Tell us about Domcon. How did that come about? What is that for someone who may not know about it? Domcon is a professional and lifestyle domination convention. I started in 2004. And it's held twice a year. It's been in Los Angeles for the first 16 years. We did 12 years in Atlanta and this will be our fourth year in New Orleans. But back in 2000, when the internet had come around and I was actually on an internet and had chat rooms and things, I was in the Yahoo group for BSM and one day I tried to log on and I couldn't get on. So I emailed the moderator and so on to have a problem. And they said, oh that's because you could throw it out of the group. And she said, well you're doing professional and this is not a program group. This is for lifestyle people. I said, I mean lifestyle is for a while longer, but it wouldn't happen. And I felt at that point, most people don't get in a program and they pick up at one day and go, hey, I think I'll do that as a career start. They'll come out of the lifestyle there and you know something about it. And Belcon was something that I wanted to kind of bridge those two communities together and bring a better understanding of lifestyle and the professional. People told me it wouldn't work for years. And actually when I first thought about it, I was in an event in New York and somebody was putting together a domination committee in San Francisco and they invited me. And I thought, oh somebody's already doing it. So I kind of put it in the back burner and I went in 2002 for this event. And I won't mention any months or anything, but I knew there wasn't going to be another one. It was not good. So I came back and started working on the concept of DomCon, which I assume was going to be a large away event. And a month into promoting it, a big human national event, people from all over the country, wanting to come. But the next day or so it just never happened. The pros are going to try to one up each other. You're not going to get in cooperation. Two communities aren't going to come together. The pros aren't going to want to share business secrets. But they did. They came to DomCon and it was wonderful. And the chatter after DomCon was that the lifestyle people were saying, wow, I met a lot of these pros and they're real people. They really are doing this because they love it. And the pros who were, a lot of them were looking at it as what were above the life of their copyist. You know, these lifestyle people were teaching classes and I learned some stuff. They didn't know what they're doing. So it brought mutual respect between the two lifestyles, a little bit better and it breached that, which was my goal. But then we also have people from the fetish community and the leather community that's coming in as well. So it really brought all aspects of the community. And we're still going on that. But it's an international event now. We're looking at doing Sydney, Australia in 2020. And in Europe maybe 2021-22. So we're growing. We've got actually codoms that will be representing every continent, except for Antarctica. And there's more. We've even got a codom coming from South Africa next month or in May for DomCon LA. And it's embraced it. It's about classes. We have 50 plus classes and we're challenged. We have two days industry-only classes. We have socials all weekend long. We have like 70 vendor booths. We've got a playing party. We've got a fetish club, an awards ceremony. It's continuing to grow. It's a five-day event. Where are you looking in Europe? Well, we're actually hoping for either Berlin or London. We're going to get Sydney grabbed out first and then move over there. When are you going to Sydney? The days are still being negotiated. I don't know if I'll be meant to wait. Right now it looks like it's mid-year on 2020. Okay. Well, tell us about your work with LA Leather Coalition in Erotic City. Because you took a very interesting and unique attitude regarding joining Leather Coalition. Well, actually, the LA Leather Coalition reached out to me in 2005 and actually asked me to come in and become a member. Even though I had been in the Leather community as far as unofficially, you know, with being mentored and things, that I wasn't involved in an official or organized manner at that point. I went to their meetings and they asked me to join. And my thing was that, what can we bring to you? I never asked them what can you do for us. It was always, it was like, okay, sanctuary, and Mr. Sian comes in to the Leather Coalition. How do we benefit you? What can we do? And they said, well, you've, you were aware of Don Con. And I was nominated for like five top-end honors that year. And they said, so you're already making a contribution. And we think you could make a contribution on this board. And so we joined it. And unfortunately that year, the year prior, actually, they took a big step on putting on Mr. Leather, and they hope to help, and they think, unfortunately, it was like, it ended up about $14,000 to $16,000 in a hole. So having done fundraisers and a lot of charity events myself, we formed the fundraising event. I mean, fundraising committee, myself, Dr. Larry Burton, Dave Rhodes, Genesis, Carol, Ron Nethus, and Cody, who was the previous Mr. Leather Leather. And we put an actor here as we put on pageant practices, roller skate nights, rocky water nights.  And then we really found out that the prior people had not been up on having their fees to the state, so it was another $8,000. So we continued the fundraising, but eventually we got it all caught up and stuff. So I felt really good about being able to be part of something that was close to my heart, that had a purpose, and was something that brought all of our elements of our Leather community together. The Roddick City was something that somebody in the Leather community was working with back in, I think it was 2006, I can't remember, 2005, 2006. And they asked if I wanted to help. So I kind of came on board as a volunteer and I was a vendor coordinator, sponsorship chair and basically the organizer of the Roddick City within L.A. Pride. And we did that for a number of years and it was very hard. I loved it because it embraced the King community. It taught education. It brought the head community into it. We had essentially sponsored the Outdoor Dungeon at Roddick City and it was very fulfilling and rewarding to do and to help and to be part of it. But then we ran something in 2011 or 2010 that there was some changes made. And in 2011, not everybody was even invited to join the Roddick City. And one particular element was not and that was they said they mailed on female sub or not welcome. And so it's a head community question and we all went in and having a little bit of experience with working with them and in 2007 I was actually an honoree for West Hollywood and L.A. Pride. And we went in there and addressed it and we were told that, you know, male-male is good, female-female is okay, female-com, male-bonna is okay, but we can't have male-com, female-bonna because we don't want to send a message of domestic abuse. And I said, but it's about education. I mean, this is our chance to tell people what the difference between abuse and DSM is. And they said, well, we had two complaints last year about it. Two complaints? Two? If the Hilton did follow that same pattern, male-com wouldn't be around anymore. Okay. Then I pressured it and then they said something that disturbed me deeply and that was, and I don't want to mention the name, the person said, this is our debt, not yours. So I stepped away from the L.A. Pride and as did most of the head community and fortunately this changed over the next couple of years and in 2017 I received a call and asked if I would produce Erotic City and because they had nobody to do it and if I could then they were not going to help. So I thought, the only way to change things is to take a seat at the table. So I agreed and I went in and I put the group, the Erotic City together, we did it in about seven weeks, we coordinated the whole thing. We brought gay, lesbian, trans, heterosexual, white, black, Asian, Hispanic. Yet we brought up everybody, I brought the entire community and every aspect that we could to perform and have interacted spaces and went over really well and after that they asked me to join the board of directors and with all the things that got going on I had to think about it because one thing that I use my time wisely on is things that I have goals and that I want to do things with and every question that I had at the time but again it was like you can't complain if you're not willing to take a seat at the table and do something about it so I accepted and now I'm one of the officers and the secretary for the board of directors and I'm working with L.A. Pride producing around the city and on the special committee for our 2020 L.A. Pride this will be our 50 year anniversary but basically it's always been for me about what can I bring to the table and what can I do again it doesn't be noticed to me at this time that they have more to be bring than my upbringing because again my upbringing was about if you work hard and you're sincere you put the effort in it will come back to you that everything is an investment you can invest your money or you can invest your time but if nothing comes free so you know I love my community my community is something that in some ways I can look at and say save my life not maybe quite societal ways but I found my place in life and I'm happy, I'm happy every day it's bringing me joy and I see the people going to a robotic city feeling pride, the dog hunt the people who I wish was around when I was their age so it means a lot to me to know that they're not going through the same turmoil and tribulations and things that I went through going back well tell us about the Ms. Sanctuary Leather and the Ms. LA Leather contest we started Sanctuaries joining the LA Title System back in 2007 we were the first non-specific gay organization to take and put a contestant in the Mr. LA Leather we were the first demigod and pansexual space to become a member of the LA Leather Coalition and so we kind of had a little bit of history of operating with Brown dog hunt did that and so on well the women's community has never been the real organized in here and with my position on the board for LA LC and I participation with LA Pride and the erotic city and things like that put me in a nice position to be able