Thor Schrock

The latest episode of the Next Internet Millionaire is online and full of surprises! One contestant actually GAVE the Hackersafe immunity shirt to another contestant rather than keeping it for himself!

Later on in the episode, he finds that the immunity shirt would have come in VERY handy! Watch it here now!

You cxan also read what happened using the transcript below!

THE NEXT INTERNET MILLIONAIRE
Episode 5

HOST: Joel Comm
HEATHER: Heather Vale / Co-host

Guests:
MARLON: Marlon Sanders – (Episode 4)
DAVID: David Hancock – Publisher, Morgan James Publishing
MIKE: Mike Koenigs - Video

Remaining Contestants:

LAURA: Laura Martin
JASONM: Jason Marshall
JAIME: Jaime Luchuck
NICO: Nico Pisani
ALISANDE: Alisande Chan
THOR: Thor Schrock
CHARLES: Charles Trippy
CHRISTINE: Christine Schaap

Eliminated:
CARLY: Carly Taylor – Episode 3
STEVE: Steve Schuitt – Episode 3
DEBBIE: Debbie Ducic – Episode 3
BIGJASON: Jason Henderson – Episode 4

NARRATOR: Previously on the Next Internet Millionaire.

The contestants were welcomed to the complex by a squirming breakfast of worms. While some contestants had no problem eating their quota, others had more difficulty. And as a result, they were required to answer more customer support emails than the worm-eaters. In the end, there was one contestant who ate the worms and also displayed exemplary Customer Service skills.

JOEL: [Shaking Alisande’s hand] You are now immune for the rest of the day. Congratulations!

NARRATOR: With no time to digest the morning’s events, the contestants were rushed into the classroom for an inspiring session with Marlon Sanders.

MARLON: Welcome – to – Ninja Training!

You will not hear anything more profound than what I’m gonna tell you… right now. And it is this…

NARRATOR: As they put their Product Development skills to the test, the Kiss team overlooked a key piece of research data which allowed the Bullseye group to easily dominate the presentations.

JOEL: I mean this kind of takes the whole Flanking approach – it’s decimated.

NARRATOR: In the Judgment Room, Big Jason was sent packing while the Bullseye group celebrated their victory in style. As the competition becomes more intense, which team will drop the ball and who will be sent home next.

Stay tuned to find out in this episode of The Next Internet Millionaire.

[Opening Credits – video introduction of contestants]

Day Five – Loveland, Colorado

JAIME: [Commentary] I went to bed last night, it was about one thirty and as soon as I lied down I’ve taken a couple of – I had a stomach ache so I took a couple of pills, and I never take pills, and I think I had some sort of reaction to them because about ten minutes after I took these pills, I laid down in my bed and my heart started pounding and I couldn’t breathe and I started sweating and…

HACKERSAFE IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

JOEL: Today’s challenge is gonna center around the concept of what we call ‘Entrepreneurial Authoring.’ As you know, I’m the author of a book: The AdSense Code. This is our New York Time’s best-seller. To help me with today’s task, I’ve got my publisher with me – the Founder and CEO of Morgan James Publishing. Please welcome my good friend, David Hancock.

[Applause]

DAVID: Thank you.

We look at books as a tool, as a leveraging opportunity, as a credibility booster and as a lead-generation. And in the book sales, they’re second. The way we look at it is we can help the authors grow their business, grow their passion and reach their goals because of the book, that’s when the dynamics kind of kick in and I think that’s what we helped Joel do.

JOEL: What’s really interesting is I sold thousands of copies of my eBook at $97 a pop. But when I came out with a traditionally published book, which sold online at a discount, for $15.72, my credibility shot up through the roof.

DAVID: You’ve always heard that ‘you can’t judge a book by a cover.’ But as Marketers, the reality is, we all do. Not only do you judge a book by its cover but you also judge the book by its title. And since the title is on the cover, what do you do?

JOEL: Which is why today’s challenge is called: ‘The Perfect Title.’ Heather is going to come around the room with a bag of words. You will randomly draw ten words from the bag and then you will have ten minutes to form the perfect title. You will then write a two-sentence summary of what this book is about.

You may begin… now.

JAIME: [Commentary] I got all shaky and I couldn’t calm down and relax so I got up, I called Toronto, and some of my friends there – woke them up and we chatted and calmed myself down for a bit. Then I tried to go back to bed and I couldn’t sleep. And I woke up in the morning and I could hardly even stand up. My shirt was soaking wet and I was shaky, I could hardly walk. And I got up and I walked to Laura’s room, my roommate and I just said, “I’m just so sick,” and uh, she called the doctor – we talked to the doctor and he thought I should come in to the Emergency Room and I couldn’t come in to the Emergency Room because then I would be missing the show.

JOEL: Okay, your time is up. We’ll begin to my left with Charles. Could you please tell us your title and read the description of your book.

CHARLES: I did “Easy Hits.” Easy Hits is a brand new approach to attracting traffic to your website, allowing you to make more money from your content. No longer will you struggle advertising for a site no one will see.

DAVID: It’s amazing, with all the letters that I’m seeing in your pile that ‘Easy Hit’ just came together. That’s pretty decent.

JOEL: Nico, what’s your title and your description?

NICO: My title is: “Life’s Like A Rose.” And the description is: Why is a bush with so many thorns and only one flower called a rose bush and not a thorn bush? This is your life-guide to understanding and applying the principle of seeing only the beauty in your life.

[Elicits awe, hearty laughs from others]

JOEL: Wow. You guys are not gonna make this easy.

JAIME: The title of my book is: “Bare His Skin.” It is the heartfelt story of a ten-year old boy who overcame his two year battle with a debilitating flesh-eating disease.

[Commentary] During the HackerSafe, I thought I did a good job. I was freezing cold and really shaky and actually, I really wasn’t sure how I was going to finish out the rest of the day and…

CHRISTINE: My title is: “Why You Leave the Boy.” Stop sabotaging your relationships. Unlock the secrets to confronting your fears and find the love of your life in seven easy steps.

JASONM: “Essential Eternity Vision.” Where your heart is, so is your treasure. This book will help readers to become more aware of making kingdom-minded decisions and to get focused on eternal things rather than temporal things.

JOEL: This has got to be the hardest challenge for us to judge, thus far. There were several that were just, really dynamite but there was one that title stood up among the rest that caused in both me and David a completely visual reaction. And because of that, the winner of today’s HackerSafe Immunity Challenge with the title “Life’s Like a Rose,” is Nico.

[Applause]

Congratulations. Come on up.

“Why is a bush with so many thorns and only one flower called a rose bush and not a thorn bush? This is your life-guide to understanding and applying the principle of seeing only the beauty in your life.” Beautifully done! [Shakes Nico’s hand]

NICO: [Commentary] It was fortunate that I got some words that, you know, just hit me and I put something together. I was fortunate enough to win but it was bittersweet.

[Back to Challenge] Seeing that that’s my title and everything and that is about life, I couldn’t, in all good conscience, wear this today with one of my team being so hurt and sick… so I want to give this to Jaime for today.

JAIME: [Shakes her head] That’s very nice but I think you should take it.

NICO: I can’t watch you suffer all day.

[He approaches Jaime bringing with him the Immunity shirt] Will you wear this? I want you to have this.

JOEL: Nico, you’re choosing to give your Immunity shirt to Jaime. Jaime, do you accept?

JAIME: [Softly, to Nico] Are you sure?

JOEL: Nico, if you give up the shirt, you will not be immune today and you can be eliminated. Jaime, if you accept the shirt, you will be immune for the entire day regardless of what else happens.

[Jaime looks up at Nico from her chair with an inquiring look as if to ask if he’s sure of his decision. Nico just looks back holding the shirt to Jaime.]

He appears to be serious.

[Jaime stands up, gives Nico a hug and accepts the shirt]

Nico, congratulations on a great title. I think this is a book that most certainly you should write.

Jaime, congratulations. You are now immune for the rest of the day.

JAIME: [Nods] Thank you, Nico.

NICO: [Commentary] Like I said it was, you know, bittersweet. I won Immunity Challenge but one of the contestants was very sick this morning…

JAIME: [Commentary] When Nico won, he came over and he offered me the HackerSafe shirt and I looked at him and I thought, “No way.” I mean, that shirt means a lot…

NICO: [Commentary] And um, we’re here a long day and we go through a lot of stress and I didn’t feel like I could wear the shirt in good conscience when I thought somebody was gonna be in a very, very stressed… and very ill the rest of the day.

JAIME: [Commentary] I just… I’m so grateful that he gave that to me because then the little bit of lack of pressure allowed me to sort of come back and feel better. What I said to him after, “You better not get eliminated or I’ll never be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life.”

NICO: [Commentary] I just did what I had to do. If I saw somebody drowning in the river I’d jump in and save him. I really don’t think about me too much at the time so that’s what I did and I’d do it again.

NARRATOR: After the HackerSafe Immunity had been awarded, some of the contestants had another item of business to take care of.

[Playful discussion of players while on the sofa]

CHARLES: [To Thor] Remember what you said yesterday if you won? [Thor’s group won the previous day’s Execution Challenge]

JASONM: What did he say?

THOR: You gonna hold me to that?

JASONM: Wai-wai-wait. Wo, Wo.

THOR: [Holding a tube before Alisande grabs it] It’s got glitter in it!

ALISANDE: Yup.

THOR: I said I’m gonna do it, so I’ll do it. [Alisande motions to leave and Thor stands up to follow] Alright, let’s do it. Let’s get it done.

[Next scene has Thor seated with a trash bag around his neck and upper torso to serve as a cover to protect his clothes; Alisande begins to spray paint Thor’s hair with fuschia-colored spray]

How can you girls do this? It smells like hairspray but every time I … it’s got glitter in them so…

I feel sexy.

MALE: [Presumably Charles?] So sexy.

THOR: That’s hot. That’s intense. [Alisande finishes.] Alright, let me get out of my trash bag now.

[Goes back to the common living room to join the others]

JASONM: Yeeeah, baby!

THOR: Can I join the pink club now?

CHARLES: No. Get out. Get out. [Gets away from Thor when Thor sits down on the sofa – done in a playful manner.]

NARRATOR: With Thor’s new look taken cared of, it was time for the contestants to get down to real business in the classroom.

LECTURE FOR THE DAY – Mike Koenigs - Video

JOEL: Our next speaker has been a Marketing Consultant for Fortune 500 companies including Twentieth Century Fox, Sony, Mazda, General Mills, Domino’s Pizza, Carlson Companies, Northwest Airlines, 3M. Mike has served as a producer, marketer, consultant for best-selling authors, entrepreneurs and tv personalities such as Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, the Tony Robbins Corp. Companies, and he has built over 250 websites, created over 30 products. He produced a feature film that was recently sold to Warner Bros. and is enjoying worldwide distribution. Please give a warm, ‘Next Internet Millionaire’ welcome to Michael Koenigs.

[Applause]

MIKE: Thank you very much. [Gives Joel a hug]

Alright. I’m gonna dive right in and talk about what we’re gonna learn today. First one is why video is the big, big thing. One of the most popular websites, second to Yahoo right now… what’s number two?

CHARLES: The MSN.

MIKE: Very nice. Alright. Number three? Anyone?

[Charles raises his hand]

CHARLES: Google.

MIKE: Yes sir!

And number four? You know that.

JASONM: [Commentary] Charles is gonna be very tough. He’s not just some goofy guy like the guys just see on camera; he knows his stuff. He’s very educated and very talented so he’s gonna be tough, very tough.

MIKE: More than half of all the content that’s being pushed through the internet is video. Video shows up in search engines. So if you put a video on YouTube, it gets picked up, it gets spidered almost immediately, frequently in less than an hour now. So if you put up a keyword loaded video, and then you search for whatever title you use Google, an hour – between an hour and a day later – it’s gonna show up in the results. And because internet video is the most popular content online right now, Google says, “Hey, it must be important. It must be valuable. That’s what people want. I’m gonna give it that.” So it pushes it closer to the top. It’s not uncommon to get in the Top 100 or even the Top 10 listings. What’s important is, the more of these you do, the more of them stay. So, what happens is – you did ten a week – well imagine, you’re gonna have a network effect. Pretty soon these things are gonna start piling up and it’s more traffic, more search engine food. So again, I’m gonna show you some specific ways to leverage that effect.

CHARLES: [Commentary] I really like Mike speaking. I was really able to relate to what he was saying ‘coz it’s exactly what I do and so when he was saying things I could, you know, jive in. I really enjoyed his presentation too because when anyone talks about something you like, you know, you’re automatically interested and stuff.

MIKE: There’s another important thing the website require. If you’re doing your videos properly, if you use a few of the tricks I’m gonna share with you in a little while, you can be developing videos for someone else’s products, drive traffic directly to them using affiliate link, you make them money. In my opinion, I think we’re still at the beginning of the biggest moment in internet history. You can create something and get it out to a huge percentage of the civilized world in minutes and completely dominate an area. I mean, this is an incredible opportunity. I think ignoring it is foolish. I just don’t know of an easier way to market online to generate sales and revenue right now, I really don’t.

THOR: [Commentary] This is stuff I didn’t know even existed before today and it’s gonna make everything that I do so much more productive.

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EXECUTION CHALLENGE

JOEL: Today’s Execution Challenge is going to center around video. Earlier, I told you about David Hancock of Morgan James Publishing. What you may not know, is that I also have my own publishing house connected with Morgan James Publishing and it’s called Made Easy Publishing.

You are going to make a one-minute commercial to show the Made Easy Publishing opportunity to authors. The reward for this challenge is not only gonna be immunity, the winning team will join myself, Michael Koenigs and David Hancock at my home – in my luxurious home theater – for movie night. The winning team will also receive a complete copy of Michael Koenig’s Internet Infomercial Toolkit and a subscription to use the Trafficgeyser to submit your videos to dozens of video sites. The losing team will not be experiencing the thunder of my home theater. On the contrary, I will be meeting you this evening in the Judgment Room where one of you will be eliminated.

Now, what will an Execution Challenge be without a twist? The twist that’s gonna happen right now is ‘brand new’ teams.

JAIME: [Commentary] This is so ironic because after our team lost again, last night, we had a team meeting.

JASONM: [Commentary] We had a team meeting to go over our strategies and go over just each other’s weaknesses and strengths…

JAIME: [Commentary] And we sat aside and talked and talked and talked – with all of our strengths, all of our weaknesses, how we should fix them, different things – even though we’re competitors, we wanted to help our team mates so that we could be a better team as a whole.

ALISANDE: [Commentary] So that should complicate things a bit, to have that opportunity to say, because of that jam session that we had, this is gonna work – us now discussing if that will work for the next task? So I was completely surprised when they added the twist.

JAIME: [Commentary] And then come to the challenge today and uh… we switch. So… it wasn’t the smartest move, I don’t know.

[Back to challenge]
JOEL: One by one, you will come forward and draw a chip.

[Laura picks a chip from a black pouch] She has chosen black. [He points to a corner with his left hand in the room]

Jason has chosen white. [Stays on Joel’s right side]

Take your place with Jason please. [To Alisande]

Black. [Jaime]

White chip. [Charles]

Over here. [Christine – black team]

Please join this… [Nico – black team]

Thor, I think we know where you’re gonna be. [White]

I would like for you to come up with brand new team names. What are you guys gonna be? [To Black chip group]

LAURA: We’re gonna go All In.

JOEL: You’re All In, Team All In. [Comprised of Christine, Jaime, Laura, Nico]

Okay. And on this side?

JASONM: Knuckle Sandwich.

JOEL: Knuckle Sandwich. [With Alisande, Charles, JasonM, Thor]

Please take fifteen seconds to confer who will be your team leader? Who’s the team leader of All In?

[Laura raiser her hand]

LAURA: I am.

JOEL: Knuckle Sandwich? [Charles comes forward] Mister Trippy, the YouTubester, is going to be the leader on this challenge.

We’ll distribute the camcorders. You have four hours. You may begin.

[Team All In discussion]

MIKE: Start with your outcome. What do you want people to do? You have one-minute to tell a story and get them to take action.

CHRISTINE: Joel’s the client. I think we should interview the client before proceeding with the project.

[Interviews Joel] What kind of author are you looking for to bring you a project?

JOEL: Non-fiction to begin with, because we’re just not a fiction publisher.

[Discussion between Jaime, Laura, Nico]

JAIME: [To Laura] Why don’t you show Nico the timeline we came up with and see what he thinks about it.

CHRISTINE: [Back in the group] I think it will be very good to have Heather and Mike.

JAIME: We have one minute. If we put three testimonies in, we’re gonna be really—

CHRISTINE: I think we definitely need to interview Mike as someone who’s already done this and Heather that’s already done this.

JAIME: If he said we could use him, we probably should use him.

LAURA: I think he wants us to use him.

If we can’t fit Heather in then… well?

JASONM: [Commentary] Laura is finally stepping up in what she does know and is finally coming out and saying, ‘Alright, I need to start, you know, taking this seriously.” And then you’re finding out, “Wait, there’s more to this girl.” I said through the very beginning that she’s not just some goofy little, you know, girl, that she’s got more to offer and now she’s starting to show it.

JAIME: [Back to All In discussion] How creative do you want to be with this? ‘Coz we could get kind of interesting.

CHRISTINE: I think we need to be…

JAIME: We could kind of really play it up—

LAURA: Especially who we’re up against, we need to be.

NICO: Do you have any sort of a… concept of… which way you’re gonna go? If it’s comedy or if it would be—

JAIME: I’m thinking something… creative and almost… old style.

JOEL: You’re going for an old-fashioned style. That could be risky…

NICO: Or we start it as old-fashioned and then it will look like the ‘new coming’ and then it goes whoosh – a new color there.

LAURA: Or we could have some kind of Amazon guy like Nico out there, who doesn’t even know how to publish a book, or something.

CHRISTINE: [Commentary] I was actually the one that encouraged Laura to step forward because, you know, I was talking to her at breakfast this morning when she came downstairs with her new image, new make-over, and she looked awesome and I thought it would be a good opportunity for her to show Joel, “Yeah, I am… I’m ready to step forward. I’m ready to be the JV partner that I can be.”

LAURA: [Back to team discussion] I was thinking of Nico’s when he’s like running through the woods and being all jungle-man like and everything. That would be a good concept, you know? So easy… a jungle guy could do it, whatever. Tarzan could do it.

CHRISTINE: I think we could just do the voice-over and do the same thing.

CHRISTINE: [Commentary] I like Jaime and Laura a lot. I do have issues with Nico. I don’t work well with him and the irony that he and I are the two that got put over in the other team… uh… well, it was just ironic.

[Back to discussion] We’re gonna grab the attention with you sitting there with these voice-overs.

NICO: [Commentary] She likes to kind of be in control and she doesn’t realize that when she’s not the team leader that she should take a step back. I’ve worked with her for a few days and we’ve done great together but, you know, she’s always kind of a one-foot forward and she doesn’t really know how to take that step back.

CHRISTINE: I think we need to cut from Jaime to the interviews.

LAURA: I don’t think we’re gonna have time for that many interviews.

That’s gonna take about twenty seconds.

CHRISTINE: Why?

LAURA: Why?

MIKE: So, what you can do inside a seven or eight seconds with a couple of sound bytes could be the equivalent of what you get in forty seconds per minute. Okay?

LAURA: [To Nico] We all need to decide together because I’m not sure… I mean, outside would be fun, but let’s look at—

NICO: Let’s see what it looks like outside.

[Outside]

LAURA: It seems like it’s gonna be more serious—

CHRISTINE: I think it’s a testimonial because he said that was the most effective.

LAURA: Yeah.

[To Mike Koenigs] Alright, we’re not ready for you yet.

CHRISTINE: Yes we are.

LAURA: We don’t have the camera.

CHRISTINE: Oh. [To someone; not seen in video] Oh quick. Go get the camera.

[Mike gets ready; stands in front of the camera]

MIKE: Just go ahead and ask me questions.

[Knuckle Sandwich team discussion]

JASONM: Do you think now is a good time to kind of pick which type of—

CHARLES: I think parody is the best idea for this idea, don’t you think?

JASONM: You mean like exaggerated problem—

[Commentary] As a leader, you know, he (Charles) did great. He was able to delegate and split everybody up via take-charge, knowing what he knows doing, but yet took input.

THOR: The problem with being exaggerated is the frustration of trying to get someone published.

What’s a common frustration— [Addressing David Hancock]

DAVID: Most publishers, when they receive a manuscript, they throw it in the trash can. And that’s the reality.

THOR: [Commentary] I was just sitting there, we were pulling the chips out of the bag, and I was saying, “Please God, let me be on Trippy’s team. Please let me be on Charles’ team.” If I’m not on Charles’ team, I mean, this… I might screw up on something in concept… I mean, this is game over.

CHARLES: [Back to team discussion] If you submit it to another company, they’re not gonna look at it, you’re wasting your time, you’re gonna stress out, send it to us…

JASON: The portion of the video is gonna be focusing on… we’re showing how hard this guy actually worked—

CHARLES: So he’s like, you know, struggling to get a dime, he’s like pulling his hair out, whatever… he finally gets it done, puts it in an envelope, he mails it off… it shows the producers, “Haaah! (inaudible language)” That’s all they’re saying and we’ll put ‘Manuscripts’ on like, a sign that says on the trash and he (publisher) just immediately throws it in the dumpster… Big Stupid Jerks Publishing or something like that… [While Charles was speaking, their video reenactment was being shown]

See, I just... I do stuff like that—

[They all begin talking at the same time]

ALISANDE: [Commentary] All three of them are really, very confident people, and so am I. And I thought, “How is that gonna work?” And it actually worked out quite well and we just basically respected… taking turns with letting each of us speak and I was impressed that we were able to do that so…

THOR: Authors are gonna look at this and feel like, “I’ve so done that!”

CHARLES: Okay. So, we would emphasize that… you know, one of us dress as Joel… not even dress as Joel – but you know, acting like him.

Hi, I’m Joel Comm. [While an image of Joel Comm from the infomercial they made is flashed – with Joel saying the same thing Charles just said.]

THOR: Yeah. [Laughs while Charles act like Joel]

CHARLES: [Continues Joel impersonation] You can make millions.

THOR: [Laughs]

Joel will go into commercial—

CHARLES: Yeah, I know.

JASONM: You can interview him and say, “Can you say these things?”

