Oh, yeah, that's right. Do you remember Jackie who worked with you? Yes, I remember. Thomas was a Yankee. Thomas is a big Yankee. He's not allowed to wear that hat when you're here. Thomas is definitely a Yankee. He's a big Yankee. Say come on. Say come on. I think I'll need to do it with the last few minutes. Oh, yeah. We are able to sit so long. Yeah. I'm going to try it out. The whole thing is hard. They don't predict. They lose. That's you. Absolutely. Yeah. They don't even bother with me. Even their kick-off turns forever. Better than they ever did. They just want to make sure they don't... They don't. They want to hit you at the right time. They'll hit you right now. They'll hit you right when you're out. They'll hit you right when you're out. They'll hit you right when you're out. They'll hit you right when you're out. You'll get the parents. You're going to teach them how to play. You can take your guys from around. Who? Seat. Seat? We're going to wear what we have. We're gonna see on the hot list. We're going to talk about Jared Groove in a while. Before you go, we're gonna do a video. We're gonna do a video. Jared Groove. Jared Groove.  I have it. I've put it in for the Mark Jackson. I'll put it in for the Mark Jackson. No, I'm not. I'm not. You can do it like a whole. Okay. Edgar, what's going on? All right, gang, if you're just joining us, we're only live for a very short amount of time. Just basically just say hi and go through some orders. We've got some pre-orders in here. We've got the JASPY's holiday party tonight. So, but I got here a little early. So, I decide to go live and say hello. So, hello, everybody. Waiting for a Dodger's movie. When's that gonna happen? Like I said, I think we're gonna be more in the... I think we're gonna be more in the trade market, I would think. We got triple-threads pre-orders up and contenders optic basketball pre-orders up. Nice. Good news. The break credit promo is also... is also being extended to tomorrow night. Which I think people will be happy to hear. Got a little extra time. Grizzled Bees, what's up? How are you? How's it going? Oh, my God. I'll just be back. Thanks. So, I'm gonna be here in three hours. I have a question. I think it's probably going to be a nice amount of time. Are you sure about that? I think that's just a good point. I think, yeah. I'm gonna be here in a minute. I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna be here. It doesn't have to be a long time. It doesn't have to be a long time. I think you should play with people. I'm just gonna have a minute. Okay, let's see. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Is it a one-off? Yeah, it's a one-off. Oh, wow. Thank you so much. Thanks. No problem at all. All right. Okay, so... And hopefully they'll realize that it's not going to happen and they'll just do a story on us. That'd be awesome. Yeah, it's really ambitious. No, but they didn't have it like that. Now it's like a police officer who's there. Clear. Somebody on spot. I think they had a couple of it. They wanted clear plan. They had the right server. 30's, 30's, 30's, 30's. Okay, so then they lost the price. Right. And they got the best price. Right. And they got the best price. Right, now over the year, that year, was it that year? A little bit of a loss. That's the game you used to play. You know, that's the game you used to play. There's a lot of off by the day lines.   Yeah, because they lost the cops lost it. Yeah. At least an hour. I mean, I said, well, just find somebody, you know. How you didn't, you know, it's not a good thing. Yeah, you have a question now, so you have a word. You have a... Okay, but how do they pull that thing out? I want to be a... I wonder if they got it for me.  Mm-hmm. I am. I am. Are you? Yeah. There better be TVs there. They're better be. I was, I was, I was telling, I was telling Marinus, like, there's no TVs there. We're losing Michael. He's going to be like, I gotta go watch this Cardinals game. Just have it on my phone. Yeah. That's true. What do you got? I'm going Patriots. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think Cardinals are weird at home. Yeah. I like that. I like that. Yeah. That could, that could pop. Yeah. When I look, James Conner will rush for like three, and then I'll be out. Come on, James Conner ruining it for the rest of us. Are you lying? Mm-hmm. Not for long, though. It's basically to go through orders and say hi to people. Yeah.  I was trying to do a U.S. and it was weird. I had to go out and hit that one. I'm not even going to do that. I didn't want to hit that one. Yeah. I got to get a silver to 10, didn't we? Not my style. Yeah, I'm not even going to win. No, I don't know. I'm not even going to win. I'm not even going to win. I'm not even going to win. I'm not even going to win. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not even going to win. All right gang well listen we are not gonna be live for very long and I don't know what we have time for. A lot of pre-orders though so we're just gonna hang out for a little bit. I mean I think we got realistically maybe even earlier than that. We'll kind of leave it at that for now. Bowman. Yeah we can do that Bowman. You want to do this Bowman? Three left. That's right Rhino short day today. Yeah that's actually a perfect one to do. If you want to do that Bowman Chrome just three left in the team random. Yeah we got our Jaspie's holiday party today so we'll be uh... I mean I wasn't even gonna go on today but I want to go through some orders. If you want to do that Bowman Chrome you can definitely do that. I'll probably call it after that. But good news that break credit promo was extended to Tuesday so hopefully tonight and tomorrow hopefully people will be working on this filler. I think we got to do a few of those so I think we yeah we got to do two full spots and two more fillers or you know once we do these two fillers we can probably just keep you know we can minus one and do a you know random team seven and we can go from there but um but let's take advantage of that extension on that promo. Giving away a lot of break credit we don't want to leave it on the table. I can I could squeeze one of these breaks in tonight too before 22 left on that but that Bowman Chrome team random only three left. We've got time for it if you want to. And we took $40 off the spot on this. Number two of these. Braves are sending. Cowboys are sending. That's true. I think they went in Bowman Chrome. Yeah it's so fast. Yeah. Got it. I have someone funny that's in Bowman Chrome that I hate. Sorry about that. I'm sorry about that. Yeah I don't know if I want to say that. You see what's going on. I can force the line up pretty hard. I can talk to you after. The question I can't get along. To be a part of my part. And you know that's Bowman Chrome. Yeah. Shit, certainly, I think. And season eight, shit, certainly, I think. No Damian Harris, we don't need to see all of that. Even better, even better, I don't know if you can do that. Remondering all night, dude. I'm gonna find one for all of you. James, like, the time of the time. Jesus, no, I don't think I'm gonna see you do it. How many times is like, I screw you, man, ask me. Any more to your head, spin, target, three outlets. James, what do you think? You are now at your time, right? And how many? How many? Four more. And you have the back of your screen open? What? The back of your screen is open, huh? I got you. Oh, please. Why do you need it? That's something I'm gonna tell you. There's also, um, uh, so many things that I need to know.  I don't think I'm gonna do any longer than that. I have a magnet that's kind of, um, all right, Jeff picks up Switzerland in choice 10. Jonathan gets two in hip parade basketball, dual case. Canard gets bowls in contenders, optic one and two. We just dropped pre-orders for that, thank you. Teams are going fast, so grab your teams in those pre-orders before someone else does. And gets an eminence filler spot. Awesome. So, like I said, an abbreviated day for us. I'm not even tweeting out that we're live. Just an abbreviated day for us. Um, we got time for this team random, if someone wants to sell this out, but not an infinite amount of time. We probably have to fill it by, well, in the next 15, 20 minutes or so if we want to get this in. The filler for the dual case break is actually getting kind of close. Six spots and three full spots there. We can do that break. That'd be easy to do. I would love to do one of these eminence fillers so I can post another one. It's down to 21 spots now. So again, we are... I mean, I might even sign off a little bit earlier than that, but we are only here just for a very, very small window of time. So if you want to get something done, it's time to act and buy spots. If not, no big deal. I wasn't even go live today anyway, so... But I got to the shop a little early for a meeting with some people or maybe thinking about doing a documentary on some hobby related documentary. So we're just...  Took the meeting. It's hanging out there. Why the short day? Right... There's the reason right there, JOP, right on your screen. We filled up that basketball section. That new release should be really fun. Contender's Optic Hoops. It's going to be a good times. So pre-order now before someone else takes your team. It's good to act early on those pre-orders. Yeah, it's good times. I think we're going to a barbecue place, JOP. Should be pretty fun. I think this might be our first off-site holiday party in a couple of years, I want to say. In the last two years, we had it at the shop. Yeah, come on, come on by the shop, Joe Pizzle. We can carpool. Who do we have in this Patriots Cardinals game? Jonah's a degenerate. He is, he is. I love it, though. It helps Joe's pigs on the lawn. Jonah might be buying hair. That is. 50 bucks on that? I can get a little snap. Right.  What do you have left? Two of my first half over-passing. Oh, no. Is it like $0 or $250? What do you have tonight? I'm on Patriots Mass too. Patriots, all right. Patriots, it's going to be, I'm going to suspect it's going to go under in Patriots. So of course it's going to be a high-storing game and Arizona is going to forgive us. But, I mean. That seems fine. I mean, I think they'll just run a lot of re-laundry seasons soon. Re-laundry. I just want to hear that. I need 22 points between re-laundry and under Henry to make the balls. So, I need re-laundry to do what he's been doing, actually. And now games are starting to get on Saturday. I know. Right. Who had the short turnaround this week? Joe Pizzle saying Cardinals in a must-win scenario. Let's see. Let's see where both teams are at here. So the Patriots are within striking distance of a playoff spot. I don't know what they have in the tiebreaker here. Maybe the conference tie would be the tiebreaker if they're 7-6 if the season ended today. So they want to win if they want to keep their playoff hopes alive. Right. And then the Cardinals sitting at 4-8. I mean, that must be it, right? They're not mathematically eliminated, but would they be mathematically eliminated after today? If they're 5-8, they're still kind of, there would only be a couple of games behind here. They got a leapfrog a lot of teams. That's also the other thing. If they can be 6-8, right? They'd leapfrog a few teams at 6-8, right? Or no, at 5-8, they'd be right in this group right here. And if they could separate themselves and kind of get into this range, well, they kind of have to win out, right? Now, this is a tough matchup, but if they can win here, they could beat these guys. Tampa Bay's not looking very good. They could beat those guys. You know, they could beat those guys, right?  