With action and suspense out of the old west comes the most famous hero of them all hop along Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the silver spurs heros the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early west Hop along Cassidy the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures and the same California You've laughed at a million times Raw courage and quick shooting of built a legend around this famous hero Hop along is a name to be feared Respected and admired for this great cowboy rides the trails of adventure and excitement William Boyd as hop along Cassidy and and declined as california Well hoppy, what about our story? We call this one stagecoach west California and i were riding through the bleakest country i've ever seen Flat table and edged by bare rolling hills Up ahead maybe half a mile vultures circled in the sky adding a sinister touch to the scene California and i were still above the table and threading our way out of the hills And the sight of the carrion had been holding our eyes for the last 30 minutes There's a lot of them hoppy must be after something big.  It's got to be around here somewhere I don't know in a minute or two since we get around that ledge buzzards and burned embers when they go together It ain't good and i'm a think Son of a gun well There's your chain station what's left of it. Yeah, and like I said, it ain't good burn of the ground Still smoking that smokes the only thing that's keeping them buzzards in the air come on california Let's get down there and have a look nothing much left Not unless you want to count the rims to them wagon wheels even got the horses in the barn No sign of any human remains though Let's see this pile of embers must be the house wouldn't it What's that at your feet there nothing that I Uh-oh What is it? Yes, it's all that's left of your relay station keeper jim newton. You know something hoppy I've seen this kind of work before and it always means just one thing Engines on the warpath Now back to hop along cassidy and our story stagecoach west Hoppy in california have come upon the smoldering remains of what had once been a chain station for a stagecoach horses In the midst of the embers lies the charred body of jim newton the station keeper It's california's idea that the destruction and murder is the work of indians on the warpath I can't believe you're right this area. There's have to be a patch And there's been nothing to arouse them. Oh, how do we know calito's too intelligent a chief? I know him. I know the way. He thinks ain't you forgetting that nephew of his Chevalo Now there's an engine that likes nothing better than going the warpath And he could always pick up a bunch of followers from the other side of the border No, calito has too much control. Sure. You really believe that hoppy or you just want to believe it Come on. We better ride into the settlement. I got to know that the stagecoach no longer has a chain station at this particular spot Is it going to be getting too big for its britches or somebody putting up a bill Maybe it's george barthram. He was talking about more room for his store How you doing oh dan? This room she'll operate and then Sure is and there's plenty of sad thrill if a hoppy in case he wants it That sounds like a good idea get some of this trail dust out of my feet Before you do anything hoppy There's something you ought to know what's that then clay piercings in town that's interesting. It's more than that It's important getting all riled up california. We got other things to think about better.  He's chain lightning with a coat.  That's a flag over barkham store dan. That's a half mask. Yeah That's for the law. We used to have in this town up to yesterday afternoon Clocktuttle Debbie sheriff what happened to him got into an argument with play piercing over a hand of cards That's a fine situation hasn't anyone done it wait wait here comes the stage Stage comes coming in here might be bringing it. Hey look look something wrong with it Well, the sure is that's hunk cleavage body dangling off that box What went wrong johnny what happened to hunt give me a hand with his body with your boy You can't johnny oh sure is i got another one back in the cold road agents johnny No, it weren't road agents. It was a lot worse We run into them just this side of bratton for it ran into a patchy on the war pass Johnny Johnny better step in the saloon here. You need a drink with that news. I said we all need a drink Oh calito had no cause to start a war. We ain't done nothing. I can't believe calito did start it Well Where's a little ahead of schedule? They had to come up behind us But the one that shot hunt cleavage was a riding bear back wearing them patchy head bang Sure looks like they're waiting for a patch of the trouble. How about you Cassidy? See any signs of them on your way in here? Well, yes, i'm afraid we did newtons relay station was burned out. There you are. How about old jim? Dead burned to a crisp johnny, uh, didn't I see an army man get out of your coach? Yeah, that's right colonel stanley He's going through to the post to take command of the troops there wish we had him here Well, we got the colonel anyway not for long gentlemen I'm continuing through to the post as rapidly as that coach will take me I don't know about that colonel This got word that our next relay station's been wiped out The hard going to get through to locking station with one change of horses We leave that decision up to the driver How about it, sir? Don't worry colonel. I'm going through all right.  Why do you have to go through? Well, now for one thing when cary made us something important for doc co at lb I'd sure like to get another gun guard to take hunt cleavage play. How about you dan? So look at me johnny not with engines out hunting hay Me neither johnny.  That settles it colonel. How soon will we come out? Well, sir our schedule says three hours from now, but that's going to be changed Let's say in about 45 minutes I'll go along if I can ride in the coat. California must have seen that pretty gal is riding Hey, I forgot about that gal. Maybe I ought to go long after all But that's why hoppy decided to take the trip to her Gentlemen that young woman happens to be my daughter If I hear any further mention of her name in this room, I shall take it as a personal upfront Good day to you gentlemen Them soldiers sure think they're high and mighty good thing for him. I ain't wearing hardware How to call him or not and good thing you didn't check He just had that soared out and you'd been skewed while you was thinking about it What's your uh passenger list johnny? Well as a colonel and his daughter and a hardware drummer from den bernard slater going from ocean to ocean the hardware You're also going to have a physician from new york city. If you don't mind I'm dr. Shaw I came in on the last stage and stayed over because of a temporary indisposition of the digestive system I don't know anything about firearms, but it's possible that you may need medical help Oh, you'll be more than welcome doc But this trip may gonna be no hayride and I came west to see the country I won't see much of it by sojourning in this community So gentlemen, I shall ride with you Uh, where are you going hoppy? He thought you were going to have some testosterone I just thought about the horses figure they need a drink even more than I do.  Do you always come out of doorways backward? I'm sorry if I hurt you I'm not hurt. I've jumped out of the way of oxen before I'll just overlook that remark if you don't mind, ma'am You must be the colonel's daughter. Would you mind letting me buy? I was just going to introduce myself The name is cassidy. Oh, yes You're the hero who's going to take us through all the red skin I can see a man has to overlook a lot where you are concerned young lady But I wouldn't like to talk you out of making this trip with your father Why? Because the Indians? I've seen Indians before. I saw some today As a matter of fact, I've fired several shots at them You know, maybe that driver grabbed himself the wrong party for going along as a gun guard Always taking care of things. Maint your cassidy Hello, Pearson. They told me you were around Then you should have played it smart You don't see me getting out in the sun Not when I can stand here in the shade Don't move I like your way out Out in all that sunlight And speaking of friends There ain't nobody around here to take you apart now that tin horned deputy's dead I heard about that Understanding was a good friend of yours. We got along pretty well Maybe you heard whose lady stopped Yeah, I heard that too But you didn't want to stick around You thought it'd be more fun to play hero and ride that coach out of here There's something about you that bothers me, Pearson My father lots of people I ran into you a month ago in Santa Fe You didn't seem eager to start anything there Oh, I felt kind of softhearted that day Thought I'd let you live a little longer That's not the story You're baiting me into a fight for a reason. Why? Keep that stage coach from rolling out of here That's something you'll never know Cassidy because as of now you're Ah, it's just a nick in the hand. Nothing. I can't cure with a bandage I wish I could say the same for clay Pearson Get away nicely Johnny settlement's a mile behind already These horses make a lot of difference and we'll need him without no relays at newton Give us more speed too and we might need that Johnny You mean it when you said you were making this run because of medicine? Yeah, sure did Stuff from the east going for the dock Here take a look at it not much of a package, but it's mighty important You sure this is the only reason you're going through Well, come on now Johnny. Well, no hoppy. It ain't the only reason what else Goals we're carrying almost $50,000 worth getting it through to the railroad What happened to that hardware salesman from Denver didn't see him get into the coast He's got