Good evening, and welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Private Property Podcast. I'm your host, Uzama Ndomo Kumalo. It's episode 171 of the Private Property Podcast, and we're quite excited. It is December. We're feeling very festive, probably tuning into us across our social media platforms, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or what is it, YouTube. Welcome.  We've certainly been around for 170 episodes already. So you certainly have quite a lot of catching up to do on some of the great content that we have brought on your screens. And talk about the great content on your screens. We also have other shows here on Private Property across our social media platforms. And that's, of course, the first-time home buyers show that you can watch every single Wednesday at 7.45 with S.T. Klassen, where she takes you through some of the things that you can anticipate when you buy your first home and also speaks to various people who share the experiences of buying that first home. We'll help you navigate that first purchase. We know how anxiety-inducing it can be. And we want to make sure that you have a smooth journey as much as possible. And we also have the farming podcast that played earlier on this afternoon. And it comes to your screens every Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 o'clock, that is with Umba Lemogo. And that's such a great show if you've got great green fingers or exploring going into agriculture. And a lot of us have certainly become home farmers with growing our own herb garden and spinach and tomatoes, especially during this lockdown. Well, if you want to explore that a bit more, perhaps go at a slightly more commercial level than you certainly want to make sure that you tune into the farming podcast. And we never leave you alone over the weekend, because we also bring you the developer's show with Chad, where we profile some of the best estates that the country has on offer. And one of the shows that we're certainly very excited about is a special web series that comes to your screen every day this week, except tomorrow, because it's a public holiday. And that is building stronger homes with PPC. And that's going to be coming up shortly at 8 p.m. So that's something that you can look forward to. If you watched yesterday's episode, do let me know how that was. How did you find it? I really enjoyed having a conversation with the various experts talking cement. I love cement. I kind of have a big nerdy moment every time I think about cement and what it does and even the process of making cement. So that's certainly a show that you can look forward to the special web series that we're running here on private property. So to make sure that you tune in at 8 p.m., it promises to be very exciting. And on all things exciting, because it is a festive season and we are in a very giving mood. We are of course running a competition on our social media platforms where you stand a chance of walking away with up to 100,000 rands in cash prizes. And that 100,000 rand is split across different competitions, different awards on our social media platforms. And the very big one, where you have to be watching the private property podcast every day is of course questions for the champions. And on questions for the champions, what you essentially have to do is get four friends or family members, make sure that you form a team, give your team a name, and then you have to watch the private property podcast. It's actually that simple. What we're going to be doing at the end of the show is we're going to ask questions based on yesterday's episode. So every single time we'll ask questions based on the previous day's episodes. And the team that answers the questions correctly first stands a chance of walking away with 1,500 rand. The big thing, all team members have to be present and watching the private property podcast. All of you have to raise your hand saying, listen, we're here. We're members of hashtag team parrots or whatever you team essentially is. So you all have to be watching us. And we announce the winners the following day. And this is to make sure that we just verify that all team members were in fact watching the show live. All of you did in fact make yourselves, you know, be seen that you're watching. And then of course that you answered in time. So do check out the competition details down here below. We're very excited. There's quite a lot of money to give away. And later on in December, because we want to end the year off on a bank, you're also going to stand a chance of walking away with 15,000 rand. That is for the winning team. We will ask 10 questions and the winning team will walk away with 15,000 rand. And the second runner up or the first runner ups are going to walk away with 10,000 rand. So you want to make sure that you get your friends and family to be tuning in to the private property podcast so you can participate. Listen attentively. We love talking property. So all you have to do is just listen attentively. And I promise you the questions are not going to be that hard. I mean, it's December. I know we've had a rough year. So the team and I are making sure that the questions aren't too, you know, too difficult. And talking about things being difficult, this is something that we're exploring this evening. I know it's something that so many of us sometimes struggle with. And this is, you know, everything you need to know about community schemes. I know that we talk about community schemes so much here on the private property podcast. And that's because so many of us are slowly moving in terms of living in community schemes, whether you're renting in one or you're certainly buying in one. And with so many of us just not being familiar with how community schemes work, there's so much work that needs to be done and as just better understanding what it means to live in a community schemes, what we can and cannot do. And just almost