And then Niners might be resting guys. By the time you get to Week 18, that could be a win. And all of a sudden, you know, 5-8, 6-8, 7-8, 8-8, 9-8, Nick's asking how much are the Pelicans in Contender's Optic $80, $79.99? Two spots left in the team, random. That's about it. No, not yet. Maybe tomorrow on that. All right, thanks, Oliver. See you, man. I don't know why that says two spots left. I have four spots left on this. So that number might not be accurate, ladies and gentlemen. So Travis got one spot. Michael F got one spot. Edgar got one spot. Ed got one spot. Andrew got one spot. Adam got one spot. Eric got one spot. Brian with one. Chris Butler with one. SKS with one. And that's it. Whoever posted this maybe put the wrong number in. I'm losing my mind. That was from Pick Your Team 1918. That was yesterday. This is for 19. All right, Jeremy Port did just sell out this thing right here.  Yeah, they were pretty good. One wonders what that season would look like if they had a healthy offensive line for most of you. All right, so that just leaves us with three spots away from this break right here. All right, here we go. Happy Monday. This is Joe and I'm coming at you with a box of 2020-2021 Mosaic Basketball Serial Box Edition, Random Team Number 9. This is the only filler we got to do where we give away nine spots in the hip-rate basketball break. There's only three full spots left there and then we'll be in Breaksville on that. Big thanks to this group for making this happen. We're going to do the break first. Let's roll it randomized at four and one five times. One, two, three, four, and a one. And we'll do a different dice roll for the giveaway part as we usually do. But thanks everyone for taking the risk on this. Four and a one five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and a one. Fifth and final time. No trade windows as well. We'll just dive right into the ripping. All right, so here's the first half of the list right here. And the second half of the list right over there. It's just print and rip. Could there be some surprises in this serial box? A prize inside the serial? Yes, there could be. But the main, the main chase of course is the, are those hip-rate spots. Good luck everybody. Landry Shamit, Rookie Lamar Stevens. Looks like nothing too crazy here. But who's going to win those spots? That's the whole point of this. So it's going to be the top nine after nine. Three and a six, nine times. Good luck everybody. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. Yeah, thankfully that's not the main point of this break. Joe hisled the box. We got nine big hits right here. Because the top nine, ladies and gentlemen, are going to win those hip-rate spots, $110 value. Those are hits, Joe Pills. That's what's good about this box. Herman, you're in. Jeremy, you're in. Ed, Eugene, Elliott, Jeremy, Jonathan, Eugene, Jeremy Port, LastBod Mojo. Congrats to the top nine. Those are some big hits right there. The rest of you, thanks for taking the risk. Appreciate it. We'll get them next time. I'm Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye. Anyone want to finish off those final spots there? Nice. SKS does, gets a spot in that hip-rate, dual caser. Just need two more people, and then we're in Brakesville. And I'll be honest with you, this might be the only break that I do. It's actually not intending to go live at all before the holiday party. But spots are moving, so I was like, why not? Thanks, Herman. Yeah, this is the season. This is the season for giving. So two full spots left. If you want to give that a shot, and we can get this break on the road right now. All right. Tiz, the season. Joe P gets a full spot. And Steve Burch, last spot. Mojo. Nice. All right. So the next break, the next break is the last break. You don't have any more boxes. So give me a second here. Let me load this up. So we've been doing nine spot fillers, right? So let's plan for two. But we can reserve the right to cancel one if full spots are moving swiftly. And they often do. All right. So yeah, this will be the break that we'll do, and everything else will go off tomorrow. Back normal time. Three o'clock Pacific. Six o'clock Eastern. And we will do, we'll do it all. Let me do one more thing here before I forget. Hi, everyone. Joe for jaspie's casebreaks.com. Coming at you with Hit Parade. Jaspy Exclusive. Random team break number 13. 20 total boxes. Hitless giveaway. All right. Their top two names will win $110 of break credit each if you end up hitless. Big thanks to this group right here and to it. And there are the teams right here. Let's roll it and randomize names and teams three and a three. Six times six the hard way. One, two, three, four, five and six. Got Andrew down to Bobby. Three and a three. Six the hard way for the teams. One, two, three, four, five and six. And we got Washington down to the Pelicans. Probably not Go-Bolt. I think we're just short of time there. Andrew with the Wizards. Jonathan with the Rockets and the Heat. Tim with the Raptors. Jeremy with the Pacers and Grizz. Zach with the Thunder. Ed with the Lakers. Herman with the Spurs. Thomas with the Knicks. SKS with the Sons. Jonathan Mavs and Hawks. Ed with the Hornets. Pat with the Bulls. Steve Birch with the Jazz. Jonathan Clippers and Cavs. Pat with the Magic. Jonathan with the Celtics. Eugene with the Trailblazer. Steve with the Sixers. Eugene with the Pistons. Jeremy with the Bucks. Jonathan with the Kings. Thomas with the Nets. Elliott with the Warriors. Brett with the Nuggets. Joe P. Pizzle with the T-Wolves. And Bobby B. With the Pelicans. All right, we're going to pause the video. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break. So stick around. We'll see you on the other side. No, but we have two weeks for fantasy. You're done with fantasy. Oh, yeah. You like it? Yeah. They're trying to do an episode, so who knows what they're actually doing? Something about the hobby. You know, more power to them. Jonah, as a business man, you're taking free advertising any day of the week, right? What type of question is that? Every day of the week. Every day of the week. Every second of the day. Every second of the day. Come on. All right, trade window closed. Good luck, everybody. If you're using sports card or anything, I don't think you can... I think a lot of people put a lot of unnecessary stock and weight into what they say. A lot of this stuff is not entirely factual. I think they kind of troll and needle people and then get reactions and then they post it and then there's like, see what we thought was true. But yeah, you know, maybe take a... You got to take their content with a block of salt. I don't think they necessarily do or care, really. All right. Hi, everybody. Welcome back. No deals were done, so that list right there remains the same. The next two case break, random team break is in the store. And that's the last two cases that we have of this Jaspie exclusive. So if you want to get on it, check it out. We worked with Hit Parade to create this product for us. Curated by Jaspies, powered by Hit Parade. Just for you, ladies and gentlemen. So thanks, everybody, for getting in. Appreciate it. Did I take the... I think I took this out of inventory system. Let me keep track of the Hit List peeps. You have a chance to win some break credit. This doesn't work out for you. Gather up all the Hit List names and randomize them top two and win some break credit. All right. Good luck, friends. Here we go. First one out of the gate is going to be Dominique Wilkins, legendary contenders. Nice. 62 out of 99. Atlanta Hawks. That's going to be for J.K. Jonathan K. Next up is Davion Mitchell. Nice three-color patch and autograph. Nice little RPA from Spectre Hoops. 35 out of 49. Sacktown. That is going to be also for Jonathan K. He's heating up. Kings, I feel like playing some good basketball recently. Next up is Cole Anthony, Orlando Magic rookie autograph. Penmanship, rookie auto. Orlando, that's going to be for Pat. I feel like Orlando's got a good collection of youngsters, talented youngsters, high draft picks. And I feel like it's just not playing well now. At least the record doesn't show that, but you got to think at some point that just clicks, right? A lot of teams like that. I feel like Cavs are like that. There's Desmond Bain. Rated rookie autograph for the Grizz. That's going to be for Memphis. That'll be for Jeremy Port. OKC, another team with a good collection of youngsters. They'll be good for the hobby. They start heating up. Graded card. Graded card. We have an autograph, a PSA 10. It is Isaiah Stewart. Nice, Pistons. Pistons, another. The record doesn't show it, I think, but that's another team. This is for Eugene with Detroit. It's another team with a good collection of youngsters. I mean, it may take a season or two, but they've got a good collection of youngsters. If they get together, if that all clicks. Ooh, another graded card. Nice. We're just talking about this team. We're talking about some OKC Darius Basely. Fast break autograph, PSA 10. And that will be for Zachary. Zach with a thunder. We've got Majestic signatures, Jason Kidd. Mavericks edition. 37 out of 49. That's pretty cool. Dallas, that will be for Jonathan K. He's heating up. He's on fire. Ooh, big game James for my Lakers. 13 out of 49. What year NT this is? 2019-2020 NT basketball. Peerless signatures for the Lake Show. That's going to be for Ed P. And the Lakers. And then, got Donovan Mitchell. Got Davion Mitchell. Here's Donovan Mitchell. Utah edition. Nice auto. Steve Birch. That's last spot Mojo. 70% of the time. Last spot Mojo hits 100% of the time. And Nikola Jokic. 15 out of 15. Scripted signatures. That's pretty cool. Denver. That's going to be for Brett. There you go, Brett. Wait, there's more. All right. Case two. I've got Jalen Suggs. Another one of those Orlando youngsters. 22 out of 25. Revolution rookie autograph. For Pat Phelps. And the Orlando Magic. Jersey and autograph. Bones Highland. For Denver. Brett. Brett with Denver. Bones. He's been playing pretty well. Looks good. Last year, I think getting some more minutes this year. Graded card. It is Cade Cunningham. Nice. And his college gear. This is for Detroit. It's going to be for Eugene. Nice rookie autograph. 17 out of 19. The next box. We have Chris Duarte. Three color patch and autograph. RPA from Obsidian. Three out of 25. Pacers. That's going to be for Jeremy Port. And Indiana. Anthony Simons. 82 out of 125. Draft Day Inc. From Absolute Hoops. Portland. That will be for Eugene and the trailblazers. We got Chris Middleton. Sensational autograph. For the Milwaukee Bucks. Six out of 25. From 2021-22. Prison Basketball. Milwaukee. Jeremy Port. And for the Lakers. Kyle Kuzma. Kuz. It's another Laker for Ed P. We got Pascal Siakam. Rookie Auto. Nice. Pascal Siakam. For Tim and the Raptors. Nice rookie Auto. Two more to go. Ladies and gents. Jalen Brunson. Rising Star signatures. For Dallas. 12 out of 49. For Jonathan K. Last hit. Good luck everybody. Thanks for getting in. And it's going to be Donovan Mitchell. From Prism Mosaic. This is 1819. Back when kind of Mosaic looked like this. And that was for Utah. That's for Steve Birch. Another one for you.  Thanks everybody for getting in. The next two boxes are going to be the next two cases that is are going to be the last breaks of these. So get back into those. Now this group right here. My apologies. You went hitless. No good. Terrible. But. There's a second chance. Opportunity. I'm going to randomize this list. And the top two is going to get $110. Of break credit. Each. After. Three into three. Six the hard way. Good luck. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. And six. After six. Jonathan. Steve Birch. Some break credit. You went hitless with those spots. But some break credit going your way to soften the blow a little bit. Thanks for watching everybody. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. And I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye. Yeah. What's up? Yeah. I can't seem to find it over here. What? Which doubleheader? Oh, the Beaumacrone doubleheader. Okay. Right before the game. There you go. Do you just need one set? Do you want a second set? No. That's it. I'm good now. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Love you. Love you. Is that Mark? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. You're welcome. I wasn't gonna do it. I was gonna I was gonna bail on you guys To go to our Christmas party, but I guess you forced my hand Yeah, I asked Nick actually if Nick said he didn't want to pack sack. I would have said good night I mean, I wasn't I wasn't supposed to go live anyway I just I did this because I wanted to Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's case race comm of the team random for bowman chrome baseball picker team 19 Guaranteed a team. We took some money off per spot pretty nice stuff right here So we're just randomizing your names not the teams big. Thanks everyone here for making this happen. Let's roll it Let's randomize it eleven times six and a five one two three four Five six seven eight nine ten and eleven and final time boom edpy up top After eleven you're getting a big team there the Guardians Put a little rooftop next to your name so you know you won that spot Congrats Chris nice one here to Brewer's Eric with the Mariners Edgar with the Rockies Alex with the Rangers Stephen with the Red Sox Matthew with the Royals Brian with the Angels Travis with the Giants Michael with the Braves Matthew with the Marlins Michael with the A's Andrew with the D-backs and Adam with the Blue Jays. We'll see in the next video for the break Jasper's case breaks All right, is he the boss man? I think of Nick's dad is the boss man Nick Jasper Maybe just the man is there they're moving kick it a second and story to short That makes sense take this off the site and I'm gonna post another one of these so you can pick your teams with some luck We may be able to do another one of these tomorrow Now remember we're going to our Christmas party after this so plenty of time to Research your teams by your teams By early and often and we'll be able to maybe get another one But a bowman chrome a day keeps the doctor away right Nick. That's what they say medical facts Right here ladies and gentlemen Although we are not doctors. We're not MDs and remember Nick Extended that promo till tomorrow as well So if we can sell one of these out tonight, we could post another one tomorrow or later tonight can post one from home and We can keep selling those out and we can keep taking spots out too. So as it stands now We're just doing Two fillers two full spots, but we can do four fillers if those full spots don't go that's loaded up great credit sent out What is this? Oh, that's HTA I Like when I like when we get sometimes we'll get feet RIP Mike Leach. Who's Mike Leach? Oh really Hi everyone Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm you can see Nick right here with the case he's gonna help pack stack This is pick your team 19 Thanks everybody, and you can also see him on the top camera right there Thanks everyone for filling this up Short night tonight. We're going to our Christmas party after this But we decided to pop in and pop on and then see if anything fills and we got a few things done Which is nice. All right, so this break should be pretty lightning fast Because we got Nick's help after this will be Out enjoying Little team event. It's always good to take a break from all this crazy nice and Do some stuff for the team Who's most likely to spike the eggnog Diego's wondering? Well, I don't think they'll be eggnog there. We're going to like a proper restaurant. So I think I Think we'll just be straight up Getting alcohol is everyone over 21. I mean gotta watch out can't get in trouble You don't want to get sued by his parents Right, that's true not not checking IDs We'll blame it on the restaurant. Did you sign your waiver? It's only axel so work for us. Yeah, I'm great All right all card ship especially Cade Marlowe 47 out of 99 we'll do Autograph recap at the end of this break as well That's for Eric and the Mariners one that spot in the team random You know countries like Italy and stuff they close from like 12 to 2 for lunch.   This is for Mark Mark L and the Cardinals we did we got all the permissions to slip sign to Mike tower Everyone's good There's Ricardo Cabrera to 499 refractor Got a cat 11 out of 50 gold shimmer for the Marlins that's gonna be for Matthew Another full box right here both of mini boxes stacked We got Emmanuel Valdez Steven Carney Houston Astros Well nice mark. I'm glad you stood strong because you were rewarded with this case. Oh nice Christian Vicaro 124 out of 125 aqua for Jacob and the Nationals One of the one of the top chases for the Nats We'll see a lot of these base bowmen first, but numbered ones. We definitely Like we like to see it. We'd like to see it Set the line So the over Over definitely definitely mostly from your dad There's Leonardo Balcazar Cincinnati red legs that'll be for Henry the Rizzo refractor is gonna be for John and the Yankees someone was also asking earlier Justin Clement is Teddy dressing up his Santa for the party he should and I don't know if Rex has made a comment yet on the triple threads image Is he a screwed That's right Teddy is a little bit of a scrooge. He's he's enjoying the Murphy bed in his apartment There's a Reginald press the auto Oh, he talks about it he's talked about it on on air that's Joe and the Cubs Yeah Although now he was telling me you saw him yesterday. He doesn't know if he likes Long Beach All these months of talking about an apartment checking out places Now he's just like He doesn't know if he likes the area People drive too fast. He says Well, you got to keep your head on a swivel when you're walking down the street. Yeah, no, I know seriously Like it is Long Beach is like the 20th most populated in like all of America. I thought he'd all this reason He likes the place though Likes the place. That's good There's Jake Fox a Fox in the box 191 out of 499 Refractor autograph Cleveland, this is for you Fred T Right. Yeah Justin was saying so in the Murphy bed full of town. He wants to put a sexy poster on the back Justin I told him yesterday when it's up. There should be like a there should be like a like Like a like a Christian themed But when it falls down It'll be like it. There'll be like a Jesus poster when it's up and then it's like a sexy times poster when it's down I just think it was the Luis Angel carry potters or under the stairs Pete curl Armstrong purple shimmer to 250 for the Cubs. Oh, yeah, is that right? Mark saying come to Massachusetts. They're known for Curtis driving. I feel like you're lying. I Feel like when people are parking the car in Javid Yad, I think they're just double parking. They're running people over Yeah, I heard it's like in a strip mall, right Willie Vasquez 89 out of 100 atomic for the rays that'll be for Rick the rays They're South Freelich Purple chrome to 250 for the brew crew. That'll be for Chris Butler Duck Boats been on one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, cheers. Cheers bar Boston Cheers bar isn't but it's still an operating bar, right? Yeah, you know, they say Even though they said the spin-off of cheers Frazier is a better show You know, I I I mentioned this the other day. I don't think I've seen An entire episode of Cheers Yeah, it's really not on re-runs like Frazier is on all the time. Yeah, they don't syndicate it. Well Friends is always on leave it to be verb That's all I was on every day or cheers or Frazier Cheers There's O'Neill cruise not even yellow 33. I 75 not even close. Why are you yelling? He's very emphatic about that. Yeah He's fired we're not arguing with you either of us have seen her up show. I mean he went here real fast We were right here. He went here That's really quickly he was looking for a fight. He was trying to get he was trying to pick a fight Betas Well, I think you got him fired up about all that milkman talk. I guess Dr. J. I mean Nikola Jokic would just post up Dr. J. It's just Nikola Jokic Joel and bead would Joel and be would destroy dr. J 48 out of 99 Danta Williams Orioles. It's like any modern-day picture would strike out Babe Ruth Then yeah, that'd be a different story Danta Williams for Chris Butler and the O's and there's George Valera The 75 sub Logan Yep, the nickel. Oh, is that what we're calling the nickel? Nick Jasky the Nick Feel like they did that more back in the day. Yeah, I mean Game of Thrones a prequel That's not really spin-off didn't happy days have a spin-off that was really good or maybe not Yeah, Sanford and sons, I don't know. I feel like they spun off more back in the day Glock what's going on the real block Nick is here Not no fake locks There's Evan Lee Nationals Jacob last spot mojo They're rebooting it Joe and guess who's not in it Nicholas Cage. He's not in Ridiculous, and why even do I even do it? Why even do it? I really love national treasure. They're doing a Disney plus series next week. I know I saw it I don't want to see it Is it really? I'll take one. I'll take one either one. Oh Mork and Mindy was the spin-off from him. You got it, right? There was like something and something close Is that the superfactor stack? Yeah, should we just like do it last? People like you be swift swapped out the superfactor Sports car radio You're Donnie Delos Santos for the Pirates, whoa, whoa, what was the song? You know that talks about like Joan of Arc was a special lady in this It's family guy like me fun of it. Oh, and then there's mod and then there's mod That's a good Do you like the family guy a lot Laverne Shirley was also a spin-off on happy days man happy days spinning it You know what I wasn't into it for a while, and then I watched some episodes and then I'm really into it. I Haven't seen the movie Chris Butler with the Phillies Logan Cerny with that Benny Montgomery to 499 Hmm, you do pretty good Alex's but it's way it's it's light years above Mandalorian light years. Yeah He said it's finally a Star Wars show for adults. Wow That's what wow star wars for is that what the Atlantic told him to say or the New Yorker? Zing you can hit him with that anytime. That's for free. That one's for free Robert and the Pirates Right, right, right, I think he's just being contrarian He's just like well, he doesn't want to be part of the baby other thing. Just embrace it man Rose Montverduco for the Padres for Diego Stephen Kwan for Cleveland. This is for you Are you getting ready to leave what's going on? What are you driving us? Look at his sweater. It's like quilted like he's going out. I mean it is cold fish. It's it's pretty cold out there today All right, Nick says this is the Super Fracture stack We're gonna see it. Okay, you're gonna see Yeah You're wrong Junior Perez 8 out of 25 orange shimmer, so it's not gonna be an autograph That's gonna be for Oakland it'll be for Michael F. Oh, there it is Shane boss the boss to 499 290 or whatever 99 The second order, no, we got the second autograph right here royal in Machandi Astros Stephen Carney We got a rose Montverduco again for Diego this time out of 75 Well, Nick's contending that it's not cold outside as a baby. It's not cold outside Go ahead and leave Under your own accord There's Benny Montgomery 165 to 199 and who's got the super? Behind Louise Robert The Super Fracture is gonna be It's warming a burn of all Edgar with the Rockies Joined the team random took a risk on the team random got randomized the Rockies and ends up with the one of one Your number 23 Colorado prospect according to MLB comms pretty good. You want top 25 players, right top 25 30 players