Hopefully we're on right now. I'm not sure if we're on So how's it sound testing one two three. I don't know it was I just checked it. We're on all right. So I'm mute follow Here we are. I'm Jim from the side hustle shuffle here on Amazon here on Facebook Twitter I believe we're still on YouTube as well. We're talking about passive income We're talking about making money while you sleep. Okay. Have you heard about making money while you sleep? Are you interested in learning how to make money while you sleep? You think that's A baloney story.  Can you make money in your sleep? Well, you know, you can but it's not what you think sitting on the beach never doing anything You can't never do any work. Okay, you have to make it a small effort today Sort of potential to earn income in the future. Now, that's the passive income I'm talking about not talking about never working again. Okay, unless you're a trust fund baby and you live in what dividends Okay, that's the only thing that that's really a Passive income where you never have to work again living what dividends and that's not me. I don't know if that's you but anyhow, I was talking about the YouTube channel and told my putting a affiliate links in YouTube videos So YouTube if you get 1,000 subscribers to 5,000 4,000 watch hours 4,000 watch hours and 1,000 subscribers, then you can start getting getting money for the ads They run on your YouTube videos. Okay See Sorry about that So you get money you get money for the ads that come on you on your videos So but you have to have you have to reach that threshold, but you can also put affiliate links in your descriptions so People click those links and you know what's called cookie to that link and then where wherever they buy you would get a commission for People use Amazon people use and you can you could be an affiliate for anything Pick a product pick a pick a company scroll down to the bottom of their website and on the bottom in the footer There'll be something work with us partner with us affiliate program You know something like that and you just click it and apply and you can promote that product on a YouTube channel and Get a commission every time you sell it. Okay, we're gonna go further on and deeper in but the original hot pops I saw this of the hot pop popcorn thing right now. I got it on my you on my Amazon channel, right? So Amazon I'm gonna share this channel right now So I'm an Amazon influencer and I became an Amazon influencer because I was able to be an Amazon I was a billy being influencer on YouTube. So here's my Amazon page Now I make money from people to click the links on here And I have a store down here and down here is where I go live and over here is a video for the popper Right, so people will watch the video So meet people would watch the video for the popper and click the link and then if they bought the popper I would get a commission. That's affiliate marketing and that's passive income I made that video a couple of weeks ago, you know, and So anytime someone watches it from now on that's the passive income I'm trying to talk about now Yeah, I did I did an effort a while ago and now over and over again however many times people are gonna be watching that video I'm gonna get an affiliate commission every time. All right, and the popper was really good I mean the thing that popped it really good. There was no kernels in the bottom I was pretty amazed at how good it was and I sped up the video pretty quickly so, you know, you should we won't wait much look much longer But that's the Amazon Influencer program that don't get that confused with the Amazon affiliate program because that's when you put the affiliate links in in your YouTube videos That's the Amazon affiliate program. Okay, so Let's go back over here now Okay, and so that's using Amazon and Amazon videos to make money. That's one passive income I showed you the YouTube we can go back over to the YouTube channel pretty quickly If I share my screen again, and I can show you that because I we got cut off I was I was live a few minutes ago and then we my audio was crappy and I got cut off So, I mean if for whatever reason You can't hear me. Let me know in the chat because I'm having funky funky stuff going out my audio So here's my YouTube channel and I got I got up Which is one of my YouTube channels and I got a bunch of review videos on them And so here's the one for the light-up desk and that's what I had done before so There's there's the commercial there's the ad that gets played before my video I'm gonna get a commission if someone clicks the ad I get a commission on that so now Down here is the affiliate link now they click that it's gonna bring them to Amazon so you click that Now I think that we just changed Yeah, so if I can go I gotta share the screen again, so we got to go like this and share the screen and it was There we go and then it brings you right to this page when you click that link All right, and then they would buy it and I would get an affiliate commission. All right, so That's affiliate marketing using YouTube Okay putting an affiliate link into the into the description and you can make videos on whatever it is Could be a chainsaw could be a toaster it could be whatever it is and you you know the lighting system I just had and then that link brings you to the lighting system. Now. Here's the beauty. I told you about the cookies, right? So once you get once they you send traffic to Amazon Anything they buy within 24 hours you get a commission for not just what you sent them for whatever they push that link whatever they click that link they went to Amazon for Driving the traffic there you're gonna get anything they buy 24 hours. You're gonna get a commission on all right So that's why people and here it is too you're using Amazon's name now Amazon is the big kahuna You know if nobody worries about putting their credit card in when they shop on Amazon matter of fact when they go to Amazon They're looking forward to using their credit card They got their credit card out already because they have the intent to buy when they go to Amazon, right? So people click the link go to Amazon and they're welcome there. They feel like okay. I can trust this website I can buy something it's not like you're sending them to some third-party website, you know So don't get confused, you know with with with different affiliate programs of Amazon is is Like I said, it's the big player, you know, it's it's you're using the name You piggybacking the Amazon name in order to make money to leverage their name and it works really well So another thing that we got we got the Holleystone drone this was something that was sent to me for free and you know as Influencers from time to time brand send you stuff to review for free. They sent me this drone.  I'm gonna crash the drone. They were like, don't worry about it. We're gonna send it to you It's very user-friendly, right? And I said well, I'm gonna take it out of the box and I'm gonna just give it a try and we'll see what happens, right? So I think it was on We're gonna we'll go to the Instagram page. All right, so you can use any social media for this passive income, right? So we're gonna go to the Instagram page next Okay, we're on the Instagram page now.  All right, and then you know you're you're Driving traffic to your video with Dutch house tag. All right, and that's with the Instagram. So again, we did YouTube Instagram of an Amazon all passive income not sitting on the beach never working again But you make a couple of videos you make one video a day at the end of the year You have 356 videos right once you have that many videos, you know you start Making money you just I mean it's it's just inevitable. It's volume right so and that's again YouTube is probably the best one if I was gonna give you advice to try one just because you also have the added the ads on The the ad revenue that you're gonna get so you're gonna get once one source of income is gonna be the ad revenue Another source of income is gonna be the affiliate revenue Right, and then if you make a course and you can sell other items You can there's all types of things you can make money on you want to have multiple streams of income coming in right and that's a That's the way to make money online multiple streams of income So it's not it's not make million dollars anymore, okay? It's not you know millionaire overnight, you know put a product online and make a million dollars It's starting income stream. It makes a hundred dollars this month, right? You start another one. So this one's making a hundred dollars every month You started it now this one over here you started making a hundred dollars now This one's making 150 so then you start a third one. So then now this one's making 150 This one's making 100 this one's making 100 Then a couple it just keeps going right and it keeps getting better and better and better before you know You're paying bills with this money and it's life changing. It's life changing stuff. It's life changing stuff So I was looking for a set of work lights for my work truck. I'm a I have a day job and So because you know went to time everything gets dark early so the back of the truck I needed a magnetic light so so I can stick it on to the magnetic part of the truck And I have light in the back of the truck so I sent out and I got it and it came in the mail and I came in this little box little box to two flashlights I said, oh man, this isn't gonna be good. This is gonna be good at all, but I Said to myself it doesn't have to be big if it's if it if it works the way I want it to work It'll be fine. So here it is okay, and it's got full motion all the way around it goes all the way around all the way around right Pretty cool It's very bright super bright and it's got three settings on it and it's got the front flashlight on it and the magnetic part is just Unbelievable I I ride around in the truck with it sticking on the side of the truck in the back of the bed And it doesn't fall off It's still it stays there all day and then at the end of the day I turn it on to see what's going on in the back of my truck and there's two of them So I only need I I only use one of them on the truck now because the light is so strong I thought I was gonna need two of them one on each side I only need one so this one I use I keep this one down by my furnace because you always need a magnetic light by your furnace You're gonna change the filter on the furnace. Just you click, you know snap that right on there perfect This is the perfect light for that right I Gotta get used to being Backwards but and again I was disappointed in the size of the box But the lights really impressed me and there's two of them and they're rechargeable. That's the key USB rechargeable so they're never dead you plug it in and it's always ready to go and you know Have to worry about dead batteries ever and that's the wave of the future No, no more batteries. You know if you bought stock and door sell back in the day, you're in trouble, buddy So we're gonna do The work life right good thing So passive income are you looking for the holy grail are you looking for the missing link? Are you looking to make money on the beach? You're