Woo-hoo fantastic We are live independent investor channel. My name is Ryan. It is nine o'clock in the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube We do this product every Friday night to bring awareness to investing the opportunity made possible through the stock market wealth building We talk about different fundamental strategies most of the time. We do talk a lot about single-stock opportunity Opportunities made possible through exchange traded funds index funds And the like and where to house those good assets by way of a taxed advantage to count Such as a traditional Roth IRA or Roth IRA a lot of you guys work with 401ks But the real message here is to bring people together.  It always comes back to me and says It's never as bad as you think that it is and for somebody like myself. That's as aggressive as I am Some folks might look at the outcomes from this year and say geez Ryan What are you bitching about you get to be kidding me, man We've been kicking some ass on a lot of different fronts and that that's that's true This week was a fantastic week for us here on the independent investor channel We'll disclose the portfolio reviews for you guys that haven't been with the live stream before I know there's a lot of people here who are loyal to the to the message here Because I present a little different twist to the YouTube opportunity I don't do YouTube to have a hundred thousand subscribers if it happens great if not no big deal at all no love lost as far as my Social media presence and and the opportunity that exists therein YouTube provides me an opportunity to share my unique perspective on investing Share what it is by way of some of the predigree that I I demonstrate from day to day Which is very very useful for folks out there that have goals into the future but Have a little bit of a hard time Identify what they need to to deploy In way of daily habits to reach those set goals really just comes down to that I there's a lot of people that I speak with and they they would have they would love to have wealth in the bank but Their goals are either completely out of whack They are not achievable in the short to medium term and I think a message like mine From a perspective like mine Somebody that doesn't come from money. I think a lot of people can relate with that Sometimes I have a little bit of an animus to say gosh, you know, why why was I so lucky not to come from a Family of means for example, you know, sometimes I check my backside make sure that there's not a silver spoon on my backside there's not Be nice some of the chances that I've taken in life by way of the Risky moves I've taken to try to get ahead By way of putting my own personal safety at risk In Alaska on the fishing boats things like that that I used to do very very proud of that and I wouldn't have changed it for anything Because each and every moment that I have now as I kind of get older and I reflect back on where I came from Everything seems to taste a little bit sweeter now Every bit of of dollar that I make toward my financial goal is one step in that direction to achieving personal wealth What am I gonna do when I get there? You know, I we've all got to have goals to keep us going in this life and for a lot of people it Can take a lot of different forms It doesn't have to be about achieving money Sometimes I feel like and this is just the way I'm wired that I pursue wealth and personal finance To to its to ferocity. I really do. I'm very aggressive on this topic And I think sometimes it could be misconstrued as being a little bit shallow I think it's the opposite I actually do this for my family and for the ability that it could present later on down the line In some of the things that we want to do that have nothing to do with having a fat portfolio Okay, it has everything to do with establishing some legacy property number one number two is to vacation see this great world and And you know for myself, I drag my kids all over the place and I get to live through their eyes In that they're young kids and we've drug them all over they got to see Notre Dame before it caught fire I was looking at it for the first time in my 40s Just to give you some perspective those types of things. They don't happen without means and I I tip my hat to those folks out there that can create opportunity Without said means I think that's a beautiful thing I think there's a lot of free spirits out there that live this life for free and I'm gonna talk a little bit about How I I I perceive a lot of different things not just wealth Not just money the physical sense Not just but spending and budget We're gonna get into some core shit tonight. No doubt about it's aimed to strike at a nerve I think the more that we can deploy independent thought in our application. I think the better off will be I think the irony in that is we watch a lot of YouTube channels to perhaps maybe bring us together I think that's fine in certain instances. I Also want to foot stamp the other side of the coin in that Individuality and diversity Amongst people is a beautiful thing What's right for a Bob right or an all-good in the group? It may not be right for me and it may not be right for any of the other patrons in the group here Make my Given a few moments here. Let the gallery fill up. There's a ton of people filling in today. It's fantastic. Welcome to all you guys To the live stream, so we'll do the portfolio review. I'm gonna kick into what the hell's wrong with me Why I'm wired the way I'm wired Making no mistake about it guys this project on YouTube for me very very natural It has from the beginning and this is what when people ask me, you know, hey, do you can are you a youtuber? Of course not. I'm doing what feels right when the Rare occasion that this doesn't ever feel right again. I'll walk away and I'm I'm dead serious about that People talk all the time about starting a YouTube channel for some interesting reasons. I was asked, you know, why what gives what are you looking to do it for?  