I'm Catherine Privet-Durin, and this is Little Hallowocky Farm in Opelika, Alabama. And I have been farming for 10 years, and I'm a Lee County Master Gardener. I'm also a professor of literature and have been teaching since about 20 years now. Right now I only teach online, which has made it very easy for me to do this kind of work. We realized very quickly that there was no way for us to actually compete with other farms on such a small scale, and not that we even wanted to. So I was trying to find, I suppose, a way to participate in my community that would matter. And I'm a teacher. I've been a teacher for over two decades, and I'm also a farmer. And so I thought, well, why not take this opportunity to make a teaching farm of some sort? And I suppose our purpose is dual. And one way we want our neighbors out here, some of them, you know, can be quite economically challenged. We want them to learn how to get back to growing their own food that you don't need expensive tiller equipment, and acres and acres of land to make sure that you have enough tomatoes, enough green beans, enough salad to get through the year. So that was where it began. But the more I thought about it, the more I knew that it had to be more than that. I think anyone can grow in their own backyard, whether or not it be a hay bale, or a few pots, or even something more auspicious. But what really is my driving passion is to teach people that want to know how we can get back in balance and do sustainable farming, something that's more permaculture, more ethical, healthier for us. And honestly, in the end, less work for us as well. The more that balance is struck, the less work we have to do. And I think if I can get that across, more folks will consider doing it. And then, you know, from there, less poison for the planet, right? So that's what I want to do. Okay, well, what we're doing here is permaculture as much as possible. And we're working with the space we have. And at this time, we have maybe just under an acre and a half. And so our strawberry field is here. And we're going to make sure that it is continued from now on. And you can also see we've do radishes in between because they do such a wonderful job at bringing in the pollinators. And but what else we've done over here is we've incorporated mushrooms for so that all of the mulch in between the plants are actually a living mulch. All of the space needs to be going at all times. You want to come over here and see more? These are our echinacea beds. I've heard that in this area, some of this echinacea wouldn't come back every year very well, but it actually does for us. We heavily mulch in the winter. And they are wonderful. Absolutely one of my favorite flowers that we grow. And also, they're just a wonderful pollinator period. And the chickens like it. And these are my chickens. And up here, we decided to let this just be, which is sort of one of our ethics here. I was working on getting some elderberry together. And I started them right here in this little bed. And this one didn't want to leave. But that's good because as we know, in Alabama, the shade can be kind of important in our horrible summers. Also beautiful summers. And this one provides shade for our hot house. And also the birds just love it. And it's part of our working farm, I guess, mission to work with everything. So it's a living ecology. So the birds matter, the lizards matter, the bees matter, everything matters. This is intensive care. And what I mean by that is we overwinter everything in our hot house. We have not yet taken the plastic off of. And when we bring them out, some things really struggle to come back. And especially our little lemon trees here that this one's doing pretty good. Over here, this one's not doing so well. So we put them out in full sun. And I can baby them better right here. And hopefully, some of these things will recover from the cold winter. And over here is our spearmint patch. We all know that mint will take over. But with working in permaculture, I really wanted to give them a spot where they could thrive and not fight them so much. This is where they thrive. And it's a wonderful tea. This is copper fennel. It's been on the property for about six years now. And it's become part of our landscape. I think it's beautiful. Butterflies love it. And over here, while it doesn't look like much right now, this field has been repurposed for turmeric. And we have about five different varieties of turmeric in here. They will come up like later in the summer. But over here, we have a patch of parsnips. And what we're really into is letting the land tell us what it wants to do and not fight it too difficult. You know, not make it too difficult for that land. We tried to do asparagus here. And I think one of the number one things a farmer should understand is if it's too hard, then it's not right. And so we've decided to let that situation go and find a better place for our asparagus and wait for this area to sort of let us know what will grow well here. The turmeric does wonderfully over here. But we didn't know that for years and years and tried to do corn. So it's a learning process, you know.  These are our roses. And I am in love with roses on a farm. I've heard from other people they can't do roses because they say it's too much work. And it's really not. It's more about just letting the plant be quite a bit. We prune them once a year. And we mulch them heavily with living mulch that you will see those mushrooms later in the fall. But these bring in pollinators. And they're a wonderful tea. And they're related to the apple family, the apple blossom family. And you can do roses on a farm without a lot of work and with no pesticides at all. Or any chemical that's synthetic. And over here, this is our new septic tank. And, you know, farming is messy. And one of my feelings was if we're going to dig into the earth and put in a septic tank, I really wanted it to be a living space, too.  And this year, we're also incorporating a little dill so that this can be a living space at all times instead of just being a concrete slab. These are my potatoes. It is our first year for potatoes. And as a farmer, every year I try one new thing, you know. And if it doesn't work out, that's okay. But what I learned from one new thing is usually whether or not it will assist in a permaculture system, which we know it has to have some sort of balance and stability and diversity. So we didn't want to put our potatoes in the ground. We wanted to do something that was raised and not injure the ground in any way. They're working out so far. And behind here, we are doing haybell gardening, which is a wonderful way to add extra space, especially if you're limited. And we've got butternut squash. We have the African orange melon. We have some tomatoes. So that's a really neat way to limited space, don't dig in the earth and still have a lot of food. And behind that are garlic fields. And that particular field is a two-stage field. So garlic will grow there from October until May. And then in May, it will be lettuces and sometimes beans, but that way it's always living with the environment. These cupronons are gorgeous. They're golden. And you can see they begin over here at this archway and splay all the way down this side. And they're enamingled with natural rose here on the property. And what's really cool about it is this entire thing came out of one little stick. I just put it in the ground and it gives us about two gallons of cupronons, another vine and another archway, so that we can have enough to assist a family of five. Guess we're feeding about five people on all of their vegetable needs and three CSA members that get a basket every month. And they usually get a basket about six months for their input. And without them, we couldn't make it. And we're, like I was telling you, really working on becoming a closed loop because finances are hard for us. They're hard for a lot of people I know right now. And farming can be an expensive endeavor. And we're looking for ways to take that expense off the table a little bit, making our own compost, incorporating rabbits for their wonderful waste product, and recycling all of the things that we have on the farm as much as possible. But let's go look at what's down here. Now just this year, we are doing something new. Before we were using plastic in between our rows, we were doing rows for one thing. We were using more synthetic materials to fight weeds and things like that. This year, we are 100% trying to get away from that. And it is a process, but we're almost there. I'm using pine. I'm using hay. I'm not using straw. And the reason I'm not using straw is because I cannot find an affordable organic straw. And that is very sad. It turns out most hay around here is not sprayed because the horses eat it. Pine is a little iffy for us. So we're working against that probably by the end of the year. And that's primarily because it can make the ground acidic if we worked it in. So what we did decide to do was make more living mulch. And one of the ways we did that was we worked with northern spore. And right now we're working on a research project together to find ways to incorporate mycelium, a living mulch into our beds, into our pathways as well, into every possible space. So if you look carefully down this way, you'll see this is completely untamed area. And there's a deep pond with an old well house down there. We care about that. We have frogs, we have toads, we have all kinds of turtles. You know, Alabama has so much diverse ecology. But we have to care a little bit more about it to keep it going. And since we've been working with no synthetic chemicals for so long, we've noticed now how much is thriving here? How much the soil responds? How much the trees respond? It's a peaceful place. So, you know, we have to have a pathway. We're still working on how to do this. This is some crushed leftover rock. But nothing past here to there would have any kind of plastic material anymore, because it's really bad for the environment breaks down into your earth. And if you look very carefully, you'll see copper run across the base of these green bean plants. And the reason for that is because they were getting eaten, and we don't use pesticide. So we incorporated copper tape, and hopefully that's going to give these wonderful plants a chance to kind of pull through. And it's hot in here. So get ready. We got this high tunnel on a grant from the state of Alabama. And it has been wonderful. And at first, what we did with this area and this property was we tilled it. We tilled it heavily. We didn't know any other way. But I was noticing that the quality of the earth and we do soil tests every year, the quality of the earth was going way down and there was hummus was not great, there weren't any worms. And so we've decided 100% no more telling.  