a cool, cool Monday morning and welcome back. That was a befitting conversation there with Rama Gukko and the aspiring young politicians. So who knows, could be our leaders, future leaders, and not even for future. Maybe this August, before August ends from 9th, we could have the guys you saw here as our brand new leaders. I think that will be a better Kenya because we have young people leading. And now, of politics, we are here for the conversation of the day, and conversation of the day is about Valentine. Valentine men and Valentine. What's the opinion of men against Valentine? Generally, I did some sampling here and it's up to about 98% of men hating on this thing and girls fantasizing about it, over 99%. So we are asking the question, what is it about Valentine that men don't like? Why do men hate Valentine for that matter? And I said, I am speaking science, I'm speaking research. My name is Sankara Kaisu and I am not alone in studio. I'm joined by men, men themselves, who will tell me whether they love Valentine or they hate it. They are called Peter. Peter Pash and Billy. Billy. Yeah, Billy, Billy, Billy who? Billy and some ones Billy in short form. Okay, you will tell us everything that you think we don't know about you, especially your name, social media and also what you do and all that before you tell us whether you love or hate Valentine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, okay. And what do you do? Where are you from? Okay. Oh, I know that, I know what celebrities were made there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. I'm a lawyer. I'm a proud lawyer. You tell us about the Afghan... You tell us about men and the Afghan... But now let's get to Peter. Okay, let's say my name is Peter Pash, artistically. I'm from Chege, back from home. Social media pages, Instagram, Peter Pash. Facebook, Peter Pash, all my links dot com, at Peter Pash. Are you an artist? You say that's your atonement. Yeah, I do art. What kind of art?  Yeah, I sing, I write. Oh, okay. I direct two short films, Kidogo Kidogo Zekitokia. Oh. Yeah, basically I'm still a student. Yes. I'm at Mahanem College. Yes. Palais, USAU. Yeah. I'm from Mahanem. Oh, they are watching. Yeah, I know they are watching. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, okay, Peter tell us whether you love Valentine or not. Or you are just a general view on Valentine. What I have to say about Valentine, for me, it's nothing bad about Valentine. As a man, I don't feel bad appreciating the girl I love at this specific day. I'm not saying I need a specific day to express my love for her. But on this specific day, it's a nice thing to do. Yeah, let us remind ourselves of the moments of the things we've been together. So for me, it's a good. Do you wait until Valentine Day to appreciate your girl or to gift your girl? No. No, no. You do it any other day? Yeah. So why Valentine? Why Valentine? Basically I believe everyone, when you want to depend on those people in love. On that specific day, it's the nicest day of all the days to express. Let her feel pure, had you left out, coming in and let her come over. Or keep her like a cardina. Or keep her like a walk maybe. You know? It's not a magic with something. Okay. Even the lips ones. At least I found a man here, even if he's one who appreciates and loves Valentine. But let's get to another, to the next man, to see whether he's also of the same opinion. Billy. Yes. And you don't advocate for Valentine? No. Because at Valentine, I'm against Valentine. I'm against Valentine. But I don't advocate for a man like that who's as a woman, and who's as a part of Valentine. Because at Valentine, I'm against the woman I'm against. I'm against the woman I'm against. If you're a woman, if you're in a strong relationship, you'll be in the same person as Valentine. We believe Valentine is secure for the out, for a strong relationship, so there is nothing special for that on the 14th of February. Okay, so you negate, if I, like in Afakwa, if Valentine every day, specific date of Valentine, Oh, we have written, say, in Afakwa, so I have direct opposites. In Afakwa, because there is nothing strong relationship, and we have no idea what Valentine is, because Valentine is secure, so there is nothing special for Valentine, so there is nothing special for him. You've been accused of not loving enough and that's why you concentrate on one day and love just for a day. Like what Bill is basically saying is that your love is just for one day. No, as I say, I don't need a specific day to express my love to my loved one. I don't need a specific day to tell her. I need to buy your flower, I need that on a lunch date, on a dinner. I don't need a specific day to express. But on this specific day, on the 14th, I said it's the nicest. You see, nicest. It's a nice day to take your time and maybe show her that you love her. Show her maybe that, maybe remind her, maybe she's not busy for the whole time. You've not been there for her, maybe 24-7. Maybe sometimes you buy her gifts, you give her once or twice. But on this specific day, make her feel like a lady, make her feel like a woman. Let's address the elephant in the room. I agree on what you say. But now the elephant in the room is somebody has commented on our comments. By the way, we've posted on our social media platform, Tokuliza. Mona, Mona. One woman, one car, Nekama, our Turkey, Valentine. And we've vast that from research. We've vast that from research that men seem not to like Valentine. So you can comment on that. Then we will be sampling comments from the Facebook page and Twitter. We are both at Twitter. It's posted both on Twitter and at Facebook. Then there's somebody called Lewamo. Listen to what Lewamo has said. Quite a bit lengthy story, but I'll read maybe half of it. Last year, this is his personal story. Last year, the year Valentine, my wife and I talked as Zaki Bafu. And I posted on Twitter. And I wrote to her that I was looking for a way to help her. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the money. I told her she doesn't have the money. One day, my daughter, Jezebel, told me that I was talking to her and she said she didn't have the money. Me, me. One day, I was sitting in the corner of the house. I walked by and went into the house. I told her I was looking for a way to help her. So, I sent her. She told me she didn't have any money, but she had the money from the money she had taken to take her house. So, my wife said she didn't have any money. She didn't have the money to take her house. She only had the money to take her house. to the people who have heard us talk and say, this is his real life story. So see, what do you think about the people who have opened up something to Azenawe Billy? Yes, I think it's a valid one. I think Valentine, apart from the fact that he's a celebrity, he's in love with romance. And Catholics believe that in times of that, I used to ride a bicycle and ride my bike to go to Valentine's Day. When I came to the world, it was the day she died. It was the day I celebrated Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is when you have a pen and a pen. Yes. Catholics celebrate Valentine's Day because they love Valentine's Day. So they don't celebrate Valentine's Day because they have a pen. So that's the reason. What is your responsibility? I'm responsible for Zotem Bili. So you're not responsible at all? I'm responsible for Valentine's Day. Ladies expect more. I used to go to a five-star hotel and miss the high figure. I used to go to a gynecologist. I was under pressure. The pressure was on me. I was under pressure because I was under pressure. So you support Valentine's day. But how is the expenditure? How is the money being invested? First of all I would like to say that Valentine's day doesn't have to be a five-star thing.  Yeah, that means I went and found something Maybe to bring you On this specific day You're Valentine I'm not going to be able to do anything I'm going to be able to do anything You see, I'm going to be able to do anything But I can't do anything What I would love to say is We have to understand We have to understand If you want to do anything You have to understand Every day I go to work Every day I go to work Every day I go to work Every day I go to work I would say that I have a responsibility I have a responsibility Or maybe I have some other plans More than my girlfriend or my love But if I have money I don't see anything but spending on How on this specific day Now listen to our story My name is On our social media platform We are asking you Okay, let's just ask this outside The question we ask We ask you to buy a chocolate At your turn book On a Valentine Day Come on, you and me We ask you to buy a Ford If you have a 10-bub If you have a... I don't know what to say I think the traffic is bad If you have a 10-bub You can't buy it If you have a 10-bub Brander Jeffrey Genet If you have a 10-bub If you have a 10-bub I am very sure If you have a 10-bub If you have a 10-bub Patricia If you have a 10-bub Jeffrey If you have a 10-bub Stella, I don't know If you have a 10-bub If you have a 10-bub If you have a 10-bub You can't buy it If you have a Ford I have a March May be March 20th, 2021 March April, May, June December, January I have a Ford What if you have a... What if you have a... I have a 10-bub What if you have a 10-bub I have a 10-bub What if last month I took you on a vacation What if... In this specific day Found me without money That's what I'm saying That's why I am saying That's why I am saying Valentine is a good day If I have a few days to celebrate That's Valentine If I have a few days to celebrate I will go out on those last days That's Valentine I will be the one to say I don't have to celebrate I don't have to celebrate Monday and this week I have a Monday and the next week