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You can purchase one at a time or have a subscription model giving you access to all the courses, courses which are well organized, have other resources like Excel files and PDF files to download and no commercials. We are in our Custom Zero homepage going into the company file. We set up in a prior presentation that being the bank feed file. We're going to duplicate some tabs to put reports in like we do every time. Right-click in the tab up top so we can duplicate it. Then we're going to right-click the tab again and duplicate it again. Back to the tab to the middle. Accounting drop-down. We want to go into the balance sheet report. Tabbing to the right. Accounting drop-down and opening up the income statement. Changing the range on the income statement for 2022. The date that we're putting our data input in. So January to December of 2022. Updating the report. Going to the first tab now to open up the bank feeds in the first tab. Accounting drop-down. We're going into the bank accounts. And we're going to go into, this is our account information, manage accounts and account transactions. So then I'm going to go to the first item, the reconcile. So for the most part what we have been trying to do is basically take the information directly from the bank and construct our books from that bank feed information recording transactions as they come through the bank which we can only do in certain types of accounting systems when we're more on a cashed basis and aren't forced to do more accrual type of stuff. So now we want to think about those transactions that we need to be careful about when we're looking at the increases in the bank account, the increases being like deposits which are normally coming from customers but we want to make sure that we differentiate deposits which may not be coming from customers. The major two being a deposit from, for example, a loan or the owner putting money into the business. We don't want to record those as revenue. So let me take a quick look at the flow chart over here. This is from QuickBooks Desktop but we're just looking at it to look at the flow chart because most of the accounting system will be in essence the same. So we're looking at the sales or revenue side of things. We're trying to make it as automated as possible on the revenue side which only works for certain industries where we're going to wait till something clears the bank, the deposits that is and record the deposit with the bank feeds to revenue at that point in time. Now in our system we had something like gig work. It would be pretty easy if you're just getting paid by YouTube or you're getting paid by some other platforms and they're paying directly into your checking account because they are electronic transfers and we would therefore be able to see the data and we wouldn't really be able to mix up where the money is coming from and we can even assign, say, a customer, at least a platform as the customer. So that works out well but we can imagine other systems where we try to basically rely on the bank feeds. For example, if we add a cash register or something like that and we're simply collecting cash and we're going to collect the cash and make the sales but we're actually going to not record the revenue until it clears the bank. So we collect the cash or we get paid. We don't record the revenue at the cash register at that point in time but instead we wait till we make the deposit and then it clears the bank and then we simply record everything, all the deposits as revenue when they clear the bank. Now that's not a full-service system because usually when you have a register you would like to have the register record the sales at the point in time that you're making them so that you can then match the money that you have received to the sales transactions and then you have that issue of depositing the money into the bank making sure that you're matching what goes into the checking account on our books so that we can reconcile using the bank feeds as easily as possible. However, if you're trying to just do the easiest thing possible then you can just basically make sales, deposit the money into the bank in whatever format that be, credit cards or cash or whatever, wait till it clears the bank and then just record all the transactions that come through the bank as revenue when they're deposits, right? So the problem with that though is that you don't have the detail of the bank feed transfers as we do when we're looking at gig work. It's not going to say it came from this person because we just deposited a lump sum of cash. So that might not be an issue because we could just say it's just revenue and we're just trying to get an income statement and I don't need to track all the customers that they came from so we'll just call it revenue no problem. However, if you get other deposits that go into your account that aren't from customers you're more likely to miscategorize those deposits as revenue. So in other words, if we then as the owner put money into our own business and we're accustomed to just recording all deposits as revenue we might accidentally record our investment in the business as revenue which would overstate revenue which means in the United States you might end up paying taxes on it which wouldn't be good or you take out a loan to invest in the business and if you're in the habit of just recording all deposits as revenue you might record the loan as revenue and it's not revenue and if you record it as revenue then you're going to end up overstating your revenue again. Those are the two main ones. So you want to make sure that you can differentiate if you're recording all deposits as revenue between deposits that may not be revenue from the owner or something like that. Alright, so let's look at some deposits. Let's look at this one for example. Now this one's from Skillshare so it probably is from a customer or a platform but let's imagine that this is coming from the owner or loan. So let's imagine this was a loan from the bank. Now if it was a loan from the bank it might be an electronic transfer that goes into your account so you might have some information that would indicate and look different than your normal kind of deposit transactions that will help you to indicate hey look this is something different I shouldn't record it as revenue. Oftentimes also if it were a loan or an owner deposit you're going to have more regular numbers here so it might be like you put in $3,000 or something instead of $12,755 which is something that happens more often if you made a sale and had to deal with sales tax or something like that. So those are some things you can use to make sure that you can differentiate between most of the deposits which hopefully are from customers and those that are not possibly loans or coming from an owner putting money in. So let's add the details here and let's imagine that this is a loan. Skillshare is loaning. I'm not going to make a rule so I'll just say from here and then new contact boom and no item and the point is here that we need to have a loan account so let's see if we have a loan account here it's not going to income it's not going to income that's the point. So we have liabilities no loan account so let's call a loan account a sales tax historical adjustment rounding let's call it 2650 2650 adding a loan account 2650 it's going to be this is not a valid what's wrong with that it's not available 2660 what do you mean it's not available I just looked at it whatever this is going to go to a liability account liability it's going to be a current liability alright and then I'm going to call it loan payable now note when you're thinking about loans the other thing you want to note with loans is that when you take out a loan if you take out a loan often times you're going to have like a long-term loan you might pay it back in installments or you might have other kind of loan structures for a business loan they're not always going to be structured in a similar payment payment structure as an installment loan like a mortgage but often times they may and if they're going to be paid back in something longer than a year's time frame you've got the concept of breaking out short-term and long-term loans so note that I would generally go with the idea of recording the loans in one account usually short-term I'll use current liabilities and then breaking out the short-term and long-term portion if necessary for external reporting purposes or for internal decision making periodically at the end of the month or the year that makes it easier to track your loans and that makes it easier to automate your system the other thing to keep in mind is that if you have multiple loans you might want to label the loan not just loan payable but the name of the bank like Skillshare is the bank or whatever for the institution and then you can group the multiple loans using Xero's great grouping tool on your financial statements to be able to show them as just one lump sum or you can break them out so for internal reporting purposes I would like to use their loan payable for each loan so I can tie up my amortization table to the loan whereas if it were external reporting I would like to be able to group them together so I can just say this is the loan payable just one number ok so let's do that we're going to say save it and I'm not going to make a rule for it because we're just practicing the idea that we were picking this one up and resisted the urge to put it in there as revenue from a customer but rather put it on the books as a loan so let's go ahead and save it and then we can reconcile it I'll do it up here reconcile and then boom let's go to the bank account and update so now the checking account is going to go up positive now that's good news that's good news people we don't have a negative cash liability for the cash account but the other side went to this loan payable right so it went to loan payable now again if we didn't record it as loan payable and we got in the habit of just recording it as revenue it would have been on the income statement and just dumped into one of our revenue accounts if we did that we would be overstating that income and that's not good for reporting purposes also it's going to cause this problem when we have to pay back the loan because we're not tracking the loan properly because it's not on the books as a liability and you're going to have if you're doing taxes in the United States you're going to be paying taxes on a loan which isn't good right because your income is higher also note when you're taking a look at your loans over here as we think about the payments that are going to happen through the bank feeds for the loans we're going to have an issue of breaking out the interest portion and the principal portion of those payments a couple ways we can deal with that we could make an amortization table if they provide us an amortization you know table great if not we can build one either using online tools or Excel and then we can every time we make a payment if it's on a monthly installment loan then we're going to have to break out the interest and principal now the problem with that when you're trying to automate the information recording transactions as they clear the bank so let's say you're just making the loan payments monthly doing an automated transaction to do that meaning you're doing an on like an online electronic transfer and then when it clears the bank you just want to record it properly at that time well you can't make a standard rule for it why because there's three accounts affected that shouldn't be the big issue the big issue is that two of them will change every time you make a payment in other words the dollar amount will be the same but the amount that's broken out between loan reduction and interest will differ so that messes us up when we're trying to automate everything with the bank feeds so one way you can kind of deal with that is this adjusting entry kind of concept you can say hey look I'm going to do everything on a cash basis and then at the end of the year either I or my tax professional will shore up any differences and make it proper for external reporting purposes and tax purposes if necessary so you're going to work with yourself or the accountant and say hey look I'm just going to record all the payments as a decrease to the loan account not breaking out the interest because I don't want to have to break it out every time because it's going to take more work to do that instead I'm just going to record the whole amount as a reduction to the loan so I can do everything with the bank feeds and automate it and at the end of the year I would like you accountant or