Being right mate, good morning Tuesday 29th o octob, I just got ATM here in London, so just starting to get their EU open. As you can see on my right-hand side, all-time highs printed in the S&P, printing above that 3025 and extending on the futures as high as 3041 in yesterday afternoon's trade, a big move in the markets to begin the week ahead of the Fed on Wednesday and we can just bring in the S&P here welais llawer o grwmit iawn, iawn o'r puin, dwi'n gallu rhoi llawer o wel nghymple, yn 32 eu hunain, rynnwys gyda ni성un cymaint gyda師io.  We'n galwus i mi ai mynd mi so yn yma mewn coleg niwn ar iciwn. felly mae'r gweithio yng ngyrsgwyr yn golygu i gwasanaethol yn ysgrif iawn, ac mae'n gyrsgwyr ar gyfer y ddechrau yma yn y gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio ac mae'n gweithio yma yn nifer y ddechrau. Mae'n gweithio'n gwneud yn y dda i fod yn y cyd-ddoedd am yr oed, ac mae'n gweithio'n cyd-ddoedd yn ei ddweud, ac mae'n cyfrifio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Ac yn gweithio ymlaid y cwpio'r cyflawn hefyd. I gael fan hynny wedi cyd-dweud yn y gynhyrch i'r awtio. A'r gwaith ar y gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio a'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio yn y gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'r bwrdd yn ymweld yn drwy'r hyn o'r cyfrifol, ond mae'n rhaid i'r ffasgwrdd yn y cyfrifol, ond mae'r hyn o'r bwysig, i'r ddechrau'n gwybod i'r 12 oed, byddai'r ddechrau. Os ymlaen nhw bod yn apod, mae'n gyfrifol yn gweithio'r nazstac. Ond dweud, yr SNP wedi cyf- safnig idio yn blod yn cyd- ym d hyg. Felly, ac yn adegonhau i'r cyd- ym mhawr, y nesaf eu hwn yn fflodol. Felly that's because alphabet earnings came out and target by the colour of the candle. You can see that they just missed, or they did miss earnings as well. So, ydw i'n fwy o ddiwedd ar y gynhyrch o wneud dod o'r mhaf hyn o'r map i os yw. Mae'r ydych chi'n gyd yma'n meromethau ar beth hynny yn lle'r llynchedd ystod, dwi'n credu gwneudgeddenydd, yn mynd i'r hollbeth, ac yn i'r wyphem, felly sefydl ag yn gwneud i ddweud, m proofu'r hollbeth o'r hollbeth, cael y dreid, a'r hollbeth o'r hollbeth, mae wedi'n bredd, wrth gwrs, yn ymohod gyun, ac yn ymwneud wedi'i hynny, sydd yn llunio ble wedi'n cael oaf wedi'n siarad. It was just this time last year where they're expected to be the worst and however long again expected there for quarter one and two but good earnings it for the stocks and also yesterday we did have Donald Trump speaking and it's going to bring in the stock market. Here's some P500 again we had Donald Trump saying today obviously yesterday is going to be a very good day for stocks and we pushed higher pretty much from from there as well. It's not the first time he said it and actually it's going back to the last time that he said this. It can't exactly get the date for you but either way the last time he said it was actually going to be a gap lower from the weekend. The market was up big yesterday and it's going to be big again today and the stock market actually tumbled that day so it's not always guaranteed that the market will follow exactly what Trump says but however yesterday was a day where that did happen. Decent push above the highs, good opportunity post cash open as well on a retracement and we continued on into the back end of the session. At the same time gold by the bring in the gold chart here you can see broker a trend line that we talked about in the briefing. The first real attempt of it was a bit choppy, did snap back but you can see once we got that confirmed break, retest, really strong move and we cleared 1500 with ease which was on paper anyway like a good area of support and we're now back towards that 1492 level which I like the look of or did like anyway however we are just trying to recover a bit of those gains. Yesterday very much risk on President Trump adding fresh optimism on the US-China trade front saying the two are ahead of schedule on forging phase one of a trade deal. Opportunity wise how much is left on this supposed trade deal, well the way the market goes you can probably say they are still a bit left but I guess the best move would come on talks breaking down as well. And especially with the Fed on Wednesday if Trump isn't happy you can absolutely expect him to bang the drum and say trade talks are breaking down to maybe get the Fed to move in the way he wants. So be cautious ahead we've got some big earnings coming out as well tomorrow which could of course influence price going forward. But yesterday Trump saying it was going to be a good day for stocks that the two are ahead of schedule and we saw very much risk on stocks push higher. Gold came lower, T notes as you can see here also breaking out of a decent area of support from last week however just a slight attempt to recover a bit this morning. Just going back to that, that's quickly you can see just how violent and that is on the open pushing initially down to that low snapping back to almost make a new high for the day and we're now back below there as well. Seven minutes into the open wonder to keep an eye on going forward. Also yesterday worth bringing in oil price which initially had made a new multi week high above the high that we saw on Friday printing up towards $56.92 almost hitting $57. However decent push lower in the end by the time oil move and that's continued today breaking a trend line you can see here that's drawn on nice break retest as you can see this was now around sort of half five into the afternoon. So the biggest well the first time we dropped in a week amid signs of swelling crude inventories in the world's biggest economy so data provider genscape said oil sorted in Oklahoma expanded by 1.5 million barrels last week which is just reviving concerns about sluggish demand and ample inventories. So yeah a decent push lower in oil and just looking at this more technically you can see where we're trading now or just a bit below you've got that really key point from $55 which offered such good resistance as a zone at the beginning towards the end of the month of October. So can we come back to test that we're only 29 pips above so from where we traded a decent move lower in oil scene yesterday and that has continued today as well. To go in over to well I guess we'll start off with the overnight headline now the alphabet earnings were dented. So this was that move that you saw in the Nasdaq alphabet and extended trading overnight was was down a bit you saw from the Finvis chart we quickly to switch back to that whereas alphabet here you can see was actually at 1.95% on the close in extended trading. It was of course down as it missed the share price at $10 12 it came in per share down from $9.2 billion or $13.06 a share in the same period a year earlier the company reported on Monday that year on year was down quite a bit. Analysts had expected a 12.35% a share according to data. Alphabet shares fell at 1.5% in extended trading after closing at $1,288 in New York. The stock of course on Monday hit a fresh record high so in the build up to these earnings along with general positive sentiment was already pushing on so a bit of a snap back there. Whether that can continue for stocks ahead of the Fed or not I wouldn't be too sure just having a look at the if I just bring in the earnings calendar here. If we just have a look at Wednesday earnings got Apple you got Facebook all coming out as well. So just to you know getting a strong move just of the alphabet earnings I'd be a bit hesitant when you got the big things coming later on really today is going to be the again probably the most second least. Exciting the second most quiet after yesterday and it really kicks on from tomorrow where you've got the feds, you've got the Bank of Canada rate decisions, you've got ADP heading on farm perils on Friday, Apple on Facebook earnings coming out which we know can move markets nicely. And then you've got some European and data, you've got the Bank of Japan rate decision. So it's going to be a decent three days shall we say of course Brexit day has now been cancelled as the UK accepted the 31st of Jan but some are to bear in mind this. So alphabet shares down now off their highs and that's that relatively flat this morning it has to be said just bringing that in you can see in trade it's just coming towards the low. So be keeping an eye on the Dax really whether that is going to break which you can see it's continuing here to push down on the open there. So once have marked up the Dax continues then sure S&P and then that's that could of course break through. Moving on to Brexit just going to go over a couple of slides here saw on on Twitter last night. Anthony's at King's College University and he's done some some slides for them so absolutely going to steal these and thanks to him he sent them over so just a summary of what happened yesterday. You can see well you would have heard about it the pound relatively unmoved it has to be said but the Prime Minister tried for a third time on Monday to trigger a snap poll to end the impasse and rebuffed again by House of Commons. So the idea here trying to get the general election voted through didn't get the two thirds received 299 short of the 434 needed just out of the corner of my eye by the way. Now is that breaking that low as the Dax continues to push down so a bit of risk off in the market in the markets is gold. The Bund and Tina was just trying to push on but only 12 minutes into the open so just be slightly careful there as well. He will try again on Tuesday so today to get Parliament to allow an early election to take place this time using an easier legal route. This is known as a one line bill a basic piece of legislation change in the date setting law for the next election on December the 12th. So just having a look around this is I would say more likely to pass just having a look at the way markets are pricing in a potential general election. It really feels quite undecided about where the pound is going to go here. So just bringing in this is the longer term pound chart that you would have seen in the morning or the afternoon I guess yesterday the strategy report that got sent out about possible scenarios where the pound could go. I mean we're trading now on the futures anyway on the daily around 128 67 last