Hello, and welcome to Channel 17's town-meeting television. I'm Matt Kelly with another in our 2019 Candidate Forums on this show, Williston Select Board Candidates. I'm pleased to be sharing the stage this evening with incumbent Terry Zitteridge, also incumbent Ted Kenney, and challenger DeWitt, excuse me, McHugh DeWitt. My apologies for that. That's okay, it's a challenging day. Welcome all to the stage. Thank you. It's a pleasure having you. Our format for this evening is a 60-second candidate opening statement followed by a round robin question and answer. It's also an opportunity for you, our viewing audience, to dial on in and ask candidates questions directly. That number is 862-3966. So let's meet our candidates. Terry, incumbent, your opening statement, please. Hi, I'm Terry Zitteridge. I've been a resident of Williston for over 25 years. I've been a Select Board member for the last two years, and I believe I've brought a significant amount of additional due diligence, policy scrutiny, and policy development to a mostly passive Select Board. And I believe that addition has improved the quality of the Select Board significantly. And I believe I can do this in a way that is above that of my opponent. And that's why I'm running. Very good, Terry, thank you so much. Another 60-second opening statement from candidate Ted Kenney. Thank you, thank you for having us, first of all. My name is Ted Kenney. I'm running for re-election to the Select Board because I love my town. I have lived in Williston since 1999. I am the father of two daughters. Both have gone through the Williston school systems. One is a sophomore at CVU, and one is finishing up eighth grade at Williston Central. I have dedicated a large portion of my civic energy to volunteering for the town. I served as a member of the Planning Commission. I was elected to the School Board. I was a member of the School Board's Chittin and South Supervisory Union Board as well. I also have been elected to the Select Board starting in 2005. I took a break in 2010, and I got re-elected in 2013. I'm running because I want to see Williston continue the progress that it's made. Williston has a vibrant quality of life. We have very good municipal services, and we also have the second lowest property tax rate in the county. I want to see Williston continue on. I want it to add more services where possible, but I also want its budget to be protected and to make sure that we don't rely too much on things like the sales tax from task corners, the big box stores whose future is not certain. I'm running because I want to be conservative in that way, but I also want to see Williston continuing to make the progress that it's made from a farming community to a bedroom community to an economic hub. I want it to keep moving forward. Thank you. Very good. And our final opening statement here from Challenger. McHugh. McHugh DeWitt. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you for offering this service to the community. It's really great that we have this forum and we can discuss our town that I think all three of us love very much. And well, the reason why I'm running, when I had to fill out the petition, when you put your name in for the select board, you're given a form and you have to fill out 35 lines of people registered in the town. And I thought to myself, I think I might know 35 people in the town of Williston, but I had the form in my car and I was driving around and I went to the transportation one day and I pulled in and I met an older gentleman and I noticed his car had a license plate with the American flag and he was a veteran. And I thought this would be a perfect opportunity. This would be my first person to sign the petition. And I walked up to him and I said, what war did you serve in? And he said, the Korean War. And I thanked him for his service. And then I asked him, would he sign my petition? And we talked a little bit about the town. He'd been there a much longer time. He's lived there his whole life. I've only been there three years, but he signed up my petition and he said, we need to get more people involved. And so that's kind of been the driving factor for me. I don't have the same qualifications as Terry or Ted, but I do share the passion for the town that they have. Very good. We're on to our round robin question and answer session at this time and a reminder for you, the viewing audience. If you have a question of one of the candidates, our number is 862-3966. We'll move right into our question here. For each of you, we'll begin with you, Ted. What are your top three issues that you're running on that you'd like to see addressed by the select board? Sure. They can be broken down to responsible growth, sustainable spending and quality of life issues. I want to see the town continue to balance its protection of the ag rural district. We still do have operating farms in Williston with the need for economic expansion. I want to see that the economic growth in town does do things like have pedestrian friendly development that we encourage environmental conservation and energy policies and things like that to help us in our growth. The second one is actually, it's a pretty boring municipal nuts and bolts issue and that's sustainable spending. Right now, the sales tax, the local options tax that we get from sales in Williston is bringing in a good chunk of money. The problem with that, it actually can be a problem if you become addicted to that. I was on the select board when the Great Recession hit and that funding on then about a $10 million budget went down half a million dollars. It was massive, so we have to be very careful with our spending. The third is quality of life issues. We recently added Catamount as the Williston town forest. That's a great development. There are other things that we could probably do better but again, a lot of this comes down to nuts and bolts type stuff like making sure the parks and recreation fees are reasonable, making sure that bike paths continue to be built and just making sure that Williston is a friendly place where people feel welcome and that they have a voice. Very good. Miku DeWitt, your top three issues that you would work on if you're elected to the select board. So my number one issue is actually the library. I live in the village, this dark village and I am able to walk to the library with my children. I have four kids, ages ranging from eight to one and the library is just such a wonderful fixture of the village and the library is going through some growing pains and the building where it's in now is just not big enough anymore and I've sat down and I've spoken with Marty, our library director about the library and she told me about some of the options that she's facing and it might possibly be moved out of the village and this would be obviously terrible for my family but it would be an amazing opportunity for the people who live in, for example, maple tree housing or for the people who are going to be in the new development on Zephyr Road. There are dads, there's moms there who will be able to then walk to the library. Now that is a long term thing and Marty has just started the discussion on that. She started a 10 year discussion about what to do with the library but that's my first issue. The second issue is the village itself. I feel like there's really tight policies about what businesses can do with their building codes. When we first moved there, there was a restaurant that we were looking forward to going to called Eggs Place there and it closed down a month after we were there and it could be due just because they weren't able to get enough customers in the door but it could also be due to certain policies that we can maybe pull back on a little bit to allow more businesses to come into the village so that we have this sort of vibrancy that the town is looking for for the village. And the third thing has to do with what Ted was talking about with the outdoor recreation. The bike paths, I use the bike paths all the time with my family. The county parks, the wonderful trails. It's a wonderful place to raise a family and we just gotta make sure that we keep expanding on that with the purchase of catamount for example and other green space that we can provide to the community. Very good. Terry Zidrich, your top three issues for you that you're gonna work on if reelected to the select board. Okay, thank you Matt. So the top three issues for me, number one would be that in order to do some of the things that McHugh and Ted talked about which I would mimic, I would agree with all of their items is that we have to have a select board that is active, engaged in leading the discussion and discussing these topics in a forum that drives policy creation and the makeup of the current board quite frankly doesn't do that. So my push and my number one and this is the whole reason I'm running is that we need a select board that leads and drives policy and we don't have that today. And I think I brought a flavor of that to the select board over the last two years. Tremendous input from the community and I will continue to do that if elected into the three year position. My number two is I'd like to see us work on again setting policy on budget and again I'm fiscally conservative and I challenge the budget up and down and for the same reasons that some of my opponents talked about and that is we're not guaranteed to keep the retail income that we've had for the last so many years, I guess since the recession. Almost a third of our revenue for the general administration budget comes from rooms and meals and the options tax. So that's pretty significant. We have a little bit of a buffer for short term recessions because we have quite what we call I guess a fund for our budget under runs for the last few years that we've built up and that will buffer us and I think I asked and we calculated at the last budget discussion a couple of years at least on a recession but that's not guaranteed. And those are my major, those are my major items on that. Thank you. Very good. Our reminder, if you have questions for our candidates you can dial in at 862-3966. We're moving on to more questions here, McHugh