In 2001, the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Marlon Brando had purchased an antique film reel for £350,000. Intended to be the basis for Brando's next movie, the footage has supposedly been found at a Gloucestershire junk shop along with other items and ephemera belonging to World War I veteran William Doge. While fighting in the Battle of Mons on the western front, Doge was said to have seen something that defied all rational explanation and caused him to dedicate his life to finding the proof of his experiences there. More than 30 years later, in 1952, Doge did just that and captured footage of a real-life angel on camera. Or at least that was the story circulating before the whole narrative came crashing down. Within a year, the BBC revealed that there was no evidence of William Doge's existence, any film reel or a planned Marlon Brando project. But why exactly had the British public been so quick to believe or want to believe that angels not only existed but could also be caught on film? The answer lies in the strange story of the Angels of Mons, actual angels that were said to have protected British forces during World War I's Battle of Mons. For more than a century, the tale of the Angels of Mons has proven to be such an almost impossibly resilient legend that the BBC deemed it the first ever urban myth. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdos. This is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. If you're new here, welcome to the podcast and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future episodes. If you're already a Weirdo, please share the podcast with others. Doing so helps make it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do. Coming up in this episode, the British public believed that actual divine warriors were on their side against the Germans in World War I. We'll look at the true story behind the Angels of Mons. While listening, be sure to check out the Weird Darkness website. At WeirdDarkness.com, you can sign up for the newsletter to win monthly prizes, find paranormal and horror audiobooks I've narrated, watch old horror movies for free. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  On June 28, 1914, 19-year-old Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. After Austria-Hungary then attacked Serbia-Russia, an ally of the Serbs, it declared war on Austria-Hungary. In turn, Germany, loyal to Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia. France mobilized its own forces to assist the Russian Empire and, in doing so, found itself at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary as well. By the beginning of August, virtually all of Europe had erupted into a war zone as the system of national alliances intended to preserve peace between these competing powers instead sparked a chain reaction of increasing conflict. On August 2, Germany demanded free passage through Belgium in order to more quickly attack France. When the Belgians refused, the Germans invaded. The United Kingdom had thus far stayed out of the conflict, but the sanctity of Belgian sovereignty and neutrality proved to be its breaking point. The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on August 4, Austria-Hungary on August 12, and deployed the British Expeditionary Force, BEF, of about 80,000 to 130,000 troops to the continent. The scale of the quickly growing conflict was enormous, but still, many thought the hostilities would end in short order. As one popular phrase put it, many thought the war would be over by Christmas. The harsh reality of modern warfare, however, only became apparent to the British when they arrived at the Belgian city of Mons. Originally, the BEF and their French allies under General Charles Lenrezac had hoped to coordinate and use the area's bottleneck of waterways to cut off the German army. Instead, the French accidentally engaged the Germans alone and ahead of schedule, suffering heavy casualties, and necessitating their treat so hasty, the British command did not know what had happened until they were already in position. Outnumbered, 2 to 1, the BEF had no choice but to hold the line until the French regrouped. The fighting began on the morning of August 23 as the first German soldiers began running over the bridges above Mons' central canal. British machine gunners mowed down one line of men after another as they tried to cross, but in the face of both heavy bombardment and the sheer size of the German army, Britain's strategy soon proved untenable. By nightfall, overrun and already having lost more than 1,500 men, the British abandoned the city. The BEF fled their German pursuers for two straight days and nights without food or sleep before they were able to reunite with the French. There was no time for rest. On August 26, the armies clashed again at the Battle of Le Cateau. The Allied forces were finally able to stop the German advance, but the stalemate came at a high cost. 12,000 BEF troops, at least a tenth of their total forces, had been killed or wounded in the first nine days of combat. When news from the front filtered back to the United Kingdom, the most common reactions were horror and disbelief. In their first outing, British casualties were higher than half those in the Crimean War, a conflict that had lasted two years. The scale of death and destruction was already inconceivable and the war was only just beginning. The public began to panic. Among a segment of the British population, particularly the religiously minded, there was no mistaking what this new war to end all wars actually was. It was the literal and biblical apocalypse. In 1918, British General Edmund Allenby actually named a clash against the Ottomans and Palestine, the Battle of Megiddo, to directly invoke the climactic battle of the Book of Revelation. Prior to that, in the spring of 1915, pamphlets with titles like The Great War in the Divine Light of Prophecy is at Armageddon and another pamphlet is at Armageddon or Britain in Prophecy were already circulating around the country. Even earlier in September of 1914, Reverend Henry Charles Beeching of Norwich Cathedral told his congregation, the battle is not only ours, it is God's. It is indeed Armageddon. Ranged against us are the Dragon and the False Prophet. It was against this backdrop that in the late summer of 1914, a 51-year-old Welsh writer named Arthur Macon sat in another church, unable to focus on the priest's sermon. Distracted by the disturbing reports from the front, he began to imagine a comforting short story, a newly killed soldier's assent into heaven. After mass, he began to write his story, later published as The Soldier's Rest, but decided he was not capturing the idea correctly. He then tried his hand at another, simpler story. He finished it in a single sitting that afternoon, titling it The Bowman. Just published in the London Evening News on September 29, 1914, The Bowman focuses on an unnamed British soldier pinned down in a trench alongside his comrades under heavy German machine gunfire. Fearing that all is lost, the protagonist recalls a queer vegetarian restaurant he had once been to in London, one which bears a picture of St. George and a Latin motto which translates to may St. George be a present help to the English on all of its plates. Steadying himself, the soldier recites the prayer quietly before rising to fire on the enemy. Suddenly, although no one else seems to see it, he startled by another otherworldly apparition. Voices then cry out in French and English, calling men to arms and praising St. George as a massive forest of ghostly archers appears above and behind the British line, firing ceaselessly into the German forces. The other British soldiers wonder how they have suddenly become so much deadlier as their enemy scatters and falls.  Only the main character knows the truth. God and St. George had intervened to save the British army. Macon himself did not think much of his story. It was quaint, far from his best work but acceptable. Twenty years out from the success of his novella, The Great God Pan, tired by career failures, the death of his first wife and the demands of his reluctant reporting job for the London Evening News, Macon was okay with submitting something that was merely acceptable and so he handed the piece to his editor. The story came and went with the day's paper with little fanfare. Macon expected that to be that. It wasn't. In hindsight, the bowman might be Macon's most successful story, not because of its popularity but because no one wanted to believe he'd made it up. As he put it in his column, No Escape from the Bowman in July 1915, Frankenstein made a monster to his sorrow. I have begun to sympathize with him. The first sign that the story had struck a nerve came the week it was published. Ralph Shirley, the editor of the Occult Review and supporter of a theory that Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany was the Antichrist, reached out to Macon to ask if the Bowman had been based on fact. Macon said it was not. Perhaps surprisingly, Shirley took him at his word. Later the editor of his spiritualist magazine, Light, David Gow, asked Macon the same question, receiving the same answer. It is not based on fact. Reporting their conversation in his own column in October 1914, Gow referred to the Bowman as a little fantasy, adding, the spiritual hosts are probably better employed in ministering to the wounded and dying. The trouble started that November with Father Edward Russell, the deacon of St. Albany Martyr Church in Holborn. Unlike Shirley and Gow, Russell wrote to Macon and asked permission to republish the Bowman in his parish magazine. Seeing no harm in this and happy for further royalties, the author agreed. In February of 1915, Russell wrote again, reporting that the issue had sold so well that he wanted to republish