I'm not generally satisfied by the pace at which the world dispenses engagement. So on a conceptual level, I've always been obsessed with theme parks. The idea is to create a controlled environment, allowing you to wander through and effortlessly create an experience of streamlined instant gratification fun. Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Procrastinators Podcast, a podcast on the internet, what a novelty. I am the best guy ever and we're joined today by Munchy Where's Tiny Hats? It's me, Legoland. Here I am before you today, the most decadent king of all. I'm here to spread my wealth and tell you about the most wondrous plans. Famous Sonic YouTuber Hippocrite?  What? I love Legoland. Oh, not as much as me. We've also got the DeVoo. Hip bone, Skelly, Crits, Wild Ride was a really good value. And Monkey Jones. We're not even a minute in and I already have to pee. Oh, no. I'll just do what I do, dude. Bring a bottle, my friend. Just do what I do. Just go on air. Just pee into your own mouth. That's true. I'm gonna pee into the bottle that I'm drinking out of and then just keep drinking out of it. Yeah. Hey, that's called second harvest. That's a water, a bottled water, a second harvest. Wow, that's good. Is that to Paul Newman's iced tea brand? You know, I'm drinking Rolling Rocks. It probably wouldn't change the taste at all. Yeah, for Rolling Cock. Nate, what is the PCP? The PCP is the most knuckle, whitening, earth-shattering, screen exploding red pill podcast in the world about a bunch of internet creators who all came together because they had the perfect opinion when combined. They had the perfect... Wait, do we introduce the show every episode now? Yeah. We're working on it. We're working on it. Okay, that's nice. That's cool. What would you keep going on? These retards at home keep forgetting what the show is and we have to remind them. It's true. It's true. So hopefully they'll bake it into their brains this time. Yeah. So today, everybody, we're talking about amusement parks. amusement parks, bumper cars, roller coasters, yeah, the teacups, cotton candy, getting beleted by Armenian men who run the rides. Yeah. Circus tent.  That's true. Okay, the great thing about amusement parks, I just want to say off the bat, is that you forget how painful just existing as a three-dimensional being is until the end of the day.  You're dead. It's great. We should mention that we decided to do this after me becoming infatuated with a certain water park vlogger by the name of Si. I am not privy to this meme. There's no meme here. Si released a water park vlog and I was so enthralled by it and specifically it's thumbnail and how literally ingenious it is and how much I legitimately enjoyed it. I just want to see water park vlogs constantly. We know Si has a kind of a weird predicament where his like subscribers don't all watch his videos. Let me tell you Si, if you want 100% retention, the world needs water park vlogs, water park vlogs. Guys, let me make a deal with you. That's the best water park in the world. And seriously Si, that was great. Guys, I guarantee you I can get Si to give me that thumbnail without text on it if we want to use that as a thumbnail for this episode. Yeah, you're already going to see thumbnail because it's going to be thumbnail you just clicked on. Okay, fantastic. Question, Si is in the thumbnail. This episode is getting probably what, 1500 views max? I think that's how it works. Yeah, probably. Hey, before we get too deep into the thing, let me read. Okay, so there's no amusement park entry and urban dictionary, but what I did find was a disease called amusement park hangover. All right, so let me just read this to you. This is just like I was talking about before. The feeling you get the day after going to an amusement park, particularly when you spend all day on intense rides, symptoms include horse voice, headache, fatigue, and general pains. And then the description is not funny, so I'm not going to read it. So there you go. There you go. Okay, so that's where we're coming from. What is our favorite amusement park?  Disney World, no question. Nate, do you remember this one time on Twitter, where I forget the exact context. Disney World, Disneyland, we were arguing over it or something. Yeah, we were arguing whether Disneyland or Disney World was the moon park that one of our fans was attending, and I defeated you in hand-to-hand combat. You did. I humiliated you. And you officially on that day handed me, quote, all of your internets with a Z. So in PCP Canada, in PCP lore, I'm objectively more powerful than Nate, because I have all of his internets.  One day I'll get him back. Whenever I click on a download link, I just hear a punch sound effect because it's downloading so fast. Download 55 new mouse clickers that instant. All right, Nate, why is Disney World the best theme park other than all the propaganda?  Everybody knows that. So let me see. I think I've been to, I don't know, maybe like six or so amusement parks, probably in my whole life, but Disney World was definitely the most fun. Okay, but I'm sure a lot of it has to do, as I'm sure many of our stories will involve the specific things that happened there and the situation that brought you there and the people that were there, et cetera, et cetera. So when I was in high school, me and my older brother Ben, who you might know, we both were in marching band and our marching band was pretty darn good. And yeah, I know it's taken a sort of weird start, but we were in marching band. I played the clarinet, Ben played the saxophone, and we were well loved amongst our people in Massachusetts where the school was. What happened? Where did all that love go? Well, basically, our marching band was good enough where we were invited to Disney World to participate in the march down the main avenue. And we all just, this would happen every single year.  And then we'd go there to march during one of Disney World's gay days that you and Ben have an experience every year. Do they allow gay people in Disney World? No.  This isn't a meme. They specifically have gay days.    Yeah, but specifically so that, yeah, so that same sex couples can like come over and like hang out and make out without like, you know, all the Christian kitties getting corrupted.  That's exclusion by exclusion. It's very popular. Yeah. Separate but equal. That's kind of cool, you know, issues aside. But my favorite thing about that is how mad Walt Disney would have been if he knew that he'd be missing out on all these orgies.  Why did he freeze my head like they said? I want in. I didn't give the Nazis enough money. So we'll see. That's the great thing. That's what I was going to say. The best thing about Disney World is that canonically is the place where the frozen Messiah Walt Disney's corpse lives right now. And one day he will rise from the dead to save us all from the cuckoldry of modern life. So that's, you know, that's why I go down there once a year to pray to him. That's my Mecca. And it's got the rock and roll roller coaster with Aerosmith, baby. So that's where I do most of my work on that roller coaster. Like, like cool, it would be if Walt Disney actually did get cured of death and he just came back, like, and that actually paid off. And then he had like the, the all of his, um, what do you call him when you copyrights? All of his copyrights will be extended for another billion years because now he's alive. Oh, yeah. The law will be fucked. That's what's going to happen. Disney is just going to like, like the company's going to hire someone to act like Walt Disney. And like, I'm, I'm here now copyright. This is, this is copyright. Now, because we, since we asked them to extend it too many times, we're just going to like reset the entire counter again. That's, that's going to be the new strat. Silly old religious people who believe in souls and whatnot. Not even, you know, you have to be religious, but whatever. People who believe in souls think that like death is magical, but death really is like an engineering problem that we could one day solve. If Walt Disney came back from the dead, I think Disney would have a, the company would have a really hard time readjusting to being like artistically motivated in like a personal way. They'd be like, that's what that's what it feels like to like have an idea. I just, just the other day I was watching some documentary about a guy who like, who used to work at Walt Disney or Walt Disney.   But he, like he, he said this quote that I is totally famous, but I just forgotten. He reminded me it's that Walt Disney is the guy who said that like, we don't make art to make money. We make money to make art. So for him, it was all about just, you know, like having the resources available to continue to make his craft.  You got to respect. Well, I respect that. That's my personal goal. I don't know why I have to excuse that. Walt Disney famous for his Viagra with series. Yeah. Much beloved. Big Princess Tutu fan. Now I, I too love all things Disney. I'm a big Disney movie kind of guy and I love Disney theme parks.  I live on the West Coast. We're old money. We're old money. Yeah. You're new money. You'll never be one of us. You'll never be one of us. You know, Disney specifically made the other parks because this is what I saw from their, from their Disney World propaganda movies on the travel channel.  And Disney was like, well, that's just a shitty way to get to my park. So he built other ones. Oh, by the way, guys, the ride into Disneyland is no longer like that. Law. Is that okay? Oh, right. Okay. I'm fine.  You don't even have the magic castle, you cuck. What are you doing? We have the magic castle. You got a cheap imitation. It doesn't have Walt Disney's body frozen inside. Okay, true, true. Okay.   Yeah, I've read this in a book in the game game design book of lenses book by Jesse Shield guy who worked at Disney. He was saying that when they were making Disneyland while Disney was like looking around like, you know, like pointing at people like, okay, go there. Okay, that right.  Then sometimes he would bend down on his knees and then kind of like hobble around a little bit. And people were like, why hobble on your knees? And he's like, I got to know what this park looks like from the perspective of a kid.  That's genius.   