Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to my channel. If you guys are new and if you are, definitely hit that subscribe button. And if you are already subscribed, make sure your post notifications are turned on so you don't miss any of my videos. Today I'm filming a Princess Polly haul. Thank you so much to Princess Polly for sponsoring this video. As you can probably tell, I got a lot more pieces that are more colorful instead of my basic neutral hauls. So I'm really excited to share these pieces with you guys. I do have a discount code to share with you guys.  I know there are a lot more events coming up so we're already rushes around the corner so if you guys need something in a bind, I feel like Princess Polly's shipping is amazing because they ship from within the United States and you qualify for free express shipping if your order is over $50. Also they offer after pay and shop pay. I actually have two trips coming up. They're actually back to back so I'm not sure if I should vlog them. Comment down below if I should. I'm going to Nola though and I felt like I needed some color in my life for Nola so hence the orange and I got like a green, really pretty dress.  Let's get into the haul and don't forget to use my code. All the links will be in the description with my sizings as well. I feel like with all my Princess Polly hauls I always start with dresses. So we're going to keep that tradition going and I wanted to show you guys this beautiful pink ruffled dress and as you can tell I feel like every haul I've done with them is start off like with neutrals then it would be like one pop of like matcha green and then I got more into color and this one's definitely my most colorful haul. So starting off with, well actually this is more like a neutral pink I guess but it is so cute. It is very flattering. It definitely hugs me but I feel like it hugs me in all the right places. It also has adjustable straps and that is always a win for me. Honestly, I don't even know what I would consider my style. Like I don't know if I'm super girly or super boho or whatever but I feel like if you're super girly this would be the perfect like birthday dress and I'm pretty sure a bunch of these clothes that I'm about to show you guys does come in different colors. So if you guys love this dress and maybe pink is not for you, definitely go check out the links down below because it might come in a different color. And here is a close-up of the dress to see those like really cute like ruffled details. The next one is actually a two-piece set. We got a little green in the haul and I love this little texture we have going on. I always call it like bruxing. I'm not really sure what this material is actually called. Comment down below if you guys know the name. But it is a two-piece set and I'm not really sure if they're supposed to be like overlapping or if like my skin's supposed to show because then like this bunch is up. So I'm not really sure how the style adjusts yet. Even though the green is definitely more on the muted side it still makes me feel really feminine. I bet you guys know what Alabama Rush Talk is and I feel like this is definitely something that they would wear it. Maybe like a little less of this. Maybe, I know you can like adjust this. So you can like tie it a little bit tighter so that there's not much cleavage. But I don't know if you guys know this but I was in a sorority and I was obsessed with Greek life. I literally made so many videos about Greek life. Also comment down below if you guys have been watching me since I was at UCF in Haiti. I'm just vicariously living through these girls in Alabama Rush Talk, pinning out all their outfits, doing their OOT days.  Okay, I'm kind of shook over this dress right now. I actually saw it on this girl named Ray Anne's TikTok literally last night and I knew I had ordered this so I was like so excited to get it. It looks so beautiful, like the color, the cut of it. It just like looks so flattering. I really wanted to wear this to Nola and my only concern was that it was gonna be like too hot and humid. But I feel like the dress is pretty breathable and like the sleeves aren't like right on your skin. Like they're not too tight. So it's not like you would be really sweating through it. It does feel like you can like get a little breeze in it. So I'm definitely gonna pack this and just like feel it out for when I get there. But I'm really hoping I can wear this because it is just so beautiful. We're done with dresses. So now we're gonna get into some bottoms and tops. So we'll start off with this outfit. First, I wanna talk about this top. It is a beautiful blue color and I know we're going into fall, but now I'm trying to like do the whole color thing while I can in the summer. It has this really cool detail right here. You can actually hinge it. And this thing kind of reminds me of what's on like a waist trainer. I don't know if you guys have ever had that, but it's kind of like little hooks instead of buttons. So I thought that was kind of cool. You can put it all the way up or if you wanted to have a little bit more cleavage, you can just unhinge it like that. But I feel like this top reminds me of something Hannah Ann would wear or maybe just like this color, but definitely giving me Hannah Ann vibes. Next we have these amazing denim shorts. I feel like Princess Holly is definitely known for their asymmetrical jeans. I have one in white and one in just like a blue color and I love those jeans. So when I saw the shorts, I had to get them. Unfortunately, they are a little bit snug on me, but I'm currently trying to lose a couple pounds. So I'm honestly going to use these shorts as my motivation. I feel like they're fine for like standing up and stuff and they don't look like they're like cutting off my circulation, but I feel like when I sit down, it's not going to be too comfortable. But I do appreciate how high-waisted these are. I just, I don't know, I cannot get into the low rise again. I just can't. Here's the next top. I actually recently got something similar to this, but I actually had an open back. So I had some trouble like deciding what bra I was going to wear with it. The reason why I got this top is because the back is all covered. So you just need one of those butterfly clips, you know, when you take your bra straps in the back, put them together and like clip them. Cause it's kind of like a razor back around. So probably easier to show you guys. The preppy style is definitely coming back. So I'm loving like anything colored lately. You can never have too many basics in your closet and I thought this top would be perfect for like a transitional piece into fall since it is like that kind of sage green color. I was thinking I could wear this top and then some like high-waisted trousers of some sort. I think that'd be super cute. Things about this top that makes it a little bit more unique is that it does come a little bit lower down the sides, but I'm wearing a regular bra now and it's pretty hidden. So I was kind of surprised about that. I thought I would have to like wear a specialty bra with it. I really do like this top cause I feel like it gives me that model of duty kind of look. If you guys follow me on Instagram, you probably have seen that I'm obsessed with just layering these types of button-down shirts with basic tops like this and just jean shorts or just like high-waisted jeans. It truly is just an effortless look and it's definitely been one of my go-tos recently. I also thought that this top would be a perfect transition piece from summer to fall. Obviously it's like that perfect neutral color that I'm obsessed with and it has these like shoulder pads which gives you a little bit more structure than just a normal shirt. It is kind of like this crop top and it has these little cinchers. What do you call them? I don't even know. But you can like tie them, adjust them, make it shorter if you want. You could like just make it long but I feel like when you wear it long it just looks so boxy. So this is what I've been doing just like kind of rolling it under and making it cropped like that. I totally forgot about these shorts but I wanted to show you guys this full outfit because this is the exact outfit I was wearing to brunch yesterday. I've actually been searching for, I think they're called like pleated shorts. Weirdly during the pandemic I've been so into like this work wear style and so I love like trousers. I love these like pleated shorts kind of things just like definitely more modest than what I used to like before which is interesting. So when I saw these on their site I was like, okay done deal, I have to get them. And then actually I was wearing these shoes yesterday with this full outfit. They have like a crocodile texture and I feel like white heels are so in right now especially like the strappy ones but I wanted to go with something a little bit more simple for my first white heels.  It is actually a dress. I don't know why I said shirt. I think it's actually named something dress. I love the loose fit. I don't know if I would like belt it or anything but I think that's what you could do to like style it if you wanted just like more of a curvy figure but I could also see myself wearing this as a pool cover up or on a boat or a beach. I've been doing that with all my button downs recently just like throwing it over my swimsuit because sometimes you know when you just ate like a sandwich before the pool and you're not feeling so extremely confident about yourself it's kind of nice to just like have something around you but also show off your swimsuit at the same time. I'm actually going to Nashville after I go to NOLA for a bachelorette trip and I think there is a boat day planned which I'm so excited about because you know summer is ending and I just need to get one more boat day in. So I think I'm gonna wear this over my swimsuit. It's just gonna be so cute.  I love it. I'm actually not wearing a bra right now so that makes me feel so good that I can do that and we also have these denim jeans and they're actually like a flare kind of cut.   It definitely has more of a like boxy kind of flair which I really enjoy because I just love that like mom jean vibe. I am really sad because I feel like my settings on my camera is not bringing out like the orange in this top because I have it like a little bit warm in it but it is kind of just like not a highlighter orange but it definitely is like a bright orange. I feel like all bright colors just look so good against my summer tan. I know you guys feel that too. So I'm definitely trying to take advantage of that while I can. So that was a day of this Princess Poly Hall. I'm so excited to style everything and take some Instagram pictures. If you guys aren't already following me on Instagram go ahead and do so. It's so underscored gnarly without the G and just a reminder that all of the links and sizing will be below. So if you saw anything in this video that caught your eye definitely go use my code SNOLI20 to save some money. I'll see y'all in my next video. Bye.


