Diner refuses to serve man food, he shows up in uniform next day. Baker had been in the line for 45 minutes and now she was telling him that she couldn't serve him and wouldn't even tell him why. People didn't often disobey him and make him feel like they were in command. He could see that his authority would have no weight here.  He was excited to see the look on her face when she realized who she was dealing with. He was ready for his day off, he had been working consecutive 12-hour shifts, and only wanted to sit down and relax for one day. Karl Baker from Alexandria just wanted a break. He had meticulously planned this day, among the most important things on the agenda was sleeping in and eating out. He would also go outdoors and soak up some sun and fresh air. Then when the evening came he would open a cold one and watch some TV. Baker's dog woke him up by jumping on him. He opened one eye and saw the sun shining through the curtains. It was past 12 already, he smiled and got dressed. He made himself a coffee and thought about what was next on the agenda. After a moment of thought he decided to go to the local diner, he had never had time to go there before but apparently, the food was great. What he didn't know was how much he'd regret going there.  It had been a while since someone had looked at him like that. When he was wearing his work uniform they normally treated him a little differently. But here no one knew who he was. Baker walked into the diner and stood at the back of the line. He could feel his hunger grow as he waited. He looked up at the menu and decided what he wanted. The minutes passed by. After looking at the menu he narrowed down his options to two dishes. Baker was aware that with all of his great qualities he was picky when it came to food. So coming to the restaurant he had hoped that the food would satisfy his expectations. He felt that the 45 minute wait he'd have to endure in line would make it all worth it when he got his meal. But he was very wrong. Even though the wait seemed much longer than he'd anticipated, he could be patient when he needed to be. But only a little while later, his patience would start to wear thin. Baker had finally arrived at the head of the line and was ready to order his food and sit down. But what happened next would make him see red. Baker smiled and greeted the woman behind the counter. She stared back at him with a look of impatience. She was busy chewing gum and it was apparent she didn't have a good start to her day. He shrugged it off and still smiled as he asked for what he wanted. Baker thought maybe his attitude would rub off on her and she'd cheer up. He knew he could help in some way or another. He ordered the food he had decided on and to his dismay heard her say that the order wasn't available. He was surprised, but he still had his backup order. When he asked her for the other order she shook her head once again. Baker could feel his annoyance bubble up. He had been waiting for 45 minutes and now they didn't even have his food. He could see the order on the menu labeled under specials. If he had known from the start that the food he wanted wasn't available he wouldn't have bothered coming out. Her poor mood was also wearing him thin. He still kept his frustration to himself and asked what they actually did have and that they'd work from there. He stared at him with disdain as if to say that he was dumb for asking that question. He felt that her poor attitude and lack of menu items were getting to him a bit too much. He had to speak his mind. That's it, Baker thought. He stayed put and calmly said, can I speak to your manager? Without a word, she steps to the side and yells to the back kitchen. She returns her blank gaze to Baker and a woman comes out in response to her call.  Now, Baker can see where the worker has got her attitude from. He knows this isn't going to be pleasant. He overlooked the insulting insinuation that he was the cause of these ridiculous lines and explained to her what happened and how management should fix the problem he sees in her establishment. Her response made his blood boil. Then, unbelievably, a female cook came out to the register to tell the manager, you better pull me off the line because I'm not serving him, gesturing toward Baker. Surely, this was unacceptable behavior from her staff? Baker waited for the manager to take action, but she began to laugh. Baker kept his cool and calmly advised them to treat their customers better, or there would be repercussions. Just as Baker predicted, she didn't take kindly to his advice. I understand that things didn't go your way today, sir, but that's life. Now, if you could kindly remove yourself from my establishment. I don't serve men like you, she sneered. Men like me, Baker replied incredulously. What did she mean men like him? Baker had enough. He wasn't playing Mr. Nice Guy any longer. Speaking with more authority, he reiterated his purpose in speaking with her and reassured her that he was speaking up for her own good. Now, he demanded she elaborate on what she meant by men like him. But what she did next would settle any doubt in his mind about a retaliation. She was cold-faced and defiant. I don't need to explain what I meant to anyone.  Baker was seeing red. He wasn't used to people disobeying his command like this. And he certainly wasn't used to people looking down on him. No one should be. It was clear she had no idea who he was or what authority he had at his fingertips. He often thought walking around without his uniform was a good way to see what people were really like. And this proved it. It was clear to Baker that she wasn't going to talk with him like an adult. He felt completely disrespected and ridiculed as onlookers began to take notice. He looked around at all the eyes and ears paying attention to him. His face flushed red as he realized almost everyone in the diner was looking at him. He didn't recognize anyone there, but he wondered if any of the customers recognized him. If they did, they probably wouldn't have thought any diner would have the nerve to treat him like this. With nothing further to say, Baker left the diner. He was upset, angry and mortified by their behavior, behavior that he just couldn't let go unpunished. He was going to forget about the distressing start to his day and return to deal with this or deal tomorrow during work hours in the uniform that serves as a reminder to treat and serve everybody with respect. How would they react then? The next day, Baker put on his chief of police uniform and went to work. He had a lot to catch up on from his day off. He was busy, but he had already promised himself to call into the diner and show his real face. He couldn't wait to see them shaking in their boots. And that, they did. Baker stopped by at the diner on his way back from a call out on the field. He pulled his cruiser up right outside, lucky to find a parking space, and pushed through the doors. His face was stern. The aura of his presence filled the entire diner. Baker was a broad, tall man, and with his uniform on, he seemed to exude authority. Now, everyone looked at him for all the right reasons. He was met with smiles and respect. Even the faces of all the workers suddenly perked up, including the cashier who was now much more attentive. She welcomed him with a smile that slowly faded once she recognized him. Dropping formalities, he asked for the manager. Tentatively, the cashier called for the manager. This time, however, she walked to the back kitchen door and yelled. Now, she was minding her manners it seemed. Baker stood with one hand resting on his waist belt, and another holding a radio device. He for sure looked the part. Especially as his radio called bleeped with officer updates. He waited for her to come out. Today, however, a different manager was working. But she was very distressed by what Baker told her and immediately apologized. She also vowed to launch an internal investigation into the activities of her coworker. Shortly after, the story reached social media as witnesses who were there posted about the poor handling of the officer. Now, the diner was forced to release a statement. A spokesperson for the diner didn't try to deny the claims when asked about the staff's shocking treatment of the officer. She told reporters that it had all happened just like Baker described. The restaurant was appalled that an officer of the law was shown so much disrespect and promised to look further into the matter. But would it be enough? A public statement. The statement read that they expect the highest ethical and personal behavior from its team members. We value each of our guests and are committed to treating everyone with dignity and respect. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We are working with the appropriate authorities and local police association representatives to get to the bottom of and resolve this matter as quickly as possible, the statement added. We have made efforts to reach out to the police officer involved, but have not yet spoken with him. We will continue to look into the situation and will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of this review. Despite the establishment's rush to save face, the story quickly began doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook, to the outrage of thousands of users. I don't know why the offended officer doesn't sue for $150,000. This is no different than the Oregon Bakeries refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Discrimination is discrimination, one furious reader wrote, while another took a more pragmatic view. If I was a cop, I'd be way less concerned about these people who are openly anti-police than I would about what someone quietly harboring resentment and handling my food. Even though Alexandria Police Union representative Pete Feltham commended the diner for its cooperation and swift apology, the damage had already been done even when the diner scrambled to hang posters supporting police officers outside the restaurant. He added that he felt that Baker handled the situation perfectly he disengaged rather than escalating the confrontation. However, he said that he was surprised that an incident such as this happened in Alexandria, because the police force typically has a good relationship with residents and local businesses. None of Feltham's words did anything to quell the ire of the public, however. Hundreds of comments were left on the diner's Facebook page, angrily informing them that they were going to be permanently boycotted and encouraging other patrons to do the same. Following the incident, there has even been talk among social media users to steal from the diner. However, Baker made his position on this clear. He declared how he is not in support of cancel culture nor does he want to see any crime come to the diner as a result of this. He also discourages anyone from trying to boycott the establishment. Take the high road, he urged. The actions of a few does not equate to the actions of many. Two wrongs don't make a right, after all. In response to the enormous amount of backlash, the diner made good on its promise. They released an official statement less than a week later, according to The Washington Post. In a statement, the company said that the views and actions of these individuals were inexcusable and do not reflect those of the company or the rest of the staff at the Duke Street location, the source said. We have concluded the two team members in question acted inappropriately, and we immediately terminated their employment, the company said in the follow-up statement. We have the utmost respect for law enforcement officials and value the relationship we have built with the local Alexandria Police Department over the years. But that's not all. The night manager and the restaurant tracked Baker down to apologize for the shocking behavior of the three members of staff and plan to go out of their way to make it clear to everyone where they stand with regards to supporting law enforcement. The situation even got the attention of Alison Silberberg, Alexandria Mayor. She expressed that she appreciates the company's full-throated apology for this unfortunate situation. But how do other members of the police force feel about the whole thing? Well, your first response as a police officer is anger, the head of the police department told the local station. These are very difficult times right now with our relations with everyone, and to have one of my officers treated in that manner unnecessarily, your first response is anger, then you calm down a bit. When one waitress saw a similar situation unfolding, she decided to step in. Brittany could feel anger boil inside her. How could someone be so rude? She never asked for this. It also wasn't as if they were being nasty in a quiet way. They were trying to get her to agree with them and go along?  