THOR: In the commercial he’d say, “People would want to use this…”

CHARLES: He would want a script. ‘Ayt, so then it would be… “Submit your manuscript to…” and then email comes up here and then he says his thing and then it’s—

[Commentary] They let me do my thing as a leader and tell people and that, you know, as a leader, I didn’t want to just be barking orders. I wanted to, you know, get other input… and everyone got along really well. Thor’s gotten so much better about letting other people give their opinions and Alisande’s been giving clearer descriptions of what she’s trying to say without rambling. So it was really crazy, like everything’s just… BOOM!

Presentation – Execution Challenge

HEATHER: The All In video will be shown first. Roll tape.

[All In video is played: Video shows Jaime supposedly writing with a voice-over of Joel]
JOEL: Would you like to write a bestselling book? [Jaime looks up to the camera and thinks.]
I know. You’re thinking it’s too hard. [Jaime nods]
You’re not a recognized expert. [Jaime shakes her head]
Video Testimonials shown: (shot outdoors)
JOEL: You know, writing and having a book picked up by a major publishing house is one of the best and fastest ways to accelerate the growth of your business or career.
JAIME: [Reacts] But getting established publishers to look at your ideas is virtually impossible when you’re a new author!
Company logo shown and text: Made Easy Publishing is looking for new authors
Back to testimonials:
JOEL: Well my first book – the AdSense Code hit three best-sellers list. Now, the credibility that I’ve gained from publishing this book made me a celebrity in my niche.
MIKE: Aside from self-publishing, it’s the fastest, easiest way to gain international distribution and work with a major publisher…
HEATHER: Entrepreneurial authoring really allows you to have a hybrid approach that uses the best of both worlds.
[Shows Jaime typing with Joel’s voice overheard]
JOEL: Submit your book idea to www.MadeEasyPublishing.com. Download a free twenty minute [Shows company logo, link and text: Everybody has a book in them] interview to find out how you can become a recognized exper—

End of video

JOEL: Wha--?

ALL IN: Expert.

JOEL: Expert. Got it.

Okay. Team All In, please take the platform. [All In come on stage]

Laura, not only do you have a professional new look for Day 5 but you stepped up as Team Captain. I like the integration of the logo. I like ‘Everybody has a book in them.’ That’s one of these things I’d say again and again.

JASONM: [Commentary] When we came in, we were very impressed with our video and uhm… we thought we had the upper edge. And then during watching the other team’s video, Charles and I were sitting there thinking, “Oh… crap. They’ve got a good video! Oh man!”

JOEL: I am concerned about the noise that took place from being outside with those testimonials. I mean, it was pretty loud. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to just find another set inside?

CHRISTINE: We were originally going to go inside and use a green screen? And it was the time – it was a choice based on the limited amount of time…

MIKE: Central rules of production – any kind of video production: is you just have to have an external mike and these cameras didn’t have it.

JOEL: All In, good job. Thanks very much. You may take your seats and now we will watch the Knuckle Sandwich video.

Roll film!

[Knuckle Sandwich video is played: Shows Jason staring at his laptop with a sudden brilliant flash of idea (supposedly) and starts typing furiously. Then shows he is finished, closes his laptop, and supposedly arranges his printed manuscript. Next scene is taken from inside a mailbox showing Jason stuffing the manuscript inside to mail it (even giving it a kiss and crossing his fingers – hoping to get published).
Next scene shows Charles, Alisande, Thor, and David who are suppose to be publishers.]
ALISANDE: [Comes into the room holding Jason’s manuscript] Okay gentlemen, we got a new manuscript. [Drops the manuscript on the table.]
Everyone laughs mockingly. Charles takes a hold of the manuscript.
CHARLES: I’m a writer and… my manuscript [Everyone is still laughing loudly]
Charles throws the manuscript in the trash bin.
Next scene shows Joel Comm speaking.
JOEL: Hi. I’m Joel Comm, a New York Times best-selling author. If you’re a recognized expert in your field or if you have celebrity status in your niche, you need to be published. Made Easy Publishing will review your manuscript… guaranteed! How can we do this? It’s easy!
Next scene shows enlarged logo of Made Easy.
JOEL: [voice only] Visit www.MadeEasyPublishing.com
Suddenly shows Jason in a goofy pose with a thumbs-up, a big smile, and holding a lot of books with a single tinkle of a bell overheard.

End of Video

[Judges laughing]
JOEL: Alright. Lights please! Knuckle Sandwich, you may take the platform.

THOR: [Commentary] Joel, he’s a laid-back guy. In private, he’s a really personable guy but he’s also very professional in what he does. He’s not gonna want some slapstick comedy kind of thing out there representing him. So it was a fine line. We were trying to make it funny and humorous without it being so completely off-the-wall, Charles Trippy-style…

JOEL: Clearly very entertaining. Funny. Even the other team has to admit that that is… yes, an entertaining video. The question is… through all that, it doesn’t project the image that we want for Made Easy Publishing.

DAVID: Um, I thought it was funny. I would pass it on to a friend. The only part I didn’t like in the edit was when Joel was speaking and I know why you had to do that, to just crunch the time… and you guys just ran out of time to make that as smooth as possible…

JAIME: [Commentary] Their video was really funny and it would be great on YouTube but… you know, I didn’t think – for the market – that’s who we would want to sell the video to.

[Charles and Laura are on stage]

JOEL: Charles, I want you to tell us your honest opinion of All In’s video.

CHARLES: I thought it was very typical… very promotional video. If I was to watch it, I would turn it off because I see infomercial videos all the time.

JOEL: [To Laura] Tell us what you think of Knuckle Sandwich’s video.

LAURA: I thought it was a very good video. I thought it was really funny, it caught my attention, it was a good story. However, I didn’t hear anything about the product and exactly what they were telling…

JOEL: This is difficult. It really was… ‘coz Immunity is on the line.

CHARLES: [Commentary] It could have gone either way. I wasn’t sure if Joel wants something very standard and not, you know, kind of sain… I was hoping he’d want to go outside of the box for the video.

JASONM: [Commentary] So when we were standing up there, we really had no clue where they were gonna go.

ALISANDE: [Commentary] Joel really did a good job of keeping me in suspense. I really didn’t know who he was gonna pick in the end and I actually can tell, from all the judges, that they were having a really difficult time…

JASONM: [Commentary] I really didn’t know which way they were gonna go so it was kind of nerve-wracking.

JOEL: But I’ve got to say, because of the interesting approach and creativity that broke the mold and really – when we’re doing marketing, we want to do something that is going to get the attention of the potential customer. And because of that, I’m gonna give immunity today to Knuckle Sandwich. Congratulations.

LAURA: [Commentary] I’m pissed! Can’t you tell? I am so pissed. And I don’t care if they see this. That’s fine. Joel, I love you to death. Mike, you know I love you and David, I can’t wait to see you at Big Seminar… but what the [bleep] guys! What the [bleep] were you thinking? [Gives a loud sigh.]

I think you need to do split-testing and you’re gonna see who the Immunity belongs to, you’re gonna be really wrong.

JUDGEMENT ROOM

JOEL: Laura, you’re the Team Captain. What do you think happened?

LAURA: We did go over what you told us the other night – how we were too edgy and we needed to appeal to the internet marketing crowd. So this was one of the things we did.

JOEL: You did – you really pretty much took the Sales Letter and transposed it to video. Who was responsible for the outside shots? Who decided that that was good… the thing to do? Was it your idea? [To Laura]

LAURA: It was my idea to try one of them like that. And then, once we got people to go out there, we just decided…

NICO: I’ll take the bullet on that, I guess.

LAURA: Well, no. No.

NICO: It’s because uh, I wanted to shoot inside and outside. We were going to shoot green screen and then we were gonna use, you know, something creative and kinda edgy and bring in some bullet points, you know, today. But when we set the green screen up, it was a mess. And we had a lot of – I’m not blaming it – but we had a lot of technical issues the first half hour. We didn’t have a computer. We had to switch computers – we had to switch to a laptop. We wanted to use Photoshop but it wasn’t installed and…

JOEL: And that’s not an excuse, right?

NICO: These things happen.

JOEL: They just happen. They do. And not only do they happen, but they happen all the time. You have to be ready to make those adjustments on the spur of the moment.

Mike, you spent the greater part of the four hours with them today.

MIKE: The biggest mistake, I think, that was made overall was… you didn’t ask questions — you didn’t have enough questions.

JOEL: You had four hours with the guy who just taught you how to make a killer video.

MIKE: There’s one of my favorite sayings in the world is Tony Robbins says: “The quality of life is directly proportional to the quality of the questions you ask.”

JOEL: Now David, you didn’t get to observe the whole time but you did see a little bit.

DAVID: It was really a tough call but when “expert” got kind of cut-off, my mind was hanging on that last little blip. My last thought of the video was, “Oops.” But again, overall, it was really good full-effort. All that I saw today and how difficult it was for the other team to put it together, you guys did a stellar job.

LAURA: Thank you.

JOEL: Nico, you won Immunity this morning and right there on the spot, you gave it to Jaime. Why did you do that?

NICO: I’m a giver. And if I see somebody that needs something, I take my shirt off my back, literally. That’s what I do to help. They’re my competitors, but…

JOEL: So how would you feel if you ended up being the one that’s eliminated?

NICO: Then that’s my karma, you know. I’d do everything I can for everybody around me and I believe it comes back ten-fold so…

JOEL: Let me ask you then. Jaime’s immune, so if you had to put the target on somebody, who would it be?

NICO: Christine has… she’s a little bit edgy to work with and she kind of gets a little bit snappy and it makes you kind of uncomfortable and it makes things kinda – takes away a little of the continuity of the team at times…

JOEL: [Looks at Christine] Snappy? I’m assuming not in a necessarily complimentary way. Do you know what he’s talking about?

CHRISTINE: [Nods] Uhuh.

JOEL: Is that just the way you are normally or is it under pressure…?

CHRISTINE: We were on the same team before and we just have different ways of doing things. It’s mutual.

JOEL: Okay, maybe not a match made in heaven but you’re getting along and that’s…

NICO: [Softly in the background] We’ll work it out.

MIKE: [To Christine] Hey, one thing I did observe is, you know, you [to Christine] got into a place of feeling helpless at times not knowing what to do. It felt like you were lost and didn’t know exactly – and you were dealing in an uncomfortable situation.

I know she had never made a video before. You know, the key is to find a strong, empowering place and what kind of question do I need to ask right now to get out of this space, or to solve this problem?

JOEL: Jaime, you’re immune. Who do you think needs to take responsibility for this?

JAIME: This is a really hard decision because everybody here is really good. Laura was put in charge as team leader and definitely for about first two hours, I don’t think Christine gave her any respect. I’m not sure if it was just stress because it was a new team but we felt very disorganized and…

JOEL: Are you putting the blame on the leadership of Laura? Are you putting the onus on Christine for not respecting the leadership.

JAIME: I think that maybe Christine could have shown Laura a bit more respect because I think sometimes she was looking at me as opposed to Laura when she was trying to say things and Laura was our team leader.

JOEL: [To Christine] Does Laura have a hard time commanding respect?

CHRISTINE: No. I-I don’t think it was two hours, I think it was half an hour. I was totally thrown off being taken away from my team that I’ve been with from the beginning.

JOEL: I need a JV partner that is gonna be cool and composed because if I get bent out of sorts because something’s going wrong, that’s where the other person is to be able to pick up the slack.

JAIME: Can I just add that…

JOEL: Sure.

JAIME: After we got more… we were in the swing of things, and I think we got more relaxed and we had a plan and we were comfortable, then Christine was very good to work with.

JOEL: Alright, Jaime. Which one needs to go. I just need – right from your heart, just one…

JAIME: I- I- I [she touches Christine on the shoulder]… I’m sorry.

JOEL: She understands.

Laura, I haven’t asked you yet. As the team leader, do you carry the burden of responsibility here or do you feel that somebody failed you along the way?

LAURA: I don’t believe anyone failed. I think we did an awesome job and I’d stick with it. I think all of us did a great job. The first half hour… or maybe a little bit longer, was a little stressful for me because I was trying to command the attention… I love Christine! I love her. She’s great and everything but she was just kind of really snappy from the first second we got on the set maybe because I’ve been on the Sandbox or whatever, for the past few days or maybe I look like I was weak. So when we’re outside—

JOEL: I don’t think you are. I’m staring to see more and more…

It’s difficult because in this task, it didn’t fall apart.

LAURA: Right.

JOEL: This was not a disaster.

LAURA: Everything completely turned around there, it seems, because I came out to her and I was like, “Hey, are you ok? What’s going on? We need to talk about this.” And she admitted that she didn’t know how to handle things, command this group, since we’re all on different teams. It went out that her and Nico were on the other team and they came in together, and me and Jaime were together. And we could all get through this…

JOEL: Ok.

LAURA: And we did a great job so…

JOEL: I appreciate the way you stepped up. I mean, you’re taking the attitude that’s almost like this is Laura – growing up, right here before our eyes. And it’s been so rapid… but you didn’t command the respect of Christine.

Nico, you had immunity. You had it! It was yours.

NICO: Like I said – in good conscience, I couldn’t have worn that shirt all day knowing that there was somebody, you know… I – I… it just felt like I had to do that.

JOEL: I got to weigh very carefully the type of action that you took. I see your heart though and I believe that you did what you had to do and so you’re safe tonight.

Laura, however, as much as you stepped it up, you still don’t command the leadership. Christine, I can’t have somebody on my team that’s working alongside of me that’s gonna be difficult to work with. I’m a pretty strong personality myself. I need my partner by my side. And because of that Christine, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ve been eliminated from the competition.

[Christine nods and gives a furtive smile]

One more thing before you go, you may keep your eCOMMerce chips or you may give your entire stack to whoever you choose. What would you like to do?

CHRISTINE: Alisande.

JOEL: Okay, Alisande will receive your chips. Can you please put them on the table?

[Christine places her remaining chips on the table]

Thank you. I’m sure you’re gonna do great things. I have no doubt about it. And I wish you the very best.

[To everyone] You must now exit the COMMplex. Thank you.

LAURA: [To Nico] I commend you for giving her the shirt.

[To Jaime] And you did a good job.

[To Christine] And Christine, you’re awesome too.

[To the judges] Thank you guys… very much.

Commentaries
LAURA: I do felt kind of bad when I was leaving the Judgment Room. I feel like I’m gonna step on the judges’ toes when I felt like I had to have the last word about saying how great my team was. I kind of felt bad about that but… not really, so… [shakes her head] never mind. I don’t feel bad about that.

CHRISTINE: Um, I’m mad at myself.

JAIME: I felt horrible to see Christine sent home. She was one of the people whom was there when I got into Denver at the airport. You know, she’s always been really friendly with me and we’ve gotten along well…

CHRISTINE: I’m definitely disappointed. Um, the first thing that hit me was ‘how to tell my husband’ because uhm… [Chokes on some of her words] he’s home, taking care of things so I can be here and I feel like I let him down. That’s probably what’s hitting me the most right now. [Almost in tears]

THOR: Christine and I kinda had a pretty good alliance going and uh, with her gone, I don’t have nearly a strong relationship with anybody else here. I mean, literally, we had an agreement that, you know, if it came down to it, we would be the last two people on this show.

CHRISTINE: I didn’t appreciate being told I was difficult to work with. I happen to say Nico’s very difficult to work with and uh, we have different approaches. And uh… I didn’t like being classified as ‘difficult to work with.’

NICO: Ahh Christine… Christine. [Sighs] Hmmm. Pobre sita. (poor girl)

I think it’s for the best. You know, I mean she’s got five kids and I think maybe that’s where she belongs as, you know, close to all…

CHRISTINE: I did need to ask Nico to give me some space. He wanted to come up and hug me and talk to me right afterwards and I just – I really just needed some space. Um, he wasn’t willing to ‘not’ hugging me right then.

ALISANDE: I’m sad because she was my roommate and now she’s not gonna be my roommate and we started out like close. She was a sweet person and I totally hope that after the show, we will keep in touch.

CHRISTINE: Alisande and I are friends and I gave her my chips. And I really think that she’s awesome and I think she has a lot of potential and I hope she knocks ‘em dead.

CHARLES: I really like Christine. Uhm, I think she would have been a really good JV partner for Joel. She really does do the research and everything like that but today was just not her… her strong point.

CHRISTINE: I should have been more in control when I got switched to a different team and I should have managed my emotions better and I’m disappointed in myself.

THOR: It didn’t matter if we had to make up a reason about somebody else off, we were going to be the last two people. With that gone, I have to forge some new relationships and there’s a lot – there’s… I would say, about half of the people on the show right now, I don’t trust.

ALISANDE: I really feel pretty honored to be able to visit Joel Comm’s house and see all his collection of software – old collection of software, that’s really awesome. We’re gonna see a movie and he’s got a really nice home. I’m just feeling happy that I’m here and… it feels really good.

THOR: I don’t trust Alisande. She’s very analytical. She’s very, very analytical. In fact, just about everything to her is a calculation of some sort. As long as it suits her needs, I think she’ll do what she wants to do. She’ll do what needs to get done.

NICO: Thor Schrock is very knowledgeable, uh, great on the internet. He’s a bundle of energy. I think he might end up – his energy might turn out to be a problem for him in the end though. I think he might have a little too much ‘chutzpah,’ as they say.

THOR: I definitely won’t turn my back on Nico. He was handing out caps to all the people on his team before they went in there for the uh… the challenge. ‘Coz he figured, “Well, if I lose, at least I’m giving them free stuff.” He even told Trippy that he brought all these free stuff. He brought – rum and cigars; snuck all these fruits through customs – oops. And he’s handing them out. Everyone’s just drinking it, smoking it and having a great time… when in actuality, he was just playing the game.

JASONM: I need to say just how important my wife is to me. And I am where I am because of her and it’s been hard doing things without her there, not just necessarily her ideas or anything like that or what she can do but just her encouragement and support drives me.

THOR: Ironically enough, Jason Marshall, I’m – I’m not sure about him. You see, he’s a really nice guy. He’s got the kindest heart of anybody I ever met. On the other hand, he’s here to play and he’s here to win and I don’t think that he’s gonna let that heart get in the way.

CHARLES: Toughest competition would be… Thor and Jason. Both have really strong qualities; both lack in certain parts which they make up in other parts. And we’re all kind of like forming a little clique where we get along very well, we’re friends. So it’s gonna get really tough as it gets further into the competition because we’d be pitted against each other. So… that would be kind of interesting, I guess.

[End credits rolling]

THOR: There’s a lot of people right now that are putting a lot of friends out there that aren’t true; there’s a lot of disinformation going on. And it’s getting tough to cut through it because everybody – it’s getting down to the point where everybody who’s here is good and deserves to be here so at this point now… you almost can’t have a total strategy. And you can’t have a total alliance unless you have total trust and I don’t totally trust anybody here right now.

[Scene showing Charles pretending to get caught red-handed rummaging through a kitchen/dining cabinet and getting something there by the camera.

CHARLES: [To the camera] Dude!

[Commentary] I’m tired. I want to go home and sleep but hey, we’re in Joel’s house. So I’m pretty cool right now.

[Some scenes from the next episode are shown]

[Few Words from Joel Comm]
JOEL: The growth of the internet has led to more opportunities for prosperity than ever before. The myth of ‘making money online from home in your pajamas’ is no longer a myth. The internet has made it a reality. Now, I invite you to become a part of this group of entrepreneurs by becoming a Next Internet Millionaire Insider. As a member, you’ll receive Your Own Internet Business on CD-Rom shipped directly to your door. This CD is packed with video tutorials and instructional ebooks, website templates and 64 products that you can begin selling online immediately. It has all the tools and resources you need to get your internet business up and running quickly. And, as an Insider, you’ll have the ability to ask questions, participate in exclusive tele-seminars, and receive access to a special ‘Members Only’ website. To learn more, go to www.nextinternetmillionaire.com and enter your name and email address in the form on the page.

Thanks for watching The Next Internet Millionaire. I look forward to seeing you as an Insider.

END

Ok, so this is supposed to be a technology blog. But here and there there are posts about politics, Schrock Innovations, Next Internet Millionaire, and tons of other things that are not technical at all.

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That's right folks! I ate 2 fat Canadian night crawlers in this episode. Surprisingly, they didn't taste like anything at all. Then again, I didn't chew mine up like some of the other people did...

Watch Episode 4 here now!

Below is e transcript for this episode:

THE NEXT INTERNET MILLIONAIRE
Episode 4

HOST: Joel Comm
HEATHER: Heather Vale / Co-host

Guests:
JEFF: Jeff Walker (Episode 3)
MARLON: Marlon Sanders – Create Infoproduct

Remaining Contestants:

LAURA: Laura Martin
JASONM: Jason Marshall
JAIME: Jaime Luchuck
NICO: Nico Pisani
ALISANDE: Alisande Chan
BIGJASON: Jason Henderson
THOR: Thor Schrock
CHARLES: Charles Trippy
CHRISTINE: Christine Schaap

Eliminated:
CARLY: Carly Taylor – Episode 3
STEVE: Steve Schuitt – Episode 3
DEBBIE: Debbie Ducic – Episode 3

NARRATOR: Previously on the Next Internet Millionaire.

Our contestants awoke to a high-stakes game of poker. While Alisande was a seasoned veteran of the game, some of the others were playing for the first time. After his early risk paid off, Jason Marshall jumped to a huge lead but his inexperience came back to bite him and Nico stole the game in the final hand.

JASON: Good job, Nic! [Nico and Jason shake hands and give each other a hug]

JOEL: We present you [to Nico] with the HackerSafe Immunity shirt, which you may put on, and wear for the rest of the day. You are immune and cannot be eliminated from the competition today.

NICO: Thank you.

JOEL: Congratulations.

NARRATOR: Then it was off to the classroom where they learn the secrets of massively profitable product launches from Jeff Walker.

JEFF: ‘No Proof – No Launch.’ Got that? No Proof – No Launch.

You’re starting to see how this can go just beyond one big payday?

NARRATOR: They put their skills to the test by developing a re-launch strategy for a uniquely beautiful house.

While the Bullseye team put together a brilliant presentation, the Sandbox team missed the mark, presenting a concept that made Joel jump out of his chair in disgust.

JOEL: This plan is an utter disaster!

NARRATOR: In the Judgment Room, Carly, Debbie, and Steve were eliminated from the game while Laura was redeemed from the Sandbox after showing some improvement. Will she manage to stay out of the Judgment Room today? Or will Joel live to regret his decision to keep her?

