Hello friends and welcome to another episode here on the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We're gonna be continuing on with our series seven content that we kicked off with in our last episode If you missed that episode I go through all the things that you'll need to do to access the alternative showdown server where you can start to Practice series seven or as close to a series seven format as that we've got at the moment I'll link the video up above if you want to go back and check all the details out there There is another team as well in that episode that you can grab and test out and start playing with on the ladder If you would like to start playing series seven, of course And the team that we're gonna focus on today is gonna be based all around Dragovish or at least that's where it started now the fossil Pokemon obviously with the introduction to crown tundra and that Ability patch that we're gonna have access to now where we can get hidden abilities without any any Hustle it's gonna be really easy an item will change a normal ability into a hidden ability So it's a it's a huge step forward for the entry level into competitive Pokemon And the amount of time that you're gonna save by doing this is just insane So the the fossil Pokemon obviously get access to the hidden abilities now Like I was just saying Dragovish gets access to sand rush So that's something that I really wanted to test out. So that's what we're gonna try today Obviously with Sandra she double your speed and whenever the sandstorm is up on the field and we need a sandstorm user So we've got Tyranitar to kind of pair nicely with that Tyranitar also very good in this format. I feel like dog types are extremely good But very few and far between there aren't that many great dog types But there are a few that can do a decent job and we've seen Tyranitar perform super well Throughout this own shield series so far with its dynamics ability and normally running the weakness policy And that's exactly what we went for here with a brave nature minimum speed to play alongside the dust clubs with that trick room mod Then another Pokemon new one that we're gonna see that I wanted to try out was thunderous It has got it's a defiant ability as well another hidden ability there which boosts it Well any time it stats a lord it gets an attack boost Which is just ridiculous like thunderous is very strong got a decent physical move pool as well can boost its speed Obviously change terrain boost its own attack and defense as well. So this spread here I need to give a big shout out to my good friend Luigi. He passed this over to me And he's been a hype and thunderous up a lot So the spread is his I've just dunked it in the team to use and it's been really effective So big shout out to Luigi for that and then rounding off the team with Incinero Obviously the good old faithful Incinero and among us for a little bit of redirection if we are gonna struggle Otherwise to set our trick room up. So and the team will be down in the description below There'll be a paste for you guys to try out. I Guess say if you need the address and things to get on this server It'll be in the description, but you could be probably better off going back and checking yesterday's video or last video Which I'll link again. It'll be in the little eye in the corner for you guys So let's get into it as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Please remember to drop a like on the video does take two seconds And it really helps out the channel and let me know that you enjoy this sort of content as well If you're new to the channel do consider subscribing We do a lot of content like this based around competitive Pokemon as well as a lot of guides and just general Pokemon as well, so you'll have a great time here. We've got a great community going on We do have a community discord as well That's linked down in the description with everything else the descriptions got everything. Um, so yeah, just consider it and Sit back and enjoy the battle. So we've got our first opponent playing a pretty similar team to what we've got You know, I've got at least four of the same Pokemon that we've got Okay, but the tapulele there in place of probably our disclops and then the stack attacker in place of a mungus So trick room mod again, isn't too bad here and But our trick room mode is gonna be slower than theirs So maybe we want to kind of at least counteract that somewhat Thunderous isn't bad. It can hit a lot of things We'll cancel that what's what's going on. No, no, no, no, we don't want to quit. What are we doing? I don't know what's clicking around. Um, yeah, so let's just think about this like thunderous I like as a lead here for sure kind of Puts off my opponent bringing the Incineral at least when the funny thing is I mean the stack attacker has got trick room So it's gonna be the only thing that can trick room. We need to kind of kind of like that I'm gonna bring drink as all I think tea tar in the back and Probably desclops as well to be honest and mungus isn't bad, you know And good luck have fun To my opponent as well, so tapulele gonna come out Okay, we've got a couple of options here We can switch into tea toss right away and just nuke the tapulele and that might not be a bad idea Getting rid of the tapulele is gonna make things a lot easier later on in this game And really yeah, I am super tempted just to do that And even if it's scarfed lately We will outspeed it with Draco visha and pick up the knockout thunderous here on my opponent's end might max might go for an airstream Or to change the terrain maybe but Yeah, we get rid of the tapulele. It's a donk that max lightning coming out. We we don't take it which is interesting. Okay, so Thunderous getting itself set up there. So I think I'm gonna bring in desclops now Yeah Incineroar coming in So we'll protect tea tar and we will just trick room because I don't really feel like my opponent's got a way to stop Us now. Sometimes you could think maybe the thunderous might have taunt it does obviously in previous formats has been known to carry taunt to shut it down, but the more physical offensive Variance, especially now that the fine ability don't really have too much room for it And obviously you haven't got that prankster ability anymore So it doesn't make too much sense to run it on something like thunderous where you would normally see it probably more often not on something like Tornadis as an alternative so a parting shot coming up from the incineroar We need to be careful about Max knuckle from the thunderous That's the one thing and you know It's always safe to go after the incineroar here because incineroar can't protect the thunderous can and they also The the the incineroar can parting shot, which isn't gonna be great I think we'll take a max knuckle from the thunderous anyway, so we should be all right We'll just go for the Mac there the bulldoze the max bulldoze That's what I was gonna say and we'll get rid of this incineroar while we've got the opportunity to we're not gonna see the thunderous Go for a max guard here, which is interesting But we'll make quick work of it the next turn depending on what my opponent's last Pokemon is Yeah lightning coming out, but not really doing too much and you can see it's life over there so Thankfully teetard does all the work that we need it to now stack attacker is an Interesting prospect because it probably still under speeds tyrannot are Which is tricky so we could potentially huh Yeah, I think I think yeah, we definitely it's still definitely under speeds us Hmm Because we can't pull those again. I mean yeah, we can't cuz yeah, and the body press is a bit worrying That's the only thing it's like we need to get rid or I mean one thing we could do is reverse the trick room here might be a play That's got heavy slam, which is interesting Okay Reverse the trick room. I don't think the thunderous has got superpowers. So we're kind of all right And we'll just go for a max knuckle into the stack attacker We'll go for a night shade into the thunderous here. We might see the stacker actually protect here It could have chopple. I don't know what it has but there's a flash cannon coming out And so it's more of a special variant of their thunderous here, which is interesting get the max knuckle Oh, that's fine. The better play here for myself Obviously would have been trick room in that turn, but