Good morning sir. Good morning. Very happy to see you. And please tell us, Angus, what prompted you to choose civil services, especially the IAS as your credit option? Sir, after giving careful thought about civil services during college time, I interacted with seniors also and I found out there's no other job in the country can provide such a platform where you can get the opportunity to work in such diverse fields. So many people put faith in us that we can make some impact in their life every single day of the work. So these are the reasons behind choosing a service. And also I feel my personal inclination towards public dealing in policy, formulas and implementation is what is satisfying to me. Okay, that is implementation of the government scheme, it fascinates you. That's nice. But in the meantime, you are coming from Rajasthan. Do you know Rajasthan per capita income is one of the lowest in the whole country? Do you know that? Yes sir. Do you know what's the reason? Why? Is it not that the IAS officers are not implementing the schemes which you have just mentioned? What is the real problem? Sir, there are several reasons behind it. Rajasthan erst firing the Bimaru state category, now it's time to come up as an aspirational state. Some of the geographical reasons, for example, the western Rajasthan is a barren land. Secondly, the industries are many of the heavy industries are not here. We don't have sufficient reserves of coal and iron ore. Apart from it, there are various historical reasons as well. And the lack of connectivity and physical infrastructure to the remote parts of Rajasthan is also another reason. And patriarchal norms were rooted in the society. So we have been changing now. But however, these measures had led in Rajasthan to have a low per capita income. Okay. You mentioned about some of the difficulties, connectivity and the probably dry regions of Rajasthan mentioned. Suppose you are appointed as the collector of the differential commissioner or deputy commissioner, a DM, district magistrate of the particular district you are just mentioning that development is not taking place. How will you go about it?  Sir, my first and major focus would be balance development of the state. For example, the eastern side, the east side of the Arabi, if you take Arabi as the reason in Rajasthan. So the east side is very green, has good amount of rainfall. So there we can suitably promote industries and also water intensive industries. For example, we already have cement industry, etc. We can also tape investment. So as even our unable PM is focusing on vocal for local. So and one district, one product scheme is of UP with the brothers. So taking a leap from there, we can focus on various districts and their strength. Sir, we can focus on human capital development, which is providing good education, healthcare, etc. Okay, nice. Have you heard of a recent effort by the government of India for solar energy, one of the largest solar, Asia's largest solar energy project is being opened by the Prime Minister of this country. Have you heard about this? Sir, I know of certain cities in the solar energy sector. The park is open, I'm not very sure about the place. But then Rajasthan having so much sunshine in a backward area. Don't you think this is a very good project that you can really start in order to secure the availability of electricity in those districts? So definitely sir, solar energy provides us a very good potential in terms of renewable energy and having energy security. And Rajasthan being the state through which the topic of cancer passes and ACDC is roughly 330 days of sunshine. So for this we have taken certain initiatives. Even we have been the host of international solar alliance and we have national solar policy. Apart from this, we need to be self-reliant in terms of solar panels. And after this, definitely we can tap on the potential of solar energy. India and particularly Rajasthan has a very good potential. And you are a student of anthropology? Sir. Okay, you know the evolutionary scientists like Charles Darwin or even Valash or even the present day Stephen Hawking or many new scientists have difficulty in connecting the present generation of human beings and the primates. But about 20 years ago, they have found out a very important skeleton remains in eastern Africa, which is supposed to be the beginning of humankind, the homo sapiens. They have named it also. Do you remember the name of this skeleton which is still being maintained in the United States? Sir, if I'm correctly able to recall, is it Lucy for sir? Yes, that's right. That's right. Yes, that's right. Very good. Yeah, wonderful. Mr. Krishna Khan, please. Or Harik and Jacob, sorry. Thank you, sir. Good morning, Mankesh. Good morning, sir. In fact, you have given your hobbies as playing basketball and couch surfing, right? Yes, sir. So which position do you play in basketball? Sir, my, mainly my position is point. Okay, and who is your favorite basketball player? Sir, in the present times, it would be Sir James Lebron, under which was Michael Jordan. Present times, it is Sir James Lebron, who is currently playing. Recently, one player passed away with his daughter. Sir, Kobe Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash. And what is, like, yeah, you prefer to surf only on the couch? What is this, what does this couch surfing refer to? Sir, it's a form of traveling where one travels and rather than staying in conventional hotels or resorts, one prefers to do home stay, staying with the local people, trying to intermix with them, knowing their culture, etc. So it is benefitting in several ways. Also, you get a local flavor and you're not just seen as a tourist or as an outsider. So there are several benefits of it. So that's why it's important. So which are places you have travel to? Sir, so in the north I have been to in Marchal Pradesh, Trakhan. For example, if I have a name, they have done McLeod Gunn, Stephen Trak, etc. In the south, I have been to Kerala. We have Munnar. Munnar, I have done home stay. I have been to Vainar also. So these places are there in the east. The most place to face some particular difficulties. What are those? Are you aware of that? Yes, sir. Certain difficulties are there. The major difficulties of security, safety and security for the both, one who is the host and one who is as we are going to some of this house. So for both of them, safety is the one. Second is the regulation. Because there are no central government law regarding it, how to regulate cow surfing. Though it is there for the hospitality and tourism sector. And so these two difficulties I can think of at the moment. Okay. Have you planned on starting any home stays in New York? Sir. Hello. Okay. Hello. Somebody can mute. Somebody other than the candidate can please mute your audio. Yeah, please carry on. Carry on. Carry on. Sir, my place sir, I haven't started because I stay on a rent. So suppose you get selected to IA's and you become the DM of your place. What are your plans for tourism assets? Tourism, tourism, promotion of tourism. Sir, several steps can be taken up. Talking about my home district, the first would be to provide a safety to ensure the safety of tourists. For this, even for the women tourists, we would have a women police force. Women tourist force for the protection of tourists. Second would be the regulation on hospitality sector, ensuring proper infrastructure and connectivity. Third would be digital marketing. And digital if you could promote. For example, Arzastan has this tagline, So such measures could be taken up to promote tourism. Sorry for interruption. Angush, there is one state in which they have a separate police force for tourism. The tourist police. Have you heard about it? Sir, I have heard about this sir. I'm not able to recall the name of the state. Okay. That is Kerala state. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Krishna Khan. Yes, sir. So, uncle, you have done your graduation from IIT Kanpur. So, I think you have heard about this Vikas Dube case, right? He belongs to that area only. So what is your opinion on extra judicial killings? What are like whatever Vikas Dube had done or not? Are you in favor of extra judicial killings like the way police has responded or what is your opinion? Sir, as far as my limited understanding and in my humble opinion, I believe that the work of the police is to deliver the accused to the judiciary and the work of the judiciary is to deliver the judgment. Any interruption in the process leads to failure of the constitutionalism and due process not being followed. Hence, I will support extra judicial killings or such encounters and I would believe that the process must be followed and everything whether it's a criminal, whether it's a convict, whether it's an accused, the trial must be held before the court and according to the proper legal system. Okay. But already previously he had encountered few police people. He had killed some of the people. Again, police was chasing him. So should police take the risk to arrest him and produce before the magistrate or they should do what they had done in what way they approached. You should think about the security of police people also at one end. Sir, this I accepted me myself being unaware about the ground realities. Though looking at it from the larger picture, if you allow such happenings to happen, such encounters, then at times innocent people could also be killed in such a way and this would set up a wrong precedent. That's why I would still suggest that the proper law process should be followed and the police could keep proper, because it's like wearing blood proof jackets or perhaps sooting on the leg first and not above the bell. However, I'm not sure about the ground realities to comment upon such a matter. Okay. Tell me how many COVID cases are there in Udaipur and Kanpur? Sir, in Udaipur last week there were 645 cases. I'm not sure if the number has gone up by some amount. And in Kanpur, sir, I haven't kept the number in Kanpur. Okay. So Rajasthan is considered as one of the most risk prone areas for people to travel. So how this Bilwara emerged in hotspot and what is this Bilwara model of COVID containment? Sir, earlier Rajasthan becoming one of the most riskier states because of the influx of tourists and secondly, coming up of people from outside even through Indore and there was some catching. However, Bilwara has successfully contained and served as a model by its aggressive containment strategy. It has followed 40 models which is tracing, tracking, testing and treating. Apart from this, they have been to door-to-door. They have done extremely contract tracing. They provided the essential services also door-to-door and the isolation period which is the 14th is extended into one month. So certain aggressive measures have helped Bilwara to emerge as a model state if a model city restricts for other places. So Ankur, over. Ankur, it's very nice that your ideas about extra visual killing or encounter have been welcome and when you talk about encounter, do you really support or oppose capital punishment? That note that you are a Jane and the ultimate punishment that get by hanging or capital punishment. They should be done away with or they should be continued. In India, of course. Sir, firstly, quoting the law commission report, is it also commenced against death penalty capital punishment and also many international examples where they have abolished death penalty. My personal view is that I would also believe in reformating justice rather than retributive justice. However, in case of grave and inus crime, I believe that capital punishment could be there as a detract but still, as long as possible, as far as possible, we should try to reform the criminal. So that would help us more. Okay. Thank you. Okay, Ankur, your entry is over. You may go now. Thank you, sir. Okay, you can sit there as well because there's going to be a briefing, short briefing here. So if I brief, then other panelists also will brief. So you are a very pleasant and potential candidate. And obviously you are already 26, 27 years of age, am I right? 26, yes, sir. Yeah, 26. So you are a good candidate. So and your thought processes, your presentation is very mature and you're not rushing into answering the question. It's good, actually. So even in the question of why you want to be an IS officer very carefully in a more matured way. Some people say a childhood dream or, you know, something like that or status in society. These are all very mature and, you know, across the table answer. You are very well thought out particularly. And probably when you say about the, when you be the district collector, in fact the same question once again repeated, district magistrate, probably you can start about water availability. That's all the problem. How will you find water? How will you find electricity? Education, of course, is nice. Road infrastructure facilities are good. Good. You generally deal with it very nicely. I'm sure you'll be able to answer very well there also. I think I'll ask Mr. Krishna to comment on your response. Yes, sir. I asked you questions about Udaipur versus Kanpur in terms of COVID cases and all. You should be very aware which all area are visible in Udaipur. Everywhere, how many cases are there? Rajasthan versus UP in containment of COVID. How is the COVID situation? And everything can be asked from UP and Rajasthan, which is available. We are from IIT and they can focus on brain drain, higher education, education reforms and all those things. So with respect to your background, you might be asked from IIT, around your engineering questions also you will be asked because you have recently passed off. So engineering questions they will surely ask which background you are from, apart from the anthropology and all those things because you don't have work experience. So you have done sufficient things.  You will do well and overall your performance is good. So as I said, everything should go on well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Hari, please. Thank you. Uncleish, overall very good performance. Your answers are well thought about. In fact, I tried to deviate you from, like by putting that call surfing aspect because I just wanted to know whether you have done it or you have just put it just for the sake of public purpose. But I felt you came out as genuine and you had suggestions also. So keep more of like thought out answers for your area related questions. And all the very best. You will do that. Yeah. Good. Same thing, Hari. Now you have to prepare from your college point of view, from a civil engineering point of view, from Rajasthan point of view. Today, what is going on around the country in the world? Now you are a civil engineer. If they ask you about our border road organizations latest project for which it got three times the financial allocation. Can you be able to say the name of the project? I will look into it, sir. Yeah. That project along the line of actual control. The very prominent road being constructed. And across the LSE also the Chinese is building. The Karagoram line. And they may ask you what is the difficulty? Why it could not be completed in time? So as a civil engineer, you will be able to answer this question. So there are many more questions on border road organization. Civil engineering point of view. Bonded leverage or the migrant leverage and civil engineering. This is subject of the day, no? Yes. Please prepare more on that. All the best. Thank you, sir. All the best.


