Fish and smelt and shiners today Little tiny hooks Going for going for Brooke a trout. I Was a little surprised how much depth I had right next to this dog But I got about Probably eight ten foot right here. I'm gonna send it probably oh Three foot down off the surface. I have a tall Robert for a trap so you can see him with binoculars The water here, but I'm gonna set it gorgeous gravel flags up fellas. Should we get them or leave them? What do you think fellas you want to catch some fish like the bike to big old rock ate it He's far and he had Keep coming and going Any head shakes What was that Definitely the heaviest thing I felt on the trap Which is pretty easy to do You good there. You don't need me to smooth.  Pull these right here. He's big whatever he is That wasn't a cusk was it? I saw a big white belly Quite a hole. Is he pulling good? Cusk What are you doing catching a cusk in the foot of water in the middle of the day? That's cusk nuggets though cusk nuggets Beautiful nice Yeah, best eating vision is like Yeah, baby cusk nuggets Looked like it was bubbling. Yeah, I shifted jobs wins this way now, isn't it? I think it's gonna be All right, we're gonna see a good fish today It's tripped pretty good There you go, it didn't roll Oh, there you go Feel him. Yep Got him. Oh, no Good one. Yeah nothing great I got my leader right here puppy's How long is your lead? Yeah, I did about a half hour ago Wow Yep jobs here you go Here you go. I said, oh, he took some line too I've never fallen for that. I've seen it done. Yeah If I had a skimmer I if I had a skimmer I would have done that one Oh, that's fun there. That's a good way to break up the monotony All right guys, it is pretty serious out here. It's blowing Great sideways on us snowing like a sieve This is all from today. It was glare ice yesterday. So it's built up pretty good As you can see I just did a I just did a trap jack. There was nothing up for flags. So We're kind of chilling in the Inside the nice warm shack. Let's check it out. What's up? Just showing the folks at home how nice and warm the shack is.  Yeah, Lane's got the biggest fish of the day. Yeah It was 12 ounces. Yeah, we had one on the screen where it's going. Oh really? I couldn't get there at fast. He had a he just caught a blueback I got sticks on it for sure Why me can't you get that out? Sure. Yeah, go ahead. I don't know if there's still a fish But there's a stick for sure. Oh, it's a lake. Nice one Joe. It's a lake. I'm pretty stout fish Not a bad fish, huh? Don't mess around Chubs just had a flag No, they're turning on now fellas They took line took a tunnel. Did it just go up? You saw it up? The guy came to die check The brookies are really getting nothing Still you paid again?  Did you heat it up about the table off?  Did you get one of these are there? That's so good. Thank you Dicked up. Got him? Yeah. What's he feeling like? I don't know. I feel small. Oh, okay Brookie a little bigger now. Nice What is going on there? The bite turned on finally. Oh, you did. Is this that? Ah, I thought it was a salmon. It's a racer. Do you want a cup of ramen? Oh We're pushing it hard. Oh, jeez. Oh, we might make it. It's gonna be close You guys are all in luck today. This is this is my specialty I put a lot of hours of training into this top raiment Here you go, Bob. There you go. That's the best I can do. Thank you Brady your top raiment is ready There's a seal here too, Joe. He'll sit down Checking her beef. Oh, I don't care. Pick one. Not beef. I wanted that one.  You're on the board I'm gonna get a rookie topside today. I like to settle a lot Any fish I'll double check my angle. I think I might have gained not a stick or a rock. Hopefully still on I think I have it to the hole I think it's a stick wedge. It's a stick wedge Now I gotta see if there's a fish on it I'm pretty sure the fish is still on it.  First, I might try to get the stick. I'm gonna try to hook the line where it comes off the So much line coming off I don't know if the fish is on it or not, but I think it is All right, I see the line I got a hook it's looped so many times in this stick I don't know which end goes to the fish should that screen be on no I see my leader at least. Oh god, there's a fish on it. Can you see the fish? No, but it's decent Make the thingy to do I hate to even do this. Give her a good time. So I'm gonna try to go down R.P. If I can get the stick Yeah, baby Now you do it guys. Don't give up on them no matter what That was awesome What a staving rookie. That's a nice rookie. Look at how pretty that fish is That's how you do it right there When you think all's lost It's not The hook's right there Look at that. Got it.  I think I gotta let it go. I think it's in that 18. Yeah, he's over 18. Yeah, I'd say 20 I'm gonna let him go. All right. Let's get a good look at this release. This is a beautiful fish guys. Look at how pretty that is Ready? Oh, yeah, get it on there. Wrong way sucker That was awesome. What do you think of that? Look at this mesh, Sean. Got my sounder in it Holy cow, that's a different kind of cold right there.  You owe it to the fish if you're hung out to do your best to get them off We drilled a hole over there.  It's been a long day. I had to go up to my teeth Straight to my teeth. Your arm went in all the way to the teeth. I was stuck on a stick Sweatshirt off and everything everything right down the right down to the James come here Yeah, take care. That's awesome.  What a beautiful healthy fish. That was a pretty fish. I'd say that was a 21 21. Yeah, it was 20 20 21. Yeah, it was well over 20. It was in the 20 range, but We weren't interested in killing it obviously Guys if you get hung up like that Do your best to figure it out and try to get them unhung because like I said, you might break off Say well, that was too bad.  You have a great day. Yeah, you have a great trip. Yeah, dude.  What do you want pizza? All right guys, we are in the what is this core shack? This is the core ice shack core ice shack And andrew is firing up A pizza in the pepperoni pizza pepperoni Pizza in the oven Let's make these pepperoni's a little bad.  Yeah, there we go. So first it was Popcorn and now it's pizza. Yeah, and we're actually gonna throw some cookies in there, too. I hope so What do you think is that rack up too high? Is the heat coming from the bottom? Yeah, put it on that one How's she going? He's just getting her figured out We're gonna do some cookies on some pizza at the same time Yep, here you go. I got a couple on me A couple? Yeah, you should always have a couple on you This is actually the first time we've used the oven Was that buddy? You should have a swiss army knife. Yes. I have one. I have I think I have three. Nice If anyone ever gives you a gift knife You need to give them a coin of any denomination back And the coin prevents the sharp blade from cutting the friendship Yep, never do that. If anybody gives you an axe or a knife or a sword or anything sharp You've got to give them a coin. I never do that. It can be any coin I'm a man. Yeah, we might have just let it on fire. Yeah. Oh, that's true. I didn't think I didn't think what's in those cherries Wow, let's get them cherries off the oven. I don't believe those are regular cherries Either the pizza is going to taste like cookies or the cookies are going to taste like pizza I don't know if that'd be a bad thing. I neither want one of your eggs, but it doesn't matter All right. Now give us the tour of this whole shack. All right, everybody. So this is a core ice shack Um, we kind of just bought it just to you know hang out have fun Everybody thinks we sell bait out of it, but we don't so it's kind of crazy. We have the cooktop here We have the oven, obviously that we just threw the cookies and the pizza in We've got a microwave up top Cook some popcorn Right behind you here. We have a tv We have the radio Bluetooth AM FM stereo system Exactly just more storage Lights the cool thing is too is that actually has two bunks. Two bunks. Let's go over on the other end Yeah, go ahead over buck. You can kind of Kind of picture it a little bit But this table slides down the two cushions from here come in the middle and then this bunk Well, it's kind of in storage right now, but we'll come down here and then there you go. You can jake from bed um Bring your electronics in uh, you can hook them up to the tv, but we haven't figured that out yet You'll get there coat high enough storage. I love these seats There's cup holders. I mean it has everything You could ever ask for it And that rail system holds everything, right? Yes up to 20 pounds rod holders Tables table for your electronics and whatnot captain's chairs and actually the cool thing is because you have the uh A drill holder idea. Oh, that's really cool.  Yeah, isn't one of those That looks frozen.  