Brittany Spencer had been working as a waitress for the past two years, and she thought she had seen it all. Every kind of person came and went through Fat Joe's bar and grill in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. And when an elderly couple walked through the doors, she didn't think anything of it at first. However, when they took their seats, their expressions changed. Right away, Brittany knew they were going to be difficult. The couple looked around the diner with disgust slapped on their faces, as if they had just stepped into their worst nightmare. Fair enough, this wasn't a Michelin star restaurant, but the food was good. Brittany dismissed her first impressions. She knew she could cheer them up with her bubbly personality. But she had no idea how wrong she was. She approached and offered them menus. There wasn't even a hello back as she handed them menus.  This was going to be a difficult table. She walked away, but when she turned around, she saw the couple was pointing and laughing at another customer in the corner of the diner. The target of their bile was a regular and very pleasant customer. What was their problem? Little did Brittany know she was about to find out. The couple was deep in conversation and unaware that Brittany was standing right behind them, waiting on another table. Brittany's ears perked up and she listened in to their conversation. The words that flowed out made Brittany's stomach launch into her throat. How could they say something like that? It was beyond wrong. As Brittany came to them to take their order, they asked her what thought about the other customer. They asked Brittany if she thought it was as disgusting and wrong as they clearly did, even questioning why they would let someone like that into the restaurant.  Sorry, but I can't serve you. And I don't agree with what you said, she told them before walking away. However, she couldn't just leave it at that and asked her manager if the table could be assigned to another employee instead. But things were about to get even more twisted. Brittany knew she couldn't serve the table with customers who held such horrible opinions on a human being, not to mention making one of their regulars feel uncomfortable. So she grabbed her bag and stormed out the door. But the repercussions of her actions were about to come back to bite her. People responded, applauding Brittany for standing up for herself, and some even called out the diner where the event took place.  Everyone, it seemed, was on her side. The next day, management told Brittany she was fired. Bursting with anger, she grabbed her laptop and went straight to Facebook. She updated everyone on the disgusting development. The reactions were explosive. But I'll always choose my morals over money. See ya. She concluded. But the owners of the diner had a very different opinion. The co-owner of the diner commented that Brittany was fired because she refused to do the job she was hired for. In all her years in the industry, she said she had heard plenty of conversations she didn't agree with herself, but you just get on and do your job. Their neutral stance, however, didn't calm the stormy waters. Brittany and others said that allowing hate speech to occur in your establishment without any response was turning a blind eye which she sees as the same as saying the hateful things oneself. But Brittany still thought she had made the right decision. As for the current situation and ideals of the diner? Brittany finished up her viral Facebook post with, please feel free to leave a review on their Facebook page, Fat Joe's Bar and Grill. They received so much hate that they had to temporarily take down their Facebook page, it is however, up again. Also, not long after the situation went viral, a couple of in-person protests forced the restaurant to call the police. Despite it all, they claim that the event hasn't affected their day-to-day business and they will continue with the same moral approach. There was one key element that they conveniently left out however, that many people overlooked. Brittany acted with enough professionalism that she simply asked to switch tables, which is not a monumental request.  But what about being allowed to refuse service to customers trying to force opinions on someone who just wants to take their meal order? And what do the owners, Joe and Whitney Wallander, have to say? Everybody has their opinions, everybody is entitled to their opinions, said Whitney, co-owner of Fat Joe's, in an interview with CBS. Whitney also says that she and her management team made the decision to send Brittany home for the day, but hadn't actually fired her for refusing to serve the group of customers. Before the staff meeting that Sunday morning, other employees at the restaurant showed the Wallander's screenshots of the post Brittany had written about the incident on Facebook. Although the post did not directly reference Fat Joe's, Tad Wallander said that Brittany's Facebook profile listed Fat Joe's as her place of work. This, he said, tied the post and the restaurant together. And they couldn't have that. Tad and Whitney didn't take kindly to being publicly called out on Facebook. After all, every establishment has a reputation to uphold. Tad was concerned that Brittany's post had changed the dynamic of the entire situation, claiming that it was very unprofessional on Brittany's part. When Brittany arrived at the staff meeting, she was promptly fired. She decided she wanted to post stuff on Facebook about being sent home, Whitney said. And we just made the business decision that we can't have employees that aren't going to make us look good as an establishment.


Jesus says the world will end in laughter because it was a place of sorrow. Jesus is telling us the only problem was that we took seriously the tiny mad idea of ego, of separation. We forgot to laugh at the funniest joke ever, and Jesus even used the word joke in A Course in Miracles. He says it is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, like Joel Goldsmiths used to call it a parentheses in eternity. That's the joke. Eternity is so vast, we try to put little parentheses on it that you make up a joke of a world. And yet if you believe in those parentheses and if you believe in that tiny little mad idea, then the consequences you perceive seem to be real to the perceiver because the perceiver believes in them. You see, they're not real because they have no eternal nature to them. God didn't create them so they have no eternal reality, but Jesus does say in the Course, what you believe you make true for you. So it's kind of like Pygmalion. Anybody heard of Pygmalion, you know, where you where you believe something and it turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy? Well, the ego is that tiny self. So if you believe in the ego, then the world becomes your self-fulfilling prophecy. If you believe in the ego, you could say you're at war with yourself because Christ is not an ego. So everyone who's concerned about the war in Ukraine, as I said last week, needs to come bring it back to the mind and say, wait a minute, I've got an internal war going on. I believe in two thought systems that don't meet. I have a split mind and I believe in both love and fear and they don't go together. And light and dark don't go together. So the Bible told us perfect love cast out fear. That's what we're going for. So really a Course in Miracles is just a practical way to achieve and experience perfect love cast out fear. That one little phrase from the Bible you could say is very important, perfect love cast out fear. And Jesus says in the Course, if there is fear, then you were not experiencing that perfect love. You didn't know your true identity. And therefore it seemed like a struggle. The good news is Jesus says the war against yourself is almost over now. So instead of worrying about Ukraine, you should rejoice that the war against yourself is almost over now. That's good news. And you really will feel this movie because Jesus is going to use an international espionage movie, which when I looked it up, the two categories of this movie were crime and comedy. Only Jesus Christ can use a crime comedy movie to help you remember to laugh at the ego. Only Jesus can pull in and turn espionage, cold war, struggles around world, world war, turn that scenario into a comedy. Only Jesus Holy Spirit can pull that off. That's why, you know, probably people always say, what's your top 10 movies for awakening? Wow, if it's a comedy, it's that strong. It jumps into the top 10 of all time movies. We're going to watch one of those top 10 classic movies today because when it's a comedy, it zooms past the 20s and it zooms into the top 10 because we need to laugh. We need to really laugh at this. We have got to stop taking everything so seriously. We made it up. All right. We invented it. All right. Now, we can let it go. If we invented it, we can un-invent it. If we seem to do it, we can undo it. Why would the God of eternity leave us stuck in an error when the error is easily corrected? In fact, Jesus tells us the error has already been corrected. Now, you just have to accept the correction. This is not a future event. This thing has been corrected and it's over and gone, but now we have to accept the correction. Now, I'm going to read you a couple of Miracle Principles. Last night, Kirsten referred to the Miracle Principle. You can heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death and can embellish them both. But I'm going to jump in and I'm just going to talk first of all about Miracle Principle number 11. I think this principle is one of the