But I think it's good to just remind ourselves that we can talk to anyone about anything. And there's good means of doing it. And a lot of people on this call themselves have tried to learn how to incorporate SE a bit into how they talk with people and found some really good predictivity from it. And my small tip for this SE corner today is you can summarize a lot of SE down to just three questions that you can repeat over and over again or in any order you want. The first question I'd like to ask is, what do you mean by that? And I find that that is a great clarification question to figure out what someone means when they say things that obviously means a lot to them, but never really had a chance to think about critically, like try to get them to define that in their own terms, not from someone else's words, but in our own. What do you mean by that second? How can I test that? Or how can we test that? Don't make it a group project. And that is more of a question that doesn't match with the weight on their, their claim that they're making or on them personally, but really about their methodologies that they're using to get to their conclusion. How can I test that claim? How can I know if it's true? And then the last question is, is that test reliable? Because if it is, that's great. But if it's not, that says a lot more than you telling them that their claim is wrong. And so if you just do variations of those three questions just by themselves, you need to make some marvelous progress on your SE. What do you mean by that? How can we test that? Is that test reliable? Fantastic way to go about it. And everything else is improv and your own personal input. Jake, you've done some SE before. I've seen you do some. We've done some talks before. What do you think about those three questions? What do you mean by that? How can we test that? Is that test reliable? I think you nailed it. I love summaries like that. SE, it can be kind of hard for me to wrap my head around sometimes, like where we're going. So it's a little summaries like that really help jog a conversation in the right direction. And yeah, those three points. What do you mean by that? How can we test that? Yes. It's excellent. I use that when I'm having difficult conversations with my family members. And I think it helps because they're talking about what they believe rather than me questioning it so much. It's just where are you coming from? What led you to where you are right now? Yeah, I also want to emphasize that it's not about playing dumb when you ask what you mean by that. It's trying to understand what they mean by a word that you have an impression of because you guys might be using the same vocabulary or completely different dictionaries. And so it's worthwhile to understand what they mean when they say words. That way you can come to a better understanding of each other. I'll leave one more last question before we get to our main topic. Boudreau, you've done SE with me before. We've gone out and done it before. You have a really great friend who's busy flipping houses that I'm sure you have a lot of deep conversations with. Have you ever asked him, what do you mean by that? How can we test that? Is that a reliable test? You know, that's an excellent point because my buddy Chad and I have had a lot of conversations around this whole area of topics. And we generally agree on most everything. But there are topics where we kind of bounce ideas off each other because I'm not certain. I believe it's the same way he believes, you know, particularly he's a little more Buddhist in some of his thinking. But I've never thought of actually trying to use SE on it. But I think that would be really interesting and a good exercise. So I'm going to take these three, you know, canned questions and then give it a spin on our next talk. Oh, I'm excited. Maybe record it. Yeah, maybe record it. Anyway, so thank you so much. Oh, Del, feel free to weigh in. You're muted right now, sir. Very good. There we go. I'd like to say that your SE stuff, while it seems to be very, very modified from what the ancient Greek philosophers were doing. It's very, very similar to what you would have in a psychiatric environment where all you're doing is you're asking questions in order to get the person to pull out and examine his feelings or whatever else he needs to be examined. You ask questions in order to get for them to look at some different aspect. How did you feel when you stabbed your wife? What was going through?  And why didn't you invite me to the wedding? And the whole idea is you get the person talking by asking him questions rather than challenging him. And that's been that we've been using that for a long time. And it's pretty successful. But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about Moon Jesus. That offends me. Hey, nice transition. It says so happens.


I was a communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI. You are about to hear a strange story. Names, dates and places are, for obvious reasons, fictional. But many of these incidents are based on the actual experiences of Matt Sevettik. Who, for nine fantastic years, lived as a communist for the FBI. Here is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Sevettik. Treachery and betrayal are hard to live with, but for nine years they were my companions as I posed as a communist for the FBI. Freedom is never cheap, however, and I know that no matter what price I had to pay, their eds had to be exposed and stopped. For unless we stamp out the party's subversive activities, freedom in America will die, as surely as tomorrow. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevettik, under cover man. Dana Andrews, under cover man. This story from the confidential file is marked, The Red Ladies. The party ordered me to Midwest City. I was to help a club called the Women's Peace League spread the commie doctrine of peace at any price. The club sent a committee to welcome me at my hotel. The committee was made up of three expensively dressed ladies, two middle-aged, one young, and none looking like red sympathizers. I, Mrs. Fisher, Mr. Sevettik. This is Mrs. Vane. Delighted, Mr. Sevettik. My pleasure. And, Miss Keeling. Edith, please. How do you do? I'm really happy to meet you, Edith. Yes, well, you're here to help us, Mr. Sevettik. Obviously, you're sympathetic with our cause. What I know of it? Our plan is to arouse the Women's Clubs of America in a concerted plea for peace at any price. Can you do it, Mrs. Vane? We've done it in the Women's Peace League. It's a large club, but we've gotten control of it. All we have to do is duplicate it in other clubs. Here, in other... And then? And then we get the clubs to unite in peace demonstrations. Wires, telegrams to congressmen, picket lines around the White House. I see. It's a procedure I've been well taught. Is that why I'm here? No, we are well organized already. But they'll need you to give speeches, represent us in certain cases, and handle women that we feel would be more vulnerable to a man's approach. It's amazing how many women will listen to a man where they won't to another woman. Or is it amazing? You will be mailed your first speech tomorrow. Be ready to give it at the Women's Peace League Friday night. I understand. Are you in charge of this movement, Mrs. Fisher? I'm chairman of the Women's Peace League. That's all you need to know for the moment. Mr. Svetic. Yes? You'll have to prove yourself with us. To do that, it's important that you don't make any mistakes. And that you don't become too curious. Am I quite clear? Edith, you couldn't be clearer. The next day was Wednesday, and as promised, my speech arrived in the mail neatly typed and as full of trouble as an atomic bomb. In three hours, I had it memorized. Then I took it to a little music shop just off the main street. Yes, sir? What can I do for you? Do you have Prokofiev's fifth played by the Georgian symphony? No, I'm afraid I haven't heard of that orchestra. We have it by the Boston Symphony with Serge Kusevitsky conducting. I have 18 minutes. May I hear it? Certainly. This way, sir. In this booth. I'll show you how to work the machine. Hi, Matt. How's life with the commies? Lousy, Frank. You're gaining weight? Yeah. Wife's got me on a new diet. Take a look at this speech. This ought to worry a little of that weight off you. You going to give this? Friday night. Women's Peace League. No more fighting? No more army? No military machine to frighten the poor foreigners in the war? Yeah, no more America as soon as they catch us unarmed. Don't get mad at me. I'm on your side.  This women's peace league? Is it a red front? I don't think so.  I'm working for three women who seem to be running the club and the movement. Party members? One of them certainly is. Whichever one organizes this movement. Maybe all three. How far has this thing gone? Just as one club so far, but they're planning to branch out. That's why I was called in. We'd better check those three women. Names? Mrs. Paula Fisher. 50 tall bony face. Mrs. Loretta Vane. About 55. Small, white-haired. Edith Keeling. 30. Dark-haired. Beautiful. Would you like icicles? I don't. Say, Frank, you notice something? All three of them are top drawer society ladies. Yet they're running around with commies. They're even good bets to be commies. What do you make of that? That's what we want you to tell us, Matt. Yes, sir? Oh, your key, Mr. Servetic. Please. Thanks. Wait. There's a man been asking for you. No? Yes, he's waiting over there. The one in the chauffeur's uniform standing by the potted pond. Yeah, I see him. Thanks. Careful, sir. That bulge under his arm isn't exactly muscle. Hmm? Well, thanks again. Compliments at the house, Mr. Servetic. We hate to lose a good customer. Looking for me? Oh, you're Servetic? I'm Mr. Servetic. Time you showed up will be late for dinner. Who's dinner? In case I decide to go. Mrs. Vanes, you'll go. I got orders to bring you. You always obey orders? Always. I was afraid so. Well, shall we go? Sweet buggy, huh? 90 inches just sing. If you want to fly, why don't you get an airplane?  Hey, here. Have a cigarette and relax. Thanks. Oh, you dropped something? Huh? I'll get it. Hey, lady's diamond ring. Yeah, give me that. What's your driving? You think I was gonna steal it? Yeah. Never mind what I think. You just forget you ever saw that ring. Oh, good evening, Mr. Servetic. Put the car away, Tommy. Tommy didn't say you'd be here. Would it have made any difference? Not the way he put the invitation. Sit here. Mrs. Vane will be down in a moment. Sure.  