Hello, and welcome to the Digital Freethought Radio, R-N-W-O-Z-O Radio 103.9 LPF. I'm here in Knoxville, Tennessee. I'm Dodder Five, or Larry Rhodes, and we're recording this on Sunday morning, July 2nd, 2023. As usually, we have our co-host, Wombat on the line with us. Hello, Wombat. It's raining. It's pouring. Yeah, it's continually doing that these days. Yeah. And guests, we have Dred Pirate Higgs. Welcome, John Richards and Boudreau. Welcome. Digital Freethought Radio, R-N-W-O-Z-O Radio show about atheism, free thought, rational thought, humanism, Satanism, Pustifarianism, and the sciences. And also we will be talking about religions, religious faiths, gods, holy books, and superstition. And if you get the feeling that you're the only non-believer in your town, well, you're just not a bet on it. In Knoxville, here in the middle of the Bible Belt, we have a group of over a thousand of us, or a lot of us around. We're the atheist society of Knoxville, or ASK, and we'll tell you more about them after the mid-show break. So be sure to stick around. Wombat, what's our topic today? God's raising cats, and we need to stop them because we love cats on this show. But before we get into that, I'd love to touch into some logical fallacies. And before we get into that, I'd love to have a fellowship of our newly patronages supported and led by our own Dred Pirate Higgs. Dred. I could do that. A short one. Remen, no flying spaghetti monster, grant us the wisdom to resist dogmatism, the courage to question, and the compassion to embrace all those who seek truth. May we ever use our newly appendages to reach out in friendship and understanding. Love it. What the fun thing about Dred is sometimes he logs into my Zoom call to do his sermons or whatever, and I'll get a little notification at work, and I'll buzz in just to see what's going on, who dialed into my show, and then it's just a really, really nice passive little uplifting sermon. I'm like, this is cool. This is cool. This is a good use of corporate resources. Keep doing it, Dred. You're all right. Dred, I wanted to do a quasi double introduction roundtable on a topic on logical fallacies. Do you have a logical fallacy that you'd like to bring up? Yeah, actually, I've uncovered one, and because it's timely, because in British Columbia, we have a lot of unsettled treaties with indigenous peoples. There's a lot of different tribes here in British Columbia, and unfortunately, there's an appeal, which is kind of like the naturalistic fallacy, where nature is, everything in nature is good, and all things science are bad. But it's called the indigenous fallacy, and it refers, and I'll just read this out, it refers to a logical fallacy that occurs when an argument or line of reasoning relies on essentializing, generalizing, stereotyping indigenous peoples or cultures. It involves making unsupported unjustified assumptions about the beliefs, values, behaviors, or characteristics of indigenous communities or individuals based solely on their indigenous identity, and where it can be employed is it can manifest in various ways, such as appealing to the inherent wisdom or spiritual connected associated with indigenous cultures without providing substantive evidence or logical reasoning to support the argument. It can also involve dismissing opposing views or valid criticism by asserting they come from a non-indigenous perspective and are therefore inherently flawed or illegitimate. That's a very bold thing to say on this show that old people are wrong, because I think we get voted off the island. Yes, that's right. Yeah, we're not pulling our weight, I guess. In a nutshell, that sounds basically like people want to rely on old traditions to do stuff that we already know science has better solutions for. Is that unnecessarily curt or accurate? What do you think? I think it's pretty accurate. I mean, they employ it a lot when you certainly environmental activists do, and you talk about putting a pipeline through or the site CDAM, or whatever. It's not a sound argument often. It's not based on science or the study of ecology or the impact on the environment. It's just saying, this is our traditional hunting ground and blah, blah, blah. It just devolves into, while this is the way we look at it, everybody else is wrong. Let's get some other ideas. Larry, you made a weird face when Dredd said, everything in nature is good and science is bad, as far as describing a viewpoint of those who would use the natural or indigenous fallacy. I wanted to see what you were thinking when you did that. It just kind of struck me as weird because science is at its base of the study of nature. We're using the tools that we developed through using our intellect to study what makes the world, what makes the universe, what makes things that we find in nature. And the great thing is everything that we use to study that comes from nature. There's nothing supernatural about the tools of science. So truly, nature is just nature looking at itself. Thinking about itself. Right, right, right. There's nothing wrong with that. What do you think, John? Well, where this goes wrong is when the manufacturers of products propose that they're natural in the expectation that that also means good. Yeah, yeah. And what is it? The worst bacteriological poison ever, you know, that one thimble fool could kill, botulinous toxin.  So what you can't do is equate natural with good. Pooja, I've got a question for you. What if your kid said, I don't want to take a shower, my body odor is natural, and I want to keep it. I want to stay natural. And they're using that at fallacy. What do you think? What do you think? Is that cool? Does that fly in your house? I would say, are you spying on me through Alexa or something? Because the kid just said that.  And oh, you're talking to me. Social pressure. I love it. You have the right, you have the right mechanics in your head. You have the right to take the cards to play. Though the thing is, we've had that problem. We've had doctors say, Hey, we've had doctors in the past say, I don't need to wash my hands. I'm just giving birth. There's no. You believe in germ theory. What are you? Some sort of like sanitization specialist. Come on. Come on. Come on. We're all men here. We're not, we're not dying from some stuff. Was it Florence? And I found that Florence Nightingale. Yeah. Go ahead. There was a big problem here in BC. I'm sure it was around the world where healthcare practitioners, nurses and stuff like that who did not believe in the vaccination felt that they were unfairly punished for, for not getting vaccinations and expecting to be working with patients in a hospital. Right. I've talked about, wow, talked about crazy. Yeah. And, and the sad thing is it extends even to today because we've had that whole vaccination issue in, in around the world, but mostly in the U.S. I won't, I won't give that, I won't give that baggage to the British or the British or Canadian. Count the Canadians in because yesterday, yesterday was Canada Day. Okay. And we had a pretty big flush of people in their big pickup trucks with F Trudeau, which is our prime minister, and stop the mandate and freedom and blah, blah, blah. So yeah, Canadians can be pretty fast. I'm sorry, that's trickling up. That has to be trickling up. We need to, we need to protect Canada. You guys are our last bastion in case the Republicans take office again. So don't tell them that. Don't tell them that just yet, John. Love to get your idea on the Indigenous fallacy as a, as a representative of a former world global empire. How, how, well, what is your take on the idea of, you know, we got to listen to Indigenous people. Well, definitely. We went about the world doing good. I mean, if it wasn't for us, most of the continent of Africa wouldn't have the Bible. We gave that to them. It's very true. They made a lot of houses out of it. So it's absolutely important. That anti, you know, it's yeah, yeah. All right, guys, I had some, I hope everyone's doing well. I had a weird dream and I bring this up because I was only awake. I was only asleep about 10 minutes ago and I thought, what a great topic to bring this up. Last or early this morning, I woke up with a really great experience. I had my cat in my chest and he's just sleeping, purring, snoring, or whatever he does, having a good time. And I'm like, what a great bond that we've got. And I automated, automatically made me think, oh, what if I was God? And I wasn't asleep. Yeah, you know, it's just the natural extension of this. Like, what if I was God and my role was to protect care of cats? Like, aren't I doing so much of a better job already compared to like God protecting humans? And I thought that's not fair. My Christian guy says that's not fair because God and human mortal are vastly separated compared to human mortal and their pet cat. And I'm like, well, if that's the case, why isn't there a better relationship or a better bond or an actual, you know, connection between us rather than this book and this idea of a God that I got to reach out to, shouldn't that be improved? If the power difference is improved, shouldn't it be like we're sitting with God or we have this more direct relationship with God? I didn't want to get into that too much, but I did want to make the analogies of like taking care of pets if I was God and taking the same context that was given to me from the Bible and just changing around some nouns and seeing if that made sense. Before we go into that, John, I saw you raise your hand. What's up? Yeah, well, I've seen your cat. It's black, isn't it? You know what that means. It's like me. I'm also black. No, no, it's like the devil. Right? He's going to age very well and be very good at almost any athletic activity. The other thing about cats is you think the cat is your pet, that you own it. Right. Right, right, right, right, right. Cats, cats are not pets. Pets have stuff. You're, it's the boss. We're best roommates. My food is its food, all that stuff. You want to look at it the other way around. It's God. Are you meeting up to its worship enough? Humans aren't that different too. There's a lot of humans who would say like, that's my God. They won't say I'm its God. You've never heard that. You never hear Christians say that. You'll always hear, hey, that's my God and my God's an awesome God. It's like, don't you mean it? You're its follower and you are trying to be a very obedient follower. That song doesn't exist. Larry, what do you think? Well, I was just thinking that you take your responsibility of taking care of the cat very seriously. You make, you take to the vet, you preemptively take it to the vet, not just when it's hurt. Exactly. You make sure that you don't intentionally hurt it and all of these things. But if you if you read the Bible and you're talking about God as a pet owner, where his pets, it says many times that he lightly gave us diseases and killed us for the tiniest of things. He killed everybody in the world. He's not much of a pet owner. If you think of it in those terms. Right. Yeah. And follows that up by saying, I love you and you have to worship me and here's some diseases at the same time. We have an association for that over here in the UK. It's called the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thank you. I reckon we have that here. What about a Royal Society for Prevention of Farm to God's followers? There should probably be like a board for that. That'd be great. Boudreau, I'd love to get your opinion on this. As a pet owner, how is God doing and you have, I know that for a fact. