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all fish tanks bringing it to you on a greenhouse like Sunday

siren continues how's everybody doing I hope you're doing well today's video

we're gonna talk about my final development meeting with our friends in

Jasmine County and we're also gonna talk about a surprise appearance from a lady

in the audience there's always somebody but first I'm gonna get a little bit

woowoo with y'all okay so I've spoken to multiple people both on the phone and

via email they said they liked the affirmations you're not from there what

our affirmation is basically something that you say to yourself every day it's

for your own self it's for your own personal thing that helps you live a

better life you think affirmations are weird or woo woo ask some of the most

successful people you know or your boss or owners of companies that they have

them I think the answer is that they'll give you will surprise you so here's

mine and I want to give this to you as an overlying context that I use while

I'm going through all this stuff that kind of sucks it starts like this if I

could have any job in the world what would it be I have the perfect job for

me so when stuff gets screwed up and stuff

sucks I say you know what I have the perfect job for me this is part of it

this is what I signed up for meetings getting delayed eleven people killing my

deal that's just part of the game my goal is to help people through my

service I strive to be the best in the world at what I enjoy doing I say best

in the world I look at the best in all situations I will not worry about things

I can not control I can't control those 11 crazy people on old Richmond Road I

can't control when the documents don't show up and my plants coming from Hong

Kong and I can't control when the meeting in Jasmine County was postponed

the day after Memorial Day and postponed until just this past Monday you can't

worry about things you can't control or you'll lose your mind the next part of

my affirmation I work hard at these things and understand that you can't get

what you want in life without paying the price and enduring the suffering to get

it editing videos every Sunday morning for the past eight years while my

daughter wants to play Legos driving to Atlanta only to find out my plants are

two days late spending over a year working on green house fail pointto work

hard at these things and understand that you can't get what you want without

paying the price and enduring the suffering to get it and here's the one

that everybody wants to skip I will postpone short-term gratification for

my long-term life goals setting up something big with the greenhouse is

gonna take some time it's gonna take some sweat it's gonna take some hustle

and with that as a backdrop I want to break it to you guys on how it went down

at the final development meeting okay I'm gonna stick with the wound

stuff real quick but it does totally relate to what I'm talking about with

the greenhouse I want to talk about the vision then listen to a lot of on those

spots and again when he talks about his vision when he goes Conan's of our

battery and it talks about how he wanted to envision himself as the world

champion or he was mr. universe for 13 years in a row Arnold Schwarzenegger was

mr. universe and he said every time he was lifting away he was smiling I smile

because I know exactly that every rep that I do there every set that I do

every way to they live they get one step closer to turning that vision of mine

into reality of becoming that mr. universe it was 13 years in a row

they're like best body builder in the world

I'm giving you that as a rant I want to talk about my vision my vision with

green house fail pointto was very clear and in fact if my wife kids family in

any of you knew how many times I drove out to that place by myself and walked

around you would cry because I had to have a crystal-clear vision I showed you

guys how I was gonna move in I had plans like for expansion of another building

off the side of once I filled that one up okay the vision was that crystal

clear and I had to reset it now you see around here what the vision looks like

today so I had to regroup and get my vision clear on what I have here is what

the vision looks like today all right so when I moved from green house fail point

O to green house 2.0 I got to redesign my entire vision and get it set up

exactly the way I wanted it everything was going according to plan and I was

all excited the fishtank gods were in line with me but when my meeting on may

29th was cancelled I was pissed even though it was something I can't control

because my vision is clear I know exactly what I want and this was like

the one step that I wanted to get to complete that vision so I got delayed

for 30 days and yes I did worry about something that I could not control fast

forward you got to take that 30 days and you got to regroup your plan I always

tell Josh and Andrew for every hour we spent planning we save four hours I'm

going to Abraham Lincoln here for a minute when

he said you gave me six hours to chop down a cherry tree I would use the first

four hours sharpening my axe so actually the 30 days gave me time to sharpen up

the plan now the meeting is set I have hired engineers to do this a wise man

knows he isn't that wise I do not know the first freaking thing about

engineering but I have friends around me who are wise who I trust with this kind

of stuff and they've told me yes use this engineer I've got a plot plan and

I've got engineers working with the city of Nicholasville behind the scenes to

make sure everything is working look I paid these guys good money but quite

frankly paying professionals to do professionals do in the city that

they're you know the guys was a good move

so on Monday we cue up Andrew Josh wanted to come too but he was busy

putting out a bunch of packages and we roll to Jessamine County to go to my

final development meeting this is where it all happens folks this is B on the

way to the Jessamine County final development meeting we were delayed last

month I'm a dancer ahead of me here and the new property is actually over here

by that water tower and we're gonna find out tonight yeah we get the final

development that means we can start construction last time I went into one

of these meetings I got my throat slit I'm all nervous but thank you

this is Josh banks of banks engineering he is actually presenting for five

different companies at this meeting with the city of Nicholasville and then what

he is doing here is he is addressing the concerns that the city had that needed

to be addressed publicly about this this was submitted almost two months ago and

he's actually talking here about where the water runoff is gonna be and I

mentioned this later so he's actually talking about the drainage which is

gonna be a concern with all the water I'm doing this green anoles of this

master plan a little bit of polycarbonate panels now I get to take

the stage my name is Austin water like green out there's gonna be a structure

and that's the style I'm going for with atrium roof to open up to the full Sun

very similar the one at the Kings Way house the ones that use the Myers loans

is that that plastic that you know take a hail beating or whatever galvanized

steel engineering plants and concrete piers I would like to bring up one

Bobby and I met outfits about a month to go under the eight

wouldn't sound they will refer you to the D big downtown business history this

is the guy Dean who's the head one of the head guys in the city of

Nicholasville who I had spoken with and he's addressing here what I originally

had a concern about with the city of Nicholasville and having to get it

conditional you should remember I had problems with the conditional use and

he's addressing how we have spoken about this and conferring in this meeting that

we don't need to conditional use and this older gentleman is the attorney of

the city of Nicholasville and he actually didn't like it when and

returned the camera on him but huh he is talking about old sort of there's an old