I will come back on Monday Same way But I am saying It's best It's a good day It's a nice day To show her It's a nice day to make her feel like others. It doesn't mean like, it doesn't mean that she doesn't know what to do with her. She's the only one who knows what to do with her. She's the last one who knows what to do with her. So how will you make her? Unfortunately, Peter, my name's not my answer. I want to say that I don't know what to do with her. On a Valentine's Day, I want to say that the time they've spent with you, it's a lot. It's not equitable to tell Bob. So, disappointment, don't you? Shook on you. They've rejected you, none of us. They've rejected that they won't take anything. That is of less value. Yeah, so that is what you have. And they have promised you some bashing, and you need protection when you get out of this set. Some good protection. I will try, maybe call police or call anybody who may offer you protection. What I said, my ear, yes, you kubali. But Billy's saying something that we need to talk about on this Valentine and Spending. Should one save for Valentine? Let's start with you. Can you save for Valentine? Let's say, no, it started by saying you've been waiting from March last year. The whole of March, in fact, not much, 15th of February last year. The whole of that 15th, a half of February, March, April, May, June, July, August, till now. So they're saying, is saying, Billy's saying here, that you cannot take that long and then just spend 10 bucks on your girl. So my question is, is it advisable that you save for Valentine? Basically, I don't see anything wrong with saving. Saving? Yeah, for the first time. For Valentine. Okay. I think you are trying to make your name good. You are trying to sanitize your name so that you see people go, see your girl pay. I'll protect you. I'll protect you. I'm saying this because I said before, in Alingana with the partner you have, in Alingana with the things, whom I encounter with the girl, in Alingana Pia, I've been to the girl I met with Fania, you see. If she didn't learn to me, if Congiogolia met with her, therefore me, 24 seven, if to make in this journey and make in support, you see, maybe, yeah, tell me. You know, the sample of girls that have replied, we have all tribes there. We have all colors, all sizes. But all of them have said no. Yes, yes. Stella no, Jeffrey no, Brenda no, Tuna no, Patricia no, like they have, Janet no, they have unanimously said no to a cheap, a cheap, a cheap gift on Valentine's Day. Okay, so tell me what's better for this Valentine's Day? Either. You know, this is what we said is the elephant in the room, this expenditure. Yeah, and that's why Billy is saying that we reject it as a whole and say men should not spend on Valentine's Day. Let them just love just any other day. But you, for you, your specific pattern, Valentine's Day should be special day, do something special, even if it's cheap, even if it's 10 Bob, stop, they were agreeing with you as you were going, but when you reach, even if it's cheap, even if it's 10 Bob, they say no in a chorus. Basically, don't look at 10 Bob like 10 Bob. As a 10 Bob day, yeah. All I can say is on that specific day, still as the move on here, they may have caused something big, you see, something big at the end of the day, it's Valentine's Day. The same things we've been doing January, maybe last week. You see, see, bye, Kizifanya, on the same, same day, on this Valentine's Day. You are getting back together. No, no, no. I said, I don't need an exact day to show how I love. I don't need Monday. You see, Billy and Stan Hopper, like March at Ambaria. February, I don't know, at Ambaria. But on this specific day, at Ambaria, you won't spend. Because basically, I'm not saying it's Valentine's Day, 14 is Valentine's Day. A man believes 14, I don't spend. You see, a man and a man, and I believe on this specific day, 14, Bill's on me. Let me ask, do you call him Fania? Bill says he doesn't know me. He doesn't know me. He doesn't know me. He doesn't know me. He doesn't know me. Then I said, I don't need an exact day to express my love for her. But on this 14, it's the nicest day at Ambaria to make her even feel more appreciated. Billy, I want your opinion on this.  Yes, as soon as I spend on her, become a typical man from Ingo. Mundu hu mundu. Mundu hu mundu, yes. First of all, story na kussev. Yes. On the other hand, as I said earlier, for a strong relationship, we don't need Valentines. But for the upcoming relationships, Valentine they need. Kusababu, we are after 14th February. Yes. Utona tana amaza kussevi letembu. Yes. K'yanda Mujengo, Fata Utsini and Assaib. Why is he saving? For Valentine. For Valentine. 15th, 14th February next year. But for strong relationships, see, see, tuna uta fanya tukazi tukamakawida. Kogukidu otu maybe, nikita ka maybe kumpela ka mpenzwangu mahaniflani. You just go. Unkita ka kumpanya a mpenzwangu mahaniflani. You just do it. Because you don't tolerate Valentine's Day. Yeah. But watch out when Nawa Sasawa on the other side, they fantasize. It's girl fantasizing about this day. Like madam Tundewana posted, Valentine is coming. Yeah, like they are happy. It's like now live spending alone, but they fantasize alone. I don't see men like posting, like they love this day, like Nisikuya mapenzi, like Kotaiji Bamba. Like what is wrong? Why are men not romantic about Valentine's Day to start with you, Peter? What's wrong? What's wrong with us? Basically, that's MIV. You don't have to make me a superhero to be a superhero in kua-romantic, on this specific day. If nimi kua-romantic, djana, leo asuguni kitoka maybe niku kua-romantic. Don't make me feel peer over pressurized on this specific day maybe niku kua-romantic. Let me know. I know, yeah, it's on 14th. I know, yeah, maybe I should get you something as for Billy knows nothing for him, maybe and his girl and maybe Anadua. Maybe I don't expect something, but on this specific day, we're seeing me over pressurized maybe niku kua-romantic, more extra. Are you trying to say that maybe girls overate it, overate Valentine's Day? Yeah, girls overate Valentine's Day. That's obvious. Yeah, one over it. Kiboku akui meonge zi kua-romantic. Kiboku akui meonge zi kua-romantic. Kiboku akui meonge zi kua-romantic. Kiboku akui meonge zi kua-romantic. That's obvious. You'll find maybe a girl who's a kua-romantic for some time, and now it's almost Valentine's Day. Yes. You'll even find her apologizing maybe for the things that he's sorry. Sorry, Egypt, while she's not seen me, guljana, and I know you've been supporting Egypt. You see, because maybe for them, they know for them, or make up too much attention for Valentine's Day. But for men, maybe men are busy. Men have things to do. Men have bills to pay, not only on Valentine's Day.  But for girls on this 14th, nika man is kua-romantic. Maybe kupima, a man, on how he will do on that specific day, maybe. Not like that.  Yes.  But on that specific day, maybe, in Tokyo, you have a bill on a day off.    There's that specific treatment on this specific day. I get it. I get it. We are coming back to talk on expectation after getting Billy's opinion on a man who has come out on a day off, like a woman who has come out on a Valentine's Day. I don't know what to say. Valentine's Day men are not shouting about it. Why? Why? Why? Before I answer your question, it depends on who you are.   If you don't want to sit here on a day off, my friend, you would go far in that relationship. I love to remember them. I remember when I was on Valentine's Day, I do want to behave. I do appreciate ladies. I've seen them for years, but they are very special. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. That's why I call myself Son of a Woman. Son of a Woman. I appreciate this agenda. It cannot go on without them. Yes, yes. They are very special. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So, that's why expectations are due to men. Yes, yes. So, one of the people who came here, he said he was going to be back in China. One of the people was to watch the jokes. Oh, you were the jokes? To see if he was going to celebrate Valentine's Day. To see if he was going to celebrate Valentine's Day. Okay, one of the people who came here, So, that's why I'm so happy. The comments that I received from Valentine's Day and the comments that I received from Valentine's Day are from history. Somebody called, let me get it for you. One on one, somebody called Calvo Good Boy Senator. Calvo Good Boy. Calvo Good Boy Senator says, How good are brothers and sisters? Cheers, Nera. Nera is uncle in Kijelu. Following from Migori County, Valentine is meant for idle ladies and gentlemen. Idles. Usually, I have my opinion. So, I say I'm going to have a place here. I'm going to have a place here. I'm going to have a place here. I'm going to have a place here. And then, there is Edu. Edu Quachiz Boy. He said, I'm going to be Valentine. I'm going to be Valentine. Ah, zee, zee.  