Hi, I'm Linda Quinlan. I'm Keith Ghostland. I'm Ann Charles. Welcome to All Things LGBTQ. It's Tuesday, February 19th. We're going to be watching the Democratic debates later tonight, but the day will have passed by the time you see us. But anyway, we have a lot of headlines for you this evening, starting with Linda, with national headlines. Hello. Well, hi, Ann. That's you. Hi, Keith. Yeah. Well, speaking of politics, Roy Moore is back. Oh, good. Yes. Did he go away? No. Well, he lost the election. But let's hope they put him up again. The last time we saw him, he was riding his horse. Yes. Yeah, it didn't go far enough. Well, he blasted LGBTQ people during a 10 Commandments Party. Do you think he reads those 10 Commandments? 10 Commandments Party. There we go. OK.  Right? And our own Christine Hallquist endorses Bernie Sanders. Hallquist ran against Scott in a gubernatorial race here in New Vermont. I think she's the first transparent transgender candidate for governor in the country. Yes. That's what she meant to say. Yes, that's what I was going to say to endorse him. Pete Buttigieg responds to Rush Limbaugh. Right-wing minister claims being trans is a Jewish plot. Lily Tomlin is leaving her prince on Hollywood Boulevard. The professor who said he had the right to misgender trans students loses his case in court. OAC dismisses complaints about her appearance. AOC. AOC. Yes. What's her first? Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Yes. About her appearance on RuPaul's Drag Race. In Iowa, conservative proposed adding sexual orientation to marriage licenses. That's a really interesting thing. On Ohio bill, we'll send doctors to jail for years for treating trans youth. Texas Demias and Supreme Court put an end to the pro-LGBT California law. And Ohio mega church has reached an undisclosed settlement with a former employee. Buttigieg fundraises disrupted by queers against Pete.   Barbara Smith, a black lesbian feminist for social justice thinks Saunders is the best candidate. Trayvon Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, is suing Democratic presidential candidates be Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren. And in ancient mythology, Orpheus was a musician. Those beautiful folks and lyrical talent convinced the gods to return his dead wife.  And we'll have a picture of him now. And so there'll be more stories. That's an opera, right? It's an opera, yeah. A drag opera? A drag opera. OK. And we're going to have a picture of him right now. OK. So, yeah. A lot of head lunch. I do. She's been busy. I know. And it's only been a week. Trivia. And apparently, you kind of have to be from Vermont and probably Central Vermont to get it. Out in the mountains, front page, February 1991. It talked about a 40th birthday party that was happening at Contoy's Auditorium in Burlington for a native-born feminist performance artist who may have written the song, don't drop your goddamn bombs on me. Who was it? And then events. One of the things that's happening is the Pride Center is putting out a comprehensive list. And they're truly trying to get things that are happening statewide. They still have some hiccups. But it's making it really difficult for me to be able to report on events because it came out Sunday for this week. So if I were to tell you everything, they'd be over by the time this is aired. But please look at their website on coming events and know that there is now a monthly drag show that's happening at Wonder Bar in Bellows Falls in addition to what's happening at Merchants Hall in Rotland. That's interesting. So it looks as though people around the state are trying to come up with ongoing events so that there are creating forums for our community to get together. So what we heard at those town hall forums of, where is my community? We're creating that space again. So I like it. And there's a coffee, but that'll be over too. Coffee and conversation will have occurred by the time we'll be aired. If you're watching this, you missed it because it was this morning. It was great too. I'm not too sure about the dark coffee. And then we're gonna talk a bit about the news. People know about the V2O, the paid family and medical leave. Well, there's a little update, minimum wage. And then I wanna talk a little bit about the census because people are gonna start getting notices right off and why the LGBTQ plus communities, we really need to participate in how we're gonna benefit from it. And then I wanna talk a little bit about DNA and transgender. So, did you see? I saw that, it's very interesting. Just a passing comment for people to think about. And are we gonna talk about the film? So no. No. Okay. I have a film to discuss, but these are my headlines.  And that's it. I have a kind of a quaint quote from him.  And I have a clip of that, rejected by its home country. And here's where the films come in. This Georgian dance film has become a surprise hit. And I have a clip for you later. Other headlines. Anti-LGBT incidents in Israel increased by 36% in 2019. South London now has a permanent rainbow pedestrian crossing. Trans woman makes history representing Pakistan at the United States. Sports Ambassador Aum Zid Laythi on how to improve Asian and LGBTQ representation in sport. And finally, four arrested over the murder of Northern Irish journalist Kira Lyra McKee. So I can get to all these stories, perhaps. At least I'll be able to touch on some of them later in the program. But now let's go back to Linda. Well, thank you, Anne. Pete Buttigieg responds to Rush Limbaugh's insults about him and his husband. Pete appeared on Fox News with Chris Wallace and responded to Rush's criticism of his homosexuality. Pete said, I'm not going to be lectured to by the likes of Rush Limbaugh or anybody who supports Donald Trump as the moral and well-being of our political leader in the United States. As to the moral well-being. America is ready, he said, to move on from this kind, from their values. Rush said that Pete loves to kiss his husband on the debate stage, and that would be difficult for children to see. I was gonna say my nieces and nephews grew up with my doing it repeatedly, and they seem to have turned out okay. And my children too, I mean, they seem to be fine, but, you know. So moving on. Right wing minister claims being trans is a Jewish plot to make humanity androgynous. Rick Wiles hosted and agreed with guests who somehow managed to combine trans-hatred with the anti-Semitism. Their claims is that transgender is a Zionist plot. Rick Wiles has a radio show where he showcased Jana and Steve Ben-Noon, Messianic Jews that believe that Jesus is the true Messiah. And that salvation only comes from accepting him as your savior. Now, how anybody could have hatched that plan is, you know. Lily Tomlin is leaving her prints on Hollywood Boulevard. Her career as an actor, comedian, and producer has stretched over 40 years. Turner Classic Movies will honor Tomlin with a hand and footprint at the world famous Tell Chinese Theater. She has eight Emmys, two Peabody Awards, and the Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. I saw Lily Tomlin in Iowa City in 1976.  I saw her at the Flynn on tour doing Science of Intelligent Life in the Universe. And we had dinner together. Oh, you got me on that one. Yeah, there we are. I've never seen her. I have never seen her except on TV. AOC dismisses complaints about her parents on RuPaul's Drag Race. Conservative Charlie Kirk tweeted, I wonder why she never claims to be proud to pledge allegiance to the flag, time well spent in the Congress, he said, stochastically. Mike Dice called her a degenerate communist. Apparently, you know, like on, I haven't seen RuPaul's Drag Race as anybody, but anyway, they say I pledge allegiance to drag something, right? Or they make this statement. Well, it's just a humorous, yeah. Forever, I know, yeah. So that's what the context of this was, is like, well, she pledges allegiance to this drag show, but she doesn't pledge allegiance to the United States, which is totally ridiculous. But anyway, you're next. Oh, it's mine now? Yeah. Okay, so talking a little bit about legislation. In the House, in General Housing and Military Affairs, they're still talking about the resolution to issue the apology for eugenic-inspired sterilization. And this is essentially to Vermont's Abinac-y people. And Chief Stevens has already gone and testified, saying before there can be real healing to occur, there needs to be an apology made. So this looks as though it's moving through, it's gonna come out of committee and we'll be voted on this week. As people are aware, Governor Scott vetoed the legislator's version of the paid family and medical leave bill. And the Senate was able to override, the House was one vote short. Well, what he is now putting forward is the Sununu-Scott proposal, which has a wealth of benefits, but is a voluntary process. And in recent conversations between the LGBTQIA, Lyonson, Vermont and the administration, there has been a formal request to review the legislation to see their definition of family. Because what the legislature did was greatly expanded so that our relationships and how we form family are included and they have indicated a willingness to change their language to make the same inclusion. So that's happening. So what does volunteering mean? Is that like okay, people who wanna pay a can and those, how is that gonna work? I mean, it's business and employees would say, yes, indeed, we want to establish this process. It will happen if the business and the employees say, no, we don't wanna do it, it's not mandatory. What if the employees do, but the employer doesn't? I think that there is an RFP that has gone out to look at what would happen in those kinds of questions and how the funding matrix would be