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Hey, welcome everybody Steve back again with fire Anthony. Thank you fire for being here. Yeah, thank you Yeah, we were talking last week about doing a little show on the miraculous metal since he piqued my interest again during a Colby Consecration lecture series he did when he talks about this conversion of Alphonse Radisburn And he also mentioned another guy we may get into later, but we're gonna focus on this first off Fryer, what is the miraculous metal? What did St. Colby think about it? And why is it so powerful? the miraculous metal It came it came from the apparition that happened in Rueda Bach from St. Catherine La Verre so St. Catherine La Verre now the dates are very important this happened in 1830 in 1830 there were three apparitions that happened the St. Catherine in the second apparition The first one's very it's a very sweet apparition because you know She gets led there by this little this little angel or something and our lady sitting actually sitting there in a chair You can hear her her gown ruffling and St. Catherine just goes up kneels there and puts her hands on our lady's lap It's a very beautiful very very sweet apparition that took place then in the second one our lady appears above the altar and There's a she's standing on the globe And that globe is encircled by the serpent and her foot her immaculate foot is crushing the head of the serpent Which is the film the film into the prophecy of Genesis 315 and Then her hands are extended towards the earth and there are rays coming Down as though out of her hands, but really from rings that are on her fingers And there are those rays are coming down to the earth and they're widening as they come towards the earth and Then there's a Then later she sees coming around our lady. It's the words. Oh Mary conceived without sin and then on the back of the image you have I've got a big miraculous metal here You probably can't see it from the globe and we cross and there's the M with the bar going across And so it shows the m's for our lady and the crosses for our Lord the redemption There's a bar that connects them and inner weaves our lady always in the mystery of redemption And the mission of redemption of our Lord and so just below that you have the two hearts of the sacred heart And that's encircled in with the crown of thorns for the suffering that our Lord endured and then you get the immaculate heart right next to our Lord With a sword Plunged into her heart from the city of Simeon that from all the sorrows of our lady Being that she she she assisted and participated in in this redemption as it was prophesied in In Genesis 3 15 our lady promised in that apparition That anyone who would wear that metal will first told St. Catherine to have it struck but that anyone who would wear that metal a blessed metal and Wear it around their neck would receive many graces now Of course these were the graces that were symbolized from the rays of light that were coming from her rings now there were a couple of rings that didn't have any light that was emitting from them and St. Catherine asked about those and the response was those are all the graces that men do not ask me for Which is a very interesting thing that means we asked our lady is the meat mediators of all graces She she gives all graces. God does not grant grace except through the Blessed Virgin Mary That's a fact in the church. It's just not dogmatically established You read the fathers of the church you read the saints Everyone is almost always believed this All graces come through our lady The goddess goes so far to think that in some capacity these graces belong to our lady now They're all the graces that are merited by our Lord on the cross. So they're his graces But and this is it gets complicated I know we're not talking about this because we could go on for another hour about our lady spouse the Holy Spirit Why it is that she receives these graces? but in a way in same same X-men Colby talks about this but really piggybacking on St. Louis to Monford about The fact that our lady her immaculate heart is the external manifestation Of the Holy Ghost some magnificent thing to say what it means is the Holy Ghost He's the center and he's the soul that is of the church that he's he's the love of the Holy Trinity and The love is what you're responsible for the sanctification And that's what our Lord meant when he said I will send you know You want me to go to the father being so I was in the Paraclete Well, the Holy Ghost doesn't do anything except for through the his holy spouse He wants to manifest his goodness all through her. She's the external manifestation in that sense of the Holy Spirit So these graces as blessed John Don Skotis talks about in some capacity They are hers to distribute as she likes now. We got to remember there a lady only does God's will She's a perfectly conformed to God. She could never do anything But God's will anything but God's will would seem to her the most putrid of Things you could imagine so only God's will that that that is the only thing that would make sense to her so God gives her these graces meaning these graces that when they're needed especially like Accidental graces or transitory graces. He goes so far to say that you know, I think this is speculation But that they're created in her will They're created in because they have to be created somewhere But they're created in the Immaculate Virgin and so she dispenses them as as she sees fit That is a core perfectly according to the will of God because that's what the Blessed Virgin Mary. That's what she does So that you have these graces and so we ask her for these graces and those graces come down in that way and This is an instrument. So why the miraculous metal the miraculous metal because our Lady wants that she wants some means she wants to say here is a tool. Here's an instrument By which I want to communicate the graces that are given me to give to you It's just another way of of trying to help us to receive those graces. It's a mother's attention to us as she she's always trying to prepare us and Bring us closer to her son and provide for us the redeeming grace that our Lord won for us on the cross Because we squander that stuff, but a mother doesn't want as if she sat there and suffered that it's in that moment of suffering at the foot of the cross where we become her children that is in in in Revelation 12 when it talks about and she brought forth the man child in pain in in Intrigulation right, but that's us. That wasn't our Lord. That was us that she she suffered pain with So the miraculous metal is an instrument. It's an instrument by which our lady Grants us graces for those who wear a blessed metal around their neck faithfully, right? Well, that happened at 18 That happened in 1830 already by 1832 It had been struck and they started to give these out to people But I think it was 1832 that an epidemic hit in France, especially Paris at about 20,000 people died Well, they immediately distributed 2,000 metals And they were able to see right away all kinds of miracles started to happen people started to get cured and The epidemic started to subside This is a cholera epidemic It was the people at France that started to refer to this metal the metal of the immaculate conception That's what the metal is its official name is the metal the immaculate conception even though the Roman ritual It says mentally immaculate conception or by common usage the miraculous metal is what And so it was in Paris what they started to refer to it as the miraculous metal now in in in Rome Around this time, especially at the time of Alphonse Raddisfon, which was in 1841 is Really it was 1842 Very beginning of 1842 when Alphonse Raddisfon makes it to to the city of Rome During that time. There's already a bunch of French Exiles basically that are living there because you remember all the all the Other revolutions that were taking place and Catholics were displaced especially anybody that was of Kind of nobility or in the government. They they had to flee there were big Catholics They had to flee and Rome at that point time was still was still run by the Pope The Pope still had all the papal states and that means he was the king of that area But he was very open to allowing to any of the this was Pope Pope Pius the 9th blessed Pope Pius the 9th very Holy and a very very great He was a long-ish reigning pontiff and probably one of the most holiest. He was a very holy man It's a shame. He's not a saint yet, but there's other reasons for that. I'm not gonna go into them So during that time Alphonse was on a journey, right? Well, I'll just finish the thought there. So this is why you have the miraculous metal there You've got Frenchmen who have already seen the power of it there in France but already within five years of It's of its being struck already 10 million had been distributed and by 16 I think it was like 76 or something whenever St. Kathleen library died already a billion that metals had been given out. That's a lot. I mean for the 1800s That's a lot to strike that many metals and to hand them all out a billion metals that already been distributed It's a very popular metal Of our lady macron conception. I remember this is also before It's normal for us to think yeah a macron conception. I mean we're all on board. Well, it hadn't been defined yet It wasn't defined until 1854. So this was in the 1830s well before The man the American conception became just a common thing even today