That's what you want Corner infielder. We love corn infielders, especially if they have a little pop So you want to see Edgar? All aboard the Big Hit Express Happy Christmas So far so good. We'll do it. Like I said, we'll do a little autograph and One-of-one recap at the end There's Colin Burns 364 out of 499 we've got Oh, we have a replay on I forgot the game was even on oh No, grizz will be saying Kyler Murray non-contact injury That's not good Errol Vera to 150 Chris Butler has the Oreos. You'll get the burns Torkelson base will go to Mark and the Tigers. Maybe we'll find something numbered all these wander Broncos going to Rick and the Rays Yeah, I mean the fantasy playoffs in both leagues Not Marcello Meyer to 199 By week in the jazz Rigged Jacob with the Nats Ed with the choreo Jason choreo Marcello Meyer Wow Right Put him in a dunk tank or something in the in the in the in the mountains in the Sierra Nevada's a lot of snow Louise Gill Yankees done with the Yankees You got Wilson Contreras to 50 for the Cubs Mimicking John Cena's you can't see me right right right can't do that Right the double throwing up the double birds and Drinking the beers Gets into a state of Hulkamania Goes into a frenzy There's Alexander Ovalis Tampa Bay Rick and the Rays There you go. There's Edgar happy about that warming. You got Hunter Green local guy to 199 red legs Nick and I met him at a tops industry conference a number of years ago real nice guy Henry of the Reds There's a one of Ronald's brothers Brian Acuna twins Maybe there is Gold speckled Jason choreo And his brother Jackson another big chase for the Brewers, but maybe even a little bit bigger than Jason, but This guy's pretty good to 47 out of 50 Cleveland, this is for you Ed Pete With the Jason choreo Eric Hernandez speckled a 299 Yeah, Colt McCoy's and so Wait, hold on so giggle bees what I mean is this are we talking? Blue tent medical card off the field Or maybe there hasn't been an update yet. Let's get Aaron Andrews on it. Nope. She's not Let's get it's culver on it. Yeah Wait Susie culver doesn't sideline She does that half time maybe and there's a Ronald's other brother Luis on helicunia 14 out of 199 For that the sideline probably wow cart it off. That's gonna be that's gonna be a Sad sad hard hard knocks Oh, wow, look at that Record time folks. We are we are done. So the final three boxes. Good luck everybody. Thank you, Nick Ryan mount castle to 499 And Alex de Jesus Dodgers that's gonna be for Peter and the Dodgers Mount castle refractor for chris to 499 Willie Vasquez yellow to 75 45 to 75 for rick and the rays I don't think they want to sign Mitch Trebisky after his uh his relief appearance Uh, you're thinking you're thinking of they should sign Baker Mayfield Who seems like he can jump into any situation and win some ball games There's a harara Gonzalez for Kansas City. That's gonna be for matthew chara And we got a wilford virus Out of five a second train whistle in this case That's for mark r bought the white socks straight up And All aboard the big hit express Nice your favorite chaos more trebisky And that would you will definitely get that We got a louis amato's to 25 orange And a j. Allen prime chrome signature redemption For the red legs. That's gonna be For henry and since natty. We're on a since natty We're on a since natty We got ryan don con 69 nice out of 75 non contact michael Yeah, that's what the chat was saying non non contact carted off towel over his head Or tony's 299 and a yank hill Fernandez. That's a nice one Edgar with the rock. He's got the super I've got one of the uh one of the chase players here for the Rockies nice jeremy pania 167 out of 199 That's gonna be for the astros steven carney with the straws By the way, if you case you're wondering these shimmers are not numbered So I've been kind of breezing by them, but Still nice all-card ship final box We got videl brujan to 299 tampa bay rays And the seemingly one per case Jojo blackman That's for alex and the rangers And the brujan for rick and the rays to 299 Nelson velasquez for the cubbies to 150 that'll be for joe. All right. We got Christian vicaro for jacob and the gnats We got another uh julio for eric and the mariners jason curio for cleveland for ed Oh, wow. What a case a rogerick arias orange 14 out of 25 Yankees done with the yankees We got a super We got an out of five. We got an orange. We had What else we'll do with that recap we had the jason curio gold speckle man strong paul goldschmidt To 250 for the cardinals. That's for mark We got we got that bowman ascensions autograph earlier strong stuff Hey, thanks everyone for getting this knocked out I wish we could spend some more time with you tonight, but we got the jaspy's holiday party tonight. So we're going to go and Enjoy I've got the yankill for nanda's too. We're going to enjoy some time with our our team members Give a lot of the a lot of the gang A well earned night off Thanks everybody for getting into all of our breaks all Year long. We appreciate it super fractors. Well There you go. Hey, thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for hanging out with us in this little limited time here I definitely wanted to come on at least say hi, but it was a short night But we got a we got a few breaks done. We did the hip pray. We got a bowman chrome knocked out Thanks for very much everyone. Happy holidays, and I will see you tomorrow jaspy's case breaks.com. Bye. Bye All right, that's it for us appreciate it Upload this before I forget now while we are away One one little request from from everybody I would really love it if you were able to get into that the last couple fillers for uh For that promo right here In fact, if this sells out tonight From home, I could load up another one after the party I can load up another one and if that also sells out then I can subtract a spot create another filler and keep doing it that way Um, that might be our best way if you can get a filler or two done tonight That might be our best way to get that break credit promo done. Remember nick jaspy saint nick Uh extended the promo to tuesday night because we we knew we would be out tonight But it has extended the promo to tomorrow night So we'd love to see that happen. Thank you, edgar print that out Let's not forget to upload this And I think the shop is our we've already closed a little early here at the shop too All right gang. Well, that's it for me edgar mike tower mark justin grizzlebees Uh, well the real glock Everybody else. Thanks everyone. Have a great night sleep tight Again, we're off a little early to because we've got our jaspy's christmas party here And we'll be back tomorrow normal time through a clock pacific six o'clock eastern unless unless i'm humble


Welcome to Life in Accounting, the Where Accountants Go podcast. Life in Accounting is the podcast for everyday heroes like you, working in the accounting profession. Are you ready to hear from accounting influencers, thought leaders, visionaries, and other professionals leading change in the accounting world? Then stay tuned for Mark Goldman, a CPA, the owner of Where Accountants Go and your host. Welcome to Life in Accounting. I was talking to a friend of mine, a friend of a friend, and he told me, well, your YouTube channel is really cool. I was like, what YouTube channel? And yes, you have 600 subscribers.  Like, well, I don't do anything. I was not aware that I have 600 subscribers. And yeah, you should look and do it. Hello, everyone. I'm Mark Goldman, a CPA, and your host for Life in Accounting, a podcast production of Where Accountants Go dot com. That clip was from a voice you may recognize if you're an accounting student or recently were one, I guess, it's Professor Mansour Fahat, a Fahat accounting lecturer. I had seen a little information about Mansour's online accounting videos in the past, but I hadn't realized how much content he had online until a listener brought him to my attention actually. The listener that contacted me referred to him as a celebrity among accounting students. So I obviously had to find a little bit more about this Professor Mansour Fahat. Basically, as you're going to hear in the interview, Professor Fahat has developed online accounting content videos on a multitude of typical accounting courses along with the typical areas of difficulty on the CPA exam as well. He started it in order just to help out his students, but now he has over 34,000 followers on YouTube. Just 34,000 followers, actually more than that. And they reach all over the globe. It's truly amazing. Also, I didn't want to do the podcast simply to tell his story this time, though. I also wanted to bring some additional publicity to all these free resources that Mansour provides. For those that are having any difficulty with their accounting courses or CPA exam preparation, you definitely should check him out on YouTube. It really is phenomenal how far he has went to help out future accountants all over the world. If you do feel like this episode is particularly valuable to you, please check out our website as well. You can find us online at whereaccountantsgo.com. Once again, that's www.whereaccountantsgo.com. With that, let's go ahead and get started. Here's Professor Mansour Fahat. Mansour, thanks for making the time for us today. Thank you, Mark. My pleasure. Wonderful. Well, for our audience, we have Professor Mansour Fahat on the line today. And Mansour was suggested to me by one of our listeners, actually, one of you. And she described him as, I kid you not, a celebrity amongst accounting students and young professionals everywhere. Obviously, I couldn't resist, but to do some research. And I found that Professor Fahat is not only serving his own students with an amazing amount of online study material, but he's also made it available to basically anyone, anywhere that may benefit from additional study aids. And it's all free. So obviously, I went out and searched out Mansour, and he very graciously agreed to come on the show today. However, I didn't do a lot of research past that because I wanted us to hear everything, you know, directly from Professor Fahat. So Mansour, before we get into all the resources that you have available for accounting students these days, I would like to start at the beginning. So, you know, we all get an idea of how your career was built. Sure. What initially led you to accounting as a possible career in the first place? Absolutely. Once again, thank you very much for having me on the show, Mark. Actually, I was not an accounting major as an undergraduate. I was a finance major. So accounting was not my topic, if you want to call it so. I was an undergraduate in finance. I went to a state school in Pennsylvania called Bloomsburg University. And I did not explore much outside the finance industry. And I still don't understand or don't know why I went for finance. I believe it was part of it during the 98-99-2000.com boom. Stock market was flying high. So the market was something that's very interesting for a business student. So I studied finance because studying finance is studying the stock market. So I was interested in the stock market and I'm still interested in the stock market. So that's how I started. So after I graduated, I started a job with city financial. I was a loan officer for six months, basically selling money in a sense. I did not like it that much. I wanted to really be in the stock market. So I applied for a job at Merrill Lynch, now it's Bank of America. And I became a stock broker. I got my CRE7, CRE63, and I started working at Merrill Lynch. I worked at Merrill Lynch for almost two and a half, three years. Right after the dot-com bust, what happened is we were laid off because the division that I was working at, it's called the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, was