it again to the next volume with additional notes and asked Macon to kindly tell him who his sources had been. Macon explained, once again, that the story was fictional, but the priest disagreed and was sure that the angels of Mons were real. As Macon described in his forward to the Bowman and other legends of the war, Russell said that I must have been mistaken that the main facts of the Bowman must be true, that my share in the matter must surely have been confined to the elaboration and decoration of a veridical history. Macon quickly realized that nothing he could say would change Russell's opinion. What was worse, though, was that this man had an audience of willing believers and that there were countless other clergy and congregations like them. By the spring and summer of 1915, the United Kingdom was in the throes of veritable angel mania. Anonymous reports appeared in newspapers around the country, purportedly providing testimony from soldiers who had seen angels on the battlefield at Mons. While all reports spoke of something supernatural that had saved the British soldiers, the descriptions varied by author and publication. Some said they had seen Joan of Arc or Saint Michael leading the British and French soldiers. Some said there were innumerable angels, others said only three who had appeared in the night sky. Others still said they had only seen a peculiar yellow cloud or fog. The explanations for these supposed sightings were equally diverse. To rational critics, the stories were either lies or dismissed as a stress reaction, a collective hallucination born from suggestion and a lack of sleep or perhaps spurred by exposure to chemical weapons. Spiritualists, meanwhile, suspected that the Phantom Army could be made up of deceased soldiers killing in the heat of battle and then rising up to assist their still-living comrades. The more traditionally religious minded decided it was a modern miracle. Britain's own answer to France's Miracle on the Marne from September 1914, in which nationwide prayers to the Virgin Mary had supposedly saved the French Army and the Russian reports of the Virgin Mary appearing and prophesying Russian victory at the Battle of Augustov that October. To Macon, however, there was only one explanation. His story had gone viral, mutating and picking up embellishments as it spread from person to person. He did his best to point this out to the public, writing articles and columns to set the record straight. He showed how no reports published before the bowmen had said anything about the Angels of Mons. And when some of the true, quote-unquote, stories about the Angels of Mons started surfacing, many of the earliest ones even used some of the original details from his, the bowmen, the vegetarian restaurant, the prayer to St. George, the German battlement about what was occurring. Nevertheless, the public ate up these reports and Angelmania was in full swing. Although initially confident that reason would eventually prevail over public hysteria, Macon's efforts were mostly met with hostility. At best, his opponents said he was unsympathetic due to the comfort that such stories gave to suffering families. At worst, he was both unpatriotic and un-Christian, denying an act of God to boost his own fame and keep himself in the headlines. Among the most vocal of his critics was Harold Begbie, a journalist, writer, and Christian apologist whose 1915 book On the Side of the Angels went through three sold-out editions. Although in part a catalog of various testimonies and theories, ultimately Begbie's somewhat jumbled treaties was less concerned with defining what soldiers had seen than proving that Macon had not made up the Angels of Mons. In addition to citing several anonymous reports that he claimed predated the publication of the bowmen and even saying he'd met with several unnamed soldiers, Begbie went a step further. He suggested that even if Macon had written the bowmen before the Angels of Mons stories became widespread, that did not prove anything. Using the author's story of his inspiration, that the idea occurred to him as an imagined vision against him, Begbie proposed that Macon had psychically experienced actual events occurring on the battlefield. Quote, no man of science who has examined the phenomena of telepathy would dispute it, unquote. Essentially, according to Begbie, it was the Angels who had inspired the bowmen, not the other way around. Adding insult to injury, Begbie accused Macon of sacrilege, saying Mr. Macon in his quieter and less popular moments will feel a very sincere regret and perhaps sharp contrition for his attempts to deprive good people of their hope. Another angel proponent was Phyllis Campbell, a British Red Cross volunteer in France whose essay The Angelic Leaders first appeared in the summer 1915 issue of The Occult Review. Although Campbell did not claim to have seen the Angels of Mons herself, she said that she had nursed several French and English soldiers who had told her strange stories about the retreat from Mons. According to The Angelic Leaders, Campbell first heard about the incident when a French nurse called her over to help her understand an English soldier's request. Apparently, he was pleading to be given some sort of religious picture. After meeting the man who explained that he wanted a picture of Saint George, Campbell asked if he was Catholic. He responded that he was a Methodist, but that he believed in the saints now because he had just seen Saint George in person. For his part, Arthur Macon had one response to such stories, nearly all of which appeared to be anonymous, second or third-hand accounts. As he wrote in the conclusion to the bowmen and other legends of the war, you mustn't tell us what the soldier said, it's not evidence. Macon was not alone in his assessment. The Society for Psychical Research, a still-extant London-based non-profit dedicated to the study of the paranormal since 1882, felt compelled to address the Angels of Mons rumors for its readers of its 1915-1916 journal. After attempting to track down the sources of the reports and letters appearing in British newspapers, the SPR found that in every case, the trail ended with someone who had only heard the story second or third-hand. Their report thus concluded, our inquiry into the apparitions is negative. All our efforts to obtain the detailed evidence upon which an inquiry of this kind must be based have proved unavailing. Nevertheless, the story of the Angels of Mons stuck. By the end of 1916, there was already an Angel of Mons piano solo by Sidney C. Baldock, an Angels of Mons waltz by composer Paul Parais, and a now lost Angels of Mons silent film by director Fred Paul. The Angels began to feature in postcards, both directly, such as in drawings where they hovered behind marksmen mid-shot and indirectly, as in a series of idealized drawings of attractive nurses dubbed the Real Angels of Mons. The story also began to find its way into propaganda, both inside the United Kingdom and on the continent. Soon Angels were a frequent feature in advertisements for war bonds, donations for the Red Cross, and recruitment posters across the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and the United States. For his part, Macon blamed the Angels spread on modern churches. If priests spent less time preaching to penny morality instead of Christianity's eternal mysteries, he wrote, believers might have been more scrupulous. But, he said, separate a man from good drink and he will swallow methylated spirit with joy. Some blamed Macon's writing for being too believable in its imitation of journalism, or blamed the London Evening News for not adequately labeling the story as fiction. Others, however, have seen something more calculated and perhaps even sinister in the spread of the Angel stories. The single definitive description of the Angelic apparitions said to pre-date the publication of The Bowman is a postcard written by British Brigadier General John Charteris dated September 5, 1914, more than three weeks before Macon's story was published. The text briefly mentions rumors of strange happenings at Mons. While for some believers, this is the long sought-after proof of the Angel's existence, it's worth remaining skeptical of Charteris' account. The postcard itself has never been produced for scrutiny, only described in Charteris' 1931 memoir at GHQ, and Charteris' line of work during World War I gives ample reason to question his motives. Although not technically affiliated with the newly formed War Propaganda Bureau, founded on September 2, 1914, Charteris served as the Chief of Intelligence for the BEF from 1916 to 1918. After the war, in a 1925 speech given at the National Arts Club near New York's Gramercy Park, The New York Times reported of Charteris bragging to his audience about the various false stories he helped invent during the war. The most notable of these were the rumors of German corpse factories, reportedly used by the enemy to turn their own dead soldiers into weapons, grease, and other essentials. Although Charteris himself later denied the account in the Times, and modern scholars are skeptical that any one person could have started the false speculations, it's worth noting that a number of the other false stories from the front pervaded during this period. The summer and fall of 1914 was the peak of the so-called rape of Belgium, the term adopted by the British press to describe the atrocious, though arguably embellished, conduct of the invading German forces. In addition to the molestation of women, the bayonetting of young children and babies, referenced in writings by both Phyllis Campbell and Arthur Mackin, there were other more outlandish stories of this time that have never quite held up to scrutiny. For instance, the legendary Crucified Soldier, immortalized in