yet work my own backyard. That's what it's all about it's all about and whether whether you're a realtor or a local restaurant or a chiropractor or a local dentist it's all the same right like we're on social media posting on our all of our personal platforms you know instagram linkedin twitter thinking it's actually doing something when our business is in our backyard. Right. So we have to we have to put a little skin in the game in 2020 Heidi. I know we have to start running Facebook ads. We have to allocate a budget for weekly which are really monthly which are really daily you know Facebook ads that's how you're going to do it. Right. I totally get it. I know. And so what I mean how's the marketing area how's how's you know it's good because it seems like everything that hits the market right now doesn't last long I mean even especially for listings that I've had I've had multiple offers they don't last more you know the house doesn't sit for more than 72 hours without having multiple offers you know and everything from the buy inside you know and of course I'm going to revert back to my buyer that I just got done dealing with but you know even without being said it's like everything that we found we were getting outbidded by everything that we had found that way this time when I went into this house I just overbidded 10,000 because I'm like we're going to make sure we get you into a home you know and we had the flexibility to do so but yeah if you don't have you know you hit that little flexibility to work with then we're screwed because like I said I made four different offers and we got you know dumped every time because we were just getting outbidded so the market is still hot. Awesome. Yeah. Well we got to we got to run image ads we got to run image ads and we need to target sellers and yes here's a good strategy for you as well here here could be a really good strategy do you have or does a team member or does a broker have a seller guide like any kind of PDF any kind of tip sheet any kind of yeah I'm sure they do I'll have to check with my broker I know yeah I'm sure we do I'm still new to this company so I'm still kind of finding but I can find out today yeah reach out to anyone and ask anyone if they have a seller's guide okay because a seller's guide here's what you would do let me give you a perfect example this is how you can find sellers in your local area and it's going to happen it's going to happen all through all through a Facebook ad but here's here's the Facebook ad and the Facebook ad is targeting targeting sellers people that are interested in selling people that are interested in knowing how to sell at a higher you know value people that that that you could just give tips to people that people that are open minded for for suggestions and advice on how they can sell right this is who we would target so for example if you ran a Facebook ad targeting people in that local area and sending them to a page that looks like this like this is exactly how you would capture capture leads so they see a Facebook ad let's just say they're on Facebook they're scrolling through Facebook they're whether they're looking at their desktop or whether they're looking at Facebook from a cell phone they're looking at this middle news feed and as people are just scrolling through scrolling through they come across an ad let's say actually that's that's a listing but let's just say they come across a regular ad let me show you a random ad this one's a random ad so here's a video and look how basic these videos are Heidi like look this is smart home buyer tips look this could literally be an agent right now i don't know who this is first time i'm seeing this but this could literally be an agent how to lower the payments on everything if you'd like to learn more insider information or you're considering a home purchase make sure to check out our website for the smart way okay so this guy is literally doing look how low budget the video is and this is what it takes this is all it takes right he's doing a simple video on his cell phone in his car and the video is the video is a little over two minutes long and when i click on learn more he's taking me to one single page how to buy a home under market value and then it's a video of him and then i click this one button and that's where he captures the lead nice now if i'm telling you it's it's that low budget it's that simple like it really is that simple now again if you're not if you're camera shy you're not ready for the camera that's that's fine but look at how how look this guy is like he is yeah in his hat and a freaking hoodie like there's nothing professional nothing right budget you know anything like super super random low budget pull out your phone honey and let me do a quick video before we go to the soccer game and like it's a it's a real random low budget video but i'm telling you that's what it takes that's all right right okay so that's a video but here's my point let's say we were we were look we were this text we were targeting sellers we were targeting people that are interested in selling their property in 2020 they click on learn more and we bring them to one page that looks like this this is the one pager where they're opting in meaning they're giving up their naming email they come to this one page seven simple tips to raise the value of your home before selling yep it's free i'll also send you a step-by-step plan to getting started get my seven steps here seven tips here name email phone number send me the seven tips i love this the email it's an email auto responder so the moment they enter their information the email auto responder sends out a pdf whatever you know you have put together five page pdf a 10 page pdf maybe a three page tip sheet whatever it may be its benefits and advantages of selling your home and any broker has some type of seller guys right right type of brochure right and so the moment they enter their name and email that email sends them that pdf right away and then you have a handful of emails that go out over the next few days right so an email goes out tomorrow hey john just wanted to follow up this is Heidi i know you downloaded my free seller guide yesterday just wanted to introduce myself and let you know that i'll be available this week for a quick call if you have any questions or any if you need any you know questions answered i'm i'm more than welcome to jump on a call with you click the link below and it'll take you to my calendar where we where you could schedule your best time have a great have a great day and that's email number one and then two days later another email goes out hey stacey just wanted to follow up i know you downloaded my seven tips sheet a few days ago just wanted to introduce myself let you know that i have some time available this week so if you're available i'd love to chat kind of see what your goals are and see what you're trying to do with your home this year in 2020 have a great day click the link below to schedule your call and that's email number two right and you have like 10 of these emails that are preset ready to go out every other day over the next 20 days i love it that's that that's all it takes that's literally all it takes so right i tell my friends and my and my clients and just my real estate friends like you your biggest your only two expenses in 2020 should be facebook ads and this type of landing page software because you need some type of landing page this is what we call a landing page and when people get and that's why when you look at facebook and you scroll through facebook and you just look at every ad you see where they take you so for example here's an ad right here anytime you see the word sponsor sponsor it's an ad that's an ad we click on learn more and let's see where they're taking us nine out of ten advertisers will take you to a landing page one single page it's very different than what your what your website looks like this is one page or there's only one button to click on and it's right there i love it so so every ad where realtors get it wrong is they'll run an ad and they'll and when i click on learn more they're taking me to their website where there's a million things to click on right you need to take me to one page where there's only one button to click on right and and and you know exactly what that person is interested in they're interested in information on helping themselves i love it and so and so like let's see one another like this this mailer light sponsored we click on learn more they take me to one single page actually see okay so as i mentioned nine out of ten advertisers are doing it right they're sending you to one page this is the one bozo that's doing it wrong and this is what most realtors do this is not a realtor this is mellar light whoever that is but they're they're they're running a facebook ad i click on learn more they take me to a website where there's a million things to click on right and because we all have add we all have add and we all have a short attention span yes that's where the whole term surfy in the web came came from and comes from because all we do is browse or browse in the internet that's where that term browsing the internet because all we do is browse the problem with having a million things on here is that i'm browsing i'm browsing i'm browsing and before you know it i'm gone yes and this person ran an ad to get me to click and i just clicked out so you can't go to a website you have to run it to one single page to to achieve everyone's goal to achieve your goal which is caption to lead and to achieve the consumers goal which is getting exactly what they're interested in exactly you send me to a website there's a million things that i'm all of a sudden interested in now right right because there's a million things i can click on this guy right here chase chapel sponsored there's a text we can write something on the text hey interested in selling your property and getting the seven tips on increasing the value before you do decide to sell click below to download my to download my seven page pdf giving you the top seven tips for 2020 on selling your property at the highest value possible click below click learn more i'll see you on the other page i love that that could be the text and it could be an image a random image of anything and then again we click on learn more this guy for sure he has to be taking me to one page one page he takes