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a dog and have had many dogs over the years. But yeah, if looking at through the lens of we're God's pets, how's he doing with us? Yeah.  Like, and he, unlike us with our pets, I mean, he can prevent those things and snap a finger. Or at least we're told, you know, that makes me think of the, I think it's a hitch quote, impotenter evil. God's either unable to prevent, you know, disease like that or doesn't care. Yeah. So yeah. Pretty lousy. Almost like he's not there at all. Yeah. You could, that's exactly how it would work if he didn't exist. Now, hold on. What if that's intentional? I'm putting on my Christian hat. What if that's intentional and you let this to our own device? He's much worse than a cat owner. He gave us an entire universe. He gave us the seeds in the ground. Like he gave us the air to breathe. He gave us lungs free the air. Like you're not looking at the bigger picture. The way how I think of it is like, think of going back to the cat analogy.  And I shut the door for 14 million years. And I said, all right, they're going to be okay. I gave them all that stuff. I gave them the room. I gave them a can opener. I didn't have to give them a can opener. I gave them a can opener. Okay. Think about that. Some of them will die. You know, some happen something, but they'll figure it out. And if I do that enough times, one of the times I open up the room, 14 billion years later, there's going to be a beautiful cat society. And I'm going to be like, I did that. I am so cool. Look at what I made. All those cats owe their lives and existence to me. I demand to be worshiped. And if they don't know, that's the premise of cat in Red Dwarf, the television series Red Dwarf. That Lister, you know, put the cat and eventually over millions of years, it became a cat human. It was a pregnant cat that eventually came up with an evolved human shaped cat person. And he was super cool. Lister and the cat got so along. It was great. One of the best friendships on TV is really, really good. Way more cool than my actual cat, but like also very cat-like in his demeanor at the same time too. It was great. Great suits also. Where do you get them? I don't know. But the idea of like, should I as a pet owner who locked my pets in a room for an inordinate amount of time with some food and opened it up and found that they had a whole society and I should be, oh, great. Hey, you guys are awesome. By the way, now I'm going back to the creation story. I threw in some poison cat food at the same time too.  And if they eat the poison cat food, then I get to be angry at them and I get to punish them because they sinned against me. Isn't that great? Isn't that like awesome plan? Like they had, I should make it as easily as possible to eat that cat poison food and they do. They're in the middle of the room. Right, right, right. It all falls together. I think this all makes sense. The idea is, while I'm pulling this up, if when you are exposed to a certain narrative, regardless of how extreme or untrue it is, let's be fair, you turn to accept the untruth of it because it's marketing, it's propaganda, it's how our brains work. If we see a pattern enough times, we begin to rely on it regardless of whether it's true or not because we like consistency more than accuracy. It's one of the faults of human thinking. And when we are exposed to a narrative over and over again, we don't judge it as harshly because we just accept that it's true. But when you take that narrative and you just put in a different framing, if you say, hey, God taking care of cats in a room versus God taking care of humans in an eating, and there's a poison apple versus a poison canned food, you immediately know why would you give poison, why would you set these people up for failure? Why would you put a trapdoor in paradise? Why would you put a secret agent cat who can communicate with the other cats and say, eat this poison food if you don't want to eat the poison food? Why would you punish them for something that you were clearly planning to do from the beginning and blame them for it? None of that makes sense. It's like true because that's the exact same context of what we have in the Bible. It's one of those situations we just don't really, or I think as atheists, we connect the dots. We can be so aware of it, but it's frustrating when you've already indoctrinated yourself with the narrative, not giving yourself any critical thoughts. And other people just simply won't see it. And actually part of that is like what they call the outsider test of faith, right? Yes. It's that you're looking, you actually turn your view on your own beliefs in order to have an objective perspective to evaluate them objectively instead of being comfortably ensconced in them and saying, well, you're crazy. I'm not, clearly. You're crazy. Right, right. Like learn to give and take advice. That's the two important things, not just one or the other. Boudreau, what do you think? It made me think, and I don't know if you guys have this feeling as atheists, but there's a feeling of clarity that I have in thinking of any of these. We've had countless conversations like this pointing out odd things in the Bible, strange things with religion, accidents of birth, and all the rest of it. It seems so obvious to me looking at from the outside, and it feels like my mind's just super clear.  Yeah, I agree. I agree with Boudreau because I've never been indoctrinated with any religion. So I've always looked at these things from a dispassionate point of view. And it seems to me that the stories in the Bible are self-evidently stories. They are constructed like you would if you were writing a syndicate series in Hollywood or for Netflix. Or in nursery runs. Yeah, yeah. What you want is events. Every so often you've got to have another event, you know? And so it will be very boring if everything went right. You've got to have the poison apple. You've got to have the flood, you know? Otherwise who's going to be interested? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The flood's an interesting one. Yeah, but all that takes place in the first book.  Right, right, right. Does anybody read Beyond Genesis? I don't know. I've read the Bible twice, but it's not a fun read. Like it's like an action movie where all the action happens at the very beginning. It's like a Tarantino movie in reverse. All the actions at the beginning and then the rest is just people talking and you're like, what? There's no buildup. It starts with the climax and then you're just like... And the horrible thing about it is that there's no plot development. There's no character arc. Right. You know, Jesus, for instance, is the most boring character you can ever conceive because he doesn't grow. He doesn't change. Almost like Luke Skywalker. At least Luke Skywalker had some sort of romantic interest, didn't he? Oh, yeah. His sister. Oh, geez, guys. Such a great number of topics. The idea of the flood is an interesting story or an interesting parallel because if we were to take it out of its context, if I go back to my room of cats and I open it up and there's a cat society and they don't know who I am because they haven't seen me in billions of years. The generations that exist... They've heard stories of you. Maybe they have their own stories. It's all conflicting. I gave them the word. Right. Well, they change over 14 billion years. Yeah. So I say, okay, if they don't want to worship me, instead of me just going to all of them and showing them that I exist, I'm just going to go to my favorite cat family and be like, you need to build a giant cat house, a big climbing tree. Build a big climbing tree because I'm going to flood this entire room with water and drown all the other cats. And that cat is like, oh, please don't do that. I'm like, oh, no, I got a plan. I got a plan. Get your new family and get them on here, but also get like one of every other kind of like non-cat animal that's here. Put them on this climbing tree because I'm going to drown everybody. It's like, but there are baby cats. There are kids. It's like, I don't care about them. It's just you. Just get them on the cat tree. You'll be all right. And he does that and kills all the other cats. And I'm like, and I'm so happy that I did this.  I'm going to hang it up on the wall. That's for you guys. Good job. Good job. I killed all the cats except for like this one family and one of every other animal. And here's a reward. Here's a little rainbow tinsel. That's a great story, guys.  Oh, that's great. That's great. That's great. And thank you all the genetic problems you're going to have because of repopulating the entire world with incest and one family. And then I'm going to make incest illegal afterwards. I put a little thing that says incest is okay for a period of time, and then I'll make it illegal again. So just so and don't eat pork. That's that's also that's my pork. It's my food. The the just the weirdest thing about this is I've had a friend of mine who was a fellow atheist who I at the time did not know he was an atheist. And at the time I was a Christian. And Bujo, you were asking this see this feel so obvious. And in my mind, Christianity felt so obvious when I was a Christian. Sure. And it was so obvious to the point where I just said anyone who didn't understand was just corrupted or or was misled. And that's why they have all these, you know, confusions or or or seemingly happy freedom. They don't they're not living the trial that I'm living through because God's giving me a test. And the apprehensions that I feel the loops that I have to jump through, that's God's test. It's an affirmation that he does exist.  But when I had my atheist friend at school, this is like in middle school, his name was Joel. And I brought this up a long time ago. Someone asked him, Hey, what's your religion? And he's like, I don't have one. And they're like, Why don't you have one? He's just like, I'm just doing my own thing. And in my head, I was shocked because I never knew what other atheists look like. That was the first one I met. And it stuck with me. I didn't think at the time, Oh, he's right. I didn't think, Oh, what a cool guy. I just thought that was an option. I didn't even know that you could do that. I was just like, huh, that's so weird. And so from middle school to high school to college, I met more atheists. And finally, when I was taking my my my ethics classes, I would decide to look at the Bible more critically. And it was just this walkthrough of understanding, okay, I'm not with this religion anymore, but I don't want to call myself the a word. But I have so many good examples of a words that I know, like, and, and I went online and I saw some YouTube videos and realized after getting like a atheist for dummies book that I fall into this category, whether I wanted to or not. And it was just an issue of learning that accepting it. Yeah, the issues that I had with this term was given to me by the people who were religious. That's right. Yeah, when you're when you're very young in America, a lot of places that you're raised not to be exposed to the full menu of options that's available to you. Right. You're in your bubble. There is an interesting parallel if I may quickly share it. You know, Christians, of course, have framed the whole abortion issue into pro life and pro choice. Right. And I had suggested that in order to change that, we just change the framing of it to say pro autonomy and pro ideology. And that