I think yeah, there's a lot of noise Yeah, that's Samir he's not a noisy place, but he must have a noisy audio connection, so Samir I just muted you and I'm sorry But there it is. It has to be All right, do you see you ready to go Yeah, I don't even know what's happening anymore Welcome everybody This is the are we recording yeah, we are great we have quorum. There's a few people missing today, but we have quorum The agenda for today is operational update from Holly quick Reports from the different board committees that will be two minutes each and then we're gonna talk a little bit a little bit about the Drupal 8 launch and The role that the Drupal Association plays in that and after that we'll have the executive session Over to you Holly. Okay? so What's happening let's talk about that so operational update I can do this I'm sorry you guys getting the zoom going was a whole thing today So the operational update just a few notes from the Last month some things as we've been getting ready to close out 2015 One big thing of note is you know, we've had a mandate for the last few years to be able to grow our non Drupal con revenue and I'm really excited as we look at our numbers and we're getting close to the end of the year to say that we're definitely on track Despite all of our sort of financial ups and downs this year Mm-hmm the non-con revenue Definitely is growing which is great right now. It's 32% of our total revenue You know which exceeded our goal of 30% so That's great that that is happening and I think it just speaks volumes to the fact that even though We really did have a tough time this year We're doing the right things and pulling the right levers to to be able to Get towards financial sustainability And then of course, I think the big highlight of November probably everyone's November was the Drupal 8 release so Apparently I was so excited about it. I made it all bold in the packet Yeah, we are really excited about the work that we did around that and just really grateful for the volunteers That we worked with and we worked with a ton of volunteers But in particular we worked really closely with catch and Gabor Paul Johnson and Angie And Jess X jam to be able to get all the information we needed about the release and To make the launch go as smoothly as possible and I'm just gonna tell you right now I've never in my life woken up at 3 30 in the morning for anything But I'm really excited to get up at 3 30 in the morning and watch these guys And cheer them on as we went through the launch process. So it was great And you can see a lot of the excellent work in the the numbers so On November 19th, that's the launch date. I made about a 30% spike in traffic overall from the community It's just showing how excited they were But just really great engagement with the Drupal 8 content so Lots and lots of great stuff going on there. I Think that the Twitter work in particular was kind of amazing We had more engagement than we had actual followers of the handle. It's just awesome and I think like the time on site and Pages per session just showing that people were coming in to look at that content and then sticking around it is really wonderful stuff. So It's a great day. So those were really big highlights a couple things that we're still keeping our eye on the membership campaign is definitely one of them We just launched on Monday a revamp of the creative for the membership campaign So there's a new banner and also a block up on the homepage of Drupal.org talking about membership on The anecdotal side people are really excited to see that it actually features real members and their stories And that's been really great because we've heard from a lot of people that they're getting like Congratulations for being featured on the site, which is awesome More importantly, it did a lot to bump up the numbers. So Where we stand right now is at 3490 memberships there's been 710 sold during this campaign And the total dollar amount is right around $40,000 right now. So our goal was a thousand memberships and A hundred thousand dollars of revenues. So we're still far off, but we have a nice bump here for the last couple weeks of the campaign So first time we've done it and we have learned a lot about You know executing this kind of thing and yeah, it's been a lot of fun So we're keeping an eye on that and then Performance to budget and you know financials. We just continue to watch that closely One piece of good news that we did hit our adjusted supporting partner goal for the year and it was significant growth over 2014 so that's great And we are just really continuing to stay focused on the ISV part of our funding strategy right now Have lots of good conversations in the hopper for 2016 And are just really looking forward to beginning to rebuild those reserves. So That's where we're at after this month Any questions from that Just a question about that, but I wanted to tell you I've been on the call since the beginning. I didn't hear any mention of my name Hey, Denise I don't know why I can't see you. Oh, there you are. Okay. Good. All right. I Guess moving on Yeah, so we're gonna move on to talk about now that that launch is over and we're getting ready to do regularly scheduled point releases I think we're we'd like to share a little bit of how a little bit more dig deeper into how this release went And what we're planning to take away from and execute on those point releases. So Brad, you should be a presenter You should be able to pull that up And I need Tatiana too. Yeah Make Tatiana panelist that's the the presentation Holly Yeah I can paste it in the chat if you'd like All right, that's fine. I'm stopping sharing my screen Sorry, we're still learning this Alrighty Thanks for killing the mute So what do we want to spend about 10 minutes going through this Holly from the gender standpoint 15. Yeah So that in mind I want to make sure we leave enough time for questions and for pauses in the action so in terms of just setting a quick agenda for this this is a run through of the things that With the high level and some tactical things that we accomplished as part of the release work that we did from the association seats And certainly some discussion of from a conclusion standpoint things we observed things. We'd like to take forward Thinking about the we really released specifically So since this went out about a week ago We'll certainly go through some of the build-up to that talking about the accomplishments and some of their specific examples But with about 10 or 15 minutes I want to make sure we reserve enough time to ask an answer questions about the conclusions that we drew from that and how That might inform the things we do next and have that try to be the bulk of our conversation a day if That's all right with everybody so To roll right into things it's super important In any retrospective of work done to just pause and have a celebration about the fact that it was actually accomplished Slide one is literally just have that moment to sort of take a deep breath The shaking is just out of control In terms of just sort of the overall summary of what our role was as an association You'll notice that we don't sort of list out people's roles and things my name That's intentional There were certain the people who were directly involved with the date release and others who were not directly involved But given how much even the people not directly involved had to do and take responsibility on and other roles of things Just to make things possible for those of us who were directly involved Basically the answer is everybody had a hand in this and so from an overall standpoint our role was to offer some support to offer some coordination and While no one was surprised that the eight was being released when it was the prime timeline for when all of this came together Was basically within about a four-week window So as we talked about things were focused on what happened in that two minus four weeks We're not really talking about the whole build up to the release over a number of years In terms of the volunteers roles We wanted to call out a handful of people specifically for the subject matter expertise for their help Translation with translation and for their help with social media And so that's the thank-yous that are on the side There are five people specifically we wanted to make sure based on how they interacted with us in our slack channel where we did a lot of coordination Back and forth of email to make sure all of these different pieces of things came together on the timelines that we had planned And so thank you to catch to go board to Paul to Angie to Jess In a number of different ways whether it was editing documents or it was suggestions about process or it was literally leading initiative Would have just been impossible from an association standpoint without some of the really critical help that came from that So to talk a little bit in detail about what the plan actually was this is just a reminder a lot of it You look familiar There were some overarching communication themes effectively as a com team wanted to make sure that there was a story that we were weaving together here And so those themes that should appear evident from things you've seen in the board packet before Things like just the literal awareness announcement that Drupal 8 is actually here and available for example But also making sure that that story would have things like talking about what people are doing with it right now We're making it possible for people to find out what people are doing with it right now And certainly also for example inviting people to try Drupal 8 As soon as they could and that coordinates with downloads It also coordinates or corresponds to the try Drupal program but these were the seven communication themes that were the framework of the work we did leading up to the release and Leading past that from am I muted no Going That's a shame, okay Software hardware fun. Yeah, so apologies for the echo that might have been coming through there We'll try to speak with just one voice from this point forward from Another angle from the goals perspective we had some specific engagement actions that aligned with the story that we wanted to tell right so Yes, these are the themes that we wanted to get out But how are we actually going to think about whether those themes were being received and how they were being received and so examples like Experiencing the content that we actually put on Drupal.org and the D8 section or people actually going to try Drupal or media mentions of The moment and of