My name is Debbie Fierst, and I'll be your instructor for this course. I've been teaching Microsoft PowerPoint since version one. In addition, I've built and delivered hundreds of PowerPoint presentations, so I look forward to sharing my knowledge with you. In this lesson, Getting Started with PowerPoint, we're going to learn how to navigate the PowerPoint environment, create and save a PowerPoint presentation, and how to use PowerPoint help. In this topic, we're going to focus on navigating the PowerPoint environment. We'll talk about what PowerPoint is, we'll learn about slides and the start screen. We'll examine the PowerPoint 2013 user interface, including the ribbon, screen tips, dialog box launchers, the quick access toolbar, the left pane, the status bar, contextual tabs, and also the backstage view. I first want to define PowerPoint and help you understand what it is inside of the entire suite of Microsoft Office products. PowerPoint 2013 is a presentation tool. It's designed for you to create graphical, fascinating presentations to give to people in meetings or in training contexts. If you look at an example here, we've got someone who's giving a project status report update, but instead of it just being a plain old boring list of text, they've got some interesting visuals. Okay, so PowerPoint is meant to be a visual environment. It allows audio, charts, graphics of all kinds. It makes your presentations sing. A key element to all presentations in PowerPoint is the slide. You can think of a slide as almost a page in a book, okay?  So they are represented as squares inside of Microsoft PowerPoint. And on a slide, you can place all kinds of objects. You can have text, you can have images, you can have headings. You can also place other types of elements like videos or audio clips. When you first launch Microsoft PowerPoint, you're taken to something called the start screen. The start screen allows you to quickly open up files that you've been working in recently or go and open up other presentations that are saved. You also can search for templates. Templates are existing presentations that have been put together and are available for you to use as a starting point for your own presentation. Or you can start with a blank. Now, one term you should get familiar with rather quickly is something called a theme. A theme is basically a look and feel, an overall design concept for a presentation. And Microsoft has put together some very nice themes that you can use as a starting point to make your presentation look nice. Once you've entered Microsoft PowerPoint, you need to get familiar with the user interface. These are the parts of the screen that you'll be using as you build and use your presentation. Let's start in the upper left-hand corner with something called the quick access toolbar. This is a feature that is available in every Microsoft Office product. And basically what they've done is they've given you a few icons there of commonly used features. The big one here is save. So as you're working on your presentation, you want to save what you're doing. You can access the save button quickly from the quick access toolbar. There's also an undo, a redo, and an ability to quickly play your presentation from the beginning. You can use this little icon at the end of the quick access toolbar to add icons there that you think you might use frequently. So it can be customized. The key component to using Microsoft PowerPoint is the ribbon. The ribbon consists of tabs. And as you click on these individual tabs, you're taken to a new ribbon of features based on the category. So for instance, if I am in the view tab, I will switch to a ribbon related to viewing my presentation, changing the perspective. All right, and after the ribbon, you have what is called the left pane. And the left pane is where you can see small thumbnails of the slides that are currently in your presentation. You can navigate those. Okay, so this left pane is what modifies a little bit depending on the view that you're in. So you may or may not even have a left pane. Some perspectives of your presentation don't even show this left pane. And then you've got your slide pane, and that's your central area where you do the heavy lifting, where you see the slide you're working on at a focal point, and you make your changes. You modify your text to add your objects and so on. So you'll be working in the slide pane most of the time. And then finally, in the bottom, you have what's called the status bar, and there's some nifty stuff down here. In the lower left, it tells you what number slide you're on. Also, you can quickly get into a notes area where you can add some notes related to each slide that you might want to utilize when you're giving a presentation. You can also place comments. Maybe you want to remind yourself to do something. And then you can switch to different perspectives of your presentation and zoom in and out so you can see more or less of your slide at any given time. Also, please note that on the right-hand side here, you do have a scroll bar allowing you to scroll through your presentation. We want to take a moment to focus on the ribbon and understand the terminology related to the ribbon. At the top of the ribbon, these are called tabs. And again, as you click on different tabs, the commands that are available under that category switch. So for instance, right now, we are on the home tab, so we're seeing all of the home-related ribbon commands. Now what they've done is they've grouped these commands. Now for instance, everything related to fonts are in a little area called font. Everything related to paragraphs, paragraph, and so on. Now this ribbon can take up some valuable screen real estate. And so what some people like to do is use this button in the lower right to unpin the ribbon, meaning it won't show all of the time on your screen while you're working. When you want to see the ribbon, clicking on a tab is going to bring that back down. And you can always re-pin the ribbon if you want to see it all the time. When you hover your mouse over a command button on the ribbon, like you see here in the new slide command, what happens is a screen tip comes up automatically telling you what that command will do for you, what the shortcut keystroke combination is, and it gives you a way to get into the help system if you need additional information about how that command works. We talked about the fact that the command buttons on the ribbon are categorized into groups. So for instance, we have the font group. Well, in the lower right-hand corner of some of these groups, you will see something called the dialog box launcher. It's really just a little arrow. What that will allow you to do is click and bring up a dialog box that will then show you all of the features related to that category. So for instance, there's much more related to fonts than what we see here. Microsoft just chose to put the command buttons that are used most frequently on the ribbon. If we want to see everything related to our font options, we need to hit the dialog box launcher for that category and then see all of our choices. When I was talking about the parts of the screen, I showed you the quick access toolbar in the upper left-hand corner. Let's just review that and make sure you understand your choices there. By default, you get a save button. You get an undo button that undoes your last step. You get a repeat, basically a redo. And then this particular button is very specific to Microsoft PowerPoint. It allows you, when giving your presentation, to start over from the beginning. Going to slide one. If I want to add any command options to this quick access toolbar, I do it by clicking this down arrow button, and it'll take me into an area where I can add these buttons. Now you might be thinking, why would I want to customize the quick access toolbar? I've got this great ribbon with all the options. Well remember, as you flip to different tabs on the ribbon, you can't see the commands from the other categories. The beauty of the quick access toolbar is it is visible on your screen all the time. So if there's a button you think you might want available to you, regardless of where you're at on the ribbon, add it to the quick access toolbar. The left pane of the Microsoft PowerPoint window is visible in certain views, not all views. For instance, by default, you go into the normal view of a PowerPoint presentation, and in the normal view, we see in the left pane little thumbnails of all of the slides that currently reside in our presentation. There's some neat information here, visual information. I not only can see the slide, but over to the left in the upper left-hand corner of each slide, as I do certain things like apply transitions or apply animations, I get little visuals there letting me know what I've done to that slide. If I, for instance, decide to hide a slide, I'll see a little symbol over the number letting me know that that slide is currently hidden. So you'll learn some little visual cues to watch for in this left pane area. Now the status bar is at the bottom of your screen, and this is a very valuable area because it allows you to see at a glance what number slide you're on. If you've got 100 slides and you're on slide 80, for instance. It also gives you a quick way to get into spell check. Notes are something that you add to prompt yourself as you're giving the presentation what you want to say in that particular slide.  You can also put in comments.  