you all doing today great to see you all here some familiar faces in the live stream and good to see a couple of new ones as well so hi Jeff great to see you here from the UK Victor obviously I know I know you very well it's just great to see you here on the at the stream and Christian great to see you here as well and oh look who's just snuck in the door as well it's Michael hi Michael how are you all doing yes it's been it's been a another good week this week not least because my my parents arrived yesterday from from the UK to visit for two months here in Thailand and it was basically sort of always a question of whether they'd actually be able to come in the end because we never know what's gonna happen these days do we with rule changes new variants and all this sort of stuff of COVID but in any case they are here so that is just a huge relief and they'll be here for the next two months over Christmas or maybe indefinitely if the rules change and they can't get back but it's better that they're here than in the UK from our perspective at least anyway they may have second thoughts after they've spent two months with my three kids all running around and screaming and I think they're exhausted already to be honest even after less than 24 hours in the house all of the kids are just vying for their attention so yeah it's all it's all good though and hey Paul how are you doing love the new avatar by the way oh which reminds me I've still got I've still got a bit of editing of another image to do for you haven't I and I completely slit my mind I'll let me write that right down so before I forget I should have done that is it two months ago now I can't remember anyway I'll sort that out so let's get straight on into my my update of my channel progress which is one of the sort of features of these live streams if you can call it that and this is obviously working towards my 365 videos in a year challenge and so we're on week 30 day 212 so far 172 videos 41 shorts 885 lovely people I still this still boggles my mind that people click the subscribe button and are interested in what I'm waffling on about 885 subscribers 5600 watch hours and 57,000 views so yeah really yeah really pleased to see the channel just sort of creeping up like that and it's interesting actually the watch hours how that is you know obviously that the the target for monetization I know it's not a huge thing but it is just one of those that YouTube targets that people aim for isn't it is a thousand subscribers and 4,000 watch hours and you know a lot of people say that those two sort of come hand-in-hand but obviously the watch hours is quite quite significantly more than the 4,000 at the moment but still working towards that thousand subs but we'll see will I get there by the end of the year so this this last week it's gone up by 45 so maybe maybe might get there by new year who knows we'll have to we'll have to see it's all down to me really isn't it being consistent because there is a distinct link between posting consistently and the numbers going up it is that simple and so I've been posting a little bit more consistently everyone who is regular here will know that I've been a little bit inconsistent for the past two months really inconsistent in aiming for a video a day I mean I suppose by other standards it might seem like I'm posting a lot but yeah there was a lack of sort of consistency and certainly from the backside of it the the inside of it rather whichever way you want to look at it there was a lack of like a sort of clear flow from my my my side you know I knew that I wasn't into the flow of the routine even though it might have appeared that stuff was coming out regularly so that's what I'm aiming to get back into with vlogmas having said that I have actually missed the past two days of vlogmas so there you go draw your own conclusions just being a great a great week for other stuff but not such a great week for YouTube so yeah just with my parents arriving those things to sort out for that and then with some of my other work stuff which if you've watched one of my my other vlogmas videos where I've been I seem to have been doing a video resume which is not the intent I'm not looking for work I've got more than you know but but yeah so I sort of explained about some of the other stuff I do and so the last one that I talked about which was the algorithmic trading stuff that's been particularly busy this this last last week so just lots of different things to sort out with that so hence these are my excuses for basically missing my my my last couple of vlogmas videos but I'll try and catch up in any case and we'll make it back up I also did say I seem to recall let me just call myself out here I seem to recall at the beginning of vlogmas when I said what I was going to do for vlogmas I was going to do my regular vlogmas videos plus my usual tutorial videos as well and my shorts and many of the tutorial videos I only did one of those yesterday which was to answer a question that that rich had asked so so yeah gotta get back on top of those the other thing that I've been doing though which has been a little bit of a distraction is my course creation so creating my I almost forgot the name of the application then it's it's been one of those mornings my zoom masterclass so I suppose I should put that up as well shouldn't I so this will be launching on the 1st of December my zoom masterclass where I'll be teaching all about basically not just how to use the zoom app but then also how to be more effective on zoom how to increase your audio video quality and stuff like that I know most of the people in the chat will know a lot of these things because you're obviously all into the the world of live streaming and things like that but the the core of the course is all the the whole of the course is really aimed specifically at people who are not really you know in the live streaming in the live streaming world and so if you've been in any zoom classes or any zoom calls then you'll notice that most of the people have not paid any attention or put any thought whatsoever into their image quality and audio they're just literally coming through the the webcam on their on their laptop often pointing up their nose and no real thought to audio or background treatment or anything like that so that's the the core audience who it is aimed for but it is also going to be helpful to people who are in the live streaming world who maybe aren't as of a with using zoom or and then it's also going to be looking at techniques that you can use to to use e-cam with zoom to be more effective using those two together so just for those who aren't aware that is what the course is other I think everyone in this chat is though because most of you are all in docs group and we're on office hours of course hello miss Eileen great to see you here as always so so yeah so what have I done this week well I've not really got a lot to actually show you this week so last week we did go into some of the the details of stuff that I've done whereas this week it's been a bit of a light week but it's also been a lot of these sort of back-end work as well so I will just say right now I'm quite light on content for today so if anybody's got any questions related to anything that we did in office hours last week which was basically going over sales funnels and stuff like that and how it relates to the course if you got any questions related to content creation or anything like that for course content creation that is or anything else for that matter let's let's let's just be clear it's not like I've got people queuing up with a whole list of questions so if you got any questions at all feel free to ask but so what have I done this week in terms of the the course creation well I have been building out some of the funnels but they're not quite ready for me to show yet so what I want to do is probably next week I'll go through and actually show how I've set up all the funnels all the different I've just seen Victor's comment not a pleasant experience for the support to get a so yes after this this week I've been setting up the the sales funnels the back end the structure basically of the both the website funnels and then also the email follow-up funnels so somebody asked the question which which parts do I like to do first or what's the order and the answer is basically I'd like to do the things that are not necessarily the hardest but I suppose the hardest but also the things where there could be issues so setting up anything with the the website the flow the stuff like that all the automation all the triggers I like to just get that stuff all out of the way because I feel a lot more confident certainly now than I would have done maybe a year ago with actually creating the video content so that was part of the reason for me starting this channel was to basically practice the process of sitting down and making videos pretty much on the fly and and specifically for things like training purposes and so on like you know creating course content and so on so for me the actual recording the content is not the the bit that's likely to be the stumbling block so I'm trying to get all of the the more tricky stuff out of the way in advance and one of those is as I say the the sales funnels themselves so that's what I've been doing this week is setting up those things the other thing that I've been playing around with my mind's been a little bit bouncing around between different things rather than entirely focused on one thing sometimes I'm just in the mood for a sort of technical side of stuff where I'm you know creating the back end processes the systems the the workflows the stuff like that or the sorry the the funnel flows but then other time I'm other times I'm just in a more sort of creative mode or something like that where I want to do something that's more graphically based or something like that so another thing I've been doing is putting some more thought into the actual look of the videos themselves so I'm not going to be doing it with my regular background I'm going to or not regular channel background at least it's going to be something a little bit more business orientated so I've been putting some thought into that and the the graphics that I'm going to be using with that as well hey Rob great to see you here and also Mr Richard great to see you too I always like the the sunglasses emoji so so yeah that is basically what I've been what I've been doing this week in terms of the the course I don't know if I mentioned last week but I've got a few a few people on board in terms of you know being able to offer discounts on different things so so yeah there'll be discounts on different software packages and stuff like that I'm still waiting on a couple of different hardware items that I may be also offer a discount on as well so when people sign up basically that they'll they'll get that discount I'll also just mention something I mentioned this in office hours so the early bird discount is 50% off but I am also when I actually launch on day one and for the month of January I'm also going to give 20% off to anyone who signs up in the first first month and so the way I'm going to do this is that anyone who signs up to the early bird basically when they put their offer code in it's going to discount on the the discounted price if you see what I mean that way nobody who signs up to the early bird can think oh well hang on a minute you gave me 50% off but now you're giving some other people 20% off who didn't didn't sign up early well I'm going to use the 50% off the discounted price and then hopefully we'll see that everyone should be more than