most practical. When I first read it, I just went, what? What are you talking about? I couldn't even understand what this meant at the beginning. But now, I have to say 36 years later, this one is dear to my heart because this one shows you the quick shot back to heaven. This Miracle Principle is key. It's actually key. If you can really embrace it, you're going to find your life get happier in a hurry and you're going to find you're going to be laughing a lot more if you can embrace this principle. So here we go. Miracle Principle number 11. The Miracle abolishes the need for lower order concerns. Since it is an out-of-pattern time interval, the ordinary considerations of time and space do not apply. When you perform a Miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust to it. You can understand when I first read that, I was like, what? What are you talking about? And first of all, the very first sentence is shocking to the ego. The Miracle abolishes the need for lower order concerns. What is he talking about? Lower order concerns. Concerns around money, concerns around the body, concerns around food, concerns around shelter and clothing, concerns around interpersonal relationships. We had a beautiful session last night and Dana and then David and Nani were talking about the heartbreak of children. It was all around a birthday and there was heartbreak there. And those are lower order concerns to Jesus. Jesus is saying, if you come into the Miracle, you'll see that those are really something I can handle quite easily. But if your mind gets distracted in them, it hurts. So just like we had two birthdays, talked about last night and also we had a birthday down in Peru. We basically, this movie is centers on a birthday. So Jesus is using a birthday movie to directly answer the heartbreak last night around the birthdays. He's so relevant. You see how he comes in the next day like, oh, my beloved were concerned and said around birthdays, I'm going to use a birthday movie to help them laugh. You see how practical Jesus is.  This is what he said in the Bible 2000 years ago. He said, seek he first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be added unto you. This is what he says in the Course. When he promises, he says, once you accept the Holy Spirit function as the one function you would fulfill, there will be nothing else. The Holy Spirit will not arrange for you. He says, without your effort, the Holy Spirit will go before you, making straight your path and leaving in your way no stones to trip on and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. That's what he's talking about in principle number 11. He's saying, if you give me your mind and your heart for miracles, your problems in this world are significantly done. They're over because it takes a lot of past learning, a lot of work, a lot of worry, a lot of education to try to fix problems that are unreal. He's saying, if you'll let me perform miracles through you, you will see that you have no problems. You will quickly see that you have no problems. We have 100 and some people here on the workshop. We've got our mystery school going on, all our mystery school participants, some 11 are in Mexico. We have a global audience and we're here really to say yes to Jesus to be used as miracle workers. The second one I'd like to share is miracle principle number 15. He says, the level adjustment power of the miracle induces the right perception for healing. I'll say that sentence again. The level adjustment power of the miracle induces the right perception for healing. Until this has occurred, healing cannot be understood. Forgiveness is an empty gesture unless it entails correction. Without this, it is essentially judgmental rather than healing. So what does he mean by the level adjustment power of the miracle? Well, as I've said many times over these 36 years, that only the mind is causative. What does that mean? It means the mind is very powerful, but the mind is the source from which causation comes. Ultimately, God is the cause and Christ is the effect of the Creator. That God created Christ as a perfect idea, not a man or a woman, but Jesus was a symbol of that Christ. But Christ, God created Christ, a perfect idea in the mind of God. So God is the cause and Christ is the effect. And we're talking about this is all within the mind of God and the mind of Christ. So the mind is the only Creator. The body cannot create. I know in this world, people call it procreation where you say, well, bodies can have children and people say, well, bodies can get sick.  But Jesus says these are two errors in the mind. And the two errors in the mind are that the mind can miscreate in the body or that the body can miscreate in the mind. The first one, you pretty much understand the idea that my mind can give my body cancer is an error because the mind cannot miscreate in the body. And what's an example of the body miscreating in the mind is when you, let's say you have a migraine headache and you say, my head is killing me. That's an example of the belief that the body can miscreate in the mind.    You've never been a body. You've never been in a body. That's a misperception. That's just a misperception of time to believe that your identity is either a body or in a body. So those are two very important principles to keep in mind as we watch today's movie. Today's movie stars Bill Murray. It's called the man who knew too little. It is a comedy but before I leave these miracle principles behind, I know I just read number 11, the miracle abolishes the need for lower order concerns. And I know a lot of you are saying sentimentally, maybe sentimentally I can agree with Jesus, but that's not been my experience in time and space. Not at all. It seems like I've been struggling to survive as a body for many years. So what he's saying is the miracle abolishes the need for lower order concerns. You know, you may think, wow, that sounds good. It's like Susanna from Sweden was saying, I want to know the power of their mind. That sounds really good, but I want to know that as an actual experience. I don't want to have that as a theory. I want to know it as an actual experience. I want the actual direct experience of the power of my mind. So as usual, I was praying this morning and I was praying to Jesus, can you please give an example through me so people can relate to it so that when they go into this movie, they have an example from the parable of David that really is so powerful of an example, so powerful of a metaphor, a demonstration that they start to smile and they start to open to this experience in this movie. Because otherwise, the mind can say, oh, it's a comedy movie, but what does that have to do with me? You want to have the experience of this. So I prayed to Jesus and I said, is there anything that I can share from the parable of David that would give an example of you and the Holy Spirit rearranging time and space for the miracle? Because Lord knows I've been open and willing to be used for miracle work in my whole life, but especially these last 36 years. And I prayed and I thought of a miracle that I experienced a number of years ago and you had Kirsten and Jason and Lisa on last night and it really involves David and Lisa. So this is a David and Lisa parable, just like the TV show I Love Lucy was Lucy and Desi. This was Lisa and David getting swept away, totally hilariously by Jesus in the miracle. And the way it starts is I remember I hadn't seen Lisa for a while. She was up in Pennsylvania where she had her business, nursing staffing business, and in Mount Joy. This is the name of the town where Lisa had her business, Mount Joy. She was the CEO of a business in Mount Joy. And I hadn't seen her for a while and Jesus had me call her up and say, Lisa, I feel like we're supposed to go on a miracle adventure. And she said, oh yeah, okay, I'm open. It's pretty intense. She was going through a huge intensity at the time because her best friend in the whole world was suing her. And so that just shows how intense it can get. Her best friend, Bonnie, was suing her. And you may say, why would your best friend sue you? Well, both their sons, Bonnie's son and Lisa's son were in a car crash. And I think Polly was at the wheel. And Bonnie's son was really injured, extremely badly. It's a world we call it. And so here's her best friend saying, oh, by the way, there's a lawsuit.  I know this is extreme. This is how intense it gets when one best friend sues another best friend because their sons were in a crash together. So I remember it was a very intense time for Lisa. And I said, you know, well, why don't we just join in the miracle? And she said, yeah, I'm trying every day to follow Jesus here. But it's hard. It's really devastating. And I said, well, let's take a trip. Let's just take a little bit of an adventure trip together. Let's just take a trip. And then that'll take your mind off of it. Let's get into the miracles. We're here to spread the joy. We're here to bring joy to people to be happy. And she's like, yeah, yeah, I could do that. So I said, well, I'll arrange the trip. And you're in Pennsylvania, so you just have to drive down to Baltimore, Maryland, and I'll fly and I'll meet you at Baltimore, Maryland, and we'll fly from Baltimore and I'll arrange a trip. So I arranged a trip.  And so I arranged like maybe like a four or five day trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Phoenix, Arizona. Just as a little adventure, let's just go on an adventure together, two of us. I'll arrange the flight. I'll tell you which airport. Just meet me there. We'll hop on the plane. We'll go for four or five days and we'll have a miracle adventure. I'm used to doing these kinds of things too. This was not an outer pattern for me. So I hear somebody's hurting. I say, let's go on an adventure together and let's be happy together and come back into the joy. So anyway, my feeling was, I thought I'm just going to meet her in the Baltimore airport and get there early enough to so we can have a meal together, share a nice miracle meal, catch our flight to Phoenix, Arizona and enjoy a four or five day trip. So this is what I mean by Jesus says the miracle abolishes the need for lower order concerns. So this is what happens. I get to the Baltimore airport and and then Lisa, she's there. She's there. And I said, well, before we go have our meal, why don't we check in, check our luggage in and get our boarding passes and everything? She's like, great, great. I said, all I really want is just have a nice meal with you and enjoy our flight tonight because it was evening time. It was dark. So we both went up to the counter, the ticket counter, and we went to check in. We got our passports and identification out and everything like this. And the staff at the ticket counter, they looked at us like their faces turn white. And we said, what's what's the problem? What's going on? And they said, oh, we have terrible news for you. I said, what? He said, the crew, the flight attendants and the pilots, they just they didn't make it. They didn't show up. So we we have a plane, but we have no one to fly you. And I said, but it I just got here and I saw nothing in my phone or my watch. And now you're saying it's like a last minute cancellation. Yeah, the whole thing has been canceled at the last minute because the crew didn't show up. Now, I've flown a lot of flights in my life, but I've never got to the airport and to the ticket counter and had a cancellation right at the ticket counter. And they both they felt really bad. And Lisa and I just looked at each other. But I was in the miracle. I thought, oh, Jesus is playing around again. Here he goes arranging time and space. And now he's canceled. He's canceled my miracle adventure here. But I I have a feeling he's just having some fun. So I looked at Lisa and she just was blank. And I was blank. And I just like so we looked at the ticket people and they were like, so we all stood there just staring at each other. Because none of us knew what was happening. So this is not new for me. I was like, I was really clueless. But so was everyone else. Lisa was clueless. And so were the ticket people. So they looked at me and they just were like, finally, they said, what do you want to do? They asked me, they didn't tell me, they asked me, what do you want to do? And I just said, well, I plan to come here, meet my friend, Lisa, and have a have a nice dinner with her and fly to Phoenix tonight. They asked me, what do you want to do? That's that's what I wanted to do. I bought a ticket, I was ready to go have dinner. And Lisa said, I'm hungry.  