YouTube and welcome back to another vlog. It's like 7.30 in the morning right now. I got in so late last night. I went to bed honestly at like 2.30. My sleep schedule has been so messed up. This week I'm really gonna try to get back on track. I am currently in Los Angeles for a week and if you're new here when I say I'm in LA for work it means I'm in office for my brand that I own, Dairy Boy. We recently opened an office in LA so I have to be here, especially right now, sort of a lot. Been a lot of traveling recently. It kind of hit me last night. Just need more sleep honestly. I'm just putting on my jewelry for the day. I'm going to unpack my suitcase, put on my outfit for the day and then I have a ton going on today. I'm excited to be vlogging for you guys. I really love how motivated I am to specifically vlog. It's definitely a whole thing but I'm just like really motivated to create content on YouTube and connect with my community. I respond to pretty much all the comments on my YouTube channel because I just think it's so incredibly kind. I don't know what it is about specifically YouTube. When someone takes the time to watch a 20 to 30 minute video of mine and then decides to leave a really encouraging, sweet comment I just really feel like it's a connection. I know you can't have a full connection with someone through a comment online but I really do feel like I connect with you guys more on YouTube, which I've said before. But I really, when I'm tired and I don't feel like being on camera or I don't feel like vlogging, I really feel motivated to get up and vlog and create and connect with you guys. Thank you guys for making this a space that I get really excited about and I get really excited to create on here. But anyways I'm going to unpack my suitcase and then I actually have an apartment viewing. I'm excited financially, it actually makes a lot more sense for me to get an apartment then continue to stay in hotels. I've spent on hotels so far to stay in LA for work way more money than I would spend on rent. It's crazy for me to think about having another place.  I have my house in Connecticut and then adding to LA, but like I said before, it's really just a home base for work. I'm going to leave a few things there simple just literally like some place that I'm coming in and out of for work. And it's more cost effective for the business. So I'm going to start looking at apartments. Like I said in my last vlog, I was really stressed before about the idea of trying to make LA feel like home because I have lived here before and I really didn't love it. I also was in a very different place in my life with no real purpose in LA, but it did really stress me out thinking about like having to furnish and make another place feel like home. I'm like, how am I going to make three places feel like home? There's just no way for me to do that. And I realize that I don't have to do that. I don't have to make it feel like home different or I've like lived in my natural hair color. The more I thought it looks so much more flattering. We've highlighted like a face frame sort of situation. I have some highlights in and then we're going to do low lights now, which is like the darker or brunette looking vibe. And then we're going to tone it. What else are you going to do? I don't know what else. Okay, we got some food from Goop kitchen. I'm really excited about it. I've heard really good things about this takeout, but I've never gotten it before. Okay, I got this Asian chicken salad and then I got a salmon bowl because I couldn't decide. They both look really, really good. This smells so good. Okay guys, I just got back. I wanted like a really strong money piece next to like a light brown. My hair is brunette, but it lifts really easily, which is super nice because I can maintain this hairstyle and it will stay much healthier.  It's so early. It's like seven, but I've been on the craziest worst sleep schedule. I'm really looking forward to going to bed super early tonight. Good morning blog. So I'm about to run out to another apartment viewing. This spot is very different than the townhouse that I showed yesterday and I honestly really want your guys' opinions on this. Please let me know in the comments what you guys think about this. So I'm going to bring you guys with me to the apartment viewings to go get more of an idea of what I'm talking about. So I'm kind of torn. Obviously, getting another apartment in general is still a crazy thought to me, but I just have to do it just for a few years until the business is in a place that I'm really confident with. It's so important for me and my brand for me to be here and be really involved in as much as I possibly can. I've hired an amazing team and I've hired someone to help me with more of the business side of things, but that being said, it's so important for me to continue to be really involved with Dairy Boy, which means that I have to get a place here. But anyways, regardless of all that, I'm also torn about what sort of place I want here. This is where I'm torn. I want an apartment that is super my taste, my style, wooden beams, character, charm, with wood that feels very homey. That's very me. Like my house in Connecticut is very me and my style. But then part of me is like, should I just get a apartment in a more modern building with a doorman, the place I can park my car, that I can kind of come in and out of? Like it's a hotel room, but it's not. This building that I'm going to look at today. I've actually known a few people who have lived in this building and they've absolutely loved it. It's kind of like a full service building. It's kind of like a hotel, but it's apartments. But it's modern. It's very modern. You'll see. But it's very safe. It's in a great location. It's close to where Tommy would train for tennis. I've said this before, but Tommy can actually train here more than he can in Connecticut. So when Tommy can stay here, it's like closer to his training. It's very central. It's very safe. It would be very easy. I wouldn't have to like furnish it like crazy, but it's modern and I'm just kind of torn. Some of you might know what our office looks like that we're moving into in a week or so. It's this beautiful big space with these huge windows and we're making the office very like my style. We're doing a lot of wood, a lot of antiques. It's going to be very Dairy Boy vibes. So I'm like, okay, well, the office is really my taste and like, does it matter if my apartment is just like clean and modern? And it's very nice, but it's just not like my sort of like, I wouldn't buy the apartment.   I could definitely still make it cute. Let me know what you guys think or I would just love like your two cents on what you guys think. So the people in my life are really torn about it too. Like no one's giving me like a 100% answer. My mom's obviously saying for me to do a doorman building because she's a mom, you know, but I'm not sure what to do, but we're going to head there now. I got my favorite tea from Sun Life, the turmeric tea. I'm going to go run and see that apartment viewing and then we are heading today to our shoot location and I cannot wait to show you guys this house that we rented for the shoot. It's just incredible. But I need to go run. We'll bring you guys along with me. Okay guys just got back from the showing that I went to. So we can do a little debrief on that apartment building in a second. The unit was really gorgeous even though modern is not my style. I cannot deny that it was gorgeous and the building's amenities were beyond. I actually couldn't film in the like gym and the like tennis courts and like all that because security reasons, which isn't a bad thing. I totally understand that, but let's do like a full debrief. I ordered lunch. We can chat about the apartment. I just have a quick call. I just have a quick interview right now with a very, very cool publication. I never know if I can share like who I'm talking to with the interviews. I'll ask my public assistant and I need to pack up and we're gonna head out to San Yanez. I feel like that's not how you say it. San Tanez. I was so wrong. Santa Yanez. Santa Yanez. Santa Yanez. I totally messed that up. Santa Yanez. Okay I have two minutes until my call so I have a second to talk to you guys about the apartment that I just viewed. I'm thinking it could be right for me. I was kind of debriefing with my mom after I viewed the apartment and she was saying and I didn't tell her this. Worried about me getting the townhouse that I viewed yesterday and being like, Paige you're gonna try to make this feel like home. Like she knows me really well and obviously when you get like a townhouse style, home style place, you wanna make it feel like home. And I just feel like it's literally this place that I just looked at is literally a hotel that I can leave stuff at. And the fact that there is like security and a doorman and I can keep my car there. The amenities are really nice. Packages will be safe. But some thinking that I might move forward