Good afternoon Welcome to future tents Yeah, we got a full house today. So good. This has been sold out for two weeks. What a hot ticket If you if you got your if you got your purse on the on the chair next to you Clear it off because I think we're gonna be we're gonna be standing room only So yes future tents is the citizens guide to the future it's a partnership among The New America Foundation Arizona State University and the online magazine Slate and I will be one of your two Cruise directors today. I'm Joel Garrow I'm a fellow here at New America, and I'm also in the College of Law at Arizona State and I'm a co-director of this operation and Tori Bosch will be who is here somewhere is there she is is the Editor of the future tents channel on Slate that hit a new mark last month with five million hits in one minute What and we're very proud of her Let me explain what we're doing today This is about the coin of the realm So this is not an event about Bitcoin per se, right? Bitcoin is just the first of these of the species If it disappeared tomorrow, I don't think many of us would be tremendously surprised But we suspect that it might be Replaced by something else that might be adapted anybody here remember Alta Vista the first search engine of any okay? Bitcoin might be Alta Vista, but that's okay because Google might be in the wings And so that's what why we think it's important to be here today to find out what does this mean to the future of sovereign of sovereign Countries and the currencies a little housekeeping This is being live streamed and as you can see we've got video cameras here. So all of this is on the record When it comes to Q&A if you are chosen to share your wisdom, please wait for the microphone because again everything's being live streamed When it comes your turn to talk, please remember to tell us who you are And if you insist on tweeting I have been informed that the hashtag is Cryptocurrency and actually we do encourage you to do that. Thank you very much Let me introduce now Simon Johnson Simon is going to explain it to us like we're five what this is all about Simon is a professor of entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics And a member of the Congressional Budget Office's panel of economic advisors He was the International Monetary Fund's chief economist and director of its research department Simon like I'm five Well, thank thanks very much for that introduction Thanks for the opportunity to speak today and thanks for holding the event Joel I think this is the very good timing and exactly the right place to have an event on on Cryptocurrencies and as you said, I think that the picture we should be looking at is exactly the broad set of cryptocurrencies And obviously there's going to be plenty of opportunity to sort of drill down into some of the specifics of Bitcoin itself but my main point to you in the 12 minutes or so that I have is that money is always and everywhere Mostly about politics and and cryptocurrencies are absolutely about what how they're viewed in Washington and other capitals Around the world and how governments approach and think about cryptocurrencies is going to have a huge effect on Precisely where this leads us and what is the economic and financial? impact and to try and get that point across and try and explain more about why cryptocurrencies I think are so important for thinking about the future Let me talk about the past. Let me talk about the history of money. Let me break it into into three pieces I want to talk about silver in the 1690s. I want to talk about gold In 1896 and I want to talk about M. Pessa, which is a money transfer system that's developed in Kenya over the past 10 years So first of all silver in the 1690s if you if I really had time if I had 14 minutes I'd go back to the 700s and really you know get you warmed up on that But let me cut start the story in the 1690s The 1690s the British or the English if you prefer at that time have a very problematic currency with an enormous amount of Counterfeiting it's silver is primarily silver in circulation, but everybody is shaving a bit off the silver taking a bit off the edges This is a completely unsatisfactory System and the government's having to go from time to time or so mostly it's about private counterfeiting The government at that time the official consensus is they need to do a recoinage What's a recoinage? You pull in all the silver and you remint it you make the coins again using the latest Scientific processes which are completely secret at the time the state secrets you put a milled edge on the coin And you tell people how much silver is in that coin and you put it back out into circulation and this works In fact the man you put in charge of chasing down the counterfeiters and Executing them beside Isaac Newton the physicist a very methodical guy, and I can tell you if he was Attorney General today We would not be having some of our problems in this country But what is this about it's about silver silver coinage this Western traditional which our entire monetary system has evolved It's about a relationship between the government and the private sector You bring your silver to the mint if you want to if you like the price and They will turn that silver into coin although give you the coin equivalent of that weight of silver It's the private sector if the private sector sides to hell with it I'm taking my silver to France, which is what they did actually because they didn't like the price Set by the the British mint subsequently the silver goes you're out the silver leaves the country the private sector is making these key Decisions about in this case the amount of money in the economy, which has a big knock-on effect But it's the interaction between the private sector and the government sector That's giving you money that constitutes money even in this pretty basic form So you say well, okay, I understand that Simon the government's been involved in this This you know been a long history and we've been up and down In various dimensions of this relationship Why can't the government just back off now? Why not let us have a system which is the proposal from cryptocurrency purely private this is going back to a much Reference point slightly idealized perhaps but go back to a much earlier system. There is no government. We're an Arctic. We're going to run This through our decentralized computer systems. No one can Arguably we'll talk about the details. No one can issue counterfeits. No one can debase it. That's that's the premise It's a physical fixed amount or a virtual fixed amount in this case. What's what's the problem with that? Well, the problem is partly that money is about sovereign authority and government governments have been built on Developing that power and that power to determine what's legal tender and what's not legal tender What you can use to settle all debts public and private, but it's also specifically absolutely about credit Now there's an interesting debate about also going back to the grocery revolution in Britain 1688 When exactly did the British state develop the ability to issue a lot of debt and to finance that debt? Through the private sector through people voluntarily holding that debt at reasonable rates of interest some people say it was earlier Some people say it was later. I don't think that matters very much for this discussion The important point is by the mid 18th century the British had established and the Americans learned this lesson very well This is absolutely Alexander Hamilton's key insight after the revolution that you can fund the government certainly in times of National emergency certainly in times of war you can fund it by issuing a lot of debt Paying down that debt in peacetime and the fundamental cornerstone basis of that credit system is your money and This leads us to gold of course because the US well The US had a bimetallic system silver and gold early in the Republic by the late 19th century It had shifted for various reasons onto an entirely gold standard and then the election You think yet? We have arguments about politics of money and central bank policy in the United States today We and we do we worry about what Janet Yellen is going to do on what basis That's nothing compared to the presidential election of 1896 and and 1900 where the fight was specifically Directly about whether you should reintroduce silver To expand the money supply and expand credit that was William Jennings Bryant's claim to fame That was the cross of gold speech of the Democratic Convention 1890s for the head of the 1896 election expand the money Provide more credit to the system fighting about who gets credit the allocation of credit is Absolutely central to the political process and central to what the government needs to think about now again The cryptocurrencies are trying to abstract when I say look we don't like the credit system We don't like and I'm entirely