week's high up at that 130 that we just couldn't get through. You know my personal opinion would be a general election comes with a bit of uncertainty only to see conservatives clean up and therefore Brexit deal becomes more likely and therefore we actually look closer to 134 by the time that happens mid December. However that uncertainty could absolutely weigh on things and I think you've got to imagine if it does come down anywhere towards 126 this bottom circle would be a great opportunity to buy. Of course the last general election didn't go to conservative plan so there's no guaranteeing this will but the recent polls obviously confirming that conservatives have a rather nice lead going in. So yeah the recent move just really pricing out that no deal which it seems to discuss completely off the table both from Europe and from the UK so I think that's fair that move. I think we're at fair price right now however a general election conservative win chance of that deal then going through I think the pound has to push higher overall and fair enough it's relatively choppy at the moment as you would expect just on that uncertainty which we know markets hate. But overall I'm pretty confident we have a decent move higher. Just seen a tweet come through about Boris Johnson today so he's trying to whisk through today's election bill in just six hours so sometimes you want to be aware of write these down absolutely second reading vote after 4.30 and the final vote by MPs after 6.30 p.m. So UK time the MPs denied individual votes on amendments if they are too many instead they'll be joined into a couple of combined votes. So times to be aware of certainly today 4.30 and 6.30 for those votes going forward. Going back to the slides here so he will only need a simple majority in the Commons rather than two thirds of the MPs for the bill to pass. So rather than two thirds yesterday one third oh it's just a simple majority today. The risk for Johnson is that politicians could try to amend his one line bill to set conditions on the election that he will not like and the PM would still need support from Lib Dems and S&P which he has at the moment. It's going to be a day filled with Brexit comments there was an article let me see if I've still got it on the chat. It's regarding Brexit yesterday with just the time stamps of everything that happened and you can just see how big this article is here on Bloomberg and I'll just pop it into the chat in a moment for all to have a read of. The developments I guess are what you would really want to focus on but there's going to be the same situation today where there's this different comments coming out. I've already seen Nora Coonsburg is tweeting about this, that and the other. So the main things I guess overall in summary of yesterday we want to focus on the Council, EU Council President Tusk confirms Johnson wrote to the EU to accept the January 31 extension or flex extension if you want to call it. I've got to say I'm quite surprised that the press are making a big deal out of the flex extension when the last one was a flex extension as well but whatever seems to be in the focus at the moment. So he got 299 votes needed the 434 so fell short so we're looking for deal number two today. Jeremy Corbyn said he won't vote for an election until the UK is no longer at risk of crashing out of the EU without an agreement so Jeremy Corbyn has been pushing for a general election for the last couple of years just stalling on that a bit at the moment. Pound rises 0.3% yesterday but look it's choppy, it's choppy, it's very range bound at the moment and looking at this from a technical point of view I'd be looking to see if these lows can start to join up with a trend 9. You can see yesterday we got that in the way you're starting from the 24th to the 5th to Friday and not quite or Monday I should say and not quite yet but keeping a watch on that because a break below there fine we can get a push to the downside. Yesterday the high very technically also the support that we had in the morning of the 24th so being to see developments today but I'd just be a bit careful trading the pound ahead of any concrete decision and general election despite my view that it will be an overall positive can come with that uncertainty so something just to bear in mind. The next slide so the potential timetable so we've had the agreed January 31 extension 2020 meaning the UK will not leave as planned on Halloween on Thursday it will only be draggy stepping out the door. EU Council Tusk said it flexed tension obviously as we were saying the Lib Dems and SNP want Monday 9 December which they say will prevent any chance of the PM's Brexit deal being approved before Parliament is dissolved. There needs to be a minimum of 25 working days before the date of an election to allow sufficient preparations to take place and hopefully from a conservative point of view they expect to put in a bit more of a shift this time than they did under Theresa May ahead of that vote in 2017 or the election I should say in 2017 as well. Looking here I've got some nice infographics from the BBC just about the routes that we could go down so MPs reject the early election December 12 we're now going for this short bill for an early election if it passes then we just have to decide the date is it going to be the 9th or 12th if it's rejected today and we'll know this this afternoon the options are bring back the Brexit bill a vote of no confidence referendum or no deal Brexit on the 31st. No deal Brexit 31st of Jan. I mean I think you've always got to give a little percentage to it but it happening on the 31st of Jan for me 12% and the markets have shown that we've really unpriced all of May's no deal not as in Theresa May the month of May where we start to come down in the pan we've sort of priced that out in recent times and I just don't see that happening. No one believed. I don't think Boris Johnson too much over the last few weeks where he said we'll leave 31st with or without it just wasn't possible and it's just not going to happen. What a vote of when a vote of no confidence is called how could the result effect of government wins government just presses on with plans of course we had a vote the Labour no confidence vote last year which Theresa May survived. If the government was to lose is there a clear alternative yes then the PM replaces the appointed and can any government win a confidence vote within 14 days if the answer is yes no general election new or old government continues if the answers are no then we can just get our way down to a general election which again would be quite interesting if we were to get there from a vote of no confidence. Would the Conservatives still be leading nicely in the polls has to remain to be seen but it's an interesting one on the general election side of things because if we go down the route of say Labour were to storm it and shock everyone and go down how they were going to have a second referendum and taking no deal of the table whatever this would see surely a pound rise whereas the Conservatives winning getting a more of a majority. It's getting a deal passed through which to be honest the main Brexiteers aren't all too happy about anyway would be surely seen as a pound positive as well I guess kicking the can down the road just from a negative point of view in that we're just delaying things further is probably what's the stalling price at the moment. So I have to say I'm a pound positive where I certainly against other pairs where the dollar will be an interesting one because of course we do have the Federal Reserve interest rate decision coming up on Wednesday and that obviously has the propensity to move all dollar pairs and be an interesting one also this week just to keep an eye on everything else that's coming out. We've got the that's going to bring up the calendar again here. You've got some interesting you've got the ADP Wednesday. You've got the Chicago PMIs out. You've got obviously non farm payrolls on Friday as well and some decent earnings which are all in their own right to move the S&P or the US dollar as well. So big week or big three days coming up post today to have a look at the calendar for today. You can see this is a mean relatively quiet in the morning has to be said from a data point of view of any significance to in the more in the afternoon usually three o'clock you see the consumer confidence but obviously the clock change as effective that that's coming out of the US. So something to bear in mind as you go into the the back end of the afternoon or the session European session as to say Carney speaking at 6pm but no text release for that. So again worth keeping a watch on couple of earnings coming out of the US UK and EU this morning. But really as we know with the apple and Facebook tomorrow that's where I'd certainly will be be focused on as well. So in summary of yesterday's I'm going to look at the markets how we stand now. We saw risk on in the market following positive trade talks ahead of schedule. Then we hit all time highs gold coming lower teen notes coming lower the boom lower alphabet earnings overnight were worse. We've got a slight bit of risk off here in the morning that's breaking that key level support and that's led to a push lower in the S&P Nasdaq and Dow Jones as well. And just helping gold teen notes in the boom push on but they're all hitting resistance at the moment. Euro and pound relatively choppy not expecting too much in the way of movement ahead of the Fed unless we were to get some real developments from the Brexit general election as well. Oil pushed lower ahead of inventories in Oklahoma storage up 1.5 million for the week barrels per week there as well. Any questions as usual please do let us know. Obviously beyond the mic throughout the day a couple of times just to be aware of so the second reading vote after 4.30 final vote for MPs after 6.30 so a lot of movement on talks happening for the pound related assets came after the EU closed yesterday and that's expected to be the same today. But of course expect comments to come out expect Donald Trump to be busy as well. The market's moving. Dax still lower. So slight risk off here to begin the session. 25 minutes into the EU closed. Hope you'll have a good trading day and I'll catch you all in the chat.