sort of various stuff that he's bringing up here about having agricultural sales

in a b1 zone so there's and I want to make a point here they're going the long

winded route to have the attorney in the room but while this seems like it takes

a while this is actually everybody's on board everybody knows what's going on

the attorney of Nicholasville is in the room they're going through any sort of

probable situations stuff that could happen and other sort of like laws and

rules that are around just to get everything up on the table for this

usually the scene the meetings inform behind my it was a cakewalk compared to

some of the stuff these people were talking about your John shit it was

following plants for aquariums Mike yeah my core business is selling plants that

go into where's that doesn't mean that it might

not sell like a poke those are like a hanging house plant at some time that

this is all just basically stuff that we sell online on dustinsfishtanks.com we

should've out you know boxes every Monday Tuesday Thursday we have

wholesale shipments that come in once or twice a week but it's primarily a

clearing plants and go into fish tanks that's important note on that because

anything that we use in that water has sufficient so there's no concerns of any

sort of runoff or anything in the chemicals is that and I'm going on my

long-winded rant right there because I want to make sure everybody knows what

the runoff is because all about erosion control or what's actually going in to

the water runoff it's always area concern I remember old bro back in

greenhouse Phil point out what's in the waters the water runoff concern was also

mentioned as one of the things they wanted to talk about going into this

meeting was one of the lists of line items that they had to discuss so let's

one of the hammer home that everything that I'm releasing when we do water

changes is completely safe for the environment we 10-foot high sidewalls

1902 peace by Canada so you know master plan if this became like a just got

fruit and he started telling

that's what's made of plants well yeah I clearly thank you

first up I think you do

and while this drove me nuts while I was in the meeting this guy talking and

talking about you know what ifs or whatever I love that all this is being

put onto the table here and everybody who is voting on this is hearing the

worst-case scenario or what ifs and all that getting that all flushed out is

actually doing my heart good here even though it's kind of annoying how long it

takes I can only ponder what would have done

within the realm of their that contemplation forty years ago I don't

believe this very limited area of internet sales so you're saying that

this this use is not your typical retail you want retail and I love having this

young guy involved too by the way did we address something we did that was

a permitted use okay so those two just confirmed when I went to a board of

adjustments meeting where everybody said that I would not need a conditional use

for this so my guy over there is verifying with Dean that they had

discussed about this that I do not need a conditional use and the words of the

wu-tang can protect your neck I did get that in writing so I do have that

doctrine i didn't bring it with me to this meeting but i definitely have that

document of riding that a do not need a conditional use for this just as a

precautionary measure for what they're talking about and then about to vote on

here in a second when I plant flowers you know reading these for retail you

have come before the board again and get approval on this but I gotta kill them

so I'm gonna just flush it all out here so if I want to see if I'm selling

aquarium plants in this location he asked me if I understand I'm never this

anal but after what we went through on the first round

I'm definitely protecting my neck with this conversation right I very

for that or is it like if I'm going to get into production such as red barn

where I've got rows and rows and rows of these 92 variants advantage when I

clarify kind of where the line is with this listen the word says establishments

primarily engaged in agricultural sales and services they also ignore ficus

trees and plants been operating plant section yeah that'll by the way I would

look at I got just my core business is aquarium plants I don't intend on

expanding really beyond that I always think expansion as long as I stay

aquarium plants and let's say I buy the lot next to me and I'm still doing the

corn plants everything is still the same I want to know more about this variants

from 1982 or whatever like water not variants what's what's the like will

hanger for you now we're talking about that in Tanana waters is old confirming

I'm allowed to have retail sales at this location yes I'm trying to confirm that

y'all can come and say hello to dusty at the new location here and this was

something that I was not gonna be allowed to do a green house fail point O

so just double checking everyone's here all the cards on the table I like this

kind of here's where I scrapped myself

this is the vision that this would be in it would be in its own arsenal to

commercial subdivision I wish Andrew were to zoom din and seeing the armpit

just sweating just just puff and sweat out while she's talking nervous scared

worried about things I can't control

it's more this way so okay so will its effect I say with the Brahmans fairy

expansionists - that's the all wheel novel and I wasn't there going to be the

white house yeah chuckles at the end of that and I smile with shoes god but what

was the hot nervous but she opened her mouth let me tell you I look around the

room I make sure nobody else has any concerns there were some people in the

room that I didn't know what they were for and I was concerned that they're

about to raise their hands with none of them said anything they were there for

other other properties like that smooth

yeah I bought this property right here next to this next to the water tower

right right to the water right there anything so what's now this right here

is the bypass that's going through Jessamine County right here this is

proposed I'm gonna quote Napoleon Hill and Think and Grow Rich right here it's

real simple for every seed of adversity for every

bit of failure it plants the seed of equivalent or greater benefit when I

bought this property I did not know that there was a bypass going in right here

biased a little cherry on top for Dusty's deal I feel bad for her by the

way because she's being negatively affected by this for me it's dope it'll

go it just making it far my Internet's good it's going to take off to just

disarm land I'd like to retract my tone in the word

lady with her because she was actually extremely sweet and delivered

good news okay so any of the bad juju associated with the term lady I'd like

to retract from earlier part of this video so I saw you and us when that's

doing us like oh that's the one no no but I was like oh man so it's great dude

this is this is like actually been almost better news than the you know I

didn't want to say in front of her but that's pretty tight to go right to 75 so

now it's approved dude so now it's game time

contractors cutting ground getting on it you've miami engineer the dude from

banks was like it's like you got a dude like he was trying to give me chill out

i just wanted to confirm all that stuff so final developments approve now it's

time to break some ground first things first we got to figure out where the

water lines are and how we're gonna tap into those suckers i'm thinking a two

inch main even though it's gonna cost me about four grand

super stoked these guys out here are checking out where the water lines are

run do me a favor folks hit the like button subscribe button share button and

drop me a comment on how you feel about how does this green house saga is going

sorry continues folks tank on later

and so I put you meet honey work and you're probably not through here all

right so that's talking to my plumber about doing a two-inch main and you're

the subject matter expert on that so I'm gonna ask you my crazy forgetting that

big of a main to which main would service a whole

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WHY RUSSIA'S 'POSEIDON' UNMANNED UNDERWATER DRONE IS A DOOMSDAY WEAPON? - Duration: 5:10.

President Vladimir Putin during his state-of-the-nation address to the Russian Federal Assembly in

March, showcased several weapons.

One of them was Poseidon (Status-6) unmanned underwater drone.

It will be carried by a new nuclear-powered submarine currently under construction.

Poseidon is one of a kind and poses a real challenge to Russia's rivals.

In this video, Defense Updates analyzes WHY RUSSIA'S POSEIDON UNMANNED UNDERWATER DRONE

IS A DOOMSDAY WEAPON?

Let's get started.

The torpedo-shaped robotic mini-submarine can travel at speeds of 100 knots (185 km/h).

It has a range of 6,200 miles (10,000 km) and can travel at a maximum depth of 3,280

feet (1000 m).

This underwater drone is perceived to have stealth technology to avoid detection.

As per Russian sources, Poseidon is armed with a mammoth 100-megaton warhead.

To give viewers a perspective here is a comparison.

Trinity Test in New Mexico in July 1945, which ushered in the nuclear age, had a yield of

20-kilo tons.

Hiroshima's "Little Boy" bomb had a yield of 13-18 kilotons whereas Nagasaki's "Fat

Man" bomb had a yield of 20– 22-kilotons of TNT.

Poseidon has the potential for multiple strategic uses.

These could be some of its mission.

1. Making nuclear tsunamis to flood and radioactively contaminate rivals coasts.

This weapon could create a tsunami wave up to 500 m tall that will radioactively contaminate

large parts of a enemies coastline.

Poseidon could be armed with a cobalt bomb.

A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced

amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large area with radioactive

material.

