Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session on Minister's Foundation and it's part two. We're gonna start on a new book today on Code of Honor. We have students still joining in. Okay, can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Brother Subashish? Okay, Sid, you can go ahead. Thank you. Father God, we come to the throne of grace. We thank you for the day you have given us the new day. We thank you for the opportunity you have given us to learn from your word, Lord. We thank you for all the things you have given us. We thank you for all the surprises you will be bringing and all the blessings you have given us, Lord. We thank you for this presence. We thank you for the time. We thank you for the teacher. We thank you for all the classrooms, Lord. Whatever we are going to learn, Lord, as it is written in the New Testament, Lord, whatever you have done and seen in me, put it into practice and I will bless you. Lord, according to this verse, whatever we are going to learn today, Lord, let it be visible in our lives, in our daily lives, Lord, in our walk with the Lord. Whatever we are be learning, Lord, it should be used for our supernatural connection, Lord. Whatever we will be learning, Lord, that it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. So where you are able to download this new book called Code of Honor? Class, where we are able to download this new book called Code of Honor? Yes, no. Oh, you have a book. Good, good, good. Yeah, same. Yeah, same like this. Either you all can have a soft copy because now we have stopped printing the book. Okay, thanks Alicia for responding to the chat. Others, I would request you all to go and download the book. I will also upload the book right away again. The initial of the days we have uploaded, but again I can send it to you. Uploaded the book. You all can download it from the stream. Yes. For those who do not have a soft copy of this book, I would request you all to please go to your stream and you all can download this book called Code of Honor. Or you can also go to our church website where we have our publications made available for all the students for free. We will also post the link to you later. Okay, so what do you think Code of Honor is all about? Do you think it is important as a minister of God? Do you think Code of Honor is important for us? Class, do you think it is important? Class is very silent. Is it because it's the first star? Yes ma'am, it's very important. It's important. Okay. As a minister of God, it is more important, isn't it, to have the Code of Honor in our life is very important. Let's look into what as Apostle Paul and others says about how a minister of God's conduct should be and why is it important. Throughout this book, we will be studying about the character of a man of God. I just posted the link where we can download the free books of our People's Church publication. And even the Code of Honor book is available in that list. Okay, James chapter 3 verse 1. Can one of us please turn to James chapter 3 verse 1? James chapter 3 verse 1. My brethren, let not many of you become teachers knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. Thank you. Thank you. So the bar is set very high for us as a minister of God, the conduct and life and the ministry is set a little high. The standard that we must consistently walk and follow may not be easy. But then, you know, we need to hold on because God will give us the grace to follow. Because this is what God is expecting from us as a minister of God, as a child of God. We need to have a good conduct is very important because the judgment is much stricter for us than anyone else. I know as I say this, we may not be perfect. In our journey, there may be some failures, mistakes that have come at it on the way, but then when we repent, the Holy Spirit who is in us prompts us our mistakes, our failures even before we could come at or even if we come at. It is good to ask for forgiveness, repent and seek the mercy of God so that by God's head, by His support, we can set ourselves in the right track and keep going what is ahead of us. We also see in Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 1, he's asking us, Imitate me as I imitate Christ. It is so important that, you know, like Paul makes the statement. That means check his life conduct that he has followed a very strict conduct in his life with boldness that he is able to say that imitate me as I imitate Christ. We followers of Christ, believers of Christ, ministers of Christ, we need to, our life should be where others can imitate our life. That means we need to follow, we need to have a good conduct in our daily life, though we have been watched by people or when we are not watched, we need to have this so that with all integrity, we can minister, we can tell people, follow us, imitate us as I imitate Christ. Just the way like Paul said, imitate me as I imitate Christ only when we walk because they say, you know, people look at our life and they learn. We set standard, we set example. So we need to, as, you know, as a minister of God, when we teach, when we preach, you know, yes, preaching and teaching is very important. But what is more important is when we live out those teachings, when we live out those words, we need to first be the doer of the Word of God and then the teacher of the Word of God. When we be the doer, it impacts ourselves, it changes us inside out and we will be that reflection. And even when we teach our Word carries power because we are teaching with our own experience. We are teaching with our, you know, with our experience and walk of the Lord. We would know the do's and don'ts how difficult it is and we will be sharing from that point and that has power and that experience would change people. And also in the book of Philippians chapter 370, it says, brethren, join in following my example and note those who walk as you have us for a pattern. Time and again Paul is saying that set an example, follow my example. So it is time for us as a minister of Christ that we re-establish a standard of serving. And we need to, you know, walk our life in fear of God and reverence to God, knowing that God is watching over us. And knowing that there is a greater reward for every walk that we do, for every seed that we sow, for every word that we do in the kingdom of God.  He knows us inside out. If we may see the outward appearance or outward things, what we do, but God watches us even in the secret place, what we do. So it is very important to have our, our conduct, our character pleasing to God, pleasing to God is very important. In the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 2, can one of us please read 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 2 to 4. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verses 2 to 4. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and pre-o-sive words, but with the demonstration of the spirit's power. Amen. So Paul is saying that I did not come here with an eloquent speech. I came in front of you with much weakness, with trembling, with fear of God. I may not carry the skill and talent what the wise person may have in this world, but then I come with the power of God, with the wisdom of God. So it is not our eloquent speech or the motivational talk that we could deliver to inspire, impress people around us. But then ministry is not really about that. Ministry is really about an overflow of our personal relationship with God. So that is very important. Ministry is just an overflow of our intimate relationship, the fellowship with God that we have. So our walk should be more carefully. We need to have a watch on the way of our life, the way we relate to others, the way we conduct ourselves, our character is more important. As a minister of God, we tend to be very diligent in the early days when we start the ministry, when it is all small and everything has been noticed by everyone. We diligently read the word, pray for a long time, do anything that is needed. From us to start the ministry, to get our ministry established, to gain that name and fame that is needed. But once our ministry grows and we have many people added to our church, added to our ministry, is our character, is our conduct the same? We are trying to separate ourselves, make a pedestal for ourselves, separate ourselves from the people whom it was very normal for us to be with before. But now the minute the church grew, are we separating ourselves, putting ourselves on a pedestal saying, I am a great leader and no one can reach me that easily. But then you need to, you know, different ways are there to reach me and talk to me because my time is more valid. Yes, the time is valid, but we need to be available for our people. We need to have that same fellowship and a relationship with God because one thing we should know that ministry is just an overflow of our relationship with God. We need to have ethics and moral value, you know, at hand. We need to have a clean end in the highest standard we need to maintain because it is our character which holds our anointing. Our character is very important because that is what will hold the anointing. Yes, we may be, we may be skilled and highly talented. We may also be gifted in many spiritual gifts and we will be flowing in that area. Yes, gifts, the spiritual gifts are not reversible, but then God is saying it is your character that holds the anointing. And this character, the moral values and principles comes from within, from within. Our path to work moral, moral approach comes from our dependence on God and by the grace we can conduct ourselves which is worthy inside of God. The deep desire to pursue God and hold oneself accountable in private life cannot be imposed from the outside, but it should come from within the relationship that we have with God. And we need to maintain that, how we can maintain that. We need to have a schedule daily time in the secret place, that is very important. Our time with the Lord is very important. Matthew chapter 6 verse 6, can I request one of us to please read? Matthew 6 verse 6.  Amen. Amen. Father who sees us in the secret place will reward us openly. So the true ministry is birthed in that secret place, in that secret relationship that what we have with God. We need to have that fellowship with God. Now we can have that by prayer, worship, reading and meditating on the Word of God. And God speaks to us in the secret place. He gives us wisdom. He imparts wisdom. He imparts spiritual gifts. He gives us new ideas how to conduct ourselves or build our ministry or minister to others. He speaks to us. It is in that secret place that God does wonderful things in our life. Because it is a promise that God has given to each of us. When you seek me in the secret place, and I will answer you. And also I will reward you openly. So we need to maintain this relationship consistently with God. We need to carry this relationship with us. And it's not that we fix a time and we pray only in that time. But we must always stay hung up for more of God. And throughout the day we need to maintain this relationship. Whatever we do, wherever we go, we may be going to college or workplace. In our business, in our work area, start communicating with God. For every task that you do, involve God and ask God, God, you tell me, you teach me. I'm going to meet so and so person. You be in midst of us. You give me the wisdom, put your words in my mouth. Involve God in every area, every part of your life. And we must always stay hung up for more of God. More of his word and more of his spirit to work in our life. This will motivate us to continue seeking the Lord personally and stay hung up for more of him. We should always have this in our mind to continuously strengthen our character. Knowing that a character is very important as a child of God, as a minister of God, character is very important. Can one of us please turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 12. I would request each one of us to please take turn to read scriptures. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 12. Therefore let him who thinks he stands, take heed that he does not fall. Thank you. So once we read a certain level, certain stand in our life, in our ministry, we need to be very careful. We should not think that, okay, now I've read certain level, I will not fall, that I've overcome all these areas in my life. Now at every point of our life, we need to stay on God. We need to stay on God. What happens if a person is going to gym and he exercises, he develops his muscle, isn't it? But when he stops exercising, what happens? The muscle gradually weakens. Sometimes, you know, even without we realizing it. In the same way, if we take off our guard, thinking that we have crossed all these areas and we may not fall. And that is a very dangerous time. Without our knowledge, we may get into some kind of trap. So we need to be very careful at all point in our life, no matter how high we grow in ministry, but then we need to stay on God. So character is developed over time as we obey God and preserve through various circumstances. Our character will never rise beyond the level of our obedience to God. So our obedience to God is more important. In Christian ministry, we are in no way exempt from temptation or temptation from various sins. So each time when we are tempted, we need to have a guard for ourselves that we may not give in or fall for any kind of temptation. We read in Philippians chapter 3 verse 12. Can I request one of us to please turn to Philippians chapter 3 verse 12? So then my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, notice in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who has said work in you both to be learned to work for his good pleasure. Amen. Thank you. So Paul is writing to the church of Philippians. He's saying that not that I have already attended or I'm already perfected. But then I press on. I press on and I lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus is also laid hold on me. So the relationship that we have in Christ is what will keep us to carry to maintain that good character or to develop a good character or to hold on to that which Christ Jesus laid hold upon us. There's a greater standard that God has placed on us and for us to hold on to that standard. We need His grace. We need His support. And also in our ministry, we should be very careful. Do and then teach. We should not just be the doers. We should not just be, sorry, the teachers, but we should be the doers. First, we need to do. First, we need to apply it in our life and we should make it our own experience. Make it ourself. Walk in that area and when we get that revelation and from that experience when we teach that can impact many people. And that will have power to change others. Can one of us please turn to Matthew chapter five verse 19. Matthew five 19. Whoever therefore breaks one of this list of these commandments and teaches men so shall be called this in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Amen. Very important. Very important that we do and then teach. Because this is it is also a self discipline that we must maintain as a minister of God. Make sure that we do not teach anything, but even before that we practice in our life that we implemented first in our life so that we can teach with our walk of our life. It is about we first walking with God aligning ourself. Heading to the voice of the God leading to the voice of the spirit and as per his word and then with that experience when we teach that has power. It has power to change others. Our words have power. People who watch us. It will strengthen them to implement in their life. We don't even have to share about any of it to others. People who watch our life will learn. Because that has more power than even more than what we could teach. The next is we need to be a voice and not an echo. Yes, we hear many sermons and messages of other man of God women of God in our life. But what is more important is we need to take the teaching and apply it in our life. And make it our own revelation. Before we could minister before we could teach it to others. When we apply it in our own life, when we see that teaching changes us, benefits us. And when we teach with that, that has power and that changes people. And that has more value than just listening and teaching. It's not our word. It's not our revelation. It's not our message. But when we make it ourselves and then we teach, it becomes we are speaking from our own life experience. So in Matthew chapter 10 verse 27, we read that whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. And what you hear in here, preach on the house door. So it is very important when we apply it in our life and God teaches us, corrects us, changes us, prones us in many areas. And without experience, without revelation, what you get in our life and we teach it adds value. So we become a voice and not an echo. Lifestyle. Keep it simple. Second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 12. Can I request one of us to please read second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 12. Second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 12. For our boasting is this the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God and more abundantly toward you. Amen. Amen. It's very important for us to keep simple everything around us. Let's keep it simple. When we keep it simple, it's very easy to handle ourselves and conduct ourselves. There's beauty in simplicity. The apostle lived a simple life. We must learn to keep our lifestyle simple because that is what has been expected as a minister of God. And there's also freedom in simplicity. We are so free to be what we are. And we could accept ourselves. God is designed as this way and we can be the same all the time. So there's no need for us to have any kind of false pretence in our life. In 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 4, no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the warfare of this life. That he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. So there's no need for us to pursue a bigger house or a bigger car or much more things. There's nothing wrong in it. The latest gadgets or the lavish things around us, there's nothing wrong. But there's a very fine line between what is need and what is want. There's a very fine line. We need to check. Is it a need or is it a want? For everything that we buy, we need to be accountable to God, not the people. When we are accountable to God, we conduct ourselves worthy friend of God. So that we can walk worthy friend of God. Example, nothing wrong in having a bigger house. If a family is growing big and we need a bigger home, we can go for it. If you're deciding for a better car, again, why is it? Why am I changing? If I have the best car already, why should I go for a new car? Which is in the model that is newly released. Oh, I want to give away my car and buy a new one. One, we are wasting the resources that God has put in our heart. And we're also being covered just for the new things that has been released. We need to have a watch in our life. If in case you have a car that has been very old, it's getting worn out and you're spending a lot of money in fixing it often. And then there is a reason why you want a better car for a smooth travel, for a smooth transport or you're saving on the mileage. The advanced features that has come in the car or even in the latest gadgets. If it's going to help you to perform better, improve efficacy in your work, in your ministry. And you want to make something convenient around you in your work. It's good to go for a new gadget. But if it's only to show off that I possess the expensive stuff or I only wear the branded stuff to create a name and fame for yourself. If we are doing that then we need to watch out.  Why am I doing what I'm doing? We need to ask and question ourselves. We should be very careful that we are not getting into this rat race that is going around showing off to people what we are not something, what we are not called for. Our focus should be set on God, not on the worldly, material things around us. Part of a living life should be a simple lifestyle, learning to be content with earthly possession, whatever we have around us. Learning to be content, learning to have the things that is only needed to us. When we possess some things that only we need, we can survive even during famine. That is, even when we are going through any kind of difficult time. But if we are not maintaining that, if we go towards the wants during the difficult times, there would be a situation that arise that we may have to sell or give away what the things that we need if we have unwanted things with us. So it's very important to have the things that we need and not focus on the things that we want or the materialistic things. We need to watch our life. Sometimes we should not feel the pressure as a minister of God. We need to be something that we are not. If we are not intellectual, we don't have to pretend that we are one. We can just be what we are. It's like a yes, be a yes and no, be a no. If we are not wealthy, we don't have to pretend to be something to show people that we are rich. Being contentment is very important content and all the area because contentment is godliness. We get that from God and we don't have to pretend. These days, pretend maybe you're trendy, but then we don't have to get caught in that trend of this world. We don't have to. Let's be simple so that we don't get into any unwanted problems. Keep our heart pure, guard our motives. Can one of us please turn to Proverbs chapter 4 verse 23? Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it, spring the issues of life. One of the big challenges in our life is to maintain the pure and clean heart because our God watches our heart. As we see in the book of Samuel, man may look at the outward things, but God looks at the heart. God looks at our motives, our attitude, our desire, our intentions. Why are we doing what we're doing? What is our intention? Why are we serving God first place? With what intention are we serving? Is it the attitude? Lord, you have blessed me, so I want to serve you through the people. Or we have any other wrong motives that we become famous. We get more money or we don't have to work hard. We don't have to go to a daily labor work. What are our intentions unless and until we are called for ministry? And you know, God looks at our heart when we get ourselves into ministry. When we serve God, it is with the experience of God, with the relationship that we have with God. The calling that He has called us, when we step out in ministry with that calling, He backs us up. He gives us the grace to go ahead in our ups and in our downs. He stays with us and He leads us. He will never leave us no forsakers. But for wrong reason and wrong motives, we get into the ministry. Or not only ministry in any area, it may be helping a person. Motives are very important. We need to keep our motives and our heart clean. We need to keep our heart pure and God our motives is very important because God is watching. When we have this in our mind that God is watching, that fear disciplines our life. It makes us to have a watch over our life, which is not that very easy. It is very easy for us to watch and judge others. But having a watch over our personal life is very important. That can only come when we have that fear of God. When we have this understanding that God is watching over us. Every thought, every action, every motive of us will be