created because it may be that I as the employee pay into a bank that I can then draw from when I wanna use it, but there is not an employer matching donation or matching appropriation. Yeah, that doesn't seem very feasible to me, but. We'll see. Minimum wage, as people are aware, he vetoed this as well. The Senate has overridden it by a substantial margin, 24 to six, they only needed 20 votes. The House has yet to establish a time to take this up. The concern is that when the House voted on this and the compromise bill, they only had 93 votes supporting it. They need 100. I will tell you, it is a monumentous task to get seven votes, to get seven legislators to be willing to change their vote to override the veto. So we'll see what happens. Very discouraging, if I'm not mistaken. Exactly. So the other thing that people will know has happened as in Tuesday night was the public hearing on domestic violence and firearms H610 and the House Judiciary Committee has revised some of their language because they found where some of the language left it open for a challenge as to if it was or was not constitutional. They think they've corrected that. They're devoting this entire week to getting this bill out. Well, they should. So this is a priority for them. And that's because next week gets right into what's called crossover. If bills are not voted out of either chamber by the end of next week, the other chamber does not have to take it up during this session. So that means any bill that hasn't advanced that's ain't gonna happen. And one of my concerns is looking at House human services, the Older Vermonters Act, the committee hasn't voted on. And it wasn't on the committee schedule for this week. If it is a priority letting your legislator know that H611 Older Vermonters with the amended language which clearly includes us is a priority might be a well-placed phone call. I was gonna ask you, should we remind people about, I don't know, because we're not gonna take ear again for a little while about the event going on at the State House for LGBT visibility. That's March 31st. And we're gonna have another show between now and then. There's March 13th, though, which is a Friday, which is the coffee with the Lieutenant Governor. 830 to 10, which is earlier than some people may be up. I'm gonna try to make it. It'll be muffins and coffin and scintillating conversation. All right. All right. Let's go back to our friend, Putin, who said on Thursday that Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear that he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called parent number one and parent number two. As far as parent number one and parent number two goes, I've already spoken publicly about this, and I'll not repeat it again. As long as I'm president, this will not happen. There will be dad and mom. Who knows what he would do with our parentage bill from last year with de facto parenting where they could be parent three and four. Well, this isn't much of a surprise.  It's been eight years since all three members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to serve in a penal colony in Russia, charged with quote, premeditated hooliganism performed by an organized group of people motivated by religious hatred or hostility. Since then, not much seems to have changed. On Sunday, February 9th, the band were shooting a music video when Russian police broke into the location of the shoot and shut it down. Afterly, the song the video was for, the song the video was for Rage is dedicated to pain that we feminists and queer people feel being the enemies of the state according to the band. A police baton on my ribs. I'm singing with blood today are some of the lyrics. In Russia, spreading gay propaganda has been illegal since 2013. And it's supposed to prevent children from being exposed to information about homosexuality while protecting Russia's family values.  According to Pussy Riot spokespeople, they were accused of gay propaganda, extremism and making an illegal video when the rage shoot was raided. We had a contact, contract with the location and paid for everything they said in a statement. It did not matter because the police's task was to prevent a video shoot. They continued the Russian political police commanded to the studio where we were shooting to cut off electricity in the whole building. When we rented an electric generator, the police who surrounded the building did not let us bring the generator in to be sure we couldn't film. Later, we were kicked out of the building with no legal explanations. We lost $15,000 on video production. The video features 150 activists, most female and queer. Pussy Riot says they're planning on finishing the video in a stand for freedom of speech and expression in Russia. In the meantime, they've released the preview clip from the video above. So now let's watch the clip. It shows the beginning of the video where they were shooting and then the police barging in. So let's take a look at that. I'm surprised they're still able to function at all in Russia. They're such heroines. Yeah, and heroes. Yes. Let's go on to a film, if we may, in the same part of the country. It was filmed in Georgia and director Levon Akin's new movie may have been rejected by the country where it was filmed but elsewhere in the world, moviegoers are embracing it. And then we danced, opens in nine more North American markets this weekend on the heels of successful openings in New York, Chicago and other cities and a slew of festival screenings around the globe. Just not in Georgia. The native country of Akin's grandparents where he filmed his low budget surprise hit dance film. The film was dropped from the Tbilisi Film Festival last fall and I think I probably reported on it after massive protests at the premier term violent. Police and riot gear separated filmgoers from far right activists and angry Orthodox priests all because the film depicts a same sex relationship between two dancers auditioning for Georgia's national dance company. Yet the movie earned a standing ovation last year at Cannes and Sweden, the country that welcomed Akin's parents as immigrants submitted and then we danced to the Oscars for its entry as best international feature. It wasn't nominated then, but. Akin had been working in Swedish film and television for about a decade when he saw footage of Tbilisi's 2013 Gay Pride Parade. The event drew far more protesters than participants and brave marchers were just kids, Akin said. He wanted to tell a story about growing up in Georgia today and decided that dance would provide the best lens. It's somewhat rare to see a dance film that takes folk dance seriously and examines how economic privilege too often determines who gets to be a dancer. It's the case in so many countries, including Georgia and England and the United States, to be able to pursue art, you have to come from a rich background, he says.  And although the movie has drawn comparisons to call me by your name, Akin maintains that this is a coming of age movie, not a coming out movie. As he depicts it, Georgia's national company is run by homophobic tyrants, especially the director of the Junior Ensemble. Georgian audiences are saying we could have exaggerated him even more. They really do rage and throw things at the dancers. So now let's look at a clip from, and then we danced. Hi, it's Matpela. How are you doing? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. Do you have a cigarette? I don't have a cigarette. I'm a pro-monitor. I'm sure you're going to be a good dancer. Samy, come here. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm fine. How do you do it for a mother? If you want to look like a mother, you can do what you're told. How are you? I'm fine, I'm fine. So what if you want to get married then? Okay, I'll take it. I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant, when I have a baby. It looks good, and it's around. It's been released, and maybe we can get it. I know, I know. Do you want to hear more from me? No? Not at the moment. Okay. But we may get back to you. Good, I hope so, because I have a lot more to talk about. But maybe not. Apparently you're on probation. Well, this is really interesting because in Ohio, a conservative proposed adding sexual orientation to marriage licenses and punishing liars. Now this means a Republican lawmaker has proposed a law in Iowa Senate that would create a state record of people's sexual orientation on their marriage licenses. Now why they would want to do this is so it can be referred to during divorces.  I mean, who thinks this up? Apparently conservative Republicans with too much time on their hands. I mean, really. So if you've got to get over their obsession with their bedroom and our genitalia. Oh my God.  Oh God. And Ohio Bill would send doctors to jail for years for treating trans youth. A new Ohio Bill would turn doctors into felons for treating trans children with medically approved standard procedures. Doctors would be charged with a third degree felon for providing therapeutic or surgical procedures intended to alter the gender of someone under 18. Texas to me as a Supreme Court put an end to pro-LGBT California law, which we know says that in 2016 California passed a law that prohibits any state employee from going to states that don't have Right. Non-discrimination policies. So he's suing. He can't use state money to finance the trip or the seminar. Yeah. And Ken Paxton, the person who brought this suit, says that Texas has every right to allow adoption agencies to be in gay and lesbian adoptions if they so choose. We'll see what the outcome is. Of course Texas is manned. So what? It's Texas. Okay. So then we have the Buttigieg fundraiser disrupted by queers against Pete. The event took place at the National LGBTQ Center. The entry fee was $250 and featured Pete answering questions. Queers against Buttigieg oppose him because his stand on Medicare for all. They say he represents a white upper class sensibility that is not representative of the LGBTQ community. May I speak? Yes. I just read an article this week by Masha Gessen, that wonderful lesbian writing for the New Yorker, who kind of clarifies that the reason a lot of LGBT people oppose Buttigieg isn't of course that he's gay but that he's so mainstream. So it's again the divide between the revolutionaries and the assimilationists. So I think that's part of the trouble there. Yeah. That's a good point. He's a clear example of how we in our communities have been co-opted. So I just have to editorialize that probably the queers against Pete could be, maybe queers against Trump might be a little more. Well they said they- On the money. When he, when it was referenced I think in that he, someone or he said they're homophobic, they said no, we're queer. Yeah. Oh. Oh. So they were definitely, you know- I get it. Sure.  