I'm doing something pretty spontaneous. Okay, Q and A time. So how was your first kiss? I wanna get married now and have kids like now. But that's just me. Hey guys, so I just wanted to start vlogging today because I'm doing something pretty spontaneous. Me and Laura are going to Cocoa Beach to watch the sunset and eat dinner. We literally didn't have anything to do today. We woke up so late. We like took showers really late. So now we're just like, what the heck are we gonna do? And I made it a goal to go at least once a month, but that didn't happen. But I need to charge my camera before I take it. So, here we go. Getting our snack bag ready over there. Peep my popcorn. And I'm gonna eat my pasta from yesterday really quick because I didn't go to meal plan. We have my beach bag, towel, camera, GoPro. I brought my GoPro. We should totally use it today because I feel like I never use my GoPro. Then I brought my tripod, another jacket, I'm scared it's gonna be too cold. Do you have a jacket? Bring a jacket, okay. So we've started our drive to Cocoa Beach, Florida. And we have about an hour to go. We started at like 2.55 or something like that. I left like my good sunglasses at home. So sorry for the clashing. So it just opened up like my center console and it's filled with like lipsticks and just chapsticks and everything. It looked so pretty. I was like, what the, you literally have Sephora in here. Also, I changed my sunglasses cause Laura said I was clashing, so. We're going over a bridge, hold your breath. I used to do that all the time when I was little, really. I would get really scared. We made it. Woo! Now we can get out of this car. Paying for parking. I don't know why it's taking so long though. I'm so glad we did that. Same. So gorgeous. Just having a little photo shoot. My hair got too gray. Q and A time guys. I didn't get a lot of questions just because it was kind of short notice but half of them are from my friends and they're probably going to be really stupid in appropriate questions. So, okay. Somebody asked me, do you have a middle name? I do minus Senali. I didn't even get my middle name. My middle name is Mary and I'm Catholic. So that's kind of why it's like Indian, American, Indian, you know, Senali, Mary, Prabhu. Kind of sounds weird but that was my mom's middle name and my sister got my grandma's middle name which was Anne, what about you? She's a cool one. No, I don't. Okay, well I have like a second first name and that's the same app. And then my actual middle name is Gonzales which is my mom's maiden name. Oh, I did not know that. Margaret, you're mean. Do you want to get married to Ryan? Yes. I want to wring on my finger right now. Ryan, where you at? No, I'm serious. He's a good dude. Good dude, man. Keep good dudes around, right? Does she want to get married to Antonio? No. What? Yes, of course. I don't know, I feel like we wouldn't be dating if we didn't see that, you know what I mean? And you know, anything could happen.   So we're just trying to cruise along. We're only sophomores in college. So I mean, we can dream, we can pinterest everything that we want. But right now it's not going to happen, unfortunately. Cause I want to get married now and have kids like now. But that's just me. You're go-to makeup products. I don't know, like if I was stranded on an island and couldn't like only had to take like two things, I'd probably take like mascara and like concealer. Cause like I don't really need foundation. And if I just put concealer under my eyes, it like almost looks like I'm wearing foundation. One of my favorite products right now is this Oprah highlighter. It's Beverly Hills. It is popping. It's always popping. And I literally, before this, I had Laura Geller Gilded Honey. And like, yeah, that had like really nice shine. But like it's, it doesn't pop on me for some reason. And like everyone else uses it. Like it's in every other like beauty video. But I don't know. So the Oprah ones actually like pop. And they're not chunks of glitter cause I have the Urban Decay illuminated one. And that's literally glitter on your face, which sometimes I like everything. But sometimes. But no, Oprah is hands down amazing. And like I can't go a day without it now. So that's definitely one of my very first favorite products right now. What about you? I'm not as into makeup as Sonali is. But I've really been loving my morphe palette. Oh yeah, she got the 350. Yeah, I just have that one. So it's like my favorite thing ever. I need to add that to my birthday list. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I just like, because like I'm more of a matte person when it comes to eyeshadows cause glitter just doesn't look good on me. I know. But it's very. I'm super into that too right now. Sometimes I miss glitter and I'll be like, oh my God, I have so many glitter eyeshadows. Let's just do a glitter eye. But that's like the only reason I'll wear it because I just know that matte looks so much better on me. Yeah, I'm jealous. I actually do have that on my birthday list. So Ryan, morphe 350, matte. What is your favorite activity that you guys like to do? These spazs in our apartment. Literally. Yes. That's my favorite thing that we do. Our rooftop photo shoot. Yes. Oh, yes. On top of our apartment, you probably saw it in like other vlogs, but we like to go on top of our rooftop and take pictures. And last formal, me and Ryan took pictures. She took pictures of us.  We're like, it was literally on top of like my apartment building, but thanks for thinking that. So it looks like really cool. It looks like edgy, but kind of like nice background. Yeah, this was like our first spontaneous thing ever, like coming to Cocoa Beach on a Wednesday. Like what the heck? So random. Yeah, I was just like, we don't have anything to do today. Let's just go to Cocoa Beach all drive. And yeah, we need to do more stuff like this, spontaneous stuff, but I'm not spontaneous.  So because I didn't have anything to do, I was like, okay, I'll be spontaneous just for this one day. And that's it of my Snapchat Q&A. That was so long. Thank you guys for asking me questions. I know it was like really short notice, so that's why I didn't really get a lot of questions, but I have a question for you. Yeah, okay, that's good. So how was your first kiss?  I feel like it's anticlimactic. What about you? Okay, well, my first kiss actually happened last year. Hey, two Antonio, right? Two Antonio, and it was super awkward. I think like- Wait, where was it? In my bedroom. Oh, damn, that is awkward, I feel like. Well, like I feel like my whole life, I wanted my whole, like my first kiss to be so perfect. So there have been times where it could have happened to like, yeah, elementary boyfriend, or like middle school boyfriend. Yeah. But like, I just didn't want it to happen then because like that's not what I want it to be. And I just, I think you have to realize like it's not going to be perfect. No.  You know what I mean?  