Good afternoon everyone. Thanks for joining us for the Transit Moves Fort Worth Facebook Live. I'm Jeff Allen, Communication Specialist for the City of Fort Worth Department of Transportation and Public Works. My name is Chad Edwards. I'm the Regional Mobility and Innovation Officer here with the City of Fort Worth. So today we're going to talk for a little while about the Transit Moves Fort Worth Plan. Chad's going to give us a brief overview. We're going to answer some questions. If you have questions about the plan as we go along, please let us know. Type them out. And we'll answer them, or if we don't get them during the broadcast, we will be sure to answer them after. Chad? Alright, well thanks a lot. Thanks for joining us today. It's important for us to talk about the future of public transportation here in Fort Worth. And we appreciate you spending your time, lunchtime I guess it is, to talk about public transportation and listen to us for a few minutes. The Transit Moves Fort Worth Plan is really a re-evaluation of the current transit services that we have here in Fort Worth. And it provides Trudy Metro some input on how we the city should see the transit system of the future. And it's important to us because we're growing very fast. There's about 54 people per day coming to the City of Fort Worth. And we know that we're not going to be able to build enough roads to accommodate all these people. So we need to have transportation options for people, including roadways, including public transit, and any first-last mile options. Great. Tell us a little bit more about the plan and why is it important for residents of Fort Worth? So the plan really is an opportunity for the citizens of Fort Worth and anyone interested in public transportation here in Fort Worth to really have their voices heard about what they do and don't like about the current transportation system, the transit system. We've heard a lot of feedback from people about the buses don't run frequently. They don't run on time. And so those are things that we're hearing and want to make sure that we address with Trudy Metro as we move forward with this transit plan. Great. So where can people who are interested in a plan find out more about it? Yeah, so that's a great question to start off with. You can go to transitmovesfortworth.com to find out more about the transit plan. We have documents all the way from when we started this effort all the way up to today. We have public meetings coming up and we'll show you those later of where they're located. But it's really an opportunity to access the information that we're sharing with the public, which is on transitmovesfortworth.com. Okay, great. How long have you been working on the plan? So we've been working on this plan for quite a while. It's a little over a year now and we're at the point where we're wrapping up with draft recommendations. We've had a lot of public meetings over the past year, some in May, some in November last year, and then we have another round of public meetings that are ongoing here in March. And it's really just been a year-long process to evaluate the system and try to come up with recommendations on improvements to the system as well. Okay. So what are expectations on the plan? Well, the expectations are that we find opportunities for improvement and make improvements to the transit system here in Fort Worth. So we're spending time with the public. We're spending time with elected officials. We're spending time with Trinity Metro to see what their opportunity for improvement is as well. Great. So you mentioned Trinity Metro. How much coordination have you had with them on the plan? Trinity Metro has been a really good partner for us. Obviously, this is a city plan that we're recommending improvements to Trinity Metro's transit system. And so they have been at the table the entire process providing feedback on, yes, this works. Yes, this is a challenge. But they've always been there to help out and help guide the transit plan as a whole. Okay. Tell us a little bit about what's included in the plan. So the plan itself, we had some goals for the plan. And those goals were to enhance the transit system and make it more attractive to riders, not just the current riders, but to new riders as well. We wanted to connect people to life's activities. And that is, you know, how do people get from home to work to church to restaurants to the library and back again? How do they do that? And what are those frequent uses of those trips? So what are those life activities? How do we connect them to that? We wanted to improve forward quality of life by making the system thrive and give them an opportunity, give riders an opportunity to utilize a successful system and then make it sustainable as well. And so we wanted to make the system sustainable, not only financially, but environmentally, which means that we need to have really good data so that we can influence how the transit system works over time. I've got a slide I'd like to show you that also includes some initiatives that we've included in each of our recommendations as well. And so you can see there on the screen that there's six initiatives. The first is to develop a high capacity transit services. And I think we've done that with the recommendations that we've identified in the plan. We want to improve obviously existing services. Why else would we be doing this if we didn't want to improve those services? Expand transit to new areas. That could include parts of Fort Worth, but it also includes opportunities outside of Trinity Metro's current service area that is the same boundary as the city of Fort Worth and Blue Mound. What are those other opportunities outside of Fort Worth within Tarrant County? There's 40 other cities within Tarrant County that have an opportunity to participate in the transit system to move their residents around and we want to make sure that that's an opportunity for them as well. I do know that Trinity Metro has been exploring options with several cities, Crowley, Forest Hill, Everman, as far as opportunities for services and so hopefully more cities will be participating as well. We also want to improve access to transit and so that's something that sounds pretty simple, but it's a challenging task in that we want to make sure that it's easy to get to those transit stops. In some cases it might just be a post with a sign in grass and if it's worn enough it could be muddy. We want to make sure that there's an opportunity for us to put in a sidewalk to make that a little bit easier way for the rider to utilize that stop and then get on the bus without having any muddy shoes or anything like that. The fifth option or the fifth improvement there is improved facilities and amenities and we want to make sure that those amenities and facilities that have been with Trinity Metro since the beginning start to get some refresh and some technology updates as well. We know that smartphones have really kind of taken over in the last many years and I don't know that the transit system has necessarily kept up with those technology improvements as it could as far as rider information technology services. And then lastly is you know make the service easier to use and that's a very it's a simple statement but it's a it's a challenge another challenge for us in that some of us are very in tune with how you use transit because we do this on a daily basis. And there's other people who use the transit system from time to time and don't have that opportunity for experience in the system. So how can we make those improvements where people feel comfortable using the transit system because it's easy for them to use. Okay, we do have a question from Julia. It sounds like there's a lot of a lot of information in this plan. Are there any recommendations that can be implemented early? Yeah, that's a great question. So some of those recommendations include partnerships that we have worked with Trinity Metro on. They include zip zones for example the mercantile zip zone and then the near south side zip zone that Trinity Metro will implement here later this spring. That's in the medical district area. We also have partnered with Trinity Metro on a smartphone app that you'll see will be rolled out later this year and that uses the same technology that Dart uses with their go pass app. And so what we're trying to do is as we were working through the transit plan itself, what were some of those opportunities that we saw as we were working through it and what could we advance on early so that we could get this plan up and running. And so we're not waiting until a plan is approved to implement anything. We're already starting to make those improvements and those are really a partnership between the transit authority Trinity Metro and the city of Fort Worth. All right. Well, how are we going to use this plan in the future? So the plan itself is a guide on how to make improvements to the transit system and we've broken it. It's a 25 year plan. We've broken it into three parts, a short, medium and long term implementation. The short term implementation timeframe is five years. We think that we know enough now that we can make improvements in the transit system within the next five years and we've identified what those recommendations are. And then the next two periods, the midterm and the long term are broken into 10 year periods each. And so the idea for the transit plan itself is that we evaluate this plan periodically. As changes occur within the city of Fort Worth and development occurs within the city that we have that opportunity again to take another look at where are the bus routes, where is the service being provided, how frequent is that service. And then if there's an opportunity to make changes then we do that on a more regular basis than what we have done over the past 10 or 15 years. Okay, so I know you've been working on this project for quite a while. I know there were public meetings that were being conducted as far back as November. When those initial meetings were happening there were three different scenarios in the