10. Life-changing Questions to Ask Yourself if You Are Poor A man who has tasted both poverty and wealth knows that happiness isn't tied to wealth, but with money comes financial freedom and comfort. And if there were attitudes, irrespective of what happiness is tied to or not, they'll always opt for wealth. I mean, who wouldn't? People are mostly poor because of some wrong choices and other times because they refuse to challenge themselves to dream big and take actions that can help them achieve their goals. And when poverty comes frustration, to overcome poverty, however, there are certain life-changing questions you should ask yourself. In this video, I'll share with you 10 life-changing questions to ask yourself if you're poor. This, I believe, will help you become a successful person. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. What am I grateful for? Nearly every one of us constantly lives life trying to make more money. Achieve things and accomplish our goals. That we often forget to be grateful for the things that we have going on for us. We forget about the things we once worked so hard to get that we no longer see the need to be thankful that we now have something we once wished for. Gratitude is one of the keys to a truly happy life and it does not mean that one should become complacent and accept the situation we are in at the moment. It only means that we should appreciate the life we now have even though it is not what we wanted to be yet. Being thankful helps feel great and positive about life and when we feel that way, it becomes easy to think and develop habits that help us build wealth that we so much desire. Think in yourself what you are grateful for will give you a dose of optimism and make you realize that life isn't as bad as you think it is. Do you think you don't have anything to be grateful for? Start by being thankful for your health, for food, shelter, loved ones and a happy family. Also, even if you don't like your current job, house or your car, you still choose to be thankful that you have them. 2. Where do I find myself in the next 1, 2, 5 and even 10 years? Yes, it is quite impossible to predict your future or to predict what your life will be like in the next 1 year or 2 years or even 10 years. However, you can set your goals both short and long term goals and action plans to help you achieve those goals in the next 1, 2 or 10 years. Bill Copeland, an American poet, writer and historian, said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. When you don't set goals and plans, you'll accept whatever life throws at you, one of which is poverty because your life will be without a destination or a direction. You'll live aimlessly. Asking yourself this question, however, will help you decide what you want to achieve in life, including your career, finance, health, family and the likes. 3. Why do I want the things I want? What is your reason for chasing your dream? Why do you want the things that you're after? If your dream is to become the CEO of your organization, why do you want it? What will becoming a CEO do for you? Do you want it because of the associated status or because the CEO's salary will allow you to give your family a better life? You see, when you know the reason why you do the things that you do or the reason why you want the things that you want, it will determine the pace at which you'll go and the extent to which you'll go to get it. If you only want those things for the sake of show off, you'll end up giving up before you make it halfway into the journey. The truth is, achieving your goals isn't easy. You'll face challenges that will make you feel like giving up. So, you need a clear picture of your goal or dream to commit to it. 4. What will I do if I wasn't afraid of anything? Asking yourself this question and partying on it helps you realize the things that are important to you. It helps you see where your fears lie and, most importantly, it helps you see beyond your fears and how you can achieve your goals. Most of us go through life holding back because of fear of one thing or the other. Fear that we will be rejected. Fear that we will fail. However, if you weren't so afraid of that thing, what will you do? Figure it out and go for it. 5. Am I investing into positive relationships? Sometimes, we are unhappy, not because we are poor and do not have money, but because we fail to invest in positive relationships and people who will motivate us to keep moving when the road gets rough or people you'd like to share your time and your life with. The truth is that, even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money and experienced good health without loving relationships, he wouldn't be happy. So, start investing in positive relationships today. 6. What has your biggest mistake been? Ask in yourself what your biggest mistake has been will help you realize if you are one to learn from your mistakes or ignore them like nothing ever happened. It's not just knowing your mistakes that matter. It's about retracing your steps and finding out if you learned from that mistake and how you've improved your life since the time. Knowing this will strengthen your character and help you develop habits that can help you achieve your life's goal. 7. Am I creating value for people? Creating wealth is about creating value. You become successful by creating value and helping people. You see, the more people you help, the more money you make. So, ask yourself, am I creating anything that can be valuable to people? Can I help people solve a problem? Am I spending my life providing nothing useful to the people around me?  8. Do I care more about how my life looks or how it feels? When you focus so much on how people look at you or what they perceive you to be, you end up living for them. You begin to prioritize looking perfect in place of feeling good. Don't leave to impress people or portray the best or perfect life possible as most people do on the internet because it will never make you feel good about yourself and sooner than later you'll begin to spend the money that you don't have to impress the people that don't even care. Spending beyond your means to impress the masses can lead to a life of debt. Apart from setting you up for a life of debt, live in a life where you care more about how your life looks can lead to lack of joy and contentment. 9. Does my present lifestyle promote physical, spiritual and mental well-being? A healthy lifestyle should focus not only on your physical well-being but also on your mental and spiritual well-being. It is impossible to have overall well-being when one part of these isn't healthy.  10. What will be my biggest regret if I die tomorrow?   Asking yourself this question gives you a sober reminder of what you should be doing with your life today. Thank you very much for watching our videos. We'd like to give you another interesting video for you to enjoy next. Well before then our team will be very happy if you can like this video and share it with your friends on social media. If you're new here don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Look at your screen now to see two other videos we handpicked for you to enjoy next. We love you.


Income tax 2022-2023, reporting rental income expenses and losses overview. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Most of this information comes from Publication 527 Residential Rental Property, including Rental of Vacation Homes Tax Year 2022. You can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused on line one income. Remember, in the first half of the income tax formula is an essence and income statement. Although just an outline, other forms and schedules flowing into these line items, one of those, the Schedule E, an essence and income statement in and of itself, having rental income minus rental expenses. The net rental income flowing into line one income of the income tax formula. Reporting rental income expenses and losses. Clearly the first form that comes to mind when we think about income taxes is the Form 1040. Then we generally think about other forms and schedules that ultimately flow into the Form 1040. When most people think about rental income, we generally think about it as a kind of side hustle. Another type of business, it's going to be formatted in an income statement type of format where we have rental income minus the expenses that needed to be consumed in order to generate the income, which are basically business expenses, business deductions. Therefore, support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more, like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Why wouldn't we just report it on the Schedule C, which is where we report all other kinds of sole proprietor and contractor businesses for the most part? And the first answer that might come to mind is that, well, the rental property is going to have a whole different set of expense categories. So we have to have this whole other form just for the rental property where all other businesses kind of fit into the Schedule C form. That's not the primary purpose that we have to be breaking out the Schedule C to the rental property. With the rental property, we have this concept of kind of passive income, meaning you're not actively involved with the property. The property is basically generating income in and of itself in a similar fashion as like investment income. If you just put income, if you put money into like an investment stocks and bonds and you generate dividends and interest, you're not really actively working for it. And when we have the active working situation that are typically reported on the Schedule C, then we're also going to be subject to the Social Security and Medicare, the self-employment tax kind of situation. When we think about the rental income, we're thinking about the property itself oftentimes basically, you know, doing a lot of the work. And then there's a question of how active are you in engaging in the rental property? And that becomes more and more important, not when there's income, but when there's losses involved. Because when there's losses involved, the IRS is going to be kind of skeptical about the losses in part because there's another factor that's involved with the rental property for income generation. We're not just having the rental property most likely in order to get the rental income. We're also having the property because we expect the property to go up in value possibly just in terms of the location of the property, you know, if nothing else. So you have this situation where it could be actually beneficial from a taxpayer standpoint to have the rental property. If you have losses on the rental property to take the losses and report them against other income. So you reduce your taxes while the actual property value goes up in value. So you're actually generating income, which is not going to be realized and therefore subject to tax until you sell the rental property. So you have this whole other dynamic that makes it a little bit more confusing when you're thinking about rental property as opposed to like other side hustles where you're basically getting paid for your work, right? Getting paid for what you're doing at that point in time. So that's the general idea. So obviously we'll have a schedule E generally instead of a schedule C, there will be questions about how active the participation is. And then there's generally going