I had one catechist when I was I went down to talk about our lady to a group of a The group of kids at the local parish here as a CCD class or something and You know, you know, the kids are at the local CCD classes They really don't know a whole lot in order the teachers but they asked me to come down talk about our lady So I started to talk about our lady. I realized nobody knew anything But one of the teachers piped up and said when I asked so do you know what the immaculate conception is a teacher said Yeah, that's when that's what our lady gave birth to Jesus and I looked at the teacher said no That's like what I'm supposed to say So for three That's right. So so it you know, even today we don't we don't know a whole lot about it At least a lot of Catholics don't so back then before was even defined How many people talked about how many lay people were around talking about the macron conception? But I think lay people had always known it. It really came from the people the church had always known She was immaculate So that's where we get these Frenchmen there it it roamed with with these bells now Alphonse being you and franciscan you guys been Celebrating that long before the definition, right? The immaculate conception really St. St. Francis himself. There's a couple of different things st. Francis himself First he gave us this prayer Abidomina and we say it every morning at breakfast when we finish our meal It's a beautiful little prayer, but it just talks about it's a prayer that It just talks about the real the great dignity of our lady and then even st. Francis in his own lifetime when it was in rietti I can't remember but he was in like northern kind of northeastern Italy Preach and there he raised money. He begged money To build a church and in that church he built an altar dedicated to the immaculate conception of st. Francis The building he he built an altar dedicated to the immaculate conception So it's very much a part of the franciscan this comes down through We refer to it as the franciscan dogma because it was it was the franciscans who fought tooth and nail and never once They had never we had never not believed our lady was immaculate conceived the big war between war it was a A debate between the franciscans and the dominicans all the way up until the dogmatic pronouncement they say The the dominicans god bless them I mean following the line of thought from from thomas because thomas did not believe our lady was immaculate conceived He worked it out based on based on the science and the Theology basically of Aristotle or the philosophy of Aristotle and so is it just a different way to approach it? And so it was wrong But blessed john dunscottis was able to arrive at a way where he could he easily proved it was it was It was obvious that our lady was conceived without sin So that that debate came all the way down to right before the pronouncement 1854 where the dominicans had an all night vigil Praying that the pope wouldn't make this mistake So thankfully he made the mistake and he he defended the fate so Um, so yes, it comes down from the franciscan school Of thought i mean that's where you get the poor clarinus that were conceptionists Mary of a grade up conceptionists none they they believed the immaculate conception And I could go on and on but we're talking about alphons, right? So who is this alphons guy?  Our lord was a jew Our lady was a jew. This isn't we're not being uh, we're not we're not being Description it's a word you use for a a people with a certain nationality. They were of a bloodline And they still are today. Well Alphons was an atheist jew He he didn't I mean he liked the cultural aspect of it and the nationalistic You know they they identified with it, but he didn't believe anything. He was an enlightened Especially that time period it comes down to us today, especially the progressive side of things the liberal that kind of the liberal people It's all about You know we It's we don't bind to superstition. That's what kind of this illuminated mindset is Alphons was that way it came from a really good family The strawsbergs the strawsbergs are one of those financial families Very wealthy very influential His life was made he was 28 years old and he was espoused to his niece that sounds gross to us But back then I guess I don't know but he was espoused to his niece But she was not of marrying age yet and so in waiting to espouse his beloved niece and Start his life in this job with his uncle in you know, uh, this very wealthy business that they had his life was set But he was going to spend a year just waiting so he could espouse his his bride And so he went on a long journey. It's going to be a whole year And first and so he found himself at the end of On kind of around the end of 1841 He found himself in Palermo and he was getting ready to take off to go to Sicily And then he was going to go to Malta and then he was going to head off to uh Constantinople and that was going to make up the rest of his year The city going beaches and just kind of living the high life But as he was in Palermo that's down in Naples. He got this he got this This longing to go to Rome. He thought well, I'm here now And once I go back and get married and start my work. I'll never come back here again. I know it So I better go visit Rome. So he got a ticket and he went for a fortnight So for 14 days two weeks He went to Rome and just went around to visit all the churches looked at all the artwork went to the museums And just tried to cram a bunch of stuff in his head, you know On the very last night of his trip there in Italy when he had to head back to Palermo in Naples To where he's going to get on a boat. I guess and start heading over to Sicily uh Heading east as he says He wanted to call on an old friend now here. I'm going to give you a couple names So he was going to call on a friend named, uh, Gustav Gustav Bassier now I'm most likely getting the names wrong because I I don't know how to say these names in french I mean, these are french names and they've got these endings I'm sure you're not supposed to say but I have no clue how to say them So somebody's gonna be watching this say you don't say it. Well, I don't have to say So I'm just going to say it a certain way and I'll try to be consistent So we know kind of who the characters are So Gustav was the brother and he was Gustav was a good friend of his but he was a Protestant. He was in I don't know some kind of Protestantism and these two would get in they were school friends They would get in debates and their debates would get pretty heated and they would end with calling each other names Uh, the Protestant would call him a callous Jew and he would call his friend a fanatic Protestant and then they would leave and but they were still friends Well, he was at Rome somehow And so Alfons went to pay him a visit the night before he's going to leave. He didn't find him at home So he went to his brother's house Gustav had his brother Theodore Boussier Who lived nearby I guess And he went just to leave a note for that family because he had met Gustav's brother Theodore Before but they didn't they weren't friends. I really didn't know each other More than just having a conversation Went to the house knocked the door the italian the italian servant lady came And he wanted to leave a note with her but she didn't understand So she ushered him in to the drawing room as they say and that's where the family was all Seated and enjoying their saturday afternoon or saturday evening And this greatly irritated Alfons because he didn't want to sit down talk to this family because they were catholic And he had a deep hatred for catholics Alfons did 15 years earlier Alfons brother had converted to the faith And became a catholic priest And that really that was and Alfons persecuted him for it He hated him outright for it wouldn't speak to him and he first he says in his own words.  He's actually he was actually a uh convert from Protestantism He starts digging in a little bit more looking for you know how good catholics They they get tired of talking about this petty stuff. So they want to dig a little bit more you're at rome What else have you seen? What else did you do? so Alfons He mentions well when I was at Archeri At Archeri's it's actually a franciscan church. It's an ancient I mean the franciscans already had that church. I think in the during the life of st. Francis But it's on the capitoline hills where the capital is used to be a papal building Papal palace, but they took it Now they have you know, so anyways, it's it's a church. It's way up on top of this hill Really old church lots of saints buried there to it's a magnificent place when he was in there Uh, he said this I have a quote and I'll read it to you a rather odd thing happened to me While I was looking over the church. I felt myself suddenly seized with an emotion for which I could assign no cause The ballet they placed I guess just the you know, the usher whoever was there to take care of the door Seeing my agitation asked me What was the matter and whether I would go out into the open air Adding that he had often seen strange similar Similarly a stranger similarly affected very interesting. Now this this Archeri. It's a church dedicated to our lady And when he was in there he just he'd visit all kinds of churches when he was in this church dedicated to our lady He got very emotional and he didn't know what to do about it now hearing that the good friend This is theodore He kind of has a spark on his eye. This is the way he writes He says he has a spark on his eye and so alphonse notices it but Theodore thinks in at this moment. He's going to be a catholic He will be a catholic and alphonse thinking this is what he's probably thinking starts to scoff at it Now alphonse was a scoffer. He was one of those scoffers they talked about in scripture And so he scoffed at the whole idea and said I was born a Jew and I will die a Jew And then later he says he went went down he walked through the the jewish ghetto and it just confirmed his hatred for the faith and everything else so at that With this 28 year old Strasburg young man who's there who knows everything and is sure of everything Completely sure of himself theodore proposes a challenge to him And he says if I offer you something and ask you to wear it because you're so sure of yourself will you wear it And so alphonse starts to scoff again. It's just what is this thing? You know, what is it? Let me see this thing you want me to wear and He shows him the medal of the blessed virgin Mary so the miraculous medal and he hands it to him and alphonse scoffs and just says what and so the Theodore says well if you're so sure of yourself It's nothing for you. It's just a medal. It's a trinket Just wear it and it'll make it'll please me greatly if you would wear this. Please just just wear it And so he says fine. I'll I will take your challenge.  