me to one single page there's a text here's a text right here download your free pdf on the seven tips on increasing the value of your property before you decide to sell it i love that a few bullet points they click on the one single button and there goes the email there's how he's capturing leads this guy people that are running ads the right way are literally capturing leads all day right that's all this guy's doing look and for all we know that's probably not even an image of him right where it could be a random image it could be a random image of a property or you know something in your backyard whatever right but it's just running the ad the right way it's running the ad the right way and i truly believe most do not know how to run the ad the right way so it's running the right ad the right way and then and then it's taking them to a landing page right now i love that i love that that's it there's nothing else to it there's literally nothing else to it now now once they come here again they enter their name and email some will give up their phone number some will not but even if they do not that's fine we have their email now our email otter responder is going to be emailing them over the next few days to get them to schedule a call that is so cool that's the whole purpose of the email now you'll send out an email like let's say for example you have 10 emails like you have 10 emails and you'll sit down on a sunday afternoon and you'll just write out 10 emails and short ones you know short ones like if you if heidi came if heidi saw an ad and she clicked on it and her and her husband are interested in selling sometime soon and you came across this free pdf teaching you how to sell it at a higher value you would you would most likely click on it absolutely if it's if it's if it's local it's a local business it's a local business owner it's someone in your backyard you would click on it and you would come to this page and nine out of ten times you'll give up your name and email right but you'll have a tent about giving up your phone number right so it's the same thing most people are not going to give up their phone number right away and that's fine i know realtors want phone number like all you care about is someone's phone number i get it but on the first time around you can't expect their phone number right away not everyone's going to give it up but that's fine we have emails set up 10 emails 15 emails whatever five emails set up over the next few days to go out to get that person to schedule an appointment i love it so i use i use the system cartridge for everything it's my landing pages and it's my email otter responder that's that's it that's all you need that's all you need now if you're not going to have the landing page in the email otter responder you could be running you could be running what facebook calls lead generation ads which are just getting people to click on learn more and then they fill out a simple form that facebook provides that's also that's also possible let me see if i can find one let me see if i can just find a random let's click on this one let's see if he perfect perfect example perfect example look here's the ad here's here's the video ad right here's the text sponsored value capital funding here's learn more i click on learn more and facebook provides this basic form and it's already pre-populated now this is information that i put in because i'm hacking everyone i'm always looking at people's ads and opting in and seeing where they take me right that's what you want to do as well when you start seeing real estate ads start clicking on them and the ones that that grab your attention start clicking on them and starting entering put a different email don't put your real one put it maybe put a different one and just start hacking them to see what they're doing right right i do that all data to other marketers right so now i love that this right here is what facebook calls lead generation it's a specific facebook ad and it's for it's for those of us that are capturing leads that do not have a page like this so if we don't have a landing page because we gotta pay this is i pay 99 bucks a month for the landing pages and the email otter responder nice but it it well pays for itself so i don't i don't mind but not everyone has a budget right away so if we don't have that budget for this landing page and email otter responder right away then you you could for sure use facebook's landing page this is what they call their landing page and it's this form but the only thing about this is the fact that when people do fill it out you have to download the emails whenever yeah i don't like that so i like i like the first one that you showed me with the landing page how much just something like that you you mentioned 99 bucks a month for you but what would something like that cost me no for it's the same for everyone it's a it's a third party company that i use what um and it's that for everyone well david let's get started yeah i mean i i can handle 99 bucks that's a 10 deal and it comes with a 14-day trial okay it comes with a 14-day trial we have live training on it every week okay i believe it's still twice a week it used to be twice a week it might be once a week now but it used to be every Tuesday and Thursday but it's for one hour and it's at four p.m eastern time and if you can't make it live they send you the replay perfect i love it because it's they do it's their customer support and these people these website people are nerds right like they're smart like they're super smart in the most respectful way right i love those people because they answer my questions right like so if i have any questions i can hop on and it's a q and a so they screen share they walk me through it so there's a handful of people on it and everyone's getting their questions answered and we and they do it twice a week so the support is there customer support and we have a huge facebook group and you get me i think that's wonderful no i mean that's exactly what i mean you get so that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna sign up for that because it's gonna be the 99 bucks a month correct that the one that has the landing page um it's your it's your landing page it's your here's here's here's what you want to want to really jot down it's for your landing pages the landing pages as we need to create for a listing for an open house for a buyer whatever we can create as many landing pages it's for your landing pages it's for your email otter responder i love it and it's for your calendar okay cool so so this is a like a quick example of a calendar like i use this calendar for for all my appointments so with you i scheduled my our appointment with my cartra calendar right so as people and the whole purpose of this calendar is for the emails as those emails are going out we're gonna provide a link in the email and say hey john i know i noticed you downloaded my seller guide you know a week ago i just wanted to follow up i know you're super busy i got a ton of stuff going on it's an amazing market right now but hey click the link below it'll take you to my calendar where you can schedule a call and we can really get your you know your questions answered click the link i'll talk to you soon love it and so that's all in the email um and like they can come here they can click on it they can schedule a call and it goes based on their time zone so all this stuff i can help you with all this stuff for free like if i always tell people whoever jumps on cartra you get me for free so if you need help with any of this setup i can help you set it all up for free so you're awesome that's worth it as well that's yeah probably i'm so like yeah i'm so not you know when it comes to something new like this i'm gonna be scatterbrained so i'll refer to you definitely if i could just have you set that up and then what i'll do is i'll contact my broker today and have him forward me a pdf of the you wanted to find uh it was called the seller guy yes so what i'll do is get that and then once they send that to me in a pdf i can forward the copy to you as well could you upload that for me i sure can i sure yeah let's get this done what i'd like to do is i'd like to take it up a step further okay and grab whatever they have like whatever they have like a few brochure like a few pages a brochure whatever they have sure grab what they have and i'm going to send it into my department i have like a little design department where i want them to completely rebrand that to you okay perfect like i'll have them rewrite it i'll have them rebrand it and i'll have them put your name your contact info like like if it's a if it's like a five page brochure i'll put yours as a six page like i love it here's a profile of heidi and with your contact information i'm ready to get started david and everything you so here's here's the long term vision of it all everything you start to put out because first it's going to be with it's going to be facebook ads we got to get to the facebook ad side but let's just say just in general heidi's entire marketing campaign consists of her free seller guide awesome everything evolves around that everything evolves in marketing around her seller guide and the reason why you want to just take that by the horn and run with it because that is going to allow you to capture leads right you can send anyone your link for a seller guy you can send it to your neighbor say hey guys i just wanted to let you know i came up with you know a seller guide for 2020 if you guys are ever interested in in selling i put together a cheat sheet you know giving you some some tips on what you can do to increase the value i love it make sure to go to my link and you can download a free copy right now and that would be good to even take to you know open houses and stuff and share with people you know what i mean heck yeah or you can have your link i would have your link ready at all times i'd customize a link i'd go to go daddy and get a new dot com for like a buck right and just call it hidey's hidey seller guide tips dot com i love it and now everything evolves around that whether you had an open house hey just go to hidey's seller tips dot com and you could download my free pdf that i made for 2020 you're gonna love it and when i love it go to that you capture their lead it's all about capturing the lead it's all about putting that lead in an email otter responder where