That's kind of self-explanatory, but it's like the kiss method. Keep it simple stupid, right? It's like the economy of effort. Usually the, usually the best solution is the simplest solution in many domains of life. So think of the senses, right? The sense of sight, it has to do with what you wear, your style, your fashion, your physique. You know, in addition to your attire, it's your physique, it's your build. It's your posture, it's your expressions, facial expressions, body expressions, how you carry yourself. So we kind of iron that stuff out. And the most important aspect of the of the sight sense is eye contact.  Know how to seductively gaze, right? Know how to have this look where it's like it's kind of like lowered eyelids and a little bit of a smirk.  It's 50% this. It's like 50% full on. I'm attracted to you. You're sexy. I really like you, right? It's 50% like I'm not sure about you. There's some, I don't know. This is, it's push-pull in a look. So it's eye contact. It's eye gazing. Sound is your voice. It's talking, speaking, as well as listening and hearing. So it's the volume, the resonance, the projection, the tonality, the inflection. All these like micro elements of your voice, right? And it's also listening. Listening, Trump's talking. It's becoming a seductive listener. Talking is qualifying. Listening is screening. I'm speaking here like think of any audience. You know, you screen a movie. You screen, you screen me like as a presenter, right? Like, well, I'm going to listen to what he says. I'm going to take it in and decide, you know, what resonates with me, what doesn't, what I should take in the field, what I'm not. But yeah, I believe that. I'm qualifying you. I'm presenting myself. Man, I hope you like this. I hope this affects you and touches you and resonates with you in deep ways.   So to create a social dynamic and a seductive dynamic, more importantly, you're the one that's doing most of the listening. You think that might be important? It is. It's sexy, right? And touch. Touch is what we call in the community, keynote. And most guys, they, they either never touch or they do it in a really awkward way. So to be comfortable with your touch, to become more effective, to know how to arouse her through touch, to, you know, create show bumps, to create that sense of, touch is just so awesome, man. There's so many nerve endings and so many hair follicles, so much stimulation.  This is not new terrain for you. This is like, okay, I've been here. Showing dominance through touch, showing playfulness through touch, showing courage and humility through touch, push, pull, all this really awesome dynamic stuff through touch. And then to relate it, remember, think of it this way, the site's going to come first. They're in this order for a reason. You're going to make eye contact.  And then eye contact. Site comes first. Sound typically comes next. And this can all happen in a second, right? When you do the approach, there's the eye contact.  Or what do we do? Why do we, why do we shake hands with everyone, right? This is why touch is so important because we're re-eating so much from the other person. It's like, hey, you look interesting. I had to come say hi. I'm Jason. Site, sound touch like that. To put the fourth sense on there, sense of smell is getting closer.  Something smells really good. Ah, you're too sexy, like push, pull, right? But yeah, you like close that proximity, get closer. Like this, this is seduction. The rest of society melts away. The rest of the environment disappears. The friends you came with or didn't, the friends she came with or didn't, do not matter. It's all in that look. It's in that sharing of the verbal dimension and it's in the touch more than anything. It's the look in the touch. These are the moments of surrender. The first look, the first touch, the first kiss. Kiss, you can call the fifth sense. You're tasting and it's pretty much always going to be in this order. It's super duper simple in writing, right? But then to become effective and comfortable with it. And not comfortable in the sense that you're complacent, but comfortable in the sense that you know yourself and trust yourself and value yourself. You know how to take a woman through this process. It takes practice and it takes often feedback from someone who's been there, someone who has that kind of experience. Okay, that's pretty much it, man. How do we look on time? Look at this. Couple additional qualities that I like, that I value about myself at least, curiosity. This is a quote from Einstein. I have no special talents. I'm only passionately curious. That's like me as a little kid. Creativity. The world has been a canvas to the imagination. That's probably like the kid I would have someday. Courage. If you don't take a chance, you don't stand a chance. That's a student from my last boot camp. In the field, always remember this. The field is where theory meets practice. This is that, it's the social aspect. It's the opportunity and exposure aspect. It's the numbers game. You've got to get yourself out there where theory meets practice. You can join me in field. There's my number again. Like I said, I'm going to be here a while. I really want to take guys out tonight and tomorrow on the next day. Yes. For now only in Sweden. I'm touring with Jonathan here and we want to hit up Prague and Berlin and Amsterdam, wherever you guys are from. I got a book, the same one that I put these notes in. Make sure I get your contact information, especially if you're from Holland. You're what? You give me a call. You're from Holland. Yeah, dude, I'm definitely coming there. Yeah, I'm definitely coming there. Just make sure you don't leave without exchanging contact information. Yes. Look through my notes for this one though. Yeah, first question was you're saying like your desire, your arousal, your desire. Since that what you would say is your way of seeing how the process goes of guy meeting girl, simply said. That is my simple way of describing the process of natural human sexuality. Okay, yeah. And second question, I think I have to come back at it because I can find it. I think someone just texted me. Yeah. Second question, I have to come back at it because I can't find it. Okay. Like these trump cards, man, like this is the essence of what I do, what I teach and what I've done for years. Realizing like how, how one, because it's one thing to say, you know, this is social versus being seductive. This is arousal versus desire. It's another thing to say, look, I have tons of field experience. I've been with hundreds of women. And to say, this is what I've found to be true. This is a little bit more important than that. And to take that kind of stance to have that kind of certainty. It's powerful. Like all, like, look, I have these little ones that I'm always throwing around, right? Like massage, Trump's dance, right? But these are the five core ones. And the second question was when you were talking about touching. I'm not sure, but I kind of get the vibe that you became better at it. And my question was, how did you become so comfortable with touching women as you are today, as opposed to, I don't know, 10 years ago or when I just started? That's a good question. The second part was, how did I become so comfortable with touch specifically? And what was the first part? If you remember? Oh, no, the first part was just that I got the feeling that you improved it. But yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Trial and error mostly. You know, I constantly read books and studies on this kind of thing as well. But to be able to take it in field and to try new things, right? Foreplay begins on the opener. Touch begins basically on the opener. So to be comfortable and to do it playfully, you know, high five and spin around, you do like, I do all the playful stuff too, like, you know, like the trust test. Remember that one? Yeah. You know that? You have to have mystery, right? Mine's a little different because it's like a teaching tool. But I do that stuff and, you know, slaps and thumb wars and that's like the playful. That's the flirtatious aspect. Then the seductive aspect is knowing how to, like your fingertips are lethal weapons of lust. Knowing how to use them to turn her on to get her stimulated. This is how you, I don't know if I should say this. Well, Vince said something similar. Like, it's weird. Like he's such an expressive, outgoing, extroverted guy, right? But there's a lot of similarities here. I'm much more laid back in my demeanor. Much more like casual, I guess, and authoritative at the same time. That's the, that's the aspect of dominance. But I say this thing.  And if they stick, that means you like me. That means it's on. But to just know you have that effect where he was saying the same thing. Like you get her panties, like dripping wet. I'm not, I'm not concerned with convincing her like, are we going to go out? Are we going to hang out? Are we going to go on a date? Is this really a date? Am I inviting her? Here's, here's another interesting little thing, right? The, the old school idea of a date was like you do something to impress her. Like the epitome that the classic is like dinner and a movie, right? You do something outside yourself to impress her. It's all this path. This path isn't just pickup, but it's a lower, lower resonance of energy. So lower vibrational form than what's over here. So it's like dinner and a movie, like I'm not enough. Just connecting is not enough. I got impressed. So the epitome is something like a hot air balloon ride, right? Got to really impress this girl. So that's old school.   You got to act like non-interested, all this whole idea of faking non-involvement and stuff. And they're like, you get invited to things you're already doing. That's what, that's what pickup artists do, right?  You know, I'm going to a grocery store, you should totally come with me. So that was the next level, right? The expression on this side, it's an expression. It's not impressing is what Zan calls and me and Jonathan are both students of Zan, right? Zan Perione. He says, uh, invite her to nothing. And he, his approach is like, you know, I'm in town and it's something kind of like, there's like a little bit of time constraint there. I'm in town for just a couple of days. I really like your look. I like your vibe. You totally got to hang out. Come over, come over. I'm staying here. And it's like, well, what are we going to do? I don't know. I haven't thought that far ahead. You should totally come over. Vince, Vince use some, something similar that I do. He did something like a double bind. And I say, we're either going to have an excitingly good time or we're going to have an amazing adventure. Either way, it's going to be fun. The, the date is us getting to know each other. Period. Bottom line. I'm not here to impress you. How can we connect? How can we enhance and enrich each other's lives? That's the date. Anything else? Yes.  And I guess, what would happen if you put a fashion before sets? Can you give me some sort of context here so I can understand it better? Before sex is the path right here. You're creating a sense of obligation. It's not, let's, let's explore that a little bit. Obligation versus lust.  So you're seeking affection. You're seeking attention and validation and approval and acceptance and all these things, right? She recognizes that. She's like, I've seen, I've played this before. I know this game. So you're both on the level of game recognizes game. And she's playing the game. Oh, he's cute. He doesn't smell bad. I like this about him. I like this like this. I'm going to give him a chance.   But it creates that sense of obligation. And a relationship will always continue on the path that it was started. It takes a lot of like discipline on the part of both of you to, you know, break that pattern. But the opposite of that is lust and lust kind of gets a bad rap. Like it's like irresponsible, dangerous. Part of seduction is, is creating that sense of danger. You know, it's, it's many things. Like I was saying, adventure, excitement, romance, spontaneity, and living on the edge, right? Having that dangerous aspect about you. But lust is like, it's a desire. It's a craving. It's a hunger. Like you just are so into each other. It's mutual attraction, mutual admiration, mutual arousal, mutual desire at the same time. It's the whole loop. You just want each other so badly. You can't resist. You can't hold back. Instead of saying, Oh, third date. And well, he impressed me here. And he did this. And he bought this for me. The affectionate path. It's, it's straight to the heart of the matter. Arousal, primal, physical nature. Does that make sense? It does.   It's straight to escalation. You know, you have your, your, well, it's, yeah. I didn't mean to interrupt. Go ahead. No, it's cool. Um, but where does the comfort fall in your, um, scheme? In my reality, comfort is mostly physical safety. If she feels safe around me and she's comfortable with my escalation, that's about it. It's, it's not this sense of like, it's non-verbal. Yeah. Non-verbal comfort. Was there another part to that? Okay. Cool. Thank you, man. Thank you.


