Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to DAV Patriots Pitch. I'm your host and director of DAV Patriot Boot Camp, Nick Brofie. DAV Patriots Pitch is a unique pitch competition which showcases top finalists from our most recent DAV Patriot Boot Camp cohort, which we held last month at our national headquarters in Erlanga, Kentucky. Yes, this is inspired by the popular TV show Shark Tank. This dynamic event brings together these entrepreneurs and a panel of accomplished judges, many of which are investors, industry experts and successful entrepreneurs themselves, who are eager to support and invest in veteran-led and or veteran-spouse-led businesses. The top contestant today will win $1,500 in non-dilutive capital, which is every entrepreneur's favorite kind, the kind you don't have to pay back. The runner-up will win a thousand bucks and the veteran coming in third will win $500. And while these non-dilutive funds may provide some cushion to support their ventures, each entrepreneur has also offered intensive one-on-one coaching to improve their ability to sell their ideas to customers and future investors. Each contestant today will have approximately two minutes to pitch and take a limited number of questions from our judging panel. Should they go over there a lot of time, I will, in the most annoying way possible, let them know via cowbell. Yes, it's annoying. But before we begin, I'd like to introduce our panel of judges today for the competition. And our first judge that I'd like to introduce, Jimmy Bell from Sorenson Communications, is joining us today as a special guest. Sorenson Communications has been a wonderful sponsor of ours. So we invited Jimmy, who is also a Marine recon veteran and a veteran of the United States Army, on our program today. He served in the military for eight years from 2000 to 2008. And after transitioning out of the military, he became a firefighter while he pursued his degree. And then once he graduated, transitioned into entrepreneurship when he purchased a gun store. After many years of being a successful entrepreneur, he founded a nationally chartered veteran service organization and sat on the board of directors for a variety of other veteran-centric nonprofits. Most recently, in 2023, Jimmy sold his gun store to go back into sales in the technology industry, which is how he landed with Sorenson Communications and right here with DAV Patriot Boot Camp. Jimmy still volunteers this time as a firefighter when he's not spending time with his family. And we are very thankful that he's joined us today. Please welcome Jimmy Bell to the panel. Thank you, Nick. I just have to say it's an honor to be here. I have so much respect for business owners having founded and operated the business myself, the dedication, the courage it takes to put yourself out there, the countless hours of work, the self-sacrifice. It's, I think, one of the most amazing and respectable endeavors that anyone can do is to run their own business. I have a ton of respect for anyone that can do that. And it's a pleasure to be here with you all today. And I'm really excited to hear what you have to say. Awesome. Thanks, Jimmy. We really do appreciate you being here. And on behalf of DAV, we love the partner with Sorenson Communications. Great, great teammates. So thank you so much for carving out some time for us today. Our next judge on the judging panel is Marilyn Jackson. Many of you know Marilyn. She's been around for a minute, been on a lot of our programs. And she is the CEO of UnderGrid Networks, a digital technology and engineering firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent over two decades in senior level assignments innovating and ushering Fortune 500 companies into the digital age. But before founding her company, Marilyn served as one of the leaders of Verizon Innovation Vertical Team, which served as the forward-looking think tank for new digital products and services. There, she led the creation of commercial and product development relationships, content providers, content service providers, wireless infrastructure companies and mobile carriers. Previous senior positions include those with IBM, Cisco and the DoD. Marilyn has worked with the GSMA, a global organization that unifies the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Marilyn now focuses her efforts on providing connectivity solutions related to the industrial Internet of Things, extended reality and AI. She is an expert on the impacts of technology on the global connected economy. Marilyn is also an Air Force veteran, veteran spouse and DAV Patriot Boot Camp alumnus. Marilyn, welcome to DAV Patriot's pitch. Thank you. Thank you very much. Excited to be here today. Great. We're always happy to have you and thanks for participating again. Our next judge, Rob... You're very welcome. A U.S. Air Force veteran is the CEO and co-founder of Round, a high-growth adaptive authentication startup. Round attended Y Combinator in early 2022 and has been growing ever since. Rob has raised more than $3 million in total funding from venture capitalists and has grown it to over $750,000 in annual revenue. Before starting Round, he was a product owner at IBM, leading product development for a $200 million a year offering. Rob loves the good side hustle as well and sold over $1 million in solar eclipse glasses in 2017 supporting Eclipse for a Cause and over $200,000 in medical devices, also known as line snugglers over the past few years. He also dabbles in goat, chicken and horse farming. I always loved that part. And most recently, we want to send Rob a big congratulations from DAV Patriot Boot Camp. He was a first place winner in the USA pitch competition a week or so ago where he was the winner of a $50,000 pot. And I must say, Rob is also a DAV Patriot Boot Camp alumnus and he now mentors in our program. Rob, thanks again for carving out some time to be in here with us. Of course, always happy to give back a Patriot Boot Camp. It's given me so much over the years. The DAV Patriot Boot Camp has really been a cornerstone of everything that we've built here at Rounds. We now employ seven people and bring in over $1 million in revenue, but it all started with a pitch. There's a pitch at Patriot Boot Camp. Didn't win, got second place, I think. The first pitch I ever won was the $50,000 one-on-one last week. But I owe all this to Patriot Boot Camp and anyone listening right now of DAV Patriot Boot Camp it's a great opportunity to learn how to become an entrepreneur after years of being in the military or being a male spouse. Wow, thanks for the plug, Rob. I appreciate that. And again, congratulations for your most recent success and frankly, all of your success. And we look forward to being a partner with you well into the future as long as you'll have us. Of course. Lastly, our last judge of the panel we do have four judges this time is Chris Lafever, CEO of ISI Professional Services and a Marine Corps veteran. Is the president CEO of ISI Professional Services, a full service consulting firm with the purpose of shaping tomorrow's solutions today. As a service-disabled veteran owned small business, ISI combines its large business capabilities with small business agility, delivering quality, consistent solutions for its clients. ISI solutions range from planning and management in facilities, engineering, real estate and logistics to leadership development and executive coaching. Chris also brings two decades of leadership experience across defense and civilian sectors. He has a bias for action in leading ISI and is never satisfied with the status quo. Chris assumed his leadership position during ISI's 20th year of operation. And despite ISI's historical success, he challenged how the company was structured and delivering on its promises. And since 2015, Chris's leadership has resulted in transformational change and significant growth, i.e., 400 plus percent revenue, 153 percent FTEs, full-time employees. And ISI has been named in consecutive years by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation. One of the best places to work in Virginia, earned a designation as the Virginia Values Veterans or V3 Employer. And, of course, as a disabled American vets, Patriot employer, Chris, welcome again to the program and thank you for spending your time with us today. Thanks, Nick. Appreciate it. Pleasure to be here and excited to hear the pitches. Yep, all right, great. Sounds like we want to get to it, but before we do, I do want to say that, you know, Marilyn, Robert, Chris and Jimmy are living examples of the quality of instruction and mentorship available within DAV Patriot Boot Camp ecosystem. So we're extremely grateful that they dedicate their time and they have experienced with the program specifically and they helped make the program what it is today. So before we begin, we do have to review some rules. To start the program, how we're going to do this is I'm going to introduce each participant by name. When they begin, whenever they begin, no matter what word they say, so will the clock and they will then have two minutes to present their pitch before they experience the dreaded cowbell and I'll save the ringing until the first one who exceeds two minutes. After their pitch, the judges will have several minutes, five or so minutes to ask clarifying questions before we roll right into the next contestant. Once all four of our contestants have presented their pitches, the judges will vote for their top two and we will tally that up and announce the winners to see who is first, second and third. And so, without further ado, our first contestant today is Rhonda Corey, the branded board, a U.S. Army veteran. Rhonda began woodworking and experimenting with laser cutting in early 2021 and after taking a course or two to better understand the art of laser cutting and engraving, Rhonda was hooked. She then purchased the necessary equipment and began her journey as an entrepreneur and now specializes in custom laser cutting items such as charcuterie boards, coasters, cocktail smokers, keychains and a signage. But with a twist, she engraves sassy sayings such as a customer favorite.  You can find her work at brandedboard.us.  Hello. My name is Rhonda Corey. I am an army veteran and a wood laser artist with the branded board. I have over 30 years of direct sales experience, including running my own retail shop. I specialize in kitchen and bar items with a sense of humor.  