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All right, come on excited trainers. Let's get ready. Sorry about that. Let me get a little light going on back here. How's everybody doing this morning? Good to see you all. Welcome back on this Tuesday. You see the chat? There we go. All right, good morning, Bonnie. Greg, good to see you all. Grant, good to see you all. Everyone on YouTube. Welcome back.  What I mean like, I don't know what's going on these last two days, but let me tell you something. I think I hit a new industry. We're gonna talk about that. I got breaking news. I think we really nailed it this time because I'm gonna tell you a little bit about how the Dow Jones works. I'm gonna tell you a little bit about what I was taught over 25 years ago, what to look at regarding the overall market. But there are a few things that are moving. We're gonna talk a little bit about that and we're gonna go over a couple of things. First of all, regarding about the big news that's going on that I see was going on. Have you guys gone to like Home Depot lately? Anyone like, I mean, I know we have a crowd here that with work, right? Nobody's going back to the office, right? So everybody's working home. Has anyone like on shopping like now all of a sudden, Randy says, oh yeah, anybody on Facebook too? Anybody there? Let me tell you, I went there this weekend, okay? And you know that I have another channel. Actually, I'm gonna start doing a lot of new videos on it. It's called Thouse, Those Home Living. It's another hobby that I have. I teach you how to cook. I teach you how to garden, take care of chickens and stuff. I'm gonna start working on that channel a little bit more. So I'm actually gonna be launching a new, we'll be talking about that. So I'm gonna be doing, I was actually gonna be doing how to build a garden box, you know, like, because it's, like I said, I went to school to be a landscape architect. My father, first generation Italian, he was one of the very popular gardener of my dad. So he'll let me be, you know, go if you can do something without getting hands to already do it. So, you know what? That's how I got into the finance business. But I still do it. I love it. It's a hobby, which is great. It's great therapy. But anyway, besides that, I went to go buy some cedar, okay? I said, I gotta buy these boxes to make this video. I gotta show how to make these planter boxes. I cannot believe the price of lumber.  It's literally like tripled, triple. I mean, it was like to buy like a 12 foot or even like an eight foot, an eight foot two by six, right?  To get a 12 foot was $50, okay? Let me just show you wood, okay? The stock wood. Look at this chart right here, okay? Do you notice anything wrong about that stock? Okay, stock went from 40 to 100. Look what happened just in April because obviously once the weather broke, it did well. How about this? How about this? Let's go check Lowe's, okay? I'm gonna blow up this chart on Lowe's. I'm gonna go back, look what happened in March. Stock was 60, it's already at 220, right? Let's just go back two years. Let's go back three years. Let's go about four years, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. I'm going back since 2010, the stock was $20. Look what's wrong with that chart. Do you notice anything unusual about that? How about this? Look at Home Depot, okay? Anything unusual about that chart? I mean, the reason why it was never a $28 stock it just used so many reverse stock splits. The stock is almost $320. Everybody is now coming down to it. I have my buying just, I mean, when I went to that parking lot I have never seen the second parking lot full, literally full, full. I'm like, I always find parking. I mean, like, whenever it is. I went on the weekend. It's like Lidu's like on stores. So my point is this. A lot of us trying to find the new industry what we're gonna look at. Listen, everybody's like staying home right now, right? Everyone's starting to realize, I don't need to go to an office and companies like, you know what? Maybe stay home. So building supplies, they can make it faster. $50 for a sheet of plywood. Do you know? Could you believe, $50 for a piece of plywood? I paid $25 when I was redoing my house. $50, it's like doubled.  And you know what?  Remember I just told you, we don't get political here, you know, but you gotta follow when you have a new administration comes in because they have a different style, different ideology, whatever it is. And one of the thing is that trying to, you know, the next new stimulus package is basically to infrastructure. Infrastructure, right? Yeah, okay, so what is infrastructure? Building, so what's gonna be building? Whatever it is, material. So it's just leading to one thing to another. Plywood more like partial port. Listen to, it's just added this world. So I'm just telling you right now that I got out of all my swing trades. I actually was up about 150% from last year to this year, but I gave back about 20% of it. And just in the last month, two months, I started losing money on my swings, not on my days, my day trip doing great.  And I'll bring up some of the stocks right here. I'll show you what we're talking about. Just bring up some of them. Because listen, you're all on the same page. Look at like, I don't know, what were we trading? We were trading the pot stocks, right? Look at can, right? Stock went from $5 to $40. We did great with that, but look at the stock started just past month, started going down, down, down. Let me bring this up a little bit closer. Look at that, stock kept going down, TLRY. We did great with that stock, it was $10, 20. Look, it was a great swing trade, ran to seven, who knew it was gonna come back down, but it kept going down, down, down. Draft King was a big fan of Draft King. I got out of it, you know, because now look at it, you know, it started going back down, down, down. If you see the stock, some of it are starting to go down. Chewy, another one, 120, we were trading that stock at 50, started breaking down. Look, in the last two months, hasn't really gone anywhere.  Look at this, like 320, stock hasn't gone anywhere. Apple, look at since August, it hasn't gone anywhere. It hasn't gone anywhere, it's been sitting here. Hell, you wanna talk about another brand, Amazon. I mean, where's it gone?  