Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, it's Dan Shapiro. Welcome to another edition of the Access to Trader.com nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. It is February 27th in New Jersey and a lot of parts around the state. We're finally getting snow tonight, right? Five inches of snow. Sounds like nothing, but this is literally the first snowstorm of all snow that we've got all year. So it's very, very tough to complain about the winters so far, but as Mother Nature has a sense of humor, so does the market gods, we probably get hit for nine feet of snow for the rest of the spring. So let's talk about the market, right? So if you are bringing you to the channel, please like, subscribe, and share. Tell a friend. Tell a friend. Anyway, so last week we had a pretty big move down, right? You had a 3% move all across the board. You had a 3.3% decline in the NASDAQ. And the question was, well, can the NASDAQ hold on, right? Can the NASDAQ and the Qs hold on to the 200-day moving average? That was the most important part.  Everything was gapping up aggressively. And here we go. All right, bulls, we talked about the levels on the weekend video that the bulls needed to reclaim, right? Remember, we talked about the 299 level on the Qs, and we said, Eric, let's see if they can do so. And this turned out to be one of the more uneventful days I could remember in a very, very long time, right? If you look at the final scoreboard, the Dow was up 70 points, and NASDAQ was up 70 points, and S&P 500 was up 12, right? Doesn't really register of turning the needle, but it's not even moving the needle. It's how the market started. So here's the gap up, right? So here's your gap up here, right at the open. And the market from the open did absolutely nothing but fade, right? That's all the market did. So we had a lot of stocks. We had a lot of stocks, gap up into supply. And when you look at the daily chart of the QQQs, you can see where we got rejected, right? We got rejected right back into this 20-day supply, and that's been the theme. If you notice here, today got rejected there, it got rejected there on the 23rd. It also got rejected there on the 21st. So again, you could clearly see why this 20-day moving average was so important when we lost it. And that was below that 297 level that we talked about last week, and had a really, really good pivot and went all the way down to the 20-day moving average. So we're kind of in no man's land, right? And today was just one of those drip days. After the open, everything started dripping, right? Everything that was weak last week continued to stay weak. The names that we talked about last week that potentially could start firming up, we'll get to those in a second, NVIDIA, Tesla, again, we'll get to those in a couple of minutes. But more important is the whole, right? Not the sum of the parts, but the whole. And you look at a lot of names, and you can notice they replicated what the Qs did today, because again, they trade in tandem. So even though you had a really strong move today on Tesla, right? Which is sending them to a pretty good setup for, I'll tell you tomorrow, for tomorrow or the next day, you have a lot of stocks that got rejected in the same area, right? You got Apple getting rejected, you got Amazon getting rejected, even Netflix that was strong for a good portion of the morning. If you guys remember it, it's had this horrific move down and lost the 50-day moving average, you know, started, you know, started rallying, and even Netflix closed $8 from its highs. And you know, the names like Microsoft, right? You could turn around and go, Microsoft is up a dollar, Microsoft is not up a dollar, Microsoft has gotten destroyed, Microsoft has gone from 275 all the way down to 248 in about two weeks. So you could tell here, it felt very, it felt very bland. It's like eating your grandma's, you know, not the good grandma that knows how to cook, that grandma that learned how to cook on YouTube, right?  That's what Tay felt like. Tay felt like it was just there, the market was going through the motions. You know, the volume today was very low, okay? And you could see that with a lot of names. First I was like, wow, is there a, you know, is there a three-day weekend? We just came from, you know, we just came from the weekend. And I'm like, is there, you know, tomorrow's the last day of the month.  So why was the volume so slow today? What's the market waiting for? And it's a very, very open-ended question. Sometimes you're just going to get a very uneventful day. But the more important part is kind of what we talked about on the weekend video, right? Right now we are, you know, now we are basing below this 20-day moving average that we just talked about that rejected three times, right? So we, again, the price to the upside doesn't change. We need that 299, right? Once we get above 299, I think the bulls are going to be back, you know, back, and I think risk is going to be on. You could start putting on especially aggressive overnight. But now we're kind of, since we got rejected off this area, and we're trying to hold on to the five-day moving average, which is the short-term sentiment, now the question is can the bulls, you know, since we're back in the middle of the range here, we're not at 299, we're not at 290, like literally 293, 294. The question is, you know, can the bulls muscle the way back up? And it's going to be very, very tough. When I went through a lot of charts today, I mean, thank God for, you know, setups like Nvidia and Tesla, and even on the short side, we talked about it on the weekend video lift. I will, you know, lowest close to this whole formation on earnings. There's really not a lot of really good-looking charts. Matter of fact, when you look at our pivot fee today, literally, I literally put in one, two, three, four, five. Five pivots for the whole day, right? That's five pivots for the whole day, two of them went directional bias. Nvidia just got to the earnings high, didn't quite get there, and lift kind of triggered on the close. So it wasn't a really, it wasn't a super active day. And the question is, well, what happens next? And I've always, you know, maintained the idea that, again, we don't have to guess, right? Just because the stock market is open doesn't mean that your specific style of trading or your specific process or your stocks are going to be highlighted. So for example, today, you had FSR, right? Fisker of all things. FSR had a huge move today. I couldn't care less, right? Not really my thing. My thing is Tesla. My thing is Nvidia. My thing is, you know, Apple and Meta and Amazon. So it really didn't ring the register for me or even, you know, even bring it to my attention because I just didn't care. There's no edge there for me. Names, for example, you know, like a Neo, right? Like a Neo today, supposedly sympathy, right? Right? So here on social media, sympathy play, sympathy play. Stock was up three cents. So the idea of sympathy play and all this crap that social media manufactures, it's just what it is, right? Maybe the stock will move. Maybe the stock doesn't. But the point is, if your specific process is just not warranted for that day, just leave it alone, right? Just leave it alone. I say it all the time.  Let the market, like today's, this is something that I call let the market doing the legwork for you, right? You know, it didn't really get us anywhere. It really didn't give us a lot of value, potential value, yes, but didn't give us a really a lot of value to look for. So instead of trying to force the issue and, you know, listening to the theory of there's always a bull market somewhere where there's always action somewhere. Yeah, maybe there is, and it probably is.  If you're a trader of IBM, what's the difference with some $3 stock is doing and vice versa. So it's very, very specialized. Again, once you find your niche and your edge and you cultivate and you hone in and all that good skills, just stay away from everything else. You don't need to be creative. This business is unforgivable. You're unforgivable. You don't get a mulligan. So if you try to go outside of your comfort zone and start trading things that are completely random, completely out of the blue, you've never heard of the symbol. Joe Blull from hotstockjerklove.com picks, loves it. Just stay away from it. You know, if everybody's in the same thing at the same time, just again, leave them alone. Random stocks will always give you random results and maybe you'll do well and maybe you won't. But the point is if you stay within your lane, whether you stay within your comfort zone, I promise you within the next day or so, you're going to get those queens, kings and aces. So why settle for the two seven offsuit if you don't have to? Again, the market is open. Yes, every stock moves. Yes, but is every stock tradeable? According to, you know, according to social media, there's something for someone, for always for somebody, but it might not be right for you. And that's, that's the discipline, right? That's how you grow as a trader. That's how you develop your lack of FOMO. And that's how you eventually over time start detaching. So going into tomorrow, I'm kind of Delta neutral. There's definitely setups I like, right? Tesla's my favorite stocks. If the world goes to the hell in a handbasket, I could always look at my Tesla. You know, Tesla has an event coming up, right? So there was a pivot today. There was a sneaky pivot today. Sneaky Pivot Experience Traders starts building 203.28. Big spot needs to get above 205. Stock went to like 209 and change, right? So that's not the big point. The big point is they were coming for the 220s, the 225s, the 230 weeklies. Now, in case you don't know, apparently Elon Musk has scheduled an event. Will this be one of those scenarios? I think the event is March 1st. So will this be one of those scenarios, sell the news? Your guess is as good as mine. I definitely will not be long Tesla into the event, right? Cause I don't want to sell the news type of scenario. But I think if the market is strong tomorrow, if the market could actually contain bid, there is a channel here coming up on Tesla, right? If this channel could start building, maybe we can run up into that 218, 220 level ahead of the event. So if the event is to sell the news, then your exposure is off the table.  If the event actually gets bored, well, then we have other ranges to talk about. But the point is, if you're going to be trading Tesla because you want to buy it into the event, just remember I was long the day before Battery Day was one of my worst days I can remember. It was like two, three years ago, I got killed. I got absolutely killed. The AI day, if you guys remember, it was last year or whatever it was, that day could actually turn out to be great because it got stuffed into the AI event and it was a massive channel to the downside.  