Hey there guys you have made a video about brand deals on our previous episode but we have not taught you on how to get those deals so today guys we will be teaching you about that but before we do you know what to do like subscribe and gong that bell hey freedom what's up my name is nolden welcome to freedom central the homefall freedom content on today's episode guys let's talk about on how you can find brand deals and also how you can approach companies to give you that shot we all know guys that brand deals can propel your channel to maybe financially or the growth of your channel but whatever it is you and the company have agreed on you can bet your bottom dollar that your channel will grow after the brand deal so guys enough of the chit chat let's go to the episode on freedom quick tips first off we need to pick brands that suits your channel sometimes it's obvious because it may be one of the products you use you can eye those companies for a brand deal or if you're a vlogger if you use a Canon camera maybe it's a good idea to reach out to that company here's some of the guys from Creator Academy that lets you decide and find out brands that can be good for you number one research the brand and understand their value researching is an important aspect to choosing a brand you have to be thorough in your research because you have to choose a brand that fits your channel you have to look if the channel shares the same views as you the same kind of people you are targeting and the same topics and other elements number two is listen to your audience listening to your audience is the best way to know if your brand that you have big is good for your channel your audience insights can help you get a better grasp of what your channel can be a good fit for your audience wants what's best for you and your channel and of course they want to see something that makes sense for you and for them so don't forget to keep your audience in the loop so let's see now you are certain what kind of brands are a good fit for your channel and you are confident that you can have a good working relationship with them and you are ready to reach out to them here are some tips you can do to reach out number one is sponsorship platforms sponsorship platforms are online marketplaces like framebit by youtube that helps facilitate brand partnerships brands post ideas or campaign opportunities creators can search to find the ones that are a good fit and reach out directly on the platform sponsorship platforms are typically the quickest most concentrated way to see opportunities for all channel sizes and genres number two is proactively contacting brands when you say proactive it's being present wherever they are and you are trying to get their attention as much as possible maybe in their events social media website or try to go to their office and ask for an audience from them it's good to build up that relationship and reports so when the time comes when they need content creators for their marketing platforms or their marketing strategies you will be the first one in their minds now you know how you can reach them let's talk about how you can get their attention every content creator who wants to make a deal with a company you will need to give them the important information that gives them an idea on what you can do it's like your portfolio or like your resume here are the things you will need to insert in your portfolio number one statistics on your audience demographics and subscribers number two your accomplishments number three examples of your favorite content number four other brands you've worked with and statistics from these companies that you can share number five highlights of what you uniquely bring to the table number six your value and what you can do for them so now that you have your portfolio it's time to contact them formally with a formal letter or the letter of your intent share the things you will need to take note of when you create your formal letter number one your brand friendly story or your portfolio number two why your audiences will care about their brand why the brand could be a good fit and how reaching your audience can serve the brand's need if your audience is already interested in the brand you could link to the comments or show examples from your channel number three your vision of what successful partnership looks like and creative suggestions for how you could incorporate the product number four examples of your previous content that was similar and successful or upcoming content good fit number five details that could make a brand know you care about their success like offering to post more on social media putting affiliate links in your descriptions or offering innovative ways that you could use the product last note guys don't be discouraged when they do not contact you you might not be a good fit for them or maybe it's not the right moment for you guys now but in time when they need 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Hi, my name is Mahala Brake and I grew up in Nain, Labrador, and now I'm living in St. John's. My mom is from Labrador and my dad is from Newfoundland. On January 6th each year in Nain, the whole town is very excited for the arrival of the Nellie Wheat. Nellie means heathen or non-believer. People got there outside in the middle of town to wait for the Nellie Wheat. They wear scary masks dressed in torn tethered clothing, animal skins, and furs. They come in from the sea ice to frighten the children and adults and also celebrate the new year. The first part of the night around four or five Nellie Wheats sit in front of everyone in chairs while the crowd sinks to them and the brass band plays behind them. They bring candy for the children which is handed out and thrown into the crowd. After the singing the brass band continues to play while everyone lines up, young and old to shake the hands of the Nellie Wheat. After the community gathering, the chase begins. People spread out and the excitement starts. You will see many different Nellie Wheats coming from all directions carrying big sticks and different objects to hit you with. Children and adults run around screaming with fear and laughter trying to escape the scary creatures. Nellie can run very fast. People can rarely escape them if they're chased. If you're good all year or you sing them a song in Inuktitut, they will shake your hand and walk away. Parents talk about Nellie Wheat all year long. They use the frightening nature of the Nellie Wheat to scare their children into behaving themselves all year long. They warn them that if they do not listen then Nellie could get them a January 6th. The children get scared and think twice about how they were acting. They visit inside people's houses as well and if kids sing a song then Nellie will get them treats. The teachers' children, the importance of learning their language. It is a truly unique tradition that is mostly unheard by anyone living outside of Nain and the Labrador Coast. It is still going strongly being celebrated each year. Mummering or jennying is additional custom which is still being practiced in many areas of Newfoundland today.  Traditional mummering in Newfoundland involves people dressed in outrageous clothes parading from house to house during the Christmas season. The idea was to hide your identity. Men would dress up as women and women as men. Faces were covered, clothes stuffed and mittens were sometimes worn on feet. Voices would be disguised and the residents would be greeted at the door with any mummers let in.  This lasted until the host guessed the mummer's identities or the food and drinks right now. The St. John's Mummer's Festival is helping to keep the tradition alive and celebrated each year. The festival started in 2009 and has taken place every year since during December.  You can have a wonderful time singing, dancing and making new friends. When we talk about our tradition in Labrador called Nelly Ignite, people in Newfoundland often say it's a bit similar to mummers in Newfoundland. Both are celebrated during the holiday seasons and have interesting characters who visit people in their houses. The Nelly seem to be a bit scarier with the chance of being chased and hit and the identity of them I never know. This tradition tends to be effective with helping children stay in good behavior. Both are keeping their traditional music alive by having it performed in their own ways. I'm proud to have both as part of my culture and heritage.


The Labour right have one priority that exceeds all else, locking the left out of power. And if rumours are true, a key moment in that effort could be at next week's Labour Party conference. It's now expected that plans are afoot to change the rules for electing Labour's next leader. The plans would involve abandoning the system of one member, one vote. That's the method by which both Corbyn and Stammer were elected. Every member gets one vote and they're all counted equally. The proposed replacement, according to these rumours, is reviving the Electoral College. So how the Electoral College works is that members have a third of the vote, MPs have a third of the vote and the unions have a third of the vote. And they're all weighted equally. So if you've got half a million members, they will collectively have the same vote as 200 or so MPs. Aaron, I think you were the first person to tweet this actually. It's now going to be a bit of momentum. I've seen Sienna Mahler from Labour back you up. How likely do you think it is that, one, the right will attempt to do this and two, that they'll be successful? Thank you. I did break the story, Michael, which is always good. I first heard of it this morning. There were whispers about it. And we can talk in abstraction about whether or not somebody would try something. I think this move would only be made if they thought they could win it. And the view of those behind it, the Labour right, people like Labour First and so on. Their view, and of course, they've always wanted to do this, this is probably one of their biggest ambitions during the Stammer leadership. If they can do this and nothing else, they'll be incredibly happy. They viewed it as really hinging on to unions, Unison and the GMB, if they could get one of them on board, it was go. Their view is again that the composition of delegates this year at party conference is sufficiently right-wing that they could get it through. It would be mighty strange, Michael.  Obviously, the delegates were chosen months ago. This wasn't on the cards. You send the delegate off to conference, they come back and say, yeah, I've just voted for us all to have less influence. I think most members would be livid, but there we are. They're going to try and get it through on the Friday, and I think they're going to try and put it on the conference floor over the following days. Like you say, Sienna followed it up. John McDonald's tweeted something as well saying, speculation, Labour leadership aims to bounce through conference, return to electoral college, which is effectively a return to what we had before, the status quo ante. So just to clarify for our audience, right now, if you want to change the Labour leader or if there is an election for a Labour leader, you have the candidate selection, which is effectively MPs decide who's put forward to the membership. There's a certain threshold that has to be met with the nominations. Once you're on that list of nominees that's then put to the membership, it's one member, one vote. And it's not just the membership, it's also affiliate organisations. So if you remember the Fabian Society or Unite or whatever, you also get a vote. Now, what the Labour right want to do, and this is now in train, is they want to return to a previous system where voting for the leader still had that same nominations process. Parts of it were different, but fundamentally Labour MPs decided who could be a nominee, a prospective leader. And then the voting system was a bit arcane, quite strange.  And we're now being presented with something like that. So you would basically see an even division of influence between trade union movement, 1.5 million people, huge organisations like the GMB, Unison, Unite, CW, many others. About 450,000 members right now. And then equal to both of these, you'd have sort of one-third each, would be around 200 Labour MPs. Clearly not a very democratic system, but it's about the Labour right empowering the very small number of people who agree with them on most things, which is Labour MPs, who aren't just the odds actually with the party membership, but I think actually with the public and a bunch of things. We saw that in response to the Afghan pull out. A few weeks ago, I think my club was a really classic example of it. You saw people on the Labour benches saying that we should stay in Afghanistan, even if America's pulling out, which I think is effectively a death sentence for UK soldiers that would be there. And again, most of the public didn't agree with that. 70% of the public, some of the pubs in the public disagreed with that. So you have people as Labour MPs who are quite unrepresentative of public opinion on a bunch of things. And the move here is to make those people even more influential in deciding who the next Labour leader is. Particularly ironic if it was pushed through while Keir Starmer was leader, given that Keir Starmer himself was voted through one member, one vote. And I think most importantly, Mike, for people on the soft left and Liberals who say, oh, well, Labour are going to offer proportional representation or constitutional reform. Come on. If a political party is working backwards in terms of its own democratic processes, do you really think they're going to enact meaningful constitutional reform or change the electoral system? Of course they're not. So it's a big story. Let's see where it goes. I mean, I had one person tell me a sort of senior figure on the Labour left telling me just before he went on air, they don't think it would get through. They think it could go to the conference floor, but they don't think it would get through because they don't think Unison and GMB and or GMB would back it. I mean, that remains to be seen. Maybe there'll be some horse trading. I mean, I think it would reduce the influence of trade unions. Of course, you could say, well, they had the block vote. They would have that back again. It would actually increase their influence. But if you look at the role of trade unions and how much influence they've had in the Labour Party, under Keir Starmer as well, by the way, since 2015, since the rule change, I think it would be a very strange move by any trade union to do that. The GMB, Unison, particularly GMB and Unite really, have had massive extraordinary influence over party politics in 2015. So it would be a very strange move. But look, they've done strange moves before. The GMB likes to sort of articulate itself, present itself as this really sort of blue-collar work in class trade union. They backed up quite and quite people's vote, far before Labour did, because some people inside the organisation staffers wanted it because they had different political views to their members. So if that happened, I wouldn't write this off either. But like I say, the last person I spoke to on this who I agree with, politically, I'm not going to mislead people, there's somebody on the left, and who I trust in terms of their judgement, that they don't think this will go through. But it could very well be put to people over the next week.