Comments are a good area for that. You also have four different views or perspectives you can take on your presentation that you can get to quickly from the status bar, and you have the capacity to zoom in and out by hitting the plus and minus sign here. You can zoom in and out of your current slide showing more or less of the slide. If you want to make the slide that you're on right now automatically fit to the current window, which could vary greatly. If you go to give a presentation somewhere where they've got a smaller or larger screen resolution, suddenly you might find yourself in a situation where your slide isn't fitting the screen. This button is fantastic because it just makes the decision for you how big can this slide be based on the window I'm in at the moment. All right, so we've talked about the fact that the ribbon has tabs, right? So I click on the design tab, for instance, I'm going to see the design-related commands in the ribbon. But sometimes when you've added certain elements to your presentation, in this example, they're assuming we've added some sort of chart. Let's pretend we've got a little bar chart that we've added, column chart to our presentation. Certain elements that you add will cause a contextual tab to come up. In other words, it's a tab that's normally not there, but in this particular context, having a chart, we need it. And so you will see contextual tabs appear. In this case, when I'm on a chart, and I have my chart selected, the chart tools contextual tab comes up and underneath that has two sub tabs, design and format, that bring up commands related to modifying my chart. All of the Microsoft Office 2013 products have what is called the Backstage View. This area is accessed under the File tab. When you click on File, you don't go to a ribbon. You are transported to this different perspective, a completely new window called the Backstage View. On the left-hand side of the Backstage View, you've got some menus. And these are your common file management features, things like opening files, saving files, printing, and so on. Under here, you can also go in and set some options related to Microsoft PowerPoint.


I have to welcome everybody to the independent investor channel live stream before we get started for anybody who's concerned about my Personal health and well-being. I just like to declare to you now that my my hair Nor my hands are actually on fire. Okay.  I'm cool. My hair is not on fire. It's it's fine for 43 years old I'm actually lucky that I still have my hair. I'm hoping that the hair loss gene actually skips me And and goes to somebody else in my family. Just just not me. I get to keep my hair, but it's certainly not burning So Clickbait got to watch out for that stuff on the independent investor channel because I'm trying to lure you in because I make all kinds of money on this opportunity and My my sheer intent that I've said thousands and thousands of times over and over and again Is to help people to help people Retail investors boom boom always at each other's throats. I gotta Gotta bring somebody down It's okay in a bull market man when everything is is lovely And I've got a yellow brick road right to five years in retirement And I get to go travel around and Instagram shoot myself and put ever put myself on on Social media make everybody think I'm a I'm a successful person, right? I think it's great. I think a lot of people are getting kicked in the teeth right now And I think it's lovely. It's great. You know sympathy for me. I'm not a Run-of-the-mill social media fella. You can call me what you want. You don't like my message You think I clickbait you to death leave. I I really could care less. I've said that a thousand times, too That's the beauty of somebody like myself Is that I think that the detriment of society now is too much social media, right?  I'm tired of buying into all this garbage. I'm out I'm gonna do what you do. I'll shut the TV down. All right. I watch one movie a week All right, I'm gonna take I'm gonna turn over a new leaf Ryan. I'm gonna stop following so much I'm gonna start to think about what it is. That's good for me. I've never done that before I Don't know what's good for me. This is amazing I'm always over here man. I've woke this up for the first time in my life. This is insane. This is great Right the electrons are firing away. You know Yeah Get there man the quicker you can get there the better off you'll be Make make no mistake about it. All right The stock market was down for another week again and and it's amazing to me How concerned people are right now? There was a Twitter that came through tonight a tweet that came through It was so funny man. It was like Oh You need to take a Marked pause on this stock market and if you have children and you have a family that you're supporting Might not be the best idea to invest everything that you have in the stock market Really That's advice that would have been prudent 13 months ago my friend 13 months ago You want to know what the funny thing about that is is when folks like myself Get on to social media and we start talking about maybe the market. I don't know doing something other than just going up every day People don't want to hear that stuff. They don't they want to see to the moon and I'm I buy Bitcoin And I go and quit the job. No day job. It's no good. I don't need this stuff right and I I don't need to work hard People like myself telling you that maybe there is some value in hard work Maybe there is some value. Where are the pop shots now about people who are Seemingly have a problem with all of us people who actually work a regular job and are trying to get ahead a little bit in life and And not leaving a life of just hustling all the time, right? Lead a life of mediocrity.  No kidding. I Don't know man. I look back on my life and I remember when I didn't have any money Okay, so because I've been able to build up this money by sheer discipline Seared it has nothing to do with luck. That's the problem is everybody's trying to get lucky on this thing You know, I got in at the wrong time. Really? She's trying to time the market That's what everybody's trying to do right now even meet Kema coming out to his own hormone about Time in the market correctly That's amazing When when all the while people really should be backing me up on this deal It's impossible and people don't like to hear that. They don't like to hear it They don't invest for the long term. Okay, stop justifying all this stuff that you do in your life about You know pursuing a job and maybe I don't know pursuing Insurance, I don't know Maybe you fall and break your hip and you need a $50,000 hip surgery and you don't have insurance Well, guess what the portfolio no longer goes to the stock gods. It goes toward replacing your hip That can't happen to me Ryan. You're crazy.  I have to refinance the house to pay for An ailment that they have right. Mm-hmm.  Oh, yes Gains and losses. Yes It's good must keep a perspective about this thing, right? Live a holistic life Hmm. There's a there's an idea, right? If you don't have a job that you like Switch find another one That's very difficult to do Ryan that I agree with you now. We're talking now. We're talking about progressive thought Mm-hmm progressive thought my way. Okay Most progressive thought unfortunately is put into the wrong category and that's with each other's heads Severely up the next one's ass. Seriously. I'm talking about progressive thought that comes from you, right? It's an idea of how you can embolden your life Okay, take on what is going on right now Taking my inject telling you that the market again was bad. Whatever the hell that means Don't pay too much attention to it. I monitor the markets But if there's anything that you can take away from my action over the last six eight months I haven't done a damn thing in my portfolio Except for what I've shared with the group. I've added the real estate REITs into my dividend portfolio That was a couple thousand dollar bill. I moved some strategic capital into the market one time over the last 12 months. Okay. That was in the back of Vanguard's passive. So that was a passive investment, right? The one that I contend that anybody can do and a monkey can do you mean you miss this It's like not all right. You sold stock. It'd be you're not supposed to do that man I'm really I'm really pissed off at you man Here's the funny thing man, I don't pay attention to what you do with your dollars, okay? If you come in here, you're gonna have to think okay, this is Let me out of this box man man here. I think it's me out of here. I got a cool gift I want to share with the group here His name is Leon Name's Leon. Can you say hi Leon? Fantastic right on man. Yeah, look at the set on that guy Yeah, just like me mm-hmm That's that's inappropriate Ryan.  I don't have to do that. Okay, but in all sincerity Retail investors need me They do because retail investors are a disaster They're a disaster. I tell you what man. They're so wishy-washy. They're all over the place. It's insane One of the coolest comments I saw before I came live man. It popped in here. I gotta find this sucker I gotta find it hold on man because it was really really good. It was talking about institutions not freaking out right now because the markets off 15 percent retail investors are going at each other's throats like Oh my god, this is this is crazy. This is it right here.   Who's the moron now? I do not care what you do with your positions. I do not care If you listen to what i'm talking about and you've got 10 15 20 25 000 of wealth or you've just started out in the market You've got less than a year in the market. You should be passively investing the mark in the market You want to dabble in some dividend stocks? Wonderful I can say rest assured if you have less than 25 000 allocated to the market. I'll even throw it in the 50 000 I'll sit across from you with 100 certainty and say that you're fine. You're fine.  