Hey, it's Bridget, welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope today. You can thank a viewer, his name is David, for the inspiration for this particular video. I got a lovely email from David. Now, David's been a viewer of Above Life Channel for some time. You know, we've been here almost for three years now as I'm recording this in February of 2021. And I recognized his name when he sent me the email. So I wanted to share this with you because you guys have no idea how incredible this divine timing was. This email arrived to me on a day when I was really feeling really kind of down, really low and really questioning, what am I doing here? Like what is the purpose here? Have I lost sight of the purpose for the work that I do and the meaning that I do that I can share? You know, the change I can make for people, the inspiration I can share. Is Above Life Channel really the place where I should be channeling my inspiration or as fairy grasshopper or what does that look like? And so I was really questioning and I have been for some time. And when I got this, it just really affirmed to me so much how much this channel actually means to so many of you and it gave me a boost of inspiration. And David also actually asks a question and so I'm gonna respond to that question here and it's a question about religion and being psychic. So some of you can very, very much relate to this. All right, so I did ask permission from David to share his email. So I'm just gonna share parts of it, not the whole thing because I don't wanna share all the details of his life, et cetera.  Enjoy the Above Life Channel videos and also fairy grasshopper. So thank you for watching both, I appreciate that. David shares that I was diagnosed with metabolic bowel and liver cancer. Presently I'm on a palliative care pathway. Doctors aren't sure how much long I've got left. It could be months or years. No one really knows. I was able to watch as much TV as I wanted after having been diagnosed with cancer as I'm no longer able to work. So he's talking about how he's been using Above Life Channel to help keep him inspired. And then he talks about his psychic experiences. So I want to share this part with you. So number one, thank you, David, for being the inspiration behind this video, this question and question answer response video and for giving me the inspiration to want to film a video, okay? So you gave me inspiration, so I'm returning that. So it's a give and receive and lovely balance. So thank you. So everybody, pay attention to this part now, all right? From about the age of nine or 10, I've seen things visually both tangible and in my mind's eye. I simply went with it as I matured and I found that I was able to communicate with the departed. This becomes a little too much after I nearly died having a large sarcoma growing in my small bowel and more recently spending six weeks in intensive care fighting for the fight of my life, developing a real bad case of the current virus. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I type this email and I have a spirit trying to reach out to me. How do I stop this? I've gotten, I've got to concentrate on my health and getting better.  So how do you switch off your communication or connection with spirit? If you're a very extreme, a super extremely psychic, especially right now, this is really common with those who are clarsentient or empathic. If you're empathic, you're empathic feelings, maybe on sky high, just red alert, super hot at the surface, hard on your sleeve, but in a really like just forceful kind of push, push, just sway. Is that a good description? I'm so eloquent and very articulate today. And that's totally normal, whatever normal is for now. It's that everyone's psychic ability, psychicness is super enhanced right now. And I feel like it's because we're collectively experiencing moving through a time that it's unprecedented and that there is common grid of suffering. There's a common web of connection that has to do with suffering. It's suffering and it's other times in history might come forward, other experiences you've had in past lives could come forward just to and mix in with all these emotions. And then this empathy, empathy, empathy, this energy feels overwhelming. Not just like it used to feel overwhelming, it feels almost overpowering. So let's remind everyone that you have power. You are at choice, you are always at choice. It feels like you're not at choice, but not be feeling at choice, that's a choice as well. Being reminded of where your tiny little bit of wiggle room is, where your tiny little bit of inspiration is and receiving it and using it and harnessing it in ways that are positive, helpful and hopeful, positive, helpful and hopeful. And so in the most common way right now we're feeling empathically. Everybody's emotions are heightened. Everything on the earth is amplified. And because of that, it's happening for a purpose or reason to be able to be clear. You gotta be clear. You have a choice to make, you have a decision to make. There's clarity here. There's the opportunity. I don't want this. Well, that's really a strong decision. I don't want this. So I'm gonna look for other opportunities. Again, things that are positive, healthy, helpful, hopeful for you. Those are the kinds of things that you want to have clarity on, right? The things that are feeling good for you or help you feel better, help you feel uplifted, help you feel more inspired and empowered. Not like you're less than, you're not good enough. You don't have what it takes because clearly you're overwhelmed with emotions. Well, you should be overwhelmed with emotions. It means you care. Congratulations, you're actually a person that has a heart. Oh my goodness. And all these years when you built these shields and protective walls around your heart, guess what? Right here right now is an opportunity to build healthy boundaries, not a shield where you totally detach, but healthy boundaries where you can connect and be connected in healthy ways.  You have the connection and the attachments and the opportunity to know that, to channel your wisdom, to channel the spirit of you. Whether the spirit is in a body or not is irrelevant when it comes to psychic connection. So feeling like other spirits are just bothering you or are coming into your space and wanting your attention, it's because a part of you has called them in. They don't just randomly show up not that often, maybe 5% of the time, maybe 4% of the time, like we're talking a little bit of time. They would just randomly show up. Usually there's a pre-agreed to interconnection or a pre-agreed to or request that you've made, whether you know it or not, consciously, you've made a request. You've asked for help. You've probably asked in prayer, in meditation, in your dream state, in your journal, in a random conversation you had with that doctor, maybe, you asked for some help and here comes help. They're responding to your request, whether you're conscious of it or not. It's not just like they randomly show up. Again, I want to be really clear on that. It feels like that, but that's not the case more often than not, like 96% of the time. That is not what happens. That is not, it just isn't. I have been working as a psychic and medium, specifically medium, working with the afterlife for what, 17 years now? Yeah, and prior to that I've had paranormal experiences with disembodied spirits, with ghosts growing up from the age of like four on. So I think I'm pretty well versed in a lot of stuff, scary stuff, spooky stuff, connected to stuff that I know of, connected to stuff I have no idea what it is, that kind of, you name it. I've been a clear, I've been a healer, I've facilitated healing, facilitated clearing, I should say that. And so let's just be honest. Identify this energy, this feeling of the spirits bothering me because you've asked for help, so you need to receive it if it feels annoying or if it feels like it comes at an opportune times, you can set boundaries, healthy boundaries on when you want to receive information, communication. I do it, I do it all the time. Sometimes I inadvertently ask for a spirit to come when I'm like, I think about something and I'm like, oh, I should talk to so-and-so, I should talk to Prince, I should talk to Freddie Mercury and all of a sudden I see their image of them like responding to me, like coming right into the kitchen. Usually it's when I'm doing mundane tasks like making dinner, for example, and boom, they're there. Or if I hear a song, like I'm playing it on the Bluetooth speaker, you know, in the kitchen and I hear a song and all of a sudden I think about that person and think, oh, have I channeled them? Oh, maybe I haven't, maybe I should. And then all of a sudden, boom, I see a response. I get an instant response. And so too this is happening to you. And so then what you do is you say, oh, wow, thank you. Awesome, thank you. Let's check in on this later. I'm not feeling up to doing this right now. I would like to check on this later, thank you. Thank you, have gratitude and reschedule. You have control of your time, of your schedule. In the spirit connection realm, you have that control too. Doesn't feel like it, because it feels like push, push, pressure, pressure. I should do this now because why? Because it's not gonna last very long. They might leave and never come back and that kind of thing. That's a brain thing. That's totally a mind thing. That's not a spirit thing. Okay, so let's be clear. It's not a spirit thing. All right, so you have total choice over this. Okay, my friends, you can reschedule. Ask them to come back at a more convenient time. You can always ask for a spirit guide to come in and help you like an archangel. I find Archangel Michael's fabulous for protection, for creating safe and healthy boundaries for yourself. I also find that there are other archangels like Archangel Gabriel, who's a great communicator. There are also lots of other deities, saints, God, goddess aspects like Thoth from the Egyptian God, goddess aspects who also help with communication and writing, for example. And so you can ask for assistance specifically from these other spirit guides that you trust and you utilize as almost a buffer, a gatekeeper, a receptionist, a screener, a pre-screener and then they can interact with the spirit that you've called in or that is present with you, okay? Even if it's your grandma or whatever, ask Archangel Michael to keep her entertained until you're able to speak with her and guess what, it's not a time