to make a difference and in my DS household that's our mantra, make a difference so in 2014 I decided let's do a Ms. Sanctuary contest the compliment to the Genesis and Run for International Leather in 2010 I think it was and the didn't have other cities and I had the whole women's community out there that it was flourishing but not necessarily LA so I thought this is the way many kickstart things and I went to Shea Flanagan at the Alucana Atlanta and I told her in 2013 that I was going to do a Ms. Sanctuary contest and would she like to be a judge and she said oh absolutely and we got back to LA and a few weeks later she said I've been thinking about that you have to be a judge and she's just been talking about that and I said yeah I'd like to decline that because I'd like to become a contestant it was a wow that would be great so in 2014 we held our first Mr. and Ms. Sanctuary contest together and Shea won I made down a couple things to her and I said you know we need to get the community kick started okay and one thing I would like you to do is to build a consummate to the LA Bandit Brothers their sister but it needs something for women title holders so that was the task that I gave her for her title here and she founded the and titled sisters and then she and talking about wanting to maybe do Ms. LA Leather and I told her I would be supportive with her I could be supportive I could not be involved because doing the Sanctuary it would be a conflict of interest so but she had all my support so she busted her butt she went out and did it 2015 Ms. LA Leather contest restarted then dormant for I think about 8-10 years maybe more and our Ms. Sanctuary won Ms. LA Leather and then spurred a couple of other contests around LA that have a way with contests and you know in 2016 our Ms. Sanctuary won again another win so I feel very proud of Ms. LA Leather because it has helped break the ground to get the women's leather community established and started and we're no longer the focus of the women's community here but it was never meant to be the focus it was meant to be a starting point to grow upon and I'm happy to see the women's community grow as it is and I'm happy to see the women's community embracing the women's community to a point I mean the evil has nights for women and things with a lot of people and you leave that layer they say what about the eagles how many other women in there that Charlie and Hunter have been so supportive over the years I mean there's some controversy this year with Mr. and Ms. LA Leather contests being put together that's the whole other story switching gears a little bit although you were raised Catholic you're now Wicca and when we were preparing for this interview you said that there are a lot of correlations between Wicca and BDSM please explain that sure I was brought up Catholic and it became a conflict because again I mean don't listen to everything you're told question things don't grow up to be a father grow up to be a leader and knowledge is power okay so I did question things and in Catholic religion everything didn't make sense and they were very contradictory to me I would be told that God is all loving and everything else but if you didn't do XYZ you were going to burn in health fraternity or something wow it sounds like a real revenge it's like loving in Catholic you're going to do things or you're going to suffer fraternity so it didn't make sense to me I saw contradiction in behavior that I was told that I could go to confession and do penance and all the things I did be forgiven but I had friends who were going to steal candy and go to confession and all of a sudden you're holding it now and you go out and steal more candy and you go to confession again so it was like my spirituality being brought up was that if there's God then when he gave us a brain to think and he used a conscience to know that we couldn't right and wrong I don't believe in a religion I think it's bogus I think it's manipulative and controlling and being a sort of coming from a science background in college I'm very analytical so it didn't make sense that there's some being out there that created everything so my thing was if there is something I meet my maker one day I'm going to be able to take a look at many eyes and say I made some mistakes but everything that I did I thought it was right and my conscience if I found out it was wrong and my conscience told me it was wrong I didn't do it again so I drifted away from that and said I had nothing to do with any religion and Genesis at the time was after I was married I actually was wicked and one day she said to me you know everything you want to do I go where you want to go I support you in everything you do and she was really helpful into the wicked practice and she said and I've asked you before to explore it and you won't and I said I don't believe in a religion but you know something I will so I went and I realized that how it resonated with me was that it was about karma which I believed in it was about how you live your life it was about what you put out there and what's going to come back it was about the the elements you know fire you go through elevations and when I raised I mean my priest my priestess I did something about I did night play I did fire play and you know temperature play with ice which was all the elements of air the elements of water of the fire and it was like wow it's frustrating I'm also very ritualistic in my play I like to take moments and I set the scene between when I pick up a flogger it starts in the audience of the room and setting it up and this is what this was and they weren't telling me that there's a supreme being that's going to punish me if I don't do what they say so it was like this is not what I thought it was this is a spirituality and something that touches me you know what goes around comes around the foundation and everything involved with it I can identify with you know I thank Jen for opening that door for me and helping me explore it because it's given me some balance in my life I'm not so cynical now about spirituality tell us about Whiteman's privilege what is that I mean I had the unique being transgender being unique in having grown up male and seeing how you're treated and so now I didn't transition when I was young I transitioned older in life so I lived as an adult male in the world in the music business and I can tell you that when I was treated as a male and the way I'm treated as a female are different they're much different I mean as a female they're very courteous they're very respectful but respectful in a different way it's new as a male I never questioned on a decision I could take I could go and buy a car and never get questioned on it after transitioning it's like are you sure you need this it's the right part little things like that the way people move out of your way they do it I guess as a female they move out of your way as a male they move out of your way as a respect at least that's my experience that's been the way that I've related to I've lived on both sides of that line there's probably more to it every day but also as a male I'm worried about going out at night I was in the music business I was in the sunset trip I had no problem going to my car at 2 or 3 in the morning but when I transition I don't do that I don't walk by myself at 3 o'clock in the morning down in Hollywood or LA or anything like that not only because of the female because of the vulnerability that you feel it's not even that I feel as vulnerable because of me but it's the vulnerability and the empowerment that the other person may have and they feel that they're more powerful than you that's when you're in danger as a male they would not feel as if they were more powerful they'd feel more even basis and being transgender makes it even worse because now it's not only do you fear sexual or like that but now is it bordering on that person someone who's hateful you know and it becomes much more dangerous well building upon that there's a lot of violence toward transgendered individuals a lot of many people are even murdered what are your thoughts on that it I saw in the 70s and 80s when there was violence I grew up watching you know the house next door was sold to men what the hell and everybody was nice but behind their backs the whole neighborhood I think they're homosexual I think they're homo-laws and negativity and that you couldn't go in public and hand out truly you couldn't share any kind of intimacy or let people know that it was kind of intimacy because people don't really understand but there were people who felt that it wasn't acceptable as far as gone on or wasn't acceptable as far as men shouldn't do that and there are people who are getting beat up there were people who were being prejudiced against and thrown out of their jobs and their homes and everything and I've seen over the years things get better and get better and we're in my opinion taking a huge step backwards in the last two years with their current administration is I don't think there are more people that are hateful because they were there and that's why I say that we still fear going out ourselves at night we still have to give our surroundings because they're down there but now they've got a voice and now they've been empowered and have a feeling of acceptance and as a result it's on the rise again and it's it's sad because yes, transgender but even people of color and more importantly is transgender women of color are getting murdered all over this country every day and there is no media coverage of that it's a bad situation what advice can you offer a viewer or anyone else who may be here that's considering gender reassignment well, I think number one is you've got a I don't want to say that there's people who are so sure of something and when you're sure of something nobody can tell you different and that can be a good thing and a bad thing one of the things I learned about psychology especially being transgender because there was a question that I wanted to make sure that I knew when I talked my therapist about it was genuine and what my therapist explained to me was that there's something called primary and secondary and primary whereas it's really the way you're wired that is who you are but there's something called secondary that's that can be very dangerous to you and that is that you dress in whatever direction you're going and you feel really good about