You got to be long into the event. No, you could be, you could be, you could have a good trade, whether it's on dips or coming out of a channels, running into the event. But into the event is a 50-50 crapshoot. And again, like everything else on DraftKings, you're either going to win or you're going to lose, that's not trading, that's gambling. And hopefully you'll have some common sense going to that. But again, like I said, we never know. If I knew for a fact what was going to happen, I would be all in on that price, but we don't. The only thing I could be ready for is tomorrow's channel. And I'm definitely watching the channel here. If it starts building above this whole channel, I think there's a shot. They run it into the event and we possibly see that 218, 220 level. NVIDIA today, right? NVIDIA got above this channel here. There was a sneaky pivot here on NVIDIA, $2.37 a quarter and $2.39 as the earnings highs. It got right to $2.39 again, double top, reverse back down. So again, is it going to reverse back tomorrow? I don't know, right? I don't know. The fact that it got a double top two days after putting its earnings highs, not really a great thing, but, but, but. If NVIDIA could actually hold up for the next day or so, maybe by Thursday, it starts attacking back the earnings highs. We'll see, we'll see. On the downside, right? We got to be prepared for both sides. Look at meta, right? All the stocks, I was joking around, but all the stocks that I was ready for today on the downside that gapped up, it did nothing. Well, those are the same setups I'm ready for tomorrow. Just let's watch the same way as the cues keep on getting rejected off this brown line, the 20 day moving average. Look at meta. I'm getting defended off this area. So if meta starts losing this 20 day moving average, you know, this thing could get hit. Keep an eye on this thing. Lift, right? Look at lift. This is going to be a slow trader, right? I promise you as this day is long, this is going to be a slow trader. But you guys remember this thing, we talked about this on the weekend update. This thing blew up on earnings, right? They blew up on earnings. And this is the lowest close in this whole formation on earnings. So if this thing starts confirming today's channel, it's very conceivable. You can get two, three, four, five days of a slow drip fade. And, you know, again, all you need to do if you're swinging this thing, all you need to do is use the previous, you know, previous day's highs for the last two days. When you talk about risking potentially, what? 30, 40 cents. And if the market, you know, gets pulled out, look at which room you have. So the risk reward here is definitely great. Absolutely great. The key is it has to confirm today's channel for tomorrow. So that's it.  The fact that the keys are right in the middle of the ranges here, it's going to be very, very tough. We obviously have to wait for things to kind of play out. And again, sometimes in your career, you have to know the difference between stepping on the gas and pulling back, scaling back a little bit. And sometimes you have to let the market, I say this all the time in the webinar, sometimes you just have to let the market do the heavy lifting for you. Like clear out the, you know, clear out the forest, clear out the trees, so you can see the wide open lanes so you can run right through them. Guys, God bless, stay blessed, stay healthy, and I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


Hey everyone. I'm just gonna do those all night. Just get the crowd going. This is Talking Baseball? Talking Baseball. I'll start off. We'll go to my left. We have to my left beautiful hair, nice jacket tonight, twin star, A's, Ray's, Texas, Philly Spring Training. Oh, the crowd laughed. Texas Spring Training, Philly's show. I beat your Dodgers, by the way. Ladies and gentlemen, Trevor Plooo. Thank you. How about an intro? To his left. I think he's a ball player. Okay. Okay. A young guy. We'll see if he's got the makeup. Decent second half of the season. Pitcher for the Cardinals, Jack Flurry. I hear some booze out there. He's got a fan section in right field. All the way to the left, Jimmy O'Brien and I am. You've seen the videos. You've seen the gray hair. John Boyd, the great John Beano, Jimmy O'Brien. Thank you. Can I say something to start real quick? Yeah. Because we are in Santa Monica. Okay. I'm a Valley boy, but I know what Santa Monica means. And Jack and I, one of our best friends on July 1st, passed away and he's a Santa Monica legend. So wouldn't be right to not start the show off with a little bit of toast to our good buddy who's not with us today. And I guarantee he'd be here on the stage if he was here alive today. Yes, he was. So big at the tie, tie skag, Santa Monica legend. Cheers. And on the right, we got a belly shirt wearing. Can't read. Can't write. Dummy named Jake Storielli.  Believe it or not, there's a lot of people that still like baseball out there. Oh yeah. We got a little news today and I'm sure you're all excited. I don't know how much we're going to dive into at the beginning, but we're going to do a Q&A at the end and fire away. But for a while we got to talk to Jack here. He's the star of the show. Well, we do have Trev sitting right here. No, no, no. He's a rookie. He's still working his way in. I'm trying. I'm trying. I brought the talent in today. Jack is my friend. Forget about that. You know, I met him yesterday and we had a good handshake, so we're good. This is our first ever live show. So thank you all to everyone. We had a conversation on the phone with the great people here at Santa Monica Brewworks. They said, how many people do you think will show up? I said, I don't know, maybe 20, 40.  I think we're going to get a lot more people than that. And he was right and I was wrong. So thank you to everyone that showed up. This is pretty wild. Usually it's me in one room alone and Jake in another room alone talking to each other through the computer. So this is a bit different. Times are good. Times are good. Neither wearing pants. Oh, well, that's a visual. Yeah, still not. Still not. Where do we start? Do we start with you guys? I mean, I don't want to throw it in too deep, but I mean, Trevor, well, I will. Trevor, and you're connected to, I feel every baseball player from California.  Can I say that? My Valley guy? Yeah, absolutely. You're one of the people out there. Where's the Valley at? I guess start with your guys connection. I mean, I've known you for a brief period of time.  So we've started a little friendship here.  I'm not buying that. I'm going to ask Jack about that in a little bit. But I don't know what like, how did your guys friendship start? Or where do you guys go back to? We, you know, the baseball world in Southern California in general is very small. So if you play baseball around, you know everybody, right? And we started, and I say we, it's me and Ryan Braun go way back. He's another Valley guy. And we started working out together at Pepperdine University. And go ways. Yeah, go ways. And we had a nice report there and I set up and before we knew it, our agency, CAA, started sending all the local guys over. So randomly one day, this guy shows up and Tyler Skag shows up and Lucas Gelito and Max Freed.  So we started working together. And the other guys we made pay their dues like they couldn't work out with me and Ryan. Oh, wow. Yeah. But Jack came in, he was just different. Like we knew this guy was going to put the work in. And it was just like, we just saw his demeanor. And from that day, we just started working out together and developed a really good friendship. How old was, how old were you when you, when all this went down? I was 18. Yeah, I was 18. Freshly drafted. Walk into this gym. And that first one, that first year I wasn't able to work out with you guys. I still worked out them. And then the next year you guys were like, all right. We saw, we saw what you had. You know, you were the old guy in the gym just trying to yell at everybody. I'm a motivator. He's a motivator. He's the one he's yelling. He's trying to get everybody to work hard. He's, you know, his big thing was don't let a, don't let the old guy outwork you. And I did every day. No, he never. So yeah, to set up a picture of this, we worked out in a gym that was half the size of the area that we're in back here.  And people, you got, people got on my nerves a lot. I mean, there's very small space there. And Jack never got on my nerves, but Skag's got on my nerves all the time. Lucas and Max got on my nerves all the time. The Heinemann brothers are also Santa Monica people. If anybody knows them, you'll know why. But no, but no, for real, Jack has just been, you know, we knew from day one, like hard worker, this guy's going to be something. And then this year, I mean, obviously I think everybody in the baseball world knows who Jack is. Yeah, man. Well, yeah.  What I want to know is off the top. Did you feel bad? No, I feel bad. Like when the eight hole hitter and the nine hole hitter that looked like Jake stepped to the plate. I got to be a bully to this kid. No, I mean, there ain't, there's never reason to feel bad. I'm usually asked, Trev, Trev had a pretty good high school career too. No, I didn't feel bad. We heard a little, we heard a little story about Trev. He was a freshman first game on varsity through a no hitter. That is true. I actually did not know that. That is true. I'm impressed. I got it. I don't, at least all my, you know, you always said you could pitch.   Wait, you were a freshman, those guys were seniors, right? Or junior. They graduated before you? Me? I was a, I was a sophomore and they were seniors. They were two years older than me. So once they left, that's when you, once they left, I started pitching more and that's kind of where went from there and somehow I stopped being a position player. I don't, I still don't know. Could you hit? Could you swing? I used to. Yeah. Used to.   I don't give a lot of credit to pitchers being athletes, but you're one of them. I'll, I'll see. I appreciate that. Well, speaking of that, I made a couple breakdowns of you this year. Don't know if you've seen them because they were. I have not, I have not, but I heard about one of them from Trev. Okay. You star pitcher. Fantastic season. Sai young votes. You got thrown out twice on the base. Twice in the span of a week. I'm sure these guys over here remember that game. They started clapping for Sai young votes and then you ended it with thrown out on the base twice. Twice. Twice in the span of a week. So the first time you got gunned at the plate. Yeah. And they were both to end the game, right? Both ended the game. Yeah. Oh yeah. The second time they say, Jack, we need you to run.  No, I'm like, let's go. All right. And nobody else wants to be put in that situation as a pitcher. I'm like, all right, let's go do it. Go ahead. Second one was a pick picked off.  Really, really good report. Yeah, was I was underprepared for that one. But yeah, that one got me way more than the one getting thrown on the plate. But yeah, there's a shot of you looking like really sad. Like why did they have me run when I'm a pitcher? Only thing coach, I don't do this ever.  It all happened so fast.  You were given the measurement. How big's my leech? I was not exactly. And then I got to watch the replay, see what happened, you know, the just a little bit of hope because they're replaying you watch that replay. I didn't I was on the field for like 15 minutes. Yeah. Oh yeah. You were just looking at the board also.  Yeah, I ended up being all right. Yeah, you ended up being pretty good. Yeah. We heard a story. So the first half of last year, your first 16 games, the era is at that stellar next 16 games. Jake, what is it 0.93 something like that? Is I 16 games? I think the better thing for what we're doing is so we started we did the Yankee stuff. Yeah, we're the Yankee fans. Yeah. So then we were like, all right, people kind of like us. Should we do MLB stuff? So then we got into MLB stuff. And we started a segment called Enflago. And it was like, who's hot? Like who had a really good series or something like that? And Jack, what you did was you took over the Enflago section because you got dirty the second half. Now, if I ask you what the difference is, what changed? What's your answer? Uh, simply play was execution. Okay.  I mean, that's the that's the big reason I don't have no special answer because that was a leading you just led right. The dude to your right takes full credit. Yeah, he showed us text exchange from July 2nd. The difference happened on July 3rd. He said, no, he gave you some real good advice. And he's the reason for your second half. What did you what did you do? He's playing it super cool right now. You know exactly what happened. What happened. What happened was we were talking and you had said something about how you just didn't feel consistent. And then I just gave some words of wisdom. And then from that point on, you were the best pitcher in the league. And I took a lot of credit for it behind your back.  