with that apartment that I just went and saw. So we'll see. I will keep you guys updated. I would still love your opinion on it though. So let me know what you think. Hi. Hey. You hear me? Yeah. Wait, I was just saying to my vlog I needed to ask you this. When I do interviews like this, am I allowed to share who I'm talking to or is it like better to be a secret? Yeah, you can share the publications. I wanna share the editor's name probably, but publication's fine. It's with business of fashion. I was like, I don't know if I'm allowed to say it. Hi vlog. Hi vlog. Your hair looks so good, I'm obsessed. Wait, thank you. You're so sweet. I love it. I love the darker. Yeah, I feel like it needed to happen. Hi. Hi. Okay, just got off my call. Sorry, there's no light in here, guys. It's really dark in LA right now because of the rain. But I ordered a new kitchen again. I got the salmon bowl and I got the chicken chopped salad again because it was so good yesterday. Morning vlog. I just finished getting ready for the shoot today. I don't know how much I can show you, which is kind of annoying. I'm sorry about that, but I do want it to be exciting. We have a few products that we're shooting. I'm really excited. We're gonna do some outside, some inside. The house is so cute and we have a model here. I'll show you guys as much as I can today. We just finished the shoot and it was a really long day, but it went so well. I'm literally so excited to show you guys the photos from the shoot. I really wanted to introduce you guys to my team today. I'm gonna post it on the Instagram on the way home. A few people aren't here. We're carpooling with Justin on the way back. So I'll introduce you guys to Justin, who has come on board the Dairy Boy team to help out. He's been amazing. And Moa, you may have seen it a few videos here and there. She is just like the sweetest angel and she's amazing and so creative. She's on the marketing creative strategy team for Dairy Boy. That was a really unique role to hire for because there are so many amazing creative people, but the person that I hired in that position had to be so authentically Dairy Boy and kind of already live her life that way. So it felt very organic for the brand and she is just perfect. She's from Sweden. She's amazing. She's sweet. She's smart. She's creative. She draws. She's just like the cutest, sweetest, most hardworking girl. I'm very, very grateful to have her. I'll introduce you guys to her quickly, maybe before we go. And then I'll do a proper intro. You guys should follow Dairy Boy on TikTok. We have never been on TikTok, which is crazy. But when we move into our new office, I'm going to really get involved in the TikTok and do a lot of behind the scenes. And we're just going to fully dive into the TikTok, which I'm really excited about. But yeah, Liv, Justin, and Moa and the photographer and the model were the only people here today from the team. But it was so fun. But anyways, before I introduce you guys to Justin, I'll give you guys a little background. I've known Justin for many years, and he owns a clothing brand called Elwood, which some of you guys might know. He also works a lot with Walmart, and he just has a ton of experience in the industry. I basically hired him to help me run and scale the business and make really high-quality products and just help me with the business side of things. I really do not have much experience besides what I've learned with the business side of things and hiring someone who has already done it really well with really high-quality goods has been so helpful for my brand. And it's just really fun to work with other creative people. He's also just become like a close friend over the years. I am wearing this robe home because I'm literally so cozy in it. I literally just got it from Barefoot Dreams. We're actually sampling a robe right now, so I kind of want to be like testing all the robes.  Hello. Hello. Say hi. How are we? Are you camera shy? Yeah. I'm not good at it. You feel like that went well, did I? Mm-hmm. I thought that was great. Great first shoot as a team. Yeah. Good teamwork. Good teamwork. We're a good team. Yeah, we do. We're lucky. Moa, come here. Bye, it was so nice to meet you. We'll be in touch. Thank you. Moa, come say hi to the vlog. Oh, but you're wearing all of them. I love you, my sweet angel. You're like, hi, hi, I can't see. Good morning vlog. Guys, it is finally sunny in Los Angeles and thank God. But anyways, I just wanted to say hi to the vlog.  But yeah, I think this is going to be the last day of this vlog. I think I'm going to finish it out before the weekend because I don't really know my weekend plan. I kind of need to decide what I'm doing because I don't think I'm going to go to the Super Bowl. I'm kind of torn, but I don't think I want to go. Okay, so I'm going to go to the RealReal first to go look for a new tote bag for traveling and for work. So I got this bag this summer, which is literally one of my favorite purses that I own. Bottega is definitely my favorite designer brand. My wallet is from them. I love how it's not branded and I love how it's leather and I love how it has gold detailing. I just love it, but of course, it is literally the most expensive by far. Like it's literally so expensive. It's out of control how expensive it is. So that's sickening, but love this, but it's not big enough for all of my stuff, especially my cameras. Like this is cute for not work. I wish that this was bigger. I think they do have a bigger one, but like, I don't know. I'm going to use this Airwan bag today so I can transfer all of my stuff, hopefully once I get a new bag. And if not, I'll just keep using this one until I find one that I like. So yeah, I'm going to head to the RealReal now and look for a tote bag. I just got back home. I went to Airwan. Maybe I'll do a little haul for you guys. I got some soup. I got two different kinds of soup. I got a lentil soup and a chicken noodle soup. And then I got a dinner plate, which was like just full of veggies. I got green beans, Brussels sprouts, and mac and cheese. Got a huge water. Their water is really, really good. I got some oranges, some shampoo and conditioner, a little baguette for my soup. And then the other kind of random thing that I got was this Wella skin food. I've seen it on TikTok and I wanted to try it. But I'm gonna probably watch something and eat this food and or FaceTime Tommy. I had a really good day today and the whole trip to LA has been great. But I felt like today, I felt the most like truly grateful for how blessed I am to be in the situation that I am creating and designing and working with so many amazing women who I would have not met if it wasn't for this experience. And they've become good friends of mine and I just adore them. And this whole chapter of my life, really working with a team, I feel like it's not been that long, has really just been really important for me. I think it's really important for me with this job being social media. And it's affected me differently throughout my life, being on social media, but this new chapter really working with people and me depending on them and then depending on me and working in person and touching and feeling fabrics and collaborating in person has just been a really important experience for me. And I'm just so grateful. I don't know, like I say I'm grateful a lot, but I really felt like I needed this. I felt like it feels so fulfilling. I kind of can't believe that this is my life and that this is my brand and that I own it and that I get to create things that I love for people that I love for you guys to feel confident and good. And it's pretty incredible and I'm just feeling extra grateful today. So yeah, I have to say, I am feeling like a bit lonely staying in a hotel for so long in LA specifically. Well, you can feel very, very lonely because of how large it is and you have to drive everywhere. I just feel like very disconnected from my friends and the people around me and obviously staying in a hotel room is not the best, especially because I'm alone. I do think that I won't feel as lonely. I'll obviously still be alone a majority of the time when I'm here because Tommy travels so much for tennis and has to be in Florida for training. He'll be able to be in LA a little bit, but not a ton. I'll still be alone, but I think if I have my own place and just being able to cook and it's like my own bedsheets and my own space, I think I'll feel better, you know. So yeah, I'm probably gonna sign off in this vlog now. Since I decided to not go to the Super Bowl, I have this weekend open. So I need to decide what I'm doing. I'm either gonna fly to Dallas to see Tommy play last minute and then probably have to come back or I'm gonna go to Connecticut and then I don't know, guys. I really don't know what I'm gonna do. I think it's gonna depend a lot on if I get that apartment in LA. Also, if Tommy's in the finals in Dallas, I'll probably definitely go to Dallas to see him. I'll give you guys posted. I love you guys.