sympathetic to this view. We don't like what has happened to our very large International complex banks. We don't like what's happened to Government debt and the management of government debt We don't like the entire system of credit perhaps or even fractional reserve banking that has been built around The monetary system that is between money and credit intertwined with both Look, I I'm second to no one in being critical of our current system and the power within our current system But but I am urging you To think about the what the backlash is going to be because if you really could As Joel said either now or in the future have a cryptocurrency which is completely aside from the way we run credit now You are taking an enormous Instrument of power away from the government away from the people who currently exercise it currently participate in that that's that's enormously challenging of course they're going to react and and they're going to react with some legitimate concerns legitimate concerns about Who uses the money about money laundering about illegal? Transactions as well as having their own motivation, which is maintain a current system, which is works very well Well, it works. Well well enough from their perspective Relative to the cryptocurrency alternative whether it works. Well, again, I think we'll discuss there's many reasons to be dissatisfied So I guess I'm a little concerned when people say people from from from the Bitcoin community or the people other people say look We're not interested in the political discussion sign We're not interested in representation in Washington or making our arguments and other capitals. We're just we're just out of the system We are constructing our own viable Payment system I can pay you you can pay me in a way that bypasses completely all the official mechanisms all the banks all the governments. I Honestly, I mean look back over the history for yourselves. I don't think you can do that I think that the point of exchange from your virtual cryptocurrency into goods the government is going to have a lot to say about that They're gonna have a lot to say about the taxes. They're gonna have a lot to say about Issues of legality and illegality. This falls entirely within What most people regard as the legitimate mandate of government in the modern society? So look, I'm all in favor of challenging the system. I think this is very healthy and I think it leads on to better things But are the crypto currencies going to win by just ignoring the politics and saying we set up our own system. It's perfect We're just going to go about our business and ignore the politics I don't think so and that leads to that my my third and final point which is about Impessa so Impessa is a money transfer system that exists in Kenya Run through so you can transfer money through the mobile phone system through Safari comm it works very well You pay a transaction fee. It's a low fee. It's much much better than what existed before in terms of Ability to transfer funds within the country particularly from big cities back to villages Nobody I think this is the couple of important points from this experience Nobody understood or anticipated how big the demand would be for this kind of money transfer at low cost very big pent-up demand To bypass the banks and bypass and not have to carry cash on the minibus going back home Or find some somebody to carry the cash for you all the other ways of transferring money very problematic second thing is it was made possible by a An unusually but you might say surprisingly favorable regulatory system actually the central bank said go ahead and experiment We'll see what happens central banks generally don't do this central banks in other parts of East Africa have not done this Impessa is both very successful in Kenya and I think Unfortunately not yet taken up enough in other and other places including other parts of East Africa. It's a great opportunity people trust the system and You know, it's this is not a cryptocurrency This is you're putting you giving your money to the phone company your phone company is holding a hundred percent reserves in commercial banks They have a full amount on deposit and they're Transferring the funds to an agent in the village who's giving it to the people you want to transfer it to this is not a cryptocurrency But it does speak to the fact that people want to be able to make payments more cheaply at what they regard as lower risk If the cryptocurrencies can do that Can deliver on that promise? There are many many countries around the world that would benefit massively from this There are many transactions including transactions across borders where we pay far too much in transaction fees So that promise of cryptocurrencies I think is a very appealing promise where they can deliver is another matter and that delivery is going to depend on whether you can reach an accommodation a Political regulatory accommodation within the countries in which you want to operate. That's how Safari com did it Sure, you can have a store of value you can have Transactions in anything you want you can buy and sell old masters paintings you can buy them for delivery Offshore on the tarmac of the Geneva Airport. They it's all stored there for you. No problem at all Can you create a money? Can you create something will be used to transfer value to make payments to replace? Credit cards to replace cash Payments like that's the bigger question the cryptocurrencies are pursuing and that's where bitcoiners has got our attention And I think that bitcoin is demonstrating some very important aspects some positive some More problematic and we'll discuss both today But you have to take on the politics and the people who want crypto currencies succeed have to engage with the political agenda They have to explain why this makes sense They have to reach an accommodation with government Which is going to be difficult because you're challenging the system and you're challenging the credit system around which modern governments are structured And I don't think cryptocurrencies are going to be consistent with or build up Banks as we know them today. I think they're a bypass. That's the motivation that that's the goal and I have no problem with that I think I think Joel ultimately what we're going to do is end up with some system that will reduce the transaction costs that the official system Which is very oligarchic right now and and very much Embedded with that with the way government operates is going to have to change Look, this is a great pressure point and that's to the benefit of everyone Do we end up exactly with crypto currencies as currently envisaged? I'm not sure like like you We'll see where we'll see where this goes, but this pressure and this fight is going to be political It's going to be technical. It's going to be about the economics sure It's going to be about the structure of the financial system, but mostly it's going to be political And that's why I'm looking forward so much to what we're going to discuss today. Thank you very much


Hi, how you doing? Where you guys at right now? Our place.  I'm Rick Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more Thank you for what's on page You look beautiful Rare and drawny sighting on the channel. That's right a rare and drawny sighting Welcome back today. We're skype because we're planning on filming today But a couple trailers dropped so we got to get to those couple big ones to the kangaroo va Sizzle teezer is what it's called with Surya Surya and Lord Bobby dole Wow, I Don't mean do you remember the the kangoo va? Teaser that we saw a couple months ago. I think I do. Yeah a couple months ago. I do it was like a cool like graphic Kind of yeah, it was very cool. It was it was like Way more than we were expecting for just a little sizzle Yeah, and so this is a sizzle teaser that I think was either an announcement or a teaser I don't know who knows. Okay. Yeah, how they do them in India. Yeah But make sure your Shibs are on there on the on the little sat. All right, sorry technical doffical tease And let's just get into this home Rick Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm excited because if the the sizzle was big I wonder what the sizzle teaser is gonna be Was the first one a sizzle or just a teaser Whatever it was it was delicious. All right, here we go three. I'm young to count cuz I'm the one doing it Here we go. That's true.  