Welcome to church of the chair where we celebrate all the things we do while seated I'm your host E and today we are working on part four of my resume before first-time playthrough. I believe we were In the castle and we have done the big troll section. I can't actually remember Because it's been two days since I played See here village gorge escape from the village that is not Chapter nine. I believe this is it Okay Can you guys hear me? All right Because I had to use a new cable couldn't find the old one Waves excitedly Yes, okay. Thank you, Ty. All right. Oh What do we have? We have this this oh, I am ridiculously low on health items And there's no merchant until after this section. How's my ammo? I do have quite a bit of Huh? I need to put my butterfly away. I don't plan on using it anytime soon. Also. I need some volumizer. I Got it. I got it. So I can hear thing storage Store Yeah, they say why didn't it? Okay, that was weird Here we go Chris Chris There you go. All right, and hello everybody Hello, Haley. Hello, Zeely. Hello J rod. Hello, Ty. Hello, Brian. Oh The regulars are here. Thank you for joining us I can't remember Oops. Oh well, let's get this First Drop that banner. Hello smooth Zella The flag's been lowered. Thank you captain obvious your powers of observation are outstanding in a field somewhere. All right That's the way forward I believe Gunpowder dead-end Make sure I don't have any other. Nope. I don't okay Pressing on with the press on Damn zipper. Come on. You're worth Ashley Good gravy Give me all them pistachios Pistachos pistachos doggo Where'd you go? Puppa Rooney? Really who cares? Oh Okay, so I guess they're just gonna jump out of the Again Where? Okay down boy Sorry to all the pupper lovers There's gonna be a lot of doggo death in this episode. I hear you Poor poor doggo.  Don't come out of hammer with a gun on my knee All right elegant Chessie board So I thought I saw something shining there. Damn the way he shoves her out of the way Move chick get out the way. All right up to Daisy We're all the puzzles around the lake new for this game. I didn't remember those from the original most of them were yeah That's two flags one more to go or two more to go. I seem to recall there being Four but I could be wrong Or maybe I had to go back for one Over here grabbed a pupper loot. Oh Well Never mind That's another location. Are you kidding me?  I shot him in his hind leg quarter. Oh, come on Stabby stabbing Mick Wolf Wolf. They do indeed keep coming And I'm just gonna let you walk on by play a play.  I wonder if I Wonder if they'll kill the dogs with the tentacles out their back. Ah, yes Yes, you're you were a sneaky pupper. Yes, I'm sorry I'm sorry All the apologies to the pupperinos open sesame Street Be careful. I am being as careful as I possibly can All right and do this Is that the yeah, that's the final one because Yeah, okay, because there's only three duh There's bad dudes coming. I know I understand we are gonna go We will collect stuff later. I think that's nope You caught me in a reload Come here Marilyn Manson next All right, come on Ashley.  What really do you mind? Okay, I think that's that's everything, right? I Have to go back this way. I'm pretty sure I got all the treasure and everything in this area. Oh Somebody died over there. This is a this is the way Feel like the Mandalorian This is the way Okay, dog. I Almost missed you. Oh got a green herb Yeah All right, let's go ahead and get some snake in our belly. What else we got here. We need shoddy boom body shells That's a hundo Trying to keep it with hundo with you Where is she? Come on stay with me. I Ain't got time for all these shenanigans Yeah turn around just no person there I Already got that one. That's why I remember it was there Little bit blue. There's more dog.  That's a dead end. Where we going Ashley bell Where we going over here they don't call it a labyrinth or a maze for no reason Well, we got oh Thank you. Oh, that was easy. Why'd the other one take like 92 bullets? This is redonkulous I Thought we saw this last time Huh, what is it? No, just the way back. Oh Then we should get a cut scene here. Don't we lose her wait we lose her before all this don't we? And Ashley is annoying grogu. Yeah, yeah, I know you do It just elegant Bengal By we need body armor more than what's hang on here. That's 52,000 right? Yeah, so let's get this Let's get that and let's buy a first aid spray Trade I can get no I can't get any of this. Oh, I can also sell this Not yet How many I got I have yeah, I got four first aid sprays Yeah, I need a level not level up, but I need 10,000 for some ammo capacity. We're good to go Yeah, cuz this is the way forward. That's already broken We already did all this We did do all this Cuz I've been through here. I ended up going There it is. Yeah, I did I did get turned around This is the way forward. I'm glad I went back though. I Am glad that I went back Yeah, here we go. Do I have this yet? I do not I already talked to you the blue medulla the blue medulla first one If you guys don't know I can see these on my map because I bought the treasure map for the castle. So one two three and Fur I can't remember which way to go first Yeah, there is good job Thank you captain. I'll be also.  There was a There's a doodad back here Yeah, there it is Fabulous. Oh Hey, you're sorry. I have a bulletproof vest Ashley theorist. I need I thought I had a blue one. Oh, well, we get some rifle ammo. I know we're gonna need that Uh-huh, that ain't it. It is time for shenanigans Let us be gone. Oh Yeah, the armor. Give me all that hot loot. Come on big guy. Oh la Jesus I ain't nothing to about to do it. I Saw I heard you coming.  I got you Yeah, I'm fine. Oh, I thought I picked that up. Come on down Ashley. Let's go. Oh Brian I found something out that you're probably gonna be interested in The opening section that we thought was timed like the last couple of them It's not times you just have to kill a certain amount of bad dudes The speed runners are getting through it in like 30 seconds. Yeah, we got the cubic device That's what I love about that section. It raises the tension because now anytime you come across a Bit of armor you work you're worried about Um Them coming alive. I only have one emerald. Wow They show won't but we ain't gonna worry about that right now. I need Although something here I needed I Guess I could get this Yeah, let's go ahead and get that Make sure we have Plenty of shotgun ammo for this next section.  Where'd you go? There we go. You know you aim bad All right, so this puzzle right here You look at these two things up here You got to find the one with the three knives and the those two forks and a spoon That's where the dude sits and over here. Of course the lady has much less than the dude You got an empty platter Only two and two and empty wine glass and his wine glass is right next to his wine So I can't remember who's who but I believe this is it Yeah, that this one's Ashley and then Over here is mine Yeah, it is pretty cool Brian. You're not locked into it set a compliment Stop flirting with the president's daughter Leon She is above you There it is Ah bitches Okay, let's see here I feel like there should be another Four of six. Yeah, where's the other one? It's a yellow herb back here to Grand hall. Oh, there's one There's one in the grand hall.   That's too bad Run away. Uh-huh. Oh, no Come on gamer thumb. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me Ashley? Okay? Yeah, I'm trying. Oh That's the only problem with this. Oh We might be screwed. You're welcome. Well that went much quicker Probably because I used a shotgun Go around get the loot and then we got this right here I didn't even use not a single one of them spawn those things out of their heads I think it's because I used my shotgun and also. Oh, no Also, I killed him right away. So he wasn't able to spawn more of them That's another That's another reason. So yeah, do that when you come into this area. Make sure you get all the guys up there by the By the lever Shotty boom body shells. How many I got left. Oh, I got quite a few left good once you Let that up. You also have a yellow diamond in there. I don't have enough Really for this But we're gonna get a lot of gems when we get to the Navista doors Can you? just run up there and unlock this and Not kill any of those guys. I think you can I think all that stuff is just a distraction. I don't think Huh All right. Well, I will try it for my when I go start the speed runs.  Thank you Leon going full John Wick Run ash the bell. I won't run girl. You better run Good. What is you doing run for your life? Oh, Lord? Rescue Leon. All right, then What what? Oh The walls good.  Hello, Mr. Kniff. Can I say? Thank you. Uh the rusting forebears answer to the chosen time if it is the Lord's blessing You seek you have courage and fear no darkness Charlie my hair I Can't break the stuff. Yeah, I miss Charlie Murphy, too. Hello Hello Anybody here? dip Diablo Okay, spoopy ghost. I need keys for this Hello, hello Hey, it's Pelican Trash bird ah, there's another spoopy ghost Yeah, I down Hello Okay Crank it girl crank that so would your boy is a hidden staircase How do I how do I live ah Oh, hang on That there we go How do I leave without you? Spoopiness forever. I don't have the thing they should have let me have the thing I Got to remember I can't actually I can't break these we got a key um No, I think I'll go.   Ah What now me too me too, but now Oh Hi upsadaisical.  It's always got to be a damn crest the insignia The key to getting out of this confounded place is the Salazar family insignia to find it I must venture to where the cursed armor awaits the underground of Mosulium Oh merciful Lord and act your righteousness justice your righteous justice Upon the wicked usurper the maniacal monster Raymond Salazar and May your blessed blue light protect your your forever faithful servant Cannot do this because I don't have that I Can't break those stop trying Hello 11.04 Sounds money to me. Oh, hello. Now not to pick and choose keys again. Yes, I do And I'll fret what are the odds that oh wait a second the eagle Eagle goes with the eagle.   There's gonna be more jokers Um Tlock puzzle. Hey Hush ash, I don't need your input. I know y'all can't hear him. It's 11.04 ding dong We oh We got ourselves a save point. I am a bad resident evil player 30 saves. It's like I don't even trust myself I Don't What the fish uh-uh? You stay right there swole soul No, no No, sir Freeze them hurry. Thank you. At least you don't take it forever long to turn a crank like What wait, oh No talk on me. I'm dead. I did not expect that. I don't even think they can hear ash ashes down the hallway Losing his mind.  Do not have the thing I Do not have the thing Where's the thing? Wait, what where am I trying to go here? I? Just came down these stairs. I can't get into there. I can't get that treasure How am I supposed to go? What do I have I have those keys? Is that the key to the door? I Am I supposed to be going back this way? Okay Yeah, okay. I don't remember. Oh Okay, I remember this come on The power of Christ compels you is that the president's daughter does she have clothing now? Yeah, Luca It's been a long time since I played this game and sorry if I'm behind that. No, you're not ain't too much conversation going on But yeah, that's uh, that's Ashley and yes, she's she's actually covered up this time. Can you can you believe it? Mind equals blown Sorry if you can hear that. That's not my zipper. That's me trying to arrange this cord over here Zoot, huh?  