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Welcome everybody to another episode of Let's
Ask Paul, the podcast where you get

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to ask me Paul Abernathy anything you
want about the National Electrical Code and all

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things electrically related. On today's podcast, it's going to be a little different.

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We're going to be doing a promo
or talking about our latest electrical program

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that's available to all electricians, not
just those that are studying for an electric

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exam, but for anybody where you're
an apprentice, a helper, a journeyman,

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a master, if you want to
learn the National Electoral Code at a

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much higher level, then that's what
we're going to be talking about today on

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this edition of Let's Ask Paul.
I'm also going to be giving a comment.

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If you wait until the end,
I'm going to be giving a comment

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on our social media platforms and some
of the efforts that we have and some

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of the things that we're no longer
going to be doing on platforms like TikTok

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and Instagram and things like that,
and we're going to be using more of

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those platforms for our marketing, and
we're no longer going to answer people's comments

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or questions anymore. There's other people
who think they're experts will let them go

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on and pick up that mantle and
we'll just move on. And we gave

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it a try. We thought we
would come back and answer comments for people,

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but it just it's just futile to
do so on social media like that.

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People think they know everything, so
it's just not worth the effort.

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But we'll talk about that at the
ends. Let's get to what the topic

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is today. So many people know
are familiar with our creation and working with

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Engage and creating courses that they're adapted
online to learn the National Electrical Code,

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especially for electrical exam preparation. So
we have since two thousand and seventeen,

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we have been creating here in Texas. We have been creating courses using published

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material that we have rights to use. We've been augmenting it. We change

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it, we modify it, we
add our own things, we add our

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images and illustrations in video. We're
necessary to enhance it all to create something

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that we call the fast track system. Now learning the NEC is it's really

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not brain surgery, right, So
you can buy books, you can buy

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DVDs, you can buy other online
courses. I think what has helped us

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stand out and helped so many people
learn the NEEC is the fact that they

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can interact with me on special sessions
like Wednesday nights message boards, and of

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course they can post questions to Paul
Abernathy dot com. I think that's what

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sets us apart versus a lot of
the educators out there. So so we've

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been doing the exam prep for many, many years. Of course, grounding

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and bonding as well, which is
a specialty because most people know that I

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serve on two code making panels five
and seventeen, and I'm most proud of

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being on code Panel five when it
comes to grounding and bonding and those applications

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in article two fifty and Article two
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on seventeen, dealing with articles for
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with six eighty six, eighty two, all of those type of things.

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I you know, for twenty two, I think I said that I get

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a joy out of those as well. Those are any significant articles to be

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a part of, and so we're
always excited about working with that and seeing

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the change of the codes through cycle
to cycle. You know, again,

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there's there's people out there in the
public that are ignorant. They don't understand

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how the cycles change, they don't
understand why. All they want to do

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is say that, oh, it's
because the manufacturers are trying to sell product.

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Look, as I tell people,
I can't fix stupid. I can't

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educate everybody and explain the facts to
everybody, especially those that don't want to

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listen. But what we can do
is create a program that is not tailored

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to exam prep, but it's tailored
to teaching people anybody, journeymen, masters,

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apprentices, helpers, young people who
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the code is like. It's going
to be tougher for them because they have

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none of that knowledge, but it's
going to be tougher. But we wanted

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to create a program or enhance a
program that that anybody can buy, that

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you know, that it's available on
your phone, that you can use anytime

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twenty four to seven, it never
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maybe you have an office where you're
the head electrician and you've got five or

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six people that work for you,
and you want to get them all on

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the same page. Well, then
that's what our new program is going to

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do. Uh. And so we're
going to be talking about that a little

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bit today. Uh, and then
I'll go into some other stuff later.

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So we're talking about mastering the NEC. So Mastering the NEC is a course

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that we put out that talks about
the National Electrical Code, has the code

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references, has great illustrations, and
it literally walks you through the beginning history

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of the NEC, and it walks
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special equipment, classified hazardous locations.
It kind of moves you through. It

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gives you the information that you need
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field as you're learning the trade.
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on exam prep. It's more of
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And so that's what this new program
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called Mastering the NEC. It's less
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couple of reasons. For one,
you don't inherently get access to Wednesday nights

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okay, because you don't need it. That's exam prep is usually the Wednesday

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night sessions, so you don't get
that. You also don't get access to

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fast Tracks Tube, which is the
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tailored towards the electrical videos and calculations
and things. It's basically the course material.