I don't know what the movies about but I'm so intrigued I'm Yeah, you know what you have a good sizzle teaser, whatever you want to call it The other one was a glimpse. Sorry. Yeah, you you know, you've got a good one of those things when You just the minute it's over you're angry because you wanted to see I want to go see the movie right now that that looks Fricking incredible. Yeah That looks unbelievable. When's it come out? Didn't give it it's not a date on on Driving me crazy guys. See is it do we have a release date or is it just coming soon? No, what'd it say? Can't go I didn't even give anything Hmm. Oh, that's unfortunate Because I want to see very I want to see this. I want to see it I want to see that on a big screen. Yeah, this is one that you guys see on the big screen. Yeah. Yes. Yes on this man are Saying So yeah, make up it's great Yeah, the audio by studio it looked amazing Bobby dole looked incredible. I hope he's in it for more than five minutes animal Make sure you use Lord Bobby dole how he's supposed to be used He looks like he's having fun studio. It looks like he's having a blast I'm most excited for what looks like a full Immersion into a completely visualized world that you just get to be absorbed in and hopefully just be Enamored with for three hours with the sound and the visuals with a great story and a lot of action looks like it's gonna be brutal I'm just I'm really really excited for this movie. I'm wondering if this is a Reincarnation story They whatever it is. I want to see it because the the law the synopsis on IDB is a warrior in 1678 dies due to disease in the present a girl does research on a disease which killed the warrior in 1678 So I'm wondering if it's a That's a weird log line for what you just saw. I was just gonna say yeah, what I just saw that's exactly my takeaway Yeah, that's that's super strange Because I kind of want just to stick in this world because this world looks kind of amazing So I guess we'll have to see what what all that looks like reincarnation story is very common in Indian cinema as you know But like I want to see this world I want to be in this world for the two and a half hours Don't take me out of it in some other story. Just tell the story in this time Directed by Siva Siva. I don't know that is That'd be funny if it was really done like Princess Bride in half the time. It's an old just grandpa telling his Prakash Raj Raj is in it and Yogi Babu Of course, Yogi Babu is in it. This is a Tamil film, I believe right? It's Surya Surya's Tamil So I believe it should be a Tamil film Correct me if I'm wrong there, but so Bobby Duel is I'm guessing either gonna be dubbed or Maybe he knows Tamil No, there's Indians don't speak more than one language Corbin. We have everyone knows that I'm pretty sure they all speak Hindu Yeah or or The the movies we react to as my my grandma Betty Boop almost 100 years old referred to it once when I talked around the phone She said so so you have a channel that's dedicated to Hindu movies It's very common a lot of people. Yes grandma mistake Hindi and call it. Yeah, Hindu Very common anyways that looked incredible, man, I'm excited I hope it's more show us more and give us a release date You know the end of March. Yeah, I hope it lives up to it because man, you're getting me excited And I hate being let down In the theater when we're all excited about stuff. Yeah, here's the thing Rick We're not excited for this movie. Okay, just We don't have any expectations at all No, that's right. That's the best look at what one did we have no expectations for it was With the profits this past year Yeah, yeah, and then we ended up really That's the one we went in with really low expectations But when we go in with high expectations like Pushpa, we disappoint ourselves Just going with no expectations. Yeah, it's it's easier.  Hey, hey, man I guess That theory works maybe Maybe we'll stop getting so excited for films No, that's no way to stop. Anyway, so let us know you thought about the Sizzle teaser if you're excited for this and anything else we need to know down below


hopefully we get to it this September which I think we will and maybe have it closed in by snow fly and we you know hopefully plan on coming up here during the winter months and maybe doing a little ice fishing in this area never been fishing in this area hopefully a little bird hunting in October November and a little maybe a little shed hunting in late December January so it's an exciting time for me and I know it is for Joe and Steve also so it's just gonna be great yeah


Income tax 2022-2023, business expenses, tax expenses, tax software examples. Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation. Here we are in our example, Form 1040 populated with LASERT tax software. You don't need tax software to follow along, but it's a great tool to run scenarios with. You can also get access to the Form 1040 related forms and schedules at the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. We're starting off with the single filer Mr. Anderson living in Beverly Hills 90210, no W-2 income. We've got the Schedule C income once again. Looking at those flow-throughs, we've got the Schedule C, which is going to the profit or loss from business. The net income flowing into Schedule 1, which flows into the Form 1040 page number 1, line number 8. We also have self-employment tax on that income, which is on Schedule C, or flows from Schedule C, net income, to the Schedule SE self-employment tax, calculating Social Security and Medicare self-employment tax. Then that goes to Schedule 2, which goes to the Form 1040 page number 2, right there. Half of that is deductible on Page 1, not on the Schedule C, but Page 1 above the line deduction, which we can flow through that. It's going from the Schedule C. Support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website, broken out by category, further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files, and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Net income used to calculate the self-employment tax, Schedule SE self-employment tax, tax evasion. Half of that then, 7065 in this case, flow into Schedule 1, Page number 2. There it is. That flows to the form 1040, Page 1. And so there is that. So 100,000 minus the 7065 gives us to the 92,935. We've got the 12,950 standard deduction. We've got the 15997 of the qualified business income being calculated by the software. Gets us to the 63,988 taxable income. Page 2 calculated the tax, federal income tax, 9,692. The self-employment tax, 14129. We're saying we paid in 30,000 for the difference of 6,179. Okay, we're focused on the Schedule SE now. The Schedule SE in essence being an income statement, income minus expenses. We're focused on the expenses and more specifically on the deductibility of ordinary and necessary taxes. Now, obviously this is the federal income taxes that we are working on here. So you can't deduct the federal income tax generally because if you were able to deduct federal income taxes, that would obviously create kind of a circle reference, right? If I got to deduct the federal income tax and then that's going to be pulling over to the 1040 and used to calculate the tax, that wouldn't make much sense. But possibly other types of taxes, maybe we possibly could deduct. Now, the taxes that usually pop into mind first are going to be the state taxes, which would be whether or not you are in a state that has income tax or sales tax, right? And so if you didn't have a business and you're thinking about the state taxes, possibly an income tax, that would usually be deducted on the Schedule A rather than the Schedule C. For example, if you're paying your income tax with a W-2 income, for example, with withholdings, let's just see that as an example. And let's say that we had W-2 income of, let's say, 100,000 and the state taxes, let's say, were, let's say, 15,000 just to make it over the standard deduction. So then that possibly would be deductible on the Schedule A, which would adjust you from taking the standard deduction to the itemized deduction possibly. It didn't push us over because there's a $10,000 cap on it. But if I go over to the Schedule A, you can see it pulling through here. If I go into the Schedule A, then there's the 15,000 capped at the 10,000. So that's often the first thing that comes into mind. And usually you'd be able to possibly deduct that on the Schedule A rather than the Schedule C for state income taxes. However, you can deduct on Schedule C a state tax on gross income, which is a little bit more unusual, as distinguished from net income, which is usually the way it normally works as an income tax system, directly attributable to your business. So that's kind of like the exception. So there is that. I'm going to go back on over. I'm going to delete the W-2 income. Back to the Schedule C, other kinds of taxes. What about payroll taxes? Now, note if you have payroll, as we discussed a little bit on the payroll side of things, that would be you have employees and now you're having to process payroll. So you've got the payroll taxes, which is different than the self-employment tax, although they're both like Social Security and Medicare. We're talking when we think about payroll taxes, the taxes that you as the employer are paying, not on your net income in that case, but on the expense of the employees. So in that case, if you