TELEPHONE_USER: Okay, did you get a recording warning?
TELEPHONE_USER: Good. Okay.
TELEPHONE_USER: We are recovering from tornado first.st Ever tornado warning in San Francisco this morning?
Jeffrey Glover: I saw it. It's all over the it's all over the Internet.
TELEPHONE_USER: I wasn't local enough to actually get the warning. But I have. I see people shelter in place in their basement just wild.
TELEPHONE_USER: Okay, I'm gonna get started because it's gonna get started.
TELEPHONE_USER: the proposed agenda, which I also posted on our website.
TELEPHONE_USER: has links to the transcript and agenda from the last meeting.
TELEPHONE_USER: little bobble with the links. I gotta double check those, because I was kind of conflated October and November, but I think it's all out there. But if people I figure no one's asked me, so no one cares. So last meeting stuff is out there.
TELEPHONE_USER: The website is rolling around, rolling along. Jeffrey, thank you again for originally setting that up.
Jeffrey Glover: Yeah, you asked me. I I have a invoice from it. I don't know. You asked me to track keep track of that. So it's just a a yearly invoice. It's only 35 bucks. But I'm you know I'm not. I'm not in a hurry to, you know. Get it reimbursed, or anything like that, so just curious as to what you want me to do with it.
TELEPHONE_USER: Well, especially with Alejandro here, who's in the tropics? Apparently.
Jeffrey Glover: Apparently.
TELEPHONE_USER: I suppose I should use my official background.
TELEPHONE_USER: We will someday have money.
TELEPHONE_USER: And so we should think about.
TELEPHONE_USER: Well, I don't have that on this computer. We should think about reimbursement type stuff. We have made a little money from the T-shirts and
TELEPHONE_USER: caps and ball gowns and such. So we have a little bit of money there. I'm gonna make note of
TELEPHONE_USER: Let's see what's your name again, Jeffrey? Jeffrey.
Jeffrey Glover: I mean, I'm not in a hurry.
TELEPHONE_USER: $5 in.
Jeffrey Glover: It's just, you know, at some point you just keep track of it so that way, you know, when we can get reimbursed. It's fine, but.
TELEPHONE_USER: Yeah.
Jeffrey Glover: I was more than happy to discover, so we can get something up.
TELEPHONE_USER: Thank you. And what about
TELEPHONE_USER: Do you have any sense of how much space we're using.
TELEPHONE_USER: hosting a lot to the site.
Jeffrey Glover: No, I I you don't have to worry about it. It's all I don't think there's any limit to to the space on Bluehost.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay, okay. Mel is having trouble with the
Alejandro Nuno: hey, les Mel is having trouble with the code.
Les Wright: Okay.
Alejandro Nuno: For the meeting. Okay, let me get the invite and send that to him.
Alejandro Nuno: okay. I sent that to him.
Alejandro Nuno: Oh, I should indicate who is here.
Alejandro Nuno: So it's Bill less. Alejandro Hunter. O for you.
Alejandro Nuno: it's hard to believe. Hunter, you're not the only hunter that we talked to.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay, okay,
Alejandro Nuno: so I just, I finally hooked up stats for the website just to start getting some sense of how many people are coming.
Alejandro Nuno: So
Alejandro Nuno: It's a rolling. 30 days is the main stat that we see. So we've had about 25 people come over the last month.
Alejandro Nuno: This is as of the 12th and
Alejandro Nuno: that was in 25 sessions of connectivity, 28 pages viewed, etc. So
Alejandro Nuno: gonna start keeping track of how many people come. And then it helps me prompt
Alejandro Nuno: telling the whole Facebook group, hey, everybody come to the website. Come, look at what's there. So
Alejandro Nuno: things that we can do to entice more people. There is great
Alejandro Nuno: I've talked to less, or maybe the whole Central Committee. I'm starting to add some page links.
Les Wright: To the website, so that it's easier to point to specific places.
Alejandro Nuno: So. And also I'm kind of organizing content a little bit.
Alejandro Nuno: So on the essential links page have a subcategory for regional content and a subcategory which I call Barsona. I forget who 1st used that word, but we've got a category for
Alejandro Nuno: individuals. So that is starting
Alejandro Nuno: les. And I have done a bunch of interviews lately.
Alejandro Nuno: We just did or scheduled bear number 100.
Alejandro Nuno: We haven't done a hundred of these, but we, you know on our list.