happy about that but we'll we'll find out when we get there so so that is what I've done with the the zoom masterclass this week so what I'm going to do is let me just stick up my link but I've got something else to tell you about first which was quite exciting actually for me I'm easily excited and that was that my my merch store is finally ready I know what about that let me just bring it up hang on a minute now having said this I should have got this website a little bit more organized here we go so here we go for those of you who identify with the recovering perfectionist label that I have given myself then you can now get it branded all over a t-shirt or a hat from the merch store which is takeonetech.io slash merch and I will stick a link up for that in just a moment but there you go we've got the full range of the rainbow of colors from white all the way through to black and a red one as well other colors may be available in the future but there we go and then we've got the hat and then we've also got this the rp logo as well just for those who are really in the know so as I say you can head over to the merch store which is takeonetech.io slash merch I've got to just say at this point let me just pop up this because I'm open to anybody who wants to pop on and have a chat about anything I'll talk about vlogmas a little bit more in a moment but so when you click on that link takeonetech.io slash merch it will take you through basically to the press and sew website which is who I'm using for my merch and I know everyone in here is more than familiar with Andrew and Sylvia Nixon but for the benefit of those who may be watching on the replay who maybe aren't so aware Andrew and Sylvia get talked about a lot in certain circles the the let's get live circles and the e-cam live circle there who make by the way all of the merch for e-cam live as well and everyone talks about that oh they're great they're great they're great and so you have sort of high expectations when you go and have a chat with them about what you want because everyone says about how great they are I've got to say that when I had my first meeting with them on zoom and having high expectations they still managed to blow me away I was really really just pleased and impressed with just their whole MO basically and their offering and what they the service that they they provide and then it did take a while for me to get my backside into gear and actually get them all the details in terms of I'd already done they can do all the design work if you want but I'd already got my little logo for what it is there my recovering perfectionist graphic so that's what I was using and I'd already created that so I got that to them but they can take care of the whole design aspect as well I probably should have let them have a go at it to be honest I'll do that for some future merch because they come up with some really amazing designs and they could probably do a bit of a better job than me and by a bit I mean a lot and and so yeah it took a while for me to get the all the details to them but once I did they were just like straight on it and yeah really really good service then they set up all of the the page and everything so let me just quickly show you that so on their their site so if you if you follow my link it's basically just going through if I just show you the address bar it's basically look at that it's going through to pressandso.com slash take one tech so you can go use that link if you want as well I just kept with the take one tech so it'd be easier for everyone to remember but once you go through to here this page this page is basically hosted on on their their site and then the other great thing about doing something like this with them is if you go to the shop at the top so you will obviously come in through my page but here what you can see is it's also got all the other creators merch in there as well and what that means is if you've got your merch hosted over here you can obviously host it all on your own oh look at that 10% off if you were if you sign up there we go that's a that's a good offer isn't it a little tip but you can you can obviously have all these items on your own site and link them back to to there but what it means is that when your merch is on there like here you can see mine's all the sort of most recent that's been added I do like the hoodies by the way it's getting it's getting a little bit chilly here in the mornings so so yeah the hoodies are definitely going to come in handy but the good thing about it is as I was saying as I distracted myself there and you also see all the other creators and there's loads of great creators from from the group so podcasters that's Steve Worthies we've got I'm not sure who that one is more of the podcasters we've got lots of great people James Hicks obviously Doc Rock, Darren and Gladney all of the all of the far bigger names in the world of live streaming than me certainly but you get to see all of theirs as well so what this means is if somebody's going to the Press and Sew website and then they're looking through some of these other ones they might just come across your things and think oh that looks interesting maybe I'll have one of those as well and so there's lots of sort of not sure exactly what the the I was going to say cross-pollination that's not at all relevant to this but basically yeah it means that you can people will see your stuff alongside all of the other creators as well and if you just go straight to the Press and Sew website then you'll see there's the lovely Andrew and Sylvia Nixon and then these are all the different creators that are there on there oh Sammy Superstar I don't want to forget him as well Dr. Elo lots and lots of people there Alicia way of course and there we go so your your brand and your merch will basically be featured alongside lots of lots of other creators as well and some people will be able to go in oh there's Carly look chocolate twist yoga and and yeah you'll be able to go they'll be able to go in and see your stuff so it's a really good way of promoting because you'll get your stuff promoted alongside all the others but they've done an amazing job I don't I'll tell you one thing that was a little bit of a not necessarily concerned but one thing you have to think about when you are a creator depending on exactly what it is you're doing and you know when you're starting to set up these sorts of things you might think there's going to be like a huge upfront cost where there often is with if people are you know producing merch then you're going to think like oh right well I'm going to need to order a certain run of t-shirts in advance or a certain run of hoodies or things like that and you know you can imagine that there might be some quite hefty costs upfront and for every different style of t-shirt things like that there's going to be some huge cost no there is not they have developed such an amazing business model basically where you don't really have massive upfront costs there is a little bit of upfront cost in terms of the setup because they've obviously got to do some working setting up the page and things like that but really I couldn't couldn't be more happy with the actual setup cost so if you in the back of your mind have got something that is maybe holding you back a little bit maybe thinking oh I'm not sure I'm quite ready yet there's going to be some massive costs associated with it definitely reach out to press and so in fact let's just come back to their website shall we I'll just leave a direct link in here because I think Paul's also already left a link actually but this is pressandso.com so if you're interested in merch then definitely head over there because yeah they're just absolutely wonderful people and a pleasure to work with as well so so yeah that is that is all I've got to say about that my unfortunately my merch hasn't arrived yet because I'm obviously living on the other side of the world so it takes a little time for the the Santa's little elves to deliver them to me but yeah anyway so and they do deliver internationally by the way as well so just in case you're interested then there is that that's my little sales pitch out of the way they are indeed aren't they they are totally fantastic and yeah they just got such a great such a great way about them great business model as well and yeah I'm just absolutely delighted with with how everything has gone with them and it's the fact that to be honest with you just to keep going on about them for a little moment so after I sent them all of my stuff and they'd give me a list of like this is what we need so they were very clear about exactly what they needed from me I gave them everything that they'd asked for and then that was kind of it and then a short while later it was like right check out this page on our thing and I was like is that it it's done it was a real a real delight I like to be delighted and surprised by any any sort of product or service and they sort of hit tick all the boxes in there in that context as well oh hello sorry I think I've missed you just popping in nice to see you here great to see you Geraldine and let's have a little look have I missed anything I don't think I think I've missed anybody popping in a few naughty little people thank you Paul for deleting those those comments uh oh what's your channel Victor let's drop your channel name I don't think I've got your channel name up so yeah I was going to say drop it in the chat but obviously you might not be able to at the moment because not everyone can drop links in the chat that's the thing let me know what it's called though and I'll find a link for it so yeah with Vlogmas so it's been as I say I've missed a couple I've got to catch up I was I did have it all planned out before and then I was kind of thrown through a couple of different things that popped up that stopped me from doing it I actually as well I'm technically doing two Vlogmas's although I don't really count the one in the let's get live group that's just a silly little thing of posting an audio clip a day but I've missed that but fortunately that is done in an advent calendar style so I don't know if you were like me when you were little and that I was used to love having my advent calendar eating my little treats or whatever it was behind the little windows and some days I might forget or be distracted and that meant that the next day there was just a treat because I got two to open so it's going to be a bit the same with my little let's get live audio clips as well I'll have a few little doors to open today I did actually record one and then didn't post it so I don't know quite what happened there but I did have one for was it day eight or day nine I can't remember but then then I came to it and realized I hadn't even posted it I must have got distracted by the kids I've been recording those actually later in the day so I've been recording them more like afternoon after a finish work as opposed to my regular videos always tend to be recorded at this time so at the moment for me it's half past five in the morning so all of my regular content is usually recorded at this time but for some reason with the vlogma stuff I've been doing it in the evening I don't know whether it is because I have got that fake fireplace background behind me and it feels more like a a cold winter's evening in the background that I've just been getting into the mental mindset of that and recording them in the evening but in any case that's what I have been doing so so yeah but I have got some others to catch up on now I've got a stress I'm a bit light on content today so if you've got any questions