Class 2, 15.9, class 3, 32.03, state highway, 16.941, class 4, 9.33, legal trail, 3.32. What about the roads that we gave up? You did that last year. Was that the year ago? Oh, okay. Time goes quickly. Okay, and what's the class, the trails? How many? I'm sorry? What's the trail? 3.32. It's kind of interesting, the data. It's always emotional proof. Thank you, Mary. Second. Thank you, Phil. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Did we all need to sign this? No. Yes, you all need to sign it yourself. Okay. You didn't notice my signature about this? I thought I did, yeah. Mary. Thank you. Why don't you go ahead, Phil? Okay, so yesterday I was starting to do the pilot on the email and I got part way down the road and then working with Liz back and forth last night. I realized, see, I have two accounts, so I have a management account to manage the email and then I have my own account. So the first information I sent you guys was for the management account. Oh, that would have been bad. Well, you couldn't get into it. Well, your timing was really good when you sent out that email because I was just sitting down to try and do it. I went, oh, that's not going to work. Yeah, Liz was the first one. I'm just getting this thing going around and I couldn't figure out what the heck was wrong. So I kept digging and digging and what, oh, so then I sent it to Liz and she got in. And Steve contacted me today to say, are we still on hold? But I'll have it. I just want to do new instructions and send them out. I'll send it to you tomorrow. So that's easiest. Computers are ordered and should be here soon. I just have a funny experience with Dal. The first guy I had as an account rep basically ghosted me as the kids say. I was like, you know, he worked with me up to a point and then was gone. It was like, okay. Maybe he went on vacation. Or got fired or something. I don't know. But I finally worked my way through and found another person who's the state rep who I found through my friend Peter, the agency of education. Hi. And he was great. Very apologetic in terms of not happening. Actually got some better pricing than the one for us. So everything is ordered. And I made up a purchase order number because he said, I just built you an account. So, and I don't even know that I need a paper purchase order, but I'll give you information just so that we have it put in the system. So I think a couple of the computers will arrive next week. One of them, I think it's the laptop won't be here till the 1st of February. And we've got the Chromebook. So it's probably as soon as those two desktops arrive, we'll get the tech group guys. Is there something behind it? Is that a box? Is that a box? Heard of it? That's the mailbox. Oh, that's the mailbox. The maintenance department was here today. Ah, okay. That's all. That's the man who's on. But anyway, that's where we stand. Okay. Okay. So Steve, Liz is now here. Hi, Steve. Hi, Liz. She's smiling, but not talking. I said hi. Oh, all right. That's the first one. All right. Okay. Good. Okay. So let's go. Let's go back to review and approval of the warning for the March 3rd, 2020. And Steve, you don't have a copy of this, correct? I emailed it to you, Steve. It was emailed half an hour ago. Yeah, it was emailed. Well, we can go quickly through them one at a time. I mean, there's a couple of things here we really need to talk about. But Article 1 is elect a moderator for the ensuing year. That's Standard Article 2 to elect a grandeur and town agent. Standard Article 3, the list of all the officers by Australian Ballot. Article 4. And do we have people running for all offices? What's our? We do not have. We have everybody running for something except elect group delinquent taxes. And I don't have anyone running for the budget. Otherwise we have cemetery commissioner, blister, planning commissioner, pressure and help. Okay. Are there two slots open on the budget committee? Yes. Yep. So we need to open that. Yeah. So open. So who's running and who's not? Open. For what? Budget. It's just that the people who are there are still serving their terms. Last year only one of you could elect three and only Elias ran. And so Elias was elected. So that's why you have two years of a three-year term on that. Oh, gotcha. And we have one person running for? You have no one running for either of them. Nope. It's not for lack of frying. And do we have any, any contested races? So far so good. Okay. Okay. Um, so article four is receive an act upon reports of town officers. Um, article five, uh, lays out the dates for the payment for payments of taxes. Uh, and you pick those dates so they all work. All right. Consultation with Darynda, some of them land on days that the office isn't open, but Darynda thought it was a good idea to stick with the 20th just for consistency. So yeah, I think it is. We can put something else and be aware of the town offices and get them to be open. So the dates are, the dates are August, August 20th, November 20th, February 20th, coming right up and May 20th. And it has the standard language accepted postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service Honor before the aforementioned dates according to 32 VSA, blah, blah, blah. Um, article six, see if the town will charge interest at the rate of half a percent per month of fraction thereof on overdue tax installments. That's a repeat. That's, that's the same. And, uh, article seven, get ready budget of 1.323867 dollars. Is that the same number that we looked at? That's the same number you voted at last time. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good question though. Yeah. It's nice to have those, you know, for me to say again. Um, article eight is, uh, shall the town voters appropriate the sum of $5,000 to the middle sex conservation fund. Article nine, uh, and this was by petition, shall a town authorize the expenditure of up to $8,000 to purchase two radar speed feedback signs to be installed on the north and south lanes of Vermont Route 12 in Putnamville by petition. Would you have to take a position on that or should we? By petition. So it's on there. I don't think we do. Yeah. I think we, okay. Now here we go. Shall the town voters authorize it spending $275,000 for the purchase of a new town road greater to be financed over 10 years. Um, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Paul today and also Steve on the subject of this greater and I asked them both the same question is, are we, how much of a chance are we taking to push this law for another year? I mean, if anything's causing me heartburn with a budget increase, it's that even though we all know that there's no money that's going to be expended in the next year, it just seems like overkill. I thought we had decided a year at the last meeting not to put it on. We had not decided. We talked about it, but we didn't, we didn't decide. Because I said put it on and if we don't need it, we can hold on. Could it be reworded so that it at least says so that people are like, oh, we'll spend another $275. Well, let me just, let me just tell you what, what, uh, and kick in here, Steve, but I talked to Paul and I were up with the, with the state guy looking at the parking situation up on Notch Road today. So I had a little bit of a chance to talk to him and I had him trapped in my car with nobody else in the car and I said, so, what do you think about pushing the grader off for another year? And what he said, which I had already heard from the, from the road crew is probably we can do that. It will need to have the, I'm going to call them legs and arms and links and all the widgets that make the mowboard attached to the grader, the mowboard being the scraper. It's all loose. So one of the reasons we have the washboards that we have is that that shakes when it goes down the road. And I don't know what you think the number would be. Steve, Paul said probably 20 grand. Well, it's going to be definitely in that vicinity. To redo that particular part of the grader to get it by for another year. Now, of course, the irony is, if we buy the new grader, that's roughly going to be 25 grand and it's going to be put off a year versus spending 20 grand now to put the purchase of the grader off for a year. Well, and I think if we explain that, because people are going to ask about it and that's what we explained. So, you know, they have the right to vote on it and say whether or not they want to do that. So I guess you're saying, I say put it on the belt. I mean, because I think it does. I mean, it's just whether they're going to look at it and think we've all lost our minds or maybe we have. Well, I mean, there's some people who think we've lost our minds just because of who we are. But this is going to be in next year's. There will be no, we will buy it and take out the note. But there won't be any payments due until next year's budget. There won't be any payments due until next year's budget. 25K will be in next year's budget or we have, as for the next 10 years, or we have 20K that we're going to have to pay out somewhere. Well, where are we going to take it? We're asking them to approve. Well, but we don't have it in the budget right now. No, no, if we have to do the next year's budget. No, if we have to do the votes. It'll be a year off. I'm saying if we have to make a repair, we're pulling out our discretionary money. 20 grand instead of the budget, we're asking them to approve. Well, we do. We do and we don't because we've got a big number in there for repair. I mean, you know, it's a question. Is it a truck engine? Is it the grader? Is it whatever? We don't know what it is. You're right. But if we put 20,000 in to fix that stuff, do we stand any chance of getting that back out of the grader? I asked, well, I said to Paul, so if we have that all tuned up, won't that mean we'll get more money for the grader and you say you'd be lucky to get a quarter or half of it back?   But we'll also be using it for a year. Right. And we're also... So it'd be 5,000 to 10,000 to use it for another year. The other part of it is if heaven forbid the transmission goes or the engine goes or whatever, we've lost our trade in and we'd have to turn around and rent a grader until we can get a 30 to buy one. Which would be a special boat. We'd be a special boat to buy, or we'd wait until 10 meeting depending on when it was. But the good news is, unlike the trucks, where you can't just go out and rent a town truck because they're not any out there that have all the equipment on them, you can rent a gray one. With a couple of days' notice, there are graders sitting in the Jordan Milton lot up there and John Deere and everywhere. So you can get a grader pretty quick. How much did they rent for? What's the monthly rental on a grader, Steve, about? It would be somewhere in a vicinity of, I think probably an incentive, 8,000. A month. A month. 