sold to another company and basically the other company laid part of the employees off and it was one of them. But during my time at Merrill Lynch, we were supposed to basically answering customer questions and basically handling customers' accounts. And I used to have a lot of questions about taxes. So customer would call and ask me, what are the tax consequences if I exercise my options? And we were trained to answer, well, guess what? The formal answer is consult your tax or CPA for that matter. We cannot give you any advice. And that kind of triggered something in my mind, like, what should have I have said? In other words, what are really the tax consequences? So I started to research the tax consequences of buying and selling stocks and exercising options. And this was actually my first exposure to the accounting or the tax work. Then what I was thinking about is, well, it seems there's a demand for the field because practically on a daily basis, I'll get two, three, four customers asking me about the same topic. What are the tax consequences? So I said, well, maybe there are people out there who are helping others and those are CPAs and accountants helping people and said, I really enjoy this. I really like helping people. It's part of my nature versus dealing with stocks, basically selling services. I like to help people on a personal level. And this seems like a personal thing to do. So after I was laid out, I was doing some research. What should I do? What's the next step? And during that time, Enron collapsed as well as WorldCom. And I used to read Wall Street Journal. I still read the Wall Street Journal, but back then it was all about Enron, WorldCom, all the fraud that was going on. And it was all accounting related that also triggered my curiosity about accounting. So I thought, you know what, maybe I should look into accounting. So I decided to go for my master's in accountancy. And this is how it all started. So basically part of it is the dot com crash. And part of it is the need, the accountant, the CPAs. And I'm sure you can relate to this. You help people on a personal level. Each individual is different. And I do like that personal relationship rather than having a company face. And accounting and taxes, you have a personal face. You always deal with the client and people on a one-to-one basis. And if you enjoy doing so, accounting is a great career for you. So that's how I started. I went back to graduate school. I went back to my former school, Bloomsburg University. And I got my master's in accountancy in one year. So basically I finished all my courses. There were 10 courses to complete the degree I finished them. And this is how I started my accounting career. So basically it was not, I am not your traditional student when I went to school. And I knew I wanted to be an accountant. And when I graduated, I went to the big four. Very not traditional story. Basically I find hard time actually finding a job because as a non-traditional student, and we can talk about this, and I deal with students nowadays, non-traditional, they find harder time with the big four or with the big CPA firm because they're looking for young, traditional, with no attachment to their social life. So that's basically how I started my career. This is how I started accounting as a career. Interesting. So the consult with your CPA answer to the tax advice question intrigued you and then also all the fraud going on, which is sort of on the audit side. I'm curious when you went to the big four, which way did you go? Actually, I did not go to the big four. I started working with a medium CPA firm. Yes, yes, that's why I wanted to share this experience because I wanted to let the non-traditional student know that be careful, you might find harder time getting into the big four because the big four looking to specify demographics, they're looking for recent graduate, generally speaking of course. So I did speak to some of the recruiters of the big four and they were frank with me. They said, we only hire from specific schools and I knew some of them on a personal level and we only hire recent graduate because you're not your traditional students. I was in the mid-20s, so they were not looking to hire me and I understand this. So I was looking at the medium-sized CPA firm. So I ended up working with the medium-sized CPA firm and this is where I really started my CPA career in a town called Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania. This is where I started my career as a CPA. Okay, okay. Take us through those accounting jobs sort of before you started teaching them. What were some of the highlights of your career as an accountant? What were some of the jobs that you feel like you learned more from? Actually, I'm glad I went with a medium-sized CPA firm. I'm glad I did not go with the big four because a medium-sized CPA firm, Mark, you work on everything. You do taxes, you do personal taxes, partnership, corporations, S corporations. You do compilations, you do reviews, you do audits, you do audits for profit, audit for non-profit. So this is what I enjoyed the most about my CPA firms because it was a medium-sized CPA firm. I had the chance to work on everything from preparing simple compilations to running a payroll, to actually going through an audit from A to Z for a small non-profit to preparing a tax return for a corporate, for a multimillion-dollar corporation. So this is what I liked the most, the exposure, the diversity. But I always wanted to teach as I was working in a CPA firm, I was teaching at the same time. So my teaching career was in parallel with my CPA career. So I was teaching as soon as I was out of graduate school. There's also a story why I started teaching. That's also another story. Maybe you're interested in hearing how I started teaching altogether. Yes, actually, I'm curious how you got into the education field and then also what the decision process was like for you to decide to do it full-time. Absolutely. So when I was in graduate school, we had to complete 10 courses. Of those 10 courses, eight of them were accounting. One was finance and one was stat. And in the finance course, which was something introduction to finance or corporate finance on a graduate level, the teacher did not really care about teaching. So the teacher would use the comp use. He was in his last year of his career, his tenure track, so he didn't really care. So the class was from six to 10 o'clock. I still remember every moment of that class. And the teacher would come in literally, Mark, he would put the PowerPoint slides on the board and he will flip through them. And he would say, do you have any questions? Do you have any questions? And he will be flipping through the slides. So it may take him, literally, I'm not joking, 20 to 30 minutes to go over the slides in a four-hour course. And he would already be coming in late, like 10 to 15 minutes, he will show up late to the class. So maximum by seven o'clock, the class would be over. And the students, it was a full class, it was MBA. We had a lot of MBA students, actually mostly were MBAs. I was the only master's in accountancy student in the class. So they would look at each other, like we did not really learn anything. So I suggested, let's go to the library and let's kind of teach ourselves the course. So as I told you, undergraduate was finance, I had my CRE 7, I had my CRE 6 and 3, I had three years experience in the stock market and I really had interest in financing because it was actually, I almost started my CFA when I was working with Merrill Lynch. So I had a little bit more knowledge than other students. So what I started to do, I started to teach the topic, I started to teach corporate finance for my fellow MBA students. And everybody liked it. So you have a good teaching style you should teach. They were telling me, yeah, you should go into teaching. And I wasn't just, I was doing it, just kind of to help them and help myself because I wanted to get through the course. He would sign a lot of homework without teaching us anything. So I did struggle, but I was able to explain the material and every Sunday we would meet in the library from four to 6 p.m. And I would run the whole two hours explaining the material to my fellow MBAs. So the idea of teaching started there, but I really wasn't, it wasn't part of my plan. But after I was done, after I graduated, I went back home to Eastern and Eastern Pennsylvania and I could not easily find a job. Once again, with the CPA firm because it was summertime, the CPA firms were not hiring. I was a non-traditional student. So the first two, three weeks I was really disappointed. So I started to go back, I visited my former community college where I started my college career, what's called Northampton Community College, and I spoke Northampton and I spoke to the dean. I was a good friend with the dean. I told him, have a master's degree, now can I teach here? I was just joking. He said, yeah, sure, why not, send me your resume. So I sent him my resume sometime early June and August 24th, I still remember that day. Three days before the school started for that fall, I don't believe 2004, I believe 2004. So he called me, he said, one of the adjunct cannot teach two courses. Will he be interested in teaching them? I was like, I have three days to prepare everything to start teaching in three days. I never thought in my life an actual course. I said, of course, I was not working at that point. I was still looking for a job. There were night classes, it's not a big deal. If I get a job, during the daytime, I could still teach at night. So I said, okay, I will take the courses. So I picked up two courses at night and I started my teaching career and just like that, in three days I had to prepare a syllabus. They gave me action, they gave me a syllabus but I had to customize the syllabus, I'd be familiar with the material and get started. And I was always only one chapter ahead of the students. So every week I'll have to learn the material, then teach the material, then the following week, learn the material, teach the material. So it was, I had, it was really time consuming and stressful, but I really enjoyed it and I really liked it. So this is how I started my career. And since that, since that time, which is fall 2004, I'm still teaching today the same community college on a part-time basis. They still give me one, two, and sometimes three courses a semester. So this is how it all started, basically. One adjunct got sick. They said, you know, would you be interested in teaching the course? I said, yes, I will. And I was crazy enough to do it and this is how it all started as a teaching career. So I started as an adjunct. Interesting. I don't know if it's common for universities and community colleges to have last minute needs like that, but you're actually not the first professor I've spoken with that was contracted within just a few weeks of the semester starting and then discussed staying one chapter ahead of the students. Yeah. Very, very common, especially in accounting, especially in accounting, because I'm familiar with the industry. So I had it happen to me several other times at other university, but I was more prepared. I'm used to it now. And actually you call me, I would never do it now because it costs too high for me.  