looking for passive income? I never want to work again I want to sit on the beach and I want to watch the waves come in and I just want to make money Right, that's what passive income is that's what they thought That's what I thought passive income was when I first started looking into it in 2010 When I saw people with their caviar dreams and their mansions and their and their jet planes And they were trying and they were selling courses and this and that and and they were selling They were drop shipping on Facebook and making a killing on Facebook and I thought everybody was doing it It was all smoke and mirrors. It was all smoke and mirrors Um So the next item in the carousel on Amazon so again, we're on Amazon. We're on Facebook. We're on Twitter We're on YouTube and the Amazon carousel isn't on the Amazon We've got the products that I'm talking about and the Amazon So come on over to Amazon if you're interested in that and that that would be at Amazon.com slash shop slash you didn't know okay, so if you want to come there come there now All right, um and of course you got my you didn't know that live is my website All right, we're gonna I'll show you more about the website in a little while um But we're talking about the the full motion TV monitor and we're talking about passive income the next item The next item the next platform. We're gonna talk about Pinterest Okay, Pinterest is a search engine as well as just like YouTube's a search engine So so Instagram use hashtags to find what you're looking for on Pinterest and and YouTube the search engine So I'm gonna go I'm gonna share the screen again. We're gonna go to Pinterest and I'm gonna show you You know anybody can do this. It's easy stuff. Okay, so here I am on Pinterest I'm gonna get rid of that. You didn't know get out of there for now all right and so Got all these items done here's the drone. We looked at right All these pet stuff that I looked at so we're gonna look at this one here All right, so this is the full motion TV mount like I use it outside in the summertime On my deck and I can switch it all the way around to the other side full motion. It's really good awesome It's on sale. It's on the $20. You can't beat this price on this thing It's really awesome. It depending on the size of the TV. This one works really well But anyway talking about Pinterest so now Pinterest is here and over here is the Amazon link So when they click this they send them to Amazon and again, I'm cooking with the Amazon Associates program. I'm cookie to anything they buy within 24 hours on Amazon. All right now passive income is I made this video a while back and I'm still have the potential to make money on this video in the future anytime someone searches TV mount full Best full motion TV mount this will come up in the search And if they watch it and they go to the the link then I'm gonna make Affiliate commission on Amazon. Okay, and that's the way passive income works today not Sitting on the beach never doing anything you make a video. It doesn't be video. It could be content, you know, Instagram. It's photos Facebook is photos Facebook groups you can do photos So it doesn't have to be video, but it doesn't always have to be your face in the video either You can be filming the product, you know with with just your hands and there's all different ways to do overhead cameras Where they don't see your face you if you don't want to be on camera. You don't have to be it's pretty awesome when you think about it you you do a little effort today and infinitely in the future that video can be found as long as it's a product that's still sold on Amazon and again I didn't say at the beginning to go down to bottom of Amazon and sign up for the Amazon Associates program If you want to be an associate for Amazon, and I'm gonna show you in a second. Okay, if I go to my Amazon page again Because I'm gonna show you the stripe So up here on the top is what's called the site stripe and when you pull down the text It's gonna give you the affiliate link to whatever product is on that page Okay, so you would take that link. That's the link that I get to put in all my videos So whatever product I have whatever product I'm using I Amazon associate Amazon affiliate Amazon associate us on the associate program You'll get this stripe up there And then you press the text button and that's your link and anything that when you send traffic through that link you get Cookies for 24 hours. All right, so that's that That's that okay That's the Amazon associate program and that's how you get it you get that link from there And you put that in your social media whether it's YouTube whether it's Pinterest whether it's Instagram Where it's on Amazon as well We're gonna go through a couple other things but the next item in there in the Amazon Camera cell is gonna be a camera that I bought. I was looking for a cheap alternative to go pro camera. I needed a backup secondary second camera and This is it. This is the camera right here. So a Casio, it's always at the EK 7000 so far. I've used it a couple times I don't we crashed at the beginning of this show and I Lost my where I had the photos. I don't know if I'll be able to find them No No, but take my word for it. It's pretty cool little camera. I got some Scenery photos that I took and it comes with all of the same Mounts and gadgets for the helmet for the bike for the car for all that stuff comes with two batteries are Pretty cool very good stuff and I'm playing around when it's still but I like it so far I was using it as a b-roll camera and a backup camera I got some film of some mountains that I was by yesterday I'm up in the North Country Northern New York above Lake Placid I think so I got some nice mountain pictures up there and still snow caps on the top really nice and I Really wish I could show you I don't have it pulled up And it would be awkward for me to be mumbling around while looking for it in my computer But I'll have it next time but that's a that's something I bought for myself again It's on sale. You can't beat it under $70. How much is a GoPro camera? I mean, I really wish I could figure out where I could find that Um It's gonna take me too long to figure it out. Maybe not I got it. Aren't you lucky? All right Give me one more second I appreciate you sticking with me. Okay, so this is the Acacio Camera in the mountains that are where I was yesterday up chest of town area I think it was or no is Indian Indian Lake So that's the Casio cameras not a bad picture not a bad picture at all and Uh, so I think it was worth the $70 for it and it's got all kinds of Settings on it a slow motion camera. It's got on it. You can take pictures or or video Um, I can turn around and look for pictures Give you an example of one picture. I got a couple of them, but It's not a bad little camera.  I mean you got to realize it was a gray day So the the colors don't pop because there was no color It was a gray day this northern new york in the winter time and it's pretty gray You don't have a choice But I'll be getting some springtime pictures in a couple of weeks and we'll see we'll see all the bright colors And it would be really good. All right, so but I'm happy with it. It was what it's doing what I needed to do It's not, you know, it's not my go-to camera. It's my backup camera It's fits in my pocket and it's really cool. I'm happy with it. Um Passive income right passive income. What is passive income sitting on the beach not doing any work? No passive income is doing something today And you have the potential to earn stuff in the future Okay, you have the potential to earn over and over again from your efforts from today, right? That's what passive income is today. So you got your youtube channel. We went over we went over instagram We went over Pinterest We went over and amazon we were using the amazon associates program to use the amazon link in the associate program to Generate traffic to amazon and in doing so we get cookied and we get anything they buy for 24 hours We get a commission on that's the amazon associates program It works really well and again you're using the amazon name People go to amazon to buy stuff the hardest part to make money online and you can ask anybody Is traffic and it's not just traffic. It's warm traffic Okay, you have to have somebody ready to buy you have to warm them up ready to buy and it takes It takes some doing to do that takes some skills to do that Sales funnels and all kinds of stuff like that. We're going to show you sales funnel in a little while but um In the meantime Amazon's done all of that for you Okay, and so they've already done all this all all the sales marketing so that their pages optimize And so when people go there they're ready to buy and people are confident they ready they feel confident to put their credit card in on amazon and uh You're not sending them to some other website where they're like, I really don't know if I want to put my credit card in You know amazon they're ready to buy perfect stuff So I mean there's plenty of programs you could be an affiliate for i'm just using amazon as an example Because it's probably the easiest thing to get started with but there's plenty of and higher commission stuff too I mean I have other stuff that i'm affiliates for and other streams of income that I have that are higher interests uh Commissions higher commissions, you know, but again, I'm showing you probably the easiest way to get started with the amazon associates program. Um The next item in the Is this the ubrese extendable uh tripod this thing is pretty cool pretty awesome. Um You want to say any of it I don't have the right one I don't have the right one. Anyway, it's a it's a tripod like this one pretty similar and it's got the remote control to it And you set it up. This one's uh 51 inches. That's why it says 51 inch one So this one's 51 inches and you and it's got the camera mount on it or you know It's got a camera mount on it and it's got a remote control so you can press the button It'll take a picture. It'll it'll start the video up up to like 20 feet away or something like that Uh pretty cool item and if you're gonna do any kind of b-roll or any kind of stuff like that It's a good thing to have. Um the ubrese extendable thing. So we're gonna keep going. I'm gonna Share another part of my screen. Um Right over here. Okay, I found it. All right. Share it up So email marketing is a way to make money online. All right You capture somebody's email. So this is a basic thing that I made a basic funnel So you got facebook traffic youtube traffic instagram traffic or even google traffic And you send them to what's called a lead capture page That's going to be where you initially would get them to whatever item they're wanting to buy You're going to ask them to put their email address in to capture their email And then when they do that they get sent to the sales page and they either buy or don't buy and like Like 70 percent of people aren't going to buy more than that, right? They're not going to buy and then they disappear forever. They're gone those people that you paid money for ads and all your Efforts they're gone Right, but if you've captured their email now they go on what's