to be possibly more rules with regards to limiting the amount of losses that you can take with respect to the rental property as opposed to like a schedule C type of situation. And then of course the self-employment situation, you might not be subject to self-employment tax if it's not a schedule C or fully active participation in the business situation. Okay, so figuring the net income or loss for a residential rental activity may involve more than just listing the income and deductions on schedule E form 1040. Obviously logistically that's the first step that's going to happen. We're going to have to get the bookkeeping done just like any other business. It's going to basically be an income statement. We're going to populate that income statement usually not into the schedule C but rather into the schedule E. And the schedule E only has an income statement. We don't typically have the balance sheet although we might have depreciation schedules that we have to deal with. There are activities that don't qualify to use schedule E such as when the activity isn't engaged in to make a profit or when you provide substantial services in conjunction with the property. So obviously if it wasn't engaged in for profit the reason that's a situation and we see this with the normal business income activity because if it's not engaged for profit then it's likely you're going to have losses and the IRS doesn't want to pay you for your hobby losses or something like that. And then if there's substantial services involved like if it was a hotel or something like that then you're not really just making passive money by just renting it out and collecting the rent on it. You are actually a lot of what you're doing in a hotel is providing the service of keeping up the hotel maintaining the hotel and all that kind of stuff. So now you are actively involved and you would think it might be more subject to like a schedule C and you might be subject to self-employment and that kind of stuff. So there are also limitations that may need to be applied if you have a net loss on schedule E. That's the big one. A lot of people often have might have losses because you would think the general planning when you're when you're dealing with rental income is not just to make money on the rental property possibly but you might have more long term plans for the property value to go up in the property. So you might be willing to sustain losses in the short run in order to own the property which you think will go up in value in the long run. So you can get more complex long term planning because of the structure of the rental property and that's and then the losses become kind of a messy situation. So there are two, one the limitation based on the amount of investment you have at risk in your rental activity and two the special limits imposed on passive activities. So you may also have a gain or loss related to your rental property from a casualty or theft. This is considered separately from the income and expense information you report on schedule E. So which forms to use? The basic form for reporting residential rental income and expenses is schedule E form 1040 rather than the schedule C. It looks much the same. It's an income statement type of form but it's for the rental property. However, don't use that schedule to report a not for profit activity. See not rented for profit later in chapter four. There are also other rental situations in which forms other than schedule E would be used. Schedule E form 1040. If you rent buildings rooms or apartments and provide basic services such as heat and light trash collection etc. You normally report your rental income and expenses on the schedule E. So notice it's not like with the rental property. It's not like you're doing nothing. You know you're still doing some providing some of the services but you're not. But hopefully the property the idea of the rental property is the property itself is going to be basically generating you know revenue and you might even hire obviously management companies to do some of this some of this other other stuff. But that's far less actual service than in like a hotel kind of situation. So list your total income expenses and depreciation for each rental property. So we're going to have breaking out our rental property and then we're not going to lump all the rental property together as if it was one business. Generally you're going to take each rental property and have another kind of schedule E basically income statement per property. So be sure to enter the number of fair rental and personal use days online too. So you know if you used it for personal use we may get into that later but we saw that that kind of money buddies up the situation because now you might have like a vacation property that you that you rented and you used for personal use. Now you've got to break out you know the business versus personal as opposed to a property that's three sixty five days a year rental which is you know more straightforward clearly. So if you have more than three rental or royalty properties complete and attached as many schedule E as are needed to separately list all the properties. However fill in lines twenty three eight through twenty six on only one schedule E. So in other words you're going to have a schedule E's as many as you need to do the income statement kind of format of the schedule E but then the bottom line of the schedule E the bottom part which is going to help to kind of figure your passive you know limitations and whatnot will kind of group together all the schedule E's will summarize together there. So in other words if you had one property that had income and another property had a loss you're going to you're going to you're going to report them separately but when you net them together then you might have had income right so so so then you might not be subject to any of the loss limitations in that case you can kind of you can generally net out for example two properties that are both kind of passive in nature you would think that you would be able to take the losses against the other property. The question would be can you take the other losses against other income like W2 income or something like that. Okay so the figure on lines twenty three eight through twenty six on the schedule E should be the combined totals of all properties reported on your schedule E on schedule E page one line eighteen into the depreciation you are claiming for each property you may also need to attach form four six I mean sorry four five six two to claim some or all your depreciation C form four five six two later for more information. So if you have a loss from your rental real estate activity you may also need to complete one or both of the following forms you got the form six nine I mean sorry six one nine eight those are the at risk limitations see at risk rules later also you can check out publication nine two five and then you've got the form eight five eight two these are the passive activity loss limitations and you can see passive activity limits later and we'll get into those in the next presentation. So page two of schedule E is used to report income or loss from partnership S corporation estates trusts and real estate mortgage investment conduits if you need to use page two of schedule E and you have more than three rental or royalty properties be sure to use page two of the same schedule E you use to enter the combined totals for your rental activity on page one also include the amount from line twenty six part one in the quote total income or loss in quote online forty one part five okay we'll take a look at forms later form four five six two who must complete an attached form four five six two if you are claiming the following depreciation in your rental activity so depreciation including the special depreciation allowance on property placed in service during two thousand twenty two so if you have special depreciation which is we talked a little bit when we when we went over depreciation is like that upfront depreciation for certain types of property might qualify for then you'd have to attach another form for that depreciation on listed property such as a car regardless of when it was placed in service otherwise figure your depreciation on your own worksheet you don't have to attach these computations to your return but you should keep them in your records for future reference those depreciation schedules do become important usually they're going to be generated with the help of tax software it's kind of interesting to me that sometimes they don't require the schedules the because you would think you think they want the you know but obviously if you're picking up a new client that becomes an issue because if you get it if you get the prior your tax return if it doesn't include the depreciation schedules then that's going to be a problem because those things are going to be you know needed for a long period of time so whenever you pick up a new client or something like that if you're doing rental property or anything with depreciation I would suggest you want to make sure you get that depreciation schedules from the prior return and that you that that then you enter the prior return depreciation schedules trying to match what was reported in the prior year and then roll it forward into the current year so that the software can kind of help you out you may also need to attach form four five six two if you are claiming a section one seventy nine deduction that's another one of those upfront like the special deduction amortizing costs that began during two thousand twenty two or claiming any other deduction for a vehicle including the standard mileage rate or lease expenses you can see publication nine four six for information on preparing form four five six two schedule C so usually we report on the schedule E now we're looking schedule C the normal business form for sole proprietors profit or loss from business generally schedule C is used when you provide substantial services in conjunction with the property or the rental is part of a trade or business as a real estate dealer so now you can see what's happening here and you can see the difference because you can say okay it's still it's still like rental property is basically involved and and this is why we can see it's not just that the expenses are different for rental properties why we put it on the schedule E because there are situations where you might use the schedule C when you still have you know the similar kind of expense situation it's the fact that when you move to the schedule E you may be doing so because there's this generally passive activity factor if you're actively involved in the business then in a more active way then you're providing more services for example then you might report it on a schedule C in that case and if you report on the schedule C it's going to be business income subject to the self-employment tax and all that kind of stuff although most likely not subject to the same kind of passive limitations and what not when you have losses in that situation and you can and just note that you can kind of see the back and forth when you see the regulations with the IRS because you can see generally you can see the IRS basically saying at one time hey look you rental people are taking advantage of rental property reporting massive losses and it's basically passive kind of activity and then they jumped in