cold feet thought he'd be safer staying from behind Hey, who's that california? He's pointing back at something seems to want us to pull up on this grade. He's from local. What's wrong? That gentleman injured He's right johnny settlement being attacked then we got clear just in time I wouldn't say that some of our pulling away. They're pulling away and coming after us With the woman among its passengers and a cargo of gold the stagecoach rolls to the west alone in a bleak country Presumed by a band of marauders wearing the headbands of the dreaded apache I'd say they're about two miles behind johnny I'm sure like to swap that goal for a couple more riflemen What are the chances depends on how fraser horses are we at the top of this grade without losing the wheel? We might have a chance We'll know that about another mile There you are johnny over the hump. How much you pick up on it? Maybe half a mile. That's too much. They're riding fray snags There's only 10 of them How about run until we get to that cup and go for rock and then making a fight of it? It's a good idea if we can make it Strategist up in here. I congratulate you gentlemen. Thank you colonel. Is your daughter all right? You got another one helping that's fine shooting cathedrals. They all seem to have carbine. I'm out ranging them with this sharp They certainly show no indication to come in Renegades, I'll clear them out of this country when I get troops behind me. Hope I live to see you do that, colonel Can I be of any help? It's a shooting war dog. Grab a rifle That slayler seems to be doing all right Doc here's your No, it's too late. Never knew what hit him for slayler. Oh, hey, that's too Johnny quick doc Now just when they're drawn off look there that's exactly what they're doing They're quitting. I wouldn't say that colonel They probably figured there ain't enough of them right here to do the job But these planes might be full of them. I get a hunch. They're just hanging back until they get a bigger band How's johnny doc wound in the front one in the back Bullet went right through is he gonna live if he's lucky those fellows are out of sight cathedra We're going on aren't we as soon as we bury that sailor We might as well face it getting through the benton city is going to have its problems Hey dust cloud around that bend and coming this way could be more trouble hoppy No, take it easy. I think it's a wagon and team Yeah, you're right. Hey, it's a woman a couple of kids pull up. We'll have a word with them right hoppy. Whoa there. Whoa Like you might be running from something we are from veely Indians been seen around there. We heard they was on the prod I just decided to pull out. We're heading for safer territory. You better take some of the route We left trouble like that behind us. Yeah, nothing but bad news all around again Ah, you're welcome to come along with us if you think it'll be any protection No, thanks, mr. A stagecoach is no protection doing indian trouble We'll head for the hills and take our chances. Good luck to you Get up there first cathedra. Not good doc. Not good at all Oh, what's the matter california? I'll get a misery in my back that's been killing me What did cause that doc could be a number of things They're never too sure about the cause of backaches. Do you feel you have to keep right on cathedra? I guess I do doc. Why well, if possible, we should take time to do something about johnny the driver He died about three miles back Wonder if that next relay station is still intact. It better be these nags ain't good for nothing But jogging how much further is mile or so? Feels good to be riding along in the dark makes your fellow feel safer somehow makes you feel like Here they come again, hoppy Give them hoppy can't tell lean over a little more while I Up to the chest. We'll have to defend our horses as well as ourselves. I'll get the doors open Well, here comes the first line of dawn So it is Hoppy yeah I want to say i'm sorry the way I acted back at the settlement I didn't mind when a woman gets bumped like that. She's got a right to throw a few sparks You've been carrying the responsibility of making critical decisions for us It hasn't been easy for you. It was tougher on that sailor and johnny the driver. They're both dead Do we have a chance? I figure there are about 10 of them left Which makes us too tough for them as long as we hold up here They know we had to move out no food no water. Well, how about the cabin? California and I slipped over there right after midnight while you were asleep We found a piece of moldy bacon and the keeper dead both of them When do you think they'll attack again? Don't answer that cassidy? I'd rather just keep guessing better for my morale. Hello doc.  Don't worry is by the way California Oh, he slipped outside again. Well, I thought you knew he'll end up stopping lead That could be him now. I'll get it careful Hoppy hoppy. Come here a minute. You're too dark Right over here. Don't worry. They've drawn off. I want you to see something important What are we supposed to see? There's a little gully and there's one of them down in it. Must have stopped one of our bullets last night gully But oh, I see It's an indian. It looks like an indian. All right war paint and all This is the first time I've ever seen an apache with blonde hair I'd call that fellow a pug nose renegade white Yesterday You're right. He is a white. I wouldn't get down there doc. We might have to break for the barn in a second All right, gassety. They're white But why ever hear of ventrose raiders? Yes, but still killers rustlers bandits If they wanted to go on a reign of terror What would be the best way to pull out of without bringing the whole country down on them? I see it gassety Put the blame on the apaches. I fell all along the chief palito. Wouldn't be gilly the thing like this Colonel, what about those troops of yours? How will they act in this? Major mckittrick isn't a man to hang back and do nothing If I'm not at the post by tomorrow afternoon He'll move out and his plan of action probably a direct attack against the apache reservation That's what I've been afraid of so we have to get through to keep an innocent tribe from being wiped out We'll try directly for the post the animals are still tired. They'll need all day for rest I think you need rest too gassety. That might be a good idea Would you take over guard duty at dusk doc? Right The rest of us will get some sleep then and we'll make a run for it at midnight tonight Hold your handgun Yeah, yeah Like human now giving those coyotes the signal to come after us Human coyotes that's the doc calling them in. Why hobby? What do you mean? He's guarding the door, ain't he? Yeah, he's guarding the door. Hey the colonel's awake too. Awaken ready Get your eye on the door as those renegades are coming through any minute watch. Yeah, how are they going to get in? That doc's gonna let them in.  I'll be you can't be right. I know I'm right How about Sally colonel? Is she out of a line of fire? I persuaded her with some difficulty to go back into one of the stalls Oh, I'll pay you watch this all about Listen Here they come let them get all the way in here Looking for something then That's all that get away and the doc wasn't one of them the doc's dead That's good news. That means we'll get through to elby For them. We'll never attack us. How's the shoulder colonel? Well, it's going to growl at me for a few days But when I think of how completely we took those renegades by surprise Well, I'll be able to grin at it and I think that day doc was part of that gang Uh, you really believe he was ventral in the shelf hopping I'd say there was no doubt of it Central's reputation makes him out to be well spoken and educated But not educated enough to be a doctor. You ready to leave sally? I'm ready hoppy. Let's get the colonel into the coach Man, oh man The way they walked into that trap was their only chance to survive. We had to trap them some way How did you know hoppy? What made you think that man wasn't really a doctor? Ever notice how doctors talk when they speak of medicine? They might know the answer to something or they might not But in mentioning it they always use the word we But ventral every time he mentioned the medical profession. He used the term they It was just a hunch and it saved our lives. All right, california. Let's go Here's a special invitation to join them next time they ride out from the bar 20 when as usual I have a hunch they'll get into plenty of action that spells trouble