Since July, hasn't gone anywhere. So, the bottom line is, the big thing I see, oh, and obviously we did pretty well with the cryptocurrencies, but look what's going on with cryptocurrencies, okay? What's going on with Riot and all them stocks, like a Mara Riot, look at these things. We did great with these stocks on the swing trades in November, $3 stocks, it went to 80. Look where they've gone in the last, since February, hasn't gone anywhere. They've been going down. Mara, same thing, right? All the crypto stocks, all the blockchains, they all did well, they all come back down. So, it's like, the stocks are starting to go back down and starting to trend down. So, the big thing is, people are gonna start realizing I gotta just go out more, this that. Listen, I have family members ask me, say, listen, I'm thinking about getting to certain contractors because some of them, even pools, you know how many people own a pool, okay? They can't find people even clean their pools.  Instead of spending, I can't go on vacation and spend 10, 20 grand, you know, I'll just finance it on the bill of the pool, my backyard, they can't even find people to do that. So anyway, I would keep a very close eye on the swing trade. I know that this is the problem that I have with these stocks. They went up so much. I mean, look at that Home Depot trade for crying out loud. That thing literally took off from 250, okay? Finally it broke all-time highs when it got right around here because it really didn't go anywhere since August. Once it broke at 280, look where it is, it's already 330.  Look at it. That is the most beautiful chart that we see as a day trading, okay? So anyway, I wanna keep an eye on these damn stocks right here. I might start jumping into some swing trades. I'm not afraid to chase them. Remember when stocks break all-time highs, they do, but listen, I just think it's only gonna get worse. Just this weekend, I'm telling you. So let's keep an eye on the lumber stocks, the lumber ETFs, the builder stocks, all those stocks are probably obviously gonna be pushing. And guess what? It's only April, okay? It's all, people are just starting to get into construction. I actually spoke to my nursery where I buy all my plants. They said they had the best year and 30 years last year. Could you imagine this year, okay? And you have to be a contractor to get in there. So anyway, a lot of you guys are sitting there chatting in here. Free range chickens, Grant, let me tell you, I got the best chickens in the world. Probably the best organic. I don't know, call me, I don't know if you wanna call it, but egotistical, whatever, I really think I do. I'm gonna show you some great videos of them. I'm gonna show you how to raise them. But you know what? That's gonna be another part of the CPU.  That's what it's all about. Let's go through the watch list because time's running out, I wanna go over a couple of stocks. So we got this FSR trade right here, moving gorgeously. FSR made a nice little pop. That was one of the stocks that was early in the pre-market that we found right around eight o'clock. And then all of a sudden, you could see, it just did a pop right around eight o'clock. So if you got here when I made the call out on that stock right around when we start, usually we start about 10 minutes before eight o'clock, you got in around 13, you did pretty well. She started to dwindle down a little bit. I'm seeing a couple of iceberg orders coming in there. A lot of orders, so she's starting to trend down. So I'm not really a big fan of it right now. But there's really not that much going on. We did really well with this stock FSR. And by the way, because some of you don't know it, it's one of the electric stocks, one of the car stocks out there. I don't know if that has something to do with Tesla because I think Tesla came out with some really bad news regarding about their autonomous driving. They crashed or something like that. But we'll keep an eye on this FSR. You got also the YVR is another one. When you look at the stock at 8.15 this morning, she's kind of holding here at 2.80, but she's not up a lot. She's a nice level one stock. She's cheap. She moves pretty nicely. I like this stock. We'll keep an eye on this one. I'm telling you, there's a lot of junk out there. There's really a lot of junk out there. I don't know what it is, but there's not that much out there. I mean, I'm doing the best I can.  You know we do better than 11% on pre-market, but there's not that much out there. That's really not. Space is getting hammered.  I mean, we had a great run. First of all, I just thought just literally just went from like $23 up to 60, like a rocket going out of space, right? And then it came crashing, you know, literally like a bowling ball, just literally just came down so hard. But you know what? It's coming close to support level. So I don't know. Maybe no one's going to space. I don't know what's happened there. But there you have it. I mean, I was going through the watch list. I mean, KSU, Junk. No one's going to play at 300 all the stock. Those are the two stocks obviously we looked up. XXII is starting to make a little bit of a move. FSR, I mean, listen, this is the third biggest percentage gainer on a New York stock exchange and it's up literally 9%. That's the best that we get. Come on, we do better than that. So this is basically what we got going on. Here's this stock just went public. I don't know what that is. Oh, here's one right here. Let's keep an eye. Oh, here we go. Just pop that in nowhere. This H, here we go. Let's throw this one on here. H-O-T-H, it's not bad. Look at that. Cheap, 25,000 share buyer came in. Just started to make a little bit of a pop right here. That one's not bad. That one's going on there. Oh, farmers, it's a biotech stock. So obviously that's obviously moving.  I mean, the Nasdaq's the most volatile type of the volatile market that has the most volatility. The fifth biggest gainer is only up 9%. 