would take it out of the Christian hands and put it in the hands of secularists who actually look at it if they're looking at it from that perspective in a much more realistic way. Because those are the those are the issues that at at hand is whether or not people have autonomy or whether they're making choices based on ideology. Let's touch on that when we get back because I think it actually falls into the indigenous fallacy and we can Larry, what do you think? Yeah, this is the digital free thought radio hour on WOZO radio 103.9 LP FM here in Knoxville, Tennessee will be right back after this short break. Hello and welcome back to the second half of the digital free thought radio hour. I'm doubter five and we're on WOZO radio 103.9 LP FM here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Let's just take a moment to talk about the atheist society of Knoxville or ASK. They were founded in 2002. We're in our 21st year now and have over a thousand members. We have weekly in person meetings every Tuesday evening in Knoxville's old city and not at the Barley's Taproom in Pizzeria. Look for us inside at the high top tables or if it's pretty weather outside on the deck. You can find us online on Facebook, meetup.com or just go to our website at KnoxvilleAtheist.org. You can just Google Knoxville Atheist, just that simple. By the way, if you don't live in Knoxville, you should still go to meet up and do a search for an atheist group in your town. Don't find one. Right. Wombat, where you want to pick up? I want to touch on a really great comment that was sent to us last week by a young idealist on YouTube. If you have more comments, feel free to leave them on our channels. A young idealist says, hey, guys, love listening to the show. Critical thinking really needs to be taught and learned well in this world. Something I wanted to run across you that I've been thinking, taking a deep dive into is the psychology of narcissism. Narcissism is a psychological phenomena that is common among all people. It often contributes to dysfunction and misbehavior and it extremely benefits a lot of people who have an extreme amount of narcissism in their behavior. Among the traits that characterize it is self entitlement. With studies that have been shown, people who are narcissistic tend to get paid more than those who aren't, and this seems to be pretty powerful in many people. You could see the reason at the same time that people are not being paid what they deserve because of a lack of self entitlement. I bring this topic up not to suggest in any way how people should be in their personalities, but to look at a lot of the world's problems, especially religion, which is full of self-entitled spiritual leaders who think they have the authority to speak for a tri-omni being. If you think about the charisma and guilt and the overall head trickery that goes into religious propaganda, you should know a thing or two about narcissism. The overlap becomes pretty clear and I definitely think there's a lot of sootspa in a person that thinks they can speak for God. It goes back to my analogy of a cat being like, I speak for that human who came in that door, allowed me to express myself. I don't know if this guy is translating me accurately or not, but I don't think this cat speaks for me. What do you think, Larry? I would just think about the sootspa of the average believer who thinks they're the close personal friend of the creator or the universe who can talk to them and they will grant requests for them. They can only say that because nobody can effectively contradict them. You can't make such silly statements about evidential things, can you? It's only when there's no evidence that you can have beliefs that you can fabricate anything. I mean, having a loving and loyal relationship to Mr. Gravity would be crazy. Right, right. But the non-falsifiable claims... Boudreau, I think you said this, that which is proposed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. There's a hitch quote again. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. And it's not up to us to find evidence to counter the claim that someone speaks for God. It's for someone who brings that proposal up because that's shifting the burden of proof, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. John Richards, you want to make a pun. Go for it.  What did you just say? The rumor of cats. Your followers. Yes.   Yes, yes. So I want to point out that cats are predators and if you are forbidding them from eating pork, I'm wondering, does that include guinea pig? What about hamster? Oh, he's got more. He's got more. Should we wait? Let's wait. No, no, no. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Perfect. Got it. The idea is we're also... We have a body. We can look at our biology. We can understand from other animals in nature what they're capable of and what we're capable of. Yet some of the things that we have and enjoy are sinful by nature. And I always thought the idea is like we have teeth, we can eat meat, but there are some religions that say you can't eat meat, right? We have... And to be as family-friendly on YouTube as possible, we have a peg and a hole that are sinful to put together, but the hole is perfectly shaped for the peg. So if it was supposed to be illegal, just make the peg or the hole different. Just make the hole a little smaller. You saw that problem or put it behind it or something, right? We already have a hole with teeth. We have holes in a dark light. After all, you can't put Petra in a diesel car. So true. We're not supposed to look at women's hair in some religions. Why then do women have hair? There's just a lot of questions that I have where you could have made things so much more easier. And my hang-up originally is just why do we have two nipples? Why do men have two nipples? We didn't need one. He gave us an extra one. I have lived my entire life. I've not had a use for them since. I just don't get it, but we have a lot of unnecessary parts. Two superfluous nipples and body parts that you're not supposed to touch, but feel really good when you do. I don't know. It's very bizarre. Larry, what do you think?  It has no purpose.  There's a lot of weird things going on, but I didn't want to touch on what Dredd brought up in the first half. Dredd, you brought up the pro-choice pro-life. Pro-choice pro-life brought to us by narcissists, narcissistic argumentation. And the reason why I say that is because it's a dishonest argument. It's a false dichotomy to say pro-choice or pro-life because you're bringing up two completely unrelated things and putting a one for and against the other. When pro-choice or not pro-choice should be a true dichotomy or pro-life or not pro-life. That's a true dichotomy, right? That is, there's no middle ground there. But when you present pro-choice or pro-life, there's a middle ground there that's actually fairly reasonable that we are choosing to or choosing to ignore by virtue of how virtual or volatile the argument has become over time. And I think those who are in their religious respect prefer to exclude that middle ground because it makes their marketing more palatable, right? And that's why it's been framed and that's why it's been framed the way it is. If it were framed by secularists, it would be pro-autonomy or pro-ideology because that really is what it's about. It's not that other choice, which makes it all pro-choice.  And that framing has stuck as long as it has is the biggest detriment to anybody that is in favor of Roe versus Wade, for instance. They're fighting the battle using Christian terminology and that's where the issue really lies. They need to change and reframe the argument in order to make it much more secular friendly. John Richards. I think this is an argument about terminology, but I think the terminology that's being used incorrectly is the word baby because they like to say that they're saving babies from the moment of conception. They're not babies. They're either embryos in the first couple of weeks, maybe seven weeks, or fetuses right up until birth. But it's only after they're born that they're babies. That's why we have the expression, babes in arms. You've got it. It's in your arms. And out of all of the conceptions, something like four out of six never make it through gestation. So it's a foolish mistake to describe them as having an existence independent to their mother. Right, Larry. So what do atheists eat? Do they eat fetuses, embryos, or babies? Well, even in the Bible, it says that life begins with the first breath. Oh, yeah. The breath of life, the breath of life that Yahweh breathed into that lump of clay, right? I always fall back on the logical absolutes as just a way for me to know if things are trying to present themselves to me in a misleading manner. And if you were to say the autonomy argument, it could be as easily pro-autonomy or anti-autonomy. And that's much more clear to me because there's no middle ground there. And it's just in the nature, in the subject of women's autonomy, are you for it or are you against it? Like, that is, you can't be halfway on it. It's like, I'm falling. That's right. The law of the excluded middle, right? Right. Exactly. Just make your variables very clear, and then just set it up as four or not four or this or not this. And we can work it out. But when you bring up two different agents, potentially, there's a middle ground that we can work towards. There might be a way where we can respect people's ideology, but not in the disservice of the autonomy of other people. That is a ground that we need to walk on. In my mind, it's the autonomy that we should prioritize, not the ideology of those who want to govern over the bodies of other people, because that's not fair. Boudreau, hate to throw you under the hot seat on this one, but we're going to give you a quick quiz. I didn't study. Okay. So the idea of narcissistic thinking governing our lives, do you have an example that you'd like to present to the board here on how religious narcissism actually affects and impacts your life directly? Because one of the comments that we do get on the channel is, you guys always talk about generalities.  Tell me something that actually happened to you. Boudreau, do you have as a family man, as the neighborhood's friendly atheist, do you have an example of religious narcissism actually affecting and impacting you specifically? Oh, do I? I bet I do, if I dig. I do feel like somebody, this is pretty minor, but just to kind of get maybe the thoughts go on it, I'm pretty sure somebody tried to pry off my glued on flying spaghetti monster decal on my car and broke one of its appendages. No way. Yeah. I don't have proof of that. It's just it's on my car and it's missing one of the pieces. I'm pretty sure someone tried to pry it off. That's some self entitlement right there. What do you think, Larry? Well, laws affect us daily and the smallest details and these religious right people and their hubris are casting laws to make everybody which Larry, which one you I see you playing video games and riding your motorcycle and doing whatever you want all day.  Well, let's talk about abortion then. I mean, it's not really affecting me. I don't have babies and I'm not at the stage of life where I might, but I have female relatives who they're the religious writer taking away the bodily autonomy. That affects me. Okay. Maybe I'll just piggyback on that and say my example would be my I feel like my daughter has fewer rights than my wife had, you know, at this point. Oh, very good point.  