it and there are times when you may be going through family problems you may be going through problems with your work lost a job, financial problems and your escape is that cross dressing and pretty psychologically what you start to associate is I feel good when I'm in that mode so you start to believe that maybe I'm transgender maybe I'm too long for this argument I'm going to dress I feel really comfortable I'm not worrying about anything I feel good but when I go back to my everyday male life I'm unhappy well the unhappiness is the result of telling to deal with the day-to-day business so you start emotionally thinking and associating it so you start to lean toward that and among those people when they're going to a therapist and the therapist questions it they're like well you don't know what he's talking about I'm going to I know and they make a mistake because it's not something you turn around and go back so my advice is that go into an open mind and I can share that when I went to see a therapist the first time I didn't hold and I wasn't a praying type of person but I hold with all of my heart what I was going to find out was that I was a heterosexual cross-dresser and it was a kink and it was a sexual turn on because it would have been a lot easier in my life to stay male and dress and have fun and playtime and kind of now you can do it in public I went into an open mind and said that's what I hope but I'm going to find out what it is and through my therapy a lot of times I thought my therapist my question was whether he was really hoping or not it was really hard but I realized in the long run you go through a lot of tests and it's very serious and you have to be honest with your therapist be honest with yourself and accept whatever it really is and deal with it see guidance get an entering feel proud be honest be yourself just don't win your life for everybody else in the world What's the biggest misconception about you? I don't know if there's any real misconceptions because I've always been really open I've been open about being a pro-dom I've been open about the newly business I've been open about being trans so I don't know if there's any misconceptions you know what maybe one of the things that I wouldn't call a misconception maybe to something you don't know is that I was completely blind from 1994 and most people I don't think most people are aware of it I've been known for people tell you how good I am with drawing whips so from a long time I've been blind since I was a pro-dom I kept that as a kind of secret you know what I'm starting to say oh yeah I'm easy with this whip I'm blind you know doesn't give a good level of confidence by now people have seen me draw whips they know how good I am so I have no problem telling them just think if I can see Mr. Sayan thank you for hosting this interview and thank you for hosting us you're a sanctuary


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و أقولوا في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكاريم المنزل و أقولوا قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي و لا أتأوّاله بحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على ابت الله ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعي هذا هو أمر جدًا و إنه مجدًا جيدًا في المشاركة أن يظهر that the person asking the question has realized the problem with these gatherings is that they gather together with their relatives in order to keep ties with the best of intentions but the sitting ends up revolving around and even the children are becoming affected the answer here is not to cut off from those relatives but to change the habits that you have this might require changing the way you behave towards them including advising them and it does require a person to be brave I remember a gathering I wasn't present in the gathering but I was I remember a gathering I wasn't present in the gathering but I was told about it by someone who was present that there were a group of people together they had gathered together for the sake of Allah and the conversation turned towards backbiting and one of the participants in that gathering was brave enough may Allah bless them they were brave enough to stand up and say that I think we should stop our conversation here and change the subject because this is an example of backbiting it's not right that requires bravery but ultimately it is possible to do the first time you do it it might require a lot of bravery but once you get used to it it becomes a norm for you ultimately you have to change the way that you behave towards those relatives you can't just keep going and keep getting involved in those gatherings but you still need to find a way to keep ties with them including advising them and so on the problem with cutting off is that if you cut off from them number one cutting the family ties itself is sinful and number two they won't actually stop their backbiting but if you can't speak up to stop the evil you can't sit in that particular gathering that doesn't mean you have to cut off from them completely but you can't sit in that gathering and that's why because Allah is the greatest in the Quran وقد نزل عليكم في الكتاب إذا سمعتم آيات الله يكفر بها أو يستهزأ بها فلا تقعدوا معهم حتى يخوضوا في حديث غيره إنكم إذن مثلهم and it has been revealed to you certainly in the book that if you hear the ayat of Allah being disbelieved in or made fun of then do not sit with them until they change to a different and become involved in a different speech if you do then you are like them so it's not allowed for a person it's not possible for a person to sit in that gathering while backbiting is taking place and saying nothing they have to leave the gathering however what they need to do is find a way to keep ties with those relatives in a way that changes that dynamic and changes those habits either by speaking up or changing the times you meet or the way you meet instead of meeting together in the house with negative influences upon the children maybe meet together in your house for example maybe meet together somewhere outside where it's possible to control the conversation a little more maybe invite a third person to this gathering who has the bravery to be able to speak up for example you have to keep the ties but you have to change the way and the dynamic and the habits that are happening in those gatherings and ultimately if you can't do it you can't attend that gathering and Allah knows best السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته how can you do a two second action right now that will give you a share of the reward of everything we're doing on this YouTube channel simple like this video and click subscribe why it will allow YouTube to recommend our videos to other users and imagine the huge amount of reward that could be waiting for you on the day of judgment if you did that with a sincere intention of spreading the deen of Allah you'll be rewarded for every single person who benefits from one of our videos as a result of your like or subscribe that's an easy two second action that you definitely don't want to miss out on do it now click like and subscribe and don't forget to make that intention


easily. All right so let's hear from Aaron judge post game with the media and Meredith. Hey Aaron is there any element of relief that you guys were able to squeeze this one out in the 10th and avoid the sweep. Yeah definitely it was it was a rough series all around. I'm really happy to get anything going really offensively you know kind of missing that big hit but today you know we had Joe Rochelle kind of lead us you know just from the first his first that bet on you know we needed a big hit that Homer and then late you know adding a couple more runs for us so it was a it's always nice and in the series with the win. I wish we would have won the series but it's good to get away there to get the win. O'Dore had his first start as a Yankee today. Also the go ahead run single in that 10th inning. What does he bring to the table. Wow he's a guy that brings some versatility. He brings brings some energy. He's gonna have some great at bats. You know today he was found on some tough pitches. He's aggressive. You know that's what you need. You need a guy like that and you know especially in that situation where we need you know need someone to step up. You know he took it right there stepped up and drove in the run for us. You'd miss a couple games with the left side soreness. Can you describe exactly what you were feeling and how you're feeling now. It's really tough to describe. You know I'd rather you know any soreness based on track record rather you know instead of missing a month why not miss you know one game or two games. You know what's the difference between you know playing 155 or 157 you know. So that was kind of the antenna behind it and you know feeling good now. We go next to Dave Lennon please unmute. Hey Aaron with the chances that you guys had today you had a bunch of guys on base but how many times you just look and say this is going to be the time we're going to bust out of it here and then it didn't really happen for you now. I mean I just that surprised you a little bit that it kind of went on for as long as it did. Yeah we've always had a little some struggles here in Tampa. I don't know what it is especially with guys on base you know we just can't can't muster up that big hit you know and every single time we go up there we're always thinking like this is it. We got guys on base couple knocks a walk while pitches like this is this is our ending and then you know we just kind of follow up short but we had a couple guys step up for us today like I was saying earlier Jill stepping up big for us especially getting that home run to answer back. Hixey drove one in with I think a ground ball might have been a double play but got another run you know Ruby you know stepping up for us so it took us a couple games to get that big hit but we finally didn't you know we're looking with the wind.  You don't want to use the term but you know kind of over anxious or anything but you guys did feel like this was a not a desperate game but one that you really needed that.  Thank you. Morley Rivera go ahead please unmute. Hi Erin how do you feel at the plate right now. Really good you know getting the ball hard trying to swing your pitches in the zone you know taking my walks you know so we're still early in the season you know always trying to improve but feeling great.