about anything related to the I don't know I wonder if your comment's not popped up Victor it's I'm not sure that your link is popped up if you just tell me the name I'll I'll I'll find it for you yes you're not not everyone is able to post links I think but I've just distracted myself oh yeah so if you've got any questions about sales funnels or about the course creation about anything else that is related to my channel then stick them in the comments otherwise we're going to have an extremely short live stream today not that that's necessarily a bad idea let me have a look oh it's my friend Mr Greg hang on one second let me sort this out me too whoops Daisy on guest there we go hey Greg how are you doing I'm good how are you I'm very good thank you very good well my audio keeps doing this it's just playing out of the wrong place you know what that happened to me when I started the stream I started it I could see all the levels going but I couldn't hear it and I'd been I've been playing around with another mic and headphones a couple of days ago and that hadn't changed it so how's the adventure going I you said your family was in town no yeah yeah just arrived yesterday yeah yeah so but finally I mean that's a relief to be honest for them to get here it's quite a trek for them to get here in any case but then just with all the stuff with the covid and the uk changing their rules for entry and exit and Thailand being the way that they are with that it's just good that they're finally here and yeah we don't care what happens now yeah I think the the default trip is now like two weeks right it has to be because you have to quarantine on both ends and do all this up the thing that's happening in the UK is they've started saying that there was people who went away and then because of this new variant the UK have said right well now when you come back in there's mandatory quarantine for two weeks that you have to pay for and it's like £2,500 so imagine people who have gone away like stay at their own house or you have to like stay in a hotel now they have to stay in a hotel yeah but since this new variant so that means that people who have gone away on holiday when they're coming back they're now faced with this this totally unexpected cost extra holiday yeah and so yeah but you know people just can't afford it who can you know who goes on holiday yeah thinking oh I'm just gonna go away for a week it's been two years of hell let's get away for two weeks and then come back and that's per person and that is per person yeah so you get a family going away it's just it's just a nightmare and then there's been like bad reports of you know the quality of food in this like quarantine locations and stuff like that you can only fit such good quality food through the little slot in the door so that's it yeah yeah but but any case my my parents are here now so in the worst case they'll be staying for longer than two months I don't mean it's worse for us I mean like if they can't get back because of you know they haven't changed restrictions so we're much happier that they're here and yeah it's just it's just great the kids are absolutely over the moon so excited oh yeah well it's wonderful for uh for the littles right yeah yeah so how's stuff going with you ah you know just busy man it's been uh I've been keeping up with my videos I'm gonna I'm gonna record two more today because the weekend is harder to do them on so yeah um I've gotten one a day in though so it's been you know at least I'm I'm happy that part's happening yeah yeah I've got to catch up with the I've got to catch up with about four days of everybody's vlogmas videos but oh man I can't imagine yeah I've got to say though I just thought that what you're doing for vlogmas is just so it's just beautiful man it's amazing uh anyway I'm there just making some little stupid sound effects in the LGL group and to some degree you know I I feel bad because like for me it's like a pretty serious project and I feel like everyone's having a lot of fun and I feel like I'm dumping like this like heavy crap on everybody who's trying to know the point the point of vlogmas is to get into the the habit of just creating content and being consistent about it and doing it and you're doing it with like you know something really I'm not gonna say it's hard to do but you know what I mean it's like a really it's a really intense thing that you're doing it's like yeah yeah I've got a total respect it is um the first one I definitely it was kind of it was kind of sad like my wife started watching it in the car while we were going and then I started crying in the car hearing myself talk about the thing yeah yeah oh it's just it yeah I mean you've got me too only the first one only the first one the other ones are easier because like they're just like they're not as tied into like something so big but yeah yeah let me just uh quickly get this off of me it's yeah it's just it's just awesome I honestly I enjoy doing the the video letters though because um they're they feel more real like obviously you know like when you write you polish and you edit and you do things right but yeah I do these like super off the cuff like uh so they're like only like two minutes or three minutes long so hopefully like they're easy to listen to for him later you know yes yeah I'm just gonna drop a link to your channel oh thanks yeah we're at 11 subs so yeah for for brand new channel well and there's also because I know Paul is always like I put the hashtag and I'm like yeah I'm not really in a rush to brand this you know for e-cam right yeah yeah um not that I I don't want it to be part of the collective effort but um but I'm like yeah this has like a higher purpose for me so I'm not like yeah I'm not like you know in the big of a rush to um to sort of uh you know bastardize it in some way yeah yeah yeah well they're just great life lessons in any case do you know what I mean it's uh yeah I you know and I was on Twitter and uh this investor guy like announced that he was having a kid and then he did like this tweet storm and he had like 20 lessons to his kid right and then another guy replied he's like oh yeah I started writing letters to my kid and he's like I have 900 already I was like wow um so I I'm just always happy to hear dad's doing this because you know traditionally like you know dads I guess are can be more standoffish or arms length kind of like with their kids in the emotional side of stuff and you know just sharing things so I'm just I was just I'm always excited when I hear more more dads are getting into sort of the activity yeah yeah well I'm definitely watching and taking note and we'll be doing something similar because it's just such a what a wonderful gift and you it's like for for different generations as well you know there's so much that I never asked my my grandparents who aren't around and like all the all the sort of the wisdom that does get lost and that is uh you know it's it's why we have our youth is when we should use it right yeah true yeah yeah uh because I know I've I've wasted uh way too many brain cells on other activities yeah I'm glad you tell me that now before I've actually grown up as well so I've still got I've still got a few years to actually grow up yeah and how's how is stuff going with them uh that you know the the fundraising and the the project fundraising is it's it's promising I'm crossing fingers um you know I think we may be wrapping up next week um for the first you know bit of it yeah um which is exciting obviously uh but um we made a change in direction I would say also maybe not like um entirely but um but it's moved towards I mean you and I were talking about sort of this like this crypto and sort of investment side so yeah we're kind of applying what we were making at zealous more to that web three part of the world right so right right decentralized orgs and nft projects and stuff like that because um yeah it was interesting you know live streamers know they could use our thing but you know convincing people they need to build a community is not is not an easy task and it's just not one I want to right start with yeah so we're we just ended up finding that the that web three part of the world is like very engaged and they're like yes like I'm ready you know we need it we need a tool right now so we're building something kind of like um like a like a discord style product almost like with all of our streaming capabilities in it oh cool cool right right yeah so yeah it's good good times you know but uh getting to the end of the year as well so we'll see how you know everything falls out yeah yeah we've got still got lots to end for the year for our thing that we see funding that we're looking to to raise so um yeah we'll see that's the same similar sort of position how have you found it you know it's interesting right like end of year sometimes it seems like it's a really hard time but other times it's like a really good time I don't you know like it could be hit or miss yeah well we've sort of just come at the for us it's like the product's just about ready now so whereas before we were doing stuff a lot of you know getting people's interest but didn't actually have the thing to show whereas we've literally just finished the last round of development with uh so we've got a team of developers actually based in Pakistan so we're doing a load of work with them and we've just wrapped up the the development side of it for this this phase there's still loads more to do on it on sort of the back end the data processing and stuff like that it's all working but it's just the next iteration of it we're sort of thinking that's that few steps ahead so between now and the end of the year we'll have done a load of other stuff to then ramp up doing some more development on it as well but in the meantime we've got the thing ready to show to people so we've got loads of people who are interested in uh in getting it it's just that we have a test played or is it a web app it's a web app yeah it's a web app yeah okay so so the the the uh what the user sees is basically they log into a website and then they see it's basically giving it's an educational platform that gives trade recommendations so that you can chart what happens with them over over time uh but if people want to trade it then that's that's up to them but so can they it's like a like a virtual trading but you can make it real trading hey it's it's it's um entirely real data and all the data is real time there are just some things around we're making it an educational platform because we want to tie this in with people get you know basically what it does is it give people trade recommendations and then also with sort of entry points exit points on what the position should be and then they can save those trades or they can monitor those trades as they sort of progress but we're providing all of the education around it so there'll be a whole sort of series of videos and stuff like that educational content around it but we're positioning it as a an educational platform although it's all real live data because there are differences in how things are treated from a regulatory point of view if we're doing it as a an educational platform compared to if we're just selling it purely as a service that's giving trade ideas because then you're basically into different classification so right yeah yeah you know when i when i was like in high school there was like i think my economics class we did like this experiment or like this project where like everyone got like a hundred dollars or something in virtual money and so someone was the stock broker and then you would make