sculptures and illustrations across the United Kingdom and Canada, was supposedly a British or Canadian infantryman who was pinned to either a tree or a barn door either by German trench knives or by bayonets. Despite the contemporaneous ubiquity of the story, no firm evidence has emerged that the event ever occurred. Although no documentation has been found directly linking these stories to the British government, there is no denying that they were convenient for maintaining morale at home and confusing the enemy abroad. Exactly two weeks before the publication of The Bowman, Arthur Mackin described a very different Phantom Army as one of the most remarkable delusions that the world has ever harbored. He was talking about the reports, all second or third hand, of trains carrying Russian soldiers that had apparently been sighted from northern Scotland down to the southern coast. Although, as Mackin pointed out, there would have been no logical reason for Russian troops to be in the British Isles on their way to the Eastern Front, there would have been an incentive to keep such stories in the news. As David Clark, writer of the 2004 book The Angels of Mons, points out, the reports of unexpected Russian troop movements confused embedded enemy spies so much that the German command changed their plans in anticipation of a potential invasion from the North Sea. In an era characterized by fervent public anxiety for news from the front and intense government censorship about what could be safely printed in British newspapers, it's striking just how many such stories of fantastical happenings on and around the battlefield were able to propagate. Mackin had his own suspicions. He always felt that Harold Begbie for one did not believe a word of it and had been put up to creating what he wrote as a publisher's commission. Some have gone so far as to suggest that Begbie, already writing poems encouraging young men to enlist, was recruited by Charteris himself for the project. Although the underlying message of the Angels of Mons stories that God was on the side of the British in what was a battle of good and evil was certainly beneficial to the war effort, there's no definitive indication of anyone within the British government directing their spread. Still, whether the Angels were guided by intelligence services or the pressures of the reading public, the results were the same. As Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations and himself an American psychological warfare agent in World War I noted in his 1923 book, Crystallizing Public Opinion, when real news breaks, semi-news must go. When real news is scarce, semi-news returns to the front page. For better or worse, over the course of the last century, the Angels of Mons have taken flight from short story to semi-news to a legend that has never quite left the public imagination. It helps spread the word about the show, and a growing audience makes it possible for me to keep creating episodes as often as I do. Plus, telling others about Weird Darkness also helps get the word out about resources that are available for those who suffer from depression. So please, share the podcast with someone today. Do you have a dark tale to tell of your own? Fact or fiction, click on Tell Your Story on the website, and I might use it in a future episode. All stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless stated otherwise, and you can find source links or links to the authors in the show notes. The Angels of Mons was written by Andrew Lenoir for all that's interesting. Weird Darkness Theme by Alibi Music And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Colossians 3, verse 17, and whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. And a final thought, you'll never find the right person if you never let go of the wrong one. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.


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This is the state of women's empowerment today and so of course this is happening where but on a college campus So we know where most of these ideas come from the people that run these institutions seem to have good intentions But the fruits of their intentions Pale in comparison So why don't we take a look at where women are today now of course? I'm speaking broadly and there are different women in different states But generally speaking if you look across the board women are dominating dude in so many ways Just a glance at our culture.  This is just what I read on Google Alright, so you might want to do your own research But recently it's been shown that women are starting to have higher IQ levels women do better in school Women graduate more than men women go to college more than men whether that's good or not we'll debate Women graduate college women go to grad postgraduate school more women have become doctors than men Starting in 2017. I remember when that statistic first came out Outside of academia women are Buying more homes more single women buy homes than men Women are fulfilling more management roles than men Women are earning more money than men as crazy as that may sound because if you take out the top one one percent of Men who are you know the own everything and you level the playing field in that regard women are faring far better than men and I don't have the exact number, but something like 20 over the past Generation their increase in wealth has gone up by 20% and then has dropped by about 5% And so for any modern man and woman that sounds like a hell. Yeah, right?  Women are Committing more Infanticide than ever before over 60 million abortions of their own babies go empowerment Women are more depressed than ever before women are taking more medications than ever before women are more single than ever before and Women are creatures of relationship. Why is it that somewhere around 60% of Babies are being born out of wedlock a mother and a child with no husband Women are raising children on their own and 70 plus percent of prison inmates inmates come from fatherless homes We don't need no men, but our boys end up in prison So it just makes me sort of wonder. Well, if I'm gonna follow The world's definition of empowerment in order to raise my girls to do great in our culture Maybe I got to try a different way Maybe what we've been told about being a great woman in our day Isn't really true But why would anybody lie to you? Why would anybody want anything less than the best? I want the best for my daughters. I Have a son too and I want the best for him as well If I follow the culture I follow the TV or the screen or I listen to the people around me Then maybe I should do What the parents of these girls have done? Send them to universities have them have high degrees Train them to be better than every man that they can come across in the world Get that great job Conquer and create as much as you can out in the world, but Don't get married or have any babies. It's only gonna slow you down my daughter It's interesting because I work with men. That's my Demographic and I've been mentoring men from time. I can remember and so I come across a lot of really alpha male men in my Work the men that are also mentors to other young men and they look up to these strong powerful patriarchal men And there's a recurring theme I'm seeing with regard to these men and their daughters They're raising their daughters to be just like them now Love my children to be like me but does that mean that she needs to know how to Take a punch that she needs to know how to beat the boys that she needs to know how to Be a man. Well, let's see. How did we get here? So very plain We got to point out how and who and through what means we got into this diabolical disorientation It's not by accident Those who own the screens those who own the universities The one who own all of our institution also institutions of media and education Those who have infiltrated our church those who basically own our government Highly inspired by these incredible cultural Revolters


Good afternoon everyone. Thank you so much for coming. So today I'm going to talk about EdgeX and it's the action at the edge. So we're going to cover Industry 4.0 and Edge. Maybe nobody in this room needs to know about it. Everyone here knows about Edge and IoT and Industry 4.0. But I do like those two slides, so we share them. Then we talk about EdgeX and what does EdgeX 1.0 have in it and what's coming beyond. So briefly, we are at the lucky point in life where there's Industry 4.0. This digital world has spanned everywhere, anywhere, and it's getting faster and faster, and it's going to enrich our lives so phenomenally. Back when I started in computer science and was doing my PhD, AI was something I was very, very interested in, but the time hadn't come. Computing wasn't ubiquitous, it wasn't cheap, there wasn't a cloud out there. My little TI explorer used to struggle and it would get hot and things like that. So things have come a long way and it's come even further from the 15 years back when I used to work on IoT and Edge and embedded systems when it was not sexy. So today is a very special day and that's why I like that Industry 4.0 slide. Earlier this morning, during the keynotes, we heard our pre-talk about all the different possible applications and they're trying to come up with a glossary of what an edge is and the size of the edges and I'm going to say I don't care.  