Hi. Welcome to ByteScout. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to analyze OCR for a better quality result with ByteScout PDF extractor SDK using C-Sharp programming language. Let's start. First, you need to add a reference. To add references, right-click references then, click Add Reference. Search and select for ByteScout PDF extractor SDK and system drawing references. Now, for the sample PDF that you're going to use, you need to copy then paste the PDF file inside your project folder. Make sure to change the copy to output directory to copy always. Here's what the sample scanned PDF looks like. Once you're done adding the references and the PDF file, you may now insert your code and run the program. Once the program runs successfully, you'll be able to see all of the OCRs that the program used to get the best result possible. Then, you will be able to see the output file inside the bin folder. That's all for this tutorial. Check out our other tutorials on our YouTube channel. Just search for ByteScout and don't forget to subscribe.


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Eli. Hello. Hey Christian, thanks for having me. Well, thanks for staying up late. A bit of a time difference on your travels now, but for folks that don't know you, who are you, where are you currently and permanently, and what do you do? Yeah, so as we start, thanks for first of all, thanks for having me. My name is Eli coffee. I'm 35 years old and originally I'm from Lebanon, but I work for a company headquarters in Dallas, Texas. It's a company called amp you solution. We focus on technology solution that have the organization and provide the technology that run on their business by simplifying the software implementation and then the solution is a Microsoft partner as well. So, back to me now, I'm a senior solution architect was more than 12 years of professional experience and in depth experience and Azure cloud cloud security messaging and collaboration and infrastructure. So, and currently I'm a new and or actually recently I'm in new MVP for the security category. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. I always like to ask that, like, you know, what was your journey to becoming an MVP like what, what was the path what was the process. How long was it something that you pursued or is it something you just kind of fell into. But actually, if I need to get back into the day when I thought my journey into it. I used to join a company after my graduation, or as a senior system administrator, where I have to deal on the basis was active directly to start to working on active directory went to 2003 or two. I was supporting all the creation user flow and all the group policy. So, from that date, I had the passion about identity. And then after discovering that, and as you know, we're introduced to Azure, the first time. At 2014, because, as you know, historically, I just started to show up in 2008 but was named as a red dog project. I didn't remember that project and by the name of 2014 to windows Azure then in 2015 they name it Microsoft Azure. Where in 2015, they introduced the first time the Azure AD connect. And since I, I was working in the Middle East area and most of the companies was on dealing with their private infrastructure. And the Azure AD connect came and we saw thinking how we're going to sing and move to a hybrid environment using the Azure AD connect by thinking of the identity. And for the my individual names actually started by coincidence. I used to like to when I'm into troubleshooting something during my work. I used to use back home in Microsoft back home. And one day, I was searching for a couple of. Solution related to my work and active directory. And I was scrolling down with all the discussion raised by the tech. And I found out that I know a lot of answers, I could answer. So I decided to create my own profile on the tech community. And here I start grabbing accepted solution, talking with the tax private messages and by discussion. And here I found out, okay, what is the next step now, what I should do. I need to see more about this or just like doing some, some social engineering at my free time. So I just, okay, identity access, what else I need to start dealing with some cloud security, nature and capability. And then I decided to, I decided to do in the defender capability. And all the cloud security, let's say ecosystem that Microsoft provides. So I decided to join the customer connection program where I became that member of a of those private community.  Let them know you and talk computer being like, have a good contribution. Don't miss any survey, don't miss any private feature, don't miss any feedback. It shades every one to one focus meeting with everyone and Microsoft. And that's how it starts. Well, that's a great point because it's, because I think for a lot of people that asked that question like, you know, what is the process becoming MVP and, and there's no that's why I like to ask the the origin story question. Because there are, you know, patterns there that are there. One of them is, you know, anybody can go in and get involved in tech community or any other forums and there's other locations as well. To just start answering questions and sharing and maybe you somebody's already answered the problem but that you have a slightly different perspective you for that's that's related to your industry, for example. But to share regardless of whether a question has been answered or not to join in on the on the discussions. I know that there are stories of MVPs who have kind of fast tracked that process that you went through like years of doing that, where they. And I think that the deciding factor was that somebody from Microsoft just happened to be there at an event, like it is somebody who got fast hacked very quickly they got brought up on stage at a small regional event. But the Microsoft people were there. And so here was somebody who answered a question there and so very quickly got that visibility. If you don't have that benefit. You're right. I mean it's it's building the relationship with the Microsoft personnel find out who the Microsoft people are in your region. Even if you don't have people that are on the product team on the engineering side, like here where I live in Utah, there's a sales office and there's technical people there's engineers and things that are there. But it's predominantly sales people that are out of this regional office. And so you could go get to know those folks as well. That's a great way to to start developing those relationships. To be honest, at my first journey in the MVP, it was very tough for me, because I didn't have anyone mentoring me to know what I'm doing right what I'm doing wrong. Things get easier when I joined the customer connection program where I met a lot of the CCP lead there. And also I met some of the MPP, such as Chris Ford, for example, I became friend friend with him, and he started giving me advises and encouragement do that do that don't do that. And also what I did, I decided to turn on every use case in my word as a blog. You know, so every use case that happened with me because we deal with a lot of companies that are small and mid-sized businesses and those small companies don't know the important of having a cloud data security or any cloud security capabilities for their environment because I always tell my customers that it's good to have the latest technology and messaging and collaboration and the latest innovation of all the apps with Microsoft, but without protecting your data, it's mean. So, yeah, always is good. And also there's there's from a, so I always like to kind of follow up the origins story question with like what are what are your primary contribution types like you talked about taking your use cases converted like creating blogs. That's something that I know it's it's difficult for a lot of people I had to make that change years ago to to I always refer to it those of us in the collaboration social collaboration side call it you're working out loud. It's how do you make your contributions more transparent without be like hey look at me I'm doing all these wonderful things for the community. No, don't don't do that. Yeah. But you want to raise awareness of that. Well, some of it is like you're doing the work with customers in the background. Go and summarize those things share what you can obviously anonymize customer data without permission. You know, don't know, don't name brands. Yeah, but blog about it right about it to share what your experience was, you know whether it was a novel approach something that was unique and knew that you went and created, or it was an implementation of something that's been done a million times out of it share your experience, your learning path. Again, work out loud share share that your your journey on those things and that that content is valuable. It could reach people that in your industry with similar background or in your region or wherever that like your voice like your tone. If I start communicating with you you're you're going to help an individual. There's value there. You know all we have to do is help one person. It's, you know the values there. Yeah, actually, um, I believe to be a great MVP. We follow what we say sharing this game so it's all was a good thing to share, even a use case with your client converted to a generic use case and posted whether on the tech community, let the people that suffer on their daily basis finding solution to their problem. That would be the one that would solve their their day or their weeks.  