gerous, and it's a call, I hope. Some of these can be avoided, Carmel, too, you know, like going forward, if we all change our habits a little bit, I mean, sometimes something's going to happen, and it's very hard to, to avoid, but much of what happens on a road can be avoided. Yeah, well, I suppose so, but, you know, there's a lot of conditions, you know, different things, they suppose it could be maybe weather conditions, it could be something very simple, it could be road conditions, you know, yeah, road conditions, it could be, you know, just avoiding something on the road, it doesn't have to be, you know, not always speed. Oh, yeah, 100% your right. Yeah.  Tell us what you're doing to remember, Jamie, or in his name, Carmel? Yeah, well, Sunday now, third Sunday November is road, World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims. So we just felt it would be a nice way to honour Jamie's short life by holding a modified vintage car show. And with the help of the Midwest and Donegal Vintage Club and their members, they're helping us out. So we're having that in the school, the Ross Community School grounds, and on the whole here from 12 to 4pm. And we just feel Jamie had a great interest in cars, and he had bought a Sierra to restore it last winter. So in his memory, Declan, his dad and his brother Shane, along with family, friends carried out this and his wish, and they have it restored and ready for Sunday. Oh, wow. So it's going to get sort of public premiere as part of the show almost. Yeah, yeah, hopefully now, hopefully it'll be a good day and everything will go well. Yeah, well, it's given cold, dry weather, I think for Sunday, which is good as long as the rain stays away for a while. And do you know, it's, um, I suppose there's a lot of worthy charities out there needing donations, but we just chose to they're very close to our hearts. And I hope that Jamie will be very proud and I know he will be that it's these charities that are benefiting from it. Do you want to mention them, Carmel? Yeah, well, of course, one is Gemma's legacy of hope. And that's what we do. Yeah, to explain it to people on what they'll be helping. Yeah, well, it's a vital service that is based here in Dung Low. And it provides counseling for children aged five and up teenagers, adults and families throughout the Rosses and Funtown area. And the service was set up by the Boyle family to honor the memory of their Gemma. Gemma brought joy and happiness to her family and community in her lifetime. So what's their intention now that Gemma's legacy of hope will continue to do so in her memory? So it's this week, actually, there was an information leaflets have been have come delivered through and post. And there's a lot of very important numbers on there, helpline numbers. And the number shown on the leaflet, it's a center letter, Kenny, they run and manage this service for Gemma's legacy of hope. So if you're from the Rosses or Funtown area, and you would like to speak to seek counseling, ask for Gemma's legacy when you ring this number. And there's a small charge for each person using the service. And the rest is funded then by Gemma's legacy. So we're honored to be able to contribute towards this important organization. And Hughes House in Dublin is another very important organization. Yeah, it's a Hughes House. Well, Laura, my sister calls at a home from home, and it provides free accommodation, meals and support to families of sick children. While they're receiving treatment in Holla Street, Temple Street and Rotunda hospitals. And it was set up by a Dublin company who's our family, whose little boy spent a long time in hospital. And while they were there, they saw many families from other counties struggle, they were exhausted, sleeping on floors, chairs and cars for months at a time. So sadly, their little boy Hugh passed away. And in his memory, they decided to set up a house for families in the situation, calling a Hughes House. And it's a six bedroom house with a large garden. So brothers and sisters of the sick child can come and stay with their parents if they wish. So in 2019, my sister Laura and her husband Ethan, little girl Mia, she was born 13 weeks premature. So they were very fortunate to get a room in Hughes House. So again, the service can only be run and managed by fundraising and donation. So we feel it's another very worthy charity to benefit from Jamie's Memorial Day. For sure. Now there are reminders of the memorial dates on Sundays in the grounds of Rosses, isn't it? It's in the grounds of the Rosses Community School. Yeah, and it runs from what time to what time? It runs from 12 to four, but the show cars can arrive from 11 on. All right, and the Sierra is going to be on show, lots of other cars. The Sierra is going to be on a show, yeah, at Pride of Place in Mr. Gorman, the principal's spot, somewhere again, you always say. I love it, absolutely love it. Okay, that's brilliant. That is, that's wonderful. He'll be laughing, looking down at that one. Yeah, looking down on that. Hopefully. Well, you know, it's going to be an emotional day, but a happy one as well. Yeah, exactly. There's donations. Sorry, there's prizes of people have been donating prizes and all that kind of stuff. People are just amazing. They're just fantastic and without support of all our friends, family, all the local businesses like this day wouldn't be happening. So it's really, we came up with the idea, but it's everyone else that's really making it happen. So lovely stuff. You know, people are just amazing. The generosity is just overwhelming. As you are, Carmel, and Jamie will be incredibly proud of you. I can say that without any fear of contradiction, it's going to be a tough day for you, but hopefully there'll be smiles as well, Carmel. It will be hugely supported and donations to those two great charities as well. And I really appreciate you sparing the time for us this morning. Well, thank you for having me on. And can I just say, just one more thing before I go, you know, I suppose what I'd like to say is there was three families involved that night and it's the accident. And one thing is for sure, we will always have great memories of our boys, and we will be forever proud of them. So just to keep that in mind for our three boys mailin' down on us and hopefully helping us through the rest of our days. All right, thank you. Thank you, Carmel. I appreciate it. All right. And best of luck for Sunday. Thank you very much, Greg. Thank you. Carmel Boner there. Right, and a very gracious words at the end there too. Nationwide, the Irish Road Victims Association, RVA will hold a virtual event commemorate the UN World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Sunday, the 21st November at 3pm. All are invited to join this event. Facebook.com forward slash Irish Road Victims. But if you're locally and you've any interesting cars and you want to support Carmel and her family and those charities, Gemma's Legacy of Hope and Hugh's House in Dublin. You can get along to Ross's Community School there on Sunday. I think the weather's going to be good. And you get to Sierra parked in the principal spot and rightly so. And just a couple of comments before a quick break here. Jamie was a lovely young lad and a credit to his parents and grandparents in Dunlowe and Lecture Mac awards. They said just someone who wanted to ring in and pass on that information. And lastly here just for that, Greg, no need for me to reiterate that my heart goes out to Carmel and her family. 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Right, okay. Councillor Nicholas Crossen joins us on the program. Councillor, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. Right. The Bunkranna Christmas light switch on. You's are plowing on with it. We're going ahead with it, Greg. Tomorrow night at seven o'clock sharp and we're welcome Santa back into Bunkranna to switch on the lights for us this year again. What did you see in the sort of the global situation here in Donegal that was different from Ballet Buffet in Stranawler, Donegal Town and letter Kenny that you thought we'll just carry on? Well, we were asking the people just to... It's an outdoor event, obviously. The main seat of Bunkranna is probably about 400 meters long. There's plenty of room for space there, so I just asked the people to wrap up, keep warm and keep safe, keep your distance. I think it's a... The reason that we went ahead with it, Greg, is I do believe that it's for the children to see Santa in their town and to come along to the event. But we're almost... I'm a great one for this, but a responsibility for everybody. And, you know, if people feel that they're not safe, we will have a video YouTube that can be done on it as well for them to see that.  