's see. You can find it on Cardano.org. Or what's even easier is if you look for Digital Asset News, Cardano Staking. I did a video on how to do it. Had it down with the deadless wallet and everything else. So, or actually what's even easier. You know, I do that. There's a link in the description. It says, Dan, Cardano Stake Pool. Click on that link. And it takes you to my website, 100% free. And I show you how it all works, how to stake your Cardano. And there's a secure link for deadless wallet. And Yolroy and Aida Lite and Nami and stuff like that. So, sure. Ledger Live 2.6.0, have you done it? Yes, I've updated. Seems to be all there. Some people don't want to update it. I'm like, you don't have to. Thank you, deadless. I'm gonna look at those for nerds. Man, probably true. Reverend Flashback says the Aida app is gone within the wallet. Maybe it's not the funds, I hope so. That'll be good. JR tokens, it's funny. These days you need a lot of memory storage or you do, you do and it's super slow. But again, it just works. Man, it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep. And that's what it comes down to. ISK has been a long time. So far, that's what it looks like, but I've heard of other people losing other tokens, not just Cardano. Bruno Gomez, every huge video on YouTube to have top five hot wallets has atomic wall in it. Yeah. See, we're gonna get it wrong. We're gonna be wrong. It's so early. It's so hard to navigate.  It's just inevitable. Oh well. That's what we got today. So look, that's it for today, everybody. Going on 40 minutes or so. Enjoy the weekend. Enjoy your time off. But that's it. So if you liked today's video, thumbs up, subscribe, all that good stuff. I'm taking off. I think we'll do a live stream quick tomorrow and we'll go over that spreadsheet of where I think these are going for 2021, 20, 25. That's it. Thanks so much. I'll see you guys in the next one. Adios.


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you and today the focus is on the transportation department and Our guest today is Transportation director Greg Schnell welcome Greg. Thanks for having me Roger and I'm Roger T. Strudy And we don't have Adam Payne with us today, but he's got some time off. So you'll see him the next time around and This time of the year again we start to think about Driving the roads as they become a real adventure when we come into winter We've been real good so far, but that can change in a in an instant. So Why don't you talk about some of the rules and responsibilities of of your department and and maybe start with Start with that and then we'll ask you a couple questions. Sure. Well, thanks again for having me at it Rogers It's great to explain our situation and what we have to deal with whether it's summer or winter We have those are the two seasons that we deal with it's either we're working on construction and doing roads or we're working in the Winter like you said fortunately this year We haven't had much to deal with as far as snow, but we've had a little different change this year with some more frost And we're anticipating some more of that As we get into the weekend when the temperatures are going to start to warm up again So we're all doing a little anti icing and trying to protect and give ourselves a little bit more time right now And tell us about the primary seasons and then how it changes around and like you say it's construction or winter and What how do you gear up for it and what do you do? Going into winter or most of our construction equipment or our trucks and stuff We we use those in the winter to plow our snow obviously we mount them up with plows wings and sanders But in the summer we use those as well for hauling gravel aggregate and are helping out in our construction projects So we they're dual use Our plans and our operation goes into effect for winter Usually around July we have to have our salt orders and sometimes even earlier than that So we can figure out what we're going to have to have and what we need for For the year coming up and sometimes that we have to have a crystal ball in order to know what we're going to need So that kind of starts our our our winter progress in July And we kind of forget about it for a while and all of a sudden it gets to about September October And we start to think well at any given time Conditions can change so we have to start taking some of those those pieces of equipment the trucks and Get them ready for the winter months and that's putting on the plows wings and sanders and converting them back into that type of operation And you have a variety of trucks So why don't you explain some of the costs on some of these larger trucks? It's it's kind of staggering when you get the numbers on those we have We like you said we do have three different sizes that that are that are utilized more often There's a single axle truck which ranges about 200 and 225 thousand dollars then we go to a quad axle truck, which is Probably about 275 and then we can that's a tri axle and then go to a quad axle We're about three hundred thousand dollars and when I say three hundred thousand that's completely mounted up with the computerized sanders Wings plows under body and then the salt they're in the back as well So when you see one of those trucks coming down the road with the operator You're looking at well over a hundred dollars an hour on regular time when that truck is fully mounted and plowing snow and We often see the snow plows. We're glad to see them, but Some people really aren't aware of the issues with safety and everything. How can they Be safer drivers and help everybody be safer when they do see a plow Always give them their space If you can't see the operator in his mirror, he can't see you So when you're at an intersection and you come up behind a plow truck Keep your distance back if you can see just out of your side of your windshield and you can look up at his up at his Mirror on the side of the truck and see the operator that means that he'll be able to see you But if you're up too close behind him, that's going to be it make it a little more difficult for him because at any given Intersection there's a there's opportunity for them to be backing up and trying to clean up that intersection if they can't see There's a good chance that there's going to be a little bit of an issue The same at the same token when they're up on the interstate or any other road You'd like to make make sure you give them their space and that distance is at the minimum of 200 feet You should stay behind a snow plow and there's actually a law that that prohibits you to be following any closer than that And I've been serving on the county board for a number of years I had served before on the town board very familiar with the county operations and I Appreciate the work you do and I don't realize I think somebody real some people realize how much The other municipalities of the county rely on the county to do their work You mentioned the cost of a a large piece of equipment As some of these townships and villages if they don't have to buy that large equipment to pile the snow The sharing of the expense of that large piece of equipment is very helpful to them It is you know we the state of Wisconsin is unique compared to any other State in the United States We have a contract with the state of Wisconsin to plow and maintain their roads summer and winter That doesn't happen any place else in the United States. The the state has done numerous studies as far as Are they getting the best bang for their buck by contracting with the local municipality in order to take care of their maintenance? And it's come out on the positive side For a lot of years already and that same thing as we express in Sheboygan County our We have 15 townships 11 of them contract for our services to pause the Polar snow patch their roads Fix their signs and so it's all based on the fact that we don't have to have redundancy and equipment And all the other stuff where where we can take care of it for them as long as they can Take our services at the time that we can provide them. Excuse me And to get another Snapshot picture