I have a question for Kier, or better to say a request for his opinion, among the erratical movements. I am very interested about the Anabaptists, and I'd like to know your take about this very interesting episode of European history. Thank you for that. I didn't mention the Anabaptists because I was running out of time and I was trying to focus primarily on the medieval heretics. The Anabaptists, I think, can be understood as a development of the Hussites, or at least very strongly connected to them. They were German heretics who were particularly prominent around the Rhine and in particular Munster, where they controlled the government at one point and expropriated a lot of property. They were much more radical than most of the other Protestants, much more akin to some of the more radical medieval heretics. Luther, for instance, had no sympathy for the Anabaptists. Yes, there was definitely a connection between the Anabaptist Protestants and the Hussite medieval heretics. Thomas Munster had visited Prague in the 1520s and built up a sort of network and made some Hussite connections. One of the Hussites is ideas which was held in common with other heretics. I think they got it from John Wickliffe and who knows, further in the past. One important idea which is obviously inimical to libertarianism and properitarianism, if you like, is the idea of dominion by grace. The idea that secular and spiritual authority or power and also even the ownership of property and private wealth should only be allowed to those who were judged to be in a state of grace, to only those who are, if you like, in modern terms judged to be virtuous. And these people, these late medieval heretics and these early modern Protestants, how did they judge this? Well, they had translated the scriptures for themselves and so they equated God's law doing good with whatever they decided to find in the Bible and they associated it with all kinds of ideas which we would consider as socialistic or even national socialistic today. And they acted on these ideas. There were revolutions and rebellions and expropriations across Germany and elsewhere. There's definitely a strong connection between bad ideas and bad practice and so those would be my few words on the Anabaptists. Brazilian experts here. I'm curious about the economic future of Brazil. How is the currency stability and the bank credit cycle play out in the Brazilian economy and what do you see in the future? Is it going to grow? Is it a growing country? You know, when we talk about Brazil or Latin America, you never know where the bottom line. It always can be down. But for the first time, I can feel a different feeling because, not because Brazilian became smarter or more intelligent, but by lucky, our business cycle, the bus came before the rest of the world. So I see Europe and America, they are about to get in crisis and Brazil had it before so it has to start its reforms before everyone. So when the crisis strikes the rest of the world, Brazil might be in the right track before everyone. So I am a little bit optimist. Our prime minister, our financial minister from Bolsonaro government, he's not exactly an Austrian but he's from Chicago and he's doing what is supposed to do. He's privatizing companies, he's lowering the government debt and for the first deregulating, which is amazing, it's unthinkable. A few years ago, talk about what this guy is talking or doing, in fact. So we are in the political struggle because the government hasn't, the majority are on the congress and the laws has to be negotiated. We all know what this is all about but I'm a little bit optimist, yes. So relatively optimistic about what is going on. It has been a big change, a drastic change. The whole political system has taken up a new orientation and compared to what has been going on over the past 30 years, it is an orientation towards free market, there are some libertarian elements in it, in the group. They just published a statement about free markets and so it's actually a revolution happening and my impression also is that with this is going on a change of intellectual climate, which is very important. Up to now it was totally in the hands of whoever, whatever one may call it, the leftists or Marxists or Communists and so on and the youth in my opinion is about to make a U-turn and adopt and at least to get interested in libertarian free market ideas and the political system, however, still is full of the old mechanisms. The tendencies are still there so the new president cannot just go on and his finance minister and economics minister as they would probably like to because they depend on coalition work. The problem is to understand. In Europe we usually have parliamentary system. In the US you have the presidential system and in Brazil this is totally mixed so you neither have a clear presidential system nor a clear parliamentary system and this makes things extremely difficult so things that are rare, even initiating impeachment are relatively easy in Brazil. It is almost like in a parliament like it happened in Britain recently you can get a new prime minister by the parliament, you don't need a new election so this is the mixed up so it depends very much on the political quality of Bolsonaro to play the game and we still have to see in how much he can do that and without losing the direction. That's the problem that you fall back into corruption. Now there's privatization coming up and what I've heard many of the politicians say we support it, yes but they expect to get part of the cake. So these games make it difficult to give a clear signal that things are turning to the good but generally I think also this way. Case of Venice is far more famous than the case of Genoa. How would you describe the main difference between these two republics and in addition is there some event that can be identified that led to the change in Genoa from that old system to being part of a general state. And let me just add another question to Tony. How representative is the selection of Christie and Rankin? I'm not a great mystery novel reader. I mean these could be just accidents so to speak. Do you have any idea if you would find that let's say if you look at the American mystery writers or mystery writers from other places where you would see similar changes in the course of time? Concerning the first question I would say that the two systems are quite radically different and this is true when you compare not only Genoa with Venice but Genoa with other city republics in Italy. Very often you see the same institutions in Genoa and in other cities. So at the superficial level it seems that Genoa is following a certain pattern during the high middle ages and the late middle ages concerning its constitutional development but actually when you look at the powers that these institutions had in Genoa you almost unavoidably find significant differences. So for example the figure of the Podesta which is quite widespread at some point during the high middle ages across northern Italy was a sort of foreign judge called in to solve the disputes within a state, within a city state among different families and different factions which will seem to match libertarian theory in the sense of private arbitration and calling in a judge that has the trust of both parties or of several parties. And yet when one looks at the Podesta in Genoa vis-a-vis the Podesta in other city states one immediately notices some differences. So for example in Genoa the Genoa is called the Podesta only for one year and they lay down a series of conditions that the Podesta has to respect. Right, also other cities are doing the same but in the other cities the Podesta is more of a step towards the centralization of power whereas the Genoese are making sure that the Podesta can only help the weaker faction in case that the stronger one plays the role of an aggressor. So for instance very often the contract signed by the Genoese assembly with this foreigner who comes in is okay you come in for one year you bring a dozen of your judges to spread across our territory and 20 to 60 men in the sense of soldiers. Now that was not enough for these men to take over the entire city but it was just enough to have at that time 20 or 60 professional soldiers take the balance in favor of the party that had been subject to aggression by another party within the city. And there are many of these examples of another institution later on is the institution of the Sindacatori which you find in different cities across Italy. The Sindacatori are men who are supposed to check that the constitutional order is respected. Now what's interesting is that in Genoa the Sindacatori have more powers and they can prosecute officers of the Republic who have misbehaved not only after they have done some but also during their term of office and trying to summarize a few of these different. So Genoa is a unique example. Concerning Venice, Venice is one of the most militaristic republics. The difference that may be of interest is the difference in the commercial expansion in the imperialistic expansion of Venice vis-à-vis the