9%, that's junk. Garbage. I mean, it really is. Lori says that BLDR. Is that the builder stock? BLDR. Yeah, that's that. Was that the ETF? I think so. BLDR, is that what you're saying? I'm gonna put that one on there. BLDR. Look at that. Look at that chart. Good, 20 to 50. Beautiful. Billionaires go into space body. You know what? Let them go there. Let them spend their money and then we'll just trade the stock and that's it. All right, anything else missing guys? Anything else? I think we pretty much nailed them all, I think. Listen, we always find new ones that do pop up right when the market opens up. But I want you to keep a very close eye on these building stocks, wood, anything. Cause I think that's gonna probably, you know what's funny? They're not really talking too much about it on TV. I just happened when I was working out yesterday and I always have the TV on. I always watch the financial stations and you always get these people talking about it. I just heard a little bit about it but when I saw what happened this weekend and I put two and two together after what I heard yesterday, I'm like, let me just have to look in that industry cause everything else is crap. Really is.  Today we got traders talk. So don't forget about traders talk today. We got traders talk with Josh today. It's the most popular class we got here in the cyber group room. Obviously if anybody here on YouTube, Facebook live wants to join us, you can do a quick trial for $9, get in the room for one week and that's where we actually analyze certain traders.  And remember, our goal here at Cybertrain University is not to teach you how to make money, it's teaching you how to lose it. Very, very important. And what else we got going on? And I think that that pretty much does it for the day. Oh, that's all I wanna tell you about the Dow Jones. I forgot to tell you, tip of the day. The Dow Jones, if you guys don't know it, it's a manipulating number. What I mean by that is it's made up of the top 30 stocks out there, a 30 or 40, one of them. And it's not like the S&P 500 where the S&P means it's 500 companies make it, that a part of it. But the Dow Jones is made of the top 30 and then what happens, if you're not a good performer, they kick you out, okay? And certain stocks are better than others. Obviously, you know, DuPoel, I mean, like for example, IBM has a lot of it to do with the Dow Jones. And you can see that really hasn't moved going up a little bit, IBM. So when you have a lot of these stocks like this that make up the Dow, it's an artificial number. You want a real number, the Russell 2000, the S&P 500, Nathan, even in NASDAQ 100 is a little bit manipulated because certain stocks have more control percentage-wise than others. But overall, I'm telling you, like, I don't really see that much going on in the market. You know, overall. I mean, pretty much I see a flat, actually I see the dwindling down. So I'm a little concerned about that. But keep an eye on the building stocks. All right, guys, Theory of Dow covers all markets. Yeah, that, well, because everybody's always looking at it, but remember, Bonnie, if you're not a good performer, they kick you out. That's how it goes. I think they kicked out the, I think they kicked out the, didn't they kick out GE? I think they kicked out GE, if I remember. Wasn't a big performer. T, they kicked out T. Is that what they kicked out? Yeah, if you don't perform, they kick you out. All right, guys, good luck today. Happy trading. We'll see you back at 11 o'clock for Traders Talk with Josh. And then we'll be back here on YouTube and the side group at 2.30 for the afternoon meeting. And like I said, guys, don't get too cocky, don't get too greedy, be patient. We'll always find something new that will open up. Yesterday I did pretty decent. I told just me and Josh to talk and even, you know, trading like, listen, I'll be happy. I just made what I made. Monday's usually not a good day to trade. I'm like 50-50, but it actually worked out pretty well. And now we're getting to the best days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. All right, good luck, everyone. Happy trading. See you back in a little bit. All right, be safe.


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Erin back on the field just how are you feeling right now? I feel great. I feel back great to be back with the team again and you know just really motivate to play this season and you know winter world series is the ultimate goal. We saw you at Yankee Stadium at the end of last season you still weren't doing too much recovering from wrist surgery. When did you start to actually feel like yourself again? Probably about a month after that. It was right before I was getting ready to go out to the DR and go play. My rest is to start to feel better, throwing, catching, hating, all this just started to come together real smoothly which ultimately gave me the opportunity to be able to go play in the DR. You know the team here wanted me to make sure that I was fully healthy to be able to go out there and I definitely made sure of that. Why was it important for you to play out there? Just to get games underneath my belt. You know being able to have you know the winter league to help guys that just had surgery during the season definitely helps out a lot but for me it was just going out there and competing again and I wanted to go out there and prove to myself that you know that I'm still ready to play and I mean to be ready for spring training. Were there any issues at all the way your wrist responded? Not really. I mean it was relatively smooth. You know I was maintaining all my treatment. I was doing everything possible to make sure that you know I'm able to play at the best of my ability so you know everything just went great. And is there any difference anything different in the way of maintenance that you have to do now to make sure that that wrist remains good? I just have to keep strengthening it you know and and that's pretty much it is just continue to strengthen it and you know keep the same flexibility that I have now.  I'm extremely anxious you know I want to get back there back out on the field with the guys and get back to competing and you know especially after that long break it's been tough to kind of you know just waiting it's been tough but you know I'm glad to be back and now we're getting started. The roster still a little bit of a work in progress but so far what do you think of the squad heading into 2022? You know I'm excited you know I think that you know we're gonna be we got a chip on our shoulder you know we got something that we need to prove and we need to win our whole series and we know that as a team and as a club and that's what we want it's to bring a championship you know back you know to New York. Aaron thanks for the time good to have you back. Alright thank you.


