I'm a marketer. All right, I'm not a I'm not a CEO. So as I get into building a team now I'm a CEO now. I'm running and I'm managing people. I'm dealing with HR. I'm dealing with payroll I'm dealing with compliance issues and legalities and I have zero interest in any of that bro I'm a marketer. Yeah, it's it's pretty incredible I read that heartfelt note from the woman who came down to see you at your at your event last week Who didn't even have a cell phone and you turned her into a millionaire She she kind of Spills it all out there. So you got to go follow Ricky. That was on his Instagram really inspiring, but you know You're a guy's been selling a hundred units a year for years and years by yourself as a solo agent making a netting a million dollars as a real estate agent and number one remax agent when you were at remax in all of Alabama and the cool thing is you see to me You kind of see through the forest through the trees so clearly as you just described I mean you're in all these different spaces and you're excelling at all these different spaces But that's 20 that's Ricky 2023 now take us back to Like I knew you were a college football player, which I think is cool I don't you don't share that too much, but I picked it up in one of your your Pieces of content I'm like damn this guy walked on to Alabama. So give us a little bit of the football career Because I think that that story needs to be told when I was in high school. I was a freshman I played every sport up to that point basketball baseball soccer Everything I could really get into never played football Until I was in high school. So when I was a freshman I stepped on a scale and I think I was What was I like 150 or something like that? I can't remember how much I weigh, but I was I was way bigger than You know the other freshman in my buddies and stuff I was like, huh, you know, like maybe I can play football so so I tried out and You know decided that's what I was gonna do and it went well So freshman, you know sophomore junior seniors I played four years in in high school When I was a junior I was a starter on varsity I was playing outside linebacker and then I moved to defensive end as a senior and then back to outside linebacker in college and So I had a full paid scholarship to Marshall, Missouri, which is an NAIA school and That was cool because that my college is taken it was paid for the only problem was it was like a 20-hour drive and I was 18 And I didn't even know if I wanted to go to college. So I went there for a year. I came back I did a I did a semester at Faulkner State Which is called coastal now here in my local area then I went to I Went to Alabama where I was gonna walk on so I wasn't invited walk on To Alabama, but by the time spring Trump spring training came my body was just completely shot You know, I was like running like six miles a day uphill like Like lifting twice a day like my body was totally toast. I was like, okay, this isn't gonna work I was aching and everything else So I was like, okay, what am I gonna do now because I'm not gonna do college All right, and then I ended up fell in a history class at Alabama That one semester I went I was like, I'm definitely done with this. What do I do? Real estate's one class, you know, get my license You know, same opportunities as people that go to college for 10 years to be a doctor or lawyer I was like, I'm gonna do that So that that's really how it all played out, man and I just I really love football, but my body just wasn't at a professional level to be able to withstand the You know, the the 20 years are working out, you know So, but then I ended up pursuing other things, right? So I got into I Got into martial arts. So I got into Japanese jujitsu was the first one That was in like 2004 ish three or four. I got into that and I pursued that I got my black belt there That was like 10 years worth of, you know, training there and then I also Did you know, so I traveled and did jujitsu matches all over the country and ended up doing two MMA matches And then I got my purple belt with 10th planet jujitsu Really and I did that for like I did martial arts for well over a decade And that was just a piece of my life and then that was just another thing It's like I'm gonna go be a world champion And so when I was 32 10 years ago or so The last match that I did, you know, I went all through the tournament made it to the finals the guy at the finals was a diesel and He rode me like a you know He just rode me the whole time because he knew that if he knew that if I could get his leg it was over You know, but that was his game plan just keep me down and don't let me get his leg And then he eventually got me. He got my arm Right before we went to overtime But my neck felt like I'd been in a car wreck like whiplash for like three or four days and I was like, okay This I'm not gonna be a world champion here What else can I do right and that was right when I was like, let me go teach agents how to crush it So like every like I always had to have something occupying myself that I could go be the best out in the world You know anything that I was doing outside of my day-to-day job Was a side hustle to become number one in the world at it So like I was going to school side hustle was football to be the best in the world When that didn't work out. I was doing real estate Let me do martial arts to go be the best in the world at it when that when I finally ended that chapter in my life Then I went to do real estate, right and then my side hustle was To be a real estate coach to go be the best in the world at it. It's like I always had something occupying my off-time That I was pursuing to become the absolute best in the world at whatever that that side gig was Right, so that's interesting to talk through that because I never really thought about it like that but that's literally what my life has been a a series of Day jobs with side gigs to be number one in the world and it's cool because the side gigs I Mean the last side gig right becoming a real estate coach actually turned into my main gig And so now that's my day-to-day You know and now my side gig is becoming number one business influencer Right, you know in the world So it's cool Yeah, we're gonna unpack some of that stuff because you have like a David Goggins type of discipline and the people who achieve it You're level typically do but your career arc is incredible So I'd like to break down, you know the agent side your journey through being a top agent Which most people would stop there when you're when you're making a million dollars a year and you're crushing it You're number one that satisfies most people so that that's one story I want to get into then the coaching thing you did it like no one else has ever done it And I want you to get into you will go down that path and you got some really cool insight from legends like Gary Vee and You started doing all your coaching for free and that's blowing up now So I want to get into that. I also want to talk a little bit about your investing side your Your personal branding because I don't think anyone does social media as well as you as an agent in all of those buckets agency coaching investing Branding events and you do it all yourself and it's and you're giving it away for free Which is you've just kind of flipped the industry on its head in those areas But let's start with being an agent just so people don't know you and I you got to go follow Ricky Karuth easy to find on social and his contents just helpful We have five agents on our team here in Baltimore out of 30 that are just they're Ricky Karuthites They do it the way he does it talk to buyers and sellers weekly email the stuff works Hmm. So but agent-wise You can you start selling real estate where you immediately just crazy successful or Jeff to ride it up and down That's a 21 year journey, but highlights of the agent career. How'd that work? Took me eight months to make my first sale didn't even know if I wanted to do real estate once I committed I was all in to me eight months. I was roofing houses and doing real estate on the side then I Made a couple sales had a couple pinning had a couple listings went full time So I made them from there for about two years. I made a million dollars and Because the market exploded it wasn't because I was some kind of special like gifted person It was because the market just exploded and I was a hard worker So I took advantage and I took that money and started flipping houses borrowed a lot of money to do that as I Grew that business when the market flipped I lost everything because of you know all the debt that I owed and The houses weren't worth anything. They dropped in value so quickly. It just it was just a down spiral So I ended up losing everything went bankrupt was sleeping on friends couches sleeping in my car. I was eating out of people's refrigerators You know, I was just completely broke Had nothing at all lost every little thing that I had So I went back to roofing and then I got a job on an oil rig Did that for like two to three years in 2008? I was laid off in the old rig got back in the real estate. I just took everything that I learned from losing everything Which was don't get into bad debt if you're gonna take debt make sure it's good long-term debt You have a long-term plan with that debt and You know, if you want to build a large real estate business that never gets affected by the market build it on people Not deals and build a huge database of people that never forget who you are and we'll always, you know You know love you because you love them back and they you know, they'll always do business with you and refer people to you It's real simple So but I didn't do that in the beginning. I just did a deal and threw them away did a deal through my way They threw me away too They didn't want to buy back in this over inflated market and I could just go call 10 more people make 30 grand today So I didn't need anybody but at the end of the day I didn't know I did need people and I needed to build a database from the market crashed But I didn't know that in the beginning so that's something I wish I would have known but But I'm glad I didn't because it made me learn and go through that what I went through So then from 2008 to 14 I decided I was going to be the number one agent So by 2014 I was the number one remakes agent in Alabama so it took me six years after actually learned everything and went through that to Actually execute to the level that I'm number one And then that was the first year I did a hundred deals and 14 and I did a hundred deals through 14 to 21 So eight years in a row. I was the number one agent my entire MLS those eight years I was the number one remakes agent three of those years top five every every one of those years And then in 2022 about a year ago. I kind of stepped halfway out of production dad handles the day-to-day listings and sales I still handle marketing and consulting and stuff like that lead gen stuff of that nature and So I've got kind of like Not even a whole foot. I'm like I've got one like I've got like two fingers in in the day-to-day sales stuff with dad and But I'm more so focused on building my brand and building these other businesses Yeah, you know like for the past 12 months Have really been like a transition period for me because I took 20 years of doing sales and then stepped out of sales So it's just it's really taken me a minute to kind of get used to that You know for the past I took like Three months or so where I was just full-time creating content and With no real businesses per se behind the content where it's like, okay, I'm getting an ROI on my time I'm just creating basically and like my income is going down because all my income was tied to the market and the market went down So it's like man, I spent all his time doing this, but I'm making less money You know, this is you know, it's not it's not easy mentally to go through something like that but that's literally what I've went through over the past six to eight months is less less income and Working my ass off, you know creating and trying to build these businesses, but It's just been a transition period, you know to really get my footing of what my new life looks like without Going to listing appointments and showing