had employees, as we saw in the past, you might have a wages here, which would be tying into what's on the W-2. Let's say that was 20,000. And then you might have taxes as well related to the payroll or would have to pay the payroll taxes. Let's say that is just 5,000. So if I pull that on over into our worksheet, 20,000 here for wages, the 5,000 is being broken out. Now note if you're doing the data input as a tax preparer, you might want to tie these numbers out to the payroll forms, which are the 941s filed quarterly typically and the W-2s and the W-3. And that often people get confused doing that because they get mixed up between what should be included in here as wages expense and what should be broken out as taxes for the payroll taxes. Because included in the wages expense is the employee's portion of Social Security and Medicare, which we as the employer took out of their wages, but it's still their money and then we paid it on their behalf because we're forced to to the government. So we're deducting those not as payroll taxes generally, but as just wages. And then we had to pay our matching over and above their salary or whatever we're paying them of our portion of payroll taxes. And that's the amount that would be broken out here for federal income taxes. It would be our portion, our half, Social Security, Medicare, and that federal unemployment tax. So that's a form of tax we would expect to see on the Schedule C. Now the other one that's business related is what about our taxes? So we talked about the self-employment tax, which is calculated on our net income. Because we're being treated as both employee and employer of ourselves in essence in that we're paying not payroll taxes, because we're not issuing ourself W-2s, but self-employment tax, which is calculated here. We see that we were deducting this 10,598. Now is going to be the tax that we're paying on the 1040 page number two. Now over and above the federal income tax. Half of that is deductible. And once again, that one is not on the Schedule C, because if it were, it would end up in a circle reference. So we get that deduction somewhere else for our half of the payroll taxes. And that's going to be on the Schedule 1 page number two right there. And then that's going to pull into the form 1040 and be included in our line item as an above the line deduction. So those are some other forms of taxes related to the business. Now if we had like property taxes on things that we purchased for the business, like for example, if I purchased supplies and I'm just going to expense the supplies when I purchased them, then I'm not going to break out the sales tax that I paid for the supplies. I'm going to just record the supplies at whatever we purchased it for. So obviously if I bought supplies for $1,050 and $1,150 or whatever, and $50 was sales tax, I'm not going to break out the sales tax into the tax line. I'm just going to include it in the expense. And if I was to be purchasing inventory, then same thing, I'm not going to break out the sales tax, but I'm going to include it in what I purchased, which would be the purchase of inventory page number two and the cost of the stuff that we're purchasing. And if I purchased equipment, then I'm just going to include it not as an expense or inventory, but in the cost of the depreciable asset that I'd have to be putting on the books in the depreciation schedule so that I have to depreciate that cost over the use over the useful life. So those are going to be treated there. So you deal with the taxes and those items, but you're not going to see the sales tax broken out separately. It'll basically be included and expendable as it's not expendable, typically on the personal side unless you're deducting it on schedule A as your sales tax as opposed to your income tax on the schedule A. So you do get the deduction for it, but it's not typically broken out as a separate item. Again, it would be included in the expense item in the proper category or in inventory as part of your cost of good sold calculation or as equipment and then be expensed in the format of depreciation, which just still might be able to get in the year of purchase with the 179 and special depreciation. Now, the other thing that just brings up with the taxes is when we have this other thing with sales tax, sometimes we have to charge sales tax to our customers. And oftentimes people then pay the sales tax and they say, hey, look, I should have an expense here related to my sales tax that I pay because now I'm being charged sales tax. So remember, there's two ways you can kind of think of a sales tax system. So if I'm the one that's collecting and then paying the sales tax, you could say, well, I was charging whatever I charged for revenue, like $10, but then I had to charge $12 because of sales tax. And then you would be including the $12 sales in revenue that would then net out against the sales tax that you then pay to the government. That's one way you could do it. And the net income would then be increased by the sales tax on the sales side and then decreased by the sales tax on the expense side. And it would wash out. That's one way you could do it. But the IRS doesn't typically want to do it that way. They want instead to say, no, you are not charging revenue. The revenue isn't yours for the sales tax.  So you should put the revenue just include your sales price. The sales tax should go into a balance sheet account off income statement, which we don't see on the tax return because we only have an income statement with the schedule C. But if you're using accounting software like QuickBooks or something, it would be off on sales tax payable. And then when you pay the sales tax, you're just going to decrease the payable. Therefore, neither the revenue nor the expense hits the income statement. So oftentimes people will actually use tax software and that will correctly do that process. But then they're also going to say, hey, look, I should have sales tax expense because I'm paying all this money for sales tax. Why don't I get an expense for that? And the answer is just it's not just because, well, you just don't get that expense. Because you didn't include the sales tax in revenue. If it is in revenue, then we need to adjust the revenue to properly reflect revenue without the sales tax as the way it should be reported. But if it's not included in revenue, then of course you don't get the expense because both revenue and expense are off income statement. They're balance sheet items. Now the other thing that gets a little bit messy with the taxes is if you have like your home office again. So if you have your home office and you pay taxes for the home, then part of the home you're using for your business. So now you have a similar situation, breaking out the business versus the personal, which gets into the home office. And the reason that gets a little bit messy is because you can deduct some of the expenses for your home on the schedule A if it was just personal and you didn't have a business at all. That might be something that could be included in the taxes you paid section. So you might have already have a deduction for that possibly if your itemized deductions are greater than your standard deduction, but you might be able to allocate some of that then to the schedule C if you're not having any itemized deductions because you don't have more itemized than the standard, then the home office would be more beneficial in that case. But if you do, then you'd have to allocate possibly. You would imagine allocates. You can get into more detail on that with the home office if you're diving into that calculation. The other thing that muddies up that whole scenario is that cap that they tried to put in for the state taxes, I believe $10,000 for the itemized deductions, which kind of muddies up the whole situation as well. So to dive into that topic in more detail, you can look at the form 8-8-2-9 for the home office and dive into the instructions on that in a little bit more detail. Obviously, the basic idea would be if you have your home, you either own the home or you rent the home. If you rent the home, then you're not going to have any taxes for the property taxes on the home. And the main thing would be the rent that you're trying to see if you can allocate to a portion of the business. If you own the home, then you might have to deal with some more complexity, which would be, well, what about the depreciation related to the home? Would that part of that possibly be deductible? Because I didn't have to deal with depreciation before because it was a personal item. What about the property tax on the home? What about the interest payments on the loan related to the home that you might be able to apportion? And the reason that gets a little more complex is because you have other places where that might be deductible if you were taking itemized deductions in the Schedule A.