plan. Incremental investments, aspirational outlook, and then visionary city. Where has the plan landed with these scenarios? As you can imagine, the visionary city was an overwhelming winner in that. Many of the people that participated in the survey and participated in the public meetings that we had back in November had voiced their opinion that, hey, we want to make sure that we're on the cutting edge. We want to be out in front. We need to catch up with the transit systems of peer cities. And so that visionary city recommendation was one of those. As we looked at the recommendation and looked at the visionary city it was a very expensive plan, which is a challenge for us with a limited funding source. And so after some work with that we kept almost all of the recommendations in the visionary city except for one. And what we had to do thinking of funding of the plan itself, future funding of the plan itself, what we had to do was replace any light rail recommendations that we had in it with Bus Rapid Transit. Bus Rapid Transit is one of those services that is very similar to light rail, but it's not near as expensive as light rail. Light rail on average is about $110 million per mile, and the Bus Rapid Transit or BRT is only about $30 million per mile. And so you can see there just in that one mile comparison there where you would have a lot of savings on a recommendation that might be tens or 20s of miles, if you will. So that's really where we landed on was a visionary city with a BRT component and not a light rail component. Okay. Sounds like there's a lot of things in the plan. Can you tell us a little bit more about one of the bigger items that are in the plan? Yeah, sure. So one of those projects that we had mentioned is the East Lancaster BRT project. So that's a corridor that's recommended in the plan for improvements and to be converted into a Bus Rapid Transit corridor. And there's already movement on that project itself. We've worked with Texas Department of Transportation, Trinity Metro, North Central Texas Council of Governments, and obviously the City of Fort Worth and different departments on what could that project look like. It's about a seven-mile project. It would be a dedicated right-of-way for the BRT, very similar to light rail, except you just take out the rail and have that dedicated right-of-way section there for transit. Transit signal priority. It would have stations very similar to that of light rail as well. And so we're already moving out on that, developing a scope for that project so that we can work with the Federal Transit Administration and others on the project development portion of that. Okay. We have a question from Mandy that's come in. Does the transit plan include an expansion of Fort Worth Bike Share? So there's always an opportunity for Fort Worth Bike Share to be expanded, although we may not call it out specifically. In the transit plan, I think that's always an opportunity for us as a first, last-mile option to provide bike share in other locations across the city. Not just in some of the downtown locations, but anywhere across the city that can get people access to transfer centers or rail stations or just any frequent bus stops as well. Great. So you've thrown out some pretty big numbers so far today. So what's the overall cost estimate for the plan right now? So, yeah. So the transit is expensive. When we first were looking at the visionary city cost estimate, it was $6.2 billion. And that included many miles of light rail. And as I mentioned earlier that as we evaluated our opportunities and our recommendations, funding $6.2 billion of light rail was a challenge for us because it's not only the capital cost, it's also the maintenance and operating costs as well. And so we've got to keep that in mind as we're looking and making these improvements to the system. And so what we've done is with our draft recommendations, we've identified that the cost estimate now is $2.8 billion. And so about half of what it was when we first rolled this out, visionary city back in November last year. But there's some other opportunities there that with those capital investments, there's an opportunity for us to get a matching grant to the capital investment grant program that Federal Transit Administration has. And what we might be able to do is actually reduce that overall cost, you know, again, from the $2.8 billion down to $1.6 billion, which would be a savings of $1.1, or really a cost sharing of $1.1 billion with the federal government. So there's still some opportunity there. And remember, this is over a 25 year period and not all $1.6 billion or $2.8 billion that have to be collected or attained in this year or next year. It's over a 25 year period. Okay. So David brought up an interesting point when we were discussing rapid bus versus light rail. Did we consider maintenance costs on a bus versus light rail when we were looking at the cost savings? Yes, definitely. You know, we think about both the maintenance costs and the capital costs when we're putting this plan together. And Trinity Metro, again, was there with us as we were making these recommendations and these discussion points that if these are the recommendations that we're going to have from the city to the Transit Authority, are they going to be able to fulfill these projects and be able to maintain them for a long period of time. And in many cases, they're agreeing with that. And knowing that it all doesn't start at one point in time, that it is implemented over time, really helps them because then that helps them budget appropriately for these projects. Okay. So what do you think you'll brief the city council on the current version of the plan? I'm planning on taking the plan to the Infrastructure and Transportation Committee meeting in April. So that'll be the ITC meeting in April to talk about this. And then after that with feedback and conversation from council members, we'll see how that proceeds if it goes off onto full council or if there's other opportunities for discussion with ITC. Okay. David mentioned again, when talking about maintenance, what about road maintenance of the line where the bus would use versus a rail? Did we look at that as well? That's included as well. Again, it's a partnership between the two agencies. So where the city will have clear responsibility for any of the main lanes or general purpose lanes, if you will, on East Lane Caster. I'm assuming he's talking about that. Sure, the city will be responsible for that, but then Trinity Metro will be responsible for the upkeep of the transit system itself, the transit way, the dedicated right-of-way that they have. They'll be responsible for that. So if any potholes pop up, if you will, on the BRT corridor, then Trinity Metro will be the one responsible for making those improvements. Okay. So let's talk again about benefits of this plan for residents of the city. What kind of details do you think you have on that? Yes. So benefits really include improved transit system. Right now, there are quite a few routes that are 60-minute headways. So that bus comes once an hour, which is very difficult for you to plan your day around.  And that's just one example. And what we're trying to do is provide people improved coverage, improved frequency for transit, which is really kind of the no-brainer type of transit system where you don't really have to look at a schedule to utilize the transit system. And in some cases, in more of the dense areas, that'll be easier to achieve. But in some of the other areas that aren't quite as dense, then that'll be a little bit more of a challenge to do. What we are trying to do is not have any 60-minute headway bus routes. And if anything, our highest would be 30 minutes. And ideally, we would get down to 10 and 15 minutes where we can for many of our bus routes. So that's that frequent transit network that we're really trying to focus on. Okay. Well, we do have another question that just came in. We may have discussed this earlier, but I think there may have been a few audio issues partnering with suburbs or other cities throughout the region to help with funding. Could you elaborate on that a little bit? Sure. So although this is a plan that we're focusing on Fort Worth and Blue Mountain and the services that are within the city, that doesn't mean that we're not excluding any of the cities outside of Fort Worth that are within Tarrant County. We want to make sure that they have an opportunity as well to participate. And if there are opportunities for them to partner with Trinity Metro and get connected within the rest of the transit system, we'd be more than happy to talk. I know Trinity Metro is already having those discussions with several cities around Tarrant County. And I know that the North Central Texas Council of Governments is working on a Tarrant County transit plan as well. That will do a very similar activity is talk to all those 40 other cities in Tarrant County about public transit and how they can connect within or to the transit system that we currently have. Okay. We're starting to run out a little time here, but are there any last comments that you wanted to share with everyone listening? Sure. I want to remind everybody of the public meetings that we have. We have a graphic for that as well. So we do have several public meetings over the next over this coming week. There's four more tonight, lunchtime tomorrow and then Wednesday and Thursday night. And then we have two more we skip for spring spring break so everybody can go and have fun for spring break. And then we're back again on the 18th and 19th of March for public meetings. So you can see there we've identified where they're located, what time they start and then even if you wanted to ride a bus to get there, we try to provide those bus services as well. Great. Well, I think that's all the time we have this afternoon. Thank you everyone for joining us and sending your questions. Please continue to send them. We'll watch the post and we'll try to get back to with any answers to your questions. Thank you. Have a good afternoon.


