my modern day hero is my dad is anyone there
oh that is so sweet yeah
but I like to compare him to some of my other day modern  heros like santa clause I mean he does not wear red clothes or anyting
aww that is kind of sweet to
What do you think
i think my hero would probably donald trump
Sorry about that I had a glitch with my computer
No you're fine
OK so what would you like to talk about this evening Are you still there can you still see me
What do you think makes a house really valuable
One thing that's been on my mind lately is what to do for Mother's Day The first thing and most important thing with the house is location, location location
Why is location important?
I've heard it said that there is a difference between dirt and real estate Dirt is the stuff that we have all around the world And real estate is the stuff that you build things on and has value I think a lot of houses can be at home but I don't know but every house can be at home Did I say that Tight OK I think I'm having problems with my voice to text
Really?
Are you still there I'm trying to think of what to get about 50 mothers for Mother's Day that doesn't cost Much money
Oh I understand your predicament
Do you want to hear some of my investment strategies
Time is money though so your time counts this money for the gift
I will assume you do and I will start telling you
Yeah sure you're pretty smart I bet you're a master Oh that would be kind of rude
First of all you are right you have to understand that time is money And money is just time in a paper format And then you have to understand that we all have 24 hours of time in our day Then you have to know that when we exchange our time We can be efficient with that or not efficient The more efficient we are the more time we can save Organizing people together through leadership saves time When it comes to investing strategies I believe it's important to invest in yourself first And then draw circles around you to represent layers of Investment
I suppose that makes sense
Can I shift gears on you a second I was thinking about my dad is a hero and the things I've learned And I wanted to share a story with you And get your opinion on what you think Are you there. What do you think are you interested
Yeah I think it's really interesting
OK great. The story takes place in Missouri I was about 12 years old and I liked to go shoot my BB gun We would go over to the nearby lake and hunt frogs Actually we would shoot at anything we could shoot at We shot it aluminum cans, birds, sticks, fish, snakes I think you get the point that we liked to shoot at all kinds of things One day I decided to take my friend Lance over shooting He was younger than me and always did what I asked him to
PDon't tell me you shot someone
Are you trying to guess the end of the story
ni No
Ha ha. I'm not going to tell you. You will have to wait. We had to ride our BMX bikes over to the pond It was not easy to carry our guns and ride the bike at the same time We could each only carry one gun with us on a bike After we have been shooting our guns for a little while Lance and I got in a disagreement about something I can't remember what and it's probably not important to the story But he said he was going to take his bike and go home I told him he needed to take the gun with him
That's too bad it would make more sense
But he was mad and told me that he would not So I told him I would throw his bike in the pond if he didn't He decided to run to where his bike was laying I told him Lance come back and get the gun My gun was a really cool pump action shotgun style BB gun It was hard to pump but it had a lot of power I had already pumped it so it was ready to go for hunting But when Lance started running towards his bike I could not think of any other way to stop him or get his atte
Uh oh
So I raise my gun from my hip and without aiming pointed it in his direction And then I pull the trigger Suddenly I saw him arches back and throw his hands in the air
Uh oh Skilled shot.
And he fell down in the tall grass like he was dead
You killed him?
Yeah it's more like a lucky shot if anything
Is this a confession? Lucky?!?
Ha ha. No I didn't kill him. But I didn't know what happened to him Suddenly he jumped up out of the grass and started screaming Instead of running for his bike anymore he was making a beeline for home I kept yelling at him to stop and told him I would give him anything he wanted But he wouldn't stop and Kip running for home I knew I was going to be in trouble when I got home I gathered up both of the guns and my bike and began walking back home I am Magent in my mind him telling his parents And his parents coming over to talk to my parents It seems like a really long walk home It was only about a half a mile I thought maybe my life my end when I got home As I turn the corner and walked up my driveway He was sitting on the front porch bent over pulling weeds out of the flower garden He didn't even look at me while I walked up Lance was not around and his parents were not to be seen anywhere I wondered if I could be so lucky as to not get in trouble I even imagined that maybe it all was in my imagination and didn't really happen As I walked up to the garage I dad said, you'll need to put the gun in my room I ask him if I was going to get it back sometime He said he didn't know but that I probably would not be able to buy the 22 rifle that I wanted either Are you still there? Then he said the words that I'll never forget
Yeah I'm just reading/listening
Ok cool He said to me it takes a long time to earn trust from people And it takes only one poor decision to lose it I sat and thought consignments for a while And then like most kids I asked my dad when I was going to earn the trust back He said he didn't know but it could be a long time I decided then and there to be much more careful about how I treat the trust I've earned from people Now I have a question for you
Sure shoot
What do you think the moral of the story is
Look both ways before you cross the road ?
Exactly!