We wanted to utilize as much space in here as possible.  And because we don't want to waste any space at all, being a very small farm, we've incorporated salads in the interior that these wonderful plants will shade, which is necessary and 95 degree heat. The same for here. This area has not been tilled in a year. And as you can see, it's kind of thriving. This area is now going to be a permanent bed. And we fixed it in a way that you can reach over. I've actually measured that and not walk in because that can compact our soil, which also means that we're going to have to have permanent pathways. You'll notice we have a lot of cardboard down. It's a lot better for the earth and plastic. And those pathways will all be inoculated with mushrooms for our micro irrigation is not yet out for the year, because we want to wait to see where the plants are going to all be living permanently. What's really cool about our water, it's well water. So there's no chlorine involved in that or any other runoffs or anything like that. It's important if you have well water to also get your water tested every year. I think that's a misstep when we're doing our soil. Water needs to be tested as well. See what you got going on. Also, because we're trying to create a living ecology that is balanced and we don't want to waste space either. We're making sure that we interplant quite a bit. And companion plants are also just wonderful. But here we have nasturtiums. And they're a great look natural pesticide right there. They're going to keep a lot of things off the plants. And here we have calendula. And what's wonderful about that is you got two things with that. You have the pollinators coming in like gangbusters. But you also have a tea source. And it's wonderful and sad and things over here. It's a little early to see. But we've incorporated sage and they will be popping up in between all of these plants. And over there are marigolds. So what's important about that is just keeping the ground living. You know when you go look at a forest floor, everything is working together. There's so much life. It's created this beautifully balanced ecology. But when we tell and we create these hard spaces where we expect the plant to thrive just as well. It tells us the answers now when we incorporate it all together and try to mimic and get back to that natural I think sacred balance. It does more for us and we do less work. And that's sort of the key. Less work. More food. Right. And over here we did not want to do pipes. We didn't want to do anything that would injure the lands. There's a gorgeous pond down there. It's not on our property. But when you're doing this kind of work you need to care about the surrounding property. And that pond does matter to our community. So we just dug a trench and let it do what it needs to do. You know the important thing is that I don't want to be too perfect on this farm because the second I try to be too perfect everything is going to fall. I'm trying to kind of work with the plants and with the landscape in a way that's not invasive and in a way that I feel like is healthier for the land itself. Well we think this is a tea olive. It absolutely has covered in bees in the summer. And when we had to make our high tunnel they wanted to cut it down. And we fought for it. We promised to keep it at a certain height. We promised to take good care of it. And she just flourished. And you know a good friend of mine named Jamie Oates told me that it's important to remember in the South things aren't the same as they are in other places. Sometimes we need a little shade. And honestly this high tunnel would burn up so much without a little shade.  So we left her there. As sustainable farmers we really care about saving our own seed as much as possible. That's a lost art and it will help with food security. And I want to teach some of my neighbors to do this kind of work. Doesn't take that much work. It just takes a little care. And you know some dedication. But it will also save a lot of money every year. So all of these are safety. And that makes some of them heritage. Which we really love. And you'll see we have fans going. They're critical. Over here as well. And they're on solar panels. And we really didn't want to incorporate any electricity down here if we could possibly keep it away from our farm and garden. But we still have to negotiate a few things. So that being stated these were affordable. And we keep them in here all year. Okay well when we had to do our septic system. We needed to do some field lines. And we didn't want to hurt too many trees. And so one of the things we did was we went ahead and just pulled it down this nice long line which actually belongs to us all the way down. To help feed the trees. And since we don't use any chemicals in our home we're not that worried about the runoff. But we also needed to get hardwood mulch for this project. And when we did I looked at this huge pile of hardwood mulch which I got from a local lumber yard. And it's not been sprayed or treated. And we wanted to do something with the rest of it. And I started to think. And that's when the idea of mushrooms came to me. This is oak hardwood mulch. And we called northern spore. This is before we found out about our little farm down the way that's still working on things. To become a fungi farm. And I think they're doing pretty good too. But we went ahead and inoculated all of this logs you see here in the shady wood line with shiitake. I believe there's 32 logs down there. As an extra food source because we had to cut a little lumber to get this in. And we wanted to not have any waste products. But that's not all we did. We ended up with a lot of spore. So one of the other things we've done is taken this hardwood mulch surrounded about five different trees in our property. And inoculated that with mushroom spore as well. And the mushroom spore we used everything from almanut garakas to well shiitake, red wine cap which by the way grows really wonderful in the sun. Is that it works with the root system. It doesn't damage the tree. A living tree is going to be very happy about that surrounding area. And it kind of keeps it nice and moist. And just becomes more life and more food. The reason we love our yuccas because it has something that sounds like sapononoids in it. It's a soap making compound.  But you do not. We take the leaves we put them in boiling water and then let them sit and then do the work of scraping the exterior, the green off of that and letting it work for a little while too. And it makes a wonderful natural syrup. And also the fibers can make rope. But it is blooming which it only does every two years. So that will be really nice. Well these are dwarf peach trees which are more appropriate for our space. We get I suppose about three gallons of the most delicious peaches you've ever had out of this. And that will definitely take care of a family of four or five for a couple of you know nice peach cobblers. And we love it because it doesn't get too tall. These particular trees are seven years old. And I did plant them incorrectly when they were first to hear on the property. But mistakes are where you learn everything. And they are trying to recover from that. We use absolutely nothing on them. Whatever fruit survives, survives. And we still get all of those buckets every year. But for a smaller family and limited space, the dwarf peach tree is where it's at. Zach is my son and he's been helping me farm for a year since the pandemic began. And he's done the work in here. Yeah I'm Zach Privet, cat's son. And I've been staying here for the last year learning how to grow and becoming more interested in growing. And honestly I wasn't really that interested in growing or farming until I quarantined and actually got out here saw it every day and started doing it myself. So we're underneath the fig trees here. Stay nice and shady. So we have these hay bales with golden oyster inoculate. And underneath the hay bales we have hardwood chips with almond agaricus. So we're still waiting on them to fruit. It's our first experimentation with them. But hopefully it's fruitful. I think the most important thing to think about when you're first starting some kind of farming project. Of course small scale is what I do so I couldn't advise to anything else. Would be ask yourself what number one brings you the most pleasure. Whether it be a certain flower you remember from your childhood or even if it's a lettuce that always has brought you pleasure. And number two what do you use the most of that can grow well in your area. And then from there honestly I would turn to the Lee County Master Gardeners or whatever county you are residing in. Because we have a lot of knowledge and we can talk to you about what cultivars and what you know species of things will grow in your space. But for instance if you don't have a lot of space that is across the ground you can always go up. Little ideas like that can really make the difference to a first time farmer. What we want is for someone to succeed at something. And so the second big piece of advice would be you're going to mess up. You're going to make mistakes. You're going to learn from those mistakes. And they're critical to learning what does well for you. What does well for your land. And what does well for your zone. But start small. Two or three things that really matter to you. And go have fun making mistakes and making food.