So team keep it clean. This is gonna be a little different version of post game thoughts, because normally after we watch a Ravens game, I will share my post game thoughts, what I thought about the game, what I thought about the team collectively, and what I thought about individual players performances too. But in this episode of post game thoughts, y'all have the floor. Because this is going to be one where I personally, heavily rely on the comments section to really get you all's post game thoughts on how different players performed, how everybody looked, and just how you feeling about the Ravens moving forward. And again, it was just a pre-season. So we can't get a full feel of the Baltimore Ravens team as a whole, but we can get like a little partial feel. You can still feel how you want to feel, what not. So I'm gonna be looking for y'all heavy, because of course y'all know, for those of y'all that were there last night, we should just stream the first quarter. And then we have somewhere to go just to have a good time. But anyway, from what I saw in the first quarter, and oh yeah, make sure you subscribe to the channel because again, it's gonna be a lot of transactions over the next three days, a lot of transactions. So it's going to be very, very busy. And then still after those three days, after Tuesday at 4 p.m. the transactions are not gonna stop because teams are gonna be flip-flopping and finagling and finessing and doing all this stuff finding all these loopholes, bringing these players back and it's gonna be a lot. So y'all stay tuned for that. But what I saw in the first quarter from the defense, the pre-season defense, again, it's pre-season, it's pre-season. So it's not all starters, but even with it not being all starters, I mean, you still wanna see something.  And from what we've seen overall, just the pass rush has not really been there consistently. It shows up every now and then. More so when they blitz and bring extra guys, but for man, no. And again, it's pre-season, it's pre-season. So I don't think they doing like stunts and none of that stuff and I don't, but still we, we wanted to see a little something, just a little bit, but I don't really think we've seen much there. I know there's been a lot of talk about David Ajabo, how he's looked. And I'm a chill with David Ajabo for now. I don't really think, in my opinion, I haven't really been folk later focused on, all right, let me watch every single David Ajabo snap. But from when I do see him, nothing really stood out. But again, it's pre-season. So I'm a chill and he's supposed to be a top five pick. So hopefully we see that come regular season. Hopefully coaching staff told him, don't even turn it on yet, just chill for now. But what I did see, Josh Johnson in the first quarter, I don't know about any other quarters, but Josh Johnson in the first quarter, he was solid, he was solid. And James Pro Shae, he had a nice catch, so that was nice. I just, I still with James Pro Shae, I think that's a wrap. I think they're gonna just put him on an injury reserve or something. Tyler Wallace had a really nice catch too. And then Laquan Treadwell, he came out of nowhere. And on that touchdown that Josh Johnson threw to Laquan Treadwell, I feel like Laquan Treadwell was like, man, am I really like this wide open? Cause it looked like when he caught the ball, he caught it and then he ran into the end zone and he looked like he wanted to celebrate, but he looked like he wasn't even sure if he should just celebrate. Cause he was just like that wide open. I think he was still in shock that he was that wide open. But that was nice for him. But again, I still think that last spot is Tyler Wallace's. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll see like very, very, very, very, very, very soon. Charlie Kohler made a nice catch. I think he made a couple of catches in the first quarter, but again, and as far as the tight ends, I have always thought that that third spot was his. I know a lot of people were thinking maybe Vocalek could take that third spot. I don't think so. I think he'll be a practice squad guy. I think he could actually, I think he'll actually sign with somebody else's practice squad because I think he could sign with somebody else's practice squad because he may feel like with the Ravens, he just won't get the opportunity. But if they can get him on a practice squad, great. That would be nice for them. Running backs, Melvin Gordon. Got to see him a little bit. Melvin Gordon, I think he could be on a practice squad too. He could be on Ravens practice squad. I think the four that they'll go with in that case. And I guess this will sort of be like a post game thought sort of roster prediction a little bit, but not too crazy with the roster prediction stuff. But I think that Melvin Gordon will go on a practice squad and the Ravens keep the other four. J.K., Gus, Justice, and Key and Mitchell. And they keep Mitchell do anything last night. Y'all, y'all let me know. Anybody who did anything last night or didn't do anything last night, y'all, please feel free to let me know. Like I said, we only watched the first quarter and then we had to go. Y receivers, and we talked briefly about some Y receivers already. I did see the highlight of the Dante Demis Junior catch and it was nice to see him finally get the opportunity. Josh Johnson was like, you know what? Hey, somebody got to be down there. He threw that thing up and Dante Demis ended up coming down with it. That was a big catch. That was a really, really big catch. I don't think it'll be enough to get him a spot, but it's a nice confidence booster moving forward. And hopefully somebody sees that. And hopefully somebody, I just don't think it's room form on the Ravens right now. It'd be nice, especially him being from Maryland and whatnot, a nice hometown story, whatnot. But I just don't think there's room, but we'll see. We'll see. Because again, in my opinion, the active roster for receivers is set. It's done. But the practice squad is not. So the practice squad, they have multiple guys at the receiver position there. You got, I think, what, 16 spots, I believe? So with them having 16 spots, like a couple of receivers gonna be there. So, but as far as quarterbacks is tricky, because before, like after that first game, I'm like, oh yeah, Tyler Huntley is him all day. That's him. That's him. It's Tyler Huntley. That is QB2. That's him.  And we don't know the status of him. Ravens are checking for Trey Lance. And I'm like, I don't know, man. Like what, what's the deal, man? So initially I would say our quarterbacks, Lamar, Tyler Huntley, Josh Johnson on a practice squad. Or for that, if they gonna do that, that third QB rule, where you could have a third QB, like on game day and stuff, emergency QB, that's what it was. Then Josh Johnson could make it. Cause I don't think the third QB can be, be on a practice squad. I don't believe I'm not 100% sure on a rule though. But I don't think they can be on a practice squad. But if they can't not be on a practice squad, then I think Josh Johnson is that number three guy. If they can be on a practice squad, then I think Josh Johnson is to the practice squad. And I think that's a, a risk you take.  I don't think people gonna be like, oh Josh Johnson, Josh Johnson, Josh Johnson, no. If you put him on a practice squad, I think he'll be safe there. You never know, but I think he'll be safe there. Offensive line. They get big news about the offensive line that John Simpson is the Ravens official starter. And I was a little bit shocked by that because I thought that, I didn't even think that the Ravens starting left guard was gonna be on a roster. I know John Harbaugh said that there was gonna be competition. Well, maybe John Simpson got it because of his first name. Maybe Harbaugh was like, oh you a John?  But I just, I thought that the Ravens were gonna go sign a veteran. I mean, I know John Simpson is kind of, he is a veteran.  I did not think that it was gonna end up being somebody who was already on the roster. But hey, good for him. He got it, he earned it. He got some reps to first team. He was battling with Sala at the position. And Sala struggled quite a bit. So John Simpson takes over. Now he joins the offensive line and there's that. There is that he will be part of those five guys. And of course some tight ends sometimes and running backs and whatnot responsible for protecting Lamar Jackson. So good for him. So we're looking forward to seeing how he does at the starter left guard position. And I know that he talked about his confidence. He talked about how he was just cut. He was cut in December from the Raiders. I mean, he said his confidence was gone. Shot, it was done. So this is just like a new fresh start. So I'm happy for him. I'm happy for him. It's gonna be real nice. Like his confidence is gonna go through the roof after the end of this year. So it's like Lamar gonna be changing his jersey number to one. David and Clowney gonna have a resurgence. Odell Beckham Jr. is back, but John Simpson gonna be able to tell a real nice story. Like, man, I was cut, cut from the Raiders. Indecent cut, release. That's it. And now I'm gonna Super Bowl. Anyway, but yeah, that's good for him and the offensive line. Now, what's gonna happen with Ben Cleveland? What's gonna happen with Sala? So question marks a backup offensive line. As far as defense, let's flip it over to defense now. Malik Harrison, I think he makes the roster. I think he's a lock to make it. He been out there in the preseason doing this thing. I don't think he'll, he won't get much playing time and be like more so special teams and whatnot, but I think he'll definitely make the roster. It's the last year of his deal, last year of him and Patrick Queens deal that came in together. They might be leaving out together, we'll see, but he's there. He's on the Ravens this year. Guys like Malik, him, I think they'll keep him on practice squad maybe. Who, there's another guy. Oh, I think of his name right now. I think 53 makes the nice place. 53, I think that's Phillips I wanna say. I can't remember off the top of my head though. My apologies.  But there's Jeremiah Moon, could they go with him? There's Josh Ross, could they go with him? Malik Ham, who we just mentioned, Phillips. You got some options, some depth option. Christian Welch, so there's some different guys that could be in that. Christian Welch, he'll probably make it too because they love him. He's a special team guy. So that's his role. He doesn't call that a role for himself on special teams. So that may be where he lands. Cornerback, oh, this like, I wish I had a bunch of papers right now because if I had a bunch of papers for the cornerback position, I would take those papers and just throw them all up in the air because that's what you gotta do with cornerback. Like, what do you do there? Obviously, Marlon Humphrey, he'll make it. Pepe Williams, I think even though he's expected to be back in October, he'll probably make it. They'll probably pass him through and then just put him on in reserve after that. Rocky Singh, obviously. Ronald Darby, obviously. Well, not necessarily obviously, but yeah, Ronald Darby. Because they could do one of them things where they cut him but then they're like, hey, we're gonna bring you right back.  So they could do one, but I think Ronald Darby a stick. Daryl Worley, yeah. Kevon Seymour, yeah. Ardarius Washington, yeah. Caillou Blue Kelly, I don't know. I know they did say he bounced back this game, but I really don't know. I'm very like, I don't know. I don't know. It is really tricky. Galen Omer Davis, I think he makes it. Caillou Blue Kelly, what was he, a third or fourth round? Well, no, what round was he? I forgot what round he was drafting in. No, the third round was Trenton Simpson. So maybe Caillou Blue Kelly was a fifth rounder. I think he was a fifth, but, because six was solid, I believe. A fourth was maybe Tavius Robinson. I don't remember right now, but Caillou Blue Kelly, I don't know. I'm like, I'm so lost on Caillou Blue Kelly right now. I just really don't know. I don't think there's a spot for him right now, but could he even just make the roster and be like, inactive on game days? Could, but is there really a spot? It's so hard to tell. My gut instinct would tell me no, but I guess we'll see. Special teams already laid out, obviously Justin Tucker joining us out in the long snapper who they signed from the Seahawks. I forget his name, I gotta remember his name because obviously it's not Nick Moore right now since he's out for the year, but safety's Brandon Stevens, Gino Stone, Marcus Williams, Kyle Hamilton. Yeah, I think those will be the safety's right there. So this was more so like, I guess just a brief roster prediction, we ain't about to count out 53 spots. No, no, but that would be some of the guys that I think are locks and some guys that just, just up in the air, but again, Ravens now, they go from 90 to 53 over these next three days, from 90 to 53 over the next three days. So we are in for a ride, we are in for a lot of notifications, a lot of updates, a lot of announcements, a lot of all that. So y'all stay tuned, I appreciate y'all so much. I look forward to hearing what y'all had to say about this game in the comment section. I appreciate you. 