No, it wasn't a focused issue. It was just me trying to make a move before I caught the ball. And then after that, it was a domino effect. I kind of let it get in my head and just kept going. So I'm most definitely the same thing last year. Like, I know exactly what it was. When I did it, I knew I was trying to make a move, trying to position myself to make the safety miss and to score. You know, I just got to do the smaller thing first, catch the ball, see the ball all the way here. I do the rest when it's time. It's not a rough day.  If you have a game like that, you probably want to get to play today. I most definitely wish I could play today. It's been a long couple of days for me. But it's a part of it. It's a process. And it's ups and downs.  But it ain't funny at all, to be honest. You know, my cousin. So, you know, it's always a part of the job. Whenever I've got the ball in my hand, I try to, we have to block and we pride that here. So I got to do my job even if I'm in the ball or not. I mean, Derrick's amazing. I can't lie. The stuff he does on the field, he pulled away from people. He's a bigger guy. So he put up games like that. And we know he's going to deliver. So yeah, sometimes we don't. We not amazed. What's it like for you? So like, we got guys on this team that can change the game in one play. And Derrick is one of them. He can do it anytime he's asked the ball. So, you know, if I give my guy, he probably can take it to the house. So, you know, that's a great feeling when you got a back like that, you know, who can change the game in one time, one touch. I don't know how to answer that question, to be honest. And you know, it would be nice if we just come out and just go.  But sometimes you get hit in the mouth and you know, so I just have a goal just in the field. Nobody knows what's going to happen in the game. The game plan, we can have a great game plan and then go out there and do something totally different. And we got a judge. So like I said, that's part of football. You get hit in the mouth. You got to get a judge. You got to play. Yeah, that's most definitely.  So yeah, we got to answer. They're very similar to us. It's always a tough battle. This is my third year in the division. And playing against these guys are never easy. They play hard. They're well coached. They play a lot of zone. They do a lot of great things on defense. You got to play your best. So you got to, the division games are huge.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2021 Topps, Chrome, Baseball, Platinum, Anniversary Edition. 12 box, pick your team, number two. Commemorating the 1952 design, all-card ship, a lot of great stuff here, one auto, a box. Big thanks to everybody here who got into the action, appreciate it. There you go, on the last day of June. Thanks everyone. So there's everybody you've gotten into. If you've got rooftops next to your name, that means, Gary has two rooftops next to his name, that means he won an extra spot in the team random, then won the Diamondbacks. So congrats to the winners here. The cardboard dust right there. And there's everybody. And Jeff, you ended up with the Rangers before we pulled the team to the team random. So that's last spot mojo for you. This is the case, and we will do, if I remember, we will do an autograph recap at the end. So if you're rewatching this video, you can fast forward to the end. This is the end. My only friend, the end. So one chrome auto, a box. Some old school autos. Current player autos. Rookie autos. Maybe even some Glenn auto autos. Yeah, Ken Griffey Jr. autograph. And the 1952 style would be pretty nice. That would make Aaron very happy. He bought the Mariners. We've got another case or two of this in the store right now, jaskyscasebreak.com. So check it out. Grab your team. That's the Turner. Kind of heating up a little bit. A couple home runs for him today. So obviously there's going to be a lot of that right there. Those are facsimile autographs. The real autos are in blue. There's the wave right there. Nice old school Ozzy Smith. Not numbered, but of course a little chip. Just like that Mike Soroka. Ever bowed to 199. Yes, Hans unless I didn't. Did I forget? No, I think it should be up now. I think it's been up. Is it public? Yeah, it's public. Sean Green. These are also not numbered, but everything ships. And there's the autograph. Ron Goodry. I was getting worried for a second. Second to last card, Ron Goodry. Old Yankee. That's going to be for Eric. And the New York Yankees. It's 44 out of 150. You don't see. Wait, that should be number 10, shouldn't it? That's nine. When did we do 10? Hang on a second. Let me pause this video. And here's Ken Giles. Let me pause the video. We're going to figure this out and then we'll come back and we'll rip the next box. All right, welcome back folks. Video issue solved. This one, good luck everybody. Thursday. Getaway day for a lot of teams. A lot of traveling. Travel day for a lot of teams. But we did have a small slate of games here. Dodgers. You can hear the post game show on the background. Dodgers beat the Padres 3-1 on two Justin Turner homers. He provided all the offense. Fulio Rodriguez homers. Mayors beat the A's 8-6. And we're back. Fulio Rodriguez homers. Mayors beat the A's 8-6. It's homing for the second day in a row. Cal Raleigh had a two run triple. Patrick Grism had a grand slam. And a solo homer. And root to a career high six RVIs. Lifting the Cubbies over the Reds 15-7. Cubs pounded out 23 hits on that team. I wonder how long that game took. I don't have a game time for this game. But it sounds like a long game. Oh, it's only three hours and 15 minutes. I thought it'd be 3-45 or something like that. With the amount of hits and runs scored there. Blue Jays beat the Rays 4-1. Teosca Hernandez and Santiago Vespinal each hit two run homers. Two run homers. Nothing used like a kuchy. Had eight strikeouts as well. Backup catcher Michael Perez had three home runs. Pirates beat the Brewers 8-7. Astros beat the Yankees again. Bregman's two run double is the key. Beat the Yankees 2-1. Phillies pounded on the Braves 14-4. Luis Castillo, where does he end up? He's surely going to be traded by the deadline maybe. Well, that's what everyone seems to be saying. No more Garcia-Para, Blue Wave not numbered. Raleigh Fingers refractor. Victor Robles. Bob Feller's, Speckle, that's to 70. And we've got a red Brooks Robinson. I thought it was going to be a lower number. 61 out of 100. That'll be for you DJ and the Orioles. Aren't the reds like to 10 or something like that? Maybe I'm thinking of like Sapphire or something like that. There's Ralph Kiner. Yeah, I think Muncie had that elbow injury and he just hasn't looked the same this season after coming off that big elbow injury. And the last card of the box, Leody Tavares, is your autograph. That goes to Jeff and the Texas Rangers. Last spot mojo strikes again. But I think Max Muncie's been sort of turning it around. No, maybe not. The last seven games still hitting only 130. Seven strikeouts. Just a homer. Yeah, he's been struggling. But yeah, that elbow has been really hurting and coming off that injury. And uncharacteristically, he usually walks a lot. That's kind of his thing. But he hasn't been walking either. He's definitely pressing at the plate. Yeah, Rex. Rex is opening with an NBA topic? Is that what you're opening with today, Rex? Well, he was. He was sent down to AAA for a bit to work some things out. His defense keeps him in the lineup. I think it's just something that he's just going to have to grind through. Well, opening this part of the conversation, Rex, at this point of the evening, I could have sworn. I was thinking, Rex is going to come in crowing about how the Cubs had 23 hits and 15 runs and how Christopher Morel went 5 for 5 and how Patrick Wisdom should be an MVP candidate. I thought all sorts of that was going to come into play. But no, nothing. A lot of money in the NBA today was the Rex's comment. Oh, that's a very interesting story, DJ. Yeah, did Freeman's agent really withhold that brave's offer? That's what's being done. I forgot that Doug Gottlieb is in this story somehow. So apparently he tweeted out that whole thing and started this whole firestorm off. I don't know who knows or made it public, but I don't know who he got that information from. The agency, of course, is saying, no, we didn't do that. We didn't withhold the offer. And anyone who says so is going to get, we're going to sue him. There's Frank Viola. Nice old-school twin going to Raymond. So like right now no one really knows exactly who's telling the truth. So maybe it's just the braves saying, oh yeah, that's what they did. We never heard back. So it just depends on who you want to believe. The braves could easily say, we never heard back. They never told you? We gave a counter. We gave an offer. We never heard back. And the agency, of course, will say, that's a lie. We never got that offer. So right now it's sort of a he said, he said situation here. There's Anthony Santander to 199. That's for you, DJ. Our shipping team will sleeve and top load those before they get sorted and shipped out. Now as far as Freddie's concerned, he blames the agents. But of course he's probably going to believe his buddies in the braves organization, right? So he's blamed his agency firing. Now the interesting twist is that that agency, that sports agency, among others, represents Clayton Kershaw. They represent a lot of players actually, but one of the players they represent is Clayton Kershaw. They seem to do fine with Clayton. So of course the agency is definitely a little miffed because they're like, this is our reputation. You're soiling our good name. We've been fine. We don't do stuff like that. So who are you more likely to believe? I don't know. I don't think it would be the agent, right? Why would they risk? I know they're getting paid, but why would they risk their reputation? I mean, if it's true, then they're not going to get new clients. And it's going to be bad for the agency who also already represents stand-up guys like Clayton Kershaw and others. They haven't had problems. So now their reputation is on the line.  