What's in your cup? All right, so today, my favorite beverage, deathwish coffee. Number one in the in the carousel every week going to be the first thing in there, the smoothest coffee, you know world's strongest coffee, never bitter, very smooth, you're not going to be disappointed. I have it all over the house, you know, I got cake cups, I got grinds, I got I got single-serve pouches, I got everything, I got mugs, I got shirts, I got everything. Deathwish is the greatest cup of coffee you're going to have, I believe. Anyway, I'm Jim. My YouTube channel is the side hustle shuffle, and we explore ways to make money online passively, for the most part, okay. Now, I like passive income. Now, what's passive income? Because people say there's no such thing as passive income, right? Well, because they think it's never having to work again, right? Did you have the coffee? It's great. So, people think that passive income is never having to work again, right? And sitting on the beach and never having to do anything. And that's not what it is. Passive income is doing something today, you know, doing an effort, putting forward some effort today, and you have the potential to earn money over and over again from that effort, over and over again in the future, such as an author writing a book, right? An author writes a book, it's passive income, he writes the book, right? And when he's done writing the book, he's done. He doesn't have to do anything else, but the book sells over and over and over again, and he gets royalty payments as it goes, right? That's passive income. Like the actor and actresses in movies and TV, they get residual income from when their stuff plays, you know, music artists get residual income, you know? Passive income, you do something one day, and over and over again, you have the potential to earn money over and over again. And so, what's the easiest way to do that today? And that's a YouTube channel, okay? YouTube channel. YouTube channel is free to start, right? And you can build your own clone army, okay? If you put out videos every two a week, right? Two videos a week, and at the end of three to five years, you have like 500 videos and 500 clones of you out on the internet.  You could, you know, selling something or helping somebody or doing whatever it is you're into, right? What are you into? What are you into? That's the whole thing. What are you into? So start a YouTube channel and what you're into, right? Follow your passion. The passion economy is what they're talking about today. The passion economy is like the fastest growing business in the United States is content creator is the passion economy. People are following their passions and making full-time incomes. Starting YouTube channels, doing social media, doing courses, making training courses, video courses, right? So they do all of these things and they put it out there and over and over again, it makes money for them, right? What they do also in the video is what's called affiliate marketing. They put a link into the video in the bottom of the video and YouTube video in the description. They put a link to an item, right? And when somebody buys that item or clicks through and goes to that website, they'll get a small commission, right? And it's just so and YouTube is searchable. It's the number two search engine in the world right now, right? So people are searching for something and I always say Lego that I say. Let's say you have a Lego channel on YouTube and you're putting together Legos and in the description, you're got a link to go buy the Legos and people buy the Legos now, but you do two a week for five years. You have 500 videos out there. When people search Star Wars Lego set, your videos come up and people watch them and then click the link and you make a commission over and over again throughout time. Next week, a month, a year, two years, five years from now, as long as that item is for sale and it's relevant, you have the potential to earn money from that video over and over and over again, right? That's what being a content creator is. Some people use their social media to take pictures of their dinner, right? And other people are using their social media to earn a passive income to earn. And another thing that people in the miscommunication, the disconnect is people think you have to be a millionaire. They have to be a movie star or a celebrity or somebody else. No, you don't have to be a celebrity. Small followings, okay?  You can connect on a different level than somebody who's an actor or a celebrity, you know, such. So people are looking for that, you know, down to earth person on YouTube, on social media that's showing them, this is how I lost weight. This is what I did to lose weight. And so they, what you do is you solve the problem for somebody. When you solve somebody's problem, hey, Gizmo, how you doing Gizmo Carol? When you solve somebody's problem, they're indebted to you and then they become part of your tribe, part of your following, part of your subscribers, right?  So the next item in there, when you get started, right? Again, all you need to get started is your cell phone. You get started with your cell phone, start making some content with your cell phone. Cell phone has a great camera, has a great microphone, and you can get started. As long as your cell phone's only a couple of years old, you know, you don't have one of those old flip phones, right? But the webcam is probably going to be one of the first things you're going to upgrade, right? And I needed a webcam for back when the pandemic hit. Everybody was doing Zoom meetings, right? So I needed a, I needed a webcam. So they were all sold out. I ended up getting this one. Look at the price, 20 bucks, okay? I'm going to show you side by side this webcam at $20, 1080p webcam, which is a pretty good webcam for 20 bucks. And then Logitech is the next one here. The Logitech, the C920, I think I have in there, or 925, right? So I'm going to show you a video of me with them side by side, okay? So you can get a look at what the difference is between the $20 one and the $70 one, right? Hey Gina, hey, hold on. My original camera is the next one in the carousel. And I got this one. One is the webcam, the 1080 webcam. And now I'm going to pull that one up. I'm going to share extra camera. So there it is. So you can see, so the one, the one I'm covering now is the Logitech. And the one I'm covering now is the camera. So you can get an idea of the difference, okay? Better camera, better color is in Logitech, right? Again, if I put my hands out, it's kind of weird. But you know, don't wait to get started. Get started.  I mean, of course, you want the best. Everybody wants the best. But does it do what you want it to do? So that's the 920 against the webcam with no name on it, right? And the one I'm using now is the Logitech Brio. This is the Brio. Brio is like the top of the line webcam. Very good. But you can tell it's more crisp, better with the lights, you know, a little wider in the field of view. But you don't necessarily need the $130 camera to get by, to get started. You know, you can get started with the $20 camera. I did a lot of work with the $20 camera and it didn't matter. Remember, it's the contents, not the camera. It's the content, not the camera. You know, if your content stinks, it doesn't matter if you have a $1,000 camera, right? So get the content done first. I'm actually really looking at the Brio. Yeah, I like the Brio. It's nice.  And you can actually change the field of view and change the old settings and stuff, which I haven't really gotten into because I took it out of the box and I liked what I saw and I was just going to leave it the way it is, you know, because I'm not a techno geek as far as, you know, all the settings and knowing I'd really have to dig in and figure it out. It would take me some time. But like I said, I was happy with it right out of the box. And, you know, again, plug and play stuff. Everything is plug and play that I'm using. There's no special software. There's no barrier to entry. There's no education that you need to know. There's no learning curve, right? You can just jump right in. We're going to stick with the cameras, right? We're going to go, the next ones are the 4K cameras and I got both of them in the Bejanger and the VTech I think is the other one, right? I looked at them and they're the same camera, okay? It's the same camera. It's got the 4K, no brand on the same camera. I use this camera for a lot of my videos. It's got the macro and the micro lens, right? And it comes off. It's got all the settings, the bells and whistles. It doesn't have anti-stabilization. It doesn't have a lot of stuff that a more expensive camera has. But to get started, if you've never had a camera before, right, and you want to learn how to use a camera, this camera has all the settings, has photo, has time lapse, has slow motion, has video, has playback, has all the nice stuff, you know, has to fold out a thing right there, right? Hey, we got a follower. We got a follower. You know what that means? Sorry, Tim, we got to take a break. We got to put out the curtains and we got to go down and we got to hit the rock and roll. We got to turn that puppy up. Thanks for following Tim. I appreciate that. An angelic is in the house. How are you doing, baby? How are you doing? An angelic is in the house. So we're talking about the budget camera, the 4K cameras, right? I love this one. Anyway, do you need all the bells and whistles? Everybody wants the top of the line camera. I do. I'm going to get it. My goal is to get the top of the line camera of Black Friday. Black Friday is my goal, is to get the camera that I'm looking for on Black Friday, my upgrade to cameras. But in the meantime, I'm going to show you, share my screen.  