Welcome back everyone. I hope those sessions were enlightening. I know I've heard a lot about the relaxation that was going on being led by Panthea Lee in her session and then saw a lot of lively chat in the autonomous vehicle workshop. We are now at our closing fireside chat and I'm really excited about this conversation as a way to wrap up a great two days. Please join me in welcoming to the virtual stage Vichon Shackabarti. Vichon brings over 25 years of experience, authoring and implementing visionary design. He's the founder and creative director of PAU, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and serves as the William Worcester Dean of the College of the Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Vichon also has a stint in government. He's done his tour of duty. He served under Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the director of the Manhattan office for the New York Department of City Planning. And in that role, he successfully collaborated on the now realized efforts to save the High Line, rezone Hudson Yards, rebuild the East River Waterfront and reincorporate the street grid at the World Trade Center site after the events of 9-11. So I'm really excited about this conversation. And I think part of what is so exciting is I always see a bit of a disconnect between what I think of as like design and architecture and planning with a lot of the technology that really comes in my fold and how these two worlds come together in a world that is rapidly modernizing is one of the things that I'm really, really curious about. And then on top of that, Vichon, you talk about the planet being at an inflection point. You talk about us needing to center around climate and injustice and making sure that the built environment represents a just world. It's hard to find folks that really are bringing all of these pieces together in a real like in on these global platforms. So perhaps we could just start by listening and hearing more about your own background and how you came, you know, your love of architecture and how you decided to start up PAU. Thanks, Lillian. Thanks for having me. It's real pleasure to be here. And I think I start well, I was born in Calcutta and like right in the heart of the city. And then my parents emigrated to the United States and we I ended up being raised in this really boring kind of violent suburb outside of Boston and we would go back to India when I was young and then my dad was a scientist. My mom was a librarian and a musician and that set up the left brain, right brain tug of war that has been me ever since. And, you know, we would spend a lot of time on these kind of shoestring trips to Europe and so forth and we'd go to cities and museums and I just fell in love not just with cities but like kind of the oxygen that makes up cities in terms of people in the places they inhabit, especially in terms of the buildings and infrastructure and so I think that set the stage for what I do now and done with all my life. And what do you think makes PAU and the work that you're doing unique as compared to what others are thinking about today? Well, you know, architecture is a hard field and about five years ago I turned 50 and I had worked at a lot of like really large corporate architecture firms and just in big places and I thought, you know, I always wanted my own firm if there was ever going to be a moment to do it it was going to be now I was going to do it when I was 75 so it was time to kind of step off the precipice and I did and PAU is now about 20 to 25 people and we're doing exactly the work that we set out to do which was to try to advance cities that were about ecology and equity and the projects that we're doing, you know, like we just won this competition to expand the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and a lot of our work is actually in a lot of deindustrialized cities or cities that suffered from deindustrialization so I mean we've got active work in Detroit, downtown Niagara Falls, Newark, Indianapolis, Cleveland and so you there's a through line there right about cities that I think time sort of forgot but are recovering and have a new kind of lease on life and I think cultures are really big part of that so something like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a huge magnet in Detroit we're working for Ford to reestablish Michigan Central Station as a real innovation hub for the city of Detroit and it's that kind of work that I really want to do I didn't want to go and do you know crazy spaceships built by slaves in the sand out somewhere else but really focus on things that I think people need which is this investment in focus in our cities here and places that are in trouble Yeah I know and it definitely resonates a lot of our audience and night communities in themselves are really representative of as Kelly Jin earlier this morning mentioned the fabric of the US and a lot of as much as we have you know the the Philadelphia's the Miami's of the world we also have a lot of deindustrialized communities that are there are trying to find their way through this next phase and you know so kind of maybe digging into that and we talk a lot in our work around how to create sort of vibrant public spaces because we think that they're critical to helping communities you know not just thrive but also in many ways bring back a lot of individuals that have left these cities how do you see your I mean what's the role of design in that you know I'll just say in context for us it's been a lot about thinking about the reuse of the public realm you know in a lot of cases it's how do we bring you know you know pop up parklets and you know bring more biking and infrastructure into these communities how are you seeing that and I'm also curious like and how do we do it in a way your your eye towards like how do we do it in a way that's actually really sustainable for communities that aren't like New York that may not have the budgets and the real estate revenue coming tax revenue to sustain these ideas. Yeah well first of all I couldn't agree with you more on the focus on public space and I think public space is incredibly important for a couple of different reasons. You know public space is still in this world which feels increased increasingly divisive because of social media and so forth. We need public space to create what I like to call positive social friction among people of difference. Right that I'm really worried that increasingly people with different points of view have no kind of platform where they're really engaging and I think public space is really critical. So when you see that person who dresses differently or looks differently they're not as scary as media makes them out to be. In fact they're a great person to get to know and I think public space plays this huge engine it can be this big engine in terms of healing some of the social fraying that we have today. In a lot of cities you're right that don't have these big budgets and so forth. I think a lot of it's about upcycling. You know one of the things that's happened through the course of the 20th century is cities lost a lot of density and a lot of urban fabric to the automobile. So there's a lot of you know surface parking and you know you take a city like Detroit which has a fraction of the population of say a New York or a San Francisco yet has enormous enormous amounts of land dedicated to pavement. And so rather than say well let's reinvent the wheel we can just think about well what can we do with that pavement and how can we go and talk to communities about what else they'd like to see there. You know it because so much of it isn't necessary for vehicular traffic and its opportunities for farmers markets and street fairs and also like in some cases homeless services or there's just a lot of things that can happen with the upcycling of our existing infrastructure. Which I think is much more of a 21st century sustainability idea than the 20th century tabula rasa just build a new thing from scratch. I want to get to this point of upcycling a bit more but before you do I'm curious on the public spaces point and this and this coming together people of different lives in these in these public spaces. I was curious about that you've designed some amazing like buildings and I and I think about the Penn station example I've looked at some of the visualizations. I mean there's nothing more there's nothing like I you know in New York as an example where you know these spaces where people have all walks of life crossed through them. And I was talking to the colleague about this I mean there's I know I am not an arch yet I'm not a designer but I think there's there's a potential here to sort of develop these as like sort of pass through places where people you know you just walk through and kind of how do we design those spaces in a way that as all of those people are coming through to your point they really there is some deeper interaction there's some deeper engagement. Yeah, I mean, you know a lot of this, you know it's interesting as it's a kind of back to the future question, William because, you know, I think traditional we had this era in the 1900s where, especially where you saw train stations and other