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I'm going to show you why I think this could be an interesting play. So we've seen it be as high as $11 as low as $2 and it's starting to come back up from those lower levels. And you can see where it's placed right now, right at $3.40. So this is kind of where this company was five years ago when cannabis first started. Obviously it's not profitable. That's why it's taken a big hit. This is the Canadian symbol, it's weed. I just think that this is a company that if cannabis does come back and does have a nice run, this is a very risky play. There's no guarantee that they're going to be profitable ever. But if cannabis does get hot again and if legalization does happen in America, this is one that will benefit greatly. And I think we could see huge explosion for Canobie Growth Corp. So once again, weed in Canada, CGC in America. And I think there's a huge gap to fill right here. So I think the potential for upside is tremendous for Canobie Growth Corp and why I believe we could see this go much, much, much higher. You could see for it to fill this gap, we're talking about a huge, like a multiple, many multiples of your money. So once again, very risky, not profitable. You can see the price to earning ratio is negative. Not a profitable company. That's why the stock is down. Cannabis has struggled, but Canobie Growth Corp I think is starting to look appealing at these levels or lower. You can see 270 was already a nice price. It's already doubled since then. The question is, does it fill this huge gap and go back to these higher levels? At which point you can make a huge return on your investment. They're my number 10 pick for December 2022. And number nine, Best Buy. I think Best Buy is a company in that everyone should put on their radar and everyone should put on their watch list. We're talking about a very quality company here. We go to the one-year chart. You can see it's been as high as $111 and it's coming off a bottom like most companies have since September. And you can see it hit a low of 60. That was an amazing entry point. If you got in at 60, you're already up nicely. And you can see it's had this nice move up since it hit those lower levels and you can see it's trending up. So this momentum may continue. If it does continue, I think there's some good opportunity here. But obviously like anything, it's been moving up. So just beware, very risky, very volatile. $60 is where I'd like to buy it. If it does dip back down to that $60 zone I would definitely look to pick it up. But you can see it's trending up very, very aggressively. And if this continues, there's a huge gap to fill here. That's why we got Best Buy as our number nine pick for December 2022 as we finish off 2022. Now in number eight, this is a company that you probably have never heard of. I heard of this through Amanda in her training for our members. And you can see here, VNO, Vernado Realty. But I like the fact that it's got an 8.6% dividend here on the right-hand side and 8.6% dividend yield, huge dividend yield bouncing off a bottom of $19. So it's really kind of shown its hand, shown us that that $19 zone is where people are buying it. And I love to mark the low, low and the high high to identify where it's been and where it potentially could go. And you can see there's a huge potential gap up back to where it's been. It's 52-week high of $44, which would be almost a double from these levels. And that's why I think that you need to put them on your radar and put them on your watch list. And I obviously love anything with a dividend. So huge gap to fill, as you can see, if it continues up here, huge gap to fill. Obviously, I always want to buy at the low, low, which is right around $20 or less. So if we see VNO go back to 20 or less, this is a great trade where you can make the upside plus collect a nice 8% dividend on your money while you're waiting for it to make a move. VNO, put on your radar, put on your watch list. My number eight pick for December, 2022. Now in seven, it's another one of Amanda's ideas. I think she has lots of great ideas and you can learn about those ideas by going to our website at richtv.io and learning about all of our picks, joining our trading school, where you can learn how to trade and how to win. There it is, richtv.io, bring out the best in traders. Amanda does a weekly session for our members, for our VIP paid members, where she literally breaks these picks down, gives her analysis on them, her opinions on them, and she has some great pick ideas. And this is another one that I just think makes a lot of sense. Why would Canada Goose be a good buy? Why? Because winter's coming, everybody's gonna be buying their Canada Goose jackets. And you can see it's been as high as $38 in the last year, been as low as 14 just recently. It's bounced off that $14 zone and it's now just under 18. And I think there's a huge gap to fill here going into winter. And I think this is a good trade idea. It's a smart trade idea. I think it's a pretty safe idea at these prices. And I think with winter here now, the upside is absolutely tremendous and a huge gap to fill there and a chance to potentially make a multiple. And when they hit their lows at the 14 zone, that's kind of showing their hand. And that's when I like to kind of position myself at those 52 week lows and watch for those prices. If we go back to those lower levels, that's typically where I like to be buying. So Canada Goose, my number seven pick for December, 2022. Now in number six, NEO. I think NEO is one of those trades where electric vehicles have really taken a hit. Tesla's taken a hit. And this is one of those companies that's been very volatile, but you can see it's been as high as $33 in the last year. It's come down aggressively. Been as low as $8. That's really where I would like to buy these. I'm not suggesting you buy today at these levels, but you can see it's up 16% starting to rally. Another one of those unprofitable electric vehicle plays. You can see the price to earning ratios negative. So a negative earning per share, but it's been much higher. It's starting to bounce off those lower levels. $8 is a great entry point, currently sitting at 12. And if electric vehicles start to heat up, this has a huge gap to fill up here. And if it does, we're talking about a major multiple on your money. That's why I think you need to put NEO on your radar, on your watch list. Remember, it's one of those Asian electric vehicle plays a little bit more risky. I'm not sitting here telling you to buy it. I don't physically own it, but it's one that I would trade, especially if it gets back under that $10 zone, back to that $8 zone, I think it'd be a pretty good buy for a trade. It doesn't pay dividend. It's not profitable. So it's not one I would hold for a long time, but for a simple trade, I think it's one to watch, especially here in December right now, as a lot of these companies are starting to rally. So put it on your radar, put it on your watch list. My number six pick for December 2022, NEO Inc on the New York Stock Exchange. And if you go to Rich TV and you enter in a symbol like NEO, it'll just pop right up, right? Click on NEO and we have all that information right at your fingertips, right here at Rich TV. You can add it to your watch list and you can see their chart and get all the company data right there, company profile, news and financials right at RichTV.io. All right, now we're down to our final top five for December 2022. And in number five, e-hang holdings, another electric vehicle play from Asia, but I love the chart. The chart just looks like it's setting up for a huge move here. Now remember, this is very risky. It's very volatile. There's no guarantee this is gonna be a winner. These are very volatile trades and these are companies that are not profitable. So they're very risky growth trades, but I love the fact that we've seen it go from 25 bucks down to $3. It's already rebounded a little bit here. You can see it's come from three bucks up to now 455 with a huge gap to fill. And this is what we look for in growth stocks. Will there be a gap to fill here? It looks like there will be and the upside is tremendous. We're talking many multiples to get back to those higher levels and I'm a big fan of electric vehicles. And I think this could be an interesting trade, not one that I would hold, doesn't pay dividend, not profitable, but another one of those trade ideas that I would take for a trade. Ehang Holdings, EH, my number five pick for December, 2022. Now in number four, this is just a quality company that I think has really been beat up and I think has enormous potential, NVIDIA Corporation. So another one of these companies that's come down dramatically this year, most companies have for the most part, you could see it's been as high as $289, come as low as 108. So it just seems like that $100 mark is the bottom, right? So 108 is kind of like the bottom, two almost 300 is the top, and we're sitting at 156. You can see huge gap to fill here. If you're looking for chip makers, this is gonna be one of the plays and you could see huge gap to fill for it to go back to those higher levels. And I think it's a quality company that you need to put on your radar, put on your watch list, the NVIDIA Corporation, like the company, like the trend, and it's just a quality name that I wanted to put on my list. This is my number four pick for December, 2022. Now in number three, this was given to me by a member that really loves gold and they may have found the largest gold discovery ever, newfound gold, put on your radar, put on your watch list, NFGC in America and in Canada, NFG, newfound gold in Canada. Here's the symbol in Canada, currently at $5.95 in Canada and for purposes of doing this video, I'm gonna show you the American side, NFGC, newfound gold. Like I said, they just may have found the largest discovery for gold ever. That's right, ever. So you can see it's been as high as $7.65 in America. This is currently on the AmEx. Been as low as $2.92, which is where I think we would wanna be buying it. If we can get back to those levels, that's a screaming buy, that's where they tip their hand and currently sitting at 439 and one of these companies not profitable yet, but it may be the biggest discovery of gold ever. And if they do pull out as much gold as they believe they will, this could absolutely explode. And if you like gold plays, this is one I think you need to put on your radar and put on your watch list, newfound gold corp, NFGC in America, NFG in Canada, my number three pick for December, 2022. Now, number two, I'm a huge fan of Bitcoin. I'm a huge fan of Michael Saylor. And this is his company, MicroStrategy. Obviously it's come down dramatically with Bitcoin also coming down. This is following Bitcoin because these are one of the largest holders in the world of Bitcoin MicroStrategy. Been as high as $522, hit a bottom here when Bitcoin kinda hit the bottom out of 134 is the bottom and we're just sitting right now at 181. So if you believe like me, like Bitcoin is gonna have much bigger price appreciation in the future, then there's a massive gap to fill here and there's a chance to make a multiple here on MicroStrategy, M-S-T-R, my number two pick for December, 2022. I just think that the price is right. There's some huge upside coming for Bitcoin in the next couple of years. And I think you could see some huge upside for MicroStrategy, my number two pick for December, 2022. Now in number one, this is actually another one that was brought to me by Amanda, BHP Group, BHP Group Limited. You can see it's been as high as $74. I'm gonna show you guys why I like this. It's mainly because obviously oil and gas is hot right now. Oil and gas has done really well this year. Even though oil and gas has kind of come back now, this is one of those trades that I think everyone needs to put on their radar and put on their watch list. And look at the earnings per share and look at the dividend. This is why I love this company. A 10.57% dividend, massive dividend. You can see it's clearly going back up from these lower levels. 