Good afternoon and welcome to the IIEA on this Friday afternoon. It's a real pleasure to welcome an old friend, an old friend of the Institute, Tom Wright, to speak to us today from Washington. He's going to talk about issues from his latest book, The Geopolitics of the Pandemic, many different aspects and dimensions. I'm looking forward to it as a start to the weekend. I hope you are too and I hope that you'll ask plenty of questions. You can do that in the usual way by using the Q&A function at the bottom of your Zoom screen. The event is all on the record and before handing over to Tom, let me just briefly introduce him. Thomas Wright is the director of the Center of the United States in Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He is also a contributing writer for the Atlantic and an on resident fellow at the Laouy Institution for International Policy. His most recent book, After Shocks, Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order was published in August. He is also author of all measures short of war, the contest for the 21st century and the future of American power. Tom is a doctor from Georgetown University, a master of philosophy from Cambridge University and a BA and an MA from UCD, from the city from which he comes originally. Tom, great to have you again. Over to you. Dan, thank you so much and it's a real pleasure to be back. And I remember you kindly, the Institute kindly hosted me for my book back in 2017 and that was in person. So the only thing I regret on this occasion is it can't be in person. But I look forward to that again as well, hopefully in the not too distant future and congratulations to you and to the Institute on just the extraordinary sort of work you've all done recently. And we were just talking beforehand about that great event you had last week as well with Secretary Yellen and Pascal Donahue. So it's just terrific to see how well things are going. I thought what I would do, Dan, maybe to kick things off a little bit is to talk about some of the major themes in the book. Before I do that, to say just a little bit about why we wrote the book, the book is sort of co-authored with Colin Call, who is a professor at Stanford, but now is that the back in the Pentagon is undersecretary of policy in the Biden administration. But we finished the book just before he went back in and we started it about in April or so of 2020. And I think it's just interesting to talk a little bit about the rationale for that because I think it gives an indicator as to what we were trying to accomplish in the book. But it became pretty obvious early on in the pandemic that this was a global event, a truly global crisis that affected all countries and people around the world in very, I mean, obviously in unequal ways, but in similar ways in the sense that people are concerned about getting the virus, about keeping their jobs, about what they would do with their kids, about elderly relatives, about the lockdowns. And so it was a truly global moment. But we saw a very little sort of international cooperation. And what Colin and I wanted to try to do was to document that story throughout the pandemic, to try to get beneath the surface to show what is sort of the foreign policy and geopolitics of the pandemic. Why is it that countries are finding it difficult to cooperate? Whereas in 2008, 2009, the world really came together through the G20 to deal with the international financial crisis. So we benefited a lot from extraordinary work that journalists did all around the world and other researchers and international institutions on providing sort of real-time data and information about how the crisis is affecting all parts of the world. But we try to supplement that with about 70, 75 interviews with senior government officials from major countries, the US, Japan, in Europe, Australia and the WHO and elsewhere to try to find out from them on background what they were seeing in real time. And we talked to them at different points in the pandemic. So we talked to them at the beginning in April, May of 2020, then over the summer, then again in the fall, then in the winter and the spring of 2021. And so we try to get a sense of how their sort of view was evolving throughout and what went as expected and what did not go as expected. And the major sort of theme of the book really is how overwhelming the geopolitical rivalries and nationalisms were to the international response. Because this was a period when it was possibly the worst moment to have a pandemic. If you look at where we were in 0809 with the financial crisis and you had reasonably responsible leaders in positions of power around the world, on this occasion we had higher ball scenario and Donald Trump and Xi Jinping and Modi and a big cast of characters that came from a more nationalistic, unilateralist perspective. And so we wanted to try to figure out what that meant. So I'll just talk a little bit about some of the major findings, I think that sort of struck us and then maybe a bit about what went better than expected and then where we might go from here and what some of the policy recommendations are. And I'll start with China and we start the China story really not in December of 19, but in 2002-2003 with the SARS epidemic, which China handled with a degree of sort of secrecy and repression and denial early on. The WHO actually took a strong stance against what China was doing at that moment. China sort of changed this position and became more cooperative with the international community. The SARS sort of petered out around the summer of 2003, although technically it continued on for a while longer elsewhere. But after SARS, lots of reforms were put in place in China to try to ensure that its response the next time will be more transparent, cooperative and effective. So they built up a Chinese CDC modeled on the US CDC Center for Disease Control and empowered it. And they put in place mechanisms to ensure the more rapid transit information from the provinces to central authorities. And they also began to cooperate more with the international community, particularly the WHO and senior Chinese health officials went on international mission threat 2010. So it looked like China had fundamentally changed and engagement had sort of worked in that global public health sphere. What was sort of striking when COVID it was that many of those reforms sort of melted away, right? So instead of being transparent, China was quite secretive. Instead of information being transmitted from central to central authorities in the provinces, authorities in Hubei province were actually very reluctant to do so. And then of course, there was very little cooperation with the international community. Now, some people put that down to sort of local versus central governmental tensions in China. But the fact of the matter is that when Xi Jinping took over the response in early January 2020, we saw a doubling down in that position. Repression of journalists, doctors, nurses who spoke out about the virus, refusal to share information, even the sequencing, the genetic sequencing of COVID was shared unilaterally by a Chinese scientist in defiance of a government order prohibiting such sharing. So throughout January, we really saw a lack of engagement with other embassies in Beijing. We talked to a lot of US and European officials and embassies that sort of documented that in real time. And then of course, the WHO throughout 2020. And so the really sort of interesting takeaway here is that it didn't necessarily need to be this way, right? We wouldn't have necessarily thought on the eve of COVID that China would have responded in this manner because reforms that have been put in place were meant to ensure a different outcome. After it has suppressed the virus relatively effectively, China became more assertive internationally and began to use its aid and later on its vaccine diplomacy for geopolitical ends began to take a fairly sort of assertive approach on Hong Kong and on Australia and Europe. Of course, the Wolf Warrior diplomacy in a way that sort of alienated many other countries at a time when more depth Chinese diplomacy might have driven a wedge between Europe and the United States and the Trump administration, right? So instead, China's behavior sort of brought Europe more in line with the US than one might expect. So the story of the pandemic, I think in China, to us internationally really is a story of the erosion of these reforms of reversion to those sort of practices of SARS, except even maybe more so and an assertive sort of foreign policy that really set the tone, I think, for where we are today. The US of course, in all of this, was the other sort of major actor. And we came into this expecting to see a story about Trump being asleep at the wheel and not realizing how serious COVID was. John Bolton had abolished the directorate responsible for global health in the National Security Council. So we thought that that would be sort of a story, but we actually found that it was very different than we expected. And it turns out that senior Trump administration officials in early January were perhaps earlier than officials anywhere else outside of Taiwan and China itself to sort of understand the gravity of COVID. And that was largely because of one person, the deputy national security advisor, Matt Pottinger. Pottinger