Right in the eye! Welcome back everyone! This is Jeroen, better known as Dutch Bond fan, and I'm once again rejoined by my wonderful girlfriend, Liettet. Today we are watching 1965's Fundaball, our fourth James Bond movie in this movie reaction series, the fourth official Bond movie as well. You enjoyed Goldfinger a bit more last time? Yes, it's great. And what are you expecting from Fundaball? I think it's a rocket or something. A rocket? Why a rocket? Or with a ball? I don't know. That's just what the associations you get with the tile. Thunder, maybe? No clue. The cool thing is from here on in you haven't seen, well most of them from Fundaball all the way to the living daylights you haven't seen. So it's number 4 to number 15, all of which are going to be first time reactions. If you are interested in the full length reaction you can find it on Patreon so you can see the whole thing there and without further ado we're going to dive into Fundaball. This is the same one. No, this is the first time it's a new one. Now it's Connery. Are you still the James Bond in this one? Now it's really Connery because they changed the aspect ratio for this movie to a wider screen so they had to re-record the camera. Look, my initials on the coffin. No, you have also 3D. Who's this? The widow, but he notices something. Do you notice it? No. She's blown? The way she got into the car. Backwards. She went like this.  No, you're on the wrong track, you'll see. I've come to offer my sincere condolences. My dear Colonel Beauvoir, I don't think you should have opened that car door by yourself. He just killed him. Yep, that was the real Jack Beauvoir. This is fake. Yeah, back projection. What's that? How awesome is that? That was a real jetpack. Yeah, but did he just like put it bare? Yeah, that's the thing I never got hot. Did he do that in advance? You notice the car? DB5, but very dirty. Yeah. Well done. It's under water. Yes. Who's singing this? I was going to ask you. Tom Jones. You know him?  Oh yeah. Or it's not unusual to be loved by anyone. Same guy. They're Paris. Yep. Wow, I love Paris. There will be no need. We have certain funds from private individuals who share ours. That's quite weird. They're Paris, but they're speaking English. Yeah, this is an international company, but there's a secret to this company. Sit down, number two. We will discuss your NATO project later. Who's this? Spectre number six. Oh, Spectre. Million three. Our expectations were considerably higher. But why do they have to pay or what? They bring money in from all kinds of criminal activities.  But it's always the one you don't expect. In about half an hour, Pat. I'll be ready. I've heard that before. Now he says it's from Spectre, right? It's not a Spectre tattoo, but it is from something criminal. Spectre's logo is the octopus. Oh, yeah. Next time I see you, I'll put you across my knee. And yogurt and lemon juice? He's going to follow them. He's going into his room. Yeah, but obviously... There's someone coming! Get behind the curtain! Who's there? Who's there? It's not yet revealed. Well, I'd never have recognized myself. Do I seem healthy? Too healthy by far. He does his hair like hair. Behave yourself, Mr. Monk. This is salty! I don't see there's only one place to keep you quiet. First time I felt really safe all day.  Like, nowadays he would be facing court, probably. Why would there even be a danger setting? Yeah. Yeah, where were you? Well, I... I suppose my silence could have a price. What do you mean? Oh, yeah. He just black nails her. Major Deval Social Secretary. My car's here at Judicals.  You'll be late at the air base. This is the bad guy? You'll see. Your coat, sir? Nice dress.  It's the same guy. That's that guy who was with the... Right. He had plastic surgery to look like him. Yeah. Make it a quarter of a million. Or get someone else. There is no one else. Exactly. The rest of my money. Just have it ready. They don't do this. Atomic bombs? Why do they do that in an airplane? Why do they do that in a test flight? Yes. That's what I never got. So now comes the plan. What do you think they're going to do with the atomic bombs, Spectre? They will drop it. Drop it? Why? To kill. Think bigger? I don't know. They're all dead. Yeah. A test flight who is armed. You're right. That's the part I never got. The Spectre. Yeah, Mr. Largo. That was in Paris before, you know, with the eyepatch. They have like a runway in water. Yeah. They're going to kill him. Why would they kill him? Because he is not necessary anymore. You think Spectre is that ruthless? Yeah. You saw that with number nine. He has to turn it. Maybe it's stuck. He would know, right? He's certified pilot. You were right. He was to be expected probably. Of course they have a boat. What's who? Perfectly placed for a nuclear bomb. Perfectly placed for a nuclear bomb. Perfectly placed for a nuclear bomb. Here, handle like eggs. It says on the bomb. You saw that? Yes. I saw it. Would that say so on real bombs? No, I think not. Put this over the aircraft so nobody can see it. Right, to hide it more. This boat has an Italian name as well. The disco volante. Which means a flying saucer. Oh yeah, you see it. Flying saucer in an Alfa Romeo is also called disco volante. Who do you think killed him? The girl. She is the first true, true bad femme fatale in the series. Every double old man in Europe has been rushed in. And the home secretary too. That's why he's probably lost a dog. We can't see the other one's faces. Not really. But there is a 0011 as well mentioned. But we never see their faces now. Just a little bit. Oh, we saw that. Price. That's the circle the bombs could be located in. Good luck. It's the name of the mission. And immediately believes him. Yeah. He would find out. It's not funny. Yes it is. Have you ever been to the Bahamas? I want to go there. It's definitely a bond location. Starfish. You can't just pick up a starfish like that, right? They bite. They do? Paula, give me a hand will you? Get. Maybe you recognize Paula as well. She appeared in a previous movie. She was one of the two gypsy girls. Oh yes. And now she is in the Bahamas. She's playing someone else. Who's this? Is he from Spectre? Lightly. Oh, from Spectre. So what sharply lies you've got? Wait till you get to my teeth.  No, he's smooth. He's really smooth. He's like molesting girls.  I love his life. In England. He's a commandant. With the NATO forces there. He's a wonderful person. He's dead, right? He killed him. No, that was the guy that passed over the door. Remember the red one? Who's that? The guy with the sunglasses. What do you think he is? Too much characters in this one. Yeah, good point. In Dr. No you immediately... See, I... Yes. Look at this pool. In a pool. Such a barn villain thing, right? They're going to throw him in the shock pool. In 1898. This is the old news. Yeah, so they did strike. So they did agree with the ransom money. So they have to find the bombs fast. Oh no. Ah, 007. What a wonderful surprise. They found his business by clipping you in the field on the run as it were. Highly irregular. Now he does, but that becomes regular. Mm-hmm. To equip him in the field. With special care. Everything you give him. Yes, I know, but that takes eight pictures in rapid succession by pressing that button now. Only eight? Is that clever? But if you can take pictures in the dark with an infrared film, yes. Obviously, you'll only use it. Breathing apparatus. And water. Lots of underwater in this movie, right? Mm-hmm. This was one of the first movies where they had underwater cameras. So they wanted to show that new technology. Ah, a lot. It's so weird because you are using hand grenades. Like 10 meters of your boat. Yeah, it could destroy your boat, you mean. Yes. We just put that thing off. Look at that. Let's get back into Largo. Classic Bond villain mistake, right? They just assume Bond is dead. My outboard capsize, so I have to show them. This is that girl from the... Spectre. Oh, from Spectre. They all look similar, right? This is the redhead Fiona Volpe. Ah. My hero. Yes. Eventually. See, I've always been a nervous passenger. Some men just don't like to be driven. No, some men just don't like to be taken for a ride. About 90 miles is a limit for six hours. Nets out and back. But they put, like, a... A net. A survival net on it. Yeah. The story again is pretty simple. Like, two bombs have been hijacked. The world is in ransom and Bond has to find the bombs. Well, not only bombs. And, you know, find the people responsible. Double O's. I have to find it also. Yeah, of course, but it's a Bond movie. So it's about his... his adventure. Looks more fitting for a woman. Do you know much about guns, Mr. Bond? No. I know a little about women. Mr. Vargas. That would be difficult. No, it isn't, is it? Where are they now? The hotel room of Mr. Bond. Is she? This is Colva and Fiona. And who's Fiona? The redhead. The evil girl.  