Okay, in this video, I want to explain to you. Okay, if you are still dropshipping, if you are like not doing numbers now Okay, do this instead. Okay, do this instead. Okay, so let me go to the whiteboard explain to you what to do And like it probably like four or five steps very very simple, but stop stop whatever you're doing. Okay Think along them. Okay, just want to tell you that first. Okay, so let's start. Okay, if you're still dropshipping for example Okay, dropshipping is okay. Like it's it's just a business model, you know, a lot of people do it So it's fine. What I'm saying is that transition to becoming a more a legit business and so that Branded e-com is going to be your future.  Okay, go ahead. Do your dropshipping. Okay, do it for like three weeks or so Okay, so what the purpose of these three weeks, right? Let me just tell you The aim of what you're trying to do here when you run ads and stuff, right? You want to go and get sales Okay, you want to prove that your business is a business that you actually can make money in this in this product right here, right? So your purpose here is cash flow. Okay, you are trying to produce cash on demand Okay, so you're proving out the concept the unit economics Okay, everything makes sense if I sell one thing do I actually produce enough revenue to maximize sorry to produce a profit Okay, am I providing enough value to the marketplace such that after advertising after transaction fees and stuff I'm still making money. Okay, so that is the the concept of what you're trying to really do here when you're dropshipping Okay, and why I say three weeks, right is because I want you to like run sales up to the point where okay It's consistent enough, right? It's consistent enough such that you're comfortable with actually going to a branded e-commerce model Okay, that's number one and number two as well. You're able to actually produce cash to buy your stock Okay, so what you're going to do afterwards is going to be KPEX Intensive which means capital expenditure in accounting terms is basically just means you're just pulling out money up front Which means there's a risk to you involved Okay, and so you're putting cash in you want to produce enough positive cash flow. Okay positive cash flow here Okay, such that you're able to fund the next stage of your journey. Okay, so what is your next stage? Okay, so for you imagine you start your dropshipping you've done it for three weeks. Okay, you've produced like imagine Okay, best case scenario right for example, $20,000 in sales. Okay, you popped off Okay, and then after product cost everything right you have spent 17k. Okay, so you made a measly 3k Okay, that is a fantastic sign. You know why because it just means that the model is correct Okay, it just means that this is it's works. Okay, you have sales. Yes. Okay, you have cash flow.  Okay, you go and tell them. Okay. Hi, Mr. Supplier I want to buy a hundred a hundred units of this product right here Okay, and if you know anything about inventory suppliers and stuff like that There's something called lead time. Okay, lead time basically means that it takes a certain amount of time for people to actually Produce a product for example. Okay, so for example They may say you may take 30 days to produce 35 days or whatever it is. Okay, and this is basically lead time right here Okay, there's something called MOQ as well so MOQ is basically called minimum order quantity and people especially wholesalers Okay, let me just this term right here. Okay wholesalers. They want you to buy in bulk Okay, the reason why is because it's it's more worthwhile to do business with you when you're paying them like thousands of dollars instead of just Like paying like $40 for example. Okay, so that is what the the reason of MOQ is right? So that's why you buy a hundred first Okay, so this is your first essentially your not risk, but your first real investment in your business purely because you are Purchasing stock. Okay, so you're buying stock and the reason why you want to buy stock as well It's because your cost your cost per unit price is going to go down Okay, which means that your overall net margins of your entire company is going to improve over time Which means that you're gonna make more money over time basically. Okay, so your MOQ you're gonna order for example, Mr. Supplier I want a hundred units of product a right. So you give me this MOQ. I'm gonna ship this to the warehouse For example, I'm gonna ship this to the warehouse and then I'm gonna do something about it I'm gonna sell it Okay, so because you already have proven these three things here your sales cash flow and unit economics, right? By doing this actually you're reducing the actual like cause of good. So your cogs, right? And you're increasing that profitability Okay, so after this three weeks you want to sell this hundred and then once you imagine you're selling around like 70 or 80 Right, and then you only have like a very little in stock in your warehouse For example, right then you go into the next stage of business. Okay, Mr. Supplier I want to order 300. Okay, and so as you can see right, you're not trying to You're taking the the biggest pussy move of all time basically You're being very very conservative, but you're being smart about your investment and cash flow Okay, the reason why is because when you buy 100 at one time when you buy 300 at one time, right? Imagine the cost per unit price for example is at $4. Okay, and people are gonna ask you to pay up front Okay, so if you are very tight on cash flow for example This is gonna take you at least $1,200 in at like cash down down payment. Basically. Okay So that is why you progressively in a sense you progressively scale up your stock Okay, this gives you more time to basically produce for example more influencer content, right more video content Right and also improve your marketing at the same time and also help you do email marketing Okay, so can you see here how by taking it slow, right? You're able to slowly build your business, right? You're able to start from scratch at a very very low spend very very low risk to you You start job shipping.  You're going to order more quantity and more quantity at the same time Okay, so after this I would I would generally say after this you're quite comfortable with the e-commerce model and stuff Right, but imagine after 500 you said, okay, we are all comfortable. Everybody knows how this game runs Okay, let's go to the next level once again. Okay, so what is the next level after you go 500?  Okay custom packaging for example And then you do custom logos Okay, so this will require obviously additional stuff as well purely because the supplier is doing something custom for you So that they maybe even have like a mole in the factory or they need to like, you know Produce your stamp for example and this stuff cost additional money, right additional boxes and stuff that that looks very very good basically Okay, and so after this right you should be able to have like very very good business purely because you have Basically build out your entire sales channel right here, right? Okay. We have sales coming in Okay, so we have not a lot of financial stress Okay, we have additional content that we have built over for example This is month number one. Let me say this is my number one. This is my number two This is my number three. Okay, imagine this is one zero, right? So in a matter of three months, you're built an e-commerce model that has proven sales, right?  You not only like build a real business Okay, people are going to start coming back to your store. Okay, and that's what people don't talk about Okay, it's retention. Okay retention is basically when people buy from you one time and then they're like, okay There was a good experience that I have with these people. Let me buy from them another time Okay, and that is where most of the money is being made. Okay, that is where most of the profit is being made Okay, so that is why let me just say, okay If you have never done this before obviously it's gonna be challenging But what I'm saying is month zero to month one for example. Okay, I want you to focus on growth Okay, revenue Okay, proving out the model once you come in this space here, obviously then you worry about lifetime value Okay, LTV lifetime value as well as you worry about how this is retention Yeah, retention is here as well as like refund stuff like this Okay So the reason why you should worry about this stuff here, right? It's because you know for a fact the product here that your custom stuff right here Should be your best products whatsoever. Okay at the start, right? Your products may have product quality and stuff like that obviously try to minimize that as much as possible But where once you start getting into volume once you start getting into custom stuff You really need to protect your brand equity such that your lifetime value is a protected over time as well Okay, so hopefully this gives you a good skeleton or outline of what you should be doing But basically if you're asking, okay, if I'm still dropshipping now, what what should I do next? This is what you should do next. Okay, if you've never even started e-com This is what you should do. Okay, if you're already branded e-com guy, right? And you're here Okay, then I want you to book a call. Okay. Yeah, okay, so How do I say this? This is the progression of what e-commerce looks like.  Okay So this is the model and not only this is the model. This is the future everything here, right? It's like dropship is going to die like there's no way it's going to be sustainable anymore Okay, so it's best you better transition quickly if you're still doing this But what once you understand how to do this, right? Like everything becomes Increasingly easier as well. Okay, Ken. That's pretty much it from me. I know it's around 10 minutes Okay, so if you have any questions feel free to put them down in the description or the comment section below I will reply. Okay, and if you need help with your advertising and stuff Uh, I will put some links in the description and uh, if you're interested you can book a call with us as well Okay. Yep. That's pretty much it from me. Uh, and hopefully you enjoyed the video. Um, I will see you in the next one


