Phil James: Hey! There!
Les Wright: Hi!
Les Wright: Well, I was gonna apologize for being late, but I see I'm not the only one.
Phil James: Hunters here somewhere.
Les Wright: Alrighty. Yeah, yeah, I just came from an emergency
Les Wright: building meeting. People are going, having meltdowns and going crazy and having nervous breakdowns and
Les Wright: all that stuff all over the place these days.
Phil James: It's your cat's fault.
Les Wright: Thank God, I've got someone I can blame.
Les Wright: But.
Phil James: I've seen that picture of. What's your cat? What's that cat's name? Schuler?
Les Wright: Skylar.
Phil James: Skylar clearly has resting cat face.
Phil James: Let's see, maybe this is gonna be it.
Phil James: I have some questions for you, les.
Phil James: My God! That you're here.
Phil James: Oh, so oh, it's Hunter. O okay, hunter. O yeah, the left.
Phil James: So I put in the agenda it. Thanks to the
Phil James: Centaurs Motorcycle Club and the organizers of the Bear Studies symposium, for you know, cash dollars. I did not put actual cash dollars in the agenda.
Phil James: and I don't know we want it.
Phil James: Yeah, okay.
Les Wright: No, no, because that's.
Phil James: That's great!
Les Wright: Yeah, no, that that was between Ollie and myself. So but I wanted. I wanted you guys to know.
Phil James: Great. Okay, so it's great that our work is being recognized. And
Phil James: hunter, I don't think you're one of the people who
Phil James: mentioned, you know, commented on the post.
Phil James: I think that was Clark who commented on the post of
Phil James: we got a grant from Grant money whatever. So Les and Nick are going to be speaking at this symposium in March.
Hunter Olson: I saw the the post. Yeah.
Les Wright: I think, is it? I think, later than.
Phil James: I have it on.
Hunter Olson: Calendar. One second. Let me see if I can.
Hunter Olson: Yeah.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Phil James: I put it in in the yeah.
Phil James: Bye.
Hunter Olson: Oh, here it is. The the dates for the Symposium are one second.
Hunter Olson: The Symposium dates are Wednesday, May 14, th 2,025.
Les Wright: Yeah, got.
Hunter Olson: On my calendar.
Phil James: I meant.
Les Wright: I need to obsess about this much longer than you know. One month.
Phil James: I'll add the dates to the minutes.
Les Wright: Oh, so I had a question
Les Wright: that I think I had emailed you, Phil, about
Les Wright: when, where? How, for us to.
Les Wright: you know, do a formal thank you to the to the centaurs.
Phil James: Yeah. What do you want to do you want to do a a letter, a interpretive dance?
Les Wright: I think we should do. Yeah. An interpretive bear, a go-go dance.
Les Wright: Perhaps have a, you know, run on a
Les Wright: on the strip in Vegas for a couple of years.
Les Wright: No, I think. Yeah. A a letter to to the the organization.
Phil James: Okay from the whole board.
Les Wright: Yeah, yeah.
Phil James: Okay. So we can talk about that in the Central Committee.
Les Wright: Yeah, okay, the I mean, because the gift is to the organization as a whole. Yeah.
Phil James: Yeah, great. Okay, I just wanna clarify the
Phil James: I don't know if we know timing of the money, but
Phil James: I know that I'm putting together my list of money that I've spent that hopefully at least future.
Phil James: Some future expenditures could come out of that fund rather than.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Phil James: My pocket.
Les Wright: Yeah, so I have a question on that. Now that we are
Les Wright: tax exempt. Can you write your donations off on your taxes?
Phil James: Well, there's a 1st of all, I don't think we're yet based on the Kerfuffle in the Central Committee. I don't think we're yet considered
Phil James: fully tax exempt from the Irs's point of view. That's something, Alejandro was saying. He doesn't think
Phil James: Mike officially finalized what we did. And so he, Alejandro, is gonna follow up on that. So that's number one.
Phil James: number 2. My husband, who comes out of the nonprofit
Phil James: funding world, said, you know, use of reconcile past contributions. That's a touchy area. So maybe not past contributions.