the content that we were sharing all of these things are the kind of engagement actions that we were looking for as triggers that We would then set up against these actions metrics to actually get into the details of how well these actions played out But it was important to not just have this great story that we thought was interesting But also have a way to start whittling that down into stuff that we could measure and use And so that next slide this one is about some of those metrics pairing them up with those engagement actions So for example an engagement action would be people were planning announcing and attending release parties It was important for us to be able to look at as an example the number of parties that were actually being planned and scheduled and displayed on groups and on Drupal and of course some of Not just planning but actually had to do things and so the things that we were planning This includes some of the tactics on Drupal.org, but it also includes tactics across some of the other sites within the suite Drupal.org was the focus as a Communications perspective and in a lot of ways a lot of focus from engineering standpoint, too And so the things that you see on this list are not one team versus another There's a lot of overlap on getting some of these things out the door. So while the press release may have been From a drafting standpoint of communications initiative making the translations possible Definitely needed engineering support and also for instance needed community support just to offer the translations and Leadership from Gabor to make sure that all of that stuff was Getting translated by the community and getting to us that we could get it in and make sure it was displayed for people So any one of these things had hands from a few different places to make it possible But these were the list of plan tactics that we had going out at a in terms of like the primary tactics There there were some smaller things but these are the big picture ones as you can see in the bottom right hand corner a couple of Things didn't make the cut That's just the reality would have been lovely to pull together a product video and it would have been lovely to pull together a series of Sort of asking the experts the people who had been involved with making Drupal 8 possible the leading contributors before launch But that just didn't happen and so just wanted to make sure that was clear It would have been great, but we acknowledge that that didn't get out the door For tactics that were throughout the rest of the suite of sites So whether you looked at 80 the association site or API or events you sort of name it We we did have some big picture ideas to make sure that there was coordination across the suite of sites for Drupal that org so It wasn't just a huge explosion on Drupal that org and then the other sites were not keeping up in their appropriate ways and in their appropriate context And so to break that actually into Accomplishments the summary is actually really great From a story standpoint all the communication themes were hit There is at least one piece of content or one initiative or one communication that checked up all those things that checked out something on that list Similar story for the engagement actions We were able to measure and witness all engagement actions happening throughout that list that we put together And from a tactical standpoint We hit on about 90% plus of our plan tactics So everything that we laid out as something that we wanted to do big picture wise Really successful in making sure that those got done even though we were primarily focused enough on a four-week period of time Call out a couple of those things that were Supervisual and also obviously have some function woven into them of course But some of the really big hitters in those tactical wins would be of course the Drupal 8 content the redesign of that landing page and its sub pages that follow and Also the change to the header that is a site-wide experience These are two of the bigger more visible things that everybody sort of clutched on to and enjoyed and was able to identify with the release itself A lot of the other things we did they weren't necessarily banner items not to by any means step on their importance But these were super visible and everybody seemed to rally around these and that was great And so just to sort of refresh that tactical list That 90% is because just about everything we checked off that product video would have been lovely The ask the expert series would have been lovely It is something that we're still in the process of dealing with in a long tail standpoint, but in terms of up to the launch Really hit on all cylinders Holly had talked about numbers for a little bit So I won't go through too many more of these but from an engagement standpoint a lot of really good numbers It was not Drupal that or best recorded day from a Google Analytics standpoint But a lot of really great peaks here and a lot of indication as Holly put it that once people were getting to the site It wasn't just to have the singular moment about the announcement It was to actually spend some time and do some other things and that they were Starting to find paths and get to other areas of things and that's really great that it sprouted Some integrated experiences. It's a really great sign and also that from a referral standpoint It wasn't just people getting here sort of organically that as you can see with the Twitter and the Facebook referrals For instance that the effort specifically to get focus here were working as well Also want to call out some numbers on the translations It's pretty awesome that the press release was translated into 31 languages and that the landing page was translated into 33 I think that in and of itself Engagement statistics aside just that as an accomplishment is a pretty great thing Twitter and a lot of languages Yeah, we're gonna say Twitter and a lot of languages also the reminder as we go forward that will probably need to think about Some alternatives to Twitter for China, but we'll get too granular into that right now Just you know, we are filing that away isn't oh, yeah blocked in China to call out some of the specific social media initiatives the celebrate D8 work led by the celebrate D8 team and specifically by Paul Johnson was just quite incredible I Think the emotional connection that it generated the buzz that that led to was certainly Evident for everyone who was paying attention on the 19th and in the days thereafter But we did want to call out some numbers on that that 163% engagement rate in other words that more people were engaging with that content than were even followers of the celebrate D8 Twitter handle is pretty incredible And as we'll talk about on the just very briefly on the next slide considering that brands get engagement rates on tweets That's literally less than 1% on average and that's for the top 25 of brands to see a number like a hundred sixty three percent Is is astronomical and even to see that five point two percent engagement versus impression rate meaning of The people that were actually reached by anything that was treated from celebrate the eight How many of them engaged with it to see that five point two even above the industry standard for the leading brands pretty great, too And so an extension of that conversation from the Drupal handle some really great engagement numbers and again That's stat about for the top 25 brands your average per tweet engagement Significantly less than the numbers that were going out for us on the 19th And so again a thanks to Paul lots of parties all over the place all sorts of people all sorts of celebrations I Think it kind of speaks for itself if we could throw in confetti We would Wanted to call out some one other thing that went really really great during the release and that was the collaborative effort between Volunteers and the association Using a channel in our slack implementation being able to have instant access To the people making decisions and also even if people were not particularly Decision makers being able to get their insight when we needed it during our decision-making processes was just invaluable and So not having to do that via email not especially with people in different time zones being able to get that kind of coordination and often real time Really made sure that a lot of the work that went out was getting as close to Consensus among a lot of really important from a lot of really important people as possible a lot of shared perspectives by making sure that every Conversation was as open as we can make it without of course Leaving everything up to vote or something like that And so I do want to pause just for a moment before jumping into the lessons and the things We're going to think about going forward to see if there were any questions quickly about the accomplishments Your favorite moment from the launch I've no questions, but I I thought you guys did an excellent job From you know from the social media campaign, which I thought was amazing to the party I'm blowing that there's so many to the website and the design. I think this was our best design work Ever in my opinion. I don't know we did the design, but I really liked it personally Yeah, to the translation I think I think this is definitely our best release ever and not a little bit of progress but a lot of a lot of progress in how we do things Kind of piercing your eardrums, I would also like to say Emily Nemo from our team was a design effort and I think one of the reasons it was really good not only she Counted it and awesome, but one of the reasons it was really good was because Rod and Emily worked so closely together on the story that they were trying to tell and those were I think that the words and the Design were so closely integrated that it really helped it be successful together Yeah, I mean I guess the only The only thing I think we could probably try to do better, but I don't know what we tried to do is more You know more How do we get it more like how do we get more magazines or media sites or you know Websites well not websites the websites about web development To pick up You know to pick up the release and help us get Rather reach. I don't know if we have an overview of who picked it up from a from a From that point of view, but I felt it was maybe limited Yeah Content opportunities like venture beat does a lot of that Some other ones and then and then they got back it's picked up by other tech. I reached out to Rowan Pierce who in Australian tech journal who's done a lot of