So for me, the edge is something distant from your data center but something very close to the source of data. You're going to process your data right where it's created so you don't have response latencies that are large, you don't need a lot of network bandwidth to transmit it somewhere but you have your smarts where you need it and we're actually in an agent space where there's going to be a data deluge and you don't want to really be transmitting every boring thing you're doing up or seeing or hearing into a cloud for processing and storage and we heard another talk this morning at the keynote about how data centers are competing with the airline industry for their carbon footprint. You know, I'm bigger, I'm wider, I'm going to heat up the planet faster type of thing. So some of this is also going to relieve that by not having to transmit so much data by processing it sooner, by not having to store everything and making some kind of storage arrays that are taller than Mount Everest. So the edge will depend on the application, the compute that it has, the hardware acceleration it has, etc, etc for the problem. So that's why the edge is important because we want to do stuff close to where the data is and all the other good stuff it brings like reducing response latency, network bandwidth, and also preserving privacy. So this brings us to what is edgex and I wanted to start out by saying what it is and what it is not and on day one of our keynotes we were talking about mascots and whether they're cute or cuddly and edgex has a cute mascot. It's this octopus, beautiful purple, can't touch it so we can't know if it's slimy so let's assume it's a nice, soft, cuddly, happy octopus but it also says something about the octopus's arms. They have intelligence at their edge. It's not like there's only a central brain that does a lot of thing and that's the sort of stuff we wanted to carry over when we were talking about IoT and edge, that there is intelligence at those pods and those little sucker points all across your network where those edge resources lie, where those sensors lie etc. So let's see what edgex is. It's open source, it's part of the Linux foundation, it's part of the LF edge umbrella. It's been there for over a year now and it's picked up momentum, picked up more people, more developers. It provides data ingestion. It can do some amount of store and forward, it can forward everything, it can store a lot, it can process it, it can chew it up and throw it out or it can export it to any different cloud endpoint of yours. It provides multi-protocol connectivity and we'll come to that in a little bit like the different protocols. It's extensible, it's customizable so you can add different profiles for different kinds of sensors and it's chiefly written in Go. Originally it was in Java so it was a little bit of a chubby footprint. Most of it's moved to Go. They're pros and cons of having used Go. We don't quite get the plugin architecture that we were used to with Java, the plugin play kind of thing, the JVM does its class loader thing and loads the classes when you need it. Lost some of that with the Go but the footprint is much, much smaller. There's one component still in Java which is our rules engine. It hasn't yet reached the priority level like, hey, we need to replace this with something else so it's Java based, it's rules right now. There are a few services that are in C. It's cloud native, it's all microservice based so we can drop in new microservices, we can package maybe a machine learning model and drop it in there in a pipeline, et cetera so it's very, very modular in that sense, cloud native in that sense. It's event driven because as some sensor data arrives it triggers certain actions. This is temperature about 100, do something, the pressure is about something, turn on a valve, close, open something, et cetera. But what is it not? Now, it's not an orchestrator so it would fit in with another orchestrator, something like K3S, that's the talk I just attended, something like that I could work with or could just be one central cloud level manager saying launch the software on a certain node or a collection of nodes. It isn't a management plane so there will be some other central brain that will say do something, load something, et cetera. It has no opinion about the hardware it runs on. It will run on a Raspberry Pi 64 bit right now. It will run on X86 from any vendor type of stuff. It's not operating system opinionated either. Currently we're using Ubuntu but anything could go. It's not a problem. We just have to work on it and test that it works. So this is the picture of EdgeX. It will spend a few extra minutes on and it kind of captures what EdgeX really is. As I mentioned, it's an infrastructure. You know, one time we said when we're getting into this IoT space, let's develop a little IoT app and see what it takes. You have to have some kind of southbound protocol support whether it's serial bus, USB, RESTful API, whatever, some sensor data is to enter. You process it, you might save it and then you might export it somewhere. But always you can't assume you're going to have network connectivity and we were thinking about this from the automotive space. Let's not even worry about self-driving cars. What are the different kind of automotive applications we could have had there? We might want to have an insurance application. Was I driving too fast? Was I, you know, hitting the brakes too hard? I mean, those will result in different kind of wear and tear patterns on the car. You know, if you keep hitting those brakes often, those brake pads will erode away. If you're going to accelerate and speed a lot and do something else, your insurance rates go up. But if you're idling somewhere, not only are you just wasting fuel, but it's also indicative for a smart city that maybe you have to adjust those traffic lights. Maybe you have to build another lane. Maybe you have to kind of give some incentive to people to do some kind of shift in their work hours, whatever. So there's a lot of data you can pull out of a car and the way people are driving it without even worrying about autonomous driving. But that problem triggered a lot of other thought processes. What's speeding? Am I on that service road next to the highway? Am I on the highway? You know, that makes a difference. Do I get that GPS coordinates and map that to the speed limits in real time? It's not necessary for this sort of thing. It can be just collected, stored and processed later. Likewise, do I want to have a separate network connection in the car for this sort of data? It's not real time. You know, then I have to change some behavior based on that. It's perfectly fine to store it, process it and pump it up to maybe that insurance endpoint or my driving concur kind of application that wants to track how many miles I've driven or to a smart city app offline when the car's sitting in the garage. So there was like many thoughts like that that prompted us to say, hey, you know, do I need a data persistence layer? Do I need a data persistence layer that is as simple as a file system? And if so, how much space do I have on the system? Do I consolidate and make some higher level aggregate kind of information? Like if I'm driving at 60 miles an hour and let's say that's 15 miles over the speed limit, I don't really need to track that it was, you know, what it was at every second. I can consolidate and set, you know, Malini's speeding from two to three and she was driving at 60 miles an hour so you can collapse that information and kind of control this data dilutes kind of situation. So all those sort of processes that went through our head when we were thinking about an IoT application, we want to be able to support in a framework. So multiple ways of saving, multiple, you know, ways to look at the data and trigger certain actions. So that's where Rules Engine is useful. Then some notification alerts. Not always are we going to be like going to a cloud, but you still might want to notify this driver saying, hey, you're really speeding out here, beep, beep, beep, or do something else or in a factory scenario, some pressure or temperature has gone too high. So there's a notification component in there. Then everything you do, you want to be able to log for audit purposes, for tracing, debugging, et cetera, et cetera. So EdgeX is a framework to help you build those IoT applications and what will that end deployment on an Edge node look like? There will be the framework and then there will be the application software. The application software would also just be microservices over here. So with that, we're getting to the point about where's this code? How many of you have used EdgeX? One? One hand? Okay, I hope a few more join and get on board later, okay? So thank you for using EdgeX. So the codes available on GitHub, we have a good wiki and this was also mentioned in a keynote this morning about, you know, summer of docs. Getting on board EdgeX initially, there's a lot of recordings but it takes a lot of time to go through a recording. One hour meeting, not all of it is useful. Even my 35 minute talk, not all of it is going to be useful. There are a few nuggets that are useful. So it was important that we started building more documentation, writing the salient important things instead of expecting people to listen to a one hour talk for each little subcomponent. So wiki has improved significantly. The documentation has improved significantly. We have a Slack channel with a lot of friendly people ready to answer your questions and it's a total open source project with most decisions, maybe all decisions and all arguments in pros and cons, all of them coming up in our work group meetings. So we have weekly meetings for each of the subcomponents like the system management agent, the core services, the device services. So they all have their own work group meetings and then there's a weekly technical steering committee meeting and, you know, that's some of our developers who've made contributions. Ah, a lone person's picture's not here and there's Jim White too but that's where our code lies and some of it has been archived and I'm just showing you the go ones. So let's look what this EdgeX 1.0 is and how long it took to get