Jedi Joy called AT&T 3 times today.  She asked them to refund the money for items she did not purchase or did not want. They put Jedi Joy on hold for over two hours.  She has not received any money back from AT&T.  Next she called Apple 3 times. They did not understand the magnitude of AT&T employees stealing SIM chips and purchasing items on their AT&T account,  Now, she's so scared she cannot work. She has expressed to AT&T and Apple that she will be homeless as a result of Apple and AT&T's negligence.  She finally had to report AT&T to the F.B.I.'s cyber crime division.  But unfortunately, that will not put money in her account today.  We have no choice but to overdraft our in order to purchase our anxiety medicine, food and another night's stay in Manhattan.  Our account balance at end of business day is -$103.00 today.  Now, we must withdraw cash from an ATM in overdraft. Jedi Rich is a banker.  his father was a banker, His Grandfather was a banker.  Overdrafting a checking account makes Jedi Rich extremely anxious. 

Anyone who uses an e-SIM chip is at risk of having their iCloud stolen by cell phone carrier employees.  When you trade in your phone or request a cell phone carrier too add an e-sim chip. the employee can take your physical chip and give you a virtual chip without the customer knowing until its too late. More story later.

Jedi Joy has contacted Apple Support and AT&T to let them know that AT&T employees are stealing iCloud identities usie dual SIM chip technology.  Today, Jedi Joy filed a complaint against with the F.B.I. against AT&T employees.

AT&T employees can hack into any iPhone that uses e-sim chips. Unlike physical GSM chips, e-sime chips can be easily transferred without the owner knowing. Jedi Joy discovered this when she relied a p[hone bullfrog AT&T that was over $500 that had two additional lines assigned to iPhones she did not recognize.

On our latest bill, AT&T employees added an iPhone X and an unknown device to our wireless bill.  

Jedi Joy spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong with her iMessage and iCloud account .  What she realized was a major security preach.  With the dual sim chip technology, the second chip is not a physical chip.  It's an e-chip.  That means that there is no chip. It's just software.  We set up an iCloud account with 4 locked numbers.  The two numbers came from one iPhone  and two other came from another iPhone.  Once Jedi Joy put all 4 chips on one phone, her other account lost access.

Joy Lightowler was not concerned for her own privacy.  Joy was concerned other people's privacy and personal financial information, She notified Apple Support immediately.   

You heard it here first.  The Jedi are moving back to Las Vegas.

We are so grateful that the Vegas Raider Nation has shown the Jedi true love, even while we are living in New York City. We are looking forward to coming back home for the holidays.

The Space Force™️ has it's two newest members: Jedi Joy Lightowler and Jedi Rich Lightowler of New York City,

Jedi Rich learned how to lose weight from his model wife, Jedi Joy Lightowler.  Jedi Rich can teach you what he learned from Jedi Joy about nutrition.  

​Change your diet and you'll lose weight without going to the gym. Eat 100% organic grass fed beef burgers for every meal 3 to 4 times per day.  After about a week, you will not crave carbohydrates.;  But you but resist the urge to eat sugars (carbohydrates) for at least 3 days to break the sugar addiction cycle. 

Learn more at www.RichardWLightowler.com.  

A man in a long trench coat was surprised when Jedi Rich told the man "No Exit".    Later, the man was thankful that Jedi Rich let him know that there was no portal.  The Space Force™️ is always on the lookout for time travelers in trouble. 

Watch the video and see if you can distinguish if this is suicide or a homicide.  The LVMOPD says it was a homicide. But why did the cops roll up with 50 guns, snipers and helicopters for a suicide call?

My first thought is: why is his body halfway inside his apartment while his legs are outside the apartment.  Does it seem odd a suicidal man would first open the front  door before shooting himself in the chest? It appears more ;Kiel;y that someone knocked on the door, the man opened the door and then he was shot ad the hitman called in a suicide.

Without going into details. the Jedi highly suspect that this was a hit, not a suicide. 

To lose weight, humans need to eat 100% Grass Fed organic ground beef at 93% lean.  I know this is true because I lost 175 pounds by only eating Nature's Rancher 100% grass fed 93% lean organic ground beef.  

