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Day 13,551 - School Board Race Breakdown.mp3
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00:00:04 Kevin
Hey, gang, Kevin here. Life 22 and we're going to dive right into a Sunday morning special.
00:00:12 Kevin
So it's been a hot minute, right?
00:00:16 Kevin
I know most of you guys were like, wow, we're listening to Kevin five days a week. That MFR is putting out stuff. He's getting your content every single morning and you know what that.
00:00:26 Kevin
Anya.
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But that wasn't really the reason.
00:00:30 Kevin
Per se, we just a lot of other things going on. I I run four businesses, Yada Yada, which will get me into my next point, right. So I run four businesses, I have rental properties, I work a full time job and then like this is my, this is like my this is kind of my hobby. Eventually it will be a business. I mean given that we are the only.
00:00:50 Kevin
Video news channel in Olean and also you know this is just like any channel, right? We don't just produce the news, you know we we also have, you know eventually we'll have a sitcom starring Kevin but you know.
00:01:06 Kevin
And then with all the kids being sick and then getting me sick, one of the kids had to go to the hospital. I had to go with them. And you know how much all of you know how great hospitals are? It's better in America than it is in, you know, foreign countries where, you know, you're in Europe and it's like most, you know, most people are giving birth in the waiting room because they just. It's six weeks.
00:01:26 Kevin
Once you get to the hospital to get seen by anybody.
00:01:31 Kevin
At least here it's only 6 hours.
00:01:35 Kevin
Sometimes up to 16 hours, but you know it is what it is. So just just dealing with life, man, and just trying to get you at least your motivational Mondays. I've been listening to the Council meeting. Some things have struck me, but it wasn't really anything that I wanted to just go out of my way about. We did the we did the support for Officer Boone out there couple Fridays ago.
00:01:55 Kevin
So I just wanted to.
00:02:02 Kevin
Give you that kind of update. I try to keep updates for the end of the show, but with all the things that I have going on, I have been still trying to book and readily book guests and interviewees for the channel. And one of the big interviewees for the channel is.
00:02:21 Kevin
Is obviously the Alderman races. The mayoral races are coming up and the the school board election and the school board election is coming up. Before you know it, it will.
00:02:31 Kevin
Be here Tuesday so.
00:02:34 Kevin
I wanted to go over with you. A group of things that I've had on my plate.
00:02:43 Kevin
Oh, damn. So it's Tuesday, May 20th between 7:00 AM and 9:00 PM in the music suite of the Olean Intermediate Middle School, and that is located at 401 Wayne St. now.
00:02:58 Kevin
Because of the upcoming races, I wanted to talk about this and I know that some of the candidates have been bugging me because I was going to do a non biased interview with each and every candidate and then I'm going to give you my take on all the candidates and then I'm going to give you Kevin's picks. And that was kind of how it's going to go. It's going how it's going to go for the Alderman.
00:03:18 Kevin
Places as well.
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But.
00:03:23 Kevin
So I just wanted to, it's just the school board race is kind of got a little weird, right, we, you know, because they're average Joes and they're not really politicians. Or at least they're not supposed to be politicians. At least that's how the mindset is. The problem is when you're running for any kind of election, it's automatically political because.
00:03:43 Kevin
Elections are political, right?
00:03:44 Kevin
Right. Elections are politics. It it's it's just, you know, you don't you don't elect somebody to office that aren't politicians, right? That's like, but you're a school board member. It's like, yes. But they were all elected, which makes them a politician. It's like, you know, things that live underwater are typically called fish. Right? Like, it's like, well, so.
00:04:07 Kevin
So one of the big things that we have.
00:04:13 Kevin
Going on is the with the upcoming school board is I was reached out to by one of the candidates and that's what sparked me to ohh man, I better get on hold of all the candidates and it was very early in the season and then only one candidate has come on. One had dropped off and let's go through the list. Right? So like we had.
00:04:33 Kevin
Who? Salstein and a couple. I think there was one or.
00:04:36 Kevin
Others that we're talking about running, they got petitions pulled and then they just never ran or they never pulled petitions. They talked about it. They reached out to me about it, like, like Levi had reached out to me about running, asked me questions. I told him to get permits, and he was going to. And then he took an A promotion at work. And he just, it's not going to be in the cards.
