if this shelter had that, in some ways that feels like it resolves a number of these issues. One is it stops making the use that's emerged for the shelter and the use for the bike path stop being antagonistic to each other. Secondly, it preserves that use of the shelter but in a similar downtown centralized location and forth it augments that use. It allows for something that doesn't exist right now. And so that to me finding a solution like that, I mean that's just sort of a gift when you can make something like that work like that because then I think you can also then address what Don is talking about and some of those larger questions because you've backed the two uses off and then it becomes much easier to talk about you know what these uses look like, how people relate to each other and some of these problems you know such as we've seen in the past and such as we've seen at this site. When they're forced into sort of each other's faces, I think you encourage that antagonistic behavior. I mean you get emails from panicked constituents who say I'm really uncomfortable walking by this or an email, hey there's naked people down the shelter that you know are causing some people to you know say why aren't we solving this problem and not the bigger problem but the small acute problem. And so I think by backing this off and so to me we could we could hold this conversation off because to go back to the mayor's pending question which is you know I think we could put this off, we could put this off for two weeks, three weeks, we could talk to Paige, you know we could sort of mull this over a little bit but this is this seems like a fairly clear solution that keeping it where it is right now is not a workable solution because I think it does a disservice to both uses and encourages antagonism that we've seen over the summer and finding and you know because we have these other options and I can understand a few weeks ago when we didn't have an option where there wasn't where there was a an asserted use but not necessarily an option on the table but I feel like now we have that and we have that option and so I'm happy to go ahead and have the conversation and I'm happy to vote for it right now. Jack go ahead. One of the concerns I have is that I suspect that there are people who were watching the meeting earlier who heard the mayor say yeah let's table let's push it off to another meeting and I actually while the meeting's been going on talked to a couple of people who are interested and they said so is it not happening tonight and I said yes looks like it's not happening tonight and I think we're depriving ourselves of the public input that we were hoping to get. Whether the location in front of city hall is a good option or not I think that's certainly something that is a good part of the conversation although I don't think it's realistic to say that people who are uncomfortable walking past this structure with people congregating on it on the shared use path are going to be any more comfortable walking past it when they're when that site of congregation is right in front of city hall so I don't think it's an easy discussion. So I am certainly kicking myself for just like straight up canceling it earlier. I apologize probably should not have just jumped to that but I think you're right that we probably do need to make this decision with you know if there are people that want to end we need to hear from them and I also have faith that you know there might be there might be some warm days left or warm enough days left that it possibly could still be moved even if we take it up later but Lauren go ahead. I guess I was just wondering if I don't think I do but are there were there questions or like with a memo we got is there any additional information gathering that it would be good to let city staff know or anything if we're going to push it off two weeks so that we don't have the discussion and then realize oh wait I had this question and we didn't answer it in the meantime. Conor go ahead. Yeah I didn't see uh I thought maybe Confluence Park might be an option too if it was set back far enough and there was talk of having a structure such as this I think at some point with the river conservancy um so that was the only question I had I'll tell you like the constituents I've heard from um this week have said leave it there you know we want to keep it on the bike path it's uh you know the whatever problems you have are going to move with the structure uh so just deal with that and there's like uh thinner spots on the bike path that would create you know just as much problem with the social distancing and stuff in talking the page and it was you know it was a brief conversation but it was definitely meaningful to her um given the work that Jed has done on sort of water quality in town to maybe have that on a place on the water where the grandkids could come by and uh sort of pay tribute to the granddad there so if there were options like that I don't mean to get too sentimental but that would definitely resonate with me so just for context also I um I'm a little wary of putting it I've thought about putting on the uh you know the option of putting it at the Confluence Park space as well but uh it seems as though that may actually not resolve the issue um uh too much because there is still that proximity and there's there's still a corner there um and uh yeah I'm gonna let Jay go go ahead and then um Steven go ahead well I'll just jump in on a couple thoughts here one is the um the I think that as far as the Confluence Park as I understand it you know there's there's been a fair amount of design work already done and a structure like this there is you know thought of kind of an open space or a performance space but a structure like this doesn't necessarily fit in to to what the you know where the design is at at this point and um and yeah I would be concerned that it would not alleviate um the issues that are that are happening right now um beyond that another thought um would be to um well I yeah I guess I don't want to necessarily introduce another another potential location because I think we've got to sort of decide if if we're we're we're at a place where we can talk about moving it or I guess my my primary concern is as Dan said that there there is a real conflict happening of use conflict happening where it's at now so are we in a place where we could say we we can move it um to resolve that conflict because where it is now isn't working um or we you know because it doesn't seem like we're in a place now where we can figure out exactly where it needs to be um in the long term so those are just just a couple thoughts um uh yes Cameron I just also wanted to acknowledge that um while I do think that um the Homelessness Task Force did talk about this um you all asked them to and they did have a pretty long conversation about this um and so I just wanted to sort of check in on if you're going to be talking later how you would like to receive that information um they did not have a cohesive statement and they were also um they wanted me to share their thoughts and also they really were torn um voting wise over whether or not to um ask you for more time to consider your ask so I just wanted to let you know that I could also write it in a memo if that helps hmm that's interesting that's that's good to know um uh Stephen you wanted to say something go ahead yeah I think the um the inconvenience or the uh anxiety that other bike path users feel is is miniscule in compared to the feeling of the people who use utilize that space as their only place where they can have a little shelter from the rain or from the wind who don't have shelter otherwise that's located within uh proximity to where they can go and crap on the riverbank or pee in the bushes that will not exist in at city hall uh there I mean it's clear that public drinking you know open container violations happen there but that will not be uh it's easily uh you know city hall that there's a privacy dimension of the human needs that are not being met that are coming home to roost here uh the the public facilities the privacy the respect the dignity the etc and and it will not be solved by just taking it away from him uh taking it away from them morgan had uh comments in the homelessness task force this morning it it's like it's not in my backyard was one of the the nimby acronym you know and he characterized it as no not on planet earth we don't want these people near us you know and I think he he's voicing something that you need to hear that this is a this problem will not be solved by taking away the only safe structure they have to use right now uh true they wouldn't have to pee in the pocket park if there was a bathroom if they could go and use the transit center bathrooms but no we just gave away that that option so I the task force ran out of time several key members will ever Lee and can Russell needed to leave today the discussion could have easily gone on another hour even so but ironically a vote to ask for more time failed uh because of politics so I just think you're you're you're not going to be able to solve this problem you can take something away uh you can move it somewhere else you can move it somewhere better or worse for the population it serves but you know that Casey and others have slept there you won't be able to sleep next to the Walgreens driveway you know uh anyway it's it's a very complex issue and if we do handle it right we will make huge progress on not long neglected issues of responsibility and dignity and human rights that exist in our community thank you thank you page yes welcome hi started to jump in late I was told earlier that you were going to table this until next week so I was well yeah then I got a note from John Odom yeah we we were and then we you know we were like well should we should we table it and then and then of course that just became discussion but um uh go ahead page well I've talked with both you I talked with Connor this afternoon I appreciate you're getting in touch with me um um and I honestly think that this is a way bigger problem than just the the uh Gertin Park um that moving the shelter is not going to solve the problem and it does as Stephen said it takes away right now everything is closed to those people city hall is closed the churches are closed the transit center is closed everything is closed that they could normally go to and that's a place with shelter um I granted it's not convenient for the rest of us but I think taking it away does a disservice to the community the other thing is it that structure and the flowers and whatever when they're kept up um beautifies a particularly ugly spot on the bike path so I think you really need to think for I don't know where you're at right now if you're going to move it to city hall I'm going to protest violently I think that's really unproductive totally unproductive move maybe I misunderstood I just got here so um anyway I um I talked with my son tonight actually for a while and I I had as I mentioned again I had a couple of suggestions and I wouldn't do it now I would do it after COVID is done and maybe people have places to go or after we have a discussion about what else we can possibly provide for people who don't want to live in houses um but one of the places was the future confluence park I think that might produce the same problem because it's not very far away and it's also difficult to access to clean and empty the trash and I don't know that there's water available there the other possibility is um a long old country club road there's a little parking lot there's a fishing spot that's a long stretch of bike