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Hi, I'm George Cao and I want to tell you about the authentic video course and mastermind. I'm excited about this because video making the simple authentic videos that I make twice a week has been transformational for my business. It has helped potential clients get to know me at scale. So a lot of people are watching my videos at any given time and they are thinking about working with me or joining one of my programs and this all happens 24 hours a day because I have video out there. Video is much more powerful as you can probably imagine for building a potential relationship with clients and buyers than written words are. Of course are very useful. We need to have them on our website. We need to learn to write well. That's very helpful. But learning how to show up with your unique personality and with your heart open on video is there is nothing like it besides meeting in person with somebody. So before we get holographic technology where people can show up 3D in your home, we've got video and this is the best medium to attract and enroll people into various programs, products, services at scale. And not just to enroll as you probably know most of my videos are simply to share some insight, some knowledge, experience, something to bless my audience without needing them to buy anything. But of course I also make videos to sell things like I'm doing in this video. So I want to tell you about my upcoming, actually by the time you watch this, this may already be finished recording and you can buy it anytime, the authentic video course and mastermind. So it's two things combined in one. The course itself is a three hour video training that walks you step by step through my entire process of brainstorming and making and marketing my videos. These kinds of videos as you know that I make are ones that anyone can do if they're willing to show up. I don't do any video editing as you know this video is as a live video in fact. So there's no video editing. There's no script that I'm reading. So I'm going to walk you through how I remember what to say instead of going what do I say next you know which is what a lot of people are concerned about the perfectionism of showing up and not knowing what to say. So I'll show you how my techniques for remembering what to say and for showing up confidently with an open heart and our unique personality because the key is it's not about performing. I think it's really important. If you've watched my videos you know that I prize and value most of all being real with you. So even when I'm selling you something I'm not scripted but I'm actually trying to connect in a way that can show you whether or not this product or service is right for you. So the course itself is like I said a comprehensive training walks you through step by step how I make my videos. My brainstorm structure the content. Remember what to say and of course I'll also cover the basic technology that I recommend which webcam, the lighting, the microphone, you know the software all that stuff but it's there's no video editing involved. So it's really for anybody with regardless of your tech savviness. So I don't I'm there are wonderful video editing people and one of video editing courses. This is not that this is about speaking authentically with your unique personality on camera on a consistent basis which not only does it like I said attract potential clients make them build trust with them because you're that's the that's the best way of doing building trust besides being in person much better than writing words. So besides you know building your business I think showing up consistently on video is also to me it's really a lot about personal growth.  So to me that's really the biggest benefit of making videos consistently is finding that creative vibrance that makes life so wonderful and so alive. And like I said the additional benefit is that it grows your business as well because it builds an audience of true fans. When you show up in performance mode which is what a lot of people on Instagram you know they post pictures of them looking amazing and you know all that stuff when you're performing all the time and this is true in writing too when you're copywriting and making sure that you're trying to persuade people you might build an audience but it's not really an audience of people who like and love you for just who you are for just you being your without having to perform. And that's what I hope this course and the mastermind which I'll talk about shortly will help you to step into is your powerful authentic self online in a way that brings your kindred spirits to you people who love just how you are without you having to perform without you having to be perfect or to know exactly the right things to say but when you show up confidently and when I say confident I don't mean that you have to you know like I said again perform or try to be confident but when you have an authentic confidence it's about your heart being open and connected to the potential viewer that you know is there because that potential viewer may be just like you a few years ago or it may be just like a loved one that you helped or a friend that you helped that potential viewer someone you want to connect with and serve and and be of be of ministry to essentially so I think authentic confidence is about being of the heart showing up consistently as yourself and when you do that you build an audience of people who just love who you are and when you have an audience people of true fans who just love who you are selling becomes easy it becomes something that you can whisper and people buy it can become something where you're not selling but you're simply inviting friends a bunch of friends to say I created something might be interesting for you or let's co-create it together I like to co-create things my audience product and services all the things I launch I'd co-create in some way with my audience so so the course is comprehensive training for through the beginning and end of how I brainstorm make and market my videos the mastermind which is also part of this and I should mention the one there's a one-time fee for the course in the mastermind it's only 120 US dollars which I think you see do agree with me I think it's a really good deal because most online courses and masterminds combined are several hundred or several thousand dollars Seth Godin right now is launching his course in mastermind and it's eight hundred dollars and you barely get any personal feedback from Seth Godin whereas in this mastermind you get my personal feedback on at least three of your videos my personal feedback plus you