and said I'm just going to call it passive activity all rental activity is passive all of a sudden and that was kind of a huge hit and then of course people that are actually in the business with real estate came back and said hey wait a second I'm actually not having passive income I actively participate in this thing and you're limiting my business more than other businesses other than rental income and then you can see this compromising kind of situation that ends up happening where we have all these different rules on what qualifies as passive and active and kind of middle in between for the rental property so again generally schedule C is used when you provide substantial services in conjunction with the property or the rental is part of a trade or business as a real estate dealer providing substantial was a substantial loss for the company so if you provide substantial services that are primarily for your tenants convenience such as regular cleaning changing linen or made service you report your rental income and expenses on the schedule C because now you're doing a lot of service items within it use form 1065 U.S. return of partnership income if your rental activity is a partnership including a partnership with your spouse unless it is a joint venture so we get into that partnership kind of situation with the spouse which gets a little bit a little bit confusing because you would think you would be reporting as one entity with the schedule E but it gets a little bit messy because you actually have two people involved and so note that if it's actually your business if it's a business income and you're reporting schedule E I mean schedule C then the question is well is it possible to have a you might have different rules for a community property state to kind of split out the schedule C versus non-community property states and it also becomes important to properly allocate the self-employment and Medicare tax that's where it gets messy with the schedule C because the benefits that you will be receiving will be dependent upon how much you paid in that was allocated to the social security social security primarily substantial services don't include the furnishing of heat and light cleaning of public areas trash collection etc so in other words if you're if in your rental property you're furnishing heat and light it's pretty passive it's not like you're actively cleaning of public areas meaning you're not going into the place into the hotel or something and cleaning it by cleaning the public areas trash collection which again is outside that's you know etc that's not the active participation that would kick you over from doing the schedule E to the schedule C the schedule E usually be what you want to be doing if you can into for most cases because it's well there's pros and cons but the pros would be you might not be subject to the self-employment tax and the cons are that you've got the limitations on the losses so also you may have to pay self-employment tax on your rental income using schedule S E self-employment tax for discussion of substantial services see real estate rents in chapter 5 of publication 334 qualified joint venture if you and your spouse each materially participate participate in see material participation under passive activity limits later as the only members of a jointly owned and operated real estate business and you file a joint return for tax year you can make a joint election to be treated as a qualified joint venture instead of a partnership that will usually be easier because in that situation you don't have to file a partnership return which would be a separate return from the 1040 individuals and then have it flow into your joint individual return that's going to cost more be more some if you're a partnership and you would think with the rental property you would be able to do that it would be easier to do especially if you don't have to deal with that added issue of the self-employment tax on the schedule E as opposed to the schedule C where you do have to okay so this this election every election in most cases won't increase the total tax owed on the joint return but it does give you each credit for social security earnings on which retirement benefits are based and the medical coverage is your rental income is subject to self-employment tax so if you're reporting on a schedule C then that becomes quite important to get that breakout proper if you make this section if you make this election you must report our rental real estate income on schedule E or schedule C if you provide substantial services you won't be required to file form 1065 the partnership return for any year the election is in effect rental real estate income generally isn't included in net earnings from self-employment subject to self-employment tax is generally subject to the passive activity limits so if you and your spouse filed a form 1065 for the year prior to the election the partnership terminates at the end of the tax year immediately proceeding the year the election takes effect so if you file the tax return or say I don't need this partnership tax return we're going to drop that then the partnership should basically dissolve hopefully and so now you'll be reporting it on the schedule C so once again if you and your spouse file the form 1065 partnership return for the year prior to the election the partnership terminates at the end of the tax year immediately proceeding the year the election takes place so for more information on qualified joint investors you can go to irs.gov for slash IQJV


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Following her recent trip to the Middle East, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbach paints a bleak picture of the situation in the region. The rifts seem to be getting deeper, Baerbach said ahead of consultations between EU foreign ministers and Brussels. The bitter reality is that diplomacy is progressing only in the smallest steps. The goal remains that Israelis and Palestinians can live in security and peace, the minister emphasized. In the short term, however, humanitarian pauses in the fighting in the Gaza Strip are needed in order to be able to provide aid for the people. At the same time, Israel's security must be guaranteed. In the Gaza Strip, however, it does not help to follow impulses, but the bitter reality is that we are only coming forward in the smallest steps. And that is why we have to be able to achieve this in every minute of the hour, every minute of the day, every minute of the day, every minute of the hour, every minute of the day, every minute of the day. The humanitarian catastrophe situation in Gaza is being suppressed and that the non-stop danger of Israel, through the Hamas, through the terrorist actors, is being suppressed so that Israel and its people can live in security and peace, just like Palestinians and Palestinians. Of course, this can only happen in the context of a two-state solution in the future. Even if it seems to continue as far as possible, the political horizon in these days is more important than ever to lose hope in this terrible and unbelievable situation, where at the moment many people are losing hope, to continue to achieve this hope. We can really live in peace and security. Thank you.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this diorama card. These are really fun to make, I haven't actually, don't think I've ever done a tutorial made them before but never showed one. So this one is not using anything from the May hobby based kit, which the other one is, but I'm also mixing up a few other kits. So basically this one you just take off the belly band, open it up and inside you've got this little card with an acetate window and this is using the hobby based window die that came in the January kit. So I'm just throwing in, just mixing in other bits there just to show you. The paper here, whoo, I'm just throwing it away. The paper here is from a, oh gosh, it's the wood effect paper mania, I'll find any links for it if I can find them but that's what I used for that one. And then this is the side to put your little sentiment and I just see it's lovely, I've made the little curtains which you just really straightforward to do. Now it comes like this so it would stand obviously like that with the belly band but you can also fold it completely flat. So if you wanted to decorate this differently and then just pop in an envelope to post, you can do because that person's going to know when they receive it, it kind of as you open it, it forms that shape anyway. So yeah, can be posted or it can be hand given as I would do with that one. Like so to be fair, you can put the belly band on and like flat because it still does go flat. So there you go, up to you. So for this one and I'm using as I said a little bit of a mix. So this is the die that came in the January hobby base kit. Then I'm using the papers from this month's the May kit as well as the paper, the little paper flowers and the paper cuts that we got. So yeah, I just think it's nice just to show you guys other bits that you may have got and thought oh yeah actually I can use that. So I have gone ahead and I have coloured these with a blending tool and just a red ink pad and I've gone over them. I don't need this many to be honest, I went a bit crazy, but this is what we received. We received 21 of them and they were all white like this. So the whole pack was just plain white and you can add anything to them. So you can add your any inks, any reinkers, you can just drip a few drops directly onto them. And you can see I've done the gold which I showed in a previous tutorial and then that was a pinky one which I just left over. So I'll put them to one side, but I've just gone ahead there and they've taken really well to that red. They're so vibrant and deep. It's lovely. Okay, so I have got for the main card base you need a piece of 11 by 6 and you want to score at along the 11 inch side you want to score at three inches, three and three quarters, six and three quarters, seven and a half and ten and a half. Okay, so you'll have this half inch tab on your far right hand side. So that's all of that. Then to decorate, so for the very inside of it, so I'm calling this the wallpaper, which is why I thought these papers that we got in the May Kit worked really well because they're the V&A collection. So they are original prints from paper or fabric that were in the museum. So they have got that kind of wallpaper kind of feel to them, but it's the one that you can see behind here inside there. So think of something that you want that's going to look like that, I guess you might have a different theme. So this is seven and seven eighths of an inch by five and seven eighths of an inch. So just a little bit shorter just so it will fit. If I just bring that one round, it's actually going to end up going in that one there in the middle one.  It's just got that kind of look to it. So you need one piece for the front. Yeah, they are. So one piece for the front. So here and then one piece for inside here. And these are two and three quarters by five and three quarters. So that's those two pieces. And then you want a piece to go down the spine here and to go down the other side there. And these pieces measure at five eighths of an inch by five and three quarters. Okay, so two pieces of those.  