So, part two of our graffiti lip series and we are going to airbrush the teeth and the lips. Also this, he's sitting up because he's getting love and attention and he's adorable, happy national puppy day. And we are filming on TikTok. I thought you cut off the part that's irritated. Sorry about that quick cameo. Warm up time. What's up Sue? Hey Libby. I made a little bit darker chance. Oh, it's good. It's pretty light though. It doesn't look that much darker than your regular. The problem with something like this would be a little darker because it's gonna take a long time to build. To build that? To build. So if you guys don't know, we're artists till death. My name is Erica and that is Jeff my husband. Never gets old. And we are artists till death. We go live most every weekday at six p.m. central except for on Tuesdays at two unless I forget. And today we're doing some airbrushing on a lip piece. This lip piece is currently available. Hello everybody and hi Ron Deezy. Currently, Jeff is just warming up. He's just prepping. He does this warm up or one similar every time he airbrushes just to get his fingers all. Can I say loosened? Lubricated seems not appropriate. Well thank you for everybody that says happy birthday Jeff. And thank you Pam for your compliment. Thank you to everybody that joined in. Please leave me your thumbs, a comment, share. I'm just warming up over here. Thinking I might have to darken this. Can you guys hear him? Happy early birthday Carol. One second and I will find your reference. I'll do the teeth shadow. What number of sandpaper do you want? Here's this reference. What number of sandpaper do you want? I'm just sanding the teeth because there is some overspray from the paint and stuff. We did. Can y'all hear him? I probably did before but I took it off and I was just adding color and I know there's going to be an overspray. So I'm just barely sanding the teeth here. JJ, JJ thank you so much for sending Jeff a couple of years for his birthday via PayPal. He did share with me. No, the graffiti's not airbrushed. That's actually spray paint and paint pen. We probably will do Rhonda's challenge.  Tape it off. So if y'all are new to the channel over here on TikTok or come back and we're live on YouTube as well, come on here. I'm just gonna make a masking for these teeth so I can make them nice and shadowed and crispy. So I can have a nice little edge right here where it looks like the teeth are pretty much in the mouth. Claire, you guys have fun at your Tumblr class. What's up Emma? I think this used to say ATD up here but it's a bit of a snarl. It is a bit of a snarl. So what this stuff is is just, you can get it at Home Depot in the shelving section. So I can cut this out. I don't know how old that blade is. Have you guys have never used an exacto blade? Just be careful because it's super sharp. It's like a scalpel. And if it drags or catches or is dull in the least a little bit, just switch it out because it's easier to cut yourself with a dull exacto blade than with a sharp one. Don't ask me how I know. So that paper is just shelf paper? This is just shelf paper that you can get from. A little bit of that part. Ooh, you're just gonna. It literally didn't. Oh, I started right there. Yeah, why is he breathing so hard? Because he's up here on the chair. Everybody on the planet can hear you breathing having a big board. You guys having a great national dog day? Hope so. What we're gonna do with this, this one's right here. We're gonna just drop this down and a little bit to the left, I think. We can have a nice big shadow on this part of the teeth there. Have a little bit there so you get a nice shadow on all the teeth. Because there's so much detail right here, I'm not worried about overspray. And this is a really light. This is a transparent, so I'm not worried about this going over to this and you'd be able to see the airbrush over there. So I'm just gonna go up and hit this top part. Pretty good. What's your favorite brand of airbrush paint? I like Medea and Golden. Golden High Flow is really nice. That's pretty much a lot of the paint that I used. Medea makes a really good, transparent black, transparent smoke. Good for doing portrait work in black and white. And I'm just gonna kind of barely bring that shadow down a little bit more where the line is that you can see there. Just to make a good, crisp shadow. Yay, Cripsy! When are you doing another portrait? I've been watching for the big Johnny Cash piece. That will be the next one. Thank you, Libby. Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, moment of truth. Moment of truth. It looks so good and it didn't even look like you used that much airbrush. I thought it was gonna be super faint. I want to darken it. I can just add a little bit of black in there. While I have this here, let's put a little shadow on these teeth here. Be real light on it. Ow. Do you want me to put some overhead on? All right, Tick Tock, if that's too blown out. Absolutely Libby. He's right here, being cute as always. This is from Libby, big boy. Yes, I know it. It's just a Libby. The airbrush comes with a hose and if it doesn't, you can either find it at the hobby shop you bought it from. You would just look for, let's say if you bought an Iowata, you would need an Iowata hose. If you bought a Badger, you would need a Badger hose. If you bought a Pache, then you would need Pache hose. Oh, goodness. I hope you feel better, Susan. Susan Campbell says that's the coolest trick ever. Susan L, we're happy to be here helping you while you're in the hospital to entertain. Is that one of the stencils in the stencil pack? It should be. I think it is. If not, there's one similar. Lisa, how are you feeling? Trying to make a nice crisp line right here. If you just go on either side of the part that you put that on, you do a little line there, go back and just put it just right over the part that you painted and it'll make a nice, soft, solid line. You're not trying to make a super big line unless somebody has a small gap right there or whatever, then do what you gotta do. Normally put a shadow on this side. This tooth is normally in front, I mean. Just like almost, not in back, but it comes a little bit more, so it gives it a little bit more gap in the tooth. Hello, Steven. Susan said you should do a big gap tooth one. We've done one. We're thinking about doing another one. We're thinking about doing a big gap in the front and then putting braces. We've done both of those ideas individually, but we're gonna do one together.    If you just join me, we have this masked off. That's why this is very dark up here, shadows down here. See, we're using frisket, well, masking paper, and microfiber frisket. I don't know where Erica went. Babe, I hope you remember you have your microphone on. And I like to darken these back teeth here because it gives it the illusion of them really in the corner of the mouth there. And if you want, you can make them really like the teeth look a little more rounded by just putting a little shadow right there. Just like barely coming in, giving just a hint of a, let's down. See, that looks nice. You're only doing that inside part right there. I feel so weird, I hear nothing. And I'm used to her talking or me looking at the comments, I don't know where she went. She just left me. What I like to do is just a couple of little striations on the teeth, they're not perfect, they're not piped. I think that's good, let me take that off. That was a terrible, oh, I guess that moved when I tried to undo it, it's all right. Now, what I'm gonna do is just kind of, I have the, that is a rather big lip part. It just goes way up here. So I guess I'll just kind of make out. Ghost, come back in with a little bit darker. That's the good thing about, you guys can't even really see what I'm doing. And those teeth look like they're chiclets. Because on camera, they look a little squirrely. I'm definitely gonna have to darken up this paint. I don't know, sorry y'all, I don't know where she went. I literally do not know. So I'm taking the microphone off of her. I'm not sure what she's doing. I don't know what you're doing, what happened? Well, I don't know, I took the microphone off because you took the mic. There's the mic. I didn't know that, you didn't tell me that. Everybody can hear you. Well, they're saying now they can hear you now. I don't know, I guess they could have heard you. I don't know. But it's looking great. I pulled up the reference I didn't know if you saw. The teeth look like chiclets on like rounded pieces of gum on camera, it looks like. What color should I hand you? Wally's doing that. We worked on this today. Right, JJ, me and UPS. We're definitely gonna have it out at some point. The bar top that we did needed an inlay for where the people walk through the bartender. So we did another chameleon. So I darkened it a little bit so that y'all can see the lines I'm doing here. They're really, can we maybe print that out or no? It looks like it's blurry. That's not great. Hmm, I have a lot of detail in there, photo. Mm-mm, I think it's make your own detail day. Carolyn, Susan said, I don't know about anybody else, but I get mesmerized watching Jeff airbrush. TG agrees. It's kind of cartoony today so I might put some white highlights on this. Like up here.  That tattoo artist is still watching. What is this? A straw? A straw super? I'm putting it on the stand. Love the graffiti. What's up, Evelyn, how are things in Florida? Tim, how you doing? Was a lightning storm? Maybe the one that we just sent down. Hey Pamela, I like the idea of doing this one more tunish. That sounds scary, Evelyn. Be careful. When you flip this stencil, does paint ever get transferred? Sometimes it does, but airbrush paint dries pretty quick so you gotta be careful either way. Sorry about that. Thank all of you guys for sticking around and watching Jeff do his magic on this lip set. What do you mean when you say you're gonna make it more toony? A little bit more, not so realistic, depending on how this is gonna look at all. I used a black on this, so what it's doing is getting a little dark for me so I might have to actually use white for highlights, which I don't like to do, because then that really gets it kind of cartoony. Got it. Because it's graffitious, I think it'll look. So when you do something more cartoon-like, ooh, that was a good. So if you guys need to know what he's looking at, you gotta reference. Just a rough reference. This is what I didn't wanna make it, so I made this too dark, I think. He's the blacks and the dark, and my original idea was just to do big, cupcake, round lip, really light colors, just so that when you did paint the shadows over it, it would give it more of a rounded look. This is just, there's so much going on that it just takes away from the graffiti. So I'm not really digging this right now, so. Everybody on here says they like the combination of the dark and the vibrant colors. From the book of Erica and Jeff Tooney, short for cartoon. See, I think those lip lines look good on the outside area. I feel like the sound of the airbrush could be considered white noise. Libby says, loving the graffiti, but can't lie. The glitter ones have my heart. Listen, there's always time for glitter. It is always an option. It's too dark. Evelyn says, the layering looks really great on the graffiti. It looks really like something you would see on the street. Yes, this piece is available. For those that don't know, that is our party sound. For every time we get a donation through any one of our channels, we play the party sound, and we really appreciate it, because every dollar that comes through the channel goes right back into the channel. Would it be possible to do glitter graffiti? That would be difficult unless we just did glitter glass because it's clear. To color match every bit of glitter that we have on it would be very difficult and time consuming. Not impossible, but I think doing glitter glass would be the best bet. Who knows, maybe we'll do that.  