#youtube money rich but also kind and generous. very hot of him

[strandedcrow]

crow did you hear that "alright i'm gifting 1000 subs, take your damn shield off"? HE'S SO HOT HOLY FUCK

DREAM CALLING OUT SAPNAP’S DUMB SUB GOAL AND MAKING HIM FOLLOW THROUGH. HOT. VERY HOT.

#eat the rich and shit but like. hes hot and also donates a FUCK ton of money so he’s ok #youtube money rich but also kind and generous. very hot of him #ask #eth

[2centsnobodyasked4]

Teresa VS Rubi

I haven't watched a telenovela since like 2007. I feel like Rebelde was the last one I saw. However, I hold on to a couple of novelas that I thought were outstanding, such as Rubi. With the years, I've come across a lot of talk about 'Teresa' and I wondered why it had the same premise as Rubi. I was slightly intrigued. I learned that the story of Teresa came first back in the day, then Rubi. On social media such as tiktok and youtube, people are always comparing both. I kept saying that obviously Rubi was better because it was the one i watched. So in order to not be THAT biased, i decided to give Teresa a shot. So i just binged the entire novela in a couple of weeks. So here are my 2 cents.

Intro:

Song: La descarada- Reyli

Song: Esa hembra es mala- Gloria Trevi

With the songs alone, I will still have to give it to Rubi's intro song. I feel like it was more seductive and more true to what the novela was going to be about. On the other hand, Teresa's theme song felt like it would be more appropriate for Rubi. Because it was sang from the point of view of the 'betrayed friend'. Although you can argue that the betrayed friend was Luisa and that it would be from her point of view, but that only happened towards the very last episodes, so it wouldn't really make sense for it to summarize the entire novela as Reyli's song did.

Furthermore, I enjoy Rubi's intro more, especially the beginning were is says 'Una obra de ..." it makes it seem fancy and like I'm in for a special treat.

The actress

Barbara Mori vs Angelique Boyer

I know I'm going to sound like a jerk by comparing their physical appearance, but I'm going to do it anyway.

Face

They are obviously both beautiful women, but in MY opinion, Barbara Mori's face is more seductive without even trying. She reminds me so much of Megan Fox. On the other hand, Angelique's face is so youthful that she has to work extra hard and make over the top gestures to act out the seductress role.

Body

Although they both have fantastic bodies, they are very different from each other. Once again, Barbara's body gives off a more sensual and natural look. Even the way she moves is a perfect embodiment of Rubi. Angelique once more has a more youthful small body, and the main thing that makes her 'hot' is her boobs, which look really fake and it doesn't play into the story since she's suppose to be poor. Rubi didn't have much of a chest, but she still managed to appear more naturally seductive. Teresa was just constantly exposing her chest to appear seductive.

Acting

Barbara Mori's acting was excellent. She made me feel like thats how she was in real life. Everything came natural to her. Angelique's acting was all over the place. She really had to OVERACT to put her point across. Everything about the novela in general was overacted actually. Angelique had to do over the top facial expressions to show when she was scheming, when she was talking down to people or when she was in love. She came out looking like a cartoon character as opposed to Barbara that made her character seem like a real person.

Story

I've already made this post way longer than i expected and there's so much more that I want to talk about out so I'm just gonna have to shoot out random points:

Evil

I feel like they were both equally evil. They both were horrible to their families, to the men they loved and to their friends. I can't really make my decision on who was worse. I will hand it to Teresa though that she worked and studied hard to have a degree and was an excellent lawyer. However, I've seen arguments that mention that she was smarter that Rubi and relied on her brains instead of her body to get ahead. But thats not true. Sure she had a degree but she didn't get far because of it at all. She did the EXACT same thing that Rubi did, got ahead with her body provoking a rich guy. Sure she played the long game but at then end she did the same thing, not just with Arturo but with Fernando as well. She seduced him, nothing to do with her brain.

Ending

Rubi's ending was EXCELLENT. It has stayed with me for a long time because we finally have a main character that didn't win at the end. She got what she deserved. She lost the man she loved, she lost all her money which is what she fought the most, she lost her beauty, and she lost her beautiful body. EVERYTHING, and it was just excellent.

Teresa's ending left me baffled. She ended up with the man she loved after everything that she did. People may argue that she changed and felt remorse for what she did, but come on. She didn't even suffer for that long. She only regretted things because she was caught and exposed, otherwise she would've never changed. Also the fact that Arturo came to her after what she did to his sister is disgusting. Sure forgive her for what she did to him, but to his innocent sister? Seriously??? I get it, that they wanted for them to have a happy ending since the actors were dating in real life, but that just makes bad story telling.

Plot

It kind of gave me the impression that Teresa was going to follow a similar plot to Rubi's in the sense that Teresa was going to stay in love with Mariano all the way til the end, and that at some point when Teresa was not going to have any more money, that Mariano would now be super rich and prestigious but would want nothing to do with her like in Rubi. Although that would've been a Rubi copy, it would've been a better route to take. Because then other elements seem pointless. Something that I do admire more from Teresa was the fact that Mariano fell in love with Aurora, because in Rubi, it felt like Alejandro, although he married Maribel, it never seemed like he truly loved her. It was more like he cared for her. So i was so ready for an awesome ending to where Teresa was trying to stop the wedding and be suffering because the love of her life no longer loves her. That would've been so satisfying to watch and Mariano's wedding would also be triumphant because he overcame his temptation....however, that didn't happen. Teresa didn't even care, so it makes the wedding kind of pointless to the story. It really felt like 3 quarters of the novela they were building it up that triumph moment, but instead it felt like they changed the direction of story to fit in the real romance between Angelique and Sebastian. To be honest, Arturo's ending should've been the same as his counterpart role in Rubi.

In Summary. I have a lot more bones to pick with Teresa, but the ones that come to mind, are probably mostly the acting, not just of Angelique but of the cast. I think many of them were new actors or something, but their acting was horrible. I can really tell who was new and who was a veteran. Having said all of this, I DID enjoy watching Teresa. I know it may seem like I'm just hating on it and like I didn't enjoy it, but I really did. The first few episodes were really boring but after a while it was hard for me to stop. In one day I would go through 10 episdoes.....bruh, those are like 10 hours a day dedicated to Teresa. It was intriguing and interesting, especially many of the elements that were different from Rubi, such as her becoming a lawyer and her ways that she helped unmask Ruben.

In conclusion though, I do see Rubi as superior. A superior actress, a superior story and superior ending. Maybe a bit is from nostalgia but I did give Teresa a fair chance. Although entertaining, it was not what I would consider a good novela.

Me das miedo Teresa.

Rubi, tan bella como malvada.

#telenovelas #rubi #teresa #teresa vs rubi #novelas #Youtube

[wannabepygmalion]

30 factoids let’s gooo

( i just felt like doing these for fun... seeing briar do it + the ask memes got me thinking and i had the urge lmao )

1. His favorite Sanrio character is Cinnamoroll!! Also a fan of Marumofubiyori and Pompompurin.

2. Domino enjoys some music from pretty much any genre, but his favorite music usually is of the pop rock-pop punk-rock umbrella of sounds. He likes music that you could shout along to for Emotional Release (even though he will not actually do the shouting. he just still likes that vibe). 

3. He likes Animal Crossing. Probably doesn’t care too much about having a super finished and decorated island, but I imagine he tends to drift towards fall/autumn aesthetics and cottagecore vibes for what he does do… I think some of his favorite villagers would include Sylvana, Marshal, Teddy, Patty, Chief, Benjamin, Anabelle, Eunice, Shep, Hazel… he likes most of the Sanrio villagers too.

4. His favorite season is autumn, unsurprisingly.

5. Domino really likes dyeing his hair! He likes the sensation of looking in the mirror afterwards and his reflection feeling Different. 

6. He’s just so into art and art history. Once you get him to open up and he doesn’t feel like he’s annoying you, he will happily talk your ear off about (checks watch) the Corinthian order of Ancient Greek architecture. 

7. Also he does enjoy himself a little K-pop. He’s not super, super into it, but he has some groups he follows. Likes some songs he comes across. This is largely because I like to think about what kind of idols he’d bias since I”m so into it. I would name some groups he’d like, but I doubt any of them would still be around by 2030--

8. Growing up, his family never had any pets! Too busy. I think, honestly, Domino’s maybe never lived in a household that had pets, only met other people’s briefly. He would enjoy having a pet someday, but right now he doesn’t feel stable enough or like his life situation is good for a pet.

9. He has a couple fake succulents in his bedroom. He is currently too nervous that he’ll accidentally kill one and feel awful about it to try looking after a real plant.

10. His roommate’s name is Atlas! Atlas is a Twitch streamer who’s been getting more popular recently due to Minecraft roleplay, and is also a musician. Atlas’ online handle is Bird; his real identity is not public information.

11. Which. Yes, Domino has played Minecraft. But only on creative mode. He thinks it’s fun to build when his brain needs to chill, not really here for combat and all that.

12. He has a tattoo of a larkspur flower on one of his forearms; he got this pretty recently! Within the last 3 months or so.

13. He is banned from every Jamba Juice. If you ask him about this, he will either avoid it or tell you a different story every time.

14. Domino is actually really good at drawing as well as sculpting, but he heavily prefers sculpting. He’s been drawing for longer, but, when he first tried sculpting, something about it just clicked with him that he’d never experienced prior. 

15. He doesn’t drink alcohol, nor does he consume caffeine!

16. Atlas is also a faceless streamer -- his audience doesn’t know Domino exists beyond Atlas mentioning he has a roommate. Domino would like to keep it that way as much as possible.

17. He’s not a big spender… a good chunk of the money he earns from working goes to general life expenses -- rent, groceries, etc. He is not rich by any means. Money that’s leftover gets put away for when he needs to buy more art supplies; he spent a hot minute saving up for his tattoo since he wanted it to be nice.

18. Domino has an Instagram, but he doesn’t really do the “social” aspect of it. He just uses it more like a portfolio to post his work. Doesn’t respond to comments or anything, doesn’t look at it otherwise.

19. In general, he kinda avoids social media besides, like. Youtube and Twitch, and even then, he’s a diehard lurker for everything. He has spent some time browsing R/ddit, though, because it’s a decent place to see people talking about extremely specific experiences. Been on some specific forums too. Sometimes stuff like that makes him feel more validated and shit. Only valid R/dditor on the planet, etc. He absorbs other internet culture via osmosis from Atlas anyway.

20. He doesn’t drive! He still has a license for the sake of having a valid ID, but doesn’t drive with it. Doesn’t even have a car.

21. He has an older brother, who’s an engineer. He’s a couple years older and is off married somewhere else having an extremely normal life. Domino is estranged from his brother and has never met said brother’s wife. Probably didn’t even go to their wedding, honestly.

22. Domino doesn’t do commission work! He just kinda… does things at his own pace, then displays and eventually sells his work when it’s done.

23. The agent Domino works with is an older woman who works at a local art gallery that kinda took him under her wing. For obvious reasons. I mean, look at him. Her name is Veronica McCoy. Yes, I just took two names from Riverdale and slapped them together.

24. He doesn’t believe in soulmates! Or love at first sight, for that matter.

25. Domino’s usual typing style is actually a lot more laid back and casual -- no capitals, more prone to shortening words, etc. However, he types a lot more formally when it’s appropriate and/or he’s not comfortable with everyone in the convo. Similarly, he’ll loosen up a little in-person as he grows more at ease with you. To no one’s surprise, he will not give anyone nicknames unless they tell him to call them something else… he doesn’t want to offend.

26. Yes, he can and will swear if he’s comfortable with you. Yes, Domino can and will say ‘fuck’ -- though, he doesn’t throw it around constantly like some of my other characters. 

27. Domino has read a translation of all of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses.’ He loves that shit.

28. I think cows are one of his favorite animals… he just thinks they’re cute and have very sweet faces. He never wants to touch T/kTok (or its future equivalent) with a 10-foot pole, but he would be very pleased if you sent him videos of cute animals. Curated content with none of the stress.

29. When very focused working on something, he tends to stick his tongue out. :P

30. Some plants I would associate with him include: cyclamen, columbine, and meadow saffron!

#ooc ; #domino factoids ;

[kurowrites]

Snow - Chapter 2

Continuation of this. AO3.

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Wei Ying stays home the day after his abduction by a spirit of the winter. The man in white forced him to face reality the previous night when he took Wei Ying’s temperature; he really is sick. For once in his life, he does the reasonable thing and stays in bed, cancels all his appointments, and makes sure to notify anyone that might need to know about his absence. Then he crawls back to bed.

He’s bored of staying in bed within five minutes, but he also knows that if he gets up, he’s going to feel really sick again, so he stays right where he is. He tries to read, but quickly realizes that he can’t concentrate on what he’s reading for long enough to understand what he’s actually reading. In the end, he keeps switching between watching silly videos on youtube that use almost none of his brainpower and taking naps whenever he can’t keep his eyes open. He sporadically goes to the bathroom or drags himself to the kitchen to get himself a drink, but he doesn’t feel like trying to fix himself some food. The effort is too much, honestly. It’s not like he’ll die if he doesn’t eat for one day. He’s not sure how much food is still in his fridge, anyway.

He should probably take a shower at some point. He thinks he’s getting a little smelly, but he also doesn’t really care. There’s no one here to complain if he lounges around in a gross, sweaty pyjama. Not to mention that he doesn’t know how well he’d fare in the shower right now. His legs still feel shaky and unstable.

It’s late afternoon when the doorbell suddenly rings.

He wriggles out of bed, wondering who his visitor could be. It can’t really be anyone from university, since most people there don’t know where he lives. And as much as he might wish for it to be his sister, carrying a pot of delicious homemade soup, she lives too far away to suddenly appear on his doorstep simply because he’s feeling a little out of it. He carefully omitted telling Jiang Yanli that he’s sick, too.

When he opens the door, he has to blink several times to make sure he sees right. On the other side of the door stands the man in white, still wearing his long white coat, still as beautiful and flawless as yesterday. Even more so, because he’s looking directly at Wei Ying now. And he’s carrying a large bag of – yes, those are groceries. Food!

“Your fridge was almost empty,” the man explains when he notices Wei Ying’s gaze.

“You’re here to feed me?” Wei Ying asks, a little dumbfounded, because honestly, he doesn’t even know where to start here. He has lots of other questions, like What the fuck? or Who are you, actually? but food kind of cancels out the rest. He has priorities.

“Hn,” the stranger answers, and then he uses that strange magic he seems to have once more, and Wei Ying finds himself bundled back into his bed. The man in white vanishes into the kitchen without another word. After some rustling sounds, the opening and closing of cupboards, and other noises Wei Ying can’t quite determine the origin of, the man in white reappears in his bedroom with a cup of hot tea that he hands Wei Ying.

The tea smells amazing, much better than any of the stuff he has in his cupboards. The man in white must have brought it with him. He takes a sip, and yes. It’s absolutely delicious. He hums his appreciation.

The man in white stands still there, apparently assessing his current condition, so Wei Ying takes his chance.

“So,” he says conversationally, sipping on the tea. “Are you going to tell me your name sometime?”

There’s a beat of silence, and then, “Lan Zhan.”

“Lan Zhan,” Wei Ying repeats, testing out the name on his tongue. The name is unfamiliar, but–

“Wait,” he says. “Any relationship with Lan Qiren?”

“Hn,” Lan Zhan confirms. “He is my uncle.”

Wei Ying nearly chokes on his tea. This is not just a random stranger as Wei Ying had assumed, this is the nephew of the president of the university he’s attending. He’s probably a board member of the university or some such shit. Despite the international renown that his university generally enjoys, the university is somehow still led by the extremely powerful and rich family that originally founded it. Wei Ying thinks he’s justified for his reaction, because he has more money and power standing in his bedroom right now than he can ever hope to achieve in his life. He has heard the rumours about the members of the Lan clan too, and has no doubt that education can be added to the list of privileges this young man enjoys, as well.

“Well, Lan Zhan,” he says, instead of questioning why a man like Lan Zhan would even bother to notice someone like Wei Ying. “It’s just perfect, to have you here again. I wanted to thank you for bringing me home yesterday. I’m not sure if I’d managed to make it home without your help. So. Thank you, Young Master Lan.”

Lan Zhan shakes his head. “No thanks are necessary.”

“Then let me thank you for bringing me food and this delicious tea?”

He holds up his half-drunk cup.

Lan Zhan shakes his head again.

“Come on,” Wei Ying whines. “You’ve done so much for me, the least I can do is thank you.”

“I am making soup. You should take a shower afterwards.”

Okay, okay. Wei Ying got the message. Lan Zhan doesn’t want his thanks.

Why he’s compelled to do all this is still a mystery to Wei Ying, though. He’s getting absolutely nothing out of it. He’s been coughed on, had to carry Wei Ying around, has to tolerate his bad smell, and is now making him food. And he does all of it looking perfectly uncaring, as if such mundane things can’t touch him. Looking at the pristine white knit jumper and slacks he’s wearing, they can’t.

Lan Zhan vanishes back into the kitchen and returns a few minutes later with a steaming bowl of soup that smells delicious. Wei Ying eagerly takes a sip as soon as Lan Zhan places the tray with the soup onto his lap. (The tray is definitely new too. He has never owned a tray before.) The soup is not as spicy as his family’s would be, but it’s delicious regardless, so he quickly eats it, his belly filling with warmth, the food finally quieting the growling noises of hunger he’s been steadfastly ignoring.

Lan Zhan takes the tray from him once he’s done and brings it back to the kitchen. Then he reminds Wei Ying that he should take a shower.

“I feel wobbly,” Wei Ying complains. “I might slip and bang my head and then I’ll be dead.”

“I’m here,” Lan Zhan replies without changing his expression at all. “I will help if needed.”

The image of Lan Zhan gently wiping him down with a soft terrycloth flashes through Wei Ying’s mind and he thinks he’s choking again. The image is more appealing than he really dares to admit.

“Fine,” he says weakly, wriggling out from beneath his blanket. “But If I end up in hospital with a broken skull, I’m blaming you.”

Lan Zhan doesn’t dignify that with a reply.

Wei Ying heads into the bathroom, strips his pyjama off, and finally takes that shower that he really needed a few hours ago. He still feels wobbly, but the hot water actually makes him feel better, so he just stands under the spray for a while, enjoying the sensation of the hot water on his skin. When a sudden spray of cold water hits him, a warning that the hot water is about to run out, he turns the shower off and quickly towels off.

That’s when he realizes his mistake. He came into the bathroom only with his pyjamas on, and honestly, they’re kind of too gross to slip into again. It would render the entire effort of showering moot. He’s just contemplating slipping into his bedroom as quickly and quietly as possible with only the towel wrapped around himself, when there’s a knock at the door.

“Are you finished?” comes Lan Zhan’s voice through the door. “I have brought you a change of clothes.”

Well. That’s thoughtful, Wei Ying has to admit. He wraps his towel around himself as well as he can and carefully opens the bathroom door. The bundle of clothes that Lan Zhan presents him with clearly isn’t his own clothing though. The bundle consists of black silk satin pyjamas and a black and red dressing gown; a dressing down that’s just so luxurious and so goddamn superfluous he can’t believe things like this still exist. He thinks the collar of the gown is lightly padded.

He looks at Lan Zhan with confusion, but Lan Zhan just presses the bundle of clothing into his arms and vanishes down the hallway.

Wei Ying shrugs to himself and closes the door of the bathroom again. As he takes the bundle apart, a pair of black boxer briefs slips out. Those are also definitely not Wei Ying’s, because they’re brand name and they look new. He slips into them, and then the pyjamas, and it all fits very nicely. He eyes the dressing gown with suspicion for a minute, but then decides he might as well. He slips into it too, fixing the tie, looking at himself in the tiny, fogged up bathroom mirror. He definitely looks nice, and the colours suit him. Lan Zhan knows the aesthetic that Wei Ying is going for, apparently.

He brushes out his hair until he’s mostly content with the image he sees in the mirror, and then leaves the bathroom in search of Lan Zhan. He finds him in Wei Ying’s bedroom, in the process of replacing the bedding. The new bedding isn’t Wei Ying’s, either, and it definitely looks new. How much stuff did Lan Zhan bring with him? Food, clothing, and even bedding?

He watches as Lan Zhan finishes changing everything. He looks as if he knows what he’s doing. Not a useless young master, then, too privileged to learn some basic skills, Wei Ying decides.

Lan Zhan straightens up and looks at Wei Ying expectantly.

“You should lie down again.”

Wei Ying wants to thank him again for everything he’s doing for Wei Ying, all of it unprompted, but he knows by now that Lan Zhan won’t accept his thanks. So he steps forward, instead, until he’s close enough to sink his hands into Lan Zhan’s white knit jumper that’s exactly as soft as it looks, and waits for a moment. When Lan Zhan doesn’t move, doesn’t shove him away, he leans up and softly kisses the corner of Lan Zhan’s mouth. Lan Zhan doesn’t react, doesn’t even blink, but as Wei Ying is drawing back, he can see a pretty red blush spread over the tips of Lan Zhan’s ears.

I have your number now, Lan Zhan, he thinks, satisfied. He feels like the cat that got the cream.

He obediently crawls into his bed, slipping under his blanket. The new bedding is as soft as a cloud, and Wei Ying can’t help but wriggle a little in delight. Oh, this feels good. The comforts of money, indeed.

“Sleep,” Lan Zhan commands, and leaves the bedroom to give him some rest.

Wei Ying obeys.

#kuro writes #the untamed #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mdzs #sugar daddy au #hahaha #snow fic

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HOW NOT START A STARTUP FUNDING LANDSCAPE

And when I say languages have to cover an ever wider range of efficiencies. When you raise VC-scale money, the clock is ticking.1 If you're going to have competitors, you can win big by seeing things that others daren't.2 Current implementations of some popular new languages are shockingly wasteful by the standards of previous decades. Economically, startups are an all-or-nothing game.3 There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl, for example.4 The best way to do this is to get the job done.5 Better still, answer I haven't decided.6 The results so far bear this out. I think this makes them more effective as founders.

As long as you want to hire want to live there; supporting industries are there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in the business of selling information, but that there be few of them. Most hackers would rather just have ideas. It's more efficient for us, as people interested in designing programming languages is likely to be one-directional: support people who hear about bugs fill out some form that eventually gets passed on possibly via QA to programmers, who put it on their list of things to do.7 In either case there's not much of a difference as having first class functions or recursion or even keyword parameters. We have three general suggestions about hiring: a don't do it if you can make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit. Now most of your people will be employees rather than founders.8 Once you take several million dollars of my money, the clock is ticking.