Genoese one. The Venetian government directs the Venetian military expansion into the Adriatic, into the Levant and in Northern Italy itself. There is a large territorial expansion. And Genoa is not engaged in a territorial expansion. It doesn't build a territorial state in Northern Italy. And the Genoese colonies across the Mediterranean and beyond are formed in a more spontaneous or disorganized manner. There isn't a public arsenal. There isn't a public policy, a cohesive policy of the Senate to direct this expansion. So the second question was about the time in which Genoa starts to lose this tradition. That's a bit tricky. As I was preparing this paper I realized that this war of 1625 is really impressive because it's very late and still Genoa is using a variety of non-state means to resist aggression and it does so quite effectively. After this the public expenditures go up and some of the pressure also from allies such as Spain are important to consider. But I would say that Genoa remains a republic without really a large public with an enlarged standing army until the very end, until its destruction in the 18th century. I hope that this addresses the question. A so-called Golden Age of English detective fiction which actually Agatha Christie was a representative example of it and many other books have the same kind of atmosphere where the typical murder is shall we say a vicar in the library of a country house where of course murders don't actually happen. And I think there has been a brutalization in general of such novels. It's not just ranking but many of them they're disturbing because they often involve people being cut up and put in sewers or things like that or children abused and then killed. And actually George Orwell wrote a famous essay called The Decline of the English Murder in which he complained that we no longer have the kind of refined murders of the past. He called it the Golden Age of English Murder which was lasted from about 1850 to 1940 when petty bourgeois people or very religious people would kill their wives usually by poison and alternatively there was the Brides in the Bath, a man who got his wives, he married many people at the same time and he drowned three of them in the bath and on one occasion he played the organ and after he drowned his so-called wife, of course he was not legally married to her, he did it for the insurance money, he played an English hymn, nearer my God to thee. Well that was the kind of murder we all loved in England but George Orwell said we were going over to a much more brutal kind of murder in reality and this has been reflected actually in the detective fiction. So there are some writers who still try and write the village murder but in my opinion it's unconvincing because that world has disappeared completely but on the whole murder stories have become much more brutal, not just and ranking as a good social commentator and I think it's true in America as well and now other countries I don't know. You may have mentioned that Genoa was rejection of Machiavellian principles not only looking at the prince we can agree with that yet he also wrote in the art of war that you should not rely on mercenaries or on a bureaucratic military or even entangling alliances and in fact agitated for a militia, a very robust militia system so perhaps you can comment or contrast what Machiavellian is talking about with a militia system with what we saw in Genoa. Yes, the militia system that he had in mind was completely different it was a more centralized system under the authority of the state and he himself participated in the creation or in the attempt to create something like that for the Florentine Republic. Usually Machiavelli has a very modern view of the state. The state is sovereign and it is a machine that must be ready for war in order to survive. Machiavelli also has a distaste for private wealth. I'm obviously making a long story short but Machiavelli has a distaste for private wealth which is quite at odds with Genoa's values. What you see in Genoa is a celebration of entrepreneurship and of wealth in the majority of the cases, obviously. There are poems from the 15th century in Genoa where the anonymous Genoese merchant and entrepreneur is celebrated rather than the statists, rather than the great public servant or military leader. So in general, Genoa continued to represent a model of pre-modern state in contraposition to the Machiavellian revolution for quite a while. Now interestingly, Machiavelli has a passage in which he comments on the situation in Genoa and he complains about the fact that the communist or the state government is very weak, it's corrupt, it's disorganized and then he points out, oh, look at what instead the Bank of St. George is doing. So rational, so organized, so strong in its own laws and arms. If only the entire republic were taken over by the Bank of St. George then what a great republic that Genoa will become which is of course missing the entire point of the medieval jurisdictionally diverse system that Genoa still represented. So in general Machiavelli is indeed with its own new ethics which has been described by some as an anti-Christian ethic really. Surely as an anti-medieval ethic, an ethic that Machiavelli is one of the first writers in other words that creates a different set of rules for the state. So the rest of us have to abide to certain rules but the state is different. So in this sense Genoa is a contradiction, stands in contradiction to the Machiavellian standard, to the Machiavellian recipe we could say. Brazil is known as a multi-racial or multi-ethnic country and you've clearly shown that the states which are predominantly white are also the ones who are predominantly the wealthiest but the question is how is the division of wealth within the state? Is there a big difference in wealth between the ethnicities, the races and how does this reflect political life or social life in Brazil? Is there affirmative action? Is there programs? Is there demands for reparations like we hear in the United States etc. Can you comment please? I will give my historical personal example. My forefather came from Italy, the poorest guy in the world and in less than one generation all the Italians became rich. So when I showed the syndicates and the union in Sao Paulo get stronger it means that the Italian workers and industrialists they became rich and they became what today is the middle class and the richest class and it's obvious a racial difference because we are white, not for a German but for a Brazilian standard we are white and the black people never could do the same or the mixed people because there is not actually a big contingent of black people they are much more a mixed country and mixed people and the productivity of the immigrants from Germany and Italy was higher when our forefathers arrived there and we got rich much before then even started to be a productive industrial workforce and it makes a difference inside Sao Paulo state which is the biggest contributor to the gross domestic product and yes you know but we never had in Brazil a racial problem it's an American imported democratic byproduct and now it's a problem like the ridiculous numbers that Professor Miller pointed out in a university that 83 Negroes are harming in Brazil in one minute and it's causing a problem because who wants to hire for the same salary a guy with the productive is much lesser than the other and we are all schooled in Austrian economics and we know how distorted it became the intention to help the poor and to harm them and that's why the Brazilian system makes the poor poorest and the rich richest because I live in the other part of Brazil in the poor part in generally speaking and there you have the old established class who nowadays get rich because the forefathers usually of Portuguese descent were land owners and they also are these groups who are very active in all the politics and their political interest is not so much any kind of ideology but being at the place where for example new land areas are opened for building and this is the way how you can get rich in the northeast especially at the coast not just a little bit rich but really rich because you can imagine how this land gets values when it's for a lot of kind of created communities that are there along with tourist places that's one part the other part especially from the state where I am what I can observe the other way to get wealthy or to stay wealthy is to have solid education usually however in law not in business not in engineering not in chemistry but in law and then you manage it to get into a kind of official position and the discrepancy between let's say private activities even activities which for example in Europe are well paid engineering and so on you get in Brazil an outrageous salary so for example to become a public persecutor or a judge and all this kind of type especially if your wife also works in this area means that you can expect salaries of up to a million reais per year it's outrageous it's absolutely unbelievable what is happening how kind of high salaries the top public