I also, for sure, I don't miss any private preview in the customer connection program because I'm the I'm ranked second on the M 365 defender community. And also I'm a rock star and the entra community as well. And for those that's a title folks he's not just calling himself a rock star so. Yeah, it's a title given by Microsoft. I'm not giving myself actually MVP for me is not a title and it's not about equal for sure. And not like putting badge on your shoulder. It's a passion of what I'm doing and what I love to do. And when people got MVP they believe that they want to sit back and relax and that's it that the end of story. Now I would say it's just the beginning of more contribution and more responsibility towards your community. To keep helping people. Well, and there are, and for folks that don't understand that too it's that it's a, it is an award, given for the previous years contributions. And there are people that, you know, jobs change, passions change and, and so they just kind of drop out and and so again leave the community they don't get renewed as an MVP. But you're right, the majority MVPs once they receive the that award, and there are perks we get, you know, deeper connections with closer connections with the product teams with the marketing teams inside Microsoft. We get NDA previews of things we get to see the roadmap we have to provide our feedback into that I mean there are huge benefits to being in the program. And that generally inspires MVPs to do more, which makes it tougher for new MVPs to come in. Yeah, not that I don't think there's a, like, I don't believe that there's a fixed number of like Microsoft says no we have enough MVPs therefore someone has to leave to come in, it kind of ebbs and flows like the total number of MVPs. I think we're around somewhere in the 3500 to 4000 globally across all the different areas. So there's plenty of room for new people coming in. But that is something that you need to look at, like what are the other MVPs doing, I need to at least be on that level to be considered. So I always say that, you know, obviously it's the quality of the contributions, but there's something to be said about volume of contributions as well. I don't know what the right number is. Yeah, there's no fixed number. I don't think so even on a, like, from the CCP itself, like, go go and test private preview each day and filling survey, and it's all count as a contribution, but dealing with your job and the Microsoft private community at the same time if require a lot of effort. And because you need to provide a valuable feedback to make the Microsoft product well known, and also which month, which more important is to let the Microsoft product knows you and trust you being an MVP. It's not something unachievable. And it's not easy. You need to work hard. That's how I believe. Yeah, I think you're right because it's a lot of a lot of the calls. I mean, there's so many different calls that we could participate in the NDA calls that I just I can't my job. I'm, you know, I'm on the board of another company. I advise a couple other startups. Like, I've got meetings standing meetings that overlap every month, the regular calls but what I do is I try to go back and watch the recordings. And I'm the other thing that I do is when there are other when product team members reach out, like you say with with surveys or if they're looking for help for guidance and something people that have experiences if I if anything overlaps. I respond to all of those things. I think I have more interaction with Microsoft personnel that are not part of those scheduled monthly calls and each of the different categories that I do inside those those meetings. So, yeah, it's you need to find that balance but I think it comes back to kind of what you said it's it's, you know, surfacing those right things finding what you're passionate about. And I always, and so actually with those I don't know if you're aware of this Eli but so Sharon and weaver and I, we started up last fall we actually run a mentoring group for people that are interested in becoming MVPs. We've now had two people within our cohort that have become MVPs. So if anybody out there if you're interested if you're thinking you're doing enough in the community, you'd like to participate we're doing a monthly call. It's the first Tuesday or Wednesday I think it's Wednesday of each month. Morning, you know, in the US. So, you know, might have to adjust your time accordingly, but you know just you can reach out to me on LinkedIn or out on Twitter or something. But yeah, I mean that that what we talked about is building healthy habits. Yeah, if you're in there doing blogging about use cases sharing out loud your experiences and you don't enjoy that process, then being an MVP is probably not for you. Yeah, definitely and it's required based on my experience or so it requires the support of the people around you, like your family, your family because I'm a married person require, because you need to have a quick education, sitting on your desk doing a lot of testing, searching, and also it require also the support of your colleagues. And I believe I'm a lucky person because my president at the solution. Joe Halaf is an ex Microsoft employee for 25 years. So he knows what is MVP.  Yeah, it's about, I believe it's about dedication and set a goal and work hard to meet that goal. It's not only about the title to be an MVP it's on it's a payoff. And for sure Microsoft will give you a lot of exposure. So I advise all the people that want to become MVP whether to contact you because having like a mentor during the journey. It's absolutely a great way to make the road more easier. Because getting an MVP alone is tough, you know, you need the mentor. Well, plus now you do need to have an existing MVP or a Microsoft employee has to submit your name for consideration for it as well. So developing those relationships are key so I mean that's why I would say there's a an MVP nights not just getting to know the Microsoft people within your region within your town, but also go and look and see if there are any MVP's if you're not aware, if you go to MVP.microsoft.com, you can search by region by category, you can find people that are around you, reach out and develop relationships with those MVP's we all MVP's love connecting with people and building our networks. So if you come and express to us, you know your interests and get to know us then that's something that we can definitely talk to you about and help you along that path as well. Yeah, definitely. I'm always good to stay humble after getting an MVP. Yes. Well, that's an interesting topic we could talk about for a while but yes I agree. Yeah, it has I actually have a sticker that I created based on some not so humble MVP's and and community people where it's a it's a big joke where I have a sticker that's a meme and has it's like, don't you know who I am. And you think you know that well actually there's a story behind that but somebody actually was at an event didn't get a somebody who had always spoken at this event and but didn't get one of his abstracts accepted so it was not a speaker and he was angry at that he didn't get accepted for this free community focused event because he submitted one topic and they already had that topic covered. He didn't submit any other abstract so they rejected him. And he was just angry and uttered those words don't you know who I am. And I just thought it was the just kind of that peak of, you know, a vanity of the roles is like hey you need to have humility like we're we're we're just individuals we're doing our best, you know, the creators of that event the organizer that that event did their best to to pull together an event that made sense for everybody there, but I don't get angry, I don't get upset if I don't get selected I look at it every time when my session gets a session gets selected. I'm honored that it that did that I'm glad that it fits in that I could add value to that event. Yeah, and I'm just happy to be there. Yeah, that's correct for me also for example being an MVP and the security. That's good. Doesn't mean that I know everything in the security, we are learning every day we are learning something every day every second. So, yeah. Yeah, but no, I would completely agree. I don't know everything. I might know somebody that knows the answer I'm, I'm pretty good at connecting people to others that's that's another benefit with having a relationship with the with the MVP. Exactly. And people will accept your what they're only in or people when they thought that you are MVP. They will be aware of you, you know, and that will reply to you directly because you're holding that title. Yeah, that's good. Well, I really appreciate your time and getting to know you today for folks that want to connect with you reach out and find you where are you most active in social. I'm most active on LinkedIn on my page. I post all my blog and post there and also on Twitter as well. Excellent. We'll have the links out on the blog posted on YouTube and appreciate your time. Thanks for having me and I appreciate all the hard work that you are doing. And that's great.