That debate, the graffiti, and started doing that because people started paying high money, so then it got cool when people were paying for it. The graffiti artists, they are some crazy people. They love their artwork, but the reason why they do it is because they don't have to get paid to do it. Do it because they love it, paid for it now, but Banksy really brought it to life, obviously, the street art. Susan said you should put something like a gemstone on one of the teeth. If I had a gemstone that big. Erica, can you get, or do you have Black Swarovski crystals to use on a lip piece? I have a lip commission-ish idea for y'all to make for me eventually. JJ, if you wanna ask me for a commission, I can get any color stone on the planet. You just let me know. Gold foil tooth? I thought about a gemstone tooth too, probably because I just finished watching Woodstock 99, and I'm feeling that 90s vibe. I saw you, Pamela. I was trying to fix it. So are we talking total grill or just interest? I've done a grill before, and we've done braces before. We're thinking about doing another braces one. I have a grill one drawn out, but I haven't finished it. So grill meaning, how do I explain a grill B? Actually like a person with a gold tooth, but just your all of your teeth. Yeah. Ooh, love it when you make the lips look glossy. No, the reference does not have gloss on it. Fake teeth that look shiny and cool, LOL.  A train car, what you talking about, Tim? I think we should do it on a train car, do a lip piece. If only I had the time. 1,000% sure I'd get busted. Vampire lips would be awesome that they would. Halloween is coming up. A denture for young people who still have teeth. Yeah. Thank all of you guys for watching. Purple ones, purple vampire teeth. Is Jeff using a transparent white? No. Susan, you do? This is just amazing to watch. Yeah, I'll take you guys in for a closeup. Or a different angle, right? It does look beautiful. Is that a drip outline I see? Is that the black just really made it too dark? It just looks like, I think what we need to do is if I do a graffiti, just do marker lines. Don't do airbrush and all this because it just covers up the graffiti and it just makes it look too messy and muddy. Just keep a cartoony. It's just covering up all the work that you did. Now it just looks like a really crappy alley wall and so many painted parallips over it. We'll just do a real simple one next time. Simple one? I mean, not so much detail on the airbrush. Yeah. So that is going to be the end of today's video. Beauty is in the eye of a buyer. That's true. There's a lot of times we sell a piece that we never thought anybody would want in their home. But never know. I don't think it's too cartoony to be honest. That's a look on its own, isn't it? I agree. Anyways, we will figure out how to finish this piece off. Miniana, hi, Shane. I know Jeff thinks it got too dark in this area.  If someone is ever interested in purchasing it, we will finish out these drips. Well, thanks, you guys. What's up, Shane? I hope you had an amazing day. Everyone that's going through some bad weather, we went through it and I hope you guys stay safe. Yep, almost missed it, Shane. But I hope you had a great day at work. I know, Vample, figure out how to finish it. Fantastic. Oh, yeah, Shane, tell me about it because I would love to take on a new commission. Looks 3D on the big screen you're looking at. Well, amazing, because it's not. Oh, my goodness, you too, Carol. Well, I'm so glad, Shane. Bye, Pamela. Shane, shoot me a text with your new commission idea. I'm very excited to hear about it. And to everyone else, I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and an awesome weekend. We'll be back on Monday for our 6 p.m. live. We gotta finish this guy this weekend, put a decal on it, so maybe we'll come back live this weekend when we add the decal on this piece. We'll see about this one. And so, yeah, hope you all have an awesome evening and we'll see you guys. Awesome, Shane.  And hope you all have an awesome weekend. Till then, be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember, we do the test, so you don't have to. Bye, you guys.


Although forest fires are a natural part of forest development, we don't have to worry about them anymore because President Biden has already managed to cancel thousands of them. Not with an extinguisher, but with a pen. His administration achieved this by simply removing over 100 years of historic forestry records. So what was their excuse for this mass deletion of records? Well I shall read it to you. Prior to 1983, the federal wildland fire agencies did not track official wildfire data using current reporting processes. As a result, there is no official data prior to 1983 posted on this site. So they just deleted over 100 years of fire records, despite the fact that during the whole of that time, people were more than able to measure acreage. Hence, after this removal of records, this is the data we are left with. And it does show increasing forest fires, and hence suits Biden's climate alarmism. But now, let's look at the deleted data. As you can see, the 1920s and 1930s have much more forest acreage lost to fire than is the case today. So these are the official statistics right up until the moment Biden took power. And this is the area he's now deleted out of history. And of course, the official warm spell and heat wave data also supports the 1920s and 1930s, being by far the hottest period in the recent past. Thousands of news stories, thousands of witnesses to these events worldwide support the data. But burying the data like that allows the Biden alarmism to give you false information claiming current record forest fires that simply are not true. It's fake science.


Yeah, a little dicey there, but it was a good job by everyone to continue into Continue to add on and pile on and then Dylan came in with a with a real sharp knife there I know they weren't all your high leverage really verse tonight But overall is there any concern about the way the bullpen has pitched the past 21 games era over for yeah No, I feel like you know, especially with you know, our really high leverage guys and and a few of them that were down tonight That made it a little bit dicey and and that's part of it. You got to be able to piece it together At times and you know tonight wasn't a great night for us in that regard, but I'm not overly concerned because I feel like You know the guys that we're gonna go to in the big spots Are all physically in a pretty good place keeping it with pitching what a land CC about bounce back the way he did tonight Yeah, I thought it was really good and for him to be able to get through six there You know, he goes out and and gets Davis to start the six there You know, he was a base runner away from being out of it and to go have a really clean six inning to finish it off Was nice thought everything was just a little bit better today I thought he commanded his his slider and his change in his cutter just a little bit better I'll be interested to watch and and see You know some of the some of the pitches and and what it looked like on video, but overall he just seemed He was generating that weak contact that we're used to seeing from him Even in the runs he gave up that inning a lot of balls off off the hands and that that that dumped out there So really good job by him and and a good way to kick off this this this weekend And you just talked about your back end guys being physically okay But I mean, you know just judging from the decisions there It looked like we're trying to stay away from anyhow and like give him some time Like is it frustrating not to be able to steal a day for a couple of guys end up having to use him anyway? Yeah, well, I mean that would have been nice no question, especially when you when you run out to a lead like that and you're trying to Like you said steal a day for Definitely a few guys You know that that's a little bit Frustrating, but that's also part of it's not always easy and you gotta you gotta win some games Sometimes when it's a little bit hard and you got to lean on your entire roster and you know, we were able to outlast them tonight Dan was your plan to go with Jonathan for three innings there initially? Well in a perfect world sure, but we're Hoping to you know once we get we're we're good with Robbie Britton and in Delin tonight if we had to and would have preferred staying away from Robbie if we could just because he's He's in that kind of four out of six right now and with the two inning appearance there So but we weren't going to hesitate to use them if we got into a situation. So yeah, we're hoping We could you know if Jonathan got our role we felt like he could roll through but then we felt like we had an inning plus with Britton if we needed needed him he goes out gets out of that inning And then once we ran it to a five run lead you try and kind of protect the rest of the guys But we ended up having to use them obviously Ron is there anything you do differently if in one wild card is clinched or is the need to get home field mean full guns through then? I Think we'll you know, we'll play this like we want to play this game at home You know and that'll be something of important again, you know First things first and getting in and making sure we handle that but you know once once that happens You know, we want to do all we can to play play this game at home And you said this afternoon you'd have Sunday starter post game. Yeah Happle start that game.  So Yeah, absolutely good to see him get some results too Back right the Hicks home run you now have five guys with 25 homers or more I know you know, you guys can hit home runs, but does that number mean anything to you? That's a pretty good number 25 is a nice When when Miggy hit his 25th the other day, I Dropped a bain-tay sink go on him when he came in like that's a pretty good one That's that's that's a good nice round number right there to get to But yeah, it's a tribute to those guys and and just the kind of players They are the quality of players they are and obviously a group of guys that they can hurt you with the long ball Justin to the right. It's with Hicks hitting at home run. The power Hasn't been there as much as it was in prior parts of this season What there see from with with Aaron? Yeah, and it's you know, it's lugging the homeruns in general What do you see from his at bats tonight the way he performed? Similar, you know, I mean homeruns are one of those things, you know, unless you're a guy that well Even if you are a guy that hits 40 of them or more You know, they they see they come in bunches more more often than I you know You'll go through a week where you hit a few and then you may go a few weeks where you don't hit one But you know the one thing Aaron always does a good job of is controlling the strike zone and You know, even when he's going through a little bit of a funk maybe with a swing He's able to get on base and he does that it so well again tonight and you know got himself into a Really good hitters count and took advantage of a mistake and I thought you know guardie Guardie being on first base there And I think I think Ramirez kind of sped up a little bit and I think it maybe got Hicks into that good count that netted him that pitch. Thank you