We hear theodore. He goes a bit further and he says And could I ask you also to say this prayer? And he gives him the prayer of the memorandum and he you know, oh, Mary can see without sin pray for us They're every course to thee And he says oh, I mean this is too much you're asking me to say this prayer to him Well, it's nothing for you the prayer It would mean a lot to me The prayer doesn't mean anything to you wear the medal say the prayer is like fine I'll say your prayer and could you also write it down because it's my only copy and and he's like Oh, you're unbearable. You just don't even know where to stop He's like fine. I will write it down But you I will keep your copy and you will take my copy. So that's how he makes off with it And he leaves there mumbling like these impossible people sometimes that's So they get anyways that said he he leaves and that's Saturday night Sunday night, right? This is the first night. They said That was the first night they met now Alphonse is supposed to leave sat sunday evening So this is the night before he's supposed to leave And theodore goes and pays a visit to him wherever his house his apartment was and leaves a little noticing Would you please meet me tomorrow at 10 o'clock? And he does Alphonse comes and he meets him promptly at 10 o'clock on sunday morning And um, they talk again and go visit a couple of places or scoffing and whatever else had no impact But theodore's being pretty open now saying that I will have you will you know, you you will convert to the faith And Alphonse is laughing at him saying that wouldn't happen But here's where the theodore the good friend goes even further He says You you have to stay You can't get on you can't get on that You can't get on the coach and go back to play and you have to stay here and Alphonse absolutely not He's like i'm going to be on the on the beaches of multa I'm not staying here another day And he's like no, I absolutely insist I will not let you go and he kind of takes him To the station and somehow gets Alphonse to change his ticket I don't know if it was a week later two weeks later, but it changes his ticket And so he Alphonse Follows suit and changes the ticket So that ends that evening and that Saturday or sunday evening now theodore has to go have dinner with somebody He's he parts ways with Alphonse Now theodore Boussier goes and has dinner with a good friend now the friend's name, which i'm sure i'm not saying it Right is uh day la freon and he He was a count and he worked in the government when he was in france And he was older, but a very great piety. They said he was a good catholic Well, they had a long discussion about Alphonse and la freon Offered and said that he would pray much for Alphonse rattlespawn By monday night la freon was already dead He had already died, okay So a couple days go by and every day now this good friend la freon. He's dead Boussier, um, sorry Theodore Boussier is good friends with him. It's like a family member who just died now. He split between Seeking the conversion of Alphonse which he had this internal Impulse that he had to keep pursuing him like a hound He had to they talked about our lord as the hound of heaven He just had to constantly be tracking down this atheist jewish young man to try to get him to convert Um, and then he also felt he had these duties these obligations because his friend his good dear friendages died And he wanted to be there to pray and he wanted to console. He wanted to mourn himself But he wanted to console the family But even the priest that was there said you need to go after this young man So keep going keep doing your work do what you feel god's calling you to do So he would go track down Alphonse rattlespawn and they would keep uh, he'd keep taking him around town Well, Wednesday, I'll just jump to Wednesday because they met Tuesday and then on Wednesday They meet again and each day Alphonse is scoffing and he's saying he's blaspheming and he's mocking the faith and everything else Which you can imagine it's hard on somebody because when we hear somebody scoffing and blaspheming We want to shun them right away But we have to also know where people are at and so he's not a catholic He's doing this as someone who hates the faith and so a good catholic was there giving good catholic example and trying to Help him see the faith So he didn't abandon him in that well on Wednesday, they go to visit a couple of places and one of those places was San San Stefano Rotondo, I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's a it's a church. It's also up on one of the hills It's on kind of the older part of Rome It's close to where the house where st. Gregor the great used to live and some other real famous churches But it's more wooded up in that area and things like that That's kind of south of the the Coliseum and so They go to San Stefano Rotondo and it's a church Rotondo's because it's in a circle right and all the walls going all the way around the church Are very graphic depictions of martyr of the great famous martyrdoms that happened at Rome And he takes alphonse there and alphonse is pretty impressed with this He thought it was gruesome and terrible all these terrible ways that these Christians had died But in the end justified it by saying yeah, but the Jews have suffered a lot at the hands of the Christians He left it that so they left there and they went to they walked up the hill And that leads you to st St. John ladder and so it took him to st. John ladder the principal church of the of our holy faith And in there if anybody's been there, you see there's all the statues going down the main nave And those are all the all the apostles And each of those statues is holding the instrument of his death Like you got st. Bartholomew is holding his own skin because he was flayed alive and Over top of his arm. It's pretty interesting statue and these are huge statues But above those statues are these reliefs these base reliefs that depict on one side the gospel side Fulfillments of prophecy from the old testament What happened in the in the new testament and then on the the epistle side You have the the fulfillment of those new testament Fulfillments, I'm sorry the the the figures of those new testament fulfillments and they come down You know going across the aisle so you can look across and see That's what that's what happened the flood happened. This is what happened Uh the fulfillment and the faith crucifixion is what happened. So you see these things in the church It's very apologetic. It's it's very catechetical And so he took them there and alphonse was pretty interested. He thought that was pretty interesting Now this is some of you's never been it was later attested to that He never read more than two pages of the whole bible now his brother said that about So from there they're walking out of st. John ladder and right across the street from st John ladder is the scala santa. That's the holy stairs Where there are lord climbed up where Pontius Pilate was the st. Helena brought back from Jerusalem They stopped right in front of the holy stairs And this is where the brother I have a quote to see like find the quote real quick. So I'm not not the brother but theodore Theodore stops there and he just says Hail scala santa Hail holy stairs Here is a man who will one day ascend you on his knees because there was this there's this rivalry going I wouldn't say it's holy But it was a rivalry because it was holy on the part of theodore busier because he was he's challenging openly this guy saying you will become catholic And then you got the the the atheist jew there saying this is nonsense You know, this is absolute nonsense that only superstitious, you know, old ladies do this kind of stuff And here's the prophecy the very so that's that's Wednesday Probably late afternoon The next morning Alphonse goes to piazza spania. That's where the The spanish stairs are that's where that column is with the beautiful statue the maccha conception the pope goes to every year at the time of The maccha conception and leaves flowers and gives a little talk and things like that's a