properties to you know, creating content finding the balance between creating content you know and Finding opportunities to build businesses, right that could really you know take everything to the next level so You know, that's what the last 12 months have been for me a transition period And I'm in a pretty good spot right now because I'm finally getting real clarity on Things that I can do to build businesses and see that great ROI on all the work that I'm putting in and you know The longer I wait to implement those monetary Strategies the bigger those monetary strategies will be because you know picking up to 300 new followers a day You know as we speak so the more patient I am the better on the back end so you know lots unpacked there, but Well the reason to me because I've been following you since 2017 and you've came in talk to our team, you know a couple times and you're just a you're disarmingly honest It's just always straight facts Ricky's got nothing to sell you He's given everything away for free and the reason you're such a powerful coach in my opinion is because you've lived it at the Most granular level you've succeeded. You've failed. You know what works well You know what's kind of works and it's tough if you have this skill set and you also know what flat-out doesn't work You've had the highs and the lows so that's the type of person I want to learn from because I'd like to learn from your mistakes. I'm 35 or 40 whatever want to And I know there's so much you can teach and you give it away for free So we talked about your agency career, which is a Hall of Fame career You got every award remax has ever given out and you would have got that at any brand And now you've been at EXP for a few years and you're you're the only Top producer at EXP that I know who never talks about EXP So we might want to get into that because your brand is so much bigger than come work with me at EXP but let's go into that coaching piece because You've done what I'm pretty sure no one else has ever done which is create a pretty massive audience Based on giving away everything you've ever done all your best stuff all the time For free. Where the hell'd that come from? I mean It's it was just common sense to me you know, I looked at what the influencers are doing out there and You know, I just looked at what I was trying to do in the real estate coaching space And I was like man like the dollars are are in the eyeballs, you know, not necessarily Customers right because the eyeballs turn into customers the more eyeballs you have the more customers you have You know here It's like agents, right? I think agents play on the surface when somebody says they want to sell a property They're like, okay. Well, when can I come see it? And the first question should be well, why are you trying to sell? And they're just playing on the surface. They're not they're trying to convert before they connect And I think the same thing with real estate coaching I feel like coaching is just like buy this program buy this program buy this program Instead of here, let me show you how to do some stuff. Let me build some trust with you and then Let me see if I have a product that could bring you more value that you could pay for and It's just common sense to me like okay, how can I get the most eyeballs? Well, if the number one remix agent in Alabama that figured out how to close a hundred deals a year Single-handedly for eight years in a row will tell everyone how they do how they did everything for free Then that won't attract a lot of eyeballs So I said Let me just do that for free attract a lot of eyeballs and then I'll just figure everything else out later You know, when did you start really all it was is really as simple as that When did you start? I think you mentioned like 2014 you're thinking okay. I'm gonna get into this coaching space 2016 was so I try to write a book because I was writing a book like like oh nine ten eleven I just kind of started and stopped a couple times and then I put it down for a couple years 2016 I got serious about it then I went and spoke and I Went and spoke at In Biloxi at a remix event that was the first time I spoke at the end of 16 and The the response from the crowd was overwhelming afterwards, you know, it's like wow what I have people really really want really need So let me finish this book. So I finished the book and then I wrote another one really quickly and So it was 16 really 17 I guess it was kind of a kickoff where it's publishing stuff and I was I mean at Then it's 16 I was putting out some started putting out some content So really maybe end of 16 and then at 17 I started coaching and I was charging had a program I was charging whatever 20 bucks a month a hundred a month thousand one time, you know I did a bunch of different models to try to figure out the best way to build a business on the back of it and None of it really worked. I could have kept going on that road and figured out something that they did of course But I'm the kind of person man whenever I Do something I want it to be something that just everybody just loves I Don't want it to be something where when people see me calling they see my number on the caller ID They're like, oh god, here's here's this guy calling to sell me this thing.  That's why I don't talk about it because Right now I could call any of my followers and they'd be like, oh my god, Ricky's calling and they would answer Versus if I was Screaming exp and they saw me calling and they'd be like, oh god here, you know, Ricky's probably gonna try to you know recruit me That's not the effect. I want to have on the world is oh god. Here. This guy is calling me. Well, I want, you know, the opposite so Same thing with my real estate business. I never did call to try to sell your house You know, I called to see how you're doing see if there's something you do need See if you're thinking about doing something if I can help you do it and if not love to stay in touch with you Never tried to just sell. I mean in the beginning. I did until I learned the lessons, you know, right of how this business actually works But um, yeah, I started out charging and then I had and then it hit me all of a sudden like Why don't you just open this up for free man and quit banging your head against the wall? And once I did that everything just it was slow, of course, but like everything changed like You know Followers started coming in people started sending me messages about how it's helping and it just continued to snowball You know and like how it's all played out is exactly The way that I planned it, you know for it to snowball into what it is now and I'm even looking further down the road now I know I know how it's my plan is not complete like it's I know where it's going What do you kind of coin the term? relationships over transactions and also like what you just said which is you know Connect before you convert and if everyone could just take a breath and take a page out of Ricky's book You'd be a lot better off You've been coaching me indirectly. You don't even know it because I've been watching your stuff Gosh seven years and that's why I'm asking you and every time I've ever asked Ricky to help with something He goes, yeah, sure you want to be on this podcast? No problem. You want to come talk to my team? Yeah, I'm in never once mentions exp recruiting buy my stuff. Give give give give I'm waiting to get the right hook Ricky's just jabs jabs people's face off and then eventually I'll have a right hook ask Which is a Gary V one of his books jab jab jab right hook speaking to Gary V I've seen you with him before and I guess you went out to meet him talk to us a little bit about How you got in front of him and what you learned and and kind of how that relationship is today? So I was I was already doing all the stuff and then a guy my office showed me his Monday morning rant video That was the first video. I saw his and I was like man. This guy is like speaking my language and I followed him sit from there and it was just it was wild man. It was just like You know God-given, you know from heaven type deal because it was exactly what I was going through like how to build this coaching business You know and basically he's preaching posts on every platform Just give give to people You know without expectations. It was exactly everything that I was already, you know doing he had a big influence in me going for free And then I had the opportunity to go to 4d's which is like 10 people, you know at his office at a conference in a conference room And learning from him and his team for a for a day So it was cool because I got to go there and tell him face-to-face. Hey, you're a big reason why I'm you know Crushing it and going to continue to crush it and help a lot of people That was the whole reason I went to that was to just look at him in his face and say, you know, you helped me so much as far as Laying out the blueprint of how I can really go out there and help a lot of people Because that's who I was. I want to help a lot of people You know, but also build businesses around helping people, you know, you really laid the blueprint out so it was really cool and then Now we get together once a year on a zoom And I get to kind of hash out like what Questions I have, you know for like the next stages of my business, you know And I always leave those conversations with complete clarity on what I should be doing, you know So it's really cool to be able to spend some time with him and get his insight on my specific situation So it's a cool relationship, honestly And I'm glad to have him as a mentor Because obviously he has done it, you know, like he's the goat He's the goat at content creation personal branding and God knows he's got his hands in a lot of businesses So we talked about your aging career. We talked a little bit about the coaching And as of lakes, I'm an avid follower of yours You've been investing at a different clip because everything Ricky does kind of like, you know Side hustle be the best in the world at it seems like something on on your radar is trying to Gobble up a hundred million dollars of real estate this year as an investor Which most agents could yeah could learn a thing or two about investing properly Yeah, talk to us a little bit about your investing side Yeah, so I lost all I lost everything flipping houses, you know borrowing money So now every flip I do I pay cash and then I flip it, you know, I buy cash. I fix I flip The downfall is is I have cash tied up I honestly I wouldn't even do it if I didn't have great partners that want to do it I just love the relationship. So we do make money But you know, it's it's nothing crazy. I'd rather hold the properties honestly But it's what they love to do. And so, you know, I know that relationship will turn into bigger things down the road so I just continue Continue that relationship, but I we pay cash and then we fix and then we flip So, you know, the safety net is if something happens We can take a refi cash out and get some cash out if we need to rent it We can do a lot of we have a lot of options if the market turns on us So when I got back in I had the bankruptcy and stuff said I waited a couple years to to where I could start buying But I started buying properties about you know, and now today like back in 2010 or 11, I think maybe even 12 is Think 10 10 or 11. I bought my first property coming back Lived in it for a year then rented it out. I still own it today So I've got condos, I've got duplexes for plexus commercial buildings All over of the county And so, you know, and I'm continuing to build that personal portfolio of just these local properties. So that's fun And then here recently over the past maybe two years. I've really Taken my time to really understand the the multifamily sector and the bigger commercial sector and Try to understand how these big deals work and operate with these big institutional buyers and syndicators and funds And really researched it from the front to back, you know, and so that that's what I'm getting into syndications funds raising money For these deals something I didn't want to do unless I understood it to the fullest because if I'm going to take somebody's money Then I want some serious You know some I want to be able to sleep at night knowing that you know I'm making these people money that this is a very low-risk situation And that everybody's protected on the back end. So yeah, man, like we I've looked at like 50 60 deals We we have one that we're, you know working on right now To get it tied up for 20 mil in Orlando And you know, we're gonna raise money to buy it. I'm also looking at like triple net lease Commercial properties here locally I've got one that's in the 1.5 range. I think me and my buddy might just go in on ourselves and just buy it So yeah, I'm going hard on that game because it real estate's a Investing as a sector that you just get really rich really slowly, you know, the earlier you start the better So I'm just putting a lot of resources into buying as much properties.  