i can eventually nurture that lead and get them and and follow up and and do it all automatically this is all without hidey lifting the finger right i need to feed my funnel i need to feed my landing page i don't and that's why when you when you post on social media you got to micromanage it to a certain extent because you got to look for people's comments right which i do what you do heck yeah you do you got to check messages all the time right because you don't want to mess right right but if i had your lead if i had your name and email in an otter responder and that otter responder was already preset ready to put out 15 emails over the next 35 days and every email is designed to get you on the phone that's a different game like i think i feel like this is gonna have to appointments every day yes and this is what i need because right now like i said i've got nothing in my pipeline right now you know and i'm just kind of frantic so you know to me and it's like i i start getting overwhelmed with things because it's like okay do i start door knocking no i don't want to start doing that because i can't stand door knocking i don't like to you know i mean i'll do open houses but even at that i feel like there's like next to none you know what i mean not a lot of inventory out there for people to you know have you host that so this is going to open up a whole new window for me which i definitely need oh my god this is going to be a game changer we need to look for sellers we need to look for sellers yes give them something for free of value in exchange for their email perfect build that email list to get hundreds of people on this email list that that are literally getting emails from us automated every single day with a link to our calendar okay schedule your appointment clicks here oh my god that's so exciting now now now here's the crazy part is that if you were to really feel all it is is fueled with a facebook ad so if we had a facebook ad that was going out to fawesome every single day that's where we win right absolutely that's why the landing page it's really only for people that are really running facebook ads if you're running ads you need a landing page if you're not running ads you don't really need a landing page right you know because it's not because even though you could take this link and post it on social media like anybody can do that you know people that say you know david i rather just post it on social media okay great post it on your LinkedIn post this link on your twitter post that link on the facebook page and let me know how that goes right if i do you're gonna get like one person to see it like no one cares everyone in the country that is so true oh my god so the only people that need to see this page are people that are seeing my ad at that live in fawesome that's it that's it the hell with everybody else i don't care about everybody else on social media right you're not gonna pay the bills right you know i need to attack fawesome and and and and i have to do it with with some type of ad with a facebook ad or an instagram ad or a youtube ad but right now it's facebook ad right we gotta start with the facebook ad so you gotta just you gotta just it's january what is it we're at the 13th you gotta just figure out what what your budget is for the for the month for the next 30 days what can we put at facebook ads like that's what you have to kind of think of um and with kartra there's a 14-day trial so you're not going to be building 99 right now it's you have a 14-day trial to play around with it build it out and i'm going to help you do all that and i already have like this page right here i can just transfer it to your account once you set up the kartra i can just transfer this entire funnel like i have i have this one ready for you and i have this one ready for you which is this one right here so i already have them built out all i got to do is transfer it to you and then now you and then you can change the colors and i can i can i can do all that for you but basic editing i have this other page as well so i love that one welcome to the fulsome homes under 300k list oh i love it even qualify for special financing send me the list they click that they enter their name in email and then from there they're on an email list and the email auto responder automatically sends them an email it could send them a link to the mls it can send them a link to whatever the heck you got going on it could send them a link to any other random listing but this is for people that are that are that are looking to purchase they're looking to purchase exactly and so they're interested in the list they're interested in in some type of you know information on on homes right right let me know what's for sale you know this right here is a simple ad targeting fulsome getting people to opt in i love it so now i just all i have to do at this point is just go under that um katra is that what you said no go to go to write this down go to um in fact let me see if i can let me see if i can actually message it to you i don't know why facebook's been blocking my links i think because i messaged too much but let me see if i can i've never even heard of that before right i know that's i'm telling you must be killing it david i'm telling you just like you hidey i come from cells i come from real estate and mortgages that's all i know how to do is is try to kill it we gotta right right i'm gonna be killed hiding right i'm serious we have to kill and we do let me um let me see if this if this link will actually go through see i don't know why in the heck it doesn't let you they're blocking my emails that's crazy but you know what what i'll do is i will just simply let me just email it to you okay and then i just go on there and fill out what they want me to yeah all you're gonna do just set up a 14-day trial perfect that's all that's all you do is just set up a 14-day trial and then um and we can get this can we get this going today yeah yeah for sure i am so excited oh my god this is gonna be like a savior i swear it is it is it's time to capture leads hidey that's what it's what it's all about that's what i'm talking about time to capture leads let me um is your email open uh should yes uh hold on no it's not you know what it's just yahoo actually i thought it yeah have a yahoo one yeah it's just hidey hidey dot roterick at yahoo.com perfect okay so what you're gonna do is you're going to click here and i'm going to simply link this so it should go to age actually you know what let me um i could just send it through this part let me um yeah and then once you set it up then i can just transfer those um those landing pages to you that is so cool and they're already they're already built for you so cool so let me and then is there like a little way that you can find out how many people have viewed your website or hit the heck yeah all the analytics are here as well awesome so we're gonna be able to look at all that good like all of that okay perfect okay so this right here is kartra and then also you know what let me also put in here i might as well do it now let me because i want you to register for the actual week calls well no the actual weekly calls perfect because you have to you have to register for it so let me oh this is gonna be awesome yeah Tuesday the 14th oh perfect so it looks like yeah it looks like join us for all things kartra every tuesday and thursday at one so at four p.m east or actually we're yeah you're pacific yeah one p.m but again if you can't make it live i highly encourage you to at least jump on a couple live ones but if you can't they send you the replay perfect but just make sure you watch it it's an it's only an hour long you'll learn so much and at the end of it all this stuff is basic it's a landing page and an email auto responder and your calendar like that's what we're really going to leverage this for okay um register register for weekly calls okay so that is going to be this one okay so that's that and then and then what i want you to do is join facebook group this is the facebook group over here so all of these people in this group haiti are literally just like us you and i online looking to capture leeds perfect that's the whole that's this whole group so if you ever have a random question you can always ask it in here and there's 15 000 people in this group yeah very nice 15 000 people in this group and people that are super smart will reply and say hey haiti try doing this oh that is just so much support in this actual group so you can click but you have to set up the 14 14 day trial first and then you can join the group perfect check it so make sure that you just go in order yeah so click here register for weekly calls and then join join the group perfect and then and then once you do that i can transfer over the file the funnels to you okay you'll have this one and then you'll have this one as well so this is for sellers and this other one is for buyers perfect so well so so inside kartra inside kartra we'll be able to build a list in here my communications we'll be able to build an actual list of everyone on these so we'll know exactly who who opted in over here we'll know exactly who opted in over here there's a different list and those lists are right here inside of kartra and then when we hover over communications and we click on sequences your sequences is the email otter responder so everyone that's on that list what we're going to do is set up a handful of emails and put them in the sequence perfect so for the next few days they get emails from us with a link to our calendar perfect and so the way i set mine up and and this is how i set up my my whole real estate side of everything my book i wrote a book last year it's a 55 page book that i put together for real estate agents teaching them these five steps step one your links you know step two take your light count up step three start running ads to full some step four the landing page step five the email otter responder right that's these five steps perfect i literally wrote a book about it and and so in the book i'm talking about it but my point is is that when someone goes to my page to download the book they go to the page they go to a page very similar to this one they click on it they enter their name and email and automatically there they receive my book right automatically the email is going to send them the book right away so they get the digital download the