beautiful thing Well, there's a lot of cafes there and whatever so that morning thursday morning Alphonse goes to some different cafes and gets he's reading the paper He's he's engaging in conversation We have the testimony from the people who he met with in those mornings and the frivolous Non-essential things that they were talking about And theodore makes an interesting point in the book. He said if anybody would have said to him In two hours, you will be a devout catholic He would have just scoffed at it because he was blaspheming all the way up. Well close to uh, you know, it's just You take one of the roads it a diagonal from piazza spania and you find yourself There's a little church tucked in a corner there. It's on the corner of two streets And it's called san andre de le fratti de le frate and it's a church run by the minimums of st. francis paula A church is of no significance. It really doesn't have anything in it. That's really worth seeing It's got a couple of statues that were carved by um Bernini That didn't make the cut for whatever he was doing something for and they're in there in the church But there's no reason really to visit the church unless you're just walking by and you say hey, what's in there? so they met He's walking over towards the church and he runs into theodore boussier and That was a church where mr. Let la ferron la ferron Was in the sacristy repose and they were going to have the funeral the next day or something like that and so Theodore boussier had to go in there and do some arrangements for The the funeral take about 10 minutes in the meantime alphondratus bond is just kind of walking around the church It's a small church. It's not very large And he was on the epistle side So that means he's on the right side of the church just looking at some things and he says he remembers a dog He doesn't remember anything. He doesn't remember anybody else being there, but he remembers some dog jumping around him and next thing you know He's on the complete other side of the church the nave on now He's on the gospel side of the church, which is on the left side and he's before an altar And on this altar, there's a magnificent light coming from this altar And on that altar, which it's an altar of st. Michael the st. Michael the archangel that altar is Now when you go there's a picture of what alphondratus bonds always saw our lady but He looked up and he saw The blessed virgin Mary and all over splendor There before him And he says she made a sign to me that I was to Kneel down and to be quiet And he did that and he says something like and she seemed very happy about that or very content or something She didn't say anything to him and what he says She said nothing yet. I knew everything She infused the holy catholic faith from those great those right those rays coming from those rings because she was wearing he was wearing that metal She infused the fullness of the faith and alphondratus bond He tried three times to look up at her and he couldn't do it He kept trying but she was so resplendent he found he could only lift his eyes as far as her hands He could lift his eyes as far as her hands and see the the graces flowing out on him But he couldn't look up at her anymore. He kept trying and he couldn't do it Now you can imagine the surprise when theodore comes out of the sacristy Comes out of the sacristy and there's alphons prostrate on the floor weeping So he goes up and he taps him a couple times. He's like alphons alphons alphons And finally alphons comes to the senses and he says Take me out of here. You got to get me out of here And he's weeping and he's muttering things like how beautiful What how beautiful he's saying all these things the family can sense So theodore basically carries him out of the church and outside alphons is a complete disaster I mean he's he's overcome with joy and can't stop weeping He keeps saying beautiful things About the faith and about the the truth of the faith and and how how silly he was and how beautiful it all is and but he keeps weeping and Finally theodore he doesn't know what's going on He's like do I need to get a doctor and what's and he says to him, you know, please tell me something's like I need to see a confessor because what I have to say can only be said kneeling So he knew he had to he had to he What he had just experienced was so beautiful He could only explain it to somebody on his knees and it had to be a priest What happened? How do you know that has to be a priest? How do you know it has to be kneeling? But he also knew that in the church the blessed sacrament was there and it was an awful thing He said did not be baptized and to be in the presence of the blessed sacrament. That's what he said You know now God forbid we say it, but that's what he said You think it'd be it'd be upset about talking inside the church now Yeah That's a good point He became a priest though Yeah, so right after that what happened was he was he was already baptized I think was on the jan so this was in This all happened It would have been january Maybe it was a 17th or 18th something like that. It was like it was the middle of january And by january 30 31st was his baptism Now normally had to wait a year or two years He went to meet with a priest so they went down to visit the priest at Chiesa di Jezu that's the Jezuic church a beautiful mural of people being cast out of heaven into hell That's because after the Protestant revolution reformation that that's the artwork that's on the the ceiling there. It's magnificent They went there and met with a good priest and The priest was able to get he listened to him for a long time was able to get a bit out of him But alphonse really had a hard time because it was such an emotional thing that he just would weep between like every other word So they decided let's go give thanks for this And they went and visited uh saint peters And then uh saint saint mary major and a couple other churches But at saint peters they went in at saint peters They have a chapel there where the blessed sacrament is reserved and they went in there and saint or alphonse radispawn felt he felt overcome with dread and It was the fact that he wasn't baptized he felt He felt he couldn't sustain The presence the almighty presence of our lord and the blessed sacrament And so he would almost faint being in the presence of the of the blessed sacrament And so he would have to be taken away from there because he couldn't he couldn't handle it Because he knew he wasn't baptized. He couldn't he wanted baptism immediately, but he couldn't sustain that presence So they took him to the chapel of the blessed virgin That's the saint peters. I don't know what chapel they're talking about. I mean our chapel I don't know if that means the chapel right across the the nave A dedicated to the amount of conception Which has now a gate in front of it. Maybe they didn't have a gate before that's where the choir is And the the cannons of the cathedral not the cathedral, but of saint peters they go to The chanther office. I don't know if that's the chapel I mean, but one of the chapel of the blessed virgin saint peters They went there and he said here. I feel I feel completely console Whenever he was around our lady, he felt there was only what he said. There's only mercy here Beautiful. That's a beautiful thought I remember reading about him just when you talk about crying. He was kissing the metal and thanking our lady age of repeatedly Yeah That's right when he ran into her when when when he came out the way he explained it He just kept kissing the metal That was to show what had just happened when he took him out of the out of the church. So And long story short, he became a evangelist for the jews, right? Yeah, so he got baptized and it was just on a quick note His baptism was was quite a quite a splendid thing You can still get the book alfondratus the conversion of alfondratus bond It was written by his friend that theodore boussierre the one who gave him the medal But they recount the baptism now when this happened when this conversion happened It immediately spread like wildfire all through rome And the people at rome were so edified by the fact that this had happened that our lady would do something so beautiful That a lot of the faithful packed that church for that baptism And they saw this This young 28 year old man who was very you know, he was still in his prime In a white robe. He was very proud just two weeks earlier. He's very proud now They referred to him as this docile little lamb And he's kissing the ground and they're doing all the things that the baptism requires But the really beautiful thing was when he went up to receive the blessed sacrament for the first time As he approached because he had the he had the knowledge of the face faith infused into him. It's different than us. We believe But he had that full knowledge infused into him and we don't know exactly what that means But he had a different kind of belief And so when he approached the altar for the first time with our lord during mass To receive it to communion rail He he could barely they had to carry him there and support him It was the good priest who cataclysm and a sponsor They had to support him there so he could receive the blessed sacrament when he received it. He was so He was so emotionally overcome That his body like stopped functioning that he couldn't walk they had to carry him back He was he was sobbing with with with great tenderness and joy from from this union Of receiving our lord