Item number, SCP-746 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-746 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site 66. Specialized bedding designed for SCP-746's anatomy is to be provided for comfort and be replaced every three months. When being transported, SCP-746 is to be provided with an appropriately sized wheelchair for mobility than the use of its provided cane. It is to also wear a control collar and be supervised by no less than three armed guards. A foundation translator fluent in Japanese dialects is to be made present to facilitate communication with SCP-746. Currently, SCP-746 is scheduled to attend English classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with Dr. Kaya along with receiving physiotherapy. Description, SCP-746 is a sapient avian humanoid standing 1.3 meters tall and weighing 38 kilograms. The entity's face appears aged and is a deep red with a 28 centimeters long beak-like nose. Most of its body is covered in rough black feathers, the longest being on the forearms, shoulders, neck and head. Currently, SCP-746 wears a specialized leg brace provided by Foundation medical personnel on its left leg due to suffering a permanent crippling injury. See Addendum 1 for details. Before acquisition of SCP-746, it was agile and capable of sprinting up to 11 kilometers per hour. It had also been observed to have acrobatic skill during attempts at capture by recovery teams. SCP-746 now moves at a significantly slow pace and requires a cane to aid it in walking. SCP-746 has complained of feeling back, shoulder and neck pain along with stiff joints. An x-ray of SCP-746 has shown several stress fractures. Physiotherapy has shown to be effective. These injuries were also acquired from its initial acquisition. SCP-746 is docile, though it has shown to be somewhat mischievous in interviews and before its containment. Due to its condition, it is not capable of performing any actual acts of mischief and is not considered an issue to containment. SCP-746 is fluent in several Japanese dialects and has shown minor knowledge of English. It has shown willingness to improve its English and thus far has significantly improved with provided classes. According to SCP-746, it had obtained knowledge of English when encountering American tourists speaking and had grown fascinated. Its diet consists of mostly seafood and vegetable leaves. The existence of SCP-746 came to foundation attention on 423- after reports of pranks by an unknown entity called on recordings at Tokyo, Japan. Two agents were sent to investigate and encountered SCP-746. For two weeks, SCP-746 had evaded capture before the event leading to its acquisition. Addendum 1 SCP-746 was successfully captured on 5-1- in the city of Kyoto, Japan. SCP-746 was being pursued by an instance of SCP- throughout the city and attracted the immediate attention of nearby recovery teams. The SCP-1 instance caught up with SCP-746 and swung its fist, which flung SCP-746 to a wall, to falling onto a car and to the ground. The instance then proceeded to crush SCP-746's left leg with its club as SCP-746 attempted to crawl away. Agents from Mobile Task Force New 32, Peach Boys, assigned to the containment of instances, managed to save SCP-746 by distracting it as other agents rescued SCP-746. For further details of the incident, please view incident report on SCP-746-A. Below is an interview with SCP-746 in regards to the incident. Interviewed, SCP-746. Interviewer, Dr. Renfield. Forward. The following interview was originally spoken in the Tokyo dialect and has been translated. Begin log. Dr. Renfield. Greetings, SCP-746. Are you feeling well? SCP-746 speaks in English. Yes, it hurts less. Dr. Renfield. Your English is better than last time as well. Anyway, I'm here to ask you some questions. SCP-746. Very well. About what? Dr. Renfield. Back in Kyoto, can you tell me why the SCP-746 instance was after you? SCP-746 begins to laugh. Dr. Renfield. Uh, 746? SCP-746 ceases laughter. Ah, the ony. Let's see. I found it sitting under a tree in the forest and I spoke to it. I quickly learned it was a dumb one. At its stomach was getting hungry, so I saw a chance to do a trick to it. Snickering. Dr. Renfield. What kind of trick? SCP-746. Well... Smiles. I tricked it into eating dung. Laughs. Dr. Renfield. That's... Disgusting. SCP-746.  It was steamy, and I told the fool it was Carinto. Note. Carinto is a sweet deep-fried Japanese snack food. Dr. Renfield. Gag. So, I'm going to assume that what happens next is that it grew angry. SCP-746. Yes, that is correct. That big brute was furious. Oh, the look on its face. It then stood up and swung its club to only miss me. Run I did. As fast as the wind. As behind me. I could hear the brute's roar, and trees being knocked over. As I was making my escape, I stumbled upon a pond that I swung across from a branch, and seconds later heard loud splashes of the fool falling into it. Come to think of it, I think it was the home of a family of kappas. There were distinct shouts, but I didn't really know what was being said, for the ony was coming, and I didn't have time to stop. Anyway, it was starting to catch up, and so I decided to try to make it dizzy by going around it in circles. The fool swung its club at every direction trying to hit me, and some were not even close. Maybe it's what hair got in its eyes, but it was nonetheless amusing. Dr. Renfield. Weren't you worried though? SCP-746. Why would I? I was having the most fun at the time. There was excitement. Dr. Renfield. Alright, please continue. SCP-746. Where was I? Oh yeah. The ony looked dizzy enough, and I continued on away from it. I was near the city, and thought I lost it, until I heard it roar again. It was starting to get tiring, and thought maybe I'll definitely lose it in the city. The wires and buildings helped slow the ony as I went through alleyways and rooftops. People were also screaming at the sight of the ony, which I don't blame.  Ah, the rest of the story you already know, and leads me to ask, what happened to the ony? Dr. Renfield. Why are you asking? SCP-746. I was too busy being in pain and shocked to see what happened. I'm just wondering. Dr. Renfield. We incapacitated it. That's all. SCP-746. Oh, okay. Well, just be sure to give it an actual caranto for being the most fun I had in a while. Although, I doubt it will trust anything that is caranto again. Burst into laughter. Dr. Renfield. You know, that stunt of yours caused a lot of trouble. Several streets and property were destroyed, and our amnestic teams had to work hard to conceal the situation. It almost killed you and left you crippled. Was it really worth it? SCP-746. Catches breath. Oh, yes. Dr. Renfield. Even though you are no longer able to do any other stunts ever again. SCP-746. Honestly, I had my years of fun, and I'm happy to have it end with the pleasure of fooling in Oni. So they say, speaks in English, out with a bang. End log. Addendum 746. The SCP-746 instance involved in the acquisition of SCP-746 has shown heightened levels of aggression and attempts to breach containment. The instance seeks to travel to SCP-746's location and poses a danger to Site-66 and SCP-746. Neutralization has been approved. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-745, The Headlights, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


proudly we hail hello from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen this is CP McGregor speaking welcome to another performance of proudly we hail a program of your ward apartment through the courtesy of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee we present the well-known actor Mr. Gene Lockhart who will star in our play his honor pays a debt written by Tom Petty with music by Eddie Skravanik Judge Robert E. Alwhite is grand city's most distinguished citizen he slated to quit the bench for the United States Senate in the next election but right now he's about to drown in plain sight of his summer cottage oh I went out too far I can't make it when fighting over both drown sorry sure now I'm afraid I lost my head out there I owe you my life my life all alone yes that's that's my place over there anyone in it servants your family no I I came down alone for the weekend but don't worry I'll be all right what your name my boy never mind my name I'll never forget you and judge white son and I owe you my life look I'm not here nobody pulls you out of the water you say you want to do something for me okay forget you ever saw me I've seen your picture in the paper I'm asking you to forget it are you're tad dexter there was a fool to go after you all right set the cops on my trail but I didn't kill mr. Johnson then why did you run away I don't ask you to believe me I don't ask you to do anything except to forget that I'm on this island son it doesn't make any real difference whether I believe in your guilt or innocence it's my duty to report your presence here you wouldn't why don't you give yourself up dad face this thing I'll help you not a chance the cards are stacked I'm taking one of your boats and heading for the mainland and you can't stop me I could there's a telephone in my you do that after I've saved your life I'll tie you up that might mean my death it'll be several days before anyone came to look for me you win I can save your life but I can't take I'll have to take my chance no dad I'm going to do something I've never done before I'm I'm going to risk my career my chance to sit in the Senate we'll forget we ever met thanks mr. I'll take the chance but if you double cross me won't you sit down please thank you judge white I'm Virginia read your note said you wish to talk with me about a young man named Ted Dexter Ted's coming up before you on a murder charge judge white my Johnson case no miss read I won't be able to hear the case I'm going on my vacation you can't go away judge white you can't and why can't I young lady what do you know about this case had was on his way to the sheriff's office to surrender when he was captured you've got to believe me he didn't kill mr. Johnson a lot of people think he did Virginia running away he didn't help if he really was trying to serve all he was you've got to believe in Ted you must have believed in him once it wouldn't have helped him get away I love him judge white he gave me my life when he pulled me out of the lake I did what I had to do let him go even though by doing so I became a partner to the crime he's to stand trial for now Virginia you see why I couldn't hear his case I'm afraid you're going to have to judge white that sounds like blackmail young lady did Dexter's lawyer send you to see me no only Ted and I know what happened on your island we haven't told anyone that you helped him escape yet but you would you'd tell Dexter's lawyer I'd do anything to help Ted suppose I did hear the evidence there's not much I could do a jury will decide whether your friend is guilty or innocent that'll be satisfied for you just to hear the case I'm not a man who forgets easily Virginia I owe Dexter a debt I'm going to pay it conscience is a severe task master but a man must first of all be honest with himself clerk of the court's office please hello about the Dexter trial the young man accused of killing the banker I believe his name is Johnson yes I think I'll be able to handle it my evocation plans have been changed yes yes thank you I wanted to commit myself before you Virginia someday maybe I'll know whether I'm doing this for you and young Dexter or myself we pause briefly from our