​Grain fed cattle are obese.  The grains are all GMOs.  GMO corn and soy is so delicious to animals that they over eat.  Farmers know this.  They think a fatter cow is better than a healthy cow because fate tases better.  We do not buy food for taste: we buy food for survival. 

This is a follow up to an article written earlier this week. The Whole Foods Global Merchandising Team decided to change brands of 100% grass fed ground beef.  The new brand is inferior to the old brand.  We let corporate know.  We have not heard a response yet.

We went back to the Whole Foods to see if the meat has been selling.  This is what we found:

The Weight Loss Force™️ are beef experts.  We shop at 3 or 4 stores to find the best quality beef.  That's how we know the butchers in New York that are advertising 100% organic grass fed lean beef are actually selling New Yorkers conventional beef instead.  To make matter's worse Dellapietra's Ottomanelli's charged us nearly double what Whole Foods charges us; and they gave us for inferior meat.  Pino's Prime Meats simply charged us $10 a pound but lied to us directly on camera that their beef was grass fed.

​In this video, we compared the beef from Dellapietras to Nature's Rancher. 93%.  Dellapietras should be leaner, dryer and flakey.  

Weight Loss Force™️ may do a video comparison of Ottomanelli Bros. and Pino's Prime Meats if the viewer demand is high enough but we really do not like buying their beef because it is not edible for Weight Loss Force™️ consumption. 

But wait.  Whole Foods in Manhattan just switch to local meat suppliers.  The new meat from New York is either not 100% grass fed or it is not as lean as they claim.  We know this because we compared the 100% grass fed 93% lean to the 100% grass fed from every butcher shop in New York who claims to sell grass fed ground beef.

We thought New York farms supplied to have the best beef in the world to the kings and queens of Manhattan.  Guess we were wrong. We visited 5 different butchers in New York City who claimed to carry 100% grass fed beef. It's not too difficult to distinguish conventional beef form grass fed.  Conventional cattle are obese while grass fed cattle are lean.  We thought this might be a mistake.  That's why we visited each butcher at least 3 times before concluding they were false advertising. There is no way for a butcher who knows the difference between the two could make a mistake.  #DeptOfAgricultureNY ​

Last week, my wife and I discovered that Whole Foods in Manhattan decided to change meat suppliers from Nature's Ranchers (aka Pederson's Farms) to Organic Rancher.  Both products are labeled 100% grass fed, USDA organic, 93% lean 7% fat, ground beef.  However, when you watch our video, you can clearly see a dramatic difference in the products.  To add to the dismay, Organic Rancher's branding was almost identical to Nature's Rancher.  You can read about Nature's Ranchers commitment to grass fed here. "Organic Rancher" does not have a website.

Normally, when Whole Foods makes a change, the product would have been improved.  However, this time the quality quite dramatically worsened.

A trained eye can tell the difference between grass fed organic and grain fed just by looking at it. We inspect our ground beef before buying.  Sometimes, we must travel to three or even 4 butcher shops in order to find fresh 100% grass fed ground beef in New York because they sell out.  

​This is not the first time we asked the question, "Is this beef actually grass fed?" in Manhattan.  In fact, we made a list of the butcher shops that claim to carrying organic grass fed ground beef in New York City and we only found one: Whole Foods.  The other butchers sold us meat that was too greasy.  

I was asked to be the C.E.O. of a multi-location True Value hardware franchise in West Linn, Ore. During my 5 year tenure, I increased revenues by 3x, became Traeger Grills #1 dealer in the Nation and created a retail sales website called the Pellet Grill Outlet (PGO). I used the success of PGO to design, manufacture and market a new line of wood pellet grills called the Royall Grill. I was setting my sites on Traeger's lucrative wood pellet grill market.  To achieve my success, I designed a series of after-market parts designed to fit in a Traeger. I made PGO's parts superior to Traeger's parts to distinguish PGO from the other Traeger dealers. 