Darian Kendrick Georgia who in college football? Have you not covered? I was going through the list of the receivers that you have covered I think you've covered every receiver that ever played college football now That's an overstatement, but man You've seen some guys and that has to get you ready for the NFL, right? I say a lot of the guys that I've covered have you know got in the league and I almost Dominated whether it was in practice or in the game. So I feel like that gives me confidence that I can do what I do I play I play to get some great Everybody but Jerry Rice basically so so here's the thing at some point in your life You probably lined up against somebody and you were scared or nervous or whatever but because of who you've played against in practice in games in national championship games that Fear has to have gone away and that has to be something you carry to the NFL as a help I'll say, you know, if you don't have butterflies going into a game I really don't know why you why you're playing football Everybody I guess everybody has a little nervous in them, but When you think about it, I go up. I went against the best receivers at both schools I was at whether it was Clemson or George No top receiving course. So again quarterbacks. Yeah, right So it gave me the confidence to go out there and show it showcase my ability And I'm just like I'll cover the best every day. So why can't I do it out here right now? So why did it all come together for you in 2021 as a player? I Say just Just being a just being an equal person Even, you know, not one for them one for that Just just stand locked in just being just being the person I supposed to be Explain to me if you would how important family is to you? very important grew up grew up, you know My mom my mom was is my rock. So I've seen her Grind grind keep grinding. She she I see her improve a lot from jobs that she was working at to the spot She's in now. So and then I have I have kids of my own So it it motivates me every day to go out there and work for them even even though You know, I do it for myself, but I also I Majority do it for them.  You know, you can pay for it And then also you got to love it at the same time I love I've been loving football all my life and it's not gonna change and this just is just changing Just changing me and my family's life right here. So


And if you have your Bibles, let's open to Genesis 4 verses 7. We're just going to read the description if you didn't bring your Bibles on your screen. And it says, if you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must rule over it. This is a very famous scripture that comes from the book of Genesis. We know it's a story about Cain and Abel and how they came to give an offering to God and how one's offering was not accepted and other's offering was accepted. And we see that Cain comes and he has this jealousy, he has this anger towards his brother why his offering was not accepted. And God comes to him and he says that, look, if you do the right thing, if you choose to do the right thing, will your offering not be accepted? But if you choose to do the wrong thing, sin is crouching at your door. There's consequences for sin, but even then once there is sin at your door, you still have the power and the choice to rule over it. You must rule over it and that's what the scripture says. And tonight's short topic I want to talk to you about is the power of choice. It is the power of choice. Every single person in this place, we make choices, right? I make choices, you make choices.  Most of us, we showered. That was a choice we made. Most of us, some of us did not shower. That is also a choice that we made. As we wake up every morning, there's tons of choices that we make. And it's as you realize it or not, but you are every second you're making a choice to do right or to do wrong. It is at the power of your fingertips. And this is what a gift that Jesus Christ has given us. God has given every single person is to be able to make a choice. That is the free will that we have. Every single person, you do not need to be powerful. You do not need to be smart to make a right choice or to make a wrong choice. Choices, it comes as just you, you just make a choice. You don't need to like, okay, I need to study hard to make a right choice. Or I need to do bad things to make a wrong choice. It does not need any requirements. You just simply make a choice. Life is a product of decisions and decisions create events. We become today of the choices we made yesterday. And what we become tomorrow is by the choices we make today. Life does not just happen to us. It is all about choices and how we respond to every situation. Many people think that life is just, it happens to us. It's just random.  They're just was born with a golden spoon in their mouth. And they're just born in a paradise. And that is their life.  Some people are just unlucky. It does not come out to be that way. Life, it does not just happen. It is the choices that we make and how we respond to every choice that comes our way. You can be a person that is poor, just as poor as it can be. If you make the right choices, you can become great. You can become financially independent. You can be a person who is born in a multimillionaire family where just everything is there, whatever you need.  It's not right. So you cannot say, you cannot believe the devil's lie that, I am unfortunate today. I do have these circumstances around me because the way I was born, the way I was made, the things that were done to me, no, it is not like that because life is not just what happens. It's the choices that we make and how we respond to those choices. The question I have for you tonight is, what choices are you making tonight? Turn to your neighbor and ask him, what choices are you making? Turn to your other neighbor and ask him, is it good or bad? And many people feel like, I will not make a choice. I will just not choose anything. People think that when it comes to choices, I will just stay on the neutral ground. And that's not how it works. There is no neutral kingdom. You're either with God or you're without God. And life without God is, one life is life with Satan, is life with the devil. So we have to understand and get that clear through our mind that good choices or bad choices, we always choose it. We cannot sit on the fence. We cannot sit on the place where we think I'll just not serve God and I'll just not serve devil. I'll just stay in the middle. It does not happen like that. And the devil always tries to get to our mind that if you just don't do bad and if you just don't do good, you can just remain in the middle in the neutral ground but it's not like that. There is no neutral kingdom. There's only kingdom with God or a kingdom with Satan. Which ones will you choose? The choice is yours. And no one is powerless. No one is uneducated. No one is unqualified to make a good choice. And also no one is too bad to make a wrong choice. We have the power within ourselves. When God created man, He created them with the power of free will. When He created Adam and Eve, He said, look, you have the choice to do right or to do evil. The choice is yours. And when man fell, when man made a mistake, God still came to him and said, there is also a chance to be restored back and to do right after you fall. Failure is not failure. Failure is only failure when you choose to stay down. When you choose to get back up, it's counted out success. When the moment you choose, when you fall, when you make a mistake, the moment you choose to stay down, that is when it is called a failure.   So failure is only failure when you choose to stay down. To succeed or to fail, it is a choice. And do not let devil tell you otherwise. If anyone has failed is because they have chosen to. They have embraced failure. And failure is a choice just as success is a choice. There's three people that I want to share with you about. Number one, you guys know all of them as Michael Jordan. And by acclimation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time. He's the phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, speed power, artisity and provisional ability and an unquenchable competitive desire. Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar and this is what he said, the key to success is to failure. And he said, I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26th occasion, I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. But I did not choose to stay down. And that is why I succeed. Failure is only considered failure when you choose to embrace that you have failed.  I made a bad mistake. You know, I did not do it right, but you choose to get back up. When we wake up in the morning, we have a choice. Do I want to spend time with God or do I want to give in to laziness? Do you want to spend time reading God's Word to be able to get to know the Holy Spirit? Or do I complete to get to know myself as desires where I just sleep in? Or I do whatever I want. I become sinful man.  The choice is yours. Nobody takes that from you because free will is given to us. It's a gift that God has given to each one of us. In school, I just, I just hated questions with just one answer. Whether you have to write it in, you know, I always loved multiple choices. I always love when they give you so many choices and you just get to choose A, B, or C. You know, I don't know what those tests called, what they're like. What are they called? Yeah, those ones where I always thought there'd be like, if it's B now, it cannot be next. A next one cannot be. It has to be C. Or there will be like a pattern or be like, try to spell things out. I just loved multiple choices because it's, it gives you options to do good or to do bad. One's let it explain yourself. I'm like, dang it. I did not like to give me options. And that is life. Life gives us choices to do right or to do wrong. I've seen so many people have life ruined. And the only thing I have to say it, well, it's because of what has been done to me. Oh, it's because that this, this person just offended. This person has robbed me. This person has abused me. Society is just shooting me. The government is this.  But success is a choice just as failure is a choice. Getting to know God more, bringing people to church, starting your own home group. It's not that something that you need to be qualified for. You do not need to have like this doctoral degree to open a home group, which we would like if you have a doctoral degree to open a home group. Be honest. Most of us, we have GEDs here. It's a joke. I graduate. So you have to make a choice. Do I want to get closer to God with God? Or do I want to get far back from him? I remember one time I, I, when I had a chance to live in Nigeria to get to, to spend time with prophet Josh and to learn from him. And one thing that he would always tell us is that, that what separates me from you is the choices I make every day. What separates me from you is the everyday choice that I, that I take to spend time with God. And that is why God uses me this way. Whenever there's a time to, to do my own thing or to go to, to spend time just relaxing or whatever. I choose that time to spend with God.  