the church fathers told me glad that you made it mother mary must have guided you and i was thinking to myself what all right guys welcome back to the channel if you're new my name is bobby guys first and foremost thank you everybody that reached out after my last video it was absolutely beautiful to see we had many atheists we had new ages we had jews even masonic jews if i remember correctly and moreover we had many muslims of course in the comment section it was absolutely beautiful to see a very interesting exchange of ideas of course we had many haters as well and let me address you quickly you guys are really like the Pharisees man that text said that that book said that you're not a christian i still identify as a christian however i do have issues with certain practices within the church and with certain practices that people do practice to this very day however as i said already i'm not here to debunk orthodoxy if you agree with everything within orthodoxy that is amazing beautiful this is your path go it straight done deal however i'm always honest i cannot pretend to believe something if i do not i'm still identified as a christian however there are three things within orthodoxy it simply didn't resonate with me any longer guys if you follow this channel you know i went to mount artos mount artos is essentially the mecca of orthodoxy if you will it was over there that i participated in church service three times daily i really got to know the orthodox tradition however three major things of orthodoxy simply didn't connect with me didn't connect with my soul if you will the first and foremost kissing icons i already know about kissing icons because i grew up in orthodox household and therefore i saw my mother do it kissing the icons in church it never made any sense to me and it still doesn't i forced myself kissing the icons but it simply felt wrong that's all i can say it felt completely wrong it felt inauthentic i made myself do it in later church services on mount artos i even just gestured like this with a distance that i kissed the icon just to do it because it felt inauthentic i don't want to be inauthentic in church if it doesn't sit right with my heart it simply didn't it felt as if i was worshiping those icons and of course i know we orthodox we're not worshiping the icons we are venerating the icons but guys if you kiss those icons that is worship in my book i cannot see it any other way otherwise again i would have to pretend that i do not see it that way another thing was kissing the hand of the priest that felt so cultish so guru like to me similar to osho and all the other indian cults why would i worship yet again another man now we would say no we're not worshiping here we are simply respecting the elders but i can respect the man by shaking his hand i don't have to kiss his hand i never did that even on mount artos i gestured like this but i never actually kissed the hand of the priest because that simply is not me not at all i couldn't make myself do it it would be wrong in front of god because i wouldn't be congruent in front of god number three and this is the last major issue that i had but i'm going to talk about minor discrepancies as well the third and the last one is eating from the same spoon as 20 other guys and saying that that bread on the spoon is the flesh of christ and the wine is the blood of christ as i said kissing the hand already felt cultish but this cemented it for me i took part in the holy eucharist but i couldn't believe it oftentimes i would find myself within the ceremony and asking myself hmm was the bread and the wine maybe something else back in the day maybe a mushroom who knows honestly i was asking myself was it really just bread and wine and now supposedly the bread and the wine is really the flesh of christ not only symbolically but really the flesh of christ for us i mean obviously it was just bread and wine so how can it be the flesh of christ i had to make myself believe that again but ultimately i didn't believe it those are the three major discrepancies now i'm going to talk about little discrepancies as well for example when i made it to mount atos and i went to the monastery s figmenu which was an absolutely amazing holy spiritual place the church fathers told me glad that you made it mother mary must have guided you and i was thinking to myself what that feels so wrong why would have mother mary guided me that was god after all there was god all along i was guided by god i knew god i had god in my heart i experienced god not only during the time on atos but before that after that i wasn't communion with god during my silent prayers and i know controversial topic during mushroom experiences as well i know that many religious folks don't want to hear it and i haven't touched mushrooms in over two years but i cannot discard my experiences during those mushroom experiences i had many encounters with god and even after that in a sober state i had encounters with god again and god was always the perfect unity actually the only perfect unity there is there is nothing like him absolutely nothing i can say with confidence that i encountered god that's it i know that many won't believe it and that is fine this is why i always say go and see for yourself many people will tell me what they believe based on another man's belief i don't care for that at all zero i want your experience that would be interesting do you have an experience we saw that with veganism especially people talk about show me the studies i don't care i really don't i want to see how it works for you what you do you as an individual what do you do how do you eat how do you practice tell me about it that is what fascinates me i want to see real life results anyways that being said i had encounters with god god is pure god is holy god is love god is a unity god is the absolute absolute beauty encompassed no division at all no duality at all non-dual really amazing and now here i was listening to men telling me that god is a trinity that in order to receive god i have to eat bread and wine in order to receive god i should kiss icons in order to receive god i should kiss an old man's hand i can't i absolutely can't and that's the truth and honestly i'm really really happy with it i'm happy as i haven't been in a long time i really mean this because finally i can return to my heart and finally i can connect with my god again and be happy and listen to god and not to other men one last comment to the haters and then i'm gonna wrap this thing up honestly guys ask yourself why do you care so much if somebody else has a different opinion than you it is hilarious to me to see it just shows how little self-respect you have it just shows how little trust you have in yourself it's hysterical honestly it is such a sign of weakness first and foremost if you would love your life you wouldn't care at all what bobby is doing here that's it secondly if you would have half a brain left you would simply click the video off that's that but no you can't and you're not convinced in your own beliefs that's it because they are not your own beliefs you adapted beliefs from other men and because you're not convinced of those beliefs and those convictions you want force them upon me you don't even know me for you i'm just digital on a screen but you want me that digital character to believe what you think you believe this just shows how weak you are all right but ending this video on a positive note again thank you so much everybody it was really amazing to exchange comments with you i'm really grateful and i'm filled with love honestly to have such a beautiful community on my channel it's absolutely amazing i love people i really do i love people of all walks of life i love different religions i love different cultures i love different races i just love life it's absolutely beautiful thank you so much and this is it for today's video if you 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Boom. What's up money gigs, Mr. V here. Welcome to another video guys. So into this video, I want us to talk about Robinhood, specifically the IPO that's going public today. So for those of you guys that have been in the market and investing, you must have heard about Robinhood. This company is finally making their debut on the NASDAQ. So that's what I want us to cover into this video. But before we get started guys, if you're new to the channel, we took about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So that's something that interests you. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. So when it comes to Robinhood guys, most of you guys probably recognize the name of the company. If you're investing, you must have heard about them, especially when we had this meme stock craze go around and we had AMC, GameStop and all this meme stock. Robinhood was at the forefront of that particular situation because of some of the practices that they did during that period. If you guys remember the story where people got GameStop, they could not buy more, they could only sell, which kind of pushed the price of the stock down. Most people were so mad at Robinhood that that was a collusion with Wall Street to try to cheat people on Main Street or retail investors. So again, they took advantage of that, which is publicity. A lot of people heard about Robinhood and now they are attacking the company public to their advantage. So again, in this video I want to tell you guys my game plan for the IPO and what I anticipate moving forward. Again, Robinhood is a company that I don't need to kind of explain to you guys what they do is just an investment company. So basically what they do is they provide a platform where people can start investing in the stock market. A lot of people that are not investing yet, Robinhood make it easy because they are one of the companies that came in and started the whole commission free investing universe. So now pretty much every broker out there right now does free investing, commission free investing. Robinhood actually were the pioneers there. Other companies like M1, SoFi, ACON, Stockpile, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, name it, everybody is getting into the space. And then the other thing that kind of started with Robinhood and the other brokers is the fact they started doing fractional shares. A company like Stockpile started fractional shares and then Robinhood got into it as well. And so you have the ability to trade commission free fractional shares, but you guys know my take and I've done videos here on the channel guys. Robinhood actually messed me up. So I'm still mad at the company. I left the company or the platform a while back just because of the stuff that I was getting there, the mistreatment that I was getting there. And also the fact that these guys, in my personal opinion, colluded with Wall Street. Even