What is up welcome to Wednesday's live Q&A every Wednesday 2 o'clock central time you ask questions We answer them we may not even we're gonna have to upload this to Facebook later because there is This just in we're not talking about the Cleveland Browns Facebook and Facebook is having a like an international outage right now kind of crazy kind of nuts So we're going to old-school baby YouTube only I started you I started YouTube videos December 28th of 2015 three years and Two and a half months ago pretty close to the day. Maybe tomorrow's halfway. I just made that up, but it's not good So we're gonna take it old-school. We're answering your questions live.  We appreciate the subscribers. We just hit 6,300 like last night or today like that Yeah, yeah, because I think I put up a post yesterday at some point like hey 6,299 it's kind of funny everything when I do check to like put up a post it ends up being one short That's crazy. So we answer your questions. We have a lot of fun with you guys. We appreciate you watching We appreciate the comments. We appreciate the love. We appreciate people like Sarah and Ricardo jumping in and Asking us some questions so that we can answer them so that we have Something to do with you every Wednesday at 2 you guys ready when you think of questions put them in Live chat if you're watching later after this is over and not live Make sure you put them in comments. We address them you I mean Out of them out of the YouTube comments that we're gonna do Q&A in reverse today. I'm asking him the questions Out of the YouTube comments that you get how many of them do you read all of them? Bam We read them all so get them in there get them in there. All right. Let's do it. What we got today Where do I find clients after exhausting my warm market and their market? Okay, and that's that's a great question because I feel like that's where you should start I really still believe that like your warm market is such value. You love them. You care about them. They have insurance They need insurance you I love that you're asking. Hey, I'm sort of a warm market now I'm gonna answer it in two ways. I don't think your warm market is exhausted number one and I'm gonna tell you why okay You need everybody every agent needs especially new agents. They need a rolling 100, right? What does that mean? Okay? I have 100 names when I when someone tells me no or they or I sell them I take them off the list or whatever right or just when we're just when you sell them either way But when you do sell them you take them off you add someone back on it's a rolling 100 because you say well My warm market is exhausting Cody dude. I went to Haruno last night and You know I had a waiter, right? I went when I when I go to I just went to I'm good friend I'm kind of getting friends with the manager at Dickies local barbecue restaurant because I love freakin barbecue, right? That's a potential warm market lead networking groups churches events basketball leagues one of our sales managers just met Someone a prospect and wrote insurance on them because they played basketball together two weeks ago. You see where this is going It's a rolling 100 Dylan make a note of that We need to do a video on that the rolling 100 because every agent rolling 200 whatever every agent your warm market It's always consistently growing and you should be thinking about those people because both the problem is most people think about their warm market Right, and they think well. I've got an aunt. I've got an uncle a grandma a grandpa my parents and my siblings That's it like that's only people that care about you or like you or love you like you don't friends or parents of friends or You know friends that have kids whatever right? There's a lot more to it to your warm market You also need to be considering addicts of people in your group that are real estate agents attorneys elder law Mortgage brokers like find referral partners that are good fits for you If you don't do PNC have a PNC as a referral partner that becomes a part of that rolling 100 But to answer your question.  Those are a few more ideas You've always got a warm market though. I used to think the same thing I've got my warm market has expanded so much like my warm markets bigger now And it ever was when I first started as an agent. It just is so great question How do I avoid burnout? Oh Okay, I used to think that this wasn't a thing at all right and it's easy to say hey, it's you'll never get burnout It's not a thing Okay, even though I love what I do if I did it every day of the year for 365 days I may not burn out because I'm no candle, but I may I may like slowly fizzle out, right? I may I may not be as effective I may not be as energized and enthusiastic and as excited about my career, right? I wasn't on a treat with coach were to retreat with Coach Michael Burt and it was a treat I was on a retreat with Coach Michael Burt. He's speaking at 8% nation and He talked about how he always takes one day a week off of work to Take Saturdays off. He works so hard 60 plus 60 80 hours five days money through Friday and he puts it in he pours it in he stays Focused and then he gives his brain a brain a chance to relax because what happens is if you don't relax a little bit You don't give your chance to your brain a chance to like Kind of move past a lot of that or to reconnect and rethink you'll end up You'll end up being less creative and less excited. So he takes Saturdays. He does nothing like success Saturday I can't because that's dude. That's my day. He takes he does nothing Sunday so he uses is like a creative preparation thinking of big concepts ideas planning, right? But that's a work day, but he's doing it in a mental state When you do Friday physical Saturday break Sunday Mental workout, right? And and I'm actually learning from a lot of these guys that they take a little time off to really Get to where they are Fresh what you're most you're I mean, okay, something I noticed if I work seven days in a row all day every day And I've done it. I mean, I've had those weeks where you're like, you know Okay, I mean if you can work a hundred hours in a week, I did it right if you could I guess you could I've probably done it and by the end of those hundred hours I'm gonna be making mistakes that I shouldn't be making because my brain is exhausted. So Yeah, even though I love what I do I don't want to get to where a point where I'm like MJ and I'm in my prime and I'm like I'm I'm good man. Like I've had enough. I Don't enjoy it anymore because he went so hard for so many years man. He burnt out He burnt out and as much as I don't I used to not believe in that like I start to realize these big people Talk about this kind of stuff and it actually starts to make sense. It really really does so I think something else that you Kind of talked about in a video earlier this week was to hit your personal goals as well Do that stuff in the meantime as well and that'll keep you energized keep doing those goals You bring up a good point three things. I put up a post a while back about hey 2019 is the year of self-improvement There's three things that I want to do this year Personally, right? I want to just work out and get back in shape like Dude, I'm getting back fit, right?  You know, I'm working. I'm working out, right? Slowly so I wanted to get in shape and these personal things also Help you to take your mind off of work for a little bit and that's okay. That's okay I want to get fit. I want to learn Spanish and I want to learn and I want to get my pilot's license Learn how to fly a plane those three things I will do this year. I Committed to doing them Personal goals. You just said it a few minutes ago. I'm saying it now. I stayed all the time and Because I say it I put so much pressure myself dude. I can't quit like if I stop working out I stopped learning Spanish or I don't follow through on getting my pilot's license Cody's a hypocrite and you shouldn't watch my stuff anymore It's a good that's a good good idea though the personal gold man I mean it it when you use something fun, you know, it relaxes you when you get to go take your daughter to incredible Pizza or something right it kind of like it gets you in a it gets you away from work. You kind of like okay I'm re-energizing myself, right? Right Should I qualify a person's health over the phone before setting the appointment no Bam, okay. I will elaborate a little I normally elaborate. I almost didn't because I've said like gosh if you're doing it stop it I Mean the only way you could do that and get away with it is if you are one of the best on the phone in this industry I can get away with it. Should I do it? No, but can I get away with it? Yes The reason why not is most people aren't good enough to do it on the fly I Have a goal When I want to set an appointment I set an appointment when I want to make it sell over the phone I make it sell over the phone. Why why do I care? Right because what happens is What happens is most people will Say they have ten leads, right and you ask health questions And you get really detailed and you make sure that when you go to appointment It's a really good appointment, right and say you set one appointment of every ten because you don't want to waste your time I'm going to set five out of ten I'm going to waste some of my time Say two of them don't show up, right? Say two of them don't show up. I'll use bad numbers. Say two of them don't show up That's that's bad. That's 40% no show that sucks, right? That's unlikely, but whatever I Sit with three I'm gonna sell at least two You sat with one So I'm a big I'm a big believer in numbers Pure numbers. I got an agent emailing me right now About PNC and about how to get more quotes and like breaking down their numbers of PNC and stuff and I'm a numbers guy if I'm gonna have a better chance of getting in front of more people That's all that matters in this business by not asking about their health right now Then I'm not gonna ask about their health. So What if they say on the phone that they're they're worried about Qualifying through their health Excellent That's a glad you asked that this program addresses specifically that and I promise I'll go over that as soon as I get there I'll be on your area on Friday. What am I gonna say next? Morning or afternoon?  