servants earn and when one contrasts this to the average people that in the northeast usually have no way to go because there's hardly any industry and those are small shopkeepers people that have an auto repair shop and said that they have a terrible life in terms of paying taxes of being persecuted through regulations and so on so one can put it this way in the northeast different from Sao Paulo you get rich by not working yes and you get punished when you do something productive when you are able to get in the public service in Brazil and become a public employee, a government employee you abolish the law of scarcity there is no problem anymore in your life you're gonna have a huge salary even after your retirement it's granted the same salary when you are in an activity so there is no more scarcity in your life just one question also for the Brazilians what role does these Pentecostal churches play I hear that they have an increasing influence Bolsonaro belongs also to this group and how do you explain the rise of the Pentecostal religion and the parallel decline of Catholicism I talk a little bit about that in my presentation but it's a deep question and deserves a close attention and one point is that the disfiguration of the urban scenario that we lost that balance, that priest per capita that used to be very equal in all countries and when the migration happens the church does not follow the same velocity of the change in urban scenario in Brazil so now the new Pentecostal and evangelical denominations they grow a lot in Rio de Janeiro which is 20 million inhabitants they are half of the believers and it's a big change in Brazilian scenario but it's like the racial question it's an American product like those evangelical celebrations about the prosperity, faith and they are very influential they already have one of the denominations has the third largest television broadcast in Brazil and it's very influential while the Catholic is one local television and they are gaining space, money and political influence they elected more than 10% of our congress and they are a political power in our country right now and you know, the first thing when Bolsonaro got the result of the elections got out and Bolsonaro was elected was an evangelical prayer with his evangelical supporters his wife is an evangelical believer so it says a lot when Bolsonaro represents it's a symbolism because Bolsonaro is a military so this time the military came to power by election for the first time and the symbolism of it is that he represents the original Republican project which is a fight against the Catholic monarchy the first Republicans in Brazil they incentivized other faiths to come here so Lutherans from America from all American denominations but it came to Brazil in the beginning of the republic so Bolsonaro seems like returned to the original project of the Brazilian republic I looked at this phenomenon with great interest and with the eyes of an economist and the economist always sees supply and demand and what I thought to see as an explication these groups have a good offer yes, they offer social integration for all kinds of people they are open to anybody yes, and so you're a little bit different from the Catholic church where you are Catholic usually by birth or by family and then you use the church more or less for certain days, for certain celebrations and so on and otherwise over the past decades many people have become aloof from this tradition but what they long for is a community now when you belong more to intellectuals so you may choose some kind of club or something like that or this kind but for the ordinary normal people there is a desire to join to have a social environment and in this sense these evangelicals offer really a good product where they have their, they call it cults and they take care of the children there they have musical teaching yes, they have own bands, they have own music so also for the, it's almost like also bringing in your whole family and I think this makes the attraction in addition to that there's also a kind of ideological difference as you've mentioned I think that's right they are worldlier in this respect evangelical Lutheran in the traditional Calvinistic let's better call it Calvinistic that is they open up the path it's okay to get rich while the Catholic church from a certain tradition admires more staying poor and not favoring that so much so they favor this idea to get rich to be modern and at the same time offer something causious community where I belong to where I can go to anytime I want to there are groups there and so on and the religious aspect that is there fits well into the it's not a different religion in terms of Christianity it belongs to the whole area of Christianity so even when you grow up as a Catholic you are not converting to a totally different religion you just make a few changes and you find a new home I think that's what I found out to explain this phenomenon I have to add something because it's a shift that happens in the Catholic church not in only Brazil but in all South America you know during the Cold War the South America had dictatorships in major countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil also and the Catholic church always had a conservative side in these countries and supported much of these military dictatorships in all America then the left discovered that the Catholic church has an important role in our society and then where it comes the Theologia da Libertação Liberation Theology, I don't know if Pope Benedict XVI when he was Cardinal Hatzinger he went to I think Nicaragua, Guatemala to ask the I don't know how to say in English but to ask the silence the silence to a a clergy that was creating the spreading this liberation theology all through the Latin America so it's a shift because the Catholic church became to support all left ideology during the 60s and when it reached the 90s it's already taken from the Catholic from the left side and the Catholic church supported the last 30 years of left government in Brazil and did not support Bolsonaro at all even Bolsonaro being with a lot of anti-gay anti-abortion or a conservative agenda the Catholic church was not with him in the last election so it's a shift that happens in the last 40 or 50 years even when the left discovered the importance of Catholic support and infiltrated in its lines with the theology of liberation I don't know if you are a quantist of this term thank you if I could just mention two two of my experiences one was in the slums of Birmingham and the other was in Guatemala and I saw in Birmingham the rise of the same kind of churches and I went to see them and I thought they of course I went thinking this is ridiculous but what I saw was that these churches answered something for these people whose lives without it were so sordid that this offered them something much much better in Guatemala the church the evangelicals whom I detested personally I thought it's aesthetically terrible aesthetically disgusting they would go around and say you can do something in your life if you do what we say you will be rewarded and unfortunately well I don't know whether you think it's unfortunate or fortunate what they were saying was true because if their people did convert they stopped drinking so much they stopped beating their wife they started looking after their children they went and worked their fields whereas the Catholics were concentrating on political action so they were able to tangibly improve the lives of very poor people which the Catholics didn't because they were waiting for everything to change before anything could change and these people offering hope to individuals and they actually bribed them as well, I mean that was straightforward bribing the Catholic church in this era lost this role to the evangelical churches and Neopetain-Costaud churches that's the point they just lost contact with the real people and that's why I don't buy the speech that oh Francis is a communist pope no he has an important role because he is how do I mean a parish pope a local pope that's what he represents in this sense he says things to real people it's not exactly that he provides what the people want the superversion of religion is all about God doesn't have to please us it's the opposite we have to please God that's what we are here to to praise God not the opposite so I see Francis as oh yeah he says some stupid things about economics all the time it's not that easy from Argentina and you know all the Brazil, Argentina rivalry but in some sense he's not that bad and I would like to put some more thought about that when I make it more coherent in this sense that he tries to come back to the the real people to this connection that the catholic church lost and lost big beautifully contrasted the fictional worlds of Christie and Rankin yeah sorry and how crime etc is portrayed in those novels and how it reflected to a certain extent the reality of the various eros so kind of the social disarray and the corruption of the police force in Rankin's world and the kind of the cushy villages and upper