What's good jobs? What rocks back again with another video? So we're going to check out 10 exact moments WWE wrestlers saved their jobs. Now, this should be a very interesting one. You know, you have those situations where a wrestler is about to get featured in Deppard. And maybe they're not getting over with, you know, the fans or maybe Vince is not liking the matches they're having. Maybe they're having some backstage issues with some personnel. Who knows? It could be a plethora of reasons why they may end up being on the chopping block. But it's those instances where they find something where they they're able to come up with some type of gimmick or they're able to improve on their wrestling or they're able to, you know, make situations better in the back for them where they end up saving their job. So it's going to be very interesting to see some of these instances where wrestlers were legit about to get fired. But they were able to save their jobs doing whatever they needed to do to get it to get it done. So we're going to check this out. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Let's get right into this bad boy. Fortunately, WWE firings are a natural part of the way they operate. However, from time to time where WWE is getting set to fire someone, that talent can attempt to save their own skin. The wrestler manages to change the perception surrounding them, either in a ring or backstage. The wrestler has some popularity with top names in WWE and that ultimately gives them one more chance at the big time. Join us now as WrestleMania looks at 10 exact moments a WWE wrestler's saved their job. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Subscribe to WrestleMania if you haven't already. Or see the channel WrestleMania Shorts. Number 10 Stevie Richards One of the most disappointing matches of the Invasion Era Definitely seeing stories about this destruction. The two teams were collided at the unforgiven 2001 pay-per-view and the match was so unbelievably bad that chronic member Brian Clarke was fired from WWE shortly after the pay-per-view match. He was fired because the outright refused to go to WWE developmental whilst the other chronic member Brian Adams accepted their request for a stint in the developmental territory. For chronic's infamous run in 2001 they would be joined by Stevie Richards and according to Richards during a shoot interview, Actually it's crazy because I think he has a YouTube channel now where he be kind of talking about things that he's experienced and like different things that's happened that has happened or is happening in the ring. He'll give his own opinions and critiques on certain things. So he actually do have a YouTube channel. I've seen that so if you guys want me to check out some of the stuff that he be talking about on his YouTube channel, I definitely will man but I have seen his channel pop up on my mention feed, you know, for me to check out. So I hadn't yet so let me know if y'all be interested in that because I'm pretty sure he has plenty of things to talk about and on his insight within the actual wrestling biz and what he went through. Job during the unforgiven match by calling an audible. In the end we had to call that audible and I got in the ring.  I think that there might have saved my job in a way because I got in the ring and call that audible. They were kind of cool with it that we kind of saved a little bit of the match with that. Number nine JBL. Whilst it was never confirmed that WWE were planning on firing JBL by 2004 it was clear that the team of the APA had run its course. Rook was getting set to retire and this left JBL who was using the name of Bradshaw in a state of flux. Thankfully for JBL he had a backup. In 2003 he became an author and would release his book title Have More Money Now. If they decided to fire the former tank team champion JBL would have a backup. However he would make the smart move in pitching the JBL persona to WWE and they absolutely loved it. JBL would be instantly propelled into the main event scene and within a few short months of this initial pitch he would become WWE champion. Number eight Tidus O'Neill. The wrestling world was in a state of shock following Daniel Bryan's initial retirement in 2016 but this wasn't the only story dominating the wrestling news at the time. As Bryan's statement came to a close Tidus O'Neill physically pulled Vince McMahon out of the way in order to let Stephanie McMahon pass. Vince was absolutely furious with O'Neill. He was getting set to terminate O'Neill with immediate effect. Yeah I do remember this. Yep that story. It's crazy how Vince was ready to fire him when he was just trying to you know let his own daughter you know go through like he was trying to let Vince's daughter get through and I don't know Vince I guess had a bad day.  Thankfully for O'Neill he had built up a solid rapport with Triple H and the game used his influence to convince Vince to reconsider. While O'Neill was still suspended the incident didn't negatively impact his standing within WWE. That's crazy. Alexa Bliss had emerged as one of the most successful call-ups from NXT but at one point in time it looked like Bliss was going to be fired from WWE. This is very interesting. She was failing to get over and she was ultimately failing to find a character that she was comfortable with. WWE were getting frustrated with her and she was in contention to be fired. Damn. She drastically changed for Bliss as she would join forces with Blake and Murphy. I remember that. That would be used on the main roster. The multi-time women's champion would discuss how she was almost fired during an appearance on the Not Sam podcast. From day one I knew it was my sink or swim moment because in NXT as a good guy my character wasn't getting over and when I was told about the pairing with Blake and Murphy and I knew there had to be a character change. Wednesday night we had takeover and I pushed Enzo and helped and keep them as champions. I came the next day with new gear and different hair and I knew that if I didn't run with it I probably wasn't going to have a job. And it worked out for her. In 2015 ESPN debuted a special documentary that focused on NXT. The nature of the documentary was supposed to show major success of the NXT brand as well as notable failures. These failures were designed to show firings and one of those firings was going to be Tyler Breeze. A Breeze was smart enough to realize that he needed a new gimmick immediately and this is where he decided to come up with the Tyler Breeze character which would go on to become one of the most successful gimmicks on the NXT brand. Discussing this on Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette the former WWE star revealed that E-60 thing that we were doing was supposed to have a couple of guys who made it, a couple of guys who we didn't know and a couple of guys who got fired. Me and Big Cass were supposed to be the two that got fired during the time I found Tyler Breeze and he found this thing with Enzo and it completely won 18 and all of a sudden they were like we can't fire these guys. They're doing good now. He said that for the first time in front of everybody and we went, oh my God. I think we were excited about we were going to get fired and we had no idea. That's wild. When you find out like you're going to be featured on something and then you're not even thinking you're about to get fired. And then they tell you as someone else is getting over we can't fire these guys. Wait, what? Y'all was going to fire us? Like that's wild when you really think about it. Brock Lesnar. This is very interesting too. Which Brock Lesnar is fired from WWE just months into his main roster run while in an interview with Bill Aptor of Sportskeeter Wrestling and WWE Wall of Famer Mark Henry talked about how an incident between him and Lesnar left Lesnar fearing for his job. According to Henry, he and Lesnar had a shoot match and this resulted in Henry getting hurt. He shot from about six feet away and went to my ankle and he put both hands behind my ankle and his shoulder and my knee and hyper extended my knee and I was out for like six to seven weeks. I was just on the ground like, oh my God. And he was like, you hurt? I was like, damn, I can't move. And he was like, he's like, they're going to fire me.  They're going to fire me. And we were going to say that he and Lesnar were able to laugh it off and Lesnar's insecurity in relation to his job likely came from his reputation at the time because it was infamous for being borderline reckless in the ring. Yeah, Mark Henry said it right. They're not going to fire you, bro.  Thankfully for Lesnar, the veteran spoke up for him as she wasn't doing anything with malicious intent and it probably helped that Lesnar had a fantastic attitude and this in turn probably helped save his job. Number four, Seth Rollins. During Seth Rollins' time in developmental, he didn't have the best reputation amongst WWB management. Brahms was calling issues during training sessions and this led to Triple H pulling him aside and letting Rollins know that he had no issues with firing him. Thankfully for Rollins, he had to change his attitude and it was a deep conversation with Joey Mercury that influenced Rollins to change for good. Discussing this on Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast, Rollins stated, Hunter took me aside and was like, look, I don't see anything special in you. If you don't want to play ball and you don't want to work with us, you can go back to Ring of Honor and do things your way. Wow. We should start doing things our way. I was like, oh man, my dream is about to go up in smoke here. I go back to Joey Mercury and sat down with the men and he's like, you need to understand how to play the game. It doesn't mean that you have to change who you are, but you have to play a role all the time. Not just went on when you want to be. You have to be on all the time to find a way to give them what they want while teaching them how you do things as a compromise. And you have to figure out how you do that. He sat me down and took me through that whole process. Number three. Triple H said, I don't see nothing special in you at that time. That's wild. But once again, that's how it is in WWE. You can be this amazing, athletic, talented, you can flip over everything and do somersaults everywhere on the independent scene and and be willing to put your body through all types of pain on the independent scene. When you come to WWE, they want you to kind of look a certain way. They want you to kind of move a certain way is finding a way to keep your your core self.  