I welcome you to this session. It's called new to DubConf. The session is for those who are new to DubConf but also for the people that have been to DubConf before. You're all welcome to participate in this session and in DubConf in general. The session is also for those people that are active within Dubian and also for those who are not active in Dubian. You're all welcome to participate. For those who are not active, whether you want to get involved, whether you don't plan to get involved, you're still welcome to join this session. And it is also up to you how much you, how you would like to participate if you want to participate actively, if you want to participate quietly, which is also called lurking. You're very welcome to be here and also during the rest of DubConf. Here you see the Dubian diversity statements which also sets this very clear. The Dubian projects welcomes and encourages participation by everyone, which means no matter how you identify yourself or how others perceive you, we welcome you. We welcome contributions from everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community. While much of the work in our project is technical by nature, we value and encourage contributions from those with expertise in other areas and welcome them in our community. The Dubian project is quite diverse in the way it's set up. It's not just a technical project like all the artwork you see and other things. This is also part of what makes up the Dubian community or the translation work and we value all these people very much on a similar level. We are attending a DubConf. You are agreed to the Dubian Code of Conduct, so if you don't see the Dubian Code of Conduct, you will receive a paper with a map in the Code of Conduct in press, so you should read it. Yeah, DubConf is committed to be a safe and welcoming environment for all participants. Like that, you can see the DubConf Code of Conduct and also the Dubian Code of Conduct for more details. It's part of your welcome back and also visible on various places across the venue.  Maybe we should introduce ourselves. I'm Adriana, I'm part of the local team and I'm part of the harassment team for DubConf this year and I'm also contributing with translation from English to Portuguese. My name is Ronda, my pronouns are she and her and I've been with Dubian since about 20 years now and I recently started with the diversity team which is the aim to make it more visible to the outside that Dubian doesn't just have the diversity statement but also lives up to it and we want to increase the visibility of the diversity that Dubian represents to make it clear that Dubian is welcoming everyone. If you have any issues, if something might happen, there is the anti-harassment team you can contact under either under anti-harassment at debian.org or here on site either Adriana, Steve McIntyre or myself and we will see how to make it more comfortable for you in case anything happened. Let's start off with a short question. Who of you for whom in the audience is this the first DubConf? Please raise your hand. That's a fair amount. Very welcome and who has been to DubConf before? You're also very welcome. This is where the first two parts of this session that we started off with welcoming everybody and also speaking about the diversity statement and the code of contact. We will continue with speaking about some ticks and trips, how you can get most out of DubConf for yourself and how you can enjoy the rest of the week and also after that we will speak a bit of yeah how a bit more and also at the end then hear a bit stories from people who have been to DubConf before and also from those who come who are new to DubConf. First for the site information, there's the cursor. For those who have been to the welcoming session in the morning, you already know this map. It's also inside your badge. So if you take the paper out and unfold it, you have this map inside your badge every time all the time with you. We are now in the room four which is the big talk room next to it in the room five is the mini auditorium which is the next talk room and the third bigger talk room which also has video coverage is the video conferencia room number six and behind that is the front desk where you all got your badges from so you probably know it already. You can always turn to the front desk if you have any questions. You can always also turn to people with blue shirts that are that local team. The people with the orange shirts are people that are part of the welcoming team which always will also be around for you to be there for questions that might arise. We have several headlamps. Eight is the quiet headlamp and behind that nine is the noisy headlamp which also can be quite quiet at some times but the quiet headlamp is specifically aimed to be quiet. In the noisy headlamps you can sit together and work on stuff and chat with each other without having any bad thoughts to disturb anyone else. Behind the front desk is the job fair which might still be going on or sort of just today. It was just today. Behind that is the restaurant which is our food gathering for lunch and dinner during the week times for tonight and tomorrow lunch and dinner the food will be prepared in the Hotel international in which is when you exit at the top at the number one and also go in the opposite direction of the arrow you come to the block where the hotel is where there is the food for the weekend but also on the 13th and on the 12th floor there is additional headlamps and that's the main venue where people are staying. Yeah and you can check the catering the food menu at week catering page. They we wrote all the options in the schedule for breakfast lunch and dinner so you can check to have more information about food in general. Yeah on the Deccon wiki which is wiki debion org slash Deccon slash 19 which is the entrance page for the Deccon wiki for this year you can find not just the catering and food page but also about the day trip and a lot of other information you have an FAQ there and a lot of other things that are valuable if you want to look it up there. There are two mailing lists one you probably very likely are subscribed to it because it's the Deccon announced mailing list we're sending out daily mails about what's going on during Deccon information for the coming day then there's also the Deccon discuss mailing list in which people discuss various things like I want to make a tour through the city someone likes to join in or something else and it's for for unmoderated information discussion between people attendees here at Deccon. There are some more communication channels one is on IRC which is in hash Deccon that's the main discussion channel you also have a schedule but there which will remind you about upcoming talks and you can also ask on that channel has someone seen a person you're looking for so you can sort of play a little big brother through communication on IRC if you want to hang out with someone or chat about a certain bug report or anything like that that's where IRC comes in handy it's since last year people also started to create a channel on Telegram which is unfortunately a non-free service but if you'd like to chat on there with others feel free to join the Telegram channel too. Yeah this is yeah here you see all the announcement of the DC schedule bot and some other people hanging out and chatting along and about communication with others the Debian conference, DebConf is a very social event it's not just a conference but there is a lot of other stuff going on along and it really really helps to communicate with to talk to a lot of people because it changes completely the way you read the next mail from the same person when you just communicate electronically you don't really have a feeling for the person behind it and here at DebConf you have the chance to talk with with a lot of people involved in Debian and get to know them and get a feeling for how their mail might be read and the next time you might not get something in the wrong throat and get angry about a mail or something like that so try to speak with as many people as you wish or as you feel comfortable with keep in mind most people here at DebConf but in general are not native English speakers so if you use some slang terms if you are a native speaker and speak very fastly it might be an issue for others to understand you and it might sometimes be a barrier to to ask people to speak slower and so try to think about that not everyone here in fact most people here are not native English speakers and also that might take a bit of a shyness from you because don't try to be perfect in your English people will understand you nevertheless and if you are trying studying something and need help you can talk to people or send a message on Irish channel requesting help people probably will help you like Bernadette mentioned before already we need volunteers to run this service here especially the video team stay in the room afterwards if you want to have video team training if you want to get to know how to operate this to make it also possible for people who are not here to attend DebConf through the video streaming but also there are more than one tracks besides each others and you might want to also see sometimes sessions in multiple rooms so the video team is very helpful with that because all the talks in the videos rooms are also recorded and you can watch them later and you can check the tasks here and apply for example here we don't have volunteers but you can check the dates in which kind of work you would like to do yeah it's on DebConf 19 DebConf org slash volunteers and you can sign up there for specific tasks and and find your way into helping out and making this a success you might also happen to notice on the 13th floor of the hotel there's also a bar which is opening at the evening bring your own cup with you because the disposable cups are out that's every one of you had a cup in your goodie bag so bring it along if you want to have beer there might also be people around to play cards there's a card game called Mao which is quite famous in different grounds don't ask about the rules just join in the sessions and try to enjoy it but you don't feel obliged to try it if you don't like to that's fine too tomorrow there will be the key signing session if you signed up with your fingerprint in the registration form tomorrow at three in the afternoon there will be the session about key signing where the checksum of the file which already has been sent to the DebConf discuss mailing list will be read so check your fingerprint in the file check the checksum of the file read the