here. Well, it started back in 2017 and another thing mentioned in a keynote today and at other talks in the same room is there's a big difference between a proof of concept and a product and all of that is here in EdgeX. There was an initial proof of concept way back in 2017 called Barcelona then came California and there's no real pattern in this other than they start letters of the alphabet. Next came Delhi and this 1.0 version is called Edinburgh. It stems from the fact that we met in Edinburgh about a year back when we were nailing down the features of this release and I just briefly mentioned here a few things, the blue box, but we'll get into more details. So EdgeX foundry 1.0 with our beautiful purple octopus and now we're getting the details. It's got enhancements in a component called the system management agent. This component will let you through, it's all API, REST API calls, you can say, hey, how much CPU am I using? Is there enough resources here to meet all my workload requirements? Am I at like 90%, 100% pegged? Is something else going on? And that's also useful for anomaly detection. If something weird is happening, some workload is doing something odd, consuming excess resources, denial of service. So we're collecting metrics and we can pump it out to some management plane, whatever your favorite management plane. It could be Amazon's, you know, AWS IoT or Azure or even VMware's Pulse IoT Center. It also allows you to check the status of all the different services. Like we mentioned, there's a registry service that I didn't quite mention. There's a notification service, a logging service. So each of these services is up and about and ready to do their business. Do I need to restart them? So the system management agent allows you to do that kind of, you know, visibility into the system. We introduced a correlation identifier, which helps you to trace end-to-end what's happening as the sensor data arrive. Let's say it's some camera input or a light bulb input. How did it go through the whole stack? It came in, it landed in the core data, it got saved into maybe the database. It triggered some rules in action. So that was an important thing. And most... At least when I worked in OpenStack 2, that wasn't something that they thought of first and I wonder why. But that's a very, very important thing. We've increased the number of unit tests and that can be a plus and a negative. There's some people get so excited about unit tests, they write it for the most trivial things. But a lot more unit tests have been introduced. There are now more black box tests and one other important thing is we've got black box testing now for the devices, for the core data, but we want to increase it to the other components and that's all going to be part of the next release. We have a new performance test framework in place and we have Linux Foundation resources to test these things, which is nice. We have made some improvements to the microservices. Now, what do I mean by improvement to microservices? These are going to be running sometimes on very constrained devices. Sometimes they might be on beefy devices. It's fine then. You can do anything and waste resources. No, we still want to be using things optimally. And one of the initial ways this was coded was a lot of data was being transferred between microservices. And we had a similar comment earlier today in the AI talk. Do you want to keep all the little components in your pipeline in a single container or in our cross containers in efficiencies, pros, cons, modular, non-modular? But when you're going to cross microservices you've lost that power, that joy, that shared memory gave you that you could have just used a reference and gotten everything you wanted.  So there have been some inefficiencies there in the initial design which we're improving and working on, but we cannot mess with the API and all because we're now at 1.0. We have to be respectful of that. So we're trying to do things keeping that API fixed. We also upgraded to go 1.11 and now we're using go modules. What else did we do in the HX1.0 release? We have beefed up the device SDK. Why is this device SDK important? Software development kit? It's important because we are not anticipating or thinking of every different device that somebody will imagine up and want to use in the IoT space. It could be a heart monitor. It could be a diabetes sugar monitor. It could be your heart rate just about anything and your happy little light bulb. Is it on, off? Is your winter buying doing something? What else is it transmitting? Those are some very complex systems. So the SDK lets you create those device profiles and once you've created them you just launch it as a device service and every field it transmits it's part of that profile and then the type of that value is it a string, is it a boolean, is it a 64-bit integer, whatever all that sort of stuff you get to specify in your device SDK. And eventually the commands, what can I do? Is it to turn on or off that light bulb? Do I have to maybe give somebody a little shock to get their heart beats in sync? So that's where the commands come in. And then we have introduced and this is really like 0.1 version the application SDK. Now that was at the device side but what do you do higher up in the stack? You might want to process this data differently. If it's heartbeat data something if it's blood sugar data something else but that's in the space of the application. The domain knowledge comes from those people who create these sort of applications not as edgex framework people. So we want to make it easy enough to introduce a pipeline drop in a different machine learning model maybe do some other kind of smoothing alerting whatever so that piece will fall into the application SDK and I think that's a very, very important piece and that's maturing in this next upcoming release. Another thing with any open source project is you shouldn't be opinionated you should be inclusive in allowing different products to be dropped in and used but what does that mean you need another layer of abstraction you say I want data persistence and you should have commands but underlying that how does it get saved? Do you use a Redis database? Do you use a MongoDB database? Or like that simple automotive application for insurance that I was talking about maybe you don't even want data persistence and triple copy etc. Maybe the file system is enough or maybe you just want to pass through data so part of this Edinburgh release was he started offering different layers you know options for persistence so with all things open source great you can look at the code but is that what anybody wants to do and they want to just take it for a test drive, use it see if it makes sense for them you know figure out its pluses and minuses no they really want some documentation so I launch it is there some Docker compose file that I can just say run and then you know it pulls the right images and launches it, are there tutorials is there a dev kit and yes you can run EdgeX on a dev kit from there or by your own Raspberry Pi for about $35, $40 and get going and definitely you can run it in a VM which is what we did initially you can run it on your laptop so we've done a lot more you know support in there to onboard new users so that's a big big invitation please come and use it it's really friendly and if you find an issue and say hey your documentation sucks please drop an issue and we'll fix it we really wanted to get stronger, better and be more used another very important thing is we've introduced a lot more sample device services so Alex who's in front who you know put his hand up saying he used EdgeX, he contributed a GPS device service this was born from our work when we were doing that automotive insurance application and we said well now that we know about EdgeX and that it has all the framework requirements we need and we adopted this as the project we're going to work on we said hey let's put in a GPS device then we wanted to put an OBD device and that's going to come later but it also has some random devices an MP1 for network devices so a bunch of things and you can start using the device simple as your template so what are all the different southbound protocols that's one of the advantages of you know leveraging EdgeX you don't want to be building all the different protocols yourself that's the power of community so we have backnet support in there that's the one used typically for building automation there's Modbus which is used by the industrial internet of things there's BLE and there's MQTT so most IoT systems have MQTT that's been around for 4-5 years a lightweight messaging system but the other two were very important to break our way and path into the industrial space and the housing space another very important thing that came up with the 1.0 release is support for binary data it's all fine if you're just talking about temperature and pressure and you know the number 64 bits whatever but when you're talking about video data or high definition camera data that's a lot of data and this was contributed by Intel so I must call out it's not just as VMware with our team but there's a lot of input from Dell there's a lot of input from Intel and you know the industry is coming together to make this happen not only the gateway vendors camera vendors, hardware vendors but we're trying to make this something that anybody and everybody can adopt easily and I think seaboard data support was to help make all this image and video data support possible without you know busting all your resources and making that serial line etc work so last but not least you know all of IoT can have mud on it if it isn't secure and 1.0 release started talking and getting a little more serious about security wasn't just about some functionality and hey I got my you