I mean, can you trust ownership and general managers who don't care about your family? They'll trade you in a heartbeat if it's going to help improve the team. It's like in the group breaking world when you see some scammer group breaker like steal a $10,000 card and you're like, why would you do that? Especially if it's their full-time job, why would you do that? Why would you risk taking that one card to ruin your whole reputation in the hobby? But I don't know. It could be maybe just one rogue agent within that organization. But I think that agent also represents Kershaw. So it'll be interesting. It seems like the Braves organization sounds like they wanted to save face a little bit. Truth is they want a Freddie Freeman clone in Matt Olson at a younger player at that. So I would lean Braves. Freddie obviously feels otherwise. I kind of like what Clayton Kershaw said though. Clayton kind of said publicly, boy, with all that crying and emotions that Freddie Freeman was showing, Clayton Kershaw was kind of like, yeah, that's fine. But gosh, I hope we're not second fiddle in his mind right now. There's Dennis Echo City 199, which is kind of like a Kershaw way of saying, hey, you're with the Dodgers now. Quit it. You know, refocus. Freeman's been hitting well. He's been playing almost every day, so there's no indication that he's dogging it or anything like that. It's Alejandro Kirk. He's been having a nice season for the Blue Jays. I think that's a little overblown as well. I think Freddie Freeman and Akunio were fine. There's Tyler Glass now. Nice autograph for the Tampa Bay Rays. That's going to go to Gary in Tampa Bay. No, I think 62 out of 99. Yeah, they hugged it out at first base when they saw each other. I think Akunio is more like a little brother or maybe just didn't like the old school stuffy way that Freddie Freeman was a leader. It's not like he didn't disliked him, but maybe they just weren't good coworkers. They didn't work well together, but outside of that, they're fine. You know, a lot of people wouldn't want your friend to be your boss. Maybe it's kind of like that. So I don't think that was it. Yeah, Thomas, no more breaks tonight. We are up against it. This is going to take us actually way past when we usually go off air. Our eight hours flew by rather quickly, but we'll be back tomorrow. We'll be live here tomorrow around two or three o'clock Pacific, a late time, or another night of breaks. Oh yeah, we were looking that up last night. I'm happy to look it up again. I think in the AL, it's pretty clear that it's going to be Julio Rodriguez. He had another homer to tonight. His odds, as of today or yesterday, minus 130. Corna Vegas. The next closest is Jeremy Pena at plus 400 and Bobby Wood Jr. at plus 550. And then it jumps to Joe Ryan of the twins at plus 2,500. So yeah, if you've got some Julio Rodriguez in your portfolio, I think you're going to be pretty happy there. He's been playing well. I think a little bit of a slow start, but I think he's been doing pretty well since then. We'll talk about the NL really quick, which is a much tighter race. We'll talk about the NL in the next box. Remember, these are not numbered. It's rough centering there. Tino Martinez speckled, that's to 70. That's for the Yankees. That'll be for Eric. There's Clayton Kershaw, blue color match to 199 for the Dodgers. That goes to Gary. Eddie Mathews, remember these checkerboard pattern ones are not numbered. Where does Frankie Montas end up? Johnny Bench, the fractor. That's where the auto is popping in the last, the very last car, very last pack. Clay Garcia, rookie auto for the Red Legs. That's going to be for David. I really like this 1952 design and it's chrome pattern. It's chrome look, chrome parallels look really sharp. All right, next box. So the NL rookie of the year favorites, according to Vegas, for what that's worth, the Vegas odds, it's a little more murky. No one's a clear favorite. There are three players that are at plus 450. So it's about four and a half to one if you're into fractional odds. But that's Mackenzie Gore for the Padres, picture for the Padres, plus 450. Michael Harris, outfielder for the Braves, plus 450. And O'Neill Cruz for the Pirates at plus 450. Nolan Gorman is close to at plus 480, almost five to one. And then it jumps to 10 to one. So an NL candidate has not really emerged yet. I mean, pitcher Spencer Strider has been, is a plus 1,000, 10 to one. Say Suzuki's been injured and he's still 15 to one, so the market doesn't really know what they're doing. Jack Sawinsky, hidden dingers, but still plus 1,500. Alec Thomas is 20 to one. Brandon Donovan, Cardinals 20 to one. Juan Díez, 35 to one. Christopher Morrell, 35 to one. Ronzi Contreras, 60 to one. CJ Abrams with the Padres, 70 to one. Hunter Green, 85 to one. So it jumped significantly from there. So the NL could be interesting. I feel like if you were, if you like to invest in these sort of things, I don't know if you're going to get a lot of value out of, out of putting a, laying a lot on Julio Rodriguez on the AL side of things, but yeah, we'll see. I mean, just one, one five to five days not going to change the odds too much because the odds are not only based off of just how well they're doing, but it's also, it also mirrors where the money is going. So, so they adjust odds based on that. So if the public is on a certain player, whether they deserve it or not, then they'll, it'll push the odds down just so Vegas doesn't want to lose too much money. Sort of like the stock market. But yeah, if a lot of money starts coming into Christopher Morrell, if so the public puts money on that, then yeah, maybe he sees that 35 to one, maybe go down to 30 to one. That's Babe Ruth. That's pretty cool. Yankees, that's for Eric. Awkward wave. But if the public says, that's why I like looking at these odds, because if the public, if the money says, you know, if no one's jumping to the betting booth to put money on Christopher Morrell, then that indicates that, you know, they want to see more than just going five for five today. Bam to 100. That's for the Padres. Nolan Ryan Trecker board. Paul Moller or Fracter. Willie McCovey for the Giants. You got a speckle, Frank Viola, 45 out of 70. That'll be for the twins, Raymond. And there is Luen Diaz, rookie auto for the fish. That's going to go to Gary and the Marlins. Halfway there, we got about another 20. 35, 30 minutes to go. Rebel needs, yeah. Oh, you're in this one. Nice, Rebel. Rebel needs a Royals hit. We've still got half the case to go. Play to the whistle. Not nearly done yet. Six autos and a lot of parallels left. And at worst, all-card chip. I'm sure there's some base there. What are we looking at? Is Bobby with Junior in here? Yeah, usually the Royals are snapped up pretty quickly. Maybe Bobby with Junior isn't on the check. He's got to be on the checklist, right? At least cards, if not autographs. Oh, 2021, so no. All right, well, who else? Someone else, then. Chris Bubich, maybe. Maybe Daniel Lynch. Maybe Daniel Lynch. Maybe Hunter Dozier. Let's see some, they got old school guys, or they got, you know, vet players in here. What about some Sal Perez? I like to see that. Old school guys, Bo Jackson. Let's get some Bo Jackson on here. George Brett. Well, George Brett doesn't sign too often. You know, what about some Brad Keller? Yeah, Brady Singer, Jorge Soler. Cool Whit. What about Cool Whit? Yeah, TJ, you got it. Cool Whit. Say Cool. Cool. Say Whit. Whit. Say Cool Whit. Cool Whit. What are you saying like that? Ah, are you going to get this Nick Heath? Silver. Refractor. And here's the auto early this time. Greg Luzinski. Everyone remembers Greg Luzinski, right? Rick T. with the Phillies. 150 out of 199. Mitch White had a nice start today. Corbin Burns Refractor. 57 out of 70.  Dick Allen. With the classic red socks and red uniforms. White socks. Red uniforms. That is Chris Parent with the reds. Eddie with the white socks. And they're red. That really tripped me up. Greg Luzinski, Oliver remembers as a bit of a boner. Early 80s. Let's look at this scrub right here. Andre Scrub. 28 out of 100. No, I don't want no scrubs. Scrub is a guy that can't get no luck from me. Hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride. Tried to holler at me. Oh, nice. Faces loaded, looked up the cards in the hip parade. We got by far the best card in there value-wise. The doll came in second. Yeah, those tennis cards are actually kind of underrated. People are kind of always kind of, kind of raise an eyebrow and they're like, ah, tennis.  But then they come back and be like, that tennis actually sold really well. I have no idea. Did anyone know the story behind the red White Sox uniforms? Much as I love my Dodgers. I already watched this game. I don't need to replay this game. Maybe we'll go with Quick Pitch. Who's on Quick Pitch tonight? Because how do you want to do Quick Pitch anymore? I feel like I never see her anymore. That's Ciri Santos. But, no. How do you want to use his Apple TV now, I want to say? I don't think she hosts anymore. Kelly Nash still does it every once in a while. Hosts it. Rookie Refractor, Chris Bruvich, Kyle. What did that boxing card do a lot of graphical for? Sometimes those duels can be a blessing and a curse. Sometimes someone's like, well, I like Pacquiao, but I don't like Mayweather. So I don't want both. 485, that exact one. And some people are like, I want Mayweather. I don't want Pacquiao. There's Blue Dion Sanders, Neon Dion. To 199. Look good, feel good, play good. I love that. Brian Reynolds to 70. I feel like he had a couple of Dingers the other day. Davey Garcia. And we've got another, twice in a row, Greg Zizinski. Oliver thinks he hit 40 home runs one year. So the first one was the Refractor, which was numbered, Rick, and this one is just the base auto. Looks like the white and red uniform is their 1971 home uniform, but why? Are they trying to get some of that red socks market share? That just trips me on. That's like writing the word red with a blue marker or something like that. You can't do that. That just gives me the creeps. That's weird, right? Gross, look at that. Something's wrong there. That just trips me out. I don't like it. Don't like it. Not a fan. Get it out of here. Oh, I guess they did have elements of red in their form. How long did that last? Just one season? Those red white socks uniforms? Luzinski, corrections and retractions, never hit 40 home runs. He had 30 plus home runs four times a four-time All-Star. Gino, you didn't like those Cardinals, Powder Blue uniform, the old school uniform? I like those. I like those. And the Phillies has kind of a Powder Blue sort of color too. I thought those were nice. Wow, what a team. Oliver just remembers in the early 80s, that 83 squad. They had Ron Kittle, Carlton Fisk, Harold Baines, and White Sox edition of Greg Luzinski. Whitey Ford, Dane Dunning, Sandy Elmar, Jr. Look at that big catcher's glove there. Steve Sacks, and Colton Wong. For the Cardinals, Cardinals edition, going to Gary in St. Louis. 66 out of 150. Just got off the IL recently, on the injured list. Hopefully helping my fantasy team out. Nick Heath, for Kyle, 54 out of 70. Speckle, rookie Speckle. And Dexter Fowler, 32 out of 100 for the Cardinals. That'll be for Gary and St. Louis. San Luis. Oh, the Colton Wong was the autograph, right? For a second I thought we got a shorty not. All right, next box. What's everyone doing for 4th of July? Anyone have any fun 4th of July plans? 4th of July falls on a Monday this year, right? Yeah, Monday the 4th. So I took advantage of that, ladies and gentlemen. And I paired a, that's a store holiday too. It will be closed on Monday the 4th. I paired a day off before and after the 4th. Combined with my usual Friday Saturday weekend, I built myself out a nice little vacay there. As you know, it doesn't happen too often where I'm able to do that. No, jasps will be dark on the 4th. Retail store and online will be closed. Everyone gets a holiday. That's a jaspy company holiday.  So enjoy your 4th of July, everybody.  