Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be taking a look at solis 4.2 Which was just recently released now. I have not used solis since Literally the first day I switched to Linux full-time Linux or solis budgie was my first Linux distribution that I used After switching away from Windows and that was four years ago and I highly enjoyed it but Because of the the repository limitations that it had I moved on to something that was more popular and I haven't used it since When I use solis there wasn't even a KDE plasma version I mean and so it's been a long time step uses now today I'm going to be looking at the plasma version because I'm very interested in what this is like and We'll take a look at some of the new things obviously, but I'll also take a look and see if some of those repository Repository limitations that it had before are still there or whether or not they've gotten better. So let's jump into This is the live CD here or the live ISO and Cool wallpaper. I mean, it's not I mean, it's definitely not traditional.  I mean, this is you know, it's pretty So I will just say this that I'm using this in a virtual machine. So Performance issues will probably be a little bit wonky It's just something we're going to deal with because I don't have a capture card so I can I can't install this on Metal and actually show you what it looks like that took a long time for the menu to actually activate those and that's unusual Even in a virtual machine, we'll go ahead and Install this And this looks like a I mean, this looks a lot like calamaries But I don't think it is Usually there's like a little Question mark up here. Anyways, I guess it doesn't really matter. Well, uh You can find my location. See if you do it correctly US yep Make sure this is working test and You did not find my Location very well, but it's a virtual machine. So it's probably wonky Next automatically partition sure What are you gonna are you gonna use um EXT4 I wonder No, don't need to encrypt Type the hostname We'll call this solas VM Install bootloader. Yep Okay, use your name drmdub Oops good password add now Yeah, this is not calamaries. This is custom because this doesn't look anything It's just looks a little bit similar to calamaries, but it's definitely not that unless they've completely customized it If anybody in the comment knows what Installer this is if this or if this is custom, let me know in the comments All right, let's see here MS-DOS partition. I'm interesting to see what um It does not tell you what it's going to Partition your drives as I was interested. I wonder if they're gonna use EXT4 because if this ends up being butterfs I'm probably gonna have a problem because butterfs does not do well in a virtual machine is at least as far as I can tell Okay, we're gonna see if it installs And I'll take a note of the Interestingly enough it did not set the clock clock correctly. It's only 640 and it says 1140 That is fascinating We'll see how long this takes. Okay, that only took about a minute. Honestly. That was all it was and Now we're restarting and we'll see if it logs me into the actual system or if it actually logs me into the back to the live CD May end up having to close this down and Reboot into the actual system after ejecting the live CD, but we'll see. Yeah, we're back in the live CD. Okay So we're gonna have to shut this down this way Okay And let's see your storage and we'll Remove from drive. Okay. All right Now we can start back up start back up again. All righty See what boot times look like That was really quick That was really quick then stall was really quick. I was really impressed with that. Now. Let's go ahead and log in and see how With plasma you always know a system slow When it you go from the login screen to the desktop because sometimes that can take quite a bit So let's see how how quick this is That was impressive, I mean seriously impressive that reminds me a lot of what MX Linux was like This is very good. Yeah All right So let's take a look around the system first and see what is Available because you remember it's been four years since I've used Solace So I don't even remember what the package manager even looks like or how to use it So we may have to do is a little bit of research That's always good for a video. You're supposed to know what you're doing, but This is much more responsive. Oh good awesome. All right. So starting with development There's a user feedback console.  I believe Let's open that up. I think I think that's what that is Music player I believe that's what's gonna be I believe it lies as the new KDE music player that's gonna be Replacing the one that's stuck on could be completely wrong about that. I feel like I've read that before MPV is here SM player What is SM player SM player is gonna be your mute your movie player, okay? Really would prefer VLC VLC just makes more sense than something like that, but whatever Libre offices here And not a lot of settings system settings here This is just gonna be the regular KDE settings thing and the global theme is set to soulless dark, which is a Custom theme because this is not breeze. This is a different color than breeze dark. That's cool. That's good Nothing crazy, of course, it's just dark and blue, you know dark color and blue Let's see Nothing hugely out of the ordinary not a large installation at all no crazy apps even the You know KDE apps are kind of minimal here It did get the clock right. I just noticed that so let's uh, let's see here. Let's about Let's look at the about system information. So we're using KDE plasma version 5.20, which is the current version Katie it doesn't apparently Katie doesn't show the Katie apps version in This anymore, maybe they called the frameworks version. I'm not sure I can't actually remember this is using kernel 5.10.2 Which is the most current version. I believe It's definitely close And we've opened up a few things here, let's uh, let's do all shift T and see if we get a terminal which we do Nice, let's uh, make this full screen and zoom in a whole bunch. Let's see if new fetch is installed. Nope all right, let's uh See if Freed dash and I believe is the command. Yep It's using 509 megabytes, which is spectacular after I've opened up some things I mean, I wonder what it was blank because 509 for plasmids like really good Let's see if we can look if H top is installed. Nope. How about top top is here So we got 141 tasks and let's see It's been a long so long since I've used Top I'm so used to H top with colors. Yeah, I'm not sure where it's just threads We're just gonna isolate this is a good opportunity To figure out how to use their package manager because I don't remember how to use package manager solis package manager Let's see. Let's see what the documentation for solis looks like basics of package management You can install one or more package by using sudo sudo EO package install. So that's basically the same Type type of syntax is like apt. So let's uh Let's quit this And we'll clear out of this and we'll do sudo sudo EOP KG install neo fetch Yes, let's resize this just a bit.  Let's see if it actually worked Yep, cool Yeah, so neo fetches in their repositories. Let's see what What I wanted to try and see just a random Program that I use all the time is called NC spot. It's a terminal thing to listen to Spotify. Let's see if it's in their repository sudo EOP KG Install and see spot nope That's disappointing So what about? Spotify, okay, so did I actually go through and Type that incorrectly EOP EOP KG Yeah, all right, so Spotify isn't there either This is the same problem. I had when I used to four years ago this thought their repositories aren't good now let's see if there's a a Graphical package manager here. Maybe maybe discoveries here. Maybe somewhere Software Center, okay, so this is This is not discovery So close this here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, go away All right We can minimize that Let's see here gaming on Solace. So there's Let's see if Where's like a search is steam here steam is is available. Okay, what about Spotify? Okay, so Spotify is not available in the regular repositories. You have to go to this third party thing in order to install so much So the chromes here Incincus here ocean audio Plex media server Pie charm if you want to actually use it Skype Spotify, okay, so Let's just install this and see how it long it takes because if I remember right this takes Forever to actually install this may take some time. Maybe even tells you could not reach destination file complete fail Okay, and that one even close Interesting bugs we have bugs fascinating, okay Yeah, this is still a problem so I Like distributions that go through and say hey, you want on we're gonna do something different We're not gonna base ourselves on a boon to we're not gonna base ourselves on arch We're not gonna base ourselves on Debian. We're Debian We're gonna create our own thing and that's what Solace has done the downside of that as you Come up with these kind of problems. I mean the bugs the south I mean this could have something to do with being in a virtual machine. It's a hundred percent possible That's the case But the repository thing is something that is just has not been solved for whatever reason They're very resistant to putting third-party applications like even even third-party applications that are open source You know they Not putting any of those in their repositories at all That means you can't solve them via command line You can't update them probably via the command line. You probably have to focus and do that doing that from this software center so if you want to use The Linux like I use it which is primarily from the command line. It doesn't seem like I'm assuming that there's actually a way if See this is actually completely frozen. Well, we did get this open up here. Okay And you open up twice because wow Open up a 4545 times. All right. We need to figure out how to I keep hitting control enter for so let's see how to uninstall Actually, it's pseudo EO package PKG install H top That at least H top is in their repositories so H top oops Let's see here the Software search for software is not there What do you what do you call this? software center, but It's not finding anything called software Interesting my guess is that the slowness of this is actually because of this being in a virtual machine And I'm actually I'm just scrolling right through this All my processes here because I'm trying to find software center So I can actually force quit it. I Could do just I could just quit this and do Kill Oops, I gotta know the so let's first do this exprop Find out what the hell the name is this is named solis dash sc That's an intuitive. So kill all Solis SC there we go All right, well, let's see if the response enough Responsiveness of the system comes back after software center decided to completely crash It seems to Open that back up again console Yeah, that was it seems it seems to be back good all right so Like I was talking about I Admire the Gumpion and the courage it takes to come out and create something new that's not based on another distro. It's just the the Interesting decisions that they make not to have a very well-stocked repository That it would keep me from using it as a daily driver now from a plasma perspective. I was really impressed with the startup times Even in a virtual machine. I mean I have If you plasma starts really good in a virtual machine, you've done things right But mostly this is just stock plasma, which is good. There's nothing wrong with stock plasma being what they present I'm impressed at it. I'm I'm impressed and glad and that this is up to date because Solis isn't I Think you get about one update a year one major update a year, but that maybe I'm not quite entirely sure about that for sure It's not a rolling release as far as I know So whether or not you it when 5.21 comes out for plasma whether or not you'd get that right away. I'm not sure Maybe you would Let's go ahead and look at the software center again. See if this thing will crash one more time Let's see if we can just install something different I wonder if okay, so there's I use bit warden as my password manager, let's see if it's in Nope, no bit warden here and there's no bit warden here. So what would