in the blessed sacrament So in that Shortly after he was able to enter into the Jesuits and then he became a priest and him and his brother fiat or Radis Bond they both went to Jerusalem where they they worked for the conversion of the Jews And that's the that's the life of alphonse radis bond it is a I first read about this in the book By I think it was catholic labor race confessor that wrote the book on the history of miraculous metal trying to get it republished And uh, that's just one of many Stories, but I'll this is the most famous Isn't there one in the united states that happened in the was it the 60s and 50s? Yeah happened in the 20s 20s Newman Caught Newman and I I've encouraged people before to go on pilgrimage there, but then they said Excuse me fryer. Have you ever seen the church? No, I've never seen the church, but so maybe it's not the best place to go on pilgrimage But it's a really interesting story it happened in mississippi And it was a black man, and I haven't sorted out all the details exactly If he was guilty or not guilty, but his mother or his grandmother Her husband I think it was like a second husband or something like that That Was abusing her. I don't know if he was beating her or what but claud I think had enough of it And I think he may have killed the guy. I don't know if it's accidentally or intentionally But regardless being a black man in Mississippi in the 20s You know you didn't have a even now you see that there's that there's a famous case right now in george with that That young man that was jogging through a neighborhood.  No well that night That night this beautiful woman appears to him while he's sleeping. I don't say in a dream, but while he's sleeping Comes to his bedside And claud looks at her and he's you know, he doesn't know whether to be afraid because it's uh an apparition uh like a ghost or You know or just to Be incomplete all because the most beautiful thing he's ever seen before And all is this uh, this beautiful lady said was If you want me to be your mother and you to be my son call for a catholic priest And so she went away And he scrambled for a catholic priest and this good catholic priest came And there's a lot of stuff that happened and I won't go into all of it I encourage anybody to go and learn about claud Newman, but that catholic priest was father Ali Aliiri something like that uh, he was in the what would have been the first world war And in that world war when he was in belgium or something like that He was in a foxhole and he promised our lady if you get me through this i'm going to build a church in your honor Well claud said to the priest Our lady told me to tell you if you didn't believe me that you made her a promise That you were going to build that church and you still haven't built that church And claud was very simple. He was very simple very honest In fact every quote that we have of claud's there's such clarity, but there's such simplicity in what he says It's absolutely brilliant the way he he says things about the faith because our lady Our lady started to cataclyse claud So father had to go and cataclyse claud because claud had asked to be baptized From you know, this what happened with the miraculous medal And uh, so father Aliiri he's going there and he brought two sisters with them To help with the catechism and a couple of inmates also wanted to be catechized So I think there's two others so there's three of them total if i'm not mistaken And um, they would go on to something about Uh Let me read to you one here. I have one. I just pulled this thing up. Let me let me read you this Claude said this we're the priest is talking about the sacrament of confession the sisters are talking about it Okay boys today. This is what the sister said the priest said okay boys today I'm going to teach you about the sacrament of confession and here's what claud said Oh, I know about that The lady told me that when you go to confession, we're kneeling down not before a priest But we're kneeling down before the cross of our sun And that that when we are truly sorry for our sins and we confess our sins The blood he shed flows down over us and washes us free of all our sins They're looking at this guy like wow He didn't know anything about the faith. He's that's yeah, that's that's right claude So Let's see. There's there's another one too Oh, then so then because he boarded out like that claud said this.   Don't be angry. I didn't mean to I didn't mean to blur it out That's what that's what claud mean. He was a real humble beautiful soul And so he also our lady also told claud that uh when when when he goes to confession It's kind of like a telephone It uh, you just you're on the telephone with god and you're able to tell god everything but through You can imagine our lady using this example of a telephone and talking to claud and explaining it to So our lady catechized claud And got him prepared for this so now Claude becomes a catholic he got baptized maybe a couple of weeks before he's supposed to be executed And you can find pictures of this claud before he was the die They asked him and he had become very precious even to the To all the inmates but also very much to the The warden and then because he was a very sweet soul, you know, so that they're very much like claud They were going to miss him and they felt bad they had to execute him now But there was that one catholic that that bad catholic who ripped off the metal and threw it He hated claud You can imagine a practice conscience, but he hated claud So now it comes time for claud's execution And they come to him and they said what's your last request and he said well Everybody's real sad about this and so I want to have a party so that everybody can can celebrate a little bit Everybody can have some cake and whatever so they have a party for everybody for himself, but for everybody And and then claud goes to execution day, but you see him before he kneels down He says his buried devout prayer before he goes out Now it comes time for the execution close to it and the warden barges in and says there's been a stay of execution for two weeks Claude breaks down in tears uncontrollably weeping and saying why Why would they why would god do this to me?  It's like the most beautiful statue to add at the at the uh at wherever they were staying And uh, he goes She looks like that.  This is what's called suffering I want you to offer the suffering of not being able to die For the conversion of that inmate that hates you and claud was like, yeah, I'll do that So claud offered all of his suffering all of his prayers for that inmate and then it came clauds and two weeks it came clauds uh execution day And the secular journalists who were there Right and testified to the fact they say never have we seen someone go to the electric chair so happy He died with a smile on his face That's incredible. Now the story gets better It comes time for the execution of that horrible catholic who was blaspheming All the way up to the point of the putting the mask on and where they're going to electrocute him And the priest came over and tried to hear his confession and he was blaspheming. He tried to spit on the warden. I mean it was There was no hope for this guy So get ready to put the mask on he says wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute And he's looking up in the Corner of the room and he says get me a priest get me a priest They're like, all right So they went got the priest is still there. So they got the priest that came over here heard his confession But the warden his interest was was was was was uh was perked perked up and then uh, and so he went over and he said All right What happened? You were looking up there. You were blaspheming. What happened? I saw claud And he was the blessed virgin And he obtained from the blessed virgin the grace that I would see my place in hell So that one for that that this is an interesting point it won for that That uh that prisoner it was going to be executed. It won for him the grace To fear it was an imperfect contrition, right? But he had to confess to be able to be saved Because a perfect confet contrition you can't be saved by confession And so there's a priest right there our lady obtained for him imperfect contrition He confessed and he was executed And he saved let's I mean we can pretty well presume. I mean he didn't have anything to lose. I doubt he hit anything Claude Newman and you can still visit his grave. I've looked it up on google I'd love to go stop by there. It's in mississippi and pray at his grave at some point time but hopefully someday there'll be a cause for his beatification because it just seems like He would be a beautiful Stain the american saint to have Risen to the altar here in america, right? Especially in the least catholic state in the united states of america. Oh, is that what it is? Mississippi's number one on the south cologne is number two Oh, wow I used to live in the second the least catholic state in there mississippi's the only one I could pull that off but yeah, I No prior that was awesome. Appreciate it. Uh, any other thoughts on the miraculous mental in general or another or any other story Well, I will just say quickly. I know it gets long and your listeners don't like to watch long things Who cares? I don't know. I mean if they want to watch they can watch you But you said mac St. Maximilian Colby when he when he founded the mi It was because he heard the story of alfondratus bond. There was two things that happened. He saw