trying to get your first fans is always tough and whether that's your first 10 or 10,000 there's techniques and a mindset to be in and while for some of you it's obvious what to do in your community to find fans i find time and time again people ask me what in the hell they do to talk to people in their community so i'm going to show you examples of how you should interact with your community so you can do the most important work you can be doing for your music so in this video i'll show you how to interact with your community and get your first fans hi i'm jesse cannon a music marketing nerd who's teaching musicians how to grow their fan base from zero to 10,000 fans and this is muse formation okay so some of you may not know this but this is part two in a series where i'm discussing some of the most important work you could be doing to build a fan base which is finding and building your community so if you're wondering how you find these communities or what in the hell i'm talking about when i mentioned the spreadsheet of all your targets well you should probably go backwards to the first video in this series and that video is linked on the screen now or in the description below but we should talk about how we make this work effective okay let's do some quick theory and if you're one of those viewers who's tired of my theory this video is chapter so just click past this section so if you're new here you probably don't know that i think facebook ads are the biggest con musicians who don't yet have a huge fan base fall for since tons of con artists youtubers selling their services or even worse courses with tons of obvious information pretend this is a musicians only hope for building a fan base since they've never actually built one but one of the many reasons i tell musicians to never use facebook ads is they never grow you within your community they target music fans who are gullible enough to take recommendations from an ad on the most cursed boomer playground on the internet whereas this work finds the taste makers the movers and shakers in your community who are connected to people who can open gates for you and people you have things in common with that you can grow your relationships with for your entire life but now that that's out of the way i feel the need to remind you of a few social graces of the internet since i see so many of you breaking them all the time remember what you're trying to do here is make a lifelong friend in your community that you have things in common with and will enjoy the company of as you do cool things with them for years to come if you think a person sucks or really don't like them and force it you're gonna waste your time when the vibe is off it's going nowhere that's not to say you don't always click with someone at first but if you interact with someone regularly and they're not making you feel good you don't have to force it go into each of these interactions trying to build a friendship with them that will last for decades and run like hell if the red flags start waving since in my experience you never regret running from giant waving red flags but most of all be yourself what makes genuine connections with people is not faking your interests and who you are ask people questions you're generally interested in the answer to and hope for the best and if the vibe doesn't happen that's how it goes and it may happen one day i've started conversations with people that didn't work out and three years later we meet again and become lifelong friends let's also remember a relationship is an ongoing thing far too many of you try to get married before you've even gotten past the first date your pitches to collab trade shows etc will go way better if you've bonded and had casual conversations with these people first also if you're approaching a musician who isn't in a huge band doing dm slides is totally cool but if you're approaching industry professionals or what i like to loosely call adults since i kind of consider myself one of these a dm slide can be super unprofessional i hate facebook and instagram messages from strangers to agree that's probably irrational and make my assistants answer them and as well when i go out with my very important music business friends they say the same thing whenever possible if you're trying to approach a professional in the business do it over email or that cursed linked insight okay so some of the most crucial work of finding and building your community is reaching out to other like-minded musicians of a similar size to you particularly those who have about the same size fan base are a little bigger than you so let's say you've established some targets and have researched them enough that you can do a dm slide or an email and are ready to reach out i'd simply start with a genuine compliment i know for many of you you don't find the music these people to make to be anything to write home about but finding something nice to say as it shows vulnerability will go really far and the only way we ever connect with people is through vulnerability but i don't want to get too self-help here so let's keep moving past this after you've been nice to them and said who you are let's strike up some back and forth conversations before you give the ask that could be that you'd love to them to write a song with you do a feature on your song or trade shows in each other's cities you can also go a much more casual route of asking them about their music if you like their mix ask who did it if you like a synth patch or a vocal effect ask about that maybe you ask them where they buy their gear i mean you can even hip them to the super helpful youtube channel you've been watching point being start connecting and remember people not replying is to be expected from time to time this work works when you do it consistently but so we're also talking about how you get your first fans in this video in addition to how you connect with other musicians and some of the way you get those fans is by making these musicians a part of your community by being supportive of them after you connect with them do what i suggest doing in your consistent sustained promotion where i suggest you make spotify music and talk dj sets and include them in it and tag them on social media as well as adding them to your spotify artist playlist and tagging them there i talk about this in my 60 day plan for promoting your song if you want to go deeper that's linked in the description and if they drop a new song you can also support them by retweeting them or sharing their story on instagram hopefully they'll reciprocate the support but what i often suggest artists if they have supported that artist is to just ask for some support when you have a big event like a new single or a music video if you have 10 artists who will do this for you that are similar to you and sound you'll be well on your way to getting early fans who start to spread the word about you and here's a pro tip for you if you want this to go even better two years ago i made a video about this but as you get a bigger community a low key way to drive streams and get the word out is to on your release day or week depending on how big your community is make a spreadsheet of all your contacts in your community who you've established a relationship with go through this list and just start off asking that person you're hitting up what they've been up to and check in and if they aren't a cell phone store main character syndrome having sociopath they will inevitably ask you what you've been up to and you can go we just dropped our new beggar dabbing on the way to death and then you just drop that youtube link in the chat if they have any social graces they will get the hint to listen and share it and if you're making great music you've just accepted being top of mind to this person for where they're talking to someone else about an opener for a show a collab feature etc if you're dropping music every two months doing this check-in will reinforce these relationships and show people you're taking music seriously and they should recommend you for things as well if when they put out new songs you add them to your ars playlist of your community and then link that on twitter and instagram at tagging them you give them the hint that they should make some of these playlists and do the same with you which will help you grow and rank higher for editorial playlist consideration on spotify but let's talk about online communities next since so many of you asked me about them you've hopefully typed all of your targets and microgenre names into facebook group search discord search and reddit search and join some communities so the first bit of advice i have here is super crucial let's say you join one of those communities i implore you instead of going in and swinging your knowledge and uh cool personality around and talking like you're the big boss who knows everything read the room watch the way people interact is it jokey serious is there a ton of self promotion are people laughing at all the clouds who say all you need is good songs and your music will promote itself because i sure do instead of jumping right in really sit back and take in the vibe that's not to say that you shouldn't be yourself and show off your own unique personality but it's the same we can all be ourselves more in some places than others and some places are just not appropriate for our whole selves but what this will show you when you read the room is when self promotion or linking your music is okay some of the communities have threads on say friday where you can post your music and while this isn't going to get you a thousand listens most likely it will get you listened to by the right people who are really passionate about this genre and spread the word about what they like now after you've read the room you'll notice that there's some threads where you can inception your music into that thread for example these communities don't need to just be your micro genre or a subreddit of a band you sound similar to they can even be communities you feel kinship with in your other hobbies or interests one of my good friends was in this crazy cult growing up and she's written some songs about how it messed her up so someone in her recovery group will say something on a thread and she will be like you know i was there i actually wrote a song and it really helped me heal and she'll drop the link other times dorks will sit around talking about their favorite guitar pedals and you can be like oh hell yeah dog i use the hell dog snarl sound on this solo peep my track other times someone will post that they need an opener and to drop youtube links i see this particularly in local music communities on facebook groups like for an example a brooklyn indie musicians group or something like that other groups won't allow that self-promotion though like for example the facebook group i keep for this channel i reject a lot of posts since there's a hundred other music promotion communities littered with trash and i try to keep mine as junk free as possible yet again read the room if you've read the room for a while and you're clever enough you can inception yourself into conversations by starting a conversation you know will lead the way to getting your music posted particularly there's one technique i love where if you have a friend in this community you can have them do a thread like post the best song about getting your heart ripped out and they'll post yours and then the next week you'll post to the thread that says post the best songs about your dog running away and then you'll post their song in return you hopefully get the point but these communities are also where you will collect a ton of leads for your spreadsheet they're not just for self-promotion all the time and so many people make that mistake trust me as people hear your music at some point someone is going to tell you it sounds like an artist you've never heard of who may end up being one of your new favorite artists and give you a lot of targets and leads but they're also going to show you places you could promote your music just the other day i was hanging on discord and found one of those youtube channels with a big community that do one of those streams where they listen to their community songs live on a stream and rate them and trash them or compliment them i passed it on to a musician friend and he got his music listened to on the stream and an artist with 200 000 monthly listens reached out to him with about 200 monthly listens and asked him to send her beats other times i find new playlist to follow or someone who does a podcast i think i'd be a good guest on and then i send a pitch that's a lot of the effective work that happens here and i know you all want to drop your music in a comment but this is the real leads you find and it's really a lot of the more important work than just dropping your music in the community but the real work here is this if you interact and are a good member of the community people are going to message you to chat and build this