though they won't come out and say it, oh, I forgot to mention, you can also trade crypto on Robinhood. But I'm still mad at the company. So right now I don't have Robinhood. I'm not using it per se for any investing because I moved my stuff out of it. But again, if there's an opportunity to trade, then I can definitely trade because I'm gonna trade it just like any other stock because it's not the company itself, it is the market that I'm trading. So what's my game plan for the stock? The IPO is currently scheduled to go out right now. I think that the debut price is set at $38. But you guys know how this usually works at $38. This thing is gonna come out inflated. So you're looking somewhere about $45 to $50 at open. And then you might see a spike to maybe $60 and then before that pullback. So if you are somebody that's excited about Robinhood and you want to invest in the company, I would say don't invest right at IPO because most often than not, you would see a spike and then pullback. So even if you get into the IPO, take some profit and then wait, when this thing pulls back, because that is usually the case, spike and then settle down. And then that's what you can get in. So you can look at like Coinbase and all these other companies that IPO, that is the plan. That's how it's always gone. It spikes up and then pullback. And then for you that's looking to go long term, that's when you can jump in and invest long term. So that would be a simple plan there. For me, I'm just looking at opportunity to trade. I don't plan on investing in Robinhood long term, but I'm definitely gonna trade it if I see the proper opportunity. So I'm gonna keep my eyes open as soon as this IPO goes live, I'm gonna see what I can get there. Again, I'm gonna be very smart about it though. So the ticker symbol here is H-O-O-D. So hood, Robinhood. So H-O-O-D, that's the ticket symbol that it's gonna be trading on there. So if you don't really have it, if you go your broker would probably have it, but it's not gonna be trading. You said it's stock, it's not tradable. So definitely put the ticker symbol on your watch list. Again, like I said, there's no specific time when this thing is gonna start trading because they don't really give you that time. It just usually opens around. Again, in my experience, most IPOs start somewhere between 11 and one PM central time. That's my time zone. So definitely figure out what works for you. And in other cases, you can also put an order, a limit order as to what price you feel comfortable buying. So let's say it opens at 38 and you feel comfortable. You can put an order at 38.50 so that if it opens, if it fills your gut, if it doesn't, then you can not start looking for ways to get back in, but definitely don't be a chaser in this one. So that is my take when it comes to Robinhood. So again, guys, Robinhood, it's one of many brokers that there is out there. Again, like I said, from Stockpile to M1 to Webull, just name it to Acoin. There are so many different platforms out there that you can trade on. Robinhood is really giving credit to themself that they are the simplest platform that people can start investing in. Again, the jury's out on them for that. I'll let you, those of you that use Robinhood to be the judge here, they have that claim. I'm not, I mean, I'm not disputing that the claim is bad, but again, I am not a current user of Robinhood because I left the platform. Again, just from an investment standpoint, I don't know if a lot of investors are, they've gotten over the fact that Robinhood did what they did during that meme stock craze. If they have, and then there's probably an opportunity here, but I don't see this as a massive opportunity long-term just because of the space. There's so many companies that are competing in that space. And again, Robinhood can come out on top. I'm not saying that it can't. Me personally, I'm not gonna be investing in this one long-term, and I could be wrong. You cannot win them all, but this is one that I'm gonna be trading, but definitely I don't plan on investing in this one long-term. So let me know in the comment section, what do you think? Do you plan on investing in Robinhood long-term? If yes, let me know what your game plan is for this stock. Do you plan on buying IPO or waiting for a dip? Again, let me know in the comment section if you're new to the channel, we'll talk about how to earn money, how to save money, how to invest and build wealth. So that's something that interests you. Go ahead and smash that like button and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new content. Also, guys, if you are getting started with investing, I personally right now recommend Weibo to get you started. You can invest and you can trade on the platform which I like. So I'll put the links in the description below. And if you sign up and deposit $5, you get two free stocks at no cost to you. And as always, guys, do your due diligence.  Stay motivated.


Yo, what up everybody? It's your boy Mr. Ghana, baby. Still here in Lusaka, Zambia. Tunes has not been easy for me, but when you move around with perfect people, Tunes become easier. Today I've been joined with one of Africa's, I don't even want to introduce it, like one of Africa's finest YouTubers in Lusaka, but she's not based there, but she talked about Lusaka. Come on, I have to talk about you that much. I don't know yet. What's your name? It's a girl a little more times also known as Global Z. Lily, I never knew you based in Lusaka. I thought you were a London girl, huh? What are you doing here? Well, first of all, I was born and raised in Zambia and I've been in the UK for about 15 years now. Lily, 15 years in the UK. Yes, my... How is life in the UK as an African? For my experiences, it's been tough. It's been really tough. Like, no, I mean, you said UK is tough. But all of us want to go to the UK. What are you telling us that? Don't, don't. Reason being that for me, I would rather, if you're establishing yourself in Africa, remain in Africa. But if you want to get a good education, yes, you can come and get your education and come back like other people do it. So you mean you can go to the UK, learn and bring that back to Africa. What about living in the UK in my entire life? Living in the UK in your entire life, it depends on your circumstances. But from my experiences, I would say it's been a tough journey because I don't really have family. So I've been like on my own pushing with kids. But for people maybe who have families, they can say it's a good place because they have that support system. Okay. So you're trying to say that living in the UK, you're hustling, not living your best life. Yeah, hustling. You're hustling. Really, now you're back again. You've been coming back home. How will you compare, sorry to say this, how will you compare your life 15 years ago? And then the friends that you left back here, the 15 years. How do you see your friends in Africa who have never been to the UK or USA or whatever? Most of my friends have really progressed. Job promotion. They drive good cars. They've built houses, not just one. Many houses some have built flats. They've really established themselves. They take their children to very expensive schools, mind. Like very expensive schools. And I'm just like, okay. The levels are obviously two different levels and you can see the development. And just because obviously, since they've been here most of their lives, they've really tapped into the grace of being in Africa. I call it the grace, yeah. So you mean like your friends are excelling, living in Africa? Yeah, yeah. Really, how will you describe life in Africa after coming back 15 years? How do you describe life in Africa? Many years ago, if you come to Zambia from the UK, you'd be admired. People would say, oh, this person has come from the UK. You've brought lettuce shoes, lettuce gadgets. But now everything is here. You've been to shopping malls. We even have an apple store in Zambia. So there's nothing you're going to show people to say, oh, I'm coming from the UK. Everything is here. As long as you have a good job or great business idea, people are excelling in Africa. Are you starting any business here in Zambia? Yes, in Africa. In Africa, not just Zambia. In Africa. So which part of Africa? Southern Africa, obviously. Southern Africa, but not Zambia. Zambia is in the southern part of Africa. Yeah, because the market of what I want to do in Zambia is already chocked. So I'd rather tap into other African countries. So you're not going to tell us the other African countries? No, I won't for now. For now, I won't. Really? You know what? I still have to go into duties of whatever is happening in Africa. Living in the UK for 15 years, will you advise me to leave everything behind and go and live in the UK? Because I want to live my best life. Do you think I should leave everything behind and go and live in the UK? No. For me, what I would say is, if you are established in Africa, stay in Africa, if you want to visit the UK for holidays, visit the UK for holidays, but don't make it as a home. Why? Because you find yourself with a... I've done a video on my channel, where I talk about the fact that I have a degree and I've been working as a cleaner. So the system there doesn't really make you do your degree job. If they can't employ you because you don't have experience, you do any odd job. So why leave your comfortable office job or business in Africa to go and do any other job because you want to live in the Western world? I mean, Zambia has developed a lot of opportunities here. Lily, your final message to your friends living in the UK who are saying that I'm not going back home because I feel like I'm living my best life in the UK. I mean, any message for people like that? For those of you who've seen my video about luxurious houses in Zambia, that was just a tip of the iceberg. People are living comfortably.  It's because people are living well. They are working so hard. They've invested. They've tapped into the opportunities which you and I should tap in. So that's why I'm here. I'm trying to tap into the grace as well. So Lily is trying to tell you that. Come and tap in the grace. I am here to tap in. She is here to tap in.  It's your boy Mr. Ghani Baby and Lily Mutanz is a YouTuber. Go check out her YouTube channel. It's going to be in the description box. Go check out, subscribe, support her. You know how to do it. But you're leaving us tomorrow, yeah? Let me first get my children's education first.  It's not that easy. So yeah, but Africa is where my heart is. That's why I keep coming. Wow. Yeah. All the best and good luck. Thank you so much. And I'll miss you. I wish I could travel with you everywhere. Everywhere. Me, I'm just living my best life exploring Africa. Now I'm in Zambia, eating shima. And I hope I don't eat made in Zambia.