Upon detonation, cobalt-59 would be transmuted into cobalt-60, a highly radioactive particle

with a half-life of more than 5 years.

It will cause massive devastation, rendering large areas unusable for years.

No country in the world has yet tested a cobalt bomb due to the devastating radiation it would unleash.

2. Destroying naval bases.

Being much smaller than a traditional submarine, the Poseidon could sneak very close to enemies

naval bases and detonate itself causing tremendous damage to enemies naval assets like warships

or submarine fleet.

3. Destroying U.S. aircraft carriers.

Russia's main rival, U.S has about 10 supercarriers in active service.

These have been used to project power much beyond the American homeland.

Poseidon could be assigned to neutralize U.S carriers.

Russian could quietly preposition a few of these on the floor of the oceans then remotely

activate when in strike distance of a U.S carrier group.

4. Destroy U.S. SSBN fleet.U.S currently has an Ohio SSBN fleet of 14 vessels.

This is scheduled to decline to 12 Columbia SSBNs in the future.

On any given day, half of U.S. SSBN are in port, and other half patrolling at sea.

So, the most credibly survivable leg of the entire U.S. nuclear Triad is only about 6-7

submarines.

Poseidon could be used to tail these submarines and attack them on command.

Even a robust submarine of Ohio class may not survive a 100 megaton warhead even when

denoted 100 kilometers away.

The U.S and NATO members are developing multiple anti-missile defense systems.

The U.S missile defense systems like Ground-Based Midcourse Defense, Aegis Ballistic Missile

Defense System or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) are designed to take out traditional

missiles.

Though Russia is developing offensive systems capable of penetrating the US air defense

shield, Poseidon would be an alternative mechanism.

Poseidon will be able to bypass these missile defense systems altogether

as it will travel underwater.

For more infomation >> WHY RUSSIA'S 'POSEIDON' UNMANNED UNDERWATER DRONE IS A DOOMSDAY WEAPON? - Duration: 5:10.

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Kellyanne Conway Is About To End The Deep State For Good - Duration: 12:07.

Kellyanne Conway Is About To End The Deep State For Good

Kellyanne Conway is perhaps Trump's most trusted ally in the White House.

She has stuck by Trump since day one.

And she's about to prove her loyalty even more after announcing that she is about to

end the deep state for good.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the few White House officials that you can be almost certain isn't

going to turn on the President.

That's why she's the perfect person to take charge against the deep state leakers

who have been wreaking havoc on President Trump.

And she just came out announcing that there are going to be staff changes following the

recent leaks in the administration.

The most recent high profile leak had to do with a Trump official making an inappropriate

comment about Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is battling cancer.

As reported by The Daily Caller:

"WHITE HOUSE COUNSELOR KELLYANNE CONWAY SAID MONDAY SHE EXPECTS STAFF CHANGES FOLLOWING

LEAKS FROM THE ADMINISTRATION.

CONWAY TOLD FOX NEWS' MARTHA MACCALLUM THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF LEAKS, SOME THAT "EXIST

TO EXIST TO HURT COLLEAGUES, SOME LEAKS EXIST BECAUSE THEY DISAGREE WITH THE POLICIES THAT

ARE BEING PUT FORTH."

SHE STRESSED THAT THOSE WORKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE SHOULD BE "CONFIDENT" AND "LOYAL."

THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSELOR ALSO SAID THAT SHE EXPECTS PERSONNEL CHANGES TO COME FROM FINDING

LEAKERS IN THE ADMINISTRATION.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED MONDAY THAT LEAKS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE "ARE A MASSIVE OVER

EXAGGERATION PUT OUT BY THE FAKE NEWS AWARDS" AND THAT THE ADMINISTRATION "WILL FIND OUT

WHO THEY ARE."

THE FOCUS ON LEAKERS FOLLOWS THE RECENT CONTROVERSY OVER WHITE HOUSE AIDE KELLY SADLER'S DISPARAGING

COMMENTS ABOUT ARIZONA SEN.

JOHN MCCAIN'S FAILING HEALTH."

Trump mirrored the comments from Conway in a tweet, adding that the leaks are being massively

exaggerated by the media.

So far the Trump Administration has done a good job mitigating the amount of harmful

leaks.

While even one leak is too many, there has been a steep decline in the number of leaks

coming from White House officials.

Early on in his Presidency, it seemed as though every other day somebody was leaking harmful

information to the press.

Now it happens far less frequently, largely because of how swiftly leakers are being exposed

and punished.

But the American people are seeing through these brazen attempts to attack the President.

While deep state leakers are releasing disparaging information against the President, Trump is

getting things done.

He has been doing something very few past Presidents have done; following through on

his promises.

Trump is lowering Americans taxes, promoting peace throughout the world, and securing our

borders.

Do you think President Trump is doing a good job, despite harmful leaks attempting to disparage

his character coming out?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Is "No Money Down" Real Estate REAL? - Duration: 10:03.

Have you always wanted to invest in real estate and flip houses like you see on TV,

But maybe you don't have a ton of money or you don't have the best credit?

Well, keep watching as I show you exactly how I invest in real estate

And how you, too, can flip houses with no money and no credit.

This is the no money down, no credit strategy to investing in real estate.

Hey guys, Dara here: real estate investor and entrepreneur out of Atlanta, Georgia.

I'm going to be talking about how money or the lack thereof is

Not an excuse when it comes to investing in real estate or being able to invest in real estate. I am a walking,

living, breathing example of how this is so.

So I wanna jump right into it and tell you guys a story as well as share some advice on how you, too,

Can invest in real estate if you truly truly want to if you truly want to put in the work, um

You can invest in real estate with no money.

You can invest in real estate with bad credit.

And a lot of other different ways to investment real estate besides just having to knock on the bank's door and say hey

Can I get a loan? Hey, can I get a mortgage? Blah blah blah. So getting right into it

So I acquired a property

With a creative method known as subject to. So what that means is I

Acquired the property

Subject-to is existing mortgage.

And that's one of the many tools that I have in my tool kit in my brain box about how to acquire real estate.

So in this particular situation there was house that I found from driving around the neighborhood

Also known as driving for dollars. Driving around and to be honest to this day

I have no idea why this house stood out to me

I have no idea why I wrote down address or reached out to the homeowner or anything because

When I look at the old pictures of the house, there were no signs of what we-- what investors call, you know,

Telltale signs of a vacant property or a distressed property. The grass wasn't high, the windows and doors weren't boarded up.

Aside from there being no cars or no light on in the daytime

It looked like it could be lived in. But I thank God

That this property fell into my lap somehow that I found the owner and was able to meet with him

We built really good rapport

He was actually in the middle of renovating the property when I found him

As far as when we went to go and actually see the property. And

So he's in the middle of renovating the property. So that's a plus, hey, you're almost done, we met you halfway

Great, you're you're doing the work for us. But the way we are in our business we kind of just let him off easy

We wanted it to be a true win-win situation. So we said, "You know what? Mr. Seller, don't even worry about it

We'll take it from here." And looking back, mmm,

That could have been something that were like, hey you started to finish it

But again, we just wanted to alleviate some of his his pain.