is how you find the artist to collab with or trade shows with or whatever a friend in these communities can do so much as both of you have your journey in music okay but let's talk about doing this on twitter as well as instagram youtube and tiktok comments and dm's and now you found all your targets and some of the people you've seen in your research that they work with that are on their team right since you looked around their profiles and saw their booking agent manager's email and then you found their name and searched them out on social media right right well that's the smart thing to do if you're just following the editor of rap caviar or the biggest anr you're missing it the smaller players is where this is at the manager of a tiny artist with 30 to 100 000 monthly listeners is how you build up and get up to those other people okay so the first part of this is really simple and you should probably know this going in the comments of your targets and being supportive funny or just adding interesting comments can go way far the most obsessive fans aka the ones who are most likely to check you out if they see you in the comments and recognize your name are the ones reading these comments and i know for those of us with lives the idea of expanding a tiktok instagram our youtube comment thread is something we've never done one time in our lives but that means you're probably not the obsessive music fan who the only thing that makes their life good is their fandom and they are looking for the next artist to stand that makes them happy and getting in those comments especially on tiktok does so much work of sending you to new people who really are likely to be susceptible to liking your music i can't emphasize enough that this is a new potential fan so giving that heart or reply in a prompt matter is often the start of a relationship that gives you a new fan this work isn't the type of thing that shows results doing it once a month but a little each day will go miles in about nine months but let's talk twitter for people who aren't naturally drawn into twitter you know unlike me who's had an addiction for 12 years and counting twitter is most effectively used by following all of your targets as well as some of your most adamant fans and the adamant fans of the targets most similar to you open it each day and here's the key don't force it when you feel you have something funny or interesting to add add it when you can support your community with a retweet of their new song or tour announcement do it and hopefully they'll do the same for you and help you grow your early fans twitter is a phenomenal place to build commonality and relationships but also show you're a member of the community by supporting your community this means been one of those targets you've had some interactions with put out a new song doing a quote retweet of yo this song goes or whatever your vibe is i mean personally i miss the days when we call things extremely much but whatever you would naturally say is more than enough this can go real far for future bonding and if they retweet you their fans see your name and you continue chipping away at the stone of people recognizing your name enough to check you out and while this sounds dumb and subtle this is how music discovery works early on before you have tons of fans spreading the word about you and particularly this is in front of the eyes of people who love artists who sound like you and are most susceptible to liking you early on but for all three of these platforms the crucial thing to do is after you've had an interaction or two with someone on socials slide in the dms and strike up a conversation but i want to caution you just because your dm slides go nowhere sometimes that doesn't make you an idiot it makes you someone doing the right work i for an example don't have my dm notifications on for twitter since i work at politics and don't want to read someone calling me a baby eating libtard every hour of the hour so i miss things that i would love to reply to from time to time and people have plenty of reasons to miss dms it's part of the game the game though is is that your failure is part of the bricks that build your path to success but i have to yet again tell you that doing all this is an exercise in finding more community for example i love hyperpop and while hyperpops biggest influencers are like two to three playlists and spotify and oddly enough two youtube channels which do a lot of taste making there's also instagram pages that post even better recommendations and i discover those as smaller artists tweet them and post them on their instagram stories being in your community like this will show you who to follow and who to submit to that will get you your early fans and guess what if they have an instagram that's doing taste making they probably have a spotify playlist which will help build you up as well and you may be saying what about facebook jesse dog unless your fans are older than 30 please stay off the anti-vaxxer boomer meme playground and devote your time to something effective the only place on facebook i would concentrate on is which groups you can join and participate in and the cheat code here is that you could sign in under your music page so people see your identity as your music's name while you're commenting so you can keep building it up so people start to recognize your name but let's talk about you know the real world i'm gonna drop something crazy on you you can even do community work in the real world i know as someone who regularly wears a shirt that says always online never outside i may not be the best person to talk to on this but let's get into this the first place and best place to do this work is at your concerts and i went kind of long on this in one of my videos on live shows so to point you there if you want to learn more it's linked in the description but there's more than that as you do community work inevitably the artist you target will come to your town and play shows seriously prioritize going and bonding with them and supporting them by bringing out every friend you can even to help promote their show even if you're not playing on your socials and be hospitable to them if they need a place to stay and you could do it be sure to offer the help if you know they are broken hungry and you could buy them food or lend them an instrument just be helpful in any way you can since people feel the need to pay that back and this all gets paid pack tenfold if they continue to grow and build you up with them but also going to their shows doesn't need to be all altruistic towards them if you've never gotten booked out of any new hanging backstage with your friend from the band is the number one way to change that by learning who books there and bonding with them as well if you have an upcoming show bringing fires and handing them to the audience is the best way to get a packed show in the future i know we have all gotten real comfortable staying home and binging mediocre tv shows but getting out of the real world takes this work to the next level and hanging in real life takes online relationships to a much more real and coveted place and it took me years to accept this since i'm a real city at home studying type of guy so you may be thinking what in the hell jesse you told us you were going to tell us how to interact with our community but you didn't mention play whiskers or all those writers of articles you told us to put in the spreadsheet you're right because that's not interacting as much as pitching and that's a whole other video in this series and discussion sorry but i promise you in the coming weeks that will be on your screen so all the more reason you should make sure 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Howdy! Today on Flipping Science we're going to do an example electrochemistry question. Here's the start of the question. A vanadium flow battery has been developed. We have a picture of the battery and we're told to state the energy conversion that occurs when the battery is discharging. What that means is when we're giving off energy because it's a battery we need to figure out what kind of conversion is happening. So this goes back to the proper year 8 science where we're talking about energy types. So there's chemical energy in the battery, chemical potential energy in the battery, and that's being turned into electrical energy. And that's the conversion that we're worried about. So we're breaking down one electrode, that's now turning the chemical energy in the bonds into electrical energy that we're using in the external circuit. Then we're on to the next bit. It says equations for the reactions that take place are shown below using sub-shell notation right in the electron configuration of vanadium. In this case it's the vanadium ion, vanadium plus 2 2 plus. So we need to find vanadium. It's number 23 here. So we're going to use that. I'm going to do vanadium first then I'll figure out what the V2 plus line is. So it's number 23. So we go 1S22S22P6 3S23P6 4S2. So we're up to 2, 4, 10, 12, 18, 20, 3D3. So to make the plus 2 ion we're going to get rid of the 4S2 electrons there. So what I'll do is I'll just get rid of the last bit here. And go 3D3. Now if I add this up we should add up to 21 because we've lost the two electrons from here. So 2, 4, 10, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21. There we go. So the next part of the question says state the oxidation number of vanadium in VO2 plus. What I'm going to do there is I'm going to do the working out down the bottom and write my answer at the top here. So we've got X for vanadium plus 2 times the oxidation number of oxygen which is minus 2 in most compounds. That's equal to the charge over here which is plus 1. So we've got X minus 4 equals plus 1. Add 3 to both sides. Add 4 to both sides.  The oxidation number is going to be equal to plus 5. Next part of the question says explain why electrode 2 is the cathode when the battery is discharging. If we look at our equation that they gave us for electrode 2 we look at which side the electrons are on. They're on the left hand side here. So if it's on the left hand side that means reduction is happening and cathode reduction. So reduction happens at the cathode. So when I'm answering the question here explain why electrode 2 is the cathode. Reduction is occurring at electrode 2 and the site of reduction is the cathode in a battery when it is discharging. That's how I would sum up the answer to that question. So in the second part of the question it says draw an arrow to show the direction of electron flow in the external circuit. So to do that we need to figure out what the charge is on the electrodes. So electrode 2 we just figured out that that is the cathode. The rule is if it's a cathode in a galvanic cell that's positive so that means the other one has to be negative. Cathode positive reduction is how I remember that. So CPR and the other side is A in O. So that's the first three letters of ammo. So for a galvanic cell cathode positive reduction and O negative oxidation. So now if we look at it we need to figure out which direction the electrons are going. The electrons go from negative to positive. They're appelled from the negative side and they go to the positive side. Right so I've drawn some arrows on there to show that. It says draw an arrow. So what I'll do is I'll just do a big arrow up here and this will be my answer. That's what I want there. Last part of the question says one advantage of the vanadium flow battery is that it's rechargeable. Identify the type of cell that operates during the recharging process. So if it's a galvanic cell when it is discharging that means it's going to be an electrolytic cell when it is recharging. So our answer down here is electrolytic. I'm sure you'll have better handwriting than me. Then it says identify the product formed at the cathode during the recharging process. So in this case if we're recharging we're forcing the direction of the electrons to reverse. We're pushing it in the opposite direction. So that means essentially what's happening is the reverse of these is occurring. So that one's going in that direction and that one's going in that direction. So in that case which one would be the cathode in an electrolytic cell this side would be the cathode now because we're pushing the electrons in the other direction. So that means reduction is still occurring over here but that means it's positive. Anyway it says identify the product form so we're pushing this in the other direction so we're going to be making v plus two ions. Right so in a recharging process we've got the electrons flowing in the other direction. We're still getting reduction at the cathode. That makes this the cathode now. So we're going to be getting the cathode being regenerated in this case. So the anode overall would be being regenerated by making this the cathode when we're recharging the battery. So that's an example question from an old exam on electrochemistry. That's it for Flipping Science today. See ya.