I have ready made items or I'm able to personalize all of them. I can also do custom work. A few of my unique items was an aluminum plaque for the VFW, a piece of driftwood that the groom gate has fried on their special day, and my personal favorite, a 125 year old piece of walnut from the great grandfather's farm for a name sign for that child's room. My revenues are $29,000 to date, and I am on track to sell my big goal of $50,000 this year. I am currently in three stores and have two wholesale accounts, which I will increase to five by the end of the year. I am also working with a national brand for my copy scoops. I am seeking $10,000 in funding in order to acquire a fiber laser to diversify my product line by adding metal. With that, I can make items like signs and bottle openers. So patriots, who wants to bring more humor in the world with me? Thank you. Perfect. Judges, any questions, Marilyn? Yes, great. Hi, Wanda. Ronda, I'm sorry. I love what you're doing there. I love what you're doing there. So how many people are on your staff to help you create your orders? So far, it is just me and occasionally my husband. As of right now, I can actually handle my workload as I do this as a full-time job. So I do have my 24 hours in a day if I needed it. Eventually, I would like to hire one marketing person and one other laborer. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Chris, any questions from you guys? Sure. Thank you. Yeah, Ronda, what's online sales platforms are you on? Are you on Etsy or anything else? I mean, so how can people connect with you outside of your own personal website? I do have one or two items on Etsy, but I am looking at TikTok shop and I'm working with the Walmart shop and, of course, Amazon. I'm getting in the process of getting all the UPC codes that I need to be able to go on those platforms. Okay. Thanks, yeah. And my second question is, it sounded like, given why you're looking for the funding to get another piece of equipment to expand sort of the use case outside of wood. So what is the volume that you anticipate where you're actually going to need? What's that tipping point where you're going to need additional staff resources? I think once I reach $100,000 in sales, that's when I will need to up my game and hire one or two more people. Okay. Rob or Jimmy, any questions from you guys? I have a quick question. What makes you special? Well, what's up someone from coming in and stealing your cool designs and doing it themselves? Well, people can do that. We all know that no matter what it is. I specialize in making sure that that item is 100% on par. It has to look exactly right. The engrave has to be perfect. So my quality is just much better than what anybody else can make that. I use solid cherry wood boards. I've got some maple. I strive for that quality because that's where I want to be. And that's also my hold back on hiring somebody because I am so particular. I do want 100% custom and quality. Anything else, Robert? No. Or Jimmy, I'm waiting to hear from Jimmy. I do have a few things. I think you're doing a lot of things really, really great. That's a nice laser, by the way. I think you're really doing yourself a favor by setting up these wholesale accounts and establishing a dealer network. You'll have less accounts receivable. They give you automatic exposure to a customer base and fulfilling to the end user directly is a ton of work. And then you have the customer service aspect. So you're really, you're really doing a good job by building this sales channel. One thing, one question I have, you want to acquire this new machine so you can do metal? Have you seen the demand? Is this something that your dealer network has come to you and said, hey, we need these products. If you can give them to us, we know what you're doing. I think whenever you build a sales channel, it's really important to listen to them because they're on the front lines. Have you got that feedback? Have they asked you for those metal products? Not as of yet. The reason why I decided to diversify, what I'm finding when I go to all my art fairs and shows and stuff like that, people have already seen my cutting boards so they know what they are. So by adding things like bottle openers and glassware, I can actually go into a bar and say, hey, this is what I have. I can engrave your logo on them. Or I can go to, we have a brewery, local brewery here, several of them. I'm going to go to them and say, this is what I can do for you. So I know that it's a need, but I have not yet reached out because I would like to have that laser here and in my hand. So when people place the order, I can go ahead and make everything. I like that. So basically, you're going to use this new machine to help other companies with their branding. And I'm going to go ahead and do that. I'm going to offer them items that they can sell either in their shops or that they would use on a daily basis. I'm going to go ahead and make everything. So basically, you're going to use this new machine to help other companies with their branding and with their merchandising and kind of allow them, you know, you'll be able to put, they can put their name on a product that they can offer. I think that's a really good idea. Yes sir. That's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to offer them items that they can sell either in their shops or that they would use on a daily basis. Excellent. How many pieces at a time can you do in that machine, that wood machine right now? Well, this is my big laser right here. She has a bed of 54 inches by 37 inches. So I can do quite a bit on her. And then I also have a smaller laser that's 23 inches by 17 inches. So my normal production line is if I need to paint and do items like that, I'll cut those first thing. Then I will put my long running items like this board takes 45 minutes to burn. So I'll put that on this one, and then I'll go to my smaller machine and run things like my key chains and my coasters, things like that, that can take a little bit of less time. But I can actually do 40 coasters in this machine at one time. That's awesome. Well, I'm excited for you. Your passion and personality are coming through in the product. The product is easily accessible. I think you're really on to something. I'm really happy for you. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Great. Well listen, judges, thank you for your feedback and questioning. Rhonda, amazing pitch. Thank you for your pitch and charisma. So we're going to move on to the next contestant now. And as we talked about in our prep, the next contestant is Mr. Fernando Fernandez, founder of Fair Technologies and a U.S. Air Force veteran. Fernando spent a great deal of his post-military career working in aerospace engineering where he was introduced to many technical projects working alongside NASA, the United States Air Force, the NOAA and the Space Shuttle. After transitioning away from aerospace, Fernando turned to school to acquire programming skills, which opened up opportunities for him to work with the global leaders such as manpower, alcoa aluminum, HP, Nokia, Extrata and Kaiser Permanente, just to name a few. Through those experience, Fernando was exposed to hazardous conditions and saw the impact that hazards had on employees. So after retiring from his day job, he began pursuing his company Fair Technologies, which addresses risk mitigation in the health and safety sector by delivering an affordable, wearable technology solution to provide insight on hazardous conditions for small and medium-sized projects. Ladies and gentlemen, Fernando Fernandez, fire away and remember the timer starts when you do, sir. Let's talk about a problem worth solving. There's about 600 billion incidences and accidents per year, 10 billion of those results and fatalities. So I got to thinking what can we do to risk to mitigate that risk, because that's that's a really terrible thing to happen and 20% of the incidences are attributed to construction, the construction industry. Hello, my name is Fernando Fernandez. I'm former Air Force veteran and some of my projects for, as Nick mentioned, I was at work with Nokia and was NASA. And with that in mind, I got to thinking, well, what else can I do? So I wanted them on the program and move on to consulting. So let's talk about the solution now. So we have a wearable technology that can be adapted to any hard hat, which is required on the construction side. Plus instrumentation, which gathers the hazardous information which feeds into a digital labor platform. Within that platform, there's project management tools, which enable us to track each individual, not only who they are, but what they're doing or what equipment they're using, because sometimes it changes the dynamics of the environment itself. So I got to thinking, well, that's great, but it's not required. I mean, it's nice to have and a lot of companies don't do it because it's not required. I think for a second, why is it that x-ray technicians have to wear a dosimeter when they take x-rays? Well, let's protect them. Well, how can the construction industry doesn't require it? That's a shame. And I think I should do something about it. This is why I want to pursue this. So my ask is $100,000 because we're currently in a pilot project and I need infrastructure to support it. I need marketing and I need inventory to be able to accomplish my goals. So this is what I'm trying to accomplish at this time. Thank you. All right. All right, Fernando. Great. Great. Jimmy, since you ended this last time, you want to start us off with any questions you might have today? Sure. I mean, as a firefighter and being in the military and owning a shooting range for years, I've been exposed to a lot of hazardous environments and I probably would have appreciated maybe being a little bit more aware of what I was getting myself into. How expensive is this? It sounds complicated. How expensive are these sensors? It actually is not even complicated. My competitors make it look like it's complicated and that's why they charge between $600 and $900 a pop. Our unit is about $110 for anything less than $500 and over $500 we charge about $100 a pop. And the thing is we don't even sell them. We offer them a subscription base, which means that what we pay to get the inventory, we get back in a one-time registration fee of $165 at one time through the duration of a project and a $35 to $65 subscription fee depending on the level of infrastructure they want. The advantage is that we also have project management within the application where our competitors, they don't have that. So when the project dynamics change, we're aware of it and we, the site person, the site manager, the supervisor can make decisions based on the denials how they change. As part of the subscription, do you monitor the information coming into the sensors? Correct. Okay. And then how many sensors can one person monitor at a time? Six. Right. Right now five. We're working on the sixth one. The sixth one is going to be the camera. I understand. Batteries. So it comes with the power supply, which is attached to the back of the helmet. The unit itself attaches to the front of the helmet because lithium batteries are inherently dangerous. So we want to keep it far away from the administration as possible. So that's why we design it that way. Our competitors don't do that. I think you're onto something. I'll ask one more thing and then I'll pass it off. I think your best friend is going to be finding highly regulated industries or highly regulated environments. And, you know, figuring out a way to access that and you probably have already started on that. But I'm sure that's a pretty complicated and drawn out