44 would be a screaming buy if it can go back to those levels or 50 or lower is where I'd really like to be buying. But you can see it's trending up, it's gapping up, it's gaining a lot of steam.  And this is one of the biggest dividend pairs out there at 10.57% for a big company like this, BHP, put on your radar, put on your watch list. My number, number one pick and number one dividend play right now for December 2022, Amanda gave us this pick. In our training session last week, you can get into those training sessions by going to richtv.io, join your ecosystem, learn how to trade and get access to these types of trades 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As you can see here, BHP group right there on the New York Stock Exchange, click on it and then you can either add it to your watch list or learn more about the company, get the price, key data, profile information, news and financials all in one place right at richtv.io, okay? So you can get all that information right at richtv.io, an ecosystem built by investors, foreign investors, hope you have a fantastic holidays, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And thank you guys for watching. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We're bringing the winners, we're bringing the news, CO interviews, analysis, picks, chart analysis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, BHP, our number one pick, thank you Amanda for the pick for December 2022, your boys out. So long. Thank you. Have a great day. Have a great day. Have a great day. Have a great day. Bye.


and welcome to Moments with Melinda. Today I am so honored to have as my guest, Adam Hergenrother. Adam, how are you? Is a great day on planet Earth. I'm super excited to be here and I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work and energy that you do to put this show on to help inspire Vermonters. So thank you. I know how much work goes beyond the scenes to do this. So I just want to say thanks. Well, thank you, Adam.  Adam Hergenrother is the founder and CEO of Adam Hergenrother companies. Adam is passionate about using business to transform lives and believes that when you focus on growing and leading yourself first, the business results will follow always. So Adam, I think of you as a serial entrepreneur. You are young and tremendously successful and you have turned to gold so many of your visions. So let us start at the beginning. Tell us a story of your youth and your challenges which put the wind in your sails. Oh, that's a wonderful way of saying it. Thank you. It's always kind of hard to hear people introduce you. It's like a weird thing for it. I don't know. Well, I'll start back when I was, I think it's pivotal when I was 15 years old. So I was a freshman in high school. Up until that point, I was 100 pounds overweight. I was failing classes and I was doing drugs. I was really like that role model student that you wanted your kid to hang out with. And one day, it built up over the years, right? Over six, seventh, eighth grade, right? Going to freshman year. And finally I came home one day, Melinda, and I just said, this is not what my life is gonna be about. And it wasn't me saying it. There was a deeper voice that was back there that was just kind of this intuition, this knowing that this is not what my life is supposed to be about. So I started crying and I stayed up all night. My dad was working nights that time. And he came in at one o'clock. He's like, what are you doing up? And he could tell I was obviously distraught. And of course being like the father he was, he kind of walked in and it was like, well, he said, you can do two things about it. So I was like, I'm upset about everything. He said, you can do two things about it. He's like, you can accept it or you can change it. And he walked away. I was like, great, thanks, right? And so he was right though. That's really what it was. And so in that moment I kind of just stayed up and I use visualization at that point in time to kind of just start imagining what my life could be like. And it was a technique at the time that worked really effective for me. And so I woke up and I stopped hanging out with all the kids that I was hanging out with. They ended up stealing everything from me. Police ended up at the high school that I was at because they threatened to beat me up every day for like two weeks and they moved on. I lost a hundred pounds in a year and fitness became really important to me, which is why we sponsor a lot of things with kids in fitness now because it really helped change my life and provide grounding structure to it. Changed around my grades and ended up going to UVM. So that was kind of the first turning point and I'll be a little brief on this, but in UVM, I'll tell you there's a key point here. I was never academically the smartest person. I think I just worked harder than most people did in order to achieve it, whatever I needed to do that. And so testing like that didn't come to me but I always wanted to push myself. But there was a key moment in UVM where I had a couple of thousand dollars I'd saved up and I was working during college to pay for it along with some student debt. And a friend of mine who was like living in my dorm but wasn't going to school there, right? Was with me and he said, hey, do you want to invest into this car with me? And it takes $500, we can buy it. I think we can make another $500 doing it. So I said, sure, but it was really important for me for business because it was the first time that I took money and gave it to somebody else. Never did anything with it. IE like this whole leverage component and they bought the car, de-flipped it and we each made like $750. So I more than doubled my investment, right? Or not quite doubled it but I'm more than the 125% of my investment, right? And so we started doing that. So I learned as a freshman in college like this whole leverage component. And it was a wonderful way because then it kind of sparked me into, I also learned about contracts because after about a year he realized I don't need your money anymore to do this. I don't want to split this with you anymore. So since we started this business and I took that money and then bought a piece of real estate and that's kind of how it started of me getting into my real estate journey along the way. There's one other key moment here that I'll stop is when I, like some of you who are maybe listening to this at least for me, I had put, I made a change when I was 15 then I started getting really addicted to money. I started thinking that money was going to bring me the happiness, joy, enthusiasm, peace and I was looking for. So I set this financial goal of, hey, when you can make a half million dollars in that income, like somehow this injection or this presence going to be sitting underneath the tree and like you're going to open it and you're going to all of a sudden feel the sustained feeling for the rest of your life. And so when I was about 27 years old, I hit that. And I remember having, and like most entrepreneurs who kind of hit their goals, it was like, I kept kind of wanting to improve it but then something changed with this one. And this was almost 10 years, just a little over 10 years from where I had this other pivotal moment in my life when I was 15. So when I was 27, that I said, you know, this is not what life's about either. It can't be about money. It can't be money is money, joy is joy. And I'm trying to link these two and I at the time I couldn't say it as I could there but I said, this is not what my life is about either. And so I actually, I didn't get depressed. That's not the right word but I got kind of like this path doesn't work, right? It's not working for what I'm looking for. Cause I think most people are waking up wanting to feel good about their lives. They want to wake up and feel good and that's a choice. So I just said, this isn't working thinking that I'm going to find my joy outside with something. So that's when I started this whole inward journey in my life about, let me go fix me and then bring me into whatever I'm doing. It's like, people always say like, I want to go find my passion. I go, well, why don't you just be passionate? And then you're passionate about everything that you're doing. And so you're not limiting yourself to one thing or another.  And so the interesting thing is when I actually started applying that in our business they have exploded to 800 plus people in our world and 30 plus states. And so it's actually you end up getting kind of what you want if you say, if you will but not making it about you fixing yourself from the outside with this need for things or people or other events to occur that are folding the way you want it to. And that was a really pivotal moment that really put me on the journey to where I am today. Woof! Sorry. Awesome. Wow. I am just, you electrify me. So who had the greatest impact on your success and on your life? Who's the person? Yeah. Well, there's my mentor in the business side is Gary Keller. He took me under the wing when I was about in 2009. And he was the first person I was really kind of getting in the business that time really starting to build actual business with other people and leaders and that's a whole other world, right? It's like, you do everything yourself as a writer, you start hiring people and then you get hard managing that and then you get leaders, trying to manage leaders is a whole other thing, right? It's like, you know that. So it just becomes this whole other animal. And so he really, he heard. Who is he? Who is he? Yeah, he's the owner of a company called KWX. It includes Keller Williams. It includes a whole real estate holdings. It's a mortgage company, title company, insurance company. So a lot of things real estate but what really excited me about him was the way he thought, which was, I was told up to that point like the way I was doing business was really the right way to do it because nobody had ever done it really that way necessarily or at least people I had been around. And so he was the first person to say, no, that's exactly how you do it. You lead through people, you support people, you don't need to do it yourself, right? That whole like give people the opportunity, create a financial relationship so that they really succeed. And so you wake up every day, which is my philosophy never having to worry about Melinda in business because if I create a relationship with Melinda that we both win, it's a win-win deal. I wake up every day thinking about how does Melinda succeed? And so you really taught me that which is really freeing. But the other thing with him is that he is very much an understanding in the way that I think that I am and I know you believe a lot of this too is that we're a spiritual being having a minor physical experience. And he really drilled that in early on about 15 years ago in my life and that helps me in my inner journey, right? If like, hey, you're just, we're a spiritual being having this physical experience here and there's all these wonderful things.  