that um that horrible procession it was the year it was a two-year anniversary 200 year anniversary of mason's I've seen the picture of it. They actually have a picture At the seraphic college. That's the conventional college at rome Um, and the old refectory is a museum now just has some things But they have a little picture and it has a picture of that procession I've looked I can't find anything like online or anything in that procession You can find other was on the processions, but not the one that happened at rome that year But they walked right up to the front door with a banner that just with a Satan crushing the head of st. Michael the archangel and it said satan will rule in the Vatican And they walked right under the pope's window straight up to st. Peter's door When he heard about that he was indignant and then same year was the 75 anniversary if i'm not mistaken of alfondratus bonds conversion And so that that is what was the impetus for st. Maximilian Colby Founding the militia the immaculata And so he used the miraculous medal as what he called bullets and the other saints have done it as well But that's what it is. It just our lady promised That's what it would be It was an instrument that she wants to give to fight against As she crushes the head of the serpent that was what's prophesized about our lady She is the the one who perfectly The reason she's without sin is she perfectly assists our lord In our redemption because our lord asked for that and and wanted her for that In the in the dogmatic the bold dogmatic definition pious and nine refers to That they were written in one in the same decree Anyways the one in the same decree which means our lord The decree that was written from all eternity For our lord to come as our redeemer Our lady was written the exact same decree That those are the words that the the pope uses So she she's giving us a tool through the miraculous medal It's a way that she crushes the head of the serpent and what a what a horrible way for somebody who's so proud To have their head crushed through a little metal That's powerful our lady is he's just wear this medal and I don't I'll use that to crush his head What a humiliation So we we should really go around and do our best I think to promote To wear the miraculous medal and you can get these there's a online. There's these caramelites in colorado I would recommend they have some really nice the bigger miraculous medals and they're nickel plated. They don't cost so that much Those are really nice ones From what I can tell there's probably other places as well I would encourage people wear a large miraculous medal as a symbol of your consecration If you're not consecrated a bus of virgin Mary, you just need to do it You need to you become consecrated to her and I would encourage the consecration prayer of of st. Maximilian Colby Because it has the theology behind that consecration prayer is Is based on the immaculate conception where st. Louis de monfort is not because he's not coming from that theological framework Where st. Maximilian Colby is coming from that theological framework. It's not to diminish in any way The consecration st. Louis de monfort. That's not my intention So I would encourage a website What's that that's on your website, right? Yeah, there's a there's a the consecration prayers on the website and then this year for the navina for the immaculate conception I gave a a nine-day reflection In preparation for the immaculate conception, but what to prepare people for consecration. So if they want They're about 30 minutes long each one and then at the end you have this Consecration prayer st. Maximilian And then I encourage you Invest in one of these beautiful metals and wear it around your neck As always I'll put the links underneath the videos in the show notes description section So yeah, if you can send me the colorado link, I don't didn't know about that group But yeah, if you can send me if they have a website, I'll put that underneath there, too Okay. Yeah, I'll do it So what's saying is get some metals pass them out and let the immaculate take care of the rest You know, I found I've given metals to I give metals to people when I just go around walking I already I'm strong and blessed and I just hand them to them And I've had people come back later people had no interest in the faith whatsoever I don't know if they converted or not But they would tell me how thankful they were of that metal And they would even have relatives that would find me later and say how they talked about it So some people it may feel like they were just giving these trinkets out and it doesn't mean I've given the Protestant preachers before You know, you never know what our lady's going to do There's stories about people just seeing the metal on a table and not being able to take their eyes off of it Our lady can do what she wants We simply want to try to plant seeds and Like same x-men Kobe says hit him with a metal hit him with a hit him with a bullet of our lady Amen appreciate oh fire. Thank you again as always


Okay, so today we're gonna talk about how you can do video production from your phone Like the most basic thing you guys all watch my videos So well some of you do and obviously you're watching this one So you know that video works and wouldn't it be great to have you do video in your business? I'm here with Sarah Fisher. Sarah. Hi Hello George. Yeah doing this. So Sarah's the expert on making videos We're gonna talk about video production Basic stuff. We're not talking about high-tech, you know, like having a team No, we're talking about solopreneurs like like you and me and We're gonna talk about YouTube channel We're gonna talk about making videos on your phone, etc But let me first start with Sarah's background just briefly and then we'll get into these topics Okay, so Sarah has 20 years of working in video production and in her career She has worked at MTV news at the U.S. Information Agency at C-SPAN CBS News A&E television and now at her I mean she was inspired Recently to really just past the years to work With business owners particularly people who you know don't have a team They're just kind of wanting to do it to make sure that they can do it themselves But she also works with people that are our larger businesses to but She specifically loves working with heart-centered entrepreneurs, that's why She's having a conversation with me today. So Sarah, let's start with this topic of why Video production literacy so when when when I hear video production and I don't know those of you watching this What do you what do you think of when you think of video production? What does that bring to mind like feel free to comment below with I'm genuinely interested and I'm sure Sarah would love your answers So pause this right now comment What does video production mean for you? All right, ready I'm gonna start sharing what that means to me, but I don't want to bias your thoughts of comment below Okay, so Sarah, I'll share with you what I think and I'd love to To kind of know what you're what you take on this so what I think video production what immediately comes to mind is the kind of work that that you have done and the kind of work that my My niece does she she's you know works with large companies. She's actually a Budding director, you know video director in a marketing agency and she works with large companies like One minute of video production costs something like tens of thousands of dollars For like one minute something like that. I forget the exact number, but it was like an astronomical Maybe even hundreds of thousands. I don't know but it was like so much money that I couldn't even imagine Really? So it's course it involves teams and all so that's what I think of when I think of video production But of course you're talking to me and to other heart-centered entrepreneurs. Many of us are solar printers so Tell us how we can how we can learn video production from our You know not a high company budget, but from our tiny tiny budgets here Yeah, thank you I'm really excited to be talking to george and to your audience because the video landscape has changed so much in the past like 10 15 years You know ever since youtube and lots of other social media channels have come about and facebook has been pushing Videos so big in the past five years Um and they've released, you know technology tools which you use like facebook live and other tools to help Entrepreneurs and small business owners get the word out through video and that's because they know that video is effective but um prior to that prior to the landscape really being changed with social media Traditionally video production has been super expensive And so I think some people still do have that in their mind And as I've gone through my journey Running my company I would go out to networking events and I would meet You know lots of entrepreneurs and business owners, you know traditionally like The cmo's and you know, uh the marketing directors of large companies They aren't necessarily going to your local Networking event So I just meet a lot of people who run small businesses like me And they would say oh, I would love to do videos with you But I just can't afford it and then they would start to ask, you know Some questions about how they can get started with video and it took a while for me to kind of you know come around to to um offer the services that I am now But um, you know, I really just felt compelled that you know, the landscape is going to continue To be