And that's why God has been blessing me. Whenever there's a time to be, to be prideful, I made a choice to humble myself. Whenever there was a time where the pain came into my body, I made a choice to tell to myself that by his stripes I am healed. Whenever there was a time where I failed, I made a choice to get back up and tell to myself, I'll be on top and I will not be in the bottom. Every time that I, my hand touched something and it failed, I told myself that everything my hand touches will prosper. I made these choices and today I am who I am because of the choices I made yesterday. And I remember like, he's always shared that look, I grew up without education. I grew up without this. You know, I, I never to, my prophet, Josh, I never, he took classes to, to speak English. But today if you listen to his sermons, there's certain words that are just like, I never knew these words even existed in English dictionary. But it's because the choices that a person has made that resulted into a life that you live today. We are either a success or a failure by the choices that we make today.  Excuses are just simply a, a language of a proud. You're just saying that look, I'm too good to, to try again. It's, it's for somebody else. I'm just, it's, it's not worth doing that again. It's not, it's not worth doing that. And Thomas Edison, if you can put up a scripture, his picture. Edison developed many devices which greatly influenced in the life in the 20th century. Edison is considered one of the most propholic inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents to his name.  When he sat on his own, he tried more than 9,000 experiments before he created his first successful light bulb. And this is what he said, he said, I haven't failed, I just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 10,000 ways that won't work. Champions are not crowned because they just desire to be crowned. They are crowned because they have chosen to defeat failure. Champions were never made because they just woke up one day and just had this wishful thinking that look, I'm going to become a champion one day and that's it. Just sit back and relax. To succeed and to be a successful person when you're in a relationship with God as a family man, maybe as a married man, or maybe to your family, to your church, to your home group leader, you have to have a choice that you make every day as you get up. Just like when you get up in the morning and it's a choice to make to shower. It's the same choice to make that you spend time with the Holy Spirit. One day with the Holy Spirit that you spend is a thousand days better than spent without him. Just that one hour spent in his presence is a thousand days better than spent without him. So we have to realize that when we get up every morning, we are always presented a choice to do right or to do wrong. And that is a choice that is, it is with you and that you need to make. And life's biggest choice is what you do with Jesus Christ. Life's biggest choice that you ever make is what do you do with Jesus Christ? When that time comes to spend time in God's Word, to be able to get to know Him, to be able to understand His love for you and how God has created and fashioned you and how He has made you. That time, that choice that you make to spend time with Jesus is the biggest and the best choice that you can ever make. One thing I would always regret and as I am now is why couldn't I start my relationship with God earlier? Why couldn't I spend more time with Jesus Christ? Because that is the one thing that always profited me. The only thing that never failed me has been concrete and has been put me through the toughest times.  God chooses what we go through, but you choose how you go through it. Yes, some people are not, they weren't born into a rich family. They weren't maybe born into maybe with a healthy body or with certain disabilities, but we, the choices that we make results the life that we live today and the life that we live tomorrow. And one thing that the Bible always made me to understand that your life does not need to be perfect to make good choices. And your life, we see in the life of David, where David at the toughest times of his life, he made the best choice ever. We see that the book of Psalm was written when David was being persecuted, when David was being backstabbed, when David was being sought to killed after, being cheated upon, being backstabbed by his best friends. And that is the best choices that David has made in his life at the toughest time. But also we see when David was being victorious, David had everything going for him. And he was a king, he was making victories. And when everything was also on the top, we see that when life is good, it also gives an opportunity to make wrong choices. But we cannot live with the slide that the devil always gives us. Only if God would heal me, I would serve him. Only if God would give me a good pain job, I would tithe.  Only if God will give me a healthy body, then I'll say thank you Jesus for giving me health. That is not the case because Bible tells us otherwise. We see Job when he was sick, when he was, when he lost everything, he gave God his best. He gave God an honor and worship that God deserved. And he said, God, maybe, you know, I have everything and maybe I lost everything, but your name still be praised. I might have everything and I might lose it, but that will not change my relationship with God.  Only if I had a car, I would bring people to church. I would just, you know, witness. Only if I had more money, I would give money to church. I would, you know, give to the needy and do this, but that is not the case. The choices that you make today will result the life that you have tomorrow. If you want to have a good life tomorrow, you have to make the chases, those choices today. And it starts right now. It starts today with saying, God, I'll serve you. God, I'll spend time with you. God, I'll develop a relationship with you. God, I'll bring people to church and that is the best life to live with Jesus Christ. Amen. And I just want to give you a few steps to how to make a right choice and how do you know that you are actually making a right choice. Number one is to think God's word, meditate God's word. God's word is the best and the best meditation that you can have for your life. Many other religions and things, you know, they talk about staying positive. They talk about, you know, good thinking, empty yourselves, you know, think about the stars or whatever things are up there. Just all these things, but God's word is the most positive and the most powerful thing that you can ever meditate. And if you let God's word dominate your mind, it will dominate your heart. Once God's word begins to dominate your heart, it will influence your conduct and your behavior. You begin to change automatically, but God's word has to be dominating your mind. You have to be thinking God's word constantly. It's not something that you come in the morning, you just pray or you just read John 3.16 and that's it. That's thinking about God's word. God's word has to be something that dominates your mind. When it begins to dominate your mind, it's like food. When you begin to take food and you begin to chew it, it automatically goes into your stomach. Same thing with God's word. When you begin to think about God's word, you begin to meditate on it. What is God's word saying to be? You begin to think about it. That's when it begins to enter into your heart. Once it enters into your heart, it begins to change your conduct and your behavior. God's word is the best thing that you can meditate because when you fall, God's word says that there is forgiveness. You can get back up. You can have strength. It gives encouragement to always be at your best. You know that when you fall, it gives you wisdom to how to get back up and how to avoid the same mistakes that you made. It gives you knowledge.  And God's word is the best thing that you can meditate upon. Number two is act. Act upon it. Act upon God's word. Epsom 119 verses 9 through 11. It says that, When you take God's word, when you meditate upon it and you begin to act upon what God's word is saying, that word will begin to give you power to stay with God, to be able to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ. And acting upon God's word is developing your relationship with Jesus Christ. It's to spend time at His feet, knowing from God, hearing God's word. What is God's word saying? We give an opportunity to every single person to come before work to morning prayer here at church. Five o'clock in the morning, the doors are open at church. It is not that we can fill this church up. It is not that we can say, oh, we're the only church in Tri-Cities that has morning prayer, so we need you to come because we need you to fulfill your Christian duties. It is because you will prosper. We're giving you the opportunity that your life has changed. You cannot get anything from anyone coming to morning prayer here. Don't believe Satan's lies like, pastor just wants me here because he needs a check mark, or I don't know what the pastor wants. He just wants me here to morning prayer. We want you here to develop your relationship with God because you need to succeed. Because God wants to take you to a place where you will not fall. God wants to help you to accomplish your dream, to change people's lives, and you cannot do that without the Holy Spirit. Morning prayers are developed just for one reason, so you can become who God wants you to be, become to achieve those dreams, to become the person of influence in this community. Rewrite the history of your family. Be the person with a difference. That is why we are challenged every single person. Develop your relationship with Jesus Christ because you need to succeed. Give, you know, your tithing offerings, not because the church needs your money, but because you need God's blessing upon your life. There's so many testimonies where people said, as soon as I, you know, I started coming to morning prayer, I started developing a relationship with Jesus Christ, I started giving, my life has changed. And for us it's like, that's what I've been telling you for years.   You will be a prosperous person. You will be a healthy person. You will be a person with a difference. Amen, church. And number three is get up when you fall. Get up when you fall. You have to get tired and you have to get mad at the failure.  