Do you have a coin or something? Oh, yeah. Really? One person makes this? He probably will show it right now. Yeah, Janus. But I'm not sure about Guy's. No, Guy lost a parent in the law. Oh, wow. He lost his father-in-law. Or mother-in-law. Mother-in-law. He lost his father. Recently he wanted to just put it away. Yeah. So he was coming back from Sacramento and had his child left. So maybe Joe, move over a little bit. Yeah, I will. You're together with us. Move along. We're getting ready to start, buddy. I think we're all here. Can I close the door? Yeah, we can. Okay. I'm going to move more. And you'll get me that list of all? Are we missing a camera person? Yes, we only have two of them. I can go do camera. Can I? Do you want to remote? You're not supposed to touch. No, I'm going to go over there. We can run our own meeting. We should. We have the robots. The robots are here. There we go. Yeah. Popped a doorhouse. What's here? I had turned on the light. Yay, somebody got it. So my dad used to let me explore to that guy. Gary Lockwood, yeah. He was actually his neighbor. I didn't talk to him. Oh, yeah. I didn't see him like that. It's awesome. I don't know. I'm up close. I'm laying on the floor. I was almost close to that. It's clear except for the Santa Cruz city. I'm on the floor.  I have to get some of the air. Oh, just get better extension. It'll be reversed. Then you can read. You can drive. Four. Three. Two. One. You're on. Good evening. I'd like to call to order the meeting. Meeting of the community television of Santa Cruz County Board of Directors of January 27th, 2020 with the secretary family callable. Here is yours. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. There. Here. Here. So the 뭐�复 on on is oral communications. Is there anybody here who would like to address. The lord doing that we can move right along to a consideration of late additions to the agenda. November and December 2019 financial reports. Any questions comments? I'll move and everybody second and have a couple of quick comments. Okay we have a motion from Director Hall. Is there a second? Second. Second from Director Mannheim. I just want to thank everybody that was involved in the hiring of the executive director. There's quite a bit of financial transaction the males we are bookkeeper took and the committee who really diligently worked on kind of the financing arrangements for this so this is kind of the end of an era of reports to you in the beginning of another era so with that that's all I was going to say. All right thank you very much. Any other comments or questions? Yeah one quick comment I noticed in reading about the actions on hiring a full-time executive director that we need to come back into open section at some point with the exact salary for our new executive director so I'll be just a comment that when we get to suggestions for the next agenda I'll be asking it back. Okay very good. All right any further comments or questions?  Any opposed? All right that carries unanimously. Moving right along to our regular agenda we have item 7 which is the oral report of the executive director. Dr. Finley take it away. All right. Our full-time executive director. So we'll start as usual with the financials which is a co-working center so so my reports are a month behind we're reporting on December now not on January so the co-working center in November because we didn't meet in November I'm going to give you that number we are $9,100 and we our break even number is 10 so that was we were a little low that month but in December we were up over 11 and we're up over 11 now and we also had miscellaneous income of $11,000 so we're okay. We had a insurance claim that was paid and it was $11,000 so that was we put that into our operating budget that's a good thing. Underpaid services we did 18 meetings in November and only 11 in December but that's part of the course nobody wants to meet during Christmas and we have some scheduled projects which are paid productions which you see in the budget it's under the heading of paid productions we're doing the Calciano lectures in February which we always do and we have a new project in development we're working on another non-profit who wants to do an event and we're working with them we'll see if they if they're able to do it but we have a possible other production on the horizon. Under equipment and facilities we are working on new signage and I sent you a picture so you can see what it would look like when you put new signs on top of the building and we also want to paint the building a brighter color and Keith was alarmed. I think we're so far back from the street people don't see us with our beige and gray motif so we thought this bright color which is one of our colors is green would cause people to see the building so we're working on that since we did this nice thing satellite changed their logo so we are redoing it so next month I'll bring you the new version and their logo actually is much nicer yes are we also going to replace the monument sign out yep yep yep yeah I have a I have a copy of that too but I just didn't want to clutter up your good your report with too many things yes and we're going to what we're gonna do with that is well we're gonna redo what we were gonna do what we had planned was because satellites logo was an odd shape and that thing the little satellite that pops off took up so much space and then there's a bunch of white space and it just wasn't a good shape for the shape of the sign we decided to build a little thing around the bottom of the sign that would make it more of a rectangle and less of a square so that we could it would look nicer and we could kind of compress it and now so I change our logo so we're having to come up with something new but we will be painting the outside of it green so it won't be great so now it just sort of blends in and you don't notice it so I know I know I think we have a designer working on this we're not like winning it so so it's gonna be pretty and yeah we're gonna definitely it'll have black letters instead of gray and it'll have a nice new logo so it'll be it'll be fancy and fun oh and what you don't see here is in the black bar where it says you can't tell if you it says digital media studio in that black bar we're gonna put the CTV logo in there as well okay so we have the CTV logo on the front of the building and on the side of the building as well so it's good timing for that we think and since we're doing new signs it works out great so we're gonna add that so I didn't have that version with the new logo so but you'll get the idea moving on to equipment we receive payment from our insurance company for the camera that was stolen that was the miscellaneous 11,000 and we received a nice donation of equipment and computers from a local filmmaker and he donates stuff to us every year and this year he gave us this gigantic computer that's very fast and has tons of really nice software on it and he's given us he gave us two in the past they were named Sid and Nancy this one's named Bertha so we can keep them straight and very nice he also gave us a lot of really like GoPro cameras and like a match set with water housings and all kinds of cool stuff so and a ton of nice things and Victor's going through it figuring out what we can use and Matilda and her team I guess if I hope she has a team well mark it all put it in our if anyone like to volunteer from until the team one of our camera persons is one of one person okay well it's a it's a it's cool stuff and it'll be great to get it in there not only be good for our our own members but it's the kind of thing that local people rent yeah so it's really nice should we he may not want to be recognized but should we put a little you know recommendation or a thank you to him well I he's not like you we couldn't hire him he works on film so he's not like no I just to thank you for nice for the yeah it's Chris Lakey a local filmmaker he does a lot of second-unit work and and other things like that he lives on he's over on the west side and every year he does this for us is very really nice and let's see and he's very kind even brings it here for us and this year he brought it on a cart which he let us have the cart to count the cart gave us all these great containers and cases and it was just really nice under publicity and events under communication publicity and events we the holidays so and I not a lot went on but we did do some nice things in Barry who's our community coordinator held first Friday events both in December and November and we also he also did he collected donations for the food bank he had a turkey that he collected money for for Thanksgiving it was a target turkey so it's like looked real and it was fun people had a fun time putting their money in the turkey and then we did a holiday tree for the Salvation Army so we did two of those and we also always does bagel Monday some waffle Wednesday so anyone who's thinking about working in the co-working center we feed you so you get we have a fun waffle maker you pour the stuff in the top of waffle comes out the bottom and bang bang Wednesday waffles fresh Nutella oh yeah we