Now Pola is dead.  I just want the lights out and Polmir. They know something happened with Pola. They didn't kill Pola yet. No. They used chlorophone. So soft. Yeah, I noticed too. That didn't make a sound. Search that way. And you, the shark. And now it's closed. Hell yeah. Was it closed? No, he did like open it and then he run. He run.  Is this the shark pool? Yeah, it's the shark pool. No, this is the normal pool. No, it's not. This is the other one. But they're gonna do this. The pools are connected with the tunnel. Oh, now he's bleeding. Yeah. Blood in the tank. There they come. He has to go to the tunnel hatch. Yeah, but... But what? The sharks. Only two. There were four, right? There's the other one. Better luck next time. That was number four. I'll get back to him just as soon as I can. Anything else? Phil and Pola's dead. Okay. Okay. Yeah, but here. Put someone else jacked in. You see the... Yes. Why? Shouldn't you get out those wet clothes? You'll catch your death cold. Do you think just like Pussy Galore, he can win her over? No.  You having a failure. Well, you can't win them all. I already said it. Like, he can't win her over. Catch her! Are you rooting for the villains now? Why are you rooting for the villains now? Because he slept with her? No, because he's disgusting in this movie. All the sex... He goes naked in his bed. In his... He has a sexy sentence. He's funny. That's not funny. How did they find him so fast? He's being watched everywhere. On the parade. I think the Junk Canoe is a real parade in the Bahamas. I think it's not fiction. It's not good you're trying to escape Mr Bond. I don't want to escape. She's a good villain, right? She's pretty convincing. Dispect the people on her side. Trying to kill Bond. And then he does like this. He's gonna swift her around? Between his fingers too. He used her as a shield. One of my friend's sisters won out. She's just dead. So they have to find the bombs quick now. But they're now looking for the aircraft. Yeah, mainly the bombs. But the bombs are already in the boat, right? Yeah. I wonder if they really harmed a real shock for this movie. I don't think they did. I'm not sure, actually, to be honest. I hope not. I didn't kill an innocent animal for a movie. Would you have the guts to swim with sharks? Nope. I would like to say I would. But probably would be too scared. I do know they don't really harm you that fast. Unless you're bleeding. Unless you're bleeding.  Who are you going to ask? Largo? I don't think we'll have to. This bikini I find the best born bikini in the series. I wonder what you think of it. I'm knowing your fashion sense. So they kind of have underwater sex. I don't know how that would work. Sorry, James. I didn't mean to. What do you think of the bikini? Nice. Beautiful. But I liked her bathing suit. Yeah. I think she's the best looking bonger of the 60s. No, he gave it just like fun to give it to you. If it starts clicking, it means the bombs are aboard. See, now the camera is also a Geiger content. Yes. That was the watch before. Does he do like that? How did he get that right over there? I think he got the point. I saw them putting it right over here. Yeah, that would kind of ruin it if we already know everything, right? And then we're just waiting for Bond to catch up. Yeah. He found him, right? Yeah. Somewhere there is that thingy, right? Was that only at the outside? Like the lever. Yeah. Where did you get that? I bought it this morning. No, why should I? And now you are caught. What is he going to do with her?  By Miami. But why? Today, we're going to pick a major city. Oh, it's the closest to the Bahamas. And also in the book, they guessed it was going to be an American city because they found out that Spectre is Europe-based. But in the movies, all of that isn't explained. The troops of NATO to try and stop them. At least they're wearing orange and black so we can tell them apart. Have you ever seen something like this? No. Like an underwater war? Me neither. I think this is the only movie I ever saw something like that. What comes into help? But why yellow? Looks cool, though. Like a rocket, I think. Like a shipwreck? On the water. Oh, that's what you mean. But he doesn't have his tanks so he does it on his own breath. He has the mini apparatus. Oh, yes, of course. The ride in the head. And there's blood in the water as well. It's a second shark that seems to be heard in the movie.  What? To put on a different... And now it's empty. The glasses are empty. There's no water at all. Yeah. You can't put on a different glasses underwater. That's always movie logic. Where's Lago? Oh, he's escaping. Yeah, back to the ship. Now he's dead. But number one... Number one... He's going to kill him. Oh, Lago? Do you remember the real name of number one that you saw in the credits from Russia With Love? That's cool, right? Hydrophoil, boat. The boat is here. He's climbing on the... the outside of the hydrophoil.  Good luck fighting the Marines. Yeah. So this bomb that he has can never go off because he already put it in the sea. Yeah, that's what he said. That's fast. I don't know. Is this real or fake? What do you think? Jesus Christ. That's really sped up. She comes. I'm glad I killed him. You're glad? Who's he? I don't know, but he helped me. Yeah, and what happened to the guy anyway? Yeah, it's so weird because he's gone. He had no significant role. He shows up. He was the guy that detonated the bombs.  No. The bomb's still active and the boat was like... in the rocks. So the world is saved. Not only because of bombs. No, with the help of Domino. And that guy. And the guy we don't know the name of. So strange. Where's that guy? Where's the guy from Spectre? This time he's not credited. You were looking for his name again? Yes. Maybe next time you'll find out. We finished watching Thunderbolt just now. As always, I'm going to start with your thoughts about this movie. Like your overall thoughts. Too many characters. That's a really fair criticism, honestly, actually. Yeah, I was like who's this? And who's that? Oh, is she bad? Oh, I thought she was good. Yeah, you kept mixing up Viona and Domino at some cases even. Yeah. They look similar even though the one... To me they don't, but I've seen that before. But you saw this movie like a million times. This is for me the first time. Right. No, very fair criticism. Any other thoughts come to mind for overall of this movie? Yes. The bomb villain, she... She like... No, I'm still bad. Even if Bond sleeps with me. Yeah, he can't turn me. Yeah. To me, she's the highlight to this film, to me. She's the best character, I think. Okay. So, we want to get into your rating. We're going to start Bond's performance as always. What did you rate Bond this time? Four stars, just like in Goldfinger. Okay. I thought giving him three stars. But that's just his lines that he has to say. But his performance overall to play Bond it was good. But his lines... You weren't a fan of the dialogue this time. No, not at all. Because you see it in a way from guys and I see it as a way from girls.  