This is a true story, like all my stories. I wrote it in 1995. As you can see, nothing has changed since then. It is about the meeting, a meeting between a narcissist and an ostensible alleged terrorist on a crowded bus. Be sure to visit the short fiction playlists, where there are many additional short stories, poems and film reviews. And here is what has happened, really, honestly, so many years ago. Stay tuned. I must catch the city-bound bus. I have to change at the central station and travel a short distance, just a few minutes, to jail. The prison walls to the left will shimmer muddy yellow. Barbed wire fence enclosing empty watchtowers, the drizzle-induced swamp, a collage of virile footsteps. I'm afraid to cross its ambiguous solidity, the shallow-looking depths. After that, I have to purge my tattered sneakers with branches and stones wrenched out of the mucky soil around our barracks. But there's still way to go. I mount the bus. I sit near a disheveled and shaven man. His abraded pair of horn-ringed glasses is adjoined to his prominent nose with a brown adhesive. He reeks of stale sweat, and he keeps pondering the clouded surface of his crumbling watch. His pinky sports a rectangular engraved ring of golden imitation. The bus exudes the steamy vapors of a mobile rainforest. People cram into the passages, dragging nylon-robed shopping bags, shrieking children, and their own perspiring carcasses. Their armpits and groins are stark, dark discolorations. I look around and all sports are taken. Their occupants press claret noses onto the grimy windows and rhythmically wipe the resulting condensation. They explicitly ignore the crowd and the centering expectant stares of older passengers and pregnant women. As the interminable road unwinds, they restlessly realign their bodies, attuned to both seats and neighbors. Our driver deftly skirts the terminal's piers and ramps. Between two rows of houses shrouded in grimy washing, he hastens towards the freeway. He turns the radio volume up and speakers inundate us with tunes from the Levant. Some travelers squirm but no one asks him, asks him to turn it down. It is time for the hourly news edition soon. Thoughts wander, gazes introspectively inverted. Next stretch to glimpse the passing views. The broadcast screeches to a sickening but familiar halt. Faint cries, the doppler wail of sirens, air surgically hacked by chopper rotor blades. The voices of authorities grating with shock and panic. The disembodied speech of splattering witnesses. On-site reporters, at a loss for words, record mere moulds and kins. It is an orgy of smoking flesh. The breaking news has cast us all in moulds of frozen dread and grief. Here, a burly finger poking nose. There, a basket petrified in mid-air, whole. My neighbor absentmindedly rotates his hefty ring. The announcer warns of imminent terrorist attacks on public transport. He recommends, he recommends, to err on the side of caution and to exhaustively inspect fellow commuters. Trust no one exhorts a representative of the law. Be on alert, examine suspect objects, call on your driver if you are in doubt. Pay heed to dubious characters and to odd behaviors. Our bus is trapped in a honking row of row of cars under a seething sun. The baking asphalt mirrors. An anxious not to be delayed. The wardens warned us, never be late. Make no excuses. Even if God himself comes down, you prisoners be back on time here. Late comers lose all privileges and are removed to maximum security in Bershiba. I debate the fine points with myself. Is mass slaughter ample reason for being tardy or merely an excuse? No force is more majeure than prison guards. I smile at that detention plexus slackens somewhat. And here's a fibrile thought. Jailers are ultra right-wing and rabid nationalists. Terrorism must never be allowed to interfere with the mundane, they say. And I rehearse in hopeful genoflection.  After all, I was held up by Arab assassins who slaughtered Jews. I hope this will convince them. The legalistic side, they're big on legalese in penal institutions. So the legalistic side is this. How can I prove my whereabouts on this bus throughout the carnage? Think alibi. The inmate always shows that he has complied. The warden always assumes that he is being conned. But even the warden must prove it somehow. A stalking game with predators and prey, but ever-shifting roles. I rise from my seat, prying my neighbor loose from contemplation. He eyes me, wicked. I pass a soiled boot above his clustered knees and place it gingerly between two bursting bags. Mustachioid women wipe milky exudation from upper lips with blotted synthetic handkerchiefs. They address me in a foreign, gravelling language. They use elephant-elephantine venus legs to push aside their luggage, a gesture of goodwill more than a decongesting measure. I feel the clammy, throbbing breathing of another on my trousers. Thrusting my other leg, I straddle the passage, two verculian pillars, a sea of mediterranean groceries between my colors. Tow by hill, I get nearer to the stuporous driver, a human ripple in my wake. I'm a prisoner. I inform his beefy neck. His muscles tense, but he does not respond, nor does he turn to scrutinize me. I'm an inmate, I repeat. Can you please confirm in writing in this diary, I pointed a grey notepad that I'm holding. Can you please confirm that I was on your bus, that I've been on your bus at this hour? I have no pen, I add. He casts a sideways glance at me, monitoring the hopeless traffic jam from the corner of his bloodshot eye, and then emphatically, emphatically he says.  What could you have done?  Right behind him, there's a woman past her prime, face coated, breasts nestled in a pinpointed bra. The driver cannot keep his eyes off this breast. She, on her part, seems to be fixated on his tensile musculature. They both start at the sound of my voice. Banks. Banks, the driver mirthfully slaps his bulging thighs, and the woman chuckles, throttily, lips peeled to reveal pink-tainted teeth. Come over here, unsign it. In one untrammeled motion, he removes a hearsuit hand from the oversized steering wheel, takes hold of my jotter, and opens it. Off goes his second hand. He scribbles laboriously, tongue perched on fleshy lips, ending with a flourishing signature. People are murmuring throughout the bus. My answer is equivocal. It could imply armed robbery, or fraud, or counterfeit. I may be violent, they don't know. The innocent-looking are the really dangerous, they tell themselves. I may even be an Arab, impossible to tell them apart nowadays. A web of mutters spins from crimson lips to hairy ears. Banks, banks, banks, from crump, strewn mouths to avid oracles. I return to my seat, retracting my erstwhile progress, facing the Hydra. With a pad in my back pocket, I am calmer. At the edge of my awareness, a shrill, self-righteous female voice. Get out now, or I'm calling the police. I open my eyes, trying to pinpoint the mayhem. Somewhat behind me, the altercation draws closer, a portly woman pushing aside, strap-holding passengers. She is preceded by a far younger female, scrambling, expression-hunted, to flee the bully. She passes me by, her coarse contours defaced by agony, quizzing through luscious lips, one hand supporting heavy bust, the other clutching the sheaf of papers, densely written in calligraphic Arabic. Driver, the Mobak slaves. There is an Arab on board. Go down.  A woman screams, and then another. Maybe she's dangerous. Did you frisk her when she boarded? The driver negotiates the dense circulation, maneuvering among a fleet of barely visible compacts. The noise distracts him. Without breaking, he turns around and enquires, what is it? What's the matter? There's an Arab woman here. One passenger volunteers to edify him. She is aboard the bus and may have explosives strapped around her waist.  