Otherwise, it'll be much more difficult to chat when we're live. So, careful. You're working? You're going to be in Cleveland? Wait, it's un-American. Base is low to who do you work for? You don't have to say. Give the guy a day off on the 4th. Ah, you work for an airline. Airlines don't rest. When people like to travel on holidays, it turns out. Well, my hat, if I was wearing one, my hat is off to the airline industry. They've had it pretty rough. It's been tough for them. Pilots, flight attendants, crew, everybody. David Wright to 70 for the Mets. They have to deal with some of the worst. We've got an Albert Pools. 54 out of 199. Angels Edition, that's going to go to Eric. George Springer. This is America's hottest chat service. It's a family show, but I guess we're going to have to hear that hot chat line on in the background. And the last one is Jim Cot. Jim Cot, cat. Broadcaster sometimes puts foot in mouth. That goes to Raymond and the twins. Raymond and the twins. Yeah, Jim Cot, right? Hall of Famer. I'll be in San Diego, the home of my alma mater. San Diego, they know how to put on a... I don't think I've seen fireworks for two years, right? I don't think... July 2021, things were still a little touch and go. So there weren't really like city-wide fireworks. Maybe there were, I don't know. No, there wasn't, because where was I? I was in Orange County last year. And they did not... They usually have a public fireworks show that they weren't due to the pandemic. My friend lives in Corona del Mar. It's a pretty nice neighborhood, pretty well-off neighborhood. And there are apparently some rich dude hired a fireworks crew near his beach house in one of the sort of Marina Harbor areas and set up a big barge outside his waterfront home and put on a $20,000 fireworks show that everyone got to see. But in 2020, there was no gatherings either. So I had the urge to go see a proper fireworks show in San Diego, especially with all the military presence there. They do an excellent job with the fireworks. So I'm looking forward to that. Catching up with some old friends, but... So now I'll tell you something interesting that I'm doing. I am going to attempt to take public transportation the entire way. So from my house, I'm going to walk to a train station, a metro station that's nearby, take that to downtown LA, where there's an Amtrak station, and hop on that and head down to San Diego. My friend lives near the... downtown near the train station. I'm going from Missouri to Seventy. Now, the challenge is that I think my train is early in the morning. I kind of did some planning out, and I realized that it's going to take maybe an hour and a half at that particular time in the morning to take the metro downtown. So we'll see how it goes. I think I'm going to be pulling out by the time I get out of here, kind of, but not all nighter. I can sleep on the train, it's a three-hour ride. All right, there's the 25-Harrison Bader for the Cardinals. That is for Gary. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a nice... It's a nice... And listen, especially with... Oh, there you go. Brad Keller for the Royals. Kyle with his Royals. That's Rebel in the chat. And the other base cards and whatnot. So, not bad. Let's pray for multiple all-star appearances for Brad Keller from here on out. All right. Yeah, it's a nice train ride, Oliver. I don't think I've taken it since I was a little kid. But, you know, with gas prices these days and with a metro station, you know, maybe 15-minute walk to my house, I was like, I should try this. This is for science. We'll try it out, see how I feel. But I think it's only, like, 30 bucks. Uh... 30 bucks, like, each way. And if I took my car down there, it's more than... it's more than 60 bucks for maybe a tank and a half of gas to go down there and back. So, yeah, I heard about that Amtrak crash. Judging from... But based on your shark logic, Gilo, I shouldn't take the train tomorrow, right? It's like, well, I know someone that was really close to a big train crash, an Amtrak crash in Missouri, so... I don't know the SNA airport code. I'd fly if I could. If there was a... If there was a... what should I call it? I could go from the Santa Monica airport. Oh, that out of Orange County. If I could, uh... Yeah, but then I'd have to drive to Orange County. At that point, I might as well just drive all the way down there. But I feel like if there was... Santa Monica airport had a... Santa Monica had, like, a private jet that could take me from there to San Diego. That'd be nice. What about a boat? Where are my boating options? Could I take a boat out of, like, San Pedro? Can I charter a boat to take me to San Diego? How come no... I feel like there should be, like, a public boat, or... I feel like I could charter a boat. I could hire someone, I suppose. George Rhett. Refractor. And it looks like another out of 25 coming up. It's another Cardinal. That's Yachty. 22 out of 25. I think I did look up a flight from LAX to San Diego. I think it was, uh... I think it was kind of expensive. There's a lot of flights there in the first place. That's it. But the train should be pretty good. It takes a few hours, which is probably as long as it would take me to drive anyway. But I could, like, sleep on the train, or read, or... something. Not have the stress of driving. No wear and tear on my car. And Leote to Veris. Gold. 49 out of 50. Nice one. Rangers. Last spot mojo for Jeff. Come back. Come back on the train. Kind of stress-free. So... Let's see how it goes. I feel very cosmopolitan. I feel like I'm in Europe or something like that. Doing all this metroing and training around. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for keeping me company. 2021 Top Chrome Baseball Platinum Anniversary in the book. 12 Box. Pick your team number two. Here's a quick little recap. Thanks everyone for watching. I've been on these brakes, ladies and gentlemen. And some nice design. Nice blast from the past. A lot of parallels to chase. So check it out. We've got more at the store. JaspysCaseRakes.com. Have a great 4th of July, everybody. 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There are two things in life that are certain and we are going to talk about one of them today Taxes specifically property taxes no matter if you are buying selling renting a property There are taxes involved and thankfully it does not have to be as scary as it sounds as usual We are here with insights from experts to help you look at tax differently. This is the private property podcast. I'm doing me Let's get out. Let's get started Congratulations to Tom Fatou Masukwame for walking away with that 500 grand cash prize from yesterday's show Shoot your shot tonight and share this post and tag your friends. You could be that person to walk away with 500 grand cash So four words is for armed and when it comes to property taxes, it's time to grab your pen So you don't miss these five fast facts Number one before you purchase the property be honest with yourself with your financial situation Don't buy a home without taking the necessary property taxes into account You will probably exceed your budget and this will result in serious financial implications that could lead to debt It's always safe to be it's always better to be safe than sorry Before you buy a property, you know what you're getting into What is property tax and what's its purpose? If you can't answer this question, you might not be as ready as you think you are to buy a home Ask the people who know about them or even better keep watching the private property podcast number three Property tax revenue is pretty stable. It is far more stable than income taxes Which can change depending on your employment level or spending habits Property tends to hold its value over time compared to other parts of the economy making property taxes predictable to calculate number four Get an estimated amount of taxes you will have to pay before purchasing a property Contact a local tax assessor to determine how much tax you'll be required to pay It's good to have an idea of the figure of taxes you're about to pay before you buy so you can start preparing your budget and number five Remember it depends on the type of property you are buying selling or renting the taxes differ with each case Make sure you have an accurate figure from an assessor before you lend yourself in the hot water Whether you're a first-time buyer or an experienced property investor We hope that these facts have helped you to gain a better understanding of property tax So our guest tonight is the founder of Bruno Samar eternity He's an admitted attorney and the director and league and head of legal at into integer He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with all facts that his firm His firm areas of practice his expertise line commercial tax and property law as well as litigation Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome with a rousing round of applause there at home Bruno Samar Thanks so much to me Thank you so much for joining us. No, thank you for having me here Our second guest is a chartered accounted and a Texan wealth preservation Petitioner his current role as an executive and head of tax at integer involves advising property investors high net worth families and corporates on property portfolio restructuring and tax planning Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome chili boy muti. But she boy. Thank you so much for joining us and it's really really a pleasure To have both of you here tonight Thank you so much Jimmy for having me and I'm happy and good evening to the viewers Let's jump straight in the conversation I've got two armed men here who one who is a lawyer and one who is an accountant to tackle property tax So let's talk about the fundamentals. I'll start with you Bruno What are the fundamentals of property tax and what are the when do they apply and when do they not apply? Sure, so property to tax is quite a broad term So we need to look at the different scenarios where property taxes could apply And one to begin with needs to distinguish between property taxes or property rates that's payable to the municipality Because that's something different And then the property taxes that we typically look at when when buying selling and leasing properties So things for example like transfer duties when you buy a property is a consideration that you as a purchaser Need to have in mind when buying Sometimes that might be applicable. So just in the sale process There might be a situation where you need to pay transfer duty and all you might need to pay that Then after the fact one does need to consider when selling a property The implications of capital gains tax because if you sell your property at a higher amount than what you bought it for there might be a capital gains which might lead to capital gains tax being levied and Obviously in a situation where the property is being sold from a deceased estate and that's typically when a person passes away and the property needs to be You know sold to somebody else or passed on to his There's also certain implications where you're looking at a state duty and that's not specifically a property tax But it's a tax on the value of your estate Within which