Welcome, this is Melissa arm of the stocks question review in uber This is one of these trades you're like look the back and you say oh my god Look at this close today. We did this today long We made money along and it seems impossible now, but we did it dropped today with the market But it actually was a good gap up if the market wouldn't have fallen off the planet today This absolutely would have gone higher, but we still made money in it the stock close here gapped up and we went long Again, I like to trade the morning. It's the best ideally in the world because you don't have to worry about the market Squish this here So again, here is where we got in got the rally up could have got out here Some people did I had a little bit more is trying to get it to 31 got very close Had a decent exit here got out and then this collapsed absolutely collapsed with the market So it's really interesting because again when you have a good gap Usually don't need the market mark was selling off this morning. We got in and out of this fast I'm always looking to get in and out in the first half hour of the day again. We do go long I mean, I do prefer to short as you will know this was not a short today despite what the market does It's not but it was along and it was the best gap that we did this morning It was earnings to and this would have gone to 32 if the market wouldn't have fallen today So it affected this going more I should say but again one of the nice things about coming to me I'm learning my system is I run a live trading room where I'm calling the trades live in and out very fast in The live room I call the entry the incident the stop and you've got to get on board with this because again this idea of waiting all day And trading all day you just give money back to the market and then you're at the mercy of news data FOMC amounts meant who wants to deal with that stress? Going into the holidays, you know or any time of the year quite frankly in this environment that we're in right now That's so driven by 24 seven years. You've got to make money and get in and out I mean, you just got to do it in the morning So if you're interested in more information and you're interested in taking the golden gap class email me at Melissa the stocks wish com Only two more classes left for 2022. Have a good day everyone


Welcome back after the break. We'll continue. We were looking at God's authority structure at the workplace. And now we look at the last authority structure that God has placed in our lives. God's authority structure for the civil government. Before we move on to God's authority structure, the civil government, anyone has any questions? Any questions? No? Okay. So let's move on to God's authority structure for the civil government. Now we live under two governments. What are the two governments that believers live under? Any idea? What are the two governments that we live under? Anyone has any idea? Can unmute your mics and share your answer or you can even type it. Yes, Levega? I think just like we live in two realms, the spiritual and the natural. So I think we have the spiritual government led by God and the natural which we see with our own eyes. Yes, thank you. It's a good answer. Okay, so we live under the government of the kingdom of God. And of course, since we are also in this world, we are part of the government in our nation, in our state, the place that we live in, the civil government. And we must understand that God's kingdom authority just as it is expressed in and through us, through our family, in the local church, in the body of Christ, and the workplace God's kingdom government also flows through the civil government that is in place in our area that we live in or the nation, the city that we live in. So we always think that God's kingdom government just flows in and through our lives, through our lives, through others, through the local church. But we were not aware or that God's kingdom government flows into the workplace, through the authority structures that he had created the workplace. And also God's kingdom government flows into the civil government, the government that is there in the nation that we belong to, through the authority structures or through the government that God has brought about in our nation. The Bible records a very interesting narrative for us. When the Pharisees, they want to trap Jesus, they're finding different ways to trap him. So once they think about a plan and they want to catch Jesus, they want to trap him. So they come and, you know, first they speak nicely of him, they say, you know, they acknowledge that he's a man who speaks the truth, that he's not afraid of anyone else, he's not afraid of any other man. And then they ask him a question and they said, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Okay, do you remember this narrative? When, you know, they tried to quiz him, they tried to trap him by asking him a question, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not? What was, you know, Jesus' answer? What does Jesus say? Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God. Thank you, Lubega. So he asked them to, you know, get a coin and he asked them to, you know, ask them a question, he says, whose image or inscription do you see on this Sunday? They said, we see Caesar's and what does he tell them? Lubega said, you know, Jesus tells them, give to Caesar or render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God. That means, you know, pay your taxes to Caesar because he's an authority and because each one of us are made in the image of God, we need to give ourselves back to God. We need to give God our very selves.  And if he said no, then the Pharisees could accuse Jesus of, you know, kind of leading a revolt against the prevailing Roman government and, you know, they could have easily handed him off to the Roman soldiers. But we see either way, you know, Jesus could not be trapped. But the main point, you know, Jesus is saying is, you know, we need to pay our taxes. We need to pay our taxes to the government. We need to honor the civil government regardless of who or what the government was. And we do whatever the government requires us to do. And we know that, you know, the Jews living under the Roman government, they were persecuted, they were treated very badly. You know, they did not enjoy the privileges and hence it was all the more very, very, you know, the right time for them to look for a Messiah and for the right time for God, the Kairos moment for God to send a Messiah because of what the Jews were going through, okay? So we see that, you know, Jesus himself is saying that we need to pay our taxes to the government. We need to honor the civil government irrespective of who they are, what they do. And we need to follow whatever the government requires us to do. And Paul explains this for us in Romans chapter 13, verses 1 to verse 7. But we will look at verses 2 to 7 in a little bit, but we just look at Romans chapter 13 verse 1. So can somebody please read Romans chapter 13 verse 1 please for us? Romans 13, 1. Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Thank you, Salatoli. So here we read that as believers, we must learn to look at government authorities as those who are appointed by God. Okay? So we need to look at them as though they are appointed by God. But we can ask these questions, what if, you know, the government is abusive? What if they are wasting our hard-earned money, the taxes that we are paying? What if they're making wrong decisions and what if they're doing all the wrong things? Then, you know, what do we do? Even in those situations, you know, it's our responsibility to obey, respect and honor the government because the government is appointed by God. That's what God's word says. And what they are doing, you know, wasting the money, doing making wrong decisions, they're being abusive. Well, that's not our responsibility. They are, you know, will be held accountable to God. But we need to follow and do what is our God given responsibility that we need to obey, respect and honor the government that God has appointed here in our city or in our nation. And God in his own way is will be able to work in the government. He is able to release his influence in and through our government and change things, you know, even as we pray, even as we ask him to move on our behalf. And then Paul continues in the same chapter in Romans chapter 13, verses two to seven. So can somebody please read verses two to seven of Romans chapter 13, please? Romans chapter 13 verse two to seven. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted. And those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one and authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you for he's God serving to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He's God serving an agent of wrath, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrong doer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment, but also because of conscience. This is also why you pay taxes for the authorities or God servants who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him. If you owe taxes, pay taxes. If revenue, then revenue. If respect, then respect. If honor, then honor. Thank you, Jefina. So how is Paul addressing those in government positions? What is he calling them? What is he calling them? God servant. God servants, yes. And also another version that says God's ministers. So those in civil government, you know, Paul is referring to them as God's ministers. You know, I'm sure it's not out of his own wisdom or knowledge, but we know all scripture is all scriptures inspired by God. And that's how God looks at them as well. He's referring to them as God's ministers. God calls them as God's ministers. Paul was writing to believers who are living under the Roman government, like I said. And many of those rulers and leaders were idolatrous. They were very oppressive.  The rule was very, you know, was a tyrannical rule to the tyranny for them and people were finding it very, very difficult. And yet, you know, Paul is calling believers to see God's kingdom government being administered to them through the civil government that they were under. And I'm sure it would have been very difficult for the Romans to see this perspective because, you know, they were persecuted. They were also sent away from Rome. All the Jews, all the Christians were sent away from Rome. And, you know, many of them were martyred, persecuted. It was very difficult. But in that situation, Paul, you know, is telling the believers to see God's kingdom government being administered to them through the civil government that they are under. Okay. So Rosalind has a question here. Can a pastor collect offerings and tides in cash and not give church bank account details to avoid paying taxes? Is it wrong or right? I think that is wrong. We need to, you know, maintain honesty and integrity in the accounting even in church, you know, and we need to have an open book so that, you know, when people, the income tax department checks us, you know, they will not find anything amiss. So, you know, they will not see dishonesty and, you know, pull us out for that. And that's not being a good representative of who Christ is. I think what we need to do is we need to keep every money, even one rupee that comes in, keep it into, keep it in account, you know, keep it open, have it, you know, shown to all the members. Because at APC, we do that. We have an accountant, we have a chartered accountant, all of our staff, you know, who come under the tax bracket, our taxes are cut, and we have somebody who's doing our income tax and, you know, our taxing. We also cut taxes from, you know, vendors that we purchase things from. And everything is an open book.  