I didn't give you enough credit for that. I think it was just one of those interviews. Yeah, you should definitely give me credit. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go back and take back a lot of what I said. Gave credit to a lot of people, but not you. I apologize. I think that's just because we're friends. That's okay. You know, I took our conversation and just kind of ran with it. What he was hoping is after I asked what change you were going to say, well, check out this text exchange. I thought that Trevor really helped me out. It didn't happen.  And I mean, again, I do a lot of stuff on a day to day basis. And I try to execute and it doesn't always work out. Name one thing you're like, I'm going to go into this and execute it. Honestly, if I'm taking my dog out, I'm like, all right, let's get to the elevator. If I see someone be friendly, but keep it moving. But Jack, when you say execute, I mean, that's because everyone goes out there and tries to execute. I mean, did you try to execute and execute or two different things? Oh, okay. I like that. You can try to do a lot of it, but actually I've never crossed over to execute. You can try to walk your dog. Well, I've never executed.  Jack liked that. Cut the mic. Cut the mic.  Execute and, you know, kind of have some fun out there. I try to put a lot of pressure on myself, try to do a little bit too much and just went out there and play ball. That's interesting because I pretty sure I texted you that to relax a little bit. He spelled it out. I remember he was a little bit, you know, he did say to relax. What I told you was have some perspective, get out of the baseball world. I said, you're 6'6", good looking guy, 23 years old. He loves to say these things. Playoff rotation. Let's go, Jack. You did say that. Yeah, that was it. Hey, hey, relax. Have fun.  You got a great dog.  Your doctors say you're technically obese. They say that to everyone. Yeah. Doctors are messed up. Doctors are messed up and welcome to the doctors. Hey, let's give our Cardinals fans some interesting stuff. Oh yeah. Your catcher, Yachty. Yep. How long did it take for you to shake off Yachty as a rookie pitcher? Great question. Wow. I actually, I shook him in the first game. Wow. Very first game and it was just one of those things where he called something and I, I was like, this is not going to work out. He called something, he was trying some stuff and I was like, this is not going to work out. I have to. I was scared. I mean, that's Yachty and Molina. You don't shake him off and I get that question all the time. Did it work out? I think I still threw a ball, but in my head it was what I had to do. Do you go into the dugout after that half ending? Are you avoiding him? You're scared to death. You hear, you're running the other way like, oh my God, just please don't say anything. Just let me get through this first one. We can talk about it another time. I want to, I want to ask you about Yachty too because, you know, I have been pitched in high school, but I do remember what it feels like to throw to different catchers. So you get up to the show, you're thrown to Yachty. Is it like instant rapport right away or is it like a, like a little bit of a learning curve for both of you? Because sometimes you get a catcher. You just don't like to throw to him. So the name of the catchers you don't like. Full names, full names. I can't disclose that information. No, with Yachty, it was like, Well, we're watching the game. What happened? What happened? I don't know. LSU is going to win. Yeah, they're winning. The game is in New Orleans. He just got a high set. Sorry guys. Um, no, with Yachty, it's like you want to be perfect. You know, that's, that is a living legend back there. And you want to get up there and you're like, Okay, I got to show something to this guy. I remember the first bullpen I threw to him and I was like, I just hope I can kind of put the ball.  And he makes it, he makes it look really good. That's awesome.  And it's kind of a, it's a very fine line to walk of trying to be perfect and do this, but also have fun and play the game the right way. And that's something that has taken, that took myself and other guys that have come up before us. They've said the same thing. They're like, I'm just trying to be fine. You know, that's Yachty back there. I'm like, you can't really do that. Yeah. You have to be able to pitch your game no matter what it is. Yeah. That's a big thing. Like having that like confidence in a catcher, like if you don't like throwing to a catcher, like there's multiple scenarios where that happens throughout the league all the time where guys have their catcher that they can throw to. Yeah.  You shouldn't have your own catcher, but it's a real thing. You have to feel comfortable. Some guys you like throwing to some guys. You're lucky to have the audio. Yeah. And then you build that and you're just, and then you trust them.  And then you get into a rhythm and you just keep going. So he's, but he's an easy guy to trust. What were your, I think this is funny talking about being comfortable. This is something we, we crossed paths with Trevor and we're trying to link like a random bar story, but his minor leagues, he went to hard hit in New Britain, Connecticut, Rock Cats, Rock Cats, and that's actually where we went to college. We were there briefly at the same time. CC? SU, baby. No, no, no, no. They're CCSU fans. And in LA. What, what were your minor league cities? Did, what was your favorite minor league city? Let's, let's try to put it in a good light. Um, well, my favorite, my favorite minor league city, I wasn't there very long, but Springfield, Springfield, Springfield, Missouri. That was that was a good time. College town. OK. Mississippi State or Missouri, Missouri State. Yeah, they're a good baseball school, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, baseball school, shared it with them there. And then my first stop in low way, Peoria, Illinois. That was a that was a good spot. We had a lot of fun there. So when you were in Springfield, Missouri, would you guys roll up to a bar and see the college baseball team and be like, sorry, fellas. I think, well, if that if I do check when now it happened, we'd actually we just joined in with them. OK, that's good. We had a good time with that. That's a good answer. Yeah, that's a good time with them. I don't think it was ever like, you know, I mean, there's a little bit of like, it's a little bit of a situation and yeah. OK, you're in the playoffs. Your mom got a lot of a lot of attention, a lot of love. Jeff was Jake was going to make a bad joke that we didn't get.  I was. Yeah. Your mom had a TV show for a day and you happen to be pitching that day. There's a story by you and your mom, freshman year. You wanted to quit baseball.  You can quit, but you have to go tell your little brother that it's OK to quit things when the going gets tough. Is that a real story? Real story. Damn, it wasn't just my brother. It was my brother and I used to help coach this like young travel ball team that a family friend of ours played on. When you say young, I mean, you're 14 years old. Yeah, but I coached them. So I was 13 and they were like seven or eight. All right. So they were younger. And she said she was like, that's fine. She was totally like, go ahead, you can quit, right? This went well. And I was like, all right, cool. She said, just go tell your brother and then go tell this team, by the way, that it's OK to quit when you just when things just aren't working out. And I kind of froze up and was like, damn, all right. That conversation is going to suck. Yeah, I can't really do that. You know, I'm going to go to practice tomorrow and we'll see what happens. I I don't know what I was thinking or why that. God, Gio Lido and Friede were taking all your starts.  But you practice were tough. You face off against Friede in the playoffs. Were those texts before and after pretty fun? Well, that we didn't really text after game five. After all that went on. But the beat down. Don't make the Cardinals hands in the corner. So how were you excited to see me get in the box against Max finally? I could not believe it that that happened.  Obviously, he didn't start the game, but he comes in and then I'm sitting there watching the games as I'm happy for you. I'm watching you pitch and then all of a sudden I'm seeing you step in the box against them. I just lost it. It was it was I was like a proud dad. It was unbelievable because that's something that we've obviously all talked about and like I've faced Rai before. But then you get the picture on picture and, you know, it's the bottom. It's the top of the first inning in a playoff game in a playoff game. And I'm sitting there trying to get my stuff on. I know Max is warming up.  I'm like, oh, shoot. All right. Yeah, I get my stuff on real quick. I got some next circle and outcomes and I'm like, there's no way they're going to get him right now because if I was him, I would not have wanted to come into bases loaded to face a good friend of mine and try to keep a straight face in a playoff game. Meanwhile, I'm on the dugout. I'm in the on deck circle looking up, see my mom. She's dying of laughter. You're at a little league game. Yes, looking the stands, you see your mom. I see my mom. You look on the mound.   Because of this situation, you could not make this up. That's great. And in 20 years, people are going to be like, pitchers used to hit. So like, this is all like when the universal DH comes in, this will never happen again. So it's a first to happen early in the career. This is amazing. Are you excited to not have to know? Are you kidding me? But honestly, are you excited to not have to know the real answer? How about we got a lot of Dodgers fans? Are you guys ready for the the DH to come your way? Really? You don't want to see Walker hit. You're going to watch better baseball, but that's the thing. You won't have to watch Madison Bumgarner take Kershaw deep anymore. Oh, no. Wow. Wow. And Trevor turned to the heel that night. I mean, he's done it three times or something. It's happened. Sorry. When was the first time you took yourself out of your hot streak at the end of the year? Because like we said, it's 16 games, 0.93 array, one, almost every game, like every start was like one or zero runs, one of the more impressive streaks going. Did you have to wait till the season was over to be like, damn, I was on fire in the middle of it.  I mean, I think in the I think, well, one of the things that I've been told is to try to look is to try to evaluate everything once this season's over with. Trevor, tell you that Trevor did not tell me that. No, he did not. But I probably didn't know Chris Carpenter told me that. Oh, wow. But that was one of the things that I was told. So while I was in the middle of it, I just tried to keep everything the same and not really think about it too much. But to a certain extent, it's like, damn, this is pretty cool. How long can how long can we keep this going? You've got to take a step out and just realize what you're doing. At that point, it's like, you've got to feel it a little bit. So yeah, it was like, all right, this is this is pretty cool. And as we get down the last couple of starts of the season, you know, in Arizona and then I was like, all right. And then I didn't know if I was going to get one more against the Cubs on the last game of the season. But, you know, that happened. And I think it was after the game at Wrigley where where we went eight in game one at game one in Wrigley, where we had to win. And I kind of stepped back and right after that game, I was like, damn, this is this is pretty cool. That's awesome. That ain't bad. Oh, you have I have a layup for you. OK, if you're pitching me or Jack, not you. OK, don't talk for a while. Please, that's on me. If you're pitching and through some weird mechanism, the batter knows exactly what pitch you're going to throw. Do you think that would hurt your performance? I think it would hurt a lot if they if, you know, exactly what's coming. You know, I might as you might as well just be up there saying, all right, this is what I'm going to throw. And now sometimes you can do that and you're still going to you're still going to throw it by somebody.  