Stop that. I'm going to come down here and share. One main show here, you're going to have to bear with me a second. This is the camera. I'm doing a shopper video, a review video for those of you who don't know. Hey, Henry, what's up, man? So this is the camera on a tripod, 4K camera. Perfect picture. Perfect. It's doing what it needs to do. The lighting is not the good lighting makes a bad camera better, right? But anyway, that's the 4K camera there and I'm going to stop sharing that one. I'm going to show you another one of me using it as a vlogging camera on a vlogging rig. Check this one out. Testing. One, two, three. We're testing the Boya mic. Boya mic shotgun mic. I got it connected to my 4K camera. I have it on my vlogging rig and we're outside. You might be able to hear the birds, but that's what the shotgun mic plugged into the camera. Okay. It doesn't have anti-stabilization, so you can't walk around with it. It's going to move around. It's going to bounce around. Then I'm going to show you that in a second. But you put it on a tripod. It's a great camera. It's a great little camera to start with. If you have somebody that wants to get started in video and video creation and stuff and you're afraid to buy the $1,000 camera, you can go out and buy them there and tell them, listen, learn how to use the camera, get familiar with the settings.  You remember, it's always upgraded. For every activity you always upgrade, that's half the fun of doing it, is upgrading to the next best thing, right? Something's always coming out. Something new is always coming out, so you're going to upgrade anyway, no matter. You buy the $1,000 camera and it'll be a $1,500 camera next week, right? Seriously. Start with what you have. And this thing is perfectly fine. Let me show you. I had the picture of it. Where is it? Here it is. This is a picture of me at the river. Okay? No anti-stabilization, so holding it and it's shaking a little bit. Now, I'm trying to push the button and I'm moving the camera while I'm pushing the button. That's just the way the nature of the beast. I'm not on a gimbal, right? That's the next upgrade. But I don't really do a lot of that vlogging type stuff, but it's nice to have. But anyway, worth investing in. And okay, we were going to give away gift cards, I said, right? We were going to give away gift cards. So what we're going to do is we're going to go down and click the link, go through the carousel, go to the product, go to your checkout, and what's the price after the coupon here? There's going to be a coupon in one of these two cameras, right? Check it out, click through, find it, and then the price before tax. Put it in the chat and we'll be going on. Where is it? I'm going to show you. Share the screen. There's the screen, the Wheel of Names. That's the last week's Wheel of Names. We gave away a winner last week. I can't remember who it was. Was it Jessica? Was it you, Jessica, won last week? So give away a winner every week. A $20 gift card. We're going to clear this. Clear it. Who would have won? Charles would have won. Hey, Charles. All right. We're going to get rid of everybody and we're going to stop putting people's names in here. Oh, what happened? Oh, that's because no one's names now. All right. Jennifer and Jessica, I got to make sure I got that straight. All right. I'll stop sharing that for a minute. Okay.  All right. So we got the two cameras in there. Okay. Did I start early? I usually start around eight o'clock. I actually thought I started like a minute late, maybe two minutes late by the time the front credits that I play runs about two minutes. Yeah, thanks. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing? Oh, death wish coffee is so good, man. I'm the Java junkie. All right. I'm the Java junkie. I'll drink any coffee. I'll drink it. I don't like pumpkin spice, but I'll drink almost anything else. And death wish coffee is by far the best coffee in the world. The ZV1 camera. The ZV1 camera, that's the one with all the bells and whistles. That's my wish camera. I'm going to be getting that on Black Friday. Okay. I'm holding out Black Friday. That's my wish purchase. My goal on Black Friday is to get the ZV1 or the ZVE10. Maybe the E10. I don't know. But definitely looking to get one to upgrade. But I've had this camera for a long time and I use this in almost all of my review videos. I'm using this camera now on a tripod because, like I said, anti-stabilization on a tripod. It doesn't matter. You put it on a tripod. It works just fine. I mean, it personally finds camera for $100 camera. Look, okay, the display. I put it on by accident. Right. And there's the display. Oh, I got that. I got that. So you want to see what it is? There you go. All right. And I'm going to turn it off. But you know, I'm not going to say I love the camera. But I mean, it's a great tool for the price. You can't beat it for the price. That's what I'm saying. Okay. That's what I'm saying. All right. The next item in the carousel is also the Acasio EK7000. The EK7000 is this one over here. All right. I got it in the waterproof case and I got this little thing so that when I drop it in the lake, it doesn't sink to the bottom. I thought it was going to bob and take videos, but it doesn't. It just keeps it from sinking. It flips upside down. But okay, the waterproof case comes with the waterproof case. And I've had this thing on the water. I've had it at the lake. I've had it on the boat. I've had it everywhere. Great little camera. I bought this thing for B-Roll, which if you know what B-Roll is, it's the background video in YouTube videos. And I take it around. It's a good little camera. I'm going to play a video, a short clip of me in the pool. Check it out. So, not a big camera. Now, you're talking about a $70 camera, right? And I think that the Pro, which I also have over here. I'm going to go over to the Pro. I got the Pro over here. That one's $85 as opposed to the GoPro, which is $400. This one came with all of the mounts for the helmet and the bike mount and all that stuff. And the waterproof case. The Pro I think has Wi-Fi and this one doesn't. As a matter of fact, go into the carousel and check it out. What's the difference between the GoPro, I mean, the Acacio EK7000 Pro and the EK7000. What's the difference? Let me know and you'll be entered into the Wheel of Names. Let me know. Now, I'll be completely transparent. I'm trying to get you guys to click the carousel because that triggers the Amazon that we're having a good time here. So, you click some links in the game here and it tricks the algorithm. It doesn't trick them. But let's the algorithm know, oh, they're looking at stuff. They're checking out this, they're checking out that. Oh, he added that to his card. So, if you add one thing to your card to check out the price of the coupon, I'm not asking you to buy it necessarily if you want to buy it. But you can always clear the card afterwards. You just want to find out what the price is and put that in the carousel, I mean, in the chat and I'll put you in the Wheel of Names and we're going to give away a gift card. We give away one every week. All right. So, the Akasio 7000 and the 7000 Pro as opposed to the GoPro Hero, which is 550, right? I mean, personally, I wasn't jumping off ski lifts. I wasn't taking the motor cross. I wasn't like doing all kinds of stunts and crazy stuff that I needed the GoPro, right? So, the EK7000 works perfectly fine for what I needed to do. Probably works fine for you. You know, great, great, great little camera. I'll tell you one thing. I put this camera through the wash, right? I had it in my pocket.  I put it through the wash and the dryer. The camera still works, okay? And that was without the waterproof case, okay? That was without the waterproof case.  Great camera. You know, I mean, the GoPro maybe will let you upload it to your YouTube channel straight from the camera. I don't know. Matter of fact, check it out. See what the GoPro does. What does the GoPro do? What does the GoPro do? Craziness. It's crazy. Ways to make money on the side. I always throw this one out there, okay? Retail arbitrage. Retail arbitrage. Everybody's doing it on Facebook Marketplace. Do you guys go to Facebook Marketplace? Do you guys do any shopping on Facebook Marketplace or put any items like garage sale, Facebook Marketplace? Do you guys do that? I love Facebook Marketplace. It's crazy. I shop on it like crazy. I'm always looking for something. All right, so the next thing in there is the U-Breeze tripod, which I got over here. This thing is great. I use this thing all the time. I'm gonna just leave it there. We're gonna talk about retail arbitrage on Facebook Marketplace. So what they do is they find a retail place. Oh, we got a comment over here. What do we got? My screen is blank. Oh, maybe that's on. All right. Well, it might be. So you find yourself a retailer like Walmart. I always used Walmart. And you find an item that you think you could get more for. So like, I had a Cubics or Coney Earrings that Walmart sold for $9.99. They were my favorite thing. So I would take the Cubics or Coney Earrings and I would sell it for $19.99 on Facebook Marketplace. So what would happen was they would buy it on Facebook Marketplace, send me $19.99. Then I would go to Walmart. I'd pay $9.99 for it and I'd put their address in. Walmart would ship it to them. So I never had the item. Didn't have to have the item. I didn't even have money. I could do it with no money. They're sending me $19.99. Then I'm taking that $19.99 and I'm buying $9.99 Earrings and having Walmart ship it for free over there. Okay. It came out, Kelly. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for stopping by. Welcome to the live stream. Welcome to the live stream. We're talking about making money on the side. We're talking about things I used to do to make money for Christmas was retail arbitrage. I did it on eBay, but people are doing it on Facebook Marketplace now. I dabbled in Facebook Marketplace doing it. Now that Facebook Marketplace has the shipping option, you can do it on Facebook Marketplace and you can just have them ship it straight to the person and you never have the item. Whatever item it is, and it could be the Christmas buzz items that everybody's trying to get. They'll pay you. You can get more for that. I don't want to get too deep into down the rabbit hole because the reason I stopped doing it was customer service, to be quite frank. I got tired of answering emails because people would send me emails, where's my product? My product is broken. It's the wrong size. It's not what I ordered. Then I would have to, it didn't cost me anything but time. I would go back to Walmart and start the return and they would send them a return slip and then they would put it in the box and send it back to Walmart. Walmart would refund me and I'd refund them. It would just take time and it was just a pain in the butt. It was a good way to make some money, but as it grew, it got to be work. It got to be work, but definitely easy way to make money. If you get an item that sells, let's say you're making $10 an item and you sell 10 items a day, it's $100 a day. It's not hard.  