What's our most embarrassing thing that we've ever done like with each other, like Summer B or like from now? I can't, I can't even think of it. Okay, my most embarrassing thing, I don't know if she told you guys yet, but like, it's Summer B. I was so spazzy because we literally never left, like she wasn't even my roommate, but like she always came over, but we never left my dorm.  And so I was like trying to do like a cheerleading move, like a scorpion, I don't even know what to call it. On top of a chair is like the one leg up. Yeah. A lip, lip. So yeah, on top of a chair, and it literally fell over, and it was like a high chair. It was not like low chair, it was a high chair. And it fell over and literally, she has the worst scar ever.  Like, oh my God, it was so bad. And then I like ran away. Well, you can tell the story. Okay. I feel like it's funny when I'm cheating. So Sonali, like I think whenever she gets like embarrassed or hurt, this has happened a lot actually, where she just runs away from like you. And I'm like, okay, whatever.  So I go into her room and she's like FaceTiming Ryan. And like she starts crying. And I got so confused because I was like, I thought they had like an issue with their relationship. But in reality, it was literally her crying about her boo-boo. Yeah. Well, it didn't even hurt at the time. But when I put ice on it, it stung so bad that I like started bawling my eyes out. And she's like, don't tell anyone. And I was like, okay, I'm sorry, bye. And I was kind of embarrassed too. So I feel like I don't get embarrassed. Yeah. That is really crazy. Pub. That was embarrassing. Oh yeah, she broke her heel. It was like a wedge, right? Yeah. She broke her wedge. How do you break a wedge? Let me know. Let me know. I don't understand. But the thing is like have dancing for like three hours and then I realized it was fun though. Yeah. It was a fun time. All you UCF people never wear wedges to pub. It's not a thing. I don't know why we did ever. I literally wore wedges like twice and no one ever told me like, what are you doing? Like you're not supposed to wear that. So like, I just like wore a- So what do you wear now? Just sandals. Oh really? Yeah.  Yeah. Like you should get like, every time I come home from like pub or live, my feet are like black. The bar tower and it's disgusting. The sunset's really pretty. Weirdest fact about you. Oh, I have a good one. I can literally pick up anything with my toes. I've done it so many times this is all like, look. Okay. Let's see this. All right. Pick up that speaker right there. No. No. No, that's easy. Yeah. This is hard. Yeah. Well, this is like not even- Uh-huh. That was a fail. She lied. Okay. What was a weird fact about you? You already know. Really? You already know. I eat kernels for a living. Oh. Really? No, literally any time I make popcorn, she's like, can you save me some?  I think I brought it. I think it's in the car actually. And I brought popcorn just to eat the kernels. And I saw this life hack at On Hailey Williams channel. I don't know if you guys watch her but she like does DIYs.  So I'm gonna do that hack next time. Just kidding. I mean, I like popcorn and like it's yummy when you put garlic salt on it. Really quick, I wanted to mention my outfit. I got this sweater at Forever 21 but like literally I ripped it so bad that I like put it all the way down. Like it was literally like a sweater like this but I like ripped it because there's like a hole in the back. Can you see it? It's right here? Yeah. There's like a hole in the back. So I was like, okay. Actually this was the front. So I switched this to the front but this actually has the tag on it. And I just DIYed a shirt real quick and I pushed it down. And then I'm wearing like flowy pants, boutilles and everyone was asking where my jumper was for Forever 21. What about you? Where's your? I'm just wearing a bathing suit. Well, I am wearing a bathing suit under getting we're at the beach. So. You can make that one for yourself. I'm Tentonia Gabi. And then I'm wearing... Tell us the meaning. Put it on my hand. Wow, so YouTuber. I know. It just is the date in Roman numerals of our like the first time we started dating. Like our anniversary date and he actually got it for me for one year. So. My top is from Ross because that's where your girl shops all the time and it just has these really cool flowy sleeves. And then I'm just wearing some leggings for Forever 21.  All that garlic beanie. You saw we were done with pictures? Now we're on to boomerangs. Two, three. Just got to the place we're eating dinner at. It's Jazzy's mainly lobster. About to get some lobster rolls maybe. When I get the lobster roll, I found these vintage cards. They're so vintage. So vintage. These are like $50? Yeah, PB. I don't even know that you show them. They're so old. But actually, like this, I don't even know any of these.  I don't know any of those. You don't know. Okay, this just has to do with baby boomers. What? Oh, baby boomer, baby boomers? You're not gonna get that. Yeah. Like all this is so like outdated and I feel like. I'm gonna try to get the socks. We are almost home. It was such a fun day. Very fun. It wasn't even the whole day, but it was like. Yeah. It was good. It was a good end to our day. It was fun. But like the restaurant, like the food was like, okay, like whatever, good, whatever. It wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. Like, yeah, I know. It just like wasn't like the best.  And like when you go to like a nice restaurant on the beach, you want it to be like pretty and like, I don't know, like nice. Yeah, it wasn't even beachy. It was like more geared towards like older people that hunt or something. I don't know. It just like looked like we were in the middle of nowhere. So I'm just showing in bed, eating curls. What's new? Samantha. Samantha's here as well. And also I did re-did my board. But okay, what is everyone's favorite Thanksgiving food? I like bean, bean, casserole. It's like, I like sweet potato casserole. Green, bean, casserole. What do you like? Sweet potato. They're both good. I forgot about green bean. Marshmallows. Yeah, I am. When you put it in a boiler. See, I was going to say that. Sweet potato one. I don't know, I really like the turkey with the cranberry sauce. I love the turkey in general. I like turkey, but I don't like cranberries. What?  It's still like tart. Oh, or like what is it? Stuffing? I love stuffing too. Oh yeah, stuffing's good. My dad literally did, I said, hey, I think this year for Thanksgiving I'm just gonna get pizza and chicken. I think not! Literally after Thanksgiving, I crave it all the time. I wish I had Thanksgiving leftovers. Well, my favorite part about Thanksgiving is like the leftovers and making sandwiches. I'd have been like taking the biscuit, put some gravy and mashed potatoes with your turkey, some stuffing. It's usually like a late lunch, early dinner. So around like two, isn't it really? Yeah, we have ours at like one or two. It's so weird. I would expect it to be a dinner time. Yeah. The only holiday we actually have dinner at the right time is like Christmas Eve. Christmas day even, we eat at like 12. Night people of the world. Bye. Say it.  Get out of my room, you're gross.