have syrup also and butter cream cheese for the waffles we don't skimp and Friday is espresso so and we're gonna do some more we're working on some more fun things for January so we're doing more lunch and learns and we've now got we have a number of doctors working here so we put a sign outside you probably didn't see because you came after five but we have like a frame a pretty a frame sign that goes outside to say which doctors are here today because people arrive on the porch and are like this is not a doctor's office yes but they're well they're like psychologists oh okay they do testing and things like that they're not I mean testing you know of the mind so yeah so so that was a great thing to be in bed we had I arrived this morning there it was outside with the doctor's names on their office number who was great so we're moving right along under outreach we did I did communicate in December with the Camillo College digital media program and I'm gonna speak there at some point this year so we're working on getting interns and we have we have jobs posted on a few intern internet places and so we're excited about that and that it's kind of a slow month December so that's my report for December thank you very much are there any questions comments from the board all right seeing that we can move right along we might actually break the land speed record today so item number eight is the oral report from the Volunteer Advisory Committee chair which is now the director so not a lot going on with the holidays but a couple of things to report there's going to be a shop talk for producers and directors looks like it's gonna be February 16th and we're hoping Becca will talk to the producers and directors about best practices for producing video and the other thing is as Becca's urging we're setting up a candidate statement day and I believe let me check it's February 7th is that February 7th yes February 7 from 10 to 4 and anyone who's on the local ballot in this county I'm trying to invite them all I've invited most can come in in 15 minutes they'll get a chance to make a two-minute statement and then Becca's gonna have staff edit it together and it'll run on our channels does that include issues as well as candidates so far it's just candidates yeah we weren't talking about doing issues they are issues on the ballot yeah yes there are but we're just doing candidates may I say one more thing we're also the Victor and his staff are putting together a bunch of messages about voting so we were doing three one where to register to vote one a day you're supposed to vote because sometimes the wrong dates go out so we want to make sure people know what day there it really is and the number to call so that you can find out where your polling places so and yeah yeah website links and phone numbers and then last year we had two people come in yeah we'll repeat those okay yeah we're gonna repeat those as well if they're still there weren't if they're well the dates different the dates are different but they talked kind of generally about about voting yeah so that probably it's sort of when we did it was sort of a generic they actually thought that they want to do it again now that they've gone through they want to do I think but they may do it for November it's up to you guys well the thing is I mean yeah we agreed that every time but maybe for November we should do new ones yeah not a bad idea and we can use those these packages that we're making we can just then change the date of the election going forward so we'll have this really nice motion graphic package for a long time wonderful nothing bad okay that sounds good well we can move on to item number nine and which is my oral report board chair and I once again don't have much as the holidays I finally did send an email to County regarding and I think the timing is bad I think right now they're great for the March through the election and so I've not heard back regarding you know tying in with the county elections part but I'm glad to hear that we're moving forward with getting candidate statements which are on TV television but at some point it would be nice to talk to the elections department and see if we can actually tie in with them yeah they've been pretty swamped a lot of activity I will say that if you're near the county building if you stop by the second floor or the third floor where elections is there's quite a nice they put in a bunch of beautiful artwork that's election related and yeah nice having some technical difficulties with that there's a like a history of voting and women's voting rights and such but it's all magnetic and so pieces keep falling down it's a beautiful it's a beautiful design women's dog the right to vote yes so that's about it for me so I guess we can move on to item 10 which I believe we had a board member who had a request for an item to appear back to us just just to follow up on we need to come back and vote on and or report out I'm not sure which maybe I don't know expert Larry but I believe we have to vote vote so we vote on our executive director salary okay and then there are a couple of things from the finance committee one we should put on here mid-year budget adjustment because we have a few things we have one we know the software for services category needs to go up a little it's a little more costly it's not major things but I'll leave it general so if things come up with Mel's work well that's why we just put your budget adjustment and the other one if this gentleman has been giving us all this equipment we should put an item on and officially thank him okay man I didn't know if he wanted it public or not but I mean we need to we need to also accept it oh okay well need to officially accept it and then that means that he you know he can get right well we did accept it we've sent him a letter yeah I just thought publicly I mean the board I think I mean I think it's a nice gesture yeah okay he's been doing it he said for years yeah for as long as I been here yeah that was my two things okay I'll be happy to add those items to the next agenda I just have to make sure I leave a reminder for myself so any further items requests no all right then we can move on to item 11 which is announcements always like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteer crew diehard community TV members and today we have in the studio Richard Ducell Sherry Ross John James Linda Janakis and Karen Scott thank you all very much I would change the word to committed committed what did I say diehards committed committed yes so any further announcements okay I entertain a motion for a German item number 12 I know we have a motion vice chair round all right we're adjourned and it's 517 I'm gonna note that


Hey, y'all Yupa and welcome to my big Swedish adventure I'm riding the length of Sweden from north to south in the previous episode The Sun finally came out and it made all the difference in the world so glorious and My new friend bike touring Mikael showed up.  It's like a Colorado morning except I'm not excited for all these guys waiting for me Look at them all they're just hanging out under my rain fly But I think I'm getting the hang of this time zone. I think I Woke up today full brightness like it is right now and I was like, oh, it's like seven or eight in the morning I'd go outside look at my watch and it was three But then I went back to bed and oh slept a few more hours Now that is a forecast that makes me happy That was my first tense shake of the trip Good morning, Mickey. Well on all drama day. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So the goat The latter part of the night anyway. Yeah, it's always kind of difficult in the beginning Especially when you're out and you've been cycling for 10 hours It's no problem getting to sleep at the first night when you're not. Yeah, it's hosted by That's true. Well, we'll change that tonight. Yeah, hopefully I'm gonna celebrate the morning sunshine with a little shave Is it always buggy all summer like this? No, like Ryan Calculated this perfectly so so mid-summer when he arrived here is kind of peak mosquito season Good for me. Yeah, if you come here in say August, they're like during the day. There aren't any mosquitoes and Sort of maybe 10% of what you have not right now in the evening. So wow Sweden is best In August late summer. Oh man. Oh, yeah, you know what it's time for What do you eat in the morning? I mainly just eat porridge and Boring stuff like that. Oh, that is boring. Come on man. I'll save the chocolate for later in the day This isn't chocolate. This is this is health food, man peanut butter and hazelnut You're missing out ma'am. Mm-hmm Have a yes, I have a grins grütt avra grins grütt oatmeal So Mike here his name is not really Mike. It's Mickey That's how you say it in Swedish, but we were just talking we both graduated from high school the same year in Sweden 1998 Should we sing the graduation song? Who comes to dance dance league league at all. There's a graduation song that everybody sings in Swedish I want to know the first line. I think Ryan's better It's probably one of the songs he has memorized since that's true. I definitely