00:04:57 Kevin
And.
00:04:58 Kevin
Who's seen? I heard since dropped out Tim. Sherlock jumped in in the middle of the, you know, post petition time and he's a candidate. And he came on the show. And you can watch that that interview. I'm not trying to give people softball questions, but I'm also not trying to jump down people's throats if they have differing opinions than me.
00:05:18 Kevin
So that's why I want to do the non biased interviews, but I want to be kind of like I want. I want to be a little tough on people but I don't want to let it be so biased. But you can't. You can't pull bias out of.
00:05:30 Kevin
A like you know, like it's it's otherwise if you could complete if anybody can pull bias out completely, then what's the difference between an interview with you and the next guy, right. Because you would just be completely, you know, an amateur or whatever they, you know, just some generic guy, right. So.
00:05:50 Kevin
UM.
00:05:52 Kevin
But yeah, so one of my one of my my points was that you know I I we gave everyone ample opportunity to to get on the show and there we sent. So the other the other candidate who the one who actually reached out to me asking about about my involvement in the school board race and things like that.
00:06:14 Kevin
Was de Blasio and I.
00:06:19 Kevin
And he's, you know, hey, maybe we can have do something coming up. And then it was just a back and forth and then it just never got scheduled. And he says he's very, very busy. And with that said, as you can see, I'm very, very busy and I do this as more of a hobby. I don't get paid for this. I'd like to get paid for this. This would be phenomenal to be able to do what I, you know, do what I enjoy.
00:06:39 Kevin
Doing but no, no, this is a. This is a just like the school board. This is a pro bono gig.
00:06:45 Kevin
If anything, it's like negative pro bono. It is like it costs me money for cameras and microphones and all that other stuff. So and and time out of my day in a way for my my kids. But this I this is how I give back to my community too is speaking my opinions and then pointing out things and I've been providing news and interviews for other people to see. So.
00:07:05 Kevin
But he could not make time in his busy schedule, and I really wanted to have an interview with him because of a a segment I'm doing up at the end of this show. When I do my picks.
00:07:18 Kevin
So.
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There we go. OK.
00:07:30 Kevin
So.
00:07:32 Kevin
The other three candidates were running as a team. It is young Kalbi and Malik, and I've reached out to each and every one of them via e-mail and their Facebook pages with follow-ups and the emails all got returned. Read Sender requests, so I've been notified that they've read.
00:07:51 Kevin
Them all with zero response and I've got notified through Facebook that they've been that they've read my my messages to them. So which is a little odd that they just never even reached out and I this is my estimation is that they're taking the old school Republican approach to interviews well.
00:08:13 Kevin
You stick with one. You know if there was 10 newspapers in our area and all like legacy or whatever, you would pick two. You do you very minimal. You just do what you can and then you do mailers and you do maybe a phone call like an auto, a robo call and that's it. You keep your head down, you keep your nose.
00:08:33 Kevin
Clean. You keep out. No news is good news you want as few few you know few times in the public that are media based as possible. That is a very Republican thing.
00:08:44 Kevin
Thing to do.
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Which has hurt the Republicans in the past, and we're making great strides where almost every Republican, when you register, you're like transparency and that's what grinds my gears is because I'm all about transparency. And I hated that approach.
00:08:59 Kevin
No news is good news. No. Get out of here because then people don't know what you stand for. Oh, well, we know what she stands for, right? She's Kathy young, right? She's she's, you know, she's been there for 23 plus years. It's like, OK, well, that's that's great.
00:09:12 Kevin
What does she stand for on the school board though, especially when people are saying school boards are not political. Right? OK. So what, then? What does their politics have to do with it? Right. So that's that would be my argument to that is like, if it's not political and she's a politician and she has to separate that and people know what her politics are, well, then what? What's the the personal life of, Kathy?
00:09:31 Kevin
What is? How does she bring to the table that is not political, right? So that's that would be my argument. But then again, like I've been saying the whole time.
00:09:42 Kevin
Politics are downstream of culture, which means that if you, if you act in a certain way, your politics are going to reflect that because they're just a, you know.
00:09:53 Kevin
A foreshadow of yourself.