It was too much. Too much too much. Yeah, a lot of jokes in this one. A lot of... Sexism jokes.  For me, in this time it was not funny. Maybe in the 60s. I think it was funny, but I don't know. He also kind of molests the guy in the beginning. In the beginning of the movie at the health spa. He just grabs her. And then she almost lost her job.  Yeah. The 60s. Very fair actually.  Yes, he plays it quite well, but the lines not everything has to be with that kind of lines. No, I completely see where you're coming from. Okay, shall we move on to the next one? The Bond girls of this movie. Yeah, there were two. But one of them died. Yeah, Paula she was more like a side character and of course the real main Bond girl so to speak was Dominique de Valle better known as Domino. Yeah. The sister of the pilot. Francois de Valle. Yeah. What did you think of her? Beautiful. I agree. Yeah. And the other one, three stars. Fine. Anything more on her you want to mention? Her bathing suit. Basically the way she looked. Yeah, anything interesting about her character as well? Did she stand out or? No, I mixed them up. Yeah, they look too similar to you maybe. Yeah. Okay. And I didn't know where Paula was came from so... Paula was just the assistant working for MI6 with Bond. Ah, yeah. And she was already on the island. Yeah, I guess so. I guess she must have already that's never explained. She even got an intro of her. No, she was just on the boat. Yeah, helping Bond. Yeah. Okay, I completely agree. I honestly feel like Thunderbolt has the best lineup of Bond girls looks wise. They're all beautiful women I think. Like Domino, the health spa girl, Paula, Fiona Volpe. They're all... They are obviously casted for their looks as well. But the other one Fiona Volpe, which we kind of already talked about, we're going to the Bond villains now. That's the bad guy, the bad girl, right? The Bond villains, Lardo and Fiona Volpe mainly. And Spectre. And Spectre as well. They were all working for Spectre. Four stars. Four stars for the villains in Thunderbolt. Yes. All right, explain. She was the first real bad girl. Right. I agree. And she remained bad until the end of the movie when she died. Yeah. She was... You're completely spot on there. You talked about Pussy Galore kind of being bad, but then she wasn't really like Domino. Just in the camp of the villains. But Fiona Volpe's pure evil Pussy Galore. Yeah, she had also the ring. And in the beginning of the movie I saw like the tattoo and I was like, oh, that's Spectre. He knows Spectre, but you said no, Spectre is like the octopus. Yes, she has the octopus ring. So Fiona Volpe stood out to you. Yes. And then you had Spectre. I was like very disorientated where I'm like, huh? Okay. They were in Paris. Yeah. At the bank where they speak English instead of French. That was a company like a front for Spectre. And then in the back room there was the secret Spectre room where they had all the... And we saw the cat again. In the head of Spectre. But you forgot what his name was. Yeah, I still don't know. You did know from Rush with Love in the credits because it was shown there. Do you think he's going to appear again, number one? I think so. I don't know, maybe. We'll see. It's like the last movie, right? Yeah, obviously in the last movie is called Spectre. But you think he's going to appear in the old movies? Yes. Okay, we'll see soon. There was one more villain we haven't talked about the main one, obviously. Emilio Largo. Oh, yes. The number two, right? Number two of Spectre, yes. With the eye patch. Yeah. What did you think? He looked like a villain. Did he stand out to you? Just a basic villain. Yes, he looked like a villain but nothing special. Yeah, so the four stars are mainly earned by Fiona Volpe to you. Yes, because he did also like swimming and diving underwater. But he's like number two, right? He's an important man. Why does he do his things fine stuff? You think his minions should do all the swimming? Yes. Yeah, good point. If I was a villain, I was like you do like swimming and diving but you over there, over there, over there and I would sit right over there. You were expecting him to be more like that. He was also involved in the action. Yeah, okay. Everywhere. Yeah, true. So Fiona Volpe earned the four stars here for Liret. Moving on to the locations. Yes. What did you think? Four stars. Another four stars here. So the Bahamas this time. Tropical setting in Fundable. Yes, and mainly underwater. A lot of underwater scenes. Yeah, but the Bahamas. Very beautiful. I agree. It was also in London. Yeah, a bit. We didn't see too much of them. And we saw also the other double O's. Yeah, did you think that was cool to see like the importance of this mission? Yeah, in the movies well actually in the books there's only three. In the movies they show here it's nine, but yeah. In the books it was 003, 007 and 0011 I think. Something like that. So the other ones died. They never explained that they were just three in the books but in here they show nine. Okay, the Juncanou Parade was also present in the locations. Yeah, it looked like the Brazilian Carnival. Right. Yeah. I agree. Like a Rio de Janeiro. Which may or may not also appear in a future Bond movie. Moving on to the story of the film. What did you think? I gave it three stars. Tell us about what you thought about the story. It was a typical Bond movie but there were too many too many characters. Right. And I gave, well it has to do with the enjoyment. We'll give the same explanation. Okay. So the story is free and we move on to the enjoyment which you gave. Two. Two, okay. Yes. So your story and enjoyment is kind of connected. Yeah. You didn't enjoy it too much. No. Well tell us about it. Yeah. I got confused very much. Because of all the characters maybe. Yes. And the location it was beautiful but I was like, oh they are now in a cave. Why are they in a cave? Oh there are bombs in a cave but I never saw bombs that they put the bombs over there. Oh. Okay. And now they are on the sea. Okay. And now they are in the house. And now they are in the party because he was like by the bad guys. It was too many to connect. All over the place for you. Okay. It was one in one place in the Bahamas. Did you think the movie was a bit too slow too? Or at least that's my, what did you think? Well that's your opinion too slow.  It's not that much. It's not like I think the promotion with love that was too long. Okay. Did you find that to be a bit slower even? Yeah. Yeah. I feel the story is less complicated this time. You know, bombs are stolen. Bomb needs to find them. That's basically it. Yeah. But they are like they make it convoluted to follow maybe in your opinion. Yes. Okay. Fair enough. Anything else to add before we go to the final score? We had a lot of sex in this movie. That they did, yeah. All right. So that brings the final score of Leeds 4 Fundable to 3 stars. But there was nothing with thunder and nothing with bombs. Yeah. You completely got that wrong. That was just the name of the operation to find the bombs. Okay. So, 3 stars. We hope you once again enjoyed. Next time we're going to be watching the next Connery movie. Do you have any clue what that is called? No. It's called You, I think You can see it on the poster. You only live twice. Yes. That's up next. We hope you enjoy it. That's not correct. Take care guys and see you guys later. Bye.