One is in critical condition. A stray bullet also injured a woman trying to get into her car with her wife nearby. This was a drive by incident. The car, the guys who were kissing's car was surrounded by men on all terrain vehicles who just randomly started shooting at them. And so who were the women shot? They happened to be in the parking lot. And they were two kissing each other? No. The two men were kissing each other. They were attacked by this group of men on an all terrain. And the two women were just getting into their car and were getting a stray bullet. Yes. Huh. Coincidentally. How interesting. Yeah. I was going to ask if there was something unique about the area that they were to- Or some event that they were coming from. I don't think so. It was like a shopping mall or, I don't know, something. Okay. And then Trayvon Martin's killer, George Zimmerman, is suing Democratic President candidates Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren for malicious defamation. He claims the two have painted him as a white supremacist and racist. And then who became the face of racial profiling after killing, that spawned a nationwide protest, was acquittative charges when he argued that he killed Martin in self-defense in a decision widely criticized as racist.  I hope that suit doesn't get very far. Yeah, we'll keep you informed if we hear more about that.  Orpheus was a musician whose beautiful voice and lyrical talent convinced the gods to return his dead wife. Is it Eurindice? Euridice. Euridice. Euridice. Euridice. Euridice. To the world of the living. In Euridice, a new opera by composer Matthew Achin at the Los Angeles Opera.  Holliday, a 35-year-old countertenor, the highest register for a male singer has an equal in the production of the music center's Dorothy Chandler's Pavilion. He portrays Orpheus's double, who sings on stage alongside the performer, cast as the mythical figure, Joshua Hopkins, in order to imbue his music with an ethereal element. One of Holliday's primary tasks in Euridice was diving into the nature of this role. The performer sees a dual role for his character. He is a supernatural being that speaks for Orpheus when Orpheus can't say something or when Orpheus wants to say something on a heightened level. Yet he is also an ally whose presence reminds Orpheus, I've got your back. You don't have to do it alone. I'll help you. So that sounds very interesting. I'm not a big opera fan. I haven't had a lot of exposure, I just want to say. But this sounds very interesting. Get tickets now. Fly out to L.A. So recent study that has been released, and it was looking at DNA and DNA markers, and they were specifically looking at people who identified as transgender. The sample size was large enough that it was a study of merit. It had scientific weight to it. They found, with the people who identified as being transgender, 21 different variants on their DNA. Now they're not ready to say they found a transgender gene, but as we continue to have this conversation, and as they continue to do research and response, they're coming up with more and more a physiological, biological support for people who identify as transgender or gender identity. And I remember that about a year ago, there was a study about brain patterning, you know, male versus female patterns, and they were able to clearly distinguish between the two, that those people who identified as transgender, their brain patterning followed that of their identified identity and not their biological gender at birth. So I'm continuously fascinated by, and we will tell you more. It's kind of a slippery slope though, isn't it? It's like as they find there is a gene, then people will want to correct the gene. It's a new frontier though. But at least we're starting to have the conversation, which is encouraging. The census is coming right up. Why we should participate is that there will be an option, if you are married, to identify that it is a same-gender marriage. You can also identify if it is a same-gender household who is not married. But it is not going to ask the question about sexual orientation and gender identity as had been proposed during the Obama administration. Why we in Vermont really need to participate is the estimate from the Census Commission of which I have been appointed, is they estimate approximately 4,000 federal dollars comes in for every person in Vermont that is included on the census. So if you have an interest in older Vermonters, we want to be included so that when they start talking about what are we going to do with the federal money coming in for elder services, we get a voice in that. So dates you should be aware of starting March 12th, you're going to start getting the invitation to participate and you're going to be able to do it either online or by phone. And they track it by, not by your name, but by your residence address so that if there is not a response back from your address, there will be two more notices that are sent to you asking you to participate. You're getting ahead of yourself. But yes, you can have tea and crumpets. You will get several more reminders. April 1st is when the real kickoff is they're really looking for participation. At the end of April, you'll get a final notice if there hasn't been a response from your residence address and then May 13th through July 31st, that's when they come knocking at your door. And by the way, as Governor Scott shared in his most recent press conference, they're still looking for a thousand workers to go out and do that door to door. If you're interested in part-time employment from May 13th to July 31st and you can pretty much set how many hours you're willing to work, they want to hear from you. U.S. Census, go online, register. All right. Okay. They pay pretty well, too, Eric. Yes, they do. Let's go to Israel where bad things are happening. Okay. An annual report by a nonprofit shows that 2,125 cases, mostly online but also by state officials, family members, and others of anti-LGBT incidents have occurred. 272 teens were forced to flee their homes. Anti-LGBT incidents in Israel increased by 36% in 2019. Israel's LGBT task force nonprofit reports. According to the annual report which was published for the seventh year, as I said, 2,125 cases were recorded last year, one or most or one almost every four hours. Most incidents happened online, primarily on social media according to the report. Online attacks spiked by 58% in August. A month after newly appointed Education Minister Rafi Parets backed gay conversion therapy and the fringe anti-gay Noam Party launched its election campaign. Now let's take a picture now. Let's look at a picture now of members of the LGBT community and activists protesting against this Education Minister in Tel Aviv on the 14th of July. The report added that 13% of the incidents of anti-gay bias came from state branches, particularly discrimination by employees of the administration of border crossings, population, and immigration. Dealing with marriage and parenthood records, requests to change one's gender and surrogacy abroad. 29% of the incidents happened within the family, the report said, adding that 272 teenagers were forced to leave their homes due to anti-LGBT harassment. About 8% of the cases happened in public spaces and 5% occurred in educational institutions. 3% of the incidents occurred in workplaces with about half the offenders being managers or bosses and half being colleagues. The vast majority of the cases, 60%, were recorded in the Tel Aviv area because a lot of LGBT people live there. And there are also many shelters and community centers there. 