Not at all. When we're more friendly, you can call me Edie. Are we going to become more friendly? Is there any reason why not? Lots of reason. I don't make friends with people who don't trust me. Or who send me invitations backed up by a hoodlum's gun. Tommy is a little impetuous. Want to hear my name for him? Uh, no. No, I'll tell you anyway. He's not a chauffeur. No serve I've ever talked away, he did. I'm betting he's a strong arm man for the MVD. Let's say he's a handyman. He does a lot of things for Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Vane and I that we can't do ourselves. Not and remain ladies, that is. And you are ladies, aren't you Edie? Edie. I'm feeling very friendly. This too? I beg your pardon. Edie that's got whiskers. Girl gets boy alone, girl gets friendly, boy tells all. Only, what is it I'm supposed to tell? Pretty obvious, huh? Obvious enough. Your charms are usually much more effective. Good evening, Mrs. Vane. Good evening, Mrs. Vane, you're just in time. I told you he was a smart young man, Edie. Well now we know he is. So that's the reason for this merry-go-round. It's important that we know we can trust you not to betray us, even accidentally. He's proven himself alert. Now let's reward him with dinner. I think it's ready. It's a wonderful dinner, Mrs. Vane. Thank you. I'll tell Cook you enjoyed it. Me too. But I'm afraid I must go now. Mrs. Fisher is expecting me. Oh, uh, can Tommy drive me? Of course. He'll be back in plenty of time to take you to your hotel, Mrs. Betty. Sorry to run. Good night, Matt. Good night. Tommy, I seem to have mislead the valuable diamond ring. I may have dropped it in the car. Would you look around for it? Sure, Mrs. Vane. What did you say, diamond ring? Why, yes. Anything wrong, Mr. Svetic? No. No, nothing's wrong. Tommy had taken Mrs. Vane's ring. There wasn't much doubt of that. But it was no time to get involved with the exposure of a petty thief. I needed information. And of the three women, Mrs. Vane seemed the least likely to be a red. So I took the chance of pumping her with questions when we were alone. She was charming, agreeable, but after an hour I still had learned nothing. Do you like my house, Mrs. Svetic? It's lovely, Mrs. Vane, like it's mistress. Why, thank you. How soon do we start our campaign? Soon. You know, Mrs. Svetic, it's fortunate for you that I'm not Edith or Mrs. Disher. Questions like that would annoy them madly. Oh, I didn't realize that. Of course, all right. I'm afraid I'll never be like them. No suspicions. I'm not the type. I was sure now that Mrs. Vane was only a pawn in the game. And I wanted to confide in her, but training and habit made me go slow. Then Tommy returned to take me back to my hotel and the opportunity was lost for the moment. You like the old Dane, don't you? Yeah, she's a very sweet woman. Tell her about the ring? No. Thanks. When I owe you. Forget it.  But she ought to leave stuff like that laying around loose. Too big a temptation for a guy like me. Just what kind of a guy are you, Tommy? Besides being muscle for the MVD. Who told you that? He just let it drop. That female ice cube, she talks too much. Why not? To me, I'm a party member. I know. But they're playing this one cagey. The women's peace league would throw a fit if they knew who was really behind this movement. Then what about that club? Do we really control it? Yeah. Oh, there's some little housewife named Judson who keeps fighting us, but so far she hadn't gotten any place. If she keeps it up, I'll probably get orders to teach her a lesson. A lesson? Sure, a little accident. A few bruises will help remind Mrs. Judson to keep her mouth shut. I can imagine.   Watch your step around Mrs. Vane. I don't want to have to teach you a lesson. Mrs. Vane?  He's more than that, comrade. She's in charge of this operation. Now back to Dana Andrews, starring as Matt Severick. And I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story. The groundwork had been well laid for the Redd plan to infiltrate the women's clubs of America. In Midwest City, the Reds had taken over the women's peace league as a start. The key Redd organizes with three women, backed up by Tommy, a greedy and none too bright muscle man for the commie secret police. My job began with a speech. Ladies, ladies, please. As chairman of the women's peace league, I have a special honor today. That of introducing your speaker, Matthew Severick. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. My message to you is one of primary importance for every American who wants to be free to live without the dread of war. No matter what the cost, we must stamp out this reckless slaughtering of our young men. It was sickening propaganda and lies all mixed up neatly with half truths and emotionalism. I hated it, but I had to keep playing the red game. After the meeting, I reported to my FBI contact. The FBI report came in on those three women, Matt. And nothing on any of them. Well, yeah. They're still Reds, all right. But this is one of the party's secret cells. Mrs. Vane hid it. Can you prove this? Not a word. But I'm right, Frank. And if we can expose Mrs. Vane as a commie, this whole plan will fall apart like a house of cards. You said there's no proof. There's proof. In one place, the communist MVD files in New York. Oh, swell. That's a big help. I think there's a way to get that proof. This job is getting you, Matt. The MVD wouldn't let you get near those files. No, of course not. But they would permit another MVD man to look at them. And Tommy, that's Mrs. Vane's so-called chauffeur, is an MVD goon boy. So? Tommy's not very long on brains, and he's the greedy type. He even swiped a ring of Mrs. Vane's. What? I'm pretty sure that the temptation of big money would be stronger than his party loyalty. Like a lot of Reds, Tommy's in the party only for what he can get out of it. Go on. Well, despite the fact that she's a communist, Mrs. Vane is wealthy, Frank. Very wealthy. With proof of her being a commie, Tommy and I got blackmailed Mrs. Vane for plenty. Now look, Matt, we can't okay anything like that. Hey, Frank, stop it. I'm not going to actually blackmail her. All I want to do is make a deal with Tommy so he thinks we are. Long enough for him to steal her record from the MVD file. And then when you get your hands on her record... I give it to you and send copies to a smart little housewife named Mrs. Judson. Who? One of the members of the Women's Peace League who won't give in to the commie propaganda. She's dying to get her claws into the Reds that have taken over that club. And I want to give her that chance. Yeah. Yeah, sounds good, Matt. Go ahead. Me, blackmail Mrs. Vane?  It would be simple for you to get that file, Tommy. And with it, you could live in luxury the rest of your life. Both of us could. Yeah. Yeah, I always dreamed... Ah, no, it's crazy. Just like I said, why, the party'd have both our hearts. With that kind of money, you could buy a lot of protection, Tommy. I guess we could find a place where there isn't any party. Sure we could. We'll live there like kings. Sure never would have figured you as a crook. You got one of them honest faces. Maybe I'm an honest crook. There's too much money in this for anyone to pass up. Yeah. Okay, Svetic, I don't mind telling you the whole idea scares me, but... you got a deal. Tuesday was Tommy's day off. At 8.15 in the morning, he caught the New York plane. If all went well, he was due back that night, so I stayed in my hotel room and waited. Then at 10 o'clock, I had a caller, but it wasn't Tommy. Good evening. May I come in? Why, certainly, Mrs. Vane. We are calling a special meeting of the Women's Peace League tomorrow night to vote on starting our campaign on a national basis. Well, that's good news, Mrs. Vane. In private, you may call me Comrade. Comrade? You? The party member? For much longer than you, and I'm the head of this operation. But I thought Mrs. Fisher or Edith... Comrades, yes. But only my assistant. Well, to say the least, I'm surprised. Well, don't feel badly. The party has gone to great lengths to keep our connection with it a secret. Of course. After the meeting tomorrow night, come to my house. We'll blueprint our immediate action. Good night, Comrade. Good night. What a time. Yes? Spatic, you alone? Yeah, did you get it? I couldn't get the whole file too risky, but I got enough to prove she's a party member. Good work. Where are you? Right down the lobby. I'll come right on. Lobby?  Oh, no. Look, I ain't keeping this stuff on me. It's too dangerous. You keep it. I'll leave it at the desk in your name. Here are the photostatic copies, Matt. How are you going to work getting them to the Judson Woman? Simple. I'm going to get Tommy to take them to her. All clear? I'm sure. Come in. Do you get the stuff? It's locked in the hotel safe. Stop worrying. I won't stop worrying until this thing's over with. When do we put the bite on Mrs. Vane? Tomorrow. Why not now? Why wait? Take it easy. Too much is going on. Just play like nothing's up until tomorrow. Yeah, maybe you're right. Tonight's a bad time. It sure is, Tommy. Now, I'll see you at the meeting. A special meeting of the Women's Peace League was scheduled for 8.30. But I was early, and then my pocket was the copy of Mrs. Vane's party record. Neatly folded inside some party literature. 8.20, the room was a hubbub. 8.25, Mrs. Vane arrived with Tommy. Whenever attention was taken by several members, I went to Tommy. Noisy, ain't it? Yeah. Call me tomorrow as soon as you can get away. Are you sure? Only, what do we do if she don't want to pay? She'll pay.  Take this stuff and give it to Mrs. Judson. There she is in the back of the room. Judson? What the devil are you giving her? Just some party literature. Mrs. Vane thinks if Mrs. Judson reads it, she might become, uh, converted. Well, I'll give it to her, but it sounds like a waste of time. Well, not Tommy. Oh, Mrs. Vane. See you in this crowd. Where are Mrs. Fisher and Edith? They should be here now. I don't see them yet, but... Well, why on earth is Tommy talking to Mrs. Judson? Oh, he's giving her something. Papers look like. Must be good reading. Look at her face. Oh, there come Edith's Mrs. Fisher now. Good. We can get started right away. Here, sit with me. Mrs. Fisher wasted no time in calling the meeting to order and Tommy and Edith had a meeting. Mrs. Fisher wasted no time in calling the meeting to order and Tommy ducked outside to avoid listening to the talk. He should have stayed. He promised to be a very interesting meeting. Fellow members of the Women's Peace League, in order to get at the business of this special meeting sooner, we'll dispense with the usual formalities of roll calls. Mrs. Chairman? The chair recognizes Mrs. Judson. Before the club votes on this proposed project, I believe it's my privilege to raise a question. Not unless it is pertinent to the... It is very pertinent. Oh, very well. If you insist, Mrs. Judson, you have the floor. Thank you. My question is to you, Mrs. Vane. Me? Well, please go ahead, Mrs. Judson. I'll be happy to answer if I can. I'm sure you can. You, along with Mrs. Keeling and Mrs. Fisher, are the sponsors of this suggested campaign. Is that right? Certainly. I'm quite proud of the fact. Because it represents what you believe in, and what you stand for. Is that correct? Yes. Ladies of this club, something was brought to my attention that I believe you should know. To some of you, obviously, this will come as no surprise. But to most of you, those of you who have only been misguided, it will be more than a surprise. It will be a shock. I have in my possession at this moment the Communist Party record of Mrs. Loreta Vane. No, no, that's not true. She can't do it. Ladies, ladies. Mrs. Vane, we better get out of here in fast. Follow me. I'll get you to your car. I can't understand this. How could you get my record? No one would... Hey, what's the matter? What's going on? You. You did it. That's what you were giving to Mrs. Judson. Huh? On our way.  Don't play innocent. We both saw you give her Mrs. Vane's record. What? So that's...  Look out, he's got a gun. Nice work, comrade. Hold him. I'll bring up the car. The party's going to want a long talk with Tommy. Yeah. Tommy. You... you slugged me. My pleasure.  I'll tell the party. Tommy, I don't think the party's going to pay much attention to what you have to say from now on. You taught me into it. It was your idea. Goes to show you, Tommy, never trust a guy with an honest face. They make lousy crooks. It was over. Mrs. Vane's plan was ruined.  And scratch one commie goon. The party would see to that. The way I had to work wasn't pleasant. No one brought up on the principles of fair play and decency could enjoy it. But for the sake of freedom for 150 million Americans, it had to be done. And by a man like me, who in the midst of his enemies would always walk alone. Dana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is Dana Andrews. A long time ago, our forefathers fought and died. So that we might be born in a country where everyone has the rights of freedom. To speak, to think, and to pray in his own way. It's a precious heritage. Let's be sure we don't throw it away. Join us next week for another thrilling chapter from the Files of Matt Savetti, won't you?