called an email list And this starts the auto responder sequence where every day or every two days or every three days or every week They get an email and a v the v stands for value. So you send them a value email What's the product? What's the features of the product the next day? You send them an email Uh of what their life is going to be without the product Then you send them a sales email And maybe they'll buy and you send them another value another value and then maybe you make a sale But the emails go on automatically and that's passive income once you've captured their email Once you have an email list You could market the people and that's passive income and people can make good money on on an email list, okay They say a good scrubbed list and i'll tell you what a scrubbed list is in is in a minute But a good scrubbed email list is worth one dollar per email per month So so if you have a thousand emails on it's a thousand dollars five thousand emails If you have ten thousand emails on your email list, it's ten thousand dollars a month But scrubbing the emails. So what's a scrubbed email gym scrubbed email is pretty simple It's uh, if somebody doesn't open your emails, okay Let's say you send them this one this one this one this one this one and this one and they haven't opened any of them Well, you take them off the list. They're not interested in any anything you're selling So you take them off the list, but let's say they opened this one They haven't bought anything but they opened this one someone else opened this one But they haven't bought anything Right, but you're going to keep them on the list because they are opening your emails someday They may buy right, but if they don't open the emails like after the fifth seventh one Whatever whatever you decide the number is you scrub them off the list So this way the only people on your list are the people that are interested in your emails And they look forward to getting your emails now because you know, I know you said at the beginning of this gym I hate getting those emails. I get all those emails all the time. I don't even open them You know, but I'm telling you one thing I'm sure there's one email that you do open that you look forward to right There is that one that you're they're happy to get it whether it's a newsletter or or or or or some kind of video Or something that you look forward to you get you open it and it's always good stuff because it's stuff you're interested in Those are the people you want on your mailing list You don't want all those other people that aren't interested in those people you want to unsubscribe if they don't unsubscribe themselves You you scrub them right off the list, right? And that's how you're going to make money with an email list and that's passive income That's one way of passive income. So you've got all these ways to make passive income. All right that i'm showing you Uh Go to you didn't know dot live check out my youtube channel I have all videos on making money online all different income streams that you can start Uh, and you can and you can sign up for my mailing list there And I I don't really sell on that mailing list I just kind of send out when i'm going to be live and and when I do send out videos I I use it for that. I don't really market stuff to it um So you could be safe in in signing up for that. Uh The next item on the list in the carousel is a webcam. Now, I bought this webcam. This can this thing is under $20 I'm using it right now. Okay. That's the camera that I'm using right now And it's uh under $20. It's a webcam. I needed it for zoom meetings back when pandemic first started I didn't have a webcam for my pc You know, I had one on the laptop in my phone But I every time I was at the pc I didn't have a webcam and they would they were sold out all during the pandemic I couldn't get one. They were expensive. This is ridiculously cheap. It's a good webcam. I mean look at the picture. It's not Uh a dslr camera $600 camera, but it's good enough. Okay to do the live stream It's good enough as long as the lighting is good and the and the audio is good the camera itself This is fine. This is all you need to get started another thing about it You know, what do you need to get started? All you need to get started in this business is a cell phone and you probably already have that in your pocket And you can get started But eventually you want to upgrade and you're going to buy other things and the webcam is one of the things that I upgraded to This and it was a good thing to upgrade to pretty cool. All right um So I would I would buy it again if I was going to buy it and this that was something that was uh that I bought myself all right, um Now we were talking about passive income and and One of the classic passive incomes is writing a book You write a book and the book it goes into the bookstore And you sell copies five years down the line 10 years down the line Stephen King is selling books that he wrote 20 years ago still right and Shakespeare or whoever you pick a pick the author. They're making money. So you write a book right and Passive income you wrote the book now you're not working anymore, but that book still continues to make money for you right, so amazon KDP kindle direct publishing you can do you can uh Publish a book for free on amazon Okay, now last week on the live I went through how to do that and if you go to my youtube channel I got a video that shows you how to do it how to how to how to publish your own ebook or Paperback book or even a hardcover book. This is a book that I put together. Do I have what it takes to be an influencer? um I tell you what So it's a great thing because not only do you Make money when they sell the book right You also get to put affiliate links in the book and I'm going to show you that one second now when you Publish this book to kindle. This is the book now. I published and I published it for free. It took me like a day to write it uh Very short 30 minute read quick book Right, but see where it says look inside People can look inside the book and get a preview of what the book is they look and look at the first three pages And when they open it up there's one page two pages. Oh, look at this There's an affiliate link right here on the third page So when they click that they want to know what this is they don't have to buy the book They can click this and it's going to take them to an affiliate product. All right, so I mean There's more than one way to skin a cat when it comes to making money online There's more than one animal out there to uh Make passive income. There's different revenue streams. Okay, you got amazon You got amazon books now. There's also amazon what they call fba I don't do fba fulfilled by amazon where people buy a lot a lot of product like like 50 or 100 items and they would ship it to amazon warehouse and amazon puts the air that You know puts the air on amazon and then when people buy it they ship it out to them and just send you A portion of the commission, you know amazon keeps the lion's share and sends you something But it's passive income you just send them the products and they do everything else But I don't do that You need to have money up front to buy the products and you need to have research to make sure that the products are gonna sell Otherwise, you're just buying products that don't sell and it's kind of a waste of your money so I know i'm not smart enough to do that But that's one way of making passive income amazon has a lot of different ways to make passive income And the book is one way. All right now Writing a book every they say everybody has a book in them, right? So why not just sit down and write a book? I wrote it on On google docs and wrote it on google docs added a couple of pictures to it, you know Very simple very easy Uploaded it made it made a made a cover for it. I can show you how to make a cover for it on my youtube channel Uh made a cover for it very simply and everything for free and now you got your your book on amazon published Okay, and you could do a cookbook. You could do a coloring book. You could do A how-to book you can do a story book. You could do a short story You could do a mystery anything anything at all. All right. Um And that's another passive income idea to make money while you sleep writing a book pretty simple, right? um The next item I got on the in the carousel was sent to me for free by megawise You're gonna see a lot of guys selling these, uh handheld massages that are rechargeable battery operated rechargeable bluetooth Not bluetooth, you know usb chargeable Sorry about that. So This thing is pretty cool. It's got screw-on heads.  You can put on it Got different settings. You can put on it's very strong. It's got very powerful uh Massager and it's it's got it's corded. It's plugged in so it's never gonna lose power and Oh man, I've been rubbing this on my thighs because I've been working walking in those mountains and uh You can't beat it.  Okay, of course, you can't take it to the gym But yeah But if you're looking for full power all the time, you know, this is the thing you want to get um And like I said, it's got all different and they change so simple so easily and there's there's like six or seven Different heads that come with it. You know, it's I love it. I use it every day I use it every day on my thighs to loosen up my thighs and my shoulders pretty Awesome item. Um, worth every penny. Uh So you have any questions about passive income and uh making money online starting passive income Income streams multiple streams of income is what we're talking about here You start youtube channel. You start an instagram channel. You start a Pinterest and I don't know if you've noticed But the one video that I make I upload it to each one of these places Okay, so it's the same video cut a little differently for different platforms Pinterest is a certain way instagram is a certain way youtube is a certain way, right? So you've got to, you know Cut it up a little bit, but you use the same Video for each platform. So you're only making one video and you're putting up in five or six places Okay, so and and the more the more content you get out there Okay, the more potential you have the passive income the more Again, it's not make money online Sitting on the beach doing nothing ever All right, that's not what passive income is passive income Is doing something today making an effort today And you have the potential to earn money in the future over and over and over again off that effort that you did in the past That's passive income, but you have had to have done some kind of effort Okay, you had to do something to earn to earn it, right?  There you go. That's you You've you've hit the lottery and you don't have to ever work again, right? But the rest of us have to put some kind of effort In order to have passive income come in and of course It's it's a great thing. Hey No, I haven't heard about that. Hey, we got a follower. We got a follow. Check this out, man I got this new overlay. I'm gonna try there we go and we're gonna go down here and we're gonna hit the horn Thank you, Marcus. I appreciate the follow I don't know what what Igma or ligma ligma. Is that an l ligma? I don't know what ligma is. I haven't heard of ligma Yeah, ligma.  