You know, I want to have hundreds of thousands subscribers. Maybe millions of subscribers That's great too. It's all good to each his own I think for those people a man with some staying power on YouTube Like myself I tip my hat because it takes beyond perseverance To have as much devotion for my craft to do what it is that I do For you guys at least every Friday on the live stream and other projects that I roll out for sure It just speaks to my devotion To the craft as well. I enjoy the promotional videos that I do. I mean, I'm rapping with CEOs weekly now Never would have that opportunity and that's just a side opportunity for me that I take and I I'm glad to do it I really am but for the unique nature of the message that we put through on the live stream an opportunity to bring people together Talk about this topic that I think is super important for people to deploy like now start to get the discipline as early as they can in their life and It's all aimed really at reaching a place at some point in your life and perhaps maybe Looking in the mirror and saying I'm content. I don't have any regrets With the path that I was on I made mistakes. I fell on my face. I did But there were certain opportunities that came along and they they they they felt kind of weird They felt different, but I did it and for those of you guys out there that dare to take a chance in your life put a little bit of In in all capacities put a little bit of risk on the table This is the spot for you man. We're gonna show you how to do it guys stick around guys We'll welcome everybody the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube Appreciate each and every one of you guys making yourselves in as the goal in the channel is looking to empower One investor at a time guys I'm not like a lot of YouTube channels out there. So pour yourself a drink have one with me I cordially invite you it's been a hell of a week a lot of progress and The Ryan's life absolutely the independent investor channels humming along just fine Very very proud of that opportunity for sure Yeah, that's good Jesus Fantastic Welcome everybody into the live stream tonight. Let's jump in rips and portfolios out. I Have thought I killed that fly like mr. Miyagi Yeah, give me some chopsticks. See you're gonna get it all man You get a lot of 80s and 90s movie references on the independent investor channel. There's no doubt about it Let's jump in here and check the progress for sure Account number one almost climbing back up to that hundred figure mark here and no changes I did buy by bought Amazon in the dip Had a good quarter. It was off and missed. I believe on the top and bottom and Guidance was a little light. They always do that coming into holiday season. I don't know the street Just hasn't got wise to it Amazon's figured it out.  So I picked up an extra share her I swung trade Google around the earnings and shot up a 180 on the one day took the profits quick Rolled it back in the next day on a downturn. I was really not thinking I was gonna get the opportunity but did Other than that added a nice basing position here utilities Southern company in this portfolio here It's fully vested. That's all working with that Roth IRA number one hundred twenty two thousand five hundred eighty one dollars and ninety seven three percent so fairly Heavily invested. I just it speaks to my conviction going into this fall I don't going into this fall and winter holiday season Where I think the markets are going some systemic risk for sure There was some progress made on the infrastructure This week which wasn't which was nice. That was a good step in the right direction But nothing too crazy here is in way of changes. You can see here some dividend growth strategy within the Roth Some speculative with the highly on position and the tech global position there T O B a f. Okay, and then some value plays a sofa a little bit and then also some passive with the V. O. O. And the BBK which is small cap growth there So that there's a lot to take away from this the three different strategies deployed in the same account For you home gamers that are new to the channel and picking up on this for the first time multiple strategies I went out on a limb this week and I I went back into Cryptocurrency, I know you guys are gonna hate me. That's what a turncoat. I Did I went back into the top three. I did it the same way I did it before Figured for the break on that. I may take that out of the affiliate program I'm not really sure how I'm gonna do that yet but went ahead and split that up on a 60 60 2015 something like that Mix in there I bought a little bit of One other crypto I believe but the bulk of it's in Bitcoin and Ethereum and Cardano There so went ahead and did that I started a Webull account Started a Robin Hood account actually got some strategic goals with that and I aim to start one more M1 finance account That'll be it for me that'll round that everything out and everything I want to do strategically Fundamentally to build everything up but more to follow on that will roll them out through the channel as appropriate If you guys realize I'm I'm not a run-of-the-mill investor. I don't do it like the next person I don't need to buy in to what other people are doing I really don't if it makes sense for me I do it and I go back and forth sometimes on whether or not it makes sense for me And just because it makes sense for a lot of people out there via group think Doesn't mean that it's good for me. Okay, so that's how we're working with this is my account here 111 Alibaba Exxon mobile fantastic real nice strength and oil Royal Dutch fell off. I was disappointed there VP use been on fire. What a fantastic specialty ETF if you guys want to own utilities That's about 60 of the regulated utilities in that holding. It's a good holding really is and it's a nice Complement to what I have at the other account which is VNQ as a matter of fact, I don't think I added it to that Yes, I did in the other account it's a nice compliment to that But VIG really is the passive base in this portfolio along with the triple cues So a nice well-rounded portfolio here housing about 111,000 and Here we've got the specialty ETF portfolio This crept over the 19,000 mark This week so week over week were up. I always provide the sparkline to show where we're at week over week So pretty good progress here This is the second M1 finance account. We've got 26,194 this was the only one that was down fractionally a little bit value took a little bit of a dab This this this week, you know few just notable holdings AT&T IBM Some folks were talking about Intel. I didn't notice that specifically But value kind of took a backseat again as been the story for the last Few years any way to the Fang stocks for sure, which just been on fire Nvidia can do no wrong Microsoft overtaking as the largest company in the world Apple came off just a little bit. I guess in response