Aloha and welcome back to Ehana Kako. We're here every week on the Think Tech O'a'i broadcast network. I'm Kili Iaki and I'm president of the Grassroot Institute. As you know from time to time we've been discussing a remarkable happening here in the state of Hawaii and that has been the privatization of our public hospital system. We've found that the government hasn't done that great a job of running our state hospitals and as a result services have been lacking for a good number of people who need those vital services. Well, our state legislature and governor this past year passed a law that allowed for the hospital's labor to be put out to the best bidder and several corporations competed for that. Kaiser won the contract, but you'd think that'd be the end of it. It's not at all. There has been high drama since that time and quite a bit of interference with the process moving forward. We're going to talk a little bit about that and some of the implications. Today I have Tom Yamachika, the president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii. They do terrific work and Tom has been weighing in on this issue. He's been analyzing it since the start and we're going to gain his insights today especially in terms of what the cost to taxpayers really might be of the delays taking place with the privatization of Maui's hospitals. Now, let's greet Tom. Tom, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me back, Kili. It's always so great to work with you. I mean, we at the Grassroot Institute consider you just one of our team. We're privileged to publish your work and call upon you so frequently for tax information. Tell us a little bit about Tax Foundation itself. Well, we're a nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog organization. Our primary job is to watch the legislature of our state and what they do and especially in terms of public finance and taxation. So make sure our taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. That's right. You weigh in quite a bit delivering testimony and analyzing bills and so forth. I think they've gotten used to seeing us together because sometimes they call us up to the table to sit next to one another because we're going to kind of say the similar thing. We want government to be accountable and transparent with respect to tax issues. A lot of times that does happen, yes. You've been following quite a few issues this past year, and I know we're going to get to talking about the Mali Hospital soon. But what is some of the work that Tax Foundation has done recently? Well, in this past legislative session, I think what we have seen is that not much happened, which is a good thing because there was a whole lot of stuff that was proposed that would have been really burdensome for taxpayers. There was a 1% surcharge or 1% increase in the general excise tax for education proposed by the teachers association. There was a half percent surcharge in the general excise tax to fund some kind of long-term care benefit program that didn't pass either. There was an effort to raise the income tax rates from, as you know, we used to have the top rate at 11% at the end of 2015. It dropped back to eight and a quarter, which is still high in terms of the rest of the nation, but it's not stratospheric. And of course there were efforts to get that back to 11%. That's right. And you know, I'm so glad you said that it was good that not a lot took place because there were all of these measures for potential tax increases. And we fought long and hard. I appreciate the analysis that you brought to the table and listened to some of the testimonial you gave on behalf of Tax Foundation. Now go back to something you mentioned because it sounds fairly innocent and innocuous and that is the proposal that there would be a 1% increase to the GET, general excise tax, for the sake of needs within the schools or a half a percent, as you referred to, for elder programs and so forth. Now people can simply say, well that's only one and a half percent increase. But as you look at the numbers, what's the real impact of something like a one and a half percent increase to our GE tax here in Hawaii? Well, I think it's fair to say it would be a staggering amount. Even the half percent surcharge that we now have on Oahu only rakes in a quarter billion dollars every year. Now we're talking about a rate of about four and a half percent. Is that right overall for the GET? So the difference between the four percent which is imposed in the neighbor islands and the five percent here in Oahu, that's what I'm talking about. The differential is $250 million. And when people say, let's raise the GET by just one percent, when we really talk about that absolute measure of one percent, it's a quarter of the whole GET, isn't it? That's a massive amount right there. How much of our state budget is basically dependent upon this consumption tax, the GET? About half. That's really staggering, Tom. I know I look at these figures, the budget, and you do, and we go in and we analyze and we testify. But just to sit back and think about it, I don't think people know that half of the state's budget is funded by this consumption tax, the GET. Well, it's very true. And I think it's one reason why when people look at our tax system and they see how much it hurts people in the lower end of the income spectrum, that's one reason why. We call that a regressive impact, right? And the reason... And the reason how that works, how people who may not have all the tax strategies that a billionaire may have or people in the upper income levels, just ordinary upper middle class, explain how those people at the lower end of the income spectrum are hit hardest relatively in terms of the impact of the GE tax on them. Okay, well, it's simply explained like this. You know what income tax, we all pay income tax. But the rate is graduated based on how much we make. So if we make more, we pay more, relative to the number of dollars that we earn. And that's called a progressive tax. That's called a progressive tax. Okay. A regressive tax is one where you pay the same amount and it doesn't matter who you are. Like 4%. Right. So typically sales taxes, RGET, hotel room taxes and so forth, they're at flat percentages. They don't care how much you make. They're imposed the same rate nonetheless. So it could be a rich person buying luxuries. It could be a poor person buying subsistence materials, basic food, shelter. And it's the same rate.  They don't have as much money. So when the tax takes from their purchases, it is going to be larger relative to their total amount of money that they have available. In fact, in some cases, as you have pointed out in some of your research, that could be about 13% of someone's income at the lower end of the income ladder. Yeah, there was research done by, I forget which institution on the mainland, but we have that copied on our website. Well that's inordinate. Well, we're going to get to our topic today of the hospital system on Maui and its privatization and some of the problems of what's going on today. But there is a budget issue somewhat related to it and we'll get to that relationship later on and that is the state of our state's unfunded liabilities with respect to the employee retirement system and health insurance for our pensioneers. Tell us a little bit about that because I know Tax Foundation has weighed in on that. Sure. What's the situation here in Hawaii? Well, what you need to understand is that the systems that we're talking about, the employee's retirement system and the EUTF or the Employer Union Trust Fund, they are what we call defined benefit plans. What that means is that when you as a state employee reach a certain amount of service or a certain length of service with the state and you then separate from service for whatever reason, you're entitled to a certain dollar amount of benefits that is specified in the plan. And it's the same dollar amount of benefits whether the plan has money or not because the state then assumes the liability of having to pay them. So what happens is to assess the health of this kind of plan and this is as opposed to like a profit sharing plan or what we call a divine contribution plan which basically is your employer puts away a certain amount of money and the amount that you get at the end is based on how well that money does. Right. Okay. So the employer's responsibility is fulfilled by contributing a certain amount of money into the plan and we don't know how much is going to come out because there are so many risk factors like the markets and so forth. But you're saying it's not that way with our state retirement plans. Right. With our state retirement plans, it's basically the other way around, they specify what comes out and need the state to contribute what goes out. So we are making promises at the front end that we need to fulfill regardless of how well the fund performs in the financial market. That's correct. And so we can get ourselves into a pretty difficult situation. Which is why to assess the health of the plans, we bring in somebody called an actuary who works with statistical tables of the same way insurance products are priced. And they come up with the conclusion that okay, our ERS is underfunded. Okay, it's underfunded. By $8 billion. $8 billion. And the EUTF is underfunded by $12 billion. So that's about $20 billion of underfunding. In round numbers. And that affects the health of it tremendously and creates what we call a liability situation. Yeah, it's a problem that we don't have yet. But it's kind of... It's a problem we know is coming in the future. Right. Because of this. That's right. It's the train rolling down the tracks. We continue to operate, but we have to deal with it in draconian ways, really. But rather than talk further about this, which is fascinating, and maybe we'll have you back to talk about the unfunded liabilities, let's use this as a segue. Because one of the problems with what's going on with the Maui hospital transition and its delay and some of the legal issues involved here is that we may be putting ourselves into a greater unfunded liability position in the long run. And we'll come back to that, but let's go to the beginning of the story. Privateization. We had a situation here where our state hospital system on all the islands was not bringing in the income needed to sustain it. As a result, clinics were being shut down, people were being let go of, and services were not there. And so the legislature responded, at least for the three public hospitals on Maui, by saying, let's take the labor, which costs about 70% of the whole cost of the hospital, and let's put it out to bid to the best private firm, whether it be Kaiser, Hawaii Pacific Health, Adventist, or anybody else. And so they did that. Well, what are your thoughts about this move to privatize? Is that a good thing? It's actually quite a big thing here for Hawaii, because it would be the largest privatization from government-controlled situation to the private sector. What do you think about it? There are certainly policy reasons, both foreign against it, but it's certainly something that the government's got to try when the current system is not working. And it became clear that the current system wasn't working because of the massive amounts of money that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation was losing every year. It was losing so much money that other government programs and services had to be curtailed to basically make up for it. Well, there were many people who applauded the decision of the legislature