it's it's it's a little bit dodgy Considering that you know, they may protect the stack attack of air and then we're back in the same situation again So and good game to my opponent and we will move on very swiftly Hopefully we can get to see the dragon vision this episode. That's the kind of the main thing of the team but I do struggle sometimes to actually Always bring it. It's not always. It's not something that's the same of the thunderous There's there's a two months that That honestly if I'm talking honestly about the team here There's two months that don't get brought too often and the main core of the team is obviously incineral Amungus dust globes and taranatom We know how solid that is from previous formats and it's still performing as well as it ever has done So we've got all the genies all the genies up next Tornadoe standard us lander us Cortana incineral type of finish. So we've got that really nice firewater grass core there that was made popularized back in 2018 Oh 17 18, you know um Okay, well Trick room again is really good with the tea tar if we can get it set up I think that's it's obviously going to do a lot of work for us We have to be careful with our incineral just for the fact that you know, we don't want to proc the uh The defined ability on on either the tornado is all the thunderous which is likely to be on um So I think dust globes and moongus works pretty well Taranatar and then I think we do need incineral for the cartana And like once the defiant pokemon are gone. I think It can it can perform pretty well So we just need to deal with those defiant pokemon before bringing incineral onto the field So just it's just something to think about as well. It's going to be tricky I think already feeling like intimidated It's going to be like a lot trickier Renability to make use of in this format with the amount of pokemon that can kind of benefit from Um All of the the different abilities like competitive defiant and stuff like that There is a lot more pokemon to abuse and in the focus as well, you know I've seen a lot of like mammoth swine as well, which makes things very tricky Okay, there's the airstream and does take down the moongus, but that's fine Um, there's point in time because yeah, I mean they're trying their best to stop it But it doesn't work unfortunately. So we'll bring in tea tar, which is great Um, I don't think the lander is scuffed. So I think we have to bulldoze Hmm. It's tricky because the thunderous could max knuckle I think we need to get rid of the landeris I want to get rid of the landeris That's the thing. Yeah, I'm going to go after the landeris here Yeah, so there's a max guard. So hopefully this should be enough to get the landeris here Uh, because it's otherwise going to super power us, which is really bad news for us Uh, yeah, so we get rid of it. That's great. Then we can get rid of the thunderous the next turn Just perfect. So now we're coming in Uh, the thing is here. We could like I don't really want to take a parting shot Um from the incineroar, but I mean it Kind of doesn't matter too much in all honesty. Let's just nightshade and go the the rockfall Like the thunder is switching out. So we're forcing it out. Cortana coming in. Cortana is going to still take a Huge chunk of damage from this. Yeah, uh parting shot probably going to come out now. Yep Uh, but thunder is coming back in and we got one more turn of our max left And we still got three turns of two turns of trick room. So we're kind of all right. Um, I've got to go after The cortana here And I think we've got a pretty safe max knuckle into this slot because yeah, even if the incineroar comes in We get the the attack boost and thunder is just gonna protect so Um, okay They can fake out this next turn Which is a little bit awkward for us because it is coming to the last turn of our trick room. Um We probably need to protect Let's go for a night sheared into incineroar and Just I mean no Yeah, because we can't this is really awkward because this is like ideally the trick room would have ended now but Um, not gonna be the case But let's just go for a night sheared into incineroar and protect tita Let's see what they've got to throw out. So if you've got superpower or not Yeah, they have okay. That makes sense Um, all right. Well super par We need to get the trick room up once we get the trick room up again We're kind of we're kind of an amazing spot. So we'll just Bring in incineroar get the I know we're propping the define, but we've got to we've got to do this Yeah, that's fine And get tita back onto the field and we should be able to close things up hit darkest lariat That's super fine. Now. We've got rock slide. We can just get rid of the tornado the thunderous sorry and the incineroar and um between Dust globs and tyranitar. We should be able to deal with the carton or anyway Even though we've got superpower. It's going to be it's kind of it's kind of fine Like we get rid of the incineroar here. The thunderous might protect. Okay. No That's fine they're trying to to make use of the The fake out this next turn, but it's not really going to help them too much because like dust globs can just go for the night sheared into cartana And we'll just protect tita just to be extra safe Okay, that's fine darkest lariat here could be problematic Yeah, that's a nice play by my opponent. Um, okay. Well, we superpower the cartana And then we still win win out against the the incineroar. We'll minus one attack But it's still kind of going to be all right because we've got one turn trick room left still Um, and a superpower will do the job. So that was a little bit tricky, but uh very good game to my opponent And um, let's see what we're looking at for time. We are doing Probably all right. Let's have one more and then we'll call it a day my friends Um, but yeah, hopefully we're getting a good idea of what the team can perform like The different calls in it and how the synergy works well and also Even though a lot of it might be the same We're getting to see different opponents and what our opponents are trying to do which is all good information for For you collecting information about what teams are being used and what combinations of stuff are being used And what could be tricky for us to play against Okay, metagross car chomp tapakoko incineroar melodic and togakiss Uh, I feel like thunderous is very good here thunderous and drake assault is a lead Could be good. And the one thing does worry me slightly is The tapakoko and then it makes me want to lean a little bit more towards um, our trick room mode again um Although drake assault isn't bad at all. It's just if we see Like thunderous drake assault is pretty nice Kind of covers more stuff as long as we've got the tyranitar in the back to bring in The togakiss could be a little bit tricky Which is why i'm kind of leaning more towards my trick room call And I don't feel like they've got taunt anywhere to stop the trick room. So we could go Don't hmm. Do we want incineroar in this match? Probably I feel like I want to bring drake of ish though. So we're gonna we're gonna force it into the game We're gonna force it. I think we need thunderous anyway.  