Everybody forced here. I'm ripping five boxes of 22-23 one-on-one basketball hobby for Brent E. Our last five boxes Brents, let's hit a downtown. Let's hit a time. Let's hit something crazy here. I don't know if we're gonna get any more of this in stock Let's make the best of this Paolo Chet, please please please I'll start Paolo Ben carol. I might add oh Downtown a jammer and That is pretty cool. Is that a bear with a guitar? Is that a grizzly bear with a guitar and one with another guitar here? Jammer and downtown off rip pretty good pretty good Followed by another grizzly rookie patch auto Kennedy Chandler at a 49 Kennedy Chandler a d-weight out of 99 on the base parallel There's the base that is the base the nine out his base yellow got to be a jazz See a low-numbered Kessler at Bajie rookie jazz at his Kessler and his patch auto out of ten three of ten Okay, pretty nice Yeah, three of ten RPA Walker Kessler a pretty solid big man in his second year rookie Caleb Houston out of 99 Yeah, dude. He was so good when he was back for the few games He was healthy or like when it would be like between suspension and injury out of 25 Jersey Auto Steph Curry damn That's so sick. I Would say oh, sorry. I've got the change name to Brent. This is Brent. I've had Brent. I was so excited to rip these I just went into it, but you're killing it so far Late night magic, dude. You gotta do breaks this late at all the time two more boxes Game you sure as the auto curry at a 25. I Had to pause there for a second. I couldn't believe my eyes Got a rookie Walker Kessler out of 99 next is a Penny Penny 37 to 49 team Titan signatures Let's go penny. Nice vet hit Penny's got good value for a for a vet for a legend. I should say a legend Last box of one-on-one we got in the building as Kendall Brown rookie out of 40.  Yes, pal. Oh, man. Carol. Yes. Look. We got blue Adam Silver Yeah number to 49 There he is Blue Adam Silver. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness Let's go best five boxes. Let's go Brent All kidding aside Monster timeless moments Palo Banda Carol all star all star Palo literal late night magic Dude, this is like the best card ever. It's got it's got Palo Thomas moments rookie auto and on the back You've got Smurf Adam Silver. It's like the best card of all time Holy cow Holy cow You love to see that print those were our literal last five boxes that we had that's called a walk-off right there folks


Hi, I'm Matthew Coast, head dating coach and founder at CommitmentConnection.com and in today's video we're going to talk about how much do looks matter to men in dating? And so do looks matter to men? Let's find out. And if this is your first time to our channel, make sure that you go and hit the subscribe button on the bottom right hand side of this video in order to get more videos on how to attract the right man and relationship that you've always wanted. So do looks matter to men? I think the quick and simple answer is yes they do. But I think that there's a lot of caveats to that. A lot of people that end up getting together and staying together, there's always that physical attraction component there. It's always there every single time. But I think that sometimes we put a little bit too much emphasis on it. So when a guy sees you, you're either going to be as type or you're not.  He's either going to be physically attracted to you or he's not. And there's that. And there's also this emotional component that I think a lot of women kind of gloss over because there's so much attention given to these women over here who are thin and super attractive and got Botox and whatever plastic surgeries or whatever they got. There's a lot of attention that's given to those women. And so I think a lot of women get distracted by that. And they don't look at this component that is more important, if not at least as important as the physical component is to a guy. So a guy might look at some of these women and he's like, oh my god, that's so hot, that's so attractive. But at the same time, that doesn't necessarily mean that that woman is relationship material to him. It doesn't mean that that woman is somebody that he would be with for a long term committed relationship. It doesn't mean that that's even a woman that he would necessarily even go for. A lot of guys look at those women and they think women that really try to dress real slutty and have Botox and all those things. There's a lot of guys that like that and there are a lot of guys that don't. And there are a lot of guys who when they see that they feel like they get the sense that there's something going on there that long term spells trouble. And in a lot of cases that's true. And so there's this other component that you really, I think, is more important for you to focus on. And that is the emotional component. And that's how to connect with a man's heart, how to really create that relationship that you both love and actually absolutely want to be a part of. And I think when you focus on those kinds of things, that's going to be a lot more powerful long term than focusing on just your looks. Looks can tell somebody a lot about a person. So do you take care of yourself? Are you physically fit? And some guys don't want that. It's funny talking about this stuff and the meaning of it because not all guys are just like, this is what I want. This perfect, physically fit, this person that works out all the time. For a lot of guys, they're like, that's not what I want at all. I want a woman that I can hang out with and chill with and have fun with.  You show up in a gym and you both work out all the time. But that's a small portion of the population to be frank. Most guys aren't looking for that. Most guys, they aren't looking for this supermodel girl.  They're looking for feminine features in a woman. I can't remember what the statistic was exactly, but it's something like 80% of men want to be the masculine force in the relationship. And they want their partner to be a feminine force. Instead of focusing as much on looks and whether you're physical looks are attractive or not, there are going to be guys that are attracted to you. That's it.  Instead of focusing on that, if I were you, I'd focus on the emotional components of it because I think that you're going to get a longer term relationship because of that. I think you're going to get a better guy because of that. And I think that you're going to get something that lasts because of that.