happen? Well? The question all right, so let's go see if Here I'm interested in seeing if Because I think bitworn has a app image Yep So I'm just curious to see if solis ones will work with app images. Oh That was fantastic. That was very good. So App images support app image support and solis is fantastic That will save quite a bit of quite a lot of hassle with that Kind of mediocre repository thing that they've got going on. So bitworn is there. I'm interested to see out of the box snap install mail spring I Just happen to know that that's a snap Snap out of the box too. I wonder flat pack I I don't know enough about flat back in order to actually go through and try to install something But I'm assuming it probably is We'll see I'm actually gonna find out. Let's go to flat hub. We'll install something here So like there's a there's a flat pack of spotify Wait until this is done Snaps are notoriously take long to pretty fairly long to install It's almost like they're building from source. I'm also curious. Let's go home here And somehow solis has managed to make it so that the snap Actually, let's close this and make sure Yeah, there's no snap folder in your home directory You want to know So let's right there You've gotten a win because if you install snapd on like an arch you get a snap snap folder in your home directory And it cannot go away. I think the same as Same the same with a boom too Anyways, let's go to downloads here. Hold on. So I wanted to try it single click single click to enter into a folder when Flat pack no All right, so flat pack support is at least clicked install flat pack is not It's not supported. Let's see if it will do it from the terminal No Flat pack is not Installed out of the box. So they support snaps they support app images, but not flat pack, which you know, it's a choice Not the choice I would probably you know choose but then I'm an arch guy. We pronounce it the AUR. That's just the way things are Anyway, so I Will say this with the way they supported app images that app image installation was just out of the war Out of this world great because a lot of times every Linux distribution will support app images It's just a lot of times They'll just open it up and then you'll have to go into your downloads folder and double-click that icon every single time You want to run the program because it won't actually move the dot desktop file into your your path or whatever This actually it said I'm installing this now if I wanted to go through and here in the menu and search for bit Warden, of course, it's very slow Come on now This has to be from virtual machine problem. I don't I don't think if you install this in mental metal you'll have the same issues I spoke too soon apparently bit warden is not showing up In the application menu Maybe after restart it would that's a little bit disappointing Because I was I was gonna I was all for being gung-ho and praising their supportive app images But it ends up in the application menu so that means that if I wanted to actually install the dance if I actually wanted to go through and Open it up again. I'd have to double-click that icon. That's annoying That's annoying That's not a soulless problem. That's something that happens with app images Very rarely will you find a distribution that will actually go through and install the thing like it's actually installing it That's why snap is actually so good because like we get mail spring here Yeah mail spring is showed up in the The menu just fine. Okay, so That is just a brief look Almost a half an hour look actually I was just a brief look at soulless 4.2 I didn't go through the new things because Going over new things when you haven't used it for four years doesn't make a lot of sense So if you've used it before You'll have to look I will link in the show notes below to the change log or whatever So if you've used it before maybe you can just go through that and see what's new but From a new user's perspective, I've kind of gone through and look and look to see how soulless is doing So just in conclusion my thoughts on it I admire it, but I probably wouldn't use it. That's that's where I'm at right now For multiple reasons the biggest one is that I enjoy installing software from repositories And like Ubuntu has a huge repository You'd never have to touch snap if you don't want to you can just install stuff through sudo apt install And there's a whole bunch of stuff there Obviously arch has there you are Fedora has a huge repository and a whole bunch of other repositories that you can add Like if you wanted to install the nvidia drivers I gotta even get a chance to go through and try that on this because I mean using a virtual machine But I mean, I'm not sure how the nvidia driver solution would work on in in soulless because Is it in the repositories? Are you gonna have to build these things from scratch? I mean, it's just it's kind of you know crazy So like I said, I admire it, but I wouldn't use it because of that repository problem And even with the app image support Which apparently isn't as good as I'd hoped it would be but I mean it's there at least and snap is there So you could use snap so That adding those on top kind of take care of the repository problems, but I don't want to use three different package managers basically to You know Get all my programs installed. I want to use one That's and and even if you limited yourself to the graphic file the graphic software center That's really two things too because it has their own repositories And then you had to click on the third party link and as we saw Now whether or not that that uh failure to install Spotify from the software center was a virtual machine problem I don't know But you know, it's a thing. So it's just a thing. So I would I would um Man, I mean it I like I said I admire them, but I wouldn't use this then now In the comments below, let me know if you've ever used soulless before if you're using the most recent soulless Let me know if you like it. Maybe there's something that I'm missing because a lot of people when I Reviewed mx links pointed out things that I didn't cover because I'd never used it before and that's really great I love having a conversation in the comments and make sure you leave one If you'd like to support the channel, you can do so in many number of ways leave the video a thumbs up Hit the subscribe button hit the notification icon button You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash the linux cast I did go through and redo the tier so you can now just support us for a dollar So That's cool. I'd like your dollar. I take a dollar. Anyways, thanks for watching. I'll see you next time


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that identify the horizontal and vertical asymptotes of the function f of x is equal to x plus 4 whole upon minus of 2x minus 6. Now let us start with the solution of the given question. We are given f of x is equal to x plus 4 whole upon minus 2x minus 6 and we have to find its horizontal and vertical asymptotes. First we see that the given rational function should be in simplified form that is if they are any common factors in the numerator and denominator then they should be cancelled. Here f of x is equal to x plus 4 whole upon minus 2x minus 6 which is already in simplified form. There are no common factors in numerator and denominator. So first we find its vertical asymptotes. The given function is of the form p of x upon q of x. For vertical asymptote we equate the denominator to 0 and obtain the value of x. So here q of x is equal to minus 2x minus 6 and we put minus 2x minus 6 is equal to 0 which implies that minus 2x is equal to 6 that is x is equal to 6 upon minus 2 which is equal to minus 3. So x is equal to minus 3. So we say that there will be a vertical asymptote at x is equal to minus 3. Now we have to find the horizontal asymptote. We know that in our rational function f of x is equal to p of x upon q of x. We determine the horizontal asymptotes by looking at the degree of both numerator and denominator of the given function. If degree of numerator is less than degree of denominator then horizontal asymptote is always the line y is equal to 0. If degree of numerator is equal to degree of denominator then the horizontal asymptote is obtained by dividing the leading coefficient of the numerator by the leading coefficient of the denominator and if degree of numerator is greater than degree of denominator then we get a slant line as the asymptote and it is called slant asymptote. Now in this function f of x is equal to x plus 4 whole upon minus 2x minus 6. Here degree of numerator is equal to degree of denominator and it is equal to 1 and we have just seen that if degree of numerator is equal to degree of denominator then the horizontal asymptote is obtained by dividing the leading coefficient of the numerator by the leading coefficient of the denominator. In numerator 1 is the leading coefficient and in denominator minus 2 is the leading coefficient so the horizontal asymptote is given by y is equal to 1 upon minus 2 which can be written as minus 1 upon 2 that is y is equal to minus 1 by 2 is the horizontal asymptote and x is equal to minus 3 is the vertical asymptote. Now let us see its graph. Now here in this graph we can see that at x is equal to minus 3 we have drawn the vertical asymptote and at y is equal to minus 1 by 2 we have drawn the horizontal asymptote. Now see the branches of the curve are becoming closer to these asymptotes but never intersect them. This is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


He prays, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who has chosen his beloved, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, over all of humanity. And we bear witness that there is no deity, no God worthy of worship other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, without association. We bear witness that the prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa la alihi, is his messenger and his servant. And first and foremost, I give encouragement and advice to my own soul, and then to all of my brothers and sisters, my teachers, and the young in here to have taqwa, fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, in both privacy and in public. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an, Do you call people to righteousness? And then you forget about yourselves. And one of the things, especially when you're in the line of dawa, when you're calling people to Islam, when you're really involved, sometimes you forget about yourself. Sometimes we forget that we stay at a gathering too long and maybe have difficulty waking up in prayer. Sometimes we may not be able to control or gaze the way we want to. Sometimes we need to do better in our businesses and how we treat our spouses and our children. Whatever it may be, we all have shortcomings and shortgoings. In fact, if you see, if you look at the word fir'aun, it's what's called a compound word in English, two words that actually compose one. And aun in Arabic literally means help. Allahu fi aunik, may Allah help you. May Allah be in your aid. In fir, Allah says in the Qur'an, firru ilallah, run to Allah, free to Allah. So when the aun of Allah comes, then you're freed. So you're freed like the Bani Israel when the aun of Allah came, they were freed from fir'aun. But sometimes what happens is that when you are put in the place of blessing and power and you have been emancipated, sometimes you forget and you become the fir'aun. And that is what is dangerous that we must always, this religion, we always have to look inward. And that is why we have two angels sitting on our shoulders that are writing everything that we do. They're not writing what your friend is doing or somebody else is doing. And in this last month, I don't know how many of us has woken up in the morning and been aware of those two angels. And I've said, As-salamu alayka yaa malayka al-yameen, As-salamu alayka yaa malayka al-Yasar, salam to these two angels, knowing that they're with us, that they're with us 24-7. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, We have created the human being weak. Alhamdulillah, we know this. We're all vulnerable. And that is why the Prophet, As-salamu alayka al-yameen, says in As-sahi hadid, The Prophet, As-salamu alayka al-yameen says, by the one whose hands my soul is in, if you all did not commit sins, the entirety of this earth's humanity, he says, if you did not commit any sins, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would wipe you out, all of you, and bring the creation that sins turns to Allah for forgiveness, so Allah could forgive them. So we understand this and we know in the Prophet, As-salamu alayka al-yameen says, That all of the children of Adam sin, make mistakes, but the best are the Tawabun. The Tawabun, the Tawab means to continuously, continuously make towa, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows, we make mistakes continuously. Alexander, a poet from the time of the enlightenment, he said, to err is human. So we are creatures that make mistakes, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Those who make mistakes, who sin, who oppress their own selves, and then they ask forgiveness from Allah, they find Allah, they'll find Allah most forgiving and most merciful. And in fact, in Surah Hujrat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, He says that the ones that don't make towa, and Allah could have said, Those that don't make towa, they're the oppressors, they're the Tawabun, but Allah says, He put stress on it in this ayah, because he did not say that it was the person that commits the sin, the person that does this or that. Allah says, no, it's not the one that commits the sin, that it's the Zalimun. He says, it's the one that doesn't come back for towa. The one that doesn't make towa, that's who Allah calls a Zalim. So our teachers have instilled even in us that this religion is a religion of always looking inward and looking at yourself, tazkiyah to nus, that in fact, even when you stand before anyone, and you talk about this religion, and you talk about this Deen, Maqala Allahu Maqala Rasul, what Allah in His Messenger says, first of all, you have to picture yourself sitting in that audience or looking in the mirror that you're talking to yourself first and foremost, not isolating anyone, not alienating anyone. It's not about anything personal, that first and foremost you need this yourself, because Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says, Verily that person that has purified himself, that's the successful one. And he says, that we sent you a prophet from amongst yourselves, his beloved Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to teach you, to relate to you his signs, his ayat, and to what? And to purify you.  If there's weeds in the farm, he has to get rid of the weeds, or the weeds will kill the good crop. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la talks about in Zakat, what is the purpose of Zakat? It's so your money can grow, but your money will not grow unless you take the impurities out of your money and how do you take those weeds of impurity from your money? You give it to the fukarah and the masakeen, you give it to the poor and to the destitute, then your money can grow. And this is growth that is accepted in the sight of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la from Allah with blessed wealth, true growth, not haram growth from haram money. And just like the farmers whose garden needs purification and just like our money that needs purification from these impurities, so does our soul. That we are the greatest, being the three most common enemies of humanity, of all of us is not one another. It's what? It's shaitan. It's our lower nuffs and it's attachment to this dunya. These are the three common enemies of the human being. So we must purify ourselves from these things. And in order when we purify, then you could become an insanil camel, a complete human. As the poet says, alayka bi ruhi fastak mil fada iliha fa anta bi ruhi la bil jasadi insana that it is not this flesh that makes you a human being, but it is your heart and your soul that is inside. That's what makes you human. Yet, what does it all mean? What is purification of your soul? What is five times a day prayer going up and down? You're fasting. What does it all mean if it doesn't transcend into the well treatment of all of humanity? Like the woman that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam does, how it came to say, yad asul allah, there's a pious woman. She prays all night. She fasts all day. What is to come of her? Says she will be in the fire. What cave yad asul allah, how? She slanders and she backbites her neighbors. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, in the Deen a mu'amilah, that this Deen is how you interact with one another. This Deen is Ithar. Ithar is literally giving preference over yourself, giving preference to your brothers and sisters over your own self.  Kill Ithar is one thing. Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would kill himself at a sorrow that you may not accept this message. And there's two saints that meet each other in the outskirts of Medina, both seekers of Allah from Afghanistan. One Shaqeeq Balkhi and the other one Ibrahim Adham. And they don't recognize, they don't know one another. And Shaqeeq, he wants to see the station of Ibrahim to see where he's at with Allah and to test his knowledge. So he asks him, he says, يا أخي ماذا تقولوا أنه صبر وشكر? He says, oh my brother, what do you say about sabr, patience and shukr, gratitude? And Ibrahim looks at him and he says, وانت أول يا أخي, you go first my brother. So Shaqeeq says, إذا وجدنا شكرنا وإذا لم يجد صبرنا. He says, when we're given, when Allah provides for us, when we're sustained by Allah, then we thank Him and we show gratitude. And when we're in loss and we're not given, صبرنا, we stay patient. Ibrahim looks at him and he smiles and he says, يا أخي حقذ كلاب البلخ. This is what the dogs of Bulk do too.  And when you don't give them, they have sabr. They can't do anything about it.  And Ibrahim says, إذا وجدنا آثرنا وإذا لم يجد شكرنا. He says, when we are provided for, when Allah gives us, when we find, we give it to other people. We prefer other people. And when we don't and we're not given, that's when we thank Allah. That's when we show gratitude. So Shaqeeq recognizes his station and follows him. And a man comes to the Prophet ﷺ. He's a Bedouin man after one of the expeditions and he says, يا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم أعطيني شيئاً, give me something. And the Prophet ﷺ is after one of the expeditions and he gives them and he gives them immensely. Imagine giving a house in Ruby Hills with the Rolls Royce to go along with it, something like that. And then the Prophet ﷺ, he's in the community.  So he asks this man, أحسنت إليك؟ Have I been good to you? And this man looks at the Prophet ﷺ in front of the Ashab, the entire community. And he says, ما أقيتني قليلنا وكثير؟ وما أجملت وما حسنت إليها؟ He says, you really didn't give me a lot or a little and you really weren't that good to me and you haven't done me well. But he, now this is in front of the entire community. So the Ashab, they want to kill this man. They try to attack in the Prophet ﷺ's fifth stop. Leave him alone. He enters his house. He calls for the man. He's, the man is brought in and the Prophet ﷺ gives him and gives him and gives him. And then the Prophet ﷺ says to him, أحسنت إليك الآن؟ Have I now been good to you? And he says, جزاك الله وخيراً وجزاك آلكة. جزا الله وخيراً وجزا آلكة خيراً. You have been good to me. حسنتة, may Allah reward you. May Allah reward your family. Yes, you have been good to me.  You have to pay attention. It wasn't because the Prophet ﷺ needed any kind of praise, Hashah. He said, the reason I want you to go do this is because number one, you have hurt the hearts of my Ashab of the community. You have offended many people. And if you say this, they will feel better.  And then number two, I don't want anybody to forgo your rights in the future, to look at you with disdain, to not accept you, to not be alienated for your own self. So go to the Prophet ﷺ. He was very big on people's izzah in the community, on their honor in the community. And he even knew who the hypocrites, their identity of the Munafiqun was, but he did not expose them because of this. He never exposed anybody in public. In today's world, this is a, we're in big danger of this sunnah being lost, especially with this worldwide web that everybody falls into and gets caught in this worldwide web social media. No one's honor is truly safe at all times. And no one's even allowed to make towa because of the spread of words and what people say. Muslims and non-Muslims, this is for everybody. And then the social pressure on top of that, that one person does such a thing, and then the other person, because they're socially pressured, they did a study that even when you see there's a peaceful demonstration, two, three people, it takes only two people to start doing riots and vandalizing, and then people see that and they follow. And this is what happens and Muslims aren't immune from it. This is a plague that all of society, Muslim and non-Muslim is affected by.  And instead of doing reconciliation and towa and what do we do? We cancel that person. We humiliate that person. And if you read the Quran, it's social antagonistic through the whole Quran. We're not anti-community, but if you read every story in the Quran from, if you read the story of Ibrahim, alayhi salam, Musa, alayhi salam, Isa, alayhi salam, our beloved Nabi, sallallahu alayhi wasalam, it's one or two people standing against an entire community of falsehood. Speaking the truth, encompassing everybody in their mercy and not alienating anybody.  So there's no khair in it at all. And that's why one of the hadiths of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi salam is narrated as a weak hadith, but it nevertheless narrated by Imam Tirmidhi and Bayi Haqi. And the hadith says that when you criticize, jeer, mock, at the mistakes and sins of another person, you will not pass from this world until you experience the same things. And we have seen that happen so many times, we say something about somebody, the next thing you know, it happens to us.  What does the Prophet told us? sallallahu alayhi salam, وَمَنْ سَطْرَ الْمُسْلِمَنْ سَطْرَ اللَّهِ فِي دُونْ يَوَ الْأَخِرَةِ The one that covers the sins and does not expose a Muslim, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will cover them and their sins and won't expose them in this world and the next world. Imam al-Shafi used to say, oh brother, if you wanna criticize me, pull me over to the side in privacy and you can criticize me all day and night, I won't say a word. But if you're gonna call me out in public, then I have to judge your intentions. And our predecessors, anytime somebody came to them and even mentioned somebody else's sins, sallallahu alayhi salam, the first thing they would say is, غفر الان الله ولاهم. May Allah forgive us and may Allah forgive them, because they knew that they had to look inward, they knew that they could have fallen into this. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam, he climbs the podium one day and he says, oh those who have embraced Islam only with their tongue, only with their tongue, while iman has not yet entered their hearts, neither harm Muslims nor mock them, nor try to expose their mistakes. For he who follows searches for other people's heirs, Allah will follow his heirs in whom he Allah follows their heirs, he will expose them, even if it's in the middle of their own home. Even if it's in the middle of their own home. Imam An-Nawi writes about this, that following and exposing people's mistakes is the action of a hypocrite or people of weak iman that talk, oh so and so did this, so and so did that. And he says that one of the reasons that people don't commit sins is a fear of humiliation and embarrassment.  It prevents that person from making toba sometimes. Or if they've made toba, it makes them relapse because this person keeps bringing it up, that person keeps bringing it up out of humiliation. And that is why in the sharia, what does it take for a woman to be counted on for adultery, to say that a woman has committed adultery? What does it take to actually be able to say that? Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala says you need four witnesses to convict her. Not one, not two, not three. Why is it four witnesses? Because Allah is in other words saying it's impossible. He's made it impossible for you. Because nobody can go get four witnesses. And Allah has made it impossible because her honor is so sacred. And if a woman wants to take a man to court for anything, for divorce or something and he's committed fornication, she's not allowed to say to the qadi that he's fornicated, I saw him commit adultery. And the only reason it's okay, vice versa, is the possibility of the consumption of a child. Other than that, it's made completely impossible to expose somebody.  Reconcile, say good things. You know what? Yeah, sister, you know, maybe, you know, remember all the good things that he's done. You know, remember people make mistakes, you know? You're not supposed to go, ooh, uh-uh, I don't know how you deal with it, girl.  I would have been gone a long time ago. I mean, you're literally pouring salt on the wound at that time. This is not reconciliation. All the brothers are nodding their heads. Yes, yes, yes, masha'Allah, masha'Allah. This one. It goes vice versa also. It goes vice versa also. And when sins are mentioned and they're empty shot and they're spread, whether we, you see what's going on right now, people going online, whatever sin it is, they put it on themselves now. And when you do it, then it becomes easy on the tongue, Imam Nauli says. And then when it comes easy on the tongue, it becomes easy on the limbs. And everybody's doing it. And we shouldn't expose, we should look inward. There was a drought during the time of, say, Musa A.S. The Bani Israel were in a state of drought. So thousands of the Bani Israel and Musa A.S. they go out into a desert spot and they start praying for rain. They're praying for hours and hours, the rain's not coming down. So they say, yeah, Musa, what's going on? Why has Allah abandoned us? So Musa A.S. communicates with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and Allah says, yeah, Musa, amongst those thousands of people, there's a man that has disobeyed me and committed sins for the last 50 years, O Musa. Unless he gets up from that crowd and leaves, I will not send down the rain. So Musa A.S. is forced to make this announcement and there's a man that's in this crowd and he says to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, Ya Allah, I know this is me and I know I'm the most, the biggest sinner here. There's nobody worse than me, Ya Allah. And if me asking you forgiveness would increase your dominion one bit or decrease your dominion one bit, Ya Allah. I would not ask you out of embarrassment, but I know that it won't. Ya Allah, forgive me and don't expose me. Rain starts showering down. Rain starts showering down. Musa A.S. is confused. The bunny you saw you was looking around. Did anybody move? Did you see anybody? Nobody's moved. Ya Allah, what happened? O Musa, there was such a man that amongst the thousands of people sitting here and there were many sinners there, O Musa. He looked into his own heart he considered himself the worst there. And then he made such a toba that if his toba was accepted it'd be accepted for every single person that is here. Ya Allah, can you at least tell me who this person is? O Musa, I didn't expose him for 50 years when he was sinning. Why would I expose him now to you after I've forgiven him? How would I do that, Ya Musa? And we'll finish. There's this from the teachers of the Baalui from the Hadram out and one of the students, his father was his teacher and he, once he completes his coursework he sends them out into the, he says to him in order for you to now go teach I want you to go find somebody that's beneath you.  So this boy exits and he goes and he first sees a child, a young boy and he says, you know what? This young boy can't be beneath me.  I'm definitely worse than he is. Then he sees a sheikh, an older man and he sees he has a white beard and he says Subhanallah, look at the blessings and look at the white beard that Allah has put on this sheikh and he's given him more time on this earth to worship him. He must be better than me. He cannot be beneath me. And then he sees a man sinning in the open. He sees a man in a corner, he's sinning. He says, oh, this might be it. Let me go see. Maybe I can take this man and he walks towards this man and as he walks towards him, the man walks behind a tree and he loses sight of him. So he goes back around the tree, sees him there and he thinks to himself all of a sudden, Subhanallah. You know, maybe at the time I lost sight of him when he went behind that tree, he made toba to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah has forgiven him and Allah might not forgive me. I'm definitely beneath this man. So distraught, feeling failure, he starts walking towards the house of back of his father, his teacher, his sheikh. And as he's walking, he's thinking I have failed.  Maybe this thing is beneath me. And he picks up and he says, I will take this to my father. And he picks up the carcass of the dead dog and he starts walking towards father's house and all of a sudden he's reminded of the ayah of the Qur'an where Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala turns the animals into dust and the human beings are looking at the hellfire and out of fear from the hellfire, they look at the animals turning to dust and they say, late and you couldn't do to Robin. Oh, we turned into dust like those animals instead of entering the fire.  I know it. He drops it and he heads to his father's house and he tells his father, y'all father, I failed and I couldn't find anybody that was worse than me. Wa salt al-ad-bunayya. Now you have understood. You have arrived. You can go teach because he understood that. And Alhamdulillah, we are Muslims and Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Kuntu khayru ummatin ukhrijat linnaas ta'maruna bil ma'roof wa tanhaanil munkar that you were the best of humanity sent to mankind, the best and that you should be examples. You should not get affected. We are not people, like we're not eggs that you throw in a water and in the water, the environment makes us hard. We are like coffee beans that when you throw us in a pot of boiling water, we make coffee for everybody. Subhanallah. We don't get affected by the environment. We affect the environment. And this is the way we should be in the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, ar-rahimuna yar-hamuhummar rahma'ana tabarika wa ta'ala irhamu manfil ardi yarhamakum manfil samaa the merciful is with the ones that show mercy, show mercy to the descendants of this earth and the one in the heavens will show mercy on you.


Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for being here today. In January, I talked about how those of us in the state house need to focus on the fundamentals, to consider the impact and the cost of every decision we make on the families and places that need our help most, and to prioritize communities that have been left far behind for far too long. And as I said then, thanks to all the federal money and state surpluses, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do just that, increasing economic equity from region to region, which will benefit our communities and families all across the state. This team behind me and their teams behind them work for months building this budget with these goals in mind, putting together policies and making strategic investments so that all the pieces work together in order to put us in a better financial condition for decades to come. The budget we presented to the legislature in January prioritized low and moderate income for monitors with tax relief, historic child care subsidies, increased dental care, permanent homes for the homeless, more housing for middle-income families, upgrades to water and sewer and mobile home parks, weatherizing homes, funding for career training, and much, much more. Next, we focus on revitalizing communities with a plan to bring back employers to rural parts of the state, cleaning up contaminated industrial sites, and focusing on small business development, housing, growing the workforce, and supporting community-led public safety. We also made sure there was state money to leverage federal funding for the next three to four years so we can help communities by upgrading roads, bridges, water, sewer, stormwater, and more. But unfortunately, the budget coming out of house appropriations cuts or removes almost every single initiative I just talked about. Not only that, but they also increase the state general fund budget over the last year by 12%. 12%. They did that by spending over $60 million more than I proposed in ongoing base expenditures. They also put a lot of pressure on future budgets by doing things like only paying for one third of the startup costs for their paid leave program, leaving $74 million unfunded over the next two years. I think what they're banking on or hoping these unprecedented fiscal times fueled by federal dollars and state surpluses will continue when, in fact, their own economists says the opposite is true. And it's not just the startup costs for their generous new programs. It's ongoing money from tax increases for the benefits that come along with it. Not to mention the very real financial harm to Vermonters caused by the clean heat standard that the house has yet to take up. Three initiatives alone could add a half a billion dollars in costs on Vermonters every single year. What's also been lost is that we're already moving forward with a family and medical leave plan we bargained with state employees. And it will open up to businesses and individuals over the next two years. And it will be voluntary without having to add over 60 new state positions to oversee it that will struggle to hire. And I've also proposed $56 million in our budget to increase childcare subsidies. This has been done without raising taxes and fees at a time when economic anxiety and inflation is already high. To put it simply, we can achieve our shared goals without putting us on an unsustainable economic path. I believe one of the reasons I was elected was to bring balance, common sense, and pragmatism to the table. And I think I've proven over the years that I'm not an alarmist. But I have to say, I'm very concerned with the direction we're heading in. And it's not because some of my proposals have been cut. I understand the process, and neither side gets everything they want. That's how it works, but this year feels different. I'm truly worried about the seniors on fixed incomes, the working families who can't afford to pay more, and the communities who need our help most. And I also worry about how we will possibly pay for all of this as we look towards an uncertain economic future. In my opinion, if this budget passes with all these big ticket initiatives that come along with it all at once, it has the potential to hurt Vermont in both the short and long term. So I hope for monitors are paying attention. Our budget proposal was built through a collaborative, thoughtful process where we weighed priorities and focus on those who need our help most. It was balanced, and we fully funded new initiatives. It invested in future expenses to make sure we could ride out the economic downturn that's sure to come. And we did all of it without raising taxes and fees. I'm sorry to say the House budget does not meet those same principles. To make room for the over 50 million in increased spending in the BAA, which by the way I warned against, they had to siphon off every bucket they could possibly find. They also had to increase tax and fees, including on those who can least afford it. And the reality is, this budget and the half a billion dollars in new taxes, fees, and penalties could eventually pass, even if I veto it, because they have a supermajority. If that happens, we'll not only have squandered this once in a lifetime opportunity, but we'll have turned it into a liability. So from my perspective, this is not business as usual in this building. It's more important than ever for Vermont to know what decisions are being made and make their voices heard by calling their legislators. So with that, I have my team here to answer any that I can't. Some of these policies, like paid leave, child care, some of the