Okay, welcome everyone to Progressive Discussions Hard-Hitting Truth. I am your host, James P. Madonna. I am here with the one and only Gary W. Owens, how are you this week, sir? You're doing pretty good, and you? Good. Good. Since we've been on a roll with the series of very deep shows, very educational, very hard-hitting, we might as well go with it, because honestly, since my original co-host passed away, the other substitute co-hosts that I've had, they're good.  They try to be as progressive as they can, but their desire to put their opinions and their takes on things publicly came to an abrupt end, and they have a greater desire for fun and frolic and rock concerts and things like that, which is fine, you know. It's their business.   We've kicked it up several notches, not just a few. So I just want to start off by saying I want to talk about two things. First, these right-wing evangelical so-called, born-again religious freaks, zealots, whatever you want to call them. I had a debate and then an argument with a man that goes by the name of a blue devil for life, blue devil for life, yeah, yeah, interesting. And yeah, it was on the Exorcist Bishop, Brian, the one of the stars of the paranormal show Ghost Adventures on the Traveler. Yeah, I like to watch that show. Yeah, I once in a while I chat with Exorcist Bishop, he's the heavy guns they call and when somebody is demonically possessed or a building, or maybe a doll is cursed, like something similar to Annabelle, he has a whole process in Ghost Rule. What I like about him besides being a theologic, or there is such a word, a theologian wizard is that he is not embraced by the Roman Catholic Church because he says things that they don't care for. Exactly. And that they're a cult, probably the biggest cult in the history of mankind. Right, right.  So Bishop Brian says, if you want to do that, you're doing church service, that's your right to prefer it and to accept it, but he says, I believe in the more quiet, laid back, not non ostentatious like me, like, for those that are theologians, it does say in the Bible to keep your prayers private and not to show off, because usually hypocrites do that. Oh, I mentioned that too, he got really upset, so he called me all kinds of names, you're this, you're that, so he was playing the victim, and I said, you know, nobody, nobody, nobody has proved anything yet, nobody like my late co-host used to say, no one has proven yet that their God exists. Right. So for this guy to get all upset, and I says, and then I mentioned the thing that annoys me the most, why do right wing evangelicals, zealots, put their arms up in the air and sway them, is this some kind of like a Wi-Fi antenna to God, and then they start speaking in tongues, yeah, I said, you people are out of your mind, I said, yeah, the Pentecostals are notorious for doing that, because on my mom's side of the family, they're primarily Pentecostals, and they do that speaking in tongues, and I've been to a church service where they do that, and it is kind of scary and freaky, it's almost like it's a cult seance. It's a seance. It's a seance. No, actually this guy actually likes all those people, because they vote for him. That's right, all the freaks, all the freaks can come out of the woodwork, because that means votes for old Trumpy, votes for old Trump. Anyway, yeah, so he got so upset, and Bishop Brian had to calm him down and appease him, why?  George Carlin didn't, so why should we? Exactly, George Carlin and Frank Zappa did not care what others thought.  All those things I said on Twitter were part of my sarcastic sense of humor, and I was trying to prove a point that if you want to start throwing scriptures at me in your defense, know what you're talking about, because Jesus himself said you're supposed to go pray in private, and it's between you and your maker, and don't be jumping around, with the tambourines and the rattles, oh and the guy, the Baptist preacher that brings live rattlesnakes during church service and starts dancing with him, and then his wife got bit and died, one guy, and he's dancing with him, I'm taking up serpents, taking up serpents, the devil, God is going to neutralize the venom, yeah, right, yeah, my ass is going to neutralize, and the guy played the victim, and I'm the bully, and I don't care because I actually meant everything I said, and that was that, that was Blue Devil for life, by the way, it's going on Twitter, Blue Devil for life, I hope you watch this show and get even more upset with me, yeah, especially from a diehard agnusketeus, who is a devil for life, even though it's red, better get used to red, yep, better get used to red and not in the republican sense, well my, it is Blue Devil for life, you're in here, you're all, you're all, so anyway, the other thing is, please, folk, all you people out there to happen to stumble upon the show, don't mistake, mistake in any of the democratic candidates for 2020 as being true progressives like they claim, they're not, they're centrist, moderate establishment demon crats, they are beholden to the oligarch, they are corporate whores, if they don't believe in free healthcare and public college education, and they don't believe in taxing the top 2%, making them pay the burden, not burden, making them pay most of the taxes, if you don't believe in all of those things, if you don't believe in helping the poor and taking care of the elderly and the disabled and our veterans and making sure there's no homeless people in the United States, if you're not for all those things as well as not being a damn racist with immigrants of color, you're not, you're not a true progressive. They're using the progressive word definition as a way to pander for votes, but they're not real progressives like you have said in the past. Right. I'd like to bring out a Marx quote about religion. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the masses. Yeah. I mean, Jesse Ventura said that organized religion is for weak-minded people. Right. But I want to brush on a little bit before we get into the mean potatoes of a show. What he meant by that it's the opium of the masses, as in it's like a drug. And if you see the way super religious people act, especially when they do like what you were talking about, it's like they're in a drunk or in some kind of drug stupor whenever they act like this. But that's not really what he was talking about, although he, you know, indirectly said that. But what he really was talking about is how it's like a drug that really just makes you so detached from material conditions, like it prevents you from seeing things as they really are. It's like it puts the rose color shades on and prevents you from seeing what really needs to be seen. The ostrich with the head in the sand, the Clydesdale with the blinders. In other words, you don't see reality. It's like a virtual reality mask. Right. So you don't see things for what they really are.  None of us are like a LSD. It's just like it just it makes you so detached from material conditions. And it's very addictive. It's like it makes you want more of it and it makes you complacent. So it's like it gives you this answer, but it's just a very empty hollow answer. It's like it gives you the concept of good versus evil without it actually really being what it really is. It's like, Oh, it's the God that's up in the sky. And, you know, he's trying to do good, but it's the man down below with the pitchfork in the horns. It's evil. When in reality, good versus evil is something that man created. Dante's Inferno is where they got that the place of torment and with what you just said. When I was when I was a little kid, they sent me to Catholic school. Yeah, but I didn't go. I didn't go. I only went a few times because because I didn't, you know, Oh God, I just know that when you want the separation of church and state and the church and state, particularly the education system are coming together. That is a recipe for disaster. You're going to get a kick out of this. I opened up the little book they gave me and lo and behold, it was a photo of what they thought of what God looked like. It was the old man with the long white beard, the St. Nicholas Chris Kringle looking guy with the white robe. And what was he doing? He was using one of the clouds as a lounge chair. He was he was sitting back on a cloud. Oh boy. And you know, it's like in at that time in Catholic Church, all of the the angels and they all looked European. They all had the the current warriors armor that was that existed at the time the artists, the artisans who I imagine got paid by the Catholic Church to make statues and then the stained glass and all that me and Michelangelo doing the chapel, you know, and but they all looked European with current Renaissance European swords and armor and everything.  They have blue eyes, all the statues. Oh, yeah. When I went to Venezuela as an adult, that time, Margarita Island, Caracas, way before Hugo Chavez, the Virgin Mary statues and Jesus statues and angels, the statues of angels, they were all brown skin. They looked like Latin Americans from Venezuela or Middle Eastern. Right. They spoke Aramaic at that time at which like an ancient language that I assume was separate from Hebrew. Right. But anyway, everybody thinks that the creator looks like their people. Every culture thinks that their race and their culture is number one.  Yeah, everybody thinks they're number one. They're the best. The Greeks that run the only diners over here thinks everything Greek is the best. Italians off the boat think everything Italian is the best. Everybody thinks that they're the best, their culture is the best. And God looks like them. Well, we'll brush on that in a future video about cultural Marxism and how that's one of the biggest flaws ever to come out of anything Marxists related. But anyway, let's get to the meat to get back to what I was telling you about with religion being the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of heartless world, the opium of the masses, religion and social movement, communism are going to be very hostile to each other. And this was shedded or some light was shedded on to this by not only my research, but I was watching its YouTube channel where they talk about the Marxist Leninist worldview, but it's by theologian historic or theologian historians, I should say, your camera looks like it's gone out of focus. I don't know. It's it's a hangouts thing. All right, as they were talking about it, this is what they had to say about it. The problem with socialism and communism is not that it's inherently flawed system. It's a problem of atheism. And that is what, you know, makes it so hostile to each other is one's looking at it from a religious standpoint, the other ones looking at it from a non religious standpoint, and how the two are very antagonistical to each other. And that is why religion really in a lot of ways despises socialism and communism.  