So that's the scoring done and get rid of that. And grab this piece and we can just go and just burnish all of those score lines. Okay, now I know what I did forget to tell you is you also need a piece to go in there. So that will be the same measurement as this front one there. So just have another piece of that to go inside. So basically what's going to happen is, is this is going to fold over and it's going to stick. So we'll just bring that. So this is that tab. It's going to come right the way over and it's going to be glued to the top score line of the front here. So it creates that nice box shape inside. Okay, but before we do that, we need to die cut this design here. So the easiest way to do that is first of all what you want to do to make sure you get this all lined up. So we're going to be just so you know where you are with everything. So that's your flap. Okay. And then you've got your tab on the right hand side, the middle main one.  I think it's just going to help me then talk you through the rest because you'll know where you are. So before I run my die through, I'll just stick this one down. So make sure it's the right way up and it will literally just fit in, which is what you want. Okay. Now flip it over and this now the tab will be on the left hand side.  Grab one of your, you want to do it on this piece first. So grab that and then with a bit of my washi tape and just stick it down. So bearing in mind, I'm going to be having some of these red flowers coming along there. So I want space for that and obviously still, you know, room there. So I reckon I've got about half an inch from the top there that I'm leaving and then about a quarter of an inch on each side. So I'm going to pop my washi tape in the middle there because I won't be keeping those bits and I don't want to risk. Obviously if it's low tack, you won't take any of that off anyway, but then I'm going to run that through my little machine here because it fits in nicely. So I don't have to get up and go and use my bigger one. Just run that through. So I'd already put my double sided tape on the back as well. So if you do want to do that beforehand, you can do and then that piece will come out like so. Now we're not actually going to keep this. This is the, we're going to discard this piece. All we want with this one is just the shape because what we're going to do is we're going to die cut it again with some white card or any color card you want. You might want to have a different color frame, but I'm going to do it again in white. The reason why we do it on this piece first is because what we can do now is pop this on here as if we were sticking it down. So make sure you've got a nice even border.  There we go. Draw around that inside shape. Don't worry if it's all rough and stuff because you're going to remove this whole piece anyway. So I don't know what I'm about. That is the one I'm going to use isn't it? That's my white.  I'm going to actually use that one. So yeah, be neat with it. You can rub out the pencil or you can distress it. So now we've got that one.  Just make sure it's all nice and straight and it covers that area.  Just making sure, just pop that there. So I'm just going to run that through my machine. Okay. And then again, just pop it all out. Get rid of any of the pieces there. And then you want the frame that's in here, which if it's got any pencil on then you obviously just need to carefully rub that out. There we go. Yeah, I've got a little bit but that's fine. Just remove that. Okay. So now we've got our frame and we've got this already. So that is going to stick now perfectly. Okay. So sorry guys.  Fortunately I've caught it before I've done too, too, too much. Although I did stick it down. I've just taken it back off.   So my acetate measures two and three quarters by four. And then what you can see I've done here is you want to put your, I'm using my red tape. Put the red tape so it hugs the outer edge of that acetate. You can just see the tape through there. And basically that just means you avoid it going over into your frame or whatever it is that you've got there. And then you want to stick it onto the back side. Okay. So this is the front. You want to stick it on the back.  I still use this red thin tape because it was thin enough to go along here. You don't need to cover the whole thing just a little bit there, a little bit there at the top and at the bottom. Okay.  Okay. So that's all down there. And then to make these curtains I die cut this size circle here. If you've got something that's decorative that just adds to it because obviously they are meant to look like curtains. And this is two and a half in diameter. And what you want to do is just cut it kind of like a quarter off like so. And then cut it in half just roughly. Okay. And then you basically want to stick it together like that. Or do it that way.  You can see I'm just showing you below there. You see how it will look. So play around. Keep putting it underneath, holding it in place, flipping it over. And you can see there where I've stuck it. And just make sure you stick it in between those two score lines. So don't worry about what it looks like on the back. It could be all messy. No one's going to see any of that. It's the front. Okay. It looks so cute. And then I went ahead and I didn't go ahead. I was just doing it. But I've just stuck three of those paper flowers down like so. All right. So sorry about that. But yeah, I need to go and erase loads of videos. Because I just forget to do that. Okay. So then you want to run some double-sided tape along your side here. And just take a little wedge off on the corner there. Now before you stick it down, you may want to decorate some more inside, but on this part here. Now again, I just think I was recording. But although these are wedding themed paper cuts, there were two little birds up here, which are these two birds here. So I just went and cut them off. And all you do is you just cut the connecting little bits here. See these? Just trim them off. And then I have thought about having them. I remember there was a craze like it, well I wasn't obviously in the 1950s, but people would have three ducks flying on their wall. I'm going to have these two birds. But I'm going to distress these. And I'm just deciding what color. I think I might do a green or something, just like a pop of color to kind of poke through. So I'm going to go ahead and get them kind of distressed up. Okay, so there you go. I've got my two birds in green.  So I'm just going to, just with a little bit of glue, just tack them down. Just check they can obviously be seen through the window, which they can.  So it's just these fun little details. So there you go.  Doesn't matter. There you go. You can do that instead. That looks cool. So then I've got my backing here. So I just need to take that off. Okay, and then just fold that one completely over. And then this side here needs to line up with this outer score line. Okay, and just make sure it's flush with the top. You'll probably grip a little bit onto your sticky tape on the side, which mine has like so. And then just let the side down and stick. And then you can just push the whole thing flat and make sure it's all stuck down like so. So now you just look through there. You see the two little green birds. I'm going to have green here and some embellishments as well. So now we need to decorate the front. So let's get that stuck down along with our side pieces. So you'll have these two, which I think I've already run my tape along. I need to put some on here. Okay, so just put the whole thing flat just so it makes it easy to stick this down.  And this one. So, and then push it to the other side and you want to do that one. Open it up on that one. Okay, like that. So now we've got the sides, the front and that down.  I'm also going to cut my other piece here for my sentiment. I think I'm going to stamp my sentiment in green. Okay, so I have die cut these from my own stash. And then I've just coloured them in with the green, which I used to colour in the birds inside. So it all matches. I've put little pearl embellishments in the middle of my flowers there. Then I've done a mat and a layer on this side because I can still stamp that when I want to. But I think I'm just going to leave it just to be able to write a message on. And those measure, let me just tell you. So the blue one in my case is five and three quarters by two and three quarters. And then the white layer on top of that is five and three-eighths by two and three-eighths. Okay, then on the front, obviously that was already done. So that is everything there. Then I've done this little one here. So I've used the same coloured pattern paper that we got in the kit, which is obviously the wallpaper. And then I just grabbed a blue piece of scrap, more of those red flowers from the kit. And then I decided I'm going to, this is going to be a home sweet home. So it's going to be a new home card. And yeah, just stamp that on a little disc and finish it all off the same. So that is going to go lovely on the front there. Then you need your belly bands. This is three-quarters of an inch by the A4 length. Eleven inches will be fine. Yeah, three-quarters of an inch. And just sit it over, make sure it's all just lined up there. And just bring it up and just kind of bend it around the sides there, just pinching it. We're going to trim this anyway, so you don't need to worry too too much. Like so. And take it off and then you can just fold those score lines a bit better there now, because they're just staying in place, like so. And then we need to trim some of this. So let's trim this one right back like that. And then you want that one to sit over the top like so. It doesn't have to. Then I'm just going to put some glue on that left-hand side there and just sit that over the top. Okay, and just make sure that it slides off nicely. And then you can just make sure it's all stuck. And then on that same piece where we've just joined, just put another splodge of glue right in the middle. And then you can get whatever it is that you're decorating. Just push the whole thing. I can't fold it flat for some reason. It's obviously not completely even, but it's fine. Just sit that so it's nice and centered. You've got even amount of the belly band underneath there. Okay, and they've got a really cute little belly band. So now, again, just grab this and it will just sit over like so. And there, that looks really nice. And again, it all folds flat, so you can pop it in and below if you want. But I think they look really, really cute. So let me just take that off just to show you, again, a bit more detail. So you can see everything in there. You can see the little birds inside. Again, you can put anything you want in there. You could have more sentiments and messages and stuff, but I just think it's really, really cute. So yeah, so that's using the die from the January kit. These flowers and the papers were from this month's kit along with the birds, which were the paper cuts. So I've just kind of mixed it all up a little bit this time. And yeah, I hope you like this diorama card. So just get that back on there again. There we go. So once again, if you are interested in joining the Hobby Base Club and receiving the monthly kit, all of that information is shared in the video description below. But otherwise, please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today's tutorial and subscribe to see more. Thanks for watching. Bye.