streamlined. We will correct ourselves. There are many times, even though when I have seen personally of myself, even if I want to help somebody and sometimes if our motive is not right, I pause, I wait till I get that corrected within me. I pray and I ask God, God, this is not right. This is not a right thought. It's not easy. It is human nature to have any kind of these thoughts in our mind. But when we pray, when we wait on God to correct that motive, that understanding, why we are doing what we are doing to another person. And then out of that when you help it becomes a blessing. And also we need to be very careful with our lustful thoughts. When dealing with lustful thoughts is the same as committing that deed or the adultery, Matthew 528, we see that. And we cannot hide those thoughts or that passion from God. Maybe we can appear holy and hide that from people around us because whatever is there, it's in our thoughts and people cannot make out what is happening in our thoughts. But then we have a holy God who's above everything. And he can watch our thoughts. He can watch our thoughts. We need to be very careful because the word of God, I mean, there's a saying saying, we cannot stop the bird from flying above, but we can definitely stop the bird from building a nest over our head. Or we should not take ourselves granted saying that, hey, I'm human, all these kind of thoughts will come. Yes, it will come, but are we entertaining those thoughts? Only when we entertain those thoughts, it starts growing. So we need to be very careful not to entertain. At the first place, change your thoughts, come out of that place, do something, talk to somebody. Change your mind, read a book if you're alone. Do something. We should not allow that thought to grow. Start praying. So when we have these type of thoughts, how do we overcome it? Can one of us please tell? We have youngsters in our class and we also have the senior members who are in the ministry. How do we overcome these thoughts? Meditating the word. Meditating the word. Yes. Anyone else? Which word can be used to meditate for us to overcome this type of thoughts? Taking every thought to captive. Yes. Second Corinthians. Yes, taking every thought to captive that we can overcome this. And also, we can see in 1 Corinthians 2, 16, which says, I have the mind of Christ. I have the mind of Christ, the thoughts I command you to leave me right now in the name of Jesus. Knowing that we have the authority to cast out and to build upon. We have the authority. So the minute we say that I have the mind of Christ, I'm not telling you like it happens just like that. But we need to keep working. We need to take that thought captive and we need to say, I command you to leave me till your mind is renewed. Until you have come out of the thought, keep confessing, keep confessing to overcome that area. It can be pornography, it can be masturbation, whatever area we may be in. Only when we allow it leads to addiction. But when we refuse it, it flees from us. When we resist it, it flees from us.  I command this thought, command the spirit of pornography or masturbation to leave me. And when we repeatedly pray and ask God to give us that new mind, renew mind so that the old things are passed away and behold, we have become new. Yes, we've become new in Christ. Our God is a God who does not just watch us go through difficult season in our life.  Give us the grace to overcome in that area because the word of God in the New Testament says that we are more than an overcomer. We are more than an overcomer. We need to believe that. We need to believe that God is there with us to help us overcome in our weaknesses. It can be any area, area. When we pray, we can overcome. Now, you may say that it's only in my thoughts, but what to do if I watch, if it comes on television, when I'm watching something. Or, you know, these days, YouTube, even if you're watching a Christian message, you see different type of ads. They just pop up. How do we handle that? Purpose ads.  They're not pictures, the images that are not pleasant to our eyes, which may lead a thought differently. How we can avoid it. Yes, the first time when you look, it's, we can't help it. It's just come, but we can always skip it. We can always change. We can always come out of it. We don't have to take a second look at that poster or look at that ad that has come up. The minute we skip, the minute we take our eyes, it's out. But only when we allow things go ahead. So we need to be very careful not to allow any of such thoughts or lustful thoughts or any of these kind of chronographies or masturbation to get hooked on to us. But then if we are, we can pray and come out of it. We have the power. We have the authority to cast that kind of thought, that kind of spirit out of us.  He gives us the strength. He gives us the grace to overcome. That's why he has called us that we are more than an overcomer. By his grace, with his strength, we can overcome any addiction, any kind of thought. So we need to hold on to him. And the next point here we see is do not kill your own conscious.  A conscious is a God given, God given or built in regulator that has been placed within us. And it tells us when we are right and when we are wrong. And our conscious also bears witness, which is aligned to the Holy Spirit. Sometimes reinforcing what the Holy Spirit would speak to us. We need to listen to that small still voice within us. Whenever we make mistake, our conscious says, hey, this is not right. You need, you were not, you didn't speak well to this person. You were rude to this person. It prompts us, it reminds us our way of life and our daily way of life. The times when we did well, it appreciates us. Oh, what you did is right. When you helped a person on the street knowing that there's nothing good can come out of him to you. But then you are helping another person with the God kind of love and your conscious appreciates that. And at the same time, when you speak rude to somebody, you'd never know. A conscious says, what you did was not right. Go and ask sorry to that person. When we heed to that conscious, yes, it is one of the way the Holy Spirit also speaks to us. Because he is aligned with our conscious and he prompts us with that small still inner voice. So as a believer, as a minister of God, we need to maintain a clean and pure conscious in our life, in our walk with God. When we have this conscious right, it can keep us away from many dangers and how many traps that is ahead. All warned us that we need to have faith along with a good conscious. We need to have faith so that we can we do not, you know, we do not get into any kind of trouble or shipwreck. If in case sometimes we purge a conscious and we when we purge a conscious when it is continuously prompting within us and we, you know, we try to purge that and do what we want to do. And we get into the trouble. When we get into trouble and when we seek God from that area, God will help us. God will help us to get out of the trouble. But then we need to be again, maintain this conscious of listening and obeying to that inner conscious and do not kill it. The small voice that is within us. When we obey, it makes it brings a big difference in our life. So with this, we will take a 10 minute break and we can come back. So we can go back to another point. Okay. Class will take a 10 minutes break. Yes. Okay. Thank you. We'll take a 10 minutes break and be back. Thank you.


Hey, bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay, this is a 50 unexpected Bolo's video. So what I do is I have two Facebook groups and in those Facebook groups I post Bolo items. I research and I look for items that are auction style that are currently up for auction and I share those with the group to help everyone learn. I typically look for items with a lot of bids and a lot of unique bidders to just show demand. Then the new thing I've been doing is I've been been incorporating them into a video because I know a lot of times I don't go back and look to see what they sold for like I look at it when I post it and I'm like It's already a bolo, but I want to know what it ended up selling for so I've created these videos for the people in the group to See what the items sold for so you check it out when I post it and you're like, oh, it's at $200 But then you're like wonder what that sold for and you're like, oh my gosh, it's sold for $500. So It's kind of like a follow-up video to my Facebook group posts Let me show you my two groups and explain the difference The first group is be on the lookout Bolo buddies resellers and thrifters now this group. I only post in this group. So if you're looking for a group that is Just posts for me where you're seeing the Bolo items and you're getting links to my YouTube channel videos This is the group for you if you want to you can comment on the the post You just cannot post now if you want something more broad where you can post you can ask questions There's no links allowed, but you can Certainly ask questions and do screen screenshots of your Bolo items or You can message me any item that you have that is an auction style item with bids If you message me on Facebook I will post it in the group for you and then your item will also be featured in this video when I do it So this group is called Bolo buddies resellers thrifters unite eBay Poshmark, Mercari and Etsy So it is a little bit broader. The other group is mostly eBay Bolo items, but this group is more broad and you can post in it So the links to both of these are down in the description be sure to join and check them out and We are going to get started with 50 unexpected Bolo's. These are typically high solds There are some from members of the group So there are a few that I have information on but most of them. I don't know the details It is always nice when you know that the item actually sold and got paid for But in most cases, I can't prove that I can just prove that people wanted the item all right, so the first item is This hat and it's a hard hat and I will say that when I went in and checked this one again It said that the item had been Relisted and it sold for more the first time, but it was relisted at the two hundred and forty dollars and it got one bid now this did come from a Person in my Bolo buddies Facebook group They sent me this and they bought it at an auction in a bulk lot So they got a good deal on it And it sold for two hundred and forty dollars So hard hats are definitely a Bolo item if you can find the right ones this one is called Ed Bollard And you can see it's got the information there on the tag and Yeah, just look them up if you find them because they can go for like four hundred five hundred dollars even sometimes The next item is this vintage trophy It's a copper cow and I thought this one was just really different and cool So I went ahead and shared it you just never know what people are gonna spend money on Now did this buyer get lucky? Was it a fluke that maybe more people wanted it then? They expected I have no idea, but it sold for a hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents and there were Just two bidders on this, but they did have high feedback But in this case two people were fighting over the items So I don't know if this is something that would happen all the time that it would go for that much or not but definitely Something to just maybe get and price high with the buy it now The next item that sold is this live-action Christie She is a rare Barbie and it looks like she's still got the plastic on her and she is in mint condition. It appears A collector has taken good care of her and Christie is a great doll to pick up. She typically has high solds and is a bolo. She sold for $1,009 you guys Let's dig into this one a little bit. I'll show you how I dig in