So everyone's heard of Mississippi pot roasts where you throw a chuck roast in a crop potter slow cooker with gravy mixed ranch seasonings and pickled peppers. I wanted to make a Texas pot roast. So chuck roast, fajita seasoning, and I smoked it on a Traeger pellet smoker. I'll show you how to make it in the oven as well, and then we threw it into a Dutch oven or a grill pan with some sliced onion, kept it with the ranch, and some diced pickle jalapeno. It's delicious, fall apart tender like you'd expect from pot roasts or Mississippi pot roasts. Still super easy, and it gives it a Tex-Mex spin that's perfect for tacos nachos. I guess it is all week long. The stuff is ridiculously good. I've already had a taco or two. I'll just show you how juicy these things are. Okay, let's take a look at how to make this. We'll use a three pound chuck roast. Look for something with a lot of marbling. You may even want to get a prime or a wagyu chuck roast. It's a little overkill for this, but I mean, the more fat, the better. Then we'll season this all over with beef fajita seasoning. I'm using one from H-E-B. It has about 200 milligrams per quarter teaspoon, and I'm using a tablespoon per pound of beef if you're using a different size roast. I smoked this on a Traeger grill at 200 degrees for about two hours, and then we'll pull it off. I mentioned in the intro, I'll show you how to make it in an oven. I meant a slow cooker. Don't make it in the oven. Make it in a Traeger, or just throw everything in a slow cooker. For the remaining ingredients, you'll need a thinly sliced onion. Just throw those in the bottom of a Dutch oven or a grill pan.  I'm adding two tablespoons of ranch seasoning on top. That's just like the ranch packet. And then we'll add a little bit of beef tallow or butter on top. This is optional. You're going to have a lot of fat in the chuck roast, but this will help that seasoning kind of spread out evenly. And then about a fourth cup of pickled jalapeno peppers. I use diced, but sliced works just fine. Then you'll throw this back on the Traeger, covered at 275. Crank that temperature up a little bit on the grill for about five hours. It should shred easily. You should stick a fork in it and twist, and it should fall apart. If it doesn't, it needs to go a little bit longer. It's going to be pretty tough to overcook this unless you leave it in there all day. And then you'll shred this, and it's time to make tacos. I'll show you how to make these with some corn and flour tortillas with Oaxaca cheese melted on top. I put them on a sheet pan just for easy transport. And then throw it on the grill for five to ten minutes until the cheese melts. You don't want to make tostadas here. So watch out for too much browning. Your tortillas should still fold to make tacos. Again, don't make crispy tostadas here. And then just fill these with your beef. I garnish with a little bit of diced white onion and cilantro. If you want to make tacos without the cheese on the bottom, like melted on like that, you can also garnish with some pickled onion and cotilla cheese, like you see here. You should have enough beef for about 12 large tacos. But if you want to just make a few tacos and save some for leftovers, I like to make quesadillas like you see here. And I'll throw some on some tortilla chips topped with cheese. Throw in an air fryer for about five minutes and you get a great leftover treat. And that should cover it. I'll throw a link to the full recipe if you need to print this off in the description below. Be sure to like and subscribe for more recipe videos like this.


The corner here, works short, breaks on the edge of the box. What's going to have a go? Brilliant strike! Bradford ahead in spectacular fashion. His first goal of the season. Chance for the substitute to try and... Just had some fresh legs into the front line. Down the opposition. Robinson has a goal! Oh, that is magnificent! What a way to introduce yourself. Straight off the bench, straight on the scoresheet. Bradford certainly are growing into this contest. They were on the back foot for the first 10, 15 minutes, but they've been the better side in the latter 10. There we go. Lavery looking a threat, and here come Bradford City. And this is a decent thrusting play. It's a brilliant goal, and it's Levi Sutton. And it has been coming. The opportunity for Robin Thrill from Hendry. Slips on, drops now to Matty Fouls. Lovely strike! That's taken a lot of people by surprise. His first senior goal, and he struck it so nicely.


All right folks good afternoon and welcome on back here and this Wednesday afternoon December 7th Oof pen just dropped great to see all of us here inside the live trading room Robert Jeff Grant included No all of us just perhaps just joining us otherwise right now great to see all of us here this 230 I great to see all of us back on social media Hopefully folks can hear me there on Facebook live or YouTube folks Let's hop right to it if anything at least barring any tech issues We are good to go at least for all of us inside the cyber group room Ron Dan Ravina Michael all just as well Just joining us here folks We are continuing the phase three stock course class this afternoon at 305 p.m. Eastern time So we'll repost the link for that for all of our gold platinum and diamond C2 students But I got the proverbial hot tag I ended up having to tag in for Fausto coming up at 3 p.m. Eastern time here for the phase three class So that of course is live trading going into the market close You know, hey, we often do the the market Commentary at the open the audio broadcast myself in Fausto Well, this is where you get to see me enter next right so, you know, we're Fausto typically trades the market close You'll be watching me go at it. I know a lot of us that do coaching with myself you folks obviously see that day to day You know, hey right now SMMT. I was hoping for this to drop down a little bit more towards 250 to 258 So that could still happen. I mean actually now it's snapping back down just here on this last bar So it looked like it was beginning to build a little support higher But with this shake you're coming up, perhaps we're gonna get that big test of support namely in between 250 and 258 So if it kind of just drops in between that range and then bounces, you know, that's kind of what I'm looking for But the SMMT trade ended up having a pretty big iceberg order early this morning at 229 It was like a one This was a 1.6 million share iceberg order out there on the ask and it was at 229 They pulled their order down and long story short that order ended up getting pulled from the book just seconds before it ended Up popping right here. So led to a huge breakout after the order didn't get filled But it got pulled from that point led to a huge squeeze We'll go over this trade more in class. I was not here to capitalize on this trade here just before We did well on this trade from the open But obviously the bigger move was just a moment ago. I got caught slipping I was just kind of looking elsewhere and I came back to this really late In fact, Rich was all over this inside live trading room Robert was and a couple more of us but like Chucks said it himself. I said it myself like yeah miss this one Geez. All right, that came from kind of nowhere. So hey, hopefully there's more on this trade the SMMT trade I'll definitely put this on our watch list just to start Sip of water right now would be timely More of that before three o'clock. So let's go from top to bottom Otherwise the markets had been pretty like wonky today up and down up and down in a bit of a range So, you know, we've had a couple of really good moves to actually the china stocks ended up Outperforming once again today a few of them and in particular. So let's just go right right here from the top The Rnaz stock I think is done with for right now ended up having a huge squeeze up for this cheapy You know normally a stock below a dollar albeit. It's not a penny stock I always like to say it's an Aztec national listed stock Well ended up making a huge pop came again kind of out of nowhere, but this just kept giving and giving So for a mid to late morning for a cheap stock like this This really took us by surprise, but it was a hell of a trade ended up topping off a little bit over a dollar I think as high as 117 you can see there and then now at this point where I'm saying it's kind of like done with over with It just broke below support. So You know, I'm not gonna be as keen to think it's gonna keep going But hey, maybe by the end of this meeting if it ends up snapping back up above this trend line then You know, maybe there's a chance, but let's see what else we got here first You know the VOR stock. I haven't seen this one either looks like some pharma stock You know probably a pop and drop type of play very thin order book. So, you know, I'm not you know particular about that Bivi ended up having a huge pop after the open.  So, you know, I don't know if this is gonna look to make another big squeeze back upward If it does or it shows better signs of life, I'll come back to it. Maybe but for right now pass Gotta be very kind of picky and choosy on a day like today if anything markets haven't gone much of anywhere So it's not like you could say oh, there's more on the Geener side or oh, there's more on the loser side There's probably a decent amount both Carvana obviously we're talking about earlier today breaking all-time lows. We'll jump to that later on Tour it's a slow mover kind of like a crawler of a stock, but it's at the highs It's exactly where you'd want to find a stock right now at least so This is almost a little too slow for my own blood here So I'm gonna put this on the side trade or a side list here the tour DKS why this one a little bit more upper alley, you know pretty cheap stock good order book I used to work on the ask up top here 205. So so just you know, write that down right away I will and This trade at least here the BKS why we'll put on our main list Looks nice steady move trading a lot more volume per minute of recent here You know, I'm sure that number will wane off over time, but as long as it keeps showing higher lows This could be a good trade to watch I feel I Know Chuck's been all over this ETF boil natural gas ETF very similar to how we typically trade cold So cold ended up having a big drop-off earlier today With that in mind the other boil ended up having a nice pop just inverse to that UNG is another ETF or fun that trades very similar to that boil a little bit cheaper So, you know, if you're more particular about that at least I'll put the UNG on our list and Chuck if You're gonna