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Okay, very good morning to you. It is Wednesday 11th of November. I hope you're doing well I'm going to get you up to speed on where we closed on Wall Street last night Some things overnight in the Asia Pacific session to be aware of Particularly for internet-based technology names in China, which are underperforming quite substantially over the last two days because of some new Onus being put on from the government over that sector And then we're going to look at just generally how the different asset classes are reacting because we continue to see a play in response to the vaccine news that we saw earlier in the week So once again the nasdaq 100 underperformed Technology as you can see here on the heat map from the close on the s&p The underperformer amazon down around three and a half similar case for for microsoft as well But the doubt up again around 0.9 percent the s&p roughly flat slightly negative so Couple of things then to to talk about on the the vaccine a couple of resources as well I want to share that I think could be useful for you guys and then also an update on Covid-19 particularly in the u.s. Where case numbers continue to rise at this point in time so Let's just get into the charts then this morning and have a look at how things are setting up for the european open and stock futures Generally flat in terms of the u.s. Based and that's that already underperforming again. So that that general correlation Being maintained for the moment with the tech sector under more pressure than the broader market as we see this kind of Soft rotation if you like out of some of these big tech names one thing I would Say and I did see an interesting comment out of analysts at sock gen last night and I do definitely agree They said that a more systematic rotation out of big tech is going to be gradual More certainty about the course of the pandemic and the introduction of a vaccine would be needed before such a change Could take hold in earnest and I do agree with that although we're seeing This kind of rotation into cyclicals or even yesterday with the tech underperforming the russell 2000 grouping of small cap stocks more tied to the barometer of kind of health Or expectations over the u.s. Economy that was up about 2 so we're seeing a little bit of it at the moment But I think it's a little bit too early to be cashing in your chips thinking that this vaccine is the silver bullet That's going to just fix the coronavirus because I I don't think that's the case But for the moment we are seeing At least a further continuation with yields still On the front foot at the moment And that's pressuring the us 10 year down at the bottom right which continues to remain Down fairly sharply nearly two points from where that we were before that news and fires are broke early in the week Otherwise in the currency markets Things are relatively quiet. The Dixie's pretty flat Sterling again an out performer And on that note, let's just have a quick look at some of these charts then and and sterling has been Irrespective of the looming kind of brexit negotiations which remain at an impasse despite a looming deadline as we've said many times before that's kind of a side issue almost because We know that there's always going to be flexibility and the real cliff edge deadline legally is not until the end of the year So I don't think the brexit thing really is That crucial short term in a day trading environment for sterling right now What is is two things one dollar fluctuation and two Technical breaks of key levels and we certainly saw that this rectangle bar goes back to where cable was basically trading before The the market shakeout that we had on the pandemic on the first wave back in march We came back and added as resistance back in the summer in early august Acted and price got rejected in late october and then the breakthrough of that in yesterday's session Just saw a further acceleration to the upside. So here now Technically 133 20 in the futures would put us back up to the high and printed on the 4th of september So that's an area of resistance. I'll be looking for so potentially some more upside here On a side note, there was a phone call Said to have gone on for 20 or so minutes between joe biden and boris johnson as obviously Been some fairly harsh words from biden before about similarities between the uk prime minister and donald trump And also as well The brexit stance that johnson has held Jeopardizing potentially the priest agreement in northern ireland has been something that biden feels very strongly about with his irish heritage But apparently those phone calls were fairly lukewarm But biden just looking to assert his authority that there must not be a hard border in northern ireland. So I don't think that's really a reason for the pound to be bid this morning I think more so it's just holding on continuation of the trend which we've seen yesterday just more favorable setup If anything rather than outright fundamentals, I'd say in regards to sterling for the moment The nasdaq as I said Is underperforming has done since the beginning of the week when the news broke and just going to stick this on a daily chart And you can see here We got very close towards the all-time high in the futures before the kind of reversal came On the back of the news we found and to the tick bounce off the 50 dma In fact in the nasdaq 100 future yesterday and we're sitting at around the 21 dma for the moment So near term if we remain under pressure I'd be keeping definitely an eye on that low from yesterday's session that comes in at 11 503 That is around then the 50 dma any breach of that market could remain fairly heavy until we get down to around Let me just remove this to make it a bit clearer I'd be looking at around this area if I put a rectangle in the nasdaq as a key area of support or target on any shorts Which would be 11 347 further down then bigger levels start coming in really if we're looking at a Much deeper move down at 11 000 just up there 10 9 39 We'd encapsulate some of these previous highs and lows that we saw back in the early part of this month for the smp It's been ready to be quiet yesterday and and I think that's a good lesson Of course for any new traders and that is the the notion that after a big day of price activity It's not uncommon to see just a bit of consolidation as people kind of pause for breath you either Are in a good profitable position after that day or you're licking your wounds slightly and that does tend to behaviorally reflecting price Where after a big bout of volatility it's followed by a period of relative calm And that was definitely what we saw yesterday and for now then I think we're just watching this range I think in the near term you can kind of define A more tighter range, which is to pivot the overnight Asia pacific low kind of around what 35 40 to 39 Is the the range at the moment the deeper range though would be down at the S1 which would encapsulate then the close on friday of electronic trade the double bottom that we've now Eaten out both in overnight yesterday and yesterday afternoon trade with the s1 would be a key area of support So kind of looking at this range at the moment Any breakthrough of that pivot and level could then see A push down in the direction towards the bottom end of that range And if so just looking to see what the status quo is at that time with the momentum the general broader asset class Movement and sentiment to see whether or not we'd get a break And if we did further push on or the reverse Key level then would be looking any break of the top side of that range for a further push back on to the upside If that were to materialize Gold's pretty similar as well Obviously a big move on the day of the the Pfizer Vaccine information breaking since that point similar to s&p we're in a bit of a tight range at the minute on the downside be keeping an eye on the Low that we printed in the futures during the the evening yesterday So late us hours around 1871 And on the upside around 84s would be the top end of the range that's been in play for the last 12 to 20 hours or so the other asset, of course, which continues to outperform is oil an oil markets continuing to kind of take heed from the fact that Um, if a vaccine is forthcoming it's going to pick up in demand expectations less globalized lockdowns these would all be bullish fundamentals for oil and if you start to extrapolate this with Technical levels being breached you can see how the market Had a had a kind of false break initially in the age-specific session banged on the door a couple of times on that key technical level Which was the high that we saw going back to the 20th of october And now we've just accelerated up and the near-term target for just generally spec speculative traders Would be up at around the the r1 level of 42 62 on the daily then you can see the the importance of that technical breach and was assisted some of that upside if I just put a rectangle here this kind of area Again, if I just color it just to make it as explicit as possible So that area has been such a good one. We can even probably extend that out even further if I just Was to click on the rectangle here Into some of the price movement as well that was helping support price on the other side of this level Which was during august, but you can see it's acted as a real Significant area of resistance since mid september and the breakthrough of that we found and tested some support So it's a nice platform for price now and we've pushed up to that next area of relevance of 36 On the upside if we continue to move higher I'll be keeping an eye here on 43 32 which brings in Not only the the kind of area and cluster of highs that we were printing back in the summer But also was that low we printed back on the the second of march before that failed opec meeting gap down came in in early early march So kind of here it would be a key level to look out for any breach above there then oil can get Can move pretty quick on the upside and certainly that will come as some relief to the opec plus members Who seemingly? Market participants