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Not sending them to your other website where they're like, I don't know if I wanna put my credit card on this website because I don't know, you know?  So when you drive traffic to Amazon, you get what's called cookie. You don't know what cookies are, you've seen it except cookies on the back of Donald. So it gets marked to you so that you sent them there, right? And you would get commissions on anything they bought for 24 hours. So if they bought something later, you would still be on the cookie and you would get commissions. So no matter what they buy in 24 hours, you get commissions for us. All you gotta do is drive the traffic to Amazon. So what people do is they have a YouTube channel or an Instagram channel or a TikTok channel or something like that in a niche. They call it a niche, which is a specific thing, a subject, a hobby, an activity, right? And they do it in the video. And whatever they're using in the video, they put links to it in the description. Say, hey, you like what I'm doing here? You like this thing I'm using? The link is in the description. You go down there and get it. And the dog's barking, ignore him. When you drive them through Amazon, you get cookie to them for 24 hours, right? And that's a pretty cool way to make money on the dog's barking.  Can you guys hear the dog barking? The number one reason, that leads me to the next thing. The number one reason people are gonna tune you off in a YouTube channel or video of any kind is the audio. People don't like bad audio. They're gonna suffer bad lighting. They're gonna suffer bad video.  They're not gonna deal with bad audio at all.  So it's gonna be what you're gonna upgrade when you're doing a YouTube channel, when you're starting to be what's called a content creator, right?   This is a little microphone that clips on your lapel, clips and it goes into the phone. You're using your phone camera when you start, right? Or this can go into your other camera too. But most people are using their phones when they start a YouTube channel until they upgrade to other cameras and other stuff, but you wanna get started small. So you're gonna use your phone. Where do you need to get started? You don't need anything. You can use your phone to get started. It's crazy. So you're using your phone to get started. That's all the equipment you need. You're going on YouTube, YouTube's free. Amazon is free. So all of this is free. It just takes your time. And it takes time. How long does it take? I'm telling you, it probably takes three to five years to build a channel, okay? To the point where it's making you some money. But you know, so you make one to two videos a week for three to five years. You build a channel in a niche and you start driving traffic to Amazon. And that's part of the plan. Be a content creator. 2022 is gonna be the rise of passion economy. People are gonna be making money off their passions, okay? And wouldn't you like to be doing that? So what is your passion? Where do you get up in the morning and what's your burning desire? What would you rather do than go to work? What is that? Wouldn't you like to do that and make money doing it?  Or not that you didn't have to have a regular job that maybe you love your job. I like my job. But you don't have to go or you don't have to do extra. Cause you know, it's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool thing to do. And so this is the first item that I upgraded for was the microphone. This is a lavalier microphone clip to my lapel and it made my audio a lot better in my early, early videos. So that's what I would suggest you're gonna get your audio upgraded first. So then the next thing I did was, hey, hey, hey, Coach Mike, how you doing buddy? Coach Mike is in the chat. Hey, Coach Mike, Coach Mike is also an Amazon influencer, man. I watch you guys, good good shows. So the Blue Yeti is the next thing I'm talking about. Now, so you upgrade, you got the lavalier mic. So then the next thing you're gonna go, I got the Blue Yeti mic. Got it right here, the Blue Yeti. Blue Yeti's a good mic and I think it's on sale right now.  Blue Yeti's a good mic because you're gonna see a lot of podcasters, a lot of beginners use the Blue Yeti microphone because the Blue Yeti is a plug and play USB microphone. No software needed, nothing like that.  And it's got settings on it. It's got a mute button on it. It's got front and back. You can change it so you can do an interview with both sides. You can do it so just one side. You can do it so all around, it picks up all around. Very good microphone, but it comes in from the side, not the top, okay, microphone. Blue Yeti's a good microphone to get started with as far as upgrading goes. Now, Toner sent me a bunch of free microphones to review and we're gonna go through a couple of those, but the Blue Yeti is the most expensive one of the group. So this is the one you're gonna go against as far as what you're gonna base the next couple of mics on. So the mics I got, I got videos of the mics and videos of me using the mics, I should say, right? So the first one we're gonna go through is the, I think this is the 777, right? We're gonna play the 777 first and see how it goes. Listen to this. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones. We're reviewing a couple of budget microphones. Toner sent me a couple of budget microphones to review. They sent them to me for free, so full disclosure. This one is the TC777. We're using it right now. We're recording with it right now. Came with a desk stand, tripod stand, the microphone, a shock mount, and a pop filter, all pretty much assembled. Comes with a two-year warranty right there on the box, two-year warranty, and how does this sound? How's the audio sound? There's no adjustments on the microphone. There's no cough button or mute button. There's no volume control. There's no gain control. So you're pretty much stuck with what you got. And as far as the cord goes, it's not that very long and it doesn't unplug from the microphone base. So if the cord frays or bends or goes bad, the whole microphone is bad. You can't get a new cord, all right? But other than that, what do you think about that? I'm gonna pick it up. So this is us talking into it. Now this is me getting close to it, right, we'll do the pop filter, all right? Now there you can see on the side, pretty nice little microphone, right? Pretty nice little microphone, USB plug and play. You don't need any software to use it. Okay, so as you can see when I was talking right through the pop filter, when I was right up on it, it sounded really good and it wasn't so bad when it was far away. But you know, this is a microphone you can get for under $30. It's on sale right now, 40% off, okay? Condenser microphone, USB plug and play. You know, really, if you're trying to get started and you don't have a lot of money, but you wanna get one of these condenser microphones, you can get one of these microphones, okay? And that's from Taura, they sent that to me. That was the first tier, that was the lowest one. That was the least expensive of the group they sent me. They sent me three, right? So the next one, I forget what number this is. It's like 40 maybe, the T30, TC30 this is, all right? So the TC30, it also comes with the desk mount and the shock filter and shock mount and all that stuff. But this one is also on sale for 42% off and it's $25, it's only $25, okay? So that's pretty good sale because I consider this one to be a little bit up upgrade of the 777. So what do you think I'm gonna be using it in this video? Listen. Okay, today we're talking budget microphones, okay? We're talking about the Toner TC30 USB condenser microphone. The plug and play microphone doesn't take any softwares. It's got a two-year warranty coming with it right here, two-year warranty. It comes in a nice box, comes with a tripod, a shock mount, the pop filter and the microphone and of course the wire. It comes with a good length of wire and you're listening to it right now, okay? So that's the Toner microphone TC30. Budget microphone quality, there's no mute button on there, no cough button, no gain control, no gain knob, nothing like that. There's no button on-off switch on it. There's no volume control. It's just a straight microphone. I don't know, what do you think? I'm gonna pull it up and show you. You've been listening to it right now. So there it is, the Toner TC30, let's pull the cord out. Now there, that's how it sounds from the back of the microphone. This sounds from the side of the microphone and this is how it sounds from the front of the microphone. Now this is a top microphone. It picks up from the top, not the side, like the Blue Yeti will pick it up from the side. This one will pick it up from the top, all right? And like I said, it's got the shock mounts with the desk tripod, pretty good microphone. What is the Toner TC30? Okay, so the TC30, when you're talking right into it, now when I'm sitting back far, it doesn't pick it up so great. But when you're sitting up, when you're talking into it, it's, you know, it's what you pay for, right? So it's a $25 microphone, 40% off and it's a condenser mic plug-and-play USB. It's an upgrade to not having a microphone at all. Just using your phone, right? So what did you think about that one? What did you think about that one? The next one is the Q9. The Q9 is, this one comes in a set. It's just under $55, 30% off today, right? And it comes with the scissor arm that clips to the desk. It comes with the pop filter. It comes with the wind guard. And it also, I'll play it. This one is me using the Q9 toner microphone. Remember I got these last three items for free to review. Okay, today we're talking about budget microphones, okay? We're talking about you're gonna get started as a content creator. You wanna start a podcast or a YouTube channel or you're doing Zoom calls and you know, you need a microphone.  