In addition to winning and losing pitchers, the possibility exists that every baseball game will also result in a pitcher earning what is called a save. In order to earn a save, there are two sets of requirements that a pitcher must meet. The pitcher must meet all three of the first set, which are, he is the finishing pitcher in a game that his team won. The second one is that he is not the winning pitcher, so you cannot both win and save the same game. And the third is that he is credited with at least one third of an inning pitched. Now if the pitcher meets all three of those requirements, he must also meet one of the following three in order to earn the save. So the first one is that he enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and he pitches for at least one inning. The second one that he could meet is that he enters the game, regardless of what the count is, with the potential tying run either on base, at bat, or on deck. So we're saying that the potential tying run is either already on base or one of the first two batters that he would face. The third way that he could earn a save is that he just simply pitches for three innings. So it wouldn't matter what the score is, it could be 17-0 the entire time, but as long as he pitches for those three innings, then he earns that save. Now the first situation described here, pitching one inning with a three run lead or less is the most common type of save you will see in the game today. Teams usually have one pitcher who they have dubbed their closer, so usually if the team is leading by three runs or less, the closer will be brought in to pitch the ninth inning and hopefully for them close out the game. So in addition to simply counting the number of saves that a player has over a season, we can also track a few other things related to them. So if our closer comes into the game with his team winning by three runs, this means that he has the opportunity in earning a save. And so therefore this is what we call a save situation, which is to simply enter the game and if you were to complete it successfully, you would earn a save. If however he were to enter in a save situation and the pitcher would give up enough runs so that the game would then either be tied or that his team would be losing, we would say that this closer has blown the save. So then an alternate way of coming up with the number of saved situations that a pitcher has been in over whatever span of time, we can add his number of saves plus his number of blown saves and that will give us his number of saved situations. Another stat would then be whatever the pitcher's save percentage is and so we can do this at the end of the year, we can take his number of saves and divide it by the number of saved situations he was in and then that will give us his save percentage and so that is saves.


There has never been a study that's been done like this. Some of them became drug addicts, some of them became successful, some of them became CEOs and one person in the study even became the president of the United States. Today, we're gonna be talking about what the secret to happiness is and what it takes to live a really good life. And this actually came from a video that I watched years ago and it's a TED talk from a Harvard professor over a 75 year study that Harvard did to try to figure out what makes a really good life. And this is an incredible story because there has never been a study that's been done like this. And I'm gonna tell you why that is, first off. Well, the first thing you need to realize is when you look at how people live their lives right now, if you look at millennials, there was a study that was done on millennials and they found out that 80% said their life goal is to become rich. 50% of them said that their life goal is to become famous. So if you look at that, the reason why people go for rich and the reason why they go for famous because they think that those things will make them happy. They think that becoming rich will make them happy. Having a lot of money will make them happy. Becoming famous will make you happy. And we all know if we're old enough, we've seen enough stories that those things don't make you happy. And in a lot of cases, they actually do the opposite sometimes. People go for being rich, they make the money, they realize it doesn't change your life and then they don't know what to base their life off of and the exact same thing for famous as well. And you have to step back and ask yourself like, do those things truly make people happy? They don't. And if they do, what is the secret to happiness and how can we start to progress in the way of making ourselves happier? So the best part about this study that Harvard did is that they took teenage boys, literally teenage boys, all the way into their 90s and they studied them and asked them questions, brought them in every two years from teenagers into their 90s. It's the longest study of adult lives that has ever happened before. And they had 724 teenage boys that they studied from all walks of life, from the richest parts of town, all the way to the poorest parts of town, all over Boston, some of them became drug addicts, some of them became successful, some of them became CEOs and one person in the study even became the president of the United States, which they don't name who it was, but at least you have an idea, all walks of life, all things that could happen to them in currently 60 of these men are still alive. So out of the 724, 60 of them are still alive. And so what they decided to do was to continue the study. And they continue the study with their wives. They continue the study every two years with their children. And now they've continued the study with their grandchildren and over 2,000 grandchildren are now a part of the study as well. So they're literally every two years checking in on these people to find out what is the secret to happiness? And so I'm gonna tell you the secret to happiness in this episode. We're gonna dive into. So what were the lessons that were learned? Three lessons, three main takeaways that they learned by studying these guys for, you know, 60, 70 years, 75 years. Number one, the number one thing that they found that brought the most happiness to somebody's life was good relationships make us happier and interestingly enough, make us healthier. You heard me right. The best relationships and people who had the best relationships in their life, it made them happier, but not only happier, it also made them healthier. And so the thing that we're starting to find out and it's a fact, there's tons of studies that especially now with all the stuff that happened with the pandemic, we know that loneliness kills. I saw a study that said being lonely every single day is the equivalent of what it does to your body of having 15 cigarettes every single day. Loneliness kills people that have people in their lives that are great relationships, not just relationships, but great relationships so we're gonna dive into that, are happier, healthier, and live longer. So if you take nothing else from what I'm gonna say, make sure that you have deep relationships. You don't have to have tons of relationships but have deep relationships. The people that were the most well connected with their friends, with a significant other, with their children, lived longer than those who didn't. And so the people who felt isolated said that they were less happier and their brain function actually stopped earlier than those who had great relationships. So not only did they feel better but their brains actually worked better as well. So that was one of the things that they found that was super, super important. The second thing they found is that it's not the number of friends that actually matter. You can have one, two really good friends because I remember when I was younger it was about having as many friends as possible. I don't know about you, but as I get older it's about less friends but deep quality relationships. So it's not just the number of friends but that doesn't really matter. It's the number of committed relationships, quality relationships that somebody has in the depth of the relationships they have as well. They found that people that were in high conflict relationships, so this is staying in a relationship with somebody, whether that's a friendship or whether that's somebody that's in your family but people that were in high conflict relationships were actually worse off than people who got a divorce. So people who got a divorce actually did better than people who stayed in a relationship that was a high conflict relationship with somebody and they didn't leave because, you know, they just thought they were stuck and they didn't do it because of the kids or whatever it is. And the one thing that was a very key indicator is that age 50, when they study people, when they're at age 50, the thing that predicted future health more than anything else was the quality of the relationships that they were in. So when they studied people in their 50s and then 30 years later became 80 year olds, the people that had quality relationships at 50 years old were the ones who lived the longest and were the healthiest at 80 years old. So look around you. Who is around you? Is it people that are bringing you up?    