Stay tuned to find out in this episode of The Next Internet Millionaire.

[Opening Credits – video introduction of contestants]

Day Four – Loveland, Colorado

Commentaries:
JAIME: I’m not part of any alliance but I heard of some other alliances so I wasn’t very impressed.

JASONM: The show’s taking that turn now, I think. People are beginning to realize, “Ok, people are going home.” It’s setting in and people are beginning to alliance. People are beginning to, you know, really start getting worried…

JAIME: I heard from Thor that Jason Henderson and Laura were gonna alliance. I heard that before… they were sort of chatting, you know, that they wouldn’t pick each other and stuff—

LAURA: We need to stick together, right? So of course we had an alliance and I’m sure there will be still many more alliances to come.

HACKERSAFE IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

JOEL: Good morning everybody! [Surveys the room]

Looks like we’re shy three people this morning. The ‘sandbox’ is a term that we took from the search engines. And just like the search engines who change and adapt for the current needs, we are changing the format of the show. As of now, there is no more Sandbox.

You guys ready to get started?

[Players nod]

PLAYERS: Yah.

Yes.

JOEL: Today’s challenge centers around email. It’s important when I get a JV partner that they can handle the flood of email requests that come in. But still, we need to handle every customer concern as if that customer is the only one in the world. That is why today’s challenge is called… Email Worms. [Reveals a jar filled with worms in the middle of the table covered by a cloth.]

CHRISTINE: [Commentary] I thought those worms looked really disgusting and I could not believe that they were introducing a ‘worm’ thing – a worm challenge on a business show…

JOEL: [Back to challenge] Yes (In response to surprised and incredulous looks players had after seeing the worms), we’ll get to these in a moment.

In the online world, an email worm is a type of virus that spreads via email accounts. Each of you has your laptop in front of you and we’ve created a special email account. In your account are ten emails that are customer service requests. You will have fifteen minutes to answer the ten emails that are in your account. I’m looking for professional, courteous, and thorough reply. Here’s where our friends come in – in the middle of the table is a jar filled with big, fat, juicy Canadian Night crawlers. If you eat one worm, you will only have to answer five emails. If you eat two worms, you will only have to answer one email.

JAIME: [Commentary] When Joel lifted up the cover and there was a bowl of worms on the table I thought, you know, “What is this? Our next internet millionaire is not about eating worms.”

NICO: [Commentary] I wasn’t thinking we’re gonna do a survivor sort of eat-the-worms. I just thought it was an analogy to the, you know, the computer worms.

JOEL: [Back to Challenge] Nico.

NICO: [Looks up and roll his eyes] Oh boy! What do you think?

JOEL: Nico accepts the challenge.

NICO: [Female players look in disgust, especially Jaime] Jaime, what do you think of my worm?

[Jaime looks away in disgust; Nico eats two worms and pretends to vomit after.] Sorry, little guy. [After digesting the first worm]

CHARLES: [Commentary] I saw the worms, I was like, “Screw this! I’m not gonna…” I’m not a big fan of worms, not like – they’re like “ewww” gross kind-of-thing, but just… they’re just worms.

JOEL: Congratulations, Nico.

Charles… are you gonna eat the worms?

CHARLES: No, I’m not gonna eat the worms.

JOEL: Passing on the worms?

CHARLES: I think I’m gonna pass on the worms.

JOEL: Ok, that’s—

CHARLES: Maybe next time I’m gonna…

JOEL: Ten emails for you in fifteen minutes.

CHARLES: I can do it.

JOEL: Big J?

BIGJASON: Sure.

[Commentary] When I was in high school I went to a camp where there’s a vinegar drink contest and I won it hands down and three hours later, I gave it back, you know, to the director, but ah… I forgot I got to keep those things in my stomach for a little bit. I’ve told Trippy that it tasted more dirt than worms you know, it was like, “Ewww, I’m eating dirt,” so that was a lot more uncomfortable than the worm.

[Sticks his tongue out to show chewed-up worm]

JOEL: And they’re gone.

Alisande?

ALISANDE: [Looks up, rolls her eyes and seems to think it over.] Okay, I’ll try.

JOEL: Please come around. [Alisande almost squishes the worms when she dove in, in hopes of finding a thin one.] Easy, easy.

ALISANDE: [Commentary] When I first saw the worms that were on the table, I was saying, “Oh, mannn. They’re not gonna make us eat that or any thing?” (Laughs) But I knew that, you know, I’m gonna do what it takes and so I will do it. I was just waiting for Joel to go-fish and say, “Eat worms,” and I was gonna do it, no matter how many he says, if he said we’re gonna eat, I’m gonna do it.

[Eats two worms]

Good flavor.

JOEL: Congratulations! Here’s your eCOMMerce chip and you only need to answer one email. Tough competitor.

Now I know there’s somebody in this table that is just dying to eat worms. It’s Jaime.

JAIME: Oh yeah… Can I just look at them real quick?

JOEL: You want to come around and look?

JAIME: [Commentary] I wasn’t expecting to see the worms there. I was definitely, well, shocked and disappointed.

JASONM: Close your eyes and grab it. [Jaime tries to pick one up but drops it back in disgust] Close your eyes…

NICO: [Can be overhead] Come on Jaime, you can do it.

JASONM: Come on, close your eyes and think of something else so it won’t matter.

CHARLES: It’s going in your throat, so I mean…

[Jaime still unsuccessful in being able to pick one up]

ALISANDE: She just has to swallow so why don’t one of us just pick two ones that aren’t really…

JOEL: She needs to pick them out.

JAIME: [Commentary] How you do your job is not whether you compromise yourself and you do something you don’t want to do. I think most good business people stick to their guns and if you don’t want to eat worms, then don’t do it.

[Jaime heads back to her seat]

JOEL: I think even having the guts to come up here and think about this—

NICO: [Commentary] Jaime… she tried so hard. I gave her a chip because she was there overcoming her fears. She deserved something just for that effort.

[Other players applaud her effort]

BIGJASON: [Commentary] I’m kind of torn for Jaime. I don’t know if she was just putting on a show. I told Trip (probably referring to Charles), I said, “And the Oscar goes to…” So, who knows if it was real or not…

JOEL: Jason? [Referring to Jason Marshall]

JASONM: [Commentary] Of course I was thinking we were gonna have to eat them. So uh… I was starting to get nervous because I had a really terrible gag reflex.

NICO: Don’t get too attached to ‘em.

JASONM: [Commentary] I think the first worm was definitely the harder of the two, not because it was like “I’m the first worm,” but because when I swallowed it, the tip of it was a little harder and it kinda got stuck right here [points to his throat] and I felt like – I still feel it’s still there – and I tried to swallow it. [Laura looks away as JasonM eats his first worm]

But the next one was soft pretty much throughout so it went down a lot smoother, and a little bit easier.

[Sticks his tongue out to someone to show he has already consumed the worm completely]

JOEL: Very good, Jason.

Laura… give it a try.

LAURA: I can’t even walk into a sushi restaurant and this is… this is just quite gross. Oh my god! [She grabs two worms almost immediately from the jar and gulps both down at the same time.]

JOEL: Wow [amidst hoots and cheers of other players]. That was the fastest.

CHRSTINE: Way to go, girl!

LAURA: [Commentary] Going out there was like, I just have to go from a to b, hurry up and get it over and done with. Everyone else sat there playing with it and if I would have done that then I would have thrown up on Thor, who I’m sure would have thrown up on Jason, who I’m sure would have thrown up on everyone else and then I would have seen everyone throwing up and it would be over; all these laptops ruined, and all the other worms ruined for everyone else and I’m sure I would have thrown up on Joel’s $300 suit.

[Commentary] So the fact that I picked them up, they’re in my mouth and I swallowed them… that’s fine and everything, but now I’m just kind of sickened by the thought of them sitting in my stomach and just hanging out there.

JOEL: That was the fastest yet. Congratulations.

LAURA: Just for you… so I hope… whatever.

JOEL: One email.

[Thor takes his turn]

THOR: [Commentary] So I got up there, picked out two worms and the worms that I got – that I grabbed – the ones that I grabbed, I don’t care if they’re fat or squirrelly or whatever, it doesn’t matter, ‘cause you don’t, in life, get to pick the challenges that come in your way like your email box. So I grabbed two worms and put them down, put them in my mouth, and actually they just cooperated nicely. They just hammered right on down to their fate.

[Back in the challenge] Do I have some worm on my chin?

[Everyone laughs]

JOEL: Congratulations. Well done. You only have to answer one email, here’s your eCOMM.

Okay, some of you did very well. It’s a tough thing to do, I know, but we’re going to give you a second chance if you passed the first time. Christine, you passed the first time.

CHRISTINE: I did. And like Laura, I’m very confident in my ability to answer email. I also do want to give it my all, so--

JOEL: Okay.

CHRISTINE: I want to go for it.

JOEL: Step up.

She’s selecting the gourmet delicacies.

[Christine picks out a worm, then places it back.]

CHRISTINE: That’s too long.

JASONM: Aw, she’s changed diapers. She’s alright.

CHRISTINE: It’s usually not moving in the diaper.

[Finally picks one to her liking] At least it’s a skinny long one.

[Commentary] I was really surprised. The first worm went down so good, I mean, not that I planned on having them to be a regular part of my diet, but I didn’t taste anything. I just swallowed it, I didn’t even feel it go down, I just took some water. It’s like taking a pill. And so I’m like, okay, let’s grab the second one and … it wouldn’t stop moving. It just, I mean, pelted it in my mouth and it came back out.

[Everyone laughs] So I was like, I had another worm and I thought I’d be fine [attempt to swallow a worm again] but my gag reflex kicked in and tried to keep that sucker down but obviously it didn’t work, so… I got to gross everybody out.

[Fails second attempt and throws up on a trash bin]

JOEL: A noble effort, Christine. You’ll only be answering five emails.

FEMALE: Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!

[Christine throws up again in the trash bin.]

CHRISTINE: I’m really sorry, guys.

JOEL: It’s fine.

Give her a napkin (to someone).

BIGJASON: [Commentary] Christine, definitely, second time around, she just couldn’t do it. The gag reflex… that was pretty hilarious.

CHRISTINE: [Back to the challenge] I’m really sorry.

JOEL: You don’t have to apologize. This is hard to do. Christine, you will be answering five emails.

CHRISTINE: Okay.

JOEL: Charles, you passed before…

OTHER PLAYERS: Go Charles!

The viewers will love you!

CHARLES: Just like spaghetti, right? [Grabs some worms from the jar] Is that three or two?

[Commentary] I felt bad for the worms. Why were we eating worms to begin with? Poor little worms, they’re just eating dirt…

[He slurps them up as if they were pasta noodles.]

[Commentary] It was kind of like really soggy noodles… yeah. What’s really funny is I don’t like fish or pork or anything like that, right, but I just ate a [bleep] worm.

JOEL: Your email accounts are before you. There are ten to choose from. If you have to reply to fewer than ten, you may choose which ones they are.

HEATHER: You have fifteen minutes and it begins… now!

[Players start working on their emails]

JAIME: I was really angry because I knew that by not eating the worms, I wouldn’t be able to complete the challenge and can’t possibly write ten letters in fifteen minutes and it just wasn’t gonna happen so it frustrated me that I was put into that situation because… because I wouldn’t eat the worm.

HEATHER: Ten seconds.

Time is up. Please close your laptop.

JOEL: Jaime did not reply to the ten emails in time and so she is disqualified from this immunity.

[Reading off an email request/query answered by JasonM]

“I really want to buy your program but I don’t have the money right now. Also, I am vertically challenged and I cannot reach my keyboard. Please do not discriminate against me for this as it would be against Title XV6779 of the Internet Legal Code. And if you do not help me, I will probably report you to the Attorney General, the FBI, and the underground Ninja Society. Can you please get back to me and how we can arrange this.
Sincerely,
Mr. John Kensington.”

HEATHER: [Reading off JasonM’s reply]

“I’m truly flattered that you have chosen my program. I will be in contact with you to go over the details…”

JASONM: [Commentary] I enjoy writing emails and I think that’s something, you know, that I definitely have as a skill so I definitely enjoyed the challenge today.

HEATHER: [Continues reading JasonM’s email reply] “…great ideas for the future of those who have challenges.
To your success,
Jason Marshall.”

JOEL: The overall feeling from the email is that you’re bending over backwards. We definitely don’t want to discriminate against anyone associated with the underground internet Ninja Society… this is a good email.

The next email says, “I bought your ultra, extreme collection of eBooks several days ago and I would like to know when I can expect them to arrive at my home. I’m worried about the books sitting on my doorstep. All I got was a link to some webpage.”

HEATHER: [Reading off BigJason’s reply] “Hi Jason. You will be receiving your package on Thursday, between 2-4 pm, Central Time. Your tracking number is 054678923…”

NICO: [Commentary] I thought it was funny Jason Henderson kind of forgot it was an eBook and gave him a tracking number. I thought that was kind of… off.

HEATHER: [Continues reading aloud] Thank you for being a customer of Big AdSense Unlimited, Jason.

I thought they were eBooks?

[Some of the players can’t help smiling]

JOEL: These are eBooks. They are fully downloadable. When we sell physical products, as it says on the page, you will receive in the mail a physical product. This is a digital delivery and you missed the point of what we were going for.

HEATHER: [Reading the next reply for another email – Alisande’s] Dear La Toya, thank you for your email inquiry. We are sorry that your purchase of our product was not to your satisfaction. If you can tell us what your needs are, we may be able to recommend one of our other products for you. As for the product you are not pleased with, we can send you a full refund if you can send the product back to us. We thank you again for your support and look forward to helping you.
Regards,
Alisande
Customer Service.

JOEL: Okay. I’ve read all your emails. A few of you did not get the tenor of the email request that was sent. It kind of dropped the bomb in that area…

BIGJASON: [Commentary] Who was the only one that formatted correctly to fit in all email readers? [After each question, he makes a gesture implying or implicating himself as the person he is referring to in his questions.] Who was the only one that caught that this was supposed to be for our JV and actually created a new business name? Who is the only one that actually had a P.S. with an up sell? Who’s the only one that had a support desk URL?

JOEL: And that’s why today’s HackerSafe Immunity goes to Alisande.

Congratulations. Come on up.

[Alisande receives Immunity shirt from heather]

JOEL: Alisande, you had it all in there. You were grateful that they were a customer, you answered all their questions completely, you told them about how to get a refund on their product, professionally written, professionally formatted… I’d be very proud to have you come help for my Help Desk. You are now immune for the rest of the day. Congratulations!

ALISANDE: [Commentary] It is a relief to know that I’m safe today. I think that even if I didn’t win this HackerSafe, I feel pretty confident that, you know, as long as I perform well, that I would probably do really well. So what I want to do now just be best in whatever I can for my team and help us win whatever we win.

BIGJASON: [Commentary] So do you see what I’m saying? Game on. Let’s get on to the next one.

LECTURE FOR THE DAY

JOEL: Our next speaker is one of the most leading experts in information products. We’re incredibly privileged to have him here on this stage today. He’s going to teach you some incredible things about info product creation. Make sure you take great notes.

Would you please help me welcome to The Next Internet Millionaire stage the energetic, the brilliant, the flamboyant Mr. Marlon Sanders!

[Applause]

MARLON: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome – to – Ninja Training! In the next two hours, you come here as average, ordinary marketers. And through out, you will leave this room certified ninjas! Are you ready to rock!?

PLAYERS: Sir, yes, sir!

MARLON: Are you ready to roll!?

PLAYERS: Yes! Sir, yes, sir!

MARLON: Are the ninjas ready?!

PLAYERS: Sir, yes, sir!

MARLON: Great.

JAIME: [Commentary] Marlon’s a character. I like him. It kept me awake, it was over the top, and he makes over-the-top work.

MARLON: You will not hear anything more profound than what I’m gonna tell you… right now. And it is this: How much money you make five years from now is not gonna depend on how well you learn your lessons here, unfortunately. It’s not gonna depend on how many partnership opportunities. It’s not gonna depend on how many ebooks you read. It’s not gonna even depend on how many products you create. None of that determines how much money you’re gonna be earning five years from now. There’s only one thing that really determines that. And that single factor is – your ability to confront.

There’s one reason some people make it in this business and some people don’t – it’s your ability to confront. See, you got to confront some technical things you’re not going to be comfortable with and if that causes you pain, if you don’t want to confront that pain, if you don’t want to deal with the hassle and you don’t want to deal with that side of the business, you’re not gonna make it. Or if you don’t want to have the guts to pay a little money in outsourcing and go through the trouble and time to outsourcing to somebody that may or may not do a good job, you ain’t gonna make it in this business. If you don’t want to confront creating a product when you’re not the absolute master of that product, you won’t make it in this business. See, you got to confront some things you’re not comfortable with. And that ladies and gentlemen, is why we’re getting ready to go into the ninja training.

CHRISTINE: [Commentary] Today was not the first time I heard Marlon Sanders speak and I was really excited to hear him again. He is just out wild but very, very knowledgeable. He’s a brilliant man and I learned some new things about Marketing, a new way of looking at things, and certainly, things that I’m gonna use again in the future.

MARLON: [Back to lecture] You’re gonna leave out of here being able to put together all those products and being able to put together those ideas and being able to make this happen in a way that you never would have been able before, if you learn just these three simple things: Offensive, Flanking, and Gorilla – these are three things you got to know.

Part One is the Offense: Ninja who attack the leader’s strength commit suicide.

You do not attack a competitor’s strength. Master ninja says, “Attack the weakness in the leader’s strength.” You’ve got to remember this. Attack the weakness; every strength has an accompanying weakness.

Why do you attack the weakness in a strength first than just any weakness? Does anyone care to hazard a guess at that, anyone?

THOR: If you’re able to attack the strength and destroy the strength, you destroy your competitor’s advantage.

[Commentary] Marlon is fabulous! I have never heard such a charismatic speaker that can grab your attention and hold on to it, and entertain through multiple personas… I mean, this guy – this guy is good! And I’m not – I wouldn’t want to be the guy following him, let’s put it that way. I don’t want to be the guy that speaks after Marlon, that’s not good.

MARLON: Now you all might just have to be doing this here in a minute, so if you’ve got some questions here in a second, we’re gonna take questions. Then you better answer and ask them because otherwise, you’re going to get kicked out of the program!

EXECUTION CHALLENGE

JOEL: Before we get started, Laura, we’re going to give you fifteen seconds to decide which team you would like to join.

LAURA: I want to go back to my original team.

JOEL: So you are back with Kiss now. And also, we’ll need to choose team leaders. Both teams, please confer…

Very good. Thor is the Team Leader for Bullseye. Jason, BigJason is the Team Leader for Kiss.

Here’s what’s gonna happen guys. You’re gonna prepare a marketing plan which will be presented to the entire group. You will choose a specific market and a product to sell to that market. You’ll present three short summaries of possible marketing strategies. You will choose one of those three as your main strategy then you will create four PowerPoint slides based on Marlon’s acronym: NABC. At the end, there will be a question and answer period where the opposing team will try to punch holes in your concept. The winning team will be joining myself and Marlon at one of the finest restaurants in Fort Collins. The other team will be meeting me in the Judgment Room tonight. You got two hours, get to your workstations, and your time begins… now!

[Bullseye group discussion]

THOR: Okay, so we have to find a need first before we find a product, there has to be a need.

NICO: What if we use something that we can use up there [24:11] as bottled water? It will only last because the water absorbs the chemicals of the plastic and the plastic absorbs the water…

THOR: So is the emphasis on the bottle or the water?

NICO: [Hidden from camera] No, it’s both. The water is a special type of water. It’s not your city water that goes through a processing plant that fills and puts it in a bottle.

MARLON: Guys, you got to focus this. Your – your – I’m unclear if this is about… what the Flanking move is? You’ve got to zero in on what’s the Flanking move and how are we gonna sell it.

THOR: [Commentary] This time around, we came up with a great product but literally, the entire thing came together in the last fifteen minutes. And I had absolutely no time to even read what I was going to be presenting. Charles was nervous about what he was presenting and, you know, Nico was going off in fifty directions so we weren’t even sure what Nico was gonna say.

CHARLES: The real angle is the glass bottle…

MARLON: One thing you might think about is there’s been a lot of really negative publicity recently about all the plastic bottles and how horrible for the environment they are.

NICO: Exactly. The plastic bottles leach chemicals out of the plastic to the water…

THOR: So I don’t now if we can use that particular benefit to ‘Flanking’ but…

NICO: Well, the difference we would put into this is we’re not just using any water. We’re using a special water from a special source…

THOR: Special source.

MARLON: If you could really hustle, you could crush the other team by applying it… coming up with a little logo, coming up with your slogan—

CHARLES: The design of the bottle itself could be a selling point.

THOR: I think like what Nico said, you know, you’re not just gonna walk into your local 7-11 and pick up a bottle of this water.

[Commentary] I was the Team Leader on this challenge and I don’t feel I gave the kind of performance that Joel is expecting out of a JV partner. I don’t think I did this time, I really let myself down.

NICO: We’re looking at a niche market like spas which are—

THOR: Or high-end restaurants, maybe?

MARLON: A very famous restaurant, like in LA, decided to stop selling bottled water to their customers – very foo-foo, famous restaurant, because it was so bad for the environment. So that would mean nobody’s delivering bottled water in a glass container to high-end restaurants currently.

Your time is running short guys… [leaves to join Kiss Team discussion]

[KISS team discussion]

MARLON: Lots of product category you can think of where there are still new innovations being made and tons of money are being made.

KISS: Phones…

Music Videos or videos…

MARLON? Music videos? Okay. Out of phones, music and videos, would you like to try to attack one of those – it would be either an Offensive, Flanking, or possibly Gorilla move?

JAIME: There’s a little lot of thing out there, like equipment to do your really basic webcam video but to put together… more of a complex video… like how to edit videos, that kind of thing, how to market yourself using video how to—

BIGJASON: Okay, there’s a phone that I think, if post directly leads to MySpace or something like that or one of those social numbers….. What about um, a phone that you can just update a post directly to YouTube and then…

JOEL: My Treo does that.

BIGJASON: Does it?

MARLON: It’s the same benefit as everybody else’s got, why buy it? Give me some unique benefits. You can be damn well ready to defend it against the piranhas when they attack you.