She may be lethal, another one advises. I'm not forcing anybody down. We spade the ticket, snaps the driver, and reverts to the hazy windshield. A stunned silence. They thought the driver was one of them. He doesn't appear to be a bisnick. Someone latches on to the frontal-pained partition and expostulates. It's not reasonable your decision. Today you never know. Even their women are into killing. I saw it with my own eyes in Lebanon. They explode themselves like nothing. Not a problem at all. The woman who spotted the ostensible terrorist now badgers the driver. Give me your details. I'm going to have a chat with your supervisors. You can forget about this cozy job of yours. The Arab stands mute, vigilantly monitoring the commotion. A passenger tilts and hisses in her ear. Child murder. She recoils from the gathering nightmare, and bellows addressing the jam-packed bus. I'm a nurse. I tend to the sick and frail all day long, both ours and yours. Every day there's a flood of casualties.  She poses, why do you treat me this way? Her Hebrew is rocky, but sufficient to provoke a heated debate with supporters and detractors alike. What do you want with this woman? She's just an innocent commuter. Look at yourselves. You should be ashamed. Others are genuinely scared. I can see it on their faces.  She may well be a terrorist. Who knows? It is too late to smother this bargaining conflagration. My neighbor exchanges heavy accented verbal blows with someone behind us.  The driver pretending to ignore us, heads slanted, listens in, and steals appreciative glances at his voluptuous foreigner. To garner his further admiration, she plunges into the dispute, a brimstone diva with words of fire. Some passengers begin to push the Arab and shove her with innocuous gestures of their sweaty palms. They endeavor to avoid her startled gaze. And she tries again. She says, what kind of people are you? I'm a medical nurse, I'm telling you. So what if I'm an Arab? Is this automatic proof that I'm a terrorist? My neighbor suddenly addresses me. You've got nothing to say. To my mind, if she were a terrorist, I say, she would have blown us all to kingdom come by now. I let the impact of this same reminder settle. The bus, this bus is bursting. The driver skipped a few stations on the way, I remind her. She is smack amidst us. She has no bags. She could have detonated herself and demolished us by now. My neighbor slaps his thighs with furry hands, a sign of pleasure. I'm on his side. Some voices growl, encouraging me to proceed. Let him continue. Go on. But I have got nothing more to add in a gross silence. The Arab scrutinizes me doubtfully, not sure if she understood me correctly.  And who might you be to tell us off, if I may, scoffs the woman who started it all? Her voice is screaming hoarse, her face aflame with stripes of lipsticks smeared and makeup oozing. Three golden bracelets clang the rhythm of her scornful question. He's a prisoner, announces that drivers would be flusy. She eyes both me and her desired conquest triumphantly. The driver studies her in his overhead mirror, then gives a haunted look. Control is lost and he knows it. An inmate shrieks the agitator for all the bust to hear. The perfect couple, a felon and a terrorist. Perhaps you're an Arab too? I am not an Arab, I respond calmly. They are too well-mannered for the likes of me and you.  Salva bitch, maniac, look who is talking. She leans towards me and scratches my face with broken patchily varnished nails.  My neighbor half rises from our common seat, grabs her extended arm and affixes it firmly behind her back. She screams to her downfounded audience. They are together in it, this entire group and they are a menace. Drivers stop this instant. I want the police. I want it now. I do not react. It was foolish of me to have partaken in this tiff in the first place. Prisoners involved in incidents of public unrest end up spending a week or more in the nearest squalene detention center away from the relative safety of the penitentiary. Anything can happen in these infernos of perspiring drug-addicted flesh, those killing fields of hemorrhaging syringes, those purgatories of squeals and wimpers and shaking of the bars draped tight in sooty air. Anything can happen to me there. I spent a month in these conditions and I was about to return. I felt convinced that I'm on my way there now that I've interfered and intervened. The driver breaks the bus, rises and gestures to the Arab helplessly. She tries to extricate herself by moving towards his cubicle. Some women mesh their hands, trapping her flapping arms, flailing about her cheeks lattices of translucent rivulets. Her fear is audible in shallow exhalations. But her captors persevere. They clench her scarf and the trimmings of her coat and they twist them around the Arab's breathless neck. The driver disembarks through the pneumatically saturating doors. He walks the gravel path adjacent to the highway, desperately trying to wave down a passing car. Someone finally stops and they have a hushed exchange through the barricaded window. The hatchback cruises away. The driver hesitates, his eyes glued to the receding vehicle. He contemplates the hostile bus with dread and climbs aboard. He sinks into his seat and his eyes. A patrol car arrives a few minutes later in disgorges to policemen. One elderly, stout and stilted, his face a venus spasm. He keeps feeling the warm butt of his undersized revolver. The other cop does the talking. He slide a youth in camouflage. Penumbral moustache, anorectic, sinewy, hands his eyes an unadulterated scion. He swells his chest and draws back his bony shoulders attempting to conceal his meagerness. What's going on here? His voice a shocking bus. We are silenced by the contrast between his body and his voice. The instigator of the turmoil clears a path and fingers his oversized tunic as she volunteers.  Twaddle roars my neighbor.   He points at me. And that one over there, he singles the Arab out with a nail-bitten pinky. Her only sin is that she is an Arab, a nurse or something. A fellow traveler paid a ticket like all of us. The driver nods his assent. I'm telling you this theory helps but the officer is terse. Continue behaving like this lady and it is you I will arrest for disturbing the peace. Another mock cup she slurs but her voice is hushed and hesitant. Perhaps even insulting a police officer on duty. The policeman hints and she is instantly pacified, retreating, crab-like, eyes downcast towards her shopping. Who is the prisoner? The veteran cup inquires. His paw atop his gun caressing it incessantly. I raise my hand. You're coming with us. The rest, continue to your destinations. You too, he addresses the R. His civility offensively overstated. I want no problems here. The policeman warns. It's Friday. The sabbath is upon us. Go home in peace. The police has more important things to do than to resolve your petty squabbles. Extracted from my window seat, their fingers vise-like, under both my armpits. The policeman half-drag me across my neighbor's knees, strewing all over him the contents of his plastic bag, in which I keep my wallet and the weekend papers, my plastic bag, and it hurts. We are light and the young one taps the folding exit doors. The bus drones its way into the snaring traffic jam. I watch its back as it recedes.  I stumble towards the waiting squad car. They unlock the rear and gesture me to enter. They push me from behind and bolt the door. The gory rays of a setting sun dissect the murk inside. I see the officers' backs and necks as they occupy the front seats beyond the mesh partition. One of them half turns and speaks a snarl.  Only then, my eyes having adjusted, I notice the others in the stifling cabin that I inhabit. They rattle their manacles and they smile at me wolfishly, a toothy operation. Where are you from, handsome? One asks and moves to flank me. His meat is motionless on my knee, and he has an Arab accent.