10,000 a month. Yeah, 8,000. How long has the grader last? 25 years. A grader? They used to. You've got a sense of humor. Yeah, they used to. I would tell you they don't anymore. I mean, there's so much. I mean, the greater we have has almost no electronics on it. And the new ones are all. They're going to be expensive to maintain the new ones. Very. Well, all the risks we've had with our new trucks, you know? I know. Now, heavy equipment is different than trucks. Think of that. You think of our loader. I mean, we haven't put a penny into that loader. Have we, Steve? No. No? You know, so heavy equipment is likely to be. But how long does it last? Well, we hope it's going to last 15 years. We hope we'll have a few payment free years. Are your loans supposed to be the life of the? Well, for sure. How old is our grader right now? I know that it's not the same quality. Well, it was 10 or 11 years old when we did the rebuild. Yeah, I think we're, I think we're all like 16 or 17. So that's important to know. That's what I would say. Well, we did the rebuild how long ago? I was six years ago. Because that's when we were supposed. That was, do we buy a new one then or do we put a chunk of money into it? And that's basically worked. I mean, it hasn't worked perfectly. We had that transmission job. Okay. I don't know. I don't know if it matters. I've been in the amortization schedules. And the principal is about $25,000. But then you have $10,000 worth of interest. Right. So. Is this, and this is a 10-year note? Or is this so? That's a 10-year note. Of course, your interest would go down every year. Right. It's 10,000 total in interest? For the first year. Oh, because it's $275,000. Yeah. That's based on $275,000. That's $35,000. So. What's the interest rate? I just threw in 3.5. The last one we got was 3.25. That was for the truck we bought. So I used a 3.5. Okay. I just wonder what your interest rate is. Your interest would go down by what? Maybe a grand? Yeah. A year? Yeah. Do we have anything else coming out of highway? Well, we've got trucks coming. No, no, what I mean is any debt service ending? No, nothing's paid off this year. Well, we had, yes. We pay, well, in 2019 we paid it off. There's nothing due to come off in 2020. I have a 21. 21, no. We've got only, I think. So we don't, we can't do any replacement.  And so it's really only going to close this X. We just retired two loans this year. And how much was that? We say, I suppose that I'd have to go back. Okay. I don't have it. I'm trying to think when these other ones come off. We have the international truck doesn't come off until 2024. And 2019, when we just bought doesn't come off until 2025. And what happens when you sell the greater? What do you do with that money? They use it as a trade-in. Oh, it's just a trade-in. It's just a trade-in. Okay. So lower is the amount we have to borrow. Okay. And I mean, I guess I, my personal feeling would be because it's not coming out of this year's, this note isn't going to be added to this year's budget. I would say if Steve thinks it's something that our road crew needs and in the long run will be a better investment than repairing, I would say we keep it on and we just explain that this is, you know, this note will be for next year's budget, but we're approving it to purchase it this year. Because it has to be purchased either this year or next year. Yeah. So all we're doing is just delaying it, where it's not going to be this year regardless. So it's either going to be next year or the year after. Yeah, we push the note off one more. I know. I know. It's spending $20,000. Getting one more year out of it. Yeah, I know. To get one more year. So from that point of view, if you figure, the thing costs $275,000 for 10 years, if we're paying $10,000 for one year, $20,000 for one year, that's cheap. Yeah. So. But we're also rolling a dice. Yeah, we're rolling a dice. We get a catastrophic failure. Right. Right. And so, I mean, what are your thoughts, Steve? Do you think there's going to be a catastrophic failure? And we're holding you to us. Yeah. Yeah, right.   People have looked at it. I mean, does it look good? People have looked at it.  You're talking more like 18 months. Not just a year. Right. Because you're not going until the next Friday. Right, right, right. It should be after July 1. Right. But we got it for the next six months anyway. It's an additional 12 months. Right. And then it's an additional. Right. But you're talking 18 months away. And so, Steve says. Steve just passed out on the couch. He's not responding. Well, no, I haven't passed out enough. I've been listening to this. My mind is spinning. I just really don't have a good feeling about going for the. New grader going for bond for the new grader this year with, with everything we've done. And saying that, I mean, I know we're going to spend money to fix the grader, but you're going to, you will recoup some of that and you're pushing it off another year. That's fine. The other thing I would say is in my discussion with Paul today, he said, you know, they've been checking the, when they changed the transmission oil or changed the engine oil, I've been sending out the transmission oil as well as the engine oil and it comes back clean. Okay. Which means that's something we haven't done in the past that we're now doing to try and keep an eye on these catastrophic issues. He said. Yeah. You know, Paul's thing was the, the grader itself has got good tires on it. Good engine, good transmission, the hydraulics. I mean, there's probably a few seals or whatever that could be, could be fixed. But that's basically all good. What's bad is the attaching part to the motherboard. Is there any fear that you're going to bring it in and then they're going to say, Oh, well, actually it needs this whole new thing because this is actually rusted out too. And that's going to be another 20 though. Then we have a special time meeting. Of course there's a chance. That's what happens every time you take your car. Exactly. That's what I mean. Right. We all have that fear. Um, so. Is that the action they use when they tell us that? I don't know. Exactly. But I mean, then that's fine.  So I am. And it just gives me, it gives me heartburn to have it on there. Then let's take it off so that you don't have heartburn. I don't think if you know where it comes. Okay. Or something. But what I would say, and maybe as a compromise, Phil, you could add to your little thing we had considered, you know, doing a greater, look forward to that next year. I mean, just as a little, with the cost associated with it. This is coming down the road. And this is, we decided not to do this, even though it wouldn't have affected our budget this year. The truth of the matter is the greater as scary as it is, the annual cost is no different than buying one of our trucks. Right, I know. Right. But it's the scary. It's the last a lot longer. But it just gives people a little heads up. That's a really good idea, Liz, to have a film. Okay. List it. So I am. Number 10. Putting a cross out through number 10. Go on. Number 11. Number 11, right, Sarah? I'm going to go. Yeah. I'm listening to my computer. Remember now. So. Um. Or you just have to take another line out. Yeah. I have to sort of remember the article numbers too. Oh. So just, do you want to keep reading for Steve? What's on that, on the article? Yep. So, um. 11. Economic development. Yep. So these are all the petition articles. Yeah. 600 dollars for economic development. 4050 for home health and hospice. 3000 for community connections. 1500 for girls and boys mentoring. 29,000 801 for the Kellogg Hubbard library. $7000 for the Montpelier senior activity center. $10,000 for the Waterbury senior center meals on wheels. And then all the. Oh, the other little ones. Yep. And is we going to order for that, do we? $4,368 for all the little guys. 73,319 for everything. Dorinda's got her eye, got her eye on the. Was it 17319? Is that what you said, Dorinda? 73,319 for all the special articles. Including the two smaller ones? Including the smaller ones. No pennies? No. And that includes the conservation commission? That includes all special articles, which is up 14.16% from last year. Wow. Good. Well, there's not that much that's new, though. Oh, there's some new ones. There's a, yeah. I tried to mark new. Which ones are new? Well, under the 251 request is our CVDAR animal response team. I don't have that. I'm yours. It's a CV disaster animal response team. Okay. And then there's Big Heavy World that's new. And what in the hell is that? It's an arts association. Okay. They're in Burlington, but I don't know what.  When Husky Natural Resources. And I think the one that I marked new is Vermont Family Network. I think that's a replacement for the Family Center of Vermont. Family Center of Washington County and also the Children's Room. And the Children's Room. So that one, even though it's new on the list. Well, the bottom line is they're on there.  Those are just letters to the select board. You can take them off. You don't have to do those. They're not by petition. They're just letters to the select board. So, but don't we say to organizations, if you ask for less than that, we put you on. We don't say we're going to make a decision about whether we put you on. Well, by law, even if somebody petitions an article and it does not fall under the special article, you rubric, you can, the select board has the right to take you off. Your policy has always been not to. So when we had the last few things, like storing school records in Wisconsin, was that okay? Do you remember that one? Yeah. You still left it on. Some towns did not accept that petition. Oh. In this case, these are just letters to the select board asking us, would you please put us on a warning? So you can take, you can put any of it on or off that you want. That certainly hasn't been our practice though. I know. I mean, like, did we give them a letter? We do that. We need to say, I think we need to say we're going to be reviewing and making a decision about whether we put you on or not. I don't know. How do you guys feel? Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. We have to give them notice that. I feel like we do. Yeah, that we've always had a policy and I think we should follow the policy. I'm just trying to find the ones from last year. Where were they? Do you want my glasses, Mary? It's under the, it's under the warning. We have, we have, we have, we have an office fair. Resident readers is the warning. It's usually at the beginning of the book. Look at the beginning. Look at the, look at the, there's a table of contents. Yeah. That would be too easy. Right there. Like basic education isn't on this year. Some of it, like we don't do it anymore. Capstone business. Yeah. Because too much work doesn't go into it. Too much work. Good beginnings. Too much work to write a letter. No. It's way more than that. To do it to all the towns. It's the man, the person power that it takes to do it. And then get someone to be there. If they need to speak about it. It's just not worth our time. That's why people say Capstone has a lot of money. Because I wanted to give them more from Washington. I could go up and say Capstone has so much money. We don't have so much money, Mary. I was just saying that. All right. We're not discussing, we're not discussing the Capstone budget. I just said I wanted to give them more. Okay. So drum roll please. Wait. What is this one? Article 19. 