me myself at one time to take the amortization table and make an adjustment as of the end of the year which will properly record the loan amount properly record interest according to the amortization table and properly record the short term and long term portion of the loan if we need that for external reporting purposes so that way you can do everything automated during the year and then you can just have that one time adjustment that's going to happen so as long as everyone's on the same page and knows the plan that works quite well and might save time alright so now let's do the other one where we might have a deposit which doesn't come from a customer and that's us putting money into the business and just to get an idea for this note that these are transactions that usually happen when you're growing the business or just starting the business so remember when you're just starting the business if we just look at the balance sheet here you've got assets you've got the liabilities and the equity the assets are what we own we have those assets because they're going to help us to generate revenue in the future so when you're starting the business of course we're going to need capital in order to purchase the assets where are we going to get that capital well either we're going to take out a loan which means we have a third party that's going to give us the money the bank for example or it's from us the owner is putting money into the business those are the two major times that money going into the business that aren't from customers what are you going to do with that money you're going to take it out of the checking account and buy equipment you're going to buy machinery because those are the tools you need in order to generate the revenue hopefully once everything is going good from there the money going into the business will be coming from customers however if you're advancing or putting another store together or growing to another shop or something again you might have investments coming in so that you can buy more fixed assets so that's when you're going to see you would think these other types of transactions that are deposits that aren't coming from customers so of course the other way that you can finance the business to grow or start up is you the owner putting money in if it was a sole proprietorship then it would be obviously the owner if it was a partnership it would be the partnerships that are putting money in and if it was a corporation then that's when they sell the stock they issue the stock from the corporation most people buy stock on the secondary market buying from other people that's not going that's not money going to the business but when the business issues the stock that's kind of the same thing as the as a sole proprietor putting money into the business right they're getting capital to buy stuff so if you look at the equity section here notice that we have retained earnings which represents the money that has been accumulating that from the income statement that's flowing into the equity section so that's revenue that has been generated that we have not given to the owners and draws or dividends we've got the draws this is the money that we took out in order to give to the owner so that's what we hope to be happening most of the time going forward the company generates revenue we've got cash and we use some of that cash to reinvest in the business and we take some of it out for the owner in the form of draws if it was a corporation they would be dividends and then you might periodically have money going into the business investments into the business from the owner so hopefully we don't see that as often so a lot of times some businesses don't break out the investments in the same way as they do with draws because they just put it to retained earnings or the capital account or sometimes they net out draws but we'll make another account here which will be the owner investment account and this will be the owner putting money into the business which again we hope only happens when you first start out the business and when you want to really expand the business right that's when that's going to happen and same thing with the draws in that the investments should kind of close out classically if you take an accounting courses temporary accounts closed out to retained earnings but zero doesn't automatically do that if you want to close them out you have to do that with the actual journal entry if you don't close them out not a big deal but you'll just have the investments that have been in there for the lifetime of the business right alright so let's go back to the first tab let's first take a look at our chart of accounts accounting drop down and let's take a look at our chart of accounts and see if we have an investment account down here just to note where it would be so here's retained earnings and draws let's add an investment account let's just call it 3750 let's say I'm going to add an account and call it did I add a bank account again I don't want a bank account just a normal one now I forgot the number 3750 and so I'm going to hit the drop down and this is going to be an equity type of account and I'm going to call it owner owner and investment now if this was a corporation this would be the capital stock issuance the issuance of the capital stock is what they do and to get investments from owners which are the stockholders if it was a partnership you would have to track the partnership investments from the multiple partners so that you can track the correct partnership balances so partnerships again are often actually more complex than even corporations because of that unevenness of the breakout of the equity section which was the genius of the invention of the corporation in part at least alright let's go to the account drop down we're going to go into the bank accounts and manage account account transactions and let's find another deposit and imagine that it's coming from the owner so we're just going to take this other skillshare one here and imagine that it's coming from the owner so in order to differentiate from other deposits if we did an electronic transfer we might have some bank feed information to tell us like where it came from but if we just deposited like cash or something we might not have a whole lot other information but we would have the dollar amount which usually would be an even amount it would be like $3,000 $10,000 or whatever it wouldn't be $1,206.79 generally so usually when you see a rounded number and all your other deposits are not rounded because of sales tax or something then that would be an indication that the deposit's not from a customer for example so I'm going to add the deposit and we're going to imagine this came from the owner so I'm just going to put owner we already have one and then I'm going to say the account down here is going to go into our owner investment account the owner investment account and there it is so there we have it so we're not recording it as revenue owner investment let's save the transaction by May and then reconcile you better recognize and reconcile you see that green box you better recognize it and reconcile so anyways the cash accounts going up we're in the green and then the other side didn't go to revenue but it went down here to the owner investment so if we look at our equity section the section most confusing to most people we've got the current earnings which is really part of the retained earnings the current earnings representing what's on the income statement nothing has changed on the income statement from this transaction yet currently at the six nine four nine five four that's what's over here and it's going to roll in to retained earnings retained earnings represents the earnings that we have had prior to the current year that have rolled in to the retained earnings which have not yet been distributed to the owners in the form of our case draws or if it was a corporation dividends now the retained earnings might more properly be called in a sole proprietorship just owners equity right the owners equity and then we've got the draws which represents the money that has been taken out and it would be equivalent to dividends for a corporation and given to the owner and then we've got the owner investments which is the owner putting money into the business which is equivalent to the issuance of stock capital stock for a corporation now if you as a partnership you would have to track all of the stuff right here kind of all relates to one owner right you can think of owners equity as one as if it's just owned by one person no matter what kind of entity this is what is allocated to the owners it's a corporation owned by a bunch of owners or a partnership and then you have to break out the owner's equity per owner if it's just one person then all of this is applied to one person if it's a partnership you have to track it separately per partner which is a pain if it's a corporation then you could just really track this kind of as a lump sum still you're just gonna and then you're gonna break out who it's allocated to through the shares of a corporation that's what the genius of the shares of corporations kind of idea is alright so that's the general idea let's take a look at our trial balance tab into the right right click let's duplicate a tab let's get to the trial balance drop it down to the accounting go into the reports and we want to go into a trial balance up top and just see how that is being constructed as we go and so this is just the balance sheet on top of the income statement without any of the subtotals so we have our balance sheet is now ending down here under retained earnings so we have our new account of the owner investment and then we've got the income statement down below so if we compare this debits equal to credits it's the same thing from a double entry accounting system as saying the balance sheet is in balance, assets liabilities and equity the income statement fits in there because on the balance sheet we've got the whole income statement squished into this number current year in earnings which is here on the income statement that we just crunched together in the equity section on the balance sheet on the trial balance we just break it out all in one area using debits and credits right so now we've got the retained earnings we don't have like on the balance sheet the net income squished in there in one number the retained earnings represents the retained earnings before we closed out the income statement and then you've got all your income statement accounts under it


My name is Jay Seracchi and I'm here to talk about small and medium-sized enterprises in North Africa and the Middle East. And what are the challenges affecting SMEs today? It's easy to find $50,000 to start a business, but to take your business from there into the next levels, it gets harder in the $200,000 range. At the one to five million range where you need to go into your third market, get up to a scalable-sized business, it's very, very difficult. It's too small for venture capital. There's not enough private equity. And there's not enough elements of getting the people with the funds into the entrepreneurs. Corporations are sitting on billions in cash because they're too scared to invest it in private markets right now, but they're not investing that into the SMEs. The other thing I've learned in talking with my peers, and I think is very important, is finding what's the right type of fit. Now, fit can come in many different planes, not just fit for your product or market, but it's the fit of mentoring systems to the young entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized business. The fit of skill sets and the skill sets coming out of the local markets and the universities, et cetera, and how did those fit inside small and medium-sized enterprise? You need that roadmap in order to figure out how to do expansion, because at an SME level, employing two to three people isn't putting enough impact on the greater economy. You need to get those scaled up to 100 person, 1,000 person, et cetera, employment. So you need to entice business in order to be responsible to invest in SMEs. Profitable returns are not the only way to gauge your investment. You need to look at the longevity, you need to look at the stability of it, you need to look at what you're giving back into economies that have given you your profit to begin with. Educate the investors, and then link those investors with the entrepreneurs, because there's no lack of spirit, but there's a lack of guidance, and you need to just work on that in order to take your SMEs from the incubation stage, up into a middle stage, and up into a long-term profitable business.