On April 25th, 2014, Flint, Michigan, switched the Flint River as its primary source of drinking water, which led to the poisoning of its citizens from corroded pipes. This was only one of hundreds of decisions made during two periods of emergency management in Flint, all of which now shape its landscape. As factories closed over the last half of the 20th century and white flight reinforced structural disinvestment in communities of color, Flint's tax base shrank as its proportion of African American residents increased. By the year 2000, the city's revenue could not keep up with its needed services. In May 2002, Michigan Governor John Engler determined that a state of financial emergency existed in Flint. In July of the same year, the state-appointed Local Emergency Financial Assistance Loan Board placed the city under the control of Ed Kurtz, the CEO of Baker College. Beginning under Kurtz's tenure in 2002, but operating outside his purview, local institutions independent of municipal government developed new visions for the city, which had not adopted a master plan since 1960. These efforts continued through the 2005 end-of-state control declared by Governor Jennifer Granholm, which was tied to substantial cuts in municipal salaries. Meanwhile, in a further attempt to cut municipal costs, the Flint City Council investigated alternatives to its drinking water contract with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. In order to achieve this goal, Flint co-sponsored the Pileminary Engineering Report for a new, less expensive lake here on Pipeline managed by the Kereganadi Water Authority or the KWA. In July 2011, Lackaw and Andrews and Newnham Incorporated studied treating Flint River water as a third option, ultimately concluding that it would be less expensive than the DWSD but more expensive than the KWA. On the basis of increasing deficits, in November of 2011, Governor Rick Snyder declared another state of financial emergency in Flint and appointed Michael Brown as emergency manager. Brown had long been involved in economic development in the municipality. I don't believe any of us voted to disregard and just throw away elected bodies. I'm told now that they don't even meet in City Hall, that they meet in the Mott Foundation building. Now around the city of Flint, they're calling the Mott Foundation building City Hall North. Around the same time, thanks to a $1.57 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the city began an independent master planning process that continued for the next two years. Grants from the Ruth S. Mott Foundation and the Charles S. Mott Foundation provided additional funding. Though not falling under the emergency manager's peer view and therefore having no guarantee of implementation, Brown nonetheless encouraged Mayor Dane Walling to focus as much citizen attention on the process as what's possible. Smooth operation, everybody's here representing the diversity of the city. Meanwhile, private planning efforts continued on a parallel track. In October of 2010, the Flint chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a competition to design an adaptive reuse of Genesee Towers. A neglected 1968 high rise next to the Charles S. Mott Foundation building or the so-called City Hall North in downtown Flint. In August 2012, emergency manager Michael Brown signed an agreement with the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation selling Genesee Towers for $1 in order for it to be demolished just over one year later. In early 2013, Utkerts replaced Michael Brown as an emergency manager and signed a drinking water contract with the KWA. The DWSD subsequently notified Flint that its water services would be terminated one year later, though the KWA pipeline was not due to be complete for another two. A few months later, Utkerts retained Lockwood, Andrews and Newnham Incorporated to plan retrofits to the Flint Water Treatment Plant in order to use the Flint River as the primary water supply until the KWA pipeline was complete. The pipeline broke ground two days later. On October 8, 2013, after the brief reinstatement of Michael Brown, Governor Snyder appointed Darnell Earley as emergency manager. I'm Darnell Earley. Those of you who have not had an opportunity to meet me yet, I'm, as was mentioned earlier, the new emergency manager, but I'm also an old part of the Flint fabric. At the same time, the Flint City Council adopted Imagine Flint, the new master plan, with Earley's assurance that it would eventually be honored. As the end of Flint's contract loomed, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department offered an extension until the KWA pipeline was complete. However, foreseeing the Flint Water Treatment Plant finishing construction, Earley decided to decline the offer and the city began using Flint River water on April 25, 2014. Three months later, complaints about water quality began. Residents cited skin rashes and hair loss followed by more extreme symptoms. In June, having taken no action on the water crisis, emergency manager Darnell Earley ordered the adoption of a new strategic plan for the city, drawing attention to what he termed more sustainable, responsible and accountable goals, such as pothole repair. Due to the concerns about elevated levels of total coliform bacteria, Flint issued a Boil Water Advisory on August 15, 2014. It's getting ridiculous. We were paying more using our own water than we were paying buying it from Detroit and we had literally like no problems. The following year, Governor Snyder appointed Jerry Ambrose to take Earley's place as emergency manager. Citizens in the city council pushed for Flint to return to Detroit water, but Ambrose refused. However, on February 10th at Ambrose's request, the city hired Veolia, an international infrastructure management firm, to study the water treatment process. We're going to look at the numbers. We're going to look at the plant. We're going to decide how the equipment's functioning. Look at the raw water. Look at the finished water. Decide how it's getting through the pipe to the house. And from that, decide how to fix each of those problems. Eight days later, lead levels of 104 parts per billion were found in the tap water of Leanne Walters, a Flint resident who demanded the city test her water after her children exhibited worrying symptoms. In a report the following month, Veolia concluded that the water met regulatory standards, though they did recommend corrosion control but only for the purpose of mitigating discoloration. Governor Snyder ended the financial emergency in Flint on April 29th, 2015. This decision was based on Ambrose's determination that the state of emergency had been sufficiently addressed. A receivership transition advisory board continued to oversee the city council and mayor's office. While Flint transitioned back into its local representative democracy, residents formed informal networks of research and investigation. In April 2015, Leanne Walters partnered with Mark Edwards, an environmental engineer, to initiate an independent lead testing study on Flint homes. Citizen-led coalitions like the Flint Democracy Defense League, led by Nyura Sharif, worked to hold public officials accountable in investigated public records. Government officials and public health advocates also intervened. EPA Federal Regulations Manager for Region 5, Miguel del Torral, broke protocol in 2015 by assisting citizens in their lead testing study, in highlighting the EPA's reluctance to act on a public health threat. It's the easiest thing to do. If you tell people, even if you tell them late, if you tell them the truth, and I'm not talking about years late, but if you make a misstatement and you correct it and you tell them the truth, I think they might be upset, but in the end, I think most people in their hearts, they might walk away upset, but in their hearts, they'll appreciate the truth. Pediatrician Mona Hannah Atisha conducted statistical studies to prove a correlation between the water switch and the doubling of lead blood levels in children between 2014 and 2015. Armed with results from the lead testing study and evidence of deceptive government testing practices, citizens organized under the Coalition for Clean Water demanded that the city switch back to Detroit Water and replace lead service lines. In June, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schutte sued Violia and Lockwood Andrews and Noonam Incorporated for professional negligence with regard to their work on the Flint water supply. In October, a year and a half after the original extension offer, the Flint City Council switched the city back to the DWSD at the cost of $12 million. The state of Michigan contributed $6 million, the Charles S. Mott Foundation contributed $4 million, and the city of Flint contributed $2 million. With the lead poisoning effects increasingly evident, the city's new mayor Karen Weaver declared a state of emergency in Flint on December 15, 2015 in order to acquire assistance from the state. The next day, at the request of the county, Governor Rick Snyder followed suit, initiating the process of soliciting federal assistance. On January 16th, President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency for Genesee County, ordering aid to supplement state and local response efforts. Kurt Gayet's investigative reporting for the ACLU of Michigan ultimately sparked federal and criminal investigations of Flint's water crisis. Citizens and activists, including Walters and Edwards, testified. Today, I'm announcing the fast start plan. It's an estimated $55 million project to remove and replace Flint's residential lead pipes as quickly as possible. Waterline replacement began in Flint in the spring of 2016 with the state of Michigan's $25 million allocation to the fast start project initiated by Mayor Karen Weaver. The KWA pipeline was completed on July 11, 2016 with a total cost of $285 million. Water began flowing from Lake Huron through the new Genesee County water treatment plant in November of 2017. The city of Flint approved $35.6 million in contracts for lead water line replacement in March, 2017. As of later that year, 6,228 out of an estimated 18,000 lead water service lines had been replaced in Flint under the fast start program. While lead levels are still elevated in Flint homes and schools and residents continue to rely on bottled water, emergency management remains available as a tool for executive governance in Michigan and around the country. Imagine Flint remains unrealized.