Because it's like the drugs are speaking when you see the drug known as religion speaking through these people, you could definitely tell they're addicted to it and that they're really not seeing things with they should be seen. And that here is something that is coming along to get them off of this drug and fix their problems. But they're so antagonistical to it. Like you know, that drug addict to you know has a problem and acknowledges that he or she has a problem but refuses to go to rehab or do what is necessary to get off the drug. Yeah, it's one of those type of situations. Oh, by the way, I was also accused of being self righteous and sanctimonious. Because I'm making myself better than the evangel because I go, you know, see how diluted the human mind can can easily be. They're lemmings. They're just lemmings. Right. That just one just now said about it sums it up perfectly. So the much more fun but yet educational, historical and factual part of the video is, you know, what would have happened if the Soviet Union and socialism and communism never fell? And what would that mean for material conditions currently here in 2019? I know we talked about, you know, the history of the Soviet Union in the previous video, and we talked about right up until the end of what really caused it to fall. But what if that did not happen? What if there was something in history that could have turned the tide to where that would not have happened to where the Soviet Union never would have fallen. The Eastern Bloc would not have fallen. The satellite Soviet states would not have fallen and any new socialist or communist countries would still be thriving today. So what could have been done differently? So let me bring up my notes here because this is going to have to be broken up into two different videos because as I did the research on and jarred it down, notice I quickly realized, hmm, there's a lot that needs to be discussed here. And I kind of underestimate just how much really needs to be discussed. All right. So the idea of this new alternate history of what we're going to call it is the name of it is going to be what if communism never fell the second Soviet Revolution? All right, so to give a brief or a pretext for all of this, we're going to go back to the ending of World War two. So after the end of World War two, and you know, the Soviet Union and the United States defeated the Nazis, as well as Mussolini and Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan. And then there was the policy of containment at the end of World War two, since communism began its spreading throughout Europe. That specter that Marx talked about, that specter that's haunting Europe, the specter of communism is now coming to fruition. And the United States, we cannot have this, we have to have a policy of containment. And we saw exactly how well that played out. And in fact, anything, it just empowered it that much more to be spread. It was at that moment when, you know, the people of the Soviet Union, as well as the Eastern Bloc and other socialist communist states quickly realized, you know, the United States is turning imperialistic against us. So now we're actually seeing imperialism that Marx had talked about. So now we're going to have to be everything in our power to thwart this evil plot, so to speak. So in this timeline, the events of the 1950s and the 1960s play out exactly as they would, you know, there's the Sino-Soviet split of the 1950s, there is North Korea coming in 1950, Mao is China in 1949. And then there's involvement in Vietnam, where Vietnam is willing to become communist, there's the Bay of Pigs, this and the other. But something turns the tide in socials and communist history. So let me come back to my notes here. Okay, so as we had talked about in the previous video about how what really made it fall, how social democracy was slowly being introduced and how it was just slowly, you know, it wasn't like it was just so brought out in everyone's face. It was just, it was introduced slowly and it was just chipped away and chipped away until Gorbachev sealed the deal and that was all she wrote. So in this timeline, social democracy does come in in the 1960s. But in the 1970s, there is what is called the new Bolsheviks that emerge in the Soviet Union. They see the current Soviet government as evil and corrupt that they are now getting in bed with the United States. And they see that ultimately there is going to be the fall of the Soviet Union as well as socials and communism throughout the world. So they come into fruition in the 1970s and they spread their ideas. Well, since the current Soviet government this time sees them as a faction of the Communist Party and factions are not allowed, they are outright banned since Stalin was completely against factions and other various socials and communist writers outright banned factions. The current Soviet government sees these people as dissenters and as traders. And they are quickly suppressed by any means necessary. Well, at this time, when the new Bolsheviks are spreading their ideas throughout the Soviet Union, it is quickly riling up the workers and the masses as well as it's also getting attention from other politicians of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And it's also getting the military riled up. So, at this time in the 1970s, we see dissent, we see disdain and distrust for the current Soviet government because what the ideas of the new Bolsheviks have now presented. So in an effort to suppress them by any means necessary, you know, the current Soviet government opens fire on protesters, people in the street saying, we've had enough, we're we want a new system of government. Give us our new system of government. And if you don't, we will fight against you. Well, the current Soviet government sees that as a threat suppressor. Well, protesters are killed in the streets. That makes people more and more angry. And then by about the mid 1970s, that ignites the second Soviet revolution or the second Bolshevik revolution, so to speak. So in this time, this is where we see the new Bolshevik ideas really being pushed. People are fighting each other in the streets over these ideas. It's very, very violent and very bloody. It costs. I don't know how many lives it would cost, probably in the tens of thousands, probably not millions, but at least tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people would die during this revolution. But it would come to an end with the second Bolshevik revolution coming in. And there being a new Soviet government. Social democracy is completely eradicated. Everything that was along those lines are completely gone rid of any politicians that were on the old Soviet government or either re educated, put into prison or executed and made examples of that foreign intervention in our country will not be allowed. And if it does happen, do not expect anything good to happen. So with that event, it completely changes the way that socialism and communism would advance in the 1970s. So this would happen and be completed by about the late 1970s. So in the 1980s is when we really see the big push towards new socialist and communist states.  Mao does not become reactionary. The arduous March or the collapse of the Soviet Union does not happen.  We see getting back to Maoist China. They are doing really well. Mao does not become reactionary. Mao and his gang of four are not ousted from power. Eastern Bloc is doing really well. And at this point, since they're not really social imperialistic, you know, they turn more of we're going to start leading by example, to actually spread our revolutionary ideas and help out new socialist or communist governments. But we're not going to do it in a very imperialistic manner. We're not going to fight the US and try to out with the United States with the Cold War. But that ultimately spells trouble for the United States and its allies as well as imperialism because during the Second Bolshevik Revolution, the United States tries to overthrow the new Bolshevik government that was trying to be brought in and they ultimately try to corrupt them, but it backfired miserably. And I do mean miserably. So as there is the expansion of new socialist and communist governments throughout the 1980s, the new Bolshevik government now starts spreading propaganda throughout the world. It really exposes the war crimes of the United States, as well as imperialism and all that good stuff. And that quickly spells trouble for the United States because at this time, the Soviet Union now exposed the the Gulf of Tonkin lie and how the Vietnam War was just an imperialistic war against a country that wanted to do what it is they wanted to do. And as that happened, it riled up the American people here in the United States. We see the new emergence of the the counterculture. But in this instance, the counterculture is not this, you know, marijuana smoking beer drinking LSD tanking hippie flower power love type of counterculture. No, no, no, no, no. These are radicalized counterculture. This is the radicalized counterculture. Because you know, during the 1960s, there was talk about socialism and communism here in the United States. But there really wasn't that real revolutionary potential, it was just it was talked about. It's like it just it was all talk in no action. Well, in this timeline, it goes beyond talks. And since the new counterculture has become radicalized, we see a big push for socialism and communism here in the United States, which in the 1980s, if that were to actually happen, that really would spell disaster for the United States as well as imperialism, wouldn't you think? And at this time, the war in Afghanistan that the Soviets got involved in, they would go into Afghanistan. But it would not bankrupt them in any way. The United States would do everything in their power to try to have guerrilla fighters or insurgents to try to fight them. But it ultimately would fail flat on its face. We don't see in this instance, where the Soviet Union is bad off. And in fact, if anything, they're growing, but they're growing all the right ways. They're not racking up all this debt to try to, you know, outspend the United States like what they try to do in the Cold War. But in this instance, where they tried to infiltrate during the Second Bolshevik Revolution and how it backfired, it turned the Cold War hot. And now the Soviet Union and any new socialist or communist countries now have their eyes set on the United States. So in the 1980s, the world is in complete disarray.  