He sees it enough. He writes it enough. He hears it enough. That's it You don't have to answer their question phenomenal question. I promise I'll address it confidence, right? I'm instilling confidence. I'm I'm letting them know. Hey, I'm not ignoring you That's the first thing we'll cover man Dude, I'm sure you have a great place. I'm excited to meet you. I'll be there Friday. I'm your local guy Should I drop it off? What do you think do crew in the morning or afternoon? So that's good. Yeah, I Want to attract attention to my brand, but I'm worried about the cost. Do you have any advice me too? But I'm not worried about the cost I Okay I'm this is like one of the coolest questions we've ever got most people don't think it is to me It is the new the mark the sales guy that's became a sales and marketing guy in me loves this question because I Used to not invest in my brand If you look at my first video ever on YouTube Hey guys, this is Cody and I'm gonna talk about how to help you be six. I mean it was awful It was a joke. I'm making fun of myself because it was horrible sounded just exactly like that, too Yeah, exactly probably maybe not but I mean that's what I think I sound like it was awful like I talked really slow. I Had it on a shelf. I had an outline. I like I'm thinking about everything and I'm like I look back I'm glad I did it because it was free Free advertising to put up a video But does my first video look better or does this video look better? I mean, yeah, I'm better looking now, too But I'm talking about the aesthetics the studio the the the freaking TVs the the 10 grand that we spent on TVs the two grand that we spent on lights the 12 grand that we spent on cameras, you know the how are much we spend on you guys that's six grand We spent 6,800 bucks. We spent on a super tower, right? The three grand we spent on this custom thing from Miami like I am Spending money because I I want my if my goal is to help every insurance agent in the world I can't be like everybody else and Expect to help everyone and to help people you have to get their attention I can't get everyone's attention on the whole planet. It's in the in this business if I Do the same things that I first did when I first put out a video Things have to progress your mind has to grow you have to get more creative You have to do a lot more you have to spend a lot money and most agents They never grow like the agent that they were their first few months. They're still the same agent 12 years later That would drive me nuts Right, and I think one of the things though is like you got started in the beginning Like you said you're glad you did it. How much did it cost you to do that first one the video? Yeah No, no Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and you know what it doesn't you don't have to like put put put stuff out there market your brand Once you have a way to start helping people make some money reinvest I reinvest almost every dime I make Because I'm looking at this as a long-term play Right when it comes the insurance industry I want to be the dude that when somebody says hey who can help me the most in this business When somebody gets asked that question I Want them to think of us? So that's what we do what we do How do you shake off negativity of leads who don't buy or say awful things? Yep How do you get How do you shake off negativity of leads who don't buy or say awful things? For lack of better words as mr. Wonderful would say on Shark Tank. They're dead to me Like actually I'm grateful. Mm-hmm. I want to yes. I want to know I Don't I don't believe in thinking about it. I don't believe in you know, call me back I don't believe in that stuff. You requested it. I'm coming over When I get there, I'm helping I'm building a relationship I'm providing value and I'm asking you to do business with me today If you don't believe in it if you don't believe in that as an agent you're gonna make less sales than someone that believes the same things that I do because I'm gonna get more appointments because I'm just you know an agent needs to be confident and when you get in a home There's no reason like we didn't agent we didn't agent comment on one of YouTube videos Probably months ago. Maybe this year January. I don't know that we get Dozens of 50 comments a day like a hundred. I don't we get a lot and he said You should never ask someone to do business with you on the first appointment You should always follow run a follow-up appointment It's hard enough to get in front of somebody once imagine trying to get back in front of them again And I don't worry about leads that don't buy like I'm expecting them to buy I'm expecting that went that then they answer the phone. I'm expecting. I'm gonna set the appointment I'm expecting when I get there that they're gonna buy if none of those things happen and I did everything I could do 12 touches six calls three texts three emails doorknock multiple times Ask them do business then either I did up my skill level But either way time to throw it away move on like you can't like I One thing that's a struggle for me. I don't talk about this kind of stuff a lot But psychologically like I'm being more open for some reason. I don't know on this show has been good psychologically If I have a lot of stuff weighing me down like 42 people that may do business with me It drives me insane. I can't focus. I can't think straight.  That's normal when that happens Dude move on buy more leads and if you're not making money from leads then and I'm pointing at you like if I was if you were sitting here, right? I'm pointing inward. I'm not pointing at Cody You know I'm pointing at whoever's not making money with leads so What made you want to be in this business in the first place? At first I didn't know that I wanted to be My dad's been in the business. I said this earlier. We had a guy come down from Jeff City Rod Really nice guy. He came down all the way down from Jeff City. We took him to lunch He gave him a tour of the office, you know, super nice guy. He was he was he was like, hey I'm only a few hours away. I really wanted to come meet you guys and see the operation and I was like, dude That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you for stopping by and One thing that I learned what I was telling him. I'm 28 years old and eight months Or seven months and 27 days, whatever, right? My dad's I'll be 29 in July My dad started in the business April of 1990 Next month he will have been in the business 29 years He's been the business 20 years 11 months, right? I wasn't positive that I wanted to be in this business growing up in it. I Didn't even know how good I would be at the business, frankly, you know and I wasn't positive. I wanted to get in it. He said, you know what? Won't you just be an intern and a part-time agent and try this thing out and see what you think and Dude, I fell in love in here. I am so yeah, I I Just knew that there was a lot of success in this business There's a lot of money my dad was really passionate about it We're able to help a lot of people. There's more millionaires in this business than any other business in the world If I don't get you excited about it, I don't know what will so but I didn't get in it thinking I would be a millionaire I just knew that Man when I got out and started meeting with people and was able to help people build a relationship with people and my Heart got in the way. I just loved getting out and meeting people and helping them do something that they know that they need to do That some agents weren't able to get them to do and so I put a lot of focus on getting people to make a decision Now Later now we're gonna get into the live comments here. I like it Ricardo Sanchez asked how much annual premium do I need to sell in order to take home 10 grand a month? it depends on what Commission level you're on what product you're selling, but if I had to just throw out like a general number, you know You need to make you need to be putting up at least premium wise you'd be putting up at least 12 to you need to be putting up at least 3 to 4k a week in premium No less than 3k in premium so Ryan Young said he just ordered his VIP 8% ticket. What should he expect coming in? Yeah You should expect to have a freaking killer time. That's what now you can you can email from Eventbrite Saying hey, here's your VIP ticket.  