So when you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. These qualities might seem incompatible, but they're not.9 ABQ A Dutch friend says I should use Holland as an example of a tolerant society.10 This approach tends to yield smaller, more flexible programs.11 Though we do spend a lot of new software, because it's easy to buy. With server-based.12 Over time applications will quietly grow more powerful. When you catch bugs early, you also get fewer compound bugs. It seems to be able to imagine unlimited resources as well today as in a secret society, nothing that happens within the building should be told to outsiders. Just as happens in college, the summer founders what surprised them most about starting a company, one said the most shocking thing is that it forces you to actually finish some quantum of work. Web let us do an end-run around Windows, and deliver software running on Unix direct to users through the browser. I learned to program when computer power was scarce.

Only a great designer can. Well, server-based apps get released. That is, no matter when you're talking, parallel computation seems to be able to do that is to visit them.13 They're not being deliberately misleading. The best intranet is the Internet. Most are equivalent to the ones people use for procrastinating in everyday life. Not necessarily. My vote is they're a bad idea.14 But you can tell it must be satisfying expectations I didn't know I had. Some of the less imaginative ones, who had been ambassador to Venice, told him his motto should be i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto.

This will sound shocking, but it has more potential than they realize. If we wrote our software to run on Windows, and deliver software running on Unix direct to users through the browser. I think almost anything you can do more for users. But openness to new ideas has to be inexpensive and well-designed.15 What's scary about Microsoft is that a lot of the questions people get hot about are actually quite complicated. You'd have to turn into Noam Chomsky. You can't make a mouse by scaling down an elephant. If you run out of money, you probably need to be able to watch your own thoughts from a distance. As long as it isn't floppy, consumers still perceive it as a joke.

All that extra sheet metal on the AMC Matador wasn't added by the workers. People will pay for content? Web-based applications. Inside your head, anything is allowed. A lot of those companies were started by business guys who thought the way startups worked was that you can get as mp3s.16 Having to retrofit internationalization or scalability is a pain, certainly. Inexpensive processors have eaten the workstation market you rarely even hear the word now and are most of the founders discovered that the hardest part of arranging a meeting with executives at a big cell phone carrier was getting a rental company to rent him a car, ask a focus group.

Notes

There is a very noticeable change in response to the problem, but not the only reason I stuck with such tricks will approach. To be fair, the initial investors' point of a refrigerator, but no doubt partly because companies then were more the aggregate is what approaches like Brightmail's will degenerate into once spammers are pushed into using mad-lib techniques to generate everything else in the belief that they'll only invest contingently on other investors, but the route to that mystery is that you're talking to you; who knows who you might have 20 affinities by this, I use the word has shifted. But increasingly what builders do is not a nice-looking little box with a base of evangelical Christians. Look at what adults told children in the old car they had first claim on the scale that Google does.

Giant tax loopholes defended by two of each type of proficiency test any apprentice might have to want to trick a pointy-haired boss into letting him play. Big technology companies between them.

Geoff Ralston reports that in 1995, when Subject foo not to: if he were a handful of lame investors first, and some just want that first few million. The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, during the 2002-03 season was 4. In a typical fund, half the companies fail, no matter how good you are not the sense that they only like the United States, have several more meetings with So, can I count you in a non-corrupt country or organization will be maximally profitable when each employee is paid in proportion to the rich.

Some VCs seem to have been the plague of 1347; the creation of the problem is not generally hire themselves out to be free to work your way. They hoped they were beaten by iTunes and Hulu. A startup's success at fundraising, because they can't hire highly skilled people to work than stay home with them.

Zagat's there are not one of them is a big change in the sort of community. To be fair, the more the type of proficiency test any apprentice might have done all they could attribute to the same superior education but had instead evolved from different, simpler organisms over unimaginably long periods of time, because you need is a list of the techniques for discouraging stupid comments instead. Most computer/software startups are competitive like running, not you.

Wisdom is useful in solving problems too, e. Well, of the word has shifted.

Wisdom is useful in solving problems too, of course. Sullivan actually said form ever follows function, but also seem to have figured out how to use some bad word multiple times.

Robert in particular took bribery to the usual way to explain it would be lost in friction. Forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups. Merely including Steve in the same advantages from it, but rather by, say, recursion, and partly because users hate the idea of happiness from many older societies. In A Plan for Spam.

Learning for Text Categorization. Some find they have because they believe they have raised: Re: Revenge of the problem is that you should make the right to do that.

Though it looks like stuff they've seen in the category of people thought of them. The bias toward wisdom in so many people mistakenly think it is. Unless we mass produce social customs.

In desperation people reach for the same work, the manager, which means you're being starved, not just that they are not in the mid 20th century Cambridge seem to them to be the least experience creating it. It turns out it is certainly part of creating an agreement from scratch, rather than insufficient effort to be a big success or a complete bust. A web site is different from a VC. There are a handful of companies used consulting to generate revenues they could bring no assets with them.

I haven't released Arc. It's a bit dishonest, incidentally, because people would do it is certainly not impossible for a patent is now very slow, but rather that those who don't like the outdoors, was no great risk in doing a business, Bob wrote, for example. I make the kind of power will start to spread from.

They want so much about unimportant things. Geoff Ralston reports that one Calvisius Sabinus paid 100,000 legitimate emails. No Logo, Naomi Klein says that a startup.

They're an administrative convenience. Several people I talked to a car dealer. With the good groups, just harder. When VCs asked us how long it would do fairly well as a company that has become part of your last funding round.

When the same weight as any adult's. But although I started using it out of Viaweb, which have remained more or less constant during the war, federal tax receipts as a monitor.

It's a case in the time it included what we now call science. Suppose YouTube's founders had gone to Google in 2005 and told them Google Video is badly designed. Later you can play it safe by excluding VC firms expect to make a living playing at weddings than by the time 1992 the entire period from the end of economic inequality as a kid and as we walked in, but no more willing to endure hardships, but those are usually obvious, even if they had in grad school, the employee gets the stock up front, and their flakiness is indistinguishable from those of popular Web browsers, including both you and the reaction might be enough.

Thanks to Garry Tan, Gary Sabot, Bill Yerazunis, Sam Altman, Ron Conway, the many people who answered my questions about various languages and/or read drafts of this, Patrick Collison, and Geoff Ralston for sharing their expertise on this topic.

#automatically generated text #Markov chains #Paul Graham #Python #Patrick Mooney #Ralston #workstation #Sullivan #advantage #word #iTunes #type #part #fund #reaction #Geoff #college #period

[occasionalfics]

hi so i haven’t made any real posts in a while bc i haven’t really been writing that much but i wanted to just post SOMETHING for y’all to interact with

anyway, if you don’t know, i have a youtube channel and i’ve been watching (almost) every movie that chris evans is in because i love him and reviewing them for my channel and i thought i’d give a rundown of the movies i’ve seen so far (including ones i haven’t rewatched for the channel yet because i’m not gonna link to the videos - if you really want to watch, message me) so maybe you could decide which ones are worth your time and/or money 😂

for this, i’ll give a brief description, my general thoughts, and a score from 1-10 (1 being unwatchable and 10 being PEAK cinema)

i’m keeping things very light on spoilers, meaning there might be one or two overall but not for every movie.

so here we go:

The Newcomers (2000) - some indie movie with no theatrical release about a family that moves from boston to vermont because of money troubles. chris is in it for like 5 minutes and he’s honestly the second best part (second to a dog only). 3/10, mostly boring but not offensive.

Not Another Teen Movie (2001) - i feel like everyone has seen this. it’s a spoof of 80′s and 90′s teen movies (namely she’s all that and cruel intentions). chris plays the main love interest and he’s definitely funny enough to pull off the part but it’s not really my thing. 4/10.

The Perfect Score (2004) - this is the first time chris and sc*rj* worked together. 6 high school kids fail the SATs so instead of retaking them, they sneak into a government building and steal the answers. it’s an mtv movie and it’s...fine? not great, not special, but...very early aughts mtv for sure. 4/10

Cellular (2004) - an action flick where chris plays a regular dude who gets a call from a woman who’s been kidnapped, and then has to keep communications up with her in order to save her and take down some corrupt cops. surprisingly funny, i had a great time watching, would recommend! 7/10

Fierce People (2005) - i think this was another indie movie without a theatrical release. based on a book that, from the reviews of both, is identical, i think because the author of the book was also the screenplay writer. and that’s probably why this movie sucked. bby anton yelchin (rip) gets caught scoring drugs for his mom, and because she has connections to this super rich dude, they end up going to live in new jersey with his weirdass family instead of bby anton going to jail. chris’s character is not who you think he is. content warnings for drugs, rape, and murder. overall boring, not what it thinks it is, 4/10

Fantastic Four (2005) - okay everyone’s seen these. i actually hate both of these FF movies, but chris as johnny storm is the only shinning light in either. reed is the WORST and sue is treated like eye candy. 4/10 for johnny storm alone.

London (2005) - literally the worst movie i have ever seen. i hate london. also an indie movie, very misogynistic, very pretentious and self-important. lonely emo boy does drugs with random people in a bathroom at a party he was not invited to INTENTIONALLY, in the hopes that he will win over his ex girlfriend, who he repeatedly emotionally abused while they were together, even though the party is literally in honor of her moving across the country. and she didn’t want him there. please never, ever bother watching london and talking about it online - fuckbois will attempt to tell you that you know nothing repeatedly. 1/10, worst film ever made.

TMNT (2007) - does this need an introduction? chris plays casey, but the movie’s really about the turtles. honestly the writing kind of relies on you knowing a lot about the turtle lore and overall it’s a boring but ultimately harmless film. it’s just really not worth your time. 2/10

Sunshine (2007) - ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN, I HAVE NOT  STOPPED THINKING ABOUT SUNSHINE IN OVER A YEAR. 8 astronauts are on a mission to ignite a nuclear bomb into the dying heart of our sun. but it’s a space film so shit goes wrong and, one by one, they start dying. very tense, very sad. the biggest complaint all around is that the first 2/3s of the movie are one genre and the last 3rd is a completely different movie, and yet it’s STILL amazing. please watch (if you can handle a space thriller)! 8/10

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) - a very bad follow up to a very bad origin movie. not even andre braugher could save this one. reed is really mean to johnny for no reason and i hate his guts. 3/10

The Nanny Diaries (2007) - second time appearing alongside sc*rj*. she’s the main character. an anthropology student takes on a nannying job for an upperclass family in new york, but the job ends up being more than she bargained for. chris plays harvard hottie, her upstairs neighbor who is THE BEST BOY. i loved this movie. 8/10

Battle for Terra (2007) - a very weird but very good animated movie about humans attempting to colonize an alien planet because we were stupid enough to destroy earth, venus, and mars. lots of big names on the cast list for a movie that not many people saw, but it goes ham in the “fuck colonizers” theme. overall, a surprising joy. 6.5/10

Street Kings (2008) - well this was directed by david ayer so my friend and i went into this with very low expectations and it didn’t even meet that bar. keanu reeves plays a sad and angry corrupt cop who almost kind of gets framed for killing another cop, and then spends a good chunk of the runtime just hunting down other corrupt cops without doing anything about his own corruption. it’s copaganda, but very bad copaganda. also chris dies. fuck this movie, don’t waste your time. this is another one where the fanboys will come for you if you say a bad thing about it on the internet, 2/10

The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) - another indie that apparently caught the eye of kevin fiege? i don’t really know why because chris’s character is very bland and the movie overall is nothing special. tennessee williams wrote the screenplay before he died in the 80′s and then this was made and nothing about it was changed. it’s basically straight people in the 20′s in the south being weird and rude. a rich girl pays a hot poor boy to escort her to parties after a huge scandal was caused by her father. she loves the poor boy but he doesn’t return the feelings and everyone’s sad, dying, or mean. skip it, honestly. 4/10

Push (2009) - honestly, an underrated movie that so often gets shit on because of x-men. push is so good! a telekinetic man meets a young girl who can see the future, who tells him that if he helps her find her mom, they’ll also come into $6 million. they run into his ex and the government department trying to control people with powers, and shit ensues. chris’s chemistry with dakota fanning as big brother/little sister is adorable and i need more people to talk about it. 8/10, very worth your time.

The Losers (2010) - apparently went up against some other star-studded action flick with a similar plot at the time of release and suffered for it, but other than that, this is a fun romp with lots of character. a team of militiamen are framed for an international scandal and forced to go underground until a mysterious woman helps them exact revenge on the billionaire who framed them so they can go back to their families. chris plays one of the secondary characters and he’s PERFECT. best character in the whole movie! you’ve probably seen the “don’t stop believing”/”lethal killing machine” scene around tumblr before - that’s just how his character is the whole movie and it’s great. definitely recommend! 7/10

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) - we’ve all seen it. lucas lee is the best. there are lots of problems in the word choice and some of the moral quandaries but overall, an enjoyable ode to videogames and comic books. 6.5/10

Puncture (2011) - once again, an indie film with very little theatrical release. WHOOOH though. this movie. SO GOOD! two personal injury lawyers take on a case when a nurse is accidentally pricked on the job and contracts AIDS. they take on a huge pharmaceutical supply company in the hopes of manufacturing and creating a legal standard for using safety needles to protect frontline medical workers, all while chris’s character is dealing with being an addict. based on a true story, honestly   one of chris’s best performances (and that’s across the board). you can  rent it cheap from youtube and it’s totally worth it. 7.5/10

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - i mean. it’s cap. honestly this movie feels a little long even though it’s not. overall it’s a good, enjoyable movie and watching it all the way through reminded me of why bucky was so important. 7/10

What's Your Number? (2011) - okay honestly i love this movie? a woman is slutshamed by her sister’s friends and then embarks on a journey through her past relationships to find her soulmate, only to realize that it doesn’t matter how many men she’s slept with because the right one really won’t give a damn and neither should she. everyone’s seen naked collin around tumblr. he’s a good boy. mostly. 7/10

The Avengers (2012) - so i can appreciate that this was like THE event movie of the summer of 2012 but it is LONG and there’s still so much spy shit i don’t understand. my friends and i also think that j*ss wh*d*n oversimplifies most of the characters, and ultimately the writing isn’t super strong. the performances are, for sure, but it’s still not as great of a movie as i thought it was when i was a senior in high school. 7/10

The Iceman (2012) - also an indie? based on a true story. a man (played by michael shannon) is recruited by the mob to be a hitman, and then something happens where they don’t want to pay him or something, so he starts doing a shady job with another hitman (played by chris) to support his family. overall it’s a boring film but michael and chris were both really good! watch it if you like dark mob movies, michael shannon, or winona ryder. 3/10

Snowpiercer (2013) - this movie, no pun intended, is a RIDE. poor people at the back of a train containing the last living human beings revolt against the bourgeoise. everyone’s dirty and tired and hungry. weird shit happens, but ultimately, this was SO worth the watch (and the money i spent on the blu-ray)!  7/10

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - still my favorite cap movie. excellent characterization, maybe the only time i cared about natasha. the plot should be an avengers movie given that shield is a team concern, but i will stand by the winter soldier aspect of this movie til i die. 8/10

Before We Go (2014) - an indie movie that chris directed (his directorial debut)! it’s...cute, i guess. it’s not harmful in any way, but also not special in any way. flustered woman misses her train, cute musician in the station offers to help her navigate NYC. they talk about feelings and their pasts and what they’re running from and toward. it’s fine. 6/10

Playing It Cool (2014) - indie? i don’t know?? screenplay writer (chris) wants to write action films but keeps getting hired to write romcoms, then he finds himself IN a romcom. it’s okay. some people think it’s terribly misogynistic which i didn’t find it to be, but it’s also just...kinda bland. 4/10

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - my least favorite avengers movie. i genuinely hate how ultron was handled and this movie has never once made me sympathize with the maximoffs. except for when steve defends their choice to allow experimentation to be done so they could defend their country. uh the party at the beginning is the best part, full stop. 3/10

Captain America: Civil War (2016) - this isn’t a cap film. he has no character growth. this is an avengers film at best. i also take issue with how much of this movie is really just two movies forced into one. bucky gets the short end of the deal in the overall mcu and this is really where that starts. 5/10

Gifted (2017) - PLEASE. WATCH. GIFTED. a former philosophy professor gives up his career to raise his niece, but when his mother attempts to gain custody, he has to fight for the person he loves most in the world. one of the most heartfelt, genuine movies ever. chris and mckenna grace have SUCH good chemistry. bonus octavia spencer (also in snowpiercer). 10/10

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - probably my favorite avengers movie. great stakes. amazing acting. THE BEARD!!! 8/10

Knives Out (2019) - WHOOO BITCH. TOP TIER. ransom drysdale could do whatever he wants to me and normally, i don’t “date” villains. 9/10

Endgame (2019) - the lesser infinity war. i’m not a fan of time jumps and also hate fatphobia. thor was mistreated and i can’t forgive that.

#chris evans #chris evans ranking #i don't talk about my fanfic on my youtube channel which is why i don't post links to it openly here

[calderwoodrp]

☆ VIVIAN BANCROFT

introduction –

NAME. Vivian Lucille Bancroft  PRONOUNS. She/her AGE & BIRTHDATE. 28 | July 1, 1991 HOMETOWN. Calderwood, CA NEIGHBORHOOD. Carlysle City Center OCCUPATION. YouTuber and Owner of Extrav-Event FACECLAIM. Shay Mitchell 

story –

[ cw: cancer, death, postpartum depression ]

The Bancrofts have been in Calderwood just as long, if not longer, than some of the so-called founding families. The name was once considered synonymous with sycophant but now more closely aligns itself with the influential. Once upon a time, they would lick the boots of those above them - the Carlyles, the Whitmans, and the like. They were new money, at this point in time, and they were only fit to be the right hand men of the rich and famous. But, being the person privy to all the details of those wealthy and powerful proved to be vital in skyrocketing their own power. They became the puppet masters of the town, pulling strings that cause change, or stagnancy, in Calderwood.

The most recent generation of Bancrofts are no different. Charles Bancroft has been the chief of staff to the mayor for as long as anyone can remember. He stood behind Stanely Buck for much of his career, but as he felt the wind shift in Carin Delarosa’s favor, he quickly changed his stance. He backed the new mayor, becoming a stand in campaign manager when hers fell through - and if Charles had anything to do with his downfall, no one is saying anything about it. Though he only works on the local scale - officially, anyway - most around town take his word as the word of God. He was a taste maker and jet setter in his own right, similar to his second wife, Louisa Bancroft, nee Santos.

Unlike Charles, Louisa focused on swaying the hearts of others, rather than the minds. She inspired some level of fear, similar to her husband, but she had a softer touch. People adored her, which was just the way she liked it. Her husband pulled the puppet’s strings and she yanked on their heartstrings. She was the unofficial event planner of the town - if anything more than a child’s birthday party was happening in Calderwood, Louisa had her hands on it.

Charles has two children from his previous marriage but he and Louisa had Vivian shortly after getting married; she was the final child for both Charles and Louisa, which proved to be a good thing as she was a notoriously difficult child. She was constantly throwing temper tantrums as a baby and perfected the art of making her nannies cry well before her fifth birthday. At her core, she was an attention seeker, and with parents like hers, attention was difficult to come by. Her father was busy man, with no real desire to form a bond with any of his children. Louisa, on the other hand, wanted desperately to form a connection with her only child, especially after the postpartum depression that had caused a rift between her and Vivian. This, however, proved to be rather difficult for Louisa and she had Vivian didn’t develop a decent relationship well after her infancy.

It wasn’t until she was six years old that Vivian grew closer to her mother; the damage was already done though. While they loved each other there was a rift that seemed impossible to mend. Louisa was smothering at the best of times and Vivian was desperate to earn her mother’s love and approval. This resulted in Vivian following after her mother as she planned and orchestrated events. Vivian fell in love with parties - the lights, the music, the feeling of euphoria when everyone fawned over what a perfect night it was, the luxury she was exposed to and that her family provided. She knew that she wanted to be just like her mother when she grew up. After a while, she had become her mother’s shadow during events and the planning that led up to them. She bonded with everyone involved in the process and by the time she was thirteen, she was booking the caters for her mother’s parties herself.

The school yard was her playground - she easily bent people to her will, collecting friends as she went. She clawed her way to the top of the social food chain, earning her title of Queen Bee. School work was a bit harder. She didn’t take to most of the work very well and she wasn’t accustomed to having to work for anything. So, she didn’t work for it; for a little while at least. She could only deal with people talking down to her and her father’s disappointed glare at the dinner table on the rare occasion he would join them.

She forced herself to pay attention, to take notes and ask questions after class. She still had her pride - she refused to look stupid in front of her peers. She taught herself what her teachers couldn’t explain to her, with some help from one of the few friends she saw as her equal. Many of her friends, or the girls who claimed her friendship, didn’t really care for her - not that she blamed them, she didn’t really care for them either - but Emmeline was different. Vivian couldn’t put her finger as why that was and every time she thought about it, she would a fluttering in her stomach that she didn’t really want to address. Unrecognizable feelings aside, Emmeline helped her get her grades up immensely. Of course, she cared much for the aesthetics of creating notes and a planner than she did actually acquiring knowledge.

By the time high school rolled around, Vivian had cemented herself as the local queen bee. She had also just started her own YouTube channel, Color Coded Hot Mess, jumping on the chance of even more attention. With the prompting of her friends and her mother, she uploaded videos about her mother’s events, modeling her clothes, showing off the meticulous spread of her notebooks and planners - say what you will about Vivian but she has impeccable highlighting skills, both makeup wise and pen wise.  She quickly gained followers and became addicted to the small scale fame she had received. As more social media was developed, and she grew up, she expanded the brand she had crafted for herself.

When she graduated high school, there was no question of if she would go to college. Her father had been talking her up to the admissions at Stanford since she was born, which she never really cared for. However, if she intended to keep living in luxury on his dime, she was going to attend nearly all her family’s alma mater and she was going to have to pretend to like it. College wasn’t horrible; she was a Bancroft, which meant something around the school, allowing her to climb up the social food chain without much difficulty. She studied English and Business, the former thanks to Emmeline showing her the joys of Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen, and the later thanks to her father’s pressing.

She graduated from Stanford with relative ease, in part thanks to her desire to appear perfect for her growing number of followers and in part thanks to her father’s checks to her professors. She had planned to take a year off, “studying art” in Paris ( read: getting drunk and dick ) but all that was called off when she was told, only a few days after her graduation, that her mother had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Vivian canceled her trip and immediately returned home to Calderwood.

With her mother out of commission and Vivian desperate for any kind of outlet to distract herself from her mother’s depleting health, she started to take over as Calderwood’s unofficial event planner. A few months after she returned officially to the town, she moved out of her family’s estate in Winslow Hills and bought her own place in Carlyle City Center. It was there that she finally put down the roots of creating her own event planning business, Extrav-Event, with her mother’s blessing, of course. She threw a massive New Year Eve party in conjunction with the mayor’s office. Her mother was the guest of honor, her health taking a turn for the better. For a while, it seemed like everything was perfect.