Alejandro Nuno: on our our big, our big list
Alejandro Nuno: bear number 100 was someone we just either interviewed or scheduled interview. We've got 2. We've got one scheduled and
Alejandro Nuno: one or 2 in the works.
Alejandro Nuno: One that's scheduled or almost scheduled, is going to be our 1st Spanish language. Foreign language.
Alejandro Nuno: Interview with a translator at at the same time. So
Alejandro Nuno: we're not quite sure what our software will do with
Alejandro Nuno: language recognition. But we'll have a live translator there. So that should be interesting. And that interviewee is concerned that
Alejandro Nuno: his his words are not gonna get across. So we're reassuring him. That.
Alejandro Nuno: 1st of all, we need the waiver before we can do anything with this content. But why does it need? You know? We'll we'll send him the raw video once it's done, and he can kind of approve that it went well enough.
Alejandro Nuno: We're using. I'm using artificial intelligence to help clean up the videos and create the highlight reels.
Alejandro Nuno: Those make for kind of a Max headroom looking.
Alejandro Nuno: but they're done. I mean, it takes like 5 min, and each one is done. So we have about 30 that have been done.
Alejandro Nuno: and they're out there on our Youtube channel.
Alejandro Nuno: So there's a playlist called Highlight Reels.
Alejandro Nuno: They're all marked.
Alejandro Nuno: Not for children you have. You have to choose like. Do you want it? How restricted you want it to be so! They're not marked adult content, but they are marked not for children.
Alejandro Nuno: So if you've got kids in your household and you can't get to our Youtube content, it might be because you have a filter
Alejandro Nuno: that is hiding the, you know, icier content. So
Alejandro Nuno: I think they're all marked that way.
Alejandro Nuno: and almost all of the highlight reels have been done with artificial intelligence
Alejandro Nuno: pure. Just go. And then I kind of look at what was transcribed, and then, like, No, take this out, take that out.
Alejandro Nuno: So those are really fast, which is great
Alejandro Nuno: and link to the highlight reels or link to the Youtube channels there.
Alejandro Nuno: I know Clark wasn't gonna be able to make it so. I want to ask him again for his
Alejandro Nuno: list of his content.
Alejandro Nuno: What do you call it? What did he do? His taxonomy. He went through the original
Alejandro Nuno: 20 or so videos and marked up
Alejandro Nuno: where certain content starts and ends which should facilitate us, creating podcasts of, let's
Alejandro Nuno: let's hear each bear describe what they feel about what is a bear, although I think our artificial intelligence are underlord, as it's called in descript. I think that will also help. So I'm going to play with that.
Alejandro Nuno: We have a web page that describes
Alejandro Nuno: these stories and podcasts. It's called coming soon coming soon, stories and podcasts. And I haven't really been keeping it up to date. It's a table of data. And I'm just lazy about getting the link to each video and
Alejandro Nuno: putting up there. But
Alejandro Nuno: that's out there and needs some needs some love. I also want to email each person who did an interview. And
Alejandro Nuno: I'm gonna I'm gonna put together an email which is, thanks again for your presentation. The highlight reel
Alejandro Nuno: is out there just because it turns out
Alejandro Nuno: as we have presented them to people they have some, you know. Several people have had an issue. Please don't use my name in the description. It's now the 1st thing I see when I search for my name on Google. And I'm okay with having been interviewed. But
Alejandro Nuno: a school teacher, I really don't need my name associated with the things I said.
Alejandro Nuno: So I'm gonna email, each person let them know that the highlight reel is out there
Alejandro Nuno: and the video is going into our archives for future historians like Les and Nick and others to use. So just a reminder, you signed a damn waiver, but and it's out there. But hey? Here's where the content lives.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay?
Alejandro Nuno: that's it. About the website from me. Fundraising stuff.
Alejandro Nuno: Alejandro, do you have any
Alejandro Nuno: Any updates on the Eagle. You said you were. Gonna see what my 2025 calendar looks like.