That was awesome You can expect to be in VIP section having a signed seat one of the best seats in the house be sitting probably 30 feet from the stage, you know, whatever out of 40 feet whatever Get to go to get to have VIP lunch both days for free get to go to the VIP get to go in the VIP lounge get to go to the VIP party And get to have a freaking killer time. So yeah, good. Good. Good. Thank you for buying Thank you for committing look forward to meeting you and hanging out with you at a personation, bro Really appreciate it. I've had a lot of VIP tickets go. Yeah a lot a lot. That's been crazy We're actually looking at the map yesterday saying hey How can can we extend seats to the left or the right like or get rid of some general seats or something? how do we get more VIP seats into this place and I Think we got some solutions And Ricardo came back in and asked if you had any tips to reduce taxes as an independent agent Yeah, have a good CPA. Have a good attorney. Okay, but now I'm gonna question I've never said this on video Dylan will probably use this as a clip later My first year everybody knows Yeah, I try not to say it as much anymore because everybody's like you say all the time. Well, whatever I made 117,361 dollars and 13 cents. You don't know the pennies to the amount of money you make something's wrong. I Will never forget that number. I went to a CPA a lawyer or a tax attorney tax person, whatever not an attorney and She said you're gonna owe $20,000 in taxes And we're gonna need that immediately By then I'm like 20 years old, right? Right? I'm like Are you kidding me?  Well, I didn't know all the different things that you can actually ride off I didn't know that I could get a different CPA and get it down to where I only paid like a grant my first year. I Didn't know that all the different things like you can have an office in your home You can have like all the and I'm not, you know, hey, I'm not, you know CPA so this isn't legal advice whatever but there are ways to Make sure that you don't pay more than you are supposed to and that I think also When you're 1099 and you have your own LLC being it There's two things that I that I recommend if you're ever able ever able to own an LLC, right? If an agent's ever own an LLC, it's a cool thing because not only can they not only can they become an employee of the business pay themselves a Little bit of money and then take out more as a distribution But you only to make pay taxes on what you take out as an employee of the company.  So I don't know but And then I wanted to shout out this Ron van doosen guy earlier I was reading the comments on YouTube and he posted this and you just put it in the live chat as well Nice, I really like him I don't want to be a negative Nellie, but I woke up to 11 fresh Facebook leads I called all of them using your methods addressed on call to close Only six answered one hung up on me one said I had to call her back So I was only able to set four appointments in 27 minutes only Then he says who can deal with this kind of negativity and then signed it Danny Downer I love that he emailed us later and said that it was all tongue-in-cheek and he was joking He's seen stuff like that, but he said absolutely loved call to close and that he had the more success Those 27 minutes and he had had like the whole prior week That's awesome call to freakin clothes. That's on that's on Cody askins calm now. Yeah, it's per purchase three hours of live training Unbelievable three hours. Thank you Ron 11 leads six answered.  I hate their leads What can I do differently? Well, we do it. I want to buy leads from scratch It leads I want to go to Cody askins calm and go to coat go to the coaching and training page and Buy this call to close this supposed three-hour live training on working leads Unreal run. You're my new favorite dude. I love the rest of you too, but right now. He's a he's duties to the top of this man That's awesome, buddy. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that's that's hilarious the way you put that too Yeah, I was like I read it real quick and I started typing like well That's your only your first call through and I'm like typing everything else and then I get the email And then I reread that he signed it Danny Downer, so awesome.  I love it man.      I love you guys and I'm like, bam Yeah, that's awesome. That's killer. Thank you, Rod. Thank you for the kind words, bro That's awesome any other questions. This has been fun.  Didn't you had a little bit harder? See I'm telling you because there were questions that brought out some answers in me that I've never actually addressed on video and I'm like That's good. That's really really good. So well, we just got a couple more comments. What we get? Ricardo asked That eight grand was that out of taxes out of the hundred and seventeen K? Yeah, yeah, but I had already freakin spent all the money because I was young and dumb and bought a You know Dodge Challenger SRT 8 and all kind of stuff. So I didn't I wasn't the smartest financially or the smartest business person As a young kid, but freak who is live and learn enjoy yourself.  There's more millionaires in this business You can make more and Ron said but if this keeps up, I can't keep telling myself. I suck at calling Dude, I mean he's actually he's given me a lot of credit for the training on the call to close Dude, he's had it the whole time. It's just like everybody's got it It's just what to say to get the results like people know tone mostly people know like You know I need to be direct need to ask questions like they know this stuff But it's different when you have a specific way of learning it and applying it to the stuff that you're already doing Because who wants to do stuff the wrong way? And waste time and money you buy leads Did you buy enough leads and you don't do it the right way? You can I mean people to buy and leads are all these if you're buying leads for all these other vendors If you're doing stuff the wrong way You're gonna waste a hundred grand your first year two years three years four years. That's a lot of freaking money So yeah, and did you set up your LLC or did you do it yours or did you pay a company? I? I try to set up my own.  He's it. He's a good dude. So that's it nice Way to go bro. Hey, we had fun with you. Thank you so much for joining you guys are amazing You heard about the call to close and how successful that was and how we dropped some arms On the call to close go to Cody ask is calm check that out three hours with me The call to close is a live training course. It's at kodiaskins.com and click on coaching or you can go to training that kodiaskins.com Unbelievable, we appreciate you guys watching. We'd love hanging out with you on Q&A Apparently according to run our leads and our training like the call to close Freakin bombs, man. I love it. Thanks for the questions. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for sharing this mother agent Thanks for the comments you guys are incredible have a lot of fun with you one of my favorite shows because I have a co-host We hang out we have fun with you guys. We talk about a personation and how we I don't want to hang out with you At this event you guys are awesome. Thanks for watching We'll see you Friday for a percent club. Thank you guys


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Purva and I will help you with the following question. Find the area under the given curve and given line y is equal to x raised to the power 4, x is equal to 1, x is equal to 5 and x axis. Now the area of the region enclosed between y is equal to fx, x is equal to a, x is equal to b and x axis is given by integral, limit is from a to b, fx, dx. So the area of the region enclosed between the curve y is equal to fx and the lines x is equal to a and x is equal to b and x axis is given by integral limit from a to b, fx, dx. So this is the key idea which we will use to solve this question. Now we pick in with the solution. Now y is equal to x raised to the power 4 is a curve with vertex at 0, 0 and symmetric about y axis. So here we get a curve y is equal to x raised to the power 4 with vertex at 0, 0 and it is symmetric about y axis and x is equal to 1 and x is equal to 5 are the two lines which are parallel to y axis. Thus this shaded region bounded by the curve y is equal to x raised to the power 4, x axis and the lines x is equal to 1 and x is equal to 5 is the region whose area is to be found out. Therefore required area is equal to, now by key idea we can clearly see that in our question we have fx is equal to x raised to the power 4, a is equal to 1 and b is equal to 5. So we have required area is equal to integral limit from a to b that is from 1 to 5 fx dx. Now here fx is equal to x raised to the power 4 dx. This is equal to now integrating x raised to the power 4 we get x raised to the power 5 upon 5 and limit is from 1 to 5. This is equal to now putting the limits we get 5 raised to the power 5 upon 5 minus 1 by 5 and this is further equal to now 5 raised to the power 5 is equal to 3125 upon 5 minus 1 by 5 and this is equal to now 3125 minus 1 is 3124 upon 5 and we get this is equal to 624.8. So we get our required area as 624.8. Hence the required area is equal to 624.8. So this is our answer. Hope you have understood the solution.