generally are happy to brush aside the fact that libyan oil production is back to was now a million Which is very high Compared to to where they were just a short time ago as kind of civil rest or an agreement within that region To stop the infighting has helped production return And then the other thing of course what we had last night was the api oil inventories and just having a quick recap of those Another bullish factor to just help act as a catalyst on those technical breaks to draw down in the headline figure of 5.1 million deeper drawn expected three Cushing draw 1.2 gasoline a much deeper drawn and expected as well at 3.3 million. So all adding to that directional play in in crude oil But let's have a look at a few things in particular. I wanted to talk about This which was fiza now i released the briefing yesterday Hopefully i made it fairly clear about reasons for a little bit of a reality check perhaps possibly sounding a little bit pessimistic about the initial Very positive reaction that we've had to the fires and news and by entech when it broke at the beginning of the week And the same things are being reiterated now in in much of the major press So bloomberg leading with the article that's pretty similar to our discussion Talking about the stuff of, you know the cost of transportation distribution Is amplified by the fact that You will need a second shot one month after the first adds to the logistical kind of complications and also As i said the cost given the fact that the degree of this particular vaccine is the Ultra low temperatures around i think minus 1775 degrees celsius, which definitely makes it more problematic for Developing world countries who generally don't have that infrastructure for that type of facilities So the cost implication be very high not only that the vaccine goes bad five days after thawing as well, so there's kind of a time Span on how quickly it needs to be Implemented after it does reach its destination And not only that no current vaccine has ever used the mrna technology as well So a number of hurdles perhaps that that still need to be To be crossed or or leaped over at the moment though the market as i said Equities of kind of continuing a rotational moderate rotational play Out of tech and certainly a little bit more now into a more cyclical based kind of view Based on the economic recovery now on the back of a force coming vaccine I would say as i said before a little bit early to get too ahead of yourself for a more deeper Acceleration of that rotation out of tech i would say One of my colleagues eddie did a great chat in the amplify live Room yesterday and he was talking about the fact that yes zoom shares have come off considerably from their highs These kind of pandemic plays have been unwound for example But you know when you talk about the priority of who is going to be getting and receiving these shots There's obviously an order of an order of hierarchy given the elder people first. So if you are a young 20 mid 25 year old employee working in a general industry that that can accommodate Online delivery or services or or just general carrying out your business activities Well, that's not going to change because by the time it drips down to those Demographics that are less prone to to catching this disease They're still going to be using zoom in the meantime. So Yes, perhaps those shares a little bit overstretched given how far they've risen over the period of the last six to eight months But I think it's a little bit much to say it's kind of the end of the road for a lot of those individual single stock names So, yeah On that point though another chat we were having with our traders internally yesterday was about look What's really important now then is that market sensitivity to current virus updates is very high And so therefore you'd be remiss not to be a kind of semi expert in at least Knowing the landscape of how many phase three Vaccines are in large scale testing at the moment. What are the corporations involved with it? What are the differences between the the testing that they're doing the vaccines that they're trying to produce? Which ones have got more chance of you know success rate? And therefore how do you anticipate then the timing and how the market subsequently might react when that news breaks and there's a really great Um Tracker that's being done by the new york times. I shared this on my twitter account Yesterday, so if you go on my hand or scroll back through you better find the actual link to this But if you scroll down not only does it give you kind of the general update about how the clinical trials work and and so on Some kind of general knowledge stuff you should be aware of but you can filter the list of vaccines And so if you do phase three, which is generally what we're looking at here You can see Moderna for example the buy and deck Pfizer one And it just gives you a nice short sharp summary of exactly what it is. How much has it been tested? What is the timeline? What's the likelihood of approval? What are the obstacles? You know just a nice Uh competent knowledge base that that will be required if you're really going to get hold of Any subsequent news that might come out and as I said, I think at this point in time now the election is really old news now Um, you know the the main macro narrative is going to be driven by The vaccine because that's going to determine then what the economic outlook looks like in the future So this isn't going to go any way go away anytime soon And so I think definitely swat up on this stuff If and when you have time Um on the covet side, I just wanted to give a quick update As I've been discussing throughout the build up to the u.s. election Uh, it's almost been forgotten that the u.s. Is currently suffering quite an increase In covid cases the u.s. Reported a record nearly 143 000 coronavirus infections as of monday and appears poised to reach the most hospitalizations yet later this year I even saw a stat this morning that u.s. Cases um reported by some sources to be now at 200 000 You know these uh, these numbers are rising consistently at this point in time What you're looking at here on the chart then is Kind of the death toll tally the seven-day average is probably more Important to look at rather than the isolated number in itself And the thing I just want to draw your attention to is that since mid october This number has been gradually rising and that doesn't really show much sign of plateauing at any point soon Particularly with the acceleration we're seeing in national Numbers across the board now you remember during the election week or two ago as well That was definitely the midwest that was seeing the bulk of the cases while ellen Illinois, wisconsin, ohio, they reported that record single day jumps in infections yesterday on tuesday Continuing the rising trend in that region. However, new coronavirus cases in new york state now are nearing 4 000 a day the tally is the most positive cases since the start of may When new york city cases were at their peak new jersey reported nearly 4 000 new cases as well That's an 87 jump In one day so Yeah, definitely those highly popular areas if we see another breakout back into the tri-state area Definitely these numbers have to propensity to increase rapidly elsewhere You know the uk Numbers continue to remain pretty elevated as well So britain recorded 532 covet 19 deaths the highest total since may so this is the case number Which was up two percent from where it was last week, but if you look at the death count That's now up to the highest it's been since we were kind of coming down off that first wave peak So we're still a long way from where we were Back in the depths of the pandemic in march when the numbers were Well in excess of 1 000 we're about half of that at the moment I guess the thing to to watch here is the steepness of this curve And how persistent the the kind of rolling average increases are as we go through day to day The idea being the closer up we get towards this type of area The more likelihood is that you know, we've got to move on beyond the current level of lockdown that we're in To something even more stringent and that obviously is going to have Far-reaching economic implications in mainland europe still they're under pressure france reporting most fatalities since april yesterday Uh, so definitely this covet situation the market is very absorbed at the moment on the positive positive developments on the vaccine What i'm kind of semi anticipating this week though is that that optimism will fade As reality kind of kicks in that look this fires the situation, you know a government like Matt Hancock the health secretary in the uk yesterday saying right Stuff start, you know building up the factories get ready the the shots coming for christmas It's like look do understand that politicians Need to drive a narrative to manage public perception um, and so what politicians say and the deliverable dates they'll put forward Almost entirely will be missed Uh, because that's then they're not looking to be accurate. Their objective is different It's about perception control of fear which can consequently impact then Things like confidence and ultimately the economy so if they can maintain positivity In generally in the public mood, that's a good thing However, don't be fooled by thinking that the dates they're putting forward would be accurate deliverable dates because they're not going to be I can I can assure you So things to be aware of particularly this covet situation as well Which at the moment is being over shadowed by the vaccine situation But but if these numbers do start getting to as some reports would suggest 200 000 cases in the us And still seemingly there's no real definitive more immediate action being taken in the states Things are going to get worse before they get better at that point Now that does bring about questions as well about well, what's the situation with stimulus and This is mitch McConnell, of course The senate majority leader He said yesterday he did not see a need for a giant coronavirus relief bill And there were bipartisan interest in passing an