conversation. I just wanted to bring that up before I. That's my best friend. Yeah. Well, good job. All right. Marilyn, anything from you. Yeah. Fernando, the very, very exciting. I think that you're, you're in the right place at the right time with the right product. I can see so many different use cases for what you're building the foundation for. So with that in mind, what are your plans to perhaps scale into other use cases for this particular sensor? For instance, I know that police officers could utilize it in drug enforcement. Right. And that's because of the airborne fentanyl and met methamphetamines, et cetera. So how adaptable are with the sensors be in terms of being able to put various sensors on the devices. So with their six vertical markets that we're looking at, we pick construction because they have the highest incentive rates 20%. So going at them first, during our go to market strategy, we kind of come down to that point. Now, it's very adaptable to different types of environments. There's mining, there's logging, the search and rescue. Basically any, any environment that you need to be aware of and may be able to make decisions. So yes, it's very adaptable to even firefighters to the police. Yeah, it's very scalable to pretty much any environment. So what does that do to your, to your cost model? Sorry, what does that do to your cost model to migrate into these other areas? Well, because it is scalable, like for example, right now we're on version three and version three is running us about $110 a unit to produce for, for, for less than 500. More than 500 drops down to 90. The, the, the microprocessors are interchangeable so we can pull one out and stick another one back in and recode it. That's why it's very scalable. Everything that we do, it's just, it's like, it's like a plug and play, if you will. It's like getting a mouse and plugging it into your computer and it adapts to it. Thank you. You're welcome. Brissa Robert, I'm surprised Robert hasn't jumped in here yet. What do you got Rob? Well, I'm just winning my turns. I wait to be called on. Representation, you're solving a big problem. You know, folks being exposed to environmental perils is something that DAV, you know, just just helped the whole whole generation of people through with the PAC Act and other stuff like that. But a few questions. First of all, could you talk a little bit more about the pilots that you mentioned? So is it a paid pilots? Where is it? Who is it? What are the conditions around it? So right now it's a, it's a non paid pilot program that our customers basically they're going to be our collaborators. They will identify improvements for us in version three. Hence the reason why it's, we're not charging anything. This is the reason why we need funding to be able to provide the infrastructure and inventory for the pilot. We have lined up already two construction companies, one university lab program where they wanted to use their students to kind of check it out. A mining company and two construction companies in Europe were located in Europe and the US. So that's how we're going after to kind of bring down exactly who our market is going to be. Gotcha. And then who do you sell to? Like who in the construction company is your, did you actually sell to? That's a great question. I got a great answer for you. Technically, it's not even the construction company itself. Every industry has what is called environmental safety groups. These are independent groups that do not work for the company, but they're required by OSHA. And what they do is they do risk assessment for every project. If we get them on board and get them to endorses, it's an easy sell to the end client, which is a construction. So our first level of client is these people. It's also the insurance industry because they have to back this project. If they endorses or think this is a great idea to help reduce their risk for them, their risk exposure to insurance. So there's a lot of like peripheral clients. We get endorses from them. It's an easy sell to the construction industry. Gotcha. Last really quick question. Hardware is really hard.  It takes a long time. It always takes twice as long as you think. What background do you have to get this done? But do I have? Yeah, to get hardware across the finish line. I was an engineer years ago. I was a prior engineer years ago, as I said, I work for like NASA. Our chief engineer was an avionics person that did programming for avionics and communication. We have fortunate for us, the person that writes our APIs works for the contractor that writes all the APIs for Apple. The iPods you guys use, the APIs are written by this person. So yeah, so I think technically we're there. Awesome. One last question from Chris. If you have one, if not, we'll move on to the next contestant.  Could you repeat you're kind of off at the beginning. I need that again. You were at the beginning, you were a multiple-sided. I only heard the last few words. Yeah, no, other than the raising of the capital, what do you see as your next largest obstacle? I don't really see too many obstacles. I mean, really is getting endorsements from people, getting them as a buy-in. When I work as a consultant, the most difficult thing of the initiative was the change management component. People resist change. So my stakeholders, the constraint component, they can buy into this, but the end users, they have to buy into it. So this is why we're putting in part of the training change of management. I used to be a change manager when I was with IBM. I know the challenges are. So this could be a challenge for it, but I'm trying to address it before it happens. All right, we're all good from the judges panel. Thanks again, Fernando, for your excellent pitch. And thank you again, judges, for bombarding him with really tough questions. Glad I'm not in the hot seat. So we're going to move on to our next contestant, and that's Mr. Mack A. Gadsden, Jr., founder of MacArthur Group, Facility Assessments, and the U.S. Air Force Veteran, who has over 30 years of experience conducting investigations for the Air Force Office of Special Operations, Charles, the South Carolina Police Department, Bacovia Corporation, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Services in the fields of criminal, counterintelligence, elder fraud and abuse, and executive protection. Mack is an expert on conducting site visits and risk assessments for daily security operations for numerous notable American, foreign, and corporate dignitaries. As a graduate from Northwich University with a Master's in Justice Administration and soon to be retired from his investigative career, Mack is starting a company which focuses on conducting site assessments for assisted living facilities on behalf of family members and caregivers, providing them with the knowledge to make informed decisions. It's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Mack A. Gadsden, Jr., Mack, good luck, and the clock starts when you do, sir. You're on mute, I think, Mack. I'll give you a mole again on that. Okay, sorry. Being in a right nursing home for a family member can be a daunting and stressful task, especially when time is of a crucial nature because of a recent fall or illness. Many families go online to select a nursing home based on various reviews, only to discover that the care provided was less than standard and their family members suffered. Google and Yelp are unreliable when it comes to selecting the best nursing home. I've visited numerous nursing homes over the past two decades, and I've seen personally the difference in the level of care provided. My company, MacArthur Group Facility Assessments, will ensure clients receive comprehensive assessments for each nursing home they're considering. I'm on a mission to ensure people can choose a safe nursing home for their loved ones. Hello, I'm Mack Gadsden, a United States Air Force veteran who deployed during Operation Desert Storm. I'm a former OSI agent with 30 years of experience investigating thousands of cases and conducting interviews. I also hold a master's in justice administration. Our facility assessments will result in detailed reports to answer the questions that most people don't think to ask. We'll visit each nursing home and we'll evaluate their emergency action plans. Their staffing levels and their security systems. Approximately 1.2 million Americans residing nursing home, and that number is expected to double by 2050. So the demand for quality care is important. I'm seeking $15,000 in investment that will allow us to develop our website and our software. MacArthur Group Facility Assessment, what you don't know can hurt you. Excellent. Thank you, Mack. Thank you, Mack. So I know Chris had to rescue the little one who was sleeping, so we'll start with Robert this time. All right. Yeah, this is a huge, big growing industry, right? You know, the baby boom is getting older and the need for this is growing. And we've all seen the headlines around different things that happen in nursing homes. Can you kind of walk through how a customer would engage you? Like what that process would be like? Did they call you? Did they email you? Did they fill out a form online? Did they come to a store? Like how does that work? So right now they would be getting in touch with me via our website. We would actually conduct a personal interview with them to get exactly what it is that their particular circumstance needs. Does mom need to get her hair down on Wednesday? What kind of recreational activities? What kind of food? What kind of care does each individual need? So this is an individual assessment for each individual because the client is going to be different. So we would meet with them to get that information. That's one bucket of information that we would obtain from them. Also, they would give us the facilities that they're looking at. And we would go and make those visits to ask the questions that they want, along with our security assessment parts of information that we would be obtaining. Gotcha. And what services do you provide in addition to what someone like care.com or the other sites that kind of rank nursing homes do? Yes. So you have places like care.com or a place for mom. Both of those businesses are great for what they do and that's referral. Our agency, we're going to actually do an actual site visit to do more than just give them information. Actually asking tough questions like what is your staffing level like at 4 a.m. when an emergency could happen and it's a hundred bed facility. What's the plan emergency action plan after place catches on fire? Something that most people wouldn't think of to ask. Awesome. Best of luck. Thank you. All right, Jimmy. Hey, Mac, I love that you're going after this space. I think it's a great idea. It's probably the fastest growing segment of healthcare, you know, home health and care for the elderly. My father owns a security consulting company in Florida and he has a very large contract specifically for the Catholic Diocese. They own a ton of property and have a bunch of