democratized that it's going to be easier and easier You know and we can see the evidence right now with like so many social video apps So many ways that you can easily edit and that you can edit for free And I think it does intimidate honestly like a lot of my colleagues and um a lot of the people I know that do run video production companies, you know We start to wonder like when are we going to go out of business? There still are going to be like corporations and bigger companies that are always going to have a marketing budget And they're always going to want to pay, you know top dollar for for uh professional videos Um, but I just felt really compelled to bring, you know, the tools And and help people kind of get over that fear of being on video as well Because I just see that the landscape really is is going to continue to change And it's just going to be more and more necessary for everyone to have some kind of video literacy So let's talk about what you consider to be the basic Video production skills that all of us watching this should should have Um, it's kind of like all of us have word processing skills You know, we all know how to create a document and to send documents to other people And and many of us have blogging skills We know how to put a put a post a written post on our website or on medium.com or posting something on facebook But of course now like you said the the technology has been so democratized that many of us can post videos So what do you consider to be the basic video production skills? Yeah, so you definitely don't know have to know everything about professional video production I see it, you know, it's the same as like graphic design Um, you you most everyone needs like some basic skills and photoshop Or you need to know how to resize photos and you need to know, you know Just a little little bit of things that you can do in canva to make your your designs look better That's what I was going to say like I don't know photoshop I don't have photoshop So when I think photoshop that scares that that scares me because that sounds really complicated But canva. Yeah, it's canva.com, you know, for those of you don't know Hopefully many of you know, but canva.com is like a a free well They have paid features, but most of us use it for free free like graphic design stuff But but yeah, so what would be like? Yes, like great great analogy like resizing and you know basic design stuff So what about video? How what can we do with video? Yeah, absolutely. So the skills that you need I would say they're equivalent to like basic photoshop skills because If you're going to start You know really making an impact with video You you certainly can do facebook live and you can do zoom and all that But then if you want to start editing so many people get stuck and they go, what do I do? You know and and it's going to be too time consuming to edit So there's some basic editing tools that you can use of course everyone knows like iMovie There's also adobe premiere rush and there's many many other Video apps that you can use just on your phone like for example apple clips is one of them So kind of you know getting those basic editing skills under your belt is really essential But I also teach the skills we use in Video production which is pre-production. So knowing how to write a script A lot of times what holds people back and they feel so scared of being on videos because they think You know, they're probably just going to turn on the camera and they need to know what to say And you know and they need and and that does come naturally, you know, I think you're a great example of that Um, but although I think I do some pre-production too. I just I imagine you I just didn't call it that but but yes Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah Absolutely, and and so if you're going to be you know editing videos together like really building up your youtube channel for example You're going to want to have scripts Because you're going to want to make your videos look really polished make them stand out above the masses You know, that's the thing when it's democratized everybody can do it Then like how many facebook lives do you see in your feed every day or you know, when you go on youtube You have so many choices And so it's not only like the thumbnail That that's you know, entirely different topic about seo and youtube But just in terms of the pre-production when people land on your video and they start watching your video When you've prepared a script and when you've prepared your entire production You know making sure your location is right and that um, you have the right people if you want other people working On your video and just making sure the entire production is set up There's so many ways you can set up set yourself up for success through pre-production And then the production of course is what a lot of people want to know when they get started Which is what microphones do I use and what lighting equipment? so Yeah, as you start making your videos I think it's great if people just get started no matter what you know using the tools that are available the free tools facebook live zoom etc But as you go along which you've probably seen george, you know, you want to make sure that your lighting is right And you your audio is a little bit better than it was when you first started out doing videos So so those are the kind of basic skills you need to get under your belt. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I totally I totally agree Yeah, I mean it's a lot of people don't realize like we we have to set these things up Like you have a nice back or back backdrop these plants that I have next to me It took it took some effort to like figure out how to place them so that they're actually in the frame Because if I if we do it normally and you wouldn't be able to see either playing all any of these plants And I would have other things that were in the view So yeah, it's like things like that that a lot of people don't think about but it does make Make a difference because especially you keep making more and more videos. So Let's talk about a couple things I want to end with Our conversation later with talking about making videos on our on our own phones, right? But before we get there, I want to talk to you about youtube Right, so well to actually maybe we can give people contact Some of you are watching this video right now on youtube. Some of you are watching this on facebook What do you think is the difference between Putting videos on facebook versus youtube. What's your perspective about that? Yeah, yeah, I'm also instagram if we want to say I know a lot of people probably aren't watching this instagram But but youtube facebook instagram like they can all do videos. How should we be thinking about these these these three? Yeah, I think it's a great question I think well as of now, you know, we should say this is all in the context of now because the social media landscape changes so quickly So what I see with facebook it's really about capturing people's attention in the feed So facebook lives are really effective and with with both with Actually any of the social media networks, of course the consistency is important But you're really trying to capture attention in the feed in facebook with youtube you're capturing people's attention through search And that's what a lot of people don't understand when they start out on youtube They are just wanting to put out videos that are topics they feel are important or you know This is something I want my audience to know about But when people go to youtube you have to think about the user experience and youtube is the second largest search engine owned by google like most people know and um the experiences you go on there to search for videos And yeah, once you do get familiar with um some content creators and you start following them You might be willing to click on a video that um, you know just that content creator put out And it's not necessarily something you're searching for But um in order to build your youtube channel, you're really going to want to be focused on search And so it's all about keywords and what people are actually going to youtube to find out about Yeah, that's really helpful. Yeah, and um, so that how how does that affect how you plan your topics? So You have a obviously you have a youtube channel. How do you let's focus on youtube for now? How do you yeah, tell us kind of give us a sense of how you go about planning the topics for your youtube videos For youtube There are there are some software that you can use for keyword research. So there's Keyword planner, which is a plugin for chrome There's also vid iq and morning fame which you're familiar with and You want to you know, definitely at least use the free version of the software to get an understanding Of what your competitors are doing. So these these softwares, you know When you plug in your keywords, they're going to be able to tell you what other people are already doing And I think that um, it's it's really important to start using this type of software because We kind of get stuck You know, we we can't do exactly what our competitors are doing, but we want to be you know, right there um, you know With the keywords that aren't as competitive as the the people that have already built up their youtube channels So you're capturing, you know a a large enough search volume But where you're going to be appearing at the top of the logarithm And you know, these people that have built