Phil James: But once we get it ironed out, then future contributions. Yes, because then we could turn the like we could fund
Phil James: things like the T-shirt sales.
Phil James: Could you know that checking account could belong to the organization rather than to me?
Phil James: And then money could go into that checking account to pay for that kind of stuff.
Phil James: And then people could, you know, give money to same with same with our Gofundme Gofundme funds technically come to me, although we've only ever had one contribution
Phil James: through the Gofundme. But that should be into a checking account that the organization owns so. Yes, we should get all that set up.
Phil James: once I'm taking notes.
Phil James: Once Irs is ironed out, move to Bhpi checking account.
Phil James: Yeah, I hope so.
Phil James: I'm I don't know my husband was warning me about. It's hard to claw back past contributions and say, Oh, this was charitable!
Phil James: But future contributions we can get figured out.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: What's the name of our
Phil James: Oh, see? T-shirts and gofundme. Gofundme. Okay? Great.
Phil James: Good. Okay.
Phil James: Okay. The other update I have, I suppose I could go in order. So
Phil James: the January minutes are posted. Thanks to the Centaurs. We'll do a formal thing.
Phil James: thanks to Nick and organizers and Ali for both of those gifts.
Phil James: Alejandro did write back about the eagle beer bust, so he's got specific dates secured, which are
Phil James: this is a San Francisco Eagle Beer bus. The Bear History Project International will be running the beer bus on
Phil James: November 23, rd 2025, and December 14, th 2025.
Phil James: So kind of right around the holidays.
Phil James: which gives us lots of time for T-shirts and pins and things, and for gathering people.
Phil James: he said. We'll need, he said. I. We will need minimum of 5 people plus myself meaning ally.
Phil James: I already have one volunteer, but things can change 2 for food which we need to provide 2 for jello shops which we need to make and 2 doing doing cash
Phil James: and beer bus sales. So I would nominate like a
Phil James: board member like me and Mel to do cash sales
Phil James: and then other volunteers to do other things. So at least 5 people, and I'll put the actual dates. But I didn't know the dates until today. I'll put those dates into the
Phil James: meeting minutes.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: And speaking of money, les, do you know, when we're getting
Phil James: money from? So the symposium money will presumably be after the symposium, I would think, and the.
Les Wright: Think, so, yeah.
Phil James: The money from the Centaurs? Do we know when we're going to get that? And do we have any? Are there any restrictions on what we can spend it on.
Les Wright: I have no idea. I'll ask Ali about about both of those.
Phil James: Okay, I'm I'll I'm still committed. My husband and I will fly you to and from Iml, and
Phil James: we'll pay for your suite if nothing else comes through. But it'd be great to have
Phil James: that money pay for some of that. If that works for the, I guess. Technically, if that works for the board, because.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: I'd love to have Nick come over.
Phil James: you know, to Iml and and or Cornell, but one. I don't know if there's any restrictions on what we do. 2. I don't know if he's a lot. I mean, he can't accept
Phil James: a gift from his own organization. Maybe I don't know. But so okay.
Phil James: quickly, on interviews, we have a hundred 13 people
Phil James: on our list of people who want to interview. We've done about 42 of them.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: I mentioned our Youtube channel for where to go, look for them. The interview page on our website for people to sign up
Phil James: web traffic is up.
Phil James: Oh, I did mention the bear symposium. Did I list any date? Did I list any dates? No, I did 17 links to the whole thing. So
Phil James: hunter had the dates. So we have. I'll put the dates into the actual minutes.
Phil James: and I also mentioned world leather and bear pride in Washington, DC. In June, which Ali is organizing, which I think is a fairly informal event, because
Phil James: they he don't want to do like a parade permit, and such.
Les Wright: Yeah, 2 things. One, yeah, it's it's it's
Les Wright: too challenging to do all of the the legal and financial stuff to be an official thing, and apparently there was also some kind of Kerfuffle with the Centaurs
Les Wright: about it, so Ollie is doing it on his own.
