Mayor of South Bend Indiana Pete Buttigieg is currently surging and I think that he's surging largely because the mainstream media and the pundit class Has unquestionably fallen in love with him and to give you a snapshot as to how in love with him They are cable news gave him as much coverage as Bernie Sanders who's the current frontrunner in the Democratic Party primary field So this is a perfect example that demonstrates how powerful the mainstream news media is because they can take someone who on a national level is Completely unknown and turn that person into a political icon Simply by covering them a lot giving him more coverage than other candidates It's also the type of coverage that they're giving to him because more so than any other candidate Pete Buttigieg has gotten a lot of puff pieces about him including in the Daily Show with Trevor Noah Who did a segment about him and literally said nothing bad about him and Trevor Noah claims quote? I'm being serious. There's no dirt on this guy Which just shows that Trevor Noah and his team didn't do their research and additionally CNN's Chris Eliza ran a nearly seven minute long puff piece on Pete Buttigieg and Explained that he's having his moment and he's currently surging in the polls And we're seeing the makings of a political super star while not mentioning that really the reason why he's surging the reason Why this phenomenon is currently taking place is because of the mainstream media now This begs the question. Why do pundits in the mainstream media love Pete Buttigieg so much? And I think it's because he's replaced better or Rourke as the establishment's best bet To possibly dethrone Bernie Sanders because Beto's campaign I mean, even though he is a prolific fundraiser He's not really drawing very many large crowds like Bernie Sanders is so they need the next best thing That they can prop up to compete against Bernie Sanders to thwart off this threat that Bernie Sanders poses to the status quo and he's what I'd like to call a palatable progressive and He's a progressive to them in the sense that he can pass as a progressive to a pretty large Portion of the public. Is he actually? Progressive is the question because he certainly wants you to think that he's progressive and even if he's tried to avoid labels He says if he was forced to if his arm was twisted He would self-identice self-identify as a pretty staunch progressive and the media certainly wants you to think that he's pretty Progressive we're told over and over again just how progressive he is now It's odd because the media often attacks what they call the far left Which they're also claiming he's part of yet simultaneously reaping and this praise on him So what's going on here? Is he actually a progressive? Well, what makes a progressive a large reason why someone like Bernie Sanders is appealing is because of his fund raising And when you look at Pete Buddha judges fund raising methods It's easy to see that he's not very progressive in the specific area when he was running to be the DNC chair in 2017 He had a pack and he now has Democratic Party mega donors doing fundraisers on his behalf And he made it very clear that he's not shutting out the possibility of Taking bribes from Wall Street because as Politico's Ben White reports Pete said in an interview that he would not shy away from seeking Wall Street cash Quote, but I'm not sure they would be too wild about me Anyway, he said noting that he too is focused on small-dollar grassroots donors in other words He's willingly making himself susceptible to corruption By opening the door to these bribes that Wall Street will Unquestionably give him if he starts to win some primaries So I don't think that the descriptor that the mainstream media and he gives himself of Progressive is Appropriate but that's just based on fundraising. What about the policy because there are various policies that I think really are The hallmark of progressivism Modern-day progressivism anyways and these policies include medicare for all and tuition free public colleges and universities So what does he say about these policy ideals? Well at a scene in town hall. Here's what he said about medicare for all That's why I believe we do need to move in the direction of a medicare for all system now I think anyone in politics who lets the words medicare for all escape their lips also has a responsibility To explain how we could actually get there because as you know from working on this day in and day out It's not something you can just flip a switch and do in my view The best way to do that is through what you might call a medicare for all who want it set up In other words, you take some flavor of medicare you make it available on the exchange as a kind of public option And you invite people to buy into it. There's another name for the policy that he's describing It's called a public option but if you'll notice what he's doing here, he is taking that name medicare and He's attaching it to his non medicare for all policy because he knows that medicare for all is incredibly popular But yet he wants you to think that he supports medicare for all when in actuality He's not saying that he's going to do medicare for all He's saying that his goal is a public option medicare for all who wanted although It's a goal for him, you know further down the line So one day we can get to medicare for all but we've got to have a stepping stone First and to him that is a public option medicare for all who wanted It's incredibly misleading. It's disingenuous and really it's a bait and switch But moving on to another really I think important progressive issue to wish and free public college and universities Recently at northeastern university He said that he does not support this and this is the reasoning he gave at the end of the day Americans who have a college degree earn more on average than Americans who don't and as a progressive I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that a majority who earn less because they didn't go to college Would subsidize a minority who earn more because they did all the way to a hundred percent I think some of that subsidy is justified because it's an investment in our whole future But I think expecting somebody to pay zero Might go further than than what's reasonable Especially if we have robust ways to get your student loans forgiven Anyway, if you're willing to commit to some kind of public service or career in teaching So I know it's not the most popular answer, but hopefully it can be viewed as a reasonable one Now for those of you who don't know what he just used Was a right-wing justification for not supporting tuition free public college because think about this What do republicans say when it comes to health care? Well, why should the healthy subsidize the health care costs of the sick? Why should we have to pay taxes that go towards public education if we don't have any kids in public schools? This is a conservative argument that republicans make against our social safety net And it is right-wing at its core But here he is lying to you saying that subsidizing free college is something that Forces more disadvantaged people to subsidize the tuition of elites What he's leaving out here is that rich people and elites are not going to benefit From public colleges being tuition free because they're already going to send their kids to private institutions Elitist ivy league schools So it's important that people are given the opportunity disadvantaged people who normally can't afford college To actually get into college if they work hard and have tuition be free because for a lot of people It's a non-starter. You can't even consider college because the cost of tuition now Is a non-starter So what he's trying to do is weasel his way out of supporting a progressive policy But he's invoking a right-wing justification for him not supporting something that is overwhelmingly progressive Now, what about the green new deal? We've gotten a lot of indications from him that he loves the green new deal and he supports it He's spoken very kindly about it But when you look at his platform according to jeff stein of the washington post and what he received from mayer peat Well, the green new deal was conspicuously absent in favor of quote comprehensive climate change plan and that sounds wonderful But we have to know what that plan is if you're running for president I don't expect you to one day come up with a plan from the jump You should be in favor of a plan, but there are other policies that are I think intentionally vague He says that he supports medicare for all but wants to keep private insurance Okay, what does that mean because that doesn't necessarily make sense Do you support the public option that you alluded to supporting at the cnn town hall? What does that mean? He says that he has a plan for automations impact on jobs. Okay, great, but I don't care if you plan to have a plan I care that you give us the specifics of your plans now not just promise to have a plan eventually I mean, how are you going to market yourself to voters?  Just trust me It's absurd. So there's A real lack of policy details here that I think Characterizes his campaign the most and he was actually asked about this in an interview with vice news And he's leaving out the policy specifics Intentionally, he literally said that platitudes should be prioritized Over thorough policy specifics Don't take my word for it. Take his word for it You definitely speak very progressively, but you don't have like a lot of super specific policy ideas Part of where the left and the center left have gone wrong is we've been So policy led that we haven't been as philosophical We like to think of ourselves as the intellectual ones But the truth is the right has done a better job in my lifetime Of connecting up its philosophy and its values to its politics right now I think we need to articulate the values Lay out our philosophical commitments and then develop policies off of that and I'm working very hard Not to put the card before the horse. Is there time for that? You know, they want the list They want to know exactly what you're going to do I think it can actually be a little bit dishonest to think you have it all figured out on day one Look, I think we're all anybody in this race or conversation is going to be A hell of a lot more specific and policy oriented than say the current president But I don't think we ought to have that all kind of Locked in on day one. Uh, yeah, you absolutely should have that locked down on day one because if you don't Run with any policy specifics in mind. Why are you choosing to run for president? For example, bernie sanders claims that his campaign was initially catalyzed because he doesn't see anyone Who's talking about progressive policy ideals? He ran because of the policy But you're putting platitudes first you're essentially burying the lead Which is something that a presidential candidate should not do so that to me was an embarrassing thing for a so-called Progressive to say but the thing is that pete buddha judge isn't progressive. It's not just that he isn't progressive enough for me It's that he's not progressive. He is a centrist And he even outflanks brock obama from the right sometimes because he stated that he was troubled by clemency for chelsea manning a hero who's a whistleblower that exposed the united states government's war crimes He continues to repraise on israel as their government massacres palestinians and carries out a literal modern day apartheid And after israel just murdered palestinian protesters recently He then praised them subsequently for their security arrangement as quote moving in clearide And he then chastised democrats that spoke out against israel's brutal response to peaceful protests So i don't think i would say someone who does that is very progressive I'd say the opposite Is true He's just another centrist democrat like a lot of other individuals in the field It's just that he's a lot more effective at coding his words in a way that makes it easier for progressives to digest And he sneaks in these more centrist ideals in between some bold policies like wanting to abolish the electoral college And having i think a pretty solid plan to pack the supreme court and depoliticize it to an extent But at the same time if you look at him to