I'm not gonna do this on everyone. I'm gonna do it on this one just to show you guys how to do it So I'm gonna click on here and you can see the winning bidder had over 2,000 feedback Now this person only has three feedback. So this should be pretty easy No feedback on this one yet But that doesn't mean anything sometimes they don't leave feedback and if somebody has 2,000 feedback They probably paid Look at this pose and play tiff doll sold for $449 Let's look at this. This is a bolo in itself. You guys are getting 51 in this video Look at that So this I mean these had to have come from a collector because they've all got the plastic on the hair to keep it really nice $449 never heard of her there was another one Let me see here. Let's go back to the feedback This one sold for 330 this is a vintage bendable leg francy So there she is and they've got the fake eyelashes their vintage 12 bids on that one But you know this got paid for because they left feedback Let's look at other items. So it looks like this person maybe came into Some vintage dolls because this one's at 112 50 that one doesn't have any bid yet That one's only at 1750 and it looks like they're willing to start them low 120 on this TNT Stacy TNT stands for twist and turn and Twiggy Barbie is at 52 this one's at 77 quick curl Kelly and this twist and turn is at Casey is at 1650 so they've still got four days left Let's look at the solds This is a great way to learn if you find somebody who's selling Bolo's and then you go in and you search their solds So you've got dramatic new living Barbie 141 Julia Barbie 113 247 for this talking Barbie PJ To 12 for this vintage talking Julia, but she's mute So they doesn't mean they don't work I'm guessing wow $421 and again, it says mute Christie and vintage talking Brad 2d and 2d's friend 157 So I'm off on a tangent right now you guys, but I'm hoping that you're learning right along with me Wow super cool Yep, so maybe it's a collector that just decided they wanted to sell their Barbies and they started an eBay account So when some of these people were bidding this person had zero feedback and it looks like everything's going just just dandy the next item is This vintage little kiddles little kiddles can definitely be a Bolo This one is looks like it's from Alice and wonder little how cute is that? Oh my goodness, and it's got the little rabbit and this sold for $221 and 28 cents with 47 bids. I Believe it those little kiddles can go for big bucks and that one had the book and the accessory So I shared this one and I was like man, that is just beautiful like I have never seen one like that Well come to find out this item has been stained and modified really really neat Really cool, and they were selling other ones also. So it looks like somebody has started like Their own art. So let's see see other items wonder if they're selling more. Yeah So it looks like they're buying these and then they're staining them isn't that pretty I think it's really pretty and Just just neat Vibrant neat colors. I mean they're cool anyway, but now they're really neat All right, the next item is this Chuck E cheese walk-around costume blue basketball shorts 71 bids and these sold for $224 and 72 cents if you can ever find anything Chuck E cheese definitely look it up because they these items typically are a Bolo The next item that sold is this Lisa Frank turtle peek-a-boo mushroom clear backpack from the 90s This sold for a hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents with 42 bids and the buyer paid the shipping And you can see here Lisa Frank The next item that sold is this huge lot of Ninja Turtles TMNT teenage mutant Ninja Turtles, that's the abbreviation this sold for $730 with 54 bids buyer paid the shipping. How would you guys have sold these? Would you have parted this out or would you have sold them in a lot like this buyer did? Let me know down in the comments This guy right here, I think he has like something like a latch or a door that opens on his belly I believe it was Emily Conway that sold one of these it was her husband's and it was definitely a Bolo item I remember her talking about it So if you haven't checked out Emily Conway be sure to show her some love with a sub and her channel is her name All right The next item is this nine number nine forty six dinner at eight vintage Barbie outfit and this sold for $100 and these vintage Barbie outfits can definitely be a Bolo if you can find the right ones So super cool. I love selling Barbie clothes The next item that sold are these he-man masters of the universe it's just the weapons you guys and This sold for eighty three dollars with forty four bids and the buyer paid shipping and I will tell you guys this again MOTU is masters of the universe. I remember a long time ago when I was first starting to sell hard goods and toys I'm like, what is Mo2? What is that, you know, and then I finally figured it out and I was talking about it in a recent video and everybody was like Thank you. I didn't know what that was. So I felt really good that I wasn't the only one that did not know what that meant so The next item that sold is this vintage Barbie huge lot of dolls and accessories This one also belonged to a member of my Bolo buddies Facebook group They messaged me and asked me if I wanted to share it because it had some bids and I was like That's a pretty big lot. That's gonna be all of those cases and the shipping Seemed like it wasn't too bad So maybe they had some special way of shipping, but this only went for two hundred and five dollars and fifty cents I thought I would go for more just because a lot of these items could have been parted out the cases most of the cases I It just depends but most of the cases don't have a lot of value, but these look to be in decent shape So, I mean they would be probably a good bread and butter, but if you can find a rare case some of those go for a little more So 205 50 plus shipping on that one the next item that sold is awesome one of My Bolo buddies Facebook group members also sent me this item and it is just so so cool I love it I'm not a big cat person, but these are cool And it's pebble art and they're Siamese cats and this sold for two hundred and three dollars and fifty cents With nine bids and the buyer paid shipping The next item that sold is this Lisa Frank windows 95 98 paper play studio this also was sent to me from somebody in my Facebook group and This sold for three hundred and forty five dollars with forty bids and somebody I think it was Jesse shops And if you haven't checked out her channel definitely go over and check out Jesse shops She told me how to know if Lisa Frank's vintage and I'm guessing this one is vintage so maybe the letters are capital Capital L and capital F if it's vintage if you guys know for sure in the comments or Jesse if you're watching Can you remind me in the comments because she watches and comments on most of my videos? So look for Jesse shops down in the comments And she's gonna school us on how to know if something is vintage Lisa Frank and again this sold for three hundred and forty five dollars with forty bids and the buyer paid shipping and They picked this up at the Goodwill for a dollar ninety nine. So that is fantastic The next item is this kiss doll and this sold for two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid the shipping The next item is this original Pez dispenser. This is bullwinkle and rocky and No feet and I have a video on Pez Bolo's what to look for Some of the higher dollar ones if you want to check that out. It's on my Bolo buddies main channel The channel you're at now and this one sold for two hundred and thirty one dollars with fifty three bids and the buyer paid shipping The next item was also sent to me by one of my members of my Bolo buddies group And this is just material Daisy kingdom material and they sold this fabric for 231 dollars and fifty cents It's dated 1987 and it's just got the cute bunny print and Yeah, it went auction style and people wanted it The next item I sold is this very cute little vintage napco. Japan porcelain miss cutie teapot Super super cute this sold for a hundred and seventy five dollars and fifty cents on auction and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this featherweight sewing machine from 1945 and this was also sold by hodgepodge. He's a member of my Bolo buddies Facebook group He also has his own Facebook group. It is reselling research Something if you if you search that or if you go to my YouTube channel and search hodgepodge I have featured his store on my channel many many times. He is definitely a Bolo finder. So definitely look for him The next item I sold is I didn't sell this. Oh my gosh It's getting late the next item that sold I wish I sold this it sold for a thousand one hundred and seventy nine dollars It's this coca-cola ten stadium bottle carrier. So it's like a vendor's Carrier, but how cool is that? one thousand one hundred and seventy nine dollars plus shipping The next item that sold is this vintage original 1956 Disneyland souvenir map and this sold for a hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents So this is ephemera and again It can be hit and miss but the Disney items typically do well So definitely be on the lookout and that had free shipping the next item is this vintage 1961 Barbie with case and And That little doggie right there. I have that listed right now in my store with the original robe I Haven't sold it yet. I got it out of a dibble box from Donna. Tell about Alino But anyway, this sold for two hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage 1960s vogue baby dear doll needs telek TLC repaired arm needs sewn So you can see over here. It's damaged, but it still sold for a hundred and twenty seven dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping The next item that sold is this amazing lot of Barbies I mean you got some bubble cuts here up top and I am learning about Barbies The only reason I know about bubble cuts is because somebody has helped me along the way But you can see the wigs. I just sold a wig I just shared a wig in one of my recent videos that I had sold in my wig alone sold for 19 dollars so Yeah, definitely a really nice vintage lot I'm guessing they probably would have made more parting it out, but I Don't know what they have in it. So maybe they were happy with $1,513 and I posted this in the group and I know that there were people from the group bidding on this item So definitely a bolo. There was definitely potential to make money on that The next item is this welcome back codder. It's a deluxe classroom set. I'm not really sure what it is It looks like maybe a play set case. Oh No a record, I don't know what it is. Oh, yeah, it's a play set with a record Okay, well either way this sold for three hundred and twenty one dollars and seventy five cents or with seventy five bids and the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage prototype Darth Vader case My question is how do you know something as a prototype? If anybody knows the answer to that, please put it down in the comments and help us out This sold for eight thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Did this get paid for I have no idea But I'm gonna go check on this one because I'm just so curious The person that one had seven hundred and eighty six feedback And this is the last one I'm gonna do this with but I'm gonna go into their feedback And I'm gonna type in Garth and see if anything comes up. Nope. Nothing came up. So either they didn't Pay for it or they just didn't leave feedback which either could be either situation could be taking place The next item that sold is this a vintage new old stock NOS is new old stock chrome BMX foot pegs If you want to see more new old stock items that sell for big money I do have a