It's like, you can actually see them. So Adam, you have a podcast and your podcast is business meets spirituality. And this is such a profound way and lovely way to approach capitalism. And so I wanted to let our folks know that you do have a podcast and share with us a little bit how that merging that for you has inspired you and made you a better person and a better leader. Thank you. You know, it's really started as self of like personal therapy for myself, I think because I struggled in the beginning of this kind of inward journey of me of asking the question like, hey, I don't want to go live in a cave, but I don't want to make my money about, I don't want to make my life about money or getting something in business. I'm like, there's got to be a way they coexist, right? Like there's, and there's just this massive question that was just in the back of my mind at all times. And so I really started teaching that and, you know, about a decade ago, what we call the like limit list, which was really a course that was just about what we're talking about here today about how do you use business as a conduit for your personal growth? Which is because when you're in business there's things that you that you wouldn't sign up for like having everyone quit in one day or trying to figure out how to make payroll or being sued or having majority of the public not knowing who you are, but yet taking shots at you every other moment, right? Like so there's all these things that are going on in business that gives you a chance to get rid of the part of you that it's not okay with that. And that is real personal growth, right? That personal growth is, it's never the event that is bothering you, right? There's an event that happens outside but you bother yourself about the event, right? And so how do you get rid of that part of you? Which is the essence of kind of spirituality or personal growth in my opinion, which is getting rid of that part so you can live untethered. Which means that you can wake up knowing that there's gonna be all these things that happen.  And so we started getting a pretty decent following and people asked me to kind of speak all over and I didn't really, I had three kids under 10 so I didn't wanna really wanna travel anymore. And so we created a podcast and it's been a lot of fun and we kind of tackle a lot of these things each week. How do people find your podcast? Yeah, thanks. And pretty much any of your favorite podcast player will be on there and business meets spirituality and. But they have to go to your website, right? Do they go to your website to find it or? They can go to adamhergenrother.com or you can just go to Apple, yeah, whatever it is, yep. And find you. So Adam, talk to me a little bit about the top three, just three. The top three things that you believe make a great leader. The top three. Yeah. Number one is that you approach every situation never wanting to be right but always looking for the solution. In essence, your job here you go, right? Number two, you have a very good job of being able to cast a vision which means that people want to understand where they're going, what that looks like, right? The vision of where the organization's going, how they pull themselves into all of that. And the number three is providing absolute crystal clear clarity which is where everybody's doing the actual mechanics of the how. Which is so like the first thing is, is that I think it could be vision, clarity and then making sure you approach situations never wanting to be right. But if you don't have a vision and you don't know where you're going then really nothing else matters. And the job as a leader is to be the one pointing the organization in the ship, right? And staying in that lane. People right now more than any other time that I've seen in my life time want engagement in community. And there's a loneliness epidemic of entrepreneurship right now because everybody has become an entrepreneur but now they're lonely. So it's actually spiraling this loneliness epidemic because people are now can go work from their house which is wonderful but now they've lost this community kind of touch feel that they used to get which they probably didn't put as much energy into understanding that as they did before. And so it's how as a leader you have to be able to solve that problem of the vision of the clarity which is culture, right? Of how you bring all that together the mechanics of your organization. And remember culture is not ping pong parties and you know pizza, right? A culture is how people act every day. How people feel. How they feel. Exactly, right? One of the things we have here which is you know be the reason why Melinda wants to show up for work today. If everybody showed up that way, you're creating that. Whether you're doing it over a Zoom or you're meeting in person be the reason why that is. So for a leader if you don't know where you're going and you can't provide the clarity it's very difficult to get people to actually join the mission which is what people are engaged to at this point in time. Well you have raised a lot of ships in your day. Can you talk about your book The Founder and the Force Multiplier which focuses on building strategic partnerships between entrepreneurs and their executive assistants. I got my start as an executive assistant. I didn't know that. Back then we were called secretaries. I'm a good girl. And I grew my life in the same way that you're speaking over the years. But I started that way. And I was so thrilled to see this when I was researching you that you're focusing on this because many, many of these human beings are women and they need to be lifted up and given opportunity. And I was so honored and delighted to see that you wrote a book and that you really care about this. You wanna share a little bit about it with us Adam? Love to, love to, yeah. So Hallie my chief of staff now who was my EA for a while she'd been with me for 13 years. So a long part of my journey. And we got into it and we just started creating a relationship. And then what's really interesting is after about five years into this we started building these companies and doing it. And she was really a partner. And we didn't know any different because I just treated her as like she literally was a partner of mine. And then we realized that that's not how most or that's not how people really treated their executive assistants. That's not how the executive system was seeing it. But yet we were seeing that this whole thing. And so our books started kind of what started off as a blog. We wrote a blog together about this. And honestly it was in one day we had like four or 5,000 people read it. And so we were like, huh, that's interesting. Was it the timing? Was it like, what are we right? So we paused and then three months later we wrote another blog about our relationship in the same thing happened. And it went nationwide or international like people from all over. So then we were like, okay. So then we wrote the book as to kind of create this movement of understanding that your right hand force multiplier the person that's next to you is a true strategic business partner with you. And they're just doing, it's like, I always look at this as like Hallie and I or even Kim who's our EA we're all force multipliers. We're all doing the same job, just different parts of it. And it's never, and it's that trusting relationship. So it's like, I'm really good at taking something from like a zero to a one. And then having Hallie take it or Kim take it from like a two to a nine and then giving it back to me at a 10, right? Like that's just where I go. And so you need somebody to be able to work on the same components that you're working on as a true partner. And so we created that relationship and a framework for how people can create this strategic partnership. If you think about the president of the United States, any president, right? They have a chief of staff. The chief of staff actually as in the Oval Office actually has more power than like the vice president, right? Or a lot of other people there. And so that chief of staff in business is such an important person. The EA is such an important person in your world. And I think people need to move, understand that. So moving to that world of giving that opportunity to the people that are the right hand part. Well, Adam, it's also empowering women.  