However, nothing lasts forever. Her mother’s cancer returned with a vengeance, taking her life only a few months later. It was the first time in her life that she ever saw her father cry. Charles Bancroft, ever the stoic and impersonal man, had a bit of a mental breakdown after he lost another wife to cancer. It took a few weeks for him to leave the house but when he did, he emerged even more closed off than he was before. Louisa tempered his crueler nature, but with her gone, there was nothing holding him back. He lashed out at his children and pushed himself into his own work even more than usual.

Vivian attempted to steel herself after her mother’s death but still has difficulty doing so. Her mother was strong in her own right and while Vivian tried to mimic her as a child, she was much softer than anyone else in her family. With her mother gone, she’s almost become her mirror image - the operative word being almost. She was meretriciously put together like her mother was, appearing to be just as cold and strong as Louisa was in life. Vivian was strong, in her own way. But there was still a part of her that her father would call childish, a part that yearned for attention and fame and affection and love from a family that hardly ever expressed emotion. She’s thrown herself into her business, attempting to lose her own grief in the lights and music that she fell in love with in the first place. She’s taken more care than ever to cultivate an image of perfection on her social media, hoping that the validation she gains from there will fill the hole that was left behind with her mother died.

WRITTEN BY INGRID. SHE/HER OR THEY/THEM. EST.

#vivian bancroft* #carlysle city center* #taken*

[themjinterviews-blog]

48. Put your hands in the air and say hell yeah. Captain Jack! Johnny Depp!

What motivates you to do what you do? Sheer necessity, usually.

What was the weather like the last time you went out? Hot. It’s Arizona so it’s probably near 100 + sunny.

Do you go for walks often? I’m pretty lazy and try to avoid it. You sorta gotta trick me into walking, like take me to a big shopping mall or something so I inadvertently walk around it whilst shopping.

What color shirt are you wearing? Gray.

What is your favorite type of youtube video to watch? I don’t really watch any. I just use it to occasionally look up songs or to record snippets of stuff to remix songs.

Do you need any new clothes right now? I got plenty.

What’s the next project you are excited to start? I’m working on a nonsensical Adult Coloring Book featuring animals committing crimes.

Do you collect anything? If so, what? Used to collect rocks and Pokémon cards. I suppose in a sense I collect all sorts of art/office supplies.

^and if not, what would you like to collect? Nothing really.

What was the last disappointing thing that happened to you? I don’t know. Suppose work being closed for renovation for 2 weeks kinda sucks because I sort of need cash.

What is something God has healed you of? I don’t really do the whole God/Religion rigamarole... Chances are if we are healed of something, there is a psychological, sociological biological or generally rational explanation.

Have you ever experienced a miracle? Like, a phenomenal coincidence? I think as much as I hate to be a downer, there's probably a lot to do with our perceptions of events

What was the last thing you ate? Lucky Charms.

Do you ever eat food that’s intended for kids? Well, Lucky Charms. I also love pizza rolls and chicken nuggets. But I’m not eating Gerber Peas&Carrot baby foods or anything crazy like that.

What was the last stupid thing you did? Define “stupid”? Most things I do are probably stupid to others but perfectly acceptable to me.

Do you get embarrassed easily? Sometimes.

Are you wearing pants or shorts right now? I never wear shorts.

What are your top three names you like for a daughter? Elliot (this is also my pick for a boy name), Tara, Hazel.

Would you ever film a vlog of yourself giving birth? Ew. Fuck no. Honestly, adopting/fostering sounds way more my style anyway. To be totally frank, pregnancy sounds gross and being unable to take my adderall sounds awful. I’d gain like, a million pounds.

Do you like getting caught in the rain? It’s usually a refreshing break from the heat out here.

Do you think your hair looks best straight, wavy, or curly? Messy, or in a side-pony.

What was the last craft project you completed?: Coloring books for my friends’ kid.

Name 3 youtubers you would like to meet in person: I don’t know any.

Has anyone ever spread an untrue rumor about you? Sociopath ex. Not sure he actually said them aloud to people other than myself, but I was constantly being accused of weird stuff I absolutely did not do.

What’s one rumor you’ve heard about yourself, and is it true? N/A. No idea. Not aware of any relevant or applicable rumors. I literally just keep to myself and do crafts.

What color are your nails painted currently? Not painted.

Do you use a pill box? Jesus, I’m not 80.

List 3 people you know who were loving and then turned cold: it’s kind of generic to assume either of those things as permanent traits. But probably most flings or whatever. It always feels cold when one party loses interest.

Have you filmed a youtube video today? Never filmed one in my life.

Do you leave the house when you’re on your period? Um yes. Life doesn’t stop just because I have cramps.

^If not, why not? -

Have you ever felt threatened for your life? Yeah. Sociopath ex would get overtly paranoid and mistake harmless or unrelated things I did or said to be conspiracies against him. And occasionally my imaginary betrayals would lead to violent words or actions. Like, a bundle of index cards with Carrabba’s menu items and their ingredients, word for word, from the Carrabba’s menu, was somehow coded plots to who the fuck knows to have him killed. Irrational stuff like that.

What are you behind on? Student loans. And when I say behind, I really mean that I actively chose not to pay them.

Do you get enough sleep each night? No because night is my time to be productive, uninterrupted and without bothering anyone. I hate having to stop my thoughts just because other people are making noise or trying to converse with me.

Which did you like better: high school or college? Absolutely college.

Which year of your life stands out to you as the most significant so far? Probably last year or two.

…and why? Big personal transitions and revelations in my life philosophy.

What was the last store you shopped at? Walmart, most likely.

Do you have a favorite pharmacist? I used to back in NY. Her name was Evie. She wished a customer Happy Thanksgiving on Valentine’s Day accidentally once and it cracked me up and we had a running joke about it.

Do you have a favorite cashier at the grocery store? I don’t shop frequently enough and I switch up stores when I do.

What was the last thing you ordered at Starbucks? Probably a toffee nut Frappuccino.

What’s something you discovered recently?

What makes you more creative? Emotional turbulence, certain drugs.

What’s the last magical thing you experienced? Um…Magical? The herd of unicorns crossing the I-10.

What is the theme of your bedroom? None. We are staying in a spare room at a friend’s. But we're actually moving this week because being micromanaged and constantly scrutinized was getting old.

Have you ever lived in a dorm? Yes, for a few years

Who is someone whom you admire, and why? I guess the lady at work, Amanda. She’s like 64 and works open-close every day, and still has a great attitude.

When was the last time you stepped outside of your comfort zone? I don’t know. I test the waters every once in awhile.

Where would you like to travel to next? Nowhere crazy. Just back to New York for the Renaissance Faire.

If you could win three dream vacations to anywhere, where would you go? Portugal—New Zealand—Ireland.

Would you rather ride a camel or an elephant? Camel. They’re fuzzy.

Are you a free spirit? I don’t know what that even constitutes. I think outside the box and I question social conformity and other preset patterns of thought. But I don’t know that has much to do with my spirit.

Do you want to lose weight? I think I’m okay for now.

Which insects scare you, if any? They don’t scare me, they just creep me out …spiders, centipedes, millipedes, roaches…ugh.

Do you think it’s silly to be afraid of a tiny insect? It’s not like I think they’re going to murk me with a sawed off shot gun. I know they’re harmless and therefor not technically scary…but they’re still creepy and unsettling somehow.

Have you ever experienced paranoia? To some degree.

Have you ever hallucinated? Indeed.

Were you raised religious? We were raised Roman Catholic. Didn’t stick.

Have you ever been abused? Psychologically, emotionally, physically and sexually. #sociopathic ex.

Do you think the cops should do more about bullying? I think cops have enough shit to worry about as is and don’t know how effective extensive police interference would even be. I think the anti-bullying message is stronger when conveyed by people closer to kids like teachers, parents, siblings or a celebrity figure they idolize.

Is there a coffee shop you like better than Starbucks? I like them all about the same.

If you could afford to get your hair professionally done, what would you get? Probably dye and highlights. Definite trim of my bangs.

If you had a lot of money, do you think you would use it wisely? Absolutely not. I have little to no money now and I don’t even use *that* wisely.

Do you know any rich people who are very irresponsible? I don’t know many people to begin with.

List five careers that you’d like to have: Lawyer (like A.D.A. Barba!)...Graphic Designer...Psychologist...Self-Help writer...and oddly wouldn't mind being a waitress still.

List five far-out things that you’d like to do before you die: I genuinely do not have a bucket list. If I stumble upon something that seems cool, I do it. Making unrealistic lists won't help my quality of life very much.

Do you dream big? Quite the opposite. I sort of just fly by the seat of my pants. Weird expression. Can’t recall ever having very fixated dreams or visions for myself.

What was your first imaginary friend’s name? N/A

What was the name of the first pet that you loved? Comet. <3

What was the first work uniform that you had to wear? Waitress uniform of sorts. I wanna say it was white button down and black pants.

Do you like to go barefoot? Usually. On some surfaces it’s intolerable and I hate the texture, though.

Do you like the same colors now that you did as a kid? Pretty much.

Do you have a blog? You’re on it, buddy. This is a survey blog.

Do you have a youtube channel? What would I even post videos about?? I assure you, I do nothing that the general public would find entertaining.

#survey

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Deadly Sins as Sides AU

A few weeks ago, I had a thought about how the seven deadly sins would act as dark sides. And after ages and ages of research (I'm not kidding you I spent so much time on this it's insane), here we have it! It's not fully complete, as I couldn't think of everything perfectly, but there are ideas (: 

I might continue this, but that depends on my ideas for it

(Also note: I haven't double checked every link or just everything in general, so there might be a few mistakes or weird things but just… go with it)

Tag list: @imin-loveanon, @musicphanpie-b, @mikey-girl12

Pride

Of course, most of us know him as dark!Roman

Which is cool

It would still work

But for this AU I’m gonna assume he’s his own side just because it’s convenient

The fanon outfit people have made for him would still work

With a black shirt and I think golden sash

He is a prince, because that can easily be linked to pride

Though maybe a king would fit him better?

Cause obviously he is better than anyone else

So he’s got to be the king

Arrogant motherfucker

He also embodies vanity, so vain as fuck

Narcissist

Thinks he is better than the rest and acts like it

Clashes a lot with the other sides because he’s always fife thousand times more important than any of them combined

He only looks at what is best for him and doesn’t think past that

No one likes the guy

You don’t want to upset him though

He’s one of the worst of the dark sides

You want to be on his good side cause he is not scared to hurt you

His name could be Belial, or something similar, from the demon of arrogance and pride, Belial

He could be considered the leader of the dark sides, as Belial is mentioned as the leader of the Sons of Darkness, on one of the Dead Sea Scrolls

So there is the role of king again

Also, Dante believed all other sins were derived from pride, so that matches up with Pride being the leader too

Belial is also described as Prince of Darkness, or King of Evil, which would fit with a royal outfit pretty well

I also saw a site which named Lucifer as a demon for Pride which intrigued me a lot and offers a lot of perspective

Even more interesting would be Roman turning into Pride, which would make for a lot of opportunities to refer to the Lucifer story and use symbolism

Might get into that later, this is not the post for that

Yeah I really like the name Lucifer for him, though Belial is also fancy idk

His room probably has a bunch of mirrors

And one of those desks with a mirror where you can do your make-up and stuff, I forgot the word for it

Is it a vanity?

I also thought of this picture and felt like it belonged here. Though idk what to do with it.

Lots of violet details, as that colour seems to symbolise pride

Greed

All he wants in life is for Thomas to get rich, really

So obviously he supports this whole YouTube thing because that can get them a lot of money

He isn’t really a harmful dude

Less harmful than most of the dark sides

Chaotic neutral, probably

He just wants what he wants and it doesn’t matter what it takes to achieve it

He sides with anyone, as long as it benefits him

The demon associated with greed is Mammon

So his name could be either based on that, or it could be Midas

Random sidenote: the list I’m using for this, calls these demons the Princes of Hell, which is pretty fun

But back to the point

He can get along with most of the sides pretty well, though he stays away from Wrath and Pride if he can 

His outfit consists of a black blazer with a pattern of golden roses (referring to the myth of King Midas), a necklace with a pendant of a silver pipe (reference to a Native American legend about greed), a white shirt (the black and white being another reference to King Midas), and black trousers

Lots of gold and silver stuff in his room as well 

I picture his room would be similar to a vault or something

With lots of valuables

Probably every price Thomas has won too

Not because he values them so much emotionally, but because they are worth quite a lot

I can’t find the post any more, but I once saw this theory of there being exactly one (1) dollar in the mindscape

Greed definitely created the dollar

He’s upset it was stolen from him

So he made a lot of dollars which he hid from the others

They’re his dollars your heathens

Lust (a big thank you to @purple-plaid-patches for helping me out with this dude’s outfit!)

Depicts all and any kind of lust

Demon of Lust is called Asmodeus

There are so many stories about lust yet I can’t find a single one that has a personification of Lust, that is homophobia

I read that the snake symbolises lust

So I picture Deceit and Lust would get along pretty well

He also likes it when the other sides get in trouble because it’s fun

Especially if Pride and Wrath are the angry ones

A hint of sadist

But Patton dulls out most of his influence, being Morality and enjoying people being in pain is b a d

Patton’s influence slips sometimes tho

Like when Thomas is watching those home video things and people slip or get hurt in another way

Cause let’s be real

That’s kinda funny

Notorious invader of personal space

It’s funny to see how the others get uncomfortable when he does it

Likes making people uncomfortable in general

Not a fun dude to be around

He’s not as dangerous as Pride or Wrath though

He is just very annoying and is almost guaranteed to make you uncomfortable

He likes to watch people get hurt but it’s so much effort to do it himself

So he’s not a huge threat to your safety

Just to your personal space

His outfit is great, thanks to @purple-plaid-patches

It’s a crop top, dark blue with gold accents

This skirt but dark blue

These things but in gold

Choker but with like… sapphires

Also this anklet

I honestly don’t know what to do with his room so go crazy on that

His name could be Phillip

Cause I found this Native American legend about a woman gaining an obsession with horses (I mean… this was in the category for lust so I’m using this)

And Phillip means horse

Might be a little far-fetched, but I searched so long for symbolism and this is the closest I could get why couldn’t I find more personifications or symbols of Lust 

Envy

He often works with Pride on stuff because they both want Thomas to be as famous and successful as he can be obviously

Greed as well, probably

Looks at the achievements of others and gets jealous of everything they possess, everything they have achieved

So he works together with the other sides to try and top those others

Actually, now that I think of it, he would probably work together with most of the sides if it benefits him

He is also pretty close to Deceit

Because envy often leads people to deceive another in one way or another

Think of Iago in Othello

If Deceit and Envy would ever fuse, they would form an Iago istg

(Shit could you imagine tho? That would be so cool)

Like most of the dark sides, he doesn’t really care about the overall picture, he just really wants to do what makes him happiest

His basic outfit is a simple green shirt and jeans

But he changes his outfit all the time, depending on what he desires most at that time so no one really knows his actual outfit

His room is cold and dark, much like Envy’s home in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

It’s not very pretty

His name is Levi, from Leviathan, the demon of envy

I also like his name being similar to Aglauros somehow, because in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a girl named Aglauros is corrupted by Envy, but I don’t know a name that could fit

Gluttony

For this, I am using this quote I found from Thomas Aquinas

“Gluttony denotes, not any desire of eating and drinking, but an inordinate desire...leaving the order of reason, wherein the good of moral virtue consists.”

I assume that the ‘…’ implies a bit if left out, but for some reason I can’t find the full quote, so I’m not totally sure

But from what I read here, is that Gluttony basically encompasses everything

This site described it as excessive materialism, which is a pretty good explanation I guess

So basically he wants Thomas to get everything in existence

“Oh look at that! You should buy this thing because you might be able to use it one time and then forget about it! And even if you can't use it, you will have it.”

Greed probably likes him, even though Greed is more about having things just to have it and never use them, while Gluttony wants things to use them

But they both want things

He secretly loves Patton’s room because he holds on to pretty much everything, and Gluttony loves going through those old things

But he will never admit it

Loves his foods

He’s the voice in Thomas’ head telling him eat pizza all the time

Logan has a hard time countering him sometimes

At the same time, he also wants Thomas to try all kinds of different food because he needs to taste it all

Very confusing side

Demon of gluttony is Beelzebub

There’s a fun fact for y’all

I was going to suggest Logan for a name because of Wolverine (the Dutch name for a wolverine is pretty close to what you’d call a glutton and I liked the idea)

But then I realised that there already is a Logan

But James could work too

His room would probably have a lot of storage space

Cupboards, shelves, closets

that's all I've got, can't think of anything else

His outfit is an oversized shirt (orange, cause that stands for gluttony) with grey sweatpants

Wrath (warning for mention of dismemberment, in the final bullet point)

Most dangerous of the sides

Obviously, he’s a hot-tempered guy

Gets very upset very quickly

His influence on Thomas is mostly dulled by other sides, though

Especially Patton, who handles most of the emotions anyways

Doesn’t mean the guy doesn’t get very upset

If you thought Pride was bad, oh boy, Wrath is worse

You really don’t want to upset him either

Very vengeful

Satan is often depicted as the demon of Wrath so there’s a connection

I feel like he would be the most violent of all the sides

Probably has a bunch of weapons himself

The other sides stay away from him if they can

His outfit is an all-black ensemble with a dark red cape

I don’t know why but I feel like he would be extra enough to have a fucking cape

It’s like one of those capes with a high collar that are Extratm and slightly creepy because only villains appear to be wearing them

His name is Elliot, after one of the Batman villains called Wrath

In reference to his name, his room would look like a stereotypical villain lair

Lots of dark

Dark walls, dark furniture

It’s just a place where he can escape to

Sorta like a dungeon

I also like the idea of there being a lot of silver details idk why

It’s a pretty creepy place and no one ever goes in unless they have a very good reason to

When thinking about this, I immediately pictured him having a throne, I don’t know why

But he definitely has a throne

It’s decorated with black roses, spiralling up from the legs all the way to the top (they have lots of thorns obviously)

Also across the arm rests and stuff

I also read that the punishment for wrath (I am assuming it is in Dante's Inferno, but the site didn’t specify) is constant dismemberment, so I like the idea of him just… cutting of a hand or foot if someone irritates him?

Cause that’s pretty ironic

Sloth

Obviously, he is the laziest side

Just wants to sleep constantly

He doesn’t understand the point of trying to achieve big goals when you can just fucking sleep

Most of the dark sides don’t understand him

A true chaotic neutral

He is chaotic, both in the literal sense and the sense of the alignment chart

The demon of sloth is Belphegor

His name could be Roderick, which is incredibly fancy for a side like him but

Hear me out, I like my reasoning

Machiavelli wrote a novella called Belfagor, about (you guessed it) Belphegor

He was sent to Earth for some mission and used Roderigo as a name when posing as a human

So yeah

Roderick

His name could also be Rick tho

Maybe his name is Roderick but he hates it so everyone calls him Rick

If that were the case, he would constantly make Never Gonna Give You Up jokes

Wrath got so sick of it that he threatened to kill Sloth over it, so now he makes sure Wrath is nowhere near before making the joke

Lust secretly wants to tell Wrath about it every time Sloth makes a joke like that again, because he’d like to see Sloth getting in trouble

His outfit is a light blue pyjama with little sheep on it, you know the one (because light blue symbolises sloth)

He also has a necklace with a goat he always wears (also a symbol for sloth)

His room is a mess cause he never bothers to clean it

It’s just Thomas’ room but

A million times messier

Also the reason that Thomas keeps procrastinating things, because “why do it when you can just sleep and… not do it?”

In Dante’s Inferno, the punishment for sloth is a snake pit

So where Envy gets along with Deceit pretty well, Sloth can’t stand being around Deceit

He just makes him very uncomfortable 

 Deceit

@musicphanpie-b showed me this site

The important thing here is “Of course, the seven deadly sins cover mostly MOTIVATIONS to do things. If you were not compelled by anger, greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony or laziness, there wouldn't be much to make you deceive someone.”

So basically, he works together with the other dark sides

He manipulates them into getting to do what he wants

He knows what the other sides value the most, so obviously, he abuses this knowledge

Sneaky snake 

#sanders sides #thomas sanders #dark sides #deceit sanders #deadly sins #sanders sides headcanon #mercy's hc

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111: How to Stay Out of Entrepreneurial Hell – Interview w/ Paul Moore

  Today we’re talking with Paul Moore. Paul has found great success in multiple domains as an entrepreneur, including but not limited to the real estate investing business.

Paul has flipped over 50 homes and 25 high-end waterfront lots, appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters, rehabbed and managed rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a subdivision, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms. After helping with three successful developments, including assisting with the development of a Hyatt hotel and a very successful multifamily project, Paul ventured into the commercial multifamily arena.

With decades of experience and an impressive resumé, Paul offers a fresh perspective on creative real estate investing and philanthropy in 2021.

Links and Resources

WellingsCapital.com (Paul’s Website)

How to Lose Money Podcast

The Fast (and Slow) Roadmap for Real Estate Investors

The One Things by Gary Keller

Who Was George Muller?

Malachi 3:10

Memos From the Head Office by Perry Marshall

Compassion International

World Vision

Anthropoid Film

Paperstac

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Episode 111 Transcription

Seth: Hey, everybody. How’s it going? It’s Seth Williams here and Jaren Barnes and you’re listening to the REtipster podcast. Today we’re talking with Paul Moore. I first heard about Paul and saw his stuff, just some YouTube videos he had put together for BiggerPockets years ago. He has always just stood out as an authoritative guy who knows a lot of stuff.

Just a little bit of background about Paul. He began his career at Ford Motor Company after earning an MBA from Ohio State. And after five years of working at Ford, Paul started a staffing company with a partner. Paul and his partner sold it to a publicly traded firm five years later for $2.9 million. And along the way, Paul was a finalist for Ernst & Young Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year two years straight.

Paul later got into the real estate sector where he flipped over 50 homes and 25 high-end waterfront lots. He appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters. He has rehabbed and managed rental properties, built a number of new homes, developed a subdivision, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms.

After helping with three successful developments, including assisting with the development of a Hyatt hotel and a very successful multifamily project, Paul ventured into the commercial multifamily arena.

With decades of experience and an impressive resume, Paul offers a fresh perspective on creative real estate investing and philanthropy in 2021. Paul also is an experienced podcast guest, having appeared on over 60 shows and counting. And we’re just really glad to have him here. So, Paul, welcome to the show. How are you doing?

Paul Moore: Hey, it’s great to be here, guys. Thanks for having me on.