19. That's a big one. I did. Oh. He petitioned it. You got a petition. No. I just asked Sarah to put it out.  And then later in the meeting, I'm going to request an executive session to discuss our attorney's opinion regarding this matter. Okay. The bad news is, I don't think our assistant's going to let us go into executive session. Yeah. A legal department. It is. A legal department. Okay. He's not here. I talked to him earlier. No. It's not his fact that there was a legal discussion. You're talking about legal advice. This life board is allowed to go into. It's like, yes. Isn't that what I asked if we were going to talk about? No. I said you wanted to just talk about the issue in general. You did not mention the magic word, which is legal advice. And you didn't prompt me to say you have to handle the word? Come on. Well, he's down. All right. Okay. I'm happy about that. Because that was a little on maybe more than a little unsettling to me to do it. Yeah. As a preemptive. Okay. That's right. So. Move approval of the warnings as amended. Why? I just got to redo it. Well, you know, I mean, the thing is, it's you could report it afterwards. Well, no, you have to sign it. So it has to be signed. But we can still do the motion. Okay. Move. It is. Second. I will. Liz. All in favor of the warning as amended. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. So Mary move and Liz seconded. Yep. Yep. So it is unanimous. Okay. Wrinkled. I'm going to go like this. Good idea. I think it's dangerous to keep. Yeah. I think they have a copy and they should accidentally go to the fire station. Did you guys just find a symbol? The wrinkled copy. I asked my last paper. Did you remember those articles? I did. Of course she did. And also Mary is always ahead of it. But Sarah it still says draft. It does not. Does it? Yes it does. For the paper. That was her last piece of paper. She was just seeing if we were on our toes. Oh man. Damn it. Is it really your last piece? Well let's hope not. Let's hope not. Because I could have put it on the other side of this now. Yeah. Okay. I move approval of January 7th to 2020 minutes. I feel like that was me. Second? Second. Was that just last week? No. Two weeks ago. Yeah I think it was here. You weren't here. You were in Oregon. No I was not in Oregon. No that wasn't that the night she was late or something and then we got through the meeting. That was December. That was December. Liz was here. You were here. Liz has been late because Liz has a big job now and never leaves her desk. No I'm not criticizing you. I'm just saying you want to do this I know. I just have a lot to do at Capstone. I'm in charge of a lot of things now and I have no time to do anything but be in charge of them. Okay. All right. It's been moved and seconded to approve the minutes of the January 7th meeting all in favor. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Okay we've approved them. Somebody just tell me who moved it. I moved it and I feel seconded. Okay. And I think that's me with other vote last week too. And on the on the on this morning it was Mary moved and Liz seconded. Yes. Oh. Yes. In the morning. Yes. Oh my God. Why am I just tapping on the spot? She's doing too many things. Let's slow down for a minute here. Everybody take a breath. Well I think it's nice to have a cup. Good. You got some. Okay. Can you just pass that one around? Thank you. Thank you. I want to come up into key. In case someone calls. I can say what's on the morning. Does anybody ever ask you about that? No. But I do have the budget right next to my phone just in case. Really? Well where else am I going to find it if someone calls? Does that only call about the budget? No. But what if someone does? You say I'll look into it. I'll say oh look here's my budget. It's right here. Extra warnings. I memorized it. I'll take one so I get this special arbitration. There you go. Inside. Thank you. That's a threat. Here you go. There you go Sarah. All signed, sealed, delivered. All right. Thank you so much. You guys signed this? Yeah. Great. I'll do a sign in minutes. Okay. So we're ready for the treasurer's report? It's just this. Yeah. I think the only thing our financials aren't ready for December yet so I don't have those. I thought I might but we didn't. But we talked last week about mention that we possibly would have a property that was going to go up for tax sale. So I want to officially announce that I'm going to turn the property at 13 Rich Road. Is it 13 or 14? I have on mine. 13. I don't know. That's what I have on my notice here but maybe it's better. I saw it was 14. Yeah we better. Is it 14? Maybe it's Rich Road. It's the one that's right over the back way. The extension of three mob Rich Road. Yeah. You know when you're going to. You know where the house that's up on still? Yes. The famous still child. Yeah this one that we talked about. It's the one that never had a permit anyway. So it's officially entered into the records and. Yes that's all. The other good news is that you all got the email from Sarah that there is funding to buy out that place. That was a long time ago. No no no. It's been when last week? It's the place next door. Jennifer Evans house. Yes. Not this house. Right I'm sorry. Yes. And they're coming to this live board meeting in February to talk to you about what the town will have to do. Janet Evans is the end of the road. Jennifer is the end of the road yes. Yes. And the issue was who was going to bring up the 25% match. We were having a hard time and FEMA went out there and saw it was so dire that they somehow found a way to get the 25% match in addition to the 75% that FEMA's putting up. Wow. There's the good news. The bad news is we have to front the money and get reimbursed. But we can. That's a hell of a lot better than incurring the. Yeah. What else is now? We've done that before. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. No it's good. And guess what? I want to thank Sarah before it starts. Because it was a lot of work the last time we did it for those trailers. Well let's see. Remember that? Yeah. We're going to get this new land for Skinner Park. For a pond. I want a couple of picnic tables. They might be underwater. I mean for all bikers and central money, it would be wonderful. There was just on the news this past week about they just awarded funding for the floods. One of the floods we had or something. Yeah. I saw that. Did you see that? had or something. Yeah I saw that. Did you see that? So are we gonna get any of that? Do we know or which ones? It was I don't recall which one but they were on the news just that they just declared that we were on. Like in Vermont in general. Washington County was one of the counties. I think it was two different events. Two different flood events. Yeah and it was so I didn't get all the details. I think one of them was the one that we got the money for. It might have been. Yeah I think that might have been true. I think that was getting federal maybe getting federal money to reimburse the I don't know I read it quickly and I was confused. Because they acted like this was new news and but I didn't know where it was coming from because there was more money coming but all right so you're officially telling us you're putting anything into the attorney? Because of the problem that chances are this won't get sold and or redeemed. I was gonna ask you. So it's going to be something down the road but we've got to get it off the tax books after we're on our fifth year now. Right. Is anyone living in it? From what I heard no. No and not only that the notices are coming back right I mean we don't know where the people are. No but no notices are coming back. Oh so they're getting the notices or they should be sitting in a mailbox or whatever they're doing. So this says it was just the other day. It was just the other day. Well but it seems to be the same flood it says President Donald Trump has approved his disaster declaration for areas of Vermont damaged by a severe Halloween storm and flooding and ordered federal assistance to help with the recovery. Well that's not Irene. That's the one I know. This is the Halloween storm which we wouldn't have received money for. Yeah I said there was in November already. There's all these. How did you find that? It says oh it says Vermont seeks federal wait no it says Vermont receives federal funds for repairs following Halloween storms on November 25th that was reported. So it says agency of transportation will receive 500,000 in emergency relief funding from the Federal Department of Transportation to repair damage to Vermont's highways in the wake of last month's heavy rains and flooding. So this must be a separate pot of money. That's right. So how did you find that? I went on what is called the World Wide Web. The information super highway. Okay but what did you type in again? I typed in flooding Vermont federal funds. It's all about knowing how to do those searches. So it looks like there's extra money. But we didn't have any damage in that storm. And the Halloween storm we didn't? We didn't submit anything. I mean I'm sure we had a little damage but we didn't have enough damage. You probably have to reach a certain threshold. Okay so just so you're prepared we'll have I guess the town however when this goes up I don't know if we if nobody bids on it if the town bids on it I'm not sure how the process goes. We get up by default if nobody bids on it right? I don't think so. I don't know. Is that what happens? I think we do yeah. Or is it 12 months? That's what's happening. No because no they have 12 months to redeem. So I don't know how that works. But who would want this? I guess it's up to the town either the town takes it or the town says well I try again and you go through the whole legal process and all the expenses again but without the research because that would have been done. We don't need to do that. Okay well it's just something that'll be coming out of the real deal. So who do we hire? Do we hire Rob or do we have that other? That's how they did it last year we just went through Rob's office. Yeah. Oh I'm sorry I didn't know I ended there. I didn't either I was wondering where I went. Okay we approve the minutes signing of town personnel policy revised January 7th 2020 action likely. We got it? I do now I'm proud of it. Maybe I'll have it for the last time let's see. Remember this? Yeah. That's it. Yeah. I mean we did it we're just we're just signing it. Little approval oh we've already done it. No we've already done it. It was just signing it. And Steve. Yeah. I think you can be excused. All right. Thank you very much for your participation. Keep uh keep doing that physical therapy. Yes absolutely. Where are you Steve? Are you in Vermont? He's in Hollywood. He has a brand new hip so he's oh he's special. Yeah.  Well actually I say that wait a minute we you want to go into uh executive session right? Right. Maybe you should stick around for the executive session I'm sorry. Okay. So Steve where did you have your surgery done?