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Now you're going to get access to
all of the basic course material and

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of course you can post on our
message forum if you will if you have

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questions and all that, but it's
the base course material. But we were

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able to drop the price down so
you don't get the the you get to

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competency reviews and things like that.
None of that changes. You test your

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skills and your ability all those type
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the NEC. But you're not under
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anything like that. You just it's
it's a learning based system. So we're

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excited about it. It's called Mastering
the NEC, and it's going to work

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you all the way through every element, whether it's the general stuff like spacing

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two ten dot fifty two A spacing, it's going to work through the kitchen

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two ten, that fifty two B
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all of that very detailed graphics and
illustrations. Of course, anything that you

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don't understand, I'm always here to
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that I'm aware of. So it's
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to go deep into calculations so that
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single family dwelling, multi family dwelling, commercial dwellings, commercial dwellings, excuse

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me, commercial buildings. I guess
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have a multifamily, the individual dwelling
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overall building is more commercial, so
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So we're going to go in all
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caveat that we're going to The additional
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program is that we're also going to
bundle it with the grounding and bonding,

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and that is not done yet,
but we were going to do that,

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and that's amazing because you're going to
get the two courses for really the price

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of less than one of them,
and so that is something exciting that we're

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you know, we're ready to roll
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part of that package to help people
learn the NEC and I've always tried to

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make an effort to reduce the costs
of our programs and in a world where

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everybody's raising the prices. I do
my best to try to drop things down

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to make it affordable for the average
electrician, and you know that they can

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afford it to get in a program, and so that's what we created the

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fast Tracks program, and we've worked
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we believe it's an amazing offer.
So the Mastering the NEC program is going

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to offer the base course, but
it's also going to offer the grounding and

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bonding course. So that's going that's
an amazing value right there. In fact,

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we're going to say that's a limited
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going to offer that like that forever
because of the sheer costs associated with the

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systems and to be able to let
people have access. So that's going to

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be very limited. And in fact, it's not even posted on the website

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at this point. So I will
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Because we just launched the Mastering the
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designed for exam prep. It's not
what it's for. It's basic, same

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core fundamentals, but we have separate
courses that are designed specifically for exam prep,

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and it offers again the Wednesday night
sessions that you can come to as

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well as if you get the enhanced
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fast Tracks tube as well. Okay, so that type of thing, I

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guess I should tell you. Some
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haven't announced very much to people is
our webinar. We have a free webinar

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that's coming up on July sixth.
So depending on when you may hear this

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this podcast, it may have already
come and gone, but we're going to

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make an effort to do some more
free webinars and uh, you know it's

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uh if you're a member of if
you go to fasttracksystem dot com, which

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is our website, you have to
register. So there's a link at the

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top it says register. You got
a register. Once you register, then

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you can click on the webinars link
and then you can go purchase the free

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webinar. It's purchased because it puts
you in the system. That way we

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can track your log in and everything
like that. And so we do this

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because again, if trolls want to
come in to a webinar, we can

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lock it and get their ISP and
then block them on all of our servers.

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And so again we do everything we
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so that's one way we do that. But let's say you're also a

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member of fast Tracks Tube, our
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Every video that we post on YouTube, and usually in about a week,

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if they're exclusive videos, they're going
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going to be available on fast Tracks
Tube. So we kind of premiere them

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for about a week over on YouTube
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some people say they found out about
us on YouTube and they wonder where the

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videos go when they come there,
and they find out about all of our

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teaching. And you may or may
not like my teaching style. I'm not

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changing for anybody. So either you
like it or you don't. I tell

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people all the time, you can
watch it, you don't watch it,

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you can block me, you can
do it. I don't really care what

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you do. But if you do
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then usually about a week into it. And I'm a little slower than this,

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and we used to when we had
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slowly move off of the YouTube platform
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this on our fast Tracks Tube that
platform, and the fast Tracks Tube platform

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is quite amazing. We one hundred
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system is flat out amazing. I
think, in fact, there's so many

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features on it that people can't even
figure out all the features, the trending

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buttons, the what's new buttons,
all that stuff on the left. It's

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kind of hard to explain all these
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the features, but I encourage people
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com. I encourage them to play
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of look around, press the buttons, click around, kick the tires in

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that type of thing. So we're
excited about that. It's an annual subscription

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unless you purchase our enhanced program over
on fasttrackssystem dot Com. Of course,

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then you get twelve months of access, and at the end of twelve months

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of access to the fasttracks Tube platform, you can choose to renew it or

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not. That's if you don't feel
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or you don't like coming to the
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of it, then of course you
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want that's fine. That's fine.
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since we launched Fasttracks Tube. The
number of subscribers that are on it now,

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I think we're up to two thousand
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know, we're blessed that that platform
is doing so well, and there's a

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lot of videos to watch. Two
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if you pay ninety nine dollars a
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That is the Calculations eight hour video. And then of course you have this

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pool and Spa and hot Tub series
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for it itself. Of course,
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Bonding webinar that I did that's on
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all that pays for the ninety nine
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great stuff coming. The fact that
the Just Calculation series is a little delayed,

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but that's going to be over there
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I mean there's just so many things
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Mastering the nec the course is just
going to be an enhancement to all that.