have My Swedish sister Sophia made sure that I learned that Here's another Swedish vocabulary word for you migga That is mosquito. That's how you say it and many mosquitoes is migor And this is his bug juice the stuff work well. Yeah, hopefully Thank you super soft Swedish grass and a picnic table and a cute little town park We've got Mike checking out some maps. He knows this area. This is his backyard, right? Sort of anyway. Yeah Yeah All right, my friend here we go No crash ease no flat ease no whammy no whammy It feels like a Colorado morning out here blue skies sun warmth and It's by far my earliest start of the trip Just before 8 a.m. Which isn't that early, but I've been going to sleep late Look that we found right off the side of the road It's one of Santa's reindeer Hey, buddy When the rain are shaking that it's not like they have like Spassums are just what they just want to get off all the midges from from their body. Oh, yeah, they hate the bugs too I get it We are riding along a nice calm country road Not much traffic and we're just chatting and getting to know each other Mikkel here is a Ice hockey ref in the winter How'd you get into that? Yeah, I was playing ice hockey until I Entered high school and then I realized I was too bad at it. So I kind of started rafting and I'm I'm usually People boo at me on this on the in this dance. I'm probably as bad as a ref as I was a hockey player Good morning reindeer. I can't believe it. This is the first time in my life. I've ever ridden behind a herd of reindeer Now go on get back to Santa. He's waiting for you Wow, that was pretty special man That does that happen a lot here? Sometimes but like sometimes you don't you see maybe one or two reindeer, but That's quite Uncommon you get a hundred on the road like that. Yeah I am absolutely in love with the look of Swedish summer houses the red with the white trim and there's a reason for that, right? Yeah like back in the day pain cost a lot of money and We have a lot of copper in the ground here in Sweden. So when the mining companies had Their mining operations. They got a lot of rest products So they used the rest products to make this raid red paint called follow red fairy and you can see this all over Sweden so basically back in the 70s or 80s Maybe 80% of all the houses were painted like this in Sweden now. It's a bit less, but still Every other house is red in Sweden. It's the classic look. Yeah. Yeah, I love it And so it's just a byproduct of the the mining operation, huh? Yeah Yeah, I just told Ryan and that You could probably get one of those houses for about the $10,000 or so the real is cheap around here in is that the only thing that's cheap in Sweden $10,000 for a Swedish summer house. I'll take one But I guess then you have to live in the middle of nowhere and you're far away from everything and they're pretty simple And a lot of times they don't have plumbing, right? Yeah No services around or you get you have to be a car dependent. That's the bad thing. Yeah Mikkel is Taking me to a little shelter here along the river and There's shelters like this all over Sweden Pretty cool So this is a simple Swedish shelter. How does this system work? Yeah, these shelters are Mainly provided by the Swedish state or the municipality around here So often you can find free firewood to use They they restock these shelters a couple of times each summer so and There's no fee for using these places you it's just based on a first come first serve principle Basically, wow, and you couldn't you sleep under here if you wanted to yeah, but then you have to Fight the mosquitoes.  I don't think anyone knows how many there are but there's a site called map camp while there's something That lists most of these but they only list about 20 percent or so so you're gonna stumble upon These kind of shelters so there's thousands probably probably tens of thousands tens of thousands. Wow, that's so cool I love Sweden taking care of their people So with the Aleman threat and you can camp here right you can stay wherever you want pretty much in Sweden Yeah, pretty much if you stay about a hundred meters away from the nearest house You're you're pretty fine and if you only stay for one night, but a cyclist were basically moving on each day So it's perfect for us in that way. Yeah, and these are all free because of the high Swedish taxes, right? The thing in Sweden has always been that the government when I inspire people to get out in the nature And that's why they've built things like these Just to make it a little bit more comfortable. Yeah and easy. All right. Goodbye Swedish shelter. Thank you We are off into the woods into the school again. That means woods We are back on dirt roads on the divide route right now the euro divide We're gonna follow this for a bit and just just have ourselves a lovely day, right? Yeah, the weather's great and Perfect riding conditions not too We'll do that again I almost crashed so what do we have in front of us? Yeah, we have about Five or ten kilometers before we reach the dam over here that we're gonna follow For the next ten kilometers or so so it should be pretty smooth sailing ahead of us here and perfect weather. Yeah It's probably like 70 degrees This would be a nice cool spring day in Boulder Today is one of those days. We just got to keep stopping because it's so beautiful. We a glada We are happy. Those were some of the most painful drone shots. I've ever gotten you want to know why? Horseflies They are on us like crazy out here. You might see them flying after us. They can actually Follow you at pretty high speed. How do you deal with horseflies?  So it's really painful Yeah, it's not very fun, but I hope those drone shots were worth it so today I'm having a Pain that I've never had and it's something that most of my cycling friends have had and that's knee pain And I've luckily never had that but today my right knee hurts really bad And I think it's because I'm using SPD clip-in pedals Which I haven't used in well over a year I've been using more the platform style pedals Because most of my riding is technical and I'm on and off my bike constantly But I thought okay Sweden this is gonna be a lot of smooth gravel. I Want to crank and I don't know maybe my Futs just stuck in a position. It doesn't like And I've been trying to mess with some things changing the cleats changing the cleat position We'll see here. It is my friends my first black bean Swedish burrito And check it out. We found this awesome shelter right next to a creek Just in time for lunch and there's a trick. I'm learning about eating anything on the roads Or in the woods in Sweden you kind of like eat take a bite and you dance around a little bit because it's either Mosquitoes or horse flies on you and you got to keep moving at all times It's kind of fun. You do the lunch dance snack man What did you make for lunch? I think I have some Pasta carbonara or something pasta carbonara that is fancy Magical Swedish River water And what I use to filter is a sterile pen you just dip it in For about 45 seconds to a minute and the light just kind of Zaps all of the potential bacteria So I don't get Swedish Diarrhea and some of the shelters even have an outhouse, which is pretty cool You know, it's it's basic, but it does the job. It's a composting toilet in there What we in Sweden say after after Lunch that's the expression for when you're feeling a bit tired after Yeah So as we're riding along this road I can hear a lot of noise on my right-hand side and Mika said there's some big rapids in this river and he is right. This is amazing Look at that and of course there's a cozy spot to have a picnic in grill Right next to this beauty It's really cool to see stuff like this because when I lived down south in Sweden I never saw rivers with rapids like this Nope, not at all. This reminds me a little bit of like, Colorado. So what's the name of this river? Where's all the water coming from? Yeah, the water is mainly coming off the mountains here and the river is called the Vindel River and that's one of the four Unaffected rivers here in Sweden. Oh, so no dams exactly This river is basically wide all the way down to the coast So we're at another rest stop here looking at a map where you live, but it's close, huh? Yeah, I live right Here by the coast in a town called Skellefteå So I mean yesterday. I just took the bus up almost all the way up to Arvids Yeah, we stayed here in a little village called Abortresk and today we've been making our way Through these roads down and we're now About here along the Vindel River and we're aiming to go to Liksle later on this evening Right on and this word here Tresk means swamp, right? Yeah, and there's a lot of these Tresk There's so much swamp Tresk. I have a random question I just thought of before I came here people warned me about bears Yeah, is that something to be scared of here? that's a typical question for me living in Sweden and and Like I told Ryan I have never seen a bear like out in nature during my whole life and in Sweden we have about 3,000 brown bears and if you compare that to Canada, I think they have over 300,000 so there are really not that many