You have to know your seller's pain points and just you are the one to help them. So we came in and we helped him.

Now the reason that we

Suggested the subject to option

Is because he had a mortgage; he had recently refinanced the property, and he had a mortgage that was way

Over what we were gonna offer him cash to buy the house outright.

So in this situation he was upside down: so he owed more than what the property was worth

Or more than what we as investors were willing to pay for it. And again because it wasn't

Retail ready, nobody would really pay what he owed on it. So he was upside down.

So instead of walking away and saying hey, you know what? This is your problem figure it out fix it. Again,

This is-- having that subject to strategy in our toolbox was very helpful in this situation.

And so we proposed it to him said, "Hey, Mr. Seller, we know you really want to get out of this situation.

This house has been a headache for you. You've had tenants who weren't paying you for months,

You have damages you have to worry about. How about this: how about you deed us over the title of your property,

Keep the mortgage in your name, and we take over your monthly payments.

And at first it was a little confusing to him and, you know, the way I was explaining it to him sounded so good

He literally came out his mouth and said, "Well, what do you get out of it? What's in it for you?"

Because it just sounded so sweet. It sounded like a win...and then what?

He didn't think it was a win-win. He was like a win for him. And what do you get out of it?

And, here's where I'm gonna be honest. I was pretty new in

Real estate, and as a wholesaler, all I knew was here's my cash. Here's my cash offer. Take it

I'ma lowball you you blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. So this was literally my first time offering somebody a creative financing

Way to get-- acquire their property. So I'm almost I'm, I'm like fumbling through my spiel

I'm like half explaining things because I'm really like

I don't want to say something wrong and he's like what's in it for you, and I'm like

Little do you know. But

So I was able to explain it to him enough for him to

On that spot right there sign on the dotted line. Yes, I would do this

So one, he liked me.

We built a rapport enough for him to want to do business with me. So he liked me. He trusted me. Like I said, I

I personally felt like I was fumbling through this explanation of what subject to - "Hey

I'm gonna take over your property, keep the mortgage in your name. I'm gonna pay it. Trust me to make those payments

And you walk away. We'll fix it up, you know, don't worry about it anymore.

This is now my property." So he trusted that I would actually do what I said I would do.

I would not-- cause it's still on-- gonna be on his credit whether we pay it or not. If he goes into

Default, that'll be on him and not necessarily us on paper. But ethically, you know, it'd be

On us.

But so he liked me, he trusted me,

And, from there he was willing to sign on the dotted line and

So that's how I cried his property subject to the existing

Mortgage. And again, so we acquired it, we

Renovated it and got it rented out.

I want to backtrack a little bit as well and this is where negotiating

Comes into play because there's no cut and dry way to do real estate.

There's no cut and dry way to even do what I'm telling you subject to

Because the icing on the cake for this deal is that he owed I think at the time that we met him

His payoff was maybe about

120,000 or so

We were gonna offer him 80,000 and there's no way he could have done that deal

Straight out cash, which is why we did the subject to option.

Now, I think his monthly payments at that time were somewhere between 800 and 900 dollars a month.

And so, we were able to negotiate some awesome terms for ourselves, yes, but it was still a win-win because

He went for it. He wanted it. We didn't pull his arm, twist his arm and force him to do this strategy.

He was just that motivated that he went with what we negotiated. And what we negotiated was out of his

Let's say 900 for round numbers. Out of his

$900 a month

Mortgage payment, we agreed that my company would pay

$600 of that $900. So he's still in there; he still has some skin in the game.

He still has to cover the difference and over the the term that we've been under contract with him

Thus far the mortgage monthly payments have gone up but we're still locked in at our 600

So has had to come up just a little bit on his portion

So it's probably like roughly two-thirds one-third split of

The monthly payments.

So again, That was a negotiation strategy, and I want to shout out one of my investor friends because it was him who actually did the

Negotiation on that part: Stephen Watson

Thank you so much brother for that. So he's the one who negotiated with the homeowner for us to say,

"Hey, they're only gonna pay $600 a month

You know, you got to come up with the rest."

But again

We have so many different terms and negotiations in our contract that, again, it did turn out to be a win-win.

We have it under contract for a very long time and that's what you want to do

You want to buy yourself time when it comes to creative financing, owner financing. Depending on the deal, because, again, nothing's cut and dry,

Nothing's black and white, and it all depends on your strategy, your goals. For this particular property,

We did acquire it subject to and our exit strategy

Was to rent it out. We rented it out for a year and then turned it into short-term rentals.

So we had a lot of different-- we wanted to do rent to own with that, we wanted to do

Whatever, so it turned out to be a pretty sweet deal on our end.

Seller's happy, we're happy and it was a win-win situation.

So again just to reiterate, for this particular video

Um, I specified how you can acquire property with

No money, not having to borrow from the bank, because in this situation there was already a bank involved, yes.

There was already a mortgage in place, yes, but I didn't have to ask the bank to borrow any money to acquire this property.

I didn't have to get my credit looked at or anything.

So there is a bank involved technically

But that's how the seller acquired the property, that's not how I acquired the property.

So subject to is a creative financing way to acquire property

Again, it's not cut and dry. In our particular situation, how we negotiated it, at the closing table

The only thing we paid was the attorney closing costs: the fees for the attorney to hey

This is the title from you to you.

We didn't pay the seller anything at the clothing table cuz he didn't want anything

We gave him exactly what he wanted. It was a win-win situation.

So I hope you got something out of this video. If you did, please like, comment below, and share.

Thank you. Bye

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Trevor Horn (Buggles, Yes) Interview | Music Is My Life Episode 19 | Berklee Online - Duration: 35:33.

Take no-a-a-a-ote of Trevor Horn.

He is the guest of honor on this edition of the Music

is My Life podcast from Berklee Online.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm your host Pat Healy.

And if you're wondering why I suddenly sang part of "Video Killed the Radio

Star," it's because our guest Trevor Horn is one

of the songwriters behind that classic.

He's also known for his work with the band Yes,

and the iconic records he produced, including work by Frankie

Goes to Hollywood, ABC, Seal, Belle and Sebastian, John Legend, and way too

many others to mention.

And what's unique about Trevor Horn is that he has all of these accolades.

And he's been playing bass since he was a kid, having also

played bass in The Buggles on that aforementioned mega hit "Video

Killed the Radio Star."

So he has all these credits, but he's also a student.

He's still learning.

We spoke just as he was wrapping up Berklee Online's R&B Bass

Course taught by Danny Morris.

And he's enrolled in another bass course next semester.

So we join Trevor Horn's journey in medias res,

as it were, remote from his Los Angeles home,

where he's having some work done which you will definitely

hear a little bit in the background.

And why does such an accomplished musician even need bass lessons?

Well, let's let Trevor Horn tell you.

Well, the fact is that everybody could do with bass lessons.