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Set the right goals, and you're much more likely to achieve success, outperform competitors, grow faster and generate more profits and cash. Every business leader and manager understands the value of creating business goals to steer the business or team in the right direction. Working out what the right direction is and how to set the right business goals and how to achieve those goals is unfortunately not so straightforward. Then set the wrong goals and you could easily have your team wasting time, energy and business resources in achieving goals that don't really move the business forward. I have a five-step process to make setting the right business goals easier and quicker, which also helps deliver better business outcomes for you and the business. My name is Jess Coles and I've had a 25-year management career at Foster's, Innocent Drinks, EY and Peer Consulting as well as many SMEs and startups. Choosing the right business and team goals helps the teams I worked with generate tens of millions of pounds in additional profits and cash across corporates and SMEs. Choosing the right goals and the right areas to focus on was critical in achieving this success. And as always, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. So let's get started with the first step in how to set the right business goals. Setting long-term goals and direction for your business or organization that makes sense, which the team can easily relate to and which are achievable is one of the toughest tasks for any leader. Think of long-term goals as those to achieve in five years or more. And by setting long-term business goals, your business and team will have a consistency of direction and effort. This will progress the business further than only setting goals one year at a time. And a quick aside, if you have a business growing at, say, 50% plus per year, your long-term may be only, say, two years, for instance. The higher the growth rate, the higher the level of change within the business, and therefore the shorter the timeframes you should consider as long-term. So in thinking about your long-term goals, start with why your business exists. What's its purpose? What is the business there to do for its customers? The business's purpose should not primarily be about making money or growing the business. These are outcomes that help you achieve your purpose. Most businesses want to make profits and grow, so these are too generic and the team members don't really relate to abstract financial numbers nearly as well as concrete real-world goals. For example, enhanced thought training exists to share business knowledge and expertise so our students can improve their personal team and business performance. Once you're clear about the purpose of your business, setting goals is a lot easier and every goal that you set should be linked to helping the business's purpose, either directly or indirectly. So start with setting outcome goals to achieve over the next five years. Before we go further, a quick note about two different types of goals. The first are outcome goals. These are measurable targets often not fully within your control, such as winning new customers or reaching a specific grade of growth. The second are process goals, which are activities that you do to achieve your outcome goals and these activities are usually fully within our control, for example making 20 prospecting sales calls per week to potential customers. So set outcome goals and then work out which process goals are needed to achieve your outcome goals. Set outcome goals for your long-term goals. For example, one of enhanced thought training's five-year outcome goals is to have taught over 20,000 students. Here are 10 examples of long-term goals to start you thinking. Firstly, double the annual number of successful new product launches. Second, increase profitability by 6%. Third, increase market share to 20%. Fourth, create a performance-based culture and consistently deliver the top five company goals each year. Fifth, improve product quality by X as measured by customer feedback and production rejects. Six, invest in IC systems to increase team productivity by 10% and double the availability of performance information. Seven, increase the basket size of our customers by 20%. Eight, improve workplace safety by over 100% as measured by accident rates and severity of accidents. And nine, expand our services revenue so become 40% of our overall revenue. And 10, expand geographically by entering two additional European countries in the next three years. Set out long-term goals that align and support the business's purpose. An exercise that can help you decide on long-term goals is to undertake a competitive benchmarking exercise. You know, compare your business to your direct competitors within your niche, particularly those that you consider ahead of you. Look at a range of metrics such as, you know, financial performance, the products they have, the services they have, their customer service, their innovation, etc. Focus on areas that are key to your business success or the competitors' success and be honest with yourself. Another exercise to help formulate long-term goals is to do a market analysis. You know, four key areas to cover include, you know, industry overview. What is the current state of your industry and where is it headed? Second, you know, what's the target market? Who are your actual customers or ideal customers? Third, you know, what's your competition? Describe your competitors' positioning, its strengths and its weaknesses. Fourth, you know, what is the pricing and market share you have? And how will you use pricing to help determine your position in the market and how will you use it to grow your market share? Pestle is another very useful tool to use. Once you've outlined your long-term goals or initiatives, then the second step in how to set the right business goals is to set out your annual goals for the year ahead. You're likely to have many outcome goals that you could choose for your annual targets. When setting annual targets, it is important that you weigh up the goals that you could choose against the business' ability to deliver against them. I've seen so many businesses with ambitious goals who have not put in place the skills, the people, the systems, etc. to deliver against these goals. Don't make their mistake. I suggest that you get your team involved in choosing and setting the goals. If the team has co-written the goals, they are much more likely to own the goals agreed and thus, as a business, you are more likely to achieve those goals. Your team will have a lot of insights to share. If they're closer to customers or the day-to-day operations than you are, make use of their insights. When you write your goals, make them specific and also design for your business specifically. There are a whole range of different tools that you can use to help you do this. For instance, many companies use SWOT analysis or similar types of tools to gain clarity on key strengths and areas that need further attention. As always, keep the goals smart. When you have a list of all the goals that you would like to achieve, I suggest that you prioritize your goals with the most important first. Ask the team to be as realistic as possible about how many of those goals the company can actually deliver in the year. Delivering one goal a quarter really well is nearly always better than partially delivering six goals over the year. So make sure the business has enough resources and the right skills to be able to deliver on the goals that you choose for the year ahead. The third step in how to set the right business goals is once you decide on your annual goals, break these goals down into quarterly outcome goals. These will be your milestones on the way to achieving your annual goals. And against each outcome goal, work out the process goals that you will need the team to complete to ensure that the outcome goal will be hit. For example, an outcome goal could be to win five new customers per month. And you know that your sales meetings to sales conversion ratio is three to one and your prospecting call to sales meeting ratio is 10 to one. Therefore, to win five new customers per month, you need about 150 prospecting calls per month and 15 sales meetings. So your process goal is to make at least 150 prospecting calls per month. The prospecting calls are completely within your control. You just have to ensure they're made. Having only annual goals makes these goals feel quite consistent. Quarterly goals are much closer, usually smaller in size and real in many ways and thus work better in terms of motivating staff, making it clear what they need to do, and of course, tracking performance. And you can take corrective action much more quickly. So break down your goals into quarterly process goals for each team and potentially each staff member. Now you have your outcome and process goals broken down into quarterly or 90-day periods. The fourth step in how to set the right business goals is to decide on the right metrics to track the progress and outcome goals that you have chosen. More than 80% of small business owners surveyed said that they don't keep track of their business goals. And the old saying, you can't manage what you can't measure holds very true. If you're measuring progress and sharing these measurements or results openly with the team, you're constantly reminding the team that these metrics are important to you, which in turn will make them important to the team. And you will also be making use of peer pressure. Both are very useful ways of establishing and maintaining the foundations for accountability and delivery of results. So create metrics that measure the progress of your outcome and process goals and keep these visible to the team. The fifth step in how to set the right business goals is to build into the team culture the right mechanisms to drive accountability at team and individual level. Some key actions that you can take that I've found to work very well are firstly, create visibility of performance through reporting and share this openly and publicly. Having a whiteboard on the wall for instance, works really well or holding a weekly meeting in which each metric is entered into a table, a chart or a KPI sheet by each person or team responsible for that area. Secondly, show performance against progress goals in team meetings and ask the team to plan how to bridge any shortfalls. Third, you know, bring up process goals in one-to-one meetings with your direct reports and coach team members on how they can do even better against them. And fourth, align bonus and public praise and rewards to exceeding outcome goals. As a leader or manager, you must show the team members how to achieve the goals and then consistently follow up with the team members if you want the goals to be achieved. So there you have a five-step process to set the right business goals for your business. The first step is the hardest and the one to make sure you get right. Include the team to challenge thinking, create debates and help set the best direction to fulfill your business's key purpose. And then the following four steps are all very important and flow from your choices in step one. Good luck in setting the right business goals for your business and achieving those goals. And if you like this video, please hit the thumbs up button and subscribe. Thanks for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.