Building proper rapport to do it right, you cannot focus on yourself. What is the difference in that inauthenticity when now I'm starting to realize, okay, in order for me to build rapport, I gotta be evoking these feelings and you getting oxytocin released so you feel good about me. But I run the risk of being inauthentic and coming across as fake and saying, oh, I'm a smoker or I like this sports team when I really don't. You have to do active listening. Oftentimes we're thinking, what am I gonna say next? And then I'm not listening to what you just asked. I'm thinking about my next words and now I may say something that completely is nowhere near what you were asking. Active listening means, I'm not even worried about the next words I'm gonna say. I'm listening to you. I'm acknowledging that I'm hearing you and now I want to respond to what you are saying. Even if that means, hey, Jake, give me a minute to think about that. Now, some people don't wanna do that. It makes me look dumb, but that's better than not thinking, not listening to you, thinking about what I'm gonna say and then ignoring half of your question because I didn't really listen to it.


It's September the 30th. It's Wednesday. It's 11 o'clock. That can be only one thing. It's Trump week I'm Tim Apachele your host and the title of today's show is Who do you owe? $420 million to Tell us please But before we get into the discussion about Donald Trump's tax returns I've got to talk about the debate or the so-called debate because it wasn't a debate It was a route. It was a disgusting portrayal of the Delegation of the electoral process that we've been following since 1960 since the nicks and kennedy debates Uh, our debating has been a a strong rich history of this united states And how we select a president to hear their views their policies and how they would run the country And what we got yesterday was nothing but an obtrusive rant From the president united states whose sole mission was to derail This debate to make sure it didn't occur because donald trump didn't have one response one answer to To any of the hour and a half plan questions So in order to address the questions that he could could not answer He wanted to derail it and he was successful That was one of the purposes i believe um that donald trump had in mind And then other the other purpose was to telegraph very clearly to the american public That he does not intend to accept the election results He does not intend to accept the ballots as valid And i guarantee you what he's going to do is say on election night I am the winner and any any votes beyond election night will be discounted fought disputed And he even so much said that the courts will decide the determination of the election so Donald trump had an agenda It just didn't look like to the american public that he had an agenda He flailed wildly in the air with insults and rants and interruptions And some of them made their mark and some of them most of them didn't So Let's talk about this. I want to welcome our guests today Today we have jay fidel Stephanie dalton winston welch and synthia lice and claire. Good morning everybody. Welcome morning, jim Good morning jay straight to you This debate the so-called debate i've been watching debate since i was 10 years old Really since 1968 and i've never seen a more disgusting portrayal of of an a president Trying to participate in our democratic electoral electoral process, which is debates Your thoughts and observations from last night's debacle Well, let me let me spring forward on a point you made a minute ago. It was brilliant on trump's part brilliant You know people came away with that was uh, you know one fellow was out of control and while the other fellow was Trying to be a nice guy and talk to the people that doesn't change any votes We already know that There was no as the time said there was no information no new information Um, you know that was a value there what the spectacular was was that he was displacing any civilized conversation There was no civilized conversation Now what's what's brilliant about that? He's he's got a lot of things to apologize for He's got a lot of questions to answer He he he has not defended not defended his His his finances as revealed by the new york times and revealed the second time yesterday They are after him with that Also, you know, although he's saying he's not going to not going to respect the vote He's got all kinds of things working to mess up the the process mess it up before Election day and after election day. He's busy with that And I don't think he wanted to get into the details. Those are the things that happened behind his back You know, for example, yesterday there was a story about the cdc and how he manipulated the cdc to the point where redfield is threatening to resign Over cruise ships, you know terrible terrible business behind his back. He doesn't want that coming out He wants to distract us all and indeed. Isn't it clear? He totally distracted us well Jay isn't a distraction to say that um A refusal to renounce any white supremacist groups be Be it the boogaloo boys or the proud boys or whatever whatever group we want to we want to call them The distraction for him to commit to um have them at the radio and have his supporters Go to the polls on election day and monitor polls to make sure that the ballots are not being messed with Didn't he basically commit to voter intimidation by sending his loyal supporters out there to the polls And what what kind of monitoring could they possibly perform? They're not trained to monitor What is their role that he is he's engaged them into and energize them to to get out there on an election day And and basically disrupt the electoral process not help it also brilliant also brilliant But is that a distraction or is that a distraction or is that a promise?  Um, so that was you know, that was um a direct Instruction to a lot of his base to go and do that. So no, I agree with you. That's that's not a distraction That's an instruction and and I think it will happen Aren't there election laws? I mean if the average joe basically went out out into the streets or on a you know megaphone or on Some social media broadcast and tried to incite a disruption the electoral voting process Wouldn't that person be have a visit from some law enforcement agency? And say you uh, you're not allowed to do that um, well the answer is uh, it is It is just to stand there Is to achieve his result just to be there just to be looking like a skin a skinhead is enough And they'll be there and they'll have that effect as to whether a police officer is going to come and stop them I don't think so You know whether the police officer instructed to do that or inclined to do that is another question, but Who's going to do it? You want to make a citizen's arrest him? Maybe I should send my wife and family. Maybe I should send my puppy And they should make citizen's arrest of people who interfere with voting by standing around with assault rifles I think it's going to happen. I don't think anybody's going to stop them And I think it will have the intended effect. So it's a huge part of his agenda going forward and he achieved that Yeah, I agree. Hey, Stephanie. Um again what I heard was a commitment to Uh disrupt the electoral process on election day What I heard Donald Trump say is that all Basically most ballots are going to be considered fraudulent and they'll be disputed What I heard Donald Trump say is uh to the proud boys as a white supremacist group to stand back and stand by That was a very clear instruction even though today He once again like he did with david duke denied who the proud boys were he didn't he said he didn't know Who that group was uh another bold face lie that donald trump is exposed to all of us Is there anything to be done about this in your opinion? Is there any proactive thing that democrats can do law enforcement agencies can do to head off at the pass a disruption on election night? Well, I think uh, you're so right and it's so alarming However, again, there are some things that can be done not that are indirectly hopefully influential But for one thing Why am I not hearing that every state that has a delay on counting ballots until election day? Why am I not hearing that they're starting at 1201 a.m So i'm not hearing that from all of those states. So they should have hordes of people in there Counting those ballots the minute that clock strikes so that they've got you know another six eight hours Before the work day actually begins giving us a little bit of a perhaps a chance to get something done by That night by what is it 12 hours later? So i'm so disturbed by that that um, it's obviously making me nervous here, but the other point is that as far as going forward with these discussions um In my opinion, and I didn't have a stopwatch But trump had at least one third more time Because he always came back after and and stump, you know went in over Joe biden's sentences and started in on his rant and chris wallis did not stop him And that's when I was screaming at chris on my tv like stop him. He's out of line So it was at least a third, you know a half of the time In addition, he got half of joe biden. No, he he he did that on purpose and he knew that No one was going to really effectively shut him up So he continued to rant and interrupt and talk