Alejandro Nuno: Can you hear me now? Can you hear me? Yes, okay, yeah. I I guess I I did a bunch of files off my computer. And I don't know where my audio is just on my computer. So anyway, I'm using these guys anyway, 2025 is in the works. So I'm getting on the schedule for 2025 to get some fundraisers
Alejandro Nuno: beer bust for fundraising. Some Sundays. I'm trying to do some Saturdays as well. So when that schedules
Alejandro Nuno: populated, I will let you guys know what slots we got in for 2025. So
Alejandro Nuno: that's that front. So okay, first, st as far as fundraising
Alejandro Nuno: fundraising. The other topic, too, is
Alejandro Nuno: pins and someone raised. I think it was sales tax, but
Alejandro Nuno: resellers license to buy those sales tax free. But so not. I'm not clear whether we're gonna be giving those away as and asking for donation, or we're gonna be selling those, we'll be selling them. Yeah, we'll be selling them
Alejandro Nuno: selling them. Okay? So then I'll need to get us a reseller license. Then through the state.
Alejandro Nuno: and okay, have we bought? Have we? Have we purchased those pins yet.
Alejandro Nuno: That was the next question. No, I think I'm gonna go ahead and get the 100. I'm just looking at the poll. So
Alejandro Nuno: we're running a poll, which is great to get some people saying something. And
Alejandro Nuno: the majority, 42, 42% said, get the square ones, 29% said, Get the bumpy ones.
Alejandro Nuno: 1% said, I don't care. And 28% said, either one is fine. So
Alejandro Nuno: it's looking like, I'll start with the squarish ones. I'll get a hundred of those
Alejandro Nuno: and I'm just not gonna worry about the the tax of buying them for this run, because, you know, that takes like 6 weeks or whatever. So I want to get those going.
Alejandro Nuno: And then if we do, if we, if they're great and we'll do future ones. Then, Alejandro, we will use the
Alejandro Nuno: tax benefit of to buy new ones.
Alejandro Nuno: I'll get the ball rolling on the on the tax exempt reseller certificate on that, anyway. So it shouldn't take that long to get
Alejandro Nuno: future orders almost. How much are those, by the way? They? And when we buy a hundred of them they're about $3 and 30 cents a piece.
Alejandro Nuno: and we thought we'd sell them for $10 a piece as a fundraiser for the organization.
Les Wright: Oh!
Alejandro Nuno: So not a huge outlay. I'll I'll buy them
Alejandro Nuno: And then, you know, I'll take that 1st $300 back
Alejandro Nuno: to pay for those pins, and then we'll have a fundraiser from there.
Alejandro Nuno: My plan is, you asked about giving versus selling. My plan is to give one to each of the board members.
Alejandro Nuno: And then we'll sell them to others.
Alejandro Nuno: you know. So a little bit of reward for people who I've done some work.
Alejandro Nuno: Hey, Alejandro, for the if we do when we go ahead with the eagle, like, how many people do, we need per
Alejandro Nuno: beer bust?
Alejandro Nuno: 5 or 6 people.
Alejandro Nuno: At least 2 people at the table collecting cash at least
Alejandro Nuno: 2 people at a table. Just tip. Typically, what happens is the
Alejandro Nuno: organization that's running the beer bus to provide food.
Alejandro Nuno: It's something as simple as you know, Costco pizza, whatever. So you buy the beer bus and you get us a little ticket or coupon, and with the beer bus you get the slice of pizza, for example. So
Alejandro Nuno: so it can be that much money to run, but at least one or 2 people for that. And then, if we want to just gel shots as well, then that's gonna be at least another one or 2
Alejandro Nuno: people as well. So I would say, 5 to 6 at minimum. So
Alejandro Nuno: okay, so we definitely need some volunteers volunteers at that point. So okay, local people.
Alejandro Nuno: yeah, local. Yeah, for sure. And I can. I can. I can get somebody else to help other people that are not
Alejandro Nuno: in this, too. So going circling back to the pens thing, then we're not gonna do
Alejandro Nuno: the resell thing@firstst Real license. 1st purchase them. Then
Alejandro Nuno: when we do sell them, we will have to pay sales tax
Alejandro Nuno: on that. So keep that in mind. If we're gonna charge a flat fee for that.
Alejandro Nuno: Then that's say, $10. Then
Alejandro Nuno: that sales taxes to be built into that $10. And we have. We have to pay for that, anyway, or we're gonna charge $10 plus sales tax. So
Alejandro Nuno: either way, we have to figure it out. But
Alejandro Nuno: okay, so it's not 2 separate things. It's not. Are we paying
Alejandro Nuno: tax to buy them as a reseller?
Alejandro Nuno: And then we're paying tax because we've sold them. Those are 2 separate things, right?