You're fine Nothing's changed your stocks have got more in it more inexpensive. This is a good thing Okay, whenever you have At injects or pressures pressures Remember i've cut all that stuff out, but whenever i turn to the dark side and darth vaders tempting me right to Join him and join the dark side and i'm i'm on the twitter feed and i'm like, oh my god I cannot believe the iq here on twitter is amazingly and they're telling me that i need to have my brain checked You know what i mean like this is where all the morons come out and and it's like nobody talks about how nice It is to have a have a job. Um, i'm happy as a clam I don't know. I'm moving up. I worked really hard in my career Thought for a while there that uh, I had hit a ceiling in my job That was the most frustrated i've ever been in my life Is that impasse where I was 100 certain that I would never move up in my job Damn near broke my heart And just here recently i've been the floodgates have been open and i've been blessed and i've been provided that opportunity And that's what what we've got going on here within the next month and a half. We'll be returning to new york city for the For for for that and we're going to be up there a while. So Channel's going to continue along I'm really stoked about about this and this is leon. This is mine. You can't have him. Okay, so again say hi leon yeah Isn't that cool? But anyway, yeah, the link is in the description. I told y'all that I would help the artist I'm receiving nothing for it. I told you I'd receive let you guys know but the link is in the description It comes from the netherlands. Um, it's absolutely fabulous. I did do an unboxing. I'm gonna share it through the channel I don't think I'll have a chance to do it before I hit new york city But I've had a lot of people Through the course of the channel and I don't know maybe a lot of the people Through the course of the channel have got tired of my truth bombs So they've left the channel which is which is okay, too We'll continue to churn and revolve and pick up a few subscribers here and there to be honest with you Social media is interesting to me. I'm not really interested in 28 000 subscribers that aren't interested in the message I'm interested in the few people that are Christopher Blaine being one of them right These folks that I know are devote to themselves man And they come on and maybe they catch a little encouragement in in all actuality I I don't know how much these guys really like my you know my joking and ha ha ha and karate chappan And let me the hell out of here. I don't know how much they like that stuff, but um, I'm entertained You know, and I'm I don't want to be bored If you guys knew the truth of it away from social media I'm actually just a I really really calm really chill fella I like to work out. I like to sleep and I like to work I like to create social media content But I've been a little preoccupied here as of late The pulse on the channel has been consumed with some promotional content We interviewed sylas garrison this week with hs gov tech And now it was riveting. I think you guys are kind of funny. I'm not really sure I understand Why you like coming into the live stream so much and you you don't like at least catching a little bit of part of that And if you don't want to watch it hit the thumbs up for me, man It's a it's a hell of a product sylas is a great guy and I'm meeting really good connections Really all over the business community both here domestically and abroad And it just helps solidify the channel and It's great for me.  They have good jobs Um, the beautiful family and they do everything they can do to stress themselves out It's like just calm down take a break. It's all good Geez the weed you got a little reprieve today. It was a whiplash action today. It was nice Uh, it was nice. I mean I was in the trough all week One one little iota this week. I I was like, are you are you kidding me? This is this is amazing I'm a steward of the game. I sit back and um watch my hard earned portfolio go down every day It's um, it's intriguing. It's lovely Um, but it was a nice give back today. Anyway, uh where the market's gonna go I have no idea.  Well, what are we supposed to do ryan? This is crazy. How do we how do we do this thing? This is nuts Gain some perspective set it many many times Approach life like it's a holistic game I look back on my four years here in virginia a little bit of reflection Moved up in my job I plused up in the transportation category. I replaced my truck My rinkety dankety truck that was shaken and rattling and rolling down the road And my wife was like, maybe it's time to get a new truck ryan and I'm like, I'm fine Leave me alone any I'm good Maybe it's unsafe. I don't know. Maybe I don't know So I get underneath of it and the throttle cables almost like all the way rusted. I was like, I don't know. Maybe maybe it's time I don't know. God dang it. I like this I drove it to the lot. I cried True story.   See I get into it and my phone It's got this thing called bluetooth And I get into it and it automatically starts pumping guns and roses through my radio and I'm like This is awesome. This talk mark. It's down again in the pre market, but this is cool I get to commute to my work and listen to some Dave Matthews band and and uh, I'm pearl jam and you know metallica and I had a little offspring this morning Why not? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's a good thing luxury, baby. So we plussed up in the transportation category Couldn't do a whole lot about the fuel category, but um, I tell you what I became a coach Here in the last four years never done that before uh felt like um needed to uh provide my son a little bit of of tutelage And I ask him every now and then I'm like you like having me as a coach buddy and he's like man I love it dad.  That to me is worth everything The stock market being down. Well, I don't know in the short term. I acknowledge it. Yep, there it is Uh, it doesn't compromise my long term plan No, uh, do I plan on being here at 59 and a half? Well, I do I do Unless I fall and break my hip like I talked about But um always looking to build up those strategic buckets like I talk about have that cash buffer How many people are liking to have cash on the side right now? You know how much heat I caught for that when I was Mentioning it even people in my my tight community here and I love them to death are my brothers and sisters No doubt about it. Um, they are my brothers and sisters and I I enjoy them immensely, but I mentioned stuff like that. It's like I was running runs. You can't do that is the outpace inflation and it's just a rock It's a rock in your portfolio. It's anchoring you down. It's not doing you any good. You got to invest at all You got to invest at all man. You got to get paid next time I get paid. I'm going to invest I'm going to invest the whole thing To each his own. Uh, I've been there done that. Um, I've invested to the tea Uh, to where I didn't have any money, uh to live Feed myself. I didn't have a home. I didn't have a car. I didn't have gas I didn't have insurance. I didn't have this. I didn't have that. So Um, I thought I don't know. Maybe it's better to um emboldened emboldened Yes, emboldened those areas of your life that have absolutely nothing to do with the stock market because When the stock market isn't the end all be all Maybe it's good to I don't know lean against some of those other areas that you've spent a little bit of attention on Yes, are you with me? Hmm. Mm-hmm Makes sense, right? but We will continue to be above board because it's for those people out there that Come in and they're like gosh Ryan. You seem awful. Happy all the time. I am. I'm happy all the time My boss asked me this morning chief. You seem happy. I was like, I'm happy all the time I am Um, I really I really feel amazing all the time part of it is my working out I have missed one day in the last 32 or so days one I'm on a streak and I'm getting shredded too. You guys should see me. I mean, I'm not going to take off my shirt Like strong man. I'm not going to do that. Um, but uh, I can hold it down. I mean, I'm not strong man Uh physique yet, but I tell you what I'm I'm I'm getting shredded. I like this stuff Um, I like the dividends That are rendered by working out all the time Now I'm saying you want to fix yourself it don't need to take a pill go to the gym You want to get calm down? Don't take a pill Just go to the gym. All right, you want to solve a lot of your problems in life Go to the gym Things could be worse. I have a yeti with i2 on it Yeah, so I got I got my yeti over here and I got leon over here Reminded in me to stay bullish on the markets It's great to see everybody. I've allowed the gallery to build up a little bit. We've got 65 in here Don't know how robust of a group we're gonna have I took a verbal lashing at the beginning of the week This week evidently, um that they flipped a script on me and they never reached out to me behind scene They decided to blast it out through social media as if they were going to influence people away from my channel Hell I do enough of that I invite you to leave all the time. Okay, I'm not begging you to stay here Okay, the irony in the whole thing is people come to to see me because I'm not running the mill Okay, I'm not trying to win an audience. Okay You can depress the unsubscribe button if you'd like. Okay. There's no problem I'm screaming and yelling all the time to let me the hell out of this box. This is no good Let me out of here.  This is terrible.  All right Why don't you throttle it back a little bit put a little governor on social media? That's what they need.  He invented that it's amazing, right? Another cool invention, man. I just thought of it this morning in the shower I have the best ideas for inventions in the shower To get on the scale I get on the scale almost every morning to monitor my weight After the gym Like I know down to the tea if I have a piece of cheesecake the night before I'll see it on the scale the next morning I will I think it would be cool to have a digital scale that talked to my iphone That tracked my my trends and and gave me alerts and helped me monitor my my health and well-being Based on my weight and I could provide that data to the cloud every single day Has anybody ever thought about that or am I just off my rocker? Maybe I'm crazy If if I am would you guys please do me a favor and just reach out to me in private and just say, you know what ryan You were a little off tonight You need to do more thinking like a lot of other people Okay, and stop thinking that you have your own individual thoughts because that stuff is just not right. Okay How dare you think that you can think for yourself and not need to be influenced by anybody else? How dare you do that?   