11% of the incidents were recorded in Haifa, 10% in Beersheba, and 9% in Jerusalem. This reality doesn't come out of nowhere. There are those who choose to feed it, this activist group added. It grows stronger when Israel's education minister wants to convert an entire part of society. We won't allow ourselves to be erased from the public sphere. We will protect the personal safety of the community members and we will continue taking action for equality and freedom, they said. So, trouble in Israel. What was that name of the movie we saw where the Israeli fell in love with the Palestinians? I know, I can't remember. It was really good. We'll have to look that up for next time. I can't remember the name of that, but that was really good. Let's look at the South London crosswalk now, if we could. Just because it's pretty. Where is it? Observe it on your screen. Although several temporary rainbows popped up around the capital during Pride Month, in Greenwich, Woolwich, Plumstead and Wimbledon, they all jazzed up the roads in a similar way. This is the first crossing in the UK to become a permanent fixture. It puts London in good company with Sydney, Paris and Vancouver, all cities with year-round rainbow crossings. What's the point of all this? Well, homophobic and transphobic hate crimes have doubled in the UK over the last five years, and according to figures released by Stonewall, more than a third of LGBTQ-plus people don't feel comfortable walking down the street holding a partner's hand. Herney Hill, where this crosswalk is, the gesture of solidarity comes after a succession of serious homophobic incidents in the capital. In May, a lesbian couple was attacked on a London bus. Remember, I showed you that. Both women were treated in the hospital. Still, the rainbow glow up might not solve a lot of problems, but it's still a nice nod to the LGBTQ-plus community at a time when that feels seriously needed in the capital. Do you think it's because of the conservative government thing? I do. I think a lot of same-sex couples don't feel comfortable holding hands in the US, either. No. May I continue? Good. I'd like to talk now. Apparently you passed probation. I know. I have a lot more to say, too. A trans woman makes history representing Pakistan at the United States, at the United Nations. Let's look at a picture of her. Her name is Aisha Mughal. She's way on the right at the United Nations Convention. She received this honor. She works with the Ministry of Human Rights in Pakistan and was one of the country's delegates at the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The delegation was led by the Ministry's Minister of Human Rights. She's an expert on trans rights. Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the government was taking responsibility for trans people who say they are routinely denied treatment and can face harassment or ridicule from hospital staff and patients. It also plans to separate hospital wards for trans patients. If I just may... You lost your place. She praised her country's record on trans rights saying Pakistan has become an example for the entire world with all the support from the government. I feel proud to be a Pakistani transgender woman. And then, as I mentioned in a previous report, Pakistan extended free healthcare to trans people in a landmark move. All trans people will now be eligible for free medical treatment including transition related care. The government is giving trans people a special health card that will give them access to an existing government health insurance scheme which was introduced in 2015 to provide health cards for those earning less than $2 a day. Although trans people will not face that financial test. Is that considered high income? Now, if I have time, I'd like to at least show you two more pictures. This one first is of sports ambassador Amazon Le Thay on how to improve Asian representation in sports. There's an interview that I read with her. She's a sport ambassador for Stonewall. And not only is she an activist for LGBT rights, she's also an activist about HIV positive considerations, talks about depression. She grew up in Australia and was bullied severely. She participates in the Rainbow Laces campaign which is a movement, an LGBT movement in the premier league of the UK. And she talks about all the problems, like the bosses, the managers, but mostly the fan base. How can you guide a fan base not to yell homophobic and racial slurs and so forth? And then one more sad story I'd like to get to you. I'd like to present. Share with you. That's it. It's about Lyra McKee and we remember her. I have her picture there before you. She was 29. She was shot on April 18, 2019. An acclaimed journalist. She was killed in the Cregan area of Derry. In Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland. And four men aged 20, 27, 29 and 52 were arrested this morning under the terrorism act. After the new IRA claimed responsibility for the death. Her death sent shock waves through the UK and Northern Ireland. It was met with an outpouring of grief in media circles and in the LGBT community. And you may recall she was about to propose to her partner. She was planning to propose to her girlfriend at the time of her death. And they of course didn't get to marry in now Northern Ireland.  Allowed. Allowed in Northern Ireland. But very tragic. So there she is. And the police still haven't solved the problem. They've arrested these four men but they're saying oh please if you know anything. Because they have footage of right before she was shot but it's not really very conclusive about who did it. So we don't know who they are but the police know who they are. Right. They've arrested these four people. But it's still pending and they're still issuing calls for the public to report. If you saw this please back up what we think we know. Right. Right. So that native born feminist performance artist. Yes. That escaped both of them. You know. Wrote.  It may be Janice Perry who was born in Barry and is also known as Gal. And she had some sold out performances here in Vermont. And actually in Germany she has a large fan base. So. Is she still alive? Yeah. Oh yes. She's still performing. I wonder why she. I've never. You need to get out. How old is she? Well we all know. Yeah. She was 40 in 1991. Get out your calculator so please get back to us. And with that we say. 70. I would say she's in her 70s. It says smarty pants. Somewhere in her 70s. Alrighty then. And with that and the DOJ and everything that's happening with Barr and in these frightening times we live in I don't know if we'll recover ever. But we'll have each other. I have hope. And we'll try to have each other's backs. In the meantime please. Resist.


y circumstance as it presents itself at that time and again just to clarify there is no will for police Scotland not to do this what i'm simply saying is that there's perhaps opportunities to widen the number of authorities that can enforce it and there have a greater impact and i do wish to make that absolutely clear we're in no way abdicating responsibility for doing this but i do want to be very frank with Parliament and say about our capacity to do this over a long period of time and there are other opportunities as well. Necessity to ensure that community wardens traffic wardens what action would be necessary to create that wider partnership is there any additional powers that we need to have? Yeah i mean again i don't know is the answer i would assume there would need to be some extension either to this legislation or local bylaws but if you look through the walk through the sheets of Glasgow as i did at the weekend i saw a number of community warden issuing fixed penalty notices for litter so again whilst it might be a rarity for them to have the ability to deal with somebody on a car that's smoking with a young child is better than not to have the ability even if they don't use it on many many occasions and again i'd like to echo colleagues comments about partnership and education it's something that we do in every aspect of road safety right across the whole road safety spectrum and so we are very much signed up to that and we would absolutely work in partnership with colleagues around the education aspect of the smoking and so again there are opportunities here and again we are very happy to offer our advice on that. Any other response to? Yeah i've just had a couple of points and the first one being that many local authorities throughout scotland have warden based services to meet the needs of their local community so they will go out and they'll do things with dogfiling littering and they are skilled with some legal procedures and the ability to serve fixed penalty notices another comment i would like to make is something that was quite missing from the bill is although we are working at enforcement there was nothing really mentioned about working with industry so for example car dealerships and where people are actually buying cars when cars are going for the MLTs for example and putting some advisory notices through that particular system and that's another avenue that we would potentially ask government to consider but there's no barrier to giving additional powers to people who are already existing powers through littering there's no barrier per se it's easily done no it comes only down to training incompetence with the officers we're giving those powers to make mckenzie once and if nobody else covers it we need to come back to some of the others maybe unintended consequences like getting a ride for every child in the children's act and and the potential that was mentioned earlier about third parties reporting smoking cars and how that would be dealt with but make mckenzie thank you convener it was my question is really directed at professor button because i'm i'm a bit surprised at the law society in suggesting this kind of vicarious liability on the part of drivers for somebody that might happen to light up a cigarette and just at that moment you know a passenger and the driver could ask them to desist or whatever but they may be on a motorway they may be on a bit of road but it's just not possible to stop and assistant chief constable higgins or one of his sharp-eyed colleagues happens by at that moment the blue light goes on and the poor old driver is a wonderful sort of if you were representing a client in court who happened to be a driver of that vehicle what kind of defense would you mount on his you know in order to try and prevent his conviction and then i've got a further point about the the nature of this being a form of summary justice and perhaps the the police feeling under some kind of pressure to produce a set of statistics that show that they're enforcing this and again just the the opportunities for and i take it that you know i'm not implying any good faith on or bad faith rather than the part of the police but you know the the opportunities