Alejandro Nuno: 2 different things. Yeah, okay, yeah. I like the flat $10
Alejandro Nuno: and me a 20. Take 2
Alejandro Nuno: kind of thing. So yeah, we'll figure that out. Okay, alright.
Mel Baker: I'm sorry for my ignorance. Which eagle is this? This is the San Francisco Eagle, or.
Alejandro Nuno: San Francisco Eagle. Yes, yeah.
Mel Baker: So when we have a date, let's make sure we get in all of the calendars. So the the Bay Area reporters, cultural calendar, and it might be a good
Mel Baker: starting point to kick off and try to get a local article
Mel Baker: about the organization and what we're doing since we have a that's really a robust Youtube. Page 30, 30 pieces on page is really good.
Mel Baker: So maybe that's also a good chance for us to do a
Mel Baker: try to get a little local local press, and I can help with that. I can take a charge of that if people will remind me of the dates and everything, and we'll figure out who becomes probably Alejandro will take, you know, take any calls
Mel Baker: but it gives you some. It gives something for a reporter to show up and actually cover the event.
Mel Baker: or.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah.
Mel Baker: If we have a video camera.
Mel Baker: if we have a decent video, decent video, we could do quick. Quick Youtube thing where we just ask one question.
Mel Baker: what is a bear?
Mel Baker: What is a bear? What is it? What do you think of bears? What do you think of bears? And then you could get like 10 to 15 people
Mel Baker: in the bar with the background, noise and whatever. And then you can just drop that in in one big file and have it create just one file for the event.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay, well, someone will be responsible for that. So.
Mel Baker: Yeah.
Alejandro Nuno: Run, run that portion of it, though.
Mel Baker: Do we have a do you have a do you have an idea for a potential date for this.
Alejandro Nuno: Not that they haven't produced that schedule yet, so I I don't. So I'm asking for at least 5 or 6 throughout the year, so they could be anywhere.
Mel Baker: President's Day weekend would be a good President's day. Weekend is good, because that was when we held their when boss. If was when we were running, boss if we had. You know their rendezvous.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah, and I can.
Mel Baker: Seated with, bear them.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah, and then and with the boss of I can also see if they're on the list as well as I'm sure they may very well be, and maybe partner with them as well, so we can do a tandem
Alejandro Nuno: fundraising effort there. So
Alejandro Nuno: So that's an idea, too. So, but I'm trying to get one for our own as well. So
Alejandro Nuno: that's how we boost of San Francisco for anyone who doesn't know.
Mel Baker: That's how we Bootstrap boss. That's how we Bootstrap. The organization is. We held a beer bust at hole in the wall
Mel Baker: and gave way to friends. Great T-shirts, should we also.
Les Wright: Thank you.
Mel Baker: I think.
Alejandro Nuno: The answer is, no, whatever you're asking, Mel. The answer is no.
Mel Baker: Yeah, t-shirts are real kind of crap being a crapshoot. See how the pins go. The pins are really easy, and
Mel Baker: and they look cool, and people will buy them.
Alejandro Nuno: People love him. So that's the.
Mel Baker: And you know, if we go with.
Mel Baker: if we go with bosses,
Mel Baker: if Assip wants to help, kind of do this with us.
Mel Baker: then they can sell their own. They can sell their T-shirts, and we get to.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah. Cause I,
Alejandro Nuno: yeah. There's 1 1, the other, because it's it's a lot easier for somebody with somebody at the bar. So a lot easier for someone.
Mel Baker: Stick a PIN in.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah, yeah, I'll take them instead of like, you know, t-shirt, like, okay, where am I gonna carry.
Mel Baker: Yeah. You put the 10 dip in your pocket and you go. What the fuck I'm carrying around this T-shirt. I don't look like I'm eligible to go home.
Mel Baker: Yeah, yeah.
Mel Baker: Dragging a T-shirt and a bag around, or something.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah, yeah, so, secondly.
Les Wright: And.
Alejandro Nuno: The second depends is a great idea. So.
Phil James: Okay. Some reason my screen went away, but it'll come back. I was connecting. Okay.
Phil James: People can still hear me.
Les Wright: Yes.
Les Wright: you're muted.
Mel Baker: Les! What's that? You call it?
Phil James: Can you hear me now?
Phil James: Okay.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Phil James: My Internet.
Alejandro Nuno: Like well.
Phil James: Went away.
