What is going on everybody? JR Fisher here. It is Saturday. This is an exciting day because we're all alive We all made it through the Illness or at least I guess all of us did that are here. We got a good crowd here today good group of people Hey guys, I want to encourage you if you're new to this Training of that I do each day of the week. Please. Please put your comments in that chat box Ask me questions today I'm going to be talking about seven ways to make money with online courses But if you've got any questions about anything having to do with you know starting running growing online businesses Please put it that chat box. Don't forget to subscribe this morning. I think I'm 2024 subscribers away from hitting that 5000 milestone. I got to do it Man, I'd love to hit it today. Maybe go invite your friends right now Tell them to jump water here and subscribe Don't forget also to ring the bell Turn on all bell notifications to your note if I each and every time I go live. I love talking to you guys I love training you guys. We're getting some really good results I'm getting some input from you guys who are using this and making money and I love it Let's see Richard Brown. Thanks, JR and hello to everyone. He's saying hi to everybody. I just had Annick single on the Advert oh really? Oh, well, you know what every time an ad runs. I make some money. So that's that's a good thing I guess Make your buddies good. We're so busy guys. If you don't know we're moving to Austin, Texas kind of it's just north. It's called Georgetown and we're building our house and my builder Is sending me videos. We're getting so excited. I got boxes all over the house right next. We're packing up Let's see who else is in here Xenia Xenia, is that Xenia Xenia from Morocco? Man, that always sounds exotic. Doesn't it Morocco? I got to go there I swear to goodness. I gotta go there. I love Moroccan food. There's a Moroccan restaurant here in San Diego Where I'm at now. I love love love. I love Middle Eastern food. I really do. I think it's phenomenal It's so well seasoned I like Asian food which includes Indian You know, a lot of people don't know that India is in Asia, right? Okay A lot of people don't get that. Uh, but they have some just incredible incredible food I love highly seasoned foods and they're also good And today guys, I'm really going to share with you a way that I have money coming in every single day every single day I have, you know, in I hate to admit it in the thousands of dollars that come in Off my courses. This doesn't include my survival food company, which a lot of you guys know about I'll put it in there Google survival cave food Okay, and you'll see, you know, when you google that you'll see it Uh, let's see Richard Brown chicken tangine. Yes, anything in a tangine is good, right? That's that like triangle looking thing and it's like made out of clay and I don't have a tangine That's one thing I don't have. I'd like to get one of those at some point I think they're very cool. I man. I just love the food. I love couscous Um, I love all the seasonings and spices and it's just it's great. This is great stuff Um, but let me get on with the training today But like I said, if you got questions, it's not exactly what the training is today. Feel free to ask I don't mind at all, but you can ask me whatever you want. I'm here to serve you I'm here to give you information that's going to work and I got to tell you guys you you got to look for opportunities in what's happening in the world Everybody was shut in for over a year and we're just starting to come out now But what it did is it trained people to do different things and the one thing The one thing it trained them to do Is to get educated online more people are getting educated online now than ever before and I know some of you may say Well, I don't have anything I can teach you can teach anything. I mean if you can speak one language You can teach people your language whatever your language is and you can do that online. You can have courses on that you know, um You guys have so many different talents I'd be like I think of all the courses I have every time I do something that is a success such as You know doing facebook ads or SEO or building websites or doing emails or whatever it is that i'm doing that turns out to be somewhat of a success I turn it into a course I just take it I put it into a course you guys can do the same thing The online education market is growing like you cannot believe And yeah, there's competition out there, but it doesn't matter because there's so much more demand than there is competition So I want to tell you Of seven different ways you can do this Okay. Now the first thing you can do is sell your course For free For free, okay, and then final it into a product or service So I may sell a course on how to optimize my landing page Okay, and they'll go through the course at the end of it. I may have some software that helps them build a landing page I may have a bigger more advanced course that they can buy Um, I may have services that I sell that builds landing pages for them There's so many things I can do by offering a free course. I have a free course right now at the end of this Training today in the description section. You're going to see a free course and you can get that free course. There it is There's I'm doing it. I'm doing these things. Okay Another thing you can do That's number one Let's see web solution says made it back again. Hey Glad to be here. All right, man. Good to see you web solutions. It's awesome to have you here We have a good crowd today. It's building and building and I love that and don't forget you If you just got any of your web solutions, make sure everybody's subscribed Send people to subscribe to my channel. I need 26 people guys 26. I would love to get that today Next thing you can do number two charge to be certified After a free course. Now, this is a really cool model This is really something that Coursera did and they earned over a million dollars their first year doing this So it seems to be kind of counterintuitive because you're giving the valuable part of the course the learning away for free. However This can work to your advantages for several reasons. First off, it builds trust They know your stuff is good Learners can sign up for your course without worrying if they're making any kind of bad decision because it's free It doesn't cost them anything and then you can quickly build an email list of interested people to market to So the free course idea really works. Like I say, I'm doing it right now on this video in the description Also, certification has its professional value if after they take my course I give them a certification and they can get certified then, you know, they're probably going to be willing to pay for it James brain finally loud and clear in savannah. Oh my gosh. I hope you weren't having technical difficulties there All right, let me look at some of your comments here Paul says, do you think that an intro course at a very low price could be a way to Clear out tire kickers. I mean, it can be and so what if you have a tire kicker? I don't mind I mean, all I do is build my list and you know, I've had people on my list For three, four, five years and never bought anything and then also they bought something So you never know where it's going to come from and so what if they don't, you know, so what if they don't Maybe they'll talk about you. Maybe they'll share your stuff Um, see, I don't worry about if people buy or not. Um, I have enough money coming in at this point So I'm not worried about that part. Uh, and I'd like to get them to buy and sure I want more money.  They don't and that way I don't have any pressure on me Number three and this is one of my most favorite number three is continuity Um Like I said earlier, we're used to paying for education up front like tuition fees and all that But that's not entirely true. Most of us are willing to pay recurring fees on an ongoing basis for music lessons Or, you know, any kind of ongoing lessons private tutoring sports as long as we believe we can continue to gain value from those courses over time Now I have continuity that is 27 dollars a month and you'll say to yourself with 27 bucks That's not much money. Well, if you have a thousand people paying you 27 dollars, that's 27 thousand dollars a month Now I also have continuity that is 97 dollars a month. Once again, 1,000 people at 97 is 97 thousand dollars a month, okay And I have continuity that is 197 dollars a month. Okay, so that's 197 thousand dollars a month If you had a thousand people and I'm not going to say how many I have but I have a decent amount And then I also have a continuity that is 397 dollars a month. That's a nice one. Okay Now, obviously, I'm going to have fewer at 397 dollars a month that I am at 27 dollars a month But look at all this stuff. I've got I've got 27 97 197 397 That's a lot of money coming in. Okay every month every month that comes in like clockwork. Okay This applies to online learning as well Learners hesitate to sign up for subscription service if they think their course is a one and done program But if you're charging them continuity, they're going to feel like there's probably a lot of value to come on down the road That's why this continuity works so well. So that's number three for you Um, let me let me make sure I'm looking at Uh, all your comments here matt did that type of course for email marketing at a $900 price point. Yeah, you can do that.  You can put your one-time pays in there You can put your products in there. It's a sales page builder in there It's it's email in there and the thing is if you're doing your email in cartra and you have a course in cartra You can send them emails based on what they're doing in the course. You can't do that if you're using a separate platform So in other words if if you've got 10 videos and they got through three of them at the third video You can have an automated email that goes out says hey Congratulations on completing your third video You're gonna love what's in number four and those videos can go out and encourage them when they get to the end You'll know when they get to the end because you have in this automation everybody who got to this last video You can send them an email. You can congratulate them. You can send them a certificate. You can say hey, I've got this other course It's very similar. You may want to check it out and you can start marketing to them That's why you want cartra because you could do all of this in cartra and pay one fee If you do to the if you go to these other sites You're gonna have to pay for a whole lot of things and try to make them all work together Don't do that use cartra. I'm telling you if you use my link in the description For cartra, you can get a trial for one dollar Heck it don't even do the trial Just go and click on my link and watch the video of all that it does. It will blow your mind I'm serious. I've never had anybody watch that video where they didn't go. Oh my god. I need that Watch the video. There will be a link in the description after this video is done Okay, so the next one number four is create a graduated payment system You don't have to charge the same fees for every service. You don't have to do that So if you operate on a subscription model, you can have different levels that are free So I may say to you, okay, the first three videos are free I get this free course first three videos are free and then at the end of the first three that are free I can say if you want to continue this course, it's 97 a month and you're going to get videos four through 20 Okay, the stuff that you're really going to need so you give them a little taste of it And you make sure it's good and valuable, of course Um and then in video four, they've got to start paying if they