how many miles of road does the county have and responsible for the state? Interstate and local roads give us a little picture of that. Sure. We we have 450 miles of county trunk highway When I say 450 miles, that's this center line So you have to times that by two so that's 900 miles and then you have the state highways We have about 170 miles of that and 465 miles of township road so all in all it's about 2,200 miles of lane miles of road that need to be covered by my 85 or 87 employees And that's all of us That's not just the guys that we have in the fields that 87 includes myself that we have to take care of and it's it is Depending upon the size of storm it takes quite a bit of effort to get that done We send out 45 snow plows for a two-inch snowstorm anything that gets any larger than that Maybe four to five inches. We'll start looking at bringing in some greater So we have 12 of those at our disposal and we even kept a few Oshkosh trucks for some insurance If we ever get the big snowstorms again where we need to have Something with a little bit more push we have 12 of those 12 of those left as well yet So some of them are getting a little aged if you will but we could put them to use and then we still have the parts to Fix them and the different conditions that come our way need different operations to sometimes It's it's going to be icing up So you spread the salt ahead of time to keep ahead of it I believe in some other things and maybe some things that some people don't understand they see Some material being sprayed on the bridges. What is the reason that is done for well? the bridges are the first things that typically ice up and it has to do with the Pavement temperature that the air underneath that bridge is what causes it to to ice up so if you have a bridge and air to air temperature that's Somewhere around the 32 underneath there could be a little bit colder So if there's a little bit of humidity in the air or a little bit of rain or some snow The bridge decks are the first things that go so we spend a fair amount of effort and time spraying down what is called salt Brian. It's just water and salt mixed to a certain Chemical balance so that we don't cause icing by by placing that and we spent we spray about 300,000 gallons of that a year just to protect and what that does is it provides us with enough time to respond We don't run a 24-hour seven operation That would bring our full-scale of people and so if we get a call in a weekend that the roads are starting to get slippery Or it's starting to snow it gives us a good amount of time to get there and it keeps that snow from bonding right tight to that bridge one other thing I'd like to suggest and provide some some Advice these first couple snow storms of the year I think that we all have to step back and look at things and one of the things that we see that most of the time is people using their cruise controls and in the winter months and when those bridge decks when the regular pavement is Dry, and you hit a bridge deck that has ice on it That's where we see out most of our accidents right at the end of a bridge deck because of the cruise control So I would suggest not using that in the winter and keep that just for a summer operation And we're a large county The areas near the lake have different temperatures sometimes and quite a distance I'm sure that you have to have your guys out looking and it may be nice in one area, but not in the other How many spots or guys looking at or how many sheds do you have people looking out? We have During the during the winter months we have Two guys that are on a second shift We call it in a third and we have two guys on a third shift So they're responsible for the overnight hours typically just during the week We also have two superintendents that are their responsibility is to check those conditions because if it may be snowing on the North end of the county, but maybe not on the south end if we make a call to bring everybody in That could cost the county tens of thousands of dollars by the time It's all said and done just by making one mistake bringing in 45 guys versus 20 guys And What are some of the other things that the average viewer might not know that is a challenge? And they see it's snowing. It's real nice and fluffy and then what are the challenges that during the winter you have would That some people may not know about well that the the changing conditions from you could have The good dry pavement and it could be a Sunday afternoon and the wind start to pick up And you could have dry pavement for you know miles and miles and all of a sudden you crest the hill And you have drifting that could start and that those are the types of things that that You know we as drivers need to be prepared for Over and above just no operations the challenges that we've been seeing on our roads and there's been Numerous close calls and accidents this past year. There's been three highway workers killed in our immediate area from distracted drivers people that are maybe Not paying attention to what they should be on the roads and that has become a bigger bigger challenge for us that We'd like to get out to everybody that when you're driving and you're coming through a construction zone You please you got to be aware because these guys are working next to 70 mile an hour traffic and within inches of that So we need to have people start to pay attention to what their surroundings are and So my guys can go home to their families and enjoy their Christmases and New Year's and birthdays And we talked quite a bit about the winter operations during the snow plowing but Take us through the rest of the year for us. What would you typically start doing in the in the spring? Or maybe even if you have a winter that is not as His snow filled as sometimes what can your guys do and what do you have them doing? Over the last couple of years We've been the winter has come in a lot earlier last year in November Everything was froze up tight that we started to receive some snow early on so we didn't have a good opportunity to take care Of a lot of our right-of-ways our brush Now with no snow we're able to get down in the bottom of the ditches clean up trees that are in the right-of-way We need to do those In order to protect people from going off the road if there's a big tree out there We don't want to provide that as as an area where they could harm themselves So we need to provide that safety zone So we're spending a lot of time on on cleaning up our right-of-ways We have a tremendous amount of equipment summer Equipment that needs to be prepared plus now we're starting to look at Right after the first of the year we'll start looking at our fuel If we should be purchasing pre-purchasing all that fuel because of taking advantage of good prices now Developing our costs looking at estimates and really laying out a schedule for what our next year's construction projects are going to be What are some of the projects that you you finished up in 15? And what do you have planned for going forward into? 2016 okay, we we built a roundabout down at county trunk a and e Which was a safety enhancement program that was Partly funded by the federal government. We also built a section of road in between 28 and ee so that's that was strictly funded by our locals We finished up the ls project We did a tremendous amount of municipal township work village work this year And we're looking forward to a very busy 2016 as well and Would you would you would you explain something about the airport operation? We think of mostly highway as transportation, but we also part of your role is the The highway the airport out at a memorial Oriole airport off of 23 You want to explain a little bit of that and and what goes on there and how much it means to our county Sure the our airport investment is is tremendous. I I think I've heard numbers that it has About I think it's like 27 million dollars of impact of of what goes in and out of our airport What fuel sales and everything else that it generates by bringing people in and out of our community We have a beautiful airport it it we'd like to see it grow and