over so that joe biden could not get his points out Make a point. He could not be coherent with this truck coming through his uh his Expression so so I mean those are I'm suggesting kind of like Not a huge bit too big too little procedures that ought to be in place that would yield a lot of time and perhaps uh product and effect I mean, I'm so concerned about the ballots being low And they will be low if they don't count start counting them until 8 p.m They won't get a hundred counted by midnight. So, um, this this is a factor That needs to be addressed and then of course, we'll see what the committee does for Re-establishing the rules of the next So-called debate, but I believe it is a It is a town hall and the next actual debate will become a lot and the vice president And so that should be more in line with the position Okay, thank you very much. Stephanie say winston, um, what What were the highlights or the the bright points for joe biden last evening? You know that whole The whole thing was the debacle. I I felt I felt sorry for all of us as americans But I also felt sorry that that this man who's spent his whole life in public service Had to be degraded by being on the stage with this Uh This this bolly Um dictator wannabe it was it was degrading for joe biden to have to be up there and be harassed and harangued and That degraded like he was this was not a An act a debate in any sense. This was this was one man bollying Interrupting cutting off 125 times. I think it's what one organization counted and it was It if that doesn't provide the scariest example of If people vote for this man in any way or allow him to proceed, that's what we're That's the best behavior. We're going to get out of it So that's him being on his best behavior on a stage trying to make a case for another four years Yeah, it was appalling and if if you're joe biden's campaign team and they've already agreed to Have uh other debates with john o trump, which I don't think they should have committed to that But if you are on their campaign team and you're now going to be committed to the next debate What what stipulations would you recommend that joe biden or what ground rules should the the moderator or The entire structure the environmental structure of the debate. What what what would that look like? What what form should that take so that we don't have another disgusting portrayal of what we call democracy and have it completely sabotaged by a Ranting and raving president I don't think he should do another debate. What's it's not a debate. What's the point of that?  Yeah, I agree, but they committed to it So it's going to happen then they have timers That that literally go off that are very strict and that and microphones that shut off and literally You don't get to talk unless there's a little red light on your days that allows you to talk But I think that rachel maddow had it right that that donald trump just destroyed another american institution as we understand it But after he goes Let's come back in four years and see Uh, how this is but you know, I there were so many falsehoods And and just childless behavior was it was hard to To wrap your head around at the end of it. You just wanted to to take a bath and And can I answer a little more on that question? What what can they do? What can the commission do now? Uh, of course the microphone issue that's been discussed around the block and that that should happen And everybody should agree to that including trump and then he has to he has to actually abide by it But there's something else that just strikes me from our experience here at think tech Why do they have to be in the same room? Why can't they be in different places? Why can't they be on kind of a version of zoom? 60 minutes had an interview with david attenborough last sunday and they had him in In the uk and the interviewer was in the us and it looked like they were in the same room But in fact they were using zoom and doing it really well And and I think that could happen here too And of course they could shut the sound off on one side of the other And you know that whole intimidation feature winston was talking about it before Using your hands and hypnotizing people and all that gesticulation that trump does That could be you know minimized So and and biden has agreed okay, but biden could also say How about doing this on remote that would be a good solution and he would be much better protected So just it jay. I think it's a great idea. Yeah. Yeah, because I I think What he's done in one single night is really turn off the american public from watching future debates And I think he he successfully has again sabotaged an institution an american tradition of listening to two candidates One president one one would be president to debate the issues that they want to see the voters consider and he's sabotaged that beautifully And I I don't know anyone who's looking forward to the next debate. I'm certainly not and I I love watching debates So, uh, I think donald trump Although he didn't win the night. He won the night Um, I'm sorry, but um, are you all looking at fox? That's not what they think. That's not what they're saying Totally completely in contrast to that. So you see how I can still jump in so I need somebody handling my mind I'm gonna turn your microphone off right now. No, um, hey, synth. Excuse me. Cynthia What what were joe biden's uh bright moments last evening when he finally got a chance to Articulate some of his positions and and some of his response to donald trump Did you see any bright bright spots there for joe biden? I loved it when he made eye contact with the camera Consistently throughout. I thought that was a really strong position for him He didn't get a chance to really make. How did he do on covet? How did he do? I'm painting donald trump as responsible For uh covet and the you know the horrific 205,000 american deaths we now have did he hit any um any points there? I don't think so. I was not impressed by how much there's so many things he could have said And and he did well partly because he didn't get a chance to And and kept getting thrown off But I think there's just a whole lot more that he could have said about the way Trump dropped the ball the way he went about Being exactly the opposite of what he told bob woodward and he didn't do that And so little things like you know, he tried to blame him for all 200 000 deaths He can't do that really it's a virus, but you can You know hold him responsible for the deaths that happen Because of his inaction Specifically all of the medical personnel and he sort of started to go that way, but then he was cut off by trump. So Really for me the only one was when he looked in the camera and he said don't listen to this guy He you know Don't fall for the lies that he's telling you You have a chance to make a difference get out and vote I was as you know me hashtag paper ballots Was completely just so mad about every pundit since every pundit before I mean preparing for it and the afterwards all nobody's talking about paper ballots So every single person that goes into vote in person electronically might as well just not go because we know That he's got access to the tabulation software. So we know we can't trust what okay, so okay After the debate the instant polls start rolling in and as far as who was declared a winner I believe some of these now this was cnn, but there was other polls Clearly showed joe biden at a 60 percentile and donald trump somewhere between 28 to 30 percentile as far as You know who who really won the day on that that debate Um, does that matter anymore? Well, unless you listen to fox like stephanie said and and same thing Not just because I listened to fox for a while to see what they were saying and they were just praising trump all over the place So all of the trump people That okay, so we're talking spin rooms. We're talking about in the spin room then and then on um on all of like msnbc today and cnn both I saw them interviewing Uh both some you know trump officials from his campaign Some uh some other you know republicans and everybody at 201 and they did the exact same thing that trump did At the at the debate was just talk over the you know, that's that's usually that's usually the case after a debate Everyone gets they call it the spin room, of course um, so you see that all right, I gotta i'm gonna change subjects here because um j Finally after four plus years, we finally get the nature and the truth about donald trump's taxes Uh, the new york time just come out with their their their report on what his taxes look like and to no one's surprise 10 out of 15 years donald trump paid zero taxes and for the years 2016 and 2017 He paid a whopping seven hundred and fifty dollars um to no surprise But um, he he basically has destroyed the narrative that he was such a great businessman But these tax returns reveal that it wasn't his businesses that um Was making them all his money. In fact, it's just the opposite the businesses were creating huge losses Would save the day for donald trump was his time and paychecks on the apprentice Uh, given the tax story from the new york times any revelations come to you um to your mind on that Yeah, the the apprentice defines him. He's still doing it. That's the most successful part of his life All other things have been a failure But what I what you know in a