Oh sorry that was a different story Oh sorry that was a different story
The moral to the story is chickens that should not be allowed to carry guns
Make a more convincing argument to your dad? Perhaps we should make some legislation about it
My sister has 11 chickens and she is crazy about them I think she spends more time with them then I spend in this chat game
Oh yeah sounds right I know some people who are really into them I'm kind of into them to eat them for lunch
At the end of the year she will get a bunch of eggs every week At the end of this game what are we going to get? I think we might just end up with a computer that acts more human than the human
Probably just a bag of truffles
And I don't even like truffles
Oh yeah and that too sorry I wasn't thinking end of the big picture I don't know about you but I love travels
Have you ever thought about the data that is being stored about consumers and people
Yeah just a bit but not super in depth
Inside the big server farms and data centers there are thousands of high-powered servers
I have nothing to hide and doesn't worry me
All they do is crunch to data trying to put them together in logical summaries It's not about having anything to hide. It's trying to develop a profile or to figure out how you think Just like this chat bot is trying to figure out how to learn how to talk
Is that really all that bad of a thing? We let people know how we act all the time
Before long grocery stores will know exactly what coupons to send you and what price to produce products for Yes we do let people now and they collect the data in these computers The computer will watch patterns like what time we get up and what time we go to bed It will record who we talk to and what we say
I like it my computer already does that for me
Eventually it will tell us what kind of people we should like and what kind of foods do you like It may even pre-order the food to the grocery store But what if you want to change your mind The computer will think there something wrong Do you like to use automation
Well then I suppose the computer hasn't been programmed woth enough leniency Yeah it makes my day a lot more simple so I can focus on more complex things
And in the chat I was in earlier today we were talking about what would happen if the Internet turned off I was thinking about all the things that I did in a day that were impacted by the Internet
Oh yeah I remember
When I get up in the morning I check the weather I was I having that conversation with you There was supposed to be a? On the end of that last sentence See even the computer that's trying to guess what words I am saying messes up I am kind of inmood tonight Are you interested in hearing another story
Depends what about
What kind of stories do you like to hear If I don't have a real story I will make one up Have you ever heard of a cinnamon bear story
Well i dont kne
All of his friends used to call him semi
Well not really Semi?
He was a silly little brown bear
Oh ok Hahaha
But I must warn you first that these stories will make you sleepy Once upon a time in a land far far away
Hahahaha
OK. Yeah I won't tell that story Good How about a kind of funny story Had our family house we used to have a swimming pool It was the round kind of swimming pool that was above ground We would put it up every summer and take it down at the end It was made out of a type of vinyl and metal post The swimming pool was about 18 feet are crossed and about 4 feet high Can you picture
Yeah
When you fill it full of water it holds about 8000 gallons I think
Thats crazy I could Oh my car up with gas for hundred times with that
That's an aweful lot of water Most people where we live have inground pools But my dad always like to be different than everybody else We would take down the pool and use it again for two more Summers After two summers the pool was bleached white from the sun
Well isn't that peculiar
And the vinyl was starting to crack So rather than take it down to use it again we would destroy the pool There are all kinds of fun ways to destroy a pool One year my dad asked my brother to go get his scouting knife He was really worried what my dad might do with that knife My dad was going to cut the pool and let the water drain out of the backyard into the street
Wow you have a lot of cool stories
He positioned himself in the right place to cut a slow whole from the top to the bottom to let a little bit of water out Wait now that I think of it he stuck the knife right in the middle and was going to cut up My brother look at them like and said that's not a smart idea But of course he was dad so he did it anyway When he started to cut the water ripped a line all the way down to the ground and around the side of the pool It all happened in a matter of seconds and then There was 8000 gallons of water rushing across our backyard like a wave at the ocean My mom thought my dad was really crazy for trying that
Sounds like it was probably pretty fun
The water filled our backyard with about a foot of water across the whole  back yard The neighbor kid saw that wave eventually coming down the street I thought it was really cool and said we should do it again next year Yeah in a weird way it was kind of fun Are you still OK with me continuing to tell you stories
Let's talk about something exciting What do you think about North Korea
I actually don't think about North Korea a whole lot do you Is North Korea the country that's by the north pole I can't remember if the people up there are elves do they wear green or red
Have you heard that they're doing something to start piece there Peace
Actually I'm just kidding Who would they be doing that with
Why the trolls of course
Are there trolls up there The thing about North Korea is they feel insecure about their place in the world Germany felt the same way for a little while before World War II That is how Hitler was able to get enough support to start a war in force everybody to fight for him
Ok Why do you think there was such a sudden change in stance?
Usually what happens is a country that is impoverished feels like it has to do something to change in circumstances Do you think they are pushed into a corner and that they have to make a stand in order to be respected But they usually do not have much so they do some dumb things to try and get a tension Attention I think North Korea is smart enough to not try and do anything really bad but desperate enough to try and get attention Other than that I really don't know a lot of specifics about North Korea
Oh OK what do you know whole lot about?
My dad lived in Australia when we were little
Oh OK what do you know whole lot about?
We went as a family to Spain. Did I ever tell you about that
? No
OK that's another really cool story It starts when my sister was getting ready to go to her mission for the LDS church She was called to the Madrid Spain mission While she was at the mission training center waiting for her visa We got a email from a friend who was trying to help somebody find a place for a foreign exchange student When my mom read the email she started to cry and felt like this was something we needed to do My parents have always said no to having a foreign exchange student But this time they said yes We didn't know anything about them and didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl
Wow that is awesome!