You have, I believe, do you have three daughters? I have two daughters and a son. You have two daughters and a son, okay. You know, it's funny, Melinda, when you say that over 70% of our work that our employees are women. Well, I know that. And I honor you in that because you've always been a man who looks out for and supports and elevates women in their leadership roles. And I honor you on that. So the book is called The Founder and the Force Multiplier. And for any CEO or entrepreneur, I suggest that you order the book and you learn how to elevate your second, third in command to have leadership roles and to be valued by you because oftentimes that is not the case. So, Adam, can you tell us a bit about your Project U, which is a, and it's Project U with the letter U, which is a training program that you offer to help folks to be great leaders? Yeah, thank you. You know, we were talking about all this stuff, it was great. The, yeah, Project U came about similar to more of the podcast came in as I was being asked to kind of go around the country and I just chose not to want to travel anymore or do one-on-one coaching. And so I created this group called Project U. We limited to 25 leaders across the country. We actually had people from Alaska to France fly in and it's a year-long immersion because what I found when I was training for a day or two, people would be like, wow, this is amazing, Adam, you're the best thing ever. Then I'd see them in six months and they'd be like, I'm so excited to see you again. I'm like, well, did you actually make any change? And they go, well, no, but like I can't wait to be here today and I'm here ready to do this. So I was like, and some people did, I'm gonna be wrong, right? But the majority of it is they just, there wasn't the accountability. So I wanted to create a program where you can't escape from that. So when you sign up, you're with us for a year. You get coaches, you get accountability. There's four in-person meetings a year that are three days long that create this incredible group. And we really focus on four important factors that I think really create a human, right? Which is your health, right? That's the first component. And health isn't just about like running an Ironman, right? Health is about, how do I feel? Kind of physical energy do I have, right? What do I eat? How do I sleep? How do I get that look like we do hair DNA testing to make sure people are eating properly? So all that, we really dive deep into that. Then we get into wealth, which is not, it is a component about how do you extract additional profit from your organization mechanically? But it's more importantly, Melinda, it's about what is money? Like what does actually wealth mean? I don't know if you saw this, this is fascinating because we pay attention a lot to it. There was a stat that came out this year that, which has been there for a while, but it said, there's two components to it is that people's happiness or joy doesn't increase after about $70,000. But what they found out, which I haven't seen before is after $250,000 in that income, it actually goes down because luxury becomes a light, a necessity. And then people feel the pressure of the luxury necessities that they have to support. So they're really interesting that like does that. So we ended up like, what is wealth? What does that look like? The third section of it is all about spirituality, personal growth, right? What does that really mean? What does that look like? We really go in and really go deep into that. And each time we get into these programs, we have to practice something from each one, the entire course. And the last one is leadership and relationships, which is really about, what does a conscious relationship look like? What does it mean to be mindful in your relationship? Like I hear the word, like, but when rubber hits the road, what does it actually mean? How do I do it? How do I practice that? How do I get better at it? So we really teach people the techniques and go deep into that. So at the end of it, Melinda, at the end of it, the person that they really worked on, the project was themselves. Here, here. Here, here. Adam, so can you tell us a little bit about Hallie Warner and her online seminar? And this is, by the way, folks, this is everything that you can find at adamhergenrother.com, right? That's your website. And everything we're talking about today, you can go to Adam's website and find out more about this. But Hallie Warner has an online seminar that helps executive assistants move into leadership and high-demanding positions. You wanna talk to a few minutes about that? Yeah, I'd love to. Again, Hallie's passion is for that movement of creating, because she was an E.A. and was that same pigeonhole thing. And she was like, no, no, I'm a business partner, right? I'm doing the work. And also, by the way, I'm doing the work and you're getting the credit. Exactly. See how it plays out. And by the way, you're getting the money. I'm getting, you know, I mean, when I started out, I was getting, you know, 100th what the executives were getting, but I was literally doing all the work and the reports. So this is really, this is so inspiring to me. So continue on, my friend.  Hallie owns equity in almost every business that I own, right? Bravo. She created her. Bravo. Partner. Good for you. Yeah, she's wonderful. She deserves it, right? Well, she should, absolutely. So again, she's just, it's mechanically, like, you know, so when she really kind of walks people through the seminar of like how to actually show up, how to actually insert yourself, how to have the confidence to do it, how to, you know, how to align yourself with the right founder or leader that is actually what you're looking for. And so she was gonna take you through that whole process and, you know, the international people all over the place that come in for these webinars, which we're super excited for. It kind of walks you through step-by-step on what the book is in the publishing. By the way, with the book, we are, we've created a second addition to it because a lot of things have changed with different insights to it. That's actually gonna be coming out later this year. So we're super excited for that. But she does a lot of these webinars in other webinars throughout the year. They're all free, by the way, for the most part. They're all free. Yeah. And the whole thing about empowering oneself, know your value. And oftentimes when women try to do that, they are suppressed. And you have to be able to speak up and know your power, kick the door down. And I'll be talking about this next week, by the way. So I also want to ask you about about what your most important socially responsible business practices are. And I also want to get an idea from you about where you see the future of our world today in the mire of things that we're dealing with as a society and as a planet. Yeah. Let me, I'll talk about that part, because that's a, I think right now, you know, it's funny because there's so many metrics that Americans actually have more money on average than they have any time in their life. Yet people are feeling more depressed, more lonely. There's more attempted suicides between, you know, ages 10 and 18 than any other time in history.  So it's like, it's almost like a lot of the metrics that we wanted to track are down, but yet the most important metrics are up. So what is it, right? Like what is the cause of all of that? I think a lot of this has to do with, with the lack of engagement with individuals, like actually being conscious with them, meaning that you're actually there with somebody. People are naturally feeling this. So I think one of the socially responsible things that I think you can do as a business owner is number one, be a conscious business. Because if you're a conscious business, you're taking all of that, and we can do the actual mechanical things you can do with that way.  They bring that back down to their colleagues, to your clients, to their vendors that you work with. So the most important thing that we do is we actually train people with the heart of our organization. I always say like, we're actually really a training company that disguises us as a business, right? That we really are just pouring into the personal development of individuals so that they become a better, more conscious human to experience life deeper and give that out there all through what we're doing business. I think that if our world in general doesn't start re-engaging around that, there'll be continue fallout from people feeling isolated yet around everybody. And I think that's where we're kind of at right now. People are on edge of everything, right? So it doesn't even matter what is inflation, they're gonna blame everybody and this happens over here. So it's like there needs to be in business, where we partner with businesses we acquire and then one of the biggest things that we're seeing right now, Melinda, is that people, it's kind of solving the loneliness epidemic of entrepreneurs. I think I said that earlier, people are lonely, even though they're making money, they're around people, they're looking for this engagement. And I think a culture who acts that way, who's allowing people to be authentic, right? Is allowing people to show up and contribute. And here's the other point, one thing you can do as a business is celebrate meaningful wins for every individual. Because meaningful to me is different than meaningful Melinda. And so we have these written down kind of formulas that we use and really, and I don't say to just write them down and put them on a wall, we actually do them, but as a way for new employees to come in and understand that, but celebrate everybody's meaningful win is the smallest thing that somebody does to the largest thing that somebody does, celebrate those things and then allow people to be them. I think people are yearning to be themselves and show up. And authenticity isn't about calling somebody out. Authenticity is about you being able to express the highest point of this physical manifestation that you're in the business. So Adam, why are people not accepting jobs? Why is there so many ads? Seven days has like, you know, 5,000 ads for jobs. Why are people not taking jobs? Why are businesses struggling? I bet you you're not struggling to find employees. Yeah, I think there's two open positions for every unemployed person right now. It's kind of crazy, isn't it? It is, it is. So what does Adam Hergenrother have to say about that? I think it's not that people don't want to work. I think there's a segment of that. I think there's always been a segment of people who don't want to work. I think really what it is, is they don't want to work for you. That's right, because they're not being treated well.  That's exactly right. And I think as business we have to step it up and start paying people a livable wage and passing laws that give us all the services that human beings need to be able to work and have a family or have joy in their life, which you speak about. So hopefully Vermont is one of those places. Well, Adam Hergenrother, I'm going to go so I can see you here. I want to see you in my view. I want to see both of us right here. There you are. Hello, hello. So we're coming to the end of my show and I have to say goodbye to you, but I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that you're one of the most fascinating people that I've met. I admire you so deeply. And the work that you've done and the lives that you've helped and your role in this state and in this world. So Adam, thank you for your time. And to my viewers, please go to adamhergenrother.com, learn more about Adam's work. And is there any last words you'd like to say to my viewers, Adam? Well, I just want to thank you for all that you do again and I really appreciate being on here. If there's any first step that people can do is just to go out there and ask yourself each morning, how do I want to feel and you want to feel great? And so just go act great. All right, so I'm going to say goodbye to my viewers and thank you for being with us and I will see you shortly. Goodbye.