So that's very interesting that triple H had to say, man, you can get the boot easily, bro. Yeah, one of the wrestlers that is synonymous with the ruthless aggression era is Batista. Yeah, Batista was extremely close to being let go by I definitely heard about this evolution. Yeah, an interview with Chris Jericho on the Talk is Jericho podcast. But he stated that the Deacon Batista gimmick wasn't working. No, WWE were considering cutting ties with him. However, when Batista was handpicked to be a member of evolution alongside Joe Blake, Flair and Randy Orton, everything changed. It saved his wrestling career in WWE. He came to Batista and they were absolutely right. As Batista were going to become one of the biggest and most successful names in WWE history. Fact number two, Becky Lynch, even though Becky Lynch reached made of it status on the main roster, her NXT run particularly early on wasn't exactly the standout portion of it. This is interesting. Before they appeared on NXT TV, WWE trainers and officials have become frustrated with Lynch's lack of progress. And instead of repackaging her, they were planning on letting her go. However, Lynch had their stellar debut on NXT against Summer Ray and this changed everything. She took to Twitter to reference the match and in the now deleted tweet, the WrestleMania main event has stated a couple of weeks before this they were going to let me go. I've been fighting to survive this place since before day one. I'll never be above what I had to do to stay alive. She's also discussed how pivotal Dusty Rhodes was in keeping Lynch employed with WWE and thankfully they did as it would have truly dropped the ball if they'd find her. Sure. And number one, John Cena. Yep. And we know about this one. Well, some of y'all may not know about this one. This is a very pivotal one because he was almost out the door legit. Crazy to know. There could have been a world where John Cena was not a thing. 2002, WWE were getting set to release John Cena from his contract. Cena was blending into the background and he had zero character or presence on screen. And this is when Cena did one ingenious move which saved his entire career. Speaking on the acclaimed ruthless aggression documentary the WWE legend stated I was told I would be getting my release in Christmas cuts because it just wasn't working. We travel as a community so we're all on the same bus.  Just dove right in and it was like it resonated with me in two seconds. I made a small rap about a tuna fish, the jetway, the plane we're about to go on and the destination and then closed it with a comment about Stephanie. She said, would you guys like to do this on television? I said absolutely. Just weeks later, Cena's rapper son of a debut on TV and this wouldn't just be a gimmick that would save his skin. It saved him to the next level in WWE. They have it folks. And it saved them so much that yeah ended up becoming a I think that record is a platinum selling record his his John Cena album the John Cena album. I believe it's a platinum record album. I think he has sold over a million units since crazy selling more than your favorite rapper back then. So his rapping persona definitely saved his career without a doubt. And then it's very interesting all it takes is that one thing and it can change your entire life. So this was a very interesting video. A lot of these I did not know a lot of these individuals I didn't know they were on the chopping block but it's it works out things are supposed to happen the way they're supposed to happen. Comment down below. Let me know some other videos you guys want me to check out. Appreciate all the love and support you guys show on the channel. Road to 150k. I'm still going to speak to you to the rest of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me. See y'all on the next one. Peace.


Back on the Sports Magnet Zone, we turn to Athletics, three-time Olympic gold medalist Shelley and Fraser Price has announced she'll be retiring following the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 37-year-old Fraser Price in an interview with Essence.com says her family is her priority at this stage of her life. There's not a day I'm getting up to go to practice and I'm like, I'm over this. My son needs me. My husband and I have been together since before I won in 2008. He has sacrificed for me, we're a partnership, a team. And it's because of that support that I'm able to do the things that I've been doing for all these years and I think I know it took them to do something else. Shelley and Fraser Price, Lance, arguably the greatest printer ever, says this is the year. Well, you say, arguably the greatest printer ever, I would say she's the greatest 100-meter printer ever and that's not in debate, male or female, and arguably she's the greatest printer all the time. I think she's making a good decision because she has given enough, this is 15 years now of competing successfully at the highest level and regardless of what happens to her in Paris, I think it is a good decision. She turns 38 years old in December and there's nothing more for her to prove, quite frankly, and I think this is a good decision. I've said this before and I'm going to repeat it for emphasis, Ricardo, and this is not when I juxtapose the Usain Bolt career and her Kerr career. This is not in any way shape of form trying to compare them. I just think when I make the point, it will highlight the greatness of Shelley and Fraser Price. Both Fraser Price and Bolt burst onto the global scene with their successes at the Beijing Olympics. Bolt retires in 2017. Six years after Bolt retires, Shelley and Fraser is a glorious sportswoman of the year, not track and field athlete of the year, she's the greatest sportswoman in all sport in 2023. And that tells me something, that while Bolt is rightly given the phenomenal labour that he has given, there has to be something said about the colossal nature of Shelley and Fraser Price's brilliance and let me add to that longevity. Yes. Because Bolt has long retired. Yes. It's a great phenomenon. There's no athlete that has captured track and field in the way that Bolt has. But Shelley and Fraser Price, still one of the best in the world and in 2022 because of her performances, was the 2023 announced 2023 as the laureate sportswoman of the year ahead of all of the greatest sports stars in the world, the tennis stars, the swimmers, everyone. I just think that Shelley and has achieved enough and there's nothing else that we could ask of her. Yeah. A few things here, Lance. So I completely agree with you. One, I think this is significant because while we speculated and while Shelley and Fraser Price has hinted at it in the past that this could be her final year and Paris for sure will be her final Olympic games. I think in the back of our minds, we were always thinking there's that possibility that she could go on beyond 2024, depending on whether her body held up and how she performed at the Olympic games. And because of how phenomenally she has been performing in recent years as well, it was not beyond imagination that she could decide to go True. And I think she has done the season, but I agree with you. I think she is making a very good decision, regardless of what happens in 2024 and what happens at the Olympic games, on to the point about not comparing Shelley and Fraser Price and Usain Bolt and that the risk of being battered like Johan Blake. Let me say that Usain Bolt during his time and understandably so overshadowed many athletes in the sport of track and field. Shelley and Fraser Price was one of those athletes. In my opinion, I think Shelley and Fraser Price has become the face of track and field in many ways because of course the 100 meters being the blue ribbon event. And yes, you can't take away from what Elaine Thompson here has done at the Olympic games. What she has done is phenomenal and must never be understated. But what Shelley and Fraser Price has done from 2008 to now. Which we are seeing now, which was when she advertised her quality. There you go. What she has done since that time, the way she carries herself, the fact that she was away from the sport to give birth to her son, and came back as a champion, won a 2019 world title, won another world title in 2022 after the Olympic disappointment. And I say disappointment of 2021 because she was going for a third 100 gold medal in four years and was in great form to get it. But stopped by a phenomenal effort from Elaine Thompson here. So when you take all of that into account, I think since you say in both, Shelley and Fraser Price has come more to the fore as the real superstar that she is. And I think since you say in both left the sport, more people are realizing the real greatness of Shelley and Fraser Price in her performances, but also in her longevity. And the fact that in 2022 lands, this woman ran faster than she'd ever done before. Did things that no woman at her age had ever done before, and maybe not even herself would imagine that she would have done is rather special. Yeah, you know what? I just think that Shelley and Fraser Price's attitude to her sport has propelled her to where she is. Her commitment, her determination, the fact that she is, she considers herself a champion. And when she takes the track for a major event, there's a kind of ferocity that she goes into the event with that makes her really, really hard to beat. I know she'll be a couple of months away from her 38th birthday when she competes in Paris this year, but it takes a brave analyst to write her off for gold because this is the stage that Shelley and Fraser Price shows her class. And while there are a lot of younger stars rising, Shelley and Fraser Price on a world championship moment or an Olympic moment has shown consistently through her career, not up and down, consistently through her career, that when she takes the track and a major gold medal is at stake, you can't write her off. She is one of the greatest champions the sport has ever seen, Lance, in following her 2019 world championship success in Doha. I had done a piece looking at her achievements, specifically in the 100 meters and the win percentage, no other sprinter on the women's side compared to her. And I think you had to go to the distance events to the likes of Tarnesh De Barba to get anyone who had won with the type of consistency that she had. Whenever she stepped to the line in a 100 final on the global stage, she usually delivered. And to beat her, you had to come with something special.  She's a phenomenal athlete, a phenomenal woman. And yeah, I won't be able to say much more about her if I don't take this break because my producer will take charge. We'll be back with more on the sports night. So.