want to continue on that's a great way to do it Number five sell your course in advance now. This sounds kind of crazy, but this can be done what this is Is if there's whole sectors of the internet that actually do this they pre-sell a course They haven't even done yet. They'll do it on Kickstarter. They'll do it at indiegogo In fact, not so long ago, you know, I I did that for a course where I was selling the course I said I'm gonna come out with it at x-date and you can sign up here Funding the development or online learning app is really pretty cool It's called pre-selling and when you do pre-selling you make a lot of money because you get the money up front It also encourages you to finish the course because you gotta finish it But pre-selling is a great idea for several reasons. Okay Now the first thing is you'll have ample motivation Like I just said to continue making your course without wasting energy. Okay, you're you're not going to be going Well, I wonder who's going to buy it. Well, they've already bought it. You got to finish it Also, you can use a free pilot lesson to test your idea and build up a subscriber list In addition to that, you're going to avoid all the sunk cost Of fallacy, right? In other words, it failed. It didn't do well because you aren't tempted to keep dumping resources into a course That won't sell it's already selling and then of course You don't have to guess what your learners are interested in because they already bought into the course So don't be shy about this guys. Do this thing Let's see. Well, I want to check out some of the comments in here. Does kartra have copywriting templates? No, no, I'm not going to say they do. I will tell you this Kartra has examples in there like some of frank cairns emails that were in there Some of frank cairns finals are in there Some of his sales pages. So you yes. Yes, okay You could use his templates for that in addition to that there is a marketplace in kartra Where people sell that kind of stuff and you can go in there and buy their stuff So you can find that stuff in there too Uh, jessica elf fisher. I know her. Good morning. She says, thank you jessica. Good morning to you too That's my wife and their guys and in case you're wondering Man, you got to go to her stuff on youtube if you've got a pet and I know a lot of us do And you want to teach that pet how to do anything? I don't care if your pet has problems It doesn't listen. It's barking. It's aggressive. Whatever it is go to her channel It's called the furry family coach jessica elf fisher the furry family coach. She has all kinds of stuff in there She reviews, uh, you know, uh toys and cages and foods and she educates you on how to make your dog healthy There's so much to that channel guys furry family coach jessica elf fisher She also has a diy channel called home sweet farmhouse. That's home sweet farmhouse Let me put this in here so you guys know Go to home sweet farmhouse channel for diy Go to jessica elf fisher furry family coach for dog training and pet enrichment Okay, it didn't want to do it didn't want to do the word enrichment. Maybe that's too fancy Enrichment, okay, so check that out. You know subscribe to her channel if that's something that you're interested in Uh, yes do both of those Uh, what else? What's to say? Thanks re-cartra. Yeah, cartridge that cartridge the deal man. It really is. All right. Where was I at number six? You can do what I do too. You can charge up front. You can charge up front A one-off fee at the beginning of the course is really the easiest way to sell your course, you know Um, I have courses that are you know, 1997 or 9 97 or 99 dollars or whatever it is And I just get the money up front to sell the course. So that's another way you can do it There's all kinds of different ways to do this and you know what you don't have to stick with one kind You know, I've had courses where I sold for 997 and then later on I went and sold it for 97 dollars a month continuity To see which one did better. You know, I did that Uh, and then the last thing I'm gonna tell you guys number seven Uh, let me read one of these comments here before I get to number seven Paul says love her pet site. I need to check out home sweet farmhouse. Oh cool. Go. Yeah, go there Subscribe watch your videos. She's got some good stuff And I help her, you know, do some of the filming of those videos, but her videos are very interesting Uh, and she just did a diy one where she ordered a bunch of clothes and to try it on outfits You know, so, you know, she's got that going there too. Uh, so check out that channel You really need to check that out. Now guys, we're getting a lot of people in here today Please make sure you subscribe before I get to number seven super important. Make sure you subscribe I need 20 24 or 26. I can't remember. I should remember I checked this morning to get to 5000 Please help me get there. Please help me get there.  It really does Uh, when doing a course, have you used a template to get it done? You know, I haven't really used a template. Uh, what I have done, Paul Is let's say I want to do a course on facebook ads Okay, uh, I will go out and buy two or three courses and see what they have in their courses Uh, to see what they've done and it gives me kind of a guide there I don't ever really use a template per se. I mean like when I do a course the first video I welcome them and I tell them about the course I tell them how to use the course Uh, and then I may have like a motivational one To try to get them to finish the course to go through the course Uh, and then I had the actual course material and then at the end I congratulate them I tell them to keep going forward and then maybe I offer them something else for sale Um, so that's I guess if that's if that's even a template But another thing I have done paul, which is kind of cool Uh, as I've got courses where I would do live trainings For a period of two months three months four months And then take all those live trainings and make those into a course because they're already recorded I can put an intro in it and exit and says go to the next video And I just take all that training I've done and put it into a course And I organize a little bit better and maybe I'll put some slides with the downloads that type of thing Uh, but I would tell anybody who's watching this you can do a course I mean you just think about anything that you know about I don't care if it's sewing or cooking or playing basketball or whatever it is There is a market for it guys. Uh, and let's get to number seven. We want to get to number seven Uh, let's see here number seven is what? Sell online licenses, okay So, um, you can actually create content and sell licenses to companies who don't want to create the course themselves Um, that you know, they handle all the technical details the marketing customer service management all that all you have to do is create the course And collect the annual licensing fee and then they can just sell it Okay, they can sell your course they can put their name on it their label on it whatever they want to do And that's a great way to go about it Um, you're you're still going to have to market your course to these businesses, you know I mean it's not going to just find its way there, but it's another way of going about it Um, don't be afraid guys to do this any of you can do a course. I mean, I've done Oh my god, how many courses have I done now one two three four five six Six seven and I got two or three more. I'm working on You know, there's so many and maybe now I think it's like eight now There's so many things you can do Paul says is there a length to the course? That is a sweet spot for link to keep people involved. You know, I I've got some ideas on that Um, I like to do about eight to ten modules. Okay, so everything's organized into modules Underneath each module. I will put four to five videos now The reason I do this is so that people can see that they're making a progression If you were to do one module with a hundred videos that just seems difficult, right? It doesn't make you ever get anywhere in addition to that I like to keep my videos five to ten minutes. That's it five to ten minutes That way they can see that they're making a progression. So if you think about it if I've got ten modules Uh, and underneath each module I may have four to five videos. Okay, so four to five videos Let's say they're ten minutes. So that's 40 minutes per module. Okay, so if I have four videos ten minutes 40 minutes 40 times 10 is 400. Okay. Now that sounds like a lot. It's really not That's just how many minutes 400 minutes. Uh, and there's only 60 minutes in an hour. You you do the math on that one Uh, but basically, you know, that's what a little over six hours of training For a course now that is just for a standard course one that you're going to charge in at $27 a month or $97 a month But you know, I've got I've got like memberships like e-business toolbox That has a whole bunch of different courses in there and all kinds of extra training and all But that's $397 a month or $1,000 to buy into that. Um, so that that varies a little bit Uh, but I wouldn't say there's a hard and fast rule outside of the fact that you don't want to make your videos too long Don't do a 20 or 30 minute video. It's just too long to sit through You know, if you've got a 30 minute video just break it up into three or four other videos Uh, and they don't all have to be the same length You can have some videos that are three or four minutes and some that are 10 minutes depending on the subject matter Some things only lend themselves to three minutes. Maybe a three minute one Maybe have to set up cartra initially, you know and just going through and putting your name in there and all that That didn't take 20 minutes to do that. It takes, you know, five 10 minutes three minutes, whatever it is So think about More along the lines of am I getting the point across without being boring? It might be thorough without overdoing it. Uh, that's what I would tell you to do But do have modules do have short videos do have a few videos for each module Don't have a module where you have 20 videos of it. It's too long to get through that module You've got to let them make progress. That's really important. Let them make progress Let me get a sip here real quick now What about pricing? What about pricing? That's the next thing people ask me You got to gauge the value of your ideas and ask yourself You know, what would you pay for this? You know, what is what value is this to you? Um, if you've ever given a talk on a subject or anything like that, you'll know that you have different interest levels in that audience Okay, uh, did you get a lot of questions from the audience? Did you not get a lot of questions from the audience? Try to answer those questions also in your course Um, I've even had Q&A sessions at the end of the course where I talked about that subject And it was a Q&A that I had done, you know months earlier You know years earlier But I stuck it on the end of the course because I knew these were questions that people would ask So I stuck that in there. Um, but you know, you got to test you got to test test test You know, some courses are worth 997 like if I was trying to how to learn how to make a cake, okay I probably wouldn't spend 997 dollars trying to learn how to make a cake. It wouldn't be worth it to me But it would be worth it to me for 47 dollars You know how to make a cake how to make beautiful cakes or decorate cakes or whatever 47 bucks Sounds like a deal for me. Now that course also is not going to have Probably 10 modules with four to five videos in each module like I just gave an example You know, it may be, you know, six or seven videos that are five or six minutes long, you know And that would be good 47 bucks. Yeah, you could do that If you're