to earnings. I didn't even pay attention to the call I'm paying less and less attention to that stuff and more and more attention to how I want to craft my portfolio And that's just where my focus lies Here's the thrift savings plan. This is nice approaching a 60,000 bucks. We started this in 2011 I started contributing to this with 2% of my pay for you guys that don't think you can build sizable wealth I think a thousand dollars is a lot of money. This is where I come from and here having this 60,000 I haven't missed this. I haven't missed this a bit now I've increased this contribution to where it is now to 20% full disclosure But I've only been doing the 20% for about six months. Anyway, okay So just we built it up to what it is here and my goal in 2011 was to get this up to 100,000 it'd be a little bonus. Maybe when I retire look how fast I've got there I've up to that strategic gold of 250 now if I have 250 in this account. This is a Roth TSP so that'll be talks tax protected dollars. I don't need to worry about it until I'm 59 and a half I don't need the money now Hell, I probably won't need the money then either So who knows why we're even doing this other than it makes sense now and maybe potentially sets me up to make Decisions down the line That are a little bit more free a little bit more open and a lot less restricted. Okay. Remember the Not so much regret No potential for regret by doing this kind of thing. Okay entered into a few puts and Matterport That was my ill time to move this week was selling Matterport as an at a nice profit And then of course it ran up 18% today Yeah, this 2021 just won't get done grabbing me by the boob Not too bad. And then of course we still own the long calls on highly on out to 2024 on a few of those Yep, and up big time there five five and a quarter. So doing well at the independent investor household I wouldn't know we live very humble. I don't know. This is just a number to me Often figure it would be interesting to take this in cash if you even could I don't even know how you get $500,000 out of the bank. I guess you'd probably have to request it and they would have to print it for six months I guess to give it to you I don't know it'd be kind of cool to see what that looks like. I have no idea. I don't really care Why do I mention that to you guys? I always give kind of a fundamental twist Till what I feel like the masses look at as a huge amount of money and it is it's a big amount of money But to keep it into context and understand that Years of wealth building have gone into this on a blue-collar salary Putting money away that a lot of people may justify spending instead of saving Saving as an acknowledgement to perhaps maybe you don't need all the surplus capital that you earn Especially as Americans we've got convenience right up around the corner in way of every supermarket You could ever want to go to we don't struggle for food. We don't struggle for modern convenience We don't struggle for entertainment as a matter of fact, it's right in front of your face most of the time right so I look at that number a little bit different and I look at it as maybe a maybe as in a testament to my spiritual side that Maybe we don't need everything that we earn and for somebody from humble beginnings like myself and For somebody who hasn't even made close to over six figures in his life via salary or by means of a really good high-paying job Perhaps maybe that's some motivation to some of you some of you guys out there to say hmm Get this retail investor guy on YouTube. He speaks differently He talks from the heart I'm I do make that six figures and I've got about 6,000 bucks on my savings account Where is all that extra money went? What have I bought over the years? That was a really nice BMW M6 I bought by the way many moons ago. Okay I've since sold it and I have nothing to show for it for making that purchase Perhaps maybe I you know bought some here bought some there frivolous spending here eight out too much over here Went to the bar way too often things like that. Okay I'm not your father. Do what you want life is beautiful life can be over in a heartbeat Like that can be over like that It's it's it's the folks that have a little bit of perspective on the opportunity in life Okay, that that can really slow time down a little bit and understand how awesome it is and just Take take some take some Comfort in the program that you deploy. It's super super important to understand that. Okay Kind of people hit me up all the time. You're like Ryan. Just sell everything or I got colleagues, man They're like Ryan, you should enjoy your wealth Really? Okay. Why? Is it going to make me happier? I don't know. I go buy a boat so I can spend all my time working on a boat all the time A time means more to me than a lot of things My time is the most important thing that I have Okay I can't slow time down with the amount of money that I have I'm not going to supplement my happiness by going and buying Jet not going to do it I've tried for the most part when I Buy a few clothes for myself at the outlet Kind of like yeah, I get I don't get any satisfaction Out of that because I know a shirt really is just aimed at covering my tits right You have a little perspective about this game guys I want to hop in and say hi to you guys. Let's jump in and see what we got here in the gallery. Very cool Get a fast start at the bottom this time. I never start at the bottom man I got Al's house man. So he gets the first question man. He gets it in the first inning Accounts one two three four. Let's buy some more. Good for you. I've noticed the more accounts I open The more I invest little by little It's a good point. Um I don't know.  