Then at the end of the month, you have like 120 items, something like that, that are on there. People are buying back and forth. Then it gets crazy because now you get no, so what I used to do is I'd get up an hour early in the morning before I would normally get up, get out and I would answer emails and start ordering things. Then when I got home at night, I would do the same thing, answer emails and make orders because you had to have a quick turnaround in order for it to work. But you got to be a hustler. I used to trade time for money all the time. I'd do side work. I would regrow bedrooms, I would paint, I'd fix holes, I'd do additions, I'd do roofing, I'd do gutter cleaning, whatever it took to make money on the side. I did all kinds of side hustles. But it was always time for money and you only have so much time. Imagine creating a clone army.  You made the video last year. That's passive income and that's crazy stuff. So you start a YouTube channel, you find out what your passion is. What is it that you love to do? What is it that you love to do? Let me know in the chat what you love to do. Some people love cooking, some people love to play a certain sport or a certain activity or maybe you're like crafting, maybe you're like, who knows what you like? Quilting, I don't know, right? But whatever it is, you make a YouTube channel. You do videos on it. Hey, bonbon, welcome to the chat and welcome to the live stream. Thanks for stopping by. So you make YouTube videos on the subject of what it is and whenever you're using in the video, you put links to it in the description and people click the links and affiliate links and you get a small commission as they buy these things. It's great stuff. Yep. So anyway, this thing is great. I use it. I carry with me at work all the time and in a pinch for what I need to take a quick video and I wrap it around fences. I wrap it around poles and it's really cool and you can't beat the price. You know, as a matter of fact, buy two of them because you never know, right? You always, you're always going to need something. The next one is the selfie stick that I love. This one was sent to me for free to review, right? A lot of the stuff, most of the stuff, almost all the stuff so far is stuff that I bought myself that we're going to go through some things that were sent to me for free to review and I'm going to give you my honest review on it and some of the things I'm not going to tell you. I'm just going to play videos of me using it so you can get the feel for it yourself. But this selfie stick is great. Ergonomic handle, right? It's got the remote control here that I love because the remote control, first of all, it's Bluetooth to your phone or your camera and it's in the cradle, okay? So you can't lose this thing. That was always the problem with all the other remote controls I have. I've got like six or seven remote controls from different tripods and you never know which one goes to what, right? So this one goes to this one and it fits right in the cradle. Perfect. Love it. Can't beat it, right? It's got the tripod that falls out. The telescoping to 48 inches and wherever you stop, that's where it is. You don't have to screw it tight. You don't have to tighten it up. This thing is amazingly, I just love it, right? Another thing I like about it is the clamp on here. You know, most of the times like this one here, it's spring loaded, right? And I'm always feeling like it's going to go snap and flying away. This one is a clamp. You screw it down on top of the phone. Hold on a second. Mute button. Did the mute button work? Okay. And you clamp it down right on there and clamp it on the phone and it works just, I love it. I love this thing. This is in the one video I showed you of me vlogging. I was using this. I'll show it to you quick, but you can't see it. So it's really a waste. Testing one, two, three. We're testing the Boya Mic, Boya Mic Shotgun Mic. I got it connected to my 4K camera and I have it on my vlogging rig and we're outside. You might be able to hear the birds. So I don't know if you noticed that. So right in the middle, I decided it was too close and I just went like that and pulled it and it was perfect to stay right where it was. You know, I mean, it's a great, great little item and look at the price of this thing. I mean, you would expect this to be $30, all right? You would expect it to be a lot more. Text law is a great, great item. I love it. Love this thing. Get one today. So audio is going to be like the first thing you want to upgrade when you want to be a content creator, when you're going to be on YouTube or TikTok or making videos or whatever you're going to do, right? Instagram reels. The first thing you're going to do is upgrade your audio. Now this audio, this microphone was one of my first upgrades, okay? Don't laugh. It's the wired microphone, lapel microphone, everybody. This is like from the year of the flood, right? Moses had this microphone, right? And I use this microphone in almost all my videos because I don't have to move around. I stand still and this thing still gives me the best sound. You know, a lot of times when the microphone's away, you get an echo and things are bouncing off the wall because it's, you know, it doesn't have whatever reason, right? So this gives me a better sound because it's right here under even if I went wireless, right? I'd still have to have this mic pinned to me here, right? So I just have this and this 10 foot accord out to the camera and I stand there and do my review videos. This thing is great. And look at the price. It's crazy. I mean, you can spend hundreds of dollars on microphones and we're going to go through some right now. But I'm telling you, I use this one in almost everyone. Yeah, and everyone that I'm in the studio, I'm using this one as I'm standing still at the table doing the review video, right? Sometimes the cheapest is the best, right? For sure. But I have some other microphones. Toner sent me a bunch of microphones to check out and test and this one is the 777. I'm going to play me using it. This is me using the 777. It's not a bad microphone. Price is pretty good. Price is a good price. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones. We're reviewing a couple of budget microphones. Toner sent me a couple of budget microphones to review. They sent them to me for free. So full disclosure. This one is the TC777. We're using it right now. We're recording with it right now. Came with a desk stand, tripod stand, the microphone, a shock mount and a pop filter all pretty much assembled. Comes with a two-year warranty right there on the box, two-year warranty. And how does it sound? How does the audio sound? There's no adjustments on the microphone. There's no cough button or mute button. There's no volume control. There's no gain control. So you're pretty much stuck with what you got. Oh, sorry. Bon Bon follow. Thanks, man. Got to do a little tone of microphone. That one, a nice little microphone for the price. And you know, what do you need the microphone to do? Now I had that, I had that about arms length away, right? About arms length away, I had that microphone. So you can see, and when I picked it up and put it by my mouth, it sounds fine, right? So what do you need the microphone to do? Are you trying to do the whole room? Are you doing a voiceover? Are you doing interviews? Are you able to sit with the microphone at arms length away and you can talk directly into it? This microphone will do the job, right, at the price, right? You heard it, right? So now we're going to go to the next tone of microphone, which is the TC30. I think it is the TC30. Let me look down here. Where is it? The TC30, okay? Now this one is a little more expensive. I'm going to let you listen to it now. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones, okay? We're talking about the Toner TC30 USB condenser microphone. The plug-and-play microphone doesn't take any softwares. It's got a 2U warranty coming with it right here. 2U warranty comes in a nice box. It comes with a tripod, a shock mount, the pop filter, and the microphone, and of course the wire. It comes with a good length of wire, and we're listening to it right now, okay? So that's the Toner microphone TC30. Budget microphone quality, there's no mute button on there, no cough button, no gain control, no gain knob, nothing like that. There's no button on-off switch on it. There's no volume control. It's just a straight microphone. I don't know, what do you think? I'm going to pull it up and show you. You've been listening to it right now. So there it is, the Toner TC30. TC30, let's pull the cord out. Now there, that's how it sounds from the back of the microphone. This is how it sounds from the side of the microphone, and this is how it sounds from the front of the microphone. Now this is a top microphone. It picks up from the top, not the side, like the Blue Yeti. We'll pick it up from the side. This one will pick it up from the top, all right? And like I said, it's got the shock mounts with the desk tripod. Pretty good microphone. What is the Toner TC30, okay? There you go, okay? So the TC30, not a bad little microphone. Again, you're talking into it, but these things don't have any bells and whistles. There's no buttons on. There's no volume control. There's no mute button. There's none of that kind of stuff, right? So we're going to go to the next one, the Toner Q9, I think it is, the Q9. Let's watch the Q9, and I'm writing people's names down on the wheel of names, so I'll let you guys know. We'll go to the wheel of names after this, and if your name's not there, let me know. We'll put it on there. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones, okay? We're talking about the Toner TC30, USB condenser microphone. It's a plug-and-play microphone. It doesn't take any softwares. It's got a two-year warranty coming with it right here, two-year warranty. It comes in a nice box. It comes with a tripod, a shock mount, the pop filter, and the microphone, and of course, the wire. It comes with a good length of wire, and we're listening to it right now, okay? So that's the Toner microphone TC30, budget microphone quality. There's no mute button on there. No cough button, no gain control, no gain knob, nothing like that. There's no button on or off switch on it. There's no volume control. It's just a straight microphone. I don't know, what do you think? I'm going to pull it up and show you. You've been listening to it right now, so there it is, the Toner TC30. Let's pull the cord out. Now there, that's how it sounds from the back of the microphone. This is how it sounds from the side of the microphone, and this is how it sounds from the front of the microphone. Now this is a top microphone. It picks up from the top, not the side, like the Blue Yeti. We'll pick it up from the side. This one will pick it up from the top, all right? And like I said, it's got the shock mounts with the desk tripod. Pretty good microphone. We're using the Toner TC30, okay? Let's go away for it to start over again, because Blake just followed. All right, man, that's great. So we're going to share the screen here, read our names. Okay, we're going to see some names on there. Hey Eric, how you doing, man? Welcome to the stream. We're going to put Eric in there. Oh, I didn't realize that's covering my whole thing there. No good. No good. No good. All right, that's enough of that. So we're sharing the screen so you can see the names on there. Boston Butterfly. Welcome, Boston Butterfly. How you doing? Can I add, I think I got you, Jen. I think I got you. I put my glasses on you. Jennifer, I got you, right? You see it? Okay, there you are. And Boston, we're going to put you in. I hate wearing the glasses, man. I hate it. I'm in denial. I'm in denial of the glasses. In denial of the glasses, okay? But I was supposed to go to a house and address 1B. I went to 18 rang the bell and I'm standing out there and the guy's like, did you mean 1B?  Yeah, it was 1B, not 18. I think I know. Yeah, Tim was talking about Facebook Marketplace and yeah, it's tough. It's a tough deal but there are people that make money doing it. Sonny, how are you? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing, Son? Welcome to the live stream, Son. We're going to add you to the Wheel of Names. You want to be added to the Wheel of Names? There you go. You are added to the Wheel of Names. We can show you right there. You can add it. There you are. You're right on there. Right on there. You're in. Did I play the Q9? I don't remember. I think I did. Did I play the Q9? The Q9 has some bells and whistles on it. The Q9 has a mute button but it doesn't have an LED button where you can tell that it's muted or not. It's also got the arm for the table. When you're ready to upgrade to the new microphone, which is going to be the next one, it's a really good microphone, you still have the arm and you can just upgrade it to the microphone. You can still use the boom arm for the desk and keep that out of the way. The next one, Toner sent me, now they sent me all four of these microphones for free to test. You've got to realize what the price is and what you're getting and what you need to do. When you're starting out, what do you need it to do and what can you afford? Then you're going to upgrade. The Toner Orca 001. This one has some bells and whistles to it. It has some things to it. It's pretty cool. I like it. Where is it? There it is. Listen to this. Hey, how are you doing? We're going to be talking about microphones. Toner is a company, a good company. They have a lot of good products. They sent me some things for free to test out. They sent me this, the Toner Orca 001 USB microphone. So it's a plug-and-play microphone. You plug it into your computer, your phone, PS4, PS5, your laptop, anything like that. It works. It's got an adapter to go to the phone, type C adapter. You can plug it right into your phone. Yeah, pretty cool microphone. We're using it right now. I got it sitting on the desk about an arms length away. About an arms length away. There it is. The Toner Orca 001. I'm pretty happy with this. I'm going to pull it over here so you can see it. I was very impressed with the microphone. It's pretty cool. Now it's got lights over here. That's the volume button. It's in the green. I can lower it down. The volume goes down. Or I can put it up. You can go all the way up into the red, but you don't want it in the red. You want to keep it in the green in the sweet spot right in the green. This button here is the noise cancellation button. You push that for noise cancellation. The top is just a tap. It's not a button. You just tap it and it's a mute.  So I'm going to show you again. So you tap it, then you tap it again and the light goes on and you're good to go. Pretty cool piece of equipment. It sits there on the desk. Now it's got the shock mount on it already. It comes already assembled and you can put this on the scissor on the boom arm that clips to the desk or wherever you've got it hanging from the ceiling or whatever. Pretty cool microphone. I'm going to, that's up too high. How's that? That's probably that's in the sweet spot of the green. So you can tell when you get your lows in the red, it's in the yellows and then you go up to the red. So what do you think? Okay. So I'm using the phone and I got the Toner, the Orca 001 plugged into my phone with the adapter that comes with it. I got it sitting on the desk again about an arms length away and I'm using the cell phone camera and I got it plugged into the bottom of the cell phone through the Type-C jack in the bottom of the cell phone. So that's pretty cool. It comes with a Type-C adapter right on the wire for the microphone. You plug it right into your phone. That's pretty handy if you're using your phone camera and you want to upgrade your audio first, which is very important upgrading your audio. And hey, Robin, I appreciate it. I added you to the wheel of names. Let me see you there. You're right over there. Wheel of names. You're on there. Okay. Now, I'm not having you play games like last week, but I would appreciate it if you would click through the carousel and just browse around. Check out the bells and whistles Amazon has. After all, we're here to shop. This is shop attainment. And the purpose to be here is to start shopping. I'm not saying buying. There's difference between shopping and buying. If you want to buy it, if you like it, buy it. If you need it, buy it. But shopping is the name of the game. And if you're clicking buttons and looking around and seeing what this does and what that does, and you know, it helps the algorithm and it helps me. It helps. I don't know what it helps. It helps me. It helps me somehow, for sure. Now, the next few things I have in the carousel are things that are on my wish list. I got a thing of resistance bands and I want to start using them. I'm starting, you know, getting into some fitness and stuff like that. So the life-pro folding exercise, this one's falling. I was wondering if anybody had anything like this, a foldable one. Because, you know, for me, I got the under desk cycle that you put under the desk and you just work at your desk and do under the desk. I have that. But this one is foldable. I was wondering, you know, where do you think something like that? Is that something that you would think would, you know, I'd hate to be on it and it would be collapsing on it? I'm sure it wouldn't. You know, you click through into the carousel and look, see the reviews and see if there's any issues with this thing. Life-pro folding exercise bike. It's got three, it's got four stars. It's got eight reviews, okay? Which means it could be good or bad. Eight reviews could be just that it's a new item. It's got four stars, right? So you don't know. Yeah, Gina.  Getting on a folding bicycle scares me. You know, because the whole point of going on the bicycle is to lose weight. So you're taking into consideration that you might be a little overweight, getting on the bike at the first, you know, in the first place, you know, Angelica. No, I don't think you are at it. Let me go over here. No. Okay, I think that's it. I'm going to share it. I put it on there for you. Oh, so, okay. Yeah, 150 bucks. What, okay. What is there? Like a coupon or something on there? Is there a coupon when you click through for that? That'd be, you know, of course, space. That's awesome. That's awesome. I didn't know there was a coupon for it. So, you know, space is always a $15 coupon.  I didn't know that. I wish I would have known there was a $50 coupon. But, you know, you're living in an apartment, maybe, or even you're living in a house, you know, space to work out. So you want something that folds, maybe you can stick in the closet, stick on, where I don't know if it'll stick under the bed, you know, but that's awesome. $50 coupon, man. That's great.  Wouldn't that make your day? That would make my day, you know, something that you wanted to buy and you're like, maybe, I don't know, maybe I'll buy it. But, you know, it's almost $200. Oh, it's a $50 coupon. Geez. What do we got to lose, you know? So, I mean, the $50 coupon would be a good coupon for something like that. Don't you think? I mean, that's a quarter of the price. That's a quarter of the price. Life Pro, they also have these adjustable dumbbells. I see a lot of people using these adjustable dumbbells, right? And I mean, I'm thinking about getting them because it's easy to adjust it to move up as you're getting more and more, you know, weight-wise, you know, getting stronger, you know, you want to adjust them. And I think there's a coupon on this one too. It is like, it's like 30% off. But, you know, oh, Secret Shopper started following. Now, we don't know who the Secret Shopper is. Secret Shopper could be a spy from Amazon. It could be a spy from Amazon. They could be spying on us right now, Amazon. But we're going to tell you what, we're going to give them the benefit of the doubt. We're going to hang the curtains and turn on the music. And we're going to welcome them. You're not a spy. I'm only kidding. I'm only kidding. I appreciate you following me. It's always awesome. I'm not sure why it says Amazon Shopper. It's probably something on your end. Maybe you've got some privacy settings there on or something. But that's cool. You're welcome here. It's great stuff.  