Therefore you will take those courses. Nowadays I need my time, although I have more experience, but I don't wanna be under that stress anymore. It just don't need it. Let somebody else go through the system and improve themselves because I can do it actually. It's easy for me now. Sure, sure. So that's how it all started as a teaching career. Then I started working in the CPA firm at Bucknell City and Company in Bethlehem. So I was doing both simultaneously. Then I was offered a full-time job at the community college, but before I got my CPA, I turned that down. Literally said, look, we have a full-time job. If that's after two years teaching years, like we just apply for it and we're gonna give you the job. I said, no, my plan is to be a CPA. I'm not a CPA yet. So I turned down the job. Until then three years later, I was a CPA, there was a full-time position. I applied and this is what I got my first full-time job, teaching at the community college where I went to school originally. So I was teaching in the same class that I attended classes in, which is specifically financial accounting, my financial accounting course. Interesting. Around when was that? What year are we talking about? The full-time, I think I started full-time, is it on nine or oh 10? I believe it's spring. I believe I started spring time, spring 2010. Again, spring 2010 or spring 2009, I can't remember. It's definitely before 2011, but I don't know if it's on nine, oh 10. I think 2010, spring 2010. Okay. So how did FARHAT accounting lectures start? I mean, what did you? That's another interesting story. Basically, what I wanted to do, I always read my reviews, my class reviews. What are student complaining about basically like about the course? So I heard that complaint repeatedly that we don't have enough time to work exercises in the class, the actual exercises. So I was thinking, what can I do? Because I needed to explain the material and I did not have enough time that I can give them to work in the class, which is understandable. So I decided to find a way to kind of save more time in the classroom. So I started by recording lectures. Actually, there's actually before that, we had, I believe 2011, we had a bad winter. So one of my classes was canceled repeatedly. That's another reason. So I teach in a Tuesday night class and every Tuesday it snows and the class is canceled. Maybe it doesn't snow where you are, but on the northeast it snows on a regular basis. So the class would be canceled for like three consecutive weeks and I was really, really behind. So I decided to do something. So I started by recording, narrating my lecture on a PowerPoint slide. So basically the PowerPoints, they have a feature where you could record your voice. So it's a voice over the PowerPoint slide. And I send it out to my students and they really liked it because they would hear my voice and I'll explain the material, but compared to now it was a very primitive technology. But students liked it. Then as I was reading more and more reviews or evaluation from students, they wanted more class time to work exercises. So to take out class time, I needed to do the lecture some other way. Then I spoke to the IT department at my school and they said they have a system where I can record my voice over screen and I can give them access to that recording. So I started there. So I started recording my voice over screen and distribute that link to the students. So this way they can listen to the lecture before class if they chose to after class. And if I skipped something in the class, I said, okay, let's skip last 10 minutes and work on an exercise. I'll tell them, well, guess what? You have to view this lecture instead. So you will do this on your own. So this is how it all started. And it was very limited within my own community college. Then I was teaching another course at another university, Estradsberg University, at the State University. And I was teaching the same course as I was teaching at Northampton. So basically it's the same course, same textbook. And it was an online course. And I was looking for a way to share my lectures from my financial accounting course with my Estradsberg students with the other university. So I did some research. I find out if I can somehow make an MP4 file, I can upload this MP4 file to YouTube. And voila, once you're on YouTube, anyone with an internet access can see your lecture. So that was basically a need to solve this problem because I was teaching this online course and I like to provide, I like for the students to hear my voice, to listen to my explanation. I don't like when students don't get anything when they take an online course. And this is how it all started. So I recorded that course, financial accounting, I posted online, and I basically forgot about it. For like a year, year and a half, I did not even know that I was unsure of the students watching, but at least I made it available to them. So a year and a half or two years later, I don't remember the specific time, maybe a little bit over, actually, it's over two years. I was talking to a friend of mine, a friend of a friend, and he told me, well, your YouTube channel is really cool. I was like, what YouTube channel? I said, yes, you have 600 subscribers. Well, what do you do? I said, well, I don't do anything. I was not aware that I have 600 subscribers. I said, yeah, you should look into it. So it was the first time I logged into my account. I saw that I had like hundreds and hundreds of comments people thanking me and asking me questions about the lecture, liking my lecture. I wasn't even aware of it because I thought that who's gonna find my lectures and be interested in my lectures? It was designed for my ESU students, East Thrasberg University. Then I looked into it a little bit further and the guy that told me about my YouTube, my own YouTube, he was a little bit tech savvy. So he knew, he said, why don't you change the names on your, the titles on your lectures? Because I was calling them like chapter one, part one, chapter one, part two, chapter one, part three. So they were not searchable. Nobody would be able to find them, they were just like basically you're putting a sign in the middle of the forest. No one, no one could. So I said, okay, let me do this. So I started to change the titles. I start to name them, for example, account receivable evaluation at that expense lecture. So I started to name them and I started to monitor the views. And suddenly in a month, I went from 600 subscribers to like 700. So that was good. I gained 100 subscribers in a month. That was very quick. Then I started to add some description to the videos. And I found out as I add description, I became more searchable and my views and likability is increasing. So it's like it gave me more confidence. So I started to more lectures out and code them properly. And I'm still improving on the process, but this is how it all started. Basically by, I wasn't even aware of it. But I still remember when I checked out my website, I had 600 subscribers. I still remember that number. I remember YouTube suggested that Rutgers University, I'm not sure if you heard of Rutgers University, one of the best universities in accounting, say top 100 in the nation. They also have an accounting web. So they have like Rutgers University accounting web. They have a YouTube channel. And at that point, they had close to 8,000 subscribers. So I had 600 subscribers. They had 8,000 subscribers. Today, I exceeded 34,000 subscribers and Rutgers stand at 27,000 subscribers. Matter of fact, Rutgers is one of my subscribers. So they subscribe to my channel, the university itself, as a suggestion for their students. I'm very proud of how I grew my YouTube for something that I wasn't even aware of to something like, it's interesting that people want to view, listen to my lectures, so let me do something about it. And I started to expand my menu, add intermediate accounting, add auditing, add advanced accounting, and it took off basically. And as I add more, the students, they kept encouraging me and giving me those likes. And then I created a website to increase the exposure to make it searchable on Google. And here I am. Wow. So have you stuck with just the college courses like intermediate auditing, advanced accounting that you mentioned, or are you starting to get into CPA review or other exam review materials now? Yes, again, that's another thing. It's like let the customer lead you, which is that's not really a good policy, but that's how it went. So I had many students that, for example, they would say, I'm taking Becker and I cannot follow their lectures. Your lectures are very helpful. I'm taking Roger CPA review. I'm not being able to follow your lectures are very helpful. I'm taking the CPA course. I was like, okay, hold on a second. I think there's a need. If I'm helping those CPA students, maybe I should kind of target that group. So I started to design some of my lessons for CPAs, people who are preparing for the CPA. So again, my original intent is to help. And you can tell from the design of my YouTube, all my lectures are designed under a course. For example, I start a cost accounting course and I go through chapter one, chapter two. So I cover the whole course. So I don't stop until I cover the whole course then I will start advanced accounting. So I like to help the students. What I do, I put myself in the shoes of the students. If a student is taking advanced accounting, I want to capture them. I want them to listen to my lectures from A to Z. So I never thought about a CPA thing until maybe a year, year and a half ago, I started to think, well, if there is a demand, let me do some lessons, some multiple choice questions that would help those students because kind of they're the same because an accounting student eventually becomes a CPA student. So I don't want to lose them. So I don't want to lose them by year four. If I can provide CPA material, I have them for year five, year six, year seven. So that was my thinking. So you mentioned multiple choice questions. I know you have your own websites. So you have downloadable written resources like PDFs as well? No, I don't. I mean, for my PowerPoint slides, if I created any PowerPoint slides, if somebody asked about them, I will share it with them. Otherwise, the PowerPoint slides, if they're available online, I will show them what they are available online. Otherwise, I don't have any downloadable material. So I don't provide any material to the students. I only provide my voice and my screen, basically. Okay. What are some of the more popular videos or study it? For a long period of time, intermediate accounting was my most popular course. Two years, yes. But two years ago, I created an auditing course and a governmental course and now auditing and governmental because there's not a lot on auditing and governmental online. So they kind of exceeded, although they have less lessons in there, they exceeded in terms of views. So I'm very happy because intermediate was my best course for a long period of time. Now I have two other courses that kind of competing for spot one and spot two. And I tried that through my playlist. So I look, playlist is being viewed the most because YouTube tells you and for the past 12 months, intermediate accounting went to level three, auditing and governmental not for profit is, they rotate between one and two. But my most popular, and I think this is what made me really popular, accounting for income taxes, the third tax asset and the third tax liability because those lessons, they've been viewed for over 100,000 times. So those are like my most popular. They're the oldest too, they're a little bit old, but they're still, when I look at my standard, they're still the top 10. The balance sheet right now lately has been, number one, adjustments, number two, it changes from semester to another, but I do keep track of that. I'm sure you've saved some accounting majors that we're thinking maybe they should measure and something else. Tons, tons. I mean, I can tell from my, I receive many emails, like on a daily basis, maybe five to 10 emails people thanking me and people that post on my message board, you can go to my message board and Facebook and you can see it.  