know light bulb to talk and I turned it off type of thing but we've started really addressing security there was a talk yesterday by Ting Yu Zheng from Dell who's done a lot of the threat modeling and he had a talk which covered all the things that are there today and coming up we've essentially used the stride threat model where leveraging proven patterns for security like you know have a secure gateway don't let all the rest api endpoints be visible to the outside world for people to poke and prod like you don't want some somebody coming and touching the system management agent and saying hey services restart or poking into the database and pulling out data so we have a gateway and behind that it's like a reverse proxy all the other services are there behind it so that's in place already with the number O today we have just one certificate for that gateway and then one for the secret store but tomorrow in the future release the next F release we'll have different certificates for each of the services and they'll have their own private channel for communicating with the secret store and outside then the secret store today it has an encryption key but we want to beef that up further with hardware layer for security under it something like a TPM based solution so that's our plan and this is where we are today with eject security we do have a security gateway we have a single set of keys and certificate for the main gateway and then we are looking at the threat model and trying to make it much stronger so to summarize security today secure communications PKI secret store this uses hashicorp vault it also uses hashicorp Kong for the gateway we have created because it's our one or release a security incident response you know process we have a small team of people so it's on need to know basis you know like mission impossible if you know it you better know it because you have a reason to know it and then we will triage it like any hospital type of thing see whether we can resolve it whether we can mitigate it and document it and publish it as necessary what else can I say about it so that's a private email only a few people get to see it and it's really controlled and will be responsible with our disclosures so this brings us to what's next October 7th to 8th we have a hackathon Henry Lau might be somewhere around and I said hey you know you should say how about a ten thousand dollar prize you didn't say the prize money but we're inviting users of IOT or anybody eager to try it out to you know apply it to a real world problem is it retail is it healthcare or something and see how it can meet their needs and in the process we also learn like what did we miss what else should we build because you can't imagine everything November 4th to 7th and I hope some of you will decide to adopt Ajax income everyone's welcome we have a face to face where we will decide the next features the G release features prior to that by the end of October or early November maybe around the time of that face to face we hope to release our Fuji version and I mentioned earlier we have our weekly meetings now I'm going to give you a little peek of what's coming in Fuji already hinted they're going to be security enhancements today's secrets if you have 10 services over there actually they're 12 they can see each other's secrets so it's like a trusted cabal of services but when we want to go more secure they're going to have their own secrets their own public private key pair certificates so that's the plan and as you launch the system they'll get their own keys or you can import those keys Alex over here is working on a command line interface for Ajax it was born of his own frustration when he was building the GPS device services oh my god I have to have all these curl commands I have to maybe keep them in a script and execute them and most of the developers had gotten used to doing that and they say oh you know I don't need it but then once he started pitching he said we need it we want it and this is so awesome so when he demoed it there was a lot of positive feedback and that's coming up soon Fuji release we'll be building cloud connectors to some of the well known clouds and you know Alibaba 2 may be in for the China market so we have plans for AWS Azure and VM Web Pulse IoT Center now there's a certification group so is this going to meet our API somebody's deployment or someone's reference implementation beat on a Raspberry Pi with XYZ amount of RAM or whatever so there'll be a certification process we're going to introduce more manageability to the APIs one of my special interests is to be able to update the software on an edge device we've seen this spectrum there's meltdown there's a new go module security you know CVE and I need to update my edge nodes and that's one of the places where you can have the major attack that's why you know IoT is hard because of the threat surface and so I would like to see in those APIs one could you know updating the software on my edge not just the application software mentioned earlier a leaner meaner inter microservice communication you know solution also mentioned earlier a richer application pipeline more black box testing testing testing testing always good and definitely performance testing so I'd like to call out that tomorrow my colleague Alex has a talk is he's going to be running EdgeX on a Raspberry Pi and he calls it as easy as Pi there were some not so easy moments and the Pi was burning in the oven type of stuff oh and I have it as Raspberry Pi okay anyway so tomorrow his talk is there please come he's an excellent speaker and he'll give you a good demo of EdgeX too and his CLI his CLI lets you even do meta level commands like dumping the database seeing what's in there etc and yesterday Tingyu Zeng from Dell spoke about security in EdgeX and his slides and his talk will also be available so please take a look so you feel more comfortable about using the system and with that I'm open to questions thank you for coming thank you


Now always remember, don't panic, okay? If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We bring you the winners and we bring them to you first. We're going to talk to a company today, the Chief Growth Officer. And the company name is Universal PropTech. The Chief Growth Officer will be joining us in about half an hour. I wanted to go live early just to kind of gear up the news, talk a little bit about the news, go through the news, and then answer any of your questions. If you guys have any questions, we'll go through that as well. If you do have any questions, please put it in the chat. I'll do my best to answer your questions. And if you have any questions for UPI, Universal PropTech, Chief Growth Officer Frank Carnavelle, let me know. And I'll do my best to make sure I ask those questions of Frank when he joins us at the top of the hour. In the meantime, hope everyone's having a great day. Very interesting week so far. Monday started very poorly with a lot of red, a lot of panic. Here at the Trading Club, there was no panic. We told everyone that we felt that this was just a simple retrace with the market coming back from all-time highs. And that's essentially what's happened after the big retrace on Monday and the big red day on Monday. We've seen two green days. Yesterday we had a green day. Big green day. And today we're having a green day again. So the market's getting back all the gains they gave up on Monday. And this is a good sign. It shows that the market is strong. Shows that the economy strong. And I believe it shows that we're going to continue with this bull market that we've been in for the last few years. Now, if you are not familiar with Rich TV Live, you can go and subscribe to Rich TV Live on YouTube. You can go to richtvlive.com. You can go to richpigsdaily.com and join our community of traders which are literally all over the world. It's been obviously a tougher market over the last few months. Market's been extremely choppy after going up to all-time highs. We've had trouble consistently breaking all-time highs. I think all assets have had that trouble. We've seen that happen with gold. We've seen it happen with oil. We've seen it happen with Bitcoin. And we're seeing it happen in the stock market. So it seems as though we're in a very interesting market where we are seeing all-time highs. But once we see all-time highs, we typically retrace and sell off from all-time highs. So what I want to do is I want to talk about the news that Universal PropTech has. I thought it was pretty big news. I want to break it down a little bit before Frank joins us. And then when Frank joins us, if you guys have any questions, please let me know what those questions are and I'll do my best to make sure that I deliver those questions to Frank when he joins us. So the big news this morning is Universal PropTech UPI in Canada on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange, UPIPF in America on the OTC QB Exchange, and 8LH in Frankfurt, Germany. It's pleased to announce that on July 19, 2021, which was Monday, the company signed a letter of intent to acquire the exclusive Canadian rights to several micro grid technologies and sales leads with respect to the PACE property-assessed clean energy program from a Canadian micro grid energy services company. The company intends to complete its due diligence and enter into a definitive agreement within 60 days. So I'm very excited to learn more about this news. Obviously, Frank always likes to hold everything close to his chest. So I have no idea what he's gonna be able to tell us, but I wanna be able to break this news down as much as possible when Frank joins us. Universal PropTech is intending to acquire the exclusive rights to develop a municipal program of micro grid technologies and services across Canada, stated Frank Carnavelle, Chief