మడిక్న మాణింది నిసి కిందేరాచ్తోక్తిందినినిలెందిందియాప్ందిందింరెపిక్తిమిరె఑కుఢితిక్తీమెటండికోకత్టికుందాస్యాదిదిప్� THAT STUTION CALS FOR ALL hours being undec- not the name called Mrs. Speaker and the blaming of everyone. Which National Security Minister could have- can be in the future but Mr. Speaker is very fortunate and I wish because he talks so well and I hope he will get better soon and I ask God to help his family to give them strength as to endure that calamity that event Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker He just got his PhD, he was a committed fighter and he believed Mr. Speaker in the calls that he fought for. Dr. Seas was passionate about the youth, many of my discussions in the youth economy were held with him, Mr. Speaker. And when he died he was on his way to England where he had to lecture at the youth symposium for Reading University, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to on the behalf of the government, the cabinet, my family and myself, Mr. Speaker, and the residents of Wallrocks Road. That is where we were born, we lived and played our crickets in Wallrocks Road, Mr. Speaker. And Henry Charles was the organizer of a team called the Enchipo Sports Club. I am a member of the FISCACI NOBALE because we normally beat them. So, Mr. Speaker and Henry Charles dream was to return and start revive the Enchipo football team in the form of a youth club, Mr. Speaker. And Henry Charles and I see the members of the FISCACI NOBALE because even though Henry Charles was the ardent supporter of the Labour Party, he was firm, he was committed, he never made enemies. Henry Charles spoke to everybody, he exchanged ideas, but he had his side and you had your side. So, Mr. Speaker, that's him, he excelled in oppositionism and not like what passes for politics now, Mr. Speaker. Not for not, but where it's a scorched-off policy, you just say what you have to say, you just attack people's children, attack their wives, attack everyone, Mr. Speaker, just because you believe in gaining power. So, Mr. Charles made a soul of Henry, made a soul of Henry Charles, Dr. Charles rest in peace and to his wife Margie and his children. I offer them condolences and strength. Mr. Speaker, finally, Mr. Speaker, I want to make a few things policy declare because in spite of all that has been said this afternoon, you will still hear misinformation. It's one of what all has said, all the explanations that have been given, you will still get. So, I want to say a few things, Mr. Speaker, just to put it on the record, Mr. Speaker, and end it, put it on the record, it will not end with Mr. Speaker, just put it on the record. One, the health and security level will be charged at customs. On imported goods, the calculation will be as follows. Cost, customs duty, service charge were applicable. And I just want to tell Mr. Speaker that on all essential goods in the basket, there is no service charge. So, for these goods, there will be no service charge, there is no service charge, there is no levy and there is no vat on all essential goods in the basket. Then, Mr. Speaker, there is the health and security level and then there is the vats. So, that's the calculation. It is not charged after the vats. It is charged before the vats, Mr. Speaker. It is not charged after the vats. It is charged before the vats. That's where it's charged. On services, Mr. Speaker, it is charged like the vats 2.5%. One, number two, there will be no health and security level levy on foodstuffs, medicines, medical supplies, pharmaceuticals. There will be no health and security levy on these items. There will be no vat on these items, Mr. Speaker. Number three, there will be no health and security levy on any items that will vat exempt or that will zero rate for vat purposes. There will be no health and security level on these goods. Number four, there will be no health and security levy on tourism or manufacturing. There will be no health and security levy on tourism or manufacturing. Number five, there will be no health and security levy on gasoline and gasoline products, on gas. There will be no health and security levy on gas. Number six, there will be no health and security levy on the building materials for which we have just removed vats. There will be no health and security levy on these items, galvanized, lumber, plywood and steel. There will be no health and security levy on these items, Mr. Speaker. Number six, there will be no health and security levy on medical supplies. Number six, there will be no health and security levy on the women products that we spoke of, non-pampers or dapples or things of that nature. There will be no health and security levy on things like bed liners and these kind of things used for medical supplies, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, these are the facts as far as health and security levy is concerned. The health and security levy will not be placed in any lock box. There is no lock box. The health and security levy will be placed in a consolidated fund and we will account for it, Mr. Speaker, in the usual process. In the usual process, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, having said so, I want to briefly talk about the use of the woods so plus.  I mean, when I heard the leader of the opposition make the point that oh, you have a surplus to spend money. Mr. Speaker, the surplus he is talking about is the current surplus, you know. Mr. Speaker, that surplus is, Mr. Speaker, he is not talking about the deficit that is accumulated, you know, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the country has an overall deficit, not talking about it, but Mr. Speaker, let me take something. Do you know in times past, in times past when the economy used to have surpluses and these surpluses used to be used for reinvestment in capital expenditure. That is how Mr. Speaker, and that is why the boron was so low because there were surpluses to be used in capital expenditure for schools, for hospitals, for roads, etc. So you have to borrow some of the surplus from Mr. Speaker. Those were the good old days. But Mr. Speaker, when you see and speak about oh, you have surplus, I mean Mr. Speaker, the sad thing is that people repeat that. Oh, they say you are doing good, you have surpluses, so reduce gas. You are doing surpluses, so give people money. You do, I mean Mr. Speaker, this is so ridiculous, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that is what we are trying to do. But given that knowledge, Mr. Speaker, the propaganda keeps on coming, the propaganda keeps on coming, Mr. Speaker. You have surplus, so give money. You have surplus, throw money in the road. Mr. Speaker, 29 million dollars surplus, Mr. Speaker. On his, Mr. Speaker, is just, is good, but we must do much better than that. We must do much better than that, Mr. Speaker. And to do better than that, you have two options. One, you can reduce expenditure and two, you can increase revenue. What, if you look at the estimates, Mr. Speaker, what are the greatest levels of expenditure in this country? Salaries and wages, salaries and wages and loan repayments. So what, what do you want me to do? Sensible citizens home? That's what you want me to do? No. That's what you did? That's what you mean, Mr. Speaker? And negotiations are starting. And I can tell you, in these negotiations, we're going to look for fairness, for equality, because we are a government of the people, Mr. Speaker. But we've gone further. We and I expect to get a report from the minister on the liveable wage, liveable minimum wage. Because this is the core of the government, Mr. Speaker. That's the core of what we stand for. That's what John Charles stood for, Mr. Speaker. That's what he stood for. He stood for promotion of the workers of this country. And when you say workers, they want to tell you all you're only saying about one set of people. That's not true. Workers are workers, doctors are workers, nurses are workers. The same way the people work in the construction workers. And we are workers, although we have no union representatives. So, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, that's what it's all about. So what you want to do? You have a budget, revenue and expenditure. So you want to have only expenditure, no revenue and all the time you spend it more than you make it. That's the government he wants to run. But right now, we have just a slight surplus. That doesn't even give us enough to reinvest. We still have to borrow 147 million dollars for reinvestment and capital expenditure by rights, a normal surplus. What the international finance institutions tell you is you should have a surplus of at least three to four percent on your current accounts. So you can have something to work with Mr. Speaker. But no, surplus, you have surplus. The same thing is that people repeat that, Mr. Speaker. But our goal this time is we are hoping that we can get the budget in a situation where we can improve on the surplus by the same time create a level of services, create a level of infrastructure development so the country can promote an active advancement, Mr. Speaker. That is our objective. That's what we aim for, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, that is what we are aiming for. So the health and security level, Mr. Speaker, will have to be used to pay back the Cayman City loan. And do you know that we thought that the Cayman City loan, the Cayman City expense was only 11 million dollars. It was not, remember for January, it was 4.6 million US dollars per year multiplied by two years. So Cayman City was 24 million dollars. That's what you paid. That's what you, the listener. That's what the members of parliament. That's what we paid. That's what the taxpayer paid. Twenty-four million dollars, Mr. Speaker. And locals are the ones who made the transition from Victoria Hospital to OKU. The same way, locals are going to be the ones who make the transition from the stadium to Sergio Hospital. So, Mr. Speaker, I want to tell you, Mr. Speaker, that this package of incentives that we've passed in the budget and which we confirmed in the House today, Mr. Speaker, does not include the amnesty, the tax amnesty. The tax amnesty continues until 2024 May. It does not include the, it doesn't include, Mr. Speaker, the tax amnesty on all forms of taxation. In the last budget, it was only on income tax. This year, it's on hotel occupancy tax. It's on PAYE, Mr. Speaker, and it's also on withholding tax and it's on VAX. So, all the gambit of taxes, we have created an amnesty on all these taxes, Mr. Speaker. We are going to be, we are going to, Mr. Speaker, let me tell you the total figure of support that we are going to give the private sector because of that amnesty, Mr. Speaker. In terms of forgetting, forgetting, Mr. Speaker, the taxes that are due, 3169 taxpayers will get an amnesty. The total tax that should be paid, Mr. Speaker, if all things are equal would be $255 million if the taxes are paid. Penalties, because the non-payment of these taxes is $53,795,000. The interest that we are waiving is $289,926 for all these taxes, Mr. Speaker. So, if these taxes were paid, as should be, should have been, we would have collected $255 million with all penalties and interest. And with penalties and interest, we would have collected $599 million. So, what we've saved or what we've removed for the taxpayer, Mr. Speaker, is $289 million plus $53 million. $289 million in penalties and $289 million in interest and $53 million in penalties, Mr. Speaker. And that does not include a raise on income tax that individual taxpayers owe. And you say that this government is not helping the private sector. You say this government is not trying to stimulate economic growth. You say this government is not helping the balance sheet of the private sector, Mr. Speaker.  