Yeah, those. Yeah. Where it's just like, yeah, you know, I'm going to throw it and you can't touch it. Yeah, this is my heater. I dare you to hit it. But if it's, you know, 95 percent of the time, you know, it's coming. Usually usually usually it's not a very good thing. Yeah, usually when teams know exactly what pitch is coming, it helps them out in the long run a lot. That's a hot take. No. I mean, it's just that's a hot. Because once they put curveballs into the mix and I didn't know what pitch was coming anymore. I sucked. Yeah, it's just like go home and play hockey. You ever hit 95, though? No, I got I caught 86 once. How'd that go? I got crossed up once, knocked me out. Right. It's true story. Right before the game. I didn't know you were a catcher.  I could do this whole show squat. No.  Catcher, second baseman. Yeah. No, no, no. It's going wild right now. You can't see it in the podcast, but they want me to play a second. Can we ask you what your reaction was to the Astros news? I think I think when everything came out, I think we have to open with Ploof. With that question. What do you got to say, Trev? What what's the question? Does anyone want to hear these guys' thoughts on the Houston situation? What's the question? Do you think they cheated? Do you think what do you think happened? Hey, though, let's let's give a round of applause to John Boyd Media for basically being essential and bringing down. The cheating scandal. I mean, it's pretty cool, pretty because they deserved it. Like it's not like a small thing. This is a this is a horseshit thing they did. And you were a big part of bringing them down. What do you think about the punishment, Trev? T-Pain? I'm not sure. I haven't had enough time to really think about it, to be honest with you. I think it's I think it's harsh. I think that Lunow and Hinch are probably not going to be involved in baseball for a very long time, at least at a meaningful capacity. So so that's that's my new take. I have a new take since Jake and I recorded earlier today. OK, when the suspension is over, if Hinch gets another job, I'm mad at MLB's punishment. If Hinch, it doesn't get a job and there's like this black ball around him. I think it's fair. Bill Belich, shout out. They've been in some controversies.  I think that's the lifeblood of any organization is your homegrown talent. So for them to not have their first two picks in the next draft and the following draft is a big thing. It also sucks for two kids that aren't going to get trapped. Somebody else will pick them. They'll get picked. Yeah, less people. I mean, the kids in the 58th round, you know, it's a first and second pick. Those guys are still going to get picked. We actually crowdsourced this earlier today and I had a great answer here. It was the international slot money that was not taken away. I think probably is they should have taken some of that away as well, in my opinion, because that's where you get a lot of, dare I say, cheap talent. Yeah. To a degree. Yeah. So that's that's safe for them. I think this sets them back as an organization for a long time. So it's a harsh punishment. People might think it's not that harsh, but I think it is a pretty harsh punishment and they deservedly so. Well, see, I didn't know I didn't know that. And you just you told me this just a little bit ago that five million dollars was the max fine, the max fine that they could give. Yeah. Yeah. That's nothing to a major league team. But it is the max fine that you can get. My words, not Jack. That's that's about much as I can. What I'm a million dollars to a major league team.  I don't don't want to put you in a bad spot. I don't want you on TMZ tomorrow. But like, what are some of your genuine thoughts? Like, what what can you say? This is Jack, I can say that. I mean, we it's just one of those things where it's it's a tough situation. I mean, you know, we didn't have to we didn't have to go in there. We never had to go to Houston during this time at all. But like, it's it's just I mean, can I speak for you? That's a lot. Can I speak for you? Because I know you can't speak for you, right? Is Trevor Ploove speaking for Jack? Nobody cares. That's a lot. But it's just Trevor Ploove.  OK, like there is gamesmanship.  There's gamesmanship and things that you can do within the game that no one's going to care about. You might get dusted up by a fastball. You might get some jarring back and forth. It's not it. That was not part. That's not what they did. Yeah, so I've been I've been part of it. I've stolen signs from second base. I've tried to do what I can.  Yeah, of course I have. Man, I picked apart pitchers. Lock them up. I've done all that. That's gamesmanship, right? That's basically what the Red Sox were doing. It's one thing to steal signs from second. That is that is a part of the game. That's like that's like decoding. We've talked about this. It's as middle infillers are in tune to that. So if you see someone doing something like at second base, you know, I had an instance where Mike Musakis, a Valley guy, one of my good friends thought I was doing something in second base. I wasn't this particular game. Just board your feet. I will say this in camera. I barely ever did that serious. I'm being serious. Why? Why? But you're done. You tried though. Your guy, Ventura, was pitching RIP, but he used to throw really hard and didn't really know where it was going too often. And Musakis accused me of sending signs in from second base. And my next to bat, I got a few fastballs up and in. So there's a ways to police that. This is the trash can banging. And I went to Houston twice with two different teams in 2017.  I didn't hear it. But this is blatant cheating. And I'm happy they got caught. And hopefully this will stop it in the future. So Lunal, Lunal made his statement. Right. So Lunal gets suspended and then fired. He makes a statement and he basically pinned the whole thing on Beltran and Cora and said, I had no idea what was going on. I think that's the most enraging thing of the whole situation for me because like, oh, so you're incompetent. That's your excuse. You have no idea what's going on with your organization. That's my excuse. That's what that works for me every day. I'm incompetent. If you're the GM of the Astros, what about what about Hinch? Dude, Hinch looks so bad. Everyone, he had a good reputation throughout baseball. I was like a nice guy. And now all these quotes show up. His quote was if you want to say this, put your name to it. And Mike Fierce said, OK, pretty easy. I was there done. I didn't like you anyway. And then he said it's a joke. He told Trevor Bauer like it was a personal like he must have a personal vendetta with us. He does. You're cheating. Yeah, the cheating vendetta. Damn. And I think, you know, it's I tweeted this earlier today. I think the funniest thing was you're going through this sophisticated cheating scandal. You got your place of your own cameras in. You have this setup.  That's honestly and hanging towels. They probably could have figured out a better way to deliver the signs. Well, I don't know. You were there twice. You didn't hear a thing. I didn't. You're right. I guess I don't know. But like to me, like I tweeted this out also. Like if you're in the dugout right there and just banging the trash can the whole game, you're probably pretty pissed.  You think that guy got tired, like five five curveballs in a row and he's just like, yeah, two days, 10 days. Pitches, yeah, throw a fastball already. I don't know what they could have done because I'm not a cheater. They put but something better than banging a trash can. Well, they pivoted. They did. And I broke this news. They pivoted to you want an earpiece in the bullpen. Yes. And the bullpen coach would put his hand up and put his hand down and that bullpen coach went to Boston with Cora after he moved there. So hold on, I got to stop. He's got allergies. I got to stop these allergies. Bullpen catcher. My information was it was the bullpen catcher with the hands up hands down. But one of them went to Boston with Cora. Probably. Yeah. And the other one got fired. They were fine. So Jack, don't say anything. You know, I've heard a lot about it. And a lot of different things come through. And there's some weird connected dot that like we all heard it leaked out. I heard that Cora really was kind of the one that implemented this as bench coach. And I heard that Hinch couldn't wait for Cora to not be his bench coach anymore. He was done after 2017, no matter what.  Is that true? Or no, no, no, no. Who said that that was reported somewhere. And then I heard it somewhere. But I think he did it after they lost the game. It was like, all this and you still can't win. You guys know what? Pitches are coming. So that's how it is. That's the worst stuff. That's Astros talk. Jack, while we're on the topic. Let's let's bring it.  Who do you love? Who is your favorite MLB pitcher to watch? Pitch. Max Scherzer. Yeah. Yeah. Just because he's insane. OK. He is insane. Yeah. Legitimately looks insane out there. Do you do you do you want to bring that out? Or you just like, no, I don't have that. I met Jack twice. He does not have your way to compose. I don't think it says I think everybody's a little bit. And Max is completely different. No way. I mean, as you throw in the different colored eyes, everything, the intensity. Salivates on the mound. Yeah. He is filthy, too. It's not fun. Yeah. The stuff's OK. Every time he throws, it looks like his body's going to fall apart. And that might be the last pitch of his career.  Did you see, I did a breakdown on Scherzer. He got the inning wrong. So they took, they had to go ahead, run in the bottom of the eighth inning. And he ran out of the dugout to celebrate like it was a walk off.   It just slowly goes back. It was wild. Yeah. That's great. All right. We got some Astro shirts here. Do you see these? These are our best seller, Jack. Do you want to wear that on the shirt? I thought you would. You want to wear this on your shirt? That is awesome. Sir, it's our best seller. We've sold over like 100 baby bibs of this. Yeah. Baby bibs. Baby bibs. People are monsters. This is game worn. People are monsters. I wore this during the podcast today. So we'll just toss this out. I think I promised you. Oh, nice. It's great. Great throw. Good crotch. What about this one? You like this one? Simple, very simple, straight to the point. It's a fact based sweatshirt. Straight to the point. Oh, my God. Did you parachute it on me? Oh, no. Geez. I can't do that. That got scary. Should we Q&A it? Yeah, let's Q&A it. We got ready for Q&A. You guys want to ask some questions? We got a mic. We can ask some questions. Luke, internally. Don't bring out that mic. No, it's not that mic. It's a different one. Don't bring out that mic. But we need you to share with Plut.  