thing. So the time is in the mind. So it could be three weeks or three months from now and you can revisit and boom, connection, okay? So let's be clear. Spirits don't usually just drop by for a visit. You've called them somehow. You've either listened to something that has opened up a portal, which is like making a phone call to somebody or you have an image in your mind or something that triggers a memory that reminds you of such and such person or a song for like a movie or something like that or a TV show that you saw this person, that kind of thing, that's how they come in. They're like being called. They're responding to a request again, whether you're conscious of it or not. So you're asking for them to come in. But you can also take charge of that situation and I have a spirit guide like Archangel Michael or Archangel Gabriel. Those are my two that I find are great with communication connection, Gabriel and Michael protection, helping you feel safe, helping you have healthy boundaries, that kind of thing. All right, so there you go, there's that. And then, so there you go, all right, there's that. And then the next question you ask about, we talk about religion, you ask about religion, spirituality, religion, psychicness, that's one. That's a hot topic, I think, for people. This is gonna resonate with many. So thank you, David, for asking. Let's see, okay, I have his email up on my computer here, but it's not moving for me here. All right, back in 2018 when I received my diagnosis, the wonderful Freddie Mercury, I'm wearing red, hello. Freddie reminds me of red, so it's perfect. I also had to put like this really cool flower of life. See that, sacred geometry shape on there? Scarf on, because I had it handy and I'm cold, it's freezing in here. You might actually hear the furnace, the little heater, because it's like negative 25 degrees here and there's like windows all up and around me. So it's cold here in Minnesota right now, so I needed to be bundled up, so I'm cozy. So Freddie Mercury color, red. So he says, all right, so with the wonderful Freddie Mercury, he made himself known to me, but prior to this, I knew who he was vaguely, but that, and I can't read the rest of it because I can't see it, like that he wasn't a big mega fan or anything like that before. Let's see, but since that time, he's watched a lot of videos about him, watched his concerts, that kind of a thing. I became an expert on everything Freddie and Queen, he says, does that sound familiar to many of you? It does, no matter who it is, whether it's Freddie Mercury, Prince, David Bowie, whoever your spiritual fandom resides with. All right, so let's see. We've also got, he says, I embraced him and I received healing from him, which is common, that can happen 100%. You're not making it up. If you think you're making it up, then you're dismissing a beautiful gift and a beautiful connection. The psychic work, I've said this a thousand times but I will say it a bazillion times more, okay? It's not for just special people that were chosen, the privileged ones who are psychic. Everyone is psychic and this last year should have raised your awareness on that, especially if you're freaking out emotionally, it's because you're very, very in tune to the energy. It's not just a brain thing, my friends, it's a spirit thing. So let's start working with what we've got, what we've been gifted. All right, so let's get to the point here. But this is where I get confused. Being a psychic medium is a big no-no when it comes to religion and I should not be taking part in any of this according to religion. So as you can see, I'm torn in between my psychic abilities and the religious teachings that I was brought up in. What am I to do? So this is a great question. This is a personal question for many of you and it requires a personal response, a customized response. It's different for everyone. How you choose to view your belief system is from your mind and how your mind chooses to frame this conversation of psychic versus religion or spirituality with perhaps many different God goddess aspects, deities versus one God concept of like a one God religion, et cetera. It is very deeply personal and I wanna say that I respect that. I respect that 100%. And in fact, interestingly, I've had multiple questions about this over time. It's kind of, I think, faded because people kind of know where I'm at now. If you've watched Above Life Channel, if you actually watch it and you're not just like a passerby, if you're here enough to kind of know and get to know me as a person, you know that people in the beginning made this assumption that like I didn't believe in God or that I've somehow overcome traditional religious dogma. And I wanna be really clear that although I wasn't raised in like going to church every Sunday, I went to church with my grandparents, Lutheran. So that's part of Christianity. So that's my frame of reference. Like I'm not, I don't have, that's what frame of reference I grew up in. But I never really felt like I belonged in any one particular religion or church. I did have an experience with a, it was a Methodist church growing up that was difficult for me. I had, I went with some friends to a Methodist church and had an experience there that I should actually maybe talk about in another video. I might do that. That might be a good idea. It was a very stressful experience for me and I felt, okay, let me just tell you, I'll tell you the deal.  It was at least when I was in fourth grade and wearing pants and I was so proud of how pretty I looked. I thought I looked so nice with my nice pretty blouse on my fancy dress pants. I thought I was look like a great lady. And according to that particular religion at that time, you couldn't be this flag bear or be this person up at the front. And I was so excited being there. It was really cool. It was a fun place. There was a lot of kids there. It was almost like a Sunday school thing. I raised my hand to volunteer to be one of the people up in the front. So I went up in the front and then it became this big deal. People started pointing at me and saying out loud, she can't do that. She can't be that. She has pants. She's wearing pants. Like it's against the rules. I had no idea. I had no idea in fourth grade. What's that, 10 or 11? Yeah, like 10 years old, 9-10. It's actually 9-10.  Let's just say I never went back to that church again. I know that that was one sliver of experience, but I actually wrote about it in one of my college courses when I was working in my coursework on education. I wrote about that experience that I had and trying to kind of inform my values and beliefs about things in general. And so yeah, that was pretty traumatic for me. And yet at the same time, I didn't really feel like, I always believed that there was a God or a source, a creator or universe. I always was protected. I always felt protected. I always felt protected. I had all these weird experiences growing up, too many to recount. And I was always protected. I always felt like nothing horrible would happen to me. Like I wasn't gonna be like killed or anything like that. Like I just always felt protected. And it wasn't because I learned it from the church or from other people. It's just because I think I had this part of me, my soul part that believed in greater than myself and my human body and my human experience just believed that. That was never a question. It wasn't something that was developed in me. It just, I just have it. I have that feeling. And so you'll hear me say in my videos, creator, source, universe, God, goddess, cosmic consciousness, so that it covers the wide range. I believe that we are greater than ourselves. And to me that's spirit. We are all spirit. Spirit happens to be living in the body right now. But when my body dies, my spirit will not. It will continue. It will be connected to a one source, a one form of energy. And then it will come back around and I will inhabit another body, maybe another type of body on a different planet and a different place in a different form, whatever it might be, but it'll be life and experiencing life. Cause I like the adventure, so I'm gonna reincarnate as many times as I can. So that's my experience about religion and to share too that as far as spirituality goes, I never really had that, had to make a choice myself. So I don't know how to give advice or guidance on making a choice. And to me it's always this and it's never separate. If it's separate, it's not a good thing. Where's the unity? Where's the harmony? Where's the room for different opinions, different viewpoints, different values, different, that's where we learn and grow in the space in between. So if it's only one way and no other way, what that is is that's something that you are accepting because it feels comfortable for you and maybe it's safe for you. And if you are, that's okay. That's okay. Your beliefs values, that's okay. That's your choice and that's okay because I have talked with so many people that have had conflicts like this. Oh my gosh, I'm talking to a psychic. Is that bad? Is that anti-religious? Is Jesus gonna be mad at me? I talked to Jesus people. Like I've channeled Jesus, Mother Mary, you name it for small groups and in my other channel and things. And so it's because my life channel isn't about that particular thing. It's more about the human connection. Although Jesus, well yes, it was a real person. Let's just be clear on that. Jesus was a real person and we all have healing. We are all part of that oneness, however it looks to you and whatever. There's many faces of God. There's many interpretations of prophets, of healers, of, I mean, there's many faces. There's many faces. There's many faces. And so it doesn't have to be religion or spirituality. It can be both. You can be in both. And if you are channeling or connecting and it's so sweet and it makes you feel this just incredible, like when you pray and you get cry, like I always cry. When I know I may contact, like I'm praying, I can feel it because I cry or my heart just gets really warm and feels really, really big. And I just feel it and sometimes goosebumps and I just feel it so much that gift. That's not fake. I'm not making that up. That's real. That's what you call faith. That's what you call believing and something greater than yourself. That's what you call hope. That's what you call love. That's what you call light. That's connection. However you get it, right? Whether you get it from a traditional religion or you get it from a combination of experiences that you've had and beliefs that you have. Like I am a hodgepodge. I'm a quilt right now. I like some of the pagan practices. I feel connected to some of the teachers from Christianity. Some of the other types of religions, I feel like Judaism, I feel a connection to that for sure. And some of it's from past life stuff and experiences. Catholic shamanism's strong connection to that. And did I say pagan? I think I did because it's very earthy, very connected. Like there's lots of different things. Like I'm a quilt, right? And a tabestry, right? And so are you, but you maybe don't really know that or realize it and that's okay. You don't have to have any kind of like aha moment or massive experience to shift you. There's none of that. It's very interpersonal. It's very, how do I say this? It's very personal. It's personal. So that's just something you come to terms with on your own, you know? You choose to receive it or to reject it and that's your choice. And I'm nobody to tell you what's right or wrong in that regard, okay? Just be honest with yourself. And I think part of the challenge for us in our humanity is trusting ourselves and the instincts that we have, the intuitions we have, the part of us that is God. It's hard to believe because we seem so imperfect but that's the point.  