big ticket items that you say you're concerned with, some Democratic leaders might say that it does require an upfront investment, but it will pay dividends later on, and it will help our workforce, our demographics. I'd imagine that's what some might say. What do you say to that? How do you balance the upfront versus the benefits later on? I'd say our goals are shared. We put a paid family leave program into place. It's voluntary. It mimics the one we put in place for our state employees. And it'll be voluntary. And it doesn't require all the upfront costs because we're using an outside provider. We're using someone, the Hartford in this case, that is going to oversee it. They're well capitalized. We don't have to put that money up front. And they have the expertise to oversee it without having to add 50 or 60 employees that we can't hire. We have 800 employees right now that we need to hire, but can't find. We're retiring just as quickly as we put people on. So it seems to me there's a better way to do this and get to the shared goal. And I believe we'll be able to do it quicker than with their proposal. Now their proposal, again, you have to form the bureaucracy for paid family leave. You have to form the bureaucracy to oversee it. You have to put in place some sort of IT structure that's going to cost millions. I think they propose it's like $30 or $40 million for the IT structure alone, plus the people to oversee that. And then you have to build a reserve. So that's going to take some time, like years, before it's put into place. Hours can be done in a lot less time than that. You mentioned that you were hoping that Vermonis would contact their legislators about these issues. What do you say to the Democratic leaders who say this is the message they got from voters last November? They're doing exactly what people want them to do. Well, again, I'm saying we can have both. I talk with Vermonis as much. I did fairly well in the last election. And some of their same constituents are my constituents as well. And they voted for me. And I talked about this voluntary paid family leave program, increased childcare. It's something that I've been concerned with since I first became governor. And in fact, I think I propose more than anyone else has. We came out of the gate much quicker than the legislature did back six years ago. We increased subsidies. We've increased them more. We're proposing to increase them more today. So it's not as though we don't have the shared goal. It's always about the how. How do we get there the most efficiently possible without breaking the bank? So when you look at the payroll tax for the child care bill in the Senate, I know how you feel about the payroll tax for the paid family leave bill in the House. You look at the one in the Senate for child care and feel the same way about it. I do. I mean, we were able to put $56 million towards this initiative without raising tax and fees. I believe if we build this correctly, eventually we can get there where we'll be in the same position they want to get to. But again, we can do this without raising tax and fees. We can do it with organic growth if we do all this right. Is there anything in the budget that you like, things that you think the legislature is going in the right direction? Well, again, we have shared goals. It's just the how we get there, always about the how. So in our budget, we had paid family leave. In our budget, we had increased subsidies for child care. There are many initiatives that we have a shared goal in accomplishing. But take, for instance, I think it's in the Senate. And this isn't the House. This is the Senate. For instance, it appears they want to take away the child tax credit that they just put in place last year. It was something we negotiated with them. It wasn't exactly what we wanted, but we wanted tax relief. So they decided this was a good way to do it, with $30 million. It's been in there less than a year. And they want to claw it back to pay for something else. And again, I talk about it a lot, follow through. The fundamentals. And it just feels as though we're moving backwards. We're clawing back all these initiatives that we thought were so important less than probably eight months ago. So is your message to them fees and tax increases are off the table for all of these programs? I have said to many over the last few weeks. And I try not to overuse this, because I've said, I don't want to threaten vetoes. But if there's increased tax and fees during these times, these inflationary times, when we have so much state surplus and so much federal money, it seems counterintuitive that we would want to put more burden on Vermonters. If we were to do that, and we don't match the federal money that we know is coming, we have upwards to $1 billion coming our way. But we're going to have to match that. And we'd have no idea what's going to happen in the future. I've heard some comment in the legislature who have said, we always match the money. We always make it work. Well, not to this degree. I don't recall. I've been around here for close to 25 years. And I don't recall us getting $1 billion from the federal government and having to match it. So these aren't normal times. And these aren't normal circumstances. And we should do everything we can while we have money to make sure that we plan for the future. So we can make these investments so we can keep the economy going in the future with all these programs, all this money that we want to invest in our infrastructure. So that will help the economy move forward. So again, to get back to your original question, it doesn't include the match money. It raises tax and fees. It invites a veto. Governor V, regarding the match, it appears as I think you mentioned they're setting a little bit aside, I think $10 million. But they're also raising fees at the DMV, which is one of the ways that they plan to set aside some of the money for childcare and some of the bigger priorities. But raising the fees, which your administration has not had a fee bill in the last six years or so. So I guess, how do you square those two? We've got the Democrats want to raise fees to help pay for their initiatives. We have the money. We don't need the money. I mean, we went back six years ago. I said, we don't need to raise tax and fees. We need to find other ways to grow this economy, organically grow revenue organically. And we've been successful doing that. In my view, these are regressive taxes and fees. These will hurt everyone across the board, not just the elite, not just those who have resources, but those who don't. Everyone who has to get a license or register their vehicle or do whatever, they want to increase by a lot. $22 million. And I just think it's unfair and unneeded. And I believe that during these times, when we have budget surpluses and we can live within our means, that we shouldn't be putting more burden on everyday for monitors. And that's what they're doing. Those costs, and they'll say, well, it does impact those larger trucks and so forth and so on. I heard that it could increase registration on certain vehicles, a lot higher weight trucks by maybe $400. Well, where do you think these businesses are going to cover that? They're not going to absorb it. They're going to pass it on to consumers. So they'll pay it. They might pay it twice. I know you said you also meet with the pro tem and with the speaker, but do you meet regularly with the chair of the appropriations committees on the House or Senate sign? No. I mean, I'm friendly with both. But I don't meet with them regularly. Could this maybe have been avoided, or we could have gone to a different place if you have. With half to ask, did any of you listen to my budget address? Is any of this a surprise? I said every single word I said today in my budget address. And if anyone was paying attention, if legislators were there and listening, they should not be surprised by this. In terms of the transportation fees, what about the argument that gas tax revenues are down, we've got a financial crisis coming in the transportation budget? And so raising the fees is really the most responsible short-term solution. Yeah, well, two things. One is, if they're doing this to match money, our match money will not be needed four or five years now. This is ongoing, what they're doing, right? This is not going to end. They're not sunsetting this at the end of three or four years. We started out six years ago being probably the highest in terms of motor vehicle fees in the Northeast. We're just catching up now. I don't think I think we're still higher than most. So I just, again, think it's unnecessary. But don't forget about the T-bill. We still transfer money out of the T-bill for general fund purposes, the JTAC transfer. Now, one time when I first came in for legislature, it was upwards to $47 million we transferred. We were able to cut that back. Now it's down to about $20 million. And I'm not saying it's not needed. But the reason that JTAC transfer happened to begin with was because the general fund wasn't performing. The transportation fund was because of gas tax and so forth. So it was the place where there was a lot of money. That's where they went to. So they used that to buffer the general fund. Well, now it's turned around. We still transfer $20 million out for general fund purposes. But the general fund's performing quite well right now. Maybe it's time to turn that around. Maybe it's time to stop transferring money out of the transportation fund for general fund purposes and let the general fund absorb that. Because we're transitioning to a new frontier as well. I mean the gas tax has changed. The cars have gotten much more efficient. So we're not collecting as much tax revenue. And we're moving with lightning speed. I might add to electrification. So we're going to have to find a different way, both on the federal level and the state level. And we put a proposal together and we're listening to some of their ideas as well. As to how are we going to put some sort of a user fee within the collection of taxes from electric vehicles, which we don't today. And I know it's a small portion of our vehicles now registered. But it's growing. It's up, I think it's 5% or 6% at this point. You said early on you're not an alarmist. But this year, you feel something is different this year. Is that pretty close to that? What is going on in your mind? What's different? I think it's not as though I haven't faced a supermajority before. But now we have all this money. And so I know there were a lot of promises made during the election. I'm not blaming the House or the Senate in terms of following through on what they promised. But we have to be realistic here. And we can't forget. I don't know if some have gone through an economic downturn. I've been through a couple, both in business and here in this building. It's not pleasant. I think you probably remember, Bob, when we went through a downturn under Governor Douglas's watch, there was a lot of rifts. A lot of state employees lost their jobs, I think, up towards maybe 1,000. And that happens quickly. And so we don't live in this utopia. There's going to be a downturn. We saw the effects of who saw the bank closures happening on the national level coming. I didn't. I don't think anyone did. But it sent a ripple across the country. And again, we're OK. Everything's going fine. But if something like that were to happen, again, we'd see a downturn. And I think we have to be prepared for that. And if I'm wrong, great. We'll have money available on the bottom line with a budget surplus that we can use to put towards those initiatives and grow it without raising tax and fees. Governor, this is going back to something you said earlier. But when you're talking to legislators, are you getting the sentiment that they think that they can hit the federal matches despite paying for all of this? Is that kind of what they're saying? Yeah, they're betting and hoping that we'll keep performing. I mean, we're seeing unprecedented revenue coming through our coffers. But again, our economists, their economists, have said, this isn't going to last. There's a day of reckoning here. So we just need to be prepared for that. Let's not go in blindly and have to take something away. Let's