Alejandro Nuno: Really quick, too. I did a search on the Iris website, and I could not find
Alejandro Nuno: our organization in there. So
Alejandro Nuno: I need to find out whether we are or not registered with Irs as a
Alejandro Nuno: nonprofit. So I know we California. We're good. But with the Irs, too. So
Alejandro Nuno: Is that that.
Phil James: Last. Did you find the documentation that made it seem like we were legit.
Les Wright: No, I never! I never got that documentation.
Phil James: Okay, so do you.
Alejandro Nuno: Do you recall filing for it at some point.
Phil James: Isn't that what mike did?
Alejandro Nuno: And then I mean, yeah, Southern California one, which is fine. But the irs one
Les Wright: Yeah, no. I. Yeah, yeah, that probably did not happen. And and Mike would be the person to do that. Yeah.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay? Cause? Yeah, before any
Alejandro Nuno: any sales happen, then that that's gonna be a an important piece to have in place. Aside from the Resell certificate in California. So
Alejandro Nuno: anyway, if it that's not done, or we need to do that, then I'll get on that as well. So
Alejandro Nuno: Mom, let's make a note of that.
Phil James: Okay, that's it.
Alejandro Nuno: We'll have to file tax returns every year as well, so which I can take care of.
Phil James: For the Irs. Thank you.
Phil James: Pickens will be slim, but still we want to do the right thing. Great.
Alejandro Nuno: Yep, it's good.
Phil James: I think I'll be.
Alejandro Nuno: Right it's got. It's gotta be right.
Phil James: Thanks. Alejandra.
Alejandro Nuno: And and for us, and for us to get, you know, be able to get money from the from Beagle, for example, we have to show
Alejandro Nuno: that 5 0, 1 c. 3
Alejandro Nuno: Prefer for us for them to give us money from what we raise. So that's that's the other catch. So
Alejandro Nuno: okay.
Phil James: On the California side, or Federal side.
Alejandro Nuno: Both.
Alejandro Nuno: Okay
Alejandro Nuno: but I'll I'll see about getting. I'll I'll see for now. But just getting away with the California from the side of
Alejandro Nuno: if it, if one is kind of coming up fast. But again, I'll check on the schedule on that, but need to make sure both are in order so and existent.
Phil James: Okay for the Eagle for the Eagle.
Phil James: Great thanks.
Phil James: Reminder. We we have a
Phil James: Gofundme page. I haven't been there lately. I haven't gotten any notice of any donations.
Phil James: I'll put the word out again quietly on Facebook, because Facebook thinks you're trying to scam people. But I'll just mention that we have a Gofundme page, and where to find it rather than link to it.
Phil James: I mentioned through cafe press.
Phil James: We've had about $44 worth of fundraiser funds raised
Phil James: through T. You know. It's mostly me buying T-shirts. But
Phil James: I kept wondering where's the money? But I think they only send it at $200 increments is the lowest.
Phil James: That's it. So like nonprofits.
Phil James: Of course, my checking account is 2,
Phil James: the organization to one that we do for the organization. Currently it took to me.
Phil James: So the funds are technically available to me. They're available as a credit against future purchase at the moment, so that money is just sitting there until I buy more T-shirts. But I'll account to Alejandro if I take that money
Phil James: because of the stuff that we're spending.
Alejandro Nuno: Yeah, that's yeah, that's bad. But and then as far as the bank accounts concerned, only
Alejandro Nuno: both arguments from the Irs and California to be able to open a bank account in their organization. That's why that's why both pieces are important. So.
Phil James: Yeah, okay, I'll ask Mike.
Phil James: Nick is supposed to be chasing some big funds, so
Phil James: I haven't heard from him lately, but I'll ask him again if he's uncovered pots of gold.
Phil James: So that'd be great on the fundraising side. Okay, les. You have a couple of things.
Les Wright: Yeah, I someone reached out to me through my Facebook page. And
Les Wright: I followed through. And his name is.
Phil James: And.
Les Wright: Yeah, Andy Andy Langdon. He is the executive producer of a
Les Wright: Film company called Good Pictures. He's done lots of nonprofit and
Les Wright: a few kind of corporate short films.
Les Wright: typically, you know, telling the story of, you know this nonprofit and not that nonprofit of what they do basically as Pd Psas
Les Wright: he is now wanting to do his 1st
Les Wright: full length documentary, and he wants to do bears.
Les Wright: He?