Okay futile futile. Okay, we're Doing the glory dance Because we've successfully timed the market. Yeah, cool. When are you going to get back in? You're going to get back in and then it's going to continue down man.  Once you take a page out of the playbook of the independent investor channel and all of the other thinking heads That have been doing financial markets for a long long time buy and hold Buy and hold. Okay Don't buy to change the rules of the game down the line. Don't do that Just buy and hold You don't like the results when you enter into retirement.  Everybody owes me shit Ryan you owe me Start talking Start giving me the goods I think people's patients have gone to zero I think people's patients have dissolved the way to nothing Another reason why the social media barriers are so rampant and They're making people pissed off because you get dopamine 600 million times a day by staring at your phone I got ding I got a thumbs up there. I gotta get a like here. God dang it somebody doesn't like me here I don't know somebody doesn't like me here and this and there and that oh my god My brain is an overload man. It's the right side of my brain right and saying maybe what should engage the left side I don't know do a little thinking of my own. I don't know I know Wake up You ever watch the walking dead?  Read bobski Really appreciate you guys joining me tonight, man. We'll do a q&a in the session Do want to Engage with you guys tonight for sure Really appreciate you guys an all sincerity man It wouldn't be the same without you guys. I do have a very devoted Group who kind of get what I'm talking about You don't have to come in and And be thankful that I'm doing this. You don't have to do I do it willingly I have no problem doing it. I love doing this project. I really do But when people come back to me and they say, you know what Ryan?  I do this and I do that really if it's indicative of what it is that I do, man When I'm at the gym at 5 17 I walk into the gym every single morning You want to know how many people are there? Enjoying life getting a good early start on life getting themselves physically fit lowering stress Exercise on their heart Right Beating the hell out of a bag for a while to to to really just let go of everything Zero zero And I get to face my day And everybody gets to tell me how I've got it wrong in this life I beg to differ be back with you guys in just a moment I'm just super stoked on this man. It's the little things it really is When I took it out of the bag, I was you guys have no idea how awesome of a rendering this is I'm trying to show you all of the all of the angles here. This is the most important one This is what I think of the market this week. There you go This is what I think actually of some of the people that were scrutinizing me this week Leon Fantastic, huh? Isn't that great? Yeah, you can pick one of those up, man The link is in the description, man. I'm This gentleman's super nice, man. Super nice. I just cannot believe How awesome this gentleman is he's got a shop on exy etsy, but the link takes you right to his total store Um, Leon is on there actually and uh, uh, but just a super good guy. I've been uh, conversed with him a lot He's originally from portugal And uh, he now uh domiciles in the netherlands So when I got uh, leon in the mail, it was wrapped up like it was unbelievable I could see where customs had punched through Checking for for stuff. It was like no way. This is legit. This is legit, man. It's legit unless there's something inside of him I don't think Maybe I should shake him But anyway, yeah, when I was like, you got to be kidding me. It is the nicest rendering I've ever seen I have two other uh, bowling green wall street statues in my closet But uh, this is the nicest rendering that I have and for you guys that that uh, where money isn't an issue Order one support the guy, uh blast it out. I think he's advertising that he only has five right now available Um, and they're it's a bronze statue. So they go up in value Pretty cool. I have two I have the lady justice For you guys that have been following me for a long time And that really proves to me that there is justice in the world There is All right, uh, and it's a pretty cool album cover. I like and justice for all but anyway, like it just shows me that um justice exists outside of people And it's the time where um atonement happens Is where justice is weighed against an offense and and that's why I like it so much but um leon helps me to Remain bullish on the markets Because I am a bull on financial markets Saw a nice tweet today.  Don't you think that It's ironic how last year all of the same stuff that's going on right now Uh, it is going on was going on last year and everybody not anybody was talking about anything other than Bitcoin conferences and cryptocurrency and how that's going to be the next thing and and this and that I don't get it. It's as if they pull this propaganda out of the closet during times of market Down turn and retail investors man This is why i'm tough on you guys because not you guys but retail investors as a as a whole man buy right into that It's like, oh my goodness. Maybe I need to just soil myself and sell all my stock. Really? I found it interesting how lots of people wanted to Uh, tell me what I needed to do You shouldn't click bait ryan You shouldn't click bait You maybe you shouldn't pay so much attention to others really unless you find value in it go somewhere else It's all good. Okay. The irony in that is I said I sold my shares Because I was tired of people coming to me telling me you should sell your shares. What's worse, right? I don't do that to people. I don't I think jason with j mac investing He's the first one and I give him full credit for introducing highly on for example to the greater youtube community And it's going to be a wealth builder. Okay, it's going to be a moneymaker All right, but if jason sold his shares on monday Do you think I would get mad at him? He's a friend of mine.  All right That caught me out of left field man. I was riding the transit train in and I'm checking my phone and I'm like Jesus christ. I'm getting blown up here. Why didn't why didn't this why didn't this person just send me a dm and say I'm really really offended ryan, you know Like this person did eight months ago Which nobody knows about asking me about my honest opinion about highly on Nobody knows that that's why I found it a little bit interesting that just out of the blue We start taking out the knives I got to blame somebody sure as hell can't be me I had this dream of instagram riches I was going to take my photo because i'm such a great investor Like I said a little bit of a reality check. It's not going to happen when you want it to happen It's going to happen eventually or maybe it doesn't happen I don't know but it sure as hell didn't happen when you want you want to start blaming the i2 All right, maybe I should quit my project and just go do something else That ain't gonna happen. No way.  They don't rick deserves it rick's the man I meet people like this and it's like we've conferred behind the scenes and just a super super good guy These are the types of network people that i'm interested in getting to know If they're not interested in getting to know me no problem I'm actually interested in getting to know people good people You want to know why because good people are hard to come by And let me tell you if you're going to judge me based on what you see through what you're seeing now Or what you see on a thumbnail about me my hair on fire my hands on fire You're probably getting a jaded perspective of what I truly am inside Nick yeah People who know me would attest that I would go the nth degree Um, I've saved two lives. Okay in alaska Um and and people don't do that stuff and people who do it don't talk about it And if they were put into that situation would they do it again? Yes, they would but you don't think that there's an underlying root of why I do this channel You don't think that by me putting out my message that it has the opportunity to help somebody Get started in financial markets where maybe they they hadn't they wouldn't have gotten started at any time before Right, maybe they get a little bit of inspiration to understand that holistic approach to be like man I'm 20 years old every social media create content creator out there is telling me that I need to just not get a job Not pursue a career Not do anything with my life other than just go full bore and become an entrepreneur I don't know what my product is going to be youtube says the the product is me Let me tell you most people are not that interesting. Okay Even the channels out there with millions and millions of subscribers. They are not that interesting Okay, the irony in the whole thing is that people will follow and they will follow in rogues Mm-hmm. Say the right thing be elegant. Okay. Don't be scathing like me.  All right Mm-hmm Thank for yourself man. Super super important man. Let's get to some questions. Very cool. Very cool Get down here and david's in the house fantastic I'm all the way at the bottom when I took the stockbrokers test They have a question about small lot theory and retail traders who buy at the high and sell at the low That is exactly right and in all fairness It's underlying premises like this as to why I come out with the independence investor channel Look if I had more faith in the retail investing community I would dissolve this project away and you guys could teach me You could you could be like ryan duck. What were you doing? I told you to sell eight months ago.  