every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together thank you very much would the clerk please call the roll there are nine present and all the person sorenson is excused please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next item on our agenda is the approval of our minutes from our last city council meeting all the person wolf thank you mayor make a motion to approve thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the minutes seeing none with the clerk all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes next is resignation city attorney the resignation bill feels submitting his resignation from the city plan commission effective December 30 2018 all the person wolf thank you mayor make a motion to accept and file thank you for that motion and support all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion passes city attorney mayor's appointments the mayor is submitting the following appointments for your consideration to the Sheboygan squared bid board Marcus Diedrich to fill the unexpired term of David Sanderson whose term expires 12 31 2019 and the following appointments beginning January 1 2019 and expiring December 31 2020 Rick Scroggins Amy Horst Eileen Simmons Aaron Sloma Jane Davis would Paul Rudnick and Chad Pellisheck those appointments will lie over and then we have mayor's appointments 1.6 is an appointment by the mayor and the administrator pursuant to general ward and 66 12 13 creating section 2-4 19 of the Sheboygan municipal code relating to the position of director of information technology we hereby recommend that Eric Bushman be appointed as the director of information technology for the city of Sheboygan and that appointment will lie over and then one last one 1.7 is also an appointment to the mayor submits the following appointment for your consideration Dave Hoffman to be considered for appointment to the city plan commission to fill the unexpired term of bill feel whose term expires April 2020 and that will also lie over next city clerk open forum thank you mr. Mayor Joanne Scribner could you state your name and address for us three Seneca trails to play in Wisconsin 508 one Joanne could you move the mic closer thank you very much you'll have five minutes okay the last time I was here speaking at Common Council about this issue was on April 6 I think I yelled at just about everybody here for me or Mike to Darrell Hoffman to probably the city attorney and not Meredith all the persons Dave Bebel etc. didn't yell at the chief though okay save our armory that's my topic and they're gonna put it up for a referral to finance committee on Friday one of my sources told me that the last time I spoke it was save our Shabwegan armory the reason it was built in 1941 me by the was by the WPA which is a federal you know works program so the guys who need jobs at the time got jobs it was depression time the greatest generation built that armory Shabwegan I'm sorry but it seems like some of you all the persons me or Mike other people here which I won't name want to destroy everything historical I want to save things that are historical that's why we have a historical museum on Erie Avenue history save our Shabwegan armory don't tear it down what another high-rise apartment building with rents 1,000 to 6 1,000 to 1600 or whatever $2,000 a month most Shabwegan citizens can't afford that kind of high-rise sorry that's just the way it is not all all of us are millionaires or 1,000 years we don't have $40,000 a year income wish we did it's not there anyway like I said the greatest generation were some of the men who built that armory Bill Wongam and you know him used to be a member of Shabwegan Common Council historian extraordinaire he there's like I have what 46 pages 46 pages of things events that happened at the Shabwegan armory and auditorium yes it is memorabilia yes it's sentimental my main point tonight is please from Mayor Mike to Darrell Houghland to Chuck Adams to all of you all the persons put this on referendum for the April election so everybody in the city of Shabwegan can vote don't just take a wrecking ball to it you know that's a bunker that's one solid bunker was built as a military bunker there are so many events that took place Cordettes the Don McNeil Breakfast Club was there Harlem Globetrotters I mean I could just go if I had an hour I'd go through this list of all the things that happened there wonderful events Lakeland College I graduated Lakeland the Lakeland College basketball games the muskies the muskies North South basketball games teen dances the crescendos was the first teen dance back and I forgot my notes but it's all in here why are you going to destroy history again why why Chad why Dave why me or Mike why do you know why Mary then why save Cedarburg is a really nice time it's got a lot of historical buildings they don't tear down their historical buildings why does Shabwegan save it put it on referendum I'm thinking about calling talking to Adam Paine maybe we should put it on the county ballot as well not just Shabwegan county people use used the armory back in 68 as one of those staggered girls I was a lot thinner then pom-poms the whole thing Bill Stegger from Oshkosh he died too young Richard Nixon I was here when he was here to speak I don't understand why except I know it's the money it's always about the money how about some sentimentality and some history save our Shabwegan army excuse me Joanne your time is up do I have one more minute please wrap up thanks so again my plea is to Shabwegan Common Council put it on referendum for the April ballot so that we can all as the citizens of Shabwegan vote on it otherwise we're going to say you don't care you don't care you don't care you don't care you don't care you don't care you don't care about the opinions of the residents if you'd show that you care put it on referendum so we can all vote all citizens of Shabwegan maybe Shabwegan County too maybe I'll talk to Adam Keane as I said referendum referendum referendum put it on referendum so we can all vote referendum referendum referendum thank you you're welcome thank you Glenn Martin you state your name and address my name is Glenn Martin and my address is West 1198 Highway KK Kokona Wisconsin and I'm representing a company called statewide raising thank you you'll have five minute okay so I'm here is the other part of demolishing the building not because all of a sudden I'm not here for public opinion okay that's in material okay I'm a contractor and I'm a contractor that would like to bid on this job okay this job was bid out several times okay several years ago I asked I got the thing right here I got a paper called a daily reporter where it says that all of a sudden we're going to be asking for bids for the Shabwegan Armory okay and I got this paper on well it's mailed out on the 13th I read it on Monday it says and then there's a pre-qualification that was due on I mean a mandatory pre-bid that was due on the 13th okay and I had and I call up Mr. Ramsey I think his name Bernard Ram or okay and I asked him why didn't you send me an email on this okay and he said Glenn we sent you an email on this I says no you didn't you didn't send me an email okay he says well well it's too late you can't bid on it anyway so I went and seen him in person okay and I says to him why wasn't I received email this is the second time this happened now I says he says we'll put you on the bid list I says no I don't want to be put on the bid list I was asked to be put on the bid list and had changed my email address two years ago and you didn't change it okay you didn't change my email as a courtesy thing that all the bidders that bid on the project they were sent an email saying is that you had to be this pre-bid qualification okay to be there to bid on the project and I've done projects for in the city in the past okay I tore down schools and houses and I've tore down a couple buildings in the downtown not the downtown I know the industrial flats here okay a lot of years ago I've been in between this since I was oh god 1978 okay I started working for people 74 really so that's all I'm asking for is the opportunity to bid and so I'm kind of kind of sad here is going well how am I supposed to bid a job when I'm not informed about the bidding process and I understand that all of a sudden when you ask a person to change email how that process kind of gets lost or your person ask you how to go ahead and change my phone number it gets lost but I'm going how am I supposed to know this when all of a sudden I get a publication that's too late to even bid on the project so I'd like the opportunity to bid on the project okay and I realize it's been bid before but that's all I'm asking for is an opportunity I can't say I'm going to be low whatever it is it's all I say is that I want an opportunity thank you very much thank you next we'll go on to Mayor's announcements I'd like to ask Sharpecniac to come to the front please tonight we have a proclamation to present an honor honor of national mentoring month January is natural mentoring months celebrating the benefits of youth mentoring across the country and whereas every day communities across the country carrying adults volunteer their time with mentoring programs to create consistent and supportive relationships with young people at its most basic lever level mentoring is successful in real life because it guarantees young people have an adult to turn to that they have a guiding hand to help them and dealing with day-to-day challenges at a more complex level there is a powerful mentoring effect that ultimately makes our communities stronger and whereas quality mentoring programs are proven to build relationships that improve school attendance academic achievement promote responsible decision-making provide skills to better navigate relationships at school and socially and at home whereas a report by mentor the national mentoring partnership found that young adults who are at risk of falling off track but who had a mentor are 55% more likely to enroll in college 78 more percent more likely to volunteer regularly in their communities 90% are interested in becoming a mentor and 130% are more likely to hold leadership positions and whereas mentoring programs have shown to be an effect effective in combating school violence and discipline problems substance abuse incarceration and truancy whereas I now therefore Mike van der steen by me as mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hereby declare January of 2019 is national mentoring month in Sheboygan and call upon public officials business and community leaders and educators to encourage citizens of the city to observe this month with the appropriate ceremonies and activities and programs in order to recognize the men and women who serve as staff volunteers at quality mentoring programs and who help our young people find their inner strength and reach their full potential. Shara is here on behalf of Horizon for Girls a great mentoring organization we also have a robust big brothers and big sisters program and also we have other youth programs that supply mentoring so Shara I'm very happy to present this proclamation to you and I want to thank you for all the great work that your organization is doing and also mention the good work that other organizations in our community are doing in mentoring. I'd also like to just remind you that the police department is putting together their citizen academy for this year their citizen academy will be an 11 week program and will run March 12th through May 21st and they're looking for applications to be into them by February 22nd. I know that some like Rosemarie Trester has said she's gone through that in the past and what a great experience it was so and Jim Boran so I hope that other citizens will be interested in this and also want to let you know that on the 29th of December a new episode of Discover Wisconsin was on featuring Sheboygan in the fall and winter and they have it on their website if you'd like to go and view that but this is part of our visit Sheboygan effort to to get the word out and that's one of the programs that they've set up for that purpose. Thank you. Next we'll go on with the consent agenda that'll include items two point through through 2.4. Alderperson Wolfe. Thank you Mayor. I make a motion to accept and file all our O's accept and adopt all our C's and pass all resolutions and ordinances. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Motion to spend the consent agenda are before us. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. Would the clerk please call the roll. Nine eyes. Motion passes. Under reports of officers items 3.1 and 3.2 we refer to the finance and personnel committee. Under resolutions items 4.1 through 4.5 we will be referred to various committees. Under reports of committees item 5.1 is RC number 219 of 1819 by the finance and personnel committee. To whom is referred resolution number 145 of 1819 by Alderperson's renflash and borne supporting. Placing an advisory referendum question on the April of 2019 ballot to determine if the Wisconsin legislature should consider and pass legislation requiring all businesses to pay their fair share of property taxes by closing perceived loopholes in the assessment process and recommends approving the resolution. Alderperson renflash. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion? Alderperson renflash. Let the council to put this referendum on the ballot for the April similar to what other cities and villages and counties have been doing in the state. This is involved with the dark store situation where stores are being assessed at a lower value than generally public is assessed at. So people are paying access and personal property taxes because all the referendum they're doing is really kind of encouraging. Thank you for those comments. Alderperson down here and just to follow up on that there was an extensive article on the Sunday New York Times featuring the Wauwatosa mayor. Mike you should have lobbied harder to get your picture. But I think that really sets out the breadth and depth of this problem which and unfortunately our legislators just aren't listening to us. And so building support within communities I think is extremely important. And so I will wholeheartedly vote for this and then I think part two of that is an educational campaign to let people know exactly you know what is this all about. Nobody. It's hard to figure out what a dark store is and so forth. So I think that we need to be engaged in that as well. Thank you for the comments. All the Jim Alderperson born. Making up a different sense. This is an essential, substantial model of safety. So I agree. I think there has to be more education. I'm all for doing the referendum. I think there has to be another educational point for the referendum to the citizens understand that they're the ones that are paying freedoms for the. Thank you very much. All the person will think you're not to continue to review this subject. But it I do agree with the fact that we need to take this referendum also because of the fact that as more and more brick and mortar disappear because of you know online shopping and things like that. If this if this situation is not addressed and understood by by our citizens, it's going to continue to cripple cities all over. Thank you very much. In the other discussion. See none with the clerk. Please call the roll for passage. Nine eyes. Motion passes. Under item number 6 general ordinances item 6.1 and 6.2 will be referred to the finance personnel committee. Under other matters received after the agenda is published I'll turn it over to the city attorney. Thank you, Mayor 7.1 is an arrow by the city clerk submitting various license applications for the period ending June 30 2019 December 31 2019 and June 30 2020. That will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee 7.2 is a resolution by all the person's Wolf and Sorensen authorizing advertising for bids for the Meade public library Plaza project that I'd be referred to the public works committee. All the person Wolf. Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to adjourn. Thanks for that motion would clerk all those in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed. We stand adjourned. Thank you very much.


Good afternoon, I'm Ralph Winnie, Vice President of the Eurasia Center and it's Eurasian Business Coalition. We are fortunate today to have Art Harmon, the Executive Director of the Conservative Caucus who has just recently returned to the United States from a very productive trip to Taiwan. And Mr. Harmon is gonna discuss with us his observations from a cultural, social, economic and political standpoint of his trip to Taiwan and what it means for engagements between mainland China and the United States vis-a-vis Taiwan. So Art, could you talk about what it was like when you first arrived in Taiwan and sort of the backdrop of your trip and what you were hoping to accomplish? Sure, and thanks so much Ralph, glad to be on with you. You know, I went to Taiwan for two reasons. One was explore the island, bit of a vacation, but then also strategically mind it. You know, what can I impart to Taiwan officials? What can I learn from them? What do they need from America to better deter China from an attack? So, you know, I was in Taiwan in 2014. That was with Congressman Stockman. I was his legislative director. And between the two of us, we managed to do things that helped Taiwan at the time and- What kind of things? Working for selling Taiwan technology to build their indigenous submarines, upgrades for F-16 fighters and sales of new fighters. We were trying to get them observer status in the RIMPAC naval exercises. At that time under Obama, Obama was having China, Communist China participate in the RIMPAC exercises, giving them the advantage of watching our naval tactics, which is just absolutely unbelievable. And we're just kind of paying the price for that now. Do you know how that impacted Hawaii at the time? Or was there any engagement with the Hawaii delegation when you went to Taiwan back then? Or what perspective was from people in Hawaii? Were you able to engage at that time? At that time, no, I don't know at all that. That didn't come up. We were meeting with Vice President and Defense Minister, things like that and talking on the more national levels. But, you know, Hawaii is the third island chain. This is China's aim is to drive the U.S. back to the shores of Hawaii. And then if they were to get their way with propaganda and so forth, they would probably try to get Hawaii to secede from the U.S., become independent and then become essentially a vassal of China. This is what they do. This is what they're doing around the world. And then they ensnare them in debt and they can control them like puppets. So, Hawaii is definitely on China's radar, but not in a good way. When you were in Taiwan, what kind of perspective were you able to engage from your daily interactions with the people in terms of their business connection with China and or their engagement with the United States? What would they like to see more from the U.S. or what would they like to see from China in terms of their engagement? Because there's over a million Taiwanese doing some form of business in mainland China, so that creates a very unique economic and strategic relationship between Taiwan and mainland China. Yet, Taiwan is very closely tied and aligned politically with the United States. Well, this is sort of in a way a complicating affair and it's also a perhaps slightly deterrent way. Because if China goes to war, then there's a lot of business contacts that will be destroyed, a lot of customers abroad that will be lost and so forth. Not to mention things like the semiconductor industry, which would be the grand prize of China seizing Taiwan. If they seize those plants intact, then they rule 93% of the semiconductor market. They can put in back doors. They can also use it as blackmail that if you want ships, you're going to get out of the Western Pacific. You're going to do this. You're going to do that. You're going to start using the reserve currency that China is starting to build along with the BRICS. And is that what the Taiwanese people believe? The people that you talk to there on the ground? Among civilians, regular citizens, I had lots of talks. Everything from just people that I got in chatting with, Uber drivers, everything. And there's sort of a dividing line between those that see China as a serious threat and those that dismiss it. And I found that also with officials, with some who believe that war is not inevitable and that it can be deterred. And some that believe it won't happen for years. What's the basis for that rationale? Is it the economic and strategic alliances that exist? The fact that everyone there is Chinese? Or what is their rationale for thinking there's going to be? Well, not everyone's Chinese because Taiwanese have their own identity and more and more, except for the older citizens who still remember the early Taiwan government, the Kuomintang and Pankai Shek. The Taiwanese today feel themselves as Taiwanese, that they don't consider themselves Chinese. And so China knows that they're losing Taiwan. Getting a Hong Kong-like agreement is now impossible, particularly since China abrogated that international agreement. And that's the West perception that they abrogated that agreement. And so when people look at that. Not just the West perception, it's the reality because they're now cracking down. You can't talk about things they used to be able to talk about. They shipped a lot of demonstrators and human rights activists to God knows where, probably concentration camps in the area of the Uyghurs and so forth.  And that's what these people feel the younger generation in Taiwan feels, that any kind of reprishe model of China could lead to that sort of situation. Is that what you're finding when you're down there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and, you know, the majority party, the Democratic Progressive Party, is, you know, they, people in that understand that, this would be a deal with the devil and after maybe a couple of years of pretending to be nice, then it would be all over, you know, concentration camps and reeducation. It would be very difficult for them to crush the independent spirit in Taiwan. It would have to be done with brutal force. But I don't think too many really look at that and think that they can fight a war and win a war. If China starts a war, they're going to finish the war one way or another and it won't be ready. And how confident are you in the younger millennial generation, whether it's in Taiwan or in mainland China, that is Western trained and educated? They have only known economic peace and prosperity. And if you ask them what they want in life, they want to be entrepreneurs. They want to trade and they want to invest. And apparently the government, the People's Republic, has been able to co-op many of them into the system by offering them a business development network where they can actually make money and spend their money. Now we saw a crack during the COVID period because many of these young people were locked out and they could not engage in any kind of commerce. They couldn't leave their homes. They couldn't travel. And then they watched the World Cup of Soccer and they realized all the state, they see the stadiums build and they don't understand why their government is cracking down on them. So they go out in the streets and protests. And then the government backs up and they relax these restrictions. Are you confident that something like that could happen in both China and Taiwan if the government's become very oppressive and or trying to force a regime down the other side's back, per se, rather than allowing trade and commerce to flourish and develop? Well, there's tons of commerce now and that shows no sign of lessening. But if there's a war, then all bets are off. And there's only a few options. One is China just keeps bullying Taiwan, hoping to get some sort of accommodation. But I don't think that'll happen. Or they do a war and they take it over. They'll take over a broken nest from the article of one researcher because a lot of infrastructure will be destroyed. It's even possible that Taiwanese would destroy their semiconductor plants on the way out, so to speak, to