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I see you. I see you. I see you. I don't see you. And then she was the winner. Oh my gosh. She got the idea. I get to see you. I'm Francesco Gardner. Welcome to Bethesda Academy. Every school year, we get together as a community to create a new theme, a theme that would guide us, ground us, and get us through the good times and the bad times. This school year our theme is it's grow time. It symbolizes that our children are seeds and that it's on all of us teachers, parents, principals, super intendants, elected officials, mayor, to water and nurture these seeds. Today with the Safe for College program that's what we're doing. We are watering the seeds. We are giving parents peace of mind, lifting the burden and leveling the playing field for all. This program is about equity, ensuring that our students have a fear shot to grow. I'm so proud to be making this announcement here at our school today, Baychester Academy and to have our mayor lead this initiative for us. Help us to guide us there to where we need to go. And now Mr. Mayor, it's your turn to speak. You could tell your principal, you don't even have to say it. And you could walk in the school and see the energy that you bring to the school. You know it's not just about academics, it's about you know just the emotional intelligence of being educated. Children can tell if you authentically care for them. You know when I sat down at that table to speak with those scholars, if they didn't feel that I cared for them they would not have communicated back to me. And as we walked in the school, watching the children interact with their principal, she has clearly created an environment of wellness in this school. And she's concerned about these scholars who take them to the next level. And this is an amazing assembly of people here that really believe in this program and the coming together of New York is to support our principals, support our teachers, support our students. And the creativity of this program really personifies what we want to do in this city. The hub of our future, it lies in our schools. And we have traditionally turned it over just to the principals and the faculty. But we're saying now the entire community must wrap ourselves around our schools and give the support that's needed. So when you have a the great family who's here you know donating and being thoughtful on this program starting to seed it, Julie Menon with her amazing idea that thought about this entire concept. And Bishop Taylor out in Queens, he shared this with me when I was out in Queens on the campaign trail. And just the energy Queens out in Queens Bridge and Ravenwood community that historically is not known for producing young people who are going to college on a regular. This is just how we all come together. And then look at this lineup of electives that we have here. Assemblyman Benedetto, who is the chair of education. Dedicated, committed to get this done. Senator Bailey, who's here as well, you know, one of the leading voices in the Senate. You can't get Vanessa Gibson, the bar president to stop talking about education. You know, when you think about it, as I stated, Councilwoman Menon. And just to really steal all of our light, Councilman Riley brought his beautiful daughter. It was her birthday, you know, right on the right, right, you know, right on the daddy. I was like this and the mommy all the time, you know. But this is what it's about. This is community coming together. All of us coming together and laser focus on our children. And why is this important? Research shows that children with a college savings account are three time more likely to go to college and four time more likely to graduate. Just to save this account. And this creative way of not only will the parent open the account, we saw how easy it is. But now when you around your family and friends, you can, as you meet them, just give them a coat. We're going to make this first seed investment. Then we're going to water it every birthday. We're going to water it every time a child gets a new teeth. You know, we're going to water it every time a child gets a good grade in school or try hard. We're going to bring our churches together like Bishop Teller did and say that, listen, this month we're going to pick each child and we're going to donate into their savings account. And then you just keep adding, adding, adding. And it's unbelievable what the dollar amount is. I knew nothing about a college savings account as a child. And no one helped mommy in saying, you know, we can save for college. And to be honest with you, we never even thought about college. College was so far off our radar. But now we are telling these young scholars that you are expected to go to college or a trade school of vocational school, go it into a place that you will continue to expand your learning. This is a great moment for our city as we expand this amazing program with this amazing team that has been assembled here, here together. And so I say, I say thank you. And I want to just thank everyone is here, particularly Principal Gardner for her energy. And you know, you know, just a symbol of the great educators we have throughout the city.  And it's really great to be here to celebrate this citywide expansion of the New York City Kids Rise Save for College program and the first ever New York City Scholarship Month. Focusing on college, focusing on that laser focus.  That's the joy of long term savings. You don't have to do it all at once. You can continue to lay it out. So today, this year and every year, going forward, the city is putting $100 into our college savings account for every New York City public school, kindergarten and partnership with New York City Kids Rise. That's a total of $6.5 million in 65,300 scholarship accounts this year. Unbelievable when you really think about it. And we're going to keep doing this for our kindergarten students year after year in the same way that we are helping our kids save for college. The city is also saving for its future. All this turmoil that's going on is overshadowing how well we are doing as a city. We are doing so well as a city as we grapple with some real issues, COVID and crime. Yes. But don't lose sight of what we are doing successfully with our partnership in Albany, the city council and all of our borough presidents. Thanks to this administration and our partners, our strong financial management, Fitch Radins just upgrade our city's outlook from stable to positive for the first time and more than a decade. More than a decade. Now, what this means is that the index that indicates how well we're doing financially as a city just stated this administration and administration of these electives who are here, we are doing so well that those who determine if we are risk or not and investing, they're saying this city is moving in the right directions, taking the right action, and we're going from just being stable to positive. Think about that. Five months in and we got away. So it's about long-term smart decisions that we're doing today. We want to invest in a future of New York and New Yorkers and we especially want to help those families that are in need. The pandemic showed us how large the wealth gap is and how equity needs to be front and center, something that these electives say over and over again. This college saving program is a practical way to improve and narrow the gap in wealth and as at the same time, we're helping children understand the power of investing, the power of saving. Now, all of these special occasions should start with a donation for your children. They stop your baby on the street and say how cute they may be, say yes they are.  I use this cleanest every month. I need you to donate to my college fund.   Everyone needs to donate into your child's fund. Walk around with the cold, constantly tell everyone I need you to donate into my fund. Hey, boss, you like me? I've been a great worker. Donate into my child's fund. That's how we do it. That's how we grow. And it doesn't matter how small, you know, John, when you tell them it doesn't matter how small it is, it continues to compound and add up.  You know, just a dollar or two is going to continue to grow.  This is how we uplift our children. This is how we save for college. And this is a milestone program. It's the results of collaboration between parents, local leaders, schools, and businesses, and District 30 and Queens, Bishop Taylor and this entire crew of people like, as I stated, Julie Menon and the team at New York City Kids Rise, and I think you are on the board. You know that? Well, you got so much going on. And, you know, John and Mindy, you know, I just cannot say enough about the two of you. You know, just they are so committed to this city and children. And for them to just see this program in the beginning. You know, when I first sat down and we had dinner together and just hearing about this, I'm just blown away. When people, sometimes we give affluent New Yorkers this negative rap. But do you know 52% of our taxes are paid by 2% of New Yorkers? If we didn't have the John and Mindy grades in this city, we're not going to have the teachers in our schools. The firefighters putting out fires. The police officers protecting our streets. Our high income earners like them that understand they have a social obligation to give back is what is part of the financial ecosystem of our city.  