The reason for your success in life is that there's thousands of people are waiting for you to succeed in life. Why do we have to make the right choices today is because there is somebody out there that is waiting for you to succeed. There's somebody out there that is waiting for you to share the message of hope. There's somebody out there that is waiting for you to pray for them so they'll be healed. There's certain people that God has designed and God has sent only you, that only you will be the one to speak to them in order for their life to be changed. Prophet Joseph said that I only started to succeed in life only when I realized that there's millions of people that God has sent me to. And until I make the right choice, those people that God has sent me to, they will not succeed. There's certain people that right now I look into my life that God has placed me even in my home group. Some of the guys that God has entrusted me with, and I know one thing that when I get up in the morning, when I spent my time with God, I know I have to make the right choice. I need to succeed. I need to develop the relationship with Jesus Christ because those are the people that God has sent me to, to give encouragement, to pick them up when they fall, to be able to be the inspiration, to be the mentor to them, to be the guide to them. There's some people at the gym that nobody has witnessed to and God, and they're waiting for me to make the right choice. Hey, I'm going to share my faith today. Hey, when I'm working out, I'm going to say, hey, do you know Jesus Christ? Do you know God? Or maybe somebody who's depressed to offer them love, and there's certain people in your school, in your gym, in your colleges, in your workplace that God has sent only you to them, and they will not succeed until you make the right choice. We do not just want you to develop the relationship with Jesus Christ so you can feel good. So things, you know, just only good working out for you. There's also a world that is dying, and until you succeed, they will not succeed. Right now, I'm thinking, you know, some of the people that God has sent me to, and I'm just thinking, even some of the people that moved away in different states, and today I'm still talking to them how, during school time, I witnessed them, I told them about Jesus Christ, and today I was thinking like, what if I never spoke to them about God? Where would their life be now? I know one person would probably be dead because when he came and gave his life to Jesus Christ, he was addicted to drugs, and as you heard today's testimony, that's where drugs lead. I know there are certain people that, when I witness to, when I talk to them, I know today most of them probably will not be alive. There are people, there are thousands, there are hundreds of people are waiting for you to succeed in life. Your relationship with God, you stepping out in schools to witness, to be able in your workplace, in your colleges, to be a person of influence, to be the person of light, to shine to them, to share the message of hope, is not just so for you. There's a world that is dying that needs you to make the right choice. We have the powers of choice. It is out of fingertip. Nobody tells us what to choose. We have the power of choice. And tonight, this is what I want to encourage you with, is that a soul is more, a price of a soul is more worth than the world. You cannot put a price on a soul. We are made to succeed. We are made to become a successful people with Jesus Christ, not so we can just feel good, which is, it comes with that. A blessed life with Jesus Christ is a byproduct of spending time with Him. But there's also a people that God has sent you to. Every time we are presented of a choice to do right or to do wrong, we need to always have in mind that if I make the wrong choice, then somebody's life will be affected. But if I make the right choice, even if I myself, I choose to get back up, somebody's life will be influenced, somebody's life will be changed. Today, every single person that is sitting in this pew, we're celebrating today, we're rejoicing today, we're sitting together, it's because one man has made a choice of opening this church and it was our pastor. Today, many souls are saved. Many people are given their lives, even tonight we'll see some people give their life to Jesus Christ. People be healed, people be delivered. How many people have been delivered and set free from that tax of the many? Because there's one man that made a choice. When everything was going against him, when people were saying, you shouldn't be opening the church, what are you talking about? Open an English-speaking church. You're a Russian man. You don't know what you're talking about. You don't have money, nothing. But he made a choice to do the right thing, what God has asked him to do. And today, we're sitting together, we're celebrating and our lives is changed because of one man's choice. How many more lives will be changed and influenced of the choices that you're going to make tonight? Of the choices that you will make to spend time with God? Of the choices to get up in the morning and say, God, I'll spend time with you. I'll learn from you. I'll get to know your love because I know that there's somebody there waiting for me to share the gospel of hope, to share about love, to be able to share that encouragement. There's a world that is dying and there's certain people that will not be changed until you reach out to them.  We are celebrating today because one man's focus was not broken. How many of thousands and how many of hundreds of people will celebrate because of the choice that you will make today? How many people's lives will be healed? How many millionaires? How many businessmen? How many marriages will be saved because of the choice that you will make today to walk with God, to love God and to love people? How many of you guys have been encouraged tonight? Come on, put your hands together for Jesus Christ and just the three things we just want to go over again is that one thing is think God's word. Meditate upon God's word. Make God's word the standard for your life. Number two is do what God's word says. Partner up with the Holy Spirit. Develop that relationship with God to do what God's word says. And number three is to get up when you fall because there is a generation that is waiting for you to succeed. Amen, church.


Once again ladies and gentlemen boys and girls and children of all ages you are now tuned in to the Prince of Investing coming to you guys and girls live all the way from the beautiful state of Honolulu, Hawaii Well, we're coming follow live from the city of Denver, Colorado via the beautiful city of Honolulu, Hawaii First of all, I want to say welcome to 2020. This is the first show here on Think Tech Hawaii And we got a very interesting episode today as we know we're walking into 2020 This is our first episode, but last year 2019 for our investors around the globe Into the US stock market seen a very very great year with the S&P 500 turning about 20 to 20 29% We had a very great year for investors that was bullish, right? He was bearish not so much, but Throughout that whole year, we had a very great year, but the question remained Right, we had an episode that we shot last year and we had James Fortlin on from Wall Street Uncle James, I like to call him and he predicted the 2019 bull market and 20 last year Everybody was saying the market was going to go down Everybody was saying that we're going into a recession watch out for the recession I know so many of my friends and family that pulled out their money They said hey, you know, I know the market is about to collapse but the market did great and James was very bullish on a bearish on the market and I wonder why was he so bearish? So we had him on the last episode and this is where he said as you can see he was saying things as far as The January barometer the ninth year all these ways that he was so built up into the bear market So I had to bring him back to ask him Why was he so confident in the bear in the bull in the bull market? Why was he so confident the bull market in 2019 when everybody else around the globe was so bears and most importantly What does he think of 2020? So without further ado, let me bring on Uncle James all the way from a beautiful state of New Jersey out there by Wall Street James. We're glad to have you on How you doing up there? How are you happy new year everybody? Are you happy new year now as you was hearing you say and last last time you was on you Were saying some great things about you believed into the 2019 Bull market the first question is why did you believe in the bull and why were you so confident? Oh? Well, it was first of all the the corporate tax cut that was instituted by the Trump administration Was going basically had put us more in even front with the rest of the world and I think a lot of people overlook the impact of that and And basically for the last I don't know 10 15 years the USS had the highest tax or corporate tax rate Which drove a lot of business out of the country? In some cases it was cheaper for say Ford motor company To build cars in Mexico and sell them back in the United States and they pay a lot less taxes by doing that And that's really no way to run a country But Trump was key to that and they lowered the corporate tax rate And I just to me it looked like it was going to be a non-stop earning machine that was that's the first thing The second thing is a little more There's actually three parts the the second thing was also there was a big push to sort of deregulate and maybe How about what a lot of people call the administrative state in Washington where? There's just a lot of people in Washington trying to centrally Manage everyone's businesses and life and the less of that you have historically the better the economy gets So the bigger Washington is the worst the economy gets the smaller Washington's impact the better the economy gets it's just it's like in an inverse relationship And then the third thing was the was the was the tariff business The free trade agreement or the trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. I thought was really significant And the the old NAFTA needed to be reworked and then a lot of the rest of the year I've been harping on you know Everybody else has been saying recession recession recession or impeachment impeachment impeachment or Russia Russia Russia I've been saying China China China and so that the second half of the year I think you got a lot of steam because of a push to negotiate with China And as you see the last couple of days and what was the market up today corner and 67 points or something like that on the Dow You know you have the first step in a road To making a long-term