I've just been slowly learning and researching and understanding So that I can be in the best position possible you know because We may see some really good deals on some multi-families, you know With with the cost of debt doubling in the last year on the commercial side, so we'll see Well, I love that real estate investing. I'm an avid investor as well. We call that it's not get rich quick It's get rich for sure Yeah, you do it right. You're gonna be you're gonna be in a good spot and also like what you said It's a old Jim Rohn line, which is the fortune looms large for those who start early So if you're seeing this and you're thinking about investing in real estate or you're in real estate It's a time.  Hey, you had to fail you had to mess it up But now because you're older and wiser you're learning from other people's mistakes So I don't see you making any bonehead moves in the big real estate investing side I know one of your goals is and I just know this from something you'd posted that you want to acquire A hundred million this year and I think you're I guess maybe looking at 36 million or so are close Already the 16 million dollar deal we talked about last time I was here it fell apart So that's nothing that we ended up pursuing. We're still working on the 20 million dollar deal And then I'm buying this one and a half one on my own with another guy So, you know like we're I'm sticking to moving. I'm looking for the very best opportunities But you're right like there's a lot of coaches that have been agents for three years sold 19 properties and sell courses for $500. I I I got in the business, you know, I made a mill a lost it I came back six years to the top at the top for three years before even starting to try to write a book or You know coach people or whatever. So you're right I kind of wait till I read and the reason why my content has went went stale for a while Because I was just kind of saying the same thing over and over again in terms of helping real estate agents And I never did really get into the investing side of content or how to grow on social media and stuff like that Because I didn't feel like I had I didn't have the audacity to go speak on that kind of stuff yet until I felt like I actually Knew what I was talking about now. I feel like I have a big real estate portfolio. I understand, you know, the The different sides of real estate investing I feel like I can go teach a lot of people a lot of different things that I've learned and on the social media side I can teach a lot of people how to grow on social media how to build your business on social media And so these are things that I Now feel like I can speak on not to the highest highest levels But a level enough that I feel comfortable sharing, you know You are the highest level on personal branding. You're at the highest level in my opinion, especially in the real estate space Who's a practicing agent?  I know your dad's doing some of the work. You're involved in the business It's very profitable these investing Avenues require a lot of due diligence and In study and work personal branding and the amount of content you put out is ungodly Let's say 30 posts a week sometimes. I'm like, I'm not doing this, right? And I'm trying, you know, I'm putting it but not not enough. What are your days like? How do you structure this is it like hey, I You know every Monday I do this Tuesday. I do that is that I just know I have to do these key things. How do you manage that? Yeah, it's like I say if there was a while where I was just doing content, you know all day every day I wasn't focused on any other real businesses or anything. I was just doing content just creating brainstorming Trying to trying to really get all that like trying to systemize that whole piece But now I'm a little more organized Um Monday's I kind of put aside more for like organizational growth Tuesdays are more for content creation where we actually try to spend the whole day creating Wednesdays are more for I try to focus more on real estate deals like the big commercial deals or maybe local listings and sales I do my weekly email on that day all that So I try to I try to segregate it like that, you know, we're Monday. I'm growing Tuesday. I'm filming Wednesday I'm checking on all the real estate deals and following up and Thursday and Friday are more so like kind of whatever Like projects. I may make some more content You know, so I kind of leave those two days open to kind of finish the week. However, I need to finish the week That's kind of what's working for me right now. But this is something that's always changing, right, right? Always changing like this week Wednesday. I'm going to Cali for the rest of the week So there goes the rest of the week so I got to try to squeeze everything into today and tomorrow to You know to make sure I get everything done that I need to get done So it Like my dad said a long time ago, you know, all you can do is all you can do and I added to that which is be happy with whatever you do get done, you know, we all want To you know, get all these checklist things done, you know Today when in reality, it's just not going to happen You know, and then we become disappointed that we didn't get all this stuff done because we want to be a superstar tomorrow When in reality we like really crushed it even though we only got 20% of our other things We wanted to get accomplished accomplished, you know, so people need to really Kind of chill out on their cells, you know with with this kind of stuff because it can get super dangerous We we really overestimate what we can do short-term and underestimate what we could do long-term because of that compounding effect, you know that slight edge that You know, it's like it's like this. This is a good example if you If you spent 30 hours 30 minutes a week just take 30 minutes to You know input information into your CRM that you'll never use Right people like, you know, your clients dogs birthdays and Stuff that you'll just never use right 30 minutes a week and you may think oh 30 minutes a week Well, that's 26 hours for the year You know what you can get done in 26 working hours, you know, it's crazy the amount of Multiplication in your business you can create in 26 hours and we kind of disregard it because it's just oh, it's just 30 minutes a week It's like wait a minute, you know, this compounds to be massive over just a year not to mention two three four five years What that actually looks like it's like every little second counts so much and So, you know that little 30 minutes a week. It's like we underestimate how much of an impact that is in the short term Right, we over we over estimate Right, but then we underestimate what that what that 30 minutes looks like over the next couple of years You know, that's just 30 minutes a week, you know Imagine like an hour a week or two hours a week that you put on something that could be spent a much more effective way But you kind of disregard it like it's just two hours. So I'll just do this No, that and like thinking like this is how you really Become more efficient and really blow your business up over the next two to three years It's putting something in place that you can visualize compounding into these massive You know these these these massive legs of your business over time Well, you obviously value your time and use it judiciously. So I appreciate you spending some time with me today This has been awesome. All you can do is all you can do and be happy. That's it and be happy with it There's a gratitude. That's it now because I think you're you're the maybe one of the fastest growing and if not the Best personal brand is a solo agent.  Because like like I'm sure you get these flashes of inspiration. Ooh, that'd be a good piece of content Oh, I should say that Like because you put out so much.   That was dumb. It's like no this value value value Yeah, so what like I'll have little ideas hit me based on articles I'm reading or talking to people I may think of something while I'm talking to you right now And I may jot it down and so I'll email it to myself with the subject of reels and a place where I get a lot of it It's just DMs people that DM me I questions and stuff. I'm like, oh, this would make a good, you know Real so I'll just screenshot and email it to myself And then when I sit down on Tuesday or whenever I'm gonna sit down in brainstorm a good 20 ideas or so And then batch film those 20 ideas I'll just go to my email and just search reels and then I'll look through all the ideas that since the last time I film so this is like a week's worth or You know two three four five days worth of ideas that just kind of compound again, there's the compound compound into this These emails, you know, I just kind of go through them and just get them all on paper, right? And so I've got all those then I sit down and think okay. What else is going on? What's going on today? What's going on in my business, you know, what kind of what social media tip can I share what? You know what's going on with the market? And so I try to come up with a good 20 ideas and then just film them all in one shot So I've come up with them then I have to set my camera up.  That's crazy man. You just said it. I film it all myself Yeah, but then I send it to editors and they edit the the captions and stuff in the backgrounds It's crazy. So then I've got so I've got the so I've got the ones I'm looking straight at you But then I've got all the podcast clips, right that I mix in there Then I've got my speeches that I have clips of then I've got the Instagram quotes Right, so then I've got the article post with the article in the background So really I've got five different legs of different kinds of content there That I can kind of mix up throughout the day You know to where I can get those You know four to six pieces of content out. He just broke it down right there for free That was worth the price of admission right there because guess what I'm gonna do when this is over I'm going right because I have a I have no excuse I have like two guys that are marketing wizards who are full-time employees They've got cameras and I'm sitting here finding reasons. I can't do it. Maybe that's you too. You can do it Systemize it could it be as simple as just emailing yourself when you have an idea and coming back and batching it Cuz that's what someone who values their time does all right. I'm gonna break off an hour and a half here I'm gonna film 30 pieces of content bang Yeah, that's freaking that's what it has to be time block because until you treat it like a job then it's really not gonna work until you have a systematic way of You know how you're gonna post how many times you're gonna post and then creating a system around being able to produce that much content Then it's really not gonna work for real estate agents I think you should batch out like ten a week that way you at least got one a day You could even do for a week do four reels and then the other three days do an image You know and like just post once a day Really is the you know for real estate agents. I think once a day is enough To to build a large business It once a day is simple, you know, you hear some people say ten a day I mean look how much you do but starting with one a day is a great point and look I would pay a fair price To get Ricky Cruz playbook, but he seems to want to give it all away for free So I don't want anyone to get upset with me, but godly I'd like to you just to spend a month coming up with Exactly what these agents should