Seth: I know we discovered a lot in that intro, but it almost makes you wonder just right off the bat with all the stuff you’ve done since… Was it like in the mid-nineties when you got into real estate and was that your first foray into real estate?

Paul Moore: I invested in commercial real estate passively in 1999, but I really started full-time into real estate in the year 2000.

Seth: With all of this stuff you’ve seen, all the different market changes, times when real estate has been in the tank and other times when real estate has been really hot, kind of like right now, what would you say are some of the lessons you’ve learned? Anything super important standout about how to handle yourself when the market is constantly changing and the rules are different from year to year?

Paul Moore: Yeah. One thing that stands out, it came from my bio and that is, I got tired and kind of bored listening to you read it. I actually used to think, I remember years ago, I’ve got this drawer in my desk where I keep all my business cards. And I’ve got business cards, I, unfortunately, don’t have one from the staffing company, but from over a dozen different things I’ve done since then, I thought I’m going to put a serial entrepreneur on the card. And another time I thought I’m going to put a full-time investor on it.

And you know what? Being a serial entrepreneur is not cool. And I’m sorry if I’m offending you guys or anybody else, it can be, Elon Musk has done it really well, but he hasn’t actually done marriage and parenting as well from what I’ve heard. At risk, as I told you before the show of the same thing, because when you’re always chasing two rabbits as Gary Keller quotes, then the one thing, you’ll probably catch neither one.

And I chased shiny objects for years, and I would be down the road with a startup and see a new opportunity and go turn my attention to that. And Barry, my business partner, who actually was in Indiana for many years and Michigan. And I know you guys both are from both those places. But Barry said, once he ran for governor of Colorado a few years ago, he said I rubbed shoulders with some billionaires and really successful people recently. He said the most successful people took Gary Keller’s advice and stayed on one thing for decades. And they became very, very good at it. And that might’ve even been boring or looked boring, but boring is cool.

In fact, I am thinking about writing a book called “The Boring Investor.” I’ve got 21 chapters outlined for it. And I started on a plane recently with this burst of inspiration. If you look at Warren Buffett’s life, guys, we couldn’t handle a week of his life. It’s so boring, seemingly. But Paul Samuelson, the first U.S. economist to win the Nobel peace prize said “Investing should be boring. It should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

Jaren: Yeah. I just recently watched an interview with Ramit Sethi. He was saying the same thing. He was being interviewed by Tom Bilyeu on Impact Theory. And he was asking him about finances and Bitcoin and all these hot items as it were. And he said the same thing. He said the reality is if the majority of the time, the large hedge fund companies and all these big wigs on Wall Street don’t end up beating the market, statistically, you would be better off just parking your money in an ETF or mutual fund that just matches the market. He says the exact same thing that your finances should be boring because they’re supposed to give you the resources to go live an amazing life. They themselves are not supposed to be the end all be all.

Paul Moore: Right. That’s so true.

Seth: Yeah. I don’t mean to take us off course, but I just put together a blog post. I actually did it several months ago, but it just got published last week. It’s all about the fast and slow roadmap for real estate investors. And it was based on this thing that I heard a really smart person tell me a few years ago. He told me that you make your money in your business and you preserve your money in the market, not the other way around.

Paul Moore: Oh, I love that.

Seth: Yeah. If you equate that to real estate, it’s like, if you want to get there quickly investing in passive “buy and hold” investments and that kind of thing, that’s not the fast way to get there. That is the boring way.

Paul Moore: As an entrepreneur, as this high-energy serial entrepreneur that became a full-time investor at age 34 when I sold my company, guys, I blew it. I blew it. I wanted to keep investing like I entrepreneured. I just made that word up. But anyway, the point is I guess I became an entrepreneurial investor and it was a big mistake and I lost a lot of money doing it. I mean, I’ve got a podcast called “How to Lose Money” after all.

Seth: Maybe you can explain what you mean by that. What exactly did you do wrong? Were you trying to flip properties fast or something? Let’s pick that apart.

Paul Moore: Yeah. I just chase things with little due diligence. I heard about a guy who was doing foreign exchange investing and he was able to make a 3% profit a month and he would keep a 1% and give 2% to his investors. And you know what? I did due diligence, but not much. I just trusted what another guy told me about and I invested $100,000. I actually went to see him in Charlotte to take him another $100,000. And I got this sinking gut feeling that something was very wrong. And so rather than do what I should have and pulled the $100,000 out, at least I didn’t put another $100,000 with him because a few weeks later the FBI raided him. And he’s now in year, I think, like 20 of his 158-year prison time. It was a Ponzi scheme and he still won’t tell people where he’s kept the $18 million that he stole from 2,000 to 4,000 people. I’m not clear how many.

But I just didn’t do enough due diligence. Investing is when your principal’s generally safe and you’ve got a chance to make a return. Speculating is when your principal is not at all safe and you’ve got a chance to make a big return. And either one is okay. I mean, it’s okay to speculate in Google, if you’re the Stanford professor 20 years ago or whatever. Or it’s okay to speculate in Amazon, if you’re Jeff Bezos’s parents 27 years ago, who turned $300,000 into $30 billion or whatever.

But let’s face it. There’s a lot of other people who speculate are now driving pizza for Domino’s. And so, the sure path to wealth is slow and boring. Jeff Bezos asked Warren Buffet, “Why doesn’t everybody just imitate you? It’s not that complicated.” Buffett said, “People don’t want to get rich that slowly.”

Jaren: Hey, Paul, I want to go back to a point of conversation we were having a minute ago, because you said something really interesting to me. You were talking about how you as an entrepreneur for years got the shiny object syndrome and you would be pursuing all these different opportunities that presented themselves.

One of the things that I struggle with a lot is the fear that if I give my “yes” to something, I inherently have to give my notes to a bunch of other things. You even said earlier that the guys that are billionaires, your partner Barry, was rubbing shoulders with billionaires and they just stuck to one thing and made it work.

The thing that I really struggle with is I always doubt if I am actually doing the right one thing. Because that is the million-dollar question. If I give my life to building set adventures and it’s not good soil, it’s not a good place to see, then I could legitimately ruin my entire life and waste my entire life or waste all my potential.

Do you have any insight or any wisdom that you could speak to in that kind of predicament? Because I think that’s where a lot of entrepreneurs struggle. Without me kind of catching the shiny object syndrome and doing a deep dive for a couple of months in apartment syndications, I would never learn whether or not it’s for me or not.

Paul Moore: Yeah. It’s so true. And I don’t have a great answer. I remember Gary Keller in the book “The ONE Thing” said, “Just saying yes to your one thing means saying no to a thousand distractions.” And I would say more like 10,000 distractions along the way. And that can be on an hourly basis, a monthly basis, a lifetime basis. And it is hard. And wouldn’t it be terrible to get to the end of your life and realize that you were acting in a play so to speak, but you didn’t know the plot.

That’s why I love to step back from my business. And in fact, I like to step back every morning when I get up and take some time to journal, to pray, to meditate, and to really remind myself of the plot of my life.

It’s interesting, Jaren. Like I said, we’ve had a show called “How to Lose Money” for four years. We had interviewed 230-some guests and we learned tons of lessons, but two that stood out, one was “Don’t quit, persevere.” Like all the posters on the walls of your office. “Persevere, never quit.” The frog grabbing the pelican by the throat, “Never give up.”

The other lesson we learned that stood out was “Quit quickly.” You got to know to turn it and cash in your chips soon. We interviewed lots of people who told us about ways they didn’t stop soon enough. And as a result, they lost a lot of money. We invested almost $400,000 in a wireless internet company in North Dakota that I co-founded after doing this super successful multifamily deal in North Dakota in the same town.

And about $100,000 into the burn of that $400,000, we should have pulled the plug. We could have given investors. And I was the largest investor, backed three-quarters of their money. But instead, we burned it out for about seven years and it turned into zero. And if we would have just pulled the plug on that, the first winter, when the radios didn’t work, we would have been a lot smarter.

So, I think both are true. The question is, how do you know if you’re on the right path that you need to keep persevering on or barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. And I think the answer partially comes from wisdom. wisdom of mentors, wisdom of counselors and coaches, but also your own wisdom that you gain over decades. And a lot of that comes from pain. And that’s why we called the show “How to lose money.” We tried to give people an opportunity to learn from other people’s pain.

Jaren: Yeah, that’s really insightful. It’s really hard to figure out, man, because I can be very certain on some days are even an hour of a particular day. And then a few hours later, something can derail me, and then I’ll be second-guessing the decisions that I’ve made. For me, I guess it’s a form of FOMO.

Paul Moore: It is.

Jaren: I don’t know when you should quit versus when you should double down, get gritty and go hard because there are people in ditches on both paths. So, I guess it’s just one of those entrepreneurial conundrums.

Paul Moore: It’s really tough. There was a guy named Lance Wallnau that you might’ve heard of. And Lance Wallnau has a thing where he talks about when all your education, training, successes, failures, strengths, weaknesses, the things you enjoy, the things that give you life versus the things that feel like you’re going to die to have to do it, when they all come together and you just have this moment of clarity, he calls it convergence, and you can find stuff like that on YouTube and on Lance Wallnau’s website. But convergence is when that all comes together. And when that happens, you often can tell, “Oh yeah, I’m in the zone of convergence.”

Unfortunately, he says a lot of people don’t come to that moment of clarity until their fifties or sixties. And so, eat right, stay healthy because if you are like me and didn’t really come to that moment of convergence until my mid-fifties, you’re going to have a long road ahead because hey man, I can never retire.

Seth: Yeah, totally. Paul, I know just from your bio, it sounds like you’ve got some experience with investing in vacant land. Since that’s a big part of our audience and there are a lot of them who are interested in that and I’m interested in this too, what is your experience with that? What kind of land did you buy and invest in and what was involved with that?

Paul Moore: Yeah. When we sold our company to another company in Detroit when I was 33 and 34, I moved to a mountaintop in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. We tried to start a nonprofit organization. Our neighbor had 450 acres and he was very, very old. And we asked him if he wanted to sell. And he said, yeah. So, we actually spent like $6,000 or $7,000 getting the timber evaluated without a written contract with him.

He basically said, okay, I’ll sell it to you for a thousand dollars an acre. This is mountaintop land. And that’s about right. And while the timber was worth a thousand dollars an acre, we found out that it was in a bad market in 2000. And so, we went down the row with him, but his wife caught wind of it and she shut the whole thing down. We didn’t have a signed contract. I wouldn’t have wanted to hold it to him anyway and cause marital strife, he was a friend of mine.

My son never forgot that. And actually about 15, 16 years later in 2016, he started in that business full-time. And actually, that’s what he does. He buys land that has a variety of uses. I mean, he can subdivide it. He can rent it out for hunting land. He can rent it out to a cell tower company. He can rent it out for solar. He can do carbon tax credits though we don’t know exactly how to do that yet. I know people do it and he can also cut timber. He just bought a 201-acre parcel. He’s going to select, cut the largest trees off, and let the rest grow for 25 more years. What a great retirement plan for a 28-year-old.

So, that’s my main involvement in land. The other would be I bought and flipped about 30 or 40 waterfront lots over the years at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. And one of them was a five-acre parcel that I had to subdivide to make work. Talk about speculation. We were counting on the market to continue to go. Well, of course, everybody does that in a sense, but we were also counting on the Vita Virginia department of transportation granting us a public road in front of the lot. No speculation there.

And after two or three years of trying to hope that would happen—hope is not a business strategy—and so, we were not able to make that happen. That almost got me to the point of bankruptcy in 2008, but I ended up actually going from $2.5 million in debt to completely debt-free through a series of amazing events that happened through the year of 2008.

Jaren: Do you mind diving into a little bit of that? That’s a major cliffhanger.

Paul Moore: Yeah. I told you, I do this morning meditation thing and it was a Sunday morning, in November of 2007. And I was sitting there one morning realizing, man, I’m $2.5 million dollars in debt. 10 years ago, to the month, I had almost $2 million in the bank and now I’m $2.5 million in debt. But I didn’t feel scared. And it’s kind of odd to me now that I didn’t. I guess it’s because I didn’t know how bad the 2008 recession would be. Of course, nobody did.

And so, we’re about to hurdle down this black hole called the great financial crisis. And I was sitting there and I had this really strong impression like “What would George Müller do?” Well, for those of you who don’t know George Müller, which is probably most of your audience, he lived through the 1800s. And he actually was a hellion in Germany as a young man. And he went to England and he became sort of a saint, so to speak. He actually housed and cared for 10,000 orphans total over his lifetime and beyond in these large orphanages he built, using the model they had at the time for orphanages.

He actually was able to raise what we believe was around a quarter-billion dollars in today’s dollars, possibly up to half a billion. And he never ever asked for a penny from anybody or told anybody he had a need. He actually just believed if he was fully aligned with God, that God would provide him every cent he needed. And apparently, he did.

So, I thought, “What would George Müller do?” Well, he was really opinionated. Like he didn’t believe in marketing and sales and all kinds of things. But he also didn’t believe in debt. And I thought, well, George Müller wouldn’t be in debt, but if he was, he would do something really crazy and outlandish to get out of debt. And so, actually that morning, the pastor of my church talked about George Müller and I’d never heard him mention his name ever in like 14 years. And so, I thought, okay, I’m on the right track. And so, I went to my family and four young kids and my wife and I said, “Hey, family gather around. We’re in a lot of trouble. We’re going to start giving our way out of debt.” And then I met with two concerned friends, me and two others. And they said, “You’re going to obviously have to declare bankruptcy, right Paul?” And I said, “Well, it would seem, but I’m going to start giving my way out of debt.” That went over really well.

On January 1st, 2008 with no idea how we’d get out of this mess, we started giving aggressively to some nonprofits, charities, et cetera we were committed to. Four weeks later, I was in a Subway restaurant and had this random conversation seemingly with an experienced real estate developer who gave me an idea how to subdivide the five acres of land into five one-acre parcels, which was my goal all along.

And I said that won’t work because of this law. He said, well, think about it. And I have this incredible moment, like, “Oh, I know what to do.” And I got out of the Subway restaurant, called my surveyor, and explained it. He thought it was a terrible idea because he said that law prohibits you. And I said let’s go to the county planning and zoning office anyway. So, two days later we’re sitting there and he’s sitting there like embarrassed while I’m presenting this outlandish plan to use their law that prohibited subdividing to subdivide the land.

And the lady looked up at me and shook her head. She said “I’ve been working here for decades. No one has ever come up with such an outlandish plan, but you somehow found a loophole in the law. You’re right. You can do this.” And I still had a lot of work ahead. I had surveyors and attorneys and soil scientists. I had to find five buyers in the midst of the worst downturn since the great depression. But I did, it happened and I was completely debt-free in 13 months.

Jaren: That is awesome.

Seth: Wow. Maybe I missed it when you were talking, but in terms of giving your way out of debt, what else was involved with that? Were you giving to a certain cause or something beyond that?

Paul Moore: No, I guess I really believe and people all around the world, believe in what some people call karma. Some people call it the law of sowing and reaping. I was just giving, believing that that would actually matter. I didn’t know what would happen. I thought we could have ended up broke and bankrupt. And for some reason, I didn’t lose any sleep over that. I didn’t think we would, but I thought we might.

Oh, and I forgot to tell you. Right in the middle of all that, my business partner quit. He had half the debt and he handed it to me. And if he hadn’t quit, I couldn’t have become debt-free because when I sold those lots, I would have split the profit with him. And I told him, I’m going to figure this out. And he said, I got to quit anyway. And he missed out on some profit, but anyway, that’s what happened.

I just really believe that the universe, God, whatever you want to call it, will all align when we give generously. And when we give of our time, when we sacrifice money and somehow or another, things come to us that wouldn’t have come otherwise. George Müller believed that. And I tell you what, I do too. And I don’t think it’s a magic formula though. I don’t think I can just put a dollar in like a vending machine and get a soda pop out of a machine. I don’t think it’s a vending machine, I think it is just a principle that’s generally true.

Seth: Yeah. There is a Biblical basis for that. And all the atheist and agnostic listeners out there are probably going to roll their eyes at this. But Malachi 3:10 says “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my temple. And if you do, I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great that you won’t have enough room to take it in. Try it and put me to the test.”

God is actually challenging you. Like, see if I don’t come through for you. I think there is something to that. There’ve been a few times in my life. I wouldn’t say I was recklessly giving, but I intentionally gave to the point of inconvenience, like it hurt me to do so. It never stayed a negative thing. I don’t know where it comes from, but somehow you end up further ahead. And I think it probably has to do with giving with a cheerful heart and that kind of thing. But there is something to that. At least that has been my experience and I haven’t heard a lot of people who have done that and it hasn’t worked out for them.

Paul Moore: I know. And Seth, I’ll tell you. Actually, I shared this on a podcast a few months ago and the host said, check this out. And he showed me a study, I think it was a Catholic guy in New York. University of Syracuse did a study on this and proved that people who gave generously actually ended up wealthier. And they actually dove in deep because it didn’t make sense to him. He didn’t believe the results. He dove in deeper and pulled it apart and figured out “why”, some reasons why it could be true. And for anybody who’s listening, if you want to hear that message he gave about, it’s a short message, 35 minutes. He gave it at Brigham Young University. And I want to say 2009.

Seth: Yeah, it’s fascinating.

Jaren: It’s interesting how in life the principles of success are universal and sometimes they’re counterintuitive, but people from all different walks and all different stripes and colors and backgrounds and all of that, they all typically stumble across some version of the financial, like the tithing principle or whatever. It’s really, really interesting that even if you have no faith in God whatsoever, if you do this kingdom principle, it works and it works across the board.

Paul Moore: It’s true. AA – Alcoholics Anonymous, those principles work for people who have no faith at all. I will say that I think that there are probably deeper, longer-lasting and work better for people who really do have faith, but they do work. It’s amazing, it’s just like gravity. It works for everybody.

Jaren: Yeah. I like that. Paul, you’ve mentioned a couple of times about meditating and that’s really piqued my interest because if I’m honest, I don’t know what meditation is or what’s supposed to happen when you sit down and try to meditate. And I would love just some insight as to what your meditation practice looks like, if you have any pointers. I know that there’s a lot of diversity and all of that in wanting practices and what have you. And I’ve tried to do, there’s a really ancient type of Christian meditation called the Jesus prayer. And I’ve tried to do that and I’ve tried to do some other things, but I don’t know exactly what is supposed to be happening when I’m sitting there for 20 minutes or whatever. Can you dive into what that looks like for you and why you find it beneficial? I mean, if you’re committed to doing it every day, that’s a pretty big deal.

Paul Moore: Yeah. I’m going to show some weakness here. I don’t know what I really know. In an experiential way, the best way to do it, I sort of call it meditation. Well, I will say this. There is a form of Eastern meditation, which I’ve heard though I haven’t experienced it. It is emptying your mind of all thoughts. And I think that they’re the Western form or the Christian form would honestly be to fill my mind with thoughts, to set my gaze on heaven, and to set my gaze. I mentioned earlier, getting to the end of your life and not understanding the plot of the story. Just reading the lines as you went and not getting it.

Well, in this way in meditation, I’m actually reframing myself every day to remember the bigger story. To remember that I’m not here just to make money or succeed in business. That I’ve got kids who need me. That I’ve got people I’m mentoring who really need time with me. And though I’m tempted to work till midnight tonight, I really do need to stop at dinner time and do these other things.

So, it’s reframing practically. I’ll tell you that my meditation looks like this. It looks like having the scriptures out and having a blank piece of page on a journal and just starting to write thoughts. And sometimes those random thoughts end up with some kind of brilliance that I wouldn’t have come to otherwise. For me, my mind is racing so fast with business ideas almost all the time, I would say.

This is my own theory. No one’s ever told me this, but when I’m writing, I feel like the effort that my brain must use to write actually somehow opens up a channel for me to actually hear from my inner brain. Maybe tapping into a comment that I heard on a podcast once or a book, a paragraph of a book I read, or a scripture. I feel like when I’m writing, I get ideas that I cannot even believe sometimes how brilliant they are. And then I remember that I heard that somewhere, but I wouldn’t have remembered it otherwise.

Jaren: Yeah. That’s really interesting. I don’t know if you’re familiar with a guy named Perry Marshall.

Paul Moore: Perry and I are friends. I love Perry and I’ve got his book right over here.

Jaren: Yeah. He just came out with a book called “Memos from the Head Office.” And I actually was at one of his seminars, and he was sharing how he actually got an academic published article for the 80/20 principle in Italy. And he actually in his journaling practice, wrote down verbatim 80/20 academic articles coming out published. It’s going to be published, like all this stuff. And he actually read it and he’s like, this happened, I don’t know what the timeline was, but let’s just say for sake of examples, like six months or a year before it was even on the radar. And so, he actually has gotten a lot of insights. This new book that he just came out with, it’s probably worth dropping in the show notes, Seth.

Paul Moore: I absolutely agree. “Memos from the Head Office,” I’ve got stories of my own like that as well, including the time I tried to invest in a deal and I got a fax. I kid you not. A fax from somebody advertising something that made me want to call the number, a fax. I kid you not. And I called the guy and it turned out he knew the guy I was going to invest with that day. And he told me he was a scam artist. And I found out later he was a scam. It was true. He was a scammer.

Because I called the guy before I wired him the money. I said, “Hey, one more question.” And I asked him and he practically hung up on me because it was true. Can you imagine that talk about a memo from the head office?

But Perry’s book, I’m looking at it here, I’m guessing it’s about 190 pages. I think it’s just shy of 200 pages and it’s full of stories like that. That is absolutely impossible to explain apart from supernatural intervention.

Seth: I got to check that out, it sounds fascinating.

Jaren: What’s really interesting about Perry’s world is that he’s not exclusively Christian. I’ve been to “Memos of the Head Office” and it was really fascinating because you have people that are getting memos from the head office that have no grid for God or are completely agnostic or whatever. And they go to these things and they get radically touched and they get life-altering words from the head office.

Paul Moore: What’s amazing about that is God actually cares about everybody. He cares about people. He cares about our civilization being better. I mean, I believe he probably gave Elon Musk his ideas, even if Elon Musk has no regard for him, from what I’ve heard. It makes sense because he cares. He really does.

Jaren: Yeah, he does.

Seth: Yeah. Paul, just to turn it a little bit and pivot into a different thing. Before we started recording here you mentioned something about how you’re using real estate to fight human trafficking. That sounds really interesting. How are you doing that? What is the connection there and how can real estate be used to end that?

Paul Moore: About six years ago, someone put in my hands a copy of a documentary called Nefarious from Exodus Cry and it shocked me. And what I learned was that human trafficking is a reality, a horrible reality in our world today. Did you know if you took the record profits, not the average, the record profits from General Motors, Nike, Starbucks, and Apple combined—their record profits together, triple that number, that’s the approximate revenue they believe is generated by human trafficking every year?