investments you know like with that person and like we competed for a month to see who like made the most money right yeah um i won i won that year but yeah i love that idea because uh you hear about like for example robin hood is making you know investment like very accessible but then people are like also killing themselves because they don't understand that like option calls and things like that and they end up doing really bad things yeah well they hear like game stop last year i don't know if you just heard anything yeah but yeah so many robin hood people got got um burnt for one of a better word by that because they saw this this stock that was just rocketing up and it was uh it was all fueled by wall street bets the um the the the the twitter page and then also they've got the the discord and that so there was this thing all about it but yeah lots of people just jumped in because it was going ridiculous you know like a hundred percent a day a hundred percent a day and then guess what it all came tumbling down and the people that were left with positions were uh yeah robin hood folk and um and then robin hood because there was just so much activity about it they closed trading on it so that meant there were people that were stuck in it and couldn't get out of it so yeah a lot of misinformation and lack of education and people making foolish mistakes and i can i can bet this would be a safe bet the majority of the people who put money into that particular trade with robin hood probably put like 50 of their entire trading pot minimum into it if not like all in on it because they thought this is this is going to make the big time sort of thing uh and that's that's when people make mistakes you know so what we teach in the or what we will be teaching on the platform and in the the training that we provide is basically correct position sizing so uh and and how you allocate funds based on your entire portfolio and stuff like that so you never really overexposed to anything and what is a reasonable amount of risk and uh yeah all that that side of stuff but yeah it's really yeah exciting time getting people on board with it yeah i can imagine i can imagine well it's a good time though because i think there's more people in getting engaged in this kind of activity also right so yeah in different things like sometimes with crypto sometimes with real things but either way there's markets kind of moving and there's some fundamentals to learn here right yes yeah yeah we're just talking with somebody last week as well about um so they already do a lot of stuff in stocks and options but they're in a different geographic market so we're focused on the u.s markets but actually the the backend system that we've built you could basically just drop any data set into it and it would do all of the uh and then your you know your strategy thesis and the entry points exit points stuff like that and then it would just um calculate all of the the the system rating so we rate all of these different trading systems so basically we could just drop in any data set and you know replicate this for any market in any any region of the world and the the architecture that we've built will work for that so we were just talking with somebody who does a lot of trading in the actually indian markets so um we're potentially going to be looking to add some other other geographic regions and uh and data in there at some point also it could work with or it would work with with crypto as well so that's another area that we might might look at although the strategies would be very different to what we're doing in the u.s market right so it's it consumes like streaming data or um or do you have to like give it a flat set um so what we got at the moment is basically end of day data so it's end of day stock and options data um but the the limitation is basically uh server capacity so one of the things with the the raise is for um is basically upgrading the service significantly to uh not just in terms of storage but in terms of processing power so the thing that takes the the power is the back testing so when you've come up with an idea and say oh i want to test this out so this would be the entry point this would be the exit point and this would be you know the position to put on and then click the button how long it takes to go and back test against you know 20 years of data and then it tests it in all different markets all different market types and different sectors and so on and then it would just give you a range of system rating so this is our ip basically is our system rating mechanism let me tell you this is the all the probability statistics the forward testing as well um and so to do all of that the computation of power required is quite well the the higher the power the quicker it can be done and then just storing the data so when you get down to uh either live data or minute data so at the minute level right yeah it's quite uh quite a considerable amounts of data that are coming in every uh every day so yeah i mean i guess there's licensing licensing too right there is licensing yeah we've so there's there is an increased cost with the uh if you want minute data as opposed to end of date data so we get our options data from cboe chicago board of options exchange and then for our stock data we get from refinitive so refinitive and bloomberg two big ones uh we go down the bloomberg originally actually but uh we've switched to refinitive because they've got some slightly better offerings in some cases oh that's cool yeah seems like a neat project um yeah super interesting to to see more innovation happening well i'll i'll show you once it's once it's all presentable yeah i'd love to see it um someday um big uh you know big big fan of all entrepreneurship i just love i love the creation process that's the thing with anything really i i love the uh conceptualizing an idea and then building it yeah yeah i my favorite year in a new company is the first year yes yeah yeah even though it's brought with all kinds of you know roller coaster moments um you know it's like seeing something come together is definitely more interesting and so you know just fulfilling right yeah yeah and what are you so sorry go on no go ahead i was gonna completely pivot to something completely different i was gonna say what you do in terms of fitness what's your new fitness goal after oh i you know i've been off the wagon to be honest i've um uh my diet's gone to garbage and um well you know we had a Thanksgiving here so we were gone for that week yeah yeah and and um i had a week kind of you know vacation with my wife for our anniversary so it's got up for another week and then this week my wife was out of town so i ended up um not being able to get to the gym because i was like we have a new puppy and so i can't really leave i couldn't leave him in the morning because he would start barking and wake her up in the house yeah um so yeah so that so it's been like kind of three weeks uh where i've you know done very minimal sort of fitness work and yeah whatnot so yeah i don't know um you know i think in my head i kind of said i january first i'll start again um but we have we did ski like six days already this year so that's uh it's a good start it's a good start to the season i guess relatively speaking yeah so yeah we're winter time so now um now we move to skiing and you know just weightlifting and things internally indoors yeah we did get snow today for snow yeah oh cool yeah it's late honestly like we we usually have more snow than than what we've had so far but um it was kind of fun today because it's the first day that the puppy saw snow so i put him outside and he was just like he's like trying to eat it he's like what is that he's like but then he kept doing it over and over again so yeah it's pretty funny yeah yeah it must be yeah it must be quite an odd sensation to just suddenly think like what's happened to the outside it's completely changed yeah like he could see and he's like what is that and you know you know like poking around it and then of course like you can see all the places he ran in the backyard because it was all covered and it's just like tracks everywhere because he just like ran all over the place because you're so excited yeah yeah and cool stuff uh oh just saying hello quick hello to Chris Chris just snuck in it's getting quite late for you Chris in the UK great to see you though uh hey Chris let me just oh Dean has just quickly asked uh i missed the beginning where i talked about my zoom masterclass i'll just do a very quick recap i didn't make a huge amount of progress on actually creating it but i will just stick this up quickly so uh the zoom masterclass is where i will launch it on the first of January but there is an early bird offer 50 off at zoommasterclass.com and i'll be teaching all about not just how to use zoom there's lots of features that people aren't aware of and how to use it in a professional context but also the course is actually aimed at people who are you know sort of business folk not necessarily YouTubers or people into content creation and you may have been on meetings before where people just look absolutely terrible not personally but in terms of picture quality and audio and things like that so it will be teaching how to get the most out of zoom in that aspect of that context but then also how to do that with ecamm live as well so we're talking about how to use ecamm live to really sort of transform your zoom presence and presentation and so on so that you do appear as the the most learned person in the room there is something really weird about being on zoom calls that if people have got a good picture and image quality they do sort of get more respect from the people in the group somehow they you have a presence before you've even started speaking that you are somebody to be listened to which you've obviously got to follow that up with something interesting to say but it does sort of start you off at a particular point and it says well about not being a distraction so you get people who've got i don't understand people who use the virtual backgrounds on zoom where they've got maybe the northern lights or something video going behind them the keying of the background you know you can sort of see little ghostly figures coming in and out of you because they've not got a green screen they're just keying out whatever the real background is and it it just becomes a total distraction from what they're actually trying to say and the same when you've got audio issues or not a good flow to meetings as well so people will be there fumbling around trying to do their screen share and they'll say oh now where is the screen i'm trying to share and it's all distracts from the flow you know if you're trying to do certainly if you're trying to sell stuff with clients or have teach stuff in classes then you don't really want the technology to get in the way of the message that you're trying to deliver whether it's a sales message whether it's a you know teaching learning moment or whether it's just you know a meeting to do with progress updates or whatever it happens to be in business you don't want really the technology to get in the way and i feel like so many times on meetings that i've been in there is yeah these these sort of tech issues and things like that just actually get in the way of what the purpose of the meeting is supposed to be but if it's done right you can actually find that i think that you can almost be more effective than certain in-person meetings not going to ever completely replace those but you can certainly certainly match that and in terms of delivering content