Russia is a threat to U.S. response is needed now. U.S. special representative. Penny Pritzker, U.S. special representative for Ukraine's economic recovery, has stated that Russia's aggressive war threatens not only Ukraine, but also the United States and Europe, as well as economic security and the ideas of freedom and democracy that hold the world together. Pritzker said this in an article for The Hill. According to Pritzker, Putin's war is aimed at restoring a dictatorial, corrupt empire in the heart of Europe, which seeks to undermine both NATO and the European Union. Pritzker also stated that with the assistance of America and more than 50 allies and partners around the world, the brave warriors of Ukraine withstood the Russian Federation's onslaught, reclaimed more than half of the territory and significantly weakened Moscow's military potential. According to a special representative, the support from the United States armed Ukrainians to defend their land and protect Europe, while simultaneously modernizing our defense industrial base at home, making us more ready for whatever comes next. The official is convinced that American economic support has been as important as security assistance. According to Pritzker, economic resilience is a core tenet of Ukraine's war effort. Ukraine's security and economy form a double helix indelibly intertwined in the country's effort to beat Putin. At the same time, the special representative pointed out that the US security and economic package constitute the core of our support for Ukraine. If we act now, this package will send a message to friends and foes alike about American leadership, power and resolve when it comes to Ukraine winning this war and its future as a free, independent, democratic, economically prosperous country integrated into the Euro-Atlantic community.


Today I'm making a video talking about mania and how to recognize mania and how to help someone who is experiencing mania. To those of you who don't know, I have Bodeline Personality Disorder. A key feature of this disorder is mania and people don't realise that they think you have to be diagnosed with bipolar and I did until last week. And you don't need to have bipolar to experience mania. I filmed a video when I was a manic and I'm going to be doing a whole video on what mania looks like and that's going to be in there. Basically today I'm going to give you little tips and advice for how you can help or support someone you know personally that is going through mania. And let me just put this out there. They don't want me to receive help. There's not a lot you can do to make them. A quick little story telling you, I didn't mention on camera a person who lives in the same block that I live in at the moment. She lives downstairs. She is sweet but she isn't taking her medication at the moment and she is spiraling. Like she's paranoid. In my opinion, I believe she has schizophrenia. I don't know because I don't know her but what about this little mini 22nd story and because I do know I think about this. That's the point of which where they can be sectioned which means taken to hospital against their will. So the number one thing to not do is to not play with it. Yes they might seem bubbly and energetic and it might be fun to have a laugh with them but in reality they're breaking. Like they're spiraling and they're running so quickly and it's gonna crash into a major depressive episode. So don't play with the emotions. Don't make it a laughable matter. Keep the environment safe and yes people in mania are very unlikely to commit suicide. It's the accidental injuries that comes into play here. Believe me I know last week I hit myself in the head with a hammer. Accidentally I was hanging up very light and it fell on my head and I hit myself with a hammer. I fell off a chair. I fell on my bed. I fall on the stairs. I'm very clumsy when I'm thinking too quickly. I am not going to think about putting one foot in front of the other to stay stable. I'm thinking about what I'm doing in an hour. So make sure the environment is safe. Make sure someone keeps an eye on them. Keep them supported and make sure they know they've got someone. The next step would be to get a doctor involved or call their mental health team. Call whoever is their nearest like mental health team or GP or Amy whatever. Make sure the person gets rest. Now mania means you are awake basically. I'm very very simplifying this. So in mania you're very awake. You need to make sure they sleep. Sleep is key when it comes to mania and if they don't sleep it's gonna get worse. If they sleep it might stay at that level and like walk and might get down. You've got more of a chance of stabilizing out if that person is getting rest. The next one would be to know the warning signs and know the warning signs of when things are starting to get out of control because you can't be expected to know all of them. But learn a few of the signs they show before they get to manic and before they get to psychotic. Like knowing the signs is so important. The next one would be if they're on medication make sure they take it. I know. Yeah Lydia tells you to take your medication. If you if you prescribe medication what's that for? It's there to be used.  Stick them up. So the next one would be in emergencies if you genuinely can't take care of the person. Take them to A&E. Get a mental health assessment done and see what they say. And then after you come down to the mania, do you know what the job is then? The trigger. If you know the trigger you can do stuff to prevent a relapse of that episode. It's all about prevention. You're like yes you can take tablets yes you can do this yes you can do that but you cannot change someone's brain chemistry. Like you can't change what's gonna happen. If they're manic you need to follow certain steps to try and bring them back down to a more reasonable level. That's like their baseline. Everyone has a different baseline. Some people are happier.  But when I get manic, they're when I'm manic I'm still also depressed. So it's quite a comfortable thing. These are just a few little tips I wanted to share with you guys today. Patreon shout out will be at the end of the video as it is always. If you are new here hit the subscribe button and I will see you guys tomorrow with a new video. Peace.