notions of public places were built with a sense of generosity as a place, you know, you think about, say Grand Central Station or Detroit's Michigan Central Station when it was a big thriving station, you know, and then we sort of lost that and and modernism became about efficiency and this idea of passing through because people were on their way to the suburbs and it was about this kind of the hustle and bustle of that Don Draper lifestyle and I think we've come to understand that there's a kind of deep problem with that lifestyle from a carbon footprint standpoint but also again this sort of social bubble kind of standpoint and so we need to think about public spaces in a really expansive way. I mean, every building we design even we design a building for a private client or always in search of spaces that can be used for the public, especially in or around the ground floor, you know, where, you know, it's something that's easy to access provide some shelter, you know, and just allows people to again engage with each other to have that positive social friction. And the problem I find I mean like we still haven't gotten that Penn Station proposal built like we proposed that with the New York Times back in 2016, and it's still a mess and even a very, very wealthy city like New York has very substandard public infrastructure so the stuff that every day people use in a city like New York doesn't have anywhere near the kind of investment level that's put into it that say the luxury condos do or the very high end parks that are in wealthy neighborhoods. And so, you know, we really do need to figure out how to focus more equitably in our rich and poor cities on these places that can help bring people together. And I think those one last thing I'd just like to say about this is, I think especially in poorer neighborhoods, that if you give people a sense that society cares about you like they're willing to put investments into places that people have a different attitude towards those places that there's like less graffiti and there's less, you know, there's less vandalism because there's just the sense that they're that we have a collective as a society and that we care about people, whether they're rich or poor and I think that there's been a real dearth of that sensibility and design is often a reflection of that societal impulse about whether we only designed for the wealthy are really designed for everybody. Yeah, no, and I think it's a constant struggle and I have, you know, colleagues across the the night communities who really have been investing in public spaces but are still grappling with this question of inclusivity and the community really feeling like they can own the space and be in the space, even if it's out there and in the in the realm. So you talk a little bit about or I've heard you talk about the infrastructure of opportunity. I'd love for you to share kind of for folks what it what do you mean by that. And we've heard a lot in the last two days about, you know, these references to infrastructure bills out there and we now have a bill. And I'd love to one hear about what infrastructure of opportunity looks like and also are we even meeting the mark I mean where you know what do our cities really still need to be digging into to get to a more inclusive public realm. You know, so that term infrastructure opportunity I coined as part of I wrote a book in 2013 about American cities and I, I'm actually really dead tired because it just I'm just finishing up the manuscript for my next book. And I'm still holding on near and dear to that concept and the idea is a basic one. It's that infrastructure isn't just the traditional things that we think about like transport and water and sewage and electricity. But it's all the things that create social mobility right so we need to think of housing as infrastructure we need to think of cultural institutions as infrastructure, public spaces, health care, educational spaces because they're all the things that build social mobility in our society. And what I think was really fascinating to watch over these last few months on this infrastructure bill in Washington is, I actually think the original Biden proposal got it like they, they were out there saying infrastructure is a much bigger thing. Right. And unfortunately what you're seeing in the new Senate bill is the 1950s version of infrastructure so there's a really great graphic that ran in the times yesterday that talked about the original proposal versus what seems to be the bipartisan compromise. And so I think the bipartisan compromise is largely saying well yeah of course we need to fix all these decrepit roads and bridges and, you know, power grid systems and stuff and that's good it's good to step forward but missed all the stuff on buildings missed all the stuff on clean energy missed all the stuff on on human infrastructure in terms of, you know, helping to pay for childcare and other things that, you know, Democrats were arguing for as a sort of broader definition of helping to create social infrastructure. You know the thing is, I think there's a lot of confusion when we talk about equity, because, like equities are really hard concept, you know, people are not people are not born equal people have different skills. To me, the most fundamental place to at least begin the conversation is to say equal opportunity that a kid born in a rich place and a kid born in a poor place should have an equal chance, regardless of where they were born. I mean, I, like, I know some people will take the concept of equity further than that. And I respect that. I'm just saying, like, can we at least create that as a baseline condition. And that's what infrastructure is about that larger sense of infrastructure opportunities about creating equity of opportunity. No, I like that. I love the idea of the infrastructure of opportunity and we talk a lot about all of those things. It's amazing that it's still, you know, it's like still a hard sell at a national level to get our leadership to really think about these infrastructure components as critical to their own success, frankly, their own community success. And I know that we have a lot of folks from night communities here who who are deeply invested in a lot of these efforts. So I invite them all to ask questions or share share thoughts in the in the chat. I mean, so moving along the route of infrastructure. We today we talked a lot about equity and mobility and I know that you have shared a lot around the challenges of a third of our infrastructure actually being dedicated to cars. Again, and at the same time, you know, we're also cognizant of the fact that there are efforts out there and there's a lot of money being put into things like autonomous vehicles. And so one of the things that we grapple with is what is the role, what's the voice, what's the role of community in these efforts. And I'll tell you there's a tension between legitimizing something and actually saying this is sort of already happening. At least let's try to get into it. Let's get into the conversation, have communities have a voice. Talk a little bit more about mobility. You know, maybe share some of the thoughts that I know you've you've shared in other spaces around where you see the future of mobility going and and are there any reflections in the last 18 months. You know, at the beginning, everyone was worried about, we're all now going to be in single occupancy occupancy vehicles because we're afraid of this pandemic. How are you seeing, how are you seeing the trends really shift in preferences and and where do you see the future of mobility and how it impacts, obviously the equity of cities. Yeah, huge and great question. I mean, first of all, I'm very, very skeptical of technological panaceas, whether it's autonomous vehicles or rideshare or electric fields or whatever, you know. And part of that is just all you have to do is be a student of urban history to understand what happened. I mean, you know, cities were built a certain way for human beings up until the end of the 18 hundreds. And then, you know, structural steel, the elevator, and especially the internal combustion engine come along. And all of a sudden, we screw up the world in a way that we never could have even imagined that we were capable of doing because we so bought into this one technology hook line and sinker. We rescaled our cities and our streets and then the way we did things like housing and like cut out the informal sector and and cars are much to blame for this. I mean, there's a huge and then there's a by the time you get to the 1950s in this country, then then there's an enormous racial component where the Federal Highway Act is passed. You know, white flight, red, red lining, which are things that happened before World War Two. But, you know, like just there's this way in which the car instrumentalized segregation in the country and now is increasingly doing that around the world. And so when people talk about their new hot shot technology about cars that can drive themselves, which, by the way, I still think is a lot of hype. You know, I'm very skeptical. At the same time, I'm not a Luddite. I think technology can be great. But, and I think so I'm in the same bind