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Did you ever wonder if the food you eat has a direct effect on your health, well-being, and longevity? Well, I'm here to end that mystery.  Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today, we have part two in our series on Stents for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease. We start by asking, why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for a procedure that offers little benefit? Here are some answers. Millions of people have gotten stents for stable coronary artery disease, yet we now know that for such patients, angioplasty and stent basement doesn't actually prevent heart attacks, doesn't even offer long-term ingina pain relief, and doesn't improve survival. Why? Because the most dangerous plants, the ones most vulnerable to rupture, lead to a heart attack, or not the ones doctors put stents in, and not the ones often even seen on angiogram to be obstructing blood flow. So we need to avoid the therapeutic illusion that we are accomplishing more than is shown by the evidence. I mean, it looks great, I mean, you're opening up blood flow, but if it doesn't actually help, why do it? And we're not just talking about billions of dollars wasted stent placement. The blood thinner drugs you have to go on can cause complications, including heart failure, stroke, and death. The risks are relatively low, less than a 1% chance it'll kill you or stroke you out. The 15% risk of heart attack is only if your stents clogs off at a later date, which only happens about 1% in the near term. The 13% kidney injury is legit, though, due to the dyes they have to inject, but that typically just heals on its own. The most serious complications, like death, only happen in about 150 cases. But you have to multiply that by the fact that hundreds of thousands of procedures are being done every year. In an emergency setting, like while you're actively having a heart attack and you plastic, it can be lifesaving. But these hundreds of thousands are for stable coronary artery disease, for which there appears to be no benefits. So then doctors are killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing. And that's not even counting the tens of thousands of silent mini-strokes that may contribute to cognitive decline caused by these procedures.  It's like up to 1 in 6. How do doctors convince patients to sign up for these when they don't lower the risk of death or heart attack or offer long-term symptom relief? Well, apparently by conveniently failing to inform patients that they don't lower the risk of death or heart attack or offer long-term symptom relief. Cardiologists are aware of how little they help, but studies have consistently demonstrated that patients think stents will reduce their risk of heart attack or death. More than 70% of patients erroneously believed that stents would extend their life expectancy or prevent future heart attacks. That's why this study was done to figure out where patients are getting these crazy ideas from. And the answer is that many patients are being kept in the dark, pressured into procedures that won't benefit them the way they think by doctors that overstate the benefits and understate the risks. Why would they do that? Well, one reason could be because doctors may be paid per procedure. Doctors are paid more for offering stents than common sense diet and lifestyle changes. Patients with stable coronary disease undergoing angioplasty and stent placement are frequently misinformed. Of 59 recorded conversations, only two included all seven elements have been formed decision-making. In other words, telling people to have a choice, explaining the problem, discussing alternatives, pros and cons, informing patients the procedure may not work, asking if they understand, even just asking if patients have any questions, and asking patients what they want to do. Only 3% of doctor-patient discussions about stents hit even just these basic elements. And that's when the doctors knew they were being recorded. So, I mean, if anything, this may be like the best case scenario. 3%, quoting from the Journal of the Cleveland Clinic, when it comes to angioplasty and stents, true informed consent rarely occurs. No wonder that among the nearly 1,000 patients surveyed across 10 U.S. academic community hospitals, just 1% knew the truth. Remarkably, some blame the patients for their ignorance. They're the ones that overestimate and misunderstand the benefits like those patients with cancer who think their chemo offers the potential for a cure.  Don't look at their patients to find out why so many patients are accepting procedures with questionable benefits. Patients think they're having a life-saving procedure because medical professionals want them to believe that this is so. And now it's not like those 95% of cardiologists are lying to their patients and saying that they'll reduce their risk. They just happen to conveniently have omitted that little detail. But in the absence of information to the contrary, most patients naturally assume that's the case. I mean, why would they assume that? Because patients have this crazy concept of personal care that a physician's first obligation is solely to the patient's well-being. How naive can you get? In the absence of information, or even when presented with evidence to the contrary, patients tend to believe that treatments offered will be beneficial. It's true. Even if you explicitly tell patients that stents don't reduce the risk of heart attacks, yes, you can cut that misperception in half. I mean, that's great. I mean, that with two sentences. You can dispel the myths and most people, but many participants continue to believe that angioplasty and stents prevent heart attacks, even when explicitly told they do not, along with a detailed explanation why. After all, I mean, why would doctors be pushing them if they didn't help? That's a good question, which we'll address next. Angioplasty and stent placement continue to be frequently performed for patients with non-emergency coronary artery disease, despite clear evidence that it provides minimal benefits. For example, it does not prevent heart attacks or death, yet as many as 9 out of 10 patients mistakenly believe that procedure would reduce their chances of having a heart attack.  