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But if you're having demon nightmares on a regular I'd be talking to somebody about that. So maybe something in your life has happened that you need to do something about. Let's see here. Tim says that White Eyed Kid may have been an angel or at least something that was not evil as the BEK. That's what I was thinking too, Tim. I'm thinking, you know, demons have angels that they're against, maybe Black Eyed Kids have White Eyed Kids that they're against. I really don't know. But that is that is interesting. Anime Mage 2 says maybe the White Eyes guard the Black Eyes. They try to find them when they escape. They might be why Black Eyes are sometimes anxious to hide. Maybe so. I really don't know. That's also that's another that's another good question. There was another one in here that I wanted to check on. I wanted to click on real quick. Oh, this is nice. This is not what I was looking for. But Nicole says, Hello, Darren, you've been my absolute favorite for going on two years. I'm super excited to be finally able to be a part of this. Well, thank you. We love your message. Keep up your amazing work. Well, thank you, Nicole. I appreciate that. I'm glad to have you here as part of our Weirdo family. There was there was there was a there was a specifically. Okay, maybe it was just on Facebook. Yeah, Mark left a Facebook note saying, I do agree that being a believer can help. I'd be interested in seeing them. But inviting them in is a big no, like welcoming the devil right into one's home, but fun to think about. Oh, and then Cheryl said, Yeah, I was just thinking shouldn't really invite that into your life. No, that's not the one I was looking for. Okay, I can't find it. All right. Well, anyway, it made me think about inviting inviting things in just in general. And it's interesting that they're asking for permission to get in vampires do as well in, you know, in folklore and everything. But demons do too. We just talked about that in the book. Demons ask for permission, but they don't necessarily ask in a way that the black eye kids do. But you do have to open the door for them. And now most of the time people are thinking that you're opening the door if you're playing with a Ouija board or using tarot cards or crystals or using something along those lines. And yes, that can be one way that you're opening a door.  But that one time suddenly there's a demon there. So yeah, I'm going to take advantage of the situation.  And one of the ways that demons can find that one of the ways that you are inviting a demon in is simply by committing a mortal sin. And one of the the latest episode had a had a woman who had committed adultery. And even though she had told her her husband about it, even though he had forgiven her and they had moved on, she had still committed that sin. And that is when the demon made their way into their into their relationship. They said it started happening about six months prior. And it was about that time that she had had the affair. At the same time, her husband had had a he used to have a problem with drugs and he had a relapse and started doing drugs again at that time. Again, he had told his wife, they got past it. He was clean. But that's when it had happened. And so they had actually they had actually allowed the demon in. And the reason that the drug use was committed a was considered a mortal sin is because that is tantamount to murder, because in a way, using those kinds of drugs, the illicit drugs that are damaging to you is murder, you're killing yourself, I guess. So according to the Catholic Church, that was tantamount to murder. So that's why that was considered a mortal sin. So I think there were there are ways, I guess, just behave. It's really what I'm saying. Just be good and you should be OK. I don't know. It was it was just interesting that that popped into my head. OK, I've got some great, great stuff from you guys in the comments. Oh, I just got another comment here. Oh, my gosh, Nicole, thank you so much. Nicole, just send in a $5. Thank you so much, Nicole. That is so sweet of you. You guys are so good. I really appreciate that. I'm not asking for the for the donations. I just I really appreciate that. But you guys have been so good. And that reminds me, I've got an email to share with you. I get emails all the time and normally I would create a separate episode called Chamber of Comments. But once in a while, I'll grab one here for Friday Frights. But you've been seeing my you've been you've been seeing right right there. You've been seeing the the email address this whole show. So if you want to drop me an email anytime about anything, you can do that. All right, I appreciate it. And for those of you who are listening, instead of watching, the email address is Darren, D-A-R-R-E-N at WeirdDarkness.com. This one comes from Will. He says, I guess I'm a weirdo now. Hello, Darren. I only entered the Weird Darkness a few weeks ago, and I'm going to tell you I'm really enjoying it. I was browsing for a podcast which told true ghost stories and the darkness delivers. You also cover true crime, cryptids, aliens, mysteries in all manner of paranormal and macabre subjects, nearly everything I want to hear about. I usually listen at work getting through two or three episodes daily trying to catch up with 2022 shows. Fortunately, they don't need to be listened to in order. I appreciate that every third word isn't an F-bomb, an all-too-common feature of many podcasts. They usually stick around for the Bible verse and final thought at the end. I'm not a religious person, but I like how you acknowledge your faith without overdoing it. No doubt, I'll visit the Church of the Undead sometime. Even the background music is great, and always fits the mood of the subject you're discussing. I believe I recognize a couple tracks by Midnight Syndicate but have no idea where you find the rest. I have indeed spread the word to my friends, even sharing the Hope in the Darkness page with one who was having a hard time. It's a great collection of resources and I applaud you for all your efforts for those who are struggling. The variety is astounding, I don't know how you're able to produce so much content, but please keep doing what you're doing. I'm glad I stumbled into the Weird Darkness. Thanks for making a great podcast. Sincerely, Will. Will, thank you very much, man. This is worth framing. I really appreciate that. You're asking about the music. When I first started doing the podcast, I started with Shadow's Symphony and later on, I started using Midnight Syndicate. And if I'm uploading dark archive episodes, like I'm bringing something back from the past, you'll still hear those. Nowadays, you ask like where I'm getting the rest of the music. The rest of the music comes from a variety of different websites. I use EpidemicSound.com. I use AlibiMusicLibrary, which I think is alibimusic.com, but it's called AlibiMusicLibrary. I also use Storyblocks, which has, it's mostly for video and stuff, but they have an audio section which they used to call Audioblocks, but they've since meshed everything into the same website. But Audioblocks had some really cool stuff as well. That's what I started using first, when I started paying for licensing. And that's one of the things that I don't do now. I don't use, in new episodes, I don't use Midnight Syndicate or Shadow's Symphony, because YouTube now flags those. And it'll, I'll either be demonetized or I'll be sharing with those, with those artists. And I don't mind sharing, actually. That's, that's perfectly fine. But too often than not, they're just cutting out monetization entirely because I'm using their music. I wouldn't, I would much rather they say, we recognize that you're using somebody else's music. So they're getting, they're getting the money, or they're getting a portion of the money. If they, if they get all the money, I don't, I don't like that. Unless of course they hunt the entire episode is, is like Midnight Syndicate. But usually what's happening is just only like one or two pieces of an entire hour is their music. And so YouTube will say, nope, sorry, we found those. So they're getting all the money from your video that hasn't moved over to the podcasting side yet yet. It's coming. I'm just waiting for it to happen. But since it happens on YouTube now, I try to avoid doing that. And so I'm actually paying for a licensing for those other websites that I just told you about. I'm also very fortunate to have a relationship with YouTube artist, me you, who allows me to use his music for free. He's really good. Nicholas Gasperini is his real name.  