pdf they get it right away via email and over the next 10 days i have emails set up talking about the book hey hidey just wanted to follow up remember yesterday you downloaded the book hey i wanted to talk about chapter one in chapter one i was talking about the importance of setting up all your social media links so it matches your brand if you need any help with this click the link below and we can always schedule a call i'd be more than happy to help you and walk you through it right that's email number one and then email number two hey hidey just wanted to follow up in chapter two of the social real estate agent i was talking about running a like ad and taking your 200 likes to 1000 here's what i meant by it and so what what what what i have set up is in my email sequence in my email otter responder i'm simply talking about what they downloaded i'm talking about the book right so when it comes to a seller guide the way you can you can imagine in picture putting out your emails is talking about that seller guide i think that's awesome get that seller guide and whether it's five pages 10 pages whatever read it break it down and put it in email form hey john just wanted to follow up hey remember on chat maybe remember on page three i was talking about tip number three hey here's what i meant by it and you really write out three sentences and that's email number four i love it and all it is is educating educating that person via email about what they downloaded five days ago but also having a call to action in the email in the email signature having a call to action saying hey man by the way i'd love to talk to you let me know when you have a few minutes click the link below and it'll take you straight to my calendar where we can schedule a call and i can get to know you even better have a great day i love it and again it's with you it's without heidi lifting a finger i i want all this to be automated same here that's that's that's the power of this software you know the cartridge system the landing page love it auto responder and the calendar okay and at the same time that's the power of running facebook ads because we're either going to sit here and total our fingers and try to post on social media and get nothing and get nothing or we're going to run an ad directly to fulsome and get straight to the point that's what i'm talking about so it's just going to come down to your budget it's going to come down to your facebook ad budget okay you know so do you know the numbers yet do you know where you're comfortable at spending 30 days are we even let's see what am i what should it so so what is what is a what is a good number to run with i guess i mean i always tell i always tell my friends you have to start with at least a minimum of a few hundred like you have to put you have to plan and budget for at least 500 for the month like you want to you want to go with 500 for the month and just break that down by the week which is 125 a week and and you just start running facebook ads you start running facebook ads at 10 15 20 dollars a day and you start running ads directly to fulsome yeah i think that's going to be awesome after i get this check and this title company you know gets her shit straight i'll be able to you know put some money into it absolutely i'll do that i'll start it out with that trial is the 500 i'll do it you know for the first month and see what happens and see how many hits and stuff we get i mean a trial when you start our budget when you start the facebook ad campaign because i can have i can have culture i can have the whole system set up for you in literally 10 minutes so so that's not that's not that's not that's not really the important thing the important thing is is getting this facebook ad ready right and having the budget right so the moment we pull the trigger for the ad is the moment we set up our 14-day trial okay okay that way you don't bleed into the 14-day trial i don't want you to set up the 14-day trial and then right seven days into it and now we're barely gonna start running facebook ads exactly and what it's gonna happen is i'm gonna go down to the title company today because i have to return a check i've never heard of this i went down so the lender funded you know friday right so i go down to this title company it's called allied title in escrow and anyways i go down there and the escrow officer tells me this song and dance about how she'll only be able to cut a portion of my check and i'll have to come back monday to get the rest what the hell i that makes absolutely no sense i know i mean i worked in escrow the wired funds were there there should have been no reason why she couldn't have come it's like just weird to me it's like i've never even heard of anything like that i don't know my i talked to my broker and my broker even said he goes yeah she's in violation and you know he goes that's not good so now i have to go down today to return the one commission check she gave me and have her recut all the checks i don't know i don't know i don't think she knows what she's doing to be honest with you how in the hell can any of that be compliant like they're it's not and i'm gonna numbers were finalized the moment you guys signed like exactly exactly and and you didn't see that half number when you were signing right like there was no short change no right like so how can you now change how can they now change that number yeah half of it it's like dude that's so weird something is something's fishy and that's when i told my broker because i even talked to the lender about that friday and i go i kind of told her the scenario and she goes yeah she goes i talked to your broker it sounds like she's kind of you know not in between the lines there and i'm like yeah so i did i talked to my broker and he goes oh yeah she's total she's totally in violation so i'm just like you know this woman that i've been dealing with she can't even follow simple instruction it's just it's almost sad you know so i'm gonna have to you know like i said i've got my one check sitting here in my drawer that i can't cash because my my broker's like well wait a minute you know she's already had the commission breakdown there's a couple checks that she needs to get to us along with the closing statements and send everything to my office so that i can make you know everything appropriate i'm like sound simple enough you know what i mean and yeah i so i'm gonna have to deal with that today that's gonna be fun god bless you hidey i don't know how you do it it's like not even wanting to deal with any of i gave myself in these situations i don't even understand it well it's it's it's called the business that's what it's called it's called the business yeah right that's the business like it's like shit like i'm telling you that it's it's all that kind of bs i'm gonna keep it real with you hidey it was all that type of bs that drove me out of the mortgage industry like i just couldn't stand it anymore like me being a lender like i was a lender for six years and i'm like all these little hiccups would always come up and i took it for years yes but at the end of the six-year run i'm like hell no like i cannot do this anymore like i hate and a lot of us you know we take that commission check and we go spend it and not any of us save and that was me like i made so much money as a lender but i blew it all and i was always fighting for that next check yeah dressing out for that next check and i just i i couldn't take it anymore i know i know it's just crazy that's the new lender that i'm dealing with she's new to the industry as well so i gave her this you know coin of mine which had perfect credit and everything but you know it's just uh it was a nightmare towards the end it was going too smooth to be true you know what i mean everything was good to be true you're just sailing along and it's like wow everything's just cool and then it's like the seller went ghost on us for like three days i didn't say anything to my bar no way oh yeah you know and it's just and then towards the end it was funny because he started pointing the finger at us for delaying the escrow because we were supposed to close on monday well we didn't close till friday because why he went ghost on us and the escrow officer that we're dealing with couldn't get the numbers right so the the lender reviewer had to go back and give her numbers like eight or nine different times i mean she just could not get it right yeah and so that was part of our frustration so we kind of threw it back on him besides there was paperwork that he needed to sign that the lender needed as a condition to fund the loan and of course well he went ghost on us so it's funny we kind of put him in his place but you know it's just little hiccups like that you know they're not little but we worked through it and we got oh yeah needed to be so which was good but it was frustrating when you have these you know now i'm still dealing with the title company it's like why you know oh so it's frustrating so here's the plan of action then why don't we do this um what i'm going to do is i'm going to go down there today i should have a check from my broker on uh probably no later than wednesday i would imagine because i know whenever yeah he's got to take copies of the check and do his little process and then the meat yeah what i'm going to do is i will find out the seller guide and um from him and all that stuff do you want to touch base then again on wednesday yeah for sure message me on wednesday and here's the deal i'm not taking on many monthly clients this year as far as anyone like real estate whatever any anyone because i'm working on an actual training course where i'm actually teaching everyone how to do this themselves nice but the handful that i take on like i want to literally crush it with them same year you're gonna be that handful like you're gonna be part of my handful all right we're gonna start small and we're gonna scale up and we're gonna kill it and we're gonna kill it i want to take over full some so you're that gal you're that gal let's take it over um and and let's just let's just crush it this year this let's do it and i tell you that just to just to just to you know let it be known that you're gonna have like all my attention oh sweet okay david i'm excited a lot of times you work with people and they have 50 clients and it's like so hard to get a hold of them because they're juggling so much crap right i don't even know is that even possible it's like i read some of these you know agents and they're like oh i've had six closings this month and i'm like bullshit no way they have a team i mean it only happens with a team they have an assistant they have someone for they have their own in-house team i mean right that's how that happens yeah i'm like there is no freaking way you could do that much i mean you know i i would love to see the day where i'm gonna have two three maybe even four closings in a month that would be awesome but you know like i said i need to expand and start thinking of other avenues i ate the facebook ads because it seems like that's where the success comes from at least from what i can see you know and here's why here's why and i'll end it here the only reason why is because now you're targeting your local area exactly and that's where i want to be because i feel like i'm just running everywhere and i don't want to do that anymore yeah no we got to make you the queen of fulsom like you are the mayor of that town let's do it like that's that's what this facebook advertising is going to be able to do for us perfect that's what i'm talking about good let's do it message me wednesday and then we'll go from there perfect david and check your emails i will okay cool all right hi thank you so much you're so welcome talk to you okay all righty thanks bye