People that feel like they're taking energy from you?  So I always say people are one of two things. People either batteries or they're vacuums. What do I mean by batteries or vacuums?  Being around them makes you feel better. They energize you, they push you to be better. That is someone who's a battery.    Are they vacuums?  So you gotta think about that. You should be surrounding yourself with only people who are batteries and get rid of, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna say it the way it is, get rid of the people who are the vacuums and are sucking the energy from you. So the people who had the best relationships at 50 were the healthiest at 80. People that were in their 80s had a good relationships. When they felt physical pain, this is the interesting thing, when they were in their 80s and they had physical pain, they said it wasn't as bad because of fact they had quality people around them. But the people who were in their 80s that had bad physical pain said that it actually was worse when they were lonely. So the lonely people had worse pain in their bodies than the people who didn't because of, or the people who had great relationships and weren't lonely. So that's the second thing. And the third thing is that they've actually found that relationships, good quality relationships protect our brains and they also protect our bodies. So people who are in good relationships where they feel like they can trust their spouse, they feel like they can trust their friends, they feel like they can trust the people around them and be vulnerable around them, in their 80s it actually protected their brain and their memories stayed sharper. The people who said that they didn't feel like they could trust the people around them, in their 80s their memory declined significantly. And it's interesting because I think about just in my family my grandparents, my grandfather died when he was in his, I think it was 95, my grandfather died, my grandmother died when she was 93. They were together for 71 years and they were sharp.  And it was literally like he was sharp as hell and then one night he died.  It was crazy. It was his body that gave out. But they were people who were always together. They have, I mean, our family is super tight. They were always reading, but they were always sharp. And so one of the things that they find is that people who have quality relationships when they're in their 80s, their memory and their brains are actually protected and they stay sharper into longer age, older age, which is kind of crazy if you think about it. People that were in bad relationships with people they felt like they could not trust their memories declined a whole hell of a lot faster. So what's the moral of the story? Good relationships equal better health. Good, deep relationships equal better health. You don't have to have a ton of people around you. You've just got to have some people around you. And people who are the happiest in their retirement were those who actively worked to replace those workmates that they had with new playmates. So this was interesting as well. One of the things that people really worry about with retiring is what are they gonna do when they retire? And so when people retire, a lot of times the people they've realized that a lot of their friends are literally just from work. The people they hang out with in their workplace. So what happened was the people who lived the longest also had new friends that they picked up along the way. So they were talking about how they might've been a construction worker in a factory, whatever it was, and they might've been a manager there. And by the time they retired, then they started playing tennis. And they got new friends that they played tennis with and that kept them sharp versus just being like, oh, my old friends are gone. I don't have my work friends anymore and sitting around the house doing nothing. So one of the things that was important as well that they mentioned inside the study is that they actually found that the people who did really well were the type of people who would reach out to people in their family that they haven't spoken to in years. And so what they did was they went back and mended old relationships that weren't doing as well as they could have been doing. And so these people, they sat down with them every two years. They came to their house, they did blood samples, they did CAT scans, they did all of their body and they found that these people that live the longest, that were the healthiest, that felt the best, whose memory stayed the sharpest, were people who literally worked on relationships and worried about the relationships being as good as they possibly could other than the people who were like, I'm just gonna sit by myself. Loneliness kills. So if you're out there and you're listening to this, you gotta ask yourself a few things. When you look at all of the people that you're surrounded with, all of the people that are around you, do you feel that you can have quality conversations with them? Do you feel like you can trust them? Do you feel like you could be vulnerable with them? If you don't, number one, maybe you should find people who you can be open, honest and vulnerable with. Number two, a lot of times that I've found with people who can't be open, honest and vulnerable with people around them, the reason why is because they can't be vulnerable with themselves. They don't know themselves intimately. And when you don't know yourself intimately, you can't share yourself intimately with other people around you as well. And so, listening to this, I always like to say that success leaves clues. You can hear that everywhere. Success leaves clues. If someone's a successful multimillionaire, they've probably left clues along the way as to how they've done it. There's steps to get there. If you want to live a happy life, if you want to live a long life, why don't you look at people who have lived life before you and see, okay, if I don't build quality relationships, there is a pretty good chance that my brain, my body, my health, all of that stuff will decline at a faster level than if I don't. Than if I were to build all of these. So then you go, okay, if that's the case, I'm looking around, maybe you do have a quality relationship, maybe you don't. But then you look and you say, okay, are there any relationships that I might need to trim out of my life? We had the snowpocalypse here in Austin and I have agave that are outside and our landscaper came by and said, we need to trim some of the agave because the snow killed them, right? And if I leave those killed parts, like the dead parts on the agave, it will eventually rot the rest of the agave, right?  That's how you should think of your relationships.  So learn from people who have been there before. Take advice from people who have been there before. Figure out a way to make your conversations deeper, to find people that you can trust, to open yourself up to yourself and then open yourself up to other people because when you can be open, honest and vulnerable to people around you, feel like you can trust them, they can trust you, you will tend to live longer and you will also be happier. So take the advice from people who live before you, work on your relationships. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as well.  I lost all of my money, I was five months behind on my car payment and I was living off of pasta and I thought to myself, this isn't my life, like this isn't what my life is going to be, I need to create something of myself.