is sort of an interesting character in all of this. He had been a journalist, a young journalist for the Wall Street Journal, covering SARS in 2002-03. So he broke many of the stories the Journal had then on that epidemic. He has an interesting sort of family background. His wife worked at the CDC and his brothers, an expert in infectious disease. So when COVID hit, Pottinger was sort of naturally alarmed because of his sort of unique background, Fauci, Redfield and others. And we're also of that mindset. And what we saw in January 2020 was actually a fairly active NSC trying to game out certain scenarios and what could the U.S. do to try to get ahead of it. But where they failed was unconvincing Trump to really do any of the things that needed to be done. So they got him to impose a partial and not necessarily effective, but a partial travel ban on China in late January. After that, they believed that Trump needed to follow on to put in place lots of investments and measures domestically to get ready for what was surely coming when the pandemic would hit American shores. But instead of that, Trump sort of acted as if he had done his job with the travel ban, and he was convinced that anything he would do could disrupt the economy in an election year and damages political chances. So there was great frustration in parts of the Trump administration throughout February that they were losing valuable time. And that was time that could never be recovered. So if you're to look beyond all of the different statements and outrageous things the president said about COVID throughout 2020 and try to identify one major mistake, I think that was made by the administration, we would argue that those lost five weeks from late January through to early March were probably sort of the key moment for the U.S. sort of erred on this. Now, once Trump had to close down the American economy in March 11th, he then sort of realized the gravity of the situation. And he had been in a relatively good position with China throughout January and February because they had signed phase one of the trade deal. He felt that he had sort of struck this deal that would be a part of his reelection campaign. He was saying nice things about Xi Jinping. But when the U.S. economy shut down, he turned with vengeance on China, blamed Xi directly for his predicament. We have in the book some colorful language I won't use here about exactly what he said on the day when he was when he closed down the U.S. economy, what he said about Xi Jinping and the Chinese regime. But at that point, he sort of changed his position on China to endorse a more hardline containment set of measures that Trump administration had been fairly divided between those who wanted containment and those who wanted to sort of wait and see and saw it more narrowly in an economic sense. Trump was more on the side of rhetorically, was on the side of the hardliners. Substantively, he was more on the side of those who wanted to treat it fairly narrowly in the economic area and he changed sides after March 11th. And so one of the big sort of takeaways is that COVID really profoundly affected U.S.-China relations on both sides. It made China much more assertive and it made the U.S. more singularly focused on China. And so I don't know if there will be or is a co-war between the U.S. and China. I'm sort of skeptical that we should use those terms. But if there is one over time, I think historians may date it to this period in 2020 that that was sort of the trigger moment where it became where what people suspected what happened was actualized. Now, if we look beyond sort of the U.S. and China, sort of the third sort of big takeaway is regarding the WHO, right, because the WHO comes into COVID really stuck between Trump and Xi Jinping, right? They have a very fundamentally different operating environment than the WHO didn't know 203 and they know it, right? They know what they believe that Xi Jinping will be much less tolerant, you know, of soft criticism from the WHO than Hu Jintao was in SARS. And Ted Ross, the director general, I think his view is that he will sort of manage this through his own personal diplomacy, right? He'll work with these leaders. He'll praise them, flatter them even if he believes it's helpful to get sort of practical cooperation on the ground. And so throughout January, we know from leaked reports of WHO meetings, the senior WHO officials are alarmed by China's reaction. Mike Ryan and others are deeply critical of how China's behaving. They believe it's worse than SARS. But publicly, the WHO is spinning a very different tale saying that China's response is exemplary. As we try to show in the book, there's a rationale behind one can agree or disagree with it, but there's a logic behind that position, which is that they believe that if they are to go public with their concerns, that China will just shut down and the WHO would have no access. So their argument is that they believe that it was only through playing nice that they will be able to get some concessions. And Ted Ross goes to China in late January. He does get an agreement to have a WHO team on the ground. They're not allowed to go to Wuhan, but they believe it's better than nothing. Now that brings the WHO into direct conflict with the US, where the US officials, including the ambassador to the WHO, who we quote quite a bit in the book, they believe that you actually have to put pressure on China in order to get anything done, right? You don't necessarily need to criticize them, but you need to be clear about what is expected and then to accurately describe what they're doing or not doing. And if you don't do that, then you take off some of the pressure and leverage. And so there was a dispute early on, but it was a little bit muted because Trump himself was praising China during this period, right? So what Trump was saying was no different really than what Ted Ross is saying, but it all came to a head after Trump changes his view on China after the US shutdown. He then also turns in the WHO and sort of blames the WHO almost conveniently because it's sort of airbrushes his own comments on China. And what we sort of see from that point is this slight comedy of errors episode where Trump sort of bungles into pulling out of the WHO. He's criticizing it. They come to an agreement of patching things up. That's sabotaged from members of Trump's own administration, leaked the information to Fox News and they quickly roll back on it. He then juices up a speech in China by preempting his own deadline and negotiations and pulling out of the WHO early. He hopes that that will lead to further negotiation. It doesn't. And by the summer of 2020, basically the US is on its way out of the WHO. So that is sort of rooted in this fundamental disagreement about how to treat China. To the Europeans, they I think are shocked. They believe that you could have some reformer of the WHO. They're not fully happy with Tedros during this period. But they believe that the last thing the world needs is to actually litigate that in the middle of a pandemic. Their view is there's time to deal with this later on. And so they're deeply frustrated that you will be able to get these reforms through this tactic. Now, interestingly, after Trump leaves office, we see sort of a shift in the WHO position toward China. So Tedros actually begins to take on China after that period. And it is tougher in China in January, February of 2021. He intervenes to say that the WHO investigative team that goes to China is premature in dismissing a lab leak theory. And he says that merits further consideration aggravating China. There were different sort of explanations as to why this is. But one that I find sort of credible is that as long as Trump was waging a fully fledged war against the WHO, nobody else was going to criticize Tedros. And nobody else was really going to criticize the WHO for fear of fatally undermining it. But when Trump was out of the picture, then it was a safer area for countries to begin to take a hard look at what was happening. And the WHO leadership had to change tack a little bit at that point. Europe's role in this is the fourth sort of finding, I think it might be sort of interesting. Europe, I think, really struggled throughout this crisis. But there was lots of ups and downs, maybe more so than any place else. As everyone I think on this call know, as well as I, health policy is one of those very few areas that is fully in the competence or was fully in the competency of the national governments. So the European Union was not equipped to deal with it. There was a lot of denial in the early stages. Even when the pandemic hit Italy, there were delays which you document in the book in terms of having emergency meetings, of delays up to 10 days and two weeks at a time when days, even hours mattered. There was a sense when it did hit Italy that there wouldn't necessarily be a change to the fiscal rules. By April, May, Macron and Merkel, I think really worried that this could be an existential crisis for the EU. And then we did see this major jump forward on the so-called Hamiltonian moment which was an extraordinary development. So when we first started to draft the Europe chapter in the summer of 2020, it really looked like a redemptive story, right? Europe had this terrible problem at the