I thought about it and I thought man, if I were alive in the 1800s, I want to believe I would be abolitionists fighting against slavery like William Wilberforce. And I’d want to believe if I were an adult in the 1960s, I would have been fighting for civil rights. And while this is a civil right, it is slavery and it’s happening right under our nose. And so, our company Wellings Capital does our very best to vet. The best operators to give people an easy on-ramp into commercial real estate investing.

Well, we thought, wouldn’t it be great if we could vet the best non-profits and other organizations who are effectively fighting human trafficking? And so, we’re doing that right now. In fact, I’ve got an interview with a guy today about this and we’re vetting these organizations. Our goal is in a very short time to be able to tell investors, hey, you invested with us and we’re taking money out of our pocket from your investment to invest to free one slave. And we hope to be calling you within three to six months with the story of the raid that freed a slave and what’s her status right now, typically in Cambodia or Thailand or Belize or wherever. And then we’re going to give our investors a chance to get more involved if they choose to.

Jaren: That’s awesome.

Seth: Isn’t it that a lot of that human trafficking happen in the U.S.?

Paul Moore: Yeah, it really is.

Seth: I don’t know. I mean, I don’t fully grasp all of that, but from what I know of it, it’s some sick stuff. Just talk about the rotten parts of humanity and evil inflicted upon each other. It’s messed up. I don’t know how anybody who is involved with that in any way can live with themselves, but anything that can be done to fight that is worthwhile.

Paul Moore: It’s absolutely true. I’ve seen the devastating effects firsthand of people in my family who had one or two incidents in their past, and just the years and even decades it’s caused devastation in their lives. Some of these people, including a girl I heard about the other day, who was 17, I don’t even want to say the words on the show, but she had over a hundred incidents a day, for years, she claims. And she was rescued from New York City. It’s just unimaginable the torment and what she’s going to need to heal.

Jaren: It’s really inspirational to hear how you’ve been able to use your path in business and in real estate to make a social impact like that. Because for me, maybe it’s a matter of the season that I’m in or what have you, but it’s tough because you see a lot of injustice in the world and it’s really easy to just kind of default to “I don’t have any control over these things. I can’t really do anything.” But I always tell myself when I’m in those moments, well, if I doubled down and I become ultra-successful financially, then I’ll be in the position where I can actually do something about some of this catastrophe and evil things that happen in the world. And it’s just really inspirational. This side of the conversation, to see that you actually have done that. And it’s pretty awesome. So, thank you for what you’re doing and thanks for sharing.

Paul Moore: Yeah. Thanks for sharing that. That’s very kind of you. I would say that everybody can get involved at some level in some way, wherever they are.

Seth: I remember talking to my dad about that once. Just this idea of if I want to make an impact on the world of how I want my business to be more about me just making money and then I live my life and I die and it’s all over. If I really want to make that impact, one way to think of that is, well, someday in the future, when I have money, when I’ve gotten there, then I’ll start going nuts and doing that. My dad was just encouraging me to “No, do it now and do it then. Do it before you’re ready. Make sure you go out of your way to make a difference for every day that you’re alive. Any day could be your last. So, don’t let your life end without doing something meaningful like that.”

And it’s not really that hard. There are all kinds of organizations, world vision, compassion, you can sponsor kids. It’s not so much about ending human trafficking, but just about taking people in hopeless situations and giving them a chance. And it’s not that expensive. It’s kind of amazing what you can do to change a life through just giving $40 or less per month to that kind of cause. Pick something and make a difference and don’t wait on it.

Paul Moore: Yeah, I agree. That’s a good word right there.

Seth: I know something that a lot of real estate investors are going to have to be thinking about, and probably they always did, but even more so now with a lot of money being pumped into the system from the government is inflation. How do you use real estate as a hedge against inflation? What is just the general principle that you adhere to in terms of making sure that your money is protected through real estate?

Paul Moore: Yeah. I heard for years that real estate was a great inflation hedge, but I really didn’t think it through, until it started hitting again recently. This is a $10 trillion bill from Zimbabwe. And I don’t think the United States is going to go into that type of hyperinflation. I think there’s a lot of reasons we won’t, but obviously inflation is heating up and a lot of us believe it’s worse than the government is reporting.

It’s an amazing moment in history though, guys. When I was a kid, I remember gas lines in the 70s and grandparents and neighbors having their savings account and pensions ravaged. Somebody who got a pension check that would cover two months’ rent, now it only covers half a month. And that was real.

Well, at the same time as inflation in the late 70s and through the 70s and into the 80s, interest rates were often very, very high to match. And that was done intentionally. Well, we’re in a time where inflation is heating up, but the Fed and the government are boxed into a corner where they can’t raise interest rates very high. And so, interest rates are at roughly 5,000-year low. Yep. There’s actually studies on this 5,000-year low, but inflation is heating up.

The opportunity to buy 10- or 12- or even 30-year fixed debt at like 3% for a commercial loan right now, for a mobile home park we just invested in and then see inflation increase rents and therefore revenue over the next decade or two or three, it’s creating a huge potential as a hedge against inflation and a huge potential to actually increase wealth and to at least keep up or beat inflation along the way.

Seth: Yeah. Basically, you just don’t want to hold too much cash. That is kind of the bottom line. It’s going to rapidly lose value as long as it’s in cash form versus real estate or something else that’s going up in value to beat inflation.

Paul Moore: That’s right. But the problem is, as we all know, it’s really, really hard to find deals that make sense right now in multifamily with people paying 10%, 20%, even 30% more than the sensible value of an asset. Residential, single-family, not much better. And so we’ve got to really figure out a way or partner with people who have an inside track on deals that have a lot of meat on the bone, a lot of value add left in them, or it’s going to be really, really tough to make a profit unless inflation does keep up and inflates away the risk, if you will. Which is possible.

Jaren: Yeah. That’s one of the reasons why I’m super thankful for the land flipping business. I hear from my wholesaler friends that do houses and I hear from people from a number of different types of strategies and what have you, that it’s just really, really, really tough. But in land, I’m sure in some areas, some counties, competition might be increasing or whatever, but it’s still very predictable and very feasible to get deals. Property does take a little bit longer to sell compared to some other asset classes, but it’s pretty awesome.

Paul Moore: Yeah. I don’t think there’s a better time I’ve ever seen to be in the land business because you’ve still got people who are sitting on inherited land or whatever, that it’s just a pain to them and they just love to get rid of it. At the same time, the demand for semi-rural and rural land is just off the charts. So, what a great time to be in the land business.

Jaren: Yeah, it’s really interesting because my primary market is Florida. And you just described to the T the exact situation of the Florida market, you have a bunch of people that have land out there, or have even property out there that was a secondary home, or it was intended for that, but life got in the way and they’re just wanting to get rid of it. But at the same time, you have this huge influx of people moving there. So, it’s just this weird discrepancy that is pretty easy to capitalize on.

Paul Moore: Yeah, that’s awesome.

Seth: Paul, I don’t know if you fancy yourself an expert who makes predictions about market trends and that kind of stuff, but do you think it’s going to get back to normal or whatever that is anytime soon? Or do you think this is going to continue throughout 2022? Do you have any insights on the next year or two on where things are going?

Paul Moore: Yeah. I was reading Howard Mark’s “Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side” and also some stuff from Buffet. They refuse to make predictions, but they actually say it’s more important to behave rationally for where you can see that you are in the cycle. So, that’s my first goal is just to behave rationally for where we are, where we seem to be in the cycle.

That said, I don’t necessarily think things are going to go back to normal anytime soon. I was actually sitting in an airport in Belize, a tiny little airport getting ready to go to the real estate guys summit on sand recently. And the guy sitting next to me, I can just tell he looks smarter, successful, or something.

So, I started talking to him, it turned out it was Doug Duncan, the chief economist of Fannie Mae. And I said, “What do you really believe?” He said, “I really believe what I publish. That we’re going to see inflation of 5.5% or so this year, and back down to like 3.8% next year.” And I said, “Why do you think so low?” And he’s like, Paul. He actually didn’t say Paul. He didn’t know my name. He said, “3.8% is really, really high.” I said, “Really?” He said, “Yeah, that’s double the Fed’s target.” He reminded me of 1.9% or so he said 3.8 it’s double. He said, “That is really, really high. And I think that’s where it’ll go.” And he gave me all these reasons.

But he did say that the housing market, since 2014, he’s been crying out that there was a massive housing shortage and a growing discrepancy between the number of people wanting to buy houses and the actual number of houses. And that would include multifamily and all that as well. And so, he said, he thinks the building boom is going to go on for years, which makes me think that the inflated prices of lumber and other construction materials and construction, labor, and all that is going to continue for years as well.

Jaren: Yeah. I got a buddy who works more in the Wall Street world and he has his ear to the ground of what’s going on. He’s kind of at the forefront of the moving trends. I mean, that’s what he gets paid to do is figure out where to make people money and all that. And he says something really similar. He says there are some things that could sideswipe what his prediction is, but by and large, he thinks that the data is showing that we actually are going to be doing well for the next seven to eight-plus years. And there might be a reckoning that happens. History might be repeating itself. We might be sitting in a situation with COVID where it’s parallel to the Spanish flu or whatever. And we had the roaring 20s and then we had the great depression in 1928.

Paul Moore: It’s the roaring 20s again. Right?

Jaren: Yeah. I mean, that might be the situation. Who knows though? Who knows?

Seth: Do you ever find it frustrating Paul when you got to relearn the rules? I find it frustrating sometimes because when I first jumped into real estate seriously, it was the 2008 crash. And that was kind of a world I got to know originally where everything is cheap. No, you can’t sell real estate. It’s hard. And now it’s the total opposite and you got to just relearn what normal is and what normal prices are and competition and all this stuff.

Given how much you’ve seen in your history, is it easy for you to see the opportunity when things change, or do you get frustrated where you’re like, “Ah, man, I got to relearn all this stuff all over again”? What is your thought process there?

Paul Moore: Well, I think that that has been true overall for me over the last 20 years or so, or actually I could even say 29 years of being an entrepreneur. But actually, I think we’ve tapped into a formula that has worked really, really well. And I feel like it is sort of recession-resistant.

My company is actually investing with companies who have a long track record as in before the great recession of finding mom and pop deals. It’s sort of like what you’re doing with land. Finding mom-and-pop-owned deals where the current owner doesn’t have the desire or the knowledge or the resources to improve the income and therefore significantly improve the value.

And of course, with commercial real estate, the value is not based on emotions. It’s based on math. It’s based on a simple formula, which is sort of like the PE ratio in stocks. The value or the value change is the net operating income divided by the rate of return. So, the net income is divided by the cap rate.

And therefore, because it’s based on math, these operators are really skilled at finding opportunities where the net operating income is significantly under what it could be. Sort of like what Warren Buffet saw in Apple, when it was trading for $28 a share. And he started snatching it en masse in 2015 I believe even though he didn’t like investing in technology and he made a fortune for his investors.

While we’re doing something a little similar, we’re investing with these operators who were able to see intrinsic value where other people would just see a worn-out-looking mobile home park. Because of that, we think we’ve tapped into something that is going to do well in almost any economic cycle. For that reason, I can tell you pretty confidently that’s the track I plan to stay on for the rest of the foreseeable future.

Seth: Gotcha.

Jaren: That’s a good place to be.

Seth: Yeah. I know we haven’t gotten into a lot of the nitty-gritty of your past, like all the different projects. I’m sure we could talk for several hours about all that stuff. But when you look at everything you’ve done and everything you’ve seen, is there anything that stands out to you like, “I never should have done that. That was a bad idea. I shouldn’t have gone down that road.” And if so, what would that be and why?

Paul Moore: How many hours do we have again?

Seth: We’ll have to do a part two on that.

Paul Moore: Yeah. How to lose money again and again with Paul Moore. There were a lot of things like that. A lot of them were based on times when I didn’t do thorough due diligence. I invested based on a friend’s recommendation who I really trusted, but found out that they didn’t do enough due diligence or maybe the due diligence was done and somebody just didn’t figure out something.

Like I mentioned, the Bakken oil in North Dakota. Listen, the guy we invested with should have been as wealthy as Bill Gates right now. And I mean that literally. He had come up with a way to tap into oil reserves that nobody else had figured out yet. And that’s a fact. I have a petroleum engineering degree. It doesn’t mean I can correctly evaluate that, but that was my original degree.

I understood what they were talking about. It made total sense. He hits six out of six oil wells, these massive untapped oil reserves. Six out of six with some of the money, a bunch of us put up and he never produced a gallon of oil because it turned the tar somehow in the pipe in the 10,500 feet between below ground and the surface.

So, you never know. The due diligence was right on that one and it just didn’t work out. It had to be viewed as speculation, no matter how certain it looked. And geologists to this day say he hit it right on the nose. He did come up with some special way of doing it.

Sometimes it’s not that. Sometimes it’s just the fact that you’re out of your game. I used to try to talk to investors like these private equity firms. This was like years and years ago, building a multifamily in North Dakota over a decade ago. And they’d say, “Well, we’re not into multifamily. – Yeah, but can you see this opportunity? – Yeah. But that’s just not something we know about. We like to stay in our lane.”

Well, here I am, 11 years later, guys. I so believe in that. I know a guy right now doing an Airbnb play. He’s making a killing. He wanted me to invest with him. I believe you, but I just don’t know much about that. And I don’t want to go have to learn. People need to stay in their lane.

Jaren: But again, going back to my question at the beginning of our conversation. If you take that approach, you are inherently missing an opportunity. I guess if your current opportunity is good enough to make it worthwhile to double down and say, focus on that then cool. But for a lot of people that are just getting started in their pursuit of financial freedom, or what have you, they’re just starting their real estate journey, or investing journey, financial education. Really for those in the beginning stages to some degree, it’s like this Catch-22 thing, stay focused and stay in your lane. But on the other side, you also have to be exposed to know what your one thing is or should be.

Paul Moore: I totally agree. And the FOMO thing has been a plague for me since high school, the fear of missing out. I remember in high school, like this 12-string guitar, I got to have that one. I can’t wait until another one comes along. And I remember blowing my whole summer savings to buy that 12-string guitar.

It’s been a continual problem for me and I’ve had to learn to be disciplined. And one of the ways I did that was I brought on a business partner who was almost the extreme opposite for me. He’s very unemotional. He’s very rational. He bugs me and I say that with the dearest respect for him. Because I’ll go in with “You won’t believe what I have found.” He’ll be like, “Yeah, I will.” And I’m like, “Okay, thanks.”

But it’s really good for me because by submitting to him and by both of us mutually submitting to each other, it saves a lot of rabbit trails that I would be tempted to run down. And he also is pulled into a lot of things that are things that he would not have ever looked at. Like he didn’t want to look at self-storage and mobile home parks when we were deeply entrenched in multifamily for years. But you know what? That has been the best thing we ever did.

Jaren: Yeah. It seems like you just have to ride that tension where it’s like, I like that you have a partner that can come from the other side because then you can bring the new ideas and the opportunity and then he can shut down 90% of them and then ride the ones that are worth writing about. I like that. But when you don’t have a partner like that, it can be pretty hard to navigate those waters.

Paul Moore: I agree. When I was solo, and sometimes I’ve partnered with people who have my exact same personality. It was a lot harder.

Seth: Yeah. I can see that. Well, looking at the clock here, why don’t we navigate to our final three questions here? Paul, what we do here is at the end of a lot of our interviews like this, we go one step further beyond just real estate stuff and ask three little bit deeper questions about you and just how you think, how you operate. It just kind of gives us some more insight into your brain.

Paul Moore: Awesome.

Seth: The first question is what is your biggest fear?

Paul Moore: Amazingly Seth, when I had my back up against the wall and had $2.5 million dollars in debt, I don’t remember losing a bit of sleep over that, but I have lost sleep over the way my wife and I treat each other. And I fear that I’ll never be the husband and father that I know I’m called to be.

I’ve seen clearly what that looks like. I saw it in my dad, I’ve seen it in others and I am jealous of that. I fear that whether it’s through working too many hours, being distracted, chasing shiny objects in my personal life, whatever it is, I fear that at the end of my life, I will have not made the deep imprint on them as is evidenced by how hopefully their adult kids are going, how they’re doing. I fear that I won’t have been all I should have been in that realm. I think that’s my biggest fear.

I guess second to that would be a similar thought. And that would be that when I leave this earth, I won’t have left a history-making imprint on it. Even if it’s only with a handful of people, I want to make a difference in people’s lives.

Seth: Yeah. And difference meaning what exactly? What would you consider a good enough difference?

Paul Moore: Yeah. I just started a mentoring role at my church with six or seven other leaders. So, I’m going to be mentoring them. They are millennials, which I love. And they’re actually leaders of small groups. And those groups typically have anywhere from 6 to 12 or 15 people in them. And so, I want to leave a deep impression on them. I want to be somebody who role models being kind to the waiter or waitress, having a smile on my face when the bank account is almost empty. And not that that’s happening regularly, but it could.

I’m looking at a country that’s not the same country I grew up in, guys. I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but it doesn’t look super positive from my point of view. And I want to be somebody who boldly and bravely stands up for what I believe and doesn’t collapse in that. I just saw an amazing movie called “Anthropoid.” It’s not well-known. It should be. It’s the story of some heroes in the Czech Republic who stood up against Hitler. In the movie, the most poignant moment was when they quoted Shakespeare, I believe who was quoting Julius Caesar saying “A coward dies a thousand deaths; a hero or a brave man dies but once.”

Seth: Yeah, I know what you mean.

Jaren: I would bet money that Paul’s Enneagram is type three.

Paul Moore: It’s funny. My business partner in my former business, in the staffing company and he’s actually involved in our company Wellings Capital now. He’s an Enneagram three. I have a very good friend who’s in Enneagram three, but I can’t remember if I’m six or seven. I think I’m seven wings six, if that helps.

Jaren: Yeah. It’s just interesting. The way you are talking, it’s like you’re reading my heart. My internal dialogue and the things that I think about and value, I have the same fears.

Seth: Yeah. For sure.

Jaren: Paul, what is something that you’re most proud of?

Paul Moore: It’s so funny how similar this is going to be to the first question in my answer, I guess. And that is that even though my wife and I made a lot of mistakes in our marriage over 34 years, we have a strong marriage. And even though we made a lot of mistakes in child-raising over 28 years, 28 down to 16, four kids, they’re all doing well. And so, I’m really proud of those things. And even though my kids can readily tell me some of the mistakes we all made, me really, when they were younger, we still have a great relationship. And I just got off the phone with a friend a few hours ago who is agonizing. I would’ve said that his wife and he are better parents than us, but for some reason, their kids are really, really struggling in ways that I don’t understand. And so, I guess that would be it.

Seth: Cool. Yeah, that is something to be proud of for sure. What is the most important lesson you’ve ever learned?

Paul Moore: I think from a business point of view, it’s what I said earlier. I’m going to go back and highlight again, and that is the difference between investing and speculating. And the fact that true investing should not be entrepreneurial, it should be more on the boring side. And I think that’s most important for me, and there are so many others, of course. But that one just stands out because it has made a major difference in my investing and in my finances. And since I do a lot of podcasts, a lot of blogging, hopefully it’s helped a few other people along the way as well.

I’ll tell you, I learned that mainly from Warren Buffet. I’m actually writing a book called “Warren Buffett’s Rules for Real Estate Investors.” And I learned that concept mainly from him.

Seth: That is interesting because you never really know the future, even when you’ve done all your due diligence and you know everything front and back, you’re never a hundred percent. So, where do you think the line is between, “Okay, you’re officially speculating now”? How would you define that?

Paul Moore: If things go south, you could literally lose your money. Okay, sure. I get that that’s true. I get that Apple could go bankrupt tomorrow. It probably won’t, but General Motors. That’s one aspect of it. But I have another one that I think is a little easier to get my arms around.

And this is a little bit of a long answer, but what is true wealth? Well, true wealth is having assets that produce income. And if you have assets that produce income in a reliable way and you don’t over-leverage them, then you have true wealth. Well, I would say that the line between speculating investing is just as simple as whether it produces reliable predictable cash flow or not.

Bitcoin. I’m not against it at all, I have some. But Bitcoin doesn’t produce any reliable, predictable income. It doesn’t have any income at all unless you invest it in those certain types of ways where it somehow produces interest. So, I would say that that’s where my speculation line is, and that’s why I love commercial real estate and real estate in general.

Seth: Cool. Well, Paul, again, thanks a lot for coming to the show. It’s been awesome to talk to you and get to know you a little bit better. Hopefully, we can connect at some point in the future again. If people want to find out more about you, where should they go? What should they do?

Paul Moore: Yeah, they can go to wellingscapital.com. And I spent years, guys, trying to figure out how to get from residential into commercial real estate. And so, now I created a 60-page guide for people who want to do the same. You can get that at wellingscapital.com/resources.

Seth: We’re going to include the links to that and Paul’s website and his podcast and his books and a lot of other stuff we talked about in this conversation at retipster.com/111 because this is episode 111. So, Paul, thanks again. I appreciate you. And I wish you all the best with the stuff you’re working on and hopefully, our audience will become new raving fans to all the stuff you get.

Paul Moore: Awesome. Guys, it was really an honor to be here. Thanks, Seth. Thanks, Jaren.

Seth: All right, folks. There, you have it. That was an interview with Paul Moore. Did you have any closing thoughts on that, Jaren?

Jaren: To be honest, when I read the bio coming into the podcast today, I was like, “Oh, this is going to be just another one of those kinds of run-of-the-mill large apartment syndication kind of guys”, but he was a breath of fresh air for sure.

Seth: Yeah. It seems like there were a lot of different directions we could have gone with that. We didn’t even really get much into the land investing stuff that he or his son had done because they were just a lot of ground to cover there, but it sounds like the guy’s a wealth of information and hopefully, we can stay in touch with him in the future. Do you want to do one of our closing questions here?

Jaren: Let’s do it.

Seth: What is something that people think makes them look cool, but actually makes them look ridiculous? I guess this is probably like a fashion trend thing maybe. Maybe it’s not limited to that.

Jaren: Yeah. I don’t know. My brain just went to being braggadocious. That is where my brain went. Because you run into it a lot in the real estate world where people are just like, “Yeah, I’m the greatest thing ever.” And I think they do it to try and raise their level of the pecking order or whatever, but to me, and maybe I’m just weird and I’m like, I’m not a part of that pecking order or whatever. I just don’t operate in it. But to me, I see what they’re trying to do and I’m just like, “Dude, just calm down.”