omnibus appropriations bill before the end of the year so again this idea of um a vaccine It removes the emphasis or at least market expectation of a large scale kind of stimulus coming in and so That's a double-edged sword in itself In the sense that well if the covid situation gets worse Did I actually need to deliver something a little bit more magnitude? Because overall more likely so that by the time any implementation of this vaccine starts to Go out on a worldwide basis. You're talking about well into 2021 if not 2022 So time is of the essence and and so the deciding factor on the size of that bill I guess is going to be determined by the covid situation and any subsequent lockdowns The rbnz overnight not going to spend too much time on this They didn't change rates. They didn't change their qe program. This was all very much as expected They also as expected Began or announced their new funding for lending program Which is going to commence in december aimed at reducing banks funding costs and lowering Interest rates as expected They were though quite upbeat on their view of the economic recovery and as such Traders as you can see here have actually priced out now the chance of negative rates happening next year Was the main kind of takeaway looking at the calendar for today It is actually very quiet. There is nothing Major coming out from an economic data point of view At all there is the opec monthly report coming out in a few hours time Speakers as well. There's a few to be aware of ecb focus legard the gwindos so the two kind of The president the vice president and the chief economist philip lane is also going to be speaking all of those based in the afternoon So I would say focus is probably going to remain on the general themes that's been In focus over the last day or so Be mindful and vigilant of any further vaccine information that comes out But for the moment, I'd say fairly range bound activity In some of the u.s. Equity indices now keep an eye on them the range I guess either side of that trading ban that we're in at the moment same case for gold with currency markets I think no point in fighting the trend at the moment with cable which continues to move higher And then we discuss those key levels in oil where generally Fairly favorable headwinds there now both fundamentally and technically And this leads us up then for the all infantry numbers, which we're going to get A bit later on All right, that is it any questions at all. Let me know otherwise wish you guys a good day and Let's see you same time tomorrow


Hey, lovely Psych2Goers, welcome back to our channel. It's only with your support that we can make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. So, thank you for all the love that you've given us. Now, let's continue. Do you think you might be struggling with self-love? Oftentimes, it can be much easier to look outward and focus on what's happening externally around you rather than look inward and try to work on yourself. But without self-love, you might unconsciously get into toxic relationships, toxic habits, and might even develop depression. The first step to change this is self-awareness. So, here are five indicators that you're struggling to love yourself. Number one, you feel bad when you take time out for yourself. Do you feel guilty when you take time out for yourself? Do you feel like you could be doing other, more productive things or that you should be helping others during your downtime? When you feel like this, you might have a low sense of self-worth and you think that it's wrong or selfish to put yourself first. Practicing proper self-care means taking time out for yourself too. When you sit down and relax with a good book or take a small nap, it releases hormones in the brain like endorphins to help calm you and put you at ease. Having downtime also allows you the chance to send to yourself and internally process your day-to-day happenings. A little self-care can go a long way. Number two, you keep falling for toxic people. When you think about your current or past relationships, is there an emerging pattern? Were they all toxic or manipulative in some way, shape, or form? Did they or do they mistreat, belittle, or insult you? First and foremost, no one has the right to treat you this way. When you have low self-esteem, this can be a sign that you're lacking in self-love and can also be one of the reasons you keep falling for toxic partners. If you struggle to respect yourself, it's hard to find other people that will respect you too. You might struggle with poor self-esteem issues because of past relationship experiences or because of traumatic childhood experiences. Feeling good about yourself is important. Loving yourself even more so. Number three, you apologize for things even when you don't need to. Do you find that you impulsively say sorry a lot? Do other people tell you to just stop apologizing? If this sounds like you, you're probably saying sorry even when you don't need to. The root of this impulse can be a lack of self-love. You might say sorry when you haven't even done anything wrong or when you're trying to take responsibility for someone else's mistake or for a problem that you didn't cause or had any control over. Over-apologizing can come from fearing conflict or when you're more focused on other people's needs over your own. According to Sharon Martin, a licensed psychotherapist, over-apologizing can also stem from your own sense of perfectionism. When you hold yourself to impossibly high standards, you constantly feel inadequate and feel a need to apologize for every tiny thing that you do imperfectly. When you lack self-love, you lack the grace to cover yourself. Number four, you beat yourself up over your past failures and mistakes. Do you dwell on your past mistakes? Are you fraught with self-doubt and needlessly kick yourself when you think of any of your past failures? There are some deeply rooted reasons why your mind can't seem to quiet your inner self-critic. According to Dr. Kristin Neff's book Self-Compassion, The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, the self-critic in your mind perceives that past mistakes are equal to a real-life danger, making you think that you're at risk of not being loved or accepted. Your self-critic falsely informs you that the best way to motivate you is to beat yourself up for a mistake. Dr. Neff goes on to explain that while listening to this relentless self-criticism may seem motivating in the short term, it could actually be demotivating in the long term. Self-compassion is a stronger tool, allowing you to acknowledge your mistake and move forward rather than ruminating on it. Self-compassion and self-love go hand in hand. And number five, you second-guess yourself and struggle to trust your own intuition. If you're stuck in the mental loop of reliving your past mistakes, this can also make it harder to trust in yourself. Do you question whether you're good enough or assume unnecessary blame? Do you retreat from the idea of a more connected and active lifestyle? Stress management coach Celestine Fedley details self-trust as a step towards self-love. She suggests getting to the bottom of what your fears are by asking yourself what you're really scared of and taking time to silence your mind so you can lean into what your true feelings and desires are. Do you think you're struggling with self-love? How do you foster self-love in your life? Let us know in the comments below. If you have a friend or someone you care about who seems to lack self-love, consider sharing this video with them. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don't forget to hit the like and subscribe button for more Psych2Go videos and turn on the notification bell icon to get notified whenever we post a new one. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you soon.


The nut or the part of Africa's South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says the Johnson and Johnson will send two million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the country by the end of the month. The two million doses will make up for the amount lost due to contamination at a U.S. ingredient supplier. Aspen Pharmacare, J&J's local producer, had to destroy two million doses of the vaccine after a contamination was discovered at the plant in Baltimore, Maryland. Ramaphosa also announced that South Africa would move from an adjusted lockdown level two to stricter level three amid a surge in infections. Massive surge in new infections means that we must once again tighten restrictions on the movement of persons and gatherings. We need to enforce compliance more rigorously, and we need to take firmer action against those who do not adhere to the regulations that save our lives. In view of the rising infections, the Cabinet has therefore decided to move the country to alert level three. We have received an indication from Johnson and Johnson that it expects to deliver around two million vaccines to South Africa by the end of the month, thus replacing those two million doses that had to be destroyed. Find out about fresh news updates.