Now, again, see, that's, that's, those are real coupons. That's really crazy. That's really crazy. I love that. I love that. You know, I always say I'm going to work out and then I don't. I'm going to buy these things and they're going to sit in the corner. You know, I got an exercise bike over there. I got things over there. I got the bands in the other room. And time, it's not that I don't want to. It's time. Who wants to get up an extra an hour early in the morning to do that? Or, you know, waste your lunch hour doing that? Or, you know, it's too much to do when you get out of work, right? It would be a great job to work for Amazon. The Amazon secret shopper spy would be a great, a great, a great job to have. I'm sure, I'm sure that, I'm sure that's a six-figure job for sure. Right. This I put in there because I think it's so cool. Okay. I'm a dog lover. Okay. I don't know if you guys love dogs.  The life pro dog treadmill. Did you even know they had stuff like this? A treadmill for dogs and you put your dog on a treadmill. I mean, I'm tempted. I live in a house. We have a yard, fenced in yard for the dog, but that's just too cool. That's just that thing is just too cool. Yeah. Who doesn't love dogs? Okay. In my day job, I'm a pest control technician and I go like 20 houses a day doing, doing service calls. And the best part of the job is meeting the dogs. I used to carry milk bones with me, but somebody complained. So I stopped, but, you know, meeting the dogs was the greatest part of, you know, the greatest part of the job is meeting the dogs. I can't say that enough. It's great stuff.  We said, we were never going to get another dog. And then a rescue dog came into our lives. And how do you turn, how do you say no to a rescue dog? Right? Um, is there, there's a genre available for AVS for monitoring the video creators available? And I'm sure there is, you know, um, apply, apply to it. I wonder what the requirements are. I wonder what kind of college degree or maybe you don't need to college degree.  They definitely do need to because there are rules and people don't follow rules and no one, no one's catching them. No one's saying, hey, don't do that no more.  That just killed me.  You put them right on there. Um, bachelor's degree in two years of experience in media. You see? So there you go. I wonder what does it say, what the salary range is working for Amazon. Be a sweet deal. You know, epic fail. Is that your name? Epic fail? Totally agree here. Some are crazy. And I was told some of my personal email secrets. Yeah, it doesn't show. I don't know. I don't know this epic fail. Your name or is that something that Amazon is doing? I don't know. Let me know. That's great because I can put you in. So I'm going to put if I put the secret shopper in the, in the, in the wheel of names, right? Let me put the secret shopper and how am I going to, you're going to have to send me your email. You'll see if you win. And then epic fail. I'm sure that your name because that's pretty cool. Okay. So it's your email. Epic fail. That's hilarious. But it's a cool name. That's a pretty cool name. So I got you in there as epic fail and I got secret shopper in there as secret shopper. Okay. And we're going to go through. We're almost done with the car. So what do we got? We got, we got about 10 minutes left. So pretty cool. Yeah. The dog, the dog thing, you know, that's pretty crazy that the dog treadmill. So this, the last one, the life pro, last high life pro stuff was the home gym. And like I told you, I got the resistance bands. That's more my speed resistance bands. And they have this home gym for the resistance bands. I'm thinking about getting that, you know, because you got to have some kind of anchor for the bands, you know, and I realized around the house, all my doors are situated where I don't have a good spot to really work out in. That's private, you know, there's not like in the middle of the living room with some crazy place, you know. So I got to figure something out for that. So, but with this gym thing, I could probably move around, put it wherever I wanted in the house and I'd have an anchor for the bands, you know, because you got to do like the flies. You're doing the flies and all that. You're sticking on the door and everything. So, but you got to have space because you got to have resistance. You got to have tension. You got to have more tension. Pay more good tension. Pay more good tension. That's crazy, right? Pay more good tension. Pay more good tension in the stream. Deathwish Coffee is the last thing in the stream, last thing in the carousel. Deathwish Coffee. I still have some in here. World Strongest Coffee, right? Never better. This thing is the best coffee. Oh, and I'm the Jabba Junkie. I drink coffee all day long. I drink the worst coffee. Deathwish is the best. Everybody wants the more caffeine, right? You know, the monster energy drink, the red bull. Everybody wants the jolt. Everybody wants more caffeine, right? But with coffee, it would give you that bitter taste. It would give you that stink, where you get that stink to it and it was always no. So, this is how they get your information when you win. You're going to email me at jimteamon at gmail.com. So, you're going to email me there. The winner's going to email me there and then I'm going to email them back from that email, the gift card, okay? So, that's how that's going to work, just up on the up and up, all right? Don't all start emailing me because it's only going to be the winner. I'm going to vich out so it's only going to be the winner. Robin, you got the bag today. Oh, the Deathwish. Did you have any yet? Did you have any yet? I'm telling you, you're going to love it. You're going to love it. I'm telling you, it's delicious stuff. It is good stuff. So, yeah. Any questions about anything that I was talking about or any products that were in there?  Shop retainment. So, you're supposed to come on, have a question, you know, and I'm supposed to be able to answer your question, you know, and figure that out. So, you want to know something about, I don't like Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Am I like the only person in the world that don't like Dunkin' Donuts coffee? I mean, I, a lot of times it tastes burnt to me and it's always too hot, right? So, that's, so like I got to wait for it to cool off and I'm the Java junkie. I can't wait for my coffee, you know? So, Salimo brand pods. I can check those out. I can check those out. But again, I'm the Java junkie. So, I didn't tell you the story. If you were on the live stream last week, you heard the story of Detwitch Coffee and what happened to them. So, I'm in Upstate New York, right? They're a local company around Lake New York and they won a contest to have a Super Bowl ad. This was like in 2015, right? 2016 maybe it was. And imagine being a company on small business and you win a contest to have a Super Bowl ad. Do you have any idea what that is? I don't know if you guys know what a Super Bowl ad, what that is. That's like a million dollar ad, right? And you get it and that's like the holy grail of advertising is to have a Super Bowl ad because everybody in the country is watching it, right? So, they have, they win the contest, they have this 30 second ad for Detwitch Coffee and what do you think happens?   But you're not going to, you're going to love it. You're going to love it, you're going to love it and they have, right now they have the pumpkin out. Like everybody has the pumpkin. I can't, I don't like pumpkin, right? Sorry, I don't like it. I'm an Apple guy, right? The blueberry, I really liked. The blueberry they had, I stick, if you just look where you probably still can get the blueberry. So, oh, it's an Amazon brand. So, Amazon has some good stuff, but Amazon, what they do is they buy other brands and they make it their own. So, you know, so it better be, I think it was like 20 bucks for the pounds, right? Come back and tell me. You tell me. You tell me if you like it or not like it, okay? And hopefully maybe you'll win the gift card and it'll be free, right? That'll be cool, right? So, we got, well, how much time we got? We got about a minute to the drawing. So, I'm going to put it here so everybody can see. Can you see your name in there? Make sure your name's in there. Can you see it? I think everybody's in there. We are going to spin the wheel. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. Secret Shopper 1. Oh my God. All right. Secret Shopper. Are you still here? You're still here, right? Are you still here? Secret Shopper. Going once. Epic fail. Yay, he's here. Okay, he's here. All right, so we're going to back out of this. I'll remove this. Hey, thanks for playing. I appreciate everybody coming to the live stream this week. We go live every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Every Tuesday, 8 p.m. So, I'm going to put my email up there for you, Secret Shopper. So, yeah. Now, don't everybody email me and tell me you're the Secret Shopper, okay? We're going to have to have some kind of keyword or some kind of code word, okay? So, you know, that I know that it's you, right? Because anybody can email me and tell me you're the Secret Shopper, right? Right? So, hopefully the email says Secret Shopper in email. I mean, I don't know, maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. No, I don't think that. I don't think that. I don't think it's the last one because let me see. Epic fail was the last one. So, it was one of the last ones, but I don't think that. Let's remove it and spin it again. Let's see. Is that going to make people mad if I do that? All right. So, that ended up being Gina one. Let me share the screen so you can see what happened. That was bad that I did that because now Gina's going to be mad if she's still here, right? So, Gina won that second time and she was second on the list, okay? So, I don't know if that makes a difference. So, if Secret Shopper wasn't here, we would have done it again. Let's see what happens if we do it a third time. So, then it was Angelica, which was at the bottom. All right. So, it's kind of random. I would say it's random. So, yeah, you can screenshot your personal Amazon profile, but I don't want to get any personal information or anything like that from you. But we're going to go on the Honor System. Everybody in here, I'm sure, is Honor System. Most of you guys have been in the stream last week and this week. I've been live, coming up on a year, I've been going live on Tuesdays at 8 o'clock since last October, right? So, I'm glad you guys are coming around. I've been playing to an empty room most of the time. So, I'm glad to have some people in the room. Welcome back. Welcome. I'm glad to have you. I'll see you next Tuesday. I'm going to check my emails and take care of that for you, Secret Shopper. It should be within the hour. You should get it. Okay? It takes a little time. If you don't get it right away, it takes a little time. All right? In the meantime, enjoy this little snippet. Take care, everybody. Goodbye, Gina.


Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. So today I was actually thinking about, I was preparing, Khutba's this past week was actually kind of delved into the story of the Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam because we just recited it a day ago. But the development in what happened in Al Aqsa Mosque over the past two days and the continued assault on Al Aqsa wanted to maybe a little bit focus on the development in there but contextualize it with an understanding of what is happening so for us to get some clarity on the situation. First is that we attend to and measure the Al Aqsa for no other reason that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala designated it as the site of sacredness by his own choosing. And in Islam there is only three sacred sites for our tradition. Allah SAW said, that intention for going toward a sacred site or the Masjid is only three locations. He said the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, and Masjidi Hada meaning his own mosque in Medina and Al Masjid al-Aqsa. Now all of the other sites in the world are our own construction, our own designations. So we attend again this is a mosque it's the house of Allah but it has no standing relative to those three mosques in general that's by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The second is also when we think about the Masjid al-Aqsa there are at least two chapters that are directly in the Quran connected to it. We have the chapter of al-Isra, the night journey and the chapter of al-Najm which focuses on the ma'raj. So two chapters of the Quran are located or founded upon a connection to Masjid al-Aqsa. And for the chapter on the Isra, the verse that has the expression of the Isra in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, subhanal ladhi asra bi'abdihi laylan min al-Majjid al-Haram il al-Majjid al-Aqsa al ladhi barakna hawlahu li al-Alamin. So glory be to his name meaning in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saying the one that have transported his servant bi'abdihi from the sacred mosque in Makkah to the farthest mosque the one in Jerusalem and that verse in the Quran has so much to give us in terms of understanding is that the Prophet SAW said that on the journey of the Isra he was given a choice. He was given a choice to be a prophet king or a prophet abd. So a prophet king, for example, some of the prophets had all the title of a prophet and a king. So the Prophet SAW was given the choice and he said he opted to choose to be a prophet abd, a prophet servant and he said because a prophet king primary relationship is to people while the prophet abd is the primary relationship is to Allah. So he chose to be a prophet servant to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that's why Allah gave him the attribute in this verse bi'abdihi and also in the structure of the Arabic that Allah attached what we call the possessive pronoun. The possessive pronoun in Arabic is for example you say kitabi, my book, kitabu who his book, kitabu her hair book. So Allah in this he says bi'abdihi his servant and because you could say bi'abdin lahu subhanahu wa ta'ala ladi asra bi'abdin lahu a servant to him he has a hundred servants and one of them went with him but he said no bi'abdihi attaching that pronoun relative point into Allah to indicate the close recognition of the status of the Prophet SAW with Allah that Allah was aware of the servant status of the Prophet SAW and the Prophet perfected his servitude to Allah so Allah says bi'abdihi. So it's a very very subtle but it's very important indication relative to the Prophet SAW. More importantly at the end of the verses that we that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says that we have placed barakah barakah in the mosque or in the al-Aqsa l-alameen meaning that every portion of the world is getting a portion of the blessing that has been placed in Majjid al-Aqsa. So the Prophet SAW said whoever can't go to Majjid al-Aqsa let them send an oil to let its lamp as a way to express their affinity and their sacred attachment to the mosque. So you could think about it Allah could have taken the Prophet SAW to the heavens from Makkah. He could have taken out from the Asker of Makkah because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala could have done anything that he chooses but he took the night journey and it's understood that al-Aqsa mosque has this miraculous ladder to the heavens. So the gate from this world to the heavens passes through the location of al-Aqsa mosque. It's the land that has been traversed by all prophets. So again we recognize I don't know if many know that the Prophet Ibrahim SAW is buried in the city of Al-Khalil. Allah in the Quran describes Ibrahim as Khalilullah, the intimate companion of Allah. He's buried in Al-Khalil. Now most people say Al-Khalil you in English or in the Kingdom they call it Hebron but that is incorrect. The name of the city is Al-Khalil and there is a mosque in there over the grave of the Prophet Ibrahim SAW and his lineage is buried in there. The longest standing continuous soup kitchen offering meals is in Al-Khalil and because if you remember in the Quran there were guests that came to Ibrahim and he wanted to offer them a meal. There were angels. So from that we get the story of Qaum Lut. So anyone that goes al-Khalil, the people of the city, understood their role is to represent the Prophet Ibrahim as being host for anyone that comes in there. So that anyone that comes there is still served today because they took the role of the Prophet Ibrahim SAW to offer a meal to anyone that is coming. So it says continuously running soup kitchen over 1400 and 41 years right or again if you maybe take seven years out about 435 years continuously making attending to those who come to visit the Prophet Ibrahim SAW and the Prophet again said to visit if you can visit my grave to visit a reference to Ibrahim as his father which is in Arabic you could use it Majaz metaphorical reference anyone of your long lineage you could actually refer to him as your father. So the reason that we attach or speak about Al-Aqsa not that because there is any specificity to the people even though that the Prophet SAW said that the people of Palestine or by tilmak this are instead of state of guard right meaning stead guard on the sacred from now until judgment day. So their role is basically to stay guard in relations to the sacred mosque and attending to the sacredness that that is there. So the Prophet SAW says that the sacred house is in the protection of Allah that until Allah inherits the earth and all what's in it. So there is a again metaphorical protection in their sacred protection that is there. Now don't be confused the fact that oppression exists oppression is just a reality in the worldly plane does not corresponds to the unseen and the spiritual plane. Alright so in here the sacredness is still there. I tend to argue because Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala says that we have blessed it blessed its surrounding lal alameen that whatever attention we do to the sacred reflects our temporal reality the more that we honor the sacred the more that our condition improves. The more that we violate the sacred the more that our condition actually diminishes. And we could actually trace the history of by tilmak this a laxmas throughout history every time that it was honored respected venerated that the human condition not only in Palestine but you could say globally was in a better and more reflective of the honor that we showed the secret. Whenever we defiled it whenever we violated we see that it's the human condition is actually also diminishing in that sense. Now throughout history Muslims made sure either before Hajj or after Hajj to come to Jerusalem and to spend time in a laxmas. And that's why you actually see many Zawayas, many centers, many housing places that were put together by the visitors. For those who are from Morocco there was a huge Moroccan quarter that was set up by the prince Muhammad al-Marini. He wrote the Quran in his own hand. At these days some of our people don't even know how to write but that's a side issue. He wrote the Quran in his own right hand send it as an endowment to be placed in Jerusalem and set up a walk for somebody to take his Quran every morning or every day and goes to the sacred mosque al-Aqsa, recite it and give the reward for the recitation to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to the companion to his family and to himself and to all of the believers. That copy of the Quran is still there in al-Aqsa Mosque you go and actually visit it and is there still preserved till today. From that developed the Moroccan quarter in Jerusalem which was completely wiped out by the Zionists in 1967. Just as they occupied they raised all of the Moroccan quarter almost a thousand years old constructions buildings schools libraries completely wiped out so when you ever you look at the current picture of Jerusalem and you see what they call the wailing wall which is Ha'it al-Buraq that location is not the wailing wall it's actually the Ha'it al-Buraq where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the Isra tethered his steed the miraculous steed in there and that's what he said that all prophets when they travel to Jerusalem that's when they tethered their peace or their steeds in there so it's Ha'it al-Buraq it's not the sacred house and we have also the document from 1930 a whole commission that said that this property in there belongs to the Moroccans. Again for anyone who wants I have the whole full report the wailing