expand the The state and and the FAA share that they've they've been very gracious with with helping us sponsor and pay for some of our projects We're looking next year at Expanding Taxiway B. That'll be our construction project for next year in 2017. We're getting some additional funding to help Do some rehabilitation on our concrete runway that we put in a few years back Just a lot of things happening there, too it's a lot of concrete that has to be cleaned up and and Taking care of plowed around all the hangers We only have three full-time guys out there to take care of that So it's it's it's a lot of work inside the fence plus we have a ton of acreage on the outside of the fence That needs to be maintained as well I remember talking to your former airport manager chuck myron He explained to me. Well, it's um It's quite a lot of snow. We have to plow just imagine a parking lot Over a mile long. Yeah, so it's you've got to clear it. Why just not a little path You have to have it clear for if the plane doesn't land right in the center or the wings tip down You can't have a snowbank catching them. So that's quite an operation And I'm sure you have to de-ice that and all things like that that we're not thinking about Yep, we spend a fair amount of money on chemicals for the de-icing agent We can't use abrasives out there because that's very difficult on the on the jet engines But yeah, when you look at a runway, it's a hundred feet wide, you know And that's that's a lot of passes to keep pushing out to the outside And and we all know as you're taking out to the side that snow gets heavier and heavier and bigger and bigger And once we get it to the outside there's lighting out there that the pilots rely on to make those safe landings So then we got to clean around every one of the lights and make sure that that's visible by those pilots So it's a lot of work to keep that cleaned up And also there's a a fence around the entire perimeter Because animals especially deer is really Quite a quite a jolt through a car, but a plane it'll spin it around too of that How has that been working is is there still a few that sneak in or every once in a while our fence Usually they come around in in the ditch areas or a creek lines if all of a sudden the fence gets pushed up Put some frost to the poles and then the deer They don't need much of a space to crawl through in order to get in they feel pretty safe inside there It's funny how they get to you know, I get to recognize that but we have to work with the dnr in order to eradicate that And then we take care of business because we do not want that to be a collision on one of our runways And are there any future projects going on? We had some talk about a terminal. How is that going or what do we have Going forward along those lines the terminal is still something that's it's being considered We're we're going through like a feasibility study to make sure that we're doing the right thing and making the right investment for the county There's a lot of things that come along in a terminal. We have we have a lot of um Exports and imports different people coming from different countries. So We need to be looking at a customs potentially in the future and a place to bring the transients in, you know, so we we're Those are all things that are being looked at but it is something that's in our in our on our radar screen for for the future and thinking about the entire transportation department, what are your long-term challenges and what are you You looking for that Into the future as much as you can what should be we do we be doing and what Do you have planned going forward? Well statistics say that We should be with the amount of miles that we have on our county trunk system. We should be paving about 30 miles a year We're far from that. We're in that anywhere between 10 to 15 miles a year that we're getting But besides the paving we also need to be doing some reconstruction some of our roads Don't have the proper shoulders on that they need and we're Losing losing some of our roads to drainage issues that should be taken care of So there's there's a tremendous amount of balance that has to go into that So before we invest a lot in pavement We got to be stepping back and taking a look at the whole cross-section of the road and make sure we're making The right investment because water is one of our biggest enemies when it comes to pavement and Inflation makes everyone's cost go up but I remember seeing a graph that you showed us the normal inflation of Products and workers throughout the country and compared to the Inflation of black topping a mile a road. Did you give us a little snapshot of that? I don't remember the statistics, but just to give you the numbers In 2000 and I believe it was six. We were paying like 200 a ton for a liquid ton of asphalt um We were as high as 600 a ton just a year and a half ago The price is starting to come down a little bit But those are things that are out of our control Which is very difficult for us then to keep up with that 30 miles of pavement And no different than the county the townships and the state as well I mean that everybody suffers from those high costs that is done on a global market versus what we can do locally And if someone's wondering why don't they black top my road What is a mile of road costs say an average road? Which is 22 24 feet wide about 120,000 dollars to overlay that 120,000 and a few years ago it was 60 and 40 and I'm getting to be an old guy, but I remember when it was that low and it's way above the net the Increased costs of normal inflation. That's the thing 100 correct. It has gone up tremendously and hopefully the way things are going Now it starts to come down, but I don't foresee that too much lower And we recently bought some land in the town of Plymouth Going forward with the buildings and such Would you explain the long-range plan on the building and how we could better serve the county? Sure We had bought 37 acres on the intersection of 67 and county trunk j That was that site will be utilized for The first phase of our project will be combining the Elkhart Lake and Plymouth facility Our Elkhart Lake shed is one of our five outlying sheds That's was built in 1947 The Plymouth shed was about is about 32 years old So we thought if we got we found a common ground in between there We don't lose any of our service ability to the areas we take care of We would bring those two sheds together at that location as we were going through that discussion For the last 10 years for sure, and I'm sure longer. There was always Some motivation to move our main facility, which is down on 23rd street in the city of Sheboygan Out to the central part of the county as well. So what our plan is to be is this would be second phase was bring Is bringing our our main facility and combining all three into one footprint versus being spread out In the three different locations that they are now. So we'll be looking I would hope by 2018-19 that our whole facility maybe 20 We'd be all built new facility our new shop new administration building would all be located in on the intersection of county trunk j in 67 Some people are thinking how will that affect my service? Do we have coverage throughout the county by That overall plan Correct. We we still have our we still have a shed on the south side right off of i-43 We have a shed in cascade We'll have a shed on the north side up by a plinth. So we'll be located in all four corners of the county So we our footprint is we can still respond to everybody's area and and provide them the same service as they're getting today if not better one of the added benefits would be that that Service area that you have in sheboygan would be more centrally located to bring the equipment in and get repaired and I believe you said the the black topping and gravel operations is relatively close to that plant also We do have a pit that's located right behind rhod america the race track that We we haul a tremendous amount of gravel out of our our asphalt plant is located in green bush, which isn't far away from there So yes, we're going to gain some benefits like