beginning. Everyone was scrambling for critical medical supplies, stealing each other's stuff, runways, and nationalizing factories, and huge, distrust, unilateral closing of borders. But by the summer, it has sort of transformed itself into a different type of constitutional union. But of course, the story didn't end there. Europe did become complacent over the summer. We saw a resumption of travel, an explosion of COVID then in the fall and the winter, a delay in vaccine development, I think because of some mistaken decisions taken by the EU in the fall inside in the autumn and September, October of 2020. And then throughout the spring of 2021, we saw a rapid catch-up in vaccine distribution to the point where Europe surpassed the US in the summer of 2021. So for Europe, I think it really was a roller coaster, but it did leave a mark. It did leave a serious mark, I think, on European politics. The UK is a separate issue I'm happy to come back to in the conversation. I think Europe has come stronger out of the pandemic. But if you look at the overall numbers of fatalities, the European numbers are very similar to those of the US. So the larger overall numbers, I'm going to adjust it for population, they were a little bit lower, but basically they're quite equivalent, which I think is sort of quite astonishing given the role of Trump personally over here in terms of the mistakes that he made on it. More broadly, in the book, we do try to look at this as a global issue. We spent a lot of time in the developing world in countries like Bangladesh, Peru, Rwanda, and others, some of which India, some of which were not dramatically affected by the health aspects of the pandemic early on, but were affected by the economic consequences, particularly the slowdown in the global economy and in tourism and in supply chains, and in the adoption of lockdowns that were not suited for a type of economic model that they had. So in a country like Bangladesh or in India, I think that had a real negative impact early on. In terms of what went better than expected, I would say there were two things that really surprised us in this. One was on the economic and financial side, where Federal Reserve and ECB officials we talked to were, I think, more worried about aspects of the global economy falling apart this time than they were in 1809, especially on the Treasury market. They acted in an extraordinarily rapid manner that alleviated that crisis, but the phrase they used, which I think will be interesting to students of international relations and those interested in theory a little bit on this, is that they kept saying, this was an example of correlation without coordination. So we did not have formal cooperation in a structured sense in institutions or in conferences or in summits, but we did end up with every country doing the right thing on their own and that's reinforcing each other's actions. So there was positive correlation without coordination, which I think shows a little bit how resilient the international economic order was during this period. And we didn't really find very much evidence at all of geopolitical rivalries and nationalism negatively impacting the financial decision-making. So in the U.S. case, the Federal Reserve acted fairly independently. Secretary of Treasury Manchin was, we are told, broadly supportive of those efforts and facilitated them. And Trump just wasn't really engaged or involved one way or the other. So he wasn't a negative force. He wasn't the driving force behind it either. The Federal Reserve had the space to do what they wanted to do. And so that, I think, was an interesting data point to us. And the other area where there was maybe more progress than people anticipated was of course in the vaccine development. And here, it was interesting that on vaccine development as opposed to vaccine distribution, a more nationalistic approach, which I think we thought would not quite fail, but we thought would run into real limitations, did actually succeed beyond expectation. And the fact that countries did not have to agree on bear burden sharing and on a common approach to vaccine development meant they were free to pursue their own strategies. And in the U.S. case, the U.S. threw over $18 billion of vaccine development, which was about nine times more than what the EU spent. And they did so in a way that basically went into business with the pharmaceutical companies, which some people had concerns about, but effectively collapsed some of the lag time in different phases of vaccine development. And so we had the government paying for factories to be built before they knew they would be used, throwing money at anything that had any likelihood of working, whereas the EU took more of an approach focused on liability for pharmaceutical firms and cost control. It turns out that operation more speed was sort of the more correct approach in terms of getting reliable vaccines fairly quickly. We also, I think even in countries like Russia and China, saw vaccines that while they may not have approval here and may not be as effective as European and American vaccines in terms of the percentage effects of it, I think our net benefit in terms of the big shortfall we have globally. So a lot of people are using those and they are certainly better than not having a vaccine at all. So on the vaccine development side, I think that was more positive than we expected, but on vaccine distribution, of course, it's a huge failing not to have multilateral cooperation, a huge failing and there's a massive deficit there that I think we're still struggling to overcome and that's one of the major challenges ahead. I will just finish on sort of a note about where we're headed and maybe the overall sort of takeaway. I think for us, what the pandemic shows is that we as a world are sort of faced with near worst-case scenarios on great power rivalry and on transnational threats, right? Both are worse than people thought they would be a mere sort of 10 years ago. And there's a negative synergy between them. Great power rivalry makes transnational threats like pandemics and climate change in particular more difficult to deal with than those transnational threats actually provide some of the crisis points for relations between the major powers. And coming out of this, I think, as we look for ways to reform the WHO and prepare for the next pandemic, which could be worse than this pandemic, we should definitely try to work with China, find areas of agreement on WHO reform. But one lesson of COVID is that we also need to prepare for a world in which that cooperation is not forecoming. So we need a universal track. We also need a backup plan. We have a number of proposals, most of which aren't particularly new because this issue is a new and studies on it aren't new. But maybe the one we have that is a little bit novel is calling for alongside the WHO, alongside robust US engagement in the WHO for a coalition of like-minded countries that will come together and agree to do more, agree to spend more on global public goods for global public health, agree to higher levels of transparency, higher levels of coordination. We believe that that would essentially reinforce the WHO, not undermine it because you'd have a set of countries agreeing to a higher standard. And if there were to be a future crisis, those countries could act more rapidly if the WHO was gridlocked because I think there is a risk that the WHO will become a venue for competition between the US, China and Europe in a way that the United Nations became a venue for competition between the US and the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. So we need to try to figure out a set of redundancies within the system. The final point I will just finish on is on the global vaccine piece of it because we are only in a post-pandemic world in the sense that it is after the pandemic emerged where we are not in a post-pandemic world in the sense that the pandemic is over. The pandemic is becoming obviously endemic to our societies and there is a real risk, I think, of a two-tier or multi-tier world between safe zones and unsafe zones where you have largely vaccinated parts and then parts of the world that really struggle. I hope that we look at that problem in terms of the developing world and the global piece of this being the next front in an existential struggle against COVID and not as a matter of development assistance or foreign assistance. We need to be as dedicated to dealing with this globally and vaccinating the world as all of our countries are in vaccinating their own populations and looking at it as a national problem. And while the Biden administration has done a lot more than its predecessor and is arguably doing more than other countries in Europe is doing quite a lot as well, I still think we have a huge way to go in actually doing enough. The WHO estimates that to get to 70% vaccination rate around the world will be 11 billion doses and that was before booster shots came into play at which would probably make that number even higher. The amount that the U.S. and Japan and the EU have committed through the G7 is about a 10% of that total. So we have a long way to go on that and I think that is something that the G20, G7 and the U.S. and the European Union together need to be focused on looking forward. But Dan, I'll stop there.