mail that was sent to DebConf discusses if you take part in the key signing is there any questions so far do the university has a schedule for the hotlabs opening and closing times the university here if someone would like to stay after the talks in the hotlabs it will be closed here in the university building there we have the noise hack lab room B and quite hack lab as well but we will open at nine and close at seven and we will move to the hotel hack lab hi thank you hey about the key signing party it's happening only today or for the rest of the week it will happen throughout the rest of the week but tomorrow at three there will be a public reading of the checksum of the file so that everyone can assure that they have the same file and that the fingerprint information there in but it will be explained in details tomorrow during the session thank you and one more information if you would like to schedule a meeting we have a meeting room at 12 floor at hotel not knowing hotel we can use if you have any idea for any ad hoc session that hasn't been in the schedule yet just head up to the front desk they are willing to help you to set that up and get the information out thank you for the introduction about the key singing in the instructions says but we should print the file and I was wondering if you know where can we print the file personally I haven't printed the file since a few years I always use my laptop yeah you can whatever works for you printed is usually more convenient because you just check it off and then do it later at home but whatever works for you thank you okay so I would like to hear some stories probably we start out with someone who has been to that come before might talk about the first impression of that come for how the came to it someone willing to do that my name is Andrea still I was even on Deppcon zero in Bordeaux but I skipped some I have not really a story but what you said privacy that it's helps if you read an email of a person you know in person from a Deppcon it works also the other way around sometimes you have read emails from people and then you are happy to meet this person and maybe it the person looks different than you expect or so but it's easier if you have read something from them so if you read the mailing this it also helps the other way around but I fully agree as you said and if you want to have questions about other depth comes just ask me well when I have a start to attend Deppcon in 2012 in Manawa Nicaragua it was very exciting because I could met for the first time too many devian maintainers and developers and also people contributing in another way and this was possible because I met to Wunnar Wunnar Wolff in Mexico City because of a teacher I studied sociology in the Mexico so I was doing a research for my bachelor degree thesis about the devian project and then I got deeper in the technical way and I realized that I I like more to work with computer stuff in a technical way than in the social sciences and then I start to contributing doing some translations from English to Spanish in the devian Spanish localization team and also organizing some events in Mexico or helping to organize them like the devian day or some release or install party and then I I am learning how to do devian packaging and well in the future maybe helping the reproducible builds team so well this is my my story and how I arrived to Deppcon and I'm very happy to be here always as possible sharing nice experiences thank you thank you someone for whom this is the first step com who might want to share what the experience so far is impression what they plan to do hey first of all when I when Deppcon started I arrived to here using Arch Linux and now I am using Debian so yeah that's the first thing and so I'm here because a friend of mine have been to the last one to the last Deppcon and he said it's super nice that we could meet people like super nice people and we could learn lots of new things and so I came and I'm I'm still I'm not that connected with the free software community at all I'm starting like this path right now so I liked it very much because I I'm able to talk to so many people that can like help me and tell me what they do and and then I I have like so many paths to to go I I mean even like oh my god what do I do because I want to contribute but there's so many things to do and so I thought it's pretty nice and congratulations for everything because the organization is also someone else maybe I think since I'm here might as well say something so she mentioned that you know when you start out there's all these paths and all these exciting directions you can go into and so many projects you want to get involved with and you don't know which way to go to and once you go down one route you find two or three more it doesn't it never gets better there's just more stuff but it's awesome and you'll love it so I think it's good continue and find something you like and stick with it if you don't like something don't stick with it for too long because there's so many other things that you can work on so there's no reason to to to get stuck in something and be unhappy with it if you really don't like something just try something else because there's so many places where you can contribute and where your contributions will be welcomed so yeah go for it I think with that we somehow can sort of conclude this session we can stay here chat exchange stuff with each other unless someone has some some pressing question left that they want to put out so thank you all for having being here to this session but thank you even more for being here at Debcon and I wish you a very nice conference


So much fun, our very first guest is a, our first guest in the new studio is a former NFL defensive tackle who played for the Patriots, the Dolphins, the Seahawks, the Giants and Washington is the unaccomplished rapper, maybe we'll get some bars here today on a Thursday morning and now a WWE certified superstar, AJ Francis aka Topdoll, I haven't seen you in years. I know it's been great to be back with you again, I mean we used to do this in New York and now we're out in LA, I didn't expect LA to be the cold and rainy city, you know. Yeah, not fun. I need that highlight package because I was looking good, I'm telling you.  Very much so, like a year ago watching WrestleMania from home, not being a part of the festivities, after everything I wanted to do while I was in WWE, being back now, being able to be a part of WrestleMania weekend in LA, it's incredible, I'm very, very excited. Do you have a favorite WrestleMania moment? Uh, yeah. Ever. As a fan? Just either. Yeah, I would say WrestleMania 18, the Rock vs. Hulk Hogan in Toronto, Hulk Hogan was the reason that I first started wrestling when I was like one years old and like the Rock is the reason that I'm sitting before you today, so like the two of them have one of the greatest matches of all time at WrestleMania 18 and that would be my favorite. Now last time I saw you, I'm just gonna say you look a little different. I do. You look a lot different. Yeah. How much weight have you lost and how short of time? In about the last eight months I've lost 105 pounds. I was like 370 when we re-signed to WWE and then I'm 265 now. It took a lot of work, a lot of water, a lot of good choices with food, a lot of days and nights. This is what's so annoying about men.  See the problem was it was a diet, it was straight sugar soda. Really? Yeah, you know, a lot more, I'm drinking like two, three gallons of water a day now. We said earlier it's the truth, I go to the bathroom every half hour, but you can either go to the bathroom every half hour or you can be 370 pounds. There's choices there. What's motivating you? You know the guys at the top of the car, the guys I see in the locker room, they got great bodies, great physiques and they work all the time on their physiques and like I want to get to where they're at and like I don't want to be the big chubby guy. I want to be the big shredded guy. Can I just ask you why you don't want to be the chubby guy? Because listen, everybody's shredded now. When I look at WWE, everyone's shredded, everyone's an athlete. So why not be, you know, you're always looking to stand out, right? I would want to put on the most weight and then just sit on people. I mean, that's an option. Like the old days. Yeah, see, I mean, I could do that just like Andre the Giant. But the thing is, to me, in this new age of wrestling, the way that the guys move around and the way that they are athletically gifted is just like trying to be a different person is something that I could do and something that I did do very well as you showed the highlight. But I also enjoy sleeping through the night and not coughing, you know, on my own spit while I'm sleeping because I am trying to like actively make better decisions with my life because I've been through a lot and you know, I have a lot of family history with different medical things and I have to take care of myself. Yeah, yeah. Actually, we were on studio together and when it happened, it was in New York and I found out in between our sets and that was, yeah, it was.  But like that was a rough day.  She was 46. I was 28 at the time. Like if I live her life, then my life's already halfway over. So I had wanted to start making better decisions. It's good perspective for everybody watching. We can all use that. You are living your dream. And I think I'm so happy that I get to sit and talk to you and I'm wishing you like I don't want, I will watch Smackdown tomorrow just to cheer you on. I will, I will absolutely because you're someone who I talked to years ago and you went through what you tried, you know, went team to team in the NFL.  How did you do it? Man, it was, you know, I'm blessed with the fact that I played in the NFL and WWE is really big on athletes, right?  So like back then it wasn't like that for me. I knew getting to the NFL was all I had to do to make sure that I would get a trial in WWE because like I said, they love pro athletes. And so I get an opportunity to go to try out and I killed it. And then six months later, I was signed. So like it was only a year between the end of my football career and the beginning of my WWE. My man, we love it. You have your persona, top dollar. We're going to get into all of that and you can see it on Smackdown.   