readjusting to life in a community scheme. You know, I always joke about how it took me so long to adjust to living, you know, in an apartment with basically strangers. And it's so quite a shock to my system. And I think it probably took me over two years to just get familiar with I can park my car and then pass somebody I don't know, but we live in the same yard. So those are some of the things that we're going to be exploring this evening. And I'm joined by Lee Ann Harrison, who is the portfolio manager at PEM Gold in Property Management Services. Lee Ann, good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Hi Zama, thanks so much for having me. Happy to be here. It's only a pleasure Lee Ann. You know, community schemes are so contentious. There's always so much conflict and sometimes it can just be such a headache. And even as we're seeing it, I think it's also just takes a bit of a mind shift because so many of us are just not used to it. When you grow up, let's say whether you grew up in a township or in a suburb with your parents or, you know, in a rural area, we didn't have community schemes. Everybody kind of lived in their own house, but now I have to adjust to this new way of living amongst each other. Perhaps tell us one of the most important things we need to bear in mind when it comes to living in a community scheme. Before we even look at when you are buying what you should and shouldn't do, just living on a community scheme. What's the one important thing that we should always bear in mind? Thanks Zama. So I think you touched on it briefly. When moving or buying into a community scheme, you must remember it's not a free standing home. A community scheme essentially is a scheme in terms of where there's a shared use of and responsibility for parts of land and buildings. You are governed by conduct and management rules, or in the case of a home owners association by a constitution. Also, you could be governed by you're part of a master property association or a property owners association. So it's always good to remember that this is not a normal suburb where you've got this one house next to the other and you can do as you please. You have to always consider that there are rules to follow and before doing anything, check those rules first. I think that's one of the most important things you want us to consider or think about. So I think one of the big things that I certainly want us to get across this evening is to help people who are either potentially going to be buying into a community scheme in the new year or viewers who perhaps are going to be rankling in a community scheme in the new year. But let's start perhaps with the buyers. You know, a lot of people want to take advantage of the historically low interest rates and buying a community scheme because of the many advantages that one essentially is able to get from living in one. In the event where you're in the market and you're viewing a property that's in a community scheme, what are some of the important things that you almost need to be aware of and ask your estate agent about? So yes, when buying into a community scheme there are many considerations that you must look at. Speak to your agent, your transferring attorney, the seller, whoever you can before you sign any offer to purchase. Look at, you know, you can send a list to your agent of what you require. The rules if it's a body corporate, the constitution if it's a homeowners association and I've sort of gone through a few items, I've made a list of a few items that you should take into consideration. The biggest ones that are always contentious, pets and short-term letting. So obviously in a freestanding home you can have as many pets as you want, cats, dogs, birds, whatever you please. But a lot of times the rules state that they may not be permitted or if they are there's a height restriction or there's a restriction how many pets you can have in a body corporate stuff like the one that I stay in, pets aren't permitted. So we actually have dogs next to us in the complex and I always wonder how it happened that they got them. But most likely what happened was as someone moved in, they didn't know but they can't just get rid of the dogs. It's always an issue. Same with short-term letting. A few years back this became a massive issue and it still today is an issue. Certain body corporates or HOAs don't allow it whatsoever for many reasons. The agents don't let you know that that's not permitted. You move in, you buy it as an investment and the next thing you can't advertise on any short-term letting platform and that creates a problem when this is the purpose for purchasing. Another consideration is the costs and like we mentioned you know you buy a community scheme and there's a bond to pay for like with any property. But along with that there comes your levies you have to pay for the day-to-day running of the body corporates. So you have your levies to fund that. You've got levies for exclusive use of the parking bay, a garage, a patio, a balcony and there's also a sea sauce levy which is which came into operation towards the end of 2016. A lot of owners when they come on board as an owner in a community scheme those are the first questions they ask you know what's this levy, what's this for, why would you pay for this. A lot of the times no one lets them know and not because they didn't ask, they didn't know to ask. You know I can't, I don't know what I don't know. So those are very much the bigger items. There are a few more I'd like to touch on but happy to be guided by you. And actually I want us to look at some of the small ones because I think the big ones you know we speak about and some and I know some of the viewers have managed to you know ask estate agents about it when they were looking at buying because we've had them say look I didn't even know about that pets is always such a big one. I live in a complex where you can have a cat but you