Bolo category video on new old stock items. These sold for a hundred and sixty three dollars with 69 bids in the buyer paid shipping This one is really cool. He-man masters of the universe Twistoid and rotor almost complete I have no idea. I've never seen these before but Wow six hundred and sixty dollars and the buyer paid shipping The next item that sold is this vintage cabbage patch. It's kind of looks like a bunny. I think So maybe this sold for more because it was sold around the time of Easter I don't know but it sold for seventy two dollars and the buyer paid the shipping and Again, cabbage patch are definitely hit and miss So look them up before you spend big money on them because some of them are major bread and butter The next item that sold is this Jordan Chicago bowls tea. It's a vintage tea from the 90s and it sold for eight hundred and forty six dollars plus shipping The next item is this huge lot of seventy toddler dresses sold for five hundred and seventy one dollars Buyer paid shipping. I do have a video on toddler dresses that sell for big money it kind of shows you how to list the items to maximize your profits and Items and brands that go for a lot. So just search my YouTube channel put in toddler dresses and it should pull it up The next item that sold is this amazing amazing lamp I would not want to ship this it looks very scary to ship But it's very very cool. I wish they had a picture of it lit up But I hope Hokado, I don't know how to say that it's a crystal lamp. It's sold for two thousand two hundred eighty five dollars plus shipping The next item that sold is this Bonnie play pal patty play pal babysitter vintage ideal doll And it sold for eight hundred and forty six dollars and she looks to be in really nice condition and super cute The next item that sold is this vintage new old stock Coleman lantern and this sold for two hundred and seventy dollars and the buyer paid shipping The next item are these 1979 hockey wax pack cards 10 Wayne Gretzky rookie meant unopened vintage these sold for seven hundred and thirty dollars It seems like there's a craze going on with a vintage cards right now. So I don't know who knows what this will look like in a few years if they'll still be a bolo or not Definitely always look things up The next item that sold are these vogue pure white papers now. This is just the tin I'm gonna guess that this is empty and this sold for $450 if you want to see more tins that go for big money I do have a bolo category video on tins also and there are definitely certain ones to look for that Just go for crazy money all the time. So Yeah, definitely check out that video vintage poly pocket 1991 locket necklace set of three. So these are little lockets I think I would have sold these individually if it were me What do you guys think would you have sold them together or separate and this sold for fifty three dollars plus shipping? the next item that sold is this rare German sheep candy container and this sold Before Easter also and it sold for five hundred and fifty five dollars and the buyer paid shipping and you can see right here It is a candy container and this is that same person that scoops stuff up throughout the year And then right before Halloween and Christmas and Easter He puts these items up on eBay and he relists them now. I don't know where he's sourcing that I like to think that he's sourcing on eBay during off season and then he's saving it for right But before the holiday That is going to take place now. You can see in his last photo. He or she I don't know what it is Chuching I sold something He puts everything that is active for auction. So see other items Let me show you guys this and if you watch my channel, you've seen me show this before He has nothing or she has nothing listed right now, but if you go to their souls Lookie here. It's all vintage. It's all for that holiday that was coming up and Everything goes for big money. I think that this person has a pretty solid following They know what to expect from this seller and they wait for the time frame. I mean look It's like Bolo after Bolo after Bolo It's amazing Very very cool, and I'm just gonna keep scrolling because you guys can see all of these Bolo items all in one shot so I Mean this but this buyer or this seller who's buying these items from people They know what to look for and who knows maybe they source it auctions and estate sales throughout the year Maybe it has nothing to do with eBay. I'm just I think it would be kind of cool if they were getting it on eBay and then Reselling it on eBay, but they have a source. They're getting it somewhere because They always have a ton of items, and I think it's really cool. They probably collect all year and Just have the timing down So lots and lots of Bolo's All right, and like I said, I think it's the same seller and or maybe there's multiple people that do it I can't remember the store name, but they do it for Halloween and Christmas also the next item are these old letters and these are from the 1800s and Just a second. I want to see what I sold What did I sell? Oh my goodness. I sold another one of those chicken toys. So I sold one of them It's a squeeze toy I sold one of them during the When I support that seller Sunday and I was like, oh I only sold it because it was support that seller Sunday and as somebody was just doing it to be supportive and to buy something from me and When I went back they still had it so I went ahead and bought the other one and it just sold so maybe it's a really cool item I sold these letters for or you know what let me see who bought that somebody left me a comment Saying nope That their dog perked up when I squeezed the toy and I'm like did she buy it, but no it wasn't her so All right, these papers and stamps and covers these sold for $97 The next item that sold are these baseball gloves and a member of my group sent me this one And they bought these at the bins which is by weight So I don't know how much they have in it. I'm gonna guess quite a bit because these are not light weight But I don't know how much their bins charges by the pound But they lauded these up and sold them for a hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents plus shipping The next item is this rare and they're calling it vintage, but it's from 2010. So 2010 is not vintage Retired they have that in the title that probably but it would have been a better word to use But it's a mom Momiji arts and crafts I don't even know what this thing is, but it sold for three hundred and six dollars So definitely be on the lookout for whatever this is or whatever it does. I don't know if it's just a figurine I Don't know three hundred and six dollars if anybody knows why this is special put it down in the comments help us out The next item is this vintage poly pocket 1994 perfect playroom nursery sold for fifty six dollars plus shipping This virtual boy 1990s Nintendo all-over print t-shirt single-stitch from the 90s distress Majorly distressed sold for one thousand one hundred and seventy five dollars That's crazy. I Gotta look The winning bidder had two hundred and forty six feedback. So who knows if it got paid for The next item was my listing and this got a bid like pretty early on and I was kind of excited I picked this up at a thrift store. It was just they were all bundled together I pulled out some of the ones that I knew would sell individually and I have sold some of those So I already made my money back like off of one doll and then I put all of these together I could have broken these down and sold them for more. I was feeling lazy and just a lot of them I sold them for eighty nine dollars on auction and the buyer paid shipping The next item that sold is this vintage rubber face plush animal it sold for two hundred and twenty four dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping and Look at the cuteness of that face The next item that sold is this vintage gold label victorious secret It's like a lingerie negligee and this sold for fifty three dollars with thirty six bids and the buyer paid shipping So satin items have a tendency vintage satin items have a tendency to be a bolo The next item that sold is this Rolex pocket knife and this sold for two hundred and sixty dollars and fifty five cents I think we all know that if we can find something Rolex, we should probably buy it. However, Rolex can be faked So be careful The next item is this vintage bond bell roll-on Shiner It's like a lip gloss and it sold for a hundred and two dollars and fifty cents and the buyer paid shipping and Let me show you guys something see other items. I think this is the person let me go to their solds and They must have ran into I think this was the The seller that had all of it. Let me go highest first Two hundred and fifty five dollars two hundred and twenty two dollars. They got their a hold of some lip smackers and some bond bell hundred and forty five Look one hundred and two Like it's not by accident. Like these numbers are real sixty five dollars sixty four dollars Forty-six dollars forty five dollars crazy, right Even thirty seven and thirty four dollars for some lip smackers seems crazy to me, but Some of them did better than others. So maybe it was like the scent or the flavor of the gloss. I Don't know, but they were all vintage super cool All right, so this is a huge vintage Barbie midge TLC lot and these sold for one thousand two hundred and ten dollars So there's some bubble cuts in here. Oh I Can't remember. I don't is that a ponytail one. I don't know they have different names. I'm just not savvy on it But yeah, these Barbies can be big money so 1210 plus shipping the next item is this 1966 peanuts Snoopy dog sold for a hundred and thirty dollars plus shipping and The last item was from a member of the group They picked this up at a garage sale for five dollars and it's Homer Loughlin never heard of it And this sold for sixty nine dollars and this is what it looks like on the bottom And it looks like it is a fiesta piece So sixty nine dollars on that All right, you guys there are fifty unexpected bolos in this video. Let me know what you think What was your favorite Bolo item and again, if you haven't joined my Facebook group, come on over join it And if you have an auction style Bolo item that you would like to share that has bids, please feel free to private message me on Facebook it's a great way to get eyes on your item and To help the group learn and to be featured in a video. All right, you guys, thanks for being here and thanks for watching