So you start looking at the cheaper microphones. The less expensive microphones you need to say and I'll be really worth it. I'm using this microphone right now. This one, Toner sent me this one for free to review. Toner's a good company and this is the Q9. Okay, the Q9 comes in a box, nice size big box. Comes with the whole cabang in here. Comes with the condenser microphone, a boom arm set, shock mount and a pop filter and the windscreen that slips over the top as well. And I'm using it right now. It's got a volume control button on it up and down and if you long press the volume control either the up or the down, it's a mute button, okay? So, but there's no LED indicator to let you know that you're muted or that you're unmuted or what level the volume is at. So I don't really know what level the volume is at right now, I can actually turn it up.  I don't know if that makes a difference in the volume. We'll go back and check that out. So, but you know, to get started, you're looking to upgrade your audio. You want to get a microphone and you don't want to go for the Blue Yeti or the Shure or something that's a couple of hundred dollars. You want to start out slow. This one has the boom arm. So you kind of freeze your hands, freeze up the desk space. You don't have to worry about banging noises and stuff like that when you tap in the desk and you tap in the keys on your keyboard. It's got the shock mount on it to the boom arm. So you don't have to worry about that. And let's get the pop filters. You don't have to worry about your P's and your T's and your S's and whatnot. And it has the windscreen on there as well. Comes with everything in a kit, in a box. Plug and play, the cord unplugged from both the microphone and the USB to the computer. Computer recognizes it right away. There's no software to download. There's nothing to do. You plug it, you play it, you use it and it's great. So where do you think of the audio? We've been using it for the whole video. For the Q9, the Toner Q9. Now again, I told you Toner sent me a couple of microphones for free to review. Okay, so the Q9, all right?  So speaking of that, we're live on Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn I think, LinkedIn for sure. I wish I could go Instagram and TikTok. We're gonna work on that one. But the microphones, Toner sent me those microphones for free and what I'm using now is the Blue Yeti. So you're gonna try and gauge it from the Blue Yeti to the Toner. Now the Blue Yeti's $130 when it's not on sale. And then the Toner went from between 55 to 30 to 25 different steps, everything was on sale. So you're lucky, everything in the carousel seems to be on sale today. So but you wanna start that YouTube channel, right? You wanna start that YouTube channel and pick a niche. Okay, so what is it that you love to do? Like I said, so you find out what you love to do, find out what you're good at. Do you have training in something?  Did your grandfather teach you how to do a compass, compass readings and stuff like that? Believe it or not, it's a lost art. It could be anything. So let's say you're into the family and you could do a RV, a family RV traveling, camping, RV camping, and then all the stuff you buy and you show in the videos, this is what we're using this week. We bought the blow up boats and we're going on the river. And this week we're going fishing over here. This week we're doing this. This week we're going ziplining. And everything that you use in the video, you put links in the description of the video and people click through, people watch those videos, see the excitement, wanna do it too. And they click the link and they go through. And even if they click the link to go through just to see how much it costs, they're cookie to you. Now you've sent traffic to Amazon. Now that's the beauty of it.   And so that's it, you drive in traffic. They don't have to buy what you sent them for. So all you gotta do is send them there. So they're clicking the link in your description on your videos. Now here's the thing, you've cloned yourself, okay? You've cloned yourself. You've made the video, right? And now you're off on the beach or you're at the game with the kids and that video is being played over and over again on YouTube, 24 hours a day. You're sleeping, the video's playing. Someone's watching it in India. Someone's watching it in California. Someone's watching it in New York City. Someone's watching it in Europe, right? And they're clicking your links and going through. Well, 24 hours a day. But you could be doing something else. Now you do two videos a week, three to five years, 500 something videos. Now we're talking.  All you gotta do is send the traffic to Amazon.  But if you stick to it, if you stick to it because that's the problem, most people 90 days quit, done. No good, didn't get my results, I'm done. I'm out of here. 90 days is about as much of a detention span as anybody has. I'm talking three to five years. Knuckle down three to five years. If you're not making any money at three to five years, or you don't see any potential, give it up. But okay, family game night was another idea I had the last time. So you have family game night, right? And whatever game you're using that night, you put the link in the description. And you have family game night with the family. Or you do budget meals, family budget meals. We're gonna do family budget meals. My YouTube channel is about budget meals. We're gonna do budgets, family meals under 50 bucks that you can make with the kids on Sunday for family togetherness, right? And that's your YouTube channel.  It's simple, okay? I'm telling you the passion economy, the clone of the passion economy, all right? So when I first started, I was doing videos in my basement like I told you, but first I started with the cell phone as a camera and natural light and you're always upgrading and stuff. So I'm in the basement and the only time I had to do videos was like 10 to 11 o'clock at night. I didn't have the greatest lighting in the world. So I went out and I bought this green screen set, green screen set. Now this green screen is amazing. Comes with the lights, comes with the green screen in the back and the back is green, right? It's a curtain. And you key it out in editing, right? And you can put any picture back there you want. You could be on the moon, you could be on the beach, you could be in a Manhattan corner office, you could be on a boat in the middle of nowhere, wherever you wanna be, right? So this is me in my basement like a 10, 11 o'clock at night making a video. And this is me using the green screen. It looks like I'm at the lake house, okay? Just check, I'm just gonna do a quick bit about it just so you can get an idea of what it looks like.   I was always hustling all my life to make ends meet. I painted apartments. I did odd jobs. I did whatever. So I'm not at the lake house, I'm in my basement, okay? Which isn't far from the lake, but I'm not at the lake house, right? But you could put any picture back there, okay? So when I didn't have a space upstairs and I didn't have a space that I could do videos, I was doing it in the basement in the corner and not a pretty area. So content creator, you can use your imagination. You could be anywhere you wanna be. If you're doing something in business or stocks or something, you could be in a corner Manhattan office, right, back there. You could be on the racetrack if you're doing that. You could be on the ball field if you're doing sports. You could be in a bar if you're doing darts. You put a bar scene behind you or whatever. You put a concert crowd behind you, whatever it is, you could put whatever you want back there. It's crazy, it's amazing, right? And it's the magic of television, right? Through the magic of television and you can do whatever you want. So the number two thing you need to upgrade is your lighting. So you get in the lighting with that set, okay? But then I moved on to another set that I'm using right now and it's Clip to the Desk. These are the newer video conference LED lights that come with different color lenses you could put on them. They come with remote controls so you can turn them on and off remote controls. I think I'm gonna take a look over here. Where do I have it? Do I have it over here? Yeah, okay, all right. So if I share my YouTube page, just give me a second. All right, and if I come down here, so case in point, the YouTube channel, okay? So all of these videos, and this is just a YouTube channel, this isn't my main one. All these videos are ads and they have links in them and when people click the links, I'm gonna make affiliate commissions, okay? So you're just driving traffic, mute that and we're gonna get rid of this commercial. And of course you make money on the commercials if someone watches like, I forget how many seconds it is, all right? But I'm gonna go through this pretty quick. We're gonna zoom through. All right, so you get in the remote controls, they come out, it comes out, and you got the color coordinated so you know which one is for which one. You know, the lights, their LED lights, they're pretty cool. Nice and bright, I'm using them right now, I'll show you in a second. And it comes with all the stuff and the scissor arms comes with that and that clamps onto the desk, all right? This thing is pretty cool and it takes up a lot less space. So I used to have the soft boxes, so this is it clipped onto the desk right now. So I used to have the soft boxes that took up a lot of room and now I got these so much better, much better. And you wanna upgrade, you always wanna upgrade with the lighting. So you wanna have, I have these two and I have the backlight to try and separate stuff, you know, you could have a five point lighting but you want at least three, okay? And it's on sale right now, it's 15% off, so it's $51 for two lights. You're getting two