his core He's not progressive And i think this is highlighted in a recent article for current affairs by nathan robinson Where he basically read pete buddha judge's book and took him at his own word And realized this guy is not progressive at all Because as mayor of south bend, it's evident that he rarely converses with ordinary people and instead just surrounds himself with political Advisors and local elites He also seemed eager to eliminate jobs for example in his book He talks about getting rid of the job that trash collectors do and replacing them with mechanical arms on vehicles Not to mention the eviction rate in south bend indiana is three times higher than the national average There's enormous wealth disparities between whites and blacks homelessness and gentrification are giant issues in south bend that Pete buddha judge hasn't addressed appropriately and perhaps the most grotesque anecdote Nathan robinson writes about that he got from pete buddha judge's own book Was his plan to repair or demolish a thousand houses in south bend Within a thousand days in order to solve a problem that the city had with abundant Vacancies nathan writes make repairs or have your house flattened Wait, who were the people who were unable to make repairs? Were they by chance poor? Also, how do these houses become vacant in the first place where people evicted or foreclosed on? Look a little deeper into the coverage and you'll find that this was not simply a matter of efficient and responsive government But a plan to coerce those who possessed dilapidated houses into either spending money or having the houses cleared away For development community advocates in poor often african-american or hispanic neighborhoods began to complain that the city was being too aggressive in finding property owners Overcode enforcement the city leveled fines that added up to thousands of dollars in certain cases To pressure homeowners to make repairs or have their houses demolished buddha judges autobiography does not discuss the social implications of his plan He brags about his audacious goals and ambitious initiatives, but questions of justice and injustice are absent So just stop and think about that. This is how he chose to respond to an issue of there being too many Vacancies in south bend now throughout the book nathan notes that p Doesn't really talk about the issues in south bend The rampant homelessness, which is a crisis Poverty, wealth disparities. He doesn't talk about this instead he focuses on himself And additionally on top of that Mayor peat has been criticized for not tending to the homelessness crisis Especially last year when temperatures were extremely low and it was cruel to not act when there were people in your city Sleeping on the streets and there was also a scandal that led to calls for his impeachment After he fired south bend's black police chief for reportedly blackmailing five white police officers Because they were apparently caught on tape using racial slurs and robinson also talks about buddha judges apparent lack of moral judgment And explains that you know, even though peat buddha judge rightfully opposes the iraq and vietnam wars He only opposes them on the basis of them being impractical He doesn't oppose them based on them being immoral And throughout the course of his book nathan notes that there's this underlying lack of Moral clarity. There's this ambivalence towards the morality of certain political issues And being a former military intelligence officer You'd think that he'd have something to say about the u.s. Empire You'd think he'd speak out against it because you can see how for example a candidate like tulsi gabbard Frequently talks about her experience as a veteran Shaped her world view and that's why she's vehemently against the u.s. Empire. It's why she speaks out vociferously against the regime change wars But for whatever reason there's this moral ambivalence or possibly moral obliviousness That mayor peat buddha judge has now to be fair He did write about the moral outrage He felt when the governor of indiana mike pens at the time Signed a bill into law that let businesses discriminate against lgbtq americans He also talks about being morally outraged with donald trump's immigration policy But the problem is that overall He just seems to disregard moral issues or remains apathetic to them when There are things that should theoretically trouble someone who is a self proclaimed Progressive for example, he worked for the consulting firm McKinley, which is a morally reprehensible organization that works with dictatorial regimes around the world They pushed oxy con that worked with saudi arabia, which is a murderous regime And they also work with big pharma companies like purdue Which just rips off americans So i mean you think that buddha judge as a progressive as a so-called progressive would be speaking out about this But he just feigns ignorance when it comes to his former employers unethical actions now to be fair I don't want to convey to you that he's the worst candidate ever because i'm not saying that I don't think he's the worst candidate ever But i'm just simply saying that if we're looking at this claim that he is progressive both by himself and the mainstream media It just doesn't hold up to even the most minimal amount of scrutiny All you have to do is a quick google search and you'll learn that this guy is not progressive He's a centrist, but again, he's not the worst candidate He was previously criticized for using all lives matter in response to a question about black lives matter But I think that he had a relatively thoughtful response Um to explain why he used the term all lives matter What I did not understand at that time was that that phrase just early into mid especially 2015 was coming to be viewed as a sort of Counter-smoking to black lives matter And so the statement that seems very anodyne and something that that's kind of nobody could be against actually wound up being used to devalue What the black lives matter movement was telling us which is what we needed to hear because unfortunately It was not obvious to everybody that black lives were being valued the same And so that is the contribution of black lives matter And it's a reason why since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism I've stopped using it at that time.  He enters the race, which it seems like he will but When it comes to this question of whether or not pete would a judge is progressive The answer is No, it's an unequivocal. No because he's not a progressive. That's just a fact He is nothing more than another elitist centrist Technocratic bullshitter who wants to lie his way into the white house by pretending to be more progressive than he actually is


Do you know, Tamil Nadu's chief minister, Mr. M.K. Stalin, wrote a letter to his Delhi counterpart, Mr. Arvind Kechriwal. In that letter, he mentioned about allowing firecrackers this Diwali in Delhi. Do you know why firecrackers are banned in Delhi? We are going to see about that in this video. So let's begin with the background of the issue. See, in 2017, the Supreme Court banned the use and sale of toxic crackers during the celebration owing to Diwali, Christmas, etc. This is on the basis of a petition filed by two infants. They pleaded for their right to life. So in response to that, the court dismissed arguments that bursting crackers was a fundamental right and an essential practice during religious festivals like Diwali. And it also held that the right to freedom of religion, Article 25, is subjected to right to life, Article 21. So the court said that, if a particular religious practice is threatening the health and life of people, such practice is not entitled to protect under Article 25. So this happened in 2017. Again, in December 2020, the NGT, that is the National Green Tribunal, they ordered that only green crackers which use less polluting raw materials would be permitted for Christmas and New Year in areas where the ambient air quality was in moderate or below category. However, due to COVID-19 pandemic, NGT again prohibited the sale and use of firecrackers and the one who is worried about this order is the firecrackers companies. They argued that the ban was an impediment to their livelihoods. So in reply to this argument, the tribunal had reasoned that the right to business is not absolute under Article 19 1G and there is no right to violate air quality and noise level norms. So this is all about the background of the issue. So now let us see why Delhi is alone banning the burning of crackers. See the first reason is air pollution. To make matters worse, Delhi is cursed with poor geography as far as air pollution is concerned. See it has zero wins to carry away pollutants. That is the problem here. As we know that the capital city lies to the northeast of the Thardeset, to the northwest of the central plains and to the southwest of the Himalayas. Whenever winds arrive from the coast, they bring pollutants picked up along with them. All that pollutants gets trapped right before the Himalayas. So here the air pressure pushes from one direction and with the inability to escape quickly in the other, the particulate matter accumulates over the northern plains. See this accumulation and entrapment affects not only Delhi but the entire expanse between Punjab in the west to West Bengal in the east. Even this is a bowl that collects pollutants with only a narrow outlet for it to escape. That is what is happening in Delhi. So whenever vehicles emit pollutants and whenever a stubble is burned in the region nearby national capital region, this natural phenomenon along with the additional pollutants deteriorate the air quality of Delhi. Now to that list, burning crackers is also added, especially firecrackers. They are making Delhi a gas chamber. The issue does not stop there. This in turn causes health issues with prominent effects on children. Then animals also get affected due to noise pollution. So because of all these reasons, firecrackers are not allowed in Delhi. Now let us see the innovative impacts of the ban. First in the list is the loss to economy. See the Indian firecracker industry is the second largest in the world. As Sivakasi region in Tamil Nadu alone holds 85% of the manufacturing of firecrackers in the country, Tamil Nadu has legitimate concern about the fate of the firecracker industry. This in turn is affecting the livelihood for workers. Now the third impact is some still argue that the ban of fire workers infringes religious rights. So this leads us to the question of what can be done. See firstly, stricter implementation of environmental laws is a remedy. It is important for the government to organize anti-firecracker campaigns and discourage people from bursting firecrackers. Parents as well as children should be educated on the harmful effects of firecrackers and environmental laws should be implemented strictly. Secondly, there should be promotion of research and product development of green crackers as well. So these are all some of the important points that you have to note about why firecrackers are banned in Delhi. News articles related to environment or on the spotlight and to know more about environment related articles subscribe to Shankarayesh Academy YouTube channel. Thank you for listening.


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The training in ball tops has went very good. Field forces that we've worked with have been very supportive and optimistic. This has been a very good opportunity for us to strengthen the bond between the countries. It's good for every Marine to get that exposure to other countries because like everyone says, knowledge is power. Giving them the experience of showing countries how we train what our standards are of vice versa. I think the biggest reason that we do this type of training with other countries is to again strengthen our relationship and the Joint Coalition strike forces ability to work together in the event that something were to arise that we would have to have multinational elements. This is a good foundation and baseline to keep that relationship strong. Them seeing the tank platoon is something that they've never really been exposed to. The ability to get the exposure for them and show them what the Marine Corps is capable of doing has been a great asset.