middle class life in kind of 20 30s in England with evil crimes below the surface but to what extent do you agree that this does reflect the reality in England of on the one hand social collapse but I really wanted to ask you about police forcing so for example there's been a lot of I guess controversy especially in recent years with high profile cases in London in the UK to do with stabbing terrorism and how especially since the Blair era there was kind of the idea of we're going to be tough on crime but tough on the causes of crime so kind of the evolution of criminal justice into being kind of more altruistic and rehabilitative rather than punitive which is short sentences etc how is this to what extent do you agree with me that this is true that there's been finding the police force and this had an impact on crime in the UK also social factors have affected it but to what extent do you agree with that and how it's reflected in the culture and also does the solution lie in harder policing with the government or is there a solution outside the state I guess I'm talking about Britain specifically but feel free to give other examples Policing and the criminal justice system in Britain is very feeble actually there are two I think one should always try and distinguish between primary prevention and secondary prevention secondary prevention is how do you get people not to be criminals in the first place and secondary prevention is what you do with criminals once they have become criminal and the two things are related but they're not exactly the same we have a very lenient criminal justice system which no doubt encourages people to be violent for example so that if you look at the number of we often hear in Britain for example that we have a high number of prisoners per capita compared with other western European countries I will ask you does anyone see what's wrong with that statistic it's an absurd statistic because just do a thought experiment if there had been no crime ever committed and there was one prisoner that would be an outrage against justice so there's not a question of how many prisoners you have per head of population it's the relation of the prisoners to the number of crimes committed and if you look at Spain for example Spain has roughly the same number of prisoners per head as Britain roughly but there are six times more violent crimes in Britain than in Spain Britain has by far the highest rate of criminal violence in Europe and you can actually show that this followed by the gradual the gradual leniency of the judicial system such that for example in 1900 we had six imprisonable offences per prisoner we now in 2014 but clearly you don't want a society to be well ordered only because there is a policeman around the corner and if you do you're going to stop you and if you ask me how do you do the primary prevention of of crime I'm not sure but I have in the past suggested that one of the principal causes of crime is criminology and this is only half I'm being only half facetious but we're almost through so I can't explain why I think that criminology has actually contributed enormously to crime at least in Britain Christiana you mentioned that the rise of Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism is not a purely Brazilian phenomenon it's a more general Latin American phenomenon how does this sit with the left particularly the far left side the Venezuela or the atheist left in Cuba for example I don't know what the left is in the rest of I don't know about Cuba but in Venezuela you know that the catholic church even being more left side in these last three decades it collided against the regime in Venezuela because the regime is too left is going too far on the left and even the left bishops and catholic church in Venezuela couldn't go along with them and the new Pentecostal or Evangelical denominations in Venezuela I do believe that is I believe that they have more catholic orientation but you know Venezuela is an example that we cannot understand imagine that South America country that the favorite sports is baseball is not football, soccer this country is impossible to understand only Venezuela is really an American 50 second state because how come South America country has baseball and the second sports is box is not even football football I think it's the fourth one so Venezuela is much more unknown in case than Brazil as pointed professor Miller the only thing that explains Venezuela is the oil to provide to US and they ruled Venezuela as they want even though they don't have this American influence on religions on religion as we had here with the Evangelical influence I think Venezuela is more catholic oriented than Brazil in this sense it's they are not like half of population like in Rio or in other cities in Brazil that the Evangelical already are more than 50% and in Venezuela in case I can't explain if I'm wrong if there is new numbers that contradict what I'm saying here but so far the last time I check it they are still more catholic oriented than the rest of us but it's if you go to Latin America the Evangelical Brazil that I told you that owned the 30 TV network in Brazil the largest one of the largest one they have churches in Africa all Latin American country they grow so fast they have in Portugal in Italy so they are growing in the world and the name of this is I'm funny because it's universal and universal is catholic in Latin so they are growing all over the world but it's a Brazilian export product to our experts on Brazil and how do you see possible association movements especially regards Brazil's strong capacity and it's easy money problem and then the second question to care and maybe to Cristiano as well so do you see possible opposite inquisition so an inquisition of original Catholicism especially regards radical changes done by the current pope the last question do you see a possible opposite inquisition so an inquisition of original Catholicism especially that is done by the current pope you know there is some catholic that says that the next pope will be the African one what's his name Sara it would be a radical change inside the church the Brazilian Catholic elite and the bishops of Brazilian they are very close to Francis Francis was in the Ceylon which is Latin America reunion of the bishops and they are all they have the same orientation there is some focus of more conservative Catholicism in Brazil the deeper Brazil is still very Catholic with our traditional different rituals a different kind of Catholicism in each part of Brazil in different parts of Brazil but yes you know Tom Woods has a profound task that he he launched to us Catholics that is to teach economics to the Catholic Church again to recover our great tradition and one of the thing that I most love one of the articles that I most love in my life was that Rothbard articles article that he points the difference between Catholic way of economics and the protestant way of economics and he points that capitalism is much more a Catholic thing and as I told to Professor Husman there is no such thing as a German cigar because we produce things to enjoy it different from the protestant side that's produced by because they have to work and work and work and yes it's in our cultural roots sometime it will it has to come back somehow it has to come back because it's much more natural against this unnatural democratic republican system and and now going about your first question about the party it's linked to this and as we go into to search in our locality identity Brazil has everything to be different countries as the actor pointed in the video I showed it was it is a different country each part of Brazil only united for because television power but you know when you treat about secession it's always like oh the north is rich and they want to get in Italy the north is rich and they want to sweep the street of this poor napolitans but it's the opposite secession much more do better to the poor吧 in the 호st w very lousy car being an extremely expensive price just to please the industrials in Sao Paulo state so if they are free to buy whatever they want the Industrialists and the power syndicates in in Sao Paulo that we would suffer more than anything if Sao Paulo loses Why Sao Paulo benefits from this insane? Transfer of money inside Brazil Because they strong the industrialists and the strong syndicates in south of Brazil benefits because they have a continent to sell their products That's Brazil They hold that the rest of the Brazil are obligated to buy from Sao Paulo industry. That's why the elites and the oligopolized industries don't Don't care about being About Sao Paulo being more taxed than the rest of the Brazil because the money that they pay from the central government get backs in Purchasing from the rest of Brazil. So it's a system very very tough to To break and the fight is not the state against state It's inside Sao Paulo state because the middle class pays this bill and suffers this This unproductive system So I don't know if I if I if you want to point is there any separatist movement? Yes mainly in the south Sao Paulo had its history because the biggest revolution Sessionist revolution happens in Sao Paulo state in 32 and Vargas crushed it but We are different people in Brazil The Sao Paulo people are different from the Northeast people from the north from the Amazon from the center And Sao Paulo in Rio de Janeiro, it's it's even another language. I can't understand what Carioca's Speaking and we are Koutou is not a Fixed thing I think it's Evolutes and changes according to influence. It's it's going and now it's a new culture cultural People every place in Brazil, I'm not I'm not sure I'm clear but Brazilian people are different in every different states. So I thank the panelists very much. I thank you all