Les Wright: And he's putting together right now a a pitch. He wants to do a 5 installment
Les Wright: documentary that he and he wants to pitch it to Netflix or Hbo, or
Les Wright: another. You know, Major,
Les Wright: company and if he doesn't get that he will do it on his own as a like a you know, a feature length documentary.
Les Wright: we had a an initial zoom discussion that went 2 h it was very exciting for both of us, and we reached the point. We were both mentally exhausted.
Les Wright: and we'll be having the next conversation in about a week or so just wondering.
Les Wright: So one of this. Okay, so one thing I wanted to mention, the 5 he won. His 5 segments were going to be bear history, bear culture.
Les Wright: bears and chasers, bears in the media, and bears bear events.
Les Wright: And I won't go into all the details that he's asked me not to at this stage of
Les Wright: the work that he's doing.
Les Wright: He is looking for all kinds of contacts, and I've been working on a long list of them. And
Les Wright: so
Les Wright: 2 things that that I wanted to, you know, put out to to you all. He's looking for.
Les Wright: He's going to be at international bear convergence in Palm Springs.
Les Wright: in February, and is hoping to interview anyone
Les Wright: you know connected to bear history or bear culture.
Les Wright: To interview. If you know of of.
Jeffrey Glover: About 50 people I know out here.
Les Wright: Okay? Well, they would be, yeah. They would be. People who know who either are know, know about, you know, would
Les Wright: would be good people to who could talk about their history, or who are themselves, you know, like a a founding.
Jeffrey Glover: Yeah, most. There's a lot of former Bosf people out here. Former bartenders of the Lone Star, you know, former former other people who were ahead of other bear groups and other cities and stuff, too. So there's a lot I could. I could start a list if you want of people.
Jeffrey Glover: That would be. Yes, please, please, that would be great.
Les Wright: Or
Mel Baker: Where is?
Phil James: So Jeffrey should be his contact.
Jeffrey Glover: But what's that which one Phil?
Phil James: I said I shortened all of what Les said to just say Jeffrey should be his contact.
Jeffrey Glover: There you go!
Les Wright: Okay, yeah, yeah, he's he's in la also.
Les Wright: So yeah, that that would be great. Jeffrey.
Jeffrey Glover: Well, and I was just hanging out with the where the bears guys are just la Thursday night at the tool shed. So those guys they. They might know this guy, so I'd like to know his name, but it'd be interesting to see if they he has a reputation or not, cause all the la guys come out here pretty often, so they might know, you know, if you could get give me his name. I could put word out and see how legit he is.
Les Wright: Yeah. His name is.
Mel Baker: Kind of a like. It seems pretty ambitious to think you're gonna get Netflix or Hbo.
Mel Baker: you know, if he doesn't have a track record of doing that. And both of the and they're not doing.
Mel Baker: Documentaries have never been particularly lucrative for them.
Jeffrey Glover: Well, and we've been several bear documentaries. But les, what's his name?
Phil James: Andy Langdon.
Les Wright: Langdon. Yeah.
Phil James: He has a imdb page doesn't really mean a lot.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Mel Baker: What's he got on Youtube.
Phil James: I don't know it mentions it mentions if he lives in la!
Phil James: Oh, let's hope it's this 1st one
Phil James: is he sort of Otterish and bearded.
Les Wright: He is he is an admirer.
Les Wright: He did not have a beard when we were talking.
Les Wright: Yeah. And I've.
Phil James: Talk about?
Phil James: Did he talk about a project called One and 6.
Mel Baker: Hey!
Phil James: Nonprofit organization supporting men who have experienced sexual abuse or assault, is that him.
Les Wright: I that that did not. He did not mention that, and that did not come up
Les Wright: on his. He has a page of.
Les Wright: Okay, yeah, as I say, called,
Les Wright: good pictures. Yeah. And I mean, I.
Phil James: On Facebook.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: I'm late.
Phil James: And yeah.
Les Wright: I I've also put word out to some folks I know in Palm Springs
Les Wright: who who could check into his reputable repute reputability.
Les Wright: So yeah.
Mel Baker: Not finding a lot on Youtube around this guy.
Mel Baker: There's a guy who the brown hair brown beard named Andy Langdon.
Phil James: Yeah.
Les Wright: Oh, hang on a sec. Well.
Phil James: Yeah, I think we found it.
Mel Baker: He looks more like a Youtube influencer.
Mel Baker: He looks more like a Youtube influencer. He does a podcast
Phil James: Yeah, there's a link here to good pictures.co. So he's got a some sort of British.