and things like that yeah you can do a lot better so yeah it is zoom at masterclass.com it's where to find out more about that i've just got to finish it yeah it does make a difference i i definitely get called out usually when i show up in a call and you know have my set up and you'll be amazed by the way that just having a microphone in view somehow regardless of what the picture looks like yeah somehow people just prescribe some like other dubious or sort of like elevated sort of thing to it yes this guy is a professional speaker so i need to listen because he's got a microphone yeah exactly yeah yeah uh i do get that a lot often actually um yeah to be to be sure um yeah so what what is um that you said that um are you gonna is it gonna be a pure thing you buy that course once and then yeah yeah so it's it's like a recorded course and uh yeah it's uh that's it yes it is a one-time thing i'm not doing a um i'm not doing like an academy style where there's a group and everything like that just because in this context it's going to be such a diverse range of people from all different all different areas of the world but also also all different businesses and it's not so much like ecam where everyone's sort of learning it for the first time where they're going to be going through a process so like you have the ecam academy which makes perfect sense because everyone's on that sort of journey together whereas with zoom there's going to be people are going to take different things from it so i decided to just do it as a standalone course basically um although there'll be lots of like there's going to be a discount code for speedify for camo for obviously ecam as well and stuff like that so there will be lots of different things that as part of the course and discount codes and stuff like that um and uh yeah so there'll be that but yes it's a standalone course so it'll be uh in english and your second native tai uh that's right yes yes yes and uh and i'll be having it translated into chinese mind you chinese because that's what we're doing with we're doing that with the trading training stuff i've been there it's in mandarin as well um but um yeah i'm not sure what the chinese not so hot on zoom are they the chinese government what are they used well i don't know there's uh there's a few um a few different things but um uh they they did have a stage where they weren't even allowing people to use zoom in in china at some point i think they've lifted that now but oh yeah interesting yeah did not know that uh yeah they they can be uh they can be quite strict on certain technologies and things like that mind you it's in thailand they can do that as well so uh the one of the newspapers in the uk i don't particularly read and newspapers are not this particular publication but the daily mail uh is one of the uh publications in the in the uk and they thailand banned the daily mail website because they reported on something and thailand didn't like the reporting so they just banned the newspaper so that stuff goes on yeah it's okay apparently but uh yeah who's up to be a little bit wary of things like that that's not fun yeah it's not often but it's just like every so often you get those things that pop up and you just think like okay then uh right right i know i know what's going down here it's careful uh so uh higher education says alex is 100 right teaching in classes yeah zoom can work really well and um it can be a really great delivery method actually of uh of stuff because you can uh do something that's better than just slides as well you know if you if you presenting content have it better than just sort of you know a traditional sort of presentation and there's ways that you can make it more interactive and interesting so yeah definitely great for for education so i'll be covering some of that in the zoom course um i've got yeah i've still got um just coming back to what dina asked actually was um so what i'm doing it between now and the end of the year because it's launching on the first of january is actually sort of sharing all of the um the process really of creating the course and then also setting up all the sales funnels and things like that and the back end process as well so i probably did a much bigger recap on my uh my live stream last week where i went into some of the stuff that i'd set up whereas this week there wasn't a huge update just because uh i haven't got stuff that's ready to kind of show with it so uh what i have been doing this week is just setting up the the architecture of the website sales funnels the email funnels and stuff like that but i'll probably have a bit of a better update for next week on it the the the studio build by the way which is something else that i was hoping to have done way before now uh sort of got put on the back burner with this this course starting up and thinking i'm not sure i'm gonna have time to be working on the studio and then it seems that santa took over my studio to use it as a storage facility with this has become the the thailand depot it seems it's the one room in the house that the kids don't go into nice so i saw a question how much the course would be by the way uh do you know what i haven't actually announced the court the the price yet and there's a couple of reasons for that um first of all i'm still figuring out a few things in terms of what bonuses i'm gonna add and the contents and stuff like that so i will announce it in uh in due course um but um uh yeah so that's that's that's basically why it hasn't been announced yet because i haven't entirely fixed it yet but that's also why i'm offering a 50 percent early bird discount it's giving people the option of that they don't there's no commitment by the way so for that discount all you need to do is register your interest on the website and then on the first of january i'll send out a link to the uh the the page where i'll have the video that sort of outlines everything that's going to be involved with it and the cost and everything like that and so that that is the reason for the large discount is just to reward people tim says one million dollars uh yeah it's not gonna be that much um and so yeah that's that's part of the incentive to you know to give that large discount it's just to i mean total being totally open it's to gauge interest and things like that in it as well so that when it does launch on on day one then i've got some people who have expressed an interest uh not i'm expecting everyone to want to sign up necessarily uh but then then yes i'll ask something out on the first of january uh and there will be by the way uh no spam it's not one of these things sign up for this course and then you're going to get hammered every day between now and then and every day afterwards of uh there is a i talked about this in office hours last week we did day at last weekend we did a whole sort of session on sales funnels and if you want to look at like the uh the way to get the maximum return on your sales funnels then yes you should be sending out once you get people interested in the um uh you know put registering their interest you want to keep sending them an email every couple of days if they don't sign up you want to keep reminding them every two days or every day and stuff like that but personally that is that technically that is the way to get the most you know return on your investment or most return on your email list uh but i think there's a balance between you know not taking any action with your email list and so it's you know you haven't done anything with it uh or becoming really spammy and i i actually just zone out with anybody where i start getting these regular things that's just one after another telling me about the same thing or i find that i just uh yeah i zone out with it so uh my approach is really i'm going to tell you what you need to know when you need to know it and i'm not about totally squeezing every last drop out of the email list at the expense of uh integrity basically so uh yeah right anyone who does anyone who just signs up you can expect that the next email that you will get will be on the 1st of January with details of the you know the sign-up process and the offer and all that sort of stuff uh and then after that the the offer will be open for the whole of january so it's not like you've got to get out of bed on the 1st of january and think oh i've got to coincide up for my zoom masterclass the 50 discount will be for the whole month of january uh you will get a reminder before the end of january about it just so that you don't miss it if you missed it on the first but i'm not i'm not uh yeah definitely not um email heavy yeah some some people just go go far too far let me with too much i mean i get these people like these drips from you know marketers or sales people and they're overly like every two three days it's just constant follow-up right yeah and you do switch off to it don't you you see yeah oh it's another one from these it's another one and then anything that's like an actual good message that you may want to hear just gets completely lost then in this sea of uh uh yeah rubbish so chris um what i'm thinking of doing actually funnily enough i did a whole session in in office hours last week doc's office hours i um i basically did a whole uh it was probably about an hour and a half something like that where i went through talking about sales funnels because there's some other people in the group who are looking at doing their launching courses and stuff like that so i have done a few different things on that this the video that i did my last live stream last week i was talking about sales funnels as well and actually carly came on and we did she had quite a few great questions because she's launching her course so i did cover it a bit in there but i am going to put together a um a probably like a video series i'm not quite sure how to do it or how to release it but yeah all about sales funnels basically and incidentally i'm using click funnels there is another one which so many people have mentioned this to me in the past couple of weeks that i'm going to have to check it out it's kajabi so um that one you can use to build out your website and sales funnels and everything like that it can do a lot of the stuff that um you can do in click funnels uh i use click funnels that's what we use in one of the videos that i haven't made for my vlogmas it's about one of the things i do and it's a social media advertising and marketing company and we use click funnels in that uh for like you know clients that we we work with um but kajabi also looks uh great for for the same sort of stuff and i think from a uh like a uh not a layman but a you know if you if you're somebody who's just thinking about doing something like this i actually think kajabi would be a better fit for somebody uh click funnels is great and you can do lots of stuff in it um but kajabi's also uh good for building out websites native natively is not a not a great uh not a great word but uh i think kajabi for somebody who's just thinking i want to set up a website and host a course or something like that kajabi would be great so i need to actually go and do it to um go and use it to uh to actually figure it out but from what i've seen it looks it looks great uh and yeah i did mention this last week as well chris i'm going to do a course course a masterclass how to actually create the course and uh that's sort of the point of these live streams although i've not done that much this this week but to sort of have a chart or a flow of these are all the different steps and like a couple of weeks ago i did one where it was it was basically all the