your property falls under so just in the sale Sphere those are a couple of the different tax types that one might one might need to consider Sure. Thank you so much for that. She will I'll ask you to come in here as as an accountant Let's talk a bit about what types of tax. What does one have to pay during a property sale? Yes, I'm as Bruno alluded idea when it comes to property sale You potentially depends on how you held that particular property if for instance you held that property in a long term You're more likely going to be looking at paying things like capital gain tax And for that matter if you were held that property and you are in what we call trading You are going to be liable for ordinary revenue taxes So that is because what you call normal tax Applicable so you the the type of people that you find that are subject to such type of tax Typical what you call developers because they're in the business of trading But then if you are in the business of heavy multi lads and you hold those multi led for in with intention for a long term Then when you dispose such properties, you are going to be subject to capital gain tax Sure And you know you speaking a little bit to to to those who are buying right property sales And I know a lot of our of our viewers are also leasing so someone is asking themselves Do the same apply when we're talking property leasing? So when it comes to leasing we firstly needs to understand what type of property are you leasing? Let's be maybe in terms of residential So if you are leasing a residential property meaning that you attend you've got tenants with that So a residential property is exempt from what you call that What you call that that types textable surplus for that matter So which means that you're not going to be charging things like that, right? Would you agree with me on the revenue side? But however the one that you will be subjected to is what we call normal tax on what you would have made it What we call taxable income having taken into account what you generated as a rental incomes and minors all those other Detectable expenses then the net balance if it's positive and it's like taxable income then you'll be subjected to what you call a normal tax Thank you so much for that so So enlightening because that is that's where a lot of South Africans find themselves leasing and you know Renting out the way they are currently living Bruno, let's bring it back here and say what are the kind of hacks that one can do in order to optimize their tax efficiency so I think planning is crucial and I mean this was one of the key tips that that she spoke about if a person plans ahead for possible tax consequences you can actually structure your Your property portfolio so that it's as tax efficient as possible as possible and there's nothing legal about it I mean this is all perfectly legal just depends how you want to do it And this is where we start speaking about things for example like buying a property in a company Versus buying a property in your personal name versus buying a property in a trust and there's a whole There's a whole variety of different structures of vehicles rather that you can use to store these properties and To allow the flow of income from your rentals For example to flow through these vehicles into your pocket But each one of these is different permutation and different tax consequence So if if we can plan ahead and we know for example how many properties one person intends to buy What's the intended use for these properties as a commercial as a residential? Who's the ultimate beneficiary for these properties? Do they intend to benefit their kids on a day-to-day basis? Do they intend benefiting themselves their elderly parents? Maybe do they just intend holding on to those properties very long term and not utilizing that money each one of these Would give you a different example So for instance the typical example all is used is holding properties for example in a trust and Avoiding the need to have to pay things like a state duty because the trust supersedes your death It continues and survives despite your passing away and your family stays stays as a beneficiary So I mean just one example like that of proper planning could actually save you a lot of money Sometimes up to 33% of your estate as an example Thank you so much for that such great insights that we somehow some of us didn't even know is saving 33% That's a lot of money You know when we're looking at it in ransom sense and I want to now take this back to you Chiliboy and ask in terms of you optimizing Tax efficiency, but also making sure that you stay on the right side of the law because it gets easy when people are now thinking about this in a way Advice, you know given to to to yourself by People from the grapevine, you know your friend did this and this one did that And you know, what is the right way to ensure that you optimize it and ensure that you still stay on the right side of the law? I've always told people that the best way to actually leverage or to Tax efficiency the number one key thing is record keeping because the reality is that if you want to minimize Text legally you will have to justify on other applicable supporting documents Especially for instance, if you are a developer you're flipping properties and you want to claim the vet So Sarsu will obviously ask you for to to support such claims through invoices So if you don't have invoices for that matter, then you might have find it difficult to actually claim and then end up Hailing to pay tax unnecessarily so so I think that's one of the key things and I think also One of the key things is and Bruno just alluded to one is to have a clear intention What are your intentions when you are buying that particular property, right? There is why I'm saying this is how you the intention of that property if it's for long term Or it's for trading has a different text implication So once you are clear on that, I think then you will also have a optimal text text structuring So I think also another thing with regard to that what I've seen is those people that you find that He had a property they stayed in it and then now they're changing the use of that particular property now into long term Investment structure. I will say without going too much into the technical to say because you're changing that usage Rather speak to a text plan to say how best do I then move this property because you might find yourself having not structured Things at optimal level. So I think those are some of the key things that I can actually share with you with people just to Optimize their taxes. Sure. Thank you so much We are we are closing our conversation and rounding it up And I just want to know last words from all of them from the both of you Bruno Let me start with you Sure. So, I mean again, it goes back to planning. I don't think I can emphasize it more Such benefit can actually be attained just through putting pen to paper Exactly what Schley Boy said things like record keeping all of this falls perfectly into place if you know what you're doing if your intention is to buy properties as an investment for example and You've got a good strategy and a good system to put everything into place because when you sell it when he has time You want to have this invoice well in place so that when sauce comes knocking on the door? You're ready Sure. And and yourself to the boy I think from me that the first thing is that when you're going to add deals when you're going to invest in properties Be very clear. What is your business strategy number two because then that Influences also the intention and the objective of that particular property transaction because then you will know whether you're putting that property in a trust as Bruno earlier said or in a company or it for that matter you might invest in a personal money So once you've got a key objective on also how you're going to utilize the Generated revenue whether it's for investment or is it for distributions to leave off it to support your salaries as Many say that they need a multiple streams of income to survive these difficult economic Conditions, so you need to actually be more clear so that then then once we clarify your position Then you need to speak to the tax planners to say, okay, here my Education yes, well, I'm going with my property journey How would I then optimally structure my my investment structure? And then once you've called that and then you've got these tax planner that can assist you on going to say this such investment structure I think you'll be on the ball No, thank you so much gentlemen, and it was really a pleasure talking property text with you Thank you so much for taking our time and giving us these insights You know, it's always great to have experts around the table to talk really important stuff about Property, thank you so much for joining us and have a great night Thank you so much Jimmy for having us Thank you so much to you for staying till the end of the other episode tonight And it is time for me as usual to announce the winner of that 500 grand cash prize for the person who mostly Interacted with us and the winner for tonight is going to come up when I do in the drama comes in Ladies and gentlemen, let's put our hands together for happiness Malulah Who is the winner for tonight's 500 grand? 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So we have seen the deterministic approach in the way hazards are treated in the safety analysis. We can have a look now on the complementary tool to the deterministic approach, which is the probabilistic approach. Probabilistic safety assessment enables the estimation of accident scenarios probabilities. It considers families of initiating events and includes the probability of failure of the various safety functions. The probability of failure of safety functions is derived from failure trees of individual components coming from experienced data. Let's look at more details. So the purpose of these trees is to determine the probability of consequences on the fuel or on the core. And as mentioned in the difference in depth, if we start from an initiator in this example, there will be a serious dilution that is a reduction in the concentration of the boron in the reactor core. There will be a first counter-mercer such as, for instance, the automatic stoppage of this dilution. And if this one is not efficient, a second line of defense will occur with the initiation of a verification system that will inject boron directly into the core. And so depending on the probability of failure or success of these two counter-mercers, we can calculate the consequence. So this is the way this event tree is built. So starting from initiator and there are a very large number of initiators considered in a complete PSA. And the probability of occurrence of this initiator is taken from the experience. So if the first counter-mercer is successful, of course there will be no consequence. If it's failed, the second counter-mercer will intervene. If it's a success, there will be no consequences. But if it's failed, there will be some consequences such as core damage or release of activity. Now