DeWitt, this one is for you. Do you support the Williston Town budget for the fiscal year 20? I do, yeah I've taken a look at it and I definitely once again do not have the experience that Ted and Terry have as elected board members but I have taken a look at it. I have spoken the town manager, Rick, invited me to his office and we discussed the budget and it makes sense. It's a fiscal responsible budget and I wanna thank Ted and Terry for the work they've done putting it together. Okay, 60 second response Terry, Zidrich about the Williston Town budget for fiscal year 2020. I supported it as well, I supported the general budget as well as the three utility budgets. With some reservations, I think to be fiscally conservative I didn't like the addition of some new administrative positions and I challenged those pretty heavily but at the end of the day I did support the budget. We do a very different kind of a budget review in Williston that is more of a pure bottoms up than it tops down. Again, as a leadership, as a leading select board leading the discussion on the budget we should start with some kind of a tops down. How do we wanna budget salaries and benefits for the town officials because we don't do any of that today and it makes it very difficult to challenge line items on the budget. To keep us fiscally conservative and responsible we should modify and I've made proposals on how to modify the budget review process in Williston, thank you. Kenny, your thoughts on the Williston town budget for fiscal year 2020? Well, it passed out unanimously, everybody voted for it, nobody voted against it and I was one of the people who voted for it, kind of obvious, but it's an 11,494,000 dollar budget. It increases about 3. something percent over the year before. When you consider that next year's inflation rate is gonna expect it to be about 2.2 percent that's not much of an increase, particularly when you also factor in that Williston's population has continued to grow. Williston has a really unique challenge, it has about 9,000 people that are there as full-time residents, 9,000 people at night, but it has over 20,000 people who are there during the day. So the town budget has to anticipate and be ready for the kind of services that 20,000 people have and we do have the sales tax, the local options tax as it's called. That does provide about $25 million of revenue into the budgeting process. That is a good thing, obviously. We have used that to keep taxes low and again we have the second lowest municipal property tax rate in Chittenden County. That extra money that comes in from the sales tax is used in a variety of ways to keep those taxes down and keep services up. This year there's about $400,000 of that money that went into the operating account, operating budget to make sure that municipal property taxes didn't go up. The last thing I'd say is this. Most people in town do not have a $400,000 home, but the math works out so let's use that as an example. If you had a $400,000 home, this year your property tax rate, number you're gonna pay for more taxes next year is $8 for the whole year. For the last three years combined, it's $40 a year more. So we've done a great job holding taxes down and providing the services that the people need. Very good reminder. If you have questions for our candidates, 8-6-2-3-9-6-6 is the number. Terry, we're gonna stick with some budget issues here. Specifically, you support the bond issue for the two new fire trucks for the town and more broadly, do you think that the Public Safety Department is adequately staffed and funded? So this is a complicated question. So let me start by saying I did support the bond issue and I supported it with reservations though and I also supported it with a caveat that I expect us to continue to look at it and continue to evaluate up until the time we need to spend the alternatives that we didn't fully vet out in the budget process. Our budget process starts around the December timeframe and runs right up against kind of the endpoint of when we need to sign off on the budget. In fact, on the day we had to sign off on the budget, I was still grilling the chief, the emergency services fire department chief on the fire department apparatus, the two fire trucks he was asking for and what alternatives we had. Not getting satisfactory answers there. I had to decide whether to support or not. I decided it made sense to support with also the caveat that we don't actually have to spend the money if we can figure out how to do it cheaper.  Is the chief doing a great job, a bad job when we talk about people get very emotional about public safety spending? And at the end of the day, the chief in the emergency services department are doing a fabulous job. I mean, they wanted a, I think ambulance service of the year last year or so. They're a great professional organization. It's more a question of do we have the right balance of apparatus and equipment for fire versus ambulance versus paramedics and EMTs. And across the nation, this is a problem. And this is one of the things I researched and this is kind of what I do on the select board. I researched what kind of a problem this is and how it's being solved. And it's solved by coming up with the right mix of equipment. And just to give you an example, last year we had $3,500 in fire services kind of revenue. We get some revenue from this. We had $383,000 of income for ambulance services a hundred times more. We had seven structure fires in Williston last year. And we're talking about buying $2 million of equipment over the last couple of years. So it bears some scrutiny. It's not because we think the, or because I think the fire department or the emergency services bad, it's because we have to be responsible and hold our costs down. Okay, very good. I apologize. Oh, was I going too long? I apologize. You had some very good points and we tried to keep it under two minutes, but great. Ted, your 60 second response. Does the town need two new fire trucks? Yes, this is another issue that was unanimous in the select board. Nobody voted against it. Everybody voted for it.  The two trucks that are coming in are replacing three trucks. This is actually part of a plan to reduce the amount of heavy equipment that the town of Williston has in its fire department. In 2010, we had seven trucks. In 2025, we're going to be down to four. The three trucks that are being replaced is a brush truck that doesn't work anymore, a ladder truck that is on its way out. I think it's 18 years old. That's the one that saved the brick church when the steeple was hit by lightning and an engine. We're placing them with two trucks that basically do the same thing. So these are great things. And ultimately, when I looked into it, I saw that we're probably actually going to hopefully save money on maintenance and expenses because these are new trucks. And we're doing it at exactly the right time because it actually does reduce the amount of equipment that the fire department has, but it does it at a moment when these trucks still have trade-in value. So when I examined the issue, it looked like it was right and everybody on the board voted for it. Mecudewit, it seems kind of strange that we have to spend more money to be more efficient. Yeah. This is something I talked to Rick. I got a chance to talk to Rick about it as well with the fire trucks. And I can tell you my three-year-old son is very excited about new fire trucks for the town. One of the trucks I learned actually from one of his books, my three-year-old son's books, one of the trucks is called a Quint, and it's short for Quintuple. And it actually serves five purposes. It serves, it's a pump, it's a water tank, it's a fire hose, it's an aerial device, and it has ground ladders on it as well. So yeah, our fire chief, Ken, is thinking really hard about how best to serve our community. And yes, I do support the purchase of the two trucks. I'm just gonna add something here. Do we know if these trucks are more fuel-efficient than what is currently being operated, Terry? That's a good question. I think maybe versus the big ladder truck, it might be more fuel-efficient. It's a smaller truck. So it probably has a smaller footprint. Ted, your thoughts on that? It's my understanding that it would be just because they're 18 years, 20 years in advanced technology versus what it was. Yeah, McHugh. Yeah, that children's book didn't mention that. Not the Quint. Thank you. We're gonna continue kind of on the budget here, and it really has to do with the economic development of the town of Williston. What do you see as the future of these big-box stores in the era of Amazon? And McHugh DeWitt, we'll begin with you. Well, I just took three of my kids. The one-year-old was down for a nap. I took them over to Get Air, which is a new place that you can bring your kids, and it's just filled with trampolines. I don't know if you've been there yet, Matt.  