You know, she's hungry, too. So they looked at us and they said, oh, well, we'll give you vouchers. They gave us vouchers for a meal, not just $5 vouchers, they gave us like $20 each vouchers to buy a meal. So we got like $40 worth of vouchers tonight. Oh, that's good. That's nice. We can have a nice meal. I said, what about the ticket? They said, well, there's no way our airline is flying to Phoenix tonight. What do you want? And we both looked at each other and I said, I still like to go to Arizona. And Lisa's like, yeah, me too. So they said, okay, they got somebody from their airlines with a credit card and they said, we'll walk you down to another airlines and we'll, with a credit card, buy you a ticket to Arizona on another airline.  That's the first I've never seen. This is like, this is how Jesus does his stuff. Only Jesus arranges time and space. You know, this is not human. So anyway, we, we walked down and I said, well, we've got plenty of time. Maybe we'll just see if they reschedule another flight for us and we have time to use our vouchers and have dinner and fly to Arizona. So he walked us down to the other airline and then he told the people, oh, we're so sorry, our flight crew didn't show up and these people want to go to Arizona. So we want to buy a ticket on your plane to go to Arizona. They said, what city? And we said, well, we were going to Phoenix. They said, we don't have a flight to Phoenix. We have a flight to Tucson. They said, okay, that's Arizona, right? That's Arizona. See, we didn't, we were not invested even in the city, even though I'd already booked a car and a hotel in Phoenix. I thought, oh, well, Jesus is just playing with us. We're just going to have some fun with this. So, so they booked us a flight from Baltimore to Tucson and we went, we had a beautiful meal. We used our vouchers. We went to go to the, we went to go to the new boarding gate with on the new airline to go to Tucson and we've got to the boarding gate. We're all sitting around and then on the PA system comes ladies and gentlemen, we're very sorry, but the flight to Tucson has been canceled because the plane is broke. And that's what they said on, on the speakers, the plane is broke. Well, Lisa and I burst into laughter and so did all the other passengers. The other passengers were like, did you hear what they just said on the PA? The plane is broke. People started texting their wives and husbands. The plane is broke. I got all the way. I'm in the waiting room to board the plane and they're telling us the plane is broke. And I was like, man, Jesus is just having so much fun. All we can do is laugh. So we just left hilariously for the next 10 minutes that the plane was broke. That's what they told us. The plane was broke. That all that these was broke. And then after 10 minutes, they said, please move down to gate such and such. We are, we are going to use another plane to fly you to Tucson. And so, okay. So all of us left all the way down to the next gate. People we never met, we were laughing. We were still laughing all the way down that the plane is broke.  That's, so we go down and sure enough, there's another plane and we board. So we get on the plane. And then off we are. Now we're traveling. We're flying for maybe over four hours from Baltimore to, to Tucson. So we're just having a happy flight. We had a great meal together. We're laughing. We're still laughing in the plane. The people around us are laughing. The plane is broke. Do you believe that? Whoever said that? I never heard that before. So we fly. We land. We land in Tucson and we're at the airport and I go to the Avis car rental place at the airport. And Lisa and I look and we say, you know, we actually were planning to go to Phoenix, Arizona. So we have a reservation for a car on your company in Phoenix. But we're here in Tucson. So we need to change our reservation to Tucson car. Avis car rental. But we didn't know it, but the guy at the car rental place was having a bad night. He was angry. He was so mad and we, he was shaking his head and he was throwing his arms around and we're trying to explain we have a reservation in Phoenix. But we're saying we have it here. It's the same company, but he's like, damn company.   He was just angry at Avis. He said, you know, Avis, the slogan for Avis is we try harder. And he said, that's not true. The slogan should be I am harder. My heart is harder by working for this company. I hate this company. So clearly we were sent by Jesus to bring a miracle to this guy at the car rental place in a city that we weren't even planning to go to. So we told him, no, it's not so bad. And we started laughing with him and joking with him. And before you know it, he was laughing in only like a minute. He was laughing too. He went from rage into he was laughing. He was still a little mad at the company, but he was laughing. He said, what kind of car did you have book? And I said, just an economy car. And he said, economy, I'm going to give you an upgrade.  I'm going to give you an upgrade. I said, we're going to give us a midsize. He said, no, no. I said, you're going to give us like a luxury car. And he's like, no, I'm giving you the top of the line. I'm giving you a town car. I'm giving you the biggest, most luxurious car that this company has, even though you paid for economy. I'm giving you a triple upgrade. So we were like, oh my God, we just got a free meal, a flight to Tucson. And now we're standing sharing the miracle and getting a triple upgrade at the Ava's car rental. So then the guy smiles after he books us into this car. Basically, he took us out to the lot. And the car that he had planned for us originally, there was an empty, an empty lot there. He's out there in the car lot with us with the key and there's no car.  Give me the, give me the best car, give me the town car now. I want the town car out here for these people.  It's basically now we're in a limo.  We're in the top class limo now. He says, there you go. I'm going to help load your luggage in there and everything. And then he said, where are you staying? And I said, well, I had a hotel as part of a package down in Phoenix. And, and he said, where, where are you staying now? Where are you going with this car? And I said, well, I'm going to have to search for a hotel. He said, oh no, you're not. He said, I am going to, I'm going to get a voucher from this company for a hotel. You're going to get a free hotel from this company too. He was fired up.  And we don't even know how to start it or drive it. I mean, there's so many buttons in there. I'm laughing when I get into it. I'm like, you know how to drive this Lisa? She's like, I'll navigate. She said, I've got the voucher. He's given us a voucher for a hotel. So I thought, well, what is Jesus God plan now? So we drive about two miles and we pull up to this. It looks like a palace. It's just lit up into the night sky. It's like the biggest motel, the grandest, most fancy hotel. It's just totally lit up. And we pull up with this town car and people see us. And it's, it's, it's by that time it's like, I don't know, it's it's late evening. So they, you have to buzz to get in because, you know, it's, it's past business hours. So we buzz the guy who runs the hotel comes and he opens the door. He says, it's very late. I said, yeah, we had a delay with the airport.  And I said, well, the guy gave me a voucher. And he said, oh, you got a voucher for a free room. I said, yeah, he gave me a voucher. So he said, okay, let me see. Oh, we're sorry that, that we don't have any more of those rooms available. I said, well, what have you got? He said, we'll get you, don't worry, we'll get you suited here. So he goes and he goes searching for a room. He says, well, we're pretty well booked. All we have left is at the top of the hotel with the balcony. It's the honeymoon suite. I'll have to book you into the honeymoon suite. And Lisa and I are like, you've got to be kidding. You've just got to be kidding. And we told him all the miracles that had happened of the whole day. And he said, hey, you guys are hot. You guys are so hot. We should go to a casino. I can take you to a casino right now. I'm going with you. I want to put some money. You guys are often some kind of zone because we just told him all the miracles. He wanted to take us late at night like at midnight or one to a casino that's opened all night to bet some money and have us throw the dice. We said, no, no. So we got up there and we went out to the balcony and the pool was lit. And we looked down and there's a beautiful swimming pool and it's all lit up even though it was one o'clock in the morning. And they were even willing to open the door and let us go past business hours to go swimming. I tell you this parable because if you say yes to Jesus, you have no idea how powerful the mind is and that time and space can be reorganized just so you can be happy and share your joy. It's like a fairy tale. It's very much like the fairy tales that we read all through our life. We thought, wow, wouldn't it be great if life was like a fairy tale? But actually, life has been like a fairy tale for me. It's been for the last 36 years. That's a parable from the list of parables. And that was one that really stuck in my mind. I said, I can share that one because, number one, we didn't have an agenda. It was a miracle trip. So we weren't concerned really when the flight got canceled. We weren't concerned so much about the city we were flying to because we were just going to be sharing the joy wherever we went. So even though the city, Tucson is a pretty good distance away from Phoenix. We didn't really care. We weren't going to see people. We were going to just shine the light. And then the Avis car rental guy and the hotel guy, it started us on a four to five-day trip which ended. I think we had that big town car. We drove over to New Mexico with it.   