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Thank you Wider and thank you Carlos for organizing this session the paper that I'm presenting is a joint work with Viviana Arancilota and Joaquin Torres and it's also an empirical paper and what we aim here is to provide empirical evidence about the combined evolution of income inequality and the productive structure of the economies at the world level and we approximate the two dimensions of the productive structure the level of informality and the level of economic complexity. In the in the paper we explore iteration it is in terms of income level and regions and also different measures of income inequality I'm just presenting some basic results because this is work in progress. So this is a main question in development economics how are the levels and changes of income inequality linked to the productive structure of different economies. We know that they are linked mainly through the different intensity in the use of productive factors in the sectors of the economy and this intensity is reflected by the use of a skill or a skill labor force but also by the use of informal or formal labor or by the intensity in the use of technologies. So the literature analyzing income inequality has mainly focused on micro determinants at the individual level and mainly exploring the links between the role of the relative wages between skill and skill workers or skill bias technology and trade liberalization and to a lesser extent the role of institutional factors like wage bargaining or minimum wage. So here we try to to make this association with the with the production structure and we have like two attempts to do this as I said with informality and with the economic complexity of the of the production. In terms of informality even if these are two main feeders of developing economies the levels of inequality and informality there are not many studies that try to explore the link. There are some studies for different countries but not like generalizations. We have studies for transition economies, the studies from Rosar that find like a positive correlation between informality and the genetic coefficient. In the recent literature for trying to understand the decline in income inequality in Latin America there are also country studies that explore these links for Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and for many countries for some countries but this most of this literature which is based on micro data suffers from endogenous correlations. About economic complexity conceptually the idea here the idea is to reflect the diversity of individual knowledge in an economy and how this is combined and translated into the production and into what the economy produces and based on this idea there is an index that measures economic complexity by Edelman Hausmann and this index has been used in previous studies that approximate a similar question. We have this study for Hadman and Kossos that test the relationship between economic complexity I will later explain the intuition behind the measure and inequality and income inequality with a panel data for countries the usage in index from another world for another database that includes a lot of countries and from from them all we have some more recent papers that again explore this relationship for example this one from Lea Ambu who also find the idea that there is a negative association so when economies increase their complexity in terms of production there is a decline in inequality they also find that but when they do dynamic panel estimations the results change and there also some other papers that tend to find this same kind of association but in these cases mediated by human capital and literature review of this literature is there in that paper of Hadman. So what we do here we have a panel of countries for the period of 1990 to 2018 data for income inequality at the country level comes from the weed database. We tried with two measures of informality one is informality as measured by the by ILOs the share of informal employment. The problem there is that the coverage of this database is not good enough so we the sample is restricted and then we use the share of informal output in total output for the informal economy database from the World Bank and some are estimations on the others are modellizations of this measure so it's a new measure that tries to reflect the percentage of informality the percentage of informal GDP and the index that I was mentioning the economic complexity index combines information about the diversity of the production of a country so the number of products that a country exports and the equity of these products that is the number of countries that produce an export the same type of the product so the idea that more sophisticated economies are diverse and are able to export products that on average are only produced by a few number of countries. The method is similar to the to the other papers we also have a country fix effect and not there I don't know why but it's basically trying to to estimate the link between inequality and the measures of the productive structure these two measures and we have control variables and we also do estimations for different regions and groups of our countries but I'm here I'm presenting just some basic results first is something about the data that we all know but there you have the the gene index for this from this database and we can see a higher inequality levels for South Saharan Africa the green and also for Latin American countries the yellow ones about informality we have as I said we have two measures but this measure of ILO is very incomplete so we can we we don't get results with that but the other measure about the informal output as percent percentage of GDP again we have a higher levels of informality for Latin American countries and from Saharan countries and here we have this economic complexity index the I should have said this before but the colors reflect the region so again we have South Saharan and the green and Latin American the the yellow countries with low levels of complexity and we have European countries at the top these are the changes we have here just to to give an idea we have three points in time well of this economic complexity index and what we see there is that the the blue dots that show like the the trend in time increased for East Asia and the Pacific and for South Sasha that those countries were able to to make their economies more complex in terms of the production and rather a quite stability for example for Latin America or South Saharan Africa so some descriptive statistics the association the positive correlation that I was mentioning between GDP and informality we can see it at the at the world level also both with informality in GDP it is the upper part and also with employment but it's not so clear and then we have in some the same in general terms in all regions but with some exceptions and we haven't this correlation between Gini and the economic complexity index so this is like the first chess correlations and what we have there in the in regions is that that negative correlation is not you cannot see that for the yellow dots that are the low income countries that is different a different correlation there so some basic results I will present the results without without the set of controls because they are they when we are proving the contrast that the main result remains so I just present the basics to give the idea of what we get we get in the first column the positive association between informality and measure with the GDP measure and inequality and that that estimation only includes a counter for GDP in the second case with with employment we we do not with the I law measure we do not get any results and with economic complexity complexity we get in the third column a positive result which is different from previous results in the literature and that what we are now trying to to understand and when we in the other two two columns we we estimate to we using the two measures and the two measures of product extractor and the results are maintained and what we do here trying to understand this difference with the previous literature is that we consider economic complexity and also in a nonlinear way in the first column is just a repetition of what was I showing the positive relation but in the second one what we do is that we include the quadratic term and in that case we have the a positive relation and then up to a certain point of a certain level of complexity of the economy and then a negative relationship that it's similar to what previous studies found if we or what is the difference with that one if we include the control with GDP that remains and if we split our sample between high income countries and not high income countries we have a negative the negative relationship for high income countries and the positive for not high income countries so what we are now exploring is like trying to we we we took the the previous evidence from article and replicated it it's not exactly as the second and third columns are the replications we get results very similar to them and then we change only the sheenish as to see if the differences in the world database are are driving the results and it's not the case with the results we get that so what we are now exploring this is full ols because they have this and they have also fixed effects but we cannot reproduce them because they add some data that it's not available but we are looking for that but basically the the the user an aggregation for for for for periods of time uh averages for two periods of time so we are like exploring if it's the fixed effects the aggregation or or just the fact that the linear that the contrast that they are in but when we do that we sometimes it's the same are like a driving those we start but basically what what we have up to now is that the levels of informality measures a percentage of cdp are associated with higher levels of income inequality and contrary to previous evidence economic complexity is associated with higher levels of income inequality but when you do a non-linear modernization that depends on the on the level so as economists get more complex they present lower inequality but after a certain level of economic complexity so that's it okay thank you


Hello, and welcome to the session in which we will discuss processing controls. Processing controls are part of the application controls. Here we are talking about accounting information system application control or generally speaking information system or a software application control. Now before you process any transaction in an accounting information system, you have to input the data. You have to feed the data into the system. Then the system will process the data. Now on the prior session we looked at input controls. So how do we avoid bad data from getting into the system in the first place? In this session we're going to be discussing processing controls. Now both input controls and processing controls are part of the application control. Then eventually next we're going to discuss something called output. After the data is processed it's going to spit out some output. It could be a report, a statement, some sort of a record. Well we're going to also have output controls but that will be the next session. So why do we need to learn about processing controls? Because of the input controls that we spoke about in the prior session and remember we spoke about the batch input control and real time or just simply the input control. So we could have two type of input depending on whether the system is a real time, which is online system or we're using batch processing. So it doesn't matter. If the input control failed or did not detect the error or the errors, we hope that the processing controls in here we can catch this error from going to output. We can stop the process. So the purpose of the processing control is to prevent and detect the errors while the transaction are being processed. So as this process going on it's going to hold, it's going to stop and it's going to give us what we call an exception report or an error report telling us something is wrong. Usually processing controls are embedded, are programmed into the software during the development stage. So when the software is being developed we embed, we have those controls programmed inside the system so you cannot really change them. You can change them but sometime it may cost a lot of money. So it provides the essential control when you program it, when you build that program to minimize processing errors by