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In this presentation, we will take a look at multiple choice questions related to budgeting, going through the questions and then practicing test-taking skills with them. First question, long-term liability data can be gotten from a. The cash budget and capital expenditures budget b. The cash budget and purchases budget c. The cash budget and budgeted income statement d. The sales budget and production budget or e. The cash budget and debt budget. Let's go to this again using the process of elimination. Long-term liability data can be gotten from either a. The cash budget and capital expenditures budget. Now if we're talking about long-term liability, you would think cash might be involved because we'd have a cash, you know, the long-term liability could have gone up or down because of we got cash on the liability. So possibly and capital expenditures that's purchasing things like big things like property, plant and equipment which could result in a liability. So that sounds like it's possible. So we'll keep that for now. B says the cash budget and purchases budget and again we have the same kind of thinking there. Well cash, you know, could be could be involved for sure and then the purchases budget. Usually we think of purchases of merchandise. So you would think that that would go to a counts receivable and not the long-term liability but maybe, you know, I'll keep it for now. C says the cash budget and budgeted income statement. Now the cash budget seems reasonable but the income statement isn't really with a long-term liability will be. We might see interest on the income statement but the long-term liability itself would be on the balance sheet. So probably not C. D says the sales budget and the production budget. So on the sales side, why would we need to know sales for long-term liability? They're not really connected. There's not much, you know, there and then the production and then the production budget. So probably not D and then E says the cash budget and the debt budget. That sounds kind of reasonable. You would think you'd have the cash budget and a debt budget. So I'll keep that for now. So let's go through this again. Long-term liability data can be gotten from A says the cash budget and capital expenditures budget. And that, again, that sounds kind of reasonable. Cash budget, capital expenditures. B says the cash budget and purchases budget. So of that, of those two, I think B's, you know, they're similar. Both cash and we got capital versus purchases. I would think capital would be more appropriate because that would result in long-term liability as opposed to accounts payable.


Welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies. We've got a couple of Christmas episodes for you, but first, before we start, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Captain Howdy's Black Bile. Alright. Power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! If you want the recipe, click the link above our heads. Today, we're going to be talking about a beloved Christmas horror movie, underrated in a way, because it was shunned by critics all at the time, and it was pulled from the theatres early. Silent Night, Deadly Night, which came out in 1984, directed by Charles E. Celier, Jr. It stars Robert Brian Wilson. Playing his boss in this is Britt Leach, and again, he's in a lot of 80's things. He's kind of like a mainstay in 80's bit part characters. Yeah. He's in The Great Outdoors, he's in The Last Starfighter, Weird Science, so all those 80's classics. Yeah. And we're bringing this next actor up, just because he's in one of my favorite Star Trek episodes of all time, Charles Deer Cop, and he was in the Star Trek episode, Wolf in the Fold. When Scotty gets accused of murdering several women, he's super noticeable in this, because he's got a weird nose. Yeah, and you can tell too, because like, he wears that Santa outfit, and he covers half his face, but you can just see that nose, and he's, I saw the nose and I'm like, that's the guy from Wolf in the Fold. Die.   Movie starts off with a nice family drive. They're going to visit the grandpa of the family, sitting and staring, and he doesn't say anything, and he doesn't do anything.  You don't always hear what Santa actually does to bad boys or bad girls, right?   Poor little Billy has been watching all this, and the poor baby's in the back seat of the car. The guy can't find Billy either. Where are you little bastard? It sort of fast forwards three years into the future, and this poor Billy, he's in an orphanage, obviously, because he's got no parents left anymore.  He's traumatized by this guy in the Santa suit, right, that they ran into on the road. Santa's like in the orphanage saying hi to kids, and they all make him sit on Santa's lap, and he doesn't want to go, and he gets all freaked out, and he'll punch his Santa out. She like gives him the belt, punishment is necessary, punishment is good. That mother superior all ties him to the bed while he's having these nightmares. Ten years later Billy is now grown up, and he needs a job, and one of the head nuns gets Billy a job as a stock boy in a warehouse in a toy store. Perfect 80s montage, upbeat music claim, and it's straight out of the beginning of a tacky 80s sitcom. Little is supervisor guys at the desk, like pouring whiskey, it's like Styrofoam. He's all offering it to him like on the job, dude.   And then the boss is all, yeah, I'm so happy.  He pulls out all his booze. Pulls out a flicker. Billy's two co-workers, they head off to the stock room and they get a little cozy, and she doesn't want to go the whole way. Billy is watching this, Billy starts flashing back to the Santa on the roadside. This is where the fun begins. And Billy grabs a string of Christmas lights, wraps him around the guy's neck, and just picks him up and hangs him with brute force off the ground. Billy takes a box cutter, an exacto knife, and slitzer. Belly button to chest bone. Billy goes on a killing spree and killing his boss. Mr. Sims! He puts an end to that too with a bow and arrow. Goes into super tacky 80s looking house with all the wooden paneling and a couple of great kills in that house. A couple of good toboggan kills. Now the police are after him. They know that they're searching for a guy in a Santa costume and they see the Santa character approach the orphanage and pulls out his gun. Hold it right there, don't you move. The orphanage going towards the kids and he unloads his gun in the back of the Santa Claus. And we find out he has gunned down the wrong person. A priest who was dressed as Santa who did not respond to the cops' calls because he's deaf. Keep watching if you want to find out what's going to happen with Billy and Mother Superior in the orphanage. The best thing about this movie, and you can tell already I'm laughing, is the humor in this, right? It does just a good job of being a black comedy as it does as being a horror movie. The music is the same way where the horror style music really works and it's really good and it's really eerie. Counteracted with this cheesy 80s happy Christmas music. It fits together really well. Yeah, and it does a great job of keeping you in the Christmas theme, right? Yeah, it feels just as much like a Christmas movie as it does a horror movie. Exactly, a string of Christmas lights around the guy's neck, right? Well, it's Christmas lights, you know. It's Christmas time. It's a Christmas themed kill, right? I like how they use all the creepy Christmas figurines and statues and stuff. Reminds me a lot like Fun House. Yeah, and the use of lighting is really good in this movie. And the nighttime scenes in this look great. Like the movie is cheesy, but it doesn't look cheap. It looks cheesy where it kind of needs to look cheesy. It knows what it is. Yeah, it knows what it is, yeah. If you haven't seen the uncut version, check that out. Yeah, it's a lot like My Bloody Valentine where the kills were all cut short. Yeah, and some of the best kills were cut, right? This movie has great kill scenes. Christmas lights, there's a box cutter, good claw hammer. Yeah, no music though. And you don't even see it, but you see the aftermath. Yeah. And those boxes. And actually that's the actor's IMDb picture. Which is awesome, dude.  It's psychological. The kid was traumatized from a young age, and then as he goes through these different stages in life, it's these things that are triggering his mind, right? You know, I think it's original in the way where they made the first half of the movie all based on the backstory, and what triggers this guy to turn into a killer. As far back as Norman Bates, you know there's mental issues there which is causing him to kill people, but the movie's not dedicated to showing how he got there. Right. In this movie it's important to see that too, the way they had set it all up. All these pieces fall perfectly into place to just make him snap. Yeah, and it's really cool. It's something that you don't see very often in horror movies. And it makes you kind of sympathize with the killer as well.    A great horror slasher movie for the holidays? Probably my favorite horror Christmas movie because it's the most Christmassy of them all. It's so much fun. It's just a fun movie. You chalk it up to movies like Return of the Living Dead, where it's just from front to back, it's just like you're entertained. So if you like those later kind of Friday the 13th where the kills are getting inventive, My Bloody Valentine is a very good My Bloody Valentine vibe. Definitely check out Silent Night Deadly Night. Punishment is absolute. Punishment is necessary. Punishment is good. Especially when it's your liver.