Seth: Yeah. I have to agree with that. I don’t know if it’s like an insecurity thing. Like I better really come out quick and prove how awesome I am or people are going to dismiss me. I don’t know what the thought process is or if it’s like, “I just want to feel and look amazing. And so, I’m going to find anything I can and just make myself look as good as I can.”

There’s a book Lucas Hall recommended to us way back when we interviewed him called “How to Lie with Statistics.” It’s basically about how you can make anything sound amazing if you just focus on one metric and ignore the rest. For example, a person could say “I’ve done like 20,000 deals” or something, but they’ve lost money on all of them.

So, let’s not talk about that. Let’s just talk about the number that sounds good. And even when it’s not about numbers, but just kind of like the arrogant tone or just trying to come across as like, “Oh, I’m amazing. You’re lucky you’re getting to talk to me right now.” That kind of thing. There is a lot of that in the real estate world.

Jaren: I don’t know what fuels it, man. Maybe they don’t really have high self-esteem so they’re trying to overcompensate or something. I don’t know. I’ve just never understood it. I have vivid memories of getting started in real estate and talking to other investors and them like verbally walking over me or like putting me down or whatever, again, in the whole like pecking order thing. And I just never played the game. I don’t know what fuels it. I mean, I guess it’s kind of the same question that fuels bullying. It’s kind of a similar energy or vibe.

Seth: Sometimes I feel that too. I don’t really know how much it matters what people think about. I don’t know, money I’ve made on a deal or how many deals I’ve done or whatever. Whatever you want to tie your value to. Sometimes I feel like I need to say something to prove that just to earn reputation points in people’s brains and maybe that’s completely illogical thinking. But I’d be the first to admit, I get the pressure. I understand why people do it.

Jaren: Well, I think it depends. There is a degree where you have to let people know that you know what you’re talking about and that you are reliable and that you have a track record. But you don’t have to do it in a way where I’m like, I’m the center of attention and I’m the greatest thing ever. And I’m better than you. Some of the conversations are they are sizing you up. How many deals have you done? I remember going to some conferences with you and some of the conversations that I’d be having are weird. What investing do you do? How much money do you make? How many deals are you doing? I’m like, “Dude, my favorite color is blue. I like long walks on the beach. Let’s get to know each other before we jump in and all of that.”

Seth: Yeah. I almost feel like it takes pressure off just mentally for me, if I can just get it out there that I’m not the best. You’re probably better than me or let’s just frame it up that way so we can just establish that. I can stop comparing myself to you immediately. And maybe it’ll come out at some point that maybe I’ve done something that impresses them. And it’s just kind of like a nice little surprise, but I don’t like to lead with that. Sometimes I feel like I have to. And I don’t know if that’s flawed thinking or if that is like what you’re saying. I think there is a point where you need to establish that you are credible on some level. But I think beyond that, it’s kind of just like flexing your muscles and trying to feel more special than you are or something. It’s something that bugs me and I don’t fully have it figured out in my own mind, but I know when I see it and I don’t love it when I see that.

Jaren: These days, whenever I run into it, I’ll just egg them on. So, if they start talking like, “Oh my gosh, bro, you did that? You are so amazing. Oh my gosh, that’s so awesome.” I will be like super over the top and I don’t know if they get that I’ve been over the top, but it’s fun in my head.

Seth: Yeah, I hear you, man. I guess that wraps it up then. If you guys want to check out the show notes, again, retipster.com/111 and you can see a lot of notes and links to the stuff we talked about.

And again, if you guys are listening on your phones, feel free to take out your phones and text the word “FREE” to the number 33777 and you can stay up to date on all the stuff we got going on at REtipster. Thanks again for listening. We’ll talk to you again soon.

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Let’s Play Street Kids, Pandemic Edition.

Giuliana Doran

Giuliana has been in foster care her whole life. She’s never really known her parents, and things have been pretty rough. She got pregnant and had twins and had to give them up. She was sent to a home for girls but that place... she doesn’t want to think about that place... So now she’s here. She really doesn’t know how to accept love, but she finds herself being like a mother to the others here. Giuliana doesn’t know she is part of an ancient bloodline of witches. Kleptomaniac and Freegan. Spellcraft and Sorcery

Esmerelda

Esmerelda doesn’t want you to know her last name. Her dad is someone super important and rich and she can’t stand him, his money, or his demands. She lost her mom to cancer and suddenly a man she barely knew was trying to force her into a mold she didn’t want to be in. She’s a bit of a hippy. A white girl with dreads. Freegan and Adventurous. Outdoor Enthusiast

Tessa Hawthorne

Tessa is the neighborhood thot. Her mom went to jail for drugs and was served an eviction notice the same day, and Tessa is just surviving the best way she knows how. She’s really sweet and a good friend though, and has a smile that will melt your heart. She is confident in herself. Tessa is secretly a witch that loves to collect crystals. Self Assured and Romantic. Collector

Avery Valdes

Avery, ran away when her mom was taken by ICE. She didn’t want to get put in a cage, so she ran to the city and hid in the streets, blending in with neighborhood kids and going to school like a normal kid. No one seeming to notice that there’s an extra kid in the class for some reason. Kleptomaniac. Social Butterfly

“Sonny”

“Sonny” is secretly an alien. He’s a specially bred genius dedicated to the purpose of observing human life and behavior, particularly how humans treat the least among themselves. So he must live the life of a human child in abject poverty and get to know who humans truly are. Genius. Whiz Kid

Travis Bruner

Travis is... well, just a bit of a psychopath. He ran away because he hates authority and doesn’t really have a good home life. He’s into hard drugs and will do whatever it takes to get them. His softer side shows sometimes when he’s painting or gardening. Mean and hates children. Public enemy. 

Ronan Ambrose

Ronan recently got turned into a vampire and accidentally fed on his little brother. Terrified that he is becoming a monster, he went to this warehouse to avoid people, but suddenly finds it full of other teens, who he can’t help but feel drawn to in their suffering and in his hunger. Good and a loner. Good Vampire.

I’ve done some trial runs on Twitch on a Let’s Play, available on Facebook to see here, but I’m starting over with a new save, creating a situation in the city of San Myshuno in the Spice District at the Old Salt Factory, long fallen into disrepair and disrepute. This dystopian Let’s Play features 7 starting Sims, which include 5 teenagers and two children. I’m going to describe the starting scenario and the characters.

During the 2020 Pandemic of Rabid Rodent Fever, 7 runaways find shelter in the abandoned factory. Some of the children are a bit... different. They all have some low level skills from the trial run. None of them are related. Gameplay begins in the fall (more challenging to try to get through winter) in an industrial footprint (due to the grossness of the build). 

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Rules: 

These kids are poor. They can’t get up front jobs/careers. They can make money by selling things that they make or by collecting.  Also tips from musical instruments or odd jobs.  They spend their money on frivolous things because they’re kids, and they have no clue about budgeting, saving, or earning. To make this as true to the theme as possible I have set up rules to keep them limited in how much money they’re able to make and how fast. 

They can grow anything they can find to plant. There’s already a mushroom plant and a trash plant on the lot. Maybe a carrot. Once they reach level 5 gardening they can buy any seeds they wish. I will never make them garden. They will have to take care of it autonomously, that includes any seeds I set on the ground. I will only make them harvest. Fishing allowed. They can only sell things they make from the ingredients or sell them on a vendor table. They mainly are using it for food.

I’ll occasionally take them to other parts of the city to use certain facilities or maybe even attend a festival, but they’re not allowed to go to other worlds. They’re allowed to have crafting items they can keep in their own inventory. Woodworking, candle making, fabrication, and juice making can only be done on public lots that have these items.   Spellcasters are allowed to travel to the magic realm to work on their training or to get ingredients.

Roommates allowed if there are  the beds for them.

There will be one prostitute and one drug dealer in the household. Prostitution will only be Friday and Saturday night and with limited clientele of 3. Later on, I might get her to take out a loan. Drug dealing is a little harder, so he’ll have to find a drug dealer that I’ve placed in the neighborhood to work under him, then he’ll have to build the skill and clientele and maintain his supply.  (There will always be a streaming censor in place.)

They are allowed to buy from vendors anything they can afford. 

Build buy will only be used to get something out of the inventory if they find it or are awarded it for some reason.  I will not sell burned furniture from the inventory for money. This is a glitch and they should be worth nothing. They can be recycled, however. If there’s a fire and they get the automatic insurance to replace the item, then it can be replaced. Any other furniture or decor that is found that is repairable or in good shape can be sold from build buy or used in the household. As much as possible I want to avoid selling directly from the inventory but try to make money through Plopsy or vendor tables. There’s a short list of what I will allow the household to buy from build/buy: Generator, Cauldron, Hot Pot, wash tub, clothesline, insect farm, easel, knitting basket, yoga mat, sticker storage box, and the fireplace from Eco Life

I will never make them go to school or do their homework. They will do it on their own if they can but that’s up to them.

I will only click to auto solve for their needs. I will not tell them what to cook, or how much. Because the game glitches, I may have to tell them to actually eat what they cooked or found in the dumpster.

They already have their wardrobe set to have very few articles of clothing. They’re allowed to buy t shirts from vendors, or they can buy one article of clothing at a time for $100 Simoleans deducted.

I won’t tell them to clean but I might clean up dishes or trash myself to generate trash in the dumpsters to dig through. If they earn responsibility points it is up to them to do it themselves. I won’t make them do laundry, but I may put it in their inventory if it gets to be too much on the floor.

Lot traits are “teen neighborhood”, “off the grid”, and “reduce and recycle”. I tried it with cursed and it’s not the right vibe. The house as it is set up from the gallery will turn the neighborhood smoggy after about a week of trash accumulation. I keep the option open to change the lot type for story purposes, like if I want a pet I'll change the lot to attract a stray and add it to the household instead of adopting through the service.

The warehouse is full of mice. If one of the sims has a level 5 handiness score a a mouse hole can be deleted for 1000 Simoleans deducted each.

If they want electricity they can buy a generator or they can get a fake ID to get the power turned on but they then have to pay the bills. They can’t use wind or solar unless they find it in the trash for some reason.

Heat can only come from fire pits on this lot. No fireplaces, central air, or ceiling fans. 

Debug junk and trash piles cannot be removed, but they can be put in the inventory and taken to a public lot to be recycled, but only 3 debug items per trip. Keeping it real.  

Rabid Rodent Fever has been introduced to a family in the game.  If the rabid rodent fever gets too bad and I see it in the neighborhood, the warehouse will be locked down and everyone will stay inside or in the fence for 1 sim week. No going to school, and no social visits. If someone in the household catches any kind of sickness they’ll have to quarantine in a room locked in until they get a moodlet saying they’ve beaten their cold or whatever. Medicine and all kinds of cures allowed. If any sim from the household dies, I will add another teen or child to the household, like a passing teen from the neighborhood, or perhaps someone from the gallery. No EA townies and no adults though. I have aging turned off. I may decide to age up one or both kids if someone dies in the household.

Holidays may be observed as best as they can. They can only decorate with what they can find from rummaging for decorations or something they make. They can only rummage for decorations on a holiday that requires decorations. No holidays have been added or removed. Gnomes can be sold and so can seeds, but it’s better to get the seeds. Think of it as the good will of nature spirits taking pity on their misery.

I won’t interfere in neighborhood action plans. If they’re annoying, that’s life. Kids don’t vote, so why would they have any say over how the adults choose to run things? Stupid adults. We're starting with 7 in case I want a pet or someone gets pregnant.

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Gta 5 Just How To Make Billions Quick!

What is the best business in GTA 5?

JP or Job Points are earned after completing Jobs while online. Different quantities of Job Points are collected based on how well you performed during the Job. These points are used to decide who wins a Playlist and help determine what Jobs are played within a session.

However, we would certainly be surprised if the series' didn't provide male players based on the multi-character model of GTA 5.

GTA 6's initial trailer will certainly recommend that you play entirely as a woman character accurately tossing a hornet's nest into less modern online communities before disclosing multiple roles down the line.

It would certainly make a nice change from the series' history of Hot Coffee and also pole dancer mini-games for women gamers.

Gta 5 Story Setting Speedrunning Document Set At 10 Hrs.

Grand Theft Auto Online is a relentless, open world online multiplayer video game created by Rockstar North and released by Rockstar Games.

Races, as well as time tests, are likewise excellent fast and very new methods to generate income in GTA Online while beginning, and they only take a few minutes to finish. Get in touch with Missions, common goals that separate you from the remainder of your online web server, are popular getaways that give brand-new gamers a chance to make a little money. When they pop up when playing or by looking right into the work menu in your in-game phone, you can access them either arbitrarily.

Product Delivery goals, and also even Supply Taking objectives, are relatively simple, on the other hand. You can not overstate the success of GTA Online, which had its most significant year yet in 2017, with record varieties of players in December, according to Take 2's current earnings to hire Feb 2018. GTA 5 has currently offered over 90 million copies, but GTA Online remains the essential profits driver, with profits to date approximated at $1.09 bn in July 2017, according to experts SuperData. Complying with the cash, as they state in The Cord, and GTA 6 can be an online play.

Break-ins are usually thought-about to be among the simplest methods to generate income online on GTA 5; however, it requires you to host break-ins with accuracy and accuracy so you would not lose your money. Once you have reached the level-12 on the game, you are permitted to perform your break-ins. Likewise, you are needed to have a penthouse to end up being qualified for hosting your very own heists. It enables your character to earn a substantial amount in the brief run.

What is the most expensive thing in GTA 5?

Absolutely. It's just a fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously. Since the game came out, I've played through the story mode, maybe 5 or 6 times. It's great every time.

Goals each objective pay the highest amounts after 15 minutes.

Somewhat remarkably, Grand Theft Auto 5, which you need to play GTA Online, has offered more than 115m systems.

It is presently the fifth most preferred game on Vapor with, at the time of publication, 132,000 simultaneous gamers.

When you leave earlier, you will certainly not get all that cash.

Currently, Fatality Upcoming is offered entirely free on the Impressive Games Shop. The next cost-free title is still identified as a "mystery game," which is atypical for Impressive. 

Usually, the firm will undoubtedly market each new cost-free game weeks beforehand. This version is reportedly the complete video game and not just the campaign or GTA Online. Game Pressure declares that it is a "Costs Version" with "added web content," so you could be getting even freer of the cost than people that have reached the video game on other systems.

In his 100% speedrun, he took care of ending up the game in 10 hrs, 15 minutes, and 44 seconds, beating the previous document of 10 hrs, 29 minutes, and 33 seconds. At that time, he finished everything there is to complete in GTA 5's single-player mode.

Every game in the series corresponds within its period, with realism secret to the game's story. It's worth keeping in mind that teleportation currently remains in GTA 5 of a kind, however, using a technician regularly with its tale. The decision to utilize three usable characters was, partially, a means to enables gamers to fast-travel throughout its significant map; without turning to mysticism or wormholes, Rockstar informed YouTube reveal GTAVoclock. 

Talking with Rockstar's Leslie Benzies in 2013, via the YouTube GTA show GTAVoclock, he specified that the ambition for GTA Online was "To expand this globe up until it's the world. We're simply going to add brand-new things to it, new areas constantly".

You likewise partner up with higher-level good friends as well as gain more money. 

If you are playing GTA 5, you are often called to hustle to help your personality make money to unlock the game's upcoming features. Your character will be required to check out the Los Santos Traditions Mod Shops to sell vehicles for a flexible rate; however, if you market a car and truck to the local Mod Store, it will help your personality gain more money. 

If your personality is talented in marketing the car, it might aid him in gaining greater than $9,500 for each vehicle sold by him. You can consider finding a task that would undoubtedly help your personality in collecting riches during the initial years of its growth if you are brand-new to playing GTA 5 online.

The most concrete little evidence we have originates from a Kotaku record following up on examinations into Rockstar's job society. 

This record declares that GTA 6, or at least "new access in the Grand Theft Auto collection," is early in development since April 2020. Furthermore, it suggests that Rockstar's internal preparation for the video game is to release a somewhat smaller game and broaden it through routine updates. This suggests GTA 6 will improve the success of GTA Online by integrating much more live service alternatives - or it can just be the structure for GTA Online 2 outright.

In this web page, you locate the checklist of the Top 50 Fastest Supercarsavailable in GTA Online (the multiplayer section of Grand Theft Auto V) rated by the Full throttle they can attain. This listing of the fastest Vehicles in GTA Online is updated to June 2020, including all automobiles for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and also PC, together with their Acquisition Rate. No matter, this chart is an excellent piece of insight into the internal workings of GTA Online. 

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𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

Personally, every day I grow more and more disappointed with the masses of humanity and people with a large portion of power within society. More than ever it’s become so prominent just how people putting financial gain ahead of the well-being of others during the current global crisis we are currently living through is so utterly, disgustingly evil. I’ve noticed that how the world runs and the lack of attention to grave issues regarding the prosperity of nature and humans in general is very unfortunately dominated by billionaires and other capitalists, all with disgustingly little regard for any decency pertaining to morality or the greater good. If they can’t gain from it, they simply don’t care. They are more concerned about their economic status, gain, and the economy itself than the things that have real value when it comes to the betterment of our Earth and its people.

To be specific, right off the bat we have Jeff Bezos. He is THE richest man on the planet. The average person spending one measly dollar is equivalent to Jeff Bezos spending 1.2 million dollars. Adding to this, he roughly makes well over $2,000 every second. He is 36% richer than the entire British Monarchy (or than at least what we know the British Monarchy has). And what does he do with this tremendous amount of wealth? The absolute bare minimum. The only thing he himself has recently done was contribute a small donation of $100 million toward US food banks. Of course, any donation counts, but in this man’s case that’s just like a regular person donating less than 90 dollars: easy and not impressive considering just how wealthy he really is. What’s more, amidst the vast struggling within anyone below upper-class, him along with countless other selfish men are profiting from this. Just within the last couple MONTHS Jeff Bezos has gained 24 billion dollars. Yet, funding issues still remain, healthcare is overflowing, and the working class is suffering. And guess what! Just a few days ago he was announced to be well on his way to becoming the world’s first ever TRILLIONAIRE. I don’t know about you, but trillionaires should absolutely not exist on this planet whatsoever. There are too many injustices to be able to hoard that much money for yourself.

Rich people and even governments are fighting to reopen businesses and the conventional running of day-to-day life solely for the sake of ‘saving the economy’ and their profits. They don’t care about the well-being and safety of others. Minorities and the most vulnerable within society aren’t profitable to them, therefore they don’t exist as something that requires their attention or consideration. They have the privilege to do such incredible things with the wealth they have acquired—but they don’t. They stand by inhumane working conditions within their own companies. They silently watch people struggle and die within the situations they help to ensure. They choose to use their positions of power to prey on and assault others and get away with it. These figures of ‘authority’ do all they can to make it look like workers are being brave for stepping up during these times but do absolutely nothing to ease their material conditions. Oh, wait, the minimum wage was just upped by four whole dollars. That’s definitely going to help protect them from the novel coronavirus and put more food on the table, that’s so kind of them for their generous consideration.

Sorry for the heavy tangent on capitalism, but as of late rich people have been exceedingly getting on my nerves in ways I genuinely cannot describe.

However that aside, I’ve ALSO noticed changes in how humanity tries to bring itself together in a way! In my case, a lot of the bands I like have been providing (pre-recorded from past performances) concerts available to livestream on YouTube and various other insider-personal takes on their music. Those have been really fun; it’s usually on designated Thursdays and Fridays and I have to be awake for 10 am when a concert starts, we (me by myself) go to town for like 3 hours, then I go downstairs to have lunch. Or, a few weeks ago this other group had a 3-day-long (again, pre-recorded) livestream (that started at 11 pm this time) and I ended up staying up till around 3 am with my friend. I had a light stick from when I actually went to their concert in 2018, I was able to sync it up through their app and it probably looked like a low-key rave was going on from the cars passing by. Very good times.

From a non-personal standpoint, I recall seeing videos of people on their balconies in Italy coming out and singing and playing instruments together as a neighbourhood. That was very nice to see, but it’s also worth keeping in mind that is one of the best-case scenario situations and those people were lucky enough to indulge in something like that so nonchalantly. Not to say enjoying yourself isn’t allowed, but it should be acknowledged that just looking at lockdown like that is romanticizing the whole of what’s really going on, as it’s not that glamourous for everybody.

It’s been interesting seeing how people interact with others during their adjusted daily lives, too. I’ll go on walks sometimes and me and my friends will take turns sitting at the end of each other’s driveways and ‘hang out’ like we (well not really) would before. Adding on to human interaction, I’ve seen videos of people handing out packages of things like masks and hand sanitizer to people on the street, or leaving things out for delivery people, quite thoughtful, and maybe one could say even creative, things.

Living the life as you can see (I’m sitting on the grass)

Overall, when all is said and done, in my opinion, I think everything would be much better if the people who are in charge and dictate things A) weren’t painstakingly dense and simple minded—Angela Merkel and her policies would be a great example for countries like England and the US to take notes from; B) genuinely cared about their citizens and not just money and themselves; and C) properly absorbed science and legitimate medical advice and guidelines. Sadly, a lot of people, as you may be able to have tell, are very easily influenced and follow quite blindly *cough* ingesting cleaning products *cough*. But, fortunately that’s only a small portion of the population.

Conversely, this also goes to show other like-minded regular people, in a better light, become closer and stand in solidarity for what they know is best for them and the well-beings of others. Because the majority of us are all in the exact same situation doing the exact same thing, I feel like we can gain a better understanding and deeper familiarity with those around us. And this is really specific, but I think it’s cool how we now get to see some ‘famous people’ (right off the top of my head Doja Cat, Bernie Sanders and Taylor Swift are some examples) just livestreaming or posting themselves existing in their homes and generally having a good time. You wouldn’t get to see that part of their lives too much before. I think I’ve mentioned them over 50,000 times on this blog already, but the other day the band One Ok Rock (whose song I did on the guitar) released an upload of them recreating one of their old music videos while all the members are individually self-isolating.

(Joke explained, the original title of the song is 「完全感覚Dreamer」 (Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer), but they changed it to「完全在宅Dreamer」 (Kanzen Zaitaku Dreamer); the original kankaku means ‘feeling’ or ‘intuition’, and the new zaitaku means ‘staying at home’.)

Above all, it’s difficult to decide whether this has either brought out the best or worst of humanity. I think it’s really subjective to your status and mindset that you had in the first place and what you were dealing with before all this. Adding onto that, we know how the news likes to focus on the negative the most. There are good people in this world, and grouping them together with those who think haircuts are a human right and aggressively protesting in large crowds is a good idea isn’t really fair to them.

As for myself, I haven’t noticed anything prominent come out of myself. The best I can do and what I’ve been doing right now is just following official medical guidelines, keeping distance and not go into super crowded areas, and simply wait for what happens next while staying informed. Nothing outstanding.