the question is how to calculate the success or failure of this counter-mercer. This is done through fold trees such as this one where to calculate the probability of success or failure, in this case failure of this counter-mercer. The system is split in its various components and the probability of failure of any of these components coming from the reliability database of the plant is introduced in order and combined in order to calculate this probability of failure of this counter-measure. Of course we are taking into account not only the probability of equipment failures, but also the probability of human error or wrong human action. So through this is a very schematic view of probability safety assessments which can give at the end calculating all the initiators to have the global probability of unwanted consequences and also the possibility to prioritize the various sequence to look at those which are the most probable and of course to take some additional measure to reduce the probability of the most important sequences. So there are several types of probabilistic safety assessment. Three main, the level one, look at the probability of the chord degradation. The level two goes a step further and take into account the containment function because you can have some chord degradation and if the containment function plays its role there will be no release but if there is a bypass or a leak in the containment you can have a radioactive release so level two allows to calculate this probability of radioactive release and then there is a level three which calculates the impact on the public environment. Of course this depends on the direction of the wind during the release and the probability of the wind is not the same and also of course of the distance of the population. Initially PSE was considering only internal events but now more and more probability safety assessment including hazards and mainly internal or external hazards such as flooding or seismics are being developed and now we have more global probabilistic safety assessment covering all the different risks. In developing PSE and as you can see from the various elements there are six main steps. The first is to identify the initiating events and again even if we group then in some family total there are several hundreds of initiating events. The second step is to construct some scenario taking into account some thermodynamic calculation to see the consequence of the initiating events in terms of for instance temperature or defecting cooling. Then we need to identify the mitigating features the countermeasure mentioned in the previous slide the various system that will intervene to counteract the consequence of the initiating event. This would allow the construction of four trees through the composition of the different system and their different components with the reliability data of the pumps, pipings, instrumentation and control system combining all that can construct the four trees to calculate so the probability of failure of the mitigating feature. And then we will have the defining the different hierarchy of sequences to look at those which are the most significant and which are the first to be looked at to define potential additional measure. Probability safety assessment has a lot of interest and provides very good insight into the safety of a nuclear power plant. It's first an important complement to the deterministic approach. As mentioned previously the deterministic approach focuses on some specific type of accidents and families of accidents and the main purpose of them is to define and to design the safety system that should be line of defense in the various scenarios. Second interest is the identification of weak points in the old plant through this hierarchization of sequences to identify the most important ones will allow to take additional measures to reduce this probability. Third interest is the identification of common mode failures. If you have a redundant system but they have some common points such as for instance the air compressed system that will serve several valves so identifying these commonalities which are sometimes hidden in the complex arrangement of all the systems is something very important to ensure that redundant systems are really redundant not only by their designs themselves but also by all the utilities and facilities that needs to be available for the redundant system to function. And if these common mode failures are identified that will underline the need to put some diversity between various systems and for instance if you have a first train of a system which is powered by electrical pumps it's better that the redundant one be powered by a steam-driven pump that will avoid any kind of common mode failure through different way of actioning the pumps. Last but not least is to allow a more balanced design globally of the plant ensuring that the most important sequence have about the same order of probabilities and for instance if a first run of a PSA shows that you have just one sequence that represent more than half of the global risk you will certainly do something to reduce this part.


Welcome back to Geeks are sexy. I'm Jason Leduc from evil genius leadership consultants I'm your host on the fourth Friday of every month talking about business and entrepreneurship and how to be successful with your business Here in Las Vegas. My next guest is Katie Wofford She's an established fashion stylist and style expert from Hollywood whose talent is grace the red carpet for numerous events There's the Academy Awards Golden Globe independent spirits awards comic on the today's show and my personal favorite on this list the Conan of There's a lot more to this list. I actually cut some of it down.  She's done this for celebrities And now she's gonna tell us today how she can use her styling talent her personal styling talent to help women entrepreneurs Women women and women in business on a personal level to develop their personal brand of their personal style Thank you for being here today. Thank you. I'm very excited to be here today Yeah, so tell us how you got started as a stylist. Was this something you did when you were a kid Was it how'd you get here? Um, it's it's a it's a fun story. I've always naturally was doing it in my brain I didn't realize that's what I was doing But if you look back at photos when I was in high school I was always just so enamored with it and then I moved out to LA when I was 18 years old I was a professional dancer at the time doing ballet jazz tap hip-hop Okay, and then so I just worked in the entertainment business for years Trying to figure out what I wanted to do in life And I think it's a really key point for business or aspiring business owners or people who are in business It's like I couldn't find what I wanted to do what I love to do in life And I was really lost for a long time and then as fate would have it one day.  German cell phone Commercial that was featuring Snoop Dogg I was like, well sure. Okay. And so that was like my first official time on set That was my first time and that was really the moment that I was I had like I was I had the instincts I was like I think I'm gonna do something I didn't actually officially realize I was going to do it until a few years later You have to be ready for success and I wasn't I wasn't quite ready then for a lot of different reasons. So Again fast forward till about 28. I was just really wanting to find my passion And then I just like found a website. It said this is how you take a crash course on how to do it And I will tell you When I started to tell everybody hey, I think I'm gonna be a fashion stylist I had the most support from everybody and it was like I knew I was home in some weird way And I've just always had a career since day one. I started out with business women Executives and my career has just been a dream. It's just taken me all over the world I mean, I've just done things that I never knew that I was going to Achieve and and so yeah, I love what I do that is that is outstanding So what what is something you learned your first day on set with Snoop Dogg in a German cell phone commercial? With one of your best friends in this commercial What what's something you took away because I imagine that was an intimidating experience to start with? You know, I didn't get intimidated by it. I learned how small his waist really is He's like you heard it here folks. We are we're gonna get emails now. His waist is like itty-bitty, right? Like teeny-tiny um just How quick you have to think on your toes with it Because you can only be so prepared for the job and then all of a sudden like the director may Come up and say I want to change this and you've got to make it happen And you've got to make it happen in 10 minutes And you know because they've got to get on to the next shot because it's a production schedule And they only have so much time because they're paying everybody That's that's outstanding and the Air Force really said flexibility is the key to air power And it sounds like that may be the key to to fashion styling on a cell phone commercial That's it's good to see that the lessons apply everywhere One of the things that really stood out to me in your bio is that you really believe in helping your clients Impressed upon the world who they are without even saying a word just when they walk into a room How do you help them do that? What do you what do you look for in your clients? What do you how do you see them get to know them and help them do that? I loved this question when you sent this to me I know we do homework here. We don't just wing it. I Always start out with what's called style development, right? Okay, like you've got to build your brand and so how you do that is how I do that is Getting to know my client on a very intimate level and it just depends on where somebody's at And so I simply start with a question in there, but I try to get to understand their personality On a deep deepest level that I can to be able to go literally out and find that piece that literally says This is Katie at her best to make her feel the best without so that way You're not worried about like am I overdressed in my underdressed when you go have a meeting with a client So you can't close that deal. So you just feel so empowered about yourself So that's always the end goal and it's just figuring out where that client's at So that way that they are growing in this naturally and and developing their Vocabulary if you will. Yeah, I love that when you told me about the book the style vocabulary. Yeah, yeah, right because it's like we all speak a language and Whatever your native tongue is but we are all speaking the language of who we are each day And you do that by through what you wear because we actually communicate 93% more non-verbally than we do actually verbally So, you know, what you wear is a very impactful thing that you're going to be when you're going into business Outstanding look it sounds like you're helping people really get in touch with who they are and then it'd be confident showing them showing the world who they are while they improve their their style