do and show it to him and maybe that's on the horizon So here's here's the other place. I wanted to go with you I want to know what's next and share whatever you seem to be always willing to share anything and everything good bad and ugly Which is one of the things I love about you and your fans love about you. It's just real I want to know what's next for Ricky Cruz selling real estate. I know your dad's involved now And he's doing some cool stuff then I want to know what's next. Hey, what is next for the coaching? We got zero to diamond your I know you're moving and shaking with some influencers Like you said, it's always changing but you're on the rise people think oh Ricky's at the top I think you're just at the base of the mountain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Yeah, real estate agents is such a small niche, you know compared to the overall population of the internet And then I want to know what's next with investing too. So those are the three places Agencies you're at exp and your dad coaching and then investing give us Leave us with some what what's to look out for with on the Ricky crew rise Because I'll call it right now just like I'm calling the Ravens are going to win the Super Bowl and end all Pat Mahomes Goat like chase he's on it's day after the Super Bowl here I'm calling Ricky Cruz going to be at the top of the coaching industry in one way shape or form And there's room for plenty at the top. That's the other thing people got to realize you can be friends with the other people at the top So Agency first what are you going to do with your selling it like why are you even selling real estate your dad? What's going on exp? I'm not really I just dad loves to do it So if he loves to do it, we still have the clientele We have the past clients. He loves to go to listing appointments and show property and stuff So if he loves to do it then go do it You know keep doing it and you know, I'll keep helping and you know We'll just continue to run that business the way it's running, you know So we could just do that until he doesn't love it, you know, is it just you and your dad? Do you have any other agents local? No, it's just me now Yeah, yeah, yeah, he just um, he can handle everything and uh, you know, it's not that hard And we have there's a great back end, you know with a with an assistant that just been with us 10 years knows everything So it makes it really simple on us and um, he can just go out and get the deals done It's just really easy stuff, you know at this point Now I have to ask I because I know for an absolute certainty. There's people all over golf shores and probably all over that Panhandle that would die to be on your team that would come work for not really man. It's so weird. See that's what's so strange the uh Yeah, I mean there may be a few but it's so weird because like I did the workshop here in golf shores in my hometown I had two local people that were there everybody that was at the workshop there was 80 people And everybody that was there was from utah, seattle, new jersey, new york, atlanta, carolinas like mississippi, lusiana, texas like It was all people that came from outside the area Um, that's what's really strange. Um, you know that as I've come up The local the locals are like it's just weird. You know, I don't I don't know what the thing is You know with the ricky thing here locally. It's just kind of an odd deal But I mean a lot of them definitely respect me And stuff but when it comes to this like You know, I don't know if they like look at like always with exp. He's going to try to get me or If they're like, oh, well, he's going to try to charge us something at some point or Or I don't know. It's just weird, you know, like here he comes He's trying to be a guru, but he's not really because we know him as little ricky back in the day I don't it's a strange deal, but Um, listen, dude, I I am a I'm a marketer. All right, I'm not a I'm not a ceo So as I get into building a team now, I'm a ceo now. I'm running and I'm managing people I'm dealing with hr. I'm dealing with payroll I'm dealing with compliance issues and legalities and I have zero interest in any of that, bro I'm a marketer Right. I just want to stay in my lane of being a marketer Um, the way that I make my money Is through mostly through affiliate marketing Right, whereas I don't own the company. I don't deal with the back end bs I get paid a commission for selling products on the back of my brand Um, and and I love that because I don't have to go out here and build a company of 100 people And have a sales department a marketing department a web department an ad department Um, you know managers c o o c. I don't have to do all that stuff But I can use these other companies that already have the great product and have the team in place And deal with all the day-to-day operations I can use their entire company To go out and basically do what I want to do anyway and help people and make money Um, so that's what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm just like a great Affiliate marketer because I don't want 100 employees. I don't want a real estate team I just want to grow my brand and continue to tell people What companies? Products can help them succeed the best And make a commission on those products.  It's not like you're clear forever But you do have clarity on this piece and you Sounded pretty confident saying it you're a marketer, which I think is really cool that you self identify Look, I'm great at marketing. It is what it is. I don't want to be a ceo That might pull me in the wrong direction And like the position I'm in we got 30 people and we're growing this team and everything you said are challenges that you have to Handle and handle well and deal with people and it can get messy And and I do like doing it and I'm good at it, but That comes at a cost There's an opportunity cost because when you're dealing with those things at a high level You're not executing on other things at a high level.  You're dealing with people you're dealing with the organization You're trying to build a business um, I don't want to build a business right I want to Be on the outskirts of that business and use see if there's a company that has a hundred employees And I can partner with that company to help them sell their product as as one of the marketers Then essentially those are my hundred employees Even though I don't deal with them You know, if they give me a cut of every every time that there's a transaction of their product um, then Then I've essentially you know, I don't have equity in that company But essentially I'm making free cash flow with no expenses Outside of whatever it took me to build my brand You know, um, and so that's what's very interesting to me because as I look into the education space I'm like, okay. I can go build an education company. I can build a Course I can do all this and that or I can just partner with A company that has a hundred employees that has sales that has marketing that has Website guys that have all the things that you need to be able to scale to eight nine figures Right um Because once you scale to a certain point your margins are so low Right, you know in that bit I could go out and credit course and make a million dollars today Um, but to scale that to 10 million I have to hire staff and now I'm at 30 margins um and a lot of headaches so You know, I'm the kind of guy. I don't want to go build a hundred person Company, but I want to take advantage of somebody else's hundred person company Well, I can just be an affiliate if I love the product You know, that's the way I see it and then okay, where's your equity? Well, like I say I'm buying a hundred million worth of real estate this year And that's going to continue every year All right, and not only that I have plenty opportunities to buy in to companies I love and own equity pieces of You know, so Trust me. I have plenty and plenty of equity that will continue to appreciate You know through businesses and um real assets like real estate That's beautiful how you tie it all together because as you as someone who doesn't want to be a CEO Well, you are the CEO of the ricky keru show And like as in you controlling your own interests as you do so well And see what that doesn't mean is you can't go play with this money and do big things So just because you don't want to build the team doesn't mean you're not going to be building a massive Group of people who you're investing with and doing only the things you're great at and things you want to do which is awesome So i'm glad you said that because you alluded a little bit to what's next on the um Potentially the the coaching education space any anything you want to tease us with here because it sounds like That brain of yours is on to something with Partnering with other people or are putting out content I'll speak on behalf of real estate agents in marilyne at least I want to know the ricky keru Personal branding playbook as it continues to develop because I want to know what you're doing next and guess what in this summer You're going to be doing something because instagram changed something and there's a new feature And I want to know what you're doing Like as far as real estate investing goes as far as social media goes Um things of that nature Um, yeah, like I'm I'm getting into those spaces right into the education side of the business to uh to create You know groups groups and situations that We can all learn together on this kind of stuff, you know and continue to keep up with the algorithms as they change new platforms as they come along New features as they open Um, so that that's what's fun is I'm like a I'm like a social hacker, you know Like I'm always looking for what's this little thing I can do that can really drive more organic reach reach more people You know drive growth the most efficient way And it's just I kind of like a I'm like a grinder because like I'm not like a you know a jake paul or a Somebody else that like just goes viral and picks up millions of subscribers I'm more of the little guy that just like churns out so much content like even gary v Like he has four million subscribers on youtube and he gets like, you know 20 million 20,000 views You know video something like that.  He's just like the little grinder You know that just continues to put out stuff that most of his following is not watching Right, but people just see him churning it out. So that's a different style then let me go viral and get a million subs in one video You know, it's two different two different avenues, right? And and I'm the grinder. I'm in the grinder path You know, I got like 1500 videos on youtube. I got less than a hundred thousand subs or like 90 something thousand subs It's a pretty good. Um Yeah, yeah, but it's you know, I know guys with a hundred videos that have 30 million subs um Well, you're gonna just have to like look at all this stuff in relative and what's what's subjective Hey, thank you so much for watching today's video. I hope it brought you tons of value Let me know what you think in the comments and I'm gonna put the next video Right here for you. So you don't have to go anywhere. You can just click this video to keep that ricky train rolling Hey, we'll see you guys on this next video and I'll talk to you soon


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jonathan Pancall. These are your headlines from around the fleet. The Chief of Naval Operations released a detailed plan highlighting the Navy's intended track and investments for the next five fiscal years. Admiral Jonathan Greenert said his navigation plan defines the course and speed the U.S. Navy will follow to organize, train and equip the fleet over the next several years. The plan describes how the Navy will deal with budget constraints while increasing operational tempo and balancing the fleet's current readiness. To read the CNO's navigation plan visit his leadership page on navy.mil. Sailors at the Naval Air Technical Training Center or NATSEE in Pensacola, Florida were recognized for their donations to the annual Feds Feed Families Program. The staff and students at NATSEE gathered more than 8,000 pounds of food. The donations went to local food banks and will help feed children, veterans and others in need.