I mean, Greg, there was 40,000 people at the rugby match last Saturday. I didn't see many masks and that there was a closure environment. But this event's going to take about 15 minutes. And I think it's a great event for the kids in Bunkranna. And the general community supporting in this decision? Yes, as far as I'm aware, I didn't hear any voices against it. It was a decision, the committee. No, this is a fluent situation. Fluent situation, it could change. But at the present moment in time, there's nothing to say within the health and safety that you can't have an outdoor event for a simple thing that's switching on the lights. And I know Lebroukeny and Ballupetay in Domingo Town have cancelled theirs. And, you know, that's the choice that they made. We had a very small event last year where Santa will come to the market square and we videoed it because of the, we were in the heart of the pandemic. I know the numbers are very high, but they're just asking people just to come along, respect other people, respect, keep the distance and wrap up and keep safe. Okay, just remind us when it's happening again? Tomorrow, tomorrow night, Friday night, seven o'clock, and it will be seven o'clock sharp. There's only two things to start in Bunkranna in time. That's Patrick's Day parade and the Christmas lights are on because obviously it could be snow or it could be raining, but we're not keeping the children too long. Santa would love to see them there. Come along, out, enjoy yourself, wrap up, keep warm and keep safe. And you'll be there yourself? I hope to be for the good Lord's birthday. Okay, right, thank you. Okay, great. Take care. Bye-bye. Councillor Nicholas Cross in there. Right, now looking forward to attending the car show in Remembrance this Sunday in Dunlop. Thoughts and prayers are with you all at this difficult time from everyone in Finn Valley Cars and Coffee Group. I hope you have a lovely day. Hello, just wondering if there is a backlog on COVID certs. I got my last vaccine in September, got no cert yet. I have a car to get a got with at the time. I received vaccine in Chemis, some restaurants, pubs won't accept it, please help. There's no backlog at all. They've, if you were to ask the government, they'd say they've all been dispatched at this stage. There is a telephone number, you can ring, I just don't have it to hand where they will, you call them and they will send it out to you. Why is it in a show and people have to travel to letter Kenny for a test? It's crazy. I can make no rhyme or reason for it. Now at this point, you just accept these things in Donegal. You have to because, you know, we, it was about getting a testing centre there before pop-up ones two weeks after cases have peaked in certain areas, then a pop-up test centre would arrive, made no sense to me at all. Lots of people wanted to see a vaccination centre there to help with that. They stuck it in the school so that when the school opened, they had to close it. Couldn't make any sense of that either. At this point, they expect people from Mallonhead to drive to letter Kenny for a test. I don't know. If you can make sense of it, get on to me, I can't. So I don't know, it's just something we accept at this point, isn't it? Hi Greg, could I ask, is the Mental Health Service is not covered by a medical card? A relation was sent to the emergency department in Datrakenny to see a psychiatrist, waited five hours to be seen and then got a bill from the hospital. Is this right or is it covered? And that was the bill for attending A&E. So, you know, if you were referred there, was it like 50 euro for turning up? Because I think regardless of what your ailment is, physical or mental, you have to pay to attend the ED. Or did you actually get charged for seeing the psychiatrist? If you could just get some clarity on that, it would help with us if we get to chase it up for you. Hi, I'm affected by the issue, but the PRAI will not adjust the land boundary. And I'm fighting this now for five years. I would get in contact if you haven't already with the offices of Padre McLaughlin. Limerick or Wexford, one of these counties have the old land registry maps, the original maps done by men, possibly women too. Hi, Greg, got my vaccine yesterday. The expiry date is the 31st of March 2022, so that's three months, isn't it? December, January, February, March, four months. Okay, that's interesting, isn't it? I think that was your booster in inverted commas, yeah? Greg, I was just listening to you about the booster injection. I got my booster injection on the 22nd of October. It's got an expiry date of December 2021 on it, which is this year, isn't it? Yeah, so October, November, December, two months. Caroline, that's something maybe we should check up on, because the boosters, people are contacting us, saying the expiry date of the boosters two months after it was administered. I think that's very interesting. Greg, if there was 100% compliance with vaccination and boosters, would COVID leave our shores or will we have to get boosters, etc., like flu jobs as part of the public health normality now? I don't know. It remains to be seen. Infectious disease experts believe it will be around for a few years. I think these new tablets that are coming online early next year will help. In terms of, would it be able to be controlled by just those who are most vulnerable, like that would get the flu vaccine, getting it, getting it? I don't know. I really just don't know. We'll see. But things can change very quickly with these things, as maybe happened with the Spanish flu. All mentioned of three antigen tests, and I've heard so far have stated day one, three and five, not day zero, day two and day four. Please clarify. I can only go by what was told me by Dr. Anthony Bresson. He said it's called day zero, day two and day four. And I said at that time, I says that's a little bit confusing, isn't it? One, three and five would make an awful lot of sense. Greg, what about the price of the chemists are charging for antigen tests? I paid eight euro for one test. So for a large family, having to test three times, it's a ridiculous price set to pay for antigen tests. They're handed out for free in the north. If you're a close contact, they're sent out for free to you, by the way.  Greg, enjoying the show, just listening about the number in schools being high. Surely this is a good thing, and COVID will burn itself out. Well, who's to say? Not I. I don't know what the story is there. Greg, something different from COVID. I walked approximately four miles every morning in this country in the Finn Valley area. I've not seen one rabbit in the field this year. The country used to be full of rabbits. Does anyone know what's going on? I haven't a clue. They normally pop out a bit later in the year, don't they? I don't know, but it's an interesting one. We'll get to the bottom of the missing rabbits. Right, Tommy Fleming joins us on the programme now. Good morning to you, Mr Fleming. How are you? Good morning, Greg. It was... I'm really good, actually, and it's great. You know what's happened to the rabbits? I haven't a clue. I am... Maybe they're not breeding like they used to. Maybe they just decided not to help with all the bad news and they've come back into hibernation to a rabbit hibernate. I don't know. Oh, no, that's another question I'll have to get an answer to. I think... I don't know. It seems a bit early for them so far, yet anyway. Come here.  Not just yet.  I know. It's just... I'm trying. How can we frame this? Because it's positive. We're going to hear your beautiful voice. Yeah, absolutely. We're talking about gigs, but... I am... It's, you know, we were all set. We've everything ready to roll. We're almost there to hit the go button. And then it's kind of... You just feel like you're taking 10 steps and then brought back 12, you know? And it's just in our industry, the hospitality industry, everybody is affected, you know? I mean, it's just this... Can they not just...  Can they not just give positive news and not stop trying to... The problem is, Tommy, and I get you, right? And we get this a lot. But if we stop talking about COVID and restrictions and all that kind of stuff, it doesn't magically make the hospitals empty. No, I know. No, I get that. And that is the... Because me and Caroline, you know, we didn't talk about COVID for ages in this programme. Well, we tried to keep it to an accident minimum. But it doesn't make the GPs less busy. It doesn't make the hospitals less busy. And it's a bummer. And John Breslin comes on and he doesn't talk about it. And David James comes on and places country and he doesn't. And Rory's on in the morning. I mean, this is a current, a fair show. And, you know, even if we didn't talk about it, but we wanted to talk about cancer services, right? That's it. Let me out and get you.  And it's so horrible and it's so frustrating to me. And I just can't wait till it's all behind us. And it's the last thing I want to talk about. It's going to be this day. It's not going to be today or tomorrow. We're not going to solve it either. So anyway, listen, what people can do, what people can do, right? And this is what we have to do is give ourselves breaks from it as much as we can. Decide how much of it you're going to take. Take breaks for the rest of the day. Don't consume it all day. That's what I do because I work in the media. And you can do things like go and see you, December 3rd in the Ballet Art Centre in Ballet Buffet. It's perfectly healthy, perfectly safe. It's a safe environment and you're there. And that's how we give ourselves a break from it all the time. You make me sound like I'm the Messiah. You are the Messiah. You are the silver bullet. The silver bullet. Now, do you know what? Music to me transcends everything. It transcends politics. It transcends bad news. It does all of that. And I spent the last six months recording the new album all these years and that was just a brilliant time because for once I loved going into the studio and working in it where I normally hate going because I always found it very boring. And now anything that I can do that gets me... Bring me to the studio quickly. Bring me down. And it's great being able to say that concerts are back and we're going to go out and do I think four concerts pre-Christmas, Ballet Buffet is on the third, as you said. And then we've got away on the fourth and there's two others just up to pre-Christmas. And then hopefully we're not back until the end of January. Hopefully by then... We'd be flying by then. We'd be flying by then. I really do think so because there's a few changes coming down the line. Do you...  