That doesn't look like oh a snake. Uh a snake. Is this a snake or is that a fish? That's a snake, right? Yeah, I figured it out. Okay. All right. That makes more sense What oh The oh the blue light. Okay. How am I gonna get back through with those guys stuck there? Anyways That is kind of funny it is kind of funny. They knew they were wrong the first time they did it. Yeah. Yeah That's the cross that's the is this the full moon one. Yeah, that's the full moon one But but but but but but that's the cross the crosses over here Yeah, and that's the crescent moon Okay, now we can get back to where where we were. I don't have Okay We got problems run girly. You don't have a thing that does the thing that does the thing Run run run. What the fit? Oh Okay, well it just automatically does it for for you Be good nuts Um, there's more jokers down here.   I sleep No, let's kill me.  That is terrifying. That's like the baby scene in eight Where you run up the stairs? Is there I missed any treasure? No, I got the treasure.  Where am I going? I'm going I go through here What do I go in here?   Hey, come see your girl.  Where am I going? I thought that was where I was going um Um Shit brick formaldehyde. I don't know Mother I can't close nor no doors. She don't know how to close the door Around around girl around don't have a flip and I have I have no way to see ahead me Lord Jesus take the wheel Up and around oh, there's a door. There's a door. I Can't open it. Where am I going? Oh, oh Booty cheeks. Oh No, y'all I might be dead because I gotta go all the way back through here. I think I got to hit those stairs That door I hear I'm coming too y'all This is not good Around the thing They gonna be right outside aren't they? Oh, they're going right there Jesus take the we Up the stairs up the stairs up the stairs Almost I'm gonna say you got this Who tired not you? Where am I? Where am I to the right to the right? Run girl. Yeah, I found you. You wouldn't believe it. There's these knights that so you would believe it cuz you already killed them Never mind Excuse me, mister. I need to pull this lever Yo, you couldn't throw that man's to the ground so you just pull the lever All right at the end of the next chapter I'm gonna take a break and I'll be back in like 10 minutes. Hey, no not a xenomorph Ridley Scott called. He wants his character design back. Oh poopy No, there you go Okay, break time be back in about 10 15 minutes All right, and we're back Storage, I think I'm good. I guess we'll see here in a minute How good we is for real for real Cool that thing goes through ammo like crazy.  I believe And for the throne room we had to do butterfly lantern Oh Okay Well, I got another rectangle one Wait a second. I'm gonna go I seek a brave soul willing to dispose of that monstrosity of a knight But be warned it is much stronger than the others. He cut down our best with a single strike You're a poet and don't even know it But do do do do? Got me another rat header gun pooter. Yeah, there's Locked treasure right there That's what I thought Chunky monkey. Oh, no Huh?  Spinel I think I can get this treasure though. Oh, that was easy. Oh Nope, never mind. It wasn't as easy as I thought there we go There we go. I just need to make enough room for it So I can sell it Yeah, that one was insanely easy Maybe I come over here There's a ladder Yeah, I had to go back because I got to go down in the mausoleum and beat the The bat the big night Do anything Can't make any ammo yet Okay, can I do anything now? Handgun ammo. I don't really need handgun ammo More gunpowder.  Oh Good God Any yellow diamond? All right, so let's do this In late gemstones Can I do anything else? That'll work. Yeah, but I'll you get more if they're the same color And I don't have another blue one just yet. Is there anything else in here?  I kept getting stuck Wrong direction. I need to find another pest. I have no idea where that last one is I think I can kill like any rat at any point in time So I might be able to get that later. I don't know Oh Yeah, I bet you will oh Yeah, I need to sell the there we go first thing Remember correctly, let's go ahead and go back to the oh, let's say first hang on I already unlocked that one Stranger stranger now that's a weapon. Yeah Hey flowers and weed. How you doing? Hey, Dane? Stranger stranger now, that's a weapon.  Thank you take that one with you, too. Okay? No, he was My the thing went away. Where are you going? Hey turn around Why are you running away from me? Okay, spit on someone else You have to wait until their mouths open to kill them. All right There should be I should be able to open up this over here now. Yep. Okay. Oh pretty pretty bobble Just getting a Statue I do not have another small key. Oh well. I already got something out of there got something out of there Okay, I think I'm done other than the locked. Oh Hang on here. Yeah Back in black. I hit myself Whoa, why are you dying stranger? I mean, that's all well and good, but Yeah, but I need to tune up some some stuff. I can get both of these And I do you for I got 22.  Can I? No, I got the I got the the Upgrade, let's see here Yeah, that's it, would you shut up don't get killed now Like you could help me with that. Anyway. All right.  I never noticed Come on get your crotch out of my face. The hell Stranger danger Stranger danger Chronicles of pursuit one July two years since my awakening Master Ramon has bestowed upon me a truly righteous undertaking to improve upon the flaws of our human form To seek perfection as observed in our Anthropodal siblings to this cause I shall willingly devote my life January four years since my awakening My efforts to transfuse the black liquid into the body are at the precipice of success The womb is the key a pure soul proves to be a highly malleable and adaptive subject January Sixth Years since my awakening I have named those these sacred larvae carried in the wounds of the chosen You too After my own They shall carry the prestige of my family name as if I spawned them from my own loins The you two are now close to the size of an adult humans As they continue to feed and multiply. I have successfully created the new species Master Ramon has recognized my efforts and blessed me with his praise He is taken to you too calling them novista door meaning the unseen John Cena I've been told that his loneliness loneliness Holiness Lord Sadler himself has also expressed pleasure with my work. Mm-hmm What an extraordinary honor this is I can hardly see the tip of my quill through the tears of joy His humble servant a seed drill Uriarty Tala vera May use a bit extra with me Give me that box I could have swore there was something on that table.   Did y'all see that dude just disappear? Hello my child Are you having a bad day?  Oh look Look children. We have a green herb I'll be god damned I'm gonna ammo Plus five.  Hell no I have more areas to observe Hello Hello I thought so These guys can camouflage themselves as anything.  Where were you? Where are you? This fool hiding behind It's a cool really cool tag that you don't have to actually mix them To use the menu to mix them.  Oh the ladder. Okay I knew I was forgetting something I see you Hey, will you look up see if you can find this other rat for me? Thank you. Oh, yeah, I have to unlock it Do the other I believe so Okay, that's that way. All right, cool. Oh, no, I just realized What this is It's the garradores The double garradores All right, if you hear screaming, I apologize Maybe don't have on your headphone. What? Yeah, you want to go and do that There's one in like the library On the way to the library there's I didn't get one in the grand hall Uh, how do I go back? I think you got the one in the first part of the dining hall Yeah, I got that one and I got Uh The one in the hallway with the heads on the way. Oh, I could have just went this way. Damn it I could have just went through this door on my left over here the one on the way to the library Yeah And did you get the one towards the armory? There's four of them Wow. Okay. So grand hall I'm in the grand hall I don't hear him Hang on Yeah, no, I only have I got two no wait no merciless night more pest control is only three So that yeah So you got the dining hall. Yeah There's one in the hallway going to the library and another one towards the armory from the grand hall Armory So it was back this way There he is Where'd he go? I don't know.  All right back to See what happens to ash the see what happens to ash the This next part sucks all the booty meat all the booty meat All the booty meat you'd expect I mean it doesn't suck. It's just the Enemies are quite daunting No, thank you. I'm over here being real quiet like it matters if I was hoping to do this section without getting hit but Oh, well Is that three or four three?  All right. Give me that unicorn horn What that's got to be it, right?  I don't want attachable minds You horny devil Cut scene 100 percent Don't drink it.  I'd have been like Many george washington free visa Yeah Step on a crack break your mama's back Also, why didn't mr. Special Forces just climb back up? That's what I want to know There ain't nothing but a dead end Let me tell you about my best friend Give me that blue herb I dug Daddy hungry. I have a broken knife But I do have three boot knives I got three boot nears All right Let's go Maybe he's tired.  That's where I came from This is where I'm go. What? There we go As you can see, I'm not taking any chances down here because these boys Be buoyant There's nothing over here leon The most tense part of this is you can't shoot while You're pushing through Okay, it don't matter If I shoot him with my red nine or my shotgun, it's two shots either way Okay, we learned You gonna learn today It's that extra dark in here E I couldn't help myself from drawing pretty demon in a bag. All right, I'll uh I'll check it out in a little while when I go on my next break and then I'll share it with Dan Feels like I got to go this way first Trixie hobbit says whoo this part tense Your boy is on edge Might have made a poopy Oh, that was a fish or All right, we good. We good What's everybody saying? It's not finished yet. It's getting there though. Cool. She's so pretty. Thank you.  