Like Yeah, let's go does clops actually no, let's go dust clops um Thunderous Covers the togakiss a guest tyranitar and then drake of ish. Yeah, let's bring all the new the new boys Let's do it. Let's just do it for this one. Okay. Well, you can trick room and um, I mean What are you gonna do if you metagross? Incineroar, I mean we've got the attack boost which is the other nice thing now where we could just max And keep our trick room mod for a late game and just go after the metagross to be honest Might not be a bad idea Like switching in drake of ish here and going for an airstream. It's quite a nice play It's just whether or not they're gonna go for max hailstorm which I can imagine them doing um Just if we airstream now into the incineroar And then get drake of ish in we can deal with the metagross the next turn which might be the better play Just a worry that togakiss comes in I mean if it does that's fine. Yeah, we'll do that and then we've got metagross dust clops in the back Yeah, because then we get drake of ish in for the speed boost. We should add speed most things on my opponent's team Uh, we'll out speed the core core as well Which is good Yeah, so I'll speed everything after an airstream, which is perfect So it's just about what the metagross goes for and some metagross aren't running ice punch But the majority are so just like be be aware that that's something that metagross is running Um, it deals so well with stuff like garchomp landeris all the genies pretty much zapped us Dragonite list goes on and on and on. Okay. Well, let's turn our time on because our opponent is taking their time After we've just been deliberating a little bit ourselves. So hopefully they speed up a little bit Um, yeah, I think the one thing to take away from the early format is definitely how strong metagross is Metagross is a very scary pokemon. It's very good. Um, yeah, so there is Now we don't quite get the incineroar here, but do you see a taunt which is fine And there's a hail storm which is super fine because now we just go after The metagross. Um, I mean we could go after We'll probably yeah, we probably have to double the metagross the worrying the the worrying thing here is if we Don't go after the incineroar. Hmm. They're probably potting shot into adreco vish Which is that really That bigger deal the other thing is they could just target thunderous and protect metagross Like that's what I would probably do here um Let's go fishes rend and let's go max knuckle into incineroar and let's boost our attack and get a plus one Onto drake of ish and that might be enough to get metagross with the fishes rend and the choice band. Let's see Could be metagross is so bulky anyway Okay, so there's a plus one Okay, well, I mean we're gonna get the metagross the next turn 100% even though they got the defense boost. We do lose our max mon, but Not the end of the world. I guess we'll get dust globs back in their taunts gone So I mean we've got east ag gone for us Just a melodic becomes a little bit more problematic now for us. I feel um without thunderous Should have doubled the metagross to be honest Who knows we probably would have lost it anyway. Yeah, and this makes it very tricky. Okay. Well It's kind of all right. I guess because we'll go for the metagross They're gonna follow me and we will Do we trick room here? It's just kind of then relying on Now let's go let's go Now I think we need to trick room. I would get the opportunity to Yeah, okay, we get the metagross. That's perfect. Yeah, okay. That's the the better decision for sure trick room and then depending on what they've got left Like if it's hmm could be gar chomp, I guess it is gar chomp, huh? It's gonna be hard to switch in um Hmm. Yeah, it's gonna be very hard. We'll go we'll double into the gar chomp here because Yeah, okay.  That's what we're worried about a little bit. But then we get tyranitar into the field now I don't Do we need I don't think we need to bulldoze here. I think we could bulldoze Because chomp's not going to be able to knock us out if we bulldoze we get rid of the toro kiss We do some decent damage to chomp. Yeah, where's bulldoze? Yeah, okay, perfect And we might even flinch the gar chomp, which would be Tremendous, but we don't but now we're going to be able to get it with with a crunch They've got to go for a double protect and even then that's going to be difficult to beat the dust clops as well So, uh, it's worked out all right in the end. I think so Um Yeah, at least we've got to see a little bit of dragovish and thunderous there Which is always good. Which is part of the plan and we get some nice Juicy points good game to my opponent and that about will wrap everything up for us today I hope you've enjoyed today's episode.  You can go on it I just felt with the the the sandbrush boost you could get the choice band going I think it makes up and it's quite a nice option there Obviously doing some serious damage that was maxed metagross as well So it's doing some serious damage there. So and thunderous obviously is such a nice pokemon anyway But uh, I don't know Well, try the team out and let me know what you think that'll be the big thing So as I said earlier, please drop a like on the video Do subscribe if you're not already and leave a comments down below And I will look forward to seeing you all for another episode very soon. So until then take care of yourselves and bye


Hello horror fans and welcome to my bungalow of blood. He should put in a second bathroom. You can't believe the morning's in this place. I use the litter box. Join me and my roommates Dr. Ed, Nurse Natasha, Gary Gray and Hans the Butler as we talk about all things horror. Since the dawn of cinema there have been movies based on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein dating all the way back to 1910. The 1910 version was produced by Thomas Edison. Every horror fan has their favorite Frankenstein film but I'm gonna try to convince you that young Frankenstein, a comedy, is actually the best Frankenstein film ever made. My favorite is The Bride with Sting. Mine is Aberdeen Costello Meat Frankenstein. The 1931 Boris Karloff version. You're all wrong. It's flesh for Frankenstein.  I'm a bit biased. Ever since I was a child, young Frankenstein has always been one of my favorite movies. But I always believed the 1931 universal version and the 1992 made for TV version to be the two best Frankenstein films. Until this past Halloween, I had to carry them all the way up to bed. Maybe it was the beer. Maybe it was the sugar. But while watching young Frankenstein for another countless time, it just clicked in my brain. This is the best Frankenstein film ever. And now I'm gonna try to convince you why. Oh yes, great. Just shove your opinion down our throats. For those of you who don't know, young Frankenstein was released in 1974. It was co-written by comedy legend Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, who also stars as the lead role. Oh, I just love Gene Wilder's hair. Oh, so that's why you married me. Gene Wilder thought it'd be funny to write a movie about a descendant of the Frankenstein family who wanted nothing to do with the family's past but couldn't escape it. It's pronounced Frankenstein. And for a goofball schlocky horror comedy, that's a pretty deep theme. Not being able to escape one's past. The sins of the father are visited upon the son. Or in this case, grandson. Gene Wilder plays the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, which is the first thing that makes this movie great. It's not just spoofing the original 1931 version, but it's actually trying to be a worthy sequel. There's a line in the town hall where one of the villagers says, we've seen this from five times before. This is a reference to all the Universal Frankenstein movies that came before. Frankenstein 1931, The Bride of Frankenstein 1935, The Son of Frankenstein 1939, Ghost of Frankenstein 1942, Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, House of Frankenstein, and House of Dracula, all featured the Frankenstein monster. That's way more than five. No, it's not. Though it's probably not intentional and more of a fan theory, Gene Wilder does look a lot like the son of Baron Wolf von Frankenstein in Son of Frankenstein, making him the grandson of Henry Frankenstein from the original 1931 film. Isn't it Victor Frankenstein? Yeah, it is supposed to be Victor Frankenstein, but they changed it to Henry in the 1931 version for some reason. Young Frankenstein isn't an official sequel to the 1931 film, but it really does a great job of making us believe that it really is. It's even got the same laboratory set. Mel Brooks actually bought the original laboratory set used in the 1931 film. The original set designer just had them in his garage for some reason. Lucky he did because it made Young Frankenstein really feel like it takes place in the same universe as the Universal films. And it was shot on black and white film. Mel Brooks insisted that the movie be actually shot on black and white film stock, and feared that the studio would try to release it in colors sometime in the future. This along with the 1930s wipe and dissolve style transitions really makes it feel like it came out in that golden era of horror. Yes, yes, yes, enough backstory. Now tell us why you think it's the best Frankenstein film of all time. Let's start with the cast. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Colin Clive and Dwight Fry from the 1931 film. They were the first on-screen mad scientist and bumbling assistant duo. Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro and of all people John Cleese did a great job in the 1994 version. But I do think that the cast of Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Terry Gar, Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle trumps all other movies by a long shot. It might be one of the best on-screen ensembles of all time. Some movies casting choices can just be lightning in a bottle. Never to be duplicated. I'm not sure if getting all these actors on the same film happened by pure luck or if it was genius planning by Mel Brooks. Not only do the actors play off each other perfectly, both comedically and dramatically, but can you think of another Frankenstein movie that has as many memorable characters as young Frankenstein? You have Gene Wilder as Frederick Frankenstein. His presence and voice are indistinguishable. Marty Feldman plays Igor with a deadpan delivery, face and frame that you'll never forget. Cloris Leachman is Frau Blocher, whose name strikes fear into horses. Kenneth Mars as the one-eyed, one-armed Inspector Kemp. Gene Hackman as accident-prone blind hermit. And let's not forget Peter Boyle's classic performance as the monster. No, the bride of Frankenstein is just as many memorable characters. Okay, Ed, then let's hear them. Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein, Boris Karloff as the monster. Elsa Lanchester as the bride. Ernest Thiesger as Dr. Petorius.  Well, Ed, that's five and I think I named seven, so young Frankenstein wins.  So now that we've concluded that young Frankenstein has the most amount of memorable characters than any other Frankenstein film. We have? Yes, Hans, seven is more than five. Young Frankenstein also has the most amount of memorable lines, not just from any other Frankenstein film, but it can be argued to be one of the most quoted movies of all time. As quoteable as American movie? Auntie Python and the Holy Grail? Anchorman?  There's some timeless lines in other Frankenstein films, of course. It's Alive, the classic line from the 1931 film will always stand a test of time. How about this line from Flesh for Frankenstein?  And not quite up there with It's Alive. What about this one? What does matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character. That's The Monsters, not a Frankenstein film. But it makes me feel special inside.  So anyone else with a classic quote from a Frankenstein film? How about this one?  And very sweaty. Okay, so there you have it. Most Frankenstein films have one or two memorable lines. But young Frankenstein is loaded with them from start to finish. Just take a look at a few, and this isn't even skimming the surface. It's pronounced Frankenstein. Walk this way. That line inspired the Aerosmith song. Would you like a roll in the hay? What, knockers? If I thank you, Doctor. Frau Bruchel.  Too late. He would have an enormous one, Stoker. That goes without saying.  That's a reference to the 1931 film. What hump? Wait, where are you going? I was gonna make espresso. My name is Frankenstein! Who'd know on the- Okay, okay, that's enough. I think we all get the point. That was fun! Okay, so now that we've proven that young Frankenstein is the most quotable Frankenstein film, let's tackle the music. I think this has the best score out of all other Frankenstein films. I agree 100%. The music was composed by John Morris, who collaborated on many movies produced by Mel Brooks. Even The Elephant Man? Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man? Great thing about the young Frankenstein score is that it's not scored as a comedy. For the same reason it was shot on black and white film, it is scored to sound like a horror movie from the 1930s. If it was scored as a comedy, it wouldn't have the emotional impact that it does. The music strikes fear when it needs to, and also pulls on the hard strings when need be. The violin melody played to soothe the monsters is one of the most memorable melodies in any other Frankenstein film. When I hear that song, I get all steamy. Then she can't keep her hands off me. So this movie really is a horror movie disguised as a comedy. Or is it a comedy disguised as a classic horror? That can be true too, and the score complements it perfectly. If the music was composed to enhance the comedy, I don't think it would be as an effective comedy. That doesn't make any sense. Just think about it, Hans. It also wouldn't be as an effective Frankenstein film. And that's what this all boils down to. It's not just trying to be the best comedy possible. It's trying to be legitimately the best Frankenstein film possible. Though it's a parody, it's not making fun of other Frankenstein films. It's rather just really good jokes and humor in characters in the context of a Frankenstein film. Like Spaceballs? No, actually, I don't think it's like Spaceballs at all. Even though it's still a Mel Brooks spoof-style movie, it's a totally different kind of parody. In fact, I wouldn't even call it a parody at all because it's continuing a story already laid out for us. It's not making fun of the genre, but rather showing deep respect for it. Deep? The subject matter in this movie is also very profound. Like any other Frankenstein film, it deals with a man trying to play God and the consequences of doing so. That is in every Frankenstein movie. But it's not a very relatable subject. How many of us have actually tried to create a man or woman from scratch in a laboratory using dead body parts? Present company excluded, of course. Of course. But it also adds the layer of Frederick trying to distance himself from the family name and then later on try to redeem the family name. And I think that's something we can all relate to. Maybe not to the extent of the Frankenstein story, but there's something in all of our past that we're not proud of. I don't know if I have more skeletons in my closet or lab coats. She's not even talking about figurative skeletons.  Speaking of redemption, that brings us to the end of the movie. I believe that Young Frankenstein has the most satisfying payoff of all the Frankenstein films. That's because it isn't retelling the novel. Exactly. Mary Shelley's novel has a very bleak ending where the monster kills its creator and then destroys itself. So then in turn, most adaptations will have a very similar ending. Doesn't the monster broom to death in a windmill? No, that's just the 1931 version. The monster rips his own arm off and beats John Hurt with it? No, that's Frankenstein Unbound. The monster dies in a laboratory explosion? No, that's every other universal Frankenstein film. And unlike those, Young Frankenstein does not follow in their footsteps. What? Footsteps, footsteps, footsteps. See what I did there? Very cute. Unlike most Frankenstein films, this one has a happy ending. The Bride with Sting has a happy ending? Frederick Frankenstein is able to give the monster the part of his brain that makes him a genius. In a brain fluid transference. As per usual, the Transylvanian mob breaks into the lab to try to kill the monster. But in this movie, the monster stands up and gives a beautiful, eloquent speech. The mob then decides to back off and go home for some wine and sponge cake.  So if the monster got all of his smarts, what did Frederick get in return? He got the monster's big wang. Ooh! And they all lived happily ever after.  So unlike most Frankenstein films, this one actually has a happy payoff, which makes it stand out amongst the rest. The Bride has a happy ending! Okay, besides the Bride, and it's not just a happy ending, it's actually truly heartwarming. So there you have it. That's the end of my argument as to why Young Frankenstein is the best Frankenstein film of all time. It's got the best cast. It's got the best characters. It's got the most amount of quotable lines. It's got the best score. And even though it's a comedy, it still delivers an emotional impact with the moral. It's a great redemption story, all while doing a great job of fitting into the continuity of the universal Frankenstein films. No, it's not the best retelling of that original novel. But overall, I find it to be the most enjoyable and rewatchable of all the Frankenstein films. But hey, that's just my opinion. Make sure to leave yours in the comments. And until next time, keep following in your grandfather's footsteps. Hey Hans! Wasn't your hump on the other side? He doesn't have a hump, silly. It's just a bad back from carrying you upstairs when you're drunk on the couch.


