Dedicated to the strength of the nation, starring Nancy Gild in The People Next Door, the United States Army and United States Air Force presentation. And our here is our producer, the well-known Hollywood showman, C.P. McGregor. Thank you, thank you very much, and greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to your Theatre of Stars, where the famous personalities of the motion picture world join us in plays we know you'll enjoy. Our star is the beautiful young actress, Nancy Gild, who appears for the first time in radio before our microphone, the title of our bright comedy, The People Next Door. We'll have the curtain for act one in just a moment, but first, here is your announcer with this important message. Choose the career that offers all five. The US Army offers you these five keys to a successful future. One, the right job for you. Two, continuous training in your job. Three, planned advancement. Four, lifetime security. Five, travel and recreation. Yes, men, choose the career that offers all five. Find out about the five keys to a successful future at your nearest Army and Air Force recruiting station. And I'll once again, our producer. The curtain rises on act one of The People Next Door, starring Nancy Gild as Pat Day. On a street that I know of, there are two houses, that is, two particular houses, and what a difference, like night and day. And what a coincidence. You see, George and Pat Day live in the day house, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Frumby Knight, that's K and I, G-H-T, live in the night house. Gee whiz, the day house is all white with green shutters and creamy curtains that nice windows that wink at you when you go by. But next door, the house is brick, blue brick, and peers with hotty disdain at the little white house through narrow bloodshot windows. And it has a mahogany door that sort of frowns and says, we don't want any.  Pat, patricial misanthrope day. Patricia? It ain't Santa Claus, it's George. Where is my one and only treasured razor blade? Come again. The one I've only shaved with three times? Oh, that one. Yeah, that one. Oh. I vaguely detect a slight note of the witness pleads guilty in that first sentence, oh. Well, George, you know that new dress I'm making. Go on. But just remember, anything you say can be used against you. Well, new dresses have to have patterns. And they have to be cut out. And I couldn't find the scissors. Razor blade? Yike. Remind me to divorce you first thing in the morning. Insufficient grounds. Mental cruelty. Hey, I know. What? If I might be so blamed inquisitive. The knights. Yeah, yeah, they're cold. And the days are wet and without razor blades. And the necessary simoleons to buy new ones. And maybe I could use an oyster shell. George. I read in a book once about a chamber to- Quiet, you babbling brook. We've only got four wine glasses. Yeah, that makes sense. Knee with a face like a powdered soap ad. And you crop up with, we've only got four wine glasses. So there'll be six of us for dinner. Four from six leaves, two. Correct is the very devil. Now where are we? If six of us are going to have chablis with our dinner, four wine glasses aren't enough. Catch, catch. Clear as the coffee you generally make, which ain't. No, Algenon. I don't catch, catch. You're thick. I said the knights, didn't I? Next door. Yeah, fine, good, terrific. Super duper, so what? So I'm going over and borrow a couple of wine glasses. And maybe, I said just maybe, I can vamp the old geezer. Vamp the old geezer? What for?  Now, catch, catch. Well, that's the day house, like bubbles in a glass of sparkling burgundy. But now, the switch to the night house next door to the living room, in fact, and what a living room. Mahogany-paneled walls, bold-legged French chairs that go, ah-ah, a couple of ancestors glowering down under their gilt frames in the wall, kibitzing Mr. and Mrs. Knight's whiskane.  Holy mackerel. I'll bid three clubs. It's yours. You know, Jebediah, something must be done about those young people next door. Well, what have they done now? Well, their dog was in our garden again this morning. Well, call the police. There's a law regarding the responsibility of dog owners. Why, I just can't call the police somehow, Jebediah. They're such children. They remind me of orphans in the storm. Such irresponsible children. They're both out of the adolescent stage from what I've seen of them. Oh, I know, Jebediah, in years, perhaps, but the way they live, hand to mouth, and they don't seem to care. They both Twitter like birds in a cage. And what they exist on, heaven only knows. Doesn't he have a job, or doesn't he work? Oh, she told me last week that he's inventing something, a great innovation of some sort, no doubt. No doubt.  Hopes to sell it when he's finished. Very unsound, very unsound indeed. Having parties two and three times a week, living as if they had a champagne income.  Someone ought to legislate a bill, making it illegal for people who contribute nothing to society, except a lot of nonsensical, flubbed debris. Oh, but, Jebediah, those two children aren't causing any harm. Nor are they causing any good. I tell you, young people today are going straight to the devil in a handbasket. Straight to the devil is precisely where they're going. No wonder the world is in the condition it's in. This younger generation completely lacks all sense of moral fiber. Oh, come now, Jebediah, they're not as bad as all that. You were young once yourself, you know. Indeed I was. Indeed I was. But let me tell you, I was a sensible young man. There was nothing flibidigibiddy about me. Had there been, my father would have taken it out of me with a burnt stick. Well, what have they done? That's the point. Not at all. It isn't what they've done. It's what they haven't done. Yes, indeed, what they haven't done. They flit about like grasshoppers. They toil if not, neither do they spin it. I should have to think where they're heading. Straight into perdition. That's where Abigail. Straight into the jaws of perdition. I've always thought that perdition was a place I didn't know it had jaws. Oh, Abby, that's only a figure of beats, my dear. A metaphor, so to speak. Oh, dear. Just still sit still. I'll see who it is. Probably somebody looking for somebody else. Good evening. Hello, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. I'm Mrs. Day. You don't know me. We live next door. I've come begging. Won't you come in, please? Mrs. Knight is in the living room. Thank you. Screwy night, isn't it? Looks like it might pile up to a dry drizzle and simply booble. Buckets and buckets, I mean. Who is it, Jebediah? Oh, good evening, Mrs. Day. Hello there. I've come seeking arms. Arms, my dear.  Of course. I wonder. I know it's terrible and simply awful of us. But could we borrow a couple of wine glasses? We've got company coming for dinner. And well, we did have six. But when the Jamersons were over last week, two of them went bung. Wine glasses? Just two, Mrs. Knight. And I'll drag them back first thing in the morning. We'll be grateful like mad. Of course, my dear. Come into the living room. What sort of wine glasses do you wish? What sort of wine are you saving? Well, George, he swears by the Almighty that it's shabby. But for a dollar and a half, it's not finished 29. I hope you don't mind terribly. Not in the least, my dear. George claims he can drink his out of a milk bottle. But I don't imagine that will look very lottie-dar, do you? Then you don't want only two glasses, my dear. Glasses should match, you know. Supposing I lend you six. Oh, gee. Oh, thanks a billion, Mrs. Knight. Have you enough silver? Oh, I think so. Mostly, counting the ones we got with the box top coupons. I shall lend you some silver. After all, a party must be well done, you know. And I just happen to think I have a damasked tablecloth that I haven't used for years. Would you like to use it? Oh, Mrs. Knight. Now, now, now. I'm only too glad to do it. We have so much. How is your husband? Swell. Crazier than ever. He's horrified at me going begging like this. He swears to leave me. The big dope should know he can't leave me. Do you want to know a secret? What is it, my dear? The storks made a nest in our chimney. You mean to say? Yes, I do. And, oh, boy, I hope it's a boy. You poor dear girl. Oh, no, no. Lucky, lucky me. That goony husband of mine leaves me alone so much. It'll be Swell just having someone to talk to. Oh, and I can't tell you how grateful I am for the glasses. We're throwing a wing ding, and we do want to make it nice. You're perfectly welcome, my dear. Oh. Yes? Just one more thing. Gosh, we're beggars. Oh, Mr. Knight. Yes, Mrs. Day? Could I ask an extra special favor? Yes, of course. What is it? Could you possibly see your way clear to lend that goopy husband of mine a razor blade? What corks your handcuffs or something? Oh, I've got my arms full. OK, you're right, you loot.  Glasses, scads of them, and enough silver to start a mint, sterling too. Here, help me. Oh, don't drop them. They're forged by Cellini or somebody, Crystal. Cellini didn't make glass, you crackpot. Where have you been on a quiz show or something? Nope. I've been turning on my wiles. Come again? You know they're the peachiest people. What people are the peachiest? The knights. Look, Ophelia Lumplump, stop talking in Sanskrit and start giving with the low down and the low down. Else I break every bone in your fragile little body.  Why? The nice things you can say to a girl. You make my heart go pitty, Pat. Stop running around the raspberry boys. It isn't Mayday. What'd you do, burgle the knights? No, by just when sashaying over to see them, put up my case, and here we are. Yeah, aren't we? Yep. And look, sweet Alice, surprise. What's that?  