prevent them from falling in enemy hands. And we would actually be better off if they didn't do that. And if China took the island, we would be better off bombing those plants to smithereens to prevent that blackmail that would happen, to prevent backdoors being put in electronics, including those that are used in our military. So there just aren't very many choices. They, China knows that an accommodation a la Hong Kong really will never happen. Now, if they keep up the bullying in circling the island, firing missiles over threatening war, over five or 10 years, could the population become weary of that and want something like that? I don't know, you know, the Hong Kong kind of spoiled that for Xi Jinping because people, even those that kind of think in some sort of accommodation would be nice. They know what happens when they go the Hong Kong route. And within China, as we know, the growth has slowed and there's sort of a real estate bubble and there's unemployment, especially among younger people. So that may for some sort of change in the leadership perhaps within China down the line. Do you see any that may be impacting some sort of engagement with Taiwan? Well, I don't see Xi Jinping relinquishing power or being overthrown. He has done everything he can to consolidate power in a similar vein as Putin has. You know, anyone with opposing ideas gets purged. We saw, was it Hu Jintao in the last party congress in October, he was literally carried away in a very staged thing. He was reportedly going to say, yeah, I'm with you on COVID. I'm with you on censorship and stuff like that, but don't invade Taiwan. And they literally picked the guy up and hauled him out. Again, it was state. He probably knew it was coming, but he probably is sort of like somebody knowing Liddy who has no choice but to walk into their death. And I have no idea what happened to him. So I'm not expecting anything, any regime change, except that, and this is where you pointed out something. You know, their economy is gradually, slowly imploding. The people are restless to a degree. The only thing that keeps them from a revolution, I think, another Tiananmen Square is this one thing, and that's the great firewall that prevents communication. But they have a good sense of what happens outside of China and what the world is like. And so here's the thing. What group of people are most likely to stage a revolution? So as the economy in China deteriorates, you have more and more unemployed, they won't be able to afford to keep building ghost cities and other make work projects, and so unemployment will increase. Now, if they invade Taiwan, then it gets 10 times worse, maybe 100 times worse, because you may have two, three hundred million unemployed people. And guess what? There's like, I don't know, 90 million Communist Party members and most of those aren't hardcore. It's like you join the party to advance in your career. Right, especially on the economic side to make money. Yeah, exactly. So, but this is not necessarily too much of a deterrence because throughout history, in World War II, as a good example, you had two dictators, Hitler and Tojo and so forth in Japan. They both had strong economies. They had good high tech. They could have ruled the world and even supplanted the U.S. as the leader in the technology and so forth, but they chose war and they paid the price. And both were absolutely ruined after World War II. They built back and now they're very peace-minded, but this is what could face Xi Jinping. And it's in the U.S. interest to talk about democracy, to talk about human rights and the NA human rights everybody in China has. So that because that is how you can increase dissatisfaction with Xi Jinping, undermining his rule in a way that could force him to retrench from his goals of worldwide conquest and even in one of the areas that I deal with space trying to rule space as well. And I think some of the first human rights lawyers that have come out of China have really focused on environmental issues, bad air, bad water, as a way to sort of challenge the competency of various party officials. And after Tiananmen Square, we saw that the Chinese were, they weren't allowed to challenge the legitimacy of the CCP, but they could challenge the competency if there was a graft in corruption or if there were issues involving environmental degradation. And that's where you saw some of the pushback because it also impacted their ability to engage in international commerce and how it impacted them from a PR standpoint. If there's graft in corruption, people aren't going to want to come and invest in your country. Do you see any issues with corruption as far as from the Taiwanese side, in terms of their engagement with the Chinese, how do they see the Chinese people in terms of their ability to interact with them? Well, I think they know. Taiwan is a remarkably vibrant democracy. It is remarkably uncorrupt. It is free enterprises. So it's better than here in the US. I was talking to an official with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I said, you know, there's so much street commerce, small industry. You walk along the night markets, the arcades and so forth, and it's just teeny small businesses. Oh, they're not necessarily wealthy, but you'll find the kids working there and anything, whether they're fixing scooters or selling food or housewares. And so, you know, it is the antithesis of the Chinese way of doing business, which is you've got to grease the palms of folks like Kissinger if you want to do big business there. That's how he makes his money off of Xi Jinping's back pocket.  Well, they've paid undoubtedly handsomely to get access to do their factories there and so forth. They either turn their blind eye or whatever to the labor practices because, you know, the child labor is common, slave labor is the watchword. You go to work in one of those factories and you're probably not just commuting from home like we do. You're probably living in a dormitorium and you're allowed out for X hours a day and maybe you'll get Sunday off, that sort of thing. So it's a very different paradigm.  They all went there. They exported it. How do we, how does the United States stay engaged with China on a proactive level to keep, say, Russia or Iran from gaining a stronger foothold? So we're, so the U.S. is managing the relationship at a much higher level and we're keeping our enemies away from engaging with the Chinese to create a stronger alliance against us. Yeah, this is what, it makes absolute sense, but it is the opposite of what's happening. Instead, this administration, Biden administration has been pulling together China, you know, Russia, China, Iran and others into a naval axis working against us. Now, here's where it started and where it could have turned out differently. 2015, President, or then Donald Trump comes down the escalator and immediately the attacks on him were very specific. It was your Russian agent. Of course, he wasn't. He was the opposite.  So they were the ones colluding with the Democrats, with Russia, with China and everyone else to create fake crimes against Trump. But if they had not done that, I think it is very possible that Trump could have had the ability to sit down with Putin without all of that rancor that was artificially created by the Democrat Party, the media, the FBI and others. And he could have said, look, we are more alike than we are different. Yeah, you've got a repressive government. But we both do not want China to rule the earth. Let's work together. We can have our differences on all sorts of things. After all, we work together on the space station. But if the two of us work and try to slow the rise of China, that could have turned out very differently. The world today would be very different. So an opposite approach from what Kissinger did? Of course. Going to the Russians instead of the Chinese. Yeah, okay. Yes, yeah. That was the intent. There was a failed intent, but it was the intent of rapprochement with China. Unfortunately, we built them up into a tyranny that's now more powerful militarily than us and has designs on us. But yeah, we had the opportunity in 2015, President Trump could have done that, but it became politically impossible by all the screams of you're a Russian agent. And so I would place at the footsteps of the Democrat National Committee responsibility for everything that's happened in the world up till now. So Hawaii as the center of the Asia Pacific region, I mean, we have Pearl Harbor, our military installations are here. So you indicated that Hawaii's sort of poses somewhat of a strategic importance for China as a way. It is. Back before the terrible deal to let China into the UN and actually what they had leveraged to say Taiwan becomes independent if you want this, Bush could have had the leverage was Bush won WTO and so forth to say you want the American market, okay, fine. You get the American market, but you give up Taiwan. They will be an independent country and you will recognize them and we will continue to arm and support them. When China was starting their economic reforms, that's when this should have happened in Europe. Yeah, exactly. Surprise. You want to participate? Let's diffuse this potential conflict point in the future. Defend it. And it would actually be quite healthy for China even today to do that. But Xi Jinping's imperial ambitions are trumping that so to speak because he wants that conquest to take if only to take people's minds off of the bad economy. That is the typical thing. Why was the Falklands war? Well, because Latinos have a crappy economy. I mean, it's interesting when you have Chinese delegations that come to Hawaii on vacation, they want to go to Pearl Harbor because they want to, in their views, pay respects to the American servicemen that were killed by the Japanese. As you know, the Japanese Imperial Army was very ruthless in their conquest of China. And I say the Japanese Imperial Army, I'm not referring at all to Japanese citizens or Japanese Americans. We're talking about the Japanese military that was in control under Tojo, who you earlier referenced. So the Chinese have very long memories and they remember that the U.S. helped them in the fight against the Japanese. Do you see any of that goodwill keeping that the government from making any sort of incursions into the Asia Pacific region that would be harmful to Hawaii and the United States? You mean China? Yeah. No, no, I mean China. Because there is still a reservoir of goodwill because we helped them fight the Japanese and kept their country from being split up by foreign dominating powers. Yeah, no, it's the exact opposite. When I was working in Congress, we get two papers that I asked for to be put on my desk first. One was Epoch Times because they are very truthful on China. And the other is China Daily, which is a Communist Party propaganda piece. And I would humorously say that you could pick up the front section of that and just flip through the pages and you would always find something attacking Japanese, often in very sort of dingoistic, crude ways. In order to justify their repression and so forth in China, they have to create enemies. And while the U.S. and Germany, we get along in Japan, we get along so many years later, it's been the perceived, but the false best interest of the Communist regime to keep Japan as an enemy. So they portray the Japanese in ways that we would find absolutely revolting, whether in pop culture or in news. And it is the same sort of language as racists would use elsewhere. So they're fanning that flames that they're the government of China for the purpose of keeping the Chinese people thinking they have an enemy there. No, they got a friend and a trading partner, but it suits the Communist dictatorship to educate them from birth that China, that Japan is evil, Korea is evil, and the Americans. And very similar to how in North Korea, they do the same things. It's very similar. Okay. I think we have finished our discussion. Thank you very much, Mr. Harmon. Always happy to be on with you. And another time we might discuss other aspects of Taiwan and their view towards the world and the US. Thank you so much. You're very welcome.