All right Prisoners know another one dead How long has it been since I was thrown down here? The mega scraps of food provided in the beginning are gone and they don't give us more The pains of hunger and thirst are unbearable Most have resorted to drinking the doodoo water The first to turn was herminio He was so weak that he couldn't even walk But then suddenly became mad By the time his rampage ended two were dead I think we should I think we shouldn't drink that doodoo water De la abalardo Has also passed Not the doodoo, but he died Though he fought until the very end The only thing I can do now is honor the bodies and pray that their souls find peace Oh lord, why do you test us so? Oh, I got an elegant crown Got me an elegant crown for real for real I'm just listening to this game and I know I couldn't play it because I'd be too scared This game is spooky It's most the mostly the the biggest problem is the jump scares of course All right, let me go ahead and get this Um, I do not use the mixed herb. I only sell it Because it is worth a grip We're 10 000 He needs he needs to voice all games always so I'm not scared anymore I cannot cope with jump scares. Yeah, I understand it Flashlight thank you Goddamn rizzies I'm not shooting them. I'm gonna let you go live your best life Oh, I got more red herb got any green herb.   We know what we're doing Chronicles of pursuit three May nine years since my awakening Upon the release of this valve Black liquid shall enter my veins and circulate throughout my entire body I expect this will be the most painful experience of my life I await the trial with great anticipation It is an honor to suffer through the holy labor of rebirth The next time I awaken it will be as a true servant of master ramon I Isidro yuri arti talavera make this vow I will surpass the limitations of man and become a true servant of god I will find the heretics and serve as their executioner their verdugo Well, then He's got high hopes.    I love him.   I don't care Keep hitting me. Oh my gosh. I can't wait till robbie and I have a kitty. I'm so excited How's that going? Good. I hope I have to go back and get some some loot No, I want to wait for that There's two treasures. I need to pick up One of them's up here on the right. I believe What chris? Okay Yes, him wants some food there, buddy bow Yep Quick He said it is food time in his mother. It's okay ashy, baby Daddy gonna eat that monster dad No luck so far. We have been rejected for three pretty kitty. Why why are you being rejected? I am tempted to just buy a new kitten But got to be patient. We want to give a cat a chance at a loving home Why are the why would they ever reject someone? From adopting a cat. I do not understand that That just Yeah, I mean just beyond ridiculous If y'all can hear ash chomping. I'm sorry, but The boy got to eat Yo, I got so much health item so many health items and any funny I need to sell a great deal of stuff Anyways, there's no reason in Organizing it when I got to sell off a bunch of stuff Uh, so we need an oh because we live near a busy road. So we need an indoor kitty. Oh, okay I got you Well, it's cool that they checked for that I suppose I don't don't apologize for him. I love his little noises. I miss my smelly boy and all his noses. Oh I'm just a pop apologize for people that might have like a a sensitivity to clicking Because that is a thing So That voice What up louise? All right, that's another chapter down. I'm gonna take a break and I will be back Uh, if y'all want to chat in the In youtube Then I'll chat with you guys while I'm outside All right on the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again Out here with my friend Just can't wait to get on the road again Okay, boogie butt cheeks That's a reference to Don Quixote October 11 today was the worst day of my life Is my daughter's fifth birthday But here I am stuck on a mangy boat heading out to some back country dump If it weren't for the pay no one would be willing to work out in the middle of no wares Those in the castle are always reminding us to take care during the excavation But a few workers collapsed after inhaling some dust Probably some of that their angel dust There's something going on here that they're not telling us There are too many secrets I've started coughing too. I should sleep Buy me some night wheel Something's really wrong with me. I threw up blood three times today and I'm so weak I could barely move Probably shouldn't have had that taco bell Shit, I never should have come here. I come for the money But instead I'm the one paying the price. I'm a terrible father.   I hear a voice over yonder from the trees A fine day to work Digging brings me so much joy.  No, wait, wait, wait. I gotta get hang on. This is earl right here They just happen to sound the same, you know Same accent same accent Hey, y'all it's earl. See I'm listening but not looking because I'm drawing getting sleepy now though. I might call it a night soon Yeah, I'll probably only be here for another hour. So this reminds me of amnesia the whole getting ill and uh-oh what is happening Do you get sick in amnesia? I thought you just like Have amnesia Oh, you got something new for me though. You all right, let's sell Oh, yeah Definitely need to sell the bolts And the attachable mines because I don't use any of that Oh We need 80 000 to max out our shoddy boom body kids Let's go with higher amp. Oh, nope wrong one. Let's go with higher ammo cap I just got here. I'm like, oh god.  Yeah, but your main character doesn't get sick Does he I can't I honestly can't remember. I haven't played it since uh, like right around the time it first came out I really dug that one though Would that be all then Let's go with actually hang on. Let me get some Trade uh, let me get some of this. Oh, what do I want shotgun shells or rifle ammo? What's coming up next I think I need shotgun shells Okay, stop all right Locked cocked and ready to rock. Let's go It might be on the mic because of the uh, my fan above me Then they became monsters. No the the one you played I didn't think so. Yeah I need four more gunpowder to be able to get more rifle ammo spooky bats I had to keep checking my uh, my map Explosive storage notice the dynamite has been relocated to the m4 store room When using explosives cave ends are frequent occurrence. Keep your distance from the blast zone Or you be blowed to pieces In the event of a disaster clean up immediately any body parts that might be laying around Someone might trip over someone's leg meat Ensure adequate numbers of staff are on site just in case some people get blowed up Then we can replace them with other people Sounds like electrical interference Yeah, it's it's the uh shell says probably the uh air conditioner Did he die or not? I think him dead Oh, look Let's go with the shotty Is he dead? He is dead. Well, that was easy Oh, come on.  It is fancy rifle famous last words We got ourselves a bridge down I hear another dude, but I don't see him Nothing back here Go down here. I think I missed an item down here One of the people I shot. Yeah, here we go. And I don't see any more chests or anything.   Oh, let's see here. Um, I need to hold off so I can buy more Uh this way run It makes an exploding Oh lord, jeez Come on, Luis.  No He wouldn't he wouldn't anywhere near that And he even goes down like golem or hey Hey No, I'm not Do you mind? I shot you in your booty meat. I didn't mean to do that obvious meal What are you doing?  Oh lolly lolly lolly lolly pop Ba-dum-dum-dum Hi time to collect all the swag loot around. Oh hot swag loot Exasperated gasp That's a lot of pistachios Good gravy Oh, I didn't need sub machine gun ammo.  I don't see anything else Was that something? Yeah, it was it was a green herb. How about dim apples? I need a case upgrade something serious Actually hang on here Yeah, I don't need this many damn Health aids There's nothing else in here Oh I gotta concentrate here guys. Sorry. I'm quiet That's so ridiculously Okay. All right. Bye viking if you're not already gone Okay, then All right, here we go Okay, then Good job. Louise. He's blowing his friend up.  Is there something actually over here? Man, I keep walking to the wrong corner. Oh, yeah, there's okay.  I'm going to run to the restroom. I'll be back Okay, I'm back. I got through the first section without getting hit but I'm unsure if I'm gonna be able to make through this one I couldn't get him. Yeah, I got hit and it There's an achievement if you don't get hit Well, so much for that Good gravy.  I would absolutely love it I'd probably get sick But oh well inconceivable So much for that. All right, this is another one.  There it is Surprise motherfucker. Hang on. I need to turn off a light. I couldn't see nothing Shell was nice enough to turn it off on me Huh, I think this is the right way So first thing we need to make some of this right here Need to use that Need to sell tmp mo that that That Do I have enough to do any of these? tune up Oh, man, I needed 80 000 for that Oh, well That's new You're trying to threaten. I think we're good I need to save I see her how long we've been going for We'll go for about 30 more minutes Probably I'll at least finish this chapter Come on Lewis. Oh, by the way, Amber's home Why risk your life like this? You don't know us be straight with me for once Los iluminados We're kidding for them See, there you go Helping the two of you doesn't make up for it. I know that But still anyone else do you hurt? In that case You better get serious Harsh words for a squire Gus made it all this way You know it means we're almost Almost what? Louise Louise no Kick me in the next Tuesday Let's go kraut Keep forgetting that I got to evade that I keep missing the evade button because I'm hitting the wrong button I see what what are you do part frog?  You're gonna burn them fancy pants with your smoke Louise I'm sorry So sorry All right, I think that's good for today. Thank you all for joining me Uh, let me go ahead and save I will be streaming I won't be streaming tomorrow because I have a doctor's appointment, but I will be back to streaming on Wednesday, I believe that's day after tomorrow because tomorrow's Tuesday. Yes. Anyways, so I will see you guys Uh, Wednesday, and if you guys need me for anything, I'll be on discord but later


In this video we'll continue to look at unit conversions but we'll try some more complex examples. So let's take this example. At 25 degrees Celsius water has a density of 0.997 grams per milliliter and we want to convert this density to grams per litre. So here we're converting from a compound unit of grams per mill to another compound unit, grams per litre. This may seem a bit weird and different to our other examples but exactly the same conversion principles apply. First we need to write the value that we know as a fraction along with its unit. Here the compound unit is grams per milliliter. Per means divided by. So grams per milliliter is more properly written like this. So we'll put the value up the top and the compound unit next to it with grams on top and millilitres underneath. Now we don't need to change the grams, we just want to change the denominator from mills to litres. So what we need is the conversion factor from mills to litres. Now we know that 1000 millilitres is equivalent to 1 litre and we want to cancel out the millilitres so they're going to go on the bottom. And now we cancel our units and we complete the calculation and we get that the density is 997 grams per litre. Which if you think about it makes sense. If 1 milliliter has a mass of 0.997 then 1000 millilitres, that's a litre, must have a mass of 1000 times that which is 997. It's always good to do a little common sense check of your calculations when you've done a conversion.