BIGJASON: The need is – easier and better way to post video to You Tube; and the solution, obviously, is – a better phone.

JAIME: Can you tell me how many videos are posted on YouTube a day?

BIGJASON: Yes, that’s s good research…

Here Alisande, here’s this [hands her some papers]. You can have that referenced. You can maybe… you can start you know …

ALISANDE: I’m starting… I have a bullet… I have uhm, a slide for each—

[Commentary] I couldn’t actually hear well. I was working on my part. I was doing the part – I guess the techie, in a way – I could hear the advice of Joel and Marlon and Heather, you know, they were, you know, adding some tips here and there and we were all so disconnected that we’re so busy trying to figure out what our roles were in the task that we couldn’t really focus on what they were saying, ‘cause you can’t focus on the advice someone’s giving when you don’t even know the heck you’re doing.

BIGJASON: We just discovered that Joel actually just took the video from his phone and then put it to his computer then put it to YouTube—

MARLON: Ohhhhhhh…

BIGJASON: …so it might be a Blue Ocean.

ALISANDE: ‘cause we’re thinking something that you can push right on the phone and—

MARLON: Wow. Yes, that would be Blue Ocean.

JASONM: Right now we have nine thousand three hundred and five years it would take in order to watch all the YouTube video footage…

MARLON: By the way, why don’t you do the research? [points to Alisande]

Or are you going to do the research? [points to JasonM who shakes his head] No? You suck.

[Laura raises her hand] Are you going to research?

LAURA: I’m really gonna research.

MARLON: Okay. Well you do the research and find out if there’s any other phones…

[Group mates start discussing among themselves; lots of crosstalk]

ALISANDE: Marlon was saying, you know, we got to figure out what—

[Commentary] –we were all kind of scattered and I didn’t think any one of us four was particularly the downfall of the group, like, “Oh, it’s your fault that you didn’t do your job well.” We all simply weren’t, you know, guided in a way and that’s—

[Back to group discussion] Is anybody listening to me? Hello! Yes… [trying to catch people’s attention]

LAURA: [Commentary] Right now, I feel like my toughest competition, female-wise, would be Alisande because she’s very strong-minded and she has – she’s very goal-oriented and she knows she wants to win this. She really does want to win this and I can tell and she’s going to keep putting her ideas out there and make sure that they’re heard.

JAIME: [Commentary] If I was going to pick somebody on my team right now who might drag us down, it might be Alisande. It might seem like a surprising choice because she is a strong person but I think that might be her downfall. She’s very strong, she’s very opinionated and she likes to have her opinions known and so sometimes, she can keep going and going and going.

ALISANDE: So I want to start working on a concept why we think this is gong to be a cool thing to for people to get…

JAIME: That would be phone companies because phones can—

JASONM: What do you mean… phone manufacturer? Like as in LG, Samsung? Or isn’t that what you [addressing someone not captured by video – not a Kiss team member] were saying?

JAIME: Yeah, that would be for offensive.

JASONM: Motorola? Those are our competitors…

JAIME: Those are our competitors for the one, but for the ‘Flank’, then our competitors are those who have a service like us…

JASONM: [Commentary] We knew right from the beginning we weren’t mulched in. We were not ready; we are not prepared. We’re – all they have to do is have a decent presentation and they’re gonna blow us away. It was tough going into that competition knowing that.

Presentation – Execution Challenge

[Team Kiss presentation]
JOEL: Team Kiss, are you ready to begin?

BIGJASON: Yes, sir.

Our market that we’re going after is YouTube. Video is very important to them. We want to build an easier, cheaper… and the way that we’re gonna do that is with… [takes something out of his pocket] a new cell phone – anytime, anywhere, any place, they can post it to YouTube with their phone.

JASONM: We’ve got to crush our competitors. We’re gonna create flanking by coming around and hitting them with a lower price.

ALISANDE: [Commentary] I would have to say that my toughest competitor is Jason Marshall.

LAURA: [Commentary] I’d say the toughest would probably be… still Jason Marshall, just because he’s got the great speaking skills and he can ad lib really well…

ALISANDE: [Commentary] And I tell you what, right from the beginning he’s always been a very, very solid presenter.

JASONM: [Commentary] I’m branded. I’m branded as the one that can do just about anything we’ve been asked to do. Every time we go do something, “Oh, is there anything else you can’t do?” So I’m tagged and whether or not the strategy is to take me out because I am strong or keep me around to, you know, help their team win. I don’t mind strategy as long as the deception doesn’t foul up…

[Back to presentation] YouTube is gonna be the creator of this phone. This is gonna be a product that is gonna be sent – YouTube is gonna be the manufacturer of this…

CHARLES: [Commentary] As soon as I saw that they were doing something with YouTube, I knew I had to rip them apart. And I kind of looked at them when they got up there, trying to make eye-contact with everybody, and kind of did one of those, like, “Don’t do it! Don’t do it!” [makes a flipping gesture with his hand on his neck] and I kind of felt like a jerk but, I mean, they were saying some things that I didn’t think were very good or valid.

JASONM: We’re gonna hit an age – the young, high school age that everyone of them has a cell phone.

BIGJASON: This YouTube phone will come with a service built-in so all you have is—

JOEL: Time!

Please step forward.

THOR: [Commentary] It was just asinine for them to pick YouTube as a product when we had Charles Trippy sitting on our team. I mean, literally, I was typing a note to Charles, like, “Isn’t there something already for that?” And he just waved me off. He was like, “I got it.”

JOEL: Bullseye group, you may now please interrogate your competition.

CHARLES: If you look in the options of YouTube, you can set-up a mobile device. I can take this cell phone I have right here and I would just type a text message and it will upload directly to my account. You could use any cell phone already on YouTube as it is.

JASNH: Right. Does it allow you to text message to go to the title and description on YouTube?

CHARLES: So you will have an all new phone just to be able to type this—

THOR: [Commentary] They weren’t able to come back with anything. We kept hammering and hammering ‘em, they couldn’t come back. We tried to hammer the people that were weakest. We tried to direct questions to individuals we believe couldn’t answer them. I directed that question directly at Big Jason, “So Big Jason, you gave a stat. What about it?” and he couldn’t answer the question.

JOEL: So you really don’t know how much it will cost to manufacture a phone like that so it’s purely hypothetical.

MARLON: I didn’t hear it! You’re a ninja! You attack! You don’t sit up there going, “Well… (inaudible language)

JOEL: I have a question for you guys. Has anybody here heard of LG Electronics?

LG is one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world. LG is going to develop a YouTube phone. I can’t believe you guys did not google to see if any of the big competitors… I mean this kind of takes the whole Flanking approach – it’s decimated.

[Bullseye presentation]
JOEL: Bullseye group, you now have ten minutes to do your presentation. You may begin… now.

THOR: We all need water. Some people will drink a brand water, other people prefer something a little more high-end. And some of these higher-end establishments are not serving bottled water anymore and the individual, or the group, or the company that finds a way to develop a product that’s going to target that problem and solve that problem is gonna sell a lot of high-end bottled water.

CHARLES: Basically, the high-end restaurants are seizing the service of bottled water because of these toxins, and everything this bottle is made of is environmentally friendly. The bottle will be clearly made of glass, lean, and all, it will be a nice, sexy bottle – you know, like the nice 36-24-36 you know. You’re not gonna drop it. These bottles don’t fall.

NICO: There’s a giant that stands five thousand feet tall overlooking the rainforest canopy below. Her name is Bocanerunam. It is comprised of as the name states of Arenocin so basically, what we have here is a five thousand foot water-filter. Now can you imagine a better place to get pure, natural spring water?

JOEL: Bullseye group, please come forward. The opposing team will now have ten minutes to shoot holes in your presentation.

JAIME: Now why would you only target the restaurants? Why won’t you target all the people who carry water around, all the people who have water at their desks, all the people who could potentially use your product?

THOR: Because that’s not the target market for our product.

HEATHER: I thought it was a great presentation. I loved the PowerPoint. I love the way you guys put it together.

MARLON: Marketing is not uhm, ‘love thy neighbor’, you know. I mean, we’re really gonna love thy neighbor but in Marketing, it’s aggression and there was some aggression here but, come on! Think! Think! Think!

JOEL: In meeting the goals and objectives of this particular task, in the minds of all the judges, there was one clear winner that managed to do it over all the others. And that team is the Bullseye group.

[Applause]

JAIME: [Commentary] It’s really not fun sitting at the Judgment table – you have the three judges staring at you; they have water, we don’t have water. And… they just stare and then they’re serious and, you know, they do go on and criticize every member of the team and you don’t know exactly what’s gonna happen.

ALISANDE: [Commentary] I don’t care who gets eliminated! The fact is our team lost, that annoys me! Why again?! It’s like, “I don’t want to be here!”

JUDGEMENT ROOM

JOEL: Team Kiss. I’m sorry to see you here in this Judgment Room today but as you see, as far as the competition Laura, you’re here at this table…

[inaudible; continues to speak to the Kiss group but ended with a question] --that did not find… [referring to a key piece of research information they weren’t able to find]

BIGJASON: Laura.

LAURA: There was actually three of us. I start of doing the research on different things and then we start just trying to like, delegate different responsibilities to everyone else in the research and—

JAIME: Well it kept getting shuffled around. Originally, they said please look for this and then they said, “Ok, I need you to do uhm, name and logo, you should do that, you’re more graphics,” and then I said, “Okay.” I worked on that and then I was given the statistics.

JOEL: Jason, you were the Team Leader.

BIGJASON: Okay.

JOEL: What happened to the focus? Why weren’t people encouraged to stay in a certain task and see it through to the end?

BIGJASON: I was encouraging everyone to stick to what they were doing. Alisande – Powerpoint; Jaime, initially, the graphics and the research on the Treo.

MARLON: You know, they had a great idea Joel, [addressing Joel] because, as a matter of fact, a really big company is doing the idea. The other team, nobody’s coming out with Costa Rican water any day soon. They [referring to Kiss] had the winning idea, they had the winning hand. The fatal flaw of the plan was not finding L&G [referring to LG Electronics]. How many seconds did it take you to find upstairs?

JOEL: Fifteen.

MARLON: Fifteen. So we had three people doing research for two hours total and we couldn’t find what Joel found in fifteen seconds.

HEATHER: Jason [referring to Big Jason], why did you pick a product that none of you know anything about?

BIGJASON: Because we finally had a task where we had someone with familiarity. Have you seen—

HEATHER: With cell phones?

BIGJASON: No. The alternate.

HEATHER: Someone on your team had—

BIGJASON: That was the alternate.

HEATHER: Someone on your team knows about YouTube?

LAURA: No, we had a different product.

HEATHER: So what happened?

BIGJASON: It was gonna be a posture product because I have a background in that.

MARLON: The instructions were to choose a target market, then choose your strategy and come up with a product based on the strategy. What he [referring to Big Jason] was recommending was taking a product and then trying to create a strategy and then defend it starting with the product. That was not the assignment.

JOEL: You were moving backwards. Big Jason, you’re the Team Leader, who should take the bullet for this?

BIGJASON: Jaime and Jason [JasonM].

JOEL: Really? Why Jason Marshall?

BIGJASON: No particular reason. I’m not singling anybody out. I just have to pick.

JOEL: I think you should take the bullet. One person should take the bullet. You’ve named both of them, you know, why pick on Jason and Jaime? Obviously, Alisande’s not touchable. What about Laura? What about yourself?

BIGJASON: All the contradictory information that we got. We have the whole thing, we were all going on notions and we were all wrong. We had no idea, we kept on fighting so it just turned everything around, so I can’t point at anybody and say, you know, “It’s your fault. You screwed up the worst,” you know, “You need to go.”

MARLON: Second fatal flaw was deciding to pitch a product of which an expert in that product, was on the other team; really, really, really bad idea.

HEATHER: That should have been the first thought: “Oh, Charles is on the other team.”

MARLON: He killed you.

JAIME: We also shouldn’t have let him kill us. I mean, their product, their bottles of water, glass bottles shaped like that, you know, we shouldn’t have let, in our presentation, we should have stood up for our product because even though you could key in, it’s not the same thing as what we were describing—

MARLON: You didn’t stop L&G [LG Electronics]…

JAIME: So we should have stood up there and said, “You know what, yes! Yes they have that but it’s not the same product.”

HEATHER: There was no cohesiveness between what you, and you, and you, and you, and you were doing. [Referring to each Kiss member]

MARLON: And I don’t understand that Heather, why was that? I don’t understand that lack of cohesiveness?

HEATHER: Well I think ‘cause the leader didn’t bring it together and say that this is what we’re doing.

BIGJASON: Exactly, that’s what I’m trying to explain. We had a path, I had the time laid-out, I had everybody assigned to everything...

JOEL: The best-laid plan.

BIGJASON: That’s right.

JOEL: Jason [addressing JasonM], who should take the bullet for today?

JASONM: For tonight I have to say Jason Henderson based on the leadership of it. I would have followed him be wherever – be it with the posture thing – I would have gone that way.

JOEL: I think your presentation tonight was, you know, from yesterday has ratcheted up a little bit. You’re a little more confident.

Laura, who should take the bullet?

LAURA: I would say Jason [Henderson] just because of the leadership and he did have a lot of good ideas and everything and maybe we should have gone with the posture, but in the end we were just so far everywhere. It was just so…

JOEL: --not put together.

LAURA: Right. From one task to the next, it was just… I had no idea what’s going on.

JOEL: Alisande, you’re untouchable tonight. Tell me, where do you think the responsibility for this task should lie?

ALISANDE: I felt totally disconnected from the whole entire group and then at last, when we had to do the presentation, I just had to—

JOEL: A name please.

ALISANDE: Anyways, just because of the leadership, I would have to say Jason Henderson.

JOEL: They’re coming up with you [addressing Big Jason] again and again.

BIGJASON: Right.

JOEL: Jaime?

JAIME: I think I feel the same way as my team mates. We needed a time line and somebody to be saying, “This is where we need to be here, this is where we need to be here, we should be at this point.” “What do we have?” “What are we looking for?” And I felt that we were scattered probably most because of leadership. So I guess I will also have to say, Jason Henderson.

JOEL: Okay.

Jason, [addressing JasonM] I know Big Jason named you and honestly, we didn’t see much out of you. You did your part in the presentation and you’re probably a little out of your elements on this task but you did come up with a key piece of data that salvaged the critique somewhat, and that was the information on Verizon-telly service.

And Jaime, you did as you were told and the direction was a little unclear. I think you guys were unsure of who was doing what and maybe the team could have helped, in general, to bring that focus back but I really enjoyed seeing you ratchet up your presentation on stage. I’m starting to see you shine there as you get more comfortable and that tells me that there’s potential there for partnership.

BigJ, Laura… back and forth, BigJ, Laura: both very bright, both youthful, both have lots of potential, both with big dreams… but this is a game and somebody’s got to go. [Heaves a sigh]

Laura, you barely stayed by us because that whole Sandbox thing was an utter disaster…

Jason… [addressing BigJ] [inaudible] --I have yet to see the potential there. And because of that, I’m sorry to tell you you’ve been eliminated from the competition.

BIGJASON: Yes, sir.

JOEL: You have your eCOMMerce chips that you --[barely audible]—here. You now have the opportunity to keep them all or to give your eCOMMerce chips to whomever you choose, either at this table or in the other team.

BIGJASON: I’ll give them to Laura.

JOEL: [Barely audible but commented about Laura receiving Big Jason’s chips.]

LAURA: Watch out.

JOEL: Thanks, guys… [Barely audible but seems to dismiss the players from the table]

Commentaries
ALISANDE: I’ve been frustrated with working with Jason Henderson but I’ve never enjoyed seeing anybody go home.

BIGJASON: I think it’s just part of the game. I had a feeling eventually it was gonna be me.

NICO: Jason Henderson’s been alienating himself since the time we got here and, you know, that is kind of the general consensus with everybody and that was pretty much well-known.

BIGJASON: I was the only one with a lot of really good skills and it was just really imbalanced so I did the game to target, you know, different types of people.

CHRISTINE: Jason doesn’t really go out of his way to make friends. He seems to be very self-serving and he’ll be friendly when he sees how it might benefit him.

BIGJASON: I’ve got a speaking engagement coming up and I’ve got about five joint ventures all waiting for me to get back to ‘em…

JASONM: He’s kinda excluded himself. We sit down to eat, he’s in a different table; whenever you’re talking, he’s gone off by himself. He was nice to me at times – I want to say he’s a nice person, but I kinda looked right through it and thought he was being very fake in the way of being nice to me.

BIGJASON: I’ve had phone calls and emails I haven’t been able to respond to while on the show so I’m just gonna get back to what I was doing before.

THOR: Boy, you know, sometimes you’re really rude to people like this morning, when you just trashed that poor lady at the front desk by not having your dry-cleaning done on time. That stuff’s not cool man, don’t do that.

BIGJASON: You know, some of the things are not my strengths and some of the things are not geared to a lot of people’s strengths so, you know, some people react better to certain situations than others and ah, you know, I don’t react to certain situations in the right way or the best way so…

JAIME: I wasn’t very sad to see Jason Henderson go.

CHRISTINE: I’m glad to see Jason Henderson got sent home.

LAURA: I felt bad for Jason and everything ‘cause I really like him and I didn’t want to see him leave.

BIGJASON: Uhm… yeah, I could say I’m set.

[Dinner with winning team]

NICO: [Commentary, but only his voice is heard] We are all in The Melting Pot here in Colorado and Joel Comm is taking us out to dinner…

THOR: I’ll try something new today. It wouldn’t be the first time…

[Christine laughs]

NICO: [Commentary] We had worms for breakfast and fondue for dinner.

JOEL: Alright, a toast to today’s victor – Team Bullseye [everyone toasts and clinks their wine glasses]. Tomorrow is another day. Cheers.

BULLSEYE: Cheers.

[End Credits]

JASONM: [Voice-only Commentary] Sometimes you’re forced to do something that you don’t want to do but you got to do anyway. You got to take some risks, you’ve got to take some challenges and recognize when you are weak; and when you recognize that weakness, work with it and try to overcome it.

JAIME: [Commentary] I hope it’s not a bowl of cockroaches tomorrow… ‘coz I’ll leave the room.

[Some scenes from the next episode are shown]

[Few Words from Joel Comm]
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Everyone knows that remote PC repair has been around for a while now. Everyone in Lincoln knows that Schrock Innovations has been repairing computers for close to 8 years now.

Now Schrock Innovations is preparing to combine its award-winning service and support with the power of remote PC support to create the most versatile and inexpensive computer repair and support option ever offered in Lincoln.

On Friday at 10:00 AM, the Schrock Desk will be available to all Schrock Innovations customers for a free 15-day trial period.

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If you are a Schrock customer, you will be receiving an email shortly with instructions on how to sign up for your free trial. If you are not a Schr0ck customer yet, the service will be opened for you next week with a special bonus offer for subscribing during the initial launch.

This is going to change the way you look at your computer problems and how Schrock Innovations solves them for you. The Schrock Desk is coming. Computer problems beware.

For those of you who are embedding the video of the Next Internet Millionaire on your blogs and websites, you will soon realize that search engines like Google don't think much of the high quality video content of the NIM episodes because Google can't watch them - it has to read the episode.

To help those with NIM content on their sites, I am proud to announce that I will be posting transcripts of each show on my blog. You may use any component of the transcript that you like - or the transcript in its entirety - on your website. The only requirement is that you place a link back to this blog giving credit for the content.

The transcript for Episode 1 is done and posted at:

http://www.thorschrock.com/2007/08/17/episode-1-of-next-internet-millionaire-is-live/

Every week I do a radio show that about 2,500 people listen to on any given Saturday. Compute This is the highest rated weekend AM program in Lincoln and we have always been happy with that.

For those who could not listen because they had to work, we have also made the shows available for download from the Schrock Innovations website.

You might have noticed that the frequency of our website posts had slowed. That is because we were pouring our effort into a new video delivery method that will allow you to watch the radio show as you listen to it.

This is all still VERY beta, so the focus was a little off on the camera and the battery died in the final segment. With that said though, it is still going to be awesome to be able to watch the show as you listen to it.

So without further ado, here is the August 25th show, with the first draft theme song introduction and studio video!

You can also enjoy a full transcript of the show here:

Hosts:
THOR: Thor Schrock
CHRIS: Chris Goforth
CARL: 1st Caller
SAM: 2nd Caller
PETRO: 3rd Caller
MARGE: 4th Caller

VOICE-OVER: Thor Schrock Innovations present: Nebraska’s No. 1 independent computer-repair company. With offices in Lincoln and Omaha, this is Compute This…

[Radio theme song plays over]

CHRIS: Good morning everyone! It is time for Compute This 1240AM KFOR, Thor Schrock’s Schrock Innovations. Join us… as he does. Live again –

THOR: [crosstalk] Absolutely!

CHRIS: -- taking us away now.

THOR: No, no, no. We’re in for the long haul, folks! Right here – Compute This! 489 1240 # 1240, get your questions answered. Now, I did have a customer request, last week in the field, specifically for the show, Chris.

CHRIS: Oh, really?

THOR: Yeah. And they said, “That Chris guy, he’s awesome. You know, he’s great, he’s beautiful. But Thor, you know, you need to slow down. You talk too fast!”

So, well you know, we’ve only got an hour. I try to get as much in that hour as I can so we’re going to try to slow it down a little bit today and see if we can get the same amount of content in, but talk a little slower so people can understand me.

CHRIS: Well, Thor -- [crosstalk]

THOR: Well, you’re faster than me! [crosstalk]

CHRIS: Oh okay. Well I was wondering if I was included in it.

THOR: No, they said you’re awesome.

CHRIS: I used to have that problem back when I was in retail, before I got into radio and everything… I was a mile-a-minute.

THOR: [laughs]

CHRIS: It was one of those things where I went to visit one of the old stores I used to work at and saw some of the old people that I used to, you know… used to work with all the time, and the first thing they said was: “You know, you talk a lot slower than you used to.”

Well, I’ve learned over the years that people don’t understand [starts talking fast] when you talk like this and you’ve really got to slow down a bit.

THOR: [Laughs louder]

That’s what I’m learning too, so thank you for the feedbacks. See, we are always receptive to our customers’ needs and requests so I will make an effort to slow it down a little bit and get the same amount of content in the one-hour, as we normally would, but just a little more, understandably.