I appreciate that ill it makes sense to me. I mean, I guess I'm not really that important I need to appease everybody on youtube on on how my program makes sense But um, I think the multiple accounts does have some value Especially if you can earmark a specific strategy For that specific account now m1 kind of does that for you You see how I've got the passive vanguard stuff in there and it's really cool When I want to fund that I can when I don't I don't I set up the constant dollar cost average to that account 50 bucks a week something like that whatever it is it flows in there with no problem But when I want to strategically fund it it's there So think of each of your accounts as strategic buckets. Okay I've got the robin hood established as the the growth arm. So I put vug in there I went ahead and supplemented that with a company that I've always wanted to own and that's berkshire hathaway That that was the free stock I got so I got berkshire hathaway a fractional piece of it And I do want to build up that position But that's going to be a growth arm Of my total portfolio. So may add a little tesla in there. I see passive income investor He'd be proud of me for buying, you know, a hundred bucks worth of tesla anyway Now tesla is just on fire right now really um quite Quite a story in the stock market. I I'm a student of the market and um Am I buying tesla here? No. No, I'm not. This is me. It could I be wrong? Of course, it could be wrong. It could be right. It doesn't matter really I'm just not buying the stock up here at 1100 dollars seeing this run up that it's been on Uh, it's just been impressive. It's fun to watch I benefit indirectly through the s and p ownership and all the other, you know, uh growth Company, I'm sure it's nvug as well I I can't confirm that but i'm certain that it it is being the top s and p 500 holding But uh strategic arms, um, that's it's a good takeaway there And even if you did find a place for bonds in your in your portfolio M1 finance would be a good place for that and then finally the dividend growth I love the way that I own the 79 growth holdings there Uh in in m1 finance. It's just a cool way Just imagine each of those 79 entities a couple hundred bucks a piece of pay and the independent investor channel just to keep ticking Just to keep pumping that way and keep it going hard That's what we do they keep it going So when i'm sleeping the little independent that could is sleeping in the juga juga. I'm not juga jogan. I'm juga jogan Uh, it's working for me and it's a good thing man. Yeah, it's a good thing The quicker you can get your mind away from The idea that money is just a one-way track in and a one-way track out the quicker you can get away from that and just imagine your money as an opportunity to establish buckets that pay you You're going to find yourself in a whole another universe of understanding about personal wealth. So Al thanks for stopping in as a cool cool cool question. I really appreciate that man. I got me thinking Anyway, and I got my boy here. I'll let you guys read that for a second Yeah, I remember it's 600. Anyway, it wasn't that long ago It's a fascinating company. You know, I'm fascinated by markets I don't really get caught up in the whole like, oh my god. I I I miss the boat on that or I really don't And I think if there's a takeaway for you guys I'd recommend buying into that philosophy You'll drive yourself that shit crazy in the stock market by chasing the stock over here And not chasing this over here and how to chase over this over here and how does it hold for here? Facebook's a discount right now. Yeah, Facebook's a discount. It's come off from the 380 Down into the 310 313 315 range anyway It'll find its footing. It seems like every year Facebook goes through this same thing and it's like amazon. It's like the market doesn't remember like People who use Facebook the businesses that sign on with Facebook and are willing to pay the higher and higher margins every quarter Because Facebook says that they have to and the businesses in turn have to pay It doesn't matter It doesn't matter. So, yeah, I think it's a buy here. Yeah Tesla here at 1100. It's really really tough But again, you know, everybody who said that the stock has been valued by traditional metrics They may have been right, but ultimately they've been proven extremely wrong And when you're when you're wrong on something nobody ever comes on and admits it All these analysts that we're putting sell sell sell ratings on it. Tesla has a buy rating on it right now Amazing, you know, so when it was back a couple years ago at two or three hundred a share Prior to its first split. I wouldn't even be surprised to see it split again Here at 1100 it'll probably run up to a few thousand bucks and then split again But um, just amazing to me how Eventually the momentum pushes those analysts to where they're in a corner and they don't have any choice. You know really cool stuff Got rebecca in the house. So true the media really gets down on facebook every I don't know. It's a stock that I want to own It's a company that I want to own. What a great unique business I I think it does trade for less than 30 Price to earnings ratio for uh for for its future earnings and I think that's really cheap for as good as a company as it is I mean these these guys these guys are doing a lot of stuff, right? And it'll be interesting what the facebook of the future is going to look like That's going to be the cool thing. It's really where i'm invested be honest with you A lot of fun Very cool. Adrienne's in the house. Adrienne's been with me for eons Pretty cool, man. Great to see you my friend. What's going on ryan I was driving as I heard you mentioned uh, Notre Dame, you know, yep Can you believe I was actually driving next to it when it was burning shit? Yeah, I saw the feed come through that damn near broke my heart, man for sure So as I was walking around the outside you could see the deterioration form from the gargoyles on the outside of it A man that up in the they have like a a pinnacle to god in the middle of it I don't want to get too spiritual on you, but at breathtaking.  I don't know what kind of refurbishing has happened on it, but Yeah, Paris is a special place. That's um very powerful city. Paris is very powerful. Oh Very powerful.   