Welcome back to Good Morning Britain we are finding out how men can make women great again because in Orlando Florida is a man charging almost a thousand dollars. Anthony Dream Johnson who says he wants to abolish feminism and make women great again. In Orlando Florida that's gonna be insane in the crime. 21 studios okay they are pretty much the Avengers of the manosphere. First and foremost set out the 21 studios. So this convention is put on by a company called 21 studios and they have this whole convention every year called the 21 convention where it's just teaching men how to be better. Women are queuing up to pay nearly a thousand dollars to have a man like Anthony tell them how to be women. It's mansplaining blizzard. Anthony Dream Johnson that's really his name. He's the founder of the convention. Like yourself and like Anthony Johnson president. The first president of the manosphere. President of the manosphere. You're protecting the sphere in a way that not enough people give you credit for. Thanks man. And I really mean that because if you didn't protect the sphere at all it would just be a completion show. That's why you're the president right? You gotta be president. You gotta be presidential. So that guy's name was Anthony the Dream Johnson the president of the manosphere. There's only one guy in the manosphere.  Mr. President you're done dude. That's all there is to it. All in favor say aye. Excuse me I'm mansplaining here. Vote Dream 2022 and make the manosphere great again. I'm Anthony Dream Johnson and I approve this message.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Greg Fenton from Zen Graphene. How are you today, Greg? I am wonderful, Tracy. How are you doing? Well, the much-awaited news has just crossed the wire here in the last 24 hours. Let's talk about that, shall we? So yes, we received, finally, our Health Canada approval for our ZenGuard masks with our partner Tree Boar. It's a process that started about a little over five months ago. Our masks, all graphene-based masks, went under review by Health Canada, and we were required to do significantly more testing on our masks to ensure that they were safe. The regulator was doing their job. They wanted to make sure that products for Canadians were safe and safe to use. And we knew that, but we were confident through the whole process that we would get our approval because we had done significant testing to ensure that our material was not only safe, but it actually adhered to the mask surface. So we knew it was coming. We just knew it was a matter of time, and we know that it probably took a little bit longer time than people had anticipated. But the conclusion here is that we got our approval. Now we're ready to go and start selling masks to help people protect themselves against nasty pathogens. The response from the market has been explosive. How will you deal with your exponential demands on the company for these masks? Great question. We have been preparing for this moment for a number of months now. We indicated back in April that we were in the process of scaling up our production capacity of our coating that actually goes on to the masks. So we started pilot scale scale up back in May, and we're up to the million mask equivalent per day of coating production in our pilot scale. And we will be up to about 25 million masks per day by the end of this year. So we've been active in the background while we're waiting for this approval, and we just can't wait to start getting the product into the market. Of course, I know they answered this question already, but I think there's a lot of shareholders and investors out there that may not understand how big the demand for masks still are. Can you talk to this topic, please? Sure, Tracy. And that was one of the questions that I got early on when the vaccines first came out. They said, oh, the need for masks is going to go away. So we did a lot of research in this area. And it's estimated that was 1.5 trillion single-use masks utilized globally through the pandemic so far. So we took a very conservative estimate of that, about 60%, which gets us to about 900 billion run rate. Even if we were to make a 1% move into that market, you're still talking about 9 billion masks. So we think there's going to be huge demand for masks going forward, particularly masks that provide additional protection to the people that are using them. And that will be the Zengard mask. And of course, for those out there that are going scrambling, they're seeing the volume around ZEN, and they're wondering, what are these competitive elements around these Zengrafin masks that are making the Zengard mask the mask everybody wants? Well, our mask will be the gold standard. It will be a best-in-class, I don't want to say the best-in-class, but one of the best-in-class. We've demonstrated that it kills bacteria, fungi, viruses. We've proven that it does not hamper the efficiency of a mask. It actually enhances it. So it truly is a better product. And that's why we were so happy with our Health Canada approval yesterday. We just validated that this is a great product and it's going to be on the shelves very, very shortly. We do have significant demand for it from around the globe. But more importantly, this really unlocks a lot of new opportunities for Zengrafin. This, you know, not only can we sell masks in Canada, but there's other jurisdictions around the globe that will utilize the Health Canada approval to allow masks to be sold into their jurisdictions. As well, this really opens the door for application of our coding in other spaces like the HVAC market, for example. That's exactly where I was going next was, I think that this is just a hint of where Zengrafin is going next. Can you talk to that at all? It is. This was a major milestone that we needed to hit. And this was really the key that opened the door. And I think the people in the market will be surprised at how much interest there is in this product. We know what we've been seeing, but we've sort of sat on that and just we're, you know, minding our time till we got regulatory approval. Now that it's a safe product, I think people are going to be very happy with where this company goes over, you know, the coming quarters. And of course, my next question is the obvious one, which is how can I get a box? Well, they will, we're working rapidly with our partners at TreeBor to start producing masks. And TreeBor will have them through various distributorships and will be available on their website shortly as well. So they will be available to the general public, but there's significant demand out of the hospital and long-term care facilities for this better product. Very exciting news, very exciting news. Greg, please join us again in a couple of weeks so we can get an update on how this approval has impacted Zangrafi. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Have a good day.


Actually, a quarter of people who have a positive experience at a business will go and tell 10 people. I don't know 10 people. Welcome to The Journey. I'm Nealey. And I'm Emma. And today, we're talking about four different ways to measure social media ROI. What's tip number one? Well, first off, and I'm sure you have this happen all the time, too. I get asked from small business owners on a regular basis. I know social media is important, but how do I measure it? Is there a way to do that? And there's also this, I think, determination in small businesses that they're like, there is no way to do this. So they love to hear about ROI, return on investment. You get asked this, too, right? Right. They end up spending so much of their time on there, they want to make sure they're actually getting something back. Which I totally get, right? Your time is super valuable. You're doing a million other things. And then now, social media is added to your plate. How do you justify the time or the money if you outsource it like GoDaddy social? You want to justify that time and money. And a way to do that is understand are you getting a return on investment? And the good news is, there's a lot of ways to see if you are or not. There's data, analytics, metrics. But let me break it down into four umbrellas of how to measure ROI, starting with number one, brand awareness. Cool. How do you measure brand awareness? So brand awareness can be measured in one way that you're probably thinking at home. Your number of followers. How many people are following you? More people following you on Twitter, seeing your tweets, following you on Instagram, seeing your great photos, and following you on Facebook and reading those great captions. The more exposure you have and the more followers you have seen it, that's brand awareness. Perfect. And does that count like likes and comments and things like that too? Totally. So likes, comments, love, shares, retweets. That's just going to help you get in front of not only your followers, the awareness there, but your friends and their friends, maybe their family members as well. So the awareness just spreads like wildfire. Spreading the love. Spreading the love. All right, so digging in on the analytics aspect, it's easy to see an amount of followers, you see an amount of likes, and things like that. Is there a step further we can go to really see the nitty gritty? Yeah, totally. So that's a cool thing. If you have business pages set up, they allow you a clear view of what's working, what's not working. What time of day a post works well, how many people are seeing it, et cetera, et cetera. So with Facebook, you have your insights tab. And what's really cool is it breaks down a ton of information and they even have a little information button on each one. So if you're reading a metric and it's like, I'm not even sure what engagement rate it means. You can click on it, it'll break down what it is. Perfect. And Instagram too, you have to make sure you create or turn your account into a business profile. That way you can see insights on how people viewed your page, liked it, commented. What time of the week you get the most engagement? If you've turned your Instagram account into a business page, let us know in the comments below. Just say I've turned it into a business page. So that's what the Instagram, Twitter, there's the top tweet. So you can see that in your Twitter analytics as well. So go in there, see what your audience likes. In other words, your customers. And then have that inform your strategy moving forward, which will also be more efficient with your time. And give the customer what they want. Give them what they want. Give them what they want. All right, moving on. Tip number two, where are we at with that? So tip number two, one of my personal favorites, customer satisfaction. And you're familiar with this inside your business, whether you have a barber shop or a car dealership, you can see it on the person's face if they're satisfied or not. I can't make a frowny face. Died, I was queuing them up. So one way you can do it online with social medias while you're reviews. Your customers are gonna tell you if they had a poor experience or great experience. But make sure you're reading those reviews. Believe it or not, I still come across businesses that don't take the time to read their reviews. I'm like, wait, this is a great place to see if your customers are satisfied or not. Also what they're saying when they mention you on Facebook. Especially you have to respond good or bad. I know most people will just respond to the good ones and try to just ignore the bad ones. Like they don't exist. Just give them a response. See if you can make a right. Apologize for the situation and move on. Totally. So again, pay attention to what your customers are saying. They're talking to you online. And if you wanna even a deeper dive into that, we have another episode of the journey on social listening, so check it out. So cool statistic I read the other day. Actually a quarter of people who have a positive experience at a business will go and tell 10 people both online and offline. That's pretty awesome. All right, tell me what's tip number three? Tip number three is actually gaining new customers, which is your favorite. I know when I say you're gaining new customers, you can picture just dollar bills in your pocket. Make it rain. So how can you do that with all this social media and online stuff? Couple ways.  I know I do that before every business I go to because I get lost very easily. But if I'm clicking on the directions, I'm coming to your business. I'm coming to spend money with intent. Also, calling, calling you. That's another great way to measure that you're gaining new customer. You've already learned that a lot of customers don't take the time to call. So if they're calling you, they mean business. They are serious about spending money with you. You got yourself a new customer. And so because the Google listings really important, Yelp, and that click to call, you wanna make sure, I'm sure this is obvious, that everything is up to date. The right phone number, the right address. The hours, right? How many times have you gone to a business that said it was open, you get there, and it's closed. And that's a bummer. This makes me so sad. So sad. And also besides that, if you have a chance to speak about your business, maybe about you, or add photos, do that as well too. And make sure that's up to date.  Add that in there. Spice things up. Got some photos. Keep it up to date. So when your customer comes in, that new customer you just gained, they're getting an experience that they predicted, that they expected. Right. All right, so we've reached the end of our journey. We're on tip number four, the very last one. What do you got for us? Brand loyalty. Another one, you're familiar with the terminology, but what does it look like online? Well, there's, don't worry, it's not tough math, but well, let's see how it goes for Justin here. All right, engagement rate. How do you measure that? Well, it's pretty easy. It's the number of likes you received on a post divided by the number of followers times, you guessed it, 100. And that's gonna equal your engagement rate, which is, I don't know, I don't know, it's not that hard. So write it down, keep it nearby, and when you're posting, check in. Do the quick math and then you'll determine is that engagement rate where it should be. And what's also awesome about brand loyalty is actually 85% of customers, 85%, oh no, it's almost 100, 85% of customers will actually engage with your brand, if they're loyal, daily, and when I say engaged, they're gonna be liking what you're posting, commenting, sharing on a daily basis. And that's huge, that constant liking, that constant following, they're gonna continue to see their stuff and they're gonna continue to tell their 10 friends, right, and then onward and onward and onward. All right, so that's a wrap, we just covered four ways to measure ROI when it comes to your social media. Make sure you like this video, subscribe to the channel, and ring that bell if you wanna see these videos first. This has been The Journey, thanks for watching.