Phil James: Hmm!
Phil James: Can you imagine that, like an an internal political.
Phil James: I have a friend who used to run the San Jose gay pride center.
Phil James: and I remember when he started doing it, and I said, Well, it must be just. You know, people holding hands and singing song, he said. The Bay area. It's like 10,000 cats arguing over one fishtail in a paper bag. There's always room for drama.
Phil James: He's also the one that instituted. It was right near the the San Jose sharks
Phil James: stadium, so they would sell their parking lot for sale during the sharks games, and he said, of course we had a discount for people who were gay. I said, Well, how did you determine? If people were gay, he said, well, we would have both male and female ticket takers.
Phil James: and we'd offer to kiss the person coming in, and if they agreed, and it was same sex, then we'd give them a discount, he said, we never made them kiss, but if they agreed, then we'd give them a discount.
Les Wright: All right.
Phil James: My friend.
Phil James: okay, I have in the agenda left is you're currently at North American bear weekend way or.
Les Wright: I will be there. It's
Les Wright: Thursday, the 20.th I'm leaving and coming back. Sunday, the 23.rd
Phil James: Okay of February.
Les Wright: Yep.
Phil James: Do we have any interview scheduled there?
Les Wright: No.
Phil James: Not that you know of. Okay.
Les Wright: No? Okay, I'm still negotiating. I think
Les Wright: I need to double check with them. I think they did. Prompt me a vendor table.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Phil James: Right cool.
Phil James: Okay? And then if you, if you suddenly come across, come across
Phil James: you know people to interview on the spot, I know that almost never works out. But
Phil James: That's 1 reason why I noted those dates is I don't know what my own calendar looks like, but
Phil James: I might be available if you suddenly have a need.
Les Wright: You know.
Les Wright: Well, yeah, because I I do want. I mean, I really do. Wanna to seize on this opportunity
Les Wright: to you know.
Les Wright: locate and interview. You know Midwest, you know, bears who live in the flyover States because
Les Wright: I have not been able to find any.
Les Wright: You know. I don't know where they're hiding, but I know they're there.
Les Wright: Oh, Hunter, sorry. Yeah.
Les Wright: Oops.
Phil James: But you're you're flown over, aren't you? In Scotland, or something.
Hunter Olson: Yeah, right now I'm in Ireland. But over the summer I'll be back in the flyover countries.
Hunter Olson: So starts.
Phil James: Oh, good!
Hunter Olson: Countries, just because Ireland just feels like just one state among many. But in actual fact it's a country unto itself. And
Hunter Olson: and you go.
Phil James: Good. Okay. Les, I have a I have a global meeting on on that Sunday, the 23rd one to 2 pm, my time. So otherwise I'm looks like I'm available. That weekend. Another thing I'm gonna do to support remote
Phil James: interviews is I'm gonna try to make
Phil James: a version of our waiver form which people could fill in from their phone.
Phil James: It just means
Phil James: done with it, you know. I sign here, and here's my name and blah blah, because I think that's 1 of our stumbling blocks is because we've done a number of interviews
Phil James: where we can't release them because we don't have the waiver form.
Phil James: So I'm gonna try to make a version that people can sign on the fly.
Les Wright: So. Ca, can you do that with like set up verisign or
Les Wright: like where people use the finger on the pad.
Phil James: Well, yeah, docusign or something, probably.
Les Wright: Back. Yeah.
Phil James: It's probably just a you know, a form that people fill in. Let's type in their name.
Phil James: tap in their contact information check this box indicating their
Phil James: agreeing and just be done with it. So I don't think we really need a signature.
Phil James: So I'm gonna work on that.
Les Wright: Good.
Phil James: Oh, okay. So 2 more things. One is. The next meeting is scheduled for March 8.th
Phil James: And the final thing is, I'm sorry I have a furball
Phil James: I'm gonna go ahead and start.