build it so that they have faith in what we do so we don't have to take and do an about face. Similar but unrelated note, the House of Representatives today is taking up the independent school bill as a result of the Supreme Court decision last year. Maybe Secretary French can weigh in as well. This would bar funding from private schools and independent schools, a few of them. What are your thoughts on this proposal? Well, I probably have talked enough. I got myself in enough trouble already. But I will say, I'm a fan of independent schools. I think it's part of our educational system, has been for decades, if not centuries. And I think that there's room for both. So I'm hoping that there'll be agreement in making sure that we protect all the resources we have so we give kids the best education possible. Let's go back to the kids. What's best for them? So I think there's room for both. Secretary French? Thank you, Alvin. I've testified earlier in the session on the topic. My perspective is we just came through a very contentious regulatory process of the State Board to its credit, strengthen the regulatory oversight of independent schools. The bulk of those rules go live in July 1 of this year. So my perspective is let those regulations go into effect before we contemplate any further structural changes to the system. The governor's point is the system that serve Vermont and rural Vermont in places where I've worked quite well over the years. And we have strengthened the regulatory approach. And I think those regulations are given a chance. And with those regulations, are there any benchmarks or any protections to make sure or, I guess, regulations around discrimination, making sure that state dollars don't go to institutions that may discriminate or might be exclusionary toward certain commodities? Yeah, that's an area the State Board has taken some action on as a point I've made in my testimony that I think that is an area where we could strengthen our statutory framework, particularly around public accommodations. But again, I think that's been anticipated to a certain extent in the regulatory changes that the State Board has put forward. Do you have any thoughts on the reappraisal plan? No. Whether or not I should move to the state, take it away from the local municipalities and have the state reappraise them? Yeah, I don't have thoughts on that. We have a tax commissioner right here. Take that one, go ahead. I think it's a really big question, right? There are a lot of moving parts to that. So what our testimony was really focused on was let us study that, right? Let's figure out what the pros and cons are, what the transition period needs to look like. So we were happy to be at the table to be part of the discussion, and we're happy to be part of the study and do that research and come back and report to the legislature. I do think it might be a little bit premature for the actual transition to happen in law before we're able to report back on those studies and what it would actually take. Do you have the impression that the law, with the bill at this point, assumes that the study will recommend how the state can do it, but be more of a roadmap of how the state can achieve this whole? Well, certainly if the bill today is transitioning it, so yeah, I think that is making an assumption that that would have to be the better approach. So our hope would be that we could study it and then come back and talk about what that structure would look like if that's the best approach. Do you think having local appraisals is sort of an outdated concept these days and given the problems that towns have, getting appraisals done on a time of the basis and so there's an argument for the state to do it? There's certainly an argument for it. That's why we're having the discussion, right? But there's, again, a lot of unanswered questions, right? And not every community around the state is having the same struggles. Certainly some are. And we also want to acknowledge the system as a whole is really struggling, right? The money that we're putting into the system today is producing about 16 reappraisals a year. There's over 250 municipalities that are part of the system and over 160 of those now have reappraisal orders through existing law because of what the hot real estate market has done over the last few years. So it's certainly a discussion worth having, right? And we've got to try to figure out some solutions. I just don't know exactly what that best solution is today. But again, happy to be part of these conversations and do that study and come back to the legislature and work in partnership on that. Go ahead, Senator Kitchell has put out a proposal for paid parental leave only. It would be a universal program for workers, 12 weeks to bond with a newborn, $600 flat fee. She says it would be not a huge administrative lift to do that. Is that a universal program that you would give on? Yeah, I mean, we like our approach, to be honest with you. We like our paid family leave program that we've offered state employees. And we think we should be building off from that. Again, making sure that we have a structure to administer this, I think is important. I don't know what she's contemplating. But again, I worry as much about the structure and the oversight and the building. Paid family leave program isn't going to be easy to implement. This is going to be as complicated as unemployment. And we've seen, you know, we've experienced some of the pitfalls in that during uncertain times. And we'd have to build a system that mimics that in order to best serve Vermonters. I'm saying there are entities outside of state government that do this for a living. And we wouldn't have to build a new structure. They have the expertise to do this right now. And they have the capital and reserves and so forth. So we wouldn't have to build those reserves. So I'm in favor of going with that approach. And regardless of what happens, I don't think that the state government needs to be a part of the oversight. The Senate passed on second reading yesterday, S17, a sheriff reform. Bill, I'm wondering what you think of it. Yeah, again, I'm trying to get with a couple of sheriffs who value their judgment right now. I know there is a difference of opinion across the board. I'm not sure that it's all partisan either. So I haven't read it myself, but I plan in the next week or so to get with my associates who are more in tune with what the difficulties are in implementing something like this. Do you think that the situations that we've had with various sheriffs departments do warrant legislative action though? It could, yeah, I mean, we've seen what happened in Franklin County in particular. So I think it's a good conversation to have. But again, it's about the how and what this actually does and how far it goes. Maybe there's a compromise there somewhere. And then the Senate also proceeded with S4, the gun bill, they took out the section prohibiting Vermonters under 21 from possessing semi-automatics, but there are other measures in the bill, I know we've talked about it before, but that's your latest read. My feelings haven't changed on that. Again, I am concerned about the enforcement and having weapons in your home, in your own home. And I believe in safe storage, by the way. I think the U.S. attorney is doing a great job with public safety and some of our folks in trying to get the message out. I think people should lock up their weapons and make sure that they're secure. So I again worry about how we would enforce that and what that would mean. So do you mean you are in favor of safe storage to be an option and to encourage it among Vermonters, but do you think that legislative action is required on that? That's exactly what I'm saying. And I believe that the U.S. attorney has taken on this initiative. We've been part of that. There's a lot of outreach. There's a lot of ads that I'm seeing. And I believe that trying to educate people as to why this is so important is going to be something that's, I think, essential. What about the 72-hour waiting period? Yeah, I mean, I've been concerned about that in the past, obviously. And I understand why it's there. What I haven't seen is the data to really back that up. And I know that what we see with suicides by using a weapon, a gun, is typically done by older males. And I would contend that older males probably already have the weapon. So I'm not sure that it's going to have a dramatic effect, but, again, I understand why they're doing it. But I haven't seen the data to back up. Could you be reluctant to sign it without the data? Well, I vetoed something close to that in the past, so we'll see.  We talked about it a few weeks ago and it was still in committee, but at overwhelming, Luna voted in favor of four in the second reading yesterday in the Senate, Austin and Bill 18 dealing with outlawing flavored tobacco, flavored e-liquids, things, and Vermont would join California Massachusetts, obviously it makes it all the way. Would this be a bill you're in support of? Yeah, anything we do to reduce, prevent kids from smoking, I think is beneficial. I don't know if this does it or not. I'm also a little bit concerned about other flavored substances, whether it's in cannabis or whether it's in alcohol and so forth. I mean, how are we going to regulate that? How do we treat everybody the same? So I think that's going to be an area of conversation in the future. So just speaking of cannabis, I mean, we've had a few months now of tax revenue rolling in, we've seen stores are opening up, we've got testing facilities, cultivators, what's your read really? I know we might have talked about this a few months ago of how the market's working out so far. I think so far, so good in some respects. I mean, it's a measured type of approach. I think we did the right way. I was very concerned about safety on our highways and I think that the way we've done it is and having this cannabis control board overseeing it has been helpful. So it's a measured approach and it seems to be working out fine at this point unless there's anyone who sees it differently. Hearing no one. I want to give a couple of folks on the phone the chance. We'll start with Ed Barber, Newport Daily Express. Just a follow-up question which is, have you seen the revenues coming in from the does of cannabis and are they anywhere close to what was projected? I heard revenue and anything close to what was projected. What was it, one particular fund? Revenues from the sales of cannabis. Oh. Are they coming in as projected? I don't know that but my feeling is that it's a little underperforming but I said from the very beginning we shouldn't be counting on a lot of revenue from this source. The more other states who do this, the more it gets distributed across the country. And so we've never really counted on all that revenue to do anything in particular. But I don't believe it's overperforming. Anybody? No. I'm hearing, I've seen some heads shake. No, it's not overperforming. Okay. I haven't. Has the legislature put potential tax revenues in the budget? I heard tax revenue in the budget. You've got my attention. Has the legislature put any type of revenue that they're anticipating? I think we all did count on something coming in from that. I can't remember where it was going. It was about four million. Somebody wanted, somebody wanted to get that information. So there is about four million in total revenue anticipated from cannabis built into the budget as expected revenue. Tom Davis, come to Sir Ryan. You pointed out the fact that there hasn't been a lot of studies on the waiting period and the impact on different things including suicide but also homicide. There was a study to your point that was done in 2013 by the CDC which showed that it could reduce homicide by about 15%. Needless to say, in this day and age, a different study would be more appropriate. But my curiosity is what's the downside to Vermont and to Vermonters to have a waiting period? What's the urgency? Yeah, I think it's just that this constant erosion of individual rights. So again, we'll see where this bill goes in the future. I know there's a sportsman coalition that is working on this and we'll see where it falls. And maybe they'll come to some sort of agreement and find it palatable to everyone. I just don't know at this point. But it's just this constant erosion of constitutional rights. Okay, that's all the questions I have. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any others in the room? Yes. You made thoughts on House Bill 158, the only court today of expanding the bottle of redemption system. I know this has been something to work for sessions and years now. Yeah, I just not in favor of an expansion at the bottle bill. I think it was something that was unique in the beginning and it did a lot of good. But we moved on from there. We have single source recycling that I think that's what we should be focusing on. Because if at the end of the day it's about trying to make sure that we recycle every product, that's the way to do it. It's almost, from my perspective, it seems like what we've come up with and what they wanna expand upon is almost like a Rube Goldberg type of approach to recycling. This doesn't make any sense to me. So from a pragmatic standpoint, I just feel as though we should be moving in a different direction. But if we wanna keep it the way it is right now and keep the redemption centers going and so forth and so on, and not expand it, fine. But I don't think it makes any sense to expand it. What do you say to supporters of the bill, though, who point out that 99% of bottles containers that have a deposit redemption now are either recycled or redeemed? 99%. And the number of floors, the single stream recycling plastic bottles is far lower. So if you really wanted to, they see this bill as an evolution from an anti-liter effort to a strong recycling program. Yeah, I think, again, that when I'm going out on Greenup Day, I see the litter on the highway. They're talking about litter, for instance. I still see all kinds of returnable cans and bottles on the road. I see far fewer plastic bottles out there of other substances. So from a litter perspective, I'm not buying it. Secondly, I think that we should, I think it's up to the recyclers as well as those of us that have to oversee this to make it more lucrative to recycle. If we can make it more lucrative, to make it a cost advantage to recycling versus disposing, I think that's where we'll make the biggest mark. And I believe that's the approach we should be taking. Again, this other approach, it just uses up a lot of resources. And I'm not sure who's going to do it. I'm not sure that all of the Redemption Centers can handle this. And where do we store it? Where do we put it? Then what do we do? And they can basically, I don't see them. I think they have a hard time taking care of what they have right now without expanding it. But maybe I've had this business all wrong. But I'm not seeing that it's that advantageous. It almost sounds like philosophically you're saying, let's recycle these plastic bottles through the single stream system as opposed to putting a deposit on them separately. Absolutely, yes. Yeah, I'm a huge recycler. I believe that we should be recycling every possible thing we can. And I do, but I think there could be an economic advantage to the consumer if we could figure a way to make it more lucrative to dispose of your recycle products versus your ordinary trash. I think that would make it even better. I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. If you have your recycling, you have your trash, so to speak, just to have some sort of more of an incentive to recycle rather than throwing it away. Because that's what they're saying is happening right now, correct? That they're saying people are just disposing of their plastics and not recycling? That the recycling rate is considerably lower. Yeah, I don't know who's counting all those plastic bottles, by the way, but there's probably a way to measure that. Governor, I'm not sure how familiar you are with this considering you cannot about 10 o'clock this morning, but are you familiar with Doug Hoffer's audit of the Department of Disabilities of Agent and Independent Living that came out this morning? Not, but I have a set of human services here that might be able to answer your back. So essentially, my question is, in his audit he found that DAIL was not inspecting facilities on an annual basis like it's supposed to, timelines of following up weren't necessarily followed and he kind of just stopped multiple issues with that and was just looking for anything on that. Yeah, so the good thing about the audit that happened is it's consistent with some of the findings and investments that DAIL has already identified and made both by adding positions and adding in the budget and adding additional inspections. So I think the good thing about the findings is there was nothing outside of what had already been identified by the department just further reinforced that they're on the right track. Can you just a quick follow-up on that? I mean, do you think that maybe the department does need more oversight of these facilities certainly during the pandemic, long-term care facilities were in the spotlight that I think it was put on for Ontario's consciousness a lot more. And is that something that you think that lawmakers should be looking at, DAIL? So a lot of the regulations around long-term care facilities are and do sit with the federal government and with CMS. And so what we saw during the pandemic is it was important for us to focus with those facilities on responding to the pandemic and during that time period, the normal and usual business as with many other things didn't happen. What we've seen is that we've returned to that. They're catching back up. And so I feel like what we have in place right now and particularly with the added resources that are in the DAIL budget are sufficient for our current long-term care facilities. Governor, I'm sorry to hear your thoughts on the school safety bill that's probably gonna get through the Senate here today. Coming in the wake of Nashville, where do you think we are in general in terms of school safety in this state? And also it's to my understanding that the recent amendment that would kind of exclude these behavioral assessment teams from certain schools that don't already have them that you weren't in favor of that. I just wanted to see if that was correct. Dan? I think firstly, we're really appreciative for the legislature taking up our interest in improving the statutory framework for school safety. We think it's really important. It's a conclusion we had come through last summer so it's not really related to contemporary events. It's just as we were contemplating how to improve our statewide disposition at school safety, we identified a need to strengthen our statutory framework. And our recommendation is that basically things that have been essentially voluntary over the years become mandatory and those things pertain to physical safety, the drills, the planning and then the behavior threat assessment. So we are concerned that basically when we had recommendations that left to this pattern of inequality and inconsistent implementation around the state, and I think that's something we struggled with over the summer and ultimately led to our conclusion that we need to bring forward a recommendation to make things mandatory because we had a hard time justifying how some schools could be more safe than others essentially and all schools need to be safe. And I'm quite optimistic as I know our team is in DPS that behavior threat assessment is a really proactive element of our layered response and it's really important that all schools engage in that. So we look forward to continue to work in partnership with the General Assembly but from my perspective, behavioral threat assessment should be a mandatory approach. Okay, thank you very much.


Hello, I'm Michael Sumter, Chairman of this year's Carolina-Caroline Parade to be held on December 1st. Welcome to Destination Hometown. This year's parade will feature some actual magicians. We'll have some street magicians that will be entertaining the crowd before the parade gets down to Jervais Street. We'll actually have a stilt walker as well. For similar to previous years, folks are welcome to bring their chairs and probably blankets. It should be a little chilly that day. And as you know, the parade has moved this year down to Sumter Street. We've had some challenges with the USC football game being moved, and so our main stage will be at Jervais and Sumter Street, and the parade will start at about 9.30 actually, and by the time we get to Jervais Street for TV, it'll be about 10 o'clock. This year's parade will have some new entries of some new businesses with floats. Lots of floats this year. We have lots of high school bands. We have a couple of college bands also in the lineup. We've got the Corvettes, which are always an attractive entry, and we've got some folks that come from Paul Mitchell that will have a very exciting float. They always do. If you've never been, you really should try it, and this year will be a good time. If you have Sumter Street, we'll have the parade, and then you can go next door and go to City Market, and then enjoy the football game later as well. All the information about this year's parade can be found on our website at www.CarolinaCarillon.com.


What's the word, y'all? Before the season started, I dropped the video title something like, I'm afraid for these two teams. And in that video, I talked about the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat potentially being left behind by their competition. And we over a quarter of the way through the season and that video range true right now. The Miami Heat are 12 and 15 and the Bulls are 11 and 14. Shout out to my Bulls though. This video is not about y'all, you know what I'm saying? Currently on the win streak. But instead I wanna talk heavily about the Miami Heat because this season has been extremely confusing for me. Before we do that, let's talk about our sponsor, PrizePix. Hit the link in the description down at the PrizePix app and use CokeKinney because they're matching all the pods up to $100 for new players. PrizePix is daily fantasy that's just you versus the numbers. 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And the Heat have been a team that I've been watching, but reluctant to like have an opinion on, because bro, they have had the injury bug more than so many teams in basketball. So much so that like, Yadonis Haslam got real life play in that back-to-back against the boss of Celtics. I know it went viral, Jason Tate and blowing past Yadonis Haslam. They needed Yadonis Haslam to play a game earlier. They played against the Washington Wizards and like they has eight people. And two of those people ain't even Drew Smith. I didn't know until that point. Or Orlando, so I don't know his name to this date. So they have been in and out of the line-ups. Jimmy Butler's missed a game here. Missed a game there. Tyler Heros out with this and that. Victor Lodipo is just coming back from his injuries. So I'm watching these games like, I'mma hold my opinions. I'mma hold my opinions. It's the Miami Heat. They always figure out a way. The season feels different. And I mean different, not that I think that they're gonna continue to be a sub 500 team. They gonna miss the playoffs or even if they gonna be a lower team. But like in the form of contention. You know, this is a team that was built to be a contender. Jimmy's got all the money in the world. They paid Cal-Lauri Bama-De-Bio's to the contact, Tyler Heros got his bag, Duncan Robbs has got his bag. They paid their players because they thought that this core was gonna be good enough to compete for a championship. And last year, they almost did. Jimmy Butler took a shot in transition. I don't look back on that shot. Well, okay, you could probably look back on that shot and say it wasn't the best shot, but they were this close to being in the finals. But this team is different than that one. They have lost some of that depth. They've lost some of that productivity and you can tell every single day. I watched this game against the Spurs because it was the first game of the day. And I was blown away at how bad it really looked. And you know what, you know how bad it is because yesterday or two days ago they played against the Clippers, right? You know, I follow some