You've got a big fan base here. I love Donagall. You like playing up here as well, though. What I was really... Do you know what? With all of the things that happened in the last two summers, I was supposed to be up in Glen Column Kill for the summer. I've gone back to in Irish again and I was going to go to Ages Gale there in Glen Column Kill. And we missed that and we missed the second summer. But do you know what? Look, we're still healthy. Thank God we're still alive. And there's a lot of families and a lot of people in an awful lot worse situation than we are. So there's nothing to complain. So in terms of recording and writing, you've been doing that... You mentioned earlier, you've been doing that consistently. Yeah, consistently throughout the... From the first lockdown. And it was funny, actually. The simplest of things worked. You know, I was... We were doing a clear-out of the office and garage and everything. And Tina found this big box of CDs with all the back-and-tracks on it. So she said, Do you want me to throw these out? And I said, No, don't do that yet until I check every one of them to make sure we have them on digital... That was lockdown one. What did you do for lockdown? Go through CDs. Went looking for them after they were dumped. But I went through them and then I ended up being in the jeep every day going... When I'd be going for my run and I'd be putting the CD into the jeep and mixing the back-and-track up. So I started filming, singing to the back-and-track. Why not? Yeah, but it was just... It was a bit of a piss-take on them, on Carpool Karaoke in the late Late Show. But it ended up getting thousands of views and the dogs would join me. So they were the guests in the jeep and they were kind of... Anyway, it was a bit of a crack. But you know what? Some of those things that kind of happen accidentally, that's why people enjoy them because there's an organic field to it. And they're not plants. A fella in a car with his dogs. And it was funny, one day you could see me with a hoodie on and the next day you could see me with a wetsuit because I was on my way to go swimming. So I didn't give a hoot what there was no kind of getting ready or getting dressed up first. But you know what? That's why I'm looking forward to getting back on the stage. I'm looking forward to doing the shows, putting new songs on the stage and just please God, we get the audiences and that they're confident enough and safe enough to come out. And you know, it'll be great. And it'll be just... Are you nervous at all? Because I was speaking to... I think it was Francis Black and someone else as well and they were back again again. And it was a nice nervousness, you know, presumably. But it was like getting up out on the stage again, you know, if you haven't done it for a while. I'm nervous, but I'm also apprehensive. And I don't know why there's an apprehension there. I'm chomping at the bit to get going. And yet, when I have to go and do something, I've almost become institutionalised because when I have to leave the house, I'm kind of going, oh God, I have to go. It's kind of getting... I went to Manchester there about five or six weeks ago and I was flying from Nock. And only for the lads in Nock know me. And I was coming through, you know, you put your bag through the tray and security. And I ended up going through the security screen. My pocket's full of keys, change. I leave my belt on. I have a bottle of water in my bag. So I've done everything that I can. You don't have to hit every X. Yeah. So I had to keep going back and forth. Oh, sorry, I forgot that. Oh, sorry, I took my watch off. And normally that would have been second nature to me too. You know, number one, you don't have change in your pocket or your keys.  But it was just, look, it's kind of you have to relearn skills again, I think sometimes. 100%. And also too, then, it triggers in different people social anxieties. You've got really, you know, people that never suffered from anxiety or whatever, you know, would have seen themselves as really confident, but simply even going back into the workplace or back into socialising or back to an airport, it triggers these sort of emotions that have never ever felt before. And like even when I was coming home from Manchester and I got to the airport and I knew I'd have to give myself loads of time. And you know when the bags and the trays start piling up and it's almost like, it's like bang bang bang one after the other. And you're trying to get everything out of the tray and all of a sudden, like I feel like my anxiety levels are way up there with Nadine Coy looking for her passport. You know what I'm saying? I think airports is the common denominator. It's like it's just about airports. You know, and I just want to get home. Geez, leave me alone. And you never out of them as well. In terms of songwriting, right? Music's sort of escapism for me, TV's escapism for me, right? And if COVID or masks or something is in a TV show or in a song, I'm like, oh, no, come on. You know, I can understand artistically why people want to express it that way. But for me, I use sort of the music or the TV or films to sort of escape from a little bit. In terms of your mood, how you're feeling when you're songwriting, like do you sort of, can you put all that to one side or do you have to incorporate in it or does it feel natural to or does it affect you when you're composing or songwriting whilst you were in sort of the lockdown period? No, not at all is the answer to that. I didn't actually, I deliberately avoided that and deliberately kind of went to somewhere else for what, for want of a better word, for inspiration. For example, when I wrote The Bend in the Ocean, which is the last song on the album, and it's where the title came from is the strangest one of all. I was flying home from Australia November 2019, just before all the whole thing kicked off. And I was flying somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Absolutely exhausted, fast asleep. And then I wake up trying to figure out where I am and I'm like, you know, when you hit the screen and you're going, I wonder where are we? And at that point, I'm like, we're nearly at the top of the earth as such and there's a curve. And as I'm going back to sleep, I sit and I'm like, God, The Bend in the Ocean. And that's where the title came from. Did you write that down? Yeah, I did. Yeah, because that's important isn't it? People should always keep a note pad all the way. And then I'm going past on other notes that I'd written down and I found one that I'd written years ago. When I was living in, when I was working with Goal as an aid worker in Sudan and because it had gotten so hot at one point where we were all sleeping outside under the stars in hammocks and mozziness and I'm looking up at the sky and Africa has always has got this, the stars, it's just littered with stars. And I'm thinking to myself before I go to sleep, my thought in my head was, I wonder do they see the same stars at home as here? And then I ended up with a line in the song that says how come the ones that I've chosen don't see the same stars as me. So that's, so it like it can, the inspiration can be 20 years apart. Yeah. But I deliberately don't go, I don't go down the route of a situational where it is at the moment. I never, because at the moment, I mean, what do you write about? Do you know what I mean? Sitting at home doing nothing. Sorting through back in track CDs, you know, now I know you're pretty talented but if you can, if you can bang out a tune, that's globally relatable to... Yeah, I know that.  I just, I just end up trying not to, you know, you try to keep a positive message in the song or you try to keep, you know, even if the song is about loss, it's about that it's, you know, things I'll still be here for you. But the best songs about, say for instance, last are relatable to multiple situations. Oh, completely. It could be the loss of anything. It could be the loss of a pet, it could be the loss of a loved one, it could be a loss of a mama or dad unless it's specifically about something. And that's the, those are the best songs. Right, we are doing this, you're going to sing for us a bit of a backing track. We haven't had a chance to sort it all out yet. You're going to go up and down if it's too loud or too low to me, right? This could either go absolutely great. And if it goes bad, I'm pulling the track all together and you're going back up and down me. And I'm just singing it completely. What song did you tell Arshine to get for us for you? I was scrolling through because it's all kind of panic stations because my guitar player ended up calling me this morning. He was a close contact. So I'm like, okay, this is just going to be the new norm, isn't it? So the one that I recorded was on the new album and it was a version of Fiddler's Green that we did on the 2019 and 2020 tour. And it just went down really well. So I thought, why not? It's very relatable and people know the song. All right, let's see how this goes. All right, here is Tommy Fleming singing for you live. This could be really good fun. As I went by the dark side one evening so fair To view the still waters and taste the salt air I heard an old fisherman singing the song Won't you please take me home boys My time it's not long Up me up in your oil skins and blankets Oxile BC Just tell me old shipmates My mates and I'll see you someday The fisherman Don't over plan things because sometimes at least preparation you get the best results Absolutely brilliant I couldn't really hear it in my headphones Don't need excuses, it sounded great That's for if it was a problem No, it sounded great Because we didn't get a chance in advance to get the levels, you did amazing What a pro Not at all People can see you It's a song for island tour It's playing live December 3 in the Ballot Arts Centre, Ballot Buffet All set up, it's perfectly safe and it's a beautiful environment to see Tommy live Tommy, thanks so very much Not at all, thanks for having me as always and thanks to the listeners for the support Thank you Excellent, OK We'll be back with the weather after the break Today's 9 till noon show is brought to you in association with Ulster Tires Get your tyres winter ready Drop in to Ulster Tires in Laddercanny and Ballot Buffet today It's that simple to win that car To get your ticket Log on to HighlandRadio.com Highland Radio Exceed in your expectations Is your water safe to drink? 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Do you dare to be happy? You never really had the power to make that choice, to have a life apart from God. And that is the correction. There's no punishments involved. It's like, why did Jesus keep telling the prodigal son story over and over and over two thousand years ago? Because it's like, because the whole story was about, I love you.  