The creativity is the opposite of helplessness. You would think power would be the opposite of helplessness, but I think creativity is because creativity is the self-empowerment to create an off-rump and exit from a sense of stuckness and helplessness, even perhaps depression in life. So I think creativity is a superpower. Creativity is the ability to to create yourself out of away from a sense of internal stuckness. So creativity to me becomes the opposite and the antidote of a sense of helplessness.


Hi, I've got the XDR ATTI and this is actually, I'm going to say it, my favorite ski. The reason it's my favorite ski is because it kind of does everything. So when you're away, you may be on the piece in the morning there and you may see a bit of powder and think, oh I quite fancy that. This baby is going to get you from off piece to one piece and it's going to have a seamless transition. So you're not going to pick up any difference in terrain and that for me is what really stands out in this model, it's its versatility. In terms of technology, it's got to be the CFX Super Fibre. It's a naturally occurring flax running through the ski interwoven with carbon fibre strands and without boring you to death, it's going to give you a better shock absorption. So that's the standout tech for me. I ride this length, in fact I was riding this only a little while ago. This is a 176, I ski this a bit longer than the traditional piece ski obviously because it's an all-mountain ski. I'm 5'10 on a good day and about 12 and a half stone so if that helps you choose your length then that's a good reference. I've been out this week on the Salomon XTR80 Ti, it's a ski I keep coming back to, it's an all-mountain ski with a pieced focus. I found that with a tip shape that's inspired from free ride skis, when I take it off pieced and get into that soft snow it's had great flotation. As I get back on pieced the main body of the ski is far more agile and nimble with more of a pieced setup. I found this is perfect for an advanced skier who's spending most of their time on pieced but is also wanting to go and play off the side.


Hi, my name is Robert Costanza. I'm a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. I'm joined here in the studio today by two of my colleagues. To my left is Aida Kubiszewski. She is an associate professor also at the Crawford School of Public Policy. And to her left is Lorenzo Fieromonte, who is the director of the Center for Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Today we're going to talk about well-being. What does that mean? How do we assess well-being at the community level, at the state level, at the national level, at the global level? There's been, I think, a major change in the world around this issue. The UN recently, all of the UN member states signed onto the Sustainable Development Goals. There are 17 goals now. These are intended to apply to all countries in the world, not just developing countries. And they're much broader in their intention than simply maximizing the rate of economic growth or GDP. They cover poverty, they cover education, they cover protecting the marine environment and the at rest of the environment, they cover dealing urgently with climate change. And these goals, I think, are intended to drive development in a very different direction. One problem with the goals is they are all presented as independent goals. There are 17 of them. But we know that there are very clear trade-offs and synergies between these goals. But they all contribute in various complex ways to the overall sustainable well-being of people on planet Earth. So the three of us, along with some other co-authors, have recently published a paper in the journal Ecological Economics that takes a look at how we can begin to build a set of indicators that really do look at our sustainable well-being of people on Earth. What would we need to do that? So before we get into that, I think we're first going to talk a little bit about why we need to make these changes. Why is this so important right now? And one of the big problems is that since at least the end of World War II, we have relied globally on GDP growth as a proxy for improving societal well-being. And it's well known, even by the creators of GDP, that it was never designed as a measure of societal well-being. It's a very specific measure of market activity in the economy. So I'm going to first ask my colleague Lorenzo, who's written a book recently called Gross National Problem, that deals with all the reasons why GDP is no longer an adequate goal for our national policies. Even though it's been consistently used, and it's probably the most well-used index of progress around the world. So I'm going to have him talk a little bit about why that needs to change. What are the problems? What is the Gross National Problem, Lorenzo? Thanks Bob. I mean, it sounds paradoxical, but basically for the past 80 years, the whole world was set on a certain track to increase development and prosperity according to a model that, even as you said, the creators had warned against using it in policy, especially in normal times. Invented before the Second World War, and to deal with the crisis, it was never meant to be used as an indicator of success in normal conditions. And there are many reasons for this. GDP is a measure of material consumption within the formal economy. It doesn't consider the many things that actually create utility, and welfare, let alone well-being. Chopping trees increases GDP, but raising them doesn't. Making people stay healthy doesn't increase GDP, but actually sicknesses and diseases do that. Every time we take out an insurance against crime, against the natural disaster, and all of that, we increase GDP, although we know that's an expense that no reasonable person would like to have in normal conditions. So societies that somehow develop in a way which is sustainable and equitable tend to be seen by GDP as less progressive, as less developed, as less prosperous. And this has created a whole rat race towards the wrong objectives. And 80 years later, we have finally come to terms with this reality, and now we're trying to scramble to find another way of measuring success and devise policies accordingly. I like what you said in your book as well about that GDP was really helpful to win World War II. And so as a tool for understanding production in that sense of war material and that sort of thing. Absolutely. It was essential, and probably helped win the war. But those days are gone, and now when we replace old hard-line telephones with cell phones that are cheaper and have more benefits, but they may cost less, and therefore GDP goes down. So it's really become a very poor proxy. Absolutely. For well-being. And there are alternatives that are out there. And there's been a lot of research, I think, over the years that hasn't yet managed to budge GDP, but I know Ida has worked on one in particular called the Genuine Progress Indicator. So why don't you say a bit about that and how that's better than GDP? Thanks, Bob. So there's actually hundreds, if not thousands, of different alternative well-being measures to GDP. They're mostly characterized in three groups. One is where it takes GDP and adjusts it in some way, and the Genuine Progress Indicator, which I'll talk about in a second, is one of those. But there's also ones that look at well-being or life satisfaction directly. So through surveys, for example, subjective well-being, where it asks people how satisfied are you with your life, whether it's different components or life overall. And there's a third kind of indicator where it combines various different indicators. So you might look at crime or health or subjective well-being and put it all together into one indicator. So for example, the Genuine Progress Indicator starts with a large component of GDP, personal consumption, and adjusts that for inequality for various costs that are, as Lorenzo said, currently seen as benefits. So if we have a natural disaster, GDP goes up, it's considered benefit, but it's really a cost to society in many ways. But then it also adds certain things that are benefits in society, but are not counted. So volunteer work, household work, moms staying at home to take care of kids, not counted in GDP, but those are important components of our society. And it does increase well-being. So for example, if somebody has a garden in the backyard and decides to pick the vegetables from the garden and have a salad for dinner versus going and buying a TV dinner, that doesn't raise GDP, but it's much healthier for you often. And so components like that are not considered in GDP, but are often considered in some of these well-being indicators. And in 2013, a group of us published a paper that looked at Genuine Progress Indicator and what it's been doing for 17 countries. And there's about 25 countries that have now calculated it. And what we found was that in early on, GDP and GPI do go up together as the basic needs need to be fulfilled. But then GPI levels off or even decreases while GDP keeps growing. And a lot of that difference is due to environmental costs. So like Lorenzo said, natural disasters or oil spills or air pollution, water pollution, any of those, which are actually decreasing well-being of society are increasing GDP. So environmental costs. And the other one is the cost of inequality. And there's been a lot of work done by, for example, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson. They wrote a book called The Spirit Level, which shows that there's considerable basically decrements to society as inequalities go up, as an equality between countries and within countries. So health goes down, education levels go down. And there's a lot of indicators that do go down as equality goes up. And so GPI, we found that no matter what society we looked at, some that GPI leveled off or decreased a little bit later. So if China was around 1995, while US around 1978, when we put all that together, all those countries globally, we found the same trend. And around 1980, GDP kept going up, GPI leveled off and decreased or decreased. We also found that a lot of the other well-being indicators did about the same thing. Around that time started leveling off or going down while GDP kept growing. And I know there are a couple of states in the United States that have adopted GPI as one of their official indicators. Yes. So Maryland was the first one to adopt it about five, six years ago. Maryland was the first state, first government to officially adopt an alternative indicator adopted the GPI during progress indicator and have measured it since then. Since then, the state of Vermont has also done it. And then other states, quite a few other states in the US have been looking into, including Oregon, Washington, Utah, Hawaii, and a few others. No country government has yet adopted it. So Bhutan, for example, has GNH, the Gross National Happiness