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Since I've been working with you, I've learned to observe things I never saw before. Perhaps Patsy, you've undoubtedly improved while you've been my assistant. But I still say that you really see very little that goes on around you in spite of all my training. Oh Nick, anybody would think that I- All right Patsy, let's see. How many steps are there from the sidewalk up to the front door of your house? Why they're out? Let me see there. How high up the floor are the windows in your bedroom? They're about two. No, no, one and a half. What color is a two cent stamp? Red. Good for you. Thought you were going to say sharp cruise. Nicholas Carter's office. Is Mr. Carter there? Oh, is that you, Penny? Sure. How are you, Miss Bowen? I'm fine, thanks. How are things with you? Pretty good. Can I talk to Nick? Of course, Penny. Here he is. Hello, Penny. How's my special assistant this afternoon?  I think there's going on down here. Could you come over? What is it, Penny? Trouble? Gee, Nick, I don't know. But it looks bad to me. Oh, can't you tell me what it is? Not on the phone, Nick. You know you always told me to be careful what I said on the phone. Some of the gang might be listening in. And quite right, Penny. All right, I'll take a run over there. You want your newsstand? Yeah. Pump your car down the block away so they can't see you. I'll be waiting. Okay, Penny, be down right away. So long. Oh, what was that all about, Nick? Sounded very important. Penny thought it was important, too. But he wouldn't say what it was. He's seen something and thinks I ought to know about it. Oh, that's what you get for being his hero, Nick. He thinks you're just about the greatest guy in the world. His ambition in life is to be a great detective like you. Yes, I know it. And ever since his old man died in my arms, I felt a hundred sort of keep an eye on him. And he's smart, too. Never forgets things I've told him about how to see what goes on around him. Some people I know, not so very far from here, could profit by his example. Okay, Mr. Connor. Okay, get in your car and be on your way. Leave me to a little peace and quiet here. You and your wisecrack. Very well, Patsy. Since I'm not wanted here, I'll go call on Penny. I hope he's got something more exciting up his sleeve than I think he has. Hey, Nick, I thought you were never coming. Sorry, Penny, but you know how traffic is. Sure, I know. Come around the back of the stand, Nick, so nobody will see us talking together. Okay, Penny. What's up?  Yes. And you see the empty stores on each side of the bank? Yes. Well, a little while ago, a big black sedan pulled up and two guys got out and went into the vacant store on this side of the bank. Then two more guys got out and went into the empty store on the other side. Then the sedan drove away and left the four guys there. That's odd. Any idea what might be going on? Well, Nick, there's several factories around here, and today's the day the bank downtown sends the money to this bank for the payrolls. Tomorrow is Saturday, you know. I see what you mean, Penny. You think those men may be planning to hold up the bank when the money gets here, huh? Well, gosh, Nick, don't it look like that to you? Could be, Penny. Yes, it does look suspicious. But Penny, robbery's not my line. This is a job for Lieutenant Riley and the city police. I'll give them a ring and tell them what you saw. You'll have to hurry, Nick. It's almost four o'clock, and that's when the car comes with the money. Well, I'll phone Riley now. Maybe he can get one of the squad guards. Right here it comes. Look! Yes. It's an armored car, all right, and it's stopping in front of the bank. They're starting to unload the money, and they don't know they're making trouble. Wait here. I'll warn them they're in danger. I'll hold up the car, Nick. Get back, Penny. Keep out of the way. I'll see if I can help the guards by picking up some of the thugs with my gun. Look out, Nick. Don't get yourself killed. I won't. I'll stay behind his pole. I think so, but... Help me! But, Doc, I tell you there's nothing wrong with me. Eh? Nothing except that you've lost about a quarter of blood.  But I can't stay here doing nothing. I've got to get after those thugs. I've got to get out of here.  I hurt badly. Oh, it's only a scratch, Patsy. But this saw bones wants to keep me here cooped up like a pet rabbit. How is he, Doctor? Really? He's got a bad hole in the side of his neck. Nothing fatal. He'll get over it. But he's lost a lot of blood, too. He's got to be quiet and give nature a chance. Now, look, Doc, look. Nature's going to have a tough time doing anything for me if you keep me here worrying because I can't get out. Nick, you're going to stay here and like it. Good girl. If you don't behave, I'll call some attendants and have them undress you. Then you'll have to stay here whether you like it or not. But, Patsy, I tell you this. Why, Nick? Why, there's Penny. What's he doing here? I want to see Nick. Here I am, Penny. I'm coming, son. You get right back in that dead, Nick. If you don't... Sorry, Patsy, but Penny wants me. Why, Penny, what happened to you? Oh, nothing much, Nick. A bullet got me in the leg. That's all. That's all? Well, that's enough. You hurt that, son? No, Doc says I'll be all right in a few days. But I got something to tell you, Nick. What is it, son?  Yes, I remember. Well, I saw a guy standing in the window of the house across the street from the bank. It must have been a lookout or something. And just as I looked up, I saw a name at you. So I yelled, and he fired. Did you got a good look at him, Penny? No, but I know which window it was. Good boy. Which one was it? You'll see. I busted it with my slingshot so you'd know it. I put a marble right through it, and on the first shot, too. I thought maybe you'd find a clue there, if you look.  I'm proud to have you for an assistant. It was a window on the fourth floor of a brown house. You can't miss it. Yes, sir, Penny. I'm proud to have you for an assistant. Nick, are you going to get back to bed, or do I have... I can't go back to bed, Patsy. I've got to go places. Thanks to you. Can't let Penny down, not after the way he fixed things up for me. Nick! Yes, Penny? Take this with you, Nick. It's as good as a gun sometimes. I use it a lot. Well, thanks, Penny. That slingshot of yours may come in handy. I'll keep it right where I can get at it fast, if I need it. Oh, there you are, Nick. Oh, you're right. Why certainly I'm all right. You got any other gang? Oh, no, Nick, we didn't. We found the car they were in. Wrecked six blocks away, but there was nobody in it. The car was stolen too, so that's no help. Did they get much? Well, three guys are killed, one in the hospital, and $100,000 in small bills is missing. That's all I know. Yeah, you ain't got a lead in the world right now. Well, I have. Thanks to Penny here. Penny? Who is Penny? My assistant. And one of the best assistants a man could ever have. He just gave me some dope that may crack the whole case wide open. Well, what is it, man? Tell me quick. Not yet, Riley. This is confidential between Penny and me. Ah. If it works out, I'll let you know. Well, Penny, so long. I'll be seeing you. So long, Nick. Good luck. Nick Carter, where are you going now? I'm out on the trail, Patsy, and nothing can stop me. Well, if I can't stop you, at least I'm going with you.  Okay, then. Come on. Time's a-wasting. Look, don't you need some help, Nick? I'll send some of the boys with you. No, Riley. This is a one-man job. And I'm the man who's going to try to do it. Patsy, I wish you hadn't come. There may be trouble. You may just as well save your breath, Mr. Carter, because I'm going wherever you're going, and that's that. You can't drive in your condition. I could, if you'd let me. Well, I'm not going to let you, so that's that. I don't know what gets into you, women. When you make up your minds, a team of horses couldn't change it. You ready to tell me where you're going? I can't keep on driving blindly all around the city, Nick. All right, all right. I give up. I'm going back to the scene of the robbery. What are you going to do there? That, my nosy young friend, is strictly my business. Okay, okay. But I'd feel a lot safer if I knew what you were planning to do. Ah, it's dark now. You can pull up just around the corner from the bank. I'll get out there. Then you go back to the office. How will you get back? Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself. I hope so. Is this where you want to go? Yes, drop me here. Now, remember you. Back to the office. Okay, bully. But I don't like you going anywhere alone as weak as you are. It's skill that counts in this business, Patsy, not muscle. 