Hey, hello everybody. Welcome back to the Think Tech Hawaii Studio. We've got a great episode of security matters for you today and a topic that's I think dear to my heart, but dear to everyone's heart, you know, securing our communities is important and we've got a lot of members in our community that are suffering. Mental health has come into I think the forefront of discussion, not, you know, in technology industry, just kind of everywhere, I think because of COVID, but it's always been there and we've always had a lot of issues and specifically issues with our veterans is what we're going to be talking about today. You're going to hear about a program that Dave built up and I'm not going to steal a stone. I'm going to let him get right into that, but there's some amazing programs out there for veterans. I love the guys. If you don't know these guys online, Flags of Valor veteran on community, they're building flags, you know, for challenge coins and nice wooden displays, all veteran guys. There's obviously the veterans for child rescue team. I love those guys. I donate to their efforts. There's basic dude stuff, Pat McNam, if you love his stuff is amazing. And a little closer to home, John McAskill and other special forces guys out there, he's got men talking mindfulness. So check that out if you're looking for some help, if you need some help. There's plenty out there. There's plenty of us willing to listen. And I'm done almost done. Yeah, I'm going to get Dave Wiener on here from Secure Measures. But today he's not as much talking about that as he is talking about this program that they've developed in Southern California and to specifically to help this veteran community, but it's reached some really good results. And I think it kind of it's the kind of model that a community like ours in Hawaii in any model that's got a veteran community or any community that's got mental health issues that are out there in the public that needs support could learn something from. So Dave, I really appreciate you being here today. I know a lot of our audience may not know you or be familiar with your work and that's unfortunate that they will be after today. So let's give them an introduction. You know, I know we don't give it all the way on social media today, but kind of take them through your history and, you know, as much as you want to share and now then we'll get into your program. Hey, thank you for having me, Andrew. Really grateful to be here today. So my name is Dave Wiener. I spent 27 years in law enforcement. I retired in 2019 and started my own veteran own small business consulting firm focusing on security risk management and business resiliency. Prior to my retirement, though, I was the regional chief of police for the VA in Southern California and where I got the opportunity to work with our nation's warriors. It was a complete honor and a privilege to serve in that capacity. But while I was employed at the VA, we started a program. And when I say we, there's a long list of people who are much smarter than me in the city, the county, and the federal government. And it took a lot of people to get a program that we call Veteran Mental Evaluation Team. And that Veteran Mental Evaluation Team was the product of what they call the Mayor's Challenge. The Mayor's Challenge was a partnership between the VA, Samson, and the city of Los Angeles to reduce or eliminate veteran military service member and family member suicide. And that is obviously, that's the secretary of the VA that's his number one priority. And I also want to be clear today, I'm not speaking for the VA or any government agency or any county agency. I'm merely just sharing about a program that I helped start and that continues today to help save lives, especially here in Southern California, more specifically in the Los Angeles County area. VMET or Veteran Mental Evaluation Team basically pairs a VA police officer with a VA mental health clinician and they co-respond to instances where a veteran may be in crisis in the community and they co-respond with local law enforcement. In this case, local law enforcement for us means the LA County Sheriff's Department, the LAPD, Long Beach PD or any other agencies in the area that are encountering a veteran who may be in crisis and the best place for care for veterans. And I know we probably have some veterans on here that are going to shake their heads now, but I go to the VA and I get great care, but I think we would all agree that the VA is probably the best place for our veterans to go for care because it's a health care system built around veterans. So we encourage our local law enforcement as well through training, which I'll talk about in a minute, to basically work with the VMET team and work in collaboration to make sure that we get veterans the proper care, especially for those in mental health crisis. Those that know me and those that have heard me say this before, having a mental illness isn't a crime and we shouldn't be treating it that way. So the reality is we wanted to find that alternative to incarceration, which is basically helping our veterans who may be in crisis and that's what the team is. I love that sentiment. Let's paint a picture for our audience for what was going on and in the lead up to this program getting established. How difficult, what type of community did you have? I think you shared with me it was the largest veteran community, either in California or in North America, I wasn't sure, but give us, paint the picture for us for what was going on. So the need in our area is very specific and it's mainly because we have here in Los Angeles County, the largest population of veterans anywhere in the country. Unfortunately, with that distinction also comes the largest number of homeless veterans and the largest number of veteran suicides. So our need to have a team like this and to work collaboratively with community partners was imperative to intervening and stopping, we're not stopping, but intervening in this crisis and it is a crisis. So because of that, that really established the need for this team and again to work with our community partners who also, they were encountering a lot of veterans out there and they didn't necessarily know where to take them or where to go with them. So it actually worked out very well because now there's this conduit that allows them to get those veterans into VA care instead of transferring them into a county bed as an example. If they needed to put them in the hospital, they would send them to the VA versus putting them in a county hospital. And I'm guessing that your role there as the, because you were like the in charge of the VA police at that point, was that a outbound role? I mean, was it external to into LA, for example, because or do you have like cross jurisdiction? How did that work? Or were you just for like the properties of the VA type properties? So the VA police, I was stationed at our Long Beach VA. We have four major medical centers in Southern California. I was actually what they called the vision or the regional chief over those particular hospitals in that area. So we are basically a region. But my real focus was LA County in specific. So working with county mental health, working with again the LA County Sheriff's Department, LA PD, Long Beach PD, some of the social service organizations working with nonprofits. The Mayor's Challenge had a really great group of cross functional organizations from county, state, military, all different types of organizations that came together to really address this problem. That way, there was communication across agencies, you know, historically, you know, government agencies just as a whole, don't necessarily share information. But I would argue that our our model, especially collaboration is one that could be replicated anywhere, because it's just about communication and collaboration. That's awesome. So prior to getting the team set up where when you would encounter new, were they like already incarcerated? Were they under, you know, barricaded in their homes going through a crisis? How would you get contact with these individuals that needed help prior to going out as a team to respond? So there were different circumstances. We had incidents where a veteran at one point was threatening to jump off the Vincent Thomas Bridge, which is pretty famous bridge here in San Pedro. We've had instances where veterans would have barricaded themselves in the house and keep in mind this is in the community. This isn't on the property, but because of the relationships we had established with local law enforcement, our team or our office would be notified of those incidences and then we would respond out and we would work with the local agency. And there were a number of occasions where once the veteran found out that somebody from the VA was there, and it was another veteran because the VMAT team, they're a wonderful team, both of them former Marines. I love them to death. They did an amazing job, but they were able to really connect with those veterans who were in crisis and they were able to get them into care, which is the most important part of that process. So it really didn't necessarily matter what type of incident they were involved in. The idea was obviously they're in crisis, they need help, and that's what we were going to provide them. Wow. And how were you able to staff? I mean, LA is obviously in the police, a 24-hour operation, right? Like it's going around the clock. Did you just, where did this team magically, did you get funding? Did you steal some bodies? How'd you go about finding some support for, because every human resources are really what are lacking in a lot of these types of programs and funding for them? Well, that is a great question and I would argue that as much as there are a lot of bureaucracies that are typically involved in these type of endeavors, I received amazing support from the top down. From my leadership team, through any of the stakeholders, I got a lot of really great support. I got this program up and running in a relatively short amount of time. However, I did take it out of hide instead of hiring additional bodies. It was started out as a pilot program, so we didn't want to go too far overboard, which I think is important despite my wanting to go overboard and I felt there was a need. I remember distinctly having a conversation with my boss saying I wanted four teams and he said, well, you get one for now. Then once we prove the model, there will be additional put forward. I think there was great support all the way around. With anything like this, there's always going to be speed bumps. There's always going to be challenges when you're trying to stand up a program like this, but I think they were all navigated appropriately and I say that because there were a lot of stakeholders who really wanted the program to succeed and it has in leaps and bounds. So it was just a great opportunity and it was an opportunity really to reduce the number or prevent the number of veteran suicides. That's awesome. Do you think that had it not arisen like under the mayor's challenge, for example, I mean that brought in another level of support or leadership that maybe wasn't there prior to the challenge. Was this germinating already and that was a bit of a catalyst because you got that, I guess, what is that executive government support at that level? How do you feel that being a mayor's challenge effort helped? Well, I think the fact that this was all in the vein of preventing 20 veterans a day dying by suicide. That was the whole goal of this program. If we can just save one life, then it's all worth it, at least in my opinion. And I believe firmly that this was already germinating, I think, prior to the mayor's challenge, but I really think the collaboration and the cross, you know, basically the germination and cross pollination of across agencies, everybody was able to lend a hand. And I really think that made all the difference because, again, this wasn't something I did by myself, far from. There was no way I could have done this by myself. So many amazing and, like I said, much smarter people than me were involved in this and they were able to really help move things along. And a lot of those people played a very important role and I'm eternally grateful from the bottom of my heart. Good. So we're going to get Dave's very humble and we're going to get him to brag a little bit on some of the success stories when we come back. I'm going to pay some bills. We'll be back in about one minute. Just stick around. Aloha. I'm Dan Leif. I go by Fig because I was an Air Force fighter pilot for 33 years and you have to have a nickname. I get to host on Think Tech Hawaii two shows, Figments, The Power of Imagination and Figments on Reality. The Power of Imagination introduces you to some of my incredible friends and their life experiences, astronauts, war heroes, Hollywood writers. You name it, they're on it and you'll be inspired and entertained. And on reality, I'll give you something hard to find, non-political commentary on today's events. That's right, non-political because the vitriol doesn't help folks. So Figments, The Power of Imagination, Figments on Reality, both on Think Tech Hawaii. Hey, gang. Thanks for sticking around. We are