setup so people you know you create the course content but then it's all the all the things you have to set up on the back end like so for my bulk email i'm using mailgun to deal with all the automated emails but so i've got to link that to my dns settings for my uh for my website then you know setting up payment gateways and all these other sorts of things so i am definitely planning a course course which is about how to you know create a course basically so i'll do that after i've finished this one so uh oh adrian uses kajabi as well does he yeah well this is a thing so many people carly's using kajabi i spoke with two other people just the day before my last live stream and i'm looking to do some partnership with them so one of them does say a course specifically on presentations and how to do good presentations and then that translates over into to zoom but he hasn't done the zoom part so maybe partnering with him where we've you know i can promote the zoom thing to his audience and he can promote the presentation side to mine or at least have a time with us you know as part of the the um as part of the course you would also get access to these other things but he's using kajabi and yet i've just heard so many good things about it and went onto the website and started looking and it looks from a i i like click funnels it's quite it's very good at what it does but i can see how kajabi being objective it would be a great one for anybody to start with uh oh i've got to just quickly say hello to mr christmas to todd i hope you're feeling better because todd had had covid last week so i do hope you are feeling a lot a lot better um yeah and i saw your news by the way responded yet in um uh in my mind's gone blank heather and uh tom's group heather and tom buck's group that uh is it pbs want to interview you i don't remember who he said but somebody's going to be very good for his channel uh and oh christ is so christ is going to use kajabi himself i highly recommend it i'm going to i did actually when i did actually think of making my zoom course in kajabi just as a way to sort of try it out but i figured kajabi kajabi's pretty good yeah i just i figured i got i've got that much on my plate this uh this month that uh the last thing i need is to be taking on i can whereas with click funnels i'll just know how to you know i can build it all out in no time uh whereas with kajabi i would obviously have to have add on the slight learning curve so i figured maybe i'll do my next course in kajabi so yeah kajabi is a huge business now uh and quite a bit that's good Todd's feeling better i'm very pleased to hear that last thing you want is to be ill over christmas especially when you are mr christmas himself and uh oh christ says cat cat morville uses kajabi as well so all good recommendations there then cat's using it adrian's using it carly's using it yeah yeah i don't think you can go wrong with kajabi um there are other tools um like i know there's another company called circle which is kind of more of a community yeah yeah and i worse or teachable is another one um yep and i think in that in that realm as well let me just uh kajabi has got a little thing where it tells you um i wish you could remember carly's affiliate code just off hand because i could post that in the chat and then everyone could help out carly but let me just quickly pop over to this one on it uh this is the kajabi website they've got a little thing on here i think where is it down at the bottom where they talk about the features and they sort of compare it to all the different platforms it's not entirely uh accurate this isn't because it's a little pricey uh i can't see it now uh when i looked before they seemed as though they had like a sort of feature set where it showed you um all the different features and like the the different um in fact it might have been they might have replaced it with this it did show you sort of like where you know click funnels does this this one does that mailchimp does this and so on uh so they did have all of that and they made it look like all of those things do all distinct different things and so now they've combined this all into one but a little bit disingenuous to be honest the way they laid it out because they would have like click funnels doing one little part where it's actually it could probably do most of the other things as well so uh although obviously you know how those you know how those marketing pages go yeah i know yeah it was a little bit uh you know when you look at it you think i'm not quite sure about that but it certainly does look really good and the interface and everything like that looks very user friendly so yeah it's a big community for sure yeah um of people we've created courses on that yeah so uh yeah i'll definitely yeah i'll definitely give that one a good good look and uh hey gretchen great to see you here as well and so have you got have you got any course content at all that you you've done before with all the things you've done have you ever done anything i do workshops here and there um but mostly corporate i've never thought about doing like a whole course right uh actually i did i did play around with sort of doing mostly the tests using zealous for the seize case like a cohort based kind of class thing yeah um kind of on like uh you know my background is mostly like is product work i think so right thought about sort of like a product market fit kind of workshop and just sort of helping i you know i have like a framework i use to help people figure out how to gather data how to identify personas so i you know i could do i think i could do like 12 hours pretty readily on on that yeah um and then um i have a like innovation framework that i use with corporate clients that i've thought about as a course also but um yeah i i don't know i never uh i know like there's two kinds of things there's um there's courses and there's like accountability groups yes and i i almost feel like the accountability groups are um like they go hand in hand right so it's almost like sure take a course but then do it right yeah and so how do we force you to make how do we like guarantee you're doing the thing also right yeah um which i think i think is pretty important so i think that's why like adrian's academy works so well because it is with e-cam and it's like getting to learn it and people who are learning it are generally you know they're getting into content creation stuff like that it's same like docs group as well it's kind of that accountability yeah definitely is yeah is a huge part so many people just do courses and then don't actually take action on it and it's e doc went on a fairly feisty rant the other day about uh folks not getting active yeah yeah yeah he's he's very passionate about it which i do love because he's uh very genuine i will tell you now i i have never ever had any fear of going live um and i don't understand i mean and i'm a fairly like people don't believe me but i'm i tend to be fairly introverted relatively speaking because like i forced i forced myself as an entrepreneur to like have to be out there and talk to people but if you leave me alone i'll sit on the couch and be by myself i have a terrible age but yeah um and so i do think here's the thing if you go live and you don't have any and it's your first time don't worry no one's going to be there anyway yeah right so there isn't really a reason to worry um and if you need inspiration go look at the first video that you know anyone you think is famous did right and you'll see it's not like you're natural at anything and you know the first time you do i mean it's very rare you're natural at anything right it's the first time you do something but i do i do get it though i mean like the first time i went live the first video on this channel uh was to uh one subscriber which was actually me on another device just so that i could see that it was coming through and nobody was listening so it was a bit a bit weird um but the the first time i actually went live on anything was alive to my facebook page years ago when i was doing stuff in the real investment real estate investment space and so you know i'd got something like i know five thousand four thousand five hundred or something followers on facebook uh that i was i was going live to them and i do remember it being quite a nerve-wracking experience like then i've done a load of um public speaking since then and so what you know speaking on stages and stuff like that but um but the first time that i actually held the phone up to go live i was just like why if i screw it up what if i what if i say something wrong what if it's you know i just i did have all these things going through my head and it's weird right back that it did take me time to actually build up to actually you know it wasn't a case of okay i'm gonna i knew what i was gonna do as well i knew what i was gonna say kind of you know what i had something to talk about but still i was like shall i do it oh i'm not sure oh shall i do it it's weird to sort of think back at that now but i never forget the feeling of it that it was it was nerve-wracking for me to do the first time right right yeah i mean i get it can happen but you know you just gotta you know you just gotta do these things it's that thing of it's it's um it's fear of failure but fear of failure is actually fear of embarrassment so it's like you you're actually worried about what people are going to think about you and then that fear of embarrassment is you're thinking about the worst possible thing that they may think about you uh and so then it's okay so well actually most people don't really think about those most people don't think the worst things that you think about yourself or i think about myself you know i would i would come up with the worst possible thing that somebody could think about me whereas in actual fact most people don't think that and if you screw up most people are just there to help and catch you if you fall sort of thing so it's a sort of shift in mindset and once i got that you know to uh to understand that so what if i screw up first of all people don't care and second of all what they're more likely to do is want to support you and help you than you know feel like ah you've messed it up right right yeah but it did take a little bit uh bit of time to get over that my power's just dropped off there we go i can imagine it i remember justin to me uh justin was in my y-cominator batch uh i'm just uh just looking around because my yeah my power's just gone off i'm glad i've got a ups on my oh look at that finally a real use for ups yeah but my lights are plugged into it as well so uh the only thing that went off was the aircon's gone off but my router router upstairs is still going and the lights are all still on so that's that's good and now the aircon's come back on so definitely a UPS guys if you haven't got one already uh you'll survive it you'll survive it oh hey rich great to see you always always great to see you uh crusty antiques what are you selling i'm not really selling anything i suppose i'm selling a zoom course zoommasterclass.com but i'm not really uh and uh what's your name by the way so that i don't should i call you crusty or mr antiques or mrs antiques used to go live on justin tv yes i remember justin tv yeah uh i know justin uh can we speak more about your property investment stuff i have a property portfolio in the uk as well and so i wanted to see what you're up to with it i'm not really doing anything in uk property anymore what i was doing was um converting looking at converting offices into residential so in the uk uh they've got a um a sort of