Phil James: Well, I guess that's not necessarily British.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: Award winning film production company in Los Angeles.
Phil James: Okay, yeah.
Les Wright: Yeah, that sounds right. And yeah, and I just put
Les Wright: the link to his company in the chat.
Phil James: Yeah. Good.
Mel Baker: If he wants to do something different from the previous documentaries that have been done. He should seriously.
Jeffrey Glover: That that's good.
Mel Baker: Fair minds.
Jeffrey Glover: But we have seen a lot of different takes, so it'll be interesting. I just messaged Joe Deedle, who produced where the bears are documentary knows he's a producer in in La. So see if he's heard of him.
Mel Baker: If this guy wants to do something different, he should also put a fair amount of emphasis on Europe. He should look outside the us. I mean he should do the Us. Obviously. But if he wants to do something new and nobody's really touched on that.
Jeffrey Glover: Alright! Can we move on.
Phil James: Yeah, we should hook him up with, Nick, okay,
Phil James: Let's see. So Les, you had. Your second item was about the leather archives and museum.
Les Wright: Oh, yeah, and that's what I wanted to ask about. I've got like 4 boxes
Les Wright: of documents, materials to send send to Chicago for
Les Wright: permanent repository, and I wanted to bring up. You know we haven't. As far as I know we haven't done anything yet about formally arranging that to happen.
Phil James: Right. And we haven't. We haven't really zeroed in on. What if we're gonna what are we gonna do
Phil James: around Iml there? So we have a
Phil James: leather archives and museum contact. Right?
Phil James: You and I should get on the phone with him last.
Les Wright: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Gary, Watson is the executive director.
Phil James: Formalization. Gary, W, okay.
Phil James: okay, let's you and me talk to him less because I figure at least you and I will be there in May.
Phil James: I'm planning my annual budget around it.
Phil James: Okay, yeah. Good.
Phil James: Les has 4 bucks.
Phil James: Okay, so what else do we have?
Phil James: So Iml,
Phil James: So I talked to Mike about Iml. He is not going to be the judge's handler this year.
Phil James: So he's not. I sounds like he's not going. This is Mike Hernandez. So if somebody, he gave me a email address, just kind of a generic email address to contact the Iml powers that be to talk to them about.
Phil James: Could we have a like a hospitality suite where we could do interviews, maybe get a comped admission for less?
Phil James: But I haven't done anything more about that. If anyone is interested in pursuing any of that.
Phil James: please make it happen.
Phil James: Also, we plan on doing elections around that time.
Phil James: And so people are reminded.
Phil James: Board positions are up.
Phil James: If anyone's especially interested in specific jobs than
Phil James: speak up over the next month or 2.
Phil James: Mel has said, we want to have a large board.
Phil James: I'm skeptical that that'll happen. We have very little participation from people in general, but if people wanna
Phil James: step up to, especially for, like one specific thing, you really want to help with the interviews you really want to do
Phil James: fundraising. You really want to do merchandise. You really want to, you know, learn website stuff.
Phil James: Is there anything specific that somebody wants to do?
Phil James: Let current board members know? And the Board is listed on our website.
Phil James: It's me, Jeffrey Jeffrey, you're on the board.
Phil James: I think Jeffrey's aboard.
Jeffrey Glover: I don't think I'm.
Phil James: Mel.
Jeffrey Glover: On the board.
Phil James: Oh, okay, it's me, Alejandro Mel.
Phil James: Less, Nick, that the is that it? I think that's the current board.
Phil James: But I that's why I have it on the website because I never remember who's on the board and who's just others.
Mel Baker: My argument for a big board is that when we started, boss, if we just decided you're on the board, you're on the board, you know, basically, everybody that participated was a board member. And then you had, instead of the old Motorcycle Club way, that most of these groups were organized with associate members and apprentice, you know. It's just
Mel Baker: just made more sense to just kind of whoever was involved enough to show up to
Mel Baker: meetings would just be a board member. And then that way you had a core group of people
Mel Baker: who would, due to varying levels of stuff.
TELEPHONE_USER: Yeah.
Les Wright: And I I think we had also mentioned
Les Wright: anyone who's like in in a volunteer capacity doing work right now.
Les Wright: you know, being on the board would be also kind of like an official, you know. Recognition of the work.
Phil James: Yeah.
Phil James: Good.