talking about suicide prevention. We're talking about mental health. We're talking about an amazing program that got stood up in Southern California that is saving lives as we speak. Dave pioneered this program. He's with us today. I want to get him to talk about some of the success stories. He gave you some of the build-up before we took the break. So Dave, you talk about a lot of the collaboration. I know you had a lot of help from folks, maybe some of their successes or some of the ongoing outcomes that you can see from those early efforts. And how is the program, by the way? So the program is still functioning. It's in great shape. Obviously, due to my retirement from law enforcement, I'm not active in the program anymore or anything like that, but I am aware of their successes. But early on, again, launching as a pilot program, you never know what kind of response or what type of numbers you're going to show. And I want to say in the first year, the team, and one team, mind you, responded to roughly 800 calls for service in about a 10-month period. Roughly. And again, these are all estimates, but you can imagine. And then the following year, which is, I believe, 2019, it was well over 1,000 calls for service involving our local law enforcement, et cetera. But the team had what we call active intervention. And they had roughly 66 of those, which means that you had a veteran who was in crisis, they had a plan, they expressed suicidal ideations, but the team was able to intervene and save that veteran's life. And the reality is the team would do that every day. They would do that literally every day. So as you can see, there are great outcomes. The other thing is they were able to house three chronically homeless veterans back then, which is also, obviously, a huge homeless is a huge issue in a lot of cities, specifically Los Angeles. We've gotten a lot of attention for that. So when there's opportunities to do good in the community, I think the BMAT team has done a wonderful job. And I'm not saying that because I had some involvement with it. I think the more important part of the team is the folks actually doing the work, which was the team. And I can't rave about them enough. And the one other thing I will add is because they've done such an amazing job, they were able to, the VA, I want to say in 2019, had what they call a shark tank competition. I'm sure everybody's familiar with the show shark tank. It was a shark tank competition and the BMAT team, they took top honors or one of the top honors in that competition. And that's an amazing fee out of tons and tons of submissions throughout the VA for innovative ideas for a variety of topics. They were able to come out on top as one of the what they call a gold standard practice. So I thought that was amazing. So did they get more funding as a shark tank recipient? Was it a funding event or was it more just a comparative best practices type thing? It was a comparative best practices. However, I do believe that sparked a number of pilot programs to be started throughout the VA. Again, because I'm not entirely still involved. However, that was at the very end of 2019 and we all know it happened in 2020. So unfortunately, I believe the pandemic put the brakes on some of those programs. So the pandemic obviously stopped a lot of things, unfortunately. Yeah. Well, I can imagine that our needs are actually because of the pandemic going to increase. I can imagine that the end of the war, I saw a lot of people expressing pulling out of Afghanistan caused a lot of consternation among our veterans. And so that could definitely be to an increased need for services. Do you currently interact with any of the folks? I'm sure you get some feedback and you've got some most LE guys tend to stick around with each other after they retire. Do you get feedback from what's going on today? Actually, yes. So I'm actually still part of the Mayor's Challenge. We're still meeting. They were gracious enough to keep me on board. But one of the other things that came out of the Mayor's Challenge and working with my, at the time, my law enforcement partners became a natural transition into working with local law enforcement and creating training for local law enforcement on veteran cultural competencies for first responders. So please fire EMS, mental health. We have a couple of classes that we teach to folks in order for local law enforcement, basically to be a force multiplier, because they're the ones that are routinely coming in contact with our veterans, especially those that may end up in crisis. And now they have a better understanding of how we can interact with them. We engage in what they call crisis stabilization and scene management or de-escalation in order to help our veterans. And we really educate those folks on how to interact. And then we provide them resources. We run them through scenarios. We do a whole host of those things. And it's been, it's been very, very beneficial. Yeah. So is this, is this in classroom? Is it available online? Are you going to be able to expand this out to other, you know, organizations that don't have that type of training available to them? It sounds like a great idea. Yes. It's currently, it's in classroom. It needs to be just because of the scenario based training that we do. Okay. It's very, very integrated. And it's eight hours of class. So that'd be a long time to sit online, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend that. And I'm sure everybody would be shaking their head no, but these are both in classroom classes. We're going to be launching into some different markets at the beginning of the year. And, you know, however, we're happy to bring this training to Hawaii if you guys are so inclined. Yeah, it'd be awesome. I am not aware of, of, you know, of that level of training that happens, you know, with our, they do a lot of stuff. Obviously, I'm not aware of, but we have a large veteran community here that perhaps our teams could benefit from. I mean, I think the understaffing of mental health facilities and all those types of things are, I think communities that have these types of issues, especially where the climate's warm and it's easy to sort of live outside and be home or easier to be homeless. And maybe that feeds some of the crisis. So we have teams that intervene, but I don't believe they're like veteran focused, or even, you know, we have teenagers, I don't think they're necessarily team focused. I really don't know the level of interaction that's happening out here in Hawaii, but I'll definitely take a look and give you some feedback on that. Is it, is it a training that you are looking to export? I mean, are you getting around the West Coast with it? Is it going to make it to New York City? What's the plan? So, yeah, I mean, this is something obviously that I think, you know, all agencies can use. And of course, you know, I'm saying that because I'm one of the primary instructors for the class. And I think we've gotten a lot of amazing feedback about the training itself. And I think taking it as far and as broad as possible is ideal. But, you know, I would be happy to have people to reach out to me if they have questions, those kind of things. Because I think, I think it's a very valuable, a very valuable training course. Just because it gives real a lot of real good insight, we have guest speakers that come, folks, combat veterans that talk about their experiences, and kind of relate that kind of, they put the face on that veteran who potentially could be in crisis. And that really impacts the police officers, deputies, firefighters and folks that attend the class, because now they're putting a face to it. And they're putting a person behind it. Yeah, it's interesting. It's easy, it's easy when you're rolling for it to just be another call, right? So when you can get something a little bit deeper and have a little bit of connectivity to the person, I'm sure, because it's I know our crisis intervention teams are fairly exhausted in most communities. What stands out for you about the veteran community that you can maybe share that for first responders who may be listening now, maybe the top one or two things that come to mind about, you know, when you interact with a veteran in crisis, that if you haven't had this training, what's the one thing you might say to them to remember? There's a whole host of things. But I think it's really about being human and showing compassion and empathy, because, you know, as law enforcement, we end up dealing with folks that are worst. And the reality is, when somebody's in mental health crisis, they're not always thinking clearly, they're not always thinking right. Or they may have something as an example, they may be suffering from traumatic brain injury, which may prevent them from complying for a variety of reasons. But it's taking that time and taking a little bit of extra time to understand what you're really dealing with, and how to address it, I think is going to be most most beneficial. You know, it's really showing compassion and empathy, and understanding that when somebody's in crisis, they need help. Having again, having a mental illness isn't a crime, so we shouldn't be treating it that way. Yeah, 100%. Is the community in crisis, would you say primarily men, primarily women? Is it a mixed community? Are there more men in crisis than women, for example? I'd say it's a mix, but I'd say it's probably leaning more towards the male, male half. Our teams have dealt with female veterans in crisis, but I think most of them tend to be male. And also keep in mind, you know, we have other wonderful programs in LA that actually work very collaboratively with EMET. One of them I want to mention is the Veteran Peer Access Network. That is a peer-based program started by the LA County Department of Mental Health that works very collaboratively with the VA, as well as the VMAT team. And they're there to provide a bunch of post-prevention and postvention services for veterans that really help give them the type of support. So once we get them out of crisis, which is really the VMAT team goal is to get them out of crisis and get them into a better place, then we can transition them to a peer-based program to where they're getting the proper support, whether it's housing or substance abuse counseling or stuff like that. All these programs, or a lot of these programs, were born out of the collaboration through the mayor's challenge. And like I said, I'm eternally grateful to everybody involved. And you know who you are out there. You know the love I have for you. So it's just a lot of amazing programs. And I think that they can be replicated on probably a number of different scales. Not everybody's going to be able to do what we're doing specifically just because we have a demonstrated need. But there are varying forms and fashions of these programs that could be implemented in a variety of places to address the multitude of issues that veterans face. Love this, Dave. I really want to thank you for sharing your story with us today. I want to thank everybody who helped Dave. He shouted you out many, many times. Help other community leaders that want to try to get involved. Make sure you guys are as outbound with your information as possible. And you know, maybe we can save more lives along the way. Dave, thanks again for joining us today. I really appreciate your time. Thank you, Andrew, for having me again. Very grateful. All right. Aloha. Take care, everybody out there. We'll see you next week.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com with another case of 2022 Panini National Treasures Baseball 4 box. Pick your team number 4, look at this. We filled this one up straight up. I think this was on the site for maybe an hour or so. Filled straight up, appreciated. Next case is already up. Jason K triple last spot mojo. So thanks Tim, thanks everybody for getting in. We could run another one back if you want to and we still have that full case random number block as well if you want to get into that. All right, we got my Lakers in double overtime down by 2-2-45 left. So we're going to, might be keeping an eye on that. Westbrook with a 3. Splash. Oh sorry, I'm a little ahead of you. Although you and I must be on a good connection because usually I'm like a few seconds ahead of people. Box 1 of 4, good luck Abraham Toro leading things off, 11 out of 99, Seattle, Sean Maddock. And we got Greg Dietman, 15 out of 99 for the Cubs, Eric Houston. Alex Bregman, 61 out of 99, Bobby with the Strohs. I feel like we are due for an O'Neill cruise. Good luck. Here's Rodolfo Castro, his teammate, three-color dual relic and autograph, 11 out of 25 for N. Koo and the Pittsburgh Pirates. And we got Albert Alzalee, got a bit of that red peaking right there as well and that's a cool looking relic. 