bears here in Sweden and and most hopefully are pretty friendly Yeah, they're like super kind Swedish bears. They invite you in for some honey kind of like this guy named Winnie the Pooh Right the rain's gone the sun is out. We're riding in the town to get some food and check it out Do you see this this is a veggie burger and I'm so excited to eat it and I got a bucket of fries a milkshake Mike's got a burger fries milkshake. We are happy. Cheers, buddy. Cheers. Skål Skål is how you say cheers in Swedish Food tastes so good after a long ride. We went like 95 miles Here's something you don't see at every fast food restaurant a milk machine you just feel right on up You know what I like about camping and grass You can go bare feet. It's nice and soft. Oh, man. Could it get any better? The answer is no the sun just broke out of the clouds. I just took a shower. I'm feeling good This campground is great. I would equate this campground to something we have in the United States called KOA They have cabins. They have RV spots. They have all sorts of fun activities and mini golf and stuff for the kids And I'm just really thankful that they have grass. I love camping on grass because it's so soft You barely need your air mattress. So here we are having our little campfire talk around the non-existent campfire, which is Aok some of the best conversations happen at camp and we've been getting to know each other all day That's what you do on a bike tour It's one of the great things you just ride side-by-side and chat and he was telling me about how He doesn't drive all that often which is great because I never do and you ride your bike to work Long distances and all sorts of stuff right, yeah Usually take take my bike to work from like the beginning of March until October. That's kind of the Warm period up where I live where we don't have these crazy winter temperatures So I have about 17 kilometers or 10 miles to work each way But I have a pretty nice commute to work most most of the stretch to work is on Cycle paths, so I don't have to go on these Larger roads or no no like traffic lights. Good my whole commute. How did you get inspired to ride a bike?  I I grew up taking my bike to school and and I never owned a car until I was maybe 30 or so So I've been basically cycling all throughout my life. And what about bike adventures? How long have you been bike touring? sort of like 10 years, but the first year or so I only went on more organized tours with like a Company that a guy that yeah, what do you love most about it? yes getting out in nature and and and just Getting away away from from all the Bus around town and so on and what's the goal with your YouTube channel? I? Don't know. Yes, maybe showcasing this part of Europe that few people Ever get to visit kind of different than than say Germany and France and so on we have a People always think that it's gonna even countries are pretty expensive to go to and we do have High prices on on food and so on but but often now we're staying in a campground But I mean we can might as well just stay out in the forest for free So your bike tour here don't have to be that expensive if you yeah And what's your favorite American hockey team? It's the Colorado Avalanche I have to say the Avalanche In the late 90s. We had path to false baddie Peter Forsberg Fogpa national hero here in Sweden. He helped us win a Stanley Cup So when I was in exchange to actually, that's right Yeah, that's right.  Yeah And you ever we have a full-time job you have a family you have kids yeah, and you find time for riding your bike How do you do that? Yeah, I have a pretty understanding wife, I guess and and my I Have three kids and two of them are are kind of grown up by now So so that gives me more time to go out on these adventures And how many weeks of vacation a year do you get we get about five or six? Depending on different circumstances But usually during the summer we get four four weeks off and then I take maybe a week in the in the fall and go Go to a more warmer country than Sweden is in the fall Right on man. Oh, it's fun. What a great day we had huh? Yeah, so much fun out there And it's been great to have a local tour guide. I mean it doesn't get any better than this Okay, let's fall asleep. No, that's not gonna happen because it's so bright. 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Thank you for all the little hearts on the bottom I love them and the thumbs up and everything and even the little nasty angry face right there from one of my people that Don't like me, but that's okay There's a lot of things I want to cover and I'm gonna probably cover them in a short period of time These are things that really have to be covered and I've encouraged people to Journalize everything because these changes that are going on are really important in it Even if they're like really little changes that are going on in your life, and that's what we're seeing right now We're seeing more and more of these Mandela effects going on And I just had one recently again Gosh it was two days ago Michelle and I are back together yeah, and We were at this one little restaurant right down the street Captain Kurtz not Captain Kirk from Star Trek, but and Captain Kurtz and It's a little Tiki bar. We were there having dinner and I Ordered well they have what they have to drink there is crap anyway so It was either a mixed drink or a soda, so I ordered a Mountain Dew which I have had there in the past and She said we don't carry Mountain Dew. I go Of course you do we were just here like a few months ago, and we had dinner and I had a Mountain Dew So she goes no we don't carry that and how long have you worked here? She goes six years Michelle's my witness I've had Mountain Dew there and it was this year and it was last year and it was six years ago or five years ago Not anymore Doesn't happen anymore another Mandela effect that We've been experiencing I have this it's this Program called Tiger stream and you basically get free cable Through streaming so whatever you want to watch you get it basically for free Tiger stream you can look it up online and So you have all these different repositories that you go to and and look up whatever movie you want to watch We just saw the movie 222 a few days ago. That was pretty cool and You'll notice the synchronicities of 222 coming up and all throughout your day. I'm sure at least twice a day If not more through maybe you'll get $2 and 22 cents and change But anyway getting back to Tiger stream and the Mandela effect all the repositories are different So where we used to go to look for movies. They don't exist anymore. So Just another small change and what you're going to notice are all these little changes that are going on in your life so paid really close attention to what's going on around you and These are your confirmations that reality is changing that the timelines are converging That it's all changing every millisecond every thought you have is Changing reality. That's why it's really be really cognizant about where you're putting your thoughts and intentions because that is manifesting reality so another thing I want to talk about is the ascension flu and I know that you know just reading Facebook and looking at the you know, what's what's going on in the news and all a lot of people have gone through this ascension flu And you know, I'm no different. I had that It was really the worst around December 19th through the 22nd and On the 19th my temperature I was taking my temperature every day and on the 19th my temperature was a hundred and three point one Sweating profusely at night. I mean, you know, I've got this anomaly Which a lot of you do too because I made a post about it that at night when you're when you go to sleep Normally your body temperature goes down But mine rises it doesn't matter whether I'm sick or not but when I had this ascension flu It was it was even worse. So I'm pretty hot right now sweating But um, oh my god, my hair is a mess. I don't care so anyway, yeah, so I was taking my my temperature and Documenting each day what was going on, you know, whether I was sweating at night What kind of medications or what I was doing holistically to take care of it as well because I would you know I figured okay well if I take a thousand milligrams of vitamin C three times a day that'll knock it out usually it knocks out anything but This was very resilient and it was a tough one to beat Anyway, I did get over it and I was taking my temperature from that point Before it started actually at the midpoint of where it was the worst ever since then and every day I've noticed that especially for the last nine days I take my temperature and It's it's it's always below 90 Where's it 97.4 right there the last time I took it, but um, it's always below 98 so and then I made a post on my Facebook wall as well as on the n5d Facebook page asking people take your temperature and So far the responses I've gotten back Most people's temperatures are below normal Which is you know normal is supposed to be 98.6 Mine is close to a full degree below normal I had Michelle do it yesterday She was a full degree actually 1.1 degree below normal and so what I want you guys to do is to You know take your temperatures and not just post them on here on the video What your temperature is but also go back to my Facebook wall and post your results there because this is what we're doing We're journalizing everything that's going on and we're putting the pieces of the puzzle together and then this I have a feeling is a really big piece because We're changing things are changing inside and this is why a lot of people are noticing that not only just myself Michelle's the same way When we sleep at night our body temperature rises That's not normal either like I said normally your body temperature goes down when you sleep Mine goes up You know I've talked about this before I had this rare sleep anomaly where I go to bed at night and immediately I go into the dream state A while back I had this sleep study done because I was Overweight and I had sleep apnea and I was basically choking on my snoring and So that I went to have this sleep study done and they hooked all these electrodes up all over my body They monitored my sleep patterns. They didn't plan anything unusual except That I get zero deep sleep at night Immediately as soon as I go into sleep, I Dream and I dream all night Do you ever catch yourself just nodding off like this Bob back up again?  