lights, okay? Two lights, remote control, and they're a USB, you know, you gotta plug them in with the USB, you can plug them into the computer but I don't recommend it because I think they get hot. Death Wish Coffee, my friends, Death Wish Coffee, the best coffee, the best strongest coffee, it's in the carousel, it's number one item in the carousel, go back and check it out. Death Wish Coffee, sorry, my favorite. So then, you know, I started looking around for cameras to upgrade because I needed what's called B-Roll for my channel. So B-Roll is the footage that's played like when they talk but you don't see them, like a scene of the park, a scene of the beach, a scene of the plane, a scene of a car go by, all that stuff is called B-Roll and I needed a camera to pick that stuff up. So I got this and I was looking for the GoPro type cameras and the GoPro's were like hundreds of dollars, 500 plus and this one was the Acasio EK7000 Pro. Just like the GoPro comes with the same waterproof case, came with the mount for the bike, mount for the helmet, all that kind of stuff, very impressed with this little camera, I'm gonna share my screen and I'm gonna show you a little bit of something here. So let me see if I do this. All right, there we go. All right, so this is a video that I play, this is a video from the camera of a drone and another video that I was making about a drone. So not a bad picture. Okay, now this is the end of the winter, a couple of weeks ago and it was still really gray. I live in Northern New York, it's really gray here so it's not really bright and sunny so as far as, take that into consideration with the camera. I should have the drone in my carousel because I'm using the drone. So that was that. Now I can take, this is a picture. Okay, there's a stream back here, that's a picture across the road. It's another picture of the stream. Let's go through this picture of the lake. Hey, my wife, there's a picture of the lake and mountains.  And for the GoPro type camera, the GoPro goes for like 600 bucks and these are 4K pictures, takes 4K pictures.  I'm wearing it on my head.  All right, there we go. You can't even see where it is because it's so dark. But that's the, there it's up there. But that's because it's a really great day. The camera's actually pretty good, all right? And that's the Acacio EK7000 Pro, in case the pro. You can get different ones. Let me see now if I go, I got stuck in the tree. The drone got stuck in the tree. But it still worked after that, so it was pretty good drone. You know, that's, if you go to my Amazon page, my Amazon store, the drone's in there, you can go check it out. But that camera is not a bad camera. This is it right here, all right? This big, and it comes, you've got the case, the waterproof case. So if you can, I'm gonna be going rafting and tubing and boating over to somewhere.  Can't wait to do that. Yeah, I can't wait to be doing that. That's gonna be a lot of fun. Between that and the drone footage I'm gonna have over the summer for my channel. It's gonna be a lot of fun. The YouTube channel, you didn't know where we go over side hustles, right? Now I'm telling you to start a YouTube channel. Telling you to start an Instagram channel, TikTok. Be a content creator, whatever it is, whatever it is, content creator, whatever your passion is. Find out what your passion is. Could be, what is your passion? What is it? You know, maybe you're into RC cars. Maybe you're into a certain kind of collectible thing, you know? So the next thing I got on here is, ah, I don't think I have this one on me. The extendable tripod, the 60 inch extendable tripod, it's a 10% off 2339. You're always gonna need a tripod for your phone mount, so you're always gonna need a mount for a stand and this one is 60 inches tall, so it gives you good height and it's got a good phone clamp on it to hold your phone, and it comes with the remote control, so it can turn your, it's Bluetooth remote control, so it's gonna turn your phone on and off, your camera on and off, you know, to get either video or pictures from far away with the remote control. Pretty cool. I don't know, I'm not sure if it's brushless. I think you're talking about the drone, but the drone I don't think was brushless. Actually, it is brushless, it is brushless. So that's the extendable tripod, which is pretty cool. So you get yourself a YouTube channel, you find yourself a niche or whatever it is that you're good at, what you love to do, your passion, what your passion is. You make the YouTube channel about your passion and whatever you're doing in the YouTube channel, whatever you use, you put it in the description and you send people to Amazon. That's it, that's it. Three to five years, build a channel, build a niche, build a following. In the meantime, you're gonna be making money with your ads on your YouTube channel.  So you're gonna send them stuff every month to buy, you're gonna make money on your email list. You're gonna make money affiliate links for sending stuff to Amazon, right? And there's other ways to make money too, there's all these different income screens once you get started, right? Pretty cool and you get, once it starts covering your expenses, it's like a life changing thing. When your side hustle money starts covering your expenses, starts paying some bills, it's life changing stuff. It really is, it's amazing, it's amazing stuff. So I got a webcam, I had to upgrade my webcam back in the pandemic, I needed a webcam for Zoom meetings, right? And I didn't have one on my main computer, I had one on the laptop, but I was out to my desktop, I didn't have one, so I had to get one and they were sold out everywhere. This one, check this out, it's under 20 bucks, I'm using it right now, this is what I'm using right now. $20 for a camera, guys, $20, no excuse, there's no excuse to get started when you're talking about this. Like I said, you can start it with your phone, right? But this is a $20 camera, all right? And yeah, what do you think? Did you know? Did you know I was using a $20 camera? You didn't know, don't even go there because you didn't know, you get started. There's a lot of stuff to learn, okay? Sign in, go to my YouTube channel, go to youdidn'tknow.live, I got it up here, you didn't know that live is my website, you can get to my mailing list, you can get on my YouTube channel, you can get on my Amazon channel, you can get my Amazon store, you can get it, the main hub is right there, go to youdidn'tknow.live, right? And you can find out, but if you really wanna know, if you really wanna know. The next item is a book that I wrote. Now, Amazon, you can write books and get published by Amazon for free, you could be a published author on Amazon. Did you ever think that you had a book in you?  Maybe something, baseball story, maybe some kind of camping story, maybe some kind of love story, maybe some kind of coming of age story, maybe some kind of lessons, maybe children's books, maybe you wanna write books. Amazon, you can self publish on Amazon, and I'm gonna go to my page here and share it for you so you can see. Do I have what it takes to be an influencer? This is a book that I wrote and I had it published on Amazon, you can get it for $2.99, but don't buy the book on Amazon. I'm telling you, I'm gonna give it to you for free if you want, I'm gonna give you this book for free. If you go to youdidn'tknow.live, okay? If you go to youdidn'tknow.live, I'm gonna give you the book for free. Just put your email address in and the book is there for you, all right? Now, so you make the book, you publish it on Amazon and people are gonna buy it, you're gonna make money on the book, but see over here where it says look inside, people click to look inside to see what the book's about and they click through the first three or four pages, right, and then there's an affiliate link. So I'm sending somebody to an affiliate link, they click this link. Now if it's an Amazon link, and they're cooking and I'm gonna get paid a commission for anything they buy on Amazon, right? So that's two ways you make money with your books on Amazon. You put your affiliate links in there on your eBooks and you're selling the book or you can give the books away like I'm doing right now. If you go to youdidn'tknow.live, you can put your email address in and you'll get the book right away. And the book's pretty cool. It's my take on what do you need to be an influencer? How do you get started? And there's even a course you could take if you're interested. Hey, Ray and Abby started following. Let's give them a horn, air horn time. All right. Thank you very much for following. And when people follow, we do this. We're gonna get rid of this share and we're gonna get rid of that and we're gonna do a little dance. There we go, all right. Love it when people follow. Really love it when people follow. I don't know, do you guys get a notice, notification that I go live? I go live every Tuesday. Every Tuesday 8 o'clock I go live, like clockwork. I try to go live maybe one of the times during the week but not always. But Tuesday's 8 o'clock, we're gonna talk about ways to make money online. We're gonna talk about side hustles. We're gonna talk about stuff like that as well as going through the carousel in the bottom. So go to youdidn'tknow.live. Go to youdidn'tknow.live, put your email address in and get the book. In the book, there's a worksheet in the book to find out what your passion is. It's gonna ask you, what are you good at? What do you love to do? And what problem are you solving? Because as an influencer, I didn't tell you this up to now, but the secret is, you're a problem solver. You're there to solve problems. If you can solve people's problems, you'll become an influencer. This is how it works. You have a niche, whatever it is, right? Now, when people start a hobby, they come to a point where there's a snag in the road, right, there's a problem