Hey guys, it's Tilly, and today I'm doing my worst books that I've read in 2016. I did a video a few days ago with my favorite books of 2016, which I will leave a link to below. I did read a lot of fantastic books this year. I think my total is actually about 89 books. I didn't reach my Goodreads goal, but whatever. Unfortunately, there were books that I read that I did not enjoy, that did not reach up to the hype that they deserved, or that just went up to the standard quality that I enjoy, and I have eight of them sitting right here that I will show you guys, but first of all, I do want to say that these are my opinions. If you guys enjoyed these books, I am very happy that you did. I can see where people would like them, but unfortunately I did not enjoy them, but I will explain why I did or why I don't when it comes up to this, and I won't spoil any of these books either. So first of all, one of the books that I did not enjoy this year at all was It's a Wonderful Death by Sarah J. Schmidt, and I remember when I picked it up in the bookshop that I did read the first page, and it had a very entertaining writing style. It seemed very similar to Rick Warden in that kind of fun, sarcastic sense, and just, ah, the storyline was terrible. Like, there was one plot twist at the end that I did enjoy, but I did skip a lot of parts in this book just to kind of know what happened. It was very slow-moving and predictable, and it was, yeah, it was just so below average. It was a very fun and quick read though, so if you guys want something like that, I guess you guys should pick it up. I got this next one as an ARC, which is an advanced reader's copy, and although the writing science and the world building is phenomenal, the plot for me dropped off about halfway through and ruined the book for me, and then it's The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid. Honestly, the world building is freaking fantastic. It is a sci-fi slash fantasy, and I really, really enjoyed that first half of it, but the second half just, like, it's in a completely different book. So The Diabolic is kind of like an advanced human in a way. They have a program to protect one person and one person only for the rest of their life, and so you have Nemesis, who looks after Sidonia, and Nemesis is The Diabolic, and you follow her journey, and yeah, I don't know, like, I really, really wanted to like it, and I love the cover, but unfortunately it just didn't live up to the expectations that I had, and it just, yeah, if you guys read it, let me know how you liked it. I really do hope that many people have enjoyed it. I have seen very many good reviews. The next book isn't terrible per se, but it did do a trope that I absolutely hated, and for the majority of the book, it was kind of pretty slow. So I didn't hate it. It was just more of a dislike. I gave it like a pretty, like, things like a two star rating, and that one was The Memory Book by Lara Avery. This is a really, like, it's a contemporary, so it's a pretty quick read. So the main character, Sam, is diagnosed with a really rare disease, and she ends up losing her memories through it, but nobody really knows what's going to happen to it if she'll make it or not, because it hasn't happened to anyone else before. So she starts writing a memory book, and that's what this is. So yeah, it was just average for me. The next book I have is Our Chemical Hearts by Crystal Sutherland, and this cover, like, is so stunning. I really, really wanted it for the moment that I saw it, and then I was lucky enough to get an ARC of it as well, and to be honest, this is a very typical and generic YA contemporary book. The ending is slightly different, and I think it is the ending that redeemed itself, but you have this, like, quirky guy and this mysterious girl that has something terrible that's happened to her in her past, and of course they fall in love, but I also think that the characters in this were over-stereotyped, and the parts of it were just, you know, I've heard the story so many times before. I can say, though, like I did at the beginning, I can see why a lot of people would like the style. In my opinion, Crystal Sutherland has a really good writing style, it's like a quick, fun-paced read, and so if she does write anything else, I will pick it up, but unfortunately this storyline wasn't one that I enjoyed. This next book was a did-not-finish for me, and I really, like, do not finish books, but this one I just couldn't stand it, and that is The Outliers by Kimberly McCryte, and like, I can't even tell you guys what happens in this, because I probably got, like, maybe just over 150 pages in, and then I thought, this is terrible. From what I know and what I have, like, heard from people, you have the main character whose best friend ends up going missing, so her and her best friend's boyfriend go to find her, and then all this weird shit goes down. I wouldn't say this is an official review on this book, because like I said, I didn't finish it. I just couldn't stand it, and the writing style, I just, it wasn't one that I could work with. This next one might actually anger a few of you, but like I say, please don't hate on me. This is just my opinion, and I do know a lot of people have shared the same opinion with me on this certain book. It is a newly released one from a big series, and it just didn't match up with the other books. It wasn't on the same level as them, and yeah, I did a full review of this, which I will leave a link to below. It is a video so you guys can watch it and listen to me probably slay one of your favorite books, but that is Empire Storms by Sarah J Ma. And although this book is like huge, nothing really happened in it, in my opinion. A lot of this had a lot of filler chapters, and the characters just seemed so out of themselves, and scenarios that happened were predictable, and stuff just wasn't up to par with the rest of the series, and so I didn't enjoy it as much. So this is part of the Throne of Glass series if you guys haven't heard of this book before. It is a fantasy, and yeah, I guess it just wasn't what I was hoping, especially since A Quarter Mist and Fury came out, and that was amazing. And then she released Empire Storms, and I was kind of hoping that with every book she wrote, she would be better and better. But this felt kind of like a step in the wrong direction. Second last one is Nerve by Giann Ryan. I bought this book because it turned into a movie, and the movie is fantastic. I loved it, but the book was very, very disappointing. It was nothing like the movie, not really. The ending was completely different. In this book, you have the main character whose name is V. She doesn't really do anything dangerous, and then one day she sees this game dare and decides to play because her friends are pretty much saying she doesn't do anything. So it's like peer pressured into it. You choose to be a player or a watcher.  And so V does that, but it goes wrong, and the game ends up controlling her life. You would expect that to be pretty action packed with that synopsis, but yeah, it just wasn't very good. And as for the last book, I also have a full review that I just did on this. It is a spoiler free first half and second half, it is spoilers. And then there's Three Dark Crowns by Ken Dare Blake. I really enjoy Ken Dare Blake's books, but unfortunately this one was just like nothing that I expected, and that was not in a good way either. I have the full review on there, which you guys can watch, but I pretty much just gave this book one star. The plot was so, so slow. The characters were kind of unmemorable, and not to mention that like this book I feel was advertised in the wrong way, especially because I know Ken Dare Blake is good with gore and horror and everything like that. And I expected that with this book, especially with the caption up here, which says three sisters, one thrown, a fight to the death. But in fact, it was just not that at all. So there you guys have the worst books that I read in 2016. And once again, I hope I did not offend any of you I did not mean to. And I really do hope that some of you have enjoyed those books and yeah. Thank you guys for watching. Hopefully you guys have a wonderful bookish day and that great things happen to you. I haven't actually counted how many books I've got here. I kind of just had a good read for this and chose the book that I absolutely loved. So I will be quick. I won't talk too much about some of them.