for mistakes about age of children you know i know some 18 year olds that look younger you know and just take you back to your days as a law student when justice was perhaps maybe more uppermost in your mind than i'm getting the sense that it possibly is now oh mr mckenzie that's a terrible thing to say indeed thankfully i'm an academic and won't be defending or representing anybody in court you talked about vicarious liability a driver of a vehicle i think has a very very special responsibility in relation to road safety now i know that here we're talking about the health and wellbeing of the occupants of that vehicle so point that the example we already made was that if a child under the age of 14 is not wearing a seatbelt then the responsibility for that child to wear the seatbelt is incumbent with the driver there hasn't been anybody that's given evidence this morning in this session who is not very very supportive of this bill and the issue then tends to be effectiveness a good use of resources and ensuring that if this legislation is going to be passed that it is as effective in protecting young people as it possibly can be so i'm certainly not trying to be draconian i'm trying to take a practical approach in relation to a set of circumstances that everyone has said can be challenging in terms of enforceability um i believe on behalf of the society and i personally believe as well there could be a statutory defence built into the legislation to say that the driver of the vehicle reasonably believed that the people in the vehicle were all over the age of 18 um and we'd be able to be on the uh beyond a reasonable doubt we'd be able to use that as a statutory defence but if we're looking at ways of being able to set a good example in relation to smoking cessation strategies there's been some evidence um more in other countries New Zealand Canada Ireland where such legislation has been a little bit more established to say this is a very effective way of setting normalising behaviours that people don't smoke in vehicles so we have to use the resources as effectively as we can and that to me seems the most logical way of doing it the second point you made i don't feel i'm even beginning near qualified enough to answer that so perhaps my any other responses to Mackenzie's question mr again yeah in terms of the enforcement and my sharp-eyed colleagues again that would just be down to professional judgment i mean i think i think that's what we ask our officers to do in every point one of the things that we train our officers from day one in police scotland as well as our ethos around treating every day with fairness integrity and respect is that you have to use your professional judgment and on occasions discretion so whilst we might stop somebody that's smoking and they have young children in the car it isn't necessarily the case that they would always get a ticket and it might well be that part of the enforcement strategy is exactly that that the police officers issue as many warnings as they do tickets and so there's a whole round way that we can work jointly and make this legislation as an impact of as you wish it to be that's very reassuring if with your indulgence convener i'll just come back to professor button because with the greatest of respect i don't feel that you're really properly you know answered the question but perhaps i could rephrase it in a slightly different way um you haven't made the case i think for the merits of prosecuting a driver rather than the passenger that's committing the offence and i'm not clear where the advantage is in prosecuting the poor old driver for vicarious you know liability rather than just prosecuting the passenger that may may be convicting committing the offence i don't think it's the role of the law society to look at issues of prosecuting anyone in our submission we were considering the robustness of any possible legislation prosecution is not the remit of the law society being able to contribute to effective legislation is hopefully within the remit of the law society and that's what we try to do in our submission the decision on whether to prosecute would lie if the vehicle was moving with police scotland and my colleague here has already said they would take a practical approach they have experience already in relation to other road traffic offences and they would apply that experience convener i can only comment that yet again i'm disappointed that you know the law society as i understand it have suggested that if this legislation goes forward if this bill's passed then it should be the driver that has a you know a liability under this law rather than the passenger or a passenger if it's the passenger that's committing the offence i would be really pleased if you'd be able to describe why it is you feel that the driver should have this legal liability you know and not a passenger if it was the passenger that's committing the offence i don't i don't understand what you feel the merits of this argument are i can only reiterate what i said already that it's first of all a responsibility we're trying to take a responsibility in relation to protecting young people in a vehicle setting good patterns of behaviour to protect their health and wellbeing and on the basis of the law society's understanding in relation to issues of enforceability other jurisdictions have introduced legislation that is before this committee today and the thing they keep going back to is the challenges in enforceability and one possible consideration for the committee would be that it may be easier that the responsibility is incumbent on the driver Is there any other views on whether it should be incumbent on the driver or the person who spoke with us Brian? The institute's response is that it's the driver's responsibility and the most simplistic terms is without the driver the car can't go anywhere or the vehicle can't move so they are responsible for those who they are transporting in that vehicle we understand there may be some situations where the driver may not be able to control the behaviour of individual passengers but that comes under to what should be considered as a defence to allow someone to smoke in the vehicle. Any other comments? Police Scotland got a view on it or come on now? You know you could you could describe the the causing permit you know so if you're in charge of the vehicle and you cause a permit somebody to commit an offence then you're as liable as the person committing the offence so again not wanting to give you another option but potentially you could charge both the driver and the passenger. Look at that for a neutral stance put that in your pipe and smoke it. Richard Lyle Thank you. I think you sat through the session with Mr Clark. Have you not just all of you made the case for Mr Clark? We've now got police, council officers, traffic wardens, community officers, the general public, CCTV and by the way we're going to set up roadblocks to pull you over you know have we not just went from the police who do a good job in checking people for seatbelts, drunk driving on the phone and and as they're driving by generally most of your cars have two officers still in them checking somebody you know with the their maybe as I said earlier on I've got two kids seats so you can see my three-year-old grandson my one-year-old granddaughter sitting in the back and basically you know have we not just made the case for Mr Clark saying in for me in for me you've all got it in for me. I don't agree with that Mr Lyle I think my opening comments I talked about the number of people that are dying in Scottish roads and that's a priority for Police Scotland now smoking cigarettes as we understand it is not a causal factor for people dying in Scottish roads but it's a significant health issue so what we are saying is that in terms of the the benefit to the health of the nation we absolutely get it and we absolutely support it but the reality is I'm not going to be setting up roadblocks to check for people smoking in the cars because I need my officers on the fast roads the big roads the roads where people are dying and tackling the issues the issues that that cause people to die in our roads and if I can draw a very um forgive me crass comparison um dogfouling dogfouling is a huge concern huge concern right across every community they tell us you know it's anti-social it's unhealthy um we still have powers um to deal with dogfouling but more often than not it will be the community wardens in that particular area that deal with it so what I'm saying is absolutely we've got a role to play in enforcing the legislation but in terms of the impact of our priority to make the roads safer and reduce the number of people killed then it won't have a huge impact on that and as such we would have to prioritise what action we take to actually reduce the number of people that die in Scottish roads and I daresay that smoking would not fall into that category so whilst we would absolutely enforce it all I'm suggesting to committee is that you look beyond the role of the police and see who else could assist in that aspect of the legislation bearing in mind that all colleagues at the table have also said that it can't be done in isolation it's got to be a collaborative partnership approach and actually it's got to be in the back of a fairly robust education programme as well. Professor and then Mr Old. I would just like to support exactly what's being said there one would hope that any form of criminal sanction would be a last resort it would raise awareness it would perhaps make people think about whether or they not they smoke in a vehicle it might help them perhaps consider whether or not they would look for other smoking cessation strategies change their pattern of behaviour how they wish to enjoy a