path without any shelter from the sun or the rain or whatever it's a really nice area it's far enough so that some of the local people might not go all the way you know some of the homeless might not go all the way out there you could set up um a little solar pump with water from the river to water flowers and beautify it and make it a really nice spot out there and personally because it's for Jed or that was after the fact I realized that but it is now a memorial I would love to see it on the river I think that's important I think that's what he was about but I also believe that he would not be happy about just taking that little shelter away from the people who are using it so um one other thank you um so one other piece of information that feels relevant is that um for my communications with another way they were planning on building um a similar structure on their site so whatever function um that structure serving could potentially be replicated over there which is not that far right but it's also right on the bike path so that's why the problem is not going to be eliminated unless you move it away a little bit right well and so that's uh I guess I'm um I'm saying that that frees up the location of the right right and that's great I'm really happy to hear that um because I think something needs to be provided for people and everything else is close to them right now because of COVID yeah so that would be awesome hmm well so it is 10 o'clock I actually don't think it would because we said we would table it I don't think it would really necessarily be appropriate for us to vote on it tonight unfortunately um but excuse me which is actually like what I was like hoping to avoid but um Morgan you wanted to add something go ahead Morgan yes um thank you mayor I appreciate it uh first off I just want to thank Stephen for his comments and uh and uh quoting me effortlessly and uh from today and I also want to thank Paige for um getting on and chiming in I appreciate your comments uh thank you um yeah I'm quite concerned about you know this this had been table and now the discretion has been backdoored which you know it's up to the council's discretion I know that's why I've been watching you on YouTube I know how these things can happen so I've alerted all kinds of people uh about this you know I had let them know earlier they're good tables and I've sensed alerted them that oh guess what they're discussing it now and you know it deserves me you know that uh it's being raised even though you might not vote on it it's being raised and discussed in quite length after a lot of people you know probably uh turned you up and gone and done other things and not paying attention and you know it's like if you're gonna have a discussion forget about you're gonna have a discussion on it you know have it when you know people are gonna pay attention like they were earlier because they thought it was on the agenda you know and uh this is not all right you know and I was upset about this whole thing anyway before and and now you know I'll probably be up half tonight you know this is it's not okay and um you know have an honest discussion don't want people listening you know and trying to move this structure you're kicking the people living homeless that are using it down the road and you know this is not nimby not in my backyard it's nope not on planet earth and you know it's it's not all right you know people living homeless they're just as important as anybody else and you know their needs are great you know and we should be discussing what the root root situation is you know what the root problem what the root need is and that's we need housing you know let's do something real meaningful you know quit kicking us down the road you know quit trying to get rid of these people because that's what you're doing you know and hey you have the right to discuss it but let's do it in the open you know yeah thank you yeah thank you Morgan I appreciate that and I um I think it is I agree and I think it's important that so that we hear from everybody and so we're gonna wait at least until the next meeting to make any final decisions but you know that yeah that's I yeah I appreciate that um in any case all right um one hopes that like we're like getting closer to making a decision but um but we'll see all right any further final comments on this as we're we're not going to vote tonight okay all right thank you um and uh so on to uh uh council reports uh Donna are you good to go check in you have other business listed before council reports do you want to ask anybody I yeah I mean is there any other business usually I mean there's usually other business listed and they're usually isn't any but uh yeah it also lists the mayor's report first this week which there you go go for it and well that means I actually don't have anything to add so I would pass go ahead Donna you always make me want to be brief um the central Vermont public safety authority had two new appointments by the city of berry that will be joining that board its next meeting is December 10th and we're meeting to review the submittals to the RFP keep you posted the other thing that I would like to talk at length at some point maybe when we have a less late meeting is central regional planning commission has become the designated service provider for the Winootsky basin and all the funding from the state their clean water funding instead of going to the state directly and do a grant you'll go to this service provider so they will allocate the funding they'll oversee the projects and so it's a big change in the how things flow or dealing with clean water and so there's a lot I'd like to share about that at some point and third I'd like to check with Jack to see if he got all the council members to give blood on the 13th I did that's all want me to answer it now the answer is no there's there are at least two members of the council who were uh for medical reasons are not able to uh to do it I tried it with my office too and I got I got some response but not everybody but you know I've been giving blood for well almost 50 years I'm going to keep doing it and I think the rest of us who do will continue to do it when we can I'm glad you nudged us all thanks Connor no I think I'm going to just a very happy Thanksgiving to everybody next week and you saw a meme today which I thought was kind of smart it's a zoom in Thanksgiving with your family is preferable to an ICU Christmas there so just hope everybody is really smart you know good news on the vaccine right so let's all just hang in there thanks so much thanks um Jake yeah I'll uh echo Connor's uh thought around making sure we're safe making smart choices um uh around Thanksgiving um make sure everybody uh if you're down near Shaw's the new downtown Montalier sign went in today if you've seen it um it's uh pretty striking um and uh just I think it kind of I could say this at every meeting but it goes without saying um uh thank you to uh our school district the administrators teachers and staff for everything they're doing the fact that are we're able to even with everything that's happening our kids are still in school and and having real positive experiences I just think that that's um uh been a herculean effort so I just wanted to acknowledge that once again thanks thank you um Dan picking up on Jay's comment I don't know if everyone's having good experiences my 11 year old has some grievances but those have may have more to do with long division than anything else um first I I want to uh take a moment in the report to pay tribute to um one of the uh volunteers that keep Montalier going who passed away last week Mary Nielsen um who some of you may or may not know who was chair of the Greenmount Cemetery Commission for a number of years and active member in the Montalier community passed away um when I was on a when I was a cemetery commissioner she was chair uh and it was just an absolute pleasure to work with her each and every meeting um a really wonderful friendly caring giving person she and Corky uh were great to spend time and and talk with and you know it's people like Mary who make Montalier a wonderful place to live and who you know show that service is is not a drudge or a burden or something that we have to um just do is our duty it's it's a joy and a pleasure and uh she brought that to her work here and so you know I think we're a smaller city as a result of her passing and uh I just wanted to recognize her um the other thing is that I would encourage everyone who has any funds available to make sure that you spend them downtown at our businesses to make sure that they do go into the black between now and the end of the year um more that you can spend locally the more the stays locally one thing I I have done work on on uh some economic impacts of local studies uh I mean of local spending and when you spend money in the community it's not like spending a dollar it's like spending up to six dollars because that dollar bounces around the local community um and has impacts well beyond that single purchase of whoopee cushion at Woodbury Mountain Toys um it spends uh and allows other people to uh and keep their standard of living keep their business keep their independence and keep living in this wonderful community so I think those are the two notes that I'll add so thanks thank you uh Jack I guess I'll have to keep an eye open for the whoopee cushions I didn't realize they had in there um there's as much time as I've spent there um I I'll pass yeah um just wanted to let you all know the um police review committee met last night so we're getting up and running and organized um so great to get that group together and we're mostly focused uh in the short term on the membership so hopefully we'll be getting back to you all soon with that um and I just wanted to raise I know there were some emails going around about the homeless shelter and issues so I don't know if that needs to be on the next city agenda or what what we're doing sounds like some um you know problematic issues going on with the shelter and and capacity so just wanted to put that on our on our list to look into um wanted to confess I was one of the people that did not give blood but it's a moment to say thank you to many of the city staff who when I passed out when I gave blood in October and Bill kindly gave me a ride home because I didn't react well to to my recent one so thank you to the city staff who took good care of me in that your secret was safe with me but but I appreciate everybody who who did give blood and um good old Mary mellow was there she was like I volunteer now standing at the desk instead I was like that makes better sense for me um but stay safe everyone follow the the the rules that our state's putting out they're there for a reason and happy Thanksgiving great thank you John I'm here I'm here sorry I always press the wrong button um I would just mention a couple things um one of them is very short and one of them I'll keep very short just that I am still away um been away for a bit and it sort of turned into a an actual quarantine and I need to wait for test results because I may have had exposure so blah blah blah but then I should be back if I'm lucky I'll be back Friday but I'll probably be back Monday and Crystal has been out this week too she fell ill which means the two person operation is now a zero person operation so I know there are some frustrated people out there that neither of us are available but it was just not foreseeable unfortunately um another thing I just want to sort of put in people's minds um already looking ahead to the town meeting day election there if the expectation is