that causes a lot of people to quit. It gets hard, right? It's easy at the beginning, then it gets hard and people quit. This ain't for me. But if you can figure out what that problem is, that problem that everybody's having when they start, you figure out what that problem is and you solve that problem with your YouTube videos. You become an influencer. You've solved the problem. The new people that come in are now looking at you as the influencer. You are the authority in the niche. You solve the beginner's problems. That's how you become an influencer. It's that simple. So you're not going for the people who know what they're doing, right? You're looking for the newcomers. Can you teach the newcomers how to get started? Can you teach the newcomers how to go from being a beginner to being a novice? Can you do that? Can you do that? Your YouTube channel could be all about going from beginner to novice. Never go past that, right? And you build yourself a niche. You build yourself a following, I mean. You build yourself a following. And of course, whatever you're using in your videos, you're putting in the links in the bottom, okay? So you're solving the problem, okay? Here it is. I told you I was going to tell you the secret. Audience, problem, solution. You find yourself an audience. You build an audience. You find out what the problem is and you're offering them a solution. Now sometimes the solution can be an affiliate link. Could be a product, okay? Where you can make money off the solution as well, all right? So there's so many angles once you get in. So many different angles to get in to ways to make money when you're going through and starting these income streams, okay? It really is, it's addicting, okay? Things are always changing. So you have to keep learning. If you like to learn, you know, I like to learn. I like to be always learning, you know, this kind of stuff being content creator, you have to learn how to do, how to make content. Whether it's videos or photos or graphics or whatever you're doing, you have to learn how to do that stuff, right? And then you have to learn what's called SEO, search engine optimization, how to get found in the search engines, right? The next item I got in here is the TextLar 48-inch selfie stick. Now I use this thing just about every video. It was sent to me for free to try. I have it over here. It's a tripod, it's 48 inches and it's pressured. There's no screw down thing to tighten. It's perfect, wherever you put it, it stays, right? Tripod. When you close the tripod, it's ergonomic in the hand. And now you've got your vlogging thing here with your camera and you're walking around doing your vlog, right? Now here's another thing that I really love about this item. I really love this item. The phone mount here, it's not one of those snap phone mounts.  It screws down and holds your phone. So I always worry about the snap thing breaking into my phone going flying, you know, but this thing is really good. I really love this thing. It's awesome. And then on top of everything else, you know, all of these things come with remote controls. They all come with remote controls, but I lose them or I don't know which goes with what. The remote control is in the cradle right here. It comes out and it fits in the cradle, Bluetooth, you turn it, you Bluetooth it to your phone, to your camera. And it sits in there when you're not using it. Chris, don't start a phone. Thanks, Chris. Hey man, nice to see you, buddy. All right, all right. We got a celebrity in the house. Thank you. And we're going to even going to do that. All right, now thanks for following. Appreciate it. I love it. Thank you very much. Chris is from Dealcasters, okay? Great show. I try and catch it every time I see it, you know, it's on, Chris, when's your show on? Cause it's on different times, right? It's not on the same time every week. I don't think it's on different times, but I try and catch it. I get alerts and I really, I really love that show and all the guests that have really good guests on that show, especially if you are interested in this thing we call content creation in this passion economy. You know, it's, I think everybody should do it. Everybody should do it. Everybody has a passion. Everybody has something.   They don't have to go to work every day because they don't want to. This, I'm not right away, of course. You gotta build it up, takes three to five years. I'm giving, give me three to five years doing this, right? So everybody has a passion. And people are always looking to be a millionaire overnight and passive income. What's passive income? Now I told you I can clone myself for the video. So passive income, I clone myself. That video now goes out there on the internet and has the potential to earn me money over and over again in the future forever, right? And I could be doing anything else and that one video could be making me money. Now, five years later, 500 videos later, I have 500 of me out there, okay? With affiliate links in them. Now we're talking, now we're talking. So like I said, most people are gonna quit 90 days. This don't work. This don't work, 90 days, I'm out of here. Give it three to five years, build it. If it's your passion, you won't have a problem doing it for five years, right? But this thing here, the cradle, the remote control and the cradle, it's amazing. I love this thing, I use it just about every video. I use it tripod and the Bluetooth and you don't lose the remote control. That's the best part about it. You don't lose the remote controls in the cradle. That's a big problem. Now remember I said audience problem solution? You find yourself in the audience, you find out what their problem is and you offer them a solution. So your audience is people who do vlogs would need something like this or use their cameras a lot. And what's the problem? They lose the remote controls or they have so many remote controls they don't know which goes to what. Here's the solution, right? So you found the product that solves the problem in the niche. It's that simple. It's that simple, okay? If it was that simple, everybody would, if it was that simple, everybody would do it, Jim. I think everybody should do it because it is that simple. It is that simple, all right? Start a YouTube channel. What is your passion? What is your passion? Following your passion, passion economy, okay? The passion economy. Well, we've gone through the whole carousel. So we're gonna go back to the beginning because my favorite beverage, deathwish coffee, deathwish coffee, the world's strongest coffee, not bitter. I tell you, I'm the Java Junkie. I'm the Java Junkie. I go from place to place.  But I drink it because I'm searching for the good cup of coffee. I'm always searching. I'm the Java Junkie. I went to Maxwell House. There are 90 days in Maxwell House. Couldn't dry out. When I got back out, fell off the wagon. I gotta find the best cup of coffee. Deathwish coffee is that coffee. Deathwish coffee is strong. I drink like 15 cups of coffee a day, easily, without a doubt. I can't drink 15 deathwishes because the caffeine would send me through the roof, right? But I do drink a lot of deathwish. And I'm drinking it right now and I drink it in the morning. And I'm, please, I love coffee. How can I, I can't say it any better than that. I love coffee. What is your favorite drink? What is your favorite drink? What do you get up in the morning and drink? Do you drink coffee? Do you drink tea? Do you drink monster drinks? Do you drink Red Bull?  I can't stand the monster drinks. I'm a coffee person. But do you like iced coffee? I don't like iced coffee either. I don't like, I'll let my coffee go room temperature. Lukewarm room temperature, I like that. That's fine. That's as cold as I go. I don't like cold coffee. I don't know what it is. It almost to me tastes like a liquor drink to me a little bit. I don't know why, maybe a little loopy. But, but that was coffee is the greatest coffee in the world. Greatest coffee in the world. And it's a, you can get this set up on Amazon that it comes to your door because you go to the store and it's not on the shelf. It's not on the shelf, right? That was coffee, get it on Amazon. Now here's the other thing, Amazon. What's the story with Amazon?  I'm from Northern New York. They're from Northern New York. They're from the Boston spot, Boston Lake area. I'm a little further north than that. But they were a local company that got it. They want to contest for a Super Bowl commercial. They want to contest to be in the Super Bowl. And from then on, the company took off, right? They went crazy. Boom, what did you expect when a Super Bowl commercial happens, right? What did you expect, right? So Super Bowl commercial happens, that which happens, they go crazy. Now they have all kinds of collectibles. They have mugs, they have shirts, they have hats, they have all kinds of merchandise. They have websites, they have Facebook groups. They have all kinds of people. You know, it's a phenomenon. It's a phenomenon. It's a phenom, phenomenon, phenomenon. Detwitch coffee, it's a lifestyle, okay? You can get all the stuff, all the mugs and stuff like that, but go to Amazon to buy the K-Cups. I use the K-Cups because it's the perfect portion. It's portion to the cup size. You don't have to worry about how big a scoop you get the heaping scoop or level scoop or maybe just below the line. Where's that line on the scoop, right? So what is the right size? But the K-Cups is the perfect size. K-Cups is the perfect size. And we love Detwitch. We love Detwitch in the house. I got it all over the place. We're gonna go over the deal of the day one more time. The deal of the day was the catchy indoor insect trap. Okay, this is the deal of the day. I'm gonna, maybe I have it over here. Do I have one, it takes to be, where is it? I got it. All right, we're gonna share it. We're gonna share the page, skip the ad. All right, there's the catchy. No, so what this thing is, okay? It's the catchy automatic insect catcher. Okay, so you plug it in and it's got a blue light on it that attracts the flying insects.  