going to do continuity, you got to make sure that you have enough volume of stuff to where people are going Want to pay in other words, if you've got four or five videos And that's it that your entire course. That's not a continuity course because I can go through those four or five videos In a day or two. Why would I pay you next month? So you also got to think about that And if you're going to do continuity, it's got to be updated. You know, it's got to be information that is not old It's got to be stuff that people can continue to get value out of And share with me guys Have you guys done any of the uh, uh, course type stuff I've talked about put that in the comment section I also want to know if you haven't done it What are some ideas and I want you to put these ideas in there because it helps other people They'll see it and they'll go. Oh, that's a great idea. Put ideas now in that chat section Okay, of courses that you think might work. Let's hear them Put your ideas in the chat section now of courses that you think would be good There should be courses, but you know what I'm doing talk to text You know, I didn't have to type it in So, uh, I'm pretty happy about that. Uh, but put that in there. I've only got a few more minutes before I got to get out of here Today I've got to finish my Final for my 14 and a half ounce cans. Um, and that's going to be a really cool promo guys I showed you the sales page. I think it was on friday friday or thursday I showed you the sales page on I can't remember. I get them all crossed up. Um, but I want I want to finish that today. I've got Uh, eight videos to edit today Uh, what else do I got to do today? I've got to pack some of my house today I'm letting you know about my dad. I got up early this morning. I went over to u-haul and I just bought boxes Uh, I bought a bunch of boxes and um I got to pack those boxes up and you know Don't make this mistake and I've made this mistake before if you've got some heavy items Don't put them in big boxes. Like, you know, I've learned my lesson over the years We have a lot of books in this house a lot of books So I have small boxes like this for books because books are heavy So we don't want to take a box that's this big and this deep and fill it with books bad move I've done it not not a smart thing to do. Uh, let's see here. Richard says yes done many courses social media management Uh, Richard, why don't you uh, tell us what those courses are? Type that in there and how can people actually find your courses? Um, you know, there's people listening to this. There's you know, uh, a decent number now But there's going to be hundreds and even thousands of people that are going to watch this video, Richard Uh, and if I can send you some business, I'd love to do so. Uh, Richard is a regular contributor He's a man who apparently is making money online And you can check out his stuff. Uh, so put it in there Richard. Where can they get to this? I know you can't put an exact website because it won't let you do that But you could put the basic name of it and say go to this website with a co m at the end You know or something like that put that in there so we can see that we would love to do it If they're available, okay, if they're available or if there's some way they can You know, uh, join your list so they can get on your list We would love to help you out there. Uh, what about the rest of you? Nobody else has put anything in there about their courses and you know what ultimately happens is everybody does this after I'm live And then I got to come back and I got a comment on it Which is not a problem if you're not watching this live guys put it in that comment section there And I'll be happy to come back and do that. Uh, let's see a polls Completed courses a polls completed course Not done my own. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, you've completed different courses on that I see what you're saying. Okay, I got it. Uh, you when you said done them I thought you've been you that actually authored them, uh, but yeah, uh, if you've taken it Well, there's your proof guys, you know, there's people in here listening how to do courses and they've paid for court I've paid for courses. I can't count how many courses I've paid for, you know, I've done digital marketer ones I've done some frank current ones. I mean, I could go down a list I've done tons and tons of courses. I buy courses all the time I'm a purchaser of this especially if I want to learn how to do something I will go to one of these sites or I'll just type it in I'll try to find a course on it I'll look at the reviews on if it's good. I'll just buy the course If I'm doing a course like I just told you I'll buy two or three courses on the kind of course I'm trying to do and see what other people have done see who's been successful And then I'll end up, you know, getting some ideas from their courses This is not that difficult to do anybody can do this. It's not that hard But we are running out of time. So if you want to run a question by me now now's the time to do it I appreciate you guys very very much. Like I said, I only need like 24 26 subscribers to hit that 5,000 mark And I really want to hit that so guys if you would help me out, that would be awesome if you did that Don't forget to subscribe super important that you subscribe. 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Uh, do you use uh, you to me or skillshare? I have used both of those I definitely have um, paul says see you guys on monday gang Yeah, I've definitely used both of those. Those are both good sites. Those are cheaper sites I will tell you, um, you're not going to get a real in-depth course on either one of those Because they're cheaper sites and they have courses for seven dollars or 19 dollars or whatever, but they're good And you know, you'll see a lot of different Levels of skill on them equality. Some of the quality is not quite there But you know what the information's there and you know the quality of my first one probably weren't great either But you keep trying you keep improving That's all you can do and guys if nothing else today's session Let me encourage you to do a course just just try one just do one course do a small course Do one for 27 bucks or 47 bucks or 99 bucks do something This is the this is the hardest thing I have to get across to people is so many people don't do anything Please Do something do something do something you've got to do something guys Lack of putting forth effort is just such a killer and I don't want that to happen to you guys I want to see you guys get get forward move forward. So please please do something keep trying keep And I know it's it's daunting when you say oh my god I gotta do 10 modules with four videos and 10 minutes don't think of it that way Every other day do a 10 minute video and just stick it up there put it in cartra You can slowly build it in cartridge do another 10 minute video another 10 minute video You'll have a course and here's the thing even if it takes you three months or six months Okay, even if where it takes you a year whatever it takes you that time is going to pass Why let that time pass and do nothing? Why why you could be making more money? You could be making more money. You could be helping people Let's see here. Uh peace and blessings always everyone see all monday James is checking out guys. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so ring the bell Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go a lot or I upload a video and give me a thumbs up Guys, thank you so much for being here today. I really do appreciate each and every one of you It really it makes my day when I look down and I see all you guys here and you're conversing with me and you're asking questions Uh, and you're helpful to other people. I mean, what a great community. I really appreciate you guys. I love you guys so much Thank you so much. Uh must join the weekdays gang. Yes, we would love to have you richard. It is nine am Pacific time Now that's going to change that's going to change in about a month and a half because I'm going to be in texas And it's still going to be nine, but the texas time zone is different So you'll have to catch me in a different time. Uh, that means I'll gain some people and I'll lose some people Okay, because of your schedule, but I'm always here for you guys Send me a message even if it's after this video put it in the comment section I'll be happy to help you out. Don't forget to check out Jessica L fisher the furry family coach and don't forget to check out if you like diy projects You're going to love this home sweet farmhouse. Check out both of those That's my wife and make sure you subscribe if you like that stuff. Make sure you watch your videos I think you'll learn a lot from both of them James says I notice you only get likes. How about that? Oh, no, I've gotten some dislikes There's people that don't like me But I do appreciate all those people that do like me. Uh, and the algorithm does prefer likes You know, I used to think it didn't matter as long as you got a reaction It matters if a lot of people don't like you So I don't want people to not like me if you don't like me. Just don't watch my stuff. Just try doing that I've been subscribed and run the bell, but have never gotten any notifications for your weekly chats Uh, please tell me. Yeah, the weekly ones Um, christy and I don't send out an email. Um, all I do is go live Um, so what you need to do is go to my channel And when you go to my channel and you see them scheduled in there and I usually schedule them on sunday night Just click on them to send a reminder and then youtube will send a reminder The reason I don't uh, send out an email for the ones during the week is I do one every single day And I don't want to bombard you with emails I want to you know, if I send you an email, I wanted to be something I'm trying to teach you something new content I came out with maybe I've got something to sell a course or something like that Which I don't I don't do a whole lot of marketing uh to the jr. Fisher listed. I'm more trying to teach you So I don't do that the weekend one you should get an email one if you're on an email list And if you didn't get that let me know Um at my usual email address, not the gmail one. You know what uh christine send me a message to Uh, what would be a good one? What would be a good one? 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I need that 24 26 whatever it is Okay, I'll also be many cool christine and good to see you again. I hope things are going well I'm sure your rentals did well during the illness because rentals are tough to get in california now And they're very expensive You know, it's funny. I was um, I want to get off of here, but I want to share something else with you guys The neighborhood i'm building in They have such a shortage of houses the house across the street from us Is going to be completed soon and you they won't sell them to you now before they build them because the building costs have gone up so much But recently a house sold there and it went for $300,000 over asking price 300,000 over asking price because there's such a shortage They expect the house across the street from me and i'm not going to give you the price because they're not going to give you a neighborhood But the house across the street from us, they expect to have a thousand bidders They're going to open it up for bid you got a bid on it So they're going to say hey, this is the price How much over that will you spend and people are doing it? Uh, somebody just spent 300 grand over the asking price craziness Uh, our house has increased in value probably since we contracted november about 40 percent 40 percent Insane insane, but i'm happy about it. I'm sure happy about it Uh, sure we're interested in a lone star meetup. Good james. Love to see you there. Uh, that would be fabulous Let me know. Okay, cool. I would love to join you in texas. Nick wood says Looking forward to this richard brown Awesome, we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it and we're gonna try to do it in 2021 I think the fall would probably be good weather would be perfect in texas A lot of things for you to see in austin is austin's the town now guys. It's got the restaurants It's got comedy clubs. It's got sports events. It's got everything. It's got shopping Oh my god. The food is phenomenal. I think I think you guys are gonna like that town So hopefully we can meet up there. I appreciate your support today and I will see you guys on monday