Are you going to like hop on a lady's back so you can see what it's like from a baby?  Yeah.  I know you really shouldn't do that.  He needs to get serious.   What I was going to ask is, I mean, so the Undertaler, right? So the Undertaler is a staple of the Disneyland experience as I understand it.  I'm going to get on Splash Mound. Then I think, oh, wait.  I'm so good to see you. Is he like a mascot? The Undertaler is like, he's the Casey Neistat of Disneyland. He defines the culture of that area. So like, I believe like the Undertaler is like a mascot at Disneyland. I remember seeing in the news one time that like one like Mickey Mouse mascot at like Disney World like touched a 13 year old girl's like chest right before a photo shoot. And so he got arrested. I think the Undertaler gets arrested if he doesn't molest the kid he's taking a picture with. That's what they want, right?  When the PCP gets like 15 billion subscribers and then we get bought out by Disney, then they're going to have full rights to the Undertaler character and they're going to be able to use him in whatever disgusting wicked ways they see fit by making him a cleaner, more socially adjusted person. It's going to be a complete perversion of the original vision of the character.  I can really see what it's all about. I can really learn how to like ride them. It's like a performance story. It's like a performance story. That's real Gonzo journalism. Yeah. The Undertaler is definitely the pissed Gonzo journalist. He really just has to live it and you know, write about it as he sees fit.  Undertaler, get out of my way. Oh, I'm an acid now. There's new acid rides Disneyland. In case you didn't know.    I don't know how meme you're being, but that seems to be no, I'm not, not any. Every single time because I just want to eat all the turkey legs because they're so big. They're so big. The theme parks I always go to, it has like these, these really awesome giant turkey legs. And I remember like a picture of me as a kid with my brother with those giant disproportionately huge turkey legs.  You know, that's what I was going to ask because like, I never got a turkey leg in an amusement park, but like, I feel like there's just like amusement park staple food, which includes like those giant turkey legs because like whenever I, Richard's Fair, King Richard's Fair is a big like Massachusetts, or is it Connecticut? I think it's, yeah, it's in Massachusetts, like a big medieval festival that happens every year or whatever. And uh, uh, Renaissance fair, that's the one I'm looking for. Yeah. And it's like they sell the giant turkey legs and like they all, they also sell them in like Disneyland. Is there like some menu that like all amusement parks order from? I mean, personally, my favorite was always the clam chowder bread bowls. Those are my personal favorite of all time. Clam chowder bread bowl is an amusement park food?  Well, that's what I was going to say because I know I get them at King Richard's Fair when I go, but I've never gotten them. Yeah, I don't see anybody at Disneyland or the bowl of soup.   My question is, what's everybody's thoughts on funnel cake?  I love funnel cake with strawberries and whipped cream on it. Oh, it's my fate. And I appreciate what is hateable about it. Is that the cake that you put in a funnel in those deviant art comics? Is that what they do?  It's, it's like a grid, it's like a weird grid of batter that they deep fry. It really is a grid. It's like if you have diarrhea and you deep fry it and then cover it in powdered sugar. That's what a funnel cake is.  This is the worst thing I've ever been subjected to. It's pretty good. It's like, let me think, how to describe it? Like, yeah, just imagine cake, but imagine it fried instead of whatever. It's a very light, fluffy fry. Imagine if like French fries like were sweet instead of salty and never stopped. It was just a giant spaghetti. Sweet potato fries and those are good. What does funnel cake have to do with amusement parks? Because they're amusement parks, according to me and Nate, and you guys are all wrong, I guess. Yeah, they all have. It's one of the staple foods. Yeah.  These are actually, you see them a lot at, at baseball games as well or like football games. Oh, they're called hot dogs.  Well, that too, but like it's like a funnel cake. You may have heard them, they're called hamburgers.     It's called cup of water. It's like a funnel cake, but it's like one piece. Barefoot, whatever.   All right. All right. That's enough talking for you one day. You just go ahead and get back in the cage real quick here on The Big Boys Talk. Um, the actual best food ever made outside of any, you know, like not just, you know, relegated to amusement parks, but they are generally inside of it. Before like when extinct were Dippin' Dots.  Yeah, those were at the parks too. Why do you say they're extinct? Like I still have them at Walmart down here. What? Yeah, Mumtimee too. We have them at Walmart. Yeah. Okay, okay.  They used to be everywhere. They're like popular mainstream. I used to always get them, but now I don't see them anywhere. Okay. I was down at my favorite amusement park the other day, the Creationist Museum, not a joke. And I, uh, yeah. Is that the Ken Ham one or the, what's his name, Ken Ham or Ken Bone? I always mix them up. Maybe Ken Ham. It's the one in Kentucky that's like nearby. So it's, it's whatever that one is. The guy who debated Bill Nye way back in the day was Ken Ham. Ken Bone is the really cool, funny, um, XD presidential election. The point is, it's clearly superior to Disneyland because they did have Dippin' Dots. They had old Dippin' Dots boots, so there you go. Also, the thing with Dippin' Dots though is that they have to be like in a super, super cold freezer. Like they have to build special freezers just to keep them from melting.  The theme park. Because they got too many kids wandering in there and freezing to death. It's just a big, you know. But then they're like trying to burn down the restaurant. It's like a whole boy. Yeah. It's crazy.  And like, my family has always been very like conservative with money when we go to one. So it's just a constant tease. And so I never actually had them, but they looked cool. Ice cream of the future.  I've seen them here for like seven years. How long can the future go? Yeah.  Oh, yeah. You know, yeah, they're like covered in chocolate. Dibs are everywhere for me. Sorry. This is food of the future. We're going to be eating here in 20, 30. Yeah. Like, you better get basically nothing in this podcast so far is like wrong. True. Like, Oh yeah, I know that like nothing. What do they have your whole life?  I don't know. Do they have like prime rib and steak over at your meat? Oh, yes, it's me. The average English nine year old child. Oh, I should have my pride.   Candy floss. Candy. Get out of here. That sounds like the least healthy thing for your teeth of all time. Oh, wait. No, you call it explains a few things. But you call it cotton candy. That's right.  That's the joke.  It melts on your tongue.  Guys, crazy moment of finding out all at once that cotton candy is called something different in other places and in other places is call it so pervasively that a local had to spend five seconds remembering the word for cotton candy. I had no idea it wasn't called that everywhere. Crazy. Yeah. That's like the biggest, most crazy one I've experienced in like many years. I thought I knew all the ones. Um, you say, uh, we have cotton candy to dunk gas and tell us more. What's what's England like with this shit? Well, uh, I'm very easily amused. So, uh, regular everywhere's an amusement park. If I try hard, no, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like a regular park will do me just fine. But, um, I haven't been to many and usually when I have, it's like been part of a school thing or like a family thing, but like, uh, hey kids, uh, since you've been good, you were going on a school trip to Thorpe park or Chessington world of adventures. I'm like clean. Sounds like work. Well, they sound like I know it's like, like, I feel like America is like a lot more densely packed with amusement parks because they're just not everywhere. I only, I only know those two. I only know those two.  You don't know about six. I know about it. It's got that the bull. I actually have a picture of 12 year old me posing with the dancing old man because I want Oh my God, which you have to put that. I don't remember, but I'll try to find it.  He was, uh, it was working there. We all know that we work in amusement park. Please, please put, please put that on screen right now. By the way, if I find it, uh, by the way, uh, cool thing about Chessington world of adventures is that there it's the land is, uh, it has a literal castle on it, which is the I knew it. I knew it. You are castles. We have more castles than amusement parts. I'm, I'm, I'm pretty sure.  It's not part of the park. It's just sort of on the hill and it's, uh, the people who own the land own the castle and we can sort of go up to it. But I don't think you can go in. I don't, I tried, but yeah. One of the two theme parks I, uh, they're always near me is sort of based around a history thing, but I'll get into that later teas for the future. You knock on the castle door. Where's my boss? So I ordered it in the area 35 minutes ago and I'm starting to get queasy. All right, folks, we've talked about the food, but I've got some insight for you because I famously worked for a summer at an amusement park. So let's talk a little bit about the rides. I want, yes. Finally, the main event. Let me ask you how much training do you think each 16 year old worker gets before operating this giant piece of machinery that they're responsible for the lives of all the people on it? Yeah. How much, how much training do you think I got before every ride? Like six months. There's a reason, there's a reason the most popular undergraduate degree in the world is amusement park ride operation. So, you know, good four years. Okay, are you a carny specifically? I want to believe that you were a carny clown. I thought you were a fortune teller. Maybe. I mean, I just operate the rides, but I did predict some future events. Okay. So how did it go down? So the way my amusement park worked, which I worked at Adventureland, which is in some city in Iowa, I forget the city, somewhere around Des Moines. They didn't want you to get bored at any one ride. So every single week, you would get trained for a different ride and then do that ride for the whole week and then move on to the next one. So by the end of the summer, I had pretty much operated every ride in the park, which is kind of cool because then I knew how they all worked. That sounds like a good idea, yeah.  