They told us that the first home that he was placed in did not work out So they had to move him fairly quickly and put him in school So we said yes and he came to live with us to days later Everyone in my family is tall. I am 6 foot four And my brother is 6 foot seven and another brother is 6 foot three My sister and mom are also 6 foot My dad is 6 foot three and really mostly and handsome He has a body that chiseled like the Greek god Zeus Honestly I don't know whether Zeus was strong or lazy But anyway our foreign exchange student was short But he fit into our family really well like one of us My sister went to the mission in Madrid Spain and served there for her first area
Well that really is something I can imagine it would be hard to fit into a family full of giants like you guys
It would be hard to fit in. He had little teeny shoes. And everyone else in our family has big shoes Coincidentally, if you believe in coincidence, my sister went to the same city as his parents It was kind of like the world was back in We had their boy from Madrid Spain and they had my sister We all lived on opposite sides of the world from each other At the end of his day he went back to Spain and my sister came home Our family decided we wanted to go there for vacation It was fun when we finally went When we went to the airport to get on the plane it was 119degF When we got off the plane in Madrid Spain it was 112degF It was a really hot vacation and people in Spain don't have many air-conditioners His parents got us a really nice apartment to stay in It was in the center of the city They took us out to eat and to ballet They took us to all the famous museums in the city Is this trip interesting or boring to you We also went to his grandparents home It was out in the countryside The town must have been as old as the hills around it There were ruins in the area that dated back to the Romans The little town was laid out like a town in London
Wow
The Catholic Church was in the center and all the roads make circle rings around it Have you ever been to London or Europe
Just once i suppose I went to rinkaby sweden
Oh sweet and sounds like a really nice place but I've never been there Wait now that I think about it maybe I have been there
I went to rinkaby sweden
Did you go there on a mission for the LDS Church
No just visited It was as a scout thing
Oh cool I like scouting Are you an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America I love to do hikes and campouts in scouts Once I hiked to the highest peak in the lower 48 states It's called Mount Whitney and is in California It was a really hard hike the took all day We started at 3 o'clock in the morning with headlights Wait I think I meant to say headlamps. It was a full moon out so we could see the trail As we hiked we went by some beautiful ponds and lakes Eventually we got to the point where the trees don't grow They're only a lot a rocks after that point
Sounds like the tip of the mountain
The hike had 101 switchbacks I thought they were never going to end The first time I went I did not make it to the top I carried up too much stuff in my backpack I did not realize that every pound I put in my backpack Would be multiplied by like 30,000 steps Another important thing is to remember to eat But you have to eat while you're at the lower altitudes When you get to the higher altitudes you lose your appetite And if you don't eat then you don't have any energy Do you also have a difficult time keeping warm at the top of the mountain The second and third times that I went I packed light and took a water filter rather than actual water
Are you really seem like the outdoorsman type of guy
I would stop and filter my water in the stream
Holy cow I would never drink from a string
Yes I do like the outdoors a lot As a kid the first thing I bought was a sleeping bag with my savings The second thing I bought was a tent with my savings The third thing I bought was a scout knife with my savings Do you like the outdoors I really appreciate you listening to me tonight
Well i really enjoy the stories
Thank you that's nice of you to say
I like to listen about world events more but i dont mind. You habe good stories
I wish I knew more about world events but I don't I live on a little farm and you don't realize that much is going on besides the farm I was born a poor lonesome black child
Oh man you need to study up my friend! But sure i am sure you are living a more calm relaxed life than me Hahahaha
Just kidding. I wasn't born at all I was hatched from the egg that came before the chicken
Oh haha makes sense thats how you know so much about them.
So I was born a rich Caucasian guy So I was born a rich Caucasian guy I'm just kidding about all this. I just wanted to see if you were listening My dad used to tell me that he invented the drone back was when he was in fifth grade My dad used to tell me that he invented the drone back was when he was in fifth grade He would spend his recess time with the paper and a pencil drawing out how it would work His drones only had one propeller on the top And they were powered by a little gas motor But he drew out the controller with the screen in the middle and the joysticks before it was ever invented His drone also had little weapons on it It would shoot little pen darts at balloons or bad kids in the playground Of course he never patented his idea Otherwise my family would probably be rich
That really is too bad he probably could've made millions Well it's too bad they aren't
Yeah but I don't know what I would do with millions
Hey at least you aren't poor
I believe that if you have more than it takes to meet your basic needs Can you have a responsibility to do what is right with the rest Do you remember the parable of the talents There was one guy who was given one talent And there was another guy that was given to talents And a third guy who was given five talents Each was given a challenge to double what they were given The first guy was afraid of the master And he was afraid that he would lose the talents So he decided to just bury his talent in the ground The other two people did double their talents When the master returned he asked them for an accounting When he heard that the first guy did not double his talent The master was mad at him The master was happy with both of the others who doubled their talents So my question is which of those people would you prefer to be If you were charge was to double something
The guy who doubles em