J. Robert Oppenheimer's story is one of the most disturbing and significant of the modern period. Yet all but the most basic details have been mostly forgotten. This makes Christopher Nolan's self-titled movie both important and difficult. It has a difficult plot, as do world-changing sagas, so it's uncertain whether many audiences would persevere with it. Despite its three-hour run time, the plot itself is unpleasant, heartbreaking, and even startling. And the fact that most of its contents will be unfamiliar to most viewers may encourage them to delve further into it. It's a mind-blower, not simply for Nolan's aesthetic innovations. Some people have begun investigating the famed Oppenheimer biography that served as the inspiration for the movie, American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, which was released in 2005, just made its debut on the list of best-sellers for paperback editions. Oppenheimer was named director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the main facility of the $2 billion top-secret Manhattan project. The World War II effort developed the atomic bomb when he was 38 years old. He had been an outstanding theoretical physicist and a pioneer in the cutting-edge field of quantum mechanics. He had never been in charge of a project, was bad at experimental, a.k.a. real-world or hands-on physics, and wasn't even the most talented scientist among the hundreds who worked nearby. However, he was very charming, picked up on ideas with uncanny quickness, and understood how success in one area may shock advancement in another. So he made it work in ways that perhaps no one else could. He rose to prominence as the most well-known scientist in the world after the war, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine and being hailed as the father of the atomic bomb. A few years later, he voiced concerns about his work, spoke out against the development of the much more potent hydrogen bomb, and called for international controls on all WMDs. As a result, he was blacklisted by influential nuclear figures and had his security clearance revoked by a tribunal that was just as biased and vindictive as any of the other red-baiting panels from the Cold War. Although it was foolish to paint Oppenheimer as a Soviet spy, it is also incorrect to glorify him as a martyr who loved peace. As many of his supporters have done, by creating a nuanced portrayal of a wounded person who is both fascinated by science and tormented by remorse over the housecape it unleashed, the movie avoids falling into that trap. He is adamant about maintaining his scientific independence, yet he is also accommodating in his position as an advisor to power. He is conflicted about practically everything, but he is assured of his views. He really did. As the movie shows, out of the Bhagavad Gita verse, now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. While seeing the A-bombs first test in the desert just outside of Los Alamos, the New Mexico town where most of the bomb building took place, he actually did exclaim, I have blood on my hands. When he met with President Harry Truman after the bombs he helped manufacture, destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moreover, Truman, who had no regrets about dropping the bombs, actually told an assistant rather than speaking to Oppenheimer directly as he does in the movie, don't let that crybaby in here again. However, Oppenheimer was also enthusiastic about the bomb. After hearing about Hiroshima, he waved his fist in front of a group of scientists and shouted to laugh her in applause that he was certain the Japanese didn't. Oppenheimer said his only regret was that he and his colleagues hadn't finished the bomb in time to use it against the Germans. After receiving a letter from two of the most eminent physicists of the time, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard, warning that German scientists had discovered how to split in atom and could use this knowledge to create an extremely powerful bomb. We needed to move quickly to prevent losing the war. After Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the Manhattan Project in 1942, as it turned out, the German scientists failed to stop the Allied army from defeating the Nazis in the spring of 1945. The intentions to launch the bomb on Japan were changed by Truman, who took office following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death because Japan continued to fight. After the war, Oppenheimer experienced depression, maybe as a consequence of seeing the film of the Horace's bombs wreaked on tens of thousands of victims. However, many military leaders and some scientists lobbied for the development of a hydrogen bomb, which would be 1,000 times more potent than the atomic bombs that ended World War II, in anticipation of a potential conflict with Russia. Although Oppenheimer opposed the H-Bomb project, his objections weren't only moral. He first believed it to be impossible. When the math showed that it was possible, he eventually gave up and acknowledged that it was too technically sweet not to develop. The movie fails to include this very well-known comment. He remained unenthusiastic, though, fearing that funding for Hiroshima-style A-bombs, which he believed the army should continue developing as a means of defense in case the Soviets invaded Western Europe, would be diverted to the H-bombs. He said that H-bombs couldn't destroy anything other than large cities in the battle, and that if the Russians created them, as they would if we did, a conflict would destroy American cities. As shown in the movie, he finally came to believe that this shared weakness may prevent both sides from utilizing their weapons, or even starting a convert. He wasn't against nuclear weapons in general. Oppenheimer was still quite influential at this time. In the early 1950s, among scientists, lawmakers, and the general public, he served as the director of the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton, where Einstein continued to work, as well as the head of the Atomic Energy Commission's advisory board. His hesitant response to the H-bomb jeopardized the project's finance. Its major proponents decided to eliminate him as a result. To determine whether his security clearance should be withdrawn, they established a tribunal. He could not participate in establishing, or even knowing about, atomic policy without a cue security clearance. Oppenheimer exposed himself to assault. He had supported some of the Communist Party's ideals, which at the time included racial integration, a minimum wage, and assisting the anti-fascist troops in the Spanish Civil War as a fellow traveler in the 1930s and early 1940s. Albeit, he was probably not a card-carrying member of the party. In addition, his wife Kitty, played by Emily Blunt, had formerly been a party member, as had his brother and a number of his close friends. While teaching physics at Burke, he attended a number of the party's chapter meetings. Due to these links, his security clearance was delayed even after he was appointed Director of Los Alamos in 1943. General Leslie Groves, the project's military direct-blade by Matt Damon, had to push for the approval. Being left-wing during the 1930s, the Great Depression, or even the early 1940s, when the United States and the Soviet Union were friends in the fight against Nazi Germany, was one thing. However, the Cold War was still going strong in 1954 when the panel conducted its sessions. It was dismissed as trivial to make the distinction between a fellow traveler, a Communist, and a Soviet spy. Oppenheimer's phones had been monitored by the FBI for several years. The tribunal acquired the TAP transcripts, but because the proceedings weren't a trial, he didn't feel compelled to provide the information to Oppenheimer or his attorneys. Even his phone chats with his attorney were reported. They also quizzed Oppenheimer about an affair he'd had with a previous lover, Gene Tatlock, who was portrayed by Florence Pugh in the film. While his wife was in the hearing room, they caught him on differences between his recollection and the record of the phone taps. Kitty was aware of this, but was ashamed that her husband's abusers were also aware of it. The details of the movie focuses mostly on these hearings. You may question whether the scenes are true. Since his interrogators are shown as being so blatantly hostile, but they are, they were practically verbatim, copied from the transcripts of the hearing, which were released many years ago. As a savvy, self-made businessman and the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, the tribunal is shown by Nolan as a weapon of personal vengeance. In addition to being a passionate supporter of the agents, Strauss, played eerily by Robert Downey Jr. had also endured Oppenheimer's humiliation first during a public congressional year, and then again at AEC meetings. And Strauss never forgot this. Oppenheimer made a lot of enemies because of his propensity to harass or make fun of those who weren't as intelligent as he was, which included practically everyone. He also erred by alienating Strauss, whose capacity for resentment was unfathomable.  One of Strauss' coworkers subsequently said, but if you continue to agree with him, he assumes you're a traitor. One of the scientists from Los Alamos, Edward Teller, played by Benny Saff caused further harm. Even though the A-bomb project was ongoing, Teller had become impatient with it and wanted to go on with an H-bomb. He argued with Oppenheimer about it. Teller lobbied for the establishment of a separate lab for the construction of H-bombs after the war. Teller testified against Oppenheimer at the hearing in order to defame him since he rejected the proposal. Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by the tribunal by a two-to-one margin. For a new facility in Livermore, California, Teller received funding. Both Livermore and Los Alamos are still in use. The incident sparked a controversy and split the scientific community into Tellerhawks and Oppenheimer Doves, which led both sides to become more adamant about their viewpoints. Additionally, it widened the gap between scientists and the administration. Many scientists questioned their ability to provide guidance without sacrificing their beliefs. The harm to society was immeasurable. Oppenheimer was finally vindicated in two phases. President Dwight Eisenhower proposed Strauss for the position of Secretary of Commerce in 1959. However, David Hill, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, who was rivetingly portrayed by Remy Mallick, claimed that Strauss had orchestrated the campaign against Oppenheimer out of petty retaliation. Because of this, the Senate denied the candidacy, which was a first for a cabinet candidate since 1925, which, incidentally, was not included in Byrd and Sherman's book. It was discovered by Nolan alone. Then, in 1963, President Lyndon Johnson presented Oppenheimer with the Fermi Honor, one of the most esteemed in American science. This honor came with a financial prize of $50,000, or about $500,000 in today's dollars. Teller extended Oppenheimer's hand at the White House event, and he shook it. Kitty didn't, and she appropriately glared. Both triumphant moments are faithfully portrayed in the movie. Their marriage was considerably more turbulent than the movie portrays, but it's realistic in that it shows her continually advising her husband to defend himself against his enemies. Despite clonking in at three hours, this narrative leaves out several important details. Expecting a picture of scientists working together as a team is unrealistic. The Manhattan Project required a huge team effort, but not much of it will be seen in the movie, except for Teller, all the other scientists, such great, colorful characters as Hans Beth, Enrico Fermi, George Kistiakowski, and many others are shown as ciphers in walk-on appearances with the exception of Ernest Lawrence, played by Josh Hartnett, and Isidore Ravi, played by David Krumholz, to a lesser degree. Watch, if you can locate the BBC's 1980 seven-part drama, Oppenheimer, which starred Sam Waters for a more comprehensive understanding of the endeavor, or even better, Reed Richard Rhodes, the making of the atomic bomb, or American Prometheus. The whole movie is an immersion experiment, meant to give us a sense of what it would be like to be Robert Oppenheimer, and it's very successful in this endeavor. Having Killian Murphy in the lead role aids, Oppenheimer sometimes looked to be an ethereal entity, a creature from another realm, as shown by his lanky bill, ungainly walk, and wide eyes. In addition to mastering the most obscure new physics principles, he also studied extensively in numerous languages and in-depth works of history, philosophy, and literature. Based on having studied the language for six weeks beforehand, the movie depicts him giving a lecture on quantum physics to an audience in the Netherlands, in Dutch. We certainly get a feel of Oppenheimer's charisma, pride, and his dash of madness. And it's possible that a guy needed all three to take in the surreal eeriness of quantum physics so thoroughly and intuitively. It's also true, by the way, that he left a poison apple for one of his professors while he was a graduate student. The movie finishes with a flashback to just after World War II, when Oppenheimer and Einstein played delightfully by Tom Conte, are conversing by a lake in Princeton and discussing whether or not their joint creation would one day burn the whole planet in flames. This incident never took place, at least not according to Bird Insurance autobiography. However, it's a clever use of a dramatic lens that perfectly captures the remorse that many of the scientists who worked on the bomb fell. Some of them became passionate advocates for nuclear weapons control, led by Zillard and supported to some degree by Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is intended to be more than just a biography or historical drama, according to Nolan. In a discussion that followed the film's screening, he claimed that scientists are currently experiencing their own Oppenheimer moment, particularly in the development of artificial intelligence. Another new technology that is too appealing on the surface, what may ultimately reshape humanity more than humanity can do. He also cautioned the audience that although while the hydrogen bomb had succeeded in preventing conflicts between the main powers for the 78 years since Hiroshima, this good fortune may not continue indefinite. Everyone still lives in the Oppenheimer period.


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Good evening and welcome to ongoing election coverage by Town Meeting Television. My name is Bridget Higdon. I'm the managing editor at the Essex Reporter. Tonight I'll be talking to the candidates running for the three-year seat on the Essex Junction Board of Trustees, Andrew Champagne and incumbent Raj Chala. Voters will weigh in on this race on April 12th. If you are watching this live, we welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also watch Town Meeting TV on Comcast Channel 1087, Burlington Telecom Channel 17 and 217, as well as online at Town Meeting TV's YouTube page. So let's start off this evening with an opening statement from each of our candidates. Please tell us why you are running and what will be different for Essex Junction if you are elected. Raj, you're the incumbent here. Let's start with you, please. Thank you, Bridget. I appreciate the opportunity. I'm running to finish the work of Independence that was started early last year for Essex Junction and to finally begin to address some of what I hoped we would be doing in my first term since joining the board in 2019. I'm passionate about working to improve the health and access of healthy choices for our community. This includes improvements to our walking and biking infrastructure, ensuring we have first-class recreation and parks opportunities and I'd like to find ways to bring more affordable housing to the future as City of Essex Junction and to find ways to improve representation on our municipal committees and boards to improve inclusivity and access. And Andrew, let's hear from you. Thanks, Bridget. Good evening and thanks for tuning in. I'm running because I care and I don't think the trustees do. They also do not work on things that actually matter and they spend way too much money on pet projects. You can email me at voteforthechamp at genome.com. Thanks very much. Let's jump into our first question here. The trustees have presented a city budget for this year. Tell us if you support it and why or why not. Andrew, let's start with you, please. The budget should not be increased. The current board gave the town manager an $85,000 golden parachute. They have plenty of money. They should work on things. They should work with what they have, no new taxes. Yeah, I do. I do support the budget. We worked on it for quite some time. I believe it's a responsible budget that reflects the fact that we're decoupling from the town of Essex in terms of ending shared management and shared service models. We, based on the failure of merger and the advisory vote to separate from the town, we have moved to end those models and we have hired a finance director and HR director. We are operating under interim co-managers as we get prepared next week actually to begin a search for a new manager for the municipality. Based on that, we've used about $350,000 of PARPA money. American, I've forgotten what the abbreviation stands for now. Yes, thank you. For a one-time paydown for those unexpected expenses during this fiscal year, those weren't budgeted for this time last year. That kept the increase to, I think, a very modest level. I do support it. I look forward to a tax cut, tax rate cut for our residents once the city is approved and our first solo municipal budget is enacted for FY24. Thank you very much. Andrew, if I may ask you a follow-up question here. You said you would like the trustees to work with what they have, that the budget should not be increased. Can you give some examples about things that you believe should not be in the budget to back up that response? I just know that they spend way too much money. If you can spend $18,000 per year on a website, it doesn't cost that much.  