You got me my buddy. You got me. You're the best. Okay, you cannot follow now all right, um So the next item is going to be the basketball the glow-in-the-dark basketball that I got I'm gonna play the video for it. Um Um Where are we now? Okay, so this was sent to me by terasio came With the batteries in it already. I had to blow it up pretty cool item My kids used to do the free throws at night in the dark, you know in the driveway It was always a problem. I had the light the light didn't shine up to the the hoop and everything It was always an issue So I wish I would have had this then the glow city basketball I had to blow it up came with the like I said came with the batteries doesn't have an on-off switch It goes by touch.  Um Oh, I can all right. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. Okay. All right Pretty cool. All right. So that's the end of that video. Uh So basketball pretty cool item Like I said, I wish I would have had that when my kids were playing basketball and they were out in the driveway in dark Shooting baskets all the time practicing, you know dribbling through the legs and all that other stuff pretty pretty cool stuff so Passive income making money online making money while you sleep. That's what they say They say make money while you sleep. Is that possible? Can you make money while you sleep? I do I make money while I sleep Okay, because people are watching my videos in india. Okay when I'm sleeping at night and I'm making ad revenue for that Okay, and I'm making affiliate commissions off of that while I'm sleeping But it's not never have it to work again. Okay. It's never have to work again. That's not real Okay, you have to have some kind of of an effort You have to put force and effort in order to make the money you put You put forth an effort today and for the potential in the future to earn money off that effort Over and over and over again. That's that is the passive income. We're talking about and that's what we're trying to get uh Next item in the carousel is also on on sale 36 off. Uh, it's a candle lighter.  They run out of gas So this thing solves that problem because it's usb chargeable. I just dropped the choir Okay, pretty cool little item. Uh, you hit the button three times and the light goes on it's ready to go Okay, and it's not a flame. It's an electrode.  All right Never have to worry about a lighter again because it's just usb charge this it's charged all the time and you're good to go Right That's a pretty cool item. Uh, this is something that I've I've given his gift already and you know It was well received.  You don't have to keep it charged. You keep it Again, I've never touched my skin with this but I would imagine that it wouldn't tickle Um at all at all, but it's a really cool item You know pretty cool gift items under 25 bucks You know if you have somebody in your in your family that's into candles, you know pretty cool gift item um for sure I will say the dog does not like it The dog does not like the noise that it makes. You know, it makes a noise and he does not like it. Um So if you're in the chat, let me know where you're watching from, uh, what where'd you come to amazon today to buy and uh Did you stop by to find out about passive income? What is passive income? Can you make money while you sleep? I mean, that's the question. I do I do make money when I sleep people in india watch my videos That I have on youtube and they and I get ad revenue And I and I have affiliate links in the videos and I and you make money while you sleep You I made a video at some time in the past And somewhere somewhere in the world someone watches that video in the future and I earn a little bit It's not quit your job. Uh, you know retire money not yet right But it's a stream of income that comes in and the key is having multiple streams of income like that So if you have a thousand dollars coming in from your youtube channel and 500 dollars coming in from your instagram channel And another 250 coming in from Pinterest and your email marketing does another 500 now you're talking about serious money So you build all these streams of income up Passive income you work on them like an hour a day each day you work an hour to put some stuff That's passive income. You still have to work But what you do today is going to earn you money in the future. Okay, pretty simple You know, we went through youtube putting your affiliate links. We went through instagram putting affiliate links We went through Pinterest doing affiliate links amazon using the amazon associates program sign up for the amazon associates program I showed you how to get the link to use from the amazon associate program and uh I showed you how to write a book Write a book passive income write a book. Okay, you put the book on the bookshelf Kindle direct publishing you can do it for free. You can upload your book for free and become a published author Okay, now I have a couple of books on there and I started as a joke Someone told me one person said you should write a book and the other person said you can't write a book And I said i'm gonna write a book and I got it published So and it's anybody can do it's no no no special skills involved and you don't It could be spelled wrong. It could be all kinds of crazy stuff But you can you can hey, we got another follower. We got another follower Sean main. Thank you for following. Thank you for following. I love it. I love it. I love it We're talking about passive income and we're talking about using social media using affiliate links on our social media And i'm talking about using amazon associates For getting those links because the beauty about amazon associates is that you're cooking Cookied for 24 hours anything they buy for 24 hours. You're gonna get a commission on not just what you sent them for So are there other programs that pay a bigger commission? Yes, there are but amazon's name is the difference And I told you about warm traffic warming somebody up is the hardest part getting warm traffic And amazon is the master at it people go to amazon ready to buy So if you're using amazon affiliate links, you're you're ahead of the game. You're doing good. All right. Um What else do we have what else do we have we have the next item is the angry orange Stain sniper now. I used to be a superintendent for apartment complex. I used to have to do uh Yeah, yeah some items are so I was a superintendent like I was saying I used to have to do an apartment inspection when people moved out for pet stains on the carpet In order to get them shampooed I would I would hold back your security if you had if I had the shampoo to rugs And I had a big black light.  Um But I know this stuff works really good. I don't have carpets in my house. I got dogs, but no carpets. I got rugs Um, but I know it works. I used it when I was a superintendent on at the apartments and uh Black lights shows all kinds of bodily fluids blood Anything any kind of bodily fluids. It'll show uh now Angry orange it was sent to me for free a lot of these Couple of these items were sent to me for free the the lighter was sent to me for free I told you the megawise massager was sent to me for free being an amazon influencer Brands send you stuff to review for free to be on amazon to get their stuff shown on amazon Uh, it's all part of the deal and it's pretty sweet. Uh pretty sweet deal. Um Yeah, do you have any questions? Um You get you got to review find yourself products that sell You know, you can find products that that are best sellers or the other the other strategy is to find Items that there are no videos for Because there are there's no competition.  They're running a special on this tomorrow. So I mean, it's 20 bucks right now Uh, which is still a good deal. I I use it. Uh, we got the pet pads and um Good stuff.  It's what it says. It's odor eliminator very good stuff. Um I used to use a different thing, but now we use this the kids love it now, uh Passive income making money while you sleep. We're not looking for the missing link. We're not looking for the holy grail We're not looking for the fountain of youth Right. It's not an impossible thing It is if you don't want to work if you don't want to do anything And that's what some people think passive income make money while you say I want to make money when I sleep They don't want to work at all. They don't want to do anything. It doesn't work that way Okay, you have to put forth some effort in order to get a reward, right? So how do you become an amazon influencer? Linda wants to know good question Well, what you need to do is you you have to have a an already a following on another social media platform You have to be either youtube instagram We got another follow we got another follow nai nia. Thank you nia Thank you. Thank you for following so so what you do is you get a following on another social media And you build it up to a certain number and the numbers are always changing and then when you get to a certain point, uh Yeah Do you have that so? um I got thrown off. I'm sorry about that. So when you get to a certain point Uh, we're gonna have to figure something else out because I just forgot what I was going to say Oh, we're going to go to the next item on the list is is the godline wireless driveway Alarm. Okay. Now this thing uh, is a pretty cool item What is the most craziest time in the house if you have a family and a dog? What's the craziest time you could think of? When somebody rings the doorbell when somebody rings the doorbell the door goes nuts the kids go crazy, you know You're on a zoom call or you're cooking dinner or you're doing the laundry or you're in the shower and the doorbell rings, right? Pandemonium craziness Wouldn't it be nice if you knew somebody was walking up the driveway? This quarter mile away you put this down your driveway and there's 30 different tones You know, you can have play a tone in the house. Oh someone's coming up the driveway I got time to put the dog in the cage I got time to put the kids in the room, you know here go in the room watch tv I got I got I got time to excuse myself from the zoom meeting Put, you know get out of the way from the laundry I got I got like five minutes and I can get to the door nice and calm not being crazy Perfect. This is a great item great item. Uh, it solves a problem solves a problem indeed um so we were talking about passive income and and making money while you sleep and and It it not being Feasible not to do any work at all. You do you put forth an effort today And you have the potential to make money off that effort in the future That's what passive income is and so you make videos or content now. You also want to use, uh Like I said, I would use youtube to start because youtube is a search engine pinterest is a search engine Uh instagram you use hashtags for but you know, uh search engines are evergreen So no matter when people search that item It's going to come up right as long as it's something that's searchable. All right The angry orange does it work on does the angry orange work? I you have it on It's a laminate floor that I use it on. Yeah, it is and and we spray it on and mop it up. Um So this works car vacuum. So camden says he didn't like the car vacuum. Uh, I don't know That's camden's opinion, but uh I don't know for sure The car vacuum The problem with the car vacuums is that the they're cordless and they run out of power before you finish Vacuum in the car, right? Well, this one has a cord on a 16 foot cord. So he's going to be full power in the whole time So, I mean that being said it's it's it's solving a problem right there. Uh, it's not I don't I don't know if it's the greatest vacuum in the world I'm not going to you know say it is or it isn't it's on sale right now It's decent price if you are the kind of person it comes with a little kit that you could leave in the trunk it plugs into the 12 volt baller thing there and uh I'll tell you You got to get the p-page too. Amazon has p-page and here's the thing you can get them delivered to your house I get the stuff delivered so I don't have to buy it in the store and put it in my car You go to the store you take it off the shelf put it your car and then bring it in the house But now I order these bulk items, uh, and it gets shipped to my house. I just bring it in from the door step I don't have to put it it saves it saves a lot of time. So the p-page all that kind of stuff I order from amazon now. Um The next item I got in here is the bed shore calming bed now This was sent to me by bed shore bed shore Really great company really cool, and I'm gonna Look for where I have uh the video for this because There it is My dog loves this thing and I we got a rescue dog and he's a very high strong hyper dog Okay, we got we just got it.  