that A lot of people don't understand that you know the our our Facilities or outbuildings Are not for maintenance. So all of the maintenance on those trucks whether it's blade changes oil changes Major repairs the clutches all that happens on our sheboygan So everybody's got to come to the furthest east part of our county in order to get work done So yes, we're going to gain some efficiencies by being relocated All right that can benefit everybody and We try to Like i'm thinking of a time not that long ago maybe a couple months ago. We had a heads of local government, which is all of the village and Village presidents the town chairman and the mayors of the county Sit together and share some of our problems and hopefully we have common solutions You were there and you heard them explain that one of their biggest issues That they all had was a few of them had to buy a couple new fire trucks but other than that keeping up with the Black topping and the improvement of their roads. So that's a common problem we all have and just about all of them had great things to say about your Your crew and how they're able to Get some of the best price available for black topping. So that's that's a great thing We have about five minutes left. You want to explain some of the things that you can do and have done with the black topping plant to make it is run as cheaply and Keep the product cost down as much as we can. I'd love to we should boykin county had a Had an interest in in keeping that asphalt plant going for several years and that is a benefit to all of us as Taxpayers whether you live in the town of Sherman town of Holland wherever it is having that asphalt plant here Helps control the cost of buying that product outside But we've added a bag house which helps us meet our emissions That sucks the dust out of some of the gravel or the the aggregates that go into the asphalt So that's not emitted into the air. We've also bought A recycled asphalt operation where we can recycle asphalt that we pull off the road Run it back through the plant take out excrete all the oils that are in there as well as the aggregates So we can lessen the cost of our asphalt per ton Last year we added the LP tank which we're starting to fire with LP versus diesel We saved ourselves a tremendous amount of money by by making that addition So if we continue to make improvements like that and continue to run an efficient operation We should be able to keep that operation going for a long time. We have a long-term contract with Where our asphalt plant is set now for the aggregates which helps reduce our cost for trucking in materials So we're in very good shape that way We have a couple minutes left. Are there any other things you want to explain to the public that maybe They might might not understand what the what the county highway department does and is part of your operation that Goes unnoticed and they're not aware of the the many things you do Well, we went through quite a few of them already today But we do have a full service construction operation where we build our own roads Now we have our we have an asphalt plant, which I just explained So we have control of what we can put out there for materials And we have a crushing operation. So we take care of our own aggregates And then what builds off of that is we also take care of all the maintenance We have to have a rubber crack filling crew and we have to have a concrete crew because we take care of so many Different aspects whether it's concrete asphalt curbing gutter Bridges bridges is a big operation plus we have a survey or a survey and engineer office that Helps us design the roads and also provides The background for all the permitting and stuff that we need to take care of with the dnr So we are a full service operation, which not a lot of counties have that anymore And then that's when you start to lose control of the finances and your pain out a lot more than what you're getting in return. So We have a great thing going and I'd like to keep it that way. It's it's a nice operation I have a very very good staff and I just appreciate the support that I get from the county board and administrative pain Well, thank you very much for being here and explaining some of the operation and Thank you for all the great work you and your crew do. Thank you. And our next week's guest will be Rochelle Valesky the Rocky Noel administrator. So Thanks again for listening to us and And next time around adam pain will be here with with me. I'm roger t strudy county board chairman. Thank you


and Charles. I'm Keith Ghostland and welcome to All Things LGBTQ. This time we are taping on Wednesday the 2nd of March, the day after town meeting day. We acknowledge that All Things LGBTQ is taped at Orca Media in Montpelier, Vermont, which is unceded Indigenous land. And now I'm really hoping that Linda's got some good gossip. Well, I have a little bit, but the first item is gossip. Well, yeah, entertainment gossip. So anyway, Colton Underwood, if we might remember who that is, was on The Bachelor show and he won't be a bachelor much longer, as he is now engaged to political strategist Jordan Brown. So I have no, I have no comment. I don't either. And interesting, Apple stands out as the only private business lobbying against Republican backed Iowa bill that would ban transgender girls from competing in women's sports in school. So good for Apple. Texas business community condemns Governor Abbott's transgender order, but they have stopped short of leaving the state. So what good is that, right?  We'll have more about that later.  Red Sox Minor League is gone for calling LGBTQ people rapists and sodomites. We'll have more of that if we get a chance. It's 2002 and it's Staten Island. You still, if you're LGBTQ, cannot march in their parade. We'll have more about that. Patrick's State Parade. Right. A 70 year old pleads guilty to reportedly threatening to bomb LGBTQ people and to bombing LGBTQ events. The retired teacher, Robert Feyring, entered a guilty plea. Where was this? I have no idea. Conservatives in North Carolina freak out because teachers won't be able to access gender information about students anyway.  He's the guy in the Navy. We'll have more about that. In Maryville, California, a guidance counselor is arrested after leaving racist and homophobic voicemails. We'll talk about that.  The police came. An Oklahoma judge is denying a mother parental rights because she isn't the gestational parent. We'll have more about that. Florida's HB 1557, which bans teachers from discussing LGBTQ people in class has passed in the house. Students across the state are organizing, however, to have a walkout next week to protest the attack on their fellow students. We'll have more on that when next week when they have the walkout. Hold on to that thought for my second segment when I start talking about New Hampshire and what they may be up to. All right. And one of our favorites, Madri Taylor Greene, says transgender camp counselor should be beat into the ground. We'll have more of that. She's quoting. However bad the grammar is, she's quoting. Top Attorney General in Oklahoma demands a book ban while he investigates of mice and men and other classics. John O'Connell says that books that are acceptable now in this today may not be acceptable in the future because they could be considered pornographic. He's reviewing 51 books and he said he felt that he had to do this because he was receiving so many complaints. A black trans woman is awarded 1.5 million after she was wrongly arrested for jaywalking in Atlanta. Texas governor declares trans medical care as child abuse. Miss Universe Philippines has crowned its first LGBTQ winner. Oh, that's national. I'm sorry. But I don't have it. Beatrice Gomez broke down barriers by claiming this title. Gay men seem to outperform straight men in nearly every academic measure. I saw that. We'll have more about that if we can. Christian union perpetuates a culture of homophobic behavior at early universities. We'll have more about that. Law professor and LGBTQ rights actors Joe Tom Easley dies at 81. He played a big role in an effort to fight, don't ask, don't tell. He was a lawyer and taught in three different law schools. He has survived by his partner of 39 years Peter Freelberg. And my last little story is Josh Hawley backs Vicki Hartzler, the LGBT candidate who is running for a senate race in Missouri. Is that actually the LGBTQ candidate? No, the no, the anti-LGB, she's sorry, anti-LGB candidate in the Missouri Senate. So there you go. And Robert Feyring is from Long Island. Is he? Bayport, Long Island. How do you know? I just looked it up and he threatened the New York City Pride Parade. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Said terrible things about the Pulse nightclub massacre. Yeah, that he would, he'd make it look like a cakewalk. He's been busy. Well each army person. Shall I move along? Yes, move along. All right. Let's start with Asia.  And the reasoning is that it's unenforceable anyway. So we might as well keep it on the books. And of course activists disagree. But they think grasping at straws, maybe they think, well, at least they said it's unenforceable. So I guess that's progress. So now I have a picture of Ganga Nayak, a 49-year-old transgender candidate who has won a seat in Velour in India. She's belongs to the province of Tamil Nadu. And I mean, this is a victory. But activists point out that she's been involved with this party for 20 years. So finally she's won an office. So it's not rapid fire progress in India, one might argue. Speaking of India though, the National Medical Commission has forbidden conversion therapy. Now, I have a story about China. And I've been reporting on how all the LGBTQ voices are being silenced in the media. But now they've cropped up again on this YouTube channel called Billy Billy. And I'm sure that's not how you say it in Chinese. But anyway, it publishes 20-minute V-LOGs, which are short films, focusing on LGBT people, mostly gay men. It's an extension of that boy love trend that I've been talking about in China that all the young women are watching because TV is so bad. But it started out as a niche streaming platform for fans of anime, comics, and games. But now it's one of the biggest media portals, home to everything from documentaries and variety shows to all these boy love productions. There are several key things. They show coming out blogs. A very popular one that was uploaded in 2019, garnered more than two million views. And it's about this gay man who comes out to his father, and then his father takes him to the hospital to see if it can be cured. And then he goes back to the hospital three times with his boyfriend to see if it can be cured. And this was very popular because I'm talking about gay male stuff in the media. On the surface, it seems sort of like coming out phenomena in the West. But the difference here is that it's much more communal and parental oriented because the U.S. or the U.S. or the West focuses on coming out stories as individual breakthroughs. But this involves the whole community centering on the attitudes of parents and partners appear. And there are, of course, there's a commercial angle, but it's very popular. Now I'd like to go, if I may, to Azerbaijan where bad things have happened. There's a picture before you now of LGBTQ activist and journalist Avaz Shikhamadov Havzili, 24, who was found stabbed to death near Baku, which is the capital of the country. His cousin was arrested for the killing. The authorities say they got into a dispute. The cousin was drunk. But insiders say it was an honor killing. And the circumstance in Azerbaijan, generally for LGBTQ people, is pretty terrible. It's been voted rated number 49 on the Rainbow Bridge Index, which measures rights and atrocities in countries. The only other thing about it is that honor killings, as I keep saying, are very widespread. And in Azerbaijan, they're covered by the media, and the media kind of endorses them. So terrible news there. Now I'd like to go to Australia. Bad news from Australia. This conservative head of Australia, Scott Morrison, has now come out in favor of our controversial bill, Targeting Trans Athletes. It's called Save Women's Sports. They take it up around the world. I know it.  Not Margaret Court. No, he says it's terrific. But we must recall that he's a Pentecostal Christian. He's previously supported a religious discrimination bill, which has been shelved. And activists are hopeful that this Save Women's Sports bill will meet the same fate. But Scott Morrison in Australia, someone to watch and distrust. Now I'd like to go, if I may, to North America. And I have a picture before you now of Guanajuato, Mexico's non-binary person's identity. So the non-binary person pictured before you is Fausto Martinez. And he has finally gotten a non-binary birth certificate. Birth certificate, exactly. He says what is not named does not exist. Legal recognition establishes that non-binary people have rights. This is a great achievement. And he's the first person in Mexico to get such a document. Good news there. Now let's go to the Cayman Islands. And I've got a picture before you of Chantel Day at the left and Vicki Bottom Bush on the right. I just want to present them again, because we've been looking at them for at least a year, while they have tried to get some resolution on their same-sex marriage petition. And one year on, no decision from the Privy Council in the UK on this same-sex marriage case. So there they are again.  So my last story from North America includes a film clip from Canada. And before I talk about that, I want to apologize to the viewers. Last time I talked about Water Lilies, the Saline Shama film. And I told you it was on Netflix. And Lynn and I tried to get it. It was not on Netflix. Then we went to YouTube. And it's only in French on YouTube with no subtitles. So the trailer is subtitled, but it's misleading. And I inadvertently misled you. So from now on, I'm checking Netflix before I report. And I have checked Netflix about this story called On the Fringe of Wild. It's a Canadian film. And if I may, let me tell you the plot. It's in the early 2000s in a small Northern Ontario town in Canada. Peter, a sensitive and shy teen, dreams of leaving his small Northern Ontario town to pursue life as an artist. But his homophobic father intends to make him a man instead, forcing him on a hunting trip one cold winter break. Tensions run high and Peter runs away. Lost cold and reaching his breaking point, Peter meets Jack, who's also desperate to escape his toxic family situation. A romance quickly develops between the two teenage boys as they hide away in a secluded cabin, discovering each other and themselves. But the world outside eventually pulls them back and they're forced to face the circumstances they try to flee, which will ultimately tear them apart. That's, I guess, a spoiler. But anyway, watch the clip. He will if we let him.  Did your dad give you that, Bruce?  Should we be talking about this? It's cold out. Yeah, I know. Is it your boyfriend? I thought I knew you. I thought you'd love me forever. I never loved you. He showed me that my life was worth living. Jack inspired all of these. Hold me. Why him? I was there for you. How is this okay?  Oh, that sounds sad. Sounds violent. The clip seems a little violent to me, but I don't think he kills the rabbit. So, yeah. All right. Okay, giving away more of the plot. Well, they just started on the trailer.  