I mean we just, we have so much that is untapped capacity. That is intuition my friends and that is psychic connection and that is why you get frustrated because you can't connect because there's some other stuff in the way of that. One of which are limiting beliefs or value systems which might be well-meaning and might exist for a purpose and might be there to protect you and that's okay. You can work with that. It's not about destroying things, clearing everything out to get clarity. It's about understanding what's already there and the layers that's already there and the purpose of what's already there and then building on that. That's what growth is. Isn't that what growth is? Like think personal development. Isn't that what growth is? You build upon, you build upon. Think about the education system. You build upon, you build upon.  In your palliative care state that you're in, I think now is absolutely the time for you to be asking some of these questions, these deeper questions and maybe to grab out a journal and explore some of these things. You might not find answers but you might come to a place of understanding where you can find compassion for yourself and peace and maybe even gratitude for the process, for this journey. All right, thanks David. Thanks David. Hey Andrew, hey Dash. Thanks so much for watching Above Life Channel. So for the rest of you, thank David for giving Bridget inspiration because without David, you might not be seeing videos on Above Life Channel for weeks or maybe even months. So thank you, David. Thank you for reaching out. You have no idea the difference you made. You have no idea. All of the viewers at Above Life Channel should be putting in the comments. Thank you, David. And wishing you well and sending you healing vibes. Thank you. Thanks my friends. All right, so this is Bridget. I hope I've inspired your spirit. Giving you some hope. Port some hope in your cup today. Cheers. Port some hope in your cup today. Remember this is your life. It's yours. It's yours. You are the expert. You don't know that but you are. So you gotta live it. Live it to the best of your ability. Allow yourself room and space. Give yourself forgiveness. Give yourself compassion so you can grow. And I look forward to many more weeks of channeling now. Now that I'm inspired to channel so much more because of this personal meaning and deeper connection. Thanks so much for being here. I appreciate each and every one of you viewers here on Above Life Channel. I thank you very much for being here. Being part of this crazy journey as well. Thanks.


Hey everybody welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to talk about some of the creature merchandise from Galaxy's Edge and Star Wars Celebration. All right welcome to the channel. This is my little space on the inner webs where I talk about Star Wars and how it's been with me since the very beginning. I've been with the franchise since day one and so I've kind of grown up with Star Wars. I love Star Wars. I love all things Star Wars and so this channel is all about just my experience and started off talking about Star Wars Celebration and if you'd watched those series of videos you know I didn't make it to the Celebration Store, the actual Celebration Store because the line was just too long. I later went home and ordered some of the merchandise. One of the things I ordered was the Crystal Fox. I wanted to get the Crystal Fox stuffed animal for my son and I wasn't happy with it. It was just way too small. My son likes to cuddle with his stuffed animals and this thing was just it was more like a display piece unless like a stuffed animal. It wasn't very cuddly and so I was kind of disappointed with it. I made a video about it. You can watch that video also but what I ended up doing was I ended up selling it back on eBay. I sold it back on eBay and what I wanted to do was then turn around and buy the Loth Wolf also from Star Wars Celebration. So that happened. I ordered the Loth Wolf. Here it is. As you can see he has much larger than the Crystal Fox. Much larger, way better size, way more kind of cool looking, boy looking. I mean I wanted something that was you know for my son and he is 11 so he is kind of an older kid and this is going to work so much better for him not just as a Star Wars fan but as a boy who likes stuffed animals. So very happy with the Loth Wolf. Very happy with its size. He's not overly soft. He's packed pretty tightly and he has a very strong and very rigid body but again much more substantial size and he and I are huge fans of Star Wars Rebels so I know he's going to like that. And so the other thing is I got two more creatures. I got two more creatures from Galaxy's Edge. I mentioned in the Coca-Cola video that my brother-in-law went to Galaxy's Edge and he said we can buy some merchandise, we can bring it back for your kids. Told him what I wanted and one of the things we wanted was sold out as soon as they walked in to the place. It sold out so fast and the other thing I said to get was to get the Dewback because if you watch my Star Wars collection video you know I love Dewbacks. I collect all things Dewback and so he was able to get the Dewback for me which is right here sitting on my shelf and he's not the traditional Dewback he's more the newer Star Wars Dewback. But as you can see the paintwork on this is beautiful. It looks very lizard-like. His skin looks really lizard-y and he's got fully articulating legs. His tail is an add-on piece and there's certainly some rigidity to it but I haven't been able to see that it actually moves. I don't think his tail moves.  He won't actually go here. This is not the right place for him. And the other thing I got was the pork puppet. This is the pork puppet that we got. My older son has a pork already so we thought let's get the pork for my younger son. I was kind of hoping this would be again more like a stuffed animal but maybe just a little bit more involved. What we weren't prepared for that this is a full-on puppet. This is a full-on like marionette type puppet. This won't really be a stuffed animal that can be cuddled with or put in your bed because he has a hollow body and he's got full plastic like articulation controls inside his body. So if you reach up inside his body there's two little left and right triggers. When you pull the triggers down it makes his wings go up and if you pull just one of the triggers down it makes him make the noise and move his mouth. So he's a full-on puppet with motion and noise but like I said he doesn't really work as a stuffed animal that you could cuddle with in bed and that was kind of we were a little bit disappointed with that. I mean we knew it was a puppet but we didn't know it was going to be like a hard interior skeletal like full awesome puppet so I don't know. He's a great puppet, bad stuffed animal.  I love the fact that Disney and Star Wars are married together. I'm really looking forward to Disney Plus, the Mandalorian and and going into the galaxy's edge and seeing all these things but the thing that I think that Disney has really done well is this new wave of merchandise. You know if it's one thing that Star Wars fans have always loved it's merch like we love merch we love anything that you put Star Wars on to and that was one of the reasons that I went to Star Wars Celebration was because of the merchandise like to have so much merch there and such a wide variety of it kid in a candy shop right. So again with Disney everything I've seen that has come out of Galaxy's Edge and even the things that they had long before that with like Star Tours and whatnot Disney has always had great Star Wars merchandise and they do merchandise really well. Disney does merchandise really well they do marketing really well and so for me as a Star Wars fan that likes merch that likes collectibles and things that sit on my shelf yeah I can't go wrong with Disney. Hey as always you can comment below tell me what your thoughts are either with Disney or Disney Plus or merch or some of the characters I've shown you today or stuffed animals or if you've had similar experiences I always want to hear from you guys thanks for watching made the Force be with you I'll see you next time bye.


Some 850 delegates from around the world are at the IAA in Vienna for the sixth review meeting of the Joint Convention, the only international legally binding instrument on the management of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. The two-week meeting, which reviews national implementation of the Convention's obligations, takes place every three years. The Joint Convention is a powerful instrument for strengthening the safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste throughout the world. There are 78 parties to the Joint Convention, but all countries using nuclear technologies have the responsibility to safely manage radioactive waste. One cannot overemphasize the need to ensure the safety management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. Disposal programs for lower-level radioactive waste have been successfully implemented in many countries. Good progress has also been made in the geological disposal of high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel. From Vienna, Austria, this is Alejandra Silva reporting for the IAA.