For me? Yes, a nice new razor blade. We pause briefly from our story, the people next door starring Nancy Gile to bring you an important message from your government. Choose the career that offers all five. The US Army offers you these five keys to a successful future. One, the right job for you. Scientific aptitude tests determine the right job for you. Two, continuous training in your job. Specialized training and educational courses prepare you for advancement in your field. Three, planned advancement. Under the Army's advancement plan, your skill and efficiency will assure periodic promotions. Four, lifetime security. You as an Army man are guaranteed regular pay and liberal retirement benefits. In sickness, your medical care is provided without cost, and your regular pay continues. Five, travel and recreation. In the Army, you will enjoy the finest recreational facilities and opportunities for worldwide travel. Remember, you have 30 days vacation with pay each year. Yes, choose the career that offers all five. Get full details at your nearest Army and Air Force recruiting station. The curtain rises on act two of the people next door starring Nancy Gile as Pat Day. On that very special street that I know of, the arc light is hissing and sputtering all manner of horrid gossip to the Blue Brick House while mixing up a fresh batch of yellow light and the pavement in which are swimming all manner of crazy things, beetles and gnats, all keeping time to the very gay music that pours in a laughing cascade out of the windows and smiling door of the day house. But next door in the Blue Brick House, Jebediah and Abigail Knight are upstairs in bed. Not asleep though. How could anyone sleep with that racket going on? So Jebediah grunts and snorts and spins like a flying saucer and reaches that precarious mental state in which is described in colloquial terms as my, my. Isn't that awful? Abby, I'm going to call the police. There are laws in this community to protect decent citizens. Now you do know such thing, Jebediah. Irresponsible imbeciles creating an unholy disturbance at this time of night? I'll admit they're a bit noisy, Jebediah, but it's only 10 o'clock. Time all decent people were in bed. Jebediah. What? We're getting terribly old. Oh, nonsense. And with it, we're becoming nasty and grumpy people.  When that little Mrs. Day came over this evening to borrow the wine glasses, I couldn't help thinking. Jebediah, she was like a breath of spring morning air. She reminded me of a bouquet of first violets with her eyes sparkling like dew drops. They're a pair of irresponsible jackenapes. Not a thought in the world beyond the tip of their noses borrowing wine glasses and a razor blade. I don't know what the world's coming to, going straight to the dogs. Jebediah, do you remember when we were first married? I remember we didn't throw wild parties and borrow razor blades. But we had taffy pools and hay rides. And I used to borrow a cup of sugar once in a while from Mrs. Perkins next door. Different, different. We assumed our responsibilities. I worked like a dog so that we might eventually be secure. Which we are, Jebediah, and what does it mean? You and I live alone in this old house. We have money enough in the bank to buy anything we want. But we don't want anything. Well? You and I remind me of two dried up withered apples, Jebediah, in the bottom of a dark barrel. Oh, I know those children next door carelessly responsible here today, gone tomorrow. But listen to them laugh. How long has it been since we've laughed, Jebediah? I can see nothing enviable in their wine cackling. Jebediah, I'm worried about those children. For the first time in more than 20 years, I know what it means to worry. Nonsense. They don't worry about themselves, so why should you disturb yourselves? That's just it, my dear. They don't worry about themselves. They don't worry or seem to care where tomorrow's meal is coming from. And there's a baby on its way. Their deliberate misfortunes are no concern of ours, Abigail. Perhaps not theirs, Jebediah. A helpless little wave coming into a world to parents who borrow wine glasses and haven't the vaguest notion of how much care and protection babies need. I'm thinking, Jebediah, of our own son. If God had only been willing, he should have lived. Somehow I wonder about the fairness of it all. We, who could give our child everything under the sun, every advantage, and yet our child was only born to breathe once or twice and return home. I never even had the chance to hear him cry. And there's the game. And there's the days, happy and carefree as locks, and their baby already sliding down the moon beams. Oh, perhaps I'm just a silly, sentimental old woman, Jebediah, but I can't help feeling a dreadful responsibility for those foolish people next door. Light on my face. You think I'm goofy? Come on, come on. Well, what's the flamin' ruckus? Look. Holy jumping, Josephette. Patricia, crackpot day. What cooks? Isn't that the sweetest bassinet you've ever seen? And look at these quilts, real down. Yeah. And look at these boxes, George. Oodles and gobs of dresses and nightgowns and dozens of doodads. And there's even a bottle for sterilizing and a folding bathtub. Suffering, great admahitabelle. Pat, you didn't charge all this stuff, did you? No. Well, then how come? I don't know. What do you mean, you don't know? Look, Murgatroy, the one about the fairy godmother went out with mustache cups. All I know is, George, that this afternoon a truck drove up from the Emporium. The man said, are you Mrs. Day? And I said, yes. And he said, Mrs. George Day. And I said, yes. And he said, this stuff is for you. And just then, a taxi rolled up and five more fell out. Honest, George, that's exactly what happened. Somebody is nuts. I even called the Emporium and said they'd made a mistake. But they said no, they hadn't. We had the right name, and this was the right address. And that's all they'd tell me. Maybe we have got a fairy godmother, George. Well, Fui, I don't want any fairy godmothers cluttering up the place and be perfectly able to buy our own stuff when the time comes. Get my invention sold and, well, Patricia, send all this stuff back. They won't take it back. I've already asked. Well, they can't do this to me, whoever it is. Well, I'll go to the law. I'll take it to the Supreme Court. George Sylvester Day is not, never has been and never will be an object of charity. I guess I've got my self-respect. And if necessary, when George Sylvester Day junior is born, he can sleep in a shoebox. I've been scuttled and maligned, and yes, humiliated. Oh, stop waving your arms and screeching. Somebody's at the door. And furthermore, if I catch up with this snake in the grass, what? Somebody's at the door. See who it is. Oh, maybe it's some more pixies with a cartel of Chippendale furniture and 42 grand pianos. Yeah? Oh, I beg your pardon. Good afternoon, Mr. Day. Well, how do you do? I'm Mrs. Knight from next door. Is Mrs. Day at home? Yeah, she's at home. Won't you come in? Thank you. Patricia. Hello there, Mrs. Knight. I'm terribly sorry to burst in on you this way, Mrs. Day. Not in the least.  And I was just wondering if you could lend me a cup of sugar.   He gained another two ounces this week. He eats like a horse. Oops, a daisy, my sweetie, can you get all ready for a trip in the pea green boat?  I forgot his nightgown. Would you hold him for a moment, Mrs. Knight, while I get it? Oh, I'd love to hold him. Over you go, darling, to your fairy godmother. Come on, darling. Come on. That's the big boy. I'll just be a moment. I am your fairy godmother, darling. And oh, what fun it's been. And what fun it's going to be for a long, long time. Tell anybody, will you? It's our secret, just between you and me. Yes.  Only he couldn't stay very long. I guess he had other things to do. And you know, I'll bet if you could only talk, you could tell me about him before you get older and forget. I know that you know him. You must have been very good friends. Darling, I think that's the reason you decided to come here to the people next door. Glasses, Mr. Knight. Abigail, which reminds me, Georgie. Of what, Mr. Knight? That's it, Mr. Knight. People who live next door shouldn't be so blame-formal. If Patricia's going to be Pat and Abigail's going to be Abbey, you've got to stop calling me Mr. Knight. The name's Jebediah. So you, Georgie, from here on out, I'll be just per... The name's Jebbey, Mrs. Day. The name is Pat, Mr. Knight. OK, Pat. OK, Jebbey. Hey, Jebbey. Yes, Pat. Do you think you could find your way clear to lend my screwy husband a razor blade? The curtain falls in the final act of the people next door. Our star, Nancy Gile, will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles. Valuable professional assignments in the Army Medical Department are now available to a limited number of young doctors. In these positions, doctors have a chance to work closely with top specialists in the various fields of medicine and keep abreast of the newest developments in the finest modern medical equipment. In addition to regular pay and allowances, they receive $100 per month professional pay. For details, write the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, Washington 25 DC. Now once again, our star and our producer. Nancy, since this is your first appearance in our theater, I want to officially introduce you to our audience and compliment you on a fine portrayal. Thank you, CP, but confidentially, your microphone scares me to death. What? After working with Orson Welles and Black Magic and a little thing like a microphone frightens you? That was a wonderful experience for me to make that picture in Italy with him. But Mr. Welles is exhausting, not frightening like a microphone. In what way? Well, as you know, the entire cast, except for just a few of us, were all Italian or French. So when Mr. Welles disgusts anything, just anything at all with us or with Mr. Rattle, the director, he didn't exactly whisper. So the cast thought he was quarreling with you and with the director? Well, yes, that's it. And being energetic and a very hardworking person, we'll keep pace, that's all. And that is exhausting. And another thing, I played two parts. One is Mr. Welles' wife and the other is Marie Antoinette. Well, Mr. Rattle, for strictly a morning man. And I know Orson is an afternoon and evening worker. Exactly. So with two parts, I worked hard every minute, which was doubly difficult. I can appreciate that. Now what have you been doing in the past year and a half in pictures? I know you're under contract to 20th Century Fox. Well, I've temporarily retired for the most important job in the world. I have a little daughter. Oh, that's fine, Nancy. How old is she now? Elizabeth Ann is just six months old. Ah, you should have brought her along with you. No, no, I shouldn't, CP. You'd put her in radio, and she's entirely too young to know what she wants to do. But I let her listen to you every week. Well, I appreciate that anyway. By the way, who is starring with you next week? Next week, Nancy, and ladies and gentlemen, we shall have the Queen of the West, none other than lovely Dale Evans, to star in a great Texas story of water rights, feuds, and romance titled Troubled Waters. Don't miss it. That should be good, and we'll be listening. Goodbye, CP. Goodbye, Nancy. And I sincere thanks again for being with us. Be sure to listen next week, ladies and gentlemen, for Dale Evans in Troubled Waters. Until then, thanks for listening, and cheerio from Hollywood. Nancy Gale appears at the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee, which arranges for the appearance of all stars in this program. The script was by Kimbal S. Sant with the music of Eddie Dunstead. This program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time. Wendell Niles speaking.