It's June the 26th in 2022. It's Wednesday. It's 11 o'clock. That can mean only one thing. Time for American Issues. Take one. I'm Tim Appatelli, your host. And today's title is January 6th hearings. An election officials pressured. Before I start, I'd like to just do a quick, just a quick rundown of a few good GOP. Liz Cheney, House Representative. Adam Kiesinger, House Representative. Brent Rathensberger, Georgia Secretary of State. Rusty Bowers, Arizona, Speaker of the House. Gabe Sterling, Georgia Deputy of Elections. These are a few men that did something that we haven't seen a lot of. And that is to honor their oath to office versus their loyalty to an individual. In fact, Rusty Bowers really at yesterday's hearing really set the tone when he said the following. It's a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired, my most basic foundational belief. So far, to ask me to do something because just to ask me to do something just because you asked me is foreign to my very being. I will not do it. So the GOP in the Senate, the GOP in the House of Representatives, I don't know what religion they subscribe to or of any, but they can use a whole lot more of Mr. Bowers' religion. Because that was the power of yesterday's hearing was those individuals that followed their oath to office and they buried a lot of pain and agony to do so, a lot of harassment from Donald Trump and his minions. So with that, I'd like to go and introduce our guests. Today we have Jay Fiedel, my co-host. We have Winston Welch and Cynthia Lee Sinclair. It's a reunion, you guys. Welcome. Nice to be here, Jim. Yeah. Hey, Jay, we had some amazing testimony yesterday, I thought. And I think what really I thought some of the important points were when Rossensberger basically refuted all the points that Donald Trump is trying to make about a stolen election. In his testimony, he talked about Donald Trump's insistence that 18-year-olds, 66,000 of them voted that were under 18, that was refuted by the number of zero, that the registered, non-registered voters that voted, 2,423. That was refuted to zero.  Rossensberger said, no, there was four. They were absentee ballots they came in after someone had died. Donald Trump's big claim is that 18,000 votes were found in a suitcase underneath a vote tabulator's desk. That was discussed, and it was refuted. So here's the question. To what value did the select committee bring on Rossensberger and his ability to refute the big lie? Was it, did it make the mark? Did it hit his point? No, it wasn't him that talked about the mint. Do you remember the mint? Yes. That was my personal favorite for the whole day. It was that woman who was supposed to be a schemer, a professional scammer that Trump called her. And what is that thing in your hand? Is it a bus ride? A USB drive? No, it's a mint. It's my mint. I mean, these statements that Trump made was so ridiculous. And Rossensberger was a good example of how ridiculous they were. But all of the witnesses, all Republicans, or non-denominational yesterday, election officials, were really powerful. But where I get ducked, though, and I'll tell you now, is that I'm not sure that the base is listening. And I want to cover that in take two tomorrow. But suffice to say that they were powerful. They were right. They were leaders in their own way. They were public officials that would, beyond criticism of any kind, they touched your heart in so many ways. But query, how much difference does it make to the people who are Trumpers and who are going to follow him no matter what? It was a very powerful day. And I look forward to more powerful days like that in the hope that ultimately it does reach the base. And I say, this was worth watching. I was not watching these shows while I was traveling. I was not able to watch MSNBC or CNN. But I did watch when I came back. And wow, it was a tremendous experience just to see that hearing. So how would you rate the testimony of Brent Rossensberger? 10. 10? He was lovable. They were all lovable. They were all powerful. They were all honest, God-fearing, trustworthy, patriotic people. Did it help that they were all GOP and there wasn't a Democrat to be heard from? It should have helped, but I have a feeling that the people on the GOP QAnon side are going to say that they were, what, rhinos. That they were not really GOP. On the other hand, it should have helped, at least for a lot of people, yeah. OK, thank you. Hey, Winston, what were your impressions of yesterday's testimony? Well, what stood out for you? Oh, Lady Ruby and her daughter. Absolutely. As well as the fellow from Arizona, when he was tearing up, I just thought, boy, this guy's going to crack because he's talking about the extremely personal of these vigilantes surrounding his house while his daughter was actively dying and how traumatic that was for him. Yes, and when it comes down, as Adam Schiff laid out, that the pressure that was exerted on these people from the highest levels down to city officials, county officials that just simply are there to count the vote. And then you get doxed by the president of the United States, as Lady Ruby said. He's supposed to be the president of all the people, not to sick his dogs after one person in the country. And just how she was a powerful speaker about what she'd been through, about her being the FBI said, you're not safe in your home.  And she said, I just wish I hadn't put my family in that situation by being a government worker. This is really powerful because we can all identify. We may not like standing in the DMV or going down to City Hall to get our ballot. And we might think, OK, whatever. But those people absolutely are fundamental to the functioning of our society that stand up, that poll workers that volunteer to vote. This is every man and every woman in this country. And what was so powerful was that this very personal story about this woman saying, I can't even go to the supermarket anymore. Her mom says, I've lost my name. I've lost my reputation. My neighbors are terrorized by people. That was really impactful for me. Of course, the testimony. And that's where, when the fellow from the Secretary of State of, I want to say the Secretary of State of Arizona, but you know the, and tell me. Georgia. No, the one from Arizona. Oh, he was Rusty Bowers. My Mr. Bowers, Russell Bowers, his was also, and then I have to put a little caveat on that, because at the end of the day, he said he'd still vote for Donald Trump, as would Bill Barr and as would some of these other folks. But I was also interested to see the religious aspects that sort of brought in that Liz Cheney says, the Constitution was divinely inspired. And he said it as well. And of course, there's so help you God. But that's OK because that reaches the people that feel like, OK, maybe there was some, you know, these people are swearing, they have a higher power that they're affirming this too. And so that was also very. Well, wasn't that a kind of a sub-message to every American that when you enter the office, be it state, city, federal, that this oath to office is an oath to the country and not to the loyalty of an individual? I mean, wasn't that a real message that we haven't heard for in a long time? Yeah, I mean, it's what it's all about. Is they're just saying these folks were loyal to the ideals of America, to the Constitution, to the oath they took. And I think you said we haven't seen a lot of that in the beginning, but I think we've seen a huge amount of it. And we saw a few people very concerted, focused, deliberate effort to have a coup. In this country, and it was thwarted, but it's still kind of slow moving slide down the, you know, that we're still on. And so this is what these hearings are about. They're not only to tell the story of what happened truly without hyperbole, without hysteria, but also to let us know these are ongoing things. The mention about New Mexico and the fellow who was arrested in the Capitol on January 6th, refusing to count the ballots in that county in New Mexico. This is a, and we didn't talk about this before because it's been a while, but when we had the clear and present danger that was mentioned by Mr. Judge Ludig. So, I mean, I thought that was also really powerful. He's a godfather, too. Okay. Hey, thank you, Winston. Cynthia, I would like to go to you for the exact same question. What popped out in this hearings that really struck your heart or your mind, or both? I cried several times throughout yesterday's hearing, which was unusual for me to do is I get mad at these guys. But Bowers, you know, of course touched my heart when he teared up, he sort of, you know, welled up before he started to talk about how precious and sacred the Constitution is to him. That really touched me. And when it came to Brad Raffensperger, because I just sort of held that guy on the pedestal, he saved our democracy of what he did in Georgia, standing up in the face of just massive threats against him and his family. And all of them against their families and them to still continue to stand up for what's right. And Raffensperger's humility is what struck me. He just was doing his job. That's what he says, I was just doing my job. And that's all. And I thought that was very, just very humble and very endearing because it wasn't like, see, I'm here for a big show. Look at what a hero I am, you know, kind of thing, which almost came across with powers. But with Raffensperger, it was just, you know, I was just doing my job. And that was really powerful for me. And then when I heard, and I can't remember her name, the one that spoke, the daughter that spoke, Shay, this is her personal name. Jay Moss. Shay Moss, thank you. When she said she doesn't even want to go to the grocery store anymore. She doesn't go anywhere. She doesn't even want people to say her name. She's afraid to go out in public with her mother because she's afraid that her mom might call out her name and someone will know who she is.  