00:09:59 Kevin
So they're they are, you know, they're an extension of yourself the the way that you're, you know, if your kids act out and and and and it's because of something that, you know, maybe their parents are doing it's it's a very you know they're influenced by you so you know if your kids act certain way. I mean it could say something about yourself. So that's and that's very much how you should relate.
00:10:16 Kevin
Politics to some of these issues, so we know how Kathy's politics are.
00:10:22 Kevin
And I don't know.
00:10:25 Kevin
Kalbi or Malik if they've teamed up with Kathy, either they're a riding the the the tide of her political influence and her war chest or, you know, or they are aligned with her values. Sometimes you're aligned with values and sometimes you're just kind of like a potato, right. You're just kind of like this bland, this bland.
00:10:45 Kevin
Thing that just kind of like you know, just adds more, adds more to the plate, but it's not.
00:10:51 Kevin
It's like it's not the, it's not the steak, right? It's just it's something that makes the plate like, you know, you have to have a larger plate to be able to fit all this stuff. Look at all the stuff we've got here. And it's like, yes, but you've got your stake right here, right. And that's why people are here is for the steak. They're not here for the potatoes, which is not, you know, that's.
00:11:10 Kevin
That's that is one way of looking at it, but I I it's hard for me to give you an honest opinion on those two. I don't know them.
00:11:18 Kevin
I don't know them, they've.
00:11:23 Kevin
My assumption is it's their. Their silence is a declination of an interview and we've got like 2 days left, so I don't foresee any of them reaching out for a last minute video interview. And you know, I I spoke with somebody the other day about this too, because people know that like I invest quite a bit of money into my hobby, which is this.
00:11:43 Kevin
And then people like, oh, we need more transparency. We need more. We need a local news station and blah, it's like, oh, hey, Kevin Doherty just provided that to.
00:11:49 Kevin
The community and then people are like hmm.
00:11:51 Kevin
You know, and it's like, well. And then you have, but then you have all these people like similar like the you go to Republican, you go to Republican anything they're like, we need more of this. We need to support local businesses regardless if they're a newspaper to a television channel, to a restaurant, to this and then and all sides. You're saying that and then you get this like resistance. Like I don't want to go talk to him.
00:12:12 Kevin
Well, I mean, you're running for public office.
00:12:16 Kevin
Like I take that approach that like if when I was an Alderman, if any constituent said I need you to talk to me, like, come to my house right this moment. And sometimes it wouldn't be right. This moment. Right. Like you can't command that of other people. But I have an obligation to visit with you, whether it's drink.
00:12:30 Kevin
A coffee or.
00:12:32 Kevin
Have lunch or whatever and or just stop by your house and talk to you. I have an.
00:12:36 Kevin
Obligation you've requested for your policy.
00:12:39 Kevin
Didn't show up and like I'm sorry that at Kathy's level prior that she couldn't do it for thousands of hundreds of thousands of people to do that. But she does have an obligation at some point to do something similar and and that that could be just an intern to go discuss Cathy's plans. Right. Like, that's. But you have that obligation upon request to to do that. And at the school board is no different because it is political.
00:13:00 Kevin
And you're running for this political office. And so, like, whether it was my request to come on the show or what it was, you know, Joe constituent to request it like I I just, I I wonder if you know somebody like you know is is she going?
00:13:13 Kevin
Do is she? Is it gonna be a typical politician thing they're gonna get in office and then you never hear from these people if I've seen it with Alderman. I've seen it with school board members. I've seen it with this, and I get it. You have your own lives and whatever else. But then don't run for this office if you don't have the time.
00:13:29 Kevin
Which also gets us back to De Blasi.
00:13:35 Kevin
He is well as he approached me in his first contact. It was we are not on the same side of the political spectrum. I am not as far left as Leo, which is what he said stated. But I am not as far right as you. We I'm somewhere in the middle and OK, that's great. I don't mind having a conversation with somebody like that.
00:13:56 Kevin
I was going to say Tim Sherlock is is probably a little lefter then left of center, but I would say as far as like people on the right would go, I would probably be the complete inverse. I would you know I'm right of center. Probably a little more right than just slightly right of center.
00:14:13 Kevin
I'm not extreme, right? There's a lot of people out there that would probably say that, but I mean, I've if you're, if you're on the right, you've seen righter than you.