now out there that all are especially during COVID that all our elections are going to be vote by mail um the money that facilitated this from the secretary of state is apparently not available for municipal elections there has to be something you know statewide or federal on it so I had so far failed and I'm about to give up on trying to find grants elsewhere because I got a recent grant to buy all the plexiglass and stuff we used in the last election so there may be more grants out there to allow us to do it again just on our own just you know got a sort of a budget out there see if we can do the all mail thing ourselves but that's looking unlikely so um anyways any ideas on that there's probably no ideas to be had but um people should probably start preparing across the state in all municipalities for stepping back a bit and having an election more like the august primary rather than the general election which unfortunately is going to be a lot more labor intensive since we're talking about that I do want to just point out that it might be worth us considering uh adding some funds to the budget specifically for this we may not have funding to do you know mail-in voting for this coming town meeting day but we can plan for future town meeting days so I just want to put that on people's radars for for less than $10,000 that may be worth it Connor yeah John I have a question that came up uh this past week um if folks want to petition something on for the ballot for town meeting day is there any alternative to getting physical signatures that's like maybe they passed in the legislature just like candidates were given you know the opportunity you know um it's this I hate to to to put this in a such a holding pattern but we haven't gotten guidance from the secretary of state yet on this we're all a little a little confused as to where that's going to go into whether that you know before the signature requirements were suspended which of course made it easy for that huge list of presidential candidates right um so we don't know what it's going to be then I've been asked I mean I was asked about this as far back as nearly two months so I tried to put out to people who've asked me you know there may be ways around it if you're just running for office you know you can always get people you need 25 signatures 25 people to download a form all by itself right and put in the mail petitions are more complicated um I the only good answer I came up with and I'm guessing the secretary of state will cut some slack on this but given that what they haven't yet given that we don't know is it may be possible to hold a couple like social distance petition fairs you know maybe we get a big space like the auditorium and set up tables everybody's got the petition for anything and you can come up at a distance with masks on and go and sign what you want um um I started grasping at straws but that's all I got right now it's interesting uh jack go ahead I uh I have an answer to that uh I uh have also been caught like Connor I've been contacted by a constituent asking about petitioning and so I contacted the um secretary of state's office the elections division this is what I was calling you about today john um yes they tell me with regard to petitions for uh public office um this past fall they passed a bill before they recessed removing the signature requirement for petitions for local office and that was section 182 of s 354 and they did not remove this petition requirement for petitioned articles including social service appropriations the league of cities and towns has guidance on model policies that towns can can adopt and so I will forward this email I got to you all and we can maybe talk about it because apparently we do have the ability to uh to not require a petition to have one of those uh requests be on the ballot and I note from my own history that they're in the early days of the housing trust fund there were some years where the council agreed at our request to put the uh appropriation request on the ballot without forcing us to go through the petition process after we got through a couple of seasons of showing that there was sufficient support to do that so I'll send that out and maybe we can have another discussion about it well please send me a copy too because when I ask him about this very thing I was met with silence and at least one other clerk I talked about it was too so you know sometimes we have our time communicating as well as we should with the secretary state I'll get that out probably tonight or tomorrow great all right uh bill sure so uh while we're on that topic you know to talk about petitions I would note that there's there are two different thresholds the city council can always put an item on the ballot and has done so at request of groups in the past housing trust fund I think one of the more common practices prior years was if somebody had been had petitioned to be on the ballot had received approval of the voters then the council might say okay you don't need to petition again you know as long as it's for the same amount one question I think to consider for the council I don't need to answer it now but just as we have this conversation going forward is if we're going to say okay you know it's a bad year to petition are we just going to take every request to put it on um because if we're not then people still have to make the you know whereas if we receive a petition and it's legal we have to put you know have the discretion to say we're not going to put it before the voters so you know if I'm on the agency and I want money am I going to take my chances that the council might say sorry we're not putting it on so I just we on the other hand if the council says we'll put on for all askers we make we may get groups that we've never heard from before that want money and suddenly going to get on the ballot so I think it's an important distinction um so I hope there is some solution I'll add that I heard the secretary of state on uh WDV the other morning or noon or whatever morning I guess talking and he was talking about potential all mail ballots for Tommy so I don't know whether they're trying to come up with funding for this or not but uh he was talking about the success of the mail in ballots now and you know they were looking to see if they could replicate it so it's frustrating that they they communicate with you guys better than me because they would communicate that that wouldn't be available and that I should go on and look for my grants so this was the secretary was talking on WDV the listeners he wasn't communicating with me he was talking to anybody who was listening well he talks to anybody who's listening more than he talks to me doesn't mean it's going to happen um and you know just will be manufacturing those yes votes in the back room to put them on um more to the point we've got a couple of minor things here um the CIP committee uh we're hoping to have them meet like and I'm trying to who it is there's three of you and I forgot to double check it before but you know who you are right the three members of the capital improvements planning committee we are hoping we could meet on December 2nd and December 9 before those two council meetings 515 530 but we'll send out a reminder tomorrow checking if that makes work if not we'd like you know we'd like to have a couple meetings in the next couple weeks to look at what's left of the capital plan um with regard to budget we are having what we call our budget congress starting tomorrow so we'll see how that goes our goal is to get you a draft budget for or post budget for December 2nd so we're about a week early this year so we'll give us more time to wring our hands and finally um with you know as as we the city clerk has mentioned a few times chasing people down to sign things and also um now with the police station being closed our finance department has looked into electronic signatures and we think that is going to be possible so more to come on that but probably be buying at least three licenses one for the clerk john you don't know this because you weren't here but for liquor licenses and things assuming those can be signed electronically one for serena to use for warrant stuff and one for kelly for a sort of emergency warrant so there'd be three people that would have access could send out with the list of names and all you have to do is click your electronic signature so that would take care of those things so and it's secure there's a whole so we're and the licenses aren't very expensive they're like 20 a month per license so 120 dollars a year so 360 dollars a year total for three licenses so um anyway more to come details to be determined but kelly wanted me to let you know that otherwise happy thanks giving also to everyone and and i hope none of you are traveling yeah agreed uh anyway all right well thank you everybody and uh have an excellent evening have a good thanksgiving and uh we'll see you later on uh so uh without objection we'll call this meeting adjourned great see you all later see you later over y'all


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In the homes, Michael Sarah's chosen we witness a reflection of his character, humble yet brimming with charm and individuality. His brampton childhood home laid the groundwork for his illustrious career, while his Brooklyn townhouse is steeped in history and warmth, and reveals his affection for New York City. Sarah says New York has always been in the back of his mind. He loves the look and feeling of New York and the energy of it, saying, I always love New York, I always wanted to live here since I was a kid. How could you find a cooler place to live? Exploring these spaces that have left a mark on Michael Sarah's life encourages us to reflect on our own homes and the stories they tell us. Much like Sarah's beloved on-screen characters, our homes often reveal deeper facets of our identities than we may even realize. And there you have it, a fascinating glimpse into the world of Michael Sarah from his humble beginnings in Brampton to his charming Brooklyn townhouse. But before you go, I'd love to hear from you.  Be sure to share your thoughts with me in the comments below. And don't forget to like, subscribe and hit that notification bell so you never miss an episode. I'm Cara the Vampire Slayer, feel free to follow me on Instagram to chat. And if you would like to check out another video before you go, then stay tuned for this look into the homes of Aubrey Plaza. Bye! When you think of Aubrey Plaza, odds are you can't help but picture her as the quirky, larger-than-life character April Ledgate from the hit sitcom Parks and Recreation. And if that isn't the first time you really remember her, then maybe it was more recently on the second season of HBO's The White Lotus. With a personality as out there as Aubrey's, you'd probably expect her to be living in some eccentric home that's as in your face as she can sometimes be. But the truth of the matter is Aubrey's home is not nearly that loud. Also, Michael and I have dropped our own house tour of our new home that we moved into this year. So go ahead and subscribe to our personal channel if you want to see where we're living and more of what we're up to. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. After getting her start as an actress in the late 2000s, Aubrey would pay right around 1.6 million dollars for a home located in the Hollywood Hills, one that she would come to share a few years later with her eventual husband Jeff Bena. Now, keeping with her on-screen persona versus her actual personality, Aubrey almost never updates her fans about her home life or her relationship. Probably because she doesn't see it as being all that different from anyone else's. While speaking about her partner in 2013, she once told Cosmopolitan, he's a creative person and we understand each other on that level. When we're together, we like hanging out at home. We're happy having people over and playing Settlers of Catan or Battlestar Galactica. And from what we did manage to dig up about Aubrey's former Hollywood Hills address, it certainly doesn't sound like she's lying. While speaking with the UK newspaper, The Guardian, the media outlet made a special note of a deluxe edition of Scrabble just sitting on her kitchen table the entire time. In fact, according to a recent interview with GQ, these two even met over a game of Balderdash. So, one thing's for sure, Aubrey and her hubby absolutely love their board games. While this Hollywood couple may go above and beyond to keep their private life exactly that, the one thing Aubrey regularly posts updates about are her dogs and I can't blame her. They're both adorable pooches. Beyond just her affection for these four-legged critters, Aubrey also has an eye for collecting. Just probably not what you'd expect because if this image is anything to go by, Aubrey isn't out there collecting shoes or Louis Vuitton bags. Instead, she's a big-time DVD and Blu-ray collector. When you put that together with her obvious love for board games, it all kind of makes sense, right? I mean, Aubrey even relishes dressing up for Halloween, which we can see from this image, also gives us a taste of her surprisingly narrow bare-bones kitchen with all-white cabinets and a couple small sections of marble countertop. But the most exciting thing to ever happen in the confines of this home went down during the lockdown when Aubrey and Jeff decided to marry one another on a whim. And I'm talking within the span of a single hour. Here's how she explained it to Ellen. As it turns out, onehourmarriage.com is apparently a thing that exists. Aubrey also managed to smooth talk the efficient into driving two hours out of his way to perform the ceremony in the couple's own backyard on the anniversary of their first date. Following which, Plaza said that she went across the street to see her neighbor. Someone that she claims is a real-life witch just to get her blessing. I created a very quick love alter in my yard. Facts of our love, smoke, fire, things of that nature. Despite hosting a landmark life event right in her very own home, a little over a year later, Aubrey and Jeff would decide to buy a new house together, which left Plaza to list this abode for $2.25 million in August 2022. She'd find a buyer within just weeks and shortly thereafter move into a brand new residence. When Aubrey and Jeff sold their old home, they didn't have all that far to move. Instead, they upgraded to a pristine and elegant Spanish-style mansion located just down the street. That's right, in October 2022, Aubrey and Jeff dropped $4.7 million on a different home, but in the very same residential neighborhood of Hollywood Hills. Both her former residents and this new one were originally constructed way back in the 1920s, but Aubrey's newest digs are much bigger and fancier than what she had before. Situated behind large walls and gates on a quarter-acre block of land, this three-story home is only a few minutes from Griffith Park. Exteriors offer stucco and a terracotta roof, and it sits on a front yard surrounded by mature trees. Inside, you'll find four bedrooms and six bathrooms spread across a little more than 4,000 square feet of fully restored and glamorous living space. Home is full of grand-scale rooms, oak floors, high ceilings, arched doorways, wood sash windows, and seamless transitions between indoor-outdoor When you enter the home, a portico-topped front door opens to a tiled foyer, which almost immediately steps down into a living room, sporting a white-washed wood-beam ceiling, a brick fireplace, and picture windows that let in a ton of LA sun. Then there's the nearby formal dining room with French doors spilling out to the exterior garden, a space we'll circle back to in just a moment. There's also the gourmet kitchen that's been done up with all white cabinets, marble countertops, an apron-style sink, stainless steel appliances, dual walk-in pantries, a snack bar island, and most importantly, access to the outdoor dining patio overlooking the property's koi pond. Rounding out the main floor is a cozy den, which will no doubt become the go-to spot to play all those board games that these two enjoy so much, as well as an office that boasts wood-beam ceilings and bookshelves. To get upstairs, you can check out the Magnesite staircase that still has all of its original ironwork from the 20s. On the top floor, there's a spacious master suite with a pair of walk-in closets, as well as a bathroom that includes a claw-foot soaking tub and separate shower. Three further ensuite bedrooms can also be found up here on the top floor, one of which could easily be transformed into a media room, and another that comes equipped with a sunroom as well as a porch. As for the lowest level, it connects to an attached two-car garage, and there's even a climate-controlled wine room as well, alongside plenty of storage space. Last but not least is Aubrey's new backyard, a space that's not only big enough to host a massive in-ground pool, but also have enough room left over for a giant cabana that's steam shower ready. Having lived in her former house for roughly four years, how long will Aubrey and Jeff call this new place home? Who knows for sure, but considering how much nicer it is here, maybe this will be the spot where these two finally start a family of their own. Something that was apparently put on hold after the madness of the past couple years had Aubrey concerned about the future of humanity. Of course, considering these two literally just moved in a few weeks ago, maybe I should give them a little time to get settled before I plan out their next 20 or so years. Especially considering that Aubrey's only more or less just returned from spending five months at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace while shooting season two of The White Lotus. And stay tuned if you want to see more of that spot. And if you want to see more of that spot though, stay tuned because we will be having a video on that place itself. In the meantime, I sure hope that Aubrey's new home is everything that she wants it to be.  If the world at large assumed you were one way at home because of how you come across in movies and TV, would you keep it a secret if you were really nothing like your on-screen personality? Let me know what you would do in that situation in the comments down below, or maybe another house tour you'd like to see on this channel. Otherwise, like, subscribe, and turn on those notifications to make sure you never miss an episode. My name is Cara the Vampire Slayer. Follow me on Instagram to chat and I will see you all in another one. Bye!


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of 14th, 2021. Welcome to What Now America? My name's Tim Apachele, your host. And today's title is President Biden calls out the big lie. You know, there was a kind of a sitcom back in the 1990s. Maybe some of you have heard of it. It was called Seinfeld. And in one of the episodes, George and Jerry are in their favorite coffee house, the cafe. And on the way out, Jerry's leaving. And George says to him, Jerry, remember. It's not a lie if you believe it. You know, Donald Trump probably didn't watch that episode, but he's been practicing that line all his life.  Donald Trump believes the election was stolen from him. No question about it. He believes it. He's not just saying it. He believes it. Donald Trump believes that thousands of votes for Biden were dumped in swing states in the middle of the night on election night. Again, he doesn't just say it. He believes it. Trump believes that the state of Georgia, Mr. Raffenberger, should have found those 11,780 votes to turn the election his way. As he was instructed to do by Donald Trump, very strongly implied that they need to find 11,780 votes. Donald Trump believes the voting machines somehow switched their votes from Trump to Biden. Absolutely believes it. Trump believes that the Supreme Court should have sided with him on his lawsuits. They didn't, but he believes they should have. And he more believes that the three judges he appointed should have paid him the loyalty that he deserved. They didn't, but he believes they should have. Donald Trump believes that Mike Pence owed him enough to stop the Electoral College certification. He believes that was in the depths of his soul. Again, if you believe it, it's not a lie. What did he say in Sarasota, Florida just recently? He said, false claims, if you repeat them over and over again, they'll be believed. And we got to stop the Democrats from doing just that. So Donald Trump really believes the big lie. He believes his lies. And what do you call that? Well, I'm not a psychiatrist and I'm not a psychologist, but I think I've read somewhere in a book of psychology, it's called being delusional. And with that, I go to my guests. Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome Jay Fidel, Cynthia Leeson-Claire and Winston Welch. Welcome to What Now America. Aloha. Morning. Hi, Jim. Jay, going to you. Okay, this has gone on for six months. The big lie is steam rolling, steam balling ahead. We have over 17, 18 states now that have enacted over 28 new laws as a direct result of the big lie. How is the big lie being able to be kept alive and keep rolling forward? How hasn't this not been stopped by the rational Americans that know it's a big lie, but they continue on with it anyway? How is this big lie continue to grow arms and legs and keep crawling forward? Your best thought on that. Wow, you've covered the psychiatric issue around Trump. He's deranged. That's what we'll call them in the most recent book about the last days of the presidency. He's deranged. He's crazy. I think he used that term specifically crazy. But we've known this for a long time. We've been talking about this for a long time.  So let's push him aside for a moment and let's instead make our inquiry about why 70 plus million people and all those Republicans in all of those states, believe him and act on it. What is the problem there? And this is actually, believe it or not, a more serious problem. It's one thing that one person, one deranged psychotic can turn history, which he has done. But the other thing is that history itself apparently can be turned and these people can be turned. What is their problem? What is wrong with them? A much more profound question. Then I would say, maybe it's something like Jones and Jonestown and Guyana years ago were at their own risk. They killed themselves because he said so. And the problem also is that you can't run a democracy that way. You can't run a democracy with people who believe lies and who are willing to destroy themselves which they are doing politically in the process. So I think we have to look at that. And I don't know what the answer is. I can only say that it's deep in the species and from time to time the species has killed itself. And that is what's happening with these 70 million people. They are doubling down. They are more aggressive all the time. It's quite remarkable. We predicted on the show that they would slope off and they would find rationality but they haven't done it. And Biden for all that Clyburn has him doing now making impassioned speeches can't seem to stop it. I only add one other thing for consideration here. And that is Macron. Macron announced yesterday that from now on vaccines were going to be the law of France. And if they got mad about it, let them get mad about it. He's already subject to criticism. Somebody called him apartheid in a land of liberty. Equality and liberty back to the French revolution. But Macron is requiring vaccines. And that's getting back to rationality.  