And that to me is just, how can anyone not be moved by that? And then the after, you know, shows, I always look at all the different channels. What's Fox saying? They didn't even show it, you know. What's MSNBC saying? What's CNN saying? What are the nightly news stations here locally in Hawaii saying? And I was shocked by what I heard on CNN. Anderson Cooper was having an after hearing show. He had a CNN legal analyst, Elliot Williams, who's kind of a, no offense to the guy, but he's kind of a wimpy guy. He's not real forceful, you know. He's a legal analyst. And then Gloria Borgher on the other side has been a political analyst for CNN since 2007. Then it turns out there was two other people that were on this panel, both of them previous White House Trump supporters who have not seen the light. They do not buy into the truth of what's being laid out before us and sat there. And the thing that surprised me is I thought I still, I was walking around my house so I didn't know what channel I was still on. I thought, sure, what? I'd leave it on Fox. Did I go over to see what's going on? Because I'm listening to this David Urban guy and Alyssa Farah Griffin go back and forth and back and forth without any interruption as they praise Trump. And I'm thinking, this is CNN. What is going on here? Well, I told you before the show that you were probably in a parallel universe. Yeah. All right. I got a lot of questions. I'm gonna try to get a lot of these through. Okay, Jay, hey, you know, a lot of times when people conduct criminal activity, they try to keep two arms lengths away from giving orders. They wanna make sure that they're not directly involved with doing something illegal. When we watched this hearing and we heard Donald Trump on the phone, particularly with the Secretary of State of Georgia and his call to him about looking for the 11,780 votes and then the call to Francis Watson, the supervisor of audits, you know, praising her and how she has the most important job in the world. And she implying that she better get it right. Is that the point where Donald Trump now enters into a criminal risk, criminal prosecution, because he actually now drew a direct line from himself to the activities? You know, a number of the speakers yesterday in responding, commenting on the witnesses in the hearing who were kind of on the fence about that. Even Adam Schiff was, you know, not really unequivocal about it. And I said to myself, gee, I can be unequivocal. I can tell you that I feel that the elements of a crime and multiple crimes have been met against Donald Trump. That was my opinion going forward. And I think maybe a lot of the people who didn't wanna give opinions on that question really feel that yes, maybe later, but that's how they feel that Donald Trump had committed various felonies. And so if you ask me whether it's him, I think clearly he was implicated. And if you ask me whether that evidence, and I don't think there's any contravening evidence, that evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt for me that he is guilty of various federal crimes and possibly treason.  Okay, but let me be more expressive about it. He tried to bring the government down. He tried to bring the United States down. He tried to bring the notion of peaceful transfer of power down. Yeah. That's treason. Well, you know, I think the prosecutions that actually have occurred for those that did storm the Capitol, I think most of those convictions have been sedition or conspiracy of sedition. Any act that's trying to bring down the government. So good point. I mean, these are serious charges and it'll be a question whether the DOJ picks up on them or not. You know, I listened to these calls. He was particularly the one with Raffensperger. That was a 67-minute phone call. And I'm reminded of the Nixon tapes and Watergate and whether or not these calls kind of follow that parallel track. And the one thing, I mean, I knew that Brent Raffensperger, he actually recorded that because he knew that Donald Trump was gonna ask him to do something illegal. So on his own, he and I think he had someone else on the line, one of his attorneys on the line. So that phone call was preserved. But I don't know how the phone call between Francis Watson was preserved. Maybe I'm missing something, but she was the supervisor of audits. And we listened to Donald Trump really laid on thick to her. How did that phone call get recorded in your imagination? In my imagination, either she did it or she tipped somebody else off and he or she did it. The bottom line though is they got the goods. How much more do we need to reach beyond a reasonable doubt? How much more does Merrick Garland need to start a grand jury and seek indictment for this? I don't know what we're waiting for. November is coming up. And if the House and the Senate turn to Republican in November, this kind of committee will not be able to function. And all of what we're talking about today will be quickly forgotten. I think we're in a crisis that we don't realize how serious it is. The other thing, let me point out one other thing. We talk about, what was her name? The woman who was an election official. Lady Ruby Sotter.  She's no longer an election official. And none of the people that she knew who were election officials are any longer election officials. And for that matter, how many election officials were watching that rendition yesterday on all the major straight talking channels. And would come, I'm afraid I might come to that conclusion that I really don't wanna be in this thing. I don't wanna have calls from the White House. I don't wanna have this kind of insanity visited on my life. I don't wanna have what happened to her happened to me and my life completely askew. And I think a lot, a lot of election officials have left the stage. That's the big question for me is who in the world is gonna replace them? There's two possibilities. One is it'll be GOP, tainted election officials or nobody, nobody will wanna do it. And there'll be fewer polling places and fewer officials and more unreliable results. So in making these threats to them, he's really did a lot to destroy at least the damage our system in general. The other thing I wanna mention is that lest we forget for one moment with all the heart-rending and all these personal stories and completely damaged and destruction to people's lives and all that. And this is only a small percentage. There's much more out there that's my feeling. These are only a handful of people that the committee was able to get. They can't do this all day all night, right? They pick the ones that are best and that are Republican. But there's a lot more. And when you think about it, when you think of the president of the United States who's clearly implicated doing these things as part of a, he created the conspiracy. It was all from him. Remember the election where he said I, before the election where he said, I can't tell you that I will agree with the results. I can only tell you that I will agree with the results if I want. He did that in 2016 also, same thing, okay? I mean, this man has no respect for the Constitution, but my point is that lest we forget what he has been doing is so completely outrageous. It is hard to express it in the English language. We can never forget how totally evil and unfair and constitutionally, you know, violative his conduct. Neither we nor anybody who thinks about this can never forget the outrage of what he has been doing. Okay, thank you.  And that is, what are gonna be the downstream effects both to those who are in the GOP party and those who are Democrats? If the DOJ does indict President Trump, former President Trump, or if the DOJ fails to indict former President Trump, what's the effect on this country either way? You know, it's a great question. And I think we're gonna have to wait until the end of these committee hearings. And I think Merritt Garland is respectfully waiting to the end of this so that he can have more information. And I think there's people that are coming forward. The, if we read the polls, we find, I read yesterday, 56% of Americans feel like there's enough evidence to bring charges against Donald Trump. That means that 44% don't. That's a lot of people. And we know how they're inclined to act anyway. There's a lot of people inside of there also who are just said, enough. We had enough of the Donald. I'm sick of hearing about it. I don't wanna talk about it. Putting him on trial will make it worse. It'll just stir up stuff. There may be some truth to that. But I think the idea is that he can't ever run again. In the end, if he ran, he would not win. Is my feeling, I would hope. There's so many other people out there that have been created out of this movement that he doesn't need to run. He still controls the machine every single election yesterday, the day before, the day before, whatever they're happening. They always say, was this a Donald Trump approved candidate? We never saw those puppet strings being pulled before in this nation like that. So his influence is already still there. I don't know that he, I mean, probably, probably there will be enough against him running that people will say, I wouldn't do that. I don't know what's gonna happen, but I'm looking forward to some more history, some more evidence, some more clarity on this so that at least we can have, who is this outreaching for? It is that 5% of voters who would make a difference in those swing states, maybe the 10%. The rest of us- Is it just a matter of history rather than looking for votes? It's both. The history part's really important, but the practical effects, the Republicans may get in, but honestly, as read yesterday, it says the fringe, what we considered the fringe lunatic part of the Republican Party when it was 15% is now the opposite and it's become 80% and it's this conspiracy theory. Do you believe in it or not? And they're attacking people like John, Senator Cornyn in Texas, really what they would call establishment or moderate Republicans who are not moderate, they're very conservative. Would you expect violence in the street if Donald Trump was charged? I wouldn't put anything past anyone and that's the danger here, is that he just needs to be so thoroughly discredited and the movement behind it, it's not just one man, it's this pernicious element that's been injected into our society. And like Jay said, we don't have words in the language to express what's happened here and we have so much outrage and shock fatigue from what's going on that this is just kind of like, Shea was every person in this country, except she was attacked personally but basically her story, we are all, have all been traumatized by the last five years, period.  For right now, I would say this is targeting the 5% of voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Nevada and Arizona that might actually listen and say, enough already, I'm gonna vote for the establishment Republican or maybe even a Democrat just to save the decision. Okay, great. Hey, Cynthia, we're out of time but I wanna get your thought on this question and I'm gonna pare it down a little bit. How are the Democrats gonna react if the DOJ does not indict Trump? Democrats, as in the main population of Democrats. Registered voters. Registered voters, I think they're just gonna shut down and turn around and not vote. I know- I agree with you, I think that's dead on answer.  