Um, that was actually named by the manufacturers and just a little closet for more storage and We can put a little dimmer. I like that. That's the mood center. Oh, that's awesome dimmer exterior lights More storage More storage more storage more storage plugs Usb ports Heater speaker So you could actually use this as a bathroom too and and it has these fans that are powered by the battery You can pull in and out Sean's looking to try to get my drill off. Oh, that's the baby And then you have your control panel right here. So you have all your lights Your exterior right and left Work lights out for the front for when you're hooking up the trailer your dying lights And then your bathroom lights Flash for when uh nice truckers let you in on the highway So you can give them a little thank you and it's all bluetooth so you can hook it up on the outside From your phone and oh really control all the lights from your phone for the outside right here That's pretty awesome. And you can kind of see Oh, yeah, it's all lit up all the way around And it's a skidjack too so so what's it got skis and tires skis and tires and what lifts them up or down So in the back here, we have more jacks These you just put your drill on nice in the front. There's just a hydraulic jack here, but pretty cool. It's uh Definitely fun to fish out. Yeah a lot of fun. It's luxury fishing. It's like glishing glamorous fishing Glishing I like it. I've never heard that term before and you can pull it in both variations too Yeah, and the brand uh, it's core ice core ice pretty awesome. Minnesota. Yep. Nice pretty awesome shack and how big is it? Um, I believe this is a 14 or 15 foot trailer. What hot pizza ice fishing come on lane hot pizza Get a hot cookie for the way home. Yep Everybody throw a couple hot cookies in your belly for that ride home. Yeah Drive a couple of em right in you. You'll know what's good Give me a little nasty out there today It's real good. Thanks bud It's a pizza pie, uh Drive a couple of them in here before the ride Watch your stuff coming out guys That's for deep.  Unreal. Oh, it's easy as that. Get on our phone the whole panel. Wow right from the shack. Oh, it's hydraulic It's hydraulic in the front not in the back Can you do the lights from your phone do something fun do something cool with the lights There you go, that's unreal right from the phone What a trip Joe all is High five. Slap hands All right, got the cookies ready We've had our fill. We got a hot cookie or two in our belly. So I'm gonna run these over to the guys that are camping in by shore. This is their second or third day camping I'll be right back guys. I'm gonna run these over to those guys those guys camping over there So nothing better than getting some hot cookies I doubt they have any hot cookies over there. Press out of the oven What's up guys?  They're right here. There's a pile for you I figured you guys wouldn't mind them on a cold like third night of camping Guys eating dinner. Oh just snacking Andrew you make that machine look big Well guys that is gonna do it for today on the hard water Awesome awesome day really tough fishing fish. We're just not cooperating We hit a magical hour after 4 p.m And got a toge a brookie had like four or five flags had some hang ups Chubs nailed toge at the end of the day He got the he got my favorite one of the is the when you're going to pick up your last trap And you're watching that and it goes up in front of you So it's nothing better than picking up a trap with a fish on it. It's like the greatest thing ever It's a dream come true. Yep, pretty fun It happened to me last year on my last flag of the year picking up my last trap I got that staven brookie had an ambigious and he got to do it today.  It's got some Pretty good regulations on it a lot of fish nothing giant, but we should be able to get some fish We're looking at 45 to 50 mile an hour winds tomorrow. So it could be a rough day.  Yeah, the only guy with no helmet Pretty jealous of that right now I was thinking about wearing sunglasses. I don't think your head would fit my helmet with it. No, I'm good You sure because I got a windshield We got some pretty rough conditions. We got pretty good white out out there. So we're gonna be going home by feel


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 prism football team all addition one box ram team break number five With the final five preseason football mix response being given away. Let's do the break first big. Thanks to Nick and Revital. That's it Thank you There's all the teams right there. Let's do it. Let's roll it randomize it snake eyes So this is just for the break snake eyes and different dice roll for the giveaway one and two Easy and the mix are coming up in a different video after this teams one and two Tampa Bay down to tennis that is that's true chat. That's definitely true but when that when it comes to those prediction numbers and whatnot I Think they're all data driven probably base. Yeah, probably based on strength of schedule on You know team construction the records and stats and all that sort of stuff Here's the first part of the list There's the second part of the list right there So Steve Yeah, a lot of great stuff on the site But not a lot of time so let's squeeze in a couple quick breaks after this one and then the mixer on Jaspy's case breaks calm rookie silver CD lamb Jared cook Eponessa and Ossie Ossie Nothing too crazy the sea lambs kind of cool or vital with the cowboys All right now that we got that done nothing too crazy there But let's grab everybody's names and see who's gonna win at those final spot new dice new list Let's randomize it three and a three six times And so it's gonna be top five after six. Good luck one two two two three four and six After six times top five is gonna be Revital Revital Revital Revital and Nick Stober nice There you go. Congrats to you. Thanks everybody. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one the mixer. Bye. Bye


Three students, each from the 36 states including the FCT, will be receiving scholarships from the Association of Nigerian Students in Europe. The President of Ansem Ahmad Saidou mentioned that the scholarships will be channeled through the Ministry of Education and the Scholarship Board emphasized that benefitting students will be able to apply directly for the scholarship in the coming years as the Association is working towards that. I would like to announce that Ansem Ahmad said that my leadership will begin by offering scholarships in the 36 states of Nigeria including FCT for students to study in Turkey. This scholarship will be channeled through various Ministry of Education and Scholarship Board. A few students will also be offered to various state holders and there will be more to come. We wish to inform all Nigerians wishing to study abroad that we will come up with a program where they can apply and get scholarships directly from the world. The issue of a little bit of studying medicine in Medico-Mureba is that they serve, they are doing their lectures online and in Medico-Mureba they will not take their certificates if they give it. I think on that I have been trying to meet with Abeke Daburi which is a diaspora and to know what and what we need to do because most of the universities also have applications for scholarships in Poland and I think that is what I am trying to do if Nigerians are possible to come meet with a vassalor in Poland so that those of Nigerian people who are still coming to Poland can at least support the other nations who are in Poland when they come. Thank you.


Wildlife Conservation Society has a very cool project happening using historic maps to determine what New York City, Manhattan in particular looked like in 1609 when Henry Hudson sailed up for the first time. So Sam came and did the same work with the fourth grade teachers instead of focusing on interior landforms. They focused on coastal landforms. So they thought about peninsulas and coves and bays and the river system so that that's all very immediately transferred to New York City and New York State geography, and it leads the kids very nicely into fifth grade. And then they looked at historic maps of early colonial New Amsterdam and New York. The kids are working in partnerships. We put transparencies over the flat version and then we actually go over where the rivers were, where the bluffs were, where the canyons are, where the coast is, so that they get a three-dimensional view on this flat map of what it was like before the skyscrapers. And also where our school is, where their houses are in relation to this. And then we look at it next to Manhattan now. What's happening now? What happened then? Right, and since you did it on transparency, you can take this and lay it on top and you can see how the shape of Manhattan has changed over time because you can see that all the hills that were down on the Lower East Side are flattened and the marshes are filled in and the coastline has changed and the rivers are paved over and you can see all that stuff on the map.