This is a problem, a sociological problem, a psychiatric problem and it goes beyond Trump. It is a problem in the species. Let me throw out an idea here that they don't really believe Donald Trump's big lie. They know he lost the election. Most of the politicians in Congress believe that he lost the election. They said so but it doesn't deter them from moving forward with the big lie. What about as a theory that they're so desperate to be part of the group, the tribe, the Trump tribe, the cultural politics of Trump, that they're so mortally fearful of being thrown outside the tribe of Trump. And that's why they go along with it sheepishly and they're like a true succulent. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And it goes back to a show we're doing tomorrow and what we can learn from ancient Rome and ancient Greece on the demise of democracies in those places. And part of it has to do with you don't want to be ostracized. You don't want to be sent away.  And I think you have a really good point there. They don't want to be bounced out of their community for some reason they believe, and this is a faulty thinking also, they believe their community is Trump and in many places, think of Texas. The community is completely Trump. There's nowhere to go, but to leave a larger community like most of Texas in order to get away from it. And they don't want to do that because they lose something in the departure. So there is a parallel. And I will ask our guest tomorrow, Sandra Schwartz, who is a classicist at UH, whether it worked then in the classic times and whether it works now. Okay, thank you, Jay. Hey, Winston, to you, by the way, Winston, I think you're on mute. I'm gonna read a quote from Joe Biden yesterday and he was talking about calling out the big lie. And here's one of the things he said on the podium. In America, if you lose, accept the results. Follow the Constitution. Try again. You don't call facts fake and try to bring down the American experiment just like you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship, that's selfishness. So with that quote in mind, how does Fox News get away? I mean, if Donald Trump and others have been banned from Facebook and Twitter because they're making false statements about the pandemic, false statements about the virus, false statements about the election and creating basically a social insurrection and that took place on the Capitol on January 6th, if Facebook and Twitter banned them, what's going on with the FCC and why haven't the FCC stepped in to tell Fox, knock it off? I think there's some parallel, maybe for the same reason why Joe Biden doesn't talk about Donald Trump. It's just, it's a monster. And imagine trying to ban, it's just, I think it's not gonna happen. We do have the First Amendment. It's unpopular. I mean, the idea is that you bring these festering boil lies out into the public arena where they can be properly cleansed and purged. But the reality is, of course, we have a willfully ignorant electorate and just willing to completely ignore facts, not alternative facts, just facts. They have been manipulated, like Jay said, about Jonestown. You're getting essentially one new source that I think there's something hypnotic about it. As I said, if you don't, if you, just for our viewers who might be liberal or even moderate, turn up boxes and listen to it for a day.  And Tucker Carlson himself won't even say that he got a COVID shot or not, while he's saying that he, you know, we can't get our people to get COVID shots. Well, Tucker, I'll bet that he did get a COVID shot. And if he didn't, okay, he didn't. But I think the French have is where the world is gonna go and we're gonna see this and Macron came out and the headlines were interesting. It says one million French citizens sign up for COVID shot. And what it didn't say is you can't board a plane, a train, go into a public building or restaurant unless you have your shots within a period of time. So they say, you don't have to get your shots. You just won't be able to go anywhere outside of your home, basically. And he just said, this is the thing that we do. It's responsible to do it. And of course, people are growling against it. And anyway, I think, you know, any oxygen that we give to this and that Joe Biden didn't mention anybody by name, I don't think when he said that. Should he have mentioned Trump by name? No, I don't think so. I don't think he should give him anything. And he's only saying that so that people can say Joe Biden didn't not say anything. He's saying that for us so that we realize he knows the big lie is still going on. I think that's, it was, you know, if you're not a fan of Joe Biden, you don't care. Or even if you're moderate, you don't care. I think so many people are just turned off in the last year. I think a better quote to say in it, this was from attributed to Joseph Goebbels, although there's no proof that he said it, but it's the definition of the big lie. And I think it bears some repeating here. If you tell a big lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such a time as the state can shield people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent. For the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie. And thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state. This is, of course, in Nazi times, and you can understand how that might be, if it's on Jewishvirtuallibrary.org, which has a lot of stuff about how these lies become the truth and then have devastating consequences. So in our case, I think we just need to keep the slow and steady Joe Biden is doing the right thing. He's not giving it oxygen. The media has by and large just ignored Donald Trump as much as possible. And now you're having the ankle biters come in. You're having the Christie Gnomes sending the National Guard to where did she send it? Texas outsourcing that with private money. You have the governor of Florida.  And there's an interesting article about that one that says essentially that Donald Trump and the governor of Florida and for a hitting of heads. And then the lie itself is being called out in these memoirs that are now gonna come out. Like Jay was saying, we got a lot of information coming out. Will it make a difference? I don't know, but it'll at least substantiate what we all know. Like in the Washington Post, I think it was yesterday. And he says the Republican Party's top lawyer of election fraud arguments by Trump's lawyers, a joke that could mislead millions. Well, it wasn't a joke, but it did list mislead millions. And Joe Biden is right. He's trying to up and that was on the 12th of July. He's trying to up and our entire system. It's not right. It's not. Let me ask you this. Does it help at all for those attorneys who were representing Donald Trump on the election lawsuits that were filed in many courtrooms around the swing states? Does it help at all that now some of the federal judges are saying those attorneys that filed those suits are now being looked at for possible sanctions and or complete disbarment? Absolutely. Does it help the argument that the big lie is just that, a big lie? Absolutely, because they are sworn officers to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Now, it's like I said, we can vary on whether or not we should extend unemployment benefits or raise social security taxes. Those are reasonable arguments to have, but when these lies, when they're knowingly made by essentially officers of the court of the government, they need to be held accountable. And this is where Donald Trump's never going to be held accountable. But the minions under him, around him, all of these people that were in it for the buck or for the power or just the delusion, I think these people can fall on the defense of the QAnon shaman who said he was a member of a cult. He was deceived. Let's see if the lawyers in Michigan and in all these other states where they filed these spurious and absolutely fabricated lawsuits. Let's see what happens to them when it comes up to their license and being disbarred. They may play the cult member card as well. And actually, it's probably a reasonable defense at this point. Do you have any predictions about these attorneys that are being called out? Do you think they will be sanctioned or disbarred, or do they get disbarred in New York? So it's coming. And I think that these lawyers have a code, an ethical code that they are, you're not supposed to bring these things when you know that they're false. And doing so and causing harm to society like this by bringing these lawsuits has consequences for them. And they are held to a higher standard than your average Joe because they know very well what they're doing and how to manipulate the process. So, and Jay can probably speak more to that. But I know that the two of you said that. You said that you thought it was a reasonable defense that they were drawn into it by a cult. I don't think that's a reasonable defense. Bring those people before me, I'll fix it. I'll tell you the truth, I would disbar them all. They lied and they knew they lied and they used their skills just as you said Winston in order to try to fool the court and fool the public and fool the country and undermine our democracy. They have all taken an oath to prove to ethics, to the ideals of the country and the constitution and they have all grossly breached the terms of that oath. They should never be able to practice law anywhere in the country again. And that may be the case with, depending on who they come before, but this is where, this is how part of the repairing of our country is that you get these folks out who would do mortal damage to our nation for these reasons and we'll see what happens at the end of the day. But I think you're gonna see a lot more of this where this came from, especially as these revelations and memoirs come out. So let's just- And the question Winston and Tim and Cynthia is just gonna work out soon or are we running out of time? I mean, just one element that is much more to talk about but one element is the virus. I find it remarkable that Trump has taken the vaccine but he still has some kind of influence on people not to take them, to be skeptical about the science. That's the message he was giving about the virus all through and still. And as a result, we have more cases in the states and communities where they believe him and we have more of the greater risk of the Delta variant and other variants, American variants. The more cases you have concentrated in the same area, the greater the risk of a new variant. So the country is backsliding, something awful. And again, it's his fault. I'll mention his name, Donald Trump, psychopath. It's his fault and it's the fault of those who follow him. And as far as I'm concerned, they should all pay the price. They should all have consequences. And the people who choose not to take the variant, not only risking their lives but the lives of their families and community. Macron has the answer. I would come down like, you know, pentons on Macron right now and do exactly the same thing in this country. And I don't know why or when Biden is gonna do this. When, what's gonna happen is as soon as the FDA says this is not an experimental vaccine, you're gonna see rollouts across the board for hospitals, for the