You know, let's have a party. I welcome you back. No consequences to squandering inheritance, no consequences to being off, it's not like the father in that parable said, what have you been doing? Feeding pigs? Oh man. I just gave you so much, and I whizzed him and everything, and they're just feeding pigs. Come on. There was no, in the prodigal son, the father was just celebrating. He actually runs out to meet the prodigal son. He's so happy. He even tells the other son, who's pretty jealous about this whole thing. He squandered everything. The father all he could say is, you know, your brother, my son was lost, and now he's found. Now he's so excited that he's found himself, that he's come back. The whole emphasis of the parable is always on the find. There's nothing emphasized to the father about the going out. There's not any sense of like, it's not like 12 steps, you know, where the father says, now, you can either do an inventory here, I gave you the inheritance, okay, inventory, just do your steps.  The father just has the unconditional love in the parable, and just wants to welcome the son back. And actually, you know, when you really start to follow the process of the Course of Miracles and Jesus, the welcome never ends. You have such a welcome to everything and everyone in the universe that it wouldn't matter what the person in your memory seemed to do or didn't do, whether it was a positive memory or a negative memory, it's like there's just this experience of joy, of welcome. The welcome never ends, it's just like a wide open door. Now that's the best way to describe the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit does not even know of the concept of punishment. Of course the Holy Spirit is the representation of God, so God does not punish, God does not offer consequences, sometimes even in this world when people are going through difficult times they'll say, hmm, God is testing me, why would you want to spend eternity with a God who tests you?  But again, we're back to the saying that God did not create this world, God is not just like the song says, God is watching us, God is watching us from a distance, I don't like that either. Why is he watching me from a distance? That's just to follow the first commandment, love the Lord that I got with all my heart, so am I, and he's watching me from a distance, that's not fair, just to give him my all and he's just going to watch me from a distance, what's comforting about that, from a distance? Well, that sounds almost like you're under the magnifying glass or under the glass, you know, and it's like hmmm, squirm a little more there, you know, or I'll test you, I'll test you to see if you're pure enough, ah, got you again, not pure enough to come back to the, you know, who would want to know God if God was like that, it's more that the Course is teaching us, don't try to bring the truth into the illusion, don't try to bring concepts of God into your world of fragmentation, you know, we've tried to build temples and towers of Babel and we talk about sacred rivers and sacred oils and it just gets me, I still, when I go online and I see these sacred oils that we're using the time of Jesus, you know, for only $29.95 you can buy an ounce of the sacred oil and it's like, come on, like the Holy water, you know, some of us have been through the Catholic Church, you know, the Holy water. Some of you saw the Devil's Advocate with, they got Al Pacino, he played the Devil, he goes in and he looks up at the pictures of Jesus and so forth and he puts his finger right in the Holy water in the Catholic Because the devil always, like, say, Ahh! Take that for your holy water! The Course is saying, yeah! Let's take that that there is no holy water. Isn't it great to know that there is no holy water? And even these things of baptism and getting spring old or don't or whatever, those are just symbols, of cleansing or of rebirth You know, it was just, they were very light symbols. The Lord's Supper, you know, do this and remember it's me. The ego turns it into this big control mechanism.   You're out, you're out of there. Control. Everybody to watch you, who's not taking the wafer today? Yeah, it's all guilt. It's the ego's like using the whole symbol. And let's go back to it. Let's roll it back a little bit. He said during the Lord's Supper, the Last Supper, do this and remember it's me. Jesus knew the human beings would be eating meals for many, many, many centuries to come until their telepathy got so good that they could live on the mana from heaven until they didn't have so much of a bullies system of lack that they could just live by their divine inheritance, by their high vibrations. Remember he said, drink of me and you will never thirst again because he was on that high mana. He was living on the vibrations of love and light. The apostles were always concerned. He didn't have enough to eat and all this stuff and he'd be out there teaching for days, not eating any bread or anything. And he's like, just don't worry about the food thing here. Let's just concentrate on the kingdom of heaven and the healing, you know. And it was all because of that. But the very thing of do this and remember it's me, he simply knew that people would be eating for centuries and centuries and centuries. And when you sit down to have a drink or have some food, remember my unconditional love that I love you forever and ever and ever. And that's all that it meant. It was not meant to be ritualized, but the ego just simply hijacked the very simple message of unconditional love through in some penance, through in some purgatory, through in some other concepts that are very fearful. You know, all this stuff about the blood of the lamb. Jesus says in the Course that people don't understand the significance of the lamb. The lamb was simply a symbol of innocence. There was nothing in Jesus' teachings about slaying lambs and smearing blood and all this stuff, you know, everything. There's nothing about that. It's just the lamb was just a symbol of innocence. And there was no sacrifice in the teachings of Jesus. He didn't claim to be personally the only way to God. It was the Holy Spirit, the universal spirit that said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. But there was nothing specific or personal about that. It was simply the Holy Spirit using the body as a communication device to convey these beautiful teachings, which was basically, you know, to, you know, be of good cheer, I've overcome the world, I'm calling you out of the world. What he meant was I'm calling you out of the thinking of the world. Like we need to expose these ego thought patterns, these ego belief patterns.  That's not, some people pick those teachings, you know, I'm calling you out of the world to think that they better, you know, find the closest cave. We've actually got a place, Lisa and I were driving down, if you drive down the road, there's this doorway cut into the middle of these canyon walls. We were driving along, Lisa said, have you ever seen that before?  What you start to realize is the concepts of the ego, which involves the persona and which involves society and so on and so forth. Those are just false beliefs that you have to raise up to the light and realize that your holy mind need not buy into these beliefs. You know, like you start to realize that you're not really in society, society's in you, society's in the sleeping mind. And you have to raise all those false concepts and beliefs up to the light and then they'll disappear. So constantly, Jesus says in the Course, bring the illusions to the truth. Bring the illusions to the truth. I mean, there's nothing in the Course about trying to save people. There's nothing in the Course about trying to save countries or beam light to evil countries. There's nothing in the Course about trying to bring the love and light of heaven into the darkness and beam it here or forgive this one over there, this and that. It's all about going inside and looking at your belief system and handing your beliefs over, giving it back to God and saying, take this from me. I don't want this anymore. And that is a real rapid way to have this turnaround, this shift of mind that you're going for. So it's not so much about dropping out of society. It's more of giving over all your ideas about society to the Holy Spirit and then letting the Holy Spirit use the symbols in a very simple way.  You know, it's really gonna be when you really authentically do that. It's just about a changed perception. So it's more like it's an undoing and an unlearning of false definitions which takes you higher and higher to forgiveness or to the remembrance of your true Christ self. So it's very practical.  You just do the mind training and then kind of like St. Augustine said, love and do what you will. Jesus says, what you do comes from what you think as you purify your thoughts. You don't have to be concerned about the doing because the doing's automatic. The doing's just an outcome of your state of mind. You don't even have to think what you're gonna do during the day. You know, a lot of us have grown up with lists.