Are you really serious when you say, Mr. Speaker? Which government has ever given such a broad degree of tax breaks to the population, to all sectors of the population, including individuals, including individuals. So, but we still believe that that is going to generate a level of activity in the economy. And from the evidence that we got, Mr. Speaker, that activity is being generated. Mr. Speaker, when they give it an impression that things are bad and gloomy, Mr. Speaker. Although, of course, there are some people facing hardship. Of course, there are some people that the inflation has beat them badly, Mr. Speaker. Because the goals are going up. We know that. We know it, Mr. Speaker. That's why we are increasing our social interventions. That's why we are giving people more help with school books. We are giving more help with educational support. We are giving more help in food vouchers. That's why we are doing that. We understand it, Mr. Speaker. We understand that. And it amplifies with them, Mr. Speaker. And this school program, we are going to see how we can help. That's why we have the housing program. And Mr. Speaker is overseeing it. But how do you say so, Mr. Speaker? I was told that there is an organization instead of Russia. It's a regional organization. And the performance in St. Lucia was the best in the Caribbean and South America. And, Mr. Speaker, I was said by the businessmen in the survey. So, Mr. Speaker, the science of economic activity, the science of the re-engineering of the economy, Mr. Speaker, are there. But, Mr. Speaker, there are two things that we must worry about. Two things. Three things, Mr. Speaker. One of them is climate change. And the Minister of Information and myself had a discussion. I said to him, we have to find the resources for climate mitigation to avoid the flooding that will take place. Because rain is going to fall. Whether we like it or not, it's sad. Rain is going to fall. Who is the speaker? So, I said to him and he had a dream that we have to have mitigation. We have to ensure that we keep the drains clean. And I am appealing to the people of St. Lucia to not throw garbage in the water courses. That is the simple thing you can do. Don't show it to get a contract. Yes, do not show it to get a contract to go and clean it. Please, I'm begging you. Please, I'm begging you. Don't do it. Do not dump mattresses and air-conditioned units and all fridges. Do not do it. It will not affect me. It will not affect the government. It will not affect the government. It affects you when the rain falls in the fallen one man house. Please, have a little bit of discipline. Have a little bit of discipline. Please, climate change. That is why we are doing the giving people incentives for converting from fossil fuels to solar heated solar power to help our national statistics as it regards to carbon footprint, etc. That's why we are doing that. And that's how the government policy is holistic, Mr Speaker. That's the government that thinks. So we're doing that. We're removing that on these things to encourage people to go into solar energy, Mr Speaker. So climate change is the problem. The second problem you have to watch, Mr Speaker, is inflation and supply chain problems. And that inflation, Mr Speaker, is something beyond our control in the region, beyond our control. I was reading somewhere where it said that the cost of poetry field is going to increase, which may lead to shortage of poetry in the world. How can we, how can we, how can we deal with that? That's not our fault. So that's the second point, inflation, Mr Speaker. And that inflation may cause the price, may cause the price of fuel to go up. No control of us, no control of Mrs Speaker. But why should we do that? We are still subsidizing cooking thus up to today, Mr Speaker. So we have to look at inflation and supply chain issues. The issue, Mr Speaker, is productivity. We have to increase our productivity. We have to sharpen our skills, Mr Speaker. We have to increase our productivity. We have to understand that a fair day's work and for a fair day's pay. So our productivity have to increase, have to improve, Mr Speaker. And let me say something about productivity, Mr Speaker. I want to applaud the people at the youth, the young people at St Lucia for embracing with such, with such, we embrace, Mr Speaker, the youth economy concept. How they have embraced Mr Speaker. I want to tell them, Mr Speaker, how they have embraced the youth economy concept, Mr Speaker. The fifth thing you have to watch, Mr Speaker, is citizen security and crime. We have to be very, very weary, Mr Speaker, of the crime situation in the country. And that is why part of the left is going to be used for that, Mr Speaker. So when people applaud just to get at me, just to get at the members of the parliament and try to draw correlation between crime and us. Crime and the government, Mr Speaker. Just for cheap, what you do is you create an environment where you are helping people who are bad intentions to do it. Because you are feeding it, you are making excuses for them. What kinds of excuses? But in the one hand, you attack the social projects, the social programs, you save money, you save jobs for the boys. You save all kinds of things. And in the other hand, you are creating an environment where even saying to people that boy, that crime situation is not helping the government. Instead of working with the government, you are creating the environment by your words to encourage that kind of behavior. So I am saying to the people of Saint Lucia, be vigilant, Mr Speaker. I am saying to the members of the police force, be focused. Because the crime situation, we have to get it under control. All the gains that we are making can be eroded in a split second. One by a hurricane or two by an upsurge of crime, Mr Speaker. So, Mr Speaker, I end by thanking you and thanking you. Remember, Mr Speaker, Mr Speaker. And I want to tell the fishermen of the country, the same way, I made a point. There is no fact, there is no helpful security levy on fertilizer. There is no helpful security levy on fertilizer. None. And we are increasing the rebate for fishermen from $150 to $1. From $150 to $250. And we are also increasing the allowance for the teachers to $1,400. And we are increasing the allowance, the one term, the one time allowance for the pensioners in November by $600. And we have promised them that it is going to be a cost of living adjustment for the pensioners. Mr Speaker, I thank you. And I thank the country for accepting the fact that they must make a small contribution to the health, to the health and security. And also thank the Minister of Health and the staff in the Minister of Health, the members of the Lucha Police Force, the members of the Protective Services for the work that they do in trying conditions, in very trying conditions, very trying. They are police stations that need repairs. They are fast stations that need repairs, Mr Speaker, very trying conditions. Look at the people, how they work at St. Jude, very trying, very trying. But they continue to work for the country, they continue to work in the professions and they continue to make us proud, Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, I thank you.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. It is Friday So we are gonna be ending the week up sadly with this team that we've been playing for the last couple of weeks on the channel If you've missed any of the games so far and you'd like to see the progress of this team up to this point before getting to today's episode I will link a card up there for you. You can check it out Come back to this one after you've watched those episodes or if you'd just like to stick around and watch today's episode then that is Super fine. The team as always is down in the description below There's a ball paste and a poker paste for you guys to check out try out if you'd like to We've not had the best of times over the last couple of days So hopefully we can give the team a really good send-off today We've really highlighted some areas of the team that have been core that were quite weak against definitely gravity hypnosis sleep spam in Lots of respect that kind of variant of teams were very susceptible to that and that's been highlighted Those last couple of days so fingers crossed we don't bump into any of that today because we've made no changes to Adapt the team to that kind of strategy to help us overcome that but at the same time one of the things we did say when we've been playing These teams it's good to be able to highlight these issues because that's how we make the team better going forward And that's what you've got to always remember with your teams when you're practicing on the ladder and things like that these Times this practice these when you're playing on the ladder. It doesn't matter too much because this is where you're Polishing the team making it that refined article for when you go into tournaments, so It's just about not getting too down about it and just making sure that you're learning and taking the team forward It's always a positive always a positive to take out of anything But just to recap the team before getting today's episode as I said is down in the description But we've got them in there trick with the mega of the team got Lunala Z move user primal Kyogre scoffed Psychic seed Cortana, which has been probably one of the MVPs for me personally of this team I do love it a lot. I think it's been incredibly good incredibly strong We've not brought it so much but when we have it has done a really good job Majority of the time and then that Hydra going with the focus ash So without further ado, let's get into today's episode. Let's make sure that we can get some wins today I'm gonna switch over to our our records Because I know you guys appreciate seeing a record we're just above 1700 so far from 1800 Which I had these heavy heights of us doing this with the team But never mind we can try again next week with our new one We'll kick off with no cross mode version 2 today, and we've got our first opponent straight away So we'll get a straight into team preview. Oh Oh It's a rematch. It's a rematch from from Wednesday where we highlighted the initial weakness of our team So early on. Oh, this is really really really difficult for us to deal with Hmm Because one of the things this team does is that it does have that Gravity hypnosis which we are very susceptible to now. Can we overcome it in today's episode? That is gonna be the big thing. I think if we can that would be be so huge for us Now one of the things we could do is lead with both of our tailwinds set is because I think if we can get our tailwinds Set up it will make such a huge difference for us going forward in this match I think leading the Lunala and Hydra again. It's only gonna prevent our opponent from being able to They can only hypnosis one target and we can we can try and play around it And definitely get a tailwinds set up with the other one. So we will try this we will definitely try this One of the things we could potentially do is lead Tapu Lele out Go for the taunt into the drift limb to stop any potential further hypnosis try and get a tailwinds set up And then go Lunala Kyogre in the back Which I think are probably the two things and I think one of the things we did highlight On Wednesday was the need for Hydra again in that match. So we'll go with ease and we'll click into the first And we'll see how we get on against this team again today This is like the best of three, but this is one thing that I did say at the time I think it's just a strategy