military, for prisons that says this is a mandatory vaccine, just like all the other mandatory vaccines. Why don't they say it already? What's wrong with that? I don't know what they're holding up for. It's just the same reason why they're holding up on saying we're gonna need to boost your shot. Of course, we're gonna need to boost your shot. They're afraid of scaring people away who aren't already getting the shot. Well, it's, we're beyond 600,000 dead. We're beyond being scared, I believe. Just tell them they can't go to Costco and they can't go to Walmart and they can't go to Macy's and, or any hotel or, and that'll take care of it. Are you sure that's not happening in the red states? Why doesn't he do that? Yeah. Yeah. It won't happen in the red states. He can do that. What is, you know, you can say he made this very passionate speech yesterday because couldn't Jim Clyburn made him do it, which I think is what happened. But he's still being fucked. Likely to pay, it doesn't even mention. I disagree. I think it was a fairly impassioned speech. I mean, at this point, it's one of many speeches he needs to make. Maybe his tone gets a little rougher, but, you know, he basically had to start off with an introduction of why he's at the podium in the first place. And the first things out of his lips was, I swore oath to the constitution to protect this nation from all foreign and domestic forces. And very nice that he called that out. But the fact is it's just a speech. That's all it is. You know, he himself made this very important distinction between speeches and action. Where's the beef? Well, right now, the beef is democracy. And the beef is the preservation of our democracy. And that's gonna be done one of two ways. It's either called the People's Act, H1, or the John R. Lewis Voting Amendment Act, H4. And he addressed that specifically. And yeah, he might have been prompted by Clyburn. Mr. Clark, I want to see him go in there and knock off the filibuster right now today. I don't want to see the metronome swing one more time. I want it now. He's had seven months in office. How about some action? Cynthia, react to Jay's comment right now that he just made, react to it.  At least he very specifically said, and I've got a little bit of a quote from him here too about it, when he said, you know, the 2020 election was the safest election. It's not hyperbole to suggest the most examined and the fullest expression of the will of the people in the history of this nation, this should be celebrated. The example of America at its best, but instead we continue to see an example of human nature at its worst, something darker and more sinister. And that's the thing that I think we need to worry about more than anything. This Trump movement has been, you know, all along sort of flirting with violence, right? Sort of flirts with supporting the second amendment that, you know, everybody needs to have guns. We need more guns to protect us from the guns. And you know, I'm gonna quote something from an article from the Atlantic that just was the other day. And it says, the Trump movement was always authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged periodically in the rhetoric of violence. Trump himself chased against the restraints of law, but what the United States did not have before 2020 was a large national movement willing to justify mob violence to claim political power, and now it does. Now all the talk of the virus and the vaccines and all of that isn't gonna do us any good if these violent people are still willing to go out there. And as Trump himself said this last week, he's worse. He was impeached twice. It didn't make him better. It made him worse in his own words. What does he mean by worse? And how could you possibly get worse than he already was? And you know, I agree with Winston that Trump, I mean, that Biden should not even say his name, which he didn't in the speech, but you knew exactly who he was talking about. And he also refers to him as his predecessor, but that's as close as he gets to calling him by name. And so I think that's good because we don't mean to give him- Well, maybe Jay has a point. Maybe Jay has a point, and stop beating around the bush, get to the matter. Thank you very much. That's what I thought was right. But then you're giving him oxygen. So which one is it? Well, I'd say our tippy-toe around the rose bush isn't doing it. Thank you. And the question is the result. What's the outcome here? And tippy-toe has not worked. Oil is about oxygen and not mentioning his name and making him disappear. It's not working. And Trump is still on a radar for 70 million people. How about taking some action? Okay, well, let me throw out three quick quotes from Biden yesterday's speech. One, that caught my attention.  Number two is when he was test-ising his fellow members in Congress and he was referring to the GOP, he said, have you no shame? And the last comment that had got my attention was, I'm not trying to alarm you, but you should be alarmed. So, I mean, before you can act, you've got to prep your audience for what you're going to do. You've got to show them the, you know, the road of what you're going to take or hopefully he's going to take. And I agree with you, Jay, he's not taking it yet, but you just can't take the road and not explain yourself in advance because then all sorts of, you know, you can have all sorts of consternation and protest and maybe you can reduce that somewhat by trying to explain your game plan and why you're doing it. Comments from anyone on that. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR was in front of Congress in a matter of two hours. That's action. And he called for a declaration of war and war he got. It was action. I'm not saying right or wrong on either side of it, but there's an example of leadership there. You know, we've been waiting seven months for something to happen. There's no commission yet. All we got is newcasts and op-ed pieces and a lot of speculation by the press. And this tippy-toe thing is not really... Okay, what? You made a good point that you have to socialize your audience first. Well, if your audience is to socialize by now, when exactly will it be? Gotcha. Let me ask you a question from a scale of one to 10. Of all the speeches Biden has made since he became president, can you rate this last one yesterday? Can you rate it on our score of one to 10 as far as aggressiveness and calling out the big lie? The best he's ever done. I would give it a nine. No, I think he needs to go further. And I don't believe in the oxygen theory. Okay, great. We're out of time, but I'm gonna go around the table here and get your last thoughts on where we're at with the big lie and Joe Biden calling it out. But also any comments about the filibuster? Joe Manchin seems to be a lot more amenable to the John Lewis Act. He's not very happy about the People's Act, H1, but he does seem to be willing to think about how the filibuster can be reformed. Cynthia, to you. I think that Joe Manchin is seeing that these Republican counterparts that he thought would come around are not gonna come around. And he's finally starting to try to figure out where his place in all that is. But I wanna comment mostly to that comment about have you have no shame? Do you have no shame? When he said that to me, I got no, they don't. They lost their shame the day that they turned their backs on those little kids getting ripped out of their parents' arms. That to me. And I mean, I was like, no, you know, the TV, of course, at this point.  So to ask them if they have shame is like, no. What we need to do is- Well, maybe it was a rhetorical question. Right, point out that they do have no shame instead of saying it, you know, like that.  What is it that will make you get there? And so I thought it's that tippy-toe thing again. And I definitely, that was sort of where I was gonna end with that before we stopped. I was like, that's what I wanna see him do. Yeah, we sort of heard him kind of start to say it, but I wanna see him take it to the next step. And so he said he would fight back. He would only be nice for a certain amount of time. Time's up. That's how I- All right, great, great comments. Winston, to you. Yeah, I think the good points, you know, what Cynthia was talking about, I think that when you were reading the Atlantic article, there's a word for what Trumpism is becoming by David Fromm, great article in the Atlantic. Again, these things require you to sit down and read it and process it. It's not gonna come out in a TikTok feed. But actually that might be an interesting idea. One TikTok at a time, one line at a time. But you know, where's the beef, Jay says? The beef is, remember when Biden met Putin last week or whatever it was? And he said, I don't think you should be shutting down our beef factories or any other things because we have things we could do as well. Did you notice like the ransom sites just disappeared overnight? And Ben Putin said, will you do anything? Yeah, we can. I guess the beef is flowing again for those of you that are still eating meat. But in this nation, the other thing is that I do believe in the oxygen theory and action as well. Joe Biden needs to turn on the taps. And maybe if we're being completely cynical and not that we are, but if these politicians are only interested in being re-elected so that they can get re-elected, then Joe Biden needs to say, how much was spent on that Georgia election with Ossoffer and Reverend Warnock against the two people? It was almost a billion dollars, wasn't it? Half a billion?  And Democrats of the world, can you please donate? Careful, that's buying votes. Careful. If not buying votes, it's just saying, we know you're a sane person and this is the party of sanity and we'll help you get re-elected if you switch to be a little D after your name and Democrats of the world. You're not gonna like a lot of the stuff these people do at all, but we're gonna get this important stuff through. So please donate to the whoever, Susan and the lady in Alaska, Murkowski, over and over. It's a little bit cynical, but you know what? If he's turning on the taps for everything else, why not there too? All right. Great comments too. Thank you very much, Winston. Jay, you get last word, last comments. Yeah, okay. Well, I'd like to turn it a little bit to your friend Joe Manchin. Watching is like watching a reality show. Everybody is speculating, what is he having for breakfast today? What's going on with him in Kirsten? What does he feel really? And who was he talking to? The bottom line is he's holding it up. He's holding up the amendment of the filibuster and therefore he's holding up both voting rights acts, him alone. And we've been waiting like a metronome to find out what is it going to do? And so far he's been consistent. You know, the definition of insanity is you keep on doing the same thing expecting a different result. He hasn't given us a result. And kissing his shoelaces is not helping. And speculating on what he had for lunch is not helping. I don't believe he's sincere. When I think that Biden and the country have to plan other options to get around him, he's not going to cooperate. If he hasn't cooperated in seven months, he's not going to cooperate now. All right. With that, we've run out of time. I love this show because the guests we have on the show bring the best and brightest opinions to the table. And that's why I love the show. So with that, I hope everyone joins us next week, Wednesday at 11 o'clock for What Now, America. I'd like to thank Jay Fidel, Winston Welch, Cynthia Lee Sinclair. And we will see you next Wednesday. I'm Tim Apatel, your host, Anna Loha.