I attended industry trade shows, purchased print & broadcast advertising and taught hardware store employees some good, old fashioned salesmanship skills. I created and marketed a new line of high-end, food grade wood pellets called American Broadleaf.  American Broadleaf pellets had more flavor than Traeger's pellets. I have a background in computer software so I search optimized PGO's website to come in the #1 search result position when a person typed in "Traeger Grills" on Google. ​

​That's when I decided to take action. I contacted a small manufacturing plant in Wisconsin who said they could make a wood pellet grill to my specifications.  We called it the Royall Grill. The number one reason to purchase a Royall Grill was because it was made in the U.S.A. I am not just a C.E.O. who sits behind a desk.  In this case, by fielding sales calls is how I trained the hardware store employees to be an effective sales person. That's also how I learned that Traeger's main selling point was that it was "Made in the U.S.A."  

Working the phones is how I came up with several after-market products, like the 180 degree digital controller.  PGO's customers were asking if the grill would go down to 180 degrees. I did some research and found a temperature control board manufacturer in Chicago.  I flew to Chicago the next day and designed a new controller.  The 180 degree controller became another reason for PGO's enormous success.  No one else had a wood pellet grill that could cook at 180 degrees except PGO. 

​​I expanded the business to another location in downtown Portland across the street from the new M.L.S. soccer stadium.  The new store was a hit with the soccer fans who drew a line around the block when I sold BBQ sandwiches from the meat that was cooked on the Traeger Grill. I used the new location to cross-market PGO's wood pellet grills. Things were going great until the manufacturing plant in Wisconsin started selling Royall Grill's to PGO's competitors. That was the year I learned a very hard lesson about contract negotiations. 

Here are three reasons that Las Vegas is not back, yet:

• 200,000 tourists was considered a dead weekend in 2016. A busy weekend was b/n 300,000 - 350,000. EDC alone would bring 400,000 tourists for just one show in the middle of June!
• Do not trust the gaming numbers. A casino owns the newspaper that reports the numbers to the news wire. 
• Vegas has been in the business of scamming tourists,  home owners and casino buyers​ for over 100 years.

Here are the hard facts. that make me question the numbers that are coming out of Nevada' largest newspaper called The Review Journal.  Full disclosure.  The Las Vegas Review Journal was purchased by Sheldon Adelson in 2015, Sheldon bought the paper to manipulate the public into getting a football team in 2017 and using the RJ's reporters to pressure a judge to acquit the Venetian of a wrongful death suit.  The deceased owner's family sold the Venetian and the Palazzio earlier this year.  The only interest the Las Vegas Sands has in Nevada is the Las Vegas Review Journal. 

The way the news media works in Las Vegas is the chambers of commerce, business leaders and politicians decide what news to send to the newswire.  Everything else gets sand bagged, buried or just ignored.  Yahoo News, MSN and other online news services pick up the misleading wire. 

She's retweeting an opinion but her followers will think its fact.

Earlier, she told her followers that the Cosmopolitan sold for $5.65B when it merely switched over into a REIT with MGM being the new casino gaming license operator.  MGM is now a renter owns nothing in Las Vegas.  That cannot be better situation than when casinos owned the property they were operating.   

I know REIT's are favorable from a short-term accounting perspective, however, it is an indication that in the long run there is a problem with the underlying business, I was in a similar situation when I was the C.E.O. of a True Value franchise in West Linn, Ore, albeit for on a smaller scale.  But the business principles are the same. The business needed cash to to a sluggish economy.  My business was slowing in certain areas but growing in other areas.  I wanted to buckle down and focus on the areas that were making the most profit.  I sold one of the businesses inside the building and leased the space to the new owner.  It gave me positive cash flow and cash up front that I used to buy more inventory in the area of my business that was booming.  

Jim Murren, C.E.O. from MGM, was quoted as saying the reason they are selling their casinos in Las Vegas was because they wanted to focus on live events, sporting events and Japan.  Of course, a C.E.O. would never tell the buyer the real reason they are selling.  Can you imagine the conservation?

BUYER: "Why are you selling."

JIM MURREN, C.E.O.: "Because there was this shooting the killed 58 people outside one of my hotels.  Ever since then, we've had to continually drop rates to keep rooms filled.  But then, the pandemic hit... wait.... hello? Are you still there?"

But no matter how you slice it, Blackstone's stock went down most likely because they bought high and sold low.  That's called getting scammed in Vegas, just so you know.  I've had it happen to me at a strip club more than once.