stick with that boil then rightfully so it's it's been a nice, you know trade But no altogether ETFs I always say this unless if you have level four book map or unless if you're just familiar with the ETF and how it moves then I just focus on the stocks like SMMT or BKS why if anything It's been a good day for Chuck all together Savva one of his favorites pushing back up again It's not even the fact that it's like expensive Chuck and that's what he wrote in the chat board We've traded this more expensive It's been a much more expensive stock in the past, but it's just very thin You know, it's at the highs right now if he's in it looking good, but right now. I want a more liquid trade. Oh My skin are kind of refreshed on me there. Whoops When to click on beyond meet BYND stock from yesterday ended up having a nice squeeze up at first then ended up stalling out under The 1450 level well right now once again back up and over now 15 and still holding pretty strong to the high So this one if anything I'm more of a fan of It's not turning a whole lot of volume per minute though to 2.3 million on the day But and this number you want to see a little bit higher at least but for right now beyond meets liquid We're more familiar with the stock if anything All right, what else we got here folks to wrap up the gainer side and BL why I think mobile eye This is right new IPO or newly Relisted it's been making a nice squeeze up off the opening print there off 2670 if I'm not mistaken right Chris and I were talking about that on that day. I remember You know, hey, if anything the stock has been more of a swing trade than a day trade But you know pass on this for right now All right, so there's our UNG natural gas ETF just that's moving with the boils that we're gonna spotlight on our watch list Let's see what else we got here to wrap up a DMA. I haven't seen this one yet Squeezed up more from the morning CDE gold mining stock. I believe if I'm not mistaken. So Grant looks like another strong day for the gold miners Gdx squeezing back up a little bit at least and you GT. I know CDE is a miner. So that one had a nice day Michael's saying ASO has been up big also. That's been also a pretty nice swing trade, right? A little expensive today trade But all-time highs. I know that's what you and Norman were noting earlier All right, so let's hop over to the loser side here folks seeing if there's anything just as good if not better COVID stock IBO down big not even gonna look at it really DAKT and you could actually short this thing on trade station, but I Don't know. I mean, I guess it's down enough Technically to where you can begin to look for that proverbial dead cat bounce to see the short covering And it's down to a 50 cent level like as in $1 and 50 cents So, you know, I'll put this on our list for right now. We don't really have too many on there for the meantime So, you know, I'll do that. It's liquid, you know, good spread a good order book, right? Stick to my own rules With that would be hard to ignore Carvana as a short all-time lows at least from earlier today and Steady downtrend very liquid and trading a lot of volume per minute. This is beautiful as a short Let me ask really quickly just solely out of curiosity, you know, I wasn't looking at this per se like right before 230 You know that I was looking at SMMT But is anyone short on Carvana right now is the day trade today I know one of our trial members I think are new students if anything. He's like, yeah, I used to work in the auto business I hate Carvana at the company. So he was happy to see a crash and burn today. I Forgot that I forgot that gentleman's name. Oh Manuel, I think it is you said that It's funny. All right, Ravina. No, Robert. No, great. No, that's all right I'm just asking that a curiosity. We always just ask but nevertheless nice short You got a big support level coming up right now a big test coming up here off 375 There's about 42,000 shares on the bit a moment ago there. So keep your eye on that 375 level We'll bring up book map. We'll bring up level four go through the whole motion folks coming up at 305 Eastern time for the phase three class There we go very timely with that link there, which appreciate you. All right Zuo Zuo. Hey very similar to Carvana at least in the sense of the drop-off Really steady down right now. Jeez. All right. So is this at all-time lows kind of similar to the Carvana? It is All right, we'll take it. There we go. I didn't even see this thing until right now Zuo I mean made more of an afternoon drop-off if anything just broke below support off of 610 Wow The SMMT trade trying to sneak back above a level I had there. It's at 268 I was looking for 250 to 258 a support didn't pull back. Oh, that's funny It literally is I'm commentating that look what just happened right now live You never know what you're gonna get folks All right, well, I'd be careful here because I was looking for support off 250 That doesn't mean we're gonna get it right now. This just smashed below that 250 level If this thing wants to go back up it needs to definitively hold $2 and 50 cents coming up here as support like right now So you may see me in this trade prior to class beginning or as class begins I may jump into this prior just if this is gonna build the support. I'm not in it right now So hopefully this makes its move relatively soon before or as we finish up. All right So yeah for right now, let's see what happens here Jeff SMMT. We're gonna keep on our list What else we got though folks if there's anything else looking good Type it in the chat board. Let me know here You never know what you're gonna get there, right? Got eyes everywhere. Well, actually apparently not. I didn't have eyes on zero until right now. So there we go, right? All right. What else we got nx gl I'm seeing from Benzinga pro I don't know what the chart looks like so I didn't catch this up until here. We are so nice move I this could be a little illiquid So I'd be I'd be a little careful about the volume peaking and then waning sharply back down Namely off the two level but for the afternoon movement up here We'll put this on our list for right now the nx gl Stock trades like 29,000 shares 30,000 shares per day Like per day, that's how little volume the stock trades don't get caught slipping All right, let me know folks if there's anything else otherwise We'll jump back to a couple that I said, you know, we'll come back to bivi bi vi I don't have a great need to put this on our watch list at this point If it had a more liquid book than maybe but I like what we have at this point, you know for right now Everything's so far caravana beyond meat BKS Y SMMT and the rest of them, right? Then a otherwise tour to you are a slowpoke You know, hey, this is one I'd rather be more inclined to follow of the two more liquid at the highs showing good strength still hasn't tanked So at least for the meantime. All right, we'll put this on our list All right for us on social media Facebook live or YouTube Let me know otherwise folks if there's anything else that you'd want me to check out or look at here before we finish up Norman saying ESPR at the low of the day. Yeah, but that was like the pump and dump, right? Like I don't know I mean, unless if this is at all-time lows, then I'm not gonna be as inclined It's looks and this is that some good support looks like back from, you know Midway through this year up until now. So this actually could be continued move on the way down here It's actually now top percent loser. So I didn't realize that part Norman This thing popped up at first early in pre-market dumped all the way down went from top percent gainer to top percent loser and like six hours so Actually, I respect that I like that. All right. ESPR there could definitely be more room for continuation at least it's testing historical support not at all-time lows, but You know pretty decent There we go, Robert. There we go my man He got in from 253 on the SMMT trade just got out now at 267. Hopefully there's enough room for me on this trade Don't move without me All right. All right, so with that in mind folks, we're gonna wrap up hopefully I have enough time to jump in right now, too I'm not gonna just jump in bull rush and chase it though You know look for this to pull back down a little bit more All right But otherwise for all some social media Facebook live YouTube if you have any other questions feel more than free to send it over through email Josh at C2 trading calm. That's my handle Otherwise, so if you wanted to join our live trading room continue the audio commentary that our instructor rich will do coming up at 3 p.m Eastern time just go right down to the link on the yellow banner below the stream right there just to get yourself started But for Grant for Jeff for Michael for Robert Dan Lita and all this otherwise last call the phase 3 stock Course class will be coming up at 3 p.m. Eastern time today I appreciate my student Mike actually who just chatted me right now Mike. I appreciate you He's very flexible with this coaching session pushing it tomorrow So I had to do the hot tag for foul so kind of last minute But I look forward to teaching this class folks and trading the market closed for you So again, if you have access make sure that you click that link there that rich posted Otherwise if you have any questions about the curriculum if you don't have access interested Just make sure that you contact our office message your education advisor and they'll be more than happy to go over things with you All right folks, but otherwise I look forward to seeing all of us in class. Take care Come a cyber group member today Just click the link below and receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge We're just nine dollars Do it today


If the project doesn't automatically connect to your discovery board to actually download the project, it means that the IR environment couldn't get hold of the target board because the target board is already in a low power mode. If this happens, you are probably best to use the ST-Link utility as you saw earlier on in the examples so that you can connect using the ST-Link so the ST-Link will always be able to connect to the target board whereas the ID sometimes will miss and then you'll load the binary as you did with the SRAM example earlier and download it into the microcontroller. When you're doing it to download directly into the flash, you don't change any of the settings. The default setting will always be 800,000 hex, which is the main flash and then that helps you get around when your IAR environment cannot connect to your target device because of low power modes.