Welcome back to Investor Intel at PDAC 2018. Joined today by Oscar Joffrey and Oscar is the co-founder, president and CEO of CoreConnex. Can you tell me what that's all about? Sure. Thank you. CoreConnex is an all-in-one platform to help companies manage and navigate the process of their stakeholders and their corporate records. So it's a, for the very first time, instead of using 20 different tools to manage your corporate business, now you have one. So you can bring your shareholders, your board of directors, legal counsel and be able to manage all the activities that are related to them and have the assurance that you only have to log into one place securely and have a lot of information available to you. So who are your consumers? So our typical audience are privately held companies, publicly listed companies that have board of directors and external shareholders. So and because of that, they have a fiduciary duty or they do it for good governance to be able to communicate and keep their stakeholders up to date, right? So the challenge comes in is when you use one tool to communicate with your board which is unsecured, which is email. Use another tool to communicate with your shareholders, which is God knows what that may be. But then your board is asking you for a report to bring it all together and you're spending hours and months and our platform is everybody's in one, everybody receives the information based on who they are, and then you can track it and manage it in one secure environment. So how does that differ from, say, a traditional CRM system? Well actually CRM is for sales. That's a great tool, you know, that's the best analogy because we spend so much money to automate our operational side of our business. We spend no money to automate our CEO, CFO, board of directors and the reason for that is because we're all external. 90% of the people who have to make decisions are not inside the company. So therefore the pressure on management on the board is really hot. The risk increases if you're publicly traded because now you're disseminating information confidentially via the waves and that's public information. So our environment is secure, the board can speak securely and they can speak by the shareholder securely without being in a public environment. Well it's really exciting, we look forward to hearing more about it as we move forward. Thank you for coming in today. You're welcome, thank you.


The effects of alcohol obviously increase the morbid drink, and whilst difficult to say how many drinks equate to specific effects, there are so many factors involved such as food intake, gender, weight, and other things. We can approximate effects based on blood alcohol concentration, or BAC. At a BAC between 0.02 to 0.03, perhaps one standard drink, there are very few obvious effects, with only a slight intensification of mood. After two to two and a half drinks in the first hour, your BAC climbs to about 0.05 to 0.06, and you might experience a feeling of warmth, relaxation, mild sedation, and you're likely to start talking more and feel less inhibited. These effects all happen in the brain's frontal lobe, which is responsible for stopping us from doing and saying socially inappropriate things. When alcohol enters the frontal lobe, it impairs our ability to control our behaviour. At a BAC of 0.07 to 0.09, your speech will start to slur and you'll not be as balanced when you move. There will also be a decrease in reaction time, and coordination, hence the legal driving limit of 0.05 in Australia. Your hearing and vision will also be impaired, and it's pretty much just downhill from here. At a BAC of 0.13 to 0.15, you'll have significant loss of coordination and balance, blurred vision, and your judgement will be severely impaired. Most people will start to feel nauseous and may start vomiting if their BAC gets too close to 0.2. At a BAC of around 0.3, you'll be in a state of near unconsciousness, if not unconscious already. Coma is possible at 0.35 and up, and death is just around the corner.


All right, so you probably heard yesterday was that Elon Musk had bought 9.2% of Twitter stock. He is now the owner of 9.2%. I read somewhere how many billions of dollars that cost him. I don't know, but it cost him a lot of money. He's the largest shareholder of Twitter. He's a larger shareholder, significantly larger than the founder of Twitter and the former CEO who owns about 2%. He is a larger shareholder of Twitter than many of the institutional members, the institutional investors. It's quite impressive that he's managed to accumulate 9.2%. I haven't really pulled up a chart of Twitter stock. I don't know if he bought a cheap or an expensive. I mean, tech stocks have been driven down quite a bit over the last couple of months, over the last three months, so probably far from its peak. Wonder Freeman says that it cost him $4 billion to do it. Free trade has been a member for two months. I don't know. I don't think this counts as a super chat. Being a member is not good enough. It doesn't help you get to the 600 goal, as Catherine will know for you. But I will read what Free Trade says. He says, Musk is being hailed as a free speech champion on Twitter. In reality, he blocks people to destroy his antifossil field narrative. For example, Alex Epstein. So Musk is his argument for going on Twitter as he wants to make it better. There's a lot of discussion about having it edit buttons. You can change your tweets after you post them. Also, to eliminate some of the some things that Twitter does, which takes people off the platform or puts them or forces them to lead tweets or so on. So he's going in there with his own agenda about how he thinks a Twitter should be run. Now today, they announced that not only does he have 9.2% of Twitter stock, but today he was appointed to the board of directors. So Elon Musk is now going to be a power, a force within Twitter. Now, I have to say, this is beautiful. This is the beauty of finance. This is amazing. Put aside whether you agree with Musk or you don't agree with Musk, this could be judge Soros for all you know, right? But the very fact that an individual can take a large position in a stock, get on a board of directors, influence the direction of a company and fix, perceive problems with it that might be hurting its market value is one of those amazing features of markets. It's, I mean, one would hope that people do it, do it and the results are positive. The results consistent with what we would like them to be. Right? But they might, you know, if you're an advocate for Elon Musk taking a board seat and taking 9.2%, then what happens? Are you going to be offended when George Soros does the same thing and argues for a more leftist agenda for Twitter, for some social media company? The beauty of the fact that they are private means the shareholders, shareholders can buy into the platform, buy into the company, shareholders can therefore change its policy, shareholders can go on and determine the future of the company and it's not static. I did an interview today with somebody who was arguing with me that, you know, all these companies, all these social media companies are monopolies and what do you do about monopolies? Well, here's what you do about monopolies. Buy their shares and kick out managers and change their behavior to be more, I don't know, friendly, more profitable, more, we'll see. We'll see what Elon Musk actually does. We'll see what actually is motivating him. But one option rather than compete rather than spend the money to create a new platform that competes with Twitter and an alternative to that is to just buy and change it. And it might change for the good, it might change for the worse. I don't know. I mean, Musk seems to have the right inclination, so hopefully it changes for the good. But it's just one more way in which one deals with, let's say, corporate behavior that we think is negative, that we think is bad. So Elon is using his billions, I guess the money he lost, I guess the money he gained from selling a big stake of Tesla, much of that money went to paying taxes. And so that money has now gone into buying a big stake in Twitter and buying himself onto the board of directors of Twitter and now having an influence on Twitter. And it's going to be fascinating. It's going to be really, really interesting. Does he manage to change the policies of Twitter? Twitter, does he move Twitter in a different direction? Is it better? Is it worse? Will the stock price respond by going up? Will it go down? Will it be political? Won't it be political? It's going to be really interesting. So I am eagerly anticipating watching how this plays out. But again, this is one of the beauties of private business, private markets, is that you get these kind of changes without any government intervention, without government doing anything. Indeed, I would argue that government is preventing. Anybody know why he stopped at like 9%? Why didn't it take 12%? Or because you can accumulate up to 10% of a stock.  You have to let the world know that you bought the stock. If you accumulate over 10% of a stock, you have to let the world know your intentions. You have to file a complicated SEC form that tells the world why you own 10%. Now, before these regulations came into place, and the regulations around what are called 13Ds and 13Gs, which are the different filing requirements, the 13Ds and 13Gs were put in place in 1968. And they were put in place in 1968 by the SEC, these are regulations that make it impossible for somebody, for example, to accumulate 50% of a stock, walk into the CEO's office and fire them because they're the majority owner now and basically replace the board because they own 51% of the company. Guess who lobbied to have those regulations put in place? Guess who wanted them in place? Guess who didn't want to get fired by people who accumulate 51% of the company stock? Managers. Managers of big companies. Managers of big corporations in America lobbied to have these regulations put in place in order to restrict the ability of people to take over their companies in a stealth way, in a way without everybody knowing, right? Imagine just buying 51% of the company stock on the market, in the open market, and then you're in control. Today, you can't do that. You have to buy five, disclose, and then 10, disclose, then you have to do a tender offer. You actually have to let shareholders know, look, I want to buy 51% of the company. I'm going to pay you X. That allows competitors come in. Supposedly this is good for shareholders because it creates a bidding war, but it also reduces the number of people who ever go into it. And it entrenches often. Bad managers. It often entrenches bad CEOs. So imagine a world in which Elon Musk, you woke up one morning and Elon Musk owned 51% of the company and basically it fired its management and was taking over. Can't happen today, sadly. But that's capitalism. You see, that's what a free market looks like. And it's things like that that suggest that we have no idea what business would actually be like under capitalism. We have no idea the dynamics of what it would be like, the competition, the insistence of managers to really try to maximize share of the worth because otherwise somebody is going to buy up the stock and fire them. Capitalism is so much more dynamic, so much more interesting, so much more focused than anything we see today. We do not have capitalism today. And that creates stagnation. It creates laziness. It creates incentivized managers to not innovate, to not stay on the cutting edge, to not completely dedicate everything they can to make you sure they maximize share of the worth. All right. As I said, I'm looking forward to Elon Musk who is not woke, who is not politically correct to see what kind of influence he can have on Twitter. I think it's exciting. I think it's a good day for social media. I think it's a good day for expression. Hopefully he opens up the platform. He allows more discussion, more debate, less sanctioning of people. And then maybe other social media platforms learn from that and take note of that. And if he's successful and the stock price goes up and people are happier with Twitter and he kind of eviscerates all the competition that is out there, even though it's marginal, then other social media will mimic him. And if he tells the politicians to go to hell, as he has done with the SEC on issues around Tesla and as he has with others, yeah, I mean, this could be a game changer. This could be a game changer. If we got the kind of sense of life and self-esteem of Elon Musk applied to social media companies, the world would be dramatically different. So let's see what happens. Go to uranbrookshow.com.com.  Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content. And of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


The ball rolling, next to you know, I think I did one with like little flip, zero. Like they were just features, but when I was doing those features, you know, like these are artists that I grew up for. They made you feel like, okay. Yeah, like these are artists that I grew up on, yeah. You know what I mean? But which artist was the one that blew your mind when you had to- I think it was zero. Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. So, okay, going back to the first time you had that job and everything like that.  Dang, that's a real good question. I think earlier on, I started working. First of all, nobody came to me. Like at first I was going out to artists.  Like one of the artists that were doing their thing back in the day were the high rollers. You know what I mean? So, you know, seeing them on stage, like they were moving around, you know, my record, my group play was like, they were always doing shows. We were like, so I came up to them like, yo, these are my videos. I was just shooting like little videos for my homeboy.  You know what I mean? So they gave me the opportunity and then more Latin artists and other artists started seeing their videos and they're like, yo, you shot, let me shoot a video with you too. That's how, you know, kind of kept the ball rolling. Next to you know, I think I did one with like little flip, zero. Like there were just features, but when I was doing those features, you know, like these are artists that I grew up for. Like, okay. Yeah, like these are artists that I grew up on, yeah. You know what I mean? But which artist was the one that blew your mind when you had to do it? I think it was zero. Zero. Zero, yeah. And it was just like a feature, but like, you know, zero was my favorite rapper. Yeah, yeah, everybody's favorite rapper. That's right. Yeah, everybody loves zero, man. Zero was my favorite rapper when I was young. So when I got to do that, I mean, he's not the most approachable guy. No, he never has been. Never has been. You know what I mean? But after that, I was like, okay, yeah, this is good. You know what I'm doing? Like, it's going. You know what I mean? Yeah. One day, like this was a feature, but one day I'm filming a music video for you, bro.  You told him that? No, I ain't told him that, but that's what I'm telling myself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you posed to feel like that. Did he ever call you eventually? No. But you basically, when you think about it, I remember we was selling Al Jere's t-shirts. Dan was real cool with him, the owner of Al Jere's. And he would be like, e, I can get zero to the store. But the way you said, like his attitude was, as I looked at him, I'm like, nah, I don't think that's gonna do me any good. You know what I mean? Even though to bring the people in, I just thought like people gonna come and leave just to see zero. So I didn't want to waste my time. But Dan was real good with him. He would go sleep on his couch and go to Houston. You remember them Al Jere's t-shirts? The guy named Dan Al Jere's. And me and him was real good friends when those t-shirts was popping. He out of Ohio. And I don't even know how he got over there. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, accompanied by Mrs. Mack Madeline. In this rally successful, we're so proud of you. I understand that the audio portion of the video you just saw of Mack didn't come through clearly and you weren't able to hear his apologies. He does send his apologies. A respected honor to introduce a man who has lifted our spirits and made America stand tall. A leader in the best sense of the word. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. If they'd done that in Hollywood I might have stuck around. Thank you. Thank you all very much. And thank you very much. We have to have Mack Madingley back there because we'd be lost without that smile in Washington. I want you to know that the fellow you see standing before you considers himself one lucky man. You see, this is my second visit to Georgia in just less than a week. I guess you could say that like an old sweet song, I've got Georgia on my mind. And it's good to be in the home state of a member of the cabinet, our director of the office of management and budget, Jim Miller. He was going to be here today because this is his home, but just like Mack and the others, he had to stay there to keep counting when they start talking budget as they're talking in the Congress. Somebody's got to watch them. But I thank you, State Chairman Paul Coverdell, for allowing me to be here to campaign for Guy Davis and the entire Republican ticket. And to commend the Georgia GOP for all the fine work it's doing. You know, one of the pleasures in visiting Georgia is that I get to tell stories that folks up in Washington don't always understand. Stories that involve a little Southern humor. Like the one of the Yankee who was driving down through the South. And, what? Louder? He was driving down through the South and there was an accident. And the Southern gentleman whose car he'd hit got out of his car and he got out and neither one of them were hurt and the cars weren't too badly damaged. And then the Southern, with true Southern hospitality, he said, you look a little shook up, wait a minute, reached back in his car and came out with a bottle and said, here I think, take a slug of this, I think it'll make you feel better. So the Yankee did. And then he was urged to do it again and take another one. He said, really, it'll settle your nerves. And so he did. After about the third time, he got a little guilty feeling and said to the Southern fellow who'd been so kind, look, he said, I'm drinking it all here. He said, here, you have a drink. You just got to stand there and the Southern says, yeah, I'm just going to stand here till the police come. And it was good to take off on Air Force One this morning. Good to leave behind the big government and special interests of Washington to come here to Atlanta and the real America. The America of hard work, patriotism, and the kind of peaches that just don't grow along the Potomac. But it was a matter of great importance that brought me, a matter that will directly affect the lives of every Georgian and indeed of every citizen of the United States. For what happens in this great state on election day will help determine the kinds of jobs that you and all Americans can get. The taxes we pay and the kinds of schools our children and grandchildren will be able to attend. This brings me to a man that I have the feeling happens to have a few friends here today. A certain United States senator by the name of Mack Mattingly. Mack Mattingly is a hardworking man of integrity and one of those rare figures in our public life who's more interested in results than headlines. Like me, Mack spent most of his life in the private sector. He knows what it means to earn a paycheck and me to payroll and raise a family on a balanced budget. I guess that's one reason that Mack and I become such good friends. He has a quality that some would call old-fashioned but that I just have to believe is more important today than ever. That quality is called character. And don't you believe it's important to keep character in our government? The second reason that Mack and I become good friends is that we were elected in the same year, 1980. And ever since we've worked side by side to revive our economy, rebuild our defenses and restore the American spirit. I've relied on Mack and the battle to balance the federal budget by passing the line item veto. And we're going to keep on trying until it gets done. Forty-three governors in this country have it. The president should have it. In the more than 100 years since the line item veto was first proposed, no one has come closer to getting it passed than Mack. And I just have to believe we need Mack maddingly back in the Senate so we can finally get the line item veto and restore common sense to the budget process once and for all. I want to tell you, having been a governor myself, I've been shocked. This country's budget process at the national level is a mess. Congress has had eight months to come up with a budget and has failed to do so, and now we're eight days into the new fiscal year. Now, hours before my meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev, the House Democrats are trying to tie my hands with restrictive language on foreign policy issues, issues that should be decided in a negotiating table with the Soviets, not at a congressional committee table. I could look across the table in Iceland in a couple of days at a man who could be sitting there thinking if they had their way. He doesn't have to negotiate with me. He'll just wait for Congress to get him what he wants. I call on the House Democrats to act on the budget now. They should act responsibly. They should stop playing politics and jeopardizing the success of our Icelandic talks. In the crusade against drugs, Mack has proven invaluable. Passing legislation that authorizes the president to withhold funds from any country not cooperating in our anti-drug effort. And I want you to know that Mack's wife, Carolyn, is the founder and president of the bipartisan congressional families for drug-free youth. Carolyn and Nancy have traveled and worked together in this crusade against drugs, and Carolyn and Nancy wanted me to be sure and say hello. And so it's