How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards gonna be working on recon basketball six box break number 11 random team style Thanks again for joining results are linked in the chat and right there for you. Let's do it This is number 11 guys See what we can grab for you Here we go. Here we go. All right empty box Best of luck everyone starting out first pack autograph for the Hawks Kevin Werder. There you go. Nice one Destined for greatness Not numbered on the weirder Here you go And skies the limit of John Marant Awesome start to the case or half case. Excuse me. There you go Grizzlies. Awesome card Nice job Toss both those in the recap Toscano Anderson to 99 and B And rock the rim Tatum Jalen Brunson Lowry Derek white pink Moses moody base rookie to 299 Cam Johnson sons future legends the mellow Lonzo rookie recon of James book night Moses moody base rookie got a Jalen Brunson silver maneuvers of Chris ball and nice one for the Clippers Jason Preston true potential recon auto Clippers Jaden Springer body-heeled paint rich disaster if I could do a conference call right now At least he's really not paying attention to what's going on, you know, that's good because it's usually not like that Yeah, so at least we know No, I cannot Christos for zingas to 199 rock the rim Aaron Gordon That's kind of funny That is kind of funny Steph Curry for me a silver and top of the charts there on the Donovan Mitchell nice one jazz Awesome inserts great look to those Yeah, that's good That's a good thing Zaire Williams to 299 the aca portal and future legends of Cam Thomas Let me go next one up guys Lock everyone. Thanks again as always for joining some recon This is number 11 random teams Here's the vert. There's a Luca silver and closing statements of Luca Donchich First time I've seen this all day Awesome card There you go Mavs. Very nice Luca closing statements another one of those tougher to hit inserts Sure enough beautiful card there Mavs Luca pack very nice sit there Yeah, that's a great looking card KJ first one. I've seen all day Kyrie refractor silver and Austin Reeves on the pink rookie Just checking out some of the product this morning that Kenzie was breaking Jose El Verado and two of ten Luca Garza nice gold rookie. There you go Pistons Congrats George rock the rim. I don't think so KJ. I don't think any of the SSPs are technically a case hit I think some of them are just a bit tougher to hit than others If you get what I'm saying to 99 rile need to net to net to Aaron Gordon I know how to say that. I don't know why I was struggling with it Franz silver And I'm obama. He is pink Yeah, let's do it all star Let's do what I'd love to Someone's got to hit the one-of-one future legends of Darius Garland calves Nice images on those cards Jaden Springer sixers autograph not numbered rookie recon auto Fancy looking card there for the sixers Curry silver rookie recon Joshua primo Bobby Portis We got a tray Murphy rookie to 299 RJ Hampton Maneuvers tray young. Hey, what's going on Kemper? How you doing Calvin Murphy there Houston Rockets? You go. That's the 49 Kelvin Murphy The 49 Kelvin and THT Anyone in chat have a chance to make it to the national If so, did you enjoy it? Luca Garza got a Fred van Vleet to 299 Raptors and maneuvers of the year in Fox Next box guys Yeah, I mean, it's the national is the national like it's busy But yeah, it's it's a good time in if you like cards, you're gonna have a good time Don't get me wrong. It's it's a lot of work, but yeah, it's it's worth it It's worth it. There's a Franz to 299 Marvin Bagley and maneuvers of Kyrie Irvin The venue itself Atlantic City is an interesting place One of the more rundown places I've ever been to but beyond that it's it's an okay place for sure Mobley to 199 Jaron Jackson and a recon rookie of Moses Moody Yeah, it goes to multiple locations I believe next year is Chicago and then it's Cleveland and then back to Chicago and then they're kind of um Talking about a new location for 2026 apparently and Orlando is in the mix Westbrook on the silver and all pro Kevin Durant nice one. That's Yeah, that's the thing that's exactly what they should try to pitch. I mean if they want to make the national not just like Directed only to people that are only into cards Yeah, I'd have to be at the card show for three days for four days They could make it like you can come to the national and you can come to Disney You just have to go to the national for a few hours, you know Not everyone has to go to the national for the yeah Nashville was the other one of the mixed things I was just gonna say that Anthony Davis to 299 and maneuvers Russell Westbrook Yeah But yeah, that's that's the thing we'll see what happens, but I love it man dog McDermott on the silver and Seth Curry pink That's exactly what I'm saying all-star like I feel like so many people think that the national is like You got to go to the card show four days in a row It could be that but like at the same time it could be like you take the family on a trip You go to the national one of the four days you go to Disney one of the days You go to SeaWorld like there's just there's more potential to it You know so much more to do it could it could attract a way larger crowd way more diverse crowd Jalen sucks to bias Harris and a rock the rim LeBron It's as simple as a venue switch. That's the crazy part. So hopefully they can make the right call But yeah, Nashville is another good option. I will agree with that pistons. I say a livers to 99 You go branding Clark and future legends of Tyrese Halliburton But yeah, personally, I do really enjoy Going to shows they are a nice mix-up from breaking for sure. Yeah keeps it fresh to 199 Monty Morris and Rookie recon of Josh G Brogdon Buck's autograph of Grayson Allen glorified auto to 199 you go bucks Shaq silver quickly pink So yeah, we'll see what happens with the 2026 location what they announced But that'll be a pretty big announcement because it could be a new venue and if it is I really hope it's Orlando Cam Thomas pink Yeah, nicely and have fun at the Cali show that will be sick If it like I said earlier Lane if it didn't fall on the Pokemon and Magic release weekend I'd be there with you But want to hold it down here Yeah, for sure. I'll start So I believe it's Chicago Cleveland Chicago until 2026 Magic Johnson and that's a haul hopefuls of Kyrie Irving. Yeah, there's a big show Burbank show. I believe in Cali So it's one of the bigger card shops out there. They're hosting their own show To 99 Gary Payton nice one super socks goes to the Thunder Quintin Grimes Nix.  So yeah, huge for them Rockets Uzman Karuba nice one there your rockets It's awesome Ben Simmons and AI I had to sue me to 299 Ruby Hatchimora and AI maneuvers Yeah, that's the other thing JJ exactly you've got a lot of different sporting venues around here Tampa's a pretty short drive away. Honestly. It's about 60 to 90 minutes Depending what side of town you're going to and what time exactly Oh nice rookie review of Clay Thompson. That's gold to 10 sick one there. Wow You go warriors nice clay But yeah, exactly, I mean, it's not that far away even from Orlando or from Tampa a Whole nother city with a whole nother list of things to do there Jalen Green to 299 deer and Fox and rookie recon of Evan Mobley nice I mean for example the last Atlantic City National we land in Philly and drive an hour away So yeah to get to Atlantic City. So like that's like an hour drive is really like Reasonable I would say still and that's like a whole mother city in addition. It's not even the main city So yeah, there's stuff to do around here John Moran maneuvers Yeah, that's right the beach is still that's also an hour Yeah, it's so true Kevin Love on the silver rock the rim Vince Carter Yeah, nice Vaughn the Chicago show is really nice as well. I didn't enjoy that one Not this past show, but the one previous Cavs Rajan rondo, there you go to 75 on the auto nice rondo to 75 You go Cavs Sandro in a shy It's Chicago's nice. It's not too bad. Yep It's not too bad It's a lot like Milwaukee Scotty Barnes to 49 RJ Hampton and future legends of being reminds me a lot of Milwaukee at least Let's keep going. Good luck. I kind of figured but Thinking it once you said There would definitely be some changes though from Your standard South I mean you would more culturally than anything else You'd pick a small thing here and there since I'm from that area though I wouldn't be able to tell you what it is to 199 Luca and maneuvers in the mellow I'd be better off and point them out down here You're like, oh, yeah, that's normal like the golf course is just always in the middle of neighborhood really like down here I mean, that's not a thing up there. Oh, yeah, yeah, Tray young silver and an all-protein of curry nice You go warriors beautiful one there But yeah, I mean that's just not a thing in Wisconsin or anywhere in the Midwest Like you are never even really close to houses really there's like one course I can think of that you are to 299 quickly and rock the rim call Anthony. It's usually like you're closer to a farm Yes, yes Yes, Sondra, that's that's definitely one of the skinniest and a pink Luca Oh, yeah Yeah, exactly all-star exactly David Robinson future legends of Kaminga. I agree with that all-star. I agree with that Yeah, I agreed bleep Butler silver future legends of hero There he is hero Yeah, nice one. That's where I grew up. I'm a big fan of it as well To rows in there to 49 bowls and a rookie recon Isaiah Jackson Yeah, big fan of it. Let's keep going Yeah, I can't wait for the national nuggets. It's gonna be will Barton to 99 The last one just ended and already looking forward to the next one. You go nice nuggets auto Elijah Juan and Kelvin Johnson got a Joshua primo for the spurs. It's gonna be to 99 on the true potential auto No spurs nice primo Caruso and the Jalen green rookie recon a little bit remaining all good luck between Washington to 199 Kelvin Johnson red and a maneuvers Lebron Nice one. Honestly, I haven't like explored the city of Madison as much as I did in Milwaukee. Here we go next month. I Went to college about 45 minutes outside of Milwaukee. So spent more time in Milwaukee and then the city outside of Milwaukee More so than Madison, it's just simply not true Chris. It's just simply not true Davion Mitchell probably some kind of organizational thing I do in the gaming room that Brad's commenting on Seth carried a 299 and a Franz rookie recon. I have to imagine. That's what it is.  How about one of five on the Ben Simmons one of five Green one of five Nets there you go rock the rim and bead perfect Herbert Jones and Jalen sucks pink Trey Murphy to 299 on the cam Thomas maneuvers Trey young Quickly, we got Nets Kessler Edwards here true potential auto not numbered for the Nets on the Kessler Marcus smart Paul George rock the rim Soon to go guys to the go Jose Alvarado rookie Blake Griffin there to 99 And future legends of Jalen sucks Yeah, you think Primo have a nice year and bead and a Clyde Drexler All right guys, let's do a quick recap. Thanks again Here we go. Here we go. Kessler Edwards got a Ben Simmons to five Sire Williams Joshua Primo will Barton Rajan Rondo. There's Luca Garza. That's to 10 Clay Thompson to 10 rookie review Who's my Garuba? Grayson Allen. I say a livers Calvin Murphy Jaden Springer Luca closing statements Not numbered SSP inserts Jason Preston true potential. There's a Kevin Werder and the sky's the limit job Moran's thanks as always everyone. I appreciate it. We got another one of these coming up shortly We'll get it going for you shortly. Thanks again