schools. So I'm pretty familiar with the site survey process and industry. It doesn't take a lot of infrastructure. What do you need $15,000? Like what kind of infrastructure are you planning on putting on your website? Because you know you are the service. Your expertise is the product. So what kind of infrastructure do you need? Well, so I plan on covering more than just the state that I'm living in. So each assessor that's going out for me will have access to my software with the questions already preloaded, drop down answers. And so the idea is that when they complete their visit, they're hitting the submit button and that's coming back to the website for my administrative staff to type up a report. So in order to do that, it's software that I haven't or at this point haven't seen happen. So they have the one time access only for proprietary purposes. And they're able to answer these 100 questions, 150 questions on site that they don't have to be connected to the internet only to just to submit it. So that's what I'm trying to, I've been looking for it. I've found a couple of security industry businesses that do site assessments that have similar software. So I'm reaching out to people as well to see how I can develop my own software specifically for this industry that I'm trying to get into. Well, I think that's a great idea. One other question I have for you know nursing homes are basically a medical facility. Why are they going to let you in to ask questions? I mean, they're already highly regulated environments. They don't want another auditor coming in and asking them questions. Great, great, great questions. In my current job, I get to go to nursing homes to do elderly or senior fraud presentations. So I've had an opportunity to talk to general managers of these facilities and ask them, Hey, if I came in, I wanted to ask you some questions and do a walkthrough. Would you allow me to do that? The response is absolutely. If the average cost is $90,000 a year, you have a client that wants to ask us questions. We want them to have the answers to the questions. So we certainly would want to talk with you or to give you to provide you with the information because it generates revenue or a client for them without them having to do much. That's a great answer. I think you're on to something, Matt. Thank you. Marilyn, anything from you? Yeah, again, Matt, very interesting area that you've chosen, but I just have tons of questions because you're number one, you're collecting personal data on individuals. And so it suggests you to HIPAA. And then also with that data, are you doing anything from an artificial intelligence perspective to make that data intelligent for prescriptive and prescriptive analytics? And third, are you working with any kind of enforcement agencies because a lot of times that's where these inspections come into play is when there's something that's gone wrong. So I hate to bombard you with three questions at once, but there you go. Okay, let me start. I am not working with anyone on the enforcement and we're actually going to be looking at state inspector and OSHA reports to ask them questions about things that that have been discovered and asking them how do they mitigate those issues. So our job, my company, we're providing the client the information for them to make an informed decision. We have no area where we're able to enforce any laws or to make any changes. We just want to make them aware of potential problems that the facility is having. What was the second question that you asked? I'm sorry, I got. The collection and protection of personal data, the HIPAA requirements. Right. So we would be getting or collecting that information from the client on the front end about their needs, the healthcare needs that they would have. Not necessarily their personal records, but the type of care that they would need as if we would be taking the information solely to ask additional questions and having our website. This is a part of that funding. Having our website secure where we don't have to worry about breaches and things that. So we really need more than just a basic website. We want to have a secure website to be able to protect that information that we do get. And are you doing anything with artificial intelligence in your business? Not at this point. We haven't looked at that. Okay. Thank you. All right. I see that Chris is not chiming back in on the camera, but I'll give him a shout out to see if he has any questions via voice. Anything out there, Chris? Nope. Okay. Well, let's move on. Thanks a lot. Thanks again, Mack, for your presentation, your pitch. Thanks to the judges for the tough questions. All right. So our last, our final contestant, Arthur Salendong is an entrepreneur, technologist and former Naval Submarine Officer. He's the founder and CEO of Travis Technologies, a minority-owned service, disabled, better known small business, headquartered in San Diego, California. Travis was founded in 2010, thrives on practical solutions to challenges in wireless technologies and artificial intelligence. Travis gained expertise and specialization in the development of technical solutions across five major portfolios. Wireless technologies, artificial intelligence and data science, cybersecurity, maritime transportation, and environmental informatics. In 2022, Travis was recognized as one of Southern California's cool companies by San Diego Connect and was featured in San Diego's first annual Innovation Day 51030 as one of the fastest growing and most exciting tech and life science companies in the region. Also in 22, the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce named Travis Technologies, innovator of the year for the development of groundbreaking wireless innovation called CEP. This spectrally efficient peer-to-peer technology allows for simultaneous wireless conversations on the same frequency without the need for cell towers or infrastructure. So I have a warm welcome to Art Salondong of Travis Technologies. Art, remember when you start, so does the clock. Good luck. Thank you. As a native of Hawaii, I was saddened to see how the Maui was leveled the town of Lahaina. Over a hundred lives were lost, took five days to restore power and resources. I'd like to introduce you to a technology that I believe would have saved some of those lives. My name is Art Salondong. I'm the founder and CEO of CEP Network. I'm a former nuclear submarine officer, former executive from Qualcomm. CEP is a wireless technology and a fantastic business opportunity. CEP stands for spectrally efficient peer-to-peer. And when I say peer-to-peer, I mean person-to-person, handset-to-handset, without the need for any cell towers, satellites, or even a switchboard. I believe the Hawaiian citizens could have communicated during that disaster. CEP is a software technology that we can install on cell phones or software-defined radios. We've demonstrated voice, video, text messaging, broadcast services, and file transfer, much like AirDrop on iPhones, all without the need of a wireless carrier. We've demonstrated video over a kilometer, and our platforms allow relay capability extending the range even further. We've had tremendous interest from both federal and commercial organizations, first responders, the military, intelligence community, and disaster response. Just last Friday, the Army showed interest in testing our waveform on one of their platforms. CEP also brings a private network on demand. Hospitals, construction sites, warehousing, ports in the harbor, so use cases are tremendous. We've had discussions with chipset and handset manufacturers and carriers. All who see this new feature is a fantastic addition to their wireless plans. We have three patents already approved, and CEP is showing greater promise in our competition. Our competitors do not have the same media-rich capabilities, and their solutions require the use of hardware, CEP is a software solution. Having your potential is significant. We capitalize on a licensing model and an upfront licensing fee and 1-5% royalty. I'm seeking $5 million in capital to accelerate proposition on to a chipset or similar device. What's my leadership team of Qualcomm executives, and we are poised to take this technology forward. Subject to your questions, that concludes my pitch. Thank you. Wow, I was getting ready to pick up the bell. That was right down to the second, Art. Thank you for that, and I know that's the second time I've heard that pitch, and it's fascinated even more each time I hear it with the technology. So, with that, let's move to some questions. I'm going to open it up with Robert. Oh, boy. So, this technology is pretty interesting, right? Being able to have peer-to-peer communication from phone to phone.  So, how do you convince a company like Qualcomm to add this technology to their chip? So, being a former Qualcomm, I'm still working with Qualcomm and other capacities. Yeah, they're not going to be the first adopters. I've got to find smaller use cases. I've got to leverage the military. I've got to go find ways to show its utility before a media tech or a Qualcomm are going to decide to put it on a chip set. But it's applicable to really any chip set. It can go on a Broadcom or an Intel chip set as well. If we really want to leverage a software capability, it's leveraging the FPGAs on a chip set and using the DSPs to get this to work. As you and I had also talked about, we're looking seriously at a combined FPGA SDR device that Xionlex develops that allows us to our own ODM that we can use for not only cell phones, but IoT devices, automobiles, and other use cases. So it's not going to happen with Qualcomm unless they see utility and they see it's proof that before they move any forward. Gotcha. So the national follow up to that is mentioned a few possibilities for kind of that beach head moments. What is your strategy for go to market? Well, what is that first golden use case, the first customer that's going to pay you a lot of money to put this on chips? Well, I think, to be honest, I think the military is really the military or the federal government is really the first step. There's a need for for a contested communication or communications and contested environments, a detailed environment where they can communicate when there's no infrastructure. Our technology also works without the need for a GPS reference. Since it's peer to peer, they can all synchronize and work together. So after talking to the Army, they're looking for a software to find waveform. They want to carry around another platform. So if it's software to find, not only can we use our current protocols, we can modify it to provide an LPI, LPD and alternate waveform should a waveform get compromised. So it's really a special operations man as well as the US Army that's kind of targeting it this way. Got it. Thank you. And good luck. It's a big, big opportunity, but also a big hail to climb. Well, Marilyn, what about you? Um, to that I say art way we've been all my life. I mean, this is amazing. Yeah, they're very amazing. Very amazing. So did I understand you to say that you have dual spectrum allocation for the devices? I didn't get a chance to explain it because it's two minutes apart, but it's actually efficient. It means that not only we peer to peer with peer to many and many to peer all on the same frequency. We use the same frequency on the same frequency. And you can do that dynamically. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Remember, they had a frequency we used to one and they had simultaneous connections on the same frequency. Well, we can do that now all peer to peer. But you can be in a video call with one platform at the same time receive a text message. A second platform while a fourth platform does a broadcast push to talk voice to everyone can hear. Well, that's world changing. That's that's world changing. That's game changing. Again, I come out of this at this market, you know, having worked with the carriers and this this really does change the game. So getting to market, I don't necessarily think would be the, you know, I know Qualcomm owns the world in terms of chipsets. But, you know, with everything that's going on with the chips act, maybe there's an opportunity to work with a smaller manufacturer to do some other kind of chip development as well as maybe move into some of the robotic areas that. You know, or maybe into the L. E. L. There are just so many avenues that you can go with this. And so have you looked into some of those other parallel routes to market? Yeah, there are. I think first responders can get immediate impact because right now, as you know, he's LMR radio is the only peer to peer solution and it's all voice. So, yeah, there's a lot of markets to approach. It's a matter of time and trying to prioritize, you know, who I think it's finding that first big early adopter showing its utility before I can start getting traction where others will want it. And the fact that it's software defined where we can really port it on to a number of devices, it'll be easier to spread once I get the first early adopted. Awesome. Awesome. I think you're on to something gigantic norm is so much success. I think we made a connection. That's a that's right. Absolutely. Absolutely. Great. Well, Jimmy, what do you got for us bud? Art, this is fascinating. I think you're the perfect person to do this. I'm very impressed listening to you talk about it. I have a I had a few questions. You already answered one of them. The main question I had, you know, does it operate when there's no existing infrastructure? A lot of times in a disaster, the infrastructure is compromised, but you said so this this does operate with you don't need the infrastructure there. This is something that will operate in remote villages of India or Africa.  So seven networks is really a mobile ad hoc network or a mesh network that supports media rich comms data voice broadcast. And we one of the platforms could actually be the internet itself. And so yeah, that's amazing. Do is it does it have encryption capability. So right now it doesn't. But we've done that in past lines of Qualcomm where we can actually put the encryption into protocols and we can impose either transmission security or communication security, comsec or transec. So there's a variety of ways you can do that. And the military is also very interested in what's called LTI LPD, which is low probability of NSF, low probability of detection. We can further refine the waveforms to spread the bandwidth right now we're using two and a half megahertz. You can spread the bandwidth limit the number of pops and modify the waveforms such that you can't it won't get compromised. We're operating a typical cell phone power levels of about 200 to 250 milliwatts at this time. That's that's that's yeah the encryption I mean that's going to be big doing you know that. One last question. I mean this is amazing it's truly amazing and like you said I don't think that adoption is going to be your issue. I think I think simply educating consumers, you know the end users on what why they need it how they need it how are you going to educate people. Get it they're going to want it. How are you going to get in front of people how are you going to educate people as to what this is how it works how they get it in their hands. How are you going to do that. Yeah, I think demonstration is probably the best way to do it. We were actually the Mobile World Congress like three weeks ago when we had FaceTime video and voice operating peer to peer in our booth. Again amidst all these all the Wi-Fi signals we had FaceTime going on and you know a lot of people posting just say are you using the existing infrastructure. No it was it was peer to peer. Yeah, part of the five million that I'm trying to bring in that will not only support continued development but I need the sales and marketing to get out to the right. And yeah I tried to craft this pitch so it was more understandable because when I say spectrally efficient I think only Maryland will understand. Yeah, I didn't I didn't know I don't know what that means. I just got one more thing for you and I think there's some really amazing trade shows that if you could get into the the the people that want this will come to you. The Association of the United States Army is having a trade show in Birmingham, Alabama and middle of the year you should try to get into that it's pretty affordable boost space and it's a kind of a technology show. I think you would really thrive in that environment. All right. Wow, I think some people are speechless on this call from that. It's I mean it's fascinating so here's what we're going to do. I think Chris is still Chris is still off so judges go ahead and tally and submit your votes to Michael Italian that up and while you all do that I've got a couple of announcements. And the first thing is is I can't thank our judges enough Marilyn Robert Chris Jimmy for all your contributions and volunteering for your valuable time today I know everyone's busy. Can't thank you enough can't thank sorenson communications enough for their continued support we look forward to more continued support in the future and doing fun things with you guys and can't say enough we're really happy to have you part of the team. Second thing I want to say is thanks to our contestants for carving out the time again y'all are trying to get your businesses up and running and and get that entrepreneurship freedom built. 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This is a way of dealing with globalization, right? This is a way of dealing with the reality that we are all interrelated in the vulnerability to these fast-moving emerging pandemic threats. There has to be a system of internationally coordinated multilateral cooperation for us to be protected. We cannot believe in this current world of much more interdependent, fast-moving events with the communications, with the air travel, with the cross-border traffic, with the migration patterns that we've seen. The intermixing that occurs across multiple levels, which allow for a new pathogen to move from point A to point B and multitude of other points, extremely fast. It just means that if you're responsible for protecting your citizens, you've got to buy into a broader global system and do your best to try and make sure that its coverage is universal and that the baseline capacities of country A or country B out there that may be a low-income country, that they've got at least the baseline capacities to know when something's happening in their borders that could turn around and attack us.


Here we are with the first trio composed of Garf, FC Annie, and Dorca. The primary role here of Garf is to give share health to Annie. Annie has to have the lowest HP on the team. Next FC Annie will be able to give Burning Soul to Dorca, which means that Dorca should be the fastest here on the team. The next would be Dorca. Dorca's role here is to spam her S2 skill and also to give healing to the team. So you have to have at least try to get signature force if possible. So the trio concept is based on defense and survivability. So the remaining two heroes on your team would be dependent on what available heroes you have, preferably high damage heroes or AoE heroes that can deal great damage because these three will be able to support your whole team in terms of defense, healing, and protection. So most of the time for this team Garf is usually the one who dies early in the match but the rest survives for the team. Our second team is composed of Bathory, FC Bathory, FC Oloom, and FC Rera. But for this one Bathory doesn't need to have her FC form for this to work. So Bathory gives Tranquil to the team so she must have the highest attack stat on the team for Tranquil to activate. So FC Oloom activists provoke and also breaks garden stones while Tranquil is in effect. And FC Rera deals massive damage with Tranquil with bonus damages if the opponent has X number of mana on them. So the trio concept is defense and offense. So they are pretty much in good synergy with each other in terms of defense and offense. So once FC Bathory's signature force is out, which was already out, I think yesterday with the update. So they become a more formidable team in offense and defense, especially on offense, especially now in PvP. So just in case if you want to add Iris to the team, Iris gives plus 2 mana to Bathory and Bathory can actually activate her S2 skill on her first turn. So that is also a good addition to this team if you want to add FC Iris to the trio. So the previous reincarnation of this team is usually would have Iris and FC Iris and FC Shofraken on this team. So what we have here now is our third trio synergy team for FC Genai, FC Rachel, FC Deva. So for FC Genai, Genai gives an increased attack speed buff to the team and also gives a decreased attack speed for the enemies which is through her charm passive. So she has to have the highest attack with her enemies on the other side. For FC Rachel, he also has to have the highest attack for this Heartin to trigger. This Heartin is, decreases their dodge by 50 and defense by 20%. So this applies to the enemy on the other side. And also for the third member of this trio, FC Deva is here to deal Crimson Strike. So Crimson Strike is double the critical damage rate and also I would suggest Sincture Force so that she can give a much bigger attack damage or critical damage hit to the enemies on the other side. So again Crimson Strike for Deva increases own critical damage by double or times two. So there you have it guys. Those are my top three trio synergy heroes for the new meta right now. So try to use these trios and actually more effective in PVP and they can also be used in PvE content if you're trying to use them. So this will be a first part of the hero trio synergy. All right guys, that concludes this video. Let me know what you think in the comments below. Please give me your suggestions or probably you can give me other three recommendations that I could feature in this video or in other videos. You all stay safe and I'll see you in this video, more analysis.