I know if you should have sold when everything was up You're right. You got it all figured out not like I haven't been through this stuff before Um, I get I could say that it doesn't feel very good, but I'm numb to it anymore. It doesn't bother me Hmm my money's on a plan If my one dollar invested goes and gets cut in 50 percent and in half, okay The the the law of relativity says that you look at that one dollar cut in half by 50 times whatever factor To get to your portfolio size The one dollar cut in half shouldn't bother you any more than 50 of those dollars cut in half 100 cut in half a thousand cut in half, okay And in investing The irony in the whole thing is that you've built up to that amount and now you're taking a digression in your money And it's painful. You're not used to it going going down. You're not loose used to losing money Right all it's doing is breathing in That's it. It's all it's doing breathing in one dollar 72 cents 68 cents 52 cents Dare I say 50 down on your money? Right nothing's changed. It's just breathed in Portfolio is just taking a break. All right, the bears have taken a hold of the markets and uh, the uh exacerbated selling is It's not not caused by the systemic shocks that are being put through the market It's because of exacerbated sell-offs guys.  That's what that's what it is Okay People are sissies And they need to grow a set like me and leon Seriously, they do I would wish upon you this if you're gonna get involved in financial markets Um Get involved for the right reasons and until you understand what those right reasons are don't invest for yourself All right, no it's just that simple and You have to you have to believe in the program that you put in place And if you're a passive investor, there there is no level of skill that that takes it takes no skill zero Put those ETFs or index funds or mutual funds if that's your thing into a tax Uh a tax protected vehicle like a Roth IRA. You fund it over time. It's very simple Anybody can do that and I've got a few of my new investors in the group here who have just started investing And this lesson that the stock market's doling out right now is worth It's priceless it is because There's nothing in way of preparation that I can get you ready for a downturn in financial markets There's no way I can do that But when it happens and you've been properly coached in a way that you understand why it is that you're doing what you're doing Why so many other things in this life are socially acceptable to get involved with and lose money Buy a big truck and lose money All right Buy a bunch of crap over your life lose money.  That's okay. It was fun. It was fun. Yeah, how's that working out for you? You're still broke All right, you've been doing it for 20 years How much life savings do you have zero? Congratulations. When was the last time you evaluated your discipline and your spending plan? Never Maybe you want to do that Maybe you want to pull back the curtain on your budget and you'll be amazed at what you're what you're spending Yeah, yeah, it's an eye-opener.  I'm a cheapskate cheap bastard, right? We go and do groceries I get up sunday morning work out Savage and then I go to walmart. Why do I go to walmart at 7 30 in the morning? Why trick question anybody got any idea? Because nobody's there except me and the stalkers and the stalkers are relatively happy in the morning unlike people At one o'clock on a sunday afternoon at cosco or walmart our target or kroger or any of the other department stores They're all pissed off because they're all trying to play bumper cars to get their bananas Because they watch too much social media Life is good.  All right. It's all good Okay, please share leon's store. It's in the description of this video you can click over to the yetzi site if you'd like please and um Like I said, I I'm working it out right now I don't know if he's going to be able to provide some sort of referral or coupon code I told him I said there's a lot of people in the group that'll just buy it to help support him I do want to to premise. I'm not getting anything out of the deal. Okay. I just told the man I said I love the rendering. I want it so I got one for myself And I wanted to share that with the group because again, it is the best rendering But thank you for that. I did provide it down. It's the wall street bowl In the description of this video and you could just click on it and then follow the link I can't put it into my Shopify account Because the payments all go to me for my viper group and this and that but it was the least I could do to help him And I am going to do a video on it actually Probably do an instagram post and really just help the guy Um francisco's his name. So if you do click over to the yetzi site, you can quality control check If you just remember francisco, that's the gentleman's name. Just just an absolutely beautiful man Absolutely beautiful person. He's from europe, right? Europeans are they're awesome, right? Americans are pissed off all the time Live in the footlands of netherlands No wonder you're happy all the time you live in paradise Here i've got to fight up and down the aisles at walmart and fight people because they're so angry at me for Reaching up at the same time at the in the salsa shelf, you know and and by god. I'm just too close to people Uh It's no problem and i'm i'm glad to help and i'm i'm glad to have the project and i'm glad to pay it forward Very cool stuff very cool stuff says He quit he put the patch on his arm No more instagram. All right, uh, they demanded my birthday. Oh man. Is this something else man? It's something else. Um Secure uh is the company that we're we're we're helping to uh promote here on the independent investor channel promote and Provide some awareness uh purposes too, but it's it's the clawback. It's the oh my goodness We've given away the farm to big media microsoft google facebook man And they we've electively given away the most precious thing that we ever have and that's our data And uh, we've given it away and they've sold the farm and and then a company like secure comes and says Hey, we're gonna we're gonna put your data in a secure in a server over in the swiss uh in switzerland and because our laws are a lot different than y'all's y'all laws man, but uh Anyway, it's um pretty cool stuff Especially for businesses may catch on to more of the private market down the line when people realize that they're being raped every day for Their information.  Just absolutely fantastic. Oh god first first time catching the lives dream No, I hope I haven't lost you. Okay. I've invited you to leave now a half a dozen times. Look, that's just the way I am All right, um, I've been doing social media a while But I am I am far from a social media figure Okay My goal is to use the power and conduit of youtube to reach people on a granular level Really touch uh and get below the surface of what motivates people right to identify those day to day things Man go into freaking job feeling your gas tank Getting uh off your ass and doing something productive working hard finding a side hustle if that's your thing Right, maybe finding a little bit of capital appreciation in the stock market kind of hard to talk about that stuff right now Right kind of hard to talk about it when the market's down But the irony in that statement is this is the very time that we need to be talking about it right now This is the time that he's like Ryan, what do you mean? This is the time the market's terrible. We made it through another week I think I see the comments here. We made it through another week. We survived Ryan. Yeah, yeah The market's got cheaper Right The market's gotten cheaper I thought you know what I should have held my strategic buy because I bought the market Uh just today in my tsp And of course, it was the one day of the week where it was where it was up but you know i'm dollar cost average and those I can't beat myself up over it but uh Anyway, it's glad. I'm glad to have you. I am glad to have you and Any anytime somebody comes to the message I always welcome them and make sure that they understand the premise of my messages This isn't to I say and you do type of thing. Um, that's not the relationship that I demand from people I just think that People need to be um, they need to be put on a charge To find out a little bit more about themselves and weigh a potential They do Hmm Yeah People don't give themselves enough credit man for achieving Something better than what they think they can achieve I sit with people all the time and I'm like, I see potential in you that you don't say in yourself I say that all the time. Um, maybe it's arrogant. I I don't know, but that's the truth That is the truth and maybe the truth hurts Maybe it waking somebody up a little bit to be like man alive. That's incredible. I you know, I feel inspired It's fantastic. That's great You don't even have to say. Hey, I feel inspired by this guy feel inspired by myself For the first time in my life, man.  I'm telling you how important it is.  Not everybody is going to become a millionaire Not everybody's going to become a millionaire and you want to know something It's all right It's all right If you can't be happy with yourself Dead broke How the hell do you think you're going to be happy with yourself when you've got millions of dollars? That's the fallacy People believe that all they need to do is just continue to be unhappy their entire life and and and exercise bad habits Their entire entire life, but when they get to that goal, everything's just going to flip on its ear And I'm just going to automatically become happy again Really you're kidding yourself You're kidding yourself Keep watching instagram, right every clear boy. Keep watching instagram. That'll make you happy This is the most time I spend on social media During my week is on the live stream with you kind folks And I wouldn't have it any other way it makes sense This to me is not really like social media It's like we come in and we have a community discussion and We all banter around the same conversation and you leave the live stream and you enter into the following week that much tougher That much tougher Maybe you look at an aspect of your life and say, you know what? I don't know man Maybe I've thought about this for a while.  