get the feedback of your lots of peers in our in our mastermind group so it's only 120 bucks and that's for three months of the mastermind in the three months you can post as many videos as you want for feedback my only request is that when you post a video for feedback you also give feedback to two other people two other videos in the mastermind so it's you know when you're giving feedback to others you're also learning because you're like oh that's right I know this is person do this I really like it when they do that and in my mastermind it's not about it's certainly not about criticizing anybody I encourage as you when you go into the mastermind you'll see that I encourage people to notice and call out each other's strengths that's really the value the core value of the mastermind the culture is to call out each other's strengths so that we can say oh yeah that's unique about you that is really resonant when you do that and when you say that when you say it in that way that really feels feels alive and it feels authentic so in a mastermind you're going to get that kind of feedback so that you can be more and more into your strengths rather than saying well you know like and many of you have experienced toast masters which is a public speaking kind of training club and you know in clubs like toast masters they count your ums and oz and and you might feel you know insecure about speaking and you might have to be on performance mode no when you find your authentic and powerful self you don't have to perform anymore and yet you're really attractive so that's what the mastermind is intended to help you step into so I'm really excited about it um there is a lot more information if you want to read about the kinds of questions that'll be covered I have already um recorded the actual course that's been recorded but for for this year for 2020 I'm adding 10 Q&A and feedback calls at different times so it'll work for people in North America South America in Europe and Australia and Asia there are times for Q&A calls for all of these and they're all recorded so if you can't attend any of the Q&A calls you can watch them later I'll be giving I'll be giving live feedback on videos on those calls video calls they'll I'll be giving feedback as I watch videos together with with people on the call including your videos whatever videos you submit for my review so I hope you'll check it out if you have been interested in thinking about showing up on video especially consistently so that you can practice your authentic voice and really step into that authentic power if you've been thinking about that and saying gosh I wish I could get some nudge and some inspiration and motivation and accountability to actually get going on this this might be the perfect thing for you this is what I've designed it to be by the end of this course of mastermind the intention is that you will have gotten into a consistent routine or rhythm consistent rhythm of making authentic videos where you are continually stepping more and more into your authentic strength and power which makes you naturally attractive to your true fans to your kindred spirits so I hope this you know is giving you enough information if you want more information there's a link somewhere it's either above or below depending on how you're watching this above or below the video there's a link for more information and to to purchase the course in the mastermind again it's only $120 us for it's a one-time fee for three months plus the comprehensive course plus three months of feedback and accountability and encouragement so anyway if you have any questions let me know I look forward to your comments below all right maybe I'll see you in the mastermind take care


What's up everybody, Jason here for jazzybskatesprac.com. We're doing a 2021 Panini Contenders football 3 box break picker teams number 2 And again guys we're giving away a thousand dollars in break credit guys. Yes, a thousand bucks How to get entered into that giveaway all you had to do was buy two teams in this break You bought two teams you get an entry you buy four teams you got two entries six teams three entries etc At the end we'll get those customers that bought in and got two or more randomize those and Customers in the top two. We'll get a $500 break credit code each Just remember guys no veteran common ship in this basically just the inserts and rookies And let me show you guys your teams before you start so these customers bought in these teams straight up Carl at the bangles and Patriots last spot mojo's There you go And here's the contenders case All right, so actually they're already kind of stuck in boxes of threes So let's just leave it the way it is. This is a three box right here. Yeah so One two three or four if I roll a five or six, we just re-roll it two One two we're gonna go with that one there and these ones here, of course will be from the same case Golden states moving on guys here's to 99. That's Joe Thomas from Andre Stevenson. Whoo Cracked ice look at that 20 out of 21 RPS ticket as well. I wish that was a Mac Jones if that was a Mac Jones I would have been a monster monster, but a lot of people are high on Remandry Stevenson That is 20 out of 21 cracked ice rookie ticket added to variation going to the Patriots Carl last spot mojo paying Turner rookie ticket and Mac Jones insert redemption Tom Brady insert Chas to rat We get cheated on autograph. I'm gonna have to go back You got the cracked eyes two tickets there. That's a redemption. Yeah, we're supposed to have one more auto See maybe a past one usually they're flipped around so that's why kind of weird Let me double check guys. You might have got peninis. Who knows and it's usually in the same place, too It's usually where the inserts gonna be That insert that insert that insert that insert Yeah, looks like we're missing an autograph here. So it could be hiding in another box But if it isn't of course, it's just cheated us an autograph. It could be Diego It's probably not an RPS ticket though on card. It's probably just one of the the other rookies If it says RPS, it's definitely one of those guys. It just says rookie ticket. It's just a regular playoff ticket All right, so it's just a rookie playoff ticket. No RPS Penis Sue well nice though first round pick though Detroit But he's gonna be a sticker Who has the lions?  