So let's take a look at an example where I want to convert a list of strings Into floats or rather just if it is a floating point number converted into a float so In this case, I've got a string separated by commas and I've split them Based on that comma and so now I have a list of Elements some of them happen to be strings some of them are integers and Some of them are floats Now specifically when we want to convert something like an integer we can do In that's great. And we can also do you know something like float Here but the issue is knowing which one of these commands to operate from now If I were to take this snippet of code and plug it in so let's just first build out that string Hello 3.1442 What was the last word test? and then Values at string that split on the comma values Okay, so again, we have our list of values that we want to process now again Each thing is currently a string and we can see that in action if I were to for I or for value in values print value and Type value type is just going to tell me what the data type of this particular Particular element is and we can see everything is still a string. That's perfectly fine But once again, we want to process these and we need to handle them in some way now the issue is that Strings have a few functions available to them for example value Dot is numeric Now is numeric is going to look at the contents of a string and it's going to say whether or not it's just numbers So you can see for 42 we get a true statement But you may notice that that 3.14 Still saying false and there is no is float Right. Oh look at that. There is no is float or Similar function for floating point numbers. So how could we handle this and specifically? How could we do it with exception handling? Well, that's a great consideration the way we can is let's first Build out is Float in this case and let me actually Clear out that there we are Well, the idea behind this is What we're going to do is we are going to just say screw it Let's try and convert it into a float if it can then awesome if it cannot then well, oh, that's Something like a string. So in that case first thing we would do is we open up with the try block Return float Value Now again, what this is going to attempt to do is whatever that value happens to be It's going to attempt to return it. However Let's accept because if it's not convertible then we can't convert it. It's it's Hello, it's test. It's not a floating point number So in that case what I'm going to do since we're asking specifically is it a float then we can use a Boolean return statement so return false so now we happen to have in our case a way to Understand and process whether or not a String is a floating point number. So let's try and convert this into The respective in and floats that it needs to be so for I in range Len Values so we're going through each one of the elements and now we're going to do a conditional statement The first one is let's just see first if it is numeric if it is just a numerical value if Val let's see Will will shorthand this so Val is values at I that's more for easier processing So if Val dot is numeric Because if that is a true statement again We don't have it here, but 42 this string 42 that would be a true statement. We want to convert it So values at I is going to equal in Val Yeah in Val we could also do values at I both of those are gonna work. It's More just I want to I'll keep it at values at I You know, but again the entire idea here is now. Okay, well, we've handled just Our our integers and just to see this in action for a second. Let's once again Print our values you can see that the 42 has converted, but once again 3.14 didn't convert into a float because we didn't build it But it's not being converted because it's not considering that a numeric value So let me boom that boom that Now we're going to add in a conditional statement L if L if and now instead of doing Val dot is float That still won't work right Val is float Just to show this still gonna crash right it's still not That's not how we built out our float we didn't modify strings the entire string object to have this is float function instead We could do is float Val and same kind of thing is gonna go on here. Oh well if it can You know, oh, it'll return the float now. Let's see. I will actually change this a little bit. So is float Okay Return true there we are so same kind of thing it just doing some different logic here because I want a true statement and in that case instead values at I instead of it being a Integer would be a float and so once again Just to load that up and I got to reset the is float in memory because again, I've just modified it So once again, I run it. Oh, look at that. No errors because again that got processed appropriately And so if I print this out What do you know I happen to have a floating points 3.14. So again, this is how you can use a try accept block for some easier processing when you're starting to run into things where, you know, you want something to happen or not


Welcome back. Claims of corruption in politics here in the United States and everywhere the species politician operates grow louder and angrier every day.  For the past couple of years the most talked about piece of computer hardware on the planet has been a laptop owned by US President Joe Biden's son Hunter, dropped off in a repair shop in Delaware in 2019 and never collected. It contains hundreds of thousands of emails and allegedly other content besides. My next guest is Israeli-American entrepreneur, writer and activist Yaron Brooke, chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute. He joins me now to consider whether political corruption is as endemic as COVID and if so what might be done about it. Thanks for joining us. Oh my pleasure thanks having me. Very much looking forward to this conversation. Does the Hunter Biden laptop contain evidence of corruption? I think so. I mean it seems it seems like it does. I don't know that we've seen everything. There's probably even more than what we're assuming but he's clearly sat on boards of companies in Ukraine that he had no business doing, that he added no value to and there's something going on in China with some money that he got. So yes I think there's suddenly evidence of that. My gut reaction very early on was why in Ukraine, why was Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden involved on the board of a company in Ukraine of all places? What was going on with that? Well look I think they find the opportunities where they are. I don't think it was targeted in particular. Ukraine is an incredibly corrupt place. So it's easy to smuggle somebody in who doesn't really belong and who has no value to add. But look this is not about the Bidens in particular. This is about American politics. This is everywhere in American politics. You know I talk about this a lot. You get these politicians going into office and they're almost always quite modest in terms of their income and wealth and somehow they come out at the other side and they're fabulously wealthy. I remember an acquaintance of mine was a very senior guy in the Republican Party. He was I think the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives and then he lost. And guess the first job he got right after? Within a month he got this job. It was a it was a on Wall Street job paying him well into six figures over a million dollars a year. Why? Because he knows finance really well. Because he brings some particular skill. Yes the skill of who he knows and the connections he has and how government works. This is how it works and politicians are becoming in America extremely wealthy. Look at the Obamas. Look at the Clintons. They weren't wealthy when they started.  Is that because before she went for president? I'm not sure she gets it today. Is that because she's a brilliant speaker and she has this amazing new knowledge to give us? No it's it's because people are buying influence. And we're undoubtedly seeing the rise of new dynasties are we not. You know how many Bushes how many how many Clintons. You know how many Trumps. You know it does feel as though there are new there are new lineages emerging that we will be. There's no question. I mean this is what happened when you have corruption and when there is this infinite pool almost of resources out there. And if that money is going to flow to people in power and they're going to share it with their kids and with their family then we're going to be creating dynasties. Just today I read that Kushner Trump's son-in-law just started a private equity fund. He has raised two and a half billion dollars for a fund. He wants to raise seven billion. He says two and a half billion. Two billion dollars of the two and a half billion comes from the Saudis. The Saudis he was very buddy buddy with throughout the Trump administration. He helped him get a huge arms deal. One wonders one wonders why are they investing in me as no experience in private equity is no experience in which trying to do. But the Saudis are willing to risk two billion dollars. Well because they bought influence. There's no question about it. If that's what it's about. If we're in if the reality is that modern day politicians particularly in the U.S. but I'm presuming elsewhere if they are just identified by Wall Street and elsewhere as the prime source of influence and the prime source of contacts. How do you break that chain. It's not easy. But the fact is that the more government is involved in economy the more government into fears and our fears. The more incentive there is for me to try to get them off my back and to do whatever I can to get them off my back. So the more we we have government grow and regulate and control the more crony is and we're going to get the more corruption we're going to get that's built into the system. When government is small when government is limited when government doesn't tell me how I should live it doesn't tell businesses how they should run. Then there's no incentive to spend millions or