That coach is like, we need to talk about this. Like, no, we don't. I hate to be fair, maybe to kind of full circle on it. You remember, I mentioned, and we should get the dread. I know he's being patient. I'd mentioned we were worried that she was going to be adversely affected by it by starting, you know, play time and all that. But she she successfully made the top team next season. So I feel like no issues of that deal with it. So now the coach has to deal with the fact that he can't thank God for everyone because he's got agents on his team scoring goals from making passes that's now they'll break him down eventually. Dread, what do you think? Well, as you know, I have been dealing with the ongoing issue of trying to be photographed in my official ID wearing my tricorn, my symbol of my religious affiliation with past appearance. And of course, I've been stonewalled for this is coming up on seven years now, seven years I've been doing this. The most recent defeat was in finally a complaint with the BC ombuds person, the office, which is, you know, subsidized by the government and taxpayers, where they said they found no administrative errors in the application of these policies. And it was so glaringly obvious that the person who had been assigned to investigate to do the pre investigation to see whether or not they were going to even investigate it, decided had come to a conclusion based on the content of my faith and had decided, well, I'm, I'm, I'm just looking for the facts that will support my conclusion that this is not worth investigating. And so I complained and that person has been reassigned. Nice. And I, well, this is all under the cover. This is all under the cover. So there's a new guy on it. And I actually wrote a lengthy piece. And then I consulted chat GPT. Good. And I said, compose a sound legal argument to support my wearing a trike, my holy headdress in my photograph. And it did it. Yeah, it was amazing. Don't be surprised. So, so anyway, I included those as attachments in my response. And I'm waiting to hear back from this fella. But I've also consulted my, I've also cc'd my minister of the, one of the ministers of the legislative assembly for my region. And I actually, I know this fella personally, a good guy. So he, he said, because I told him I had something to talk to him about. And he says, well, yeah, right. So I sent him the whole package. So, and I'm now at the point of hiring a lawyer. I've got a very good lawyer. She's on the TV all the time for other cases. Like she's the hottest lawyer in Vancouver right now. And she's my lawyer. Keep it up. Keep it up. I want to throw out John Richards, your lifelong atheist, former president of the atheist society of basically the world leader of chaos. What so clearly, religion has never affected you particularly so personally. So yeah, you know, you're, you're completely untouched. Well, what's your problem? Well, it's, it isn't my problem. It's how I observe.  So yeah, yeah. Yeah. I always say it's like a zoo for me, for people who have been zoo animals and like realize they can get out of their cage. It's like an episode of the Twilight Zone where you are mystified that you are at a place where you used to be. And you can see people happy there knowing that they might be happier out. You may, you may not know that, but you do know that whatever confines that they put themselves or their own design. And you, you desperately want them to free themselves themselves, but they are, they are ultimately you're blinded or in a position where they can't due to like the stability of their current lifestyle or want to but lack the tools needed to get out. And you want to be able to help as many people. It's like a deeply empathetic position to put yourself into when you see your friends and loved ones in there. And if I were to say anything that affects me personally, the, the, how religious narcissism has affected me, it's black culture is steeped in religious tradition. And when you are a black atheist in the US, the number of outlets that you have to go to dramatically decrease. And that goes from older family members who don't have a way to contextualize your problem in a secular fashion or leaders in your, in your community who often may be religious and will let to recommend you to their pastor. Or even like just the lack of secular representation in black communities is largely non, at least for when I was growing up, non existent. I have to work really hard to get in touch with like Mendeza Thomas, who runs black non believers and met her a couple of times, made some in groups with groups on Facebook. But it's a sparse group to find people who think like you who also look like you.  It's nice to have a community there that understands the nature of looking like how you do and also not believing at the same time too, because there's a lot of assumptions that come with that. John, not only have I never been tainted by religion and look at it as if I'm a zoo visitor, but also if religion ever does die out, there's nothing for me to gain. I mean, what would I report on in global atheist news? Where did all my subscribers go? Where did all my patients go? What would we talk about in views on the news? Oh, yeah, I think Sam Harris would be like, oh, who can I sell my boring audio books? He's boring. He has a very, I don't either. Yeah, I was just gonna, you know, we're talking about this religious narcissism. So when I went to the human rights tribunal, their response to me was, you, this is a quote, you are a pastifarian, a member of the church, the flying spaghetti monster, which mocks religious beliefs and certain religious practices. So I put back at this, I said that is like saying you are a priest and a member of the Catholic Church, which practices pedophilia and buries indigenous children and unmarked graves. Dread on top of that. Any religion is mocking any other religion by virtue of the fact that I was saying we are the true religious person, right? There's very few religions that say our God's true. And by the way, everyone else's God is also true. There's an art press to think of anything like that. So imagine religions hijacking other religions, right, right practices and stuff like that happens. Think about the Easter Bunny, right? There's been far less deaths. You don't even have to bring up pedophilia and like unmarked graves. You could just be like, yeah, but like, what do you, Christianity is the practice of telling everyone else's God. It's monotheism. At the end of the day, have you not gotten that memo? The context is so bizarre. And the fact that someone can write that and think they're making a valid point, just shows how, how locked into a certain narrative you can be without that context. Yeah. How divorced from reality. Right. If I said I have a room full of cats and I'm not necessarily abusing them. And someone said you are because I have a room full of dogs and I drowned them all last night and everything was great. And I'm like, you're doing the exact same thing I'm doing. How, how are you, how did we get here? How did we get here? Just a lack of context. We need to have the context and we need to have God be a better cat owner. We need to have him involved if he's going to be involved at all. And if not, get out because we are clearly taking care of ourselves. Final thoughts, Dredpire Higgs. Well, I, like I said, I'm doing a regular sermons for the Pastafarians. And of course, I record this stuff live so you can come check out my YouTube channel, Mind Pirate. I've been getting quite a few subscriptions. So I guess our content. So yeah, come check it out. Very cool. You can find my stuff at Let's Chat on YouTube. Just search Let's Chat. You'll find, you'll see me at the top. And that's also my YouTube name now too. So at Let's Chat. And I'm also happy to say, hey, my commercial came out for my company. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. We had some really good social work that we've done at our school. I made it a point to not just be a really cool person at our lab, but go out to schools and play disc golf and celebrate engineering. These are all exercises in understanding nature. Science, engineering, and enjoying the outdoors in my head are three components of the same thing, which is enjoying nature and coming to better terms with it and understanding it at the same time too. You can do all those and they're not at they're not in they're not in opposition to each other. You can love the world that you're in and try to understand it. And what science and engineering is, is like the application and the process of understanding it in the most accurate way possible. I found it to be the best tool that we have to understand nature and it's a part of nature too. So don't let people believe that it's a don't let people persuade you that it's a foreign thing that we have to be suspicious of. It's something we should celebrate. It's something we made ourselves and got us here. John Richards final points. Well, I just want to advertise that you can see some of our latest stuff on atheism UK channel. That's atheism UK channel on on YouTube, where we're now posting the videos of the changing minds in changing times event that we staged about a month ago in London. Very good. It was so good in fact that we're doing another one in Birmingham in September featuring Lawrence Krauss again. He's flying. I love that you're coming to do that. That's so good. That's so great. True true true. And listen to his orange podcast all the time. He's a good man. Yeah. I've met Lawrence Krauss. Also, I wanted to add, did you write the script for the commercial you did? So that was a guy talking to me. And it was excerpts from an interview that we were just giving off the top of our heads. Yeah. Okay. No no fixed script. Okay. That is just well it was well done. Oh, thank you.  So like very good editing on their job to take my rambling and make it seem coherent. But that was great. I don't have anything to check out. But I would we'll say we went to holiday world yesterday, which is a theme park, a water park and we wrote a bunch of coasters. And it was a lot of fun. And yeah. Boudreau, no spoilers. But I think if you haven't seen the latest Spider-Man movie, you should go see the latest Spider-Man movie. All right. Catch yourself up. It's a really good family experience that you you would get meaningful high level thoughts of like you'll keep you entertained as an adult and I'll keep the kids entertained as like the kids. It's not it's a it's a really good movie. It's it's in the plan. By the way, I saw Indiana Jones yesterday. Not that great. I know we knew we knew it. We knew it. We knew it. We knew I'm going to watch it and I'm going to love every minute of it. You only get one shame on me once. You have twice or something like that. You fooled me once already. I'm not going back. Larry Rhodes, we're at the end of the show. It looks like atheism is over. Anything you want to say before we all become? Well, you can find my content at digitalfreethought.com. There's lots of topic, atheist topics there. Be sure to click on the blog button for radio show archives, atheist song to many articles on the subject. My YouTube channel is at doubter five and you can find my book Atheism What's It All About on Amazon.  The time to worry about it is when they prove that heavens and hells and souls are real. Until then, don't sweat it. Enjoy your life and we'll see you next Wednesday night at 7 o'clock here on WOZO radio. Say bye everybody. Bye everybody.