Nice. Well, that was a nice box only four autographs, but nice box All right, let's see. Here we go Cameron McGrone rookie ticket for the Patriots Levi rookie ticket another one for the Lions Patriots and Lions so far having a great break Rookie of the year contenders that is for the Ravens Rashad Baton Number 299 Langle, that's your RPS on-card ticket. I'm not sure why he made it Minnesota Vikings. That's also that's going to Adam Cofferman. Whoa Well, look at that Josh Allen for the bills Terry have yourself a night 23 out of 25 Look at that that makes up for the I think a little weak RPS ticket and a Damian Harris Ink to 49 for the Patriots. What a break. There's your five autographs right there. Nice Last box here guys So the next one is on the website guys if you guys want to run it back. I Know some people are already grabbing their teams But basically after this guys, I just got that box for Carl. You bought out a box of Immaculate And after that guys, it's pretty much done You guys want to fill something else up you guys got to keep me here Redemption in the Annapolis Colts. That's Adam Cofferman Larry Roundtree Rugby ticket for the Chargers Oliver with that one Could be Kyle Pitts could be Jamar Chase any one of those guys that don't sign Racy McMaff if I don't get a on-card ticket right here Diego, it's definitely one of those guys You got three autographs so far we still have two left or one left actually Yep, it's gonna be an RPS ticket Jacobi Stevens for my Eagles When a car numbered Patrick or sorry Willis McGee he to 99 for the Ravens All right, this is definitely a RPS ticket I'm not gonna try to call it, but if I call it. I'm sorry. I hope it's just not pot for your month No, that's a car, but maybe get you something better than that car All right, here we go. Good luck RPS rookie tickets. It's just a base ticket Our number 104 there you go Kyle Pitts Atlanta Falcons Nice you called it Diego Jeff with that one Yep, between Wednesday night and Thursday. Did you rip it you had to rip some Diamond Kings, right? I Remember like two boxes. Did you hit a downtown? No If you didn't hit one then I didn't I got you Diego I Got you cuz he called it.  That's all I mean. That's pretty nice actually Right Sue will and then a cracked eyes rookie ticket from Andre Stevenson. So appreciate you guys now Let's switch scenes and let's do the giveaway. So now this is your extra chance if you did go hit list Have a chance to win back some money Cash money so cupperman got ten. He has five entries Well, it's not what I wanted Barry David has two. So that's one entry Call you for It did MW, but we set to do a couple fillers that are on the website the optic and the gold rush So that's probably not gonna break until Sunday. We're off tomorrow, but it'll be breaking on Sunday for sure I think it'll sell out by then Cory would to Diego would to so that's an entry each for you guys Jeff with four. So that's two entries. No, I have that baseball Jeff Oliver Raymond to Sean Maddock to oh There miss Carl. Oh, I missed one Carl. You got it. You got it. Yeah, the regular base Carl not the last one motor Sorry about that. And that should make total Terry here Wait, hold on. That doesn't match up. Oh, yeah, it does There we go. So let me double check Adam with five Barry David with one Carl with two Cory one Diego one Jeff with two Oliver one Raymond one Sean Maddock and Terry. Thank you Carl. Sorry about that buddy. All right, there we go That should be a total of 16 one and 16 shots. So top two get 500 bucks back roll five into five Ten times if you wanted to buy a full spot MW I could I could put spots back in but that would mean that we'd need more than just you to buy in But yeah, I could do that five into five ten times one two three four five six seven eight nine and 10th and final time guys five into five Boom Ten Sean Maddock and Oliver look at that squeezing in there Oliver at the number two spot So there you go five hundred bucks back for Sean five hundred backs back for Oliver So again the next break is on the website already down to 24 Appreciate it guys. Jasper's case break calm


Hey everyone, before I get into this video, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway for Trials of Mana. Now you don't have to get the Switch version, you can get it for any system that happens to be releasing on it. It will be a digital code given away at the end of the month. To enter, all you need to do is like this video, comment down below, subscribe to the channel, and hit that bell icon. Make sure it's set to all notifications for the channel. That way you're notified of every video, every live stream, every podcast that goes up on this channel. That being said, let's get into the video. Hey everyone, do you own a Nintendo Switch and are happily playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, or whatever you want to play during this whole stay at home venture that's happening due to the worldwide pandemic? Well, here's the thing, that's great and all, but right now, if you don't already own a Switch, it's probably pretty hard for you to get one. Especially if you live in the United States and also the UK and even Japan ran out over the last weekend. They've been getting some regular restocks though, but even they're running low on supply. Now, it was anticipated by Nintendo back in February that there would be shortages in April in the US specifically. And people were just kind of dismissing it saying, well, it won't really be that bad. The factories in China will be back up and things will be fine. That isn't really the case. So let's get into this news. It actually comes from Japan. I'm using JapaneseNintendo.com because they do English translations of Japanese Nintendo news. So here's what they had to say. So as you see here, back in February, it said that due to the influence from the current outbreak of novel coronavirus infection, we are now foreseeing an unavoidable delay in production and shipments for Nintendo Switch consoles and peripherals such as Joy-Cons, among others, that are made in China towards Japan's domestic market. Now, that was sort of Japan's domestic market. Obviously, whatever. Here we are in April of 2020. He says, we didn't mention the Switch Lite because there was still enough stock in the market at the time of publication in February. But the point that many of its parts are made in China is the same. We are doing various efforts inside the company. Although shipments haven't stagnated, they are getting delayed. So basically, shipments of Switch and Switch Lite have been delayed pretty much indefinitely at this point. Although there are people who think it'll be going back out by the end of this month. Right now, I have actually heard from very reliable people that there has not been a new shipment of Switches since March 15th. So March 15th was the last time the U.S. got a shipment of Switch Lite and or regular Switches. So that's to give you an idea. There has been no new Switches coming into the