Lakeland PBS presents Common Ground, brought to you by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota. Production funding of Common Ground is made possible in part by First National Bank Bemidji, continuing their second century of service to the community, a partnership for generations. Member, FDIC. Welcome to Common Ground, I'm producer-director Scott Knudson. In this two-segment episode, Lucio Bavelli invites us into his brainered leather studio. Also, Karen Heller takes us along as she forages to make a springtime salve. My name is Lucio Bavelli, I do leather work. I make wallets, smoke cases, everything in leather and I use some other material for lining. We are now in my shop, it's located in Baxter, Minnesota. I started working with leather in 1999 in Florence. And I started working in a small shop just behind the Bobbley Garden. And I was there for about a couple of years and I really enjoyed it. And then I opened my shop here in Baxter in 2009 and I do some upholstery work. Today I'm going to make a bifold wallet. So there are different kinds of leather. I'm going to be using some annuling dyed leather. It's a chrome tanned leather and a dark brown. It's actually in order from a customer. First of all I have to make a cardboard pattern. Of all the parts I have to cut so there are lots of leather pieces that will make all the credit cards. And then also there are lining. For lining I use a polyester lining, really thin but really strong. This is one. Then I need two of these. I need three strips for the lining. Just a couple of strips of leather. Then I will have to make it thinner and then glue them to the lining itself. I need some lining. The lining is just ripped up nylon. So now we are going to cut all the linings for the wallet. And for this wallet I will need the lining for the outside. And this one is the one. One for the middle. And then I'm going to have another lining for the inside and all these little pockets. So I'm going to start with that side. So one of the differences between my wallets is that I try to design them always with crooked credit cards. Most of the time you find wallets with straight credit cards. And to me it's easier to find the card if it's crooked. And it's also a little more unique. You know, it's a little bit of a different design. Okay. So now then I have all the tearo cuts. The next process would be to thin the leather, the right thickness for the wallet. We are going to use a splitting machine over here. I can show you how the machine works. So there is a blade going through the machine. And there are two stones that sharpen the blade while it's thin. The leather will go through this part. And I can adjust the thickness in a fraction of a millimeter to how thin I want it.  The blade has to be always very sharp. And what it's going to do is going to cut the leather in the thickness. So making it the thickness I need. So now I set the thickness now. Okay. So now that I'm done with the splitting machine, I'm going to walk to the Skyview machine over there. And I'll show you the process that I'm going to work on. So it's almost like a cup, then spinning. And this is actually the blade of the machine. Then there is stone that spins and it sharpens this blade. So that's what it's doing. It's making the edges thinner. The edges then I will have to fold to then sew the wallet together. The next step will be to thin the middle of the outside. So when the wallet is done it will fold easier. And we are done with this machine. I'm going to glue the lining and the leather together before we sew everything together. And we're going to do it here on the table. Now I'm going to just glue all the parts together. In order to glue the two parts together I have to apply glue on both sides. Otherwise it won't stick together. And also I'll have to wait until the glue is a little bit drier. And then I can glue them together. So now that the glue is tacky then I can put the leather and the lining together. So I will leave a little bit of leather exposed. This leather is going to be glued and then folded with this folding machine. And so then the edge is going to be leather too. So what it does is it folds the leather onto the lining. So the next step will be to make a line on the credit cards. So I'm heating up the tool then we'll then make a line on the cards. And as you can see there is a line now. It's going to be in the finished product. I'm going to do all the cards. The next step will be just to mark where the credit cards are going to be sewed on. And I just use an awl. It's important to glue first and then sew it so when I sew it the credit card pocket doesn't move under the sewing machine. And this is where I am going to sew the wallet together. Always backstitch at the beginning and at the end of the seam. So the next part of the process will be to trim inside of the wallet to fit the wallet itself. And so I use the pattern that I designed and used this knife to do so. After this I will have to glue and then sew the pockets inside the wallet like this. The next is to trim the corners to make a 45 angle cut. So when I fold it, it meets in the middle. I just have to cut it on an angle of 45 degrees. Now that it's all glued together I'll have to just fold the edges over. And then I'm going to be ready to sew it at the sewing machine. So the last step will be to sew the outside seam. This seam will keep everything together. So the last process now is to put my name on it so it's metal embossed. Then I have to heat up with a heat gun and then it will be done. Test it first on a piece of leather to make sure that it's not enough and that will be it. I'm Karen Heller and I live in Wind River Township, Wadena County. And I make saves with wild plants. Today we're going to make balsam poplar save. It's also called Balmagilead, Tacma hack, whatever you want to call it. But it's a resin, it's got salicin and phenols in there. That's good for scrapes and cuts and rashes and all kinds of skin ailments. This is what it looks like where it grows. And here's where I cut last year. I just cut that this year and there's a line here and you can cut there. This one I cut here like two years ago. And then last year I cut it here, here and here. And now all this has grown. So here's the little line you cut there. We picked some balsam poplar buds. We're going to go make some save down at the cabin. On the way we're going to stop at my garden, which I have built here on the pipeline. Okay, this is my messy garden. And here is the St. John's wort that I planted from seeds two years ago. I use the St. John's wort for empty nest syndrome. When I get sad the bus goes by and no kids are here. I get lonesome. So I eat the flowers and then I feel okay. And here we've got bee balm growing here. And I have all native plants in here from around this area. And I'm keeping it here because I can't walk very far anymore. I've got blueberries. This is wild mint. I brought it from the swamp and it likes it up here. Salmon seal. And then over here I have black cohosh from Kentucky. That's doing fine here over the pipeline because it's nice and warm. And I've got wild ginger, bearberry, wintergreen. A wild orchid there. In here I've got labelia. There's a lot. And my goal is to use food and plants instead of drugs. And I've been pretty successful so far. So that's why I have this here I guess. I just love working in the dirt and plants. I had trouble with my knees so I looked up away besides a knee replacement. I did not want a knee replacement. And they said try goldenrod tea. And I remembered that I had some goldenrod that I had picked for making dye. I had saved the flowers and they were in my craft box. So I went in there and took it out of there. They were like five years old. I made a tea with it and my knees actually did feel better. I could hardly believe it. So then that summer I got a bunch of it and started drinking it every day. And my knees got better and better and better. And I didn't have to have any replacement. So this here is my goldenrod garden of the stiff goldenrod. There are seven kinds of goldenrod here. And that's one that tastes the best. So I take care of that one the best. We're going to go up to the cabin now and make our sav. Here we go. Now we have to take all these buds off and put them in a pan. And you can usually do this. It's usually cold out when you're doing this. So you can sit by the fireplace and do it. But you need to wear these because there's so much resin. And it's really hard to get washed off. It's going to be kind of different using these leaves. I've never done it with the leaves before. You can see our little bit past the bud stage. But they're still full of the same resin. It's just that it's in the leaves now. So we'll just break them off. And we're going to boil them in oil and get the resin out into the oil. Here's another one from the freezer. And you need almost as many cups of this as your lard or tallow or oil. Olive oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, whatever kind of oil you want to use. Bear grease. You need about almost as much plant material as the oil. This cabin is a primitive cabin. We have a pitcher pump for water. There's no electricity, no phone, no internet, no phone service for your cell phone. So when you come here you learn all about what it was like back in the olden days. The house was built by hand. We moved away from the city. We grew up in the city and we didn't want to raise children in the city. So we moved out here and just started homesteading. It's made of jack pine lumber that we got from a neighbor. The windows are from an old torn down house next door. I sheet rocked it later after I got a job. This would be a winter bud and this would be a leaf bud. The resin, you can still see the resin on there. It's shiny. It's not quite as sticky as it usually is in the winter. But we're going to use these today and it'll probably turn a little more green than brown. But it'll still be good medicine. First we're going to measure how much we got. Looks like we're going to have about two cups. It's perfect. So we got about two cups of that. Put it back in there. So then we're going to need two cups. And this is beer towel that I rendered. Just need to warm up the edges a little bit so we can get it out of there. I bought this at a garage sale on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. One of those big mansions. So now we're going to measure two cups of beer towel. What we're going to do is we're going to put a little sunflower oil in there. It's a messy job. It's a very messy job. You don't want to use your regular dishes for this. Now we're going to put it on the stove. And we're going to make sure that it doesn't go past 225. When you cook the buds, they pop open. And even when they're brown when they start, they pop open and you can see they're green inside there. And then you cook them until they turn brown. And then they're done. But if you cook them too long, they're going to turn black. And you don't want that. It usually takes around 20 minutes, half an hour, because you don't want to rush it. It takes time. Then we have to add the wax. So we're going to have about two cups of oil. So we need two ounces of beeswax. They're still green. So we've got to cook it a little more. It's going up, though. It's over 150 now. It smells like home, I've heard people say. When you come to this area and smell that smell, because it's in those balsam poplar trees. Okay, it looks like it's pretty much done. It's not bubbling or sizzling anymore. So I'm going to try to strain it. Yeah, the main thing is not to burn it. So if you pretty much got most of the... It's crispy. Okay. So I've got my wax measured by weight. And I'm going to put it in here. And you can shave it up or whatever. It's already pretty hot. So it pretty much melts. It doesn't take long for it to melt. Now when it gets hard, it'll look this color. But after my kids got a little bigger, I wanted to find a way to make money besides going to town for a job. I wanted to find ways people could make money out here, especially women, shut-in women that had nothing. So I started doing recycling. I did some painting. I did, you know, odd jobs here and there. And then I thought, well, there's all these plants out here. So why don't we just make stuff? And so I just started doing it. And I was thinking that more people would want to do it. And they should, because there's plenty here. Join us again on Common Ground. If you have an idea for Common Ground in North Central Minnesota, email us at legacy at lptv.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER>. To watch Common Ground online, visit lptv.org and click Local Shows. The soeds are segments of Common Ground. Call<PHONE_NUMBER>. Production funding of Common Ground was made possible in part by First National Bank Bemidji, continuing their second century of service to the community, a partnership for generations, member FDIC. Common Ground is brought to you by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, with money by the vote of the people November 4th, 2008.