Tulisha Somay is Peter. Oh, ähnlich. If you have money, Then, You can go ahead and do it. Do you agree that it's all about poverty? There is one Auma They want to do it because they want to pay for it. No, no, no. I disagree. Yes. They want to pay for it because they want to celebrate. They want to do it because they want to do it because they want to have the same opinion about Valentine. Yes. Okay. How goals in life? Oh, goals. How goals? What do you think, Peter? I think, basically, in this issue of Valentine, there are different types of men talking. Remember, they are single men. They are broke men. They are rich men. They are rich men talking on the same topic. So, I believe, not the type of a man you are and on that specific play. Yes. They want to do it. Yes. They want to do it. Yes. Make her understand Basi. Yes. If it's a must for her, make her understand. As I said, I see nothing wrong with treating her. Okay. Okay. So, you agree with this guy that it's about poverty, that people don't celebrate Valentine. Okay. There's somebody called Lan Tanui says, I was thinking the same. Thinking the same, Nini. Like, we're not going to celebrate Valentine, Nini. And then there's Dorka. Somebody has just accused me here that I won't read the men's comments. I'm reading for a lady. There's somebody called that Dorka's checking and I said, I'm watching and following from there. Then there's Kayank here and I said, wait for it. It's not a question or an answer. You know personally, it depends on Valentine. See, it depends on the person. It depends on the person. But it depends on your poverty. It depends on the poor. But see, it's just one of the opinions. Somebody says, when a woman is on Valentine, you have poverty. They don't have money to spend on Valentine. There's somebody called Wai Rimu. He said, I'm right there with you. Not only men. Me, Valentine, is not my thing. Imagine, I don't have money to spend on Valentine. I want your opinion on that. I don't have money to spend on Valentine. Why could that be? Maybe heartbreak. Oh, heartbreak. Maybe guilt, maybe traumas. I don't know. There's one of the things. Yes. Maybe heartbreak. Or that specific day, maybe. Someone did say. The Saturday's tree. She asked with Valentine or something. That specific day. Is it normal? Yes, it's normal. I don't know if it's normal. For the ladies, when they are on Valentine, it's either, if they remember something that happened, maybe in the bar or in the surf, or maybe the boyfriend is the hero. Maybe they can keep on Valentine. Yes, yes, yes. Maybe, maybe. We are in suppositions here. And then there is Peter. He says, student, there's a lady here called Roy Lee. She says, if you don't treat me well, other days, after we have Valentine, she has the heart I feel. She's subscribing to your thoughts that it should, every day should be a Valentine day. You don't need a specific day. Yes, you don't need that. Like I said, if you don't love me every day, then that day, I may use a very big idiom, like, I won't feel it. So, it's subscribing, I think, to your thoughts that Valentine should not be any specific day. But I don't know, like, everything, these other days, a lot we use, as if I knew anything, like Peter was saying, as if I knew anything on that day, but any other days are funny. Then there is Raymond C. Tu and I say, we don't want unnecessary expenses. He says, we don't want unnecessary expenses. He says, let's get twisted. How? He says, let's get twisted. How? He says, let's get twisted. How? How? How? How? How? How? How? How? How? How? Ok, so let's talk about this a little. The excuses that men use to apply this day. Yes, several excuses. One is, I am the one to apply this day. Like, I can say, I am the one to apply this day. I am the one to apply this day. I am the one to apply this day. I am the one to apply Valentine's Day. Well, you have four men. I can say, most men focus on bills, bills, bills, bills, bills. bills. On that specific day, there are those girls who pay bills. Today, it doesn't mean that I'm not going to be able to pay the bills. I'm going to be able to pay the bills. I'm going to be able to pay the bills. But today, I look for those one hour bills. But I'm going to be able to do my job. Yes. I'm going to be able to do my job. Yes. Especially, you know, Valentine Day will be on our King Day. Yes. And to be specific on a Monday, this time around. Yes. During those days, we spent $5,000. We spent $5,000. We spent the $2,000, you see, all of that. You don't do anything else. First of all, Valentine Day is a calendar. Yes. But it's a working day. Yes. Two day working day. Yes. Because it's a big business, apartments, we have all of these jobs. Yes. Yes. So, Valentine Day is a calendar. Yes. But it's a working day. Yes. Oh, you take a fake call. Yeah, take a fake call. I'm going to the office. I'm going to the office to see if I can get a call. And if I can get a call, I'll go to my husband who wants to get a job. Watch out.  Hello? Boss, it's not you. You don't have to do a job. Oh, you're not going to do a job. You're not going to do a job. And then he'll say, Paul, I don't want to go to a job. Because I'm interested in interviewing people. Even though he'll say it. No, no, no. If I say it through my relationship with Paul, even though I want to go to a job, I say, You have a problem with your job. I have a problem with your life. I don't know what your problem is. What's your problem? What's your problem? As my friend, I don't know what they're talking about. Yes. He mentioned a point that for Valentine, in serious relationships, like Seamust and the team, I would still say, if then, make her understand Basi. Yes. Yes. If then, and as a way to celebrate. What is it? What is it? You make a phone call. No, you're cheating now.  You're cheating. Stop cheating. It's an excuse. You're taking an excuse to leave. Why tell her to push, not say bet? You don't have to tell her. It's February 14th. We always celebrate Kila Siku. So here's the secret figure. There is no big deal. I tell you, Kila Siku is very important. Because you always do good things in Kila Siku. We celebrate Kila Siku, we go to Bafu, we go to Basi, we go to Chukua, we go to Moka. Okay. Okay. That debate can't end now. Because we have two very different men. You come from the eastern side of Nairobi, Sivir. He comes from the western side of Nairobi. So I understand why there is this animosity. There is this opposition and negation between you. There is somebody here called H.R.H. Janet Michael. Janet Anasema. When Agopa think about the money they will spend, when Agopa think about the money they will spend, they should consider the love between them. In Apotea, I don't know why. But Anasema should think the money, the love that has been existing between you. And then after thinking about that money, I got it, I got it. They should consider the love between them and their partners. Then things will flow from there. Happy Valentine's from me and mine. Like he said, if you don't have a good time, if you don't have a good time, then after thinking the good times you've had, maybe the good things she has done for you. Maybe you can go to Tom Zuri, Prince, to come with you. The bad times, you can go to Sanaa, that day. You know your argument is that if you don't have a good time, then after thinking the good times you've had, you can spend as much as you can. If you don't have a good time, then after thinking the good times you've had, maybe you can go to a club, you can spend on her. She is a financial oriental. Don't overdo it. If you don't have a good time, then keep thinking, it's the same as the time when the height of her beautiful days is specific. Ok. Some Germans are known as the WECSIM, I can tell. WECSIM by nature, she is a top fan. She says, which do you think is the best to have a good time? And you're saying you don't have to spend as much time in an event like this? If you don't have a good time and you don't have a good life, to make. Do girls also gift their boyfriends during the Valentine's Day? I need your opinion girls. The girls are our top fans. Branda, Tunu, Jeffery, Janet, Stella and Patricia. What's your opinion on this? Do you also gift your men on Valentine's Day? Do you take gifts? Yeah, I do accept gifts. Have you ever been given? Long time ago. Long time ago? Yes. Like 10 years ago. 3 years ago. What's your opinion on this? I don't know. I don't know. But do girls also gift their boyfriends during the Valentine's Day? Yeah, first of all, I have my opinion. For the people, for the men, when you're on a value sad at this Valentine's Day, how do you do it? I don't know. I don't remember how I got my feelings. I don't know. I don't know how I got my feelings. I don't know. But for the men that may be Valentine's Day, it's not that special. The lady can do it because at the same time, at this, a day like any other. I don't know how I got my feelings. So let me do it today. I don't remember how I got my feelings. I don't know. Because you've been doing it. How do you accept gifts? What's your opinion on girls gifting their men? There's nothing wrong about that. Gifting your partner something. On that specific day. I know. Some people gift. But sadly, sadly Peter, one of the same. One of the same I'm a stellar. I don't know if it's a gift or a gift. No, no. That's wrong. Yeah, it's wrong. That's very wrong. That's very, very, very wrong. But these people are recipients. Yeah, I know. But at the same time, show show your man. Yes. He's someone. Yes. You see, some of these things, men are men. Like, who come to mental health issues, who come in a relationship, who come and say, where are you from? Where are you from? No. What's your mentality? Why are you here? Because I'm a gift, I'm a gift. Yeah.  Hey, it's on both sides. What I received, Brenda Morana said, he's in coming back, I sent him my letter. So he's going to get it. So he's going to send me a letter. I'll get it.  I'll get it. He's going to send me a letter. I'll give him a letter. Because I've been in the church, I'm going to send him a letter. So he's going to give me a letter. I left him with a letter saying, I was out on the street that day. I asked him to do something for you. He said he was going to buy a house, and someone told him, a lady was spent on the venue. By the way there are some lady's queuesy. Let me educate you. Some ladies have a lot of spend on their men. Most of them have a list. I want to give you a price. I want to give you a 50. What is the price of the fruit? That's for you. Is it for you? It's for you. I want to talk to Younit Picholz. She has a flower bed, a black one and a green one. I don't know, I don't know because it's Valentine's Day, but I think they're getting, I've sampled enough of them. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, you say that. Okay, Christmas Day, in Values Day. Yeah, it's Christmas Day. I remember the day, the day of Valentine's Day. Because from February 15th, in October, February 14th, I was there. Maybe it was because I had a lot of work at the time. So the pressure was on February 15th, and I was like, what? So it was February 14th. Next year, I was there. And you were saving money? Yeah, I was saving money. Because you have nothing. You have nothing to save. You have to save money. You have to save money. You have to save money. No, I said they are different types of men. They are those who are broke. You see? When you are rich, and I said they are those who are poor. Single, let me say single. And these three men have a different view on Valentine's Day. When you have money, you have to buy a car with a gun. Yes. That's his view. Yes, yes. When you have money, but you have to save money, it's nothing. So it depends on maybe personal opinion and that. And remember, there's something on relationships. Yes. It's all love. Yes. If you truly understand the relationship, your relationship with your girl. Yes. And if you understand the bond, that is between you guys. Yes. You see? Then I believe you won't say anything bad. A number of people are saying, like, come up, you don't get to understand. Sometimes, me who won't, when I go to Valentine's Day, I go to an idelab. When I have a relationship, when I go to Shannon, or Penzi Daily, it's like I'm on fire. When I take a single to to somewhere near you. Like, we have said two points here. Like, Valentine is for the idol. Do you agree? Valentine for the idlers. Yes. Like, I don't have any idea. I have some idlers somewhere. I have nothing to do. No, no, no. No, I disagree. You disagree with him on this? No, I really disagree. I love when I say, like, people do it and tells us how, with the single people, when I come up, when I act, I will say something for the single girls. Single girls, first of all, Valentine is coming. When I sing, Valentine is coming. I wanted you the other time. You refused. And now you're single. You're lonely. Can you say something for the single? Yeah. To say something on the single. For the single? For the single. Let single ladies, when I come up, when I come up, Penzi. Okay, for the single ladies, Missy Jalee. Because Babu, I have a very special information that you're going to see me when I come up. I have a very special one. For them. For the single. You are kept for the single? Yes, for the single. Okay, we'll wait for that as we will be wrapping up. Yes. Peter, what do you think about the single ladies when you're one hour to work on Valentine Day? What's the gift? I want to say it to the general. The general and the the flower bed. You know, this is a fences. Yes. The flower bed. What's the gift? What's the gift? For the single ones. Ladies, I'm up here boys. I'll say, be happy. Be happy for others. Just be happy for others. Don't take it personal. Because after all, there's nothing personal. There's nothing personal. There's nothing personal. There's nothing personal. Just be happy for them and wait for your time. It'll come. Yeah. There's somebody called Waweru. Wa keyboard. I don't know why he's calling himself Waweru. I think maybe he plays keyboard in the church. Because Babu, to me, he's a buyer. There's Badu Chocolate, there's gas, there's a dress, there's shoes, there's... Aha! ...a memo says, there's something there. To me, this is a man's conference this time. To me, it's a fan. To me, it's a fan. It's a fan. By the way, this is Barua. This is Barua. I'm a singer. For all the single men at the Seishon Elio. Yes, yes. What's the meaning of it? The meaning of it 2. The president is called by the president. If it's banned, it's all banned. On February 14th, after coming here we can lock down. Lock down? Yes, lock down on February 14th. What was the move? What was the move? I don't know. You know that you're free to volunteer. I have a question. I have a question about Equal Men's Conference on this 14th. By the way, what year was it from? during the men's conference. So they're all of 14th one has spent. And that's one of the following day. But either way, if a K lockdown, where K men's conference, do you think these other gender will give us peace? Do you think Sunanakumkirudu ita kua veta? You don't know what these people can do. Yeah, these people, I think to our party to your day is, they are men as a kua coast because of lack of that day, pekeaki. Yeah? Oh. Every Wednesday. Every Wednesday. Till it's a whole segment here, white, five, four, every Wednesday it's a WCW. Yeah. WCW. Adi, ita peintiwa red. Villuanana calendar, all the days ita peintiwa red. Adi ita peintiwa red. So, see, it's not what we're talking about. It's not what we're talking about from you guys. I think for men, for men, in the same way with Valentine, it's equal, I want a gender thing. Yes. Okay, let's do it both. Me, me, I wear it. Yes. You see, maybe I'm more... On that same, same day, I can pay this, you can pay this. Maybe I'm a leperzote. Or maybe I'm a leperzote. Okay. But the thing is gifts. Yes.  Kamawua, kaka chocolate, kaka. Thyme, naish, anand yuk, mutwa na kujiya, pan a point nzito, nili kwa na takamuongelai, anaitua ko lu, yule, mereu. Para, para, yawait tu me kuwana, tu me kuwana tu na kujiya ko pointiaku. But this ko lu, yule, mereu, anasema, ukipeleka din Valentine, ensue relationship yanu ni serious, wunazapeleka mutwa Valentine, nahi yu usikku, bada akuchese. Yeah. Akuchese yu usikku. A kuta.. Uta jweje, That's why Dave deserves to be treated at Valentine's Day.  If you are a threat, you are the one who will be punished. There is a lot of summer I think today, in the morning. You can go on a date and maybe two weeks before Valentine's Day, maybe you can stay there. And now you can keep casual. And now on this specific day, when I'm in pressure, for me, I have no plans to do anything because for me, I don't know how to understand how it's supposed to be, how to grow to a point and how to be serious with myself. That's why I call it key-keep, casual. But on this specific day and day, I'm going to be treated like this. I'm going to be treated like this. For men, as a lady, you're looking for to treat your girl. Yes. Just know the relationship you have with her. You run into things just because of the Valentine's... So you really agree with this guy? My relationship should be in another level for you to give the Valentine's treat. Seize is easy. Seize is up. You are also agreeing to the same? Yes, I will say this to you. Yes. Valentine is only for the strong relationship. Yes. Do you agree to the same? No, no, no. The relationship you have with her is two months old. It's one month, seven days old. I'm treating her.  I'm going to be treated like this. I'm going to be treated like this. I'm going to treat her as my own wife. She will stay at home.  She will say, he's a good boy. She is nice. She is nice. See you didn't fight. You can't help it. I want you to have such relationships. Maybe we will tender out during the day. We'll have something to say... Smoking... While you pay for your chocolate... ...we'll pay some money. That's why I said, not the right woman to be your partner. To treat for the right woman. I think we should start with you. We'll prepare for your parting shot. There's somebody here called Para. We'll say, why in the morning? It's evident that the comments are supporting the fact that men feel shortchanged, men really feel shortchanged, that they are not treated during their days as days. According to these people, it's not about ladies, it's about love. But ladies have owned it to say that maybe it's their day or something. So maybe in that, we want to scare your parting shot. I'll say, let's traumatize men with some issues just because they are men. Valentine, it's supposed to be a two-way thing. I believe if you and me try to understand this thing, it will be our thing, our Valentine. We're celebrating this thing as a couple, maybe husband and wife, maybe a fiance. Let's not traumatize men with some issues that are in a two-way way. So Billy, I'm finishing with you because you said you have a special message for the single. So deliver that message for the single and then tell us your parting shot here in this camera. The Senate and the, you know, the Senate, I think I'm not alone. I'm not alone in the fact that I'm a Valentine, but I'm not alone in the fact that I'm single. You're single? Yes, I'm single. Why am I saying this? Because it's not like I'm single. I'm satisfied there, and I'm satisfied in the matter and everything. Because at the end of the day, people have to see it. That leads to the economy falling apart. That is the debt for another woman. We'll call a special, a very special show for what Billy is claiming. It's interesting. But because it's not Valentine, I'll be back in one week. So next Monday, it's Valentine's Day. We will choose the one who will be the one to be the one. But the PM will be the one to be considered. Come on, I will ask you to consider. Consider, consider, consider. But all in all, it's Love Month, it's Valentine's Day. Whatever it means for you and for your partner, it's Valentine's Day. And another time, the next, immediately next after this is Tano Kali. So get tuned in till tomorrow when we shall have inter-prenuership Tuesday. Keep it locked here at White Fire for so on. On behalf of everybody who made this successful, including Ram, with whom it started, the TX people, the producers, the camera people, the sound, everybody who made this a success, we celebrate you in a special way. I am finishing with somebody called Wilson there at my directorship. Back to you, Wilson and Tano.