Welcome to a new precious plastic video. So we built an entire plastic recycling workspace inside this old shipping container. We grinded, welded, sanded and put all the equipment inside to work with and you just need electricity and you can park it anywhere in the world to start recycling plastic. And in this video I'll show you how this thing works. So basically people can bring their plastic waste to this little frame on the left. It's being collected, written down how much people bring and then it's being put into this collection point. So we always advise people to bring their plastic cleaned, but if they don't they can still wash it here in these two washing barrels. We sorted out on different types. So Mattia is doing that right now. So separating the polypropylene from the polystyrene from the polyethylene and once we've done that we're gonna shred the plastic. So Sonja is doing that right now. So she's gonna put the plastic inside and once it comes out of the machine we get this small granulate which we use in the machines to make new products. And here we have sort of our material bank with all the different colors and different types. So it's nice if you use different colors because then you can play around a bit and make gradients or make mixed colors. It's a bit like painting. And once we have the shredded plastic we're gonna create objects with it. So the area now is here working with the machines. Here we have the compression machine but he is working with the injection and he's making a wall grip mount so he's putting on the mold. The plastic is being heated and once it's hot enough we can inject it so we have a new object made with the plastic. So in this area we have three different machines. I'll have a different technique to melt the plastic and turn it into something new. It depends what you want to make which machine to use but overall a lot is possible. And once the products are ready we have this wall on the back. It's like a little shop where we can display the products made with the machines. So Jerry just made his wall grips which people can now buy. Alright so that was basically our plastic recycle workspace, how it works. Now we share all the blueprints and technical drawings on how to build this thing yourself online with instruction videos to do it step by step. Visit preciousplastic.com if you want to see and know more about that. Thanks for watching this video and see you again in the next one.


Welcome, thank you for being here with us today and joining us for another episode of the nonprofit show, and we are thrilled to have Josh Kligman with us co founder we're going to hear about your partner here with yearly and to talk to us about the future of nonprofit organizations annual reports. Before we dive into this conversation with Josh we of course want to make sure that you know who our faces and voices are. Patrick is here CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. I'm Jared ransom, hopefully your only nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven group and we are so honored to have the continued support of our amazing presenting sponsors that have allowed us to continue growing and we have over 500 episodes if you miss any of them, you can find them on Roku, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, as well as Vimeo.  I was listening to one this morning as I was walking my dog. So you can now queue up the nonprofit show on your podcast. Again, thanks to our sponsors that have really invested in us in these conversations and our team. So, bloom ring has been with us from the beginning American nonprofit Academy fundraising Academy nonprofit nerd your part time controller the nonprofit Atlas nonprofit thought leader and staffing boutique.  Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. This is really exciting. I'm not to get fired because she's got, she's got happy fingers over there and she's going really fast but tell us about yearly what is it that that you guys do. Well, yearly is a platform for nonprofits to make digital annual and impact reports, and a whole lot more, you know, we were really noticing this need for nonprofits to find out if people are even reading and reports there's so there's a lot of time and energy and money that's put into creating reports. And we just want to make sure that our nonprofit partners are successful when they're, they're getting them out there to stakeholders. Yeah, absolutely. You know, at the same time my, my co founder Jeff from had an advertising agency focus on nonprofits, and he had organizations coming to him wanting to build a custom pieces of their website where they build up the code to be able to have an annual report that they can change year over year and that's really expensive to do for it but it's not the case for for everyone and we just saw the saw the need there. You know, I, I can't imagine a nonprofit who embraces the process of their annual report. It just seems like everybody looks at it is just like this major major, you know, burden. And when you go into a project with that mindset. It's just disastrous you know and it just is not a good way to be thinking about this, this whole process so you really have entered the space in, in the digital world. Talk about that. And what you're seeing for that whole process, because this is pretty innovative for a lot of organizations and a lot of donors. Yeah, I think that the process is kind of broken into what you what you may see now and where it could be and that's what we talk about with the, you know, the future of where I think digital reports could take nonprofits and associations and foundation so today, you know, we create these reports, and we don't necessarily know if they're being read and what those other metrics are, such as who's reading them how much time people are spending on the report. And the content that you're producing to make the report I think is, is the biggest asset, you know, your own time so what's the what's the return on that at the end of the day, and it's really different I think for every organization someone donations coming back in more volunteers whatever it might be. So, I ask, you know, in this digital format because I, you know, used to have I call it a swipe file of so many annual reports right from from different organizations and as a professional fundraiser. Yes, they post their donors and I want to know who the heck is in my community that is so very generous. And now that we've gone, you know, from having stacks and stacks and stacks to so many organizations now having this digital platform. And maybe you, you know the statistics but like if you could just kind of spitball like how many organizations actually utilize annual reports now in a digital format. Well, I know that we have 2000 organizations using the yearly platform to make reports, most of them are annual reports then come impact reports, and after that we see event recaps board board reports individual donor reports and then different types of digital brochures to so it's pretty amazing the trends that we're seeing I think, I think that's really the beginning, you know, I see a future where in 12 to 18 months from now. There will be many, many thousands more nonprofits doing that, but we actually surveyed our users to see how much time and money they spend creating digital reports. And they say they can create the reports three times faster and save four times the amount of money over whatever method they were using the prior year and I thought that was fascinating I didn't think it would be that high. That is fascinating and you're speaking my love language Josh because this is totally like super nerdy and I love it. So one of these marketing tools that you and yearly really, you know, have advanced and encourage our, our nonprofit leaders to utilize can you talk to us about some of the marketing tools. I think that there's ways to make reports. You know, more accessible so that your stakeholders have a chance to really look at them when a piece of paper or a PDF that's a slide show might not be as easy so I think one of those. One of those marketing tools is you know just utilizing the channels that you already go through through email and social media so if you have a CRM use for your email or you're just sending it out from your, your inbox that's fine and promoting the reports on Facebook. It's really easy to promote a link, a URL is all you need and with a web based report people can look through it really simply. So using it in a way that tells a story is really important I'm sure on the show, you know in the past you've covered nonprofit storytelling, you know, a lot a lot, right. So I think that one of the greatest marketing tools you have is your own team's ability to tell stories within the report, and let the community that you're impacting be the lead characters in those stories, and showcase them, you know, and then people will really think that their money went from the donations. Let that shine through the reports. You know we are in this time of tremendous change for many reasons and one of the things that I think is a comfortable way to push back on anything digital is for development teams or, or nonprofit leadership to say, Yeah, but our donors are older and they're heavy and so we need to do a hybrid or we're not ready yet. And I'm wondering, I think that's wrong by the way, I think that's wrong, but how do you counter that commentary or that argument for not embracing a digital piece. Well, sometimes it's true, and I saw an organization in New Orleans and in Las Vegas, speaking of Las Vegas, try to ease into digital reports by sending out a jumbo postcard that went to all their donors that said we've gone digital and had the URL and a QR code on there to drive people to the website and I think it's a way over time of training your donors and all your stakeholders really that you're now on the web with a digital report. And that lets them know what you're up to now I think that's a nice transition, right, that is a great transition I love that it seems so simple, you know I mean it cuts the cost down so much. You know to send a postcard instead of, I don't know 1218 24 page, you know and a report and and how that looks. How do you speak to the you know the digital space when we have, you know readers of different language or maybe they need larger font or you know like, how does the online the digital platform allow for those conveniences. Well, I am not the most tech savvy person and I'm not a graphic designer so when we created yearly as an option. We wanted our platform to be so simple to use that anyone can use it without having any of those experiences so it's a no code, no graphic designer background needed to be able to do things just like you do an email or Microsoft Word and make fonts larger. You know, have a report that's really letting graphics lead the way to so if you have existing info graphics are great photography. I think those are things you can implement into your report to make it a little more user friendly. And I think testing your reports with your colleagues on your computer on a mobile device are great ways for you to see what your stakeholders are going to see before they get it and share that around rather than just launch it out there especially that's your first time. Right, right. You know, I'm fascinated by this because I'm wondering in terms of making these investments are changing. Are you having. Are you seeing organizations that have maybe a group really pushing it that's saying yeah we want to go digital and then you might have another side within that same organization being a little hesitant or where do you see the window of this being half open fully open. I see the window being mostly open because those conversations have been happening for several years I mean I started to have them with colleagues five or six years ago, and we knew we wanted to go go digital with reports but we never really knew what that meant. Yeah, options what are you supposed to do. I think once people learn what the options are, it's a good time to test and that's where I'm seeing a lot of nonprofits go and say, let's try this for a year, and then we'll see what the response is like so tracking that response I think is a big, a big and smart part of it. How do we sell it to the naysayers right how do we sell it to the people that say, I know our constituents, I know that they like to have it like a coffee table book and they pick it up and they do that whole like, you know, thing, and they just sit there and read it you know like how do we make that transition from having that experience to a postcard that says we've gone digital for for so many because I can only right now think about the pushback we've had in fundraising when online auctions took place. So we're talking about an online annual report so what do we say to this I love the data that you were like try it analyze it measure the success. What are some other, I don't know key topics that we should be sharing. I think it's that old 8020 rule and I think the majority of your audience is going to be really interested in a digital report. Let me try it now for the ones that you know need to hold it for that one board member that small segment of your, your donor list. If you printed 1000 total reports last year.  