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V pasačovamo na manske reserce, ki dobrovamo na reserčnaknam. Prvam pri zeločenje in nekaj je povedal refes in fiskav polizicja. Se splodimo, da je stavil se opotrečenje za nekaj, kaj je za svoje, ki je bilo in bo, tudi, da vse polizije izgleda vse polizije, ki je exogenični, kaj je vse ekonomijne konditioni. V reserciju naučenju, kaj je, nekaj je exogenični, nekaj je monotari in fiskopoliziji šoks.  This is actually an aspect of policy that tends to noderate trade kavs but actually either situation or win-win or situation, lose-lose. This is a slide that's going to slightly repeat what I just said. There's been a large focus about the role of reform , Or statute of reference in discussing what may affect inequality, but in general there is much less debate about the role of the man polices. And the debate actually started in the most recent years. In the case of, for example, all the US or other advanced economies, there has been argument by some that the extremely accommodative monetary policies implemented in some of these economies ker nekovorila in nekovorila da odpakiči, na prikroni sem izgovorila zelo naprošenje lase, ko ne kaj več nezame na tega v zelo ekonomi. Pobawila skup oftena, polači zelo evo še na pravštimi. Pagdaj prezeteva prezettino, kako prezetteleni, zelo Snečne in vsev moži pos thirtyh zakonom, kako misljili vsemi posao prikroni. in počinaj prejzvosti, če se je, da potrebno, počinaj, na našem, kot je to, da neč tako, je to, da je inšta, našte se je vzloženo, da je zelo, da je vzloženo, ki da je našto, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to, da je to,ramble,δήške potencije čelo Internal Policy raised but recent research for the U.S. Suchs that,indeed, there could be some challenge that. Basically from a theoretical point of view, you may think that The Monetary Policy Actions in Seriously Directions in the negotiating or construction can have done set distributions and had a very complicated and in some cases opposite way, The moment comes when it depends on some of the channels through which monetary policies in general affect key economic variables. For example, you may think that when a central banks reduce interest rates, by doing so basically what we lead is to an increase in asset price.  Inekni interest rates are usually people that are at the beginning of the shocks that are better off. So by doing so, and by basically lowering the interest rates and therefore are increasing the asset price, you are going to make these even richer in them. Another argument in this direction is that typically when for example you reduce the interest rates in the monetary base of recession, zazviti inflasion, šte minori brigadega bo shed Yellow kasht -" in stThey good for, so under form of cash". V inflation basically you are going to tax a part of their income for consumption, This actually may even worsen inequality. Vsečo, da je dobro tukaj zelo zelo počku ogledaj, še je veliko in pozdravljena in pomečenja in inflacije prijezvačne tem, in raznosti in tukaj in inflacije. In izgovor, da je poslednja, da je to izgovor, da je tukaj vsečne, da je zelo, da je tukaj vsečne, Evropija Central Bank, Mario Draghi, sej se, da vseč, kako Central Bank, kaj je zelo, da je naprej vsečo ekonomijne aktivitve, z evočnoj in monitorijne polizije, je vseč, zelo početno, da je začala vseč. In nekaj je vseč, in tudi je to, da je bilo spet, da je kot sem, da je bilo, da začala vseč vseč, da je vseč vseč vseči vseči vseči vseči. In zelo, da je vseči, da je vseči, da je vseči, v baršcuvarih včinku so zelooknih včalj. Po tem, da prišljeni bile ljubi inteljavnih dobro in ljubi zelooknih, boi narednega rosta izpronovana, in zeločno, da tražene i zeloče našli zeloj, narednega rosta izpronovana in tezda postavljenja. Zato je pravda poločnega argumenta, da pa izpronovanao nekoda učenje račnega, according to, if it is a zoning based on the interest rate, imagine that you reduced real interest rate. They will retain share in income. You have a shift of net wealth from land and borrowers. Unexpected decline in the real interest rate will make better os that think favorable deals bar. that are more financial constraint. So these are very intricate channels through which monetary policies can affect inequality. So ultimately, if we want to access whether indeed the expansion of monetary policies is going to increase or reducing equality, we have to do this empirically. The empirical evidence is mostly focused on the U.S. or a few advanced economies In vsega začem jezdačne vsega vzbah vzbah in, kako se objah pa ne predpravila, njih ima, da se vzbah polizija zrednjeva na vsega jazda, tudi neč nekaj vsega. Sem je izgleda na Japana in svojih kraj, nešč jazdačne, zdaj je nekaj, da je nekaj izgleda, in da je ga vzbah vzbah polizija zača, da nukrat jesem za njacko in so malo bolje po skupu. S rodnevam do sečete kratiljamo zelo priplataj smo zelo zakonoke in izdajte zakonoke izzavljenje, in zato se ml late in drugi tih tega z nekaj režim lotionov drugi izveč, da se kratila. Daj mi pa tega nekaj zelo kratiljamo. Kaj smo videli, da, when central banks, for example, does an expected increase in its interest rate, this policy is typically associated with an increase in equality. So, construction monetary policies tends towards more the poorer than the richer. We find that this effect tends to various over time, depending on the signs of the shocks, on the state of the business cycles, and depends also on some of the country economic characteristics. The main one is the labor share of income. And this is because, as I mentioned before, and actually, as Mario Draghi was claiming, is that the labor income is a significant chance through which any demand policy is going to affect income distributions. And finally, we find some role that distribution policies can, in some situations, offset some of the effect of construction monetary policy. Let me be, again, very brief to tell you how we construct these shocks and what are some of these results. So, what we do is we construct innovations for monetary policies, and actually, we do the same for fiscal policies, using an expected change in key variable. So, for example, for monetary policies, we look at an expected change in short-term interest rate. For fiscal policy, we look at an expected change in, let's say, government expenditure, government consumption, government investment. In the case of monetary policies, because we need higher frequency, we realize on private sector forecast that are the forecast by consensus. And what we do is we look at the unexpected change in a key variable for monetary policy that is the short-term rates, and we purge this unexpected change, but any expected innovations that are, for example, on inflation, on economic activity, or on a bunch of several variables. What we show is that these measures have several econometric properties that are very good in terms of access, if a measure is exogenous or not, or it behaves well, et cetera. And what we find is that once we put monetary policy shocks or fiscal policy shocks in a framework that allows to look at what happens at different measure distributions following these shocks, we find that both fiscal and monetary shocks have significant distribution effect. This is some of the results for monetary policy shocks. What this shows here is what happens to the gene coefficient following a contraction of monetary policies by 100 basis point. So, what you see is the average response, and these are confidence months that give you a sense of the precision of the estimates. Basically, what you see is that following a contraction in monetary policies, an exogenous contraction in monetary policies, you tend to see that the gene measure of income distribution tends to increase, so inequality tends to worsen. In similar results, you find it if you look at measure of poverty, but also if you look at refined measure of distribution, for example, looking at the top 1% title of the distribution, the top 5% and the top 10%. So, what we find in this stream of work is that not only as a genetic emphasize supply side policy as a structural reform may have distribution effect, but we find also that macroeconomic policies are likely to have distribution effect. Another element that we find is that not only this policy affect the distribution of income across the entire distribution, but also affect the distribution of income between capitalist labor in the sense that we typically see that both contraction in monetary and fiscal policies tend to more contract the share of income for workers than the share of income attribute to capital. So, let me stop here, and I will give the floor to my colleague, Stfanef Abritz. Thank you.