And he's so good. I went to him to ask him to write a specific piece of music for the Weirdling Woods episodes. So he actually created the theme for Weirdling Woods. And not only did he give me the full version, but he also gave me a version with just the just the percussion, a version with just the strings, then just the piano and then several different versions with different mixes. And it's so it's so great. I've got so much to use.  But what he gave me is probably close to an hour's worth of stuff that I can utilize inside the Weirdling Woods episodes so that I can create the feel for those episodes.  It's either the Weird Darkness theme, or his other music that he generously allows me to use without without it being flagged by YouTube. So he's really good. Again, I would again, I'd recommend checking him out on YouTube. And why you you. All right, before we get back to the stories real quick, real quick to let you know that we do have another entry in our caption contest. Again, our caption is this. And if you want to submit your own caption, just go to Fridayfrights.com and click on today's date. Then you can scroll down to the page to find this picture. And there's a form under this photo where you can submit your own caption. If your photo, excuse me, if your caption is our winner, which will be chosen by the darkness syndicate, my Patreon members, then you'll win a Weird Darkness t-shirt. And again, in that form, you can submit your your contact information as well as your shirt size. So here's the caption and our newest creepy caption is from Summer Fairy. She's been commenting a lot in today's show, too. So Summer, thank you very much for that. She says, just because the show is called Hell's Kitchen doesn't mean you'll get special treatment. You guys have been really good, really great on these. So, okay, again, if you want, if you want to submit a caption, I think you think you can do better than that, just go to Fridayfrights.com, click on today's date and then scroll down the page to see this photo and fill out the form under it to submit your caption. Okay, back to the stories. Can you believe we've actually almost gone all the way halfway through this entire book? I didn't realize we'd be going that fast. Wow, I'm not going to make it through the entire book. If you want, if you do want to see the entire book or listen to the entire book, I haven't narrated the whole thing. There's a link in the video description or you look for it on Amazon. It's called The Chilling True Terror of the Black Eyed Kids by G. Michael Vasey. Kind of hard to see with that particular font, but that's G. Michael Vasey, the true, the Chilling True Terror of the Black Eyed Kids. I should revoice it in this voice movie trailer guy. Okay, moving on. Okay. And then there was this encounter recently submitted to the website. And again, the website for this, G. Michael Vasey has his own website where you can submit your stories for his website as well. Of course, please send them to me by clicking on tell your story. But you can also check out some of the stories on his site and submit your stories to him as well. Just go to myhauntedlife2.com and 2 is as in also myhauntedlife2too.com. Okay. I live in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States. And this is where this event took place in February of 1988. My girlfriend, myself and a couple of friends were out bar hopping on a Friday night just having a good time. I ran out of cash and had to run to the ATM at the bank down the block. I made it to the ATM and withdrew some cash and this was when things got weird. I turned around and saw that across the street was a man leaning against the telephone pole on the corner. He was dressed well in a black suit with an open collar maroon shirt.  I couldn't be sure at that distance, but I firmly believe his eyes were completely jet black. The scariest part was that he was staring across this crowded intersection at me with this incredibly smug look on his face. I didn't want to hang around any longer than I had to, so I took off at a quick pace towards the club where my friends were. After several yards, I allowed myself a glance backward and saw that he was following me across the street. I reminded myself that nothing could happen with people all around, but I didn't really believe it.  I stood there shaking with fear as I saw the man pause on the other side of the street, looked both ways, then calmly began crossing toward me. Every move he made was precise and deliberate. I knew that when he got to me, something horrible was going to happen, and it was only with great effort that I managed to maintain my composure. Just then, another man walked up to me from the other direction. He was in his late 20s or early 30s, wearing jeans, sneakers, a baseball cap, and a hooded sweatshirt from a local university. He touched me on the shoulder and I immediately felt calmer. He said, Don't worry, you're all right, we have everything under control. I glanced back at the man in the suit and he paused in the middle of the street. It's amazing that he wasn't run over. The sweatshirt man turned away from me to face the man in the suit. It was clear to me that this was a showdown. After a moment, the man in the suit sneered at us in frustration, it seemed, and then turned around and walked away. The sweatshirt man turned back to me with a reassuring smile, patting my shoulder, and walked on. Were the Black-eyed kids hunted by another group of sinister beings with white eyes? That's what we were talking about just a couple of minutes ago in all the comments. So who are the W-E-K, the White-eyed kids? What are they? How do they relate to the B-E-K? There are now several stories on the internet about White-eyed kids and people. Is this simply a twist in an old and tested formula, in addition to the urban myth, or are these W-E-P somehow related to the B-E-K? One answer postulated by some observers is that the eye color may be an indication of demonic rank. Black eyes are said to indicate the worker or common demons, while white eyes signify a sort of superior demon or boss demon, if you will. Why do you mention that in the comments? That's pretty insightful of you. Certainly, the W-E-K seem much more powerful than the B-E-K, though sharing all the same features except the white eyes. Some of the reports of White-eyed kids that I've read in my research seem to suggest that the W-E-K are more adept at mind control and exhibit other phenomena like levitation, for example. In some of my experiences with W-E-K, the kids had superhuman strength despite being small and innocent looking. These children mostly have white or blonde hair and are usually around 9-16 years of age. Most of the reports apparently originate in rural areas and noticeably from around Native American sites. No one knows much about the W-E-K though and we'll need to watch and see how the story unfolds. The Black-eyed people encounter stories have been called a modern urban legend, yet I continue to find evidence to suggest that Black-eyed people have been with us for millennia in various guises of humanity's boogeymen. These people largely exist in the shadows of our subconscious, and yet from time to time they emerge in daylight. Is it our fear of the unknown, the darkness that exists on the edge of sleep or death populated by monsters and demons that haunts us so? Here's another submitted experience sent in to us that suggests that this might well be so. This took place several years ago when I was staying with a friend of mine and her family in Maine. Her parents had a summer place out there and would go with them quite often. We were in my friend's bedroom when I saw something walk past a window. This was a second floor bedroom so I was quite shocked to see something go past a window so high up. I didn't get much of a look at it, but I know it was completely white, pale even. After that, I tried to tell myself I hadn't seen anything. My friend didn't seem to be bothered by it, so we both spent the afternoon reading and talking together. The next day we were outside, and I had forgotten about the bedroom incident. We were in the garden when I felt quite strange, sick to my stomach. I wanted to go inside straight away. My friend wanted to stay outside, but she gave in and we went back to her bedroom. I was looking out the window when I saw him.  