Given a set of vectors, we can speak about whether they are independent or dependent. Now let's see if we can do anything about sets of vectors that are dependent. Suppose we want to determine whether a set of vectors form a dependent or independent set. So remember, we can determine this by seeing what linear combinations give us the zero vector. So we'll set down the equation linear combination equal to zero, create the coefficient matrix, and row-reduce it. So our system in row echelon form will be 3x1 plus x2 plus 2x3 plus 7x4 equals zero, and x2 minus x3 plus x4 equals zero. And since x3 and x4 are never-leading variables, we can parameterize them, and back substitution will give us our solutions. Now if s and t are both equal to zero, then x1, x2, x3, and x4 are all equal to zero. But if we don't use s and t both equal to zero, then we will get solutions to this equation. And so we will be able to express our zero vector as a non-trivial linear combination of these four vectors. So the vectors in this set are dependent vectors. This leads to two other definitions. If I have a set of independent vectors that span the vector space, we'll say that we have a basis for our vector space. And then mathematicians like to count, so the next important definition is that of dimension. Suppose I have a basis for my vector space, the dimension of the vector space is just going to be the number of vectors in my basis. So again, every good definition leads to a problem. Let v be a set of vectors that span the vector space v. If v is an independent set of vectors, we're done, because then v is a basis, and the dimension is the number of vectors in the basis. But what if my set of vectors is not independent? I'll have to figure out which vectors are redundant. So let's do a little bit of analysis. If v is a dependent set, then we know that linear combination equal to zero has solutions for some ai not equal to zero. Remember, we typically parameterize these solutions and our variables split into the free variables and the basic variables. Suppose I have a vector that corresponds to a free variable. Because it corresponds to a free variable, I can always choose my parameters to the equation so that the corresponding coefficient ai is not equal to zero. And so as not to confuse the issue, I'll set the other free variables to have value zero. And what this means is we have an equation that we can solve for vi. Let's see how this might work. So let's go back to this vector space and we've already determined that the set of vectors is not independent. And in fact, we found our parameterized solutions. Well, what if I let s equal one and t equals zero? What this means is we'll get an equation that includes the third vector to negative three zero, but not the fourth vector, seven, six, fifteen. And what this means is we can solve this equation for the third vector in terms of the other two vectors. And so we find that two negative three zero is equal to three one five plus negative one times one four five. Well, that works so well. Let's try it again. But this time we'll let s be zero and t equal to one. And in this case we'll have an equation that involves the fourth vector, but not the third vector. And so we'll be able to express zero as a linear combination of the first two vectors along with the fourth vector. We'll be able to solve for that fourth vector. And we'll find that seven six fifteen is two times three one five plus one four five. And what that means is that I can write my vector two negative three zero as a linear combination of three one five and one four five. And likewise I can write the vector seven six fifteen as a linear combination of three one five and one four five. So any linear combination of the vectors in my set can be expressed as a linear combination of these two vectors alone. And I don't need these two vectors. And so that means there are two vectors in our basis and span V, the vector space spanned by this set of vectors, is a two-dimensional vector space.


in the cog dropdown, looking at our settings. I'm gonna keep on going through the settings for this foundational items when we set up the new company file. Last time we got down to the sales area, this time we're going to the expenses and we're gonna go all the way through to the advanced. So expenses, this is gonna be kind of like the cash outflow side of things. So these are gonna be the check forms, the expense forms, the bill forms. At the end of the cycle, we would expect money to be going out for these items. So you got bills and expenses. So show items table on expenses and purchase forms. So that's going to then adds a purchase product table on the expense and purchase forms. So you can itemize products and services. That's on by default. We will keep that on as the default. It says show tags, field and expense and purchase forms. So lets you add tags. We're not gonna be dealing a lot with tags because that's gonna be another kind of specialty area. We might have another section on tags in and of themselves. If you're not using them, you could turn that off because it'll be a little less busy. I think QuickBooks is trying to kind of promote the use of tags because that's a differentiating thing that they have than many other softwares. But again, it's kind of a specialty area so we won't be using it for the most part in this practice problem. Track expense and items by customer adds a customer column on expense and purchase forms so you can track expenses and items by customer. So let's check that one out in a bit more detail if I close this back out. And I was to open say an expense form, a check or a bill type of form. Let's open like an expense form, for example. You can see here it doesn't have any customer field on the right hand side by default. The vendor is who we're paying up top. Now I could add a customer field so that I can then add the items that I'm paying for possibly to an invoice in the future. You gotta be careful with this. We'll talk about it more in the future. But to do that, I can close this out and we'll turn this one on cog dropdown, account and settings. And I'm gonna turn that on expenses. And then we're gonna go into here and it says track expense and item by customer. I'm gonna turn that on make expense and items billable. So this one it says adds billable column on expense and purchase forms. So you can add billable expenses and items on sales forms. So let me turn that on and I'll show you what I mean by that. And then you've got your added options make expense items billable. But before I get into that, let's just look at this first. Let's save this and look at the impact. I'm gonna close this back out again. And then I'm gonna hit the plus button and go into that same expense form. This is a form we typically use kind of like a check form and we would have a vendor up top for something that we're paying for. You can see now we have added a billable item and a customer. So why would you need a customer if you're dealing with an expense form? Well, possibly I'm in a system where possibly it's a job cost system and I'm paying for expenses that I'm gonna apply directly to an invoice. So I wanna have an expense that's gonna be recorded here that next time when I make an invoice for the customer that I apply this expense to, it will then pull in as a line item to that customer. Now you gotta be careful with that because the question then is when I pull it over to the invoice, we're not using items to do that. So when I pull it over to the invoice, I don't really have a formal item. So the question is how is QuickBooks gonna record it? Is it gonna record it as income or a reduction to the expense accounts? So you gotta kind of be careful when using that tool, although it can be an effective tool, we'll dive into it a little bit more in a future presentation. We will keep that on for now and touch on that in our practice problem. So I'm gonna hit the cog again and then go to the account and settings. And now that we have some understanding of that, let's go back into the expenses, then you have the added options here. So you can make expense and items billable, you can mark up with a default rate. So now that we've determined that we're gonna have some expenses that we might apply to a customer so that we can pull them over into an invoice, do I want to pull them over at what we paid for it or maybe I have a standard markup? I mark it up by some percent when I invoice the client. So I have a standard markup for those things that I've been purchasing. So, and the other way you can do it is have the cost there and then just add your markup to the total of the invoice which might be another way that you could do that. Track billable expense items as income. So when they pull over to the income side, when you invoice them, typically you would want them to show up on an income line, you're not typically gonna want them to be like a decrease in an expense. So if you paid for like supplies expense and then you added supplies expense to the invoice, I don't want the invoice to then record a decrease to supplies expense. I want it to record income typically. So you have income minus the expense as your net income. That's usually how you'd want to see it. So that gets a little tricky because you're not using items. So we have here track, so in a single account or in multiple accounts down here adds a use for billable expense checkbox to an accounts edit screen in the chart of accounts. So you can kind of apply where you want it to go more clearly here. So we'll keep the defaults and then you've got the charging of the sales tax. And so sales tax obviously is gonna muddy up the situation when you have to determine whether or not when you pull it into the invoice is it now gonna be applicable to sales tax or not? So you can turn that on if so.