There once came a time where the egg was scarce. The chickens, they couldn't figure it out. They searched their little tiny brains. How can I make an egg? But they sat inside their little tiny boxes and nothing came out. What were Americans to do? The egg, it was the staple of the American diet. The morning breakfast that brought joy and protein.  It caused fighting. It caused discrepancies in the family. Americans were torn. But then there did come a roost. A roost so squawky. So eggy it couldn't be stopped. It was the wrackly roost.  Just plucking them out of that nested box, putting them in my wicker basket thing. Magic pastel balls of protein, giving them that delicious feed that couldn't stop eating, making beautiful feathers and eggs. Look at that frizzle. This is its male counterpart. It doesn't look so good. Looking dead and in. There was the Oster Lorb dance. So happy. Beautiful eggs on the counter. Blue and brown. Yolks going in that sizzle pan. Making that protein breakfast we all dream of. Then that rooster got up. Welcome all back to the Treehouse, everybody.  If you did, smash that like button. Today we got a little home vlog for you. But we're also looking at what is going on with it. What is going on with eggs? What is going on with these feeds? This conspiracy. If you've been to the grocery store lately, looking at eggs, you might notice that there's not many there. They're highly priced. And also recently, in the news I've seen just backyard chicken people like me are having trouble getting eggs out of their chickens. So they're trying to skirt the game of buying eggs at the grocery store. I will say it is, in most cases, more expensive to produce your own eggs. But at least you know where they're coming from and it's fun to have some chickens around. But why the lack of egg production from backyard chicken people? Now, this time of year is like the worst time for egg production. It's cold. A lot of chickens get cold and flues just like we do. Illnesses, that stops them from laying. And so I usually get the least amount of eggs during the winter, just like everybody else. Now, luckily, I'm here in Texas so we have a very light winter. But I notice when we have real cold weeks, you know, the egg production does go down. But the rumor is if you're using certain brands of feeds then the hens just stop laying.  They're trying to stop backyard chicken people from growing their own eggs. I don't know. I'm here to tell you that I do not have that problem and I'm going to show you guys the feed that I use and then also just my routine with the chickens. I don't just give them straight feed. They always have on-demand feed but there's other ways of feeding your chickens that don't involve buying feed from the store. Oh, look at that.  Some people use that to make flies. That's out of Colonel Sanders. So if you've got the space you just let them run around. I know it's wintertime right now but in the springtime there are bugs everywhere. There's things growing and since I live in Texas we've got chickweed growing all over the ground. There's grasses for them to eat. They love to eat grass and bugs. That's like their primo diet. Besides scratch, which is grains and corn and stuff like that those are treats. But good protein, good sustenance just literally just let them eat grass. Not long grass so long grass can get caught up in their crops cause some issues. Stuff that's a little bit longer than this but short grass just let them munch on that. It's good stuff for them. One of my bluebies she's getting ready to pop one out right now she's getting squawky. She's on top of them on the box. She's getting ready to go in there and squat one out for us. Another thing that we do is we just have a little basket we keep in the kitchen. It's called the chicken bucket basket thing.  Another hack is buying spinach at the grocery store and not like the stuff in the plastic container but the dirty unwashed spinach that they just slap a rubber band around and it's only like a couple of bucks and that stuff is just full of nutrients and honestly some of the darkest orange just yolks that we've ever produced have been when we're just slamming that spinach at them. It's just cheap obviously it doesn't last very long but if you're at the grocery store, pick some of it up give them a couple of servings of that throughout the week and that's really good stuff for them. If you're feeding them the veg they've got to have grit to work that stuff out in their crop they don't need grit if you're just giving them feed they always keep an on-demand feeder in here literally I think it's a five gallon maybe it's a two and a half gallon so they always have something they can pack on so this is how I give them on-demand feed right here this will usually last when I fill this thing up about a week and I buy one bag of feed a month and I think it's about 24 or 25 bucks something like that and it's a layer crumble 16% protein I actually don't need to go get any I've got plenty in my bucket but I'm going to go buy some more because I suspect I suspect there might be a little run on some of the other brands that are we're not on the list that was posted on social media and the news okay the guys are ready to lay so it is like mid-morning right now and they are when they get ready to pop them out they just start squawking like that then they go into the nesting box and they start doing their thing this one is just surprisingly loud this is my little frizzle right here and she produces some some cute little eggs she's actually pretty consistent with her egg laying but they're tiny and there she goes they're happy healthy chickens let's go to the store I'm going to show you what feed that I use that I think is pretty good I think it's a pretty good feed I'm not a scientist but I bought it because it smells like pizza okay all this is my layer feed this is what I use I use this brand when they were chicks as well for the grower feed but this one is a 16% protein it literally smells like pizza because they use oregano oils which is supposed to promote healthy egg and weight size and all that stuff so I don't know the big differences between the other brands but this one I never tried it I decided to go with it for my chicks and obviously when they got to 16 weeks started them on the layer feed and the roosters use it as well they're happy and healthy and do it I mean just look at that wide dot right there just looks beautiful silver laced beauty great imagery there natural oils, good marketing then it says right here it's what's inside that counts and then it shows you the actual production facts I mean there's soybean oil soybeans which I'm not not a huge fan of I used to buy a feed that was completely soy free because Stephanie is allergic to soy and it was just way too expensive it was twice as much as this so I stopped feeding it I would have to get Stephanie to look at this and see if this is decent or not I'm producing some fatties speaking of that let's roll into the coop right now and see who has laid an egg since it's been about an hour and a half I bet you at least got one in here got one bluebee in here gals how we doing gals yep little rooster fighting Mr. Penny here he's still the dominant crore and poor Colonel Sanders he's become more docile sometimes he'll even let me just pick him up which is he used to never let me pick him up oh wait a second uh oh frizzle what are we doing here frizzle oh no you guys this happens sometimes this one right here a naked neck sometimes she will lay an egg that's not in the nesting box and then they all fall a suit so we end up with eggs not in the nesting box so now we got our three for the day whichever one lays next will lay in there and we'll probably get four yeah and it smells like Irish spring in here still that soap is stuff is going on in there but that stuff smells forever I've got it in my camper too my camper smells like Irish spring that scent is just crazy the reason I put it in there is for mosquitoes mosquitoes do not like it keeps them out of there so Irish spring stuff little chicken coop hack speaking of the camper big upgrades coming we're basically going to rip out the uh the current wiring of the camper and go full uh extended off-grid conversion with lithiums and new uh solar um charger system so all that's coming on another video if you guys are going to be uh doing some off-grid stuff you want to get crazy with your chicken eggs your off-grid camper you can never be seen again you just go out there and have a full system I've even got the batteries ready to go and I'm going to be doing an upgrade on the bass boat as well which is coming really soon like probably next video so ladies and gentlemen this is about half a week's worth of eggs it's just a little egg tray that I built it's raised in the back I don't know if y'all can see that so they'll sort of roll down there some spare wood I had I made a desk out of thought it'd be kind of cool to make a little egg uh egg deal for the kitchen countertop but this is about half a week's worth so when we use eggs these will roll down and there's something to roll on the eggs I don't I don't know exactly they're supposed to all roll down like that kind of rotates them keeps them going these are a little frizzle eggs you know they're not that big but then we got these big blue whoppers that are just awesome these are my pride and joys right here so these are ones that are unwashed if they're like really poopy muddy, nasty we'll throw them into the fridge got an egg tray in here it's empty right now but we'll wash them and then refrigerate them once you wash that protective coating off the egg then you gotta refrigerate it so the ones you buy at the grocery store they've been washed and everything that looked clean but you get your own eggs there's a lot of them that look kind of poopy and muddy on them rainy days but no big deal it's what's on the inside that counts now here's the other deal that we just keep in the kitchen right here so this is the chicken bucket basket thing chickens absolutely love strawberries we eat a lot of strawberries, berries, other stuff like that super acidic fruits like oranges not the best for them but we'll just throw that in there anyway little bread ends any sort of little scraps as long as it's not chicken that goes out to them so we'll give them a special treat right now after laying a couple eggs the other thing that you can do if you're worried about predators and you still want to feed them all the natural stuff that you may have in your yard is you can just pluck