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So it's going to be one of
those things where where you could be

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on the job and you have the
course right there to show your superiors,

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to show your people you're teaching,
you can use the illustrations, all those

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type of things, all straight from
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even your laptop or desktop. It
doesn't matter. So we're excited about that

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platform. The next thing we want
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the tiktoks and instagrams in Facebook.
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very much commenting on Facebook. I'm
just not into that type of thing.

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The most comments that you've ever seen
from me has been on TikTok, and

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I loathe TikTok, but I keep
doing it. So if people say,

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well, Paul, you're a hypocrite, why do you keep doing it if

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you don't like it. I don't
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I just don't like the management.
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any type of teaching on because everybody
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they don't, and it's it's actually
embarrassing for the industry, especially when they

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would argue with me, somebody who
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a cable or bend some condo it, but they think they're anyc experts,

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and they post comments and the comments
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it's just I end up having to
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them because they're so far in left
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why do you block them? Why
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want to listen and they don't want
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the effort. So I try to
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and do a lot of comments,
and then of course the people say no

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or ignore it. You really can't
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comments that I get, Like I
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probably because nine out of ten people
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stupid stuff. And I'm not about
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whether I get to one hundred thousand
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I don't monetize that platform. I
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of the social media platforms. The
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not monetized on Instagram. I'm not
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I'm monetized on, and I've been
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my videos off of YouTube and I
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I'm not making any money off of
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really don't care about monetizing. There
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are making a nice living off of
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creative with their videos. I mean
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look really nice, and they look
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I go. I don't practice,
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go. And so I don't have
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so because it's all up in the
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topic. And so with that said, though, I don't care that I

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get five hundred thousand followers on YouTube
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of YouTube anyway. So the majority
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and the majority of my videos are
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do the subscription thing. So some
people don't understand the logic of how I

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do some things. Now, as
far as TikTok's concerned, I will still

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do lives. In fact, I
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I won't answer any of their questions, and I'm no longer answering any questions

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on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook.
It's just not worth it for me.

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They don't want to learn, and
I'm not in an I don't want to

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teach them anymore. If they want
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platforms that I put out there to
teach the neec or they can get a

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course. Tired of teaching them for
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Inspector and Steve and and Rewire.
I'll let all those folks who who really

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have a good following on TikTok.
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going to stay in my lane.
I am more of an educator and author

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who you know, does what we
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that doesn't mean I'm not going to
share promos and snippets of videos on those

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platforms because it's a good platform,
but it's not really a good educational platform

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in my opinion, because it allows
too many people to do stupid comments and

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take a good discussion downhill and they
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there's nothing you can tell them,
no matter how long you've been doing this,

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and they say, well, who
the hell is he? You know,

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why is he telling me to It's
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not that they get me upset.
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just ignore them. I'm not upset. I'm more saddened and discouraged that this

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is where our trade has come to. I mean, there's some great ones

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out there, don't get me wrong. There's some of them. They know

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who they are on those social platforms
that really are sharp, but they're in

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the minority. And you know,
people say, well that you should be

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educating them well, that's the problem. They don't want to listen, you

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know. And you know Mike Holt, they maybe you'll listen to He has

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much more authority than me. And
that's great because I'm a big fan of

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Mike. Can educate these people and
they'll listen to Mike. Great. They

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obviously are not going to listen to
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them that anti short bushings aren't required
for MC. But they come back just

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just with the hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of comments, and they just they

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don't even understand what they're saying,
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especially in the National Electrical Code,
if you want to go above and

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beyond the minimums and you want to
do something, then that's a choice that

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you make. It's not a requirement. And when I teach people, I'm

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only teaching the requirements of the NEEC. I don't care about local I don't

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care about what your jurisdiction makes you
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daddy tells you to do. I'm
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That's it. And it's hard to
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sees it says, well, in
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my state, and I don't give
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don't. I'm just here to teach
the code. So that's why social media

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becomes very frustrating. It doesn't make
me mad. I'm just a very amped

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up kind of guy anyway. But
it's just not worth my time. It's

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not worth my effort. And you
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I'm trying to reach. I mean, I sell courses, I sell programs.