[BACKGROUND NOISE]

So I'm sorry about that drilling outside.

But what I found was that I was doing a lot of shows in the summer.

And then playing on the odd track that I was working on.

But I wasn't doing much bass playing.

So every summer, I would have to kind of get my hands hard again

and get myself into a place where I could play without thinking too much.

And this summer, when I finished, I thought, screw it.

I'm going to do something about this.

I'm going to find a way of playing all the time.

A friend of mine did a Berklee arranging course.

And I use him all the time.

He's a brilliant arranger.

So I thought, I'll do the bass course.

Great, so how has it been?

Has it, indeed, kept you limber?

Yeah, it's actually-- you see the thing is even though I was a--

I used to sight read for bass all the time.

That was what I was sort of good at.

I was completely self-taught.

No one ever taught me anything.

So actually, although my father was a double bass player.

He showed me the basics, but everything else I worked out for myself.

It was great to have--

I really like the way Danny Morris plays the bass guitar.

And it was funny because deciding to do the course coincided with an offer.

I'm very friendly with a lot of the guys that were in Dire Straits.

And they were doing a tour of Brazil in January this year.

And just out of the blue, one of them said to me,

why don't you come and play bass?

Which I did, and it was a two and a quarter hour show.

So it was a long show.

And I found that the fact that I was doing the course

was a really good thing, you know?

Right.

I'd imagine you're the only person in that particular class who

was doing the bass line to every Dire Straits song

professionally on any given night.

Yes, it's funny, isn't it?

I didn't ex-- because they've all played it so many times.

I didn't expect them to play it lots of times just for me.

You know?

So I learned it like it was a gig, you know?

Like I was going to be able to get up there and just

play straight away with them, which I did, up to a point.

I didn't manage to get everything right, but I got most of it.

I found the course really helpful because--

and, in fact, I'm running late with my homework for this week

because one of the parts is so difficult to play because it's so fast.

I've been trying to do it for a day and a half.

I've nearly got it.

But I'm sure I'm going to get it this lunchtime.

Oh, that's great.

What's the part?

"I Was Made to Love Her."

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

It's just really fast.

[VOCALIZING]

And I'm trying to play with my fingers.

I don't want to play with a pick.

So tell me a little bit about, you mentioned your dad

being a double bass player and was that a huge reason

for you wanting to pick up the instrument?

Yes, because it was there, the double bass, but it wasn't--

when I was in my teens I was much more interested in guitar

because you got more girls when you played lead guitar.

And I used to just play the bass to dep for my dad and earn money.

But then as time went on, I realized because the bass

guitar was a new instrument, virtually nobody could read for it.

I mean the old double bass players could.

But the problem was the parts were changing so rapidly.

I mean, can you imagine playing "I Want You Back" or "Sir Duke"

on a double bass?

Right, right, that's a lot of notes to cram

in there in a huge amount of space.

So, suddenly, a lot of the old double bass players,

they wanted somebody young who could read and play with a pick.

And I could do that, so that's what I started to do,

like anybody else trying to earn a living.

And that's what I did, till I was 30.

Right, now you mentioned the double bass players

having difficulty with newer parts.

Did your dad ever express that to you?

Or did he take to the electric bass guitar pretty quickly or--

Well, my dad took to the electric bass really quickly.

He said, this is brilliant.

It's going to sort the bluffers out from the people who

actually know what they're playing.

Whereas, when my father played double bass,

he would occasionally come across other double bass players who were playing it

like it was a skiffle bass, you know?

Literally, making a thump, and not really

giving a damn about what note they play.

And that's obviously why they called the Fender Precision Bass, the Fender

Precision Bass because it was the first time the bass had frets, you know?

Right, right, that's a great point.

And my dad was really pleased with that.

He said, now, you either play the right note or the wrong note.

There's nothing in between.

And so he liked it.

Hang on, I going to go inside because this is too much of a pain in the ass.

This should be better now.

We'll close the door.

Right, can you still hear me all right?

I can.

It's a bit echoey.

Hang on.

How about this?

Is that better?

Terrific.

That's good.

Anyway, when I was eight, they gave us all recorders,

you know recorders, and a book, and said that we

had to learn the first two exercises.

And it was the first time I'd ever done anything like that.

And I learned the first two exercises.

And I always remember when I went in on Monday,

I was the only person that could do it.

And I thought, oh, maybe I'm good at this.

Pretty soon, I used to play the recorder-- play the hymns.

You know, I used to read the hymns, and play them behind the piano player.

That's kind of where I learned to read music.

And so when I picked up the double bass when

I was 11, 12 I figured out the notes from figuring out the recorder,

you know?

I guess I'm interested in knowing a little bit about the relationship

with your dad, and the way that music may or may not have played a factor.

When you started to show serious interest, was he excited about that?

Well, the thing was I never used to see my father in the evenings

mostly because he was working.

He'd work as a dairy engineer, come in and have dinner, and go straight out,

and do a gig like five nights a week.

So from when I was about 11, I had a room at the back of the house

with a piano in it.

And I used to go in there every evening.

And I had my dad's four-string guitar.

And I learned how to play the guitar from looking at books

and also figuring out the triads, you know?

My dad told me about triads-- major and minor triads.

And I worked them out, where they were on the bass and on the guitar.

And that's what I used to do every evening for a couple years.

And then I started to do deps for my dad on the double bass.

If he couldn't make the first set, when I was about 12 or 13,

I would go and do the first set for him.

The rest of the band weren't crazy about it.

But we're talking about stuff like the old kind of foxtrot, quickstep stuff,

where the bass would play [VOCALIZING] for the first 32 bars.

And then it would all move up a key, and the bass just started to go

[VOCALIZING] those sort of arrangements, you know?

Loads of that stuff, and I always remember "Let's Twist Again".

Playing that was all [VOCALIZING] But really at the time

I was much more interested in the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Bob

Dylan, you know?

Is that what you did when you had your own band

that you played electric guitar in?

Yeah, we were called The Outer Limits.

And we played mainly the Kinks and anything that

was really easy with not many chords.

Right, and at point in this whole discovery,

did you realize that you could get a career for yourself going?

Well, when I left school because I'd spent all my time

playing around with music.

I neglected all of my studies.

And I got lousy results to go back to college, But by this point,

I was doing a Bob Dylan imitation act as well,

where I would do a folk act with a harmonica around my neck.

I was doing that two nights a week as well as

playing the odd gig on the bass.

I suppose when I got to about 17 and a half,

after a succession of awful day jobs, and I was working five nights a week

in a semi-pro band, playing stuff from the top 40 and dance music,

and all that shit, you know the usual stuff.

I suddenly realized this whole working during the day is a bit of a joke

really because the only thing I'm interested in is music.

And I'm never going to be any good at this stuff.

I woke my parents up at 4:00 in the morning

to tell them that I decided that whatever the risks,

I was going to have a career in music.

And how did they react?

They were horrified.

Well, I imagine the 4:00 AM-- the timing could have been a little bit better.