Let people know all these things that are happening that are not Normal because things are changing right now so fast and quickly We need to document all this stuff and this is why I'm doing this video right now Not only did I make the posts on Facebook? But I put in the video out and I'll make this video into a video on YouTube To reach those people that aren't on Facebook that are missing this live interaction with us and So, you know, it's important get that information out there. I can't emphasize that enough Okay Another thing I want to cover to as Real as all this seems It's not none of this is real But it and it just seems so real the only thing that's real is Love that's the only thing that possibly we'd be real. It's like that song strawberry fields the Beatles song Strawberry fields nothing is real Nothing's real. No, this is real It seems so real You know, we're our consciousness is Experiencing everything right now We're it just and that's it. It's just experiencing this our conscious as our consciousness You think there's this body attached to it and there's this big picture behind me None of its real and then our what we're doing is we're co-creating Our consciousnesses are co-creating with each other So we have our individual consciousness making this is having this experience plus the consciousness of everyone else co-creating creating this Which is making the Mandela effect as well Creating our reality as we go on And converging all these timelines as we go on It gets really convoluted it gets really deep and if you're just getting into this stuff right now It's probably way over your head but I think most of you that are listening right now know exactly what I'm talking about and So it's just what these Mandela effects are are our confirmations of Everything that's happening of these timelines converging and it's happening fast and furious and what we're gonna see is this timeline It's gonna be speeding up Terrence McKenna talked about it, you know when he talks about the time wave zero That we're spiraling towards the singularity and as we're spiraling spiraling. It's getting faster and faster and faster So these things are gonna keep happening faster and faster and faster and like who is it? Oh, what was his Neil Lungold?   Okay. Don't don't feel so overly guilty about something. You might have done own it Okay, that's huge own everything that you've done and and realize that it's just the experience and You'll get through it a lot easier No bad no matter how badly it may seem and how bad some of these experiences we chose to have in This consciousness It's okay. We'll get through it But expect really really really big changes coming up real soon. So I'm gonna leave it off it at that thank you everyone so much for joining me and I'll talk to everyone real soon. I'm sorry. I haven't had a N5D Facebook live in a while. It's been probably at least three weeks. So I'll try to get back on again Namaste everyone. I love you all so very much


Normal people wouldn't be able to drop all these combos. Let's try it. No! He's too fast on the draw! Piccolo's a genius! How's it going, everybody? Dato and I here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches. This time playing a suggested team of team Foot Dive, including Goku Blue, Goku Black, and Cooler. Now, this is actually a very fun suggestion. I actually have never thought of doing a team like this, but even if the comment didn't suggest it, I made sure that all of their assists were as close to, you know, their Foot Dives as possible. So we have Goku Blue's A, I think Goku Black's B Assist? It might be his C Assist, actually, and Cooler's C Assist as well, which he doesn't actually kick in that one, but he does the second part of the kick. So, oh, listen. Hey, put the pressure on him. Foot Dive! Foot Dive! Hey, hoping him up already. All right. I guess I should explain the Foot Dive is basically a move that Dr. Doom could do in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. It was basically just a really annoying dive kick, a really good dive kick. And it was infamous because he would always just, oh, I can't believe he tried to drag and rush me. Does he know how early it is in the morning? That should be considered illegal. Hitting drag and rush before 10 a.m. on Dragon Ball Fighters Online? You should get, like, the game should pop up and just say, nah, you're banned. We have calculated that. Why did I do that? Am I dead for that? Hold on. How much damage can he put out? Oh, he's got the routes? I did not enjoy that. I hate that we have to keep blocking, dude. I don't like blocking. Oh my goodness.  The more we block, the more we improve at defense. It wasn't amazing. Oh. Yo, this character is nuts. Goku Blue is insane, dude. I'm going over. And you know I got a loop. You know I got a loop. Am I talented enough to? No, but I have to. Gotta keep it on me. All right. That should be it. A third bar with Goku. I hit it with the Divine Lasso. You know, I got to keep those on me. Man, this team is really fun. I just like all the pieces of this team to be honest. I'm going to go EX. Sit down. Zamasu. Okay. I'm expecting a dragon. Oh, I don't know why I did it. Dude, that AS is from Piccolo really scary. The double orbs. I don't want to see that. I do not want to block against that light grenade. Just a bigger orb. I'm not really scared by that. Okay. Not a fan. I'm a spark. Yeah. You know, I like to level one spark and super dash in just to, you know, if I can tell, I'm getting too ahead in the game. I never, if I can tell, I'm getting too ahead in the game.   Oh, that didn't work. Okay. We're not going to play that. Oh, he tried. I guess he probably expected that, huh? All right. We got a, we got a level one here just to make sure that we can get him back in the corner. I mean, level one is in vanish. Oh, that was so delayed. I tried to get him. All right. I also had another dive kick in the back with Goku blue. All right. Now we can just play cooler. We just, where's that DP? Show it to me. Okay. Uh, that went really far. Uh, nobody can say we didn't see it coming. I guess. Nice use of the legs. Oh, I just, you know, go. Gohan is one of those characters. Man, I can't move like that. Oh, okay. We're good. Oh, you got to hold that. I really thought he would DP. Oh, did you? Man, he just, he just stopped the super dash with that punch alone. I'm really playing sloppy. I'm like not getting my blocks. I'm not moving with a lot of purpose. That was bad as well. This game's going to be hard. I don't know why I'm really choking against this solo Gohan. I couldn't know it's because of the DP dude. I'm too scared. No level three. Come on. You got to give that to me. You see me struggling out here. I'm practically, let's go. Oh, okay. That's the comeback I needed. That is 100% what I needed to see. Of course, one DP would kill me. But I've never been one to be afraid of that. Back dash. I also got a DP. No, get in there. Hell, the tail. Oh, that was such a good game one, dude. What a finisher. Yo, the length of that. Yo, cooler slept on. Everybody says it. I got to go ahead and throw my hat into the ring, especially because I've been saying it every time I play cooler. He's just got it. He's the rage is so good, man. Oh, that was so sick. I like that piccolo color as well. The Cape. I don't know where he got the idea that that Cape would match, but it works. Oh, I tried it to age that. But again, he did a really good delay there. Didn't want to make it too obvious. Okay. Not bad. I could have definitely gotten worse for that. Block that. Block that. Where's the command grab? Oh, no command grab is on its way. Uh, do we spark again? Level one. I guess it wouldn't be that bad as long as we don't, you know, die as quick as we did. I get back there. Oh, that wasn't my turn. Okay. Oh, I was playing real sloppy. Bad, bad