Welcome to a new precious plastic video! Alright, so today we're going to build the injection machine. Basically, the machine injects plastic into a mold and it's best suited to make small plastic objects. And since we're working with molds, you can easily replicate them and start a small production. In this video, we will guide you how to build the machine, let you know which are crucial points in the building process and give you a few tips and tricks. Before you get started, you should download all the technical information and the blueprints. And if you have any other questions or something is unclear, feel free to post a topic in our forums. Now, let's get started. So that's the machine we're going to build, the injection machine. Now we're going to weld it and then it will fit perfectly. Alright, so we finished the hopper and now we're going to make the barrel. And this is the most crucial part of the machine. It's where the plastic gets heated and pressed. So the core of this barrel is a pipe and it's based on the universal plumbing system. So make sure the dimensions are accurate. And one of the things to pay attention to is that most tubes are welded. So you get this little welding line in here. So make sure to get an extruded pipe, which is completely smooth from the inside. Okay, so we finished the hole in the tube. And now we need to tap some wire on this. Every plumber should have this, so it should be easily available. If your tube is slightly too thick, you can sand off a little and then make it work. Let's do it. So we finished up the wire on the barrel, made a hole, we sanded it up and now we're going to connect the little holders. Alright, so we finished the hopper and the barrel and now we're going to focus on the nozzle. This is where the plastic gets injected in the mold. And luckily this is the most easiest part of the machine. So since we're using the plumbing system, the cool thing about this is that you can have all different kinds of weird elements that fit on here. We use these things for the nozzle. We like to use this one in combination with this one. They fit together perfectly and they don't leak. And we customize this little part, make it flat, drill a hole and we weld this one on top of a mold. So in this way we can perfectly add the nozzle to the mold without any leaks. Alright, so we finished the hopper, the barrel and the nozzle and now we're going to build the framework. It seems like a lot of work, but it's quite doable. Okay, so we cut out all the parts for the framework. It's pretty straight forward, some metal tubes and we're going to weld them together according to the technical drawing. Let's do it. Okay, so everything is made and assembled together. Make sure it all works and everything fits and then we're going to sand it off, give it a paint job and put some wood inside. Okay, so the frame is ready, painted and now we're going to put everything in. Alright, so we finished the hopper, the barrel, the nozzle and the framework. And now we need the last part, which are the electronics. This is what heats up the plastic and we can measure temperature. First we're going to build this little box and then we're going to wire up everything to the machine. We cut out all the pieces for the control box and we made this one out of metal because we have the tools around and I kind of like it when it's strong, but you can also make it from a lower material like wood or plastic or laser cut it. But we're going to weld this together and finish the box. So we finished the box and now we're going to install all the electronics. We start with a switch to turn on the electricity. We have a light that goes on as well so you can see it's on. Then we have the sensors and this will measure the temperature which will be transferred into the controller and here you can select the temperature you want. This will transfer a signal to the solid state relay which will heat up your heating elements and these will go around the barrel. So we're going to wire it all up, add cables and put it in the box, install it on the machine. We connected the electronics to the machine and now we're going to connect all the sensors and heating elements. We're just going to slide them up here, attach them. We have two different temperature controllers and two different sensors. These are connected to the top sensor and the nozzle is to the bottom. That's because you want this one to be slightly higher temperature. So you want to make sure that one sensor is connected to the bottom one and one to this one right here. So we can measure both temperatures in a different range. Quick test. Here we have the injection machine. We already poured in some plastic and now we're going to heat it up and we're going to do that by turning it on and setting the right temperature and it depends which temperature you need on the type of plastic you're working with. So we're going to set it, wait for about 10 minutes and then we're going to inject. The machine is heated up and as you can see the nozzle is slightly higher temperature than the others. That's because you want to give it an extra boost before it hits the mold. So let's give it a shot. So as you can see the injection went pretty well. The color is good, nice texture and it didn't smoke so we have the right temperature settings.  Thank you for watching the video. I hope everything was clear. If it wasn't feel free to post the topic in our forums. And one thing to note is that the machines are built in a modular way which means you can always upgrade or repair them but also customize them to your needs. So if you happen to make a hack or customization we would absolutely love to see it because in this way we can all work together to create better machines. In the next video we're going to make molds and show you how to create things with these machines. And for now thanks for watching, good luck with building and hope to see you in the next precious plastic video.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Miss Music Teacher, James C. Smith, and Miranda Janell.  Our physical buttons better than touch screens and cars. We have differing views and streaming TV finally passes K-Band. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, August 18th, 2022 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Marin. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Deep in the Heart of Texas, I'm Justin Robert Young. And adjacent to everything else, I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Good to have you adjacent to us today, Roger. I have to say. Always. No one adjaces better than you, Roger. He's the adjacentiest. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google announced that over the coming months, it will roll out several updates to search aimed at making it easier for people to find helpful content created primarily for humans rather than algorithms by down ranking low quality content that's designed to fuel traffic through search engine optimization. We all know what those links look like. Next week, Google will unleash its new helpful content update, which will also surface better quality educational materials, useful entertainment, shopping and tech related content. Security researcher Michael Horowitz posted findings that iOS still does not kill all existing connections when a VPN is launched. A company called Proton detailed similar issues back in March, 2020. I think we talked about it on DTNS, showing that while all connections eventually seem to end up inside the VPN tunnel, some stay outside of it sometimes for hours after the VPN is launched. Most examples of these kinds of connections are things like Apple's push notifications. Horowitz found some connections to AWS, though those that were also persisting for a while outside the VPN. This is unlikely to cause a general security problem, but it would leave a user open to surveillance by their ISP or government, which is an issue if you're relying on your VPN for civil rights issues being a whistleblower, stuff like that. It's possible that Apple being Apple believes that allowing some preexisting connections to exist outside VPN for a time is valid as a usability benefit because it might cause problems if they switch and they don't believe it reduces security. In the meantime, Proton suggests if you need that full VPN access, turn airplane mode on and off after connecting with the VPN and they say that should kill preexisting connections and get them to reconnect inside the VPN tunnel. NVIDIA once again expanded availability in its GeForce Now games streaming service at 1440p resolution at 120 frames per second. So you can now get those resolutions when using the service on Chrome or Edge browsers. That means you can use it on Chromebooks and in the Xbox's Edge browser. You still need to pay for the $20 per month RTX 3080 tier of the service in order to get it though. Bloomberg reported that developer Steve Moser found code within the Netflix iPhone app that indicates subscribers to Netflix's forthcoming ad supported tier will not be able to download content for offline viewing. He found a text string that reads downloads available on all plans except Netflix with ads. It also indicates that users would be able to personalize their ad experience and would not be able to skip commercials. This is all pretty early stuff though. Netflix's ad supported tier is not expected to launch until early 2023. Back in May Embracer bought a large chunk of Square Enix including the Tomb Raider, Legacy of Kane and Deus Ex franchises. Now Embracer has bought Middle Earth, specifically Middle Earth Enterprises which handles most of the rights of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. And no, that does not affect Amazon's upcoming series called Rings of Power. Those rights are an exception. However, Embracer will get to make more Tolkien related stuff as of this partnership. It already makes Lord of the Rings themed board games under its Asmode subsidiary and you might expect it to talk about making games in Middle Earth, but instead Embracer wants to explore additional movies based on iconic characters such as Gandalf, Aragorn, Gollum, Galadriel, Eowyn and other characters. Yeah, so the video game company is talking about making movies. It's a whole new world. Isn't it crazy that Amazon didn't snap that up? They spent that much money on just the other notes? This just did. Amazon buys Embracer. No, I don't know. Yeah, I was gonna say. That would slip through their fingers. I bet there's a deal to license things from Embracer because Embracer doesn't have a production studio but yeah, it's an interesting question. Yeah. Let's talk about Apple Pay, Sarah Lane. Let's do it. So Apple launched Apple Pay eight years ago. I was back in 2014, people. It's been a while. Now, if you say, gosh, has it been that long? It's adoption was slow at first. State leave. According to Loop Ventures estimates, by 2016, so a couple years into it, the percentage of iPhones with Apple Pay activated was 10%, not that many. The next year, 20%. Three years later in 2020, 50%. Now today, it's around 75% and rising. Retailers have progressed even faster in adoption. So the percentage of US retailers who took Apple Pay back in 2014 was 3%. So that goes to show you, wasn't a lot of places you could do it. It's now 90%. Apple Pay has also taken more places online as well. So Apple's got people to use it, merchants are using it, merchants are accepting it. The next step is to get them to always use it. That is the way that we do it. In this particular establishment, the Wall Street Journal notes that credit cards are still used more often than anything at a cash register. So what do we think is holding back people from just using their phone when they have their phone in their pocket or their purse or the bag or, you know. Let's pause to let our friends in Australia and other parts of the world laugh at the United States for being behind. I can't believe you're so far behind. All right, get it out. For years. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. I think it's interesting. I would have thought we would have seen a bigger spike from 2020 till now than just 25%. Because I am under the assumption that the fact that when I go out now, I can pay with Apple Pay in so many more places is because of COVID, because contactless was a big deal. But I wonder if it isn't just a bit of a cognitive bias that it was there before, I just wasn't looking for it as much. Because we're talking about activations, not use. That's the interesting part of this is people are still using their credit cards. They're just activating Apple Pay in slowly larger numbers than they're before. And I'm one of those people. I have my phone with me. I mean, 99% of the time that I'm ever outside of my own apartment, my phone is with me. Apple Pay is, you know, accepted at most of the merchants that I go to regularly. And yet I've also got my wallet. And so I just, you know, kind of defer to the old way of doing things. Well, but that's because you don't wanna get into a situation where you're pulling out your phone and you look like a ding-dong because you're trying to touch the thing and it's not going to do anything. And you have to pull out your credit card anyway. Well, but when I use my phone, it works. I don't feel like a ding-dong doing that. Until it doesn't. I mean, again, when you talk about human behaviors, it only takes one failure case to make you think twice about using it. And even now, despite the fact that there is gigantic wide adoption of this, like Tom said, 90% of retailers, it only takes one where it doesn't work for you to lead with your credit card the next time. There's no doubt that this is a bigger phenomenon now, but the real reason why it's become this is because of retailers, not necessarily the desire for certain people that are more technically inclined to use it. And I would really put a lot of benefit to that on the square reader. Not only did it take a huge chunk of smaller merchants that would otherwise not invest in an enterprise-level solution, but it also forced a lot of the enterprise-level solutions to make sure that they had this good NFC technology that might not have been in the same kind of feature-rich environment had there not been competition. You know, before we move on, just one thing about contactless stuff, and this also has to do with what cards you're using with Apple Pay. But let's say I use my debit card, which is one of the cards that I have linked to Apple Pay. You know, you still got to put in your pin number, and that's not contactless.  Which one do you guys want?  But even a debit card with a, you know, Visa or MasterCard as it's interesting. Yes, you do. Depends on the account. There are some debit cards that don't require that and some do, you know, so your mileage may vary. But yeah, that is a thing that happens out there. And yes, we know the end stands for number. Just let it rest out there, okay?  Yeah, anyway. Yeah, take all that credit to the ATM machine. Pin number, yeah, okay, fine. You know what we meant. Let's turn to our own subreddit. A top DailyTechnewshow.reddit.com today is a submission by KV of an article from Vee Bilagera, one of the biggest car magazines in Sweden. And my apologies to people who speak Swedish for my pronunciation of it. It's an institution in the Swedish car team who haven't been around for more than 70 years and helping organize the European Car of the Year Awards. Now, I tell you that because if you're not from the region, you may not have heard of them. And you may wonder why you would bother paying attention when they publish the conclusion of their test of human machine interfaces, aka HMIs, aka that stuff you use to control your cars, air conditioning, music, et cetera. Justin, what did they find? Well, Tom, they found that physical buttons outperform touchscreens. I know you could have told them that, but why would they believe you? Instead, they went out and got 11 current cars from different manufacturers and measured the time it took for a driver to perform several tasks while driving at 110 kilometers, aka 68 miles. Tasks included changing a radio station, adjusting climate control, and a 12th car, a 2005 Volvo V70 without a touchscreen, was also tested. The drivers were given time to get familiar with the controls before they performed the test. They measured the task by the time it took the drivers to perform the same four tasks. So who did the best, Tom? The worst car was China's MG Marvel R, which took 44.9 seconds to do all four tasks. It seemed to have a long time. Yeah, that's a long time to be not paying full attention to the road in front of you. The best was, say it with me, the 2005 Volvo V70, which had the all physical buttons. Yay, Volvo! That one took 10 seconds. Of the cars with touchscreens, which is the rest of them, Romania's Dacia Sandero took 13.5 seconds. The Volvo C40 took 13.7 seconds. And if you're interested, the Tesla Model 3 was somewhere in the middle of the pack at 23.5 seconds. And if you don't realize, the Tesla controls everything from the touchscreen. There are pretty much no physical knobs in that car.  This is what I am, but I'm a touchscreen Volvo person. That's what everything in that car goes through that touchscreen. And you have variety of, you swipe between panels and you got your audio controls and all the things. And it works well for me. Kind of smudgy, never really looks clean because you're touching it all the time. But I have no problem with a touchscreen.  You know, it's sort of the same idea. I don't think anybody is right or wrong here. Well, I do think that there is an element of tactile memory that we have from interfacing with cars since we started driving them. Touchscreens are a relatively new phenomenon there, but I would say the reason why it's easier to use is that by and large, car touchscreen UI sucks. And it's sucked for a while. And it's only very rarely that it gets better.   They're bad. They're bad UI's. I mean, like the one that I have in mind. Justin drives a lot of rental cars. I guess. Yeah, I mean, just, and thankfully now, it's actually a seamless experience for me because if I plug in my iPhone, it just loads up CarPlay. So I'm always using the exact same interface that I have on my own. That's mostly what I'm using as well. Yeah. So next time, don't use CarPlay. Next time just use whatever the stock version of the interfaces and they will guarantee you you will see why Android and Apple had to step in here. Well, okay. So every car manufacturer does things a little bit differently. I think what I like about my particular car is that there are lots of, I mean, how often am I going into the settings to change my, what is it when it's the... Daylight savings time? No, not daylight savings time. Your air conditioning? No. Your vents? Well that, but that's sort of all that. Rotate your tires, change your oil. Yeah, give me money. Elton hoses? Yeah, you know, maybe make some dinner for my mother. No, the overhead display, where you can kind of see. Like that sort of thing. It's like, how often am I really playing with those settings? Not often, but they're in there. What do you do to skip? I need a button for everything. What do you do to skip a song? Oh, it's on my steering wheel. Ah, it's a physical button. Yeah, it is, yeah, well, cause I don't wanna, you know, I'm trying to be safe. I'm just saying. But I have the option. You need to keep your eyes on the road. The physical button is good because you can feel it. You don't have to look at it. A touchscreen you have to look at. I mean, I also do a lot of, you know, the button for Siri and then I just tell her to do everything. I think that's the future of this. Is the touch screen is fine for when you're parked, you know, and you just wanna do something. Yeah, most of it you wouldn't wanna do. Voice is the solution to this. If you don't wanna have too many physical buttons, I think there should still be a few so that you can do something without even talking. But yeah, voice assistance will make this all a lot better once it gets good enough. I don't think that there's ever a reason to totally eliminate every physical button because for one thing, as much as I like carplay as I enjoy carplay, there have been multiple times where carplay has gone out and I just am staring at a black screen and now I am totally screwed. So if I had more than just my entertainment options and navigation running through there, boy, that'd be a sticky situation. Yeah. You know what you can do, Justin? You can go back to good old satellite terrestrial radio. Yep. I'll call in. I'll listen to the five o'clock traffic jam. Just say, you know, I got a bone to pick with these touch screens. Yeah. Folks, if you have a thought on this, are you a physical button person? Are you a touchscreen partisan? Are you awaiting the voice-controlled nirvana of the future? Email us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Back at the end of July, Netflix announced proudly, I might add that Nielsen estimated that it was the most viewed TV service in the US ahead of number two, CBS. So this is Netflix saying, we're better than that network, but you know, network that you know and love so well. Nielsen has now released the rest of those numbers, giving a little bit more context, showing that Netflix