Well, the Bemidji Veterinarian Hospital's Relay for Life team held a shopping event to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. For this week's community spotlight, Haiti Clotter shows us how shopping can have a purpose. We've all heard the saying, shop until you drop. Well, these people are shopping for a good cause. The team named the Bemidji Veterinary Hospital Dirty Dogs held its first after-closet sale where our proceeds benefit the fight against cancer. To raise money for the American Cancer Society, to raise funds for research, for helping people with cancer, to do, there's tons of different things they can go to americancancersociety.org. This year's Relay for Life will be held at the Samford Center. Dirty Dogs co-captain Stephanie Benson has personal reasons on why she participates. I mean, there's so many different people that are affected by cancer every year and both of my grandparents on both sides were affected. There was plenty of shopping to do with clothing for women, men, and children. Customers bought as much as they could stuff in a bag and it only cost them two bucks. And did you find a lot of good things today? Yes. Not just for myself, but my nephew and his five kids. All the donated clothes came from the Bemidji Veterinary Hospital Dirty Dogs team members and their friends and family. I think it's super when people will do things to raise money for different causes. Several showed up to take advantage of a sale and give back at the same time. A lot of it goes to just research as a whole and other things as a whole, other services as a whole for people and their families and their caregivers going through cancer treatments and things like that. So I think it's just super important to do this every single year. Any of the remaining clothes will be donated to local agencies for this week's community spotlight in Bemidji, Haiti-Clauder, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


We're doing a Saturday live because last night I had the luxury I had the privilege to take my daughter went with my buddy Matt fan of the show actually it's how we became buddies he's in South Carolina as well. We went to Taylor Swift's era's concert movie extravaganza and let me tell you it was a night. It was a night to remember. So tonight we'll never forget. Here's the deal I like Taylor Swift I celebrate her catalog of course anybody that knows me knows I'm big into the pop princess scene. You know I like to pair Akesha with a mega death I like to pair a Britney Spears with a Billy talent. That's just how I roll. Okay I like emo music Jimmy World is one of my favorite bands of all time. So I walk a lot of different lines I think variety is the spice of life. We have one venture here on earth let's make the most of it which means dabbling in a lot of different music genres. All right trying to save face here trying to save my manhood. I went to the movie I had a good time theater was packed full of raging teenage girls love and Taylor going off my daughter was 14 was bawling unconditionally with her admiration of Taylor Swift who up until that point I thought Olivia was like yeah she's cool I mean I never never really got the sense that she was that all in but I think just the experience on the big screen really really takes you there into the concert. It was a good time. It was an experience for sure it's not often you get those types of movies where it's almost like transcends you I remember a few different ones I've talked about in the show where I went to a football movie and it was full of college students football players and so every time someone was hit. These guys would be yelling and cheering on. I remember Batman returns seeing that as a kid in theaters and what an amazing event it was. So here we are with a Taylor Swift movie concert was not expecting that but yeah it was a good time we got a good show. I'm not sure you know we'll see how long it goes. The movie got done late. I come home. Connor my 11 year olds in my bed and he and my wife are watching the new goosebumps series on Hulu or Disney Plus maybe both Disney owns everything so it's all kind of redundant at this point. They they watch that till like midnight. I go to bed and not a couple hours later Connor is just staring over me as I'm sleeping soundly I wake up to him dad. I know what car what do you want. He can't sleep. I can't sleep. Okay.  What do you want me to do your 11 he goes back to bed hour later. And he's over me again. Oh my God. He's scared of goosebumps the TV series. I didn't see the new one. I don't know. I don't know how good it is or how scary it is or whatever Justin Long's in the thing. So I go fine if you're scared just come into bed so he lays between us at this point it's four in the morning.  We're doing it and I'm doing this for you guys. So if you would kindly do something for me super chats are always appreciated I know this is unconventional it's a Friday night but if you have a super chat to throw my way. It's the life but it's the life blood it's the force of this show that drives me doing these live streams so I appreciate it. Let's get into some of the movie news after I do a little housekeeping so as I stated I saw the Taylor Swift Ares tour I have my review up just posted it like an hour or two back you can watch that there was a Karen in the crowd it got it got a little ugly I had to tell someone to get off her phone she did not want to it was a mess. We're going to be talking about the new art the new news that best buy is getting rid of DVDs and blue rays the final nail is going into the proverbial coffin movie news will be the last thing we talk about and I want to give a shout out. We have an upcoming episode a new roast is coming this week thanks to Jan Rose she became a mithril member over on patreon.com slash Adam does movies. Appreciate the support there as well she's requested a roast. She had a couple ideas we went back and forth but we landed on Dr strange to multiverse of madness. A movie that I don't outright hate I thought it was a disappointment for sure a watchable hot mess is I think where I land on that definitely a movie I can roast though and roast I shall that's going to go up this week is the goal. She's got a birthday she's celebrating I believe it's October 18 Jan I apologize if I get the date wrong but that's what we're doing this for that's what this is all about a nice little birthday gift to Jan. So shout out there shout out also to YouTube for the copyright claims they've been constantly giving my video Twilight my Twilight roast just a beautiful 21 minute roast of a shitty film. I went through and then broke it all down I use clips to accentuate my point it's transcending the film it's a completely different thing but.  If you don't know the process of which it takes to get a copyright flag let me let me break it down really quickly for you. If you put any kind of content in your review or YouTube video there's bots constantly scouring the videos for anything that they can latch on to a key word some footage and then they will hit you with a notice it'll say hey. This video has been marked it's got a scarlet letter it's not going to be shown to some people depending on which country they're in based on the copyright claim you also won't make revenue from this video. Now you can you can what's it called basically debunk it that's not the word I want to use you can fight it you can fight the claim and submit a thing that says hey I beg to differ this is under fair use bro. There is in a 30 day waiting period for the third party that made the claim I mean a bot made it but they're going to look over they're going to say no this is still this still stands. This is still good at that point if they don't release the claim you're still not making any money which as anybody who's on YouTube knows most of your revenue comes within the first 24 hours. And you have to fight it again or pull it down I chose to fight so now we are once again waiting for the restrictions to be pulled now if they come back a second time and say this is absolutely copyright infringement my channel gets a strike.  And the only way to get rid of a strike is to wait I think it's either three months or six months and it goes away.  I'm not sure I can't remember exactly what they are because it's been so long.   Last thing I want to say about it on the Twilight thing. When you upload the video YouTube will let you know pretty much right away they'll go through the video and they'll say up we found we found issues. And they'll tell you the time stamp and they'll say figure it out. So what I do is I pulled the video down because I didn't make it live. I cut out the part I re upload. Well it doesn't give you all of it at once it only gives you chronologically as it's going through so. Oh I took care of minute mark one but look at there's something at minute mark one minute and 27 seconds. Now I have to fix that one wash rinse repeat. We're on the eighth upload folks. This was the eighth attempt and YouTube said we're good. We're good now. And so I was like all right well make it live and then within 24 hours Bama you hit with another one.  That's all I have to say about it. Last thing on the kind of housekeeping front there will be a new podcast this Monday. It'll be premiered on YouTube I do a watch along at noon. If you want to check it out early you can follow me subscribe whatever on Spotify Apple podcasts podcasts of your choosing Amazon Google they all. The Adam does movies podcast is on all of them and these live streams I end up putting up there as well now usually a day or two later and they always go up in the morning around eight in the morning. Look for that Monday. Okay I think that's it let's get into the first piece of news. We talked about it already Taylor Swift. This deadline article heading is amazingly terrible. This is not even this is nothing. It's complete. It's complete SEO Google based. Let me try to read it. Taylor Swift era's tour sees near record opening day for October with 39 m short for million semi colon three day now 90 m dash 109 million semi colon. She never goes out of style with a plus cinema score dash box office update.  Deadline you should be ashamed.  