So, okay. Thank you for this opportunity to present you something on the formalization efforts of the formalization efforts of the artisanal mining sector in Eastern DRC. So, I'm Ken Matassa and I'm working for the International Peace Information Service, which is a Belgian based research institute that does research on complex motives in Sub-Saharan Africa. And so today I will tell you something about, like I said, the formalization efforts of artisanal mining in Eastern DRC and the main driving force behind it, which is the conflict minerals issue. So, first of all, I will give you some more info on the artisanal mining sector in the Congo. So, for the moment, mining in Eastern DRC is almost entirely done through artisanal mining. Industrial mining has almost completely disappeared during the 1990s for several reasons, but I've listed the most important ones here. So, there's Mobutu's devastating economic rule. You have the collapse of mineral prices at the world market at the end of the 1980s, and there's, of course, the Congolese wars in the 1990s. Then, there's many things to say about the artisanal mining sector in Eastern DRC, but for the sake of time I've just selected the two most relevant characteristics for this presentation, which is, first of all, that the artisanal mining sector in Eastern DRC is very informal. There are hardly any miners that are officially registered, but this does not mean, however, that the sector is completely chaotic. The sector is very well structured, indeed. So, there are about, yeah, the estimate is 500,000 to 2 million miners that are working in the mines in the Congo, and they dig the minerals, they exploit minerals with a lot of manpower and very rudimentary tools. Next, they sell their production to local traders who transport minerals from the remote mining sites to trading towns next to the Eastern Congolese border, from where export houses export minerals to the world markets. So, then the second important characteristic is the fact that artisanal mining has become a very important livelihood strategy for many people in Eastern DRC. There is an estimate that 10 to 12 million people depend directly or indirectly on artisanal mining for their income. When I say indirectly, it means, for example, dependents of the miners or shopkeepers at the mining sites or any other business which is linked to the mining sector. So, the fact that the state is hardly present in the Eastern part of the country and the fact that the artisanal mining sector is highly informal makes it very vulnerable to armed groups. Because, indeed, minerals are an important source of revenues, if not the most important source of revenues for many armed groups in Eastern DRC. And when we're talking about armed groups, we're talking about rebellions as well as units of the national army. So, as such, minerals do play a very important role in the prolongation of insecurity and conflict in Eastern DRC. But it's very important on the line that these minerals are definitely not the cause of the conflict. And this is a very important remark because with the heightened attention at the scene of the international community over the last years, there have been many rushly executed conflict analysis which do see a quite direct link between mineral exploitation and conflict. And, yeah, this analysis is quite problematic. And I will come back to this later on. So, with the heightened attention for the conflict minerals issue in Eastern DRC, there has been a bigger push to formalize the artisanal mining sector. In the past, there have already been other formalization efforts, so one by the national government. Yeah, although we do have to say that it's not really an effort. It was foreseen in the Congolese mining code, which was created in cooperation with the World Bank in 2002. But this has had very little effect on the ground because, first of all, there's very little incentive for miners to formalize. In their point of view, they don't get anything in return to register. In their point of view, it's just to pay extra taxes. Because, yeah, just one example is that registered miners have very little security of tenure. If the state deems an artisanal mining site viable for industrial exploitation, it can chase the miners away within 60 days. Furthermore, also, traders or exporters have very little incentive to go formal because export taxes are much lower. Export taxes for minerals are much lower in the Eastern neighboring countries. And, third of all, also, actually, there's very little political will of the national government to formalize the artisanal mining sector as they are much more interested in industrial mining. So the consequences that a lot of the minerals leave Eastern DRC illegally are informing. I forgot to tell just a quick note that when we're talking about this artisanal mining sector in Eastern Congo, it involves mainly gold and the 3T minerals, like Louis already mentioned, which is tin, tungsten and tantal. So, like I said, this heightened attention within the international community for the conflict minerals issue has created a bigger push and has created a bigger push for formalization and the increase of transparency in the Congolese artisanal mining sector. Many initiatives have been created over the last five years. I think the three main categories of initiatives that have been created are due diligence initiatives, traceability initiatives and certification mechanisms. For the sake of time, it isn't possible to explain what these initiatives exactly are because it's quite technical. And also I guess for this presentation, it isn't really essential. So we will go quickly to the effects of these initiatives. First of all, I want to say that it's very difficult to assess the effect of one individual initiative because a wide array of initiatives have been implemented at the same time. So it's very difficult to link one effect to one initiative. But in general we can see that the consequences have been quite mixed and rather negative. Although one positive consequence has been that conflict financing by minerals has indeed decreased in 3T mining areas, so the tin, tantalum and tungsten mining areas. But the negative effects were also quite harsh. And the first one is that there has been a de facto embargo against Congolese minerals. Because companies on the international markets are afraid of reputational damage, they shy away from the Congo and they prefer to source their minerals from other areas in the world or on the world markets. So the effect is that the legal tin trade in the Congo has completely collapsed over the last years. And these of course had had quite some negative consequences for the livelihoods of many artisanal miners. Their income decreased, consumer goods became scarce in remote mining areas. And this of course has had quite some negative effects on schooling, on health care, on the level of criminality. So this brings me to the lessons learned. It's just a few, I guess there's much more, but in our point of view these are the most important ones. So first of all, the first one is not really linked to formalization, but it is a very important one, is that there is more to security than conflict minerals. A lot of the initiatives are linked to a narrow conflict minerals discourse. Like I mentioned before, you have this rashly executed conflict analysis, which sees a quite direct link between mineral exploitation and conflict. So the consequence is that some policy makers create policies that really focus on conflict minerals to solve the conflict. But this doesn't work and a more holistic approach is needed. Approach which includes the conflict minerals discourse, but also for example, security sector reform, the refugee problem in the area, corruption. And I can go on and on other courses of the conflict. So the second lesson learned is that there is more to artisanal mining than conflict. It's very important that initiatives do not limit themselves to just bashing the conflict minerals issue. Because the danger is we should be very careful not to criminalize the entire sector with focusing too much on this conflict minerals issue, because it is such an important livelihood for so many people in the country, even though conflict is involved. Therefore it's important also that something which is linked to this, that formalization efforts, do not just focus on conflict minerals, but also take into account other issues, like for example environmental issues or the bad working conditions that are currently seen at mining sites. Because this is often lacking currently in a lot of the initiatives that are being implemented. The third issue is the top down approach. A lot of the initiatives that have been created are created in Brussels, London or New York, and they use a strong top down approach. And this is quite problematic because if these initiatives make a lot of demands on all kinds of actors in the Congolese mining sector, then these initiatives should also make sure that in addition they try to stimulate formalization efforts from below. Because for the moment if we visit the field we see that hardly any of the local actors know any of the initiatives that affected their business. So it's really important that in the future there is more attention to stimulate local actors to work formal and to give them an incentive to work formal. Because just giving them rules won't do it. So if we want to really stimulate artisanal miners to work formally, and if we want to implement a formalization mechanism or formalization strategy that is driven from below, it is important that there is more attention for capacity building of local state agencies. Because for the moment their capacity is really terrible. They do not have the capacity to implement any initiative or at least on a large scale. And this brings me to the last issue. It is that the initiatives should go beyond just making demands on industry. Because we see that for the moment the only initiatives that are quite far in their implementation phase are initiatives that make demands on industry. And this once again is quite problematic because if you make too many demands on industry without progress from other actors in the sector, there is a big risk that companies either shy away from the region which happens right now. Because it's too difficult for them to prove that they are buying clean minerals. And second of all, another risk is that they more or less twist the original objectives that were behind the formalization initiatives or the complex mineral initiatives. To make this a bit clearer, the risk is that when initiatives focus too much on supply chains of companies, there is a risk that this supply chain becomes the most important thing and that a clean supply chain becomes the name in itself. So the consequence is that we even now see some initiatives where companies really focus on creating a clean supply chain. So they just buy from one mining site that is clean. This wild community or this island of security, of good working conditions. But they neglect the situation around the mining site. And of course this is not the original objective behind the formalization and anti-conflict mineral strategy. Okay, thank you very much for your attention. This was more or less my presentation. Of course, if there are any questions then I would be very happy to reply to them afterwards.