So the glue, the glue board goes in the bottom, right? You close it up and you set it on the table. You set it wherever your high concentration of flying insects, gnats, mosquitoes, wasps, whatever. And I gotta plug it in, Jim.  There you go. The magic of television, right? So you plug it in and then there's power. It's amazing how that works. Okay, so then now we're gonna turn it on.  It's almost half off. It's 44% off, it's under $30. You know, this is really great. You put it up out on the picnic table on the back porch out of the patio, out in the sun room, and screen porch, wherever you got problem with mosquitoes gnats, wasps, and that's gonna attract them and get them away from you. Perfect item, perfect item. The catchy automatic bug catcher, right? Insect catcher, okay? I love it. It's a pretty cool item. So what are you, we're getting to that point now. We're getting to that time of the year where the insects are gonna be out. Some of you guys are down south where they're already out. I'm up in the North country. It's still, you know, we're getting 50, 55 degree days, 60 degree days if we're lucky. Saw some black wasps today. I actually saw a yellow jacket building in there today. Pretty wild, it's a little early for that. But spring has sprung. How is it by you? You know, what do you consider the first signs of spring? Cause the flowers come. Is it the rain in April? Cause we had a really rainy April, you know? What are you waiting for all winter long that happens in spring? Baseball, maybe baseball to me, baseball. Spring has sprung and I can't wait for the nice weather to really kick in because then you can spend some time out in the backyard. And of course, then you got the flying insects and that's what we need to catch you in. And this is an indoor thing, right? But you can put it in the screen porch or out on the picnic table on the patio. I would imagine, you know, as anywhere you can plug it in, you know, the blue and they say to put it in a dark corner cause of course the blue, the blue light's gonna attract them. So you put in a dark space. So it's gonna attract them, the blue light. And then there you go, you know? So let's recap. You find yourself in the audience. You build an audience in a niche. What's a niche? A niche is in any activity, any, any sport, any hobby, any, any business, any, any profession, anything that has a following, anything that has an audience, anything that could be marketed to is a niche, okay? And you can even go macro, micro niche. You can narrow it down. So, okay, I mentioned baseball. So sports is a niche, sports is a niche or the athletics is a niche, sports is a niche.  And then you can go down to pitching is a sub niche of baseball, right? And then you can go further. So you can go youth knuckleball pitcher, you know? So you can really narrow it down. So now you do videos on knuckleball pitchers, on how to teach a youth kid to throw a knuckleball, right? So that's your niche. You've narrowed it down from sports because sports is too much competition, right? There's too much competition up there. So you narrow it down as narrow as you can go. Then you build an audience in that narrow niche. And then from there, that narrow niche will grow over time. But you got to narrow it down to that narrow niche, okay? So, and how do you do that? Audience problem solution. You find out what problem the beginners are having and you open them a solution. Now, I don't know what the solution would be for the knuckleball, but there's probably some kind of affiliate item, whether it's an aid or a video or some kind of tool, you know, practice thing or something that would teach people how to do that that you could send traffic to, right? And then that's what you do. What is your niche? What is your passion? Follow your passion, okay? 2022, they say is gonna be the passion economy, right? Gonna be the rise of the passion economy. And like I said before, it's making a salary, a regular salary, a decent salary, not millionaire. Stop thinking I'm gonna get rich overnight, be a millionaire. We're not talking about that. We're talking about getting your time back. We're talking about having time freedom, doing what you love and making an income that you can survive on, whether it's 60 grand, 80 grand, 100 grand a year, 150 grand a year, you know, the sky's the limit, but I'm not talking about being rich, but there's a possibility. But people are making legitimate money doing this, okay? Not, again, 90 days. Most people are gonna quit in 90 days. This doesn't work. I didn't make any money in 90 days. I quit, right? Telling you to give me three to five years. Call me a liar in five years. If you're not making a little bit of money, the YouTube channel, after 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours, you're gonna start earning money with your ads, right? The ads earn money. That's not a lot of money, but it's an income stream coming in, okay? Then you have your affiliate money coming in from your YouTube channel, right? NerdChuckles start a following. Thank you, NerdChuckles. Thank you very much. Love it when people follow. We're gonna do the follow scene, all right? But it threw me off.  Oh, it's Chuckles, not Knuckles. I'm sorry, NerdChuckles. I'm sorry. So, Chuckles. GoToYouDidN'tKnow.Live, okay? GoToYouDidN'tKnow.Live. SideHustleShuffle is my YouTube channel. You can go there. There's all videos on how to do it. There's a course if you are interested in taking a course. There's the YouTube, the book, the Amazon book that if you put your email address in, you'll get the book for free. The book will give you an idea of what you need to do to be an influencer. What does it take? What does it take? What do you need to do? How many times do you need to post? What do you need to post? What do you need to know? Do I need to do everything? Do I need to have every channel? Do I have to have a YouTube channel, Instagram, and TikTok? Do I have to do this and have to do that? The book will tell you what you need to do. And is it for you? Can you devote that time? Can you devote an hour a day to two hours a day? You know, to work on yourself. You know, you go to work every day to work on someone else's dream. Let that sink in. You go to work every day to work on someone else's dream. Now there's nothing wrong with that, okay? I love my job, right? But you had a dream. Here's the thing. Remember when they told you when you were a kid, you could be anything you wanted to be when you grew up?   Get real. You know, pick something, pick, do good in school, get into a good college, get a good job, right? What happened to do what I wanna do? I could be anything I wanna be. What happened to that? It disappeared, okay? It disappeared, okay? Because salary is the drug they give you to give up your dreams, right? They give you that salary and that's a safety net.  You forget your dreams, okay? So you take one to two hours a day to work on your dreams. You take that 40 hours, 50 hours, 60 hours a week you give to your job, right?  Give it three to five years, okay? Please, please do it. Please do it, all right? Because I see people struggling all the time and it drives me crazy, okay? I struggled my whole life. I was always trying to make side money. I was always hustling, I was always doing second jobs. I was always doing side hustles. I was always doing re-grounding, painting, fixing holes. I did it all. Everything I could do with lawns, delivering pieces. I did everything, okay? I don't want you to have to do that, okay? I don't want you to have to do that. I want mothers to stay home and raise their children. I want fathers to be able to go to the sporting event or be a coach if they want to. I don't want you to have to choose. Geez, I'm gonna stay and work overtime but I'm gonna miss the game but we could really use the extra money. So you're missing out, right? And I've done it. I've done it every day of my life. I've had to do it. I don't wish that on anybody else. Go to the game, go to the game, right? Go to the game.  When are you gonna be successful? When your side income covers your expenses, okay?  So Gary Vee is on this new thing now where what is the success? Being happy, being content where you are. It's not being a millionaire or a trillionaire or a multimillionaire, right? Can you be happy with where you are? Can you live with where you are and be happy? That's a success. Whether that's making 60 grand a year, 100 grand a year or a million a year, right? Are you happy? Because the millionaire isn't always happy. Believe me, I know a few and they're not always happy. They're having, they have millionaire problems. They have millionaire problems and some of them, they're hanging on by a thread to their lifestyle. Even though that you think because they're a doctor or a lawyer or somebody who makes a great salary, a stockbroker, you don't know what their life is like, right? Be happy, that should be your goal, be happy. John Lennon said it the best. What do you wanna be when you grow up? I wanna be happy. They said I didn't understand the question. I said you didn't understand life. That's John Lennon quote, very famous John Lennon quote. What do you wanna be when you grow up? I wanna be happy. That's what it's all about, be happy, right? Enjoy your family, be happy. All right, so we go live Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Tuesdays, 8 p.m. we go live and we talk about side hustles and we go through the carousel and we have a great time. We talk in the chats and we use ReStream to go live on all these other platforms and bring them over to Amazon. If you have any questions, ask, okay?  Next Tuesday, okay? I will see you next Tuesday. Be here Tuesday, 8 o'clock. Ciao.