U.S. for over two weeks. That explains why we're running out of Switches as well as the release of Animal Crossing. So pretty crazy. Now, if you want further proof that the Switch is hard to get, keep in mind hard to get, not impossible for some of us. Now I'll show you that in a moment here because here's Walmart.com, which is just showing local stuff. And you'll see, you know, an OG Switch selling it at 453. This version, these three colors of the Switch Lite selling at this. Now you'll see that this is the pink version, the coral version, I guess they call it, available for 199. But that's because it's only available for local pickup. So that means that my local Walmart, and not even the one closest to me, it's one in Eau Claire, because there's one one between here and Eau Claire, does have two of these in stock. So if you're lucky, you might be able to find a local place that has one or two. Some of you guys in more rural areas that have, you know, even smaller populations might be able to find, you know, eight or so. But there's no more coming. So once those are sold, they're gone for a while. And you can tell that this is an issue, because even in my area, you can't get these at price, you know, it's been, you know, this has been sold and shipped by worldwide distributors, which means basically people are reselling systems that they bought. And you can see this way true on Amazon, here's Amazon, you know, 521 bucks for the microcard eight bundle, you're seeing 280 for the Switch Lite here. Obviously, this is a special collector's edition, so we can kind of ignore that 451 for just a normal switch 450 280 again 244 254 for these lights.  You know, obviously, this is the this is the special edition animal crossing bundle. So that being a little pricey isn't too bad. But you see here, you know, $380 for a switch like 375. For what looks like a use switch, it's opened for crying out loud. And it's selling for 375. This one at least includes some games in it, which probably makes it worth the value based on I see Odyssey, Zelda, Pokemon, and Jesus, I can't remember. Hollow Knight, I believe. So that's that that's actually not too bad of a deal there. But then you see 520 here, which is sold 339 of them, like just crazy. So it's just absolutely insane. What's happening with these and it just goes on and on $300 for switch lights and nothing's basically going for at price, you might be able to maybe a couple game stops, maybe have some used ones laying around. I'm not 100% sure on that. But in fact, you know what, let's just go to GameStop and just see if there happens to be used ones laying around here. They do have console bundles. They have animal crossing switch light e shop car bundle here. That's actually more surprisingly more money than than this is worth because you know 289 that's nice. So I guess if you want that bundle for some reason, that's cool. Well, let's actually see what they got here for Nintendo switches online here. It looks like they still have some pre owned. Do they still have this available by online or is it just local pickup at store? Okay. Yeah, you can it's sold out online. You see this items currently not available online. So it's only pick up at store and this is not available in my area. So yeah, they're sold out. It looks like on GameStop as well, at least online, your local store could end up having a couple. Maybe there's some pre or actually curious, is there is there a pre owned pre owned available in my area? There's not even a pre owned available in my area for that. Let's look at one that actually might have one available in my area. Let's look at like the red model here. It's the most popular model in my area sold out online. Not available in my area looks like pre owned, not available in my area either. So yeah, it's sold out. That's just let's just be honest. It's sold out. And as the news says, Nintendo is saying that, Hey, look, shipments are currently delayed. So that's just the way it is. So if you weren't taking this serious, because I know when I made the video, you know, about a month or two ago, people were just kind of saying, This won't be that big of a deal. It's not going to matter. Maybe it'll only be a week. I mean, we're talking shipments not even arriving in the US till the end of April. And then just because the shipments get here, they have to be dispersed. So I mean, maybe even into May before we get anything. Again, the last shipment I've heard from reliable sources landed in the US on March 15. So this is just something that's happening. This is the coronavirus. This is COVID-19, the pandemic affecting our ability to play switch stuff. And Japan has it, you know, as much as they've had these huge sales, they ran out of copies of animal crossing physically.  It's, it's nuts. And this is just the effect of a pandemic, it is affecting the world of video games, especially for Nintendo, who has a hot selling item, it's not hitting Sony or Microsoft as hard right now because their systems aren't big ticket items right now that everyone's trying to scramble and get the switches not just due to animal crossing but just due to people are stuck at home and they and they want to go and have time to play all these Nintendo games and they're having a hard time getting their hands on stuff. Now, the sales numbers for March are going to be huge because Nintendo already had pre made and pre shipped out a whole bunch of units for the launch of Animal Crossing. So Animal Crossing's launch numbers in terms of the sales of the game in terms of sales of systems are still going to be huge, March's numbers on the MPD are going to be massive. It might even be the biggest numbers switches done in the United States since launch, maybe even bigger than launch if Japan's to go by because Japan was bigger than the launch of the switch. So March's numbers are still going to be huge, but don't make that no don't just sit there and pretend that that makes everything in April. Okay, they haven't been able to ship more units for you know, a couple weeks now, almost three weeks. And we're at a point now where, you know, we're kind of playing the wait and see game, the factories are still making switches, but they're making them at such low volumes that the shipments are being stagnated worldwide. And it's just being very really difficult right now to get units to the UK. They can't even satisfy the Japanese market. And that's where Nintendo is located, let alone trying to satisfy the US market, which obviously a lot of us would love to, you know, get into video games. And the thing is, we shouldn't really be leaving our homes to go buy a switch. That's another crazy thing like it's sold up, but we're not even supposed to be leaving our homes in the first place to go get one. But that's like the only option right now is hoping that somewhere locally has has one laying around that hasn't sold yet.  