Show hey awesome meadows now. We're back reconnected Sorry about that guys. We just disconnected somebody if you guys are in chat Can you say can you check on YouTube really quick see if it's up or not? This is right zero viewers now Was a brave J ram Nothing on YouTube. We just got to finish this one unfortunately. I don't want to stop OBS I don't want to hit stop streaming and have the recording stop. So we'll just go through this So, yeah, we basically like we OBS crash up now. We got two viewers So I guess maybe four viewers Sucks on that happens. We have all the people that were just listening in the background We're up on YouTube, okay, perfect. Sorry about that guys just quick crash there got another gold coming up two golds That's gonna be Michael Brantley for the Astros 49 out of 50 and Ernie Clement Matt Manning refractor rookie. I just got five people off Because we don't get the notifications to go out or anything Alexander Wells. Oh, we're at 49 now. That's good Whitney airfield on the base auto and refractor Nico Horner if you guys are on YouTube or twitch Can you just say like good or thumbs up or something or hi? We I just want one person from YouTube one person from twitch if that's possible. I appreciate it Just to make sure chat looks good too Good on twitch. Thank you, Barry George Springer purple Hans Kraus 160 out of 250 going to the Phillies and Kevin Gousman If not Get a jersey coming up Yeah, I know I assumed as much Thank you Got Logan Gilbert. That is John Carlos fan. Nice for the Yankees. Very cool We'll take that not numbered on the jersey card basically counts as an extra hit, which is nice We've got John Gray. Sometimes those have autos on it for the Salvi Perez auto one of that Which is cool. Yeah Hardly city for a Freeman are not oh and Starling Marseille looking for I believe you a two or three more To stream Ellen's is running up stream elements Good to see you back. Yeah, dude, it's a wander rookie. I know a lot of support from stream elements We got Trevor Larnack on the prism refractor autos Chris Taylor 299 out of 499 and Alex Bregman's second Chris Taylor We've seen Matt Olson auto is Matt viriling nice one there on the base rookie Refractor Cronenworth. I guess we did get our Some of the notifications went back out. I guess Yeah, no Notification on for YouTube to I have a month for Twitch. Yeah, I got which one to Harrison Bader Yankee legend won 53 out of 199 Jaren Durand rookie Mookie bets. We've got Francisco Perez on the rookie auto for the Nationals and Moustacus refractor I called more Mike Moustacus refractors than like any other card in my Oh, yeah, Moose Devers, that's Verlander Robbie Grossman Royals, yeah, that core was so Like a fever dream Rosie Contreras on the negative rookie for the pirates nice one there Lou Bob and Longo Yeah, I was like him Hosmer Lorenzo Cain Alex Gordon Just yeah, Salvi Perez do like what a good team that was Yeah, he's still there. They want it still there. He's still arguably the best catcher in the MLB right now so O'Neill Cruz rookie unreal Brandon Marsh and O'Neill Cruz on the refractor rookie on the back nice one there good way to end it And then we've got two silver packs. Good luck here. Um, who is this Kurt? I want to say yes, Kurt Salvi Williams CJ Abrams We spoke it into existence. Let's go. Congrats Kurt Let's go the one of the only ones we haven't seen yet Very nice Kurt on the super short print extended base CJ Abrams very nice 122 we're still hitting hard here and Ray Meltop. Yeah, that'll do it for your break there Kurt congrats again on the hit man. We'll get them right out to the hits. I should say That was wild I know grab a snap pick of that one too Let's go. You almost always know there's gonna be something when you see two refractors in the pack That's why whenever like I open it and flip it around like I do like a little look And then if you see a refractor Then that means the first one's generally gonna be a short print because that's what happened with the green and the The torque and then now the Abrams Just exhausted Yeah Makes it tougher. Yeah now for sure I know that's why I've what I've started doing because so I don't get super hungry at night is like Well, I go so I wake up go to the gym in the morning And then I'm like once I'm done I shower and then I just I had forced myself to eat breakfast and less or like breakfast lunch I usually wake up at like 11 go to the gym get back at like 12 and Like today I made like three eggs mixed with pepper and then like Turkey bacon I had like a muffin toast and I just eat all that so I'm not super hungry. I'm not gonna stop I'm only home today, which is like half Half the battle most of the time Exactly exactly Like I'll do it once in a while like I'll probably do it on like Saturday night or something, but like yeah, no not every night Uh shorts you can you can still hear us, right? Yeah, we had like our streaming software it crashed for a minute But we're back now, which is good Um, we got kelly beat Um, all right, let me write one more thing Let's do it. Here we go. It's going on everyone Sam here with latent sports cards ripping two boxes of 22 tops archive signature series retired edition baseball And one box of 2022 bowman sterling baseball for kelly beat. So good luck here kelly See what we got in here for you. First is gonna be 36 out of 50 lee smith on the all-star that's a 80 no 92 tops, I believe Nicely smith on the buyback Yeah, he's really hard. He was like he had a really good mlb to show card last year He had like a second thing bosses or something in his fastball was like 102 He was nasty for long He was good. Oh, that's cool 10 out of 33. How about a tommy john? Famous surgery named after him Uh, that is an 86 tops on the tommy john for the 80s. That's a cool-looking card man. I like the design at 86 It's awesome grads on that kelly Yeah, I know right Uh, we've got one 2022 bowman sterling baseball as well. Good luck. All right, here we go See what we got in here. See if we can get a nice prospect out of this. Jose siri Uh, jeremy peña.  Henry davis refractor auto urabelle on helis Uh, 99 out of 150 for the hydrates. We've got harry ford. Lonnie white and khalil watson Kind of cool to see these a lot of these guys like second cards. It's nice like watson wood and valera Like all the big prospects from that class that daily cruise Got christian santa ana uh urbina. That's yosua garcia going to the philis Nice one there for you kelly Conor wong rookie joe ryan and j rod rookie. Nice headbert perez ian lewis auto is dustin harris on the prospect for the rangers. Nice one there Got mckenzie gore rookie wanny epez and victor acosto last pack of sterling here Good luck kelly muti cafe reberto compost. We got dorrie lorenzo. That is 72 out of 99 for the strobes A self relic on the prospect auto going to the brewers. Nice one there jaren diran rookie and louise on helicunia That will do it for your break there kelly. Congrats on the hits. Thanks again for hopping in. We'll get them right out to you Appreciate it Those two first off the lines that we just got two more personals in q after this So they'll probably be able to get to them because we've got a star wars finest at the end and then a um One other one too. It's the other one Yeah chronicles basketball. It's easy enough All right james m. We've got coming up here james m Here we go james. Good luck, man Hold on. I gotta restart that one second. Sorry guys Sam here with latent sports cards. We're up in two boxes of 2022 Um, penia maculate baseball first off the line for james m So good luck here james. See what we can get in here for you again. There is your first off the line sticker Who want to start here for sure? We've got a gary carter that is seven out of 10 Game worn nice. Congrats on that one james. Great start We've got going to the strobes. That is alex bregman 49 out of 49 Probably get it back for this next one I think it's We got first off the line parallel five out of eight that is josh jung for the rangers Look at the patch on that thing on the prospect auto He got called up at the very end of the year and he was an absolute monster. He's a menace Get like two home runs in his first game or something some some stat like that It wasn't exactly that but that is awesome. Congrats james. Nice hit, man We've got for the mariners 13 out of 25. That is Logan gilbert. Oh, wow Huh, really cool one coming up next We've got five out of 10 on the amaculate signatures. Yadir Molina Nice hit on that one Dude, that's sick for the cardinals. Nice yachty. Don't see a ton of yachty autos. So that's always really nice Grats on the yachty and another sick one here Dude if this was a pyt the rangers would have just killed it because we got four out of five another prospect auto This time it is dustin harris Congrats on that one james. That's got part of like the texas flag. I believe in it That's awesome. Nice, man Great great first start to your boxes And you can just top load and then we've got one more There again is your first off the line indicator. Oh, yeah, hall of famer is right. Yachty. We've got a christian yellets uh 47 out of 49 That is game war and behind that we have a xander bogarts. That is uh Game worn as well. This time it is your exclusive one out of 10. This is next one's nasty, too Six out of eight for the astros. How about a jake mires with part of the uh as and astros Nice one there. Congrats, man Well, you're born on that too. That's awesome Sick card on the jake mires. Do the patches in the iMac for every sport are always so awesome We've got a maculate signatures on the redemption. That is brian bellow. Wow, dude. What a two boxes Nice one there. Probably gonna mag for this next one. I would think Um, we've got prospect rpa 36 out of 99 ellie daylock cruz Nice hit james, man. What a two boxes of this That is fire ellie daylock cruz saw a lot of him today in sterling. I have to say which can't really complain Nice one there and then we've got 26 out of 83 map veerling on the rookie eye black patch auto Nice way to end it there with the map veerling That is empty. That'll do it for your boxes there james. Congrats, man. That was a heck of a two boxes We will get those right out to you I'm gonna snag a pic of the I think lane will like this one Uh, probably just pry Thanks, sir. All right, let me upload that and then we gotta collect two more boxes and that'll be it for personals tonight A maculate's so awesome. So awesome shorts Yeah All right, we need a chronicles basketball and a finest star wars All right guys last two personals of the night here Got a chronicles basketball first for billy m I showed dill in the video last night too Yeah The best was when you just stuck for a second just trying to keep it in pull together pull together i'm about to lose it and then Very underrated part of that video too is I look at you and i'm like we got a