It's an amazing place. And it's an option, I think, for what we can do with these box stores. We lost Toys R Us recently in the town of Williston. And people are looking more for experiences rather than for places to buy things where they can just look on their phone and find the best deal. So I think something like Get Air, as well, we have right behind Get Air, we have a really great brewery, Burlington Beer Company. And that's another example in which the town, I feel, should just back up a little bit and let these local businesses thrive as much as they can, especially a brewery where we have tourists coming in from all of New England coming to try our beers. And the town gives BBCO a hard time for wanting to expand their restaurant space. And I think it's just something that the town really needs to work with, especially our local businesses, in providing growth, business growth for them. Okay, Terry Zittrich, you're a comment on the economic development makeup of the town. I actually think we have a pretty good economic development makeup with the mix of retail, hotels, restaurants, with some light manufacturing and industrial, and a number of breweries, as Miku mentioned. And I recently recall us approving some legislation to allow the expansion of breweries for the purposes of tasting and added restaurant space. So I think we've had some of those things come by, and I think it's been positive. In terms of the impact of Amazon, I think if Amazon gets to the point where they can deliver lumber and toilets to your house by helicopter, I think maybe in that case we'll have some serious issues with Amazon. But I come from Michigan originally, 40 some years ago, and we had a big box centered, super shopping center every square mile, it seemed like. And we don't have that in Vermont. We have, luckily, they placed this big shopping area in Taft's corners in Williston, and we're reaping the benefits, but we don't have them all over. So I think we may be a little more sheltered and buffered from the impacts of today's Amazon. Whether we get to a future of Amazon delivering things same day, I don't know, but I think there will always be that need to have, for people to wanna pick and touch stuff and buy it immediately in a brick and mortar. Ted Kenner, your thoughts on the economic development for the town of Williston? Are big box stores, is it coming to an end? What's the future? Where does the town go from here? Let me answer that as clearly as I possibly can. I don't know. I don't know what the future of big box stores are. I suspect that there will be evolution and pain as often comes with change. But that being said, there are some things that the town can do to mitigate itself, and this is what I keep coming back to, is that we have to have a fiscally responsible budget. We have to make sure that if we do increase spending on something, that it's the kind of increase that is worth it, and not relying entirely on the sales tax. That's the number one thing. The other thing is, again, continuing to increase, well, to encourage other kinds of development in. Maple Tree Place, I was growing up next door in Richmond when that was a field. I actually Hade, where 99 Steakhouse is now. It was an awful job. It was not a great guy to work for. But that being said, the town has changed a lot, and when Pyramid Mall was trying to come in in the 1970s, that was stopped because it was just a one-type thing. If the mall closes down, then the development is gone. I think we'll have since done a good job avoiding that, and I do want to see more light manufacturing. Recently, I was part of the select board had a site visit to get rid of an easement part of a town road that was a completely pointless part of a town road. It was where the plow truck used to turn around, but it didn't need to anymore because the road had been expanded and kept going. But because that was a town road, there was a setback issue. A light manufacturing company could not put the number of parking lots, parking spaces in, and so we discontinued that portion of the road. These kinds of things, I think the select board has done a really good job on, and I will encourage it to continue with that kind of thing. Ted Kennedy, we're gonna stick with you here on this question. Many Vermont towns, including Williston, are facing infrastructure issues. Here in Burlington, a water main just recently broke. In Montpelier, we've seen issues of that. This is a ticking time bomb for municipalities across the country. I was reading something recently that the tab is over a trillion dollars throughout the country of what needs to be done. Your thoughts on the infrastructure. Williston is a little bit inured from this because it's a relatively newer town, if you will. Can you speak to the infrastructure costs and how to fund some of these improvements or maintenance costs going forward? Sure, one of the things that Williston does well is it has development and impact fees that are completely segregated out and must be spent for things like infrastructure. And so that's when a new development comes in. It has to pay those fees, and those fees are not put in where the select board could use it to buy basketballs or something like that. It's only for infrastructure. So that has to continue, and nobody's suggesting that's gonna change. The other thing that the town does, and I would advocate continue doing, is keep that capital reserve fund well-funded. Right now, there are about $3 million in that reserve fund, over $3 million. That's probably a little high. So if there is a crying need for infrastructure, an immediate need, that would be something that I think could be spent a bit. I know we're talking about roads and bridges and whatnot. One of the things that I consider as part of Williston's infrastructure is it's open land. It's open space. And Williston does have an environmental reserve fund that it funds pretty well. That's why the town could put the money up to buy the Catamount land and create the Williston town forest without raising taxes. And had that planning not gone in, had we not done that years ago, we wouldn't be in a position to do it. But again, all of this is to say that with uncertainty coming in in the future, but the need for infrastructure growing, we really need to shepherd our resources and keep spending in check. Terry Zitterich, we'll ask the question of you. It sounds like Williston's got a pretty good handle on the costs for infrastructure improvements and maintenance. Could that be a model maybe for other municipalities in our state? Well, I think we're fortunate to have an outstanding public works department. We do have a fiscally responsible town manager as well. So we do have plans, ongoing plans to upgrade roads over time. So there's actually a plan. We don't wait for the potholes to come. We have a plan for certain roads at certain times for repaving. But when things break, we do have reserve funds as my opponent, Ted mentioned, and we can use those for those costs. And we do have utility funds that collect money for long-term debt as well as new infrastructure items that need to be done. We do put away money for replacing things like fire hydrants that frequently, I guess, break or get run over or start to leak. And again, I think it's through the work of the public works department. Again, Bruce Hoare, outstanding public works director that we have, I think he has a pretty comprehensive plan. This year at our retreat, we started to discuss the long-term improvement of things like water lines and sewer systems, but that's an ongoing discussion. So I think that does bear some more scrutiny in those areas. But I think we've got roads pretty well covered. We don't have a lot of bridges. Bridges usually require, they're usually very big ticket items and usually require a bond vote, a significant investment. Miku DeWitt, your thoughts. Are you happy with the state of the improvement funding for infrastructure development in the town? Yes, I am. I mean, we live in Vermont. So potholes are about as common as, you know, tulips in the springtime. So, and we have, I think, a million dollars set aside in the budget annually for road maintenance. And yeah, and once, same as Terry said, if there's a big project where we need a lot of money, we could always use a bond to pay for it.  Terry Zidrich, we'll come back to you here. Do you feel that the town of Williston is handling the opioid crisis to the best of its ability? Could they do more? What do you see the town's role in trying to address this epidemic? Well, I think community involvement is important. And we have, we, Williston, when I say we, we along with five other towns have contracted the services of the Howard Center in an outreach program, kind of like the outreach, the street outreach program that's being used very successfully in Burlington. And we use this program in Williston to identify, hopefully identify high risk people that have the potential, and this is hopefully, again, before they go into a situation where they might go into drug abuse and provide them assistance or connect them with services for assistance. And this could be, you know, you could self identify yourself as needing help, friends can identify you or identify a person, teachers. So that's the model for the Howard Center program. And again, with five other towns we've implemented this program in Williston. I think it's a great idea. I think we can do more. I think we can, we can do some community education, you know, in community groups because the cost of, especially opiates is so high, you know, leading anywhere from, you know, medical crime and, you know, eventually leading, you know, we have many opiate deaths in the country. So, and I think we can do more. I think we can hire some expert services like the Howard Center to help moderate and run some of these community forums to educate our teachers, parents and adults too, because opiates aren't restricted to kids and young people. It's an addiction that can come from long-term pain issues. Ted, Kenny, your thoughts on the town of Williston's role in trying to combat the opiate epidemic. Is the town doing enough? Is it helping the young kids of your community enough to avoid this scourge? Well, frankly, I don't think anybody's doing enough. This is an issue that I deal with in my professional life as a lawyer. I first ran into it in the 1990s when I had a client who was a teenager, late teens, 19, who I knew because I knew the family and he had become opiate dependent. And the most amazing thing in dealing with that, and I have seen this over and over and over again, is that when I realized that when I was talking to him, I wasn't talking to the nice young man, the great kid that I knew, I was talking to the drug. And so this is a huge problem. In April, I'm blanking on the date, but in April the town is actually sponsoring a huge town forum that's gonna be at Williston Central School. Please come, dinner will be served, and it's for people of all ages. And this is one of the things that we're doing. Is it enough? No, it's not. Like most people who are dealing with this, I can tell horror stories, but I'm not exactly sure what the municipality of Williston can do to increase that. I think we have Narcan for the police department. We do have five mental health workers that are there. They're more for mental health than they are for drugs, but it does overlap tremendously. But I would