Socialism and communism is doing great. It's expanding throughout Asia. It's expanding throughout Europe. It's now expanding throughout Africa and Latin America. I mean, this is spelling disaster for capitalism and imperialism as we know it. So as the 1980s come to a close, we see at this time that the United States and imperialism is completely outgunned and surrounded. Because when I was telling you about how the new Bolshevik government blasted propaganda throughout the world and really exposed the United States as well as imperialism for all of its class antagonisms and its war crimes. I mean, it really has nowhere left to run. And I want to stop here because in the second part, that's where we'll go more into what will be what will be known as the second American Revolution and how socialism and communism would ultimately undermine capitalism and imperialism in the United States. And then socialism would be implemented in most the world, but there would still be one strong hold left the Middle East. Right. And that would have to be brushed on a second video because that would be a bit more extensive. Well, the Saudi monarchy would be an example of extreme right wing imperialism, correct? Well, in its most radical extremist form. Well, we talked about that. Where ISIS got a lot of their ideas is from Wahhabism. Right.  But it was anti imperialistic for all the wrong reasons. It was anti imperialist because it didn't want any kind of foreign intervention to corrupt Islam. Big, big difference between corrupting religion and corrupting a system of government, big difference. And recently, recently, the leader of ISIS put out a video on a much older leader, heavier with gray in his beard. This is current news. But they, well, the monarchy has its wealth because of big oil, which is most likely why India, the right wing in this country and corporate fascism. And of course, Donald Trump has set so much of a high interest in the Saudis and not, not pissing them off.  And the same thing we you were discussing Venezuela last week, we were talking about we brought up big oil and Venezuela. And, you know, there's always a money trail to follow. And it comes exactly.   You know, what would your take me on? Like what ideas would you contribute to it as to a possible alternate history? Oh, you mean if the Soviet Union did not fall? Yeah, like the way that I presented, like, you know, add on to what I presented. Well, you think the Soviet Union would have eventually became more like mainland China is today, kind of embracing both and becoming like, what would you call mainland China? What would it be? Would it be democratic socialism? Would it be a blend of social, you know, communism with a touch of capitalism added to it? Well, China right now, in its current form, they don't have anything socialist related on the fact that they have state control. In fact, anything there's state capitalist, which is, if you want to think about it, more capitalistically want the United States is the United States has free market capitalism. China has state capitalism. Okay. So so China was really corrupted by my corporate America, right? I get this argument that China is socialist or communist just because state ownership of something. No, yet. And socialist and communist countries, you have state ownership over the means of production and the proletariat has control of the government. But here's where it ultimately falls. If you look at the way China is run, it's not really controlled by the people, it's controlled by the Communist Party, and they're only communist in name. And that's as far as it goes. And that's where the argument falls short of just because their state ownership does not mean socialism. Socialism would mean state control. But who would have control over the state? And in this case, it's state capitalists who have control over the government in China? Yes, there is free market capitalism in China right now, but it is so heavily dominated by state capitalism. Right.  No, and here's why. If there was a second Bolshevik revolution and people went out in the streets and fought and killed each other like it would be in like a civil war over these ideas because they did not want to have their country overthrown by capitalism and imperialism, then why would they even have something like that in the first place? It was just it would completely undermine it. Because it would be very insulting and a big slap in the face for all the people who would have died in that revolution fighting for it. That's ultimately what fueled the fire for the second Bolshevik revolution. And this alternate history was seeing the way that the Soviet Union was going the way the Soviet government was going was a big slap in the face to Lenin all those who fought in the first Bolshevik revolution.  When did the Russian Orthodox Church officially reopened? Well, it wasn't really closed under the Soviet government because in the Soviet Union, state atheism was the religion of the government, which meant that all public displays of religion were not allowed. That does not necessarily mean that religion was prohibited, religion was not prohibited, and never has and probably never will be in a social or communist country. It was if you want religion, fine, but keep it to yourself. Oh, so in other words, let's say St Basil's Cathedral continued to have masses indoor inside, right, they just cannot display their opinions outside of the of the church. Right. You could talk about like, you know, religion can be talked about in your own home. But yes, you could, you can have homes in a social or communist country, because that's what people say is you can't own a home, you can't own a car, you can't do this, you can't do that bullshit. And let me explain to you the different kinds of property. There's public property, there's private property, and then there's personal property. Public property is what is owned by the state. Private property is not privately owned property, like people want to make it up. Private property is like means of production. Personal property is what personally belongs to you. So your house, your car, what have you, that would be your personal property. That is not what is taken as collectivization under social and communism. It's the means of production. That is what is taken and collectivized. Right. So if a Russian citizen under Soviet Union, they just could not amass any wealth beyond what is required for content. It wasn't like there were like there was wealth caps. Because for me, from the Marxist quote, each according one's ability to each according one's work, which means there is wealth inequality, no one is paid the same.  So you're going to be paid just in accordance to your work. But is it going to be like to where you're going to be a millionaire to where you have this lavish home while people are starving? No, you're gonna have a good life. I mean, yeah, you'll own a home, you'll own a car, and you'll have enough money to take care of yourself and your family.  That's not what social and communism seeks to abolish. Yeah, so there wasn't wealth was not hoarded. Exactly. Imperialism on capitalism. Yeah, capitalism. Sorry, capitalism. Now, you know, I find this one thing interesting that I have noticed while watching many movies, documentaries on Netflix, there was one particular movie about the life and career of all I guess she was called the Queen of Salza Celia Cruz Cuba. She grew up in East Cuba, Santiago, where the African Cubans, the black Cubans retain their culture. Right, right. Or Bacardi rum comes from Santiago. So now, originally. So what happened was after Patista flee to Santa Domingo Dominican Republic, where all of his mobster money given to him is millions back to the United States. Oh, he did come to the US. Well, he I write conflicting reports as to what happened. But ultimately, he came back here to the United States, and he has not faced any kind of trials or has not been charged with any kind of crimes him and his government committed to Cuban people. Yeah, because his a lot a lot of American famous American mobsters. He requested that they come and run the hotel casinos because the casinos weren't doing that well. And they, they turned the casino industry around for Batista. And he was well paid. And when he fled, he left with a lot of money. But the thing is, in the movie, you know, the Celia Cruz decided not to get her family out of there. And they stood there, unfortunately. And that was a big mistake in the Havana area. But the thing about the movie was it depicted the the communist regime on the Castro, the common common Dante, whatever the they were cruel, they were corrupt. It's just I just wonder how much accuracy or inaccuracy was in that movie. Like for instance, they there was one scene where they they knocked on Celia Cruz is home her mansion like home and says, we are the government is taking your home from you because there are homeless Cubans that need a place to live. And of course, Celia Cruz and the whole family flips out. What do you mean you cannot steal our home? This is our home. It's my money. I paid I had this home built for my family. So the common Dante says, Well, I tell you what, you can buy it back from the Cuban from the government at market value. Right. Got even more upset and then she ended up where she had to do that. Now, that sort of showed corruption within the Castro system, communist system there. And, you know, just maybe think of what percentage of that was true.  