Phil James: I'm investigating an email distribution list for the organization. I just think
Phil James: Facebook is, or eventually will limit
Phil James: the number of bears that we attract, either, as people are just not on Facebook. People are leaving Facebook. People are worried about security. Now, Jeffrey Glover, with. Oh, don't worry about it. It's a walled garden. We're all secure. We're private organization. Well, that still, doesn't. You know there are people who won't use dropbox because they're worried about privacy.
Phil James: I mean, there'll always be people who have some ex, some reason for not wanting something. And this people will never open their emails, too. But I think we need
Phil James: it's good to remember we have these other distribution channels. So we have Facebook, Youtube, Instagram.
Phil James: We're not on blue sky. We're not on Tiktok, although I've considered, I guess tick Tock is a as a lost cause.
Phil James: I suppose I could create us a blue sky account. But there's really not that many people. Well, a lot of my friends have gone to Blue sky so.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: We could have a presence there.
Les Wright: I'm I'm on blue sky and also on me. We.
Phil James: Oh, yeah, neatly.
Les Wright: I mean pretty much whatever I post on Facebook. I'm cross posting to both me, we and Blue Sky.
Les Wright: But I'm not, and I've sent people. I've told people I'm over there, but
Les Wright: no one, no one has has moved.
Hunter Olson: Is following or responding in either of those places. At this point.
Les Wright: But I do concerns about Facebook, you know.
Les Wright: going fascist, and we're all shit out of luck.
Phil James: Yeah, okay, so I'm gonna I will.
Phil James: So you have a private account on me. We.
Les Wright: I do. Yeah.
Phil James: Yeah, so do I. So I'll create a bear history project international account there.
Phil James: And I'll also create one on Blue Sky.
Phil James: Hunter, you're you're a youngin any other, I mean.
Phil James: like other than like the Snapchat, isn't really. I look at you, and I think, Snapchat, he'd be a Snapchat person. But that's not really a social media
Phil James: sharing platform. That's more a 1 to one.
Hunter Olson: Yeah, I don't think it would be well suited for
Hunter Olson: The aims of of the Bear History Project, and I know that that you know, Tiktok doesn't sound very promising, but it it does still seem like a possibility for at least getting like short clips or short, you know.
Hunter Olson: messages or sound bites out into the ether, so to speak, that might work for if if you do, if you'd want to set up a tiktok account,
Les Wright: Yeah.
Hunter Olson: But I know that, given the current political situation, all kind of all social media is kind of in this weird, like
Hunter Olson: multivalent, transitory state that we're not quite sure where we should set up shop, so to speak.
Phil James: Yeah, I have a friend or someone I follow on Tiktok, who is a there who's your product? International member, Jojo Bear. I don't know if you know him. Les.
Les Wright: We're we're Facebook friends, and and I don't know if we know each other in the real world or not.
Phil James: Yeah, I'd love to interview him because it sounds like he'd be. He's so outspoken, and he's a psychotherapist.
Phil James: And he's, you know, very out and in your face. So I think it'd be an interesting interview. I should.
Phil James: Okay, yeah, please.
Les Wright: Please please get him. Yeah.
Phil James: I don't.
Phil James: I think we're friends. So I'll have to. Maybe you know what. Maybe we're friends on Facebook. So
Phil James: I can try that way.
Phil James: Okay, so, Hunter, while you have, or had your mic on anything from you for this meeting.
Hunter Olson: Nothing, Major. So I
Hunter Olson: I'm working. I'm still working on. Well, I'm working on 2 interviews at the moment, one for an interview with Walt odettes,
Hunter Olson: mostly on, on, sort of like the sociological aftermath of
Hunter Olson: the development of the Aids crisis in the eighties and onward. And
Hunter Olson: I I promise to get that that
Hunter Olson: questionnaire to less, but because of teaching commitments because of dissertation commitments. And I was briefly in a car accident. I haven't quite been able to to make that that I'm hoping. Tomorrow I'm going to have time where I'll write it all out and less. I'll send it over to you then, and then there's another interview that Les. If you would be interested in joining on as well, maybe we could discuss this tomorrow as well.
Hunter Olson: I don't know if you know if you've heard of him, but but his sort of stage name is Seattle, Dad. I've reached out to him and.