say this, that whatever issue, whatever policies that are recommended, whatever money that has to be spent, and again, I'm keeping a tight lid hopefully on the budget. But I'd ask everybody, keep in mind, this isn't other people, this is us. And it's not just a question of muggings that might happen in the old North End of Burlington or something that happens on the streets of Chicago. I know about people who have decided to break into places in nice neighborhoods like mine during the day because the person is a drug addict and this is where the good stuff is to sell. This is a real thing for everybody, whether you're looking at it altruistically or whether you're looking at it selfishly. No, we're not doing enough, but please come to the meeting in April. DeWitt McHugh or Rob McHugh DeWitt, your thoughts on the village and the town. Does the select board have a role to play here in trying to offer an alternative to opiate addiction? Well, yeah, I think the select board's role would be, to kind of brainstorm and come up with ideas that could help the community. Besides the select board, we also have the Wilson Rotary and the Richmond Rotary, the Sher Rotary. They're also, along with the forum in April, they're also doing a lot to get the word out about this epidemic and trying to find solutions. So it's something that is really personal to me. It's not dealing with opiates, but with drug and alcohol. My little brother was involved in a car accident when he was 18 years old and he suffered severe brain damage because of it and now he's an advocate for distracted driving, for drunken driving. And so we need people like that as well in our community to come forward and help teach youngsters the terrible things that happen because of drug abuse and alcohol abuse. McHugh DeWitt, we're just gonna stay on this question here with you one more time. The attorney general has joined a lawsuit of pursuing manufacturers of opiates. Do you support that lawsuit? I would support that lawsuit, yes. Any more? Okay, Ted, your thoughts on that lawsuit? 100%. TJ Donovan's office has taken the lead on this and they are advocating in court that these drug producers pony up for the damage that they've done. When you look at the numbers of the number of pills that have been prescribed and the number of people that they would treat and that they would use, it's completely out of proportion. It's, you know, my father passed away from cancer in 2001 and he had an appropriate prescription for OxyContin. Person coming in to fit up the hospital bed in his apartment in the last couple of months stole a lot of those drugs. And it was, you know, we dealt with it. We have reasonably good basic life skills where we can make phone calls and get replacements and whatnot, but it is just amazing that these drug companies have been involved with this making a huge amount of profit. They had to have known, I say go full on and full forward. Terry Zittra, it's your comment on TJ Donovan's lawsuit against the opiate manufacturers. I would absolutely, and it's unanimous, I would also support this lawsuit against the manufacturers. I recently read that 75% of the worldwide production of painkillers is being used by 5% of the world's population. And I can, I'm sure we can all guess where that 5% is centered. So it's very disappointed. They're pushing the painkillers in the US and we need to stop that. Okay, well, we've reached the end of our discussion here this evening. It's time now for our closing statements from our candidates. 60 seconds each and Ted Kenny will begin with you. 60 second closing statement, please. Thank you and thank you again for hosting. I very much appreciate it. I'm running for reelection to the select board because I want to serve and that sounds hokey and everybody says it, it's just true. I love my town. I find the challenges that the select board offers to be personally invigorating. Again, Williston is an incredible place. 9,000 people at night, 20,000 people during the day. We've done a great job balancing the needs that the town has as it evolves from one thing to another to another. But there's more to do. I think that we can continue to increase services for parks and recreation. We can continue to do, look at responsible development. The future is common whether we prepare for it or not. And I'm asking for your vote to be on the select board to help continue to prepare for the future in all of its possibilities, whether the big box stores closed down, whether they don't, whether Williston continues to get a bonanza from its sales and use tax or whether it doesn't. I'm asking to apply my experience, my leadership and my passion to the job of select board and I'm asking for your vote and I'm thanking you for your time. Thank you. You can do it. Your closing comments, please. Well, I don't think it sounds hokey at all, Ted, that you want to serve. I think that is something that has been lost, especially on the national level with politicians. You know, the idea of serving your community and serving the people, it's just not non-existent, especially in the Oval Office. But I learned that as well from my father about public service. He was county legislator for many years and he instilled in me that idea that you are there to serve the people and you listen to them, you find out what they need and you do the best you can to make that available to them and so these two other candidates, Terry and Ted, are wonderful choices as well. Asking you for my vote because I do offer an alternative, a new voice for the select board, so thank you. Very good. Terry Zidrich, your closing comments, please. Well, it's going to be unanimous. We all want to serve the community and we all have strong ties in the community and I respect my opponents very much. It takes a lot of time and dedication to do this. The reason I'm earning is I think I can do a better job. I think my record over the last couple of years will show this and as we can all sit here and say this, I think if I can beg a little bit more of your time and I thank you for the time you're taking now to watch us and watch this forum and Matt for Running It and Channel 17, an invaluable resource for democracy. But if you take the time to watch a few select board meetings from the last couple of years, you'll see that my participation and my preparedness and my passion for performing due diligence and driving policy at the select board level is unparalleled in the board and therefore I'm requesting that you vote for me to move Williston forward. Thank you. Terry Zitterich, Ted Kenney, and McHugh DeWitt, my thanks for joining us here this evening. Thanks for your continued service to the town of Williston and for your willingness to serve. It takes great courage to be willing to put your name on a ballot and face the voters on March 5th. Do join us at 7 p.m. on March 5th election day for complete election results coverage beginning at 7 p.m. right here on Channel 17. For all of us at CCTV Town Meeting Television, I'm Matt Kelly. Thank you. Good night.


All right, we have our first ever actor on the feed Steve Shariff, but thank you so much for hopping on I'm happy to be here man. All right. You ready to check out some of your top social media posts. Let's do it There you go, my wife ran the Marathon that's her 11th Marathon my wife Laura's 60 years old Wow 11 at the finish line everyone now. How about you? Have you been at the finish line crossing it? Oh?  You know no that's not for me You still get out and about to with some of your friends and and former cast members But this is awesome that you still keep in touch with everybody. Yeah, Michael Imperial leave me Vinny pastore We do his live show called conversation with the Sopranos we do it all over the country We taught Australia a lot of fun. All right next one You love going to Yankees games and this is this one of them right here great picture I love the Yankees my wife's a bigger Yankee fan than me if you could believe that Watches every game. We've been to a bunch of games this year. I took my dog Willie I'm gonna have a beer My two favorite things in the world go to a Nick came go to Yankee game of all the nonsense That's what I love now. It has Willie only been to the Yankee game or has he been to a next game or not yet I don't know the Nixon that might be tough squeezing them in Yankees had no problem Yeah, I love this one this one. He's eating popcorn right here As he met Aaron judges or Anthony Rizzo's dogs No, I I met Anthony at the Marathon for his wife ran it, but we did not we talked about the dogs He asked where's your dog, but we have not met yet He's so popular especially on your Instagram page You post about him a ton and look at him right there man Willie is like my son. I got two daughters That's my son. He's a good boy. He looks so innocent. He's not so innocent He doesn't like other dogs or other people just like three of my wife Now we saw you eating on home plate on the yes app, but we see you eat a lot with Willie too, which uh These videos are great, you know, we I live in California A lot of the time so we go back and forth he eats out with us and likes Mexican food likes chips I'm talking like a nut.   Wow good for him. He is in a row pretty good the third one He went the hell with this. I want to go set off. Where does he sleep at night?   I believe it's 2002 We threw out the first pitch. It was an honor. It was myself Jim Gandafini John Vintamir you played already book all the rain brocco Tony Sirico Derek was one of the guys Derek Jito and I Think I threw mine to Nick Johnson and they lined up and it was Jamie Lynn Sigler who played metal She sang the national anthem George Steinbrenner gave us his box We could bring our family. It really was I got great pictures my daughter was four years old at the time He gave us a box of food a drink. We met Joe and everybody and it was really a really Good day. It seems like you remember it just like it was yesterday. Yeah, it really was a lot of fun You know, I've drawn out the first picture Yankee Stadium Tiger Stadium and Wrigley and I haven't bounced it yet But I'm older now, you know, we see all these posts We could tell that your dog lover and you love to have fun and go to all these different sporting events I don't know if I'm a dog lover. I love Willie No So for anybody out there who hasn't followed you just yet, why should they follow you now it's time for the plug I mean if you want to laugh, I'm not the political. No, it's all fun. It's nothing bad Nothing heavy. Nothing now you're gonna go crazy. Look at this guy. It's me and my dog mostly It's all positive and fun stuff. So you want to laugh? Wake up in the morning You look at my stuff. I will you heard from Steve stripper himself. Definitely check him out on Instagram


Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and I apologize for the technical issue that I encountered just now. I hope that I can finish this talk on time. So, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sananto, and as you see, my logo is Oracle Employee. I'm Oracle MySQL Principal Soliciting Leader. And today, I would like to share with you a little bit details about InnoDB Cluster Set. As the name indicates, the InnoDB Cluster Set is set of InnoDB clusters. So, the expectation here is you have a couple of InnoDB clusters, more than one InnoDB cluster is running on multiple sites. And Cluster Set, basically, is standardized technology in how we can do data synchronizations between InnoDB clusters that's running on multiple sites. And this is, you know, for disaster recovery solutions. Why we do this? Because, you know, we realize that organization face a big challenge, especially if there is a major outage on primary data center. And it can cost them a lot. Okay, based on survey, it is more than half saying that the experience now takes costing more than 100,000 US dollars. And most of the time, they say that on-site power failures is the biggest cause of significant outage. And, you know, in data center, there are a lot of important stuff over there. We have servers, we have firewalls, we have AWS applications, everything is mission-criticals. Okay, and power is just one of it. Okay, power is not everything in that case. But those everything is nothing without powers. If you lost powers in data center, that's it. So, to mitigate this, then we need to have, you know, business need to have alternate sites and running a duplicate of the system on the alternate site and use database synchronizations. And as you see, we have a muscular synchronous applications. It's very simple. Okay, it has been around a long time back. We have source, we have replicas. Every time we make transactions and commit it on the source, then the bin lock event will be sent over to the replicas. And the replicas threats will actually capture the data and then commit the same data to the storage engine so that the expectation is we have source and replicas running in data will be consistent. But it's not always true. And in the past, okay, DBA have a lot of job, especially if they want to deploy replicas. Okay, primary and secondary here, source is where the transactions happenings and replicas is where the transaction is getting replicated. And we have a new challenge called primary and secondary. Okay, primary is red, white, secondary is red only. And a lot of jobs that DBA need to be done by the DBA in the past. They need to do backup of database and then they need to transfer the backup from the primary site to the alternate site. They need to restore the backup to create a secondary database. And then they will study it with primary mode. And they need to create replication users on primary database and assign replication slave privilege to the replication users. And they need to go to the secondary database, connect to the secondary database and create the replication channels. All this need to be done manually and it's not a complete solution if you are talking about disaster recovery solutions. Because disaster recovery means that we need to orchestrate as well, right? If the outage happens, then we need to make sure that human interventions will be minimum. Okay, everything should be standardized. Then there are a lot of workarounds that need to be done in the past, let's say, doing a custom script, for example, for DR orchestrations. Or incorporate third party tools. Okay, just in case if DR activation is happening, then they can use this third party tool to orchestrate the disaster recovery procedures. But now we have InnoDB clusters. InnoDB clusters is based on group applications as you see. It's still using asynchronous replication underneath. Okay, however we use group applications, protocols basically to make sure that this asynchronous replication becomes really synchronous. Data will be consistent across the InnoDB clusters. Members. Okay, we have primary and multiple secondary. Okay, it is read scalables. Primary will run on read mount and secondary will run on read only. And we have master routers as explained by the previous presenter. Okay, master routers is our default component in InnoDB clusters to provide connection transparency to the application. So that the applications to connect to InnoDB cluster does not need to change. Okay, of course, this is a layer for routers. It's based on port number. There are two kind of port numbers. First is read like port and second is read only port. So applications will see master routers as database endpoint. So they can connect to the master routers. If application connect to read like port, then my score will redirect the connections to the primary. If the application connected to read only port, then it will redirect the connections to the secondary nodes. And we have integration as well with my score shelves. Okay, my score shelf has admin API that enable DBA to deploy this InnoDB cluster easily. Okay, you don't have to take quite long time actually to pick up how to deploy InnoDB clusters. It's very easy. You can deploy three in the cluster within less than five minutes if you talk about standard default InnoDB cluster installations. Okay, this is one of the differences between synchronous replication, normal asynchronous replication, and synchronization that's happening in the Coupre application that's used by InnoDB clusters. Every time there is a new transactions getting committed, then it needs a consensus. It needs a quorum. Consensus happening when more than half or majority of the nodes are within the Coupre application itself certified the transactions. Then the transactions will get committed on all nodes. The result is InnoDB clusters can provide maximum data protections. Okay, whenever there is new transactions going into the routers, read-write, on a read-write pops, then the routers will redirect that connections to primary nodes. And if there is any commit, then the block defend will be sent over to all the secondaries. And certification process will happen. And upon quorum, each member will commit the transaction to the InnoDB storage engine. There are a lot of models or types to control the consistency in InnoDB clusters. If you take a look over here, the time when the transaction is really getting committed on each node may not be the same on the same time. Because we are using consistency, eventual consistency as the default consistency in InnoDB clusters. However, if your application connected to the standard node and require new data, then you can set the consistency to before. Okay, therefore consistency before, after, eventual, and before and after. So this is pretty much application requirements. So the InnoDB clusters will fight automatic failures whenever a primary node is failing. Then group applications will promote one of the nodes to become a new primary, and application does not need to change the connections because MySQL routers. So because of MySQL routers. So MySQL routers will redirect the read-write connections to the new InnoDB cluster primary node. How about if the fail node comes back? Once the fail node comes back, then it will try to join back to the clusters. So we have auto-healing capability. So once the nodes comes back, then it will try to catch up the transactions, catch up the states by doing recovery. It can be used, it can be scrolled, or it can use incremental recovery. And the group application framework will automatically select which distributed recovery method suitable for recovering the fail nodes. And once it is completed, then the fail node will fully join to the InnoDB clusters as a primary node. And at that point in time, the routers will start to see this as a primary node. So the fail node will be joined back as a primary node. How about MySQL routers? We advise MySQL routers to be installed on the same host as the application so that the application can connect to the local MySQL routers. Or, optionally, we can run MySQL routers outside the application servers, but you need to provide a high availability of the MySQL routers. You need to have more than one MySQL routers, and the load balance will be or high availability of the MySQL routers will be. We need to be provided by third party, let's say, pacemakers or keep alive. And in 2020, we released the replica set. It's basically a MySQL Asynchronous Replications with app-on. Integrations with MySQL Shell, at mean API. So creating the Asynchronous Replication is no longer a completely manual process, but it is more automated and orchestrated using at mean API. And secondly, is integrations with MySQL routers. So using a MySQL EODB replica set, you don't need to have an IP failover when master is failing or something like that. But we can use MySQL routers basically to redirect the connections from the applications if application connected to the read-write port of the routers. If the primary node fail, then the primary node is available on the other nodes, then MySQL routers will redirect the new connections to the new primary node. But bear in mind, this EODB replica set does not have automatic failovers. So we need to failover the primary node manually. So in order to make this even more suitable for a disaster recovery solution, we have disaster tolerance solutions with MySQL EODB replica set. So what is a replica set? We have two or more EODB clusters with Asynchronous Replications to replicate data between primary of the primary clusters and second cluster, we call it as replica clusters, because it is read-only clusters. Okay, replicate into the primary node of the replica clusters. Bear in mind that in this architecture, only one node, which is primary, the rest of the node of the primary cluster will be running on read-write. The rest of the node will be running on read-only. Okay, the rest of the node will be running on read-only.  