Right. The poor end perspective, that is what is known as collectivization, you know, whenever the new socialist or communist government comes in, they start taking property and make it state property that to make it as part of means of production or to seize it as other kinds of state property, especially for housing, you know, the way you're talking like this woman lived in a lavish mansion, you probably had like more stuff and more money than what she could really know what to do with it. And she probably stole that money from her workers. So that she was a mega star, right? And all of Latin America. So the fact that the new government came in took her home and allowed homeless people to live in that and also took her and I guarantee they also probably took her money and distributed or just seized it as state property to help fund education, health care, housing, jobs, etc. I mean, that's evil. How?  If you had a mansion like Joel Oste, that's a different story. Yeah, that is a completely different story because, you know, when people are living in lavish houses like that, they stolen money from people in order to have something like that. That's what capitalism does, especially in also religion. And we'll talk about that here in a moment is whenever people get pissed off and they form this new government of socialism and communism and they come in and want that money back somehow. The fact that the person who was stolen from is getting their property back that was stolen from them is evil. How? I don't see that. And what you said about religion, look at look at how wealthy the Roman Catholic Church is and they have their own bank, the treasury, you know, gold, God knows how many bars of gold bullion they possess and real estate. But gold is evil. Well, all I know is you could bury gold in a mud and it never loses its luster ever. You know, but anyway, I'll leave them while they ask for the collection plate at church. Well, well, the beers mining company, to me, is their scumbags, you know, whether it be diamonds or gold. That's another talk show that I mean, talk about retail and the capitalist system, fine jewelry and beers controlling the exportation of diamonds. There's so many diamonds being mined. It's not it's technically it is not a precious stone any longer. There's so many diamonds being mined and control the exportation to keep the price up. So, you know, people like commercials like Jared could say, $5,000 engagement ring diamond tennis bracelet, a diamond is forever.  Oh, look at my friend's engagement ring. But diamonds also can be used for other purposes besides jewelry. Yes, industrial grade industrial purposes. Yeah. Yeah. So they're keeping the diamond supply to a minimum so they can maximize profit because they know if they were to flood the market with diamonds, then the diamond value would just plummet because there would be such an abundance of it out there. Yeah. And that's why capitalism is such a illogical system is the market does not route does not allocate resources the way it should be allocated. And that's also a big difference is under social and communism, it's a planned economy. You know, it's not where the market dictates everything to where everything is just so irrational illogical. And there's so many fluctuations to where you could have like, oh, we're having this great time. But oh, we got this next great big depression coming. Now, that's capitalism in the free market for you. Not now in terms of capitalism and religion. Let's go back to the Catholic Church again. Yeah. Why does the Catholic Church need to have a need to advertise fundraisers to feed the children while they are so filthy rich? Why don't they feed the impoverished children of the world? Why must the average American have to donate?  But they don't do it. Well, this is one video that I was talking about, Jason under Ruhay over Maoist rebel news, and I've sent you some of his videos for you to watch. Yeah, this is one thing he come on his video about. Pope Francis is, you know, Pope Francis is anti-capitalist, but he's not pro-socialism. In fact, he's profudal. He's reactionary, not revolutionary. Oh, so he uses the he comes across as being a progressive, saying very progressive things in public. But in reality, he's not all that progressive. He's kind of like the Democratic candidates running now. That's why another reason why religion and socialism and communism are very antagonist. They're intact, but religion is also antagonist called a capitalism because, you know, as I was telling you about how capitalism just did a lot of copy and pasting from feudalism. And basically capitalism is just feudalism 2.0. Just the only differences between it was, you know, control was taken from the monarchy and from the church and placed over to the merchants. And that's another reason why religion doesn't like capitalism. But that's also another reason why they don't like socialism or communism is it seeks to get rid of religion or get rid of organized religion. So if you listen to the way religion is now and the way that people of religion really talk, especially the really devout religious people, yeah, they're anti-capitalists and they see it as a very inherently evil corrupt system. But whenever you listen to what they really advocate for, they're extremely right-wing the reaction. They want to undo progress. They want to take us back in time, back to feudalism. Well, as opposed to the megachurch evangelicals, which are very pro-capitalists, especially when it comes to hoarding or stealing the donation from their parishioners, their followers, your Benny Hins, your Joe Osteens, your Franklin Grants, Pat Robertson, etc. They're pro-capitalism. But they're only using organized religion as a way to get people apart with their money to steal. Yeah, that is why religion is also just why I despise it is for you to say that money is so evil, then why do you ask for it? It's like, why are you asking for the one thing that you view as evil? But I mean, in reality, money is not really good, but money is not really evil. Money is what makes the world go around. Money has a very dualistic nature. Yes, money can do great things, but money can also do very bad things. Well, yeah, like a laser beam. A laser can be a deadly, very effective deadly weapon, but it can also save lives in surgery. You know, it's like there's two sides to it. The Catholic priest that conducted my mother's funeral ceremony, the church wanted the money up front, the 300-some-odd dollars to do the funeral immediately. And they said, you get the priest for like 30, no more than 30 minutes, and did you know as soon as that minute came, I try to ask him a question or two. He booked it, he was out the door. Yeah, and that's one other thing about religion is, you know, for them to be so good on the surface, deep down it's evil.  I don't care how many questions you have. Goodbye, Charlie, you're out the door. See ya, see ya. Yeah, I mean, they... It's so hypocritical, too.  Your loved one passes away, fee, but there's also, you only get them for so long. They do what they have to do, and then they're out the door. But yeah, and I'm surprised that they're, you always hear about the Catholic church parishes really, we really need to increase donations desperately because our roof is leaking, and the building needs a little work here and there.  You can't repair the leaky roofs. You can't call the Vatican and get the funds for the leaky roofs. It's like, something's wrong with this picture. If there was a socialist revolution worldwide, and there was religious property seized as state property and sold off to actually have more funds, the amount of wealth that religion makes and how much property they've gotten, like assets, money in bank accounts, et cetera, it would be in the billions of dollars. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the trillions of dollars. Yeah, oh no, we can't tax the churches. Oh no, we can't seize church property, especially when people are starving. Don't tax the churches, but they show up to stick their Pinocchio nose in politics, don't they? Yeah, it's like, well, if you want to engage in politics and start paying your taxes.    Well, I'm glad you also brought that because that's another reason why the Russian orthodoxy and the Soviet government did not get along is how I told you in the last video, they wanted to halt progress. They wanted to halt progress, especially when it came to science. Religion is very anti-science. Hey, look at stem cell research. Christopher Reeves could have been possibly saved with no holds barred stem cell research and advancement. Yeah, so if anyone gets in the way of progress under socialism and communism, they're gonna be gotten rid of by any means necessary. I'm surprised that the Russian orthodoxy was not eradicated under the Soviet Union. I'm really surprised. Yeah, I mean, saving lives is not a negative thing.  It's actually a good thing. It's actually more Christian to use science and technology to save lives or to make a person's suffering end or to live a better standard of living. It is more Christian to use science to do that than it is to go around condemning science and advancement and technology and say, oh, you're playing God. Oh really, what would you rather do? All right, so let all the paralyzed people stay paralyzed. Let them all suffer. Okay, God's gonna come help them. Yeah, oh, we'll pray for you. That's what the zealots always say. Oh, by the way, that's what the blue devil for life said to me. That's James. I mean, not James, progressive discussions. I will pray for you. Hey, I'm not gonna hold my breath. Right, I mean, that's another reason why religion is so anti-science is science is completely antagonistical to God. Science could very well be why we're all here. It's very possible. We're all just one big extraterrestrial experiment. I believe that. I mean, just put it in perspective because I know we're gonna be running out of time here pretty shortly. I'm agnosticatious. I've been a diehard agnosticatist for a pretty good while because after seeing the way the world is and reading the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao, I have a really good understanding as to why the world is the way that it is. It's not some God versus the devil.  