beginning. Bad beginning for sure. For sure. Dragon rush snap. Oh, hell, no, no. I don't know. I thought that worked. Oh, I could have. No, that wouldn't have worked either. Yo, can I get a break? Yo, break time. What's break time? I guess that was my break time. Clocking out. That was really bad. I just, I just kept trying to like spam spam and hit a button. Interesting. Okay. Uh, not going so high game too. That's because we haven't been foot diving. Dude, we haven't been getting the drop kicks on him. He just switched characters while his piccolo was that hot. I almost, I almost lost it, dude. That was a nice block. Oh, no. Was it too obvious? Yep. Yep. Similar stuff. We might want to spark. Yeah, I'm gonna spark. We really need to get that. No. Okay. That's fine. This is fine. This is fine. I'm just going way too early, way too early on those two H's. I've really got to dial that back. Okay. That's fine. We could, we could definitely get this block that. That's good. Oh, that's, that's perfect. Oh, I need that. You'll see right there. We definitely took a big risk with that. Ah, if his light could match the medium, dude. I definitely think he, it would be a little less frustrating. Really? Okay. Oh, I need, wow. This guy's reckless too. I can't blame him. I've been pretty reckless the entire year. Oh, I tried to jump back. All right. I don't know if cooler could make this come back. I'm going to be honest with you. We're going to definitely have to change up the play style. We're probably going to have to go on the defensive a little bit more. Love to see it. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Still doing it too early. Too ancient way, way before it's prime time. Okay. Hold on. Orby's going to extend off that machine gun punch. Missed that. Damn. I'm just, I'm going for that too often. Oh, okay. That's fine. I could have died off that. So that death, it would be if I was better at the game, like a guard cancel out of that. That's fine. We're, we're trying to put up a fight. We don't want to look. Oh, no, I should have vanished. I did it way too slow. Really bad game. I just made choices way too slow and also wasn't the best aggression. I kind of was just throwing myself in there trying to get a hit one one though. Can we back it up? I need a, I need to return fire. We need to return fire. This game needs to be dominant. What do we do? Do we rush in on the ground? Yeah, that's fine. That is okay by me. I will take that. Oh, he's good at that. Oh, love to see it. Okay. See, this is what I'm talking about. We got spark. We got spark. Here we go. And we waited. Oh, a lot of adjustments being made here.  I okay. Now I'm dropping stuff just to drop it. I'm flexing and that normal people wouldn't be able to drop all these combos. Let's try. He's too fast on the draw. Piccolo's a genius. Oh, the movement blocked that like they like I said blocking is important. Oh, we could have won right there. No, not one, but taken Piccolo. Obviously, if that jab could have won us the whole game, that would have been impressive. Victory. K.O. Oh, he's out. Yeah, we played a little sloppy at the end of Piccolo. This is where we spark though. We don't want to get too far behind the times. I'm going to make a I'm going to make a decision here. It's going to be a decision for sure. There we go. That's fine. I like I like that decision. I'm okay with that. Obviously, not entirely optimal probably would have been fine to keep hitting Gohan, but oh, Bardock. Why? Love to see that. Yeah, that's a choice. Just go all Auto Cabo. Little too early again. Okay, we got a we had that adjustment in the first half. Oh, we're going to lose Goku blue here for the price of what two bars he not going to do it. You don't respect him. I couldn't do anything off that. Oh, I thought the dive kick would be smart, but that Keyblast was even smarter. I was on a fifth grade level that guy was on at least a seven. That was insane. All right. Well, we still have Goku blues assist. He's still not using any bar. I'm just going to go back and leave Goku blue. Oh, we're dead for that. I should have done anything else to be honest. Not bad. It's not again. It's not the worst situation as long as we don't lose Goku blue Goku black. That assist is nuts. Oh, no, now we have to block. I'm not panicked. I did not want to block dude. I thought he'd get a little I thought he'd be like, Oh, he has to block. You know, he get a bit too far ahead of him. Oh, no. Oh, no, that's bad. Okay. We kind of threw away our early game lead now. It's we're definitely down in the dumps. Walk that. That's good. I'm not being able to vanish off that too slow. You got those vanishes though.  Oh, no. There we go. Now we got one a little earlier on. Why'd I do that? That's not how that works. That sucked. We lived. That's fine. There we go. Now we're mixing up a little. We're mixing it up. Why'd I do that? You know what? I'm just going to I know it's not optimal, obviously, but I want to keep that assist around. Oh, he punched again. I really got a I just hold that. I guess I should have let that one rock. I didn't trust it. Not bad. Not bad. Okay. We got an assist. We got Goku black in the back, which is a surprisingly decent C assist. I mean, it's not it's nothing. Oh, yeah, legs. I got I got too antsy. I forward dashed in. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. It's not over. I think this is a one hit game for him for sure, depending on what the hit is. Okay. It's dangerous to play that game as well. Okay. Oh, no, no, no. Okay. I don't think that's a touch that you can kill off of though. Now it's whatever he wants to get though. Is that it taste my divide fury level three Goku black. Put it away. Come on.  That was I mean editor edit that. So I made it sound like genius. And it I'm on the editor. Yeah, that was not a job. That was not a is what is it to one or did I lose the set? Was it three? It was probably to one. Let's go with that. I can go for that a little early. Oh, no. Okay. Not bad. Not as bad as it could have been. Yes. Okay. Early start. I mean, we had one of these last time. So I really blocked that. How did you block that, sir? I would like can I see your blocking license? If I could just if I could just get my hand on that blocking license. What am I doing, dude? Okay.  I was definitely afraid of it dropping. I'm not used to see assist. I don't know. I don't know how those combos work, man. I don't know how long they can go on too slow, too slow. Probably should have gone with the elbow instead of the dive kick. Oh, yeah. I saw the bar doc assistant. I panicked. I didn't want to. I didn't want to be there. One. All of that. Really? Oh, why did I? Oh, I didn't block. Oh, that's man. That was awful. That could have been so good to a really bad situation. Team foot dive bar behind the times. Okay. That's going to give us a sliding. See assist are pretty powerful when thrown out randomly. He was genius. I thought he'd be looking for something else like a Super Dash. I thought he'd go for two Hs. I don't know. I don't actually, I don't know if that would work against that as well. Oh, I definitely try to do another move, but I think it just came out of Super Dash because I didn't have the bar. No way. Okay. I'm I'm I got to get off the guard cancel. Dude, I got to limit myself. It's it's a. Oh, no way. Oh, I thought that was my assist. Damn it. You want to throw yellow beams? I'll go on. Let's do that. Let's do that then. Okay. This man all of a sudden, he's a DP fanatic. I've been afraid of it the whole time. He hasn't done it, but now it is time for the DPS to shut. I thought it would DP again. I swear. I thought I was done for. Save the line cooler. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm dead for that. It's okay. Goku Black has a lot of health. He's going to be limit broken. We're going to get five bars, five and a half bars. It's not an impossible comeback. If we play clean enough and we avoid that assist, it's not impossible. It's going to be rough for sure. I am just a 2H fanatic. I'm a 2H fiend. Okay. Hold on. Definitely looking a little harder now, especially if you level three is okay. Okay. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. How many dragable check? Dragable check. We're back on the, we're back on this guard rush train. Give me that.  Oh, no. Okay. You didn't get that. Oh, I got hit by that. I'm dead. No, absolutely insane that that. I can't believe we lost because we went for the Zamasu. Oh, I'm still on that. Can we go, can we go back a game or two when that happened? I'm going to go ahead and call it there. T-foot dive. It was pretty fun. I'm not going to lie. T-foot dive was a lot of fun, but that was tough, dude. Hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you did, definitely let me know down below in the comment section and while you're down there, make sure to like button and subscribe. And hey, check out some of the other videos that should be on your screen right now. That was fun, but I can't believe the results. All right. I'm going to go ahead and be getting out of here. Thank you guys so much for watching. I've been Dr. Joy and I'll see you in the next one.