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brookshow. On this Friday, March 1st, beginning of a new month, hopefully everybody is having a great week or having a great week and looking forward to the weekend. All right. Sorry today's a little early, a little off-schedule, but it is what it is, stuff going on. Starting in mid-March, I expect to create a much more regular schedule for these shows. I think I'm going to change the format quite a bit. More on that in mid-March, but expect more regularity, at least when I'm not traveling, from the show starting sometime around March 15th, 16th, 17th, something around there. All right, let's jump in. I do have a hard stop at 12. So, 12 recent times. So, kind of news out of the relationship between Israel and Ukraine, which I think is quite interesting and a real kind of strategic shift. As I think you know, because we've discussed this on the show, Israel has been, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, reluctant to all-out support Ukraine. The statements that it basically supports Ukraine, it sent humanitarian aid. It was condemned invasion by Russia, but not in too harsh of a terms. And basically it has maintained what one could perceive as a neutral stand with regard to the Ukrainian-Russian war. And the primary driver of that is the perceived need by Israel to maintain good relationships with Russia. This has many reasons to it. There is a very large Russian population in Israel. There's a huge migration of Russians into Israel in the 1990s, who still have family ties and other ties to Russia. There is also the fact that many of the oligarchs actually have dual citizenship. They have Russian citizenship and Israeli citizenship. I think there's a lot of coordination between Russia and Israel with regard to the oligarchs. But I think most fundamentally is the fact that Russia plays a big role in the Middle East. In particular, Russia plays a big role in Syria. Russian troops are in Syria. Russia has a navy in Syria. It has an air force in Syria. It has special forces in Syria. And it has its most advanced ground to air missile systems stationed in Syria. Israel operates in Syria. Israel is constantly, Syria is a, you know, what do they call it? You know, basically it's a state in a civil war. Parts of Syria are still controlled by the central government. But there are vast areas of Syria that are controlled by other elements. The central government in Syria is affiliated with Iran and is very friendly to Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel. Other areas in Syria, some of them are controlled by al-Qaeda, sympathetic groups. This is why the United States still has a presence in Syria. ISIS groups are still in Syria. Again, this is supposedly why the United States is still there. But anyway, Israel flies regularly over Syria at bombs just this morning. I think there was an announcement that a senior Syrian military commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was killed by the Israelis in Syria by an airstrike. Israel has been knocking off leaders of the Iranian Republican Guard and of Hezbollah in Syria since the beginning of the war in Gaza. And it is actively engaged over the skies in Syria. Israel does not want confrontation with the Russians. It is not interested in war with Russia. It is not interested in the Russians aggressively deploying some of their best weapon systems in Syria. Israel has its hands full. It doesn't need a war with Russia. And I think that is, or even if it's not a war, an engagement with Russia. And I think that is a big part of why Israel has been kind of, up until now, fairly neutral with regard to the Ukrainian Russian situation. That seemed to all change yesterday. In the UN, the Israeli ambassador to the UN gave a scathing speech, an scathing anti-Russian speech accusing Russia of genocide in Ukraine. And basically announcing that Israel is an ally of Ukraine. And it was also announced yesterday that Israel will start supplying, for the first time, weapons systems to Ukraine. Right now, all that's been mentioned is radar to detect incoming missiles and incoming drones. We don't know if this is the Iron Dome system. I mean, if Ukraine had, I don't know if Israel can produce enough to supply Ukraine. But imagine if Ukraine had a large number of Iron Dome systems protecting its skies. It would be a game changer in the war with Russia. It would literally reduce dramatically, if not reduce completely, the threat of some of these drone swarms, the Iranian drone swarms. And also short-range projectile missiles and short-range ballistic missiles attacks on Ukraine. I mean, Israel has proved that its Iron Dome system is amazing at dealing with hundreds of projectiles launched all at once. At the same time, Israel could supply them with an Iron Dome. It could also supply them with the Arrow anti-aircraft and anti-missile system, which has proven effective against long-range ballistic missiles and, of course, against aircraft and drones. It is one of the most sophisticated missile systems in the world. And Israel actually has now an anti-hypersonic missile defense system, which I'm not even sure the United States has, but Israel has. I don't know if they have enough to be able to sell them, but they were at the Paris issue displaying this missile system and trying to get clients. You could imagine them supplying that kind of system to the Ukrainians, taking out the one huge advantage the Russians have in the air with their hypersonic weapons. Of course, Israel could supply many other weapons, tanks and armored personnel. Now, Kerry is the best in the world and in many, many other weapons. Israel is in the midst of a war, so it's not clear that Israel is in a position to supply weapons overseas. It has a hard time enough with its own requirements for ammunition, but Israel is not taking any real losses with regard to heavy equipment. So, who knows? Now, Israel is, I think, gearing up for war in Lebanon, so it might want to keep much of its weapons systems in reserve. But it is interesting, and how engaged Israel becomes with the Ukrainians is a question. Now, what does explain this strategic shift? I think the main explanation for this is the fact that Russia has gone basically all in on the enemies of Israel. Not only have we seen over the last year or so, Russia intensifying its relationship with Iran, positive relationship, allowing Iran and has been allowing Iran free reign in Syria. But more than that, Russia now is in a sense funding the entire Iranian drone industry, which has to worry Israel as they develop more drones, the technology gets better, maybe they even are using some Russian expertise in their drone building, and Israel is worried and concerned about the closeness of the relationship between Russia and Iran. More than that, though, Russia has also expressed sympathy and support for the Houtis and Hamas. Indeed, the Hamas delegation is going to Moscow. I think it's this week or next week to meet in Moscow. It's one of the few places in the world where Hamas gets a red carpet treatment, and with Houtis getting red carpet treatment. So in a sense, Russia has clearly articulated where it stands with regard to Israel. It stands with Israel's enemies, and I think Israel has decided enough of this neutrality. We need to support the side that is just and right, and the side that is opposed ultimately to our enemies, and therefore it is siding with Ukraine. Again, it depends what kind of weapons systems the Israelis can deliver to Ukraine, but in Israel has some of the most advanced weapons systems in the world, it could very much change the dynamics of Ukraine, at least in terms of self-defense, at least in terms of protecting Ukrainian cities from missile attacks from Russia. Alright, and it's going to be interesting, by the way, to see how this impacts Israel's ability to operate over the skies in Syria. One of the interesting things that came out is a member that he could, actually somebody I know, but I remember that he could, went on this Twitter rant, basically it was on RT, Russian Today Television, went on this rant about how Russia, once Israel is finished with Hamas and finished with Hezbollah, Russia will pay a price for supporting Hamas. In other words, this, he could member went on a rant saying that, beware, Russia, Israel is coming for you. Now, I don't know what he's thinking, I don't know what that means, I don't know what Israel can do to Russia. Well, it can do a lot of harm in various ways, but does Israel really want to announce publicly kind of almost a declaration of war against Russia? Probably a major mistake, but this guy, I know him, I've met him several times and he's a passionate guy, and maybe he lost his cool a little bit. Alright, that is Ukraine, Israel, Russia, we will keep watching that. It's sure to be fascinating in terms of the developments. I'll also just say quickly about Gaza, this thing that I talked about yesterday, about 100 Gazans being killed during a distribution of supplies. The haters of Israel are going wild with this, as if the UN is going crazy with this, everybody's going crazy with this, as if Israel did this on purpose, massacred people and it's going to get a lot of play. I explained I think what happened yesterday, I think that is the most reasonable explanation so far for what actually happened. But given Hamas and given what Hamas has done for many, many decades, even if some Israeli soldier went wild and started shooting into civilians, the response to this is way out of proportion relative to the response for any Hamas action that kills civilians. Remember, Hamas has been launching hundreds of projectiles into Israeli cities, hoping, intending to kill hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of Israeli civilians. And those missile launches against Israeli population centers do not attract any condemnation from the United States, they do not attract any condemnation from the world's bleeding hearts. The bleeding hearts in the UN reserve their condemnations only for acts that Israel engages in.  