Time here from Orange Systems. This video is not sponsored, but it is promotional. I'm going to be joined in a moment by Kyle and we're going to talk about MSP Geek. It is a free to join community for the users by the users that work in the managed service provider space. Now what we're promoting is MSP GeekCon 2024, which will be held on May 19th through the 21st in Orlando, Florida. The 2023 event was amazing. And I think some of my audience may be interested in 2024 event. So let's get started. And welcome Kyle Spooner. How you doing today? I am great. How are you? YouTube celebrity Tom Lortz? Yeah. It's funny because every time you see me in person, you've been saying that for so long. It's amusing. Mainly because it annoys your significant other. And that's always fun. Oh yeah. I think I actively encourage, you know, having people ask my wife if my way physician needs, please ask her what it's like to be married to a YouTube celebrity because she loves hearing that. And so you and everyone else have had so much fun participating in that. Oh yeah. She's, yeah. She calls me Lesser Spooner now because of... You're the... Yeah, there's more than one Kyle. You're the Lesser Spooner. Lesser Kyle. Lesser Kyle. Yeah. It's okay. I'll accept that title. Yeah. At least I'm in the discussion. You're in the discussion. And so our discussion today is about MSP Geek and you've been running this for a long time. It's a 5013C non-profit. It's a pretty amazing community. So let's talk about one. Why should we join MSP Geek? MSP Geek itself is a community of managed service providers. It's a place where you can go to ask for help, ask for assistance, ask, you know, you're stumped on this thing. We're a firm believer in plagiarism. That plagiarism is good. Plagiarism is loud and encouraged at MSP Geek. Yeah. Because... You're not the first person to encounter the problem. That's the reality. We all work in the same community working as IT professionals, especially, you know, the MSP community. And you're not the first person to have a problem with insert name of the tool that isn't working the way you would expect it to and the vendors and getting back to you in time. So much. And that's where we started with an application called Labtech. We started out as Labtech Geek and built around a group of people trying to work in that tool and make it as effective as possible. And we've just grown so fast, so quickly over the past 10 years. We're like 11,000 members now throughout Slack and Discord. But it's free. Anyone's welcome to come and hang out as long as you're a member of the MSP or IT itself. You will be asked to register just so that we can verify. Yeah. If we don't want people... We don't want clients to come in of art. Knowing people we don't want in there, so that's not part of it, is the end users. If you're one-on-one getting started, you've never touched a computer before. Sorry, like your basic end users. Those are people. Even if you're working help desk, it's for people who do work in the IT and MSP space. You've got a job. Even if it's a level one job, because we have people that are level three all the way down to level one in there. And it's, you know, there's a lot of... Really nice the way you broke it down into categories. So as you go through it, you're like, okay, here's a discussion on this particular topic, this particular RMM tool. I also love the discussions. Is it down for you too? This no longer works. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? It becomes a good community for that. It's a good discussion. And you actually have vendor participation, which is pretty amazing. You keep them under tight control, by the way. The vendors aren't there pitching. They're there. I like to say we put them in the corner. But we carve out a space of the community for them. They have their own channel. You can go and interact with them. I will say that their channel is theirs. They can do with it what they please. They want to remove newer advertised. They can't do that in other channels in our general area, but in their specific segment they can. They have that ability too. Yeah. For many of the vendors, they have a dedicated... You have a V in front of them for vendor.  I think that's an important distinction you have. It's a well-moderated place. Because having that many people in there, you think, okay, is it just chaos? No, no, no. It's actually organized. It's surprisingly well-moderated. There's a lot of self-moderation that goes on. We as administrators and moderators greatly appreciate the community for helping each other out. Because it's a ton of work as it is. The community is at a good job itself of self-moderating and making sure people stay within the code of conduct we have. Yeah. Now let's talk about why MSP GeekCon and why you might be interested in coming. Because that's the purpose of this video. I want to tell people what MSP Geek is, why you might be interested. If this has not made you stop watching this video, then you probably want to know what MSP GeekCon is. MSP GeekCon is an area of the managed services space that we felt... You know, the whole premise of the conference we felt was lacking. There are tons of great conferences that are geared towards business owners or specific products or companies themselves. And we felt that there's an area that's not benefiting, which is the technicians, the service managers, those surrounding the technicians, project engineers, security engineers, all of them that don't have a place to go to learn and to grow and adapt. So that's what we built. We built a conference that's education focused. That is primarily designed around those in attendance. So last year we had an event. We picked a specific amount and had design limits around things. And we had 300 attendees. And the feedback we got was utterly amazing. Surprisingly amazing. The game room, by the way, this is one of the things that I love about a hacker conference that you just don't see at your IT professional conference. Like the conference is over and everyone, let's go to the bar and things like that. But it's not exactly the same vibe when you have with a geek conference. Your D&D room was full. Like the games room, board games and things like that were laid out. It spilled out into the hallway. I think I was up pretty late with a group of people playing in the hallway with some games. It was just a lot of fun and a lot of good interaction because you made some new friends, you got some people there. And it was all, like you said, there's a technical people there. There was not a bunch of vendors and sales people, which are the other side. This is back to the technical people, like you said there, which was really awesome. Yeah. And having that, so we have sponsors, we have vendors. Big shout out to them last year and this year because they are the ones who help basically bear the brunt of the costs for us to be able to put this on. But in advertising and saying, hey, if you're interested in sponsoring, don't bring a full suite of salespeople and account managers. That's not who's going to be here. That's not going to be rice coin you're interacting with. Bring your sales engineers, your technical staff that can talk tech with the people who will be here. And it was a huge, it was really interesting to interact with some of those who don't really get to go to conferences on the vendor side as well. And they were interacting in other places and it was really good. But yeah, we were completely education focused. That is the core premise is we don't sell speaker slots that they do at some other events. We don't care where you're from. If you're a consultant, a vendor, an MSP, an IT person, as long as you have an education that is what you want to speak about is educational and not a sales pitch, you have a chance of being selected by our education team. You guys do a lot of vetting for that. I know because I know other people that are on your team going through that. It's a tough thing. But you did a good job of having people. So each one of the talks was educational in terms of even I sat down and got to learn some, I was like, Oh, awesome, you know, watching someone go through some of the event log stuff. I love the hacking demonstration stuff that was done there. And it was done with MSP tools. So this is also familiarity with your environment. Like, Hey, this is how an attack scenario could play out. Here's the tools that were being used. It was great because it's very relatable. It wasn't a pitch of my product will solve your problem. That was not at all. Because I tell you what you get at the large enterprise IT conferences is the person up there, they're going to they're going to pitch a problem, tell you it's educational, but they're going to tell you how their product is the hero. These were much more actionable. These were even career talks, like how do I get you had a big section on how do I get from being at help desk? Because you're excited, you get an attack and you get slapped with help desk. And you're like, Okay, maybe you like it there. I'm not knocking it. If you do, but other people go, I don't know if I want to be here. And you had a whole track you did. I think that was when I participated in where we kind of talked about how to level yourself up as a technician to get ahead. How we've designed it, we've split our talks into two different types. We have what we call our breakout sessions, which are normal sessions at any other event where people submit talks. And then we have what we call our core sessions. Our core sessions are six talks that we've picked to the topic on. And we've gone and said, Hey, are you interested in speaking on this for us and selected those individuals and made sure that they can speak about the topic we want them to speak about. That's, that's what makes up our education focus because we have a specific set of information we want to provide. And we have a specific, like we, I don't want to stand up there for six hours and drone on, right? I'd like to get other perspectives and other opinions and other highly, highly influential individuals who are great in their field to come in and have a conversation. I think Kyle Hansloven was one of our core speakers last year. Yeah, this was great. I mean, these are John Hammond. The names you may have heard of. If you Google a little bit, you'll figure out how these people are.  