Phil James: Oh!
Hunter Olson: Yeah.
Les Wright: No, I don't know him.
Hunter Olson: Sorry. He's.
Phil James: Oh, my God!
Hunter Olson: Coming onto the podcast to just discuss, like, you know, bears in the adult industry and those sorts of topics and.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Hunter Olson: Yes.
Les Wright: I do. I do like I want. I want to get a behind the scenes, peek at everything.
Hunter Olson: Well, I mean, I suppose that's fair. I I the the date that he was tentatively thinking about was March 5.th If that works for you. If not, we can, he said. That March is is a month that's relatively open. But if March 5th works for you, then I'll let him know that that date
Les Wright: Yeah. March 5.th Works. Fine for me.
Hunter Olson: Perfect. Okay, we'll work on, back and forth with a questionnaire with a Seattle, dad, and we'll we'll see. We'll come up with a set of questions that would be apropos for for an interview. Setting. Yeah.
Les Wright: Right.
Les Wright: Oh, and I have a question.
Phil James: Messenger. I'm sending you a link.
Les Wright: Okay.
Les Wright: I also want to ask you. I am
Les Wright: Finally, my anthology about of long-term aids, survivors, the children of Lazarus.
Les Wright: I'm now deadline has come and gone. I've got all the manuscripts I'm starting to.
Les Wright: you know. Do the editing and stuff, and I'm looking for
Les Wright: people who could do blurbs, you know, like, you know, advanced, advanced praise. I won't say advanced Review, because if it's they're not praising it. We're not publishing it right?
Hunter Olson: Sure.
Les Wright: But if you know of anyone who might be, you know, in a position to to to
Les Wright: you know where, where the voice would support it.
Hunter Olson: I mean, I think my go to. I mean, I'm kind of friendly with Ed Wolf, and I'm sure that he'd be interested in maybe giving like a blurb. And when are you planning on sort of releasing the anthology? Is it this summer, or in the spring, or.
Les Wright: Probably in the late summer, early fall, and say around September, something like that.
Hunter Olson: Okay? Well, yeah, I think. And
Hunter Olson: I'm sure I could come up with a list of folks who'd be interested in sort of giving sort of cover blurbs and things of that sort. I'm also going to be
Hunter Olson: I'm gonna be travel traveling to Syracuse, actually,
Hunter Olson: in mid march to the end of April. And and so if if you'd want to to grab a coffee together, you know I'd love to meet you in person, and you know.
Les Wright: Absolutely.
Hunter Olson: Especially might need your help with respect to the German language, because my dissertation is now going into the direction of a comparative study of Heidegger, and I have to learn my idiosyncratic terminology of Heidegger's German. So you can give me pointers if if it would be absolutely appreciated.
Les Wright: Yeah. Well, I'll see how I can.
Hunter Olson: Cheers.
Phil James: Les. I just sent you on Facebook. I sent you a little introduction to
Phil James: local San Francisco artist. Gee!
Phil James: And he's a he has done a lot of. He has a an artist, he's a painter.
Phil James: and he does. He's had a long series on long-term aid survivors.
Phil James: and he. He's a former Mr. San Francisco eagle Leather.
Phil James: I don't think it was Mr. San Francisco Leather. He was Mr. San Francisco Eagle Leather. He's very articulate. He's been running the bluff
Phil James: get togethers next Friday is his last one. He's doing that for several years. He's he would be a good one for you to talk to as well. So I just sent you just a hey? You 2 should talk.
Les Wright: Okay, it'd be good.
Les Wright: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I I have enough wriggle wiggle room at this point also that I'm happy to, you know, you know, accept more contributions if if I can talk to him about writing but I also am in a situation where
Les Wright: I can't ask contributors to the book to write blurbs for the book, you know. It's kinda
Les Wright: it seems to me, a little weird.
Phil James: Yeah. Well, anyway, you should. You should talk to him because he's a good person to.
Phil James: you know, even if you were looking for somebody to do the back cover. Art, I mean, he's.