Let's read about this let's let's let's unpack. Okay Taylor Swift era's tour would be a roller coaster ride and well here it is Friday now looks to be settling at an estimated 37.8 million that's according to industry estimates this morning. AMC is calling Friday the era's tour at 39 million that's the second second biggest opening day of October right behind the Joker's 39.3 million or m if you were back in 2019. Let there be garbage. The Venom sequel made 37.4. They're estimating the three day to be between 90 million and 109 million folks. This movie Taylor Swift might be on track to get Barbie numbers over a billion she might track avatar numbers. It's all going to depend it's going to depend on the legs that this thing has. I mentioned this in my review. Let me get off of this view because we don't need this article anymore. It's kind of trash to be honest with you. I mentioned this in my review. This movie concert thing isn't being penned as a movie at all by at least Regal. I don't know what AMC is charging. I assume it's the same across the board. This was a $22 ticket. This is not your standard movie ticket price of 899 or 1499 or wherever you live whatever the charges know this was a major upcharge because they're treating it as a concert event which absolutely does not substitute a concert. I can tell you that right now. It was still a good time regardless but not a concert.  There's a lot of money. They're essentially making three times the amount of a regular ticket sale. I think that because of the success of this movie we are going to see more movies doing this and obviously this is not the first. There have been other ones in the past. I remember back in the day there was a Hannah Montana was that Lizzie McGuire best of both worlds tour. I did not see that movie. Although I celebrate Hillary Duff's entire catalog as well. That went to theaters. I'm pretty sure there was a Jonas Brothers movie at one point. There was a Justin Bieber concert movie at one point. This is definitely not the first but I do think we're going to see more of them now especially in the pop princess category. If you want to consider Taylor that's almost a disservice because she has so many different genres and styles. She's just very talented but regardless I think we're going to see more of it for sure. My opinion on it, cool. I don't really care. If they're not treated as a movie why should I? It's a concert thing and it made a lot of money. It gets people out to the theaters so they're supporting theaters and that's great.  If you don't have the funds then I guess we don't get the funds as it were. Not much else to say on it. Good for Taylor. She could certainly use the win. She could certainly use the money. Let's go to the next big piece of news. That is, if I could bring it up in any sort of appropriate manner, Best Buy will soon stop selling DVDs. Folks, this has been a long time coming to be honest.  CNN says grab physical DVDs while you still can. Yikes. Netflix mailed its last red envelope DVD last month. I can honestly not believe that people were still doing red box. Now Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of 2023 holiday season two. Best Buy says that streaming has made DVDs obsolete and it can use physical space in its stores and warehouses for tech products in higher demand. Really? Last time I was in Best Buy they had an entire section of vacuums, fridges, washer and dryer. Are these what we're calling high tech items? I mean they barely had any Blu-rays when I was in there last time. I've joked about this before. When I went to Best Buy, looking for a movie was the saddest thing in the world. I had to go to the way back corner. There was an old tiny janitor in there sweeping like Blu-ray. I haven't heard that name in a long time. We might have one over here. And I'm like, well, I heard the format is dead, but I'd like to buy one. And he looked at me as like sometimes dead is better. And then I walked away because then I realized I didn't even want a Blu-ray. Who's buying Blu-ray still? Okay. To save the obvious back to the article, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was a decade ago. He said decades. I singular for some reason. Best Buy said in a statement. Oh, Best Buy is a person in this article. Making this change gives us more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech for them to explore, discover, and enjoy. I'm going to start selling vibrators at Best Buy. The media website, Digital Bits, first broke the news of Best Buy's move. Okay. So we're just giving credit. That's a link. That's a link offsite that gives them more bots to come back. It's an SEO thing. Best Buy does not break out its sales from DVDs, but Best Buy currently has 24,000 DVDs listed on its website. The company has shrunk down aisles of DVDs in recent years.  Best Buy's exit from the market will leave Walmart, Amazon, and Target as the top retailers stocking DVDs according to Digital Bits. Walmart reportedly controls 45% of the market for DVDs. And of those 45%, this isn't the article anymore. This is me. And of the 45% of the market, 95% of those movies starred Wayne Johnson. They don't have this anymore. Well, I haven't been to a Walmart in a fortnight, but the last time I was in a Walmart, they had no joke had a Dwayne The Rock Johnson section of DVD. It was just all a shrine of The Rock movies. You got the rundown in there. You got Walking Tall in there. You have Black Adam probably in there somewhere. One of the Fast and the Furious movies, Hobbs and Shaw's in the mix. I mean, his entire catalog is up for grabs as far as I'm concerned. What a criterion collection he has to offer. Really wild, strong stuff. Okay, let's go to the next article. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't even comment on this. I didn't even give you my scorching hot, beautiful take on DVDs and Blu-rays. I have DVDs and Blu-rays. You see the collection over around my shoulder if you're not just listening only. I have a scant amount of them. That's not all of them. That's just some of the DVD seasons of like X-Files and Seinfeld and then just a row of like South Park. And then I have a comical collection of HD DVD movies over there behind the Lego Seinfeld set. Remember HD DVD fam? That was fun. That was a fun time for everyone. Spoiler, it didn't win the Blu-ray HD DVD format war. It did not win and neither did I because I invested in a bunch of them. I guess I had disposable income at that time. What a wonderful five months that was. In the closet that you can't see that I'm pointing to off camera is a much larger collection of DVDs.  I'm not that kind of person. I understand the appeal. I understand the collection angle of it. But it's not for me. Now there was an argument for a while. That hey, you don't own your stuff with digital. With a physical copy in hand.  It's yours forever that physical copy that could easily break or scratch and will become obsolete is yours forever. Just look at my huge collection of VHS movies that definitely hold up. Just look at my collection of laser disc that definitely hold up. Just look at my collection of DVD that definitely hold up.   But man, they're mine. They're mine to have stacked all over the place as some sort of a sad shrine to old things that I don't want to put into my VCR or DVD player or Blu-ray player. I get that they're yours.  I'm for convenience. Yes, the big argument for a long time also was the quality with a 4k Blu-ray, you are unmatched. Streaming is not pulling down a consistent 4k stream with beautiful sound and that's true. That's very true. However, I'm willing to offset the difference as a fan of movies and beautiful looking graphics and visuals and sound. I'm willing to offset that for the convenience of not having to go into my closet or the shelf, pick up the disc, put it into the player, fumble through the menus, sometimes sit through the bullshit connecting to the Internet to pull me down a fresh movie trailer that I don't care to watch because I already saw it on YouTube 18 months ago and finally get the movie going at the point. I've already second guessed myself as to whether or not I even want to watch it anymore. That's where I stand on it. I have a collection of movies on digital. Will those last forever? They won't because nothing does. Nothing lasts forever. My shitty digital Amazon list of movies and their terrible layout will be obsolete in probably 5 or 10 years because a new format will come along again. That will beam the videos right into my brain. Who knows what will happen or they'll have a super digital release collection that you have to pay a premium for and your other videos won't work or you'll have to upgrade them.  Bottom line is they will always find ways to get more money to repackage the same thing over and over again so you fork over the cash. And people like me, people that collect movies or love movies will do it, will do it. I have owned Die Hard like four different ways. I've owned several movies on seven different formats. It just is what it is. But I don't prescribe to the whole it's all or nothing. It's Die or it's give me Blu-ray or give me death. I don't fall on that sword. I don't care about this. This just seems obvious. So everybody was kind of freaking out a couple of days ago and it broke. That Best Buy was cut in the cord. They weren't going to have the sales of DVDs even on their website or in their store. And people were like, it's over. It's all over. It's been over. It's been over. Now there are boutique collectors that go for the steel books and the 4Ks. That's cool.  I'd love to be able to have that kind of money to just make a big wall of DVDs that I can one more time. I purchased this movie when it came out in in 2024. It's the greatest year of my life. No, that's not happening. I'm honestly a big, I'm a big fan of Lego.  