been throughout these nearly six years in all the great battles and accomplishments Mack Mattingly has been right there, working for Georgia every day. Back in 1980, when Mack and I were elected, the American economy was the worst mess since the Great Depression. Government was everywhere, running up taxes, causing inflation, raising interest rates, and taking bigger and bigger shares of your earnings. To get big government off your backs and out of your pockets, we slowed government growth, slashed needless regulations, and enacted an across-the-board personal income tax cut of nearly 25%. Then we indexed taxes, making it impossible for inflation to push you into higher and higher tax brackets ever again. Congress was sitting back and knew until the indexing took place that every time a worker got a cost-of-living pay raise that didn't make him any richer, just kept him even with the growing inflation. But the number of dollars determines the bracket of the income tax that you're in, and so he would wind up poorer because he'd wind up paying more income tax even though he hadn't improved himself one bit. Now, critics dubbed our plan Reaganomics and predicted economic ruin. Let's look at what's happened instead. Inflation has fallen from more than 12% to less than 2%. Interest rates are down, mortgage rates are down, and housing starts are up, helping industries like timber. And just listen to this. During these nearly four years of economic growth, we've seen the creation of more than 11.5 million new jobs in the United States. Now, that is more jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the last 10 years. You know, I could tell our program, economic program was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics. In the midst of this economic expansion, it's true that certain sectors of our economy have lagged behind. Sectors like farming, for example. But I pledge to you today that I will not rest and Mac will not rest until every region of our country and every sector of our economy share in the national prosperity. Perhaps the most important aspect of our economic efforts involves all that Mac and others like him have done to promote growth by giving our nation a comprehensive tax reform. A tax reform that will make our entire tax system simpler and fairer and enable some 8 out of 10 Americans to pay federal income taxes of 15% or less. Sounds pretty good to me. How does it sound to you? Now, the Democratic leadership has been saying that once our tax reform program is in place, the rates will be raised to pay for more spending. Well, that would be an intolerable breach of faith with the American people. We didn't achieve this historic tax reform to have it undermined by the big taxers. I pledge today to oppose any effort to raise the tax rates and negate the hard-fought progress that we've made. And I'm calling on all members of the Congress to take that same pledge. Ask them to do something that I know Mac's more than happy to do himself. Ask them to take that pledge on tax rates. That they will be held at 15 and 28% for individuals and 34% for the corporations. And if I could add something here, in the House of Representatives, your fellow Georgian, Newt Gingrich, is a leader in the fight against any tax increase. And Pat Swindoll was among the first to take the pledge. They are great representatives. They are great representatives for Georgia and the country. And I wonder if you'd do me the favor of sending Joe Morkraft and Portia Scott to join them. In foreign affairs, Mac and I've worked to make America strong and respected once again. We've begun the rebuilding of our nation's defenses. In the Navy alone, we've gone from fewer than 480 battle-ready ships to more than 550 well on the way to our goal of 600. And we've seen morale soar among our men and women in uniform as we've provided them with the pay and the meaning that they've always deserved. You know, if I could interject something here as we landed today at Dobbins Air Force Base and saw those fine service families, it occurred to me that you here in Georgia have always treated our armed services with esteem. Even when some in other parts of the country thought it was somehow unstylish or old-fashioned, the good people of this great state have never been ashamed of the flag. And my friends, isn't it good to have the country join you again in treating our men and women in uniform with respect? It's still a difficult and dangerous world, but with Mac's help, especially as chairman of the subcommittee that handles military construction, we've made America stronger and better prepared to deal with it. And something else, I just have to believe that every nickel and dime dictator and terrorist knows that if he chooses to tangle with the United States of America, he'll have to pay a price. And those young people that I mentioned a moment ago, they are the peacekeepers. And would you be interested in knowing something? We have the highest percentage of high school graduates in uniform that we have ever had in the history of this country, even when we had the drug. Restored prosperity at home, renewed strength and self-assurance abroad, this is the story of the past six years, the story in which Mac Mattingly has played such a central role. And now Mac faces an opponent who wants to undo that story, who wants to take us all back to the days of self-doubt and weakness, back to the days of tax and tax and spend and spend. To tell you the truth, when I even think about the record Mac's opponent has put together in Congress, it sort of touches my temperature control. In 1985, Mac's opponent voted against me almost two-thirds of the time, substantially more than any other member of the Georgia delegation in Congress. For example, Mac's opponent voted for a budget that would have eliminated tax indexing and done away with the third year of our tax cut, in short, a budget that would have made your taxes higher. And listen to this. In 1982, every member of the Georgia delegation voted in favor of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution except one. So let me ask you, which one is Mac's opponent? That's right, the one who voted wrong. In the early 1980s, every member of the Georgia delegation voted in favor of strengthening our defenses by building the much-needed B-1 bomber except one. Which one is Mac's opponent? The one who voted wrong. Earlier this year, Georgia Senator Sam Nunn and Georgia Congressman Richard Ray made the effort to send aid to the freedom fighters of Nicaragua. Brave men and women who are struggling against communists for the liberty of their homeland. Every member of the Georgia delegation voted for that aid except one. And who do you suppose is Mac's opponent? The one who voted wrong. Well, it's happened again and again and again. On 147 different occasions, Mac's opponent was the only member of the Georgia delegation to cast the wrong vote. Put his record together and a clear profile emerges. Mac's opponent wants more big government. He's voted to make America weaker. And believe me, he wants the government to take more of your money. He's out of step with our administration, but more important, he's out of step with Georgia and he's out of step with you. I'm to think of it, Mac's opponent has voted against our administration just about as often as Teddy Kennedy has. You wouldn't want a senator who's as liberal as Teddy Kennedy, wouldn't you? You know, less than two weeks ago, I spoke in Michigan and Nebraska and not long before that in Alabama and Louisiana. And everywhere I've gone, I've seen something that touched me, something that gives heart to all who can still remember the self-doubt and weakness at home and abroad that marked so much of the 60s and 70s. Today here in Atlanta, I see it again. Call it confidence, self-assurance, what you will. It's a renewed understanding that for all our faults, ours is a nation of goodness and greatness. That despite our mistakes in the world, we've stood for human freedom with greater consistency and courage than any other nation in history. That if only we have faith, if only we look not to government, but to ourselves, we can create a new and lasting era of opportunity and prosperity. And come to think of it, what I've seen has a name. It's called Love of Country. You can feel this new spirit everywhere. Right here in Georgia, there's an especially moving story of neighbor-helping neighbor in the best American tradition. In the north Georgia town of Gainesville, population 15,200, virtually the entire community has come together to help seven motherless boys hold their family together. When Terry, the oldest O'Kelly boy, was only 15, his mother died. When his father disappeared, Terry and his brothers moved in with their grandfather. Terry dropped out of high school to work 70 hours a week at a poultry plant to keep the boys together. But when their grandfather died, the four youngest brothers had to be committed to foster care. Then Jack Hodge, a local poultry distributor, came to the rescue. He persuaded creditors to reduce or forgive the boys' debts. He launched a fun drive at his church. And when the boys' trailer was gutted by fire, Jack Hodge and dozens of volunteers donated their time and skills to build the O'Kelly boys a four-bedroom house. In Terry O'Kelly's words, six months ago we didn't have a friend in the world. Now we have more friends than you can shake a stick at. And as Jack Hodge said, I'm not running for office, but I believe it's a duty to help people if you can. Ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in welcoming two authentic American heroes, Terry O'Kelly and Jack Hodge? Would you stand up, please? O'Kelly, say you boys wouldn't happen to be Irish, would you? This American sense of can-do, this sense that with a little gumption the future can be made better. This is what Mac Mattingly and I believe our nation stands for. And so it is that I ask you to cast a vote that will help me to be the president you elected me to be. But even more, I ask you to cast a vote for yourselves, for your children and for your children's children. You know I'm so delighted when I come to a rally like this and see all these young people that are here. Because whether they know it or not, whether they know it or not, they're what these elections are all about. We of my generation have to pledge to them that when it comes their turn to take over, they're going to take over a country that has as much freedom and opportunity as we had when we started NTOC. My friends, send your Republican slate into the offices, the state house, and to the Congress. And I ask you to send Mac Mattingly back to the United States Senate. Bless you all. Mr. President, Ms. Mattingly, distinguished guests, the senator and all of his friends, in fact all the nation, know that tomorrow you embark upon a truly historic mission on all of our behalves. As Georgians we know it's just a little chilly up there. And we thought you might like to take along just a little extra Georgia comfort. Mr. President, best wishes in God's name. If you're talking about how long I should live, I'm with you.