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Studying remains. Here's how you can analyse this poem. In terms of structure, the poem is written in eight stanzas. The first seven are quatrains. However, the eighth is what we call a couplet. The poem begins in media ray, which means in the middle of action, and it seems like a conversation at first. Illiteration shows that the speaker is a soldier who was sent to tackle looters. Illiteration in Sazira here shows that one of the looters started running away, and he might not have been armed. The hyperbole in line 9 shows that they killed this unarmed man. This metaphor highlights how horrible and grisly this man's death was. These verbs are really dehumanising. They show that the dead man is treated like an animal. The Sazira in line 17 is powerful because it highlights the turning point of the poem. Illiteration in Jean Mont shows the soldier is haunted by the memory of killing this unarmed man. The repetition of line 4 shows that this man is haunted by the trauma of this killing. Illiteration emphasises how the soldier now has PTSD.


Shoot, today's a sad day. It's over. I'm a failure. I quit. My world is shattering. The sky is falling.  I can't- I haven't been able to breathe through both my nostrils in six days, okay? The oxygen in my brain is low. What is going on into the mic like that? I want to let him know where I'm at. I coughed up blood. You ever coughed up blood? No, no, it's just because the tonsils get a little inflamed.  Well, I've had boogie blood. You've never had boogie blood before? Yeah, see?  I failed. I'll tell you guys why I failed. Join along. Maybe wondering where the 705 deadlift is. Sometimes I think one of my best attributes as like a lifter and athlete, or even like a business owner, is the ability to pivot. And some may call that like soft or a failure or like not caring enough or something. But for me, it's just like in certain aspects of my life, I'm really good with rolling with the punches. So we had the de-load week and we were supposed to pull a PR. That was the goal that we built up three or four months with Coach Joe. Shout out to Coach Joe Stan at Game Day for helping me along this path. Wednesday or Thursday started to get a little sore throat. So I was like, all right, hit the cruise. I'm gonna take the day off, chill, see what happens. Try to rest up. One, I don't want to get the team sick. Two, I ain't no tough, fake, badass.  Like, could I have deadlifted that day? Yeah, man. I probably could. But there's bigger picture things. So I don't want to get anyone in my gym sick. I don't want to get my employees sick. Thursday, still sore throat, a little bit of congestion.   Friday, it starts to grow a little bit more in my chest and my face. I'm pretty sure I just had a bad cold, but I'm known to have sinus infections. I don't know if you guys ever had any of those, but it's not the worst thing. Like, I've been way sicker, but I don't even know if it contagious. I ain't a doctor. So again, I take it off. I hit up Seabass. We were talking. I was like, all right, man, we'll see what Saturday looks like. I may pull it up. I woke up Saturday and I swear my vision was like this. I couldn't breathe walking on my stairs got a little tight in my chest and my nose and live to lift another day. So we decided to kind of scratch the deadlift.  Part of like what I think a lot of people enjoy about powerlifting is the journey there and then like the end day to really push yourself and you're working, working, working, delayed gratification for a big PR, a big thing. I don't necessarily find satisfaction in that, but I wanted to do it because it's part of the culture. It's part of I do enjoy training. I enjoy sharing the journey with you guys, the lessons along the way. I'm not heartbroken over this. Am I a little disappointed? Sure. So I wake up Saturday, vision's real bad. Wake up Sunday, vision's even worse. I'm coughing, I'm lugeing everywhere. I literally stayed in bed Saturday, Sunday, didn't move an ounce. Just ordered smoothies and drank smoothies all day. So nutrition, sleep, everything's a little bit fucked. And who knows. So right now it's Tuesday. Yesterday I started to feel a little bit normal, at least I could see. Today I don't feel great, but I don't feel bad. So I'm going to get a super light just chest workout in and walk a little bit. As far as a PR deadlift is probably not in the books this month. It might be. I mean, if I feel absolutely dope tomorrow, who knows, maybe we come in here and pull. But eventually, as you taper for PRing, we need to keep our base level of fitness and strength while letting fatigue dissipate so we can perform our best. But if you wait too long, the reason people don't just like crush themselves with volume, take a month off and PR is because that level of fitness will also go down with the level of fatigue. And so for the level of fitness, obviously we're not prepared to do what we want to perform. So that's kind of where we're at now. Appreciate y'all following along. You know, I'm not exactly excited. This is because it's not the story I had in my mind, right? We always have these expectations.  I'm probably going to start that this week.  Training was really hard for powerlifting for me because those sessions take a lot out of me mentally and physically. And so four heavy lower body days is really difficult. upper body lacked, my cardio lacked even my diet and nutrition. My stress has just been through the roof as we have a big powerlifting meat coming. We got the Arnold with Avi coming. We got a couple clothing launches coming. So my place is pretty full. And again, those aren't excuses.  But to me, it's just how I pivot through life and I prioritize things.  Yeah, my health matters. And that's why I decided to sleep. And that's why I want to lose a little bit of weight again and get back into the routine of regular cardio and just feel better. So that's where we stand. Call it the end of the deadlift. Call it the end of, you know, being strong. I should still be able to keep some of that deadlift strength through my body building training. I think I'm going to do two lower days a week. And I'll probably prioritize just like heavy singles, heavy triples on squatting deads, followed up by more hypertrophy stuff. So the volume will be down in terms of strength volume, the twos, the threes, the fives, but I'll hit something decently heavy. And then we'll go on a leg press, leg extension, lunges, try some newer things to kind of keep the variety up and have some fun. So that's where we stand. I'm not stoked on it. You're probably not stoked on it. What do they call it? Anti climactic. But that's life sometimes kids live to lift another day. I can pull PR a year from now or two years from now if I want. I am getting older by eight old yet. I ain't dead yet. So we're gonna continue push. So little chest workout today. And then we got a podcast busy week coming a bunch of a variety of content to we got some equipment reviews. I'm going to teach you guys how to build, you know, set up a platform for powerlifting some powerlifting behind the scenes. We got a bunch of visitors visiting in town the next two weeks. So it's gonna be chaos. Plus the vlogs when we go to Arnold and watch Abby absolutely smash it. We'll probably cover some of her training as well leading up to this meet. She's on an absolute tear right now prepping. So stay tuned to that. We're just gonna hit like a couple sets, probably just one set here. Get a little pump, little shoulder set to pump, tricep to pump. Just get some blood flowing again, you know. When you're getting sick, you don't want to come in and follow X's and O's. We're just gonna continue going. I'll walk. I know a bit of a random video you all, but just want to update you on where my head is at. What's been happening last week. We got so much going on. I can't even tell you. So I know that sounds whatever YouTube ever says it gives you to click on the next video, but we just got a lot going on. So I'm trying to gather my thoughts as a business owner, as a boss, as a meat director, as a designer. A lot of hats going on, a lot of hats I'm wearing, a lot of balls I'm juggling. So stay tuned. So podcast over this. Check that out. 50% facts every Wednesday and Friday. If you guys were into podcasts on your travels, your daily activities, and then brand new videos, man, every Wednesday, Thursday, shorts every single day. So turn on notifications, be sure to subscribe. Appreciate you guys coming with this journey. Leave your questions below, man. I'm happy to answer. You want to talk shit? I'm happy to answer that too. And then we'll continue vlogging. So not daily vlogs, but we're going to be videotaping every single day because we've got so much going on. I don't want to share with you all. I'm going to finish yourself, get a walk in, try to get some food in, clear my lungs a little bit, and then catch you guys in the next one.