Indicator, which is a subjective indicator. So it basically is a big survey asking people about their life satisfaction. So it works a little differently. But those two states are the only two governments that have actually adopted a different indicator. And so what seems to be missing, though, from GPI is at least two of the main things are the positive contributions of natural ecosystems, ecosystem services and natural capital, the cost are included of air pollution, water pollution, etc. But not the benefits. And likewise, not the benefits of having a good community and having good social capital and good relationships. And those things are also degrading. Those contributions are degrading. And so we're not picking that up when we just talk about the GDP. In the paper that we published recently, we talked about how to integrate some of these different elements. How would we add on the positive contributions? How would we integrate the subjective well-being indicators with the more objective indicators? Because people don't perceive all the benefits that they get. But it's certainly important to recognize and survey what people do perceive as benefits. And certainly there's social interactions and many other things or things that they perceive as benefits. And they also perceive that they're not getting better, that their well-being has been declining. Growth in GDP has been going to the 1% of the population, not to everyone. So just for that reason alone, the distribution of incomes has been going down. So how do we then move beyond even GPI or GPI 2.0? What's the appropriate measures that need to be developed? Nivea Lorenzo, you want to take that one? No, I think what you said is completely right. GPI was a way of correcting GDP by realizing something that, again, as I said for 80 years we haven't realized, is that there are many negatives in GDP. No reasonable society would want them to increase. And yet we see them as bonuses when the economy grows. And so GPI sort of orders the house, it's a bit of a housekeeping device. Like ordering things in the house and saying certain things are not positive, they should go down, other things should go up. But it doesn't include things that were initially never considered as part of the economy, as you said, natural capital, natural ecosystems and so on and so forth. Now we do have a lot of studies, we have a lot of tools that can help us do that. For as long as we don't do that, our natural system and social systems will be seen by politicians as being of no consequence to development and prosperity. And when things are of no consequence, chances are that policies will be designed either to neglect them or to destroy them, which is what has been happening for many years. So we need to do that and we need to move away probably from a simple correction of GDP to a totally new system. The system which is in line with the aspirations of contemporary societies. As you said, GDP is not only wrong because of the many things that's measures in a very inefficient way, but also because it sees increasing costs as a sign of development. But now we know the new technologies are actually lowering costs by increasing consumer surplus. So the benefits that we receive every time I call my mom on WhatsApp, it's for free, but it's of a better quality than 10, 20 years ago when I used to call her on the phone. And the same applies to technological advancements in many technologies. We know that the digital surplus in many economies these days is far beyond conventional industrial production. So our economies are growing because of Google, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Facebook, less and less because of the BMW, Chrysler and so on and so forth. So we do need a system of data gathering which is in line with the new economies that we have. That includes natural systems, social systems and our innovative capacities that are totally neglected by GDP. So this is not only important for ecologists and for social scientists. I think it'd be important for the digital industry, the new innovators in the Silicon Valley, all those young entrepreneurs that really like to build an economy which is much more light than the conventional one, but much heavier on well-being and prosperity.  And even today, a lot of the data that goes into GDP is from paper surveys that are sent around to businesses. You won't believe that. Most statistical agencies still collect quarterly data on GDP by faxes. They still are probably the only ones in the world still using fax machines. And our ability to understand those complex interconnections as well. I mean, underlying GDP is the system of national accounts, which is a very linear system, input-output tables of the economy, very aggregated, very static. And we can do a lot better than that these days because we understand the dynamics of complex systems much more. We can look at stocks and flows and how they interact. And we can use that sort of modeling to not only look in the past, but also to project into the future under different scenarios. I think it's becoming critical these days. So yeah, there's a huge need to make these kinds of changes. And I think the sustainable development goals process is certainly pushing that agenda. And I think at least we are confident that some major changes will be in the cards coming forward. So maybe we'll end it there. As I said, we did produce a paper, a journal article for ecological economics just recently. This came out just last year that's titled, Modeling and Measuring Sustainable Well-Being in Connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Cover some of the topics that we've been talking about. But if you want to learn more about that. And we've also published other background material on many of these problems. And so I hope this was informative. And I hope that we as a society can shift our societal goals quickly to measuring well-being in the broad sense that we've been talking about in order to move our societies to a more desirable and sustainable future. Thank you.


Welcome to Psychic Medium Tony Green. I am Tony Green, the Psychic Medium. I just want to welcome you all in. I don't know why I'm so animated tonight, but here we are. I don't know why a lot of things in my life, but here we are. So we are going to get started with the show right away. Just a couple quick announcements. First and foremost, please don't get scammed. I will never reach out to you until you need a reading or anything like that. The only way you can schedule with me is if you reach out to me via my website or my business number, which is on my website. And my website is tonig.info, TonyG.info. And now that that's out of the way. I'll be taking callers this evening. The call in number is<PHONE_NUMBER>.  I try to get to as many people as I possibly can in one show. It is a one hour show because it airs on WSCS, all of their streaming channels, Rude Rangers TV, all of their streaming channels, radio stations, and just about every podcast. And the time slot is an hour. I think WSCS is 30 minutes. So they watch the rest of it on a streaming channel or on YouTube. I go live every single Monday at noon central and Wednesdays at 7pm central. So if you are able to join us live, want to join us live, you can join us live then. Already, having said all of that, the first thing I'm going to do are names and then songs. The names are somebody up above that you may know. If they may be staying your name, it may be their name or it may be somebody name that you know. Ralph is the first name. Ralph. I'm giggling because I thought I was going to do more of an intro to it than that. And then, no, I wasn't because Ralph just screamed his name at me and said, let's go, let's get this going. So Ralph is the first name. The second name is Ruth. Beverly, we have Sean, Shantika or Shantika, Shantika. Sorry, that's the name. Or, I'm sorry, I can't, I don't know exactly how to pronounce that name. Juanita, that's a much easier name to pronounce C. I can pronounce that name. Lavandra, Lavandra or V. Okay, the next name is, boy, they are really lately putting me to the challenge with names. Just saying what I'm saying. Shakila or Shakita, I don't know. Okay, I didn't, these are people that are coming through, so I have no control over this. The next name is Michelle. The next name is Latrice. The next name is Michael. The next name is Jonathan. The next name is Rory, R-O-Y. The next name is Devontri. The next name is hearing something I cannot repeat on air, so I'm trying to let that all go and get out whomever is here. And then I will, I'm going to do songs now. That's what we're going to do. I'm going to do songs now. Yep, I'm going to do songs now. So the first song is that song by, well, I'm hearing the Rolling Stones, but then the next song, I don't think that song is by the Rolling Stones, but it's keep moving, rolling, something like that. I think it's by Ariel, I don't know. And then the next song is you've lost that love and feeling. That love and feeling and it's gone. I think this is a big break up night. Keep on rolling. You've lost that loving feeling. What else do we have?  The next song is, okay, let me get serious here for a second. The next song is, I'm just hearing the word Juniper. Juniper, like, and then the next song is, I'm, it's that song, Iris, I-R-I-S. And then the next song is that Crystal Gale song, Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue. And then the next song is Alonis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill. And I'm going to say whoever is bringing that song through, there was a little bit of something going on with the way they could talk. It took a lot to get that song out. The next song is, I think it's another Alonis. It is, it's another Alonis Morissette song. I don't know if it's from the same person, but it's that song that says, and I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is doing something. I don't know. It's like, I'm something, but I'm, I'm, I don't, that's the line I'm getting. I actually do, I am familiar with that song, but they're not letting me sing any other verse than, it's like, I'm drunk, but I'm happy, I'm something, but I'm something. But then she says, and what are we, something, but I've got one hand in my pocket. Whomever this is for, you're going to know it. You're going to know it. And whoever's bringing me this song, I just love you to the hip, hop, hippity hop, something and we won't stop, to the bang bang boogie, jump the boogie to the beat. Now I am super mic and I came to say, there is nothing I love more than that in this moment. I love it so stinking much. Okay. The next song, I'm only going to do two more songs, so get them in while you can. It's like a DJ outlast call. Only two more songs, folks. The next song is Purple, Purple Rain by Prince. They want me to sing it and I am not going to, no. The next song is, oh, there's two, no it's one song. It's that really big guy who plays the ukulele and then the song is somewhere over the rainbow, but it's not the Wizard of Oz one, it's the really, is there, it's the really big guy, the Hawaiian guy that plays the ukulele, that version of it. I don't even know if there's a somewhere over the rainbow in the Wizard of Oz. I don't know. Anyway, those are the songs, those are the names. Now I didn't say this pre-songs, but I'm going to say it now. The songs can be a song they knew you know, you know they loved or it can be answering a question that you have about life or someone on the other side. Okay, now I'm going to go to questions. I'm going to take callers<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'm also going to take questions in the chat. So if you have a question in the chat, you can, or you can put your question in the chat and I will get the people as soon as I can. If I miss your question in the chat, please don't get upset with me or you know, let's, let me say it this way to everybody. If I get to your question, you're welcome. If I don't get to your question, first and foremost, remember, nothing is owed to anybody. Don't get upset with me. It's not on purpose. I'm doing the best I can. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to go to the first and remember when you call in, if you want to ask a question, you have to push the one so your hand goes up in my call log. And then I know you have a question and you need an answer and then I will take, take your call. Okay. 805-805. What's your name and where are you coming from? Hi, Tony. It's Sal. How are you? I'm good, Sal. How are you? All right. Good, good. I'd love to give you a compliment. You look really good tonight. You always look good, but you look great. Oh, Sal, thank you. You're so, so kind. Thank you so much. Thank you. I love, I love that you're being so kind to me tonight. Thank you so much.  That's all it is. So, Sal, how's your business and your book going? To be published. I'm just having somebody check it out and cover's done and everything. So, I have to get that formatted. Business, I am pivoted a little bit, worked with something. We're changing a couple of things, but we're coming up with something called a funnel. I love it. I love that. And I don't know, do you understand what that is? Well, I, I, you know, we can talk more about that this week, but yeah, I know you had a specific reason for calling me. I just wanted to touch in on that. So, what's your question? What's your question?  And so I'm taking your advice. I think I'm going to do one of these speed dating things. Okay. So, for example, I got a month to like prepare. But my question is, I really need a good question when I ask these women, like, so that they can reveal themselves without hitting me. So they can tell me like, something like, I gotta come up with a really good question. They'll let you remember me and they can tell me something. So you have any ideas? Okay, if I were doing speed dating, and I had to, I could potentially only ask each person one question. And it's different being a woman than asking a man. But if I were a man, I would ask them, how long have you been single? And that's the question that comes to my mind. And I don't know why that's it, because that is typically not what I would ask. But that's one of the questions. What would you ask? Well, if it were me and it were a guy, who initiated the breakups in your relationships? I don't know why I would ask that. I would ask that. Like, in a one on one thing, I would definitely ask who initiated the breakups and then and that will, that reveals a lot about a person. But that wouldn't be the first question. If I were doing a speed dating thing, that would be a question I would ask because you have the opportunity to find out one thing. And that would tell me, I'm sorry, you get four minutes, like you like it's like eight minutes or like eight to 10 minutes, you get four or five minutes to ask it. Yeah. So so from what I know, but when you ask the question, and then by the time they give you the answer, it's usually like one or two questions. If somebody's the initiator of the breakups, of all of their relationships, they might have commitment issues. But if they've been broken up with, they might have, you know, or unless, but if usually they'll say, well, I broke up because they want to justify it, they want to justify, they want to tell you why it ended. So that's a way of asking how your relationships and without asking, how did your relationships end? Now, if I wanted to know something really good about the person, I would ask them, I would simply say, what's one of your happiest memories? Because people, it draws them into a different spot than they're used to, especially on dating and especially on speed dating. And that will tell you a lot about what makes them happy in life. So if it was something that cost a lot of money, that's going to give you one answer. If it was something with family, that's going to give you a different answer. If it was something that was an accomplishment, that's another answer. So it will give you an idea or help you gauge what makes them happy in life also. Great, awesome. So you can play with those.  You are going to meet somebody. And I do feel like you need to do the speed dating thing, but I do feel like you're going to meet somebody quite organically. And I feel like you're going to meet somebody at some sort of some sort of, like, go do the speed dating still, okay? No matter what. But I do feel like there's the opportunity for you to meet somebody at a market. And the person, I don't know why all of a sudden I can't talk normal words, has the person is very pretty. I don't know where this is, why I can't pronounce words right now. I apologize. They're very, and they're going to, they're going to be, she's definitely going to be flirting with you, Sal. So she's going to flirt with her. Here's what you need to know about this particular thing. She's going to flirt with her eyes. Okay. She's going to flirt with her eyes, like that look that a woman will give. Like, okay, I know the look. I know the look. I definitely know the look. It's like, never mind. You'll know. You'll know. It's a very, it's a very sweet way for it's that come hither look. Anyway, I do feel like there's going to be a couple of opportunities for you to meet people in spring, get up, get out, and enjoy it, make, make it fun. And don't take any connection too seriously until it's time to take it seriously. Okay, Sal. Sounds good. Excellent. Thank you, Sal, so much for calling in. Absolutely my pleasure. You have an amazing rest of the night, Sal. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. If you'd like, oh, bye-bye, Sal. If you'd like to call in and ask a question, the number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Please remember, if you do want to ask a question, you have to hit one, so that I know you have a question to ask. I'm going to take someone on the chat. I'm going to take Collette. Hey, Collette. Welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. Hi, Tony. I found my brother past. His name was Curtis. Please. Is there a message for me? Thank you. Love you. You're the best. Collette, you are so welcome. Collette, I'm going to ask you as soon as I started reading this, I just, I feel like there's something in my throat or something with my throat. So please tell me, do you know if this had something to do with with Curtis's passing? He's happy that you're the one who found him first and foremost. That's really, that's really important to know. He's really happy you're the one that found him. What I'm getting, if I hope I'm understanding or translating this correctly, what I'm getting is it had to be like this. It had to be like this. Okay. Thank you, Collette. It had, he said it had, he's just saying it had to be like this. I don't, I don't know why he's making that statement, but let me see what else he has for you. Yeah, he says, yes, he's going to send you a good companion. Don't worry. It might take up to, you know, I'm going to say this, Collette, in about a month you're going to meet someone if you're out and about. I'm just going to tell you the words I'm hearing, but I'm not going to give them meaning, Collette, and I don't want you to either. I don't want you to give them meaning because if I say one thing, we don't, we just want to leave it open. So if I'm hearing the word, if I'm talking about you meeting somebody in approximately a month, it doesn't mean, and then I hear medical examiner, and I say medical examiner, it doesn't mean the medical examiner is going to be the person that you meet.  It doesn't mean it's your potential partner. I'm not saying it's not. I'm just saying they may be different subjects. I feel like, okay, I'm going to skip over, really get an, if you, if you can, if you haven't, I don't know when all of this happened, but something with the medical examiner and whatever that means for you, okay, whatever means that means for you and this situation, he is really happy. You're the one who found him. He wouldn't want anybody else finding him like that. So thank you. He is bringing good things into your life and it had to be like this. It had, he just keeps repeating it had to be like this. I don't know why. I hope that makes sense to you and I hope you understand that and please whatever that medical examiner thing is, please pay attention to that. Okay, Colette, I hope, I hope that makes sense for you and I hope it's really, really helpful. Okay, I'm going to go to the next caller and the next caller is, I'm just going to do it this way, 954, what's your name and where are you calling from? Good to hear you again. Oh, absolutely. I was wondering. Yeah, go ahead. I could tell you were singing somewhere over the rainbow because my mother watched that at the nursing home in her later days and was very intent on watching that particular show and it always makes me think of her. I wondered if you would have any messages from spirit either from my mother or anyone else that has passed most recently? Well, let's do your mom. What's her first name, love? Alice. Alice, thank you. So the first thing that I'm getting is, okay, I'm just going to say this to you and for whatever it's worth, you take it the way she was a lot sicker than you knew or she knew. She was a lot sicker than anybody knew. Okay, first, that's the first message. And then the second message is something, okay, it's a, it's a, it's, it's this bluebird song, but I don't know the song. Nothing, but I don't know. That's, that's blue skies. That's not blue bird. Whatever it is, there's this, it's an older song. So you might want to Google old blue bird songs that, but then she's also blue bird, like the color. I'm sorry. I mean, catch that word. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. What song? It's, I'm not sure what song it is exactly, but it's a song about blue birds. Okay. I don't know. Blue birds and whatever you don't catch while I'm talking. Blue bird, blue bird. I didn't know you, what you were saying. Yeah. Whatever you don't catch while I'm talking to you, please re-listen to it, re-listen to the show and you'll pick it up. I will unmute you in a second, but just let me get through the messages because when people interrupt me, the, the message stream stops and I, I have to start again and I don't, I can't listen to five different people at once. So I just choose to listen to, well, right now your mom because that's who you wanted a message from. So I'm going to listen to her. She's also showing me birds, like on a window seal, a window seal sill, window sill, whatever that's called. And that when you see birds, it doesn't have to be any particular bird. It's a confirmation she's around.  And she wants you to know your situation or your circumstance with this one, something you've been having a little bit of difficulty with is about to get better. It's about to get lighter, like a, like a weight has been lifted from you. Okay. Now I'm going to unmute you. Oh, okay. Oh, wait, wait, I didn't wait. Wait a minute. I don't know what buttons I'm put. Okay. Now you're unmuted. So does that make sense to you love? Seeing a lot of birds and thinking a lot of birds. I love that. I love that.  So please know that they up there are working on it. They've got it. They're working on it, but you have to keep doing your part. Okay. Okay. That's great. I understand. Perfect. I love that. Thank you so much. I'm happy you understand your messages from her. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Tony.  Oh, God bless you too. And thank you so much. And you can call back anytime I'm here every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 7pm. So anytime love, call back. Okay. I'm going to go to Nancy. Hey, Michael. I'm so happy that you were able to join us from the other side of the world tonight. Hi, Tony. Do you see me buying a house in the next year? Nancy, did you ask that on Monday? Hey, Ozzie. Hey, Mystic Raven. Nancy, if you could let me know if you asked that on Monday, because somebody else asked me that on Monday. I just want to make sure I'm not answering the same questions over and over again. Nope. Okay. Was it you or somebody else? Okay, Nancy. I have to just look. Do you see me buying a house in the next year? Within a year, it's going to be very close. Yes. I feel like you're going to buy a house. Are you looking at multi-unit places, Nancy? I don't know if this is a... It looks like it could be a multi-unit place. If you're open to a multi-unit place, that will be easier for you. That might be easier for you to get a multi-unit place. And they have some programs they're running right now, Nancy, that are like only 5% down with this one program, if it's a multi-unit. So please, please look into all the programs available. I don't know if you're thinking maybe a townhouse. Yeah. Oh my gosh, that would be awesome. That would be so awesome. That would be good. Plus, it makes the requirement... What I'm hearing is it makes your personal requirements lower and it will make it easier for you. So if you can do that, definitely do it as long as you're comfortable with it. If you want to buy a single family, you'll be able to do that. You might have to lower what you are looking at in a single family for you to get that single family. Or just change the schematics a little bit. You'll still be able to get it. But with a multi-unit, it will be maybe a little easier for you to get. Okay, that's what I have for you, Nancy. I hope that's very, very helpful. And I'm also hearing Nancy, as I point at you. I'm also hearing... I didn't mean to do that. I'm so sorry. I'm also hearing you have to be tight. You have to be strict. Strict with your everything right now. Be very strict. Get everything down to the bare minimum so that you can do this. Like, save your extra shopping is what I'm getting. Okay, I know exactly what they mean if they're talking to me. I know exactly what that means. Okay, I'm going to go to 646. 646, what's your name? Where are you calling from? My name is Teresa. How are you doing? I'm good, Teresa. How are you? Not bad at all. Excellent. How can I help you, love? Yes, okay. So, just wanted to give you an update on what's going on. So, I know I told you to talk to you last time in regards to me and the landlord having problems. And you said that it's time for me to go, which I agree. Okay. So, I do... I have a... I define a real estate agent. We are still working on where I want to move. However, though, they go to court. I did go to court on... I think it was in January when I went to court. I had an inspection that was done in the apartment ordered by the judge on Friday. So, the inspector said that he's going to issue a vacate order for me to... So, that way, they did it in a professional way. So, that way, my credit score don't get damaged. Like you said, you wouldn't trust this landlord, which I don't trust. So, I guess my question is, do you see a vacate order coming through this week or by next week? Well, I... Okay. So, I'm going to tell you this. This could mean two things within the month. Now, within the month can mean by the end of this month or can mean within 30 days. If it's in the end of this month, you really need to find some place that you might need to do, like, temporary until you find a place that you can... That is all okay for moving in. I feel like they're going to do this... You know, there's a lot of red tape, but I feel like they're kind of trying to push this through. I feel like they're trying to expedite it for both of you. I'm going to tell you just whatever you're going to do, do it with a quickness. Okay, love? Excellent. I hope that was helpful and please keep us all posted. Thank you. You are so, so welcome. So, so welcome. I'm going to go to the next call or the next question in the chat. Okay, Mystic Raven. I like your lipstick. What color is that? Okay, I can show you Mystic Raven. It is... I love this and I use it sparingly because it's by Grande Lips, G-R-A-N-D. I'm going to move it to the camera a little closer. Grande Lips and they don't make this anymore. I ordered two, one in this color and one that was gold for, like, New Year's Eve and they don't make it anymore. And so I can't even order any more of it, so I only use it once in a while. You might be able to find it, like, on a reseller platform, but I have scoured the inner web looking for this. If you find it, let me know. But it's Grande Lips and I think the color is... It's a metallic... I don't know. I can't tell, but it's like a rose gold. It's like a rosebud gold. That's what the color is, but thank you so much. Okay, that's not actually a real question. Hey, Lenny, how are you? Let's lend my rise. L-E-N, my rise. Okay, should my husband stay in the position he is in or pursue the job offering in Dover MA? Okay, what I hear is this is going to a lot come down to pay and cost of living. I do feel like, though... I'm going to tell you this, I feel like you guys are moving. I feel like there is a relocation, whether it's this position or the next one, and I feel like it's all going to come down. I'm hearing that song. I know I can't sing, so don't feel the need to tell me. Everybody knows I can't sing. Don't be obvious. I feel like it's going to come down to money. I feel like it's going to be all about what they're bringing to the table, but I do feel like there is going to be... it's either going to be this position or the next one, and it is going to bring in more money, and you are going to... he's going to accept one of them and there will be a location. That's what I'm getting for you. I hope that is helpful for you. I really do hope that's helpful. I am going to go to the next caller who is maybe... I don't know who the next caller is.  Hello? I'm calling from Ohio. Hello, this is Sharon. Sharon from Ohio, how can I help you today? Hello. Oh, I have a question. This week, they're working on the remainder of my house, putting the remainder of the tile in. Most of it's done. It'll be done tomorrow. We have some pickups. Oh, my goodness. I'm so stressed out, Tony. Is it going to turn out okay? I'm so sorry to hear that. When remodeling is such a stressful endeavor, I'm just going to tell you it is going to turn out okay. It might not... Go on. I love it. Go on. It may not work. Go on. Yeah, I feel like it is going to be okay. It's going to be good. I do feel like when you're done with this project, it's almost like you're going to be addicted to doing projects now. So, you're going to want to start another one. Once you see the completed project and you look at it, you're like, this is so good. Now we have to make this updated to match this. And I do feel like there are going to be more things you're going to want to do. Take your time. It's going to be okay. You're going to love it. I do feel like it is something you're really, really going to... It's going to be okay. Okay? Thank you. I know I did my kitchen in December. Now it's the whole living room in the hallway. I know if you're right, it is stressful. It is. It's going to be okay. And Charles... I'm sorry? That's the guy doing it. Charles is the guy doing it. Yeah. It's going to be okay. You're going to like it. And then I feel like you're going to want to do something with a bathroom next. But I don't know, whatever that is, you'll figure that out when that time comes, right? You're so funny. My second bathroom, I want to paint it pink. That's yes. That's uh-huh. Right after this one. That's what I want to do. My other extra bathroom. The shower bath. Yes. You got so fun. Thank you. Oh, I know it's stressful. You know what? I think you're going to do something really unique with one of the walls. Like, I don't know if this is it, but like I was watching this video where the girl took... She took paint. It doesn't matter what color it was, but she put in glitter, like silver glitter or gold glitter and did one accent wall with this glitter mixed into the paint. She had them do it at the place where she bought the paint. And when you look at the wall, there are just these little specks when the light hits it of like where the wall like, you know, glistens. It's so funny. I just did that in my bedroom. I put an accent wall in my living room. They did that too. Yeah, I just did it. So you're so funny. I did that, but I love it. Excellent. I know it's flat. If you don't cost money too. Oh, yes, yes, yes. That's excellent. You're going to have a lot of fun with it. You're going to be doing more projects. Just have fun with them. And don't stress yourself out. Okay, love. You are so... So much. Don't thank me. Oh, absolutely. My pleasure. You have an absolutely amazing rest of the day. And we look forward to hearing from you again. Thank you so much for calling in. I'm here every Monday at... I'm here every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Both of those times are central. Yeah. If you'd like to call into tonight's show, it's<PHONE_NUMBER>. I'm going to take the next question in the YouTube chat. And, of course, you can join us on YouTube chat. Also, thank you, Raven. So, so much. Catherine. Hi, Tony. Tabitha came through. She just passed and I did not get to say... get to see her. I'm sorry. Tabitha came through. She just passed. I did not get to see her. Heavy heart and sad. Catherine. I'm at first and foremost. I am so, so sorry. What I'm going to do... She's here. She's actually... I'm going to repeat. You know, this is something that she doesn't mind that you or other people did not get to see her. It's okay. She knows what's truly in your heart and she knows truly how you feel and she understands... she just understands. She's just leaving it at that. She really, really wants to say... again, you know what? It's so weird. I've never heard this so many times and one night it couldn't be stopped. It couldn't be stopped. Whatever it is, it couldn't be stopped. So, don't feel... sometimes we feel like we should have cut a wood out if we would have done this, if we could have done that. It was as it was supposed to be, is what I'm hearing.  