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Oh, yeah. Stepsides, fender flares, diagram truck cap, new tires, bumper in the front. Oh, man. Welcome back to the channel, everybody, and the Adventure Wagon. We are closing the door on it today. We're here at Merage Chevrolet and 80 West Customs, where we are going to get customized. So I'm leaving this with them for a few days. And if you look at the truck that's parked right next to me here, this is a little more pop than what we're going to do. But we'll just kind of give you an example of what we're doing here. We're doing fender flares. We're doing a lift. This has 35s. We're not going that big. We're going to go with some 33s on there. But just enough to keep that little bugger off the ground so we're not getting in a big ditch and bumping the daggum little ball back there. And it just wouldn't be the Adventure Wagon without the wagon part. So this is going to be covered back here with the cap. And then we're going to be adding some more stuff throughout the spring. And by the fall, when it's the next hunting season, she's going to be rigged and ready. So I'm excited to see what it's going to look like right after. But this is the last time we're going to see it as the plain Jane model. So take it in. Fast forward 24 hours and ladies and gentlemen, we have snow in Texas. It has been one of the weirdest 24 hours of weather I've ever seen. I went ahead and dropped my truck off for them to get started. They gave me this truck, which is pretty much the same, except its two-wheel drive doesn't have the diesel. It's a Silverado, you know, and then a tornado of crazy weather started happening. It was just 70, like 75 degrees raining and then these crazy storms started moving in. And I wanted to get started on fencing in the top portion of the chicken coop. So I was going to do that while the truck was getting ready. And then I come outside this morning in its snow on the ground. And the temperature has dropped, obviously, into the 30s. So I'm definitely not heading out on the water today to do any sort of dangling. I am going to get to work on the chicken coop now that it's not actually raining. It is snowing. This is so weird because this is actually why I need the four-wheel drive. So I don't know, maybe it's a sign. So I'm going to grab a hot cup of Joe and get to work on the chicken coop. Look at those snowflakes and a hot cup of coffee. You just don't see that in Texas every day. OSG got me fueled up with that good good. So I can fuel up and finish that chicken coop up. Okay, I'm fueled up, ready to go. But I'm not going to lie to you guys. This is a pretty dagum and tense right here. Normally when we say it's going to snow in Texas, that means like a slight little flurry. I'm hearing crunch on the feet here. That is rare, extremely rare. It's not going to stop me from getting out here today and completing a job that I continually need to work on so that we can get chickens in here at least by the spring. But I think I'm going to try to get them in here like February. Look at this. Kidding me? My goodness. It's not stopping the airplanes from flying today. So what we're going to do is take this wire right here that's already on the lower part of the fence and we're going to strap it, not strap it. We're going to staple it. I've got a pneumatic stapler and we're going to go all around the top here and that's going to give us about six foot of fencing. Just look at that little homestead right there though. Rackley Roost, dagum treehouse. We don't have a chimney though. That's really unfortunate. We are still in Texas by the way. I haven't traveled to North Dakota. Okay, so far I have a couple of panels put up and I'm using this four foot tall. It's 50 feet long. It's just green plastic coated fencing. It's held up pretty good. So so far the bottom that I've put on here that's been up probably seven or eight months. It's done pretty well. What I'm going to do for the top half, I had a little bit of scrap left over. I cut it in half so it's about two foot worked out perfectly. So now I've got instead of 50 feet, I've got a hundred feet of this stuff and I think I got it for like 50 bucks and I'm just going to wrap the entire thing.  The first couple of panels turned out really good. Stuff is really hard to work with but once you get it up it's pretty sturdy. Like I could probably put you know dog or goats or something in there. It would contain a lot. It's not just regular chicken wire and the thing that makes it really fast is using this pneumatic stapler.  I wasn't sure about them at first if they would hold up but they've held up for about eight months now on this. A little bit of rust but and I'm probably gonna have to go back in you know a few years and redo it but it seems to be working really good. Those are just little 3 8 3 8 inch staples so let's lock and load keep going. A lot of the snow is starting to melt off. We're waiting on an update on the truck to go get it but in the meantime we have gotten about half of the fencing done here. It's not looking too shabby honestly. The stain on this thing solid move. So I'm gonna complete the rest of this. Okay I think phase one as I called it is complete. This is raising up the coop, staining it and then fencing it in. So we just completed all of that. Look at this corner back here. This is the infamous corner where the fox got in and it is higher than my face so it's gotta go over that. Then this will be electrified on the outside. We're gonna run just one wire and that's gonna be a project for another day but I'm excited to have this part done. I think honestly we could go ahead and get some chickens in here and I think they would be okay for a time until the fox has figured out some way to to get over the top of that but we're gonna fortify it even more so the chickens could be safe. And the snow is basically all gone now. It's like it never even happened. Look at that. This was literally a white, all white tear this morning all gone now. We about to get that adventure wagon back y'all. It's done been fixed up so taking a pause on the chicken coop because all that crazy ice and snow we had my truck work got a little delayed so I got delayed by what a day a difference makes in Texas. My gosh it's in the 60s maybe even 70s just coming off of snow it's incredible. Just got the call said truck's ready come get it and it looks good. Back it on up to the new adventure wagon. We're here we're about to park right next to it y'all.  Oh just take your gander just take your gander those upgrades right there. Look at that beef up front y'all it is ready to smash a deer just not on the side just right there in the center just in case. Got those BFG AT's the KO2's on there and we now have our step sides so we can get up to the top. Well let's just get this thing back to the crib and take a closer look. I am just looking strong. We got some fighter jets flying over today something's happening that lot and doesn't be dead for a while. Get this baby back home maybe take it out for a little test drive in some dirt and see how it does man this is. Sucker looks good I tell you what everybody on the lot was walking by and like man look at this thing. Okay looks like we got a problem with the old Chevy. Service emissions 174 miles until yeah service emissions manual C owners manual we are herky jerky in here can't really give it any gas oh yeah feels like the transmission's about to rip out this is no bueno. So fast forward 24 hours and we are back in the driveway I swear my nickname should be Murphy. My next dog will probably be named Murphy because whatever can and will happen happens to me. I'm gonna share all these upgrades here in just a second but I just got to explain what happened so I was driving back from the dealership I was like a mile away from the house thank you Lord and the sensor started going off the transmission was like skipping it was it was not good it was a bad deal. Rich Chevy got a tow truck came out here delivered me another truck took this one back and they had three techs working on it today and they figured out there was a wiring short so like one of the wires were shorting out. I feel like the ghost of my old truck was like calling at me like hey man Toyota I might be a little scrappy on the inside might be a little drab don't have the accoutrements but da gum I get up and run down the road every time. I will let y'all light up the comments on who's got the best truck right now but let's just look at my truck specifically and the stuff that they did and what is looking extra tasty. So if y'all seen the new Chevy trail boss this is kind of the same deal that I believe they put the trail boss lift on this they have a leveling kit from Chevy which is just a two inch and it basically makes that level from front and back but since I do a lot of towing they went ahead and did it the the three and a half I believe it's three and a half in the back here and so I've got a a rake a factory kept rake which will be good for towing when we hook up back there keep it nice level you always want your truck if you're towing to be good and level it's good for braking it's good for aerodynamics balance of the truck and everything like that fender flares hit you pretty hard right here I mean these are some big brows right here I mean my gosh that really opens opens up the truck when you look at them from the side there they stick out quite a bit they're very aggressive and at first I was like man these tires these tires these two 95s