And the Monday morning, they give you about five to 10 minutes, like telling you how to do the ride. And then that's it.  But not how many people died. Well, that's the thing. It's always fun because like you're 16 and there's no responsibility. So you can just like tell kids in line who are waiting like, you know, how many kids died in this ride yesterday, man. I just got done cleaning the blood off the seats, dude. Did you actually do that? Of course I did. Of course I did. You're not a carny unless you tell the kids that another kid died on the ride. I agree. I agree. Number one dream of life was become a carny. That's what we train day and night for.   Yeah, but the thing is like there was no restriction on how many hours. Like I was, I was a wee lad and I was working like 55 hours a week. I don't know. Maybe it's because it's like a seasonal job and like there's like a special thing with it. Yeah.  I drove all the way there. So I'd be working like, you know, 12 hour days, six days a week. Fuck. And I don't know why they're allowed to do that for people who are not adults. It's weird. That's a very good question. Y'all need to unionize. Y'all need to unionize. They need a leader. They need a union leadered, Mumkey. You're the man for the job. Oh yeah. Well, I think unions. I think Mumkey Jones instantly. Elliot Roger did nothing wrong. That's the platform. Fair. That's what he sounds like, dude. Yeah, and sweet. Mumkey Jones. See, I'm going to make a new Elliot Roger video.  So, Mumkey, did you ever get mumbly? Like all the time? Did you ever get mumbly? Because that's the number one thing I think seem like, Mumkey. I'm thinking how many times do they think when they start a new day or a new week thinking, you know what? I'm going to clearly enunciate the instructions for this ride and how many times, how many loops can they go on before they give up and just be like, put your hands in the blah, blah, blah, blah, as everyone makes. Oh, I see what you're saying. No, I mean, it's like the same sense over and over again. It's not too hard.  It was like, keep your hands in the seat at all times. Get ready for it. And I was like, holy shit, this is great. You can hear it perfectly. It's way more pleasant to listen to because it's with an actual microphone. And they got rid of it at some point and went back to the mumbly teenager. And I'm like, I don't blame them. This is a broken system. Why not use prerecordings? Dude, that was the best. Yeah, okay, go on much. Well, in California Adventure, which is like, like Disneyland is broken up into two parks, one is actually Disneyland, then there's like a sister park.  It's called California Adventure. And there's a ride that's called a Soren over California or something like that effect.    Yeah, that's fantastic.  It's one of those like indoor rides that has all these crazy lighting effects. And it like spins you around a bunch. But like the, the line to the right is also indoors. And it's got like this TV is that played like this intro sequence. And it's got like several minutes of like intro of like world building for the scientists and where he built the invention and like what he did and how he did it and what it's all about and what the right is. And like, but you can't hear any of it because it's too crowded and loud. But I was like, dude, I know what you're saying. But like, I think I know what they're aspiring to when they do that, because like the best atmosphere of any ride I've ever been on was the Tower of Terror in Disney World, which has this grand buildup.  And they're like, oh, there's, there's been some rumors of like strange activity happening in this hotel.  And the whole place is like decked out.  The atmosphere, the atmosphere is perfect. And then it builds up and like the same voice that we use for the narrator is like, as you're finally on the ride and it lifts you up and you're like looking out at the park through the cracks and like the broken down walls of the hotel. It's like, goodbye.   Nate, Nate, Nate, two points on that. First of all, the Tower of Terror, literally the best ride up.  They removed it from Disneyland. They got rid of it. You know, well, I don't know about Disney World, but I don't care about that because it's probably gay.   Who would think they could Twilight Zone ride and make it actually like cool? But you know what they removed?  And it was like iconic. It was iconic. Everyone loved the Tower of Terror.  I forgot that. That makes it even better. Yes. Okay.  It's Nate, Nate, you haven't seen either movie, so you don't get a groan first of all. But I know that Twilight Zone is one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of the small screen of all time. I know that much. Isn't it the movie where Max Landis' dad killed two people in Cold Blood? I'm not talking about the Rod Sterling show. That's what I'm talking about. I know about no movie. I've got a rod that's Sterling for you. Okay. So as much as I love that, that's not my favorite ride of all time. Okay. My favorite ride of all time is in a little place you might have heard of called Tokyo Nippon. All right. And I rode this every single day.  And it's called the Subway System of Tokyo, Japan. Excellent. And so you get on this thing and they really create great atmosphere. There's all these slant-eyed actors looking at you. There's all these yellows.    I'm like, yeah, thanks, dude. I get it. And then I ride. I ride. I ride.  And it was the greatest experience of my whole life. I did it every day. Several times a day.  I wish I lived somewhere where there was subway. So I could do it again. I love subways. Subways are my favorite amusement park ride. That's what I'm saying. I like thrilling rides, Nate, but I like scarier rides. It's surrounded by all those ghouls and freaks. I might run a hard pound a little bit too fast there. I think you might be going a little bit too over the line there to my taste. That's understandable. What about escalator land? When do we get to the ride? This is the ride. Yippee. Incredible. Thank you. Thank you, Jimmy. Did anybody else think that show was called Fairy Godparents and not Fairly Odd Parents? I was playing a Nickelodeon trivia game and the question was like, what's the show with Timmy and I was like, oh, that's Fairy Godparents, dude. And I got it wrong because it was Fairly Odd Parents. Fairly Odd Parents.   Okay. All right, Gib was saying something. What would you say, Gib? I was going to start talking about my favorite ride, which all the rides I've ever been on are probably worse than all American ones, just because, you know, I don't know, it's probably smaller, I assume. I assume everything in America is like 10 feet taller than everything in England. Yeah, that's right. People included as I've encountered. All right. Guys, we're going to get back to the whole thing of discussing everybody's favorite deep birds. Hey, in the middle of talking, I had to go do a thing for a minute and had to come back and re-announce myself.   Why would you?  What do you think we were doing? We were doing theme songs. I thought it was the theme of the topic. All right. You shouldn't open with like, like, whatever. Anyway, um, yeah, I love Davoo. Like, I've never been into roller coasters. They scare me, especially even the one at Legoland. Like, there's a one at Legoland where it's a green dragon, a green dragon. That's right! That's the one! Yeah, dude. It was the first one I ever made myself go on and I tensed up my whole body so that I basically like blacked out and I couldn't see and I died. But it was really cool. But later in my life, when I had glasses and I was at Thorpe Park for like, the end of school year, hey kids, we're taking you to the, we're taking you to a thing and everyone's like, yeah, it's cool. We're all friends and I'm like, oh, oh no, I don't have those. But this will be the moment, this will be the time in my life when I can have like the cool day out with everyone and become cool. And it was, it was all right. But I was too scared to go on the rides because I'd never really tried them and I hate it. So there was this one roller coaster where I was like, I got to do it with somebody. I got to do it at some point. I just got to do it. So I got onto this thing and it's one of those rides where you're like, your legs are dangling down below.   And I'm like, what? What? I didn't know that was going to happen.  My hands, my arms couldn't really quite reach round. But I could just about get my pinky finger wrapped around the rim of my glasses. And I was just holding on, I could feel it slipping off my face. And I was concentrating on that the whole time. And I was just scrunched up and like weird. And when we got through the end, I was just, I was so relieved that I managed to keep my glasses on, but then they had the picture come out with like, like, here's, here's you guys. Here's all these cool guys are like, screaming with a big mouth like exactly how you're supposed to look.  A freak, a monster. Yeah, I look disgusting and nobody said anything, but I knew. I was like, Oh, I've been there, dude. I've been on those rides trying to hold on my, my various eyewares that I wear all the time. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that would be hard.  But that was cool. That got me okayed with with roller coasters. But I think the most fun I had was recently this summer. I went to one because you may know, I do like a yearly week with helping disabled kids. It's like a weekend, a week camp. I do that stuff. And it's about time Ben got that help that he needed. It's pretty rude that you call that a week camp for these week. It's a week long camp. And the occasion, one of the days we go out to a amusement park. And the last time I went, I think it was Chessington World of Adventures, like the only, the second, the only, like there's two in the whole of the UK. And we went to the second one. And there was like a virtual reality 3D headset ride that was super fast. And it was like planets exploding with a, with a like a Cortana lady saying, you're going through, we're going to warp speed now. And I'm like, oh my goodness. It was great. Because I didn't have to, I didn't have to look at the ground. I could just feel like I was going through space. Yeah. So that's good. I like that. It's interesting to see how VR gets worked more into riots as we as we move into our future. Because the whole point of like an amusement ride to begin with is to simulate the feeling of death.  