out the clovers and the chickweed and the dandelions and all that other stuff and put it in there in the coop and you just go pick it and put it in there you don't want to let them free range where you got coatties, foxes, hawks all that, you know, predator stuff oh yeah, that's like something a deer would eat right there yummy this is the chickweed that's the chickweed just gobble that up you guys good afternoon strawberries have a little citrus delight might as well be a mimosa for you here now I need to add one more bird to the mix here so you guys know the rat problem we've had here recently we've had coyotes just swarming the property they come in just about every day it was like totally ice and sleet out here the other day and I came out here and heard the chickens squawk and they were all going nuts and there was a coyote out in the yard and I ran him off and he was literally breaking the ice branches 100 yards since we've had the coyotes around honestly the rats have been at a minimum and I'm sure there's bobcats and I haven't seen any foxes in a while but to get an aerial defense on these rats we're coming in hot with an owl house LFD made this for Stephanie for her birthday well, birthday owl house and I'm going to stick it in one of these oak trees that's sitting above the coop so at night we get an owl that takes residence in here it's not going to be a big owl it's not going to be one of those big barred owls that might actually eat chickens let me know in the comments but a little owl get an old rat eater just have him live in there come down at night get the rats to be a perfect scenario building a sustainable ecosystem in the backyard that's what we've got going on solar capabilities we're going to be fully off grid the power goes out if the balloons come over EMPs, I'm ready baby I'm ready to go alrighty, all of that is going to do it for today's home vlog here at the Rackley Roost if you're thinking about getting hens getting some chickens, the springtime is a good time to do it there's so many little bugs and critters running around on the ground easy to raise them and it's not frigidly cold so in the next month or so across the US I would say it would be a good time if you live down in the south go ahead and get your chickens right now start raising them and in 16 weeks you should start getting some eggs if you're having problems getting eggs try the feed that I use and start giving them your scraps if there's something in the feeds if you have bad batch of feed I don't know feeding them bread scraps can't be worse than what's going on if you're not getting any eggs but I have not seen any issues I don't know anyone personally I've just seen online people have problems getting eggs so it ain't a problem here alrighty, all wishing you plentiful bounty and godspeed in the great outdoors I'll see you on the next adventure


We're about to have Tim Ord and of course, you know, Tim gets interviewed by Tom every Tuesday and Thursday, but I've been listening to Tom, to Tim for a long time when Tom and Tim used to discuss the market back in early 2000s, I would be listening. So I'm going to just quickly go to this chart and I'm going to say, hi, Tim. How are you? Hi. Yeah. First time we ever talked. I don't think I ever talked to you. I don't think so either. Glad to meet you. I've listened to you for, well, since the early 2000s and I remember I used to be out on the Newton North tennis court with my friend and at about three o'clock and I'd have my little portable radio and I'd be listening to you and being interviewed by Tom. I'd be playing tennis with my friend Jake and soon after that I became a host here at TFN. So it's wonderful. Come on. I want to put your charts up right now and I want to say Tim has a newsletter called, there we go, the ORD Oracle. If you want to just tell us briefly about it because I know you want to go right to the charts. Just if you want to start us off with that. With the ORD Oracle or you want to start with the charts? Just exactly how people can reach you at Tim. Okay. I have a website www.ord-oracle.com and that's where my website is so I do have a Twitter account or I think it's at oraclealloneword.com other than that I post some stuff around stock charts every Tuesday and Wednesdays sometimes but so not a lot of stuff out there so I don't advertise a lot mostly word by mouth so we can actually move on to the charts if you want to. Great. I've got chart number one and if you'd like to start with that I'd love to hear your analysis. All right. Anyhow, I'm going to look at the bigger picture and take it down to the smaller picture and on the bigger pictures things have to happen at significant lows and this chart kind of goes back and go back further but the further you go back you really can't really see what's going on but one of the requirements is for the top window of the McCullin Oscillator and what you need for a bottom is basically a selling climax and right after it you need a buying climax and there's different degrees of time as far as there's smaller buying selling climax and there's kind of intermediate terms selling climaxes so we're going to go through those and this is the summation index or no this is the Oscillator one which is the top window and to get a selling climax on this indicator you need to follow up below minus 300 and the red lines across this chart this chart goes back to 2000 mid-18 2018 and going forward and so it picks up identifies all the major lows that happen first again you need a selling climax which is a minus 300 Oscillator then you need a rally right after that to a plus 300 and once you get that use you're looking at him at term low this picked up the 2019 low and also the the covid low you had a selling climax to a buying climax and the current time frame you actually had two of two selling climaxes into two buying climaxes you had one in October of 2022 was pretty much came at the exact low and you had another one in the April period where the McCallan Oscar fell below minus 300 then rallied above 300 so that's that's spurred out so intermediate term wise the McCallan Oscar is has gave bully signs how long can these rallies last most the time they're at least multi-month and sometimes are multi-year so since we got two of them you know it could be the current rally could go on for a we'll have some you know consolations along the way but in general it's a bullish year-mid term sign number two okay I can try this chart number two and this is the chart that says new york stock exchange McLean summation index and the confirmation of the bottoms and the tops yeah yeah okay this this chart goes this is summation index actually this is a little bit bigger time frame than McCallan Oscar this is a summation index which is the Oscar added together I guess you might say so it'll I went back further in time on this indicator went back to 2007 and the same things happen you need a selling climax to a buying climax if you notice all the way to the left there there's a shaded area yes and to get a selling climax on this summation decks you need a close below minus 700 and that shaded area shows the time you got down below 700 but what's missing here is a sign of strength or a McCallan Oscar or a summation X rather above plus 1000 yeah right so this is real take a break I'm sure everyone like me are just totally fascinated we were right back with Tim Ward down 111 thousand chapter sitting at the top of Brian we're on with Tim or would be a right back after these messages hi folks a thousand chapter here sitting at the top of Brian we're on with Tim or to begin it did a fabulous a workshop just the other day talking about I think it was the sixth most important technical tools that he uses he's discussing some of them right here we're on to the chart number two so Tim if you can continue all right chart number two on the far left corner in other words this is like the 2007 2008 decline you need the summation decks a fall below minus 700 which is a selling climax then you need a buying climax on this indicator to reach plus 1000 this whole thing should take two months or less if you know you got a bunch of selling climaxers going down into that 2008 low but you never got a buying climax until actually the bottom happened so you have to see a sign of weakness then you have to see a sign of strength so that decline there was never a sign of strength so the market kept going down and you know capitulating I guess to the downside and until that you know the downside was exhausted then you finally got a sign of strength if you go over into the current time frame here we had a selling climax actually that's the blue line this time around right back in looks like about October of 2022 then you got a buying climax I think the red one that was probably November December of 2022 so pretty much marked the bottom what's interesting here on October 27th of last month we got a kind of selling climax we had a summation deck that did get below minus 700 he got 800 minus 800 something and so now if we may get another buying climax or you know a surge here a sign of strength which needs to happen within two months of October 27th which would be December 27th if we get to to plus 1000 that would kind of be a double whammy here far as the bigger picture or the bigger we're talking about a double whammy upside whammy right for the upside part for the upside that is yeah correct right we hit you know October 27th was hit like minus 800 so two months at that December 27th if we see plus 1000 that would go well for next year this mostly signals are around you know they're multi years but most of them are least a year most time longer you can see going back we all met they all came at major lows and get two in a row is pretty rare and right what that means I think kind of adds to the picture would do it I don't know we'll have to wait and see it's in the cards and job number three is the chart number three is kind of a short-term picture I do some stuff with the VIX and the bottom window is a VIX and normally if you if you're below 17 a lot of times the market's in the trending mode and that's that shaded pink area and right now we're around 14 or so and the market's going up here and what I look for this divergence is the middle window or the second window up from the bottom is the SPX VIX ratio right a lot of times this ratio will diverge in other words the S&Ps will make higher highs and this ratio will make lower highs and if you go back in time you can see what happened a matter of fact going into that oh that's late 2022 high the