vocabulary and branch out and and to pull on the vocabulary analogy learn more More words more more specific words to represent how they're feeling and what they're trying to accomplish. Exactly. I love it Yeah, I love it. So tell us about your new Relatively new East styling business that you've put together. Yeah, you know I learned so much in LA from like working with incredibly wealthy clients out of Beverly Hills to celebrities and stuff like that I really learned skills and techniques I eat like that that I was feeling like the women wanted and then when I researched Stitchfix obviously is a huge like seven hundred million dollar business and for her to have had that level of success It really like identified that like this is what women want women want really somebody that can give them that personal touch The challenges is what what they do is that you're not actually working with a real fashion stylist It's actually technically done Everything so that's where I have customized my East styling business called style retainer to where now I wanted this to be affordable for women no matter where you're out from New York to Seattle, Florida Los Angeles and everywhere in between to be able to work with with a real stylist myself to be able to properly build you a wardrobe that Does the correct transaction for you in your business? Okay, great Yeah, so how how can someone get started with you? What do they what do they need to know? What do they need to bring to you? To start that conversation with you and what do they need to know about themselves to start that conversation with you if they want to work with you through Style retainer it's a good question I just simply is the desire that they want to do this Okay, and if they want to do this then email me through my website Katie at Katie watch for calm and then from there We'll set up a free consultation and talk and really start to delve more into your fashion personalities And getting a little bit more breakdown of your brand to see you know What would be a good fit for you? Okay, and you're just working with women right now.  Yeah, that's what I hear so So so like my business is 99% women. Okay, so sorry guys. Sorry. Okay He's probably not the right person for you today Maybe in the future, but if you're really interested hit us up here at the show I'm sure Katie can give you a great referral for whether you're in Las Vegas or somewhere else She can help you out and I'll talk to a man I'm not saying like it's just my the foundation of what most of my tier material is around women But okay guys really like Katie I need some help. I want to grow my business like help me just I don't want to have to think about it I'm not like and the vibes right like I'm totally willing to talk. Well forget what I said guys. Don't hold back getting touch with Katie. So You weren't just making this up as you go along You've actually been to school to do this fashion and not just the the style piece of fashion But you learn I remember watching a video with you as I was prepping for this interview where you talked about that introductory business course At your at your style school And so what are what are some of the elements of business that you feel that you feel like you've had to learn and that are Really strong at in addition to the style aspects. I mean the number one key thing in business is like is a sales But it's your relationships. And so you it's there's that old-fashioned saying it's it's who you know But it's also I heard a bartender years ago say this and I loved them and he always said my dear It's not who you know. It's who knows you And I love that spin on it because you know and it is like you have to have a lot of Really strong relationships in order to grow your business to the next level. So I mean obviously Like understanding the technicality of what I do But I mean I also personally work a lot with like personality traits. It's beyond just outside clothes So relationships Is a key a key key element that I think people really take for granted. Okay, great We talk a lot about that about that on this show is build your team around you build those relationships It really is important. Nobody does this alone. Nobody does so okay So in the in the few seconds we have left you talked about the web you talked about the email on the website How else can our viewers get ahold of you? Uh through social media you can go to instagram at katie wattford So and then obviously through my website just to easily send an email too Okay, and the website is great very very beautiful website. You have so I really I really enjoyed it. All right Well, katie stay right here. We're going to bring dwayne and shawn back or and have a panel discussion Talk a little bit more about business in general in the las vegas area And uh, i'm jason laduke. I almost forgot what I was going to say here I'm jason laduke and we will be back with our panel discussion in just a few minutes. This is geeks are sexy


e can use that money in other words We couldn't use that money for roads and bridges if we didn't have lost revenue a year ago Because there's going to be an infrastructure bill that comes down the pipe and they don't want Last year this opera money being used for for infrastructure Except to do things that were put on hold a year ago if you lost revenue. So we can talk about it all Later this year But I think it it will be best mark if we do it all in the 2022 budget process And decide where to park money at that point Any other questions right now? so I'm going to go quickly through the general fund expenditures on the In the general fund It looks like we're going to be spending about $15,000 more than we had appropriated There's two main line items that Over budget right now one is computer services I told you about the you know a couple of months ago. I told you about the pack that we had into our system Bob Butler it tech Contractor had to do quite a bit of work in the system. And that's where the major spending is there. I'm projecting out for the next You know the next through the end of the year that will probably spend about $5,000 more I will try to offset that You can see the professional services underlying is Way under right now And then there's office supplies that is somewhat under and there's new equipment down toward the bottom I'll try to kind of pull in the reins on those three loans to try to To offset that legal expenses are higher than anticipated as well We've had a couple of different things that we've needed attorneys for that we did not really plan for at the beginning of the year Um, and uh, it's it's kind of unknown We we you know things have come up that we needed attorneys for and now You know a few years ago. We we decided we would go to a budget $12,000 a year for legal. We haven't spent 12,000 for a couple of you for a couple of years now But this year it looks like we're going to go over that amount It may not go over by the full You know 16361 we're not even at 10 yet So i'm hoping that maybe we won't go over there as much either, but The general government looks like it's going to be a little bit overspent um If you look at the fire department budget Same thing there. We had uh, we had a Go on I have a question Yeah, I'm general government like where is Mary's university training. Where is that showing up? The training line $6,000 about two birds of the way down from the top like I wonder if it's yellow Okay, I see that now So that's $6,000 as soon as we have Something like that. That's why I was surprised What's that?  We had a significant problem with the aerial ladder truck There was a problem with the term table hydraulic pumps and the light We ended up having to send the truck to Connecticut. It was out of service for a couple of months Uh, and it had to be it had to be repaired. There was Really nothing that could be done if we didn't make the repairs We would have just left it in the garage because you couldn't use it So we had to send that that money to uh fix the fix the truck I'm hoping again Some of these some of these numbers are just formula based and I think the 60 000 that is showing up there Um as a projected spending for that line item Simply divides, uh the 35 000 by seven months and then multiplies it by 12 So that 60 000 is probably high. I don't think we're going to spend At the same rate for the rest of the year as we spent through the first part of the year So I I forgot to kind of make that adjustment Uh the new equipment line at 75 000 dollars I talked to Gary. I'll be continuing talking to Gary We may If we have to Again cut out some of the spending that we had planned there to offset the overspending on the On the vehicle maintenance line So that's that To turn over to the next page Uh the next highlights are all in the in the summer recreation programs The the recreation pay for summer program is just slightly above what we what we projected the uh The camps uh school and after school programs used to be called mini camps That's uh projecting out at 25 000 dollars because of what we're planning to do in the fall in addition to what we already did In the spring. Uh, we've already talked about the revenues that cover that The 65 000 dollars down in the program line That is really the uh the breakfast and lunch program. We've got to spend all that money that albertson's Um donated on that program. So it's for purchasing food. It's for Um some of the transportation going to get the food distributing it Um and the like so that 65 000 is likely what we're going to spend there So in the in the program the summer program which is more than summer now that's misnamed too. It's really year round Uh, we're projecting out at 202 000 as opposed to the 129 that was budgeted Um, and then I didn't highlight things in recommendation. There's nothing that's really over spent Uh or going to be over spent there. We're projecting out at right on budget 104 000 dollars uh the parks we're at um Projecting out in about 88 000 I think I skipped over pool, but uh pool is not significantly above where we have projected either You can see down there in green though at the bottom What I've done is I totaled up all of the budgeted expenses for pool programs rec admin and parks And that budget was 411 815 Uh the expenses right now Are coming in at 487 503 so significantly higher but the revenues are projected At 272 580 versus the 164 that we budgeted so the net expense for the recreation programs frankly will be less than what we anticipated Now it doesn't mean the taxpayers aren't paying anything the taxpayers are still paying for the bulk of the recreation programs, but Right now it's looking like the taxpayers are going to be paying about 215 000 out of the 487 And when we put the budget together the taxpayers we're going to be spending about 248 Out of 411 so the percentage that the taxpayers are paying for this year Is lower and the actual dollar figures look like it will be lower as well any questions there also Okay, the planning department. There's a few yellow lines in there You know Steve stay is going to be up a little bit He's doing zoning administrative work right now and will be continuing