Everybody forced here ripping 20 23 chronicles baseball hobby eight box number two pick your team style Got Anthony G. Padres Daniel B with the Phillies Darren G Royals Eric and twins E and J diamond backs mariners Jacob are with the rays and white socks Jacob C with the Dodgers James S. Red Sox and Cubs John C Astros Jonathan B Braves Josh will be with the Orioles and the Angels Kai has the Mets Carl P with the Rockies Lee way Yankees Mark S. Marlins Matthew B pirates and Nationals Nicholas I Cardinals Nicholas M J's Paul B Rangers Robert G Brewers Robert V Guardians Roy M a's Tigers Stephen L. Reds and you each he has the Giants Let's go ahead and get started. Yeah. Hey, I Put I put the warning out Let it be knows up mark Yeah, like button like buttons a good button to press you guys. That's a good one. All right, let's see See man. I'm liking chronicles great value in this stuff Gonna go a little faster than the first one last time How do we got our legs underneath us that is 150 points for them to everybody at the end? That is a Rebels Martinez the 199 Jays You say sorry sir to rich but not to me Rob. What what are the kids? glazing Gaslighting McCovey to 100 for the Giants That's McCovey. What do we got here? We've got a lot of backwards cards Phil Rizzuto baruto Jersey Carter 99 is Ramos for the White Sox Brian Ramos Called respects. Yeah, I don't and I'm like Rodney danger. I'm like Rodney danger field out here Omar Vizquel Who's this now Steve Carlton number to 49 for the Phillies and a Clemens to 75 for the Astros It's always a wonder what what what what team Clemens will be on Sometimes blue Jays sometimes blue Jays Who's the blue Jays with those really cool early 2000s Oh, dude, you're coming there with Jersey auto to 75 Dude, that is awesome. If you go raise It's pretty fire. That's pretty fire We're gonna get down in a minute. Amen. Amen.  No, I won't put myself through that if that's what it takes and I will go respectless That was definitely that was definitely a one and done More no auto to 25 for the twins I'm like the checklist is all we have to see the checklist, but I know it's awesome because we're pulling awesome cars Sterling Thompson a 100 Rockies on the clearly I feel like this way had he married a 25 Orioles Yeah, because like it just has a guessing like you just don't know But we've seen Ethan Salas and Evan Carter for big young players We've seen bill Lee more. No, we saw Vince Coleman. Yeah That is Tomoyuki Sugano Whoa Tomoyuki Sugano, that'll be random to everybody at the end for a Yomi Uri and the NPV Weld it just got everything in this stuff It is a little bit of this a little bit of that All right. Yeah, this is This is so much better than it was last year already. Just checklist wise Like the frequency of like nice hits Jim Palmer red wave crusade Orioles to 199 Brandon Fott Origins autograph gold ink that 25 nice hit for the snakes Had a killer postseason there you go Ian Jay with the gold Fott good-looking card there Seiko Sheeda on some sick cards here Yvonne Melendez for the Diamondbacks out of 100 One been show Jersey to 99 cardinals gold standard If on Rodriguez the 99 arrangers Yeah, a lot of on-card to that's another that's surprising me because last year it was a lot of sticker and some on-card This is like a lot of on-card in some sticker this year And that's surprising for pinning your vision to 100 is Triss speaker Red Sox Make able Philly's the 199 mosaic red wave Well, someone was asking Jackson shoryo rookie auto Origins for the Brewers and live and on card on card shoryo That's Robert G with the Brewers It's a monster names in the stuff guys to 199 is Carlos by erga for the Guardians So in two boxes in two boxes in this break We've got common arrow and we've got shoryo on card autos And we also have a Brady house Jersey auto to 75 as well for the Nationals now. I Mean get your spots or Chronicles guys It's too one so one 99 Brandon fought rookie for the Diamondbacks as well. That's two boxes. There's six more to go here There's six more still got the none a number three now never mind and four has a rocky's Marlins Mets last three PYT spots Random styles tonight with Sam lot of random team spots available There's random divisions full case as well I mean the value is there in this product guys after those last three there are Origins football PYT's that's right origins football is here We'll pull those comic book ones the origin story the insert gonna be sweet gonna be sweet Chavez Lawler for the Diamondbacks mosaic to 50 see a redemption here Flipping cards all over the place. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. It's a one ninety nine Wade Boggs red socks on the Zenith Rafi Paul Merrow for the Rangers and redemption Mike Piazza royal signatures Let me see if he has it up yet probably Mets, but we don't know for sure It's not there we're gonna have to hang on to this redemption until the checklist drops to find out what team it goes It could be Mets. It could be Dodgers. It could be Hydra's I think too and there's another team. I think what expose was it expose? I don't know. It's probably Mets, but we don't know so we're gonna have to hang on to this one and Top with that and put a stick in one of the back Waiting for checklist or something something like that see manager Can't just give it to the Mets. He played for more than than one team It'd be different if it was a product where it was like Longest tenure would apply, but everything has a designation on this so we have to wait and see Lee Smith America's best auto to 25 for the Cubs He was an A. When was he an A Rob? I doubt it's gonna be it's probably Mets, but it also we've seen I've seen a lot of Dodgers Marlins, yeah, Dodgers Marlins Mets potters and A's so I've seen it's mostly Mets, but I've seen a lot of Dodgers So I'm gonna put any baseball Piazza cards in the past So we do have to wait for the checklist the 25 Lee Smith America's best auto Carter coffee to 99 a Red Sox Hopefully drops a week resolve it by the At some point during the streamer that'd be ideal, but I don't know if that's gonna happen guys contact me any Spencer Jones to 1 90 Yankees Tons ever 83 games. Oh, so he was a trade deadline guy. I know seven for them Reggie Crawford auto to 10 for the Giants The Giants might be the best deal in this They were like 19 bucks To 100 is gonna be lighter for the Rangers Bernabelle Rockies the 199 Piazza A's yeah, I would assume it's most likely Mets maybe Dodgers the others I don't know I've seen I've seen a Padres Piazza to before though Gary the 100 classics for the Yankees Yo sheet on Jersey card Red Sox This one's not numbered rookie Jersey Red Sox gold standard. Okay, that'll do for box three When the Piazza retire it was like that was it that year? Was it you're out? You'll never DH for the A's I could see why Surprises you ever with the A's honestly It's like some that's like some Nelson Cruz Padre stuff right there Not really the team you want to go out with but it's the team you go in there We go Wakefield the rest in peace for the Red Sox here to 199 Yeah, you play catcher for a long time raise Kyle Manzardo on the Oregon's auto out of 99 Great break for Tampa Bay Manzardo one of the better first baseman in the minors That's his clear vision number to 10 if this cal for the Guardian so more Viscale It's a 49 Hancock Mariners printing plates Nick Gonzalez one of one for the Pirates You go Pirates Salmon Jersey card is going to be for the Orioles. It's Jackson holiday There we go at Jackson holiday hits Mirrors See that seems like there's a Kyle Harrison for the Giants out of 75 So there's like one pack per box for those like three number cards in it Demption here first up is Evan Carter to 199 Rangers XR Redemption Bobby Miller Dodgers origins rookie signatures Go Dodgers Dodgers yes, Timmy a little giddy up Rockies Larry Walker on card on to 99 there we go Rocky's one of the last teams. I believe Very nice very nice Yuri Perez out of 199 for the Marlins. Yeah, Jay's going to the fair after this the county fair That's the one that's the one that's Wranglin How do you go to the ranch? Tom Glavin Red Wave Brooks Lee Twins out of 199 That is a Anthony Salamento Pirates auto to 75 that's a elite extradition auto is it never made it an elite extra Well, it's here now. Yeah, Carl. Hey great last spot mojo there on that Walker Jet Williams Mets out of 100 Chronicles Philly's Justin Crawford Jersey to 99 Pintar to 99 Diamondbacks Certified Larry under a definitely underrated player Larry Walker But he's the whole famous. That's good. Yeah, it's 199 Marta Reds New Elby Marta Crusade Jackson holiday On-card Origins auto out of 199 for Baltimore. Oh Baby, that's going to Joshua B It's 199 Ricky Henderson A's Paj Bradley on a jumbo Jersey auto out of 150 For Tampa Bay Tampa Bay killing it as well here. That's their third Get the third auto I think it's a big one still you rebated 100 Brewers Fred Lynn to 199 Red Sox moving along here. All right, Krishna Hernandez for call Raphael for call How about that? Well braves Jackson Meryl Red Wave to 199 Padres Here what do we got here patch auto out of 10 is going to be Jake Bennett for the Nationals this card Nats each year oh To 99 is going to be Montreal Andre Dawson crimp in the bottom of this card I'll go to the Nationals. We've got a box wrap out to the Nationals Got Mikey Romero Red Sox out of 100 Jackson holiday Jersey card from Baltimore Orioles here Red Wave to 199 is going to be Ryan Sandberg Cubs redemption again My redemption but that means they're probably on card at least I would think lighter to 199 arrangers and essentials I would hope so so Some will be some may not be depends on the set. I guess Henry Davis origins rookie signatures read for the Pirates Pirates seem to be good to have they've done well in both breaks Pirates Henry Davis Next up is a John Smoltz on card auto to 99 for the Braves from crown royal signatures Raves do well in this stuff always Francisco Alvarez the 100 for the Mets to 190 on cutter coffee Red Sox You would be singing that song With with your hat This guy's always got the hats Masataki Yoshida clearly out of 100 for the Red Sox Couser to 99 Orioles from certified and a red wave Brady House Nationals to 199 For this I had to I used to have close to about 70 Just different Dawson number two. I think was 99 99. Yeah Just make sure real quick something asking Nice one here for the Rangers Lewis and hella Kunya auto to 199 on the origins and Pudge Red, where's the that is team? Yeah, the Dawson the Dawson's at 99 Where's the this is red a red I might be short print of honor because I don't see numbering anywhere on this for the Rangers there Could just be team number, right? Usually those are numbered in like football and basketball Cam Collier on the obsidian autograph for the Reds. So it does have some damage to it same one The reds last time You sure Matt All right We got you we got you All right, moving on now a few more packs in box seven here psychedelic Ted Simmons with the Cardinals psychedelic Ted Jace young tigers out of 50 on the Titan Redemption is for Bubba Chandler Bubba Chandler On the hollow platinum blue Future Kings auto that I think is a one-off one Bubba Chandler pirates All right, so pirates in the Bubba Chandler, and I think that is probably one of one It's just a platinum holofoil psychedelic doc alice card But I'm I'm getting like seven because we saw a platinum holofoil one a redemption in the last one so now I'm like Are we this lucky today, I don't know Maybe maybe we are maybe we are Edward Julia to 100 for the twins Bert Blile Evan Jersey to 99 for the for the angels here Hence All right last box of the break Brennan Davis Not yet not yet. We got Jim Rice first to 199 for the Red Sox Brennan Davis rookie out of the 199 cups from origins There's Piazza to 100 for the Mets there got a Ted Lyons to 10 for the the White Sox here, I believe got a Eckersley there's Jersey to 99 Cartaya Dodgers. Yeah, I was I was not around with Ted Lyons played baseball, so I think he's White Sox Yeah, he's White Sox probably sure wasn't Cubs or something. They also have like very non-distinct uniforms back then Franchise leader and wins there you go. I think we all agree on that. I'm Mark McGuire at a 25 for the A's Tank hints to 199 Cardinals red wave Louis Gonzalez Diamondbacks number to 199 Vicki Vicki coming up Characters of the game Dude, that's really cool auto America's pastime characters the game can say go a is the 100 That's pretty cool.  