Now, gifts don't always mean physical, tangible, you know, feel it, touch it, gifts. Although I am seeing a teeny tiny little gold box with a red ribbon and bow around it, but it can be a spiritual gift. It can be a seeing of something or a knowing of something. When they send us gifts, it can even be just a dream where they give us information or downloads that we need. They could be upgrading our system, which is our consciousness. So, whatever this gift is that's going to come to you, it's coming from her, whether it's physical, spiritual or otherwise, please know that it comes to you with grace. Okay, that's the way she wants to say that, Catherine. I hope that that was really helpful for you. Hey Joy, welcome to the show. I'm going to go to the next caller who is 203. 203, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hey, this is Michelle. I'm calling from Georgia. Hey Michelle, how can I help you tonight? Oh, a lot of expenses, big expenses, one after another, and at the same time, I don't have a job. So, I'm wondering what the rest of this year is going to look like financially. Okay, give me a second. What is the rest of her financial year going to look like? You know, surprisingly, not surprisingly, but surprisingly, I'm not hearing anything yet, which is weird for me because usually, they give me answers right away, but what I'm going to say for you, what I want you to, is the rest of, let me, I'm just going to ask it differently. You're going to be financially. I'd even settle for, you know, job. Am I going to get another job? But I am concerned about these weirdo expenses, just they're dropping out of the sky, one after another. Okay. I do feel like you, I'm so sorry to hear that love. I really am sorry. I am feeling like, yes, you are going to get a job sooner than you think. And I always say to everyone, you know, when somebody, when you get offered a job, say yes. And then keep looking because you might find something on the heels. Once you have that energy of a job and money coming in, you can find something that is even better because now you're relaxed and you're comfortable and you're in a better energy. I do feel like there's going to be two offers coming in and they're going to piggyback each other. And I do feel like you should say yes and way, which one is going to be best for you. They're using the term all things considered. I do feel like you're also going to be doing something like, they think they're so funny, they're going in the meantime, in between time, where you are like doing it on the side, but okay, until there's going to be something you find that is an option for you that is smaller, not full, maybe not full time, but you can do it here and there. And then you, okay, here and there. And then you even, until this yes comes in from the work, but then you also get, once you're working, you can keep this and just do it when you want. I feel like it's not something you have to completely commit to. Like you have to be on the schedule, like a regular part-time schedule, you can just let them know when you want to work and they'll say, okay, like you don't have to, they don't, if that makes sense, I hope that makes sense. And then I'm also hearing, okay, this is the weirdest thing, but this is two-fold. I'm hearing if you can do something part-time at a golf course, that you should look into doing something part-time at a golf course. I'm going to say that even if you don't know anything really about golf, just see if there's something you can do part-time at a golf course. There's a couple of different reasons for that. And I feel like that will also be very helpful. That might even be the place where you get to say, I can work here, here, and here, and they don't like push your schedule, okay? Okay, all right. That's what I have. I'm sorry, go ahead. I said, okay, we'll see what happens. Something's got to happen eventually.  Yeah, the right job is coming. I feel like the right job is coming, and it should be with you very soon, okay, love? Okay, all right. Thanks, Tony. You are so welcome, and I even feel like it's probably going to be during the month of March, so I hope that's helpful. And yes, your finances, I know you originally asked me about your finances, they are going to be better. It's going to be okay for a while and a little tight, but then it's going to start to get better. But just hold on, help is on the way is the song I'm hearing for you, okay, love? Please remember, folks, in the chat, in the YouTube chat, if I don't get to your question, chances are maybe I just didn't see it. So please remember that, or because as people talk, the chat goes up, and it's, you know, I don't always just maybe I didn't see it, I'm not going to explain myself 20 different ways. I think I said at the beginning of the show, if I missed your question, please repost it, I probably just missed it. So yes. Thank you, Mystic Raven again, Catherine, I did your question. Crystal, can you do a quick, I don't even know if I can pronounce the words in your little question here. Reading for me, I need something from my son, I need to hear. Okay, I need to hear, I'm piecing words together, folks, I'm sorry. I need to hear from my son, I miss him so much, and I feel like I'm going crazy. Can you please do that? Okay. What's your son's name, Crystal, and how old is he? How old is he, and what's his name, and how long has it been since you've heard from him? Uh, you need to hear from him. I at least need a name so I can tap in, I can see if I can get a connection. Yeah, he's seemingly seems like he's okay. Camden, okay, thank you. Okay, that's why he's okay. Okay, so thank you, thank you, thank you. You know, the way this is worded in the chat made me think he was out and about, like, but then she did explain he passed at the age of 12, which was four years ago. I'm so, so sorry, Crystal, for that. And I understand why you would want to hear from him. I'm going to tell you he's with, he's with grandparents. Now these might not be his grandparents, they may be great or great, great grandparents, he's with grandparents. And I see that there are five people around him. And I just keep hearing the statement, say it isn't so, say it isn't so, say it isn't so, that should mean something to you, Crystal, that should like say, like, almost you were in disbelief. And I get goosebumps of my whole body on that.  I am also hearing from him, Camden, the connection was pretty strong. And then it just faded. And they're, I'm asking him to come back and give me one, one more thing. Just give me one, one more thing other than say it isn't so. And whatever else I said so far, because when I'm channeling, I don't remember. Okay, Camden. Okay, he's showing me when he was younger in his pajamas in, in front of a Christmas tree. And he was young. He was like four or five. And he was in these pajamas. And I don't know if the pajamas had like, big, they were, they had a print on them. The pajamas had a print on them. But I feel like the pajamas had like, not elastic, but they were tight, maybe around the arms or the legs or something like that. I'm trying to describe details I'm not even seeing, but it's a feeling. Okay, so he's pointing to the, to a Christmas tree. And he's asking a, this is just a confirmation for you and talking about something about the gifts or under the Christmas tree. And oh, he wants, okay, I get it. And I'll thank you, Camden. That's his best memory. That Christmas, everything was so good. He was young. He was young. And he was just so still in the belief of everything. He was still so innocent and still in the belief of everything. Um, okay. Um, yeah, that is his, that's his confirmation for you, something about a Christmas, it doesn't even matter. He's just, he could have been pointing at the Christmas tree to show me like, tell her Christmas, like he's pointing at the Christmas tree to let me know it was Christmas. However, you celebrated, it doesn't matter that would be a symbol for that I would understand. And he's just letting you know he had so much, it was so beautiful, so good, he still had so much innocence and so much belief. And it was like just a perfect, a perfect memory or time. And he wants you to know that. And he's still always with you. But when you get really worried or stressed, it's more difficult to connect with him or feel him. Crystal, I hope that that is very, very helpful for you. I hope that helps you to understand. I don't know if I have time for anyone else. I don't think I do. I know any second I'm going to get the 90 second warning, which then puts me into like a freaked out stage. And I can't answer questions. So I'm going to say, Crystal, thank you for asking ML. Thank you for joining us. You're joining right at the end. I still cannot get over it. His parents remain devastated. He does, okay. For you, for everybody listening to ML or MEL, I'm going to do a clearing because so many people are losing people. And it's so devastating. So all the grief, worry, all the grief, sadness, sorrow, pain, all the devastation, we're going to clear it now, pull it out. He's in a better place. I'm so sorry for your loss. He's in a better place. I hear that. I hear he's in a better place. And I wish I had more time to go into it. I think the most important thing I can do right now, come back on Monday, Monday at noon or next Wednesday at seven and be one of the first people in the chat or call. And I'll be able to give you more information on that. Okay. Thank you everybody for joining me today. Thank you to everybody who likes, subscribe, everybody who has joined me here. No matter how you're watching, thank you so very much.


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