And the reality is it's not just the physiological stuff. It is oftentimes the mental, emotional, spiritual things that are contributing to the dysregulation of their biochemistry. For years, I've been discussing the gut-brain connection as you and many others. And I think it's incredibly important for people to understand. When was your aha moment when you realized that food might have such a big impact on emotional health? Those of us that love seeing patients still and really immerse ourselves in cases, I think we're a rare breed of health nerds that probably really predates even our profession. So for me, I grew up knowing this because I was this weird teenager in Western Pennsylvania and would read all the latest books and research and things I'd find at that local health food store who want to learn about this. And this is something that, yes, you're right, it was so much more research than we had back then. But there's a reason why so much of research is really catching up with antiquity that even before the double-blind trials and the exciting research that I talk about and gut feelings, there was a lot of ancestral knowledge about this and I kind of opened up the book and talk about that somehow our ancestors knew the gut was the seed of the soul, right? And we have amazing, exciting studies to show that, but these phrases of gut instinct and gut feelings and I just feel it in my gut and butterflies in my stomach, that is part of our culture, right? And it's this sort of vast remembering now of the power that the gut wields on our mood. Yeah, you know, I'm always talking the Hippocrates 2,500 years ago said all disease begins in the gut. And interestingly, I recently have a Buddhist scholar who's become my patient and we were talking about this one day and he says, you know, I actually, you mentioned Hippocrates saying this, he says, so I went back to some of the Sanskrit texts of Buddha and Buddha actually said that enlightenment comes from the intestines and they were, yeah, and they were actually, you know, they were contemporaries and it's like, holy cow, you know, how did, how did a Western guy and an Eastern guy both know this? And it's like, whoa. Studying human experience, right? I mean, they just like probably countless of people studying and seeing connections and yeah, it's beautiful. It's actually beautiful to just see, no matter where your ancestors are from in the world, it's really a part of our heritage as human species. You know, I wrote about in the energy paradox and unlocking the keto code that there's tons of research that you and I both know that emotional stress and depression can cause disorders of the intestinal system and vice versa. So let's talk about how food and gut health can actually lead to mental issues or fix mental health issues. Yeah, so that's that bi-directional crosstalk that I really wanted to dig deep on in this book because I see a play out in patients' lives all the time and it's always the question, people after I go over the labs and go over their health history, we talk about things like chronic stress in your life currently or we look at the adverse childhood experience score and kind of look at things that childhood trauma maybe that may be unresolved. And the question often comes from patients, well, what came first? You know, what's the chicken or the egg? How did I get here? And it's these individual cases that you really have to look at what is the upstream issue? What is it? And for most people, it's gonna be a bit of both and it really doesn't matter. You have to deal with both sides of that coin, right? You have to deal with the gut and the feelings, the physiological and the psychological because the interplay between the two, oftentimes that's what gives rise to things like brain health issues like anxiety or brain fog, fatigue, depression and autoimmune patients. These are people that you and I really spend our lives really figuring out what are the pieces to their puzzle and the reality is it's not just the physiological stuff. It is oftentimes the mental, emotional, spiritual things that are contributing to the dysregulation of their biochemistry. Now, this gut brain axis and I would actually add the microbiome gut brain axis because with every passing year, the microbiome influence on everything is unbelievably big. So what are the top physiological disruptors that you write about in the book? Well, what I see the most clinically, if you're looking at the gut side of that duality, obviously assessing gut health is a major part of that as most of your listeners know about 75% of the immune systems in the gut, inflammation is a product of the immune system. So there's a lot of, I find, gut-centric components to what's causing a dysregulation of their immune system, i.e. chronic inflammation going on downstream. So when we measure things like high sensitivity C-reactive protein or other different inflammatory markers, oftentimes not everybody and it's multifactorial, it's not just one thing usually, but when you look at the gut and you see things like intestinal permeability or leaky gut syndrome, you see dysbiosis, bacterial overgrowth, maybe sometimes yeast and fungal overgrowth, so you'll see, and sometimes you'll see these cow protectin, lactoferrin, these are immune markers and the gut spiked up. And the persons, I mean, yes, they could be going through digestive problems, we see a lot of inflammatory GI issues, but as you know, I mean, that's just one end of a larger continuum.  So yeah, it's profound. So looking at gut health is important. And then we deal a lot with a mold toxicity or mycotoxins because our patients tend to be, as I'm sure you see too, people that have different methylation gene variants or HLA gene variants, they tend to be more biotoxin sensitive and then that paired with an unhealthy gut and then they get exposed to some other biotoxin like mold or sometimes we'll obviously see chronic Lyme disease for people that are struggling with that. And it's typically a combination of biotoxins, i.e. bacteria, viral and mold issues. And for many people, an environmental toxin component too, is that they sort of pick these things up along the way of living in our very polluted world and it's contributing to the inflammatory response in the body that can be impacting their mood, but also their energy levels and of course their immune system. Now one of the things you mentioned in the book, tell me about the polyvagal theory and why that would matter to you, me and our listeners. This is a way to describe and understand the way that stress and trauma, unresolved trauma can be stored in the body and how it exists on a continuum like most things that we're talking about within health. Let me just define it first. The vagus nerve is the largest cranial nerve in the body and it's responsible for our parasympathetic nervous system, the resting, the digesting, the more hormone balance, circadian rhythm throughout the day, the anti-inflammatory mechanisms in many ways too. And both the parasympathetic and the sympathetic are both important. There's nothing wrong with the sympathetic but it's about regulation between the two and the problem is most people find themselves in an over-activation of that sympathetic nervous system, that fight or flight stressed state and a weak parasympathetic response. So what the researchers will call a poor vagal tone or low vagal tone is basically a weak vagus nerve. That parasympathetic, that resting, digesting, chilled out state is hypoactive. It's not working the way that we would like it to be. So polyvagal shows all the way from ventral vagal function to dorsal vagal function. It's showing the body being in this sympathetic hyper-activation. So it is not a new theory actually at all but I think the growing research around trauma and its impact on physical health, I think some of the older research of the polyvagal theory is really coming into its zeitgeist of people's awareness of it. All right, so how in the heck would I or my listeners know if I have a dysregulated autonomic nervous system? And number two, what can you do about it? Look, I mean, the statistics speak for themselves and you look at the rate of autoimmune conditions, the rate of mental health issues. It's fair to say that you really can't have those problems without some sort of nervous system dysregulation. So I would say first of all, whether you're diagnosed or not is I keep saying, repeating myself, these things exist on a spectrum and depending on the study that you look at, it's about four to 10 years prior to someone being diagnosed when things were somewhere on that inflammation spectrum. So you don't necessarily have to be diagnosed. I mean, many people, you know, they're just, they're feeling that wired and tired, they're anxious and exhausted, they have sluggish GI motility, they are like constipated, they maybe have some IBS issues, they have weight loss resistance, metabolic issues. Throughout there, that's a lot of people. That's the vast majority of the human race to varying degrees. So you can assume that a component to why you feel the way that you do is a dysregulated nervous system. And supporting it and regulating it is in my experience with our telehealth patients, a massive component for many people to their healing. So yeah, that's the state of affairs right now. Let me make a comment in the same light, and I'm sure you see this in most of the patients that end up seeing me. Many people have been to four or five, 10 different well-meaning physicians, other practitioners, institutions, and they often vague complaints. And most of them are told every one of your lab tests is absolutely normal, there's nothing wrong with you. Some people joke, you need a checkup from the neck up. And that's certainly been my experience. What say you?  I mean, my heart breaks for this epidemic of medical gaslighting that we're seeing in the world today. Really, I think in many ways, this archaic system coming to grips with an informed populace. The gatekeepers are going by the wayside and I think the democratization of information, the decentralization of information, you have empowered consumers that know more than honestly most conventionally trained doctors do about health. And that's threatening to a system that never really had to answer questions. And we're vastly as a conventional model behind the times when it comes to helping people with complex health issues. And it's something that I really go hard in got feelings because it's something that I see on an hourly basis with new patients telling me these horror stories of medical gaslighting. They're told they're just depressed, take these antidepressant.   All these, like you said, well-intentioned sometimes. Sometimes there's what I would call medsplaining. It's like, you know, mansplaining only with people's health.  And if you don't fit into that box, they're told, hey, it looks like autoimmune conditions or, you know, it is, you know, you're just depressed or you are referred to somebody else and there's just this growing list of labs where there's really nothing to show for it. I'm not sure how we break this cycle, but I know you and I are both trying to do that. And I think the important thing is that people need to find someone who will actually take their complaints seriously and have the ability to investigate this.  