Yeah. So I have only Europe to go, but I have a lot of stuff there. So why don't we move to Keith? I'm rooting for the rabbit. I'm rooting for the rabbit, too. You know, I have been a vegetarian 46 years. And I thought she was about to do an Elmer Fudd imitation. We shoot the rabbit, but so as we transition from Black History Month to Women's History Month, this is this week's trivia, and they both got it first thing. So so I've got hopes for y'all. She was the first Black playwright and youngest American to win the New York Critics Circle Award, and she had the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway and without hesitation. So as we were coming up, Linda and Anne saw on their Facebook account that Peter Jacobson from Vermont Cares is stepping down to pursue other interests. There were no other details, so we will be reaching out and reporting back. On a previous show, I talked a bit about three school board candidates in Milton. And yesterday being Town Meeting Day, that's when municipalities would vote on both their council, school board, other elected officials. Well, apparently it wasn't just Milton. Arlington, Mills River, which is the community in Rutland where there's been so much controversy, St. Albans, Springfield, Kingdom East, and coming up on March 22nd in Lake Region, they all had candidates running for the school board that put out rhetoric against critical race theory, against mask mandates, putting out a lot of what we're seeing on the national level for the right wing conspiracy of interest. None of them got elected. Yes. And in most communities, they were at the bottom of the list for vote-getters. Oh, thank heavens. Okay, but still, it's one of those, if you're really not looking, it would be easy to miss. And thinking that because we're here in Vermont that somehow it's not going to impact us, it's a little delusional, but absolutely. So looking at... It's such good news, though, I have enjoyed publicly. I was really pleased. Events, Rainbow Umbrella, you're still discussing. We're in. We'll just leave it at that. Yeah. Look at the Facebook page to see what they're discussing. Outright Vermont, March 31st. This is the Queer Youth Leadership Day at the State House. This is for queer and allied youth leaders to have their voices heard. And there are meetings that are scheduled with legislative leaders and talking with a panel of our out legislators. Queer Connect. Tuesday, March 15th. And this is a Zoom event. And think of the sapphic story hours. An evening with Dr. Stephanie Andrea Allen. I want to... I'm just pressing her to come on the show and in correspondence with her. I love her work. She's going to read from her book, How to Dispatch a Human Stories and Suggestions. And this was the tag for the book. It's an unapologetic, often humorous foray into the everyday magic that envelops black women's lives. The 11 stories in this collection are filled with characters who will entice and delight readers as they transverse the worlds around them. With a mix of fabulism, near future, and speculative fictions, Allen reminds us in exquisitely nuanced prose that the fantastical can be found amongst the ordinary. And you can register via the Queer Connect Facebook page. Please do not go to the website. Facebook page. May I add, this is a dynamic woman. I can tell you everything about her. I've been I've been corresponding with her for months, asking her for an interview and Sorry folks. That's all right. She is a professor at Bloomington. She got her PhD at Purdue, where I went in Indiana. And importantly, I've read she edited a collection of short stories called Les Talk with another with a colleague. And I read her collection of short stories, Failure to Communicate. And she's really good. And importantly, she's a founder of Black Lesbian Feminist Press, which is doing a wonderful work and bringing out Jewel Gomez's June collection of poems. So look for her on our show. I'll have to email her again. And hopefully, while we were having that discourse, Zach put up the poster from Queer Connect promoting the event. So you'll get to see a picture of her. Can I say one more thing? When I interviewed Penny, she came up and Penny said, Steph, as Andrea Allen is a force of nature. So tune into that and we'll keep you posted on whether she can join us too. And if you have another day open with nothing going on, the Pride Center is partnering with Bolton Valley Resort for a Queer Skiing Day. And it's going to be on Tuesday, March 15th from four in the afternoon till 10 at night. Go on to the Pride Center site so you can get discounts on the tickets, access to events, more information about it. Babes and Bethel, who we're still waiting for them to accept our invitation for an interview. Saturday, March 19th, they're doing a Queer Dance, which Zach's going to put up the poster. Come dance the night away. This is their Queer DJs that they were telling us about, that they've been trying to get together, give them a form, a little promotion. It's a $5 cover, eight o'clock until midnight. I hope they have disco. I'm not going there and you can't make me. But if you go to these events and it kind of sort of feels like maybe you're not all that alone, the Williams Institute from the University of California, Los Angeles says Vermont has the seventh highest rate of LGBTQ people per capita in the country. And we have the highest rate of same sex couples. Who knew? But apparently, that's predominantly our youth. The older generation, we're less represented. We're shy. What can I tell you? Very quickly, there is a new candidate who has announced they're interested in running for the Senate seat from Vermont. And this is Christina Nolan, whose picture Zach will be putting up. And this came up the last time. Linda mentioned it. We did not discuss it last time. We jumped the gun. It's okay. But what she is the former federal prosecutor for Vermont, her statement is, although she is a Republican, she has promised a fresh perspective and argued that instead of looking at the R next to her name on the ballot, Vermont should trust her as an independent thinker, willing to break with her party and to work across the aisle. And this this was the part of her bio that got my attention.  She said she would break with her party if it meant getting a deal on paid family leave. And if you go onto her campaign website, it does include Jill, her domestic partner of 16 year, and also her beloved orange cat, Hank Thomas Nolan. So with that, well, I have another comment, if I may, in the coverage of her candidacy that I've read so far, it seems like Vermonters are mostly afraid of upsetting the balance of the Senate. So that may be. Well, and also, I'm sorry. Also, it was interesting that tagged on to her announcement. The Victory Fund says there are 96 openly LGBTQ plus congressional candidates with active campaigns as of February 21st. That's a 16% increase over the 2020 election. Have they endorsed her, do you know? I did not see where she has specifically been endorsed yet, certainly. Exactly. Okay, Linda. Very interesting candidate. It'll be interesting to see how that unfolds. Okay. So there was a Florida man who was arrested after he tried to cut the gay out of his brother. I guess this man had been acting a little strangely before this violent incidents, but police arrested the man when someone called about a disturbance between the two of them. The brother threatened his brother while sharpening a large knife in the kitchen. When the other brother tried to leave, he was forced back into the house. The police have registered the brother, I know the brother and the brother, and he's been charged with assault. So he stabbed his brother? No, he threatened to stab his brother and his brother left, and then somebody called the police. The police came and, you know, the brother's okay, but the other brother's arrested for assault or attempted assault. And my beloved Red Sox Liger is gone for calling LGBTQ, we feel rapist and sodomites. Brett Netzler, the dismissed player wants you to know that he's also a racist in case you missed it. He says that? Yes. Apparently, he liked tweeting his opinions online. However, now, of course, if you try to find them, they're not there. The 25-year-old player directed a lot of his comments to Chame Bloom, the Red Sox chief officer. Who he called an embarrassment to any Torah following Jew, criticizing him for supporting LGBTQ people and Black Lives Matter people. He's gone. Okay, now we're in Staten Island, and it's St. Patrick's Day, and you can't march if you're LGBTQ people, because it says on the application that the parade does not allow the promotion of sexual identification and you can't have any gay agenda. It also states that you can't march if your views do not stand in any way in opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church. There was a 20-year battle over LGBT participation in New York City, but their policy changed in 2014. But in 2020, Ms. Staten Island was banned from marching because she was bisexual. Now, did Boston change? Yeah, although that was a battle also.  