It was a cold morning. We had to go all the way up to Albuquerque to fly out of Albuquerque. And I put the luggage in this giant town car and it automatically locked. After I started the car and put the luggage in it and left the car, it automatically locked. So I had to go back to Lisa and I say, it's four in the morning, but our car is locked. And we both walked out and we looked at the car and we burst in the laughter. No kidding for like five minutes. Like, this is the funniest trip. Even on the last day, Jesus is just playing with us every little step of the way. We are laughing so hard like we've never laughed before. I mean, how can you not laugh? It's four in the morning. You're going to catch a flight that's like two hours away and your car locks up in the desert. I found the coat hanger. Get in with the coat hanger. But we laughed for no kidding for five minutes. Lisa, the tears were coming down her face when she found out she couldn't get in the car in a cold morning in the desert. We both were laughing so hard we couldn't stop from crying because it was so much out of our control. But this is the key thing. In the movie today I'm showing Bill Murray is really clueless. He's really good at being clueless. He plays Wallace Ritchie, an American who it's his birthday and his brother from England, James Ritchie, sends him some money for his birthday. And Wallace Ritchie, Wally's his nickname. Wally lives in Des Moines, Iowa and he works at Blockbuster Video. They used to be a video chain. He works at Blockbuster Video in Des Moines, Iowa and he decides to surprise his brother over in England who paid for the ticket, who gave him the money. Meanwhile he gets over there and he gets involved in an espionage plot that involves Russia and Great Britain to reignite the Cold War and to bring back war by planting a bomb in a Russian doll at a meeting between the British diplomats and the Russian diplomats. To have a bomb explode in the middle of this meeting is what he walks into. But his brother is already hosting a business meeting at his house and he doesn't want his brother Wally to mess up his business meeting. So he gets a ticket for Wally in what's called the Theater of Life. It's like improvisation theater where you pay money, you go there and then all the actors interact with you in like a spontaneous kind of improvisation in which you're like in a spy movie except when he goes to the phone booth to receive the call for his first interaction in the Theater of Life. This game that his brother paid for, this theater that his brother paid for, is a gift, birthday gift. He actually gets a call from somebody who believes that he's part of this plot to this espionage, this plot to start the Cold War all over again. So the Holy Spirit and Jesus are showing this movie to show you that there is a state of mind that you can be in. If you remember this is a dream.  Because in this movie, it seems like the characters around Bill Murray are trying to poison him.  They're trying to attack him. They're trying to arrest him. They're trying to torture him. They, what the world would say, this would be him stepping into a nightmare and yet his perspective is that it's just a theater. His perspective is all just entertainment. His perspective is this is a gift that his brother has got him, this kind of interactive gift and he's going to enjoy himself in this play acting. So his personality is thinking, wow, this is so cool. My brother got me a gift and I get to play along with the whole thing. Now, why is that important is because when you start to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you have to play along. You have to play along with the guidance. The ego may be shocked at some of the instructions you get from the Holy Spirit and yet you have to be willing to just listen and follow and to set aside your ego's objections and your ego's reactions. That's what faith is. It's the willingness to follow a guided plan that's designed just for you and all you have to do is be loyal to that guided plan. But the ego will try to sabotage that plan at every turn, try to tell you these are real concerns. These are real problems, real issues. And I read to you, for some of you that were with us yesterday, I read the first paragraph from lesson 135 in my defenselessness. If I defend myself, I am attacked with the name of it. And basically Jesus says, this is the folly of illusions. First, you make the illusion real, then you plan and take action to protect yourself. Having first made the illusion real. So this is the human condition is always reacting and responding to people, places and situations as if they're real people, real places, real situations. Yet this movie will show you that if you have the right frame of mind, you can sail through anything with Jesus and the Holy Spirit because you're actually not in danger. Your spirit is eternal and your spirit is never in danger. But when you identify with the ego and the body, that's where the danger starts. That's where the illusions start. And that's where the mind gets into all these defense mechanisms, health insurance, life insurance, medical insurance, protecting the body in many different ways. It takes a lot of energy and it's all part of the folly of the ego. Now I told you that parable with Lisa and I because when I first called Lisa, she was in a bit of distress about what was happening with her son and her best friend and her best friend's son. And this miracle adventure that Jesus took Lisa and I on was a direct answer from Jesus to that stress, to that conflict. He was just saying, no, no, turn your attention to me and I will lift you out of this perceived conflict. And in this movie, that's what's happening. We can see from the very beginning, Wally, he appreciates the gift that he has received from his brother in England. He decides to surprise his brother in England with a visit. And that's when the brother realizes, oh my God, I have a dinner meeting with important companies and people from different countries in Europe. I can't have Wally messing up my business meeting. So he gives another gift.  And that's when we get to experience the miracle of being taken care of, of being clueless, of being as our first one was being defenseless in every situation. Bill Murray is going to show us exactly how to do it. So enjoy the movie. I will come on and visit you as we go along during the movie. You are going to have a good laugh. And this you remember you're laughing at the ego because the ego has no power to hold you back when you trust and follow the guidance and direction. And notice how Bill Murray's character doesn't always remember, but he quickly remembers his lesson of the day, we'll call it his course of miracles lesson of the day, that this is a theater. This is not reality. This is a theater of a world. And we don't have to buy into the fear because the fear is not coming from the theater. It's just coming from the ego in our mind. So enjoy the movie. Happy Saturday. Let's have a great day. Love you.


As winter comes to an end and spring begins to make its appearance, mother cows begin to give birth. This is an exciting time for ranchers because calves are the lifeblood to their existence. In many areas of Wyoming at this time, calves can be seen frolicking with their moms. Cows typically are bred in June or July and with the nine month gestation period similar to humans, a March or April calf is born. To identify a cow in labor, a rancher might look for a characteristic kink in the tail, cows off by themselves or mucus excretions. Labor typically lasts less than an hour. Cows that experience longer labor may have complications due to a backwards calf or calf with deformities. In this case, the rancher may have to assist the cow or colovet to perform a caesarean section. Once the calf is born, the mama licks him clean. The calf should be up in nursing within 10 or 15 minutes. The first milk the calf drinks is called colostrum and contains extra nourishment that enables the calf to become strong and healthy. Many times the rancher will use a near tag to identify the calf and its mother, which is put in shortly after birth. With the good start, the calf will grow to no longer need its mom and be weaned after about 6 months. At this time, it's either sold or kept in the herd to start the next generation. From the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Mae Smith, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.


business model concept for an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial marketing में business model आब बढ़ा एवबवाद लोल प्लेगगगगग. कैसे business model देवलप होता है. ये भी एक business model है जोके figure 1.1 में दिखा गया है. तो अगर हम देखें तो left side पे जो manufacturer है और right side पे customer है. मनौड़क्स्टार जो है यु उ अरंदी कजी एग पुर्डक्सप्त के अपर खाम गर था, पुर्डक्त दवल्प कर ठा, और सल करने की खुशिछ कर ता उस पृद़क्क्तो, ठूई, वालू्ग च्रीआशिन आन दिलिएड़ी प्रोस्स. सक्राजान काका जाले यखौःट्स के आपना से थी आपना यखुःगता। यखु बार बार एकस्टिएज़ी नीज यखौगता याँटिखुनागा उपन रहा है। येगु परा کढ़्विग क्या तो न वार्गा � advantage. और अगर ये उसकी अप्स्मेंस कामियाव रहता है, तो ये अपना अप्स्मेंस बार बार करता है और ये ये जो बार बार उसकी की अस्मेर यार अप्स्मेर लोयलाती लोओडी, और जब भिस्मेस इस काश्बिल होता है, तो अप्स्मेर is that when business is capable is to develop customer loyalty अर लोयल कुस्टमर्स की एक बेस मनाले तो तरे इन्चुर्स तब ष्तेन्बल, सेल्ज, आन प्रफ्विट्स तु दा पड्युसर आईएस को अट्री टईल से दिखतें As we have seen in the business model, on the left side we see the value creation by the producer and delivery system of the producer. On the right hand side, we see the customer's consumption system. It involves prospective customers recognising the value put forward by the startup and their willingness to pay for this value. If these two parts are in balance, i.e., production of value and expectation regarding the value, they will stimulate continuous production and consumption. If both are in full expectation, the producer will continue to produce and the startup will be converted into the business and the products or services will continue to be provided. And the customers will continue to buy them and the buying and selling will be its sustainability. The third process highlighted is the value exchange at the bottom of the figure. It includes the negotiation between the entrepreneur and prospective customers and actual exchange. Negotiation means the price which you are offering and which the customer is ready to pay. So, the role of marketing and sales is to align these two core processes and facilitate the third process of exchange in both the short and long run. The main purpose of entrepreneurial marketing is to facilitate the core processes on the left and the right, i.e., value creation and distribution. And the customer satisfaction of the wants and needs by the customer, by the producer or the startup or by the entrepreneur. And the exchange process which you have provided may satisfy the customer but it is not willing to pay or it has very little amount of willing to pay. So, the facilitation is that the marketer will convince the entrepreneur to reduce the cost or profit and the price should be according to the customer so that the exchange is developed on a continuous basis.