And I thank you for your contribution. We're going to do this. Where we are is not who we are. Where we are is not who we are. We may be in dark places right now. But those dark places that Mommy used to say, they're not burials. They're plantants. And today's contribution is going to produce the harvest that we expect for our children. It's a great day for New York. Thank you very much. Now, let's welcome Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright to the podium. Thank you so much, Principal Gardner. And this is an incredibly joyous day. I want to give a shout out to the orchestra that serenade us as we came in and all of the beautiful greeters with all of their energy and enthusiasm and the coloring table that took the mayor to task about his choice of colors. It was very interesting watching you color. I think mostly you color outside the line, but you were being good today. But this is a great day. I am Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and I was introduced to New York City Kids Rise by Julie Menon, who recruited me to join the board several years ago. And I'm so excited that this is a perfect example of public-private partnerships. The Gray Foundation, John and Mindy, mostly Mindy John, to tell you, Mindy doesn't get enough credit for putting our heart and soul in this. With Dana Zucker, they invested in a concept, an idea. They innovated with Bishop Taylor in the community with the brilliance of Deborah Ellen and really created a model and said, this works. This can have tremendous impact. Then took it to the City of New York to scale. That's exactly what we want in need with our philanthropic partners. You all have set the bar high and you've shown us how it can be done. So thank you. Thank you so much for that. Thank you. And I also want to just acknowledge the team at the City of New York who worked so hard to make this happen. Mariano Guzman, who also is on the board for many years. Commissioner Sudea Sherman, who is our Mayor's Office of Equity Commissioner. And all of the people who have made this possible, as well as all of the staff at New York City Kids Rise that worked so hard. So acknowledging you. I do just want to say one more thing about this program. I needed the 529 program to send my children to college. College, we know the expenses are just astronomical. And to be able to do this for every single New York City public school child is tremendous. It is a revelation. It is extremely important. And this is what Mayor Adams talked about when he says, invest upstream. This is one of the best investments, most significant investments, and almost as far upstream as you can get. And it will reap tremendous, tremendous, tremendous benefits for generations. This is a generational blessing. And so I am very grateful for that. I'm grateful to be a part of that. I'm grateful to be a part of an administration that sees that we have to scale what works and really to get the city for the long term where we need it to be. So thank you very, very much, everyone, for your hard work. And I'm so proud and pleased to be a part of it. Thank you. Next up, we have New York City Rise Director Deborah Ellen Glickstein. Thank you, Principal Garner. Thank you, Mayor Adams. Deputy Mayor Wright. And really all the family school staff, community leaders, government and elected officials that have gathered here today to celebrate the first ever New York City Scholarship Month. You know, this is truly a historic moment as the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor have shared. And I also am so proud to be a part of it. It is a moment really that honors just so much. Not only, you know, it's the first time that kindergarteners across this entire city have an opportunity to plug into what we like to call a universal, community-driven wealth-building platform. So this platform was built, as you've heard, over the course of many years, the greater part of a decade, across communities of School District 30 and Queens, which include Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, East Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights. And let me be clear, as others before me have as well, this was created by so many people, schools and organizations across these neighborhoods and across each of our sectors. Underlying this work has been this question. What would it look like if we each took responsibility for all of our children? So, to answer that question, this platform was designed as a tool. A tool that schools can use and integrate as a core component of their day-to-day operations and customized to meet the needs and desires of their school communities in preparing their students for higher education. A tool that parents and guardians can use to save in the ways that make sense for them and their financial circumstances, starting with these building blocks and or to support other families and students in their community or across the city. A tool that communities, community-based organizations, civic and cultural organizations, businesses, individuals, can use in the ways that also are aligned with their goals. A tool that is adaptable and honors the work that is already happening in a community. Because we know that the work that Principal Gardner, not on my watch, Council Member Riley, are doing in Baychester, is going to look different than the work that Principal Jagin, Urban Upbound and Jacob Rees have been doing in Long Island City. But each is part of an ecosystem that impacts a child's chance of success and each is working towards our broader collective objective of making sure that all of our children have the opportunity to reach their dreams and highest potential. So, our goals are to build significant financial assets with and for participating families and communities and to ensure that the students are getting reinforced expectations of success from every part of their lives and neighborhoods that impacts their life chances. So, this moment when over 65,000 kindergarten families can activate their New York City Scholarship accounts for the very first time, it is truly just the beginning. We can't wait to see how everyone in this room and beyond is going to plug in, participate and contribute. So, thank you again Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks for your continued support and your vision of this platform. Thank you again Deputy Mayor Wright for being such a champion and for New York City children and families and across all of our neighborhoods. Thank you Commissioner Sedia Sherman for your leadership and now from the new Mayor's Office of Equity. We would not be here without you. Thank you Superintendent Vaughn, Principal Garner to your staff, the Baychester Academy Community for helping kick off this amazing Scholarship Month event and really for all that comes next to Council Member Julie Mennon who tenaciously helped launch this platform and served as our founding board chair. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of this story from the very beginning, especially the leaders across school district 30 communities a few who are here today. Claudia Koger the former president of the Story Houses Resident Association, Bishop Mitchell Taylor. We would not be here without you guys. And then to the incredible team at NYC Kids Rise and especially shout out to my partners Maria Bellas and Leila Bozarg. This takes a lot and we have really the best. All of the collaborators that work with us day to day including from the Department of Education, Office of Economic Opportunity, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. And finally a huge thank you to John and Mindy Gray of the Gray Foundation as well as the Gray Foundation's executive director and our board chair Dana Zucker for supporting this idea from the earliest days and sticking with it and continuing to stick with it and stick with it. None of this would have been possible without any of you and again we're so excited about what comes next. Thank you. We'll now welcome John and Mindy Gray. Wow thank you Principal Gardner. We are very excited to be here for the first ever Citywide New York City Scholarship Month here at Pachester Academy. The expansion as you've heard of this program is really the realization of a dream that started eight years ago in 2014. It started with a simple meeting with Julie Menon. She came to my office as the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs and had a number of ideas for public-private partnerships and I really latched on to this idea of children's savings accounts. I love the thought of financial literacy that came with it, the savings component, the 529 piece as an investor thinking about families investing in the markets and getting the benefit of compounding was very compelling but the most compelling fact was the one the mayor pointed to which was this idea that kids who had savings accounts were three times more likely to go to college four times more likely to graduate and I remember going home that night talking with Mindy and we had this enormous enthusiasm it was like a light bulb went out like we should do this and we talked with Dana Zucker who runs our foundation and does a miraculous job and we worked with Julie and the city and the Department of Education. The only thing we underestimated was how long and hard this would be and those of you who work in the public sector understand that these things are complicated but we were very fortunate to find Deborah Ellen who is a force of nature for everybody who knows. She just would not say no. We started at District 30. We launched in 2017. Ultimately virtually now all the kids there have children's savings account. The community joined in thank you so much and this really became a community partnership inclusive very much in line with what the mayor was describing and so the idea that we've been able to bring this forward is so promising to us. We have four daughters ourselves. They've had many opportunities and to us it's a shame that not every kid in New York City has those same kind of opportunities so being able to share some of that's really important. We're proud to say one of our daughters today is a New York City public school teacher. I'm very happy to say that but now the real work begins rolling this out to 60 continues. 65,000 kids as you've heard will get the benefit of this. You know we couldn't feel better about it having invested at this point more than 17 million dollars in this project to get to this point. I would say I'm not sure there's anything we've done that's had a higher return on investment and so yeah so we are we are truly excited about this and to partner with this extraordinary mayor who has just been such a force of nature so unifying wanting to bring us all together to try to work together to help our most important asset which is the children of New York City and so he started in actually in his campaign he embraced this. He's been an incredible partner in so many ways obviously Sheena incredible having been part of this since really early days. Chancellor Banks, Commissioner Sherman, Commissioner Verduga we can't thank everybody enough who's pushed on this. We think about this as a very special program for New York City and its families and a very special day for us. We are so excited we want to just say thank you to everyone here it's so exciting thank you so much. Now let's watch those seeds bloom. Yeah exactly. Thank you.  