you are, which is, okay, this this thing is happening. How does one adapt themselves to kind of think about this thing in a midway that's more positive. So like one example I like to give is during the pandemic. One of the things I noticed is the makeup of who attended community board meetings really changed. And suddenly we started to see a much broader, I think, coalition of people, people who wouldn't normally be the usual suspects that came to public hearings and so forth come to all sorts of meetings. And that to me was a really great kind of thing that came out of the pandemic and I hope today's. And so there are great things that come out of tech. But I just my big problem with the technology industry and I gave a whole Ted talk around this is that technologists tend to like invent the thing they want to invent and then foisted and hype it on the world rather than say, What are the things that human beings really need technology to do. So for instance, wheelchair critically important piece of technology horribly designed. Right. And we literally spend billions of dollars Lord knows how much in carbon emissions, trying to accommodate this really poor piece of design, rather than spend that on existing technology, which is to give every single person who needs a wheelchair, a wheelchair that can climb stairs, which exists. That's just a small example of where there's this kind of mismatch in our economy between someone, you know, who invents a juicer that can talk versus like things that we really need. You know, and that I think is is where we need to have a broader conversation with the tech sector. Yeah, I know yesterday, I'm one of our speakers, Anika Makawa talked about it. She talks about technology solution ism right, we kind of feel like technology is going to solve everything and a lot of it as you're describing is just insert a lot of the investment unfortunately seem to be in search of problems and not necessarily actually solving the ones that are there, which is why we tend to really promote this idea of engagement right that trying to at least bridge this gap between technologists, government and community as a way to create better matches, if you will, between the technology and the real issues that people are facing. And so I guess one thing I'm curious about is in cities, you know, planners have a great, great amount of responsibility and in some ways a lot of opportunity to try and also bridge these gaps, bring in appropriate technologies, think about some of the land use and mobility challenges of people in the design of cities. I'm curious about your thoughts to the to the to the field, if you will. What are I mean what are some of the opportunities that you think planners themselves can take to be more creative or innovative, both with technology and at the same time really obviously focused on the thing that they do which is trying to build more livable cities. Well, again, I think we just starting with the big problems that we have we have a housing crisis related to an equity crisis and a racial crisis. And housing, the cost of housing in the United States is absurd, particularly in terms of the cost of building more affordable housing in our inner cities. You know, cities like San Francisco, New York spent hundreds of thousands of dollars per subsidized unit to build affordable housing and there are so many technologies that planners and, you know, urban politicians and think tank should be thinking about, you know, cross laminated timber, different, different technologies that if they got to scale, they could be cheaper, they could be more sustainable. There's all sorts of ways of building out of this basic building material would to create much more urban density. That's affordable in our inner cities. And I think we are we're really, you know, like during the pandemic, housing prices in most suburban areas skyrocketed suburban poverty has been on the rise for 20 years in this country. And so, you know, we really, again, I would just center on the problems that we have. And similarly with mobility, I mean, I just think there's so much we can do would say just basic rubber tire bus technology where we close more streets to private vehicular traffic run zero emission buses, much more than network less about a central business district more about, you know, the kind of entire kind of lattice of the city, because people are working in a very different way and probably will continue to be going into the future and not everyone's going into that central district. But my point is with all this stuff like, we know how to build out of wood, we know how to build a bus, like, yes, there's technology that can make that more efficient cheaper, more sustainable. But it doesn't, you know, the problem is technologists love to work on step functions because step functions tend to be very profitable. Right. But a lot of times what we need in our cities, especially if we're really working with communities is not step functions, but that that more steady curve from where we've been to where we're going. Yeah. No, and I think this is why the financing question of a lot of this is so important. It's in some ways, I think the elephant in the room because I think it seems like there's a challenge of incentives and really trying to draw a lot of the innovation that's in our disposal towards the real issues that matter. The incentives are really lopsided towards things that are profitable.  But the thing is, imagine an on demand mini bus service, there was an electric mini bus service that ran on ran in cities like Detroit and Newark that have large expanses of territory and we're not everyone's going point to point to a central business district that's using some of the same similar app technology but something that is just fundamentally more socially broad. Yeah, there's definitely a coordination issue to here right. I mean, like a lot of this as you're describing is technology and solutions in some ways we know we can iterate and innovate on them but in some ways we have there's a lack of coordination to kind of bring these things to life. There's a question from Herman Milligan about your recommendations for the development of infrastructure of opportunity that are maybe short term versus long term for urban areas. Well, I mean, in the short term look, obviously, we're coming out of this pandemic in very unequal ways, and communities suffered from it very unequally and I think, you know, I think one of the more interesting things I don't think cities are dying at all you don't like when you look at the data that just isn't what's happening. But you know, obviously, retail is in big trouble. There's a big mobility question around everyone trying to drive into the city. I would like, you know, I would try to ban as much private vehicular traffic from the central most congested parts of our cities I'm not talking about all the city but like, you know, in New York City like Manhattan, why do we have private cars going to the city, it's crazy. Right. And like, every city has some coordinate area, and then rethink that area, rethink what that can be, because cities, if a lot of suburban I'd say you know what I want to work remotely and I'm not not going to go to city so often and Well, what does cities become in the aftermath of that cities become places that are for the people who really love them. And I think we've been ignoring that population for way too long, including the communities of color that were really the the local networks that kept our cities together through the 70s in the 80s, and really paying attention to the local needs of those people. And so, by looking at relooking at how are those streets used. How can we rethink ground floor retail, maybe as places of social infrastructure. I think as leases collapse right, how can those places be healthcare clinics vocational, I mean vocational training is a disaster in this country right like, you know vocational training senior centers. So I just think there's all like if there is a new emptiness, having to do with the city. It's an opportunity, right to say, you know, what can we use that emptiness for that form social infrastructure. Over the longer term we have to pass that infrastructure of opportunity bill, we need federal money, and we need to redirect stupid expenditures like the mortgage interest deduction which is largely for rich people into building housing for people who need it in our cities so that to me is the way to think about things short term versus long term. Thank you. That's a, that's a, I think the moment is it's a really interesting moment to think about these outsized investments and yet at the same time the sort of kind of the tension of like, they're still hitting the mark and we talked a lot about that yesterday with broadband. To, you know, it's like, never before have you seen this amount of money being spent and at the same time, is it, you know, is it the level that it needs to be to really connect America, American communities. I'd love to kind of think about, you know, some successes and leave sort of on a positive end here which is, I mean I think, as you think about like what keeps you optimistic about a lot of the kind of it. A lot of what we're seeing in