coverage of Drupal Over the years and he's interviewed you Dries and he's Individed Angie and he did a coverage, but yeah, I agree if that's something that we can look at That's how we actually get some of that tech press coverage But all of the other stuff was so awesome Congratulations everybody. Yeah, I agree. I you know, it was more of a side note and I recognize it's hard to get coverage when you You know announce betas and release candidates and then you announce the date of the release ahead of time and like I think it takes away a lot of the You know Sort of the surprise I guess sort of magic so how about now can you hear me now without an echo? Yes Good. I got the thumbs up Yeah, definitely the media mention aspect of things is something that For us we would like to improve a little bit the next time There are a couple of reasons that just sort of stand out one I think Yeah, the idea of there being staggered dates and trying to pick the one out of this series of dates That's most important to draw attention to but I think we could just be more active over a longer term of Creating those relationships and having a great list of people to go to and not trying to drum that up within four days kind of thing In terms of the just the numbers on mentions I we were tracking that over The first week or so and then with the first 24 hour period there probably was a few dozen media mentions But fairly enough to them and not to be disparaging of those outlets They weren't the outlets. We would probably want them to be right. So I do think that speaks to Starting the process of creating these relationships so that our requests for attention stand out amongst the sea of requests that these tech blogs get on a daily basis And so to segue into the lessons a little bit because you know things are done But they're not perfect and certainly to stand on the shoulders of Larry's recent post about being happy but not satisfied We incurred some technical debt getting a lot of these things out in part because of the short time frame In part because of the nature of the things that we were doing but there is definitely some cleanup going on on the other side of the release From a decision-making standpoint Our decisions were educated everybody's experience and has great perspective to bring the table not just within the association but also volunteering to help with us But not everything was research based perhaps in the way that it should have been so for instance in terms of determining Exactly what content to put in what places on what channel at what time like when We have information and when the release is going to go out But did we have a sense of the best time to tweet about the release to make sure that it was getting it? The most exposure there's some really good work done by Paul and the celebrate D8 standpoint to make sure that the wave of celebrations continued But I think we could have used more research to do to handle some of the other communications that were pushed out I think we could certainly offer more visibility into the work that we were doing We had a lot of planning and a lot of logistics going on here But I can certainly see that some of that might not have been particularly obvious to people that weren't caught up in The internal energy that we had here And we'll have to figure out what the best way to do that is the best way to present information So that people have what they need to know and what they want to find out without overwhelming them with way too Many logistics or that kind of thing And the other thing that we certainly wanted to work on Finding consensus about what the releases major themes should be so we have communication themes in terms of telling a story about the release but It wasn't always a hundred percent clear What the story about Drupal 8 should be so for instance? Well, we whether it was while we were writing a press release or copy for a landing page We were having discussions about whether Drupal should be called a content management system or a content management platform or an experience framework And those are very valid conversations and the opinion shared about them were all equally great, too But in terms of like a communication and a release output Probably not the time that we should be trying to figure that out We need to probably figure that out before we're four days before the press release has to be done kind of thing And so in terms of things that are opportunities coming out of that We see opportunity for a clear repeatable process and we are starting to work on that for the point releases We see that this is an opportunity for really extensive marketing That the impact that this has is is certainly in allowing the community to celebrate the job done at the work done the contributions made But there's certainly a lot of room for outreach and talking to people and having conversations with people who are not Already within the community or who don't consider themselves to be and so as we think about these releases in the future Perhaps not so much the point ones, but in the full releases Realizing that there's a great opportunity to have really big conversations about Drupal whenever something like this happens Certainly there were a lot of competing priorities And we're going to need to make sure that we prioritize those having had this experience With a better understanding of in which order a thing should happen to make sure That things like maybe the product video doesn't slip through the cracks for instance and Then also that delegation to specialists can have great value This was proved over and over and over again that the work from the select number of volunteers, but also from a broader range of people Community members who have great backgrounds and great experience doing specific things working closely with them on those things as opposed to trying to Have the association do every little bit of an idea has great value headed towards the future to sort of talk about how those lessons are going to Inform the things we would like to do next We definitely think there's room for super clear cross-discipline process That's speaking more to us internally. That's not a reflection of an opinion about the community just to be clear But now that we realize as this team the things that we want to do for release it as we can do a lot to Make sure that things are happening in really clear cross-discipline ways that if the engineering team needs x and the communication team Needs why that we find places ways to make all of that happen easily And just get rid of some of the first-time struggle kind of things That said we still do want predictable and repeatable processes for the point release and that is Something that we're starting so for instance as we get Into the turn of the year and eight dot ones development cycle begins We'll soon thereafter start discussions with Maintainers to make sure we're aware of the things that are probably going to be priorities for eight dot one So that we're not waiting as an association for let's say April 1st to start putting together our plans for what needs to happen on April 20th That we don't want to rush people but as much as we can know as soon as we can know it We think we can probably do our own work a bunch of good and also help others in the community where they need it We do think we'll probably have smaller scope of work though for the point releases in terms of the communication and design work And certainly from an engineering standpoint to That part of predictable process is also cutting out some of the fat That said the nature of a point release in almost every case is going to be that it's not the hoopla For obvious reasons that the full will be so we're going to take that into account when we consider what the plan is And we mentioned project management transparency is something I really want to call out from here too Just making sure that when we set plans and we set goals that we're making sure that those are available To you as the board and also to the community broadly so that if someone's wondering Hey, I have this great idea about remixing logos for the release that they're aware that we're thinking about that too And so the last slide here as we think about the point releases specifically We do want to make sure that any canonical Drupal 8 content that exists right now So like the landing page at sub pages FAQ, etc Those things are refreshed to be appropriate for whatever the point release requires If necessary, we do want to be prepared to create release specific content That will be featured dependent so we don't have a firm plan on that right now because that is feature driven We certainly want to run social campaigns around that content and be very strategic about which platforms we choose to do that And again, we want to go through helping coordinate translations of the material that we push out and making sure That we coordinate try Drupal updates as well That's important as a revenue opportunity for the association to make sure that if 8.1 is going to be available on Drupal.org that the Partners participating in that program have the opportunity and the heads up to to be prepared for that as well. And with that We're through the list of things Okay, I think our dance of microphone muting is complete Think it's impressive I think it's good. I don't know if there's any questions though I don't have any questions. I don't see any in the chat anyone else want to pipe up. I Just want to say that it was amazing watching watching it through the day how things proceeded the parties and all of that I think that the coordination across You know from from the association across volunteers in the community was spot-on fabulous and Congratulations on for this great Yeah, we should probably give a shout-out to the folks at Drupal also for Finding a way for us to display the Drupal eight parties on on their platform So that we didn't have to try to make one and that I thought was a really great. It was a great thing to see All of those in conjunction with all the other Drupal events that were going on in the world So it was great to have that I was ridiculously excited by Drupal. Yeah It was awesome Yeah, I usually have like four or five tabs that stay open every day that get refreshed a lot and that was one of them for a couple of weeks Fun to watch the parties rolling Okay, well sounds like that is it Do we want to do board committee or was it all I didn't see it in the in the board package. Maybe I'm wrong Right my brain skipped right past those because I forgot to ask people for updates But I also think that no one met this month including the finance committee Yesterday because of some travel and illness Yeah, okay, so nobody met Hi there Sorry, I've been I've been fighting with my phone to get back to where I could talk to you So I this is about the previous topic and I'm sorry took me so long to get unmuted But I wanted to say I've been through a lot of launches from different open source Communities and I actually think this one was one of the better handle that I've seen That I've seen that the hype go too far overboard like Mozilla has done it occasionally I don't think that happened And I think everybody you know had an opportunity to to think that it was a great milestone and to put focus on On the technology and I think the community worked really well together So I also watched it with that with a lot of happiness for for the Drupal Foundation and and the project generally anyway Thanks, Denise All right, any other questions? if not, we can probably wrap up the Public part of the board meeting Nothing. All right Thanks everybody If I don't get to talk to you anymore have a happy holiday They kill a little break. I enjoy the you know enjoy the the holidays if you celebrate them and we'll see each other in the new year Thanks guys. Thank you. Thanks For members you can just stay put Okay, and we'll clear everyone out