And at one point of time, even the income tax director of Bangalocity was, you know, knew that APC was a church that had everything in account and was clear and clean. And, you know, he also had Pastor Ashish's books on his table. And he says, you know, I'm reading your books. So that is a kind of, I think, honestly and integrity that we need to show even in the world and be open and do what this, open about our accounts and do what is right. And even all our church members at the end of the year, they can go and they can see, you know, how the tides, the offerings, everything has been used by the church and anyone can raise up questions. Why was so much used for what and, you know, so everything is very open. And I think that's very important. We're accountable to God and accountable to man as well. And so we need to have everything right. Okay, we'll continue. So, thank you Rosalind for the question. We'll continue regardless of what kind of government or what form of government system who is in power, what rules they have made. What abuses that I carried out as believers. Word of God tells us, scripture tells us that we are to respect, give honor to those who are in government authority over us. You know, we can't say I don't like them. They are not the party that I like. They are not the party that I wanted. They are not the party that I, you know, I voted for them. With none of that stands, if they are somebody from a party that you don't agree to support, you do not vote for them, but they've come into power. You have to give them respect, give them the honor, you know, and also do what they require of us. And also we need to pay our taxes. Okay. So when we rightly relate to them, rightly relate to the civil government, the authority structure that God is bringing about to the government. You know, when we honor them, we respect them, we submit to them, we follow the rules and the law.  You position yourself for God's blessing. Okay. Now, since we're living under two governments, the government of the kingdom of God and the government of the land that we are residing in the nation that we are in, there can be times when or situations when the government of the land will contradict God's government. You know, when the government of the land will tell us to do certain things that is against God's government, his rule, his ordinances, his law, his commandments. So what do we do at those times? What do we do at those times? When the government of the land with the civil government is, you know, asking us to do things that are not according to God's government order, kingdom government, what he has asked us to do, rules and regulations, the laws that he has laid down. What do we do at that time? Any responses? What do we do? We won't, we won't do anything against the word of God for sure. So we'll just keep on praying. Maybe like a Shatrak Misha Kanabitriko in that time, they were asked to worship the king, but they didn't do it. And for sure when we obey God, God will make changes. No matter what our first priority is word and God. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Jefeetal. Good response. So, you know, at that time, you know, we have the full freedom to violate, you know, or, you know, we have the full freedom at that time to disobey, to break, to go against the government of the land and submit to God's government. And we know we will face persecution. But, you know, as Jefeetal said, you know, like Shatrak Misha Kanabitriko, God is there to rescue or help. Even if he doesn't rescue, we are to do what honors God, what he has asked us to do. Okay. Anyone has any thing to discuss on that? Any differing views on that? I think we're thinking is this biblical or not? So, let's look at an example in Acts chapter 4 verse 19. We also heard Jefeetal give us an example of Shatrak Misha Kanabitriko. And Acts chapter 4, we read, you know, Peter and John, you know, were standing before the high priest, and they were instructed not to preach and teach in the name of Jesus. And we want to Peter and John reply. You know, Acts chapter 4 verse 19. And somebody read that. Acts chapter 4 verse 19, please. Acts chapter 4 verse 19, but John, but Peter and John replied, judge for yourself whether it is right in God's sight obeying you rather than God. Yeah, so they, you know, they don't give a, you know, direct answer, but they said you judge, whether it's right for us to obey God or to obey man. Okay. And later we read in, you know, Acts chapter 5 verse 20, 29. This whole thing continues. Now when Peter and John later were brought before the council once again, and they were questioned about their violation, you know, we let you go and we asked you not to preach and teach the name of Jesus.  Then again, you know, what do they reply in Acts chapter 5 verse 29? What does Peter and John reply? Acts 5, 29. Acts 5, 29, but Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we ought to obey God rather than men. Thank you Rosalind. So here we see that, you know, when we are faced with situations, you know, when it comes to the, you know, submitting to rules of the government of the land, when they're asking us to do things that are against God's kingdom government, then we need to take a stand. We submit to God's kingdom government and not, you know, we can, we have the freedom to violate or disobey the government of the land. Okay. So we see here that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God, the government is very different of this world. We already know that. Okay. Now we can ask a question, which form of government is right? Is democracy or monarchy the right kind of government? Okay.  And, you know, from the Bible, we see that he's a king. I learned from the kingdom of God that God is king. And we also have two books in the Bible, first kings and second kings. And there is no democracy in the Bible. Let's say I will not follow democracy. But if there is a monarchy, I will follow. Okay. Now we need to know that the kingdom of God is theocracy. Okay. Theo is God, theocracy. So in the kingdom of God, which is theocracy, you know, it is God who is in control, in dominion, who's the ruler. And when he speaks, when he asks us to do something, no one asks any questions. Okay. We just have to follow what he says or we just do what he says. And also in God's government, because it's theocracy, no one gets to vote. No one gets to vote whether God, what God said is right or wrong, whether we should do it or not do it. Or we should be doing something else. We have no right to vote. No one gets the right to vote. No one asks any questions. You know, we just follow his order. So when God told Joshua, for example, just one of the many examples, when God told Joshua to get all of these lights to march around the walls of Jericho once each day for seven days. And seven times around the world of Jericho on the seventh day. And he gave this as a military strategy to conquer the city. You know, no one got to vote. The people didn't get to vote whether this was a right approach or not. But God has spoken, God had told Joshua this. He told the people and everyone just had to obey. Okay. And also, you know, in our day, when we receive clear instructions, directives from God, we follow regardless of whether we, we think it's right or wrong. According to our logical reasoning, it might not fit. This is not what we had envisioned. This is not what we have thought. This is not something that's a popular opinion. This is what, not what the community or our family would prefer. But, you know, this does place a great responsibility on us. And we need to just do what God is asking us to do. Also, it's a place of responsibility of those in leadership to, you know, ensure that they hear correctly from God, receive the correct directives and communicate that accurately to his people. So as leaders, pastors, apostles, prophets, missionaries, you know, all of them have to be very, you know, they have a great responsibility to hear correctly from God, just like Joshua had to hear correctly. Moses had to hear correctly. Samuel and so many others as well, they had to hear correctly from God as directives and communicate that accurately to the people. And, you know, we see that it was followed by people in the biblical times. And this is the kind of leadership that we also require in our present day situation, in our time, in the local church, in the family, in the body of Christ. And this is so important for us. So as leaders, you know, some of you are leaders, we have this great responsibility to hear correctly from God and communicate to people what God wants us to do. Okay. So many of us, you know, are in the nations that we're living in, we're living under a democratic system, you know, and it's, you know, we need to bring our democratic mindsets in doing things for the kingdom of God. And God says, you know, whatever God says, we need to follow it. So in the kingdom of God, you know, the regardless of what government we have, we need to understand a few things. The first thing is that God is able to work in spite of who is in authority. Okay. In spite of whoever is in authority, God is able to work, God is able to bring about his purposes, or he's able to accomplish his purposes. And we see this in time and history and even in the Bible, you know, Pharaoh who was the ruling over Egypt and he was so hard-hearted. But in spite of that, he was not allowing the people to go, let the people go out of Egypt. The Hebrews, Israelites, but you know, God still accomplished his purposes. He allowed, you know, he got Pharaoh to allow them to, the people of Israel, the Hebrews living in Egypt to go. So we also see this in many other cases as well in the Bible. So the first thing is, God is able to work in spite of those who are in authority, authority is able to bring about his purposes, he's able to accomplish his purposes. The second thing that we can understand is, you know, as people in a nation or under a government, we have a responsibility to whatever extent our rights allow us or permits us to vote or to pray for the right people in authority. Okay. So every nation receives a government it deserves. Okay. And we must remember that a nation always receives a government it deserves.  