can't have dogs which for me is fantastic because then you were not going to have you know the the noise from the dogs and I think with short-term letting I've certainly seen a lot of owners complain with that one because one of the primary reasons why they bought into that particular community scheme was to put their property up on Airbnb and then for them to find out that actually you you can't do that because they don't want strangers you know in the estate and you know new people all the time sometimes it's loud rowdy parties so instead they just decided look rather not have short-term letting what are some of the we'll say slightly smaller things that we probably don't quite think about but we should actually be very aware of. There's two that I want to touch on and it's mostly financial because it does I mean financial aspects you know money makes the world go around and this is exactly what happens at Body Corp but you you don't realize the levy you are paying and when you get your first levy statement you get a good of a shock so before even thinking about it and you found a unit at a complex that you really really like has got a lovely view it's a lovely apartment so what two things I always think about is special levies and insolvency of the complex so a lot of the times we raise special levies for projects or if there isn't enough money to fund anything in the body corporate so usually an owner should ask the seller or a buyer should ask a seller. Has there been special levies in the last 12-24 months? Is there plans to have a special levy and this ties in with insol the solvency of the body corporate or HRA a lot of potential buyers request a copy of the last altered financial statements and that can show you what's the current financial status and if they are indeed solvents if they expend if how much were the expenses of previous year what their collection of levies are and what's the at the end of the financial year how much money that I have did how much liquid cash have they got left to cover any items should there be a massive first pipe on the common property and the entire paving has to be replaced or the entire that they want to upgrade the security cameras or the electric fencing if say it breaks so always look at the solvency because it would affect you if say for instance it's they aren't that solvent or that there's not a lot of money in 12 months time they may have to raise a special levy to cover even the day-to-day expenses also they may need it you know look at the maintenance of a body corporate how much they spend how much have they spent and how much they spent to look over a period of the past 24 months if they didn't spend a lot then they might be a possibility they're going to spend money if they haven't got money they've got to raise it somewhere so it's good to ask the agent what has been the financial case in the last 12 to 24 months that's very important that owners don't actually ask that I've seen it and and and you know I certainly I think that's probably one of the mistakes that I made earlier on in my property journey that when I bought the first you know a couple of properties that also wasn't a question that I bought to us and in I think in some of the transactions was fortunate enough that it didn't you know affect my investment in any way but unfortunately in other instances it did affect my investment where you you know buy into a particular you know community scheme and then only realize that look there's quite a lot that needs work and so you almost need to take into thinking about whether or not you want to stay and be part of that work being done because you think it's going to be worth it or you just don't want to be a part of it so being able to just know that that's potentially something that could happen is such a big thing and I think some oftentimes we don't quite realize it but it really is one of those things that we need to always be aware of yes we're going to go for a quick break and when we come back I sort of want to hear from views at home some of the mistakes that you found yourself making when you bought into a community scheme and you know what were the questions you asked or didn't ask and did the questions that you didn't ask come to buy to once maybe or even years later do you share your experience with us down here below and something to also look forward to later on on the show we're going to be kick starting of course the questions for the legends competition and that for the champions rather competition and that's something that you can look forward to we're going to be asking questions based on yesterday's episode so if you watch yesterday's episode of course you did when we're talking with Michelle Dickens the empty of TP in credit bureau those are the questions that we're going to be asked so in the event where you didn't watch while you're going to have to be tuned in certainly going to have to try and find out from the you know from yesterday's episode what some of the potential answers are which is probably going to be impossible because you're watching this episode meaning the big thing is to be watching us alive because that's how you and of course your team of five can stand a chance of walking away with 1500 grand in cash that we're going to be paying out at the end of the week in the event that you win we're going to go for a quick break and we'll be back just after this 171 of the private property podcast I'm your host was a man don't want to malo if you've just joined us we're talking all things community schemes and we're looking at you know things that you should certainly be aware of in the event where you're looking at buying a new property into the new year in the new year rather that is in a community scheme and if you're a tenant looking to rent in a community scheme then we've also got a few tips up our sleeves that we'd like to share with you at home but before we get to that one we are of course