Okay, once the certification done, the transaction is committed, on the primary, the data will be replicated using Asynchronous Replications to the primary node of the replica cluster. And again, it has, you know, MySQL shell admin API that you can install and configure in very, very easy way. Yeah, easy way. So if you have a three-data center, then you can actually extend, okay, each of the data center will have its own EODB clusters, but only one become primary cluster and two are replica clusters. We don't have automatic failovers from primary cluster to replica cluster, but I will tell you why later on. Okay, not every cluster has to be on three nodes. Okay, we can have one of the clusters, okay, have different topology. Let's say you only need to have read replicas on disaster recovery, but you don't want to have a high availability. Okay, that's fine. You can have, you know, replica cluster only consists of one node, which is primary node that running on read-only on your disaster recovery site. How about MySQL routers? MySQL routers can run on every site, every data center, okay, and the application can transparently connect to the MySQL routers. Okay, if MySQL routers, I mean, if application connect to the MySQL routers in read-web ports, since MySQL router aware about the cluster set topology, the MySQL routers will connect this, the connect the connections to the primary node of the primary clusters. So, in the underlying, even though in the database infrastructures we have a single clusters become, you know, it's a read-web clusters and then the rest are read-only clusters, but if you have requirements that require each site to be active, active, then you can use MySQL routers as database endpoint. Yeah, because MySQL routers can run on everywhere, okay. So, as you see over here, even though MySQL routers by default always looking for the primary clusters, okay, MySQL routers running on standard set can also connect to the primary clusters, but we can have, you know, additionally, optionally, we can have MySQL routers running to connect only to the specific cluster within the InnoDB cluster set. So, this is the MySQL InnoDB cluster set configuration. First of all, we can create, we need to create InnoDB cluster. As you see, it's very simple. Okay, db.quid cluster. Then you will have one InnoDB cluster with one node and then you can just add instance, okay, to add the second node and to add the third node. You don't need to do a backup and recovery because it will do cloned. Very simple. And then once done, you can issue command cluster.status, okay. Then you will see that you have a trainup of InnoDB clusters. Okay, then we need to create cluster set. We need to define a cluster set for this cluster. Then the command is very simple, cleared cluster set. That's it. Then you will have one cluster set with one InnoDB clusters, okay. As you see, one cluster set, one InnoDB clusters. The name of InnoDB cluster is B-R-U, okay. Then we can add the replica clusters, okay. And then how to add is very simple. Cluster set.createReplicaCluster. Then you will have two InnoDB clusters, okay. Additional InnoDB cluster has been added into the cluster set, yeah, with one node, which is primary node, yeah, on the replica cluster. After that, we can add instance to that primary node so that we will have second instance and third instance running on replica cluster. And you will have three node InnoDB clusters on primary cluster and three node InnoDB cluster on replica clusters. As you see over here, you can check with cluster set.status, cluster set.status, and you can see, okay, you will have, that you have the two clusters, InnoDB clusters, one primary, one replica cluster, and then, yeah, that's it. Then if you need more informations, then you can add extended column point, then you can have more informations in the output. Okay, this is the hack-affiliability scenario. I hope I still have time. Yes, I still have time about seven minutes. And we can change primary members in the primary cluster. Let's say you have node 1, node 2, node 3 in primary clusters, node 1 become a primary node, and you want to run primary node on second node. You want to switch, then, yeah, easy. The same as InnoDB cluster. You can just issue command set primary instance. The same thing with replica clusters, okay? You can just connect to the primary node, connect to the replica clusters, one of the nodes, and then you can run set primary instance, okay, to switch over primary node from node 1 to node 2, for example. How about the replication? The replication will follow. If you set the primary instance to second node, then on the primary clusters, then the replica cluster will follow. The replication will change, not from the node 1 of the primary clusters, but from the node 2, yeah. If the primary node of the primary cluster fill is the same, right? It's the same like you switch the primary from node 1 to node 2. It will be automatically a fellowverse to the second node, and asynchronous replication will automatically adapt with the new changes. The same thing with the replica clusters, okay? If the primary node of the replica cluster is done, okay, the fellowverse to the other nodes, then, you know, the replication will still be happening, you know, starting on the new nodes, new primary nodes of the replica cluster from the primary node of the primary clusters. And then we can switch roles, okay? Let's say you have requirements. Let's run our application on the other side, okay? Then we can just do set primary clusters. Then it will flip the cluster roles. Primary cluster become replicas. Replica clusters become primary clusters, as you see over here. So how about routers? Routers will always follow the primary clusters, so we don't need to change anything from the application side. Okay, this is the process. Basically, once we run set primary clusters, then the cluster roles will be flipped, primary becomes primary. I mean, primary clusters become replica cluster and replica cluster become primary clusters. If we have a data center crash or any work partitions, then we have a command called force primary clusters, okay, to force the primary clusters, sorry, force the replica clusters on the ultimate side to become a primary cluster. But, okay, we don't, okay, since there are no circumstances happening, okay, in this kind of scenario, so we are thinking to not have like, you know, but this up to you, actually, if you want to develop like custom so-called witness on the TIT side, let's say on the cloud, just to monitor primary cluster and replica clusters and do some sort of automatic fallovers from primary to replica. I think it's more towards really situational how much data loss that, you know, you can take. Because anyway, if primary cluster is unavailable, okay, we don't know what is the status. Maybe some application is still writing into it, so potential data loss will still be there. Okay, so this is the process of emergency fallovers to another clusters, as you see. We can use a force primary clusters to set primary, I mean, replica cluster to be a primary cluster and set the primary, the existing primary cluster become invalidated status and so on. So this is a status, as you see over here, okay, only when the cluster status is not okay, invalidated and unknown, okay. The rest of the status we can do a switchover and emergency fallovers. So this is the restrictions that we have, okay, on inodb cluster set. It must be mass coefficients 8.0.27 and higher and only works with single primary mode, one primary and multiple secondary and as in conus replication is supported again and submissing is not supported. Okay, thank you so much for listening to my presentations and thanks for the time. Yes, please. Thank you. Okay, if I'm not mistaken. Okay, let me give you the mic. Yeah, Alvin here. Okay, so what is the most difficult change management issue you can think of and how would you execute that? Okay, so for example, an upgrade from one release to another or maybe even secondary node, you have secondary node that is in this geographic location and we move to another country, for example, all right. So that is, so that kind of scenario. Thank you so much for the questions. Okay, very good questions. Change management is more towards operational, you know, kind of things, okay. How the user or customers actually using inodb cluster set.  For example, if the customer is using, let's say, standalone instance, how to convert this standalone instance into inodb cluster set, okay. Cost geographical locations and then how to upgrade, how to do patching and so on, right. Is that your questions? Yeah, yeah. Scenario, okay. Well, let's say, for example, we have three node inodb clusters on the, let's say, Singapore and we have disaster recovery on Kuala Lumpur, let's say, and we want to create inodb cluster set to link up this, you know, inodb cluster in Singapore and replicate to inodb cluster set on KL, for example, right. And then we want to do upgrade, let's say. I'm sorry. Singapore to KL. The primary cluster in Singapore, the replica cluster in KL. Is that what you want? Okay, so let's say you want to do the upgrade, right. Okay, let's say I give you an example. If we have, you know, data center movement, let's say, okay, for secondary data center, I don't want to use KL data center anymore. I want to use Middle East, for example, right. Then it's pretty much simple process. Basically, we need to create the replica cluster on Middle East first. So we need to run three inodb clusters within the inodb cluster set. Okay, after this tab less, because just the commissions inodb cluster on KL. Yeah. The same thing with upgrade. We're going to upgrade the replica clusters first and then follow by the primary clusters. Thank you.