that we have very little to help like to deal with in our and respect to our team So it does become very hard But we'll see what we can do I think leading with double tailwind gives us a good chance to try We're not leading with it actually Yeah, maybe leading with it would have been better because one of the things you could attempt to do is where my opponent Potentially tries to gravity hypnosis I Mean if the Lele goes for the gravity, it's locked into gravity So that gives us a bit of room and we'll tailwind and we will go for do we just attack into the drift blend? That's the thing. Do we taunt it or do we attack into it? I would prefer to attack into it to be honest I'm gonna just move last into the drift blend here Because just removing it from the field, there's the gravity So we know the Lele's got to switch out the space thing if they put the Hydra into sleep That's fine. And if not, then you get the tailwind up Narciss Yeah, we're going for that one So we are gonna get this moon blast off now that the drift blend can put our Lele to sleep this next turn But it will give us a turn to potentially Set up a tailwind and we can get another moon blast into this drift No slot and we do get a special attack drop on that slot as well Which is really useful for us now what we can do because we know the Lele's got to switch out this next turn Let's go for a tailwind again with a Hydra again and we can go for a A moon blast into the Lele which will probably be the me too coming in there So we can maybe get some damage onto that which would be would you be subuseful if Hydra again can wake up this Turn this next turn. It'll be I'll be massive for us. Let's grab on coming in. Okay Gravity set up. It's gonna be pretty pretty difficult to deal with We need this tailwind. We need the tailwind more than anything. I feel now Ah Okay, okay, okay, so the moon blast not really gonna be doing too much to ground on we'll probably see Hypnosis yet into the Lele here. The spam is starting Now can we can we wake up with Hydra again? Come on Hydra again. Wake up. Come on Hydra again. We've got three heads We really don't want all these turns to sleep. So we'll have to try for the tailwind once again and Hmm one moon blast into the drift room I don't want to make any switches here because we just don't want to to be switching around too much that the problem would be the drift blame going for the tailwind now And then the press was blades coming out, which is gonna do a good chunk of damage Lele stay in asleep, of course Christmas blades It's like the worst. It's the worst Hmm Maybe double double tailwind was the way to go really here. I don't I really don't know It's just I don't feel like we've got too many ways around everything now We've got the Lunala in the back that can come in it's got wide guard. We'll lose Lele here for sure Hydra again does finally wake up It's a bit too late though. These sleep turns are really punishing. Should have all into that slot Tapeneli unfortunately doesn't wake up We needed it to just to get some extra damage then there's another press was blades from the ground on the gravity It's also not gonna miss And now we've got the Lunala onto the field as we've got wide guard. It's our only way of kind of protecting the thing is with the the drift blame it probably goes for Probably goes to the hypnosis into the hydra again, which we can't really do too much about and We can I mean we can wide guard with Lunala to get around the press was blades damage But there's not really too much getting around the the hypnosis from this Unless it goes for the Lunala Yeah, which it does. Okay This might might help us come back in this match. I don't really feel like it will It's about whether or not a dog post can then take down this this dribbling this next turn But we've got to stall out their tailwind so the gravity does disappear. Okay, we've got that going for us so And They've got one Termitelline left, so we want to protect on this one And we want to try and get our Kyle going to the field and hope that I hope that the dribbling doesn't go for The hypnosis into that Lunala slot and hope it goes for a hypnosis into the hydra again if we can get Kyle go in Impressives blades misses then we are in a decent position to go forward here because we can remove the dribbling We can do damage on whatever incomes comes in for the ground on the following turn And then we're still in we're still in tailwind so we can Switch things around still and win the weather on the end and hopefully have enough in the tank to kind of close This match up the Lunala being asleep though. There's really put Limitations on how we're gonna be able to close this match up though. So We'll get Kyle going. It's gonna be about where how much damage we take though from this this ground on but the ground on Definitely won't go five punch. No sis.  Come on miss Never misses when you want it to miss Yeah, so we are in a decent position now because we can go a dog pulse Into the drip blame and we can go waterspout And we all gonna be in tailwind and this is where we need to try and take And keep an advantage the ground on definitely switches out here Just you know, I wasn't asleep. That would be the one thing that would be super good Groudon switches out how much damage you're gonna do to the table Lele Not too sure.  We don't actually oh But we get the flinch that is so huge for us that is massive because they go for the tailwind there So we do get a bit of luck. We needed that bit of luck Lele probably in dog pulse range You've got to imagine it is Groudon probably comes back in there. Oh, it's gonna be me too Okay We just waters We don't want to get trapped into this waterspout shenanigan because this is where the ground on comes in, isn't it? I'm gonna Dog pulse the Lele for sure and I'm gonna switch Kyle go out to Lunala. I I've got a funny feeling that the ground on comes back in and I think the Lele probably tries to go for the gravity I think they're trying to bait us in with this me too. I Really do I think they need the gravity up. Obviously me too. He's got attacks like focus blast, etc The me too feels very threatened now as well Because of our tailwind so you've got to think like the Lele is the one thing that can't protect So we're pretty safe targeting into that slot So we either take down the Lele or we do a good chunk to the ground on when it comes in And then we should lock the weather wall. There's not too many turns of this psychic terrain left They don't think so Once that runs out the me too becomes way less impact like way less impactful Me too does protect okay So it's just about the stop pulse. Can we take down the Lele which I'm hoping we can do Yep, okay, and then we should have one turn of tailwind left. I don't know I tailwind pit us out It's about Lunala how long how long can Lunala It's day to sleep fall. I Mean if we can get a tail wind up with Hydra again, just feel like the me too attacks into that slot Tailwind Should we try and wide guard? I think we try and wide guard here We also get the priority jump on everything so it's kind of trying to cut down asleep turns a little bit a little bit Staying asleep with Lunala. I think that's the first term. So that's that makes sense focus blast. Oh Come on Really I would done for because now the precipice blades breaks our shadow shield. The me too's got shadow ball Focus blast out of gravity Suffer straightening Question is where do you where do you kind of concentrate down on now? Do you concentrate down on the Lunala? It's asleep. Did you take a gamble and allowed to wake up and let's get a tail wind up I feel like if you're my opponent you target down the Kyogre I'm gonna try and tail wind if we can get a tail wind here Lunala can wake up and tail wind Then we're back in back in the money and the me too has to talk about the Kyogre though for this to work Now So yeah, we would have had to have scalded the ground on and then we would have had to have speeded it Which I don't think we're gonna be gonna be able to do Doesn't end just yet it's got one more turn I think And once again we lose to this call This is this is frustrating isn't it so sad? Yeah, I Mean just just highlighting Uncategorically if we didn't know already from like the last two days That Weakness to this to this kind of strategy bumping into it again So very good into my opponent once again, and it just kind of shows That we just don't have the answers to this sort of team Leading maybe with a double tail wind would have helped us out, but even then It's difficult because we lead double tail wind. Yeah, we get the wind off They've got something asleep and we can potentially get an attack of Hydra again or Lunala the next turn But one of them will be asleep Maybe that's a way to go because then the problem with that is what I'm thinking is Is I don't really want to have to be switching in Kyogre prematurely to a ground on coming in Which we would be doing if you got tail wind up and then we use the weather war instantly like they switched out the Lele So which they had to for the ground on and then when they do that We kind of lose out the weather war there and it puts us in a really detrimental position So maybe leading how we did I don't know it it's just really it's just a really difficult matchup really difficult, but I'm hoping that we can find another opponent and not have this sort of build to play this next team It would be nice. It'd be nice. We've highlighted the issue We don't need to keep reminding ourselves of it Come on and we want to we want to win to send this team off So we've got our next opponent 1675 rated player from Japan And we've not we've got another QR code team, but we'll get straight into team preview to look at this one So your very standard x-ray kind of build got an incinero there with the fake out intimidate support pivot support We got tapu finny with the terrain support icy wind support for speed control Which is going to be really the only sort of speed control You're going to see on the team got a mungus which helps out with redirection obviously a trick room check for Pausing trick room threats and then the lander is there going to be another ground immunity to the team in general Does offer ground type attacks probably holding that z move as well the tectonic rage something We need to watch out for then the requiser It could be a combination of anything from banded to sashed to salt vest and then these earliest which we know all too well, so I think we will utilize tabulele in this match for sure. It is very good against things like requiser And for showing things down with taunt as well, but whether or not we want to lead with it is another thing I always like the idea of leading Lunala Kyogre here. We've got access to tailwind. We've got access to Then switching in Atapulele for what I would expect maybe my opponent leading off with tapu finny to disrupt our terrain for sure It's whether or not we want katana in this match I do we want minetric because the intimidate support is really quite useful But I just feel in these sort of games and you look at the composition of the team The katana is just really strong So we'll get into this next one I'm hoping that we can have a victory here today A victory the last couple of days have been brutal like brutal. I think you've yeah, we lost two yesterday uh, we won one Lost one wednesday And then we've lost one which is the same one that we lost to on wednesday in today's one Not so good From where we were in a position of a really nice position of the team But it's down to what we play in and I was the holes in the team being highlighted So we've got no one to blame but ourselves But it's fine. It's fine. We're gonna see where it requires