CHRIS: There we go… 489-1240 # 1240 is the phone number to call if you would like to get into the show and ask your question of Thor; pick his brain a bit about computers if you are having a small issue, we’re here to give you free advice --

THOR: Absolutely!

CHRIS: -- and while we’re waiting for people to call in… one thing I want to bring up, and I know that you are very limited in what you can talk about because of all the papers you had to sign, but the first episode of The Next Internet Millionaire was released this past week.

THOR: Yup. I posted it up on my blog over at thorschrock.com. You can watch the episode right there on my blog: a 51-minute episode.

CHRIS: Yeah, it was a lot longer… I thought it was only even a half-hour show. To watch it, it is like 9:30 and then… I can’t watch it – [crosstalk]

THOR: To watch the rest, you’re going to have to come back later but you can actually… the nice thing about Revver, which a lot of people haven’t heard about Revver, you know, there’s YouTube for videos and there’s Google video and then there’s Revver.

You can actually right-click on Revver and go to full-screen mode. I watched in a 19-inch wide-screen last night with my wife, you know, in our bedroom. We were just laying there, before going to bed, “Let’s watch the show.“ We put it on and we just watched it and she smacked me a couple of times for saying stupid stuff and – well, you know, ‘what the heck,’ you know.

Actually this first episode, if you’re going to watch any of the episodes, I would definitely recommend you watch the first episode. I certainly got the smack-down laid on me in this episode, so a little humbling in the first day – very first day.

CHRIS: How far into it? ‘Coz I got about twenty minutes in…

THOR: Haha. Oh, you missed all the criticism of me then – the last third of the show.

CHRIS: Oh, okay. Yeah. [crosstalk -- lots]

THOR: It was a learning experience and I learned quickly. But nevertheless, watch the episode – it’s awesome. You’re going to really enjoy it. If there’s a lot of drama in there; the personalities really come through. And that’s one of the things you’re going to really appreciate on the show – is that it’s not just a bunch of internet marketers, real stuffed-up, “Oh, were gonna make a bunch of money on the internet.”

These are real people that have real hopes and dreams and a diversity of backgrounds. So check it out, folks – thorschrock.com. Conversely, we can also go to nextinternetmillionaire.com. Oh, and one little request: There’s a forum on nextinternetmillionaire.com. I am prohibited from posting in that forum because I am a contestant. Some contestants broke that rule last week and they got the smack-down laid on them.

CHRIS: That really --

THOR: Yeah, we’re not supposed to post on the forum. We’re not supposed to talk about the contents of the show so I can’t answer specific questions about what happened in the episode. I can talk about the episode and I can talk in generalities about you know – ‘You should watch it.’ ‘This is why you should watch it.’ ‘Check it out.’ [crosstalk] All that stuff.

I can’t get specific. Some people on the forum got very specific and they’re not supposed to do that. Now there’s a place in the forum, it’s kind of scary, because here’s a forum that’s specifically dedicated to talking about – YOU. And, you can’t say anything back.

CHRIS: Ho ho ho… Nooo.

THOR: And so, you know, I would implore my wonderful Compute This listeners, ”if you’re listening to the show, check out The Next Internet Millionaire forum.” It’s at nextinternetmillionaire.com/forum. There’s a little link at the top for the next internet millionaire website. I put a link to it on my blog and you can register there, registrations’ free, and you can put up a post.

You know there was one guy who said, “You know Thor, you kinda had to lay the hammer down in this episode.” [crosstalk] If Thor laid his hand down… yeah, I get it.

And so, anytime anybody might jump in there, I would certainly appreciate being defended. So with that, thank you, that’s all I can say.

I wish I had a [makes drumming sound-effect] sound-effect to that available. [crosstalk] I thought that was pretty fun too – Thor laid his hammer down [Chris laughs in background] – love it, love it!

CHRIS : So what do we have coming up on the show today?

THOR: Well today, folks, we have a pretty cool week actually coming up. Doug has been kicking rear in our shop. We’ve been cranking out computers, getting faster and faster, back up to our normal parse speeds again. We finally have eradicated ourselves from the entire maintenance Check-up Sale and the remnants of that. That was unbelievably huge! I mean, that was three weeks to ago.
We had so many computers coming on the last day of the sale, like this is unusual, but… so we have eradicated that, we are good to go there, we have a new hire. On Monday, Ben, is going to be joining our team at Schrock Innovations.

Ben actually owned his won computer repair shop in Omaha for a while after he worked there for a number of years. He is extremely knowledgeable and he is an outstanding bench tech. We actually asked him to come into our shop and work for a half-day, unpaid, just sow e can get an idea of what we could expect from Ben, and we were impressed. We were very impressed… beyond smart. We basically handed him a checklist and, “Do these things to this computer.” “No, here’s how to do it, here is how we do it, and nothing like that…” – it was exactly like we wanted. The exact level of service, everything, because he owned his own shop. I mean, he knows what people expect and so boom boom boom boom boom (like a machine gun) down the list and it was just amazing. So, we are looking forward to having him join our team on Monday so if you want to call and give Ben some grief.
He’s a little shy the first time he worked so the first day he was a little mousy on the phone so… feel free to call him and ask for Ben and just ask him some silly question like, “How many transistors are there inside a standard mother board?” -- and just see what he says, I’d be curious.

[Both hosts laugh]

CHRIS: “Will you work on my 75 MHz computer?” [Then laughs]

THOR: “Yeah, I had a Tandy TRS-80. It’s 1.7MHz. Can you do maintenance check-up on that?”

CHRIS: “I like to upgrade the Vista.”

[Both hosts shares a laugh again]

THOR: “Am I compatible?” Call and give him a hi, I do these to all my employees and they all get like, “What are these calls?” and all the other employees are just sitting there snickering [crosstalk], you know. They know what’s going on.

CHRIS: Welcome to the team.

THOR: Yeah, exactly. He’s an awesome guy and he is going to be a great addition to our team. But perhaps the biggest news of them all from the last week, I have not even had the chance to blog about this because we just did this yesterday – we are moving our Omaha Service Center.

CHRIS: What? Where are you moving to?

THOR: Well actually, there are a few different reasons behind it but the main reason is we had a 1500 sq. ft. retail bay…

CHRIS: Yeah…

THOR: -- and it was very conducive to the kind of repair work that we do. But the trouble is the kind of repair work that we do, we do it all in Lincoln. All the computers in Omaha come to Lincoln for repair work and go back to Omaha again.

So why did we need a 1500 sq. ft. retail bay for repair work that we weren’t doing? It didn’t make sense and so we came up to the point, our lease here in October – it was time to decide if we were going to renew. We said, “You know, maybe it’s time to look somewhere else. We needed a little more segment of office space to promote what we were doing for Schrock Desk and web design… we needed a conference room, things like that.

So we actually broke the Schrock Innovations computer repair mold and we successfully leased the entire second floor of an office building in Omaha, downtown Omaha.

Yes, it is a pretty big step and so we had Cox Communications moving all of our internet and phones service over and all the employees came and all my staff was like “Oh boy, we’ve got to move the office,” and I broke down. I did hire a moving company. We didn’t make the computer programmers move their own desks but I did make them put it back together again.

CHRIS: Well there you go. At least you made them work.

THOR: We bought everybody pizza. It was a fun day. Everybody got all hot and sweaty because the air-conditioner was being repaired on the second floor. We were one day early for that so we had to move up, in the heat and humidity. But it is awesome! I have an office now with two banks of windows which lets an awesome natural light for video content, my friend… video.

CHRIS: Yeah, it’s coming at you 4891240#1240… we have a few lines open, if you like to call in and ask a question of Thor Schrock of Schrock Innovations. We’ve got to take a break. We are also going to talk with Dale Johnson – he is over at Ideal Grocery until noon so hold on tight…more of the show coming up, right after this on KFOR.

[short break]

THOR: Thank you much very Dale , we’ll check in with Dale a few more times… this hour, but we are back on Compute This on 1240AM KFOR, Thor Schrock of Schrock Innovations… In The House!

CHRIS: -- here to answer your questions. 489 1240 # 1240 on your all Alltel Wireless. We will take care of the call for you…

THOR: -- absolutely!

CHRIS: Call, hold on the line, your call will be coming up next… very, very soon. Haaah!

So where are you moving to? We never really actually got an address or anything like that—

THOR: Yes. For those of you who listen in Omaha or who have family in Omaha that have used our Service Center and there’s a lot of Lincoln residents who do that, we moved from our location on 81st & Maple to 511 Turner Blvd. It’s right on the 30th & Dodge area there…

CHRIS: Okay…

THOR: It’s a really nice office complex. It’s a Realty Management company on the lower level and we are on the 2nd floor.

The only downer is there’s no elevator and you have to take the stairs to the 2nd floor and there’s about a dozen stairs. So it’s not terrible but you know it’s one of the concerns we had. If we had customers coming in here who may not be able to do the stairs, we’re going to have to come downstairs and accommodate them.

They are remodeling the 1st floor. I did take some video while we were moving in; everybody that was moving stuff. It was kind of funny…we hired Mike’s office-moving company. They had like four guys there and each guy that came by, “Are you Mike?” “Are you Mike?” [crosstalk] “Are you Mike”

CHRIS: “No.” “No.” “No.”

THOR: “Where’s Mike?”

“Mike? The only thing he moves is his (beep beep) from the couch to the refrigerator and back.”

And I’m like, I’m holding… do they not see the video camera? And I’m like – “What do you think about Mike?” And all these guys, except for one of them, said something bad about Mike.

CHRIS: Hah!

THOR: And I’m like--

CHRIS: -- maybe they were just joking?

THOR: “You guys—“ finally at this point I’m like, “You guys see the video camera, right?”

“What? You’re going to send him a copy of the tape?”

I’m like, “Well I’m going to put it on YouTube.” And I’m going to put his name as a tag.

[Crazy hosts laugh ]

So there was one wise man in the group. One wise man who said, “Mike is an awesome boss and I’ll appreciate my promotion.” And he still has a job. [Hosts share laughs again] He’ll probably get promoted.

Oh man, these movers, they’re a strong as oxen. They just grabbed the 100-pound desk and picked it up, walked away with it and you’re just like, “Ohhh…” [Presumably stare in disbelief] That makes my back hurt just looking at that. Some guys just have all the muscles. Thor is not built for moving furniture.

CHRIS: No, no. That’s why you were in computers.

THOR: Yeah, exactly, exactly.

CHRIS: 489 1240 # 1240 on your Alltel Wireless….we go to the phones.

We have Carl on the line. Thank you very much for holding on… Carl, what’s your question?

CARL: Well, first of all, I want to say thanks for the offer last year with the Norton Anti-Virus that you guys had.

CHRIS: Yes sir!

CARL: And my subscription is coming up here due and I came across the Norton Anti-Virus for up to 3 PCs.

CHRIS: Yes.

CARL: Q. I was wondering, if you guys install it on my one computer, what should I look for -- pitfalls, down-steps or something, that I might come across when trying to install this new product here.

THOR: Okay, if you buy the retail version of Norton, about fifty to sixty percent of the time, installation will go perfect without a problem. The remaining amount, the remaining times, actually, you will have a little bit of an issue which will require you to do some removal tools and stuff like that. So, the easiest thing that I can tell you to do, the first thing you should do is remove the old version of Norton Anti-Virus from the computer. Do not try to install over the top of it or you’ll have a problems. So uninstall the Norton, I believe it would have been 2006, is that correct?

CARL: I believe… yeah, that is correct.

THOR: Remove the Norton 2006 from the computer. Of course, you go to your Add/Remove Program.

Go to Start Control Panels Add/Remove Programs

And then find the Norton and remove it. A lot of people, they don’t remove it and then the computer will ask you to restart and say, “Oh sure.” They restart and then they’ll immediately put in the new CD and try to install the new Norton and that it’s the mistake that most people make.

Norton, we have found, is that chances of a successful installation increase dramatically if you allow a computer to reboot 2x after you remove the Norton. So the first reboot, certain files are removed from the computer that aren’t needed anymore but after the second reboot, the rest of those files are removed, and that will greatly increase the likelihood that your Norton will install properly because the dilemma that a lot of people find is, you know, we sell the Norton Anti-Virus for $99 and the Norton Internet Security for $149. Well, obviously if you go to, you know, Walmart or any of the other box stores, you’re going to find the software cheaper in there – anywhere from, “On Sale for $40” all the way up to “$80” depending on the version you get.

Well, the trouble with that is if you try to install it and something goes wrong and you end up calling us for help and you pay us a $100 for a bench-hour of labor for fixing your computer… well you’ve now paid $140 or $180 to get that Norton on the computer. It might have been cheaper for you just to buy it from us $150 in the first place and then you get the full one-year warranty that we offer on the Norton throughout the entire time you have it. So if anything goes wrong, you’ve got us right there and you don’t have to call the guys in India.

So now, the interesting thing is the 3-PC license. What that allows you to do is install the Norton on up to 3 different computers in you home.

Have you already purchased the software?

CARL: Yah, I’m looking at it right now in front of me.

THOR: Okay, that’s good. One thing I was going to say is that the actual… it’s kind of shady, the way they package this stuff because you probably paid… “Is that Norton Anti-Virus?”

CARL: Norton Anti-Virus 2007.

THOR: You probably paid about $80-$90 for that 3-license box, right?

CARL: Well, you’re probably right but I’d rather not say.

THOR: No, no. That’s all right. I don’t care.

CARL: I got it for like under $30.

THOR: Ok, good. Then you did the right thing.

There are two boxes that they have on the shelf and one says, “License is for up to 3 PCs” and a great big thing on the front of it – they charge $80 for that one.

And then they’ve got the $30 or $40 version sitting right next to it that has a little tiny print on the box.

Well the software’s exactly the same. And so, a lot of people go out and buy the $80 version thinking that, you know, it makes sense if one PC costs $40 or $50 or whatever. At three PCs for $80 is a pretty good deal and so they buy the more expensive one when in actuality they could have gotten all 3 PCs for the same price anyway.

So as far as that goes, as long as you remove the Norton from the computer first, reboot your computer two times, and then install the new Norton – everything should, in a perfect world, work out.

Now there are those times when it doesn’t and if something goes wrong you can give us a call. We’d be happy to help you out.

CARL: All right, thanks a lot!

THOR: Not a problem.

CARL: And welcome back.

THOR: Oh, thanks! It’s good to be here.

CHRIS: Thank you very much for the call, Carl! 489 1240 # 1240 on your Alltel Wireless is the number to call, if you’d like to get into the show.

You all right there?

THOR: You’re so excited you know?

CHRIS: I was just saying, “I’ll leave a moment for you to talk and you go and cough.” [Laughs] Good timing.

THOR: You’re a professional. You should see the signs of cough distress.

CHRIS: What else am I suppose to say?

THOR: Please – beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. This has been a test. No, no.

Anyway, it’s going to be a pretty awesome – this new office that we have in Omaha. I mean, I haven’t had a whole lot of time to spend at any desk and so I’m so backed up on emails and web things. And funny, from this Next Internet Millionaire program, I’ve actually had people contacting me asking me to develop websites, which isn’t out of the ordinary, we advertise that.

CHRIS: Yah.

THOR: But no, these are special websites. These are the kind of opportunities that you see maybe once a year, once every two years. We’ve had a meeting with a company in town here that sells house plans and they wanted to have me put together a website for them that would sell their house plans. And I said, “Well, golly, we can do that, and you know, we can put a standard e-commerce website together and put your house plans on it and you might sell a few to some contractors here and there, but, you know, at $500 a plan, you know, instead, why don’t we set-up a subscription website where your contractor-customers are going to pay $30 or $50 a month and they get three new house plans every month. And it seems counterintuitive – you’re giving somebody $1500 worth of house plans for $50. But if you get a thousand subscribers… are you happy then? I mean, that’s how much…you know, you’re making a lot of money then. You’re giving the same 3 plans to everybody.”

And they were just, “Wow! That’s amazing!”

I had another opportunity. There is a website that I would encourage you to check out: sidehire.com. They wanted me to explore some options with them to perhaps get their website launched into the local Lincoln community a little bit faster than it is being launched right now.

So we have some exciting stuff going on there but a lot of the stuff that I picked up either directly or indirectly from Next Internet Millionaire is playing a huge role in that.

CHRIS: Well good.

THOR: So if there’s anybody out there that has an idea or has a project that they think is just a home run project and they’ve just been looking for the right partner to try to make it go off the ground, I’m not saying we work for free, so that is one thing I will put out there right away. But on the other hand, if there’s a good opportunity – we see opportunities too – give us a call 423 9595.

CHRIS: The other number 489 1240… that’s for the show right here, right now – to get in and ask Thor a question about your computer. Time to take a break --

THOR: Yup.

CHRIS: We’re going to check in with Dale Johnson on Ideal Grocery at 27th and F as well, so don’t go anywhere, we have a lot of stuff happening… it’s Compute This on KFOR.

[Music Interlude]

CHRIS: Thank you very much, Dale! We’re back on the show! It’s Compute This on 1240 AM KFOR Thor Schrock at Schrock Innovations joining us 489 1240 # 1240 on your Alltel Wireless…

THOR: Absolutely! We got some gadget news coming up here for you, folks!

CHRIS: Ooh! I like gadgets. [crosstalk]

THOR: One of the drawbacks of the IPhone –

CHRIS: Drawback?

THOR: Yes, that’s right --

CHRIS: What?!

THOR: --there’s one thing about the IPhone that is just not cool but that’s coming up here on the show. Also, shame, shame on Dell. Oh, did you hear what Dell did?

CHRIS: No, what did Dell do?

THOR: Oh, oh, horrible, I have to tell you about that sometime.

CHRIS: Dell, not Dale.

THOR: [laughs / crosstalk] No, we’re talking about Dell computers, as in Michael Dell. In what way is Vista better than Macintosh OSX and better than Linux?  Should I buy a Psystar?

CHRIS: Oh now you’re just ticking people off.

THOR: Oh yeah. All kinds… [crosstalk]

CHRIS: You just got everybody upset right there.

THOR: Right now 489 1240 # 1240. We’re looking for your phone calls. We have the Callers Courage Prize Package that I may have neglected to mention. We have these thorschrock.com pad folio – the ThorSchrock.com Pad Folio. And what that is, is a 9 inch tablet basically in a nice leather zippered case, that’s monogrammed, the whole bit… yours free just for calling the show this afternoon at 489 1240… we’ll drop the end of the show and let you know who wins.

CHRIS: Well, last week, it’s kind of funny. A friend of mine – I’m on Facebook --

THOR: Yes….. [crosstalk] Facebook.

CHRIS: Surprise… you know. Yes, Facebook. And a friend of mine sends me a little message saying, “You’re hosting the computer show with Thor, right?”

I’m like, “Y--eah?”

“I was Spencer. I’m the one who won.”

THOR: Ha ha ha ha ha. What a small, small world.

CHRIS: I didn’t even recognize his voice. You know, I hear him talk in person but you hear people on the phone, it’s completely different.

THOR: Well yeah actually, I got my Facebook profile. I haven’t done anything with the page but I got the account set up. I have to add you as a Facebook friend or something…

CHRIS: You should. You should.

THOR: For those of you who don’t know what Facebook is, it’s kind of like MySpace, except, not as popular.

CHRIS: Yeah, yeah. And when it started out, it started out as just like… “college” only and “college” and “high school--”

THOR: Yes, that was their target market.

CHRIS: And then very recently, I believe it was in the spring, they said, “We’re going to let everybody use it.

THOR: Yeah, there was the MySpace targets the teenyboppers, but it’s so popular just about everybody has MySpace. [crosstalk] If you’re a company and you don’t have a MySpace profile for your company name --

CHRIS: It’s not like having a blog --

THOR: Well, you need to get it because somebody else is going to get it if you don’t and they can put whatever the heck they want about your company. They’ll search you up on google results. Some local companies learned that one the hard way so you want to make sure you grab that but Facebook is another one – the targeted the college grads and LinkedIn is the one for professionals.

CHRIS: What’s it called again?

THOR: linkedin.com. [spells it out]

CHRIS: I haven’t heard of that one. Apparently, I’m not a professional.

THOR: Yes, you’re not. [Chris laughs] I’ve sent you a request to add me to… how it works is, with LinkedIn, basically you can see exactly what kind of people each other professional in your environment is hooked up with. So if someone’s like, “Ho ho, I’m Mr. Bigshot,” and you look at his LinkedIn profile, it’s like his mom and his sister, you know… it’s like, wait, wait, who are you? But if you look at the LinkedIn profile – mine you’d see Joy here, from the station, in there. You’d see a number of professionals, you’d see Joel Comm in there, you’d see a lot of people I was on The Next Internet Millionaire show with –

CHRIS: Cool.

THOR: And then what happens is, other people will say, “Well look! So and so knows Thor. Maybe I should know Thor.” Then they’ll request me to be added.

CHRIS: And the Six Degrees begin.

THOR: Precisely, so that’s a good one to go into a well.

CHRIS: 489 1240 # 1240. If I can reach over and hit the button…there we go! We have Sam on the line. Thank you very much for holding on there, Sam! What’s your question?

SAM: Q. Well I’m in the market for a new computer and I have heard so many questionable issues about Vista but I’m wondering whether I should still wait or whether now would be the time to get one?

THOR: In my opinion, if you are going to buy a new computer, at this point, you need to buy Vista on it. And I could give you some guidelines on what you might look for in a new computer because there are companies out there selling computers with Vista on it that is not necessarily the computer that you want to have with Vista on it.

So for example, if you are going to buy a new computer, first of all, biggest thing you want to be concerned about is what kind of Vista License you have.

Unlike Windows XP where you can basically decide between Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, or Windows XP Media Center… with Vista, there’s a whole bunch of different options and a lot of companies, especially in the lower-priced computers will put Vista Home Basic on their computers.

SAM: Uhum…

THOR: And you don’t want that. It’s not fun. So Vista Home Premium is what I would recommend for home users so that’s what I would point you toward Vista – the Home Premium.

SAM: Okay.

THOR: If you want more of a multi-media… that’s basically the equivalent of XP Media Center, if you want you put in an equivalent.

You can get Vista Ultimate if you are going to buy the biggest dog computer. If you are going to spend $3.000 on a PC, get Vista Ultimate.

SAM: Uhum…

THOR: If it’s going to be a reasonable purchase on a PC, you are going to want Home Premium.