If that's something that you have to do for your organization, and get it in their hands but also let that audience know that it's online as well, and take a look at their, their usages like that if you take a yearly report for instance, and sync it up to your Google Analytics, you could see where people are coming from how much time they're spending that reading the reports. You'll have your answers to that you'll know you'll say last year. Well yeah we printed it but we don't know if I'm reading it. Now we know the average person spent 18 minutes and 30 seconds reading it. You'll have your answers really quickly. So how long they stayed here's their click throughs here's what they were really interested in. Oh you just got super juicy because now we can take that into our database, and really start to categorize and segment based off of motivation and interest. I feel that we could, you know I learned from someone on the show. I won't name names but it's not you Josh that that taught us you taught me, you don't do anything with one cell purpose right so I'm assuming you can use these client stories, success stories, perhaps in blogs or articles and and again there's so many ways to repackage and repurpose the content of this so what you just said was golden. I'm questioning to when you say about, you know, getting 100 or even 50 whatever copies off. Does yearly allow you to use the files that you're creating on the digital side to do a print option. You know it's funny yes that Julia because I think I was dead set against it for the last 18 months because I said, no the future is digital. It needs to be a website. Okay, somebody has asked me that question. We launched that feature because there's there's a need for it I think because of the transition that we're talking about here over to digital that takes a little time and even first movers in the nonprofit space want to have that option to convert a web based into a PDF. And it works. And the interesting thing is, you may not want to have some of the more engaging or interactive elements in your PDF and you just strip those out it's a few clicks of a button. Well your quota is filled for the day so nobody else can ask you that question today, Julia, Julia is one a day I don't want more than one we built it it's out there. If you're into interactive interactivity you just mentioned that although it was easier for you to say than me but let's. These annual report a little more interactive. What does this even look like what are our possibilities.  That's happening right so you only have a small window of time to really capture their attention engage them more with your with your brand and the last touch point. So I think there's things you could do within the storytelling to help complement the writing and the photos that you'd have in there that would make a nonprofit and report more engaging and more interactive. The engaging side I think it's social media. You could be talking about a program that you created that puts a playground in your community and the store maybe about the kids that you're affecting on that playground. Well, what if there was a social media posts that you had four months ago about that playground that your organization installed that's starring one of the kids that's using it and benefiting benefiting from it. If you can go to Facebook, if that's where your post was, and just click the embed button which is hidden in these little three dots on the top right of all the posts and copy that and paste it right into your report so it lives with the photo and the text that you're writing about your report. So I think it makes the report come alive a little bit. And that's on the engaging side interactive I think is more about is more about video because I think that becomes more of a two way communication within the report you can click play and watch videos along the same lines. You know it's fine we even saw a video from a school in the northeast that was welcoming people to the report instead of an introductory letter from the president or executive director. Cool. Yeah. Yeah, great idea. I mean if you're going to embrace it go ahead and you know really drink the Kool-Aid and demonstrate and you could even talk in that welcome idea, like how you use it. Right, I'm just, you know, you know this is this is the process. You mentioned something and I, and I, when we first got going and I'm really intrigued by this. Are you seeing folks that use this tool just for the annual report, then saying holy moly we could do a stakeholder report or we could do other reports or Yeah, yeah, I mean are you seeing them like use the technology to then act as one of their main communication voices. I am and they're coming up with use cases I couldn't dream of which is really nice. I think it was the Catholic Community Foundation of New Orleans created an annual report, and then they said wait a second we have this digital brochure we need to make to highlight one of our programs that sells wills and trusts. So they won't use that or the Montgomery County Family Services Office in Maryland outside DC is doing a monthly newsletter to, you know, employees so I think there's all types of all types of reports like that that are getting created, which are nice to see because there's a lot of use for year round I mean if you can click the duplicate button and take your template that you're going to be made and make all these other reports. I think you'll just have a really easy communication channel that reaches out to certain stakeholders in a way that you're probably doing already through other, you know, other means. Yeah. Go ahead, Julia. Well, I have one more tech question. So, you started off by saying, you know, nonprofits would have to basically use consultants and off board this so that they could get the technological, you know, interest in savvy for somebody to produce this, but you're maintaining that a normal team could do this themselves or are you advocating that they're still going to have to find that service provider that can interface with with your technology. And if I can do it, you know, you can do it, trust me so anybody can anybody can do it. You know, because I think what we've seen with these kind of self serve platforms over the years, you know, even outside of the nonprofit world is just these easy ways to create, you know, really nice looking polished creative pieces right all by ourselves and that's, that's really where yearly is at because we want to be able to save nonprofits time I mean we actually have a mission to help put that time and focus and energy, you know, a little less often reports because it's such a burden and we've personally been there back into back into the community impacts, best we can. So I think that's, you know, I think that's something that's helpful. And that's actually my question was, what does it look like to work with yearly and kind of that ramp up time from we say okay Josh, we're sold we're drinking the Kool-Aid we're all in man how do we do this. What does that time look like. I mean what we typically see is nonprofits trying it and seeing what it looks like they go to the website yearly dot report and they play around and see the vision of what their report could look like and then they get going from there with with our services. So, I'm going to interrupt you and I apologize. Are you saying we can try that out for free. We can try it for free, and then when you're ready to put when you're ready to actually publish it, you know that's that's when we charge me.  I'm brilliant. What were you going to say because I wanted to make sure that that we understood that properly. No you're absolutely right I mean when I was a nonprofit marketing I think there were a lot of services that I explored but I didn't necessarily have a chance to try them are really fully understood what they are so I think that's important. I think that the content writing of a report. So those watching and listening that have done this before know what that timeframe is like and that, you know you really need, you know, at least four weeks I mean I worked on it for months at the organization I was with to really hone hone a comprehensive report but if you're just getting going for the first time I'd say find the stories of impact that you already have out there, and then incorporate those into the report and you can really do it throughout the year and then you don't have to cram everything into the last month before you want to go and push a report out there and hit the publish button. It's been fascinating. I know I am going to visit the website. Let's pull up Josh's information so that if anyone also wants to take this site for a test drive I think that's really important to do. So if you want to go to yearly dot report co founder Josh Kligman, you know, tell us, what do you see the future because because you maybe having a crystal ball. Where do you see these yearly and Anna reports going now in this digital space and even as you said earlier like the next 12 to 18 months. What are some of the new trends that we're going to see. We're just going to bring the crystal ball here to show but I left it at home so unfortunately, but you are at home. Well it's in the other room we'll say that I think that I think that, like you said, in 12 to 18 months, we're going to see a big lift in terms of the number of nonprofits of all sizes. We see none, you know, we see small nonprofits with budgets, you know, under under a half million dollars to, you know, World Wildlife Fund and Harvard University creating digital reports. So we'll see more annual reports but we'll see more everyday reports as well. I mean, what Harvard did was they did a report on from the center of African studies on their campus report on where alumni were landing throughout Harvard and the impact they were doing, right, so that's not that's a story of impact but it's not for the whole school it's getting really specific and targeting a certain audience I'm sure I think Cornell University did something similar on food and agriculture just in the state of New York. And I think we're going to see