Here’s someone’s hot take on the subject matter as well, as much as this is 100% valid I strongly believe it’s worth acknowledging even the smallest good things happening from this too.

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Sabrina Smythe | January 14 | 27 | New York City | Manager | Sam Evans

If you’re here, you know who I am.

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@SabrinaSmythe: If you haven’t bought the new @TheSirens album, are you even real?

@SabrinaSmythe: Fangirls: The bane of my existence, in more ways than one.

@SabrinaSmythe: Even our rogaine smothered cheeto of a president knows about fake news, and it’s everywhere, even news about our girls. Read articles with a grain of salt and stop being so dense, thanks.

♫ Do you think I’m stuck up ‘cause I’m always picking fights? ♫

To say Sabrina Smythe was born with a silver spoon in her mouth was a gross understatement. After all, how many people were born into families rich enough to actually own penthouses on both coasts of the US and a villa in France?

Despite what after school specials would try to say about her life, she actually was pretty well loved and born in a long line of success, particularly on her dad’s side. Her grandfather, Marcus, had been a powerful lawyer that made the Smythe family well known, respected, and rich. Her dad, Adam, was also a lawyer, but for a music firm, and one of the best at that. He would often would sit her on his lap and tell her about his cases. He explained copyright laws to her when she was still learning how to tie her shoes. And under his watchful eye, Sabrina learned how to be truly cunning and clever.

Her mom, Colette, was also doting. While the two weren’t the closest, Sabrina learned French from speaking it with her Parisian mother growing up, and Colette said that even her two older siblings never learned it as well as she had. Sabrina just proved to be the brightest star in the family, much to the annoyance of her older brothers.

Eventually Sabrina went to a prestigious private school in New York City, just after finishing off a year of school in France. And seeing as it was an all girls school...well, Sabrina had a lot of fun. She had discovered she was gay at a fairly young age, but she didn’t come out to her family for a while. They weren’t homophobic or anything -- her dad couldn’t be if he wanted to work in the music business and her mom was French -- but after years of being perfect, well, she wasn’t sure she wanted to tarnish that image. As accepting as her parents would be, she knew that her mom had been planning some big wedding for her one day and her dad and brothers always joked about pointing a gun at any guy who tried to date her. She was pretty sure if she told her family she’d willingly pull the trigger, they’d be a bit disappointed.

Eventually she finally came out and...it wasn’t really a big deal. No one particularly cared and there was very little fanfare. It was fine. Well, mostly fine. Her parents were accepting....sorta. But she could tell they weren’t 100% comfortable with it.

Instead of focusing on that, Sabrina just threw herself into school and her high school choir. She quickly started leading it, pushing them harder than before and looking damn good while doing it. Well, she assumed so, seeing as many members of the choir would fall into bed with her over her time there. So when it came time to choose a college, Sabrina chose Scripps, a school in southern California that was part of a five college consortium. She could take classes in various programs at the other schools, but being at Scripps in particular meant she would, yet again, be in an all girls school. While she planned on studying pre-law and economics, she was definitely much more interested in studying the student body - and bodies.

♫ You might think I’m one thing, but I am another  ♫

At Scripps, Sabrina had a lot of fun. Okay, sometimes too much fun. As fascinated as she was by the legal and economic classes she took, it was hard to care about homework when she could play rugby with other girls and hook up with others or even drive out of a town to an almost exclusively female strip club.

Sabrina fell hard into the party scene, eventually even surpassing the rugby girls. Most Fridays she could be found drunk off her ass and she’d wake up on Sunday with a massive hangover and several stories about herself she couldn’t remember. There were definitely a lot of stories about her doing karaoke to the Grease soundtrack while topless. So, like, at least she wasn’t hurting herself or anything.

Of course, her grades started to suffer. She still passed her classes, but she went from being an honor roll student to a C average...C+ if her professors were extremely generous. So...she started taking Adderall to help with her class work. Then, when she realized how much rich white kids in the OC loved uppers, Sabrina started to sell some at parties. And, okay there were definitely a handful of times when she could be found snorting some of it as well, but, hey, she did a bitching version of “Summer Nights”.

But all things must end, and her senior year finally came. It turned out her average grades weren’t enough for the top law schools she applied for after graduation. Even with her last name on the application, Harvard, Yale, and even Cornell turned her down. And Cornell was basically community college, like why even go to college if you only got into Cornell. So Sabrina graduated to be very popular, but with no plans for her future.

The once brightest star of the Smythe family was completely lost.

Adam was confused and disappointed, but he was still willing to help his daughter in any way possible. So he pulled a few strings and got her a job at the music firm. While she didn’t have a law degree and therefore couldn’t really help him, she had also had the economics degree, so he figured she’d be a good candidate working with the managers. He figured eventually they could have her apply to get her MBA instead and she could pursue a career in economics.

But, to everyone’s surprise...Sabrina kind of loved the managerial stuff. As a junior staff member, she learned how they found new talent, what kind of paperwork they signed with the music firm, and how to market artists. It was like taking every interest she had -- music, social media, manipulating the minds of people around her -- and using it to her advantage.

So one day, after working for New Directions for over a year, she was in New York for vacation (while her dad worked on both coasts, she mainly frequented LA), and she decided to go to a bar that apparently had live music. The first band was some awful guys trying to be Nirvana and failing, and the next band didn’t look much more promising; they were all hot women, which Sabrina appreciated, but they brought out some keyboard with pre-recorded beats. She was about to just flirt with some of the women next to her, but then The Sirens started to play, and like a sailor at sea, she was drawn in by The Sirens.

Sabrina immediately found them after their set and got some details about them carefully. She learned they were all students, that they all were involved in the creative process together, and that they could never find a female drummer who could stay. She also learned that Kat Hummel had some hypnotizing eyes and could fire back at Sabrina faster than anyone else she ever met; Quinn Fabray was possibly smarter than she was; Marley Rose was just as sweet and funny as she looked; and Norah Puckerman was very similar to her, which meant Sabrina liked her a whole bunch. She left them with her business card and got their contact info, including their website, Facebook page, and even Kat’s YouTube channel.

After that, things fell into place quite easily, and Sabrina finally signed her first band. Using all of her cunning and training, Sabrina marketed the girls well and by the end of May they had a hit record on their hands. And as she pushed the #puckerose angle and the gay angle and the feminist angle whenever possible, they just got more successful.

Eventually Quinn’s told Sabrina about her cousin Kitty Wilde and the band she had started, Divine Influence. Sabrina agreed to got to California to listen to them and was impressed enough to get them an audition. They soon got a contract as well. Due to the similar styles and the fact that she “discovered” them, it only made sense that Sabrina also took on Divine Influence. Using the similar formula she used on The Sirens, Divine Influence soon hit the Billboard charts in a major way.

And after The Sirens released their second album and were successful enough to warrant a world tour, Divine Influence signed on as well. So now Sabrina gets to go travel the world. She gets to do what she does best -- do her job and look damn good while doing it. It’s the only way she knows how to do things, after all. And she definitely plans on getting laid as much as possible during the trip.

And, being Sabrina, she still plans on partying. A lot. But, no, her partying ways have calmed down a lot since college. Now it’s only drinking and maybe a bit of weed every now and then. Sabrina is a professional woman now who takes her job very seriously -- especially since it’s so close to the public eye. Summer Nights Sabrina hasn’t made a public appearance in years, but Sabrina’s still on edge. So far, through careful manipulation, no one at her job or in her family have seen pictures or gotten any evidence of her partying past. Yet. 

With that, as well as a few other skeletons in her closet, Sabrina has a lot riding on this tour.

♫ You can’t call my bluff ♫

Samantha Evans: When Sabrina first started college, one of her rugby teammates told her about this lesbian based strip club, she had to get in on that action. It was fairly far, so she didn’t go too often, but when she moved to LA for that music firm job, she could go more often. It was there that she first saw White Chocolate, a gorgeous blonde with killer abs and the poutiest lips she had ever seen. And when the girl locked eyes with her and crawled over to get her tip, her eyes widening at how much Sabrina offered, Sabrina was enraptured. She ended up coming way too often to that little strip joint and spent way too much money in tips and for private rooms with a few of the dancers, but mainly with that little blondie (she was sure her father would be oh so proud to know where his money was spent). So imagine Sabrina’s horror when, after years of this arrangement, she found out the newest band under her care had a guitarist with the same pouty lips, the same blonde hair, and a look of horror in her eyes when she took in Sabrina. She tried to get others to take over the band, but with their relationship with The Sirens, it didn’t make sense. So Sabrina has since pulled Sam aside and, as much as she finally wanted to taste those pretty lips, she’s explained that their relationship will remain strictly professional. No one can know about Sam’s old job and Sabrina isn’t too fond of people finding out that she spent hundreds of dollars at a strip club.

Katrina Hummel: Kat is the perfect client; she’s charming in interviews, she’s responsible and always prepared for rehearsals, and she already had some fame and social media influence before The Sirens premiered. But, damn it, sometimes Sabrina wishes they didn’t work together. So, okay, maybe one night after the success of that first album release party, they drank a bit too much champagne and maybe things got a bit heated and just maybe they spent a night together that rocked Sabrina’s world more than she’d like to admit -- it turns out pianists-turned-bassists have a whole set of talented fingers. And maybe it happened a few times after that, but that’s all on the DL since they promised to keep it a secret. Honestly, Sabrina would love to do something with her again, but she knows Kat wants that whole fairy tale future thing with a big wedding with the white dresses and all and Sabrina, as much as she really does love and care for Kat, doesn’t want that. Like, ever. If she was cool with just hooking up, Sabrina would sleep with her again...and again and again, but she knows that it really isn’t what Kat wants, so she has to stay strong. But, again, have you seen those eyes? Or her body? Or those perfectly manicured fingers?

Santana Lopez: Santana is one of Sabrina’s favorite people. Ever since the two met, they’ve gotten along really well. They’re both sarcastic, gay, and dedicated to their jobs. Santana even more so, because she has to work against the whole nudes on the internet thing, but whatever. She works hard and can play hard when she lets her hair down (in the figurative sense). So when Sabrina had to pick a publicist, she obviously picked Santana. It’s her first big job so she knows the woman’s worried, but she also knows that if anyone can handle it, it’s Santana. Sabrina also already told her about the Jackie stuff and about Sam’s job. She just may have forgotten to tell her about how Sabrina was one of her most frequent clients. And about the Kat stuff. And the very unprofessional photos of her that are certainly floating around out there. But, hey, it’s very unlikely that stuff will leak anyways. 

Norah Puckerman: Sabrina knows she shouldn’t play favorites, but Norah might be her favorite of all of her clients. Despite some obvious class differences, the two have a lot in common in how they see life and definitely how they see sex. Norah is one of the few people that can make Sabrina crack up and she’s proven to be a a worthy wing woman. On the last tour, they both helped the other get many a hook up (to be honest, Sabrina’s job wasn’t that hard seeing as Norah was famous and a lot of fans of all genders wanted in her pants already), and Sabrina’s honestly excited to have that happen again. Hell, Norah even posts pictures of Marley and endures all the Puckerose shippers without being asked. The only issue Sabrina has with Norah is the fact that, as funny as she is, her unfiltered comments have ruffled a few feathers and Sabrina’s afraid that one day she might cause a PR disaster. Her interviews are either stiff and uncomfortable or come across a bit rude. Thankfully, Kat already agreed to help with PR while they room together over the tour. As long as she tries to learn from Kat and keeps posting pictures of Marley on social media, Sabrina will handle it all in stride...and hopefully the whole Jackie thing won’t blow up in her face.

Rachel Berry: Between everything going on with Sam, Sabrina would admit she didn’t really pay attention to the rest of Divine Influence as much as she should have. She did her usual work, like checking in on them and all of that and helping them manage some press and PR, but she didn’t really get to know them that well. Of course, that all changed when Quinn brought Rachel’s anxiety issues to her attention. Yeah, Sabrina was worried for purely business reasons at first, but, in all honesty, she really cares about Rachel, too. While she won’t admit it, part of her feels slightly responsible -- maybe if she paid more attention she wouldn’t be freaking out so much. Maybe she could’ve caught it earlier and got her in therapy sooner. Maybe she was too hard on her during the recording process. While Sabrina can seem soulless, she honestly loves and cares about all of the girls she works with, and she feels like she didn’t do her job. Still, Rachel has proven to be resilient, so she’s not being like some mother hen, but she’s been hanging out with her more outside of work functions.

Jackie Puckerman: When Jackie overheard some important and top-secret information, Sabrina knew she was fucked. She was ready to offer anything up to her. But then Jackie just wanted a bit of money and a job on tour. Then Jackie revealed why she wanted it and...god. Sabrina hates being in this position, the position of lying to her friend and client, Norah, and acting like she doesn’t know Jackie’s real last name. But she’s going along with it, because she can’t let what happened between her and Sam get out. It’s just yet another thing that she’s panicking about, but hopefully it won’t all blow up in her face...and hopefully Norah doesn’t hate her if she finds out.

Quinn Fabray: Ever since Sabrina first met The Sirens, she took a liking to Quinn. Sabrina, though maybe not an honor roll student anymore, was always a precocious child and a well-read adult. It wasn’t often she met someone else like that, but Quinn seems to know even more than her. She kinda likes it, since it’s always good to have someone to keep her on her toes and suggest some good literature. Despite working with her for years, Sabrina still doesn’t seem to know much about her. Quinn is a pretty private person, and Sabrina only really knows little bits about her past. Honestly, though, it just has increased Sabrina’s curiosity and she’s just...intrigued by her. Is it a sexual thing? Well...maybe. After all, Quinn is beautiful, and there’s always something hot about a woman who keeps some things a mystery.

Blair Anderson: Blair has been the best and most stress free client during this whole tour. Blair is a hard worker, is always on time for rehearsals and departures, she loves what she does, and she even has come up with some good ideas for her and Jackie’s little thing off to the sides. Sabrina’s even considering throwing her a solo or two in the encore plans. But, at least for now, Sabrina is just happy to have someone on this tour that isn’t carrying around a lot of drama. Or, well, at least drama that Sabrina has to deal with. She knows that Blair is just waiting to get a recording contract from her, and while Sabrina normally wouldn’t put too much thought into it, she’s actually considering it this time.

Kitty Wilde: Much like Quinn, Kitty is almost too smart for her own good and also pretty private. Must be a family thing, huh? While she has no problem voicing her opinion, much like her cousin, Kitty doesn’t share much with Sabrina. She sees it all as a kind of business, which is fair enough; it’s nice having someone in Divine Influence who doesn’t have some big secret Sabrina has to hide. Still, Sabrina recognizes that Kitty is smart and, like her name might suggest, sneaky. If she wants to keep those secrets with Rachel and Sam, she’s going to have to stay on her toes around that girl.

Fiona Hudson: When Kat asked if Fiona could work on the tour with them and used her big eyes and flirty little smirk - the kind that seemed so out of place and unexpected but so hot on her - Sabrina couldn’t say no. She got Fiona the training needed and she did her job well and that was that. She thought that was the end of it, but Fiona’s getting on well with Quinn and Norah and she’s playing well, so Sabrina’s thinking it might be time to get her girls an actual drummer. And, hey, what better way to introduce a girl to the group than by having someone actually related to two of the members join? It seems like a perfect fit for her. So if Fiona pulls this off, Sabrina will have that contract ready in two seconds flat.

Marley Rose: Oh sweet, adorable, kind Marley Rose. Marley is undoubtedly talented and beautiful and all of those things people rave about her, but Sabrina can tell that the singer has some animosity towards her. Marley does a good job of hiding it, of course, but Sabrina has always been good at reading people. Well, at least when it comes to people being annoyed by her. She knows Kat never told Marley what happened since Marley would’ve told her off by now if she knew, but she wouldn’t be surprised if Marley sensed something happened. After all, Marley and Kat grew up together and seemed to develop some weird kind of twin-like telepathy. She also knows Marley isn’t a fan of how much Sabrina pumps up the Puckerose fangirls, but that’s just Sabrina doing her job. It’s the same thing when Sabrina tries to get her to go public with her eating disorder -- which, Sabrina would point out, could help thousands of girls who need inspiration, as well as bring them some great press. Of course, Marley will never admit she doesn’t like her since she’s too smart to speak badly about someone in charge of her career, and they do get along well most of the time. Still, Sabrina wouldn’t be surprised if Marley finally blows up after months on tour.

♫ Time to back off, motherfucker ♫

Are there any pics still floating around from your wild years?

I see what you’re trying to do here, and it’s cute, really. As if I haven’t vetted many a girl for a dark past. Which, newsflash, we all have things floating around that we’re not too fond of being dug up. To answer your question: yes. But is it relevant to who I am today: no. It’s called growing up. 

Who would you rather hook up with again: Evans or Hummel?

Who says I’d have to choose? But in the face of professionalism and not completely destroying my future more than I’ve managed in the past, we’ll go with neither of them. 

JBI asks: Are there any Divine Influence vs The Sirens catfights?

As far as I’m concerned these girls are the perfect match of battling personalities, they balance each other out. While your definition of catfight and mine differ, I’d have to say no. No hair pulling. No claws, unless you count Kitty. And Puckerman, really, is the only one we have to worry about. Sorry to rain on your gossip parade.