Memory is the next biggest thing. You need to have at least 2 GB of memory. That is a lot more than we would have recommended for an XP computer but trust me, you are not going to regret having those 2 gigs of RAM around. They are going to come in real handy.

SAM: Would it pay to get any more memory than that?

THOR: Oh absolutely! You know, Vista can address up to 16 GB of memory. There is not that many motherboards out there right now, but I mean, there are some that would go up to 4 or 8 GB. But then the trouble is right now there’s nothing larger than a 1 Gig stick of RAM on the market so if you have most canned PCs, they only have two memory slots. And so you are limited to 2 gigs because you can only buy 1 gig sticks.

SAM: Uhum.

THOR: Now there are some companies that are coming out with 2 and 4 GBe memory sticks, but unfortunately they are not compatible with most motherboards yet. Give them another few months and they will be. But in any rate, so at least 2 gigabytes of memory, more is always merrier as far as memory is concerned with Vista.

Hard drive size, you know, anything out there, you know, 80 gig or greater is going to be fine. Of course if you are going to do video and stuff, you’ll want more but anything along those lines is going to be perfect, that’s not going to be a problem –

CHRIS: That’s kind of the norm, anyway.

THOR: Yeah, yeah. You’re going to find people giving you 200-300 Gig hard drives so it’s not a big deal.

Then, you get down to the aesthetics after that. The other one is the processor, I guess I can’t forget that. You want to make sure, whether you go with Intel or AMD, you know, the 601 half-a-dozen or another at this point, but we recommend AMD. We like them a lot because it’s assumed to be a bit more upgradeable than the Intel processors but you want to make sure you have a dual-core processor. Even if you don’t know what that means, just look for dual-core processors.

Now a lot of people are saying, “Wait, because the quad-core processors are coming out soon.” They’re not going to be that much better than the dual-cores. The testing has revealed that there is not that much of a performance increase. Wait for the eight-core processor, if you’re going to wait.

But then, you know, you can play this game forever. It’s like poker – are you in or are you out? So at any rate, as long as you have a dual-core processor, 2 Gigs of RAM, and at least Vista Home Premium, you‘re going to have a good computer.

SAM: Q. Related to the memory, I have also heard that if you get more than 2 Gigs, that the extra memory won’t even be used? Is that correct or…[crosstalk]

THOR: Ah, it depends on what you’re going to do with the computer. Now, one of the things that a lot of customers have problems with in the field, I was in the field the other day with a customer, whose computer has slowed down considerable since she bought it three years ago.

And what a lot of people don’t realize is that the software you put on your computers, like the Anti-Virus to protect them and the programs you run?

SAM: Uhum.

THOR: Those programs are not static. They don’t stay the same all the time.

So each time you go up to Norton 2007 or 2008 or 2009, you are actually using more memory than you were before—

SAM: Okay.

THOR: So it’s completely possible that you may not use that memory today. But I can tell you with 2GB of RAM, Vista is going to use pretty much… I have 2 GB of RAM on my laptop and I use virtual memory every time I turn my computer on.

SAM: Uhuh.

THOR: So because I run a lot of programs, I run video programs and audio programs, and internet, web design programs – I’m running a lot of Windows at the same time and then tends to trump up your processor a little bit.

SAM: Okay. Thank you very much!

THOR: Hey, not a problem! Thanks for the call!

CHRIS: I appreciate the call, Sam.

THOR: And of course, Chris, we would always recommend at Schrock Innovations a modular PC because then when the bigger RAM sticks come out, you can actually upgrade to them. And we don’t have to take everything out and put everything back in and charge you an arm or a leg to do that, so…

CHRIS: There we go. Check it out! We’re going to take one more call before we take a break because it’s long-distance. Guess who’s calling…

THOR: Oh boy, I can’t… I’d turn around and look but I think it’s Petro.

CHRIS: It’s Petro! Hey Petro! How are you doing?

PETRO: Hey, welcome back and good luck to you, Thor!

THOR: Well thanks! And speaking of welcome back… are you back in the country?

PETRO: I didn’t leave. I’m leaving next summer.

THOR: Oh I thought that was this summer, my friend.

PETRO: Next Summer.

THOR: Oh, all right.

PETRO: You don’t have to plan ahead, you know?

[Chris laughs softly in the background]

THOR: So, were you able to get on that KFOR Stream, right?

PETRO: Aah… here’s the issue. That is what I was calling about – one of the questions. You have all done some changes to the stream.

THOR: Careful where you’re pointing that. Yo, I mean [laughs]

PETRO: I’m sorry.

THOR: No, no, that’s all right. They don’t let me change anything on the KFOR website. Chris has limited access but --

CHRIS: I update the news.

THOR: Are you listening on the web right now?

PETRO: Yes, it’s on but, you know the recording software that I use?

THOR: Uhum:

PETRO: It doesn’t allow… you’ve all done something to the stream. It doesn’t allow me to record the streams silently in the background.

THOR: Yeah, but then I have the same problem here on the board. What I have to do is I have to plug in a headphone jack or an empty cord or something – to kill the speakers. But anyway, what’s going on over here – just to give all of our listeners who aren’t maybe in the Lincoln market a little feedback – KFOR is owned by Three Eagles Communications.

CHRIS: Yes, we are.

THOR: And Three Eagles Communications just purchased a whole slew of Clear Channel stations here in Lincoln. And the Clear Channel stations, they had a pretty good web infrastructure in place. So right now, they’re going through that wonderful merger period where they are trying to take everything that was good from Three Eagles, which there’s quite a bit, and everything that was good from Clear Channel, which again, there was quite a bit, and--

CHRIS: --put it all together

THOR: – together in some meaningful way. So there are going to be some changes. Unfortunately, I do not have any access to a lot of those changes but let’s say someone is listening and they wanted to voice a concern about KFOR or any of the other stations, who do they talk to, Chris, over here at the station group?

CHRIS: For…..?

THOR: For programming.

CHRIS: For programming? Uhm… it’s probably Mark.

THOR: Mark Taylor?

CHRIS: Yeah.

THOR: Okay. Then if you go to kfor1240.com, Mark Taylor’s contact information is there on the website but he would be the gentleman to direct the webstream questions to. He’d be the guy that would get back to you and get you the answers you are looking for.

PETRO: Okay. So you said Three Eagles bought some Clear Channel stations – [crosstalk]

THOR: Oh yeah, they bought all of them in town.

PETRO: --because Clear Channel’s big.

THOR: Yeah, and Clear Channel sold a whole bunch of really good stations to Three Eagles [crosstalk]

CHRIS: They’re one big happy family now.

THOR: Yeah, for one fat check. [Chris laughs]

PETRO: Okay, I’m recording it Thor – just in case you need it..

CHRIS: Heeey…

THOR: Thank you, I appreciate that, Petro.

PETRO: I’m doing this the other way.

THOR: Well I appreciate it.

PETRO: You know, you can record the sound waves. You know when it’s in the air?

THOR: Yup.

PETRO: I know some people don’t like that but --

CHRIS: Hey, whatever it gets it done.

PETRO: [crosstalk] --the speakers, I should be able to record this.

THOR: Yeah. But actually I have switched to using a handheld voice recorder that I’m recording the show right now on. It’s a little more reliable than all the computer stuff. I can’t play with levels like I normally would; that kind of blows but --

PETRO: Let me know if you need the recording, okay?

THOR: Will do, Petro. Thank you.

PETRO: Let me ask one other question, real quick.

THOR: Yeah.

PETRO: The Norton 2007, the Anti-Virus program, the appearance, is it any difference from the 2006?

THOR: Oh it’s completely different. They changed everything.

PETRO: Okay.

THOR: Yeah. It’s totally different. The interface menus are the same as far as the right-click menu is, but when you just try to tweak your firewall settings and do stuff like that, it’s all graphic-based. There is no Alt six [30:10] on the graphics.

PETRO: That’s what I thought

THOR: Yeah. So for a visually-impaired user, it wouldn’t be a very fun day.

PETRO: Yeah, so what I have to do here would just file the subscriptions for another year?

THOR: Uhum. And just stay with the ’06 now.

PETRO: [crosstalk] And just stay with the’06?

THOR: Yeah, stay with the ‘06.

PETRO: And I may get something else next year.

CHRIS: There you go.

THOR: Hey, thanks for the call, Petro.

PETRO: Thank you.

CHRIS/THOR: Have a good one.

CHRIS: We have to take a break. Marge’s holding on the line. When we come back from our break, we’ll get your call and we got Dale as well over at Ideal Grocery – Dale Johnson out there, hanging on until noon, well talk to him as well.

Lots of stuff to do in the last 18 minutes or so [crosstalk]

THOR: Yeah, time flies. We’ve got gadgets! Gadgets! Gadgets! And bad Dell.

CHRIS: We’re going to talk about that, too, as well – bad Dell, not Dale, bad Dell.

[Guffaws]

THOR: Bad Dale! [laughs]

CHRIS: Coming over when we return. This is Compute This on KFOR

[Music break]

CHRIS: Thank you very much Dale! Back on the show…. quick segment here. We’ve got to take one more break before we head out for the day… 489 1240 # 1240 on the Alltel Wireless is how to get on Compute This on KFOR.

THOR: Well, we’ve got some interesting stuff coming up – why is Vista better than Mac OSX or in what way, I should say--

CHRIS: [crosstalk] What way, yeah…

THOR: --is Vista better than Mac OSX or even Linux. And what’s the big – an actual study has found there’s a flaw in the IPhone.

CHRIS/THOR: Dun dun dun [anti climax sound effect]

THOR: And what did Dell do that got in him so much trouble this week? I mean, they were one of Wall Street’s Bad Boys List this week so what did they do? So we’re going to get to that in a second but right now, we got to take Marge’s call.

CHRIS: Yes Marge, thank you very much for holding on. What’s your question for Thor?

MARGE: Well, I have been getting a lot of junk mail

CHRIS: Ewwww…

MARGE: But I’m wondering, am I going to be worse off, I shouldn’t go in and say, uhm, unsubscribe to those, right?

THOR: Oh golly, no.

CHRIS: Noooo!

THOR: One of the things… it’s kind of a 6 1/2 dozen of it again, Catch 22, because you’ve got a situation where the Federal Government has passed laws that says, “If you are going to send junk email, unsolicited mail to people, you have to include a link that allows them to unsubscribe.”

And so, that link will probably unsubscribe you from that particular mailing but then what happens is, now they not only have an email address, they have a “confirmed” email address with someone that they know will read the message and look for a link.

MARGE: And put you about 50 more people on it –

CHRIS: There you goooo…

THOR: Then they put that on another consolidated list and they sell it off to other people, exactly. So the best thing that you can do with junk email is simply ignore it.

You can turn on your filters and do all the different things that you need to do to try to stop the junk mail, but the truth of the matter is, the higher you turn your filters up, the more real mail is going to get sorted off as junk and you’re going to miss out on those messages.

MARGE: Okay, well there’s an article on the paper about contacting the Strict Marketing Association?

THOR: Uhuh…

MARGE: It says it costs you a dollar but you can send in or get on the list at their website…

THOR: Uhuh…

MARGE: And to have your address off onto these – [crosstalk]

THOR: Yeah, and you see, that would get you off all the legitimate ones but I would stipulate 90% of the junk mail you’re getting is probably right now is about ecards?

MARGE: Well, some of them are, yeah.

THOR: You’re getting new ecard or need ecard from your neighbor and ---

MARGE: --offers to a site, you get a free this, free that, and all.

THOR: Oh and of course, you’ve got the pills and the porn, I mean, the Viagra and all the nasty stuff—

MARGE: Sure.

THOR --and you’re going to get all that too. That stuff is not being sent actually, by reputable companies. That stuff is being sent by crooks. And if you put your name on a list and the crook is like, “Oh yeah, give me the list so I can see who not to email.”

What do you think that crook is going to do with the list?

CHRIS: EMAIL

MARGE: Right, right.

THOR: Yeah, exactly. The sad thing is they just busted the guy in the United States, golly, a few weeks ago, who was considered like one of the spam kings. I mean, they literally call him the Spam King. And he actually was able to send out millions and millions of emails a minute. And they busted him and immediately after they busted him, all customers noticed a reduction in the amount of spam they were receiving.

Now the trouble is, of course, well once he was gone, somebody else just filled in his shoes.

CHRIS: Yup.

THOR: And so now you’ve got another guy. This guy’s probably off in Russia or Zimbabwe or somewhere, you know, South Africa, I don’t know where --

CHRIS: -- you’ll never know…

THOR: But sending them an email is cheap. And they are just blasting emails off, so unfortunately, if you’re getting a lot of the junk mails, that means your name, your email address is already on these lists and what I would suggest you do is actually establish a new email account for yourself. Don’t get rid of your old one though.

Keep your old one, but get a new one and then ask your friends and family not to contact you on your old one. Let them know you’ve moved to your new one and then once you have all the people you care about sending you email to the new list, the new email address, then, whenever something on the web actually asks you to sign up for anything, like ‘put in your email address and continue,’ unless it’s something you really want to subscribe to and you really want to get in your email inbox, which you have to be very, very selective about what you do that with. Put in your old email address and if it’s something where they want you to confirm a link or click on something o the email they send you, you can go do that if you want, but then, you don’t actually have to suffer all the spam in your real inbox and you can kind of choose to sort through it at your own time and not risk losing important messages from your family.

MARGE: Okay. Okay.

CHRIS: The best bet.

THOR: The easiest way. That’s how I do it. I have a nice little hotmail account and I always laugh when real people send me messages there and they get mad at me because I don’t respond to them and I’m like, you know, “this is my junk mail account,” you know.

MARGE: Oh, yeah.

THOR: I mean, I don’t even give this email account I don’t know how you got it but it’s my junk mail account. Don’t send me stuff here.

CHRIS: [Laughs]

MARGE: Okay, well thank you.

CHRIS: [crosstalk] Give that a try Marge. Thank you very much for the phone call. 489 1240 # 1240. We’ve got about 10 minutes left in the show. We’re going to take a quick break but first let’s talk about…

THOR: Which one do you want to hit?

CHRIS: Let’s do the IPhone one. I want to hear the IPhone.

THOR: All right, the IPhone one. A study was done. Fifty individuals took part in this study and it was a study of the texting speed – how fast you can send text messages with an IPhone versus a qwerty keyboard.

CHRIS: He’s showing off his little [crosstalk] itsy phone here…

THOR: Yeahhhhh. So you webcam viewers right there, look at that, PPC – What’s running Windows? Look at that – Windows. Love it. But at any rate, what they did is they basically said that the IPhone keyboard is harder to use and so requires you to use the backspace key more often because you’re mistyping you’re doing whatever –

CHRIS: Right.

THOR: They grabbed fifty people who were experienced text message senders. These weren’t just, you know, Joe’s off… these are people who have the little dents in their thumbs from sending text messages. And then they are very experienced on the other keyboards and they gave them a couple of hours to get used to the IPhone. They didn’t just ask them to pick it up and start testing because they didn’t have IPhones before that so they got used to it and started working with it. And after practicing for a while, they found that the speeds of people who are using the IPhone to text were noticeably slower than the speeds of people who are using the qwerty keyboards to text on the standard phones.

CHRIS: Oh.

THOR: So if you’re a text message fiend, the IPhone may not be the best purchase for you as far as text messaging goes.

On the other hand, they are going to do an on-going study to see if that speed improves over time and there’s a chance that after a month or six months of exposure --

CHRIS: [crosstalk] ‘Coz you’re used to it…

THOR: you might get pretty quick at it. But boy, if you can pick up one keyboard and work on it just [snaps finger?] like that, and you have to pick up an IPhone and it’s going to take you six months to learn how to use it…you’d make your own decision about what you want to do there.

But that’s the IPhone, folks! Right there – the flaw in the IPhone.

CHRIS: There had to be something. This text messaging, it’s not like it’s going to blow up or anything.

THOR: I seriously doubt that any IPhone users are throwing their phone out their car window right now. “I can’t text with this! Forget this piece of junk!”

[Laughter]

CHRIS: Oh we’re up against our final break. We’re going to check in with Dale Johnson. He’s out at Ideal Grocery one last time. This hour we’ll see what he’s doing again next hour as well… so don’t go anywhere. More of the show coming up, right after this…

[short break]

CHRIS: Thank you very much Dale. Let’s check in with Dale just after ABC News…

[38:06 music starts in background and overpowers some of Chris’ words]

--right after 11:00. We’ve still got about 5 minutes. We’ve got to finish up the show, it’s Compute This 1240 AM KFOR

THOR: All right, we have a couple of little gadgetry… [crosstalk]

CHRIS: Yeah, let’s do ‘Bad Dell.’

THOR: Bad Dell.

CHRIS/THOR: Bad Dell. [Laughs]

THOR: Dell actually had a little financial snap. For those of you who follow the markets are going to know this, but they basically admitted to cooking their books.

CHRIS: Meaning?

THOR: Meaning… they were lying on their financial statements--

CHRIS: ohhh

THOR: --which would influence their stock prices.

CHRIS: I’m sure everybody here is. “What did he just say? They’re cooking their books.”

THOR: Yeah, they have this big kettle and cook their books in there [crosstalk]… they were ebooks, you know.

[Both laughs]

THOR: No, no. So I mean that was… Dell, I mean, wow! Dell had to cook their books in order to maintain their image, basically.

CHRIS: So they fibbed on their numbers?

THOR: Yup. They a…

I’m not a financial analyst. You know, Joe is probably a better person to talk to about this than me but the bottom line is, they said some things that weren’t true. Some reason, they went back and corrected those things when they, you know, realized them or realize that they were going to get caught saying them, and said they weren’t true and their books were cooked and they were going to restate earnings for last year.

And so it’s going to be an interesting thing to see how that comes out.

CHRIS: They haven’t restated their earnings yet?

THOR: Not that I’ve seen. Now maybe they have because I don’t follow it. You know, I watch Neil Cavuto and that’s pretty much the extent of my business block, you know --

[Chris laughs]

--as far as the markets go. I turn everything else over to the investors who know what they’re doing.

CHRIS: That’s what I do.

THOR: Well I expect my customers to turn their computers over to me when they need help and I’m not a financial guy, so I turn to a financial person when I need help.

But that was Bad Dell.

CHRIS: [crosstalk] Oh well.

THOR: It’s always interesting when you see a company like Dell have to do that. Dell – they sell more PCs than any company in the world. Why on earth would they have to do that to improve their profitability? Who knows? But that’s what they did and now they got caught doing it so let’s see what happens to them.

CHRIS: We’ve got the little snafoo with IPhone, not a big one – text messaging, ooooooh. And then we have ‘Bad Dell’…

THOR: Bad Dell…

CHRIS: What else have we got?

THOR: We have the “Why is the Windows Vista better than OSX and better than Linux in some ways.

CHRIS: Oh yeah, that’s right!

THOR: What’s been recently, I don’t know if we want to say “discovered” or “found” or… somebody pointed out that fonts in Windows Vista look better on the screen than they do on Mac OSX. And they look a lot better than they do in Linux. And so people pointed out that the fonts that are used in Vista are easier on the eyes, they’re easier to read, you have less eye-fatigue when you read them – even less fatigue than Mac OSX who, previous to Vista, was known for having just easy-on-the-eyes, nice, beautiful look. So it was kind of interesting because the Vista’s just such a huge leap over XP in a user experience – as long as you have enough memory in the computer.

At least 2Gigs, folks! Remember that. 2 Gigs is the magic number for Vista. But at any rate, the bottom line, the funny thing about it is that all those Mac people out there that hate PCs and all the PC guys that hate Macs, so they’ll volley back and forth on this. But it’s just an update. Apple will do something and then they’ll jump back. It’s a constant game but the cool thing about this constant game is that no matter which you use, a PC or MAC, you’re getting better computers every time – because they’re fighting, and fighting is good.

CHRIS: Competition breeds the best.

THOR: Absolutely! I like it.

All right, now, we have a situation here. I’m going to have to draw a name. And we don’t have everybody’s phone number on this sheet so if I call your name and you won the Callers Courage Prize Package, you’re going to have to give us a call back here at 489 1240 and give us your phone number so we can get a hold of you and get you your just dues.

So are you ready with our wonderful music?

CHRIS: Drummer!

[Drumming finale background]

THOR: Thank you! Thank you very much.

CHRIS: He was sleeping.

THOR: Alright. I see, people can see that I actually draw these. I shuffle through them and we get… … Carl! And he has a phone number!

[Chris laughs]

Congratulations Carl!

[Music background]

Carl is number 1 baby. Right there, you see that? Number 1.

Thank you very much for the calls today folks. Make sure you check out my blog at thorschrock.com. Also, you might want to keep a close eye on the Schrock Innovations website – big changes coming very, very soon.

CHRIS: Very soon?

THOR: Very soon, as in, next week-soon.

CHRIS: Ooooh.

THOR: Keep your eye on that. Keep your eye on thorschrock.com. Watch Episode 2 of Next Internet Millionaire next week. If you haven’t seen Episode 1--

CHRIS: Wednesday?

THOR: They said Wednesday for this one but it came out Friday so I’m not quoting days anymore. But if you watch my blog at thorschrock.com, when it comes out, I’ll post--

CHRIS: Yeah, you let us know.

THOR: Absolutely.

CHRIS: Cool! Well, I’m going to finish the rest of the first episode. I got halfway through it and I got to see the drama! Ha ha ha… it’s good, it’s good. You’re going to like it. It’s got to be funny.

[CHRIS or THOR] You go… “pop” and I’m just like, [makes a defeated struggling sound], “Ah, no!”… It’s bad.

It’s a good thing this is radio because people would not—

THOR: Actually, I’ve got the web stuff perfected now. It’s going to be up on the website--

CHRIS: If you want to see what Thor just did, just go check out the. [crosstalk]

THOR: Put your shirt back on, son.

CHRIS: Yah, that’s not right. We gotta go. ABC News coming up. The show will return again next Saturday, 10:00 to 11:00. It’s Compute This with Schrock Innovations on 1240AM KFOR.

Check out how Mother Nature took matters into her own hands to reduce the number of polluting SUVs in Lincoln, NE.

I am not a global warming nut ball, but WOW this Suburban is done for!

Last week I launched my first YouTube subscription contest, and there are only two weeks left before I draw the winner live on the air during my weekly radio show on KFOR 1240 AM!

All you have to do to enter the contest is subscribe to my YouTube channel. On the 15th I will draw a winner at random from the subscribers for the $100 cash prize. Its that easy!