story starring Jean Lockhart to bring you an important message from your war department suppose we test your knowledge write down a list of the world's latest scientific and technical discoveries then after each write the name of the organization responsible for its development let's take radar penicillin atomic power night vision jet propulsion supersonic planes and automatically controlled aircraft yes the answer in each case is the US Army if that fact surprises you you're in for a great many more surprises in the future our army is maintaining a program of discovery and experimentation army technicians are engaging in continual scientific research unequal by any other organization trained men educated in the fields of medicine engineering physics aviation and many other branches are doing this work all ambitious young men between the ages of 17 and 34 should take advantage of this opportunity go to your nearest army recruiting station now you'll be glad to tell you more about a good-paying worthwhile career in the regular army now act two of his honor pays a debt starring Jean Lockhart Dexter's trial before Judge White is over the jury is out things aren't going too well for him Judge White and Virginia are talking in his chamber the evidence is all against Dexter if it wasn't for you Virginia and my conviction that a murderer never would have saved my life I'd almost believe him guilty myself we've got to do something Judge White I've tried every day to see Mrs. Johnson but she's still suffering from shock and it's been weeks since mr. Johnson's death let's see two doctors testified she was too ill to appear in court and her sworn statement was read by the prosecutor Mrs. Johnson said when she walked into the library her husband was dead and Dexter was standing a few feet away with a pistol in his right hand that coupled with the row at the bank and the $30,000 shortage makes things look pretty black for Dexter but he didn't do it Mrs. Johnson is hiding something yes yes I'll talk to the prosecutor hello Bradford no I can't see you I'm in conference what you will do what if I was on the bench I'd have you cited for contempt I don't care what you think has the jury returned no that was Bradford the prosecutor he's threatening to ask a higher court to call this a mistrial because of my charge to the jury he's right Virginia well I thought you were only fair I did something in the courtroom that I've never done before I allowed my own feelings prejudice to find its way into my speech to the jury and now it seems that I've done little good for anyone neither Dexter nor myself will the jury return a verdict tonight no it's too late we have to wait tomorrow for the verdict why don't you go home I'm not going home I'm going to see Mrs. Johnson if I have to sit on her doorstep all night why why are you so sure that she's the key to prove Dexter's innocence because Tad would never have run away if she hadn't screamed you killed my husband oh I know he had the pistol in his hand and he told me himself he picked it up just as anyone would pick up an ash tray that had fallen from a table he didn't even realize he was holding the pistol until she screamed Mrs. Johnson knows more about this than she's told anyone I'm going to talk to her then you'd better hurry Virginia because there'll be a verdict when court convenes tomorrow morning we'll have order in the court when the jury returns its verdict or I'll clear the room Mr. Foreman has the jury arrived at a verdict we have your honor what do you find we find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree order in the court will the prisoner please stand under the laws of this state Ted Dexter you may now speak if you so desire I I oh what's the use are you going to see an innocent man hang just white you know that I didn't kill David Johnson is that all you have to say yes yes I could say a lot of things but that's all very well before I pronounce sentence I have a public statement to make it's something that has been very much on my mind for weeks the threat of removal from office comes as no surprise to me many of my closest friends have expressed astonishment at my rulings and especially at my jury charge in the trial of Ted Dexter I'm not sure that my conduct was clear in my own mind in the beginning but it's crystal clear now what I'm about to say undoubtedly will affect my life my entire political career I am convinced that Ted Dexter is innocent I'm going to tell you why a highly illegal and purely personal reason why I believe there has been a miscarriage of justice I found the proof had innocent will you step up mr. prosecutor we'll speak with her private I got him to see Mrs. Johnson and made her talk she's been trying to protect her husband's name he stole the money from the bank and killed himself he left a note explaining everything here I've got it right here mr. prosecutor I'll entertain the motion for the dismissal of this case I knew it I knew nothing could happen to us something is going to happen to us right away darling we're going to be married oh judge white what's all this done to you have we ruined your political career oh Virginia I'm going to be very much surprised if you haven't made me a public hero this is CP McGregor speaking so ends our proudly we hailed story starring Jean Lockhart before leaving you Don Forbes has an important message for all of us every day we read in the newspapers of some new scientific development some forward step in modern progress scientific research is moving forward at a rapid pace the United States Army is setting that pace skill technicians compose the regular army today they are men who are educated in one of many branches whose work contributes materially to the advancement of science that is why the army is selecting intelligent men anxious to establish themselves in a career of technical development men who can meet and accept the challenge of an ever-forward moving world army technical experts are responsible for such things as machines that fly faster than the speed of sound complex calculating mechanisms that can chart the exact position of a supersonic projectile in flight parachutes that enable aviators to bail out of a plane going over 700 miles per hour here is an opportunity for aggressive young men to be members of one of the world's greatest research organizations to pioneer new fields of science as well as provide for national defense the army will teach you a valuable and beneficial trade or skill the soldier is not only a member of a forward progress minded organization but is himself a trained technician the army has much to offer the young high school graduate the youth just starting out the new revised pay schedule recognizes the fact that a regular army soldier is engaged in vital research and development starting pay for a private is seventy five dollars and he gets free food clothing lodging and medical and dental care after twenty and up to thirty years you may retire on a generous income these and many others are the benefits of a career in our new technically trained regular army for more complete details go to your nearest army recruiting station thank you gene Lockhart for a wonderful performance proudly we hail will come to you again over this station next week listen in


Welcome to The FeeCast, your weekly dose of economic thinking from your friends at the Foundation for Economic Education. My name is Richard Lawrence and I'm here today with our great panel, as always, Brittany Hunter, Dan Sanchez and Mary Ann March. And you might have noticed, if you are a regular listener or a watcher of The FeeCast, that we actually missed last week's episode because we had this little thing called FeeCon here in Atlanta, and it was three days of really amazing content. Panels, presentations, speeches, musical performances, Brittany, you and I were the MCs for the event, which was pretty awesome. It's interesting because if you've never been on stage like that, you don't know that when you're on stage, you can't see everybody. I loved that part. The lights are shining right in our eyes, so it actually makes it feel like a cozier room, except for all the echoes. And all the applause, of course, because we can't help it. Right. So we did a couple of very special episodes at FeeCon with live studio audiences, one of which was with T.K. Coleman, the education director and co-founder of Praxis. We were talking about taking control of your own life and actually imagining what you can actually achieve and taking that and doing it. It was a great conversation. It was an amazing conversation. And we also spoke with Magat Wade, who is an amazing Senegalese American entrepreneur that we have profiled in a new video, a new documentary that we have coming out in the next few weeks here. Another very amazing story. So we'll have actually, those have come out now, and so you can see those on the FeeCast channel if you're interested. They are in a different set, but with the same amazing people that you've grown used to all the time. So I figured that we might actually talk a little bit about some of our other sort of highlights from FeeCon. What else, aside from the blinding lights of the amazing audience plenaries, did you love at FeeCon? There was one. And actually, Dan, you moderated this panel that was a primer on Austrian economics that I really enjoyed with Dan D'Amico and Donald Boudreau from Arcadis. It was amazing. I think it kind of gave an introductory kind of lesson on why we should even care about Austrian economics to begin with. So that was my favorite. I really liked another panel I moderated about the environment. So it kind of took an environmentalist ends as given, but some of the panelists especially really had free market means to those same ends. And so especially highlighting property rights as the best way to conserve our resources as opposed to government regulation. And of course, these ideas are not very often heard when we're talking about these concepts like environmentalism. So that's special. Marianne, how about you? Nobody had more fun at FeeCon than me. I was live tweeting the whole event. I was running around everywhere. I went to a significant amount of the breakout sessions, all of the keynote speakers, and it was fun. I saw the panel that Dan mentioned. One of my favorite parts was screenings by Free the People and Reason. Austin and Meredith Bragg from Reason spoke a little bit about their videos and they had one really great comment which I'll share with you, which was when it comes to YouTube comments, you smell them. You don't eat them. Oh, that's good. That's true. And actually, Meredith and Austin were filmmakers in a Thursday night presentation we had of a series of films, Battelius and Nexus, our friends there. They presented their film Demand Curve, which was also very, very fun. We had four other films in that presentation that I hope we'll be able to share with our viewers very shortly here. That being said, we welcome YouTube comments. Oh, of course. You smell great. I wonder really briefly, because you mentioned it, Brittany, if I could ask for a very brief definition of Austrian economics, because we're not talking about the economics of Austria. What's Austrian economics? It's not the unemployment rate in Vienna. I would call it. In a lot of ways, the study of human behavior, of human action, why do we do what we do? It doesn't matter if X amount of people buy this certain brand of something. Why? Why do we make that choice? It's almost like sociology. That's why