He waved at me and I saw his eyes. They were completely black. After the wave, he lifted the hat off his head and beckoned me to come to him. I stood completely still and did nothing. He stood there for a few seconds and then just faded away, still smiling. I didn't see him again, but I knew he was bad news. The way he waved at me was creepy. A few years later, I asked my friend about that incident, and she didn't seem to remember anything about it. She said that she had never seen any such man in that area. Their neighbors were all families. There were a few older people in the area. I had no idea who he was or what he wanted. This is truly the stuff of nightmares. Unknown people dressed all in black with black eyes, beckoning to us from a distance. So what did Louise see? What did the man want? And why did he have black eyes? Commonly, nightmares are more terrifying because they happen in broad daylight with people all around. Yet no one else seems to notice. The object of the nightmare is seen only by us and everyone else carries on oblivious to our increasing sense of horror, like in this account. A few weeks ago, I was walking down the street to get my car out of the garage when I noticed a homeless man sitting on a bench-like thing outside the garage. I had never seen him before as he wasn't a regular on that block. There are a few homeless people in my area, so he was very noticeable. As I passed by, he looked up at me and caught my eye. Please, spare some change. Anything you can spare will help me, he said. I was thinking about offering him some change, but then realized that all I had was some change buried in my handbag somewhere. I kept walking, pretending not to hear the man. I felt a pang of remorse as I passed him, but continued. He continued to beg, and then I sauntered away from him, and he said, Please, spare some change. Please, Makayla. I turned around as most people would, hearing their name called, and I was met with this homeless man's strange, sinister stare. I was shocked that the man knew my name, being that I was not wearing anything that would identify me and that I had never met him before.  When I looked back at him, I saw that his eyes were black, bottomless, almost hypnotic.  His stare was truly frightening, it was evil, but it was powerful, and I felt as though I had hands running up and down my back. I truly felt that he was not a person. He was a creature and didn't do everything about me. He continued to stare at me, and he stopped begging as other people passed by. I was so unbelievably frightened and speechless. I have no idea what it was or who it was and why it called my name. I've never seen that man again on the street that I don't ever want to. Submitted by Makayla Jackson, it's broad daylight and seemingly just an innocent encounter with a homeless person. However, the experience takes on this different order of menace altogether. What her name is used by this total stranger who has pitch black eyes is a nightmarish experience. Also notice the fear and sense of evil when the black eyes are revealed. This powerful and irrational fear is a key component of all black-eyed people encounters.  This happened on October 19, 2006, at around 1pm or so. They usually parked my car at a park for my lunch, as a lot of people did that day. I had parked on a side of the park where there were no cars near me, only a truck facing my car from the opposite side. I had an uneasy feeling about the truck and had to move the car to another spot. As I sat in my car eating lunch, a man walks past my car toward the pond path and then he appears to be in front of my car hood.  It seemed as if he could read my mind as he turned to glare at me with a sinister look. His eyes were all black. I thought I was seeing things. I had to go to work then. On the way back, a utility truck backed into my car and I was wrecked. I never went back to that area again, submitted by Patty. Notice how the encounter is linked with bad luck, just moments after she has an accident and her car is wrecked. The nine-marriage quality that goes with encounters with these black-eyed kids magnifies when it involves the black-eyed kids instead of the black-eyed people. These pale-faced, black-eyed kids are often described as robotic, motionless, and insistent. They always want to be let in. This next encounter is a good example and has a lot of aspects typical of a BEC encounter, more than just a modern legend. The story takes place long before the modern urban legend took off. I was around 12 when this incident took place. I didn't know anything about black-eyed kids until a few years ago when I started reading reports on the internet about these strange people. My story is a little different to those other encounters. I was sitting in my mom's car waiting for her to return. She was inside Walmart and I had elected to wait in the car with my book. A young boy had walked past the car a few times and I hadn't really taken that much notice of him. The fourth or fifth time that the boy went past, I think he noticed me as he came over to the car and stared at me. I tried to ignore him and read my book, but he started whispering, let me in. I knew the front doors were locked and I quickly checked the doors at the back. My side was unlocked, but the side the boy was on was locked. I locked my side. The boy kept pleading to be left in. He then went quiet and stared at me for a few minutes before walking away. I want to talk about the eyes.  There was no other color to be seen, just pure blackness. He didn't blink. He didn't wince or show any emotion. His face was stony white. When he spoke, I seemed to hear the words in my head more than through my ears. When he tapped on the window, it was slow and methodical. He did not seem to be in any danger or need my help. He was not panicking. He was almost like he was a robot under the control of someone or something else. The weirdest thing about this encounter was that my mother returned to the car a few minutes later and complained that some woman had approached her and had asked her for the keys to her car. She said my mother had blocked her in and this woman wanted to move her car. My mom knew she hadn't. The strange woman then became quite insistent and my mother was forced to ask a security guard to help her. To my knowledge, our incidents had taken place at the same time. She also told me that the woman's eyes were strange. Not completely black but almost. Submitted by Yanni Imbrugian. So were these two incidents related? I think so. But how did the two seemingly unconnected people manage to communicate so effectively over such a distance? Keep in mind this happened in the 1970s before the micro technology of today. Were they under the control of another person or were they able to communicate telepathically? What's going on in an encounter like this one? The scene seems even more terrifying. It takes place in a parking lot of Walmart surrounded by people and traffic. Strangely enough, a lot of BEK stories seem to take place at Walmart. It's as if they walk among us, beside us, waiting for their moment to approach us and for our own personal nightmare to begin. That moment can occur at any time, any context. Imagine setting off for a routine showing of real estate only to find that today was your turn to meet them. Of