cities in terms of the trends. What what gives you a hope that that maybe we'll get right or hopefully we'll get it right. And also, I mean where we talk a lot about, you know, you mentioned the idea of building 20th century city using 21st century technology like, where do you also see technology having some really strong opportunities that we're just still not leveraging. So, I mean where my optimism comes in the fact that, you know, most of our, like I said, when you look at the data, despite all of the anecdotal newspaper stories and stuff, I think the people who really love cities have stuck by them. You know, when you look at the sort of outdoor restaurant stuff and all of that, like it's not perfect, but it really shows this extraordinary, you see, people get it all wrong, I think when they think that people only come to cities out of economic need. So, human beings are a social species, and we've been building cities for millennia built around being together and being social. And so where I'm optimistic is this notion that people are still doing that despite the pandemic and I think mass transit will recover and all of those things that like our big questions. You know, there are questions after 911 I was in New York government after 911 and like a lot of the same, you know, prognostications were going on. And again, I just on technology, I just that constant drumbeat of human need. I mean, when I, you know, when I work in the cities we're talking about, like I go through downtown Cleveland or downtown Indianapolis and understand what some of these communities went through from the 1950s through the 1970s and 1980s. It's extraordinary that they're still there and that they've stuck by and like the technology needs I think are really about them and their needs how can they be better integrated in their communities there's kids schools all of those things before we invent highfalutin stuff for rich people who don't need it anyway. No, I think this love of cities and the joy pieces is such a interesting component. I was watching online. Just this past week the Cleveland formerly Indians now Cleveland Guardians announced the change of the mask and what was most fascinating to me is I saw from several different people that they were alluding to the infrastructure they were alluding to these to these figures that now they are overseeing traffic so they're the guardians of traffic known in Cleveland for that. So maybe not not the right analogy given the conversation we're having but it was amazing to me that people from Cleveland and then the community really noted that that you know like the importance of those figures and so I think to your point people love. We love our cities and love these these buildings and that infrastructure that's there that reminds you that that's the, that's the, you know, what is it that's the backdrop of LA or Cleveland or New York. Okay, a couple more questions here. So this concept of upcycling. It seems like a key barrier is repurposing of the repurposing of the space is really political and existing residents and other people with political power push back against these ideas how do we I mean how do you see us creating more political space to try to design these solutions. I mean, I do see a lot of hope in our younger people, you know, what's interesting is when I started writing about this stuff 10 years ago and was writing about, you know, kind of cities and suburbs and where, you know, when cities get money from the government, it is a subsidy when new highways get built in the suburbs or you talk about the mortgage interest deduction, it's an entitlement. And so there's this incredibly, not very subtly racial kind of divide between how we talk about government investment. And, and what I discovered after my book came out was that like as I thought I would get a lot of pushback, you know, in terms of red blue territories politically, that's not where the pushback was at all, the pushback was generational. And so what you find is the generation that benefited from a certain set of policies hangs on to them fiercely whether they live in red states or blue states. And the generations that see themselves getting screwed frankly, right, are ready to question all of that. And so like so we have a generation of renters right now and they're like, how come there isn't more government money in rental assistance, as opposed to, you know, spending billions of dollars giving people with million homes tax credits. On upcycling, it's the same thing if you start taking roadway away from people who think it's their God given right to drive, you know, a three ton SUV to take their kids to school. And they think that road is theirs whether they vote Democrat or Republican, they fight that tooth and nail the notion it is an entitlement for them to drive that SUV down that road as a taxpayer. And that's the way they think about it. And they don't think about the 30 taxpayers that live on that road or maybe the 300 taxpayers that live on that road that maybe want to use that road differently and want to think about how to upcycle it differently and that it shouldn't just be for you and your kids in this huge truck. And that's, I think we really have to engage young people in those discussions, but engage them in such a way that they have a reinstated view of what government is because you can't just do this stuff as DIY, it is, you know, they have to believe in political engagement. Yeah, no, that's a, I mean, it's such a key issue with young people because as much as there is a lot of angst and I and and and deservedly so fear about their own future that willingness to engage with the political structure to actually make. I mean, that's the challenge, right? There's almost like an apathy away from it. And yet, I don't, I personally am not sure will be resolved if you don't actually engage in the political, you know, in the political fight. We have a question here about the psychology of affordable housing. And I think, you know, a little bit in a related note, as you just talked, you know, the Americans seem to really have a very different perspective or a negative connotation, whether city or suburban dweller on this idea of affordable housing. So, for non urban communities, do you see a potential shift within equity gaps increasing. And also, I think there's a powered part of what you're saying is I think it's a it's a power. It's like framing and storytelling. I mean, I don't know if you've seen really great examples of how do we really start talking differently about these issues so that we're not subsidizing versus entitlement but really talking about the quality of life of the people in the city. So a couple of thoughts on this great question. First of all, it's astonishing to me how many people think that the American dream has to do with houses and cars. So the person who termed the American dream in the 1930s James Truslow Adams talked about it as a dream of equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, gender or social status, which is kind of extraordinary for the 30s. And this notion of equal opportunity is deeply embedded in the country's cultural narrative, but somehow after World War Two, we translated that into a much more commercial idea, which is that if your definition of success is to own a lot of stuff, right, cars, houses, etc. And so housing fell right in the kind of crosshairs of that transition. And so, you know, I kind of really like the way the questioner phrased the question because it's not about affordable housing per se. It's the question of like, why is urban housing unaffordable and suburban housing affordable? Why are urban school systems not as great as suburban school systems? There is a whole economic system that undergirds why those discrepancies are true. So in a sense, it's it's not about affordable housing as much as leveling the playing field, because we've subsidized the suburbs so much that both urban areas and rural areas, both of which, by the way, are much lower carbon footprints per person than the suburban area in between. We've subsidized that suburban area in between so much that now we have to talk about agricultural subsidies to the rural or urban housing subsidies for the cities, because we just take for granted all the money we pour into the middle. Yeah.  