And two, there's none available in my area anyways, used or otherwise.  And that might be an option for some of you that don't own a switch that want to get one, maybe looking at craigslist and Facebook marketplaces or let go or something, but then you have to meet people and we're not supposed to be meeting with people. So that's a whole nother conundrum. So I don't know. It's crazy. I mean, I'm sure Nintendo, you know, some people talked about someone actually one of my live streams, I kind of want to address this point because I see this brought up numerous times that Nintendo that the shortage right now this sold out switch is a purposeful thing by Nintendo to drive hype and drive sales. And there is a point to having artificial shortages, creating demand. That's not the case here, there hasn't been a shipment to the US since March 15. Let me just beat that in your head since March 15. There hasn't been a shipment in the US. So Nintendo, if they were doing artificial shortages, they would still be shipping units. It just would be less of them. But they're not shipping them at all. Folks, this is not some sort of planned intentional shortage by Nintendo. In fact, demand for switches so high, this is the time that they would want the most shipments they've probably ever made for switch to come out.  Like that, that's what they would want to happen. But they can't, they can't satisfy demand. They can't supply and demand are just off the charts right now for switch. And to be honest, folks, the, I don't see switches popularity dwindling just because they can't provide enough stock that can happen to sometimes things stay out of stock for a long, long enough time.  But I do think that when we talk about switches viability for this holiday, I'm not that worried about it, guys. It's next year that I'm going to have a little more concern this year with the pandemic and everything going on. And Nintendo's just an insane amount of evergreen titles that all these new switch owners this year are going to have to go back and play. I'm not too concerned about any of that right now. In fact, I think console wars at this point just don't matter. We're dealing with something that's affecting people in the real world. And we need to be focused on that. But gaming is a great escape. And I hope all of you are finding gaming or Netflix or TV or board games, or maybe you're going on walks, I still go on walks every day, I just try really hard to avoid people because I have a lot more people going on walks now than there once than there was before. So I basically see a person and I turn around and walk the other way. But yeah, thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathan DeRovageance from Nintendo Prime. Be sure to enter that trials amount of giveaway by liking the video, commenting down below, subscribing, hitting that bell icon, all that jazz. I think you guys so much for sticking with me while I am navigating the waters of this pandemic between homeschooling my kids and having to cancel the podcast for a few weeks now just because there's been all crazy stuff going on since school. The school's got closed down and I'm trying my best here to still get content out when I got time and to do my best for you guys. I know it's been a while since we've done a live stream so maybe, I don't know, maybe later today or tomorrow, I can get a stream out to you guys and just chit chat with you guys about gaming and about life in general. Because I miss you all. I really do. But thank you guys so much for tuning in to Nintendo Prime. And I'll catch you guys whenever my next video comes out.


The National Hydropower Association is a national spokesman for the hydroelectric industry. We represent those backgrounds and include conventional hydropower as well as some of the new industry hydroponetic technologies and pop storage. We're an organization that really focuses on moving policies forward to ensure the growth and vitality of the hydroelectric industry. We like all the other renewables and have great concerns about public policy right now supporting the renewable community and its growth agenda. Perhaps probably the most important item right now is the extension of the production tax credit. We're also looking at ensuring some responsible reforms of our regulatory process that allow us to compete better in the market size. So we have our materials here today. We'll be talking to members of Congress. We're also participating in training on a panel later this afternoon. We're going to try to get that message out about the need for some very urgent policy changes here in Washington. Because certainly the federal government's policies have a way of incentivizing all different types of technologies. And hydropower, just like all other renewables and other technologies, really relies on those federal policies to address some of the challenges that we see in the growth and development. For example, trying to develop a hydro project is a lot of upfront costs and it's sometimes hard to get passed over that purpose. And so the policies set by the federal government like the production tax credit and the clean renewable energy bonds program helps our members to get over the hunk and actually see project development occur. We have tremendous growth opportunity in this industry. 60,000 megawatts were on target to build. But those types of federal policies that include production tax credit, relicensing improvements, and R&D for some of these newer technologies, emerging technologies, are all critical to get to that 60,000 megawatt of growth. Our member companies include investor owned utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern Company. They include some of the Northwest Public's, land beauty and grant beauty. And also we have TDA as a member of the Power Administration as a member. We also have the whole service side of it, manufacturers, suppliers, consultancy firms, engineering firms, and independent power producers like Brookfield and Transcamp. So Canadian members as well as US companies. I think the most important message that we all want to deliver here today is federal policy is important. I can't wait. I know we've heard an awful lot about waiting to link up. We really need the certainty that federal policy offers and we need it soon to see these industries continue to grow. Or we're going to see a terrible loss in this country of many companies that can deliver clean, renewable energy to other countries.