course, most BEK stories take place at night or more accurately in the early hours when small children should be at home and in bed sleeping. Things take on an even more sinister and frightening aspect after dark when no one is around and we are alone in near silence. The typical BEK story is the one in which a quiet knock disturbs the peace of the night. A young child or children are on the door steps and their very presence causes an unexplained fear. They ask to come in to enter. They look vulnerable and alone and it is difficult to handle the conflict between the need to care for a young child and the rising fear that you are feeling. Until that is, you see the black, soulless eyes staring at you. Then that fear finds its fury as you slam the door and retreat into the safety of your own home. Like in this encounter. I usually go to sleep at night, spending time reading books, watching TV or listening to music. A few nights ago, after listening to music for a long time, I became sleepy and removed my headphones. I clearly remember checking the time and it was around 3 am. I was simply lying down trying to sleep and that is when I heard a sound. Concentrating further, I realized that it was a knocking sound and probably made by a little child. As gentle as it was, it seemed to reverberate through the house as though it were coming through a giant speaker. I checked the other rooms in our house and my family was all sound asleep. I also checked the neighborhood for lights and I couldn't find any. I was really confused and went to the dining room from where the sound was loudest. I noticed that the sound was coming from outside. I went to the door and I could see the shape of a small child standing outside on our porch. I felt sick. I opened the door and a small child stood there. I turned on the porch lights and I could see that he was dressed in black. I asked him what he wanted and he just stared at me. He had completely black eyes. I closed the door and the knocking started again. I became really confused this time and went to my room. As soon as I entered my room, the knocking sound stopped abruptly. I decided to let it go and get some sleep. I closed my door and climbed into my bed when I heard a hard knock on my bedroom door.  This thud made the glass rattle and shake. I thought the window was going to break. Somehow, I don't know how. I fell asleep. I have no idea how that happened. I just remember the window shaking and then waking up the following morning. When I woke up in the morning, I tried to dismiss the experiences as my imagination. When I told my dad about this, he asked me to lock my door at night and get to sleep earlier. I thought it was all over, but from that day, I feel a presence with me in my room every night. I never tried to communicate with me or scare me, but I could always feel it with me at night when I am alone in my room. Submitted by Sheila Canaveral. This experience left Sheila with a lasting presence and fear that would not go away. You have to wonder if in fact she did let them in and simply just doesn't remember doing so. There is no doubt several forces are at work when the BEK call, and despite the fear and the feeling of great danger, the hypnotic effect of the quiet, compelling voice can cause people to do things that perhaps they otherwise would not do. Those who have had an encounter with the BEK, they often remark on their strange behavior and language. They do not act as small children might. They use old-fashioned words and language and are often dressed strangely. They may have stepped out of another era, or dimension, or as I have said earlier, from the edge of our reality. Their very presence strikes an irrational fear reaction, a terrifying fear of losing one's humanity or indeed one's soul. There is also a hint of the ill effects of the encounter in terms of headaches and so on. However, it is what appears to be an ability to see the future on the part of the BEK that is creepy. I am sure that story is coming up in just a minute. I have debated doing this one, but I think I will. I think I will go ahead and share this. I shared this for Halloween and people seem to like it, so before we come back and share some of your comments and share that story, I will share this with you. Good night, without a single word, I knew our love was right. I felt her hot breath get near when she nibbled on my ear, that I saw her face come into the light. She's my werewolf girlfriend, it was love at first bite. She's my werewolf girlfriend, she's only dangerous at night. She's still a fox to me, even though she has lycanthropy. My werewolf girlfriend and me. Every month she has her womanly change, but instead of getting grumpy, she suffers from the mange. I don't need to buy her furs, the best in the world is already hers. Her manicures are out of my price range. She's my werewolf girlfriend, it was love at first bite. My werewolf girlfriend, she's only dangerous at night. She's still a fox to me, even though she has lycanthropy. Girlfriend, very dangerous when we fight. It's really strange when we kiss. Good night. To be the leader of my, I need more hair, allergic to silver, so I buy her gold. I know she's healthy when her nose is cold. I know our love will never fail when she starts to wag her tail. She's my werewolf girlfriend, it was love at first bite. And she's only dangerous at night. She's still a fox to me, even though she has lycanthropy. I hope you liked that. We did have a couple more caption contest entries. Here is the picture that you're supposed to caption. You can find this at FridayFrights.com. Just click on today's date and then scroll down the page. You can see this photo and if you are the winner this month, then you will win a Weird Darkness t-shirt. The I Don't Believe in Humans t-shirt, and of course you'll get it in your size when you send in your caption. You also have the opportunity to send in the size of your shirt at the same time.  It's bubbling. It's hot enough. And then Laura sent in, no, not more. I have newt needs more cowbell. Cowbell. You gotta love it, cowbell. That's Saturday Night Live for those of you who have no clue as to what that means. Anyway, that's pretty good stuff. Okay, let's take a look at some of your comments that have been coming in. Magnus says, wow, an original song about werewolves by Darren Marlar. Thank you. Yeah, actually, I shared that last, well, I shared that during the Halloween live screen. And people seem to really like it. I did upload that by itself as a separate YouTube video if you want to find it, just like for Werewolf Girlfriend by Darren Marlar on YouTube. You can find it if you want to listen to it again or share it with your friends or whatever. Let's see here. Mark says, ah, something I saw, some guy named Kahl would love. I have no idea who Kahl is, but okay. Nicole says, this just became a must in my library. I can't get enough Darren. So I don't know about that, but thank you, Nicole. I appreciate it. I got to figure out how to put that on Spotify. If anybody knows how to do stuff on Spotify, maybe you can tell me how to do that. Let's see here. Say what their other stuff is there. Oh, there's one that werewolf song is the best and funniest song I've heard even though it's the second time I've heard it. So you were listening then during the Halloween live screen. All right. Summer says, I love your werewolf song, but reminds me of an ex-boyfriend who was convinced he was a werewolf. Needless to say, he had stopped taking his meds. You actually dated a guy that thought he was a real werewolf. Wow. I'm glad. I'm glad it says ex-boyfriend there. Yeah. Okay. Let's see here. I think that's enough for those. You guys are doing a lot of talking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Nicole says that she wants more stories from David Pointer. I fall asleep listening to the 12 rules. Oh, creepypastas. All right. Let me look. I'll see if I can find some David Pointer stuff. All right.  