it's appealing to me. It's practical economics. It's really scientific in the sense that it's exact because it's logical. It's logical deduction. What can you say about action that is always true? Historically, things will vary. You won't be able to say exactly why someone did something. But given these constraints, you can, for example, know that minimum wages cause unemployment. And that's not a historical contingency. That's something that you can know scientifically, actually. And this, of course, is named the Austrian School of Economics because it comes from Austria, from a number of thinkers there in the late 19th century. Carl Manger, I believe, is kind of the godfather, so to speak, of Austrian economics. Yeah, the founder is Carl Manger, who in 1871 wrote Principles of Economics. And he was part of what's called the Marginal Revolution where it really re-founded economics as opposed to the labor theory of value. It established the subjective theory of value, which really put human valuation and human choice, especially consumer choice, at the helm of the economy. And then his student, Eugen Bumbavark, did a lot of on the business cycle and time preference theory of interest. And Ludwig von Mises was his student. We talked about him before on the feedcast. He said one, I mean, it was him. Do you think that it's fair? I like to think of Austrian economics as being a little bit more molecular where we're starting from the individual and building on from there as opposed to starting with the aggregate. Do you think that's fair? That's exactly right. It's very much what Mises called methodological individualism. And so instead of, for example, Keynes deals with huge aggregates, the Keynesian economics. But what the Austrian economics does is it starts with individual choice and then builds up from there. It doesn't skip any steps. It's almost the most microeconomics, right? It's as small as you can possibly get. Right, right. Nanoeconomics. Nanoeconomics. And it has macroeconomics because like the business cycle theory, that's basically macroeconomics, but it's built up from the microeconomics. Our axiom is the individual. Right. Whereas other schools, it's just like kind of two separate realms like macro and micro and they don't really interrelate. Yeah. I think that's more respectful of the individual instead of just lumping people together. And reality, it's more respectful of, like you said, what actually happens. Yes.  So we had a track called Uncreativity, right? Yes. We had a track about challenging statism, which is basically looking at how the government is actually interfering in our daily lives and how we might be able to hack that or challenge that. We had a track on market urbanism, which is all about using market forces, individual to actually solve environmental problems that exist in the world. Speaking of the keynotes, just thinking about the creative kind of keynotes we had, and of course we'll have all sorts of keynote videos up online very shortly, if we don't already, we had Tina Goh, who was an amazing cellist. Yes. And she performed at the beginning of Friday's sessions. Wait till you see this video. She's so passionate. And she actually plays through the entire Wonder Woman theme, which she actually was the cellist for and the composer on Wonder Woman and then gives a talk and then comes back and does a parting Game of Thrones theme on her cello, which was amazing. Amazing. We got a different angle than most people since we were backstage, but it was magnificent. Yeah, most people think that that theme from Wonder Woman is an electric guitar, but it's really an electric cello that she sounds like a virtuoso and a heavy metal band. But her story about being an entrepreneur was so, so inspiring about it. She was just a college student shopping at the dollar store, kind of how do I make money with my art? And that's what I think a lot of people were there to kind of learn is, you know, specialization, we believe in that you have this one skill. Okay, what do you do then? How do you make money from this? And so she was really inspirational. Her story was amazing. And of course, you know, in these plenary sessions with everyone in the room, we wanted to add a little bit of entertainment so they could take a break from really thinking as hard as they are during the panels and the presentations downstairs in this case and actually be entertained. So that was the whole idea behind FICON was to give them an awesome experience. One of my favorite parts about FICON in particular and FEE seminars in general is that you don't always know, even right after it happens, how it's going to impact you. There's going to be things weeks, months from now that we think back to and can draw inspiration from and I think that's amazing. Yeah, James Walpole has, one of our writers has a great post where he talks about the emotional high point for him in the conference was when a violinist and could you help me with the pronunciation of his name? Willie. Oh, Willie. Willie Ortega. That's right. And he is famous for protesting in Venezuela against the regime there and being persecuted for that and so you could just really see the emotion that built up from that experience in his live performance and so it was just such a great confluence of the emotional, the political, the principal, the ideological, the artistic, all in one performance and he was moved to tears. And we'll have that video up online as well. It started with him kneeling on the stage with his violin and he's wearing a shirt with the Venezuelan flag on it and then he is on the background. You've got all this video of him being arrested, beaten up and he was later imprisoned for... So emotional. They broke his violin. They broke his violin. So he came to FECON and it was probably one of the most moving moments of the entire conference. So we were extremely happy to have him there. So we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with the rest of the FECAST. Hi, I'm Sean Malone, Director of Media for the Foundation for Economic Education and I want to talk to you today about FEC's podcasts. You're currently listening to our wonderful FECAST but did you know we also have two other amazing podcasts for you to listen to each and every week. There's Words and Numbers featuring Anthony Davies and James Harrigan where they talk about economics, political theory, and current events every Wednesday. We also have a brand new offering called the FEE Audio Experience where we bring you content from our seminars and events held all across the country. You'll get to hear fascinating talks from speakers and panelists which we'll make available to you right after each event. So be sure to check out the FECAST, Words and Numbers and the FEE Audio Experience right here on our homepage at fee.org slash shows and also subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play. Thanks for listening. Welcome back to the FECAST. We were talking as we went into the break about FECON. Now we want to kind of switch gears a little bit and answer the question that always comes up which is when you're talking about with people, your political philosophy and you might suggest well maybe government should do less, maybe government should be maybe in the role of providing the services of a night watchman state only providing for policing and maybe courts, people inevitably ask us but if the government's not doing all the things it does now who will build the roads? And this question always presents a challenge to people who believe in a very limited government and this week there's news out of wherever Domino's Pizza is based that perhaps they have an answer to that. They do have the answer to it. Domino's will build your roads and in fact they've already I think prepared 50 potholes so Domino's unleashing this new plan, Paving for Pizzas. Which sounds delicious. Sounds delicious and exactly as it sounds so they are actually coming to your town if you nominate your town and they're going to fix the potholes that are causing your pizza to be delivered I guess not in perfect form. So the rhetoric goes that the pizza men are your pizza's on the front seat, your passenger seat, they get to your house, they go over a pothole, that pizza goes flying, pizza's ruined, Domino's has to make a new one. Pizza Armageddon. Pizza Armageddon, chaos ensues no longer. So are they doing this out of the goodness of their own heart or is there some self-interest involved? There's always self-interest involved Dan. Even the democratic socialists have self-interest. Exactly. So how could their bottom line benefit from this venture? Yeah well so if all these pizzas are getting destroyed which apparently they are because this is enough of a problem where it's causing disruption in their business model, people aren't getting their pizzas in the quality that they are promised to them because of these potholes. So it's in Domino's best interest so they won't have to remake those pizzas and then use their employees who should be working on a different order but are now forced to remake the pizzas. Or if people just stop ordering from them because they keep getting their orders messed up. Exactly but now you have fixed roads which means literally everyone benefits. The driver gets there safely, your pizza gets there safely, consumers can get to the store and back safely if they choose to pick it up and the entire community gets a better road. Yeah even people who have nothing to do with Domino's are benefiting. Nothing to do with it. Yeah. And in economics that would maybe be called a free rider problem. Yes. Right? And no pun intended with the roads comment. But this is an interesting thing right? I mean Domino's has been doing a couple of gimmicks along these lines. They have this pizza insurance. They have for instance if you end up bringing your pizza through carry out back home and as the commercial has it a tree hits the car and destroys the pizza or you slip on ice after the tree hits your car and flips the pizza over. You go right back to the Domino's shop and they remake your pizza. And so they're very interested in making sure that their customers actually get a quality pizza. And this I think we could use in Atlanta. I think with some of the potholes that we have here in the roads I would like to nominate Atlanta perhaps. I have a second. Actually we probably have four votes for Atlanta. So we'll upvote that request on there. And there's a good reason for that because we are not really their customers. So we're kind of captive. Speak for yourself. The government's customers in terms of paving Atlanta's roads and maintaining them. And so they don't really need to keep us happy. The money they're getting from us is not money that we could spend somewhere else. Like we just have to pay taxes and no matter how badly a job they do we have to continue. Whereas if we were their customers they would have every incentive to keep us happy. And you mean by their customers you mean the government because of course I am a Domino's customer so I am definitely vested in interest over there. So paving for pizza and everything else that's the name of this thing. Everyone else benefits from it. What about the people who would say well of course when the government builds the roads it's done through taxpayer dollars and everyone benefits so that's the only just way to do it. How would you counter that? I would say that that might be how we've seen it done for some number of decades but they don't do it well. They spend