Yeah, my father said, you're just not good enough.

You're not good enough to be professional, and he was right.

He had the wherewithal at 4:00 AM to say that?

Yes.

Wow.

And he said, you know it's a hard life.

You've got no idea what you're getting into.

And well, I said, I don't care because I know

it's the only thing that I think I can succeed at

and the only thing I'm interested in.

So they begged me to get one more job.

And I got a job as a progress chaser in a plastic bag factory.

But I only lasted three months, and then I got sacked.

But it wasn't my fault. They had to get rid of somebody.

And I always remember, they gave me two weeks money.

And I walked out.

I was so happy.

I was so happy.

I said, that's it.

I'm never going to into that world again.

And my parents were horrified.

And I said, I'm going to get the Melody Maker tomorrow,

and I'll find a professional job.

And my dad was like, it's never going to happen.

And then just out of the blue, the following day--

the day after I got sacked--

one of the two local professional bandleaders showed up at my door

and said, I want you to play in my band.

I want you to start in a month's time.

I was gobsmacked.

I said, but you've never heard me play.

I had met him because it turned out this bandleader lived in a village

right next door to a guy that I was working with in a rubber company

that I worked at.

And it's very complicated.

And he'd mentioned me to this bandleader.

And so I'd gone to see the bandleader.

I met him.

And he said, come and see my band for one set, and there's a song there.

I want you to listen to it.

It's called "Everlasting Love" and tell me if you can play it.

I knew the song perfectly because it was a very difficult bass part,

it went [VOCALIZING] It was very fast, and you could only really play it

with a pick.

I think it was John Paul Jones on the record.

Right, is that the same one the-- (SINGING) open up your arms--

Yeah. (SINGING) open up your eyes, don't you realize.

That one.

Anyway, I watched his band for a set, and I

saw how his bass player was an old double bass player,

and he couldn't get anywhere near the part.

And afterwords the bandleader said to me, can you play that part?

And I said, yep, I can play that.

So he said, well, if I need you, I'll call you.

And that had been like maybe a year before.

And then suddenly, the day after I get fired, he turns up.

And he says, I want you to play in the band, sign this contract,

start in a month, 25 pounds a week.

I'd been earning 10 pounds a week for a 40 hour week.

So this was suddenly 25 pounds a week for five nights.

And, luckily, I said to him, if I sign in a month's time,

do you mind if I go in and work my way through the pad?

We used to call it a pad then because a band like that would

have a pad with like 300 parts in it.

You know what I mean?

So over the next month, I spent five or six hours a day,

and I work my way through the whole pad, looking for anything-- anything that

was difficult, I learned it.

You know what I mean?

And I started with them a month later, and I never really looked back.

I think I was 18.

Production was something I was always fascinated by.

I think before we move on to production, I need to know why 4:00 AM?

Why were you-- had you been up at a gig playing and then you came home or--

I'd been doing a gig, and then I'd driven a girl home.

[INAUDIBLE] I got back at 4:00 in the morning.

Were they mad at you for waking them too?

My parents were very tolerant in some ways.

And if I get an idea in my head, I can be quite impetuous.

I'm going to do it now.

I'm ready to sort it out now.

So they must have been thrilled by the 25 pounds a week then.

No.

No?

No, not really.

I moved out, and they were worried for me, quite rightly.

That's what I did.

I ended up in London when I was 21.

Playing with a band in London that used to do a lot of broadcasts with the BBC,

you know?

It was back in the time when the BBC would rerecord

a lot of songs that were in the top 20.

You know what I mean?

And it was just because they couldn't afford

to pay the royalties for the actual performers or--

No, they could they only had so much needle time.

They were only allowed to play so many records.

Wow, that is crazy.

They only had so much needle time, and they needed other stuff

that wasn't needle time stuff.

So it meant that we would go in in an afternoon in the studio

and record six songs, you know?

Everything, like play them live and over top the vocals standing between two

[INAUDIBLE] machines.

That's the way the BBC did it.

Well, it was good for musicians because it gave you--

and it got me really interested in--

I mean, if I was interested in studios before,

and I was trying to write songs.

But bass was how I earned a living.

Right, and then so, sorry, I did interrupt you.

You were going on to talk about production and how that all started

I was always trying to write songs.

But I kind of stopped when I was about 20 because I got nowhere,

as most people get nowhere.

I went through a brief period of local fame where I was on the radio.

And Radio Leicester singing self-written songs.

It was just me and the acoustic guitar.

But It was only big fish in a tiny pool, you know?

Once I got to London, I met all kinds of people.

And I was always interested in recording.

And I think by the time I was 25, I was playing in the best band,

one of the best paid job in London was a guy called

Ray McVay and his Band of the Day.

And it was broadcast sessions, TV, and gigs.

But back in 1975, I was earning 200 pounds a week.

That's a fortune.

I bought a load of recording equipment.

And I only managed to stick a year with Ray McVay because I just

couldn't handle it, the hours on the bus, you had no life, no life.

And I went up Midlands in England, and I built

a recording studio with another guy.

It took us like six months to build.

And I was working seven nights a week in a night club playing bass, you know?

And after I had built the studio in Leicester, I realized I'm stu--

we weren't getting any business, so we advertised.

Right, we'll fix up your song and make a demo of it.

I did this for a few people and one of them

won a songwriting competition with a song that I fixed up.

And somebody, a guy who'd been in the business a lot longer than me,

said to me, you know, what you're doing is called record production.

I had no idea.

And I said, really?

And he said, well, that's what I want to do.

I said, that's what I'm want to do.

He says, you know if you become a record producer,

you can't be a bass player as well.

He said, because the record could be the most important thing,

and if you're not the best bass player, well, you'd

have to hire the best bass player.

And that always stuck with me, but the guy said this to me when I was 25.

It always stuck with me, so I would always try and get better musicians

than me to play on my records.

But you end up playing on quite a few of them, don't you?

Yeah, because sometimes it's more about the sound than what you play,

and getting the right sound, and just playing the most boring part.

I think making records taught me that about the bass.

But between when I was 25 and 30, I produced loads of tracks for people.

And I played on lots of tracks.

All my friends used to hire me because I could always

come up with a more interesting bass line than they already had.

I did a lot of that and then, suddenly, I thought this is crazy.

I'm fixing up everybody's songs.

I should start writing songs again.

So I started writing songs again, and within a year

of starting to write songs again, I'd written "Video Killed the Radio

Star" with Bruce Woolley, so that's what really turned it around for me

because then--

Yeah, as soon as he wrote that, did you know that that was something?

I didn't know--

I thought it was good at the time, but afterwards when I thought about it,

I thought that's the closest thing to a hit I've ever--

Yeah, it's funny, too, because the idea of that was so ahead of its time.

I mean, MTV didn't even exist.

But I guess, how did you know that that was going to happen?

Because I was reading JG Ballard all the time.

Because you were what?