I'll be honest, I tend to romanticize living in Austin, Texas a lot in my vlogs, but have you guys ever wondered about the cons of living here? Today, I'm going to be covering the pros and cons of living in Austin, Texas. My name is Sonali, my name is Ryan, and we have been living here since June 2019. Ryan actually got a job here. So we moved here after college without even visiting the city. We were both raised in a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia called Roswell, Georgia, and moving here from both of our college towns, it was a bit of a culture shock to see kind of east coast versus Midwest South culture. Starting off with the first pro, Austin is a small city relative to other cities. It's fairly compact. So if you want to go out to eat or visit a friend, you probably only live about 10 or 15 minutes from them at most. Depending if you live right in the city. I mean, a lot of people do choose to live a little bit outside of the city and that adds a good 10, 15 minutes to your drive. But still, it's it's pretty close to the city itself. The con of being such a small city is that there is a lot of traffic. I think the influx of people moving in, the infrastructure just doesn't really meet the requirements of all the people who are moving here. So any given day, you can sit in about 30 minutes of traffic if you're going at the right time, you know, it's kind of tough. You definitely have to pick and choose when you're going to go, where you're going to go, if you have the choice, of course. Whenever somebody asks me why I love Austin so much, I always tell them it's because Austin has so many just bodies of water everywhere. You can swim in, you can kayak, you can paddleboard. It's just such a fun environment, especially in the summers. I also love to run along the trails that go beside the water here in downtown Austin. Ladybird Lake Trail. I guess that's what it's called. Yeah, it runs all the way to Zoker. So it's a good like 20 miles, maybe if you do the whole loop. And if you drive over any of the bridges during the day, you'll see hundreds of people on paddleboards and different boats and stuff. So definitely young and fit city. The next con is one that was one of the biggest shocks to me overall. And that was a number of homeless people that are here. I loved in Athens for a while, which has a large homeless population also. But this was like almost overwhelming when we moved here. I'm not really just seeing like the tent cities and stuff that kind of take over the medians of the highways and stuff here. Yeah, and we live on Riverside, so it's pretty bad in our area. And this is one of the comments I get a lot is that I romanticize Austin a lot and I don't show the homeless people. So here you go, guys. Like now you know that Austin has a lot of homeless people. I know that there is like a ballet coming out that you can vote out having. Yeah, the camping. So it might change in the next year. We will see. But yeah, there's homeless people in Austin, depending on where you're coming from, the weather could be a pro or a con. For me, I came from, well, Atlanta, I'm suburbs of Atlanta. And then I went to college in Orlando, Florida. So it's humid. It was hot. But this hot is an extreme. It gets up to like 100 almost every day of the summer. And it was unlike anything I've ever felt before. But I've definitely gotten used to it. What do you think? Yeah, one of the best things for me. I love to golf. So year round golf is kind of a thing. It never really gets that cold. Obviously made news with like the big freeze and snowstorm here, which was like the store. But for the most part, it's always warm and sunny, not too much rain. Yeah, that's the best thing, especially because I'm a photographer. It almost never rains. So I almost never have to rebook someone. So on the other note for that, it is so hot sometimes that like you'll burn yourself getting in your car or, you know, I just get back sweat walking to my car. Usually it's so hot. If you have a car in Austin, do not give black interior like or put a window shade up like you'll crack the dashboard or the leather on it. It's just yeah. Yeah. It's it's pretty it's pretty bad here. So if you really don't like sweating, it's going to be a hard thing for you. Or you can always get Botox. I heard that helps not sweating. I know me too. One of my favorite pros about Austin, Texas is that the food here is insanely good. Most of the food here is so local that it's either food trucks or restaurants that used to be food trucks, and they've just gotten really popular. So you don't do too much of the chain restaurant atmosphere. It's a good mix up compared to Atlanta, where usually you're eating fast food or something that's just part of the chain. So if you eat the same thing twice here in a row, you probably aren't looking for good food. If you live in Austin and are wanting to find some new restaurants to try out or you're visiting Austin soon and you want to know the must try restaurants, I will have a blog post linked down below of all of our favorite restaurants. We are huge foodies and have eaten at so many restaurants in the past two years. So definitely check that out. I also have one for happy hours if you want to save a buck or two. One of the biggest cons for me overall is that if you want to eat anywhere good or popular, you're probably going to wait in a really long line. That's why my biggest pet peeve of Austin is the traffic and just waiting in line to get something to eat in the morning or for dinner. Yeah, open table and resume will definitely be your best friend. Make reservations if you can. Like we said, we're from suburbs of Atlanta and you always think that people there are super nice like Southern hospitality, all that kind of thing. But even my friends from Georgia came here to visit me and they said that people here are extremely nice and I definitely have to agree with them. I feel like people here are just so open minded and like laid back. The whole vibe of the city is really laid back, I would say. And if you guys know me, if you guys watch my vlogs, I take pictures all around the city and a lot of people are just so non-judgemental about that. And I feel like, yeah, encouraging. There's also so many creatives here. So I feel like people are just used to it. The next con without going too much into the politics of the city is that it's not very well maintained.  But overall, I'd say compared to like Dallas and Atlanta, Charlotte, it's a little bit misdirty for lack of a better word. We just went to visit Dallas and I was actually shocked that I saw like flowers here and there, like tulips near like just, I don't know, random places. I was like, wow, that's beautiful, you know, because I'm just not used to seeing it. Landscaping is a little different here because it's so dusty and dry. Yeah. But maybe just the environment overall may have an impact on that. That's true. Like Ryan was saying earlier, there are a lot of local brands to support, whether that be food or cute little stores to shop at. There are a lot of just like random Austin brands. I mean, like the things that I can think of are like Tito's vodka, which is pretty big now. But there are a lot of just like local startups here in Austin. But the downside of everything being local is that it does come with a price tag. You know, it's just more expensive to run a local food truck versus a chain for supply. So you may pay a little bit more for your breakfast or your coffee or whatever that may be. But you don't really sacrifice quality. I think people really try hard to make their brand stand out and be you know, popular to make it big. Austin is very dog friendly. We have a guest, her name's Sophie, and she loves Austin. We just had to take her in the car everywhere we were going because we weren't really going in anywhere. So we were just like, oh, we'll just take her, you know. And now I swear she is like separation anxiety. And she like always has to come with us. But that's great because I feel like so many places here in Austin don't really even care if you have a dog. And that's really nice if you're worried about leaving your furry friend at home. Definitely be careful. There's been a few incidents of dog's dying in Lady Bird in Lake Travis from drinking the water. Yeah. Has a certain bacteria in it or something that is during the summer. Yeah, it's toxic to dogs. So just keep an eye out for that. Another con is that with all the people moving here, the housing market is insane right now. If you're coming from California or New York, you may not think so, but compared to Atlanta, Dallas, even Florida, it's crazy expensive just to buy a two bedroom house in Austin. If you want something under $500,000 near the city, you're probably buying like a rundown shack. And in Atlanta, you can buy like a really nice townhome or like a five bedroom house depending on where you're wanting in Atlanta. So it's a big difference. This pro is kind of random, but I thought it was a cool one to share. I feel like the city of Austin does have a lot of similarities between California rather than the East Coast. And since it's such an up-and-coming city, a lot of really cool like LA brands, I would call them, are coming and popping up here. They have stores here up in the domain. Like the first time I saw like Thabletics in a store, I was like, wait, I thought they were only online. It's just cool to see so many brands coming to Austin. The next con is that the airport is tiny. I guess it can be a pro also because there's no line, but if you want to get an international flight or want a cheap flight for that matter, it's not going to be out of Austin. I pay almost $200 just to fly to Atlanta.  One of the pros you may not notice around here is that the gas prices are relatively low compared to Atlanta or other cities in Texas. The fuel-efficient market like electric vehicles is really big around here. So you'll see charging spots everywhere on the city. Especially because Tesla's coming. Yeah, the Tesla headquarters is being built for the Cybertruck, only a few minutes from our house right here. And it's just really celebrated here. And well, for the most part, just the electric vehicles are kind of welcomed and supported. So I don't think gas prices will be going too high over $3 or the rest of the United States. With Austin being a smaller city, it doesn't have any pro sports teams outside of Austin FC that just started. So I definitely miss having the Hawks, the Falcons, or if you're in Houston, you have the Texans and the Rockets to support or go watch their games. And I think most of the sports here are kind of based around UT. So you can always have the UT football team to go watch or they're sporting events. But a pro sports team would be nice to have, but I have to have soccer. Austin, Texas does have a pretty young population since it is a college town with the University of Texas at Austin here. There's St. Edward's University. There are a couple of college campuses around here. But I personally think it's a great city to kind of transition into your post-grad life. Like I said, we moved here right after college. And I thought it was a great place to be because there are so many young people kind of trying to find their place in life. I would definitely say that kind of helps with the open-mindedness of the city because so many people are that young generation that are very educated on everything and just, I guess, aren't very judgmental. So this last con may get us the most hate. But I will say it's been pretty true overall that most Austinites are very protective over Austin and they don't really enjoy people moving here. And they aren't, I mean, they're welcoming but they're not the most supportive of people trying to move here. Yeah, especially online. Like they'll be nice to your face but online they'll rip you to pieces. Yeah, and I get it, like Californians living here are used to their politics and their way of life and their prices of living and changing that may kind of disrupt the way Austin's kind of found in the way it's been operating for a long time. If you are coming from California, just keep it to yourself. Yeah, so you're from Dallas or Houston than the Aliveon? Yeah, that's true. Last probe living in Austin, Texas is that there is no state income tax. We have noticed that a lot of people since the pandemic have been moving here because of that. Yeah, you've probably seen a lot of the tech space moving here like Oracle and Tesla and just some of the other big giants in the tech space coming here for that policy. It is nice to have no state tax when you're taking out of your paycheck. But it makes up for it in the property taxes. Yeah, you'll see the housing and property taxes are kind of elevating because of that policy. So those are all the pros and cons of living in Austin that we could think of. If you guys live in Austin and want to add your thoughts, go ahead and comment any pros and cons that we missed out on in this video so that people visiting or wanting to move here can look at the comments and see what it's all about. If you guys want to see more Austin content, I have a whole playlist with our moving vlogs and just exploring the city and a lot of foodie adventures too. So I will have that link down below and let me know what other Austin videos you want to see next. If you want to see more real-time content, follow me over on my Instagram at so underscore gnarly without the G. And I will see y'all in my next video. Bye!