My name is Mickey Wilson. My name is Tom Eaton. My name is Jim Crawford. My name is Hannah Sanders. My name is Doug Sankl. I'm a graduate of the South Tech Biotech Program. I work at Forsyth Tech Community College. I joined a company that is called Kerinetics. I'm the lab operations manager at Wake Forest Institute for regenerative medicine. I work for Appalachian State University here at the North Carolina Research Campus. I'm Cindy Zimmerman and this is Wake Forest Institute of regenerative medicine. They call it WFIRM. I'm working currently at Nanotech Laboratories. I'm the lab manager for Nanotech Labs. And I'm now a laboratory technician at the Plants for Human Health Institute. One of the reasons I wanted to go to Forsyth Tech was to upgrade my skills and knowledge in that area. We do, in the biotech program, we do a lot of hands-on. So you're using the equipment that you're actually going to be using in the field. The doctor who hired me told me she was actually impressed by the program going on at RCCC. The skills and the knowledge that I gained in that two-year program were immensely valuable to me. My education really helped to give me a background so I can understand what they're talking about. But it's a continual learning process. By going to Forsyth Tech, getting the internship, it got me in the door and the rest was up to me. I knew that I was prepared for anything that came our way. I love it. I love working here. We have a variety of things that we work on. I guess you could say that it's never boring. I really believe that if someone wants to get into this field, it'd be the right way to go. I believe there's going to be many opportunities for people in the future, even here at Nanotech Labs. I'm sort of getting back to what I used to do and what I really like to do, but being able to upgrade your skills can make you much more marketable. I just like the, it's not mundane. It's ever changing.


Eat. Over. What's up? When it gets Mr. V here, welcome to another video guys. So in today's video, we're going to take a look at airline companies. We got some really bad news last week when Warren Buffett actually decided to pull all Berkshire Hardaway investments in airline companies. I mean, it's a massive, massive blow to the airline companies and if you look today, they have taken a beating. So before we actually jump into examining whether it's still a buy or sell at this point, I want us to kind of talk about some of the key things that I got from the transcript of the Berkshire Hardaway call. So Warren Buffett actually made three key things that actually resonated with me. Number one is that he actually praised the management of all these airline companies. So we're talking about Delta, American, Southwest and United. So he said they have good management. And so number two is that he said the problem of the airlines really facing this challenge is not because of them, but it's because of the virus, which we all understand virus came in beyond control of the airline companies and really smack them in the face. And then finally, number three take away was that he's going to take between three to five years for the airline companies to fully recover. And so after losing a ton of money, Berkshire Hardaway is actually pulling all the assets from airlines. As an investor, I can understand that Warren Buffett is one of the smartest investors of our time, if not the smartest investors of our time. So when he makes a move like this, what happens, you see a ton of panic. And when there's panic, there's a lot of sell-off. And so people are going to start selling out when everybody's going to downgrade airline companies because Warren Buffett is pulling out. But I want you to take a step back as your own individual investor, because I understand and again, I follow Warren Buffett religiously. And one of his key quotes that I really, really love, and I use that as one of my investment approaches is that you should be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful. And so if I follow that same principle, right now, what's happening is that people are fearful. People are selling off all airline stocks because Warren Buffett pulled out. So me, if I follow what he says, now it's time for me to be greedy. So I'm going to look at the top airlines and see which ones really fit my need for full disclosure. I already have Delta and I have American in my portfolio. So United and maybe Southwest, I'm going to look at them and consider adding some of that to my portfolio. But before we even get to the details, here's what I want you to really examine. Airline companies, as we all know, took a really big hit with this virus. Everything, people don't fly. I mean, basically we're trapped in the house, so there's really no movement. And I don't foresee this just rebounding immediately, right? If tomorrow, if there is a vaccine for COVID-19, people are going to start going about their business because we cannot be trapped inside forever. What are you going to do? Drive your car across the country to go to work? There's people that live in the West Coast that work in the East Coast and vice versa or in the Midwest. So people are still going to fly, even if it means that people are going to start wearing a mask to fly. People are still going to fly. But the amount of people that just fly for, say, leisure, it's really going to reduce until there is a full confidence that this virus is under control. So you're going to see that. So it's going to be a slow return to flying, which would impact the airline companies. So where am I going with this? What I'm saying is, if you are a long-term investor, if you see value in any of these stocks, just because people are selling out because Warren Buffett actually pulls their investment in airlines, doesn't necessarily apply to you. You should be your own individual decision maker, not just follow the masses. Again, like I said, he states, if when people are fearful, it's time for you to be greedy and when people are greedy, it's time for you to be fearful. So I'm applying that same principle. People are being fearful right now with airlines and I'm looking at being greedy. So I'm going to do my homework. I'm going to go back again and look at it again. I'm going to look at two. I'm going to look at Southwest and I'm going to look at United and C because, like I said, I already have Delta in America. And so I'm looking at if they give the drop again, I'll add to my position. My investments in these airlines is not short term. So if you are somebody that's looking to make a return in the next, say, six months, 12 months, one year, two year, you're expecting to get all your money back. That's probably not going to happen. But in the next four or five years, when everything gets back to normal, you're going to see tremendous amount of growth. So to me, that is my time horizon. I'm not looking in the next 12 months. So I'm going to invest in these companies. I'm not scared of other people. As a matter of fact, people panicking and selling off means good news to me. Means I should go in and buy just like Warren Buffett says. Yeah, so I think another good thing that I got out of the call is that Berkshire had a way right now has tremendous amount of cash in hand.  Because there's a lot of money that they got. So I want to see which stocks he's looking at. Is he going to be looking at? Maybe work from home companies like Zoom and all that stuff. Or where is he going to put that money? Because oil and gas is taking a beating. Like you say, airlines are taking a beating. Tech as some tech companies are doing just fine. Others are struggling. So health care is another good place where he can potentially put that money. But I'm not Warren Buffett. I'm just another guy in his basement and making YouTube videos. But so here's what I want. I want to tell you investing in the stock market takes a lot of discipline, a lot of research and a game plan. I don't want you to blindly follow people just because somebody does this, means you should do it. I want you to invest doing your own research. In my case, like I'm trying to break it down. Airline companies are really, really struggling. And the prices are like 75% or even at somewhere like 80% down from their 52 week high that shows me there's a tremendous amount of opportunity there. One other thing that makes me think again, I want to invest more is that I don't anticipate that these companies are going to go bankrupt. As a matter of fact, the major airline companies actually get $25 billion from the stimulus package that Congress passed. So which is one of the reasons why Warren Buffett said he was living to. I totally forgot that when he said he's living because he doesn't like to invest in companies that take bailout money, which means they don't have cash to operate or again, that's his principle, which is good. So these companies took $25 billion and I don't see them going bankrupt. If there's any sort of bankruptcy, what I see instead is the company's consolidating. So American United, Southwest and Mike might consolidate and form a big giant, even more stronger company. Again, we depend so much on airlines for movement and stuff like that. So I don't see these companies disappearing. Like this business model is not going to go anywhere. So it's going to be here, but just be ready that if you're investing your money in this company, you're not looking at an immediate return. You're looking at long term. You're looking at this three years, four years, even five years before you can actually see full return to normal and profit. And hopefully a lot of the ones that have suspended their dividends, they can return to paying dividends again and then you get back to it. Ideally, times like this comes around every 10 years. So if this presents itself, I don't want to miss out on the opportunity. And this is my personal opinion. I'm taking the chance. I know the Oracle of Omaha says he's pulling out and people are pulling out along with him. I am moving in. I'm going into airlines. I'm watching as the price drops. I'm buying more. So question of the day, what do you guys think? Do you think airline companies are ever going to recover? Or this is just something. This is just panic because, hey, people are just prone to panicking when somebody like Warren Buffett makes a move. 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I think we're good enough. We're in a world series with what we have in house. I've played against the Yankees my whole career. This is by far the best team I've seen them put together since I've been in the big leagues. So, you know, I think we got a really good shot with the guys in house. Obviously we got to play better than we have over the last few weeks, but if we do, and guys pitch and hit to their potential, play defense to our potential, we're better than every team. The rotation is what it is, and they meet some issues with their bullpen as well. Does that make them a bigger threat, I guess? Yeah, I mean, yeah, absolutely. Like, Cranky's gonna better any team. Their rotation got, you know, even better today, but I remember being in Baltimore, playing the Detroit Tigers, A-O-D-S, we had to face Scherzer, Verlander, and David Price, three consecutive Cy Young winners, and we swept them. So, you know, we can do it, and we're capable of this a lot better too. Zach, has the trade deadline been something that kind of hovers over a clubhouse, and until it's passed, there's a little bit of anxiety? Yeah, you know, I think last year in Baltimore, it was a lot different because guys knew they were gonna get traded. Here, you know, there's some chatter about it, but actually, for the most part, I felt like it was pretty common here.  The fact that Bryant had more confidence in you guys and didn't make a trade, is that giving you guys more confidence? Yeah, like I just said, I think the talent in here to win the World Series is here. Guys that, you know, we need to pitch better, you know, hit better, play some better defense than we have the last few weeks, but when guys are playing to their potential in this room, you know, we're good, really, really good with the personnel that we have. That's not including the guys on the I.L. that are gonna come back, and some big names that I've yet to see in the minors, are really good things about that could really help us. So, you know, we are who we are now, and I think we're good enough to win the World Series with who we have.