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I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech on a given Thursday morning, and we have the honor of Bob Garrier, and he is the president of Pacific Forum. And if you didn't know about Pacific Forum, you need to know about Pacific Forum. We're going to know more about Pacific Forum in a little while. It's a local but global think tank right down the block in downtown. It's a remarkable organization with remarkable resources and a very high level of global thinking right here in Honolulu. So if you're concerned about global awareness, it lives at Pacific Forum. Hi, Bob. Hi. Great to be with you this morning, Jay. Thanks for having me. Great. Can you talk a little bit about Pacific Forum and how it was organized and what it does? I think people need to know about that. Sure. Thanks. You know, great opportunity, by the way, to have this chat this morning. So Pacific Forum, now formally called Pacific Forum International, we were formed 45 years ago, and we were stood up by our founder. He's recently passed a re-radiminal, Joe Vasey. And his vision in a nutshell was really to, quote, find a better way. You know, this comes out of his stories from World War II when he was pinned down in a submarine. His captain, his skipper at that time was John McCain, John McCain's father. And, you know, it's a great story. And in a particularly harrowing event, when they actually escaped with their lives, he said to himself, if I ever get out of this thing alive, boy, I got to find a better way. He finished out his career in the Navy, retired as a re-radiminal, and then he founded Pacific Forum. And for many years, again, that's 45 years ago, that 1975 was when we were stood up. We had a partnership with CSIS, upon the largest think tank in the world. Just in 2018, we became completely independent. So now we've always been operating here in downtown Honolulu, right there in Bishop Square. And so, yeah, I'd love to get into all the details. We've been around. It's all, it's a non-profit, non-partisan, private think tank. And I like to think of it as Hawaii's own private think tank, because it is. It is, absolutely. You know, I've gone to your Board of Governors meetings in the spring for several years, and I've always been impressed with the kind of people who were there, the kind of people, the kind of national people. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. of the Kennedy School of, I guess what, Foreign Relations out of Harvard spoke there several times. You've had amazing speakers, and you've had amazing people come and watch. There's a lot of military, foreign service. It's really, it's a hot spot for global thinking. And as I said before, we really need that. So the question is, why do you cover, Bob? I mean, what is your sort of range of intellectual geography? Well, I think, you know, I think of it as geopolitics, probably at large, but very, very specifically, we focus on the Indo-Pacific, I mean, quite literally. And, you know, it starts with Northeast Asia, and it goes down into Southeast Asia, and then we're growing and branching into South Asia, of course, with this whole realization that the Indo-Pacific is a much larger entity than just Asia by itself. So that's the region, you know, all the way west from here, all the way past to India. So that's the backyard, so to speak. And the types of things that we get involved in are regional engagement programs, strategic stability, security cooperation, a thing called preventive diplomacy, which is getting countries to talk before you get into crisis situations, non-proliferation and disarmament, strategic trade controls. And then we have a whole separate line of effort, which is about young leaders and the next generation. We spent a lot of time, and I hope we have a few moments later to talk about that, because we've got fellowship programs that are very active and vibrant. And again, a young leaders program, which is one of our flagship programs. We stood this up, gosh, 14 years ago, probably one of the first institutions to do that. Lots of think tanks are actually copying that model. Over a thousand young leaders now across 56 countries, a wonderful network. These are all aspiring young security practitioners. And then they're getting smart about policy, but we invite them to sit in our conferences and our dialogues, so they get to see how policy is made, how it's being crafted by the experts, by the government officials. And so that really, it removes the mystery for them, and it really empowers them to continue on with their study. So we can get into any of those areas. These people are extraordinary. They're young, they're international. They want to know everything about everywhere, politics is their middle name. But hearing you talk about that, it strikes me that you must have been, you must now be profoundly affected by COVID. Can you talk about how COVID has affected your operations and your reach into the Indo-Pacific? Absolutely. So our main, we do three things, you know, and just to back up a little bit, you know, we research, you know, topics of interest that are current, been out there for a while, that are also emerging, and we connect people in a variety of ways, and then we inform. And that's a bit of a moniker of those three steps, but it's really, so the researching continues nonstop. You don't have to be able to travel to do that.  We often connect virtually like we're doing now, and I'll talk about how we've changed our modes and we continue to work. But in the past, and we will resume these, we would hold dialogues and workshops and seminars all over the Indo-Pacific. In 2019, my gosh, we had something along the lines of, gosh, I want to say 60 different events, and it was 21 different cities in 12 countries. So there's a lot of physical travel involved. And so that's 2019. So then with the COVID situation coming early this year, we obviously had to curtail that and rapidly adapt, again, like everyone else. So what we do now is we hold virtual workshops using the same platform Zoom or whatever the host countries or recipients are comfortable with, but often it's Zoom. And so we're now doing seminars, a variety of them, some are by invitation only that are very focused. Others are very broad. We've got a maritime discussion series that focuses on lots of the issues in the south. So that on your website, that's a very interesting series and very relevant right now. In that, we've had a little less than 200, 150 plus attending those regularly from all over the globe. I mean, literally we try to pick a timeframe, advertise in advance, but I've got folks from Europe all across into Pacific, but Great Britain, the Netherlands, even in South America, as well as all the countries in the end of Pacific are dialing in to listen about our discussions on law of the sea, South China Sea, and what's happening there with fishing vessels with coast guards, with the Chinese Navy, nine dashed line, all these issues. And it's an opportunity for experts, academics at the talk. We typically have panel discussions, maybe three panelists, and then a moderator, go for an hour, an hour and 15 usually. And it's a great discussion. So we'll have that series. And again, a couple others, we did a COVID series, special series, I can talk about that in a second, if you'd like, here in Hawaii. Well, I just want to sort of examine the network.  You have to be out there. And in the normal, just a year ago, Pacific Forum was traveling, remarkable distances everywhere. Your predecessor, Ralph, last name? Casa, Ralph Casa, and he's our president emeritus, and he's still on board the staff. He works a very busy schedule. And he's part of our team. So it's great to have that network with him with us. He was everywhere. Ralph Casa. He still is. It seems to me that in order to do what you do, you've got to connect and maintain that network. And it's a network of relationships. It's like they say, real estate isn't about land, it's about relationships. As a matter of fact, when you think about it, everything is about relationships, including what you do. So you have to nurture those relationships wherever they are, and you're going to do that mostly in the past by travel. You got it right. I couldn't say it much better at all. Honestly, it's all about those connections. It's all about keeping them alive, keeping them vibrant. I didn't even get into Southeast Asia, which is very, you know, that's right there at the hinge, if you will, of the Indo-Pacific, you know, when we talk about it, and how important the ASEAN countries are. We're one of the founding Pacific Forum. It's one of the founding members of the Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, CSCAP. And this has been going on as this group of representatives from various think tanks with close connections, typically to ministries of foreign affairs in the region. They've been meeting on a variety of important issues. They typically help inform the ASEAN Regional Forum. So again, this is a deep, there are deep roots here in connections. These are scholars, they're experts, they're government officials. They're working in their private capacity. Again, as I said, we're a private, we're not a government entity. And, you know, they're reading our publications, we're reading their publications. I mentioned that inform piece, you know, that triad of things that we do. On our website, you'll see these PAC nets that we put out, you know, somewhere about 80 plus a year. It's commentary, it's analysis. What's a PAC net now? This is really important, because if you want to be educated, if you're here and watching, you need to know about PAC nets. What's a PAC net? So our memberships, you just subscribe to actually, and we push these out. Anyone can actually get them, but we also have special memberships that invite you to additional events here in Hawaii. But these are out and available for everyone. You go to our website, and you'll see publications. And these PAC nets is just a handle we've been using for decades now. I think of it as a small bite. It's an analysis of a topic that's hot. In the Pacific-specific, it's foreign policy-centric. We don't get into politics. We get into the larger issues. I think these issues, you know, and it's not too hard to stay by the way, you know, nonpartisan. These issues, security, I think it transcends politics in so many ways. There'll always be discussions about how you execute. But we don't get into that level. It's a much larger issue of the security realities that face all of us, not in just the U.S., but the entire region. So these PAC nets, again, they're fast reads, and it's a great place to get caught up on issues. And occasionally, we'll have a back and forth. They represent the views of the authors. They don't represent the views of the Pacific Forum. We want them to be well researched and obviously a high standard. But beyond that, they're out there, and occasionally we'll get a counter fire, if you will, and a back and forth. And we encourage that. That's the essence of a forum of discourse. Yeah, and it makes you unique.  