Those who referred them for the stent and those who performed the procedure didn't believe that. Okay, then why were they doing it? Focus groups of cardiologists have documented a chasm between knowledge and behavior. While aware of the evidence to the contrary, they recommend and perform PCI, angioplasty and stents, because they somehow believe it helps in some ill-defined way. Physicians tended to justify a non-evidence-based approach. I know the data shows there's no benefit, but by focusing on how easy it is to do the procedure and the belief that an open artery was better, even if it didn't actually affect outcomes, all the while minimizing the risk. I mean, the procedure only kills 1 in 150, so here some are blaming the patients for not listening, but maybe as the physicians who are the ones ignoring the evidence. Or maybe physicians have too poor a grasp of the relevant statistics to adequately inform the patient. Regardless, what we've got here is a failure to communicate. So, tools have been developed. For example, a sample-informed consent document that lays out the potential benefits and risks, even laying out how many procedures your doctors have done and your out-of-pocket costs. Note there's a lot of blanks to be filled in, though. What are some concrete numbers? The Mayo Clinic came up with some prototype decision-making tools in terms of benefits. Will having a stent placed in my heart prevent heart attacks or death? No, stents will not lower the risk of heart attack or death. But a week later, those getting stents report they feel better at least, though a year later even the symptomatic relief benefit appears to disappear. Okay, so there appeared to be this temporary relief in chest pain benefit. What about the risks? During the stent procedure, out of 100 people, two will have bleeding or damage to a blood vessel, and one will have a tad more serious complications such as heart attack, stroke, or death. And then, after that, during the first year after the stent, three will have a bleeding event because of the blood thinners you have to take because you have this foreign material in your heart. But that doesn't always work, and so two will have their stent clogged off, leading to a heart attack. What does the world's number one stent manufacturer have to say for itself? They acknowledge the evidence shows stents don't make people live longer, but hey, living longer is overrated. Look, if that's all we cared about, living longer, entire disciplines of medicine would disappear. Why go to the dentist? Of course, the difference is that 80% don't believe that getting a cavity filled is going to save their life, like they mistakenly do for stents. There's not one in a hundred chance that you won't make it out of the dentist's chair. The stent companies actively misinform with ads like this. Open your heart and your life, life wide open. Freedom begins here. Their TV ad mentioned a few side effects. Turns out they missed a few, but more importantly, they're giving the false impression that stents are more than just expensive, risky band-aids for temporary symptom relief. Hey, but what's wrong with symptom relief? Look at those smiling faces, right? Even if the benefits are only symptomatic and don't last long, look, if people think that outweighs the risk, what's the problem?  So there really weren't any benefits at all. We'll see what the science says next. Finally today, we look at how sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer a little benefit for angina pain, only risk to millions of patients. Antioplasty and stents were non-emergency coronary artery disease, one of the most common invasive procedures performed in the United States. Though it appeared to offer immediate relief of angina chest pain and stable patients with coronary artery disease, it didn't actually translate into a lower risk of heart attack or death.  Symptom control is important. I mean, that's much of what we do in medicine. But cardiology has a bad track record when it comes to performing procedures that don't actually end up helping at all. Case in point, internal mammary artery ligation. Though it didn't make much anatomical sense why tying off arteries to the chest wall and breast would somehow improve coronary artery circulation, it worked like it's charm. Immediate improvement in 95% of hundreds of patients could have been just some elaborate placebo effect, and they were just cutting into people for nothing? So, one way to find out, you cut into people for nothing.  And the patients who underwent the fake surgery experienced the same relief. Check out the testimonials. Immediately, I felt better. 95% better. No chest trouble, even with exercise. I'm cured. And these are all people who got the sham surgery. So it was just an extravagant placebo effect. Think about it. Some frightened, poorly informed man with angina chest pain winding himself tighter and tighter, sensitizing himself to every twinge of chest discomfort who then comes into the environment of a great medical center and a powerful positive paternalistic personality. And here's how great it's gonna be. Goes through the whole operation and leaves a new man with his trademark scar. One sham patient was actually cured, though. The patient is optimistic and says he feels much better. Office note the next day. Patient dropped dead. So, hey, no more chest pain. This has happened over and over. I've got an idea. How about we burn holes into the heart muscle with lasers to create channels for blood flow? Worked great until it was proven that it doesn't work at all. Cutting the nerves to your kidneys was heralded as a cure for hard-to-treat high blood pressure until sham surgery proved the procedure itself was a sham. The necessity for placebo-controlled trials has been rediscovered