And you get that dopamine rush to your brain, which we enjoy. So like if we could just do that sitting on our asses, you know, through VR, then yeah, the moment that we get that, it's gonna like the whole issue with theme parks is that people are slowly realizing that there's just not much fun to be had that you can't just have in your bedroom on the internet. Okay, I would say, I would say that that ride is the perfect and only good usage of a VR headset I've ever seen. Yeah, right. Because I was just flying through the air, you could feel the wind buffeting your whole body. And I mean, there's no wind in space. So how could that be true? But you know, we were all thinking that. Yeah. I think that it will always be okay, as long as human beings have physical bodies and are basically the same creature that we are now, which might not always be the case. But while we are something like an amusement park will always have a utility just for the sake of changing your surroundings.  God, it's feels good. God, I love it. There's things like I sort of joked earlier about like a normal park being just enough for me. I'm easily amused. But it's kind of true, like just a change of environment is really nice. And the thing with like actual parks is that there's not that many people in them. Amusement parks scare me with the huge crowds. I'm not good with the huge crowds. That's why you like about them. That's why I like. I have a lot of memories of getting separated from brothers or family members or friends and stuff. And not being the one with the map and being like, well, I mean, I'm just gonna die. I'm just gonna walk to dino land and jump into a mouth. Speaking of crowds, so there was one crowd related story. It's actually the opposite of kind of what you're saying. But there was one time when my family, we all went to Six Flags, New England in Springfield, Massachusetts. And so it was like the end of the day. I don't remember what day it was, but for whatever reason, it like wasn't a very full day. But at the very end of the day, as the place is closing down, it was like 6 p.m. or something. I think close is kind of early, whatever day that was. So we happened to be there and like nobody was there. And me and my dad were just like, you know what? We went on the Superman roller coaster, instantly one of the greatest roller coasters in the world. Everyone should ride it. It's super fun. That big dive at the very beginning. Yeah, super fun. But the point is, me and my dad went on it and we realized after we got out, okay, so we went early on the day. Then we came back. We're like, let's do it again before we leave for the end of the day. So we went at it again and we realized there's literally no line. Let's just do it again. And so we did it again three full times over and over again on this roller coaster. Well, I'm sure the people running it rolled their eyes. They're like, oh, look at these. Look at these cool customers riding the same ride a million times.  Me and my dad had so much fun on that ride.  I love Superman and that roller coaster. It was great. So crowds can get fucked. I hope everyone dies. Please, ISIS. I've got a couple of targets for you mapped out on my map here. So it's a place where a lot of people gather. You can just clear them out for me. We'd all, it'd be very convenient for me. Let's make that happen. Ride a roller coaster three times is a pretty good exchange for not having locks on your doors, I would say. Fair bargain. Fair bargain. What are you, what are you getting at? I don't understand. I'm not getting at anything. Oh, okay. All right. We're gonna say our favorite T-Tarks. Oh, okay. Let's do that. But yeah, good. What do you say? I forgot to mention the reason I brought up the, like, thing with the, not that, not that, the reason I brought up the disabled kids thing was because I had to go on the ride with them. Otherwise, you know, I'm a helper. I can't, that's the reason. How is that? I mean, they were fine. The person I was with, they had a blast.  I can imagine. I don't think those kids didn't.   Yeah, but you go fast because they're on the ride. Yes. That's true. You win. We're bringing them up to speed, baby. Oh, yes. I don't have a favorite theme park, by the way, because I'm gay. No, wait, Legoland. That's the one. You do it. You do Legoland because. I also, it's a toss up between Legoland and Disneyland for me. I also love, you know, studios.  They do it behind the scenes. They don't like you to see it. Ever since they stopped murdering Shamu for our enjoyment, that place has really gone down.  She deserves it. Oh, but it always upsets me. It's like, I would always like think like, SeaWorld, water, slidden bond, water pork vlog. So I want to go there to like. Yeah. All right. We haven't even got to water parks. That's going to be whole part of this podcast. We'll get Psy on here. Yeah, we got it. I would always want to go there to get wet, but then I would like, there's like no wet, it's like you need kind of wet, like Shamu can like splash you, but like, I don't know. I want to get dripping. I want to get sloppy. I want to get mushy. That's what I want, but I couldn't do it. I mean, I wouldn't think of SeaWorld as a water park.  Yeah, it's pretty much an aquarium with a couple. I don't know. I don't know.  Guys, just, just okay. Everybody, everybody. All right. Take it. Take a journey with me, everybody. Okay. Just, just close your eyes. Just close your eyes and think back to when you were like 14 years old. It's the summertime. The sun's beaten down. That was like 10 days ago from Munch. I know. You're on a class trip, everybody. You're on a class trip.  You got your T-shirt on. You're going on rides.  You know, you're looking at what they got. They're almost there.  It's nice and warm.     Oh, okay. This is what I'm getting at. Water parks are the greatest thing in the world. I love water parks intensely. They are my favorite. I love the lazy river.  That's my destiny. I do, I do like those, but I never like water parks purely because I got to wear a swimsuit and I can't wear a shirt and it's like, um, I'm embarrassed about my gross body. That's not, it's not cool enough. Just wear a surfershirt. Just wear a surfershirt. You can get it though and it won't be weird.  We're an under armor compressing shirt to shape your muscles. Yeah, but I feel like, you know, people are gonna know like, uh, he's trying to hide something. Dude, okay.   You're there. You're there to check out 14 year old tits. You're not there to impress me, buddy. You know what? I'll go there today. Yes. I think if Ben St. has the courage to go outside, we should all have the courage to be naked in public. I agree. Oh, naked indeed. Yeah. Water parks are great. There's a water park that's like near my house that's like local and there's this giant ride that's like, um, I think it's called, uh, literally the toilet. And what you do is you just, uh, like walk up to like the top of this very huge, just like, imagine just like a funnel and that is the, that is the rise. You walk up, it's like slanted. It's like slanted.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You do a spiral in the funnel and it's like straight down. It's, it's, it's like sideways.  Just think about like the bizarre engineering work that we've done to make these like strange death machines just to make ourselves have fun for a little while. It's so cool. I love it. Like the idea of making amusement park rides. It's so, it's so like retarded, but it's the coolest thing ever. It's the best. Actually, I actually realized, I actually do have a favorite amusement park ride, which is, um, I don't remember what it's called, the, the tint turning thing.  Yeah, it's like the silly silo where it spins in a circle and you stick to the wall and the floor drops. Yeah. Okay. Okay. One of the theme parks I live near, they have one it's like that's one of the ones that like goes way up and it goes sideways and stuff, but, uh, that one's fine, but they have this other really old one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone. If I went there again, it feels very 70s, right? It's got like carpet and stuff, even though it's outside. And, uh, it's just so tucked out of the way where like people don't notice it. So it's very just unpopular, which means there's almost never a line. I always get to go right in there. So because of that experience and the aesthetic of it, that makes it my favorite ride because it consistently doesn't have a line to wait through. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. That's great. Accessibility and like, isn't that a great experience to like find this great ride that other people just don't know about? And you've got, there's just, there's something about this that is so linked with like my happiest childhood memories, everything having to do with amusement parks. It just makes me happy to think about. It's just such a joy. Such a joy. I love these. This is like the one thing that I like about children or that like things are made for children. Other than their bodies.  Portrait of the World, give me a call. Every single one. Snatchett and Nate Bestman. All right. I'll send you a snap ad right after this podcast, Nate. Oh yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Sounds good.  I know what the best amusement park is. What's that? Motherfucking thrill build, baby. Hey, oh, look at thrill build go. Here comes PS2's hero.  It's fun. Yeah. You don't get arrested for it. I do in real life all the time, dude. Well, that's legal for you. Some of us get arrested for that. Yeah. Thrill build, you think a ride's dumb?  It's easy.  