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From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar Vic Carson Johnny State Unity life. Oh, what's in your mind? Thank you got a job for you if you're interested and just received a report from our agent in Venice the Venice Oh, I love it soft nights along the canal in this California Johnny Okay, what is it murder Bernard Slade age 56 penny arcade operator in Ocean Park? That's right right next door to Venice go on with a body was found in living quarters at the rear of an arcade Amusement zone killer unknown and Barney Slade must have been quite a movie fan The police found his apartment plastered with photographs of the movie great silent screen vintage That is at least a dozen of more of Mavis Gale a real queen in her day. Yeah, the vamp time. I know Oh, it's just a vague recollection you understand Yeah, well the police also reported that somebody the killer probably had drawn a big question mark in red crayon over Each of Mavis Gale's photographs interesting if it means anything we think it does Johnny Especially since Mavis Gale is named as the beneficiary in Bernard Slade's insurance policy Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to State Unity Life Home Office Hartford, Connecticut Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the silent Queen matter Expense account item one two hundred and ten dollars and sixty five cents plain care for an incidentals to Ocean Park, California As soon as I checked into my hotel. I got in touch with homicide Sergeant McKay. They said would probably be down at the pier. I saved you care for this one Vic It was a beautiful moonlit night at the beach a warm breeze was blowing in from the Pacific And besides there's only a three-minute walk from my hotel to the fun zone A gaudy array of neon and noise an occasional whiff of salt air seeping through the aromatic blend of fried shrimp hamburgers and popcorn Business was good in the penny arcade headed Cheryl. I headed straight to the blonde sitting in the changebook. She looked tired faded Hi, let me have a dine's worth of pennies, will you real plunger, huh? Oh money means nothing to me. Well, here you are Don't spend them all in one place. Well, you know, I might at that this machine here looks really interesting The Lola the farmer's daughter. Oh, it's kind of racy How's your blood pressure? Fine and try that roll along the wall over there. I wouldn't do How can we carry on a conversation if I was on the other side of the room? Who wants conversation? I do You don't look like the lonely type never can't tell.  No, seriously. Yeah, all I want is a few answers. Well, I got more than a few honey. What's on your mind? Barney Slade What about fun? You work for him along who wants to know my name is dollar Johnny dollar I'm an insurance investigator. Oh, I'd appreciate any information. You can give me Your company dropped a bundle on Barney, huh? Well, that remains to be seen. Well, Barney was a nice guy Nice as they come. What do you want to know? Oh, just aren't anywhere. You want to know about his friends? Well, maybe after what happened to me, you'd better tell me about his enemies. He didn't have none not one Oh must have been quite a fellow. He was mister Okay, let's get back to his friends then just about everybody along the pier anyone in particular. Oh Frank Jessup for one runs a concession just down the way Sam Hegstrom owns a fishing boat, then there's a Gaskinacos or Goldstein like I said Barney had a lot of friends including you including me How about Mavis Gale? I don't know the day Well, she used to be in the movies the silent kind. Oh, I heard about her only I never met her didn't she ever come around I never saw her Did Barney ever talk about it? Not to me didn't Why? Why what? Why should Barney talk about Mavis Gale? Oh, I just thought he might have mentioned it sometime rather. Uh, is that the door to Barney's apartment back there? Yeah, that's right. Why don't I have a look around? That'd be up to Sergeant McKay Well, look if he comes in tell him where I am, would you tell him yourself? He's back there in Barney's apartment now I walked on back and took note of the heavy padlock dangling open on the door leading into Barney Slade's apartment The small living room was empty yet. It was crowded too crowded with memories of the son of greats Nazimov, Valentino, Pickford and Fairbanks, me and Swanson, the Gish Girls, Vaughn Cheney and all dozens more their photographs filling practically every inch of wall space Mavis Gale was there too, a big question mark and red crayon drawn over each of her photos. I Moved through a narrow kitchen. The back door was wide open. I stepped outside Who are you? Oh, Johnny Doller. You must be Sergeant McKay. That's right. Yeah, your office said you'd be here browsing around. So I'm browsing Something bothering you, Sergeant? Murder always bothers me. Yeah, what you mean? Like those photos in there of Mavis Gale and the question marks on all of them And that bothers me You think the killer did it? Could be. Let's go back inside Well, maybe Barney, huh? Maybe Barney what? I'm talking about the question marks. Could be pictures belong to him Yeah He had quite a gallery here Looks to me though that some are missing. That's so Well, you know so Sergeant the wallpaper isn't faded as badly where they used to be and there are a lot of tack marks, too Okay, so who took him down Barney? He could have So could the killer. That's right Have you found anybody who could tell you anything about him? I'm missing photographs. Not yet Hey, buddy, keep a lot of money in here Twyler didn't seem to think so. Twyler. Twyler James blonde out front at the change booth. Oh, yeah Barney was sort of particular about his apartment. Never let anybody in as far as she knows not even his friends What a worry according to twilight seldom use the arcade entrance prefer to use the back door Is that the one the killer used the standing wide open when the body was found? Well, who found it by the way twyler when she showed up for work yesterday The arcade was closed up so she went around back You know when Barney was killed doc figures around 3 a.m. Two slugs from a 38 one would have been enough Any signs of a struggle? Yeah Lamp over there was on the floor that chair was turned over and this table had been upset pipes medicine bottles pillboxes scattered around Heavy bolt and chain on the inside of both doors Barney didn't have to let a visitor in unless he wanted to that's right Of course, he could have run into the killer outside somewhere sure he could Honey, you don't think so unless Barney was in the habit of walking in his sleep When we came in and found Barney was in pajamas and bathrobe the wall bed over there had been pulled out and was Must up so it figures he was probably asleep when the killer tapped on his door. He got up and let him in Yet according to twilight the place was off limits even to his friends But she wasn't around all the time and didn't know all his friends. He found some others I'd like to find one of them in particular a man Barney referred to as the preacher Just the preacher no name. No at least Sam Hexham couldn't remember and this preacher was he allowed into Barney's Intersecting Sam's pretty sure he saw the two of them come out the back door one night a little more than a week ago Other times he spotted him taking a late evening stroll along the oceanfront walk Did Sam ever talk with this preacher? No, but he got curious after a while asked Barney about it Barney said the man was a very old and dear friend Let it go with that and you haven't been able to find out anything more about him, huh? I'm still checking Well, it would sure be a break if you get to locate this preacher You might be able to tell us something about those missing photographs what they were might also explain why the killer took them Have you seen enough in here dollar? Oh, yeah, sure. I guess so surgeon Hey, tell me what does maybe scale have to say about all this? I only got to talk with her just a couple hours ago when she returned from Palm Springs She was pretty upset when I told her about the crayon marks on her photographs But Naturally, she couldn't offer any explanation none. How does she react to the news of Slade's death tears and such? She's supposed to weep about it. Why not? Barney Slade must have been a pretty good friend of hers after all he named her as the beneficiary and his insurance policy. Oh That's interesting what when I talked with Mavis Gale, she told me she never heard of Barney Slade Expense account item two and three one dollar and ten cents phone call and camp fare The call was to Mavis Gale's home in Bel Air The butler said if it was important I could find her at McCartney's mortuary in Venice Camp there to Venice via what is laughing they call the Speedway a one-way alley line with backyards and garbage cans It took us less than a minute to cross over into Venice a boom that had busted a Mellon County mixture of all broken down buildings in the sound of the sea crumbling bridges moss-covered canals of paved streets wandering Disconstantly into sand dunes and ending with a money A dream that had kind of died of a broken heart Good evening, sir. Oh Bernard Slade, please. Oh, yes, mr. Slade is in the slumber room at the end of the hall Is anyone with him? Oh indeed quite a number of his friends Would you know Mavis Gale if you saw her the silent screen star? Indeed, I would at least I think I would she was one of my favorites She she hasn't shown yet. No, I You mean She's expected so I understand Well Well, that's nice Oh, that is nice. I Didn't know she was a friend of mr. Slade's. Oh, you know most of Barney's friends, huh? I know most of the people along the pier and they were all his friends. Well, how about one called the preacher? Preacher Naturally, I'm very well acquainted with many men of the cloth and if you could tell me his name. I don't know Look, you have a visitor's register here, don't you in each of the slumber rooms? Yes, just inside the door Thanks Where did you say mr. Slade was down the hall last room on the left? The room was crowded with friends who'd come to pay their respects to Bernard Slade. I Eased over to the visitors register and gave it a fast rundown There was nothing to indicate that a minister was among the mourners present Then I heard the hall door creak open there. She was Mavis Gale Certainly not at all what I expected a vamp of the silent screen to look like 30 years later Slender trim and a smartly tailored suit and even more attractive than the photographs I'd seen of her in Barney's apartment She moved down the center aisle to the casket and stood there for a moment As I walked toward her she suddenly turned her eyes wide and staring her lips moving sanity Then she crumbled to the floor and you've been trying to reach me doll. That's right sergeant. Okay. What's up? I got some news for you Mavis Gale was once married to a small-time movie actor named Tom Sanford Seems he was murdered during a hunting trip in the Sierras some 27 years ago. So so now it turns out he wasn't Mavis Gale just identified Barney Slade as Tom Sanford Oh, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story tomorrow a stagecoach ride I get some lumps and a surprise witness turns up Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar or is truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey is Transcribed in Hollywood Written by Adrian John Doe it is produced and directed by Jack John stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