What? While we get a question from the stance, Trevor Plut steps in the batter's box. He's out. Trev's got no chance. You answered my question. Thank you. Especially now. I mean, now, yeah, I know. 2014, 2015, Trev? You're out. I might hit the hanger slide. There's no hangers. Oh, that's brawn when he thinks about it. Only brawning gets the hangers. It's unbelievable. I can't believe that guy. I can't either. It's unfriking believable. What about Moose? Do you know what player you have the most case against? What was that? Do you know what player you have the most case against? That I've punched out the most times. Most punchy. OK, so it's somebody in division, Javi Baez? No, same team. I know it. Oh, Chris Bryant. Yeah. But right after him, Rizzo comes up and he dominates. Right. Yeah, he goes nine for nine to start the season. Is that what he did? I think it was something absurd like that this year. Yeah, even on one ankle, he took me deep in that in that fricking game because I couldn't believe it. When I couldn't walk.  Absolutely. So you don't or it's not what it turns into.  What is it? Don't think. Hashtag, don't think. Don't think it up there and throw. Don't worry about it. Just keep it simple. We're going to do the Santa Monica Brew Works Q&A. I think we have a roving mic. Thank you guys for coming out. Everyone scream. OK, Bill, you got it. All right, we're ready for you. What's up, team? How you doing? That works great. Trevor, Trevor, right on. So the Dodgers signed Tyler White in the middle of the year.  Like he contributed nothing to the Dodgers, but they just had to know for their own like confidence in the whole going forward to it. So I did something. I looked up, starts like Maldonado had a couple games where he caught against the Astros at MinuteMade. No banging because they did sequences the whole game. So yeah, I think if White, I mean, I don't know if he wants to be a good guy and help out his new team, you would spread that info. 100% they would come to those guys and say, what's going on? How do we combat it? What are you? Oh, the room is true, Tyler. 100%. Yeah. Good question. Question to answer. Expert either way. This is for Jack. Jack, as you can see, I already have a mic. I work for a college radio station at San Diego State.  Can I interview you after the podcast? Wow. Yeah, why not, man? Yeah. Appreciate it.  We go quick. We've been on his podcast, Jack. Jay, I don't mean. I have a question for me. No questions for Jay. I don't mean to make the show about me, but can you drop the story of the jeans? OK. So I know Jeremy who just asked the question. So we go to winter meetings this year. And he's kind of my guy. Jake ripped his third pair of jeans of that year. OK, is it your story or my story? Yours, yours, yours. Tell him about your ripped jeans. Winter meetings, I was planning on wearing jeans every day. The night before, I went out to karaoke, ripped my jeans right down the middle, and I had to fly out the next morning. I tweeted out, semi as a joke, semi I needed a pair of jeans. Jay Shapp reaches out and he's like, I'll drive wherever. I'll meet you wherever. I'll give you a pair of jeans. Let me talk to you guys. So Jeremy's hustle is unreal. So that was like, yeah, Jeremy brings the smoke. So thank you. And I still have the pair of jeans. Nice start. Good faith. MLB released a statement. What did it say? All right, hold on. We got a statement coming. Brick is breaking. Breaking. All right, here's a statement.  Oh, no. Yikes. Not to comment on today's punishment of the Houston Astros, as it's inappropriate to comment on discipline imposed on another club. That's not like a, that's not a social norm. I said nothing. The Dodgers have also been asked not to comment on any wrongdoing during the 2017 World Series. And we'll have no further comment at this. Why release this? What good does this possibly do? Just ignore the comments internally. This makes no sense. I just saw the text. So I don't know if this is like, he could have doctored this in his hand. You never know. Why would you release that? It only makes things seem 10 times worse. Yeah. What a weird thing to write. That was from MLB right there? Yeah, please don't talk about the biggest story in baseball right now. Leave us alone. I don't know, man. What's that? Talking baseball. That's a weird statement. I don't get it. You're sick. All right, we got a question. Thank you for being patient. Ready. I'm ready. What do you guys think about Aaron Judge taking down the post congratulating Altuve for the MVP? Yo, so we can't comment on that. It'll be just that we can't comment. Yeah. Jack's going to have to sit this one out. Yeah, they said you can comment on it all you want. I've got you on. What do you mean?  We get told that all the time. Like, we asked some people that were clubbies and they're like, oh yeah, he rags on me every time he sees me. It's also we've heard that Judge is one of the fiercest competitors, like kind of like crazy. Altuve took money away from him.  Yeah, so it is a little weird. Was he like sitting on the delete button just like every day waiting? Why did he congratulate him in the first place? Because Judge is a good guy.  Because his publicist did that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's so. Because you went through that. Am I your official publicist, Jack? I don't know. We'll talk. OK, that was a maybe. We'll call that a maybe. Ploof spoke on his behalf before. So he's got a lot going on. I think it's I think Judge probably shouldn't. Who cares? But now we're talking about it. But I do just think the visual of Judge like, oh, it's true. Deletes two years old. Two years old. And he had to he had to thought of that like a month ago. But yeah, now Tubei in the cheating system took money away from Judge. So I'm there for it. All right. I have a comment that's not about the cheating. All right. Jack, how much do you study video? And personally, what is your favorite pitch to throw? My favorite pitch to throw anything that punches a guy out or gets him or gets him to move his feet where he kind of like, you know, they get a little upset. That was nice about it. Yeah.  You don't like like the inducing the double play ball get out of a jam. I mean, those are great. Those are the ones that save your A's and save his career. Yeah.  But I don't watch a whole lot of video on other hitters. I look at a lot of numbers and whatnot and and the little stats that we get. Yeah, I don't watch too much video of other of other guys unless I'm really looking for something and trying to and like if I really need to find something. The good pitchers, that's exactly what they're going to tell you. Like, I'm going to throw my pitch and if they hit it, they hit it, but they're probably not going to. Like, if he executes, guys are going to be out like he said before. So whenever I've asked other guys to like, what do you look for in other hitters? Like, I don't look at other hitters. I just know if I go about my business, they're out. So I love that you said that. Must be good to be really good, huh? Like, all I have to do is pitch and everyone else will be worse than me. That's your game plan.  Damn.  All right, again, I think I'm going to go off the cheating scandal here. I think this question is mostly for Jack here. There's a lot of rumors in baseball right now about knowing that Renato and your organization seems to be the one getting a lot of the rumors. What do you feel? What do you think it will take to get a guy like that on your franchise? I mean, it's going to take a lot. Did he say Jack or Jake? I think he said Jake. Do you want to answer for him? I didn't know if he meant I get called Jake a lot and I'm going to be honest. I I really hate getting called Jake. Oh, I get it, dude.  But I'll give I'll give you this one.  I mean, I can't really have a feeling about it until it either happens or does not happen. You know, right now it hasn't happened. So it's a wonderful fantasy world to live in to think that. But I think anything's possible. I think if you really want to make something happen, you know, you kind of give it up. Kevin Garnett. Anything possible? Can't mention the wrong thing. All right, we got a next question here. Another Yankee fan. This is actually just for everybody. What got you guys into baseball? Like, what was the moment that you knew that? Okay, this is it. This is what I'm going to get into, whether playing, doing videos, anything that you guys do now. What was that moment that it's like, okay, this is what I'm going to do? Yeah, for me, I think for a lot of people, I was just born into it. Like baseball is a traditional thing, right? My dad played college baseball. He Yankees fan.  I didn't know what I was watching, but we all sat on the couch when they were in the playoffs and watched Yankees games. And then I moved around a lot. And that was kind of what my family did as family time. We would watch Yankees games. It's like, all right, we're a Yankees family. Like even before I really followed the game, that was our sense of family and sense of pride. And so like just kind of born into being the Yankees fan. And then my little brother was good baseball player growing up. We watched a lot of the games. Yeah, and the more, I don't know, the more you get sucked in, the more baseball keeps you around because once you get into the weeds, you're stuck. But I didn't play. These guys will have a much different answer. That's a spectator. I mean, mine actually comes from my mom. She used to take me, being from here, she used to take me to Dodger games all the time, grew up a huge Dodger fan.  Yeah, he was coming home. Unbelievable. And you guys ruined it. It's unbelievable. But no, she was taking, she was taking me to Dodger games all the time and I'd kind of just sit there and watch it and that she, she loved the sport and she got me into it. I played everything else growing up, but that was always the one that, that was always kind of special. Are your numbers from the other sports just as ridiculous? Uh, no. Okay. I'll be in though. Okay. You can throw football around a little bit. I've never thrown a bad pass and you've never dropped the pass in my life. Travis never dropped the pass. Someone had a football in the crowd. Oh, they just whip it at you. I got it. He'll catch it. Blue, why do you like baseball? I was a, I was a younger brother. So I had an older brother. My dad obviously loved the game, taught it to my brother and I just wanted to be just like him. So, a lot of my passion for the game comes from that. Just trying to keep up with him as a younger sibling. And then, yeah, you get, you start to get a little bit of notoriety around the LA area. That was cool. You know, you know, that was, it was a lot of work to get that. And then so you kind of think, hey, high school baseball, I want to play high school baseball. Then you get to high school, basically like, I can go to college for that. And you sign a college scholarship. And then, you know, the pros is like the last thing you think about as a kid. Really.  