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You'll find it at your paint, hardware, or department store where all three great home brightners and ChemTone, the miracle wall finish are featured. And now back to our story. We left Nick weak from loss of blood climbing the stairs to the fourth floor of the old tenement house trying to find some clue to the killers who shot him and robbed the bank. As we rejoin him, he's nearly reached the top. I wish it wasn't the fourth floor. I don't feel as ambitious as I did. That's a break. Only one apartment on the street side. And there's someone home judging by the light under the door. Here goes. I'm investigating the bank holdup across the street this afternoon. Bank holdup? Yes. You knew the bank was held up, didn't you? Yeah, I heard. I was out working at the time. What do you want to get in here for? I want to look out of your windows. She's like this. We have a witness who says he saw the whole thing from the window next door on this level. He's a cranky old guy with a reputation for stretching the truth, so I want to check up on him. Like to look from your windows and see if he really could have seen what he said he did. Sounds nutty to me. Why don't you look out of his windows? I did, but I still can't be sure. So I want to check all the windows on this floor. There ain't no use in... Well... Okay, come on in. Thanks. I won't be long. Mind if I put this window shade up? Suit yourself. I can't see much from here. I'll try the other window. Can't see anything from here, either. I guess the old guy was dreaming. Couldn't see the bank at all with an armored car standing in front of it. You're satisfied now? So far, yes. Okay to look at the other room, too. I guess so. My wife's in there. I'll see if she's dressed. Certainly no broken windows in this room. None of them have been repaired, either. Somebody coming in, Mary, get dressed. Okay, Copper, you can go in. Thanks. Sorry to bother you, lady. I won't be by the minute. Okay, take your time. No broken windows here, either. Penny must have made a mistake in the window. How about it, Copper? I guess the old guy must have... Hey, do you have any children in the house? Sure. No kids? Why? Oh, just saw a marble here on the floor and wondered... Penny said he shot a marble through the window.  Just a minute, just a minute. I want to take another look at this window. Get your hands up, flat foot, make it snappy. I don't see what... Oh, you don't, huh? You come up here looking for a broken window, didn't you? When you didn't find none, you go around poking your fingers in the putty. Well, really, now... Don't try to kid me. I've been watching you. So you found a winner with a soft putty where we put the new paint of glass in. Well, I won't do you no good now. All right, Slug, I'll take over now. Like Jake Lawner, so you're Slug's wife. Yeah. Well, I'd never have known you're that woman's outfit. Pretty clever. A lot cleverer than you, Copper. You come right up here just begging for it, didn't you? I thought we'd give it to you for keeps out in front of the bank this afternoon, but... I'm glad now we didn't. This is going to be more fun. We can make it last longer. Burn him down, Jake. No, Slug. Shooting's too quick. I got a better plan for this dumb punk than that. Go right ahead, gentlemen. Don't mind me. But do you mind if I put my arms down? Get his gun, Slug. Sure, Jake. Quite a surprise to find us here, Copper, ain't it? Never figured we'd hide out right here alongside the bank, did you?  And all the time, we're right here. Hey, Jake, this guy's a regular arsenal. Three guns he's got. I don't care how many he's got. Take them all away from him. Hey, Jake, look at this. He's got three guns and a sling shot. Are you kidding me? A cop carrying the sling shot around to keep the big bad robbers away.  Oh, look now, Slug, don't take all the flat foot's weapons away. Where's your manners? Leave him keep the sling shot. Why, sure. Here, Mr. Dick, I'll put it right back in your pocket where it came from. Maybe you'll save your life with it.  Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle when he blow in. Walk right up the stairs all by himself.  That's just for a starter. Oh, no, you're not. Jake, look, I'll get him, Slug. Give me that gun, Jake.  Get out of the way, Jake, so I can... You're going to give it quick. Ah, nice words, Slug. You knocked him cold. Oh, I'll fix him for this. He nearly broke my wrist. Shall I croak him now, Jake? No. Why don't we get ready to leave? Then we'll play games with him. Tie him up, but good. We'll get the stuff ready to move out when the boys bring the car tonight. Then we'll come back here and take care of him. Over on your face, flat foot, so I can get the ropes on you. Wouldn't he like to know that we got all that dough hidden in the empty warehouse, right next door here? There's still a little hole through the wall of the apartment here, and we've got a foolproof hideout. Yeah. You know, if he was only smart like Jake, I'd be afraid of him. But there ain't nobody as smart as Jake. There, copper. That takes care of you. Try and get out of them ropes. Hey, why don't you let the flat foot in here for anyway, Slug?   Oh, yeah. Anyways, how'd I know he was wise to the busted glass? You know, Jake, maybe you ain't so smart at that. Yeah? What's he doing you? You thought it was so smart to double back here with a cache and hide out right across the street from the bank, and the first thing, a cop smells his way right up here. So what? Only one cop come, didn't he? And he ain't walking out of here, is he? Well, no. Who's running this business anyway? You are, Jake. Okay, okay. All right.  Slug, you stay here with the copper. Clean up the joint good, fingerprints and any kind of junk that might leave a tip. Don't leave nothing. We'll be back when we've took care of the dough. Okay, Jake. I'll watch him. This time, I should have had somebody standing by just in case whoever tied these ropes knew what he was doing. I'll never get out of these. Hands tied together. Elbows tied tied to my body. Oh, my head. I wish I felt as happy as Slug sounds. Hey, there's blood on my hands.  But blood's made my hands slippery. Yes, I think I can get my hands loose. But what good is that? My elbows tied up tight. Oh, if only I had some way to get word outside that I'm up here. I can't shout. Slug would hear me and bump me off quick. Oh, if only I had a gun, I could. But Slug took them. Only I had. I do have one weapon left. Penny's slingshot. Slingshot. Slingshot. Yes, shoot something into the street through the window. Somebody might find it. Shoot something. Shoot something. What? Shoot what? Shoot what? My badge. My badge. My honorary police badge. Oh, if only I can get it out of my pocket. Only I can reach it. Never have had much use for that badge, but I certainly need it now. Oh, I can't get it in the pocket. Well, I could tear it open. Now for the slingshot. The outside pocket. There we are. Now if I can stretch my arms far enough apart to shoot this badge through the window, I can. What's that? What's that? Hey, copper, what are you trying to? The guy's still out cold. He couldn't have done nothing, but somebody broke that window. Maybe the deck's only faking. Maybe he ain't really out. Let me take a look. Gosh. Here you go, blood. Hey, Jack!  He's out cold. I thought he wasn't coming close enough so I could grab his legs, but he did. Lady Luck must be on my side today. Just Luck is head-headed in the radiator that way. Now, if I can wriggle over there and get his gun a little more, well, Jack will be back any minute. I've got to get that gun before... If I can roll back under the bed before Jack gets here. So far, so good. Lady Luck stay with me. Slug it. What happened? Slug it. Slug it. Hey, look, Jack, the cop is gone. And Slug's out cold. I thought I told you guys to tie that flat foot up so he couldn't move. We did, Jack. Yeah, it looks like you did. Come on, maybe we can catch him outside before he gets away. Yeah. Hey, Jack. Jack, look. The door's still locked here. The dick couldn't have got out this way. Well, he didn't get out the way we come in. He must still be here. Look under the... Up with your hands, both of you. Be quiet, you... He's got a gun. Get him up, I said. I'm not fooling. That's just a warning. I said I'm not fooling. Now drop your guns on the floor. Both of you. We better do it, Jack. He means business. You bet I do. Drop those guns fast. Okay, you win. For now. Drop the other one, Jack. I know you have two of them. Yeah. Now, Pete, slowly and easily. Kick the guns over toward me. Now, stay where you are. I'll kick those guns over. That's better. Now what? Want us to untie you? Now I want you to stay right there. And I'll stay right here. Yeah, but it's all right, Jack. He can't last long now. All we gotta do is wait here till he falls over. And he's lost so much blood, now he can't hardly set up. Sure. How long you think you're gonna hold out, copper? Long enough to see you three thugs in jail. Now bet that don't nobody know you're up here. So how do you expect to be rescued? I sent a messenger out the window to tell my friends I'm here waiting for them. Hey, look, Jack. The window is busted. So what? This flat foot will be out cold long before anybody comes up here, unless it's the boys with a car come to take us out of here. You, uh, think you can last that long, copper? Yeah, you'll never be able to hold that gun on us for another two hours. Your money's worth give up now, copper. Think so? I want to take you three mugs in so bad I'll wait all night. I have to. Get back. I can see you. Won't you try any funny business with me? Yeah, he's almost gone, Jack. Another couple of minutes and he'll be out like a light. As soon as he drops that gun, we'll rush him. I don't know how he lasted this long. Stay right there. Stay there both of you. I can wait. Just as long as long as he's gone. Come on.   Oh, Nick. Oh, hello, Patsy. Rally. What's going on here, Nick?  