Hi everyone and welcome to Barnes Takeout, your daily serving of art. My name is Carl Walsh. I'm a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Research, Interpretation and Education here at the Barnes and today we go up to Room 16, which is a room that we've been looking at a lot recently for our takeouts and we're going to be having a look at a small Navajo necklace, which is in this cabinet here. And if we just zoom in a little bit, we've seen this cabinet a couple of times now and it features a lot of different objects from around the world and from different cultures and a lot of these objects are sacred or votive or magically kind of protective pieces of art from various different cultures and different periods. And the Navajo necklace that we're looking at today is this one here right on the top of the cabinet shelf here. And this necklace is interesting because it forms part of a row of similarly designed necklaces that all feature these big crescent pendants and they have different kind of shaped smaller turquoise pendants that hang in the middle of them. And these are kind of interesting from the point of view of the ensemble because these different kind of curvilinear designs and geometric shapes are reflected in a lot of the other objects which we have in this case. So for example, the triangular pendant of our necklace kind of communicates to things like the triangular shape of the crowns of these Egyptian statues. We can also kind of find it in the legs and the faces of these bronze Greek geometric bowls and horses. And they are also kind of interesting because they work in a similar way to the metal fixtures which are in the larger ensemble. And so we have these pieces up here on the wall which also feature kind of triangular designs and lots of kind of curvilinear lines and things as well. And these are also reflected in a lot of the paintings that we have in the ensemble too. So it's kind of interesting to think about how they fit into this larger picture and how they kind of replicate smaller kind of metal fixtures within the cabinet that we have mirrored up on the wall. And it's interesting how Barnes decided to kind of display these in this way. But if we zoom into our necklace, so here it is, you can see that it consists of a string of alternating bead types. We've got these nice kind of simple round silver beads and then we've got these more elaborate beads that are actually shaped into the form of flaring flowers. And these are usually termed as squash blossoms from which this necklace gets its name. And we'll come back to that in a second. And then at the bottom we also have this crescent motif, this double crescent, which is called a naja in Navajo, which just means crescent. And the crescent is kind of terminated in these small turquoise insets. We just zoom in a little bit better to show you. So we have these small turquoise insets on the terminal ends of the crescents. And then we have this hanging pendant, which is triangular in shape. And you can see that all the turquoise insets have these small drill holes in them. And that's probably indicating that these pieces of stone were reused from an earlier piece of jewelry. Some earrings or a string of turquoise beads for a necklace or a bracelet of some kind. So probably reused from an earlier piece of jewelry. Now the origins of the motifs that we're seeing here, so these squash blossoms and this crescent design, are quite heavily debated by scholars. And even amongst the Navajo themselves today, it's not quite agreed about what they mean and ideas about where they come from and what they mean vary between different scholars and between different Navajo groups. So these squash blossoms have been suggested to actually, first of all, they don't quite look like squash blossoms. But they've been suggested to be potentially adapted from Spanish motifs of a pomegranate, which were found a lot on Spanish buttons, particularly on Spanish kind of military uniforms and as a motif on Spanish textiles, which are something that the Navajo might have seen when they came into contact with Spanish missionaries and Spanish troops who came into the area of New Mexico from kind of the 1600s onwards. And some have also suggested that maybe they are kind of indigenous symbols or motifs that have their origins amongst the Navajo. And even some people suggested that maybe they come from other Native American groups from plain societies instead. So very kind of heavily debated about what these are and where they came from. And we have a similar kind of issue around this double crescent motif. This is something that we kind of commonly find on horse bridles, on Spanish moorish horse bridles with a crescent that kind of sits on the forehead of the bridle on the horse's head. And this has also been suggested maybe to have come from originating from Spanish motifs that were adapted by the Navajo. But still very, very unclear on where they come from. But it's a kind of interesting issue of kind of cross-cultural, artistic transmission and interaction. Now, these types of necklaces in general are symbols of status and wealth within Navajo societies and with a preference, definitely, I think, for the bigger kind of chunkier necklaces being kind of more prestigious. And the imagery and the materials that are used in them lean to different potential meanings and functions between different Navajo communities. So while silver is a locally available resource, it wasn't something that was actually particularly used much in Navajo jewelry making till the introduction of silver coinage from trading with American, Mexican and Spanish markets, particularly in the late 1800s. And Navajo silversmiths often source silver from this silver coinage, which they were acquiring from these markets. And they would melt down the coins and shape them into jewelry through handmade techniques of just hammering and soldering. And if we look closely at our necklace again, you can actually see that while these beads look very uniform, there's actually a lot of variation in their shape. They all kind of look a little bit different. They all have slightly different ways that they reflect light, which kind of indicate and illustrate to us that they're all handmade and kind of made individually rather than being casted. So the silver in this necklace is probably also sourced from silver coinage. And it's interesting to think about how the value and the prestige of this item was kind of heightened through using coinage in its making. And while silver is a relatively new material that's used in Navajo jewelry making, turquoise has been long used in Navajo decorative arts. It's a sacred material that's very important in Navajo material culture. It was believed to bring good fortune and to ward off evil forces through its kind of bright green blue coloration, which we can see really nicely in these little insets. But it also came from Mother Earth. So it has this important kind of protective quality and life-giving quality to it. And for some Navajo, the motif that we're seeing here of this turquoise pendant hanging and framed in between this silver crescent is actually kind of symbolic of a child within a womb as well. So it has this inherent kind of connection to motherhood and to protection as well, magical protection, which some Navajo kind of think that this is primarily used for this motif. And in general, wearing turquoise is something really important in expressing Navajo identity and being seen part of the Navajo community. So it's really kind of an important material to them as well. And we've kind of seen through looking at this object that this necklace has a number of different ways of viewing it. It's something of value because of the materials that it's made of that could be traded. It's a symbol of status and wealth within Navajo society. And it can also be something that was very personal and was worn by someone who believed it brought them protection and good fortune. So next time you're up in Room 16, take some time to have a little bit more of a careful look at these pieces of jewelry and think about the potential meanings these had to their owners and what they could have been part of in terms of contacts with different societies and transmission of different artistic motifs. So I hope you enjoyed this barn's takeout. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to our channel to get your daily serving of art. And please leave a comment. We really enjoy reading and responding to these. So thank you for watching this. And please stay safe and well. I'm Tom Collins, new Bauer family executive director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed barn's takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


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