That would have been better for the high schoolers because they could have put that on their resume. That's like gold because they've worked for a municipality on a really project. I don't believe these guys know how to do a budget. You look at, for example, the parks and rec department doesn't even have Pro Street Park or Stevens Park on their website. If you want me to believe that they know how to do a budget, I think it's laughable. Do you have experience working on a budget, Andrew? I do my personal finances, and apparently I can save money. I can do it a lot better than these guys can. Okay, thank you. Raj, anything else to add? I mean to address some of what Andy said, using high school students for free for a municipal website, especially a municipality of our stature would be taking advantage, I think, of high school students' opportunity aside. Certainly would love to take on some high school students for internships if that's something they were interested in around municipal governance. Also, Pro Street Park is in the town, that's why it's not on our website. Great, thank you very much. We'll move on to talking about the ballot. Can I respond, please? Sure, yes, if you have 15 seconds or so. So, I wasn't mentioning we hired them for free. We could create a committee for the website, and then we could pay them $20 or whatever it is for like five kids to work on the website. And according to Google, Pro Street Park is in the village. So, I mean, according to the map, that's what it looks like to me. It's in the village. Okay, and I also noticed, Raj, you live right next to Pro Street Park, and there's graffiti in there on the back, on the back, on the backboard, and goal five of the of the disc golf course is missing. And I don't understand why you haven't talked to Bradluck about any of these things. Well, let's not bring stuff into any of this conversation this afternoon. I think that's highly inappropriate. I'll let the town know that the village is taken over Pro Street Park, and we'll take care of the graffiti and the missing. The disc golf hole was removed, actually, purposefully, as I understand it. But I'll let Ali Vile and Bradluck know that the status of Pro Street Park. So, thank you. Thank you very much. All right, let's move on to talk about the ballot items here. Can we first start with each of your positions on retail cannabis sales in the village, please? Raj, we'll start with you. Sure. I think it's, I think it's premature to approve retail cannabis in the village until the village has had an opportunity to discuss how that will look. And that conversation can't happen until the state finalizes its rulemaking process, which has not happened. I don't think there's, I'm not sure, but I don't think there's a rule that's even out of comment period. So, they haven't settled on how this will look, how it will operate, what levers the community has to encourage retail cannabis, cite it, discourage it in some places. There's just no, we don't have any answers. So, I think we are voting on it right now because as a village within town, the town took it upon itself to move full speed ahead and they voted yes. And if we don't have a vote, then their answer controls for the village. So, I would encourage folks to give the village an opportunity to have those conversations by voting no on this. And some will ask, well, isn't that going to be more expensive if we have to have a whole nother election before retail sales start in October. And by the way, they can't start in until October. So, we have time, but we have a primary coming up in August and we can attach this question to that. We also have a November election shortly after October that we can attach this to without losing much opportunity should folks decide that's what we want. But my, I have several other reasons why I don't want it, but they all revolve around the fact that we have no answers. So, I think it's an opportunity to buy ourselves some time to have those community conversations, you know, the community asked us in April to pursue separation after spending the previous two years trying to pursue merger. And, you know, both boards were pretty wrapped up in that work for the entire time. And I can tell you separation sure has taken a lot of the bandwidth of all of our employees and our board members.  And I think it's both an opportunity, but it also presents some challenges and without having, you know, the rule book and without having had a chance to talk about what options we want to consider. I think it's premature. And that is not a judgment call on whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. Thank you very much. Andy, for you, support retail cannabis or not? I voted no to everything on the ballot except for cannabis. I support retail cannabis as long as it abides by federal, state and local laws. Personally, I do not smoke, drink or do drugs. Never have. I do not recommend anyone smoke, drink or do drugs, but if you are going to do them, you need to be very careful and very responsible.  So, if you're going to do recreational drugs, be very responsible and careful about how you go about it. All right. Thank you both very much. We'll move on to the next topic here. Let's talk about separation, which has already come up a couple of times here in independence. Of course, the process is going through the legislature at the moment, and perhaps we'll know by the end of May if the governor has signed off. So should separation come to fruition this summer, what in your view is the next step to be taken by the future City Council? Andy, let's start with you this time, please. The last time I knew it was in the Senate, is it still in the Senate or did the Senate pass it? It is still in the Senate. Okay. So it's still with the government off, they haven't voted on it? Correct. Okay. So I know on the lone race against separation, it's going to bring hatred between the village and the town to the next level. There will be no way for the village and the town to work things out when they do not disagree other than the courts, which will be very expensive and time consuming. There's also been a lot of political shenanigans done to make it happen, and it's not the way to do it. I still find it hard to believe that a Republican governor is going to allow a 10% or 20% increase on some of his constituents. We're also totally screwed if the town decides not to sign any of the pending contracts and to not share any of the services, which they can do because they own them, and it actually kind of makes sense because they're separating and that's an actually big task of its own. So if I was them, I would not want to share anything. I need to separate this stuff, and that's a task of its own. I don't need any help from them. And if my taxes are going up 20%, it doesn't matter to 20 to 50% or even 100% to me at that point. Get rid of the village is the way I'd be looking if I was them. Andy, can I ask you, so a lot of the stuff is already in motion. It's happening. There's no sort of, in some ways, there's no, there's no going back. We've moved forward. There's going to be a city charter and whether it passes in the Senate or not is still up to the determination, but things have been put in play here. So given all of that, sort of what is the next step from there? I mean, merger, as we know, is most likely not going to happen at this time. So where can you talk about from here going forward rather than looking back? So if the Senate doesn't pass it and the governor doesn't sign it, it's going nowhere. Okay, you're going to stay the same. Is that correct? That's the way I understand it. So what is the next step for the trustees in this case? The next step, if that occurs, then the next step is to actually, I'd rather than take a break. Just not do anything. Just keep things the way they are and work together better. Spend more time enjoying, you know, I'd like to see the town, the select board and the trustees just get rid of their individual meetings and have a regular meeting together and make that a regular thing. They also need to be doing something that makes it a lot easier for them to get along, because they really don't know how to work together. I would recommend a team sport, something that allows the board to actually work together a lot better, because the reality is what should be happening is the select board, when a problem arises, that lands on the select board's desk, the trustee should know exactly what the select board is going to do before the select board even does it, and vice versa. It should be hand in hand, and they should be able to read each other's minds. And it's not like that. They're going after each other and they're just going after each other left, right, and center. There's like the pool, for example, the recreational pool, the village pool. They have two prices, one for people who are in the village and one for people who are not in the, I mean, the pool is only open six days of the whole year. I mean, why you need two price points, you don't. Thank you, Andy. Let's get Raj in here. So the question is, should separation come to fruition? What in your view is the next step for that city council or the trustees, please? Sure. Well, first, I think we need to, we need to have some kind of get together as a community. So hopefully, we'll have quite the committee putting that together for everyone, should separation pass and the governor sign it. But we will be in the midst of hiring a municipal manager. So that is something we hope to have done. I think our target date is September 15th. We've impaneled a couple of subcommittees of community volunteers to handle recruitment and hiring, respectively. So I'm looking forward to seeing the work they do there. And, and we'll have to work through, you know, the agreements that we've, the 10 of the agreements we've come to with the select board, finalize those and begin moving forward with planning renovations to Lincoln Hall to be the new seat for the city government or return of full capacity for the city government. And prepare a budget for our first year of being an independent city. There's a lot more in between all that, but that is going to take up some time. And as I said earlier at the beginning, I'm anxious to, I'm anxious to move on to some other topics.  