Could it be that SpaceX's new interplanetary launch vehicle is so big that it actually needs an off-shore launch pad? It could be because NASA briefly considered this for the Nova rocket in the 1960s, and that's what we're talking about today on Vintage Space. Back in the early 1960s when NASA was already looking at ways to go to the moon but hadn't settled on the lunar orbit rendezvous architecture that we are familiar with from Apollo, it was looking at a mission mode called direct ascent. This is exactly what it sounds like. Launched directly from the Earth to a landing on the moon, and then exact same thing coming home. Launch off the moon's surface, fly right back to the Earth to land. This kind of mission would require a massive vehicle, something way bigger than the Saturn V, and that early concept rocket was called Nova. Some stats for comparison, the Saturn V had five F1 engines in its first stage to generate 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Nova had eight F1 engines in its first stage, and was designed to generate 12 million pounds of thrust. Not only is a rocket that big and that powerful, technologically challenging to build and deal with, it is very loud, and that creates a whole other set of potential problems. Now, we all know it, but it bears repeating that sound is a physical wave. Sound travels by vibrating the molecules of the medium through which it travels in the case of hearing a voice or hearing a rocket launch that medium is air. Sound power, in the case of a rocket launch, is the mechanical energy of the exhaust plume. That's calculated by multiplying the thrust by the exit velocity, and it's a physical way to understand the power of the noise that you hear. Sound power is measured in decibels, which is simply a logarithmic unit to express two characteristics, the amplitude of the wave and also the power of the wave. The higher the decibel, the more power, and also the bigger the amplitude of the sound wave. So, the higher the decibel, the more destructive its power. Now, this sound power vibrates through multiple frequencies, but engineers at NASA in the 1960s realized that the frequencies of a rocket launch tend to be in the low to mid-range frequencies, and those are the kinds of frequencies that can knock over buildings and break things. This is why a big, heavy rocket launching becomes a little bit problematic. This is really the problem of launching a big, heavy rocket. The bigger and louder it is, the more destructive it is acoustically. Preliminary testing of the Saturn 1C rocket in the late 1950s said that acoustic levels could be as high as 205 decibels felt 984 feet from the launch pad. 140 decibels, which is the pain threshold, could be felt 9842 feet away. So, to get away from the damaging acoustics of launching a big, heavy rocket, some engineers in the late 1950s started looking at using offshore launch platforms. Some early proposals looked at launch platforms built 105 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral. This rocket launching would have the same physical advantages of a rocket launching from Canaveral, which is taking advantage of the Earth's rotation for easier access to orbit, but it would be so far away from the coast that the acoustic issues of the launch would not have as much impact. Now, it might sound insane to build a launch platform 100 miles off the coast in the ocean, but it really wasn't all that crazy. There were offshore oil rigs and also Texas towers that were home to U.S. Air Force early warning systems. It was feasible to develop some kind of system that would allow a rocket the size of NOVA to launch from an offshore platform. Studies into offshore launch sites eventually determined that it wasn't totally necessary. The Saturn C1 was already under development and recommendations said that it couldn't be launched from land if all of Merritt Island was purchased as a buffer zone. This meant that populations and any buildings would be far enough away from the launch pad that the acoustic energy would dissipate enough by the time it hit those buildings to not knock them over. Of course, there are buildings close to launch pads. The vehicle assembly building, most notably, and all the buildings surrounding it are only about three miles from the launch complex 39 that launched Apollo missions to the moon. The engineers who designed the VAB knew that the acoustics of the Saturn V launching were going to pose a bit of a problem and so they specifically designed the building to withstand that kind of acoustic assault. The building structure includes insulated aluminum panels fastened to steel girders to protect the structure and anything inside it from the acoustic disturbances associated with the launch. So Nova might have needed an offshore launch pad. The Saturn V didn't, but still forced some building considerations in the surrounding area. SpaceX's new interplanetary transportation system is going to be bigger than the Saturn V, therefore should have a bigger acoustic impact on the surrounding area. As it stands, SpaceX is slated to launch this mammoth rocket from launch complex 39, the same spot that launched Apollo missions to the moon with the Saturn V. So will the SpaceX rocket be too big and too loud to actually launch from that launch pad? For the moment, I guess not, but that could change as the rocket goes from concept to physical thing that's actually going to be leaving the Earth. So this is part two of my little three-part series. A vintage space considers SpaceX's new massive launch vehicle. So I really want to hear from the engineers out there on this one. Please let me know your thoughts on what the acoustic profile of a rocket like SpaceX's interplanetary transportation system might be. I also want to hear your guys' thoughts and opinions and maybe questions if you've got them on the history and potential future of offshore launch pads, because it is something that we kind of forget was ever really a consideration with early NASA. Of course, I've got more information on the acoustics of launch and the pros and cons of offshore launch pads in my latest blog post over on popular science, so definitely check that out if you would like to know more. And of course, all the comments, questions and thoughts in the comment section below. Be sure to follow me on Twitter and on Instagram for daily vintage space content. 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Ruining your life just became my life's mission. You found the best place for your vengeful needs. We start off with a new neighbor who built a driveway across someone else's land without permission and refused to compensate them for it. But when a flawed hero came knocking, he ended up compensating. Compensating quite lavishly. Followed by a story about an insufferable busybody who makes it her life mission to harass her neighbors for parking legally. Here's the wisdom freebie for this story. If you run into a fartface in the morning, you ran into a fartface.  Followed by a bully pickup driver, who likes to damage someone's lawn repeatedly, and refuses to stop honking. He did stop though, and all it cost, was a roll of duct tape, some water and a trash can. The fourth story will overload your vengeful needs, as it's about a selfish neighbor, who claims a piece of the public road to be his, and is alone. When they don't heed his warning, he'll slash the tires. Enter a year-long petty revenge act. Naturally, viewer discretion is advised. These revenge stories, might be disturbing to crazy neighbors. This occurred in a small town in Canada. I was visiting my friend at his dad's house. This was in an area where the land is so steep, all the driveways have to switch back up from the main road to the houses. A straight driveway was not an option, because it would be steeper than the building code allows. A few doors down the road, lived a nice old couple who until recently, had had a vacant lot next door to them. When the lot had sold, the new owner had started construction on a new house. Unfortunately, the lot was so steep that the new owner built his driveway partly on the old couple's land, it was carved out of the hillside with an excavator. Imagine two lots next to each other on the uphill side of a road with the property boundary perpendicular to the road. The older couple live on the left when you're looking uphill. The new driveway is for the property on the right, and it snakes up the hill in a, roughly, S shape. The bottom 50 feet or so of the driveway crosses the old couple's land to reach the road. The reason the guy built the driveway where he did, was because it was cheaper and easier than making it all on his land, not because there was no other option. This probably wouldn't have been a big deal if the new owner had approached the old couple first and asked nicely. But did he? Would I be telling this story if he had? In fact, the old couple had no idea what was happening until they came home one day to see a huge scar in the hillside, snaking up from the road in front of their house, across the corner of their property. It wand upwards to where an excavator was working to prepare the land for their new neighbor's house. They were pretty upset, but being nice reasonable people, they figured it was an honest mistake, so they went over to talk to the machine operator. He didn't know anything useful, but he was happy to give them the phone number of the new property owner. The old guy gave him a call and politely explained the situation, but his new neighbor, whom he'd never even met, was having none of it. He flat-out denied that the driveway crossed the property line, and he was so rude that it made the old guy pretty upset. At this point the old couple weren't sure what to do. They double-checked the property pins to make sure they were right, and of course they were. But after further conversations with the new owner, it was clear he was an unreasonable guy who wasn't going to come to the negotiating table willingly. The old couple didn't want to take legal action because that would have been expensive, and frankly, the damage to their yard was already done. At the same time, they couldn't just let someone walk all over them like that, especially if they were going to be living next door for the foreseeable future. So the situation stood for a while as construction continued on the new house, until one day when my friend's dad saw the old couple in the neighborhood and they started chatting them up.  