That's crazy, man Very cool stuff, man Yep into the meta. Yep. Are they changing the ticker symbol? I I don't know that Um, I don't even know how I can come on and do a live stream about financial markets anymore I don't even watch tv anymore. I used to be a lot more informed now. I just don't care to be honest with you The meta universe on december 1st for the facebook, you could be right. Dave. It's great to see you Shot out to you my friend. Hope everything was as well with you Very cool to see you, man Let's cruise up here, man cherry pick. I got Larry Massa in the house, man Larry's been with me a long time too been holding 10 shares of Tesla since march cost basis is 250 Well, that's not too that's not too shabby I love to hear that man. It's really cool. It's it's amazing The successes and I don't know if you guys were really good investors before you came to the channel But don't don't think of the independent investor channel as something to where you have to come on And hear ideas and then go deploy those ideas I think it's it's more of a place where you can come and actually share ideas Talk about things like Larry because I'll be the first to say that's great, man It's a money game if you do a little swing trading hell If I didn't have some swing trades and some speculative on some some other stuff. I I could fill my Speculative palette with some tesla sure Do I think it's overvalued? No, I do I do That doesn't mean that I wouldn't put a few bucks in at 10 shares Five shares of $5,000 bill on it with my portfolio. No problem I'm just a little chuck or block full right now. It just doesn't fit my It doesn't fit my fancy right here. No not for me, but that's a that's a hell of a win. Great job I spoke with a colleague of mine who bought it A long time ago like five years ago and she only put like two grand in it or something and now it's We're something just ungodly. It's like wow And she was just like, yeah, you know, I I just invested it and I could have lost it all. It's okay It's like jeez louise. That's awesome, man Some people they get get lucky with that kind of stuff man. It's very cool Berkshire sure. Yeah, it's a good holding It's a good holding to just park some money in you know, it's not one of those faster growers, but um, it's a good quality company Really nice. I like the the structure of their business And I don't like the fact that don't really pay dividend at all. That's kind of weird It's kind of kind of ironic that the two guys are so into dividends and they don't pay it themselves, but It's it's a good. It's a good holding company.  So welcome to the channel Found you all searching highly on the channel. It's great. Hey, yeah, you know, the channel is what it is It's just um, it's just a conduit To people And I get to bring people together. It's slowly man. We foot stomp the message I'll let people know What I what I what I've got what what I'm working with So people can come on and maybe see what's possible because I think a lot of people get misdirected In thinking that they have to go seek out the services of financial planning institutions Okay, that is the tried and true method for retail investors Well, what's happened over time is the institutions have found out a way to to just take that customer that naive customer and just Just strap so many fees To the investment structure or the swim lane that they'll put them in And it just it puts retail investors at a disadvantage So where the american dream is to go buy a car? An overpriced car that's going to strap you down and cost you probably twice as much over the long term to buy a huge House and get into a mortgage that you're probably not going to be able to afford or at least With the You know with the compounding effect of what that mortgage is going to cost you probably double over the long term anyway We've found a way to take our hard-earned dollars and just harness them into the ground Just anchor them right to the ground and it really hurts our progress And if we can liberate those dollars in at least one capacity Okay, or another capacity or all three capacities Where you introduce Excuse me the potential for investing That that's when you really start to put together wealth that Somebody like myself to say, you know, I wow you're in the military, Ryan I mean, are you okay, buddy? Like you need a loan or like Dean if do you need a food box? Like we can get together some canned food for you I have family members that look at me that way Trust me and I don't Think they know what i'm working with maybe they don't want to know what i'm working with Or maybe they just are hesitant to ask What i'm working with I don't know Stop judging me I don't judge you I don't care It's the real talk that you get on the independent investor channel, Ryan Thank you for finding the channel. I understand I haven't put a lot of highly on videos out I was going to put it out when it was in the low sevens But now the stock is starting to creep up a little bit at least for the short term I don't really see any value in that Highly on needs to come out with some With some news So i'm kind of waiting on that.  I it's just inexcusable. It really is and for those things that could not be foreseen on a Due diligence deep dive into the company That one escaped me the fact that they would just dry up all information and just stop talking to people Yeah, I really couldn't have accounted for that So I give myself a little credit for what I did look at. I liked What I didn't foresee was that And I think they need to fire them all I I did a very scathing video this week and I did not upload it I thought better of it and I did not upload the video I could probably drop it on a podcast and get away with it But I was pissed off because People don't understand what it's like just to just work hard It's almost like this entitlement shit. This drives me crazy Like I'm a publicly traded company now. I'm a 1.21 billion dollar company I I just need to show up to work at nine o'clock and I can go home at Five o'clock and everything will be okay Sales will come eventually My sales team They're doing okay. They're doing a there's some good people in there, you know, they're they're really positive It's a positive environment that we work in I could be a motivational speaker. I think I'm just like people by the ear and shake them around a little bit Wake them up You're alive. You've made it to the public markets. You should be up 20 21 hours a day hammered away If you truly believe in this mission that you have Make it happen This is the frustration and a lot of people would say chill out Ryan I don't need to chill out piss off Go after yourself. I don't need to chill out. Stop telling me to chill out. I'm good. Okay, my Pissed off perspective on the stock is not going to change My disposition with the stock holding that I have are you freaking kidding me? But is that not an ample criticism of the company at this point? I tell me I'm wrong I'm I'm not I don't argue about shit that I'm wrong on I don't I'm right Wake up smell the effing coffee Get to work I said if the us doesn't want to play ball and there's too much bureaucracy and somehow we've stymied technology to A point where we can't introduce said technology F the us go international I don't know what you're waiting for To hell with this country go start it somewhere else and then have the us clamoring for the technology Overseas and that's the thing is not one company wants to be the first one that steps into a new technology And find out that it's not what they expected it to be or what it was proposed to be or what it was You know intended to be or it just didn't have the support whatever Okay, they don't want to be that company on the flip side of it if one company does does find out that it is A wonderful technology. Okay, you'll have others following suit. Okay, but I just find it funny how highly on is really good at hiring people And really really good at insider selling. This is that's getting old too Like I understand it. Okay. Again, it doesn't affect my thesis with the stock It's just bad optics.  