Thanks, I hope you're all okay with the recording, but there's a lot of people that asked if we could record. And, you know, post your name and where you're from in the chat, so folks know where people are coming in from. And then we can get started. I'm Jodi Evans and I'm one of the co-founders of food pink and the local piece economy project eight years ago. And I'm Emily Franco. I'm the local piece company coordinator at code pink and I've been with good things since last May, helping to build some of the tools that we have shared with you will continue to share with you support people on the local piece economy journey. So like Jodi said, please continue to put your name and where you're calling in from in the chat. And we're going to drop in a little bit before we go any deeper. As Jodi said last week, we start with culture, music, poetry, art. So we're going to start with the poem tonight. Similar to how we did last week. And it's called you start dying slowly as a moment to drop in and some attribute this poem to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and others attributed to Brazilian poet Martha Medeiros, and I wasn't able to find a clear attribution either way, but I think the message is really important. So let's take a moment to ground. Feel your feet. Feel your seat. If you're sitting down. Take a breath. Next to your belly. Next to your heart. You start dying slowly. You start dying slowly. If you do not travel. If you do not read. If you do not listen to the sounds of life. If you do not appreciate yourself.  When you do not let others help you. You start dying slowly. If you become a slave of your habits, walking every day on the same paths. If you do not change your routine. If you do not wear different colors, or you do not speak to those you don't know. You start dying slowly if you avoid to feel passion and their turbulent emotions. Those which make your eyes glisten and your heart beat fast. You start dying slowly. If you do not change your life. When you are not satisfied with your job or with your love. If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain. If you do not go after a dream. You do not allow yourself at least once in your lifetime to run away from sensible advice. Thank you. I just, you know, again say welcome and the ways we pivot to are the ways of Indigenous cultures around the world. They are the ways that they learn to let peace and harmony and justice serve their communities. They knew we could all fall into crevices and get lost. There were ways that the community knew the behaviors were just that and not an indictment of the person or even the animal. They were attuned to the health of the planet and the people and all things living. We have so horribly lost our way and are thinking and feeling scrambled by the flood of toxic lies fueled by greed, power and trauma. The war economy works very hard to divest you from you from the community and then use you your heart and your mind as tools for its goals. So as we do this pivot. Just a reminder it's not a quick fix. It's been a long time in the work. So, yes, we must continue to expose the war economy. Just asking a few people to mute. Cool, thank you. So, yeah, it's not a quick fix. Yes, we must continue to expose the war economy disrupt it block it whenever possible. But we must cultivate a future. Because even in the work to block it it's owning us it's diverting our attention to what is necessary, which is the future. The cultivating a future also makes us more effective in addressing the war economy, as our roots deep and enriching into what lives inside of all of us. And we become a tuning fork for others. It helps them also find their way out, and it creates clarity. And we all know in this moment clarity is very hard to come by. Last week we we went in depth about what the local piece economy is and what we're working on and that recording is available, if any of you missed it but I want each week to be fresh and different so we're always learning so the recordings will be available for people who miss them. Since we were together two weeks ago, we've been watching a battle between the rules based order dictator Biden and company, destroying Gaza and her people and crush international laws. You know just today, the penalties for standing with South Africa are being leveled against the countries. That that stood there, innocent countries, all they did was stand against genocide, and the State Department is now declaring them not safe to travel to which will hurt their economy. So, I have never thought that this could happen so fast. But I think there's something to look at here. Right now, there is nothing in the way. The hegemony and the power of the United States, it's 75% of the weapons on the planet and nuclear weapons. As it was nothing in the way we threw international law at it, and it threw it back and everyone's faces on funding on rough, going at the countries that were with South Africa, basically saying, you know, we don't care about your international law, we rule, we have the weapons. I mean, we're literally back to the days of Genghis Khan. So that means that we're looking at the moment we live in in history. And we know that part of what it tries to do is overwhelm and depress us. Together because it is always the people that create change. And so here we are cultivating a future together. And so remembering it takes time. Pass has been laid by Israel for 75 years, the US hegemony for longer. But we've seen that it is people that we can't invest in power. We have to be investing in people. It's hard because you know, sorry, we've been actually, we've been taught to get caught up in this other world, but we're going to create another one.  That's how they went. And it's we're creating a community. So we have each other to go to. So we have arms to hold. So we remember what the truth is. And I want to talk about a couple of ways that cultivating a local peace economy also works with engaged activism. Firstly, we have a victory. The biggest city so far Chicago voted the city council voted to stand for a ceasefire. Now, who made that happen. Local peace economy organizations, those people working on healthcare working on housing, working locally on the things that are essential for life. And this is one of the people that made the difference. And not only that that last deciding vote. He said, I don't really want to vote this way, but you have forced me to. And we hear that from the members of Congress that we have moved to say divest. It is people power, it is pressure. But where did that power come together. And then cultivating peace locally. It came in organizing and community that force. Everyone in the, you know, the blocking entire halls of the whole city hall of the city hall of Chicago. Every single one of those people were people who work on the local peace economy. There are people who work on what issues matter to the people's needs those are the people that work on life. So when I say, you know, it's it's integrated. It's like when you're doing the work, but when you need to do the other work, you're there together. And it was layers and layers and layers of local peace economy projects. And it was those people who are local those people who create power that forced this vote to happen. It's a great thing to get engaged in locally and, you know, it could pink even help you we're not here to talk about that and it's a great way for local peace economy projects to work together too. But I wanted to share that with you. And then I wanted to talk about what happened in San Francisco, and how, when you're doing this work.  And that's because when you're serving life, life is serving you. And it's kind of the way the pivots happens if you get deeper into the pivots you'll all of a sudden see there's something magical that happens it's like that pivot starts to serve you in a way that you didn't recognize or have available to you before. But another example is San Francisco. So the San Francisco crew have been engaged with the local peace economy since I started they were there with me day one. Many of them are created, like even peace economy center San Jose, got a whole house and they they teach gardening and cultivated a lot of front front gardens that were feeding communities and many many ways that they cultivate a local peace economy in the Bay Area it's it's really the, the, I don't know the pot of gold of local peace economies between Richmond and Oakland and Berkeley and San Francisco. One of the things that they do together and infused by the local peace economy is you know partly it's just what is life look what is joyful what is pleasure you know all the things that make life beautiful. And for the last 20 years they've done teas and picnics and teachings and been a beautiful things happening and Nancy Pelosi's house to ask her to have a meeting and talk to her that they'd like to teach her why war is a bad idea and it kills mothers and children and, and it's been quite beautiful. A few months ago, right after October, seven, they went over and they did a dying in front of her car so we couldn't leave. And she got very angry and told them to go back to China. And then the on Sunday we see her say something even more outrageous that the activism for Gaza is must be fueled by Putin, and that ceasefire is really Putin's message. So that has just world around the world as a way of a window and a spotlight to look back at how crazy all this is to help people understand the insanity. That's all the risen out of a local peace economy. So I wanted you to be able to see how activism and local peace economy go together. And those are two just examples from this week. But from the last meeting we were working on pivots. And so I want to talk a little bit about the pivots and where they came from. As I, as I saw, oh, wow, we're not going to end where to we in the war economy. And my deep look at like okay what's the war economy and what does it do and how does it affect us. Thank you john yes we get life from what we give so I think that's a, we should keep up with you because that's what the local peace economy work is when we're giving to life it goes back. That is a truth that comes out of this work. So the pivots have