Alright, videos come in from Alexei Navalny's funeral and from the ceremony at the church and then the ceremony at the burial site at the graveyard, the cemetery. And it's quite stunning, thousands and thousands of people came out, both, and these are different people because there's a distance between the two, both at the church and at the cemetery. Think about this, this is Moscow in February 1st of March, it is really cold, you can see how well dressed they are, how coats and everything. It's cold, there's snow on the ground. But more importantly, in both events, security forces are out in force, they are taking pictures, they are documenting who is there, anybody who comes there is in a sense risking getting on the wrong side of the Russian security forces. They were chanting Navalny, Navalny, Navalny, you know, they were clearly supportive of Navalny. And I think this show of support in spite of the risk that these people are taking on by being there is an illustration of why Putin had to kill him. Navalny, for whatever reason, and I don't know Navalny well enough and I don't really understand the psychology of charisma, particularly well, was incredibly charismatic and really brought out and became a symbol of the opposition against Putin and the opposition against the current regime in Russia. Whatever his qualities as an individual human being, he became that symbol and he really, you know, rallied people around him. Now I don't think he was a real threat to Putin. But who knows over the long run, who knows if something bad happens, what could result. I think the Russian people are basically sheep and have accepted Putin and accept pretty much anything Putin does. But Navalny, you know, stood something in them that scared Putin. And therefore Putin had to get rid of Navalny and did and did. And there was some talk about maybe there was going to be a prison exchange when Navalny was going to be released together with the Wall Street Journalist in exchange for this guy in Western Europe who sent us a life promoter. But I don't think Putin wanted Navalny in the West either. Putin didn't want Navalny alive. I mean, he tried to poison him once and he sent him to Siberia and he killed him. And now he's dead. Tchaikovsky, by the way, is unconvinced. In his lecture Friedman interview he does what he always does. You know, this is a standard practice. I'm only asking questions. I'm only asking, you know, I don't know what the truth is, but I'm just asking questions.  But is it possible maybe, is there an incentive maybe for the Biden administration to actually kill Navalny? I'm not saying that happened. I don't know. Indeed, I have no evidence that that happened, but I'm just asking questions. That's what I do. I'm a journalist after all. So I ask questions. That is so dishonest. That is such a logical fallacy and it blatant attempt to manipulate people. It is the embracing of the arbitrary. All in the name, this is how conspiracy theories get going. Very few people start out with conspiracy saying, no, this, yeah, they really do this. The aliens do come down. You say, yeah, well, is it possible? I don't know. Maybe it's, maybe it's true. I don't know. Yeah, one of my, I think one of my goals in life now is to do as much as I can in the little world in which I live, which is pretty small. To point out how disgusting, awful, horrible. And what is it? Adam Carlson, a weasel, Taka Carlson, actually is. I mean, I wasn't very successful in convincing people that Trump was, all of those things, you know, and I probably won't be too successful with Taka Carlson after all.   It's, it's probably therapeutic for me to try anyway to know that I am at least on the side of justice and truth. All right. That is Navalny. Oh, interesting. So Elon Musk. Elon Musk is suing open AI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Elon Musk is open AI for those who don't remember. Open AI is, is the makeup chat GPT and Sam Altman is the CEO was fired and then brought back with all the drama around open AI and chat GPT. And at the time we discussed the strange corporate governance structure of open AI. The fact that it was a nonprofit that then established a for-profit subsidiary and that it had a board that was not beholden to investors. It was a board that was beholden to a nonprofit charter and it was committed to following that charter. And that charter specified explicitly that it was, it was there not to make money, but that it was there in order to develop AI for the greater good of humanity. Right. And, and not to profit from it directly. Anyway, Elon Musk is suing them for a breach. Of that charter, the nonprofit charter on which they were founded. Elon Musk was one of the founders of open AI. He left the board in 2018. He was one of the founders of open AI as a nonprofit organization. It's only later in 2018 when they founded, when they created the for-profit subsidiary, they left the board. So he is, he also, I think was part of the seed funding in a sense of, again, it wasn't a, it wasn't funding. It was a contribution. It tax deductible contribution to a nonprofit entity. I think he put in $40 million. And so he is claiming that the startup that he co-founded is now, you know, is now basically a for-profit and is countervailing its charter and its original intent. In that sense, he's claiming and alleging a breach of contract. This is part of the problem of these silly ways in which to structure businesses, clearly what are businesses. There is no points.  It's just the confusion and the challenge of the whole thing is absurd. What the, what Elon Musk is seeking is a court ruling that will ask open AI to make its research and technology available to the public, that is go open source and prevent the startup from using its assets, including its most advanced AI model, for the financial gains of Microsoft or any individual. Elon Musk is primarily targeting Microsoft in this deal because Microsoft provided an incredible amount of funding for open AI and is the beneficiary of a big part of its technology. Again, and Microsoft is for-profit, it's not exactly a non-for-profit corporation. Musk, of course, it's important to mention. Musk, of course, has his own AI business that he has started in a sense competing with open AI. It would be incredibly advantageous to his business if open AI basically went out of business or at least went out of business as a for-profit entity and made public college research, which then companies like Elon Musk's AI firm could then utilize and use. His company is called XAI. It's under the banner of Twitter. It's supposed to be the truth-seeking AI. We will see when it comes out how, I guess it's available for people who are premium plus members on Twitter can get access to it. But once it's available, broadly, we'll see how truth-seeking it really is. But anyway, this is an interesting lawsuit. It follows up on all our discussion of open AI months ago. It's going to be fascinating. It puts some ultimate and Microsoft on one side and Elon Musk on the other, and that conflict should be interesting. And I will be following this and keep you updated on how it develops. All right, let's see. We've got two more stories. Okay, CHIPS. The CHIPS Act, the United States, if you remember, set aside a significant amount of money, 30-something billion dollars right now. They are about to announce who is going to get that money for CHIPS development in the United States, or CHIPS manufacturing in the United States. CHIPS are already developed here, but they're not manufactured here.  The requests for funding have come in. They've got over 600 requests for funding. The requests for funding have requested double the amount that the administration has allocated for these subsidies for manufacturing CHIPS. Remember, this is the CHIPS Act that passed Congress. It's a bipartisan bill. It is expected that a lot of the money that ultimately is allocated will go to Intel. Intel is the only American company producing and who is seeking to produce the most advanced CHIPS in the world. Remember, in NVIDIA, everybody talks about NVIDIA.  The stock has gone up. It's been this unbelievable success story, primarily because they discovered that the CHIPS that they developed in the past for graphics is a CHIPS that works incredibly well for AI. And they have doubled down on AI, and they are basically the, you know, in a sense, creator of AI CHIPS in the world. And they're making a fortune selling AI CHIPS to all these AI companies that have raised huge amounts of money into server farms, Microsoft and Google and everybody else, and they market capitalization. Their value has just gone through the roof. But it's interesting that NVIDIA doesn't actually make the CHIPS, right? NVIDIA designs the CHIPS. NVIDIA actually, you know, places the CHIPS, you know, in the servers. But NVIDIA, or actually maybe it doesn't, maybe it sells at a server's manufacturers, NVIDIA is mainly a CHIPS designer. The CHIPS themselves are made by TSMC, you know, TSMC, which makes these CHIPS for NVIDIA. They make them primarily in Taiwan, but they also have facilities in Singapore and they're building a big facility in Japan. They're also building a facility, of course, which is subsidized by the Japanese government. They're building a big facility in Phoenix, Arizona, which will probably be, who knows? I mean, it's a $40 billion project for TSMC. I think it's primarily a project for TSMC to appease the American government more than anything else. But the actual project is probably not in TSMC's real interest. It's already faced numerous delays. It's not clear that they'll ever have enough employees to man it. It's not clear that they have the staff to put it together. And we will see when and if TSMC actually produces CHIPS in Arizona. Intel, in the meantime, is building a $20 billion project in Ohio of all places. And they're expecting to start producing in 2026. And it's expected that a big chunk of the 30-something billion dollars that the United States government is going to hand out to chip manufacturers will indeed go to Intel because it's a U.S. company and because there's a history and because Intel is the only hope of U.S.