It's not normal and I'm like, you're right. It's not normal The man still owns 31 million shares of the company. I'm sure he's fine But the optics that are put through at a stock price at seven dollars or eight dollars It's closed above eight dollars today, which was great. I mean we made a ten thousand dollar bill back this week That's where a lot of the portfolio You know, it's just just churning, you know Every week you just turn and it kind of come up a little bit and growl a little bit and then lay back down a little bit This is churning, you know parts of it are working over here. You know, they're working really hard But the highly on man is is growling This thing turns around eventually if next year it's at eight dollars. I'll eat crow if in two years It's at eight dollars I'll eat crow If three years down the line, do you see like I can keep going guys? Okay, see how Feudal it becomes when you're using this rationale that I need to exit the position now at eight dollars because Some of the reasons I'm hearing are pretty crazy pretty crazy.  I'm not going anywhere I'm good to go man. I love what this company has for for a mission. It's fantastic and earnings are right around the corner We'll see what happens. We'll see if they can put something together They have no excuse with the team that they have not to deliver on the goods and just don't accept no for an answer Like this hyper truck erx council, I'd be taking a different mentality With this hyper truck erx council if you don't want to play ball get the f out of the room. You're done. You're done next Next you're done. Where's your order? When are you going to order? How much validation do you need? What validation do you have? Let's share it with the public these my mind never stops Part of what wires me to do what it is that I do Okay, you can see how Incredibly pumped up I get about stock market investing and like just hard work in general and what it takes to just Pulverize a topic down to the ground and I just don't know if they're doing that I don't know because there is no news All right So part of the frustration there anyway from a stock owner's perspective, but uh, they'll get it right eventually I think it'll be the unknowns That come to fruition with this company because the idea is legit The idea is awesome plus down another thousand It's probably talking about highly on maybe I don't know another thousand 8 000 by a thousand shares Mm-hmm Yes, sir God that bourbon's good. I like it Really tasty. What happened to Lockheed Martin? I have no idea. It's horrible Absolutely horrible. I think it's fantastic buy buy it here My pain is your pleasure Dave By by Lockheed Martin all day right here. No doubt about it. And I think it's that The aerospace business that is is looking well. I think Boeing is in the same camp as as well I own both of them Lockheed I own about a $10,000 bill in that position Boeing I own a couple thousand in I it's maybe a 10 10 share position in Boeing very very small very starting position in Boeing But I like both companies.  I I know what goes into that whole thing It's all good. David independent thing is how you Get good at trading. Yeah, um, you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't dub myself a trader. No way I'm not good enough No, no, no, I've got my skill set And it works for me. I I share what works for me I think the whole takeaway is people can come into my channel and be like Jesus if this Nimrod can do it I can definitely do it That's true. That's true.  I really do Kyle's smarter than he Kyle's smarter than he thinks he is He's a really really smart guy I have a hard time keeping up with that guy how smart he is Cool to know him. You know what I mean? He's just always part of the community That's part of the cool thing about social media. I've never met Kyle I've never met Matt in person, right and a lot of you guys just great great people All part of the community, but I do agree with that Independent thinking helps me on a lot of different fronts. Okay helps me on a lot of different fronts I want to run down the the the the gamut here. Okay time management. I never really feel like I have a lot I know how to value my time now and I'm getting a lot better at it as I get older I've always got those projects in the hopper, which is great The independent investor channel is a nice give take for me making really good progress at work Father coaching investing etc always keeping those stimuli going why because the opportunity is there So you want to make sure your time management Is conducive? to to Spending a little bit of time in getting ahead now some of that time is going to be like I've started working out at Tuesday Thursday in the morning. I get up at 5 a.m Have you ever done that you should try it because like I did it for a while a long long time ago And I stopped and then for a while. I was like afraid of it. I was like, oh god. Are you kidding me? I'm not a morning person. I can't do that because of this started doing it again Now I look forward to it Because that hour of the morning if I can just carve that time out means that I have so much more time in the afternoon When I don't usually feel like working out anyway, I don't really feel like working out at 5 But it's amazing how quickly you can get over that crap feeling in the morning.  Okay You can't expect to run Like a pinto. Okay, and and invest like a Ferrari. It just doesn't work that way Okay, so you're gonna make sure that you're taking care of number one number number one Number one i2 iu i3 you you get it.   