I'm Marcia Joyner and this is Navigating the Journey and today's journey is in Detroit of all places but that's the headline right Detroit and we're gonna visit with my cousin the Reverend Nicholas Hood III and so Nick how are you darling hello cousin Marcia yeah and we come from a huge family and names are used over and over and over again so he's Nicholas the third actually and Nick and I our mothers had the same name Elizabeth Hood so I think the last time I visited with Nick we told you about how far back we go to to the hood plantation but we won't go there today today we are talking about going from the plantation from pick and cotton picking residents and the where we're going with this of course Detroit is in the headlines all over the world about what the Republicans are trying to do to the boat in Detroit and Philadelphia other major cities so as a background let me say this and why those cities there are 20 according to the census according to the 2010 census there are 20 major cities that are more than 53% black so those are the cities that all voted for Biden and so now the GOP is trying to undo those cities so there first was Detroit and now they tried with Philadelphia but the court said no good and so we're going back to Nick and Detroit so tell us Nick about Detroit what it's like and this huge voter turnout and what is going on with joy well first of all let me say cousin Marsha thank you for inviting me to be back on your show and for your guests who may not know it I am a Reverend I pastor a church Plymouth United Church of Christ in Detroit it's in the same United Church of Christ that is all over Hawaii and the congregational church that is also you know prevalent in Hawaii and I used to be on the Detroit City Council so part of the reason why my cousin Marsha has invited me to be on this is because part of my life has been political and still is but Marsha you and I were talking about the significance of coming from a people who once picked cotton and you know not because they chose to pick cotton but they were forced to pick cotton and now we're picking presidents and that's an amazing transition you know over 400 years but you are absolutely right the 20 or so cities that are majority African-American really put Joseph Biden over the top he received more votes than any other person ever in the history of America running for president and even though the current president refuses to formally concede this election is over and the but you know in politics electoral politics it's not just important to amass your vote and get your vote out and and try to win an election but then the next challenge is sometimes greater than getting elected or electing a president which is getting rewards getting some kind of tribute or some benefit from having elected a president and I think that's the real challenge now for the African-American communities around the country it's not just the African-American populations in this election you had Florida which in a major way the Cuban vote and some of the other you know Hispanic Latino votes went for Trump and you know I think the Democratic Party has got to ask itself why you know why did that happen you know why did they resonate more with Trump than with Biden but back to those of us who voted for Biden I think the real challenge now is can can we elicit a urban strategy urban dollars urban programs from the Biden administration commensurate to the vote that put him into office well I was I'm a member of the Democratic Party but in Hawaii what else and I was an elector four times but anyway I'll tell you that story later and what I was upset with the Democratic Party is that Mark Mike at Espey did not get support from the Democratic Party and even though in Mississippi even though Harriston with all that money that he gathered he still didn't get all the votes and I don't know what the party did or and it did not do in South Carolina and in Mississippi it all of the across the south the numbers of blacks are a range rising and rising and rising and yet it seemed like those states just nobody paid attention to them I don't know what that meant I I really don't know but after I found out that we have to support Georgia I decided I'd leave the party alone until it's okay you know now my one one story 19 summer of 64 Bandy Lou Hamer from Mississippi Ruralville Mississippi and they created the not the black but Mississippi freedom delegation to go to the convention in Atlantic City and of course it was totally integrated male female black and white and the delegation that was there of course was all male and all white and so she they worked at this for the summer of 64 they really worked at this of gathering people raising funds to get to Atlantic City from Mississippi and we were stationed my husband was stationed in New Jersey and I had one little girl and I was 99 months pregnant so we decide being activists and in the military my husband was in military and Senator Douglas from Illinois was trying to close the commissaries and my husband made the whole 309 dollars a month and so all we had was the commissary and we didn't have anything well so we decided to go to the convention and pick it Senator Douglas so off I went and my husband said now if you have that baby down there don't even call me don't even call me he said I'd never seen anything like the way you love going after politicians sheer joy so I get to Atlantic City and here are all these people on the boardwalk black white pink green you name it all the place was packed and I did not know what was going on however because of my skin color the police moved me in with the crowd so I get to be part of this whole thing that's going on at the convention simply because of the way I look and so that was when Danny Lou Hamer did this great speech about not accepting two seats even though Martin Luther King said take it she said no no we all came this far and we're all tired and we all want to sit we will not take the two seats so anyway it was a national they televised her speech and LBJ got really upset and he tried to take it off the air and he did some other stuff but anyway it got through on the evening news so everybody got to watch and people from across the country sent in telegrams in those days give her our seats give her our seats with will glad anyway it changed from that day to this it changed the face of the Democratic Party now every delegation has to have male female black white pink green whatever you've got it has to be that way most people have no idea and that's why I was upset with the Democratic Party she's from Mississippi there's no way they should have not supported Mississippi better than they did now that you know my whole story let's get back to Detroit so I think make you gotta help me with this one I think the reason the GOP picked Detroit not all of Michigan just Detroit not the county the cities and around it just Detroit and Philadelphia because those are major black cities and Trump has been anti-black forever so that's my theory on that so help me tell me well it's I think Trump is just a sore sour loser he's lost the election fair and square so and you know he's just grasping at straws right now but the New York Times today on the front page had a article about these the people who supported Biden and that by and large all across the country and I presume this is all the way to Hawaii as well the counties that lost the most economically in the last four years are the ones that went the most for Biden and you know as was it Bill Clinton who said it's the economy stupid you know and that's not a white or black issue no that's not an Asian that's not an African issue it's you either have money or you don't and the reality is that under Donald Trump the rich got richer and the poor got poor and matter of fact the income divide has even expanded and so the last time I think I was talking with you we were talking about the impact of the black lives matter yes and how for the first time in my life which is really not true because during the freedom rides of the civil rights movement there were a lot of young white people whether together with young black people and helped to bring about the civil rights legislation of 1964-65 and I don't know if you know this but Andrew Young who he's the last of the living original group with Dr. King he was ordained by my father oh and we I don't know if I mentioned that the last time but no I mean he was so young but okay anyway let me just share with you something that Andrew Young said which is that if it were not for the white in particular young white freedom riders who took the buses down with John Lewis he said we would not have the civil rights legislation that we have right now because the Congress the Senate LBJ they all resonated with seeing young white people they look like they could be their own children and this past election was not just turned on the the backs of black people and the black vote was also the white vote and the thing I worry about in the years ahead these next four years is that the coalition that came together to defeat Donald Trump and I think it was a stronger coalition to defeat Trump than to elect Biden that coalition is a very fragile coalition we have people on the very very far left the progressives and you know the so-called progressives and liberal wing the left wing of the Democratic Party but you also have a whole lot of other people who they you know they just want to live good lives and and take advantage of this great country that is here for all of us and so I really pray for that fragile union I think the numbers are showing throughout the country that more and more people are dissatisfied with the Republican Party and it's it's not just the name of the Republican Party because that's not it I mean the Republican Party for years was the party for black people you know because that was the party of Abraham Lincoln that