They did a lot better with them cool young the 99 Mariners Hold on card Where's the autos are cool to hey Elijah Green here you go Nationals on the auto to 199 on the origins Very nice one to get Rollin Cecil fielder Fielder's did 99 for the Tigers Ball bounce off his head for a home run Yep, that was can say go steroid denier I think Rocker there to the end Hey Jackson holiday to 199 for the Orioles on the most a give me a sec. We'll do a random then a recap Okay, so we'll have 150 points as top spot second spot is going to be the segano The segano is not number of a spectrum parallel there. Those are the top two. Good luck Seven times on our random top two one two three four five six and seven The Royals get the points the Tigers get the segano. Well, let's recap Okay, three bags again pretty good pretty good All right printing plate was a pirate's in it Gonzalez relics of Jackson holiday Jackson holiday Masataki Yoshida that'll be a bligh leaven for the angels game war Diego Cartaglia Justin Crawford one been show and Brian Ramos Autos now we had Henry Davis redemption for the pirates Dodgers Bobby Miller That's Piazza. We have to We have to see what that one There's no checklist yet could be Mets could be Dodgers. There's a few other teams are probably one of those two We do have to see Right hang on to that one for now. Hopefully by the time it's ready to ship out. It'll be good cam Collier Elijah Green Jackson choreo Brennan Davis Lewis and hella Kunya the origins set was awesome Taj Bradley Jose Kenseko Larry Walker John Smoltz Kyle Manzardo Anthony Salometo Brady House Justin Morneau Brennan Vot Lee Smith Reggie Crawford and Jake Bennett We had a coming narrow Jersey auto to 75 for Tampa Bay Pirates redemption Bubba Chandler future King signatures hollow platinum blue or thinking hollow platinum blue as a one-of-one That's why we mag this one Bubba Chandler and then Jackson holiday to 199 on the Orioles auto there that does it Thanks again everybody moving on now to number three


Day 15. Thank God we're halfway through. And now we're talking about Belle, suggested by Alec Kubismeyer and seconded by enough people. So thanks for that. I, um, I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to do this as like a VTuber because I thought that would be funny, but it would have been either too expensive, too time-consuming, or too both for a one-off gag I would never use again. Sorry. Every year I like to check out lists of all of the top international films that I didn't see from the previous year, particularly Asian releases. I Google best Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, etc. cinema of the year and then see what I can actually get my hands on. Oftentimes there's one or two films on the list that I've seen, a few more that I've heard of, and many more that I was completely unaware of. And that's exciting. You know, especially when it turns out that they're on some streaming service that I already subscribed to, or even better, that there's an high-max screening of cinema escapists, number two Japanese movie of 2021, two weeks from now, and it's not excluded from A-list, so it's basically free. Like, you expect me to turn this down? Absolutely not. And because I was going, I looked no further into it. I entered the theater knowing just two things. It's place on that top 10 list and the fact that it was animated. I wasn't prepared. But I was delighted. Bell's effectively two different movies, a metaverse take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast and a school drama that deals with the traumatic consequences of losing a pair at a young age, as well as generally trying to navigate both a physical and virtual social life. This metaverse is called You as in the letter. It has five billion active users who put in a pair of special earbuds that sink to their body and maybe take over the body to transport them into this other world. But maybe it's actually being viewed through a computer monitor or a phone. TBH, I'm not sure Studio Chizu really made rules for all of this, let alone tried adhering to them. I'm also confused about what you is like experientially. When our protagonist, Suzu, first enters in the form of the titular bell, she finds a world full of wacky character avatars just sort of floating around between enormous buildings that appear to be uninhabited. We eventually learn that it features virtual concerts and the ability to engage in combat and experience all sorts of gorgeous unrealistic environments.   In any case, Bell brings color into it. She arrives on the scene and immediately starts singing this beautiful, slickly produced track. Unlike Beauty and the Beast, though, this is not a musical in a theatrical sense. Bell is literally singing in universe and she's the only one to do so. But like what singing she does? The instant I got out of the theater, I checked her out on Spotify and saw that those songs have millions of plays already because of course they do. And then I spent the next several hours listening to them. And then you add to that the absolutely sumptuous sights and you have got an audio-visual feast going on. In the real world, it is generally hand-drawn 2D animation on near-photorealistic painted backgrounds, but in you they add a third dimension.  At the beginning of the film, which is kind of a flash forward, we see Bell atop a giant whale covered in speakers floating through the air with flowers and particles shooting off in all directions. Seen on literally one of the biggest screens in the world, it was just phenomenal. And that experience overrode virtually every one of my issues with the narrative itself, which was fantastic because I had a feel. Beauty and the Beast is great in part because of how streamlined it is. At a spelt 84 minutes it tells a straightforward story and does it really tightly and well. The live-action version is deservedly maligned for a whole bunch of reasons, but adding nearly an hour to the runtime is definitely among its more egregious sins. At 121 minutes Bell is on the longer side, but it does have those two different sets of narratives that it has to tell and there are just so many things that it wants to talk about that those two hours honestly don't feel like enough to get it all in there. Like you've got the whole metaverse thing which updates Beauty and the Beast story to give its title characters online fans and haters to talk and gossip about them and how that takes a toll. Susie is just a regular girl and she has a lot of trouble being Bell, this digital sensation that many people love and others cannot stand. She sees all of that and like all of us online folks do, internalizes the criticism and ignores the admiration. The film considers the dangers of online stardom and how toxic fan culture can be, how anonymity can be weaponized, but also how important it can be as a way to express your true self.  And that's a lot on its own, but you've still got Suzu the regular person in her whole life. The death of her mother years before destroyed her relationship with her father and alienated her from all but one or two of her peers, she still hasn't figured out how to really navigate the world and now she has this metaverse. Now there is the beast, the dragon, an ultra powerful monster whose cape is covered in bruises because in you, pain is literally worn on your sleeve. He interrupts one of her virtual performances in front of all these adoring fans and after she finishes reeling from the experience she needs to know more about him. She is not his captive, in fact she pursues him and not romantically, but eventually in hopes that she can help him. He has become a true pariah in you, these systems guards want to find and destroy him while she wants to save him. It's a nice spin on things though it leads to some dark places as his true identity is revealed and that is like really a lot. It just feels overstuffed, you know like the movie really doesn't need a several minute sequence where two kids who have nothing to do with the main or even secondary plot awkwardly tell each other that they like each other but the sequence is super funny so I'm glad it's there anyway. Like it's bad for pacing but it's a good time and that's sort of bell in a nutshell, a long string of scenes that mostly nail what they're trying to do even if they don't always cohere in the bigger picture. But when it looks and sounds this good that's enough. 8.4 out of 10. Thank you so much for watching, thank you particularly to my patrons, my mom, Hamre and Marco, Kat Saracota, Benjamin Schiff, Anthony Cole, Magnolia Denton, Elliott Fowler, Greg Lucina, Kojo, Phil Bates, Willow, I'm the Sword, Riley Zimmerman, Claire Bear, Taylor Lindyce, and the folks who'd rather be read than said. If you liked this video that's great, if not oh well. If you want to see more it is suggested in the comments for what I'll do in three days. Nice.