I'm so proud to now introduce you to Precious Owusu one of our parents. Good morning everyone. Good morning. My name is Precious Obengaday also known as Jacob and Nathaniel's Mommy. I'm originally from Ghana in West Africa but I've lived in the Bronx for over 20 years and I've been part of Precious for about six years now. Today just like many families here I opened my son's account and saw his name and it was such an amazing feeling and I'm so glad that I was able to do this with my Precious of Families who were here this morning. I think the best part about this that we're doing this together for our children and that's the amazing part about this. So this morning I definitely want to encourage my families here and across the city we have to do this. This is a wonderful opportunity especially for our Black and Brown families. This gives us a chance to have our kids be there and level the playing field for our kids and most important I think you've all heard it takes a village and this program speaks to that. We have the support of the city and the community to put our kids out there. So I encourage everyone today this is the right step. Take that chance, open your account, see your child's name there and start to work towards it. As a parent you want the best for your child and I think this is right on top of the list. So again all our families I'm urging that we take this opportunity and again we're doing it together as families, community and it's a great opportunity. So thank you to the mayor, to the city, our very own principal Gardner, NYC Kids Rise for sending out this message about planning for our kids future. So thank you for this wonderful opportunity and let's do it together. Let's welcome council member Julie Menning. Thank you so much. I cannot tell you Mr. Mayor how excited I am. You can probably tell from my reaction. I'm the mother of four and I always joke that this project was like my fifth child because birthing it was quite a process. I'm so thrilled to be here today. This project is truly transformative. Back in 2014 when I was commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs as you heard I met with John Gray and I really want to thank Mindy and John for their incredible leadership in funding this. The idea really was transformative. I had met with the controller of San Francisco at the time. San Francisco had launched a project to seed every kindergartner with $50. We're in New York City. We want to do it bigger and better and we did. Instead of just giving government money we were able through the private sector to really fund these 529 so that the money would grow over time. We also were able to do what no one else really had been able to do which was also make sure that undocumented children had a 529. This literally took us years to figure out and it is it is revolutionary. So I'm so excited about this. I really want to thank Deborah Ellen Glickstein. I had hired Deborah Ellen to run the Office of Financial Empowerment.  And I really want to thank Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright. As you heard I asked her to join the Board of Kids Rise four years ago and right away she got it and was committed to it. And lastly I want to thank the Mayor of course and I want to thank my colleagues in government. Particularly Senator Jamal Bailey who we talked about a year ago about this project. He's deeply committed to it. Thank you Assembly Member. Thank you Borough President Gibson. And I want to thank my colleague Council Member Kevin Riley who totally gets this and I know together we're going to be able to take this to the next phase. Thank you so much. And now our Borough President Vanessa Gibson. Thank you. Good morning everyone. What an honor to be here at Baychester Academy to Principal Gardner to our Superintendent and to each and every one of you. What a great day. What a great day for the children of New York City and all of our families. I am so grateful and deeply appreciative of this incredible partnership that is truly groundbreaking and transformative because we realize that the pathway to prosperity is through education. We realize that the gateway to the future is through education and everything we do is about elevating the next generation of leaders creating the access and opportunities that our young scholars need for a better tomorrow. I often say if we stay ready we don't have to get ready and this program allows college preparations for our young scholars and our families. Many of us are first generation college grads in our own families because we realize that our future must be better than our parents. But as we continue to create footprints our children's future need to be better than ours and that's what this program is all about. I'm so grateful because I actually am familiar with NYC Kids Rise while I was in the city council and I do want to give credit to the community school district 30 in Queens that really started this process and really created the blueprint and the vision and said our children need a college savings account how can we help our families many of our families are working class they're immigrant families they could be undocumented they don't have the access they don't have the financial literacy the financial empowerment and the education to understand and get them to a place where they can start and begin saving for their children and so in comes this program with the vision with the great foundation with John and Mindy and with each and every one of you with councilmember Julie Menon and so many that said you know what let's take this program to the next level and that is what today is all about so I know that our children will have a brighter future as we realize what our purpose is in life it is to make a difference it is to give back it is to create a legacy it is to set footprints in history for others to follow as many of us climb we have to lift young people with us in the five months that I've served as your Bronx borough president I've been so incredibly proud to encounter so many young people that are on the pathway to college but that's only because of the critical partners in our school at the department of ed that have really encouraged our young people initiatives like my brother's keeper and my sister's keeper that give our young people that access and opportunity and as it has been said level the playing field from an equity lens every child is gifted and talented and destined for success all we have to do is open those doors of opportunity and that's what new york city kids rise does it opens the doors of opportunity for the next generation of leaders and so I am proud as borough president to say thank you every time I talk to young people and they tell me they're going to college and careers CUNY SUNY HBCUs I am so proud because they are the beacon of hope for a better tomorrow we cannot lose sight we cannot get distracted by what is important education is the game changer it is the equalizer of prosperity and so this collective partnership recognizes that and every dollar as the mayor said yes we need parents to buy into this program talk to your co-workers your congregate to church folks that you know in the neighborhood and get everyone to buy in to this program and I also emphasize the importance of financial literacy and education that goes along with this because if you know better you do better and we have to make sure that the education is a critical part of this so my gratitude to our mayor Eric Adams our school's chancellor David Banks our deputy mayor Sheena Wright commissioner Sherman so many Deborah Ellen Deborah Ellen hounded me in the New York City council about this program but she did it because she had a vision and no matter what the hurdles and struggles that we encountered have made us better public servants to see this program to see this collaboration through so now let's take it to the next level let's create the access and opportunity across every school district in the city of New York congratulations to everyone on this incredible partnership and I look forward to our continued work together for the future generation of leaders in our great city of New York thank you so much everyone state senator Jamal Bailey thank you very much um Mr. Mayor thank you for not just investing in our children but for doing it here in the Bronx uh you know often when you see things on the news about this borough um they are not necessarily reflected in the most positive manner but we have the heart of a champion here in the borough in our mayor and our deputy mayor understand that investment is necessary um so for those of us who are from the neighborhood we know what this place was this used to be the baychester diner and this used to be a place where we used to be nourished we used to eat and we used to have our bellies nourished but principal gardener and superintendent Vaughn you are nourishing the minds of our young people and that is way better than what that could have done and and and I see Reverend Dr. Kendrick see and he knows that we don't we don't have coincidences these things are what they're supposed to be and um to have a principal named gardener to have a principal named gardener when we're supposed to be sowing the seeds of the next generation is not coincidental but like any good gardener knows every seed is not treated differently the germination process of certain seeds are different right some seeds require full sun some require a little bit of shade some require more water than others but each and every day our educators understand that our seeds need to be taken care of and that does take a gardener to do but let's let's let's let's let's keep it going with the metaphor right any good gardener needs to make sure that the tools are given to them so to the gray family to Council member Julie Benin to New York City kids rise you are these tools that will continue to germinate these seeds and make them grow beyond our wildest dreams they often say they didn't know they were seeds because they tried to bury us they tried to bury us but they didn't know we would grow to what we grew to they didn't know that a kid from six blocks away would be the first attorney in his family they didn't know that he would marry another attorney so now our daughters that's normalized it is now normalized my daughters have parents that are attorneys and that's normal to them that's normal to them you know how amazing that is that's normal that's not something that we had growing up that's why programs like this are so critically important to invest in our city and we talk about how much does it cost you know it's we we count money and we have budgets in the city in the state but how much does it cost if we don't invest in our kids how much does it cost if we don't invest in the future of our kids educational system or our trade schools mr. may as you said because there is no one true path to success but the most important thing is to make sure that we understand that our kids are in fact our future and I was almost late here because as size spelling once and I'm not just the president I'm a client I'm a public school parent I was dropping my kids off at ps 153 I'm a district 11 kid myself ps 83 ms 181 onto Bronx science onto Sunni Albany onto CUNY law I'm a public school kid K through JD so K through JD so when you invest when you invest it makes a difference and I'm going to leave you with this with a world court only you know you know you talked about it's only this and five pennies is only a nickel right but um five nickels is only a quarter four quarters only a dollar five dollars only a five dollar bill four five dollar bills only a twenty dollar bill we're not talking only anymore and five of those is only a hundred dollars we're not talking only anymore every cent matters so I just want to say thank you to our mayor for continuing to invest to to our community members our partners the most importantly our children I'm looking forward to seeing the reaps of our investment grow bountifully thank you I have assembly member Michael Benedetto wow how do I follow well I guess I don't I'm not I'm not going to try but this is a happy day it