As Jed said, there is so much that is obvious for a prosecutor to go with that they're just gonna turn off and it'll be a landslide in both the midterms and 2024. I know lots of people that are saying that already and we're not even to the end of those hearings yet and people are already like, I'm done, I can't do anymore. They're not gonna do anything anyway, what's the point? What's the point is what I hear all the time? And we have over a hundred election deniers that have already risen to the ballot and will be on the ballot in the primary in 2022. And that's not even all, we're not at the end of that yet. We haven't done all of those primaries yet. So, I mean, the midterms, not the primaries, I'm sorry, the midterms, over a hundred election deniers are already risen to the level of the midterms. Okay, pretty scary. You know, I can't resist, saw something on the screen here that Winston brought up and that is if there is no prosecution, does that give an energy boost to Donald Trump's 2024 presidential dreams come true? Oh yes, without a doubt it does, absolutely. It's the same thing we've been saying for years on the show, all four of us, right? Is that just like a parent with a child, if they get away with whatever they've done wrong, they do it again. They continue not only to do that, but they end up escalating to more.  And this is the same theory right now in the father of the country, you know? And it's like, if he just gets away with it, he's just gonna keep getting away with it and he's gonna do more. So, something happens, we're in trouble. Excellent point. Okay, well, I wanna go around the table and get your last thoughts or opinions, Jay, with you. Well, I think the underscore of all of this discussion is that Trump's moves against these people, his threats, his completely unreasonable demands, and the actions of the people who stood in front of the houses and made midnight calls and generally threatened. The third parties who threatened these people, election officials, inherent in that is the threat of violence. It's not just I'm gonna make your life turn upside down. I'm gonna hurt you. And I have friends who will come and hurt you. So, and that suggests that what we're really talking about here is something, Tim, that you and I, Cynthia and Winston, have been talking about for years. And it's the problem of violence. You know, the bill that apparently will get through Congress is watered down, man. It's really no good, I'm sorry. It's just a talking point. But it is not a real gun control bill, sorry. And so, the result is that all of these quasi-military organizations, militia organizations around the country, they're stronger now. They're together, they're more organized. They learned a lot on January 6th and you're bound to do it again. And Trump is going to use them. There's nothing to suggest that he is not gonna do it all over again. And better, better for him.  So, you know, it's like what we need is chemotherapy for the country. Something really- Will prosecution give that chemotherapy? Will that be the chemotherapy? The prosecution? No, I don't think the prosecution will be chemotherapy. I think him and his militias will blow that off. I think, frankly, there will be violence either in the street or against officials. In some way, we're gonna have to suffer that violence before we get through this. And it's regrettable, but that may happen this year in connection with the November election. All right. Thank you, Jay, for your thoughts. Winston, to you. Actually, that's a sad and scary thought, Jay, but you know what? I think that might just turn Ma and Pa Kettle. It might not play well in Peoria when that happens and people are like, enough, enough. And they will wake up and that will be their question. Do you believe that this election was actually stolen given the enormous preponderance of evidence? There's a good article that says, what do all these testifiers have in common? They're all conservative Donald Trump voting Republicans, almost every one of them. It's your hard press to find a Democrat on there. I don't know if Shay and Lady Ruby were, but the rest of them all voted for Donald Trump, all supported him and still supported him. Winston, it was in January 6th that wake-up call from Ma and Pa Kettle. I think we have been separated now, enough from Donald Trump to have some sense of normalcy and now they're injecting an O inflation of whatever. Okay, I get that, but the reality is, maybe we've had enough space here, enough time that we can sit back and actually look at this and see the truth for what it is and reach that at least a 10%. The rest of them, the other 35%, there's nothing that we're gonna be able to say or do that reaches them right now. We just need to keep the country together, move on, and hopefully just try and get a semblance of sanity back to our politics and our society. And I remain optimistic because I, the ops, the... Well, that's why we're glad to have you back on the show. We need that. It's a tough time to be optimistic, but you know what? This country has the ability to look at itself and look at itself hard. And that's what we need to do right now. That's what we are doing right now. We're part of it. Liz Cheney's a part of it. This commission, Shay is a part of it. Mr. Raphsonberger is a part of it. Hopefully they'll get Mike Pence in there. I mean, who knows what else will come out of there, but it's time to take the hard look. And if we do, and we do it honestly, and we do it thoroughly, we can turn the ship around. Okay, great. Hey, Cynthia, you get the last word for the show. Go ahead. In spite of feeling overwhelmed and done with all of this, I just really wanna implore people to stay involved and don't just trust one news source. We always say that. Get your news sources from all across the board. Listen to all of it and then make up your mind, but don't just listen to your preferred brand and think you've got it because there's so much involved in all of this. And I'm gonna close with a quote from Zo Lofgren, Representative Zo Lofgren, who's one of the congressmen on the committee. She says, we didn't have thousands of people just randomly show up on the 6th of January. There was a method. There was planning. There was a purpose. And we are going to uncover all of it. So I say more power to her. Alrighty. Tim, I wanna add one thing that is also fundamental here is here we are spending another show on the damage and destruction that Trump has done and is doing. Think of the public policy issues and problems that Congress could have solved. Think of the decisions the Supreme Court could have made had Trump never been president. We are so far off the rails just because of him. He has done the greatest conceivable disservice to this country, sucked all the oxygen out for his own craziness and we have not been addressing the issues we need to address. Thank you, Jay. That might have been why Gerald Ford did not decided to give Nixon a pardon. I don't know. But there is the business of this America that needs to get done. And you're right, Jay. It's not getting done. Nothing's getting done. So I appreciate all those comments. I wanna thank my co-host Jay Fidel. I wanna thank Winston Welch. And I wanna thank Cynthia, Lee Sinclair for joining us on American Issues Take One. Join us next week, Wednesday at 11 o'clock. I'm Tim Apachele, your host. And until then, Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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What's up guys and welcome back to another YouTube video still looking at the Kaisen CTF and now we're moving on to the zippity challenge in the forensic section I just wanted to showcase and kind of demonstrate this challenge for you one that we were able to solve during the competition Challenge is called zippity. It's in a forensics category and the challenge prompt is my friend sent me this message in this archive But I can't seem to unzip it. Can you help so we get the zip archive and I'll go ahead and create it directory for it zip D Save here and we'll take a look at this in our terminal Go ahead and unzip the one we archive that we have and it says unzip me if you can 7 zip so okay 7 zip archive I Know whoa, it's it's considered to be data though. That's weird I went ahead and use this through my file explorer So I can just use the archive manager to try and do this for me Just because I don't know a command off the top of my head to use 7 zip and an error occurred while loading the or the archive Holy crap. Okay. This has to be the challenge itself here then just being able to unzip the archive It was weird though that file saw that it was data So I'm curious. Does it have the correct like header? Does it have the correct? File magic number for a 7 zip archive. So I take a look at it. I had a friend just walk in the room Apologize for my strange delay there When you open it in a hex editor, you see that interesting thing that the first couple of bytes are One it two three four which is very clearly not what they should be at least We're kind of assuming that considering it strictly one two three four that's got to be a gig So what we can do is we can take a look at that seven zip file header You see it's even in my Google research like stuff here. There's a Google zip file format and I'm trying to look for what are the magic numbers and Okay, it says there are some here. That's not really in a format that I like. Oh This is just zip. That's not that's not what I want. I wanted seven zip. So file signatures over here Again, this is something I've looked at before you can see the link is visited So I Google I searched for seven zip and I get this seven zip compressed file And it looks like the headers here are three seven seven a BC af two seven one see so well We saw the two seven one scene here. We see that over here, but now we have to correct this to be the Move back over there and zoom in a bit seven zip It has to be three seven seven a BC af Then two seven one see so we can save that control. Oh, and we'll name it as whatever we want I suppose win dot seven Z Off it wants to keep it. Yeah, we can save it Okay, now it's saved I'd use control X or control O to save and right as now you can see in the ASCII portion of it does Spill out seven Z which is what it should be so we can go ahead and now try and unzip this I'll use Nautilus again to open it with the file manager and we can finally open it in our archive manager and we can extract out this flag dot text And it is kaizen magic numbers are important. So Not too difficult just took a little bit of interesting reconnaissance with the file command to determine that it is A data to begin with but then when we take a look at it in hex It had initially a strange magic number the very start of the files hex bytes So we can change that to what it should be according to the file format being a seven zip archive and Then we're able to open it up and extract a fat of it like a normal archive file So cool. Keep that in mind of magic numbers are Important to actually being able to identify and work with a specific file format. So this looks like a really good table It has file format for just about everything. That's that's awesome. So Sweet. Hope you guys enjoyed it Want to show off that challenge and hopefully a few more hope you're enjoying these couple of videos for the kaizen ctf And I'll see you in a later video