You don't even want to finish the roller coaster. You just want to say, fucking, let it crash. You can do that. It's fun. Does that hurt your morale for the workers? Well, it probably helps the work of morale, but it depresses, you know, total earnings. Well, the janitors don't like it because they have a lot of blood and guts to clean up, but everybody else enjoys it because the kids are dead. We should ride on thrill build. Yeah. Billy Johnson, he's a 12-year-old boy. I ride him a lot. Hey, look at pedophiles go. Here they come. Jail's hero. Does anybody have similar stories to this? So I've had a couple of incidents that happened like this, but basically what I'm talking about is like, so there's this Batman ride or it was like a Nightwing ride. It probably has changed since I was last there at Six Flags.   So actually it should have been called the Superman ride. I don't know why it's called the Batman ride. But anyway, so like we get in there and like the ride starts and we all like get into position and then the ride like shuts down. Like it gets stuck like that. So I was there for probably like 45 minutes until like they pride me out of there and I've had situations where I'm like at the top of a roller coaster like about to go down it and then the ride like gets stuck and then you're stuck there. So how many I don't want to get broken now. That's never happened. Actually you know what, I've been on ones that get stuck and then like someone climbs up and fixes a thing but only for a few minutes. See it's at those kinds of moments that you realize how stupid it is to even be doing this in the first place and how like an amusement park ride is not what man was meant to do with the physical form. I know one roller coaster that has like these like stairs at like the top of the initial peak. The initial peak that gets you going up.     That is such a easy problem to solve. You just stop people from getting in line as opposed to stopping them when it's time to shut it down.   They're going to ruin children's lives. My favorite ride is probably the Simpsons ride for the incredible atmospheric vibe that I get just being in line. Just like the aesthetics match the gameplay wholeheartedly. Just when you hear that you'd hear that that voice coming over the PA Homer what are those monsters doing over there I don't understand no those are those are the fireous skeletons. That is not a good moe impression at all. It's not moe. So uh yeah actually like the second part of the ride where it gets to like so let's say some gangster steps to your fly girl you just did it. A cute shotgun blast.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries trading down 205, you get the Nasdaq down 39, S&P's down 17. That's a percentage drop of 7 tenths in the Dow and about 6 tenths in the S&P and one half of percent in the Nasdaq composite. Gold contract, gold contract up $6.50 trading at $13.08, you get silver flat at $15.19, light sweet crude $64.02 and we'll get those API numbers out this afternoon, 4.30 eastern standard time. Notes and bonds, 10-year note up 6 ticks, 1.23, 20.30 a bond up 12 at 1.48 and we get open, we take a look at this 10-year first. So 10 years as well as the 30 has been testing its breakout area, last three days, got a little pop up here, still going to be a lot more volume. Right now we've done a million contracts, now bottom line is better than yesterday, yesterday we did that $860,000, it's going to have to peak its head up a bit more than this though to actually get real traction. King dollar, King dollar is just no sellers in King dollar, King dollar, 9,000 contracts out here today, gets to a price point of $6,964.60, you're at $9,615 right now and anything above $9,6145, bottom line is still in that higher range, that $9,6145, what that number is, that was the highs of February. So each time we're higher, no volume, each time we're lower, no volume. We're going to take a look at the S&P, we have the S&P out here, we take a look at the spy, it does look like we're going to get some volume in this baby today, right now you're at $44 million, we'll see whether it can get $55,000,000, $60,000,000 inside of that, bottom line, that's a small expansion of volume. We take a look at the IWM, what do you have with the IWM, that's you down $1.30, now this doesn't have any volume, so what they do with the IWM, you do put big volume in at the close, we'll see if that's going to come out today and if we go over to the gold market, we look at the GDX, GDX right now has 11 million shares up 7 cents, that also is going to need more volume as that moves to higher price. We go into the NBX100, we look at the NBX100, the 3Qs, 3Qs try to get to a higher high, rejected it, and you have 20 million shares, we did 22 million yesterday.


In this culture that we have, including African culture, of stunting, of looking the part, of having swag, we prioritize swag over substance.  So, I got into an argument on Facebook like I usually do. I think at this point it's a hobby.  And the person who shared the picture, one of the things that he said that I thought was interesting was, he said, people need to mind their own business. The person who commented under the original post, or on top of the original post, he said that this is the definition of stupid. What we see in the black community is that we fail to hold each other accountable sometimes. And we do not perceive constructive criticism properly. Constructive criticism is considered hate in our community. If you live in a trailer park, but you found money to throw away on two luxury cars, two luxury cars, not even good luxury cars. Luxury cars that are going to depreciate in value. They're literally money pits from the time you drive it off the lot to the time you drive it for maintenance to the, to every mile that you add on top of it. It is a depreciating asset. Money is something, as I'm getting older, I'm starting to understand, especially in my industry, you understand why the haves are the haves, and you start understanding why the have nots are the have nots.  Different books like Rich Dad Poor Dad talk about this, different books like Millionaire Next Door talk about this. And you see what the black community is doing in comparison to the white community and other communities like that. Currently, our money stays in our community six hours. Six hours. Currently, every time we go to the club, the bottles that were popping are not owned by black companies. They're owned by Europeans. So you throw $2,000 at the club. A thousand of that, at least, went to Europe. But you claim you're about, you're about your people. You claim you're for the cars.  Instead of getting the fuel efficient car, the car that's going to still look good, but get you from point A to point B, reasonable maintenance costs. You want to stunt and get a German car. When you don't even make $50,000 a year, you want to get a German car. Just so you can step out and look the part. Just so you can feel that void of a lack of self-esteem created by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. For everything that you buy, for everything that you do, there's an opportunity cost. And to explain it simply, if I'm going to buy this $100 pair of shoes, right, I can look at it as I spent $100, versus I can look at it as, okay, what if I invested that $100 into Nike stock and that Nike stock goes up by 50% or whatever the case may be. So now instead of this being $100, it's actually $150. It's an opportunity cost of $150 because I spent, you know what I'm saying, what I could have made over here. The money that the black community has from a consumer standpoint, we consider the 11th, 17th richest nation in the world. But what does that go to us? It goes to its image. It goes to its hair. It goes to its cars. It goes to all kinds of unnecessary things that don't really empower us. All kinds of unnecessary things that don't actually push the needle forward for us as a community. Money makes the difference. Martin Luther King knew that. That's why he got killed. Malcolm X knew that. Marcus Garvey knew that. Money makes the difference. One of the most effective civil rights strategies that ever took place is the bus boycotts. People don't really realize that part of history. Why it was effective was not because we're saying we shall overcome. We're saying that we're taking money out of your pockets. Number one, you want to live below your means. Number two, you want to prioritize assets over liabilities. That means buy things that are going to make you money. Spend time on things that will make you more money. Give you knowledge that you can never lose. Give you things that you can pass down to your kids and your kids' kids.  I'm not saying don't look good. I'm not saying don't take care of yourself. I'm saying prioritize value. Prioritize net worth. One of the things I'll leave you with, one of the things you can do today, so a lot of people don't know that inflation right now is 2%, 3%. And that's good. It's been higher before in the past, but typically you want to keep inflation at 2% and 3%. So inflation, to explain it simply, is how money changes over time.   That's inflation, you know? Now, right now, like I said, 2%, 3%, that means that for what you could spend $100 to buy right now today, in 2020, in 2021, it might cost you 102. And so on and so forth. A lot of people don't realize with big banks, the interest rates that they pay out are really, really low. So for example, Wells Fargo's APY, that's annual percentage yield, is 0.01%.  Because all they do is invest it in the stock market. So it doesn't matter if you have $100,000 sitting in the Wells Fargo account, all you're getting back is 0.01% of that. So in essence, you are losing money. Like I said, inflation is 2%. You're not making any money.  First thing you guys can do, start looking up high yield savings accounts. Start looking up money market accounts. Click the link or look in my videos and I have a video on how to start with stock trading. But you need to learn how to make your money work for you. You need to learn how to make your money, make money for you. And a step you can take, an easy step, is put your money in a high yield savings account. If you're making 1%, if you're making 1.52%, you're actually now keeping up with inflation. Even if you don't match it or beat it, but you're at least a little bit closer to inflation.