-owned chip manufacturing coming back in the United States. We have other chip manufacturers in the United States. There's a Foundry company in New York and there's a memory company out of Idaho. But those companies do not produce the most advanced chips. They produce earlier-generation chips. The most advanced chips in the world today are produced in Taiwan and in South Korea soon to be produced also in Japan. Note that that area in the Pacific, very vulnerable to China, is where we get all of our most advanced chips in the world today. That is a national security issue. It's one of the reasons the United States better be investing in their Navy, better be investing in their ability to protect the shipping lanes from South Korea and Japan and actually be invested in protecting Thailand itself. So much of what we do today from weapon systems to everything, to cars, to everything we have around us, is dependent on chips and that's only going to increase. And of course AI chips, some of the most advanced chips, we're just going to become more and more dependent on those. All right, quickly, this is a feel-good story. I came across it. It's just a cool story. A startup by the name of Zoom just raised $140 million in an e-founding round at a valuation of $1.3 billion, a $1.3 billion company. It's out of Redwood City, California, still producing billion-dollar companies in California. And it's a school bus company. It basically provides school buses to school districts. It provides a school bus driver and a technology, and this is the important part, that makes the school buses run on time. Some of the school buses, Zoom doesn't say exactly how many of them, some of them are electric, some of them are internal combustion, although they hype their electric buses. But these buses are, the algorithm is designed, is run by an AI. It's designed to optimize the routes. It is guaranteed to bring the kids, pick them up on time, drop them off at home on time, and therefore very, very friendly to parents. Parents can also download the app, and the app keeps track of exactly where the school bus is and exactly the time when the kids will be dropped off or picked up, so that if there is a delay, the app announces it to parents. They are now in more than 4,000 U.S. schools in cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston, and they have plans to expand dramatically across the country. Who knew you could build a business around school buses and ancient technology? And the woman who built this business is an immigrant to the United States, Ritu Narayan, Indian names, I assume from India, yeah, parents are from India, and I think she was born in India. She struggled with the question of having a career, having a successful career in tech at eBay and Oracle, and at the same time having to worry about school buses being laid, her kids not catching the bus, having to take the kids to school and therefore be laid to work, or the school bus not picking them up and dropping them off at home, and therefore she having to drive and get this kids from school, and she noticed that a lot of parents had these challenges, so she initially created a business that basically was basically an Uber. An Uber chauffeured kids to school with a fleet of vetted private drivers. Parents arranged rides ahead of time and tracked their child's location through the Zoom app. Now this was very safe, very secure, but only could attract parents who could afford this, who were well off, and so it was a relatively small segment of the population. It's relatively expensive to run all these Uber cars running all over the place. But in 2019, when she was asking some school districts to promote this Uber-like service, they came back to her and said, well, why don't we use the technology you have to make the buses more efficient? We'll hire you to provide us with buses and to provide this efficiency. And basically she thought about it, huge risk. The business was making her money. She scrapped the business model, pivoted, invested in buying buses, and started this new business, now valued at $1.3 billion. I mean, I think this is fantastic. It shows that innovative spirit, that constant innovation, even in areas where you don't expect AI or algorithms or software to have any real impact. It does, you know, these small improvements on people's lives. Something like this just makes it much easier for women to have a career. Something like this reduces anxiety for parents in terms of where their kids are and picking them up and all of that. And it's just a beautiful thing to see how we can apply, still apply innovation to making our lives just incrementally slightly better. Of course, a progress like this is not going to be captured by all the pessimists who think the world is falling apart and life just becomes marginally a little bit better. Nobody remembers how, nobody remembers how difficult it was in the past, but we're just a little bit better off. We have a little bit more time. We have a little bit more choices. We can pursue our own values a little bit more. And this is how real progress in terms of human satisfaction actually happens. And it's not observable always in the economic numbers. And it's not observable by many people in the population who are so wired and so geared towards finding the negatives and all the things, blocking them and preventing them from advancing in life. I love stories like this from Nero, of women, men like Nero and other entrepreneurs who just are not willing to settle for the status quo and willing to take huge risks in order to improve the world in which we live. All right, let's go to our super chat. We're running, yeah, I think we're going to be okay, but we've got about $52 to get to where we need to be. All right, Sivanos, $50. Thank you, Sivanos. Sivanos says, it sounds like Musk is exploiting the goodwill. Everyone who supposedly wants AI developed for the greater good. All he's really doing is using the legal system to try to sabotage the loot, the effort as a competitor. Seems pretty bad on first look. I tend to agree with you, Sivanos. I don't know enough about the case and I don't know enough about this, but note that Elon Musk is one of the pessimists when it comes to AI. AI is going to kill us all, has been something he has been advocating for several years. He is also one of the leaders of the movement to get AI regulated. He wants the government to regulate AI.  So he is, and at the same time, he's developing his own AI company. So, yes, I think it's completely legitimate to wonder about motives. And yes, he could be concerned about the fact that this was not the intention for which he gave $40 million, but it might also be a bigger story in terms of his suspicion of profit motive around AI, his suspicion of AI, his suspicion of the negativity of AI, and the idea that if the government comes in to regulate AI, Musk's company will have a comparative advantage. It'll be involved in the regulatory discussions. And if you can, if chatGPT is crippled and some of the big tech companies are crippled that we know Google is not crippled because of the justified really negative precedent gotten around its release of Gemini, Musk will be in a particularly good position to dominate this field. All right, John has several $20 questions. Let's go through these. I read the reason for limiting the eligibility of presidency to U.S.-born citizens was to protect the country from foreign influence. And then he continues, silly when you realize that there's collectivism and then there's individualism and that the ideas behind each of these philosophies are taught and injected into our culture through education and our top intellectuals. And he continues, so where you're born seems irrelevant to the ideas you embrace, in my opinion.  And actually make fun amazing president of a free nation. Also, I apologize for the chain super chat. It's much cheaper this way. But if you disapprove, I'll try not to do it this way anymore. More characters is expensive. No, this is fine. The chain is good. Thank you. I mean, that's an $80 question and I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, it's funny. I would argue, given me as an example, suggest that some immigrants understand the principles on which this country is based. The ideas of the founding fathers and their principles, the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, better than 99% of Americans. I would argue better than the justices of the Supreme Court, better than anybody in politics today. I will posit that I understand it better than all those people. So, yes, I think I can understand why the founders did it. There was a certain fear of smuggling in foreign influence. You know, it does make sense to have some requirement where you're in this country for X number of years, 20, 30 years or something where you're established as a citizen. You're established as somebody who belongs in the culture. You're established as somebody who knows something about this country and what it is. So, yes, it would make sense to change that. But at this point it doesn't matter because anybody who understood the Constitution, anybody who really understood what this country was about, anybody who grasped fully the Declaration of Independence and everything it represented could not get elected today in the United States. So, you know, it would be nice to include foreigners in the choices that we have. But it's not for lack of choices that we have Trump and Biden. It's because that is where the country is. That is where the country is.  They use the term, it's almost sensuals to hear somebody like Donald Trump talk about America first or somebody like Biden talk about the interests of America. They have no concept, zero. So, I agree with you completely, John. Sadly, I don't think it would make any difference right now. Hunter Hunter, great show on the left, de-growth agenda, completely anecdotal, but the biggest de-growth advocates I've ever met was a couple of Christian theocrats who perhaps unsurprisingly thought the Taliban was kind of based. Well, that's not surprising at all. I've said this over and over again.  