It's not helping me at all right Yeah Maybe you could make a move right here in the market Maybe dollar cost averaging the market is a little bit different than what everybody's saying You need to time the market or you need to do this or Because this group of stocks. These are the funniest go to twitter twitter twitter is like a cesspool I'm not really sure what elon musk is thinking. He's basically paying $44 million or $44 billion for a big big mountain of manure Just so he can control the dialogue. It's interesting to me. Um, but what a cesspool of garbage? Mm-hmm Very very little of what people have to say is really that important Right It's relationships man. It really is um He just uh, my brother erics in the house here. I see here a condolences my friend and and it goes out from me To you brother no doubt about it I'm sorry for your loss there and thanks for coming in maybe this will give you a little bit of release anyway mm-hmm for for a few minutes But uh, thanks for coming in brother. I'm with you my hearts go out and the condolences man for sure Thanks for coming on it's been in a few moments with us man When this type of stuff happens to me man, I I just put my head down and go right to work Because that that that's what the people that uh Have been influential in my life would have wanted me to do Hmm And that's what I want me to do. I'm my biggest critic Trust me. I don't need somebody posting on facebook what it is. They think of me. Don't worry. I do that all the time I don't need your help Okay, if you've got deficiencies yourself enough to where you want to come in and you want to batter on somebody else, man Um, that's your deficiency not mine. I don't do it. I don't Um the the person that I'm hardest on in this life and it has nothing to do with social media is myself That's it Be honest with you guys take a card out of my playbook man That that should be your area of scrutiny and by nature of my scrutiny I'm starting to realize that that scrutiny not to be uh overbearing But to at least to constructively critically break yourself down a little bit and you know, nobody's perfect So when you get Those things off kilter a little bit You know exactly when it's skewing off a little bit because you start to go toward those things that are going to divert you from your goals And boom you got to get it right back and sometimes I'll stay in that funk for a little bit a few hours Here and there sometimes it'll bleed over a little bit here and there But I know exactly when it's happening All right, and I insist on being locked in to the to the plan man I insist on trying to keep it as straight of a line as I possibly can And I would hope that for you guys. Absolutely. All right Very cool. Thank you, thomas. Appreciate you making your way in my brother. Thank you. That's very very cool Because so many user bots. Yeah, no, I know I saw that today I saw the I saw the twitter. Uh, it was probably an elon musk bought saying that they held the held the transaction anyway, so Um, which is a better Buy goldman black rocker jp Um, I own every one of those. I don't own vym anymore It's a great etf of of dividend stocks and the dividend appreciation fund is what I own now But they're all great. Um, I've taken a little bit of a different philosophy Uh in my portfolio structure I don't share too much of that on the live stream. I didn't even do the portfolio roll out I'm at 444 for anybody who's interested. I lost a few thousand bucks this week No big deal I'm not even gonna do the review because I've liked uh engaging with you guys, but uh, I own goldman. I own a big position in black rock. I own 10 shares of black rock jp morgan I own in the raw thigh array v o o I own At 85 shares of v o o in my wife's account and then vig is in my raw thigh array and then I own about 100 shares of vti in the brokerage account The total stock market that I can fund at any time So your strategically should be based on How much safeguarding you want to put on it and how much access you want to have Over that money and make sure that you can fund it to the level that you want to fund it Okay, because some of those single stocks may be better served in a brokerage account To make sure that you can fund them directly in any time that you want While others like the etf is a great baseline in a raw thigh array I would suggest that even the vym and the vig Are both really really good baselines within the raw thigh array account. That's a good question. Thank you, thomas Appreciate you. I'm a big fan of uh of vanguard.   Um, I think about this stuff all the time. I have my Uh strategic goals memorized and I always are kind of thinker. Okay. Um, that's what I do I like thinking and you know thinking about certain things and I don't know philosophy screwed me up in college It made me think about some really cool stuff, you know I read this socrates and he's like know that you know nothing. That's the answer and I'm like God dang, that's incredible. I could do that. I I know I know nothing socrates. It's me and you man We're together and we're me and me and socrates are our own boys Absolutely, uh, but thinking about that stuff and super super important man's good stuff cruising up here Yeah, ethos in the house man. Hope the family's good brother privacy will be a huge business in the future Yeah, I think so. Um, you know with regard to the micro cap stocks Uh, it's interesting enough. I had a nice, um off base convert conversation It wasn't being recorded when I spoke with the ceo silas, um of hs gov And he was like, yeah, everything's getting beat down right now But I certainly wouldn't dismiss the small cap market right here Um, I think it would be a big mistake to start throwing in the towel right now I I would never do that. I don't see any indication that that's the prudent move Um, not even close No way, but there's some companies out there doing some really really good things And, uh, hs gov tech is one of those actually they're doing great things And, uh, you know, it's interesting to me. I actually asked him during the interview I was like, how is it that you can come on and talk about all this great stuff that your company's doing When there's so much doom and gloom in the market and he was just like, well You know there's financial markets for you, you know, and and that's Not every company out there is struggling. Let me tell you that right now Okay, and although we're going through a little bit of a swoon in the market with some volatility We want to stay long Absolutely, because where it seemed like it flipped a switch to the downside It can absolutely flip flip to the positive as well. So Ethos is a good friend of the channel. He always has been always will be He's been with me for now for a while a couple years. Anyway, most of the time here in virginia And back even into new york. So I'm going to kick over and help ethos subscribe to his message as well And that'll help him as well. I get a couple minutes left. We're going to kick it off at 60 minutes tonight I'm going to chill out. It's been a crazy week for me. Uh, it's been very very busy very very busy Exercise part of my daily routine if it's before or after 12 shift always a priority Um, that's a great comment And I like the part where you say make it a priority I schedule my sleep around getting up early. Um, I don't stay up late anymore Otherwise I I drag if I go to sleep at 11 30 12 I I can't wake up then but the the next morning for sequential mornings in a row and keep my Keep my good streak going. I won't do that. But I like that. That's a really really sharp comment. Very cool Um I'll victory says I need this I'm in debt to you my friend. Thank you that that's that's a kind thing to say and Um, probably speaks a little bit closer to the truth and why I do this message in the first place Mm-hmm if it can help you Take it No doubt about it. Um, this is stuff that I exercise in my daily life every single day Um, there's not a second that I don't exercise this Not a second in in all aspects of what I talk about And it's not just investing Um, I talk about those holistic things and I started doing this about a couple years ago When I started to talk about focusing on relationships and for young people it can be friends I have no problem with that. That's great Focus on fostering relationships. Focus on identifying a network of good people Focus on how it how you're going to establish a career or pursue a career or establish a foundation in your life because It's that very foundation that you will build all of this other advanced stuff on top of but you cannot build it Unless you have that foundation first. That's great to see you. Thanks for coming in victoria. Great to see you And kevins in the house here. How do I find your m1 stock portfolio? You're going to have to send me an email and I will send you a link via email Unfortunately m1 finance will not allow me to share a portfolio with over 50 For affiliate commission and I will not put that in my description Just just out of the blue. I could I guess But if you want it send me an email direct and remind me say hey, it's kevin from the live stream and I'll fire it back Do you no problem? Yep, and I'm glad to do it. You can have it. It's no problem at all. All right Wait a minute. All that sounds too easy. I might be relaxed and there's the money in the great companies that can Don't make this thing more difficult than it needs to be man I tell you what a lot of people think that if they consume a bunch of social media How many tweets a day can I consume and