running a great competition across our social media platforms and a really big one right here on the private property podcast and that one of course we want you to ask four of your friends or family members to form a team of five in order to participate give yourself a great name whatever name it is and make sure that every time we come on live here on the private property podcast you come on with your team members and indicate down here below we always love getting some love from you so do make sure that you make your presence known and also then watch out for the questions at the end of the show and those questions are going to be based on the previous day's episode so we give you enough time to kind of digest and you know be sure that you're kind of you know what's going on and then we're going to be going through questions that are not going to be that hard I think we've been we've actually been quite lenient and made try to make it as easy as possible and of course the team that gets the first that gets the five questions correct first is the team that's going to walk away with that 1,500 cash prize look at me I'm talking about numbers so much that it's even slipping up how much money it is but one of the other big things because I love talking about money is that then at the end of the month we're going to be giving away 15,000 rands to the team that's going to be able to accurately answer the top 10 questions that we're going to be asking so do make sure that you hop on our forms we've already shared all the competition rules and details make sure you get your friends and family to join your team give yourselves a great name hop on to the live and show some love but also of course participate in the competition so you can walk away with that money you know we love giving away money we know how easily we make it for you to be able to win that money so do make sure that you don't miss this opportunity because we are in a very festive and giving spirit now to get to our conversation of course I'm speaking to Lee Ann Harrison who's a portfolio manager at Hem Golden property management services and to go to your questions and comments on our social media page we've got one from one of the top fan gang members on Facebook who asks in a newly developed in a uniformed body corporate how do you determine the levy and set up the system um very good question and very valid question whenever I look at preparing a budget for a scheme that's already been established for a few years it's easier to to do a budget because you have figures to work from for the previous year with a new development there are no figures you don't know how much it's going to cost in a year's time to fix electric fence or to fix the gate so we try really do our best when we are preparing the budget and terminating the levies to work on schemes that are similar and just to give an idea you'll know when a scheme is established and sectionalized that there are certain um already determined uh expenses security gardening uh if you're going to have an employee that does um maintenance on site or a building manager if there are any other projects lined up or um if there is any painting to be done so you know like if I take painting for an example of a body corporate it's usually every five to ten years that's almost established if I look at maintenance we're not certain when a pipe is going to burst or a gate's gonna go and you'll have to replace it but generally we look at what we can determine now based on what whatever contracts we into into and we just base it all for what's a similar scheme that we manage or work on so that's that's sort of the considerations that we look at hey you know Leanne I mean I mentioned earlier that we've been speaking a lot to potential buyers who are looking at buying in the new year let's look at renters who are going to potentially be renting in a community scheme what should renters be aware of um when it comes to renting in a community scheme yeah I've got a few points um the biggest one again I think is parking bays and garages now in a bigger scheme or where there's more common property and there may be more parking garages or parking bays and another item to look at is visitor bays so if you are if you if it's a scheme of a hundred units most likely each unit will have a parking bale garage now if depending on how big the common area is there may not be enough visitor bays so when you have your parents visiting or a friend where will their park something to consider again pets big thing to consider are they permitted always speak to your landlord before you before you move in you may have a pet you move in and then you can't have the pet so that's always something massive to look at and then just the rules in terms of noise uh you know if you if you are generally a sociable person and you like to have people over for a bride or or dinners um it's always good to think of remain cognizant of your neighbors look at the positioning of the apartment are you are you close to everybody else is the balcony or patio where you're going to have your party or dinner close to other neighbors look at and how noise could travel same with if you're a smoking if you're a smoker uh where you would where you where you where you can smoke um it's not always permitted on the common property but the most like in your apartment um that's something to take into consideration and then also insurance I know this is more for buyers but look at I know geysers are generally covered in terms of insurance however look at the excess payable if there is any excess payable for a geyser or any other and claim uh if you you know if you have a geyser claim what the excess is so that when it when a claim pops up you'll have to pay that it's not for the body corporate or h2o to pay uh another item that I just um remembered if you're living as a tenant uh have a look at the rules what the finances finding system is if you offer if