a lot of money to do it and from a lot of the reports I've been reading the building of the roads isn't even the problem. The initial expansion and laying down of the foundations that's all well and good within parameters. The real problem is maintenance and that's what I think is the most interesting thing about paving for pizzas is that they're tackling the bigger issue which is maintaining the roads and I've got a statistic for you Richard. Always with the data. Yes. Between 2004 and 2008 states dedicated 55% of their budgets a total of 20.4 billion dollars on expanding roads which only accounts for 1.3% of all roads and the other 98.7% only received 43% of the budgets and as we can see in our city and other cities there are big problems. The roads aren't being well maintained by the government. It's great to see a private organization stepping in and doing something about it. And so we have all these roads in the U.S. most of which I believe are funded by some level of government. Was that always the case? Actually no. There was one of the first highways in U.S. history was called the Lincoln Highway and it was a private initiative. So there was entrepreneurs in the automotive industry in the tire industry and they realized that if there was a road that made it easier for people to get from place to place and travel long distance across the country then that would be a big boost to the automotive industry. And so they created a private foundation to make this happen and it really helped. It really worked and it was only later that the federal government stepped in and crowded that out. Let's talk about crowding out real quick. What does that mean? Crowding out is when government expenditures make it harder for private competitors to operate in that area. So for example with public schools that it may be substandard public schools but they're free. At least no charge. Right, no charge. Free to the consumer not free to society. We have to fund it with taxes and so that makes it harder for private schools to emerge and compete. Because those private school parents are essentially paying double. They're paying for public schools and their taxes and then they're paying privately for their schools for their children. That's right. And so why wouldn't private schools be crowded out because of such great investment in public schools by government? Well they would be. They would be crowded out by public investment. But they still exist. Oh you mean completely crowded out. Yeah I mean so they're crowded out in the sense that there aren't as many as would have been otherwise. Right. And I think that when we're talking economics we're always talking about things on the margin. Right. Are there going to be some percentage of people who are willing to pay both pay for public schools and for private? Yes. But the people on the margin who are choosing between sending their kids to school in clean clothes versus paying for their education. So this 1912 highway organization is crowded out by the federal government when it ends up building an enormous amount of roads. And later of course we have the Eisenhower Interstate System that most people might not even recognize was intended specifically to be a military program so that the military could easily mobilize and in fact there's a certain rule in the interstate highway system manual that says every certain number of miles must be flat or straight enough rather so that a plane can land on it. And these are all notions that I think are hidden by sort of our usual rhetoric that only an organization as large and as well resourced as well funded as the government has the ability to do things such as roads. But we see from these examples in the past that that wasn't always the case. Yeah. Yeah. Oftentimes what happens is that government jumps in and sort of hijacks the progress that private sector made and repurposes it towards its own uses. So whereas you know this was the original freeways were about commerce and about trade that the government especially with the Eisenhower highways that repurposed it for military purposes which to some extent is for destruction and not creation. And you saw that with ancient Rome that a lot of the Roman roads were for military purposes. And a lot of people think of that oh well that's good because it's about defending the empire but it was also about subjecting the subjects of the empire so that they say all roads lead to Rome well all roads lead out of Rome too so that the army from Rome could march out and suppress any kind of uprising of someone who wanted to break out of a community that wanted to break out of the empire. Right. Well just as all roads lead to Rome all roads at this point in our fee cast lead to the break so we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hi. I'm Sean Malone director of media for the foundation for economic education and I want to talk to you today about fees podcasts. You're currently listening to our wonderful fee cast but did you know we also have two other amazing podcasts for you to listen to each and every week. There's words and numbers featuring Anthony Davies and James Harrigan where they talk about economics political theory and current events every Wednesday. We also have a brand new offering called the fee audio experience where we bring you content from our seminars and events held all across the country. You'll get to hear fascinating talks from speakers and panelists which will make available to you right after each event. So be sure to check out the fee cast words and numbers and the fee audio experience right here on our homepage at fee.org slash shows and also subscribe on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play. Thanks for listening. Welcome back to the fee cast we were talking in the break about certain fictional renditions of the world in which we inhabit and one of them of course comes to mind which is where we're going we don't need roads and of course that reference from Back to the Future comes into your article as well which we have a link to in the underneath the video so that you can read what Brittany wrote about all this paving for pizza nonsense which actually sounds pretty good if we can get it here in Atlanta which I'm extremely stoked about I would love to see that and I'm a big as any Domino's fan so the question is if I'm a Domino's fan and I'm constantly ordering from this company that's patching the roads in order to get me my pizza what kind of problems does that make a parent? I mean economically, socially if I'm paying for roads to be paved through my direct expenditure on pizza is there an issue with that? Well it brings up the issues of public goods which is a term that economists use for goods that are non-excludable so it's hard to exclude any particular individual from it and non-rival risk where someone using the good doesn't deprive someone else from getting the benefit of the good so an example of a public good that is often raised is a dam so you have a dam and it benefits the whole community and you can't really say okay well you in this community you don't get the benefit of the dam you can't exclude people from it and you also if someone moves into the community it's not like oh okay well he's benefiting from the dam and that makes me benefit from the dam less so the argument that a lot of economists use is that for public goods you have to have the government provide the dam or the government to build the roads otherwise people wouldn't be incentivized to pay for enough of a supply of the good So for example a dam is a public good in the economic sense where it's non-excludable you can't say Bob because you didn't pay for this thing you won't have the benefit of the dam and it's non-rival risk meaning if all four of us consume the benefit of the dam a fifth person coming in cannot not be benefited from it Exactly A pizza on the other hand would definitely be a non-public good it would be a private good because it's rival risk Because then everyone's getting a piece of the pie Apparently We're just full of dominoes references all day because of course that's their rewards program that I have way too many points in So it's interesting that you mention public goods, Dan because there are a couple different definitions of course when most people are talking in the public sphere they're talking about it in a non-economic sense which basically means for the good of the public the greater good but this economic sense of a public good is a very specific definition and I want to read a couple things to you right here because I think it's important it's interesting because I usually go to Merriam-Webster and in this case Merriam-Webster does not have a definition for public good so I'm not able to tell you how popular of a term this is to look up I'm sure it's not very popular but here we go On Google it basically means a commodity or service provided without profit to all members in a society either by the government or by a private individual or organization and the second definition is what we said which is the benefit or well-being of the general public so they even say in economics this is something that is not done for profit See the problem I would have with that definition is that it's according to what the government does it's not according to like the nature of the good so for example the government could provide free mugs to everyone and not charge them and then call that a public good but it doesn't mean that it's non-rival risk and there are public goods that don't have to be provided by the government I like to think of radio as one example where it would be really costly to try to exclude people from tuning their radios to your station but that doesn't necessarily have to be provided by any kind of government or state and I think it's also worth noting that the government owns no road company so when we're talking about that like no profit actually a road company is profiting and they're profiting from your tax dollars because again, the government does not have the government road company that goes and paves your way they take your funding that we all fund and they use it somewhere else in the private sector so there is someone profiting and they're profiting off your dollars but you have no say in what happens to that and hence the problem that we come up with all the time of contracts that are done without bidding and so our politicians are actually giving their friends the contracts at a really good rate maybe not in the best interest of the public good, the greater good so I guess the thing that I'm wondering about paving for pizzas and dominoes is that's really cute thanks for filling some potholes and bellies and bellies not to miss out on that one but what good does that do us if we want to build a new highway how do we scale this out we can't depend on dominoes to fix all the roads they've got pizzas to bake well for one thing that lots of businesses have an incentive to get people to them every business unless you're an online solely business and even then you have delivery trucks so literally every business needs the road right and so making it easy to come to and so when you think about malls that they're kind of providing public goods too because there are like thoroughfares and walkways through there that people aren't paying for but it's in their incentive they want to make it easy to walk to their store so let me ask you this then if it's in all of these people's interest to pave the roads why don't we just hit them with