I want to talk about that really quick. I asked you before we came on, what was your favorite stop in your NFL career? You said that. Are you surprised Pete Carroll is still doing this? No, because Pete is like a fountain of youth himself. You know what I'm saying? Like he personally gets you energized every day. Like you would think a lot of coaches, players at least, hear their coaches and they're like, oh man, I'm not trying to hear him. He just keeps running off. But Pete actually makes you want to like do things. Like and everything in Seattle is just competition based. Like practice is harder than games sometimes. But like everything else is cool. Meetings are cool. Lifting is cool. The city is cool. It was my first time living on the West Coast. Yeah. So like and we made the playoffs is the only time I ever made the playoffs. So it was like definitely my favorite time on that team. Who would have had the best persona? I mean, Pete Carroll could have been it. Oh, gosh. Michael Bennett for sure. Michael Bennett was on that team. Michael Bennett was on there at Camp Chasler. Sherm, Richard Sherman, like I play with all those guys. I know. So who would be the best WWE persona? Oh, Bennett. Yeah, it would be Mike because he's got the size, the athleticism, the gift of gab. But you know, Sherm also has that too. You got that dance, though, with with Bennett. Yeah, it's true. Bennett can dance. Yeah, true also. That's good. OK, now let's talk quickly about you were in Washington. Were you with Kirk Cousins then? Yes, I was. So let's just his persona has taken a bit of a turn. Yeah. Hey, Jay, let's talk about this because he was from Captain Kirk, the Kirk O'Banks. So then, you know, he was Mr. Michigan State, Sparty on nerd, and then this happened. Hey, big drip, Kirk, I see you.  He always did it like this. Did he? Yeah, he just didn't show it off. No, no, no. Tell me what his personality is then. What are you talking about? He's like the nerdy homeboy that hangs with all the brothers on the team. No, nerdy homeboys that hang with the guys on the team do not drive conversion vans and have, like, bumper stickers. Like, what are you talking about? Hey, man, you know, he went to Minnesota. He had to change his vibe up a little bit. When he left D.C., like, I thought he was going to be in D.C. forever.  They just kept backing up that Brink's truck into his backyard. And he could have kept doing that in D.C. And they decided they wanted to go a different direction and it's worked better for Minnesota.  How can Kirk Cousins work on his persona? Like, have you seen the man dance? Yes, wear more chains, you know what I'm saying? More. We need more Kirk O'Chains. Oh, gosh, that's absolutely terrible and terrifying. OK, let's talk about audience here. You know, I know what it's like to be at an NFL Stadium.  How does it compare to the crowd at a WWE situation? So it's completely different because fans at football games are reactionary. Like, they react to what happens on the field. So do you. And so, like, if good things are going for the home team, the crowd's going crazy. If bad things are going for the home team, it's pretty much silent. In WWE, fans are going to be a part of the show. They're going to be interactive. So if it's boring that they're watching, they're not just going to sit on their hands. They're going to literally chant boy, you know what I'm saying? Like, if they love what they're seeing, they're going to chant, this is awesome. They're going to do everything. Like, whatever they got to do to get themselves involved. And that's cool because you can play off that as a performer. Like, I say things a lot of the times, like, especially we go to, like, D.C. Like, I'm from D.C. Yeah, so you've got it. And I played in D.C. But, like, the whole time I was on the mic, all I did was talk bad about the commanders, right? Because I knew all that would do is big them. Hate me, which is my objective, right?   See, because Top Dala is a cool name, but it's the kind of name that people try to, like, play with and come up with other ways. And I use, I don't know if you've ever seen The Wire, but I use, like, Marlo Stansfield in The Wire. And I'm always, like, my name is my name. OK, you do that. See, that's my thing.  That's how we do that.  Like, do you do a workshop at, like, a comedian? Yeah, no, I did, I went to do a dive one time and my leg was like, you ain't diving, big fella. Really? And I got caught on the top rope and it happens. It's live TV, but you got to keep going with it. Like, I'm still recovering from, like, my leg is still recovering from that. That was months ago, but it's like, you still got to just push through and cut. I mean, it's just like in football, like, if I played, when I was on the Dolphins, I played a whole game with a torn meniscus. You just got to do what you got to do. Okay, they want me to, what did they want me to ask, the finishing move? Yes. Okay, can we see this finishing move, top dollar finishing move? I think we have some footage of it. Here it is. What do you call this, talk me through? Oh, AJ, AJ, AJ. So, right here. Oh my gosh! This is called the world's strongest wasteland. All right, Maya, get over here, we're gonna practice this. Because the move for the guy I'm holding in my arms is called the world's strongest slam. And the move for the guy in my shoulders is called a wasteland.  And why was your niece about to come and get put through a table? Maya, I can come here whenever she wants.  No, okay. I was joking, I thought maybe, would you want to try that?  This is top dollar, this is my friend AJ, this is my husband. I like your jacket.  All right, let's keep talking here. So, you are here in Los Angeles, he's gonna be in WrestleMania, wrestling, which is super fun. You are participating in the Andre, the giant battle royale tomorrow. Give me the lowdown. Like, what's the best storyline? So the Andre, the giant moral battle royale is a traditional over-the-top battle royale. The only way that you can be eliminated is by being thrown over the top rope. A lot of greats have won it. You got guys like Jay Huso, who won it recently. Look at that. Yeah, and he's one of the top guys on the card right now in one of the biggest storylines. So, you know, there's a lot of opportunities that get to be given to people when they win this, and I'm very much looking forward to winning. Yeah, is there camaraderie between you guys, like in an NFL locker room, or is it like your... Yes and no, yes and no. It's just like NFL locker room where like... Are y'all in one locker room though, so it's like you're in there with your competition? Yeah, so it's just like the NFL. So like, I might be... No, because if Richard Sherman's not out there with Michael Crabs, you're in the same locker room before a game. No, but he's in the locker room with other defensive backs, because we gotta earn a job over. Yeah, that's true. So it's like, I might be best friends with an offensive lineman, but when we do one-on-ones, we ain't homeboys. You know, like I gotta eat, you gotta eat. We out here working for it, and it's the same way in WWE locker room, like we're all cool, we kick it back there, we play video games, we play cards. It's a great time, but at the end of the day everybody's trying to get to that top spot, and if you gotta step on somebody to get there, that's just how I'd be. Yeah, so that's what it is. And if I had a WWE persona, what would it be, or a name, or a good kind of... Slay K. Slay K, okay, I like that. I don't know what my finishing move would be, just talking someone to death. I'm just trying to talk to somebody. I think that's what it would be. Okay, I think, I mean, that's kind of it. I think, are we good? What else do we wanna ask you about? What else do you wanna talk about? I'm just really excited to be here in LA. Wanna talk about music? Yeah, let's do that. I mean, what's going on with your music? I know that that's been a huge part of your career. You could basically have done anything that you wanted to with wrestling right now, but you could have a music career, right? It's cool because music has always been my lifeblood, and yet, I found a way to incorporate it into what I love in WWE, right?   Like for example, last night we went to Roscoe's, and then on the way home, my car got a flat tire, so in the rain in Crenshaw, we was putting a doughnut on the back tire, you know what I'm saying? So like, but I called him, I was like, yo, I need your help, you know what I'm saying? And he was like, all right, cool, they just came through. Well, it's not supposed to rain here. I know, that's what I'm saying. I was told that it never rains in Southern California. The taxes are too high here. It's not good to rain. So it's like- But you dropped a new song. Yeah, I got a new song coming out. I just debuted it last night on DJ Who Kid for Shade 45. Okay, let's hear it. You debuted it last night? Yeah, yeah. That's amazing. Okay, let's listen. So much bread, I got a wheel, and that's really real. Got a crib like Uncle Phil, and that's really real. Whoa! Where can we hear it? It's really real. When it comes out, it'll be on all platforms, but it has not, it hasn't been released yet. It's just I'm doing my press forward now, getting everybody's ears open to it so that I can drop it very soon. Has there been a successful athlete turned rapper? Yeah, there's a little bunch. Who's the best one? Dame Dala is actually a good rapper. There's a lot of athletes that have songs, but they're not good rappers. Yeah, Conrad and my ear are saying Shaq has bars. Oh, Shaq definitely has bars. Shaq has a song with Biggie. It's one of my favorite songs ever. You can't not mention Nate Burleson, because I want to be sad. You got one and Nate's got bars. Nate be spitting too, you know? Every time me and Nate were on set together, you know I always had to show him who the real spitter was, but you know, that's my guy. He's passionate. Do you have any that you want to drop some bars for us? You got a little something?  Tomorrow's the Andre, I'll do something for you. All right. Here we go. Last week, I got the text I was going to be in the Andre. First thing I did was hit a shantae. That's the way you start mania in LA after party with shorties at the telé. The telé, bracing will contribute to sensation and jubilation across the nation. The day my haters dreaded like a Haitian. From the top of giant shoulders, you can see what's shaking. Not John Tentor, but I see the earthquake in, and avalanche, a Haitian, wrap God forsaken, kiss my, no hesitation. Yeah, that's cool. Woo! AJ! Thank you. Check out his new music. Good luck to you and smash them. Say good luck, Maya. Good luck. Appreciate it. Shake Bo, we love you, AJ. I'm about to get some gear made like that. That looks cool. That's live. This, she looks a lot cooler than I do. She got blue hair and I got it all going on. She could be in the WWE. She could. You can come back right here. I'm up and out.