Hey guys, this is freesaloneducation.com, splitting hairs podcast for hairdressers. Super excited today. We're always getting started late because we're hairdressers, not technical technology people. But we got everything working, so I want to introduce our good friend Steven Maranero, like the sauce, right? Yep, exactly. And he's the salon guy. We're really excited. He made the trip down to be a part of this podcast today. And of course, we have Drea Bowlin and Thad Bowlin. And we're just here. We're going to share some industry news with you, talk about some celebrity stuff, answer questions from YouTube, and just have a little bit of fun this morning. We have about 25 minutes before we start our salon day. So the first thing that I really want to get into, and I want everybody to chime in, is I actually got tagged in a post on Facebook last night. And I thought it was funny because people are always asking different questions or ranting about the salon on Facebook. So we actually have a friend, Wendy. And what I want to do is, I want to talk about this subject. We're going to give our opinions, and then I want people to write about it because that's what she was asking for. She tagged probably 12 different hairdressers in it trying to find an answer, I guess. So let's listen to what she said. She said, so I don't usually rant, but I have a question for my hairstylist friends. So this new client shows up 40 minutes late for her appointment on Saturday. She's the last person on the schedule. She is booked for a chemical service. No phone call to tell us she's lost in traffic or anything, trying to find parking. 40 minutes, basically, she was late. Just walks in expecting to be serviced as if she were right on time after being told she was late. She blamed us for not calling her and has now put out reviews saying how rude and horrible we were for not taking her when she was late. Have any of you guys experienced this, such a thing, and how did you handle it? So let's start with this long guy. Yes. I'm listening to this one going, oh boy. Yeah, exactly. This is one of those situations. We all deal with people that come in late. Sometimes you have no choice but to just, you have to see them because they will start a riot, they'll start a big uproar, and in this situation, 40 minutes late, that could be a whole appointment. You could be working on somebody and it's like, you're in a situation, what do you really do? I think that's why she made bad reviews about the salon. She was late. You can only do so much. And that's how I felt, too. It was like, all right, well, you can't please everyone. I think we're definitely in a business of trying to please everyone. But I think, personally, it's just on call four, you're going to have bad reviews. If you check any of our stuff, you get bad reviews. You can't please everyone. But I know that the great thing about this industry is that people care about their clients and guests. You come in 40 minutes late. That could be two appointments for somebody. Exactly. I think sometimes you have to look at it as like, child. And sometimes your guests, they might see like, oh, I'm 40 minutes late. If they get seated, they might start to think, hey, that's okay. You're not that busy. 10, 15 minutes is forgivable, but 40 minutes, if you take them, you're saying, hey, it's okay that you're 40 minutes late. You're okay in that.  I would have been like, we would have been 40 minutes late and you're the last appointment of the day. I would have been out of there already. After five minutes late, you're done. I'm like, 20 minutes, she's not here yet. We're out. Let's close this. So it's a tough thing. And I definitely feel like for me, I would just move on, enjoy the clients that you have. And this lady, most of the time when you see bad reviews on things, I think you look at, I always look at what the person has reviewed as well, like other things. And usually they're, you know, bitching about everything. And sometimes they're just whack jobs. Yeah. I mean, they're completely out of their minds. Exactly. And the rest of us are, like, reading reviews, like, you can definitely tell us to, like, which ones are like legit complaints and which ones somebody's just crazy and weird. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we had a review once about, somebody said that there was a, like, a meeting that was held at other salons to deal with the bad haircuts that we put out. You know, it's like, there's nothing you can do about- I went to that meeting. You did? Yeah. Oh, thanks. But I backed you guys up. I said the haircuts are pretty good, actually. So, you know. Appreciate it. Yeah. Okay. So hopefully, Wendy, hopefully that helps you. Did you have anything you want to add to that? No. You guys covered it. All right. Sweet. So the other thing I wanted to talk about is we like to kind of hit on some kind of business tip in this. So I want to talk about creating a loyalty program. I know that we've had one for quite a while. We've had quite a few different ones. So I want to talk about, for me, the one that I think worked the best was creating a loyalty program that was the card, the loyalty card, where we would write a future date on the card.  We've also done a point system and things like that. So I don't know, you guys want to jump in if you have any thoughts on that? Yeah. Let me get my business tip, yo. Okay. I'm going to lay down my business tip. Ready? No. Are you supposed to be in the salon today? No. Oh. No. You're off on Wednesdays? Okay. I know you're playing hooky. I do a lot actually because I'm starting to have to take off for so many things. I have to cancel my clients. It's really not fun. Yeah. They're not really too happy about that. No. But so I think loyalty programs are great. I'm seeing memberships or a big thing that are happening in salons now. People are doing memberships. But whatever you can give back to your clients because they're the ones that are really paying the bills. They're the ones coming in, keeping your business open, and it's all about giving back. It's all about customer appreciation. I think I know you're huge on this stuff. The way you run your business, I've always say you're one of those guys who gets it. Yeah. Honestly, I think me and Christina would give away haircuts really if we could and we could pay the bills still because I personally, I like rewarding people for being loyal. It's just like the staff that we have, the clients that come in. If you're loyal people and you're good people and you're treating the business great and you're coming frequently and we build that relationship, you should give them a thing. Yeah. I do it with girlfriends, a loyalty program. If you're loyal to me, you know, so we work through it, you know. Nice. Do you have competitions? How's that working for you? No. It's still not working. There's no sheet on me. I don't know how to get it. You get a punch card every time you don't sheet on me. Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. So loyalty program, definitely try something out. If you guys have ideas, please post them on our Facebook.  Oh, yeah. So he's on Facebook. I don't know what to tell you, I don't like tweet, twerk, or any of that fun stuff. You should have a shirt. I don't like to tweak. Cool. I think just curly, straight, wavy, whatever. It's going to be a cool haircut. You're definitely going to change your technique, I think would be the most important thing. We use some different styling products to really accentuate this wave pattern. I think that would be pretty sweet. I think it would be better. Yeah. Because I've seen her hair, I mean, I've seen it look really good, and I've seen it look... Yeah. It's like a texture. I think texture in any haircut looks awesome, personally, but... Okay. Cool. And the next one was, I've seen you do the tease cut technique, when and why would you use it? So the tease cut, I think I said this last week, right?  