been kind of created over time, as we saw the things that the war economy forces us into a lot of people working on it, which share them. We have what we've developed over the years but I please, please, please, if you find one, if you're in something and you see this is an addiction and something doesn't serve life and it doesn't serve you, and it would be better this way. Please feel free to share us you can always send Emily or bring it as an offering to one of these calls because we're all learning together. This is, you know, it's a it's a fabric that we're weaving together. So pivots. We really want to hear this week, how the pivots went for you. What, what did you learn, how did it affect you, how do you feel, and maybe should. I want to just share just a couple of my favorites from people who've shared with me just a couple to get you this kind of fuel the conversation. One was a few years ago someone started, and they came back to me, and they said, Oh my God, did you know we lived in a field of generosity. As soon as I started being generous as soon as I started paying attention, and it was giving things away all of a sudden I realized, oh my God, the world is so generous. Things were coming back to me I would give and something gave back. So that was, that was one that I must have heard over and over and over again. And the other one was about sharing joy. And so, Emily has pasted in the chat, the pivots, if some of you are new and haven't seen them, they're turning 23 ways for you to divest war economy. I call them addictions because when you're not being nourished.  That's a fake nourishment. It's not really nourishing you so you get lost in that kind of hamster wheel, instead of the behaviors that do nourish you that do have you experiencing and being fed by life, fed by life and life feeding back as as we heard earlier. So I'd like to break you into groups of three. And for you to share either how your week with the pivots were, or if you weren't here last week. Take a look at the list and see, you know what, where you see the ones that speak to you. And I guess we'll give you all 10 minutes, three people is and, you know, and also just a chance to get to know each other and to get to have a conversation about the pivots. So, let's see, I just want to check, we've got one, two, three, see 24. Oh, perfect seven. So we'll break you into groups of seven. And that'll give you time. And, um, okay, so how did you work with the pivots last week. What did you learn what was surprising, what was joyful, it was interesting. And then for those of you that didn't have the pivots to work with take a look at the list and say, you know, what are the ones that look like you'd like to work with them next week. So we'll see you back in 10 minutes. I hope you all had a nice time together. And so I'm, I'm now going to also I just want to acknowledge like how many of you are local food pinkers and organized locally, and just deepest gratitude for all of that, and all that you do. And just, I, I'm just so grateful to be with all you amazing peacemakers and cares for peace. So I'm going to turn it over to Emily to start us learning what happened in your breakouts. Yeah, we'd love to hear from you. Hopefully, someone from each breakout room and share. What's something that struck you from your conversation something you're taking away. I just want to share first or I'll actually let us go from break out from the breakout room. And I'm not going to use my name directly. And we now goes. Yes hi. I was at one from Arizona and it seemed it went very quickly. Well, myself, I should say that this is my first time so I was kind of reviewing the pivots the piece. And then Moji and I shared some of his background and I started to share mine. But interestingly enough, it sounds like Moji is kind of well on the road with this kind of approach. I'm still learning some of the language and some of what the concepts are. So that's what I learned. And it was enjoyable, although short. So Moji, yeah. So Moji is kind of in the piece economy and is more deeply steeped in these practices. You know, when I'm in Iran, I understand that, you know, how much some some cultures still exist that are more deeply rooted in the piece economy and you know, us in the United States it's like we're like, we've been stripped stripped away for so long. But Moji's ahead of a little bit ahead of all of us. Thank you so much. It's practice. It's not about perfection. And we're all entering from where we're entering from. Great. So the next group to. Okay. Pamela Tom and whoever is named admin on here. I'm not sure what your name is, but anyone from that group care to share. What struck you what you learn what you're leaving with leaving that conversation with. Well, I'll share. We had a very lively conversation that Alice is a third member. And the time went quickly. What we came up with was like how familiar the pivots actually are in our prior work and that this is not brand new, but it's something we've been trying to develop for anybody who's trying to make the world a better place. These things speak to us. You know, so it's not a brand new language. It was applied by one person in the group is using in the church group, for example, you know, and having a little group in that context. So it's very flexible and adaptable these pivots because they are universal. Another thing that came up was that these are all attributes of that refer to inner spiritual development or growth as human beings. So whatever we want to cultivate in the world needs to be cultivated within us, you know, if we have to live with the real conviction that we're pivoting from scarcity to abundance. So we have to live with that, whatever one you want to pick rushing to wisdom, we have can't be rushing that they're like be able to have the wisdom to appreciate the beauty in the world. And it's not all heaviness. There's still a lot of beauty. And you can any one of the pivot could be unpacked that way, like how am I personally myself, cultivating that pivot in my inner life, and then practicing in a community, you know, and that's how we bring it to the world, not by telling them about the pivots, but by living the pivots. I think that's the point.  Yeah, absolutely a number of them one I'll speak up briefly is the one about. Relationality transactional to relational. And it came about in in the in Wisconsin like we're talking about rural politics a lot we've been reading the Jordan County Dems, I read a book called dirt road revival. And it's all about like, how do we relate to the rural population because a lot of our presidential national politics and is just like so focused on the urban centers. And that builds resentment. There's a whole book, the politics of resentment in Wisconsin. That's why Trump did as well as he did here, because he like got them, you know. So how do you meet these people and this idea of relationality has to be at the core of our work, rather than transactional being like, if I give you this you'll give me this if I explain it the right way you'll believe that what I want you to believe, you know, it's all this that if this has to be set aside and left to pivot is towards. Who are you. How are you feeling. And that relationship between beings rather than looking at them as another vote that you want to get. Thank you that that's beautiful and I also think it speaks to this moment as we're watching the dehumanization of Palestinians. You know, like, as we say to look in the mirror of what's happening. It's that same thing you're talking about Tom when do we dehumanize in our lives. And that pivot from transactional to relational is a real pivot into not dehumanizing and we, none of us think we do it. But it is so it's the scariest one to me I have to say coping we work on it all the time, because we all of a sudden find ourselves like wanting results and wanting. I mean, nobody wants to behave the way we do but our minds are so acclimated to it. And so, you know, it's a it is the I find it's the hardest one, because of the bad habits that we're in. But to be relational like you say Tom is, you know, that is, I think the core practice is to because it'll catch just every day it'll you know that's the one that I get caught up with every day. Especially when I go too fast. Transaction shows up right away. So, so thank you for that. Yes, thank you Tom. Next group is John Rachel and Sue Ellen. John why don't you go because you talked mostly about your book that you had read. I think John you need to unmute. Yeah. I don't really have much to say except that I'm really really concerned. I think it as all of us were in the group I was in about the matter of what to do in November, none of us want to vote for either party and the and and the third party various third parties aren't viable. John, so guess what that is not what we, one of my things about elections is that if you cultivate a local piece economy, you will know how to vote. If you create a community, everyone in the community will know how to vote. And I'm looking for surprises. And I think the more that we build what we are building around Gaza, the more the people fall away. The more surprises will happen. And for me when we look at elections, I call that by being used by the war economy, because if we think we live in a democracy were diluted. So, you know, don't let that pattern that gets hooks us in have any power over you right now. It is a failure. It is not please do not anyone here give any of your time to that. If you cultivate a local piece economy, if you work together for life, everyone in your community will know what to do on Election Day. But boy, that the industry that is elections is at $4 trillion industry. It's at $4 trillion out and manipulates hearts and minds into either or. One of those pivots is about this either or us them, and it takes us into an us them that unroots us from our heart, it unroots us from our mind. It distorts us.   Yours will be nourished. Yours will be stronger years will be more beautiful. And everyone will want know what to do Election Day. And I feel that by cultivating local piece economies by cultivating locally by being in communities, something there will be another choice. And it's not for us, you know, it's not for us to create except by creating the soil for it. And I see that both in our local piece economy work, and in our, you know, are organizing against war. It's building. There's something building. Stay in the build.  