00:14:23 Kevin
The problem is that they're they're not as active on social media and in the public as the people that are on the leftist of the left. So that's why people get a wide, broad, transparent understanding of where the left side of the aisle comes from, because they we they give you everyone from the center all the way, all the way to the pits of the left.
00:14:43 Kevin
So.
00:14:46 Kevin
But that said, to make time to come on the show, de Blasio didn't. And, and here's my, I guess, and this is where I'll get into the de Blasio argument, I suppose.
00:14:57 Kevin
Ohh well let me get back to I I cannot give you an honest opinion on how the other two will. Will bode if if. If Kathy's letting them tether tether their their their ropes to her ship then I would surmise and based on how my politics are probably a little bit.
00:15:17 Kevin
Are probably more aligned with Kathy's than any other known candidate to me.
00:15:24 Kevin
Uh.
00:15:26 Kevin
I'm probably going to lean on the side of Kathy and lean on one of these two. I do not know which one, but that. So I would say they would probably be in my pick house and don't think that that doesn't weigh against like somebody like Tim who made time to speak with me and wanted to have an open, honest conversation and that we could go back and.
00:15:47 Kevin
Worth and learning that Tim is not as left as most people think when he came to school board meetings, we all thought that Tim was as left as some of the leftist people that were there and it was very it's very frightening and it turns people off. So by him coming on the show and showing people like, no, I'm not for this. I'm not for that. I'm.
00:16:07 Kevin
He takes a Republican approach to this, but then he takes a leftist approach to that. So he.
00:16:12 Kevin
But he is somebody you can get along with, which is all the abrasiveness though that I see now getting into to De Blasi. I see a lot of abrasiveness. I know that he has some personal dogs in the fight, and here's where I will give you my moral standpoint on this if.
00:16:31 Kevin
You are utilizing your spouse.
00:16:35 Kevin
Because.
00:16:36 Kevin
Your spouse and you are inseparable, right? You come together in a union to become one.
00:16:42 Kevin
Hence.
00:16:45 Kevin
I understand that the legal system, if your wife kills somebody, you do not go to jail for murder unless you are like, you know, some somehow related or, you know, an accessory to that. But like, let's say you're two different grocery stores, you're, you're over here, your wife's over there, and she just murders somebody like you don't both just go to jail. Right. But.
00:17:04 Kevin
That that's a far extreme. What I'm saying is though, that like you in, in the eyes of, you know, how your family is viewed, you both are the same person. You are viewed as one. You are a union of two people to become one.
00:17:16 Kevin
That is it. So from my understanding, she's suing the school district for some instance that happened with her child. Well, their child. And so now he's running for school board.
00:17:30 Kevin
I don't care if you're in, you know you can't let passion lead you down. Every Rd. It is great to be passionate, but if you have.
00:17:41 Kevin
A side play.
00:17:43 Kevin
If you're playing these stupid games, well, my wife can't talk about our lawsuit, but I can. Well, no, you. You're the same person, so you cannot use that argument. And I'm not using that from a legal standpoint. I am using that from the definition of marriage, from a religious and spiritual standpoint, because the legal system says it's OK does not mean that it's OK. There's a lot of things out there.
00:18:05 Kevin
That are legal, that should not be. There are a lot of things that are illegal.
00:18:11 Kevin
That should not be. There are a lot of things that are rightly illegal, and there are a lot of things that.
00:18:16 Kevin
Are rightly legal.
00:18:18 Kevin
You're using this Gray area and that is a child's.
00:18:21 Kevin
Game.
00:18:22 Kevin
And I do not elect children to the school board. So and then that said, and there's a lot of animosity that's going about this, you're coming off very.
00:18:32 Kevin
Hot under the collar, you're letting your motions lead, and so this is more. This is more of advice directed directly towards this candidate, I guess you.
00:18:44 Kevin
You're from based on what? From what I gather, you're a young guy and.
00:18:49 Kevin
You need to gather some emotional intelligence. You're letting your passion for an incidence that happened with your daughter drive you. It's driving your wife to sue the board, and it is driving you to take a seat on the board. You're not going to be able to do anything in regards to your, your wife's, your wifes lawsuit if you do. I think it should void it. I think that the fact that you're running should void your life, wife.