I just, I've tried reading religious scriptures. I've tried reading the Bible. I've read, tried reading the Koran. I've tried reading the Torah and other various religious works and just they make no sense. They really don't. Well, you know, Muhammad's original writings were destroyed by the Third Khalif. Mm-hmm. According to Islam, the archangel Gabriel, the messenger was the same angel that, from Judaism. Yeah. Again. And there's much copy and pasting from each other. Yeah. So the Third Khalif who was like an extremist decided to rewrite it. Just like the right-wing zealots today are trying to rewrite the original Bible, King James version of the Bible there. They want to rewrite everything and they cherry pick what they like. Exactly. Like the Marks will help in the poor. They leave that out. They don't like that part. Yeah. And another reason why I'm a diehard agnosticadious is seeing the way that the world is supposed to be and how God really is supposed to be making this.  That's the way I see it. Because if God, he or she does exist, he or she would be looking out for you. You know, he or she would be making sure that, you know, if I created you in my own image, I want you to do this, I want you to do that. You know, I really would be looking out for you.  You had food to eat. You had water to drink. You had access to healthcare. You had access to education. You had access to government infrastructure. You had access to a job. You have access to all of that. But where really has God been during all this? Sitting out, not caring? I mean, possibly that I will go along with if he or she does exist, he or she does not care about us. For some reason, I'm thinking about that. I could be wrong. I don't think it was the Simpsons. I think it was an episode of South Park where extraterrestrials were, where the planet Earth, civilization on Earth was one gigantic reality show for this planet of extraterrestrials. I wouldn't doubt it. They were thinking, and they were so upset with the outcome. They were thinking of canceling the show and destroying the Earth. It was either, I think it was South Park, but. No, Futurama, Omicron Percy 8. That was Futurama? Yeah, it was Futurama. Oh, thank you for, yeah, for bringing it up. I knew it was one of those adult cartoons. Yeah, I don't really consider Futurama to really be all that of an adult cartoon. No, South Park is more of an adult cartoon. South Park is a Futurama. Yeah, South Park is, with people from the future, we're coming into the pad, the orange people that we're looking for jobs, and they were. They call them goobacks. They're taking our jobs. They're taking our jobs. Yeah, I can do a pretty good part of it. They're taking our jobs. Dirk-a-dirk! Hey, that sounds like some of the people on Eric's Wild Card Wednesday show sometimes. Right? Doesn't he get me? I did that too, cause I even made myself laugh. Actually, that was quite good. They're taking our jobs. Dirk-a-dirk! Dirk-a-dirk! There was a Stan Marshes kid or the little Jewish kid. Who did Mr. Hankey appear to? The little Jewish kid, right? Hmm. Kyle? Yeah. It's been a while since I've watched South Park. I mean, South Park used to be really good back in the day, but now it's just, it's dumb. Well, they're running out of material. Like Seinfeld eventually ran out of good material.  The storylines, they're not great anymore, you know? Yeah, well, the last thing, I guess we'll wrap this up, since we're out of kid now in 15 minutes. Another reason why I'm a die-hard agnostic atheist is, I love the belief that I don't believe in a God in a traditional sense. If there is a God, it's the universe. Cause the universe was here before all of us. Matter came from the universe and everything we see and experience with our five senses comes from the universe. But here's where science steps in and religion gets thrown by the wayside and should be thrown to the scrap heap. The religion, or the universe is alive and the universe is conscious. You can feel the universe through all your five senses.  You can experience the universe. The universe is conscious and it has energies.  But you could probably smell the universe. I'm sure the universe probably has a smell.  Well, they claim there are, I don't know, and you can touch the universe. Yeah. If you went up into space, you could probably touch the universe, like put your hand out and touch it. Okay, well, that's four out of the five senses. And you could probably taste it.  So there you go. And you find this right there. Yeah, there's something called dark matter out there. I watched a science channel where those quantum physicists shows and everything is where they discuss black holes and the death of a star, supernova. This is all part of the realism that you were talking about. Yeah, but that's the atheistic part of me speaking. I'm not really like a, and I would consider myself an implicit atheist rather than an explicit atheist. I'm basing it purely on what I see, but my opinions can be subjective to change later. I'm not one of these. There is no God, there never has been a God, never will be a God, this and the other. No, I don't go along with that. But where I dive away from the agnostic sense is, I think it's unknown and unknowable, but only to a certain point. It's unknown and unknowable because of the way that they are approaching the idea of God is they're only looking at it from like one-sidedness. And they're not looking at it in a very heightened elevated sense of awareness. And they're not really looking at it too deep, so to speak. I mean, it is possible as an atheist and a man of science to believe that every human being does have this energy life force that can be a form of spirit that is either reincarnated or travels throughout the universe. Just, you know, is able to fly around, I mean. And science has also explained the life's most important question that religion has failed to just explain. What is the meaning of life? Science explained it biologically to reproduce. That's the meaning of life. What's the meaning of life for most living creatures on the planet? I mean, look at the, many members, not just insects, other forms of life that have very short lifespans. Their talimers are not too long.  Let's take a rat. A rat was claimed to be one of the top 10 most intelligent creatures on the planet. But the average lifespan of a rat is only a few years. But what do rats do? They bang out a lot of pups. They reproduce very rapidly. Give a seed a set of testicles on a male rat. They're like huge. But I'm wondering, you know, smartest, but they don't live long. But they're one of the top 10 most intelligent creatures. Yes, that is the answer to the meaning of life. To reproduce. To reproduce. Yeah, you're here to perpetuate the species, but as far as any individual meaning, most likely not. Well, I mean, it does have individual meaning, but it takes on individual meaning to an individual or a collective of individuals.  You get a war's Nobel Prize, just that and the other thing. And you actually affect mankind for the better. Now that's great meaning in one life, one human life. If you're just Joe Sixpack that sits in front of the TV and says, hey, get me a beer. Yeah, what the hell's matter? How long do I gotta wait for my dinner? You know, they're taking our jobs dirty if you wanted those guys. And then your life, you know, is- Doesn't really have much meaning. Actually, you don't really want those people to reproduce. Yeah, but you know, then- Yeah, to quote George Carlin.  Yeah, you ever see that? I saw a picket line of local people in the suburbs that were protesting at an adult store.  And they were not easy on the eyeballs, let's put it that way. Right. They were, yeah, like what George Carlin says, you wouldn't want to get intimate with them, not even if you were drunk. Right, last thing, then we'll go ahead and roll and wrap this up. This is one question I've gotten before. And this is one that I'm going to think about because it's all I do want to talk about in a future video. Okay, if socialism and communism is so antagonistical to any and all religions and atheism is so entrenched into the ideology, is there any religions out there that it would not be antagonistical to? Well, then another follow-up question would be, is there any religion out there that has shown to be anti-progress and science? Probably a great many of them.  It probably might be once I analyze this later, but if I had to think of one just right off the top of my head, using the how much science are they for versus against, how much progress are they willing to allow and how devout are the followers of this said religion? Age of Grace. Using all of those criteria, I would probably have to pick Buddhism. Yeah, Buddhism, the only thing I could think of off the top of my head. Buddhist, like when I think of Buddhism, I think of Shaolin monks, I think of people in Tibet, in Thailand and they're very inoffensive, laid-back, peace-loving people. Yeah, you're right. I don't think there would really buck heads with science and progress. And then what I mentioned before about ancient Greece, people who worshiped Zeus, there were lots of great scholars and men of science and deep thinking, all the famous Greeks that made such a huge contributions, Pliny, Aristotle, so on and so forth. You know, they were men of science, so to speak. Forget about the Catholic Church, they wouldn't let Leonardo da Vinci do anything or Galileo or even, what's his name? Nostradamus, who was an alchemist and did treat people with herbal preparations, herbal extracts. But yeah, Buddhism. I don't know about Hinduism. No, I would say Buddhism. And I don't know about Norse mythology.  