y big surprise a month ago I got an email from a Dutch author called Helene Kist and we do now have a book about female data scientists she wrote a book stay mad sweetheart you can get this on on amazon.com but let me offer you this if you'd like to read it send me an email I will send you a copy it's an enjoyable read it's a mystery and the three main people in this book are female data scientists I didn't think I would see that day five years ago but here we are we've made it now they just need to make a movie of this right so keep an eye out for that so we are shortly going to be breaking for a reception keep in mind that we have our two wonderful artists there as soon as we leave the room here grab a drink and make your way to the end of the living room where the grand piano is because Patricia is going to give you a demonstration of her fantastic work on the interface of music and AI and you will see the work the visual arts by Andrea there as well and I think you'll be blown away by that and in the meantime we are soon gearing up for WITS 2021 so here's a placeholder put it in your book March 8th and thank you thank you for joining us today


Lowkey actress and Hollywood veteran Winona Ryder had made real estate news in 2020 when she put her San Francisco home on the market for 5 million dollars. While she owned the Dutch Colonial Beauty for 25 years, it reportedly wasn't her main residence and she'd rented it out of it as well. It's said that Winona still owns her longtime residences in Beverly Hills in New York City, which were once upon a time featured in Architectural Digest. 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. Winona Ryder is an actress who's received many awards over her long-running career including a Golden Globe and has been nominated for two Academy Awards as well. She is well known for taking on quirky roles in her early films while moving to more prominent roles in the 90s. Over the late 80s and 90s, Winona would star in a handful of hit movies from Edward Scissorhands, To Girl Interrupted, To Dracula, and many more. In the early 2000s, the actress took a break from films, returning in 2009 for the Star Trek movie and more recently her popular role on the series Stranger Things. It's said that her net worth at the time is somewhere around 18 million dollars, which has afforded Winona some beautiful and comfortable homes over the last couple of decades. This includes one or two beautiful villas in Los Angeles, a lavish apartment in New York City, and her former San Francisco abode. Hey guys, it's Carole the Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Fumus Entertainment and today we're looking at the homes of Winona Ryder. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to check. Now let's get into this video. In 2020, Winona Ryder listed a home she'd owned in San Francisco for 25 years. Classic Dutch Colonial abode was listed at 4.9 million dollars while she had purchased it way back in 1995. Located in the Cow Hollow neighborhood, the Victorian home was built back in 1902 and modernized plenty since to feature all the present-day creature comforts you could desire. Cow Hollow is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in San Francisco and Winona's three-level home boasted 3,140 square feet of space with three bedrooms, two full baths, and two half baths. While they updated the home throughout, it was still able to maintain the period detailing of the original residence from years ago. Situated on a high spot of the exclusive neighborhood, the property borders Marina District to the north and the posh Pacific Heights to the south. A gated courtyard leads you to the side of the home where a cherry red front door is located, opening to a foyer. Here, there are original hardwood floors, leaded glass windows, and a switchback staircase with decorative spindles. Nearby, you'll see a formal sitting room, which faces the street via more leaded windows as well as a traditional fireplace, while the second and more casual living room boasts a nearly identical fireplace too. The sunlit main level also boasts a dining room which is attached to the living area, and this space opens through glass sliders to a sprawling deck with amazing views over the bay. You can see all the way towards Angel Island State Park from here, and it serves as a great option to dine out fresco if the weather permits. When it comes to food prep, the modestly sized but well arranged kitchen is stocked with designer stainless steel appliances, light gray quartz counters, and glass fronted cabinets. There are reportedly three bedrooms on the upper floor of the home, but plans show that one includes a large vintage inspired private bath, while the other two can function as a grand suite. This grand suite is made up of a shared entranceway or mini hallway, which branches off to a walk-in closet and another vintage style bath. Bigger of the suite's two rooms boasts a fireplace that resembles a French Chateau, while both rooms offer glass doors opening to views over the bay. These views even show famous landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. The lower level is home to a laundry room, bonus space with powder room, the garage, and a media room that opens up to the backyard. Considering it's ground level, it's not an actual basin. While outdoor space is quite limited in San Francisco, Winona's former home boasts a large brick terrace, a small deck hidden in the trees, and a lush garden all within a deep backyard. While Winona owned the home for so many years, it's not clear when she last occupied it. It popped up for rent a year prior at $15,000 per month, and it seems as though it had been cleared of personal belongings and staged with generic furniture. While it flew under the radar and went down in a discreet deal, it was reported that Winona also dropped $2.2 million through a blind trust for a home in Hollywood back in 2016, and it appears that the actress still owns it. Winona's home here is perched near the top of the Outpost Estates neighborhood in the east area of Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, which is a celeb-packed enclave. Not to mention it's only a five-minute drive to Hollywood and popular hiking spot Runyon Canyon. The two-story abode is built in a Mediterranean style and was constructed back in 1947, spanning 2,154 square feet of space. Within the .33 acre lot, there's a gated entryway out front with a brick courtyard and fountain, and on one side a two-car garage. Meanwhile, the backyard of Winona's home has an oval-shaped swimming pool and a unique feature of the spot is that it has no neighbors on either side for ultimate privacy. It's on a peninsula surrounded by roads on three sides and open land on the other. Inside the home, there's some elegant and vintage details, including the intricate chandeliers in nearly every common room. The kitchen and family room are constructed in an open plan, like a grand living area, with a high wood ceiling overhead, and there's also a fireplace here. The attached kitchen boasts stainless steel appliances and a bar, which overlooks the sitting area, while there's also French doors leading outside. There is also another living room with fireplace nearby and a cozy-sized dining room. Elsewhere in the home, there are three bedrooms, one of which is on the ground floor, while the master retreat is upstairs and made complete with a personal sitting area as well as a fireplace. This bedroom also overlooks the pool area out in the yard, which has more hedges and gates surrounding it to keep away any unwanted attention. It's also believed that Winona still owns her other two homes, which were previously featured in Architectural Digest, one in New York City and another in Beverly Hills. In New York City, she has a sophisticated apartment with high ceilings in a reported landmark downtown building, while her spread in LA is a modest-sized 1920s Mediterranean bungalow in Beverly Hills, which she had restored to its original state. From her feature in Architectural Digest way back in the 90s, we can see that Winona's homes at the time were feminine and charming. She drew help from her friend Kevin Haley, an actor who's also dabbled in decorating as a hobby. Her 1920s home had been stripped of its original Mediterranean charm by upgrades, and Winona, well, she wasn't a fan of this. She even called these upgrades creepy. She saw what her friend Haley had done in his own apartment and loved the aesthetic and trusting him to help her out with her own places. He worked on restoring the actress's home as close as possible to the original, having the orange stain-stealing sandblasted from the timbered ceiling, and saved wrought iron hardware and curtain rods. The tiny patio and sloped backyard here was also transformed into a romantic garden. The first piece purchased for the home that started the theme for the design was a 19th century chandelier with amethyst crystal drops located in the dining room. Then there were more jewel-toned accents added in the living room and other spaces to blend, for instance, like the velvet chairs. The living room is also comfortable and informal, which is what Winona wanted for entertaining, while in the entry hall there's limestone pavers as well as the sweeping staircase. Haley turned a small space upstairs into an open dressing room for Winona with whimsical lace-patterned glass doors, as well as a mirror dating back to the 1940s, while her master suite was decked out in a color palette of soft-toed. Winona said about her home, I can't stand houses where you're afraid to touch anything. There's an authenticity about everything in this house. Anybody would be comfortable here. The back garden was also entirely landscaped with sandstone river rock and lush plants. In contrast to Winona's Beverly Hills abode, the New York City apartment was created in a totally different mood. Haley said of decorating this spot, the word that came to mind was glamour. The soaring 18-foot high ceilings and tall windows to match gave the space an urban yet classy feel. The living room was decorated with lacquer panels from the 1930s Manhattan Dance Club, as well as a Steinway piano. Winona also has a love for music which was accentuated in the Italian bar decorated with lutes and a violin, as well as a 1940s French table with a base shaped like a musical note. In the dining room and bedrooms, there's a mix of contemporary furniture and pieces from the 1930s and 1940s. There are also luxurious textures adding richness to the muted and pale colors. Now that we've gotten a look at a handful of Winona rider's beautiful and timeless properties from Los Angeles to San Francisco and even in New York, that brings this house tour to an end. So what did you guys think? Out of those properties did you have a favorite? I loved Winona's design case with all of the vintage glamour and charming romantic accents. Be sure to let me know your thoughts in the comments below as well as whose homes you'd like to see next on this channel. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button if you haven't and I'll see you all next time. Bye.