Introducing Moron of the Week. Is it me? Or does everyone and their dog now have a diagnosis of autism? Yes. What a wonderful experience to have unaware and unsupported individuals finally get the diagnosis they deserve. What a tragedy. Like what? I know what autism looks like. Raising a son for the last 20 years. Level 3. No, no, no we don't. You know one autistic person. I know these videos of people, especially if they're like young adults talking about they've got autism, right? We just used to get slapped for that behaviour and we were good. Great idea. Let's enforce physical punishment for something that you're born with. Now I've got autism and ADHD. Bitch, no you don't. You don't. I don't know what autism looks like. Clearly you do not.


I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view in my judgment will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism. I well know that for those in free Berlin, the persistent communist pressure has been a source of peril and anguish. Yet what has happened in Berlin is that the Soviet Union has reacted to the initiatives of democracy, to you and to your spirit, and to that series of actions beginning with the Marshall Plan, which have brought about the extraordinary political, economic, and cultural renaissance of Western Europe. The post-war revival of democratic Europe has exerted a magnetic attraction on communist Europe. On the dark side of the iron curtain, despite rigid communist controls, democratic ideas, democratic techniques, democratic fashions, and democratic ideals are stirring. Among its own intellectuals and its own youth, communism finds itself on the defensive. The flow of influence is now always from west to east, not from east to west, from democracy to communism, not from communism to democracy. Because the flow of influence goes one way, the flow of people goes the other.  For the people of Berlin, the erection of that wall was of course an affront and a source of anguish. But I can report to you from around the world, from my travels through Asia, that the Berlin Wall is regarded everywhere as a proof of communist bankruptcy and a symbol of communist failure. Herr Ulbricht himself has confessed that it was to stop the flight of people, to lock up his workers in the workers' paradise that the wall was built. For the first time in the history of mankind, a political system has had to construct a barrier to keep its people in and the whole world recognizes the desperate meaning of this act. They walled their people in, we set our people free, forced to read from his poetry at the inauguration of our president, once wrote these lines. Before I built a wall, I'd asked to know what I was walling in or walling out and to whom I was like to give a fence, something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down. What wants this wall down is the whole free spirit of man. The statistics on the flight of scholars offers us an idea of what communism has done to this free spirit. Since 1958, a total of 1,606 scholars mainly teaches in the humanities and sciences at long established universities and technical institutes in East Germany have left the Eastern zone and registered in West German reception camps. More than half are members of faculties. 118 of them are full fledged professors, a number equal to the professional component of East Germany's third largest university at HALA. In the last four years, HALA has lost a total of 147 faculty members, more than the current size of its teaching staff. Humboldt University has lost 275 members of its staff in Leipzig 199 and so on down the list. As a chief law officer of the American government, I am particularly interested to know too the flight of many judges and lawyers from East Germany. The wall is more than a demonstration of communist failure in the struggle for men's faith and hope. It is equally a desperate effort to stem the tide of unification in democratic Europe. By attempting to isolate West Berlin, the communists hope to subtract West Berlin from West Germany and then to separate West Germany from Western Europe. And by subtracting West Germany from Western Europe, they hope to defeat and wreck the great cooperative instrumentalities of the regathering of democratic strength, the common market, the OECD and NATO. I can assure you that the wall will fail as spectacularly in this purpose as it has failed to seal off communist Europe from the magnetic attraction of democratic Europe. Ernst Reuter said a dozen years ago, here in Berlin, all the slogans that rend the air during the east-west struggle take on a real meaning. Here no one needs any professional lectures about democracy, about freedom and all the nice things that there are in the world. Here one has lived all of that. One lives it every day and every hour. You live it still in free Berlin and the ever-increasing strength and purpose and unity of the democracies will vindicate your struggle. And while today Berlin is divided, as Germany is divided, by the decision of the communists, you know and I know that in the end, all Berlin and all Germany are one. My country shares with you the peaceful but persistent purpose that Germans shall one day find themselves reunited. This is the true path toward lower tensions and lessened dangers. We shall continue to hope that as policies of repression fail and as fears of revenge prove unfounded, the Soviet government in its own true interest will come to share this purpose and to cooperate in its realization. But freedom by itself is not enough. Freedom is a good horse, said Matthew Arnold, but a horse to ride somewhere. Ernst Reuter knew that what mattered finally was the use to which man put freedom. That what counts is how liberty becomes the means of opportunity, growth and justice. We do not stand here at Berlin just because we are against communism. We stand here because we have a positive and progressive vision of the possibilities of a free society. Because we see in freedom the instrumentality of social progress and social justice. Because communism itself is but the symptom and the consequences of the fundamental evil, ignorance, disease, hunger and want, and freedom has shown mankind the most effective way to destroy these ancient antagonists. The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. It assumes that peoples and nations will often think differently, have the full right to do so, and that diversity is the source of progress. It believes that men advance by discussion, by debate, by trial and by error. It believes that the best ideas come not from edict and ideology, but from free inquiry and from free experiment. And it regards dissent not as treason to the state, but as a tested mechanism of social progress. It knows that diverse nations will find diverse roles to the general goal of political independence and economic growth. It regards the free individual as a source of creativity and believes that it is the role of the state to serve him and not his role to serve the state. I come to Berlin from thousands of miles of travel through Asia. I have seen men and women at work building modern societies so that their people can begin to share in the blessings of science and technology and become full members of the 20th century. Social progress and social justice, in my judgment, are not something apart from freedom. They are the fulfillment of freedom. The obligations of free men is to use their opportunities to improve the welfare of their fellow human beings. This at least has been the tradition of democratic freedom in America. And this is what lies behind the great democratic effort underway in the United States now, known as the New Frontier.