preventing, detecting and correcting the errors. Now bear in mind some of these controls we're going to be discussing next. We're going to be looking at processing control. They overlap, they overlap or similar to input controls because sometime what happens is you may not have the control at the input level, you might have the control inside the processing because when you develop the software you know we did not have this technology. Now you could have this control at the input level so that could happen. So you will see that some of them they might overlap. You might see the same or similar naming and we'll see those. So next we're going to look at our actual processing controls, examples of them. So what are some examples? One is validation test and we look at some sort of a validation test in the input control. Simply put is the transaction appropriate to process. So the system once they start the process the transaction if somehow they find something wrong they would reject it. For example when we purchase inventory if the inventory code item does not match an existing inventory code, if that's not the inventory that we are supposed, we're supposed to have then we cannot process the purchase order. Why? Because it does not match an existing inventory level this is called the validation test. Again this could be done at the input level but let's assume somebody override the system or our input level does not validate, does not have this validation feature. Hopefully the processing controls the soft embedded in the software where this does not pass. We could have something called sequence check or sequence check or sequence test. Well what does that mean? It means transactions or items are in a correct and complete sequence. This also could be done at the input level and here we can talk about the completeness. Also for example you could also have a completeness test inside the processing. Usually usually it's done at the input level that also it could be done at the processing level. So this could be another similar test. Notice some of them they overlap. For example if you're dealing with sequence for example if you're processing checks, well if you see a check is missing it's going to raise a red flag, give you a report that check is missing. Sales order, sales order each one should have a predetermined number. You're looking for any duplicate sales order, you're looking for anyone that's missing. You want to know why it's missing? It could be avoided that's fine but we need to know the system the processing control should tell us look this sales order we went from 1,050 to 1,052. Where is sales order 1,051? Okay same thing for the purchase order. The processing should also have what's called arithmetic test or cross footing. Simply put check in the map and any simple software should do that as long as it's programmed properly. For example it should take the gross wages minus the withholding should give you the net pay or the gross sales minus the sales tax that we need to pay to the government should give us the sales net of tax which has taken the tax out so we know what our sales net of tax is. We could also have inside the processing control something called data reasonableness reasonableness test which is similar to the limit. For example the amount that we produce should not exceed or falls below a predetermined amount. A good example will be for example if we don't pay more than $2,000 per period per pay period wherever that period is weekly or bi-weekly or bi-monthly. So the system should not be able to generate a paycheck that's in access of $2,000. This could be a data reasonableness check or could be a limit test. So if we did not have that limit test at the input level it could be embedded in the processing level. So when we try to process the transaction it will stop. Also we could have matching control and I would say the matching control is pretty unique to the processing control because you will not be able to process the transaction until all documents or whatever all the conditions of the transaction are in the system or met. An example of that will be three-way matching which is basically we don't cut a check unless there's a purchase order a receiving report and a vendor invoice and what happened is since we are dealing with an accounting information system each one of those will have some type of a unique number or unique key that connect them. So as long as all of those exist and they went through the specific internal control whether it's in the purchasing department receiving department or obviously the vendor invoice is easy it's sent by the vendor as long as we don't have those three items available we cannot cut the check. So this is a matching control as part of the processing control. We could also have something called a transaction log controlled this could be considered processing could be considered output I'm going to discuss it a little bit more in the output control what we're going to be discussing next but I just want just want to let you know that the system keeps track of who when what and how it tells you who processed the transaction what time how did they do it which accounts were involved so on and so forth so this is what's called a transaction log again I will discuss this little bit more in the output again this could be considered a processing and this could be considered output because really the transaction log although it's showing you what happened during processing but you look at it after the fact so whether it's when I consider processing or output it doesn't matter you need to know exactly what it is what should you do now whether you are a CPA candidate or an accounting information student go to far hat lectures work additional mcqs look at additional resources that's going to help you understand this topic prepare you for your CPA exam help you in your class invest in your accounting career it's worth it good luck study hard and of course stay safe


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I think you two should swap numbers because you two would get on like an house on fire.  Do you want to have a discussion with me? Yeah, but we should be vegan. Ah, really? Yeah, then it's... Oh. Why aren't you a vegan? Are you mum? I'm not a vegan. Are you mum? Because I like meat. Are you mum? Is this your daughter? Ah, cool. Are you meat? You eat meat, yeah. I like meat. Yeah, why? Because it's tasty. Yeah. You know what happens to the animals there?  I've seen what the door means. He's watched Dominion. Yeah, so I've watched Dominion. Do you think taste justifies what happens in Dominion? We could kill him differently, yeah. Okay, what is there of you? This is what the sign is actually about. Yeah.  Right now. Well, a camembert could eat me cool.  Well, well, yeah, give me an injection. Yeah, but you want to live though. You want to live. All says I do. You don't want to live. Well, if it was a mercy killing, okay, well, presuming you do, assuming you do, because if it was a mercy killing, it would be humane. If you were suffering to the point where you couldn't be helped, then it would be humane. I'm saying that if you're right now experiencing well-being, walking around, how do I kill you humanely? If you want to live. Because it would be murder, wouldn't it?  When I feel that people should do what they want to do. You really believe that?  But wait a second. Do you think we should be able to do whatever we want to do? Well, why should I not want to eat? Because they get abused and killed for it. We've always done it. Yeah, but we've always done horrific things to each other throughout history. But we've always done it. So what's holding you back? Is it just the taste? I'm trying to get, like, because obviously you're against animal cruelty, but you pay for it. So it's wrong that it happens. But you pay for it with your other hand. That's what you're saying. Yeah, we do have some vegan meals.  Silly. You can have what you like, though, when you're a vegan. You can find things that you like. Yeah. Well, tell me about it. I'm a vegan. Shall I eat, shall I eat? Why do you want to go off and buy and eat something what represents me? Why do you want to go and eat sausages? I can explain that to you. Why do you want to go and eat burgers? I can explain that to you, because we're against animal cruelty. So what's the problem? If there's no animal cruelty in it, then we can replicate the same foods that we're used to. And there's nothing morally wrong with that. I like the taste of burgers, too, but I don't like animal cruelty enough to change the burger to a plant-based burger. Oh, everybody in the world is going to be a vegan. By 2050. Okay, no. Well, that's a different... I'm talking about you right now. You're against animal cruelty. Yeah, but I like meat. Would you consider yourself a hypocrite? So it's a serious... You're against animal cruelty, but you pay for it. Yeah, because I enjoy meat. Yeah, but I know. But I wouldn't personally go out and murder... And that's even worse. That is even worse. I wouldn't go out and personally milk a cow because I want some milk. How about this? I'm against dog cruelty, but I'm against cruelty to dogs, but I pay for them to be tortured and killed so I can eat them. Does that sound... I've got a dog. I've got a dog. No, I'm saying... I'm saying... No, I'm just saying, do you understand the analogy? Yeah. Am I a hypocrite if I do that? But if I protest what happens to dogs, but I go and pay for the...  And I said, would I be a hypocrite? I am if I'm... Beagans, namingly this one, tries to make everybody feel guilty. Shouldn't feel guilty. If they're in... Wait a second. Well, you should. Why shouldn't you? I don't want to cause an argument between you two. I'm really... I want to find out. I want to find out. So do you think someone should feel guilty for torturing a dog? Okay, they shouldn't. No, no, no, no, no. No, that's not the question. The question is, should you feel guilty for torturing a dog? Because they are. I can show you. You've seen Dominion. Okay. Okay. So they're torturing animals. Do you know 90% of the pigs in the UK are factory farmed and over 90% of the chickens are factory farmed? Yeah. Okay, so they're torturing those animals. Yeah, and they torture animals in a slaughterhouse too. But she's not creating a demand for slaughterhouses. She's creating a demand for vegan food. You're creating the demand for slaughterhouses.  That's how it's applied, but you know how economics work, yeah? The thing is, she's so one-sided by you, no one's not itself. Can I have a discussion with that? I want to see if we can get some of you. In your face. If I want to buy, if I want, hey, if I sell peaches, right, there's a demand for peaches, I'm going to get more peaches to meet that demand, aren't I? Yeah. Okay. What if no one buys peaches anymore? What am I going to do with my peaches? I'm going to stop growing them, aren't I? Okay. So I've got dogs in the boot here, and I'm going to cut them up, and there's a demand for dog flesh. We don't eat dog. I don't care. I do. They're both animals. I'm trying to get you to understand why it's wrong. Stay, it's wrong. It's for... You think it's wrong? You think it's wrong? Me, no. You just told me it was wrong. No, not for me. Yeah, before when I first started, yeah, I said, do you think animal cruelty is wrong? Yeah, it's cruelty.  And I asked you, is there a better way to kill you? And you said no. It's murder. No. Well, no. So it's murder for you, but it's not murder for the animal.  