that Through the time that we hire the position that we're trying to Recruit for you know to replace dina you remember you you have authorized us to restructure the department a little bit So those two pay lines I think that steve's line, which is regular pay Is going to be a little bit over budget and the zoning administrator line Or the assistant planning zoning director that we're going to call it now will probably be a little bit under I don't know how much it's all going to be a factor of how long it takes to get somebody hired We've advertised. We've got a number of candidates right now Not too many real qualified candidates yet. So We're we're going to take our time We're going to try to hire the right person who has the qualifications that we're looking to have But It's a tight job labor market right now. There's there's many more People looking to hire people then there are people wanting to be hired right now. So it will be a little bit of a challenge, perhaps health insurance we're going to under spend that because It's going to have at least one month that we don't have somebody taking health insurance dino is taking that You know, we're heading into august. We won't have anybody working in august. So That could go lower than what's projected there legal fees we're spending a little bit above Budget on that one. We've already spent more than we budgeted in the planning department And that's likely to go higher. We've got two enforcement cases going on right now we had the And then we've had a lot of reviews for the interim bylaws that you enacted so You know, it is what it is Planning rather than we didn't look at that on the first page It's tracking about where we expected it would Planning fees we budgeted 24,000 right now. It's looking at like it'll be about 21,000 or so coming in So it's a little tracking a little bit behind right now but We may we may pick that up going the rest of the year And really that's it That management we had to just do a modest amount of tax anticipation borrowing from e-fund There's a there'll be another 300 dollars three or 400 dollars worth of interest that we owe there perhaps But i'm thinking we're past the stage that we're going to have to do much more tax anticipation borrowing So we'll probably save money there If you look at that last page under special articles, uh, we'll spend all of what the voters appropriated for special articles Given that Right now our expenditures are tracking about a hundred thousand dollars more than What we budgeted but remember most of that is in the recreation departments You know that that food program in particular Um and a little bit in the general fund so the hundred thousand dollars Um above budget as far as expenses are concerned as far as the projection Will be offset by those revenues So we anticipated in the year with an 11 dollar negative fund balance right now It's projecting that we'll have about 325 thousand dollars to the good if we don't transfer that money from the Tax stabilization fund we will end the general fund with about a 275 thousand dollar fund balance Obviously this can change we still got No One five months to go in the year We don't know exactly what's going to happen with tax collections. I'm hoping that we'll do better than last year but Things are looking pretty good right now as far as the general fund is concerned I'll take one minute to go over the highway in the library funds there's In the in the highway fund. There's good news We we budgeted only 85 thousand dollars for general state aid as you can see we've already received more than we budgeted They did not pull back the legislature actually added a little bit of money to the general state aid so We we're looking like we're probably going to get about 117 thousand dollars That year and share And then that grant I I'm thinking that grant was something that we did last year and the money didn't come until this year and the auditors have adjusted the The fund balance of the highway fund for 2020 I didn't have time to work into Exactly what that grant is for we clearly didn't budget it But I'm thinking it was something that we spent last year and the money didn't come until this this year um on the expense side and the highway fund things are looking right on target right now I'm projecting some slight Under spending in the budget this year compared to what we budgeted for Um Because of that additional revenue that we weren't planning for It's looking like the highway fund might in end up with the modest surplus in the 68 thousand dollar range Um, you know, which is 68 thousand dollars more than we budgeted for Uh, we did carry forward about 158 thousand dollars into this year. We thought it was 143, but the auditors Found a little bit more money. So things are looking good there. Uh, same in the library fund The The revenues are slightly above Target On the spending side, we're going to underspend on health insurance because I'll be land our the former librarian as we sign The new librarian decided not to take health insurance So we're not going to spend any more this year than the 88 19 probably We do have one position that's open that that does Offer health insurance that works enough hours potentially, but I I think it's probably going to be I actually think the job that's open does not work enough hours for I'm getting health insurance. So we're probably not going to spend more than the 88 19 this year Um, and the library fund works like all things considered will end up with a Modest surplus of about 9700 dollars. So Anyway, that was 10 minutes longer than I hoped Kind of a rush through always seems like you have to rush through this stuff but um Things are looking good right now I did not give you the the CIP budgets If you've been up there, you've seen that blush hill has been Ground up payments all been taken off of blush hill And we're we've replaced two culverts up there We're going to let those culverts compact under the traffic the trenches and those culverts will compact under the traffic And we'll be paving blush hill and loads of trail My guess will be Sometimes the end of august beginning of september But that's on track right now um Did you all see the Email I sent out to you On front from porch form last week We've had some vandalism at the tennis court lights and at the skating wing lights where they Play volleyball I talked to nick today. It's it's his statement that The lighting at those places will be discontinued until further notice is not meant to be punitive on his part We needed to get an electrician in there to fix the damage We've had to shut the electricity off back at the breaker Because you know these vandals broke into the into the timer box And they did some damage in there that would you know if somebody If it was live somebody could get shot So it's off now and it's not going to be on until we can get somebody in there to do some work It's disappointing But I I want you to know that it's not mixed in so there You know, nobody's going to play on the lights because there was vandalism We've got to get an electrician to to do some work to fix it Bill, I missed that is it something where we think they were actually trying to steal something or they were just doing damage to do damage No, they they I think what they did was they were there the lights go off on the tennis courts at 10 o'clock and I think people were still playing and they were mad and they broke in and they wanted to turn the lights off And they they turned them back a lot, evidently and then when nick Had to close that down He put something out You know he did call the police and let them know It seems like maybe the second one may have been in retribution for the fact that You know the lights on the tennis court went out or maybe they were just hoping that they could Get lights on the skating rink And that would be light enough to play in the tennis courts, but they broke that too So nobody was trying to steal anything except electricity or when it should be off Bill, do we have any security cameras up there? no We would be wise to invest in trail cams are pretty damn cheap and I hate when people do vandalism and that's a good way to Get them one film and I'm more for We can we can think about that might You know It's it becomes another target, of course once they see them if they want to vandalize something they'll vandalize that Not quite enough Anyway, we don't have them right now. If it's something the board wants to look into we can certainly do that Thanks, bill Anything from the board or we can I just want to quickly ask how long ago I don't recall hearing a previous issue with a fire truck Because I brought up previously and I'm not recollecting it Or we're just hearing about it now for the first time Is this the first time that we're hearing there's a problem with one of the fire vehicles Uh, it's probably the first time you're hearing about it. I apologize for that. I you know, I I've known about it for quite some time I didn't I guess I didn't think to share it. But yeah, I mean it's nothing It's nothing new the truck is back in service now It's it's here and in usable, but it happened back in april, I think Yeah, and just to be clear that line item The real repair was maybe an increase of like 15 10 or $15,000 not that full plus 30 or whatever it was I had I have to look I can I can tell you right next meeting or if you want to hang around right now. I can tell you but It looks worse than maybe it is but like, you know highway stuff's going to break Right. I yeah, I would just like to know that stuff before we get to the budget and then like, well, what's this for Right, some of it's safety related. We have to we can Yeah, yeah, I apologize. I could have told the board You know, we hadn't had a budget report. I didn't think about it. Um But let me see if I can quickly find it here There's the turntable and some hydraulics That's the first Bill with your enix exposure All is our meeting tomorrow Is that on or off? Um I I sent you an email from my perspective. It's it's on me.  I just I I told you and mark that if we meet, you know, I'm happy to wear a mask We can sit in a steel room and be socially distant It just I I felt compelled right now to wear a mask tonight and it was A lot easier to talk and have this discussion without a mask on so I decided to sit in here. That's all uh, so mark unfortunately the We've spent 35,215 for vehicle maintenance right now for the hot for the fire department And 31,600 of it is for that particular issue So it was all that And as I said, I'll be talking to gary, you know, we had $15,000 almost $16,000 budgeted so we'll probably you know Pull back a little bit and we'll watch the calendar and see what we can do Some of the maintenance that he has is scheduled. It needs to be done I don't think we're going to end up spending the 60 that I have projected there But it wasn't the expense. I don't have I just have You know the amount here. I don't have the bill to tell you what it was, but I know it was with the The turntable and the hydraulics for the ladder anything so Yeah Second Hi, thank you bill. Thank you bill. Thank you bill. Stay healthy