Wait a minute. Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler? The whistler you promised me that you wouldn't gamble again You've broken that promise and I won't give you another cent this time John. You can work it out for yourself Another Sunday night and again CBS presents the whistler the whistler know many things for I walk by night I know many strange tales many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows And so I tell you tonight the amazing story on avarice John Abbott lives in a vast house on the outskirts of town But it isn't John's house. It belongs to his wife John has never had a penny. He could honestly call his own Then John has always been lucky John Abbott is somewhat of a gambler who was fortunate enough to marry a wealthy young widow Marsha Howard wife of the late motor magnate Burton Howard But John has pulled a few tricks bordering on the shady side of late and Marsha has come to distrust him She has paid off a number of his gambling debts, but this time he's really in a spot John got into a poker game with Mike Flynn lost and paid off with a worthless check Hello, Mike. How are you?  Where have you been keeping yourself? Well, my wife's been rather ill, you know I've intended to get in to see you and the boys for some time. Did you try real hard John? Try why? Uh What do you mean? I kind of got an idea. You were trying to avoid me Why should I would you are dropped in today if mugsy hadn't tipped you off that I wanted to see you Of course I would You know pigs I I resent that Mike you do when I resent this what this rubber check You got a lot of nerve running in on a game when you can't pay off Why was it returned insufficient funds according to the slip? Yeah, I can't understand that Must be some mistake. There's no mistake John. You didn't have 4 000 in that bank and you knew you didn't I checked on it Well, uh, I'll take care of it. You've got nothing to worry about and fork over I don't carry that much money on me Then you'd better dig it up John Oh, I uh can't walk out and take it off a tree and hope you know where to get it in a minute. Do I sure Your wife is rolling in money That's not as easy as you think See Marsha doesn't approve of gambling neither do I When you can't back your bid Well, uh, I I can get it You've got to give me a little time Uh, take a few days John. I'll give you a little Saturday at noon to get me that money Saturday That's almost impossible. This is Wednesday. How much time do you need? Well, I don't know, but I'll get it as soon as possible Do you have to have cash not necessarily? I see What do you have in mind, John? Nothing nothing at the moment better think of something. Yes, I will oh, I'll get it any good security or do I quite understand, but whatever it is. I'll expect it by noon Saturday Otherwise Well, I could turn it over to the district attorney or I could have a pal of mine take you for a little drive in the country some afternoon Oh, I I'll get it. Micah. I'll get it. I'll have something for you Saturday at noon. I I don't know what it'll be, but I'll have it. That's fine. John. It's fine. I'll be expecting you Thanks, Mike Thanks for the extension. Uh always glad to help out a friend. Yes Well, so long so long John So John Abbott walks out of Mike's office and home in a deep fog Goes to his wife's room on the floor above slips easily to the side of her bed Marsha, huh? Marsha That you need it. Were you asleep Marsha? John I'm sorry if I awakened you What time is it a little afternoon? Where's neither? I haven't seen your sister this morning. She's around someplace. I imagine What did you want John? I wanted to ask you something That is Well, I have a favor to ask what's troubling you now John I hate to bother you and you don't feel well, but I need a little money money What is it this time your brother again? No, no, it doesn't concern Alan. That's a wonder How much longer is he going to stay here? I don't know Is he so obnoxious? I can't understand why a young fellow like Alan should be content to do nothing Oh, he'll get into something soon dear. I hope so What do you need money for John? A uh note I had came due What kind of a note just a note I gave it some time ago How much four thousand dollars four thousand yes Do you mean to say that you owe someone four thousand dollars? I'm sorry Marsha, but I do when did this happen just a week or so ago You've been gambling again Do you realize how many thousands of dollars I've given you to pay off such ridiculous debts? Yes, Marsha, but you don't have to shout at only a month ago. You promised you'd never gamble again And now four thousand dollars. I didn't mean to get in so deeply Marsha I Well, I just dropped in to say hello to a few of the boys and I had a few drinks and Before I realized it. I was in the hole don't blame it on a few drinks All you need is a deck of cards. Oh, don't rub it in Marsha I feel badly enough about it.  Well, you're not broke Marsha.  No, dear. I wrote a check a check Why did you do that you have no account of that size and never did well, they wouldn't take my io you Who wouldn't take it? Were you playing with Mike Flynn again? Yes There are fool john an impossible fool, but that isn't the point my dear. Will you help me? No john You promised me that you wouldn't gamble again. You broke that promise and I won't give you a dime You can work it out for yourself. Where would I get four thousand dollars? Why don't you try working for a change? Well, I don't expect you to give it to me I'll pay it back. You'll pay it back. Do you think I believe that you act as though you were down to your last penny What good does all that money do you anyway? What good will it ever do? It's more good than whatever do you I might be able to get into some kind of business if I had enough capital This You well, what's wrong with that? You talk as though I were good for nothing below you are you and your brother I'm sorry. I didn't know that before I married you and now your brother's hanging around here And what for? Pretending to be in love with my sister I don't like him and you can tell him to leave. That's right get yourself excited over have a good reason to be excited You're not happy sick as you think You have all the symptoms of a hypochondriac. Get out of here. Get out of this room. I'm going. I'm going and tell your brother that I Marsha. Oh Marsha. What's going on in here? What was Marsha yelling about? I don't know. She's fainted She certainly can get worked up easily. You'd better call dr. Manning. Very well. I'll call him from downstairs Dr. Manning. Oh, yes, this is John Abbott. I uh wonder if you could come over here Marsha has had another spell Yes Very well. Goodbye What happened John? I don't know Ellen. She gets excited over the least little thing. Yeah What was she yelling about? Oh, I went in to ask her about something and she blew up What did you say to her? Why was it something about me? No, I needed a little money to cover a note And I happened to ask her at the wrong moment No Give me the check, don't you check? What do you mean? That $4,000 check you gave Mike Flynn. What do you know about that? I've heard about it. So you think she'll let you have the money? I don't know Ellen I Rather think she will Eventually, what do you mean eventually? You've got to have it by Saturday Yes, it's that's right. Sure a tough spot John Maybe to be in your shoes. Why Mike Flynn is a bad egg to fool around with I know how to take care of Mike. I hope so I'm going out for a few moments I'll be back by the time dr. Manning gets here. Okay John goes out and walks around for a while pondering over his predicament Allen sprawls on the sofa and studies his own personal problem In a few moments. Neeta marsha's young sister comes down the stairs How is she Neeta? She's a little better. I gave her some of her medicine and she pulled out of it What upset her? Oh, it doesn't take much to upset marsha.  Maybe Sometimes I feel I can't stay here another day. Why do you stay Neeta? Well, I Feel it's my duty to stay. It wouldn't be right to leave marsha in this condition. Is that the only reason for staying? No Suppose she's angry because of my being here. I don't know. I don't think she likes me very much I don't know why she should feel that way. I've tried to be nice to her She doesn't seem to like anyone very well. She makes herself miserable No one seems to be able to do anything for her. Suppose she resents your being here Neeta Why should she? I don't know.  What reason would she have to do that? Oh, I don't know. I I was just talking thinking out loud. What are you trying to say? Do you think that marsha loves John? I know she doesn't. Do you believe that John loves marsha? I don't know. I don't see how he could considering the way she treats me poor John is miserable My heart aches for him Neeta You know that I love you very much. Don't you darling? Yes Please Please marry me Neeta. I just can't Alan. I know you love me, but I I know I know that I have nothing But that'll change. I got a swell job coming up and I'll make you very happy Neeta I believe you Alan. I know you love me, but I I just can't say yes because because of John John is a swell fellow Neeta, but he's a lot older than you besides he's married to marsha So what good does it do to you? I can't help it Alan. I just can't help. Do you think that John cares for you? I think he does. Has he told you so? No, but No, it doesn't matter. I worship him. You'll never divorce marsha. He can't afford to. I know And what do you expect to happen? Are you waiting for marsha to die? Is that it? How can you say such a thing? Oh, why not be frank marsha may live for years and the longer you stay around here the worse it'll be for you If you married me and got away from here for a while you'd forget all about John I don't think so. The longer you stay the more miserable you'll become perhaps, but I can't leave. I can't I've tried Very well, Neeta. I think you're foolish. I'll leave you mine. Please Alan let me alone. Don't say another word about it. Please Okay, I won't say another word Not another word Dr. Manning visits marsha John returns to the house And now the doctor has come downstairs and asks John Alan and Neeta to join him in the library I want to have a little talk with the three of you Yes, about about marsha. That's right. I wish you doctor She's much worse than when I saw her last worse. Yes She suffered some emotional upset. She can't afford to do that Her condition is very very serious I've warned you before about the result of the slightest argument I don't know what occurred this morning, but I warn you that another such occurrence will cost her life Is she that bad? I'm gonna be frank with you john For her own good. I had to tell her the truth I think I should tell you the truth I doubt that marsha will live more than a year. What? Yes On the other hand if she suffers no further emotional stress She may live two or three years poor marsha. I didn't realize it was that serious I'm sorry to have to tell you this but I feel that you should know all the truth It is quite a shock doctor, but I appreciate you're letting me know. Yes, we all do of course Well, I must run along now. I want to have a few words with your housekeeper mrs. Simmons about marsha's diet. Good day doctor and Thanks for coming over Oh, it's really serious. I thought marsha was more or less of a hypochondriac. I really did Yes, so did I Well, this puts a new light on the situation What situation? Well, I I'm sorry. I caused marsha to become upset Yes, we must be very careful from now on about what we say to her. Yeah, that's right Very careful all of us Early next morning john goes into town to have a talk with mike flin the gambler Mike isn't in his office. So john drops over to the drug store to purchase a few articles Well, how are you john? I haven't seen you for a week or so.  