an owner is fined generally they will pass a fine on so if you've paid a deposit or you one month you pay more than you said that you meant to because there's a fine and it could be a small amount or it could be a big amount but if you if these are continuous breach of the rules the owner may pass a fine on to you and make you pay it so that's something to look at as well and I think you know and if I actually think about you know managing or dealing with tenants sometimes I find that owners don't do a great job of sharing the rules of the estate or conflicts or the building with the tenant and the tenant only finds out retrospectively or after they've committed that particular offense oftentimes you know a landlord especially perhaps if it's a DIY landlord will have the lease agreement in place with the various rules but lease agreement won't necessarily include all the rules obviously of the of the complex or the state so you almost need to actually just share those rules in the entirety and perhaps you didn't have to find that they agree to you know abide by these rules in the event where they don't then there's going to be the penalty share with them what the penalty fee is then in the lease agreement you can have a clause that says that that's the addendum and you know the these they've stipulated what the potential costs are going to be because that's also a way that oftentimes the landlord and their tenant tends to you know but it's quite a bit because you didn't know that you couldn't do certain things I think the big ones we all know about noise you know ending at 10 or whatever the time period is but some of the the smaller ones you're probably not as aware of them and it does actually become quite a contentious one now before I let you go you know Leigh Ann probably you know tips on based dealing with potential conflict in community schemes because we also know that there is quite a lot of conflict that tends to arise sometimes I mean I know for example instances where a partner of mine was saying that in one of the their properties they always get you know the owner living above the tenant's unit always complains about noise and they're on the grant unit and it could be the smallest thing your TVs on and it's not even on loud and then they're complaining just because they can hear it if you have a friend over and you're talking you're not even loud and then they complain so what are some of the best ways that we can manage conflict in community schemes? Yes I as a managing agent I deal with it on a daily basis you know complaints regarding noise and the dog barking the whole day and night smoking how the smoke sort of penetrates another unit parking in another person's bay whether by accident or not so generally a lot of body corporates or home and associations will have a dispute resolution process in terms of their rules or their constitution whereby let's say me and you live with your neighbours and your dog was barking for the entire night and I wasn't happy about it and it kept me up and now I want to do something about it so I would firstly approach the manager approach the if I was a tenant or the owner approach the managing agent and then I would say listen I'd like to raise this complaint please can you inform the owner that this is not acceptable or the like which the managing agent would then do they'll write a letter or they'll pick up the phone and listen if you do it again there'll be consequences in terms of the in terms of the conduct rules you can only follow what's in the rules so if the rule says a warning then a fine that's the step to take so if if it happens again within a week or two weeks the dog's barking again then I would inform the managing agent once more listen it's still continuing what are you going to do about it and the next step would be a fine if in terms of the rules it's a breach if it's continuous and there's no and there's no um on part of the defending party to reduce the noise or do something about it uh usually you can then approach what's called the community schemes ombud service which is the ombudsman that was created in 2016 to deal with dispute resolution in community schemes prior to that you could well even now you can approach courts to um for a damages claim or whatever the case may be but the c-sauce for me is the most uh obvious choice at the moment because it's also a cheaper service I think to file at the moment I'm not I might be wrong but it's about 150 Rand to file a dispute an application for dispute resolution and follow the process so I just think the first step is always to approach the portfolio manager or managing agent that you have a complaint and follow the process in terms of the conduct rules or constitution of the community scheme we've got a question here coming through from YouTube it is from utsapam of a body who asks let's say your tenant or visitor breaks the rule of the complex or estate and is fine who is liable for the payment so because the owner is an owner by virtue of ownership is bound by the conduct rules every every act or breach of a conduct rule is attributable to the owner so let's say I'm the tenant and I break a rule of noise often midnight we had a massive party and there was we we um disturbed a few of our neighbors yes the tenant broke the rule but the landlord is ultimately responsible for that tenant so the managing agent would find the owner and the owner then has the they could find the tenant or they could pay themselves but ultimately the owner will be the one that will receive the final receive the fine whether by the levy account or a separate bill for the fine and they will ultimately be responsible to pay that fine well I think before I let you go the and any final tips whether to renters or potential home buyers or perhaps people who are really home buyers when it comes to like living in a community scheme yeah yeah um one thing I think I picked up on which is it's usually an