OK, is this working? Can you hear me? Good. Please, sir. Well, thanks, everybody, for coming. I'm really delighted to have you here. My name is John Hamry. And I'll apologize if I sound a little dopey today. I landed at 2 in the morning having flown back from Taiwan. And I promised I'd be here to be with the secretary. So he's going to sound brilliant.  But at least today I have an excuse. We're really very happy to have Secretary Ray Mabus with us today. And I would say thank you for coming. He has so many titles. Governor, Ambassador, Secretary, CEO, which just before we get started, which do you prefer? Just a plain simple excellence he'll do. Just your excellency. OK, your excellency. I'm really delighted to have you here. And of course, everybody here in this room wants to hear you say things you can't talk about, which is the new budget. And I suspect I'd like everybody here to be somewhat respectful of this awkward situation the secretary's in. There's some things he just can't talk about today. And you'll just have to understand that that's part of the business. But he is going to give us insights into his thinking and his advocacy that helped shape this budget. And so Mr. Secretary, I thought maybe you would start by saying is you're trying to guide the Navy thinking about the fundamentals. It's not just today's Navy. It's the Navy we have in 30 years. What guides you? What's guiding you for this framing? The one thing that the Navy uniquely. And when I say Navy, I mean Navy Marine Corps team, two services, one mission. But the thing that Navy uniquely brings to our country is presence. Presence is the purpose. It's what we do. It's what we're about. Not just being in the right place in the right time, but the right place all the time. And in the defense strategic guidance that the president came out with in 2012, if you look at that, focus on the Western Pacific, focus on the Arabian Gulf, and focus on partnership buildings, on partnership building, that is a maritime strategy. That is a strategy that requires a great Navy, requires a great Marine Corps. And so that overall all idea of presence and the ability to give our leaders options in times of crisis, and in times, peacetime and wartime. So that's the big, big idea. Underneath that, the way I've organized it has been in order to get presence, you need to look at four things. People, make sure we've got and retain very high quality sailors and Marines and civilians. Platforms, because quantity becomes a quality of all its own at some point. Power, because the way we get and use fuel can either be a military advantage or a military vulnerability, and forth is partnerships. Building those partnerships around the world, because no matter how big, no matter how good we are, we cannot do these things alone. And we need partners, and they need to have the capability to act together with us to meet whatever eventuality there is out there. Secretary, I heard that abundantly in Asia. I've set a conference that involved representatives from all of Southeast Asia, and everyone talks about the importance of America's presence in region. And of course, when they talk about that, they talk about the Navy. How do you feel about the, because you've traveled extensively in this, which is an important part of your mission, how do you feel about our capacity to partner with them, both our ability with our budget to be able to meet their expectations, and then honestly, their capacity to be a partner with us in these missions? Well, I think in the first half of that equation, it's important for them to know that we are going to be there, that the shift to the Pacific is very real, both in terms of numbers of ships and aircraft, but also in terms of our most modern platforms are going there, that the exercises that we do, that the engagement that we do, we are going to be there. Those big gray hulls are going to be on the horizon. In the second part, many of these nations have great capability and great capacity and the ability to grow. And a good example is every time North Korea starts, rather than Sabres, you've got South Korean ships with Aegis capability, you've got Japanese ships with Aegis capability, and you've got our ships with Aegis capability already there, already very interoperable. And for other nations, and I'll just talk about the Pacific now, but for other nations in that region, the sharing of maritime domain awareness, who's in your waters? What are they up to? And the fusion of that information that comes from a lot of different sources, we can help put together the pieces that already exist there, but you have to have that constant, never-ending communication and collaboration. There's a saying that you can surge equipment, you can surge people, but what you cannot surge is trust. And that you have to have those relationships, you have to have that interoperability, you have to have that familiarity with each other before the day that a crisis, regardless of what kind of crisis that is, arrives. Big changes in Asia with standing up Darwin operations. Would you just describe a little bit of that? I know that this is a major focus for you. From the Navy perspective, we're going to move from about 55% of our total fleet being in the Pacific to 60% by the end of this decade. And as I said, our most modern platforms are going there. From the marine standpoint, we're going to have this rotational presence of marines in Darwin. Australia started out with a company size about 200 marines. This year, it's going up to more than 1,000 marines, a battalion size. And it will end up a MAGTAS size of more or less 2,500 marines with supporting assets. But it's not just to train with the Australians, although that's an important element of it. But it's also for engagement in that part of the world, engagement bilaterally, multilaterally throughout, throughout that incredibly crucial part of the world with so many maritime choke points, so many potential areas of instability that we can, going back to the original thing, partner on. And finally, we're using our ships differently now. More forward deployed. You're going to see more of our ships forward deployed for longer periods of time. A good example is the four littoral combat ships that will be going to Singapore. We don't have any there. Right now, we've already done our first one. The freedom was there on an eight month deployment. But by 2016, we will have four littoral combat ships on extended deployment. They're not going to be home ported in Singapore. But looking to the other side of the world, I was in Rota, Spain two weeks ago when the first guided missile destroyer, ballistic missile defense destroyer, arrived in Rota. We're putting four of those home ported permanently in Rota. Now, each ship that we have forward deployed, according to the CNO, takes a place of about four ships home ported here in the United States because of transit time, because of maintenance, because of things like that. And so we can get a larger presence with the same number of ships. Although I do think it's important that we continue to grow our fleet. And I think that what the Secretary of Defense said on Monday in his statement pointed out that the Navy will continue to grow just in numbers and in types of ships that we do have that we can forward deploy. To the extent that we can within the ground rules, could you amplify on this? I know I hear many times friends in other countries will ask, you're facing tough budgets here. Are you really going to be able to sustain this? You must confront this all the time when you travel. How do you talk about this? Because we do know we have tighter budgets coming. Well, the number that I give that I'm very happy with, the four years before I became Secretary of the United States Navy put 19 ships under contract. That was not enough to stop the slide in the size of our fleet. It was not enough to protect our industrial base. In the first four years, I have been Secretary, we put 60 ships under contract. So we are growing the fleet. And under our current plan, we're going to get back to 300 ships by the end of this decade. Now we've done that, there hadn't been any magic to it. But I do tell our friends, our allies, people around the world about this. But I think it's also important to make that point here, to make that point to the American people and to as how we look at our defense and at our defense strategy. The way we've done it is by some very basic business things, putting competition in, doing firm fixed price contracts, doing multi-year procurements, keeping stable designs, building what we know how to build, not trying to force immature technology on the platform. Being transparent about what we're going to build so that industry can make the investments, industry can do the training that they need to do. Now if we do those things, what we expect from industry and what we've been getting from industry is that every ship or aircraft of the same type that we haven't changed the design, that we haven't changed the technology dramatically, ought to cost less than the preceding one. So I'll give you one very quick example. The DDG-51, one of the great warships in the world today. Now we have two shipyards that build it, Bath and Main, Pascagoula, Mississippi. We're building two a year. So these shipyards took that as basically an allocation and we weren't getting the prices that we needed to get to be able to afford the number of ships. So two years ago we bid out three instead of two and we said the low bid will get the third ship and in addition, the difference in the high bid and the low bid, that Delta will come out of the high bid's profit. One shipyard won pretty decisively. Last year as part of a multi-year buy we put out a nine ship solicitation with an option for a 10 and said the low bid will get firmly five ships, the high bid will get four. And once again, the difference in the high bid and the low bid will come out of the high bidder's profit. The other shipyard won decisively. So putting that sort