And then it comes, man. It was a, it was a special ride. You know, baseball is one of those games. Just like you said, you're when you're getting the weeds or stuff. I love it. I still do. And that's why, you know, I'm here now after I'm done playing, still messing around with baseball, talking baseball, you ran Jack out and stuff like that. You know, I love it. It's a, it's a, it's a family. I'm teaching my son right now. I have a four year old son. I'm teaching him about the game right now. And it's just one of those things, man. I grew up with it and I love it. And I think that there is baseball is in a really good spot. A lot of people say differently, but it's in a really good spot. We got a lot of a lot of talented guys in the game right now. They're going to propel the game into like a whole different atmosphere. So when, when you're playing in the dog days of summer, right? And the twins aren't making the playoffs. Do you hate baseball for a couple of days as a position player every day? You're like, God, damn. It becomes, it becomes a job. But you know, you, I've always had the ability to step outside and just have a little bit of perspective on it. So I always realized how fortunate I was. And there was a lot of times where I was not going to make it, man. Like I didn't put up the great numbers all the time, but I found my way. And I always had that perspective. Like I'm lucky to be here. I'm not taking it for granted. And I still have that. I still have that feeling about my career. Like I was just lucky to have what I have. Jake loves baseball so much that when he was 14 years old, he went to the New Britain Rockcats Open Tryout. So it's a bunch of college baseball players, ex-pro players desperately trying and then 14 year old, 200 pound Jake taking reps in the outfield. That's how much he likes baseball. He didn't make it. Okay. I was going to say my story is pretty similar to Trevor. I love baseball. I grew up in the Valley. I was a first round pick, but you know, sometimes the ball doesn't bounce your way, man.  Although my tryout story is pretty good. Dude, I had pretty big glass windows on my house. I was a sports nut, but like the glass windows on my house were like, yo, if you break those, you're having a bad time. How's that tie in the baseball? Because I used to love throwing the baseball around there because I was like, if I mess up, I'm screwed.  I am not connected to this story. I'm not following in the slightest. Bro, I'm a little bit of a daredevil. I don't know what you guys aren't getting. So the glass windows, if they broke, you would get in trouble. It was a little more pressure on me to throw a good pill. No. I had to make sure I wasn't hitting them. Why are you throwing a baseball at your house? I wasn't, bro. I was throwing it around the yard. Does anyone understand what Jake's saying? Sorry, so I'm growing up in the valley and you get a little pressure on you and then you start, people start following you. And I don't know, football called me too, but whatever. What's the next question? All right. So first off, let's go. Secondly, what's your guys take on this year's World Series? You mean the one that just happened? It's an upcoming World Series. I have no idea who's in it. What do you mean? But Yankees will win. Sure. Is that the question? It's like when they ask CC Sabathia, how many games you plan on winning this year, and he says all of them. The 2020 World Series? That's not a good question. I love you, but what is it? Jake, you like this stuff. I'm on the baseball in my backyard, right? And there's these giant windows. And if the baseball hits them, the window breaks. There's a lot of pressure. Hey, why do you love baseball with the glass window?  Okay. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I like the game. I like the game. Trap, who you got in the World Series? Yankees Cardinals Game 7. We'll see what happens. If I'm throwing, we're not losing. It should be in New York. If I'm throwing, we're not losing. Have you pitched in the Bronx yet? No, I have not. I'll tell you, it's not going to be in the World Series. The Astros. The Astros will not be in the World Series. I don't want to be overly mean to the Astros. Give us the day to be mean to them. Eventually you can be good again and normal. I am rooting for the Astros to be so bad that the numbers are like, whoa, they really did benefit. Like what's the Z-swing or the O-swing? What's that? Do you guys know that stat? Yes. Swinging at balls in the zone, they're amazing at it. No one knows why. I hope it's like complete opposite. I would love to see Brewer's Cardinals series, you know, to get to the World Series. And that'd be probably my most, like what I will be rooting for. Okay. That's a good route. Do you think the Astros, as a ball player, Ploof, the Astros are going to be hated every stadium they go to. They're going to be booed for a while. Every media is going to be a little brutal to them. Do you think that that is going to wear on them as a team? Yes. Just like, they're not going to escape this everywhere they go. Unfortunately, you know, there's going to be some guys that have nothing to do with this that are going to be playing for them and they're probably going to hear the same stuff. Yeah. You know, and people ask me, we got a lot of tweets that both you and I got these today. Like, well, their road stats in 2017 were better than their home stats. Yeah, maybe they shouldn't have cheated them.  And they're not going to have that this year. And you know, and I've said this, there's a lot of really good players in the Astros team. They probably don't even need. They didn't need to cheat. Like, they're really good players, but they did and they've had those inflated stats. It's going to be really interesting to see, you know, what happens with that?  I'm rooting for these guys because...  I respect the players and they did something wrong, but I'm still rooting for them. But I just think it's going to be a little bit more different. Don't you think it would be funny if like the main cores like home stats and their swing-to-ball ratio just went right back and you'd be like, oh, guys, this doesn't look good. It'd be hilarious. I mean, and I expect them. I expected them to go down. I really do. Wow. I mean, how could you not? Yeah.  You're the most hated team right now. Especially the guys that were part of it. Like, you know, Al-Tube is going to get it done. Bregman's going to get it done. Kareya's going to get it done. Springer's going to get it done. They're going to get it.  And we'll see how they handle it. All right. You have questions? My question is for our ace, Mr. Flaherty. Oh, great. What was the first conversation you had with your friend Max Friedlike after he walked you with the bases loaded in NLDS Game 5? Did you just send him one text and you said, Pussy? I did not. I think I don't, I love that kid. Hey, that third one I thought was a strut. I was with you. You got squeezed, bro. Oh, man. I kind of think I asked him what happened. Why did you walk me, man? Were you scared? And he didn't really have much to say. He kind of just was like, man, I, you know, was already, came up with some excuse and kind of sounds like Max, doesn't it? Good luck. Was that one of the weirder baseball games you ever played? Yes. Because we're, I mean, we're baseball purists and like, that got weird. It was like, people were talking about pulling you because it was like the games already over. I would have pulled you. Would you have been upset? I mean, yeah, I would have been upset. I was screaming at the two of you. It all would have depended on what game I would have pitched coming up in the NLCS, I think. I don't know what kind of rest they would have given. Game 1. No, there's no way they would have brought me back on Game 1. Hey, you didn't have to throw a pitch. It was 10-0. It was 10-0. Was there talk about that at all? Only after five. After five, they wanted me to... You were going five no matter what. After five, they wanted to take me out. And I said, no, I'm going back out. At that point, what does it matter? Yeah, both then maybe? I don't know. Like a game down the line? I just wanted to go back out. I wasn't really done pitching. I kind of, the score to me was irrelevant. I know you and you didn't want to come out of it. Yeah. But after, you want you to pitch five, just pitch your game. Yeah, I was like, I was not done. I, through the score to me was irrelevant. Carpenter took himself out. I think Carp had the most amazing game ever. Plays the top half of the first inning. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. He was subbed out. He asked to go out. Do you know that? I don't know if he, I don't know what... No, it's on camera. It's on camera. He walked out. He said there's someone that can play better defense than me. Like, let's have that guy. Yeah. And that is the most amazing game.  You have a beer in the clubhouse.  You go have a couple beers. Amazing. Come out in about the eighth inning, ready to celebrate. You know, it happened a lot to me, but I didn't ask you to get out of the game, and they just took me out. You're done. You know who I felt bad for? Wong, I think laid down a sack butt in the first. And in retrospect, like, totally not needed. We could have got two hits. Totally didn't matter. Yeah. Could I do it to that inning? All right. Who's got another? This is a question for Jimmy and Jake. You guys, can you just be quiet, please? You guys can leave. So you are in LA. Yes. So hometown question, knowing that the Dodgers said they were going to go big in the off season this year, given their relative inactivity, what are your thoughts? And then sub question, any predictions for the 2020 season? Did they, the Dodgers said that we're going to go big? Yeah. I didn't know that. That's pretty bad. They haven't. Well, they got Jimmy Nelson. I think all the rumors are they're banking on a trade, Lindor, or someone. And I mean, that's kind of a bad strategy to go into the off season, because you can just use money to get other guys. Because Cleveland, I don't know. I'd be mad if I was a Dodgers fan a little bit. You got to add some guys. Clearly some's not right. For me, I mean, it was. Why say that? Who are the big names? It was Lindor, Aronado, and I feel like there was one more price position player. Bet, Mookie. Oh, yeah. When it was two people, I was like Brian. All right. There's going to be rumors every off season when it hit three. And you mentioned Brian too. I mean, Brian's a stud. Like the Dodgers have to do something big. They said, I didn't know they said, why would you say that we're going to do something big? Because you have to keep the fans happy. And if I'm a Dodgers fan, I'm not happy right now. And I know our friend Jack is not happy. Well, maybe this Jack's happy, not our other friend Jack. The Dodgers will win the NOS. So you got that going for you. Can we let our other friends comment or no? No, you guys can't comment. You were not asked. Not asked. Yeah. All right. So this one's for Jack also. And this isn't to put anybody in a negative space or anything like that. Oh, wow. No, no, no, it's not bad. I promise. Where are you going with this mindset of a player? We don't see it as fans, right? We just hear the crap that we see on TV and all the smack talk that people do about teams after they lose or whatever it is, right? Obviously the Cardinals with my Dodgers has plenty of times. Losing via sweep to the Nats, right? The eventual champions, right? Right. Same reason why I didn't feel that bad after game five. As long as the Nats won, not the Astros. What if ever during the series, does it ever feel like, okay, we're not coming back from this or how does the clubhouse feel? Say maybe at the end of game four, at the end of game three, maybe game two. Hey, do we have a chance? Are we going to do this? Obviously you guys want to pick each other up. But is there ever a point where you guys say like, yeah, we're not coming back from this? Well, this is what I'll say is that it was definitely hard. We win game five, Nationals win. We're going home. We're feeling pretty good. They're not throwing Scherzer, Strasburg or Corbin in game one. And Sanchez comes out and no hits us for about seven and two, I think seven and a third. And it was like, oh, damn, this is real. And then we get Scherzer game two. And even, but even when we go down to low, I was pitching game three and we're feeling like, all right, we win, we win today and we're in a good spot. And I went out and gave it a four spot. And it was kind of like, well, damn. And, but then even so, I mean, you got to have faith at that point and you got to have faith.  And, you know, once it was all said and done, you kind of just, it's weird. You say your goodbyes to, to the guys. And, you know, you don't know if you'll see them again until spring training, if you're going to see them again, if you will see them next year.   