issue um if you look at the scheme of 10 units versus the scheme of 100 units both parties have the same security guard 24 hours a day now the scheme of 10 units has to pay 30k a month the scheme of 100 units also has to pay 30k a month for that guard now if you look at the difference in levies the 100 unit 100 unit scheme will pay less for that guard in terms of how much per um the contribution per owner whereas the 10 unit will pay more that also influences your levies so look when looking at buying always look at how big the scheme is and what your current expenses are because that will influence your levies the levies will never be reduced if you're a smaller scheme but you have the same expenses as a bigger scheme so that's something to take into consideration as well and that's a great note to end on and thank you so much for joining us this evening thanks so much Dhamma it was lovely and that is the Ann Harrison who's a portfolio manager at Pemgolding Property Management Services we're going to go for a quick break when we come back we will be going through tonight's five questions for of course the questions for the champions competition that we're running across our social media platforms I'll tell you a little bit more about it just after this. Come back to the Tuesday edition of the Private Property Podcast I'm your host Usamanto Muakumalo well it's that time of the evening where we go through this evening's questions for the champions now if you still don't know about this great competition that we're running we're asking you at home to get four of your friends or family members and to form a team of five gives you give yourselves a unique name so that you're able to make yourselves known make sure that you tune into the Private Property Podcast every weekday at seven o'clock and of course when you're tuning in during the live let yourselves be known do certainly check in so that we know that your team is in fact watching us live and then of course you're going to wait until the very end of the podcast which is right now when we get to ask you five simple questions based on yesterday's episode the team that gets the first correct answer so the first five answers correct walks away with one thousand five hundred grants it's 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you like listen this is money that we want let's just watch this thing let's make sure that we pay attention the questions are easy enough and you'll be able to get the prize so fastest fingers certainly with surprise correct answers of course and all the best to all of you i certainly look forward to seeing you faces on as you get your friends and family to watch the private property podcast and really get them part of our great community we do this every night at seven o'clock let's see how we can make the circle bigger and also of course help them along their property journey well that's a wrap from Miza Matunga Kumalo here on the private property podcast as well as the rest of the team we are back on your screens tomorrow rather on Thursday see i keep forgetting because tomorrow's a public holiday it's the 16th so we're not going to be live on the 16th and so we're going to be back on the 17th am i getting my dates correct today is in fact the 15th right so we're going to be back 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that's one of the things that you want to be mindful of and this evening the topic is a checklist same time with home developments or renovation projects and I had a great conversation there with the technical rep from ppc uh Rohan Harness who really was great and better explaining some of the things that we always need to be very um aware of when it comes to whether it's a home renovation project or you're building your home from scratch so do make sure that you tune into building stronger homes rather a special web series brought to you by ppc but that's a wrap from us do you hope that you're going to have a fantastic evening do tune into that show at 8 p.m and I'll be back on Thursday hoping you're going to enjoy tomorrow and stay safe I live in belito where my partners in our run a business called uni as a family we chose to move here about six years ago what attracted us to the area was the safe and relaxed lifestyle of the north coast we surrounded by so much natural beauty and we love that it's so casual it's just not as intense as a busy city in fact that's one of the main reasons there's so many people moving into the area there's some amazing lifestyle estate center we've got some barley breadingwood estate and some beauty to name a few the belito lifestyle center caters to everyone's needs there's also some smaller commercial centers like tiffinies and salt rock there's some excellent restaurants to choose from and there's a really wide variety of activities on offer from mountain biking out on the trails to surfing at any one of the beaches there really is something for everyone this quiet little town really comes alive over the weekend the live concerts in the farmers market with the new international airport just 15 minutes down the road and the unmatched lifestyle that this place offers it's no wonder that the north coast is the fastest-growing town in south africa my family and I absolutely love it and this is how I'm able to do it