incentive for developers to convert disused offices into residential because there are a load of disused offices in town centres and things like that um and there are also there is also a housing shortage in the uk because they're not building houses as fast as the population is building more children so we've got a shortage of housing so um uh there's a thing called permitted development and it's permitted development of office to residential so basically you don't need to go through all the planning loopholes and things like that that not loopholes planning uh rigmarole that you have to normally go through and so what i was doing there was basically looking for offices that could be developed into residential and then raising finance to do the development and then selling the the units afterwards to pay back the investors and give them a healthy return and so that's the sort of the model of it but it was through doing all of that real estate investment stuff and that's when i was i was flying back to the uk every month so i'd be there for two weeks here for two weeks there for two weeks here for two weeks and uh yeah it didn't do a lot for my uh sleep patterns um but it was um uh yeah really interesting thing but it was it was actually through that that i got into the the stock trading so someone that i met through the property investment uh world is actually someone who was based here in the in thailand but from the uk as well and then we've become great friends but also business partners in a number of different things and one of those things was in raising finance we were speaking with lots of banks fund managers hedge fund managers people like that and so we got into the world of trading actually through the world of property uh and um and then realized that there's still a lot of headaches that come with property development and you know that's one of the things that i was doing in in thailand as well was actually building houses although that was building other people's assets but you always have problems with construction there is never a project that i've done that hasn't had at least one hiccup but usually more it's just one of those industries and you rely on so many different people as well and so then sort of factor the fact in that this was all going on in the uk and that my you know my family was over here there's lots of issues that you can have with doing projects remotely whereas the thing about stock trading that i really love is the fact that you can do it from anywhere and the you don't have to actually be on site and the other thing is you're only really relying on yourself and your own command of your own discipline really once you get to that point it can still go right and wrong obviously there's still risks associated with it but it's not quite the same as as i found in the the world of construction so i will still have some like longer-term investments in the uk but yet not really actively doing anything there at the moment in that space though chris across the antiques i want to get into trading how can we make a billion dollars um well that's a question isn't it come up with an idea and then act on it and find an idea that is a billion dollar idea although i will say the power of compound compounding i wish i'd understood that a little bit more if you look at warren buffett's net worth from the age of 16 which is when he started trading ill warren and maybe you would you know well there you go there you go yeah as it is he's uh he's going to know how to win friends and influence people there you go um so chris says you can make a billion zimbabwe dollars in that 10 minutes uh yeah it is it is all relevant yeah but the thing about um yeah if you look at warren buffett's net worth that that's sort of that curve that you get the power of compounding is uh is really quite uh quite astonishing the way stuff sort of rapidly accelerates it's it's quite quite amazing and he's just being consistent at what he does as well and the other thing about in terms of trading one thing that warren buffett said as well is about um one lesson that he teaches is about not feeling like you have to trade some people think that they are traders and so then they want to be trading all of the time and then every day what am i going to trade today whereas warren buffett's killer move is basically he can go months without buying anything if there is nothing that is worth uh worth investing in so it's waiting for exactly the right moment to get in and not feeling the pressure to say that like oh i haven't i haven't made an investment or haven't traded anything so uh yeah i'm not really answering your question okay if i knew the the way to make a billion dollars i would uh i would i would be busy working away right now i wouldn't be here right now talking with all due respect abby so long suckers i've got work to do yeah i hate on that that's coming back to this in barway dollars i had a friend in uh in the uk who was actually in property circles as well and he had that i can't remember the exact exact number but it was like a 50 million dollar note or something like that because with the uh they went into hyperinflation and then uh yeah they had they had notes that were like a 50 50 million dollar uh note and things like that it's quite quite astounding not funny but it's funny to see the note the financial situation wasn't funny but that was kind of like um how um uh italy had gotten at one point also oh yeah they did uh they did go um a bit crazy didn't they mm-hmm uh i'll just have a look at the uh this this note because it does look quite funny oh here you go hang on a minute let me get this it's actually uh 100 trillion that's that's that's that's quite different than what i was thinking hang on a minute let me get this up i can't trigger it off the website for some reason there you go there is a uh one trillion dollar the trillion dollar note 100 trillion dollars yeah it's quite uh by my base isn't it pretty pretty amazing oh i've let crusty antiques down they thought i had the answer i'm so sorry he has it he's just not sharing it with us yeah that's it yeah you've got to come on my one a half a billion dollar course to find out the billion dollar question uh that's hilarious i'll be so worthless i had a billion dollars yeah it could be gonna be the downfall of many a person no there's definitely diminishing returns on uh so what was your secret to making 10 million dollars well i just took one my one million dollar inheritance and then i yeah exactly exactly yeah uh yeah Gretchen thinks i think richard find a positive twist to it as well uh i think there'd be a lot of comedy ensuing if you had a billion dollars at your disposal rich your comedy talents i just hate to think the pranks that you could pull with a billion dollars actually now i've come to think about it you could pull off some pretty amazing pranks so what's your what's your plan over christmas greg uh you know we're home you know we did uh the you know all the travel kind of before the christmas break this time so you know i just think we're going to be you know hanging out with the family here uh my in-laws live with me also so we always have like grandparents here yeah so so can't complain but yeah you know uh we're probably gonna end up having to work a bunch anyway just with all the stuff that's going on so yeah yeah i've got to i've got a zoom course to record so i'm gonna be doing a lot of that you will be busy that is for sure so what i was what i was thinking of doing as well was actually recording a full ecamm course as well uh because i'll be doing a lot of ecamm stuff as part of it so then um so then the idea being that for the the the people completely new to zoom uh or the people completely new to ecamm because i'm going to be recommending people use ecamm with zoom obviously because you know i'm super fan of ecamm so one of the things would be then you get like access to the full ecamm course as well i'll obviously be talking about ecamm in the course but uh i thought about um yeah doing a separate complete ecamm course which uh i might be just taking on too much i didn't even thought about maybe i should do that one in kajabi and uh but anyway we'll we'll find out i'll see what i get get that's why i'm really yeah that one yet because uh i think an ecamm course would be good though um yeah yep as a yeah as a sort of standalone thing but uh that's it jackass file crusty antiques what's your name by the thank you i don't i don't want to keep calling you crusty uh and pulp fiction too didn't they make oh no i'm getting confused uh pulp fiction would be i would love to see a pulp fiction too personally yeah uh yeah it will buy you a loaf of bread he could probably buy you almost all of the flower in the world i almost had a pulp fiction is one of my posters behind me oh did you yeah what have you got back there i can't just make that actually uh so let me see if i can uh it might be easier if i give you a different camera but there are movie posters basically um they're kind of like renditions but let's see if you can guess uh where's this can i change my camera in here what's this i should be able to change your camera i'm really crap with movie trivia by the way though my wife seems exactly the same and we will watch a movie and then at some point later on maybe a couple of years later or something we'll say hey this movie looks good let's watch it and we can both watch almost all the way through there was one of these these movies and there was like a a crucial point in the movie that came like an hour and a half into it and we both said that said we've watched this before haven't we but we didn't even right right we're just um you know i've heard that before so don't feel bad i'm not that bad i think my wife and i like we both are big fan of movies so right right um so that that was always a thing that we we could do but so there's four movies i chose them because i wanted to like one two three four yeah sort of characters in them but you might be able to guess one of them that the one with the one person is probably the easiest one uh i can't just see that i can't just make out the person it's a little bit a little bit blur i can't i can't even change my camera so i don't know why i usually oh wait here there's settings here right here we switch to the face cam oh it's uh uh you see now this is the other thing i have not been able to remit it's um i could picture it i just can't remember the name of the movie same maker as port fiction though is it not yeah tarantino yeah yeah um uh i just can't remember what it's called yeah one with the william william is in the name uh kill bill there we go yes i could visualize that movie all right so the one the other one the one next to it is uh a famous duo of people uh this one's a lot harder to see uh yeah not sure it's one of my favorite movies of all time uh it has brad pitonet uh and adnorton i'm forgetting the net you see this is this is me with movies you see my achilles heel the audience has a chance the audience has a chance come on who's it okay let's see most of the people are probably screaming at the yeah right uh well all right it's fight club oh fight club of course yeah it's hard to see because you need to be not quite as fast there you go all right number three is probably a hard one to make out but i will tell you that those are a little red beanie caps is that for the audience this one is very hard i've probably seen it i just can't remember this one is um a little bit harder i honestly it's not one of my favorite movies but i want it was the only one to have three characters so um uh this life aquatic um all right and