Money's in the warehouse next door. You're no wonder, Nick! Take care of these fellow sergeants. Send a couple of men to get the money out of the warehouse, like Nick says. Oh, Nick, I've been so afraid for you. Did they hurt you? Oh, I'm all right, Patsy. Just a little tired, that's all. Ah, she's a great girl, that Patsy. When she left you, she phoned me and told me what you were trying to do, Nick. So I got some of the men together and came as quick as I could. Then we get a flat tire and we'd have been here sooner. Look, he hears your badge, Nick. Little bent, but as good as new. Thanks, Rally. Lucky you found it. It wasn't me that found it. It was Patsy yourself here. You found it, Patsy. Yes, Nick. Then Rally spotted the broken window and we came up. But don't ever let me hear you say again that I'm not observant. Maybe I don't know how many steps there are in front of my house. But when it comes to things that count, I can see them. How about next week's adventure, Nick? Got something exciting coming up? I certainly have, Ken. If you take a transcontinental train stalled high in the mountains in a raging blizzard and mix it with the murder of an opera singer and her maid... And add the theft of $150,000 worth of jewels from the said opera singer. And a snow slide down the mountain right where the train is stalled. And you have the puzzle and crime that I was up against. Sounds pretty complicated to me, Nick. How'd you find the solution? Well, the solution depended on two things. A broken bottle of perfume and a chow dog that was lost in the snow. You certainly make it sound detractive. Did it work out okay? You should ask that, knowing Nick. Sorry, what do you call the story? I call it Murder on Mad Mountain. Or the mystery of the opera singer's dog. So long for now. So long, everybody. And so long to you, Nick and Patsy. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter, master detective, entitled Murder on Mad Mountain. Or Nick Carter and the mystery of the opera singer's dog. Nick Carter, master detective, is a copyright feature of Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. It is presented at this same time and over these same stations by the three great Linux home Brightoners. Linux Clear Gloss, Linux Cream Polish, and Linux Self-Polishing Wax. Created by ACME, America's great producer of ACME quality paints. In the Nick Carter adventures, Lon Clark is starred as Nick. Helen Chote is featured as Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White. The programs are written and directed by Jock McGregor. This is Ken Powell saying goodbye for thousands of Linux dealers all over America. This is Mutual.


newbies guide to getting consulting clients part one of two. Now, if you ask any person starting off in consulting, the number one fear they have is how do I get a client?  I'm gonna have to sell somebody. I just don't know what to do. I don't know how to do it. When in fact, it doesn't have to be like that. It can be really easy to get clients and you don't have to use that hardcore sales either. In this video, I'm gonna show you exactly how to get consulting clients easy without any hardcore sale. And we're starting right now. Hey, I'm J.R. Fisher. If you're new to my channel, don't forget to subscribe. There's a big subscribe button right down there. See that, right? Get it? And there's a bell. You gotta ring the bell. That's the notification bell. You wanna be notified, right? You wanna know when I do a video. That way you don't have to go hunting and searching for it or worse yet, miss out on something. You hit that bell, turn on all notifications. You become part of the VIP family. The Fisher family, we're all VIPs and we all work on our businesses together. I thank you so much for watching this video. You know, I've been selling online since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars worth of digital and physical products. And all I do is share with you the tips, tricks, and techniques that you could use to build your online business and build your online presence. Now, in this one here, this is really close to my heart. This particular video is gonna be about how to get coaching clients or consulting clients, whatever you wanna call them. And I've done it, I've done it in the past. I don't do it that much now just because I don't have the time for it and I got to where I was charging a lot of money to do it and it was not that many people can afford those kind of rates, though I had clients and that wasn't a problem. The point is, I didn't know I could get clients in the beginning and I wanna share with you in this video how you can get clients, how you don't have to be real salesy or anything like that, and how you could earn a really good living by doing coaching and consulting. A lot of the stuff you're gonna learn online if you look at courses, if you look at videos, they're gonna tell you all the places you can get clients, but they never tell you how to win over those clients. They never tell you how to get those clients to be lined up so that they can get coaching or consulting from you and that's what we're gonna do in this video. Number one, attract the right clients. Nothing could be more important than this.  That's not what you wanna do. So the first step is we gotta make sure we're attracting the right people. I'm not saying that you're gonna get all your business from inbound contacts. In other words, people finding you online and contacting you. That would be unrealistic in the beginning. Not that many people know you in the beginning and you're gonna have to attract the right people, but you're also gonna have to have them in the right frame of mind when you do talk to them. The first thing I would suggest you do is present a good image online.  You're watching me on this channel right now and this channel is all about making money online. So this is one of my platforms where I put my information out there. It's also my website, I put it out on my website. It's also in my social media. I put stuff out in my social media. And I think it's really important when you're doing this and I did it in the beginning of this video is talk about what your credentials are. People don't mind paying you if you have value, but you have to state what your value is. Now I've owned a company online for, since 2009, so you calculate it based on when you're watching this video and we've sold millions of dollars of products on that particular company and that's Survival K Food. I then went into courses and you can Google my name and find online courses about me. We've done millions of dollars in that too. So the point is if you have these credentials, a lot of people say, well, you're just bragging. You kinda got to a little bit. You gotta brag about yourself a little bit because how are they gonna know that you have value if you don't let them know you have value? If you don't let them know what your experiences are. If you don't let them know what you've achieved. A lot of people, when they hear what you've achieved, if that's something they want to achieve too, whether it's selling millions of dollars of digital products or physical products, whatever it is they're looking to achieve, they see that you've done it, then they're gonna wanna work with you because you've already achieved what they wanted.  Maybe you lost 200 pounds. That story should be out there if you're working in weight loss. Let them know where you started at.  So they're more likely to wanna get consulting from you. Now you may be thinking to yourself, well, how am I gonna put all this experience and all these achievements on just starting out? How am I gonna do that? Well, there are ways you can do that. There are ways you can get these achievements a lot faster too. So use your previous experience. If you worked on a job and you were a financial advisor and the portfolio that you worked with gained 20% a year on average, talk about that.    Put that online too so that people know what you've done. They've gotta see these achievements. The next thing is offer to work at a reduced rate. You know, find some people that are looking for consulting in your area and say, hey, I'll give you a half rate if you'll just rate me afterwards so I can get some ratings online. I'm a new business and I'm starting out. A lot of businesses would be thrilled to be able to pay half what that consulting job is to get the work done and they'll be happy to give you a good testimonial as long as you do good work for them. Now the last one, a lot of you aren't gonna wanna do, but I'm doing it right now. I'm gonna tell you, and I've earned millions of dollars and I'm still doing it right now. Here's what I'm doing. I'm working for free. You're watching this video right now and you're getting information on how to become a consultant, how to become a coach, how to get clients and I'm teaching you for free. Now why would I do that? Well, I do that because if I do that, people are gonna see what I have to say. They're gonna learn from it. They're gonna get results.  They'll get training from me. So I actually do make money, but I'm actually working for free at the same time. So that's another thing I would suggest to you is put that content out there and show you have value. It will come back as a return on down the road. I would say also clean up your social media accounts. Now I've always been pretty good about this. I don't post anything controversial. I don't get into politics online. I never post anything like that, but Google your name. Just Google your name. This can be eye awakening for you. You're always gonna have some people who are gonna say negative things about you. I had a couple of people that gave me a bad Google review too, okay? In the past, I don't know, 10 years, something like that. And neither one of those people I had ever worked with, they'd never bought a course for me. I'd never taught them anything. They just randomly gave me a bad review. And that's gonna happen no matter what. But the point is if you've got some stuff out there that is kind of borderline that you don't want people to see, I would suggest you're removing it if you can. You wanna optimize your LinkedIn profile. Now I don't use LinkedIn much. I really don't. But I know it's a really important factor out there for those people who are like going for different jobs or whatever.  