He's he's loving the bed. The bed is so soft The middle piece comes out everything is washable and it's just so soft and and it was amazing How it calmed the dog down, uh, I'm pulling behind this even though like I said it was set to me for free by bed shore Um, but he spends a lot of time in it and it's got nooks and crannies He's always sticking his bones in the side of it. He loves it. Uh Let's let you watch that for a sec That's benny the rescue dog He's uh, he's a handful. He barks a lot And he's high strong But he's a rescue dog, you know, they all have their problems not his fault So there he is in the bed. He's like loving it. He's Not coming out. He doesn't sit still. He does not sit still So this bed had his attention had his full attention and he's testing it out And he still hasn't ripped it yet. He's he's always pulling on stuff like that He loves that it has that little corner like underneath the cushion He sticks all his bones and everything under there and hides him right Very good very good, uh dog bed This thing and this is the large dog bed.  Not a big dog. Not a little dog in the middle But I always get the large because we got we babysit another dog and they they share everything And there he is putting his head down on it. Nice. He's calm down and he does not do that ever Okay ever and look the tail's wagon Loving it loving that thing Loving it And that's the bed shore calming dog bed perfect and 100 percent 100 percent does what it says it does Combs the dog down as you can see. All right, definitely does Okay, um Again bed shore another thing the bed shore sent me was the cat the cat cave. We're gonna look at the cat cave quick and uh There's the cat cave. I don't have a cat so I don't have a cat to show you but this thing Unfolded real quick was easy to put together um And I sent it out to a friend of ours who has cats For them to try it out and I'm waiting to get the footage back and I should have that in the future. Um But you know being an influencer so you you have to have a Following in another social media whether it's instagram or youtube or I think they're taking tiktok now and when you have and it's not so much your uh The amount of followers you have it's the amount of engagement you have and the amount of activity that you have on the platform Uh, and you'll get you'll get approved to be an amazon influencer Then after that It's not over because then you have to get approved to do what's called shoppable videos Okay, and uh, you got three chances to do that and if you don't and if you don't do it right And they don't really tell you how to do it right Uh, I uh Took me three times to get it right And if and if you if you don't get it the third time you're thrown out of the program forever for life Uh, so it's a very hard program to get into um, but once you're in and I heard it's getting hotter and hotter all the time because uh, it's it's um More and more people are trying to get into it now um But it's a good program to get into and but it's separate from the amazon associate program Which is the affiliate program. Okay, so that's the cat cave. They call it the cat cave pretty cool item Uh, and it was and it unfolded and put it together in minutes. It was pretty cool, right pretty cool. You agree So that's everything in the carousel They they do hate cages they do but that's not a cage. It's a cave. They love caves You've ever seen them go into boxes and stuff like that. They'll go into the same kind type of thing, you know so, um And uh, yeah, I'm not a big cat person myself. I'm a dog person So they take but they wanted me to review it and if you were have a cat you might want to you might want to You know look for something like that. So, um I appreciate all the comments in in the in the comment section in in the chat very cool If you have any questions about passive income, uh starting a youtube channel I have a course. Uh, I'm not going to try and sell it, but I do have a course that To be an influencer and and and how to start your youtube channel your Pinterest your instagram All of those social medias and how to how to brand yourself and and and do all of that stuff I have it all in order and and figured out for you So you can not, you know, do it right from the beginning and not make the mistakes that other people make Uh, you can go to you didn't know dot live and you can look for that if you wanted to It's called the influencer bootcamp. Um And it's a it's just it's like 25 videos and it's and it goes into each subject separately so you can take it in little chunks. All right, um Build an audience identify a problem and offer the solution That's the way to make money online And the number one fastest growing small business in the united states is being a content creators being an influencer Okay, so start your youtube channel start your instagram start your Pinterest start your tiktok start your Amazon associates get you sign up for amazon associates get going get started. What are you waiting for? What do I need to get started jim? What do I need to get started? You need all you need your phone All you need your phone a majority of my shopable videos are shot on a cell phone Okay, the cell phones today are great cameras. They're better cameras than most can unless you're spending six hundred dollars $900 on a camera that your phone has got a better camera on it Then you then you're the camera that you thought you was a better camera. Your phone is better. Okay, and It's got access to wi-fi. It's got access to the internet You just you know automatically upload it right from your phone. You can't get better than that So all you need is a cell phone you use natural light. Okay, so go by a window natural light and uh You might want to upgrade to a microphone because audio is very important Uh and get started being an influencer build an audience start an audience. What is it that you want to do? Oh Yeah, the hot pop thing is great man. Uh, in matter of fact, I'll I'll show you. Where is it? No, that's not it Give me a second. Oh, that's not what I wanted to do. That's me. Give me a second Oh, that's not what I want. Oh, no. Give me a second Oh, oh, that's not what I want. Oh, no. Give me a second That's not what I want. All right. I think I got rid of it. Okay. Um, let me see if I can find it. I think I found it I think I found it.  All right, this ain't working out so good. Uh, anyway, we were at the end of the stream So I'm gonna turn it up. But the popcorn thing does work. It works. I think I got rid of it I think I got rid of it. Okay. Um, let me see if I can find it. I think I found it I think I found it. All right I'm gonna turn it up. But the popcorn thing does work. It works really well I used it twice so far and I didn't get any any kernels in it so I'm gonna cut the stream short because I don't know what's going on with and that's what happens when you share the screen and There we go. You share the screen and and you're you're live and you share the live And it's like you kind of go into the matrix. It's crazy. Um Come back on Tuesday every Tuesday eight o'clock. Okay Tuesday's eight o'clock. I go live All right, we're going to talk about side hustles. We're going to talk about ways to make money as we go through the carousel We're going to talk about multiple streams of income. We're going to talk about affiliate marketing We're going to talk about building courses. We're going to talk about email marketing You name it if you have something you want to explore you want to learn how to use your instagram channel to make money You want to learn how to use your tiktok channel to make money You want to learn how to use pinterest channel to make money? All that stuff is on my youtube channel. Check it out. All right, and I will see you next tuesday. Thanks for playing


No, hi. Good afternoon everyone. Well boy. Oh boy. We're back on Channel 17 My name is Andrew Champagne. I live on Green Street in the Old North End and I am the producer of Democrats live at live at 525 This is the first show that we have done Since I believe February 2020 So so much has gone on with with our country with the world with Vermont with Burlington with the Old North End with everyone personally That I would thought I would start by thanking the station We are so glad that Programming is commenced live programming. This is this is being this is being cut live at 525 on on Thursday the 23rd of September so now a lot of folks will watch this it will be on kind of a continuous loop, but this is this is live television and it comes with all the The advantages the the fact it's spontaneous Spontaneity is involved Also the fact you can't edit it and once it's taped it's taped. So you have to forgive me. I'm a little rusty. I'm a little nervous It's hard sometimes looking into the TV lens But I wanted to to especially thank the the staff at Channel 17 my cameraman Daniel great to see you my friend from Isham Street now living in Winooski great and Kevin now on the executive producer Nice good. These are good people and also I'd have to thank I'd like to thank Jordan Who is the channel coordinator? Megan who is very involved and also Ms. Lauren Glenn Davidian who is head of the station I believe I was told by Kevin that the station has been together for about 35 years. I know it's at least 30 so You know providing quality Programming in Burlington in the Old North End that goes out all all county-wide I believe in 11 counties 11 towns in the county that includes like Winooski, South Burlington Hinesburg, Shelburne, Charlottes all sorts of good places and So we're glad that you're listening. We're