And I think that it's a, I mean, I think for a lot of us here as part of the night network, when we've talked about, we talk about equitable community development and look at this issue of affordable housing and also how do you ensure, as we're thinking about building more vibrant public spaces and vibrant housing opportunities, you know, we're also grappling with the challenge, not just of the of the subsidy question but also of as you're investing in these areas, how do you think about the questions of gentrification and also the child continuing to, in some ways, do what you're in some ways, I think a lot of my colleagues are trying to do what you're espousing, but also being really conscious of the fact that it just keeps perpetuating this idea, this notion is, and I think it goes back to this notion of American, the American dream and owning a house and owning more cars. So even if we think about equity, it seems like, you know, there's still attention between almost redoing what and continuing to subsidize the sort of unsustainable vision of America that that we are in many ways still grappling with in cities. Yeah, I mean, I think that's why there's, you know, it's a two pronged, at least a two pronged effort on issues like policy and instrumentality and implementation and when we're all out there, you know, we have a we have a project in East New York or the poorest parts of New York City that's 100% affordable housing and like we all need to work on those things at the day-to-day level. But at the same time, we also have to think about cultural narrative. What's the meta narrative that's driving us to call something subsidized, some things affordable. You know, that like as long as people have in their head that rather than live in an apartment where I can take a subway or a bus or walk to work, I would rather live in that big house and drive as long as that is the privileged status. You're always going to deal with this this kind of this this kind of bias against what we're trying to do on the field, right. And so it's a tough one and cultural narrative is a really tough one, which is why a lot of us focus on books and teaching as well as, you know, doing and public engagement and civic engagement as we do here. Well, listen, I want to be conscious of the time I want to thank you so much for joining us and thank everyone actually for staying with us here on this Friday afternoon. It's been so great to I think a lot of what the Sean has said really also has touched on a lot of the different points made yesterday, whether it be about how do we really think about visualizing a lot of the inequity in the communities and really understanding what that looks like in terms of tree canopies and green space and accessibility, or whether we think about, you know, broadband and digital inclusion and how that has also the inequities there and how that enters into the public realm as well. And then if it's available, if all of this technology is available, what do you really do with it and do communities really have the skills to really bring that technology to life and also have and use it as a stepping stone, a stepping stone for opportunity. Vashon, thank you again for joining us. I'd love to just wrap up the session here by inviting everyone to please, you know, share a lot of the conversation that you had here today. A lot of the audience are grantees. I hope you've met other grantees with innovative ideas, or I hope you've taken away some interesting points of view from the conversations over this two day, these two days. You know, there's three themes that really have stuck out. And I think this conversation speaks to some of these in a lot of different ways. One that having participatory communities is really the key. And one of our speakers yesterday said, you know, nothing for us without us, the wisdom and the lived experience of residents is just as critical to policymaking and to designing technology as it is to ensuring that our communities are thriving and livable. And also that all levels of government really have to be involved and working together and that is no easy challenge. We're facing civic and community transformation. And whether it be an infrastructure bill from the federal government, or local zoning, I mean, and then the state, the opportunities that you need to be able to partner with states around and state preemption as an example that came up, all three levels of government in the US really have to be working together and the capacity for cities to really work at those levels is going to be critical to ensure the kind of collaboration we need to innovate. And then lastly, you know, people need information, people need data to make better decisions both as citizens and residents of their community, as well as leaders, and to really understand some of the inequities, and also the possibility to understand what's actually really happening and resonating and relevant to community. So those really have been, I think, three pieces of conversation that have flown throughout our two days. I've heard really amazing ideas myself and I'm excited and energized by the conversations I've had on and offline about the forum. We invite you to share your feedback and your critical feedback about this event. You'll see a link to a survey chat. And with that, thank you very much for joining us and happy Friday. .


Today, for the seventh time in our political history, we stand on the threshold of a peaceful transition from one democratic government to another, from the Buhari administration to the Tinubu administration. For the Buhari administration, eight years of two complete terms, and that we are alive and well to witness this day, we bless the name of the Creator of the heaven and the earth and one to whom all life belongs. And so on behalf of President Mohammed Buhari and his family and his administration, I thank the Almighty God for his grace and mercy and his generosity to us. God is interested in nations. When he speaks to a person, it is as a proxy to a nation. Speaking to Abraham as soon as he called him to service, he said, I will make you a great nation. And in Genesis 22, verse 18, he spoke to Abraham again concerning Isaac, his son. And he said, in you, in your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. God continually spoke to individuals, and he spoke to them as proxies to nations. Speaking in 1 Peter 2, verse 9, about born again Christians, he speaks again about a nation. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. God speaks about nations and he's interested in nations. He's the real builder of nations, and he's certainly interested in prospering nations. So we must involve him and listen to him as we build our nation. According to Solomon, in Psalm 127, verse 1, the scripture says, unless the Lord builds the house, the labor in vain who build it, unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain, God is the builder and the protector of nations. But then he has two instructions, two instructions that he gives to nations, one to leadership and the other to the people. He gives one instruction to leadership and the other to the people. In Proverbs 4, 14, verse 34, Proverbs 14, verse 34, he issues an instruction to leadership in particular where he says, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to anybody, to any people. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Every successful nation requires integrity at the level of leadership. And when we say leadership, we're referring to the elite, the political, the business and the religious elite of any society, not just the political elite, but the business elite as well as the religious elite. God demands of the elite that we must be righteous. And this is so, whether it is Dubai or Nigeria or Tanzania, no country can be great if its elite is corrupt, self-serving or living for themselves. That is the instruction of God. The second instruction he gives to the people and instructs the people in Jeremiah 29, verse 7. Jeremiah 29, verse 7, and he says in Jeremiah 29, verse 7, and I'm going to quote the NLT, that's the new living translation, where he says, and work, and he's instructing the people, and you the people, work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I have sent you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your own welfare. He says that we the people must work and pray for the prosperity and welfare of the nation. In 1 Timothy 2, verse 1 to 2, 1 Timothy 2, verse 1 to 2, he says, therefore I exhaust first that we have supplications, prayers and intercessions, and the giving of thanks to be made for all men. And in verse 2 he says, for kings and all men in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and reverence. God instructed not just the captives of Nebuchadnezzar, that's the scripture that I quoted earlier in Jeremiah. God has instructed us even in these times that we must pray and work for the peace and prosperity of our country, and that we must as individuals pray for the leadership of our country. The people of God in particular have a duty to pray and work for the peace and prosperity of this nation, regardless of party, regardless of parochial considerations, regardless of who you voted for, and regardless of who you did not vote for. Tomorrow, tomorrow, a new government will be born. Concerning Jesus Christ, scripture says that from birth he grew in stature, in wisdom and in favor with God. So I pray these same words for the president-elect, Senator Bola Tsunubu, GCFR, and the vice-president-elect, Senator Kashim Shetima, GCON, and the new government, that as their days in office, so shall they grow in stature, in wisdom and in favor with the Almighty God, amen. And I pray also for our nation. I pray that this nation will prosper and that the Lord God Almighty will have his hand upon this nation, that our land and our people will live in peace and security, in Jesus' mighty name. And I pray for all who are here, each and every one of you will be blessed in this land. And you will live long to enjoy the fruits of God's blessings on this land, in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Amen. Amen.