cigarette I would be hoping that as one aspect of a whole range of measures this is something that just raises the profile the statistics are incontestable in relation to the dangers of secondhand smoke one billion people will die worldwide by 2050 I think these are beyond argument there are less statistics available in relation to the benefits of having legislation such as what's before us today but those jurisdictions that do have it are acknowledging that it does start to show an improvement in young people and smoking related disease and setting importantly particularly for teenage years setting a pattern of behaviour that these people will not smoke in the future so this should not be something that we rely on as a first point this should be part of a measure but something that perhaps just raises that awareness in people's mind to perhaps make other choices themselves and empower them to make choices Mr Old's coming back but I mean your professor is legislation he made an argument I think everybody's made an argument of educating and campaigns and whatever whatever it's a point being made for legislation I think is it's the next question legislation that is going to be difficult to enforce low on the priority to enforce because there's a lot of bigger you know and you know so it's that question isn't it about whether this legislation is is necessary to do that or whether we just do a better job in communicating and educating I think that's a lot of society's points of view we believe the legislation is necessary okay Mr Old I would just like to reiterate convener I agree with everything that's been said up until now with regards to that and with respect to Mr Lyle with the examples that you had given about the different enforcement options available it'd be very unlikely all that we've undertaken simply on our resource premises sorry I don't mean to show any disrespect with that enforcement authorities work under many different tools and what they want to to ensure is compliance through advice education publicity guidance and a fair and reasonable approach to enforcement and I do agree enforcement is regularly regarded as the last sort of method that you would use to ensure compliance and that was certainly seen through the smoking ban as well I mentioned earlier on about the number of fixed penalty enforcement notices served in Scotland and it is relatively a short or a small number with regards to how long the legislation has been enforced and that is partly due to the enforcement activities undertaken by regulatory bodies enforcement should be seen as the last resort to any form of compliance and that also supports the principles of best regulatory practice most of the panel sitting there witnesses all said that they could take part in the police can issue tickets council officers can issue tickets for dogfowling for the successful campaign you have in Sorka Hill Street and other places in Glasgow for people throwing down cigarette butts you can get a ticket traffic wardens can give you a ticket community officers you have in Glasgow can give you a ticket you know I've just mentioned everybody but everybody could pick on and the point that Mr Clark made earlier and that wasn't supporting him if you listened quite closely to the point I was putting I'm a smoker I believe this legislation is required but you've just made the case for Mr Clark that everybody is going to pick on the smokers who sit in their cars thank you Candina the point I was trying to make is you're absolutely right in terms of who can deliver the enforcement activity but I don't think it would be reasonable to expect that all these activities will will be undertaken at exactly the same time because there is just not the resources to do it so I think it will be up to the local enforcement authority to determine what would be the best course of action to ensure enforcement with the legislation I mean I think we all understand that most people are law abiding would comply anyway so it's not context and the context you know the focus on enforcement here today is because of the nature of the panel that we have here today you know so you know that's where your focus takes it so I've got Bob Doris and then Dennis Robertson. Thank you convener in the written evidence we we've got some information in relation to whether there's enough clarity in the bill in relation to exemptions for certain vehicles where it was used for human habitation and the the term where it was used not less than than one night whether that's mobile homes or caravans I just this been opportunity for some of the witness maybe to put their their own perspective on the record during the evidence sessions this afternoon. Scotland perspective I'm quite content with the exemptions as laid out there's there's nothing that we'd want to come back on in that point. Everyone agree with that on the record Mr all? Yeah we fully agree with the exemptions as described within the bill I think the the main area of contention from us was around convertible vehicles I think there's an argument for and against. In terms of the science behind convertible vehicles I think it's still a moving feast when we talk about third hand tobacco smoke and people think when you're in a convertible car the cigarette smoke will dissipate quite freely but a lot more people drive convertible cars with windows up so that prevents a barrier and there's now more evidence coming through about how volatile organic compounds for example a safe gun or an upholstery and how long they remain therefore and how they are getting into into the human biological system so at the present time we would fully support removing convertible vehicles from the exemptions and being enforceable for those driving convertible vehicles. Anybody any any no responses on going to third hand smoke that's a lesson for those who smoke in their car when their grandchildren are not in it anyway we'll leave them pondering on that one. Thanks for that I've got Dennis, Dennis Robertson. He's made me smile today it's unusual. Most people are law abiding I think we all accept that. Early along this year there was another piece of legislation came into being which gave powers not duties to local authorities in terms of the disabled parking the blue badge legislation and that was brought about because there was a non-compliance by some people in the general public. Are we saying that we need the legislation because the education hasn't worked so we need to actually have something there to make to try and enforce the sensible approach to smoking in cars when there's children because that's what we had to do in terms of the other legislation because there was a situation that it you know for years we thought the message had got across it obviously didn't so we had to bring forward legislation. Do you see this as a similar situation maybe Police Scotland first? I think that's a very difficult one for me to answer Mr Robertson and I'll tell you why again at the risk of repeating myself we concentrate on road deaths and fatalities so frankly there are child protection potentially child protection issues with smoking in vehicles but in terms of actually us reducing fatal and seriously injured people on Scottish roads this hasn't really featured in our radar. I probably don't know more about park vehicles and obviously police officers sometimes are obviously on the beat as well and that was a situation because before it was only police officers that could enforce that aspect and now it's been widened to council officers etc in this partnership collaborative partnership it sounds very sensible to me and I'm just saying that the education in itself doesn't seem to have got the message through so is this why we require the legislation and this partnership approach? I think that there's a to my mind a clear correlation between making something illegal and diminishing it and we're never going to eliminate this thing but what will happen is if it becomes known to the public that this is a criminal offence people will correspondingly stop doing it. Not everybody but the majority people do the seat belt ban the seat belt requirement was probably the first obvious case of that and personally I believe that it's not really a fear of being caught that stops people, deters people it's actually the fact that it's now become socially unacceptable so if you're happy with it that the impact that it will have upon people to that degree that may just be enough to satisfy us all but it certainly won't eliminate smoking in cars with children but it'll probably reduce it quite significantly and do we give another one to you there? I just think that when we're trying to make that big cultural change and make people good responsible citizens and allowing children to have a voice enforcement just becomes the next step to making that cultural change unfortunately it would be great if people were responsible and actually we the education and prevention stuff the intervention stuff actually had a wider impact but I think when enforcement's there people then start to question that actually this is enforceable and it also starts to change that whole cultural element of actually what is acceptable and what's not acceptable. Do we give the local authority the powers rather than a duty through this bill so it means that they can or they cannot I mean if they give them the powers it's up to them as to whether or not they obviously go down that road of enforcement or not. The duty obviously is a completely different approach and obviously is more about ensuring that the law is is complied with. Should it be powers or duties? Yeah again Police Scotland's position would support that Mr Robertson again I don't think the legislation would have the impact if we were the sole enforcing agency and as I