The do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. The do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. The do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. The do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. We sounded for a minute like the Tiki Room.  I'm Walt Disney. And you follow us on Instagram. Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks very much for watching. Please check out our Twitter channel and subscribe if you haven't already. We'll be done later. Today, we got a performance from three people. About time. That are pretty talented. Names are Shankar Mahabharan. Shankar Mahabharan. Mahesh Kahl. Mahesh Kahl. Kahl Le. And Rahul Gaspande. What are they doing together? Singing.  They're the singers of that Marathi film that we shot. Yeah. That we, uh. Is that what they're doing? Or they're doing something from that film? I don't know if this is what it's called here. Manche Mar Pandari. Yeah. Dang. What a trio. But I saw the video and those three, and I'm really excited. Heck, yes. All three of those people are the best.  Yeah, yeah. And you named all three. I'm like, that's just going to be amazing. Ikajara na Arjani. Ikajara na Arjani. What just happened there? I wish the audio was better. I know. It sounds like they're hitting a thousand notes in like three seconds. Exactly. I don't know why the audio is just awful. That was a great ending. I thought the picture froze for a second. Oh, jeez. I wish the audio was better, but man, you could still tell the talent through. You said it right. Sometimes when they are other classically trained singers from India saying, it's like they've hit a thousand notes in the span of a second. I don't know if you guys told me what it's called, but it sounds like they're literally hitting a thousand different notes or something. They're saying like a thousand different things in five seconds. I don't know how they do it. It's absolutely incredible. And those three, it's hard to get better than those three right there. All three have such different but powerful voices. Just beautiful. I wonder if I'm betting, especially Mahesh, probably looked up to Shankar. You think Shankar's around your age? Probably, yeah. How old is Shankar Mahavadan?  Anyways. Yeah, probably, and this looks like it's a few years ago. When was this from? Like five, six years ago? It's 2017. Yeah, so like five years ago. So maybe, maybe a little younger. 55. Oh, he's a couple years older than me. And Mahesh, I bet he's 35. Yeah, I bet you're absolutely right. 35, 37. Mahesh Kali. 46. Whoa. Maybe not. He looks young. Granted, I think. They're almost contemporaries there. But granted, I think Shankar's been in the industry longer. I think so. Maybe I'm wrong. You guys probably know. I could be wrong. I didn't realize Mahesh Kali was that old. Yeah, I thought he was like 35. I thought he was in his 30s. Yeah. Did not realize. I mean, I guess it makes sense. He is like, because I think he's a teacher up in San Francisco, North. Yeah. It's obviously to be a teacher, you have to be at a certain age. Yeah, a certain level of experience. Yeah, right? But granted, I guess there are teachers that are my age, right?  I was your age when I was teaching to harvest. Yikes. Yeah. No, I'm not that old. Yeah, in fact, let's do the math. Then you're not. Yeah, let me do the math. Not when I was there. What year did, what was your junior year? I graduated in 010. Okay, so 2008, let's say. Yeah. A little older. I was 38, 39. Because I was like, if I'm 31. Yeah. Only off by seven years. And you're 50, so you're 20 plus on me. Yeah. Would make sense. But I was still in my 30s. I'm not that old, Rick. You're in your 30s. No. Yeah. I'm still a young, spry chicken. As we all know. Anyways, fantastic. Yeah, I wish the audio was better, but still. If anybody has like a different song or a better quality, love to see it. I'd love to see them in concert. How incredible would that be, huh? You know, not only did we get to interview. I know. Hustad Jusikir Hussein. I know. It was in person and we got to see him perform live. Yeah. Absolutely incredible. Incredible. Yeah, I would love to see any one of these guys live. Yeah. Anyways, let us know. Other videos we can react to down below. Josh!


It is the start of year 2 boys. Year 1 didn't go as planned like we said in previous videos but year 2 I have a good feeling. So again just going over the lines before we start simulating some year 2 months here.  On D we got Pedersen with LaTang, Haminik with Matheson, Joseph with Marino so I'm excited to see how Joseph will do this year. Third line minutes he is 22 years of age he's a depth defenseman top four so hopefully we get his overall up where we can throw him up here with Haminik but yeah it's looking good and as of now these starters KC to Smith we went with him last year and I think he's gonna do well for us here so if we see that things aren't going well with him in that Tristan Jari we'll always get a shout in a net so we just got to simulate through the preseason here we'll see how we do there and our first game is against the Kings which is interesting we should actually edit the trade block here we'll keep Eric Stahl up there we'll keep Rust up there we'll take off Tannib take off Weber take up Connor I kind of want to see what Melkin will interest any team he's got a year left I think he'll be interesting to have on the block I think after the first month I want to see what kind of trade talks this guy can generate he's got a year left I don't know if I plan on signing him after this year it would be cool to try to want to cup with him this year but if we can get something for him that'd be great Melkin and I think we'll just leave it at that so our wants is a great question we want a forward a first line guy would be great to get back from Gino so we'll do that we'll do another forward but this time second line anywhere from 17th or we'll do like 22 to 40 and then we will do a defense man if we can get a top forward a fence man that'd be absolutely huge so I think that's pretty good for the most part we're also gonna throw on the first round pick if we still have it this year which we do again we're trying to win a cup so our first round pick is eligible for trades and we will throw up our 20 do we have our 2022 second round we do so there we go that's all good to go now like I said if we can generate some big trades for Evgeny Melkin we might pull the trigger now I do want to try and win a cup with Crosby and him one more time but with that being said if we can generate a good price for him then we're gonna go for it again we'll wait for a couple months see how the team's doing if it's a season where we're tanking we're gonna trade them away if not we keep them and and we run with it and then we try to sign them and then maybe move them next year so let's go to a sign of the scout actually everything looks good here I don't know if we have to really if we really have to change a fine prospects we'll do skaters early first round we'll do like late first round for the entire season for that guy okay so I guess that's good and so we went perfect in the yeah we went perfect in the preseason but that doesn't really mean much we're here at the start of the season the team is it ready to go to say the least let me just make sure Casey to Smith is are starting that minder we will probably sim through three months to this video we'll do it a month at a time just to check in with these squad so yeah let's simulate the first month here see how we do first game we win 6-3 a nice 5-2 win all right not too bad nice 4-2 and 0 record we'll continue with that and okay we're taking a bunch of L's come back with a win a nice 8-0 win so at the end of one here we are 7-5-1 that's okay we are in fifth at the time being tied for fourth with the blue jackets we're one point behind the devils and flyers and two points behind the hurricanes Gino we're talking about trading him away he's leaving the team in points with 15 and 13 looking at the team here doesn't look like any overalls have gone up Joseph is out of 81 so I kind of want to try him out there yeah I mean we can work with these guys at 81 Latanglin up to hold on all right so if we do that if we put Joseph playing with Latang Matheson with Hammonek and Marina with Pedersen it works I kind of want to leave Joseph on the top pair let him develop but in one month he went up what two or three overalls 13 games played two goals two assists only four penalty minutes pretty good so I definitely do like the Latang is having himself a season as well so good stuff from there looking at Casey Smith he played four games a month with two wins okay not too bad and then Tristan Jari played majority of the games there for some reason even though we don't have the assistant coach editing our lines for us but it is what it is not about first month let's go ahead simulate the second month here okay we are in a string of elves here not what we like to see that is for sure we're stringing together some wins so that's good to see let's continue winning here back-to-back elves we got a point out of one game there which is nice and okay December 1st okay so at the end of two months we were 12 9-4 not too great we are in fifth still tied for fourth with the Islanders the jackets are right behind us so are the capitals it's a race in this metro Crosby now leading the team with points 26 and 25 which isn't too bad yeah that's not too bad no overalls went up here on defense Joseph still at an 81 he got three more goals this month which is nice he's a minus four up on that pairing maybe we go back and switch it to where Joseph plays here just so he gets that plus one will let him develop there it just kind of sucks that we can't get him on the second pairing there it would be interesting to see him there it just doesn't work out for some reason so believe him on the third pairing for now in terms of a goal tending Tristan Jari 19 games played nine wins and 902 safe percentage not the greatest and yeah Casey the Smith has been the better goalie if we can just keep that that'd be great and you know what with that being said I do think it's gonna make sense to throw Tristan Jari up on the trade block because I think Casey to Smith is the guy we're gonna go with here so we're gonna try to sell we're gonna try the trade finder here so Tristan Jari he is a starter let's see what we can what kind of trade trades this guy will get us here so the Bruins offering us picks no picks picks picks and picks okay so nothing good I do want to check not that I want to trade them away I want to see what kind of trade talk I've getting Malcolm would get in no trades to be found okay interesting interesting stuff but what we will do we'll take off that second round pick we will put Tristan Jari on the trade blocks see what kind of trade interests he maybe gets us but we do need to be better I'm not a fan of the record I'm not a fan where we are in the metro right now so we'll sim another month see where we are after that and reevaluate what we want to do with the team here so I think it's pretty simple as of that we are on a little bit of a winning streak here so we do like to see that we do not want to do that trade not that either we are on a huge winning streak hold on hold the phone we will count that up once this month is done what a month from this team we were on a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 game of winning streak until we lost the Leafs and wow a 10 game winning streak now puts us at 24 11 and 4 we are currently in first place in the metro what a month from this Pittsburgh Bangwins team 52 points we are leading the metro the hurricanes right behind us by two points we are in third in the entire NHL which is very nice I've getting Malcolm had himself a month he now leads a team with 46 points in 39 games good stuff so definitely gonna reevaluate what I wanted to do Jake and so I believe went up and overall this first line is absolutely poppin any overalls that went up here doesn't look like it Joseph still at an 81 but he is now a plus 3 when he was a minus 2 last month he's now at 8 goals and 5 assists so it's pretty good for a third pairing there Crystal Tang is no longer in the minus either so I don't think Joseph and Latang really worked when that was happening there but good stuff from this team Tristan Jari 903 I don't know why they're playing him more than Casey to Smith I really don't I wish I can you know say this guy is the starter but anyways a very good third month maybe we will simulate it one more month I usually like to do three months at a time we'll do no you know what we're gonna yeah we'll do one more month one more month I think it's fair alright simulate one more month here with these Pittsburgh Penguins team hopefully we have another great start to this month as we did last month we're taking a bunch of vowels but we're stringing together some wins here which is very nice we are on a little bye week now here which is okay and at the end of four months we're now 30 15 and 6 good stuff from this Penguins team we're still leading the metro we're still ahead by two points we are second in the entire NHL which is very good Malcolm with 53 points in 51 games again he's just having himself a season it's a contract year for him and if we don't trade him away because I don't think we will we're gonna try to win a cup with these two obviously who are tied in points which is crazy you know it's gonna be interesting to see what his asking price is going to be next year he's 35 years old maybe we bring him back for a year or two and then maybe we spice up the trade talk but he's having himself a season so is Jay Gensel with 52 points pretty good stuff from this team in terms of goal-tending here Tristan Jari it's been playing the majority of the games this year so that gives him the reason to have a lower safe percentage he's 69 to 5 which is pretty good no shutouts Casey to Smith is 14 61 with two shutouts so again I want Casey to Smith to be our starter they're just not giving him the starting minutes for some reason which is interesting looking at the lines here no overalls have changed actually I think Malcolm went down one overall I swear he was a 92 last month I could be wrong though on defense Joseph is still in 81 I love checking in on his progression don't think he put up any points this month but he is still a plus two which I like to see in that third pairing and Crystal Tang is still a plus eight and Marcus Patterson is really working out with Crystal Tang so that is very nice to see Hamanic is a plus 30 on this line and Michael Matheson is a plus 23 so in all honesty we're gonna keep the decor the way it is because they're just pretty much playing well together which is nice to see yeah that's going to be it for this GM mode video it's a bit of a shorter one which I do apologize we went through four months next episode is pretty much going to be wrapping up the season in year two we got the trade deadline coming up so with that being said if you guys have any potential I don't know I guess we're gonna look into some more depth pieces making trades like we acquired Mikael Grandlin last trade deadline on year one so if you guys have any suggestions of players that we should bring on to this team if we should keep or trade Gino in my opinion we should keep him for the season let me know in the comment section below but that is it for today's video if you guys did enjoy it be sure to 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A World War II hero finally received his just-do. Army Sergeant Alfred Hurtado was severely injured and placed with wounded German prisoners by mistake during battle. The chairman of the Forgotten Heroes Campaign presented Sergeant Hurtado with three Purple Hearts, a combat infantry badge, and nine other medals at a ceremony on Saturday in Denver. He successfully completed four combat jumps between 1943 and 1944. Sergeant Hurtado also just celebrated his 90th birthday.


National Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Fund for Adult Education presents Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. July 1831. The Territory of Michigan. What are these pioneers in the wilderness? A restless, reasoning, adventurous race which does coldly what only the ardor of passion can explain. A nation of conquerors who submit themselves to the savage life without ever allowing themselves to be seduced by it and who shut themselves in the American solitudes with an axe and some newspapers. The Ark of Civilization. A study in American character. Item 4 in the series Democracy in America. Prepared by the Division of General Education of New York University under the direction of George Probst, American Historian. A series designed to bring to life the America of 1831 as recorded by Alexis de Tocqueville and so to illuminate the image of democracy itself. A study in American character. The Ark of Civilization. Listen, Tocqueville. The voice of the wilderness. Almost the only sound we have heard in these silent Michigan forests. Bumon, this wilderness began outside the little town of 2000 souls. Detroit. The last city in the Northwest. And it was only a mile from Detroit. This road entered the forest for good. The territory of Michigan is a vast solitude. But in it, I think, I see the still empty cradle of a great nation. You know, Tocqueville, this dense forest, this is the frontier. The frontier is here all the time, ready for the taking. Anyone who wants to can pick up his family and move to the west and every day they do it. On this boundless continent, nature herself favors the cause of the people. The great fact of America is the presence of the wilderness, the frontier. You've forgotten another fact, and one that's just as important. What? This morning we were in a pioneer's cottage. What was it like? A long cabin, one window with a muslin curtain, a rough floor of trodden earth, the home of a frontiersman braving the miseries of a savage life exposed to the furthest fevers and the tomahawk of the Indian. That's what I mean. And also what? Next to the chimney was stretched a map of the United States. The plank shelf was rough, but it held a Bible whose cover and edges are already worn by the piety of two generations. A book of prayers and Milton Shakespeare. Yes, but the table was of green wood with a bark still on it. But on that table, a teapot of British China, silver spoons, cracked teacups and some recent New York newspapers. In America, even on the frontier, Beaumont, there is only one society. It may be either rich or poor, humble or brilliant, trading or agricultural, but it is composed everywhere of the same elements. The plain of a uniform civilization has passed over it. Civilization? That cabin had only one room. There was not even a partition. The wind blew through the cracks in the wall. But the family that lived in it came from New England and brought with them democracy and equality. That cabin Beaumont was itself a little world, an arc of civilization lost in the midst of an ocean of leads. In July 1831, Beaumont and I spent two weeks in the wilderness of the new territory of Michigan. We left Detroit on horseback and for days we went through these great forests. For Beaumont and I did not simply listen to what people told us about the frontier, we did our best to see for ourselves. Our guides were Chippewa Indians. With a silent savage at our side, we went on and on. The forest never changing. It was only in the evening after sundown that we reached the tiny village of Pontiac, 20 very neat and pretty houses lost in the woods. We went to the best inn called the Yellow Tower and Beaumont and I were introduced as usual into what is called the bar room. I'm heading for Ohio. You can live cheaper there than anywhere else. Give me Illinois. You can buy the most fertile lands in the Mississippi Valley. Pick them up, dirt shoes. Now what about Indiana? Now I hear that Indiana is wonderful. Let's talk to the landlord. There he is. The big fat man. He looks like a great peasant from Normandy. He may look it, but I'm sure it's deceptive. There are no peasants in America. All the same, he's got a taste like a Normandy, that mild candied expression and underneath as sharp as you like. I'm sure you'll know everything about this new territory. I'm sure I will, but I shall be asking him. Perhaps he will not like Frenchman to be too inquisitive. But let's pretend that we are thinking about buying land in Michigan. Settling, you mean? Settling. If we pretend we are on our way to Saginaw and business, any amount of questions will seem perfectly reasonable to America. Excellent. Sir. Sir. Huh? You following me, gentlemen? Yes, sir, we were. I wonder if you could give us a little advice. Oh. What kind of advice? This gentleman and myself are from France. We are interested, shall we say, in the question of Settling in the territory of Michigan. And we hoped you might be able to enlighten us. Boys, you came to the right corner. Judge Jamesa Bagley, at your service. Judge Bagley? But I thought you were our landlord. That's right. I'm a judge here, as well as landlord of the yellow cabin. I'm going to vote for Henry Clay. He's a man of the people. Clay's taking you into that tattered old Cody. Where's just for a campaign? He's England. He's just courting your vote. All right. Who are you for? I'm for President Andrew Jackson. The White House has been a better place since old Hickory is in it. He's just a man for the people and as immovable as a rock. Let's go into another room where we can get a little piece of quiet. Now, if you'll just step this way, I'll take a candle with me and we better have a map of the Michigan territory. You see, business opens all doors. In here. That's the style. There we are. Pray be seated. Thank you. Now then, let's get it straight. You're from France. You want to settle here. Let us say we are interested. You're interested. Good. Well, let's begin with France and just stuff that candle. With you, labor is cheap and land is dear. Well, here things are very different. The cost of land is nothing. And the labor of man is beyond price. Then to establish yourself in America, capital is highly necessary. Oh, no, no. You need capital. I shouldn't advise anyone to seek his fortune in the Michigan territory unless he has about $200 handy. Around here, unclear land costs a dollar an acre. Now, that's about the price of a day's work. That means that the fellow can earn enough in one day to buy an acre of land. But once he's bought it, then the fund starts. Why, it costs $4 to get an acre cleared of trees. So, he does it himself. Alone, usually. Backbreaking labor, too. You are speaking of unclear land. Sir, that's all there is for hundreds of miles. Maybe thousands, for all I know. It's the clearing of that land where you have the trouble and expense. Now, first you put up a tent, then you fell the trees and make a cabin. Meantime, you live off salt, pork, and a couple of barrels of meal.  That doesn't cost you anything. Most settlers are young fellas with families. They put in an acre of potatoes and the rest in wheat. And corn. I tell you, corn is the providence of the wilderness. It's the corn that saves the family when poverty, sickness, or carelessness has prevented a large enough clearing. There's nothing harder than the first years after the clearing. And you must keep working. For left to itself, the ground is marshy and unhealthy. It sounds very dangerous. You hit the right word for it. It is dangerous. Wild beasts. Indians. Oh, occasionally. Fever, as much as anything. Often, when you travel in the fall, you'll find a whole family down with fever. What do they do? Put up with it. No doctor? Sixty miles to a doctor. They do like the Indians.  Or they get better, as God sees fit. How is it in our wanderings in these forests? We have not met any Europeans. I should have thought immigrants from Europe would have come to the frontier. No, sir. The frontier is no place for such people. They stop in the East Coast cities, become servants or artisans. Why, from last May, when the ice melted up to the first of July, they came to Michigan in two months, about 5,000 new settlers. But the Detroit land agent tells me there wasn't among them 200 immigrants from Europe. Only Americans have the courage to face the frontier. They know how to buy prosperity at the price of misery. The land belongs to the American. It is quite true that the cost of land is almost nothing and the labor of man beyond price. It would be difficult to describe the eagerness which the American rushes forward to secure this immense booty that fortune offers. We had the idea that as in Europe, the more remote parts of the country, these tiny places, often very poor, would have customs very different from the rest of the nation. So that as in Europe, there might be in effect a difference of several centuries between different parts of the same nation. I thought that in America, I might find all the transitions of the social state at once from the opulent city patrician to the savage and the wilderness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of all the countries in the world, America is the least fitted to show this particular side. In America, there is only one society. You penetrate parts scarcely cleared.  You think you've come at last to the home of an American peasant, but you're wrong. You step into this place which seems the asylum of all the miseries, but the owner wears the same clothes as you. He speaks the language of the cities. On his road table are books and newspapers. And what does he say to you? Well, that's the country I've always been interested in. Home of Lafayette, you know. Well, of course you'd know. These, like European countries, interest me. See, here, I've been trying to draw up a system for the defense of Belgium. I've always been interested in strategy, politics too, you know. You'll likely want to hear my views on what's wanted for the prosperity of France. Here's what I can figure out you Frenchmen could do with some good advice. Let me tell you what you ought to do. You see, it is the same everywhere.  