QuickBooks Online 2023. Generate reports after entering beginning balances. Get ready to start moving on up with QuickBooks Online 2023. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file. We started up in a prior presentation using the 30-day free trial. We also have opened the sample company. If you support accounting instruction by clicking the link below, giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course. Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion, making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page. We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems, PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable. So once again, click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it. Want these to open at the same time? We suggest using the incognito window or another browser to open an incognito window. If you have Google Chrome, you can select the three dots in the browser and then the new incognito window. Then search for QuickBooks Online Test Drive. We'll be using the sample company to look at the differences between the accountant view, the view that get great guitars is in, and the business view, the view the sample company will be in. If you want to switch between the two views, you could go to the cog dropdown up top and switch the view down below. In prior presentations, we have set up the company file. We looked at some of the preferences located in the cog up top. We looked at the general ledger and we added our beginning balances imagining that we had a prior accounting system that we wanted to pull over the beginning balances into the current accounting system and then start printing reports going forward for the period of January 1st, 2023. So now let's just take a quick look at our financial statement reports and how those reports have been constructed thus far. So we can then think about what the construction of reports will look like as we add new data going forward. So we'll open up the major financial statement reports by right clicking on the tab up top to duplicate the tab. And then I'm going to duplicate another tab to put the balance sheet and income statement up top. So I'm going to right click again and duplicate again. And then as the tab to the right is thinking, I'm going to go to the tab to the left. We're going to do this basically every time going forward. We're going to go to the reports on the left hand side. And then I'm going to open up the balance sheet, which will pretty much always be in the favorite reports. Note that if you're in the business view, then the reports are located in the business overview tab and then the reports on the left hand side. So then I'm going to go to the tab to the right and then down to the reports again on the left. And this time open up the profit and loss otherwise known as the income statement or the P and L. I'm going to close the hamburger up top. I'm going to run this report for 2022 at this point. So I'm going to go from 010122 to 123122 and run it. So we'll run that report and then I'm going to tab to the left, close up the hamburger, scroll up and run the report. This is going to go from 010122 to 123122 and run it to refresh it. We're going to start doing that setup every time because we want to think about the financial statement reports as we do the normal data input into the system. Now this balance sheet we saw in a prior presentation ties out as we wanted it to. So the plan has worked that this was the prior balances that we imagined were from the prior accounting system that we were using up until December 31st of 2022. We entered this data into the system as of the end of 123122 so that we can add new data in January 1st, 2023. The strategy we used you'll recall was to enter each of these transactions or each of these balances at a time instead of with one giant journal entry. So we can also provide the information necessary for the sub ledgers such as for the accounts receivable sub ledger by customer inventory sub ledger by item inventory item and payable sub ledger by vendor for example. And so we have those beginning balances into the system and then from this point going forward we're going to start to think about how the balance sheet is going to be created as we do each financial transaction. This is why we'll typically have I will open up our balance sheet and income statement the major financial statement reports all other reports basically given more information or more detail about one or multiple line items on these reports. I'll have them open on the right and then I'll usually do my data input on the left every time I add a new data input with the plus button for example. I will then refresh and run the balance sheet and the income statement and see if the impact on them is what kind of I expected that way you get a real good understanding of the accounting process because you could see what the end result is as you do the data input. So let's take some time now here to just look at the accounts that we have and what we would expect the data input to do as we do data input going forward. Just a quick recap of the process when we're when we're setting up a new company file. Remember what our objective is the business objectives revenue generation. Our objective as the bookkeepers or the accountant department is to facilitate the financial transactions record the financial transactions so that we can create the financial statements balance sheet income statement and related reports as efficiently as possible. So the business can spend most of its time doing whatever it does to make revenue and not worry too much or spend as little time as possible just in the transactional data input of entering the transactions to create the financial statements. The financial statements then being used at the end of the period for taxes at the least if you're in the United States and then also for other reporting requirements possibly as well. And then we also want to be able to facilitate the discussions with who we do business with customers vendors and employees to be able to facilitate our transactions as smoothly as possible as well. So that's kind of like our goal to do that we set up the company file we looked at our preferences some of which are under the your company preferences and under the cog on the left. We then entered our beginning balances which you may not need if you're starting a brand new file for a company that's a brand new company. But oftentimes you're you're you're setting up the QuickBooks file for a business that's already been in place. So we set up our beginning balances and then the next step of course and we then set up our service items on the left hand side. So you recall on the left we set up our items which are in the sales products and services. If you were under the the business tab it wouldn't be in the get paid and paid area products and services in order to help us to both enter the beginning balances for inventory and to allow us to enter invoices and sales receipts for the inventory purchase was we made. And we also set up the tax information necessary for the sales taxes also helping us to then facilitate the data input on the forms as easily as possible. And then we set up our payroll information which should help us to process the payroll as easy as possible. Now that we have most of the stuff set up I'm going to go back to the dashboard. We're just going to enter the data input at this point in time. So we're going to be doing the data input which is normally done with the plus button and we'll actually generate these forms by cycle customer cycle vendor cycle employee cycle. These forms are what are going to be used in order to generate the financial statements. I closed up the report again because I worked in the wrong tab. So I'm going to open up the balance sheet again. Change the date 010122 to 123122. So now let's think about these accounts that we have right here and how they will be impacted when we do the data input. So if I go to the balance sheet for example the cash account is the account that has most things happening to it. Because remember that every cycle that we're in vendor cycle money going out for goods and services we purchase customer cycle money ultimately coming in for things that we are selling goods and services that we're providing and employees money going out cash is in each of those cycles. So the cash is kind of the lifeblood of the company. Therefore if I go into the detail for cash we're going to start to have a whole bunch of different transactions in here that are relating to different cycles. So if I hit the plus button up top we would expect for example on the customer cycle when we invoice there's no cash related. But when I receive payment or when I make the deposit then that's going to hit the checking account and we'll see an increase of the checking account. So nothing with an estimate to cash credit memo possibly in the returns on the returns we could have cash effectively have to reverse on the vendor side. Expense forms will decrease cash check forms will decrease cash and then the pay bill forms will decrease cash. And obviously when we pay the employees that will decrease cash the deposit hopefully happening at some point at the end of the customer cycle will increase cash. So those are the forms that day to day type of forms we would expect to be entering that would be flowing through the cash. There's also some other ones when we pay the sales tax and stuff we could have special kind of checks they're basically check forms that we'll get into. And then we've got the accounts receivable. Now notice that every other account that we look at is going to have far less variance in terms of the types of transactions that will be impacting them. Accounts receivable is only going to go up when we enter an invoice and we'll only enter an invoice if we're in the type of business where we do the work first and then we get paid.  Well in that case you might wait till it clears the bank feeds even and just record it with a deposit and if that's the case you're not going to have accounts receivable. Or you might have a check register where you get paid at the same point such as with a food truck or restaurant or a cash register situation of some kind in which case you won't have accounts receivable.  So the accounts receivable is only there if you're on an accrual basis it's an accrual account for having to collect the receivables. Now if I go into the receivables notice even though we just entered the beginning balances it used an invoice to enter it. So the transaction types we expect to be impacting the accounts receivable will only be invoices that will increase it and then receive payments that will decrease it. That is it right. That's all we expect to really have happening there. Let's go. Let's go back. Now we also have a sub ledger for accounts receivable. I'm going to go to the tab to the right. I'm going to right click on it. Duplicate the tab and then I'm going to go to the reports on the left hand side and then let's close this up and go down to the reports. It says who owes you the accounts receivable aging detail or let's do the summary aging summary is a common report related to the receivables. If I make that as of whatever twelve thirty one two two and run it. Notice it's breaking it out by customer. So twenty thousand five hundred that ties out to what's over here twenty thousand five hundred. We also have to track that information and most likely will do internally. If I go to the tab to the left in the sales area and then we can track by customer right. We can track by customer here and go into our customer detail and look at who owes us money and collect on them. If you're in the business view by the way then that would be into the get paid and paid area get paid area and the customers. So there it is under under that view. Okay let's go back to the to the balance sheet. Then we've got the inventory account which would only be there. If you sell inventory then it'll be in it'll be in the system. And then you got to think do I have a perpetual inventory system or a periodic inventory system. I won't go into that in a lot of detail because we talked about it in the past. But the periodic inventory system would be you're not tracking the units of inventory but just the dollar amount which you will adjust periodically. And let's just now that we have the report let's kind of think about how that would work. If you had a if you had a periodic inventory system then if I was to go to the plus button up top when you buy the inventory you might have you would be in the vendor cycle. You might have a purchase order but you might just buy it with it with a bill or expense form or check form money going out for the purchase of inventory. And