billions of dollars to try to influence them because they have no impact on me. So I think the best way to get rid of cronyism the only way really to get rid of cronyism and corruption is to bring government back to its initial at least in America what the founders intended it to be and they intended to be in a sense an agency of defense they intended it to be an agency that protects our rights instead it's become the number one infringer of our rights in the world. It never was intended to run a health care system. It never was intended to run a financial system. It never was intended to regulate every single type of business out there. It was intended to keep us to keep crooks and criminals and fraudsters and foreign invaders away from us to protect us from that and we have moved over the last 250 years we've moved further and further and further away from that original vision and as we move every step we take every time the government does more there's more corruption there's more cronyism there are more people who have to gain from having influence on the government so we need a shrink we need a shrink government power. Tom should we fear big government should we where do you stand on that do we is more government good or should we aim for the minimum of government? I don't quite buy into this sort of market fundamentalist ideology you know going back over 250 years to a constitution that was framed at a very different time in our history but equally you know I don't agree with state paternalism and I think that's really one of the great battles whether wherever you are on the political spectrum that you have today as I've said to you I think before Neil I don't really see the great battle in the 21st century more between left and right I see it as a battle between broadly between libertarians and authoritarians and I think where your politics sits will be usually somewhere between how you relate to either a more libertarian view of society or whether actually you buy into a kind of Chinese Communist Party view of the world which is as long as material goodies have been delivered to you and your total standard of living increases from each generation to the next you should just shut up be quiet and be happy with what you've been given. Where are you in that spectrum? Big government is usually bad government it seems to me and I'm married to an American at Texan you have to spend millions of dollars just to lose shouldn't there be a cap on how much these candidates can actually spend even at senate level? It's not an issue of how much they spend it's an issue of how big the government is and how much there is to win or lose but I agree money starts you know money talking at that ground level and then they start thinking well it's all about the money of the money but the fact is in many in many campaigns the the candidates with less money are the ones who win money and politics are complex relationships but the fact is that the more power we give politicians the more incentive the risk influence them and I agree about the spectrum I think left and right are bankrupt concepts I think we're basically individualism versus collectivism and you have collectivism of the right and you have collectivism of the left and our political parties today are collectivists of the right and left and then you have individualism which means freedom which means free market and what's sad is that nobody today on the political spectrum nobody today with political visibility is on the side of the individual is on the side of rights and just one last thing yeah this idea of the right the constitution the constitution I believe is based it's flawed it was written 250 years ago we could do better today but it's based on universally true principles it's based on the idea of of equality of rights it's based on the idea of the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness which I think are universal and timeless and if we could return to those principles we moved way away from them the world would be completely different and the glass would be fully full not just half full yeah you see this is where you see I go back to 1642 and an ordinance in the House of Commons that actually during the you know the heat of the Civil War which made the point that that the House of Commons is sovereign so you know we don't have a codified written constitution because we have the notion of popular national sovereignty and therefore the priorities of the people change over time and and of course you're seeing this now with the road versus way debate in America where something that you thought was settled in your American constitutional and socially progressive history like the the basic issue of women's reproductive rights is itself now being reopened and questioned again at a constitutional level America was born out of the Christian faith you know the the pilgrim fathers that went from Plymouth to America and I think that's got lost in the woods because the churches have retreated and there's a gap between parliament and the churches in this country as well as in America well we're going to disagree about that yeah there's a line that I see that a quote from you everyone has a moral right to pursue his own happiness that's clearly redolent of the constitution free from coercive interference by others yes would you say that to some extent that's an upsum of your solution to how we get government to back off and you know put the money down I mean I believe that that is a summation of not just my view of of the solution to the problems we face political solution but I think that is the vision of the Enlightenment that is the vision of the thinkers the the British and Scottish and French thinkers coming out of the 18th century that really created the modern world the idea was individual liberty and individual freedom trusting the individual allowing the individual to take responsibility for their own life to go out there and live and prosper based on on their own action or to fail failure is part of it but failure is just an impetus to get up and go try again so I think that very much this idea pursuit of happiness is at the core of what created America and I think it's at the core of what made Britain the United Kingdom what it is it launched an industrial revolution it launched an intellectual revolution and it made these two countries unique in human history so yes I think if we can return to the idea that the world of government is to protect our freedoms to protect us from coercion to allow us to go out there and live with a capital L then I think we solve all of our problems but it came from a religious base the Enlightenment the Enlightenment is exactly but the Enlightenment is the rejection of religion the whole point of the Enlightenment the 18th century is the rejection of the religion and the adoption of a secular basis for individual rights and that's how we're doomed yeah but when we lived when we lived in a religious society we were poor and miserable and life was horrible the fact is that life has improved dramatically under a secular secular society we're Christians I think where we can probably find agreement though is that whether it be based in the Judeo-Christian tradition yeah that's where it came from and we've lost that it is about the sanctity of the individual you know and that was something that's enshrined in the Judeo-Christian thinking but it's also in some of the in some of the Enlightenment thinking and tell me what it is if we have to cherish the individual do we know and and enable the individual to pursue their dreams freely yeah of course we do but you've also got to remember that individualism or rampant individualism that isn't checked by fellow human beings fellow citizens that's not getting to the argument whether it should be government and collectivist measures but that is the thing about human civilization you know we are not islands unto ourselves as individuals if we were just nakedly pursuing our own individual self-interest on every single occasion whether it's at the corporate level oil companies going off and dumping things in our oceans or individual people exploiting people in their community no man is a great profit from their misery which is you know what we're seeing right in front of us across the channel with this you know a porrant sort of business model this is what happens i think when you don't have some kind of government that is there collectively i mean after all government isn't separate from the people that's the point but that's a true democrat it's a few of individualism because individualism is not the idea of living on an island it's not the idea separate society because society is a massive other people a massive value to you the idea that individualists go around raping and pillaging is absurd indeed all the rapists and pillagers in the world and people initiate war are always collectivists right individualists cherish their life too much to actually go out and commit these these horrific actions uh that are that are being we don't need government to protect us we need government to protect us from really bad guys but once you take out bad guys even Adam Smith understood 250 years ago it's pretty good you know the baker bakes the bread because he's trying to make a living and he bakes the bread well why because that's what entails making a living and because he has pride in baking good bread and that's also a self-interested action so individualism doesn't lead to to all these horrific outcomes on the contrary individualism is the solution to them that all the bad things that happen in the world today happen in the name of a collectivistic ideal uh so i think the solution is more freedom not less more individualism not less a shrinking of government that allows us to pursue our values based on our minds you know we we treat other people as if they're too stupid to take care of themselves we treat the poor as if they don't know what they're doing and and they need to get we need to give them a check and we need to give them health care because we think they're subhuman but if we treated them as human beings with dignity and respect then we'd accept the fact that they can take responsibility for their own lives what we need is to create the space for jobs to be created so that they can go and work work is where you get kind of yeah and it's Proverbs 16 verse 9 man makes his plans God directs the steps you leave God out of it we're doomed man is not God well that's a fascinating debate i'm so i so enjoy a lot of disagreement of course this panel i could tell you yeah disagreement but that's trade isn't it that's interaction that's exchange exchange is where it's all about absolutely Yaron thank you so much thank you that's a conversation i hope that we can continue in days and months and ahead absolutely look forward to it thank you so much