and governor to move forward with the privatization. And as you know, Kaiser was ultimately awarded the contract through competitive bidding and started to set up shop, really, to operate the hospital system. But there's been a bit of interference. There's a particular lawsuit. And tell us a bit about that that has come from the union leaders. Right, the government employees union, which is one of the unions that represents the hospital workers. The HGEA, along with the UPW. Yes, they sued to stop the privatization, basically saying that it was a breach of their contract because they had to deal with the state whereby they would provide the workers for these essential state facilities. And instead of having the contract run its course, as they had agreed many years ago when the contract started, the legislature passed a law that said, hey, we're going to stop. We're going to basically start firing people. And we are going to have their duties taken over by a different entity, not part of government. So that's kind of the crux of the union's complaint, and they went to federal district court. Right, and in federal district court it was dismissed, but they've appealed it to the Ninth Circuit, and that's currently pending. There's even more excitement and drama, but we're going to have to take a quick break and see while that case is pending now, what else is going on in the legislature. We're going to be right back after a short break. I'm with Tom Yamachika, president of the Tax Foundation, and when we return, we'll catch you up, bring you up to date with what's going on at the legislature, as well as the problems that had been created by the delay of the privatization. I'm Keith Leghiakina with Grass Root Institute. We'll be back on Nehanacaco in just a moment. You're watching The Big Boy. Hey everybody, my name is David Chang, and I'm the new host of the new show, The Art of Thinking Smart. I'm really excited to be able to share with you secrets on giving yourself a smart edge in life. We're going to have awesome guests and great mentors of mine from the political, military, business, nonprofit, you name it. So it's something for everybody. For a very healthy summer, watch Viva Hawaii. We are here live on Mondays at 3 p.m., and we bring guests like our best health coach, Elena Maganto, eat well and follow her tips. Viva la comida saludable. Aloha, my name is Josh Green. I serve as senator from the Big Island on the Kona side, and I'm also an emergency room physician. My program here on Think Tech is called Health Care in Hawaii. I'll have guests that should be interesting to you twice a month. We'll talk about issues that range from mental health care to drug addiction to our health care system and any challenges that we face here in Hawaii. We hope you'll join us. Thanks for supporting Think Tech. Welcome back to Ehana Kako, here every week on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network. Ehana Kako, that's based upon a venerable Hawaiian saying, Apule Kako, which means let's pray together. At the same time, we believe at the grassroots institute, that we need to Ehana Kako, which is let's work together. Imagine what would get done or what would not get done if we didn't work together. There's very little we could do, but together we can build a better government, economy, and society. And that's why we also like working with Think Tech Hawaii and take our hats off to all of the great staff and the overall producer, Jay Fidel, churning out about 35 hours of great content from Honolulu, sending it across the world every week. And you can get that on ThinkTechHawaii.com. Now back to Tom Yamachika, president of a very important organization for Hawaii, a very important voice, foundation of Hawaii, which serves as a watchdog on fiscal and tax issues at our state legislature. Tom, we were talking about the suit that the unions, the HGEA, leveled against the state's attempt to transition the Maui hospitals to private sector labor. Yes, and just before the break, I was mentioning that, or I was going to mention, that the district court in Honolulu here, they found that the union suit was without merit and they tossed it out. The union, as they had the right to do, appealed it to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And some judges from the Ninth Circuit came down to Hawaii, heard some arguments, and they basically imposed what we call a stay, which means everybody stop, you know, don't do anything, you know, don't continue with the privatization, but give this court a chance to weigh in. Right, and this stay has put a deadline date into the situation. What is that date, that September date? I believe September 30th. September 30th. By which, what needs to be held off? I mean, what needs to happen by September 30th? The parties are supposed to, you know, make efforts to resolve their case, but the privatization isn't supposed to be fully integrated and killed then. Okay, so now that's going on. And on the side, however, a new issue developed and that was the state legislature passed a law in which they awarded a severance package, or at least they proposed the awarding of a severance package for the employees who would no longer be under the contract that the unions had, and the interesting thing is that Kaiser had actually hired back about 95% of them and about 5% had taken the option of retiring, yet the legislature passed the severance package for benefits and for salary to cost maybe $40 million or $60 million. $40 million is the number I heard, but basically the idea was you have people who are no longer going to be state workers. So they have been progressing through what you and I know is a very, very generous retirement system and a very, very generous system of health benefits. That's going to stop. They're no longer going to be able to progress toward that. If they have invested in it, they're not going to... It's basically a train wreck for them, so can we take care of them is the question that the legislature was trying to answer. And so this... I understand they were trying to answer that question and give these people relief whether or not they found successor employment with Kaiser. Right. But the reality is the package Kaiser offered does provide the salary and the benefits and is a package that is at least comparable. So in essence, the need is no longer there, but still the challenge goes forth. The union still desire to get that $40 million plus severance package and our legislature passed it, our governor opposed it. Let me ask you this. Why did the governor oppose this package? Well, there are a couple of different reasons. The basic one was that it would cost too much. The second one was an issue that ERS's attorneys had identified in what they call the last minute, but basically was that the adoption of this particular severance package would disqualify ERS from federal tax exemption. And so let me take a step back. But before you do that, the two reasons were, first of all, the governor felt we just couldn't afford it. It was too costly. And secondly, it would jeopardize the status of the ERS in terms of its nonprofit status before the IRS. Right. Okay. Go ahead, continue to talk. Okay. So let me start off by saying that when you have pension plans, they're protected by a number of different federal rules and regulations, not only in the tax code, but also in something called ERISA, which is a labor law that's designed to protect pension plans so that they will continue to deliver benefits even after the employees that earn the benefits have left the company. I mean, how horrible it would be if somebody works for a company for 50 years, leaves the company, and the company goes bust and there's no more retirement plan. Right. So there are a number of qualification requirements that have built up both in the tax code and in labor law over all of these years. Now, you've heard of a 401K plan. Right. Okay. Now, what 401K means is there is a section of the tax code called section 401K. And what that does is it provides requirements to a situation where you have an employee benefit plan that provides you a choice of either you take cash now or you put it in the plan to take out later when you're retired. Right. And your tax bracket is lower, obviously. Your tax liability would be lower. Right. At least that's the theory. Yes. We can't predict the future, but that's the theory. Okay. Okay. 401K is basically for private sector. Okay. And there are provisions in it that say that it doesn't apply to government and it doesn't apply to government defined benefit plans. All right. Okay. And that's why we do here, because the benefits package that was in the bill that the governor vetoed and the legislature overrode, making it law, would give the separated employees a choice to either get some benefit in cash or if they declined that, they would have enhanced benefits in ERS. So this is a practice one would expect to have a benefit plan, but with regard to the government plan, that that's not part of the legal option. Is that what you're saying? Right. Okay. So we have already established that the solution that is sought by the legislature and the unions is something we can't afford, but secondly, it's got some legal issues that jeopardize the status of ERS. Now, we've only got a couple of minutes left. So let me put your crystal ball to work now and tell us what are some of the problems that we're going to potentially face with this decision. Okay. If the IRS holds that ERS is not a tax exempt organization or not a tax exempt employee plan, then a couple of things can happen. One is it's got to pay tax and its investment income. And in taxable year of 2014, or fiscal year of 2014, it made $2 billion. And that's just one year. That's one year. So we would go back and be held liable for the taxes due on the investment income of the fund. That could be exorbitant. I mean, that would be incredible. Yeah. I mean, the tax on $2.1 billion is an excess of $800 million. So that's what would come out of the fund, go back to Uncle Sam, and we wouldn't get that for our workers anymore. So in essence, if we don't have that money available, it deepens our unfunded liability. Yes, it does. Wow. And what's another consequence before we leave quickly? That the employees would be presently taxable on contributed amounts to ERS to the extent they're vested. So for example, if you're fully vested, an amount goes into ERS, you get taxed now. And employees are not anticipating this. So they'll have a surprise at the end of the year. In the end, I mean, ultimately, that's not good for these union workers to get into a situation like this where they have a surprise tax liability. Oh, yeah. They'll be, once they find out what the surprise is, there'll be consequences. And I'm not sure what they're going to be, but they're not going to be good. Well, Tom, thanks for pointing that out. And I'm going to thank you for being on the program today. I know you've written this up and it's available at Tax Foundation. What's that website? TfHawaii.org. TfHawaii.org. And also Tom's work is available at the Grassroot Institute. If you go to the Grassroot Institute website, grassrootinstitute.org, you can read about this situation where we've passed a law that is both unfunded and potentially illegal. Interesting goings on at the state legislature this year. We'll be back to talk about more of this and what else is happening in the state of Hawaii. I'm Kelea Akina with the Grassroot Institute on Ehana Kako, every week here on the ThinkTakawaii Broadcast Network. Much aloha to all of you. See you next week.