wall commission of 1930-31 that looked into who the property belonged to and it actually demonstrated that this is a Moroccan property all were auqaf religious endowments where a hedge a pilgrims who's coming from Morocco from Algeria from Tunisia they will pass they stop spend time in in there they go to the Hodge and they come back there is the Indian corner in Jerusalem where similarly the pilgrims and those who came from the Indian subcontinent they will come likewise finish the Hodge and they spent time in Jerusalem and they opened a the Indian corner right the Zawiyah India in Jerusalem and they attend again to teaching and some of the scholars come in there and some of the really prominent Indian subcontinent scholars made their way into Majid al-Aqsa. There is the Bukhara from the Indian if not from the Indian from the Asian republics Uzbekistan Tajikistan as well as the community in the city of Al-Bukhara right they actually also set up a place in there and there is the Zawiyah Bukhara in in Jerusalem as well there is our African brothers from the Sudan as well they also have built a location there similar for the Hodge back and forth right the Chessians there is actually a Chessian community right there again all this was part of how to venerate what Allah made sacred and how to express it through building a Qaf and there isn't a corner in Palestine up or down except there is a Waqf that is set up you can go in any place except there is a Waqf a mosque a sacred site a water well that was built either to support the pilgrims who are coming or to support those who are visiting whether visiting Al-Aqsa or visiting the Prophet Ibrahim there is also a narrative that the Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam is buried in the city of Nablus there is again debate on that as well and then there is on the valley on the Jordan valley is the grave site or what people believe is the grave site of the Prophet Musa alayhi salam so this land is so sacred so filled with sacred meaning that our relationship with it has to reflect that relationship now opposite to this there's a violation of the sacredness that is taking place no matter what it is there is no reason that any can anyone can actually understand why an Israeli police force goes in in the middle of the night when people are doing tarawih and etiquette and beat people to the pole and drag them out shooting smoke bombs stun grenades tear gas in the middle of Al-Aqsa mosque and almost complete silence can you imagine just imagine right right imagine this that a group will go into the middle of Saint what is it the Vatican in Saint Paul's Basilica in the eve of Christmas and take the batons to people who are praying and drag a 70 year old man and a 70 year old woman knocking with a baton on her legs what would be the reaction of anyone if that is seen complete silence right now in relations to what's taking place relative to Muslims and again we have become accustomed not only that the sacred sites of us of our community is not respected but we know that our human life is no longer respected Muslims death no longer solicits any response Muslims loss of lies not solicit any response and our sacred sites again in terms of what is occurring in al-Aqsa is not respected this is right this is the third year in a row where those who are worshiping in the middle of the night in al-Aqsa are being beaten up right it's just like in can incomprehensible what is the logic behind it now there is an element in here which also we have to be aware of increasingly the Israelis are saying we need to have Jerusalem open to all insha Allah it seems to be like a statement that means they want to have an access to be in al-Aqsa must that's what they're saying so the past few days they want to have to engage in a ritual sacred sacrifice on al-Aqsa compound area in order to actually begin to share from their perspective the property in the same way as they did in the Ibrahim Imas Ibrahim Imas which was built by Muslims that did by Muslim now is actually divided where Muslims sometimes can't have access to it at all so that method or the approach is basically every time they attack they constitute a new security structure in order to make encroachment on the rights of the Muslims in their own mosques so we need to be aware of some of these statements that are being ushered in relations to al-Majid al-Aqsa and what it says now the last point I want to say in relations to this that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said la tazal al-taifatun min ummati zahireena al-al-haq la yaduruhum man khadalahum wa la man khalafahum hatta y'amur Allah y'amur Allah wahum ka thalik the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said there is a group of my umma that they will be still firmed on truth justice veracity until judgment day what his intrigue says la yaduruhum man khalafahum that if some people disagree with them and so on it does not harm because again they're leaning on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and also those who in essence do not lend any statement of support rather they align with those who are have no don't have their best interest so your support of those who are attending to the sacred is to your benefit not to them because Allah guaranteed their status is saying that there no harm will come to them the harm will come to you if you actually see where they're standing at truth the best you could do is either you could say something positive or if you can then at least hold your statements in such a way that you don't jeopardize your status with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala I do believe that whoever does not attend to the affairs of the Muslim is not from among them. That's the statement of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And lama itan bi'umur al muslimeen falaisa minhum. So I take it personally as an obligation for me, not only to speak on Palestine and those who know me, wherever there is Muslims that are impacted, I either do the work or do the research, do the publication, write out about it and speak about it. So today I'm speaking about Palestine last week, the week before, but the Hindutva was taken place in India, what is occurring in Pakistan and Afghanistan in so many different places. So for me it's an obligation, those who know have the responsibility to actually convey what is occurring and only to say, just to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that I did my role. So this is part of our obligation to actually be able to say the statement of truth, qawulu, to stay a statement of truth at the time where silence is being pursued as the norm. So what is occurring is unacceptable and no one, even if you want, you're occupying the place, we know that you've been occupying for 75 years, but there are still principles of decency, principles of international law, principles of sacredness and protection of the sacred site. When Muslims entered Jerusalem, they actually did not, they allowed almost the Qusaytars who literally massacred everybody in there, they allowed them to actually still have their sacred, and Saladin will come back for them to have Christmas in Jerusalem. That's why the churches in Jerusalem have been there for the longest period of time, and anyone that says that Muslims don't have tolerance, I ask them, where are the Muslims of Spain? Once you answer that question, then you could have to talk. Every Christian community that existed in the Muslim land is still there. The largest Christian community in the world is in Egypt. The Christian community in Palestine is still there. The Christian community in Iraq is still there. The Christian community in Syria is there. The Christian community in Afghanistan is still there. The Christian community in Yemen is still there. So show me where are the Christian communities that you have in Spain. And increasingly, people are using all kinds of defamation of Muslims without actually knowing the facts. The fact, again, is the Muslims have been not only tolerance as an excuse, but tolerance as a way of life if not embracing the other and living with the other as a co-participant in really conducting and carrying on civil society. So lastly, we have some of the flyers from the Islamophobia Study Center. If you're able to look at supporting the Islamophobia Study Center, but all means that's some of the research that we continue to do on all the issues pertaining to the Muslim...


So, this is a good time for us to hear from Jeffrey Chamberlain, who is one of the country's leading authorities on the quest to make better, longer-lasting, more efficient batteries. He is the Energy Storage Initiative leader at Argonne National Laboratory. As you might have seen when you walked in, we have a bit of an investment game gimmick, which is for those of you who have a million dollars lying around, maybe in between your cushions and your sofa or anywhere else, if you have to invest in one technology and we do not allow for any kind of diversified portfolios here in New America, which one of these would you pick?  