Phil James: you know, a good person for you to know. So I just sent you to a hey? You should you 2 should know each other.
Phil James: Okay, cool. So I sent you. I don't know if you ever I wouldn't ever incriminate you less, but I don't know if you ever have heard of this website called Xhamster.
Phil James: But I just sent you a link to Seattle. Dad's work on.
Les Wright: Okay, I have heard of it. And I think
Les Wright: I've I I think once or twice people sent me links, and I've checked something out on it. But so it's
Les Wright: yeah.
Les Wright: Oddly, I remember it.
Phil James: Yes, it's it's it's it'll give you, I know, just for the your research purposes. If you don't know who he is in advance.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: He's got. He has many videos there.
Les Wright: Hunter. I'm all flustered now.
Hunter Olson: Not my intention, although you know the research, it's only if it's if it's for for the, for the
Hunter Olson: so please, we conduct this.
Les Wright: Yeah.
Phil James: Yes.
Les Wright: Well, you know also.
Phil James: Okay.
Les Wright: Blue sky has no censorship. So
Les Wright: in terms of, you know, sexuality and bodies and stuff and and post anything there.
Phil James: Yeah.
Les Wright: No, it's like
Phil James: What we used to use Tumblr back in the day.
Phil James: Okay, les. Do you have anything else for our meeting?
Les Wright: No, that's that's it for me.
Phil James: Hunter. Anything else from you.
Hunter Olson: Nope should be good.
Phil James: Okay, we'll keep it short and sweet. Les. You need to beat at least the Board members to come to meetings.
Les Wright: Say that again.
Phil James: I guess you need to beat the other Board members to come to the meetings. I guess Mel is local to me. I should be beating him to come to meetings.
Les Wright: Okay. Yeah.
Phil James: I know Nick can get really busy, and he's you know, he's a weird time zone. Well, so is Hunter. Right weird time. Zone times and people are making it.
Phil James: Okay, I'll do the I'll do the reservation for the 8th of March, and let's see February. So
Phil James: less, I'll try to get the form. Oh, you know what I should mention is,
Phil James: I need to work on business cards for is cards for Iml.
Phil James: Yeah, I think both generic ones.
Les Wright: And then for anyone on the board who
Les Wright: who would have a reason to
Les Wright: should have their you know their name on it, I mean I did it for myself because of that.
Les Wright: The the bear event stuff I'm traveling to.
Phil James: Yeah, I was thinking, the logo.
Phil James: the name the URL written out QR code to the website, because the website will always have the current
Phil James: board and maybe path board. And you know, then we get like, Oh, but
Phil James: you know Nick was on the board, but he's not anymore, or he was a board member at large.
Phil James: you know, whatever. So.
Les Wright: No.
Phil James: Those might change. I thought we'd put at least a line on the back where people could scribble their name and or.
Les Wright: Phone number. But let me see.
Phil James: Like, I say, I'm gonna go back to
Phil James: Where did I get my business cards done?
Phil James: I got them done at office depot.
Phil James: Oh, okay, microphone, personal business cards.
Les Wright: I do. I use vista point.
Phil James: I no longer have. You can't see them. There they are magically.
Les Wright: There we go. Yes, yeah.
Phil James: They thought it was my husband. But it's actually me so I'm gonna I'm gonna cause those are really easy to design. So I'm gonna go back and see there, and then I'll see about
Phil James: variations, because now we're sort of on the Ver, I mean, do we think the same board. I mean.
Phil James: Mel wants hundreds of board members, not hundreds. But you know lots more board members.
Phil James: And are people going to be rolling off the board and rolling on the board.
Phil James: so I don't know how many variations we want on business cards.
Les Wright: Okay, here's here's mine.
Phil James: Oh, great. Okay.
Les Wright: Yeah, with with a blank bag. Yeah.
Phil James: Wish I could type customized.
Phil James: Customize.
Phil James: Okay, I'll start on that.
Phil James: Anything else. Les.
Les Wright: Well, I'm I'm good.
Phil James: Okay?