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They're very nice there That's unexpected too. Yeah, you don't think you get there them people so nice. Yeah, I did I performed there. I was like, yeah, y'all a lot of Bay Area Everybody good. Yeah Everybody in their places Everybody good. All right, man. Welcome back to the 85tap show An important information today Clayton what we got man We got some very special guests in the trap with us today People being the comments like oh, you know who you gotta get to stop do Yeah, man, so I had to reach out to make sure that we got them through the trap Brother Ben X This is my business partner and brother by the Farrakhan Muhammad Ali Also What's been going on man? Give us a brief introduction, you know introduce yourself to the audience and let them know how we got here Well, my name is brother Ben X. Yeah student of the Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan My story is I was I was born in prison where and I have actually 21 biological brothers and sisters, but I only know of Six of them for them. I know because my mom would take me to My mom who got me after 10 days old would take me down there to East Texas to visit them I Always tell that story because the minister said that The way that we was born and shaped in the womb kind of gives us our purpose So when I think about how I got here as you know, the founder of digital real estate Helping thousands of people make money online and scale their businesses and now what we're doing. We're here at the farms I think it started from that experience because I never wanted to go to school All those times not want to get up in the morning just to get a degree or diploma and live that same lifestyle Working for somebody else and having a job So my mom she started me off with You know going to Sam's Club and buying me snickers and honey buns and sell that school So I sell no weed or no cracker number, but I flip some honey buns some snickers and Dear W fly distributed so I will come to a company like yourself and say hey man I pass out your podcast flies for 10 center flyer. I was making about five hundred dollars a month a week at the age of 14 Then around 2010 because I'm also a basketball player. I'm all-american basketball player as well Editing my videos and that's kind of how I got introduced into making content So although I got 21 biological brothers and sisters I grew up in a child by my I grew up in the house by myself Oh, so I would create skits where I'm talking to myself because I'm like man I want somebody I can talk to so I created videos where I'm sitting right here And this is me sitting right here and I would talk back and forth To myself and then I was teaching myself how to edit You know my highlights so instead of waiting on ball this life to come come do my my film at the high school I would do my own videos my mom would be in the stands filming I come edit it if y'all want to you know, get me out there. I give myself Introduction to doing something for myself make a long story short. I joined the nation of Islam in 2015 So I actually had something to offer to our people So I had a little bit more wisdom to offer so my videos start to grow because I would do current events and do news But then I would show how the teachings could have really prevented this situation or help us out of this situation And people saw me, you know going online. So when I dropped out of college A brother gave me a job and I was working at this school But around December came, you know, the school is out and I'm only getting paid minimum wage So I didn't go back to that job So I got a job at Sterilite and that Sterilite I don't know if y'all know what that is but Sterilite is where they you got to make them buckets So like what you probably put your clothes in with the plastic I was making that so the buckets was coming out I had to put the wheels on the buckets putting a sticker long story short That was a slavery job for me because I'm living in like I'm actually working in the warehouse job It's in the summertime with no AC then I went to FedEx and this is kind of when I had my epiphany I'm throwing all these boxes on the truck and I said man What if I couldn't work next week and I thought a thousand more boxes on the truck If I thought two thousand more boxes on the truck next week my paycheck gonna be the exact same But if I have my own product in my own service Shoot the more hard I work or the more smart I work the more money I get paid So I start to grow on social media. So now I have over half a billion views on Facebook alone My first YouTube channel that got terminated had over 39 million views The second one that just got recently terminated about maybe a couple months ago was back up to over 14 million views So I pretty much created a blueprint to show people how to Impact people how to grow they fought it online and how to really monetize they give because many what was the violation that they Say was hate speech But they didn't give me no videos or say wow the second one They said circumvention of technology whatever the hell that means right? I don't know what that means at all So they literally just terminated the page no strikes on the channel or nothing just deleted it Let me just put some words together. Yeah, it gave you something. He's a circumcised technology And now I think it's because of course I push the teachings of the honor Balaji Muhammad and push the minister I'm well known for you know spreading the teachings out on social media but the way that I got you know as the digital real estate founders people just saw me growing posting online and I pretty much put together the blueprint is called digital real estate. No, that's all I was gonna ask you What is digital real estate? So have you heard of in real estate where you get a fourplex, right? They say get your fourplex and you ran out three and let those three pay for your mortgage. Y'all probably heard that Well around that time people was saying you you go do this and you go invest and you put all this money up But I was saying I'm making a thousand dollar one video. Y'all probably know that about now I'm making a thousand dollars on one video eight thousand here off this video So I said really I got over two thousand properties online every time I reshare my video on Facebook if it's impactful I'm generating more income. So I have a quote That says don't focus on passive income focus on passive impact because the more people you impact the more income will come So I show people how to develop their own digital products your own digital assets So for example, which I ever have a housewarming before allowing Which are which I have a housewarming what I have in couches TVs and at least something to eat in the house A housewarming base. You got this new house Probably not what I asked people why you asked me to follow you. You ain't got nothing for me to follow Why are you asking me to follow you but you ain't got no content on your page So I'll show people how to build up your content build up your digital assets and then monetize it Because the scriptures say your gift will make room for you and bring your most great man Many of us is chasing money, but I think we should be chasing a gift and if we chase the gift the money will chase us So I put that in the platform and lay it out That's hard No, that's hard. I'm just You got some daddy. Yeah, man. I mean social. It's a lot of money Yeah, it's a lot of money on there if you Thousand I want to get a thousand years I want to get ten thousand views But if I tell you stop switch from getting a thousand views to where you impacting a thousand people What's a thousand people times five dollars?  You know a little circle whatever the case maybe or learn from a sister see how did you get in that?    How many people promoting the program now y'all still getting 70% But everybody else they getting a 30% now I really walk with 85 saw show because y'all putting money in my pocket I ain't got to make the videos and gotta do the studio and gotta get the gas But I get to make money off y'all now I really love y'all now y'all all over the world with affiliate program not only y'all making money From the views that y'all got coming in but everybody below y'all making money, too You just don't know what you just did Yep, they're pretty much different for me Nothing else I want to talk about Open up the flood game Because now all the people who watched this even even the people who don't have a Facebook page Come on low. Come in You heard what he said Come on now. I can get you people watching this Like it doesn't even what he said I heard what you said about people copy your content Oh, they love it screen recording now you giving them a reason not to screen record it Because if I scream recorded give it to you for free I don't get my 30% now you saving all the people who get to see your profiles or your program for free And you still getting your 30% because why am I gonna give it to you for free if I'm gonna get 30% now you making sure you now it's protected Maybe maybe everybody He's still gonna steal it. I think it's just personal It ain't no person you sure They was they just addicted to it and they can't stop I gotta upload this one 16,000 people need to see this Yeah, I don't know man This is the craziest stuff because we can have like you said they can find all the violations for you know Organic content, but they can't stop the spam the robots. Yeah Yeah They blow up my page. I can't even see real comments. No, that's what I hate and they only really I don't see that on my people page I don't know. I don't know a lot of white people paid But my time to see like we got a lot of if it's digital real estate.   Let the real people speak. Am I cute? Yeah, no, it's my new video lady Don't check my story. Right Why Don't do that on other people page, man. It's the program.  They got eyes on a different hard drive But that's neither here's over there. Ain't no ain't no What is the virus protection on that? Oh, I serve you said this your business partner. Yes, sir How did y'all start doing business together? Hey, guess what January 27? I will be in Phoenix, Arizona That's right, buddy at the celebrity theater. It's going down January the 27th in Phoenix, Arizona.  