I'm not saying I'm jealous. I mean, hey, I think I crossed 1,000, 1,500 subscribers, whoop, whoop, may I speak? It's, so that's how we designed it because there's specific education we want to provide you. And then we select our breakout sessions after that. And we've divided into, last year was three tracks. This year we've added a track. So the tracks we have are people, process, and automation, the human side of technology, secure, defend, recover. And the last track for this year is based on the theme of the event, which is celebration. We want to highlight all the achievements that not only the individuals have had, but vendors have had, MSPs have had, the world has had. There's a lot of negativity and there's not a lot of adaboys in celebration. And we want to bring some of that to those who come to the conference and establish a little bit more of that positive environment because we feel like a good positive environment is a great learning environment. Yeah, and this is what the examples of some of the talks like John Hammond, many people may know him as a deep dives into a lot of cyber security topics and, you know, a lot of hack the box stuff and all the really amazing content he does in there. But he also talked about your career and things like this. And like you said, it's kind of bringing into community became very relatable and doing the Q&A on there. The panel discussion I did was with several other people. We were very interactive. So it wasn't just sitting there. It was like, Hey, who wants to step up to Mike, ask us some questions? How can we help you? Then that's what leads into what I said earlier. I know it teased with the games, but it was actually kind of fun because with so many people participating after the talks were over, I had tons of great conversations as everybody else is why we kind of spilled out into this common area of everyone talking. Kyle was there until really late. Kyle Hanselvan, CEO. I mean, he's a CEO of a pretty decent size company. I think they got like three or 400 employees. And but he made sure just out there helping people, talking to people and just carrying on. It was just great community feeling. Like he said, there's a lot of that you get you some reinforcement, especially if you're at a smaller MSP being able to come down to that event. I think come down because I'm in Detroit and events held in Florida. So it was definitely a good feeling of community, made some new friends and I'm ecstatic to go again this year. Well, we're happy to have you come back this year. Yeah. Thank you, Kyle. I will leave links to everything down below so you can sign up, talk about it and everything else. And I'm looking forward to being down there May 19th of 2024, when it all begins. You nervous? Not as much as I was last year. I because we're not a normal like the conferences I go to a vendor led generally. So we don't have a product to pitch you on for next year. So I don't know what I'm going to say. So hey, thank you for coming. Bye. Hope you had a fun time and learn something. We added two new channels. Go visit them. All right. That's awesome, Kyle. I take care of everyone in. Thanks. Thank you.


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Income Tax 2022-2023 Business Expenses Introduction Let's do some wealth preservation with some tax preparation Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course Each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it Most of this information comes from the Tax Guide for Small Business for Individuals Who Use Schedule C Publication 334 Tax Year 2022 You can find on the IRS website irs.gov, irs.gov Looking at the income tax formula we're focused on line one income Remember in the first half of the income tax formula is an essence and income statement Although just an outline the scaffolding other forms and schedules flowing into these line items The Schedule C being one of them it in essence being an income statement in and of itself with business income minus business expenses the net then flowing into line one income here of our income tax formula Page one of the form 1040 the Schedule C would flow in then to the Schedule 1 flowing then in here to page one of form 1040 line 8 Schedule C profit or loss from business here's the income statement where we have income minus expenses We're now looking at the expenses side of the Schedule C which is in essence an income statement We have the income minus the expenses Now although we're hoping that the income in total dollar amount is greater than the expenses in total dollar amount the expenses are often more confusing because there's many more categories of expenses than income and that's just the nature of the business generally because when we're in business what we're typically doing is trying to get really good honing down specializing our knowledge and skills on a particular item all income then being categorized as that particular item typically whereas on the expense side of things everything else that we're not specializing on we are paying for and that of course are all the categories of the expenses so when we're thinking about business expenses we can also categorize them as business deductions and when we think about the income statement in general or income taxes I should say in general note and recall the general rule in an income tax system we should be able to deduct those things that are necessary in order to generate the revenue so we're not taxing people on gross income but rather on the net income and when we're thinking about people that don't have a business they have W2 income that gets a little bit confusing because if you have W2 income the assumption by the government is that the employer is the one that's giving you everything that is necessary in order to do the job therefore we don't have those normal kind of what we would think of as like normal expenses for an income tax system instead we focus on all the weird things which is basically the government trying to influence us in certain ways influence us to save for retirement influence us to buy a home influence us to pay charity or give to charity and I'm not saying these things are good or bad I'm just saying the tax code is a tool to kind of manipulate our behavior and that's where a lot of the expenses on the above the line deductions and the Schedule A deductions are so and it kind of shifts our focus to the normal natural type of expenses which are basically what we see on a Schedule C because the expenses should be those things you would think that you had to consume in order to generate the revenue so most of the time the expenses the business deductions on the Schedule C are more natural to what you would think of happening in an income tax type of system okay so you can deduct the costs of operating your business these costs are known as business expenses these are costs you do not have to capitalize or include in the cost of goods sold but can deduct in the current year so when we're thinking about the expenses then there's a matching principle which is generally kind of an accrual type of principle so we talked about in prior presentations a cashed based system versus an accrual based system but even if you're using a cashed based system we still have this matching concept to some degree because if there's a substantial deviation from a cashed based system they force us to do some accrual concept stuff for example if we purchase a large piece of equipment even if we pay cash for it we can't just deduct the $100,000 piece of equipment but rather usually have to put it on the books as an asset and then use some kind of depreciation method possibly still getting 100% of the depreciation if there's $179 or special depreciation but the point is the general idea is that we'd have to put it on the books as an asset and then allocate the expense and that's a matching concept because we're trying to match out the consumption when we actually used the thing in order to generate the revenue in the same time period so to be deductible a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary so those are the key terms and from just a general standpoint they mean what kind of you would expect them to mean right they're going to be ordinary and necessary type of business expenses you needed those business expenses in other words in order to help you to generate the revenue so an ordinary expense is one that is common and acceptable in your field of business so if we were to take a look at the type of expenses that you have in your particular business we would expect you would think to see similar expenses in other types of businesses obviously when you get into certain or different businesses then you can find some expenses where you would think that if you were looking at them and you didn't know the industry you would say that doesn't look like a business expense that looks like for example personal and one of the main things we need to do is be separating business from personal but for example if someone is a professional photographer then they might be taking a lot of trips to very beautiful places where if you were sitting in an IRS tax office or IRS office looking at it saying this guy is traveling to the Bahamas or something you might be saying hey that looks like a personal kind of thing and it seems that it may be somewhat personal because obviously part of their business is that's why they chose that business most likely right it would be you would think a business expense because they're traveling there in that case for the particular photography and so on but you can see where the line gets fuzzy between taking trips and stuff like that meals and those kind of things between personal and business and that's where things get a little bit hazy and necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your business so an expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary so when you say necessary like it's like when someone says I need this and it's like do you really need this like when someone says I need that candy bar or something do you really need it you know because you could probably so if you took it the candy bar away would you die no so maybe so maybe it would be a good thing to have but maybe it's maybe you don't need it same thing for the business here obviously you could say if the argument or the benchmark to clear was if I took this this expense away with the business crumbled to pieces that's not that's not the the bar to clear that would be a high bar it's an expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary so that means that that necessary term is somewhat gray so we're going to have to use some judgment on these terms as we think about ordinary and necessary so for more information about the general rules for deducting business expenses you can see chapter one of publication 535 caution if you have an expense that is partly for business and partly for personal separate the personal part from the business part now this is one of the key conditions one of the key problems that we have when we're thinking about expenses because now we're saying you're allowed to deduct these expenses that means that these expenses now are good for taxes which means that people are going to try to increase their expenses and you know you would think that they're having incentive people have an incentive at least