of competition in concentrates the mind. Is that what was behind Secretary Hagel's thinking when he challenged you to do even more than one shipyard? Well, I was very pleased that he put that in because I do think we're doing a great job in terms of that, in terms of being, driving a very tough bargain. The way I put it is my father was probably the cheapest human that has ever lived on the face of this earth. He'd long laughter out here, right? We all have fathers though. He thought it was a real compliment to be called a cheapskate. I am his son. I wanna drive very, very hard bargains for the American people. And I think in virtually every ship class we have driven down the price, we have accelerated the schedule and the quality has stayed there. I mean, you're talking about the Virginia class, you're talking about the DDG 51, you're talking about the littoral combat ship, you're talking about the amphibious ships that we have coming in. The other thing that we are doing that was part of Secretary Hagel's thinking, part of Secretary Hagel's mention of that is one of the easiest things to do is look at platforms. One of the hardest things to do is look at services, at service contracts. We're spending $40 billion a year in Navy and Marine Corps on service contracts. And tracking that from the dollar that's appropriated to the dollar that's spent is pretty difficult. But we're getting a handle on that. And we think we can say, look, I'll go a lot further than that, we know we can save significant amounts of money just by setting up things like contract courts, which require, there's a more formal name for it, but it requires contracting officers to come in every year and justify the contracts that they have. Why do we have that contract? And I'm talking about everything from very high end IT, things like that, down to mowing the grass. Why do we have the contract? Has it been rebid lately? Is it the best price we can get? Is it needed anymore? And that was one of the things that we have been talking about internally, that we have been pushing internally, is that not only are these platforms, which are the most visible and sort of the easiest to pinpoint, we've got to look at, there's a lot of other money flowing through. Pentagon and particularly flowing, in my case, flowing through the Navy Marine Corps that we have got to make sure that we spend every dollar well. You need to do that all the time, but particularly in this budget. Secretary, a lot of our friends here are in the contracting community. And of course, their argument is, oh, there we go, we have to push it around. Their argument frequently is, we can save money, but you have to discipline requirements. You've got to help work with us so we can be partners. How do you respond to that? They're right. We've got to discipline requirements. And I'll go back to platforms for a minute. There've been a couple of ships, ship types that we've built the ship while we're designing the ship. That's really not a good way to build a ship. It's not a good way to do much of anything. And so we have, and that was what I was talking about. The design and a platform needs to be stable. The technology needs to be mature. If you get some new G-Wiz technology, put it on the next block. Put it on the next group that you buy. Don't try to force them and change the requirements. And the same thing in service contracts. Be very clear about what it is and don't change it all the time. Don't sort of walk the requirements out because it's not cost efficient for one thing, but it's also not fair to our industry partners to change the requirement in the middle and say, do it for the same price. Secretary, you've championed broadening the energy base for the Navy. How is that going? And again, how do you manage that? Well, first it's going very well. I said, answer the first question that it's fuel and energy is a military vulnerability, particularly the way we're doing it today. I'm very glad that America is producing more oil and gas, but even if we produce all that we can use, there are two pretty overriding factors. Number one, oil and gas are global commodities and the price is set globally. So you get some instability somewhere. You get somebody threatening to close a straight somewhere. You get anything. When the Syrian crisis started, the price of oil went up $10 a barrel. Now, Syria is not a major producer, but it's this security premium that traders place on oil, regardless of where it's coming from. Every time the price of oil goes up a dollar a barrel, it costs the Navy and Marine Corps $30 million in additional fuel costs. In 11 and 12, I was presented with, Navy was presented with an additional, unbudgeted $2 billion in fuel costs. Well, there are not many places to go get that sort of money. You can take it out of operations.  Or if the bill gets too big, you take it out of platforms. I just don't think either one of those is a good idea. So what we're looking for is a more stably priced, domestically produced source of fuel. For sea going and aircraft, that's something like biofuels. And we demonstrated biofuels at RIMPAC of the Pacific in 2012. Every single type of aircraft that flew off the limits flew on a 50-50 blend of biofuel and aviation gasoline. And all the surface combatants that were around them were steaming on a 50-50 blend of marine diesel and biofuel. The big news was there was no news. We bought the biofuels, put it in the normal logistics chain, took it out, refueled at sea in the air. Following a presidential directive, we've been working with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy to come up with a nationwide biofuel industry. We have contracts today under the Defense Production Act. That by 2016, with four biofuel companies assuming that all of them make it through this process, they're contracted to provide us with about 163 million gallons a year at a good bit less than $4 a gallon, which is very competitive with oil and gas. And it's also domestically produced. It comes from all four of them have different feedstocks. I don't really care where it comes from. But it has a bunch of advantages, not the least of which is it gives our farmers a new income stream for sure basis. It's any kind of technology from solar to wind to geothermal to hydrothermal to fuel cells that can use different kind of fuel to power them. So our goal, and I'm confident we're gonna reach it, is that by 2020, at least half of all naval energy that flowed out of shore will come from non-fossil fuel sources. We've got six years to do that. And I think we're on track to get there. Secretary, I know again we're ahead of the budget, but Secretary Hagel did release early this week outlines some controversy about cost reductions or not cost reductions, but lowering the cost profile for people costs. That of course hits everyone. You have 900,000 people in your command. I mean, what do you say to them about striking this balance between honoring our commitment to them, but then also honoring our commitment to the people to have the equipment we need in 30 years? It's trade-off of people and resources and equipment. I mean, how do you speak to your command about that? I've lost track of the number of all hands, calls I've done around the world. I know I'm north of 500, but somewhere up there. In fact, I think I've just about met every sailor and marine that we have. I've sure tried to. In the way that the questions that I get are about uncertainty, what's gonna happen in this year after year after year of uncertainty? The way I respond, number one, is we ought to have some certainty here, but number two, we have got to get control of our personnel cost, or to your point, we're gonna begin to take the tools out of the hands of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marine coast guards that they need, but also the other way to save money on personnel is to get rid of personnel. So it comes down to, and I do think it has to be absolutely fair. You've got to be fair to the people who defend us and who protect us. And I think that, particularly over the last 10 years with the rise of military compensation growing up 40% more than comfortable civilian sector, that we are being fair. And what we're talking about, I think it's important to note, is not cutting, but it's slowing the growth. And it's slowing the growth in some things like healthcare for retirees, for working-age retirees who work for companies that can give them that do offer healthcare. I think it is fair to look at that instead of saying, we're gonna keep on this march, we're gonna keep watching those cost rise, and we're gonna begin to make decisions about not modernizing for the people who are, the best way I've heard it said, we should never send our folks into a fair fight. We should always send, we're going to fight. We should have the advantage whether technologically or whether it doesn't matter how. We should have the advantage. The final thing is the sailors and marines that I know. And as I said, I don't think there are very many of them that join for the money. Now it's an important part. And it's important that we keep the fake. But to make this all about money, and to make it all about them and money, I think degrades the patriotism and the sense of sacrifice and the sense of service that they bring to us. Secretary, you were a remarkably successful governor. You know politics, you know what it's like to sell tough deals. Do you think you can sell this deal this year on the spotter? Well, I think, well, number one, if we can sell it on the merits, yes. I think that it's something we have to look at. It's not, and we have to make the case for it. Because it's not something that is vague and ephemeral and down the road somehow. It's today. Most choices are gonna have to start being made today because for every dollar that you do not get in compensation savings, and again, slowing the growth, it's a dollar you're gonna have to find somewhere else. There's just not the unlimited money that defense got used to a