Hey, what's up? How you doing? She being Carlos Miller Did you know did you know that January the 28th? I'll be in San Diego at the Balboa Theater Did you know that because it's true? I will be at the Balboa Theater January the 28th In San Diego. So grab those tickets and come on out. Oh, yeah, we'll be at the Balboa Theater It's gonna go crazy Well, I'll eat you up until so he was doing something called the hundred acre project basically striving to get a hundred acres and pooling resources with brothers and sisters and We was getting 27 acres of land and he needed one more person So I told a man check your DM and I was the last person and the way that he Explained the concept was, you know, we buy together collectively with unity So one person ain't got to put a hundred thousand dollars down on some land or fifty thousand dollars on some land And if we need to get some cows versus one person paying six thousand or eight thousand We put all the money up together if we need to get attracted which we got our own excavator now Manifest fifty thousand dollars and we got a hundred people man. Everybody put up, you know, spit it spit it even and What I do a digital real estate. I said man, I think we can we can scale this and our first goal was to get 500 acres by the end of last year It's been nine months since we've been in business and thus far we got over 1600 acres of land We have our own chocolate bars 200 acres in Ghana. So the chocolate is literally you can go look at it on our Instagram So I got on chocolate bars being made in Ghana We have our own micro community which you're going to that already got 15 living spaces We have a couple of people that are actually living on the land here shortly So I just saw what he was doing man with the with the land Coming from the blueprint of the honor belage Muhammad by land do something for yourself self-sustaining then sell the surplus And with the digital real estate that I do I said man, it's less unite versus me trying to do what he's doing And he try to do what I do that's collaborating take it to the next level. So you take it from there That's exactly what happened. So I came there land. I was looking for land and it was so expensive trying to do it by Myself I said why would I take a hundred fifty thousand dollars got a bottle and I got a milk the cow I got a farm the land. I got it. I'm gonna be out there all day sweating You know like a slave trying to do all this just to provide full clothing and shelter for myself What about my brother? What about my sister? So I said well, let me make some phone calls. I called my brother I said hey, would you like to go have with me on some land? He said well, how does it work? I said well, you put up half the money you own half the land. He said all right great But the property I wanted to get was still too expensive. I said we call another person So by the end of the day I have five people. I said listen, we pay five ways We divide up the property five ways any money we make we split five ways How are you gonna say no to that as long as you trust the person that's calling you so they say yeah, sign me up So I was like man. We need one more person So the next day I put it on Facebook And when I put it on Facebook somebody didn't somebody mess with me said well I have a hundred acres if you want it. I said call me the next day we talk They said I'll sell you a hundred acres. I said listen. I Don't need a hundred acres when I'm gonna do it that I said, but I Know our people need a community. I know we need to grow our own food I know we need to teach our own children I know we need to secure our own neighborhood and raise our families the way we want to raise them and so They said all right. Well, if you do that, we'll give you the hundred acres If you're going to use it to build a community for black people And I said okay bet. Let's do it. I don't know if they knew It was going to take off the way it did so I put that back on social media and Thousands of people reach back out like within 24 hours. I was overwhelmed with responses So me being a student on I'm going to miss Louis Farrakhan organization is key that happens to be my background is organizing So I said, okay, I need to set up zoom calls and make a website. We need to talk We need to go over bylaws and so first thing people want to know was what was the rules? I said well Dynamo miss Louis Farrakhan wrote a book called the restrictive law of Islam is our success and it's real simple It's no gambling no touching on sisters no stealing real simple stuff But sometimes simple things we get lost in a gray area. We get confused So I just took it right out the teachings I said these are the laws of the community and then as people ask questions had to answer them You know and and then if I didn't have an answer I would go find it because some people said hey, I don't want a letter but I want to help So then I had this other list of people that wanted to offer skills. Oh, I know how to take care of cows I got old tractor equipment. I got my grandfather left me land. You all want that like wow So we set up all these different groups and calls and we had the hundred acres, but It wasn't suitable for the community that we wanted to build after looking further into it So we started looking for other property. That's how we found the 27 acre property. My brother Ben X came one I put it on Instagram and he said like he said check your DM and We talked like the next day or the same day immediately and when he heard the numbers Obviously it makes sense who's gonna say no, but at that time it was only Dozens of people maybe a couple hundred and just like he said he said bro We can scale this this is what the honor boy lives Mohammed teaches us I said all right, let's do it, you know, and so as we did and once again it just I Don't want to say blew up, but expanded very rapidly extremely fast fast and then I think we may have been expecting But once again, we students and I will miss Louis Farrakhan We spent 10 years Working on ourselves trying to stop lying trying to stop cheating trying to stop stealing trying to stop Smoking and drinking and gambling so we we are I'm not gonna say we ready But we're we're trained to handle our people we love our people so when they come we handle them with love We treat them the way we want to be treated people say what's the religion and the religion? I'm belage Mohammed say the best religion is to treat people the way you want to be treated to do unto others as you Have them doing to yourself. Who's gonna say no to that y'all looking out for all people and and all we got to do is not lie Cheating still all we got to do is not, you know, blow weed in your face You know, I'm saying just respect our neighbor sign me up as Equitable terms it's equal ownership. It's a note. It's a no-brainer. So my brother came on Oh So so that was that was the concept and So people reached out from all over the world man all over the world primarily Africa the motherland People like man. I got hundred acres. I got 300 acres. I got olives coming man We olives olives coming from Egypt, bro. We got sea moss coming from Zanzibar. We got cocoa coming from Ghana Brother our people are so ready. They just need they just need equitable terms They really just need to be treated right treated with care and love and a high level of respect And then once you get the people you organize them so me and my brother He's a master at attracting our people. God is blessed and with attractive power and he's he's articulate He's good at it. He enjoys it. I'm a large mom said whatever you're good at whatever you enjoy doing is most likely what you were born and do So he gets our people by the thousands me because I have a deep desire For us to go free for us to live free and independent lives to love one another and grow the way Honorable miss Louis Fargon taught me he restored my faith in myself and God and helped me become a better person I want to scale that I want to scale Being reformed and retrained into a decent human being so when he gets our people we handle them properly and We organize them and so from that we put together a little teams only a few of us You know handful of people but with the right minds and loving your heart you can do anything with a few people So that's how we got to this point Oh Very pure message So y'all own properties here and Africa is just yeah Yeah, we we so people have given us property Yeah, okay, literally giving it to us. That was a hundred you said and then yeah, we got 20 in Texas We got five so sometimes we can do a partnership So let's say your grandma left you 25 acres. You don't want to sell it But you don't want to sit in there either. So we got people in Texas that want land We got people with land. It's not doing that. So like uber We just put them together and we pull reform a partnership contract. We don't take ownership We make an initial investment. We get a certain number of people. We split the profits So everybody wins so we got five acres in Dallas. We're working on 20 acres in West Texas three acres in Florida 43 acres in Arkansas About seven eight hundred acres in Georgia Yeah, yeah, and then we can get into we're actually building a community as a blueprint like the hundred acre project But this time we're brother Ben and it's a little more well-developed well put together So we're actually built an entire sustainable community right here in Georgia. Well, that's awesome How's it going though as far as the process? Great great You know There's always gonna be ups and downs man, but what we wanted to do differently was Document the process because I'm naturally a filmmaker as well You know, I know how to Document it put it out there because I know our people all the time when you're giving them money They skeptical these days now what does nigga finna do with my money? Yeah, there's thousands of dollars So with for me I said man I think the best way for us to do this in Skeletons to be transparent as possible because we already scared Oh, man, they bomb this down in Tulsa You know, all they're gonna do this well people always say what you're gonna do when if they if they bomb it What you gonna do they bomb you at your house? Yeah, what you gonna do? They come shoot up and put a bomb in in your house. Nothing. I'm dead That's what I'm gonna. I'm gonna die and going to go But I wait the minister said man listen, we're gonna die anyway So you might as well die striving to do something for your people striving to be Impactful because I believe that's what true eternal life is it's not my physical body because I this is a finite body That's gonna go back into the ground But you know, they say that fire and pregnant a woman or you're pregnant a woman you live on through that child Right, but what if I impregnate your mind and then now you are passing that knowledge and you passing those seeds to other people Now I'm living on through other people so the Quran says speaking out of those who are slain in the way of our lives dead No, they're not there you just comprehend not so the knowledge that they have given us from the past all of our great leaders If we living on that and we are doing something that's effective and sustainable from what they said they're live in us so I'm saying all that to say we want to do something different and We denied all donations so a lot of people's like man, I love this process man I love what y'all doing let me donate and we said now we don't want no donations You said we wanted to do what we could do with our own money first with our own efforts first But our own organizing first then you put fuel to the fire because a lot of times man we are giving money for ideas and We want to have meetings about meetings and I don't like me about meetings about another meeting You know I mean so I wanted y'all to see the execution So we traveling you see the traveling you see the time flight saying free obviously hotels ain't free obviously So we got to pay to do these type of things and we got to go look at the land We got to get the soil tested so we let everybody know how much we're paying for the members You know what's what's being paid for let them know the site map and that's things coming But the main thing that we're doing is documenting the whole process. So we were to go clean up the land Was that Friday or Sunday? You know we documented that to let the people know. Hey man, we clean it up We are documented us up in the