more reports looking like websites, because it's easier to do but it looks much better, because nonprofits are going to get a better reaction from their stakeholders so that's where I see the future going and further away from print where you can get away from where you can get away with it. Right, right, I love it. Well, this has been really interesting and it just deftails don't you think Jared to all the other digital things we've been talking about like, working with your donors digitally, you know, embracing the story of impact and digital component. And I'm understanding that you can have a digital footprint and relationship that grows and not like so many nonprofits thought oh the pandemic we can't be out so we have to hit the pause button and that pause button grew bigger and bigger and bigger until it's like a pause paddle, you know. It's really an interesting thing to have you on Josh to talk about this I would say in 500 episodes, you know we've had people talk about their annual reports and just a very cursory manner and generally it's not very flattering. It's like one of those things that they're like, ah, you know we hate doing it right. Such a bad attitude for something that can be such a huge marketing tool, I think. That's true. And what you just said is going to be my next commercial so I'm glad this is being recorded. Well, you know, yeah I didn't mean it to sound that way but it's, you know, no, no, I think it. No, no, you're right because it is a huge pain point and something that I always tried to put offers long as I could so that's why we started it so we can try to ease that pain and we've been there we've created them it's hard. It's overwhelming it's a project it's it's quite an undertaking so kudos to you for you know co founding yearly providing the solution offering a test drive so that we can say, Hey yeah let's do try this out and see if this is going to work for us, and then how else might we use this platform right because it's endless. Yeah, absolutely well Josh thank you so much for being with us today you know we warned you before we came on live it would go by fast and it has gone by fast. For those of you who might be new to the nonprofit show I'm Julia Patrick I've been joined today. 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Cars double parking cars parked by drop curbs cars parked on pavements Scottish Parliament is looking at a proposed law which would make these traffic Transgressions in built-up areas of criminal offence, and it wants to hear your views I'm Cameron Buchanan, and I'm a member of the Scottish Parliament's local government and regeneration committee, which is looking into this issue I love an albus and sometimes you're double-parked and you're actually parking it so you're in the road And you can't get across What do you do wave your sticks? What about when people park in the pavements the gap then becomes very narrow does it? Well, I work in disability services So another and there's a lot of disabled people who live in our area And the other point to that is they can't go in the pavement it then forces them onto the road Which is even more dangerous which is even more dangerous for and that would be for buggies for People to your users. Do they park on the pavements with you? Absolutely, but it's simply for lack of room There's lack of space. There's no right then there has to be a designated place to you know because if no I hear people beeping to get out because they're you know Locked in with two cars, you know who think that they've left enough room of course I do have views about people parking in the pavement because I'm visually impaired, right This is quite a Yes And also in addition if there are people double parking of course you can't see if you're trying to cross the roads You're coming out and you're just double parked constantly we've noticed it Yeah, and but silly things like I was just saying I was parked where the black car was there And somebody double parked me instead of going over the bin I was a half an hour beat with the horn for somebody to come out if there's a double yellow line You don't park there. There's a pavement. You don't park on a pavement because that's clearly primarily for you know Pedestrians, but lots of people are doing it. I know do you think it should be legislation? Well, again, there appear to be civil legislation Yes, you're looking to make this that's a private member bill coming up in the public Which is a sad reflection on the ethics of a modern-day person Well, I hope that many as many folk as possible will engage with the committee on this issue What we want to see is a common-sense approach to this so the more that we hear about The day-to-day difficulties that folks face the better job that we can do And helping to formulate the right legislation to try and resolve these difficulties You can get further information about the bill on our web page And you can share your views with the committee by email by writing to us or through social media The deadline for submissions is on Friday the 6th of November


Let's say you have someone's face and you want to conceal their identity and blur them out. It's easy enough to blur out someone's face, but we're going to look at using some motion tracking so that if they move around a little bit, you can follow their face. We're going to do this in Blender right now. Hello. Okay, we're going to get started. First off, I'm using Blender 2.63, which is actually a few versions behind. I actually have a current version on here. I'm just not using this tutorial just because that's not what I clicked on. Also, I apologize. I'm watching my daughter this morning while my wife is at work, so if you hear some noise in the background, that is her. Basically, it's really easy to blur out someone's face in video editors. You can Blender, Caden Live. I'm going to be using some motion tracking here, and this is just the way I would do it, not saying it's the most efficient way of doing it. I think Caden Live might actually have a feature like this built in. I haven't played with that feature yet, if so, but I feel like I saw that in there somewhere. Anyway, definitely watch my previous tutorials on motion tracking in Blender because I'm going to go through that part kind of fast here, hopefully. Let's get our default scene set up here. I'm going to go to my front view here, control 0 to move my camera there, delete the default cube, and then I'm going to circle, and I'm going to add in a NURBS circle. I'll leave us how you say that. Right now, it's facing up, so you don't really see it. I'm going to hit R for Rotate, X and 90 to rotate it 90 degrees. It's now just a path, it's transparent. If we go to our Path tabs here with that selected and set to 2D, you can now see I'll hit F12, render it out.  Now that we've got that set up, we're going to do a little bit more with that later on, but let's just click down here and go up to our Movie Clip Editor. We're going to import a movie. Open, go to where your movie is. I'm going to import this one here. We need to set our scene to the length of this movie clip here. There's multiple ways to figure out the length of the video. I believe I've shown other ways. What I'm just going to do is I'm going to go over here to Materials, Select the default material and Texture. Under Texture I'm just going to change this to Imager Movie and go Open and I'm going to choose that video again. Right here it will show you frames. This video is 564 frames. That's probably a long way to do it. I feel there's better ways to do it, but that's just the one that popped in my head right now. Let's go to our Render tab here. Remember, 564 and Frame 564. Now our project is the same length as this video clip. Make sure we're at the first frame of our video. You can just hit Shift-Left, not Ctrl-Left. Shift-Left, that will bring you to the first frame. You can see that down here or down here. At this point we need to find something to track. If you know you're going to be tracking something, it's always good to put some sort of tracker on your object. But if you're blowing out someone's face, you may not be setting up to motion track. You may just be working with straight video. Here I'm just going to track one of my nostrils. It's probably not going to go all the way through on the first try. I'm probably going to have to reset it a few times just because of the blurriness of the video as I move around. I'll get into more of that as we move along. I'm going to click up here, add marker and move. Here's a marker, put it there.  There we go. We're now marked on my nostril. I can now hit this little play arrow here. You can see it starts tracking my nostril. It's doing pretty good, even with big movements. It jumped to the other nostril. If we were really working with something important on motion tracking, obviously that would be bad, but we're just blurring out someone's face. That's a big deal. Let's see where we lost the nostril. Right there, it's a big jump. I will reset it from here. I'll go like that, play a little bit, reset it again, play. There we go. It's tracking it again.  The computer is like, well, that doesn't look like what I'm tracking anymore. There's things you can do to overcome that when you're filming. One, better lighting means that you can have a shutter rate on your camera. That will allow for less blurriness. Better lighting, if you have a camera that shoots at faster frames per second, like my DSR records at 60 frames a second if I want it to, where a digital camera records at 30 frames a second, or 29.999.  Here at the end, it tracked the other nostril just because both my nostrils look the same, and they're next to each other. Not a big deal in this case, but I believe, yes, we made all the way to the last frame, so now what I'm going to do, is hit and remove that side tab there. I'm going to drag this up, and T to get rid of that side bar, and I'm going to say, change this to a 3D view. So this is our 3D view, we're back in our 3D view here. And at this point, I am going to control, no, shift left, I always get that backwards, shift left to go back to our first frame, and I'm going to say over here, set as background, so we'll set the same video as the background over here. And what I want to do is, I want to position the circle we created earlier, so it covers my face. So I'm going to grab it, put it at the center of my face, scale it up some, scale it on the z-axis, axes, there we go. This is what it's going to be blurring out. Now, select our little tracker over here, and hit tab to go into edit mode, and we're going to link empty to track, and now we have a little empty object here. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to select our circle, and then shift select, shift select our empty, and control P object. We've now parented our circular object to our empty, which is following this tracker. So if I hit Alt A now, you can see that the circle is now following my face. It gets a little shaky at points. That's when it's jumping from nostril to nostril, but as long as it's over my face, that's what we're going for here. So we're good to go.   