to try to bloat increase the expenses how would they do that it's not like they don't want to have an unprofitable business they want to have a profitable business but still be inflating their expenses for taxes so they don't have to pay taxes on it so what do you what would happen then people are going to try to conflate you would think the business versus the professional and that's where it gets muddy the muddy situation so it's easy in concept to say that you need to break out your business versus the professional but when you get into specific items it gets again it gets a little bit confusing when you're taking business trips and we'll get into some of the details and a little bit a little bit more detail here but that's of course what we want to watch out for we want to try to separate as best we can the business versus the personal if you're doing a trip somewhere that has business and personal stuff to it you're supposed to parse those things out so that you deduct only the business part because you don't get to deduct vacations because no one else gets to deduct vacations so it wouldn't be fair so the personal part is not deductible that's the point publication useful items you may want to see you've got four six you got the publications four six three travel gift and car expenses publication five three five business expenses so when we get into these items you'll see that some expenses are pretty straightforward if you paid if you paid for something directly for the business you paid for supplies that are for the business then that's a pretty straightforward type of thing if you paid the utility bill for an office that's used exclusively for the bent business if you're paying rent somewhere that's used to not a problem but if you're thinking about things that could have a personal component to it if you're using a home office for example and you're paying the utility bill that covers your home your whole home then it gets messy how much do I get to deduct and there if you're traveling that's clearly could be a messy situation in terms of is there any personal side to the travel is there business side and personal side are you mixing these things together are you mixing the personal the business together because then car obviously is a problem because you might be using the car for personal and business expenses so those are some of the ones to drill down on you've got the publication five three five business expenses to check out the six four seven publication how to depreciate property depreciation is also another just messy situation the idea being that you can't expense something in the year that you bought it if it's a large item because of this big timing difference between when you bought it and when you're going to get the consumption using the matching principle trying to match the consumption when you used it to the same period that you generated the income so then you have this depreciation concept which is a standard accrual concept that you might understand conceptually from an accrual standpoint but even once you do that the tax code still messes that all up because then the tax law people come in and say hey look we want to have accelerated depreciation or one seventy nine depreciation to try to stimulate the economy so now you've got depreciation schedules that don't mirror what you would think they would from an accounting standpoint because they have again other incentives in place they're trying to stimulate people's behavior or just people's behavior through the tax code and so they mess up all the depreciation schedules to make them all weird and not make any sense from an accounting standpoint and we have to deal with that being different possibly than the booking depreciation which we do want to make sense unless we want to keep our books on a tax basis so it's easier so these are questions that come up on the website which we may dive into so in any case c-chapter twelve for information about getting publications and forms you can check out the iris website if you want to look at these in more detail and we'll dive into some of these topics in future presentations


It's safe to say that the open science room really has dramatically and radically changed the way that I do think about science. For me, OSF has been a game changer because there's a desire to share materials, to organize materials. The workflows that people are comfortable with, they can continue to use and they can bring others on. My open science practices started exactly when I started using the OSF. Before that, I was really missing a tool that could actually help me put together all the different tools that I was using. It's really easy to make a good looking project with all the data and code that you want on there with a good quick description of where things are at. I like to think about horizontal sharing. I don't want to get all of the information going horizontally out of the project. So once we start working, we start sharing. Start a platform or a way for people to engage with open science in kind of a uniform way or an easy access way that's also free. I think that that allows for folks to be able to think more about open science and want to engage it without having these systemic barriers. If there's not something like OSF long term, there's going to be even more hesitancy to adapt open science. I feel like some of the values of what the open science movement is about is about collaboration and transparency and having this kind of being more equitable across researchers that have different means. And so I think the sustainability of OSF being a free service as it is is really important. As an open science advocate, I think that platforms like the open science framework are an important first step. They take away the excuse of not being able to open up a research workflow because there is no infrastructure. I recall well that really in the beginning it was a few dozen users that were using the open science framework. And now it really has become a common standard, which makes it much easier to find common ground because you don't have to convince people to use it anymore. And it's much easier to collaborate on really high quality, transparent research. As they collaborate with newer people who have not had experience with open science framework, they will keep inviting collaborators and it will grow much bigger. And I hope that this vibrant community would be able to like share and comment research results. One of the things I hear the most from students is how passionate they are, how much they want to make a difference. And with open science, the progress is transparent. You can see not only people are viewing your work, people extending your work, building on it, reusing it. It is incredible and wonderful. The growth of the users for the OSF, I think to me it means that people are aware that a change was needed. And it's really encouraging to see that growth and to see that people realize that this change was necessary. And that they're really changing their practices.


Previously, we covered the strange but highly intriguing Cognostone, an extremely ancient and very large Scottish stone, covered with some of the best and most interesting ancient petroglyphs known in Europe. And although we put forward the preposition of it possibly being a map of as yet unknown star constellations, we were subsequently contacted by an independent researcher known as Sean Moriarty, who with a small independent team has been investigating the stone for quite some time, resulting in them deciphering the enigmatic cup and ring marks as a map of all the ancient sites within the surrounding area, including some yet to be unearthed. However, there is a little less known ancient stone, a stone which rests in North Carolina, deep within the mountains of Jackson County, and it has baffled all but a few who've examined it. Known as the judicula rock, it is a soapstone boulder, covered with a plethora of strange petroglyphic drawings that archaeologists now believe to be over 3,000 years old. The native Cherokee Indians consider the site sacred, and state that it's extremely ancient. The rock has been studied by researchers from across the world, but no one was ever able to decipher the bizarre petroglyphs on the stone, not even being able to connect them vaguely to any usual subject matter often selected for such ancient expressions. It's also cut using an unknown technique made by an unknown people. The stone sits at the base of a mountain that has a large vein of copper which runs under the site. With a variety of other rare metals and minerals present, this geological layout has often been used to explain the strange electromagnetic anomalies, which can be detected around the rock. The League of Energy Materialization and unexplained phenomena research, or LEMA for short, a team of highly qualified individuals who explore paranormal and enigmatic subjects, may have actually cracked the code, and their research is certainly the most compelling proposition so far put forward, or quite possibly will ever be put forward. In August of 2002, LEMA investigated judicula rock. Upon comparing judicula's markings to microscopic forms, specifically microscopic pond-like, some of which exclusively native to the surrounding landscape, an artistic relationship becomes undeniable. Modern academia, or indeed known history, states that man first saw microscopic creatures in September 1674. These observations were made by Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoijk, that means humans have only known of microscopic life for less than 330 years. If this is true, who or what could have created the judicula stone's markings over 3,000 years ago? Was this stone made by a highly advanced ancient alien? Was it made with the purpose of sharing their research with a local population unable of such work? To date, the LEMA theory is the only one which has been successfully corroborated elsewhere. My mission upon this channel is to provide details regarding ancient ruins, artifacts and technologies that clearly demonstrate that there once existed lost ancient advanced civilizations that have been lost here upon our planet. My unwavering research dynamic is that said subject matter is crucially factual. Thus, it is always based upon that which I have personally sought to confirm as undeniable realities before sharing. I do not only offer an intellectual armory for you, the viewer, who is often confronted with many academic fallacies, but particularly the younger viewer. Enabling their empowerment to correct academics often ordered to pass on such fallacies through a permitted curriculum. As such, I feel that it is crucial that not only are the facts I share established proofs, but that features which they explain away as others' work are established as beyond doubt as currently unexplainable, as such undeniable