floor We're gonna put the new floor in so everything is documented so that y'all can follow the process And see what's going on. So I think With that and we have had a situation with 63 acres We put it out there or we allow some people to come see it who wasn't land owners yet so we learned some lessons from that and They lie they start calling the agents saying amen. These ain't good people. You know what I mean? They do want to go from me. We ain't got no go for me But they do want to go for me to get the land don't sell it to them So do you know that they changed their mind and decided not to sell it to us? You know doing all kind of things guy came through Right down the street. How many acres was that 350 350 better land Great pricing right down the street and we end up locking that in Through unity as well. So it's been some you know here cuz people trying to stop us here and there There's fate here at the farms pages. So our only pages here at the farms They already inboxing people from other pages DM and DM and them talking about by land with me Pay me through cash up all kind of crazy stuff But it's been going pretty smooth thus far man We got a lot of like-minded individuals people are real excited to help out because this is something that they've been waiting on You know just having a vehicle where I can unite and do something for myself without Religious game-banging the minister said we'd be intellectually masturbate And we done debated ten minutes and I and I feel good Yeah, I don't prove the brother wrong and I'm in the same condition you in you Christian I'm Muslim or I'm Christian and you Muslim I'm saying you wrong and you wrong the minister said look here your mother said three plus four equal seven Yours says six plus one equal seven mine says seven plus zero equal seven and because we got different equations We argued with each other online to try to see who the best He said if you get down to the root knowledge not the branch knowledge you'll see hey man We got different equations, but we all get into the same answer Seven yeah, and so we've been able to do it say hey man Like he said the honor block Mohammed said the best religion is to do unto others as you want done it to yourself And the Muslim simply means one who submits they will to do the will of God So if you Hebrew is a light or you whatever the case may be you still believe in God Long as you submit in your will to do the will of God, that's literally what a Muslim is so we know who you are But you can call you say what you want to right What's up world is your boy Chico being in case you haven't heard we at the 85 South show have launched our own independent streaming service called Channel 85 before our Lord supporters We're currently offering 20% off for six months. 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Yeah, and that's what this whole platform right here is about man It's all about putting the information out and letting people, you know, you can choose 85% Because we knew that it wasn't gonna be accepted by everybody We don't need everybody to watch us We know a hundred percent of it is they can never approve everything like people we get more dislikes than likes Yeah, but the people that we talking to We already excluded the people that we're not talking to you know, it's funny about that Yeah, we have some lessons and in our lessons in the nation We have the 5% the 85% and the 10% and The 5% are those who understand the reality of God and Know that there's not some spook God and that you are God You got force and power within you You have the ability to have a thought in your mind and really bring it into existence So when we hear this Bible quote where it says God said being it is that's what y'all did I'm pretty sure this podcast will first just a thought and so in one of your you the host Right you started this in his mind It was just a thought in his mind that he had to willing into existence by the God 85% of those who are dumb different blind though. These are the ones who are being Manipulated by the 10% blood suckers of the poor So they understand the reality of God and they understand cause and effect But they gonna give them technology to get them to you know Continue to live their savage life So to hear you say that we know already understand that majority of people not gonna understand and you're going just to those people I feel like y'all are doing that work as a 5% of you know y'all bringing people on the platform that can give them knowledge wisdom and understanding But you know minute majority of them probably go dislike it But he said that's the work because he said this was the hardest job given to man Giving life to the dead you ever tried to raise a dead man from the grave. You can't do it Yeah, pretty pretty hard But think about it. We the dead people when I with you if you ever went to a friend of which I'm sure y'all have who who who dressed the man in the casket What you got somebody else here, right? Yeah, who put the shoes on yeah, somebody else. Yeah Who dressed it up is her and made him look good.  You know who house in us somebody else is so we're dead people So the unbeliever Muhammad said he wanted to get life to the dead and make us living people to get up and do Something for ourselves instead of the pinning on white people the minister said white people is actually no longer the problem He said it's the fear white people. That's the problem. We scared to go out and do something for ourselves We scared to go out and beer for ourselves because we're afraid that they're gonna kill us We're gonna die anyway, and if we do die, all right cool. But if I put the idea We're not cool. I say cool. It's gonna happen.  It's got to happen.   It's harder to kill idea Yeah There's a good point to say fear because one of the first things that comes up when you talk about land separation Providing our own food for the shelter is fear first thing that comes up. How are we gonna do it? We're gonna be out there by ourselves with how many weapons we're gonna have what a white people gonna do and One thing I noticed is that our people are only like, you know when when we're fearful like that. It's a condition It's not who we actually are because after having a brief conversation with them They start to lose the fear because courage is passed down So the honorable miss Lewis Fargo. He's so courageous and brave now.   That's it We are amazing people. We're literally the builders of civilization We are the leaders of the entire world the black man of America. Where's the farm? So it's it's we got 450 acres in Sandersville and When we got that property under contract, we didn't know that it had a whole micro community inside of it What you mean? So it had 15 tiny homes in the middle of it. So the seller They were hunters. They were leasing the land and they have built a little community So he told them you got 60 days to get out. I sold the land But they approached us because we had a man on the ground once again using that unity We had a man on the ground They approached us through him and said well, it's cheaper for us to sell it to you guys For hardly nothing and then it is for us to break it down and try to take it somewhere. So we bought an entire 15 Tiny home community for pennies on the dollar. We got some houses for $500 Yeah, they liveable. We got some for 1500. We documented this I know so well our people Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's hard. You see those are tiny holes on all the AG TV. That's all the yeah, they're going crazy electricity bathrooms Kitchens, we got a brother that moved from Phoenix. He just moved on to the land already We just closed in the land He already moved him and his wife and his four children he in there right now as we speak We doing the floor and he feels good because look what he can show his wife and children as a man He got his own home We got his own land if you need to feed his babies He don't have to beg the white man to feed his children and give him poison and GMO and food by zip code like Dr. Westie been saying he can go out there and put a seed in the ground and teach his babies how to be a man how to get how To grow and and do what God told you to do as a man So it's the environment when you change a person's environment you change their nature and our people literally just need that new environment and we get a whole new nature Yeah, I ain't gonna say I got to go to the bathroom Them books right there. I was just gonna ask you to give me your top five books. Yeah So this is our gift to you on behalf of the honorable minister Lewis Farrakhan and here at the farms That's that book right there. It's called how to eat to live Yeah Okay, show you how to eat how to fast how many days, you know, you eat like we one of the day The fall of America a lot of stuff that's going on right now. You can get right directly from that book This is our savior has arrived And then this one I'm pretty sure y'all may have heard of this and seen out Muhammad Ali and all that with these books Messages to the black man. Thank you brother. So that's I give to y'all. So those are my top Thank you Right there and then another one would be a close in the gap by the honorable minister Lewis Farrakhan and then outside of the nation I would say this book called thinking grow rich. Yeah Yeah, it talks about, you know, just how to think and man how to really Manifested from my mind and really tapping to your your gift that you already have and the riches that you already have from within Yourself and just bring it out. You know Give me a give me a top five books top five I would say we got something as registered Muslims in nation Islam called the supreme wisdom And that right there allows you to develop a mathematical theology It gets you out of an idea waiting on a mystery God to provide food clothing and shelter for you But it allows you to tap into the God within and connect him to the creator or the God without and solve Your own needs and solve your own problems So it says where you sit at home and wait for that mystery God to provide you food and says emphatically now We've searched for that mystery God and we have not found one Therefore we've concluded that the son of man is God So it forces you to get up. It has clear instructions on how to move how to carry yourself how to protect yourself Who to listen to who not to listen to it breaks down to 85 10 and the five Clearly where you can say like Jay-Z said what percentage are you the percentage you don't understand it's hot in the percentage We do that's a clear reference to the 85 10 and five and the supreme wisdom lessons given to us by massive far Muhammad to His servant the honorable Elijah Muhammad at that time in the 1930s So I would say that book right there is pretty much the foundation for the entire life that I was able to build for myself Starting with less than nothing and being able by God's grace and permission To build a life on the word of God the supreme wisdom. I would say that's number one person for most The bnx what can we find you online to get some more knowledge and all of that type? Brother bnx on everything so that's a Instagram Twitter podcast YouTube And if y'all are interested in my program, I'm about to drop it again Soon Digital the number four real calm so digital for real calm and I encourage them to check out all the