Item No. SCP-2600-EX Object Class Explained Special Containment Procedures Any tributaries believed to contain SCP-2600 breeding grounds are to be dynamited immediately. Deceased specimens are to be brought to the research station 2600-Prime. Specimens of SCP-2600 found alive are to be contained immediately. Personnel are to notify the site director immediately if a live specimen is contained. No special containment procedures are needed for SCP-2600-EX at this time. Description SCP-2600-EX is an anomalous species of trout located in ████. The trout are cytologically identical to speckled trout, but have shaggy white fur covering 90% of their bodies. It is not known what purpose this fur serves, but it is hypothesized that the trout have much lower body temperatures than normal speckled trout. Those specimens of SCP-2600-EX have been discovered alive to date, and it is believed that their spawning ground is in a location not normally inhabited by speckled trout, such as an underground reservoir. All specimens of SCP-2600-EX currently in the Foundation's possession were deceased upon discovery. SCP-2600-EX is believed to have the ability to transfer its fur to normal speckled trout via unknown means. Normal speckled trout touted with Foundation micro-radio beacons have turned up bearing SCP-2600-EX's distinctive fur. The following log contains notes made by SCP-2600-EX's research director James Dobson. It is currently believed that Director Dobson was influenced by the folklore and culture that he experienced growing up in the area he was researching. This is the probable cause of the highly unprofessional and dishonest way he behaved during his tenure as SCP-2600-EX's research director. January 15, 1919 Due to my history with the area and knowledge of lore surrounding it, I have been selected as SCP-2600's research director. Words do not do justice to the excitement I feel. Ever since I was a boy, I have dreamed of catching the furred trout, and now I am in charge of the world's most advanced lab completely dedicated to it. I have handpicked the personnel that are going to work for me. They all have the youth in zeal to get the job done. February 2, 1919 Research Station has been finished. All of my staff tell me of their excitement. As the primary research director, I have been allotted my own office. I put a stuffed furred trout over my door. Although it may be fake, my staff seem to find it amusing. April 3, 1919 A real breakthrough, lorns without in the field today checking some of the local waterways when he found a deceased instance of SCP-2600. I have ordered greater exploration of the area Lawrence found it at. Gave Lawrence a little bonus while I was at it. I have got research on top priority doing tests on it. We will have our data soon, and to think I was starting to get discouraged. June 21, 1919 Nothing, just a whole lot of nothing. That is all we got from the tests. No major differences, no anomalous properties, just a trout with fur, and right before our annual review, I will have to come up with a solution quickly. August 8, 1919 I can't believe I did it, but I had to. We're just so close to achieving a breakthrough. I couldn't have let them take my team apart. I had burned draw up some speculative research. But it's okay. The review period is over, and if we can find a real one, I can make my new report confirming our hypotheses to add to the main document. I have faith we will be okay. November 1, 1919 Nothing, still nothing. None of our results gave us any new data. It's like we've been sitting on our hands for months. We had nothing for the document, so I had to tell staff that we had results that confirmed them and added it to the report. But we'll get real results soon. I can feel it in my gut. January 3, 1920 My nightmare has come true. Our records are being audited. They're going to go through all of our papers. They're going to see what's different. No. Research working triple overtime to get anything. All my agents are in the field looking for the possible spawn points I mapped in the document. We can't fail now. I just can't. February 17, 1920 I've ordered agents to start dynamiting the places I've marked the spawn points. They can't use it against me if I put it out of commission. I can explain it. I'll say they got dangerous. It'll work. I'll be okay. Be okay. Be okay. I need to be okay. March 3, 1920 I think it's over. I'm sitting in this tiny office. They have the records. I know that any day now I'm going to get that call and I'll sit in a tiny cell and they'll ask me about my research. Blast. I can't do it anymore. I'm downing patent medicine in bulk. My staff knows the truth of what I've been up to. I think everyone hates me. I'm going to lose everything I've been working to. I didn't do anything to hurt anyone. I just wanted truth. Notice to all personnel. Director Dobson has been released at his position. Our investigation found a ring of researchers working with the director falsifying research documents and manipulating data in order to justify further research. As of now, our data shows SCP-2600 is nothing more than a fungal infection. It has been designated explained. You will all be receiving relocation notices to projects more worthy of your time. Article 5-9


the President of the United States, and Ambassador Rowney. Ladies and gentlemen, later today, Ambassador Ed Rowney and the other members of the START delegation will depart for Geneva for the opening of the fifth round of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. They'll carry with them a new set of instructions. From the first day of these negotiations, our highest goal has been to achieve a stable balance at reduced levels of nuclear arsenals. We want to reduce the weapons of war, pure and simple. All our efforts in both the START and the INF negotiations continue to be guided by that objective. Just this morning, I repeated this commitment to President Karstens of the Federal Republic of Germany. As I pledge to the United Nations, the United States will accept any equitable, verifiable agreement that stabilizes forces at lower levels and currently exist. We want significant reductions, and that pledge stands. In the last round of negotiations, we proposed a number of new initiatives which were in harmony with the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Strategic Forces and which provided additional flexibility to our negotiations. Those initiatives supported our basic goals, and they also responded to a number of Soviet concerns. I deeply regret that the Soviet Union has yet to give any significant response. Throughout the negotiating process, it's the United States who has had to push, pull, probe, and prod in an effort to achieve any progress. The heartfelt desire shared by people everywhere for an historic agreement dramatically reducing nuclear weapons could and indeed will be achieved, provided one condition changes. The Soviet government must start negotiating in good faith. Now, let me emphasize that the United States has gone the extra mile. We've removed the dividing line between the two phases of our original proposal. Everything is on the table. We're still most concerned about limits on the fast-flying, most dangerous systems, but we're also prepared to negotiate limits on bomber and air-launched cruise missile limits below salt two levels. We've shown great flexibility in dealing with the destructive capability of ballistic missiles, including their throw weight. We've also relaxed our limits on the number of ballistic missiles. We've gone a very long way to address Soviet concerns, but the Soviets have yet to take their first meaningful step to address ours, particularly in the INF talks, but also in start, they've been stonewalling our proposals. When we proposed confidence-building measures that could be agreed to right now, they said, wait. Apparently, they believe that time is on their side, that they can exploit one democracy against another, and that their uncompromising attitude and delay will ultimately win out. Well, we'll prove them wrong. The diversity of our democracies is a source of strength, not weakness. From free discussion among free people comes unity and commitment. The sooner this is understood, the sooner we'll reach an agreement in the interest of both sides. We'll continue to press Moscow for an equitable, fair, and verifiable agreement. When the start negotiations resume tomorrow, the United States delegation will again have sustained flexibility. Within the framework of the basic principles that have guided us throughout these negotiations, I am directing Ambassador Rowney to offer the following new initiatives. We're incorporating into start a series of build-down proposals. The United States will introduce a proposal for a mutual guaranteed build-down designed to encourage stabilizing systems. The proposal will include specific provisions for building down ballistic missile warheads and concurrently