Literally stuff like that. They propose me to run for president, some crazy stuff. You are God sometimes.  And obviously also a lot of people donate. I also have a donation button and a lot of my students, they donate money. So this is a revenue source for me basically. It's about donations, strictly donation. Okay. It confirms to me that people believe in my product. Yes. That's good that they're supporting it. I was curious, because I know it takes a lot of effort to get this on video. Absolutely, effort and time. I mean, it's a very time consuming and to upload and to make sure you're, and now I do search engine optimization, make sure I'm selecting the right keyword, the proper titles, name and the files, editing the files, and I do this all by myself. I have a volunteer, one of my YouTube subscribers, Carol, her name is Carol. She helps me a lot with, she's volunteering basically. So she does help a lot with the cleanup work. Okay. What are some of the lesser known resources that you have, or maybe anything that's new that people haven't noticed yet? I have an MBA course called Financial Reporting and I recorded that course on the fly. So I did not really did any search engine optimization. So I feel that's the most not lovable course on my YouTube. And I'm not sure why, but I find out it's not, I need to do some editing to the titles, increase the search engine optimization. Because when people go to my website, they're not really MBA students and I believe that's part of it. They're either accounting undergraduate or they're studying for their CPA. So they have very specific need for the knowledge. They're not looking for the theory part of the knowledge, which is it's a theory type of course. It's called Financial Reporting that it's designed for MBA students. So that's my least popular resource. Okay. Again, I was teaching an MBA course and that's why I did start that course. Have you counted up how many videos you have out there? Absolutely. Over 12,250 videos as of today. Over that amount. I know that that's 1250 plus. Oh my gosh. Okay. And I build them over the years. I mean, and during the summer when I'm not teaching, I put maybe three to four videos a day, which is I teach during the summertime, but I have more flexibility. During the regular, regular season, I'll put maybe four to five a week at least.  And you need to feed it. You need, because if you want to increase your popularity, your views, your followers, you need to keep your material up to date. Yes, definitely. You have to keep refreshing it. Definitely. So you're teaching. You have these resources out there as well, these videos, the supplemental material. In the interest of helping students, what mistakes do you think that some of the student body makes now, either in preparing or how they look at their college education? What do you think they could do better or change that would help them be better prepared for their career or certification? And accounting, it's a basic financial accounting course. Students don't take it seriously. They're right out of high school. They think, well, it's an introductory course. It cannot be important. And they're not very serious about school the first year or generally speaking, of course. And once they don't learn the basics, the basics, the debits, the credits, the financial statements, the adjusting entries, and as you know, Mark, in accounting, the information built. So you have to know A in order to know B and you have to know A and B in order to understand C. And when they skip or when they don't do well in those course, that weakness carries with them all the way until they become a CPA or until they are preparing for their CPA. So I suggest to the students that pay attention to your financial accounting course. Keep that textbook because you will need it when you take intermediate accounting. You're gonna have to go back to it and learn the basics before you can succeed in intermediate accounting. So that's one of the errors that they make. They underestimate the importance of an introductory course as far as academia. Okay, well, thank you. I wanna be respectful of your time and also the audience, I try to keep them within a specific timeframe for each episode. I wanna get to the final questions, final three questions I asked everyone. But before I do, is there anything else that you wanna make sure the audience is aware of before we get into the final part? The audience know that all my lectures are 100% free to them. Cause when I send invites only then to students, I tell them, I have this YouTube and it's all free. I mean, people, they're kind of big at all, hold on a second, free, there's always a catch. My lectures are free. My lectures on my YouTube, which is 1,200, over 1,250 and gonna be growing to 2,000, they're always going to be free. So I just wanna make sure your listeners knows about this, that it's free from my perspective. What is the most efficient way to find you online? Is it to go to YouTube or do you have a website you wanna point people to? I do have a website which is farhatlectures.com, which is my last name, lectures.com. And I have all my course, lectures organized by course, but my YouTube is the most up to date because sometimes I post something on YouTube, I don't have time to update my website. So sometimes that YouTube will have everything. So if you Google my name, if you YouTube my name or even YouTube accounting, farhat or farhat accounting, you'll always find me. So I'm pretty searchable at this point. If somebody puts my name on YouTube, they can find me. And if you do a Google search, farhat lectures, my YouTube and my website will come up. Or at least I hope so.  No, thank you. I'm popular, that's all what I'm gonna say. I'm popular with students, I'm helping many students. And what I like the most about my channel, Mark, is it's not only serving US population, my US viewers are 65 to 70% fluctuate. And I have many viewers in Australia, in the Middle East, in Africa, third world countries, which is I really like this, I'm helping students all over the world. So I really, it's a good feeling when you receive those messages. The monetary value is not there, but the good feeling that you're helping people, it's a great feeling. Because I remember when I was a student, if someone would help me, I would be very appreciative. And I like that somebody, I'm helping someone. The fact that I'm right now, as I'm talking to you, at least on average, I have between 400 and 600 of viewers on my YouTube right now around the world. And that's a good feeling. And that's practically 24, seven days a week. Wow, that is amazing. Yes, you're doing a good thing for the world. Definitely. Thank you. Well, the final three questions, we probably should get to that because I do wanna go over with the time and I'm sure we can find you online. And for everybody that was listening to the URL there, it's just like it sounds, farhatlectures.com, very easy to find. Question I usually start with in wrapping it up is usually the easiest. From a career perspective, what's been your proudest moment? I think the success of my YouTube is my proudest moment. I mean, back that I have more and more viewers, more and more subscribers, I don't have a specific moment. And maybe when I passed my CPA exam, I don't believe in a specific moment. Your career is constantly progressing. And if you believe you have a good moment, it's just you're gonna have to do better the next time. So I cannot pinpoint a specific moment. It's continuous. It's continuous. Once you believe you reach a goal, then you might stop working as hard. So it's continuous. So I believe everything is a success story, not one specific event. I'm sorry, but this is my, you know, that's what I believe, so no specific moment. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Well, second question, tell us about a mistake that you made and what you learned from it, of course. But the bigger that you're willing to share, the better. Yes, I'm gonna talk in general terms, but basically when I started my career, I switched, you know, I spent only six months at Citi Financial. And I was an management trainee program. If you turn the clock back, I should have maybe stayed, give it a chance. I was an management trainee program. I was really interested in the stock market. I could just do some investments on my own. So I switched jobs. So don't switch job easily. Give a job two to three years, especially, and this is my advice, for accounting students.  Don't give up. Don't give up. That's what I tell the students. Even if you don't like it, after two to three years, you're gonna be better.  So don't give up that easily, especially if you get your foot in a CPA firm. Okay, it's gonna be tough, working the long hours, studying for the exam. But what you do in those two to three years, it's gonna determine how you look for the next 40 to 50 years. So even if you have to struggle, if you're not happy, if you don't have a social life right now, it's just temporary. You have to go through it. Okay, I think I made some mistakes where, you know, I was not very persistent early on, but this is what I would like to share with my students. And with everyone that's listening, don't give up that easily. And if you decided to give up, if you're in a CPA firm, find me, find my email, email me, send me your phone number, and let's talk. Beautiful. Absolutely. Well, last question, and then we'll go ahead and close it down. What is the best piece of advice that you have ever received? I would say remember, success is not an immediate gratification. So that's one thing, that's one advice I would like to give, and I'm gonna tell you what advice I got. So first for one thing, take your time, success takes time. That's one thing. Try to choose a career that's scalable. Now, this is very general, but I got this advice from a book, okay? And from a book called The Black Swan, it's written by Naseem Nikolas Salim, either The Black Swan or Anti-Fadule. I don't remember which one of his books, but he said the best advice he got is to find a career that's scalable. Basically, a career that's gonna help a lot of people. Like if you write a book, it's scalable. If you have a radio show, it's scalable. So I'll tell people, find something that's scalable that you can do on a large scale. Okay, for example, my YouTube is scalable. I'm sitting right now talking to you, but I am technically working for 400 other students as we speak. So find something that's scalable and take your time. Again, success is not an immediate gratification, it takes time, and success is measured by how many obstacles you overrun. So keep that in mind. And don't compare yourself to others. Others might have different circumstances than you do. So don't compare yourself to others. Just look at yourself and try to take it day by day, stay positive. That's what I would tell the students, and this is the advice I generally got. Beautiful. Actually, that's advice, not just the students need to hear, but that we all need to hear occasionally. Absolutely, wonderful. Well, for our audience, this has been Life in Accounting, a podcast production of whereaccountingsgo.com. If you haven't yet visited that website, please do so. We have links to everything that Mansour has been talking about, as well as all our previous 100-plus episodes now at this point. On that note, Mansour, is there any final advice you'd like to leave the audience with? Once again, success is not an immediate gratification. That's all what I'm gonna tell everyone. Beautiful. Success is not an immediate gratification. Wonderful. I think that definitely deserves repeating. Thank you very much. Well, thank you again to the audience for joining us. We will see everyone next week. There's more to come.