Now, of course, thanks to Dr. Vizano and others, we know that Leaky Gut number one exists, we know how to test for it. So it's not pseudoscience, apocrity was right. Just a diverge for a second, back in the late 1800s, there was a theory that caught wildfire called, which you probably know about autointoxication. And that was bacterial toxins coming out of our intestines was actually the cause of most of our illnesses. And it got so extreme, as you probably know and I do, that people had their entire colons taken out. People had all of their teeth removed and it actually was the start of colonic therapy because of this. That's where colonic therapy started from. And believe it or not, it was correct, but not in the way that anybody thought. We're beginning to actually come around 100 years later, more than 100 years later and say, you know, there was something to this and now we can test for it. Yeah, and you don't have to remove your colon or your teeth. No, that's the good news. That's the good news. But you need to take care of your colon and you need to take care of your teeth. Yeah, we could talk about the oral microbiome. Hey, look, that's something that's important there too. You're right. But hey, how far we've come, I'm glad, in returning a corner. Yeah. All right, speaking of turning a corner, you have a term in the book which I find fascinating. Shameflimation. And you say, and I want you to defend this, probably has to do with a lot of chronic health conditions. So what the heck is shameflimation? It's my made up word, right? So much of our job, so much of our job is education. So I think like a teacher in that way of like a how to the lay person and we deal with savvy aficionados, the area that people when it comes to health, but still they don't do this for a living, I do. So it's just this phenomenon that I see clinically for the past 13 plus years of the people's mind, body connection, their mental health, their emotions, their thoughts about themselves and other people in the world and how it impacts their physiology. So shame is something that I see to varying degrees in different instances. One, something that I talk about in the book is this unresolved trauma component for many people's health puzzle pieces. And there's a lot of shame. This is like pretty straightforward, right? You could assume there's a lot of shame when it comes to unresolved trauma and things that people maybe are a little bit defensive when I bring it up on that initial telehealth consult when I see their high A score and we talk about things like sexual abuse, growing up and physical abuse, growing up. Was there alcohol, drug abuse in the home, growing up? Was there just a general neglect or a latchkey kid growing up? And that, depending on that person's biochemistry and their own bio-individuality and sort of resilience capacity, it really can influence their biochemistry today. And we know that's a contributing factor. The higher the A score research shows, you're more likely to have, it's a potential ingredient to trigger autoimmune problems, trigger brain health issues, trigger hormonal and metabolic issues later on in life. But I also see shame play out in a more nebulous way because it's a little bit not as obvious, but it's with people that are dealing with chronic stress in their current life. So the people that I talked to in this category and obviously you can have both past trauma and current stress, but let's just say their A score is lower, their childhood experience is lower, but it's the current stress of a job, high pressure job or, and at that point they're on the go all the time. They're kind of irritable because they're not really managing their stress very well. They're snapping at their partner, they're snapping at their kids, they're not really present with their family when they are home because they're checking their emails and they typically will do the grab and go convenience packaged foods that don't really love them back and they're doing a lot of stress eating. So there's shame around that too. So there's a lot of shame with chronic stress due to various reasons. And that life stuff, that feeling stuff of gut feelings, we will see spike inflammatory proteins impacting the gut brain axis and really throwing off anything from SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, just driving food reactions, food sensitivities to of course this epidemic of diagnosable autoimmune issues and brain health issues. So that's my way of kind of educating people about this phenomenon of shame formation. Well, I gotta say, when I was a big fat guy, I had no shame in eating a pound of peanut M&Ms, none. Obviously I had a big problem, but that was not shameful for me, but I get what you're saying. You're right, I have a large number of patients that they know the foods they're eating are killing them or affecting their mental health or the way they feel, and yet they do it and they say, I can't help myself. And I think that's what we're both getting into. How do we break that cycle? You mentioned one thing. Convenience foods, because quote unquote, we live busy lives and we're under stress, it's so much easier to stop on the way home and pick something up than to go home and make something or even find fresh ingredients and make something, even if it was gonna be very quick. How do we break this? So I put together a protocol and got feelings that I adapted from protocols that I have for patients and everybody has their own entry point. I'm just putting my clinical hat on for a second. Like for some people, the feeling stuff is very overwhelming for them, right? It's like the idea of dealing with past trauma, I think of a patient I had a few weeks ago, they had a very high A score and they had never really done therapy, they never really did much there, maybe some CBT, like general therapy, but not really dealing with the past stuff so much. And they didn't wanna go there. And they said, you know what, no, I know I went through it. They didn't wanna talk about the connection between how it could be playing out with their inflammatory problem and anxiety and depression and fatigue. So you just have to plant that seed sometimes. And for them, they were expecting the functional medicine doctor to be prescriptive, to run some labs, look at their gut health, give them a food protocol, give them a natural medicine, supplement protocol, maybe some bio hacks in there, and we did all that, but you just have to get rolling, meet them where they're at and that's the science and art of what we both do. But this is a surprising one. Only three weeks on the protocol, she was feeling more grounded, less inflamed, blood sugar was more stable. That's physiologically for a fertile foundation, for someone to make more proactive and less reactive decisions. And for her, she said to me, hey, you know that trauma thing you were talking to me when we first met online? I'm ready to talk about that now. And now we have her doing somatic practices, breath work, doing some EMDR with a therapist. The gut side of gut feelings was her entry point to create some resilience, increase some bandwidth, so she could cross that bridge of dealing with the past stuff. For other people, it's the opposite, right? It's the opposite, like the physical stuff's overwhelming, and like we were just kind of saying, they're in this throes of shamefulmation and sabotaging behavior, they really can't get past like a few weeks before like just doing things in a very self-sabotaging way. When it comes to food or alcohol or lifestyle stuff. So for them, regulating the nervous system with therapy, EMDR, somatic practices, breath work, some of the tools that I talk about within the protocol of the book, that's gonna create more resilience for them than they can go make better food choices. For most people, they're at least open to some degree that they need to deal with both the gut and the feeling stuff at the same time, because both are important. One will influence the other. I think we're beginning to realize how much a great entry way into mental health the gut is, fascinating work.  And we can measure depression in rats, it's actually pretty easy to do, just by changing their gut microbiome. And the signals that are sent from the microbial population has an amazing impact on anxiety and depression. So you're right, so just in three weeks with your patient, you've manipulated that component and now all these postbiotic signaling compounds that are coming up to the brain, and the leaky brain, that's now repaired or in the process of being repaired, and now you're right. Now they go, oh yeah, there is some stuff I really need to work on here, but that's what tipped it over. Yeah, absolutely. And I want the reader of the book to, depending on where they're at, just find something that they can stay consistent with. Because when you start saying consistent, even with the small stuff leaning into it, if you can get your head above that proverbial water, even just a little bit, people start to make more proactive decisions. They have a little bit more of self-respect, I think, for themselves. I think there's a going back to that shameflame concept. People that are in the throes of dysregulation on all levels tend to feel miserable, and when people feel miserable, they tend to make miserable decisions. So not to say that anybody's ever perfect, that's not the case, but you tend to have a little bit more of an awareness and a mindfulness around decisions that we make in our life when we can create physiological stability and resilience as well as mental-emotional resilience as well. All right, so why is it that when we're stressed or sad that we reach for junk food, or we reach for alcohol, you see it, I see it, what is that connection? Why do we do that? Well, I think it's multifaceted, right? I think of the thinking of some foods that are highly palatable and the research around descent memory for some people. There's this nostalgic component, I think, for some people that kind of plays on certain pleasure centers of the brain, but I do feel like a lot of it is some sort of quick dopamine hit, some sort of numbing and distracting from issues that need to deal with. And that's on all levels of culture. Even with social media, I see that, right? It's like, it may not even be food for them. It may be, I want some distraction, some numbing from this dysregulation in my body, which further perpetuates that same inflammation for many people. Yeah, I think that's it. What do you think? What are your thoughts there? I think dopamine receptors are a big piece of this and certainly the gaming industry knows this extensively and we know it from rat research. You'll press that button to get that hit. The problem is once that hit wears off and it wears off quite quickly, you seek another hit, whether it's from that food that did it or from TikTok or whatever. And you'll just keep pressing the button. I know, and it is the foods for sure, but again, a lot of what I talked about in the book is this technology and this FOMO culture, the fear of missing out. And I talk about the Jomo, it's like kind of transmute FOMO into Jomo, the joy of missing out, because a lot of this ancestral stuff, I talk about Huga and sort of the Danish concepts of kind of simplifying your life, unplugging maybe a little bit, reading a book by a fire or whatever that you can to unplug, to regulate your nervous system and ground yourself. And the research around forest bathing is so fascinating that I write about. I mean, there's just this regulation on so many levels, whether it is foods that don't love you back that kind of contribute to that distracting and numbing dopamine hit or social media. I just read a study recently, it wasn't new, but I was in preparation for the book and really looking at different, all the research that's done on social media, multiple studies looked at this one, it was 2012, I think, looked at over 7,000 New York Times articles and they looked at what determined the viral, the virality of an article. And they found that emotions like rage and anger outperformed other emotions by a lot. And that, I mean, that we all kind of know that intuitively and there's other studies that show that Facebook at one point at least, maybe still, prioritized posts that use the angry emoji. So, and then they're feeding, they're feeding the angry articles to the people that are most likely to engage in that rage. And that further perpetuates that cheap dopamine hit that's really junk food for our physiology just as much because that's just regulating people's nervous systems just as much as that food that doesn't love them back. We kind of talked about bad foods. Are there any good foods that can help turn the tide? Yeah, for sure. So the protocol in the book, I really talk about the gaps protocol, you know, the gut and psychology syndrome or gut and physiology syndrome, something that I've used clinically for the past 13 years for people who needed it. So whether it's an autoimmune inflammation issue, metabolic issue or a brain health issue, this is a protocol that really is, I think of it as a proverbial cast for a very dysregulated gut brain axis. So it kind of, as you know, like a lot of foods that the world would epitomize as super healthy that are relatively healthy, but maybe lots of raw vegetables, lots of raw foods, which are not inherently bad. I'm not saying that, but I'm saying someone that has a very reactive system on all levels, emotionally and physiologically. That can be a lot to digest and work on. So focusing on soups and stews, grounding, easy to digest, bioavailable, nutrient-dense things, it's a great way to ground them, not just physiologically, i.e., calming, stress hormones, calming, inflammation levels, but also you'll see the ripple effect of their emotions being more grounded as well. So it could be bone broth based soups and stews, you could do organic chicken broth or grass-fed beef broth, or you could do fish broth, which isn't as common in the United States, but in other cultures it's pretty common. We have recipes for all of these in the book. Two, and you could obviously do some plant-based galangal broth, ginger broth, seaweed broth, if you want to do as well, and lots of protein and vegetables in there, but the vegetables you're gonna get are going to be more digestible and usable to the body and less irritating to an irritated system. So that's one thing that as a tool that over time, therapeutically, I've seen amazing results with doing sort of a gut reset, if you will. That's a really good point. And particularly in California, if you don't have a salad three times a day, there's something wrong with you. Absolutely, people who have a really dysregulated gut, their microbiome is shot, they've got a leaky gut. These people, they really react to raw vegetables. And I'll give you a personal example, which I've talked about before, but it's worth repeating. Years ago, my wife got a Nutribullet, a Magic Bullet, and decided to make a kale smoothie. And she took four cups of raw kale and made a smoothie and handed it to me as I was walking out the door. And I can eat kale, I occasionally have kale. So I'm walking out the door and I chug my kale smoothie and I eat a lot of salads, obviously. And within an hour, I'm having massive intestinal cramps and the next thing I know, I'm in the bathroom and out comes the kale smoothie. And I'm going, what the heck?  