Take a moment to subscribe now. If you need instructions on how to subscribe, click here.

The first beta release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is set to be distributed to select beta testers in Mid September. This update is not recommended for the general public however.

This beta will be followed by Release Candidate version (RC-1) which will be available to more of the general public.

Once the Service Pack is available to the public, it will contain all of the Windows Vista patches released to date, as well as some interesting new functionality:

• Support for Direct 3D 10.1
• support for Secure Digital (SD) Advanced Direct Memory Access
• (DMA) to improve transfer performance and decrease CPU utilization
• Performance tweaks lessening the amount of time it takes to copy files, shut down and resume Vista machines
• Support for ExFat, the Windows file format for flash memory storage and other consumer devices
• Improvements to BitLocker Drive Encryption to allow not just encryption of the whole Vista volume, but also locally created data volumes
• Improvements to battery life
• Improvements to Internet Explorer 7 performance by reducing CPU utilization and speeding JavaScript parsing

If you do end up getting your hands on the beta Service Pack, I would recommend you not install it. Wait for the public release available through Windows Update or you might be one of the lucky people who get to report a bug in the pdate ;-)

Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing a new Service Pack called 2c for Windows XP Professional. This service pack does not apply to XP Home, Media Center, or 64-bit XP Professional.

Microsoft has stated that they are running out of activation code combinations for Windows XP Professional now that its lie cycle (Professional only) has been extended to 2009. The only thing the new service pack does is expand the range of acceptable activation codes.

There are no additional fixes or functionality in Service Pack 2c, so users of the current Windows XP Professional users have no need to install the service pack.

This service pack may not be available through the Microsoft Update website.

No, this is not some get rich quick deal. This is a mini-contest! I figure I have been so lax in posting here that I needed to find a way to reward those who continually came back even though there was not a lot of new content last week.

The contest is simple. This is a no purchase required sweepstakes for a $100 CASH prize. To enter, all you have to do is subscribe to the Schrock Innovations YouTube Channel.

Subscribing is easy! Create a YouTube account if you do not already have one, then go to our YouTube channel and click on the yellow subscribe button. That's all there is to it!

On September 15th I will draw a winner live on the air on our weekly radio show, Compute This. You don't have to be listening to win.

That's all there is to it! This could be the easiest $100 you have ever earned, so create a YouTube account now if you don't already have one, then subscribe to the Schrock Innovations YouTube Channel by clicking on the yellow "subscribe" button. GO DO IT NOW!

I talked about this on the radio, but we have a lot of Omaha customers who can't pick up KFOR 1240 all the way from Lincoln.

Schrock Innovations has moved its Omaha Service Center from our old address on Maple Street to a new location at 511 Turner Blvd in downtown Omaha.

The entire event was recorded! Click play to watch the video below.

Why Did You Move the Omaha Service Center?

There were a lot of factors involved, but the primary reason was that Schrock Innovations has some exciting new products and services we will be releasing between now and the holidays. Our Omaha office will be handling a LOT of the behind the scenes support roles for these projects and our old office was just not conducive to that mission.

Oh, and did I mention that my office now has not one, but TWO banks of windows!!!

Can I Still Bring My Computer In for Repair?

Of course! We will still be repairing computers, building new Modular PCs, and doing Maintenance Checkups for our Omaha customers.

Did Your Phone Number Change?

No, our phone number is not changing for the Omaha Service Center. You can still reach a helpful Schrock Innovations employee by calling 934-9423 in Omaha.

So Do You have any Pictures?

Unfortunately, the Omaha Service Center is a KING SIZE mess, so no polished photos yet. But I did take some video of us moving out of the old location, and of Mike's Office Moving Company moving us into the new location. These guys were awesome, but I still have not had a chance to meet Mike...

I would encourage all of my readers to check out the first episode of Next Internet Millionaire. It was released today and is now available for viewing (best viewed with a high-speed Internet connection). Click the play button below to watch!

For those of you who are new to the blog or the show, Next Internet Millionaire is a competitive web-based reality show in which I was one of 12 contestants.

There is TONS of drama in this 52 minute episode and only one small commercial! Watch to see who gets eliminated, who talks trash about who and how your favorite local computer guy did

After you have watched the episode, feel free to post comments in the Next Internet Millionaire forum. They have a section there asking who is your favorite contestant and why. Already there are some people talking smack about me and some of the other contestants!

Have fun and I hope you enjoy!

**Update 9/9/07** You can now read a transcript of the show by clicking on the read more link!

The Next Internet Millionaire
Episode 1

Hosts:
JOEL: Joel Comm
HEATHER: Heather Vale

Guests:
CRESTA: Cresta Pillsbury (HackerSafe)
MARK: Mark Joyner

Contestants:

LAURA: Laura Martin
JASON1: Jason Marshall
JAIME: Jaime Luchuck
NICO: Nico Pisani
ALISANDE: Alisande Chan
JASONH: Jason Henderson
THOR: Thor Schrock
CARLY: Carly Taylor
STEVE: Steve Schuitt
DEBBIE: Debbie Ducic
CHARLES: Charles Trippy
CHRISTINE: Christine Schaap

JOEL: My name is Joel Comm and I’ve made millions of dollars on the internet. In the past twelve years, I’ve sold ‘this’ idea, written in the New York Times Best-Seller and built several profitable websites that generate passive income for me each and every month.

Now, I’m looking for the right person to join me on my new venture and become the Next Internet Millionaire. I’ve gathered the best online wealth building experts from around the world to join me and my contestants for an intensive learning experience and a competition that will ultimately lead to One winner.

NICO: [Reading a letter out loud] Congratulations on making it to the Next Internet Millionaire, a whirlwind of discovery, the competition awaits you

[Video Intro] My name is Nico Pisani and I live in the beautiful country of Costa Rica and I’ve been alone working for the last five years in the rainforests. I long to share what I’ve learned over the last ten years of doing business in Costa Rica with the world and it’s through the world of internet marketing

[continues reading letter] Along with this letter, you receive a small pouch containing ten e-COMMerce chips. These chips have no cash value but they will prove to be invaluable for one or more players in this competition.

ALISANDE: I’m not quite sure what are the advantages of what the e-Commerce chips are for.

THOR: [during breakfast] Bases [2:12] do a lot of great work for a lot of kids through the fund-raising for kids who can’t afford medical care. The parents have put them up. It’s a really great cause--

My name is Thor Schrock. I’m from Lincoln, Nebraska. I’m a Republican, card-carrying—

NICO: --Again, I think the American people have been grossly misled--

THOR: --And we need to support our troops in Iraq and make sure they know that we appreciate what they’re doing and that what they’re doing is keeping us safe here.

CHARLES: I got a t-shirt ready for them. Yeah, I got this little “Not My President” t-shirt with Bush’s face painted on and…

THOR: It feels really surreal to be a on a reality show. It hasn’t really quite hit home with me yet. The $25,000 will go to charity in and around Lincoln, Nebraska so no, I’m not going to keep a dime to myself.

[Back to breakfast and other scenes showing players interacting with each other or getting to know each other]

JOEL: After meeting each other at breakfast, our twelve contestants will be taken to a place they would soon love, hate, and even fear – the COMMplex.

JASONH: Jason Henderson, Louisville, Texas. People that don’t even know me, all they have to say to me is, “How tall are you?”

CHARLES: Oh he seems scary because he’s tall. He’s a big guy. He’s a pretty big one…

JASONH: Nervous about……nothing, really.

CHARLES: Uh, my name’s Charles Trippy and I’m from Tampa, Florida. Now Trippy is a unique name, whoever that has it. And it’s good because people think it’s a stage name when I do things online.

Words, some words annoy me, like the word “flawed,” or “blog” -- hate those words, they sound stupid and they should be stricken from the record.

JOEL: [on video] “Welcome to the COMMplex. Here, at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Northern Colorado, the twelve of you will be competing for a $25,000 cash price and an opportunity of a lifetime to join me in a new online business venture.”

“You’ll be learning from the top online wealth-building experts and taking furtive[4:32] challenges to determine who is best suited to be my new joint venture partner.”

“I wish each of you the best of luck and may the best contestant become... The Next Internet Millionaire.”

[JOEL enters room amidst applause from players]

“Welcome, welcome everybody! Wow! It is great to see you guys finally, face-to-face. Are you ready to compete?”

PLAYERS: Whoooooo

JOEL: Excellent! Then it is game on!

What you see behind me is the holy grail of The Next Internet Millionaire – the HackerSafe Immunity Shirt. If you have the HackerSafe Immunity Shirt, then you are immune for the entire day and cannot be eliminated from the competition. You want that shirt.

Now, your first HackerSafe Immunity Challenge is going to give you an opportunity to test your presentation skills. You will randomly be drawn, one at a time, up to the platform, to give a presentation and tell us why your partner should be selected as The Next Internet Millionaire.

[conversation between THOR and CARLY whose faces did not appear]

THOR: Come here?

CARLY: Yeah. Oh, not to come here.

THOR: Hooo, god you are confident!

[Other scenes showing players discussing with their partners]

HEATHER: Your time is up. Please take your seat. Our first contestant will be… Debbie. Please step forward.

DEBBIE: --he will be translating everything that’s in this internet world to the people of South America, which is huge! [referring to Nico]

JASONH: If you’ve seen Laura, she’s phenomenal on camera, she’s gonna present extremely well for The Next Internet Millionaire and I cannot recommend anyone higher than Laura Martin.

ALISANDE: He is an out-of-the-box thinker—

My name is Alisande Chan and I come from Percacola, British Columbia in Canada. When I look back at all the accomplishments that I do in my life and whenever I’m at home and if, you know, there’s something to do for renovating, I’ll find a way to do it. If there’s something on the internet that I need to research, I’ll find a way of how to do it. Uh, if a friend has a problem with something, I will figure it out for them if they can’t figure out themselves.

All throughout my life, it’s always been that way but I never saw value in it and the day that I realized and saw value in it, and realized that I’m an awesome person, I’m a great person, was the day that I realized nothing could stop me.

[back to competition] -- He’s funky. He’s fun. He’s attention-grabbing. He is just the type of person that you want to watch…

STEVE: Alright, the reason why Christine Schaap should be The Next Internet Millionaire is because she figured out her target market. I think that’s the most important thing here, you know, on online marketing – figuring out your target market because if you don’t know who you’re going to market to… [gives a shrug] you’re not going to make any money.

CARLY: --but Thor is definitely going to be The Next Internet Millionaire.

Hi, I’m Carly Taylor and I’m from Cambridge in the UK. I’ve got a little boy, Brandon. He’s nine and he’s actually an aspiring internet entrepreneur. I think I’ll win because I want to… very badly. So uhm, yeah… I will do…will give everything to win. As I’ve said before, the only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

[back to competition] He’s got the skills. He has the vision. He runs a very successful offline bricks and mortar company – computer repair. It’s helping people… he charges $100 an hour for his service. So, I mean, if people are paying that money to come to him, he must have something that I/they don’t want to hear.

JASONM: As you know, we’re here to find and look for The Next Internet Millionaire. As Jaime’s representative, I can fully tell you with confidence that she will be The Next Internet Millionaire. Is it her creative ideas or her aspiring youthfulness? Maybe it’s even her graphics design background?

JAIME: --the way he talks about his wife. The way he is devoted to her touches my heart [referring to JASONM].

I’m Jaime Luchuck from Toronto, Canada. I’m most excited about learning. I have a job. I am a web editor for the Provincial Government and that’s what I do, pretty much so.

[back to competition] He gives his whole to everything that he does. He volunteers at the ministry and helps with children, and he’s very athletic. In fact, Jason told me that he’s won a lot of 2nd places throughout his athletic career and I think it’s time that Jason won a first.

[Commentary] We have to stand up and do public speaking and introducing people, which, as soon as they announced that, my blood just ran cold and I got nervous and shaky and I was interviewing Jason and I got up there and stood and talked. I didn’t know what I was saying. And apparently I found out in the in the end I said, “I hadJason Marshall,” and then I said, “Congratulations” and announced it…so I’m completely screwed up now.

CHARLES: The advantage of not being one of those ‘suits’ that, you know, are formally trained, that are in the old media, they don’t really have an understanding of, you know, the internet, you kind of have to learn that on your own and I believe that her [referring to Alisande] skills and offline will be able to transferred onto online and should be able to convey that very clearly.

CHRISTINE: He [referring to STEVE] is such a free spirit. He has lived in both Alaska and Hawaii; and both the East Coast and the West Coast, but really, this guy brings to internet marketing, a lot of creativity. He really marches to the beat of his own drum…

NICO: I am representing one of the most gutsy, most passionate woman, out there in the internet marketing world… do U C? I C. [points to Debbie] Debbie Ducic is The Next Internet Millionaire.

DEBBIE: My name is Debbie Ducic and I’m from Pueblo, Colorado, USA and that last name is spelled D U C(?) I C(.) What I’m most nervous about is the fact that I’m actually a team builder and not a real competitor. I like win-win situations and competition to me is almost like a ‘stab somebody in the back,’ so, you know, I’m a little bit nervous about that.

I’m not worried about my abilities. I’ve been around long enough. I’ve done a lot of different things and I’m a gutsy woman so I’ve done a lot of crazy things and took risks that took guts and…that part I’m not afraid of but I just want it to be a win-win for everybody.

NICO: --you know why? Because she wants to lead a minority workforce into the new millennium here in internet marketing and to web 2.0

THOR: She [referring to CARLY] She walks the walk. Carly Taylor, last month, left her full-time job to quit and become a full-time internet marketer.

LAURA: --And because of this this, some of the most powerful speakers, support Jason [JASONH].

I am Laura Martin from Austin, Texas. I am very single. I am currently doing affiliate management for a guy in California. My family members are very excited and …for them to know that there’s a reality show about Internet Marketing. They’re hoping to learn exactly what it is I do at home, in my bed, all day… pretty much.

Oh *beep*… Not so good. Ok, let’s change that. Let’s change that. Yeah. Yah?

And everything that he has done and is backing him, personally.

HOST2: Thank you everybody for your presentations. Now Joel and Cresta will be deliberating and determining who is going to be the HackerSafe Immunity Challenge winner for today.

JOEL: Will you please give a warm welcome for Ms. Cresta Pillsbury

[Applause]

CRESTA: As Joel mentioned, I’m with HackerSafe. We actually certify over a 100,000 websites on the internet today. We are currently partnered with Visa International; security in over 79 countries. We’re also only the trust mark ever to go into Yahoo Shopping. I tell you all this to let you know that consumers are very, very aware of the HackerSafe certification.

When you use the HackerSafe on your website, what you’re doing, what you’re telling them, that you’re holding yourself to the highest standard – thereby… [points to logo on video wall] HackerSafe

JOEL: There are some interesting presentations.

Laura, Jason is a big guy. I know you can fill him with more to say about him.

Some of you told us a little bit about what people are passionate about but not so much what they’ve done; some of you have told us what they’ve done but not so much what they’re passionate about. Some presentations were polished; some not so much; some, a little stilted.

Big J, we got to work on that a little bit – your stage presence for doing what you’re doing. We really want to nail that down.

But I think, through it all, there was one person that demonstrated everything that we were looking for in this task. And that person who wins HackerSafe Immunity for today would be Jason Marshall.

[Applause – JASONM walks up to front]

Here’s your HackerSafe shirt. You will have an opportunity to put this on shortly. We’re not going to ask you to strip now…

CRESTA: Strip now. What do you guys think? Right?

JASONM: My name is Jason Marshall and I’m from Ocean City, New Jersey. This year, I was hired to be a one-on-one aide with a student who has a muscular dystrophy. I’m a support staff at Ocean City Remedial School. I work with a young man who has a muscular dystrophy. He’s 12 years old and he’s going into sixth grade so my job is to take him throughout his day.

I’m passionate about my relationship with Jesus Christ. That’s my heart; that’s my soul and that leads to my passion in other things in life.

JOEL: --and we have a special surprise for you from HackerSafe. They will be giving you a complimentary one-year subscription to HackerSafe that you will be to put on your website and this is valued $2,000.

[JASONM expresses gratitude and shakes hands of Joel and Cresta]

But wait! There’s more. We have one more thing for you. [Directs to Heather behind] Heather, can you please bring it out.

[Heather brings out a big box]

We have a brand new laptop computer. Congratulations! Welcome to the competition.

[Someone exclaims “Congratulations” from one of the female players]

But wait! There’s more. As we call your name, please come forward for your laptop computer.

[Proceeds to give all players laptops] Debbie Ducic. Jason Henderson. Nico Pisani. Steve Schuitt. Alisande Chan. Thor Schrock. Laura Martin. Singing Jaime Luchuck. Christine Schaap, mother of five, come on down.

[Applause]

CHRISTINE: Hi, my name is Christine Schaap and I’m from Alfred(?), Michigan. I’ve been married to my husband, Steve, for over twenty years. We have five children – four boys and one girl. And they’re really excited for their mom.

I am passionate about changing people’s lives. I am passionate about helping people realize what their potential is. I was always terrified of public speaking and just being in front of a small group of people was a very intimate thing for me and I was very, very nervous…to the point of being physically ill if I would had to speak in front of a group of people.

JOEL: All right. We have got a fantastic playing time for all of you and this just the beginning. It’s incredibly exciting. And at the end, one person’s going to come out as the victim and it’s exciting to see who it is.

JASONM: --feel after winning the first Immunity Challenge. It feels good. I guess it’s relief, in a way, but it was also nerve-wracking at the same time. I feel good also, particularly everyone being able to get the same prize.

JOEL: After a quick tour of the COMMplex, it was time to start learning.

MARK: So uhm, if you’re serious about winning this thing, I’m going to teach you guys stuff that is kind of unusual, a’right? And you’re going to be wondering like, “What is this all about?” It’s going to seem very, very, silly to you at a certain point but you’d get to a point where you’d break through that and you’ll understand why, ok? So I need you to kind of suspend your disbelief for a few things especially for the comedian [points to Charles in the back] back there, he’s going to be chuckling. He’s rolling his eyes already.

Alright, so, I started realizing I had to stop teaching these guys internet marketing. I had to stop feeding them ideas and I had to teach them what I’m about to teach you guys.

Ok, come on up. [Alisande stands up and goes on stage] Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to write, up here, the “First Law of Simpleology.” Just write First law of Simpleology – the law of straight lines.

Here’s the point, you guys. Here’s where you are right now [Raises his right hand across to a certain level]. Here’s where you want to be, the things that you want [Raises his hands higher], okay? The point of this is the shortest path between where you are and what you want in your life is a straight line. And I’ll tell you right now that the guys who use this, are going to have an edge over the guys who do not use this in the next twelve days, okay?

And you’ll probably understand why at the end of this thing.

STEVE: Like materially, what he’s doing, breaking it down, and making it simple? And I see that it’s not kind of simple to learn but once you get it down, it really is, going to get you to go where you want to go 300% faster.

MARK: Steve, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to draw a dot…

[Steve draws on the left side of the board]

Okay. Now I want you to draw another dot off on the other side there.

[Steve draws a dot on right of the board]

Okay. Now what I want, Steve, to do, is I want you to start on that dot on the left and I want you to draw a line. Now if the item that Laura talks about here is going directly toward that goal of starting her own business, I want you to continue to draw a straight line. If it’s not, yeah [Steve makes a gesture not caught on tape]… exactly.

So read the first item on the list of things you do during the day.

LAURA: Okay, I wake up gradually in my own pace…

MARK: Okaaaay, maybe it’s a slow nudge toward the line, right?

THOR: Laura is an interesting girl. She doesn’t get out of bed in the morning. And when she does get out of bed in the morning, but not that I would know from experience, but I’ve heard, that when she gets out of bed in the morning, she cusses at the world. She kicks things. She mutters and she says she hates life when she gets out of bed and so I just don’t know how someone with that kind of a morning attitude is really going to get to a point where they do some of her best marketing with a laptop in bed and she made that clear to everybody. So, it’s going to be interesting to see, now that she has to get up early in the morning and kick things and mutter and say she hates the world and come here and perform. I think it’s going to be fun to watch to see what she does.

LAURA: I pull my laptop out from my under my pillow and turn it on…..

[Laughter]

MARK: It’s up to you. You choose, you choose [presumably speaking to STEVE who’s still on the board]. I’m stuck. I don’t know.

I mean, I could see that. It could work, you know. It’s honest. That’s good, I like it.

And so, it’s relatively straight. Okay, what’s next? [Addressing Laura]

LAURA: I open up my hotmail account in Outlook and press send/receive. And I open up all my IM clients

[bit of laughs…not quite sure why]

MARK: True? True statement?

LAURA: Well, it is.

MARK: Okay, but is that honest? Is his [STEVE’s] assessment honest? [addresses Laura and points to the board on what Steve wrote (or drew)]

LAURA: [Looking at the boar] Yes, because it takes so much of my day away whenever I’m like Hah! You’re online.

MARK: Okay, so what I want you to do is – shut your email down. Don’t turn on your IM, ok? Don’t do anything, right? Until you do this exercise, we’re going to learn here in a minute the DTP (Daily Target Praxis). That’s the first thing I want you to do. You’ll understand why. What I’m telling you right now, if you think about it, is going to allow you to win this competition.

JASONH: I would definitely recommend Mark Joyner to anybody. For more than one time, I’ve seen people let [19:27]pages laid on the table would actually do Simpleology tasks, you know, to help them, you know, prioritize and get more done in less time so I’m just hearing a lot of awesome, you know, he really does deliver the goods.

JOEL: Now we’ve come to the Execution Challenge. The winning team, has potential reward and Immunity. With the losing team comes the Judgment Room.

And so today you’ve learned from mark Joyner about Simpleology. Who learned something to day?

[Players raise their hands]

A lot of great stuff. It’s simple, hence the truths of Simpleology are... they’re so deep that it’s difficult to explain it on a simple web page. Here’s the deal: You will have 2 ½ hours. If you want to build a landing page, that’s fine. You still have to discus the presentation for how this is going to work and how it’s going to be more effective for Simpleology.

Every member of the team must take part in the presentation. And with that said, we’re going to divide you up into teams.

Jason Marshall, since you are the winner of the HackerSafe Immunity Challenge today, why don’t you come on right up here. [Gestures to floor/spot right in front of him] You’re going to be one Team Captain. And I would like for you to please select the other Team Captain.