That's all it is. Okay, don't get too crazy, man I walk through Nordstrom's and it's just a joke to me. Okay, I just laugh. I'm like $300 for a sweater That's funny to me and the the the salesperson is like, can I help you sir? And I'm like, really? Are you kidding me? And they look at me serious Like it's worth it sir. It's it's 300 never mind. Anyway, and then debt Okay, if you can do away with the bet piece great. I know there's a lot of people out there That that leverage debt Man, I don't really play with it. I don't I don't borrow money. I don't invest money that I don't have I would encourage you guys to do the same as a matter of fact Take this page out of my playbook use the credit card To get those free points and rack up those free points on your spending Because where you're gonna have to buy gas to move your car. Kyle's like, I got a tesla. You sucker I charge my car. I don't pay squat for that To stay with me. Okay. If you need to buy gas and groceries sunken cost, etc Put it on the card. Pay it off get those points back. Okay. This is where me and Dave Ramsey disagree 100% It's a benefit in this country to get a credit card with no annual fee Start racking up those points and get some free freaking money in the house. Okay perspective Yeah, I've got to have perspective on this deal Perspective in so far as you don't invest for six months and then change your perspective to fit a current narrative Doesn't work that way Now you got to be careful with being your own worst enemy Have a perspective and understand why you enter into a program in the first place. It'll make that staying power It'll make it take hold into your future super good Um My definitions of wealth, okay are much more more holistic than just having a big wall out of money Okay, I think a lot of people I talked about the analogy What would it look like if I pulled all the money and just put it in front of me? God damn. Look at that. This is great. I'm successful I'm successful. I'm I'm I'm wealthy. Okay, right Okay That's all I'm gonna say about that you guys use your imagination on that. Okay, but you got to be careful In this life your own personal wealth will be determined and defined by your own self Okay, put value where you put value and it can't be in one singular category that being money can't okay Definition of currency and money Me money is a means to an end me money is an opportunity to Put that money away from myself In an asset that can build and compound on itself Okay, so Each dollar that I have that comes into the independent investor household Is just an opportunity for deployment whether that be in sunken costs. I get it I got to buy feud fuel insurance, etc. Dental bills blah blah blah the fun stuff But for the surplus capital, ha now, that's the opportunity right there That is not going to make me overnight wealthy However in increments over time Really do add up and they add up sizably. I just declared D at the night Okay, half a million dollars. Nothing to shake a stick at right they do add up That is a product of a few hundred bucks here a few hundred bucks there a dca here A few hundred bucks here a concession over here. Hey, I don't need that right now. Hey, it's all good I don't need this and and those types of decision cumulated over and over and over again that Really does contribute to the bottom line Right super important guys um, the last thing I will mention here is I don't mind being different. Okay When I thought of the independent investor channel, I thought that's exactly it man That tells the story that tells exactly what I want to get on and I want to portray to people Is that being independent if you fall on hard times and you don't end up being a millionaire? It's okay You're still beautiful. No problem. Okay Be the best person that you can possibly be if you deploy the very best program that you can deploy in your life And it ends up rendering x number of dollars into the future Then it's good It's good.  Did it cost me money? I don't know it made sense at the time Because this independent investor channel guy was challenging the idea of I investing do it yourself investing Okay What it means to liberate your dollars put those dollars to work in a Roth IRA and allow those dollars to Compound and work on themselves within that the confines of that tax protected account. Okay My thing is my premonition is that each and every one of you at some point if you're younger than 59 Is gonna ultimately reach 59 Okay If you're before 59 Save it.  Okay, make sure you remain independent with your thought. That's the key to all this gig Okay, I can't wait to meet some of you guys someday man. It's going to be a lot of fun a lot of fun So verge says highly on rumbling Yeah, I don't I don't know man There's some people in the yahoo thread that just absolutely cook me if they just get my blood boiling. It's amazing How they're like, you know, yeah, man, this is incredible and it's like bro. It was 58 dollars last year, you know Give it a rest like the 52 week Range is still 27 dollars at the high end and it's Right at the the low at eight dollars. I do believe we've established a really nice base here I've been saying that for months whether or not that will prolong into next year. Don't know don't care really My bullish thesis on the company has not changed. I've just been a little disappointed as of late Uh, uh specific to the transparency or the lack thereof. Okay David says sheba. I'll be buying it in two days When my funds settle You can buy it on uh, weevil Weevil I just found that out. I just started my weevil account tonight I'll be buying 15 million shares of sheba In tomorrow probably maybe maybe in a couple days. We'll see but I got to get the funds to settle out My live count just went up to like 200 like dude the independence talking about cryptocurrency, man Click over there, man. He finally fell off the wagon There was a guy who bought 500 million shares today On the ledger. Can you believe that? Yeah, man Shibu imu who would have thought it that people are talking about like, hey, what price did you get it at? I got it at five zeros.  