There's actually a lot of really protective plant compounds like lectins that the plant doesn't want you to eat them. And if you eat them whole, you go through a very slow process of breaking these things down. But what my wife had done, of course, is homogenized it and every plant defensive protein was now fully activated and my body went, holy cow, I gotta get rid of this thing. And this is exactly what you're talking about.  And then you gradually reintroduce this stuff. Yeah, that's great advice. Yeah. And look, some people we even have to do, I'm glad you brought up, like there's a transition period, you know, necessarily always staying there. Like if we're repairing these things, let's segue out of that, to use that proverbial caste analogy. There's a time for a sling and there's a time to take off that sling entirely. But when there's resilience regained, but some people have to start with even pureed vegetables, like it's like that broken down. Oh yeah, absolutely. And so you kind of have to meet your gut where it's at and don't try to rush things that it's not ready to digest. Yeah, I mean, I literally will have people, you know, cook their salads and then puree them and that's, you know, that's where we have to start or not where we're gonna go today probably, but I will use a variation of a carnivore diet temporarily to get these plant compounds away from people and we'll do that. I just had a friend who's a patient. We've done this and he was a vegan and had all these gut issues and we kind of tried every trick to keep him as a vegan. And I finally said, look, this isn't working. You've got wide open leaky gut. We've tried everything. Do me a favor, you know, let's try a carnivore diet primarily based on fish. He was good with that. Within a month, he said, oh my gosh, you know, that was it, that was it.  Now let's branch out, but yeah. Lean out of it for sure. And I mean, the fruit side of things, those people tend to, I find to almost do better with fruits than a lot of the higher reactive, let's just say higher FODMAP or higher oxalate vegetables. We'll have them bake it down, simmer it down, fruits, like berries into sort of a compost, like kind of inside of a pie without the pie part and maybe some honey, something like that, it's a treat for them, but it's more digestible. I mean, the concept is you're kind of predigesting it in a way by cooking these down and there's nothing wrong with raw foods. We're not saying that, but kind of for the people that need it for a time therapeutically, use it therapeutically and then lean out of it based on your body's own pace of recovery. Yeah, I'll actually even have people ferment their fruits. That's a great tip, yeah. Really actually add some postbiotics and to start breaking them down. And let's remind ourselves that plants actually want us to eat their fruits. This was the enticement to distribute their babies, their seeds that we couldn't digest as opposed to plants actually didn't want us to eat their leaves because that's their energy, sir. What is a sugar audit and why do you recommend doing one? So, I mean, you know this, but like people, even that, I mean, the people that I meet, people that you meet are very savvy people, as I mentioned earlier. They are eating better than most people are. They know more than most doctors do, but I am still, I surprised many of them to when I really point out the hidden sugars that's even in these things that are very much marketed to as healthy things. And look, they are better for you options. There's nothing wrong in that, right? And they're better sourced ingredients, et cetera. But you still have to look for grams of added sugar, especially if you're just not mindful of how you're fueling your body. And we know, especially for people that have dysregulated guts and dysregulated nervous systems, the more added sugar, the more you're going to contribute to that stress cycle and that's a chain-flanation cycle when it comes to how they feel mood-wise and their blood sugar is all over the place. So, sugar audits, one of the days within the gut feelings protocol is just for people to take an inventory of their breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack and just be mindful, almost using it as a mindfulness experiment of saying, wow, I didn't realize that dressing had some X amount of grams of sugar or I didn't realize that I'm having this big thing of juice thinking that I'm doing the great thing but it's really lacking fiber and it's biking my blood sugar that just because something's quote unquote healthy or it's marketed very well, really don't ever, like I would still want to empower the person to read the grams of added sugar in the back of that label. Yeah, kombucha is one of the big mischief makers at least in the sort of people I deal with. Oh, I have kombucha every day and yet their triglycerides are high and they're insulin resistant and I go, you know, every look at the back of the label and there's 20 grams of added sugar, I get news for you that wasn't all fermented away and alcohol that. Yeah, no, I mean, you know, I mean, a lot of these kombucha companies, the mass market doesn't necessarily love the tanginess, the tartness. So they do it from a sales perspective, I'm assuming, but yeah, look better for you maybe, but yeah, you want your kombucha to be as tart and vinegary as possible and then read the grams of added sugar for sure. What was maybe the most surprising thing you learned while working on this book? It would be, it's hard to say because I think the breath work research is really fascinating. I talk about holotropic breath work and it's origins with psychedelic research. I found that fascinating. I knew about it intellectually. We integrated in patients' protocols, but I just, the deep dive of that space was fascinating in writing and researching for this book. The other one that comes to mind is the science around intergenerational trauma, transgenerational trauma of how it sounds so almost woo-woo and science fiction. The fact that we are helped today not only has to do with the foods we eat in our stress levels or our past childhood trauma but it has to do potentially with our great grandparents and what they experienced. But the research is really looking at that. Is that there's multiple examples within the journals. One is the Holodomor, it was this man-made famine, this Ukrainian genocide in the early 20th century. Another set of research looking at the Holocaust in Germany and Poland and the Rwandan genocide in the 90s and looking at the trauma that they went through impacting not just the people they went through but these methylation variants would be passed on from kid to grand kid to great grand kids having increased risks of autoimmune issues and metabolic issues, type two diabetes and mental health issues. So it is profound and I think that we're just beginning to scratch the surface of in a way we are living out things that we need to deal with in our own life that's like our opportunity, like our life today in many ways is an opportunity to fix and break cycles that have been going on for generations. And as trauma can be inherited, so can healing. And I see people all the time with my patients raking the cycle of dysfunction and disorder and dysregulation and disease and they're not just their body but it changes the culture of their family and it heals their kids, their health, their spouse. And I think of the legacy that is of just healing generations they'll never get to see. So that to me was probably the most enriching, it was the most I think in awe of the power that we wield that it's not just about us, it's really about really leaving a legacy of wellness on all levels. So how do you counter the argument that, well, my great grandfather was traumatized in the Prussian war and so I can't help it that I wanna have a pound of M&Ms and drink like a fish. I can't help it. Well, I think that's the difference between being reactive and proactive and being a victim and being more than a conqueror. I think that's the difference is that people can use that as a way to distract and numb themselves, absolutely. That's victimhood in all levels, right? But I think that all other people can say, wow, I think the person that's proactive and that's working on healing has that paradigm shift to say, wow, if anything that gives me some grace and some lightness that this isn't all just about me but we all were dealt different hands, right? But it's our responsibility to say what do we do with it in this life? I see people up against seemingly insurmountable things with very high A scores with very much heaviness in their life, in their family's life for generations, overcome, overcome. So I think that that's just the difference between an excuse maker and people that don't make excuses to people that their why is bigger than their excuses. If you had one recommendation for anyone trying to heal their gut brain connection, what do you got? Where do I start? I mean, I get back and look at some of the recipes in the book and really look at the gaps protocol that I have in gut feelings because I do feel like that's a good first step. If you're like, man, I'm struggling with some brain fog and fatigue, maybe some background anxiety, maybe an autoimmune issue, look at that side of it, the soups, the stews, the cooked fruits, we have recipes for all of that to make it more digestible and therapeutic that proverbial cast for your gastrointestinal system and therefore your microbiome too. On the feeling side, I mean, there's so many practicumatic practices that I've talked about in the book but I would say breath work is one, don't underestimate the power of breath and how it can regulate your nervous system strengthening that vagus nerve. But if you're talking about like me personally, I love a good old fashioned forest bath. I love the research coming out of Japan and South Korea, looking at using nature as a meditation and medicine and these things are completely free or low costs for people. So that is a great excuse to go out in nature which humans would have done for eons and we didn't need the randomized controlled trials to look at the mechanisms. We just knew intuitively that nature was healing but now we have some cool science to show the mechanisms. So if you need another excuse, there are many that I talk about in the book as far as the research is concerned but just taking in nature sensorially with all your senses and that the plant compounds have been shown to modulate the immune system in a positive way improving mood. There's one study that I talk about with the microbiome of kids that went through this forest bathing class it actually changed their microbiome, the microbes impacting serotonin and neurotransmitter crosstalk between the gut and the brain. So there's so many really fun things in a way to support and regulate your nervous system on the feeling side. Yeah, absolutely. I think you're gonna love this next one. Sorghum is one of the two main grains that have no lectins and sorghum has been shown to be great for your gut buddies.