Now a lot of gaming laptops are just not portable, except for something like the Razer Stealth 13 with the GTX 1650. The reason I like this laptop is that Razer has finally included a dedicated GPU on a gaming laptop that's only three pounds. Now think about it this way. This is a 13.3 inch laptop that has some really good performance back into it. Now what do you have in terms of specs and all that stuff, especially the configuration I have here, is something that comes with a 13.3 inch display. It's a 1080p display, you can also get a 4K display, but I think the 1080p display is fine. You've got a really nice keyboard, of course you've got your backlit keyboard there as well. Now, its performance is powered by, of course, the 10-gen Intel processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage. That's the first part that I want to talk about. The fact that Razer still lets you customize and change your storage solution is truly impeccable. You can go in, you can swap your hard drive and you're good to go. Whether you want to clone it, whether you want to actually just reinstall Windows, you can do that on this machine. I like that I can do that and it makes it easy for me to upgrade. This solution here costs $1,799 for 512, I can go to a terabyte or two terabytes hard drive. I use Seagate hard drives here, you can check it out if you want to pick up one. But again, you can actually expand. Now in terms of ports, this actually has a lot of viable and useful ports.  So you've got that thunderbolt connectivity so you can use, say, an external graphics card or whatever you want to do with this configuration. But speaking about the inbuilt graphics card, it's a GTX 1650, this thing really, really performs. This is where I really like using this laptop, especially gaming. I've been on the road for at least a couple of weeks traveling and got to use it to edit, which of course that's what I do on a daily basis, but to also gain. I've been playing some Call of Duty Modern Warfare and performance is being great. Yes, it's 1080p display, putting in performance at its highest levels. You're getting between 73 to 90 frames per second, playing Call of Duty Mobile, multiplayer, single player, you can get of course a little higher frame rates there. But a performance has just been so smooth, I just haven't noticed that it's being great to actually game on this laptop. I've got a 13 inch laptop that doesn't weigh that much. I can throw my backpack and I can game on it. I like those things and I think I like that all together. Some nice speakers so you can hear the sound coming from there. Now here's the funny thing, once you're actually going to play a game, it signs you out of your console if your console's on and it basically signs you in here. So moving your Xbox from your console to here, right? Now, they have to retake those objectives for taking Alpha. And in terms of thermals, my gameplay sessions playing Call of Duty, never went past 109 degrees. So I do like that about it. It does have a loud fan, not too loud, but it's loud enough that you can hear it. So it's best using a gaming headset with this because he will impede with some of the sound from the speakers as well. But performance is where this is key. Now, this comes with a 100 watt charger, so it's a massive charger in here. But to give you enough power to drive that graphics card, that's actually the bigger the thing that I don't like. I don't like the size of the charging brick. You know, look, this is something that I would like to see PC manufacturers get better with is getting better designs for the charging brick. So it looks and feels more portable, especially when you travel. I feel like the charger is bigger than this 13 inch laptop. That's just for me, my mind. But in terms of battery performance, when you're watching video, or all your browser and the web, you can do close to about 10 hours in this bad boy and gaming performance is really nice. Again, you're plugging it in if you want to take full advantage of this gaming performance, but I like it's very small footprint. So if you're in a coffee shop or you're in an Airbnb, you're traveling, you can really just have that small footprint, get yourself gaming. You're good to go. So for me, this is probably my best gaming laptop of this year. I haven't covered a lot. I like the original stealth and then I said I wished it had a dedicated GPU. We finally have a dedicated GPU. The thermals have been good. Performance is really solid. I'm sure the 4K version, of course, will give you a battery hit. But I liked what I saw at 1080p with this. I enjoyed working with it, editing on the other road. And I think this is something you guys will like. So if you have any questions or any comments about the Razer Blade Stealth 13 with GTX 1650, let me know. Otherwise, don't forget to like and share this video, favorite this video, subscribe to the channel and always enjoy your entertainment.


Next question is from Conor Nagel 07. How do mini-bulks and cuts compare to traditional three-month intervals of bulking and leaning out? Well, you know, it's funny about this. We talked about mini-cuts and mini-bulks first year we started the podcast where we recommended, rather than people going on these long, you know, extended periods of time of dieting or bulking, just through our own experience, we saw better results when they were shorter periods and they were interrupted by kind of doing the opposite or by increasing calories enough to maintain.  Well, we now have studies that prove it. Okay, they have studies now that actually compare, you know, periods of time of dieting. One group has interruptions where they'll eat maintenance calories for a few days or a week in between versus the other group and sure enough, they burn more body fat and preserve more muscle when they do it. So that's the big difference. So, you know, and I want to add something to that. I would still recommend this even if the studies came out and didn't prove that. For the psychological reasons. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's the thing that we always got to look at too. And so, and I really think that that's the reason why I think we all came to that same conclusion over the years of training people is we, for sure, we felt confident, even without having a study to prove that this is the superior way to do it. And I think it's because, one, yes, the studies prove that it does, it does make a difference and it's better. But then also the psychological piece, which studies don't ever really talk about or very rarely do you talk about that in, you know, building muscle and fat burning studies.  But I think about that as a coach and as a trainer, because I have to get these people to follow these diets. Having somebody follow a diet for a couple weeks and then switching it up and going the other direction is so much easier than telling somebody for the next three months we are going to eat in this surplus or eat in this deficit every single day for this long of a period of time. That's super hard to get them to be consistent with that, where if I say listen to a client, what I need from you is just that the next two weeks we're going to eat just like this and then I'm going to change something up. It's so much it would be so much easier for my clients to stay focused for those two weeks because they knew that I was going to interrupt it soon. And even if they would go through a day where it's like, oh, hunger pains. This is really hard. They're like, I can do this. It's only seven more days. There's only three more days. And then Adam's going to give me more calories. Yeah, we guys always talk about the increase of mass that you actually gain when you're above a certain amount that you're, you know, trying to bulk anyway.  So, you know, just to keep it within those parameters and stretch it out a bit further seems like you're going to get closer to your goal and not just build mass you don't want. Yeah, and it results in less likelihood of, like especially if it's a cut, it's less, you're less likely to binge or go in the opposite direction in a big way. There you go on a three-month strict calorie deficit. You know, the odds that at the end of that you're going to go off the rails is much higher than if it's a three-week cut. Now, here's how it looks, okay? Here's how it would look. If your overall goal is fat loss, and let's say you want to lose 20 pounds and it takes you, I don't know, five months, let's just say, what the shortcuts mean is that you'll do a deficit for a few weeks and then you'll interrupt it with like a week of maintenance or a slight surplus.  So a majority of the time you are to deficit because you do want to lose a lot of body fat, but you interrupt it at scheduled intervals. So it becomes mini cuts. That's what we mean by that. And then the reverse, if you want to bulk, same thing.  That's what we mean by, it doesn't mean you go three weeks at every direction all the time. If your goal is ultimately a lot of fat loss, you got to stay more in the cut. If your goal is ultimately muscle gain, you stay more in the bulk. But interrupting it at short intervals, three weeks is the number that I typically work with, anywhere between three to two to four weeks, I would say. That seems to work best in experience and then again, the study support it.