that you know that's the same truck I had our same tire had them on tundra that they just don't seem very wide they're not sticking out very far with the the flinder flare but then I got to look in and these are actually 33 by 12 and a half so they're a little bit wider than my old tire they ride tremendous I mean this is like third or fourth set of these all trains I've had and they are really really good I love these tires but these are 33 12 and a half so these are the same size as I had on my first car ever which was a three and a half inch lifted Jeep Wrangler 93 YJ and I had 33 by 1250s on there so they look really good well balanced honestly you could probably even bump up the tire size another notch there's so much clearance but I really don't want to do that I think it it's pretty good the way it is it leaves a lot of room for going in ditches and you know those Colorado moments or those steep boat ramp moments that aren't really boat ramps are just kind of ditches into little lakes that you want to get into the fender flares if y'all are wondering I'm pretty sure they're made by Rough Country I looked around at a bunch and I thought they they looked the best the other ones just they didn't have the same pop so these look really good they came blank they painted them matches the truck perfect then we go over here to the old step ruse I was already finding that the truck was like surprisingly pretty high without even having to lift on it so now it's really nice getting in and out and you know what I do at boat ramps I do a lot of the shimmies I get right here and then I'm like moving beyond I went kind of cheap and I didn't buy the full extended version that had one right here now I'm wishing I did because I would I would totally use that grab on right there go to the roof rack and then go to your boat just packed it up so we can take a look at the main attraction here what really makes this my off-road office literally one of the reasons I've had white trucks is because it is so easy to get caps for trucks quickly they're really readily available in white because that's the color they come in so I mean I like white in general but it's really easy to get truck caps in white and it just so happened that DFW camper who also did my dad's camper they did this one as well they did a great job and they had this one in stock already so done they installed it it's flush it looks really really good y'all and I don't even know what model this is to be honest with you I think it's one of their their nice ones but you can get them customized whatever kind of like sliding glass you want lift like you can totally customize caps this one happens to be made by a re my last one was a leer but inside of here I'm probably the only person on the planet that has an a re cap and a leer locker you know just they got both brands on here and this this still works y'all they took this off my old truck this is what 80 West Customs they they took it off the old truck and they installed it in this one so that saved me a ton of money so let's take a gander on the inside with some lights on here listen to the echo listen to the echo because there's no carpet in here got a little lights you know got some lights in here this was carpeted on my last one it's not on this one but honestly I got I got a lot of stuff like hung up in that bugs like to get in it so it's all good I'm not mad at it I can actually sleep back there but I have other plans for sleeping situations this is gonna be for all the dangle supply a camping supply all that good stuff and can't tell you how much I love having that instead of having a storage system on the bottom because I still haul stuff in this you know I mean this is like this is the truck I used to work on the house too so I'm constantly putting stuff down in here wood you know rocks dirt whatever supplies for the for the crib but it just came out really well I'm really happy the way they mounted it it's super solid this is now an adventure truck for me now with that that is a huge part of it lastly all we have a a lighted bumper it is up I gotta reach down here in the switch but boom woods are just being lit up right now look at that so this is just a little bumper I wanted to add just in case I needed to push over a gate or you know need to smoke a deer out in the woods but really doesn't save me from over here which is most likely where you hit them but anyway it came with a light it honestly wasn't it wasn't that expensive either and it has a little skid plate that goes down there it's a mix of that you know aluminum or nickel-plated metal whatever and then just a black bar there and I could actually mount more stuff to this if I wanted to like some more lights something like that you know maybe even hold a couple of dangle poles across here I don't know that probably dumb but anyway it looks mean it looks good it serves a purpose and I like it a lot okie dokie all that is going to do it for the the tour the current tour a couple of more things to be added one major one is going to be the rack the rack is really important I've been looking at a bunch of those I'm gonna go with a different style and I did last time with just the bars I'm actually gonna be doing a full like flat rack on top that could be customized to to put anything up there but you know water diesel put your fishing poles kayak whatever you want to do and kind of take it on and off and customize it for the adventure that you're going on at the time wish the new adventure wagon some luck and hit the thumbs up y'all Lord knows we could use all the luck we can get over here and I can't wait to get these tires buddy take this baby out on its next adventure so stay tuned subscribe to the channel God bless you and I will see you on the next


Hi everyone, happy Saturday, Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Padini Prison of Draft Picks football, random pack break number nine. It's a one box break. Big thanks to this group right here for getting into it, Eddie, Jeffrey, Dorian, and Steve. So we're gonna label the packs and we'll randomize your names and pack numbers and we've got to figure out which box we're gonna do. Let's select that guy right there. So we'll go one, two, three for the left side and four, five, six for the right side and six. We're gonna do the right side here and then we'll pick one, two, three, four. We'll pick that one box and it'll be box three. One, two, three. All right, good luck. Chuck is saying why, why am I far off from the stream? Is that what you're saying? Are you watching live, Chuck? Make sure you're watching live, everybody. Then you won't be far off from the stream. All right, so there's pack one. All right, now let's assign you a pack randomly. Let's roll and randomize names and numbers 11 times, six and a five. One, and 11th and final time, once more. Got Jeff Steve, Eddie Dorian Steve, six and a five, 11 times for the pack numbers, nine, 10, and finally 11th and final time. After 11 times we got one, five, four, two, three. All right, so Jeffrey with one, Steve with five, Eddie with four, Dorian with two and Steve with three. Just to make it easy for me, let's just do this alphabetically. So sorry, Steve. I think Dorian will be first with pack two, but thankfully this is a pretty quick break. I don't think I need to print these out. I just need to print out those labels. All right, stand by them, print out those labels, and then we'll see what's in each of those packs. All right, there you go, Dorian. Thank you, Dorian, good luck. Mike Evans, Kirk Cousins, and we got Samuel Cosme. We got Kenan Allen, Red Wave as well. Dorian Love to $2.99. Mack Jones, Silver, nice. So Mack Jones, Silver Prism card as well. Not bad. Couple of quarterbacks in there. Next is Eddie. Jeffrey, you're on deck. Eddie with four. Good luck. Behind Tyreek Hill is Chris Rumpf, the second. Some pretty solid penmanship there, too. And that is $168 out of $199. Got a Chase Young, Red Wave, and a Tray Lance Crusade card, numbered to $249. It's Javien Hawkins, Michael Carter, and Patrick Surtain. All right, thank you, Eddie. Jeffrey with pack one. Good luck. You can see where you'll have the last two. All right, CD Lamb, Tom Brady, and Zach Wilson. Purple cracked ice, Zach Wilson. Nice autograph. 73 out of 99. There's Michael Parsons. There's Deandre Swift to $249. Blue Wave, Josh Jacobs, Silver, Elijah Moore, and a Mack Jones Crusade Prism card. Let's throw in Tom Brady here for a good measure. Tom Brady and Mack Jones. Can Mack Jones be future Tom Brady? Thanks, Jeffrey, for getting in. All right, Steve. Last two. Five and three. There's five. There's three. Behind them, Mari Cooper is a wide receiver. Damon Hazelton, 44 out of $149. Got Tyler Vaughns. Sean Wade, $190 to $199. Juju Smith Schuster, Nick Bolton, and Pat Friarmuth. And a second pack. Thank you, Steve. Good luck. There's Phillip Rivers in his college gear, Tannehill in his college gear, and we've got a Ellerson Smith. Another rookie auto for you. Thank you, Steve. Let's see what else we got here. Here's Pat again. Blue cracked ice to $99. Micah Parsons to $299. Kyler Murray, Silver, Greg Rousseau, Caleb Farley. And these are, we saw these ones already. All right. Thanks, Steve. Appreciate you getting in. I appreciate everybody getting in. We've got, as you saw when I did the randomizer for the box, so we've got a lot more one-box breaks to go. So stay on it. Let's keep hunting for even bigger and bigger monsters on jazzy'scasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye.