How's it going everybody? Welcome back to C++ Programming. I'm Rudolf De Null. In the last video we were looking at inputs in our programs and our C++ code. In this video we're going to take a different route. I'm going to create a new file. Go ahead and save mine as 0.6. And I'm going to call this one functions.cpp. You can see that that's a new file that I've just created. And we, of course, want to include iostream so we can display things and that sort of thing. I use namespace standard. Let's go ahead and create our main function, which will happen automatically. And we'll return 0 at the end. I keep forgetting to do that. All right. Now let's actually talk about this concept. This is really, really simple. This is really, really easy. And I'm going to be getting into more iterations of this concept as we progress through, I think, a few more tutorials. But for now, this is the very, very easy, very, very simple way to create a function. You notice that this main, this code block right here, is a function in itself. This is the name of the function. The name of the function is main. It takes parentheses to refer to the fact that it is a function. Everything inside its code block is actually the things that happen because of this function. It takes a type, though. It's an integer function. It will return at the end of the function's execution an integer. That's what this return 0 does. So that's the basic skeleton for how a function is set up. Now, if I wanted to have, okay, let's create an integer function that says, um, say the number, actually, I'll call mine something stoop, return 4. And use parentheses to refer to the fact that this is a function. And what if we simply return 4? Now, if I go back to my main function, I use C out, and then I actually run return 4. The value that is returned from this function, which in this case will be 4, is going to be outputted to the screen because of C out and L. Okay. I'll go over to my terminal. I'll just show you very, very simply how this works. Let's use 0, 6. Oh, I'm getting an error here. Standard and L, C out. What's the problem? What did I do wrong? Oh, I see. Over here, when I say using namespace, I said using namesaps. Sorry. Okay. Now let's run the code. Head back to our terminal over here. Run this code. It executes, we've got 4. Awesome. This can be obviously anything. It doesn't have to return 4 despite the name. It can return 30. We run this code, it returns 30. Sweet. But it will have to return whatever is actually the type of this function. Now, what if we had any functions that we don't want to return anything? Well, that's a special type. In fact, we call that type void, and that means that it won't return anything. If I leave this line here, if I leave return 30, we might get an error when we try to compile this. Let's check it out. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Cannot convert return 4 type void to type constant unsigned character, which, you know, is not a string that we would normally want to see in the C out, especially if we're returning 30. That's just not supposed to happen. If we return nothing, this shouldn't do anything for us. So let's change up the code in the main function. Let's say return 4. Actually, let's change the name of this function. Let's just say say hello. We'll call this function say hello rather than return 4. We'll just change the name and a file to go ahead and type C out. Hello. And L. Now remember, I'm not returning anything because this is void. There is no return type for this type of function. Let's run the code. Hello. No errors. It runs the code just fine. And it's the main function which is started automatically by our program is going to call the function say hello. And inside the function say hello, all we're doing is saying hello. Very, very simple. Very, very easy. That's all it takes. The only reason I really created what this video was to let you guys know the form of a function. We have the type, a space following that we have the function's name. Then we have the actual parentheses that refer to the fact that okay, this is a function. We have the brackets and the braces that okay, this is the code block. This is what the function actually does. And then the insides of the function, which is what the function will actually do. So that's the form that you need to know. That's how it all works. That's how you can build your own functions. Now, in the next video, let's expand on this. Let's have functions with arguments with parameters that can do specific things to a specific set of data. You see what I mean? We'll get to it very soon. But for now, thank you for watching, guys. Simple stuff, simple C++ code. We're going to get into more fun things as we roll along. For now, we're just steam rolling through the basics. Thanks, everybody. See you in the next tutorial.


Freedom is now building homes in Dubai. I will explain why in this video and we will use heartbeat to show you This is an actual home guys This picture behind me is a 3d rendering of an active project which we are working on right now This is not a concept art. It is real. So let me use heartbeat photos to show you This is heartbeat photos. Let me hide the interface. Just press shift F And now we're gonna go through all the thumbnails and I'll hide myself or make myself a little smaller So you can see everything. All right, this is the front view of the home We are building this is in a place called the meadows in Dubai when you enter the front door You will see this this is the 3d rendering of the family room and then we'll go turning left We'll see the stairs in a nice marble staircase Looking right. We're gonna build a movie room. This is for the youtubers guys This will be your screening room where you can show off your products to your friends or just watch movies Yes, this will be a standard feature in every freedom home Then we have the living room. You're walking down towards the backyard Then turning left you will see the kitchen This is a view of the kitchen and then another view of the kitchen showing a bit of the backyard Let's go into the backyard This is what the backyard will look like guys and I'll show you a cool feature of heartbeat photos You can zoom in I'm gonna press 5 here and then you will see That we've zoomed in this is a seating area. Do you see here? This is a glass wall where the pool you can see under the water when you're in this sunken seating area another standard feature of every freedom home Let's continue This is another view of the backyard and I will zoom in again and you can see the seating area here I'll go in even a little bit further That is what you will see from this viewpoint of the pool now We're trying to get the pool longer right now. I feel it's a bit too short My goal is to make it 13 meters long now an Olympic pool is 50 meters So 25 meters is half an Olympic pool and 13 is roughly half of a half So I'd like it to be at least 25 percent of an Olympic pool length so you can swim laps and do some exercise Let's go back inside the house.  Okay, let's go So here is the upstairs. It's the master bedroom Hope you like it with the nice cool Ceiling lamps now looking at it from the other side of the room. This is the same room here It is again from the window looking inward and then from the wall looking towards the window Then we have the closet This is the walk-in closet and you walk through to the door to get to the master bathroom now Look at this master bathroom. It's one of my favorite because of the Color schemes you have the dark marble and you have the white marble with the nice veins Like natural stone veins. That's only possible in real marble And I hope you like it too now. I'm actually struggling with this bathtub. Does anyone use a bathtub anymore these days? I certainly don't maybe the kids do we need a bathtub as standard issue in Freedom Homes guys What do you think tell me down there in the comments below about this or any other? Ideas you may have let's continue on. This is now my wife calling. I'll just hang up on her Don't tell her I said that this is the bedroom upstairs now There's four bedrooms upstairs plus the master bathroom. So there are total of five bedrooms upstairs this is just one of them and This is the other view looking towards the backyard with the nice trees Then we're just rotating the viewpoint here. This is looking into the room now This is the bathroom every room has its own bathroom on sweet bathroom and This now here. We're at the guest bedroom now. We're downstairs. This is the sixth bedroom in the house the guest bedroom followed by the guest bathroom now the guest bathroom also has this nice black accent wall to Make it a little more interesting to look at All right. Now you might be wondering what about the layout from a graphical perspective Actually wait, there's one other thing. I wanted to show you if you go back to the image here This is a very high res image So you notice I was able to zoom in and I was able to see a lot of detail even after I've zoomed in Let me show it to you again Here I'm zooming in and you can still see a lot of detail because it's a high resolution image But it does take a while to load so in heartbeat photos will have the option of having lower res photos like this one So I'm gonna flip between the two. Can you tell the difference? Oh, I gotta hide the interface here Okay, so one high res to low res high res low res high res low res The keys are in the low res you're kind of missing like if I zoom in to this mesh It's a bit hard to see in the high res one when you zoom in Then the mesh will be very clear Here you see the difference. You have one two one two. Okay. This is very clear, right? So in the high res you you see all the details of the mesh Anyway, that's just a feature of heartbeat photos and I hope you'll like it when we release it Hopefully next month for everyone to use. Okay. Now. Let's get to the drawings So this is a picture of the current villa the one I'm showing you with 3d renders This is how it looks right now with no upgrades This is how we want it to look after we're done with all the renovations big difference, right guys Let me show it to you again