I was hanging out with Bruce Woolley during the day, a guy called Bruce--

a really good guitar player, beautiful singer, and good writer.

I always liked his voice.

And we were reading JG Ballard, and we were envisaging a record label

with a huge computer in the basement, where they were designing records.

And they were making the whole record and the video

that went with it on the computer.

So that was what was in our heads, you know.

It's so funny though how it came to be so much more emblematic of an era.

And I'm guessing that was something you could never dream of.

No, it always makes me laugh when people claim credit.

Like, I'm clever because I thought of that.

"Video Killed the Radio Star" just popped in my head whole as a line,

as though somebody whispered it in my ear.

Bruce said, you can't say that.

I said, why not?

And he said, because you've mentioned the name of two groups, Snips

and the "Video King" and the Radio Stars.

I said they'll be long gone by the time this comes out.

Yeah I've never even heard of either of those groups.

And the verses of "Video Killed the Radio Star" are pure JG Ballard.

They're not taken verbatim, but they're about a sort of future world.

Right, right, the funny thing to me, when I think about "Video

Killed the Radio Star," and this is strictly

on a personal level, this anecdote, but I get

that song in my head every single day.

But it's only after another Trevor Horn song is in my head.

Because there's this one portion of my commute where the foot traffic is so

congested that I think of a scene from the video for Owner of a Lonely Heart,

which you co-wrote with Yes.

And then I think about how when videos first came out,

critics were complaining that the visuals would prevent people

from creating their own private imagery or whatever.

And then because of that "Video Killed the Radio Star" is in my head.

And it's interesting to think back on those early days of video,

and how that was a really big concern, and that people wouldn't

be able to dissociate the prescribed imagery from the actual video

to use their own imaginations.

I know.

It's a funny thing because I wonder how many songs that we liked

in the '60s, how they would have been affected by having--

I mean, the Beatles did start making videos

but I don't think of videos when I think of those songs.

Right, right, you don't think of like, that scene.

Well, actually, I don't know, when I hear "Help" I kind of think

of the skiing scene a little bit.

I think of summer holidays by the seaside.

Yeah, that's a more pure memory, probably.

So from there I always did think it was interesting

that you had such a huge new wave hit.

And then you went on to join Yes, which doesn't seem

like an intuitive fit from the get-go.

From the moment, I first heard "Starship Trooper," I loved Yes.

How could you not if you're a bass player?

Chris Squire took it to a whole level that I'd never

thought it could go to in a way.

And because he played with a pick and had this amazing bright sound that

had loads of weight to it as well.

I'd never heard anything like that.

And so I-- all the way through the '70s, I was a dedicated Yes fan.

Because also I have a sort of high, white voice.

It has no soul in it whatsoever.

And so I could never sing like anybody, like the records.

You know what I mean?

I always got the terrible songs to sing when I was

in bands because I could sing a bit.

So they'd give me like, (SINGING) I'll be

your long haired lover from Liverpool, and things like that.

I've also on covers because we used to do lots of cover sessions,

two or three times I did the Bryan Ferry songs, you know?

And because they said, get Trevor to do it.

He can sing out of tune.

(SINGING) Let's work together.

Come on.

Come on.

Let's stick together.

I used to do a pretty good impersonation of Bryan [INAUDIBLE]..

You still can.

It's good.

That's good.

So that's how I--

The Buggles suddenly had the same manager as Yes,

and I got to meet Chris Squire.

I was a bit of a hustler.

I played him a song that Geoffrey and I had written.

We'll fly from here.

We can fly from here.

And he said the fateful words, hey, you sound a bit like Jon Anderson.

So that's how I got suckered into it.

I had no idea Jon Anderson had fallen out with them.

I had no idea what was going on.

I thought they were just going to do, mine and Geoffrey's song.

But what we didn't know was that Rick and Jon had left.

The band had split up.

So that's how I ended up with them.

And it was for two tours, a tour of America, and one album.

But you know what?

To sing that high for two hours, wore me out.

So I didn't really want to be a rock star.

It didn't appeal to me at the time, and I

knew they were going to get John back at some point.

And my late wife said to me, I think you should

forget being an artist for a while.

You should be a producer.

Because if you be a producer, you'll be the best producer in the world.

And she was talking me up a bit, but it's funny

when people say things like that to you, it really can have an effect on you.

And she was right because I'd spent five years making everybody's demos.

And by this point I knew the studio back to front.

You know?

Right, it's true.

It's funny how somebody else can help you realize your vision like that

because they know you from a different perspective.

Yeah, that's why I think it's good to have bass lessons because it's

somebody outside of you.

Even though some of these things that I've done on the bass course

are quite easy to look at.

But you play them all the way through, and have them sound right,

and then submit them to a teacher.

A couple of them, I've played them until my finger ends were sore, over and over

again, even though I can play them well, just to get a good take that I'm

prepared to send to Danny.

You know what I mean?

Just that discipline is a really good thing, it's the same thing.

So we have record producers.

Sometimes people think, we don't need a record producer

because we know what we want.

We know what we want to do.

Yeah, but you know, you're a group of people.

A record producer is outside of you, and he should be aloof and not

play any favorites.

That input from outside is so vital sometimes, you know?

Right, and how was your transition into being Yes's producer

when Jon came back to the fold.

Did you ever have a conversation with any of the members saying well,

he's coming back and I--

No, I was the one that said Jon should come back.

Yeah, because we were halfway through the album,

and I thought we needed him back.

We needed a front man back, you know.

It wasn't going to be me.

And I don't think it would have been Trevor Rabin.

It certainly wasn't Chris.

It had to be Jon.

And so I had to go and see him.

And of course I had to record him.

When you say, how was it?

When I took on Yes, I was, at that point in time,

the most successful producer in the world.

You played the ego card.

I've done Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

I've done Malcolm McLaren.

I hadn't done Frankie Goes to Hollywood at that point.

Oh, you hadn't even done it.

What were the ones that you were--

ABC and Malcolm McLaren and The Art of Noise.

So I had big mainstream success with ABC,

really big sort of odd success with The Art of Noise, and Malcolm McLaren.

I was all [? over ?] the dance charts, and so I was happening.

Everybody said I was crazy to do Yes, just the same way

that they said that I was crazy to join them, you know.

So how was it to go back to it?

It was great because I'd been in the band with the guys

so I could work with them in a way that I couldn't work with other people.

There was one point where they didn't want to do "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

They'd played it so many times, and I kept saying it's not right.

It's got to be simpler.

But in the end, Chris said, I don't think this song's right for us,

you know?

And because I'd been in the band, I was able to kind of get crazy with him.

I got on the floor, and crawled around the floor shouting,

and saying, you can't do this to me.

I'm the best record producer, certainly not the best.

I'm the most successful producer in the world,

and you're going to bring me down now because you won't do this song.

Please I beg you.

Let me program the drums on this song, please, please.

And I kept going on about it.

Please just let me program the drums.

And we'll start from there rather than you all playing it.

But they'd never done that before, you see,

they'd never played to [INAUDIBLE].