So it gives me kind of the same effect, but it's better for the hair to do the teasing technique as opposed to razor cutting. I don't use it. I don't really do the teasing technique. I just tease my clients. Tease them. You really are going to like this, but I mean, I kind of try to tease them. Yeah. No, but I really... Here we call it the Brian Hair technique. Yes. What is it? We call it the Brian Hair technique. Oh, really? Teasing your clients. Oh, yeah. Oh, and I did forget to say. So let me pull up. We have a tribute to Brian Hair because Brian Hair is not here today. He's actually in New York City launching a palmatial product, the new Nuro Tools. But I do have this picture that I'd like to post up, because I found it this morning on my computer. Yeah. This is what... Brian will randomly photobomb your computer, your iPhone, whatever. If you leave it out, he'll post a picture like this. But he shaved his head? Yeah. He did it a while ago. Yeah. So this is my tribute to Brian since he wasn't here. Wow. Everyone gets to see what he looks like. Great. Did he ever walk in and you're go, here's here. Did you ever do that before? No. Okay, you should do that one. But he did name a rabbit outside Brian Hair. So all right, then the next one is, may you do a tutorial for an ombre using the Bollayage method on dark hair with red highlights and long layer cut with V shape in the back. Very, very specific request. The cool thing is, here's what I would say. Could we do a Bollayage method on dark hair, ombre, all of that with red highlights? Yes, we could. But so can you, looking at our Bollayage ombre video already and pick the colors that you want. You know, it's not... You don't have to do the same colors that we're doing, just use the technique and pick your own colors and I think you'll really like it. With that being said, I think Thad's got something to say. By chance, we're actually going to be doing a very summer look. We're doing the dark hair with the red highlights Bollayaged into an ombre this evening. I'm not going to give away too much about the haircut itself. Surprise. That part's a surprise. I don't know if it's necessarily going to be going into a B in the back, but it's definitely going to be longer with long layers, maybe a little bit more layers. And that's actually, because he's not sure yet. I'm not giving it away because I don't know. We'll see her tonight, right? We'll see what happens. So tonight Thad is filming a haircut, which we're really excited because Thad's always behind the camera.  So we're really excited to have him on there doing a haircut for you guys tonight. So stay tuned for that. That's definitely coming up with us. Next one. Hey guys. Love the videos. Please keep them coming. FYI, it was on split screen. It had no sound. Thank you for that. I've fixed that today, hopefully. The other thing is, so I'm fresh out of beauty. She says I'm fresh out of beauty school. Do you have any advice? Slon guy. My God. Write a book on that. The first thing is a lot of people come out of school and they expect to have everything handed to them. They expect to have a full clientele.  Don't wait for people to tell you stuff. Just hustle and work hard.  I went through some of the, it was like boot camp. Yeah. It's equivalent to like military service. Right. It was brutal. Some of the stuff I went through. And you have to go through some tough times to appreciate the good times and appreciate the good owner. And you work for it. You work for the really talented guy, right? Yeah. I mean, I've worked in so many salons and, but everyone had their own, all different talent levels. Okay.  And, you know, thank you, thank you. And I remember, I think it was 1994 is when I graduated beauty school. Yeah. Okay. And I went for two years. I was 11. Nice. How's that making people? I told you. I wanted to say how old I was. I'm just kidding. But, but I, I went, I wasn't to the really old school hairdressers back then. I looked up to people that could like really shape hair and create hair. And that were like, name, local names. I was like, oh man, that, that person is really awesome. And I tried to learn from them, watch them. Practice, find a mentor, you know, find somebody you look up to and just kind of do what they do. I mean, there's so much to go into about that topic. Yeah. But I mean, definitely don't wait for things to happen. Make it, make it happen. What do you guys think? Um, going off of what our salon guy just said, and with continuing with the education and really putting yourself out there. I think another big thing is when people get fresh out of school, their first thing to do is the first salon that hires them is what they go with, where I feel like you need to really, truly look into the salons, know what you're getting yourself into, know the backstory of the salon, just so that you know it's going to be a good fit for you. Because every salon is different. There's a different energy. There's a different view on things and just making sure what you want in the future is what the salon has in mind for the future as well. That's very, I mean, that's perfect because you're exactly right. Too many people take the first job that comes around and, you know, you don't want to be super, you do want to be super picky actually. You want to find it. Interview them. Interview the salon. Go ahead. What are you going to do for me, you know? Nowadays. Because back then it was... Actually, don't walk in and say that exact thing. Maybe that's why I got blacklisted from so many salons. What are you going to do for me? That was very... What are you going to do for me? What are you going to do for me? I was fixing the camera. The question was any advice for... Just getting out of beauty school. I would say whether you're on YouTube looking for somebody in a hair show, find a mentor. Whether you can work with that person every day or just queue in, check out if they have DVDs, if they post videos. I would say find somebody to look up to that can inspire you and teach you and guide you along the way. Perfect. Well said. I mean, I grew up in Iowa. We now live in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. It was always my goal to attach myself to somebody that I either looked up to or I just loved the way that they... When I started working for Sam Burns and I met him in Iowa and he was a great platform artist. I loved his presentation on stage and I wanted you to learn those tricks of the trade. There's certain things I think you adopt to start to finish. I think this will be fun because we can definitely split it up between us. We should just do a full consultation video, a mix tape of consultation. We'll go pro it. We'll just set up a camera and have us filmed all day long. Yeah, it'll be great. The reality TV show. I was going to say, filming me with a client would be like a reality TV show.  Yeah, I can imagine. All right, now we have one more. Wacky Jackie says... Wacky Jackie. I feel like if you have the name Jackie, you have to just be Wacky Jackie. Were you trained at Redkin? This was from one of my cuts. Were you trained at Redkin or did you take some of their classes? Your techniques remind me a lot of Redkin fundamentals and I love everything Redkin, particularly Sam Villa. I have to say, first off, doing hair, everybody... I get this comment all the time. It looks like you were trained here. It looks like you were trained here. I was trained through Paul Mitchell, but I studied everyone and everyone is similar. It's all the same. Everybody... You only cut hair so many, twisted so many different ways, so everyone's going to always look like everyone. You know what it stems from? One guy. Right. Pedalsa soon. Pedalsa soon. That's all it is. At least people will actually say that you were trained. In me, they're like, were you even trained then? Yeah. I feel like everything came from one area and it stemmed off. Sam Villa is awesome. I like watching his videos. I think he does a lot for hairdressers. It's flattering to hear something like that. I don't think it matters. Everybody is trained from the core values or fundamentals of hair cutting. You do have a cutting swag though. A swag? Yeah, a cutting swag. It's pretty sick.  Swagger? Really? Yeah. Thanks though. I appreciate that. Last time I was with him, I introduced him to a friend of mine. He's like, this is my friend Matt. He's like, oh, he's so handsome. You never said that to me. He's got swag 24-7. What are you talking about? Jesus. But no, you do when you are cutting, you watch the way some of these people cut. Yeah. And you're like, it's the hand movements. So there is a certain flow. Well, I think when you're first starting out, advice coming out of beauty school is I right away learned all the tricks to look cool cutting hair. And then I learned how to cut hair after. It's kind of like, I guess, a fake until you make it kind of thing. I got a lot of jobs spinning my scissors around before I actually knew how to cut a straight line. So I would actually recommend learning the fundamentals first, but whatever. And I actually think, and I've talked to, I have a good friend, Tom Harris, and we all know him. So it's funny because he tries to do this one dry cutting technique, and he has a lot of trouble with it.  