6 out of 25, Eric H. Cubbies, we got Nico Horner, another cubby. He's heating up. Lakers down by a 3, take your time guys. That Jake Berger, 22 out of 99, that's a bad possession by the way, I need defense. Jason K. with the White Sox, the delicious Berger. I don't think I've seen an old Tony autograph, not yet anyway. There he is. O'Neill cruise, we were due. Rookie on-card autograph, O'Neill cruise, 57 out of 99 for N. Koo and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nice rookie auto. The book is 4 out of 5 Jumbo Materials, Joe McCarthy. When did he manage, he must, he was managing the Yankees between 1931 and 46. One of those old jerseys there, that's pretty cool. I didn't bring any slider boxes. Come on Joe. All right Yankees, Sean Matik, those old wool jerseys from back in the day, legendary manager for the Yankees, Sean Matik and all aboard the Big Hit Express. And back here is Jackson Coar, 46 out of 49, hashtag together royal and on-card autograph. That's Howard and the Royals, there you go Howard. All right, other box. That's a cool one, like Rob Refsnider, Red Sox, 5 out of 10. That sort of digital camo look there, Eric Houston, Red Sox. Why are there fireworks in Los Angeles? There's Jonathan India. Smelled like turpentine, looked like India ink.  I took a sip. I didn't know if it was day or night. That's Jonathan India goes to Howard and the Reds. We got Hall of Fame Materials, Ken Griffey Jr., piece of his jersey, 25. Sean Matik with the M's. We got Hoy Young Park, 16 out of 49. Another one for In Koo. Die Cut Materials signatures, Alex Kierloff, 75 out of 99. That would be for Kevin and the Twins. There's Jared Walsh, 26 out of 49. Halos, Sean Matik with the Angels. Oh, great patch here. Yoana Dunne, 9 out of 25. Part of that Nationals badge. It's going to go to Jason K and the Nets. Lakers down by 4 with 11. They just kind of ran out of steam there. Double overtime, not good for the Lakers. Oh, nice field pass. Ellie Della Cruz, 5 out of 10. Howard with the Reds. It's one of their, this is one of the big chases in, what, in bone and draft or some product. Yeah, EDC on card, looking good. One of their big up and crumbing, up and coming prospects right there, Howard. And the Reds, strong. And Dual Materials signatures. Dual signature materials, 46 out of 99. That's Jared, Doran, Doran on one side and Brandon Marsh on the other side. Two color patch, dual relic. One happy person, one sad person. That's a randomizer between Sean Matik and the Angels. Eric Houston and the Red Sox. And we got Cool Papa Bell, 23 out of 49. And that'll be a randomizer. Everyone gets a chance at it. Part of the old St. Louis stars. Negro elite team. Looks like that's that. All right, Valiant Effort Lakers. All right, Taylor Walls, 15 out of 99 for Tampa Bay. It's gonna go to Dilo. Daniel with that one. Got Kyle Muller, two out of 25. It's gonna go to Evan and the Braves. Dual relic, Joe Cronin, Field Gear, Red Sox. That is nice, three out of five. I was looking for the number. And that's Eric Houston, Eric. I don't know when the last time we got you a train whistle, but there it is. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo! Nice, nice dual relic. We got Windy City, Greg Deekman, 46 out of 99. That's Eric Houston again with the Cubs. He's heating up, he's on fire. There you go, just racking him up. Nick Solak, 13 out of 49. Die-cut material signatures, Rangers. Eric Houston, he's on fire. Next up, Minnesota, Eric Houston? He check? No. Kevin with the twins this time. There you go, Kevin. With the Jersey and Autograph Jose Miranda. 45 out of 49. Plate, patch, auto. Wow, Curtis Terry, Texas. Eric Houston, ooh, Houston, Texas. He's heating up, he's on fire. And another train whistle, Eric. All aboard. No, wow, look at this, five out of 25. Jackson Holiday, Tamar Johnson, Dual Autograph, wow. Holiday. Eric Houston, you got a chance with the Orioles, the number one overall pick. And Pirates in Koo, you got a chance with the Pirates' top first round pick. I got a few randomizers happening back there. Got to make some people sad, some people happy. All right, and we got Mike Trout. Legendary materials, 10 out of 20. Piece of his lumber. Sean Maddock with the Angels. Real nice case here, ladies and gentlemen. Real nice case. We got more in the store, jaspyscasebrakes.com. Let me still have one box to go. Good luck, I know. Eric's anxious now. Some butterflies in the stomach. Let's see how kindrandom.org is gonna be to one of you. One happy person, one sad person. Wow, and we've got a one of one legendary signatures on the bottom too. This is why we do these breaks, ladies and gentlemen. For opportunities like this, Shane McClanahan, 60 out of 99. Daniel and the Rays. Matt Manning, Detroit to 99. That's gonna be for Tony, Tony the Tiger. Xander Bogarts, 7 out of 25. Boston, that's gonna be for Eric Houston. Matt Veerling, 22 out of 49. Three color patch, Nautograph, RPA, rookie silhouette RPA. Mickey with the Phillies. Yeah, Eric seems to be getting all the polls. Sub Andrew in the Twitch streams of Twitch people. Zach Geloff, Oakland, Jersey and autographs. 60 out of 99. You surprised they have Holly and Jamar in this? You know, are Tamar in this? In recent years, they haven't been doing this for a while though, Rex. In recent years, they have been putting more like prospect autos in this stuff. Jason Kay, Oakland. Last spot, Mojo. We got Tukapita, Marcano, 42 out of 99. That's for the Pirates, that's gonna be for Inku. We got a thick one here, Brandon Marsh, 14 out of 25. Great patch. Try to try that again. Take two, this is where you, the edit point. Three, two. And next up is, wow, nice patch. Brandon Marsh, patch and autograph, 14 out of 25. I like these midnight parallels here. That looks good. Mikey, a little thicker car. I'm just gonna put it into a slider box. There you go, Sean Maddock, angels. In the arms of the angels. Michael Harris, 28 out of 99. No, Andrew Popo. Not enough to have a conversation though. Maybe enough to order at a restaurant maybe. Evan, with the Braves. And you got Connor Norby. Jersey and autograph for the O's, that's gonna be for Eric Houston. And the book, remember, is a one of one. What a way to end this box, this break. It's Bob Lemon, a lemon party. Going to Kevin and the Guardians. Cleveland, this is for you. And all aboard the Big Head Express. What a break, ladies and gentlemen. Now we gotta make some people happy. We gotta make some people sad. Not my favorite part of the job, but hey. That's what happens. All right. There'll be three, one dice roll, three different lists. Now the first one, the cool pop of bell card. Everyone's got a shot at that. All right, second one is the dual signature materials, 46 out of 99. That was the Jaren Duran, Brandon Marsh. So Jaren Duran, Boston. Brandon Marsh is still Angels Edition here. And the third one, the big one here, the Dual Auto, Jackson Holiday, Tamar Johnson, Baltimore. Number five out of 25, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. All right, one dice roll to rule them all. One dice to bind them a full 12 times. Six and a six. We'll do this one first. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and 12th and final time. After 12, there you go, Howard. You get the old Negro leager. Cool pop of bell. Cool looking card, treasured stats. All right, dual relic and autograph. Six and a six, 12 times. Team on top gets it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and good luck, 12th and final time. After 12 goes to the Angels. Apologies to Boston, Eric Houston, my apologies, but congrats to Sean Maddock, dual relic, dual auto. These two young players going their way 46 out of 99. Here's the big one here. Dual autograph, Jackson Holiday, and Tamar Johnson. Six and a six, full 12 times, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Team on top gets it after 12. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and 12th and final time. After 12 goes to Pittsburgh. Man, Eric, I'm sorry. Eric again on the losing side of that. Sad times for Eric. Appreciate you getting in though. Happy times though for In-Koo, who gets his dual auto to 25. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jaspeaskasebrakes.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. Another pick your team in the store. We've got time to do it tonight if you want to. So check it out, jaspeaskasebrakes.com. Again, I'm Joe and I'll see you next time for the next baseball break.


Alright guys, Andy Elliott, this is the big video that's a game changer in a world where people don't care. I'm going to show you how to create retention in loyalty, both you're going to get retention and loyalty with your current clients or future clients. Watch this video. I'm going to give you a secret. It's going to help you be the best, crush your competition. Alright guys, Andy Elliott, in this video, I want to talk to you about loyalty. Write this down. Loyalty, retention. Now, I believe in a couple of things. Write down the three R's. I'm going to teach and then I'm going to go into these two. Number one, write this down. Reach. Your goal is to reach as many people as you can in life as a business person. Retention. When you do business with somebody, you must retain them. Revenue. When you go to make money, you want to make a fair deal between you and your client. A deal is good when it's good for both sides. Not just one, okay?  If you rip me off, it'll be one time. That's why I believe in reach, revenue, retention. Now, let's go over to the side and let's go over to the reach segment. Your goal is to reach as many people as you can by doing what? By being great to people. When you're great to people, they'll tell more people about you, okay? That's the reach. Now, retention. How do I keep somebody with me?  That's transactional, right? Write down the word transactional and draw a line through it. We're not going to be transactional anymore, we're going to be relational. What does that mean? That means I have, I have a CRM, I could tell you use a spiral notebook, but I use a CRM and every time that I sell someone a product, I know who they are, I know what their family's like, I write down their social media handles so I can check them out so I can follow them. I see what they like, what they believe in, I have their cell phone number and listen to me, you ready? I will send them a text message a couple times every quarter just to say, hey, it's Andy Elliott, no need to reply. Just want to tell you, I got your back, I appreciate you. If you need something, let me know. The number one reason why there's no retention in the sales industry is because 99.99999% of people are never contacted again after the sale. Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy. A lot of you leave comments telling me that you need help. Do me a favor and tell you the best way to get a hold of me. Shoot me a text message right now,<PHONE_NUMBER>,<PHONE_NUMBER>, I'll help you with whatever you need.  Let's get back to the video. So if I was to tell you the secret to smoking every competitor out there, all of them and killing them, it wouldn't be to try to outsell them today, which I would tell you to outsell them. It would be to have a retention game in which no one in the industry could compete with and within two years, you would own the entire market space. You want to own it all? It's very simple. Remember what I just said? Every month, there's at least a text message that goes out. Every month, there's a quick phone call. It goes like this, hey Sean, Andy Elliott, listen man, I know you're busy with the family. I just want to reach out and tell you if you need something, let me know. Is there anything I can do for you? This is just a quick call. Hey, we can make it a long one, but I just wanted to reach out and tell you on the forefront of my mind, write that down, you're on the forefront of my mind, and I wanted to see if you needed anything. Nope, good? Okay, cool. Hey, by the way, Sean, can I ask you a question? Obviously, my goal is to always take care of you. I know you have a lot of friends. Are there any friends that you could think of off the top of your mind who maybe could use the same type of service that I give you that maybe could be well taken care of, right, like I take care of you? Maybe off the top of your mind? No? Cool, we'll have a blessed day. I appreciate it. Oh, you do, Johnny? Awesome. What's his cell phone? I'll shoot him a text message. I'll tell him you said he's a good buddy. He could use a great service from a guy like me, and when he's ready, at least he'll have my contact information. See, I'm going to do reach, revenue, retention. I'm going to retain the client. I'm going to reach out to them, and you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to create more revenue for the future to come in, and also I ask for a referral, okay? So if you want loyalty, what will you need to do? No one way. Just don't betray people. You know, I think the number one fear of people buying something off a salesperson and getting attached to them is the fear of betrayal. The fear that they're going to go buy something, you're being great to them today, and once the money exchanges hands, you're gone. That's why I need you to understand this. Stop being transactional and be relational. Every single person that I do business with, I have a relationship with. So if you want to crush everybody, loyalty, okay? And that's the game. You guys play it the way I just told you.  Let's go. Hey, guys. I just want to tell you, you're the true one percenters. You made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor. Share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications, and then subscribe to the channel. We've got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.