But that's what they're there for. What if I said, oh, that's what... Women are here for men. They are, no. Women are here for men. Thank you. What about that? No. Does that sound good? No. Like people here for white people? No. Children are here for pedophiles? No. No. No, don't get me. Animals are here... Okay. Don't get me. No, no, no, no. It's the same, it's the same. Animals are not here for you. Right.  We'd have millions and millions of them all of it. Millions of what? So I don't understand. We'd have millions of animals. If we don't kill them, well, we would. How would we kill them if it's called natural selection? Can I ask you something? How do you think there are... Why do you think there are billions of animals on Earth in this food system right now? How do they get here? You think that it's naturally exist and we kill them? You have to breed them. You just take one if you can. Yeah, yeah. So when we stop breeding them, so when you stop buying them, they'll stop breeding them and then they'll... You're never, ever gonna change people. I'm trying to change you. No, but why? She can't change it. Because you're against animal cruelty. I have it every day. I have it every day with her. Every meal I have. I have it with her. So... She cares about you and she knows that you're against animal cruelty. She cares about the animals. No, because she cares about me. It's because she wants...  She wants everybody to be a vegan. So the animals don't get tortured and killed. There's a reason behind it. It's not just her ego talking. Well, I know it's not her. But she used to absolutely love me. She used to eat me. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. Me too. But you... Who's the first one to give her meat? My mum raised me to eat meat too. My mum's a vegan now though. Took her a couple of years, but she's come around. But she is the first one to give me meat.  Because I didn't know. She wasn't exposed to it. You weren't exposed to it. Your parents probably did it. You know, it's not to make you feel guilty about it. Because that's the way we've ever known. But now you know what... Now you know what goes on to animals. So you're conscious of it now? Yes. Yes, I'm conscious of it. But I put my hands up. I enjoy meat. So do I. So did I. But you know, I want to... I can't. You can't say... Just because you enjoy something doesn't mean you should do it.  But it's not me. You pick Heather. Heather. Just because you get pleasure out of an action, if that pleasure causes another being, cruelty, trauma, violence, do you think that pleasure justifies that cruelty, trauma or violence? No. Okay. No. You're using it taste good as an excuse. You enjoy the taste. Maybe so. But it's still... It's still not going to make me be a vegan. So what would? Nothing. No, nothing. I'm not saying... No amount of animal suffering. I'm not saying... I'm not saying down the line to stop eating meat. But I enjoy fish. I don't like awful milk. See, it's awful. It's like water. Which one are you talking about, Sawyer? She herself brought you. Almonds. Almonds? It's awful. Yeah, I prefer oat milk. She has all of them. It's awful. I don't like it. You prefer to drink breast milk from a cow? Exactly. Are you a baby cow? Don't even stop. You're still breastfeeding. Oh my God. You two... I think you two should swap numbers because you two would get on like an house on fire. But like...  I mean, I don't think you're evil. I am a nice person. But it seems like you're trying to avoid responsibility for what you're paying for here. But you're saying you're against animal cruelty. You pay for it to happen. Yeah, I'm against animal cruelty. Like I said, I won't personally leave you.  Then I couldn't...  I wouldn't do it, no.  Not really, no. Have you ever hung out with a pig? No, have you. You should take it to a sanctuary. Have you? Have you? Yeah, have you. It takes a time. I think you three times more intelligent than dogs. Well, I'm not saying the not. I'm not saying that they are and I'm not saying the not. But I don't want to be friends with a pig. But why wouldn't you eat a dog? I want to know why you wouldn't eat a dog. That's what I want to know. Why wouldn't I eat a dog? Well, I'm not saying I've never ate a dog because I eat Chinese food. So I could eat Chinese takeaway. But knowingly. So how do you know why I ate a dog or a cat? Let's just say, let me ask you this. Let's just say I have a farm full of dogs that we're farming in exactly the same way that you get your bacon, exactly the same way. Same slaughterhouse, everything.  Factory farm dog bacon? I don't know because I've never tried it. But would you have a moral problem with it? Pig suffering, a dog suffering in a factory farm? If it were on the packet and it said mid-buy dog, then no, obviously I wouldn't pick it up. Okay, why? And buy it. Why? Because I've got a dog. I don't care. I don't care about that. Dogs are meant to be eaten. I couldn't eat. No, they're not. Dogs are here for us to eat. No, a dog. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are. Animals are here for us, you said. No, a dog. Literally. Not a dog. Okay, so where do you draw the line then between? Dogs are pets. So pigs can be pets. You don't have cows as a pet. Pigs can be pets. Yeah, you can. Have you ever been to a sanctuary? I haven't in my purpose. Have you ever been to a sanctuary? Animals living free and happy? No, yeah, but that's... They're being rescued from factory farms from people who pay for it, people like Heather. And good person as well in your life. It's just right here. You're doing something that is against your nature. Good person. This is bad. What you're doing, not you. I'm saying what you're doing is bad. Well, like I said... And they put the nice green pastures, and you've seen them in here. We expose these places all the time. What does that mean? What does that mean? Free range means they aren't being in a cage. Oh, but they're still being in a cage. They're in a shed. They're running around freely. No, they keep them in a shed. Free range. Yeah, but then by time they'll really know. What about a free range dog? That's cool, eh? Free range dog. Cut them up. They keep going on about dogs. Because you've got a moral problem with dogs. Well, why you keep going on about dogs?  They're more intelligent than a dog. They suffer the same. Like, this is a big double standard that you have, and that's why I'm trying to get you to make connect the dots.   I don't want to do that to me dog. Yeah, but you pay for it to happen to pigs, and cows, and chickens, and fish, every single day. They don't do that. Not everybody. Not every slaughterhouse. But most of them do. Most of those things like that, and not every person what works in a slaughterhouse. Okay, well then get your dog, and take it to your favourite slaughterhouse in the world. Take it to the one your husband works out.  Or someone else's dog, even. Not even yours. We're all saying that they're kicking them, and they're doing this and that, and they don't... Not all the time. Not all the time, but they always slaughter them. Look at that, that's the job, isn't it? Yeah, what I'm saying is... That's the job. Saying you don't have to pay for it. This is your job here, trying to get everybody to become vegan, right? To help the animals, yeah. My husband, but my husband has to work there for... One second. You're paying for... For all to live, to pay our bills, to pay our rent. So your money... Other meat eaters' money are causing these slaughterhouses to exist, okay? Now, if everyone put their money into different products, you'd have a job somewhere else. Yeah. So you're funding these places? Not necessarily. Not necessarily. It's a cost of planning them out. No, but not necessarily. If no one bought meat, why would they need a slaughterhouse? It's not gonna happen, is it? That's a different... That's an appeal to futility. That's a different story. I'm asking why you still... It's not gonna happen, though. We won't buy...  Buy me becoming a vegan. That won't stop. That meat chain. Just because I have chose not to eat meat anymore. I don't know how to answer that.  So maybe I'll just continue murdering human beings. That's exactly the same logic you just used. I don't care what everyone else does in the world.  But you don't do it. That's the point. It's about you, your accountability. You're responsible for the animals that are being butchered for you. Not what everyone else who's Joe Blow around the corner down the street. I'm talking about Heather right here right now.     I called myself... I was one for age.  Then that's what you want. But I am not going to be a vegan. I'm not saying we don't eat meat. The famous last words of someone...  I remember when I said I would never be a vegan. Oh God, that Joey got me. Well, I might be 97 when that happened. One second. Here, let me give you this and you probably... You probably won't read it. You might. You might. I'll see you will. You just... There's a bunch of cool stuff on there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I know all this anyway. You're gonna take away. You know it all. I do know all this. You can take it and give it to someone. But Heather, I really like talking to you. You take care. Take care.   Yeah, don't go. Please don't. Okay, so that was kind of away from the table here. But... Excuse me. Hello. Hi, nice to meet you. Ellie, nice to meet you, Ellie. I need to go get the bus, but I just don't know who you are. Oh, cool. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Are you a vegan? Yeah.  Now, that's good. Are you going to school or are you going to work? Yeah, not your damn. Oh, cool. Awesome. Nice to see you. Nice to meet you. At you, too. Thank you. Nice to meet you, Ellie. It was really nice to meet you as well. You've got the amazing work. Okay. Thank you. Take care. See you later. They've already had that same argument so many times, that it would be better for a fresh perspective there, like, because there's something about your family. Like, your mum is less likely to listen to the daughter.  But if it's someone else, like, an outside person, like, I've got her to admit she's a hypocrite. And I bet you...  I mean, it didn't seem like. But come and have a discussion, mate. Nah, you busy? Ah, that's simply for a sandwich. I don't know how to shop, please. Ah, yes, the guy shopping for a sandwich. I hope it's a vegan sandwich. Should have gave him a pamphlet. Hey, brother, are you going? Do you want to sit down and chat about it? I'm fine, brother. Okay. I believe the other way. You believe me? You with me? You want to come and have a seat? Discussion? Just want to say that we always... Oh, really? I saw you actually in London a couple of years ago at the London Vegan March. Oh, awesome. What's your name? Will. Will. Good to meet you, Will. How you doing? I'm not too... We had a discussion before with the man, and it was great. And, yeah, we're just looking for more. Trying to get as much activism done as possible. Anyway, nice one. I shall... Nice to see you, Will. Take care. Good luck, and I look forward to seeing this on YouTube. Definitely, mate. Ta, take care. I eat what's being put on my plate. That's respect, you know what I mean? So, if my mum's putting meat on my plate, I'm obviously going to eat it. Out of respect for your mum? Out of respect for anyone. Like, if someone put meat on my plate, I'm going to eat it.