Norse mythology. No, yeah, what would you call the religion of ancient Greece? I don't even know if they ever gave themselves a name. It would be like ancient Greek mythology, ancient Roman mythology. Yeah, the Romans. That would be the religion itself, ancient Greek or ancient Roman mythology. Yeah, Romans were big on progress and science. They kind of took over where the Greeks left off, Rome. Egypt. Yeah, I would say yes, there are religions that would not buck heads with science and progress. That's about the only one I can think of. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there might be others. The Incas, they did precision brain surgery with scalpels that were equally as sharp as the ones today. There are bits of advanced science throughout Mesoamerica in terms of like astrology, I'm sorry, astronomy, astronomy. And another reason why I draw upon this one is, remember how we were talking about in the previous video in North Korea, even though they're not really a religious country, they have a lot of Buddhism in their country. I mean, from what I can tell, Kim Il-sung as well as Kim Jong-un, as far as I know, Kim Jong-un have talking with Buddhist monks that are inside of the country for advice on different things and stuff. So it's not the reason why I draw it from that. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense. And hell, in fact, I was telling you that, even though Buddhism is really prominent inside of North Korea, that a lot of North Koreans believe that Kim Jong-un is Kim Il-sung reincarnated. And Buddhism does believe in reincarnation. You know, there are bubble headed boobies in the United States that actually believe that Buddha was a deity, that he was a God. He was a man. He probably equal to a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. You know, he wasn't a deity at all. And then the follow up question I get with that one, one time whenever I got asked that was, I threw that out as an idea and I was still kind of hesitant. I'm still just kind of just throwing off top of my head, not really thinking about it all that much, but I think another reason why it doesn't really clash with socialism or communism is that Buddhism in itself is not really an organized religion. And another reason why it doesn't really clash is Buddhism takes the fourth path when it comes to religion. You know, a lot of religions are based upon either theism, atheism or agnosticism. Buddhism takes the fourth way of non-theism, which means whether there is or is not a guy, whether it's unknown, it's unknowable, all that is just, it's irrelevant. Would that be considered a form of earth religion, like the religion of indigenous peoples of America, Native Americans of Wiccans, Wiccan paganism like the, and Voodoo, and earth religion, where they really in tune to the creatures of the earth and the environment. You know, or where they use Gaia, right? That like Mother Earth. Right, I'm trying to think. I would say no in that regard, because like I said, when it comes to Buddhism, whether there is or is not a God, whether it's unknown, it's unknowable, you know, all that is just, it's irrelevant. So if you were trying to compare it to like Wiccanism or Wiccan, where, you know, there are different gods and goddesses that really just, it would not make sense to Buddhism. What does it just say? Okay, all that really is irrelevant. Like with Hinduism, where they have thousands of gods and goddesses and demigods, and it goes on and on and on. Buddhism will be the complete opposite of that. Yeah, it's just, Buddha is worshiped as a God, under Buddhism. There are no gods, there are no deities. But if someone say, oh, that's atheistic, because they don't believe in God, there are no gods, but guess why it? I guess take a lot of that. Okay, well I'll be in there in just a minute, okay? Okay.  Yeah. Did Wyatt get on the webcam at all, did you see him at all? No, I just heard his voice. Okay. All right, just making sure. All right. So anyway, yeah, so we pretty much set a lot in part one and then part two will be at a future date. Yeah, I'm gonna make some more notes on part two because part two is more of what would be the present day. There would be a bit more to discuss upon and brush upon. I know it really didn't seem like we brushed on a lot, but if you really just took the ideas that we had talked about of the Second Bolshevik Revolution, really just thought about them and applied them to a way that, you know, how it was an hour timeline versus how things would be different in this alternate timeline known as alternate history.  I'm doing it as an, okay, let's take historical fact and let's see what could have actually been done. Let's say this one thing changed and where would it go from there? And even though I didn't really go into a great extensive detail because, you know, that would have been a whole day's discussion.  We want to hold, we want to hold the attention of the general population. Right. For, yeah, we don't want to lose people, you know, because, you know, the average person is just, can I think that deeply? You have to like simplify it. And it's good that we're slowly getting up to the present time, which happens to be, it's going to end with this 2020 campaign. And what's going on now, you have the American Socialist of America organization. Things like that would have taken, will be taken a much different direction in the part two video because the way that I stopped it is we stopped it at the 1990s, you know, the time when the Soviet Union, you know, it fell, but it also just dissolved. That makes these sense. That was the time when socialism failed globally, but it just, it dissolved at the same time that makes it be sense. You know, yeah, I'm thinking about the land. I don't know why I thought of it, the song land of confusion by Genesis, with the Ronald Reagan puppet. Yeah, yeah, well, that was Gorbachev, right? Yes, but in this alternate timeline, Gorbachev does not come to power. Brezhnev does not come to power. Oh, so the old Soviet government, when I was telling you about the transition from after Stalin died to, you know, social mockery and reintroducing this slowly chipping away, you know, it got chipped away a little bit, but it was not chipped away after where, it was the point to where, how bad it was under Brezhnev and the sealer of the deal of Gorbachev, because in that timeline, this alternate timeline, those two never come to power, because Khrushchev gets outed. I mean, who this alternate new chairman or chairwoman of the Second Bolshevik Revolution and the new Communist Party of the Soviet Union would be?  Now, probably in some parallel universe, something like that would have happened. We would have had to have gone to that alternate parallel universe to see how it transpired versus how the idea that I threw out transpired, so to speak. Okay, that's what made it so difficult was, it was a great topic to brush on, to really, you know, make one thing, okay, well, if it's really not inherently flawed, that there's really no inherent flaws in the system of socialism or communism, then why did it fall and how could it have really been saved if that's the case? Well, that's the first part of how it actually could have been saved. And what, yeah, what exactly, pinpointing exactly what went wrong to make it fall, how could it have been saved? That's what, now that was, you know, what I was able to find through research and jotting down my notes is, you know, we had talked about all that in the previous videos and seeing how it progressed, you know, I based my ideas on those ideas themselves. Okay, well, if those two ideas are those ideas of what caused it to collapse, then getting rid of those ideas could have saved it. I think Marxism that, you know, you think Scandinavia is the ideal of, you know, the ideal evolution of Marxism for today? No, really, because they're quite happy. They're quite happy people over there. Yeah, but they're not really all that happy anymore, as I explained. Yeah, social democracy worked good for a while for them, but now they're paying the price for their complacency and not actually having full socialism in their countries. Oh, okay. Because if you notice how right now the progress that Scandinavia had for so long is now being undone and how it's being undone through terrorism, because ISIS terrorists and other various terrorists are going to Scandinavia to undo all the progress. Oh, and they're getting in, they're able to see. Yeah, yeah, okay. But as I was telling you in the other video, that in, whether it's direct or indirect, that the United States is funding ISIS and is supporting ISIS. Well, it wouldn't surprise me if the United States is in cahoots with the Taliban drug lures with the opium in Afghanistan. I mean, nothing surprises me. Exactly. Yeah, that's just, that's why I stopped it right to the 90s, because from the 90s to the whole history of the 90s, the 2000s and the 2010s up to the present day, there's going to be more extensive detail. I really can't brush on those as little as I did from the past, because, you know, it's the past. You know, we have to take lessons from the past and learn them, but it's what we do here in the present that counts. Okay. Well, just like the other shows, they've all been very informative, very enlightening. Right. Very unique. I don't even, I don't even, I've never even heard Sank Aiko of the great young Turks give out information like you have done, or we have done collectively on this show. I mean, now he just laughs at his own little jokes and tries to act cute and everything. That's about it. But then again, he's got, he can buy and sell to both of us, only in America. Right. Right, right. Anyway, thank you. Until next time. Thank you. Comrade. Comrade. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.