that's going to get me ahead? I don't know try meditation That's a good thing. All right. Very cool stuff. There's my buddy Sorry, I'm I'm just now seeing you in here matty I hope you responded to me. Please. I sent you a private message Please confirm there because I've kind of set some things in motion for you. Hope you don't mind, brother But it's good to see you put more in the market good Um today, I wouldn't have been so keen on putting market in the Money in the market today Things have been pretty volatile. I I like to buy on the down days. I wouldn't have bought today But uh, it was nice to see a little reprieve in the market. Anyway, it's great to see you my brother. Thank you Very cool stuff And david says only fools can time the market man That's a good way to end the live stream tonight guys in all sincerity man I was feeling a little saucy tonight for sure little bit of Of angst I guess it gets under my skin because there's no place for it. There's no place at all man If your focus is on the right stuff, okay? You don't need to you don't need to be focused on that stuff. You don't You should spend 99.9 percent of your time focused on your program You sure as hell shouldn't be coming on to social media and trying to identify those things that people do that you don't like Okay, get over it. It's all good the very nature of our ability to come on to social media and share Our deficiencies and share our ability to light our hands on fire and light our hair on fire Is just the beauty of social media. All right, do not hold a grudge guys We'll be back with you next week nine o'clock eastern standard time on the fastest 60 minutes on youtube the independent investor channel live stream Be well. We'll catch you next friday


All right amusement insiders, picture this. The year is 2039 and Canada's Wonderland has had an impressive 15 years of investment, expansion, and very strategic moves in order to get the park to where they want to be when it comes to being a Disney or Universal level of theme park, a truly international attraction for the Toronto area. You're wondering how did this happen and lucky for you our wonderful Grace or whoever ends up in her position in 2039 because you know I'm not trying to plan Grace's life for her but somebody will be in that role and that person gets up in front of hopefully Brendan's camera and they do an interview and in that interview they explain we actually did an experiment starting back in the year 2023 where we had AI set up a really solid 15 year plan for us and we have followed that plan and it has led us to the success that we're seeing today. How would that make you feel? Let's talk about it. All right so welcome to another episode of whatever this is. Today we heard to speculate about what AI could do as far as predicting and or helping to plan Canada's wonderland's future investments. What sparked my imagination to even create this video was recently when we had all of those drops come from Canada's wonderland from the survey to the mock up designs for potential future investments. I was doing a little bit of speculating on the different teasers that we've seen and stuff and one of the ways that I have strategically done my speculation more recently has been to use AI. I will ask chat GPT some things that I feel like it's easier to ask chat GPT than to Google and do research for myself so I'll kind of use that as a jumping off point and then you know double check and confirm the things that it gives me or sometimes if I'm a little bit low on ideas it's a really good way to help you sort of spark your imagination and give you some ideas and again I never use chat GPT as like a sort of a solution for anything but it is a really good way to get a jumping off point for a lot of different things. So this got me thinking hmm I wonder what AI would suggest as far as our coming expansions and investments go so I've done a little bit of brainstorming with chat GPT we spent some time together and I gave it some very specific parameters I realized after a little bit of experimentation that chat GPT when it comes to these types of thought experiments it needs a very strict and specific framework so I spent some time figuring out exactly the right prompt to put together for it. I gave it some interesting guidelines and it gave me some interesting responses so I want to share those with you and let's just have a little conversation about like what chat GPT would do for Wonderland and what you think about that let's get into it. Alright so what kind of guidelines did I give chat GPT? Well first I told it exactly whose perspective I wanted it to think from so I wanted to think from the decision makers at both Canada's Wonderland and Cedar Fair's perspective. I don't want chat GPT to think as itself necessarily I wanted it to look at Wonderland I gave it some information on Wonderland and what its goals are you know because Grace has recently told us that Wonderland does want to be more of a theme park so I also told it that that is something that's in their perspective and in their goals their wants for the future of the park so I gave it a little bit of background like that so that it wasn't kind of just giving me very general answers I wanted it to be specific to Wonderland so just know that that's sort of the framework that we're working with. I told it exactly what type of positions would have that type of decision-making power and I told it some of the insights that we have as far as the park's future goals for being a destination theme park for families and yeah let's jump into what it told me after I started asking it questions from that perspective so I started out really general just to test it out and make sure that it was or it seemed anyways to be speaking from the perspective that I really wanted it to again I got very specific I wanted to make sure I was getting legitimate sounding answers so I started out by asking chat GPT what would be your short-term priorities and long-term priorities for Canada's Wonderland given sort of the perspective in the background that I gave it so it gave me three short-term priorities first enhancing the well first enhancing existing themed areas so focus on completing and refining the existing themed areas such as Frontier Canada by adding immersive experiences live entertainment and themed dining options then second investing in high-demand attractions so identify popular ride types or experiences that are currently lacking in the park and prioritize their addition to cater to guest preferences and then third improving guest amenities so allocating resources to improving guest amenities like food options restrooms and seating areas to enhance the overall park experience so those are its top three short-term priorities all right so then I asked it for some long-term priorities and it gave me four of those so first expanding themed areas develop additional immersive and distinct themed areas to enhance the park storytelling and create unique guest experiences second signature attractions plan for the introduction of iconic marquee attractions that will draw attention and create a buzz helping to establish Canada's Wonderland as a destination park third interactive and technology-driven experiences incorporate interactive elements augmented reality or virtual reality experiences to engage guests and provide cutting-edge entertainment and fourth diversifying offerings consider adding non-ride attractions such as live shows interactive exhibits or themed shopping areas to provide a well-rounded entertainment experience so to me that actually sounds like a really well-rounded short-term and long-term strategy mix but share with me what your thoughts are in the comments is that aligned with what you would do if you were in one of these types of director sort of decision-maker positions um and if your decisions would be different how so then I asked how should we allocate the budget to achieve the park's goal of becoming a disney or universal level theme park it said budget allocation should be strategic and consider the following aspects first themed areas allocate a significant portion of the budget to develop and enhance themed areas this includes investment in detailed theming immersive environments and high quality props and set pieces second signature attractions set aside a substantial portion of the budget to develop high-profile world-class attractions that will serve as flagship experiences for the park third guest experience enhancements allocate funds to improve guest amenities and I know that some guests have already started asking for that and I did not even tell chat gpt that and somehow it knew all right fourth marketing and promotion dedicate a portion of the budget to targeted marketing campaigns partnerships and collaborations to increase brand awareness and attract a wider audience and then fifth research and development allocate resources for ongoing research and development to stay updated with industry trends technological advancements and guest preferences ensuring that the park remains innovative and competitive by considering these factors and prioritizing investments canada's wonderland can make strategic decisions to progress towards its goal of becoming a renowned theme park that's all fairly standard i think it gave fairly good answers as far as what would be reasonable and expected from somebody in that kind of decision-making position if they wanted to strategically move the park towards being like a disney-level theme park so i got i felt at this point that i had confirmed what i wanted to confirm which was that my framework that i provided chat gpt was working it was speaking from the perspective i wanted it to be speaking from so i was like all right let's have some fun now so from there i asked from that perspective what are the next roller coaster and or flat ride and or themed changes and or food locations would you add to canada's wonderland and where please be