decade ago. And so, we are at the trade off now. And I do understand the politics of things. I understand trying to sell hard choices, but at some point, you've got to step up to those hard choices or the choices you will begin making are even more untappable. Yep, very fair. I mean, this isn't a slow pitch question. This is T-ball. Okay, I was gonna let you just whack this one on the park, but, and it concerns the modernization of our nuclear forces. You're looking at some pretty steep bills coming for a trident modernization, trident replacement. And overwhelmingly, our nuclear deterrent now is with the Navy. We've got some trade offs. Are you able to afford this modernization program? Well, the two parts of the modernization program. The first part is the Ohio class replacement. Submarines that carry those nuclear weapons are gonna begin to reach the end of their service life. And we literally can't send any for profit. And so, we are doing the research and developing the design today for that Ohio class replacement. And we have to start buying in quantity about 2019 to get the subs that we're going to need. We have to have the common missile compartment designed and ready to go, even earlier than that, because the British are using the same missile compartment and they have to have it before we do. Their submarines are ahead of ours in terms of retirement, in terms of rebuilding. And I think this is a debate that between now and 2019, which is now inside the five-year defense plan, or it will be in 15, that we need to have, because if we build these, and we will build these, not if we're gonna build them, but if the money to build those comes out of Navy shipbuilding, comes out of pure Navy, it will take at least half every year of all our shipbuilding dollars. It will devastate the rest of Navy shipbuilding. And I'm talking in the late 2020s, 2030s now, it will devastate submarine building in terms of the attack submarines, but surface ship, every kind of ship that we build. And I think that we need to have a debate, this is a national mission. This, as you said, a lot of it is beginning to be on the shoulders of Navy. Which is, we have the most survivable part of the triad. It's a crucial capability that we have. We've got to make sure that we have it, but it is a national mission and to degrade the rest of Navy missions to meet that. I think that is a debate, not only in Congress, but also with the American people. How should that be paid for? I think that's exactly right. This is a national debate we have to have. We know we have to have a reliable deterrent. It's now overwhelmingly going to be on the back of the Navy, your resources aren't going to be able to accept that without compromising our forward presence capacity over time. So it's a debate we have to have. I'm glad you're doing that. And we are driving the price of that Ohio-class replacement down. We've taken almost $2 billion per boat out already just by using commonalities with the Virginia-class attack submarine with doing some innovative things with this, but there's a limit to how far we can go. Sure. Friends, I'm going to turn to you for questions. In my stupor, I forgot to say thank you to our very good friends at Rolls Royce who make it possible for us to bring this to all of you. And Steve Plummer's here, I just want to say thanks. Let's open up. If there are questions that people want to offer, we'll start right down here with you. But I reserve the right to change questions if they're too narrow. So you go ahead ahead. Hi, John. Hi, Mr. Baubers. I'm Jennifer, correspondant of Virginia Media Group, one of TV Network in China. And my question is going to be, US Navy ready to deploy the laser weapon for the first time this year. So do you think the development of laser weapons will be against the CCW eventually? We are deploying our first laser weapon very soon. And we are well into development of laser weapons. At some point, it becomes almost impossible to hit a bullet with a bullet and you have to change technologies. And this is one of those very promising technologies that we think you're gonna see a lot more of. Sydney? Microphone please, can we get you a microphone? We want everyone to hear you. I'm really plenty loud enough for most people, sir, but thank you, Sydney Friedberg, BreakingDefense.com. Mr. Secretary, I among others have heard you spend a lot of time and energy over the past year plus saying littoral combat ship is a real warship, it is survivable for what it needs to do. And now we have the secretary signing off on something that says, well, maybe it's not. Maybe it was survivable enough for a different world, but especially with the pivot to Asia and a higher tech set of threats. And my apologies to the young lady from China. The LCS isn't adequate for that part of the world. So what's your take on this change of course and how does the Navy adjust to it? Well, I think it's very important to look at exactly what the Secretary of Defense said, which is keep building LCS that we're building today through this five year defense plan. Take a pause in contract negotiations past that and take a look at some of the things you mentioned, survivability, lethality, concept of operations of the ship and other things, cost of the Navy. A replacement, how soon a replacement could be done. We are just beginning to operationally test the littoral combat ship. And we started now in 14 doing that. The Secretary has given us a direction, which frankly we welcome. And we have done with every type of naval ship before, which is see if there are any gaps and see if it's going to be adequate. And one of the things he specifically called out was a modified LCS or the next flight of LCS. But if that doesn't work, we ought to look at different options, a different design. How long would that take? How much would it cost? What would it do to that presence argument? Other types of things. There may be designs already out there, although I know some, not the Secretary, but some have recommended, well, look at foreign designs. Well, number one, I don't think any foreign design is up to our standards. And number two, I'm pretty sure that the Navy and Congress doesn't want to put Americans out of work doing that. So I am, my position on LCS and the CNO's position on LCS has remained stable. But if you look at every other ship type, if you look at our DDG-51s, when we were at about this point, we did some pretty extensive testing and we started building the next flight. We are now about to start building the fourth flight of the DDG-51s. The flight three, which is the fourth flight, which is a little confusing, but is a very different ship from flight one. The same thing with the Virginia attack submarines. The subs that we're building today are about the third flight from the ones that we started building. So we have this year with a decision coming in the 16 budget on LCS. And I frankly think that this is, I take this as pretty good news, we have to have a small surface combatant. And what the secretary said was, we have to have a small surface combatant. It has to have the capability and we have to have it for presence. And if LCS can meet that bill, do it and modify it in the ways that it needs to if it can't figure out something else. Terry? Okay, we have a microphone, Terry, if you could use that. You and I are former ship drivers. And we share a common university, which is pretty common, I have to say. But I wish to, as a member of the Harvard military unit, I wish to thank you for what you did to bring the Ivy League back into what might be called the rest of the country with ROTC a few years ago. But now I will ask politically. That's good enough. No, no, no. I'm a former amphib officer. And I keep seeing all these wonderful words about 11 aircraft carriers. And I think, gee, I don't do the math very well. Don't we have 23? Just a question. The short answer is yes. Thank you. With the big deck amphibs. We're just commissioned the next big deck amphib, the America, who joined the fleet this summer. And the capability that those bring us is simply astounding, particularly with the V-22 Osprey and then in the future with the F-35B, the Stovall version. If I could loop back just for a second about your first comment. I was at Harvard right after ROTC was asked to leave. And following only West Point and Annapolis, Harvard has the most medallional recipients in America, in university in America. And now we have ROTC back at Harvard, at Yale, at Columbia, at Princeton. And I think it is very important that the military that defends America reflects America. And reflects all of America. And I was very happy that we were able to do that, not just at those four places, but making sure that the military and the 1%, or fewer than 1% of America that serves in uniform does not get detached or distanced from the 99% that they protect. Yes, ma'am? Thank you so much. Wishijiao from China Center Television. I have two questions, military exercise. And we know that the United States and South Korea just began joint military exercise. And what we saw on 27th, North Korea launched a four shot range missiles into C. How do you evaluate the situation there and what kind of message do you think North Korea is sending to buy this action? And another kind of military exercise is taken by Russia. So within the Ukraine crisis as we know there. So this morning we saw Yanukovych hold a press conference. So what kind of role will the United States Navy in this kind of crisis? Let me take the last question off the table. I don't think it's fair to ask the Secretary that question. President of the United States will talk about that. Okay? The exercises that we do with allies, friends around the world, but particularly an ally like South Korea, they are scheduled, they are announced, and we are very transparent about it. And it's part of the thing I talked about at the presence and it's part of the thing I talked about the engagement. We're gonna be there. We're gonna be there all the time. So this is