You cannot look at this moment right now and think that democracy. I mean, first, I just there is no democracy. 80% of Democrats say, you know, they want to ceasefire and nobody's listening. If you look at the numbers we you can look at Twitter on code pink today, we have the numbers of how many members have said ceasefire. It's like, you know, 8% and 26% Senate and Congress with all of all of the country at like 80, you know, 80, no, 70% 80 with the Democrats. That's not a democracy. So let's not get caught up in that thing. I'm promising you that like by an election day, let's create something totally different by creating the soil for something really surprising to happen. So sorry, John, if there is anything else you want to say that was because it sounds like you read a book you like. I think that I think that John's got confused. John Russell was with me and I don't know who else, but he basically summarized our group so nobody mentioned the last name. So Ellen and I were right in the middle of her discussion of the pivot from urgency to wisdom. And she got cut off because I talked too long from the start. But I'm fully behind. And I'm sorry you got so impassioned there, Jody. Sorry to John Russell, but I'm fully alive in your interpretation of the change we seek in the world. We are the change, as Gandhi said, it starts with us and it's all about perspective attitude. It's all about leading through example. Organize and lead your organized. Well, the organization committee is led by example. So when you are when you are living. Life with the perception that there are other alternatives besides this or that. That there's a road maybe that goes along. Goodness and badness. Well, that's that's contrary to I don't know that's hard for me to think out of the contrarianism. But there are other ways of viewing reality. And if we're not for capitalism's. Hegemonizing the world the planet. We might have native native cultures leading our, especially our, our progress our human development. So John, so thank you because I think what you nailed there is another one that's kind of hard. Which is, you know, the us them, you know, and right wrong that the, you know, instead of seeing the whole picture and the acceptance and that and that and that we are all it. And it is, you know, so having a relationship with instead of an, you know, an adversary. Being able to open our hearts and minds to be able to see all of it and at the core, what causes something to happen instead of hating it. I like to see it changing from the digital to the analog back to the analog where I look at the world. No, it's it's a melding of everything rather than a pixel of everything. So, John, we call that a proxy. And I think thank you for naming that because I think we don't recognize how much we live in relationship to proxies. You know, I say where we get the menu but not the meal.  There's this thing in the way these these filters that are inter that have an effect on us that we're not. We're not so aware of when they're happening. But I like your analog analog digital analog we should add that one Emily that you know that how much can you move your day from digital the analog is another great practice. This was with somebody that did a whole month without a cell phone except for the just the flip phone so people could find them. And the recognition of how much of our world and how we get along in the world is controlled by this thing that distances us so it goes back to transaction relationship but thank you. There you go John you're leading the way thank you. But it also is empowering you know with my grandkids and see they can't even do their multiplication tables because they always have something else doing it for them and how does the not using our brains affect the future. So thank you john I'll let Emily call in the next group. Thanks John thanks Jody. Barbara and Carol. What happened to your group. Oh Carol I think you're muted. I guess I've been at the previous one, and we didn't know too many of the pivots but I talked about the connection of my community church, which is very focused on justice and peace and Barbara and I got to know each other and formed a connection that was special. Barbara did you have anything nice to let me do a lot of talking and kind of getting a lot of stuff off of my chest so I really appreciate it. And it would have been nice to have more time. Yeah. Yay, yay for relating well you can talk to each other in the chat and give each other your phone numbers or emails and continue the conversation. Yeah, thanks. Great. Dominic joy and Ronald's. What are you, what are you learning what pivots do you work with a volunteer if my new partners allow me. We, the three of us Ronald and joy we were also kind of new to this group I mean to the pivots idea. So, joy kindly read all of them and we were, I think all very impressed by the, as someone said earlier, the, you know, the sport on code spiritual level of these pivots and one thing joy kind of being a poet and I as an artist and a writer encourage her to see her poetry as a means to, you know, to talk about peace because you know artists have a big voice, which I think is only being discovered now. So I hope and joy did say that one of the poems which was I think about peace was published recently so we both rejoice for that. And it was a great meeting and I love code pink. And I'm a peace activist but I'm not always able to come to your groups but this is very, very special, because I can see the reunion of activism and and whatever you call this other side which I call spiritual. Some people may not like that word but it is sort of, you know, the more metaphysical aspect of things and, you know, we have separated things so much, you know, and now it's time to reunite them and so I get very excited when I'm in a group like this. You know, I can speak I'm an elder. And I get very excited and very grateful to be here tonight. Thank you. And if we could get that poem maybe sent to Emily so that we could share the poem with the whole group that would be lovely. And Dominique and I forgot someone else mentioned earlier the spiritual. So, when I say the roots and when I talk about that it takes us to ourselves. I mean, isn't that spirit and you know, every, why is every religion say the same thing, you know, why, because it's truth, because in the end it's the truth. But we've been, you know, diverted away from the essence. And I think what you're saying Dominique is the essence of being the essence of life and if, if life is, you know, a spirit and you know so yes it's all in there and like I've said from the very very beginning, we're not writing any of this we're just trying to pull it back into a past that we can all follow out of into. But you know like Moji's, you know Moji, Moji comes from Iran is a peace economy, like, giving sharing all of that is just Moji's way of being, because he was raised in it it's like Iran's not a capitalist culture. He's economy socialist culture a lot of the Middle East is that way. So they're a lot closer indigenous communities don't have to think about this. You know, mostly that have been really living inside of community that's a root. And we're all trying to find our way back and together, because we learn together and we learn in relationship. And so I'm loving the relationship buddings and please you know if you want to stay together right to each other in the chat and give each other your emails. So grateful and yes culture is at the core of like how we create change and nourish our hearts to thank you Emily back to you. And we're coming up against time but I think we have one or two more rooms Joshua Macy and Robert.


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Hi, welcome to You Are Home Live. Today we are towards Pomfret Hall. My name is Alidia and I'll be giving your tour today. Right now we're standing up here by the front entrance of Pomfret right by the front desk. One quick thing to note, every resident will get a set of keys. This will have a fog for security and that fog will be right here and that's how you'll get in. But this door will be unlocked for most of the day while our desk is open and our dining hall is open so any student can access the dining halls and desks. But yeah, we'll go ahead and start our tour up here. So behind the camera, I'm not going to show myself, but it's Reid. I've done a couple of the other tours. I'm a senior conference ambassador this summer and I will be able to answer and kind of ask Alidia questions as you have them so feel free to send them whenever. But yeah, we can go ahead and get on to the tour. We'll just start up here by the front door. This is Pig Theory. This is one of our dining options on campus. It's going to be open like during the evening, Sunday through Thursday and that can be used for like a meal train. It's barbecue. It's pretty good. I've had it a couple times. I've lived in Pomfret as well. I did the maple tours and yeah, I've lived on campus a couple years. You're the National Hot Chicken Sandwich? I am. They do have a pretty good National Hot Chicken Sandwich. Yeah, I'm gonna have to try it. I've never tried it before. What about the... You mentioned buses. Yes. Do you want to show off here or you want to show it off later? Oh, I can go ahead and talk about it. So if you're living in Pomfret, you're like, I'm at the bottom of the hill. I'm gonna have to walk to that big old hill every day. You don't. There is a bus system that runs and there is a bus. It's going to be a route that runs to lot 56 and there is a bus stop right out here outside of Pomfret by the bee wing and those buses run about every five minutes during the peak hours like the morning when classes are going and you can just hop on that bus and take a little 20-minute ride and I'll take you right up to the union so you do not have to walk that big old hill every day. I didn't. I never walk that hill. And when we get closer to that area, I'll kind of show you where the bus stop will be as far as like