Kind of like I got the Harry Potter set back here. There's some really cool ones that I would love to get my hands on. There's a Home Alone Lego set. There's a, what was the new one? It's like a Disney video camera with like a film strip coming down. Mickey and Minnie are in the corner. That was sweet. I want to put that together. I'd love to put that together. Let's move on. Because then, you know what? Then at least I'm actually building something. I'm doing something. Okay. Now we're going to move on. This is on another sad note of speaking of things dying. Let's share this tab. Michael Cain. Not Dad. Jesus. Michael Cain is way too, way too quick on that. Michael Cain is not dead. He's just done acting. The giant of cinema is hanging up his hat at long last says Collider. Michael Cain is 90 years old. I don't need to read this article. I just want to have it up for some. Oh, I didn't even show it. Wow. I was going to put up for some visual. Here, look at this is the article from Collider. Michael Cain is, is not going to be acting anymore. He's kind of been slowly doing stuff every couple of years. It's been a while since he's been in anything. And yeah, I guess he has a new movie coming out. And it will be his last at 90 years old. And yeah, respect. Respect for the legend that is Hogy, which is Michael Cain's character from jazz, the revenge. Obviously the role he's known for more than any other. Okay, let's get that out of here. Another piece of news. Some of these are going to be quick because I just don't really have much to say on them. Okay. Here's one that's a little spicier, I guess. Maybe, maybe one person didn't see this coming. And it's like, oh my God, why? Why was this such a colossal failure? I didn't see this coming at all. It is with a heavy heart that I announced blue beetle ends theatrical run as lowest grossing DCEU movie at the global box office. Yeah. It's, it's, it's a shame. It's the same solo. It's the main actor here. So it was going to continue in the DCEU. I guess I don't, I don't know how Jaime is going to continue on with James Gunn's vision. It doesn't make any sense. Some of them are staying like Hame, a peacemaker, Amanda Waller, of course. She's a treasure. You keep Viola Davis around when you have Viola Davis.  I would assume Harley Quinn maybe, you know, what are we doing here? It's a little weird. It's a little up in the air, but yeah, Jaime's not done. Solo's going to keep going. I just, this movie wasn't good. I know a lot of people thought it was a fun time, a good, a good little romp in the, in the movie sack. I'm sick of it.  And my kids didn't even want to go to this movie. They don't want to see the marvels. They don't want to see really anything superhero related. They're, they're over it. They don't want to blame them. I'm over it.  If this, if this would have come out, you know, a decade ago, I would, I would have probably enjoyed it, but it's so played out and so formulaic. I just can't do it anymore. Let's see what else we have here. This is an interesting one. Let's go ahead and share this. There's just moving. There's, there's moving crap everywhere on these websites now. Everything is a moving ad and a moving part. What an awful experience. Kingsman three filming start window, finally confirmed by Matthew Vaughn after six years. After six years, we're finally going to get the starting film window of another Kingsman movie. What? The window after leaving audiences hanging for the final chapter, Matthew Vaughn finally confirms Kingsman threes filming start window based on Mark Miller and Dave Gibbons, graphic novel of the same name, a bunch of garbage texts. Give me the good stuff where we have. Okay.  Oh, this is like two news articles for the price of fun.  So we're doing it again.   All right, Matthew Vaughn, I see you. I hear you. Did we get the window? I don't, I don't see in this article where the window is. Vaughn is, has similarly remained dedicated to pushing ahead with the next movie. One question surrounding the movie is whether it can recapture the success of the first two. The 2021 prequel, the Kingsman put something of a damper. Yeah.  I don't, some people like it. I don't get it. I thought that movie was garbage. While some sequels ultimately failed due to the longer gap. Kingsman, the blue bloods, various delays may actually be beneficial. Oh, I guess the title is the blue bloods. Not to be confused with the blue beetles. I may be glanced or grazed over this, but I don't see where they put the window at. Also Kingsman two, not great. Let me just say that as well. Kingsman two wasn't great. I don't see a window. Oh, okay. Begin filming in 2024. After years of delays, it will begin filming in 2024. That's our window next year. Literally the entirety of next year could be the window for this film. Final article. And this is just a complete bag of humor right here because I don't, I can't imagine any of this is really going to hold water. Avengers six will soft reboot the MCU and bring back retired characters. I should look about a Kevin Feige, Feige, Feige, Kevin Feige. I have to look this up every single time. I never remember it. Kevin Feige. Okay. Kevin Feige quote backs rumors. A major new bombshell suggests that Marvel plans to soft reboot the MCU in 2027 with the sixth Avengers movie and teasing the return of lost heroes. This is an article from Screen Rant.  But we'll see the MCU could reboot. So we have a code right out of the gates. The MCU could reboot after Avengers secret wars in just four years. According to a new quote from Marvel, Supremo, Kevin Feige, Feige. I forgot it again. The upcoming Avengers six will close out the currently announced slate of upcoming Marvel movies on May 7th, 2027 who cares anymore. Feige has also said in recent interview with Variety that the MCU has barely scratched the surface of the story potential for Marvel comics. Okay. Speaking on the watch podcast, author of the new Marvel book, MCU, the reign of Marvel Studios, Joanna Robinson dropped a bombshell. Let's hear the bombshell strap in Oppenheimer. We have a quote from Kevin Feige sort of implying that light.  We have a quote from Kevin Feige sort of implying that like secret wars will serve as a soft reboot in which they can prune everything. That's not to use. That's not to use a low key ism.  This is such an. I have to do this every time I read up articles. This is so poorly written. I can't even begin to comprehend what I'm reading. Diving into MCU, the reign of Marvel Studios for further hints. It's notable that the final chapter titled how much we have left has the following paragraph close to the end relating a meeting with Feige that concluded with him revealing a poster from 1988 led Henigan and Joe Rubinstein of hundreds of Marvel characters as an indication of how many new characters could come to the MCU.  That whole thing was one sentence.  Feige had to learn different lessons from the comics how superheroes periodically needed to be rebooted how to stop variance and spin-offs from spiraling out of control how an annual mega crossover event could unify a disparate line of characters. I see nothing in here from Feige the question of why Marvel would reboot is a particularly pressing one given how successful most of the franchise has been Jesus Christ. Folks I think this is what we call a clickbait garbage article from our favorite clickbait garbage authors screen rant. Let's get this garbage out of my sight. I'm done with it. I'm done with it and that I'm done with the news. I'm done with the movie news. I wanted to do a Saturday live stream because I missed out on Friday night. It looks like people are watching I don't see any super chats so if you have them now is the time as I stated I'm dead tired. It's okay if we want to check out early we've been going for 34 minutes it's not a long live stream so if you have movie questions for me if you have any questions for me personal or otherwise I'm here for a little bit we can keep this party going for a while but I'm not going to stick around for no reason that's just silly that's not worth anybody's time. If you want to know my thoughts I do see a super chat I'm going to get to in just a second keep them coming so I have more than one. If you want to know my thoughts in MCU it's simple I'm burnt out I think most people are burnt out on the MCU Disney and you know Marvel they had a great thing and that great thing ended at Endgame we've had an occasional decent film that's coming gone I know a lot of people like Spider-Man far from whatever home home alone Spider-Man it was good it was a good one-time watch for me I don't want to think about it again. Otherwise they've been just a string of kind of mediocre multi-verse bullshit and I just couldn't care less about any of it and that goes with DCEU or DCU or whatever it's going to be branded I do think James Gunn will get things right but I also don't know how much I'm going to be interested when it comes out when Superman hits the big screen I don't know if I'll really be there well I will if I'm doing a movie review show I will be there but I don't know how much I'm going to enjoy being there is what I'm saying so soft rebooting it makes sense they haven't released the X-Men yet we had a really crappy cameo from Professor Xavier in Doctor Strange 2 I think he's the only X-Men that's shown up we have Deadpool 3 coming out that's obviously going to have Hugh Jackman as Wolverine this is probably going to be a final curtain call for all of the original X-Men my guess and if I was a gambling man which I'm not because I'm terrible at gambling I would bet the house I would put it all that Kevin Feige and the MCU soft reboots with the X-Men after 2027 we're going to get a whole new slate of X-Men characters while the new Wolverine and new Professor X the whole gambit the whole gambit will be redone a new let's read the one super chat we have Dieter Bastion shot out of a cannon with a five-dollar super chat funny money that's okay good morning Adam even if you don't collect anymore I still love seeing the nice mix of formats in the background how is your script coming along did I read all that right even if you don't collect anymore oh the DVDs I got you how is the script coming along the script is coming along I haven't worked on it since I made the announcement that I'm working on a script I have about I was a little generous when I said I had 30 minutes I'd say I have closer to 25 minutes the rule of thumb is every page of a script is equal to about a minute of screen time I'm pushing around 24 pages so formatting and all taking into account that's where I'm sitting Sundays kind of seem like the day that I work on the script so far and I plan on working on it tomorrow for hopefully a few hours my goal is to get the script completed before my birthday in November towards the end of November is my birthday I have limited time to work on the script I obviously have to be