then if I go into the expense form for example to purchase inventory. Then then when you when you purchase the inventory then you might just record it basically to the inventory account and possibly not be tracking the the item which is going to be tracking the item by by unit as well. If you were on a periodic inventory system if you're on a perpetual inventory system then you'd be down here in tracking the items you'd have to set up the items. If you were just purchasing the inventory on a periodic inventory system you might just record the category to inventory. The difference between these two methods is this will still record the same dollar amount but it will not track the sub ledger by item which you would be tracking. Possibly on an Excel worksheet if you're using a periodic inventory system if you're using the items down here then you're going to track not only the amount but also the item which now has been listed in the quantity will be adjusted in the sub ledger. So if I close this back out I say do you want to leave I'm going to say yes let's go to the tab to the right and open the sub ledger report of inventory right clicking and duplicate this tab. And then go down to the reports on the left hand side and I'm just going to type in inventory inventory valuation summary let's look at it date let's make it 1231 222 and run it. So this gives us the units of inventory which would only be here if we're using a perpetual inventory system a periodic system would not have this year notice that this dollar amount ties out to what's on the balance sheet. Which we can see here if it was a periodic system then when we made the sale which we would make with an invoice or a sales receipt then again we wouldn't record the the cost of goods sold we would make the sales with like a sales item which would just record the sales side of things. And then periodically we can use our Excel worksheet to figure out the cost of goods sold by thinking about what we sold we can count the units and use our cost of goods sold equation. Beginning inventory plus purchases minus ending inventory so that we can then do a journal entry lowering the dollar amount and recording the related the related cost of goods sold which would be on the income statement. So that would be a periodic kind of system if it was a perpetual inventory system then. If I hit the plus button when we make the purchase as we looked at we would be recording the increase and then when we make the sales item the invoice or the sales receipt you can't make it with a deposit because it won't do it properly. So if you have an invoice and a sales receipt it'll decrease the dollar amount of inventory record the cost of goods sold properly as well as decrease the units of inventory on a perpetual basis. So we're setting up the perpetual basis because that's the most complex within the QuickBooks system but realize that you could set up other systems that would be appropriate. I think then if I look at the types of transactions in the inventory account it would go up when we purchase with a bill. So the types of transactions would be bills or a expense form or check form and it would go down with a sales type transaction invoices sales receipts. Those are the only kind of forms that we would typically see in the detail of the inventory account as well as an inventory adjustment form to adjust to a physical count from time to time. And then the fixed assets these are going to be property planting equipment. So this would be related to us purchasing this account right here purchasing property planting equipment which we might do with a loan. So it gets it's not a normal transaction because we don't purchase property planting equipment every day. Therefore if I hit the plus button there's no actual form like even in the vendor section for the purchase of property planting equipment per se. Because you might say well there's an expense form that's true but normally we're going to if cash is affected we'll use an expense form or a check form. But we might finance the property planting equipment and because we don't meaning we're going to get a loan for it and because we don't do that all the time. It's not an everyday thing that we buy a big piece of equipment or a building. There's no form that's related to it directly so we might then default to a journal entry if cash is not affected. So the property planting equipment we would expect not to have a lot of activity like we do have in the cash account. Cash will have the most activity depending on the kind of business. These accounts might have a significant amount from day to day the furniture and fixture we would expect to have very little activity a lot of little action over the entire year. Not a lot a little action just a little action in terms of the number of transactions with big dollar amounts possibly. So those would be purchases and disposals accumulated depreciation relates to us depreciating the property planting equipment which oftentimes will be dependent on depreciation schedules that are maintained outside of QuickBooks possibly with your tax software which oftentimes can utilize or create both book depreciation schedules and tax depreciation schedules. We'll talk more about them later but again these are these accounts aren't something that should see activity in on a routine day to day basis their periodic activities. The accounts payable will typically have a increase with a bill and a decrease when we pay the bill. So if I hit the plus button I would expect accounts payable to go up when we enter a bill only bills having a specific terminology with QuickBooks. Meaning there's something not just that a vendor charged us that the telephone company gave us a bill we could just pay it with an expense form and not enter a bill. If we enter it as a bill that means we're going to increase the accounts payable and pay the bill with a pay bill form which is a type of check form in essence at a future presentation. So a lot of small companies might not have accounts payable because they might just pay all their bills with an electronic transfer either credit card or checking as they come up. As companies get larger they often want to track their accounts payable more closely because they want to have more strict cash management strategies paying their bills as late as possible becoming more significant as dollar amounts increase and as the number of transactions increase. So like with the accounts receivable we have a sub ledger tracking the accounts payable by vendor and you also have your vendor center. I'll see on the left hand side which is under the expenses tab and vendors helping us to facilitate transactions with our vendors. If you're under the business view by the way then it's going to be in the get paid and paid area and your vendors center is down below. So there is that one and then the credit card. So this by this one will only go up like we said with a with a bill form and go down when we pay the bill right. That's the only transactions we expect to have in this account basically and then the loan of visa account is kind of like the cash account because it could have a whole lot of transactions in it. Because it's a financial institution type of account that you can connect to the bank feeds. So instead of paying with everything with cash you might be paying for a lot of transactions with the check with the credit card in some instances. In which case you might have a whole lot of activity in here related to it but you would expect them to all be like credit card forms or expense type of forms paying with a credit card for those transactions. And then you would pay it down when you make a payment from from the checking account which you could do in multiple different ways. We'll talk more about that later. But and then we got the loan payment which what would we expect happening here. Well we would expect the loan payment to go up when we take out the loan and then we would expect it to be going down with an expense form. Or with an expense form or check form typically because we're just going to be paying down possibly month payments monthly payments on the loans. That's all we would really expect to be happening here with possibly an adjusting entry at the end of the period as well. And then in the equity you don't usually post anything to the equity accounts unless it's draws draws meaning you're taking money out for personal purposes. Or if you put money in to to finance the business then you might post something to equity. Otherwise equity is is what is closed out from the income statement into the equity section as you can see here with net income. And then on the income statement side of things we've got revenue and expenses revenue. We expect to be going up typically with an invoice form or sales receipt forms and expenses. We expect to be going up with an expense form a check form or bill form. Typically those are the things that we expect to see their cost of goods sold will specifically be related to inventory. If you sell inventory and it will be impacted if using a perpetual inventory system when entering an invoice that sells inventory. And you're using a perpetual inventory system or a sales receipts. So as we start to enter these transactions will go back and forth between the forms and the data input to see the further building of our financial statements as we add new data to it. Now the other big form that's that's useful is the trial balance. I'm going to right click on the on the tab to the right and duplicate it. And the trial balance is not something that many people are used to. But I think it it can be a substitute for having two reports open. So let's look at it. It's called a trial balance trial balance. And I'm going to change the date up top. So from 0 1 0 1 2 2 to 12 3 1 2 2 and run it. So you'll recall that we looked at this before. But I just want to point out going forward that this is basically the balance sheet on top of the income statement. So you got your balance sheet accounts cash accounts receivable inventory accumulated depreciation furniture and fixture and then your liabilities which start with a credit over here. This is a credit because it's a contra asset and then and then your loan payable and then your equity and then your income accounts down below. The trial balance is quite useful because it gives you a snapshot. Notice we don't have a lot going on and even if I have my balance sheet and income statement open. I still have to scroll through a lot of stuff and I've got all these subcategories down here here and then here and that's just with the beginning balance I've entered. If I if I only have the trial balance open even if I don't really understand the debits and credits. I can I can see that this is just a list of accounts with the balance sheet accounts on top of the income statement accounts. And if I run it on a year to date basis it gets a little walkie on the income statement side if you try to run it for like just one month of December if you run it for the year to date. Whatever the date is then it works quite well and you can use it to kind of check your numbers right so I can go into here and if I want to see what happened on the cash I can drill down on the cash. If I wanted to see what happened on the services I can scroll down and find that you know pretty quickly without all the subtotals and whatnot. So oftentimes what I'm working in practice I'll have this report open instead of the balance sheet and the income statement so that I can just have one other tab. As I do data input I can come over here refresh it and drill down on the data input a little bit more easily. So you'll recall that here we got the service accounts these are the these are the income statement accounts. Those will roll out to equity. So if I go from 0 1 0 1 2 3 to 12 31 2 3 and run it. Now we only have those balance sheet accounts nothing's on the income statement for 2023 which is the first period of entering data into the current system that isn't just the beginning balance data. So going forward that's what we'll do we'll see the impact on the balance sheet and we'll create the income statement from scratch from nothing. Remember that the income statement or the profit and loss the P&L is what's typically used for most small businesses. The main report needed for income taxes because we have an income tax so we're going to be using the income statement and that closes out at the end of each year to to the equity section. So we're starting that's why we're starting with just balance sheet accounts will have income statement accounts going forward. We'll try to run this at the end of each period so that you can check your numbers. This is where we're starting out with in our practice problem going from this point.