Growth Officer, Universal PropTech Inc. who will be joining us in 25 minutes. The PACE program is a unique way to bring low carbon solutions to the masses and expand our reach. So it just seems like this company just continues to put deals together. They continue to put deals together despite the fact that they're priced at 24 cents right now in Canada. The company intends to sell, deploy services, service micro grid technologies towards the development of PACE programs, existing customers, and towards the development of additional energy resource opportunities as outlined in the company's vision, unleashing the value from energy. That's interesting. Unleashing the value from energy is the company's vision. What are the assets? The Canadian micro grid energy services company has amassed Canadian rights to several renewable and battery technologies exclusively for the PACE program and non-exclusively for other direct customer sales. This just to me looks like more revenue for a company that has no debt and is building what looks to be a portfolio of revenue generating assets. Asset Co has also developed a number of sales leads, including providing micro grid technologies to municipal PACE program and additionally with industrial, commercial, and agricultural customers. Also I'll let you guys know that Rich Pigs Daily and Rich TV Live, we are also working with our own custom designer. These are shirts that have been custom fitted. I don't know if you guys can see my initials there. The already initials. Yeah, so I got my initials on my shirt. I got Rich Pigs Daily in my suits. I got four new suits that are custom fitted that are coming, I'm gonna show you guys. 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We're gonna be doing custom hats, suits, hoodies, track suits, shoes. You name it, we'll do it. And we're excited about it. And we're excited about the evolution of our platform to be quite frank. And let's talk a little bit about this news about the PACE program. Both commercial and residential PACE programs share a common foundation as they allow a property owner to finance the upfront cost of energy or other eligible improvements on a property and then pay the cost back over time. I like that. Between 10 to 20 years, through a voluntary assessment, the unique characteristic of PACE assessments is that the assessment is attached to the property rather than to an individual. Interesting. PACE programs remove several significant barriers. Property owners don't have to put money up front. That's huge. Their credit rating may not matter. Interest rates remain low and they don't have to keep paying back the loan if they move. For lenders, the loans are low risk because they're secured through property tax which has low defaults, high priority and adequate security. As of 2019, over 200,000 US homeowners have made 5 billion USD in energy efficiency and other improvements to their homes through PACE financing model. Whoa, this is big. As of June, 2021, there are at least 34 clean energy financing programs available across Canada. Each participating municipality may decide what measures are eligible towards the PACE program. Connection to forward guidance consistent with the corporate second half 2021 guidance reported on June 30, 2021. The agreement with asset co-pending a definitive agreement enables the company to deliver on strategic targets, round out additional capabilities to deliver healthy buildings such as building automation, building performance, indoor air quality and energy resources, expand our share of the wallet from existing and new clients by offering additional products and solutions and developing alternate asset classes offering financing and or owning energy assets about Universal PropTech Inc. Universal PropTech Inc. UPI in Canada on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange, UPIPF on the OTCQB exchange and 8LH as in eight Larry, Harry and my lucky number is eight is a leading building innovation company selecting, integrating, deploying and maintaining PropTech in healthy buildings. As trusted advisors, we provide holistic evidence driven solutions and services for building developers, owners and operators in Canada. UPI operates through its wholly owned subsidiary VCI controls a leading supplier and integrator of PropTech healthy building solutions and services. VCI is an industry leader in the acquisition and development of intelligent building technology including the integration of all building systems utilizing the latest in communication technologies and standards. VCI's business focuses on digital controls and mechanical services, performance monitoring and energy efficiency solutions. It's pretty big news. So that's the big news that came out this morning. Now, for whatever reason, UPI is not performing greatly despite the news. To me, that's interesting but I also believe it's an opportunity. So let's just see what some of the members have to say. Good morning, Robert. How you doing in Toronto? That's my city, man. I'm a home Toronto boy and home is where the heart is and I love Toronto. I miss Toronto. Hope everyone in Toronto is doing well and hope you're doing well, Robert and get to hear from you, my friend. And let's see what Johnny Liberty says, hit the like button, people. Smash that like. It really allows the video to go viral. So more people can learn about Universal PropTech and potentially hear about the news and maybe learn about the stock. It's true. Jeffrey, how you doing, Jeffrey? Thank you for being a part of the club, my friend. Jeffrey says, hey, Rich, UPI is a winner. Thanks, bro. We're early to the party with UPI. You had me at no debt. No debt, growing revenue, growing company seems to be consistently putting out news of new acquisitions. I think this is an early stage rocket. We've found more early stage rockets than anyone else on the planet and I believe UPI is no different. This will be an early stage rocket and I believe that we will see them at $1 plus in the future. Now, when is that gonna happen? I have absolutely no idea. I don't have a crystal ball but I'm very good at breaking down the fundamentals and this is a company that is fundamentally sound and I think the price is right. Do I think it could go lower? I think anything is possible. We could potentially see it go a little bit lower, maybe 10% lower but I think the upside from here is tremendous, especially if you're thinking long-term, I think the upside is great at these levels. Callie says, really excited for this company. You and me both, my friend. Amanda, the Pip Queen says, smash the likes peeps. Yeah, you know, I appreciate it when you guys smash those likes and if you guys would like to learn more about UPI or Rich TV Live or Rich Pigs Daily or our evolving garment company, you guys would like to get your own suits whether you're male, female, short, tall, physically fit, thin, a little bit bigger, it doesn't matter.  His keel, Shaheed says, morning, Rich, did you buy any shares of UPI? I've bought shares of UPI in the past and I've sold and took profits and I'm actually looking at positioning myself again in UPI. I've been watching it sell off and looking for a great entry. Last time I got in at 27, sold at 34, our whole community knew about that trade and now we're back to 24 again and I'm hunting another entry and I'm very interested in getting in again very, very soon. And if I do, I will let you know and of course our club members always know first. Der Falk says, agree, looks cool. Hey, I appreciate you, thank you very much. And if you guys have any questions for Universal PropTech, now is the time to put it in the chat so I can digest those questions and get them organized so that when Frank joins us in 15 minutes or less, we're able to deliver those questions directly to the chief growth officer, Frank Carnavelle from Universal PropTech, company with no debt, growing revenues, and I believe as a company that is undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. I love the fundamentals of this company, no debt, growing revenue, great growing management team and a very tight share structure, under 50 million shares, which to me means bingo. If you're under 50 million shares, you got my attention. Gilbert says, earn a report this week or next, increased revenues would jumpstart the share price. I agree with you, in a market like this that is really tough to be quite frank, the biggest catalyst will always be growing revenues. So I think it's important that we're always looking at the fundamentals of all the companies that we're talking to, interviewing, investing in and understand the fundamentals intrinsically. What is the debt to equity ratio? What is the burn rate? What does the balance sheet look like? Does the company have debt? Does the company have cash on hand? If they do have cash on hand, what are they using the cash for? These are the types of questions we like to ask the CEOs. Mike D says, set is looking sharp, Rich. Great, thank you. I appreciate you, Mike. And thank you for being here and thank you for being a member of our community. And like I said, guys, if you're not winning, you're probably not watching, bring in the winners and we bring them to first. And to be quite frank, as Rich TV Live evolves and Rich Picks Daily evolves, we don't even know where this is going to go. We just know that we'll be winning, right? We know that we'll be winning because we're gonna continue to find these early stage rockets first. And I believe that Universal PropTech falls in that category of an early stage rocket that has so much potential because just look at the fundamentals. The fundamentals are screaming undervalued. Screaming, undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. There's a sea of companies in the small cap space that are overvalued. Trading at $2, $3, even higher, making