And his family talked about how he comes up with parole every two years and how they just are constantly being brought back to what happened, and it's just horrible.  He was a former Navy airman and killed fellow sailor Alan Schindler in 1992. After the murder, the Navy tried to cover it up. He went to his naval officials. They didn't do anything to protect him, and he asked for help from his commanding officers, but he never got any. And so this man is up for parole. Who is for help? The victim? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So in Maryland, in Maryville, California, a guidance counselor is arrested after leaving racist and homophobic voicemails. He was apparently upset because his daughter didn't get a good position on the softball team. You know, this is, you know, you read this and you think he left messages for two softball coaches and police and they found a loaded handgun in his car when he was arrested. I mean, really, you know, in Oklahoma, judge is denying him other parental rights, a lesbian couple filed for divorce in 2021, and one of the moms, of course, is fighting for parental rights because she is not the biological mother. And so the judge said, you know, well, you're not the biological mother and you don't have any rights here. And so, you know, this case is over, even though the other woman is listed on the child's birth certificate. So that's Oklahoma. And then we have Marjorie Taylor-Green says, Trans Camp Counselor should be beat, beat, I'm quoting, into the ground. Marjorie Taylor-Green is a Republican legislator from Georgia in case you didn't know. I'm trying to forget. She called for violence in response to several non-binary camp counselors who may have slept in the same cabin as fifth grade girls at a three-day science camp in California. She feels this is straight up evil. You can't make these things up. I know. Okay.  However, lesbians don't seem to fear as well. Did you read that? Yeah. Professor Charles, do you have a rebuttal? They didn't say why. Okay. So then there's this Christian union group. And they're homophobic and they're moving into universities. Matt Bennett founded the organization in 2002 to fight what he saw as a secularization of top universities. And he wanted to raise up a generation of global leaders with Christian values. The first ministry program was at Princeton. That was the first place it was established. And now it is at all Ivy League schools. The group has a long history of homophobia. And this is a common thing. I mean the right wing has been trying to wear them against secularization in the Academy for years. Left wing leaders. Okay. Let's see. And I think that's probably it for me. And I believe, let me see. Let me just make sure. Yeah, that's it for me. I've done my job. Well, let me pick up your Staten Island story if I may. Okay. Make an announcement. A friend of the show who's been interviewed, Devorah Zipkin, has a 10-minute play called Sylvie and Gracie Get Married, which is part of the Scenes from Staten Island series. It's the Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry 2022 produced by Sun Dog Productions. And it's going to be shown in Staten Island, but also on March 5th at 8 p.m. you can stream it. So look for Sun Dog Theatre production. And you can see Devorah's play. Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry. What a hoot. Okay. Let's go to more sober material from Europe. We know what's going on in Ukraine.  His name was Megan Oed Tushaev and he was head of the 141 motorized regiment of the Chechen National Guard. And he spearheaded all the harassment and torture and detainment and disappearances of gay men in Chechnya. So he's been killed. He was sent to Ukraine and was killed at an international cargo airport. So I was going to show you this picture, but then why? There was a picture of him with the head of Chechnya who organized this whole, who's the head of that whole purge that's still going on. I think it's a little more interesting by LGBTQ people going down to Ukraine. Yes. And I have two accounts that I'd like to share with you. The first is accompanied by a picture. This is Olena Shevchenko and she founded in 2008 Insight, a Ukrainian LGBTQ group. She lives in Kiev. They have 11 branches in regions located in Eastern including in Eastern Ukraine. And when the Russians invaded, they started to collect the names of those who must be relocated immediately. She says that when Russia invaded Crimea and annexed it in 2014, people fled and she established a shelter for LGBTQ people who were internally displaced, who left Crimea and she established this shelter in Kiev in 2014. And now they're doing the best they can, but she says people get in touch with her and saying, you know, what are you going to do? We're doing what we can do now, providing psychological support to people, opening a hotline for consultations and asking international communities to somehow help us.  This is quote from her. In recent days, our international partners have been writing to me almost every minute, many of them asking if we have a crisis plan in place, and if not, when will we develop it? We want to tell everyone again, what plan can work in the event of full-scale invasion? We do not have any planes to take people to a safe place. In any case, we remain to defend ourselves and our country and we'll continue to help people. Our activists in the LGBTQI plus communities are staying and keeping working, providing support for the most marginalized ones. Honestly, I don't know how long we will be able to resist, but we will do our best for sure. Now, I'd like to follow that account with some information from a transgender woman named Zee Fameru, who is 31. She was born and raised in Crimea. She lives in Kiev now, which is, we know, the capital city that's been under siege for a week. She's running out of food and hasn't left her house. She was previously a popular contestant on the Ukrainian singing competition show Star Factory. For days, she had to keep the lights off in her apartment and keep the windows closed. She lives alone. Her friends have all left the city. For years, transgender people in Ukraine wanted to be who wanted to be legally recognized. Had a long list of steps they had to go through to do so. According to Human Rights Watch, the government mandated that transgender people undergo extensive psychiatric observation and to get gender reassignment surgery, they had to have legal documents that aligned with their gender. Legislation was introduced in 2017 to lessen the process, but it would still require transgender Ukrainians to undergo outpatient psychiatric examinations and there's no indication that the legislation was ever implemented. I didn't want to go through that. This is like humiliating for the world, she said. I decided to keep my passport, keep mail in my passport, and now I cannot leave the country. In Russia, LGBTQ people are persecuted. Another activist said, if we imagine that Russia occupies all of Ukraine or just a big part of the country, it won't allow us to exist peacefully and to fight for our rights as we are now able to do in Ukraine.  They've been so brainwashed by the Russian government. So, among the list of 49 European countries, Ukraine is 49th for its overall treatment of LGBTQ people, but it would be worse under Russia. So now that I've given this long preface, let's see a clip of Z. Femelu.  I don't want to go outside. I'm literally scared for my life. All my friends left the city. My neighbors left my floor and I think my building. This is not a very rainbow friendly place. So, lives for trans people are very bleak here.  They will not let you through. A word within a word. Truly. Truly. Every noise from outside is a warning sign. It was hell living as a trans person in Kyiv and Ukraine. We feel invisible. Truly. Like we're not people, like we're not humans. It's truly how we feel.  