Turns out if the white-eyed ghost didn't let the man in the Tory sleep, you would be the ghost with two white eyes. Okay. Whatever. Okay. So I think that's it there. Yes. You can never have enough too much cowbell. All right. Cute. Okay. You guys just keep going back and forth between yourselves. You do that. Okay. All right. Well, I'm just about to wrap things up here, but I do want to share that one last story. And this is not, of course, the last story. There's still a lot more left to go in this book if you only want to hear the entire book in my voice. I did narrate the audio version. There's a link in the video description also in the show notes or just look on Amazon or Audible and you can find it. It's The Chilling True Terror of the Black-Eyed Kids by G. Michael Vasey. Give it a look. It's a great book all the way through.  So we're about to go into one last story about the D.E.K. and this is this one has a little bit of a twist. Well, you'll see why. This took place in Arizona in the mid 1980s. One late evening, I woke up to loud knocks on the front door of my house. My husband was fast asleep and I didn't want to go down and open the door. It wasn't normal for us to have late night visitors. So I did wonder if it was an accident of some type. I looked out that window and I couldn't see anything. It was pitch black outside. I woke my husband and asked him to go down and find out what was happening. He was not very happy, but he got up, put his robe on and went downstairs. I watched from the landing as he opened the door. Two children were standing there. Both looked young and both looked like they were frozen. I know there was a boy and a girl. My husband asked them if they had been in an accident. They nodded. He asked them if their parents were with them. They shook their heads. Our parents are coming for us, one of them said. My husband was still half asleep and started closing the door. Let us in, one of them said. Let us in. I watched as my husband opened the door and they walked in. It was obviously not in control of his own body. He doesn't take orders, but he did that night. I could see that both children looked like they were eight years old. I went downstairs and asked them if they would like to sit down. We went through to the kitchen and they sat. Our dog went crazy.  He would not stop barking. Looking back now, he knew what those kids were. I tried to make small talk with the kids, but they didn't say anything. My husband said nothing. It was then that he started to complain about stomach pains. He said he felt as though he had been stuck with a sword. I tried to help him. The kids didn't move. I left the room and when I came back, my husband had passed out. The kids couldn't be found. I called 911 and asked for an ambulance. I didn't even think about the kids until the next day. My husband was taken to a hospital and needed to have immediate surgery to remove his appendix. The doctor said he had a rumbling appendix and would have died or I'm sure they meant ruptured appendix or rumbling appendix and would have died if he'd ignored it. The thing is, he'd never had any issue with his appendix before that night. Who were those kids? Why did they want to hurt us? I know they caused my husband's issues and I want to know why. Cindy Mankiewicz, Arizona. You can find also the Weird Darkness podcast. I upload it seven days a week. You can find that at WeirdDarkness.com. If you go there, you'll find all the different apps that you can listen on. That's WeirdDarkness.com. That's also where you can find all of my social media. Listen to free audiobooks that I've narrated. Visit the store for Weird Darkness t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, phone cases, and more merchandise. You can sign up for monthly contests, find other podcasts that I host, and find the Hope in the Darkness page if you or somebody you know is struggling with depression or dark thoughts. Also on the website, if you have a true paranormal or creepy tale to tell, you can click on Tell Your Story, which I will then use in a future episode. And you can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com. Fireside Frights and Weird Darkness are productions and trademarks of Marlar House Productions copyright 2023. Now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Isaiah 5 verse 20. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. And a final thought from C.S. Lewis. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me for Friday Frights in the Weird Darkness.


Vienne ja vienne-rejitujat ovat seuraavat, jotka ovat yksinkertaiset, joilla on useita GLMs. Laitetaan katsota, mitä vienne ja vienne-rejitujat ovat. Vienne-rejitujat ovat kalkkulat, joilla on koko ajan yksinkertaisuus ja vienne-rejitujat. Vienne-rejitujat ovat minua koko ajan yksinkertaisuus ja sitten saamme koko ajan. Vienne-rejitujat ovat yksinkertaisita, jotka ovat yksinkertaiset, erilaisia, koko ajan yksinkertaisuusta. Vienne-rejitujat ovat tässä, ja MCC se on ihan vienne-rejitujat, jolloin se saadaan koko ajan yksinkertaisuus. Vienne-rejitujat ovat minua koko ajan yksinkertaisuus ja vienne. Parallelun regresson analysointi on, että maximisaatinga lopulta on the same thing as minimizing the overall deviance, which is the sum of squares of residual, deviance residuals. So GLM estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, is equivalent to calculating the least squares of deviance residuals. So there is an interesting parallel. There are also some other interesting parallels that I will explain in the next few slides. When you do a GLM, you will get statistics about deviance residuals and the overall deviance as shown here. So we have residual statistics, these are about deviance residuals, and these model quality indices are about deviance, overall deviance of the model. Let's take a look at the residual statistics first. Residual statistics here give us the quartiles minimum, maximum and median of the residuals. The deviance residuals, if the model is correctly specified, so the distribution is correct and the linear prediction is correct, they are normally distributed in large samples. The deviance residual is also, or the square of deviance residual also quantifies how much each observation contributes to the actual likelihood value. So they can be used as influence statistics, similarly to residual in our square. So one way of doing diagnostics to GLMs is that when you have a large sample, you can check which observations have a large deviance residual and whether the deviance residuals are normally distributed or not. Then we have the overall model deviance here in the model quality indices. We have two deviances and the null deviance and the residual deviance and then we have a statistic called AIC. The null deviance is a deviance for a model with intercept only, so a model where none of the explanatory variables explain the dependent variable at all. So here we have 3970 degrees of freedom for the null deviance. Then the deviance for the estimated model is the residual deviance. We have 3916, so we lost one degree of freedom because we had one independent variable and this is the overall deviance, which is minus two times the log likelihood. So minus two times log, if we multiply this by minus half, then that's the value of the log likelihood that the computer actually minimizes when it estimates the model. Then AIC is similar to adjusted R-square so that it can be used for model comparison. So it penalizes the deviance for the complexity of the model. We subtract the number of parameters divided by two from the deviance that gives us AIC. AIC can be used for comparing two models that are not nested when they are fitted to the same data. The AIC itself, the value, whether it's large or not, it doesn't really have any interpretation. We can just use to compare AICs and if deviance is smaller, it means that the model explains the data better. That means that if AIC is smaller, then the model fits better. So we can use AIC for comparing which model we use. For example, if we have two models that have different sets of variables that are non-nested, then we could use AIC to compare which of those models is better for the day.


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