Phil James: Okay. Next meeting scheduled for January 11, th
Phil James: less assuming you're available second Saturday and
Phil James: January can't believe it's next year already.
Les Wright: Biggest.
Phil James: Technically. It's not next year already, but we're on the cusp.
Phil James: Okay? Anything else from anybody.
Phil James: hunter. You haven't said anything and you're you're mutated. But anything to
Phil James: anything specific. You want to bring up
Phil James: hunter. How far are you into your podcast you gonna be on 3 episodes.
Hunter Olson: Yeah,
Hunter Olson: But with that one I've got a couple more interviews lined up, one with
Hunter Olson: Ed wolf, and then another one less, and I were talking about having I
Hunter Olson: an interview discussion between him and Walt audits on the subject of
Hunter Olson: both of them on the subject of the Aids crisis. So it's not
Hunter Olson: directly related to bears per se. But it's kind of in that general grouping. Those are the 2 interviews that we're kind of planning down the road. The one with Ed Wolf is going to be on the 17, th and then
Hunter Olson: the one with Walt audits is still kind of up in the air at at this time.
Phil James: Good. Okay, make sure to publicize that or those to the
Phil James: face our Facebook page. And I'll put it in our essential links.
Phil James: Okay, it's.
Les Wright: Hmm.
Phil James: Or wherever it goes. Bibliography, bibliography. Okay. Les anything else from you.
Les Wright: That's it for me.
Phil James: Anything else from anybody else.
Phil James: I'm good.
Phil James: Okay, you, too.
Mel Baker: Page is looking good.
Mel Baker: That's a lot of that's a lot of pieces that's really good. So.
Phil James: Yeah, I'm I'm glad to hear that from you, because I was. I was wary about both doing the Artificial Intelligence piece and your reaction to it, because it's clearly not
Phil James: professionally edited. But I'm just astounded at, you know, with one button there's do you want to remove filler words? And you want us to add a tiny bit of space after them. And I look at an hour and a half video. And you know the estimation is, there's 700 words that you'd have to otherwise stumble over. I'm like, Yeah, let's give that a shot with one click of a button, and they're pretty good. They're pretty good. They're not perfect, but.
Mel Baker: I I was horrified at how good it was. Actually it was terrifying. Thank God, I'm almost to new retirement, because what happens with this profession I've been in. No, they yeah, they they are. But other people are using the same tech. And the fact is, there's a lot of stories out there. They're all nice bite size lengths. You go to a lot of Youtube pages. And there's like 5 things on it. You know, this is. This is very robust to go in. And now there's stuff to dig in here. So maybe
Mel Baker: I think that we're at a point where we can start really promoting it, and I think that
Mel Baker: it'll be interesting to see if we can get some local press
Mel Baker: when we do the 1st beer bust, and that'd be kind of the hook that way. We
Mel Baker: have a chance of getting an article.
Mel Baker: We at least get mentioned hopefully in the calendar, for, like Bar, but also, maybe we get a sidebar article about the event afterwards, or something.
Phil James: Yeah, so this, this artificial intelligence. It's it's
Phil James: stripping the the filler words. But it's also the AI is also
Phil James: deciding what to put in the video, which you know I haven't gone back to see. Okay, we did an hour long. Video, what's the 3? Because you say, I want it 3 min, Max. 5 min, Max. 8 min, Max, but then it decides what to put, so I haven't gone back to see. I made sure they're not just cleaned up. It's not like it steps over
Phil James: naughty content. But I haven't gone back to see what's in the 1 h Video, and wanted to pick out for 5 min, but again, you know, 30 of them are done, and out there and then there's only one I had to do kind of manually, which was Les, and I did one with that author.
Phil James: And the audio on the author's end was really really bad, and our AI just just didn't know what to do with it just couldn't come up with any content. So I manually went through and picked up some pieces, but otherwise it's been, you know, smooth sailing. So it's a start.
Les Wright: Nope.
Phil James: Okay.
Phil James: That's it for me. Happy holidays. People.
Mel Baker: Holidays.
Les Wright: Happy Holidays.
Mel Baker: Happy, happy remainder of pre-fascism.
Jeffrey Glover: Happy.
Les Wright: Yeah, that's the down to just weeks. Now. Yeah.
Mel Baker: Yeah.
Jeffrey Glover: Alright! We'll see you later. Bye.
Mel Baker: Take care guys.
Alejandro Nuno: Thanks for.
Phil James: Okay.