Recently, Mighty Cause released the new Mighty Cause Manager, which is a dashboard experience for nonprofit administrators. As part of this new optimized dashboard, we've also added the donor experience to your dashboard, which helps you customize the checkout experience for your donors and ensure that your nonprofit gets the data that's most important. Today, we're going to walk through the donor experience options so you can get started customizing your donor's checkout on Mighty Cause. Once you're logged in, you can choose the nonprofit you wish to manage from your user menu. You do that by hovering over your name on the navigation bar and then simply clicking on the dashboard that you wish to access. So today, we're going to be using Homeward Trails as our example nonprofit. When you click on your nonprofit dashboard, you'll be dropped into your Mighty Cause Manager. By default, you'll be on the home screen and you can navigate to your donor experience tool from the dashboard on the left side of your page. Your experience is under the Donations section, so to find it, just click on the Donations section and then click on Donor Experience. The first screen you'll see is your checkout steps. This is where you can craft the checkout process for your donors and decide what information you want to collect. This screen will tell you how long your checkout process is and as a best practice, you'll want to keep this process as short as you can while still ensuring that you get the information you need at your nonprofit. The more steps a checkout process has, the more likely the user is to opt out of it. You also have the option in this section of previewing the checkout process in full, which we highly recommend doing. When you go through the process that your donors go through, you may realize that you've got unnecessary steps in your donation process or that it's just more cumbersome than you would like. So this will help you hone in on what the correct number of steps is for your nonprofit based on your needs. So that you'll have your suggested donations. These are four amounts you can suggest to donors to give in when they click the Donate button. Donors can still give in custom amounts, but these are a great way to make the checkout process easier and encourage your donors to give it these levels. We also recommend tying these amounts to something specific they will help provide for your nonprofit, which are the amount descriptions, just to make them resonate with your donors and underscore the importance of their donation to your work. If you choose not to use amount descriptions, you can simply opt not to using the check box. And this is also how you would opt out of using custom donation suggestions. By default, your nonprofit is opted out of using any custom suggested donations or amount descriptions on Mighty Cause, and if you want to turn those on, you need to go to the donor experience page on your Mighty Cause manager. Next, you can opt to allow dedications and designations in the checkout process. These are new options on Mighty Cause that will help you better and more effectively manage your donations. Dedications allow donors to make contributions in honor or in memory of another person, and designations allow donors to choose where their donation goes at your nonprofit. So for instance, if a donor wants to make a donation to a specific program or a restricted fund, they would use designations to do that. For designations, you are in control of providing the designation option so donors can only choose designations you specify in this tool. For instance, here you're able to donate to one of three programs. If a donor does not wish to make a designation, the donation will go to your general fund. When you've chosen the options you want, make sure you click save to ensure that these options are inserted into your checkout process. Next, you can choose what data collection questions you want to add to your checkout process. There are five options here you can choose by toggling the button to on. While there's no limit to the number of these options you can choose, we don't recommend using all five at once. And that's in the interest of keeping the donation process as simple as possible for your donors. And we recommend pairing these options down to information that your nonprofit can use in a meaningful way. On the screen is also where nonprofits on the free plan on Mighty Cross can manage their pricing structure. You can turn on the donation booster to give donors the option of covering fees for you, or you can turn on tips, which ask donors to leave a platform tip to Mighty Cross in lieu of paying platform fees. You can only use one of these options at once. So in order to turn on platform tips, you would first need to turn off your donation booster. Going back up top, we'll go to the Advanced Questions tab. This tab is only available to premium pro subscribers. Premium pro plans are $249 per month and give you access to additional features on your Mighty Cross manager, including the Advanced Questions in your donor experience section. You can find out more about Mighty Cross Premium by going to mightycause.com slash premium. Users who do not have access to premium pro will see this tab, but be unable to access it or utilize the features. On this tab, premium pro subscribers can choose any additional questions they'd like to add into the donation process. You can choose from the list of preloaded questions here by toggling the buttons on and off. You're limited to two questions from these options and they are not required for donors to answer. So while they will see the screen, they will not be forced to answer these questions if they don't wish to. All of these questions are voluntary and designed to help your nonprofit get more information about who your donors are. You can also add custom questions for your donors. So for instance, you may want to ask them how they heard about your nonprofit or how they got the link to make the donation. You can type your custom question into the text box and then on the right hand side, you'll choose how they can answer. The first option is a text answer where they would answer their question in sentence form in the text box. You can also allow them to choose multiple options with multiple check boxes, radio buttons to allow them to choose between several different choices, or choosing an answer from a drop-down menu. And you can also enable the other option. Once you've entered your questions, you'll want to click the Save button to make sure that this is inserted into your checkout process. Again, these questions are all voluntary, so donors will see them, but they will not be forced to answer them in order to make a donation. Finally, the third tab on your donor experience screen is your post-checkout options. When donors are done checking out and they've completed their donation, they'll be sent to a page thanking them for their donation, which is in addition to the receipt that your donors will receive emailed from Mighty Cause immediately after completing their donation. On this page, you can use a text editor, just like the one on your profile and story pages, to add text, video, photos, hyperlinks, and more. You can also add a button at the bottom of the page that will give donors the option of following a link of your choosing. You can preview this page to see what it looks like by clicking the Preview button, which will open up your thank you page in a new tab. The Donor Experience section was designed to be intuitive and put all of the aspects of your donation experience in one easy to find convenient place on your Mighty Cause manager. At Mighty Cause, we're hoping the intuitive design and the new options we've added will help you optimize the donation experience, making supporting your work fun and easy for donors, and allowing your nonprofit to collect information that matters from your supporters. If you have any questions about using the donor experience options, you can email our friendly support staff at support at mightycause.com.


Is it very easy and straightforward to apply for an ETA? An ETA is an electronic travel authorization. If you're traveling to Canada from certain countries and your visa exempt and you're on a list of countries, you need to apply for this before you can get on a flight. Now a lot of people think that this is a very easy application, it just takes about five minutes and in most cases it does. However, if you have a certain immigration history in Canada, if you have previous criminality, it's actually a very delicate situation because what's going to happen is you're going to go into apply and once you're answering the question, there's going to be a section with specific questions and if you lie or if you don't include the right information, what will happen is that it can take weeks and weeks or months or maybe sometimes you won't even hear back and you'll never know what happened or you'll be refused and that could create a lot of problems for you in the future. So if you have complex immigration history or previous criminality, it's better to speak to a lawyer, an immigration lawyer to find out how to apply for your ETA.