We are getting journey up to apologize for this picture. I don't know what's going on or is it just do I need new glasses or is this as fuzzy as it gets? Goodness, I hope that's not the case. However, we are going to navigate the journey, of course, even with fuzzy pictures. Today, our journey is around the world. And we are going to talk to, of course, a dear friend. I know I only talked to dear friends, Jordan Thomas or Thomas Jordan, whatever way we want. But he's such a dear friend. And Thomas has international radio, television, newspaper, and he does tourism around the world. So we I asked him to talk to us today about the impact of the coronavirus around the world. It is not just Hawaii. And we see, of course, no tourism, which means our economy just goes. And that is what is happening in Texas Hall or the middle of Africa and needless to say Rome and all of those and China, all of those big tourist spots. And so, you know, it's not just us. It's everywhere. So, Jordan, there you are. Good to have you even fuzzy. You really look good. Oh, you're so sweet. What's going on with this? But, unless we're here. Okay. Oh, I disappeared. Wow. Okay, let's talk to you. Let's focus on you. Tell us about Jordan. Jordan is your first name or last night? Yes. No, no, Jordan is my first name. My middle name is Thomas. And most people know me under Thomas, at least those that know me for a long time like you. And my last name is Stein mitz. So it's a good long German name. But I lived in Hawaii actually since 1988. I've been here for a while, more than half of my life. And this doesn't make me a Hawaiian. I know that, but it's my home. And we're all concerned about our home and those that live with us on this island, of course. Now, tell us about what you do. You do lots and lots of things. But your travel station, travel tourism, newspaper, internet, newspaper, online, webinars, all kinds of things around the world. Well, my company, I was the one who founded the company back in 1999. And that made us actually the first online media for the travel and tourism industry. When we first started, my company was a destination management organization and we represented Indonesia and the United States. And when the United States had travel warnings against Indonesia, we were trying to find an inexpensive way to address travel professionals, specifically in the United States. We teamed up with two operators and travel companies in Indonesia with the government and started sending out electronic newsletter in a Yahoo group format. You may remember this. This was back in 2000. Unfortunately, the representation for Indonesia ended in 2001 mostly because of corruption issues. We couldn't get paid. But we continued under the name we had established at the time, Etobo News. We got the name actually from a sponsor, an Etobo hotel company in Singapore. Singapore was the first Expedia type online booking agent and they handled most of the hotels in Indonesia at the time. And they were our sponsor when the government couldn't pay us. Regardless, since 2001, we ventured away from Indonesia and kind of built a global database of followers in the travel and tourism industry. And I think today without bragging, we can say we're probably one of the leading, at least the oldest company in the world that reports constantly about travel and tourism issues. We have a team of 200 some freelance journalists in every part of the world. We publish every hour, 24 hours a day, so we're very timely. Our news is usually not about beautiful swimming pool and beaches. We're going more in the political part. And we publish currently, besides Etobo News, our flagship publication. We have 16 other publications, including two editions that are not published here, but in Germany and in the German language. And we're partnering with 70 some travel industry events all over the world. And because we're so old and so ancient in the time, we're doing a lot more now than just reporting about travel and tourism issues. In the Travel News Group, what is our roof organization, besides our publication, we run Safer Tourism. Safer Tourism is a partnership with Dr. Peter Tarlow, who is probably one of the best known experts in the world in regards to travel, security and safety. He actually has done part of the tourism sensitivity training also here in Hawaii of HPD. He spoke at the HTA events, marketing events at the convention center several times and had also his own evenings and followership here in Hawaii, an event sponsored by Sheraton at the time, by Hala Kulani and several others in the business. But mostly Peter and I, we work on a global scale. Right now, Peter is in charge of the relaunch tourism relaunch for Jamaica. And we work in training a federal tourism police force in Mexico. We're also very much involved in tourism security and sensitivity in Africa. We help with the Ebola crisis. And Peter is also, teaches also at the medical college in College Station, Texas. That's where he lives at the university there. Medicine and the connection between medicine and tourism. So obviously, with this very dangerous situation now unfolding everywhere in the world, we kind of sucked in right into the middle of this epidemic when it comes to reaching out to people or actually people reaching out to us. So currently, we work with the World Travel and Tourism Council, what is an organization based in London. And the 200 largest tourism companies are their members in Hawaii. Outrigger is a member and one of the major sponsors is Marriott. Actually, Mr. Marriott Jr. is on the board. So we work with them on the COVID Task Force. We work with the African Tourism Board on their COVID response. We have a conference called every Tuesday at 5 a.m. in the morning, Hawaii time. And we have 17 Ministers of Tourism joining us on this call. We're bracing Africa for what is most likely coming their way. And it hasn't really hit Africa in a completely bad way as of yet. We also work with the Vanilla Island Tourism people in the Indian Ocean. Very similar situation to Hawaii, island nations, island states. Rayon Yon could probably be a sister island for Oahu. It's part of France. It's a territory of France. It's not just an overseas colony. It's part of France. So it has direct air links with Paris, what's 11 hours away. And there's a lot I think we can learn from a destination like Rayon Yon because they did close their tourism arrivals completely to their island state. What we haven't done yet here in Hawaii. Their numbers are relatively low, but there are coronavirus is present there. And I think I could go on for like an hour more just to tell you where we're involved in. We're involved in a lot of different things. And yes, we also do webinars. We have our own two weekly shows like yours. They are broadcast around the world and on our publications. And we recently teamed up with Buzz.Travel, B-U-Z-Z.Travel. It's a new social media network similar to LinkedIn and Facebook, but only for travel and tourism. It's free to join. So anyone who wants to test it or try it, just feel free to join us. This exactly what's going on in different parts of the world. You mentioned Africa. Now, looking at the world map, not the world map, but the World Health Organization's map, North Africa that is along the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Arab states, and then South Africa are on wits on the map. But the heart of Africa is due to be yet infected with the virus. So tell me about those middle states, those 50 states in the middle, and where they are or are they infected with the virus? Well, obviously, I don't have a server play to respond to this. This is the problem in Africa. The epic center of the virus is in Europe and in New York at this time. That's where you find most of the cases. But also Europe and New York and the rest of the United States. We have the money and we have the resources to do the testing. Without testing, we wouldn't know how bad or how good or how dangerous this virus is. We would probably never be able to stop the epidemic because we cannot test and don't have intelligence about it. So if you look at Africa as a whole, Africa doesn't, for the most part, have not even close to the resources we have here in the United States and the resources that are available in Europe. So the numbers you see from Africa are numbers are mostly the critical numbers. Those people that get sick, that need treatment, not those that are really not sick in a way that they need treatment because they don't know for the most part if they're infected. Now there are certain parts in Africa that are more advanced. In North Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco might be more advanced. In the central part of Africa, it's probably the third world and it's probably the worst area on the globe when it comes to medical resources. So I wouldn't trust these numbers at all. A very good friend of mine is the Minister of Tourism from Sierra Leone who has been working tirelessly in trying to keep this virus out of her country and now this is in the center of Africa and she now reports seven cases. But the seven cases are only the tip of the iceberg. I know friends I talked to in Zimbabwe several times a week and I said they see people carried away constantly around the clock. But Zimbabwe I think only reports 14 cases of the virus. So the numbers are only as good as countries are really reporting it. South Africa may be an exception. South Africa is a first world country. They have good resources when it comes to medical care and the numbers are more trustworthy. Altogether, Africa from the numbers is not really such a big concern. But A, we only know the numbers that are reported. And B, if you look at the same situation in North America or Europe and the history, it all started very small. When I left for Europe on February 27th to attend the ITB trade show in Berlin and this show was cancelled after I already left Hawaii. We only had, we literally had no cases of the virus in the US but there were six cases in Germany and everyone was going crazy about this and most people laughed about it and said why would we cancel trade shows and event for just six people sick. Now today you're looking at more than 100,000 people sick. Many people died and this is the same in New York. People have not really understood how dangerous this virus is. There are still people out there that say it's just like the flu. It's definitely not like the flu, it's