Join us always by Greg Jackson, great, good, good to have you here. Thank you. All right. So today we're going to be talking about backup, offsite backup, and a service that we have that is really great for that. Keeps it on Island, it has a lot of potential, but as usual, we're going to go ahead and get started with some of the news of the day. The first web thing I found here was a website called Focus Me and what that allows you to do is you sign up for this, you, Matt, you say, I want to work for an hour from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then it mirrors you up with someone else who has decided that they want to work at the same time. And once that happens, your session starts, you will then, the other person comes on the webcam. Hi, I'm Matt. I want to get these 10 things done in the next 50 minutes. And then the other person says, hey, I'm Greg, I want to get these three things on the next 50 minutes. We minimize the screen and there's a little window down the bottom that tells you, you know, you can still see them and make sure that they're working, they make sure you're working. And at the end of the session, you would then tell them what you got done of that. And it's surprisingly effective in making you reach your goal. This is a complete stranger, never met them before, never talked to them before, but you are held accountable by them. You want to get your stuff done and be able to say, I got all 10 things done. And that's just, and it's kind of, you know, co-working is a huge thing where you go to a space and I just have a, I just sit down next to somebody and we start working. This is virtual co-working. When you have people that work virtually, you know, work from home, work from Starbucks, you know, they have no way, they often, they don't feel accountable for anything. So this is a way that you can just go in there. I virtually work all the time. You virtually work? I mean, you almost work? Is that, is that, is that? Oh, actually, I must have came out wrong. Okay. Right. Absolutely. But yeah. So this, this, this website, it's absolutely free. Focus mate spell, just like it sounds, focus M-A-T-E. I encourage you to give it a try. If you do work from home, if you do work from home, it's just a great way that you can feel some accountability to get all of your things done. So I thought that that was really, I like that they focus on like, they have a goal. I think that's really important for a lot of people. Yeah. Because that's, that's what they tell you before you, before you're ready, have your things ready. This is what I want to get done. Measurable. And then the next 15 minutes and they tell you and then at the end of the time you do that. And there used to be a program called chat roulette was saying kind of a similar theory where you would just say, I want to talk to somebody and then it would just hook you up. But there was a lot of adult theme with that and that. So this is strictly for work. But yeah, I definitely, if you do work remote and work by yourself, it's a way that you can get kind of that in-office kind of a feel. Okay. So now this was talking to this other story about three guys that don't have a smartphone. They have an old, we call candy bar phone kind of looked like this, you know, but small screen and just, you know, we have a customer that just got a smartphone about nine months ago.  I don't know. He just, when we sat down and spoke, he, he wanted to make sure that I understood his technical aptitude and he said, listen, before you get started with the technical stuff, I just got a smartphone to be nice. Interesting. Because I, if I didn't have a smartphone, it really is such a time saver. Yeah. It's just a force multiplier.  I remember the first time I heard a story of a road warrior and this one Blackberry was all the rage and they say, well, normally what happens, they get off the plane, they get their luggage, they get back to the hotel and then they do an hour's worth of email before they go to sleep. Well, now that hour can be done when they're waiting for their bags, when they have a taxi, when they're waiting in line, and then they go, they go right to sleep. So that, without a smartphone, I don't think I'd be able to be nearly as productive as I. That reminds me of the, with great powers, great responsibility. No. And, you know, it's one of those things where the power we have in our pocket, the power I have on my wrist right here, you know, this Fitbit is 10 times what they had to land on the moon. So it is kind of amazing. So what we can do with those smartphones, and I'm looking forward to the day where I can say, you know what, I'm not going to take my phone with me today. You know, something happens, I'll use a payphone or borrow somebody else's phone, but that would be nice when we get to the point where we would don't need that phone. Yeah, absolutely. So you know, as I know you heard, that Boeing 737 MAX crashed, the second Boeing plane to crash in that line, and obviously we feel sorry for all the families involved, I couldn't imagine something like that happening. But it seems like the issue was these automated systems took over and did not let the pilot do what it wanted to do. And that is such this automation, this artificial intelligence of such a double-edged sword because you had, you know, there was another plane, the Air France plane that crashed and it was absolutely pilot error that this device should have been able to solve that plane from crashing. But in a car world, and now there's going to be smart scooters, there's going to be smart cars, all these things, you know, when, I don't think the technology, the checking, the thoroughness has nearly caught up at all. So you know what I heard with this one? I heard there's a lot of airline union folks that are really upset because the pilots were saying they didn't even know they could do that. It's true. Isn't that interesting? It's a communication problem. You see in the training, how do you do that? All these automated systems, how do you tell the plane that I want to fly now? And I remember hearing about this 30 years ago, that when you have a fighter jet that can pull three Gs and I'll do all these kinds of things, that everything in the cockpit was designed for one thing. It was designed to let the pilot know how the plane's doing. The speed, the altitude, the pitch, how many bullets do I have left? There was not one thing in there to tell the plane how the pilot's doing. The pilot blacked out. The pilot gets shot and killed by something, and it had that kind of technology. So that's just so scary to know that this pilot in your plane could not, maybe they can fly it. It's just a matter of time until there's no more pilots in planes. They just have, there's somebody's looking in live when you take it off and you land, but the five hours when you're cruising, that's just, you used a flip on a radar, there's a computer control, so it's really makes you think of how we're going and who's going to be able to turn these things off and what if there's a virus, and say, hey, I'm going to crash this plane, and they can now do that from a keyboard in another country. It's not like I got to storm the airport anymore or have some box cutters or anything like that. They're just sitting at their house somewhere and they hit enter, and that causes every single plane in the air to come crashing down. I would, as much as humans can make the mistake, in my opinion, the next 20 years, I'd be much better, much better with a live person there. And I admit, I'm a two-year-old male. One of my first movies that I really loved was War Games, where the computers took