testimonials many people are paying Thousands of dollars for these programs and ain't really getting much out of it So I like to leave with impact so y'all can check out all the testimonials on the page and things of that nature other than that man Brother bnx on all platforms So I'm brother Farrakhan, but I've been a Shadow band so you can't at me on Instagram. We're gonna find you anyway We're gonna get you about that man. Yeah for sure. I'm a brother Farrakhan on Instagram Facebook, I don't have a YouTube. Yeah, I'm working on it Get that digital real estate up Absolutely, that's a fact and and then also we on Instagram as at here after farms one Just one word here after forms We got any questions in the room You keep one Yeah, I think one of the misconceptions about us being Muslims is Maybe that we oppress women You know because of what they saw like movies and things of that nature But in fact if you go look at you know, Dr. Sister Ava Mohammed She's the national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan So the women are free in the nation of Islam the Honorable Mohammed said the home is her base But not her place But when you do have children, you know, that is the first, you know, priority Another thing I think is all we do is sell beanpiles and newspapers Everybody right Inside of that newspaper is is news and something that can really save your life People say what do the nation offer? Now you got brothers who are into real estate. I Is is is proven that I have helped thousands of people make money and start businesses and scale But the most important thing that we can give you is knowledge The Honorable Minister Lewis Farrakhan said wealth generation of wealth starts with knowledge If I give you $10,000 right now $50,000 right now, you say, oh man, that's a good brother But if you got a nigga mind What you finna go do with it you finna waste it because you got no plan.  You don't know what to do with it So I've seen that happen a brother given $10,000 and lost it didn't even know what he did with it because your subconscious mind is not even ready for that type of money So again money is only a byproduct. So what we offer is knowledge man when it comes I'm pretty sure brother reason talked about the vaccines on here, right? Well, a lot of the things that people was using and sharing To combat that was in the final call newspaper a lot of things about conflict resolution It's in that final call newspaper a lot of our people are obese overweight Don't know how to eat every final call newspaper that y'all read if y'all open it up There's a section called how to eat to live teaching you how to eat to live and the being I got a Navy Being in a lot of y'all pretty much all of us got our cell phones in our hands or buyers Well, y'all pretty sure y'all know that that cell phones Got radiation that's going on right the Navy being fights radiation the minister said that during savings They're a couple years ago that you know the Navy being helps you fight radiation So the Navy being soup and the bean pods. They're actually good. It's like a upgraded sweet potato pie But it got ingredients in it. That's that's coming to save you man So I think that's a big misconception of the nation that all the brothers do is you know Sell papers and and bean pods, but you'll be surprised some of the brothers who sell papers Actually making probably more money than you at your job. I know a brother right now in California got big paper and all he do is sell the final call newspaper and You know the bean pod and then they say something about we out there and they he got you out there in them suits And it's hot outside You ain't never said nothing about your nephew outside in 90 degree weather playing pot won a football So what's wrong with me having a suit on to come deliver a message to my people that's gonna save them Let me be a sports player going D1. I can have on all kind of past Face shield can barely breathe. That's my nephew Going to go in the Texas going to do It's actually not as hot as you think when you got the black suit on It actually stops to the sun from hitting your skin directly. So we don't be as hot as y'all maybe think we are So, yeah, some things that I Well, I believe that we are disciplined not only because we are Giving knowledge itself the minister says knowledge itself leads to love for self and love for self leads to respect for self When you get that billy, you don't put 87 in no more. Do you? When you got that 999 ultimate that mama passed down you can let somebody sit on the hood We sitting on the trunk, but let you finally get that Bentley you treated a little different Well, when you get knowledge of yourself and you realize you more worthy than the Bentley you put different gas in your body You know that you put different food in your body You put different food in your head you allow different things to go in and another thing is that we have Assistant to where when I joined the nation's Islam, I raised my hand and said this is what I want to do So now I'm held accountable to what I said I want to do so it's not one of those religions where I'm gonna just choose When I come to work, I don't go to bed side Baptist or not choose when I go to work choose when I come to the mosque We got study group on you got FY class on Monday. We got class on Wednesday We got self-improvement on Friday, and then we got the meeting on Sunday if I don't show up Ain't no I assisted sister Samantha didn't show up today So I'm like a brother. Well, they was alone. Hey, man. Where you at? Why you didn't come? Oh, man. I was doing something. What was you doing? See, yeah, because if I say I raised my hand and I'm and I'm Gonna be held accountable to this it shouldn't be nothing wrong with you calling me So we're military so when you don't come to class or you don't show up for a certain period of time You went AWOL now you got to take process and over again So, you know, we don't know what happened to your mind So we got a you know check on you so a lot of me and man haven't been put in a position where they got to be held Accountable, you know, you think oh cuz I'm 18. I got a mustache and I'm grown now You know, I think that's why a lot of us in the condition that we in because if I'm the only person that's holding me accountable All I got to do is have that wicked thought. Are you good? And I'm justifying so the minister said devil is deceptive intelligence rationalizing disobedience in other words I know what I'm doing is wrong, but I'm trying to justify real quick So that thought in your mind is that snake that it's talking about in the garden that's in your mind It's in your head that's telling you hey man. God is trying to keep you away from the fun You can go over here and do this. Amen. Don't eat pork. Here. Here come. Shoot my grandma I'm a little shoe 90s.  We mess up just like everybody else the nation is a hospital for sick people So we there and we striving and we growing just like y'all so when we say striving to be a right Hey, man, I'm making mistakes just like you make mistakes But if I'm striving to do right just getting the phone call from my brother to check in and check me real quick It's what get me back on the right path. So I believe that's why you know, we discipline You know in basketball, you know, you do something wrong the coach gonna check it You do something wrong your teammates gonna check it and our world man We just we just out here man, and we have nobody checking us man until we die Man, I'm sure he was out there living bad all she was out there you've been on that But there was no there was never no checks and balances in there to where you can correct them There was living free and in this world. We're taught that this is a Satan's world So you got the strip club open them to seven days a week in some places, you know, uh, fentanyl everywhere You got access to it. So we got to separate. That's why and here at the Florence We want to have our own community because we got a separate So you separate the honor oblige Mohammed said you never have to condemn a dirty glass Just put a clean one next to it give him another option I'm gonna add something to that real quick My when I first joined a nation of Islam I Said I'm gonna give this six months. I'm gonna do everything they tell me to do It's six months because I want to make sure this works or doesn't work I don't want to let halfway it and then not understand what happens. So I Came up under the discipline the brothers talking about and within six months my life had completely transformed Completely transformed but the interesting thing about it is that where can you go and get trained and develop discipline? To take orders from another black man The nation Islam training is so unique because yes a military But everybody in that military is a black man. So we're being engineered to take instructions from black men We're being engineered to be trained by black men We're being engineered to live in our own nation to be governed by our own nation This is a training ground for leaders. This is a training ground for captains and lieutenants This is the only black military that you can come to in the name of God and be reformed and remade into a upright black man So that's that's another thing that I noticed really from a personal perspective was it really allowed me to get into a whole new mindset of interacting with my brothers accepting the truth from my brother and Functioning in a in a highly organized capacity with other black men, which is something I had never experienced before And another thing is when it comes to the discipline, you ever played sports before Like have you ever had an early basketball game or early football game? And when you had that football game you was up and you was hyped listening music before right?  Why is that? So for me, I think another thing that helps us with the discipline because when it came to basketball I was disciplined. I'm up. I'm at all the practices. I'm doing my workouts even after practice I'm in there still shooting because I see myself in the picture. I Had a video that we're in viral Always said the minister said if I took a picture this whole room And I showed y'all the phone who the first person you gonna look for Yes, you He said our people not interested in the education today and what we offering talking to other people Because they don't see themselves in the picture. So when you come into the nation, you learn who is the original man And the original man is the age you added black man to make it the owner the cream of the planet earth God of the universe So I'm learning man. I'm this powerful. So now I'm I'm I'm interested in doing better I'm interested in myself. I have this knowledge itself me learning about myself is fun So now because I like it like I like basketball. I like it like I like college I see myself in the picture see going to the NBA. That's what I saw So I was doing whatever it took to get there now see myself doing godly things I see myself doing big things for the community so that allows me to stay disciplined because if I know because I know If I do something wrong, I'm gonna go to jail.  Have you have you ever picked up your phone in Syria just start giving you direction? Be crazy right?  