in relation to Pomfret. There's also a bus stop across from Pomfret. That's gonna be a different bus. That one also goes in the campus but it's not as frequent and that's not the one most students take. But yeah, I do believe it's route 11 that most students do take up the campus so route 44 also comes through here. It's just not as frequent. But yeah, if you want to head down with me, here's our front desk. This is our desk admin. She helps process all our packages, our mail, everything you need. This is where you're gonna come and get like cooking equipment, pool equipment, ping pong equipment. You can check anything out here, get your mail and packages. Our desk admin works from 8 to 4 every day. And then after that, there's always gonna be an RA at this desk until like around 10 p.m. or midnight depending on the day. But yeah, if you head over this way, these are our mailboxes. This is where you're gonna get all your paper mail. Each student has a mailbox or their room has a mailbox. That code will be in the U.R. housing portal under my details, that combination for that and what mailbox you have. But yeah, over here is Pomfret's ceiling. We won't be touring C or D-wing, but just now C-wing is right on a desk. Yeah, we'll start headed this way towards some more stuff. And no elevator in C or D? Yes. D-wing is the only one with an elevator. But yeah, Pomfret's really well known for its community spaces. It was renovated in 2019. It's very nice. But yeah, this is one of our many community spaces. This is gonna have a printer and some study space. A lot of people do come in here to study, do coursework, whatever you need. And then right here is our printer. It only prints in black and white. But yeah, and there's also a community space outside right here. It does include a lot of seating, some really cool Edison bulb lights. Really nice. It's a cute little room. It's very nice. I've done homework in there many times. We'll head down here. D-wing is gonna be on this side of the building. We won't be headed on that way today. Just know if you do live in D-wing, you're gonna be on that side. Right here is Pomfret dining hall. That one's also a really big dining option. It is open from 8 to 8 every day, I believe. The hour is a bit varied. There's gonna be a dining live tomorrow, so tune in for that for more dining information. But just know Pomfret inside the residence hall has two dining locations. That's one of the many perks of living here. Here we're gonna come into the laundry room of C and D-wing. We get two wash and dry cycles per week, and then after that it's $1.50 per cycle. You can add money to that account using Apple Pay or any other debit card. But you just want to walk in here and you can share what I know. Yeah, they have one of the flyers up that you can see. More information about it is right here. But it's a speed queen. I would recommend going ahead and downloading that for when you get here. And there will be instructions on the housing website as well, I believe, about how to access your laundry account. But yes, it's really good for knowing if someone opens up your laundry while you're not there. It'll notify you if it gets opened. And I'll let you know if all the washers and dryers are full, so you don't have to walk all the way down here and find out if they're all full. What's the day to do laundry, would you say? I always do my laundry stupidly late at night or in the middle of the day when no one else was doing it. The bad days are Sundays and like the weekends because everyone wants to do their laundry on the weekends during the day.  Smart. Yes. Or like super late at night, but not everyone's up that late. But yes, this is going to be the laundry room for C and D wing. B wing has its own laundry room. We'll get, we'll head down here. I believe you can access D wing, or yes, D wing from this level. This is going to be one of the entrances from the parking lot. Yeah, there's some more community spaces at the end of this hallway. But this is going to be where you're going to come in during move in. A lot of people, if you're only moving in to see your D wing. And then right here, here's the entrance of D wing. There is like a little community space specifically for viewing. This is fog access only. So I want to just roll them here and use it. But yeah, here's a community space that's open for everyone. A lot of people use this for studying, coursework. You'll see more of it as we come in here. There's a little kitchenette area right here with a community fridge. And here we have a bigger community space. This is good for like group work, individual studying. There's some whiteboards. When I lived here, I saw a lot of people using this. Really cool space. Again, Pomfrey has a lot of community space. It's one of the many perks of living here because there's not a lot of community space within the halls. Like where residents live, the bigger space is all going to be like centralized here. And it looks like we have our CRE for Pomfrey together. This is Leslie. Do you want to introduce yourself? Good afternoon. I'm Leslie Parker. I'm the CRE of Pomfrey Hall. I wanted to my fourth year as a CRE, second year overseeing Pomfrey. And I did stay here when I was a freshman. So it's gone full circle. The space you're in now is currently honestly being renovated. We're still working some stuff around to make it even more of a collective study space for students. So not only is this classroom, those desks that you just saw are pretty much brand new. We got those from the Arkansas Traveller Student Newspaper this summer. We're also in the process of again, doing some minor renovations here, just getting some updated furniture, as well as making the private study spaces in here a little bit more accessible. I can't promise you that refrigerator will be here. So don't think on that. But yeah, we're trying to constantly make upgrades to Pomfrey because it is a great building. So yeah. Perfect. Thank you. We'll start heading back over into more community spaces in the great room. That's going to be a big chunk of those tours community spaces. I think Pomfrey does a great job at like connecting people that you probably wouldn't meet otherwise. These community spaces are kind of crucial to creating community on the University of Arkansas, which I would also argue is a huge pride of basically the University in and of itself. Yes. And I think that's really awesome. I guess I'll talk a little bit about myself while we're doing this little long walk. I'm a Lydia again. I'm a senior information systems and studio art double major. I actually worked out at the creative community. That is going to be another perk of living down here. That's going to be in a dohee, but all students have access to it. We have things like laser cutters, tree printers, sewing machines, crickets, all sorts of stuff. So if you ever have free time, go down to a dohee and check that out. You'll see me there working. It's my second year working there. Amazing. It's a lot of fun. We're coming up on the great room here. This is going to be the biggest community space in comfort. Little tables. Whole lot of saying and there's a lot of little different rooms in here. So we'll go look through this. Yeah. The first room you're going to see here is a music room. We can go in here. Yeah, so motion activated. Are they? There we are. You play an instrument. Let us know what instrument you play. A Lydia is also in the band. I am. I play trombone in the marching band. If you ever had a football game or basketball game, see me playing trombone. But yeah, there's a piano in here. Last year, there was a group of students that came in here and did a lot of jazz improv. It's really cool. Another trombone player. I know he lived here with me. His name is Evan. Shout out to Evan, really cool jazz player. Shout out to Evan. But yeah, they do a lot of fun things in here. If you play an instrument, just come down here and check it out. So our next room is going to be a gaming room. This is a really big space. People come down here, bring their games, watch TV. There's a lot of seating in here. You can bring your own seating. You can honestly probably bring your own gaming systems. I'm not for sure what gaming systems they have out during the year. I believe there's a weed. Not terribly sure. But you can, there's also gaming systems you can check out from the RAs at the desk. So there's that. Lots of movies you can check out. I do believe they normally have a DVD player. Over the summer, they have summer camps living here. So they usually take those out so they don't take those or mess them up. But there will be gaming systems, DVD players out here. So you can come down here with your friends, have a movie night, just dance night. It's really fun. Really big space. Yeah. Do we want to walk through the kitchen? Yeah. So, Pomfret has a kitchen space as well. Pomfret does not have an oven or a stove. Kitchenette space. This is our vending machines, sink, there's a cura, microwave, toaster oven, lots of other stuff. I don't believe they have an oven because there is two dining options in the building. So you don't really have to be making your own food when there's a dining hall right above it. Do you want to introduce these lovely people? Yeah. So this is the R.H. Staff. We have a few that are out, but they're hard at work getting three or five students to arrive next week. So we can do an awesome year for them. So yeah. Awesome. Super exciting. Can't wait. Thank you guys. See all these faces in the parking lot. Yeah. We'll get it down this way. Leslie's office is going to be right over here. So if you're ever concerned about anything, that's good to know. Yeah. Lots of community spaces. This is my favorite part of the dorm. It's that big painting. We can look outside here for a little bit. There's a big community space outside as well. The bus stop is going to be right here on the end towards like the right of all of that seating. Again, lots of Edison lights down here south campus. They really got into those Edison bulbs in like 2019. I think they're really pretty.  