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. My name is Adam Payne, County Administrator and co-host of this program. We've been doing this program now for 13-14 years and normally next to me you would see our fearless leader the County Board Chair but instead of next to me today he's across from me. We're doing something a little unique this month rather than a department head or a key employee that we're looking for information about roles and responsibilities. We thought you know it's time this community better knows who's at the helm who our chief elected official is and German Distruty it's good to have you across from me today. Welcome. Thank you. Good to be here. Roger's been on the County Board for nearly 30 years, 29 years to be more specific, has served in a lot of capacities with the County Board, has seen a lot, has been part of a lot of incredible improvements and has a track record here that's that's you're gonna find very interesting. So let's get right into it. Roger please share a little bit about your family, your family roots. I'm sure I grew up on a family farm three miles west of Cedar Grove and my nephew still lives on the farm and he's the seventh generation that's lived there and I grew up on the farm with the farming operation and always good to look back to the the roots in the community we've lived there all all our lives and on and on and got a little bit interested in politics because my my father and my grandfather would talk about local things and always had an interest and my great-grandfather actually served on the town board and the county board in the same district that I I do right now and he served in the late 1800s and the early 1900s and I've been fortunate enough to serve in the late 1900s and into the 2000s so between the two of us we've got four centuries covered with in that as County Board supervisor so some incredible track record of public service in your family so grew up on the farm and whereabouts is the farm just three miles west of Cedar Grove on the intersection of G and six mile road there so as you look at your career you didn't move far from home no I'm maybe about five miles away but still live in the town of Holland and I represent the village of Cedar Grove and the town of Holland make up the population for my district so and unlike a number of our County Board supervisors who are retired right now of course we have a diverse County Board but I think most of them are retired you're not you're fully employed where were you working what are you doing I'm the DPW director for the town of Holland Highway Department we have 56 miles of road we take care of and we contract some of the services we we get the county to plow our snow and do some of our black topping but we look for the best best bargain wherever we can and often we get the county as they are a little bitter for some of our jobs so and we both are married to nurses of course we have fond and fond memories and a lot of respect for for certainly being married to nurses you're a family man yes I have have two daughters their Anne and Linda Anne has two kids she's married and lives out in Hilbert on the family farm from her husband lives there I have two grandson grandchildren a grandson that's eight and a granddaughter that's three and lots of fun and we get together as often as we can yeah my wife is also or both of them are nurses my my daughter and my and my wife both RNs both work in the intensive care area and their hospitals Shibuya Memorial my wife and Appleton Memorial my daughter works out there my youngest daughter Linda is attending Lakeland College right now and she's nearing her second degree so we support her as much as we can very good well very good so deep roots in this community and and obviously a long track record of public service in your community what was it that made you decide to run for County Board and what back in 1984 yes I actually a fellow that I worked with at the time was the current County Supervisor then current County Supervisor of the area and he knew that I was serving on the Town Board at that time and he asked if I might be interested and I asked him what some of the duties were in the time frame and things like that and then actually there were two other candidates so I ended up having a primary and I came in second in the primary but then in the general election I was fortunate enough to come in first by a pretty good margin so made me feel pretty good and one of the reasons that I aside from I was encouraged to do it there at that time there was a concern that some were suggesting that we should have county-wide zoning and that was not of any interest to the local municipalities because Elkhart Lake is different than the town of Holland or the or the town of Scott is different than the town of Mitchell everything's just a little different certain things local communities know what they what they're interested in and what their citizens want and the always local control is is always important to me as it was back then so and that's some those are some of the reasons that I originally ran for it so local control obviously continues to be important a lot of people including the county so 1984 29 years on the board and I I know we have some viewers out there who obviously don't have your knowledge and appreciation for the roles and responsibilities of board members please give us just a high-end snapshot what is the role of a county board supervisor well first and foremost to try to represent the best you can the the people that you represent some have different interests than others but still the overall common good for the county is is in everyone's interest but you still have a feel for what your people are interested in so that's what you should you should try to represent the best and each of us is serving right now pretty well all of us are serving on two committees a couple of them one but that was by choice and that's how it the it shook out for everyone can't get on two committees but very close to to that so and each of us has that committee assignment and one or two and then at least once a month we have a full county board that the committee's report to their resolutions and and ordinances that that we all vote on now when you hired me 14 years ago you and the executive committee there were 34 county board supervisors we now have 25 county board supervisors because the board took it upon themselves to reorganize and right size but when you were first elected were there still town chairs on the county board as well I know at one point we had like 60 some county board supervisors as I remember being told that in the 60s then there were each for instance each village and township had the chairman of say the town of Sheboygan Falls would automatically be the county board chairman from that municipality and that seemed good enough over the years but it did not give you equal representation because for instance a village of Waldo would have one representative and the village of Howard's Grove would have one but maybe two to three times as much population so in in the 60s they the ruling came down that there had to be one man one vote so that's why each district has to be close to the same amount of people in it as as possible so that there's equal representation so that was changed already back in the 60s yes okay well before you were elected then I'm probably thinking of Jim Gilligan bless his heart who was on the county board I think for 42 years and he's since has retired and is no longer on the board but I can recall him speaking about those days when there were 60 some in those county board chambers and spittoons on the floor and it was a very different time so we've gone from in the 60s to 34 to now 25 county board supervisors and I think the state average is about 23 right now so we're right in the ballpark so as you mentioned two year terms you know reelected every two years you have a monthly county board meeting you have generally two committees that you participate on and they'll meet two or three times a month and as county board supervisors as policymakers what are their primary responsibilities you mentioned obviously representing your constituents but what are what are some examples of the work that you would do action you would take well the law committee I'll pick one would works with the different departments that directly are involved with law enforcement the clerk of courts the the DA child support the coroner I think I mentioned the sheriff and those are the ones that directly report to them and they react to that and I think the one of the most important things of our our committee system is the details are worked out in each committee and rather than have 25 people try to discuss the details in a large meeting first you get each committee brings in a resolution to take some action that they've thoroughly discussed and worked out some of those details and maybe ask their department head to check on something and bring back some information and react to it at the next meeting so that they get a very thoroughly discussed product to work with and then once they come out with a resolution or recommendation then it gets referred to another committee if it has some financial implications then it'll get referred to finance or there may be some serious policy changes it might get referred to the executive committee and that's pretty well how it rolls out so if you're you know wondering well how does the county government operate who are the top policymakers or decision-makers chairman distruty is the top elected officials he's elected by his peers so it shows the respect that his peers have for him when they elect chair and they have two year terms monthly county board meeting they may be a one or more standing committees and as Roger said the standing committees really have a strong role in our organization of developing policy meeting with different departments and they'll take action by passing generally a resolution ordinance or committee report and I guess you shared very effectively it'll go from one committee to the county board be referred to another committee and back and it can be a two-month process to make that decision but the good news is it's a very deliberative thoughtful process and more often than not good decisions are made as a result of it as you think about your tenure on the county board what are some of the biggest challenge bigger challenges you've been faced with well certainly over the years that try to keep the the budget and the levy in place as I look back there were a number of things that have the committees that I've served on maybe I'll do it that way that have impacted the county one of the committees I first served on was the resources committee now it's the prey committee as we combine some committees but the resource committee first was charged with the airport and then we as decision-makers felt that it was important to make it a stand alone department and then we have that it wasn't important enough for the economic development and things going on in the county that we have put more emphasis on the airport and then we hired Chuck mayor as our our our airport manager and he did great things there over the year