QuickBooks Online 2022, cash payment for inventory linked to purchase order or PO. Get ready because it's go time with QuickBooks Online 2022. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file that we set up from the free 30-day trial, holding down controls, scrolling up just a bit to get to that 1-2-5% we're currently in the home page, otherwise known as the Get Things Done page and the business view as opposed to the accounting view. If you wanted to go to the accounting view, it's something that you can do by going to the cog up top, switching to the accounting view. We will be toggling back and forth and or taking a look at the accounting view in the sample company file just to get a feel for where different things are located in the different views. Going back on over to our QuickBooks file, we did last time entered purchase orders. We did so by hitting the plus button up top. We went down to the purchase order, the purchase order representing a request for inventory in our case for guitars from the vendors. When we enter the purchase order, we're not actually having any impact on the financial statement that being the balance sheet or the income statement, but whether having a request. In other words, we haven't made a payment. We don't have claim to the actual inventory at that point in time. We expect then the inventory to be received and be received with in essence a bill in it. In other words, we're going to imagine in our epic story about great guitars. We're going to get some boxes of guitars with possibly bills inside of them that are going to request payment. We can enter the bill in our system at the point in time we get them or possibly we can make the payment directly at this point in time, which is what we'll do this time. We're going to enter a check or an expense form paying the bill directly when we receive it being in essence more on a cash basis in that sense. Next time or next month we will then use the bill form to link to the purchase order just to get an example of the two items or the two methods we can use. So first let's open a few tabs up top. We're going to go to the tab up top, right click on it, duplicate that tab. Go to the tab to the left, right click on it again, duplicate it again. Go to the tab to the left, do it one more time, right click and duplicate again. We're going to be opening reports as that is thinking. Let's see where the reports are located in the accounting view jumping over to the sample file in the accounting view reports are on the left hand side in the reports area jumping back on over to the business view. I'm in the second tab, the reports here are located in the business overview area and then we're going to go into the reports section. We'll start off opening our favorite report the balance sheet report. It needs no introduction a report that tells us exactly where we stand at a point in time. We're going to say that the range is going to be 010122 to 123122 and run it. And then we'll go to the tab to the right of it, go back to the business overview this time opening up the PL, the profit and loss, the income statement. It can be called closing up the hamburger and then doing the range change from 010122 to 123122 and running it. Lastly, there's nothing in it by the way that's what we want at this point in time. Lastly, we're going to go to the tab to the right, go back to the business overview and this time we're going to be opening up the trustee trial balance otherwise known as the TB trial balance which doesn't stand for tuberculosis. It's trial balance. That's what the TB stands for, closing the hamburger, doing a range change from 010122 to 123122 and running it. There's the trustee trial balance. Okay, let's go back to the first tab. If we're tracking the purchase orders, I'm going to go back to the 125%. We then could go here. I can go to the get paid area and say let's imagine in our story here that we now have these boxes of guitars that we have received. We can then go into the vendor area if we want to track the purchase order for the guitars. We can say, oh, that box is from Epiphone. We can go into Epiphone and we can see the activity here for the purchase orders and then create a related bill for it or in our case, we're going to try to connect it with a check or expense form or you can track for all the open purchase orders which in this case are not in the same vendor center area as they are in the accounting view. In other words, if I went to the accounting view, if I went into the expenses area, then you've got the same vendor section that we're looking at and you also have this expenses tab which allows us to sort by transaction type for basically the vendor cycle. In the business view, they have stored that under the bookkeeping little calculator tab here instead of in the vendor center area under the transactions which makes sense. It could grow on me. I kind of like it, but it's different. So let's give it a chance for crying out loud. So we're over here in the expenses area and then I can close the hamburger and you can sort it by the purchase orders and then the open purchase orders for example and then apply that and now you can see all the purchase orders that are open which would be a common way to be tracking that information. You can also run a report for the open purchase orders. Okay, so I'm just going to go and open up the hamburger again and let's just open a check type of form assuming that we're just going to, instead of, we got a bill. Now remember there's a difference between a bill that we get in just normal language. We got a bill from the vendor and a piece of paper that's in the box and us entering the bill into the system because I got a bill doesn't mean I need to enter the bill into the system because in our system bill means that we're increasing accounts payable and I'm not going to increase accounts payable. Instead I want to write a check directly. So therefore I got a bill that's a physical bill but I'm not entering a bill into the system. I'm just going to write a physical check because the check is going to be the decrease of the check in account. So you can see the difference in language that you don't use day to day versus these forms which have a very specific meaning. Bill meaning we're going to increase accounts payable and not pay it at this point. Check meaning we're going to decrease the check in account and we are going to pay it and we're going to pay it with a physical check which will have a check number related to it. So we're going to go into the check form here and check that out. It's going to be going from the cash account and the payee. We're going to say it's epiphone. So I'm going to type in epiphone epiphone and notice what it does here that says hey I'm paraphrasing. QuickBooks is like hey we've got these two purchase orders that are outstanding is that what you're paying epiphone for and we're like yeah it is. Let's just add those in directly. We're just going to add those in and I'll add both of them into the same check. Both of them, boom. And there we have it and then we can close that up. So now we've got our check and we've got the check number is 1004. I'll keep that. The date, let's bring it on up to 14, January 14th in our story. So two days later we got the guitars from epiphone that we ordered and notice it's not a category item here because we're not going to apply it to a category. We're not applying it to the inventory account directly but rather we're going to have our inventory items down below. So here's all of our inventory items. I'm going to notice it gives you a little link thing here indicating that it's linked to a purchase order which I believe you can click on. I won't click on it here but it might tie you to the purchase order. Also it's tying in the particular customers for the customers that we had connected to the purchase order, to the purchase orders here. Now before recording this I'm actually going to close it without recording it because I want to take a look at a billable feature just to see how it would apply here and some limitations possibly with it. So I'm going to say, do you want to leave without saving? I'm going to say yes. And then I want to go up to my cog icon up top and just show this billable setting which is in the accounts and settings. And then it's going to be in the expenses area on the left hand side. So we'll be in the expenses area. And then we're going to go on down to the billing and expenses information. So this item here says make expense items billable adds a line item that could allow you to basically make something billable on the expenses.  So this would be possibly useful if for example you were entering billable items and as expenses like gas or utilities that you wanted to pull over to an invoice so that you can apply the customer on the bill and pull it over to the invoice and then you can mark it up with a percent markup if you wanted to. So you can say I'm going to pull over my gas fill or something like that and then I'm going to mark it up by some markup percent when I pull it over to the invoice. I'm not going to choose that one here. You can have it track billable expense and items as income. And this is another kind of issue that you would like it to pull in from a billable expense to an income line item generally. In other words, you would like it not to be a reimbursement generally which is one of the problems of not using basically items when you use this billable type of feature. It would be nice that it wouldn't for example have a decrease to utilities if you made something billable but instead had an increase to an income account. You can have it in a single account or in multiple accounts here. I'm going to keep that as is and then you've got the sales tasks. I'm going to keep that where it is. Now this could be nice for the purchase of the inventory but it has a bit of a problem in that I believe it's still going to pull in the cost of the inventory instead of the sales price when we use this kind of billable feature. And that's kind of a limitation here with regards to the connection. So I just want to point, just show you how that could work. And so let's take a look. So I'm going to save that. Let's go save it. And then I'm going to say save and done. And then I'm going to go back in. I'm going to recreate my expense form or my check form hitting the plus button going back into the check form. And let's make our check for epiphone. So I'm going to say epiphone on the check. And so it's coming out of the cash account. Once again, I'm going to purchase I'm going to pick up my two purchase orders to populate it. So that