Today, we'll show you a laptop that isn't a new model, but can still kick-ass in more titles. We've decided to make a video review of the Dell G155511. Some of its configurations are still the best offerings on the market. Despite being a more affordable model, the chassis of the G15 is relatively sturdy, as the plastic body doesn't flex much, while the lid opens with one hand. The laptop has eaten its wages along with everything else, weighing 2.81 kg and having a profile of 25 mm. The backside is big as well, accommodating large heat sinks. The black chassis looks like a stealth aircraft, with a Dell logo in the middle, a triangle-shaped bulge and a red G on the backside. The keyboard feels very similar to the office units inside the Worcester of Knollbooks, which isn't ideal for gaming. It does have our light up in white, while a forced-on RGB option is also available. The touchpad could have been bigger, considering all the real estate that's available. It's responsive, but has a pretty large dead zone. We like to see more and more laptops having IO on the back, as it helps to make your setup feel less cluttered. The G15 has some of it there, with a Thunderbolt 4 port or a basic Type-C 10-gigabit port depending on your GPU. One full-sized 5-gigabit USB port, an HDMI 2.1 and a power plug. Then on the left, you have a LAN port and an audio jack. Lastly, on the right, you get two more USB 2.0 ports. There are three displays to pick from, all with a Full HD resolution and an IPS panel. The base model has a 120 Hz refresh rate, while 165 Hz and 360 Hz options are also available. The 120 Hz model doesn't really offer a lot in terms of colors. However, the other options are quite good for designing creative work. We are talking 100% sRGB coverage and around 300 nits of brightness. The laptop comes with either a 56Wh battery or an 86Wh battery. We tested a smaller version paired with the Core i7-11800H and the RTX 3050 Ti, which got us around 9 hours and 15 minutes of web browsing or 6 hours and 24 minutes of video playback. And there is a pretty good result. As for performance, the Core i7 did quite well, outscoring its AMD rival, the Ryzen 7 5800H, inside multiple competitors, including the AMD version of the laptop, both in 3D rendering and Photoshop. The 3050 Ti inside has the full 95W TGP, and it shows recent similar results to a Legion 5 with the same GPU, a laptop that P would consider higher on the totem pole of gaming devices. The 3050 Ti is an excellent GPU for 1080p gaming, having just enough kick to run most games at high settings with good frame rates, albeit some might say that the 4GB frame buffer can be limiting. You know us, we would always value more VRM, however, that's up to Nvidia to decide. The GPU does very well in Forza Horizon 5, providing smooth gameplay even at the highest preset. Here's what we have to mention our laptop media benchmarks channel, into which we put a lot of time and effort. We've tested a variety of GPUs in 40 plus games with video footage, so you can decide for yourself if the performance that you are asking for is there. At last, we've come to the cooling. It's got two fans, four heatpipes, and two big heat sinks which provide ample cooling capacity. The Core i7-11800H maintained very high wattage and clock speeds throughout the whole test, at the expense of higher temperatures. Moving to the GPU, this is the best performing RTX 3050 Ti, reaching 1882 MHz and keeping a consistent 88W power draw. Comfort was excellent as the large body does a good job at dissipating the heat, leading to a hotspot of only 36 degrees Celsius. The noise was quite high, albeit we'd heard louder laptops.  But thankfully, the G15-511 provides two sodium slots for up to 64GB of RAM and two M.2 slots for storage. Keep in mind that one SSD slot is shorter when buying drives. We'll have our tiered-down video linked in the upper right corner, which shows how to take apart the laptop step-by-step, including removing the battery and the motherboard itself. The Dell G15-511 is a very good value-oriented gaming notebook, bringing a bunch of CPU and GPU performance, a sturdy chassis, and good displays with options for a more creative focused configuration as well. If you want to see more tests and details about the device, you can check out our in-desk review. The link is in the video description below.


Our guest this weekend is none other than my former boss Dr. Ron Paul and I'm surprised in looking back over the archives to see that we have never had Dr. Paul on our Mises weekend show so we need to rectify that and we need to have him on as a live guest in the very near future to handle some Q&A but for now enjoy a great speech Dr. Paul gave this past weekend at our Mises Circle event in Houston including a great reference to how Bernie Sanders doesn't seem to understand that the Plymouth Colony experiment in America was actually a failure. Stay tuned and have a great weekend. One thing I think about when we think you know what what is ahead for us and what's how can you predict what happens in the various civilizations over the many centuries and even in our lifetime certainly in the 20th century the most onerous of civilizations and empires was the Soviet Empire and it came to an end. Now the important characteristic of the end of the Soviet Empire was the fact that we didn't need a nuclear exchange it disintegrated from within and I think this is basically true outside forces have something to do with it all the way back to the Roman Empire but basically empires good or bad disintegrate from from within so I believe that that is what our contention has to be right now is what is happening to our country from within and actually it's very encouraging they're disintegrating it's giving us an opportunity we don't have to go to war with them they're gonna distrust destruct Keynesianism is coming to an end all they have to do now is dictate to us that every bank has to give us name will be required to have negative interest and get rid of cash and I think finally the American people will wake up and maybe revolt against this insanity but you know throughout history and history is rather short human history recorded history is probably 5,000 years and it's vaguely recorded back then I was trying to find out the exact date the Ten Commandments were in and you really can't find even you can't even get the date exactly when Moses brought down the tablets with the Ten Commandments but even then when you go back you'll find out that a lot of those principles were even known with the Assyrians two or three hundred years before the Moses issued the Ten Commandments but one thing that seems to have been the motivation there is to set some rules civilization was coming about it was rather primitive but they knew they had to have some rules for the people in order to survive and if you look at what the basic rules were what they were trying to design very very libertarian and it basically you know don't lie don't cheat don't steal and don't murder you know and it's found in most of the great religions and it was designed of course to limit the hostilities and the violence of individuals to bring about civilization and of course the government was supposed to be very much involved in this and that is that is where we come up short because the government hasn't done a very good job in doing this we've seen maybe the reversal of that but you know we had we had the Ten Commandments established and the move on generally over the many centuries was to see if we could develop the human race could develop a set of standards for tranquility and peace and try to curtail the power of government so a major event occurred in in in 1215 with the Magna Carta you know establishing you know that we you know have the governments can't hold us and governments should be held responsible to the same laws and this was a significant event it wasn't the event of of all history but it suggested that the kings had to live under the same laws that the people lived under and the the British followed this to some degree and tried to improve on that over the many years now another significant date from my viewpoint occurred when the people who got discussed for various reasons what was what was going on in Europe and in Britain and the different places so they heard about America and they wanted to come to America and the one particular settlement that I think stands out in history that we should pay attention to was the Plymouth colony in 1620 and it was it was a bad deal I mean they came over and the percentage of people that died was horrendous after even after they got here but they developed a system of pure socialism collectivism everybody worked together and whoever needed to eat they would take the food and lo and behold the people weren't working very well and they weren't doing well so Bradford finally comes along he has this brilliant idea had been floating around a bit about that time he said let's give up on this this not have socialism this is a new country what we want to do is a lot property rights to certain people and you're on your own go go what you want and raise which one and lo and behold to their tremendous surprise there was great productivity people produced more than they needed and then they automatically started taking care of the people who weren't capable of raising their own crops and it was in a in many ways burying in our early history the concept of socialism and of course they are in our early history there was much more individualism and there was much more incentives built into it and we were moving into an age of of thinking about capitalism and Adam Smith and these other events and that actually went it went pretty well but it was really established in 1776 another bold move on the part of our ancestors to put together and make a declaration of independence for the individuals emphasize the individual and this was one thing that Murray Rothbard had pointed out that one of the reasons why individuals were considered important and he gave credit to Christianity and the importance of the individual and in that sense Christianity did have an influence you know on on our culture and our society but this was a major event and we did benefit for a long time in that manner for up to where I think the progressive era started in 1898 then all of a sudden the progressive moved in and set the stage for the 20th century which is has had did not go well and and people capitulated to progressivism and they forgot about Plymouth and they went down and they had a more sophisticated method of promoting socialism and in the 20th century you know brought together two groups the conservative war mongers as well as the as as the liberals to brought them together the use of force and and and we ended up with socialism welfare ism special interest and a a concept where especially under Woodrow Wilson that we had a responsibility to make the world safe for democracy well guess what the world didn't become safe and it didn't become in their terms democratic it was a disaster so if we could do one thing maybe we could repeal Woodrow Wilson including the income tax in the Federal Reserve system but the 20th century I see is downhill and the communism and it that's the good part but now instead of taking advantage in getting a peace dividend in the 1990 as the as the Soviet system collapsed the world was enthralled with interventionism Keynesianism inflationism and all the nonsense that have been going on but we're now at the point where it is recognized that it's doomed it can't work it's not going to work and something has to replace it that's what the Mises Institute is all about and the many other groups that we have now is to provide the answers to what is the replacement going to be we don't have to think about how many tanks are we going to have to invade Washington DC they have more tanks they have bombs and drones and everything else but believe me ideas are much more powerful than those tanks that they don't even know how to run and won't even have the fuel to run eventually so I would say stick with the ideas of liberty to combat the disaster of the 20th century I think the opening salvo of this this event came in the year 2000 in the financial markets it was the Nasdaq bubble which was predicted by the Austrian economist it was way out of proportion and the crash