glad you're tuning in I'm here on the corner of North Winooski Avenue, and I guess this is Archibald So we're right here in the Old North End and you know You really can feel the vibe in in the town in the city and I'm glad that they've been able to keep this space so long now Getting to Democratic politics the first thing that I should mention and I'm gonna I'm gonna mention a couple different times is That every two years all parties in Vermont are required by the Secretary of State's office or by law basically To reorganize that is fill their committees again hold elections for chair vice chair treasurer assistant treasurer secretary and also Have elections to elect people to their town and city committees Now that will be done in over 200 towns in Vermont. It's called reorganization commonly known as reorg and that will happen in all the towns that I mentioned in Chittenden and Since most of the people are viewing are in Burlington It's gonna happen next Tuesday, which is Tuesday September 28th at 6 p.m. At the Miller Center on Gosquart and that's on the up in the new north end right off North Avenue To the right of the Avenue. There's plenty of free parking It's very easy access And we want to thank the people at the Miller Center for being so kind to have that spot and I'd also I'd like to thank the chair of the party in Burlington my good friend Adam roof former city counselor for For spearheading this organizing it making it happen and getting the space so again that will be If you're if if you're watching this show and you say well I'd like to get involved in Burlington Democratic Party The perfect way to do it is to come to our reorganizational meeting Which is Tuesday the 28th this Tuesday at 6 p.m. At the Miller Center, which is all which is in Gosquart It's also a polling place. So I think people will know it's right near some ball and soccer fields So it's right off North Avenue. It's very easy to get it's on the bus line and I hope everyone knows that the Chinatown County transit is free and I've been told that they're hoping to keep that free till next summer So that's a really invaluable resource and I might join you on the bus to and kind of reduce my carbon footprint Or ride my bicycle up there So we're going to talk about that a couple more times in the broadcast because we Thanks to channel 17 we proposed and they agreed upon 45 minutes for the show instead of 30 minutes. So we You know, we have 15 more minutes. So we have some more things to talk about So I'm going to mention that a couple times and also when you're doing broadcasts around the dinner hour You're expecting that people are tuning in You know, maybe they watch the first part, but or they come in for the second So to anyone who's watching this is the first time since February 2020 We've done this show and we are certainly glad to be back here So getting back. I'll try to do a bit of a timeline Here from March 2020 to September 21 In some ways it feels like ancient history almost it's it's it's it's like America before 9 11. It's like a different world We've seen 600,000 plus Americans pass away from the COVID-19 We've seen millions more catch the virus We we have seen under President Biden of a very good rollout of the vaccine And and before I I do a timeline. I just want to encourage anyone who is watching who is not vaccinated Please for the love of your country of your neighbors of your friends of your family Please let's get vaccinated. I I had the Johnson and Johnson. I had the two shots The first shot felt I didn't even I I told the nurse.  I admittedly was a little tired But that was the only side effects I had and then when I woke up the next day I I I felt great So it is being offered for example daily right across the street from here from here community health I believe it's being offered at CVS downtown Walgreens downtown Um, I know uvm students get can be vaccinated up on campus So there are so many ways to one get tested to get vaccinated. Um, I think anyone Anyone who's who worried about vaccine? I think you have to have some faith. I believe in the vaccine my 86 year old mother took the vaccine You know, we know we know younger people are taking it and something about about 84 of the population Is taking the vaccine which thanks to them. That's that's extraordinary. That's more than four out of five people That's you know, 84 people out of a hundred But we have the the last 16 percent that are either Perhaps aren't getting the communication Or have some fear have some unwanted Um skepticism about the vaccine and I would just like to appeal to anyone Who's watching this show that is not vaccinated or someone watching this show that has an unvaccinated friend It's so easy and the one thing I can ask you is to get vaccinated If anyone has any questions about vaccine sites, they can call me directly at home Uh, I'm involved in you know, I'm involved a little bit and and and you know Democratic politics so I see people and I know where the sites are but you can if you feel you want to just call Someone and you call a friend you can call me and my name is Andrew Champaign Um, I work best off, uh, telephone you can give me a call in burlington anytime<PHONE_NUMBER> and I know sometimes there's fear of vaccines fear the doctor fear of needles just but The the way that is being done is is so kind and sensitive and then you wait for 15 minutes and Just kind of catch your breath and have some water so If there's one thing anyone can take out of this program today is the support the democratic party has in burlington vermont nationwide for the vaccine and We'd just like to ask you If you do have some problems or questions there's so much research out there And let's really try to get close to a hundred percent it's it's vitally important for our country to move forward for our city to move forward And obviously for the state of vermont to move forward Um, speaking of the virus. I've got a good a lot of credit to mayor morrow. Wineburger. He has been He has followed the science to the letter. He's been cautious. He's been optimistic He hasn't been afraid to give bad news or to realize that we had to do things virtually And the city has really led the way in Safety and prudence and caution, but also following the facts Um, this virus You know the last time we had anything like this was of 102 years ago I read an interesting article in the new york times that uh, there was a woman who died. This was last year She was 101 She died from the vaccine, but her her twin sister had died in 1918 From the influenza virus. So it's incredible Oh, even though it was a hundred years ago, there's a lot of similarities this it really crippled america both times Uh, obviously we have a lot more communication and and and and medicine But the virus virtually shut things down for many months from about march March 10th 2020 till Till after new years till the springtime when people were starting to get the starting to get the vaccine um Now coming up there there's there's shots that you can take I encourage a flu shot. I encourage a shingle shot. Um, if when the not if when the booster shot comes I'm going to be right there for it And if they need someone to test you can sign me up because I think the booster shot will will add some added immunity so again, um You know, there's not a more important issue than the health of our country or our economic health our actual physical health Um, I live in the college neighborhood and I always felt so sorry for the uvm students Uh and all students because virtually there was no summer school. There was just school online and there was no You know, there was no after school activities. There was no There was no athletics and it it was they missed a graduation They had to come and this year the uvm they did a great thing. They kind of did a double graduation and Where I where I went to high school. We're going to do a double reunion. So, um It it was a very hard time of year. It was very isolating for You know and and of course in in vermont, we have the really tough weather here So there were some nights where it was it was very sobering. It was very sad it was depressing is really what it was and I i'm so glad we were strong and got through this and Anybody who went and checked on a friend or helped a friend with a few bucks or some groceries or a little rent money or Shoveled their driveway or just sat down and talked with them. Um, I think every person from every party would agree Thank you very much so let me let me you know, I had to do kind of a long introduction here because um You know the virus kind of overshadows everything, but so in march of 2020 We had the we had the presidential campaign in in full in full run Now before I I move on I've really got to thank senator bernie sanders for his incredible campaign in 2020 and in 216 But a man who runs on the issues a man for the people he He ran incredible campaigns both times and uh very gracious and very very very strong in supporting um Is supporting president biden and uh, you know his campaign was um He did so well bernie did and senator sanders did all over the country and uh really fired up so many people and You know some of the uh the policies that he advocated now they're almost they're almost You know everyone is advocating for him can you imagine having people work a full-time job for less than $15 an hour Um, you know, how do you survive anywhere on that? Someone trying to expand medicaid and medicare. There's 38 states out of 50 that have um medicaid and uh medicare for younger people So that leaves 12 of the states, which is about 25 of the states that that have said we don't want this coverage from from our country And I you know, obviously not understandable. Um, the republicans talk a good game about the people But I don't think they care about the people at all the democrats are the party of the people And again, I want to thank senator sanders for all his good work uh When with the new congress with the majority how slim it is He is now chair of the budget committee and he is working on the stimulus packages. He is working on the um drawing up new budgets and And obviously someone who believes that the government is here to help the people someone who's You know prime influence has been the new deal And you know, we see we see the poverty in this country and we see How it really affects young kids or older people. We see the problems with drug addiction. Um I to be honest in burlington in the last six months. I've just seen I've just seen so much evidence of it and it's you know, obviously such a sad empty life that Usually ends up in jail institution or death and Sometimes out of a pandemic you will have bad habits that seem to persevere And addiction alcoholism But you know when we talk about recreational drugs, no one can do fenetal Recreationally, it's it can be 50 times to up to 400 times stronger than heroin And this is something that's a street drug in burlington So these are the issues that that we're working on and that president biden's working on the senator sanders And senator lehi in congressman welch Um, I must congratulate senator lehi because he is now president pro tem of the senate at the line of succession