It's right outside the city now. I just can't imagine. It's unfathomable. As you said in the story, those of us who are living in safety reach out saying, okay, what is your exit? What is your safety plan? Well, my safety plan is to pull up a gun pointed at the person who is trying to shoot me and to defend myself. We cannot imagine and then there's the, you want to do something. How do I reach out? How do I give support? And there's really no way in right now, what I'm thinking in terms of is like the rainbow railroad, that when the conflict starts easing down, how do we support it? How do we get priority for people and refugee status who identify as LGBTQ plus, etc. And you know that if Poland knows that they're LGBTQ people, then they're not going to be that welcoming either. As we keep hearing about Poland, but, you know, is it to me now? It is. Yeah, you leave me on that up note. I know. So I'm going to go to a happier place. Okay. Because that's going to put up a picture of Maura Healy. And why you should care about this, why we should care about this, is she's the Massachusetts Attorney General. Yeah. She was the first openly LGBTQ plus elected Attorney General in the U.S. She's now running for Massachusetts Governor. Yes. And Massachusetts, I don't think has ever had a woman governor. Yes, it did. The one that stepped in. No, that was a mayor of Boston. Can you think of one? We will do, we will do some research. I don't think there's been one woman governor. I was going to say, when Maura gets elected, she will be one of only three openly LGBTQ plus governors in the country. And looking at first, the picture Zach's putting up is Governor Scott's nomination to fill Beth Robinson's vacant seat on the Vermont Supreme Court. This is Nancy Wapples. She will be the first woman of color on Vermont Supreme Court. Do we know anything about her? Her parents were refugees from mainland China. Okay. And she grew up in New York. She didn't speak English until she was nine years old. You know, she has been on the Superior Court here in Vermont for a while. If you're going for a Supreme Court seat, politics are not the factor that's supposed to be non-partisan. Yeah. But what Governor Scott was saying, that this was in the tradition of Beth Robinson and other appointees to the court. And he appointed this the day before Joe Biden did his Supreme Court nomination. Sage Main, who, you know, they're sort of there over our shoulder, I'm getting phone calls from them. I had attended the conference sponsored by them. They've decided that it's been a while since LGBTQ plus elders have been together, have been able to show support for each other. So they are literally calling everyone who has ever attended an event and say, how are you doing? Anything we can do for you. So I was thinking this could be a follow up of, so what did you hear? What were the concerns of LGBTQ plus elders? And part of the focus was, you know, have you had your vaccinations?  You know, do you have your in-home kits? Do you know where you can get testing? Those kinds of services. So in New Hampshire, a positive and then a sort of, how did I miss this? There are House of Representatives just passed a bill that would ban the use of a trans gay panic defense and it passed by a 223 to 18 vote. Well, that's good. Well, one of the things that I keep forgetting about in New Hampshire is there are trifecta now in the sense that both the governor and both chambers of their legislature are controlled by the same party, which might be Republican, right? So the fact that this bill is advancing means there's Republicans supporting this. But I think they're the old fashioned Republicans, maybe. I'm going to take it right away. And let me tell you why. And as I was reading the most recent announcement that I got from Glad and Boston, I was reading a suit that they have filed and said, how did I miss this?  But they didn't stop. The people who were the proponents of that bill put an amendment on their budget bill about divisive concepts. So when you voted on the budget, you voted on this amendment and New Hampshire schools can now not engage in any conversation about race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability in the classroom. Now Glad is working with a number of other legal entities such as the ACLU, the NEA advocacy groups to challenge this and as part of their argument, they're saying that this law, because it's part of the budget, it got voted on its law now, infringes on an educator's voices under the 14th amendment and prevents students from having an open and complete dialogue about critical topics while it harms students with historically marginalized identity and creates a climate of fear that denies all students the freedom to learn. I mean, what's so duggery to put it in the budget? They do that a lot, don't they? They do it in the national government too. They add these writers on to the end. Well, and from having been involved in this process here in Vermont, in the final days of a legislative session, there are lots of amendments. There's lots of pushes to get things through. There is a rush to adjournment and sometimes you can overlook. You're sure? What? And one of the comments that about critiquing this particular amendment is that the language was vague enough that you might miss what was really happening. So on our next show, I'm going to talk about two Supreme Court actions. One is they declined to take up an appeal from a college in Massachusetts, where it was an educator who said that they were denied tenure because they were promoting LGBTQ plus issues. It was a religious school. But what the lower court decided was you're not in it. You are not teaching a religion course. Therefore, that sort of you have to be following the tenets of the faith does not apply. However, Justice Alito has said, I'm not too sure they understand that. So be waiting. And the other is and we'll talk about definitely talk about it in more detail. The Supreme Court is going to take up a challenge to and I can't believe this. It just staggers my mind. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, which says if you are placing a child who is indigenous, it should be kept within their indigenous community. And the states of Texas, Louisiana and Indiana are challenging it saying, but it creates a child custody regime and is designed to make adoption and fostering of Indian children by non-Indian families the last resort. So despite our history of taking indigenous children, they think that white should have a priority for placement. So do we have any more news before I go to trivia? Well, there was a woman called Jane Swift, apparently, but she really wasn't governor. She was co-governor. Yeah, she was co-governor for a period of time. I didn't have chance to read the whole thing, but she wasn't actually elected. She was in the Senate, the Massachusetts State Senate. But I can't quite tell, but it said she was co-governor with this other governor who maybe she was lieutenant governor and he left, and then she was governor for a few years, but I don't think she was elected. Interim governor before Romney. Oh, and that was kind of sticky, messy. Yeah. So I don't think she was really elected governor. I think she was like an interim co-governor or something. It would kind of support that mass whole process. Yeah. He and I were born on the same day, same year. I have no comment because we have the better of the twins. My evil twin. They always put him up on my birthday. So anyway. I suppose we have a trivia question. Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. First Black playwright, a youngest American to win a New York Critics Circle Award. First play written by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway, and it was. Lorraine Hansberry. Yes. And the play was. Raising in the Sun. And I will resist the impulse to recite some of the key speeches, but one of them said, the mother says to her daughter who's trashing the sun, measure him right child, measure him right, take into account everything he's gone through before you judge him. Okay, so with that. Okay, I think we should say resist.