The long awaited launch of the James Webb Space Telescope was planned for September and astronomers are getting excited at the scale of discovery being offered by the new technology. The replacement for the Kepler telescope has the scientific community buzzing with anticipation. Some scientists are excited at the prospect of travelling through time to discover the origin story of our universe, while others hope it will help us connect the dots between classical and quantum physics. In an interview over the weekend, world-renowned physicist Michio Kikou, one of the scientists responsible for string theory, told The Guardian that he didn't think humans should contact any aliens if we find them, simply saying that. Soon we'll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we'll have thousands of planets to look at, and that's why I think the chances are quite high that we make contact with an alien civilization. There are some colleagues of mine that think that we should reach out to them, but I think that's a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortez in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago. This of course sparked an interesting debate, interesting Green writes that it's interesting that Kikou would bring up Montezuma and Cortez in the context that he has brought them up in. As legend has it, Montezuma II accidentally ceded the entire Aztec Empire to Cortez a Spanish conquistador over a language misunderstanding. According to historians, Montezuma II told Cortez that he'd been keeping the Aztec throne warm for him, but he meant it as a bragging sarcastic way. Cortez apparently didn't get the tone, and the rest they say is history. It seems like Kikou is warning that were we to find aliens and make contact, Earthlings would be the Aztecs and aliens would be the Spanish invaders. Maybe we send a message such as we come in peace when we discover them and aliens could simply interpret that as come rulers mean it could happen. We could engage in endless conjecture when it comes to discussing what might happen if and when we ever discover alien life instead. Let's just take a moment to state some key facts about the James Webb Space Telescope so we can see how they tie in to what we might find ET wise when the going gets going. It's 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and uses infrared scanning technology to see things further away and with greater detail and Tristan Green has theorized that the possibility of discovering alien life is early as next year. What would that mean? We have no way of knowing what kind of aliens we might discover and yes it could even mean that we discover intelligent life. The only thing we can know for sure is that any life we do encounter should be very very afraid of us. Nearly every civilization that's inhabited this world either world with other civilizations or was dominated by one or more that did. Even today Earth is inhabited by roughly 8 billion people who exist under a planet-wide policy mutually assured destruction. Almost everything about the state of our world indicates violence is inevitable or humans are present. If we ever do meet an intelligent species similar to our own we are likely to go to war and this prognosis is even worse for any unintelligent life forms we may come across. More than 41,000 species on Earth are currently endangered and in order to protect any alien critters from our ceaseless destruction we'll have to treat their world with far greater reverence and respect than we currently do our own. But what do you guys think about the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope? Comments below and as always thank you for watching.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another video in my ww air fryer series I cannot wait to share these two recipes with you. They are so good My husband loved both of them. So they're both husband approved, which it's a two for two. That's pretty good So they're both WWE friendly You can make them in your air fryer if you do not have an air fryer and no fear You can go ahead and cook them in your oven Same temperature just you may have to cook them a little bit longer And of course they may not get as crispy as they do in the air fryer But you can still recreate both of these recipes in your traditional oven So if you want to see the two recipes that I have in store for you for this episode of the WWE air fryer series, then just keep watching Tonight's air fryer dinner we are going to be making cauliflower rice air run sine and we're gonna pair that With some chicken and a vegetable.  These are from Costco I'm sure you can get them at other stores But I picked them up at my local Costco and they are so good. They're already cooked.  We're gonna do these Sam's Choice chicken apple and some Parmesan cheese So let's get started on tonight's air fryer dinner The first thing that we are going to do is remove as much of the casing as you can From your sausage and we're gonna go ahead and fry it up in a pan here until it gets cooked Most of the way through once you get your sausage most of the way cooked through We're gonna go ahead and add in our rice to cauliflower.  Look at these Yum, and then our black-end chicken looks amazing as well So a serving is three of these rice balls. It is actually only two serving so three per serving So let me go ahead and get this all plated up, and I'll show you tonight's dinner and give you the smart point So here is our completed dinner for tonight. I have one serving of the black-end chicken from Tyson for zero Smart points. I have three of the cauliflower rice erincini balls That is a total of six smart points for all three And then I have just a little bit of marinara for dipping I'm gonna be counting that as zero only because we're just gonna be dipping the rice balls into that So it won't even equal probably more than a tablespoon or two So this is tonight's dinner and it is a total of six smart points for tonight's air fryer dinner We are going to be making parmesan Meatballs in our air fryer these sound delicious, and I'm gonna pair that with some pasta some sauce and some vegetables So first let me show you what is in our parmesan meatballs So first you're going to need some Italian style breadcrumbs. These are just the Kroger brand These are actually really good. I actually like these better than the name brand So if you have a Fred Meyer or a Kroger great breadcrumbs, you'll also need some worcestershire sauce Salt and pepper you can either use fresh parsley or dried and some minced onion minced garlic parmesan cheese eggs