I think the idea is what will be the best return between now and 2030, although it's reminded by Paul Roberts that the average length of a holding of an investment these days is four months. So, you can sort of pick your timeline, but the idea is look forward to 2030. So, Jeffrey, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thanks for the introduction and thanks for inviting me here today. It's really been a joy to watch the first couple of panels, particularly some of the more provocative. I found some of the statements in the first talk provocative and began asking myself the question, is my existence being questioned? And I think it is, and that's appropriate, actually. And I was thinking like any good scientist, I have about 10 minutes and I have about 25 points to make in those 10 minutes, but I'll narrow it down to one point with a sub point. And the point I'd like to make in the next 10 minutes, I'm going to tell some stories in the next 10 minutes, but the point I'm trying to make through those stories, I want to make sure I get across at the beginning, is electrification of the light duty vehicle fleet in the world and in the U.S. is happening. That's the main point I want to make. The second point that's underneath that point is that the U.S. is behind the rest of the world in the race to electrification. And the reason that's important, the way we're behind is in manufacturing, not technology development. The reason that's important is wealth generation. And we could argue all we want about environmental security and economic security and energy security, those are all important things. But wealth generation, from my perspective, is what we risk losing by not winning the race to electrification. So that said, I want to start with an anecdote. British Petroleum came through the lab this summer, a large group of executives, marketing specialists and technologists, to try to understand, and they pulled battery scientists from around the world, the leading battery scientists from around the world convened in Chicago and we met at Argonne, and BP was trying to understand battery technology and what it means. And when I was privately meeting with the top executive in the meeting, I asked him, okay, why are you really here? You gave us all these reasons in the presentation, but what's the real reason you're here? I'm curious. Is BP going to make batteries or are they wanting to make sure that the batteries never win this competition? His answer was, at British Petroleum, they understand that their business model is not infinitely sustainable. The question of 2030, I'd predict 2030 internal combustion engines will still by far dominate. But even BP was saying sometime in this century, they recognize as a company that their business model is not sustainable. So they were there to try to get an answer to the question, what will supplant oil? Not in the next 10 to 20 years, but in the next 50 to 80 years. And then another point I'd like to make is, when you think about this question of electrification, to over generalize, I like to ask the following question or put it this way. In terms of investing in the infrastructure for electrification, both in terms of research and manufacturing and the grid infrastructure or cordless while you're driving charging, as we just heard in the previous panel, either we are too late in making that investment or we're too early or we're on time. And I admit I'm over generalizing, but that's the question you need to ask yourself. And I would argue that we're on time or possibly a little bit late. And what I mean by electrification is happening. I just wrote down a list this morning of companies that I know that are that are developing and in the process of rolling out hybrid electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric wheels based on the lithium-ion battery, not the nickel metal hydride that's in the Toyota Prius. And here's a short list that I'm sure I'm missing some companies. GM, Ford, Chrysler, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, VW, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai. Not to mention smaller companies like Tesla, Fisker, BYD and China. That is an impressive list. And that's different from, remember, I'm a scientist. I'm a technologist. I'm not an economist. I'm not a policy guy. But when I see the investment that these auto companies are making and the battery companies in Asia are making, not having an MBA, I have to make an assumption there's a reason they're making that investment. That's a very powerful list and it's very different from 15 or 16 years ago when the EV1 was being rolled up by GM. Now, I noticed the Chevy Volt was not in your list and I know Bruce had to go through just a few cars, but I want to talk a little bit about the Chevy Volt and it reminded me, Tony Tether made a comment at dinner last night about changing architectures in the way we think. And the Chevy Volt does that. And there are multiple cars that are series hybrids like the Volt. But in case you don't know and I hope you do, the Chevy Volt is an electric car and it has onboard a generator. That generator is an internal combustion engine that relies on gasoline, but it spits out electrons. And it either charges the battery or it sends electricity straight to the electric drive. So it's a so-called series hybrid. It's an electric car. After you charge the battery, when you deplete that battery, the generator kicks in and supplies electricity to the drive train of the battery. Now, that may seem like a fairly bland technological innovation, but it accomplishes two major things. And I'll tell you, Chevy loaned me one for a week to drive.  And especially when I loaned it to my wife, she was constantly concerned about, when am I going to run out of the electricity? How far can I drive this car? Which is the common feeling when you're driving an electric car, range anxiety. So Chevy has solved that range anxiety question by allowing you to carry around liquid fuel and about 10 gallons of it. So you can always drive 350 miles whenever you feel like it. But between 70 and 80% of commuters, sorry, drivers in this country spend, drive less than 40 miles per day. But the real important technological innovation that harkens back to Tony's comments at dinner last night is that it's a change in the architecture. That what we have been trying to do is to plant or replace the internal combustion engine. And I should have started by saying, that's never going to happen. Not in my lifetime, not in my children's lifetime, not in my children's children's lifetime. So all the attempts to replace the internal combustion engine have been an attempt at a one way swap out. But this idea of decoupling the electrification from the internal combustion engine is clever because now you have a platform where when you improve the battery technology, you can decrease the size or cost or increase the range by having a better battery. Or you can improve the efficiency of the internal combustion engine or move to biofuels as a whole wide range of options that are going to be enabled by this change in a platform technology. Not to mention if you talk to artists or designers, and we heard this from the previous panel, you could design a whole different type of vehicle when you're getting away from the gas drive powertrain. Next point I wanted to make is, what are we doing at Oregon? And I wanted to say, I think we heard this in both panels this morning. It is all about economics. It's all about home economics, and when it comes to businesses, it's all about the economics of that business. And you hear a lot of material science, so we do a lot of materials research at Oregon. They do a lot at Berkeley, our sister national laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MIT, University of Texas. Do a lot of materials research to try to make better performing materials so you can carry around more energy efficiently. And safety is always a primary concern as well. But in my opinion, I would argue it's all economics, even safety is economics. So I think I resonate with what I was hearing in the panels earlier today. But here's how a materials innovation can change the economic question when it comes to batteries. One of the materials that we've already developed and GM licensed in January, and the target is to roll out these materials in the next two to five years, depending on a whole variety of commercial questions, is that one thing we saw in the slide by Bruce that Shoe talked about, and we heard this from a couple different panel members today, is energy density is king. And that's true, but you also have to consider efficiency of conversion of that energy that you're carrying around to use. And the efficiency in internal, if you factor in, efficiency of conversion of energy in internal combustion engines from the petroleum distillate and factor in the efficiency of batteries, you're looking at the graph that Bruce showed is accurate. It's about a 20-fold difference in energy density. But when you factor in that efficiency of conversions, you get down more into the range of 5 to 10x, which is still large, but this detail is important because the materials that we're spinning out now in the Chevy Volt, I'm going to go back and I promise I'm not a commercial for GM, but I know that technology better than most. The battery in the Chevy Volt only lets the consumer tap into about 60 to 65% of the energy capacity of that battery because they're factoring in the fade of the materials over time so the consumer doesn't feel that fade like you do with your laptop or your cell phone. So when we've developed a material that you can pack almost twice as much energy into, but it's also significantly more stable so that fade doesn't exist in the material. So all of a sudden you can pack in twice the density and not have to over-engineer the battery at 40 to 50% over-engineering. So suddenly the cost becomes, the overall cost, gets reduced by 3 to 4x as opposed to just a 50% improvement. So that's the kind of work we do at Argonne and I just wanted to point out that that is where we're headed. And what I wanted to leave you with was, and we heard this in a couple of the panels here today, in terms of innovation and I hope we'll talk about it on our panel. I'm old enough to remember my parents buying the first Texas Instruments LED calculator and that was a fortune. We kept it practically in a safe. And what it did was it multiplied, divided, added and subtracted. I also remember the first microwave oven we bought which was also extremely expensive. But the one that really hits home to me lately and cell phones we talk a lot about, but our flat screen televisions. I remember the first time I saw a Panasonic commercial for a flat screen television about 10 years ago. I thought that looks pretty slick. It would work really well in my family room. Dug into how much it cost. It was $9,000 if you guys remember that. And I happened to spend a lot of time in Korea touring the plants at Samsung and LG where they were ramping up flat screen televisions back when they cost $5,000 to $9,000 and I couldn't understand it because again, I'm a scientist, I'm not an economist, I'm not a businessman. But here, a decade later, we can go to Walmart and buy that same television, actually much better technology for $4,500. So my point is, remember that technological innovation takes time to adopt and as you scale, the cost will come down. And if you connect that to innovations where the aim is reduction in cost, that's what you'll have a winning scenario. With that, thank you very much.