ever since I was a kid I've always wanted to be rich always wanted to have money I've followed a lot of billionaires I've followed a lot of millionaires because you know I mean who does not want to be rich who doesn't want to have nice things who doesn't want to travel the world but most importantly I realized that millionaires and billionaires are the ones that always call the shots so just imagine the other one who calls the shots everybody answers yes sir to you and you get to take all this nice holidays so what I decided to do was I decided to study a lot of these billionaires and basically try and understand what makes them rich so I decided to put this video together you know where I'm gonna be speaking about the top five you know ways the top five habits of rich people top five habits of rich people now guys if you're interested in finding out these top five habits of rich people and how you can invite them into your own self and ultimately become rich I suggest you stick around till the very end of this video hey guys and welcome back to my YouTube channel my name is Dapu Wallace now I'm a serial entrepreneur who just loves to make money online and in this video I'm going to be discussing about the top five habits of rich people okay guys so I've studied a lot of billionaires I've studied a lot of millionaires from Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates to Warren Buffet to I mean I mean the really really big boys even Aliko Dangoti who is the richest black man in the world who is a huge mentor of mine I've studied all these rich people and you know I just wanted to really understand what makes them rich so I decided to compile a list of top five habits of rich people now guys if you're interested in finding out a lot about all this stuff before I get into the nitty gritty of this video I want you to do me a little bit of I want you to do me a little favor can you smash the subscribe button and hit the like button hit the like button smash the subscribe button before we get into the juicy part of this video now the number one habit of rich people the number one habit that I've studied from rich people over the years is that is the fact that rich people set their money to work for them they send their money to work for them what do I mean by this let's say a billionaire comes up with an idea and this this habit that I'm about to share with you guys I have also invited in my own business and trust me it has absolutely made me a lot of money so the number one habit is the fact that they send their money out to work for them so let's say a billionaire for instance Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett is sat in his yacht offshore of Monaco with some beautiful girls on the yacht and then a business idea pops up in his head do you know what he's going to do he's not going to carry his laptop out and start you know scribbing and writing and trying to execute that idea by himself he would never do that he will pick up the phone and then he would speak to whoever is in charge of HR tell them set up a team I don't care how much it costs this is the idea you guys go and research about it and go and execute it when you're done write me a report and get back to me and then he drops the phone so literally he's spending his time chilling and he has used his money to go and work for him so whatever the outcome of that project is they will put it together in the report and then they will deliver it to him haven't you noticed that the only thing that billionaires do is they just sit on their yachts offshore of Monaco and then people bring reports to them all billionaires do literally is they sit on their yachts and then they're just reading reports I kid you not they read reports but poor people poor people will rather save their money and go ahead and start struggling on how to execute the idea and stuff like that and you know that's part of the reason why you know poor people rather trade time for money no rich people trade money for time their time is far more valuable to them than anything okay so they'll rather use their money to and it helps them concentrate on the most important 5% of the business so they're not working in the business they're working on the business if that makes any sense they're not working in the bid they're not trying to figure out why this isn't happening they're working on the bid they hire people to do all the things within the business and then they sit back and then they can watch the business from afar and then help the business in a more effective way now guys this has also helped me tremendously because like I said earlier guys I remember any idea that popped into my head I'll grab my laptop I would you know want to build the website I want to design the logo I want to do this I want to I want to do the write up by the way I suck at writing I suck at designing logos I suck at all that stuff but I have the ideas so what I now decided to start doing a lot recently maybe in the last four or five months and trust me that really helped me what I do now is if an idea pops into my head what I do is I learn I learn how to go about executing the idea go on YouTube go on anywhere I learn about the ins and out of the project that I want to embark on and then obviously I learn about it I'm not legit but knowledgeable about it and what I then do is I write a project brief and I write on all the people that I would need to execute this all the things I do not want to do on the project I highlight everything out I highlight the project brief I highlight all the things I do not want to get done and then I go ahead and hire people if you're looking for way to hire people online go on Upwork.com absolute best place to hire professionals I hire people who are a lot better than me in those various aspects of the project and what do I do I give it to them and I say here the project brief I expect a report back from you that's exactly how I handle my businesses my online businesses today and trust me guys it has saved me so much time and guess what happens when they're done with it they send me back a report I have a look at the report and then I say okay this is good and this is bad and then if the report is viable enough what do I do I take my money and I reinvest in that project and before you know it another business has been formed so guys that is the number one habit of rich people they use their money to work for them number two habit of rich people is the fact that they count their money rich people always know how much money is coming in and how much money is going on okay they know how much money a lot of people do not know how much money comes in their account and how much goes in their account rich people like to focus on the two most important aspects of their bank statement the inflow and the outflow and what do they do they try as much as possible to curb the outflow but increase the inflow they try as much possible to curb the outflow and then they increase the inflow number three habit of rich people is the fact that they flow their money in the right direction they flow their money into assets and not liabilities they flow their money into the right places they flow their money into real estate they flow their money into Treasury bills they you hardly see a rich person buy things upfront from their jets to the expensive cars I know in developing nations like especially the West African countries African people love to buy shit upfront but if you notice the top billionaires they never really buy stuff upfront they will rather rent and lease than have to buy anything so they will rather instead of buying and instead of buying liabilities they'll rather buy an asset and have the asset take care of the liability for instance if they wanted to buy a new car what they will do is they'll probably buy a house and then the rent out income from the house is what pays for the car now I learned this from rich dad poor dad if you guys have ever read the book they always use assets to pay for liabilities you have more assets and less liabilities on your balance sheet okay guys so they flow the money in the right direction and then they use their assets to pay for what their liabilities liabilities being cars you know all this fancy stuff that you see am assets being you know houses assets are things that have returned on investment liabilities are things that depreciate over time now guys number four habit rich people have is the fact that they use money to buy time now I know I had already mentioned this but if you go to a rich person's house you realize that there's so much so many domestic stuff everywhere especially in those castles and big houses because the rich people do not be you have to understand that they will rather spend their time doing the 5% most important things their brain needs to be freed up so that they can spend their time being a billionaire being a millionaire the rest of the shit the outsources the laundry the washing the cleaning of the house the everything you might not agree with me on this but it's the truth go to any rich uncle or rich auntie's house you know and you see that they have the outsourced a lot of things rich people do not like to be bothered with the many things they like to focus on the most important things of their business or the most important things of their house or they do not like to be stressed from catch on a catch a flight you probably see a private jet waiting for them they always have PAs they always have a system working around them that helps them make that helps them free of their mind so that they can make the best decisions possible rich people spend money to free of their mind so that they can make the best decisions possible now guys number five habit of rich people is the fact that rich people contrary to what a lot of people say rich people do not bother themselves with little bargains you I know you're probably saying that you know a lot of stingy rich people but the rich people that I know do not necessarily bother themselves with petty bargains that's why they can walk into a store and spend five fifteen thousand dollars on a piece of suit they do not worry themselves with little bargains or rather I don't like to worry myself a little bargain because what I realized this what I realized was happening to me over time was the fact that anytime I was bothering myself about little bargains right my mind was so close to that bargain whereas I could have been using my negotiation skills in the boardroom so I don't really like to bargain on a little level I like to bargain on the big level let me try and save myself a twenty five thousand dollar cost let me try and save myself a fifteen thousand dollar cost I don't care if it's ten fifteen dollars twenty five thirty five dollars difference like I don't care just get the little things done but when it comes to the big things aha I can focus on that and try and negotiate and try and come up with a bargain but when it comes to the little things I just let it go okay because if you keep trying to focus on the little things and this is one of the habits of rich people rich people love a bargain yes but they will never bargain on anything less than 500 bucks period you never catch them trying to bargain with a newspaper guy or any of that stuff or a shoe guy or no no no no they want to bargain on the most expensive stuff because that's where they save the most amount of money what it makes no difference if you're saving fifteen twenty five thirty dollars a billion it doesn't add to his bottom line it's in like literally the amount of the zeros would would engulf the twenty five dollar bargain like you don't he doesn't even add up on his balance sheet okay I know there was a billionaire back in the 60s he named his name was mr. Getty JF Getty I think that was the name Mr. John Getty I can't remember his name that guy was so tight he would bargain on everything although he was a billionaire but I think that's an exception the guy used to bargain on everything but guys take it from me like if you're always bargaining on little things you would always miss out on the big things your mind will remain small okay let the little things go and open your minds to the bigger things okay guys now guys I hope I've been able to shed light on the five most important habits of rich people and I hope you're gonna be able to imbibe this in your own life in your own business world as well guys the most important thing that I took from this video is the fact that rich people ultimately use their money to work for them okay rich people send money out to investments and then investments bring money back to them rich people give you know pay their staff well enough to execute ideas on their behalf and then they bring back reports and they know what business are gonna work and what businesses are gonna work so guys I hope I've been able to help you out you know change your mindset as to how you can become a rich person this year alright guys thank you so much for sticking till the very end of this video I love you guys so much and I'll catch you guys in subsequent videos if you found this video helpful can lead you up a comment below and I'll see you guys in the very next videos alright guys peace out cheers and bye