Because if they go to it and they see you still work at ABC company, you're gonna go, well, this guy isn't a consultant at all. He must be doing this on the side. So make sure you update all that. Now, here's a few things you can do in LinkedIn to make your profile stand out a little bit more, get found easier. Go in there and you'll wanna change the keywords, okay? You see right here that are in your LinkedIn profile. You can do that. Fill out your entire profile. Make sure you use bullet points that summarize achievements and results from relevant work. And ask for recommendations too. You gotta ask people for this. You gotta ask them for testimonials. They don't just randomly give them to you. There's a little box right here on LinkedIn that says ask to be recommended. Make sure you check that box right there. Update your blog. I can't impress upon you enough. And I don't do this as much as I should. It's hard to do everything. I spend a lot of time on YouTube these days. But update your blog on a regular basis.  And it'll be important to them. And they'll get knowledge from it. And it'll build you up as a consultant as an expert in your area. Don't forget, if you got a website which should, make sure you update that with Google. Make sure you get all your SEO done on there that you're supposed to do. You know, if you post things in your blog and some ideas are like answer questions that clients have given you. Clients ask you questions about particular things and you answer them. Put that in your blog. A lot of times I'll read somebody's blog and find out they're an expert or something and I'll contact them and talk to them about stuff. And I've hired people by doing that. So you've got to put your thoughts out there for free, okay, in many cases in the beginning so that you build this reputation. Now there are going to be those people who see that and they're going to say, well, this person has information I like, what do I do next? Make sure you have a prominent work with me page or program page that you offer or consulting services, whatever it is. Make it easy for them to actually contact you. Now you should have a link at the bottom top somewhere in the middle of your blogs that say, hey, here's how you can get in touch with me if you want to work with me. Now here's an example right here from Jess Creatives. And they do, it looks like websites. It says right up here at the top, you see this hire me button in the upper right corner that leads to her services. That way if you want to work with her, it's right there, it's simple to do. Now another thing you could do is to turn jobs into consulting positions and here's what I mean by that. A lot of companies are out there trying to hire a long-term full-time employees and maybe they've got a project to work on but they aren't sure what the future projects will be. Approach those companies and say, well, instead of hiring a marketing director, why don't you let me work on your next project, I'll do that next project for you and show you what I can do for you and maybe we can work long-term later on. Now make it real clear when you talk to these people that you are not applying for the job. What you're actually doing is offering your services on that particular project. Now some of the sites you may want to go to are Indeed, Angel List, WeWorkRemotely and Remote.co. Those are some real good sites for you to go to and offer your services. Once your consulting services are winding down with a client, that doesn't mean it's necessarily an end. It's really on how you approach it. It's really important that your off-boarding is as impressive as your onboarding. If they see you're a professional when you leave, that you stay in touch with them, that you offer help on down the road, then they're more likely to come back to you and hire you again. So what I would do is send them a message and thank them for the business, put some bullet points of all the things that you've got accomplished for them, ask them for their feedback. This could be in the form of a testimonial or their permission to post that you worked with them and you post that on your site. And don't forget, ask them. If you have other business associates that have jobs that are similar to this, please send them my way. I'd be happy to help them out. 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Two guys are in the top 50 in the country. I got them in a circle, one by one, to share kind of really what they're feeling, and they were all anxious. And then it progressed. We're really anxious when we're better than the other guy, when we know we should win. So now, quote, you're better than the other player, and you lose to them. What does that mean?  Now we're getting somewhere not good enough for what? Not good enough to be on the team. And so basically, every one of those guys acknowledged to each other that in the end, what's really down there at the core is not belonging here. So that's what it comes down to. So when you can actually acknowledge that, that frees up a lot.


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Hey, this is Brett and this 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 double cab short box work truck is stock number 12837Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. This 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 has the 6 liter V8 gas engine. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop per the state of the Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and tapped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood in this video. Summit White is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 4K. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button in the lower right hand part of the screen and then click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive of our new and used inventory. This one comes with the painted black alloy rims and it has Michelin LT 265 70 R18 tires. The tires have right around half the tread left on them, frame and under bodies in really nice shape. Front fender, I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. Comes with the projector style headlamps. The front bumper is in fantastic condition. I didn't see any major dents or dings on there. You get the chrome trimmed grille on this truck and the hood is in very nice condition as well. Didn't see any dents or dings on there. Passengers side front fender. Pretty nice shape. Didn't see any dents or dings on there and the passengers side rim. No major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of this 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 double cab, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like the paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down. But if you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at. Before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that bread sent you. Back rims in nice shape too and the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires, maybe just a hair bit less. The frame and underbody is in really nice shape, other than a little bit of surface corrosion on the frame. I always want to look at the box rails for any corrosion, but a little bit of surface corrosion on the frame is not a terrible thing as all the remaining factory exhausts and looks really good under here. Lower rockers, a little corrosion on them, maybe a couple little dings on the bottom there, does have some aftermarket painted step bars. The passenger side box looks really good, coming around to the back. Rear bumper is in nice shape, no major dents or dings on there. It does have the rear bumper steps, full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. And the tailgates in pretty nice shape. Comes with a very nice spring and bed liner, beds in really nice shape too. And as you go down the driver side, just as clean as a passenger side, no major dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck, doors look really good. This one does come with the telescopic tow mirrors, they have built in directional signals. They pull out like so, they also fold in like that. Inside, the work truck package gives you the gray vinyl interior, 40, 20, 40 split bench seating, no rips or tears on the seats. And it does come with the heavy duty rubber floors. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. We'll hop inside, check out the miles, radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 45,414 miles, you do get a digital speedometer. And the instrument cluster is very nice and clean. You get cruise controls on the left and the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. This one has the Chevy MyLink radio, AM, FM and Bluetooth capabilities on here. It also has a projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. So while this doesn't have the factory navigation, you can project a map from your phone, such as Waze or Google Maps. And then it's like you have right on the screen. So that's pretty sweet deal there. You do get stability control, climate controls, those outside mirrors are heated and your cargo lamps are right there. This one does have the four by four shifter on the floor. And down here, you get 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in and a 12 volt power point. The passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent shape. Smells very clean in here. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. And the headliner is in very nice condition as well. Up here you get map lights. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. I should put this seat just a little bit. Back seats are just as clean as front seats, no rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here. Fixed glass rear window. These seats do fold up like so. You can see the back flooring is in very nice clean condition. And this one does have the side curtain airbags on it. Bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. You can go check engine lights or anything like that. This one does have the LED side lights as well in the mirrors and you can see how nice and bright those are. Those turn on with the cargo lamps. I would personally like to thank you today for checking out the video and hopefully from this HD video we've been able to verify the quality and condition of this truck all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6 liter V8 gas engine. The engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. As a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Here is your emission sticker. And I would highly recommend this truck from a work truck perspective, from a quality and condition work truck perspective. You can see more pictures of this 2019 Chevy Silverado 2500 double cab short box in Summit White. One of our other 450 new news cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, wranglers, halftones, recorder tons, one tons. You name it we've got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. In fact, in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left. 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What's going on? If you're new to the family, welcome back to another video. It's your girl Denise. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button and join the family. So guys, first and foremost, part of my appearance, I look a little crazy. Isaiah and I just woke up because we are about to go to the gym. We're actually running a little bit late. So I have to make this a drill very quickly. Isaiah right now is in the bathroom. He's brushing his teeth and I have to tell you what I have up my sleeve today. So guys, today I am basically going to be convincing Isaiah that I got a tramp stamp tattoo. Now, if you guys don't know what a tramp stamp is, it's basically a tattoo on the lower back. I don't know why it has such a bad stigma because honestly, I love those tattoos. I was actually considering getting it myself, which brings me to my point. Guys, I went ahead and I went on this website and I got these temporary tattoos that last for about two to three weeks and they look super real once they're developed. I went ahead and I put it on myself the other day. I let it develop. I didn't let Isaiah see anything. So it's going to be a surprise to him when he finally sees the tattoo. Guys, it looks super real. So hopefully we get a crazy reaction out of him. I want to know what his thoughts are if I were to have gotten this tattoo because like I said, I'm kind of thinking about it. You guys know that I'm a little tattoo addict here, so I'm running out of places to get some. But anyway, let's see his reaction. I'm going to probably lift up my shirt at the gym so he can see it. I don't know how I'm going to go about it, but guys, you're just going to wait and see. So if you guys are ready for today's video, don't forget to smash that like button, comment down below team Janice and let's get this prank started. Guys, real quick, I wanted to show you guys the tattoo. So it's obviously on my lower back. And that's what it looks like. It's your typical tramps. They have a tattoo. I'm so excited. I actually really love it, but let's wait to see what he thinks about it. Hey, what's my protein bottle? The shake cup thing. The shake cup thing. The thing that you shake, the protein shake bottle. Okay. It's, I think it's in the middle cabinet. Each row, cause there's like a couple of them. Okay. Just look again and look in another cabinet. Did you find it? Do you want protein shake? I'm going to make mine with almond milk. Obviously. I'm saying what do you want? Wait, hold on. You're making something with almond milk. Yeah. Not regular pete? As I always do, I make my protein almond milk. I don't know. Bro, do you want one or not? Well, what is going to be in it? I feel like I can't breathe. Why? Because I don't know. I feel like exhausted. I feel like I need something cold. That's why I want to make my protein shake. So what do you want yours? Do you want fruits? Dude, what do you want it?  Let me see. Let me see. No. I saw it. Anyway, you got a tattoo, let me see. No, I didn't. Yes, you did. Let me see. Stop playing with me. I saw it. No, let me see. No. Bro, I just saw it. There's no hiding it. I just saw it. There's nothing to hide. I don't got nothing.  I just seen it.  Yeah, okay. So what was that? Dirt? No, it was my underwear. You forgot to shower last night. What was that? I saw that. What do you mean? I forgot to shower. I saw a black stuff on your skin. What is that? A bar. From the bar? Yeah. You have the bar right down here. Let me see. No. I saw it. You got a tattoo. Let me see it. No, I didn't. Yes, you did. No, I didn't. Stop playing, bro. No. See? Look at it. Look. When did you get that? You are supposed to see it.  Stop playing games, bro. When did you get that? I don't know what you're talking about. When did you get it? When did you get it? Let me see. No. You're only going to try to hide it for a while. Because you weren't supposed to see it. You got my name tattoo? Yeah. You did? No. What am I? Come on. Let me see it then. What's wrong with it? Let me see it. When did you get it? I got it like a couple of days ago. Why didn't you tell me? What do you mean? You won't be here just getting tattoos and not telling me? Because I knew you would try to talk me out of it. I won't have to talk you out of it. I do like it. You do? I'm not lying. I wish you were a little baby, though. I'm serious. I feel like it's a little too small for your back. I would get it like an inch longer on each side. So you like it? Yeah. What do you like about it? It's a tramp stamp. Yo, you hold up. You got a tramp stamp. And what about it? I didn't know this was a whorehouse. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I don't know why they make such bad things about tramp stamps, though. I don't know. I like it. You know how I've had that picture saved on my phone? I think it's hot. Really? I don't know. I like tramp stamps. I don't know. You like it? I don't know. I like tramp stamps. I feel like I don't know why people put such a bad thing on tramp stamps. I like it, though. But like I said, I feel like it needs to be a little longer because I feel like it's a little too small for your back. I could extend it always. I could just add to it. I think what you should do is like an inch on each side but you should put the letter I on one side and the letter O on the other side. I feel like I'm getting my initials. I'm not getting your initials. That'll be fine. No, but for real, though, I feel like it'd be a 10 if it were a little longer. I feel like it's a little small. You want to know the process of it? Sure. Okay, so the other day, right, when I was filming with Jaylene, we went to a tattoo shop. Bro, you know I had a feeling I'm over here playing the PlayStation. I'm like, yo, I feel like they're going to a tattoo shop. I knew it, bro. I knew I should have been at a location. We always go, though. We always go to a tattoo shop. Yeah, but every time you go, you end up coming back with something because you be tempted. Not really. Yeah, so you come back with an idea and you be like, yo, I think I'm going to get this next time I go. That's true. I come back with either an appointment or something. Yo, you got a tramp stamp. Yeah, I did. You got a tr... Anyway, yeah, we went to the tattoo shop and we were just chatting it up and then, yeah. You got a tramp stamp. What do you mean? What's wrong? You got a stamp of the tramp.  I just told you I like it. I do like it, yeah. But you said it's sexy? Do you think it's sexy? I think it's sexy. I think it needs to be touched up, though. Ray the Abboton. I give it an eight. An eight Abboton? Well, it makes sense. It needs to be bigger. That's it, it needs to be longer. That's it. So what if I told you that it's not real? You mean it's not real. What are you talking about? What would you say if it wasn't real? Would you be upset that it's not real? I'm not going to be upset. Why would I be upset? But how is it not real? Don't rub it! How is it not real? Because it's a temporary tattoo. Yo, you drink this. Wait, hold on. You're drinking water in crackers. That's your lunch. Ew! That is so ghetto of you. Feed me water in crackers. Really? That is going to heighten me up. How are you going to heighten me up, showing me a trim stamp? And I'm like, yo, that's fire. That's hot. That's like sexy.  Now you're making me want to get one. No, bro. I don't even get it no more. Why? Because I'm not going to leave you now. Damn, not if I'm less sexy because I don't have it for real. You're sexy when you're without it, but still. Well, enjoy it because it's going to be here for the next two to three weeks. Oh, I'm enjoying it already. All right, Infinite Fam. So that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed. I honestly thought that he would have a completely different reaction, babe. I thought you were going to hate it. OK, good for you. I thought you were going to hate it. I thought you were going to hate the tattoo. I thought you were going to be like, it's ugly, blah, blah. I can't believe you got it. Whatever. I love it, honestly. But I don't like it or not. Comment down below if I should get one or not, honestly. Oh, that was no. But before, it was sexy and hot, right? What type of sense does that make? I'm not going to believe you now. I'll take you with me to the tattoo shop. Let me do it myself. All right, anyway, it is now time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shadow goes out to Carrie Berry. Thank you so much for your love and support. Aizan, I love you. If you want a post notification shout out, all you guys got to do is like, comment, share, and subscribe. 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