We can have a good time. I'm sure they're very happy to be back in public with us. Yeah, I'm sure we'll be right to have some. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I used to be there.  We're throwing out. We're throwing out. All of that. Unfortunately for me, I don't know. Why is that? All of the tranches, you're right on the finish. I look forward to growing the trees. Yeah. Call to order. This is the first regular meeting of the 2010-2011 Common Council. And as is customary, our city clerk, Sue Richards, will read us the quote of the evening. Thank you, mayor. I hope our achievements in life shall be these, that we will have fought for what was right and fair, that we will have risk for that, which mattered, that we will have given help to those who are in need, that we will have left the earth a better place for what we've done and who we've been. I noticed that doesn't have a signature. Did you write that one tonight, Sue? No, I did not. Okay. Very nice. Roll call, please. Boren. Here. Bauch. Excuse. Bowers. Here. Decker. Here. Yesha. Here. Hammond. Here. Hanna. Here. Heidemann. Here. Kott. Here. Kittleson. Here. Montemayor. Here. We have a quorum. If everybody can please rise for the presentation of the colors by the Sheboygan Police Department Honor Guard. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And now this evening our invocation will be by the Reverend Greg Weldon. I would invite you to join me in a moment of prayer. Sovereign Lord, whose very presence brings order to the universe, hear us tonight as we pray for those who govern.  You are the source of all wisdom and the wellspring of all knowledge. You have given us leaders and rulers so that our lives may be guided by order. Be with those upon whom you have placed this burden and responsibility, O Lord, to those whose words and actions affect the well-being of this land, give the gift of wisdom and integrity so the people may fear and honor you rightly. Move those who govern to exercise justice and mercy in all they do. Guide them into the paths of righteousness when the decisions they are asked to make seem greater than any person can handle. Protect these leaders from the temptations of greed, self-indulgence, and pride. These things we beseech of you, O Lord, for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, that his example of service and self-sacrifice may stand as the model for all who rule. Pour out your spirit upon all who govern and upon all who are governed that together we might seek to show love and justice, resist oppression, and live in peace. Thank you, Reverend Gregg. We now can have all older persons who have been elected and re-elected. Please come up to the podium. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I, please state your name. I, Dean Johnson, swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin and will faithfully and impartially and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of older person of the office of older person to the best of my ability to the best of my ability. So help me God. Congratulations. Okay, now we will adopt the rules of the Common Council with the exception of the General Rules of Order Procedure and Conduct booklet which was adopted back on March 6, 2006. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second under discussion. If there is no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Rules are adopted. The election of the president and vice president of the Common Council. President Gisha. Your Honor, I move that the nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by closed ballot and if more than two candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority. I need a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. I will now take nominations from the floor. Vice President. We need a vote to ballot. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ballots are open. I will now take nominations from the floor. Vice President Heidemann. I would like to nominate Alderman Jim Gisha for president of the Common Council. Second. We have a motion and a second for president of the Common Council. Do we have any other nominations from the floor? Do we have any other nominations from the floor? Do we have any more nominations from the floor? Former and future president Gisha. Your honor, I move the nominations be closed. Second. Second. And that the clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for me. A little awkward. For president of the Common Council. I think this is what they call the changing of the guard or something. Awkward. Thank you. Very good. Okay. We need to take a vote. All in favor of closing the, of casting a unanimous ballot for Alderman Gisha as president of the council. Say aye. Aye. Opposed? Congratulations, President Gisha. That was a tough race. It was a tough race. We will now move on to election of vice president of the Common Council. Nominations from, Your honor, I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by closed ballot. And if more than two candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority. I need a second. Second. We have a motion and a second. I will now take nominations from the floor. Alderperson Montemayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would like to nominate Alderman Jean Kittleson to be the vice president of our Common Council. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderperson Kittleson to be vice president of the Common Council. Do we have any nominations from the floor? Vice president Heidemann. I would like to nominate Alderman Jeremy Decker for vice president of the Common Council. Do we have a second? Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderman Jeremy Decker for vice president of the Common Council. Do we have any further nominations? Do we have any further nominations? And for the last time, do we have any further nominations? If we do not, President Kisha. Your Honor, I move that nominations be closed. Second. We have a motion and a second to close nominations. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Nominations are closed. We will now go to ballot.  So when you're done, just pass it back to Attorney McLean.  So no side betting allowed. We know it's not a tie vote at least. Cut and death out. She had to cut and death out. Last year on the county board, I think it was four before they got their ballot. We have a new Vice President of the Common Council. Congratulations Vice President Kittleson.  Moving on, we will have the election of a representative of the City Plan Commission, a representative of the Board of Contractors, Examiners and two representatives on the Capital Improvement Commission. President Kisha. Thank you, Your Honor. I move that nominations be received from the floor voting to be done by open ballot. And if more than two candidates are nominated, the candidate with the lowest number of votes be dropped from the list and balloting to continue until one candidate receives a majority. Second. Okay. First, we will be looking for nominations. Oh, do I have a second on President Kisha's motion? We have a second. Sure, I did. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Nominations are open. I am looking for nominations at this point for a representative for the City Plan Commission. President or Alderman Hanna. Excuse me. I would like Marilyn Montemure. Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderperson Marilyn Montemure for the City Plan Commission. Do we have any further nominations? Do we have any further nominations? And for the third time, do we have any further nominations from the floor for City Plan Commission? President Kisha. Your Honor, I move that the nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for Alderperson Marilyn Montemure for the City Planning Commission. Second. We have a motion and a second for a unanimous ballot for Alderperson Marilyn Montemure for the City Plan Commission. In favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Congratulations, Alderman Montemure. Moving on, we will look next to elect a representative on the Board of Contractors Examiners. Okay, we've already established the rules, so we will take nominations from the floor. Alderman Hanna. Thank you, Mayor. I'll nominate Alderman Purser. Second. We have a nomination and a second for Alderman Rindfleisch. Do we have any further nominations from the floor? This is for the Board of Contractors Examiners. Do we have any nominations from the floor? And for the third time, do we have any other nominations from the floor? President Kisha. Your Honor, I move that nominations be closed and that the city clerk be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot for Alderperson Rindfleisch for the Board of Contractors Examiners. Second. We have a motion and a second to cast a unanimous ballot for Alderman Rindfleisch for the Board of Contractors Examiners. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Congratulations, Alderman Rindfleisch. Next, we will nominate two representatives on the Capital Improvements Commission. Alderman Heidemann. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to nominate my colleague in the fourth, Jim Bourne. Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderman Bourne to be on the Capital Improvements Commission. Do we have any other nominations from the floor? President Kisha. Your Honor, I'd like to nominate Alderperson Mark Hanna for the position. Second. We have a motion and a second for Alderman Hanna to be on the Capital Improvements Commission. Do we have any other nominations from the floor? Do we have any other nominations from the floor? Do we have any other any other nominations from the floor for the Capital Improvements Commission. We do not, President Gisha. Your Honor, I move that nominations be closed if the city clerk be instructed to cast unanimous ballots for Alderperson's Jim Bourne and Mark Hanna for the two positions on the City Planning Commission. Second. We have a motion and a second to cast unanimous ballots for Alderman Bourne and Alderman Hanna on the Capital Improvements Commission. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Congratulations both Alderman Bourne and Hanna. Now the mayor will recess and the president of the council will take over I believe to elect the chairman of the committee of the whole. I'll break time for me. If I could ask Vice President Kittleson to come up and help with things that I'm no good at. As everybody knows, committee the whole chairman runs our committee the whole at their pleasure and it is an important representative of us. And at this time we will take nominations from the floor for committee the whole chairman. Alderman Hanna. Thank you President Gisha. I would nominate Eric Wehring-Flesch. Second. We have a nomination for Alderperson Rindflesch and a second. Any additional nominations from the floor? Any additional nominations from the floor? Any additional nominations from the floor? Vice President Kittleson. Yes. A motion to close the. All right. We'd ask for a motion to close the nominations for committee of the whole. So moved. All right. Second. The motion to close and cast a unanimous ballot for Alderperson Rindflesch. Rindflesch. Is that acceptable? And we have a second. Was that all right with your second? All those in favor? Aye. Vote is unanimous. Congratulations Alderperson Rindflesch. We will now have a report by the council president on the election of the committee of the whole chairman. President Gisha. Your Honor I am proud to report that the common council voted unanimously for Alderperson Rindflesch to be the chairman of the committee of the whole. Congratulations Alderman Rindflesch. Moving along very quickly here tonight we now have a message from the president of the council. President Gisha. A brief message we hope. It will be brief. First I'd like to thank my fellow common council members for their support in electing me president. I take it very seriously and I know that you all did your personal deliberation on that and I'm quite honored by it. And humble thank you very much. This past common council should be rightfully proud of the accomplishments and the dignified way they handled many important issues facing the citizens of the city of Sheboygan. I believe over the previous year our single biggest accomplishment was our proactive recognition and action in facing the new normal of government economics. Tonight however is officially a new council year and I welcome our new council members along with a highly motivated and engaged group of returning council members. I would also like to stress and remind everyone that the new normal of government economics is still alive and necessary and I hope this becomes a theme of this upcoming council year. So what is this new normal. It is government recognizing that it is not immune to the struggles facing our citizens. It is being a statewide leader in right sizing of pay and services. It is a taxpayer first philosophy where government is nimble and responsive in ways it's never had to be before. The new normal deals head on with facts and eliminates personal allegiances and myths. This new normal also means that we may need to look at new opportunities in a different way that the city has never looked at before and encourage each other to move beyond actions to do what is best for the city overall. That being said the new normal is tough versus the old normal of the past. The old days simply raised taxes and took that quiet little bump and appreciation of value of real estate which is a nice little quiet double dip. But the old normal supplied us with an unsustainable spending level and gave false security to our citizens and to our employees. As your elected common council president I'm here to serve this council and its members in representing your thoughts and interests. I will continue to work closely with the mayor, county representatives and surrounding community officials. This is not a responsibility I take lightly. I would also like to take a moment to remind our citizens that here in view and read about the work we do in this very important chamber that this body participates in aggressive discussions on important issues and it's appropriate. However these appropriate and occasionally emotional disagreements in this chamber should not be misconstrued as disrespect among us ourselves. It is healthy. We are a diverse group of individuals with diverse backgrounds and all those views are welcome and necessary. I believe council watchers should be far more concerned if we did not have dissenting opinions or aggressive debate. Moving forward we must never forget that Shavuigan is the shining star of Wisconsin and beyond. Our future is bright. Our welcome mat is out for visitors, business investment and new neighbors. Perhaps tonight we can all begin anew with always holding our heads up high, embracing our exciting future and puffing out our chests a little once in a while when we say I'm from Shavuigan, Wisconsin. That will go a long way in keeping civility in our room here tonight and moving forward and civility out in our community. I thank you again for this honor and for electing me your common council president this evening. Thank you. Thank you President Gisha. We will now have a message from the committee of the whole chairman Alderman Flesch. I too will keep this short. I just have to believe I know for many of you are used to hearing me in this council. I tend to get verbose. Good evening Mayor Ryan, Madame City Court of Districts, City Attorney Steve McLean and all my fellow older persons as well as my family and all residents of the city of Shavuigan. First off I'd like to say to the members of the common council thank you for your trust in me and your support in choosing me for chairperson of the committee of the whole. I pledge to partner with our leadership Mayor Ryan, President Gisha and Vice President Kittleson and to work with all of you to provide the information necessary to have this council operate efficiently and openly. We may not agree on all issues we will be facing in this coming year but I know that we all have the best interest of the city of Shavuigan at heart. As such I promise to assist each and every one of you in any way I can. The work we do is not easy and often goes unrecognized but I'm sure all you're returning older persons feel as I do that the experience shows that our efforts are ultimately worth it in the long run. I welcome the new members of the common council, older persons Radke, Hammond and Versey and ask all the members of the council to help them as much as you are able so that they can accomplish the policy items that they would like to pursue. The issues we face are serious. The debates we will have may get heated so I ask that we were always remember that we are not doing this work for our own benefit but for the good of the residents and taxpayers of the city of Shavuigan. To accomplish good things during these difficult times we must find ways of working together. As your committee of the whole chairperson I intend to have more frequent meetings so the important policy decisions can be made in the open and with as much information as possible. The good news is this will also mean the meetings can be shorter as there will be less on each agenda. Furthermore on the issues that our shirts require a lot of debate in the common council I ask of the chairpersons of the standing committees to forward directly to the committee of the whole a report of committee or report of officer regarding the issue so that we can then discuss it. This will allow sharing of information and for free flowing debate before the issue comes to a final vote in the common council. Ultimately the committee of the whole is your committee, older persons and we can work together to make it the important tool that it can be for us. I look forward to working with all of you in this coming year. There will be challenges but working together I know that we can accomplish great things for the city of Shavuigan. Thank you again. Thank you chairman Rindflesch. First of all I would like to thank my family. I'd like to thank my wife Mary, my two children Blake and Abigail that are here this evening for all the support that they've given me over the last four years and especially over the last year as mayor of this city. Traditionally mayors have used this time to congratulate themselves in the common council on the past year's accomplishments and although we've not been standing idly by this past year in my opinion we've not even scratched the surface of the potential of our city and of our citizens. Rather than taking this time to pat ourselves on the back I challenge you the common council and the citizens of this city to come together this council year and enact positive change, positive change that will make a long term difference in the future of our city and our citizens. Over this past year we set forth several initiatives. First of all my table of organization that was worked on diligently by myself, many department heads of this city and many members of this council. However it was shot down on an eight to seven vote in the common council. I have no intention on giving up on it. I intend to meet with all alderman if I have to compromise on it if I have to tweak it. I'm willing to do so. No organization is better than its structure and its people. We have the people. We have a common council here that is intelligent, resourceful, can think outside the box. We