for addressing a parallel build-down on bombers. To discuss these major new initiatives, we will also propose the establishment of a US-Soviet build-down working group in the Geneva talks. On another front and in our effort again to be absolutely as flexible as possible, we will be willing to explore ways to further limit the size and capability of air-launched cruise missile forces in exchange for reciprocal Soviet flexibility on items of concern to us. We seek limits on the destructive capability of missiles and recognize that the Soviet Union would seek limits on bombers in return. There will have to be trade-offs. And the United States is prepared to make them so long as they result in a more stable balance of forces. The Soviet Union should not doubt the bipartisan support for our efforts. During our review process, I looked for ways to broaden America's bipartisan approach to our overall arms control effort. We've consulted with many members of the Congress and again with the commission headed by Brent Scowcroft. Their counsel has been invaluable. And I want to thank them for their tireless efforts and helpful advice. A solid national bipartisan consensus sustained from year to year and from administration to administration is crucial if we are to keep America safe and secure and if we are to achieve successful arms reductions. Therefore, I've decided to take a number of new steps. Among these are to designate a member of the Scowcroft Commission, James Woolsey, as a member at large to our start negotiations. These actions reflect America's democratic process at its best. Ambassador Rowney, as you and your team depart for Geneva, you go with the certain knowledge that you're negotiating with the full support of the American people. Our bipartisan support is stronger than ever before. And you carry with you fair, equitable proposals that are in the interest of both nations and all humankind. It's fitting today to repeat what I said last week. The door to an agreement is open. All the world is waiting for the Soviet Union to walk through. Should the Soviet leadership decide to join us now in our good faith effort, the fifth round of these negotiations will be the one in which finally a breakthrough was made and finally the world began to breathe a bit easier. So to the entire start delegation, Ambassador Rowney, good luck and Godspeed. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it a lot. That was awesome. That sure is. Yes. The employees left. There's not a lot left to start doing, sir. They find contribution. It's half our staff. Not that I would mention here in advance. Or maybe signing the agreement. You can always have.


Good morning guys and welcome to vlogmas day 17.  I'm getting curtain bangs and a little haircut So I'm not going short or anything because like whenever I do that. I always regret it So we're not doing that, but we're getting the curtain bangs I cannot wait if I don't like them or if they're just not working out for me in the long run I'm just gonna grow it out. It's just hair. No big deal. That's the game plan. I feel a lot better even though I sound kind of black-o with the nasally Congestion, but I'm excited. So I'm gonna quickly get ready. I want to make this TikTok as you guys know I love making the transition TikToks So I'm doing that. I just lip a switch Duh-duh and then it like changes. So I'm gonna do that one. I'm super excited Also, too. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for sticking with me through vlogmas Even though I've been like sick the videos have been like five minutes long Like you guys don't understand how much I appreciate it for you guys watching being here supporting me Yeah, it just means a lot. So thank you. Thank you so much For just your support for just watching this video. I know some of you guys don't comment, which is totally fine Just you watching and being here is wonderful. So thank you Here is the makeup complete. I think I did an okay job I don't know. I'm just like not feeling my best, but it's okay. Hopefully I can get a good profile picture I really want one like kind of maybe like here with my like new bangs and Like the shadows coming in. I don't know. I just always wanted a picture like that. Anyway, I don't know. We'll see we'll see It's not gonna be the only day that I can take a picture for a profile picture But I want one I always like it when my hair is like freshly done like from the salon So that's why I'm like fingers crossed that like I can get that photo, but it's fine I always take the I always take the best photos when I'm like not even planning on it So I'm gonna like in my head pretend not to take photo. So then I get a good photo, you know what I mean? But I'm wearing this gray sweater My friend gave it to me super cute And then I also have on my little ugg booties and leggings because it's like 65 degrees out But overall ready. I'm gonna eat before it's my lunch Having the regular lunch before I go Because I'm gonna take some Starbucks, but I don't want to be like starving during the appointment No, where do I want to buy anything? So, yeah, that's why rock and roll with this and we are here. We are here Studio you and the Hunter's Creek. Alright, so We're in the chair now and as I said, we're gonna do the curtain bangs first Which is amazing because like I want it to I want the front to look good with the cut so Always go to a good hair person that knows how to do your hair Period Now we're just incubating and We're gonna just hang out here. Oh my gosh, I can't wait to see the final result. So my camera died But I got some little Cashew snack things They're really good brought my Stanley to stay hydrated today Yeah We're just processing. Am I right? You're just popped my left. So that's good Jasmine's gonna do some serious. So Just let I'm just gonna let her do her thing Cuz I know it'll look good. So this is my best hair. Yeah So cute. Okay. Now I gotta take pictures. I need to finish the tiktok Okay, so now I'm at the mall because my friend was like, oh, I'm in Orlando Do you want to hang out? And I'm like, okay, sure cuz like I don't know I'm already out and stuff and I just got my hair done. So like I want to go somewhere. So I'm like, yeah anyway, Jasmine got me a little Christmas present, which is so sweet. Like I cannot even so what did she get us? Oh my gosh a mini hair brush So I got this little hair brush, which I think is so cute. That's so nice I'm gonna carry that in my bag and then we have All-in-one Devon S hair maybe it's like something to Condition your hair with and then she got me a little card.  This is so funny. So my friend are on Macy's And there's like a random Starbucks here. How funny is that? Okay, so sorry It is a bit loud. My parents are watching a TV show, but anyway, I'm home now. We're eating pizza Donato's pizza my favorite pizza. So yes, I'm having pizza two days in a row, but it's fine guys I lost my car.  My friend was looking for my car I was with the security guard. I parked in the back not in the front where I normally parked So that's why I had that issue. It was funny because he was all like, oh normally like the older people have this issue I'm like, oh my gosh, like sir. I'm already embarrassed. Like can you not? Okay, but anyway, that's pretty much it found the car. I'm home now That was just like super embarrassing. Okay, so I'm home now obviously back on the camera got a battery I really need to start carrying like spare batteries With me. I am Going to take off my makeup and just like wash my face tomorrow is also going to be super fun because I am going to a birthday brunch I really hope I feel better Like better than I do now. Not that I feel like completely bad, but like, you know, I want to feel better For tomorrow. I got my friends present. I got her a Sephora gift card I showed you when I went Christmas shopping When I did brunch with my other friends but I'm excited about that and Guys, I can't believe I lost my car. That's the very first time that I've actually like had to go To the security Guard to like say, hey, I can't find my car. That's so embarrassing, but it's okay I finally found the car and I got to go home But it was funny because like my parents are like, oh come home soon because My parents are bringing home pizza.  I was walking back and forth and back and forth and turns out I was at the wrong side I was parked in the back not the front and typically I always park in the front. That's why Or at Bloomingdale's I never park in like the back so that was just crazy and I was like freaking out. I'm like, what if someone stole my car? but I'm like who would want to steal that cuz like No friends. It's like no Porsche. Like no one's a little want to steal my car Even though I don't want to steal my car because I love my car. I love driving my car. But anyway Yeah, luckily found it and then like I ended up getting home a lot later than I thought so I just think that's like Incredibly funny.