in the right mindset for it but the goal is before my birthday to get the script completed and not only the script but also the pitch deck and all the stuff related to it I want to I want this thing to be as completed as humanly possible for an early next year pitch the 2024 pitch a push whatever I have to do I will shoot a little bit of video as a proof of concept I like I'm putting it all into this because it is a it's a passion of mine it's something I want to do for a long time whether it goes anywhere or not remains to be seen I'm confident that if I could get in front of the right people it would be a very successful hit but you know there's a there's a million other people doing the same thing but so I might my expectations are in check but you have to have a positive mindset when you go into this stuff if you go into it thinking well we'll see you know very laissez-faire maybe it'll work maybe well you have to you have to commit fully so I'm committing thank you theater I appreciate that Mikey see with a powerful two-dollar super chat thank you Mikey hey Adam what's your writing process like it's like the Wild West Mikey my I'm using studio Blender or I'm sorry studio binder I just brought it up right now on my computer I've never used studio binder before you can do one free script on there otherwise it's a pretty costly you know service every month I'm liking it I like that it kind of helps format the script with you you know you just do the quick keys and you'll do your you know characters and then their dialogue and then you can do the actions and all that stuff that's pretty nice my so the movie I'm working on I'm not going to get into it all right now but I've had this idea and I've actually to a lesser extent made this in the past and I I wanted to bring it back so I've had this idea since I was in like high school and it's been rum you know it's been rummaging around in my head for many many years and I always have like little ideas with it and every single year that goes by I think I should make this or I should you know somehow tell someone about this and so I just said screw it I'm going all in and so when I do sit down I like to get a coffee shop like to get a overpriced coffee I got the laptop on the desk and I just get lost in it I start writing out the the scenes I already pre made all the characters as far as so like in the in the story let's say I have 20 characters I already have their bios all done their names the description of the character and so then I can reference them on that reference sheet when I'm writing I say okay yep this was this was so and so this was Lance Lance is a douche bag let's get that in there let's and then and then from there I just kind of organically let it flow I have already the beginning middle and end framework in mind so now it's just kind of getting those acts to line up properly right now I'm jumping into act two at the 25 minute mark which seems a little premature but we'll see how it goes I don't want to stunt myself or pigeonhole myself by saying like okay this concretely has to be 30 minutes for act one act two needs to be 30 minutes I'm just letting it flow and we'll see how it goes and when it's all done I can step back and say okay well I have 75 minutes worth of a movie here I would like to punch it up more and that's when you I think have a lot of fun I have written amateur scripts when I was younger I made a series of you know short movies and stuff with my buddies and those are all scripted out that process went remarkably faster that it's going this time around now that I have kids a wife a job a YouTube channel it's taking much longer but I'm also really I'm really again trying to dive into it and do it right and make sure every line has some sort of impact or it leads the story in an interesting direction and things aren't just filled in unrelated but I just watched strays two nights ago that movie was fucking trash I was on hack the movies and Tony said it was it was funny it was free on peacock that I couldn't even get through that movie was awful did not get any inspiration from that thanks again Mikey I appreciate that Jan speak of the birthday girl five dollars super chat from Jan rose thank you Jan I gave you a shout out at the beginning of this video so definitely play back the tape I just got here best buy kills DVD I don't know even what day it is anymore house weekend going for you and the fam thank you Jan it's going well yet best buy to really quickly reiterate is no longer going to be selling DVDs and Blu-rays both in their store and online but yeah again is this shocking I'm honestly shocked that people are still buying DVDs and Blu-rays that they would even need to come out and make this a thing fam's doing well weekend has been you know whatever it we kind of had to recover from the late night Taylor Swift concert and it's going to be a great day son for some reason getting scared of the goosebumps TV show and waking us throughout the day and it was miserable it was miserable I don't think I got more than two hours of sleep so I'm running on fumes right now I'm running on empty tomorrow I plan on getting a decent amount of stuff done for the channel including watching Dr. Strange to taking diligent notes for the roast I'm hoping I'm on track to get the roast done on time and then I plan on writing the script as well in the afternoon there is a Pokemon community event on Pokemon go that might be something that dips into my time it depends on if my kids are interested in doing it or not if they're not interested in going on the community event I'll walk away from it no big deal I already have the Pokemon anyways it's not going to hurt my decks outside of that everything's been chilled there's no pool update I know that we had a pool thing I did not do the pool watch because nothing's happened again that pools lying dormant I don't know if we ran out of funds over there what the fuck's going on but I'm not using my porch I know that porch is MIA Jan Rose with another super chat $2 thank you thank you so much for the birthday shout out she says exclamation mark very happy thank you for supporting the channel thank you all for the support and the super chats again it's what keeps this thing going and yeah anyway I don't think I can say much later I'm pretty tired so let's end it there this was kind of an impromptu last minute Saturday stream anyways I didn't really expect much from it but I thought I didn't do one Friday night let's get one more in the bag let's get it in the can so I get two a week at least I will see you soon Monday podcast coming out I don't expect anything will come out tomorrow maybe a short got to get those YouTube shorts going every day because that's what actually brings in new subscribers and yeah thank you guys very much and I will see you very soon take care


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Here's one practical truth that will sharpen your discernment. Therefore, I want you to understand that no one speaking in the spirit of God ever says, Jesus is a curse, and no one can say, Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit. Now, this doesn't mean that one is of God's spirit just because they say the phrase, Jesus is Lord. Rather, this is referring to a sincere and deeply held conviction that Jesus is Lord, that sincerity would of course be backed by purity of message and lifestyle. So, we must take care to judge not out of fear, but out of a spirit-led and mature examination of both message and character. Though it may be tempting to judge someone based on style, methodology, and even terminology, remember even Jesus was accused of using demonic power, we must stabilize our judgments upon God's word. So, ask these questions. Does their message point to Jesus? Does their lifestyle glorify Jesus? Simple. Jesus is the light under which we examine and discern all things.


Did you know that there is a rare item in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet called the Lightball that makes Pikachu powerful? When equipped on a Pikachu, it doubles the physical and special attack times 2. A level 100 Pikachu with this item has the potential of having 400 plus stats in physical and special attacks. Here's how to get one. Grab a Pokémon that knows the ability Frisk and teach it thief. I'm using the Neuvern by the Artisone and eat an Electric Encounter Boosted Sandwich. Walk out the East area and start encountering Pikachu. There is a 5% chance to have a Lightball on one. If you don't see any message show up at the start of a battle, run away and move on to the next Pikachu until your ability Frisk shows an item on that Pikachu. Then go ahead and use the move Thief on it. Here's a bonus tip. Once you have the item, equip it onto your Pikachu and breed it so you can get a baby that knows the special move Vault Tackle. You should also Vault Tackle that subscribe button so you can say...


I'm Joe. I'm 22 years old from Newcastle. One thing you need to know about me is I might look like an Essex boy, but I'm a Geordie through and through. My ex is Sophia. We haven't known each other too long, and with my head click schedules we haven't been able to make it work, so I'm here to win her back. What type of ex am I? I'll be a good ex. I think Sophia will be really happy to see us. There's no animosity between what anything I touch should go swimmingly. Describe myself in three words. Cheeky, chatty, and a little bit cheesy. The best three things about me is my tan, my eyebrows, and my cheeky smile. The worst three things about me is I'm very hard to keep interested.  My relationship history is a little bit mental. The old start off really well then ends really, really badly. They're just calling team to keep you interested. The worst way I've ever done somebody is they took us to the airport when I was going on holiday, then I started noticing other birds and give her the boot the day after I got there.  One sexy secret about me is that I'm a fan of group sessions, the more the merrier. What's my biggest turn on? I'm usually a boob man, but I do love Sophia's horse. What's my biggest turn off? Definitely, definitely bad feet. You've got a bad set of trot as you fucked. I've come on X on the beach because me and Sophia didn't get to spend enough time together, so I'm here to see if something can happen.