over for the guys in the silos, and it was going to take over. So I think the human intervention is sort of a long way away from needing to have human intervention in planes and cars and all those kind of things. So I personally would not get in an autonomous view. Chances are nothing is going to go wrong, but if something does go wrong, I want a human there to be able to do it. So Uber is finally for IPO. They're going to become a public company, and what they announced, the only way they can control their management, is they're losing $1.8 billion a year. And I don't know how that's anything other than hype over what they're doing and their, you know, the first market mover. But it's like all these other dot bombs. It's just happening. It's amazing how, you know, if you want something to happen again, just wait. It's going to happen again. Would you buy stock at Uber right now? Knowing the huge losses and the huge challenges they have, the competition and all the cars, the manufacturers getting into that? I don't think it's going away. I think what we're seeing is correction. I don't think Uber is going to go away. I think the company is going to do what it's doing. It'll get into autonomous vehicles. That'll help some of their business model, but I don't think it's going to go back. It's too convenient. Do you think Uber as a business or that type of? If they stay focused on their core competency, I think they'll be fine. And the core competency is ride sharing. I think people get from point A to point B. They might dabble on other things. They started to do that with animals, food, handicap. So they're doing other things. And I think that cars are going to become ambulances. Right. If you're an ambulance worker, only if you're absolutely rich, do you have an ambulance waiting for you to take you to the hospital? Everybody else, when you need an ambulance, you call 911 and one come. I think cars are going to be the same way. Only if you're absolutely wealthy or that's just your thing, that you have your own car because you want to maintain it. 50 years from now, when I want a car to go from here to here, I call it up and it's going to come and it's going to take me where I want to go. Absolutely, absolutely. And then the whole flying car thing. So that will be it. So I think Uber losing all that money is really, really crazy. This last article I saw, it was on the Big Five tech company and how they made their money, the revenue. So Apple, for instance, total revenue here is $265 billion. 62% or about $166 billion is just from the iPhone. And if you look at this, that is just, to me, that is incredible. If you had told me Nokia would have been a has been, all these other players were just going to be gone and you could make $166 billion selling cell phones. I would have told you you're crazy. There's just not enough margin. There's not enough of those kind of things. But then iPads were $18 billion. I think they're stocks down too, right? They're making that much money, but that's their version of down. And I think that the big reason with that is that the growth has stopped. And that's what a lot of people say about cell phones is there's no net new customers. Anybody, everybody within that age group, you know, and to 80 that is going to have a phone, or they already have one. So you're trying to win over somebody else, a switcher, or, you know, if someone passes away, then somebody else is coming in there. But yeah, that gap of everybody that can afford one has one. I think this is the precipice to price wars. I think you can see the price is just pink, because that's exactly where they're going to go. And with the iPhone, with Apple, their whole thing is quality and price. But that might be okay here in China and third world countries that they're really going to have a lot of trouble. Well, I think that's why Huawei's been doing so well. Absolutely. Because they cater to lower end users, just mass, just shove it out into the market. And on my household, we bought our first Huawei. I say Huawei. You say Huawei. It's funny. I'm not even sure it's an English word so we can say whatever it is. Yeah, right. No one's going to call us. But Macs here were only $25 billion. So they're less than 10% of Apple's income come from the computers, the servers. So that was really surprising. You know, ASD jobs went and had that vision to do the iPod. I wasn't going to help you. I was having fun watching you. Oh my goodness. Senior moment there. All right. Okay, now we got... I still remember the black girl, man. There you go, right? I'll wear that next week. So Amazon, they had revenues of $232 billion. And their online store is by far the biggest. But they made their web service, their cloud, you can see there is got $25 billion in their web service, which is huge. That's huge. And their physical stores is about $17 billion. Now, they bought Whole Foods, they bought... They buy some pet stores and that kind of thing. I'm surprised they've got so saturated on the brick and mortar side. Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of money. So I don't know if that's too... It's got to tie into the web. It's almost like I had one to the brick and mortar and sign up for the little thing to auto fill that thing. But yeah, but I have my Whole Foods. The next is Alphabet, aka all the Google companies. And yeah, so they're advertising. People don't realize Google isn't advertising. People don't realize that. It's not search, it's not video. We trust them. What's that? We trust them. Absolutely. Here, get my data. Here, absolutely. So that you can give me the most relevant ads that people are willing to pay to show me. You don't have that. So that's huge. 70% of their... It comes from direct advertising.  That's another 14%. So over 80% of their revenue comes from the ad. When you see that YouTube video, you have that pre-roll. That's what's paying for it, that little bit of ad that you have there. You have that. All right. So Facebook, Shocker, 98% comes from ads. And it's the classic... They were struggling for a long time to monetize their business. And they basically... I'm just waiting for Google to buy them. It's possible. And anytime you're using something for free, you are paying one way. There is nothing free.  I was really surprised that their cloud platform is about 23% of the rent. And Windows is about... It's less than 17.  So about 25%. So that's their biggest, but yeah, the Windows is now... See, Microsoft bought LinkedIn. Google should buy Facebook. Absolutely. I mean, it's just chump change. Okay. So, yeah, I just thought those were real interesting stories there. So let's go ahead and talk about backup. And what we want to talk about is backup. So tell me what... If you had 60 seconds to talk to a business owner about backup, how important it is, what would you talk to the average business here of Hawaii, maybe five to 15 employees? They have a file server. What would you say to them? I usually ask questions about their business. And I ask them, if something were to happen to your information, what would happen to your company? Would you be able to continue running? How do you manage information? What does that look like for you? And it's over the last 10 years, a lot more small business owners really understand a lot more about their data. They just don't know how to protect it. So usually it's a lot of questions about if your, you know, crashes, what happened to that? If your internet goes down, what happened to that? Where's your line of business? Where do you keep your orders? All that stuff I usually ask them, okay, so what happens if that breaks? And the hard part with that is no one values their information until they lose it. To me, that's the hardest challenge I've got.  