the software for seo like vid iq and morning fame and um, you know, there's a bunch of others then, you know, they just they've done all that Analyzing so you can go in there and you can do your research you have ideas for your videos But then you can see, you know, like for example, um My youtube channel is actually, you know Sort of in the beginning stages right now because I've been focused on just making videos, you know Just putting out videos for my clients, but um when I go in there I know that the the uh videos that are out there about video production That's a hugely competitive space because there's people who have been in there For years and years building their channels, but that doesn't mean that I can't build my channel It just means I have to be strategic and I have to understand if I go in there and I try to make a video For example about um, you know, what is the best lighting equipment? That's not the best video for someone who's just starting a channel on video production because there's too much competition And I will never appear, you know in the search results when someone goes to type that in Um, so yeah, I hope that answers your question. Yeah, it does. It's it's very helpful. Um, so Do you help your clients? With this kind of stuff so with them figuring out What kind of videos they should be making? Yes, okay. Yeah, we help them with the SEO and keyword research. Nice. Nice And okay, so let's talk about making videos on our phone. Um, you recently Just produced a an online course called Um iphone video mastery and I know the course is also applicable to people who don't You know most a lot of people have iphone's here But some of you have like android phones or other phones and then most of the course's material also also Applies but tell us um, you know, give us a I mean, we don't have a whole lot of time but give us in a few minutes like A few tips maybe that that all of us can use to to make better phone videos, I guess Yeah, absolutely. Um, well one of the best apps. I think out there right now for iphone's is apple clips And it does a couple well it does many things. It's a free app that just comes with the newer iphone's um, it might come on some of the older ones. I'm not sure but Um, you're going to be able to use that for editing But you're also going to be able to use it just for recording and capturing your videos So that's one of the trickiest things people Um, don't know people ask me all the time and how do I caption my videos and it can be multiple steps You know just to after you've recorded your video to get it caption But with apple clips you're pressing record and it's auto captioning your videos, which I just think is amazing And just to clarify for everybody the captions are the words that show up at the bottom and why why are captions important? Let's start there Yeah, the captions are really important because there's so many people that On any social media network are going to be listening watching your video with the sound off So they're not going to be listening. They're you know, just busy doing other things. It's not that they don't want to hear you but um It sort of gives people like cliff notes and it gives them an ability to kind of cheat You know that if they see a video coming in with captions they can say hey, is this is something I'm interested in Because everything's all about attention. You know people's attention span So short and then it also is just a really great thing to do for people who are disabled heart of hearing And there's a lot of people out there like that that you know that do need the captions You know, that's fine when I watch videos I actually prefer to have the captions on whenever possible And so I really yeah, even though I'm grateful not to be you know, hard of hearing or anything But I just it's just helpful for me to kind of see the words also It's and I'm always very grateful when uh, the video creator has gone through the trouble of actually Making the captions readable because captions aren't and I apologize to those who will watch my videos I only really edit the first two minutes or first minute and a minute and a half of captions And then I kind of leave leave leave the rest to gobbledygook But you know, most of the time youtube actually youtube has Auto captioning too, right like like most of the time the captioning is pretty good But sometimes I talk fast and then so it doesn't catch the right words or whatever But but you're telling us right now about this iPhone software called apple clips and the captioning feature there is really good. Yeah Yeah, absolutely and And so what what was the question you're wondering about other Tips for shooting with the iPhone or shooting with the smartphone Yeah, yeah any other tips you want to share with us for those of us, you know Who like to make videos on the phone or who who I thought about it I think it's really imperative to invest in some kind of stabilization equipment So like a mini tripod can be great Especially if you're not going to shoot in the same location every time But it can be helpful even if you're just shooting at home Because if you've ever tried to just shoot with your iPhone It can be hard to just keep it stable when you're you know sitting there holding Holding it in your hand Especially, you know after a minute two minutes You don't see it But when you go back and watch the video after you've shot it it can turn out shaky And you'll just you'll notice your videos just come out a lot smoother And then you just have more options for you know what locations you want to shoot in Because you'll just you'll know that you have that stabilization and you can set it up on you know set it up high To capture something You know on your desk or on the ground. There's many ways that the Stabilization mini tripods can work really well Cool. Cool. So what else do you cover in your iPhone video mastery course? Maybe give us a quick sense of what people will learn when they sign up Yeah, so there's four modules and it covers The first one is just all about getting over the fear of being on video So, you know, how can we really gain confidence to make videos consistently? And then the next three modules are just all about learning the skills of basic professional video production So we're not going to be you know shoot and feature films But it's just you know knowing how to write a script. We actually go through how to write your intro videos So when someone lands on your website, how do they you know? If you've ever tried to record that a lot of times people come up with these long videos And you really only want it to be 90 seconds So you learn how to write a 90 second script and then learn how to shoot and edit that video Great awesome. So, of course, there will be a link below to check out the course Any other kind of I guess parting tips as we end the conversation About about video that maybe there's is there like a common myth That people often have like something you you find yourself having to explain to your students or your clients something anything you want to share like that Sure Well, we talked about how there's a perception that video production is so expensive That definitely is changing with the cost of equipment and we go through that in my course But also people just perceive that video production is time consuming It is time consuming. I'm not going to lie about that when you get into editing and it's just but it's just like anything This is what I really want people to understand You're going to make something that's quality and that kind of stands out Above the masses that's different and you know really draws people attention You do have to put time into it and the editing can be time consuming Um, but once you have the skills under your belt You know, if you enjoy it if you do enjoy Making videos on your own Then um, it doesn't seem as time consuming. It only seems time consuming now Because you don't have those skills and it's the same thing like I've been learning facebook ads from you And I'm like man this is taking so much time But it's just because I don't have those skills and I need to kind of get um In the mind frame that it's just going to take a little bit of time To have those skills under my belt. Yeah, that's a really really good point Yeah, because I make time for the facebook ad stuff and then of course it works well for me But same thing with video editing I could see where it's like, yeah If you make and it's like you don't have to spend 10 hours for each video Even if you did some editing it probably improves the video Then then if you didn't right so uh, anyway, I look forward to people following up with you sarah I'll have the links to your the course but also to your website And if anybody has any questions kind of quick questions for sarah to answer You can go and comment below. Make sure she sees it Sarah thank you for the work that you do for people for you know now creating Courses that people can get so anything else before we go any other kind of encouraging words for folks I would say just do it. You know just just get started. I mean that's the main thing. Yeah, great great All right. Thank you so much sarah. Thank you, george


I've seen Joe Rogan, he'll do it for like 20 minutes at like 33 or 31 degrees or something. That video that you're describing, if Rogan knew what he knew now, I don't think he would do that again, because you can get hypothermia, you can die from excessive cold.


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