a million a month, some of them even less. This is a company making a million a month and growing that number, that's priced at 24 cents, has no debts. Great management team, growing revenue, super tight share structure. There's really nothing they're missing. Javier Romero says, all right, very well, very well. Now, do you guys have any questions for Universal PropTech? My question to you is, do you guys have any questions for Universal PropTech? It's nice to see Bitcoins having a rally today. I've been a big fan of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency since 2017, nothing has changed. Just because a stock or a crypto goes down from all time highs doesn't mean I change my opinion on the company, especially when the fundamentals are sound, still a very big proponent and fan of Bitcoin and blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and how it will continue to be. And clearly you can see Bitcoin is rebounding and having a nice trend reversal. Hopefully this continues and that is a very big catalyst for blockchain stocks. Anything blockchain related, Bitcoin related is having a pretty strong day today and that's because we're seeing Bitcoin rebound. Now the question is, will this continue? Well, you gotta stay tuned. And if you stay tuned, we'll be on top of it every single day. Here at Rich Pigs Daily and Rich TV Live, we're on top of crypto every single day. We're on top of the stock market every single day. We interview early stage companies every single day. So love to have your opinions on Universal PropTech and we will have Frank Carnabelle, the Chief Growth Officer of Universal PropTech joining us in 11 minutes or less. Pretty excited about it. And I'm excited to learn more about this news. But I haven't had any questions from the audience, which is surprising. Usually I'm getting flooded with questions. Maybe it's summertime, people may be on vacation. People might have no questions. I'm not sure exactly why we have no questions yet. But if you do have a question for Universal PropTech, UPI, UPI-PF in America, Frank Carnabelle, Chief Growth Officer, now's the time so that I'm prepared to deliver the question to Frank. If not, then that's fine. We can just hang out, wait for Frank and then when Frank gets here, I've got some questions myself. You guys like the set? Turn the lights on today. So I mean, I don't turn the lights on all the time, but once in a while we'll turn on the lights. Sometimes we won't, sometimes we will. We have a few different sets that we're developing and putting together. So stay tuned. You're gonna see a few different sets, a few different options, a few different ways of delivering our content. And we're excited, we're excited about September. I'm truly gearing up for September right now. I feel like all of our club members are gearing up for September. And I feel like the market is gearing up for September. And if the market just keeps going up and keep going up and keep going up, we're not gonna have a big fall. But if the market goes up and then retraces and pulls back, then what it does, it gives us an opportunity to get in again at the bottom for the next bull run. And I truly believe it's coming. Typically between September and December, the markets are pretty exciting, specifically in small caps. So I anticipate a very strong September to December as everyone gets back to work after the summer, kids go back to school. I think that that is typically a catalyst for everyone back to the markets. And I'm anticipating a very strong September to January 2022. And I'm literally gearing up and preparing for that right now. Troy says, looking good, my brother, let's get that paper. Hey, what's up, man? I don't know if you saw this, but I got my initials. I got my initials. I don't know if you guys can see that, but I got my initials already on my shirt here. And I've got four custom suits and some shirts coming. I've got some Rich Pigs daily golf shirts coming. So stay tuned. If you guys would like some of those, let me know. We'll do our best to, you know, maybe get some out to our community members, maybe share some with the members that have some good questions. Hey, Michelle, how you doing? Good to see you, Michelle. Thank you for being a part of the Trading Club. Thank you, Troy, for being a part of the Trading Club. What's up, Newge? My man, long time no see. Hope you're doing well. Get to see here on the stream. You like the set? Thanks, bro. I appreciate it, man. Thank you for being a great leader and member of the Trading Club, my friend. I really appreciate it. Business, financial network. How you doing, my friend? How you like the set? You liking the set? Troy says, I want that shirt with my initials though. Hey, we'll get you one. I'll get you a few, my friend. I got a whole, I got a whole new wardrobe coming. I got like four new suits, all custom fit. I got two new dress shirts just like this with my initials on them. Two golf shirts with Rich Pigs Daily coming. And I'm gonna be making more hats. And I wanna get like track suits. I wanna get it all, all Rich Pigs Daily, Rich TV Live, custom fitted stuff. You don't have to put Rich TV Live or Rich Pigs Daily or my initials on your stuff. You can put your initials. You can have whatever you want in your suits. You can have your own name in your suits. You can have your own company name in your suits. You can put winning in your suits. You can do whatever you want. That's the beauty of having custom made suits. And we're now doing custom made suits. We're not only in the stock game. We're not only in the real estate game. We're not only in the crypto game, but now we're getting into the custom fitted, clothing, suits, shirts, ties, hats game. It's true. And we're just getting started. You know we're just getting started. Ride or die, brother. Ride or die, my friend. Ride or die. Hey, business, financial network. If you would like some suits, just let me know. I know you like suits. You know, I know you like to wear suits on your show.  Maybe get some RC. You know, I got the RD. If you guys can, if you guys can see that. If you guys can see that, see that RD? If you can see that. See that, right? You guys can see that, right? The RD, yeah. So just wanted to make sure you guys can see that. You know, we roll in style here, you know? And we don't follow trends. We create trends, right? We don't follow trends. We create trends. Oh man, we live in a dream, guys. We live in a dream. All right, let's see what Troy has to say. We're getting ready for the huge way of coming. Interviews are going to blow up hence the suits. Yes, sir. A lot of our clients are saying, you know, we're on vacation, but come September, we need to be ready. So yeah, we'll be ready in July. We'll be ready in August. We'll be ready in September. But I fully intend that and expect that come September, you guys will see us really busy. Right now we're doing maybe one, maybe two videos a day. Come September, I anticipate it'll be more like two to five videos a day. We'll get really, really busy. And everybody's gonna want the additional exposure because the markets are going to be on fire and everyone's going to want to be getting exposure and everyone's gonna want to get rich with rich and we'll be ready. Question is, will you be ready? So thank you for joining us. If you guys have any questions for Frank, you should be joining us any minute. You'll be joining us any minute. Evolution, Amanda. That's right. That's clean. I like it, brother. It's super clean. You can see the inside? See the inside? So not only can we get your initials on the shirts, but we get you like patterns on the insides. Like you see these patterns? Well, you could create your own patterns on the insides of the shirts and the suits on the lining of the suits, just wait till I show you guys what I have on the lining of the suits. That's gonna be a surprise. But we literally could put whatever you want on the inside of your suits.  You got a company. You want to advertise your company? We could put your company on the inside of the suits. You want to put your name? You want to put a picture of a lion, of a bull? We could do that too. So pretty cool. I got a lot of cool things up our sleeves, tricks up our sleeves, and stay tuned. It's all coming very, very soon. And you know who else is coming? Frank Carnavelle from Universal Prop Tech should be joining us literally any minute. So pretty excited. Can't wait to hear from Frank. And I'm still waiting for questions from the audience. Do you guys not have any questions?  Because if he has, it's gonna be a tough interview. I'm not gonna have... What am I gonna ask him? I need some questions, guys. There's gotta be some questions. You guys have to have some questions. Jay Gonzo says, hope all you legends are having a great day. Hey, how you doing, Jay? Good to see you, brother. Oh, and look who we got. Look who we got here. Think Frank is trying to join us? Oh, Troy says, excited, took my position at 24. Great entry price. Great entry price, brother. Great entry price. All right, Nuj has a question. In his opinion, what does the market need to see the stock price to go up? Hey, good question. Thank you. And if you guys have more questions, now's the time. That's why we do these interviews, right? Jay has a spotlight update, okay? Interesting. Video's not working. Oh, okay. You know, this is the first time I'm using this camera. Maybe that's why. Okay. So, all right, let me try something different here. Give me a second. Sorry, Frank, give me one second. One second. Okay, guys, I'm gonna end the stream and I'm gonna start it again. I apologize because something's going wrong because of the fact that I'm using an external camera. So give me one second. Give me one second. I'm gonna end the stream and then start it again, real quick.  Hold on one sec.