All my data is there. It's hard to get someone excited about a copy of information you have. Very hard. You assume it's going to be the, it's like, you know, sprinklers aren't put in until after a fire. And then people realize that. I really keep that. I lose all my data apart. So that is a challenge.  It's pretty easy to go get more money.  Employees are hard to get more of, but if you get down to employees, there's ways you can buy employees through research firms, the hiring firm, but once you lose your data, you're done. You've got nothing left. There's nothing left to run your business. You don't know who owes you money. You don't know who you owe money. You don't have older contracts. You don't have all that. All that, you know, all that industry knowledge is gone. So that's huge. So how do you, let's say somebody had a file server on site and usually it's never a dedicated server. It's your computer and you've got the stuff on it. And so you share, you make some shares and have that. If that's where the level of someone that, how would you recommend that they would do some kind of. Well, I mean, so part of the conversations that I typically have with customers is asking them first, how much do they value or need your data and that's a longer conversation because people don't really think about that on a daily basis. So as soon as I understand, as soon as they understand the value of their data, you can translate that to what they're, what they're willing to spend on. And a lot of it's just insurance, right? So we talk about, okay, so if you were to lose all that data, how long would it take you to do that? And a lot of times of conversation as well, we take a backup one month. We had one customer that was back. They were backing up their data every day. And all they were doing was clicking and dragging a shortcut. And when I, when I explained to them that the shortcut is not their backup, they, you know, they responded, you know, they were worried. So, you know, that recreation timeframe, that's, that there's a dollar amount attached to that. Well, and the good part about backing up the shortcut is fast. It's really fast. Yeah, it's very efficient, right? It takes no time at all. I just click it and it goes right over. So we usually, you know, we usually start getting into conversations like they, you know, they listened, they're advertising work. So they tell me about some of the radio commercials or TV commercials. They heard backing it up. You and I have done some analysis. You specifically took, it took you a week to get data back from the mainland. So Hawaii is not just worried about its own data backup routine, but now you've got the fact that you're in the most remote part of the planet. And that's one of the reasons why I get excited about having the data here online. Absolutely. So if we can go ahead and go to slide two of what we had there. The way that we're able to do it is on the customer premise, you know, we also have big window servers a little, we're able to put something box on their premises that it is can be a little as a USB hard drive to a full-fledged server that people can just put their data on that server. And whether it's a database, whether it's just files, whether it's music, whether it's videos, they're able to put that there. And then that is sent up into the cloud. And our cloud that we have that is here on Oahu. And what's great about it is it is literally in a World War II bunker. And we're going to have a whole show dedicated just to the bunker and to have a virtual tour. But the great thing about it is if there's an issue with your data, if you need something back, if the worst was to happen and the worst would mean total loss, which could come from a lot of people think, oh, it's just from natural disaster. And I am already in a bank vault and I already am, you know, a hurricane would never hurt. But that is 0.1% the reason people lose data just from natural disaster. Most likely it's going to be from an employee. And the two kinds of employees that happen to us, one is negligence. Negligence is just going to be not understanding, like that customer that was backed up the shortcut. To them, it was important for them to do the backup, but they weren't quite doing it right. So you have the negligence part. And then you just have the people that want to do bad things. That they're either ex-employees or they're disgruntled and they bring something in and they delete it and they shouldn't have or you just got the person that opens up the email that they shouldn't have. Now you have, I'm sure, with BitLocker. So that's what you need to protect yourself against. Not natural disaster, not just natural horrible, but the most likely, if you're going to lose data, it's going to be because of one of your employees. Ransomers go close second. Absolutely. And that doesn't just happen. Somebody generally has to do something silly for that ransomware. What are you talking about about that? So one of the things that we typically find with customers is that, and I've seen a handful of customers where they really, they call up, they're really excited about getting their data back. They say, hey, we've got backup data. We just need someone to restore that data. And they end up finding out that they've got crypto locker on the data they're actually trying to restore from. And that has a lot to do with how you're managing the backup. So in a nutshell, crypto locker is you open up something, it silently locks the file and crypts it. And then the bad people have the key. And then they either email you, phone you, or contact you in some way and let you know. Want your data back? You have to pay. Absolutely. And it's in BitPoint. So it's untraceable. And very rarely do you get it all back at one time. Usually what happens now, they're very sophisticated in that you give them $100, $200. And they give you part of your backup. Because they know they got you on the line. You want the rest, that's another $1,000. And then you find out another 10% of your file.  So it's just very expensive. So with our backup solution, we follow the basic core principle of backup. It's 321, meaning I want three copies of my file, two different places. And one of them needs to be off-site. So we've got three copies of your file. We've got the one that you're using your live. And we have this local vault that we put on. We're small businesses, the USB drive for big business. It's a server. And then we have the off-site copy here at the data vault. That is offline. Because if you do get this crypto locker, if you get this virus, it just searches everywhere and will lock everything. So all your backups can be corrupted as well. Again, our stuff is offline. So we're able to go ahead and say, no, if you get hit, then we're able to deliver those to you. Yeah. So definitely the other piece of advice for backup is do a practice run. A lot of people do a backup. You got to test your plan. Absolutely. And if you don't have off-site backup, you're literally one day from your business closing. They call them tabletop exercises, right? Let's pretend they actually read the disk. Yep. Very important. So again, I want to thank you for joining us today. My name is Matt Darnell, joined by Greg Jackson. Do you have any questions about backup? Or do you have any questions? You can get us on the web, comptel.cloud. The cloud is in the sky, comptel.cloud. And we'd be happy to help you. We'd love helping small businesses with their backup needs and just general data needs in general. So thank you so much a lot.