Now, my friend's dad really likes the old couple, who don't have a mean bone in their bodies, so he was pretty pissed about the situation, and when he went home he couldn't get it out of his head. That evening, after a few beers, he had a brilliant idea. He called up the old couple, explained his plan, and asked for their permission to carry it out. They chuckled and gave him the go-ahead, so he hopped into the rusty old full-size pickup he kept as a second vehicle and drove it over to the old couple's place. However he parked it across the encroaching driveway, making sure it was entirely on their property. The next morning the work crew arrived bright and early to find that they couldn't drive to the house they were building, because some jackass had parked a crappy old F-150 across the driveway. They saw the note in the window with my friend's dad's phone number on it, so they called him to ask what the hell was going on. He explained that he had permission from the owners to park there and that, no, he would not move his truck so they could get to work. Furthermore, if anyone attempted to tow the truck, they would be charged with trespassing and theft. There was no way the construction guys were going to haul all their tools up the hill by hand, and they didn't want to get in the middle of a legal battle. So they just called the new owner to let him know they'd be taking the day off and that they'd continue to take days off, until the property boundary dispute was resolved. The new owner called the old couple in a fury, but the old couple told them the same thing my friend's dad told the construction workers basically.  To make an already long story shorter, the new neighbor rented a while, but eventually he wanted his house to be built, so the nice old couple ended up with a significant sum of money, in exchange for an easement, allowing the driveway to pass across the corner of their property.  For those who think I made it up, thanks for thinking I'm so clever, but judging by the number of similar stories I read before, I think this happens pretty often. Not too surprising considering the number of houses built each year in the world. For people who noticed. Yes it's true, my friend's dad drove after drinking a few beers. Every hero has his flaw. I lived across the street from a very bored stay-at-home mom, whose excess idle time turned her into an insufferable busybody. Her husband backed out of the driveway and slammed into my roommate's car parked on the curb. He apologized, gave us his insurance info, and took care of it. He was never a problem, because he accepted responsibility for what he did. His wife however, demanded that we never ever park any cars at the curb again because. We can't get out of our driveway otherwise. The street was very wide, she was just completely unable to accept that the accident was her husband's fault. So she figured we were somehow responsible for it, and there go we were responsible for preventing it in the future. We told her that we would avoid parking there whenever possible, but that we still had the legal right to park on the street, and that if necessary we would still do so. We also told her that it was her and her husband's responsibility to avoid hitting other people's legally parked cars when backing out of the driveway. She wasn't happy with that answer, but just told us we better stay out of her family's way, and stormed off. One day, she came storming over, banging on the front door, cussing us out. We got her on our security camera saying. If you don't move that freaking car in the next 10 minutes, I am going to freaking total it with my truck. It'll be your fault, and you'll have to pay for the damage to my freaking vehicle. To this I simply responded, I don't know whose car that is, but I didn't park it there. I have you on camera, so if you do anything to that car, I'll have to call the police and hand over this tape. She then threatened to sue me for invasion of privacy for recording her, and still insisted that we move the car, even though it wasn't our property. We just ignored her, and she did not do anything to the car. We did keep the recording though. A few weeks later, I had a friend visit from out of town. He parked his car on the curb, and then started unloading some stuff from his trunk. She came storming out, screaming and cussing at him.  If you don't move it, I am going to freaking total it, and you can freaking pay for a new goddamn car, as well as the damage you do to mine. He tried to calm her down, and asked if there was somewhere else he could park.  Unfortunately for her, he had his dash cam running the whole time, and it captured everything. He called the police, and she was arrested for threatening to commit vandalism and for threatening violence. A few days later, she left a long winded hate letter in our mailbox. It was written as if it were an open letter from the entire neighborhood, and it basically said that nobody knows who you are, and everyone wishes you would move away, and nobody wants you living in our neighborhood. Thing is, she forgot about the security cameras. I took the video of her opening my mailbox, which included her taking all our letters out of the mailbox and rifling through them. Which I gave to the post office. Which in turn led to her getting arrested for a second time that week. After that, we used her two arrests, our collection of security and dash cam footage, and her letter to get a restraining order against her that actually prohibited her from entering her own home. How is that even possible, you ask? The boundary of her property opposite to our house was 65 yards from our front door. The restraining order prohibited her from getting within 100 yards of me, my wife, our roommates, and our home. So basically, since we live so close to her, the effective radius of our restraining order encompassed her entire house. There are usually exceptions for this, but since she threatened violence, vandalism and tampered with our mail, they decided it was justified. Back to the story. Then we called the police every time we saw her, because she was in violation of the order. She ended up having to live in a hotel room, and her husband came over, apologized to us, and asked if we would drop the restraining order so his wife could come home. I told him I would do it, but only if she wrote me, my wife, our roommates, and the friend of mine she threatened, a one-page apology for her harassment. And that she would promise to never ever contact us again for any reason whatsoever moving forward. What do you think happened? Well, I received no apology, and the house went on the market a week later. Some fricking people. We don't own a car and live at the end of a cul-de-sac. I have people use my driveway all the time to turn around. As there's no exit, and only to turn around from the way you came. It's easier for them to use my driveway than a three-point turn their way out like Austin Powers. It's not a huge deal to me, a little annoying when they compact the snow, and it's harder to shovel, but whatever.  The van would park in my spot and begin honking at like 8 AM. This wasn't ideal, as I worked nights at the time. This were 6 PM till 2 AM shifts. So nights, but not quite overnights, and I usually got up at around 10 AM. Every time he'd wake me up around 8 or so, I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. Hence why I needed him to stop. Half the time, he'd be half parked on my grass. I told my neighbor that I don't overly mind my spot being used, but not if he's going to honk like that every morning and especially not if he's going to drive over what little lawn I have. Repeatedly. She spoke with him, he ignored it. I spoke with him and got.  It's not like you're using it. To which I repeated that I don't mind him using it if he stays off my grass and doesn't honk every morning.  So I left a recycle bin at the foot of my driveway. He just ran over it. I called the dispatch for the ride service and was told they are subcontractors and technically self-employed, but nonetheless, they will pass along the message. I wake up the next day to pounding on my door. Dude is pissed. He yelled.   Well, it's quite simple. You were told not to use my driveway if you were going drive on my lawn and wake me up every morning. Now get off my doorstep.  I'll sue you if I lose my job because of you. You've been warned. Don't trespass on my driveway or property again. Dude storms off in a huff spouting obscenities, et cetera. So this happened on a Thursday. The kids have a PD day the next day and it's supposed to be one of those delightful Canadian weekends where it drops to like minus 40 Celsius. For my American friends, minus 40 is where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet up. So it's freaking cold, LOL. So that night, I grabbed one of my more beat up plastic garbage bins, made sure to plug all the holes with a generous amount of duct tape. I stuck a sign on it that read private property, driveway not for public use, and proceeded to fill it to the brim with water.  Q Monday morning, he sees the garbage can, backs up a bit more and defiantly charges the garbage can as if to teach me a lesson. Then proceeds to cause some pretty serious damage to the front end of his car.  