in 96 for extra lean ground beef I'm gonna go ahead and use the trader Joe's and then we are going to pair ours with some sauce I'm gonna do the clasico tomato and basil. Unfortunately. I am out of my skinny-ish dish Crockpot marinara. I definitely need to make some more of that So I'm gonna have that and my husband is going to have roasted garlic parmesan Alfredo on his pasta and for pasta, of course, I'm gonna be using the fiber gourmet light elbows We were debating if we wanted spaghetti noodles or elbows and we decided on elbows Fiber gourmet pasta is amazing. You can have two ounces for only three smart points Traditional pasta is anywhere from five to six smart points for two ounces. So it is half the smart points It is absolutely amazing. It does not taste any different than regular pasta In fact, we think my husband and I both think this is better than traditional pasta and it is so low points So good. So we're gonna go ahead and have it with the fiber gourmet light elbows You can order fiber gourmet off of the net triton website and down in the description box is a link It'll take you directly to net triton's website and you can order your pasta There is no discount code, but it is kind of a way for me to track and see what you guys are ordering So I know what to order and what to show in my video So definitely use my link to order the fiber gourmet pasta And we're gonna pair that with some sugar snap pea stir-fry for veggies. So let's get started on our meatballs First thing we're gonna do is put together our meatballs while our meatballs are cooking We will do our pasta. So I have my one pound of extra lean ground beef To that I'm going to add one third cup of the Italian breadcrumbs I'm also going to add about one teaspoon of minced garlic You can always add more if you are a garlic lover I also have about a tablespoon of parsley We're gonna do a little bit of salt of course that's gonna bring out a lot of the flavor in the meatballs and we're also going to do a little bit of pepper as well We have two eggs This is a really easy recipe And we have about a tablespoon of worcestershire sauce And We have about a quarter cup maybe a little bit less more like an eighth of a cup of minced onion And lastly we have a quarter cup of fresh parmesan cheese And then we are going to just mix this all together Until fully combined and then you'll either put these meatballs into your air fryer basket Or in my case it goes on to the racks of my air fryer So I'm gonna get this all mixed up and then we'll be ready to roll out our meatballs So it's time to roll our meatballs look at how delicious that mixture looks so I want a total of eight servings So I'm gonna get 16 Meatballs at least out of my pound now you can always do more You'll just accommodate for the points that way But my goal is to get about 16 meatballs out of this pound of hamburger So I'm gonna roll them and I'm going to just put them on my greased sheet here that goes into my air fryer So let's get 16 meatballs rolled out So here are our 16 meatballs I did go ahead and spray the top of them with a little bit of non-stick cooking spray that will help them brown up really Nicely in the air fryer, so we're ready to get these into the air fryer, and then we will get our pasta cooking Alrighty our meatballs are officially into the air fryer So we're gonna go ahead and set our air fryer at 350 degrees and we want this to go for 13 to 15 minutes So I'm gonna start it at 13 and we'll check in on our meatballs about halfway through See how they're coming along Possibly you rearrange the shelf and flip them in the cooking process So let's get our pasta boiling on the stove once your pasta comes to a boil We're gonna go ahead and add in our package of fiber gourmet light elbows And we're gonna go ahead and let these cook down All the way I like my pasta just a little bit al dente just so that it's not super smushy and gooey in my pasta so my light elbows are cruising right along and then I've got my Package of frozen vegetables. I've added a little bit of water, and I'm gonna go ahead and pop those into the microwave Also, what's left of my marinara and the Alfredo sauce So I'll cover those and put those in the microwave as well I just pulled the meatballs out of the air fryer you guys look at how incredible these look Perfectly crispy and brown So I'm gonna let these cool for just a moment the pasta is done the veggies are in the microwave I'll put together our plate and give you the smart points. So here is my completed dinner for tonight I am incredibly excited for this dinner. So I have one serving of my vegetables I have a little bit of spray butter salt and pepper. So that is zero points I have one serving of the fiber gourmet elbows for three points one half of a cup of the clasico spaghetti sauce for two points and One serving which is two of the meatballs for three points So this is a total of three for the meatballs three for the pasta two for the sauce is an eight Smart point dinner eight smart points guys for pasta with meatballs Thank you for joining me in another episode of my ww air fryer series I hope you enjoyed these two recipes as much as we did we loved both dinners So much the meal meatballs would be a really good meal prep as well if you're looking for a lower point Meal prep you could even swap out the 96 for lean ground beef for fat-free turkey breast and make them lower point So lots of options. They were delicious. You could serve them with just about anything Loved them. So if you're new to my channel, I'd like to extend a huge warm welcome Thank you so much for stopping by my channel Make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell so you're notified every time that I upload that way You're not missing a single video thumbs up this one and comment down below Let me know are you going to try these recipes and which one or both of them? Are you most excited to try and i'll see you guys in my next video? Bye