goes uh president vice president Speaker of the house president pro tem And so senator lehi is also the longest serving senator in the united states senate And I want to thank him for all his good work and caring and helping with the biden administration His work on the judiciary committee his work as president of the senate and uh, we we saw him in action and a lot of hearings hearings on the january 6 The treasonous affairs of january 6th that we will get to And also congressman welch unbelievable energy Had so much fun marching. I marched in a few parades with him this summer and and senator lehi and senator sanders and congressman welch They really have the innate ability. They know all 14 counties very well Now, let's see if anyone knows here. I know all 14 counties and we'll we'll quickly whip them off for you Addison, bennington, caldonia, chitenden where we are, essyx, franklin grandisle lamoille county orange county or leans county rutlin county washington county windham county and Windham washington and winsor county. Those are the 14 counties and when I When I see our representatives in action senator sanders senator lehi congressman welch You know, we don't always see their schedule in burlington. They could be in topsum. They could be in bennington They could be in grand isle. They could be In canan and you know, I am a member of the democratic state committee and you see all 14 counties the diversity how different it is from danville to winewski to rutlin to Oh, let's say bennington and And I I think for obviously for congressman welch. He's the only congressman for the whole state and You know, he's constantly on the road Meeting people talking to people meeting the first responders meeting with educators meeting with students meeting with law enforcement trying to also He's done some great stuff as all of these men have In getting some some federal funds here now. I'll tell you one that affected me affected me was uh When uh congressman welch was able able to get something called save our stages through Which is Save our stages is a bill that was on the stimulus that recognized that without entertainment without drama without music without comedy um That you know, our our lives just weren't the same and as anyone knows in burlington Culture um cultures king here. We have you know, the most incredible music One of the great rock bands in rock history fish right from vermont You know those guys lived within blocks of here went to uvm played some amazing shows at nectars and and Just are an incredible band or bread and puppet or Vermont symphony. I can name or the jazz fest The highlight the new year the new new year celebration the festival fools the new celebration for juneteenth um The celebrations on the waterfront the maritime festival the grace potter festival. I have to have to thank them and So a congressman welch realized if if these clubs theaters nightclubs loud, you know with a stage go out That they'll probably go out forever and we's able to get some serious funding for some stages and clubs and Performing spaces in vermont to keep going and and you know to pay their bills Keep and keep their employees on and showcase some music and um I uh You know because because i'm on the show a lot I'll just tell you personally that I want to thank my friends at higher ground because I Was hired to do voter reg with them this summer and I just did my 25th show with them since July 7th So I'd like to thank everyone at higher ground That unlike this show was uh, was not any political bias. That was just just registering voters I'm a justice to the peace in burlington and uh, we had a lot of success and You know people move or people turn 18 or There's many people unfortunately that have never voted and And if we're able to get some first time voters going then that's absolutely fantastic So again about the again about the save our stages I'd like to thank congressman peter welch. That was uh, that was a real Real excellent thing to do and as someone who does work in the music business part-time I want to thank you because it helped it helped me it helped me do shows that helped us have shows And have shows safely now for example, there's Higher ground, uh, if you go to performance there, you have to show your vaccination, which I think is fantastic And uh, so we're trying to create these safe environments For example the studio where i'm in or the flin is going to reopen october 28th With a great national act named angeli kado Who tours all over the world and uh, she just did She just did a long tour doing the whole talking heads album a remain in light and angeli kado and And they have a full load of of concerts coming vermont symphony all sorts of great stuff rock and roll little feet hot tuna Great bands. So I'd like to give a shout out To all the all the venues downtown that are are keeping going with live music and that would include netters and Manhattan pizza and the flin and um Oh, I can't miss any here higher ground. Um, there's a few more. So if i'm missing any i'm sorry um, but you see when Now we're getting back to somewhat Normal existence and and we are getting ready to do some politics We are 14 months away from the midterm elections, which are going to be unbelievably important um as as I think anyone who follows politics knows we have the senate is divided 50 50 and um Our excellent vice president Ms. Kamala Harris is the 51st vote and But our caucus, you know ranges from extremely progressive to moderate to conservative. So in order to get those 50 votes It's not always easy And that's the kind of thing that senator lehi is is so great on is coming to consensus and and moving things forward um, you see how the republican administration was able to To get another supreme court justice Uh confirmed and they can they've confirmed three Very very conservative justices So when a justice retires there's been talk of justice briar retiring. He is a democrat He knows that it's you know, uh, when the senate is in democratic hands, we will be able to get a nominee I think I think senator mcconnell almost broke the law when he did not let Merrick garland Even have a hearing he was nominated by president obama president obama And I really thought that was unconstitutional and just unfair And I would like to thank president biden for a bunch of different reasons But having the guts and the and the and the smarts To nominate and he was easily confirmed to a lot of republican uh votes Merrick garland as attorney general and he's doing a great job. So there are second acts in politics There are second acts in life, but now we basically have We have five very conservative justices and one somewhat conservative who is the chief justice Justice roberts was able to usually put a consensus together But now with this this core of hard core five. He doesn't have that ability. So we're going to see a lot of five four decisions and um If anyone's been following the the terrible bill that has passed in texas about abortion rights and It's so restrictive if someone can turn in someone if if they aid in helping someone with With an abortion, it's it's draconian. It's evil. It's undemocratic and it It it almost has a hint of fascism to it They've also in texas and we're going to talk about this. They've also enacted terrible terrible voting laws And I will tell you as someone who's a justice of the peace and I've I've registered 1425 people to vote um I've registered a lot a lot of people to vote and That when they say let's throw it back to the states or let's cut early voting or Oh, jeez. You don't have a vermont id. You can't vote or let's Let's let's cut the hours the polls are open or let's cut mail-in balloting. That is restrictive racism It what they're trying to do Is they they don't want everyone to vote and it's a terrible thing to say as an american You know, we have to realize that all 50 states make up our union But we have about 15 or 18 states that are so restrictive and backwards Vermont I would just like to thank secretary of state jim condos Here's some of the things that we have same day registration which means You can come and register and vote the same day We have something like 35 days of early voting which is fantastic Uh, and I I want to give I this is a democratic show But I have to thank governor scott for signing the the new bill now now everyone who is registered will get a ballot sent to their home now What that means is let's say you like the traditional way of voting at the polling places all eight polling places will be open in burlington and all 28 polling places will be open in chintenden county But what we're trying to do for someone who doesn't want to go out or doesn't have time or is ill or Is taking care of kids whatever their situation is they can fill out their ballot At home now, let's say that gets I've had people tell me and I believe them Hey, you know got recycled or it got lost it got thrown away You can request a new ballot. That's a ballot is sometimes spoiled. You can request a new ballot but most importantly on the you and also Not to get too far ahead of myself You can go to your town or city hall and vote early for example at city hall here 149 church street are my great friends at city clerk's office I'd like to thank Tenzin and amy and philip and holly and lori and kathryn and Anyone else I missed they could not be nicer They're always there to help you and uh, you know if someone is watching this is not registered to vote They can call me again. I've gave my phone number. I'll give it again. Andrew champagne the easiest way Is that I is to reach me is by telephone. That's what I work best with 802 540 07 17 now let me give you the The telephone number for city hall 865 7000 and then on the prompt you press 1 865 7000 Um They are open 8 to 4 30 monday through friday But also they are now closed to sanitize and also have a nice lunch From 12 30 to 130 so the city hall is not open from 12 30 to 130 But it is open 8 to 12 30 and then 130 to 4 30 and as I thank those kind people they're so That they can do so many things for you get a birth certificate tax records register you to vote all sorts of things so You know we have we have city government here that is um Is is really doing a good job So so okay, well, let's see what we have I got about 20 minutes left. It looks like and uh, So I better get back Okay, I have 15 minutes my my engineer friend kevin. Thank you highly trained crew Boy, it's gone fast. So let's let's just quick. There's one name. I haven't mentioned He was a terrible president. He was awful illegal I have a lot of respect for the presidency. I'm I care greatly about this country but president trump was an illegal president who I I think almost was mentally ill and his narcissism and his fabrication and his lies And that the fact that he was for working people and he was there to help people And we see with covet first. He was a covet denier And and unfortunately he made some terrible mistakes not believing in the science not believing in dr. Fauci The fact is we all know a mask Really alleviates the covet so We got into the summer vice president biden after After a tough, but I think fair primary process was our candidate. He picked