said earlier it's better to have the ability to do something and use it rarely than not have the ability to do it at all. Anyone else? Okay just on like some views on Police Scotland's submission in regards to potential consequences of legislation in regard to something we found smoking in the car which would lead to a concern that would lead to including a raising of a child concern forum which would be shared with the name person under getting arrived for every child principles and Children and Young Person Scotland Act does it does everybody agree that that would have that for it you know if somebody's speeding me a child in the car does it there's a consequence run that that person is putting that child in danger in a report and you know. Circumstance in certain circumstances where the road traffic agencies might end up doing that but the purpose within the submission was to highlight this as being because there's obviously the public health concern and the wider was just to make that issue you know just to air that issue to say that actually is the expectation that you know as we're finding children who are believed to be in a position of harm that we will be looking at these child wellbeing and concern forms and that would obviously go to the name person and that then allows you to then take that to a different sphere in terms of education or intervention with parents through the named person through schools or whatever but obviously there's an implication for local authorities and for the named persons to take that work on and in terms of repeat offending how that might continue. Has anyone else thought about that issue or no? It might be useful if some of our other witnesses would give that consideration Professor or indeed the local authorities in any impacts on their responsibilities. I suppose the other one that was raised about the third party reporting you know and you know given what we've heard in terms of lists of priorities if somebody was reporting on a regular basis when the neighbour or the guy across the street was taken to kidsdie school they would smoke in or whatever whatever would that result in an investigation would that would people act on that third party reporting? Mr Hamilton. He would come down to this bit about the duty and responsibility. I think that it happens all the time with pubs so we would respond. There's a workplace with somebody smoking if we just look at the scenario if we were advised that a neighbour was driving a car regularly with a child and I would think it wouldn't be unreasonable for us to approach the individual and warn them and warn them the fact that this had been observed or reported to us and that they should be mindful of the fact that they're committing an offence. I can't see us taking formal enforcement action in the back of a third party report. Mr Higgins. Very similar position convener if you've got a third party report then we would be duty bound to do something with it. I would have envisaged it would be a simple contact with the person who allegedly is committing the offence highlight the fact that it's been brought to your attention and simply asking them not to do it. I do not envisage fully investigating it in a traditional sense as in going and taking statements from people and doing scenes of crimes examinations on the car. We would have to have an absolutely proportionate and pragmatic response to it and it just echoes what my colleague has just said there. Mr Old. I completely agree with what's been said by my colleagues across the table for reactive third party reporting. What I mentioned earlier on and I wasn't sure if you're going to come back to it was third party proactive reporting where we perhaps work with the motor industry. So when you are putting your car in for an MOT, if there is evidence that there is children being transported in the car and there's evidence of cigarette smoking for example, there's perhaps an advisory notice given. I'm not suggesting it's then reported to Police Scotland or another authority, it just comes under this educational approach of advising. Professor. A brief point. We have to remember that the ultimate aim of this bill is to reduce harm and to protect the health young people. So one would hope that all of the stakeholders involved in taking this legislation forward, if it does go forward, we'd remember that that was the priority there. I think a view should be taken that's very different from running a red light to trying to protect the health and wellbeing of occupants of a vehicle. Yes, I think maybe that's what the police have been saying to us all morning in terms of whether there's a clear role just for the people. We'll take all of that away and consider that. There's one final question just following on from Bob Doris' question about the question of human habitation and not less than one night, and again here we're talking about enforcement. How would something like that, everybody would be supportive of it, but how would something like not less than one night be enforced? It's a very difficult one, convener. If it was on a campsite, for example, you'd be able to see when the camper van arrived on the campsite and how long they were tethered there. If it's in a cab of a lorry that's parked up overnight in a lorry park, so again it just goes down to assessing what you see in front of you at that particular time and applying a pragmatic common sense approach, although speaking out louder if I've got a child in the back of a lorry camping overnight then there might be wider issues than just simply smoking, but I was trying desperately to think of an example there, but it would be simply assessing the circumstances as you see in front of it and taking a pragmatic common sense approach. Anyone else, Mr Rhold? I think it's just to add to the point that it's for people's home, so motor homes for example, and it's not for those that are maybe being rented, for example camper vans and travelling round, because they're already covered under the smoking band for such vehicles. Right, okay, thanks for that. Is there any other, excuse me, nearly stretched these there, sorry about that. Is there any other questions from the committee members? Can I thank you all very much for being with us this morning, the written evidence you provided and the good evidence you provided to us orally today. Thank you all very much for your time and evidence. Thank you. Is there anything? Yeah, we'll just close there's nothing else there is there. Well we'll close the meeting at that point. Thank you all for your patience and participation.


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The software and technology tools available, there are many, but I don't pay attention honestly sometimes to the technology. The most important is the human contact that we can have, the collaboration that we have, the interaction that is very important and also, as I said before, the mentoring process. I have to tell you that I'm very happy to be with you. Thank you so much for your attention. Welcome to Costa Rica. Welcome to contact me for any collaboration with international here in America, in Central America, South America, and in Latin America. I will be happy to help you to contact different faculties for exchange programs for working in this, because I believe that in these global times, it is important this kind of collaboration among scholars. This is my contact for all of you and I'm going to be happy to answer an email, to answer any question that you have, if you want to know more about that. Thank you very much.


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That's like impossible to open Zack Levine orange to 199 those my hands are like on fire After those days, I need to like recover for a full day LeBron elite dominators hollow If we do a full case even the three boxers are tough full case is like Green shade on sharp to 149. I just won there congrats to the Blazers mark de No easy buckets Yeah, when they don't open like perfectly, it's the worst Herbert Jones hollow It's tough for sure three cards. Yeah, every Pokemon fact don't open that easy.  Do you mind? So come up some new breaks. Oh my god, dude, yeah, that's tough I like whenever I step away, I have to like Palo Ben caro Eric Gordon to 199 like when I whenever I send it to commercial. I have to step away It's always to just like walk around and like get up and move So I don't have to like Keep going on. I've always have to take like a two three minute break Benedict Matherin Probably tomorrow would be my guess Eric. We have one football break tonight, but it's a basketball release day So we mostly have basketball today So I think we'll probably have some football breaks tomorrow would be my guess either tomorrow most likely in the night Jalen Williams hollow rated rookie brick heels Yeah, no problem, Eric. You got it, buddy Photon Kawai for the clips nice one there There you go Vaughn Kawai photon Glen Rice to 99 for the heat Nice one there on the dominators auto Glen Rice going to Ryan S with the heat to your two hit Raining threes hollow it Dirk Nawitzky. Oh, Jay Sean Tate a green Darius Basely for the funder to 149 Hollow Keldon Johnson, Yana space. Oh, geez blow. I knew they were gonna win the garden It's Keegan Murray. Hollow lights out is Donovan Mitchell Blue Zion nice one there to 49 for the pelicans Although they got smoke in Miami now though The rookies chat home grin so on Green Danny of Dia, there you go Vaughn the 149 Danny of Dia No context any of Dia. Hello, KCP Jaden Hardy Any of you cut them I cut them Mark DeRose and hollow and guys not to go break soon spots mark down 700 on the next one again guys if you have a lot of points accumulated in your account It's definitely a good time to even get an eminent spot even lower than what we