a good old tax let's just let the government tax these organizations get that needed money for the roads why is that not a great idea they already have the money and look what's happening so it looks like making giving the government the power to say okay I'm going to do this with the money again you're taking away the demand right the consumer can't directly say no I don't like this they'd have to go through not only bureaucracy but also some middleman you know that's also being paid to do this work it would be exactly what we have going on now right and so this kind of always brings up the question talking about public goods there's also a very interesting difference in the way that we talk in economics about the public in the way that the colloquial usage of that word it happens right so when most people talk about the public we talk about something that is government run or operator or funded right public schools for example are given that name public but truly public has a very different meaning and I wonder if maybe we could sort of weigh in on that a little bit yeah public generally refers to just people and so like public businesses are businesses that are open to the public and even in I think in the UK public schools actually means private schools because it's schools that are open to the public it's for the people and I think that there's something insidious about lumping the notion of public with the notion of government because basically they're saying that the government is us, is the people or at least represents the will of the people in some profound way when really they often don't I know someone who insisted upon public schools being referred to as government schools simply because it is an insidious sort of conflating of ideas sort of the government side along with the interests of the public a lot of the time those don't line up most of the time perhaps what that leads to is this great quote that Bostia this economist, French economist Frederick Bostia talked about that he said that whenever I say that I don't want I mean this is a paraphrase whenever I say I don't want the government providing education people take that to mean that I'm anti-education when I say I don't want the government providing food that I'm anti-food and that kind of linguistic merging leads to that kind of fallacy well it's similar also to what we were talking about in a previous episode where we were defining socialism and one of the ways in which we found out it was that it equals generosity right and so if people think socialism equals generosity public equals government you can see very easily how people would support things that are funded to be public or funded by the public and think that that is serving in general that greater good that we all seek to achieve when really it is businesses that are more public in a sense because they are driven by consumer demand and there's no middle man in the way of the government claiming to represent their wills they are actually expressing their will with every dollar they spend like Mises said that the market is like a democracy in which every dollar is a vote and very rapidly responding to the wishes and needs and wants of all of us individuals in that sense that we were talking about earlier well I think all the wishes and needs and wants of this group of people probably have a pizza right now so I think we're going to end the fee cast and we look forward to seeing you next week have a great weekend


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And everyone on my screen, fantastic. All right, well, thanks again, everybody. Welcome, welcome. I just wanna ask you guys a question. Are you excited about creating wealth for your family, for your friends, for your community? Yes, yes, absolutely. All right, well, this is gonna be interactive, y'all. Okay? So, you know, I'm just excited as well too. I just personally feel, sometimes this is how I feel. I feel like no one's looking out for the little guy, you know? And we need someone who's looking out for us. And so my other question is, would having extra income per month help you meet your financial goals? Oh, yes. Yes. Everybody, yeah, type in the chat how much money you would need. How much money you think would be enough for you to be like, hey, I'm doing great. This will help me meet all my financial goals. Type in the chat. Let's hear from the number. That's all I'm gonna say, all right. Thank you. And Rebecca, if you can start calling those out, because I just can't see them right now, okay? 50 million. I'll say 50 million. 50 million, I love it. Say 50 million dollars, I love it. If you ever say six figures. Okay, okay. We got $2,000 from you. I love this group, yes. We have the big money group. Seven figures. Okay, okay. Well, I love it y'all. So I'm just really excited today to be speaking to you all on how we can get this accomplished. I personally believe nothing, nothing, nothing is impossible. Okay? We can definitely do. We got the dollars from Miss Phyllis. Okay, okay, fantastic. Well, each everyone on this call is already a wealth warrior. You all are talking about numbers that can definitely change your life and that of your heirs. So tonight, like I stated earlier before, everyone join the call. It's gonna be very fun and interactive, okay? Everyone who knows me knows that I'm just very upbeat, high energy all the time. And we just want everyone to feel comfortable. And if you have any questions, definitely post those in the chat. We have Miss Rebecca here. She's gonna be our moderator. She'll be collecting those questions. And then of course we'll be able to answer those at the end of the night. So let's get started. So first we have to begin tonight's call with exciting news. We actually have Mr. Wilbert Pritchard who has just joined Legal Shield as the director. So everyone give it up for Wilbert Pritchard. Yes, yes, yes, yes, thank you, thank you very much. We are honored to have him here. Yes, I've worked with him before in the past. He is just, his character is just amazing. He's a man of integrity. So I was very excited that he decided to come join the Legal Shield and Empire Newer family. And you do see Empire Newers. We're just not entrepreneurs. We're building empires over here, okay? Cause sometimes when you're entrepreneur, you know, it may not work. Five years they always say businesses are gone, but we're not trying to be gone. We're building empires to last a lifetime. And so just a little bit about Wilbert, okay? He is a dedicated self-leader and value creator with a unique skill set, nurture, developed and cultivated many years of military service. His motto is, a man can never reach new horizons unless he first loses sight of the shores. Helping others isn't coded in his DNA. And I can attest to that. Doing the right thing by providing the best products and services. Taylor could fit his clients need. He says it never goes out of style. So Mr. Pritchard, would you like to share some more information about yourself? Absolutely. First of all, it is an honor to be asked to be, to join Ms. Nicole Ivory. As she said, we work together. And I've always had the utmost respect in her ability. So I am very excited to get started with this. I am experiencing some difficult times right now, which coincides with the universe putting this right in the center of my life. Right now I could use the services and because it's in my DNA to help people, I can help the masses both on the military side as well. As the thing is that I deal with every day. I'm excited. I'm excited to educate people in how easy it is to get the services they need through prepaid legal, how easy it is and inexpensive it is. So I'm just excited to get started. Awesome, awesome. And I always say everything happens for a reason. And I'm just so glad that the universe has connected us again, okay? So for those who know me, there are a lot of people on this call who know me, but for some who do not, I definitely want to introduce myself. So I'm actually Nicole Ivory, Senior Director at Legal Shield and leader of the Empire Newers team. So we provide legal products including wheels, attorney, access. Everyone can put themselves on mute. That would be so appreciated. I would, Rebecca and me. That would be great. Thank you so much, y'all. All right. And so we, it's amazing. We provide legal products, including wheels, attorney access, legal defense, credit monitoring and gun owner protection, just name a few. And of course we'll go into all that tonight. But I've been in the financial industry for 10 years and insurance for seven years. So many people know me as the principal of AI Mutual, a boutique insurance firm. Then of course, working, like I was telling people earlier before they joined the call with Rebecca, she's our editor, but I actually do invitational flyers presentations like you see here. You probably received a flyer inviting you to this call. I do all that through my aim high promotions. So we're just putting all those pieces together to build a wonderful successful team. All right. And I'm just really excited that everyone has taken time out of their busy schedule, even during the holiday week to join us tonight. So let's talk about our why. So everyone in life has a why.   You know, what is your why? Who is your why? Well, as you can see here, this is my very beautiful and loving family. They motivated me to join Legal Shield. My daughter, we call Dr. Vana, she wants to become an obstetrician when she grows up. And I checked to see how much it costs, you know, today to become one.  It's expensive, right? And so I can only imagine how much is gonna cost 10 years from now when it's time for her to go to college. So with Legal Shield, I can actually pay her tuition in full. And I'm really big on generational wealth. And so for people who know me, I'm so pro-black. And unfortunately, wealth for black people will be zero by 2053 if we currently stay on a trajectory that we're on. And for Hispanic people, it's gonna be 2073. So it is very important for me to not only have residual income coming in, but also businesses that I can pass down to my heirs ensuring that they will not end up in the future bread and water lines. And so as you can see on here too, I want to secure my food and my water sources as well. And so Rebecca, can you? You broke up there, you broke up for me. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. Yes, would you like to share some of the wise in the chat? Yes. We have from Kamali Academy, they said, family in those yet to come. Mr. Rivers said, my family is most definitely my wife. We have last name, Martin. They said, no one can make my dreams come true, but myself. We have Mr. Eric Raul saying for my last name, we have Dorian saying because I'm motivated to help and facilitate. And we have Mr. James Mason, they said to make extra money to earn money for everyday activities. I love it. All right. Thanks so much y'all for posting your why. We have to have that why, it keeps us motivated. So let's talk about legal shield. So what exactly is legal shield? Well, it's just like the name implies, legal shield shields or protects you from legal matters that may arise. It started in 1970, excuse me, 1972, and it is a proprietary network of law firms that make legal representation accessible and affordable to everyone. For 40 years, the company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Legal Shield has over 1.7 million members and 39 provider law firms. They provide a work from home opportunity that allows more income, more time, more flexibility and independence for its associates. And as you can see here, their vision, Legal Shield's vision is to provide equal access to the liberty, equality, opportunity and justice that every human deserves. And this vision actually speaks volumes to me as a black person. I have faced so much discrimination throughout the years due to my race. So it's just very nice to know that I have partnered with a company that shares the same beliefs as I do and providing everyone with human rights. How can this service come into play here? Well, have you ever thought about writing or revising your will? Have you ever been notified that your personal information was compromised? I unfortunately seem to get that every year for some reason. I get all these letters in the mail, especially with health stuff. Oh, your information was leaked, right? Have you ever been treated unfairly or said, let me speak to your supervisor? That seems to happen a lot nowadays, right? What about being a victim or a breach of identity theft? I know that actually happened to my dad years ago and it took a while to get that restored. Signed a contract you didn't understand or regretted later. We hear a lot of people in an entertainment business right now talking about how they're signing these contracts that they don't understand. What about being concerned while using public Wi-Fi? Or if you had an insurance claim denied that you thought was covered? What about your credit score? They actually have another credit score coming up now. I think it's called the Big 10. It's something like that, like Big 10. So you just wanna know everything that comes to play with that. And then what if you had bought a defective product and wondered what your rights were? So these are just some to name a few. I know I personally have used this service in another state for purchasing land that it had questions on with the contract. So, tons of reasons why you would need legal assistance. So who is covered once you purchase your membership? Well, the member of course is covered. The member's spouse or domestic partner. If their children have never been married and are under the age of 26 living at home or a full-time student, they too are covered. A dependent children under the age of 18 for whom the member is a legal guardian. And then lastly, a physically or mentally disabled child living at home. All right. So let's talk about this service. So for $29.95, you can get legal shield access, okay? And what is it covered? So again, these are some things that it includes. Well, personal legal advice. You get unlimited number of personal issues. Contracts and documents review. Again, I personally use this service. Letters called made on your behalf.  You know, I'm gonna have my lawyer call you and nine times out of 10 people don't have a lawyer, right? But now with this service, you can actually have a lawyer call or make or send a letter on your behalf. And trust me, people do respond differently once they receive a letter that's from your lawyer. Life events will actually receive my will created, which is great. So now I can rest even better at night. A traffic ticket assistance, moving violations. I know Dr. Mason has a really great story with that one. Civil trial, defense, tax audit assistance. Okay, y'all, they're about to, or I think they already hired the 87,000 IRS agents, okay? So they're gonna be auditing more and more people. So it would be great to be able to have tax audit assistance. Then of course, you still receive discounts for preferred member discounts and then also emergency protection. And then lastly, with family domestic services. So maybe if you're going through a divorce, adoption, separation, name change, they can help you with all of these things. I think sometimes when people hear legal, they think it's just something like, you know, to the extraordinary where, you know, they're having to be in a trial for something like murder or something like that. It's like, no, no, no. It's nothing that extensive like that. People every day have legal issues that arise that they need a great lawyer to be able to assist them with. Because you want to be successful. All right. And can everyone still hear me? I just want to make sure everyone can still hear. Yes. Yeah. Okay, perfect, perfect. All right, so Empire Newers. So I just want to go ahead and introduce you to the Empire Newers team. You know, we believe in being a blessing to our clients and protecting them from legal woes. And then, of course, you too can do the same thing. So welcome to Empire Newers team of Legal Shield. We believe in not just building a brand and businesses, but an empire that will last throughout generations. We dream big, we move with integrity and believe in enjoying this thing called life. So there are perks with our team that you will not find with anyone else in our company, such as our 101 coaching, our beautifully created marketing materials, ongoing team training, motivational costs, and more. So let's meet the team. So again, I can actually assist you with the new member trainees and launch parties like we're hosting tonight. Dr. Mason, I just like to brag on him. He does everything. You know, he is simply amazing. He's retired and can meet with clients pretty much any time of the day. I've literally known him since I was a little girl and he has a beautiful Christian family. All of these people are good people. Just so glad Guy reconnected us and placed me back on his team. He is the epitome of integrity, very knowledgeable and truly wants everyone to succeed. And Dr. Mason, would you like to share a few words about your experience at Legal Shield? Yes, yes, would. You may have to be generous to say thank you. We've gotten a little bit taste because after being in this business for 18 years and had it for now, well over 30 years I could probably talk to the sun come up tomorrow. So y'all please share, let me know. Nicole, boy, that sound great. That'd be the killer cue. That'd be the cue, but let me first of all to everybody, the young lady that is hosting this is a wonderful person. And I'm not gonna say it because that I knew her dad and mom when we were all in Oklahoma City, but she, as you see, brings a lot of energy to this event tonight. As she's launching her Legal Shield business and I wanted to just tell you some of the things that has motivated me and I'm glad that Nicole came on board and Dari's another person that she'll be introducing in a minute. But let me just tell you a little bit of the highlights of my experience of having the service and they over 18 years of doing it. She mentioned something a minute ago about a traffic ticket and I just want to mention that because we as African-American people are more likely to be pulled over than anybody else. And I was in Oklahoma City way back and I was driving through one of the most richest part of the city called Nichole Fields. It was all, you know, a million dollar homes and all of that. And I got pulled over by the police and he didn't give me one ticket. He gave me two tickets. I said, okay. So I remember I had Legal Shield and I called the law firm. They assigned me an attorney. Surprisingly, an attorney went to school together the Legal Field and General Motors and he went into law. And I met him at the courthouse. Remember his name right now. His name was Ray Von and we went down and he said, just sit down. I was sitting down in the back. He walked up to the bench, had a talk with the judge. He came back and he said, let's go. Well, we were in there no more, ladies and gentlemen. We were not there more than 10 or 15 minutes. And I said, well, Ray, what about my case? He said, and this was two $100 tickets. He said, oh, they threw them out. I said, he did what? He said, oh, yeah, they just threw them out. Then I don't have to pay anything. He said, no. It's not, I remember going back and said, no. I said, oh my goodness. I said, Ray, if I did not have this service and if I had to pay you for those 15 minutes, how much would you have charged me? He said, $200. Oh boy. I didn't have $200. I didn't have 20 in my pocket to pay that. And that's the value of having Legal Shield. Because we represent you anywhere in America. You are represented because we now have over 50 law firms since Nicole has made that notice. And we've grown with now in every state in the nation. So wherever you go, you take your law firm with you in the palm of your hand because it's right on your phone. And then I want to just mention something about the compensation if I can. And I won't steal any of her thunder. But this company is rich. And I'm not saying it to be saying this company is rich. I have been in the company I've made over some, close to over $100,000 just in bonuses. I was sitting here thinking about I am 228 months in what is known as Performance Club. And Nicole, I don't know if you want me to say it now or later, but you want to be when you register under Ms. Ivory and will, you want to get into Performance Club. You want to ask your leaders, how do I get into Performance Club? What is it about? Well, it's simply like this. When you come into Performance Club, there's two levels. You come in as Performance Club, and you get $100 premium within a month. You will get a $50 bonus for the next two months that you qualify. For months three through 11, it goes up to $150 bonus. For months 12, as long as you are now Performance Club Pro, that means you are now putting up $200 premium a month. And we can show you how easy that is. I know she's going to talk more about that, about the compensation plan. But $200 premium each month, you will get $500 bonus. This year alone, out of next month to 12 months, I succeeded over 10 months at $500. That's about $5,000 extra that the company gives us, even after they have paid us for our residuals. And there's so much money that this company gives away. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to just tell you, thank Ms. Nicole for inviting you. If you see this opportunity as a way to get that financial success going before Christmas, I highly, highly recommend you doing that. And with that in mind, Ms. Nicole, I'm just going to stop right there because I can continue going on. But there is a little quote that I want to share with all of us that I coined. It said, nothing is so rewarding as to achieve something others say you could not do. And with that in mind, I turn it back to you, Nicole. I appreciate that. Thank you so much, Dr. Mason. That's great. I'm telling you, y'all, this company has so much money. And so actually, we'll talk about this a little bit more, too. But for just $20 a month, once you sign on as a member, you have your whole business and your palm, like he was talking about in the palm of your hand. You can do everything on Ellis Engage for just $20 a month.  