You know, I'm going to use LaRussell's an example. So let's say LaRussell's making 100,000 a month. If a label comes along, and this is actually true story. If a label comes along and offers him $250,000 and he can make that in two and a half months, but they want him to sign for five years for that advance. He'd be insane to do that deal. You know, so if a label sees what he's doing and they want to be in business with him, they're going to have to step up their offer and they're going to have to come a little more correct. And the great thing about coming more correct is the more money somebody has to put into working with him, the bigger the risk on their part. And if they take enough of a risk, they're not going to lose. They're going to make sure that he wins. And that's the value in having a partner that's all in and committed because they're going to make sure it's kind of like.  But it probably wouldn't change your life if you lost 20 bucks.  That's the value of leverage. If you're all in, you're going to figure out a way to make your money back. You're not going to give up very easily. You're going to say, OK, that didn't work. Let's try this. OK, that didn't work. Let's try this. You're going to keep plugging away until you get your money back. If you have a little bit of money in and the artist doesn't pop immediately, you might say, next. So for me, I like the deals that are a little bit bigger and a little bit more highly leveraged because I think they have a better shot of winning. And that's why I always did bigger deals. Yeah, that's funny that you say that. It reminds me of, you know, as controversial as he may be, Grant Cardone, you know who that is? I remember he said when he the recession happened and he realized, you know, that he didn't owe the bank enough. Right. Right. Right. Oh, I only owe them a few million dollars or whatever. Look at Trump. And now they're coming at me trying to hit me. But I owe them a billion dollars. They will be trying to be like, they would be like, hey, we have this opportunity for you. Why don't you come and partner with this blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it's it's that's the exact same concept. It is. It's interesting, but it does make all the sense. It makes all the sense of the world. When you look at the artists that I've helped, they've all been in the top five or the top 10 of success. And that's why, because they were always in a position, first of all, where they could do it themselves. We put out music independently so they know how to do it. They don't wait for the label to feed them. They go and feed themselves, right? But they are also so highly leveraged in these deals that the labels like, oh, you're going to win. Oh, you're going into the top 10 because we're going to get our money back. Yeah. And I kind of like that. Yeah. On August 12th, myself, Sean and Jared McKee will be hosting a live event in Atlanta where we'll be sharing some of our best marketing, branding and content strategies that we haven't really been able to put out anywhere else. So if you want to reason to come to Atlanta or if you're in Atlanta or if you just want to adapt us up and see if we're real, go and get your tickets at nolabelsnecessary.com or check the link in the description if you're watching this on YouTube. We're only doing 60 tickets, like a hard 60 tickets. So you want to make sure that you're one of those 60 once again, nolabelsnecessary.com or check the link in the description. And we'll see you there. In most businesses and most economies, you as you grow and get older, you become more successful.  And you order as you get older. Yes, which is it's the opposite, right? Twenty two of it all. Yes. What you mentioned the deal earlier that artists make that can be very bad when you go to the major label and the major labels are looked at as the people who are the more valuable or the investor in general. Right. I understand. Or they were. I understand. Yeah, right. I understand your argument. What do you say to the investor, though, who says, hey, I put my money into this situation. Yes, and I love money doesn't get made back. The artist can walk away and I just don't get I don't get my money because I like to have to file for bankruptcy or it's true. It's true. The artist does get to walk away, but they've lost time. And in the music industry, like your sweet spot, you've got like 18 to 24.  So if if you stay with the label from 18 to 24 and they're not doing the right things and they're not they're not building your career.  So yes, they lost money, but it's kind of easy to make money. You can't get time back. And this isn't I don't mean to sit here and bash on the major labels because I actually like the major labels. I think that they have a purpose and I think that once you have leverage and you're a priority inside of the label, I think they're awesome. I think some of the best people work for major labels. I think somebody like Drake and Rihanna would not be as successful as they are today had they stayed independent. So I don't want to just sit here and bash labels. I'm really bashing the underlying concept and business model of signing 108 people and then two of them become successful. That's what I'm bashing. I'm bashing artists that don't do this on their own and learn how it works and then sign to a label and sit back and say, OK, wake me when I'm famous. That's crazy to me because you're probably going to have to keep working in order to get to a point where success starts to happen. The label notices and then they get behind you and help help you get all the way. That's really more the scenario of success in the music business when you're signed to a label.


Hey everybody, I'm Vince Gill. Just having a good time checking out some cool new amps. Hello, my name is Laura Jermits. Devin Gelfillion. Sather Vaden. Claire Dunn. Sam Johnson. Justin Eason. Michael Carter. Kenny Greenberg. Max Brown. Lace Vaughn Johnson. Colby Thompson. I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and we're checking out some Blackstar amps. Is this legal? This is cool, man.  Ooh, okay. Oh wow. Oh, that's nice.  It's so light! That's insane. No, no. Any time I pick up in half, I'm just like ready. I'm ready for it. Oh yeah, it's pretty nice. Glad I didn't work out today. Oh man. That's nothing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's a cheat code right there. Oh my god. That's amazing. How is it that light? What the... That literally is a lunchbox. Like, lunchbox size head, and it feels like a lunchbox. No weight to that. You've never had pimento cheese? I don't think so. Dude, you're missing out. Let's start with the 2 watt, I guess. All right. Right now it's on the 50 watt mode. And the way how I have the EQs set up right now. A lot of amplifiers, especially on 50 watt, would sound really harsh and brittle. And this is not the case at all, which is positive. And this is on 50. And that's the 2. Oh, we're still on 2 watts. It's kind of cool that you can get that. That's the 50 watt. Yeah, I could do with that sound right there. Is that 2 watts or 22? 2. 2 watts. That's more 30. And then it goes down to 2. Man, that's awesome. Crunchy. I really love the crunch on the distortion on this amp. Tuning an option? No, I'm kidding. You prefer it to be in tune? Oh, that's the other channel. It's really good. You know, if I had one, I might be playing 2 watts a lot. Like, that's 2 watts just all the way up on channel 1. You've got the 2 watt mode, which tames this, uh, tames the output of this. But I like the sag. I'm interested to try the sag feature on this, especially because you were saying it adds a little bit more compression. Oh, yeah, that, that's... Yep, that's, that's how I would run that, for sure. That sounds, that plays great, feels there. And honestly, I have the EQs almost at noon. I think I have a, yeah, just a little bit less on the bass and a little boost on the treble. A little bit more of a modern clean, I think. Super woofy. That's awesome. Okay, hold on, let's turn that a little bit down. It's really nice. It's really cool. I'd love to hear this on a big stage and just get that. It's got all that vintage woof that I love, but it's super clear. It's got a lot of clarity. Go to channel 2. Let's see what channel 2 sounds like. Bites. It's got a bite, man. Yeah, a lot of sustain. I'm trying to gain all the way up. Yeah. And then there's a boost too. That's almost so crazy that there's even more than that. Well, one thing's for sure, you don't need any more overdrive with these amps. They, they pump, man. Wow, this is cool, man. It's got some kind of like, it's got a growl to it that I really like. And then if you don't want that, you can just take the, the bass down a bit, which is kind of nice. Sick. I like the reverb too. It's nice because you can get a really, you can get a great chug out of this amp without it feeling like, I don't know, some amps you plug into, you just want it to be super clean when you're chugging. And this is really nice, but it's got a growl to it. That, I'd have got no pedals. So sometimes you have to use pedal like that a lot. Yeah, that's cool. She's warming up to me. Starts to glisten now. I know. Well, it's a guitar will do it to you. So will an amp. It'll make you play it like they want it to be played. Always been that way. Okay. So this is the EL34 version of the same head. So much richness and that familiar EL34 rattle that I love. It doesn't have as much gain, but the way I would use this, it doesn't need to have it. Although it's not, it's not sure. It's just a different flavor. And if you keep this one dialed back, this is a great kind of alternative. Yeah, those two together would be just probably one of my favorite guitar sounds ever here. Hear how that was got a little more sustained to sustain. I like that. It sings a little bit more. That's my kind of clean to me. My kind of clean is not clean. Basically, that's awesome, man. Wow. They're awesome. Do they really are that is putting out a wall of noise to for 50 Watts for sure. You really hear hear it on this when you hit that. Yeah. It doesn't get as distorted as the other one does. It might be with the gain. You might have to turn the gain up. I like it. I'm seeing kind of like it now. It does the cleanup really good. Great. Is it fun to play? Yeah. This is really fun to play. Dude, this thing sounds insane.  Goodness gracious. When are you guys cooking over there in England? Good God, I've never been a guy that's played like dual channel amps and man, I'm getting my mind changed a little bit over here. Like it's it's hard to say no that overdrive channel. Like it's it's high gain. Yeah, but it's it's got like that that cut and still like tasteful warmth. Like it's it's it's not a metal amp. You know, it's it's not like that monitor.  Just see where else you can go, you know, man, just like a really nice breakup for 6L6 is feel like I have like a ton of control over. I don't know. It's a huge range of tonal capabilities for 6L6 amp. You know what I mean? It really does like accomplish. I can't imagine needing more overdrive than that or more distortion than that.  Um, yeah, I was getting some plexi vibes from this. I mean, this is kind of ideally like basically sounds just like what my clean clean channel is modeled after. Just out of the gate.  You know, I'm brought the mids up a little bit and that's really it.  This is great. Wow. That second channel is that has a lot of body to it and a lot of character. Like the mid range on that is just so prominent. I it's very warm as well. Like I the amount of punch that's coming out of it is like I I'm almost speech almost speechless on how these things are sounding that boost is almost that's awesome. These must be spring tank reverbs like real ones. No, that's digital. Feels awesome.  I really like that one. It's it's it's got the roominess it needs, but it's not too roomy and it's got the what's the word I'm looking for the length of the reverb I like to. Yeah, it's got a sparkle to it. Yeah, but you don't get on a lot of amps. You said it's a digital reverb, right? I guess it's really cool. This is just it sounds like a classic spring verb. It does. I'm a you know, I'm a soul guy so I need I need a clean like beautiful sexy reverb and and all of these guys have that which I was very much craving. I don't even know which one is better. I mean it passed the test usually I have trouble with this guitar being too bright, but I mean, I don't even have the tone rolled off or anything.  This amp has enough push where like usually I'm searching for that extra edge. This has the extra edge and I'm not blowing smoke. I seriously mean it like that tone right there is like so good they react really really well and if anyone knows me they know I'm more of like a P90 reaction but playing this less Paul like it already has that breath to it and has a little bit more of an openness. And when I hit the notes it's instant and they bloom really nice. There's something about the bloom especially on this that it's like the more you push it it doesn't kind of feed into itself and actually blooms out which is really sick usually an amp like this you'd think it would just collapse you know you'd hit it and it just kind of dump in but this is this is a badass amp. I feel like I could probably take that thing and go play any gig anywhere right now. It's that good. I'm all about vibe and feel and that makes me want to play it. That's really cool. That's sick. How do I get one? You know a guy. Yeah I would I would say the tones these amps are so versatile you know I love Jimi Hendrix. I love to jump into the rock and roll world.  So these are awesome with that. I dig it. I think the this this line of Black Star amps. I think the logo looks fantastic for one. I love the the backlit logo. I love the font just aesthetically it looks really inviting and then I think that these are extremely usable amps. You have the 6L6 version and a combo and a head and and cab and then you've got the EL34 for your more British voice stuff and I mean you if you could run one of each and you wouldn't need another amplifier. You know and I think having the options of it in a combo and a head and cabinet just gives players you know just that more options. It's I don't know. I just like it a lot after playing them. I mean they remind me of so many they just remind me of a great amp. They are a great amp to me. They go country real quick in my opinion. So can I get one of these. Okay. Hell yeah. Yeah man these things are killer great weight and I just can't get over how good it sounds. I almost would say if I had to make a choice today I would say I like Channel 2 of that and I like Channel 1 of that but I don't dislike Channel 1 on that.  I wouldn't need another amp if I was playing one of these you know and I I could see myself really leaving my overdrive distortion pedals at home with this. The reverb sounds great. There's two channels plus a boost or a voicing depending on which one you plugged into and man the clean sound is beautiful. Having the IR out too is huge for me. You know I drag a universal audio aux box to most of my gigs so that I can do speaker simulation get a direct line out and I'd leave it at home with this you know that'd be huge for me. You guys are going to tell me when these come out right. Yeah I don't really I really have no harsh criticism my friend I'm sorry I don't know if that's what you wanted anyhow I mean aesthetically I like them both I like vintage looking stuff I mean all my 60 slant cabs have the like the sort of tweed whatever it's called so I aesthetically I like this a lot this is exactly where my eyes go is something like this you know like running two or three of these and then like you know a B or like one two three or some combination of you know.  And then you also get the flexibility of being able to play silently and actually be able to mess with the cabinets of what can be going through I'm sold. I think I need to go home and mess with my finances so when these come out I can get me get me one of them can I have one please like what do I got to do. You have any you have any higher positions at Blackstar because I could I'll be down.