Okay, so like you got to decide today and I know you guys came a long way so I know that you're interested in being great The question is are you going to be committed to being great? So many of you guys understand the concept of winning But like you don't know how to really win and that's kind of what I want you to understand I look I'll understand the concept of running the business I understand the concept of running my team. I understand the concept of selling solar isn't going to sell solar Okay, whatever it is you want to sell you have to be undeniably the best at it That's it and if you're not then you're not going to get the outcome that you want and at the end of the day I can't think of anything worse Did not get what I want so either you really don't want it Or you do want it.  I got it now No, dude, use it or lose it. You stay plugged into whatever worked for you. You stay plugged into that You never leave it. Does that make sense? Okay, or backslide backslide. You're not staying plugged into something. What happens as well? It's hard. You try to do it on your own you buckle down and you hide a lot of people when they got themselves Okay, so apply and then what is the third thing? First thing is you're gonna free one go to the classroom.  What are you gonna do?  So I'm gonna ask that question. We're gonna go our third part Let's say hypothetically. I won't say I am but let's say hypothetically I was somebody who looked up to you said I want to be like that guy So you're in the classroom, right? Or you want to get the results that I got what up or you want to be like Okay, number one, he didn't show up to work 10 minutes before work. He showed up to work four hours before So if you want to be like, yeah, you're gonna do what he did But all of a sudden so you don't want to be like Koby because you have to do a Koby day See a lot of people want something till they realize what the person really good to get it.   Okay, you don't need 20 mentors and get confused find water to Become better than them go find someone else and you guys do that Okay, but if you can't ever become as good as the mentor that you're modeling it means that you don't want it Okay, so like you got to decide today and I know you guys came a long way So I know that you're interested in being great. The question is are you gonna be committed to being great? Because the interest doesn't get you anywhere Committed interested to get you going across the world to say hey, where's this guy gonna say? But committed since hey, whatever he says look my mentors in life and people that have gone where I want to go If he's gone there, all I gotta do is do what he says and I'm gonna go unless you quit By of course, which I always say you don't quit but unless you quit and most of you get so close for it Did you get through a breakthrough and then you quit and then we got start all over? Like I don't want to start over okay And I just want you guys to get that that a lot of you guys so this can actually quit and then number four So you're gonna learn you're gonna go to classroom You're gonna apply you gotta find a mentor and then once you do that the fourth way, which is my favorite is you're gonna teach it My goal with all of you guys in here is to have every single one of you running a sales team one day That's it. It's all I want If you're in here right now, I want you to run a team. I want you to realize that you can't run a team until you're the best Okay, think about it right now if somebody was your team leader and they work better than you anymore Not in most cases. Maybe he's the biggest sweetheart in the world where she is But in most cases you always want to be around people that are better than you because if they're better than you feel more powerful when you're around Does that make sense? When you guys are on people that are better than you, what do you want to do? You want to be better than them? I mean, that's what you feel powerful when you're around them because you know There's still levels. You know, you're on the right track So what I want you guys to do is number one become undeniably the best at whatever you do. That's it That's what we're gonna do tomorrow. Okay, number two. I want you to realize this. We can have no ego There can be zero ego and by the way, you cannot be ungrateful under any circumstances I want to talk about attitudes real quick and you may say, man, this is repetitive. I've heard this before I don't think you understand it. Okay, so let's talk to you guys are married, right?  It does ruin your day.  He goes to work and he has employees because he runs a store. It's gonna ruin their day When you have a bad attitude, you're gonna ruin everybody's day. I need you to understand this so if you guys really want to have a good life If you do One of the things that you'll notice if I'm somebody that you really want to get information from and you're here I'm here to tell you that I never have a bad attitude Never. I understood that the first thing in the road to the sales selling any product or anything You're running a team was to have the best attitude in the world And if you don't have a great attitude, no one is going to want to be around you I don't care how good you are. They're not gonna be with you. Okay?  I'm gonna take what it is. Okay, number one What do you guys want? Why are you here if I was a piece of paper has a say right down your line, right?  We got to raise the standard Look, dude, I'm a closer man. I guess second if you get my way I'm gonna bury you I go really hard. I go I go crazy hard, but I do with a good attitude If I'm intense, dude, I never seen anybody win without getting intense Okay, so I don't understand any other way like people are like these two intense. I'm like, why never see somebody win casually I don't get it. Okay. Listen, I don't get it. I don't understand I don't see people that are laying around casually hanging out hoping for winning the right to pass though Like it doesn't happen Look, you know what I want to do. I want to have people look at me and say Do that?  Like is this real dip right?  So as you guys are breathing in you're alive and you're in this room You got to think about it. How many years have you guys gone off? I mean seriously, I mean how many? Wait a minute. All right, so do we want to do that anymore? No, so here's the deal when you go back out there. It's mediocrity When you open these doors and you walk out and that fresh air, there's mediocrity breathing everywhere You're gonna have to win with mediocrity all around you You cannot get away from it. Do you guys understand me? You're seven.  I need you to understand your identity and I need you to know who you are Well, you made it till the end of the video. You're a true one percenter I've already got your next training video lined up and ready to go.  I drop out free FREE free training videos for you Click on the next video and by the way if you loved it share it with the friend do that for me Thank you so much. Let's kill it