I'm going to use node auto render. Then I'm going to click this little render button so we can see our render right there. And now at this point, we're going to shift A, and we're going to go to inputs, and we're going to go movie clip. And we've already imported our movie clip, so we just click the little strip here and you can find it. There it is. And now we want to, first off, scale. If your video is the same resolution as your project, great, no problem. Mine is actually, my video from the flip camera is 720p, where my project is 1080p, as you can see over here. Now I can change my project, or I'm just going to, what I'm going to do is I'm going to shift A and go to distort, scale, and connect that there, and I'm going to set this to render size. So now it's going to be size to whatever my render is, or you can do scene size, just to pay on your project, right now they're both the same. So I can now minimize that. Next we're going to add a blur. So once again, shift A to bring up this little menu, and we're going to go to filters. We're going to go blur. I'm going to change this to fast Gaussian. And I'm going to connect the output from here to here. And I'll connect to our render just so you can see, that's the picture of me, video of me. We'll change this. We really want our blur to be blurry. So I'm going to set this pretty high, 100. So that is what our blur is going to look like. But obviously right here, we're completely blurring out everything. Let's shift D, actually let's minimize it and then we'll shift E it. So I just clone that blur and we're going to blur our little circle here. But actually we're not going to blur the image. We're going to blur the alpha, which is going to give us a black and white image like this. So it's, this is our original render, like this, but using the alpha instead, it's going to set what, it's going to give us a mask. And using that blur node, gave us instead of a straight circle, a feathered circle. So basically we have one more little node here to add. We're going to hit shift A, we're going to go to color, alpha over, and we're going to take our blurred image, put that on bottom, and then our scaled original image, put that on top. And then we're going to take our blurred feather mask and put this into the little gray fac. And now if we connect that to our compositing output, you can see that my face is blurred. And it's going to blur it based on the movement of the little circle we created here. So now we just need to render it out. I'm going to call this faceB.avi. I'm going to, you can choose whatever format you want. I'm going to choose Xvid and encoder I'm going to choose preset Xvid. And at this point, I think we're all set. I'm going to click animate and it's going to start generating each image. Sorry about my daughter. She's excited back there. She likes when daddy makes videos for everybody. Okay. So, pretty much we got the video done here. Now, audio, you can either lay back in, if you were to bring this into another video editor, such as Kaden Live. You can do the original audio track from the original video and this video which generated. Or you could actually do it within Blender here if you were to go to the video editor here. You can import your scene, your composite, and the audio. And so that's one option there. But since I was kind of mainly focusing on the video here, that's all we're going to go over today. You saw the video at the beginning and I'll play it here again at the end. 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The MA in Terrorism, Security and Society is an incredibly unique program because it's grounded in academic theory but we encourage our students to apply that theory to the world of counter-terror practice and counter-terror policy as often as possible. I would most definitely do this program again. The professors here were very helpful and insightful. I have a whole new outlook on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the tools I've learned, the foundational theories. I'm half American, half Norwegian and grew up both in the US and in Norway and after 9-11 being an American abroad I was more aware of the security issues so then I started reading more into terrorism and wanted to do terrorism in my studies. The terrorism program is obviously focused very much on terrorism and everything to do with terrorism. We're looking at different conflicts around the world in which terrorism has played a role but we're also looking at how it feeds back into Western countries. I used to be studying mathematics in Imperial which is a very scientific and very empirical-based kind of studies so I don't have a lot of interaction with professors other than during the period I was doing research but while here being a master's student we are allowed or I mean we are encouraged to participate in all the public events and public time and public lectures where it actually diversifies my mentality and as well as my thinking process. We are 36 students and we come from very different backgrounds whether it be literature or sciences or terrorism as I come from and it's very interesting because we have different political ideas. My personal tutor as well as my dissertation advisor was Professor Brooke Rogers. She was there for me if I had any personal questions, any issues with my classes. She also helped me with my dissertation and getting ethical approval and all around she's gone above and beyond for our students. Well because it's a small class you really do have time with the professors. They like to come to social events and actually get to know their students. We also encourage students to become very much involved outside of the classroom so we do always forward and facilitate internships for example. I'm running a center which studies radicalization and political violence. We are always involving students from the course and that gives them an opportunity to explore things in practice. We attract an amazingly diverse range of students to the course which creates a really interesting environment within the classroom. For example we draw students from some of the more traditional war studies areas such as international policy and international relations and history and they get to engage and mix with students who are coming from less traditional war studies areas such as psychology and engineering and anthropology and classics. After I graduated I had a job lined up in Pakistan with a news channel. It was a summer TV news channel so I was going to be working on a primetime talk show and I was going to be looking at political events and current affairs within Pakistan focusing primarily on the war on terror. So it was a good transition for my masters to apply for what I had learnt back to the political talk show in Pakistan. I'm currently subcontracting for a global risk management company. I work in intelligence and analysis and I've been focusing on South Asia specifically focusing on political risk analysis, civil unrest for our clients. What's very important about war studies and about this master's course is of course that war studies is a hub of ideas. Almost every day there events at the department and it is so important when you want to go on and to have a great career to meet people and to be able to interact with people that are important in the field and doing the masters at King's gives you precisely that opportunity because there are so many speakers, so many panel discussions, so many people coming through the department that you can meet and greet and perhaps even start to work with.


I use the phrase, the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible because our minds think that it's impossible. Because our minds kind of think things are going to be as they've always been. And besides, even if we get a glimpse of the more beautiful world, we don't know how to get there. So the mind's like, yeah, it's not possible, but the heart knows otherwise. So that's why I titled it that way. As for what it looks like specifically, again, I've had experiences that I'm like, yeah, that's part of it. Some things that come to me are, if I put myself in that world and fast forward to a future that might be 600 years from now, most of the time, the loudest sounds that I can hear are the sounds of children playing and birds singing. And I'm totally at ease drinking from any stream that I come across. I'm not so guarded. But any human being feels safe to walk at night, at least feel safe from human beings, to walk at night anywhere, maybe not from lions. But it's so much more than that. It's a world where all of our material possessions are made with mastery. Well, not all, but they are made in a journey to mastery with full heart and care by people in the flower of their creativity. It's a world, see, I hesitate to go there because then people are going to think that I'm a New Age airhead. But maybe some of you have kind of visited the world of communication with animals and plants and energies of the earth and unseen beings. Even the bird listeners who can go into a forest, and there are not many forests where there are enough birds and a coherent enough ecosystem and enough quiet distance from noise pollution to do this. But indigenous people could do this. They could hear from the birdsongs what was happening miles away because if there's some event, some predator, something, some disturbance, that changes the songs of the birds there. And then the birds listening to those songs change their songs, and the ones listening to those change theirs. And so you have what seems like a supernatural ability to know what's going on around you through the songs of the birds, through the pattern of the wind and the leaves, through the standing knee-deep in a stream and being so attuned to the ebb and sway of the current that you know what's happening miles away. Those abilities are part of our birthright, really. And beyond that even. So the unfolding of human potential that is possible when it is no longer suppressed and distracted by the spectacle that we're offered today is just, it strains belief. And I hesitate to actually say what I believe, what I've come into contact with about the future because speaking too much about it does not serve. But imagine the most amazing experience that you've had, maybe something that you couldn't even explain scientifically. My friend had a knee replacement surgery. She's convalescing, going to physical therapy every day and staying at a houseboat. And she looks outside and there's a seagull looking right in the window. And the seagull has one leg. And like the other leg is broken and dangling there and it's standing on one leg and it comes every day and it's looking right at her. Like that's like a little hint of a wholeness and an intimacy that is a possible future. There is a through line, a timeline from here and now to a world where that kind of thing is the warp and woof of life. Where that kind of thing isn't seen even as extraordinary. Just as the fact that I can breathe words into the air and you understand them and have an experience, that technology is only 40,000 years old, representational language. But we don't think that that's extraordinary. That is just like the film on the surface of what is possible for human beings. So that's why it's really hard to describe how beautiful the world could be because we don't even have the experiences to weave an explanation, to weave a description from. Just these little traces, these little threads, the seagull looking in the window or whatever experience you've had that blew your mind. Those are little scintillas of light from the future that are, you know, it's not even necessarily the future. We all know that there's many possible futures that coexist in a quantum superposition of states. There's not one objective reality out there. That's part of the story of separation. Reality is a conversation. It's an interaction. It's a relationship. So the question then is which of these futures are you coming into relationship with? Which are you aligning to? That experience that you had of deep communion, amazement, and mystery. What does that call you to be? To the extent that we listen to that call, we bring the future from which that experience came into reality. And we establish a path from here to that future.