that was one thing another committee I served on was the law committee one of the things that I recall that was kind of a change was the rural numbering system each township had their own numbering system and it didn't have to make numerical sense that just this subdivision had eight houses in and they had eight numbers and there was no pattern to them to have an enhanced 9-1-1 we needed to to have all of those locations documented on a map and segmented so they made sense so that was a challenge to get that through because that was changed but I think over the years people realize that was a positive change once we did that we could have the enhanced 9-1-1 system that if anyone picks up the phone and they know the location and who responds to that location what ambulance what fire what rescue and all of those things another thing when I served on the HR committee we made some changes and did some pretty good things with the with our insurance self-insured and I think we did some good things to save the county some money for the most part the employees were happy with those changes too but I think one of the most important things I ever did was I was on the executive committee we made the decision to get an executive coordinator and that's when we hired Adam and I think that was probably one of the best decisions I've made is as a car County board member ever because we felt that's important to have one CEO managing all of those departments we as supervisors are part-time people and we can devote as much time as we can but we're not there all the time and that's why we needed a hands-on manager to oversee all of the things the many departments in the county still set the policy but ask one person to try to coordinate all of that for us and later on we've upgraded that to administrator position that gave you more some more authority but we weren't real sure of giving that authority to anyone going at the beginning but we grew to appreciate your efforts and we we changed that to an administrator position those are some of the changes on the different committees I've served on I guess that's sort of answers your question there well I'm very flattered by your last example so thank you for that Roger and and you know to piece it together you know again Chairman Distruty Roger is chief elected officer he's chief elected official in the county and responsible for budget development and the the chief policy maker so when you're working with 25 County board supervisors I mean that's that's a very challenging role overseeing an organization and I should have set the stage a little bit better county government is comprised of 130 million dollar budget we have 19 departments about 850 employees providing programs and 200 programs and services I mean there is a lot going on here so when Roger talks about improvements he made at the county airport and for those of you who have been in this community a long time if you see what that airport looks like today compared to 29 years ago when Roger first started tremendous improvements at the airport whether it's law enforcement planning and resources working with clerk of courts or finance or human resources the breadth of responsibility when you're a county board supervisor and working in this organization one of the things I love about it and I think it's perhaps one of the reasons Roger is here after 29 years is there's always new things to learn and always opportunities to make improvements and good people to work with so it's been a pleasure it's been a good team as you've you know as you reflect on your history and the number of changes that you've been a part of and the improvements that we've made what do you what do you see as you know he challenges as we go for what are you thinking are on the horizon that you know we need to plan and prepare for and like I'm sure the most important thing and the hardest to achieve is to maintain our levy under our levy limits that we the state has given us which we've exceeded those requirements but still it's it's gets harder and harder each year to to maintain that the services that the people want and we've made some hard decisions over the years we have to make priorities just as anyone in their their household budget there's a lot of important things that need to be done but some things really should have more attention than others and and then something has to be cut we have to make decisions on that and we've for the most part done that well a lot of discussion sometimes but we've always come to the the decision that the majority wants and I think the majority of the people wanted us to make so I think that's one of the harder things maintaining our budget and keeping the services up that the people are used to having and I would wholeheartedly agree the county boards reduced property taxes four of the last six years we probably have one of the best of the if not the best fiscal track records in the state if you compare us to the other 72 counties and it's in part because of thoughtful leadership from Roger and other county board supervisors and department heads and a team of employees that are just working so hard and striving to be the best they can be and we're we've made a lot of tough decisions with streamlining and consolidating and and in some cases privatizing you know Sonny Ridge was a monumental decision made a number of years ago and a difficult one for the county board but help position us for success and of course Sonny Ridges has been fine ever since the county board has gotten more diverse of late Roger as you as you think about your tenure on the county board and look at the faces on the county board what do we normally see for competition do many people run for county board and if not why there there haven't been a lot in the last maybe five six ten years but I think that's probably because for the most part things are going pretty well and there were times over the years that there were more competition sometimes controversial issues drew out that competition and some different views on that and some people ran against specific issues and that's maybe where there was more competition at the time but for the most part there isn't a lot of competition but but I again I think that's because for the most part people are satisfied with with our best efforts not that everything is is just the way they want it but they realize that that we have to make some decisions and not always appreciated by some but we feel the best that we can make for the good of the hall of Sheboygan County as you know we're always striving to improve and leadership skills can always be improved whether we have 25 existing county board supervisors or 19 department heads or our new ones coming on board what type of leadership development or opportunities are there for county board supervisors to gain a better appreciation for the breadth of county responsibilities the programs they oversee what types of things have we done over the years I think one of the most important things that we've done and not exactly sure when that started them thinking 12 15 years ago when we started our leadership forum that's always held in June and one of the original reasons we started it was there always is some turnover and at the beginning of the term then some of the newer members can get a very intense explanation of some of their duties and what the overall view of the whole county we're each on specific committees but that's a chance where we get an overview on the entire county operation so we don't just think of the committee that we're serving on it can't all go to that committee there are other needs throughout the county and that's explained well we get different speakers in we get some of our department heads alternate them at different years and explain a little more in detail to our entire group what's happening in the the highway department or the sheriff's department or or the finance or it or some of these things that they get a little better snapshot view of what's going on so that they can appreciate the details of their committee and that's important but they also have to agree what's understand what's going on throughout the entire county and I think it's probably been one of the reasons our budget process has been so effective as we have such a collaborative effort here and as you said we've had those annual leadership forms we actually host them right here at at UW-Shabuigan and we take nearly a full day and the county board comes together and already in March April we're looking at our projections for our next budget and and then in June we have that leadership form where the full board can come together and see our fiscal outlook and see the challenges and and look at the county more as a whole rather than through the silos of a specific committee I think for the most part our board does look at as a whole but as we both know from time to time if you're if you're on a committee and if you've been on the committee for a long time you may be predominantly concerned with health and human services or you might predominantly be concerned with the sheriff's department because the early age on committee oversees that area but they obviously have to keep all 19 departments in mind and pull that overall budget together it's been pretty effective for us and of course you led that discussion last year and you'll be leading again here soon in June what's been most rewarding for you as as county board chair as you as you look at your tenure on the board? Well I don't maybe not just as chair but I think one of the most rewarding things is after you've been on on a while people sort of remember that you're on first couple years they're not sure who their supervisor is or if nothing comes up they don't know but after a while they know they can call you and sometimes it's simply a question I got this issue it's not a big problem but who do I call where do I go in the in the administration building to who do I talk to sometimes it's just a phone number that you can get them to be able to talk to the right person that can give them an answer for that their specific issue sometimes it's for a person that doesn't have to deal with the county government or any government they're not sure where to go but sometimes it's just direct them to a person that gets them right to the heart of the matter they're concerned with is is helpful and and I I believe that if you live in a small community that you grew up in people know you friendships over the years you bump into them at the grocery store at the mini-mart when you're filling up with gas at church they they just ask you what's going on or I read this in the paper can you explain that to me so you get the feedback from the people and when you do it's easier to do your job because you you get that feedback so I think that's been rewarding that I get the feedback that if something isn't quite the way they want it to water if I hear most of the people are saying one thing then I realize we're we're going in the right direction that the feedback from the people I think is the most important part of it yeah and feedback when you've got thoughtful individuals representing you and helping you and helping make your community a better place well that 30 minutes flew by quickly and I learned some new things about my direct supervisor County Board Chairman Roger Distruty and I hope you did as well if you have more questions about the roles and responsibilities of being a County Board supervisor or have suggestions for improvement for our organization don't hesitate to contact Roger Distruty directly or certainly your represented your County Board supervisor that represents you all of that information is online you can go to the Sheboygan County website and see who your representative is but I hope that you enjoyed this overview and got to know your elected leader County Board Chairman Roger Distruty a little bit better thank you for taking the time to share this insight with us today right thank you Adam next month we're gonna switch roles I'm gonna be in the hot seat and Roger's gonna be sitting here and asking me a few questions about my experiences as County Administrator the last 14 years and I'll share a little bit more insight about my family and my perspective but until then thank you for joining us today and we'll see you in a month