S&Ps were making higher highs that ratio is making lower highs so that was the first one of the reasons why I got out of the market because of this then and then April of this year the market was kind of trending sideways around that 40 look like about 41 42 hundred on the SPX and this ratio is making higher highs that's a bullish situation so the market broke out to the upside and right now I really don't have any burgesses to speak of other than there's a positive virgins because the VIX is below 17 suggesting that the markets in the trending mode far far as the S&Ps we haven't really touched a previous high yet and the SPX VIX ratio is not really confirming or denying is I just wanted to point out it's not really saying anything bearish here but it's not saying anything bullish either but you know it's at the moment I see no really bearish signs here so it's a kind of status quo and the last signal will remain in effect is that kind of how you see it your idea just you know we had a pullback which I did get out of the out of that to July top and I got along again at that actually the day of the bottom which is I think I don't see a reason to be out of the market if you want to go to real short term let's go to chart 4 real quick got it right here yes all right this is really the short term it kind of this is the second window down from the top is the SPX tilt ratio so it's a SP compared to the bond market and the top windows the RS 10 period 10 day RS eye for that ratio and when the ratio goes up too fast which is all those blue lines across the the chart here which is which means the RS eyes above 70 normally you get short term pullbacks and I just want to point out that even though this market just screened up here over the last couple of weeks look at that ratio pretty much around 50 yeah so how do you move yeah so it's it's a little bit unusual so it's not really showing any signs on this relationship to be overbought or anything so you know can the market go down it doesn't pick out every top but I guess when it does give a warning that's usually pretty accurate so and right now you know again the market just screened up here and this ratio has stayed pretty much neutral staying around 50 so I'm sure your time here this doesn't seem to be any yeah I guess any fear about what this ratio so another reason why I'm kind of hanging along we can go to chart 5 real quick got it there it is all right okay the top window is the SPY VIX ratio if this ratio is going up along with the S&Ps which it is right now that's usually a bullish sign if you get if you look back at the going into that July high you notice the S&P which is that circled area right there with a pink area the SP's were going up and that ratio was was it was making lower or higher lows and that was a divergence and so it's suggesting that row he's not going to continue which it didn't and so that was kind of a warning sign and matter of fact you can see go back to the other light blue area back in that February to April May period the SP's were going sideways and this ratio is making lower lows and that was a bullish sign or excuse it the ratio is making higher lows and that was a bullish sign suggesting around he's going to go up and right now which is way to the right and as a boxed in red square area there's no divergence here the S&P's are going up and this ratio is going up so to me there's no real danger here at least not yet so that's great well I think we've got a break coming up if you would like we can do I'd like to come back to do the final one chart number six and we could you hold on yeah we can do that great we'll be back folks now is now done only 86 and the S&P is just flip positive to a plus two and we'll be right back at 45-20 level that I spoke about for the E-mini is just being touched sitting in for Tomo Brian and let me get back to the charts we've got some odd on the line and I just I had it right here there it is okay so we've got this last chart and this is a fascinating one because it's got the RSI for inflation deflation ratio right okay this this is a weekly chart goes back to 2015 and this is a Marty Pring he created this inflation deflation ratio he's an old-timer he goes way back when so I miss with this inflation deflation ratio on the daily but it doesn't say a doesn't seem to say a lot on the daily but on the weekly it really kind of shines here but yeah all I did was put an RFI to this inflation deflation ratio and every time that 30 that's just one say that's a relative strength indicator so just wanted to clarify that yes yeah yeah it's a and it's running out if you notice these these signals are pretty rare you get maybe one a year you know sometimes you go like 2020-2022 you got well you got you know that was a two-year period usually you get maybe one a year and there's only one failure of that failure no that was a high actually there's really no failures in this we did have two of them in 2016 you got one and went market flip sideways that's way to the left of the chart then you got another one later in the year then a market just screamed up for about six seven months but you know last week the RSI of this ratio closed at 28 and change I remember exactly what number it was but you need a close below 30 then you need a close above 30 to get the signal and we did close above 30 last Friday at 28 and change and right now I did this chart earlier today we're at 37 on the RSI as a weekly chart so you need the weekly to close above 30 which is tomorrow so most likely this will be triggered tomorrow and all the blue lines across the area there are when that cell signal triggered is you know is it perfect it comes off of close to all the lows you know actually the one on the current situation probably came in October but we're not going to get the signal until November here which is fine but they all were pretty good signals in the past and sometimes when the RSI gets above 70 you know they can pick out short term or immediate term highs and that's the red lines across the chart shows where those signals are indicated but anyhow once these signals are triggered they're usually multi-month it's not longer oh that's very exciting good yeah so what this suggests we know we're gonna have a multi-month rally that probably will last into next year sometime so again these signals are pretty rare yet maybe once a year and we're getting one right now well tomorrow we may get one so we'll have some market crashes or something I don't think that's happening so just briefly I'd like to touch on this you've got the XAU weekly and you've got the GDX weekly yeah and that's where those signals occurred on that blue lines there so you know they're pretty good you know there was I mean if you just painted if you just took this signal and nothing else you've been you've been pretty good it does a lot better at bottom seem like this this indicator when it does go down it goes down really fast and that's how you get the signals going it does okay at tops but doesn't really time you know if you look the red lines there sometimes they came near high sometimes they didn't but they all came at least consolidation phases so for instance we do go get a signal here tomorrow and your rally really strongly here it will consider and the RFI gets above 70 it will warn you at least you got a consolidation coming that'd be a multi-week consolidation will be at top that's not necessarily true that top may come later but it's a good indicator nobody uses it and so anyhow tomorrow you know probably the big blow came in October and we have some actually signals of different method coming in there and this look like was going to be like a double bottom boat you look to the far right of the chart there we're just making a higher low and so this pattern it kind of looks like a head and shoulders bottom on GDX and XAU where the neckline on the XAU is probably right around that 117 area and on GDX looks like the neckline may come right around close to that 30 area so that's probably what's going to happen here so we don't have it shown to but the bullish percent index for the gold miners index is also rising it was minus 10 here about a month or not minus 10 but 10 in other words 10% of the stocks in a gold miners index were on buy signal now is a couple of weeks or about three weeks ago and currently there's about 25% of the stocks in a gold miners index are on buy signals so that which you need to happen you need the bullish percent index to rise to really get a strong market because as more stocks become on buy signals the more the more stronger that index is becoming and that's what's happening here on the gold miners index so plus stops now a lot of stocks are flipping to buy signals on this rally so that's another bullish sign so how good it's going to be I don't know but it should be a at least a multi-month rally that's you know well so far with with the dollar pulling back that's that's also helping gold and gold seems to have led and the GDX seems to be following I personally like to see the GDX leading gold but I think it's playing catch up for sure yeah actually I watched that ratio the XAU to gold ratio or the GDX GL ratio you know it is performed dismal here over the last couple of months or last several months actually over the last six months it just really hasn't performed at all and maybe that tie will be turning because most bull markets the gold stocks lead the gold and over the last several months that's not the case gold's been leading you know they're outperforming the gold stocks and that needs to be reversed here so I kind of watched that ratio will close and the ratio is like you know all-time lows it really can't get any worse than where it is and so a lot of these penny stocks at some point you're gonna turn into you know I think dollar stocks at least that'll be very exciting right yeah I'm hoping I don't know if that's going to happen or not but the last time something like that happened was basically at the 2000 low and gold in the gold market I think they have ratio all the way up so maybe we'll get lucky and this time around we'll have to wait that'll be very exciting certainly so Tim I want to thank you very much I been waiting for a long time to be able to have a chance to speak with you it's a pleasure on my part thank you very much and fabulous work and I know people who did the workshop really enjoyed it and that workshop folks is still up on the archive if you want to look at it really appreciate it so Tim thank you very much and Tom will respect you on Tuesday have a great weekend thank