several times in cardiology, typically, to considerable surprise. Before they're debunked, often the therapy is thought to be so beneficial that a placebo-controlled trial is deemed unnecessary, and perhaps even unethical. That was the case with stents. Hundreds of thousands of angioplasties and stents are done every year, yet placebo-controlled trials had never been done. Why? Because cardiologists were so unquestionably sure that it worked that it would be unethical to perform a fake procedure to prove something we already know is true. When patients are aware that they've had a stent, they have clear reduction in angina and improved quality of life, but what if they weren't aware? Would it still work? Enter the orbiter trial. After all, anti-angina medication is only taken seriously if there's blinded evidence of a symptom relief against a placebo pill. So hey, why not pit stents against a placebo procedure? In both groups, doctors threaded a catheter through the groin or wrist of the patient and with x-ray guidance go up to the blocked artery, and then either inserted a stent or just pulled the catheter back out. They had problems even getting the study funded. I mean, they were told, we already know the answer to this question, of course stents work. And that's even what the researchers themselves thought. They were interventional cardiologists themselves. I mean, they just wanted to prove it. Boy were they surprised. Even in patients with severe coronary artery narrowing, angioplasty and stents did not increase exercise time more than the fake procedure. Unbelievable, read the New York Times headline remarking that the results stunned leading cardiologists by countering decades of clinical experience. In response to the blowback, the researchers wrote that they sympathized with everyone's shock and disbelief. Yes, we could have tried to spin it somehow, but they had a duty to preserve scientific integrity. While some commended them for challenging the existing dogma around a procedure that has become so routine and grained and profitable, others questioned their ethics. After all, four patients in the placebo group had complications from the guide wire insertion and required emergency measures to seal the tear they made in the artery. There were also three major bleeding events in the placebo group, so they suffered risks without even a chance of benefit. Before from demonstrating the risks of sham controlled trials, this demonstrates exactly what patients are being subjected to on a routine basis for nothing. Those two complications in the trial are dwarfed by the thousands that have been killed or maimed by the procedure over the years. You want unethical? 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What's up, everybody and welcome to the latest edition of the Falcons in focus podcast brought to you by ticket master recorded in the Ticketmaster Studios, and we're here. I'm Scott bear by the way. Why don't I introduce myself? That's Tori McElaney Man of the hour brand new Atlanta Falcons limebacker all-around Havoc creator Kate Nellis joining the program Kate. Thank you so much for the time man. Thank you for having me Right um, so anyway, we're not gonna start with today or even recently well sort of recently I want you to take me back to New Year's Day 2023 Yeah, yeah, no like this. Okay. It wasn't a previous New Year's Day Saints Eagles. Okay. I think you remember the score of that one Eagles are on cloud nine the Saints come in Yeah, take care of business there What some people might not know about you is you had a relative on the other sideline, right? Christian was playing Noah is also an eagle on the he's on the NFList, right? Yes So that's a huge deal for the Saints. Anyway What is that like because I assume you've sort of played with your brothers on the same team or the same schools Or watch them play now your opposite sidelines. Oh, it's fun Okay, tell us about that. Oh my gosh first play on defense. I Get a sack and I just straight for the silent. Where you at? I Couldn't find him, but I'm looking for you. I know it wasn't against you, but it was fun You know, I was on a I was still on punt for special teams and so my brother was playing special team So he told me all week. He was like, you know, yeah, I'm pump luck return.  That was a lie And he's just it's straight up head-on-head him and me going at it and it was a lot of fun It was laughing down the field our teammates are looking at us like idiots Like we're in the middle of a game, but we're just living a childhood dream So we've seen parents of brothers on opposite sides like in baseball I think the Nolas just did it where like the parents are wearing jerseys cut in half How did your parents handle that situation they're rooting hard for the Saints because we needed the win and the Eagles Yes, I like that a lot now you're actually the oldest of 12 is that correct? We had to check the notes a couple times 12 A lot of siblings, I only have two other siblings. I cannot imagine 12 What was growing up like that's the question what was growing up like with that many siblings? It was just fun.   Yeah now What type of trouble did y'all get into? Like what what are the stories from childhood where you're like the parents can't possibly watch all of them at once, right? Yeah, so eventually you can get into some trouble. I want to be honest with you guys I am a like at least always was like a full-on kind of goody-two-shoes Like I was third parent. Okay. I caught my siblings doing something. I was gonna correct it You were like, okay, you were the enforcer. I was the boring one Right, I was extremely boring, but you know at the end of the day when there's that many Yeah, and at the end of this because there's always like babies in the house and for me It's like when there's babies around it's like no no no you can't have those quarters around you can't be doing this You can't be doing that.  Yes. Yes To What was that like to go from being in a family like of 12 to now you have family of your own.   