bunch of releases tomorrow and you're like, yeah, man We got so many releases tomorrow and we just started talking about nothing. We're just nonsense Oh Yeah, last night I was tired too I was feeling it last night Yeah, we're getting really really loopy last night. I feel like once friday hits too. We're gonna really start being loopy All right. Good luck here billy. Let's do it, man It's going on everyone sam here with latent sports car dribbin one box of 21 22 panini chronicles basketball for billy m It's good luck billy see we can pull out of here Hold a good amount. I pulled three one of ones out of chronicles, which is actually pretty Pretty good. I would say a bones highland a tre young and a sam hauser Which I was jake was top floating that night was uh, I think one of the 10 box tuesdays I look at him. It was like it's sam hauser. It's just this random rookie on the uh, Manga this camp thomas. We've got nice. I say a thomas Five out of 25 all of fame auto. That's cool, man. Five out of 25 on the isaia thomas auto Shrey young and uh, that is 43 out of 149 davion michel Sam house is just like this random guy who like got his rookie in chronicles because he wasn't like He wasn't supposed to be like he wasn't on any checklist before the seat when stuff was getting printed And I look at jake. I'm like, you think this is the first sam hauser car to ever get mad. I was like probably uh, josh kitty Jeremiah robinson url, uh 98 out of 99 chris thwartay austin reeves chris thwartay and scottie barnes Because I'm like there's no shot anybody out there is magging like random sam hauser cards Like that's gotta be the first one for sure france vagner rookie booker jaw luminance moses moody 89 out of 99 jalen green hometown heroes that is Justin champagne nice on the cornerstones 14 out of 99 Two pretty good hits right there for the raptors. He's one of the guys who got like an update And um in chronicles too. It's like him jericho sims sam hauser jalen suggs and lebron he pulls like a Nice low numbered card now moses moody kb alvarado. There's an isaette's hod that is prestige uh 107 out of 149 jalen green honors chris thwartay on the uh purple 39 out of 49 for the pacers quentin grimes And kairi every that uh dwarte was the um phoenix phoenix kawai lebron Boston there's paul george 75th anniversary uh five out of 75 clippers uh book night kade cunningham on the silver uh hometown heroes nice one there scotty barnes rookie and devin booker purple 31 out of 49 a little bit of like a secondary color match And last pack of your break. Good luck here billy pretty solid. I would say though a couple of good cards there's a kade There's a mobley shengoon that is uh kessler edwards on the timeless treasures 22 out of 49 on the purple uh halliburton update that's nice a red kade cunningham honors eight out of 149 nice kade There we go lamello rookie and a alfred net shengoon That'll do it for your break there billy congrats on the hits buddy. We'll get him right out to you. Thanks again All right last personal of the night guys. Yeah, we literally that was like perfect timing Right there for calling personals full Star Wars for dillon p Star Wars finest baby able to literally get to everybody that was awesome Same dude Yeah There it is that was so funny. Oh my god That was impressive That could have really spiraled out of control like really quickly Yeah Give me a minute Literally, I would have to have I would have to probably have you leave so I wouldn't be able to look at you. You know what I mean Right exactly that's where it was going Like I had to turn like this. Yeah, I know I looked over at you and you weren't looking at me And I'm like that's how I know it's back because I know you're laughing now.  Good luck buddy. Good luck It's going on everyone sam here with latent sports guards. We're ripping one box of 2022 tops finest star wars hobby for Um, that is dillon p. Thank you dillon p So good luck on this one dillon Is the mic? Oh, no, there's the mic. I was gonna say I thought the mic wasn't working for a second I was getting freaked out But now the mic's good. We're good to go. Let's do it All right, so we're looking for two autos Maybe a sketch sketch would be pretty awesome. It'd be a great way to end the night with a sketch Periodal storm trooper Um solo not extended base on the refractor omega RQd2 that is crosshair bad batch Book of Boba Fett Boba Fett and kylo ren fennec shand Mandalorian Refractors janna and mull green coming up here. That's gonna be general draven. Nice one there That is uh green 66 out of 99. How about the case hit? galaxy's finest heroes a show katano On the case hit congrats on that one dillon one of these die cuts you get per case So there you go. You basically have a one and eight chance of getting it. So Not too bad. Grats on that Uh Ann Burke A lot of times generally if they're just numbered that's one of the we've got green bokeh ton Yeah, and green is 31 out of 99 and babu frick Yeah, no, I got it. Yeah. Yeah. No, it makes sense That one's going up the show katano. Yeah, that one's solid joshua. It's a cool looking card, man I love the case hits. They're so nice With that qian or zion on the refractor yoda sold one recently for just under 200 nice Zero uh bad batch is gregor and sith trooper that's uh bokeh ton and jinn ursa Got the client refractor blue is mace window very cool 90 out of 150 cool one there, man mace window Lira ursa, I love his purple lightsaber when I was like six I had like one of the little like plastic ones and I always made sure I had the purple one Start later. There's no shot another one Wow vice admiral holdo Laura turn four out of ten on the rough the case hit daika auto That's sick Sorry to cut you off there, but that is nasty. Yeah, this one back for sure. Yeah. Yeah Nice one there congrats on that I was gonna say yeah, it should be black, but I don't know sometimes. I'll do that with tops though. Very nice hit.  Were you gonna say that? Yeah, bb8 That's extended base on the bb8 as well 103 and sabon rend that'll do for your box there dylan congrats, man That was a fantastic box sick. We will get those right out to you. Appreciate it my man By that too, I would think. Oh, kenzie's water just broke Nice Really? Yeah, she just texted us Nice, there we go. Oh, yeah Marley marley's coming. Um, all right, so continue the story. I'm sorry.  No, no Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, it's the best one though. Sure good old nh Lip for your die Oh, yeah, wow, that's awesome Yeah All right guys, that is gonna do it from Sean and I tonight I'm gonna drop you guys the link to the break schedule. We've got some bow bowman sterling pyt's tomorrow um Yeah, they've got very very little uh spots left bunch of those two box pyt's A couple of those four box mixers top scroll full case Revolution basketball optic mixer optic pyt's optic choice Uh road to the world cup national treasures. We've got four of those tomorrow and then some fanatics silver boxes Got five silver boxes. So that'll do it from Sean and I tonight. Thank you guys as always. Uh, we will see you tomorrow


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Today we're going to talk about a courage, leap of faith, before we dive into this thing.  If you enjoy ice cold water, lukewarm water, room warm water, or hot water, be sure to give this thing a thumbs up. If you like crunchy ice, round ice, cubed ice, or just a nice frosty glass of your favorite beverage, give this thing a thumbs up. Leave your comments below, questions below. So leap of faith brings me back. I think it's a common thing where you go to a ropes course to do some team building. That's common or hippie-dippy. I went to a little hippie-dippy school, and so we did those often. And the leap of faith is you climb up on a thing like this that I'm on right now, and there's a trapeze. I don't know, man. It's probably not that far out, but when you're up there, you're probably 50 feet in the air, 50, no joke. And it probably is only about 3 feet in front of you, maybe 4 feet in front of you, but from the ground and when you're looking at it, it looks like it's 12 feet. You have to be an Olympic long jumper to reach this thing, or I'm going to fall to my death. It's called the leap of faith. Because it's kind of like that, you know, do it like the 3, 2, 1, and then you just got to make a decision, you just got to go. That's the topic of the day. How to do the leap of faith, how to get the courage to kind of step into something business-wise. I've used this reference a couple times in a couple podcasts, back to like the climbing. There's a documentary on a gentleman who's actually here from Sacramento, and he free-climbed Half Dome, which is a huge freaking mountain. Capitan, I think, is like the side of the mountain of Half Dome in Yosemite, National Park here in California.  It's kind of like a pretty common place to go if you grow up in California, especially in Northern California, it's beautiful. Absolutely stunning views, waterfalls, forests, redwoods, that whole deal. But this mountain is supposed to be one of the most difficult, one of the tallest things to climb. This dude did it with no safeties. They analyzed his brain, and I don't know how true or not this is, but in the documentary, they say that he, whatever, you know, your Madhula Albinghara, or whatever, his doesn't trigger when he's scared. To get his to trigger with like adrenaline or fear, or like, you know, the adrenaline-chasing junkie, his needs like a billion volts compared to what we need. So, although he's nervous to climb this thing, he's not even 50% as nervous as the rest of us. And in some senses, I think I have that with projects. I have that with businesses. I have that with content. I have that with doing what I want to do in a way. And I don't go into therapy and talk to my friends, and I consider myself pretty self-aware. I hang out by myself a lot, and I just think, I don't know what that stems from. Often courage, I feel like, is spoken about when you are so confident in yourself that you're not even thinking about negative outcomes. And that's definitely not what I would say I have. I don't think I have courage to go and do that, but I think what I do have is hope. I think when I'm not in a dark place, which we've talked about here, some of my depression, some of my anxieties, one of my gifts is that I have insane hope and I have insane vision of what can be or what could be. And I'm just not more so not afraid of what the negative outcomes may be, or I'm more excited about what the potentials are, so I chase those things down. Another thing is that I just don't have that many options. I don't want a normal job. This is the life I'm lucky enough to live, having all your guys' support here, having Twitch and podcasts for so many years, that kind of with your support, and then what we're getting to next, how I chose my team that gave me confidence to make this move. Not that I feel invincible, but this is the path that's supposed to happen. This is what I want to do. This is what we want to do, and we're going to do it our way. And this is one of the very few projects. I've opened multiple businesses that we talked about in the last video. Be sure to check that out. I've been a part of a lot of growings of businesses from the very bottom, from the very beginning before the internet knew what it was, and to be a pretty substantial stamp on the fitness realm. I've been a part of a lot of those companies in terms of marketing in front of the camera, social media marketing, campaigning behind the camera, logistics, product development. But this is one of the very few that, and I hope my team feels the same way, that this is like through and through us. Like we just sat there for two hours deciding what's the next step, what it's going to look like, what it's going to feel like, what we want it to look like, what we don't want it to look like.  