And in fact the log cabin is only temporary for the American. A house north spacious for his needs will replace the cabin and shelter his children who will in their turn go out and once more send the arc of civilization into the great ocean of leaves. Inevitably this has had its effect on the American character. There is not a country in the world where man more confidently seizes the future where he so proudly feels that his intelligence makes him master of the universe like he can fashion it to his liking. Born often under another sky placed in the middle of an always moving scene himself driven by the irresistible torrent which drives all about him. The American has no time to tie himself to anything. He grows accustomed only to change and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it for the instability instead of meaning disaster to him seems to give birth only to miracles all about him. The frontier line at present in 1831 is moving westward about 17 miles a year. It runs from Detroit to Louisiana but there are vast islands of wilderness east of that line. In July we arrived in a strange little Indian filled town in the northern part of New York state. The name of the town was Buffalo and it was full of people passing through on their way to the west. That's where they're going. New Englanders moving into the Michigan Peninsula. Are the settlers often New Englanders? Pretty nearly always. The last settlers anyway. They come through here headed for Detroit. A dear born wagon, a feather bed, a saddle and a bridle, and some knick-knack in the way of a machine for a shell and corn, hatchling flax or what I know a manufacturer in wooden nutmegs for family use and all headed for Michigan.  Most interesting, madam. Both you and your husband have made this trip on the lake's steamboat. Most interesting, we have picked up many valuable ideas. Well, we're from New England. We've got the valuable ideas and likely they'll do you good. I guess you don't have too much in the way of information at home.  You're interested in Michigan, eh? Yes, we are. I'll tell you a story about a fellow that bought land in Michigan. Don't you believe a word of it? Someone calls by one day and says, whose land was this that you bought? Bogs. What's the soil? Bogs. What's the climate? Fogs. Where do you get to eat? Hogs. Where do you build your house of? Logs. Do you have any neighbors? Frogs. There you are, sir. That's the truth about the forest settlements. You won't hear it from many. Don't believe a word of it. The movement to the west becomes a sort of game of chance which people pursue for the emotions and excites as much as for the gains it gets them. Sometimes, indeed, the progress of man is so rapid that the wilderness reappears behind him. The forests stoop to give him passage and spring up again when he is past. And what about the Indians? These frontier lands belong to them? I think the Indians are in a hopeless situation. I think so too. If they stay savage, they're pushed back. If they try to civilize themselves, the pressure of the white man's society ruins them. They perish if they wander, and if they settle, they perish also. And yet the Americans treat them with great attachment to all the formalities of law. Remember, as we passed through Memphis, how we watched the expulsion of one of the most celebrated and ancient American peoples. I still cannot forget the sight of those poor Choctaw forced from their homes to cross the Mississippi in the middle of winter. Yes, in weather that was 14 below zero. 7,000 Choctaw Indians were set down in the solitudes of Arkansas. And they did not cheer me, Tocqueville, to learn that these poor people were being moved from their homes with all due formality of law and treaty. And yet, I suppose, that it is better than the way the Spaniards treated the savages they found on their frontier. Well, the Spaniards were unable to exterminate the Indians by unparalleled atrocities. Nor did they succeed even in wholly depriving them of their rights. But the Americans of the United States have accomplished this twofold purpose with singular felicity, tranquilly, legally, philanthropically, and without violating a single great principle of morality in the eyes of the world. It is impossible to destroy men with more respect for the laws of humanity. The life of the frontier is made by the American character, and it makes that character. But of course, the American brought his character with him to the frontier. In Canada, and in the whole of South America, there was a frontier that physically was much the same as the United States. But the life there was very different. For the men came to it with different historical beginnings, different customs, and different laws. On the American frontier, men buy and sell whole towns and settlements and speculate in western cities. Now, when the United States purchased this land lying between the flint of my Chattahoochee rivers from the Creek Indians, they made a lottery of it, and every white man of legal age in the state of Georgia had a right to draw for a fine lot of 200 and two and a half acres precisely if you follow me.  But this portion right here at the foals of the Chattahoochee are a very beautiful situation. Seems as though. Well, in this section of five miles square is the town, and I can offer you choice lots of half an acre or an acre or even larger. Where's the center of town? Oh, right that way in that Pineywood section. And right now, we're in an area surrounded by professional men. Mind your foot in between those stumps there. You'll find it kind of swampy so. Oh, there you are. Too late. Never mind. Soon dry off. Yeah, that's too bad. Well, this is also a cause of manufacturing part of town. You see the sign on that cabin over there, and not the frame one, the log one. Bakehouse. Bakehouse, right. As you see we're coming along real quick, real progress. You surely are. That's wonderful. Exactly what it is. Look at the board on the big tulip tree. T. Gordon, attorney at law. Civilizations undoubtedly on the mark. And of course we're having a railroad meeting this evening, high time. It's nearly 18 months since the first settler put up his cabin. High time for a railroad. Now, if you're interested in a lot in this thriving town, step along here where the auction's going on. But mind the stumps. Don't want to twist an ankle. A brilliant auctioneer we have. Very witty. Local man, of course. One of the founding fathers. Been here over a year. Much appreciated in this part of the state. Is that that swamp we were in? It's good land, rich. Real rich land. Yeah, that too, sir. Down to well water. Well, this land is so rich it produces 60 bushels of frogs to the acre. And you don't need to spend money on fencing. No need to incur expense in that regard. There's enough alligators right on the spot to form an excellent strength. All you have to do is catch them. And then, of course, should drive them alligators head downwards with their tails sticking up in the air. Now, then, sir, I'm on my bed for this fine prize of land. The life of the frontier is often spirited and gay. Often, but not always. I remember the innumerable pioneer families we visited in their lonely cabins in the forest clearing. This man was not born in the solitude where he dwells. His own desire has thrown him into the labors of the wilderness. To become well-to-do, he has braved exile, loneliness, and death with a perseverance and a scorn for life that one might call heroic. He made this effort one day. He has been renewing it for years. He's a man capable of such sacrifices, a cold and insensible being, ought not one on the contrary to recognize in him one of those mental passions, so burning, so tenacious, so implacable. Look across the hearth at the young wife who, while seeing to the preparation of the meal, rocks her youngest son on her knees. Her clothes even yet proclaim a taste for adornment ill-extinguished. But time has weighed heavily on her. In her prematurely pale face and her shrunken limbs, it is easy to see that existence has been a heavy burden and that she has been exposed to unbelievable miseries for the solitude of the forests. She has exchanged the charms of society and the joys of her youthful home. It's on the bare ground of the wilderness that her nuptial couch was placed. Around this woman crowd half-naked children, shining with health, careless of the morrow, veritable sons of the wilderness. But civilization is flowing into the woods and the whole westward removal is carried forward, directed and dominated by New Englanders. The talent of the New Englander is universal. He's a good farmer, an excellent schoolmaster, a very respectable preacher, a capital lawyer, a sagacious physician, an able editor, a thriving merchant, a shrewd peddler and a most industrious tradesman. Being thus able to fill all the important posts of society, only a very few immigrants from New England are able to imprint a lasting character on a new state, even if our number is much inferior to that of the other settlers. I know of no better specimen of human character than a New Englander transferred to the western states. I see the destiny of America embodied in the first Puritan who landed on these shores. The origins of the American is the first cause of the prosperity of the United States. The early settlers imported equality of condition and intellect, bequeathing to their descendants the manners and opinions that control you both most to the success of our republic. With space and elbow room for liberty, the frontier is also the guarantee of order, for men who feel themselves ill at ease can move to the west. Brave. But brave by calculation, they esteem only the results of victory.  The way of escape is always to the west and this gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event. It is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly and daily driven onwards by the hand of God. You have just heard The Ark of Civilization, a study in American character, item four in a series based on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. This series presented by the National Broadcasting Company was prepared by the Division of General Education of New York University under the direction of George Probst, American historian, produced in the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by Andrew Allen, script by Lister Sinclair, music by Lucio Agostini. This series, Democracy in America, is made possible by a grant from the Fund for Adult Education as part of a general course of study of the nature of American society. For information about the use of these de Tocqueville dramatizations for study or discussion and how to secure these new materials about American democracy at a reasonable charge, write to the American Foundation for Continuing Education. Post Office Box 749, Chicago 90, Illinois. Now this is Ben Grower inviting you to join us next week for item five, Any Woman is a Lady on Democracy in America.