We have long attested that there is substantial evidence to be found within the many ancient ruins which span the continents of the earth. Evidence to suggest that said relics were, in reality, not constructed by their currently claimed constructors. Not only are their often advanced features shown to have been far out of the capabilities of the claimed culprits are more recent ancestors, but, additionally, many of these ruins are also indicative of not one, but several past, highly advanced, world conquering yet now lost super-civilizations. Evidence which indicates that advanced civilization has flourished and fallen many times, a legacy currently lost in the past, yet as the evidence of their lives, and indeed the dates of their demise becomes a pursuit of modern researchers, they are now fortunately beginning to unravel here in the modern age, and the Toba catastrophe is one such area of study. One which we believe could strongly indicate the date of the end of one of these ancient civilizations. We've in the past covered the intriguing tablet once found within the now exposed super ruin, now all but consumed by the Guatemalan rainforest. Found at the well-known site of Tikal, this tablet depicts a cataclysmic event, a super volcanic eruption which is depicted as having been followed by a great deluge. The tablet has since been stolen, which merely adds to its past validity, but this event could explain the Mayans' obsession with calendars and their predicting the end times. But I digress, the Toba event was a super eruption that occurred about 75,000 years ago, in what is now known as present-day Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia. This enormous lake was formed almost instantly when Toba decided to belch the Earth's core into the atmosphere many years ago. It is one of the Earth's largest ever eruptions. The theory holds that this event caused a global volcanic winter, which lasted between 6 to 10 years. This also triggered a 1,000-year-long cooling episode. If there was a densely populated civilization alive at the time, a civilization akin to that of the Guatemalan metropolis mentioned previously, now estimated to have had a past population in excess of 10 million, such an event and the long-lasting climactic changes which followed would have devastated crops and industry as a whole. Such a huge event that it would have undoubtedly made a past civilization crash, an event that even us within our own technological age simply could not cope with, and would also unquestionably experience a population crash and a grinding halt of practically all industries and economies, an event which would reset us not only biologically, but also technologically. Why were the Mayans obsessed with end times? Why were Neolithic obsessed with solar activity? Perhaps they experienced something which caused this fixation, and it is not just us who suspect this event having once caused trauma and death. In 1993, science journalist Ann Gibbons also posited that a population bottleneck occurred in human development about 70,000 years ago, and she suggested that this was caused by the eruption. Geologist Michael R. Rampino of New York University and volcanologist Steven Self of the University of Hawaii at Manoa support her suggestion. In 1998, the bottleneck theory was further developed by anthropologist Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, predictably, the event's consequences, along with the many global winter theories, remain a touchy subject within mainstream academia, and is still a highly controversial area of study. Did the Toba eruption cause the demise of a past lost civilization? With this date of 70,000 years, it at least gives us a target for exploration, one which we find highly compelling.


Dragon Boats weren't the only racing action over the weekend as Bemidji's Adult Day Services held their annual First City Duck Race. 1300 rubber ducks took the plunge and traveled the course set between Lake Irving and Lake Bemidji on the Mississippi River Saturday. Onlookers watched from the bridge as the bright yellow ducks traveled the 100 yard race course. Each duck was numbered and was sold for $5 apiece. The First City Duck Race is an important fundraiser for Adult Day Services. It is huge. All of the money is amazing that we raise. It helps all of our participants in our program keep going, which is amazing and great. For the first time in the Duck Race's history, one person won both first and third place, taking home a total of $1,300. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Did I find a way to solo the tribute like we got to the last boss and we kind of did the last boss But soloing it is not efficient in terms of gold This is better. I think So usually when you get here, there'll be a patrol below you can just mark it and I need to bind my vision And you can just mind vision them there and you can check for the book There's one that spawns here just under this root Which is not there currently and there's one in this corner Yeah, so it should spawn around here So if you're dwarf you can whack under the the fine treasure and I just mark the mobs as I go So I don't run into them And what we're looking for is we're looking for a real warp wood pod. So this one looks pretty real I might just wait for this guy. I'm wondering if you can run from this side But there's a dream for there if you've got herb Herb is kind of nice for this But also there's a lot of herbs that are a bit out of reach, I think So you're probably better off doing If you've got herb and your friends got mining or something like that then you'll be better off doing a duo run with a warrior The annoying thing is some of them are upstairs, but as long as we got one We just need to get one thornling for the last boss. How do you get the book without killing the lashes? You can actually just run up to both of them One of them you get from the back. Well, this was fake yikes And I generally want to try and avoid killing this guy It's just gonna save me some time and we're just gonna fight the lasher the fell lash or other And I'm hoping that the last pack is three melee so we can get a nice PB But we'll see and we're just gonna pull the boss over to this ledge and he should go around this way and then come over to us and Then should go the other way again.   I think my 160 was my best on this guy Arcanists cookbook. I Think ideally we want the priest book, but I'm not sure which priest book sells for the most Sorry, which book sells for the most that brings us to the second boss. Did I get So second boss we do much the same as the first one Yeah, if you have herb you can do the lashes at the start for sure And it'll be good gold Greed is too hard The moment you greedies just like no no fucks you look how much he's healing. I don't even have a pain on him heartbreaking So we're looking to be three minutes in the last room, sorry 13 minutes in the last room That's what we did last run Last run has been our best so far. He doesn't really drop anything that great other than a rogue best piece Which is okay We just need to kill him because we can't talk to the tree otherwise the first two bosses bear gpr They don't drop great stuff Like obviously you can sell them and it's okay, but I wouldn't say you're doing the run specifically for the loot that they can drop Like it's not worth only doing the first two bosses for example I tried finding finding some people to buy the bow, but no luck so far And I know that there's a priest best piece of the last boss And I think a druid best gloves, but I'm not sure Maybe I can find some people to buy it. I just need to spam more in chat.  There's one like directly above it and on the platform Isn't the bow off the off this guy the same as the one from the guy in LBRS It's just easier to get this one right elven rings better than blackstone, but that's from tribute I believe So let's see how many melee guys we've got Let's have a look. We got one. That's good two three melee guys fantastic gives The other extreme case is an example and we can actually just save so much time already just because of that. I Love it and the other book could spawn just Miss that one.  So the imps are super fast.  You we're gonna spawn the thornling in a sec probably gonna spawn it spawn it now and The reason for that is because otherwise it makes it really hard to hit the boss I may have killed them too soon here and end up getting more imps. We'll see So now you've got the lashes left, right?  I'm just gonna fear them. I'm just gonna fill them off now I don't want to get dazed Make sure I don't choke the jump And now they're all gonna evade off And we've got a 20-minute run So you use one dynamite which is Two dense powder and three rune cloth Use the thorn guy that you picked up in the dungeon and that should finish off all the imps And now we can just loot them. What do I chuck? the question I'll just chuck some more.  It's just dense dynamite The cheapest one that will do the job. Can you use the thing from Angoro? Probably a large opal got down.  Yeah for sure