00:19:12 Kevin
Because from what I gather, speaking to different people and different layers, what will happen is the school board will probably settle and you're going to make some money and you should.
00:19:21 Kevin
And like because and here's why.
00:19:25 Kevin
I think that if somebody has harmed you that that yes you, you should be entitled to some form of compensation, right? Like whether it was medical bills or whatever. But just because.
00:19:37 Kevin
If somebody.
00:19:39 Kevin
Harmed you at Burger King? I don't believe that. It's the responsibility of Burger King to pay for your damages because it happened in their store, right? The same with the school district. Now I get that the school district is a little bit different, right? They are taking.
00:19:58 Kevin
A responsible role over your children like they are, they are becoming. They are the supervisor of your children. While they were there, so they had to have a fiduciary obligation to protect your children.
00:20:10 Kevin
But you're blowing a minor incident from what I gather, from what I gather, because the same people that have leaked information to you that are on.
00:20:18 Kevin
In school boards or within the administration or from the district, whether they're lowly teachers or aides, people that have leaked information to you who shouldn't, people who have leaked information to me, probably who shouldn't have explained the situation to me in the same way that you understand it, you're just more passionate about it because it's your daughter and.
00:20:36 Kevin
I don't fault you for that.
00:20:38 Kevin
The problem is that the issue that you're doing is you're dragging your daughter's name and everything and situation into the limelight for the whole world to see, which is going to have way more catastrophic effects on your child.
00:20:52 Kevin
Than the school district.
00:20:56 Kevin
Will ever have done to you? And then my biggest contention about this is that you brought the name of the other child into this and that is a super no, no. Like you would never like. I like. It's one thing if I'm dealing with an altercation and I'm bringing up the names of adults involved.
00:21:14 Kevin
This is a child.
00:21:15 Kevin
This is a child, yet do I have the ability to do it? Yes. And most of people that watch this channel, probably who know me. You probably know that this is true, but people who just don't like me probably be like Kevin, don't have a moral conscience. Like just. No. Yes, I do. And here's where the moral conscience comes in. You should not ever be publicly talking about this situation when it deals with the children.
00:21:36 Kevin
Because those kids have like.
00:21:40 Kevin
Their children and from what I gather, the situation is.
00:21:46 Kevin
Like it's not a bullying situation, it is one little girl.
00:21:52 Kevin
Touched your daughter in a place that maybe she shouldn't have, and that's what I'm gathering from this. And instead of just saying, you know, cause if it's and it's not like a continual abuse type situation, it's like a one off instance like.
00:22:06 Kevin
Your daughter would have gotten over that because she wouldn't have realized it, cause such a young age when this happened and my theory would be that there's probably some sexual abuse at home of the other child. So the other child is actually also a victim. Your child just happens to be.
00:22:23 Kevin
Somebody that this child interacted with and instead of being an adult about it and be like, listen like we're gonna, we're just gonna, we're gonna deal with this in our household. We want the district to be aware. Please go look into this. And now because you've caused all your mess. Nobody is looking into the home of that other child where there may be some sexual misconduct and and I hope they do. And I hope that that can get corrected.
00:22:45 Kevin
So that that child also. So this is here's The thing is, it's like both children.
00:22:51 Kevin
Could grow up to be normal functioning adults if the system works how it should. The problem is the system is also working how it should from a litigation standpoint. Now you're suing the district and everything is shutting down and the system cannot work to go help and stop different things from happening. You're treating this other child like they are a you know.
00:23:11 Kevin
A cellmate in a prison where they're both adults and they know what they're doing, know that isn't and one person is ****** another person. That is not what is happening is not what happened. Based on what I have gathered from this situation and for the fact that you to just even just drag all this through the mud, I just don't.
00:23:28 Kevin
I I don't. I don't think that this is an appropriate stance. I don't think that this is a.
00:23:38 Kevin
I don't, I don't. I don't think that you putting your hat in the ring. I don't think. And I and I think the district probably would.
00:23:47 Kevin
Have.
00:23:47 Kevin
Would have handled things a little bit differently. If you would handle things a little bit differently and now it's becoming a lawsuit, which means that our tax dollars are going to go lump sum your family and I wish that when you get.
00:23:58 Kevin
Compensated for stuff like that. There are strings attached to the money. This is to go to counseling and medical expenses of the child.