But let me ask you this, and you know, it strikes me that in a world where the United States has turned isolationist and nationalistic, you know, the outreach that you, that is Pacific Forum has been doing for 45 years, must be affected by that. The relationships we talked about all over Asia and Asia-Pacific, Indo-Pacific must be affected by that. People probably have a different view of America and the United States foreign policy than they had four years ago. How have you seen that? And how does it affect your work? Well, we get questions many times. And when we were traveling again last year, and we will travel again, you know, as soon as this, this, this two will pass and then we'll adapt to all of us globally. But in our discourse, in our meetings, there's always questions, you know, are you still vested in the region? Do you care about allies and partners? And the answer is, of course, we are. I like to think of it and often what I would respond.  You know this well. And there's going to be tactical styles that are different. I think in the end, I said, watch our actions. That's the most important thing. That's the best read always. You may see, you may hear things that are a lot of, you know, rhetorical things, some of it's bombastic or otherwise. But in the same token, watch what we do. Read our documents. There's a steady undercurrent that's there. And in the end, I think the math of security, of global security, of the general interconnectedness of all things really proves that you have to maintain relations. It's the obvious. To me, it's so logical, but it's the obvious end game for all of us and tackling, you know, problems that confront all of us from global climate issues, from security, from proliferation, from unrest. You name the whole tableau of issues. The way you get to the bottom of them is through dialogue, discourse, and common understanding. There's no unilateral solutions to any of these things. In fact, when you go unilateral, you often create more problems that have to get addressed later. So to me, the math is almost there in the logic. And people, I think, know that. Yeah, well, yeah, it reminds me, all this reminds me of the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Waikiki that was established by Dan Inouye a couple of decades ago. And in fact, recently, Hank Stackball, who was one of the early, you know, presidents of that time. A wonderful gentleman, yes. Wonderful guy. So I just wonder how you would compare Pacific Forum in this regard with APCSS. Well, I'd add East West Center. So I know the director of APCSS is a personal, professional, we're personal friends and time together in the Navy, and Richard Volsteck, of course, at East West Center. So I'd actually, I'd mentioned all three of us, you know, we're small. You know, one has more State Department back in the center, the other is the Department of Defense entity, essentially. So government-sponsored entities, we're non-profit and non, you know, private in that regard. But we do, we do different things, but we all overlap. And we certainly all talk all the time. And so think of defense-centric approaches that APCSS, it's their charter. East West Center, you know, not defense, broader, as you would think along the lines of State Department. And then what I always mentioned to them, because I'm always looking to partner with them in many projects that we have, think of us as coming in with a different layer of contact, if you will, the non-profit, the non-government approach. And as I mentioned earlier, everything's connected.  It's that, it's always, we'll be a part of that, but it's economics, it's information. It's how we're connected. It's 5G. It's what you're reading in the paper. And I think everyone understands that this not just whole of government approach, but the whole of nation approach is really the key to all manner of issues that are out there. So diplomacy, isn't it? Yeah, you come at it from different angles. And so diplomacy, I call it think-tank diplomacy because of the relationships and the coverage and the general missions of all these three organizations. I know that East-West Center is involved in diplomacy. By the way, they have a show with us, you know, and Karina Lyons comes around, does a show every week or two. And further, they cover very current issues, like they've been on it with a relationship with China. They've been on it with the events in Hong Kong. And I wonder if, you know, your mission is overlapping on that because that, to me, is hot news. Absolutely. And it's very, very determinative of our relationships with Asia. Yeah, and the answer is yes. I mean, I think of it as a complementary approach. You know, we've participated in events with them. We've even hosted events using some of their facilities at East-West Center. But the topics that we get into, again, they're all layered. And again, we've come at it from the private nonprofit kind of angle. And with that, each of them have their own networks, these groups. And that has an additive effect. So again, we've spent a lot of time on Northeast Asia working trilateral dialogues between the U.S., Japan, and Korea. We've hosted a Track 1.5 dialogue. And I can get into explaining Track 2 and Track 1.5 dialogues quickly. Track 2 is academics and experts, if you will, non-official. 1.5, I would say semi-official. The Track 1 being official government, press meetings and the like, delegations. So that's a very official. That's what the State Department does. But when they're not talking and you want to maybe make headway below the radar, so to speak, quietly, you move to a 1.5, which is halfway between the academic role, which is Track 2, academic and experts. So this 1.5, we often are funded by typically government institutions in the U.S. for the grants to host these. And they provide a forum off the record, non-official, but with officials who are very well informed, along with academics and experts, very well informed, and have discussions with counterparts in China. For instance, a strategic nuclear dialogue we've had with China for many, many years, this trilateral dialogue amongst our allies in Korea and Japan, coming across where there's friction in that relationship. So these are really needy discussions. You have takeaways. Our work is all unclassified, by the way, non-proprietary. Some of it can be sensitive. But what you do is you make headway in areas that need to be discussed. These are policy alternatives for our officials to consider, and that's how you help move the ball, so to speak, move the needle on some of these tough issues. These organizations and your organization, very important in a time when the State Department has been thinned down, I think everybody tells me that, where you walk through the halls of the State Department and half the offices are empty, and they're not developing foreign policy the way they had, classically. It seems it strikes me that your organization as a non-profit, as a foreign policy organization, a think tank, sort of fills in the gaps on that. You do diplomacy, and you do relate to people, and you do keep the edge off things where it might be much more friction. So I think that's a fair analogy. I don't presume to say or to think that we're any substitute for official diplomacy, we certainly are a complementary additive, another layer of texture, and also as important momentum on certain important issues. When you're not talking officially, gosh, hopefully you're not well better be talking unofficially. That's how you keep the pressure and understand what the other folks are thinking. There's lots of things out there where different sides don't see it the same way. And the way that you help untie that knot is to understand the motivations behind them. And so it's about insight, it's about perspectives, and it's about sharing that and understanding motives, and then coming up with policy alternatives and recommendations for our side. It's that dialogue which is so important. So that's a lot of what we do in this travel. And now that we're adapting this COVID environment that you asked about earlier, we're doing this, again, not at the same tempo, but it's slowly picking up because what's happening is people realize the ability to hold meetings, keeps on getting postponed. They don't want to lose momentum. So how about our workshop? How about getting together? Let's do it virtually. Let's get the discussions on there. What do they want to talk about? Things like that, which are important at least to keep the discourse continuing. Yeah, since we started doing, we, I mean, everybody started doing these virtual meetings, people have sometimes raised the notion that it's not as good as in the flesh that you need to have a drink with the individual. You need to spend personal time. You need to see the sweat of his brow or her brow in these discussions. I have come to another conclusion. My conclusion is right now, I'm getting to know you better than I might otherwise have gotten to know you. And you, in turn, can get to know a diplomat in Asia better than you might otherwise, and without having to fly out there. And it's personal. And it's, you know, it's, it's something very candid about the ability to talk privately on, I say privately, I mean, close up on Zoom. Do you find that to be true? Is it as good on virtual as it was, or has been, you know, in a physical meeting? I'll definitely say it's different and it is good. It's not a substitute entirely, but, but there's actually benefits. You know, I, the way we operate, not just Pacific Forum, but I know other think tanks has changed forever. This is a powerful tool. You've been using it all along with your organization, and are really far ahead of all of us. We're kind of catching up. But the power is amazing. You can now have conferences with hundreds vice just scores. You know, so that there's that reach, you know, I mentioned the global reach literally global that, you know, you can have those conferences, it takes a lot of planning and a lot of travel, the efficiency that this medium, this platform brings is, is staggering. And, and you're right, there's a very focused aspect to it, which, which really pulls you in. It's pretty intense. And so one of the things we learned is when you're doing a virtual version of a conference, we typically chop it up into smaller pieces because these are intense sessions that there are people are dialed in, you're looking right at them. And so it's a different atmosphere than sitting in a large conference room, whether it's a symposium or even in a smaller space, it's a different dynamic as you know. So no substitute, of course, for the personal relationships that you get in physical contact, but absolutely there's a personal connection, but then the reach and then the polling features, there's some great technology pieces with chat with voting. And we're using some of these where you can actually sample the audience and saying, before we start this session, how many people thought XYZ and you do a poll, and it's anonymous, so