This is our service center. This is not the front desk. You probably will never ever need to use this desk. So the front desk is going to be on the other side of the building. Yeah. We go down here. We're going to enter viewing. There's also vending machines down here. So if you're viewing, you're going to walk all the way over the right here. We maintain a number of 24-hour-a-day phone centers, and that's one of the phone centers that we have. Yes. I also want to mention about the vending machines. You can tap and use your razor bucks on them this year, which is very convenient if your parents are giving you razor bucks if you're filling those or anything like that. B-wing's laundry is going to be right here past the elevators. Same thing as the C and D-wing laundry, but B-wing has their own because combined it's the same reverse floors as C and D. We're going to be on the A floor, so... Might note that as we're the elevator, we may lose connectivity, so we'll get it right back as soon as we get up to the stop. And you tell us where you're from? I don't know if you did or not. I don't believe I did. I'm from Greenwood, Arkansas. Google Docs. Yes. I think we're going to go to the right. Yes. You're right. The right is right. So this is going to be where your trash room is. It's currently closed right now for moving. Those get really full really quick, but each floor has a water bottle filler. That's one of the great things about Pomfret. Most buildings don't have one on every floor, so we're headed into one of the bathrooms right now. Pomfret each floor has two bathrooms. They connect each side of the hallway and they're going to be split in half. So this side is where all your like toilets are going to be. Clothes and sinks. Really great like long space to get ready in the morning, visual shelf. You can set all your appliances on there if you go under your hair.  And then over here are the showers. Let's show one of the showers to this thing. You get a sense that there's a little room in the front. There's a bench right here.  There is an actual privacy again with the room right here. Two curtains. I've never had an issue with anyone walking into me in the shower. It's pretty odd. Like the shower curtains are always open so once closed you don't go in there. But I've also never had an issue finding a shower that's open. They're all pretty like open all the time. There's never like much like you know fighting for space. We want to show the edge room first like the one on the top. So there's going to be two different types of rooms. Most of the rooms are going to be pretty standardly the same but these rooms on the end right here they're going to be slightly different. So we'll show one of those. Which one is this? This is 808. Is anyone staying in 808? Let us know. So the windows on these are going to be slightly different. The room layout's going to be a little different. I do believe it might be the same surface area just in a different layout. Yeah. This room's going to have six outlets. Each person has three. It's pretty split down the middle of each person's window, desk bed, wardrobe dresser, and three outlets. And then each floor feeling has a different accent color wall or some of them have the same ones. They're just different accent colors. This floor is white, blue. But can I get the colors? There's blue, tan, and green. So one of those three. Mine was green when I left here. They're actually kind of nice. I do like having accent on the wall. But yeah, we'll go ahead and head over one of the standard rooms. Let us know if you have any questions about this. If you're just now jumping on, we are now in Pomfret. We just looked at an in-room. If you are have questions about in-room, we can definitely come back here in a second. But we're about to go to a standard room. But yeah. This is going to be the most standard room you will probably be living in. Also, you might see these fridges. You were able to rent out a fridge microwave combo. So if you do have one of those, it will be outside your room waiting for you. Microfridge. Pick it up at the end of the year too. So it's actually very convenient. I do believe this was in-room. Yep. 812. 812. If you're living in 812, let us know. But yeah, this is going to be your standard room in Pomfret. This one actually has a beautiful view of the stadium. This also. DWR, baby. This is also great for sports fans. You're literally within walking distance of most every single sports complex on campus. Yes. The hyper is literally across the street from Pomfret. So if you're really into working out or you read is rock climbing, swimming, all sorts of stuff, go check it out. It's free to all students who are building classes. But yeah, do we have any measurement questions? There's also going to be measurements on the housing website under Pomfret. There is standard measurements and a 3D model that you can tour and do your own measurements as well. Yeah. Any questions? Yeah. We're going to give it a second. Please let us know if you have any questions. Someone's asking, can you hang curtains? I mean, there's room for a tension rod right up there. But it's going to be huge. Yeah, it's going to be a really long tension rod and everything like that. Do you mind pulling the blinds? Yeah. So they can see a sense of how dark these get. So if you're focused mostly on making it dark in here so you don't get woken up by the sunlight, the blinds can be pretty, pretty dark. I'm trying to get them down. Oh, okay. Well, this is a perfect example. We are going to fix it for you if you need this kind of stuff fixed. Almost got them. There they go. I never had curtains when I lived here and it was pretty pretty easy. Do you need a chair? There you got it. Oh, it's going to do it this way? I never had curtains and I never had an issue. Can you get pretty dark in here? Yeah, the blinds are pretty, pretty, pretty strong for um, it's not block out, but yeah. It's about getting the measurement across here. Yeah. That way they can, if they want, try to put the tension rod in. It's nine feet five inches. Perfect. Yeah, um, Abby is asking what are the measurements of the top shelf and the wardrobe and also the bottom section of the wardrobe as well. So, we can give you those measurements. For the wardrobe, we're going to be like two sections here with a single rod and the top shelf is going to be one foot by two feet and 10 inches and then this bottom section is going to be four feet six inches tall and then again two feet and 10 inches wide. Yeah. Someone asked, are they able to mount a TV? It's not really. I don't think you can mount a TV, but um, when I lived here I had a TV that had legs on it and I was able to fit it right here pretty easily. I was able to watch TV from my bed. Yeah. And these beds are loftable. They will only loft to about like this high. Are they both twin excels? Yes, I do believe so. Is that the sheet? It has it there there. It's on the move-in website and you're ready to arrive. You'll find the exact dimensions. Is that the sheet, maybe? I guess I can not say. Oh, wait, it might be there. Let's see. We should have 81 inches and 75 is what they should be. I do believe it was 10 inches. Because they're two different sizes. Um, I had a twin mattress top and it was like a little too short for it. No. Do you mind? I'll help you measure the length of these. Yeah. The beds are the mattresses. The mattresses. The information, even if we recommend, even after you listen to information on the live, that you can go check out the dimensions and everything online as well. Those are all going to be there. You also get a 3D model of the room. What was the measurement of that again? It was six foot five. So 12 times 6 plus 5. Yeah. This one, one is a little bit shorter. I think this may be the shorter one. Yes. I do believe so. Yeah. Someone is asking how tall the drawers are. The drawers themselves? Yes. I think that and then do the whole one. So the drawers are going to be six inches tall and then the whole dresser should be two foot five. Awesome. Are there any more questions from everyone? I mean, again, the, um, all the dimensions of everything are going to be online. You can look all this up. The 3D model allows you to measure things that are more specific. Someone's asking how wide the drawer is. Yeah. And then Alex asked how many outlets are. I think there's five outlets in the rooms. Um, and then someone's asking if there's only one fridge per room or if they can both have a fridge or anything. Uh, fridge, I think, well, your best bet is always to collaborate as roommates and because you don't want to bring more than you need, um, is a policy. Can you have two refrigerators? I think you're only allowed one. I do believe there's only allowed one. Yeah. You'll need to look at the handbook. Go to housing.edu and you can search up the top right hand corner. Type in like refrigerator. Yeah. It'll pop up from the handbook. And you cannot have an air fryer. So please do not bring an air fryer to campus. No air fires, tub stairs. Anything with an open foil is not allowed. Yeah. But again, there are two dining options in conference.  Trust me, you will be doing a lot and you won't want to have to cook for yourself. But if you're really into cooking, again, you can go down to the Adobe Creative Committee and they have a really big kitchen that is open to you during our hours. Okay. New this year, as far as things you can't do, unfortunately, are removable wallpaper. Yes. We found that it causes too much damage to the walls, but in depth, you'll end up getting charged for it. So we don't allow removable wallpaper. Well, it does not look like we have any more questions. So if you want to sign us out, that'd be great.  It's going to be one of your best bets. I know both me and Rita are very involved with things on campus. That's how many most of my friends and also go to class. Even if they say it's not required, go to class. You pay for it and you might fail if you don't. Yeah. Do you have any advice? I always say this and I know it's very cliche, but be very authentic to yourself and everything will fall into place. A couple of last minute questions. You can, I think you can have a Keurig in the room. Yeah, and then we'll also post the recording of this video. So there will be a 360 of the room as well. But as far as everything, I think we're going to sign out. Thank you. Bye.