have it at right now 1800 per spot On eminence Max Christie blue shea dominators in the 49 hollow jaw The gris orange PJ Tucker to 199. We have a big hit in this pack right here I mean in this box Kennedy Chandler hollow feeling something big Green auto maybe Pink Velocity Isaac Acoro for the Cavs to 79 still got two more cases after this Followed by a full case of Our honors mixer can think of it for a sec E-transant Lee to 99 for the jazz nice one there elite series Congrats, Utah 80 the original 80 We've got the two more cases than our honors mixer full case of Bowman and then eminence at the end of the night Hello, James Weisman. Hello reigning threes Fred Van Blee. Hello Zion for the pelicans basket balls Dalin Terry Rookie for the bowls Christian Brown Rookie. Hello elite dominators ant-man Pat Connaughton Hello stargazing James Harden red KCP to 99 for the nuggets tabious called well poop Green Jalen Williams to 149. That's J. Will J. Y. L. I. N. Williams Hello, Julius Randall right on to the next one. This might be over Kp Kristoff's poor zingas for the wizards basketballs Think so. Yeah. Hello, Aaron Wiggins March on Bo chant Pat Bev. There's osmane jeng rated rookie signatures for the thunder Thunder on the redemption kawaii and Luke Gnard reigning threes tray young Hello, Jimmy Butler played Thompson All stars red Austin Reeves to 99 for the Lakers AR 15. Oh, Doug McDermott Dougie mcbuckets Spurs lights out Donovan Mitchell Zemobly Frans Wagner nice one there second-year black velocity grads on that there magic 29 of 39 Ochaic Bajie. Hello, Darius Garland Nicola Jovic basketballs rated rookie for the heat reigning threes hollow Tatum Yeah magic, especially when they have the black jerseys on They look so good Jalen Duren orange Gary Harris to 199 osmane jeng Hello, Danny Green for the calves Hello, Vince Williams jr The gris and shade on sharp right there red reigning threes Jordan pool to 99 for the warriors All right halfway through the case guys Where'd this guy disappear to I don't know he didn't play well Yeah, I play well and uh in the series And guys nine to go spots on sale I texted for us the pick of the uh gold vinyl and he goes lol magic legend auto-porter Marshawn Bochamp Buddy yield Josh Hart Hello Kenneth Walton jr for the gris Yeah, I know what you mean. I see you're saying kj pat bev hollow. Let's go for the magic basketballs tim hardaway jr for the maps lime green pg 13 for the clippers to 149 Oh Gold vinyl is vlatko kankar rookie auto for the nuggets one of one Congrats denver Oriole see there we go Oriole Vlatko kankar rated rookie auto one of one I saw the v and I saw the nuggets look I thought it was I thought it was uh yokech Ah, that's awesome. Congrats on that denver That's got to be potentially the best vlatko kankar on uh card in existence though Let me think about that card stand in vlatko for sure That's true. There is no there is no v in yokech I don't know what I saw I saw the nuggets logo and it looked It looked like a european white guy. So there you go Get him on ochi agbaji There's donovan mitchell That's got to be the best card in existence of vlatko kankar Hello tj warn that's the andre hunter also he put dollar sign 31 instead of number 31 That's pretty cool shade on sharp Uh red pj washington to 1 to 99 that's still pretty cool though Yeah, you see nuggets and you hope joker for sure Hello all-star I hate this guy I really do Hello kz You like uh Best card in existence of vlatko kankar. Oh rookie auto for the uh nuggets. I'm in the money sign Yeah, he put money 31 instead of number 31 That guy gets it that guy is That guy money on his mind got a gold now. That is set curry for the nets I swung there to 10 For the nets Yeah, exactly And patrick baldwin jr to 99 One of those funny things where he got his uh, his rookie at his fourth year Yeah, I love to say orange josh christopher to uh, 19 or yeah, 199 Okay, oh Malcolm Brogdon again guys Dudley over here. That's kyle's new name If you're watching the stream That's what i'm saying. This vlatko is dope. That's got like I said, it's gotta be like his best card in existence There's no way there's a better card of him out there right now than this Uh nemhard rookie I won't believe it if you tell me there isn't I'm not believing you. Hello, andrew wiggins Yeah, yokich yokich davis matchup would be pretty sweet jaylen williams I mean it's currently it's angling that way Hello lights out stefker. It's angling that way for sure Like wesley 299 optic dominators nice one there spurs Kid n grats for the spurs Who's that? That's pierce neem. Jabari smith jr We're just losing it. Here we are. Your new name's dudley by the way. You have a locker over there Dudley dudley von sterk There you go Walker kessler pink velo stef curry nice to 79 Uh 15 of 79 15 is half 30 30 jersey number.  Let's go rockets marvin marvin n Congrats marvin. That's awesome. Let's go marvin. Get that mag for you marvin Herbert jones base right there as well Hello stargazing kade for the pistons. Hello, marvin bagley. It looks like a bernards double felled It just came to me Junior the sixth. All right now jake Hey, this is jake. Hello, gary patin. I know we're hitting good black velocities today for sure Good black velo's Hello aj griffin rookie and a hollow tai-tai washington caro dear Chasing jackie moon. Yeah Hello, mark williams What is it earnest stinson Can't you do earnest, huh? Did I give two artists? Yeah, you gave christian brown Uh, earnest mccreerson over there. That's right. Something stinson is worth Scotty barnsall. What is it? Benedict stinson His middle name is how long? There's dairies garland 2199 The Pablo black people Jason kid to 99 optic dominators auto for the suns There you go fian. I think that's their only auto in the entire checklist. So nice one there. You hit it Let's go suns. You who to be The third Hello Tatum Levine Green is david at roddy rich to 149 Terence man There's elite dominators to 99 that is Jason Tatum red Losanchez black velo use of nerk itch This is a pink velocity oj not to be 279 want to play backyard baseball Red bones island for the clippers God It's dominators thought of in michael christ paul hollow. That was so funny when you put the names Uh, ej ladel and base. All right onto the next box three left Three in the morning I'll put a jay shawntate. Yeah, I do Ochaic vajie red is josh richardson to 99 Okay, random green lights out jaw. That is two of five Here you go. Memphis. Very nice That's on that gris Get that mag for you. Yeah, I'd say so on that one. It's pretty sweet First green uh insert i've seen tonight jade mcdaniels feeling how you're during That's really sick Quentin grimes Yeah, memphis doing well in this case for sure hollow kd lights out shade on sharp orange deandre hunter to 199 Sean's dropping a link for eminence. Thank you again. Sean again 700 off nine to go nine to go Hello, kelden johnson Walker kessler hollow rookie nice one there for the uh jazz You like jazz going in pool to 79 green austin rivers to 149 Hello, al horford. Uh nice jade and ivy on the hollow rated rookie autograph going to the pistons. Let's go pistons very nice They mag this one. Yeah nice one there pistons Take that purple donovan mitra. Yeah, really good case so far still two to go as well Hello, johnny davis Jane hardy small murray nice one there pink velo to 79 for the nuggets red scotty barns to 99 for the raptors Yeah, no, he's just gonna be a base guard on the back Hello, taylor horton talker. Oh malachi brandem nice one there for the spurs rated, uh Rookie optic hollow auto reigning three steve kerf. Hello rookie Hello luka nice one there the maths Sorry going right, uh orange kcp to 199 for the nuggets Jeremy sohan rookie Rating three is desmond vane hollow d anthony melton for the sixers. Whoops Rating three sadeek bay sadeek of the freak jade and ivy rookie melo star gazing lights out lebron beninik matherin And lime green kd for the suns to 149 Hello, the rookies jade and ivy keegan murray orange devin booker to 199 color match for the suns Gary harris hollow the pack thai thai and base nothing too notable in those last two packs Last box of the break guys. Good luck still got two more cases to go after this tiered random team style of optic Raining threes uh dunkin robinson to 99 hollow derrius garland starland basketballs boyan mcdonough the pistons hollow erin wiggins second year anthony sines penny sines uh red bam to 99 for the heat shh deontay murray hollow elite dominators yannis Rating threes hollow chris mullen nice one there There's hollow shade on sharp nice one there for the blazers shade on shop green out whorford lime green i should say to 149 for the seeds see a big last auto see a mag auto here orange kp to 199 for the wizards chris stops for zing uh jade and ivy the rookies god they blow it at home that's bad i hope they do ivy's gonna take the mayor oh what's that Chandler got jaden arty nice one there base rookie uh or base rated rookie optic auto for the maps there you go maps Philip houston jade and ivy blue jared allen to 49 for the caps hollow marvin bagley nicks really are trying to blow this hollow mccall bridges and let's do a quick recap that'll go for the break green david roddy red batrick baldwin the orange kindle brown orange christian colloco green shade on sharp and jaylen williams black velocity france and hamdoodie olive we had autos jaden hardy malachi brandom jason kid uh blake westley adrian dantley glenn rice terry eason christian colloco wendelmore and osmane jane mags we had jaden ivy hollow rated rookie auto for the pistons we had jabari smith on the black velocity rookie to 39 green two of five ja marant lights out insert and vatko kankar one-of-one gold vinyl auto for the nuggets that'll do it for the break guys thanks again for the fill up next we've got another tier