I'm here with a special guest today, Addison Barnes from the US, NBA superstar who plays with the Sacramento Kings now, but he has been a championship winner with arguably one of the greatest team in NBA history. So how has it been in India? It's been great being here in India. Just to be able to see some of the food and the people and experience it, it's been great. So you've seen some kids play over here in the last one week or so. And obviously, your career has been well followed or well documented from the time you used to play in school, from there on college superstar and then picked in the first round itself in the NBA draft and then from then on the championship and then with Dallas and now Sacramento Kings, right? So what do you reckon at what level our kids are over here, Indian kids, as far as skill is concerned, as far as physicality is concerned? Because I saw the selection over here and some of the kids that I've told us you, but what about the game? Yeah, the kids here, they're great. Just to see them and see how they play. They've had a lot of passion, a lot of intensity. So that's good. But the biggest thing in terms of growing, just takes time. These kids are going to feel out into their bodies. They're going to get stronger. They're going to develop certain things by just playing longer, playing in a more structured environment. I like the NBA Academy. So I think they're well on track to do everything they need to do. And you're right, some of those kids are tall. They probably will continue to be tall. So, but then there is a system in place in the US and in India that kind of a competition is not there, not existent at all. So how important is competition at that early stage? Does it bring you down because if you keep on losing, that's a negative impact, but then you play and you improve as well. So on that regard, what do you think India should do to aspire to reach not at the level the US is right now, but at least at a level where India is competitive at the world stage? Focus on the fundamentals. Building on those fundamentals and making sure that the kids understand, you know, the basic skills and mastering those. That's the biggest way to raise the collective level of talent. I mean, if the kids understand, okay, this is my building blocks, okay, and now I can add things on top of that, that's how you get better. But if you don't have that foundation, it's hard to build. So it's a question of basketball culture as well in a way. And so that brings you to another high point of your career, which was to represent the US in the Olympics and winning a gold medal. So how was your experience playing that basketball? Because it's, I mean, it's the same game, but it's different as well compared to NBA. Just the opportunity to represent your country. It means so much because, you know, you work all your life to get better and try to play at the highest level. And you have the opportunity to go and compete on the world's biggest stage once again. It's a surreal experience. And what about interacting with the other players?  And you go in, then all the other teams also look up to you. So have you interacted with them? Did you get a chance to interact with the other teams that came to play at the Olympics? And what is the basketball culture like? What is the difference? Did you observe anything? How are things seen differently? How is the game played? Things like that. The NBA is super diverse. So, you know, there was a lot of international players that you played against before or you had played with. So just seeing those guys on the national team is always a friendly camaraderie. And we all played the same game. We all love the same game. We all watch, you know, basketball at a high level, whether it's Euro League or whether it's the NBA or whether it's just international basketball in general. So just seeing other players is mutual respect between them when you step on the floor. And getting to your high point in the NBA, the Warriors team. So you were part of the team when the team was forming and building towards that championship. And so what makes that team special? I mean, it's beautiful to watch. So your experience with the team and about what made you tick, what made you rise above everyone and win the championship and then continue dominating the league? Just to be able to have a group of guys who, you know, were able to be together for four years. Some of those guys, even longer than that, you know, seven, eight years, it's really rare in the NBA to have that group. So I think we really got together along. We got along together off the floor and actually brought the chemistry on the floor. And we just, we hit at the right time that, you know, just allowed our team to take off. Off the floor, you meant. So what was the camaraderie like? What was your life like in general as a team? I think a lot of guys just really enjoyed being around each other. We enjoyed the conversations, just the vibe. It was mutual between a lot of us. And I think that's, you know, something that's really special because you see it maybe in a high school team where everyone's from the same city or a college team where you guys are living together in the same dorm. But at the NBA level, to be that close is pretty rare. So, but in a way, I used to drink with them because I read somewhere that you are a T-Total. Yeah. And that you drank first time in your life after the championship drinking. That is correct. So maybe you should drink more to win more championships. That's what my look at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So getting into that again. So the move happened and all that. So now with Kings, you must be, you might be expected to take that leader's role where you have a lot of young players around you and to guide them to using your experience, using the experience of winning the big prize, things like that. So I will see a new role with the team, with Kings. Yeah, I'm excited to be with Sacramento. It's an opportunity to grow, but also try to do something special. You know, that franchise hasn't been in the playoffs in a long time. I haven't been in a playoffs in the last three years. You know, we have a lot of guys who are hungry, who are trying to grow and make a name for themselves in this league. So, you know, we have a lot of motivation as a group, as a team, as a franchise, as a city. It's really, you know, make an impact. And what does it take for the team to actually make an impact in the playoffs? Now, when you look at the season, it's over. And next season, the build-up will happen, things like that. So where do you think the team is lacking? What are the plans? How do you reckon that boost in the performance will happen from there? Just the attention to detail. You know, playing every single game, focusing on the little things, maybe that's really important. Just trying to go and take that next step. And we have the opportunity to do it, but we have to start from the beginning, just doing that every single day. And attention to detail means that, how does a NBA star or a NBA team work on attention? So there would be an individual session happening, there would be a team session happening. So how do you pan out the day or are we in training then? Just looking at a lot of film, analyzing kind of the mistakes that we made, maybe the day before, the game before, whatever it may be, and trying to correct those. And then hopefully that, you know, all the mistakes that you did continues to get smaller and smaller and smaller as the season goes on. She mentioned that you love Indian food so much so that she has given a challenge that you might be used to eating more spice than people like me. So, in your time here, what is the best Indian food that you have? Which is your favorite dish for you? Ooh, my favorite dish, that's tough. Probably either Pala Kpaneer or Chicken to Give Masala. Okay, and other than that, compared to the food that you have in the US on a regular basis, you follow a strict regimen being a professional athlete. And I don't think all those masala does well, so it's good that you came here during off season, right? Yes, this is definitely a little bit off the diet in terms of how much Indian food I ate, but when I get back home, I don't think I'll be able to eat as much as I have, since I've been here. But you do have an extra compared to your teammates and the other two that you're going to play. Do you have a head start compared to the other? Because you're here, you've already started and gotten used to the country, the weather, the people, the food and all that. So, when they come in, you would be expected to be the boss, so... We'll see, we'll see, you know, it's a long trip, you know, coming from Sacramento all the way out here. But, you know, it's something that we're all excited about. You know, a lot of the guys have never been Indian before, so we're looking forward to it. And last question. Personally, what is your... I mean, this would be stepping into a second... In essence, second part of your career with a new team and a slightly more leadership role in a way. And how do you look at what is your mission statement for the next part of your career, what are your dreams like, what do you want? I mean, obviously, championship is one dream that everybody has beyond that. What do you want to do in the game, beyond the game? Yeah, the biggest thing that I would say would be my mission statement or whatever it may be would be to pursue excellence. You know, that's ultimately what it comes down to, to be able to win, to be able to, you know, master your craft and just give your all to the game, to be the best player that you can be to help your team be the best they can be. That's what it's about.  And beyond that, beyond your playing days and all that, how do you, like, can you be giving back to the game? Are you interested in that or are you looking at a career which is like completely different, away from the game?  I didn't get here by myself. You know, it's a lot of people who sacrifice to give me here. So, and trying to give back is very important to me. Thanks for your time. And all the best with your career ahead with the Kings and beyond. Perfect. Thank you. And enjoy your stay in England. Thanks so much.