specific about ride type and manufacture if suggesting rides now i thought it was just going to tell me what would come first but it actually gave me an option for each of the following it seemed to understand my question which is fine i i could have narrowed it down but i liked the options that it gave me for reasons which we'll get into in a second all right so first it suggested a roller coaster introduce a thrilling and innovative roller coaster to enhance the park's coaster lineup and attract thrill-seeking guests one potential option could be a record-breaking launched coaster manufactured by Intamin or Mack rides this coaster could feature multiple inversions high speeds and unique elements to provide an adrenaline pumping experience so this is where i started to crack up because if you guys have been watching the channel for a minute you will know that myself and more especially brendan has been advocating for a launched ride like an Intamin or Mack for ever not forever but like definitely since uconn striker it's been like okay what's next here's what we really need next and those have kind of been the top two that come to mind for brendan especially he said it in so many videos he said it in predictions he said it in podcasts he has said it time and time again and so i thought it was so funny that i put chat gpt in this perspective and it was giving me really solid answers and really like you know legit answers and then i asked this question what should be the next coaster and that is the first thing that comes to mind and this is after i told chat gpt what our whole lineup is so it knows that we have a bunch of bnm's it did not suggest another bnm it suggested an Intamin or a Mack moving on i think i've made my point but make yours in the comments down below let me know what you think of that do you agree with chat gpt or do you agree with what wonderland seems to be coming out with next with the bnm flying launched whatever it is wings launched wing mountain thing let me know let me know what you think moving on all right so the next suggestion that chat gpt gave me was for a flat ride now chat gpt seems to be struggling with the flat rides i don't know if flat rides just don't have really good websites for it to troll but it keeps suggesting things that are like same same to what we already have so it was suggesting husk or cam g type rides like giant frisbee or something like after burner and i was like wait a second we have that give me another suggestion so and it seemed to get confused a few times on what exactly counts as a flat ride so here are the replacement suggestions that it gave me um and this had me cracking up as well because as soon as i was like okay none of those spinning things give me something else guess what its first suggestion was brendan is going to die when he watches this our expert park director decision maker chat gpt suggested drumroll please a flying theater chat gpt says introduce a flying theater attraction such as fly over america by brogen technologies or soren by dynamic attractions this immersive experience combines a large domed screen with suspended seats that simulate a flying sensation guests would be taken on a breathtaking journey over iconic canadian landscapes offering a unique perspective and showcasing the country's natural beauty now we know that wonderland doesn't want to do things that are existing you know in like a nearby drivable location so last i heard there was some kind of flying fancy theater thing going up somewhere and that's why we've kind of seen the plan for action theaters revamp drop off but i just think it's funny that what brendan has been saying and suggesting for like i'm pretty sure years now is the same thing that chat gpt would suggest and i will also say i didn't give chat i didn't go so far as telling chat gpt like don't suggest anything that's within the toronto or like southern ontario area because i i just felt like i was already kind of restricting it a lot and it already only has access to so much information so i left that part be but just thought it was funny that you know brendan has been suggesting this for so long and chat gpt was like yeah i mean if we already have the spinner then a flying theater is clearly what the park needs uh yeah so i just thought that was super funny now i then asked it for another option because i was like um flying theater doesn't seem so likely um give me one more option and this is where i think it was a little confused on what counts as a flat ride but tell me if you think this counts as a flat ride chat gpt chat gpt's next suggestion was a water coaster now i really like this suggestion not sure if it counts as a flat ride but it was suggesting a water coaster and it likes mammoth by proslide or jungle racers by white water west the hybrid ride combines elements of a water slide with a thrill of a coaster guests would board rafts that navigate a track featuring drops turns and uphill sections providing a thrilling combination of water splashes and coaster like excitement the addition of a water coaster would offer a refreshing and exhilarating experience particularly during hot summer months um i know there is like some you know debate on what counts as a coaster and what doesn't but like do it does a water coaster really count as a flat ride or is it closer to like a slide i don't know anyways so those were its suggestions i didn't make it keep going and going and going because i was like i don't really know what flat ride would be perfect for wonderland either they i think they're more likely to order something never before seen but take that you know with however much salt you want to um i just really wanted to share that because i thought it's suggesting what brennan has been saying for several months was really funny so on to the next chat gpt's suggestion for themed changes for um what are the next theme changes that it would make to the park as the decision maker chat gpt would expand the existing frontier canada themed area which aligns with the park's strategy of emphasizing immersive theming enhance the area by adding a western style dark ride where guests can embark on a journey through captivating storyline filled with animatronics and special effects this dark ride could be developed in collaboration with a renowned manufacturer like sally corporation to ensure an engaging and visually impressive experience thoughts um again we've been talking about needing a dark ride for a long time um and how we kind of we're hoping to get some kind of combination roller coaster dark ride with guardians but most of us are pretty disappointed with guardians so again just thought this was a very poignant suggestion from chat gpt let's leave it at that and move on so finally food locations what would chat gpt do next when it comes to food locations this is where you guys thought chat gpt had me dying before this this is where chat gpt like fully creeped me out so you guys know i want to say a few weeks ago now brendan shared a video on instagram not a video it was photos on instagram of an old dining location technically it still exists but not as it did during the time uh from which he shared this photo anyways i'm gonna i'm not making sense i'm gonna put the photo up here this food location just keep this in mind for one second okay it was called ginsa gardens i believe for a while anyways i had a few different names but i'm pretty sure again ginsa gardens is what it was called i'll i'll put text here if i'm wrong on that but um as you guys know i'm not scripting these videos except i mean kind of this one because chat gpt did it for me but um i'm not like double checking that so if i'm wrong editing jasmine we'll just put the text on the screen but i'm pretty sure it was called ginsa gardens and it was a chinese themed food location i believe it was full service it was in what used to be the china part of grand world exposition back when that was like a fully themed area so anyways remember chat gpt was giving me answers to um what would be its next addition in a number of different categories roller coaster flat ride three theming etc etc um now we get to food location so just just keep ginsa gardens in mind for a second chat gpt says it would introduce an exotic dining experience that complements the china area of grand world exposition consider a vibrant traditional chinese tea house with a serene garden setting and both indoor and outdoor seating options the menu could showcase a variety of authentic chinese teas and delectable dim sum along with other regional specialties guests can immerse themselves in the rich culture and ambience of china while savoring the flavors of the east additionally incorporating traditional chinese music or cultural performances could further enhance the authenticity of this unique dining location wonderland even chat gpt is trying to tell you to bring back ginsa gardens thank you very much moving on so at this point i basically realized that i was talking to the robot version of me and brendan and i was like we need to have a longer conversation so you guys are going to see the rest of that conversation in the next i guess two two let's do two videos so it'll be a little trio of chat gpt videos um so stay tuned and the next one is coming soon and i promise it this where i left off is leading us into the next video so stay tuned maybe have some fun with chat gpt yourself while you're waiting for it to come out i don't know do whatever you want but i will see you in the next one hey michigan went in toronto discover canada's wonderland the country's premier theme park experience the outstanding excitement of the new sky rider shoot the rabbits of whitewater canyon meet the smurfs in their own forest watch lavish all new Broadway style shows to save on park admission accommodation and more pick up our free vacation savings package at participating channel stores in greater Detroit canada's wonderland just north of toronto