really is um I came a year ago over a year ago I went to um Senator Bailey and I said you know we have this idea I thought it was an original idea how stupid am I and we've sent a bill in in Albany called the baby bonds bill and it basically says every baby born in the state of New York will be given $1,000 seed money to start a savings account that the same idea you guys are doing Mr. Mayor this is wonderful this is great every year in Albany I'm chairman of the education committee and I get thousands um maybe I exaggerate um but I get an awful lot of curriculum bills and one of the curriculum bills they always seem to get is financial literacy is not taught this is the best kind of curriculum bill that you're doing here today okay I'm so happy about this may it continue may it blossom may it grow with the money we have showered on New York more money than we ever had in the state this year and and let it blossom in our children have a good day everybody that was good our very own council member Kevin principal garden I just want to say uh Senator Bailey stole my reference of using you as a garden my metaphor that's my brother though so I'll give it to him uh but being the last speaker I hope I am I think everyone said pretty much what I would have stated I'm just going to talk as a parent you guys saw my oldest daughter up here at Brooke uh my youngest daughter Kate who's in daycare and I'm expecting my baby boy in two months so my my first job is being a parent and being a parent you want to make sure that you're investing in your child but sometimes you need help uh sometimes you don't know which direction to go as being a parent that's why I started the organization the dad game because us being fathers we needed that guidance this is a program that's really going to help our parents out within our community I'm truly happy to be a part of this because financial literacy was something I spoke about during my campaign that our school schools need to be educating our students on financial literacy because we need to learn how to manage money within our communities so this is a step and I'm so happy to celebrate the first NYC scholarship month this month in baychester academy where my daughter goes to school this is a beautiful administration and just want to show our sister principal glenn uh miss Arnold miss johnson uh who have been amazing amazing partners um and the rest of the administration that's here excuse me if I didn't announce you today um but you guys have been amazing and we really really look forward to what you bring to our community thank you mr. mayor for coming here today uh to my colleague councilmember many you're amazing this idea was really really amazing and thank you for sharing this with the community uh thank you oh we're at the end of our program I'm so happy to invite our students our kindergarten students our staff up so that we can take a photo together see if there's any off topic i think we've asked you about it the past week or so can you talk about what you've been hearing from your health officials our cases still going up are you moving any closer towards maybe reinstating any kind of okay mandate restrictions uh the normally i'm going to call 8 30 this morning uh with the my health officials but as you see i'm here instead uh when i get back in the car i'm going to get updated on what the numbers look like which we continue to see a slow uptick but the real indicator is that number one our testing is in place take home testing and our hospitals uh and deaths those numbers are really at a solid place so there's no uh we're going to be prepared and not panicked and so i'll be better able to brief you on if there's any major shift from what i had yesterday we did not have a major shift there's just a slow uptake but new yorkers are doing the right thing they're testing themselves if they find that they have covet they're staying home and that is what the reason we have the most expansive home testing system then anywhere in the country and as long as we keep doing the right thing i'm pretty sure all of you know someone that has covet but they're staying home they're not going into the subway system they're not going to their office spaces that is where our success is that's what's normalizing this here i know that the city allocated a certain amount to this do would you foresee if things continue to go well financially for the city would you increase the amount of money that go in to new york city kids rides program or understanding the the funding mechanism other opportunities for for the bonus uh yes and and uh yes we're not leaving anything off the table and seeding a program like this this is you know as uh john gray stated this this is the best return on our investment and whatever way we could continue to expand we're open to discussing and we're also open to looking at other ways to get the communities engage the more that we have communities engage the more they're going to feel invested in our children and so that's the real win here the win here is having everyday people you know donate that dollar donate that 50 cents donate that three dollars and seeing how this money grows for these children so it's not only the city's involvement we really want to get the community engaged in the children of the community i'm going to do the the young lady a mother was here today signing up registering i'm going to um i'm gonna make my own donation and uh i am going to encourage everyone i know the beauty here is that you don't need rich friends that's the joy here you don't need you just need everyday people to say you know what instead of uh doing that night out at the movies um go to another place and stay home together but take that ten dollars and go and donate it to a friend they created this easy community engagement that's the win here that we don't have to go to just an affluent new yorker you could go to an everyday person if you are an uber driver one dollar of your tip today can you donate it to one of these children this is going to be an on the ground level and then what happens people are going to start different thinking differently about the children of the city because they're going to feel i invested in that child in that school there i think this is just an amazing concept in program yes yes so um there was a little bit about in district 30 in queens um the superintendent dr composto he was allegedly fired by chancellor david banks and the elected officials in the area had a letter asking for him to be returned parents people are very upset about this i wanted to talk to you i know david banks isn't here but if you have any comment or response you have someone who appears to be a beloved leader within a school district i know that there's a lot of turnover and it's a new person running the department of education but would you consider reinstating him or have you spoke to chancellor banks about this removal of the superintendents across the city well first of all i'm a big fan of chancellor banks you know everyone knows that and uh he is reforming a school system that has been dysfunctional and that has been broken for so long and one of the things he's he must do is he must put in place his generals that are going to be in charge of school districts to support principals like the principal here in this district he has put in place a system that would do it in tears that is going to have involvement from parents and communities and allow the superintendents to go in front of the communities to interview for a position of the system he put in place he's taking the best two applicants and he's allowing now the community stakeholders to sit down and interview them i think the system he put in place is exactly what we call for for parental involvement for community engagement and i think i'm in support of his system that he put in place i put him there to do a job he has an obligation to turn around our school system and support our teachers and parents and principals and i'm in support whatever mechanism he put in place uh that that's my chancellor and i support him in this instance parents said they were not involved the elected officials said they were not involved it came as a real shock that dr. composter was fired he said he wasn't a finalist after the interview process so i know it's a very specific case but i don't know do you know how chancellor banks has been engaging parents community people when it comes to the superintendent collection i've blown away at how many cc's he attends how many times he speaks with parents how he looks at numbers of the districts how well are they doing um how he gets the best product in front of the in front of the parents now let's be clear that that district the number of students in that district is in as a large number so if a if the number of parents who say they were not involved of how many are saying they are going to be involved and will be involved in this next leg of the process uh i think uh chancellor banks can do an excellent job of articulating what the process was and i know the process is very much engaging for parents i just did one more um yes you talked yesterday about the supreme court ruling that might come down on gun rights i wonder if what you would say you know people on the other side who are pro gun rights who say you have a lot of criminals on the street who have illegal guns and having people legally carrying guns uh you know for self-protection could actually make for a safer environment what's the response to that argument from the other side dumb dumb i mean i mean this is not uh jesse james and the sundance kids who can draw the fastest you know for those who are stating that if all the bad guys have guns let's equal it out by having all the good guys have guns that that that is just so dumb you know uh you and a city was densely populated in a city where we're dealing with some real emotional illnesses and some of these shootings that we're seeing people are in dispute because someone cut them off on the streets people are in dispute because someone got them upset on the subway system people are in dispute because of the silliest things so now if everyone is packing because now we're going to offset the bad guys that are carrying or i hear people saying well you know uh young people are carrying because they feel afraid we had an 11 year old child yesterday caught with a gun in school 11 how did he get that gun and so i i i am saying and i said it i'm going to continue to say we better be very afraid of that supreme court ruling this passed out if if you are allowing people to carry guns the good guys the good guys are no longer able to be distinguished from the bad guys because if you have a bad day and you have a gun that bad day can elevate to an argument you know there's a tendency that people believe if they got a gun why have it if i'm not using it that's just a mindset of carrying a gun we have to rid our streets of guns from good guys and bad guys so we don't have this violence thank you