not a provocation because we do it all the time. This is, we're not escalating a crisis because we're there all the time. And I think particularly in a volatile region and North Korea has shown that it is that. That these sorts of exercises, these sorts of making sure that we are interoperable, making sure that we know what, how we and our allies work together. There is no substitute for things like that. But again, we are completely transparent about this. We announced them. We announced them a lot of times, a long time in advance. And so the notion that somehow we're escalating, somehow we're provoking, there's nothing to that. Yes, sir? Third rollback. Hi, Shin Shioji from NHK Japanese TV. I have a question about the former sale of the USS Ronald Reagan who were in Japan in 2011. They, the appropriations bill of fiscal 14 gave $300 million for research money for those sales who claimed they got cancer after that. Can you explain to us how the agreement with Congress came about? The, as you pointed out, Ronald Reagan and her strike group sailing across the Pacific when the tsunami hit Japan, Ronald Reagan was turned very quickly, went and began to deliver humanitarian assistance to sass to relief. We were very, very vigilant about how much radiation, exposure there was to the ship's crew, to our helicopter pilots, and to all our people that were going in there. We sent ships up from amphibious ships from Southern Japan to this as well. And I was there about three weeks later and one of the briefings that I got was how we were measuring any exposure and how diligent and vigilant we were being about that. This is one of those things that to make absolutely certain that, and we have no indications that there was excessive radiation of any kind during Operation Tomodachi. This is just to add another layer of caution to make sure that there's nothing there. Up in the back. I'm Secretary Mike McCarthy, Defense Daily. I want to get back to the truncated LCS program. And I understand that the contracts you currently have for shipbuilding will probably get you to that 300 number by 2019, as you've said. But by truncating the program and having to come up with a new ship after LCS, do you expect to be able to sustain that 300 ship fleet number in the next decade once you've reached it? To answer your last question, yes. Second is you misstated what happened. You said truncating that ship and coming up with a new one. That is one of the options. That is not the only option. One option that the Secretary very clearly laid out is taking the LCS and modifying it. So, but yes, in any eventuality, we're gonna stay in the 300 ship range. Well, part of the look over the next year is if we went to a different design, if we went to a different type ship, how long would that take? And what would it cost? Because we've driven the cost of LCS down dramatically. The 10th LCS of each variant will be coming off the line under this block by from one from Austin and Mobile, one from Marionette, Wisconsin. The whole will cost about $350 million. That's down dramatically from the first two which cost upwards of $750 million. The first two research ships, the test ships, that freedom and independence that were built several years ago. So, we have driven that cost down by competition. We made the two yards compete against each other. And so, cost would also be a factor because in order to get that 300 ship navy in order to get all the types of ships we need, we've got to keep the cost very much in control. Otto? Careful, he lost question. Crewman, I think. Oh, I, I, I, I'm very well aware. Otto Kreuz was C-Power Magazine. Two for, one, we constantly hear rumors that the navy is soft on the C, on the Charlie version of the F-35 that, you know, if they had their druthers, they would continue buying hornets rather than that. You'd like to speak to that. And the other question I have is on the Darwin, deployment buildup. Are we gonna, do you intend to put ships or aircraft down there so that that marine detachment is down there, can, can move around on its own? I'll take those in reverse order, if you don't mind. We're gonna have a fifth amphibious ready group in the Pacific by 2018. Partly to meet that demand, but partly also to, as part of the shift to the Pacific. The marines, as marines do, are also looking at a lot of different operating concepts for lift, for moving marines around the Pacific. We're building 10 high speed vessels that can move a lot of people at 40 knots and a lot of equipment around a place like the Pacific. We're building two MLPs, mobile landing platforms. In fact, both of them are already, one is in the fleet, one is about to join the fleet. And then we're building two more, a float forward staging basis, which are MLPs, mobile landing platforms with a flight deck on it. These are gonna be, and there's, we're looking at another one for a total of five of these. These give you a lot of different options of how you move marines, how you stage, how you resupply. So it's, yeah, we're gonna have more amphibious ships, more amphibious lift for not just the marines in Darwin, but the marines in the Pacific. But we're also looking at a lot of other different concepts of operations to move marines in different ways. Last thing I'll say about that, my favorite answer that Commandant Jim Amos has ever given, I think, at a hearing was somebody asked him, a member of Congress asked him how many amphibious ships he wanted. He said, want, I don't know, 50, 100. He said, but let me tell you, if there's someplace marines need to go. He said, you remember that Italian cruise ship that ran aground, tumped over? He said, we'll dewater her, get her upright, fix her up, put marines on her and take them there. We will get the marines there. Very short answer to you. The sea version was always gonna be the last version. We were, Navy was always last in the queue and we have always made our plans for that. Our timetable for our first operational squadron is still about the same. There may be, you change procurement numbers or things like that, but we haven't changed our initial operating capability I would say for the first squadron. Tony? Tony Capasio with Bloomberg News. There is one carrier in the Gulf region apparently right now. Mr. Secretary, do you envision keeping only one carrier battle group in the Persian Gulf for the foreseeable future? And second, on LCS, what was your reaction to Hegel's decision? It's not every day you get a memo from the secretary saying I have considerable reservations about whether this program is good for the Navy for the next few decades. And it seemed to come out of the blue given that the program had political support on the hill and most of the concerns up to this point was about the mission modules. The question about the carrier, the steady state has been one carrier for a long time. There was about a year and a half, two year period there where we went to two. That was the exception, not the steady state. We're going to an optimized fleet response plan to make sure that we deploy our carriers on a sort of pretty certain schedule so that we give sailors and their families a notion so that we can make sure that we're gonna do the maintenance, make sure we're gonna do the training. And we're laying that in starting very soon in terms of when we deploy, how we deploy and it's to meet these global force management issues that about where we put carriers and for how long they remain there. I was fine with the LCS memo, as I said, we are just beginning testing and there have the thing that made me pretty comfortable with it was this is basically the notion for every single ship type we've ever had coming from different ways.  And as I said, you grow these things, you mature these things. And if the LCS cannot do, and I think it's also important to know, cannot do what it is required to do, then we should look at something else, but you should look at it in the context and he put it in memo cost, schedule and you know, so how long would it take to get to the fleet? It takes about a decade to get a design done and into the fleet. Also talked about driving acquisition cost down, which we have done and which we're doing and as I said, virtually every ship play. So, I mean, overall I was, yeah, I'm very comfortable with this decision. And I think that to the extent, you know, I'll pick on your profession here for a second. That, you know, and looking back, it's not just LCS that this has happened to you, but you know, you read about LCS now and it's the controversial LCS with its cost overruns. What cost overruns? We have driven this cost down dramatically. So I think that putting a lot of these things to bed or not, I mean, if we can't put them to bed, if we can't put them to rest, then we should be looking at something else. And the mission modules are pretty much exactly where we thought they would be at this point in development. The acting deputy secretary, Christine Fox, talked about the importance of spiral development. This week, I think, talked about how spiral development is one of the best ways you can do these things. The countermind package that we have for LCS is already better than our mind countermeasure warships. Other capabilities are also better than what we have out there in the fleet today. So we are exactly where we need to be. And as I said, spiral development is one of the ways that I talked about, don't push technology before it's ready, but when it is ready, have a way and whether it's LCS or any other ship, it ought to be modular so that you don't have to build a whole new ship to do it. It shouldn't be that hardwired into it. You should be able to drop things in and take them out. I have some very anxious staff officers back here who are saying the time is done. We should all be very grateful that someone of your talent, Mr. Secretary, has been willing to serve in so many ways for this country. You're doing a splendid job for the Navy, for the country. Would you all, with your applause, please say thank you. Thank you.