Hi y'all, welcome to my new house. I just closed a couple hours ago and Wi-Fi and security and I brought us on our way to get set up and tomorrow I actually was in. So I wanted to film a very quick little empty house tour. I love this place. It is like literally my dream home. Fizz is out in the backyard right now. Yo go, go, go right over here. No, she's in here. You guys saw this when I was touring houses, but now it's mine. So I'm going to show y'all. It is like actually perfect. If you're already here, subscribe for lots of moving vlogs, lots of joking vlogs, and imagine with this new kitchen, my life is a lot better these days. So the entire house is basically surrounding this, I don't even know what you call this, like patio area. I'm going to have a really big table out here. Imagine all the dinner parties. I'll put some string lights up in like a very classy way. The only thing I'm going to change about this house is I'm going to get like sliding doors. So I'm going to have the doors open all the time and like spray for bugs. I'm going to have to figure that part out. This is like what I am the most excited for, hosting wise. Come over here. I didn't have any storage closets at my last house. So this, hello there bro, is much better. I also have a garage and wait until you guys see this closet. Like it is stunning. And then over here, oh, you know, I'm literally wrong to build for these days. So yeah, this will probably not be used for a long time until eventually I find a man. I have no interest in that. So anyways, over here, I'm going to have like my gym set up, whatever. I have an attic up there. I haven't even seen this closet actually. Let's see what's going on here. Oh, actually pretty nice. Okay, moving over here. This is my dining area. I just bought a really large kitchen table that I hope fits here perfectly. Because if not, I am screwed. But I'm pretty sure it will. Coming over here, what you guys have, oh my god, look at this down there. What you guys have already seen, I have the kitchen. I mean stunning, beautiful love so much. The most amazing part is this walk-in pantry. We just put my grandma's stuff in here. But like this, if you guys saw my last pantry, this is amazing. Some beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cabinets. All of these, what is it? Like, what is that called? I've been totally blanking. Your cabinets don't slam. They, what is the word? Guys, I just got back from my show. I think I'm dead. Slow clothes, sure. Anyways, like the storage in this kitchen is literally stunning. Here's my oven. I like that it's actually taller up here. Like guys, I'm not kidding. Everything is just so nice and beautiful and amazing. So again, this is where I'll be entertaining all the time. Have everything out here. And then we can cover the table. Do some beer pong. You know, we've got everything here. The living space. So the house, well, because there's no furniture in it, but it's a pretty good size living room. I'll have a TV mounted up there. How do you, can you mount on them? I don't know. I finally have a fireplace, which I'm so excited about. And again, for storage. And I love how the living area and the kitchen connect. A hostess dream. Back here, we've got bedrooms. There's a three bedroom house. This is going to be Dom's room or the guest room. I'm actually going, I guess, I don't even know. It's really small. I guess, I don't know if the bed's going to go this way. It's a full and then I'll mount a TV here. It's like, I'm going to have to do that because I don't know. We'll see. It's going to be a nice little guest bedroom, which will be so amazing for hosting. Over here is the master. And again, everything looks smaller because there's no furniture in it. I will use this.  I'm not going to use it as like my actual closet. Again, I'll change those doors. Everything is perfect. So echoey in here. My bathroom is snug. Okay. Like it is so cool. The tile is safe. And then, oh, by the way, guys, I lost our boys, we can't tell. And then I have such like a deep bathroom storage, which again, I had no storage. And I just love that. Then here is the second bathroom. Shower, bathtub, bathroom is so nice. Here we are again. And then again, I have more bathroom storage. That's amazing. Like everything about this is amazing. Back here, I'm going to transform this room into a closet vanity, like glam room. I don't know how my stuff is going to fit here. We still have to figure that out because obviously I have a custom closet. I might have to sell and redo it. I really don't feel like doing that. So we will see the issue is it will block off this closet. So this might just be slammed and there might, I don't know, might just like go like this. I haven't figured that out. And it's just like one of those things that's just stressful. And I was going to wait until we got here. This is my laundry room, which is amazing. Oh, Coco, come on. Out here is the backyard. So it connects around. I eventually will build a guest house here. That's going to be a studio. So the yard is going to be basically like split in two. The one thing that's actually like, it's going to block off all natural lighting to the closet room. But at least I'll have like a ton. This neighborhood is just like so cozy and like, it's perfect. Then back here, actually, I guess we'll just go around. We have this back here and that leads into again, the little patio area. Okay. Stunning, stunning, stunning in your back here. That is the empty house tour. I hope you guys enjoyed. I've already said all the cheesy stuff a billion times in the last vlogs. And I feel like everyone's just getting tired of me saying it. So thank you guys. I would not be able to do any of this stuff. Obviously without y'all, and I will stop talking about it because I feel like I am getting really annoying. Oh, Fitz is back. It's actually really hot here in Texas. So we're going to get to moving a little bit over today. And then tomorrow is actual move-in day. I love you guys so much. And I will see you in our next moving vlog. There's a thing about running into any sort of X. And trust me, I have this down to a T because I do it all the time. You immediately go up to them, keep it short and sweet. Say hi, how are you? Whatever, nice, leave, you're good. Make it not weird, short and sweet.  There's a thing about running into any sort of X. And trust me, I have this down to a T because I do it all the time. You immediately go up to them, keep it short and sweet. Say hi, how are you? Whatever, nice, leave, you're good. Make it not weird, short and sweet.  There's a thing about running into any sort of X. And trust me, I have this down to a T because I do it all the time. You immediately go up to them, keep it short and sweet.