What you gonna say? How do I get to what's your Macaulay? Man, you better Google If I didn't put a destination in yeah, so it ain't until you put a destination into your GPS until you get some direction from Syria So that's how I look at it man. A lot of us don't have that destination in it So now when you see this picture man, you see yourself in the picture and you see these great things I want to build a nation man. We got to build hospitals. We got to build businesses now I got my destination in and now I can stay disciplined with my direction Well, that's dope man. Yeah, I appreciate you stopping through the trap and blessing us with this good knowledge man Definitely success to you and keep pushing that digital real estate man. Yes, sir Yeah, I think I'm still trying to get some money in this world Well, I think y'all can do something with with the NFTs as well You know y'all can do your own research But with the NFTs are not fun to betoken and it's a it's a digital asset as well and the power of it Like let me give you an example Let's say for example y'all selling a NFT and it costs, you know 500 in the Ethereum or something like that Only those people who have access or about the actual NFT could get access to the website that offers y'all Y'all video but y'all do physical shows So y'all can say if you got this particular NFT Then when you buy this NFT only people that can get into our physical shows the meet Carlos To maybe do such and such and soon So y'all got to have this NFT then y'all got a higher package this higher packages for black businesses So now this is to Ethereum so that's probably like eight thousand four thousand whatever it costs And with this one you get access to be on the podcast once a quarter or Once a year. So why is it powerful? Why won't y'all just do it through a website? Well with the NFTs if The more y'all grow and get bigger the more valuable the NFT is going to be because y'all only got maybe ten NFTs So it's like the dollar or any other currency as it starts to drop and supply the demand or the price of it goes up, right? So here's the killer part with NFTs y'all can have a royalty put on it So let's say I bought the I bought the NFT in this $4,000 or whatever the case may be and now it don't went up y'all in the bigger space Y'all got more perks or whatever the case may be y'all audience is bigger So being on the podcast is more worthy now. I can flip that same NFT that I got for four thousand Maybe now is worth ten thousand But not only do I get paid y'all get paid too because you can put 10% royalties on there Yeah, 20% royalties on there. So let's say at one point y'all got this package and now with $50,000 and y'all may say man anybody gonna pay $50,000 But the more bigger y'all get the more access and say let let's say y'all got some shows and now this particular NFT y'all gonna have Kevin Gates there or whoever y'all like whoever a big artist is and Everybody who got this in a tea is gonna be at the 85% show and y'all get to meet our special guest In the back only the people that got this in a tea. Well, I don't know already utilize my energy I don't met man this person. I don't met this rapper I'm finna say I'm mine, but now we're selling for $50,000 But remember y'all got that 10% or that 20% royalty so y'all get paid off of all the resales as well So that's just the power, you know, that's what I've been telling him Thank you for for reinforcing, you know, you had you had a few more words that made it sound better I might have called it a fungible. I don't know but you got it But that doesn't make sense because every time you say you can still get something like if you just look into it Yeah, okay. I look in I look into it Come on. Let's see. I won't stop you talking about toes. I'm talking about cash But it is the cash. It's a cash token perpetuity. Yeah, it's it. They paying crypto See, yeah cash Yeah, what makes you want to cash over the career? I'm not and I'm not saying you should do the crypto over the cash just Amen cash ain't never let us down. Yeah, not one time Well, you can you can try to go into the cash. No, man I've had enough trouble at the regular bank You can't put your money out, huh exactly exactly so, yeah, man, I don't Can't even get cash now. Have you ever heard of private banking? Yeah, I heard of it. What you know about it? private Yeah, so Look like this. Yeah, so inside of your life insurance policy You may know with the right policy set up you can actually borrow from yourself tell them from your own I know yeah, so you can borrow money from your own from your own bank And you got to worry about them not giving you $10,000 when you go to the bank and you withdraw our cash free I mean tax free and it still grows at 48% as if you never put it out You know, that's one of the interesting things we're here after farms is because a Lot of this you already know a lot of this stuff our people don't know so one key part here after farms is People say well, how can I be a part and we like and they think it's just land like oh How can I buy an acre and we're like actually we have classes? So we have some call here after Academy here after Academy teaches you some basic life skills One is a farming class every night of the week. We have a different class We also partner with other people so we have a trust that people can get educated on it can learn about trust and irrevocable Versus revocable and private and land trust and they can even purchase that through somebody we work with but we have these classes every night So one night we'll have a farming class one night will show you how to take the seeds that we send you So every member here at the farms also get seeds So we send every member sees because we don't just want people to buy land and live in the community Not everybody's going to move to Georgia not everybody's going to buy land even if you are it doesn't mean you know how to farm So we want everybody to be on the same page mentally not just being the same physical space So my brother he's sharing all his knowledge because the more people notice No man can rise higher than the people around them the minister said that It's impossible. So we all have to uplift one another right so through educating our people We show people how to grow these seeds we send them curated seeds and then we have classes on zoom with our farmers Caused seed to harvest where people learn how to grow these plants in their house or in their backyard We also have a homeopathy course where a woman teaches you how to be a doctor at home How did how to heal yourself how to take care of yourself and your family? What if there's an emergency plus everybody don't trust the hospital? I know my mom didn't so people need to know how to take care of themselves at home with a Tiny little home guard you can literally grow medicine right then your home and you could break it down and treat it and put it On your children as needed right then you home. You just need to know how that's it We have another brother teaching disaster preparedness insert and disaster prep and survival training What are you talking about? So he teaches you how to do the walkie talkie He teaches you how to look like how to how to program the walkie talkie how to keep them in a certain place For you and your family. I'm not the instructor. So I'm asking too many more So you have a program the walkie talkie how to put it in position how to have a go back What to put in that bag how to reorientate your mind to be ready for things to come up because a lot of us function And we know life is going to go a certain way and we function well within a system that was designed for us But once you try to break out of that system sometimes things come up. That's unexpected So he trains you mentally on how to prepare for those unexpected things also Physically the honorable minister little spark on teaches us that it's a mental component to every physical thing you see So he first comes in the mind and then he shows you where to go and buy we don't sell the stuff We ain't got Amazon links and then like that we just tell the people what they need to take care of themselves and their families and And we also have his sister that teaches food prep She shows you how to take food and can it which is major food storage is major. It's a famine coming There's a food shortage coming. Yeah, I mean you can take it to leave it It's going to be difficult to find good healthy food for you and your family in a very near future this sister's teaching people how to can at home and how to Store food how to prep food how to use food and how to save food and even how to reuse food goes through the whole cycle Yeah, what you mean reuse so you can you can left over my mom master that I Don't talk too much about food You got some you join something in the meta verse You ain't even tell me about the meta bird is he supposed to talk about it? You know It's like a really a whole world man And I'm really I really can see that a lot of people are gonna migrate there It's a whole new way to interact You know what I mean So like literally if I got the goggles on and you in a whole another state I can look like this and this is you and then if we talking back and forth We can put up a computer screen and work together in the work room But what I'm doing I'm building a whole world on that where people will be able to literally come into my own museum my own artwork Art Museum my own school right there in the meta verse So you a bit of come in the class sit in the desk and literally see me teaching in class And I'm gonna be selling digital real estate in there It's gonna get to a point to where I got so many people in there What people gonna run out of room so like the same I believe that? Digital real estate is gonna be just as valuable as the physical real estate So in physical real estate is valuable because it's limited You know fifty seven million two hundred fifty five thousand square miles of land However with the meta verse is like so many people are going there the same way I will pay y'all to do an ad on y'all show cuz y'all got so many people there I'm gonna literally have buildings where you can go into the studio You can go upstairs you can do a podcast room and it's gonna be built out So when you see it and you put them goggles on you gonna feel like you really walking through a whole entire world So that's what I'm doing With the meta verse man It's gonna be a whole world where people be able to put businesses in there and as they integrate the NFTs I'll literally be able to have a mall in there where a mall can be built out And we got different storefronts where y'all may have the 85 South Shore on there But NFT that's literally in there that they can buy and actually you Yeah Sure says NFTs and give me a comment Avatar on there you go Yeah, it's hard I'm about to go ahead and put more man. You said too much about it. I told him about that too No, man, we'll check out these this literature how to eat the live and all that yeah Anything else you want to hit them with before we out here. No, man. That's it, man I appreciate y'all for having us on the platform My mind has been blowing y'all up Believe you told him to do yeah But I don't got nothing man I am about to drop the digital real estate program again Just to show people how to scale online. So again digital for real calm They're really learning step by step how I did it how I go to all my platforms all the ones that got deleted Etc.