as the work of others. Exposing academia's lies due to our ancestors' limitations, ancestors often claimed as the constructors of said ruins found throughout the world. Due to this bestowed responsibility to only convey historical accuracies, established mystery, and ancestral limitations, many independent researchers often privately contact me via my secure armored email, often sharing not only their own controversial research, sometimes including their own expedition details, but also academics in positions of tremendous public influence, who not only share my view that much of the history currently being taught to future generations is not only inaccurate, but is based upon a conspiracy of concealing past civilizations. One such email received recently pertained to something known as the Moonshaft. However, although this is not the main theme of this particular video, I will briefly cover what has been shared with me, and after further research, endeavor to do a detailed video in the future regarding said explorations if enough evidence of its existence can be established. Sent to me by Mike Collins, a member of an unsuccessful expedition to try to rediscover this mysterious layer, a brief prologue is as follows, quote, Three soldiers hiding from the Germans in the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia discovered a layer which could possibly be the oldest man-made structure in the world. The structure is believed to be between 300 and 310 million years old by a number of individuals, with Heinrich Himmler even sending several scientific expeditions into the Tatra Mountains looking for the shaft, with members of the KGB also attempting to obtain the diary writings on the experience from these deceased soldiers, end quote. Although compelling, I am reluctant to cover this story yet due to a lack of any physical evidence regardless of the considerable lengthy testimonies that pertain to its existence. I intend to invest some time in researching it further myself first. However, tonight's subject originates far away from the supposed moonshaft in China. Ancient star maps of such accuracy and range that, due to currently attested academic understandings of the history, they simply should not have possessed such knowledge, let alone been able to accurately illustrate it upon parchment, known as the Dunhua Star Chart. The chart is the first accurate graphical representation of star locations within ancient Chinese astronomy, and it is of nearly every star across the atlas. According to modern academia, it is dated to the Tang dynasty between 618 and 907, although I feel this is actually a copy of charts of a far earlier age and thus of a far earlier, far more capable civilization. Before this map, much of the star information mentioned in historical Chinese texts was drastically inaccurate. However, this map provides a graphically precise verification of star observations and are part of a series of charts all known as the Dunhua Manuscripts. It seems, however, in an attempt to quell the curiosity of the astute among us, considerable funding has been funneled into constructing an excuse for its existence. This funded project is known as the International Dunhua Project, with much of the research and indeed exclusive access to the maps solely granted to these academics, which I believe is an attempt to convolut their importance. However, regardless of these tremendous efforts, there are many features of the map which remain unexplainable, compelling evidence of them being Chinese copies of knowledge left over by a past vastly more advanced civilization, copies of elusive manuscripts that at some point within Chinese antiquity were most probably found preserved somewhere. First, the Dunhua Star Map is to date the world's oldest complete preserved star atlas, meaning that before the ancient Chinese were even a seafaring civilization, they somehow had access to knowledge of the accurately plotted star charts of both hemispheres. Additionally, the main image which many presume is the entire Dunhua Star Chart, an insinuation implied by Wikipedia, is only a small fraction of the collection. Yet this piece in itself is an exact, accurate plotting of polar constellations, and due to these ancient Chinese people being incapable of such tremendous voyages, not only does the advanced knowledge copied down upon these charts strongly support my posit of them being a rediscovered copied relic of a past civilization's knowledge. These copies were found in the early 1900s in a walled up cave containing a cache of manuscripts. They were discovered by Chinese Taoist Wang Yuanlu in a cave system known as the Mo Zhuo Caves. Although the scroll with the star chart was found amongst those documents by Oral Stein when he visited and examined the content of the cave in 1907. One of the first public mentionings of these script in western studies was from Joseph Needham's 1959 version of the book Science and Civilization in China. Since that time, however, only a few publications have conveniently been devoted to the map, nearly all being Chinese publications. This map, or as we postulate, accurate copy, was made around the year 700. I feel their lack of public exposure and my reasoning for asserting that they were copies of a far more advanced civilization's work is not only due to the Chinese civilization's inability to travel to such locations to plot such charts at the time, but that the whole set of star maps contains over 1300 stars. Not only proving that, although the Chinese are academically claimed to have believed the world was flat at the time, the star charts prove beyond doubt that they had knowledge of constellations from around the globe. The academic explanation for this is that although the Chinese supposedly presumed the world was flat, they somehow assumed that the heavens were somehow spherical, which to me just seems like a desperate attempt to discredit such manuscripts' true origins. I believe, due to the in-depth and accurate knowledge copied upon the star charts, much of which were far out of the reach of this ancient civilization's observational capabilities, be clear proof that they had discovered maps left by a civilization that was not only seafaring but global. Also, due to the chart featured on Wikipedia, had successfully explored the poles and accurately mapped its constellations. How did the ancient Chinese have such in-depth knowledge of so many constellations, especially polar constellations? We find such manuscripts, academia's funneling of considerable funding into the discrediting of their inexplicable nature and their lack of exposure as highly compelling. This is a great opportunity to see one of the kind of mythical sites of Scottish archaeology. The Cocknostone is one of these sites that people have heard about, there's rumors about it, but very few people remember seeing it before it was buried and so to be part of the revealing of it is really exciting. The Cocknostone is a large ancient rock located at West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Measuring 42 feet by 26 feet, it was first discovered in 1887 by the Reverend James Harvey. Such a large stone, once sitting proud upon the surface, inevitably attracted people's attention for thousands of years. The stone features around 90 carved ancient images, considered to be one of the finest sets of ancient petroglyphs in the world. It was reburied in 1965 by archaeologist Ludovic McClellan Mann, who decided to bury the massive slab under several feet of soil to protect it from damage and to prevent people from adding their own modern carvings to it. In 2015, it was partially re-exposed for investigation during a three-day dig and a more complete re-exposure followed a year later. So far, archaeologists cannot agree on what is exactly depicted on the massive slab. Yet the images are clearly strange, often when you discover that specialists cannot come to a joint conclusion the subject is of a controversial nature. There is no consensus among archaeologists on the meaning of the intricate symbols found on its surface. Experts plan to digitally map the stone, and that data obtained could shine more light on its history, its purpose in the people who created the artwork they believed lived more than 5,000 years ago. Dr. Kenny Brophy led the excavation and described the experience of seeing the stone as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Because of the array of markings on it, the cockna stone has been recognized as being of national importance and designated as a scheduled monument. Due to its unusual illustrations and the choice in shapes and placement thereof, many researchers have come to the conclusion that the Cockno Rock could have been some form of star map. The mystery of its strange decorations will undoubtedly persist for many years to come. In the January of 1974, a man by the name of Duncan Lunan published an article called Space Probe from Epsilon Boutis. It concerned a mystery surrounding long-delayed radio echoes or LDEs first reported in the 1920s. Mysterious echoes of the transmitter's voice, which were far too powerful to have been simple reflections from Earth, experimenters studying all over the world found that their outgoing pulses were being returned to them with a delay of three seconds as if they were being amplified and returned by something at the distance of the moon, but definitely not the moon itself. These delay times began to vary upwards from three seconds in increasingly complicated sequences, but with no variation in intensity, still indicating a single source amplifying and returning the pulses. Professor Ron Bracewell of Stanford suggested in 1960 that the echoes might have been rebroadcast by an unmanned probe from another civilization, a craft attempting to get our attention, and in 1972 Duncan would make an incredible discovery, successfully making a translation of the echo patterns. The variations of delay times appeared random, but Professor Bracewell himself had suggested that if indeed a probe, the first signal might be a star map. After plotting the delay times in chronological order, he found what indeed looked like a star map. Upon showing this to astronomers, it was recognized to have been a warped image of Epsilon Boutis in the constellation Boutis. Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation, seemed to be out of place in the map, but on checking was shown at its plotted location within the map about 13,000 years ago. Predictably, the discoveries were treated as suspect and with great hostility by the academic community. Sadly, this pressure led to Duncan withdrawing his entire translation work and research. Did Duncan Lunan actually decipher the first message ever translated from an alien civilization? More research into this incredible echo anomaly is clearly needed and the results of which release to the world.