I got it at seven zeros This is seven zeros to the right of the decimal point. Okay. That's how they price it because you can't say like, you know, like five 50 one 50 thousands of a penny. You just can't say that right Nobody understands that in reality unless you understand or have ever read Play-doh Infinite divisibility etc See the human mind has taken the concept of infinite divisibility and said shoot Let's just put out a cryptocurrency Shibu imu Shiitake yumu I had somebody stop by the channel and ask me where they could pick up some shiitake yumu I was like, you didn't watch the video and it doesn't exist. I was just kidding. I I made it up Um, which is really not very far of a cry from where I think a lot of these come from is people's asshole I don't know but uh, what the hell I'll pick up a couple million shares, but we'll give it a roll We'll see how it is I bought Lockheed 9bm That good value plays. I like it. It's very cool And wreck a big shareholder big shareholder in the house a big big shareholder Absolutely I gave him some permission if he catches my threads to have a watermelon martini tonight anybody who's old school on highly on a remember That uh that phrase and yeah, it's a good it's a good initiative man. I I feel like there's good times coming for the company There's no doubt about it. It says nice week on highly on it. It was it was a good week We got a lot more of those to go We have not started any type of squeeze out of these 23 million shares being shorted The stock is heavily shorted right now heavily And not a lot of accessible shares on the open marketplace. It's ripe for the pick and All we needed some buying activity on the stock stock's going to skyrocket It's a short squeeze candidate. If I've ever seen one, we'll see what happens I'm not investing in the company for that. I could care less I would almost prefer it and not do that because if it does squeeze up to 18 It's coming all the way back down to 12 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. If it squeezes up to 25, it's coming all the way back to 14 Okay, that's what's going to happen mark my word This company has pissed off so many people that you're going to have the remainder of weekends That have been strong enough to hold through all this garbage. Um, they'll sell out of the company. Mm-hmm They'll sell mark my word. Yeah retail investors are just not psychologically geared to handle With with this type of thing except for the strong The only the strong will survive in this company and I've said many many times and for people who heed my message They'll they'll they'll remember that I said that the only solution to this company is to hold long Hold long. It's not going to matter if it squeezes up in the next couple months or next week. It's not going to matter What's going to matter is when you evaluate critically the company Two and a half years from now five years from now and or beyond That's going to be the key and if you're unwilling to do that, I would just sell now You'll save yourself a whole lot of heartache Um, but I know ricks with me on this and um, we've done our due diligence. We've read the same stuff Uh, we're we're perfectly fine on our conviction. Very cool stuff. All right The financial options in the house have had meetings with a couple CEOs recently. It's a crazy opportunity Yeah, that's fantastic. Appreciate the live streams drying. Uh, gotta be tough to host No, it's easy man. I used to do two hours. You kidding me? An hour? That's for amateurs I Spent like I don't know 22 seconds drinking bourbon tonight. So Amateurs I could do this if highly on hits a hundred Mark my word man. I'm going to do an hour live stream for like seven days straight Yeah, that's going to be the ultimate party. No doubt about it It'll be it'll be my millionaire party. Yeah Um might cry see what happens So we'll see what happens man. All in good time, man. It's how you choose to spend your time Uh in this life and I want to choose To I've chosen to spend some of my wealth some of my time On um pursuing my conviction in this company Mm-hmm. And whether or not it's ill founded is yet to be seen We will see A lot of people have already been shaken been shaken out of the company I think the road that I'm walking very very few people are Going to be or would be capable of walking um, I'm just the guy to do it and um, I feel like the timing is right I feel like things happen for a reason and um, I wholeheartedly believe we're on the investment of a lifetime There's no doubt about that Um just needs time. That's it get to the uh end of the stream here I do want to shout out my boy here my brother from another mother. He's my brother He's my brother matty is in the house. I have risen. I have risen That's something that god would say let it go matt You just have a gargantuan portfolio. Okay, you're not god. You're not the stock god You know a hell of a lot about stock, but he says I have risen It's great to see a brother very cool Getting to the end of the stream, man. Very cool. It's fun tonight. I had a good time. I'd appreciate I appreciated You guys let me have a drink with you. It's very cool. Matthew's in the house. What's up? I'm Friday's cheers. I've been able to eat you both How does he been how to hear ha puha down how to hear gusts in the house a good evening riding out of swedha Gotta get through this because I got 45 seconds to go. They want to go qualcom award. That's fantastic cdx canadian stock nice very cool Jesse, hey, do you think draft kings are going is I like them both? They're very different spaces I love the online gaming business. I think it's fantastic high margin business And people are addicted to gambling So might as well profit from it hate to make light of the truth, but that is the truth Yeah, draft kings is a beast for sure. I like it a lot I'm bowing. I think will be a great great long-term value play. We'll look at it here at 200 In five years and be like Jesus. What was I thinking man 200? Holy smokes Yeah, it's a good one for sure. I like them both really good Larry masses says it's the stock of the decade microsoft. I totally agree with you That's a good way to take us out on a value play guys. Just wanted to convey a little bit of what makes me tick How I'm wired the way I'm wired A lot of you guys might look at this and say jeez every friday ride really that's easy for me, man It's a lot of fun I feel like i'm doing what I love You guys have a lot to do with it for sure really appreciate the the attendance every week man We got 50 60 people in here every single week It's a proud project for me to do a rollout for you guys And if we can just incrementally improve upon empowering one investor at a time Then i'm absolutely all about it. So want to invite you guys all back next friday Independent investor channel live stream the fastest 60 minutes on youtube Guys have a great great rest of the weekend. We'll catch you next friday the independent investor channel live stream be well Take it easy