Hey, John Crestani here. Online marketer and tech entrepreneur. I'm going to be going over basic data analysis. I'll be talking about what data analysis is, why it's useful and exactly how does it make you money. Now, I got started. My first job was doing marketing and data analysis was the main thing I did in my job. I'm going to be talking to you about how I've been able to take my data analysis skills and make millions of dollars. And if you are following my channel because you do affiliate marketing, understand that data analysis is one of the 2 core skills of affiliate marketing. Understanding how to analyze data is so quintessential for doing anything on the internet and doing anything on a large scale. So, let's get into it. I have a lot of exciting examples to go over in this video of real data analysis case studies to help illustrate to you how everything works. So, let's get into it. Let's get it. Hey, class. We're going to do data analysis 101 today. But seriously, I'm going to be talking about what it is, why it's useful and how data analysis makes you money. So, first off, what is data analysis? Data analysis is being able to look at the data from an experiment, from an ad test, from a business and be able to say what is working, what is not working. Now, in this example, we see 2 different versions of a web page. First off, can you notice what is different about this web page? This is a split test Wikipedia did. And what we'll see is let's bring up red right here. The only difference is actually this button. Now, most people would think that this won't have a very big effect, okay? Changing the color of the button won't have a big effect on how the page works. But in fact, if we look at things, we see that there is a 20% difference in the effectiveness of both of these pages to get people clicking on this button. 20%. Now, to be able to collect this data, to be able to analyze this data, we can obviously tell that this is a winner, this version is a winner and this version is not a winner. That is the most simplistic version of data analysis you can be. You have a split test. This is version A, this is version B. And you see that A doesn't work as good as B. That's data analysis. And furthermore, data analysis is hypothesizing. It's not just looking at the data and making decisions, okay? This is a decision. We're just going to stop having blue buttons and we're going to start having green buttons. But data analysis is also hypothesizing why does this work better? Why does a green button work better than a blue button? Hmm, I don't know. I seriously don't know. But my guess is maybe this little arrow had something to do with it. So, I would probably do another split test and I'd say, well, maybe we get rid of this arrow for the next version and we see if it still performs as good. Maybe the arrow did it. Who knows? But that's data analysis. Looking at things and making decisions. But John, why is this useful? Like you know, button colors and like figuring out like ideas about why the button work better. Like why is that useful information to me? So, the reason why this is useful information is actually because if you notice 20% more people signed up using this button to donate to Wikipedia, that means 20% more donations, okay? Wikipedia just by changing the color of their button received 20% more money. Now, if you could receive $100 or if you could receive $120 simply by changing a color on a button. Imagine how many more gains you could do about changing the headline instead of saying discover Wikipedia. Maybe there's a better way of phrasing that. Maybe there's better writing that can go on right here. Maybe there's a better interface up here. You stack these gains. First off, who would say no to 20% more money for the same cost? And the second off, you can do a lot more with all the different parts of this web page. So, that's why data analysis is useful. Is you're able to mathematically figure out what works best in marketing. You don't actually need any skills other than split testing all the elements on a page to figure out what's the best headline, what's the best color for a button, what's the best thing to write here, what's the best menu or symbol to use on your web page. If you just get good at testing and data analysis, you can figure things out very quickly about how to market. I was always good with math and I did a lot of data analysis. I did a number of statistics classes in college frankly because I failed statistics twice. I think I got lazy. But taking statistics 3 times really ingrained data analysis in my brain and it allowed me to get good at it. I mean this isn't very complicated, right? It's just 2 numbers but allowed me to think that way. And by being able to look at numbers and figure out what I needed to do advertising wise has allowed me to make a lot more money. Now, we can summarize data analysis by this as well. Here's another way we can think about data analysis is most normal companies when they start advertising, they lose money.  Most people don't make money on their first go around, right?  So, right here we see, you know, this is red. This means you're losing money. Most businesses start out that way. If you can't figure out what parts of your business people like or the product you're selling, if you never do analysis on what parts of the people or your messaging or your marketing or selling people like. And if you can't differentiate that from what parts of your business or your product or selling or your marketing people don't like, then what will continue to happen is you will just continue to lose money year over year over year. And these would all be red until you end up going out of business, okay? Or until you start complaining and say, nothing works. You can't start a business anymore, right? With data analysis, you can figure out what part of your marketing message works better. What do people respond to the most on a web page? What part of your sales pitch? If you're doing sales, do people like the most? What audiences interact with you the most? And you can start taking that loss of money into a game to where you start making real money. That's how you make money with it. And here's an example. Now, here's an example of 2 ads that were on Facebook. So, one ad has pictures of dresses without people wearing them and it says cute dress up to 70% off. Here's another ad that actually has individuals wearing their dresses. And it says cute outfit up to 50% off.  But a smart marketer who knows data analysis will look at these ads and they'll say, okay, this ad got a 2% conversion rate. Whereas maybe this ad got a 3% conversion rate. And a smart marketer would end up getting rid of the ad that didn't work and only work with the ad that did work right here. And continually do that every single day until they created an ad that is better. Not as only the best ad for their business but is the best ad in their industry and become more competitive. You can use data to become a better company. To sell a better product to figure out what people want more. Now, another example is what I just showed you right here which is with the Wikipedia example where they were testing out 2 different buttons. Once again, you test out your ads first and optimize. Get rid of the bad stuff and go with the good stuff. And you can do that with your web pages as well. And this is what I teach in my 6-week course called the super affiliate system. We have tons of successful students making their first sales online. Check it out. Hello. My name is Marlos Vastri and I've just made my first commission online with InternetJetSet. Hi everyone, it's Jake Groves. Today I want to talk about InternetJetSet which John Crestani's affiliate marketing course. I actually got my first affiliate commission in the first two hours of doing the course as he promised purely because he makes you take action. Hello. I'm calling from Norway. I just want to thank you. I just had my first sale. I actually didn't think it was possible. So I'm pretty happy. Now, in my 6-week course, I teach them to optimize ads, to write better ads and also to optimize their web pages and create better web pages. So that really you just keep getting better. You keep improving your messaging, you keep improving your marketing until the point where you get profitable and you start making that serious money. So, you see a 20% increase here and you keep doing this every week. You just become invincible. So that is data analysis. That's how you use data analysis to make money. That's why it's useful and it's basic concepts. It's basic math. You don't need to know algebra. You don't need to know calculus, trigonometry, geometry. Any of that to do data analysis. What you simply need to know is what to test and what numbers to look in. Now, if you want more information on data analysis, I suggest you sign up for my training course. I don't go over data analysis much on YouTube. But if you'd like to learn more about affiliate marketing, you can check out one of my other videos where I talk about affiliate marketing and what are the best affiliate networks to join to start earning commissions from doing marketing for other companies online. I also suggest you subscribe to my channel if you'd like to see more videos on marketing concepts. My goal is to be the number one marketing teacher in the world. But I'd also like to hear from you. Who are other teachers you listen to on YouTube? If you could leave me a comment below and let me know. Are you listening to Beahezza? Are you listening to what's his name? 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How people buy into it and again, this this isn't just the left take an economic fallacy on the right The biggest economic fallacy on the right right now is The trade deficits matter, but they don't No serious economists things the trade deficits matter if Trump's problem with China was Intellectual property we can get to that in a minute, but let's put aside intellectual property Let's say Trump's problem with China is human rights What they're doing in Hong Kong? They're okay. I can understand taking an economic hit In order to fight for something you believe in all right if it was intellectual property, I mean One of my favorite economists John Cochran has this thing on intellectual property So imagine imagine that You know, it's What China's what's happening with China is that they are in a sense expropriating half a Trillion dollars as let's say 500 billion dollars of Intellectual property that sounds like a too large of a number given the trade. Let's say it's let's say it's let's say it's 200 billion dollars a year. They're expropriating in intellectual property Let's say the what we cut a deal with them is that they give us they hand us cash of 200 billion dollars a year in a sense royalties on The intellectual property that they have been taking right was selling them an intellectual property for 200 billion dollars a year So let's say we got 200 billion dollars here from them How would they get the 200 billion dollars to give to us? Right to an extra 200 billion dollars in dollars that they don't have they don't get a print dollars They actually have to get dollars. How would they get that? Well, they would get it by investing in more factories Produce more stuff to export to us So that they could get the dollars so they could give us the dollars back in the form of royalty payments in Other words the only way for them to pay us the royalties is is By increasing the trade deficit Or let's do it another way Let's say instead of them giving us a royalty on all the IP that they have stolen Let's say they don't steal it and let's say the consequence of that is American companies in China now have 200 and billion dollars more a profit because They were until that your property wasn't stolen from them, right? What are they gonna do with that 200 billion dollars? They're gonna invest it maybe in Chinese factories to buy more American to sell America more stuff and increase the trade deficit or They're gonna send the money home. Let's say the money. Let's say it 200 billion actually is in the United States It's not even in China. It's in the US already, right? The companies just get to keep 200 billion dollars more in the United States What are we gonna do that 200 billion dollars? Primarily, well ultimately we're gonna use it to buy more Chinese stuff I mean, what's the point of having money if you don't go out and buy? stuff and Who makes the cheapest and best stuff? China, Korea, Japan Germany Some stuff in America, but only some The bigger our economy gets the richer we become the more stuff we're gonna buy. There's no There's no issue of a trade deficit trade deficits matter Zero nada not Not with China not with anybody So the idea that trade deficits matter Is an anti-economic concept and I'm not even talking about the moral aspect I've talked about the fact that as an