people are honest, and then they open up, and you have this data now. And so it actually that turns back in, if you do it right, it kind of primes the pump for the discussion. So you get a level of actually reach right and insight metrics that you didn't have in an open forum, you know, with people raising their hand and maybe they get to hear or not. So yeah, very powerful. True, then as time goes by and people get more familiar with the, you know, the Zoom and the webinar Zoom, it seems to me we can do more of this, and we will do more of this, and we'll all get more expert at the polling and the Q&A, but let me move to another subject, you know, one thing I've always admired about Pacific Forum is its Fellows program. Can you talk about that? In my mind's eye, Bob, I'd like to be a fellow, but what does it mean to be a fellow? Well, we've got five different programs, fellowship programs right now, both resident and non-resident. So think of a resident fellowship program where it's funded, and you bring someone in and they actually stay with us here in Hawaii for a six-month period. Sometimes it gets extended to 12 months. They pick up a topic as a collaborative process. You have a mentor from the staff, either one of our senior fellows, working on the staff of PhD or PhD candidate themselves, someone who's experienced, and they coach them along with their research project. Along the way, they help us do some of our work so that they're on the team, if you will, on board. We take them to conferences, and so this is very rich immersive experience. They do research, but they also see applications of how this research can be used in the world, and so it's a great connection. These are competitive fellowships. Again, then there's a score of non-resident ones as well. We have a Vacey, a Kelly, a non-proliferation scholarship, a Honda WSD World Support Development for Peace scholarship, or fellowship rather, and a Korea Foundation. Those five different ones. We also have bring-on interns during the summer months predominantly. Those are not subsidized, and they come into study as most interns do. That's fellowships. Then we have the young leaders. A subset of the young leaders is this Asia-Pacific Affairs Leadership Program, which is even a younger group, typically undergraduates that are from here in Hawaii. If I could just plug that for a second, because it's a direct reach out to young aspiring policy students who want to get a taste of what foreign policy formulation and study is like. That's APAL. That's Hawaii-specific, and we have cohorts. We're in our seventh cohort right now. You think of 10 people that come in, and they work with us. It's a program. It takes a place. It's kind of like a school year. You bring them in in the fall, and they kind of graduate spring-summer time. We invite them to one of our conferences. They get to see this. They travel, and they get to see how policy is formulated and discussed. It's really important. They do their projects, this APAL group, that are connected. We make it a requirement to make a Hawaii connection to the region. This lastly, if I could just say, gets to the larger issue of how you think about Hawaii, Honolulu, and the Indo-Pacific. My gosh, it quite literally is the gateway for the US to the Indo-Pacific. We can really deliver on that. Admiral Vasey had that vision 45 years ago. There's so much more to Hawaii than the wonderful things it already has in the industries and tourism, but there's a richness of thought, of proximity, a place to meet. There's that aloha and light touch with which we bring, but it's a wonderful place to have meetings. We host some of our dialogues here as kind of neutral turf, if you will. All these things, if you will, come together to make Hawaii, you're competing with the East Coast in a long tradition of think tanks and then a DC-centric thinking. That's fine. It'll always be that way, but we can really fill this out out here in Hawaii, and then we really see that role.   Tax-adductible donations are help us keep going, that's for sure. So, yeah, I mean, I remember at the Board of Governors meetings, that was a fundraiser, and how it's fundraising going in the time of COVID, and how can we make your organization as sustainable as possible in the time of COVID? No, that's a great thank you for asking the question. So, the answer is, it's tough. We had a cancel. We first postponed our annual fundraising dinner, and that's our biggest fundraiser each year. We really rely on it. We postponed it initially, and then, as you just see, the way things are working, we had to cancel it outright. So, we're in a summer giving campaign right now. Every donation helps. I can simply say, look over our website, www.packforum.org, and there's a giving page in there. Every bit helps. 501c3, fully tax-adductible donations. It makes a difference, and we need it. It's what supplements our operations. We work on grants, government, and private, and then that covers not all of our operating costs. We make up the rest of the shortfalls, as most nonprofits do with fundraising drives each each year. So, it's an ongoing effort. So, every bit helps. Well, I hope people realize that we have got to look beyond our own shoelaces here in Hawaii. We've got to see the world, got to see our role in the Pacific and Indo-Pacific. We've got to see all the changes that are happening, and we have to know about them and even participate in them. What a fabulous opportunity it is for students and aspiring foreign service diplomats to be with you and learn from you. I hope people see this and understand it. So, let me ask you one last question, Bob. 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So, this is going to be a video essay about our perceptions, about demons, and how the world as we view it is not objective, and the battle that's going on between the way you want to perceive the world, or the way you would perceive it ideally, going after what you want to go after, whether it's love, success, happiness, etc. And also the various forces that are either real, as in demons, or part of a spiritual world, or they're just inner parts of you and your genes, we're not going to get into that, although we are going to talk about the various interpretations for that. So, this idea came about to me when I read a book called The End of Death by Nook Sanchez, who's a devout Christian who believes in the book called A Course in Miracles, which supposedly an angel came down and gave this Christian woman the word of Jesus. So, Nook Sanchez, the girl who wrote The End of Death, the way she interprets the book is, she says, all our sins are forgiven, all the supposed bad things have already happened, and you cannot believe in God and also believe in death, because God contradicts death and death contradicts God. You have to pick one or the other. So, the way she goes about it is she tells you to, instead of looking at, for example, poverty, and saying, okay, that's poverty, it's a bad thing, it needs to be solved, basically looking at it as the cause, you instead change your perception and instead of seeing, you realize that if you see something negative like poverty, it means that something in your perception is wrong, not the world. So, instead of trying to fix the world, fix your perception and then see what happens. So, in other words, love and then do whatever you want to do, but first love. I really love the book. It's a really, really good, cool idea and it does work quite amazingly. When you fully decide to try it out, you enter situations that are, with your partner in life, where you would normally react badly and instead of reacting to the situation, you say, okay, I'm feeling bad, I'm seeing bad things, that means something in my perception is wrong, and then you start realizing that there's this rift, it's not always, I see bad, therefore bad, it might be bad, but most of the time, it's in my vision. So, if I just don't look at it like a bad thing, the situation resolves itself. For example, let's say you're again with your partner and you're both arguing about something and you both look at a problem and say, this is a problem, this is not good, we need to solve this thing and you start arguing and really going at it and then if you just change your perception instead of like, okay, my partner has problems, he's wrong, blah, blah, blah, or she's wrong, just looking at your partner with love at that moment, okay, I'm not looking at him with love, therefore I'm wrong, therefore you look at him with love, you just hug him or just completely disregard the situation, the situation only see good things. The situation would most likely resolve itself, which is quite extraordinary when you actually think about it. Now, this thing has expanded, this idea in my awareness, to also a matter of thinking like, wait, not just, okay, view the world positively, everything is abundant, let's say I want to look at it practically, when you want to become happy, that means you change your perception into seeing happy things. So obviously, you need to change things in your life most of the time, so if you're in a really bad position, you can't just say, okay, I'm in a bad position, I'm going to be happy, therefore everything is going to be okay, but on the other hand, a lot of people change their lives and actually change their situation to a positive situation using that unhappiness, but then they create a new situation and now they're still unhappy. So it really begs the question, where does it come from?  Is it the fact that you decide to be happy and then the positive action comes out of it? So that's generally the way I see that it worked in my life is that when I adopted a positive mentality, for example, looking at my girlfriend, my partner and just viewing her with love, then usually the actions would also be good. So let's say there is a problem we need to deal with. First, I'll look at her with loving eyes and then when I don't see quote-unquote like a problem anymore or I just see her and how much I love her, then the positive action of solving the problem would come out of that and I get both things.   So even if you solve it, another problem will come up and it's just kind of a never-ending cycle. Let's say you want to become more successful in your life, you know, to achieve certain goals, to go further than you've ever gone. The negative thoughts are really going to kill you, like viewing problems and always having to deal with problems.  And the way I view it, and I'm sorry that this is not exactly organized, but bear with me, is there's two ways of looking at it. You can take the sort of mythological slash theological view, which I tend to gravitate towards actually, even as an atheist, which is that there are these demons that are whispering in your ear, very much like in the movies, where you would see a character and he has this good angel and also the bad angel on both sides and they're both whispering to him, telling him good things and bad things. And you would think to yourself, I'm really persuasive and I'm logical and I'm rational. I'm not going to fall into these kind of things, but you need to realize that the demon, whatever that is, it knows you.  