Fairer and equitable trade deal with China So I just think that's enormous for the US for US companies and for the US economy So those are kind of the three thing yeah So you post some of the tariffs right we're gonna get into the trade war later and NAS I want you to kind of reiterate you spoke about the january january barometer You say that every year that ends with a nine Every year that ends with a nine itself for three years, which I think it was 1929 1960 something like that So you say every year It's something very superstitious when you said it that every year that ends with the nine is usually an up year Right and you use the january barometer and you said the third year of every presidency Is usually a bull market and you said right every year the pre Pre-election year it was 2019 was a pre-election year and it was don trump's third election year You said he's used a lot of historical data To calculate this bull market that was about to happen And I won't tell people about the market settlement Everybody the reason why we did that episode because everybody was like recession recession people was pulling their money out People was running from it, but you brought in these very superstitious numbers of every third year Long-term data Now that you did that we did that in 2019 What is your market predictions for 2020 and why? Oh Boy, well first of all 2020 we got we got kind of a the january barometer There's even there's even a shorter version of the first I think it's the first five days of trading and if the market ends up in the first five days of trading It means the whole rest of the year It's going to be up and we were up the first five days of trading. So that's a big positive Um, I would say that the way this is what I look at more than anything This is see last year. There was a lot of historic data because there was so much noise um Really what I would call anti trump sentiment in the media even in the financial press and From a lot of different areas And this year, I think we go into 2020 with a little different view It's very hard for a lot of people or for most of us to learn Anything from a year where things go well So it's hard to learn when the market's up and you make money But the one thing I think a lot of people learned last year the hard way was You're never going to get rich by bashing the president. It's just not going to happen And as long as they keep bashing the president the market's going to go up It's just it's this huge we used to call it the war glory It's I mean today. I'm looking we hit a record and almost every major financial website Older we're talking about is when the next recession is coming and I'm like you just signed a huge trade deal with with china That's not even that makes a headline. You got it. And we finally signed the mexico kimi canadian the new I I forget what the acronym is it for the new NAFTA. It took me like 20 years to get that one, right? um So we finally signed that also and that doesn't make any headlines But we're talking about you know when the next recession is coming and I'm like Come on people like it's it's we're only january 15th already here. Let's like let's give it a little rest here um I just think that if people learned a hard lesson Like I always tell people you invest money in the stock market to make money If you're if you want to save the world plant a tree Or write a book and teach kids how to how to invest money like you're doing But in the stock market, we're here to make money. That's what we're here to do and people who Get involved in investing for other reasons than to make money or already You know making a mess out of things and I'm not saying you got to love the president. You know what? I didn't I wasn't a fan of barack obama. I wasn't a fan of his policies But he was the president we had to deal with so you had a particular investing strategy To take advantage of many of the policies that he was pushing for Now we have a new president and we have to have a different set of investment policies To capture what's being pushed forward with this president And this president is a much more volatile president Uh, he's so it's going to create a lot more volatility and turmoil in the markets But last year it proved, you know Non-stop that all that volatility was all buying opportunities No matter when it was and no matter how you know and on top of that like we also saw that how And and we just saw it again with this Iran thing the last couple of days Where how bad all this computerized trading is I mean the other night, you know, you had the president take out a major terrorist Probably the number one terrorist in the entire world Contrary to what the media is recording Um, you had a lot of people in Iran very happy about that including anybody who has any sense and Most of the rest of the world And then Iran retaliated with this sort of phony bologna missile barrage where they shot a bunch of missiles Out into the middle of the Iraqi desert, which really didn't do much of anything And any amount of just knowledge on the subject you would have known right away that This was this was kind of a safe face response. They really weren't looking to have the us get provoked And trump didn't take the bait Now, of course world that was going on they shot down an airplane that they claim was Not on purpose, but I have a tendency to think otherwise and uh They you know The media was going crazy about how we're going to have world war three and I'm like we've been in a cold war with Iran since 1979 was since the Big hostage crisis what it was called And we've had they've been fighting with us non-stop since this is nothing out of the ordinary At all the only difference thing is we actually fought back for a change, which is kind of nice um And I and I just think that showed the computerized trading sold off the market really quickly Which was a great way to take advantage and if you were a buyer By the next day you realize world war two just world war three just wasn't happening and As as we put you know, they do on facebook We put we're mark safe from world war three on our facebook pages because it just was it I mean right away. It was ridiculous. But people were like, they were like, this is the end. There's gonna be a draft They're gonna round everybody up and send them off and I'm like, what are you talking about? It was it was really silly actually It was really why it's silly and you're you're you know, you you're a military guy I mean if we were gonna have a draft the congress would have to authorize it It's not like the the military just started calling up People because they have your phone number and they're gonna say hey James, I know you're a little old but we want to work at where we're sending you off to iraq and I'm like I'm like if unless you're sending me to the iranian army It's not going to help you too much because I'm kind of old and we're a lot of shape but you know I'd be I'd be more helpful like for you if I played on the other team, you know Like that would be that's how bad I am right so like, you know, it's stuff like that So I just think we learned a lot of lessons that we a lot of people I think learned for the first time Or at least they should have that you can't look your your political preferences For your likes and dislikes have nothing to do with investing And I I think I'm and I'm gonna and I'm gonna like You know last year I pulled out a bunch of old numbers because we were just barrage by you know This is the end of the world and trump is like going to destroy the universe and it's going to be a trade war And a shooting war and this war and that war and we're gonna get taken over by Mexico And we're gonna and now we have in global warming is going to destroy us all and by the you know Meanwhile, I mean look at all look at the global warming scare Speaking of our former president He retires from office and buys a beautiful mansion on the beach in marthes vineyard So I guess if there really is a global warming thing and he's arising He he would know more than anybody. 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I welcome you to take your health back Mahalo Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls of truth of all ages. We're coming back now for my break and before our break We was talking about in 2019. How did james fortland predict the bear? The bull. I want to keep saying bear. Why did he predict the bull market of 2019? And what is he thinking of 2020 now? He spoke about some of the crucial facts that we talked about with about the january Barometer the first five days of the market and he also spoke about how the tears and the trades How the tear um the tears and the deal with china and mexico Kind of opened up the market and brought very great buying opportunities to the bull investors And the first question as we come back into there. I'm gonna ask james, right? We just sounded the quote-unquote phase one of the trade deal with china And I kind of look at and I always say that trump will win the trade war My question is to you james is trump winning is president trump winning the trade war Oh massively If you talk to I used to do a lot of business with chinese companies back in the old days And they are they were basically crying. I mean they all hate trump because he is Sticking her to him really hard and they're much more. They're very dependent on exports at this point in the game and they're They have a lot more to lose out of this than than we have and Trump played them hard and I think a lot of it was stretched out just because They believed a lot of stuff. They saw in the media like a lot of other people and They were foolish to believe that they should have picked up trump's book called the art of the deal And he spells out exactly how you do all this stuff Um in that book and I'm and again. I'm not saying the guy I'm saying if you're even if you're not gonna like him at least know something about him and Uh, he spelled out a lot of his negotiating tactics, which are very clear. He employed many of them In fact, the chinese even try to employ some right back to him So maybe they did read the art of the deal There was a couple of times where they try to pull out of the agreement and do a bunch of other stuff So I think it's gonna only get better for actually and in the end at the end of the day It's going to be better for both countries. It's going to be it's a win-win I hate to use that word because it gets so overused But if if we if if the us comes out of this as a winner China is going to come out of this as a winner as well. It's going to be better for everybody Okay, now and I agree. I always told people I looked at Um, America is the customer and china was like the business owner You know, because america we're in a trade deficit where we buy everything for the most part and