So I have kind of a thing to connect with people that work here at Mind Pump. I'll serenade them while they're doing their job and they love it and they appreciate it. No time is a good time for good night. What do you think? Thank you. So Doug's a great producer. He's an audio engineer and so I just thought it was a natural fit for me to ask him to produce my next album. Like that? Maybe. I don't think that's your thing. And I just started laying down some tracks to see sort of if this was going to be a good fit, a little power couple dynamic between Doug and myself. Okay so what's this one about? Justin on the guitar. Are you kidding me? The last vlog that we did did what? With BJ Penn? A big name like that? What a thousand views or something like that he got? Yeah real soon here we're gonna have to open up one of those OnlyFans pages to make up for all the money that we're blowing on these vlogs. You have a better idea than Justin playing the guitar?  Maybe more melodic, you know? Just like a little higher maybe? I don't know about the falsetto thing, I'm not sure. Yeah it's kind of, it's not really. Sometimes I don't really speak the truth, okay? Sometimes just out and out lie.  That sounds really, really good. He's playing this song and over and over again. I don't know. I feel like we're just like splitting hairs if we try to redo it over again. So the truth is I think you've done a really good job. I mean it's about as good as it gets in my opinion. And what I'm really saying is let's just stop, okay? You know what, I think we should take a break. Just try to find the range, like I got the lyrics and everything already. It's just, you know. Ooh, what, right? Yeah, that's good. I'm feeling it now. That's great. Yeah, something's, I don't know, something's when I put doggy's been really busy lately, but I know that can happen when you're like a poonhound like he is. So it's, you know, this is mind pump grew. You start to get a lot of attention from the ladies a lot, especially the college girls. I don't know what they're like.  He's also spry.  So he's probably in the middle of it all. I don't know. Probably juggling a few things.  He gets caught up a little bit. So I think right now he's just in the middle of it, the whole thing. So I hope he's wearing protection. I've been staying late here almost every night with Justin. He was doing take after take after take of his music. You know, he's always trying to get it right. And each take is almost exactly like the last take. I don't really see a whole lot of improvement. Let's get closer. I don't know. Maybe you can do some audio magic. Honestly, I don't know if it's going to go anywhere. I mean, I spend all day long trying to make the guy sound great on the podcast. Now he's trying to get me to do the same thing with this album. But you know, you're only as good as the material you have to work with. You know what I'm saying? I don't know if he's tone deaf or who told him that he's good at playing the guitar. You ever imagine what it was like to watch Michelangelo sculpt David from a single piece of marble? Like that's probably what it was like. When he's playing the guitar, you can tell that he gets lost in the genius of just the music. I don't even think he's trying to play something. I think he just comes out of him, that's what I think. I mean, it's very obvious, right?  I mean, he starts barking like crazy. And you know, Masi likes good music. So when we're in the house, I play music all the time. He loves good music. Adam's dog seems to really appreciate when I get on the guitar in a jam for a bit. He likes to contribute. You know, there's some good energy in here. A lot of times when I pick up the guitar and hack at it a bit, I just feel bad because he's got this amp in here. He just bought another really expensive guitar. And I don't care how expensive and nice the guitar is.  It's more interesting. He's entertaining. He's a much bigger industry. Yeah, yeah. People know us for fitness, but also we could totally be a band in rock. We already have all the makings of what you need for a successful band.  What do we got, hats? Crazy stuff we can wear on stage. Like, are you not seeing the parallels here?  I remember he wanted to rent a guitar and actually play like a song to open up for the audience. Good deal. So you guys ready to ask? Adam, I'm Sal, a scientific study. I was thinking more of the fans. People coming in, having an experience, having something entertaining. Something with some pizzazz. Sal and Adam, they really thought it was going to maybe set the wrong tone for the event.  Two against one and, quite frankly, Sal and Adam, they won, okay? Oh, it totally hurt his feelings when we told him no on the music, you know. And I'm sure when he watches this, it's going to hurt his feelings. He definitely doesn't. But I also know that he appreciates the truth. It's fine, you can be honest. Like, I can take it. I have been honest, okay? Okay. Truth is, he's terrible. He's absolutely terrible. He barely can play the guitar. And he is not good at singing. You guys are just too much going on here with these vlogs, Justin playing the guitar.  I've got to get out of here. We've got to find some way to monetize this business or we're going to sink. Yeah, Adam's got this weird jealousy of Justin. So he like, he doesn't want him to outshine him, which can happen very easily when Justin starts performing. Little by little, Adam's building confidence. I think in about five to 10 years he should be ready for Justin to play music. We should bring in some professionals. We should bring in... You're right, I'm not a professional producer. So Justin talked about bringing in a pro producer for the album, which, you know, in some circumstances I may have taken offense, but in truth, I'm not a music producer. So I had to kind of put aside my ego. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll make some calls. Yeah, okay. We just have to do a little bit of a reality check here in that pro producer or not. It's going to be what it's going to be.


Hi, my name is Brian Marshall and I'm the fire and rescue chief here at Cal OES. As we go into the holiday weekend, Labor Day, where people spend time with their family and friends, I have a few barbecue safety tips for you. 1. Never take your barbecue inside the house. That's extremely dangerous. 2. Know where you're putting your barbecue before you light it. Do not put it under trees or under your eaves. The flames could cause your house to burst into flames. Also, make sure your barbecue is clean before you light it. The residue may flare up and cause a larger fire and that's something you don't want. Also, keep kids and pets away from your barbecue. Nobody wants a serious burn. As we go into this Labor Day holiday, it's also an important reminder that we're still in peak fire season. We do not need another devastating wildfire that destroys our beautiful California. Remember, be fire safe this holiday weekend. And for more tips, go to news.caloes.ca.gov and follow us on our social media platforms.


So you know what your boy, your freshman CEO, back in the day was a huge simp, like simp of storage wrecks. A simp guy is simply put as a guy who gives free attention to a woman or women slash validation and or money or resources without getting anything in return sexually. Because let's keep it a stack. The guys that pay these girls time, money, attention, resources, etc. are hoping for some type of romance and don't get it. But they continue to provide their commodity for free to the woman in hopes of getting it, which they never will. Because the girl will laugh at them and continue to siphon off as much resources, time and attention as she can. Basically, if you just pay every single time, there's no in the middle interaction. And what's happening here is that now you become a customer and now there's no emotional attraction. There's no emotional tug. And you are not in a customer frame and the customer frame set says basically you pay for a service. You got a product. It ends there. Relying on money to get girls leading with your wallet, which is a lot of the time what tricking is. How a girl can tell if you're a beta male. Let's get into it, guys. Hi, guys. So number one, imagine this, right? You're on a date. You're paying for everything. But guess what? You're not seeing that she doesn't see you as a viable sexual option because guess what? At this point, she says, you know what? He's a cool guy, but he's not what I really want, but I'm going to finesse him because guess what? He thinks I'm going to smash, but I'm not going to smash. So guys, you're seen as a beta male because guess what? You can't read the sign that she isn't really into you.  And guys, this commonly happens when you take girls out on nice expensive dinner dates. That's why me and Fresh always tell you guys, when you take girls out, make your first date low investment because make no mistake about it, guys. There's a whole group of women out here that are calling themselves foodies dates.  So we're back. He's got some mojitos that she got. What'd you get? Passion fruit. Passion fruit. And I got coconut. It's so good. All right. We just had tacos and some ice cream. It was really good. What'd you get? We got the steak tacos, which you recommended actually very fire, guys. You've got to try it. Yeah. My night comedy show. I see how it goes. Midnight comedy show. I don't know how it's going to be. Hopefully it's good, right? I hope so. Let's hope so. Where's who you got? Rainbow Roll. Rainbow Roll. Okay. Rambler Roll. Okay. Rambler Roll. Okay. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Rambler Roll. Okay. We got the part of it. It's not how I said it. The thought counts. So, how does the taco go? It's good? It's not good? Fire? All right, guys. We're in a car right now. We were supposed to get dinner, but we're just gonna to title our time right now, so we might get sushi after at, you know, our favorite spot. Um, we are at the psychology right now. It's about the order. Season salad. We are a CPK California crucifixion. I got me some Caesar. It was got barbecue. It's got barbecue, right? California crucifixion, I got me some Caesar, we just got barbecue, what did you get? Barbecue, right? Barbecue, chicken. I love these ones, they're beautiful. Thank you, you've asked me up too much. Ah, nice and true. Yeah, we're here right now, honestly, we might go on a real deal of drive, I'm not too sure yet, but we'll see. But yeah, do you have that thing, ready to go? Yeah. Okay, yeah. That's all yours. Yeah, no worries. Let's see the bill. God damn, somebody's right money. I was kidding, I was kidding. She got me on, she's vegan, not vegetarian, but no, it's the other way around, vegan, there you go. It's so many terms. It comes with the rice, my boy got the rice now. Thanks brother. We got you. Appreciate it bro. Thank you man. Thank you. You're welcome. My heart is fire. Enjoy it guys. What did you get? Salmon. She got salmon guys. She got salmon guys. Healthy. Those are tostados here, plantains. The Salmon. The Salmon is, we got coleslaw, cream corn, salmon, broccoli and whatever that is, yeah. Salmon, not salmon. Is this salmon or salmon guys? Salmon or salmon. Call it salmon, but anyhow, the point is the point is here, so we're gonna dig in and yeah, it looks pretty good. See, it's funny. My girls go on dinner dates when they do the food, but never the guy. It's like, yo, we know you're with somebody. We're on to you. What's the problem though? I don't understand. No, no, it's fine. But you know, niggas that don't know, they don't know. What'd you get? It's a sorbysammon. Sorbysammon wrap. Look at that, man. Healthy eating. What's this? It's a latte with oat milk. Oh, no, latte. Cool. See, guys, three of you guys, you know, one of the best spots here. You got this. Right bottom. You're in trouble. No, it was a fan. It was a fan. Mohitos, right? Yeah. She wanted to get cucumber. I'm like, no. Get coconut. But first off, she wanted to call me and get coconut. Don't try these. Oh my goodness. There you go.  Mm-hmm. So here's all of our packages, and then all our cart guns. These are all pistols. So you can get a package and you can add on any of the guns. You got a table, right? Yeah. So I don't know what's going on. She's coming up now. So this is your second time in a McLaren, right? Mm-hmm. First time was when you're dead? Mm-hmm. Well, I'm the new dad. That's very real. No, but I'm pretty lit. Definitely. Hey, guys, we're going to head to get some food right now. You know where we're going. Piravita, awesome spot. Yeah, just left the club. Oh my god. This is the next day. Yo, legit? The sun is out. Oh, but like... This was the 24 hours. It's been like the show. We went to... And I felt like... No, wait. We did a show. It was amazing. We went to, um... Komodo. The show. And then we also went to... Mr. Jones. I'm still full right now, bro. Fresh food? Damn, okay. Cool. Hey, y'all want to hear a joke? The girls paid for this food. Yay! Did it? No. That was a joke. That was a joke. That was a joke. So it's okay.  Yeah. This is the visual demonstration.  Um, she's asking if I put pressure. Um, I guess sometimes I go insert tongue fully in. But you like to start slow, like, living around there. The rest of the night was great. After that, it was great. After that. Okay, guys, we're going to get some food right now. Um... I'm taking on, like, a little adventure. She doesn't know where yet, but, like, I got her. So, you know this thing, um... The Allstate thing. Your good hands with Allstate. Alright, never mind. Yeah, yeah. You know where I was going that. You're paying for the meal right now? Yeah. You're paying for the meal right now? She's paying for the meal right now. She's paying for the meal right now. Yes! Wow! Yo, superstar over here. Okay. Listen, I'm so honored. So, okay, I gotta know. How was the BBC? You're white. Huh. What? Yo, is it good though? What are you looking at me like that? Wait, what did you say? Did I hear you wrong? Yeah. Or did you actually say what I think you said? How was the BBC? Okay, that's what I thought I said. Anyhow, thank you for lunch. You're welcome. And, uh, thank you for, um... How's it taste? Good. Okay, I won't say. I got some elote here, man. I'm gonna go like... First thing, like, I don't really like cheese like that, but this thing is fire, man. Really fire. Are you ready?  Like, should I like mash it? Do you want to try it? No. Just try it for me. It's okay. It's all good. It's all good. Right now, right now. You already know. They're mine. They should look fire out. How much did you want them for? I just bought them for, like, $12,000. $12,000? $12,000 for LB shades? Yeah, they were... I had... It was like a deal. You got ripped off like a cocktail. No, that was a deal. That was a deal? Yeah, that's what people normally pay, right? Anyhow, how was your night last night? Had a cheeky? Had a fun night? Um, I did have a fun night, but I don't remember it. All right, y'all. We just saw our facials done. It's feeling super, you know what I'm saying? Like, sharp right now. How are you feeling? Good. That was my first facial. Yo, I surprised her, man. I was like, yo, like, they're going over here. She's like, where are we going?  Just pop up. And, yeah, there you go. And guess what? She earned it. You know why she earned it? Because she's a real one. Well, I feel like we didn't have to come all this way for facials. So, like, we could have just done that at home. Anyhow. So, um, just ungrateful. But, uh, yeah. Hey, you didn't get it? No. You didn't get it? Oh, facial? Oh. No, for you and not for me. I'm not going to have this like that. All right, we're about to go shooting right now. Are you ready to go shoot? Um, I made the edit. Right now, I'm in the studio. I'm going to go to Halloween Horror Nights. Um, it's pretty dope. I don't know where it is, though. Are you ready? Are you nervous? Oh, s***. Your turn. You're done. Your turn. You're done. Your turn. Mommy was trying to push you on the swing and you took advantage of her. And that's f***ing weird. Your turn. You're done. Oh, she's ready. Are we going to LV right now? Louboutin? What is going on here? She's literally dipping the fries into the Oreo motion. Yo, you want dessert, by the way? Huh? You want dessert? Sure. Man, she's ready to eat, man. I'm about to go broke.  She just bought Starbucks for us. This is amazing. So I got the water on deck. No, I'm okay. Thank you. Thanks for your Starbucks. You're welcome. I feel so white today. All right, you guys. We're going to play some games right now. We're here at the hot gun range. Hi. Who are you again? Um, I don't know. I just work here. You work here? I need a free session. You got me? No. I got a pay? You're paying double what Noro thinks.  Cookie monster? Bruh, it's no way. Pumpkin pie? This is fire. Are you showing me the good stories, man? All right. Girls, this one? Yeah, because this is like, we got Dior down here. We got Gucci. We got also LV.  Back, man. Trying to find a sugar daddy. Trying to find a sugar daddy. It stands out here for a young pin, but hey, for a girl, it's easy out here. Just hop in where you fit in and get it. Honestly, she didn't want to do this live stream. She's doing this for me. So I appreciate her for that. Do I know you? I don't know you. Given the truth. Okay. Like, beginning to end. So. How we met the honest truth. With no cap, we met on Seakin. Oh my God. Oh my goodness. Stickin' arrangements. Is that true? That is true. It is true. It is very true. So we're here at Tacoology. Favorite spot. And she doesn't know what to get. There's dessert, drinks, tacos. Straight to dessert. Straight to dessert. She's not playing with them. She's got a cookie monster here. Coffee break. This one looks fire. Nah, that's the best one to me. She got two. She's not playing with them. No. Holy smokes. I love my dessert. She's not playing with them. I love snacks. Guys, the butt heads to the club right now. One time she was like, she started watching my dog when I was doing shows and going out.  I can trust you with my dog. And I paid her to watch my dog. But she's like, hey, you know, she mentioned before I got my dog. She's like, hey, you know, she mentioned before I got my lights are about to go out in my house.  Oh, you know, I'm like, cool. Well, since I was with you anyway, use this for your light bill. So like, they're like, oh, he paid for sex, bro. I already smashed the first night. Like if I was paying for box, like it would have been before that. Like, so to me, just like they're making up lies because they want to pay me as like a bad person, whatever. But like, bro, like, this is normal. And then secondly, like we spoken about this on podcast meetings. They're like, you can go on those sites and meet people have a great time. Now, is it like long term? Probably not. But it's just like how this big spun a narrative is like, oh, fresh is paying for box. He's a sugar daddy. I'm like, bro, we do this daily, bro. And it's like, I don't know. It's weird, man.  You've seen how I act with them. What I'm about. Like it was paying for box. Like you would know off rip. Yeah.