Oh, I've been rather busy the past few days. Yes, what can I do for you? Well, I have a list of things here quite a few items. I'll let you fix them up and I'll call for them later Very well. That's a nice special dawn today. No, no just what you see there on the list. Oh, yes. Yes, of course. Now, let me see Yes Yeah, yes. I have everything here. I'll be back Oh, uh, hello mike. I was just up to your office. So I hear Got some good news for me john Why yes, that is Well, I Think things are going to be all right. That's all I'm glad to hear it For your sake I I wanted to ask a little favor of you mike favor. Yes Well, that all depends on what it is What you got in your mind john Well, I uh, suppose we go over to your office. Okay Whatever you say, uh, just wrap those things up mr. Smith. I'll call for them in half hour. So come on mike Then john returns home at noon Now it is after one lunch is over and john sits at the desk in the library lost in deep meditation The library door opens and neither slips quietly to john's side john Oh, yes, neither I didn't hear you commit. I open the door very quietly I thought you might be taking a nap. No. No. No. I was just thinking things over I know how you must feel john I've developed a bit of a headache And it didn't sleep a wink last night. I'm so sorry for you john Me may I rub your head? It might help a little Thanks nita I'm all tied up in knots Does that help? Oh, yes.  I think so. I know so Are you really in love nita? Yes john I'm sure I am and I hope it lasts But with a girl like you sweet and kind and gentle it's bound to last Yes You know Ellen is a very good boy, but he's got to be handled carefully It's quite a bit like me I know my shortcomings and ellen has the same We were both raised with the silver spoon in our mouths Then we were suddenly thrown out into the world on our own and we just couldn't take it I had nothing to offer anyone so I just followed the line of least resistance. Have you john Ellen is just like me, but fortunately he's young enough to be changed He can learn new tricks The right girl could help And you are the right girl Think so Yes You're as different from your sister as night from day, but I don't love ellen But you just said you did no john. I didn't I did say I was in love But not with ellen But he's mad about you nita. I know he's nice, but I don't love him and and never will Well, then if you're in love and it isn't ellen Then who is he? Don't you know No Oh john Nita Nita oh john forgive me, but I I can't help it What do you mean?  Yes john. I know it's despicable, but I I can't help it. I love you Well of all things Nita I've loved you from the day we first met But nita darling this what's ridiculous You can't mean it. I do. I do. I've tried to find it, but I can't I'm married to your sister Marsha doesn't love you not the way I do and you don't love marsha. How do you know that I can tell I know Oh, you're miserable john Am I yes marsha has treated you terribly how you've gone on this long. I'll never understand But I love you. I'll always love you Don't you care for me at all Yes, nita I'll have to confess I do oh john john It won't work In the first place. I married to marsha the second place. I'm older than you The third place. Yes, I'm in a spot very tickly spot I can't afford to Well break off with marsha. What do you mean? I owe a certain man four thousand dollars. I must pay him by this coming Saturday or I might go to jail. What? Oh, he couldn't do that. Yes. He could And he might even take me for a ride kill you. Yes. Oh john Did you tell marsha? That was the cause of her relapse. She refused absolutely that only proves she doesn't love you She's mean and hateful sometimes. I think she's insane. Do you? Maybe she is you mustn't give up hope john You will get the money. How? They'll be away john there must be a way we'll make a way Make a way What do you mean? I'm not sure But we'll find it In a short while later the housekeeper mrs. Simmons comes to marsha's room to take away the luncheon tray Did you enjoy your lunch mrs. Abbot? I thought I'd pick up the tray and dishes Where ice cream Where'd you get the ice cream? I didn't serve you any ice cream mrs. Abbot are you asleep? If you'd wanted ice cream you could have told me mrs. Abbot mrs. Abbot mercy on us. She's cold mrs. Abbot mrs. Abbot She's dead. She's dead Give me the police an ambulance a doctor The police arrived the ambulance arrived but marsha was dead quite dead Why the police were called only the housekeeper knew but once the police arrived they followed it through to an autopsy Now the officers have returned to the abbot residence Captain barns is speaking You uh, you're mrs. Simmons the housekeeper. Yes, that I am And you're nita mrs. Abbot sister. Yes And you I'm alan abbot john abbot's brother. You live here. I'm visiting here. Let's see mrs. Simmons you served lunch to mrs. Abbot. I did. What did you serve? I served chicken soup cream carrots toast and tea and uh ice cream No, you didn't serve ice cream. I did not. Are you positive mrs. Simmons? I'm positive. You don't have to shout I thought you didn't hear me. I urge you Will you two step out of the room for a moment? I want to talk to the housekeeper alone, of course captain certainly mrs. Simmons, uh How long have you been with mrs. Abbot? You mean how long have I worked here? That's right too long Didn't you like it here? I don't want to talk about it. Didn't you like mrs. Abbot? I certainly did. She was so good to me I worshiped her You uh You came here the day she married her first husband, didn't you? Yes, and they were so happy It was very pleasant here then. You mean there came a time when things ceased to be pleasant Yes, that's what I mean When did things take on a change after she married john abbot? How long after she married abbot did her health begin to fail It was about a year. Did they quarrel often? Yes quite a bit. What about well, my money Mr. Abbott didn't have a cent when they were married and he's never earned a cent nor done a day's work since There was always gambling always losing money her money Then she got disgusted and clamped down on and shortly after that she began to fail. Yes, and she changed completely She became morose and cranky You just can't realize what a change there was in her unless you knew her How long has allen abbot been visiting here visiting? As a way past the visiting stage the lazy loafer and living here over six months. How long has he been here? Um, she came to live here over a year ago Mrs. Abbott asked her to stay with her when she first took ill and that was a big mistake mistake to have her sister here What do you mean? I'm talking too much. I don't want to get mixed up in this. I'm leaving this house. I'm afraid you're going to stay right here Mrs. Simmons until I tell you to go you You mean i'm arrested we call it detained until this is cleared up What are you doing here anyway? Why are you snooping around asking so many questions? Why did you call the police when you found the body? I don't know. I was just excited. You didn't call the doctor.  I I don't know. I I really don't know She's had bad attacks before and you always call dr. Manning, but this time you called us. Why I don't know Then I'll tell you because you knew she'd been murdered murdered I didn't I didn't then you must have suspected it Who just suspect her husband? No, no, neither. I don't know what you're talking about Then it must have been you who served the ice cream But it was served and there was arsenic in it arsenic rat poison Mrs. Abbott was murdered. I knew it. I knew it her husband did it. No, she did it Neither did it. Why because she was madly in love with John. She wanted marsh out of the way I knew she was a devil Bring him all in marvy Nina Your sister was served ice cream at lunch in this dish Mrs. Simmons says she didn't serve it. Well, what about it? I'll ask you that What do you know about it? Why I wait a minute. What's the ice cream got to do with it? I'll tell you in a moment. Do you serve that ice cream? You don't have to answer that needed. Did you? Yes, yes, I did serve it. What did I tell you? Where did you get the arsenic? What arsenic? Mrs. Abbott died of arsenic poisoning. This dish contains arsenic Where did you get it? Why should I do such a thing? You had a motive You were in love with John and wanted your sister out of the way. That isn't true You bought the ice cream and you served it. I did not buy it. Then where did you get it? I don't know You'd better tell You're in a tough spot. Wait a minute. Neeta did not do it. She couldn't have done such a thing I bought the ice cream. I gave it to Neeta to serve to marsha And you put the arsenic in it. Neeta would never do that She isn't the kind John did it and he had a motive one motive He gave mike planer rubber check for four thousand dollars Mike gave him till saturday or he turned it over to the da Marsha refused to help John out so he killed her. Is that true about the check? Yes, but I didn't kill marsha.   