And so why is it so important to join Legal Shield? Well, for those who want to become a millionaire, they normally say you have to have seven streams of income. But now they're saying eight streams of income. It's going up, you guys. Well, this inflation, right? And these are the various forms of income streams here. We have earned income, profit income, interest income, residual income, dividend income, rental income, capital gains, royalty. We're saying add Legal Shield to this. You can get residual income. He's talking about these bonuses. You make money while you're sleeping. You definitely want to do this, going into the new year. You don't want to go into 2023 with just one source of income. There are five ways in this company to earn money. One, personally enroll members, okay? And we'll talk about the plans a little bit later, but Legal Shield and ID Shield, they have individual and family plans, okay? You earn commissions when you enroll clients in these plans. Number two, team overrides. Earn commissions when associates join the team and enroll members. I love this, okay? You get rewarded for other people's work. I mean, in corporate America, I've been in corporate America forever, you know? I've worked very hard in corporate America, right? Other people in corporate America work very hard. But guess what? I never got paid off of their hard work. I just didn't. So this is pretty cool that you actually get paid off of your other team members that you enroll. Number three, lifetime residual income. You just heard it from Dr. Mason yourself. You continue to get paid for the memberships you personally enroll over the membership that you're, you know, that they have.  You're gonna get paid for the lifetime of that membership. Number four, he just spoke about this, Performance Club bonus program. Earned bonus dollars and the opportunity to participate in the Performance Club exclusive trips, which we'll talk about shortly. Number five, monthly incentives and bonuses. So they're always having all these extra contests and things out there as well too. So you can earn, you can basically increase your financial rewards through the incentives and bonus programs while developing a strong business structure, okay? So as you are out there doing your part, the company is doing their part. All right, so let's go ahead and talk about the commissions here. And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. But everybody, once you join Legal Shield, everyone starts off as an associate. So look at the bottom line. So we're basing this commissions off as $64.90 premium. And we'll talk about later how you can get that premium because it could be more, you know, if you have family, I'm an individual, you know, plans. So my Legal Shield plan plus, you know, my ID plan would be individual and not family. So that's why we just are given an example today because it could be different for everyone. But just based off a $64.90 premium plan per month, this company will pay you in advance if you elect to do so. And this would be the $70 for that one plan that you sell. And again here, as you move up, you increase your commission. So of course you wanna move up to senior associate and they do have a fast start opportunity for you to be able to do that in 20 days. They have a 45 day fast start program for you to move up to manager. So every time that you're selling a membership, look at this at the manager level, $120, senior manager, 160, director, 220. It just goes up and up and up. So of course we'll hear on the cost, 220. I'm at 295. When you bring in associate, you bring in the person in. Let's just say you made it up to manager level. You see this $300 on a side here? That's saying if whatever the difference is between that person you bring in and yourself, that's how much extra bonus that you will get, okay? So let's just say you were a manager and you just brought in a new associate. Well, if there's no one in between you and that associate, well then that's an extra $50 bonus. So this is just pretty cool that you of course are making your commission off of the membership you bring in. Plus those team overrides plus to the left, as you see here, they have extra bonuses plus they have the performance club bonuses. So and then of course the trips. So it's just can get really, really high really, really quickly. And what I love about this versus corporate America is that you get rewarded for your effort. I personally, it doesn't matter how hard I work in corporate America. My salary is not changing. That check every two weeks is the exact same.  And so that's the beautiful thing about Legal Shield. It rewards you for your hard work. So this is just some commission examples here. Some compensation examples protect for families a month based on a $64.90 example. You can earn anywhere from 300 to $22.92, okay? Again, if we duplicate this process and we teach 25 people, that's not a lot of people. Honestly, you all, how many hundreds, thousands of people do we know? And then right now, of course, once we start having our team meetings, we're gonna show you strategies on how to really put this in front of individuals who are getting laid off right now. To me, I look, I see this as an opportunity. I don't look at it as a tragedy because this opportunity here could be the best thing for these people who are getting laid off. There's so many people, especially in tech right now, are getting laid off. These are $100,000 jobs you all. So they need to replace it with another six figure opportunity and we have that opportunity for them. So as he said, this company is rich and they are. Look at this, 250 plus millionaire club members created alone, okay? This company has paid out $1 billion and paid commissions in the last 10 years. This is awesome, right? So we're definitely with the right company. And I say, especially going into this new season that may be a little concerning for others, you wanna make sure you're with a company that is well funded and then also reward you based on your performance. So everyone knows I love to travel. So you know, I had to post this picture here, right? This slide, they just looked like they're having so much fun. And guess what you all, we can too because this company actually has trips already planned for us for next year. So going back to what Dr. Mason was saying about the performance club. So the performance club trip next year is Puerto Vallarta. And so pretty much they're telling you here how you can qualify, protect two to four families a month, earn monthly bonuses up to $500 a month. And of course they have vacations all over the globe every year is a different location. So they actually started performance club qualifying for July 2022 through March 2023. But don't give up hope if you're like, oh my gosh, Nicole, it's like November 2022, it's okay. It's when you come into the business, okay? So you have from now, November 2022 until March 2023 to go ahead and qualify. And this is, I mean, they take care of everything for you. Your airfare, your hotel stay, your food, everything. So this is pretty awesome here. And did you want to say something brother Mason on that? Yes, you know. I can tell.  Let me say folks, last year, this year, they took over 100, maybe 125 people to Maui. I watched, if you ever watched Willa Fortuner, they always thrown about the islands. For one person just to go to Maui was in excess of $7,000. So you multiply that times 125 people. That's what legal shield paid out.  If you care to do some beverages, it's all free. Bring your swimming suit because you can get out in the water's free. They have people who do massages for you. Our company is actually the wealthiest company and in the world that I know of. In fact, they've done a study. We have more millionaires and make more millionaires in Minima Black in this company than any company in America, check it out. McDonald's has nowhere near us. None of them is nowhere near us. And we have millionaires being made every year in this business. So what Ms. Iris telling you is the truth. This company is ready for you right now if you're ready for us. Awesome, awesome. And can you also let them know too about the upcoming convention? Oh yes, yes, yes. We are going to North Carolina in the last of March, the 30th through April the 1st. Also, we'll be in on Thursday so we can get in our registration, get in our rooms, begin to take a little tour because all day- Can you, you was breaking up a little bit.  Okay. Going from when the dates of the convention, please. Okay, March the 30th through April the 1st. We'll be checking in. I always like to encourage my team members to check in on Thursday so you can beat the crowd. And I'm talking about you don't be in line for an hour waiting in line, get there on Thursday, get checked in. I have some rooms reservation on reserve right now. They're first come, first serve. And they're very cheap, this is the lowest we can get the rooms downtown averaging $100 a night per person. And well, I take that back, it's $200. I got my figures mixed up. Where we'll stand is less than $100. We're all expensive your food. They're the train that take us right there. I can tell you more about it. But these are first come, first serve. And I'll say five, but one of them is already two of them reserved, one by me and one by a lady in Chicago. So they have three right now. We might be able to get some more.  You will see, you won't believe to see the money that people are walking across the stage getting in bonuses. I have literally saw people get a $200, $300, $400,000 bonus for doing this business. Last, this year, a gentleman in his wife won a 2022 gold. What was that Dodge Challenger? Because this is our golden year and you are the seen it out of all the people. He won it off of a $2 a lottery. The lottery, legal shield is a lottery ticket. You want to go. And so what I asked you to do, I'm gonna be talking more with Ms. Ivory to let her know about those three rooms that are still open. And we'll be working that over through her and the team that she's building there. But we can't get more rooms, but we gotta get them quick because right now many of the hotels are already full. But you will not come back. You will not come back.   And you will meet some of the loveless ladies. And I mean financially that you want to meet. We just like a family. We are a family. We even cheer each other's successes.  That's a success story because there's some people don't have $100 right now. That's right. Get back to her. You just want to be at this meeting. I'm gonna talk to her more about it after the meeting. And then you could get back with her because I'm taking as many team members as we can there. Awesome, awesome. I don't know about y'all, but I'm pumped up. Okay, I'm talking about, we're going to Mexico. We're going to North Carolina. It's gonna be amazing year 2023 for us. It's gonna be so phenomenal. And so what is it gonna take just to join all of this excitement, this financial success? Just a one-time investment of $99. That's it. And we can start turning dreams into reality. Everything that everybody put down far as how much they want to make per month to be able to make their life successful, you know? Or to say that this would be a great number for them. Let's put together a plan, okay? For you to achieve that. Let's put, you have to start putting everything in writing. How many memberships do you need? You know, how many associates do you need? That's gonna be individualized per person. We will do that for you. And so that $99 one-time investment includes your own book of business, portable and willable, you know, business here. I love this. I have a daughter, Ivana. I can actually will this business to her, okay? Lifetime, residual income, weekly training and support. Again, this is your business. So you can start part-time. You can work it full-time. You can work it from anywhere. I personally love working from home. Again, that willable is a book of business, residual income for the lifetime of the membership, that fast start training class. We just had one this weekend. It was amazing, the instructor. I loved her energy. She was phenomenal. She answered all of our questions. And so we like to be almost fast start classes with you. So that way you're not doing this alone. Like he said, we are a family. We are a team. And we're gonna all win together. We have ongoing weekly training. And again, we will definitely mentor you throughout this particular year coming up, okay?   