Good morning from vlogmas day 13. I am sick um today it is 6 o 2 a.m. um my alarm goes off at 4 45 but I am on the struggle bus today. I think I might have eaten something bad yesterday. I don't know what's going on um but I have been up all night. There's a dog. I think the sickness is out of my body now but I'm really tired because like I said I've been up all night so anyway um I just texted my boss because it's like way too early to call him. I get there an hour before everybody else plus I live an hour away so right now excuse me technically I should be leaving right now for work like I leave at six o'clock every day and I get to my office at seven so at this point it's not even the sickness part it's like I'm just so tired. I just took the dog outside which is why I'm like really red because it's like negative four degrees or something right now it's ridiculous but you know there's no sunlight outside right now either so that's probably a big issue. I think it's supposed to be getting into the positive temperatures later on in the day but not not high temperatures at all but yeah so I think I'm gonna take a nap um I need to do a little bit of like work work later I need to work on some forms on my computer but if I have enough energy I might film I don't know I mean it depends on the sickness situation I'm pretty sure it's all gone I mean I gotta say I think it's all good like I got I got nothing left I got nothing left man so yeah I mean I can't even like form full sentences you guys oh being sick is the worst but I know it's not the flu because it's not a it's not flu like I don't have a temperature I'm not like shaking or anything I mean I'm cold but it's just because I went outside um but it's like you know yeah now so anyway that's the check in from bed it's very thrilling content for you guys being sick is the worst but I will check in later in the day and hopefully I look a little better I sound a little better and hopefully I feel a little better because this sucks but yeah I'll definitely be going to work tomorrow though because this I know what this is and it's definitely like a eight-something funny you know what I mean like you can just kind of tell but let's hope I don't waste the entire day being sick all right well I am gonna try to lay down for a little while and I tell my boss to call me whenever he got up and then we could like talk or whatever but it's just too early to call him and I don't want to like I don't know I don't want to like stay awake till like seven I want to just try to sleep as much as I can just because I haven't really gotten any sleep so anyway I just have my phone laying right here he can just call me they can just chat I don't know what there is to chat about I sent him a text message but you know whatever all right well I'm gonna let you guys go and hopefully when you see me again I'll look a little bit better here's hoping sick days are the worst days but anyway um took a shower and then I put my hair back up and put my pajamas back on I thought it would wake me up but it's just like so not working but anyway um I actually did film today because that was kind of on my plans to do I'm still not feeling the best but gotta stay close to the bathroom you know what I'm saying but yeah so got my New Year's week plan with me done also filmed my first aid kit and then I've actually been going through some things like some planner things and I just posted this will all be like done by the time this video posts but um I actually just posted sneak peek whoop I have like a little bag of honesty I'm actually taking some inspiration from my planner friend Jodi that I saw at the meetup on Saturday Saturday wow can't even think we were talking about how she went through all of her planner stuff not too long ago and she was gonna go through it again and um just give away stuff and whatever and I'm like you know what I need to do that too so I kind of went through all of my planning systems and just pulled out the things that I just haven't been using anymore or just don't serve me anymore so nothing's bad about them nothing is wrong with them some of the sheets are used some of them are not used at all I've got some like full rows of rolls of washy that I just don't serve me anymore I have some like washy samples that I got in like trades and exchanges and stuff and you know I just have something so similar that why hoard it I'd rather just like give it to somebody so I actually just posted on Instagram if anyone would be interested in my bag of honesty as I like to call it and there's been quite a few people that have been entering I'm just like just leave a comment if you're interested and I'll just pick a winner at random later so whatever as long as they're in the US I really don't care um and then I can run to the post office and um you know send that out so yeah but that'll be good to kind of get that out of my life um I'm actually even sending them some pens these are some of the pilot G2 pens I don't use anymore I've got a bunch of black ones ranging from like the 05 to the 10 and then I also have two of the blue ones that are the 07 I just don't use them anymore my pen of choice these are all linked below the pilot G2 ones are not linked below because they're not my faves um but because the reason that I don't like them is because they smear so they just don't dry all the way they're gel pens and then these are the gel pens that I like the paper mate ink joy this is a 0.07 or a 0.7 I'm sorry um but I have them in the 7s and the fives and I really like those they have a little bit of a drier texture to them but they are still a gel pen so they don't smear as much you still have to wait a second for them to dry but it's like it's not super bad super bad so whatever um but yeah so I have like a ton of the G2 pens so it's like I'm just trying to get rid of them because I'd rather give them to somebody that might actually use them or just like wants to test them out I guess um they're just not for me and I have a lot of them so I think the next couple of giveaways I'm gonna be giving those away too um I know people are just interested in how they write um for me personally I've just noticed that they just don't work well for me and my style but you know other people can use them and if they don't like them they can pass them along or they can just like bring them to their office or something which would be like totally easy to do but anyway I have a huge pile of a disaster on the table as always when I film so yeah but this week is kind of a weird week with like food and stuff someone had asked I think it was on a comment on my video or one of my vlogmas videos today someone had commented that they wanted to see more meal prep um this week I'm not doing any meal prep because I am leaving on Saturday early early morning like I think I'm leaving here like 4 a.m but my flight isn't till 7 but it takes a long time to get to the airport from where I live um but anyway so I'm actually not doing any like meal prep because I'm just eating out of the freezer in the pantry this week um I have some apples and things like that in the fridge so I'm just gonna eat all those up before I go but um I don't want stuff to sit here and spoil because I'm gonna be gone for about a week and a half so I'm gonna be gone from a Saturday to Tuesday but like the next Tuesday so I'll be gone for a lot of days so I think tonight I'm just gonna have actually just pulled it out here I think I'm just gonna have some angel hair pasta and some like marinara sauce it's easy enough and it's a little early it's 4 o'clock I think that'll be fine I actually end up getting a not an upset stomach I've been dealing with stomach issues all day it's not a stomach thing it's more of like a reflux thing when I have red sauce too late at night so if I like lay down say if I eat at like 8 or 9 o'clock and then I lay down at like 11 I have like the worst reflux um from like tomato based products but it's still pretty early so I think that'll be fine so I'll just make up a little angel hair and toss it in a little red sauce and just that'll be my dinner I don't know um it's just easy today's just one of those days where I'm like I just don't know what to do I'm just uh uh sick days so oh on a brighter note I actually did get something in the mail which is exciting let me grab it it's on the back of this chair I just laid it on the back of this chair look I have a youtube shirt it's official I have a youtube shirt that's exciting I think I might actually wear this um shirt just because it's like really really soft and I can you know put a sweatshirt or something over it on the plane to Florida obviously when I get to Florida I'm gonna have to take whatever sweatshirt I have off because yeah um but yeah I was excited to get my youtube shirt um I was supposed to get it actually on Wednesday so tomorrow but when you're seeing this it's Wednesday anyway it's like a whole long thing um let's go bug Doyle because I feel like I have nothing to talk about and the only clip I did this morning was me just being sick so yeah let's find the Doyle where is he he's not back here where'd he go oh there he is he's in here oh hey buddy what what you've been doing you've been sleeping all day sleeping like a good boy mm-hmm by the way it's really really cold out today in Minnesota I think it was like when we went on our walk I think it was about two degrees um but with the the wind chill and all of that it actually felt like I think I think the weather app said it felt like negative six or so it's just horrible but not too bad Doyle's like smiling right now this smiley dog look at that smiley puppy you're so cute doidy Doyle you need to take over the vlog one day yeah I know you're cute though you're a cute little guy he'll do pretty much anything for scratches pretty much anything so anyway but I think Doyle and I are going to end out the vlog here um what I'm making is not interesting enough to show because it's just gonna be a little bit of pasta and marinara you guys it's gonna be super boring um but yeah hopefully I'll have something interesting to say tomorrow I am gonna maybe pack a little bit tonight I'm gonna bust out my suitcase and things like that and um I might start making a packing list but I'll kind of go into detail of that tomorrow um so yeah so I hope that you guys enjoyed the video even though I've just been sick all day which really sucks but you know that's just life and welcome to vlogmas I am gonna get going I'm gonna make some dinner here and pet the Doyle some more but I will see you all in the next vlog bye guys you say bye say bye guys oh Doyle bye guys