I forget now for some reason, I forgot what, but they're anti-Libbles, the unlibbles. They are very environmentalist friendly. They are very de-growth. They don't believe growth should be, is important, should be practiced. I saw this with Andrew Sullivan, who I respect a lot, but Andrew Sullivan is a conservative and he was advocating for what he calls rocking chair conservatism, back porch conservatism, which is a conservatism of stagnation. There is a significant portion of the right which is post stagnation. They don't want the latest technology. They don't want AI. They don't want economic growth. They don't want, and I think to some extent Donald Trump presents that. They don't want trade. They don't want improving standard of living. I mean, they want it and they don't want it. They want it in areas where it doesn't take American jobs or force Americans to compete with foreigners or anything like that. They want stagnation. It's in the attitude towards immigration. So it doesn't surprise me at all. This is a problem that while in the form that I discussed the other day is primarily on the left, it's a problem that crosses into the right as well. Andy says, just showing support. Happy to catch a live show. Thank you, Andy. I really appreciate that. Michael says, I've seen a few videos from YouTubers on why they quit. The key to longevity seems to be posting videos when it's convenient to you rather than trying to meet a fixed schedule. Yeah, I mean, most YouTubers don't do live shows. Most YouTubers produce their shows and then post them. And they don't particularly, I guess, enjoy the process. I'm doing right now eight shows a week. And I'm doing them in the morning and in the evening and all over the place. And what I'm thinking right now, and this is what I'd like to do, is to go to a once a day format, longer shows, where the first half of the show is dedicated to news and the second half of the show is dedicated to a broader topic. So something like, let's say, I'm not committing to this with something like two to four, two to five every day, like a Rush Limbaugh radio show, right? In which I dedicate the first hour to the news roundup and the rest to a broader other topics. And that way, I don't have to do shows at night, which is becoming harder for me. I just am more tired as I get older. And it also kind of regulates my life. So for me, this is an improvement. For me, the challenge is, how do I squeeze the show among other things? The easiest thing for me right now, I think to do, and I might change my mind, but right now, this is what I'm thinking, is to every day block a certain number of hours for the show and just not have anything scheduled. And everybody in the world who interacts with me knows from two to five year olds doing a show, nothing else can be scheduled during those hours. And my life is simplifying in other respects as well. So it's going to make, I think now this is possible. I don't think it was possible a few months ago, certainly not a few years ago. I think it's now going to be more possible.  It's just in the calendar, it's fixed. That between these hours, I'm doing a show every single day. And now there'll have to be some variations because Mondays, I'm teaching a class. I won't be able to do it those times of show. So Monday might be a little different, but everything else will be. So that is what I'm thinking right now. I've asked you many times, I've done polls. If I did a show from two to five, three to six, eight to 11, whatever, what do you prefer? And the answer is all of it, you know, there's no consensus. So I'm just going to pick what's convenient for me and hope that I can still attract the audience. And more importantly, many respects hope that I can still attract the revenue from the super chat that I am today. But we will, we will be, it will be organized like that moving forward and it will be mornings, news roundup. I mean, not mornings, first hour news roundup, second hour, second and potentially thirds are blocked out three hours. Might only go to every day will change it, depending on how many questions you have, depending on the topic is it a big topic, a small topic. But we will go anywhere from one from two to three hours, four times a week, Monday will be a little different. Probably no shows on the weekend that will free up my weekend. So I'll be doing as many if not more hours, but if fewer chunks and fewer blocks, which I think is going to make my life easier.  If you guys who fund this show hate this idea, then let me know because I need to know that because I'm counting on the fact that super chat will continue. And you guys will still listen and you guys are willing to entertain a longer format and but condensed rather than. I mean, I'll do the same number of hours, probably more hours, but in more condensed form. Anyway, that is my plan. I'll have more specifics when I get back from Europe. I'm traveling to Europe next week. And and we can I'll give you the details and I need a rush now because I've got a 12 o'clock break. If you told an unprincipled person, the Shahzad that he was unprincipled, he would deny it. But why wouldn't he be glad? I think a lot of people would be glad. A lot of people reject principles. It depends how intellectual they are. It depends on how aware they are of their own way of thinking. I think a lot of people would be glad and say, this is great. Yes, of course, I mean principles principles don't work. Principles are disasters. And and Sylvanas know the end of news roundups as a standout. So you have to explain why that's a no, Sylvanas, because I still have the first hour will still be a news roundup. She'll still be here and you if you don't after the news roundups over, you can go and leave. So it'll still be dedicated completely to news roundup. It will just be instead of then waiting five hours to do another show. I will continue with the other show right after it. So think about whether you're really opposed to it. Whether it really does offend in some way. All right, Matt says, is the United States gifting a loaning resource to Ukraine? I think most of the most of the stuff is gifted. Most of it is a lot of it is what is the best timing for you, Sylvanas? Tell me what the best timing is. I'm curious. I mean, you're a big supporter of the of the of the of the show. So it's important for me. But you've been here when I've done shows at 2 p.m. East Coast time. So it's 2 p.m. East Coast time. Good for you. Would you prefer 1 p.m.? Would you prefer 3 p.m.? What is the best time for you? I'm curious. Most of the resources that U.S. is giving Ukraine are resources that are about to expire like ammunition about to expire or weapon systems that the U.S. has plenty of probably doesn't need probably will never use. They're just being mothballed. They are mothballed. So most of the stuff that Ukraine is getting from the U.S. is stuff that would go out of commission anyway. The net actual cost of these things in terms of stuff that would not have to be replaced anyway is much smaller than the $100 billion that they claim. No, I'm curious of the time. I'm curious of the time because the time the time is somewhat flexible. I agree.  This is a great opportunity for Republicans to get rid of unless agency by giving Biden what he wants. Yes, I probably would accept that getting rid of that in exchange for doing away with the education department and all government lending for education and all government requirements vis-à-vis education and title IV and title IX and title whatever all government involvement in education at the federal level. I would take that deal, but nobody else will and Republicans wouldn't because they don't want that deal. Kabuta also Erwin Schiff died in U.S. prison for protesting income tax and stone is still exiled in Russia. I know huge injustices, Schiff, but Schiff, you know, Schiff, this is the law in the United States. What do you expect? I'm hoping some president pardon Snowden, but unlikely to happen.  Don't break them on purpose. What's the point?  Andrew Traga, an insight into the thugs of mine. Tony Soprano therapist encourages him to use less fear and intimidation and dealing with others. He confusingly asked, how do you get people to do what you want? Yeah, offer them a value. What a shock. Offer them a value in return. Thanks, Andrew. Absolutely. Adam, whenever I see Secretary Blinken, I just roll my eyes. He's the embodiment of hand-wringing and low self-esteem. Do you get the same impression? Yes, I get it from almost all politicians. Different, different, but they're all low self-esteem. I know of very few politicians that I get the impression of high self-esteem, if any. All right, Sivana says, this timing for me, I, of course, respect you doing what you want. I believe I voted for the morning in the polls, but I almost never do morning shows. Never works for me. Like, today is so unusual. But all right, taking into consideration, thank you. Afternoon to five is when I'm ending work. All right, I will take that into consideration. I'm, you know, maybe tomorrow we'll run a poll. I'm on the East Coast, so take that into account. I'll run a poll tomorrow. Give it one more shot, give you, like, just a few options, like three options, and see if there is, within a scope that I could actually do it, right? Within a range that I could actually legitimately do it. And we will go to, we will go from there. All right, everybody, thank you. Really appreciate it. By the way, one of the things we'll do for those of you not listening live is split the show into two and publish it afterwards as two separate shows. Brownie 003, do you think the Celtics have their best roster since 2008? Yes, certainly since 2008. One of the best rosters they've ever had. They should be able to win it all this year. It'll be a major disappointment, I think, if they don't. I need to just catch more games. I've not caught many games this year, which is unfortunate because they're playing so beautifully. All right, everybody, I need to run. I will see you all tomorrow. Remember, it's an AMA. Ask me anything. It is at 3 p.m. East Coast time. It's at 2 o'clock. Feedback you guys want to provide me on my plan. You can send me emails as well. So you don't have to just do it here. Those of you who really, really, really love the evening show at 8 p.m., let me know if that's just so much better than anything else. I don't know what Savannas would think if I started the show at 6 and ran it to 9. Probably not going to do that, but what would happen if I did that? Yeah, feedback. Love the feedback. All right, everybody, I will see you tomorrow.