This transaction is a good example of how the Las Vegas media has been spinning the news since the Las Vegas Review-Journal was founded in 1909.  

Las Vegas Locally posted on Twitter that Blackstone Group sold the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas for $5.65 billion.  She included a link from the Las Vegas Review-Journal the read with the headline, "Cosmo sold in $5.6B deal; MGM to take over resort operations." 

I immediately checked my stock watch list.  "BlackStone stock should go through the moon", I said out loud.  But nope. It was down.  What happened?   I checked the Motely Fool. 

That's a much different headline from what the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote and what was written by the local bloggers. Cosmo sells for $5.65 billion? If were true then Blackstone's stock would have gone to the moon. They only paid $1.73 billion. Instead, Blackstone sold the business for $1.625 billion when they were in the hole for $173.5 billion since.  That's not a gain, that's a loss and that's why the stock dropped. 

A lease-back deal is very different than a normal real estate sale.  I did a similar deal when I was the C.E.O. of a True Value Hardware franchise in West Linn, Ore.  When the mortgage crisis hit in 2008, banks and vendors were calling their notes and shortening their credit terms.  I needed to free up some cash fast.  I put a portion of the hardware business that was not doing as well as as parts of the business up for sale on BizBuySell.com. 

​The Nursery sold plants. It was a huge business at the hardware store but competition from newer, larger nurseries and a recently opened Home Depot in the area had caused a dropped in revenues for the Nursery. I sold the nursery business and inventory for $33,000 and leased the space back to the new owner.  That gave me some immediate cash plus additional cash flow each month.   Later, the tenant turned out to be a real pain (as expected) but that's for another story. 

Full disclosure:  The Las Vegas Review-Journal is owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.  JEDIRICH.COM is owned by me. 

Big Brother has been the subject of racism ever since it’s inception 20 years ago. The white houseguests have typically banded together and isolated the other non-white houseguests.  They did not do it on purpose. That is the nature of the show.  The show requires players to quickly form bonds with strangers.  People who are of the same race, religion or culture already "know" each other. They bond together more easily.  

Dereck Frazier is the first openly gay black man to ever be in the final 3 of Big Brother.  Derek is also the son of the boxer Joe Frazier.  Derek said he wanted to show the world that you do not have to be a broadway singer to be gay.  He said shows like Big Brother type cast homosexual men.  Derek wanted to be different than those stereotypes.  After 23 seasons, It's good that we finally have some diversity in the Big Brother house. 

In June 2018, a windstorm brought down several telephone poles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada leaving residents without power for nearly a week.  

More photos here

The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo and Awards convention that was scheduled for January 18th-23rd 2022 was cancelled this week.  For the past five years, the event had been held at the Hard Rock Hotel.  The Hard Rock sold to Virgin Hotels in 2018. Virgin extended their agreement with the AVN / AEE for another 3 years.  But due to the COVID variants, the event organizers of the AVNs  decided to cancel the event.

The Jedi attended the AVNs in 2020.  We had a feeling that it might be one of the last AVN shows in Vegas when Virgin bought the Hard Rock. However, I will leave the sexual innuendos to the pros.  

Las Vegas convention sales people pointed out that several conventions were happening but the event organizers said the AVNs was different.  If you have ever been to an Adult Expo in Las Vegas then you will know what we are talking about.  The sexual energy is charged throughout the air.  The scantily clad women walking around are super friendly, super sexy and genuinely horny. There's a reason these women chose to be in the sex industry.  They get turned on by the slightest touch. They love sex with anyone and everything. When you put 500 of these sexually charged women together at a convention in Las Vegas over a 3-day booze and cocaine filled weekend, then you will understand why the mask thing just won't be happening this year.  We will have to wait until 2023.

N​ew York City was back with a bang as tourists flocked to Times Square for the Lion King and several other Broadway shows.

UPDATE: Apple Pay working 9/18/2021

The Jedi use Apple Pay for public transit.  Today, our Apple Pay stopped working.  We contacted Apple.  They did not know anything about it.  It must be just our phones.  They asked if we had updated our software to iOS 14.8.  We did.  It still did not work.  I will log a call tomorrow but in the meant time, Apple needs to refund the charges they made to our account,