What? Yes, Alan was in love with me asked me to marry him, but I knew what was back of it Neeta He wanted to marry the money. He knew marsha would leave to me. I did not I told him I loved John and turned him down. He was jealous of John If Alan poisoned marsha, he figured John would be blamed and that would put John out of the way He put the arsenic in the ice cream. He must have. He's crazy. Absolutely crazy. He's not the only one. The housekeeper accuses Neeta. Neeta accuses Alan. Alan accuses John And both men trying to protect Neeta But I've got a piece of evidence that definitely pins in on one of it How about it sergeant? What'd you find? I checked the box of rat poison we found in the pantry Purchased yesterday noon and the poison register was signed by John Abbott. The drug has confirmed it. All right, John Yes, yes, I bought it, but I swear I'm innocent The evidence is all against you John And as to Neeta's part in it Well, it'll all come out in the trial But wait it isn't over yet The door bursts open and dr. Manning rushes in waving a special delivery letter just received at his office Read it doctor Listen to this John doesn't love me. He cares for nothing but my money He's in the spot over a bad check the spot in which he deserves to be Alan is no good and pretends to be in love with Neeta, but he really wants to marry her for the money. He thinks I'll leave her My sister is in love with my husband Which disgusts me If I leave my property to her John will marry her at the first opportunity This house is filled with nothing but avarice and greed I can bear it no longer the thought of hanging on to life under these conditions for another year is intolerable A few minutes ago. I slipped down the back way and found some rat poison Removed a portion of it set back to my room and mixed it with the ice cream Enclosed as a short wheel witnessed by mrs. Simmons I leave all my property personal and real to the children's home at montabello This will end the disgusting situation created by my late husband's fortune Signed marsha howard-aver Well, there you are None of them killed marsha, but they certainly had the motives Now all of them are left to face the world penniless And there's still a four thousand dollar check standing between john and neeta too bad CBS has presented the whistler original music for this production was composed and conducted by wilbur hatch The whistler is written and directed by j donald wilson and originates from columbia square in hollywood Next week same time I the whistler will return to tell you another unusual tale Good night. This is the columbia broadcasting system


Now one thing you should keep in mind when it comes to the equal sign, when you're simplifying things, you can have terms where there's only numbers involved. So you can have 2 plus 5. So 2 plus 5 is 7. We already know that. And that's simplified. When it comes to the equal sign, you're going to have to have at least one variable. And a variable is usually a symbol or a letter. Usually we use letters for variables. You're going to have a variable in there where you're trying to solve for something. So there has to be an unknown, or initially anyway for us, there's going to be an unknown in our equations. When we start doing this. So we're going to have x is equal to 5. So there's going to be a letter in the symbol. Keep this in mind. The first operations that we learned when we started the language of mathematics was how to add and subtract. So let's see how additional subtraction work together with the equal sign. Let's start off with basics. Let's go x plus 5 is equal to... Now what we do when you have addition and equal sign. What this is, is two terms on the left side and one term on the right side. Whenever you have additional subtraction, that's your separation of terms. Unless they're all divided by something. But we'll get into that detail. Let's just talk about this for now. How we solve for x and we're solving for something. What it means is we're getting the letter on one side of the equation by itself. So whenever they say solve for something, what you have to do is get that letter by itself on one side of the equation. And the letter we refer to as a variable. The way the equal sign works is if you want to get rid of something on one side of the equation, you have to do the opposite to it from that side. And because this is an equal sign, you have to balance things out. If you do something on one side of the equation, you have to do it to the other side of the equation. So what we do here is this is x plus 5 is equal to 2. What we want to do is get x by itself. So we have to get rid of the 5. What we're going to do is that's plus 5. We're going to subtract 5. So we're going to go minus 5 on this side. And because we have an equal sign and the equal sign means we have to balance things out, whatever we do on one side, we've got to do to the other side. So if we subtract 5 from this side, we have to subtract 5 from the other side. Minus 5. So this guy kills this guy, right? All we've got left on this side is just an x. So x equals 2. 2 minus 5 is negative 3. And that's your answer. x is equal to negative 3. One tip that you should keep, you know, use, or one way to lay all this stuff out is math is very visual. So what I like doing, personally it helps me out a lot, is I line up my equal sign whenever I'm solving for things. You know, try to get some kind of balance happening. And what happens is usually if you have a large equation, if you're balancing your equal sign down the middle, your equation gets smaller and smaller.  So it looks quite nice, okay? It looks pretty cool. If you do it, you know, hopefully it works out that way. Sometimes you introduce new things and the equation, it blows up. It becomes crazy. But in general, just the simple stuff, you start off with, you know, certain term on one side, certain term on the other side, your equal sign in the middle, line up your equal sign and start crunching things around and what you notice, you end up with a V. Okay? Let's go deal with the minus sign. The minus sign works the same way. So I'm going to make the next question a little bit more complicated than this one. Let's look at the minus sign, right? For the minus sign, let's add a couple more, well, the same variable in there because when you're solving for something in general, you only have one variable, one type of letter in the equation initially. Later on, we're going to deal with a lot more variables and that's really getting into functions, okay? That's precursor to functions and we'll deal with some of that stuff later on. I added a plus sign and a minus sign. What we do with these types of problems, we have an X on one side of the equation and an X on the other side of the equation, right? What we have to do when we're solving, when they say solve for this kind of thing, we have to get all the letters to one side and the numbers to the other side and initially there's only going to be one letter, one variable. So what you have to do is get the variable to one side and everything else to the other side. So let's start moving things around. Again, if you want to get rid of plus five over here, you move it to the other side. But what you should always do is simplify before you start moving things around. If you can simplify one side of the equation and simplify another side of the equation, then do that because that reduces the number of steps you have to do, okay? So let's simplify this for now. X plus five minus three. We can't combine these because they're not, you know, the same term, but we can definitely add these. The sign, as we said before in the first series, I think, the sign in front of the number always goes with the number, right? So that's a positive five minus three that gives you two. So this side, you know, you can cross this out because it's plus two, right? So now you've got X plus two is equal to two X minus one. What we want to do is bring the two X over, take the two over there, right? Now instead of doing, you know, subtracting two on this side and subtracting two X on this side, what I like doing is circling them and moving them. Visually, it just makes sense to me. For some reason it just makes sense to me. And whenever I do that, what it tells me to do is change the sign of the number. So what I do is grab this guy and say this guy has to come over here and that's plus two so that they come to minus two. And this guy, I have to grab and bring it over here because we would normally just go minus two X. What I'm going to do is just go, comes over and this tells me as soon as I jump over an equal sign it changes the sign. This was positive two X and it becomes negative two X. Now this may look complicated, this is messy, but when you start doing these things, the more you do the simpler it becomes basically. And you can deal with a huge problem. Hopefully we'll later on go to a gigantic one and I'll make a huge problem and we'll go through it and we'll draw all these things. But let's continue with this thing. What you've got here is negative two X and that's a positive X. So negative two X plus X is negative X. Line up your equal sign. Negative X is equal to, that's negative one minus two. Negative one minus two is negative three. So you've got negative X is equal to negative three. There's two ways to continue this because you're not just looking to get, you know, negative X to one side. You need to get X to one side. The variable has to be completely isolated. No negative numbers, most square root symbols. That's what it means when they say solve for something. It means the letter, the variable, has to be completely isolated on one side and everything else on the other side. Now over here, we haven't isolated yet. This is negative X is equal to negative three. Right now, we're just dealing with additional subtraction, moving things around. Later on, when we do division, all you have to do is divide one side of the equation by negative one and divide the other side of the equation by negative one and negative signs disappear. We'll multiply both sides of the equation by negative one. What we're going to do right now, because we're just dealing with addition and subtraction, we're just going to move them, move this guy to the other side. So let's do this with a different color pencil, it shows. So we're going to grab this guy, bring it over and grab this guy, bring it over. The equal sign stays exactly where it is. Right? Negative three comes over the equal sign. It's sign changes. So this becomes three. Negative X moves over the equal sign, it's sign changes. So not that becomes X. So X is equal to three. Okay? Let's go, let's take a look at multiplication and division and see how we deal with those things. And you should be familiar with this if you aren't already, and if you're just getting into this stuff, keep in mind, if you do the equal sign means if you do something on one side of the equation, you have to do it to the other side of the equation, and if you want to move something from one side, or if you want to get rid of something on one side, you have to do the opposite to it. And if you're going to do it on one side, you have to do the opposite to the opposite. Let's go do division multiplication.