But if you grow up cutting like Edward Scissorhands out of school or Robert Chromines cutting with a Clipper Bob and Takashi cutting stroking technique and all these people, Sam Villa with the crazy, teasing, bang technique, all that. If you learn that first, then you learn the fundamental structure. I think it's sometimes a little bit for me. There's no swing in there. Hair watch. Not billy, hair watch. But what I like about it is it's still, she still looks sexy, she still looks good, and it's just a different spin on her. Much different look. I like it. You know what I like about this? We were at a charity event, me and Christina the other night for, it was called Wigs and Wishes, Friends Are By Your Side, put that on. Tabitha was there, and she was kind of wearing a haircut. I was supposed to be longer in the front, but the back almost was like, it was layered, but it was bob looking still. It was like really cut off at the bottom. So longer her hair, right? Yeah. It looks like she's growing it out, but what I like about Pamela is it's longer in the back. Like it's not real, it doesn't go tapered in. It's just, it's longer. I like the look of it. I think it's softer that way. Yeah. Half the way it kind of looks. Charlize, they all have this kind of, an interesting, I mean, I was with her like a couple months ago. Yeah, I actually have a picture of that. Yeah. Let's see this. And as you can see, that's a very interesting picture. I'm not going to, I'm not going to have too many details about what happened there, but it was a really, but to see her up close and to spend that time with her, I mean, she is like very, almost like adorable, cute and shy when she's walking around. She's like very like girly and like, you know, very glam, but in like a really shy way, you know? And she admitted this is, this is really, you know, hot off the press kind of stuff. I'm ready. I'm on my, She admitted, because I said to her, I said, that blonde, you've always been so known to have that beautiful blonde hair. What is, what's the process of getting it done? And she's like, well, my mother taught me how to do my hair out of a box. So that blonde hair, she does her base herself when she can. So I don't have time for that. Now, a couple of guys will come in here and there and put foils in and tweak it. But she's like, she admitted to doing her hair out of a box. That blonde color. That's big news. It is. But the short hair, it's nice, it's cute, it's fun. You know, I think she needed it too. She's changing her health around from what she was telling me. She's focusing on a better lifestyle. So she got rid of all the, all the, you know, Yeah. Image overload. Yeah. Yeah. And they were talking about on the radio the other day and they were really like, just everyone's, I think everyone's blown away about the fact that the big change that she went through. So I think that's the biggest celebrity change of the week. We did have, who is the other celebrity? Kristin Chinoweth. Yeah, we don't, I don't have a picture, unfortunately. It is, but she, look it up on, Google it. Yeah.  It's like a, it's in between the pixie and the bob. It's like Cura Knightley Yeah. from like, you know, eight years ago. Yeah. Kind of that blunt, tapered a little bit in the back. I liked that it's fringy around America.  Well, what was cool about it is she was working on a movie with J. She was really nervous about it. Okay. Don't show that to the camera though. Oh, yeah. That's a little scary. Okay. All right. So, helped inspire her to cut off her hair. Going in that direction, it's going to look great on you, especially if the haircut's done, right? Yeah. Yeah. Short hares, I think short hares, there's a lot of guys that, like, they like long hair on women, you know, I think short hares can look just as sexy, you know? Well, I think short hares can look just as sexy, you know? Yeah. I think if it's a good haircut, I mean, that's what it's all about. And she's hot. What does it matter? Yeah. I think where that comes from is that, like, if you get a stylist who doesn't know how to do a short hares on you, it's not going to be flattering. So, I think that that's what, like, a lot of guys are afraid of. This is that their girlfriend or their wife is going to come home with haircut that they would have. Yeah. Okay. So, last but not least, because we only have a couple minutes, I want to fly through a couple of products. So, I'm excited to unbox them and reveal them for you. We'll do that tonight, and I'll post the video up, but we have the Palm Mitchell Neuro Cell, which basically is hot rollers. So, I'll give you my opinion on those. And we'll show that on video coming up tonight. And we'll get that up to you in the next couple of days. So, I'm excited about that. I also got a product from Color Proof. I'm going to show you the product from Color Proof. What is it called exactly? Fiberblast. Fiberblast. Is that something you eat? Yeah. Fiberblast. Fiberblast. So, Fiberblast is, we used hot spray, which, there was a couple of things that I liked about it, from what it was saying. Obviously, I have not tested this out, but it contains short sexy hair. So, they basically took a short sexy hairline and now that it's style sexy hair, and that's what they've made it, it's fine, don't worry about it. So, it adds shine, it's a protectant for 450 degrees, which I think, you know, we definitely need products like that because even last night, I was at 11.30 last night, one of Christina's friends, I was cutting her hair because the ends were just like fried. From using the iron or something like that? I think, honestly, I'm doing a personal job, but a lot of people use cheap blow dryers. I think they buy expensive irons. They don't use the products, right? But the blow dryer is a big thing. So, I think, if you have a client with messed up ends, talk to them about their blow dryer and get them buying something nice because I think that I've seen it in a few of my clients now, and even Christina's mom, I walked in her bathroom one time and she, I looked at her blow dryer, it was like duck-taped and it's just dry, hot heat in those cheap blow dryers. You really need a quality blow dryer. So, you know, I think that's a good product. We also have, this was hilarious, American Crew came out with a 24-hour deodorant body wash. That would be good, right? You don't use shampoo, I'm guessing. So, do you use shampoo? I told you about all the hair, Matt. We guys share a beard. I'm bringing Harry back.  Absolutely. So, you know, that's an interesting product. I'd like to check that out and if you can wash your body and its deodorant at the same time, I'm guessing, I don't know. So, very interesting stuff. And then, let's see. You know what's funny, we can see outside so I can see if any of our body wash, mirror curl, which... This terrifies me. I know, it terrifies me too, it's been out for a little while, but I gotta get my hands on this thing. Oh, see, I explained with it at the Baltimore hair show this past spring. Okay, how was it?  Okay. So, I don't know if it's big or, you know, whatnot that it's going to get stuck in there and then what am I going to do? I know. I want to put this thing through the test. Like, I would love to put a big section in there, a small section. Obviously, probably on a mannequin, but, or a Drea, we can try it. She'll look like me afterwards. Right. But, I mean, it does have different settings to pendant on, hair type and texture and whatnot. But once again, but I do want to try this thing. Oh, I'm very excited about it. Yeah, I do. So, you know what, I think you want to wrap it up. Quick, Facebook, shout out Michael Taylor, comment a couple times. Okay. And, you said 40 minutes late. Definitely no, though. Okay. So, all of his guests know that if they're more than 15 minutes late, then we schedule it. Yeah, I think 15 minutes late is good. Because you can work with that. Yeah. You can get caught back up. Yeah. You know, they try to put it on you. Like, like it's the salon owner, the salon's fault. Yeah. They come up with an attitude. You're not supposed to take me. I'm on your clients. Yeah. We've had it before. I didn't get my call. I'm like, we make sure every day. I mean, people make mistakes. Yeah. Put it in your calendar. We do the best. We sent out an email a week before and we call you the day before. So, if you miss your appointment, you know, hopefully we try our best to get to make it. So, let's face it with smartphones today. You can set reminders on your phone to remind you of your calendar. Right. Yeah. So, as far as loyalty program, he says he likes to do a loyalty program that turns his guests into product. He'll actually give out a free product. Like, I'm assuming the full retail size. Okay. And that way, he says it's a great way to get a loyal customer who doesn't necessarily buy a product to get hooked on your product. Cool. I'm actually really digging Michael. Michael has posted some really great comments on our Facebook. So, I really appreciate that.  We have guests in this line. So, we're going to wrap this up. I want to say thank you to the salon guy for being here. Thank you. Really appreciate you making the trip down. And we will please check out his YouTube channel, the salon guy and his Facebook of the salon guy as well. And that Andrea, thank you so much. Follow us free saloneducation.com. Thank you for tuning into our podcast and we will see you. See you soon. Bye. Bye.