So it's not just like, hey, you're not good enough.   You're never going to get love or success or happiness or health. It doesn't just say that it actually points at, see, he said that therefore it's true. This happened, therefore it's true. You look like this, therefore it's true. It always knows exactly what to point your perception to, what evidence to give you for you to believe it. And the thing is, from a theological point of view or a mythological point of view, you need to disregard what the devil says. It's just like in the movies or in the shows, you need to not believe your eyes. So when you go after success, you need to realize that the devil of failure is going to start talking into your ears. And I'm going to give you an evolutionary explanation to this too, so it's not just going to be spiritual. I can completely explain the same thing on a evolutionary scientific basis, but I choose to start with the mythological one because even though it's less scientifically accurate, obviously, it's more saleable. You can actually view it as an enemy because if I tell you that when you see sugar, you're trying to lose weight, and when you see sugar, if evolutionary, you're wired to get more sugar, and that's why you run it so bad, then the rational types might be okay. It might realize like, okay, this is evolutionary, this is an old impulse, it does not serve me, rationally explain it. But what happens when the emotions are being played? Again, you can explain it evolutionary. Freud says that based on Freudian theory, we're a multitude of many, many sub-personalities that each pulls you in their own direction. So when you're angry, you're one specific one-sided personality that pushes you one place. And when you're happy, there's another personality that's pushing this way. So it's not just emotions, also sexually.  And then there's the meta, the ego, basically, the superego, which is the part of you that kind of sees everything happening and says, okay, who am I now? What is this now? What is this now? So this is basically the scientific perspective. But again, you don't want to eat the sugar. And I just tell you, look, it's scientific, evolutionary, you want to eat the sugar is just biology, that's all. But then again, the emotions come up. That's the thing. It's not just, oh, I really want it. It's also emotional. Something in you doesn't just crave it from a physical perspective. It's also emotionally, like, you know, you need this, you know, it's good for you. It's going to make you happy. You need this because you worked really hard today. You deserve it. And basically, it's almost like a demon that's talking into your ear. And by calling it as it is, by looking at it as a demon, again, even if you're also a fellow atheist, you can adopt this viewpoint because it just helps you. Now you can actually assail it, you can actually fight back. So you don't just look at it like, oh, it's just an evolutionary craving. You can actually look at it like something is trying to convince me right now to do something that I don't want to do. And it has access to my faculties. It has access to my perceptions. And it makes me see things that align it with its own objectives. And where does the demon of sugar lead you? It leads you towards obesity. It leads you towards eating more and more and more. That's why it's one of the seven sins in the seven circles of hell is gluttony.   And for me, it really, really attacked me actually in areas of my relationships because I have updated many, many girls. But the ones where I really fell in love with someone, I almost always got hurt really bad. And so my demons, when I get really in love with a girl, they tell me about how she's falling out of love with me, how she's falling out of attraction, why it's a good time to leave. And I will get every single piece of evidence every single time. And emotionally, I will be compelled to do it. And I know the exact same situation for people, again, with obesity or success. So let's say, again, you want to become more successful than you currently are. The moment you try it, that demon wakes up. And that demon tells you, don't do it. It's not a friendly voice is what I'm trying to say. Because that's what we've been taught. Oh, it's evolutionary. Evolutionarily, you should keep yourself safe. You know, we like our comfort zones. We don't want to stand too far off of them. But I don't think it's that simple. I think there is a certain malevolence, malevolence, sorry, that is trying to actively hurt you. And when you go after success, it will hurt your faculties. So you'll start seeing every reason why you should not do it. But it's not you. So you need to be brave and you need to have faith. And this is something that's deeply lacking. Since, as Nietzsche says, we kill the God. Since that time, there's no more mythological basis in our society. And so when you imagine yourself becoming more successful, you don't view it like going on a journey and fighting the demons and, you know, becoming stronger as a result.  So start viewing yourself as this hero, actually watch movies and read mythologically inspired books and movies like, you know, the Disney movies, the classic ones, not the new shit. And watch how the themes keep repeating and how unbelievably relevant they are to your life. When you go on that journey, on that success journey, that demon will start talking to you. And it's going to tell you that you should not do it. And that's again the scary thing. It's going to change your perception. So you're only going to see reasons not to do it. So if you're a person who only believes there are faculties who has no religious basis, no faith basis, no mythological basis, just if I see it, it's true. You know, I only believe what I see. You'll never get anywhere because every time you'll try to lose weight, you're only going to see reasons not to lose weight. And even if you do manage for a while, it's going to catch you in another way. So much of success in relationships and fitness and health and success, much of it is about going against what your eyes are telling you, what your mind is telling you, what you see, which is an act of faith and an act of courage. It's harder to have faith and courage when you have no mythological or faith basis. So you need to fight it. You need to really accept and test, by the way, experiment. Don't just believe it on blind faith, but try it out.  Let's plan and attack. Take into account that it is very likely, especially if you aim high, that you're going to have to actually go against your perceptions, that at some point during the journey, you're going to have every reason to quit or to do something that's detrimental. Again, if you're in a relationship, your eyes will tell you that you should not be with this partner. He or she is not as pretty as you thought, not as smart, not as kind, not as loving, not as in love as you thought. If it's your journey towards health, that it's not worth it. That doesn't really matter. That you're not making progress. If it's success, you're not worth it. You just don't have it. It's too scary. It's too vague. And you need to look at things the way you would like to perceive them if they were actually going your way.  How would you look at them? What would your eyes tell you when you look at them?  When you see something that's not right, and that makes you say, I'm not sure if I want to be with that person, or the person is not as perfect as I thought. If you have decided to be with that person already, you're not just trying it out and seeing what happens, but actually made a decision that you want to be with this person, then it's your problem. When you see an imperfection in them, you actually are wrong. There is no imperfection in them. The imperfection is in your eyes. Instead of seeing a problem with them, realize that there is a problem with the way that you look at them, because you're not seeing perfection.  It's the same with the other journeys. When you look at your success journey and success, unless it's in sports, I guess, is mostly convincing other people why they should follow you, they should buy your product, basically those two, building a company and then selling something. You need to look at your idea like it's perfect. Not perfect in the sense that it's not, you know, there's nothing to improve, but perfect in the sense that you're in love with it. You need to be in love with the people you work with. You need to be in love with your actions. You need to be in love with your customers. You need to look at every potential customer as if they are already your customers. Love, basically. Just love them, love everything.  I dare you, in the next 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours, a week, one week, one month, choose a timeframe. Now, after you chose a timeframe, choose specific things in your life that you would like to improve. I want to improve my health, I want to make more money, I want to be happier, whatever it is that matters to you, and commit for that specific timeframe to stop trying to solve problems in that area, but instead list out the problems that you see and ask yourself, can I look at those problems with the eyes of love and perfection? Can I look at my half-empty bank account and love and appreciate every dollar I have there, and then look at my job that sucks, that's a horrible job, and love every moment in that job, and love the people, and love the service, and love the customers, and love the time there, and only see love, and choose that if I do falter in Nazi love, Nazi perfection, not to try to solve the problem with that, so my boss yelled at me that he's not being nice, now I feel bad, and it's a problem that he needs to solve. Just for that time period, just for that one day, two days, a week, however much time you feel comfortable trying, instead of trying to solve the problem of your boss, who's a problem, decide to look at your own perception as the problem, and solve that. So instead of seeing him as the enemy, love him, try that for the specific timeframe, and look what happens.  And see what happens. See if the problem stays, and if it does stay, see if it still matters. I'm doing this video because I'm also finding my own demons, just like everybody, and I wanted to make it as a reminder that there's something beyond, that that there is a complete world that you see maybe 1% of, at this very moment, wherever you are, and it's all interpretation. So whatever the world looks to you right now, that's just the way it looks to you right now.  That does not mean repress them or deny them, but look at them with love, not as problems that need to be solved, and the best thing I can wish is that you do that, you see what happens, and I'll have one more person who now sees that the world is not just smoke and mirrors. Thanks for watching. I'll be uploading a lot more regularly, and if you're not subscribed yet, please subscribe. I'll see you soon.