emancipated the slaves but nowadays you know it seems to be the party of the super rich and with our economic scale that we have in America today there are fewer super rich people than there are just people who are barely getting by what you mentioned in Hawaii uh there first of all let me say all of our electoral electoral votes went to Biden but we only have four anyway however 39 percent of the population voted for Trump 39 percent and since I'm an old-time Democrat I count numbers and I know the districts and all I shouldn't say all most of those 39 percent are in very wealthy neighborhoods so that 99 percent that voted for him yeah yeah well that's exactly what you're saying yeah right and that was the point of the New York Times article today you know when we think about the people who support Trump uh yes they're the white supremacists uh yes you know they're the people who are on the some of them are on the bottom rung a society many of them are young white males without higher education but frankly education and a lag there of doesn't know party what people really want to know is if I vote for you is it going to benefit my bottom line now one of the surprises in this election was that Hispanic males and and and black males to some extent uh voted more for Trump than for Biden and you know we saw that in some of the young hip-hop artists uh is it Lil Wayne I think iced tea and you had Kanye West who ran a uh divisive campaign to really I think undercut the black vote and you know they they picked up some young some black men but they were not just young black men there was some older yes black men who were voting according to what they thought would benefit their pension well I thought also about the entertainers that they make millions of dollars and Trump benefits them in the tax bracket correct yeah that's what that's what I thought about them this is about their taxes yeah so this election was not just about black people voting against Trump it was also people voting with their pocket books there were people voting with their heads uh and voting with their hearts uh there are a lot of white people in America who really have been touched by you know the killings of George Floyd and others at the hands of the police and and many of these people are asking hard questions and some of them are not just um you know people of who you think would normally vote Democratic of it is really touched America and I'm on a board in Detroit for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and one of the things that we've been talking about for the last six months is diversity equity and inclusion and it's amazing to me because the people who are pushing the most to make sure that the symphony uh which you know when you think of symphonic music and symphonic organizations that's predominantly white but the people who are really pushing for it are the super rich uh board members and when I talk about super rich these are people who may give at least a million dollars a year to keep the symphony afloat you know and and it's a small group of people you know who can do that but the point that I'm making is that I think the nation is really revisiting the whole question of going back to slavery and the aftermath of slavery what is the appropriate response for America and I think I was sharing with you when we were talking offline the other day when I learned that you had been raised in Baltimore and I was asking you questions about Frederick Douglass who lived for a long time in Baltimore one of the points that Frederick Douglass makes and you know he's the most photographed person black or white in the 1800s in America but one of the points he makes is that white people seem to be um seemed to like blacks more when they were enslaved and in poverty than when black people climbed out of poverty uh and were just trying to make it you know in the American economy and the the reality that Frederick Douglass was talking about back in the 1800s is still true today which is America in my opinion has not come to grips with the aftermath of slavery we don't as a nation the nation doesn't know what to do with it and actually sometimes it becomes very uncomfortable when a black man black woman come of financial means and that just means I don't think it's an impossible challenge I don't think it's an impossible hurdle but what I think it means is that the nation has a long way to go we've come a long way and the fact that the nation turned away from Donald Trump this year is a huge statement it to me what it says is the people want to move on to a mindset that's more productive more positive and more meaningful and frankly that doesn't have anything to do with being a white or black it's just you know how do you how do you improve the quality of life for everybody well I I I agree with you and I think that while we are basically a Christian nation even though we're not supposed to be but we are or I shouldn't say Christian because there's an awful lot of Jewish people and Baha'i and Buddhist and Islamic and and that is that basic tenant that very basic and it doesn't matter whether you're using the Jewish Torah or the Christian Bible the basic is the Beatitudes how you care for people and I think people and that's why they like Joe Biden because he comes from that Christian belief that you care for people the empathy the telling the truth uh wanting to feed the hungry all of that that we all somehow grow up with and I think people wanted that again they liked that uh that caring for people by the government and everybody and I think that's what we voted for that we want to go want to do that again well because of Marcia I would say you're very idealistic I think that I don't think this was a vote about Biden at all this was a vote against Trump well that's what I meant that we wanted to get rid of that lying and deceit and all of that yeah yeah this was clearly in my mind a vote against oh yes and it was against Donald Trump yes it's a man who said that uh he could shoot a person in the middle of Fifth Avenue and you know uh his people would still support him a man who you know sell it was celebrated for groping women in their private parts uh it making you know just disgusting humiliating uh derogatory comments about people who he felt were outside of the norm and I think the basic uh person in America just was turned off by that well and uh so the real question in my mind that Joseph Biden has now is how does he build upon this coalition that he that he benefited from uh I don't I don't think a lot of people were crazy about voting for Joseph Biden but they were resolute in voting against Donald Trump on election day you should have seen my polling place I was there seven in the morning and uh with my wife and we were number 20 in line I was disappointed I thought we should have been number 100 or 300 in line but we were number 20 in line but the and it was cold out you know the weather was bad but the people had a resolute face it was like we are not going to tolerate Donald Trump for another four years and so I think the American democracy really uh showed itself for what it is this past election contrary to what Donald Trump has said the election was fair he's tried to chip away at that in several states but the reality is is uh it was a fair election and so fair go ahead I agree with you I absolutely agree so I was starting to tell you before we went on air that uh a young woman that I supported who ran for judge thought on election night she thought she lost the election but to date because of the slow thorough counting in Detroit she was she was running for one of two seats and the two top vote getters she thought were white but she ended up winning the election by a surprise by about you know less than one percent and she beat a white candidate with a very strong political name in Detroit Hathaway and uh the guy that changed his name to Hathaway and she beat him and and what Trump is going to find out is if he actually goes through a recount or all across America I think Biden's vote tally is just going to increase I agree totally agree and um even though uh after all he did ugly about in McCain in Arizona why he thought he could win when McCain was a patron saint of Arizona beats the dog crap out of me this and darling we have just another minute or so to go tell me the future of of your city where you after the election the people that won the people that didn't win where are we going with your city since you're one of the major major cities well cousin marsha again I want to thank you for the opportunity to be on your show and uh Detroit will be all right Detroit uh is by 80 black we have 140 square miles of land in Detroit we sit on the freshest water in the world believe it or not you know we aqua fena do you ever drink aqua fena water I have yes they bottle it in Detroit Pepsi bottles it straight out of the Detroit River the Detroit River is a fast river matter of fact what Detroit detroit means is the city of the streets the water is fast and because it's fast the algae doesn't get to stick uh to the water and so Detroit will be fine the big three are working on artificial intelligence and electric vehicles the city will do just fine but the city is a microcosm of the rest of America and you know what America is trying to figure out is how can we live better and uh Detroit is right in that mix so I thank you for the opportunity to be on your show and maybe if I'm lucky you'll have me back I of course I will and for anybody that's everybody that's watching the good reverend sends me his sermon every Sunday so I feel honored to be on your email list thank you very much yeah so anybody that wants to be on his email list it's Reverend Nicholas hood Plymouth Plymouth what Nicholas hood the third just google Nicholas hood the third and they'll be able to figure it out but we want them to 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