And then just to kind of get swept in that, in that facet, they came out and they, they were unbelievable in that series. They could, they really could do no wrong and kind of carry that over into the World Series. You talked about any ball, Sanchez, he kisses the baseball a lot during the game. You ever thought about doing that? You know, maybe a little bit, if you're really looking for some good luck. Yeah. Like, hey, please, you know, you start talking to it. You think Andy Ball Sanchez kisses the baseball more at home or on the field? Answer honestly. Honestly. Honestly. Yeah. On the field. On the field. Okay. I think I would, I would hope. Where's the mic? One more, two more. Oh, so guys, it's kind of an open question. All right. These upcoming rules coming up for the MOB. Stupid. Trevor and Jack kind of wanted to ask you guys, what do you guys think specifically on the on a relief picture facing a minimum. Stupid. Yeah.  It's not going to come into play as much as we think. I agree. I agree.  Why is it a rule? Because it doesn't need to be a rule, but it's, it's so, you know, a guy can come out and get the last out of the inning. Yes. So really the only thing it protects is from using three pitchers in a one, two, three inning. Understandable.  A lot of commercials. It can be. I understand that part of it. Like the pitching changes are boring.  You know who I'm excited for? No doubt. The first guy that gets called out of the bullpen, faces a batter just looks off and then they make him intentionally walk the next batter. Just like, dude, we can't allow you to pitch.  Just, we're going to, we're going to fall. It'll happen.  Yeah, it'll happen. I mean, yeah, that's an interesting rule. I don't know. I mean, there are guys that are going to lose their job because that rule is in place now. I mean, there's a lot of, you know, the left-handed guys, the left-handed specialists that won't be there anymore and that's kind of a shame because that's just baseball strategy, man. As a position player, what do you, what do you think about the 26 man? Because I mean, it helps a player like a utility infielder is going to benefit the most from that. It can't be a pitcher. It can't be a pitcher, which I like. Because if there was no rule against it, it'd be a pitcher. It'd be a pitcher. It'd be a pitcher. The 100% match. You know, I just think it kind of stops the train from triple A back to the big leagues. Less, but a little bit less. But most of the train is pitching. Pitchers, yeah. I don't know. I think it's great where now I don't have to pinch run at the end of games. Yeah. Because you have an extra guy. But again, it's entertainment and that was great. Of course, you know, I'm sure everybody enjoyed watching that happen. We got a couple more. So I heard a rumor that they are trying out computer, computers calling balls and strikes, and you guys have fallen victim to bad calls on both sides. So how do you like that idea? Stupid. Yeah.  I don't know, man. I've been outspoken about this too. Like it is unless it is a full proof system. Well, did you see what happens? Is the current situation a full proof system? No, it's not. But you're trying to perfect something that is like it is going to be in perfect. For it to work. They have to change the definition of what a strike is. You have to define that. That'll happen. That'll happen. Yeah. So we had these meetings to talk about this. And I was like, the first thing that we had to do was talk about what is the actual strike. Because if I asked Trev, what's the top of the strike zone? I know what the rule says. I understand. The rule says the top of the strike zone is right here. It doesn't get caught. Has this ever been a strike, even when you're hunched? It depends who's behind the plate. That's the crazy thing about it is Joe West can say that's a strike. No problem. They could, but OK. If Joe West is hungry, he's calling that a strike. Bottom line, dude. Look, look, look. I have a very strong opinion about this. I do. I do. I want, I want the robot. So do most hitters. No. I mean, look, they want to define strike zone. If anything, a pitcher should want that because you can flip a 12-6 on top. You can flip a 12-6 on the bottom. Yeah, but I don't get the pitch that's just off the plate that I really want. I know. There's been many times where I've said, that's a ball, blue. And he goes, well, go ahead and look at it, Trev. And come back and tell me. I go, look at it.  Usually it is a ball. And usually it is a ball. And then they'll be like, no, wasn't our, our system said that was a strike. And I'm like, dude, no, you know, like there's video evidence of it. So I, I just want to strike a strike and a ball of all. That's it. That's all I want. Jake. And I mean, I don't care anymore, but. That's two versus one. Jake, what's your take? Oh man. I think it's crazy. It's awesome that Trevor has these strong opinions. And if you want to follow Trevor on Twitter, it's at talking Jake. At talking Jake on Twitter. No, I'm kind of cool with Robo, but it has to be right. Like think about, think about, we watched the NFL game last night and we were looking at the yellow line and that, that dude was clearly a yard short of the line. And then you saw all the angles and you're like, what's going on. And I don't want that in baseball. Trevor is also a Seahawks fan.  It wasn't a first time. And it's, it's just. But even in the NBA with all the, their replay, their replay system is horrible. They're trying to do all this stuff too. It's a mess. So if the MLB gets to a good system or maybe there's like, I want an appeal system. Like there's some pitches that get missed and you're like, come on. Like Angel Hernandez, what are you doing? Throw the red flag. That would be awesome. That would be awesome. That's drama. I think it should be a baseball with a tail of a flag and you just throw it to your catcher and he catches it and hands it to the umps that we are challenged. That's the other catcher. Fuck. No, it could be both. It works both ways. We'll workshop her. So it ends your question. What was the question? Four, four, four, not four. Strike stone is small enough already. So he doesn't want it even smaller. Hi. Hi. I'll be honest with you. I just started watching baseball this year. So with the circumstance happening, like a person that doesn't watch baseball, what does this mean for like the league? Does it mean like, it makes it kind of seem like the players are just kind of like a slap on the wrist because if they're not getting like banned as like how people would think. So what does this mean for like everyone else in the league? Like if things are going to cheat then I feel like that kind of makes it okay for them because you know they're not going to get banned. Maybe like... Yeah, if you enjoy winning a World Series more than you respect your manager in GM you should just cheat, basically. Right? Like they have rings still and they have those memories and they have no consequences. I feel... I don't know man. This is so tough. I think you know how I feel. It's tough. I think it's going to deter a lot of it. I hope it deters a lot of the cheating.  We could hook up our own cameras? I think it'll be much more difficult. Cool. I think there's going to be a little bit more whether it's a guide. There's already people walking around making sure this isn't happening. This season that was the case, right? There's a lot of guys in the locker room in the video room making sure. But... I think that people are going to see this and they don't want... You don't want your legacy tarnished. Whatever your legacy is. If it's an average player or it's a Hall of Famer it's not... You don't want it tarnished. It's going to deter a lot of people from it. I hope so. I hope it just allows... We just want a clean game. I hope that players and people inside speak up quick. It took two years of rumblings within the walls to finally leak. So maybe this will make someone say like, oh, we're allowed to kind of rat or whatever. If we see something we don't like. So maybe that process... It is interesting that it took that long. But again, I hope this just deters everyone from it. The clean game is all anybody wants. Alright. So, Trevor and Jack and Fielded and Pitcher what kind of...  You killing any chickens? I haven't had any weird experiences during a mountain visit because normally I'm kind of like everybody just get off the mountain and leave me alone. If there's a guy like Jack and I know Jack pretty well if there's a guy like him I just kind of leave him alone because he's just in the zone already but there's a lot of guys that need that breather. I think that's mainly what it is if I'm going to the mound and as a third baseman you kind of have that responsibility a little bit. You talk to the pitcher probably more than anybody else. It was more about just like hey buddy just take a deep breath here we're going to be okay stuff like that it's more of a reset button for a pitcher because a lot of times these guys they'll just get in the zone and sometimes that zone is a bad one for that ending or that pitch or that bat or whatever so it's called time out reset let's get some perspective and let's go and it's never anything that really means anything to be honest with you you know every once in a while you'll say hey this guy might be stealing your signs but most of the time it's just like hey you'll be alright take a deep breath let's go next hitter Alright I think we're about to wrap up come on you want to sing us you want to sing us out Coach Ballgame is here baby Coach Ballgame let's give these four guys right here and add a boy on three one two three they can do better than that I think they can do better than that Santa Monica, California let's give these four fellas and add a boy on three oh one two three what do you want me to do you want me to do anything that was pretty good that was pretty good I like that I want to thank Santa Monica Brewerks for having us thank you guys for all coming out this was awesome first time we've ever done anything like this and pretty fun thank Jack for coming up and stopping with us for a little bit we're both for putting it all together Jake you got any final words give me the mic give me the mic I love you guys Chicago thank you for coming out this is awesome thank you