And they'd never tried it the other way around.

I think if I hadn't been in the band, I wouldn't

have been able to get them to do it.

And, of course, Chris came along when I programmed the drums, and so did Alan.

And they got quite fascinating.

We did it on an MPC, and that sort of led on to other things.

That's great.

So it was good that I'd been in the band.

When you look at your life's journey in music and all of the different stations

you've held, producer, bass player, bandleader even

for a time, What is it that makes you most satisfied?

Do you know I think you get the most instant pleasure from being

a bandleader.

I've got a great band.

They're all young.

Some of them are absolutely brilliant players, you know?

And when you see a bunch of young people, and it's a nine piece band--

two guitars, two keyboards, bass, drums, samples, and two singers.

I think you get the most instant satisfaction watching young people play

music they're really enjoying and coming out of themselves

by learning what it's like to entertain an audience.

You play something in front of, where 15,000 people, that's the most

instant gratification.

Records, you've got to want to do it, and you've got to like the song.

They're probably going to be paying you a lot of money, one of the two,

because it's hard work.

Being a bass player is--

just playing the bass is also a very satisfying thing.

When I was just playing bass in January in Brazil, I really enjoyed it.

Because I was playing with a great drummer, a guy called Steve Ferrone.

He's the best guy I've played with-- the only guy I've

played with that's as good as Ash Soan, who's the guy in my band.

Well, it sounds like you need to have all of these facets in your life,

a little bit of production, a little bit of bass playing,

a little bit of leading a band, and have you always had continuing music

education in your life as well?

Or is this the first time you've gone back to it in a while?

This is the first time I've gone back to it.

And it makes me think--

well, because I haven't needed to.

The reading thing--

I kind of stop--

people don't read on my sessions, when you're making a record.

People aren't reading.

Unless it's the string players and the horn players, and they're

done in an hour.

You know what I mean?

Everybody is-- but what I've found over the years is that being able to read

is to be in really good stead.

For instance, if you're producing a singer, and they're singing.

I had to do a load of pre-records for Mona Lisa Smile.

And they were all old songs from 1949.

And being able to get into the top line and everything.

And because I can read I can show the person what the tune actually is there.

That started me reading again really.

That was the first time I had to actually look at it.

And a few times over the years smart-ass musicians have tried to catch me out.

And I have thwarted them.

Yeah, that's great.

One last question, I guess, is what is the production, the piece of produced

music, that you've had a hand in that you are

most proud of after all these years.

I would probably say the four albums that I did with Seal.

I produced the first four Seal albums.

I still enjoy listening to that second album sometimes.

The songs are so interesting.

The only guy that could do a song in 7/8, and make it

seem like it was nothing.

What was it about your chemistry with him that really clicked.

We both like the same records.

We both were big Dionne Warwick fans.

We both like Crosby, Stills and Nash.

And Seal's the best one-note bass player, I ever came across.

Oh, yeah?

How's that?

Seal plays bass like an African drum.

It's amazing.

I can't do it.

Huh, that's funny because he actually expressed some interest

in taking course with us.

It was-- Learn to DJ with Traktor, was the course.

But I wonder how he'd do in some of the bass courses that you've been taking.

You know it's a funny thing.

I'm going to see him today.

I'm going to tell him he should do it because--

Yeah, do it.

--love this week's bass parts.

They're cool.

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Well, if Trevor Horn's powers of persuasion are effective enough,

you will perhaps one day be listening to the Seal edition of Music is My Life.

Visit us at online.berklee.edu/takenote.

Special thanks for assistance on this edition to [? Suzanne ?] [? Deller, ?]

Gabriel Ryfer Cohen, [? Chandler ?] [? Martin, ?] [? Teo ?] [? Waho, ?]

and to you for listening.

Keep a look out for a new podcast series coming from Berklee Online next month.

Talk to you soon.

For more infomation >> Trevor Horn (Buggles, Yes) Interview | Music Is My Life Episode 19 | Berklee Online - Duration: 35:33.

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Pimachiowin Aki is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site - Duration: 1:22.

- [Narrator] What kind of place has

outstanding universal value to all of humanity?

Pimachiowin Aki. (inspirational piano music)

The nearly 30,000 square kilometers

in the heart of Canada's Boreal Forest

is now a new UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Four Indigenous First Nations: Bloodvein,

Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi, and Poplar River

with provincial partners in Manitoba and Ontario,

embarked on an Indigenous-led decade-long

process to seek this recognition.

This will be Canada's first

UNESCO Mixed World Heritage Site.

It has been recognized not just

for its natural importance, or cultural importance,

but for the outstanding universal value of both.

Protecting the land means protecting

at least 220 species of birds,

40 species of mammals,

and the largest herd of endangered

woodland caribou remaining in Manitoba.

Across the boreal forest, Indigenous First Nations

are leading efforts to conserve these important lands,

and create sustainable economies.

And the world is paying attention.

For more, go to pimachiowinaki.org

For more infomation >> Pimachiowin Aki is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site - Duration: 1:22.

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What is VAR and when can it be used? How will it work at the World Cup? - Duration: 3:39.

GETTYWhat is VAR and when can it be used? WHAT IS VAR? The VAR is a match official who monitors video footage of the game for incidents that the on-pitch referee and his assistant referees might have missed

HOW WILL IT WORK AT THE WORLD CUP? A VAR, one of 13 FIFA qualified referees, and three assistants will monitor each of the 64 matches at the World Cup from an operations room in Moscow

 They will have access to the pictures from 33 broadcast cameras as well as two cameras dedicated to aiding offside decisions

Eight of the cameras will provide "super slow-motion" and four "ultra slow-motion" pictures

 Another dedicated camera will be installed behind each goal for the matches in the knockout stages of the tournament

Related articles World Cup commentator Martin Keown slammed after saying THIS Harry Kane goal: WATCH Kane put England ahead against Tunisia GETTYWhat is VAR and how will it work at the World Cup?WHAT DECISIONS WILL THE VAR REVIEW? The VAR will become involved only in the following instances: * Goals and offences leading up to a goal * Penalty decisions and offences leading up to a penalty * Direct red cards * Cases of mistaken identityCAN THE REFEREE REVIEW THE FOOTAGE? Yes, for some incidents, the referee will act on information from the VAR, in others they will view the footage at the side of the pitch

GETTYVAR was not used to rule on Kyle Walker's penalty incident against Tunisia The on-field review will take place in the following circumstances: * When a goal has been scored, in the case of a foul committed by an attacking player or for offside interference

 * On penalty decisions, for a foul leading up to penalty or a foul by an attacking player

 * All direct red card incidents. The referee will act on VAR advice in the following circumstances: * When a goal has been scored, to decide if a player was in an offside position leading up to the goal or if the ball had gone out of play leading up to the goal

 * On penalty decisions, to decide whether a foul was committed inside or outside the penalty area, if the ball had gone out of play leading up to penalty or if a player was in an offside position leading up to penalty

 * All cases of mistaken identity.