You two team keep it clean what's going on is engraving here with another video and in this video first let me take off my customized mask from my secret dwelling.com if you want Ravens or not you want another team another fabric another print you hit up my on and she'll take care of you the website is down below in the description but anyway team keep it clean I know you've heard by now about some quotes some different things that was said from one Lamar Jackson today he had a sort of press conference with some different reporters they were asking their various questions and he spoke on quite a few different topics and what those topics were well one of them was of course mr. Patrick Mahomes he was asked about Patrick Mahomes how he felt about Patrick Mahomes deal and I'm sure he's probably tired of Patrick Mahomes questions he probably tired of it but he did say that with Patrick Mahomes he he ain't worried about him he's not worried about him happy for him but he's just focused on winning focused on winning the Super Bowl focused on taking care of his own business and another thing that he was he talked about was him being a bubble boy he said he's being a bubble boy he is staying away from a lot of people and he took plenty of the covert tests and they all came back negative so he is team keep it clean so shout out to him for that and something else that he spoke about was sort of two things in one he talked about his game and what he wants to improve on and he said he wants to improve on the deep passes and he said he feels like he could get better there and he just wants to step his game up in that aspect of his NFL career which again it's a short career and something that a lot of people tend to forget is that last year was his first four years starting and I think a lot of people just they they sort of that that's not in their minds when they're thinking about all this stuff that they're saying about Lamar Jackson because does he deserve some criticism yeah of course every single quarterback does if you're starting quarterback in the league you're gonna get criticism you're gonna get criticized you're gonna get talked about your good your bad and all that but with Lamar Jackson it's just y'all know how it's just a little bit different with him because he's not the prototypical traditional quarterback but with him people talk about Lamar Jackson like he's been doing this thing for like 12 years or something like that but again it's just interesting to keep that into perspective now when he talks about wanting to improve the deep ball the deep passing game some of the games that I think about where definitely needed some improvement was in the chief's game I mean when you think about it ain't like he's like though he throws this terrible deep ball anything like that but he could use some improvement on it just he can improve the touch on the ball but I mean he can he completed plenty of them last year though as we all know because there were plenty of big plays from the Raven and plenty of deep passes from the Ravens too but for him to want to improve on that that's a beautiful thing but some of the games where I felt like we could have seen some improvement was yeah in the chief's game because he was just a little bit often it just seemed like they were just the whole team was just pressing that game they were pressing and just not not being themselves and again like we talked about that game was one of two terribly coached games the game plans for those games between the chiefs and the Titans and oh funny those two of the AFC championship teams what a coincidence and those are the two games where the Ravens had the worst coaching all year but anyway that was definitely one of the games where I felt like it his deep ball was just off and in the the first Steelers game to the one in Pittsburgh because obviously he didn't play in the second one but when you just look at throughout the year it was actually pretty good it was actually pretty good overall but the fact that he still wants to improve on it that's a beautiful thing now something else that he touched on to Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Brown and him and Hollywood Brown he talked about those two growing up in South Florida he said they were in two different cities when they were playing when they were playing a P. Wee football because him being from Pompano and Hollywood being from Hollywood so he said growing up they started to sort of hear about each other but they hadn't really known about each other and he said when he said in South Florida when you're good you're good and it you will find out about somebody else that's good as well because the best talent in football the best talent in NFL usually comes from South Florida it usually does and there's I don't know what it is about down here but it's just something different he talked about how fast Hollywood is he said Hollywood got this twitch where he just he fasted a lot of people think he is and he talked about how he expects Hollywood to really break out this year he really does and he's looking forward to a Hollywood just really taking off because he talked about everything that we know already with Hollywood last year with how he was playing on a bad foot the entire year and again what I thought the Ravens one of the the suggestions that I had was that with Hollywood because you you want him for long term because he's a first-round draft pick you invested in him for years and you want the best out of him I thought hey maybe they just put him on the physically unable to perform lists at the beginning of the year so then they can get him back for the remainder of the year and he'll be healthy the whole way through you can have him for playoffs and all that and boom but Ravens say no we're not gonna do that we're gonna have him from jump and again they are they would keep him out of practices on Friday and it ended up working out for him it ended up working out for him he didn't re-aggravate any injuries anything like that there was I think he missed like one game I believe but I'm glad I don't remember I think was it the Seahawks not the Seahawks game but anyway there will be some times where he had to come out the game for a little while and whatnot but overall he did pretty good and especially to be in a run-first offense and be hobbled by the injury all year he had a pretty good season and then he really showed out in a playoffs so I think the playoffs is more of what's to come throughout this season especially with him being Lamar's favorite target at the wide receiver position so that's that's exciting that's just really excited he also talked about DuVernay how fast DuVernay is and how fast DuVernay looks and he talked about Pro Shae how good his hands are and how good his route running is so he's excited about having those guys as well so Lamar is he's looking to step up his game but something else that he talked about was AB and Antonio Brown Lamar Jackson he talked about how he spoke to the Ravens organization about Mr. Antonio Brown and he put in the word for him and he said that he was hoping that the Ravens would sign Antonio Brown and he said he's still he is still hoping the Ravens sign Antonio Brown so it has been put out there's so many times from Ravens players about Antonio Brown will it happen right now is cloudy with a chance of meatballs because Antonio Brown status with the NFL is still in limbo because he's he's not clear he doesn't know what's gonna happen yet he doesn't know anything that's gonna happen yet doesn't know what the suspension will be if there will be a suspension or not he doesn't know anything but Lamar Jackson again he talked about it before he talked about it about two months ago when the whole when he was revealed as the Madden the Madden cover athlete he said hey I was my son them son Antonio Brown but it's not up to me then again Mark Ingham he said the same thing he said hey bring them on bring them on then of course Antonio Brown he's expressed his interest in signing with the Ravens but he's expressed his interest in signing with several different teams because Antonio Brown of course most recently he he had been working out with Russell Wilson so he talked about hey I want to see this on Sundays he also expressed interest in he put up pictures of him in the 49ers jersey there's been talk about him the Redskins signing him and there's because they lost to receive and him and Dwight Haskins they work out together and then of course him with the Baltimore Ravens he put himself up he put a picture of himself up in a Ravens jersey and he also talked about how he would want to play with Lamar Jackson and Hollywood Brown so again it's no shocking anything but I was honestly a bit shocked and I was shocked at just the the straightforwardness of Lamar Jackson and his thoughts on Antonio Brown I was I was really shocked by that seriously because I'm so used to questions about Antonio Brown being sort of avoided being sort of where they kind of beat around the bush but I guess I'm thinking of when coaches or GM is asked about Antonio Brown and I mean they don't want to speak on anything they don't want to get anybody's hopes up anything because I remember when Eric Dacosta for the the Ravens the PSL owners when they had the call in Eric Dacosta was asked about Antonio Brown and he was like he didn't say anything directly about Antonio Brown he was just like oh well we're happy with the receivers that we have we're happy with the receivers that we got right now so he could sort of just went around the question and didn't really answer it straight up but again you as a GM you don't want to you don't want to show your hand you don't want to show your cause to other GM's and with Antonio Brown it's sort of different because I mean even if somebody is interested in Antonio Brown nothing's gonna get done right now because it's still like it's still an unknown what's gonna happen it's an unknown what's gonna happen and for anybody that thinks oh well just because he's a free agent they can't announce his suspension we've seen it plenty of times before where people are free agents and they still end up over this free agent is suspended for four games because of PD's or whatnot blah blah blah so him being a free agent they can still suspend him they can still issue a suspension if there is going to be a suspension that takes place so we just have to see what happens with that but um yeah it just it was very shocking to me with Lamar Jackson his his straightforwardness but me I definitely appreciated it because I love I love when people are straightforward I love when people are blunt I love when they straight up I love it and I appreciate it so shout out to Lamar for that but we'll just have to wait and see what happens if I had to um bet on it right now I would not bet on the Raven signing in Antonio Brown but I really couldn't bet on anybody signing him again because his whole case is in limbo his old status with the NFL is in limbo so there's nothing new that has come out with that and he even of course put up the Instagram post a couple weeks ago where he was calling out Roger Goudel calling out the NFL and saying that he wanted this thing to get picked up but it hasn't been picked up he wanted his investigation to get moving so he knows how to talk to NFL teams properly but he hasn't been able to do that because his case hasn't it hasn't been resolved with the NFL their investigation hasn't concluded so Lamar talked about how with Antonio Brown he said they worked out down here in South Florida of course I mean but anyway he said how they worked out and um he said he would be somebody that he said Antonio Brown would be somebody that he would love on a team he said cuz he's he's ready he said he can tell how he's ready um he is ready to come in and win he will come in help he said he was lifting before that workout and then he said that after that workout he went out he went and lifted again so this dude just kept on lifting so obviously again some we talked about on him before we know Antonio Brown is clearly in game shape he is ready he is ready he's all he's always been somebody that's been in shape so that wouldn't be an issue that wouldn't be a problem but the biggest problem is still an unsolved mystery so we'll see what happens anyway team keep it clean appreciate y'all I love y'all and I'm out


Cleaning up my garage, and I found my Pog collection. It's not a very impressive collection. Now you might be saying What's a Pog? If you're about 40 years old, you may know what a Pog is. If you're much older or much younger than that You probably have no clue what Pogs are. It was a fad for about two weeks in the mid 90s Basically, they kind of like trading cards, you know, like collecting baseball cards. Do people still collect baseball cards? Anyway, they have all these different pictures of them. There's these little discs and then you would get a slammer I have two slammers here. I have this plastic one with the skull and crossbones on it and I have this metallic one with a eight ball and a skeleton on it, but basically I don't remember I never actually played the Pog, you know, like if you collect baseball cards There's different games you can play where you flip them over and if you get a certain color or something You get to keep the other person's cards they put down, you know Or like marbles, or if you knock someone's marbles out of the ring, you get their marble, I guess I don't know. I've never really did either of those things But basically, you know, you guys would stack up your Pogs and then you would slam your slammer on it I think it was called a slammer or a smash or something And any ones that you get to flip over you get to keep. I think that was basically the gist of it Like I said, very very short-lived fad in the mid 90s If you were in middle school like I was you may have collected some yourself Or at least had her to them and uh, and then this was like the little container I would keep my Pogs in So anyway, just a little blast from the past. Anyone else remember Pogs? Do you still have your Pogs? I'm about to get rid of my Pogs It's been 30 years. I think it's about time to let go


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