Copper arrives and says, So, let me make sure I understand this situation. He asked you not to park here and if you could refrain from honking, then warned you not to park here and put up a barrier. Now you expect him to be charged and pay for damages, you caused yourself to your vehicle in an attempt to destroy his own personal property. I will never forget the look on his face when the officer said, Yeah, that's not how this works. And turned to me, asking if I wanted to pursue charges for him damaging my personal property.  I then went back inside to enjoy a morning coffee while watching him from my kitchen window as he paced back and forth in the cold, waiting for a tow truck and having to call the company he worked for to explain why they needed to send out another driver to complete his route. I never saw him again. As far as the police officer, I wasn't aware that it wasn't up to me and he didn't say anything about it either. I assume he really didn't want to have to bother with the paperwork and thought I may have gotten upset if he'd said, well, I don't see the need to press charges at this point. So he made it seem like it was my choice. Source for this logic, I'm somewhat lazy and would likely do the same. This happened at the beginning of the 90s. There was a bloke who lived over the road for me. He had a little no parking sign in his front window. Keeping in mind this was a public road and there were plenty of places to park. I parked in front of his house because you know, it's a public road. He comes out and goes bananas. That's his space and I better move it or else. I refused. Next morning, the front tire has been stabbed. Fair enough, can't prove it's him, but it was him. So, revenge time. I bought an old Ford Fiesta for 300 pounds. It was a complete shed and genuinely had 14 owners before me. But it was motored and I tax slash insured it for virtually no money. In the UK every year, your car needs to go through a series of tests at a certification location to ensure it's roadworthy. That's when you need a mo. This way you could use it on the road while being properly insured or park it on the designated public road. The certification lasts 12 months. The car was from 1979 or 1970. So it was at least 10 years old when I bought it at the local in-person auction place.  It was possible to see the front tire through the footwell whilst sitting in the car. This led to internal flooding when driven in the rain. The front wipes failed all the time and windscreen wash slash spray was foot operated via a small rubber ball thing. I waited for his wife to move their car from their space and park that bad boy right outside his house on the public road. Again, bloke comes out, goes crazy. And I just smile and say, enjoy. Left that wreck outside his place a full year. Tires got stabbed, windows broken, even got spray painted. Kids would be playing in it, which enraged the bloke even more. All the while, I just left it there. Once it became apparent what I was doing, I took to parking my real car in different locations within a two minutes walking distance from my house. It really was a small price to pay for the 12 months-ish level of enjoyment this gave me. Called the scrapyard with the day left on the MOT and laughed my pajamas off every day. I don't have any before and after photos of the car, I wish I did. As noted, this was at the very start of the 1990s. I'd considered repeating the process every year till he either eats crow or has a mental breakdown. In fact, we moved a few months after the first car got taken to the scrapyard, but I still considered repeating the process even though I didn't live in that area.  Thank you for enjoying this episode, which was made with artificial love. 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So, if you've just landed on this channel, I am currently at BMC head offices in Switzerland and today I'm very lucky I get to ride with a pro cyclist. I've been a pro cyclist for 17 years, he's currently working out his average wattages for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes so he can share it with us and we're just going to go for a cruise and then I've asked him as a lead out man and he's going to share with us surely who he leads out, can he try and lead me out but more importantly can I hold his wheel as opposed to coming around him. Tell us, who do you lead out? Nowadays I lead out Greg Van Avermaet and Ben O'Connor in Australian. My two leaders in the old days I was leading out Kedel Evans, which was a lot of fun when we went to tour together in 2011 and he got the yellow jersey. So tell us what's your best power or your power for 1 minute?  Mickey found out after recording team protocols don't allow them to share their data which is understandable but we tried so if you appreciate the fact that we tried don't forget to give the video a like and hopefully my reaction will demonstrate to you how many watts we're talking about here. Holy **** ****. There we go on a short ride and yeah I think we have a goal to drop you from the wheel which is mostly not my goal. My leader should suppose to stay on my wheel as long as possible. Right. So today we changed roles a little bit. Yes and how are you going to do that? We're going to go uphill. You don't think you can drop me on the flats? I find that surprising. No I'm convinced I cannot drop you on the flat. Is that because you're too tall? Too much of a windbreak. How tall are you? 1 meter 98 tall 6 foot 5. Wow. And that's so much draft behind I think you're gaining 30% or you're spending less 30% on your watts so I think on the flat it's impossible to drop you. Maybe a little drag 3, 4, 5% or a proper climb. So 6'5". How much do you weigh? 77 kilos. 77 kilos. Let's go. Just when you don't want to be a hubbid with a pro, your cleat comes loose. You wouldn't rate about it. All three screws loose. I do every year 37,000 kilos of these. I've never seen this. So out of all the Aussies you could love, which one did you just bring up? Yeah the other guy with the tall as me skinny guy. Almost different. Yeah different kids. I love him. And what does he do? Follow him when he attacks he makes boom boom boom. How are I today? Say thank you to your shoes. Have a look at these babies. I've got a tag on it. Boom boom boom. So as we get going here, I wanted to thank Mickey for his time and if you missed our chat together where Mickey shares how training has changed over the past 17 years and why the Elite Pros are getting stronger younger, there will be a thumbnail at the end of this video you can click on to watch that piece. So on the screen from left to right you can see the time clock so we can see see how long I'm going to last on Mickey's wheel. The course for this lead out where there's a sharp hairpin, which I genuinely did not know was coming up until the last minute. And it's now a corner that will haunt me for years to come. We have cadence, speed in kilometers per hour. And you'll see we hover around 50 kilometers per hour, which is circa 31 miles per hour. We have power, heart rate, where my max is around 183, I thought. And you'll see us go over that before I get dropped. And strangely, I hit 180 out of the blocks, which I feel could be a data artifact. And finally, we have gradient. And for all those data geeks out there that want to know my numbers, I am 179 centimeters in height, currently 79 kilograms. And an FTP of around 350 watts, give or take 10 watts either side, depending on form. So Mickey was right. He's a monster windshield, and I'm sitting on his wheel without feeling like I'm going to get popped. Sitting in the draft, I can appreciate why. He's had 17 years in the game as a rider for the GC guys. However, the rough 30% more power he's producing than me right now, it's gonna hurt a lot when we hit this corner and go up the hill. So this corner we're about to turn into, turns into my second big cock up for the ride after the shoe incident. So I feel better about myself. Let me give you a little bit of context as to why this happened the way it did. I know I cares your buddy excuses, dickhead. Number one, I didn't know there was a corner involved in this lead out dropping. In fact, not only is it a corner, it's actually a hairpin. Number two, there is a car coming down the road we're about to turn into. You can't see it on camera yet, but I knew it was coming. Number three, I'm on unfamiliar roads, riding on the wrong side of the road. For me anyway. And number four, suffering from a fair bit of jet lag and I'm also slightly hung over. So all those things combined, my split second decision was Mickey was gonna take it nice and easy into the corner, enabling me to re-establish myself on the wheel as we came out of that hairpin, but he didn't. He ripped it into the corner and ripped it out. So by silly split second decision, now leaves me looking like a fair old peanut, dropping the wheel with a lot of catching up to do. And it was a fair old 900 watt effort to get back on the wheel and an effort that has left me close to max heart rate while having to pump out what is essentially an anaerobic effort to maintain wheel contact. And I feel Mickey, he could sense my heavy breathing. He let me suffer for a while and then decided to step it up a notch. Back up over 600 watts and I'm now heading for a new on-road max heart rate.  But this, my friends, is outside in the cool Swiss air. So as my heart rate exceeds max, hopefully we could all appreciate why I got dropped and why I sound like I'm being penetrated. So now let's have a look at my today's plan data, a software we use at the Road Cycling Academy to analyze athletes data. And here you can see my sustained effort after the initial spike on the flat, where I truly got to use Mickey as a shield with circa 400 watts. And after that initial spike up the hill, we're talking closer to 550 watts to hold Mickey's wheel. So all up for this dropping, I lasted roughly two minutes 40 of which one minute was uphill. So what did Mickey have to say about all this? What was your strategy there in the corner? It was lovely. It's actually what I'm doing since all my career. What's that? Riding hard into a climb and then try to go as fast as possible around the corner to make the guys behind the suffer. Yes. Because it's all about the position. Yes. And then kick right from the bottom of the climb. And that's what I did with you today. I put my experience on the game because I'm a little bit in off-season mood. Yes. So I didn't want to go too long on the climb. Yes. So I tried to make it kick hard right from the corner. What's it called? Bang bang. The bang bang. Nice. Thanks for the ride, mate.