Phil James: If you do. If you happen to talk to Nick, are you doing like
Phil James: starting to do advanced planning for your symposium?
Les Wright: Yeah. And I need, I need to follow up with him on Monday.
Les Wright: Yeah, I've I've been like, really sick all week, and I'm just kinda.
Phil James: Yeah.
Les Wright: Starting to come back into work. Mode right now.
Phil James: Remind him I don't think he has any.
Phil James: He sounded last time he came to a meeting he was frustrated that we haven't done anything else with the with the interviews we've done.
Phil James: and I reminded him.
Phil James: go do it then, I mean you're in a he's on the board. He has access to all the original files we can give him.
Phil James: You know. Clark and I have the 2 seats
Phil James: for the script, but we can move those around. If he wants to dive in
Phil James: and do more podcasts, I'm sure he's, you know, super busy. But
Phil James: somebody else can do some editing.
Phil James: it's really pretty easy to do basic editing in in the script.
Phil James: So if somebody else wants to work on.
Phil James: you know, I have this vision of, we'd have we do the highlights real because they're quick and dirty, and they're using AI to get them done. And then I can edit them easily. But we still thought we would do
Phil James: podcasts
Phil James: of like, let's have 20 men talking about coming out. Let's have 20 men talking about their description of bear. And then let's go back to the originals and do like a 20 min version of each of the interviews for one man.
Phil James: but for one person, anyway.
Phil James: But you know, somebody's got to do all that editing, so
Phil James: Nick would be a good one to to do it, but I don't know if he's or you know, or he'd be in a good place to
Phil James: find some intern to do it. As you know, he can give special credit to some
Phil James: college person. If you could find somebody.
Les Wright: Yeah, yeah.
Phil James: Okay, that's all my ranting for today.
Les Wright: Okay? Oh, one, yeah. One last sort of about the board. I
Les Wright: I also think more members is good.
Les Wright: The more more people we have hopefully the more active hands
Les Wright: we'll have, and I don't know that anyone wants to. If people want to rotate off the board that would be their choice.
Les Wright: I don't think anyone should be like pushed out.
Phil James: Alright, I'll just make note that board, I'm gonna say, still, want still want still still
Phil James: want larger board?
Phil James: All current members staying all current Board members staying on.
Phil James: And that's past. May right? May 2025, I would say in quotes, elections.
Phil James: hunter, what's your
Phil James: You're coming back to the States
Phil James: for the summer, or for permanent or.
Hunter Olson: Yeah. So the the plan is, I've got a piece of research that I'm gonna be working on in Pittsburgh from like march to April
Hunter Olson: and that's gonna take some time. And then, yeah, I'm coming back. Again, I think early June.
Hunter Olson: Take it.
Phil James: Coming back. There.
Hunter Olson: It it so it'll it'll be. I come back, march till the end of April, then come back to Ireland, beginning of May, and then I come back beginning of June. So you know.
Les Wright: To the Us.
Hunter Olson: Yeah, yeah.
Phil James: Back and forth.
Les Wright: And when you, when you have details, let me know when you're going to be in Syracuse, and we'll.
Hunter Olson: Moving.
Les Wright: Follow through? Yes.
Hunter Olson: Sounds good.
Les Wright: Okay.
Phil James: Okay, thanks, guys. I'm gonna hopefully. Alejandra will get going on the
Phil James: irs side of the world. The thing is
Phil James: the the the nonprofit status. I mean, technically.
Phil James: that would save us some money. But it doesn't really stop us from buying or selling.
Phil James: Really, it's just. It'll be cheaper for us if we have nonprofit status, so we can still get pins, we can still do the beer. I I guess we can still do the beer bust.
Phil James: Certainly, by the time of the beer bust. Well, that's November, November, December, certainly, by the beer bust we should
Phil James: have this all ironed out and hopefully, Mike doesn't
Phil James: burst into a ball of flames because Alejandro accused him of dropping the ball. So
Phil James: I don't know what happened. But we'll figure it out, okay, great thanks. Guys.
Les Wright: Thank you. Guys.
Les Wright: Bye-bye.