individualist, it's just none of the government's business who I buy my stuff from None of their business if I want to buy Chinese stuff, why is it a government's business? Why is the government deciding how much Chinese versus German versus Mexican versus American stuff? I buy as an individual isn't it just my business, but from purely economic perspective It's just the whole thing doesn't make any sense as I've often described. I have a huge Trade deficit with a grocery store. I Go to grocery store. I buy stuff. I leave my dollars there They never hire me to give talks at the grocery store. They never hire me. I mean, I feel horrible So trade deficits Don't matter They just don't and there's no So there's no benefit To using tariffs on China I don't know if you saw the deal the deal over the weekend the deal the trump cut phase one of the deal phase one of the deal is Instead of Washington Subsidizing farmers we're gonna get the Chinese American farmers. We're gonna get the Chinese to subsidize American farmers They have supposedly committed to although they have denied it now They're supposed to commit it to buying I don't know 50 billion dollars more of of agricultural goods from the United States Now, why is that good? Why is that good? I mean one is The best use of American capital now to invest in more machinery Buy more land cultivate more land to produce food for the Chinese When they could just as well buy that food from Brazil or from Argentina over somewhere else if Argentina ever opened up their economy enough Why is it? Why doesn't make sense for America to invest in? Farmland because of some artificial Demand coming from China because Trump twisted their arm to do it What benefit does it give America? Yeah? I mean some farmers are gonna get rich, but from an economic perspective. It's Completely wasteful. It makes no sense The only thing that makes sense is that the Chinese to buy what they want to buy however much they want to buy it ideally They lower tariffs to zero, but that's not the issue Good Trump didn't get a concession where they lower tariffs He just got a concession where they committed to buying X amount of stuff from American farmers But that's just another distortion to the American economy it's another External distortion that's gonna create You know massive investment into farming and it's not clear that that investment words It's clear that that investment is completely unjustified given, you know Food production in the world and demand for food in the world. This is completely artificial But that's the kind of Complete economic nonsense Complete doesn't make any sense that you're not gonna hear anyway. Nobody says it Nobody goes on television talking about this the pundits don't talk about it Suddenly the politicians don't talk about it. No neither left nor the right because none of them believe in actual economics None of them know actual economics and none of them believe in actual economics They just do what they think you want to hear which is look. I just created lots of farm jobs I just created gazillions of profits for our farmers our farmers. I don't have farmers. Do you have farmers? Anybody have farmers American farmers who cares? Who cares what happens to American farmers versus Brazilian farmers? What defenses it make doesn't make any difference to my life as long as there's food in the grocery store I don't care where it comes from If farming becomes less profitable than that capital deployed elsewhere and that labor will be deployed elsewhere And people will produce something else and build something else and make something else and create something else so They lie about this stuff all the time and the challenge with that is it's very hard to tell when they're doing it Because they do with confidence and they do it with graphs Let me get rid of the graph. We don't really need to graph on the screen They do it with statistics They do it with people who look like their experts and Who come on television and have PhDs?  Why do we believe politicians? Why do we believe politicians? Yeah, Luis says where they're gonna get the 50 billion to buy to buy our You know farm stuff. Well by Selling us more stuff So trade deficits not gonna shrink and the trade deficit it hasn't shrunk with all the tariffs and everything the trade deficit Hasn't shrunk and I've explained the mechanism why it doesn't shrink because the value of the dollar goes up because the Chinese still want dollars in order to either to buy the 50 billion or primarily to invest, you know In the United States. They need dollars. They buy them in the art market driving the value the value of the dollar up So one way or another which makes it cheap of us to buy Chinese goods, right? And if we buy more when the deficit doesn't change the dollar amount of the deficit just seems unbelievably stable Because it's not and tariffs don't matter that much to those kind of things What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist Using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show many of you step forward and actually Supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. 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Well, out of the three sticking points that I had talked about before the conference, two has been solved. So we now have a decision on safeguards and a decision on MRV on national reference level. So pretty good decisions I think, obviously not perfect, but I think pretty good decisions that move us forward to implementation of red at the national level, which is really what this is all about. I mean, politically red was accepted in Cancun. We're now trying to move it forward to implement it. And so with safeguards, information system, and with reference levels, we're moving that forward. The final piece, which is still being negotiated in these last few hours, the final pieces of the final agreement on that is on red plus finance for what's called a third phase when results-based actions are going to be paid for. Well, when emissions have actually been reduced because of interventions in a red plus strategy of a country. So we're trying to figure out who will pay for that, how do we pay it for, what are the modalities, what are the role of markets in paying for these reductions in the future. And we're not there. And I'm chairing that this last piece, this set of negotiations, and it's been tough. I mean, the whole week we have been meeting three, six, sometimes nine hours in a day, sometimes up to two in the morning, including last night up to midnight. And we have systematically reduced our disagreements and we're now down literally to one foot note. Can you talk about what is mentioned in that? Well, it's about what's called MRV systems, measurement reporting and verification systems, whether they have to be national or sub-national. And how do you refer to that in an agreement like what we're doing in Durban? Some countries, very few, want to have what's called sub-national systems. While most of us, actually including me, think that MRV systems have to be national. So there's this debate and we need to put a foot note, very carefully written foot note to try to reconcile the two positions. I actually disagree. I didn't chair that, but I negotiated for the Philippines for the safeguards negotiation. And I think it's not true that the safeguards were the lieuten. Certainly, I would have wanted stronger guidance on what's called the information system for safeguards. And we only got something moderately good. But not bad. I don't think it's bad. I don't think it's perfect. But the enemy of the good is the perfect in this negotiation. So I think it's very important to live with what you can achieve, with the most that you can achieve, and pretty confident that's what we have in the safeguards and in the reference levels decisions. Country has their own interests. So Brazil has their interests. I respect them a lot for the consistency with which they have put forth their positions. They have been very flexible, moved a lot in these negotiations. And if in fact we get this agreement, I would congratulate Brazil for their flexibility. It's true for almost all the countries here, for all the countries for that matter. In a negotiation, people have to move from the original position to something more common. And that has happened. A facilitator like me is not the one that can force that. I can only facilitate that, make that happen to various exercises. And I think we're succeeding in doing that. I feel, I can taste it almost, but it'll take a few more hours to really see that happen. For Red Plus, with the finance piece in place hopefully by the end of this COP, we would be able to move forward to implementation. And we hope that this finance decision is supposed to send a signal to markets, to investors, to governments that Red Plus is a good way forward to managing and protecting our forests while protecting climate and benefiting people.


Did you get it? So, we are alive. Are we live? We're alive. Love it. Love it. I ran out of gloves, so I'm using the...  So I'm using... I don't know if you can hear me, but I was just using the... I don't think that... The subway special. It's live. Why? It says live. It might be on private. Oh, there's one person. Okay. We're live for real. And I was going to show you my handy-dandy stand mixer and how it works and et cetera. However, my resin is touching itself. Therefore, I only have a few minutes. Let's see what it looks like in the box. And you can see what a dirty one looks like. I really love this stand mixer because I can just like set it and forget it. I can just put everything in there and walk away and it just does what it needs to do, especially when there's like that reverse button. So the AI button that's on here, you set it and that will automatically mix it for three minutes, reversing every so often. That's new. Yeah, a little silicone. That is very not ideal. This is kind of heavy. That feels heavier. Stand looks bigger. I just, how did this not fall? Magic. He's popping all of my cups. It is heavy. Which I'm glad. It's a little more industrial-like. It's going to hold them closer to you so they can hear you. While he's unboxing this, I am mixing the resin. You got three. Oh, four. Wow. That's way more than, oh no, I think I had, I don't know. It was either two or three last time. I only know where one is. Pretty jazzy.  Oh, this one charges. This one, my first one, you had to put batteries in it. There's no chargey port. I'm going to show you how to do it. I also highly recommend wrapping it in some kind of saran wrap. So you don't have buttons that stick like mine. Yeah. Here, let's show you this stuff. I can show you guys things. Hello, Brenda in Florida. We love Florida. If you hold on just a second. The show will get a lot more exciting. You may have to just look for it later. We have a, like a saran wrap just for wrapping our everything. I think Jen sent us. It's just so that kind of put it loose so you can turn it off. Turn it on, but. What is that bottom? Oh, one way, the other way. And so it's on. Right on left and stop. It doesn't have the button anymore. So that makes me a little bit sad that you can't preset it for three minutes, but. Well, it's not the biggest deal. Well, I don't have time to see because I'm using quick coat. I'm going to turn it on. All right. You're just going to see if it goes for three minutes. Okay. I really liked that it had the reverse button on it. That, I mean, not the reverse button. You're, we're just going to need two more. That's done. The AI button where you could just push it and it'll go one way. It'll go one way. It'll go one way.  And then it'll just mix for three minutes. I don't have to time it. Either way with this one or the old one, you still have to scrape the sides of your bucket. Don't forget to do that. I'm just. Pre warning you because it's not going to scrape the sides on its own. So in order to get a complete mix, you still have to do that. So I am using the aluminum light quick coat today. I'm using it because I need to move fast. I don't want to fiddle with it too much today. I'm a little bit under the weather. So I am going to do a speedy run through this look. And this is actually kind of the inspiration for this look. I loved it so, so much. But I'm going to do with just a little bit more. I'm just going to do a little bit of the white. And less of the colors because I want it to be more of. A spearminty type of marble instead of a. That's a lot of spearmint. Okay. So I also just got a shipment in of. Something my resin arts. Oh, the brand that is I stoio. I don't. I don't know if you're interested in that brand name. I do have it linked down in the description box. It should be the first link down there. If you're interested in getting one ordering from our links to Amazon, really, really, really, really helps us out. So I hope you do.  