and we're gonna see tapu finny come up from my opponent We're gonna see the mist of terrain set up. We will activate our final evolution with kyogre and I wonder what we're gonna be best going for here if we do bring in Hmm So you want to bring a tapu lele, but I don't know if I want to bring them yet Because we could just tailwind I'd imagine we'll see an icy wind come up from the tapu finny. That would be my best guess Just we could side shock Are we better just going for the tailwind here? It's just if we Yeah, I think we are it's just I don't want to see the requiser I don't want to see the ray come in Go for a dragon like it go for a protect and then the tapu finny go for the icy wind and then us be Not in a great position with tapu lele the next day I think we need to try and keep that momentum with I tapu lele when we bring it onto the field to make sure that we are faster than that requiser and if There is a play where my opponent could go for Um, we protect and the icy wind just to break the shallow shield on the lunala more than the kyogre You're not really worried too much about the kyogre Um and doing this as well allows us to get kyogre in In a tailwind which puts a bit of more pressure onto that requiser in the end game So we are going to see requiser likelihood is it could drag an ascent into that kyogre slot as well Let's go for a crunch though Um Wow That's insane takes us down to warnage and imagine we sash there through shadow shield. It's banded for sure And there's a light screen Okay It's definitely banded ray What comes in for the requiser it's probably going to be incineral you've got to imagine do we keep lunala around for later? Yeah, I'm going to do that and I'm going to I'm going to bring kyogre in Do I taunt the finny? Hmm Or do I just psychic it I'm going to blast I'm just going to psychic the finny I think the ray switches out here though They don't want to keep lunala in because it's one of those things where the ray can switch out And we can see an icy wind from the tattoo finny and it will be enough to take us down We don't really want to just lose lunala just yet There's the ray switching out And munga's coming in It's a good job that we locked into psychic as well. I'm going to see psychic into the tap finny Obviously the light screen helping out the loads here. There's the icy wind that we did expect to come out And the mungus hasn't got protect. That's the thing But a psychic under terrain and a waterspout should still be enough to take it down I'd imagine and then that's exactly what I'm going to go for here Just want to chase down the mungus if I can Psychic waterspout it should be enough It should be enough. It's just whether or not the mungus has got a berry if it's got a berry It could be a little bit problematic because with the light screen it might just hang on Okay, I'm just going to switch out what's coming in Requires a don't mind this at all. I can really like a completely don't mind this Taking a psychic And even if you go for another icy wind we're still going to be at speeding And this waterspout should put it in range for another psychic then makes turn it Yeah, and he can't go for extreme speed because of our psychic terrain heel pulse Is the one thing that could put us in a little bit of an awkward position for sure Right that is awkward can we just got ice beam and can we go it is banded ray though, isn't it? That's the problem. That is the problem um Where do you chase down feel the requiser? I'm going to bring a lunala here. I feel like you chase down the lele though That's the thing I don't know if you do Do you chase down the lele or the kyogre? Probably better to get weather control. Oh, we've got to be quick. We've got to be quick Yeah, and our lele doesn't matter what we lock into It's just about I know because we we're scoffed so it doesn't matter request. I'm going to switch straight back out though. That's interesting And the moongas come back in so it's like you're locking into that slot Even if we probably lose the lele here to a nice wind Oh, we get the psychic. You don't lock into the slot that we wanted. Ah, that's a bit frustrating but That just that's just us being faffing around heal pulse into the moongas Tim and pettus out We're just gonna feel really threatened here though because we can side shock Or z move into that slot and it's just It's the light screen. It's got one more turn left Hmm I'm gonna side shock there and I'm gonna bring in Do we're bringing cartana now? Is it better to bring in cartana now? I don't know. I really don't know Or do we just tailwind it's probably better to tailwind and then bring in Cartana for lele activate our psychic. See why we've got the opportunity to get a tail wound up while we've got the opportunity to And hope we see the moongas go for a spoil maybe into the cartana slot Might seem icy wind. Yeah, we do. Okay I'm gonna spoil it imagine Yeah, but we're in a good position now we get tapu lele and um Get a terrain back up onto the field and we've still got the psychic now So we can check the finny we can go for the psychic into the moongas And as long as it's not sashed, we should take it down with the psychic We'll definitely take the finny down with the leaf blade And I think I don't think my opponent's got incineral I think they've got the zernius in the back We can get one beast boost We know the rayquaza coming in it will go down to a double target attack from both cartana and lele I just can't afford to lock into moonblast now. Obviously. We've got to use psychic The only reason why I wouldn't want to use psychic I would be if I thought incineral would be in the back It's a nice witching, but I think we would have seen it by now if it was And especially with cartana coming out into the field like it is now. I think There's a prime time for for incineral to come in so if no incineral comes in now I just think it's going to be zernius in the back Hopefully this takes us moongas down it should do Odd sash to moongas. This totally scuffers our plans completely. We are going to be able to get the finny We get a beast boost as well but Our lele is going to be put to sleep by a spore And there's not really too much we can do about it Now ray comes in it's whether or not a smart strike will be enough to take down the ray I don't know if it would be I really don't think we're going to be able to You've got to chase down the cartana though. So I think a player that we could potentially do is go psychic into the rear quasi And just detect with cartana here because I think you go dragon ascent into cart That's the one thing that you're that's kind of restricting your ability to bring in zernius right now So I feel like that's the one thing that you do chase down Unless you just want the freak here on to the lele But then that does give us a free switch to kyoga, which I don't think you want to do Far play wow, okay, we've got to go psychic in smart strike I mean we've got to go for it We've got to try and smart strike into the requiser and hopefully lele wakes up. Come on. We've had some bad rolls with these sleep turns Oh, we're going to see the rage powder. It's going to pull our psychic away So regardless if we wake up or not, which we don't unfortunately It's a bit of a shame smart strike. Is it going to be an earth it plus one? I don't know for this It's very close. It's very close indeed indeedy It's locked in Um, we might not be in the worst position Because we get kyogre in now As long as our lele wakes up this next turn But then we can't get around the uh, we can't get around the rage powder Yeah, and I think we have the ice beam Have the ice beam have the psychic. I think it's done. I think I don't I think we've got enough to deal with the Zernius now when it comes onto the field So feel like we see rage powder. Yeah pulls the psychic if we wake up We probably will then lose lele Which we just stay asleep I mean kyoga takes this Wow, we don't actually take that. That's insane Are we that must be a high roll But the game's done now. It's done. It's done. It's done And sleep again beam I downfall a pitfall and all of this which is very sad Because lele wakes up now But we do get put to sleep by the moongus sash the moongus coming in Super clutch for my opponent doing all the work that it needs to their bandit ray just showing how dominant it can be I don't know what to say other than we've got a real issue with sleep on our team and especially When you get max sleep turns like we've had a few days this week when we've been put to sleep like max turns It's never it's it just makes it even worse, doesn't it? So I'll just highlight in the fact even further that we have huge issues here dazzling gleam would be something nice on lele especially for this situation because then we could dazzle here But then doesn't really alleviate our ability to deal with the zernus. It's potentially in the back. So good game to my opponent Sad sad sad into the week with this team Monday Tuesday looked all all like everything was going super well, but then We've had just a really Bad run of teams. I think that have really hard for this team to To match up against very well and we've just been highlighted by Over and over again by how hard sleep kind of count as this team and just not having The tools necessary to deal with it. So that is something to definitely take on board going going into the future But we are going to be saying goodbye to this team. It is a little bit sad But we've got a lot of things to take forward positives to take forward with the team And we'll be back on Monday with a brand new team So In light of that guys do get your comments in down below Suggest what you'd like to see for our kind of a final kind of Standard week of play and before we move into the roulette and I'll be putting Post up on Monday to get the comments started for what you'd like to see nominated On to the road for rank roulette wheel that we'll be doing next a week a week today, I guess so Thank you so much for tuning in guys. Have an amazing weekend. What do you have here up to? Sorry that we couldn't get the winds out today. Just that's pokemon sometimes We've just got to keep our chins up and take away the positives from it and move forward because that's all you can do for Improving with things and we've highlighted those areas that we need to improve in the team And if we can do that it makes the team even stronger, doesn't it? So I'll be going back going over these episodes for sure And then as I say, I'll probably bring this team on to a stream or revamped and redone To tackle these sort of issues in the future. So until then guys, thank you so much for tuning in I'll catch you again on Monday with a brand new team and until then take care and bye. Bye