Good morning everybody. Hey JR Fisher here. It is Wednesday the 14th of April and we're gonna be talking about editing software today and video editing so if you're into that good thing you're in the right place. Do put in that comment section. James already in there what's going on James my buddy he says it's 78 and sunny in Savannah. What do we got going on today James? I don't think it's that. I think this week is a little kind of a cool week for us but you know our cold weather is really May and June. We got May gray and June gloom oh he says loud and clear good I appreciate that let me know. Don't forget guys if you haven't subscribed make sure you hit that subscribe button down there. The way to know is that the button is red that means you have not subscribed.  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I think it's possible well those little credit card knives yeah we did those and we still do those and they have you know it's a credit card knife that you can fold up put in your pocket and it has our website and all that stuff on there and James is doing a reminder oh yeah I've got the like button good he always gets that man he always gets that I appreciate that got a bunch of folks coming in today and guys if you're new to us this is just a live training session I do pretty much every day Monday through Saturday I'm 9 a.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. on Saturday and this is for you I mean this is just to answer your questions and help you out so if you've got any questions about starting running and growing a online business feel free to ask I don't want to really talk about what I've done but I will mention that you know I've been doing this for 11 years now and I've made millions of dollars about digital and physical products selling them online so all I'm doing is really just passing this information on you let's see more ad says do you heard about Jake Paul versus Ben asking boxing you know something on the surface I heard something about that I'm not quite sure what's going on I know boxing can kill you and I did kick boxing as a young man and I did taekwondo and all that stuff and I tell you what there's always a guy that's tougher than you I figured that out real quick there's always a guy that's tougher than you so yeah I hadn't heard about that particular fight I did buy that last Mike Tyson fight and I think Jake Paul was fighting in that I'm pretty sure that was him and he beat the crap out of some basketball player so that was kind of interesting come on JR I always get value from your live streams and other videos thank you so much James you're my buddy I appreciate you so much I really do and I'm gonna actually go through a whole bunch of different video video editing softwares today easy for me to say I was thinking along the line of a report that you could buy rights to and tweak and put it out of your own now don't do that Paul do not do that here's the thing with reports people buy the title in other words they don't buy the report they're buying what the title says by the time they get the report you know why would you have somebody else's you know I would just if you don't want to write it yourself I get that you can go to textbroker.com let me put this in here text broker text broker and I think it will let me put it in there.com and you can hire somebody to actually write this for you anything you want I get just give an outline there's no point in paying anybody for this this is certainly something you can do on your own don't bother so you know save your money just go to text broker I mean I can get blogs written there for 10-20 bucks you know so you know if you're doing a PDF download that's probably about the same length as a blog why pay anybody for any of that information you know give an outline as to what you want go to text broker put it up as a job it'll be back to you probably within two hours and save yourself a ton of money so don't bother doing that I know a lot of people try to sell their information is oh now you can sell my information you know the easy part is getting it written okay the tough part is selling it okay so don't don't don't get taken in by that but anyhow if you're doing videos guys you're gonna want to edit them now some people say I don't even edit I had to shoot it and do it and that's such good idea I would definitely edit whatever you do off topic wins next trip to Texas thanks for tips brother you know I don't know Paul there they started the sheetrock I think this week so they're working on the sheetrock it actually goes very slow once you framed it the whole process actually goes very slow so I'm thinking it's gonna be at least 90 days from now before we get in probably the end of June something like that however you know it's that's up in the air you know they're gonna worry about appliances and all that other stuff cool beans on text broker yeah that'll save you so much money Paul all you got to do is come up with a good title and that's easy to do if you've got to buddy if you guys if you don't have to buddy you can go to the description after this video I've got a link to TubeBuddy you get a free membership to TubeBuddy and also you get 30% off if you want to do a paid membership with my link question what makes billionaires in the world like Jeff basis Elon Musk different about other people well I can only give you my opinion since I'm not a billionaire so I don't know I do see them as really trying to do things that nobody else had done before them they try to change the world I know Elon Musk I was in the car business for over 20 years and I had been to Detroit I've met Bob Lutz I met Leia Koka I've met all these people over the years and none of them impressed me no offense to any of those guys but they just didn't impress me they were just guys who were in a job doing the same thing that had been done for decades they never really came up with anything and when Elon Musk came around and he you know said hey I want to do this thing and all the car big car manufacturers said you can't compete against us you can't do a production car you won't be able to do this and he crushed them well when I saw him come out I heard him talk I immediately bought Tesla stock and I think I paid $137 for it and after the stock splits and everything let me see what that's worth right now to give you an idea how well I did on that stock it says here that my stock has increased 2,589 2,589 percent so the stock right now is it was split 5 times that's 748 so what is that 748 times 748 so that $137 investment is now worth that and that I didn't buy one share obviously I bought a bunch of it but it it made crazy money for me so I think that's the big difference is they do things that everybody else says you can't do it's not possible to do Elon is incredibly special because like you know Jeff Bezos sells stuff online he hasn't created anything he just sells stuff online Elon Musk has created things Elon Musk wants to change the world and the planetary area because he wants to go to Mars think about that I mean he's thinking on levels that the average person does that can't even come up with so I think he's amazing on the road again but we'll be listening cool Paul through my thrill a bit so let's talk about some of these editing software guys now some of these editing softwares are going to be ones that are free some of them are not free and it's really up to you what you want to do you know with your editing I like I like one in particular that I'm a hold off to the very end to tell you about it's the one I use every single day and one of the ones I'm gonna mention now I also use two but the one I use every single day I'm gonna give you at the very end on the first one is called Adobe Premiere let me put this in here and I'll put it in the chat section so you can see what it is okay so there it is Adobe Premiere and it's really an outstanding software you know it's got a really great reputation it's been around for a long long time it's got I mean tools in there that they're used in Hollywood movie making so I mean it's really really good some of the key features is it does have a really good stock audio library so it saves a lot of time with going out there and trying to find audio files and all that it's got into in VR 180 excuse me so you can create and share stories in VR 180 with immersive features it's got an auto reframe so it automatically reformats the videos which helps you accelerate your workflow I know the one I use doesn't have that however I like it a lot it's got something called Premiere Rush in it it includes an app to help you work from anywhere so you can actually do it on your phone if you want it's got audio and video syncing so this is a really nice feature if you're making your syncing your audio and video files together it helps a lot it's got a really nice streamlined interface it's got a massive range of formats it's got really good technical support which you probably need in the beginning like I don't use any tech support now so now to use it but it's really got top notch tools I highly recommend it it is built for professionals now it is not free it's going to cost you $20.99 a month as of right now that could be going up but I'm just letting you know what it is right now the next one I want to tell you about is movie movie yeah here we go that's the next one I would tell you about it's an all-in-one video maker editor converter and you can get a free trial the actual software itself is $79.95 a year it's more geared towards beginner type editors who want a quick and easy way to you know edit their videos it's it's pretty affordable you know it's not that expensive there's great screen recording feature also so if you want to record your screen and do that it's got a lot of training videos if you want to watch those it's got extra applications you can add depending on your needs and skill level it does have some stock content it's got a lot of copyright free media files and video effects and it also has some cloud storage if you want to do that and it also has a DVD burner if you still have a CD or DVD I don't know anybody because what was funny we had an exercise when my wife had the other day and we were trying to figure out how to play it and we had a DVD in one room but we didn't have the cables to it and then the other TV didn't have a DVD on it so we're thinking about getting a cable just to watch that one some of the good things about it it's extremely easy to use it's very affordable pricing it does offer 4k support you can record TV programs if you want pretty easily can't use them but you can record them it's got a wide variety of formats the $79.95 one is a pretty good one but if you want the video editor plus the photo editor it's gonna be $99.95 and then they've got another you know higher level from that but that's basically what you get on that one the next one is called Phil Mora let me put this up here Phil Mora Phil Mora Mora X and you can just Google these things guys it doesn't want to let me put what I'm putting in here he wants to spell correct me so let me see there we go the Mora X it's a pretty good one it's a good YouTube editing software it's for users of all skill levels it's $39.99 a year or $69.99 one time I don't know why you wouldn't buy it one time since it's so much cheaper it's got a hundred media layers so you can stack things up a hundred times which is more than excuse me it's got noise removal which is kind of good I found that most that noise removal takes out some of the audio to this it's kind of tough it does have 4k support so you can create videos and frames pretty crisp it's got pretty easy sharing so you could also use it for that and it's got a pretty user-friendly interface I mean it's not that hard to do it's got film stock effects store compatibility and it also is good for Mac or Windows no matter what you get but most of these are supports over 50 different formats has 4k editing in it and it has an option to burn your project to a DVD I don't know why you'd want to do that but once again you could do that if you want and it is $69.99 if you want to get it for a lifetime and the next one I've got to see well these softwares do you need a better computer with expanded memory yes and no Paul it really depends on how long your video is if you do in two or three minute videos or even up to ten minute videos and you've got a fairly new computer and I consider fairly new the past four or