china in a position where they make everything So my ideology was that if a business owner and a customer got into it Who would you think win the customer is always right right because we're the ones that's buying everything We don't spend our dollars or take our dollars somewhere else You know, who's going to come up on the short end now my thing to you is Now that we know that uh, trump has done a favorable deal for america with um, I saw that Um to close the trade deficit that china has spent like 200 billion Um, they're going to lift some of the tariffs things like that or whatnot My question to you if going into 2020, how would you position your portfolio? Or how would you what stocks would you buy going into 2020 to take advantage of the possible bull market that you're predicting here in 2020 Oh, well, first of all, I think I didn't mean to cut you off there. This isn't election year Right, so it isn't election year. So usually historically the market's a little odder in election years Although it still has a bias to the upside But I think we're also in a even a bigger cycle is starting to take over right now And I think we're in one of those sort of Huge historical pivot points. I would call it a technological pivot point You could probably say 1982 was sort of a point like this Where the super bowl took off and maybe 1994 was another one of those huge pivot points Where they rolled out all this, you know Cell phones and PCs and the internet and everything kind of a Netscape Netscape Netscape And we had the dot com things there and all that kind of stuff I think we're in another another one of those major pivot pivot points But this time we're going to have some Some of the same things from boats from 92 or 94 as well as 82 In 82 we had a lot of consolidation I think there's some older industries like cable tv and Maybe some of the phone companies And as well as some sort of newer industries that you're going to be surprised That technology is making them either obsolete and forcing consolidation Or just the customer itself like you were talking about is change their taste So there's sort of a taste for different things The second thing I think again is I'm going to urge people do not fight the tape as we say The market is going to it looks to me like it's going to probably attack on another 25% this year So I'm looking for somewhere like 3750 or something like that like somewhere up in that range So what I'm looking at what I'm thinking is we're going to see is more mergers We're probably going to start to see more IPOs We're going to see maybe an internet reboot or the start of it where we go to a sort of a blockchain based internet I know I was Early on I was negative on bitcoin or I called it bitcoin, but I still think the underlying technology is pretty cool Um, I think you're gonna you might even see some change in the way the dollar You might see a renewed pegging the dollar to some kind of solid Source of value like gold or perhaps some kind of cryptocurrency that acts like gold Bitcoin is a little too small in the liquidity size. It's just not big enough To do it, but it works like It's engineered the program works like gold works um I also think that you're probably going to see Some newer a new technology some new technologies like AI But I think it's I'm not a believer that AI is going to take over our lives And we're all going to be obsolete and robots are going to do everything for us I think AI might knock out companies like for example uber May have trouble competing because suddenly you're going to get a little AI System in your cell phone that allows customers to call you directly and you create your own uber You don't need the big company. You don't need a centralized And I I think there's a lot of that and I think a lot of people are very much overlooking that and so I just think and also when you have states like california that are basically trying to stop Sort of freelance workers or putting into it, which is I think catastrophic and totally crazy And new jerseys even trying to do the same thing to some degree I think that with AI is so advanced it would make all those uber drivers instead of being an uber driver They'd be an independent They'd be now uber entrepreneurs and they'd all be their own it would be their own little business So they wouldn't work for uber anymore. They'd they'd be like their own uber and I think there's a lot of technology now That we're going to see fruition of we're also going to see big changes in some of the privacy issues that are available That are on the internet I'll add the reboot of the internet, but I think that just the really nearly selling of people's data and collecting data I think there's it's going to be limited And I think you're going to get you may get controlled back of your own data, which Which to me is really significant Another way if we're going to have more privacy again, which is the big problem because that's why people like me I love alexa, but I would never use it because I don't trust it And even I noticed on apple On the on all the apple voice activated stuff when I when I when I updated the thing It said, oh if you want to use the voice actor When is it okay to use it when when you address the You know the app or like and we like it basically says that they're not going to share you that They're not going to be listening to you right now Although it just came on when we started the the call here on my ipad started talking to me So maybe it was listening. I don't know. I was like so these things are uh, you know, sometimes I'm hallucinating Go ahead now The biggest creek you go to have 2019 we're going to 2020 we've had 10 years of a bull market mean the market's going up since 2019 for an entire decade This is the longest running bull we've ever seen and every day we wake up There's another hundred points. There's another 200 points. So when people see that everybody's always thinking Expansion maybe we're at the peak So that's the first thing, you know after the peak we're going to have a recession So what do you have to say to the people that are going to say well, we've been on a bull market for 10 years It's just been going up up up and up. It would sort of be crazy to not think or to look for a downside Well, first of all, I don't think we were in a bull market I think the market went up only really because the federal reserve flooded since 2008 the federal reserve just flooded Basically what they were calling helicopter finance They were flying around helicopters and throwing money out the window and hoping guys like you and me would pick it up and spend it somewhere And but what we were doing is we were buying stocks with that money. It was it's like uh, the the rally probably prior to 2016 um a good portion of that was just an inflationary adjustment from the Basically the collapse that it was all that QE Like that quantitative easing stuff from the disaster the 2008 financial crisis And I don't really think the market was up that much. I mean the economy didn't grow that much it was Uh, it was kind of we were sort of stagnant for 10 years and and again I'm not don't think I'm trying to blame anybody or anything. I'm just saying it is what it is and I think when you Suddenly you got a new administration Uh, that was clearly an outsider and a business owner a large business owner particularly involved in the real estate business You got somebody who who's very involved interested in what goes on in banking and real and interest rates and things like that um And so you have a lot of push um, I think on uh Uh Like like there's just been a lot of things done Whether it's getting rid of Dodd franc whether it's um, you know yelling at the federal reserve whether it's deregulating whether it's cutting tech I mean larry cuddler was all over tv yesterday bragging about how tax cut 2.0 is in the works And so you get a you get a trump reelection. You're gonna have a storm I I don't think this is going to be the typical second term for president I think you're gonna have a a storm of activity from the white house And from congress doing a whole bunch of things that they probably should have been doing the last two or three years But they've been busy fighting with the president instead or trying to or some people would say undermining the president Um, and and you know if you have different ideas, that's fine on an on an idea ground But I just think this is all uh, this is very much, uh, you know If trump came out tomorrow and said my administration is cured cancer I guarantee cnn and some of these other stations would would say that trump is terrible because he's gonna Unimple all these people that work at hospitals and this is a terrible thing to happen You know, I mean, I mean they were cheering for they were they were crying over a murdering terrorist The guys killed at least 600 people documented He's like a mastermind terrorist and they're on tv like crying about how he was assassinated And then they're ragged about the last time the united states did this was with, uh, Admiral yokohama or whatever it is in japan and i'm thinking of myself well that kind of That worked out pretty well for the us in those days. So maybe this is not a bad thing after all this way, you know I mean, I just This is what you were just flooded with this this noise as you called it and and it and it's it's just You as an investor you really have to Buffer this and filter it out of your head because it's and it's hard because it comes from everywhere Including most of the financial press which is just it's horrible. It used to be very good. And now it's Like a lot of this stuff they publish just garbage All right, well james we got to get ready. We got to get out of here It's all as always we always have fun. We got to bring the show to the end. I want to say Tell people how can they find you? How can they follow you? All right, well, I do have a facebook page called unofficial wall street And if you're fortunate enough to be in new york city, I do do financial tours on wall street Which are kind of a lot of fun, especially if you want to learn the history and some of the crazy stuff that Has gone on um And usually I can be reached at the page on facebook It's called unofficial wall street as I said and that's usually the best way to get in touch with me through That page and I'm more than willing to talk to anybody. I don't give financial advice anymore. I am out of that business Um, but I will tell you which way I might think the market's going or stuff that I think is really important or stuff I think is not important. I'm like All right. Well, that's james fortland My name is prince. Dix as always until the next video podcast cartoon or whatever else crazy you see is do around the globe Peace be safe. I'm out and thank you