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Asian American News Network Next Shark has just released their top seven Asian Trail Blazers of 2023, but who got left off the list? Let's talk about it. Yeah, these were seven people that Next Shark felt like were hyper relevant pioneers in music, sports and entertainment. Andrew, some people are gonna say, well, those things aren't the only things that matter in the world. However, I think that like really big political things they're difficult to talk about because they're so multi layered and really like visceral straw, raw street, ruthless things. That's almost like too hard to talk about too. So we're talking about entertainment. Yeah, these are people who inspired others, broke through in the industry, just got some press. Anyways guys, please hit that like button, check out other episodes of the Hot Pop Boys. I got a hot take at the end of this video of someone who got left off this list. And I think a lot of people are gonna disagree with me, but I'm just trying to be unbiased here. Anyways, let's go into the list. Hey, you know what else was Trail Blazing in 2023? Smala Sauce is a trail blazing finishing oil out of a squeeze bottle. Got the little mala buzz, check it out. Number one, Ki-Huei Kwan, one of the best supporting actor for Asian guys or Asian people a bunch of times, SAG Awards, Oscars. Avalon, Avalon, Avalon, you're now on to the multiverse and you have to keep going. All right, so like I said, shout out to Ki-Huei Kwan. You know, went to Alhambra High School, 6-2-6. Ki-Huei is from 6-2-6. I think he speaks Chiljawi, speaks Vietnamese, he speaks Mandarin. Like he's like, it's a dope story. I will say this, some people, and I've heard this privately, even from some very high level people, they thought Ki-Huei, he didn't bring up the fact that the industry shut him out for 20, 30 years as much. Like once they gave him the award, they like, everybody tried to pretend like he was there the whole time. You know what I mean? Everybody was like, Brandon Fraser was like, we're still here, Ki. We're still here after all these years. And Ki-Huei was like, yeah, but you guys actually kicked me out for three decades. Yeah, I mean, yeah, but I guess, I guess optically, but I think that him just winning so many awards and giving that performance, you know, whether you think that he should have won that many awards or just won one or two awards, regardless, I mean, it is a groundbreaking movie, whether or not you loved it or not, everything everywhere all at once is groundbreaking. So number two on the list. I'm saying for this, and I said this in my previous video, I'll take the tokenism. I don't know how much it plays into it, but I'll take it, but I don't even care about that entire structure anyway, but it's progress is proper. David's taking the tokenism. If it's tokenism, but it's positive, we'll take it. Listen, man, you gotta think about things in 4D. Moving on, number two, and we've got Bianca Bustamante, the one of the only female Asian or Filipino F1 drivers. Yeah, so shout out to her, super marketable. I believe her dad was a race car driver as well from the Philippines, born and raised there, now splits time between the Philippines and San Diego. She's the first female to sign with F1 McLaren team. So that's a pretty big deal. I mean, shout out to her. What do you think about F1 and sailing getting so big in 2023? F1 got really big partially because of that Netflix series. Sailing, I feel like is less accessible for people, but there's some rich people sports that people are just gonna try to make more popular. You mean like golf? There's like urban streetwear golf brands now. Yeah, it's really funny because NASCAR has a brand that it's only for like blue collar, Midwestern white people, but then F1 is like all of a sudden rich international racing. But that is because F1 is more for the people who spend time on the Autobahn. And then moving on. F1 is not for the Hicks, that's what they would say. I'm not saying, nothing against NASCAR. Moving on to number three, Alexander Shohei Otani signed a $700 million contract. Shohei. And then the Dodgers were not done. What did you go do? They signed Yoshinobu, who has not even pitched in an MLB game, but he's pitched internationally in FIBA and for the Japan team. Yeah, the international. Right, so they signed him to the largest contract player ever that did not play in the MLB yet. Right. Dude, Dodgers got some heavy hitters on their team. Japanese guys, and guess what? I am getting a Shohei Otani jersey. I'm getting one. I'm buying one. I'm buying a Dodgers jersey. I'm not even a Dodgers fan. I'm gonna get a Shohei jersey. Listen, I think in the next five years to seven years, the Dodgers will win a championship. However, a lot of people are underestimating how many business deals will be facilitated between Tokyo and Los Angeles because of this. And when you guys are talking about business deals, we're talking about exporting computer chips or other things like that that are like really, really big business that could come out of this. Like, to levels that your average sports fan may not even be able to understand how. I mean, not to also just mention that Shohei is arguably the greatest baseball player of all time and think about it now with him and Yoshinobu in LA. Basically, any Japanese CEO can take a meeting there like they're gonna get so many. Anyways, it's just gonna be real. And they defer 97% of the salary. They're doing all these stuff. Anyway, moving on number four, and David Ono, he is a Hapa newscaster. I believe his mom was Japanese. His dad's white. He does look like Clark Kent, but more Asian, but just because he was reporting on the unreported. Right. He was mostly covering the Lahaina fires over in August that happened in Hawaii. That was big. Yeah, Lahaina fires. Moving on to number five, Michelle Yoh. Won the Oscar. Not surprised that Michelle Yoh is on this list. She did kind of break through this year, like in a major way. So she's pretty much in everything nowadays. So shout out to her. It's funny that her movie was everything everywhere, all at once. And now she is literally in every movie everywhere, all at once. She's in every Asian movie. Well, like. Nah, she's in like a lot of movies, period. A lot of voice acting too. It's very crazy. Andrew knows more about movies than me. Moving on, number six, Hayao Miyazaki because he dropped the boy in the hair on. Let's just play this clip of him being very, very deep. I mean, man, Andrew, he's considered one of the last great filmmakers from that older generation. You know what I mean? Because like it, but obviously the Japanese, they're more known for animation. Scorsese was like probably like an older guy that was known in the West for more live action. I'm assuming he's on this list, not because he's a newcomer to the industry, but because he released his last movie, right? Right. The boy in the hair on and it got a US release too. You know what? I have not, I've yet to watch it, but I'm gonna watch it now. I'm definitely gonna watch it. We just saw Godzilla minus one. Dang man, I gotta get a show, Hey Jersey and then I gotta watch Boy in the Heron and then I'm gonna do these things, man. Last but not least, under number seven, they got Jungkook. Yeah, I think, I think he does belong.  At the club. So you know what I mean? Yeah, it was an Asian club, but still it fits in at the club. And he was doing songs with big American rap artists that were at their peak or their prime of their career, Jack Harlow. Yeah. David, what are some people that are missing on this list that you felt like really broke through in 2023 and they don't have to be Asian American? I thought new jeans should have been on it. New jeans, super shy. You, why, why? Because I heard it in non-Asian settings, H&M, Zara, you can hear it. Obviously that's one of their most heavily English lyric songs, but you can hear it out in public American society. I love Super Shy Man. It's such a perfect K-pop song, man. And I liked that new jeans mixes it with like 90s UK garage. I was like that Craig David vibe was pretty cool. I think Keshi should be on there. Vietnamese singer from Texas. Yes. I think that there's some non-Asian girls putting Keshi in like their favorite music on their hit. He's huge on Spotify. He got Spotify plays. And he's sort of like so dominant in that specific like niche field. It may not be radio music, but it is certainly a huge niche on the internet. Yeah, yeah. You said Simu Leo and Barbie. Yeah, I thought Barbie was a great role for Simu and he killed it. And I think that plus his music album that dropped, I thought it wasn't bad. I enjoy some of those songs. And I think some people are like 50-50 on it. Anyways, I'm just saying Simu wasn't Barbie. He released the music album. I know some people feel whatever about Simu, but I'm saying, I think those are significant because Barbie, the audience for that movie is not mostly male and it's not mostly Asian. Right. You might say Shang-Chi. The audience for that is mostly male, Marvel fans, and then Asian people. Well, I think it was big because Simu's character in Barbie never really mentioned being Asian. Yeah, yeah. And Barbie was a huge hit movie. Barbie was kind of set to be, it was the biggest movie of the summer. So people were like, yo, Barbie could bring people back to the theaters. Whether or not it really did, Barbie was a huge hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brandon Lee for being a rising boxer, Michelle Wu, obviously is the mayor of Boston, embattled mayor. Yes, embattled mayor. Here's the thing. Not everybody agrees with Michelle Wu. I'm not saying I agree with everything she's ever said. I'm just saying for being a Boston mayor, she sure is getting a lot of mainstream coverage. She's kind of like the East Coast Gavin Newsom. Right, you're saying where? She's local. Like, typically we don't know who the Boston mayor is. Yeah, why would anybody care? But I see Michelle Wu pop up partially for the things that she's saying that are good and bad. So again, I'm not saying I'm with her policies. I'm just saying she kind of is a trailblazer. No, you're saying that they put her on national news because she probably creates the click-through rate. Yeah, if you guys want me to say, this is my trailblazer that got left off this list. And by the way, I do not agree with everything he says. But when you say the definition of a trailblazer, you gotta say Vivek Ramaswamy. Yo, honestly, straight up, for Asian-Americans, obviously, in Asian-American, we include Daisy people. He should be number one. Now, here's my thing. I know he knows he's Indian and he does come from the Hindu background, but does he consider himself Asian? Would he ever say, yes, I'm Vivek and I'm Asian? I don't know if he'd ever say that phrase, but I'm just saying. Yeah, he calls himself Brown. He's Brown, he's South Asian, he's Asian. He did break through and I'm not, and he's meme-able. You can make fun of him, you can disagree with him, but let me tell you this, you saw his face this year. And you heard about him and you heard what he said and you saw him at the debates or at least highlights of the debates. Yo, it was crazy to see the highlights of the debates and it's Vivek Ramaswamy going at Nikki Haley, who are both Indian. That's interesting. How is that not notable?  It's interesting. All right, anyways, that's my case on why he's a trailblazer. But anyways. I'm sure there was a bunch of other stuff. Like we said, I think that this list heavily focuses on entertainment because entertainment's easy for everybody in the middle class to digest. Things that are hyper high up in the world and some things that are like survivalist and ruthless in the street. Those are difficult to talk about. Guys, and again, I just wanted to stick by what the true meaning of a trailblazer is. I don't think that these trailblazers have to be people that you agree with or that you even like, but they have to have broken the door down and did something significant. And I think everybody here on this list did.  I'm sure there's people from the video game world, you know, the Twitch world, this world, that world that we're not familiar with. Let us know in the comment section below. We encourage the debate. Until next time, we're the Hop Hop Boys. We out. Peace.


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Welcome to Tim Melchart, I'll take the new patch of money. We want to take a look here at the sterling dollar on the daily time frame. Pretty sharp decline through September into early October here. We've corrected back into the 50% retracement zone. We're seeing some supply come into the market. We saw a nice pin bar rejection yesterday. So I'm looking for a breakthrough, 135.77 set short positions, initially looking for a test of weekly range support to 134.86. Through there, we get a retest of the 134. Ultimately, we could then track down to test the equality objective at 133.20. However, if we do find support at weekly range support, we'll cover short positions looking for a test of 137.70, sending trend line resistance. As always, trade it to plan the trade. Trade the plan and, most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.