have department heads and employees in this city that are willing to do whatever it takes to improve their departments and to improve this city. But we have to have the organization to allow them to do that. And I ask for your help. I'm not trying to jam an agenda down anybody's throat in this common council. I ask for your help in making this happen. We need to move this city forward. When I ran for office I said that we would run this city like a business. However any changes we've tried to make in that direction have not succeeded. So I'm asking that we start anew this council year. We need to improve our neighborhoods. We have made progress in that respect. We have a new chief of police, Chris Domigalski. I don't know if you folks have noticed but I've had many citizens tell me and I've noticed myself. There is a lot more police presence in our community. You see a lot more squads on the street. You see bicycles. They now have an ATV for the beaches that they've repainted. They're doing community policing. They're doing proactive policing. This did not come by my order because I am in no means a law enforcement expert. This was done by our chief. This is the start. We have Sheboygan neighborhood pride in the Love Your City group and faith organizations and volunteers coming together along with the NARSA grant that we got for the Gateway neighborhood to help revitalize and rebuild this neighborhood. This is a start. This weekend we had the rebuilding together group and I know Alderman Hannah and Alderman Hammond. We should put you guys next to each other. That way I could just use one word. They are on this organization and I intend to help them out myself this Saturday. We need to rebuild our neighborhoods. We've only just begun. We have a new initiative between the police department, fire inspection, building inspection, our city development to get into some of these properties and to encourage landowners and landlords to improve their properties. We've only just begun but we need to move forward. I asked that Alderman this coming year to your conscience and listen to the majority of your constituents. As I look back on the past year, it's occurred to me that the efforts in this city that have fallen short and the efforts that continue to reoccur in the same discussions on issues seem to be driven not by the majority of our constituents, not by the majority of our citizens, but by a very small, a minuscule amount of our citizens and special interest groups. I asked that Alderman, keep a log. As you get emails on an issue, write down the name, the email address, if it's an email address, the address of that individual. If you get a phone call, I used to do this in private business. I did it as an Alderman and I do it as mayor. If I get a phone call and that person will not identify themselves, obviously they're not calling to solve a problem. They're calling to voice an opinion. Keep record of who calls you. If there's an issue out there and 10 people call 16 Alderman, that's 160 people against any subject. However, if it's only 10 people calling 16 Alderman, it's 10 people. What's happened is on most of our issues in this city, we have a very small amount of the population that is steering the policy of this city. If Alderman are going to be intimidated and not have the courage to make the decisions for the majority of their constituents, the majority being the greater number of your constituents, then I don't believe that we belong making those decisions. I also call on the citizens of this city. It's evident that people that are against any given subject are the people that are the most vocal. And people that are for something generally don't voice their opinion. It's just like when somebody has a bad experience. If you have a good experience, you might tell one person, if you have a bad experience, you tell 10. It's no different. I ask that citizens that feel strongly about issues call your Alderman and voice your opinion, whether you feel strongly against it or you feel strongly for it because it is always the negative that are the most vocal. I ask that Alderman when people call you, remember what majority of your voters are these calls from? And are they the same people all the time? Are these special interest groups that don't even live in the city? We have people steering policy in this city that do not live in the city nor own property in the city. I think we need to recognize that in this coming year and make decisions for the majority of our citizens and make decisions that will benefit the long term sustainability of our city and the future of our city, the prosperity of our city and the success of our citizens. So I look forward to the next year. I don't plan on changing my style of leadership. Some people call it a lack of style of leadership, but I do plan on being more active this year than I was even last year. I plan on attending more committee meetings. I plan on being much more involved this year than last year. Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to be turning into a tyrant and trying to control the whole city. That's not my job. My job is to give guidance. My job is to give direction. My job is to be a facilitator and a coordinator for the good of the city. And I hope to do that. I have the utmost respect for everybody in this council chamber. You folks have stuck your neck out. You folks have taken the step to do what we need to do for the future of our city and for the greater good of the public.  Those aren't leaders. Those are obstructionists. You folks are the leaders of the city and I pray that this year you will make the right decisions. You will listen to the majority of your constituents and you will work with me as I want to work with you to move this city forward to our future. Thank you. And now the reason we're really here is for the mayor's appointments also. Attorney McLean. Thank you, Your Honor. To the honorable members of the Common Council, I hereby submit the following appointments for your consideration. These are the standing committees. The Finance Committee, James Gisha, Chairman, Corey Bauch, Vice Chairman, James Boren, Dennis Radke, and Don Hammond. The Public Protection and Safety Committee, Gene Kittleson, Chairman, Marilyn Montemayor, Vice Chairman, Joseph Heidemann, Jeremy Decker, and Scott Versi. Public Works Committee, James Boren, Chairman, Joseph Heidemann, Vice Chairman, Marilyn Montemayor, Jeremy Decker, and Scott Versi. Sowering Grievances Committee, Mark Hanna, Chairman, Gene Kittleson, Vice Chairman, James Gisha, Jody Vanderweel, Dennis Radke, Law and Licensing Committee, Eric Rinfleisch, Chairman, Jody Vanderweel, Vice Chairman, William Wongammon, Thomas Bowers, and Julie Koth, signed by the mayor. And this lies over until the next council meeting. If I may say at this point, all of the committee appointments can be discussed. This is the this is not the final draft. If Alderman do not enjoy their committee appointments, if you'd like a committee that somebody else has, please communicate that with me. I plan on working with everybody as we did last year. Obviously, you know, my what I have proposed today did not come out of the blue. This is what I would like to see. But if if there are older persons out here that do not believe that they have the proper committee appointments, please give my office a call, we can discuss it. Next is Gerald Sauer Milch to be considered for appointment to the Board of Contractors examiners as an alternate to fill the unexpired term of Kevin Wiseman, whose term expires for 25 2011. Todd Thoney moves from alternate to full. And Toby Watson to be considered for appointment to the Housing Authority to fill the unexpired term of Charlene Dickey, whose term expires for 2013 signed by the mayor. This also lies over. The mayor has his appointments for the various boards, commissions and committees, comprising eight pages. I'd be happy to read them if you'd like, but practice has been in the past. Do we have a motion that the city attorney does not read them? Thank you, Steve. Okay, thank you, Attorney McLean. Public forum this evening? There is none. Okay, resolutions introduced three one dash one by President Gisha requesting the mayor to reactivate various special committees for the 2010 2011 Council year President Gisha. Your Honor, I move that the resolution be put upon its passage. Second, we have a motion and a second to put the resolution upon its passage under discussion. If there is none, all in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. President Gisha, would you like to announce anything before we adjourn? Yes, Your Honor, I would like to invite and welcome members of the Common Council, their families, staff to join my wife, Debbie and I at City Streets this evening for some refreshments and hors d'oeuvres. We'd love to have friends and family there. Please, please join us. And we can celebrate the start of a new Council season. Thank you, President Gisha. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Second. Motion and a second to adjourn all in favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, everybody.


Russia has lost more than 180,000 troops in Ukraine. Ukraine has reported more casualties on the Russian side in their ongoing war. The general staff of Ukraine's armed forces reported that Russia had lost 180,050 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on February 24th last year. According to the report, Russia has lost 3,646 tanks, 7,043 armored fighting vehicles, 5,630 vehicles and fuel tanks, 2,770 artillery systems, 535 multiple launch rocket systems, 282 air defense systems, 307 airplanes, 293 helicopters, 2,334 drones and 18 boats. Russia reportedly intensified its counterintelligence operations in several occupied Ukrainian territories due to fears of the locations of their military units being leaked. Ukraine said the most intense fighting of the war remains at the heavily contested town of Bakhmut. Colonel General Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, said Russia is deploying its special forces and airborne assault units to sustain their offensive operations since the private Russian mercenary organization, Vargana Group, which spearheaded the assault on Bakhmut, is now exhausted. Ukraine's southern command also said that Russia currently has 11 ships in the Black Sea. Russia intends to continue using aircraft to launch guided aerial bombs the command added.