JASONM: None of them will make eye contact. [Refers to players] Debbie, you’re the first to look me in the eye.

JOEL: Debbie Ducic. D U C?

DEBBIE: I C.

JOEL: I C. Come on. Okay, you’re the other Team captain. Alright, now we’re going to alternate… and Debbie, since he chose you, you may pick a male to be on your team.

DEBBIE: Male…. Male…

[Teams are picked]

JOEL: Okay, now teams are picked. They’re complete and they’re going to need names. You have two minutes to huddle up and give me a name. Go!

Jason, what’s the name of your team?

JASONM: Our name is Kiss. K I S S – Keep It Simple, Stupid.

[Laughter]

JOEL: And this side? Team Captain?

DEBBIE: The Bullseye group.

JOEL: The Bullseye group. Fantastic!

Kiss – the Bullseye group.

Your time begins… now.

[footage of group discussions – Bullseye group]

THOR: They said you have, like 4 seconds to look at a page and decide whether you’re going to read it or go away.

CARLY: Yeah, it’s the caption.

CHARLES: Video and audio are usually really quick and… you know, you see what it is…

[group looking at a website]

THOR: What an idiot. Who designed this?

CARLY: [Commentary] From that moment, it kind of went into the direction that everybody took their own idea on how they were going to work but nobody was…there was no, like, team working together. To be honest, to the end I didn’t actually know what the other person is going to be…

[Back to Bullseye group work]

THOR: Who do you think… what’s the target market that would benefit most from this?

CARLY: I think it’s between 18-35

DEBBIE: Wait, wait, wait, guys. I volunteer my target market which is ‘gutsy women.’

[Kiss group with JASONM, JASONH, STEVE]

JASONM: What are we gonna do? We’re going to go ‘Live’ with this [points to laptop JASONH is holding], we’re going to act out [conversation is hardly heard]

[The 3 kiss guys listening or viewing JASONH’s website]

JASONH: [Commentary] I should say Jason Marshall did a good job. He really didn’t have all the technical or the marketing knowledge that some of my other teammates had but as far as a leader and delegating tasks, he did a phenomenal job.

JASONM: [Speaking with Cresta and Joel] --with the ideas is that, we’re going to have a live cycle. We’re actually going to actually act out the site itself, with, you know, people reading the copy, people viewing the video…

MARK: Okay, the fourth law if the Law of Focused Attention.

[Team Bullseye]

DEBBIE: Maybe we say are you this guy or are you this guy?

CRESTA: --give this to you since you are the Team Captain.

DEBBIE: Oh, thank you.

CRESTA: It’s up to you whether you keep this for yourself or give it to one of your team members.

DEBBIE: Alright. You guys do good. You will be rewarded.

THOR: I’m cramping my ******, Christine. I tend to get a little hypoglycemic when I’m stressed so I have to keep eating otherwise I’ll go bwahbbwah.

MARK: Third Law of Simpleology: Law of Focused Energy.

[Kiss group]

JASONH: Who can do a good godfather accent?

SOMEONE: [Not JASONM although it may seem like him] Godfather accent?

JASONH: Because we’re doing a sales… [barely audible 24:50], he’s like a mafia guy? [Imitates talking like a mafia guy.]

JASONM: [Commentary] Jason Henderson. I don’t think he’s afraid to jump up. I don’t think he’s afraid to speak and take over. He definitely should have but I was also impressed there. One of out first tact [25:08] of ours was to ‘be humble. I’m the leader, but, I’m also going to be humble on how I approach you and you’re going to be humble in the way we approach each other.

JOEL: [Addressing Team Bullseye] So can your team leader just give me a quick overview of what you guys are doing?

DEBBIE: We thought in the beginning we just sort of brainstorm because we’re coming up with some pretty good ideas. So step 1 is just brainstorms and ideas. We talked about, as women, what didn’t catch us with this headline.

[Commentary] I walked up to Mark Joyner afterwards and I said, “Do you know what? I think that you are… what you have to offer women, with all of the things that they have going on and all of the things that they have to think about, that your product is perfect and I think that I can be a really good affiliate and sell the heck out of it to my gutsy women.”

[Addressing Mark during Bullseye discussion] --and then what we’re gonna do is we’re going to use your Simpleology to go through the steps.

MARK: I’m a very, very firm believer of all the things that you need to do to accomplish what you want to accomplish in your life and are in fact, very simple. But the problem is you’re not doing it.

[Bullseye group]

DEBBIE: Am I on the right track? I think that’s sort of the idea of…..

CARLY: [Commentary] Obviously I’ve… what’s on the copy, that’s kind of my strong area. So, I wanted to get her idea of how the whole thing would look and the concept but it was quite hard when you’re in a group of people who, you know, are very opinionated and strong-minded. And I would say, in that situation, that I kind of took more of a back seat….

[STEVE with JASONH]

STEVE: --bust out the cardboard scene?

JASONH: We should definitely use that.

STEVE: Wham! We should sharpen it, somehow.

JASONM: [Addressing Kiss group] You guys are going to type it?

ALISANDE: Well, we’re going to need to. Otherwise, we don’t read it.

JASONM: Okay.

[Bullseye group discussion]

THOR: -- You know what the breakdown is between male e-entrepreneurs and female e-entrepreneurs? How… there’s one [crosstalk]

DEBBIE: --I do know that latest statistics I have read and I think and Christine agrees with me that majority now, are women, online.

[CHARLES WITH NICO; laughing at something Nico is writing/drawing while rest of Bullseye group continues to discuss in the background]

CHARLES: Is he walking the dog or is he the dog?

NICO: [Commentary] We networked last night. I brought some rum up from Panam and a lot of us sat around and got doozy and did a little taste-testing on some imported rum and cigars and got to sit down and actually we networked tilla round midnight…

JOEL: [Addressing Bullseye group] Right now, your presentation has to be fifteen minutes long, okay? If you want to cut five minutes off the length of your presentation, I’ll take 5 e-COMMerce chips from you right now.

THOR: [but not shown]I can talk all 15 by myself if you guys want me to…

DEBBIE: I think we don’t have any problem of doing that.

[JASONH asks Cresta a question – conversation a bit undecipherable]

JASON: Do you think …convey that sense of information is secure so we went ahead and we purchased a HackerSafe account.

CRESTA: Brilliant.

CRESTA: [To Bullseye group] So your target audience is the stay-at-home mom? Or…

DEBBIE/CARLY/CHRISTINE [in unison]: No.

DEBBIE: No. The professional…

CRESTA: The professional?

DEBBIE: The entrepreneurial woman, wherever she has her business.

JOEL: [Addressing Kiss group] For 5 e-COMMerce chips, you can have another 15 minutes to work on your presentation. Remember, it’s winner take all tonight so I need you to decide if you want to do this.

JASONM: Part of my plan is to use some of my chips anyway for being part of the team because I’m here to serve and invest in you [refers to team mates]

STEVE: [says something back to JASONM]

[ Kiss decides to give 5 e-COMMerce chips to JOEL]

STEVE: We wanted to gather around all our ideas, like in the first half, and then the rest of it, we just rehearsed and it worked out pretty good.

Presentation

DEBBIE: My name is Debbie Ducic from Pueblo, Colorado and I represent the Bullseye group. First of all, I want to thank you, Mark Joyner, for a wonderful presentation this morning and we really appreciate the opportunity to present our idea about how to market Ideology [laughs a bit too late about mistake].

[Mark smiles]

And I looked outside and I had all the intention of doing it and my life got absolutely crazy and I have to say I felt a little intimidated because there was a lot of information there. There was a lot of things that I printed out and I overwhelmed myself and when I looked at the Control Panel, it seemed a little intimidating to me. And so, that… the reason why I bring that up is because I felt like I… that our presentation really represents women who are like me – who have a million things going on, and yet we need that tool more than anything in the whole wide world.

THOR: Right now, anything that you do in Marketing needs to be targeted to a specific group or a specific gender, demographic – any number of ways, even down to what kind of browser the person is using. And if you don’t target very specifically, and follow through on that targeting and make sure your target market has the money to buy your product, desire, and need for your product, your launch is not going to be successful.

CHRISTINE: We do choose to focus on over-40 female demographic because baby boom constitutes 76 million of the US population and well over half of those are women.

CHARLES: [Commentary] And Christine was very set in her ways but… I mean, nah.. haah [makes an explosive gesture like things scattering]

CHRISTINE: [back to presentation] What’s more, women were the original viral marketers [Cresta has a big smile on her face]. When they discover a product or service that makes their life easier, they’re quick to spread the word.

CARLY: The main objective probably was to was to create a comfortable setting for 40+ women, rather than the usually intimidating sales agents. We wanted to make a simple way, hence the term –Simpleology, of benefiting 40-plus women’s lives in just 15 simple ways.

NICO: I’m a 39 year old entrepreneur and I don’t read static sales pages. I look at the headline on the page, and I scroll all the way down to the bottom of it for the price. Maybe I’d read something in between…

CHARLES: Yeah, and I’m a 23 year old college dude. I don’t read. I just want to get into the site, I don’t want any of the hassles. I just want to go read into it…

NICO: [Holding presentation board on easel stand, about to turn first page] Ready for this?

[Turns first page to show a comic strip(looks like it)]

CHARLES: And so we decided to do a video that would capture the audience. Like, when you first go to a website, you know, you have a few seconds to grasp the audience’s attention.

NICO: Picture this. The landing page comes up and we press play on our video and you’re bombarded by whistling of the tea kettle, the kids screaming, the dog chasing the cat, and the phone ringing off the hook, then….BOOM— Zzzzzzt

CHARLES: That’s a rewind effect.

NICO: High-speed rewind; 3 or 4 seconds and then from Frame 1 – Boom! The same scene. And it’s organized.

JOEL: It’s an interesting presentation in a really very, very …of [32:43] personalities and way of delivering your message. My first question is the statement, and then I suppose, the questions is going to be answered by Mark, and that is, are middle-aged women the target market of Simpleology?

MARK: Uhm. I would say probably no and here’s why: So, your logic is interesting, backed with some interesting facts, but if you say 80% of purchases online are from women, does that necessarily mean 80% of their purchases of this potential product? So what if, for example, the video would include, for example here, you know, pornography directed at men, right? So we’re going to target women as the result because 80% of the women, you know, online purchase products….do you know what I’m saying? Because the logic just doesn’t hold up.

JOEL: Okay. Thank you Bullseye group.

[Bullseye group leaves stage; applause]

JASONM: Again, everybody thinks that everybody is roughly the same in internet marketing when it comes to these pages but if we see that, actually, everybody is not…we’re not the same [does a magic trick with ropes of different lengths but almost the same]. To be honest with you guys, we’re all different.
[switch to another scene]

Okay. Now, Mark, you mentioned earlier… what was one of your thumbs on internet marketing again….

MARK: That people don’t have as much trust.

JASON: So what is the way now, that we’re in these new times, to accomplish that ways…

JAIME: --Video allows us to personalize your website Simpleology with your consumers . Because let’s face it, there are so many products on the market today. Why would somebody want to buy from you…..people like to be treated like people. They like to be nurtured. They like to recognize who they’re dealing with.

LAURA: In order to make subscribers feel more comfortable, we have added a transparent flash video of Mark using their skepticism…. And of course, Mark would be walking towards a compelling subscription box.

ALISANDE: Are you bogged down by too many emails? Are you spending too much time in the office? Are you as organized as you like to be? What if we told you that we could make you work 300% faster?

STEVE: [Commentary] Alisande, that was way cool. Another Candian, ey. And uh, yeah, I love her. I definitely love her…she’s hard to read because she’s definitely a poker so she’s always got the edge on that thing…It’s like she’s reading other people but she’s hard to read, that I’m reading her reading other people…

JASONM: And that’s the goal. The goal is just to get them in and then let you do the job. Let the site do its work, ‘coz that site is interactive and critical

JASONH: So we wanted to test having personal video testimonials from Simpleology customers.

THOR: [Commentary] Sometimes Jason comes off as a little over-bearing and he’s distanced himself from a few of the contestants already that didn’t really appreciate that so much.

I think he asked Christine if she would like to do a joint venture and Christine was like, “Oh sure! What’s that?” And he said, “Well I need my shirts ironed. Can you take care of that for me?”

JASONH: We have over 200,000 customers using Simpleology and raving about it.

JASONM: This is the page that will draw you in to the next level.

JOEL: Thank you Team Kiss. It is a very well thought-out visual presentation. I love, and maybe Mark will agree with me, I love the idea of having him walk in a video. I’ve been wanting to do that on my site and I think that’s some brilliant concept. And I also got to say, and I know that Cresta would say it herself, it was brilliant to put the HackerSafe trust mark on the page. Not just because [crosstalk] but HackerSafe really does work.

CRESTA: [Probably addressing Alisande] Your copy was very effective. I actually, kind of got chills on those, with what you were saying. You made me want to learn more with what you said. It made me want to go say, “Hey, what is this that can help me with all these problems that I have.” So the copy – very, very effective.

JASONM: [Commentary; letting out a big sigh of relief] Haaaaah. That’s the sound of it all. I am drained – physically, mentally, and we have a lot more to go. That was just Day 1.

JOEL: Haaaaaah. You guys don’t make it easy. We have two presentations – each with their own strengths and weaknesses. On one hand, Team Kiss utilized all of their members quite well but had a hard time communicating exactly what the substance of the page was about. On the other hand, the Bullseye group, seemed to have … a target and yet, there was a lack of cohesiveness among the members of the team – in communicating; and clearly presenting what the Simpleology page would be all about.

I have to say you both made it difficult because one team is going to win, and one team is going to lose—with two members from that team being eliminated from the competition. With that said, I have to award the winner to one team.

And because they were able to so effectively market to us, the winner of tonight’s challenge is Team Kiss.

[Team Kiss jumps and shouts in jubilance]

TEAM KISS: Yes!

JOEL: Congratulations. You guys are immune tonight and you will each receive lifetime memberships to Simpleology and all Simpleology products that mark Joyner will ever release.

As for Bullseye group, you gave a noble effort. I see a lot of good, raw material there and a lot of promise. It’s early in the game but I’m afraid you’ll be coming back to the Judgment Room shortly, where two of you will be eliminated.

[Commercial Break – chitika.com]

Judgment Room

[Team Bullseye in Judgment room with JOEL, MARK, and CRESTA]

JOEL: I am sorry it has to come to this so early in the game but as you guys know, I get a lot of JV requests. And the best majority of them I don’t even have time to read, let alone, consider. I want make sure that we’re not wasting anybody’s time and get right to it and find the person that’s right to do that JV.

Now your task today was based around Mark Joyner’s Simpleology. The shortest distance between two points is what?

BULLSEYE: A straight line.

JOEL: And you’ll notice during your task that sometimes it might have been a little difficult to concentrate, to keep focus. A lot of different things you but went through it. The challenges you did pretty well; some of the others, not so much. Now, you were judged for your presentation and unfortunately, that’s why you’re here in the Judgment Room.

MARK: [Addressing CHRISTINE] The one thing that I observed with you was you’re so reserved and sometimes when we have an opinion... if you do have anything contrary to that, you are very, very defensive, in your position.

JOEL: [To Cresta] Cresta, your comments on Christine.

CRESTA: I have to say your focus is amazing. When I came in with the check/chip, [41:11] you didn’t miss a beat.

CHRISTINE: I was really frustrated in the first 45 minutes. I wasn’t the team leader and so I was trying to get my ideas out there that people could see a possibility.

JOEL: [To Thor] Thor, you’ve got a really strong personality.

MARK: Thor, dude, you’ve got some mojo. You stepped up as a leader during the whole thing. I would have played it a bit differently, okay? I think that what you saw was Debbie was on her best dress [41:36] and you’re just the man who’s just got to step up to the plate and “I’m going to be the leader.” Fine, but do have respect though for the leader. Let the person lead.

JOEL: [To Debbie] Debbie, Do U C I C

CRESTA: I thought I could have seen more coming from you, you know. I thought maybe it wasn’t your strength.

JOEL: Your site Gutsy Woman, your audition videos – gutsy, stand up, go get ‘em, give ‘em all you got, you’ve done a lot, you’ve obviously accomplished a lot – what happened?

DEBBIE: I think I have a different style. I could definitely have gone more together.

JOEL: Given another chance, would you be able to step up and hit a home-run?

DEBBIE: Well we always learn from our mistakes and I’m a fast learner so, yeah.

MARK: You know, Nico was having like a little bit more gentle… he was like, “Hey guys, this is what we’re focusing on.” You we’re trying to get everyone narrowed, which was good, now, eventually, that didn’t happen, right? And I think Nico is kind of like starting on initiating…This is a competition guys. And ….ship[42:40] is going to be part of this. And you got to be conscious to that. I’m thinking, you got to like crank it up and you’ve got to be showing hustle.

JOEL: Cresta.

CRESTA: I like when you was told that you could ask questions of Mark, everybody was still debating over what you were going to talk about, and you Nico, you immediately got up, put your tablet over, you sat down with him [Mark] and you talked [43:04] everybody out and you focused on Mark, hanging [43:05] about questions that you wanted.

JOEL: I definitely see leadership qualities in you and I agree that you’re going to need to ratchet up the game… just Game On…from Costa Rica all the way here to the States and we’ll see what happens.

[To CARLY] What happened, Carly? I just expected to see a ball of fire out there.

CARLY: That was a big challenge for me. It’s definitely something that I have to work on.

CRESTA: Coming on to this spot and meeting you, I would have taken you as completely an experience, which I know you’re not. Whose idea was it to have her read from the paper?

CHRISTINE: I told her to do it because I know how nervous she is and I probably be better for her …

THOR: --there was a podium to do it from.

JOEL: Were you nervous?

CARLY: I was terrified.

CRESTA: Did anybody think maybe not to have her do the copy, knowing how inexperienced she was reading it? I think that hurt you guys.

DEBBIE: I was the one that decided, [43:58]in her heart but I didn’t say that I wanted her to read it from…

MARK: I could see that difference in culture. In America, there would be people who are sensitive about that sort of sharp-shooting…

JOEL: [To CHARLES] Charles, you’re not exactly invisible. As the day progressed, I saw you come alive. After hearing Mark, I heard you say. “Wow! I’ve got to implement this stuff in my website when I get back. This is good stuff.” And I think that you’re just starting to see part of this world that we live in and the benefits. I think you’ve got a really great future.

MARK: Just on a personal level, I want to tell you, I want to warn you, success is you worst enemy here.

CRESTA: Your creativity is great. I’d like to know what you were thinking when everybody was still deliberating.

CHARLES: Uhm, when it came to the website design thing, I do websites so I knew what I wanted to do and I wanted to hear everyone else’s point of view as well. And then once it came down, I was letting them make the decision and I was going to give my decision and how I wanted the site to look and how I thought, personally, how it should look, you know, to appeal to people.

CRESTA: The only thing is when we brought out the magazine, few of you caught it.

JOEL: You were the only one that I saw pick up the game and you just did it for a few seconds and you put it back.

CHARLES: It was called Bullseye.

JOEL: And then you guys were Bullseye group and so..

CHARLES: Yeah, come on…

JOEL: [To everyone] You know that we’re going to target two people for elimination today. If it were up to you, who would those two people be?

DEBBIE: Well, since I was the leader and I let the group down and I think, the buck stops here, I would choose myself. And I would choose Carly just because of the nervousness.

CARLY: I would say... myself. Because of the way I messed up for the team. I think they would agree…

CHARLES: You know, like everyone’s so cool. I wish I came here… I took … I came [45:44]I came here with the mentality like -- “screw em.” Everyone makes friends with anyone, but, you know, they’re all nice people. You know what, I would just say myself just because, you know, I didn’t speak up in certain times that I should have probably spoken up so…

JOEL: You really believe that?

CHARLES: [Mumbles something incoherently]

JOEL: You’re being a nice guy. Now you’re taking the bullet and I don’t think you really need/mean[46:09] that.

[Somebody commented: “No, I guess not.”]

Christine, two names please.

CHRISTINE: Based only on today’s challenge, I would say Carly. Perhaps, being able to use better leadership skills -- Debbie.

NICO: Carly, I think, was kind of a non-factor.

Upstairs, Thor Schrock was, you know, a different animal than he was downstairs on the stage. Downstairs on the stage, he was awesome -- totally put it together; great presenter. Upstairs, I thought initially he never gave Debbie the chance to be the leader up front—

THOR: I’d have to say, first off, Debbie, I’m sorry for that but I shouldn’t have had to do that. And I just don’t know that Carly’s skills are compatible with this challenge. I don’t know what she brought to the challenge. It’s difficult in that pressure situation to not step on toes or to count on the other person understanding that you don’t want to step on their toes, that you’re just trying to get this done.

JOEL: Well, thank you all very much for being candid.

Thor, that tongue, you have got to get it under control because I believe when you do, you’re going to be far more persuasive and I think there’s a lot of promise there than you do.

Christine, this is tough because I know….mother of five, right? You’ve got to be strong. And there’s a fire in there… to succeed.

Carly I know you’ve got that fire, too.

And Debbie, you’re a ball fire. I’ve seen gutsy… you are a gutsy woman but then, you’re the first one to fall on your own sword. You weren’t able to get control of the team, especially this one [referring to THOR]. Even when the team got up for the presentation, it kind of carried over because the look on everybody’s faces was uncertainty and there was no enthusiasm. And so Debbie, I’m sorry to tell you, you have been selected for elimination.

DEBBIE: Okay.

JOEL: Christine, given another chance, I know you would step up. And Carly, given another chance, I know that you would step up too. But somebody has got to stay and somebody has got to go and I believe, for cohesiveness of the team, that the person who will stay is Christine.

Carly, I’m sorry to tell you that you have been targeted for elimination.

JOEL: I am happy to say that this is not the end of the road for Debbie or for Carly. In the internet marketing industry, and the internet, in general, there’s something called Sand Box.

When I create a new website, that website does not get instantly indexed. And so what we have created is what we’re calling our “Sand Box.” In other words, Debbie, Carly, you’re not going home… quite yet. You’re being placed into the Sand Box. What this means is that tomorrow, you will be able to observe the teaching though you will not participate in the challenges. This is a waiting period for a time that you will have a chance to redeem yourself.

And so with that, I thank all of you for a very hardworking day. We look forward to seeing you in the morning, all rested. And it’s time for everybody to leave the place.

Thank you very much.

BULLSEYE: Thank you.

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