00:24:04 Kevin
And this and that and it is not to and and maybe some legal expenses, but it should not go to anything else if you get a pool in your backyard because of this like I think that that is a like a a gross injustice.
00:24:17 Kevin
So it's it's just one of those like this, I mean this topic has been brewing for a while and I've been meaning to have this conversation right here and.
00:24:27 Kevin
Because I want people to know who they're voting for, I wanted to have a conversation with you. Non bias with no bias so that I could at least get your take on it. But all I have is this because you blew us off as well. And so the thing that I'm going to do is.
00:24:45 Kevin
Yeah, I just, I I I needed to air this. I just think that that your actions in this are a grave or or grave injustice to the to the system. I I don't I I and I and I think they are coming from a place of inexperience in youth.
00:25:03 Kevin
And I think that when you grow up more maybe in the future that and that you've you've gotten past the way that you hold yourself and your your ability to litigiously Sue our system, then maybe you can go through and.
00:25:22 Kevin
And.
00:25:25 Kevin
Run for school board in the future, but I don't believe that now is the time for you.
00:25:31 Kevin
Well, I feel a little bit better. I've been carrying that on my shoulders for a while now. So now now for our picks. So we're going to the pick segment of the show, so.
00:25:43 Kevin
Being a being a devout Republican, I I am going to tether my vote to Kathy Young.
00:25:50 Kevin
I know that's probably no surprise to any of you, and as you probably have guessed, I am not going to be voting for De Blasi, and I'm probably going to push you to not vote for de Blasio as well.
00:26:04 Kevin
My other.
00:26:08 Kevin
Situation is that I am not going to.
00:26:15 Kevin
I'm going to.
00:26:19 Kevin
I know the theory why they're running in a group of three.
00:26:25 Kevin
It's because then they take all the seats, right? And then they have a stronger chance to maybe overthrow the Superintendent, which I'm here, nor there on that because the Superintendent is doing the will of the board and the board has to do the will of the State Department of Education. So I don't believe other than incremental changes that you can do anything grand.
00:26:44 Kevin
At the school board level.
00:26:46 Kevin
So.
00:26:48 Kevin
I do believe there should always be a little resistance to anything in government. Government should not move very fast in one way or the other, even if it is a corrective change. Everything should be incrementally slow and I think that if, as long as you're staying diligent in what you're doing in your thought processes and that you are using your skills to vote and educate the public that you can.
00:27:07 Kevin
Incrementally change things back and so with that said, I am tethering my vote to Kathy Young.
00:27:12 Kevin
I will also be tethering my pick to Timothy Sherlock. I liked him. He has left of center, but he's going to create some great dialogue and it'll give a good supportive resistance to Cathy or they might get along on a lot of issues which either way I think that it's great for people to have the dialogue, to explain what they're doing, to explain why they're voting.
00:27:32 Kevin
To have those conversations, and that is one of the things I do agree with him on. And so and then because I don't know the other two.
00:27:42 Kevin
I will be picking one of them I.
00:27:46 Kevin
But really, it's just a coin toss.
00:27:49 Kevin
I believe one of them married a friend of mine from high school and the other one is another friend of mines wife. It's not his little sister. I think it's his wife. So I mean, it's really just it's it's a coin toss up between the other two. So you have 3 votes. Or you could just choose for those two. Or you could just choose. I'm not going to try to sway your vote one way or another. I mean, most people do listen to me when it comes to politics and I make a.
00:28:13 Kevin
It it does make you know, I do have some pretty good insight and I think that today's 30 Minute podcast on explaining the situations on who I would vote for and why.
00:28:25 Kevin
Makes for you to make a decent decision, so I will be voting for those two and then probably a coin toss on who the third would be. And I have explained to you who the third would not be. And with that said, I hope you guys enjoyed this breakdown of the Olean School board race. Do not hesitate.
00:28:45 Kevin
To get out there and vote if you have questions. If you have concerns, let me.
00:28:52 Kevin
No.
00:28:53 Kevin
Let me know I'm I'm open. Let let let me know. I'm sure I'm. I'm sure somebody's not gonna like this podcast. But stay well guys and we'll see you guys. Ohh tomorrow. It's Monday. It's motivational Monday. We'll see you tomorrow on motivational Monday.