0. Accounting Software. Bank feeds?  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 then 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. Here we are in our personal zero home page. We set up in a prior presentation. I'm currently zoomed in by holding control and zooming in on the scroll wheel to 175%. I'm going to go down and open the demo file you can do here or by going to the drop down and the demo file, I will click on the demo file. I'm going to open up the major two financial statement reports that being the balance sheet and the income statement. I want to open them up in their own tab and practice doing that every time. So we gear our mind towards the end product, the end result, the financial statements to do that. I'm going to right click on the tab up top, duplicate the tab. So I've got two tabs with zero in it. I'm going to go to the accounting drop down and open up the reports. And then the first report I want is that balance sheet report opening up the balance sheet report. This is where we stand as of a point in time. And then I'm going to do it again, right clicking the tab up top, duplicating the tab and then opening up another report in the accounting drop down reports. This time the income statement or profit and loss report. These are the major two reports. All other reports pretty much are going to give some more support to one line item or multiple line items on this report or these two reports. I'm going to put this to January to December to December of 2021 here. And so and I'm going to update and refresh that. So we're going to do that basically every time going back to the first tab. So this is my major structure. Normally, I have the balance sheet, the income statement open, and then I'm going to be working on the first tab and toggling between them as we enter the data. Now we want to think about the bank feeds. Note that we're going to do a practice problem without having the bank feeds at first. And then we're going to add the bank feeds at a later time. Although as we talk about the accounting system, we will be touching on the effects of the bank feeds and the pros and cons when we go through our practice problem. The reason we want to do that is because in your accounting system, you really want to have an idea of the flow of your accounting system before you set up the bank feeds, because depending on your needs in your company, the bank feeds will be used in different ways. So we're going to have a whole section. Hopefully we plan on having a whole section or a whole course on the bank feeds. But first, we're going to think about the accounting cycle, the accounting process, the forms that are used in order to make the financial transactions, and those being used to make the financial statements, and then where do the bank feeds fit within it. To understand that a little bit better, well, first, let's just take a look at the bank feeds in general. You can go to the accounting dropdown and the bank accounts. Note they have their own kind of section here, because in other words, you would think they might be just simply in the chart of accounts. But the bank accounts are particularly special types of accounts because you can connect them to the bank feeds. So you can connect or set up a new banking type of account, have the option to connect to the bank feeds within it, which we'll talk about in future presentations. And then within that particular account, as you pull in the data from the bank, which is the same data that you'd see on your online banking system, increases and decreases to the checking account, or the kind of data that you would see on your bank statements, increases and decreases to the checking account, they'll be pulled into the system. But they're going to be over here if I go into the reconcile items, you could see the items that have been pulled in, and they've got this tab called reconcile. And this, I would call this kind of like bank feed limbo, meaning the data has been pulled in from the banks, but they're only increases and decreases to the checking account, the date, and it might have a memo if they're electronic transfers. What we still need in order to map this to the end result of the balance sheet and the income statement is going to be an account to assign it to, and possibly a vendor if it's going to be a payment that who we paid, and then a customer if it's going to be a receipt of money, we're going to want to add that information before we can pull it from the bank feed limbo, I would call it, into being used to create or verify the end result, the financial statements, the balance sheet, and the income statement. So if you don't know how that process is going to work, because you don't know the accounting system, then you're going to end up pulling in a bunch of information into what I would call bank feed limbo. And this is going to look quite kind of confusing as we pull it in from here to actually being useful to make the financial statements with it. So the reconciling process is going to kind of help us with that, with that also it's called reconciling or the tab says reconciling, because we can take the bank data and either match it to what we put into the system, or we can use the bank data to record transactions, which will help us reconcile in the bank reconciliation, which we'll talk about in future presentations. Now, let's go to the flow chart. This is the flow chart on QuickBooks desktop, but I'm just looking at the forms. So once you understand the flow, then you don't really need a chart like this, but I think it's a good visual to start off with to understand what you need to know before you basically put the bank feeds in place. So for example, if you're in a system where you're where you're reliant on the bank itself to record the transactions, that's the easiest kind of system to put the bank feeds in place in. And you can think of this in terms of cycle. This is the outflow of cash at the end of the day or the vendor cycle who you're paying for goods and services. This is the receivables or cash coming in the customer cycle, the most confusing cycles usually the customer cycle or can be. So let's take a look at that one.  That's the easiest system to use, because then it's going to come through the bank feeds and you can use the bank feed to in essence record a deposit form at that time at point in time. Generally, the form is what the system zero is going to use in order to record it generally, right increases to the checking account are usually a deposit type of transactions. So and then the other side is going to go to revenue. So if you have a system like that, then it's fairly easy to use the bank feeds and build your whole accounting system based on the bank feeds. But you're not using the forms designed in an accounting system to record revenue that way, which are the sales receipts for a cashed based system and invoices for an accruals based system. So you'll lose a little bit of detail, you might not have as many subsidiary reports breaking out the sales by customer and by what you sold service items and inventory. So if you have a cash register kind of situation, for example, then you would think that you would want to have to record the sale in your system at kind of like the cash register at that point in time, and then have an internal control of checking the transactions you put into the system versus counting the cash, and then make the deposit and deposit into the bank in the same grouping as as you expect to be going into the bank. So what will be on the bank statement and the bank feeds, and that kind of system, then it's a little bit more complex to deal with the bank feeds, because you're probably going to you're not going to be able to wait till something clears the bank to record it, but instead you're probably going to record the sales receipt and the deposit. And then you're going to check you're going to use the bank receipts, bank feeds to reconcile, which is one reason they call it here a reconciliation process in a full service accounting system. You would enter the transactions first, and then you reconcile it and the bank feeds can help you with that bank reconciliation process. But if you have a very like a simple company structure like gig work, you can use the bank feeds to actually build the financial statements instead of using it as simply a reconciliation item, you can use it to record you know the transactions. And then if you're on an accrual based system, that's where you have to do the work first invoice the client billing the client in essence, track the accounts receivable until they pay you this would be something like often bookkeeping, the landscaping and stuff like that. And then once you get the money, then you're going to make the deposit. Once again, this makes it a little bit more difficult to just construct your financial statements from the bank feeds, because you're going to have to track an accrual component of accounts receivable.  And then on on the vendor side, if you're just paying and this often is the case with small businesses, if you're just paying with electronic transfers, for example, and they come through the bank, that's the easiest system to just construct your your books on the paying side from the bank feeds credit cards as well, because they're electronic transfers and can generally have bank feeds related to them to and you could just build your books from the bank feeds. But if you're writing checks, that becomes a little bit more difficult because now you've got a physical check that's going to be outstanding. And you're going to want to track that outstanding item. So you're going to want to enter the check first, and then verify to the bank feeds. And if you're entering bills, typically for larger companies, then you know, as you get bigger, you're going to be managing your cash flow a lot more carefully in terms of trying to pay as late as possible. And so then you're going to have the accounts payable, which is an accrual component. So how do the bank feeds fit into that. And then of course, if you have inventory, that messes up the bank feeds as well, because inventory typically results in an accrual component. So you got to track the inventory when you buy it. And then you're going to have to pay the inventory when when you sell it, or you're going to have to expense it when you sell it. So inventory throws a wrench into bank feeds, you need to understand it before you set up the process. And of course, payroll is another confusing component. Are you going to do payroll within the system? Are you going to get a third party payroll, or get purchase the payroll in essence through the zero? And if you do it through zero, then, then you can't just wait till of course the payroll check clears the bank generally, because you're going to have to deal with whatever payroll needs, which might include withholdings and whatnot with payroll. So we just want to touch on that now and just show you some of the complexities with the bank feeds. If you don't understand the accounting system, then it's going to be difficult then it's going to be difficult to add the bank feeds properly unless you have a very simple accounting system, like you're just getting paid from YouTube or something like that, and you just want to use the bank feeds themselves to record your transactions. If you're entering other forms, accrual forms, like an invoice, billing clients, like a bill, tracking the accounts payable, then or dealing with inventory, those are usually going to make the whole bank feed things a little bit more complex. And you have to consider that first. But we'll dive into that in a lot more detail when we get into the bank feeds and hopefully try to we'll build our financial statements from bank feeds. And then we'll kind of talk about those more complex issues at that point in time. If you want to jump to that area, you can you can do so. But if you have no accounting background, you might want to at least go through the first part of the course, where we talk about the general accounting process. And then in the second part of the course, we'll enter financial transactions without bank feeds. And then we'll get into the bank feeds.