There's a lot around that that needs to be looked at. We've got a zoning, a process of looking at our zoning codes that has been underway for the past year. And the trustees haven't had a chance to look at the work the zoning, the planning commission has done. So there's quite a bit to do. And I think, you know, first and foremost, we want to find a great fit of a municipal manager and get our new staff up to speed and begin to work with the select board as we've been doing all along since, I believe, April or May. Excuse me. I think we had our first meeting to talk about separation agreements last May. So a lot has happened in just a year, pretty much. A lot has happened in a year. It feels like it feels like forever. I'm enthused about what I see in the legislature. It is, you know, this this charter passed GovOps in the house unanimously. It passed Ways and Means unanimously. It passed the entire house where they think only two nays. And I understand those nays might have been confusing that bill with something else. And it had a good opening reception for most of the first reading in Senate GovOps. So I think we've done our due diligence as I think we couldn't have presented a much more fair and respectful plan of merger. You know, we couldn't have developed a better one with the select board and it failed by a few votes. And I think, I think when legislators, senators hear, you know, what we've been doing, what we've done, the work we've done, the efforts we've made and the results, I think we keep hearing from legislators that they support it. We've done everything we can do. So I'm enthusiastic. I'm excited to see hopefully in the next few weeks the Senate take this up and we can get some kind of closure on this question. Thank you very much. Let me remind anybody who's watching live here that we are taking questions. You can call<PHONE_NUMBER> to ask your question. In the meantime, I will move on here to question number four. Let's talk a little bit about racial justice and where you see opportunities for addressing equity and inclusion in the Essex Junction community. How will you use your select board seat to meet this challenge? Raj, I believe we're on to you starting first here, please. Sure. This has been a conversation that's been going on for some time in our community. And I've been the latest, you know, the more organized effort that included hiring a firm, creative discourse to facilitate the work initially. I've been a representative on that from the trustees. It's work that's very important to me. It's work I do at my regular job at UVM as a volunteer staff member on an advisory committee. It was important to me early on in my first term to find ways to reduce barriers to participation on committees and boards. And ultimately what we have now through the work of many folks in our municipality and in our staff, our stipends for those who need them or feel that it helps them, you know, attend frequent committee meetings or board meetings. So I'm pretty proud of that. I think Essex Best, which is the group that's now come together around public safety and also improving representation on boards and committees, it stands for building equity, solidarity and trust. It has had the full and eager participation of our police chief and his staff, as well as our municipal staff and management, and a very enthusiastic and hardworking and dedicated group of community volunteers. And I think they have just reported out to both boards last month. The work, I think it will just begin over the next year. And the subcommittee, excuse me, it's not a committee, the task force I'm on revolves around reducing barriers and improving accessibility and participation among underrepresented groups. So really trying to attract people to our municipal governance, to participate in our community in general, who may not normally feel welcome or able to for whatever reason. So I'm excited about what we can do over the next few years. And I'll be working on that, whether I'm reelected or not. I think it's important. And I think it dovetails nicely with what the school district's been doing. So I think there's some synergy and partnership available there. Thank you very much. Andy, where do you see some opportunities for addressing racial justice in the Essex community? And how will you use the trustee seat to meet this challenge? We have serious problems with racism in this town, and we just don't want to talk about it.   And I'm saying it nicely. I really don't know, so do your own research, but I hear Palm Beach Florida likes racists. So go down there. This is my hometown. I will not tolerate racism here. Remember Brandon Williams? We haven't had any updates since the Essex police department kicked it out of their department. Is the place they kicked the case to running for cover for the police department, or are they actually doing something? I think it's time we find out. The trustees definitely failed when the fact that there was actually a protest at the police department last year. And so I just don't think that they really care. Remember the George Floyd protests? The Essex Select Board had a meeting and when it occurred, it was a full room, and the Select Board made everyone wait until all the other agenda had recovered up before talking about the George Floyd protests. They won't be able to play that game. I believe that the important topics are going to come to the meeting in the audience who are using there who are not getting paid, and they came in on a Tuesday, Thursday night to come to a boring government meeting. They should be picking which topics they should be talking about. And when it comes to things that I'm going to do, I'm going to make sure we have a committee that deals with racism and they're going to be looking for it. And we're not going, we're going to dig until we, when we have a racial problem, we're going to dig until we get to the bottom. And that's the way it's going to be. Thank you. This committee that you're proposing, Andy, is it drastically different from what already exists? Yes, they do not have anyone that talked directly to the trustees. They do not have anyone that reports directly to the trustees. They always hire it out. And the people they hire it out to, they don't do anything. I believe committee members do report to the trustees. They have a, you know, whether it's on a six-month basis or a yearly basis, there is some sort of regular check-in, usually at public meetings. But thank you very much. All right. Let's talk a little bit about housing. We of course know that in Chittenden County, in Vermont, in the country right now, there is a little bit of, you know, this bit of a housing crisis, especially for low-income and middle-income folks. So what sort of role does the village, if any, have in that? Let's, we've got just about three minutes here. So, but it's an important subject. So let's hear a little bit from each of you. So, Andy, will you start, please? Housing is a big problem. I'm not paying $350,000 for a three-bedroom, one-back, 1,400 square foot house in no garage. That's not happening. Nor do I understand the person who wants to pay $620,000 for a 3,200 square foot house in essence, Vermont. We need to figure out a way to get houses back down to normal. We need to figure out a way to get houses with four bedrooms, two baths, 1,500 square feet to about $200,000 with a garage. If a developer can't build that and they can't build here, there's many houses like this in Glen Falls to Albany area, which also has Global Foundry's Malthafab in that area, which is also a much nicer fab than the one we have here, plus the job market in that area is a lot better than here. The other reason why we need to do it is because everyone is working remote these days so they can live anywhere. If the town and state don't get competitive, they'll move somewhere else like Clearview Lake, California. A house on the lake with a dock in the backyard is like $300,000. Two hours away from San Francisco, not to mention your kids won't be able to live in this area because the housing is just too expensive, so they'll have to move away, which means you'll have limited access to grandkids. Barry just implemented a missing middle program where they invested $1 million into houses that need to be renovated. We should look into programs like this and others. Great, thank you. And Raj? Well, I am certainly not an expert on this topic. We have in paneled a housing commission, joint housing commission with the select board. They are working very hard and I understand are really getting up to speed at this point and starting to discuss just what can be done. Unfortunately, with separation, the two boards have to decide if this commission is going to work together or not. So that's coming up.  We have some very experienced people on that committee, way more knowledgeable on this topic than I am. So I am going to say that as a trustee, I'm going to be listening very carefully to the ideas and the programs that bring our way and trying to do my own research based on what they bring us. Great, thank you very much. All right. And we'll just take a quick closing statement from each of you. Raj, will you begin, please? Sure. Again, I appreciate this opportunity. I think I'm proud of the work we did during my first term. I feel like much was left undone. We made a valiant effort towards merger and I think we've done even better work as we prepare for independence as a city, future city of Essex Junction. It wasn't a desired outcome but I'm still excited about the opportunity. I'd love another term to start addressing some of these other issues and to do other work. We have a lot of energetic, enthusiastic, creative people in our community and I think the next three or four years are going to be very exciting. And Andy? Thanks for watching everybody. You can email me at voteforthechamp at tmail.com. If I am elected, one of the things that I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure that the trustees talk about things that I want to talk about. I'm not going to let things things that I don't want to talk about be talked about in serious time because I'm the elected official. It's my responsibility to make sure my things are the things that get done are things that we want done and not worked on pet projects. But thank you for coming out. Have a good night. Okay, thank you. Thank you for tuning into town meeting TV and the Essex reporters ongoing coverage of local community candidates, budgets and ballot items. Please don't forget to vote on or before Tuesday, April 12th. Early voting is available by mail and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thank you both very much for joining us this evening. And let's have a great night and a great weekend. Thank you, Bridget.


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