So it's 100% me. You hear a lot of musical artists talk about like that, and maybe some like painting artists. And although we're opening a business, because of the renovation factor and the apparel factor, I, you know, if someone asked me what my job is, I'd say I'm a creator. I don't really know what my job is. I'm definitely a coach. I have some expertise in the fitness realm. I can teach you how to lift, get strong, lose some weight, get lean, et cetera, et cetera. But I would say I'm a creative in nature. This whole project, we're building like a whole, like, hemisphere is not the right thing. We're building a whole like new world. And I'm not talking Aladdin, but, you know, someone asked me a question like, how do you choose your team? Like we talked about how we're choosing the vibe, the branding, the apparel, what the vision is, why I'm opening a gym maybe, because it's lacking in my area, in my city. I think it's lacking in terms of the fashion and fitness and, and, and, and athleisure that I like to wear and that I grew up wearing and kind of the nostalgia of growing up as a basketball player and always, like athleisure is so weird to me that it's a thing because all I ever wore was baggy tees and basketball shorts my whole life. If you played basketball, let's just switch a war. If it was winter, you'd wear basketball shorts and then you put sweats on top.  Like that's what I always wore. So for now it to be like cool and normal people wearing like shorts and a t-shirt and like a hat as their everyday stuff, that's been my everyday. So to me to represent my nostalgia and our fashion as a collective group, our style, our creativity in that it's kind of a no-brainer to me. Choosing like partners, teammates, this squad that we assembled, well if you guys listen to 50% Facts Me and Jim McDee's podcast, Jim McDee's a no-brainer. Him and I have worked together in some capacity for almost eight years. Podcasted, business trips, communicated, different projects here and there. I think we have similar visions. I think in a lot of ways we balance each other out with how we think. We obviously are different ages and experiences of what we do as a living where he has some marketing background or a large marketing background as an MBA. And then he also ties it into the YouTube where all I have is the YouTube and I've learned some of the other stuff so we kind of counteract what we have there. He's passionate. He's all-in. He's a hard worker and with the Renault stuff I don't know how we'd get through without him because he has a clue of what he's doing and me and the boys just have some labor but we don't know what the heck we're doing. So in many ways I chose the right dude he's easy to communicate with. We don't ever fight. A lot of times we do partnerships and business partnerships and you don't see out of eye. You end up fighting like you used to fight with your third grade best friend or you argue with your spouse or a significant other. But luckily enough we're on the same page with a lot of things and we just communicate well. It's open, it's easy and we both have similar visions so it all lined up. 50% facts where I was going back to our podcast we interviewed a bunch of business owners particularly in the fitness space over the last couple months and we talked to a bunch of them on employees and trainers and how they hire and etc etc and a lot of them lined up with what I already believe is and it's kind of counter to how the world hires people. It's not really about your skills, your degree it's not really about what you can do because a lot of those things you can contract out whether it be a web designer or whether it be insurance or tech guy or equipment all these specialties you can always just consult out when you want to start a company and that's something I've learned from a very early age like I don't have to have a skill I'm skillless, I'm absolutely talentless but if you have selflessness that's the number one thing I look up for and anybody I ever want to work with you have to be about the team you have to be about being a part of something greater than yourself, bigger than yourself being a part of a project, a system having a similar enemy or a similar goal as a like-minded unit that's number one and if someone can't do that you're not going to be a part of my crew I'm never going to work with you if you can't be a part of something bigger than yourself do your job, do your role in the bigger picture scheme I don't want to work with you and I don't care if you're the best businessman on the planet I don't care if you're a billionaire I don't care if you're Elon freakin Musk I don't want to work with you it's not what I'm going to be a part of so that's all tied into selflessness that's all tied into the group over the individual mentality and that's something I obviously learned from my dad who's insanely loyal and hard working insanely selfless I don't know why that's always just been a part of who I am and that's not to say I'm an angel by any means but I've always enjoyed team and I've always put the ultimate goal before my individual goal and it shows like my favorite basketball players are Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd, Steve Nash things of this nature selflessness number two I guess would be loyalty kind of ride or die stuff and I know that sounds like whatever but if you can't I mean Connor here Kyle that's the main team right me and Jim if you can't be in the gym when it's 100 degrees and we're eating cement for 10 hours I don't want you you know in the hypothetical sense in the Bentley when we're bopping bottles six years from now having success I don't want what a fair weather fan again I don't care what your talent level is if you're not down kind of for the cause and willing to work hard I guess hard work it would be number two if we have to give it an exact title label hard work is going to be number two work ethic grind and that term it sets me off a little bit because everyone's always talking about it every entrepreneur talks about it just because you wake up at 4am doesn't mean you're a grinder that doesn't entertain me that doesn't please me do things when you don't want to do them work hard work ethic get the job done that needs to be done in front of you if you can't do that you're also not on my team I guess number three if we had to just choose communication positivity factor if I don't want to be around you if I can't talk to you if I can't have fun if we can't get through hard things and easy things you're not here so having a sense of camaraderie everyone always says don't do business with friends don't do business with family I highly disagree I don't think being friends or family is an issue it's just like anything else doing business with the wrong friends if you have the correct friends or choose the right friends out of your group and that's not saying that they still can't be your friends but only certain ones are ones you probably want to go into business with whether that is a financial thing whether that's marriage, same thing regardless of sexual attraction or whatever we want to dig into there's multiple friends that you could hang out with on Friday and then there's probably only certain friends that you could go on a week long trip with and share an Airbnb or going through the stress of bills working hard manual labor meetings, configuring your gym's business plan etc etc so it's just an escalated version of that friendship and it's not a knock some people just don't get along and some people do some are on different wavelengths but that would probably be number three some of that I actually think is probably the most important thing and it was a really good question or thought that's been in my mind is like those two factors how do you choose your team and how do you have the quote unquote courage to do these things the leap of faith and that's the best answer I have for you I'm no business guru I've been a part of some really cool things I've been a part of some companies that have made a lot a lot of money I've been a part of companies that have made a lot of money I've failed multiple companies I've had multiple successful launches but number one if you're with those people I guess that would be the fourth detail of the teamwork if they have passion if they give a shit and it doesn't always have to be about the same thing if Connor doesn't give a shit about what color the floor is but he's very particular of the Feng Shui or how the retail area might look or he's very particular on how we greet and treat our members as long as someone has a passion for something you'll at least draw my attention and I know that seems easy like well everyone likes something like nah they don't everyone kind of likes things but passion is like a deep rooted non-ego drive that is so within a person's soul and I think everyone's capable of passion but I don't think everyone is a passionate human being and that's something that I struggle with on the opposite end I just can't turn it off so I'm up to the middle of the night looking up different apparel and getting different inspirations from nature and the past and all these different artists I can't shut mine off sometimes I know Connor's the same he's on Reddit looking up weird things in the middle of the night that he just wants to learn more about it's just that trigger that you really give a shit and then again that's probably the number four so maybe Connor can recap but I can't even remember where we started but selflessness definitely number one tied into a loyalty, hard work willing to get your hands dirty for the core what was number three some kind of community number one has to be selflessness team player be a part of something bigger than yourself number two is like a work ethic of some nature you have to be able to