Hello everyone. I am here with Samilis Lopez who's running in New York's 15th Congressional District And she is here to talk about her campaign. Samilis. Thank you so much for coming on the program Hi, thank you so much for having me. So if you can't tell she is in the heart of Bronx currently tell us where you are I'm in the heart of the top Bronx right now.  Now one thing that's interesting is that you are Yeah, yeah, I'm talking to a lot of people from the Bronx I've interviewed candidates from the Bronx one of which is AOC You are running in her neighboring district and you basically just recently got one of the biggest endorsements If not the biggest endorsement that you can get in politics AOC so tell us about that How did you get the endorsement of AOC? Well, you know AOC is courage to change pack endorse our campaign as of last Friday And they've been reaching out to us and they wanted to find out how we were organizing our volunteer network Because that's really what people like AOC care about. They don't care about how much money you have in the bank They don't care You know how much money you have it for her it's a matter of building a political movement Figuring out how many volunteers you have the excitement that you have in the ground And I think that she went with us because of that because she saw how we were fundraising our money Over 80% of our donations are small dollar contributions from the Bronx and from New York City as a whole Unlike any other candidate and campaign that's running in the 15th congressional district I think that our fundraising reflects our values in the community right now The community is going through a gentrification and a displacement crisis in the community So we cannot afford to send people to Washington or any level of government that is taking real estate developer money corporate pack contributions pharmaceutical money basically taking Donations from systems of oppression that are bringing us down in the community So I think that they saw that in our campaign and you know They went on board to support our effort so that we can grow so that they can help amplify what we're doing on the ground With resources so that we can develop the kind of infrastructure that we need to win this race Yeah, that's really exciting And I hope that she makes more endorsements because I think that she really does have a lot of influence And it's nice to see that she's not like getting to Congress and closing the door behind her She's trying to bring more people in I will say I'm a little bit bitter that she didn't endorse my girl Summer Hernandez in Texas But with that being said she has a lot of great people and I would encourage you all to check it out If you haven't seen it So you mentioned the real estate developers and anyone who's a progressive from New York They always talk about that because this is the key to a lot of the issues there And what's interesting about you is that you were actually a congressional aid for your current opponent So tell us who your opponent is and why you know as someone with a little bit of inside information You think that you'd be a better representative for that district Well, actually I'm not running against the person that I was a congressional aid for this is an open seat So congress and jose is the rhino is retiring because he was diagnosed with Parkinson's So he's stepping down from June 23rd 2020 There's going to be an open seat here in the south Bronx to determine who the next congressional candidate Is going to be that's going to represent the neighborhood So he's actually really beloved in the congressional district. He's been here for like 30 years He's actually really progressive on many issues So he's going to be stepping down So he gave me my first opportunity of public service as a congressional aid Doing housing casework and immigration casework And I saw the way that he was able to Lead in the community and how he's able to bring many different people together because even though this is a Predominantly latino community. It's not just latino. It's west african. It's african american. It's yemeni. It's muslim It's you know a slice of every piece of the world is in this community So the representative that deserves to win this area and represent it is somebody who's not going to play identity politics Is somebody who's going to basically bring people together so that we can realize what we have in common Which is fighting against things like white supremacy fighting against things like worker exploitation immigration injustice and being a champion for the homes guaranteed platform, which is uh Platform that's beautiful that was basically created by directly impacted people facing homelessness And lack of repairs in their homes and and mold living in nicah and things like that And they all came together to say this is not how we want to live And we want to reclaim the housing stock and we want to bring this platform together and be a champion of it So that people in the community can live with pride and dignity Um, so that's kind of like what the issues are in this congressional district The number one issue that we hear at the doors is homelessness It's the rents skyrocketing So we need a working class champion that's going to reject that kind of money Real estate developer money to finance their campaign and put the people first unapologetically and that's what our campaign is about That's actually really encouraging. Um, because I see a lot of situations that are basically David versus goliath across the country. So to know that you're not like taking on a political machine I mean, you still are in a sense the establishment But you're not going up against an incumbent that actually really is encouraging So I kind of want to ask you about the dynamics of the race because I wasn't aware that he was retiring Um, what has it been like? Like are you basically receiving the blessing of him? And the establishment in new york city like the local establishment or is this basically really competitive race? I don't know how he's even though he gave me my first startup public service This was years ago when I graduated college So I don't know where he's standing or he's supporting. He hasn't been vocal on that But you know, I'm not waiting for anybody's blessing Uh, I basically I'm doing this with the blessing of the community and people that I have been organizing with for a very long time I believe that when you know, you have a calling to do something like this You have to basically rely on the community and you have to create that change And it starts from the ground up really so I don't think that We need to ask anybody for permission and you know, the last people that I would ask permission to do anything like this Is the Bronx democratic political establishment? So we're moving forward. We're organizing. We're knocking on doors We're raising money in a clean way that centers the needs of directly impacted people in the district that I love And that's basically who's inspiring us to keep going when things get hard Um, and we're basically leading with love and compassion, which is revolutionary in and of itself And really using politics as a way of building community and bringing different people together and Being humble in terms of how we approach people so that we can listen to their needs and let their needs as directly Impact the people living in this community shape our platform so we've been Taking people's opinions and perspectives So that we can build out what we're fighting for because I have a background in urban planning And I believe strongly that we need to center those experiences because a lot of people talk about very Fancy terms and policy and sometimes policy is done from an ivory tower But I'm against that. I think that it's directly impacted people that need to shape policy and the narrative and you know, we need people in all levels of government That reflect those direct experiences and that's basically the perspective that we're taking in our campaign Yeah, and I love that so much. I love that so many candidates yourself included Like you're not waiting your turn for lack of a better word where you know, you have to go through Hello, can you hear me? Can you hear me? Yes. Sorry. You kind of like Did I cut out for a second? Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah a little bit? Okay, perfect. You're back now Yeah, so okay. What I was saying was I really like that candidate such as yourself You're not uh waiting your term uh for lack of a better word because it's like you don't You're not going through all of these proper channels Like you're just standing up because you have experience with the community and just browsing through your twitter feed Like I just thought to myself. She's phenomenal. I love you. You were talking about how it Only rich people can attend the debate You were tweeting about that with the ticket cost of 1700 dollars in South Carolina And it's it's so infuriating because it really feels like normal working people Have just been shut out of our entire political process and so to see candidates like you rise up It really is inspirational even though that sounds corny like it is true So can you talk through your platform a little bit because you have a very uh human centered approach to politics? What's your platform? Right. Uh the platform that we're fighting for is definitely um everything that we've been talking about We want to have people have a sense of true ownership over the local political process Will be for announced by participation in this race. We've been organizing people on the ground in terms of educating them about The infrastructure of the local political party and getting them enrolled in local party positions like county committee district leaders state committee Um, basically what bernie sanders was inspiring us to do back in 2016 He said that we should be running in all levels of politics and government so that we can transform our government and make sure that We've been organizing for a very long time in the community Uh democratizing political information and identifying activists that have been doing this work on the ground And taking guidance and inspiration from frontline communities here in the Bronx like the environmental justice community that has bearing the broad of environmental injustice So we need to center that narrative and inject it in everything that we do and use our platform in congress to fight for those ideals and Center that these experiences and that platform so that we can take the advocacy to the next level And create the right political conditions for the community activism and the movements on the ground that are really the ones That are have a huge role in making transformative change in the community Um, we need to create the right political conditions for that activism on the ground to take root And what happened in 2018 with the independent democratic conference I don't know if you follow that conversation in new york state, but it was uh me like a uh rogue democrats that were empowering republicans in albany to stay in power And then everybody in the progressive space the authentic grassroots real You know progressive space here in new york city and in the Bronx We all got together to defeat that arrangement and because of that We were able to see one of the most progressive tenant rent reform Measures that have ever been passed in albany and all of new york state new york state's history and it's because The new people that we stood behind the grassroots politicians that we ended up putting in albany through our grassroots community effort We're able to amplify the housing justice movement on the ground that directly impacted people have been clamoring for for decades And because of those political conditions that were created that was able to to take root And give us tenant rent protections here in new york state So the same thing has to happen nationally. We need to you know, look at what's happening in new york state with the tenant rent reform Laws with the efforts around the homes guarantee Seeing that energy and the housing activists that got together to make this happen We need to be amplifying that at the federal level as well Yeah, your platform is very robust So I would encourage everyone to look um at her platform. We'll have a link on the screen I wanted to ask you because um a day after the debate in south carolina There was an open letter from people of color in new york who basically called on the people of south carolina and individuals voting on super Tuesday not to support 2020 presidential candidate mike bloomberg and since you're from new york I wanted to get your take on mike bloomberg and the way he's trying to basically buy this election Oh my god, we need to stand