Γεια σας γεια! Είμαι μηνυκή, η Βικη για ένα Σκέτας τώρα. Για τώρα's προϊκή στρατιού μπροσιάμαι πως είμαι χρησιμοποιημένη σχέση 13 Weki, η οποία είναι η γλυξή από Ευρώπη. Είμαι χρησιμοποιημένη στρατιού σε ένας σκέτης κάτω,μαν είμαι χρησιμοποιημένη στρατιού συγκλπθόνσης. Είμαι χρησιμοποιημένης σε τσίκω σκέτης. Ενώ η κήγαια μαζί μου είμαι χρησιμοποιημένης, και then I'm going to create a mosaic background. 13 arts products are available in Europe and in the United States, and you will find the full list of all the supplies that I'm using today with links in both continents down below the description area as well as on my blog.  The canvas that I'm working on is a square canvas that is 20 x 20 centimeters or about 8 x 8 inches. So I'm using my heat gun to speed up the drying process and I'm choosing one of those stencils by 13 arts and I finally decided to use a stencil that has a nice text so I will be using the 13 arts modeling paste and you can see how nice and thick the texture is.  When I finish applying the texture I am going to leave the canvas aside to dry and I am going to be working on my focal points. This is a frame by Prima and with a dry brush I am applying a little bit of gesso all over just to prime it for taking up the color that I am going to be adding later on. I am going to use my heat gun to speed up the drying process of gesso and then I am going to apply sprays to color my frame. I decided to go with this pearl gold and the chalk turquoise. So I am going to apply first my blue spray and these sprays are actually water-based inks and you will see that the sprays do not clog and also I really love how the spray the bottle really sprays beautifully. I am making sure that the first layer I have applied is dry and then I can go ahead and spray with my gold paint and you will see that for this project I am keeping my palette limited to only those two colors the chalk turquoise and the old gold and when you are making a mixed media project it is always super easy when you limit your palette you will find that since you have to go back again and again only to the same colors everything is going to come together easily and I am going to show you a few more tips to bring everything together to help the texture of that frame pop even more I am dipping my finger on gesso and I am just tapping only on the raised areas I am also going to add a little bit of gesso on the inside of the frame and I am pretty happy with how my frame looks at this stage so I am going to go ahead and use this metal key from my stash I am going to apply gesso all over it so that I can prepare it for getting some paint on top and again with the same gold spray I am going to color my key To enhance the color even more I am using this paint which is the exact same color as the spray that I had previously so I am applying a little bit of that and now I am going to go ahead and use this pattern paper pad and at the back has those butterflies which I really loved so I am using my scissors to cut them out I am actually going to cut two of those butterflies and I am going to be using only the wings later on and as you can see the butterfly is in blue but it's not the exact same shade as the turquoise blue that I am using on my project so at this stage I am going to use my spray that I've used for the frame and spray all over those wings I am also going to apply a little bit of the gold on top to add some shimmer and I am pretty happy with how my butterflies look at this stage so I am going to try them out and you will see that I am going to stack them one on top of the other to add even more dimension so for now I'm going to cut out this pattern paper that gives a nice wooden background for my frame I'm going to cut it out with scissors to size and here is a tip if you want to bring everything together it's always nice to add some splashes on all your elements using the same color palette that you are using so I am adding some splashes on this background paper and I'm using gold for that and now I'm going to use my gel medium and stick that background on my frame you can use any type of glue to do that but I really like doing that always with gel medium now these are stickers and they are by 30 arts I have chosen one sticker that says magic is everywhere and I'm going to stick it down on my frame the sticker is matte and it blends nicely with the rest of the paper but once I am finished by sticking different elements on top you will see that you won't be able to tell if that was a sticker or if it was actually a sentiment that I have stamped now I have chosen a green pattern paper from the same pattern paper collection and I'm going to enhance the green by using some distress ink and again to bring everything together I am adding gold splashes and now that I have my pattern paper ready I'm going to use a couple of dies and cut out leaves out of it so I will be using my scissor machine to cut them out I will be using the leaves at the end as embellishment for my mixed meteor canvas so now that I have all my elements ready I am going to stick the butterfly at the center of my frame I am using foam squares at the back to add more dimension and I am going to stack one wing on top of the other for even more dimension for the body of the butterfly I am going to use the key I am going to use gel medium to stick the key down but you can use any other kind of white glue as you can see I am adding even more gel medium on top and on different areas of the key as well as around the frame and this is where I am going to add some microbeads I will be using microbeads by Prima in the copper color and I like to stick them down with a brush just because I feel that with the brush I have more control of how many bits I apply and where and although the gel medium looks white at the moment it will dry totally clear and the only thing that you will be able to see are the little beads so now I am adding a little bit of this color or my craft mat I am diluting it with water and I am going to apply that same color on my background if you apply a little bit of your palette here and then it actually brings everything together you can always apply the color with spray directly but I feel like I have more control with the brush and you will see that once this is dry I am going to repeat the same technique with the gold I have added splashes with both my colors and I am happy with how my background is looking so I am going to apply some white glue at the back of my frame and stick it down and once I put the frame on top of my canvas you can see how all is blending nicely just because I have used the two colors both on my canvas and on my frame So now it's time to embellish my canvas a little bit more I'm bringing some paper flowers and I have three different sizes here I always like to buy white flowers just because I can color them in any color that I want to with my sprays and match perfectly the color of my canvas However for this project I am not going to color the flowers I decided to keep them white All I'm doing now is creating a couple of clusters with those flowers making sure that I mix up the sizes of the flowers for added interest and I'm just dipping the flowers in my gel medium as well as the leaves These are the leaves that I have cut out from that patterned paper I am going to create two clusters of flowers one at the top and one on the bottom right corner of my canvas At the end when the gel medium was dry I went back and added tiny little foam squares at the back of those leaves just to make sure that I keep the dimension and they stick out of the canvas And since my flowers are only white to add a little bit of interest and some more detail on them I decided to go with those copper microbeads that I have used on my frame as well So I am adding a little bit of gel medium at the center of the flowers dipping my brush on those microbeads and applying them on top of the flowers So this is going to add a little bit of color on the flowers and at the same time at a beautiful texture Plus it brings everything together since I am using the same elements that I have used inside the frame where the butterfly is on my canvas So you see that I am going to apply not only on the center of the flowers but also around the frame Just a tiny bit here and there If you are wondering where you can get the products that I am using today I am going to add links to everything down below the video in the description area as well as on my blog I am really happy with how my canvas turned out and I really love the color palette So this is going to decorate my craft room And that was the project for today I hope you had fun and got inspired And if you did, don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me a thumbs up or my youtube channel Here are some close up photos of my canvas today And if you need more inspiration here are two more canvases that I made a while back Thank you all for watching


Item No. 6089 Level 1 Unrestricted Containment Class Safe Disruption Class Dark Risk Class Notice Special Containment Procedures SCP-6089 is self-contained within Site-132. Notice, by request of the Site Director, personnel are not to pray near SCP-6089. During review, Site-132 researcher and chaplain Dr. Josiah Lopez has suggested building unique chapels for the various space reflected by Site-132 staff. Description Site-069 designates the former Site-132 chapel. As of June 21, 2019, the chapel is surrounded by impenetrable barrier, which prevents entry or exit. Every Sunday at 9.33 am, two humanoid entities materialize within the chapel. The first entity, resembling former staff Mark ██████, is seated on the front row facing the altar. The second entity is directly in front of it. The first entity then approaches the second and assaults them. Both entities fight each other. After several minutes, the second entity falls to the ground, with the first standing over their body. Both entities then look to the ceiling. Shortly after, the chapel becomes engulfed with flames, and will burn for an indeterminate amount of time.  Sounds including banging, groaning, beeping, and ringing emanate from the chapel. The sounds are unique with each event. A sample is included below. Frequency of sounds increases if personnel pray near SCP-6089. These sounds cease when the chapel stops burning. At 9.30 am the following Sunday, SCP-6089 is restored to its original state. Addendum Prior to June 21, 2019, an SCP designation, an individual desecrated an idol placed within the chapel. The former staff, marked ████, was terminated after security footage identified him as the perpetrator. Due to related altercations, religious services in Site-132's East Wing are forbidden. Update, Site-132 has been notified that interpersonal religious concerns should be escalated to local ethics committee officials and or HR department for investigation.