Why is this Chinese rap battle going so viral? What did everyone say and who said it? Yeah, this is sort of going viral. And I guess the Chinese speaking world or even like the ABC world right now. Long story short, Andrew, there is a bunch of white kids at a boarding school in the UK. There's some Indian kids sprinkled in there as well. And they're having a rap battle in Mandarin, but they're actually just asking each other questions from Chinese 101. David, is this the most viral UK rap battle like this year? So, let's start. 3, 2, 1. What does your dad like to eat? What does he like to eat? My dad likes to eat rice noodles. What is your nickname? Rice noodles. All right, everybody. There's thousands of comments. I got shared this to me over IG many, many times. So, everybody, please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the Hot Bop Boys as we talk about the comments and why this is going so viral, you know. First of all, Andrew, what is this video, right? Is this teacher sanctioned? I'm assuming these kids are just not having this rap battle for no reason, right? Yeah, I guess it was to promote the languages that they have at the school. So, it did its job because now everybody watched this video. But, David, do you think it's going viral partially, not because like the Mandarin is super advanced, but although those kids clearly took the class, do you think it's going viral just because like at this moment, geopolitically, things are so hot, but then this kind of rap battle kind of like just makes things funny? Yeah, I think it's something wholesome. And to be honest, I think actually geopolitical relations between China and the U.S. are worse than China and England and worse, especially worse than China and France. So, to be honest, it's a variance country to country. You know what I mean? So anyway, let's get into the comment section and let's get into some takeaways. This Chinese guy, ABC, said, oh man, better than me, and I'm Chinese. What do you think, man? A lot of Chinese kids in the West are really bad at Chinese. It's true. I mean, I think it's a variance.  And some people are watching this like, damn, these kids, I mean, they're not really rapping, but they are having a roast battle and a rap style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously nothing actual negative was said. But I think that if you extrapolate, if these kids are 11 and 12 right now and they keep taking Chinese for the next four years, you know, even if they're not Chinese and not in a Chinese household, they'll be able to speak it conversationally, like pretty well if they take it seriously. And I think that it just goes to show you how many people are learning Chinese. Obviously, you know, do I think I would beat these kids in a rap battle? I would like to think so. I would hope so. Yeah, I would hope so. I think so, but overall it is just funny and it's also like funny that they're at a boarding school. They're in their little uniform. It's almost like something that looks so anachronistic and out of time for America, right? Like Americans are looking at this like we did away with all this British vestige stuff in like the 1960s. Think about it. Burkhamstead founded in 1541. Now you got kids rap battling in Chinese on school campus. And therefore would I have believed that on the hollow grounds of Burkhamstead, but you know, things change. Things come and go and we at Burkhamstead will adapt with the changing globe. This Chinese guy said, yeah, they speak like they are going in for a fight. What is going on? Yeah, well, they definitely captured the rap battle cadence, but they're also not saying anything negative or mean whatsoever. The hardest line in that entire rap battle was like, he mama G Sway, which is like, how old is your mom?  Right. Yeah, everything. You know, rap diss is their contextual to what's true or what's kind of true-ish. I would say this is something that it's funny because it's like who would pay attention to a rap battle in Burkhamstead boarding school, Andrew, it would be like an uncle or a grand uncle of ours overseas who has no idea that hip hop even exists. Right, right, right. But it's like seeing the surreal why are they fighting like, like it has no concept. It's funny because, but it is funny to see the kids, Andrew, they look sort of like that Karl Marx anime from China where it's like, they almost looked like what you imagined elite white kids looked like 500 years ago. Yeah, I mean, it's a boarding school, you know, it costs like, I don't know, $15,000 per term. These kids are at least upper mental class, right? Somebody said, Andrew, this is a comment from several Asian women in Asia. Why are they also good looking? But why did they look so fine? Amen. It's funny, no, they're good looking. I think they come from good families, yeah. No, no, and then, you know what I noticed, Andrew? The British kids are much thinner than American kids at the same age. They probably have less obesity. Listen, they're 12 years old, back off. They do look like they went to school, like that's the same school that Benedict Cumberbatch came out of. It looks like it. Somebody said, this was quite funny in a good way. I'm glad they're having fun while learning. Somebody said, learning foreign language should be fun just like this. Oh my gosh, this was so wholesome. I love how they're gassing each other up. This is great. Yeah. I mean, does this speak to running counter to the global narrative? Obviously, like we said, West versus China, but particularly is the US and other countries, you know, more or less. France is almost trying to be more friendly, you know?  Everything that the British do seems more wholesome than America. America is just not wholesome, but anything that British people do, even the British rap right now, even Central Sea, who is actually part Chinese. I think he's a quarter, actually, but he hides it because, you know, I don't know. Hopefully one of these days, Central Sea starts wrapping his Chinese side. Yeah, but apparently he's part Chinese and even his raps are not as like crazy as everybody else's side. It's just British people right now, it just seems more wholesome. She don't listen to UK rap. Somebody said Mandarin is slowly being adopted as the main extra language in school now in the UK, particularly obviously in only, you know, more schools that are more forward thinking. We need to move with the times. Burkhamstead, you know, we once ruled the world before, first, but then it was the Dutch, then it was the Americans, perhaps it is the Chinese. Yo, do you think that, you know how British are all about like hierarchy? And you know, we must like, we were the winners for so long that maybe they're like, you know, if we also become great enough at Mandarin and we can speak the language of the Chinese, then we could actually rule the world along with the Chinese. While the Americans are trying to downplay the power, we are going to rise up along with the dragon. That's an interesting theory. I mean, I definitely think they think different. They think different over there. Somebody said, yeah, look at these egg boys. They are the white on the outside, the yellow on the inside. Come on man, they said yellow on the inside. That's pretty funny, yellow, yellow. Somebody said, I don't know why I find this so funny. Why is this so cute? I mean, if I was just to break down the science of it, it's just something that's sort of like wholesome and shocking to the mind, right? It's shocking but wholesome at the same time. Is it almost like a kitten and a puppy just like hugging each other or something? Yeah. Yo, this guy said, huh, they're preparing for another opium war. Yo, this made me laugh, man. But here, by the way, here is a blurb on the opium war. The opium wars were two conflicts waged between China and Western powers during the mid-19th century. And yeah, it was about forcing open ports and selling opium. What is it? I was like, you don't know what to do with my opium. I do think a video of some kids in a Chinese boarding school in China, like trying to rap in English and say goofy things, I think that would also get some views as well. But obviously, the video of the British kids speaking Mandarin gets even more views. But I'll be honest, I've seen some funny rap battles in broken English. The funniest ones I've seen from Do Ying that got moved over to Instagram on some of the Chinese accounts, and there are the ones, the DJ schools that are trying to teach the single children how to DJs. Paul, you're having hands up. Or Mr. English, who's like, yeah, bro, what you wanna do? That's how you speak it in English, you know, when you're speaking English. Yeah, stop fooling people. Trust me, it's just funny. It just makes you laugh. Somebody said, yeah, but the Chinese era has ended. There's no use in learning Chinese anymore because so many of them learned to speak English. What do you think of this? Because this is something that actually some people do say. Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of people know that a lot more Chinese people are learning English. So if Chinese people are learning more English, then why do you need to learn Chinese? Well, I still think it's gonna get you ahead. I still think it's good for the brain. Even if, and I still think, dude, it's not like everybody's gonna learn English in the next 20 years. It's gonna be a little bit longer than that. But yeah, yeah. No, no, no, a tremendous amount of Chinese people will be able to communicate in English at least to like a four out of 10 level. Some comments were in Chinese. This one said, they're in the Fa Ying just like saying, oh, they're Fa Ying, which is their pronunciation. It's so cute and it's so funny because it obviously has a British accent to it. A schoolboy, posh accent, as well as their speaking Mandarin. And there's another comment that says, when we speak English, they're watching us like this. Basically saying, do you think when people see us speak English, they're seeing us this same way? And no, no, it's not, but it is still kind of funny. I think people still, it is still endearing and wholesome. I guess overall, man, I would say, David, it's like, remember when and when Jin, the MC, AKA MC Jin was like the first to win that rap battle on 106 and Park Freestyle Fridays? Yeah, one, seven weeks in a row.  Holy, I can't even believe this Chinese kid is rhyming right now. I had never even seen a Chinese kid do anything cool at this point. Yeah, right, because this was pre-J-Lynn, this is, I want to say pre-Yao Man. Oh man, this was like early 2000s. Yeah, a long time ago. So it's like, I feel like there's some of that element where it's like, you know, obviously, you know, this is funny, but next five, 10 years, you're going to see even more white people speak better Chinese on in the future. For sure, for sure. Now you're seeing videos from Africans in Africa sing Chinese songs. Right, those go viral too. Yo, those are getting a lot of views. Dude, some of the African singers are killing the Kanto ballads and the Mando ballads. That's crazy. They might start learning dialect too. Yo, what if they just take over the scene?  Hey, yo, run this clip of this African singer killing this Cantonese song, man. He merked that. Anyway guys, let us know what you think of this in the comments section below. Why is it going viral? Is it wholesome? Is there a larger geopolitical takeaway? What do you guys think, man? It's just good to see, you know, just some good old, well, Baba, she want her, me, fine. Some good old lads. There's some lads. Those are some lads for sure. Definitely some lads. Some Chippa boys and. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching. We are the Hot Pop Boys. Or should I say the Huo Guo? Erza. Erza. Huo Guo, not in high. Huo Guo, not high. Till next time, we out. Peace.