five years my computer is now geez already going on two years old I got it in 2019 I had the previous one I had the Mac Air since 2012 so I used that one for seven years and they the exact thing you're bringing up was the problem I had is I didn't have a storage and it didn't it didn't have the processor capability to do my video editing and this one here is really good but it gets jammed up to it if I have two or three videos in there I run out of space and I think I got 256 space near should have gotten more didn't should have gotten more you know I didn't when I got my wife's I got her a gig so she's got the same computer but it's a little bit more upgraded let's see well these editing software store introduction to videos and exit playing closed video they will you know some of them have cloud storage I don't do that I don't store anything on my computer because it eats up so much space I just use Dropbox so I have a folder that says YouTube videos and then I have another folder in there and says YouTube videos edited and then I've got another folder in there says YouTube music and YouTube sound effects and whatever and I just store all of that on Dropbox I wouldn't recommend storing this on your computer you know if your computer crashes you're going to lose your stuff and that does happen and it can happen don't think it doesn't happen it does happen and it eats up your space you don't have any space so the next one I want to tell you about is pinnacle P I am going to get this going right in in CLE studio studio so this is the next one pinnacle studio pinnacle studio is pretty cheap it's 49.95 it's a great solution for beginners it is more of a beginner ones you know your pro user you may be missing a few things on this but it's it's pretty good this is the latest one from Corel Corel's been along you know around for a long time it does have enhanced timeline editing so you can edit 4k or HD videos you can customize your workspace so you can streamline you know your workflow what you're doing it has pretty precise editing it's got a drag and drop feature for full flexibility what else can I say about it it's got it enhanced keyframe control so you can use key frames to customize your transitions and effects it's got a pro caliber of tools in it software comes fully loaded with all the really upgraded type tools what else can I say it's got 15 different or 1500 different effects one it does support 4k editing like I said and it's good software pinnacle 23 plans started 49.95 but if you want some of the upgraded in no studio advanced and all that it costs anywhere from 79.99 one up to 99.99 so that's about what it's gonna cost next one I want to tell you about is I had it my notes right here there is Pro Vegas Vegas Pro Vegas Pro 365 gee I wonder where they got that from Vegas for 365 now this is a really low-cost one they charge you monthly but you gotta be careful in these monthly ones because it looks cheap but if you've had it for two years you paid a lot of money this is $16.67 a month it'll help you start your video journey so if you just want to start you know with just a little bit of money and you just want to try this for two or three months I would say do that the best one I'm gonna tell you about is at the very end I'm gonna give you all the information that one this one here has a thing called sound forge it's a tool extension functionalities for video sound optimization it's got online training which is nice you can also use this offline which is good it's got nested timelines in there so it allows you to like nestle your timelines it's kind of weird you gotta get there look at it it's got an auto white balance which is good which helps you with your lighting and all that it does support multi-can editing which is nice and we I use multiple angles sometimes with some of my videos it's got the latest updates and upgrades complete HDR color content optical flow in it and it's got planar motion tracking and I remembered what that was I just I lost it per second because I don't have that on mine you can get the pro version for 1990 months so right there you're already at 20 bucks a month you know in a year you're gonna spend $240 so I want you to keep that 240 in mind because I'm gonna tell you something here at the end which probably save you a ton of money but it's a decent one the other one I want to tell you about is cyberlink let me put this in here cyber and guys all you got to do is Google any of these ones that I'm putting in here and you can find the one line and I'm not in trying to sell any things or make any affiliate money or anything like that so don't worry about any of that but that's the next one it's cyberlink power director this is pretty cheap it's a pretty good value it's $51.99 a year so it's not that expensive it comes with a full 360 editing toolkit it's customized vector shapes if you want allows you to add customized shape objects you could do animated titles if you want with motion graphics it's got a title reveal mask in there too it's got the 101 square video to let you create one-to-one videos for like Facebook or Instagram if you're posting stuff there it's got advanced motion tracking it allows you it offers you actually a hundred percent accuracy in motion tracking so it's pretty good software not my top pick but it's a cheap one it works out to about you know $4.33 a month if you were to break it down so that's a whole lot cheaper than a lot of them that are out there the next one I do have and I use it every now and then it's a final cut pro there's nothing wrong with this one here it's a really good one this one here is really good for YouTube and probably anything else it's $2.99 this is more on the expensive end this is 300 bucks but you can do everything on here I mean you can do motion pictures on here you can do a movie on here it's a more sophisticated software it's more for advanced video editors it has a massive range of features in it it has accelerated performance which dramatically accelerates the rendering of your videos and once you start rendering videos you'll know what I mean there because that can take some time it's really optimized for Mac Pro however you know they have it for a PC also it's got some really comprehensive tools in there it's got a multi-cam feature in there also you can sync up to 64 video angles with your various formats and sizes it does have the noise reduction which once again I've used it I don't think it works that well but that's just my opinion it does have a 360 degree video editing in capability it's got advanced features for pro editing it's got 4k in it it's got motion graphic templates in there if you want and it's got built-in resources keep in mind that's $299.99 I do have that one I have used that one I don't use that one on a daily basis I will tell you about the one I do use on a daily basis today I am shooting videos so I have a regular shirt on I actually put clothes on right because I got to shoot videos today next one is Anna what is it motto motto and a motto there we go and a motto now and a motto is going to cost you either free because they have a free version or $15 a month once again think about that $15 a month you've got what is that 150 and 30 that's $180 a year is what you're spending for that okay how do you do the math it's pretty simple easy to use one it's going to draw a drag-and-drop interface it's got video templates in there it does have a stock library so you really have access to like a million stock photos music and videos which is kind of cool it's got good support which you're going to want with any of these in the beginning and it's also got a free version if you want to go free first and check it out from there it's got a professional version which is $33 a month and it's got a team version which is $49 a month so it's got different levels next one is hit film hit film and it's pretty good it's a free video editing software with professional grade features and it's free 100% free so if you want to check that out you don't spend any money it's pretty good you can really you know learn your video editing skills with something like this and always move on to a paid version of another one later on you get access to professional grade editing tools unlimited tracks and transitions to choose from it's got a vast online community so other people can help you out it is good for Mac or Windows so that's what it is now you can start using hit film express for free if you like it and you want to unlock the other features you can upgrade to hit film pro for $349 not cheap okay all the paid plans offer considerable number of professional level tools you're not gonna get the pro stuff with a free one with three twelve months of free support then they've got a pro version bundle which is $583 that's really getting expensive but wait they've got a pro suite for $677 so it is extremely expensive compared to some of the ones I want to tell you about the next one I want to tell you about is iMovie now iMovie is free iMovie comes with your software from Apple so if you want to use a free one you can use iMovie it's simple it's useful software it costs you $0 I do recommend starting with one of these free ones if nothing else so you can kind of learn how to edit editing is kind of a weird thing and if you don't know how to edit you may need to get you know something free like this to learn it it's got studio quality titles in here it's got high fidelity features in there it's got special effects it's got your soundtracks in there it's got green screen effects if you want to do that green screens kind of dad nobody's really doing that anymore I did it you know way back when but it is there oh there you go iMovie and then you've got movie maker I think it's gonna movie maker movie maker movie maker is the PC version of the free software now both of these iMovie and movie maker they don't have a lot of the tools that you're gonna really want when you get down to some heavy editing now the one I want I mean excuse me the one I use and the one I like the most by far is this one this is by far the best video editing software I think there is out there I really really like it it is $249.99 one time that's it and then you own it now before warmed every year two years they're gonna say hey you ought to upgrade to our newest version because it fixes some bugs we generally do it every couple years and I think it's like a hundred bucks to upgrade but you know I use video video editing software you know three or four days a week so I have to ask some good stuff it is probably by far the best one I've tried out about six or seven of the ones I mentioned in here and Camtasia by far is one of the best ones I've ever seen if you have any questions about what I've gone over today put that that chat section I want to hit those real quick before I get out of here I do have to film videos today and it's gonna be a long day because I got a film videos we started 10 a.m. what time is it now it is 9 25 we started 10 a.m. and I have to go to about 3 30 because at 4 o'clock I get a leave I'm gonna go get a coronavirus shot not wanting to do that but just looking at all the ups and downs and possibilities I'm gonna go ahead and give it a shot I'm gonna get the Moderna one I think it is I gotta make a little bit of a drive about 30 45 minutes to find a place to do it I finally found the place and I was really holding out for the Johnson Johnson really wanted that one because it didn't have the MRNA delivery system and it was supposed to be the best and now they've taken it off the market because everybody's getting blood plots so I guess everything works out for the best you know you always you think you want something and you can't get it which I couldn't get it I was really upset about that and there was a reason for it right there's always a reason if things don't work out there's a reason for it I think that's gonna be my my close to the day things don't work out you know there's a reason for it be thankful because because you know like if it had worked out and I had gotten that shot maybe we're gonna blood clot I 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We mock everyone on the fashion and here this is just a suit, right? But yet feels weird. It's like the force gum suit. It looks like like what is he way? It looks exactly like something Dirk would wear back in the days. It may be that's a great call.  So maybe that's what it was. Madness culture over there.