You know, because after all these leaders grew up among the people who have the same culture. But, you know, however, if the people change, then the government will also change. And the government therefore, you know, we know is an expression of the people it represents. So if the people in the country are corrupt, we'll have a corrupt leader, corrupt leaders. If we have people who are immoral in our nation, we'll have immoral leaders because they're growing up in the same culture. So the government is an expression of the people it resembles or represents. Okay. The government we have today is what we deserve, you know, and whatever we pray for, or, you know, or not, or even if we don't pray for, we vote for them or we don't vote for them, you know, we got what we deserve, we got the fruits of our own efforts. Okay, because that is what people are investing in. They're investing in things of God. We'll have a Godly leader. If you have a culture where there's honesty and integrity, we'll have a leader who's honest and, you know, a man of integrity or a woman of integrity. So we must invest time and effort and pray. You know, that our nation will, you know, people in our nation will have the right attitudes, the right mindsets, the right culture, the right values, the right moral values, so that, you know, our government, those in leadership can also have the same culture because they are one among the people. Okay, Proverbs chapter 29 verse 2 says, can somebody read Proverbs chapter 29 verse 2, please? Proverbs 29 2. Proverbs 29 3, ma'am. 2, chapter verse 2. Proverbs 29 verse 2, when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Thank you.  So we have the authority to bring the right government, okay? And how do we have the, how do we exercise our right? We pray, okay? We pray and ask God, you know, to bring the right government. We also vote for the right government. We also speak to people in our church and tell them, you know, to exercise their authority to vote, to vote for the right government. We also tell them, you know, to exercise their authority to pray that the right government will come into leadership, okay?  We read in John chapter 19 verses 10 and 11, when Jesus was brought before Pilate, you know, just during his trial, just before his crucifixion, and Pilate said to him, do you not know that I have the authority to crucify you and the power to release you? I'm sure this is very familiar. You've read this before. And what does Jesus answer? He says, you could have no power at all against me unless it has been given to you from above. Therefore, the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin.  And so Jesus says, I respect that. And hence, he wasn't speaking anything that was demeaning to Pilate or he was not disrespecting him in any way. And he says, regardless of what Pilate's decision was going to be, Jesus recognized that there would be no sin on Pilate's part. Why would there be no sin on Pilate's part? Because he had to make the decision, either way, you know, because of this position.  So the amazing thing here is about Jesus' acknowledgement of Pilate's position as one who has been given it from above or somebody or he was in that position because God allowed him to be in that position. And hence, we see that, you know, Jesus does not dishonor him or be value who Pilate was or the position he held in the Roman government structure. So we know that, you know, from all of these examples that it's people in leadership and position are there because God has allowed them to be in that position. Okay. So a lesson for us here is to recognize that those in governmental authority have been allowed by God to be there. So, you know, we have to pray for those in authority and leadership. When we have the time, let's pray for the right kind of people. That is when your elections are taking place. That's the right time, you know, before the elections take place. We pray for the righteous people to come into position. And then we also use our authority or the rights that we have in the land to vote to bring the right people in the government. Okay. We must also acknowledge what Proverbs teaches us in Proverbs chapter 21 verse 1, the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. Like the rivers of water, he turns it wherever he wishes. Okay. Which means the heart of the ruler, the heart of the king, the heart of the government, the heart of the leader is in whose hands it's in the hands of God. Okay. So regardless of who he is, what he does, what his position is, God can influence and supernaturally affect changes in the heart of the leader. An example that one of the examples that we can look at is Pharaoh. You know, Pharaoh tells, sorry, God tells Moses that Pharaoh is very hard hearted. He will not easily let the people go. But God says, I will demonstrate to him my power. You know, I will perform miracles and he will see my power. And, you know, ultimately he will let the people go. Okay.  Why? Because, you know, they had, they had, they had never seen God move for 400 years. They were slaves. They were crying out to God. They only know God as God, as the, you know, father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They had no special relationship with him. And so, you know, these miracles was, was one way they could absolutely be convinced that it was the God of their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who was doing all this for them, doing all these amazing miracles. He's the one who's delivering them, you know, taking them out of bondage of the slavery to freedom.  No questions asked. Why? Because they had already seen God's awesome power at work. They had seen the awesome power of their God. Another example we can look at is Nehemiah. You know, we know that Nehemiah was stirred up in his heart when he heard that the walls of Jerusalem had been broken down. He was actually the compare to the Persian King, King Artheserix and, you know, who was an unsaved man who was, we call them heathens, okay? And we see that this king, who was not even a Jew, who was not even from Jerusalem, he was a Persian King, unsaved. He not only gives Nehemiah permission, you know, to go, but he also gives him a paid vacation, okay, to go and get the job done. He also has, you know, gives him letters to have the materials to build the wall and he sends an escort. He sends, you know, soldiers to ensure his safety even as he traveled from Persia to Jerusalem. And so here we see, you know, there's this hidden king was willing to do all this, who was willing to do everything that was in the heart of Nehemiah. And hence Nehemiah was able to accomplish the task. Of course, with God's help, he was able to do it, but also God used this unsaved Persian thinking of Artheserix. We also see that God works through King Cyrus, who was again a Persian King, you know, God worked in his heart to send the Jews back from captivity to Jerusalem.  So we see that God works through leaders to come to power to fulfill his purposes. And, you know, we just need to have this confidence that, you know, we have God as our King and he is able to move. He's able to change the hearts of kings and rulers and those in authority. He's able to affect them and to make the changes. So, and we need, hence we need to take all of these principles that we are learning here, you know, and apply it to every other authority structure that God has placed in our life, that you and I place in our life, face in our life, whether it is the family, the local church, the body of Christ or the workplace. So regardless of who or what kind of people they are in leadership position, we relate them rightly. And when we relate to them rightly, we will receive God's working in our life because God is able to do it. Our responsibility is to give honor to whom honor is due.  And so you also recognize and acknowledge that God is there. He is the one who springed, you know, the government into position, into leadership. And also we need to recognize that God's government comes into our life through the authority structures that you and I are part of. And if we relate rightly, we will receive his kingdom coming into our life and we will also see his kingdom government increase, okay? Now, some of us can be in leadership positions or in places of authority and God's structure. For example, you know, your husband, the leader of the home, and hence you are part of God's government at home and God's government at home is, you know, you want to see an increase in your home, then you want to see God's blessing flowing through your home, then it comes through the husband, okay? You are that important link in that chain and God's blessing, God's government is assured into the family through the husband. And if the husband fails, then, you know, you can have serious consequences in your home. Now, likewise, a wife, you know, you have also your responsibility, you are also linking that chain and through which God's government is coming as a wife, you know, and as children, we also have a responsibility in God's government structure at home and if we fail, you know, to fulfill our responsibilities rightly, you know, there can be serious consequences at home, okay? For example, just imagine, you know, if the civil government, if the government in our nation fails, what happens to our nation or state? You know, the same thing happens at home. You know, if you as the head of the home, the husband as the head of the home fails in your responsibility, then there will be chaos in the home. Why will there be chaos? Because God's government is not able to come into your home through the leadership position that he has appointed that is through the husband, okay? The same thing rule applies in the workplace, the local church, the body of Christ. Some of us are leaders, place of leadership or responsibility in the workplace, in the body of Christ, in the local church. And you know, we need to recognize that God's government is coming in and through us, through that leadership position. So we have to take things seriously. If we do well, if we do things that are right, then, you know, people under us will rejoice. And if we do the right thing, then people under us will be blessed and they would want to follow the government of God. But if we as leaders are abusive, you know, then people will suffer.  You know, we need to recognize it. We need to understand it. You know, we need to learn and understand how God's government is flowing through his authority structures. We need to learn to relate to it correctly so that we can position ourselves to receive God's blessing that he's intended through it. Okay, that is the end of God's kingdom government. Okay, anyone has any questions? Any questions? No questions? Okay, if there are no questions, then we'll just end class. I know we're ending about seven minutes early, but we just want to start another new chapter. We'll begin the new chapter next week unless there are any questions anyone has. Okay, no questions. Then we'll end class. Thank you all for joining class today. And have a blessed week and I'll see you next Wednesday. I hope all of you have submitted your assessment, your first assessment. The due date was yesterday evening. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Pastor.