is the leader in a broader trend. So what do they tell us about? In July, for the first time, streaming platforms had a larger share of US viewing than cable or television. They've had a larger viewing than broadcast television, but now they have a larger share than cable. Streaming represented 34.8% of viewing, cable came in at 34.1% and broadcast at 21.6%. So if you combine broadcast and cable, it's still bigger for now. Nielsen also breaks down this report by service. If you're curious who gets the most watching, Netflix does. It rose from 7.7% in June to 8% in July, thanks mostly to Stranger Things. YouTube had 7.3%, followed by Hulu with 3.6%, Amazon Prime Video with 3%, and Disney Plus with 1.8%. The rest of the services had 1% or less. These numbers all apply to watching on a television. Just keep that in mind. They don't include mobile or web streaming. The headlines are blaring about this and it is a milestone. But you listened to this show, so you saw this coming. It seems inevitable at this point that streaming was gonna pass cable. But it brings up the question, how long does cable and broadcast have left? Ooh, Justin, wanna take this one? Yeah, I mean, it depends on what we mean by cable and broadcasting. Because if we're talking about the channels, nothing is really going to change there. What we're seeing now is a lot of consolidation into the parent companies, or they just have new customers that they can do what their business model has always been, which is sell the rights to air their programming on your platform. What I think is more interesting is the platforms. So anybody that is physically running cable to your house, your Comcasts and Verizon's and the like, those outfits are really going to have to figure out what they're going to do. There's a reason why a lot of them have already kind of diversified beyond their core business and gotten into content like Comcast did with NBC and now Peacock. But those old revenue streams, I think that we are coming to a close. And I would bet it's, we're gonna see major shakeup in that field, probably within the next five years. Most of the cable TV providers, at least in the United States, are also internet providers. So their hope is they can keep the internet side of the business booming and figure out some other way to supplement that old cable TV revenue. The efforts so far seem to be providing you streaming options on your cable box. So Xfinity, Comcast's cable property is the great example of this. The Xfinity box comes with Netflix, with Hulu, with HBO Max, and then you can subscribe to them all through one bill. I imagine that the end game is, hey, you don't want the cable TV part of this anymore? Fine. We have a service that can go over the internet that you can pay for and keep that same box and keep all your streaming services and keep the same bill. I imagine that's how they hope to keep some of that revenue. The question is, how many people are gonna stay on that cable box long enough for them to capture them? Yeah, I guess being a payment processor is probably the future for many of them. But I mean, are people gonna keep paying for a cable bill? I know there are people who are like, I don't know why I just keep cable because I just wanna have it. It's a security blanket. It's what I'm used to. But those people are getting older and some of them are dying. And some people just like, they like switching the channels. They like the grid. I mean, I'm one of those people. It's sort of like, why I still like radio? Sometimes I just want you to tell me what to watch and give me 30 options of things I might wanna watch and maybe given the time of day, I will wanna watch it. I also subscribe. You can give that to me over the internet. I subscribe to YouTube TV because that is a cable alternative that basically gives me cable. Will I keep that forever? I don't know. But it is a security blanket. It very much is. I just like knowing it's there. In case I wanna watch SportsCenter at any time of day kind of thing. Most of the stuff is lost on me. It's money that I'm paying for, for content I will never ever watch. And I think that that's always been the thing about cables. You have 120 channels. People say, yeah, but I watch four. I mean, we're all like that. So that kind of, if everybody's honest with themselves of this is actually what I want, how much a la carte can I actually build for myself based on the other alternatives? Then yeah, cable is not long for this world but I think it's gonna be a long road to get to that point. I wonder if we're about to see the cliff erode really fast because it has been a long road and you're seeing football go to Peacock and Amazon and things that you don't need cable at all to get. Not even cable replacements like YouTube TV, right? We're seeing local news showing up on the Roku channel for goodness sake, where you don't even have to pay for it.  This number to me, this fact that it ticked over and the odometer clicked and streaming is ahead, I think, I don't know. I think we may see one of those rapid changes that suddenly start happening faster than we thought. And your point with sports, Amazon to me is the bigger story there than Peacock because Peacock is rebroadcasting the NBC feed. Amazon, they might make a deal for bars or something like that, but by and large, this is gonna come straight to you from Amazon Prime. The other element about this is the rise of free streaming entertainment. And you've seen it that you mentioned earlier with Netflix, a free V is another one. The Roku channel. Yeah, but that's a gigantic growing industry that I think is going to start exploding some of these numbers. Yeah, I think the change is about to accelerate. I would agree. When this one falls apart, it's gonna fall apart quickly and loudly. Well, when it does, if you happen to be in Japan, maybe you can raise a glass. The Japanese government wants young people in the country to drink more alcohol. You might say, what, Sarah? How could that be? Well, little context here. Since the pandemic began, so not just in Japan, but certainly in this country, establishments that sell alcohol have been hit pretty hard by COVID-19 restrictions. As a result, sales have tanked. So let us introduce you to something called Sake Viva. This is a campaign overseen by Japan's National Tax Agency, inviting people to submit ideas on how to stimulate demand among young people for alcohol through new services, whether that's promotional methods, products, designs, sales techniques, all the things using artificial intelligence, maybe the metaverse. Applications are open until September 9th, so people can submit ideas to the tax agency. Finalists will be invited to a consultation in October, and then a final tournament happens in November in Tokyo with the winner getting support for their plan to be commercialized. So man, if you've got like a new Sake line, this is your chance. Look, I'm willing to let go of my political punditry career, of my comedy career, of my writing career. I'm here by telling the nation, the great and proud nation of Japan that I will give it all up so I can be the new Sake-themed Duffman. I'll just kick in the door in Jerry's establishments. I'll just be raising the glass. Hey man, I've been to Japan. I've been to Tokyo. I've drank through Golden Guy. I know what's up. Let's come on, Japan, let's talk. Yeah, instead of Duffman, Justin can be that Golden Guy. That's it.  I'll tell you what I want.  It's like what? How does that happen in the metaverse? Okay. I think Japan's Ministry of Health should have their own tournament to counter this. And then the winner of that one face off against the National Tax Agency's winner in the metaverse. Yeah. I'd say to the death. All I can imagine is that now all the salary men have abs and like they're, they've never been healthier. And this is just a total disaster for the booze sales. It tickles me that the National Tax Agency is like, man, we are just not getting the taxes from the socket sales anymore. You're getting hammered here. We're getting hammered because people aren't getting hammered. So. They're not getting hammered enough. Yeah. Well, but I mean, and I don't know. I mean, part of the, you know, the funny thing about this to me is like, okay, well, we have COVID-19 restrictions. I mean, a lot of people all over the world are like, yeah, my local watering hole also was closed for a while. They didn't get my money, but now Japan's like, now we need it. We need it in strong force. So let's figure out how to really get the youth back into the, into the game because they've all figured out other things to do. It's tradition, you know? Yeah, right. Exactly. Don't, don't, don't let the Suntory go down on it. Indeed. The land of the setting, Suntory sales? I don't know. Let's check out the mail bank. Let's do it. John had some great feedback on our experiment week shows, as many of you did, but John wanted to call out selecting solar in particular, saying Amos seems like a great interviewer. He sounds like so comfortable behind a mic. I've heard him so many times on GDI, but never in this particular role. He did an excellent job playing the straight man to Brian Hoffman's factual scripted statements. This was the show I felt like I gained knowledge and actually enjoyed the most, especially I liked the financial aspects of solar installation being included in the conversation. Yeah, I 100% agree, John. Thanks for the honest feedback on all the shows that you sent. And Brian's knowledge combined with Amos's every man approach was, was just, was just brilliant. It was, it was a fun listen for me. It was one of those where I started listening because it's our show and I need to and just kept listening because I was enjoying myself. So I hope, and I know Brian intends to do more of these kinds of things and I hope they're able to make that happen. Indeed. Reminder, if you have feedback on anything that we do on the show, anything we talk about, anything we might talk about in the future, do send it our way. We love your feedback. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. 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