It's gonna be amazing. And so all you need to do is just $99 one-time.  I know for other companies where people are selling items that they're not eat or services that they don't even have themselves. It's kind of like, okay, you can't do that, right? So a legal shield wants to make sure that you have a membership, okay?  And then also then you can become an associate. So let's look at the action steps. Number one, enroll as a member. Definitely go to our websites there. Rebecca will put that in the chat for Will. Then also for myself, go check out the services. See what actually speaks to you, what you need at this time, what you feel you're gonna need in the future. Go ahead and sign up, okay? And then the second thing is become an associate. So on Will's page, it says become an associate. There's a tab for that. Just drop down, click join, $99 will get you in. And then of course we'll get you trained with the fast training classes because we want everybody to make their bonuses. We want everybody to go ahead and get elevated to that next level because that again increases your money. And then lastly, get paid and promoted. That's it, I love that, paid and promoted. We need to make a T-shirt on that, paid and promoted, right? That's gonna be our motto for 2023.  Number one, hey, you are ready to rock. You're ready to be an empire newer, not only for yourself, but for your heirs. You're ready to get started as an associate. Number two, membership me please. You say, hey, I have questions in the business, right? On the business, but I wanna protect my family with the membership. And then the number three, contact me. Maybe you have some more questions that you wanna get answered before you can move on one or two. So everyone tonight, if you don't mind, go ahead and share us with us in the chat what number you are. And then I'll open the floor up right now for any questions that you may have. May I miss Nicole? Yes, sir. Okay, I see you got some threes and others coming in. I want to just say to everybody who's on this call. By all means, you wanna thank Miss Nicole Ivory and Will. This is one of the best presentations in over 18 years I have been with this company.  But every time you sign up somebody, you want to be sure to call Miss Ivory that she can do a welcome address to your friends because you see the energy she has, she can only excel your business to the next level. Please, please consider, let this be your Thanksgiving gift. Let it be your Christmas gift to start your business right now for the small price that you're paying in front of you.  All right, well, I just wanna thank everyone again and I appreciate those words, Dr. Mason. Wilbert, we're just so excited to have you on board. Thanks again for everyone taking time out of their holiday week to join us. Don't let this be your last time. Look over the information. Definitely come out to another presentation. It's never too late to start your tomorrow. And with that, I just thank everyone and I hope everyone has a great evening. Thank you, Mr. Mason. Oh, God, that's so, so... Let's get it, let's do it. All right, we have some questions. So I'm gonna start off with the first question. Type it in. Okay, go ahead. The first question is, if you are a member, do you switch agents? No, I'll have to answer.  Okay, is the president talking about social issues or they wanna switch over under Miss Ivory? She's just asking because she already has a membership and she was wanting to know whether or not she would have to if she could switch to another, under another associate. Well, actually, she could membership, right? She could still sign, they all will. And then she would, Miss Ivory, I'm not the only one having trouble hearing Dr. Mason. Yeah, there's an echo, Dr. Mason. We're having problems. Oh, I didn't know. Let me know. Try it again, we're hearing an echo. Yeah. It's really bad. Yeah, it's really bad, I don't know what changed, I don't know what happened, but I don't know if you switched something, but if you can go back to whatever you were doing previously because you were talking, it sounded clear before. I'm just sitting here with the phone. I don't know, I apologize, I don't know what to do. No, it's not great now, go ahead. Is okay now? Okay. Yeah. But I wanna say, what I call is, you don't necessarily need to switch your membership because you'd have to be out six months and then re-sign up and then they still would probably bring back the residual to the original riding agent. What you can do if you want to sign up as an associate, you're already halfway there because you got the membership. All you need to sign up as an associate under Miss Ivory or Will and you will still be on her team or their team. So that answers the question. No, you don't need to change your membership because they're gonna put you out. Actually you have to be out almost five years for Miss Ivory or Will to really be able to use you on their team.  But you can, again, come in as an associate under either one of them. All right, do you have another question, Rebecca? Yes, I do. The second question, let me type it in the chat, is legal shield nationwide or is it just in Texas? Oh, no. We are in all 50 states, Hawaii and the 10 provinces of Canada. We're in every state in the nation. Your business you can market in any state in America and in Canada and Hawaii. Awesome. I have people down in, as you see Waco, I have people in Illinois, I have people in Tennessee, I have people in Mississippi. So you don't wanna leave your business in your and your own home state. Spend your business all around in every state in the nation. Okay. There is also another question. The next question is, what are the minimum requirements to stay working for legal shield? Okay, I think Ms. Ivy did a good job in explaining that what, see the company doesn't have a quota, but it's quotas you set. Let me take this down. If you want to go, if you want to be in performance club, okay. There's two areas, performance club 100, performance club pro 200. In your first month through your third month, if you get 100 premium dollars, now what is 100 premium dollars? That could literally be four, 29, 90 plans cause 30 times four is 120. You've already qualified for performance club. If you didn't do anything else that month that those four, you would have made an extra $50. But when I encourage people to come in, I want them to be performance club pro.  So go back to the chart that Ms. Ivy had mentioned, or if you can ask her again, the 6490 plan is for a family, that's, and they roll it up.  So you do about four of them multiply, do the math, and you'll see how quick it is that you can get to become performance club 200. If you get to be for performance club 200 for three consecutive months, then your income is gonna begin to increase to $500. Now, when I was in the business, it took almost three years to get there. But now the company is so wealthy, you saw what she said, a billion dollars. Actually, internal revenue makes us have these kinds of bonuses programs to give it away and we're just not alone. You know, Bill Gates used to give all billions of dollars away to Africa. No, the internal revenue tells us big companies, you gotta do something with that money. So remember what the levels that she taught, if not, you can call her back and I'm sure she'll go back over with you again, but the sky is the limits. Well, I should say the moon because there are people who come in within the first week, they go up to that manager's level that she mentioned and beyond. I hope that answers the question. Is there any other questions from our wonderful group? You can either unmute yourself or you can type it in the chat. Thank you. I have a question, Sandra Torres. Hello. Go right ahead. The 1999, and that's a monthly fee, correct? Yes. If you're doing the 1995 plan, that is for the identity theft for single people. Do I? Actually, I think she's talking about, I think on that one, she's talking about that LS Engage is what I had on the slide. Well, the legal shield advantage, if that's what, is that, are you talking about the legal shield advantage? Yes, uh-huh. Well, the legal shield is only for people who are- Can you cancel that? I just want to know if you can cancel at any time. Well, you can cancel, but if you are an associate, if you cancel, then you lose all the privileges of the bonus program. You can't participate in any bonuses, you can't go on any trips because that's the purpose of what the company is doing. And we're going to give you 10 times more than what you put in. And see, I've been in this, what's called the legal shield advantage for 18 years. You know, and I take advantage of all the bonuses programs. As I say, I'm not bragging, but of course I've been in that long. I've been getting $500 a month and $20 is a whole lot less than $500. So yes, you can cancel out and you can come back, but you're going to lose time in there. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. And if you ever have a problem, let me say with some of these things, you just call the company the 800 number and just tell them that you need to restructure your finances and they'll even put it back in the monitor to get you time to catch up because we don't want to lose you. Sounds good. Any other questions? Y'all have been amazing and excellent questions too. I appreciate you all. Wonderful, wonderful. Well, Will, you know, I'm so sorry. Will, I didn't give you an opportunity to say some last words before we get off because it's almost eight o'clock now. I am just ecstatic about the endless possibilities. I have in my phone currently over 800 contacts. I'm excited to initiate this on a massive scale. So I have several ways of communicating. I build a tribe. I have a Facebook page called, Where Are You Dreams? Right now it's at 160 members. I've not done anything with that in over a year. Those 160 members are still there. So what that tells me is I need to get busy and get busy. So that's what I'm about to do. I love it. And again, everyone, we are here for you, okay? We will create those flyers, free of charge. We will host these launch parties for you, free of charge. If you have any questions, if you have someone who you want to meet, they can attend one of these type of meetings. They just maybe need to do everything on the phone. Whatever we need to do. We're in this together. Let's build together. Let's win together. Our 2023 y'all is about to be ridiculously amazing. Okay? I hope y'all are ready. I am just stoked. It is so good that we connect with y'all. I'm telling you, it's unreal. Thanks again, Rebecca, for monitoring our chat tonight. Thank you so much, Dr. Mason. For your words and wisdom. Thank you. And Will, let's go ahead and do this. All right, everybody. Let's get her done. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. I look forward to the next meeting. Doctor. I'll be here first. Just let me know. All right, we're going to see everybody else again soon. Okay? All right, good night, everyone. Thanks again, Ms. Ivy, I appreciate you. Bye, everyone. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Y'all take care. All right, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Good night. Good night.