and then the fourth one is an old movie actually so there's a there's a higher chance some of us will yeah life aquatic rich um the fourth one is a old movie but you can tell from the color maybe you could guess uh the color is in the title the color is in the title yeah it's a very old famous book so it's over to the audience once again it has to do a time has to do a time uh clock clockwork orange oh yeah so there you go that that was your your chance to try yeah uh we can't talk about that chris by the way yeah there you go chris you got you got it um this is the thing i do find i do enjoy watching movies but none of them stick they it's good though because i i do got my money's worth out of them because i'm gonna watch the same one multiple times i'm thinking about getting more movie posters too though because um right so i found another artist that does like these mid-century modern style renditions of things right right so um so i think i'm gonna do like a sci-fi wall of like all the sci-fi movies i like so yeah i love that idea though like they're all movie references but you've kept to like one stylistic style of them rather than just having the movie you know yeah i found i didn't you know but there's so many like um etsy and places like that have tons of these like interesting um like versions of this and so yeah awkward very interesting clockwork orange so i'll tell you a little fact about the clockwork orange it was uh it was filmed at brunel university or a lot of the scenes were filmed at brunel university which is the university that i went to so uh let me just see if i can get a picture of the i think i think it was the computer center thanks chris yeah this is my weird wall over here which i haven't finished yet i have i have like many walls left to finish i think i want to make another set in here or kind of like the other half somehow yeah yeah but i haven't figured all that out because it took me long enough to get this side done so let me just show you this picture because this is um so this is uh this picture here is from what's where did i got it in the wrong place this uh oh that's not the one from the film let me just get the actual picture from the film drag the one in the chin so that picture uh that is brunel university lecture theater wow that is where i had all of my university lectures in that building it was uh yeah brutalist architecture is the this style and all of the um all of the uh architecture in and around brunel there's lots of universe so brunel's named after a famous english engineer by the way is imbarred kingdom brunel what a brilliant name that is um but yeah so it was it was it was filmed there they tried to spruce it up let's have a little look they tried to spruce it up a bit and bring it into the modern age by adding a splash of color which i think is actually ruined the uh the architecture of the whole point is horrible yeah don't just don't just paint some little color on the stairwells and think that oh it's it's suddenly modern it's a classic bit of brutalist architecture yeah that is that is truly horrible yeah um yeah rich i i like that idea i've thought about doing some sound panels because you can order them print like they can basically print onto the script the panel like they can make you custom panels that have actually like art on them yeah that's a cool idea uh yeah the uh you mean the the acoustic panels acoustic panels yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's a that's a great idea i'm gonna i'm gonna build some of those for my studio actually and i was thinking of just they would just be plain but might have given me an idea you can because you can order the like print on canvas kind of thing and then just wrap it around whatever you know um yeah thing that you put together for the sound deadening right yeah yeah uh oh that was another good one 2001 Space Odyssey uh speaking of uh you were saying about having a different area in your um your studio did you see um abroad in uh in japan where he built uh have you you know you know that channel it's a guy in um uh who basically just looks like a a youtube channel all about this guy his name is his surname is broad so it's abroad in japan no i haven't seen him in uh in japan but he built a full-on uh ramen shop in his apartment as a set let me just get this up because it's just amazing uh so he's going to use it for like you know little sections and stuff like that in his videos but he got he went went and added like a proper um uh set builder basically designing my whole set look at this that's cool i'll find the the video actually because yeah it's uh this is the the thumbnail from his video but that that that he's standing there but he made it like a really old school like 80s uh so that's a fake thing that is just in his in his condo it's amazing um but yeah and then he got so it was like the the ramen shop but then there was this little alleyway sort of thing that just looked like a really uh really sort of dirty little back street alley with you know steam coming out of things it's just uh it was just brilliant all right yeah by the way it's time to take away rich's wrench he just he just realized he's close to links yes interesting channel that is i only started watching it recently he's been doing it for for years but it was just somebody else mentioned this video and uh uh so i had a little look at it one second so this is in his apartment it's just crazy like a little uh little sweet shop it's just his apartment like so he has someone come into his apartment and like basically remake it like this yeah he added a professional let me find a bit where he sort of goes from the apartment into the actual thing itself because it just part it's just it's like a set it's a total film set let me just find the bit here we go so this is like he's introducing it so this is part of his apartment as well uh and then you go around the corner and then you are now into this little ramen shop with a little uh little alleyway it's just it's a pretty big apartment no what it is it is yeah it's uh you know it's a i don't know a one or two bedroom condo something like that um but it's just uh just mental you just get this little thing that um it feels like very blade-runnery like yeah i'll just drop the linking because it is it's a pretty hilarious watch to be honest so uh so yeah it just sort of gives you look at that look at the difference there you got the the apartment building there or is it his living room and then yeah straight into this he said they did an amazing job i don't know what is uh his budget for it was but um yeah it's pretty uh pretty spectacular really let me just drop a link to that video in there you go uh yeah so it'd be good to good to be built build out a full on full on movie sets at some point just just right yeah i guess the question is like is it all usable or is it like the uh you know the um yeah it's like actually like you know like a real counter you could sit at you know yeah it is it's a proper like everything in it is authentic and you could yeah it's it's usable in that context but all the stuff were like um uh you know all the signage and stuff like that was original signage from you know that they bought second-hand in antique shops and stuff like that because it's supposed to be kind of more like a an 80s every ramen shop i wouldn't know the difference personally but it's uh yeah they got like little sweet shops and stuff like that in there as well so what you in all 80s uh paraphernalia memorabilia yeah that makes sense that's pretty cool i i mean it's still pretty amazing yeah uh chris has got to go to sleep it's bed time in the UK so thanks for stopping yeah i probably need to head out too but it's always fun chatting it is always fun chatting with you as well and uh let me just quickly see uh they're talking about wrenches in here and uh yes yeah and uh cross the antiques is saying yeah we've got to got to make a bit more money before certainly i can justify spending that much money on a set for my silly little tech channel right yeah yeah of course and he's obviously all about the japanese stuff so having the uh the japanese theme makes it total sense i suppose mine should be the uh the back to the future barn really it's always going about being in the future i love back to the future yeah it's another good one uh actually technically you know one thing i'm not mentioned is do you know that they have a different date system in in thailand as well so the date that the year in thailand is actually 2564 so that's the year that that's in when you write down dates in thailand it's 2564 uh because it's not a christian country uh so it's predominantly buddhist so that's it's related to the the buddhist calendar so this it's still the same months that they they go by but tie dates you know if you look on people's birth certificates and things like that it's got the uh the other the date system so we're i am definitely in the future i'm at least sort of 540 years in the future if i take the tie date you're on uh star trek time that's it yeah all right always pleasure my friends yep thank you for stopping by and i'll uh i'll see you again soon if we don't see we'll talk soon i'm sure an awesome christmas you well everybody all righty see you catch you later great bye and uh oh we're pretty close crusty antiques i'm uh i'm 1978 so uh uh birth that is not current year um but yeah let me just check what the date is it is uh i do i do forget the date in thailand so it's uh it's 2,560 it says 60 i think it's 64 actually what was it 65 i lose track because i don't actually use it that often and i used to use it a lot more when i was um running the business over here uh then i'd i'd run into these sorts of things um but uh yeah i just i do lose track of it because obviously it's not forefront of mind it's 2021 to me as opposed to 2564 but in that context i am also in the future so uh i am i am i just uh i just moisturize regularly 76 cool and uh yeah so i am going to i'm going to wrap it up here as well thanks to greg for stopping by next week i should have more of an update on the course creation process and be able to answer any questions you've got on that as well and uh i do need to today record a few more vlogmas videos i've got to catch up uh yeah it is still they still use the same calendar uh there is a different calendar but yeah for for business they still use a a regular calendar still the same months still the same days and everything like that it's just that the actual year date is not measured from the uh reason we use our 2000 so the birth of christ doesn't necessarily mean a lot for people in um in a country that follows a completely different religion so as i say it's predominantly buddhist in in thailand um and so they yeah they use a different starting date from their point of reference um so so yeah there is that obviously for for most things they still obviously do recognize the 2021 it's just that for all government documents and stuff like that they use the the tie date so there we go right i am going to go and uh it's probably time that i go and start getting a few things from my parents i'm guessing they might be a bit late getting up because they uh probably will be a little bit jet lagged having just arrived yesterday but is it very nice to uh to have them here we've been two years in uh in the waiting for it to come and then once even we knew that thailand was waking opening up uh we weren't really sure if they were actually going to be able to uh to make it or not so i'm just glad they're here in any case that's enough about my yeah my private life i'm glad you could all make it and great to