people in He-Twitter or whatever. And in that Clippers game, Bama-De-Bio and Jimmy Butler ran a pick and roll and He-Twitter was on fire because they've been together for what? Three seasons, four seasons now? And they hadn't run a pick and roll. They did it twice in that game and I kept seeing the clips. Oh my God, this is about to happen. They might be finally using Jimmy as a pick and roll handler with Bam. And they didn't do it one time this game. The very next game. I didn't see it one time. Maybe I was in the bathroom and I didn't see it one single time. And the possessions that it did happen in the Clippers, I think it was literally two, led to points. And it didn't happen at all today. But it's deeper than that. The reason they're self-500 is not because Jimmy and Bam don't run enough pick and roll. It's a lot deeper than that. It's partially because the lack of depth within the organization. Today specifically, you got Jimmy Butler giving you 30. You had Tyler Hero giving you 23 on 50% shooting, 68% from three. Bam was not as aggressive today as he had been in the last couple of weeks, but you got a good Jimmy game and a good Tyler Hero game and a good shooting splits him from Kyle Lowry, against possibly the worst team in all the basketball team that was just on an 11 game. The first team that hit a double digit loser streak on the season, that alone should be enough. And they were actually missing some people today. You know what I'm saying? The Spurs were missing people today. That should be enough to beat the Spurs. But you look past that start of five, you're like, oh snap, Max screws play 15 minutes and he scored four points. I don't think he touched the floor in the second half. That's something we can talk about in a second. Victor Lodipo is coming back from his injuries. He played 20 some minutes. He tried to close out the game. He fouled out. DeWayne Detman is one of the worst backup bigs in basketball for a team that needs size. They desperately need size in this team. So you have to play DeWayne Detman. He shot one for eight from three, or one for eight from the field and 0 for three from three. And I'm pretty sure one of those three points was a complete air ball. Like it's ugly. And Duncan Robinson's got paid a lot of money and he only can play eight minutes a game and be a negative out there. They have no depth. They're second worst in basketball when it comes to bench production. And I think the only team worse than them and I'm talking just strictly points is the Portland Trailblazers. They making it work because a lot of the people off their bench are like dirty work players just as when his logo will end up with eight points, eight rebounds or four assists. So, you know, they lack a little bit of that, but at least they're making it work. The Miami Heat are not making it work right now. It can't always be just here, bro. It can't always just be bam or it can't always be just Jimmy. And that made me look into like their lineup stats. And if you look at this, these are the top lineups in basketball when it comes to point differential, countering points per possession scored versus points per possession given up. And the number one lineup is Maxie, Thibault, Harris, Tucker, and Embiid. It's pretty interesting. As you can see down here, the fourth best lineup given point differential is this Miami Heat lineup of Cal-Larry, Max Scruce, Caleb Martin, Jimmy Butler, and Bam Adebayo. They're in the 99th percentile when it comes to points per possession. And the defense ain't as good in the 50th percentile, but if you're gonna be this good, I mean, I'm assuming that they probably won't be if you do more than 120-cent possession. I'm just saying there's something here on the offensive side with this five that could be working if they play more. And what do you notice about that five? It's no Tyler Hero. The team, when Tyler Hero has started, and this is, again, I know this could be taken out of context saying that Tyler Hero's the problem because he started, he's not the problem. He's part of the problem, just like everybody else on the roster, but the lack of bench production is one of the problems. And this is one of your best lineups, makes me think that Tyler Hero maybe should be coming off the bench a little bit more. And again, some of this stuff probably is not sustained. I'm talking about the 99th percentile when it comes to point score, poor possession with this one. And that's saying a lot because the Miami Heat and the half court aren't very good. They also don't run the fast break. So the offense in completely right now is broken. When I say they don't run the fast break, I'm not joking.  And I gotta be honest with you, even if they did turn the season around, it's hard for the way it looks currently constructed for me to ever really believe that they can be in that championship contention. I don't understand how Kyle Lawry is playing as many minutes as he has. Shout out to him. Congratulations, like he deserves a medal for the amount of minutes he's putting on his body this late in his career. But if he keeps at this pace and they do make the playoffs and they do try to make this legendary push to the finals, I can't say I believe that his body's gonna hold up. And I can say the same about a couple different people on their roster. And like I said, I do believe there's a world where they do go on a run. It's the Miami Heat. I've given them the benefit of the doubt. It's one thing I mentioned when I was doing my Eastern Conference rankings, I always give the Miami Heat the benefit of the doubt because they show us time in and time out that when it's time to win games, they find a way to do it. But right now they dug themselves into a nice little hole here and it's not looking great. So much so that I'm seeing people again that I follow within he Twitter, that's like, you know what, I've seen enough. And that's seeing a lot. The Charles Barkley went on TV and said it's time for the Miami Heat to blow it up. And again, that will be kind of crazy in my opinion. I still believe that there's something that can be done, but they got a lot of negative contracts in my opinion. And it's like, how do we turn what we have right now into a team that can win it all? Because I promise you, if you trade for Jay Crowder, that don't fix a lot of the problems. It makes you better for sure. It makes you better, but that don't fix all the problems. If you trade for Kyle Kuzma, that makes you better, but that doesn't fix all of the problems. So what can we do to keep this core of Jimmy, of Bam and Hero, because I mean, you gave Hero that money. I mean, yeah, yeah, keep him around at this point. How do we maximize it? Because Jimmy's timeline is unknown because he's getting better with time. I mean, some of the games they recently won is literally Jimmy putting on that backpack. I say, hey, I got us. Whether it be the first game back versus the Celtics or the game that I guess the Clippers where he hit a couple of possessors down the stretch where he let them to victory. He does that. Tonight, I would have loved to see him get the ball down the stretch. He did not touch the ball. But I don't know what his timeline is. How long can he keep up this elite level play? You got Bam who's young. You got Hero who's young. But what can we do to maximize the Jimmy Butler greatness? And I think that's something that Pat Riley and their front office have to figure out because if you can't maximize that and you want to just continue to run with this roster, there's a lot of teams out there that will be interested in current Jimmy Butler. That's all I'm saying. I'm always down for a blow up though. Oh, I love a team to blow it up. And I'm not saying that he should again, but oh, I just love to look at a superstar get traded, look at the value of that trade and then go back three years later. But like, dang, they gave up a lot to get Paul George. You know that type of stuff. I love it. They gave up a lot to get Vucovic on it, stuff like that. Some of them are funner than others for sure. All right, other things around the association. I tweeted earlier today that Cam Thomas is a hilarious basketball pleaser. He's not a hilarious basketball player. He's a hilarious NBA player because he's got the archetype that you see at the YMCA, that you see a lifetime, the dude that want to take all of the shots. And today he was a buck. You know what I'm saying? They ended up winning this game where they sought every single starter. And I felt bad for the Indiana Pacer fans that went there to go see KD or Kairi because obviously KD and Kairi are a show and they ended up with this game. But it ended up being a good game. But like, if you wanted to see KD and ended up with a Cam Thomas game, I would be kind of hot. But Cam is the only dude that's like high mid-range value and a guy that doesn't play. You know what I'm saying? Usually we talk about people that take a majority of their shots to mid-range. We talk about the book. We talk about KD. We talk about DeMar DeRosen. We talk about Chris Paul when he's hitting. Like we talk about some of the all-star Cali players. You don't see people in the tier of Cam Thomas that's taking shots like that. And this might feel that I might, you know what I'm saying, offensive people when I say this. When I watch Cam Thomas, you know he reminds me of, he reminds me of Antonio Blakeney. He's better. He's a better version. But like I watched Antonio Blakeney in Chicago for two seasons. This is that.  And they're gonna be heavily contested. And they might fall. They failed today for Cam, but throughout the season, they have not failed. Watch Denver versus Utah. And I mentioned in my ad that Aaron Gordon didn't get his over. He missed all of his three-point shots. I'm not mad at you, Aaron. But they subbed into this game. Yolkic, Gordon and Murray together. It was like a mass sub. And on the broadcast, they said, all right, the big three is back. I was like, oh snap. Aaron Gordon is getting put into a big three conversation. And it makes sense in the context of their organization. He's having one of the best seasons of his career, if not the best season of his career. 42% from three is something he's never even been close to in his lifetime. And that's included in him being a bad corner shooter. He's shooting 21% from the corners and anything non-corner related, he's shooting 52%. Now, I'm gonna remind you through the first like two weeks of the season, he could have hit a goddamn shot. So you'd start off with terrible shooting and then he got hot, hot, hot. And now he cannot miss. So you know what? Call it a big three if you want to forget it. I'm here for it. And they ended up winning. Nicole Yolkic is insane. And Jamal Murray's got his confidence back at the game a couple of days ago. And today he came into this game with his chest out and he's playing the best basketball sets, the injury, which is perfect. You know what else is perfect? The record of Steph Curry and Clay Thompson both putting up 30. What is it 14 and no or something like that? They have not lost the game where both Clay and Steph have put up 30. And the entirety of them being together was a crazy stat. The NBA Finals rematch didn't live up to the hype. They had moments in it where it was exciting but for the most part, the goal to stay where it's dominated night in, night out. Jonathan Camingo, when he's given the minutes, he's consistently show like, hey, I can play at this level.  And James Wiseman got sit back to the G. So that's kind of something. All right, that's raps. I'm gonna try my hardest now that I'm back. I don't think I have any trips into all-star weekend.  The problem is when I leave, these videos are so like reactionary that if I'm in Atlanta, I can't really film for this channel. I can film for my other channels. I can film six days in advance for it, but these are so reactionary because the NBA's changing every single day. And I felt bad going away for three days and not having any content for y'all. So my apologies, you know what I'm saying? Money calls, I had to go, you know what I'm saying? I'm under contract. But we back and I don't have to go anywhere to all-star. So I'm gonna try to keep myself accountable. Tweet at me if I don't upload because y'all can hold me accountable too.