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Yes, we're here and yes, we are back in a big way. It's Bob Lorenz and Ian Joy with you, along with the former Yankees, still a current Yankee, 2009 champion, the five star general of the Bleacher Creatures, Nick Swisher joining us. Nick, how are you holding up for all of this? What is everything we've endured meant to you and your family? Yeah, I tell you what, man, it's like we've said and I think a lot of people have talked about all this. This has been something that's never happened before, right? I mean, it's almost like we're just kind of flying by the seat of our pants, trying to figure out exactly how to go about doing all this.  I know this has affected so many people in the worst of ways, but for myself and I'm sure a lot of other people out there, man, this is the most time I've been able to spend with my family since like the beginning of it. And I mean, I know the same for y'all. I mean, we're cooking dinners every night. We're able to be together. I'm able to be a school teacher, bro. I mean, I'm able to put in that time with my kids that I've been searching for. And when you retire, man, it's like you're always trying to find things to do. And for myself, man, maybe I might be a teacher. I'm not sure.  That's right up my alley. Hey, Swish, there's no doubt that it's a difficult time for people. And of course, it gives you an opportunity to spend quality time with your family. But it's also an opportunity for people to get creative. And you caught my attention. Not only am I following you just because I love your passion. I love your energy. I want to feed off that. I want to learn from the best. I noticed that you were actually helping a lot of people. Talk us about some of the projects you've been doing getting creative. I think it's kind of one of those things that it's kind of crazy how all this kind of came about. You know, this year I was able to get to spring training a little earlier, right? I was able to spend a lot of time with our minor league guys. And it's crazy because we just hired 10 to 15 new coaches on the minor league side of things. So for myself to be able to kind of be down there and exactly kind of let people know exactly how our organization has run was an honor for me. But in that time, all of a sudden I find myself spending time with 18 year olds, 19 year olds, 20 year olds. And I'm kind of like, wow man, this is amazing how influential you can be for these young kids, right? Like teach them something that they might not know already. And for a guy like me, you know, maybe it's the way I say something. Maybe it's the way I verbalize something to you that makes a whole lot of sense. It may not be something different, but it may be something that I said or maybe something that somebody else says that really pushes you in the right direction. And I think for myself, I'm also realizing that now that my career is done I find joy in helping others, right? It's not about me anymore. As a professional athlete, your life is so centered around you, the amount of sleep you get, what time you eat, what time you go to the ballpark, what time you get home from the ballpark, all that stuff. Well, guess what, baby? It ain't about me no more, right? I got my two daughters, I've got my wife. And so for myself, I've really kind of like enjoyed the fact that now I'll be able to mentor kids, right? I'm being able to give them some advice that they might not know already. And for these little six-year-old, eight-year-old, nine, 10, 11, 12-year-olds, I'm having so much fun because at the end of the day, I want that passion of mine to exude off onto them, right? I want them to know that baseball is an amazing game. It's hard, but if we work our hardest, right? And we put our best foot forward each and every day and we continue to keep getting better, there's always a chance for us to reach our final goal. Not everybody's gonna make it, but for the special and the very lucky few that get that opportunity to do it, I want them to cherish every moment. The good times, the bad times, all that stuff. And as Swing Doctor Swish, on your Instagram account, you're helping kids do that. So now it's time for you to mentor a couple students, me and Ian. Ian, you set this up, you kind of want to do this as a challenge with me, right? Yeah, I mean, I just noticed that I recognized what Swish was doing for people breaking down swings and I thought it would be a great opportunity. Bob, I know you love a challenge. I didn't think there would be a better person to throw in the mix between me and you. The next Swish, a great time. Let's do it. So the doctors in the house, doctors in the office, here we are. In the office right here, I'm ready. Let's get it. Hey, man, I was really impressed, right? Left handed, bro, just ready, good to go. Hey, I tell you what, that high school is not gonna be very happy. You blasted balls up on their screen like that, for sure, no doubt about that. But the one thing that I really, really appreciate and the thing I try to talk to a lot of my kids about is the connection you have within your own body, right? Everything's under control. You're not out of balance. You're right exactly where you need to be. I'm always been a big guy, right? I feel like a lot of kids, for me, I try to line up the door knocking knuckles, right? It feels like it always put me in a powerful position because a lot of young kids that I get with that elbows up real high, but the first thing that happens is there's a shift. There's a rotation in my shoulders that doesn't need to be there.  And that's exactly what you had, Bob. Bro, that two-handed finish, the connection, the back elbow slide into the slot, I love that. Because at the end of the day, with a swing like that, it's efficient, it's short, it's quick. You've got plate coverage. You can hit the bottom, left center, right center. Because at the end of the day, not everybody can get home runs. We have to have a paletra of baseball players.  Bro, I could put you in that two hole right there, put the ball in play, maybe hit and drum with you a little bit. I'm telling you, man, when I saw the swing, I was impressed. Not only with the swing, but with the salad as well, bro. I had a little luscious locks back there. Yeah, yeah, that happens in quarantine. Also, did you notice the little Mickey rivers half that flip at the end of the one? Hey, you like that, right? Hey, make it quick, bro. One of my favorites, baby. Hey, a legend in the pinstripes, for sure. So you've got to have a little swag off of somebody. I always try to tell young kids as well, watch guys, emulate guys, find guys that you want to be like. Because like I always say, man, you've got to be you. Not everybody is the same, and you have to find the way your body works compared to the way somebody else's body works. And I'll tell you where I got that swing, and I'm glad it still exists years later. In high school, my best friend and I, Mike Hirsch, were disciples of the book, The Art of Hitting 300 by Charlie Lau, the former hitter who was probably, he crafted George Bredd into the hitter he was. That's where that came from, and I'm glad it was still there in some way, shape, or form. All right, now, let's break down the intuitive, Scott. All right, here we go. Well, hey, when I first saw this, bro, the overall swag that I got right out of the gates, right, with the little, the socks, the whole knife, right? There's actually a fence involved in this swing, which I thought was absolutely amazing.  That's not easy, Ian. For you to be able to have back control, and to be able to create that long chain, you know, to give you that beautiful trajectory over in the center field fence, my man, I'm telling you, bro, not only was I proud, but everybody else is watching this video should be proud as well. I'm telling you, man, you use your legs well. And another thing that I'll bring up on your swing that I really enjoyed was this, right? If you could see my body, there's what's called a power L at the end of the swing. And what I mean is when that backside comes through and you get that L forming in your backside, bro, because you know why? The power comes from your legs and from your hips and your torso. And that's exactly what you did, bro. Lean it over there on that front side, bro. It was almost like a little Adrian Beltry kind of dropped that back knee straight down. That was awesome, man. I couldn't believe it, man. The fact that you guys haven't gone out to some sort of tryout in this band right now, you know what I'm saying? Like, we can make it back, bro. Bring them back. You guys got this. That was so awesome. It was really honestly the first time I've actually held a bot that big because, you know, I'm a small guy, so holding a kid's bot is probably the perfect size for me. And in the trajectory of the ball, it just, I just thought, oh, Swish is gonna love this one. It was beautiful. Oh, you know what I said when I saw it? I was like, wow, man, the slow-mo was majestic, bro. Majestic, you know what I'm saying? That was amazing. A lot of production quality put into that. So if I'm the two-hander, then Ian Elevate sees probably what, the three or four-hander, right? Yeah, you know, we can also bring him down there, five, six. I mean, if I'm thinking of our Yankee lineup, bro, you feel like you're gonna have guys all base, all season long. So as long as you can fight your way into that lineup, you're gonna have some boys to be driving in, for sure. Yeah, I love it. Let's go. I absolutely love it. Nick, so good. Thanks for breaking it down. Really had a great time. Your boy, Swish, on Instagram. Nick Swisher on Twitter. So good to see you. Keep doing what you're doing. Keep bringing that energy. You and Ian are in my hall of fame for energy and positivity. Let's go, Ian. I'm telling you, brother, right now we're in a tough phase of life, man. We've got to do our best to try and be a ray of sunshine out there, bro, because I know there's a lot of people that could use it right now. This has affected a lot of people in a bad way. And I guess as guys like us, man, it's our job to smile on people's face, let them know that we can get through this, especially in a place like New York, which has absolutely just been a tough spot and has been hit so bad that we're going to get through this. If we do our part, we stick together, amen, we can get this done, man, because we'll always come back stronger than we were when we first started. No doubt about it. I don't think I could say any better than that, Nick. Thank you so much for joining us. That passion, that energy, I just love. I love watching you. I love seeing you around Fox Studios. Keep doing what you're doing. You are bringing that energy and people need that. Thank you, Ian, brother. I really, really appreciate you guys having me on. Bob, you're the man. I hope you guys keep being awesome, man. I'll see you guys soon.


Hello, hello. Here is a very short story by Jorge Luis Borges. I hope you like it. The two kings and the two labyrinths. It is said by men worthy of belief, though Allah's knowledge is greater, that in the first days there was a king of the Isles of Babylonia who called together his architects and his priests and bade them build him a labyrinth so confused and so subtle that the most prudent men would not venture to enter it and those who did would lose their way. Most unseemly was the edifice that resulted for it is the prerogative of God, not man, to strike confusion and inspire wonder. In time there came to the court a king of the Arabs and the king of Babylonia to mock the simplicity of his guest, bade him enter the labyrinth where the king of the Arabs wandered humiliated and confused until the coming of the evening when he implored God's aid and found the door. His lips offered no complaint, though he said to the king of Babylonia that in his land he had another labyrinth and Allah willing he would see that someday the king of Babylonia made its acquaintance. Then he returned to Arabia with his captains and his wardens and he wreaked such havoc upon the kingdoms of Babylonia and with such great blessing by fortune that he brought low its castles, crushed its people and took the king of Babylonia himself captive. He tied him atop a swift-footed camel and led him into the desert. Three days they rode and then he said to him, O king of time and substance and cipher of the century in Babylonia didst thou attempt to make me lose my way in a labyrinth of brass with many stairways, doors and walls. Now the powerful one has seen fit to allow me to show thee mine which has no stairways to climb, no doors to force nor wearing galleries to wander through nor walls to impede thy passage.