before after Before now in the before I want to point out these three steps. You see this one two three My my finger doesn't go that far with my green screen. Sorry guys But I'll show you the drawings of these three because you notice in this one. It's flat We've squared off the villa what that means is that we've added over 800 square feet of built-up area by Enclosing the villa making it square and having it completely Flat no three steps. Okay, so here's the drawings Here it is currently self other side Okay, so currently oh, I got a point this way now Currently we have these three steps here. Oh, that's the that's the edge of my pointing ability. So you see the one two three, right? I'll use the mouse So this was what I showed you in the before picture. This is all Backyard now what we're going to do is we're going to Your click we're going to enclose it. So now you can see that it's completely squared off This is what adds an extra 800 square feet built up area. So again before After and now we can fit the cinema room. Do you see here? There's the cinema room before there was a cinema room There's just a family room. So we're kind of moving the whole family room forward to make room for the cinema room We still have the guest bedroom down here and this is the entrance way And we've also removed all these columns in the before we have all these different entrance hall columns Which we're going to get rid of so you have a much grander entrance coming into your new home All right. Now, this is the downstairs. What about the upstairs?  We're gonna add an extra bedroom. Here's how Here is the new bedroom now We have bedrooms two and three here where there used to be just bedrooms one and two now we have Now we have a third bedroom up here So we're calling it bedroom one two three and then master and then bedroom four and then That's five bedrooms upstairs and then one bedroom downstairs makes it six bedrooms. So again I will show you the before which again has that those three steps up up here But we're gonna on the first floor also extend it to make it square So we have a lot more room for more bedrooms bigger bathrooms and just more space overall And that's the plan guys. We are in the process of getting permits We just acquired this property as it stands right now like this and Let me show you a video of a video I made on the day we took possession of this home Roll it George. It's a nice Saturday, sunny day in our new home We just took possession of this villa and you can see the trees. It's like a forest It's feels so good to me. I actually prefer this over a lake view Why because you can't use the lake, but you can use this park. You can run around it There's a basketball court right there. You could you know have a little picnic It's like a big backyard. So this is our backyard. It's also pretty big, but we're gonna make a Pool that's 12 almost 13 meters wide with a sunken seating area right there That will be have a glass wall. So you can see under the water our Neighbor has a pool, but it doesn't have that feature of the underwater seating area It's just a regular pool. That was the backyard. You saw the amazing park that this villa faces That's why we got it is because of its location in real estate. There are three important things Location location and location So I hope you agree that this forest Location that you have for your backyard is a great place and let me show you that forest that park which we are facing Roll it again, George. So this is a 13 meter pool here available to the residents and their friends for For swimming anytime 7 a.m. To 10 p.m. And so you can see it's quite long Here is the basketball court up close and then there's a playground in the distance with some sand and a slide, you know for the really little ones This is the seating at the area for a Barbecue and let's go inside here As I said, it doesn't require any Scheduling you just come in Shoot some hoops and Get some exercise It's a half court And it's just nice nice touch in this community. Look at these trees guys Look at this sunshine That's so nice to live in this area and listen The birds Can you hear them? I love that too seeing a hearing nature and seeing it Uh Big difference from a desert. So what do you think about this guys? Tell me down there in the comments below if you're as excited as I am about Freedom Homes in Dubai. We will be doing many of these projects. The goal is to create 20 villas like this where we work with investors and end users Who will see the quality that we're able to produce and then will Invest in getting either this for their own family when they move to Dubai or They will invest and make a profit from the sale of the villa because obviously when we buy the villas We buy them for a lot less because they're in bad condition typically and then we sell them for a lot more When we've renovated them into this high-end Beautiful much bigger built-up area with private pools Anyway, all that stuff Makes adds a lot of value to the villa. So We hope you see why we're doing this right now. Dubai is very strong in real estate It's a booming market more than almost any other place in the world today And so we're taking advantage of that and I hope you can take advantage of it, too If you do come to Dubai and you're looking for a home like this Let us know simply email support at freedom dot TM and we can answer all your questions and give you a Lot more details about these projects as you know Dubai is a big city There are many locations and we're focused on the meadows, but there are many good locations depending on your Budget depending on whether you're a single guy or girl or a family man like me you guys know I have four kids right all girls ages six ten Twelve and thirteen Yes, we have our first teenager So yes for me, of course what is important for my kids is important for me when I'm choosing a place to live Till the next episode freedom family stay safe. Stay fit. Did you go to the gym? I did today I was at the gym doing my Aerobic and then my weight training and I'm feeling great And I know you will too if you get off your butt and actually get some exercise my exercise I don't mean just go for a walk. I mean sweat You have to have a shirt drenched in sweat For it to count as a good workout. That's exactly what I do when I go to the gym I come with a dry shirt when I leave the gym I don't leave the gym until my shirt is completely wet every piece of dryness is gone So I encourage you to follow the same routine Push yourself guys. You can do it.  That's my suggestion. Does that be the gym? It could be jogging. It could be swimming. It could be playing a sport Badminton is my favorite sport. What's yours? Anyway, enough of that. You get the idea. Stay fit. Stay healthy. You'll feel great and Yeah, I've been into by now five years became in 2018 and now it's 2023. You can do the math. We spent almost six years in Manila in the Philippines So we're almost as long in Dubai as we were in in the Philippines But I expect we'll be here at least another five years maybe more So we'll we'll beat out our time in the Philippines next year Anyway, hope you guys found this helpful I'll make more videos about the freedom homes in Dubai as we make progress Until then stay happy. No, don't stay happy Okay, I'll be very quick about this Happiness is bad. Why? Well because Happiness is result reliant. If your goal is to be happy, you will spend much of your time Being unhappy because you have to get X to be happy Joy on the other hand is something that's a constant it's always in process it's the feeling you get when you're doing the things that you're fashioned to do That doesn't depend on a result. It is not result reliant for example I feel joy seeing my kids whether they fail at something or they're Successful at something I feel the same joy Now I am happy when my kids get an A and I'm not so happy when they get an F So that's the difference. I feel joy in both cases It doesn't matter what grade they get But I feel unhappy if they get a poor grade. So happiness and joy look for things that you find joy in Regardless of the results Hope this helps Till the next episode. 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Well, I wanted to serve because I wanted to do something that was bigger than myself. I enjoy the camaraderie of the military, the values, the challenges, and the fact that everybody's equal when you put your uniform on, wear the same flag, and fight on for the same mission. And it's not an organization that is divided into many different things, even though obviously you have different branches in the Army, Navy, and Air Force and Coast Guard, and within those branches you have many subdivisions. At the end of the day, everybody's working on the same mission and trying to accomplish his own goals. Well, I think that I'm doing my job, and my job is to entertain and to make sure that Americans can maybe have some time off for three hours while they're watching the game. And I know that whether they're doing overseas, watching AFN or they're coming to the games because their team is playing somewhere close, I think that's pretty meaningful.  I think that a lot of times when veterans listen to the National Anthem, they get very emotional because it's a moment that the dude take to think about, you know, the flag, the moment that they take to think about the fallen soldiers, the fact that it is the home of the brave, and they belong to that group of men and women who raised their hand, and they went and fought for a flag, and for something that means more than maybe words or ideas, it's just simply a feeling that they have of patriotism and love for their country. So I think sometimes when I go to the games, I listen to the National Anthem, I turn around, I go to my bench, I see a lot of veterans, they're saluting the flag with tears in their eyes, a lot of Vietnam vets who are, you know, you know, from my time here in Pittsburgh, they're my favorite type of vets, and it's, you know, it's pretty powerful, but I think I try to keep emotions out of the game as much as I can because obviously as soon as the National Anthem is over, I've got to go play a football game.