way more contagious and we cannot get rid of it and people are dying if we don't stay home, if we don't stay away, if we don't stop tourism, I don't know what will happen next specifically on an island, in an island state like ours. We have a chance to isolate ourselves. If you look at nine different other island countries in the Pacific like Palau, like Niuwi, like the Cook Islands, there are no cases of coronavirus and I believe these numbers. Now if you look at Guam, you look at Hawaii, you look at island states that are considered first world, you find an increasing number of these cases and that is because we're open to the outside world but we have a chance to lock ourselves in there and I think this needs to happen. We just did an article just about two hours ago again pointing out that every mayor in the state urged Governor E. Gates to contact President Trump and asked for a tourism to put a stop to tourism and to non-essential arrival in the state. The governor had not responded to it. You cannot just wait till these numbers go way more than 435 I guess what they are today in the state and this is the same with Africa. It is small but Africa is so much more in danger because the medical resources, once it really hits, are not there to treat people and people will die and unfortunately people will die in big numbers more than what we see even in our own country in New York or what we see in Rome or what we see in France. Interesting enough, if I can add this, I followed the situation in Europe obviously being from Germany having a lot of family and Germany having my sister being the assistant of the mayor in Düsseldorf, what is the capital city of the state infected by this virus? You get a lot of information you sometimes may not get and if you look the approach Germany with so many people infected has compared to the number of deaths Germany has compared to Spain, Italy or France for example the death rate in Germany is extremely low. Why is this? Because the country from the medical point was on top of it. Not like Germany contained people when they should have contained it they made the same mistake but the medical system is there the equipment is there for the most part so far Germany has been able to handle it if Germany would still be able to do this if numbers go up even more we don't know there are some positive signs same as in New York that the percentage of infections you have to always look at percentages not really at numbers because numbers say nothing you have to see the percentage of population and there are some encouraging numbers in Italy there are encouraging numbers in many parts of Europe now that the percentage of the infections are slowly going down that means isolation and social distancing seems to be working. It doesn't mean we can all start going out and doing what we wanted to do and we don't know when this would happen and tourism unfortunately will probably be the last in line to get back on its feet and that is very bad news for our state and I don't know how we're going to prepare ourselves for this but it is a concern specifically for countries and regions that are dependent on the tourism industry you know Marcia I said for many many years 20, 30 years tourism is everyone's business in this state I don't think anyone ever wanted to listen to me but we have said it over and over again even if you're not involved in the tourism industry it's our industry in the state no matter what you do and now we see the danger has put us in all of these small businesses depend on tourism restaurants, the movie theaters everything depends on tourism and when you don't have new people coming then it all falls apart tell us speaking of what about the old Asians around but not down into India of course but Sierra Leone those places right at as you go down from China those small countries how are they doing? Yeah, the Sierra Leone is in West Africa just for you know and actually Sierra Leone is known for the Hawaii of Africa because it has beautiful beaches like we do but when you go to East Asia of course China, Hong Kong if you look at Singapore, if you look at Indonesia if you look at the Philippines the virus is everywhere and it's threatening every economy whether it's in Asia, whether it's in Europe whether it's in Africa or South America these days and the situation in Asia I think it almost appears when we hear the news when we hear where the world is talking about it's in the process of leaving Asia so it's not the epic center anymore even though the epic center started in China in a province in China but it's no longer there now when you really look at the number of people infected during the entire crisis ever since the virus was started we were all talking about China in this one province and what it did to China if you look at the numbers today and compare the numbers with any country in Europe for example it is three or four times as many people sick as there were in China in percentage of the population China has more than a billion people and if you actually look at it the most affected country in the world right now for this virus is a little tiny country it's called San Marino it's in the northern surrounded by Italy close to Rimini that's where the epic center is and was in Italy when it's all started this country has twenty times more people infected based on population percentage than Italy now the United States because of wide open regions like Kansas like Missouri, like Nebraska where the virus hasn't hit the same way it hit in New York in dense populated areas our number is quite low we're only about ten percent percentage wise what Germany for instance is doing and where other people stand but you cannot see it like this either because it looks like the virus is most dangerous in populated areas and I think if regions like in Texas or regions in Nebraska or Kansas managed to stop movement they can be in a lot better shape of course than New York or the East Coast or unfortunately the West Coast major cities like San Francisco or Los Angeles Seattle may ever been in so it is there are a lot of factors that come together when it comes to this virus and talking about Africa the central part of Africa is desert yes and they may be able to keep it under control better than major cities with millions of people like Lagos in Nigeria for example like Accra in Ghana like Nairobi in Kenya Dar es Salaam in Tanzania or Kampala in Uganda Johannesburg or Cape Town many of the other million people cities some of them we don't even know here the danger is density the danger is mingling having people around the only way to really keep this virus under control is distancing and it is hard because we as people we are not people who want to distance we want to have a cup of coffee with someone we wanted to have lunch together and we want to go on vacation to enjoy a vacation together and see how long this will take I think it would all depend on how our behavior is and not only our local behavior but global behavior in this case Well, Jorgen now tell me speaking of islands the Caribbean what about those islands I forgot to mention I am actually a member of the Tourism Resilience Board it is based in Jamaica it was started by the government of Jamaica by Edmund Bartlett who is the Minister of Tourism and a very good friend now and the Resilience Center is now spread out throughout the Caribbean but also to places like Nepal Japan Bangkok and so forth the numbers in the Caribbean are relatively low compared to the numbers in many other parts of the world the Caribbean except for some exceptions like Havana for instance in Cuba or very few places have really very dense areas do you have a metropolitan area like you have Honolulu but even a city like Honolulu with our size is hardly found anywhere in the Caribbean so for the most part the numbers in the Caribbean are under control the islands without exceptions are now quarantined and people cannot leave and but then again all the numbers started slow I had an interesting case actually a guy from Germany whose mother is a good friend from my sister on the sailing boat around the world he left Germany almost a year ago and when the virus hit he was in Grenada and his family, his two kids and his wife flew to Grenada this was all before this virus broke out and they're currently locked on their sailing boat in the harbor on the island of Grenada and he's only allowed to go to a small tiny grocery store once a week that's a lot of people from all over the world and it hits the travel and tourism industry just also recently two or three days ago another good friend of mine her name is François Kemala she used to be the minister of tourism for Cameroon and she came to ITB Berlin like I did and ITB Berlin the largest trade event was cancelled just two days before we met briefly in Berlin in New York to do some work for her embassy in New York assigned to the United Nations and she was supposed to be in New York for four days and when she was ready to get back to Cameroon all the flights were cancelled there was no more flight to get her anywhere even close to Cameroon so she desperately trying to get back to her kids and her family in Cameroon had waited for more than two weeks to be able to be the United Airlines flight to Frankfurt and on a connecting flight to Paris where she wanted to wait for a rescue flight the Cameroon government had put together on April 17th when she left on United United left her board and when she arrived in Frankfurt to change to Paris she was not admitted into Germany even though she had a valid visa she had a valid US visa and she was stranded in the transit hall at Frankfurt Airport and finally her foreign ministry in Cameroon intervened with authorities and with the help of the US consulate in Frankfurt she was able to be deported and get back on the flight in Newark and that's where she started out and now is stranded in Newark again there's so many little stories you know you hear and it's incredible we are out of time but of course I can always listen to your stories from around the world and I thank you for taking this time with us and telling all these wonderful stories and connecting the world for us and you will come back and hopefully we can figure out why this is so fuzzy but again thank you thank you so much it's always a pleasure it's a pleasure being on your show thank you Marcia and we'll see you next time


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