came and most people thought well you know came but haven't we been doing quite well since I don't believe so I think it's been a disaster ever since and the the jobs leave the country the inflation is still there liberties are being reduced so I believe that that event led into you know the perpetuation and the desire to have even more and more bubbles and of course they think the bubble is the correction to the bubble phenomenon when the bubble burst which we all know can't work and won't work if you have a problem of debt and too much spending and too much government you can't correct that by just expanding government regulations and government printing in more debt so worth we're facing that today and the American people you know are really really in a quandary there's a lot of anger out there this election is different than the other elections it's a lot worse because I think there's more confusion than ever but everybody is angry the people who aren't getting enough are angry and the people who are sick and tired of paying for it or are angry and sometimes they're very confused at to who is the real cause and I think it's demonstrated all you have to do is listen to those debates but when I talk about the debates and the candidates I do have one exception I'm not accusing them all of under a misunderstanding economic policy so the people are confused and looking for it but I think the politicians look for scapegoats if we can just blame somebody this would be this would do the trick so it's it's the immigrants that the immigrants are coming and indeed it is a problem but is a consequence so often of economic policies you know it's the economic problems that we face in this country where there is a disintegration of the middle class and there's individuals who are on the dole there's too much welfare ism too much rewards for not working and then too many rewards for people who come illegally and where and why are they leaving are they leaving because of being bombed some certainly that's true in Europe but they're coming from South America and Central America because they have lousy stinking economic policies and they're just begging and pleading and looking for an answer so I I think that the message of liberty and the message of free markets and the message of sound money it's a you there's a universal need for this and to me it's the only answer I don't I don't for a minute think building fences will do it I think there has to be more more interchange between those of us who understand economic policies and those others who are struggling so there are a lot of people who are migrating and immigrating come as economic consequence it's a bad economic positive problem then it's compounded by our bad economic problems and people get angry and upset and jobs go overseas and they say well the solution to that is terrorists that sprays terrorists and and do all this nonsense so it it's an opening but the Austrian School of Economics groups like the Mises Institute can provide the answer and it's crucial because it's who puts it back together that counts I think we're in a good position because nobody else has anything worthwhile what we have to worry about is how violent and chaotic is this going to get and that's what that's what's really dangerous because there could well end up with riots not only in our streets we see the pictures already in Europe but it's even worse in Europe because they are suffering the consequences of our foreign policy it is true there's a lot of people leaving this country yes you could say well some of them are coming in there to undermine the culture of Europe and they certainly are seem to be achieving that but some of them are coming to escape bombs you know if they had good economic problem policies and we weren't bombing them believe there would be a lot less immigration from the Middle East into Europe or even into this country so the answer to this of course is to have sound economic policies but we have to have a sound foreign policy as well and foreign policy for those of us who believe in the non-aggression principle is that we don't have military forces spread around the world not only does it cause more trouble it distracts from defense of a country costs a lot of money we create a lot of enemies and what does it do it adds on more cost so it's a bad cycle that we're on but Europe I believe is in a real mess the whole world is in a financial situation that could come down on our heads just anytime and yet we have the answers and in the issue with the issue of liberty free markets property rights and a lot less government that is what I think would come a long way to solving our our problems but in order for people to make use of this out of ignorance or deliberately in order to in to the advance the power of the state is there's a lot of demagoguery that has to go around and and a lot of fears people act because they get scared they get scared economically who's going to take care of me and they get fearful that we're going to be attacked and yet there's it's very very difficult to get a people to look at look at themselves it's hard for individuals to look at oneself to improve I want one's person and one's character but this is what is very very difficult because of course I I had I've experienced that any suggestion that we may have had a flawed policy in foreign policy and I did not support this endless war mongering going on I was considered un-American and and and unconcerned about our troops and and literally get booed by Christian communities because the only answer to this is to drop carpet bomb drop more bombs if we need to show them how tough we are not realizing that's the cause of the problem you say well aren't there a lot of those bad guys that's the argument we always hear there's a lot of bad guys out there don't we have to get rid of them I say no we don't did we have to do that with the Soviets no we ended up probably being much too close to them rather than saying that we had to go in and do anything about it and that's just that's just a distraction because you look at the Alliance that we have with Saudi Arabia and they're not exactly the champions of civil liberties and yet at the same time we're yelling and screaming because we hear something and we don't want to deal with Saddam Hussein and the other dictators or China oh they violate civil liberties well what do you think they think of us what do you think the people from the Middle East think of us when they see us torturing people and and rounding up kids and bringing them here and keeping it for 20 years without charges being made and but we should be able to look at ourselves but of course what we have to do is get people to accept some basic principles you know the the trend over those many centuries that I talked about the it was always there to give more freedom to the individual and the government was sort of there and their job was to enforce laws but I think what has happened now is we had a pretty good code over those many centuries developed on how we as individuals should act in a very non aggressive way I don't lie cheat steal or kill murder not to do it what do we have today we have a government that lies cheats steals counterfeits murders people around the world puts our people in prison without charges and haven't become legal at the same time we see proposals today introduced by the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate to say that well what we must do is give more power to the president so he never has to bother coming and being annoyed with the Congress he needs more war powers that he can go anyplace anytime around the world and use the military if he doesn't like what's going on including in the United States as well I would say it's time for the American people to get this information and realize that our greatest threat is coming from within by the doctrinaires of individuals who don't have the vaguest idea of sound economics and if they do they fear it because they'll lose their power they don't understand what real liberty is all about and so therefore they become fearful and they claim the soul and most important responsibility of government is to make us safe you can't even find that in the Constitution they didn't say hereby we declare the United States whole purpose of the federal government is to make sure that everyone is safe and they have a safety net and free education free medical care and the whole works now it's not there the whole purpose there was to write a bunch of rules trying to restrict the government and trying to restrain the government and to make sure they live within the laws of the land but here today we have the government doing exactly what took centuries to try to get the American the people of the world to act responsibly to advance civilization now in spite of all this I think civilization has done quite well over these many years in spite of all the shortcomings but my disappointment has been that with all the intelligence and this is such a short period of time the idea is a freedom so so you know short it just hundreds of years really when it was really since the industrial revolutions it's not like centuries on centuries just hints to have occurred and so much advancement has occurred I mean the the universe billions and billions of years old as as and nobody knows exactly the age it's not brand new but the ideas of mankind advancing to the stage where they even have the concept of liberty and importance of the individuals very very short the advancement and now the movement is so much more rapid with the advancement of the exchange of information on the internet we have have it moving quickly I mean the ideas of liberty over the many centuries starting all the way back with the 10 commandments and the Magna Carta that was very slow and tedious but there's no reason why ideas can't move faster now in the industrial age industrial revolution tremendous progress just think of our standard of living in spite of the government you know our standard of living keeps going up but why haven't we had some advancement in in in the social affairs getting along with people and and trying to take our intelligence and saying why do we have to resort to war I think most people want peace I think most people still today nobody says nobody would admit it at least that oh yeah we got to get rid of that stupid law that says you shouldn't lie cheat or steal or murder no they still believe in that but but they they they are too careless about it and they allow the government to do it so the only way I can see progress for humankind as well as I see her in the United States is to take our intelligence and take this ability to spread information show the importance of the individuals and take what was given to us even early on with the libertarian principle of no aggression now isn't is that so much to ask from people all we want you to do is say I'm never going to initiate violence another against another person or property and I promise to do what I say I will do exactly as I promise in that that is not too overwhelming yet people are intimidated because of false ideas they make them scared and the people just roll over and say the solution is more government and we have to really make the case to for not only American people but for the world why we can't take this advanced step and take the intelligence of the human race and the ability to communicate you know worldwide we don't want I don't want closed borders but I want ideas and people to exchange views and go back and forth and this is this is happening you know I get so many so many calls and emails I mean this past week I think Daniel and I got a receipt of somebody took one of my books and translated into Chinese and somebody else translated another book into German and they said well is there going to be a charge you know the more the merrier printed spread the message I mean this is what's going on today and you know there was a time when you wouldn't even know about well we don't know about it this is activity so I think I think there's certainly a room for a revolution but not the not the revolution of Bernie Sanders he's going back to Plymouth colony and we don't need that we need to look forward to the days when Liberty will thrive and that prosperity will exist and we will have peace in the world thank you very much