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Next question is from Jamilia 144. What is the best hamstring hypertrophy exercise that uses minimal equipment? So hypertrophy means building. So what's the best hamstring building exercise that uses a minimal equipment? Now I love working hamstrings, especially in women. I think when women develop nice hamstrings, they tend to be very happy with the way that their legs look. Hamstrings also tend to get neglected by a lot of people and really strong hamstrings really give you good stability in your squats. Definitely in your deadlifts. There's a lot of hamstring movement that looks a lot better too. Definitely. Now, to be honest with you, the best hamstring exercises are the ones that you don't use much equipment. Like when you go to the gym and you're thinking, I'm going to work my hamstrings, where do you typically go?  That does work the hamstrings, but it focuses mainly on a part of the hamstring called the bicep femoris. It's the part of the hamstring that flexes the knee. Nothing wrong with that. But the hamstrings, one of their main functions is stabilizing the hips and helping you with what's called hip hinging. And the best exercise is develop the whole hamstring much better. And those are like single leg deadlifts, stiff leg deadlifts. Good mornings. Exercises that work that hip, you know, hinging. Those exercises really develop the hamstrings well. My hamstrings at one point were really well developed. I would get lots of compliments on them. And I did almost no hamstring curls. I did mostly those kinds of exercises and you don't need a lot of. In fact, if you did a good hip hinging single leg toe touch without any weight, that'll really work. I love single leg deadlifts. I think they're super underrated and it's something that just the stability of it to like really puts that muscle to work. And on top of that, too, like Romanian deadlifts, good mornings. Like these are all barbell. Like all you need is a barbell and weights. But I mean, you really can can build and develop hamstrings just by those very specific exercises. Well, and if you don't have a barbell, I mean, you can do dumbbells for single leg, single leg deadlift with bar dumbbells is extremely challenging. It does not take, you know, very much weight to challenge one leg and deadlifts. And I think part of the reason too, I mean, Sal makes the case for you're recruiting a lot more with those movements. You can also load those movements way more. So I remember when, and I shared this on the show, like, I don't know, a few years ago, but it was when I was on that kick when I was trying to chase Sal with his deadlift and I was deadlifting a lot. I was deadlifting at least three times a week. And I completely eliminated like all my hamstring machine exercises. I wasn't doing any of that. And I'll never forget going back to lying leg curls after like seven months, eight months or whatever it was of not doing any machines.  I completely stopped using it. All I focused on was getting better at my deadlift because all I cared about was trying to chase a PR. And then when I came back, I had two X, the amount of weight I was doing that I'd spent years slowly increasing five bounds here, there. And so the development, the strength in my hamstrings, just from deadlifting just trumped anything I'd ever done on a machine. It was like the same effect of when I was doing bicep curls, trying to build my biceps versus doing like pull ups. Like I got a lot more muscle development doing pull ups, actually.


So this is the pranther area, so let's check this out. So what are we looking at here? Hi. What is this? This is our D850. It's a projector specially designed for gamers. It's an ultra-show pro model. It can protect to the screen size of 120 inch at the distance of 47 centimeters. So the gamer with a tiny apartment can have a huge screen. That's right, there's no problem.  And the screen is ultra-wide. So if the gamer enjoys shooting games, they are allowed to see. So with all the ports on this side here, what kind of lumens are we talking about? For this one, 3,000 lumens. 3,000 lumens. And there's a lot of smart stuff going on. You can play the video from there. You can HDMI. And it's 1080p. And it's 3D ready. It has the ultra-wide screen.  And actually there are 3 modes. 3 modes. 3 modes specially designed for gamers. Dark mode, bright mode and auto mode. It allows you to see details clearly in the dark scenes as well as in the bright scenes. So it's good for low light, for brightness. Different dark games. Many gamers like dark.  And it sounds good. I mean it looks good. And what's the price? Is it available? It is available on the market. Is there a price? I'll suggest you to check Amazon. It depends on all the different countries. It depends on different regions. Because we have different pricing strategies. And it built in speaker. It built in speaker. And creditors for gamers, right? Yup. There's all these gamer stuffs around here. You have some... Is that for a computer? To carry all the protectors, it also works, right? Nice. Looks like this. And the Predator laptop. Now you can play wherever you go. Red cover. Very powerful GPU. And the Predator tablet. So this one is a Predator as well. Last few years already. What's going on here? This one is for our 27 inch monitors. Where's G-Sync? Take over here. It's got G-Sync. That means no lags. No tears in the camera. Only for Nvidia. Only Nvidia's. No lags, zero lags or a little bit lags? What? Small lags. But no lags. How much does it cost? We cannot check this price on the website. This one is 16 by 9. This one is 21 by 9. 30 inch. What's the resolution? The resolution is W40. 25 times 19. And there? This one is 40. Alright. So that's a lot of Predator laptops. And play all the... 17 inch or... What is this? Desktop. High-end stuff. This one is the Predator 70X. For gamers there are two things that are very important. The first thing is the performance. For the performance part we have Intel 6-gen processors and that is overclockable. And for the graphic part we have Nvidia GeForce 980 which is often used on desktop. So in Predator 70X we have desktop power in a laptop. The second part gamers lack care about is the cooling. The cooling we have three triple fan systems. So we intake cold air from the front and push out the hot air from the back. And there is one special fan. We use the aeroblaid technology. Aeroblaid technology is metal glass. So you can make the glass very thin. So the efficiency of the thermal will be very great. So this is the most powerful laptop in the world? Yes. Let's look over there. How much it cost? Well, under $3,000. Is it this one? Yes. Under $3,000 what? Under $3,000. Is it Taiwan dollar? US dollar. US dollar? Yes. Under $3,000? Yes. You can see there is a big type keyboard and it's customizable. There are four parts. In the dark you will see it better. So it's a nice keyboard? Yes. Nice keyboard. And you can also customize the input mode. So the gamers who use laptops? Yes. Is it because they travel a lot? Because there are LAN parties right now. So people won't stay at their houses playing games alone. They would like to have a LAN party together. So in this time you don't have to ship your desktop. You don't have to ship your monitor.  And that's all. You can just enjoy the desktop performance in your laptop. Desktop performance? Desktop performance. For sure. For sure. But it's not like a 1080? No, it's not 1080. But then equipped with a 980. A gamer with a faster computer is a better gamer? Well, for gamers we use the best performance machine to push their limitations. So your potential won't be limited by the laptop we unleash them. So high quality? Yeah, you can see it's very smooth. This screen you use the G-Sync 10RG. So it will be there will be cheering. Okay, it depends.


Officer for maneuver into the combined division team is a day of mixed emotions as we say goodbye to Brigadier General Lance and Lisa Calvert and say hello to Brandon Anderson and his family to the combined division. Get out from the headquarters, focus on Met Zero and mastering the fight tonight fundamentals. That in this division, we achieve those by concentrating on individual skills as our foundation and hands on performance oriented training as a standard. You have additionally been very clear to never lose sight of the soldiers, develop them at times, protect them and then always hold them accountable. Sir, I will be your extension and add value to this division and this community celebrating its history, its relationship with the partners and doing my part to enhance the lethality. As advanced party of the team Anderson, I assure you they are excited to get here and join us the community and start exploring. Sir, Warrior 6-6 is on the net. Kapshi Kapshi Da, second to none, fight tonight.


Misused Verses Part 3 Matthew 7-1 Do not judge others and you will not be judged. Now, this verse is commonly used as an attack on those who rightfully preach against sin. But consider the verses context. Who was Jesus addressing? He was addressing hypocrites. The issue wasn't that they were making judgments, but rather that they were making judgments from the place of hypocrisy. Look at verse 5. Hypocrite, first get rid of the log in your own eye, then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye. Once you get rid of the log in your eye, then you can deal with the speck in your friend's eye. Consider also that to speak against someone who speaks against sin is to make a judgment. That's just inconsistent. A judgment is simply a conclusion based upon a standard. We all make good and bad judgments every day, so we ought to speak against the dangers of sin from a place of love and grace.