against any efforts to buy our democracy One of the biggest things that i'm fighting for is the importance of taking away big money and politics because like we've Be talking about the whole time That you know affects everything that we're fighting for in the community And it's a direct assault on our democratic values So it's actually really corrupt what's happening with this election, but i'm not scared of mike bloomberg because in the door knocking that i've been doing in the bronx people overwhelmingly love bernie sanders and they understand that he's the working class champion that the people need And they love his message And people love his message around Worker solidarity around the union movement. Uh, he came out with a great platform the other day on universal child care You know that people really need at least in my community because a lot of people leave their kids home When they go to work because they can't afford child care So people understand who the true working class champion is and the importance of making sure that working class people that are making under 40 000 a year 20 000 a year Have a champion and organizer in chief that's going to fight for their values and their needs and you know What they're about so that we can rise together as a community and respect the revolutionary legacy that places like the bronx You know can you know show to the world because this is who we are I'm standing on the shoulders of a movement and people like michael bloomberg don't represent that But people like bernie sanders and aoc in an omar and the rest of the members of the squad Represent that transformative change. So this race in particular for me I keep saying this on the camp trade on the campaign trail It's about leaving behind the transactional politics of a broken political system and embracing the politics of transformation That's being waged in washington dc right now by people like bernie sanders aoc illan omar rashira talib And others that are engaging in the fight for transformative justice In the country in our communities and that's the kind of transformative That we need to see that we need to fight for Because this is really about reclaiming the soul of the democratic party and reclaiming our working class Roots in this party that have been co-opted by the corporate democrats that are not corporate even corporate democrats They're republican life. So we need to reclaim our working class roots in this party and take it over And that means getting more numbers getting more people like aoc and illan omar into congress So that we can build that infrastructure and make sure that this party works for the 99% not the 1% Absolutely, and i'm so glad that you used the term organizer in chief because to beat money That's the only way that we're going to even have a chance and you really see the power In grassroots organizing. I mean all across the country from the bronx to uh, seattle with socialist shama sawan Organizing and beating amazon like this really is a national movement and it's so nice to see so many people rise up So i know that you've got limited time before you go. Tell us what we can do to help you get elected Well, i'm so grateful for this platform that you all have given up given us I think raising awareness donating is also a very important piece of that You can go to lopezforthepeople.com because since we've rejected dirty money to finance our campaign We're just relying on regular grassroots contributions from the community to keep us afloat to feed our volunteers to distribute our literature So that's an important piece. Uh, you know share us on social media And connect with us too if there's an idea that you have if there's something on the platform that you feel could be expanded Sign up at lopezforthepeople.com if you have a talent in video making definitely is sign up and connect us to people You know, we're always looking to to learn and build in our own community because we always want to center The frontline experiences of people in in the bronx because that's one of the things The brass keeps getting described as the poorest congressional district in the entire country And that's something that I want to get across tonight before I hop off It's not just the poorest congressional district in the country. We have a lot of economic challenges But it's the most resilient borough in the entire country because we've you know seen In the 70s and the 80s how the landlords burned the buildings here for profit Um, and then we saw the incredible rebirth of the south bronx and you know, what that meant So I definitely am standing on top of a I'm a woman that has always been here in the bronx I'm standing on our revolutionary spirit our resiliency And I think that there's a lot of local solutions here in the south bronx is congressional district that can be implemented Nationally and globally So I feel that with this race one of the things that I want to do along with others collectively in this community Is transform the way that the bronx is perceived in the world. We're not dawn trodden We're a place of rebirth. We're the birthplace of hip hop. We you know are The birthplace of salsa, you know, we have a lot of creativity and energy And people need to be looking to the south bronx as a global and a national policy thought leader You know where the solutions that the frontline communities here have developed can be implemented Internationally and nationally That's perfect. Thank you so much Come to the bronx help us knock on doors help us, you know volunteer and uh Thank you so much. Yes before we go best place to eat in south bronx Well, I'm near one of my favorite places. It's la pela. It's a mexican restaurant That's by 149th and moors avenue. They have really good chicken quesadillas and I get them with extra cilantro and onions and Cheese on top and it's really good. No, I'm hungry. Thank you Well, there you have it. Thank you so much for coming on the program. It's been an absolute pleasure We will be following your campaign very closely and good luck Thank you so much and remember visit us at love us for the people.com


Alright, we got a very classic bully victim situation here except they both have psychic powers and That's that's it. Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster I should know be we have episode five of our mob psycho 100 watch today called Ochi Musha psychic powers and me not really sure what Ochi Musha even remotely means But in the last episode we saw what may be an overarching Antagonist for the series in this other young kid named Teru who is a lot like mob except actually uses his powers to be Popular and it's sort of in an evil way to get what he wants We're gonna hop right into it if you knew the channel chop us up and hit that big blue bell unless you started Time to take revenge for the body improvement club Yeah, like I said mobs by the first one he's met it seems like the way he's reacting Yeah And he can actually see temple It's haunting me he says casually.  I think that's only three more from I think it started at 40 or ended at 44 last episode Hey hierarchy. He's like, all right. Well, there's more of us. We're gonna have to figure out order somehow. Oh My gosh Wait, he touched them, but he didn't move He's gonna say let's be friends Yeah, dude, he seems like a spoiled brat especially these powers He's so fast Is he doing it to himself like he's moving himself around I get nauseous But it doesn't even move mob Yeah true, I don't think mama want to I mean he'll defend himself You can just tell I wonder where he learned that from or if he just get he decided that himself that he shouldn't use his powers against people Oh Oh my gosh That's so sad Oh we This is who he learned it from Wait, did Reagan say that's not Reagan Hmm. It's a good role model though set mom on the right path even if he may not feel like it I Okay, at least Reagan's a decent role model pretty admirable He's don't want to have to use it as a crutch.  He's just tumbling.  Wouldn't it be it? Oh, he's taking a form again Dang, I mean demo got rolled by mob though wouldn't heroin be fine Yeah, he's gonna get smacked. I like how much potential he sees in mob though. Oh, wait We completely Oh No No, that's gonna oh my gosh dimple. They're like middle school dude. That's gonna set my law Just for a sec I actually dimples kind of grown on me God day I only hear black beard in his voice now that that one of the patreon comments mentioned it God dang it Oh You seemed pretty scared at first You're the main character Bob looks mad Spit boy spit He's going on the offensive with his words Anyone thinks he's better than anyone think they're better than tarot it like sets him off full power no breaks I love the lighting around him. It's crazy. I Think you're underestimating mobs powers. He's not even going on the offensive tarot. Now the music is sick.  Oh My gosh either that or he's gonna get to the point of exploding and he won't control himself like what happened with dimple Well the emotions will be stored up No shot oh it all comes back to the knives. It's a very direct analogy now If he threatens his life, he'll have to fight back cut his hair how much of his hair Ropers it how to tell who just get bodied by the eye catcher man. Holy That was a clean cut mom. Holy. I mean you got some some strands still there, but still impressed He's using his tie as a swad Oh, she musha. Oh, is that like a swordsman? Why does he look like that? That is a swordsman I think it's like a way they cut their hair. I don't know I'm a zawa They're introducing each other As an enemy. Yeah, I feel like he's gonna be like a long-term rival. Oh my gosh This animation is nuts He did call himself the main character that's right He's lost it. Oh my god. I Think he genuinely is asking that he's like how can I get that kind of confidence, but not in a malicious way This is his first obstacle as the main character Seeing as he has the same power Terrorist piss He's not as special Oh Bob cutting to his core. Oh my god What Dang dude, mom just trauma dumping he's like we're the same for the same I think it's cutting to him because he's right He's just straight up grabbing him It's just pure rage taking over him He was the popular kid and no one matched him his ego got so big they see he's literally fighting mob Just because Bob didn't even ever want to fight. He didn't take anything from him He took from his story as the main character Wow, oh my gosh, he's gonna force it. Oh no, Teru. Oh No He's like that's it.    I'm usually an anime. They just get blown back. It's just not powerful. It was That's not mob anymore, man It reminds me of Gones rage like from Hunter Hunter. He's taking his powers.  There's other people See where did he go?  Oh no, cuz he has his powers Okay, it's fixed. Oh, they're alive Dude that that like imagery and he didn't realize that until he was all the way in like the stratosphere He's just a regular person It like changed her though He has like this new outlook and it took throwing him out that high into the sky to get it I feel so bad for mob though Oh He actually looked for him Gosh all of that with his brothers It's no wonder his brother has so closed off about mob's powers and he probably feels guilty and that's why he wants powers too He feels guilty for what happened No, no the other time Have they never talked about it all they did I Doesn't want to let it bother mom. He's trying to downplay all of it. The question is what actually did happen to those kids Oh, she was flying he's gonna know his mom he saw it. He knows exactly the sort of oh, man So good Holy what an episode just like I said that the imagery everything that the Animation whatever mob is getting blown away over and over and over again I mean and what a change of a character in teru too I do like this this outlook of him being not really even an overarching antagonist anymore But a character for mob to grow alongside because now he has found someone like him and although his brother is good role model and Reagan's there as well. There's no one that can really understand him and his internal struggles with this power Especially from what we see in this episode the power the struggles that he deals with in terms of being scared of whatever it is And not to say that teru has whatever demon the mob has inside of him But he will be able to understand him to a certain extent better than everyone else But I think mob's brother is coming more and more and more into the picture And I think aside from wanting to also have psychic powers. I think he's just concerned about mob in general I'm not really sure but a showstopper of an episode for sure. If you are new to the channel Don't forget to drop a sub so you don't miss the next episode. I'll catch you guys in the next one base base