an excellent vp Someone from california to give the ticket some some geographic Um difference also the first woman ever was elected vice president of the united states and The first woman of color or anyone of color to be elected president or oh, I'm sorry vice The first person of color to be elected vice president obviously president of biden president obama. I'm sorry in 2008, but she Very interesting person a lawyer a prosecutor A attorney general a united states senator someone with a lot of experience and You know anyone that's working in california. They have 30 million people and I believe that If they weren't part of the united states, they'd be the seventh or eighth largest country so anyone who's working there is really going to have an experience of As we know california is going through some rough times, but again, they were an excellent team We saw how president trump wasn't in debates bullying. We saw his real character nervousness. He realized he was out class President biden kept his cool did a great job. Also Then senator harris did a great job against mike pence and We we we came into election that was so close More ballots were cast than ever before in credit president trump got a lot of votes, but Mr. Biden got five million more and won fair and square And in all the challenges everyone has been thrown out And in all my years over 20 years working at the polls I have not seen voter fraud and we found so so little voter fraud and President biden was elected fairly and honestly and with dignity and class Now we saw i've never seen a worse or sore loser ever Who one did not meet the person who won? Did not go to the inauguration and encouraged people to come to the capital on january 6th And yes, encourage them to riot writing that turned into treasonous activity treasonous activity that resulted in the death and injury of several Capitol Hill policemen I I remember I remember them so fondly. I I pray for their families how terrible how hard they fought against a mob that carried confederate flags that that discredited the american flag That vandalized some of our our greatest treasures They were guilty of burglary. They were guilty of assault. They were guilty of I think manslaughter and to have a president incite them Now in 1862 The confederates got within Site of the capital, but that was the closest insurgents have ever come And january 6th was a terrible day in our history and I think I have to thank capital health police and national guard and washington metropolitan police Who put their lives on their line? for to defend our house our home and When I I think what a beautiful building that is it it almost brings me to tears that these people would desecrate it And abuse it and graffiti it and all sorts of terrible things in there And also take the lives of these people have sworn to defend it And then they have a president Say, hey, this this this really didn't you know, it was just a march obviously illegal and And you know it it shows thank god how strong our democracy is that was just Eight nine months ago, and it it seemed so long ago, but it was really a terrible day It was one of the worst it was a day like 9 11. It was a day Like pearl harbor or or when we got in a world war one Are there several days like that in our country's history this that they were just terrible days and Thank god The will of the people the right for the people to have our house open and free Has existed and thank goodness That the certification of the presidency was awarded to the rightful winners Joseph biden jr. And kamala harris and that we had a beautiful inauguration on the 20th with great speeches great performances Lots of people from all over the country coming to celebrate and I think I think I I want to say I really I really do think the world of president biden he the challenges he's had to face dealing with a rogue presidency dealing with Having no access to classified documents before he was sworn in or nor no meetings with the administration No transition. I think it was criminal the republicans and and and president trump and anyone watching here Don't let them talk you into it was just a rally gone bad It was I think a lot of it was premeditated And as we know president trump's call to the secretary stated georgia Please find me 13 000 ballots you can do it And thank goodness that man had the bravery and courage to say no I can't and you lost here Thank god for all the people working Around the country to register voters all around the country student groups all sorts of unions Universities justice of the peace campaign workers and thank god we had a record turnout sure president trump got a lot of votes but President biden got more he was certified the winner but You know, I wonder if a country not as strong as ours with moral clarity and history might have perhaps succumbed to chaos and Anarchy uh, I think president trump wanted to stick around and he would have done He looked like he was going to do any by any means necessary and if that meant putting his own vice president and People from the senate and the house of both parties and mortal danger Well, then too bad we see someone Who just was a flawed terrible narcissistic lying person And thank god we have someone with some great honor Like president biden who cares about people who wants to see the process through We see these spending bills. We see a national new deal.  It was the hottest july ever It was the hottest august ever and and i'm talking not not in far away places I'm talking right here as I point to this beautiful flag in vermont It was so so hot And to deny climate change, you know, that's just fallacy and we have we have a president that is working again with our allies now obviously Leaving a country as troubled and huge and complex and difficult as as afghanistan was not going to be easy But I must say in fairness We are out. Thank goodness and I would like to thank all the thousands and thousands of troops and nurses and doctors and civilians and and social workers and teachers That have done their very best To help in afghanistan and that is a country That is a country with a lot of problems four distinct regions four distinct languages And I really wish the best for them, but i'm glad that we are out. It was not easy And president biden made that tough decision. So again, we see so many good issues coming up Our economy seems to be holding up our kids are back in school our I think our country's I think I think more and more people realize that president biden is steady at the at steady at the wheel And hopefully we will have some supreme court vacancies soon So i'm getting i'm getting back. I'm at 41 minutes out of 45 So it went quickly and I hope it was of interest to anyone watching I'm going to spend the last four minutes thanking channel 17. I'd like to thank again Uh, lauren glendividian the the head of channel 17. I'd also thank to thank Megan and jordan who work here in programming I'd also like to thank my producer kevin and my cameraman daniel who is always does a great job and he um He loves to play he he's future in entertainment and audio. I think is very bright But with about three minutes left I What you can take from this you watch this you say, hey, what can I do? How can I get involved? I'm new to burlington or this this is interesting to me You can um You can come to the burlington democratic meeting Our reorganizational meeting this tuesday coming up tuesday the 28th September 28th at 6 p.m. At the miller center, which is off gas gas court Which is right off north avenue right up by the shopping center. They're just past that also there's a A polling place there. So again september 28th 6 o'clock Burlington city dems are going to meet Um, we're going to sign everyone up to be part of the committee. We're going to elect new officers I am the assistant treasurer. I am running again. We also uh adam adam.  Now the mayor will be there. So we're looking forward to have a fun discussion And it'll be a bit of a social hour too because you know, we haven't had a meeting in about 18 months So again, that is tuesday september 28th this tuesday at 6 p.m. At the miller center If you have any questions you can check our website burlington democratic party website Because this will be filmed. I believe by channel 17 It will be live streamed. It'll be facebooked and you you'll probably be able to vote from from your own house We're still figuring out those details. I'm down to about three minutes left. So You know, we're in the off year still, but we're 14 months away from the mid years. So we're getting close Uh, we're gonna have all sorts of great candidates this year. Um, I'd like to like to thank all our state candidates Especially secretary of state jim condos. Thanks for your help by by this voting by mail Thanks for your personal confidence in me and your great job that you do I'd also like to thank eric kovey and the uh, my friend from wanouski in the secretary state's office And then getting over to my buddy tj donovan Attorney general we're doing a great job. I want to thank you.  You were you were a lot of assistance to everyone at the capital in this first session And now we get back to virtual it's an off virtual. It's going to be even more fun I'd also like to thank my friend beth pierce city treasurer You have done a wonderful job. My friend always for the people our auditor dug hofer Always trying to help from honors always looking out for the underdog the little guy So that's our that's our under ticket We will have I do believe the governor will run again And I think we will have a strong candidate running against him Uh, our great senator lehi our congressman welch. These are all people we hope are going to be running again And I believe we'll be running again. So, um, I think i'm down to about two minutes. Is that is that the case kevin? one minute Okay, I'm going to give you one more plug for the berlington democratic Meeting which will be this tuesday coming up september 28th at 6 p.m. At the miller center I will be there a bunch of elected officials will be there We'd love to have you join the berlington town committee if you're on it We'd like to have you on it again We're going to sit down and strategize and talk about what we can do the There has been talk that there might be a bond election in december on two shoes about bonds one about berlington electric The other one has not been Fully fleshed out, but so we might be going to the polls strictly on bond issue in the first two weeks of december But obviously town meaning is going to come quickly and we're our We have city counselors are up. We're going to have bond issues and as always that's that's my favorite day of the year I love that. I love I love how berlington comes together And again, I'd like to thank channel 17. I think this show has gone great We just moved up from 45 minutes to a half hour and at first I was nervous and You know, I feel like I talk another 45 minutes getting ready to go here And I just again like to thank everyone on channel 17. It's so nice to come here and do the show They have a lot of opportunities if someone is interested being on television If you want to come on the show, thank you. Take care now