All right. Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. Another quick hitter edition. I am your host Scott Bernstein. Today we're going to talk about breaking news out of Providence. We were the first ones to report that Providence mob soldier Providence mob rat Joe DeLuca passed away at age 83. He passed away a couple days ago and he will be laid out at a funeral home on Branch Avenue Monday and I believe the funeral will be around that time. And there's a lot of talk right now about whether or not his brother Robert Bobby the Cigar DeLuca who was in witness protection right now who along with his brother were the star witnesses at the 2018 murder trial of Cadillac Frank Salemi. Bobby the Cigar's you know best friend and it was you know his eyes and ears in the Providence area Cadillac Frank was from Boston and there's a lot of speculation and worry on the part of law enforcement that Bobby DeLuca is going to come back into town to attend his older brothers Wake and Funeral. Tim White over at WPRI reported that he has been told that the state police and the FBI in Rhode Island will be on full alert will have a very noticeable presence at the Wake and Funeral in either anticipation or in case Bobby DeLuca is there. Him coming back to town after testifying against a lot of his former friends well I shouldn't say test helping build cases against them testifying against Cadillac Frank doesn't have a lot of friends left outside of his family in Providence I was told by a series of very solid sources that one of the reasons the speculation about Bobby DeLuca coming back in to Providence is buzzing around whether it be on the street or within law enforcement circles is that back in 2021 less than or about two years ago you had a situation where one of Bobby DeLuca's best friends Richard Barone wasn't a wise guy legitimate contractor and antique dealer he passed away in 2021 and according to my sources Bobby DeLuca snuck back into town and attended his funeral in Wake and then snuck back out you know if he decides to do it again it's definitely going to be interpreted as a message to guys like Baby Shack's Minocchio who granted he's retired in his 90s right now but Big Cheese DiNunzio who's running the show in Boston right now Eddie Lado who's running the show in Providence right now guys that he cooperated against and wired up against or wired up and recorded conversations with are are are going to interpret it as as a you know a fuck you or you know what are you going to do about it I'll say that you know in this day and age in the mafia we're not we're not at a point where there are a lot of bodies dropping I don't suspect there's a good chance that that Bobby DeLuca will be hurt if he decides to come back but it just it seems very risky and I understand it's your brother they were very close but I if I was advising Bobby DeLuca I would probably tell him to mourn from a distance but you know Bobby's his own man and I know that you know I don't think he's afraid of these guys you know baby shacks is in his 90s I don't know how afraid he could be of him although you know a phone call or or you know a nod of the head for someone like baby shacks can get stuff done even though he's retired but you know Eddie Lado was you know was partners with Bobby you know for years they ran gambling and and loan shark and extortion rackets out of strip clubs and you know Eddie had to go do a nice chunk of time through the 2010s because of Bobby DeLuca's cooperation Bobby DeLuca started cooperating before he actually wired up and then disappeared into witness protection in 2011 but but we emerged five years ago when uh Cadillac Frank was indicted for a cold case murder and let's kind of finish off this episode talking about the gangland the 1993 gangland homicide of Steven DeSauro. Stevie DeSauro was a a Providence native nightclub owner uh and business partner of Cadillac Frank Salemi and they owned uh a rock club in South Boston together uh that was called the Channel it was a very famous iconic rock club that by the time Salemi and DeSauro took it over in the early 90s had fallen on hard times uh they had it up as a rock rock and roll venue for a while then they changed concepts and it became a strip club it was it was uh it was on its last legs and part of that the reason why was because Salemi and and his crew were robbing the place uh and DeSauro was getting stuck with a lot of bills and he was maybe robbing the place too or that's what the Salamis believed they also thought he was cooperating um and they lured him uh Cadillac Frank and his son Frankie boy uh lured him to uh uh the Salemi family house in Sharon, Massachusetts a very quaint modest uh a house in in the suburbs and uh it was the day after mother's day 1993 may 1093 that morning they lured him there and Frankie boy uh strangled Stevie DeSauro to death as his dad watched on at that point they bring in the DeLuca brothers and uh Joe DeLuca at that point was a mob associate Bobby DeLuca at that point was a mob uh Capo uh something that was called a Kingsman Capo uh where you know he just reported to Salemi and he didn't have to report to anybody in Rhode Island uh but DeLuca uh at then wasn't really known as a mob guy and even you know into the into the new millennium wasn't known as a mob guy uh very low-key even though he was a character uh was known around Providence area as uh uh a guy that worked at a bakery and sang a a jingle for pizza chips the original Italian bakery in Johnston um it wasn't public knowledge that he was a member of the mafia until 2018 and he popped up as a defendant at at the Salemi trial I should I apologize popped up as a witness at the Salemi trial um and Joe DeLuca testified Bobby DeLuca testified that they were brought into the conspiracy by Salemi after they uh after Salemi and murdered DeSauro and they were tasked with burying the body uh the body went across state lines Cadillac Frank brought the body himself um the evening of May 10th uh to a North Providence parking lot where he gave the body to Joe DeLuca who was assigned to go um pick it up from his brother and Joe DeLuca uh took the body which was wrapped in a tarp Cadillac Frank told him that be sure when you dump the body to get rid of the tarp because it's got a lot of fingerprints on it including Cadillac Franks so Joe DeLuca goes to a piece of property uh Branch Avenue in Providence uh an old converted textile mill which was owned by a guy named Billy Ricci who was a member of uh the the the mob crew in in Providence and Billy Ricci was doing some construction in the back of the mill and they went and Joe DeLuca dumped Stevie DeSauro's body there forgets to take the tarp as instructed by Salemi gets back to to meet up with his brother and his brother's like you got to go back and get the get the tarp at some point in the next day or two they go back uh retrieve the tarp and throw it away and then nobody hears from Stevie DeSauro for for for another 25 years when Billy Ricci gets uh jammed up in a drug case and he leads the feds to DeSauro's body at this point Bobby DeLuca's in witness protection Cadillac Frank is in witness protection he uh flips back in 1999 helps them make some corruption uh cases against the FBI that were operating Whitey Bulger and Stevie Fleming but doesn't admit to any of the murders that he ordered or helped carry out uh during his reign as boss between 1990 and 1996 comes back to bite him uh they dig up the body and DeLuca and Salemi are in trouble because neither of them had given uh information in their debriefings about their role in in the uh DeSauro homicide I speculate in both cases they were trying to protect someone I think Salemi was trying to protect Bobby DeLuca because he was so close with Bobby DeLuca um it's ironic that DeLuca is the one who eventually puts him away in prison on it when he testifies against him and then DeLuca is trying to protect in one case he's trying to protect Salemi when he debriefs in the 2000s but he's also trying to protect his his brother um Cadillac Frank in theory would be trying to protect his son Frankie Boy but Frankie Boy died of AIDS back in 1995 so he wasn't around to uh have to answer uh so Joe DeLuca was being protected by Bobby DeLuca and then it was the end of the line when they dug DeSauro up uh both DeLuca brothers testified Joe DeLuca was kind of flippant when when leaving the courthouse back in May of 18 Tim White approached him uh and asked him for comment and he kind of made a reference to the board game clue and said something like oh the Butler did it um probably not the best look uh when you're when you're talking about a family that lost uh lost a loved one like Stevie DeSauro so uh we'll we'll see what we'll be keeping you updated at the original gangsters podcast and at gangsterreport.com about what happens this week in Providence um but the FBI uh and the state police will be on high alert they will be uh an aggressive um and in an aggressive formation or in a uh showing up with with a heavy presence to send a send word to everybody out in in uh Rhode Island that that that wakes and funerals are not to be disturbed and uh you're not going to mix business with family here whether you know whatever whatever beefs you have with Bobby DeLuca or even Joe DeLuca uh you know this is a time for their families to mourn and uh you know deal with it on your own time so uh well don't deal with it at all I'm sure if you're that yeah that's what you're saying but uh hopefully uh it goes off without a hitch we will see only time will tell um Joe DeLuca dead at age 83 he died in Providence at a nursing home initially it was reported that he died in witness protection he had gotten ushered into witness protection uh in the months after he testified he didn't he didn't go in right when he testified uh he went in about eight months later after when a baby shack Minocchio's uh old uh body guards uh Napoleon Andrade Andrade was killed in a halfway house and uh they pulled uh Joe out of Providence and and tucked him away for a while at some point the last couple years he's come back and went into a nursing home um and died I believe of cancer so again Joe DeLuca dead at night at 80 at 83 one of the last remaining OG Providence mob soldiers we've been reporting on some new blood coming to the family but uh from the Salemi era or the baby shacks era or even the patriarchy era uh they're few and far between we'll be back this week I'm on the full uh OG pod with Jimmy my partner Jimmy Bucciolato shout out to the doctor thank you Ben behind the glass Scott Bernstein OG pod out