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I'm an educator who it makes a
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the NEC. And so the people
on TikTok are not interested in buying my

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courses. They already think they know
it all, not all of them,

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not everybody, So not everybody on
there needs to get offended. Those know

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who they are, and so it's
not really my market. I'm not trying

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to sell strippers or codebooks or other
than the electrical products that I sell that

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are made for electricians, like the
coins and the and the cards and the

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minimalist wallets and stuff. They're all
geared towards electricians, that type of thing

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to help promote them spread their word
pride in what they do. But other

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than that, I mean, I
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just post some of the things that
I make for electricians, and we don't

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make a lot of them, by
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knives we make, there's like we
may We've got like twenty five of those,

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and a lot of them have already
been sold. Thank you everybody that's

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purchased one of those electrician knives.
They're limited one off things. The different

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coins that we make past fail and
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you know, it's it's just cool, little novelty things for electricians. But

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other than that, we're trying to
we're an educator. We're selling programs,

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we're teaching people the NEC I am
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TikTok and and Instagram and all that
to be able to give massive lessons to

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students because they just don't have the
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platform. Now, we will share
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our TikTok we have three pinned videos. Those are promos to other videos that

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we have that are available over on
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exclusively over on fast Tracks Tube only. So I think people don't understand the

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method to what I do and why
we do it, and they want to

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bash, And that's fine. I
tell people, you don't need to bash.

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Just don't follow me. You don't
have to. I don't need you

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to follow me. I'm not out
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don't. I don't care about that. But if you're somebody out there that

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wants to learn the NEEC, then
don't worry about me, or don't worry

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about a person that you may not
agree with. What you should worry about

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is whether or not you're going to
somebody that can actually teach you the National

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Electrical Code. That should be your
only goal, and you should use me

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and abuse me in that way only
to learn the NEC. That should be

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your goal. And I don't think
that there's anybody that does that better than

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me. You can call that cockiness
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And I just don't think there's anybody
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say they can. But you know
what, I'll put an open challenge to

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anybody. If you want to get
into a live debate, let somebody monitor

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it. We can get on a
video and let somebody do the questions.

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I am open to a live code
debate. I've did it before. I

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did it for Mike Coult and them
back years ago when I won the top

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Gun. I can compete it against
all the other educators in the room,

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and I also won there. And
I also won the presentation on the stage

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in front of everybody, even Mike, and I was voted the top Gun

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that too, so I didn't just
win the code. I won the presentation

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part as well, and I was
judged by my peers. So I'm pretty

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confident in what I do. You
can call it whatever you want. You

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can stop following me because you think
I'm cocky. I don't really give a

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shit. Doesn't bother me at all. But if you want to learn something,

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then you'll follow me. You'll follow
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I don't really have any other major
announcements. Look for the Just Calculation

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series video series to start in the
next week or two. We're almost done

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with what I want to cover and
you have to create the slides and the

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presentation. That is almost completed.
I have so much on my plate that

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it's just makes it very hard to
be able to focus on too many things.

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I wear a lot of hats here
so in and of course I have

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a wife and I have family,
and I have to juggle all of that

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as well. And most people know
I work for a major man manufacturer.

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So and I've also in the last
couple of months been busy on a couple

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cases where I'm the expert witness,
but that's done with now for the most

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recent case. So yeah, that's
about it, folks. So if you're

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interested in learning the NEEC and you're
not really studying for an exam, but

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you just want have everybody in your
company, or maybe you want to learn

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the NEC better and you're not really
studying for an electrical exam, then we

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have discounted the program for you.
It's like two seventy five and that is

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Mastering the NEEC. It's available on
our website fastracksystem dot com and we're also

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going to bundle in with it the
twenty twenty three Grounding and Bonding course as

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well. I don't know where else
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That's like a value of over seven
hundred bucks and you're going to get

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it for like two seventy five or
something like that, so that that's going

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to be a limited time, limited
time. So if it's you see it

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on there when you purchase, in
the notes, it'll say includes the grounding

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and bonding course. If you don't
see that in the notes before you click

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that buy button, then be sure
you're not going to get it. But

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if you see it in the notes, you're going to get it. Okay,

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And it's not there right now,
but if you purchase now before we

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can get it updated, just just
let me know in the notes when you

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make the purchase, say, Paul, you said you were going to include

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the grounding and bonding and we will
hook We will hook you up. Don't

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worry. We will hook you up
that type of thing. So don't worry

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about that, all right, folks. It's just a little short podcast for

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those that listen on their way to
work where I'm updating you on mastering the

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NEC course and talking about our effective
social media and what we're going to be

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using it for, basically sharing promos
and commercials and other things. But we

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are going to stop the education on
there. Finally, it's just not worth

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it. We'll leave that to the
other folks. I think that the TikTokers

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and the Instagrammers are not my audience
anyway, so there's it's kind of pointless

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for us to do that. We'll
still do the lives on there when we

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do podcasting, but we'll stop answering
comments and stuff like that. So all

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right, folks, till next time, stay safe, God bless and until

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next time, take care.