It's LinkedIn Learning author Monica Wahee with today's data science makeover. Watch while Monica Wahee demonstrates how to prepare a data set for a meta-analysis in R. Hi everyone! From time to time, I get requests from people wanting to do a meta-analysis. If that happens, I first warn them that in a systematic review and meta-analysis, the devil is in the study design, not the analysis. You'll see I explained that in a blog post that I've linked you to in the description. But assuming you have a good study design, the next step is making a data set that you can make a forest plot with, and that's what we are focusing on here. For this demonstration, we are using open source statistical software R and R package R meta. We are also using the meta.dsl command, just pointing this out because our meta has other analyses. And we are combining the odds ratios for a discrete estimate, a yes-no outcome, between treatment and control groups. So, here's a data dictionary for the minimal data set. Name is a character string you can use to label the article from where you are getting the estimates. I like to put the articles in chronological order on the plot, so I can look for time trends. I usually include the first author and the year in the name label. Then for the next two fields, we have trt underscore denom and cnt underscore denom. Denom stands for denominator. So, trt underscore denom literally means the number of people in the treatment group, and cnt underscore denom means number of people in the control group. Then the next two fields are trt underscore num and cnt underscore num. Num stands for numerator. So the first variable has the number of people in the treatment group who got the outcome, and the second variable has the number of people in the control group who got the outcome. Remember, these numbers have to be equal to or less than the denominators so that if you put the numerator over the denominator, you have the rate of the outcome in that group. In other words, trt underscore num divided by trt underscore denom equals the rate of the outcome in the treatment group. Oh, yeah, and if you want to know the total number of people in the study, you have to do math. It's not in here. You need to add trt underscore denom to cnt underscore denom to get the total sample size for the study. Oh, and I was just recording one outcome here, but you can include more if you want. Let's pretend this has to do with COVID-19, and one outcome was the number of people infected and another one had to do with the number of people who died. How morbid? Well, it's a pandemic. Okay, so in that case, you still only need one denominator for each group. You would just have two sets of numerators. I usually add a suffix. Like for the treatment group, I'd have trt underscore num underscore infected and trt underscore num underscore died. And I'd also need those two other columns for the control group. So you just have to be careful when you are making the plot to call up the right fields. Okay, now let's look at the fake data I made for you for demonstration. The blog post explains the scenario. It has to do with ice cream flavors and happiness research being done by Disney characters. But anyway, notice that our data are structured exactly the way we designated in our dictionary. So now we are ready to go to R. You will see that first we read in our data set, which is called Goofy. Remember Disney characters? Before this, you need to make sure you install package Armada. So this is just us calling up Armada. Okay, here is where we are using our meta.dsl command. See how we are making an object called calc on the left side of the arrow? And what are we putting in calc? These variables that you will recognize in this order. Treatment denominator, control denominator, treatment numerator, and control numerator. We set our data to Goofy. And for the names that will appear on the y-axis, we set that to our names variable in our data set. Next, after we make that calc object, we run a summary of it. Let's do that now. See what this gives you? It's the info about the odds ratios you are getting ready to plot. Okay, now let's go back and plot them. Now see what we are plotting? We are plotting that calc object. Okay, let's run the plot. Okay, so this is what you get with the default settings. You'll see the squares are scaled to the size of the sample, and the confidence intervals are on there. You'll also see the tell-tale combined estimate diamond at the bottom. And that, my friends, is how you make your meta-analysis data and forest plot gorgeous. Thank you for watching this Data Science Makeover with LinkedIn Learning author Monica Wahee. Remember to check out Monica's Data Science Courses on LinkedIn Learning. Click on the link in the description.


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What's up everybody Ricky Grooth here. Welcome back to my channel today. I want to talk about verbal offers Okay, so if an agent calls you and tells you what their client wants to offer on your listing and ask you what you think about it Okay, it's not even your property. You're just the real estate agent They're asking you what you think about the offer, right? Like you really know what your seller is gonna do or how they're gonna respond Okay, there's no way you know how the seller is gonna respond to any offer at any moment And even if they tell you hey, we're firm at this price That doesn't mean that when you call in the next day, they haven't changed their mind It happens all the time the seller doesn't even know what he'll do in the situation that they have an offer on the table They're looking at money Right, and they know they really want to sell it a lot of times They're gonna come off lower than what they said they were gonna be really firm on sometimes they do stay firm now Saying they don't I'm just saying that you don't know and there's no way that you can predict What your clients gonna do at any moment you can get off the phone with them and they say they're gonna do one thing and then They call you back one minute later and say know what we're gonna do this other thing Happens all the time so when an agent calls me on one of my listings this happened just the other day I have a listing we're asking 409,000 It was shown the agent called me and said hey my client wants to offer 390 on this property What do you think? And my response is is what do you mean? What do I think? I don't know You know write it up have your client sign it send it to me so I can present it to my seller You know, how am I supposed to know what my seller is gonna do with that? Okay, maybe he hinted that he would do something You know at some point, you know in the past he said he might do this if he had an offer But hey, that was a long time ago now. We're here right and another thing You never want to give away your client's position, right? You never want to tell anyone what your client might do Never do that. Okay, because you're giving up your clients Vulnerability, okay, you're making them vulnerable in the situation where you're not really looking up for their best interest If you're if you're telling someone what they might do what they might be willing to do Hey, you could be wrong about what you think they'll do because you think so strongly that they'll do it But you could be completely wrong because they changed their mind so constantly and then that screwed the deal up, right? Let's get the offer on writing on paper. Okay, let's get it on paper Let's put in writing and then let's present it to my client and then we'll find out really what he wants to do Also, there's more to an offer than just a price There's terms as a cash as a financing as their inspection ones are gonna close what's the earnest money? There's so many things to a contract except for just the price Okay, so there's just so much to it We need to see the complete offer before we can really respond Something else that I found is that if you verbally give someone an offer say a seller and they say, okay Well, I'll do this Okay in response to that, but then you give them the same offer in writing. They have a completely different response Okay, so, you know until it's real when there's an offer and a contract someone has signed in place Then it's real and when it's real now, it's getting real now. They're making real decisions They're like man people somebody really does want to buy my property So don't judge a book by its cover. Don't assume that your seller is going to do something Don't give up your seller's position on at any moment Okay, negotiate hard for them work hard to get the best price possible and do your best for their best interest So anyway, I just I got that call the other day and periodically I have agents to call me a verbal offer So I figured I'd do this video just to share my thoughts on it I hope it helps you serve your clients better And if you have any questions about it, just shoot a comment below Give me a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button. Let me know what in the world I can do for you I'll talk to you soon


Will people be honest and share and talk about this because in your community, you are competing. And so we were like, will people look at this and say, oh, I don't want anyone to know my secrets or the tricks to the trade, because, you know, I want to hold it all myself. And so I appreciate you saying that. Well, I think if we're going to kind of carry the flag of collaboration and collective impact. We can't, we can't operate that way. Right. I mean, I think we're all in this, in this space, because we genuinely care about the well being of our communities. And that to me comes first and foremost, and I, I probably mentioned it before, and I'm guilty of being a broken record many times. But I never think of the fundraising academy as competition to anyone. You know, there's lots of great organizations out there that are providing really valuable professional development to the nonprofit sector. I don't think of us as competition I always look at us as how can we be a value add to what is already being offered to fundraisers.