minute or two, let me tell you what i'm greatly concerned about Uh from those articles and they're still coming. There'll be more Uh, is that he owes 400 million dollars. He's it's coming due next next year He's going to have to pay it or refinance it Who does he owe it to exactly because sometimes these things follow a circuitous route? Um, we know that a lot of this money was lent to him offshore because american banks would not lend him any money Um, and those banks may be connected with latimer Vladimir could be funding those banks to fund trump and then he's got to roll it over He's got to get new financing to cover it or he'll be sued and he'll be in bankruptcy Clearly he doesn't have the revenue to pay 420 21 million Dollars off by his existing revenue. He doesn't have it. So he's going to have to either sell off assets Or create a new revenue stream. I'm not sure he has the assets. He's got golf courses and you know I'm not sure he has the assets. It's all subject to this debt huge debt and um, you know I think putin is in there somewhere, but putin even if putin isn't in there. That's a charitable way to look at it Putin could be in there. So the question as as one intelligence guy said is Who does he owe it to who is he beholden to? He's he'd never get a security clearance It's obvious that that he's conflicted big time To those people who he owes the money to or those people who will have to lend him more money to cover You know the defaulting debt What what what's happening here is he doesn't belong to us. He belongs to someone else um, well, it's just really very quick stories is um, you know, donald trump's Miss america pageants were big time money losers until it went to moscow And then an oligarch just started dumping and underwriting Millions of dollars into Where that's where donald trump finally had a successful year with the miss america pageant But uh another example is he had a property down in palm palm beach Which wasn't selling that no one was making an offer on it because it was way overpriced And lo and behold all of a sudden one investor comes in not only pays the list price of the property But 50 million dollars on top of it without any competitive bids So he just took the list price plus here's 50 million dollars Mr. Trump and guess who that had to happen to be a russian oligarch And curse we know who the russian oligarchs report to is Vladimir Putin So we know that there has been uh direct tie-ins to donald trump's finances and to russia and specifically i think to belladamere putin Do we have the right to know exactly who he has this indebtedness to should we know that regardless of whether we see Another financial statement or not You for security totally bet about that you absolutely right about that And what I thought was interesting is the day before the debate biden and Kamala harris revealed their tax returns good timing And showing that they paid you know hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax Where he pays 750 was zero in any event the american people especially now and going forward This will be I think a permanent change. We will have to know to whom the president owes money or other favors and hopefully before election day Hopefully before election day absolutely Stephanie your thoughts about the new york times article. Um, we're starting to run out a little time. So I want to get through everybody and so i'm curious to know what you think I well first of all now, I know why the son-in-law and um And and his daughter couldn't get clearances. I couldn't understand that but obviously we're learning about the financial Backgrounds are just as important as whether they're spying for anybody. But anyway Um, I wanted to say that as far as I've read it's the ducha bank Who has who has given donald his loans? Nobody else has been willing to finance him since his debacles of financial loss And and bankruptcy uh in atlantic city. He just blew everything there and elsewhere So it's only don't you blink and they're under ducha bank was fined millions of dollars and fines With a direct leak of money laundering With russia Yes, so something is going so this that's the only place he has to go now Can they cough up more to cover him on this? I think you're right tim. He needs to unload all the assets Is in as far as their work. Maybe that includes marlago god knows but we'll see I mean, but he's always pulling the genie out of the hat or but the rabbit. I guess He gets out and it's a green rabbit Well, maybe it's the shell game analogy that we should be looking at more so than pulling a rabbit out of the hat Is is the o3 card monti? Routine that he knows so well from being a new yorker. Thank you stephanie. Hey winston, um Ivanka trump got 20 million dollars In the form of a consulting fee at the exact identical time. She was considered an employee I didn't know you can get a consulting fee and be an employee at the same time But apparently in donald trump's world you can be um When the 20 million dollar consulting fee be subject to fika Social security medicare all the deductions that any other employee would have to have come out of their paycheck Yet, um, that doesn't seem to be the case with the 20 million dollars. What's what are your thoughts about to avonkin or 20 million and Just a whole tax debacle report from the new york times. Go ahead winston Well, first of all his base doesn't care and like you said either it shows that he's smart So they'll just either dismiss it as our system is broken that allows us to happen and our furor is smart Right and so that's what they're thinking our leader is smart and so he can get away with it and good for him I think the more important Story yesterday was about the proud boys and saying stand stand back and and and uh, and wait, you know Stand by and and these other things. I mean, there's so many things that happened this week The tax thing it doesn't make a difference. Well, okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna dispute that or I'm gonna take issue with that because if you're an american construction worker a nurse Hard work in person that works. They're 40 50 hours a week And it has barely enough to have any time money left over and you pay your fair share taxes Is this going to rub you the wrong way that donald trump for years paid zero taxes?  No with all of the revelations We've had about donald trump over the last four years nothing makes a difference with them. So I would say no Well, I think that new york times has a good article that was a trump center warning. Let's take it seriously Washington post as the rice bag is burning. Um, if you wanted a good debrief of in a humorous way seth miers had a Funny take down on a closer look. Uh, we had Uh, you know some really important news this week that just is now like the cdc director I think jay was mentioning that that says that his you know scott atlas everything that he says is false I It doesn't it doesn't matter. I don't think it will matter going in I think that's just some bold and people and he was blowing the dog whistle for the ones that wanted to hear it The people that saw his behavior just said good. We have a strong leader in there And it won't make a difference. But I would I would love to be wrong in that and And that it would resonate with people and say, you know what? He probably should pay a little bit more than 750 bucks to keep the government Yeah, yeah, okay. Thank you so much. Winston. All right lightning round for you, synthia Christopher ray FBI director has come out and explicitly stated there is no fraudulent Truth that mail-in ballots Uh are defective. He came out and said it. He spoke truth to power just like uh, Dr. Renfield said, you know masses are important. It's the most effective way to keep uh, coven from spreading Furthermore that children can be affected by coven 19 So you have two people who have come out and really put their necks on the line Are they going to keep their jobs? Is donald trump going to get rid of them before the election? Well, if he doesn't get rid of them, he will discredit them in profound ways. You know, I believe To speak to the taxes really quick. I gotta say I live on just under 20,000 a year a year. Okay, exactly That's about 1500 bucks a month max. Okay um at the end of that year because a thousand dollars a month is um Unearned income is what they call it because it's alimony. I pay 500 dollars a year in taxes because of that And so so when I saw him, you know with this 750 a month a year and I thought I I literally lost my mind a little bit as the numbers started to sort of clench in my brain I really Was on my feet screaming at the television And so it affected you adversely one last thing I have to say because I think it's really cool Uh, Sean Carter is quoted as saying a wise man told me don't argue with fools because from a distance No one can tell who's who As far as the debates go. All right. Well, you get the last the good blanket statement You get the last clever statement of the uh the show today. So We've run out of time and unfortunately I I wanted to talk so much more about the All the topics that we discussed today, but 28 minutes goes very quickly. I want to say thank you to everyone jay fidel Stephanie dalton winston welch and synthia leeson claire. Thank you so much. Join us next week 11 o'clock wednesday. I'm tim epichel your host aloha