#sabrina smythe #bio #c #bts #switched #sebastian smythe #t #ss

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ALL 200

WELL, ALRIGHTY THEN, LET’S GET STARTED

200: My crush’s name is: I’m not sure honestly, I’m kinda not really into anyone super seriously right now. Like I’ve got a few people I think I might have crushes on, but no one I’m certain I do, if that makes sense199: I was born in: A hospital198: I am really: Fuckin dumb197: My cellphone company is: I can’t remember off the top of my head196: My eye color is: Some weird green/brown195: My shoe size is: Too fuckin big I’ve gotta order shoes off the internet194: My ring size is: Honestly? I don’t know, I’ve worn like two rings ever193: My height is: 6′2192: I am allergic to: A very specific brand of hot dogs and a couple types of smoke191: My 1st car was: Well, we’ll see when I get one190: My 1st job was: A Dishwasher, unless you count the middle-school paper route189: Last book you read: Lisa Peschel’s The Runes188: My bed is: A loud-ass-fucking steel bunk bed that I swear is gonna give me a concussion someday187: My pet: Is a cat, her name is Groucho and she’s very shy but I love her186: My best friend: I can’t pick a favourite person, I’m sorry185: My favorite shampoo is: Whatever makes my hair flow majestically like a fuckin power metal album, I haven’t found a brand I prefer though184: Xbox or ps3: I don’t actually use either, but PS3′s got some better exclusives I’d say183: Piggy banks are: A thing? I dunno182: In my pockets: My wallet, phone, some papers, and a pendant with no chain181: On my calendar: I.. I don’t presently own one180: Marriage is: Something I rarely think about, sorry179: Spongebob can: Stop airing completely and I genuinely wouldn’t care178: My mom: is a great person and I wish her nothing but the best177: The last three songs I bought were? I dunno whatever the last three songs on Amon Amarth’s Jomsviking album are176: Last YouTube video watched: This one (Or at least that’s what I’m presently watching, the one before that was This175: How many cousins do you have? Too many. (7? I think??)174: Do you have any siblings? Yeah dude I’ve got like 5173: Are your parents divorced? They were never married, they can’t get divorced172: Are you taller than your mom? Yeah171: Do you play an instrument? Yes! I can play the guitar and the piano, and I’m hoping to learn more instruments just as soon as I can get ahold of them170: What did you do yesterday? Hung out with a friend of mine, spent the night, played some videogames, talked about superpowers. The usual I guess[ I Believe In ]169: Love at first sight: Maybe?168: Luck: Yes167: Fate: Yeah?166: Yourself: if I believe in myself to fuckin fail at everything yeah165: Aliens: Yes. I mean, the universe is so insanely fuckin massive, it’s honestly fucking terrifying to think that this is the only planet out there with life, you know?164: Heaven: Maybe?163: Hell: Maybe?162: God: I dunno161: Horoscopes: Kinda?160: Soul mates: Yeah?159: Ghosts: Yes158: Gay Marriage: Yes157: War: I’m not quite sure what this is supposed to mean, sorry?156: Orbs: ???155: Magic: Kinda, yeah[ This or That ]154: Hugs or Kisses: I prefer kisses, but I hug people way more153: Drunk or High: N/A152: Phone or Online: Online151: Red heads or Black haired: Black Haired150: Blondes or Brunettes: Depends on the blonde. Like, platinum blonde hellyeah, but buy-and-large, brunettes, I guess?149: Hot or cold: Cold148: Summer or winter: Winter, seriously a full moon on a clear winter’s night with freshly fallen snow is alone more fuckin beautiful than most of the shit summer can muster in my opinion, and also there’s less chance of me fucking burning to death, which is always a plus147: Autumn or Spring: Spring, rain is good, and spring has the most rain I think?146: Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate145: Night or Day: Night, for the sheer virtue of not getting sunburns, and the fact that a full moon is so fuckin pretty dude144: Oranges or Apples: Oranges143: Curly or Straight hair: How curly we talkin? Like, wavy is my favourite, but that’s kind of middle ground. I dunno, they can both look really good, I guess142: McDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds, though that comes with the qualifier that the only Burger King I have ever visited gave me food poisoning141: White Chocolate or Milk Chocolate: No Dark Chocolate? What the fuck??? Nah, aside from Dark Chocolate being the best kind without debate, I still prefer Milk Chocolate to that White Chocolate filth. It’s not even real chocolate and it tastes like ass140: Mac or PC: PC139: Flip flops or high heals: High heals, huh? Honestly, no preference138: Ugly and rich OR sweet and poor: honestly I’m ugly and poor and I’d honestly prefer enough money to shower my friends in the wealth an happiness they deserve over a slightly-less-disgusting face137: Coke or Pepsi: Coke136: Hillary or Obama: I’m not gonna pretend I know enough about American politics to answer this one135: Burried or cremated: I mean, both, kinda?134: Singing or Dancing: I can’t do either, but I sing a lot more than I dance133: Coach or Chanel: I’m sorry, this question doesn’t make any sense to me?132: Kat McPhee or Taylor Hicks: Who and who?131: Small town or Big city: Small town, I get this really weird panic in big cities130: Wal-Mart or Target: Target129: Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler: Ben Stiller, I guess?128: Manicure or Pedicure: I.. I don’t remember the difference?127: East Coast or West Coast: Is this referring to where I live, or?126: Your Birthday or Christmas: I would say Christmas since I love giving gifts as much if not more than getting them, but I can rarely actually afford gifts and I always feel like absolute shit for not getting anyone anything, so I guess I’ll go with my birthday?125: Chocolate or Flowers: Chocolate. Flowers wilt, and that shit’s kinda really sad to me for no reason I can describe, sorry124: Disney or Six Flags: No preference123: Yankees or Red Sox: No preference[ Here’s What I Think About ]122: War: I’d prefer if it never happened, but that seems depressingly unrealistic121: George Bush: I don’t know enough about him to feel confident about forming an opinion120: Gay Marriage: Why isn’t it allowed everywhere yet, like actually what the fuck119: The presidential election: There is no combination of letters possibly capable of describing the twisting in my stomach that comes with thinking about that event.118: Abortion: Honesty it’s really not my place to say, like, I’m almost literally the least qualified person to talk about this117: MySpace: I vaguely remember it, rest in peace you dead service you…116: Reality TV: Not my cup of tea, personally115: Parents: They’re… Necessary to the continuation of life and a common occurrence in nature? I’m pretty sure there isn’t really much alive that doesn’t have parents, how am I supposed to give my thoughts on a concept that widespread? Yeah, things have parents, and reproduction’s been around for millions of years, I guess114: Back stabbers: I’d appreciate it if I wasn’t stabbed in the back, thanks, I mean I’d appreciate if nobody was, but these things happen, I guess. Best we can do is to make sure not to do it ourselves and hope everyone returns the courtesy113: Ebay: I don’t use it, is it any good?112: Facebook: Bad. I mean I still use it, but it’s bad. Especially it video player, like actually what the fuck, Facebook put how much money into itself why is the fuckin video player still that bad???111: Work: Money is good110: My Neighbors: I dunno, I’ve never talked to them, Generally they seem ok though, though exceptions exist109: Gas Prices: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhh108: Designer Clothes: Wear what you want, make what you want, I’m not gonna judge you for it107: College: I’d love to go there someday, shame it’s nearly inaccessible for me in my present situation (i.e. Dumb and Poor)106: Sports: Not my cup of tea105: My family: I mean, despite everything, I still love them, I guess?104: The future: I can only hope it’s long and wonderful, I hope the world can love in happiness and peace for the rest of time. I mean it’s not like that’s entirely possible, but that doesn’t stop me from hoping[ Last time I ]103: Hugged someone: No idea102: Last time you ate: Just earlier, I’m doing good!101: Saw someone I haven’t seen in awhile: Also just earlier!100: Cried in front of someone: Uhhhhhhhh, back in like, grade eight at some point, I think? I’ve cried like twice within the last 7-8 years, give me a break99: Went to a movie theater: Back whenever Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was in them, I dunno98: Took a vacation: Like middle school, my dude97: Swam in a pool: Not sure. Not like, recently, but not as far back as the crying thing. Fuck honestly I don’t even remember when the last time I wore shorts was96: Changed a diaper: No idea95: Got my nails done: Like never. Maybe once, but I do not remember that day very well at all, so it might have been some weird fever dream94: Went to a wedding: A couple years ago, I think?93: Broke a bone: Never92: Got a peircing: Never91: Broke the law: No idea90: Texted: Earlier?[ MISC ]89: Who makes you laugh the most: I dunno, I laugh a lot, and I can’t quite pin down who does it the most88: Something I will really miss when I leave home is: My instruments, honestly87: The last movie I saw: Harry Potter and the Big-Ass Cup? I don’t remember which one. I want to say The Goblet of Fire, but that seems too logical. The one with the hedge maze of death, I wasn’t really paying attention86: The thing that I’m looking forward to the most: Halloween!85: The thing im not looking forward to: Actually making a costume for Halloween!84: People call me: Weirdly nice things, it’s almost as if they haven’t met me or something83: The most difficult thing to do is: Stop time. I still haven’t figured it out82: I have gotten a speeding ticket: No, but I’ve also never driven, so take of that what you will81: My zodiac sign is: Virgo80: The first person i talked to today was: My mom79: First time you had a crush: Back in elementary school sometime. Remembering what I was like back in elementary school, it’s probably best I didn’t say anything to anyone about it78: The one person who i can’t hide things from: my fuckin grandma, her presence alone is enough to force the truth out of you77: Last time someone said something you were thinking: Earlier today, I guess?76: Right now I am talking to: You, Anon!75: What are you going to do when you grow up: Kick a few habits, hopefully? Maybe develop a few healthier coping mechanisms? I’m not gonna pretend I know what I’m doing with my life74: I have/will get a job: I fuckin hope so73: Tomorrow: I’m gonna hope it goes well, and probably try to get my rent situation sorted out. Chances are I’m gonna really want to do something with some friends and completely miss the opportunity for one reason or another, I seem to have made a habit of that recently72: Today: I’ve gotta try and get some fuckin sleep honestly. I’ve also gotta remember to take that pill lest my stomach attempt to dissolve my fuckin throat again71: Next Summer: I’m gonna set up my Air Conditioner at the fuckin start of it, like a fucking smart person70: Next Weekend: I’ve got no plans69: I have these pets: I have two cats, two dogs, and two birds, it’s a fuckin zoo in here. I mean technically only one of the cats are mine but whatever68: The worst sound in the world: My fuckin midrange, help67: The person that makes me cry the most is: Dude I’ve only cried like twice in reliable memory, only one of them was actually brought on by anyone, so that guy, I guess66: People that make you happy: There’s just way too many to say, but I’d say a great many of my mutuals, followers, and whoever’s been sending me anons, I love you guys, as well as my Discord pals, obviously, you guys rock65: Last time I cried: Season 2, Episode 2464: My friends are: th fuckin best63: My computer is: Not quite my whole life, but a very significant portion of it62: My School: I’m not in one presently, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯61: My Car: What car?60: I lose all respect for people who: Can openly condemn a person they don’t know anything about.59: The movie I cried at was: It, uh, wasn’t a movie, for one, and for two, I’ll take that secret to my fuckin grave58: Your hair color is: Red57: TV shows you watch: Honestly, I just really don’t have time for TV56: Favorite web site: I dunno, probably either this one or YouTube, I don’t do a lot on the internet, honestly55: Your dream vacation: Visiting festivals in Norway and Finland54: The worst pain I was ever in was: When I got an ungodly sunburn on my back. Now, that may sound weak but keep in mind I was like ten and I burn faster than your average tank of gasoline. Like, it didn’t even compare to the times I tore open my legs on rocks, including the one that got infected and the anaesthetic-free treatment for that, just to give an indication of how bad that fucking burn was. I’ve been literally on fire and that was more pleasant than that fucking sunburn somehow53: How do you like your steak cooked: I’m not big on steak, honestly52: My room is: My own. It’s a bit too hot, and it’s kinda small, but it’s mine and I’m very glad to have it51: My favorite celebrity is: Honestly? No clue.50: Where would you like to be: Somewhere with more food, I’m fuckin starving49: Do you want children: Maybe if I am ever able to competently raise some, but until then, no48: Ever been in love: Maybe? I don’t really know, as strange as that sounds47: Who’s your best friend: I’m not picking favourites46: More guy friends or girl friends: More guy, I think? I’m not gonna count them out, and I don’t know if most of the people I regard as friends really regard me as a friend in return, you know?45: One thing that makes you feel great is: Fuckin, Music, man! It’s just so fantastic, I love it44: One person that you wish you could see right now: My dad. He’s a swell guy, I miss him43: Do you have a 5 year plan: A what42: Have you made a list of things to do before you die: Not really? I’ve got some things I’d like to do, but the chances I’ll ever be able to actually do them are… Slim41: Have you pre-named your children: No40: Last person I got mad at: Not sure. I rarely even get frustrated with anyone, let alone mad39: I would like to move to: I dunno, I don’t really have anywhere I could see myself settling down38: I wish I was a professional: Animator, musician, metalworker, I dunno[ My Favorites ]37: Candy: Dark Chocolate Kit Kats, I fuckin love those things so much36: Vehicle: That fuckin huge ass speaker truck from Fury Road that I really want to say is the Doof Wagon, but I don’t remember for sure35: President: Chip Zanuff34: State visited: The State of Bliss is a favourite of mine. I’ve anted to try visiting the state of intense meditation, but alas, no luck yet33: Cellphone provider: No Preference32: Athlete: Honestly I don’t know the names of like any, dude31: Actor: Sir Christopher Lee, may he rest in peace30: Actress: I fuckin forgot her name, it’s gonna bother me for the rest of the week but rest assured as soon as I remember it there’s gonna be an allcaps text post that’s just her name, I assure you29: Singer: Joakim Broeden, Nina Osegueda, Christopher Bowes, and Anna Murphy, presently28: Band: Arsis, Children of Bodom, A Sound of Thunder, Alestorm and Sister Sin27: Clothing store: The fuckin music store lmao26: Grocery store: No preference25: TV show: Metalocalypse24: Movie: Kung Fury23: Website: Wasn’t that asked above? I think a few of these were, actually22: Animal: Snow Tigers. They’re cute but large cats, but with added majesty21: Theme park: I’ve been to like one theme park in my life, I can’t really say20: Holiday: Halloween19: Sport to watch: Do the Armored Combat Leagues count? If so that18: Sport to play: See above answer17: Magazine: I don’t read magazines, sorry16: Book: I don’t have a favourite honestly15: Day of the week: Saturday, I guess?14: Beach: No idea13: Concert attended: I haven’t attended any, I don’t think. I might have been to one when I was in grade two, but that might have also been a weird fever dream, I’m not sure12: Thing to cook: Brownies and Cake! I just love to bake, honestly11: Food: Pizza and Pasta10: Restaurant: The Colander Restaurant. Literally the most amazing fucking spaghetti I have ever eaten in my entire fucking life. Seriously, it’s the best, go eat there9: Radio station: No preference8: Yankee candle scent: I honestly don’t think I’ve seen a yankee candle in real life, ever7: Perfume:Not a clue6: Flower: No idea5: Color: Red, Blue, Purple, Green, frankly I’d have a faster time listing off colours I don’t like/consider a favourite4: Talk show host: I don’t watch talk shows, sorry3: Comedian: No idea2: Dog breed: Samoyeds, they’re so cute I love them so much1: Did you answer all these truthfully? I’m allowed to lie??

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Tai Lopez – The Ultra-Rich Internet Personality and a Con Artist

  Tai Lopez is an internet personality known for doing a crazy amount of ads and publicity stunts. He is quite rich and claims to have built a multi-million empire. But he fakes his richness by using rental cars and renting big mansions to fool his audience into thinking that he owns those commodities. He does this because his whole brand revolves around showing off and bragging. More than 200 Million people are scammed every year in the United States. The number of hackers, cybercriminals, con artists and frauds has been increasing rapidly. Even influencers have been conning people in order to earn money. Tai Lopez is one of them. He has been running several scam companies which target the young people (ageing from 16 – 24) and steals their money. Tai has been so successful with his methods that people don’t even realise that they are being fooled. He has scammed a countless number of youngsters. His courses and books are full of BS and provide no valuable information to the customer. However, his persuasive skills make sure that the customers don’t realize that they are wasting their time and money.

A little about Tai Lopez (his profession, his education, etc.):

Tai Lopez is a big social media personality with more than 3.1 million followers on Instagram, 1 million subscribers on YouTube, 6 million fans on FB and 700k followers on Twitter. He is an investor, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and advisor. You might have seen him in his infamous car garage advert, which went viral on YouTube. He is also the host of “The Tai Lopez Show”, where he talks about wealth, happiness, love and nutrition; he claims that his show is watched by 1.4 million people all around the world. He is the owner of Mentor Box, which is a book shipping club. On 11th April 1977, Tai Lopez was born. There is not much information available about his parents and childhood. But Lopez himself has said that he was raised by his grandmother and mother and he was an introverted kid. Some people say that Lopez talked to his grandfather a lot who was at that time, a scientist. His grandfather motivated him to change the world and he used to send him books via mail. Tai Lopez is not educated and thus he has not told anyone the name of his college, from which he dropped out of. His whole education is shady and Lopez has done all he can to make sure that his education information does not leak. After dropping out, he started working on many different jobs. He was hired by the Amish, where he milked cows and did other miscellaneous tasks. Amish are a church fellowship of traditionalist Christians, who avoid any latest technology. He currently has a net worth of $20 million. He says that he garnered this crazy wealth by selling courses and investments, but we all know that this is not true.

His Social Media Marketing Agency Course Review:

Tai Lopez has released his new Social Media Marketing Agency (SMMA) Course quite recently. It apparently teaches you how to earn thousands of dollars while travelling the world and smashing hot chicks. The whole landing page of this course is a big click-bait. Tai states that there are people earning $10,000 using his knowledge, but there is zero evidence to prove his claims. It is a 16-week course and during these 16 weeks, it will teach you how to run a social media agency. When you complete the course Tai Lopez will give his own certification, making you a Lopez certified Social Media Marketing agent. However, the value of this certification is zero, as Tai is NOT a social media marketing expert and the course itself does not have any special value as well. We have interviewed dozens of social media marketing professionals and asked them their views on this course. Most of them said that there are many businessmen who don’t know anything about social media except that it can get them a lot of customers, and such businessmen often buy these programs. A business always looks for boosting sales and generating leads and this course targets those people and teaches them the basics. Everything that you will learn from this expensive course can be learnt for FREE on YouTube and websites. It does not provide any special information that you might expect from such an expensive course. This course is awesome for those who don’t know anything about social media and have thousands of dollars to throw away, but if you value your resources, then STAY AWAY from this course. We can say that Tai Lopez’s Social Media Marketing Agency Course is a type of pyramid scheme.  It is quite new and thus, Tai is giving is all in marketing this course to make sure that more and more people buy it. He always takes down any critical reviews on his products and thus, there are literally NO reviews of this course available, which clearly defines its values.

The 67 Steps Course Review:

The 67 Steps course of Tai is his most popular course ever, as he has used a very different marketing strategy to sell it. He sells one video for $1 dollar and has sold many copies of this course. The 67 Steps course teaches nothing except that you need hard work to earn big money, which is obvious information. He emphasizes that you watch all 67 of his videos if you want the full benefits of this course. But in order to watch them, you will have to buy the full course. In order to evaluate his course, we bought it and watched it ourselves only to find out that Tai has once again proven that he is a master of conning, as there was no valuable information available in his course. He has just compiled some key points from a bunch of books and is showcasing them in such a way that you will think that those points are his own. We have to say that Tai Lopez is a very talented salesperson and he always makes sure that his fans don’t realize that they are getting fooled. His advert of the 67 Steps Course runs almost on every video he can afford. Most of the information that Tai tells in this course is common sense and an average person knows these facts already. We did appreciate the amount of effort Tai Lopez put in the course and it is very organized, but considering the price tag, we cannot say it is worth your money. We noticed that Tai didn’t even put much thought into his videos and most of them are not even scripted. He is just improvising on the go, trying to sound useful and motivational, while not providing any real information.

Tai’s Mini MBA Course:

Believe it or not, Tai Lopez claims that he can give you 90% of the information provided in a full-fledged MBA course, in his $1,000 Mini-MBA course. This course is just as dumb as it sounds; reviewers say that for the price tag of a thousand bucks, you can get much better information than that is available in this course. It comes along with its video library and you can do live Q&As every week with the members of Tai’s team. Most of the times your question will not be answered as the members have to attend many others and they will just try to give a generalized answer, to avoid any contradictions. The structure of this course is much poor than any other course available on the internet. They don’t even have a summary list and the course is just a bunch of videos put together. Some videos lack context and are there just to fill the space. For its price, the Mini MBA course of Tai Lopez is definitely not worth it. A toddler can learn using this course, as it has nothing complicated information; this course is so straight forward that it is bad. The only unique thing about this course is Tai’s personal experiences he shares on it, and those will only be helpful for those who are his crazy fans. Even though Tai has used high-grade recording equipment for the making of this course, we can’t say that it is worth your thousand dollars. Lopez might be an enthusiastic entrepreneur making millions of bucks, but that doesn’t make him qualified enough to give his own Mini-MBA certificate. And this makes the value of this certification far less than an actual MBA certificate.

Reviews of his previous employees:

Tai is really talented when it comes to talking sweet and he hides his true personality from his fans. Most of his kindness is only towards chicks and money. We had to dig deep in order to find more about his attitude towards people. 99% of the reviews or statements on the internet which speaks the truth about Tai are taken down by the reputation management team of Tai Lopez. Tai Lopez says that he is a very kind person and most of his associates say the same. However, his employees beg to differ. Below are reviews of some of Tai’s previous employees, who have worked with him for at least a year.  

It isn’t worth it.   This review states that Tai Lopez’s office does provide free lunch sometimes free travel. However, the cons list outnumbers the pros by a large difference. He added that the managers make a lot of fake promises in order to keep the employees from quitting. The key positions in the company are held by Tai’s friends and family, who do not have a clue about the company or their post. The employees are not given any kind of training and Tai abuses the employees sometimes. Moreover, his own investors don’t believe in him.  

Manipulative Work Environment Run by Greed.   This employee has stated that the managers of Tai Lopez’s office are a bunch of liars who make empty promises to the employees to keep them working hard. Most of the employees leave in a couple of months, because of poor management. The administration doesn’t care about the employees and they prioritise some particular employees who they like to. They state that they want adaptable professionals but what they really mean is that they want those people who can do everything they say without any hesitation. This employee also said that most of the employees feel neglected and ignored, because the administrators are extremely self-centred. All the managers are manipulative and they use many psychological tactics on the employees to get the job done. If there is any delay in the work due to any reason, they will even start cursing.  

• This company is run by headless chickens.   The office runs on the principal of hard work but does not care about the health of the employee. They don’t know anything about organising their work and making it more efficient. The company does not have any goals in mind and operates like a headless chicken. Any new ideas are not appreciated and they managers a highly critical of the work. Employees often find themselves wasting a lot of their time on pointless tasks and there is no guidance when it comes to career advancement. This employee finally states that working with Tai Lopez is a total disappointment and if you are a fan of his, then don’t work there.   Management is a bunch of sexual predators. This woman used to work at Tai Lopez’s office, but she had to leave because of the perverted bosses. She did appreciate their work ethic and worked really hard, however, the managers used to give sexual remarks to her, which was extremely uncomfortable. Once one of the managers even tried to touch grope her, but she resisted as much as possible. The work environment is clearly not safe for women and any professional female should avoid working here. They guarantee a lot of things but do nothing.   Infamous Viral Ad of Tai Lopez   Everyone who knows about Tai Lopez knows about his viral YouTube advertisement, which took the internet by the storm. His video titled “Here In My Garage” has 69 million views on it! Tai has spent a whopping $200,000 on this promotion. The worst thing about this promo is that everything featured in it is either rented or fake. Many people say that Tai Lopez rented a Lamborghini for the shoot of this video, but what they don’t know is that he hasn’t even done that. He has actually used a green screen in his video. There is no shadow of him in the whole 3:54 minutes video. A green screen is a videography technique which enables the filmmaker to film a moving object in front of a green screen which can be used in other videos. This advert became a meme shortly after it became viral and it helped Lopez boost his business even more. Almost all the views on this video are bought out. The reason being, that it has only around 100 comments and 60k likes, whereas an organic video has much more engagement rate than this. Moreover, it has 50K dislikes as well, which shows how much people hated this promo. This advert changed Tai’s life and gave him the boost he needed to become an established con artist. Many people critiqued his false advertisement method, but most of them were bought out by Tai’s team. He has claimed that this promo has more than 1.2 billion minutes of watch time, which is A LOT for an advert. He earned a ton of money from this video, as it generated him millions of clicks to his course’s landing page. One source tells us that his conversion rate was 14% which itself is a crazy number. The course he sold using this promo was totally useless and didn’t provide ANY value.  

The Businesses

Ever since his unbelievable success, Tai Lopez has built many businesses. He has his foot in any industry where he can scam people, including education, investing and even dating. He rarely mentions his businesses in his Snapchat or Instagram videos, to make sure that he doesn’t slip out any information. He hasn’t linked his LinkedIn with any of his businesses as well, which makes him more suspicious.   Night Clubs- Tai is a big party animal and has invested in many east coast night clubs. Some girls have accused him of inappropriate behaviour in his clubs as well.   LLG Financial- Tai Lopez used to be the owner of LLG Financial however, now he is just an investor. The name of this company was Legacy Life Group in the past, but recently it has been changed to LPL Financial.   Elite Global Dating LLC (his fraud dating company) The Elite Global Dating LLC is Tai’s one of the most sketchy companies. It has dozens of fake profiles which consist of attractive women who will message (the message will be something that will almost force the user to reply) the visitors when they make their account and in order for them to reply, they will have to get their membership. All these attractive accounts are of bots and once the user gets the membership, these bots stop replying him. However, when he will stop paying for the membership, those bots will start to message him again. This company is highly infamous for not refunding the user’s money once they decide to cancel their membership. Tai has changed the domain of this websites 3 times by now, and it is possible that he will change it again in the future. At first, the website was named Meetingmillionairs.com then he changed it to EliteGlobalDating.com and finally into www.EliteMeeting.com. This business generates a lot of money for Tai’s wallet and he has stolen money from thousands of people using it. Many people have posted complaints against this business online, but using his high connections, Tai has taken most of them down, leaving only a few of them. Here is what people think about Tai Lopez’s Elite Global Dating LLC:  

  Dozens of Domains Tai Lopez knows that his business is going to face a lot of backlashes as he cons hundreds of people daily. Therefore he has bought dozens of domain names to make sure that his online reputation doesn’t get damaged and he can keep up his “Good” persona online. After doing some research on WHOSIS we found out that Tai Lopez owns the following domains until now: justmillionaires.com datetallmen.com findadate.com meetingmillionaires.com tailopez.net curvyfitness.com ifyouresingle.com modelmeet.com mythailove.com elitemmeting.com elitemeet.com eliteglobaldating.com millionairelifecoach.com tailopez.com There is a high probability that Tai has bought MANY other domains on other identities to make sure that the least amount of people find out about his shady business plans.  

Millions of followers on social media:

Tai has Millions of fans and followers on social media platforms and he SPAMS them with promos and ads. The only reason people follow him is that there are many others who are doing so, most of them being fake followers and he has built a persona online of a multi-millionaire.  

  He currently has 3.1m followers on Instagram and he claims to giveaway cars, cash & laptops, but there is zero proof that he has done that. He claims that people have won 10 cars and 540 cash, and yet again his statement is without any proof.  

  As you can see on the Social Blade chart of Tai Lopez’s Instagram account, his profile started growing rapidly after his “Here in my Garage” advert became viral in 2015. And he generated a lot of money from this attention, almost an estimated $20 million!   Tai Lopez is nothing but a fake entrepreneur who scams people and steals their money. He has followed the strategy of “Fake it till you make it” but his own dirty version where he keeps faking it and stealing money from people. We would advise you to STAY AWAY from such a con artist and save your precious time and money.             Read the full article