pulls it in for the purchase orders. And so that looks good. And so then it's as of the 14th, we've got our number, check number looks good. And so I think this should have been 104. I'm going to change that for the practice probably 104 on the check number. And then the categories down here. Now epiphone is pulling in the total is at the 3780. So that looks correct. And then these two items I'm going to mark off as billable attempting to tie this bill on over to the invoice that I'm going to create. In other words, when I make an invoice, when I turn around and invoice this item, then I'm going to make it to Eric music and try to pull this information into the invoice. Now I believe there's going to be a bit of a problem though because it's going to try to pull them in at the costs here. And you would think it would be nice. And I believe this works a little bit better on the desktop version for some reason, because if you have the actual inventory items, then you would think it would pull in the income item or the income amount, not the cost amount, which is what we're paying for. The retail amount is what it should pull in. But by using the billable item, I believe it's going to basically pull in the cost amount. So let's just check that out. So I'm going to save it. I'm going to say save it and close it. And we'll enter the invoices later, but just to take a look at it. Now if I was to turn around and say I'm going to sell this with an invoice now to say Eric music, and I was to type in Eric music, Eric music and typing that in, then we've got our information on the right. I'm not going to save this, but if I just add this in, I can see that we have then the rate at the 400. Notice that if I type in actual an ELP guitar, the rate that we're selling it for should be 500, not the 400. And of course I should have made it taxable on the actual bill itself to make it a taxable item. But that's not really the problem here. The problem is the fact that it should be pulling in basically using the item for the sales price. So that billable, you got to be careful with that billable item. The two things that you want to be careful about with the billable item is, one, if you use a billable item, is it charging the proper income account when you pull it in to the invoice? And number two, if you're using inventory, is it charging the right amount on the form in terms of the sales price versus the cost? So we'll take a look at that a little bit more when we get to the invoice. I'm not going to record this at this point in time. Just kind of be aware of that. I'm going to say, do you want to leave without saving? I'm going to say yes. The check, actually, if we go to the balance sheet and see the impact of the check form, we can go into the cash. And we'll, of course, we'll then see the check, which will be a decrease to epiphone. There it is. If I drill down on it, then we're going to have our check form here. So that looks good.  The other side did not go to the income statement. It went to inventory. So if I open my inventory report here, then we have our activity for the inventory. And it puts it in here by the individual items on the invoice instead of the lump sum of the invoice. And then I go back on over. We can also look at the sub ledger for inventory because this should tie out to the sub ledger tracking by inventory items since we're tracking on a perpetual inventory system. Let's take a look at the second tab to do that because there's nothing in the profit and loss yet. Open it up the hamburger. Let's go down to the reports, which is in the business overview reports. And let's type out an inventory report, inventory valuation summary, let's say. And then I'm going to close up the hamburger, scroll up just a bit. And now this should reflect what is currently in the system. We're currently at the 39,976. We've got these quantities of our inventory units. 39,976 is the 39,976 here in the balance sheet. Now if I went back on over to the first tab, we can also see that if I went into my transaction at detail information, for example, and so we did that by going into the bookkeeping area and we looked at the expense side of things, closing the hamburger. If I was to filter this by all purchase orders, applying that out, then we've got these purchase orders. And then of course now we can sort it by the ones that have been fulfilled. And so I only want the open purchase orders and scrolling down and applying that, that reduces it down here. So now we're going to say we got another one. Let's say we're going to make a check for the Gibson USA ones. I'm going to open the hamburger. I'm going to hit the plus button and we're going to make another check. We're going to do this with a check form to pay off the bill that we got from the box of guitars from Gibson. So I'm going to type in Gibson USA and tap, tap. And once again, paraphrasing. QuickBooks is like, hey, there's two purchase orders. Do you want to use those to populate the check? And we're like, yeah, thanks, QuickBooks. That's really helpful. So we populate that in there and we're going to say, okay, let's tap through this thing then. And so let's say this is on the 15th. We'll bring it up to the 15th. Check number is checking out. So we're going to go down and say there is the population here. And we got this first one once again that it gives us the reminder of the customer. We could make it billable. I'm going to go ahead and do it. I'm going to make it taxable too, but it's also again going to pull in the amount of the price at cost, most likely when we make the invoice. So we're going to turn around and sell it, but it's probably going to pull that in at the cost. So we got to be mindful of that. I just want to point that out and show that and we'll see it more when we make the invoices. Let's save it and close it and check it out. So we can see here that if we're in our bookkeeping area that we were left with only the one purchase order that's still open. So it filtered that down again. If we go then to the tab to the right, our balance sheet and drill down on the cash account, we're going to see another check that went out for, in this case, Gibson USA. There's the check. I can drill down back to the source document. If we wanted to, going back up top, going back to our balance sheet, we see the other side should be in the inventory. There it is going into the inventory. We've got a purchase. The purchase happening in this case with a check for multiple items. Notice these two checks are adding up to the same amount. They put it in there line by line here for these two lines on the purchase. So I'm going to go back on up top. I'm going to go back and close this out and scroll back up top. Notice just one more thing to notice. I'm going to go in there again that you've got the link. It shows you the link up top with the two linked transactions, which if you click on are the purchase orders, which of course you can then go into the purchase orders to show you that linked transaction which is nice. Closing that back out and scrolling back up top and going back to our report summary. And so let's then go to the inventory report which I think was in the middle. Refresh that one running it. That's at the 46868 now, which should tie out to the balance sheet in the inventory 46868 and it does. So let's do it again. Going back to the first tab. Let's do it one more time. Uno, vase, moss. We're going to say this is going to be another purchase order. I actually know what am I doing? That's not a purchase order. Hold on a sec. This better be the last one because you're losing it man. This is going to be a check. This is going to be a check. That's what we're doing. I know what I'm doing. What are you talking about? I know what's going on here. This is going to be for diamond head. For the ukuleles and once in paraphrasing QuickBooks is like, I have a purchase order. Do you want to add the stuff from the purchase order? And we're like, yeah, we do. Notice the link that populates up top. So you can kind of check out the purchase order if you want to. And then we can tab through this. We'll keep it at the 15 here. We got the check number is on the six. So we can scroll down. We got the ukuleles that pulled in. We're not tying them out to any particular person. We just like to have some ukuleles in the shop in case someone wants to pick one up. Come on in, pick up a ukulele. So we'll save that one, save it and close it. And then obviously nothing is now in our transactions in the bookkeeping area. If I was to go into the get paid and the paid area and search by vendor, I could for example go into the diamond head ukulele area and we could see the detail here which we had a purchase order and we had a check that was linked to the purchase order. If we go then to our reports, holding down control, scrolling up again, once again, checking account is gonna have another check in it. And we're gonna say diamond head, there it is. There's the 72, scrolling back up. The other side on the inventory account, inventory, checking on that, drilling down to the source doc which is a check in this case. Let's check out that check. Shall we? There it is. There's the check there. Checked it out.  And we know that the inventory account too will be tying out to the sub ledge or the sub report. You could call the inventory summary, the 469-40. 469-40, let's refresh the inventory valuation. And so there are 469-40 there. The ucs that we have, the DUC ucs at four of them left thus far at this point. Okay, let's go back to the trial balance so we can see everything in one area and just kind of review where we stand at this point in time. This is where we're standing firmly on this trial balance ground. This is our left foot, the debits in the right foot, the credits. And so you can check out where we're at at this point. If you tie out, that's great. If not, check the date ranges to see if the date ranges are the thing that's throwing you off. And we'll then do a transaction detail report at the end of the section, which will be another area that you can use to kind of check where you stand and what might be some differences if there are any.


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