Should be pretty big, pretty interesting. And so. So I'm going to add a little bit of orange. To make sure that it's not too red. And I'm going to add a little bit of a little bit of ash. So because I want to use less of the. Aquacolor and less gold. I'm just mixing a lesser. Cup size amount. Of those. So I'm going to do. Okay. It may. So I'm going to do. In these or in general. Well, And I don't have my new mixing cups here, so in order to get an even mix, so I didn't make it do. All right, so we're going to do, give up, we're going to do an opaque white. I'm going to do an opaque pearl. I would use just resin titanium for your white, and then I'm going to be using not on. Cool, cool, cool, cool. I thought I was going to use pearl, but we're going to do base cell whites. Nope, pop cell white. I'm going to do, not going to do an opaque top cell white. I'm going to do a slightly translucent top cell. Thanks for helping me mix, Mabee. And then I'm going to mix a milky way or shooting star. This is such a nice color. By color, I mean, it's an elegant, elegant glitter. Make sure you turn it off or you'll make you go crazy.  I'm also mixing up aqua marine. I'll show you all these colors up close in, this is supposed to be in a tiny cup. I didn't think that would work that well. Did it all come out? All of it. Science. What sticks are we using, Mab? We're using our, our sticks. Sorry, I'm trying to think of what I'm doing instead of explaining a bunch of stuff just right now because I'm using the Luma like quick coat, the amazing quick coat that has UV resistance in it, just like the art coat, but it also has not a long working time. So moving kind of quickly. So the colors I'm using are as your mist from resin art, which I just got in. Nope, not as your mist. It is aqua marine by resin art, which I just got more in stock. I'm using interference oyster, which I just got more in stock. I'm using milkyway slash shooting star, which I just got more in stock from color passion. And I'm going to be using, I know, I know it's getting warm. So still trying to move fast. Old gold is the other color I'm using also from color passion. If you have paper hanging on top of your table, you sometimes put it down on the sides. Do a little crease right here so you can see the edge of your table so you're not putting it on the fold down, the fold down. Yeah, I'll give you an up close of the colors in just just a moment. So I'm going to start with just some of the clear. Not much. I'm just trying to skim the surface a bit, grease the pan as it were. Don't push down on that number. Yep. It doesn't take much. Just spray painted a piece white. That's what you're seeing down there. She just needed just a. I needed something to pour my resin on. And so this is an old piece that I've had for a while. It wasn't moving. It looks like she's used it a couple times for. I have. I've used it a few times. Samples. Yeah, do what you have to do and you don't have a stir stick in there. Okay, so I'm just greasing the board. I'm just putting a real thin skim coat. I'm only doing a thin skim coat because if you put too much resin down, then it's just going to want to roll right off your piece because it's going to self level at an eighth inch just on its own. That's just what resin does. And just like water, once that surface tension on the edge gets broken and things start to flow, it's all going to flow. So we don't want to put too much on the surface. Meow. I'm going to start with the Milky Way. Okay. I love Milky Way. It's such a beautiful multicolor looking, I guess, interference, but also I mean glitter, but it's also such a fine particle that it doesn't feel like a glitter. It's like an elegant background glitter. I know that seems counterintuitive, but it is what it is. This next color I'm using is Interference Oyster. It is a beautiful, pearly... I would mix up just a little bit more. I'll mix it up. I'll mix it. I thought you meant put more in it. So I put this in to an opaque consistency. Maybe not. Consistency is not the right word, but an opaque finish, sheen, I don't know. Looks like a mother pearl. It's very similar to a mother pearl, but it doesn't have the... I don't know how to say what I'm thinking right now. Just going to put some breaks of white through there. Meow. I'm going to try not to spill everything while I mix up just a little bit more of the Milky Way.  So I'm just going to put my Milky Way, some of my white swizzle of gold. Swizzle. This sticks too big for that hole. You know what I mean? Well, you can already see the gold flecks floating up more of the white. My goodness. Things are too sticky for these gloves to be this large. First world, I know. And I'm just layering big needs more pigment. I always overload my powders, which includes dry paste. So this one is called Aqua Marine. Love it. It's a little bit of a darker Aqua than the spearmint that I used on the last one, but I really love the purpley-bluey interference of it. We'll see how well it works with my ideal. So I just did one swizzle of the gold and one swizzle of the Aqua Marine. It's a unit of measure. I can't help it that I don't know regular terms of measurement. And then I'm topping it off with the rest of my everything else that I have. So you give it a swirl for good measure. It looks like a marble because it's got so much clear in there. So now that I have my general flow of everything, oh, I didn't put my opaque white in there. I'm going to not go down the middle.  And see that squiggle right there? That's from hesitation. I kind of stopped to see where I was going. And that's what happens. If you have a consistent like speed that you pour out, then you won't have those little swizzles or just hesitation lines like that. I really try hard not to put like a big river of color down the center of my pieces. Because that can be distracting. So I put the thicker rivers on the outside. TG, it is definitely science. I'm just putting some of my opaque lines in because I'm about to tilt it. And these opaque white lines are going to travel really nicely over everything else and give a lot of really nice depth. And the same with the gold, but I'm going to have to move really quick with the gold because I want it to be a thinner line and this gold will take over. Yes, that was me amping myself up. It's okay if it kind of breaks in some areas. This is supposed to be like a natural looking stone and nothing in nature or nature, however you want to say, is perfect. Oh, I don't know that was over there. So the green that's on there, the aquamarine and this application, I guess because of the gold color theory, it looks kind of Malachi tea. Right now I'm just popping the bubbles. And now for one of my favorite dance moves, the tilt. I've given the white time to kind of sink. So now when I'm tilting, our lines are going to kind of roll over itself. You tilt it down this way because of this. It's kind of rainbowing right there. So I'm tilting and stretching it that way a bit. And I always use my heat to kind of further help my resin along. I have to switch gloves real quick. This is my last gloves till tomorrow. So because I used a floating gold that floats and flex in my dirty pour, that's why these little dots are populating like this. And some people may not like that look. Some people may. I don't mind it because there's little flecks of color in natural stone. Additionally, because I had an underpainting here, you can see kind of depth of tone in different areas. Like this area looks a little pinky. And honestly, I'm not mad about that.  I'm not mad at that. So now that I have everything stretched and rolled and shaped a little bit, I am letting it relax for another couple seconds. And I'm going to shift everything back towards the other corner. Okay, are you like swizzle? I think it's very appropriate. E-science. All right. So I'm going to shift everything back down this way. I'm going to give you a refresher of what colors I'm using. And we'll take it from there and see if we need to do anything else. In my head, I want to add some lines of the aquamarine. But also, I know I shouldn't do it because it'll be too stark of a contrast. I'm just letting you guys in on my little mental dilemma. There is a little bit of texture in this piece because I didn't sand it before I started pouring today. I was going to tilt all that down that way. But I'm aborting that mission because if I do that, then there's just going to be a part in the middle of not color. See what I mean? Like this is kind of two thirds in and then this is the other. So I'm just going to tilt it back because composition says you shouldn't have anything directly in the center. And I trust composition. There is because I didn't sand it. But I'm not mad at any of it. Should I add another gold line or is it going to be distracting? Because it's like pretty line, pretty line, broken, broken. I'm thinking about just edging up this one. I can't do anything about that. Your cat is watching Caddyshack. At least your cat has good taste in movies. So whatever I do, I'm not going down the center. But then I can always tilt it around and change it if I need to. Yeah? Yeah. Nope. And then we'll do gold. I'm just following along the lines that I've already established with the pour. And then as this resin just settles and relaxes on its own, it'll start to do its own little magic because we're using so many different kinds of pigment between the paste and the top cell and the base cell and all the cell cell. It's going to do a bunch of different things. And then if we don't like it by the end of it, we'll just put some alcohol on it and see what happens. I'm actually going to put some white as well. And then when we start to manipulate it around, it'll just roll it. Oh, it's getting gummy. That's the last white. I'm going to be able to start doing that. Don't try to use it. Don't force it. So the amazing quick coat, it sets up amazingly fast, which is great for tumblers, maybe flood coats. It's just not going to shift that much more no matter how much heat I put on it. Anytime people ask us to do countertop, we always tell them we don't do basic countertops. Not that anybody's countertop is basic. Moon Moon Fuego. Well, I really like these colors together. I wish I had more time to work on it, but also Jeff gave me strict orders that I can't do a long live because I need to relax and feel better. So I am not mad at it at all. Do you guys think those flex of gold are distracting that are through it, like those in there? Or do you think it kind of enhances the piece and gives it kind of an air of naturality? That's not a word, naturality. Can we make it a word? Can I just go in the like, Rolodex of, I made that up because it sounded good. I super, super love the interference oyster as well, like this big patch of pearl right here. Oh, I'm getting stung. Love the flex, same z's. Do you guys have any questions for me? Anything you need answered about resin, about this finish, about anything you've seen me do lately? Now's your time. Not distracting. Well, thank you so much, Angie. I appreciate all you guys watching and seeing what I've created today. Tudor says, flex of gold are interrupting my double cheeseburger and curly fries with a side of diet coke. Well, at least you had diet coke. Well, thank you so much, Rose. I appreciate your suggestions and everyone else's. Cheryl, I completely agree. If you guys like what you see here, please consider subscribing to our channel. It really helps us out. Leave me a comment after the video posts. It shows YouTube that you like what you watch and it just super helps our channel. The colors again that I used are the gold is color passion old gold. The aqua greeny color is aqua marine from resin arts. The white is top cell white from color passion. The sparkly that's in it, you can see it here and here is shooting star or milky way from resin art. Oh, there's a patch over there. And then the interference oyster. We can do floors. We can do floors. We would bring in some of our associates to help us with that, including the people that came up with the formula for the flooring system that we use. Thank you tutor for reminding people to leave me your thumbs and you can get all the colors that I mentioned. The color passion top cell white, old gold and the resin arts aqua marine interference oyster and shooting start says is your miss because I ran out of I lost the cap to them. And then the just resin titanium white. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through. And always remember we do the tests. So you don't have to. We'll see you guys tomorrow at two p.m. Central. No, we won't. I got Aaron's to run tomorrow. It'll probably be an early early. It probably be a full a.m. live. We have a lot of stuff going on tomorrow as we get ready for the holiday. Oh, we have a sale on our website now through Thursday, pre Black Friday sale.  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