work hard and I don't need you to work tirelessly or insanely or be a workaholic but you have to be able to get it done when it needs to get done number three I got to want to be around you there's got to be some type of relationship there but we have to be able to communicate and be on the same wavelength and that's not just about communication but communication is a big part enjoying one's company being a positive energy in the room people can feel that if you start to pay attention you don't have to be the number one guy at the party but some people are around there's positive energy and then number four it has to be passion and these aren't in a tiered order but passion is so important you have to give a shit you have to want to be better you have to do things attention to detail you have to want to be different which could be number five even be unique I don't want a yes man I don't want a follower I've sent tons of different things to Kyle via text say man what do you think about this color combo with this jacket and he's like nah that's not that cool alright bro moving on to the next one I can't surround myself with yes man or people that just don't care that's where we sit the floor is done painted the bathrooms we're waiting on these accent walls and the details equipment order going in first launch coming in I don't know how we're going to tease it but the first apparel launch at 3SB 3rd Street Athletics is coming very soon good company be a part of some bigger self good company man coming soon so apparel going in I don't want to say it's the finishing touches but we're in the finishing touches so we're getting there I'm going to touch up the paint in the bathroom with the boys they set it up for me appreciate them while I'm over here babbling take care of yourself take care of your loved ones surround yourself with good company I'm solid Mike out here how's that first sign


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards are been two boxes of 23 tops chrome black a baseball hobby for mr. Jeremy B. So good luck here Jeremy. Let's do it, buddy If he has a white socks auto.  Come on. I'll see something big Jeremy. Let me a super out of this. Give me a super Anthony Volpe Rookie for the Yankees Got two at 199 Salvador Perez refractor for the Royals and Then a Vinnie Pasquantino rookie Pretty solid pack there And The red Spencer steer on the rookie auto not too shabby at all either Congrats on that one there Jeremy and box number two two and final last box of the night. Good luck here. Make it a good one It's a good one. All right. Got Josh young rookie for the Rangers nice one here to at 150 is purple mini diamonds Michael Harris rookie for the Braves Harris the second and Vladimir Guerrero junior as well on the base on the auto Nice Brent Beatty super future autos 14 to 99 get like one of these a case generally So that's super easy to hit so Congrats on that one Jeremy Brett Beatty 14 of 99 for the Mets. I'll do a four-year break there Jeremy. Thanks again for the sport buddy get him right out to my man


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I get this thing a couple of hundred yards down the line and the idea is that I've got sort of a bit of control in this club head and so far it's been okay but we need to get on the score sheet as we're zero from one. Just on the right side again just hang on there. Do you know what we've failed again by a matter of yards it's just slightly down the right hand side. I'll make the excuse that we're on extremely tight fairway to hit the ball straight but at the moment I'm zero from two on the first challenge. Right to the final shot of the, well I've called it finding a fairway. Oddly I chose two different weapons of choice and that was hybrid off the tee on those tighter fairway shots or tee shots rather and then when it was needed and called for I picked driver. My performance has been well oddly enough I hit fairway with driver twice and I only just missed out with the hybrid I was quite happy with the strikes but we're two from four realistically three from five I'd have probably settled for that before we started and we're back to a par five as a driver hole and you really should be finding fairway. Question is can we so this is to go three from five and finding the fairway challenge. Is it too far down the right so oh no well yes we've got it we're miles in that's gone from miles as well. I thought that I'd gone a little bit started a little bit too far down the right but there's a lot of fairway down that side and we're definitely right of centre we're avoiding intrigue on the left because much as I waffle on the simple fact is you can tell I've breathed a little bit of a sigh of relief there we found the fairway so that finishes up in terms of the finding the fairway challenge three from five which I reckon I'm happy with that you know. Right so the second part of the challenge is well it's 150 yards out and the question is can I find the green it doesn't matter I don't care how close it is to the flag this is all about can I get the ball on the green get my two put and get off with a par and as you can see earlier on today hole number one we had 150 the elevation was sort of slightly downhill I chose eight iron and as I said there's a hand up behind the camera it's probably one of the purest irons I've hit for a long time and I don't know what two put we gave ourselves a real good birdie chance on that hole so right now and one from one we're on hole number five here now at Cardin Park the same challenge we've got 150 yards to the flag like it says fairly small green but it seems to be getting smaller because this challenge is on can I go two from two oh and the irons are on fire today that's right at the flag again sit I'll really pleased with that we had that one right down the line of the hole I think we've just gone a little bit past the hole but we're certainly on that green which is what I want to do so in this part of the challenge I'm two from two right so third challenge 150 in I'm gonna again I'm sticking with eight iron it's been right so far we're straight down the flag here so I've got a lot in front of me the question is can we keep it straight and this is to go three from three which would be really impressive stats from this distance I think we've got it again you know we've got it again if the distance is right oh do you know what I think we're about a yard short it was just slightly down that left hand side and I think when we get up there I'm pretty certain that that's just a yard short so we've now gone two from three we'll go in this right okay so the final part of the 150 challenges so well I'm moving forward to the ladies tease here we're 152 to the centre of the green don't forget I'm three from four right now and if I could get one more on four from five would be a really good result especially seeing as I only just missed out that sort of four from four by a couple of yards I'm sticking with this eight iron it's been good so far I need a good positive swing to sort of finish off the day nicely come on and middle of the green I think I've got it I think I've got it if the yardage is right it's right in the middle of it sit oh it's sat and stopped dead that is pin high I'm really pleased with that that's four from five in the 150 challenge the port from 15 yards and the question aisle the challenge I've got is can I get it to within what we call a bin lid which is arguably that sort of three foot that sort of length of a puttershaft should we call it so I've marked out 15 yards here on the sixth hole and we've got a bit of right to left in this one the question is can I get it within that sort of three foot distance and give myself a chance of well realistically you want to be too putting from this kind of distance can we start off the challenge with a win it's not a bad line it's not a bad line it's not a bad line oh well it's certainly got within the bin lid and for a long time there I thought I'd hold that one so from the putters challenge from 15 yards that's one from one right okay so we've this is what is going to be my third part of this putting challenge if you watch putt number two you'll see that well I reckon oh we agreed me and Hannah that I sort of just about failed it's just outside that three foot so we've said we're going one from two even though I did manage to make the two putt we were just outside that bin lid now there's a change in elevation on that putt which I got wrong it was slightly uphill and we've got vice versa situation on putt number three it's downhill with a bit of right to left so can I make the adjustment this time so one from two at the moment it's not a bad line it's not a bad line sit down yes right okay we're back in the game that's two from three happy with that after the disappointment of putt number two two from three on to number four right final one of the putting challenge and at the moment there were three from four I must admit I'd have put myself well I'd have ranked myself yeah four from five I'd have definitely been been aiming for in this challenge it's a strong part of my game putting and certainly sort of long putting with weighties so yeah I feel like I need to make this to hit my own personal target so we're off the right and we're downhill and this is to go four from five roll out roll out got a chance well I left it too far out to that right hand side but the weight was absolutely perfect and I just taught myself up in terms of my own control in terms of putting distance so good job I did that but four from five I think yeah I'd expect to do that but I suppose I've got to be happy as the the one we failed on but it's just marred in the outside and it's thanks to Hannah being miserable and refusing to give it me right so that putt completes the challenge the three shots that I sort of looked at don't forget so it was finding the fairway 150 in and that putter from 15 yards I did all right I was more than happy the good thing that made it interesting for me and I'm hoping this resonates for you it just makes it the practice rounds just a little bit more interesting to set yourself those personal goals and like I said it meant a little bit more on each of those shots and trying to execute them because I'd set myself a target as in that sort of you know 10 foot from the flag finding a fairway the obvious things that you'd look for in a round but sometimes we just get a little bit lazy when we're practicing and don't focus on any particular goals so my challenge to you is to do exactly the same and see if you can do any better than I did now then as ever like subscribe comment give me a feedback I love your interaction with this channel but also don't forget we've also filmed an episode two to this little mini series where we've got three more challenges taking place right I'm off to finish them and I'll see you all soon.