They shouldn't be smiling It's just I just love love getting to watch them grow up. It's awesome So what's the separation between you and and your youngest sibling? 16 years 16 years. Okay. Yeah, so you were Almost out of the house kind of when he was born and everything goes to sophomore in high school Yeah, my my youngest sister is 11 years younger than me So it's kind of like you don't really you were only living in the house with them for like maybe a few years And then you go off to college and it's like I always say I'm like a fun As much as I am like a big Uncle yeah, exactly and look like you your dad played in the league and like we're gonna get to him Yeah, but can we just just apply for your mother for sainthood right now? She's amazing. I mean We always think like what is a grocery store cost of that? You know To keep that family together and look she can be like scoreboard. I got three boys in the NFL and you know That things she's done well. Yeah, but I think that that's like again You know your dad was a pro bowler you guys in the league, but let's not forget about your mom Oh, she's amazing. Yeah, how key was she in keeping keeping everything together? I think he's the right word. It's just like without her. It just doesn't happen You know what I mean? It just it just doesn't work like with without her. It just God knew what he was doing. He made that one. She's special. She's amazing I read something where you had joked to that and I don't know if it's a joke Maybe you're being for real, but you said You said No, you said that you got your athletic ability from your mom. No, that's right. There you go. Great. Yes. I did Yeah, yeah, you stand by that. I stand by that. Okay. Yeah, she was she was a swimmer at the University of Utah Yeah, she's a good athlete.  You know all that good stuff. So yeah, no, she's she's great athlete. I mean dad's the defensive tackle You got some bigger guys in the family like let's not forget in order to go sideline to sideline You got to have a little But yeah, so now switching to the other parent growing up the son of Luther Ellis, right? Pro bowler draft pick, you know played in the league. What was it like kind of just being around? You're in the league now your your brothers are what was it like growing up in that kind of NFL type of environment? You know, you don't know any different. I remember my dad Oh, I would listen to my dad talking to my mom like when we'd come home from games We're like this is more after he was done playing so we're a little bit older But he was still able to you know go to Detroit and you know, he'd do the coin toss or he'd you know speak before the game Or you know, but we'd be on the field with them beforehand and then be in the suite with like GM's owners people, you know, right?  Yeah, and it's so true like You know idea is just normal to us. Yeah, dad plays football. Yeah, we go with that It's like for us is just going with that to work, you know what I mean? Yeah, nothing different than that So, you know getting to see now kind of how hard it is to get here getting to see how fans React to you and you just sign a shirt, you know what I mean Yeah, I just the passion and the love that comes with you know team repping your city Like it's just it's really special now looking back on it and getting to kind of really try to take in those moments with a little more Respect, I guess. You know what I mean? It was interesting too because you talk about like not knowing that it wasn't like quote-unquote Normal essentially like you were your father was drafted in 95 and you were born like a few months later in like July, right? Yeah The fact that you didn't like all you knew for the first hat what like six seven eight years of your life was like Like what you said my dad plays football. It's just ten years. Yeah until I was ten. Yeah, he was playing football I mean it to kind of like How has like, you know Being raised in this environment kind of like morphed your thinking and to kind of being in the league yourself You talk about the respect in like understanding it more now that you're older. Yeah, like What else is there about like this lifestyle that you're like? Oh, this actually isn't normal at all like This is pretty cool.  Yeah, you know what I mean And so for me, it was just kind of like, oh, yeah, I'll get seeing a film like I'm on play You know what I mean and then you hit bumps in the road and you hit things where it's not easy And it doesn't just come and doesn't just happen the way you thought it would you know what I mean and Honestly, I guess just from then to now it sounds obvious Like thinking back on it, but then I didn't realize just the amount of work. Yeah, and the amount of effort and the amount of Call it luck call it God's blessing that has to be like for it to work out. You know what I mean, like it's It's a lot and it's a lot that goes into it And so, you know, it's thankful to the king that I'm here and just loving the opportunity and loving this second opportunity to come play for Falcons and it's just it's just awesome Do you have any memories of when you're younger and maybe like meeting someone that you're like, oh my god I can't believe I got to meet this person No, Barry Sanders would come to you know, Bible study with the fam and he would always say to the kids like What's my name? What's my name? I don't know I love it. You know what I mean?  I'm like that dude's special There's very few people that have ever been able to do what he's able to do like this so looking back It's like, oh, yeah, I did meet this guy. Oh, yeah I have a very standard signed helmet, but at the moment just like thanks for the helmet dad You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like I'll figure I'll find it later. Yeah, so let's go back to high school.  Yeah, cuz I I read something that's you said that you or maybe you didn't say it I don't know but someone said that you wanted to play quarterback in college Yes, and like you had to kind of be talked into playing linebacker. I didn't even want to talk into I was Utah and I went to Utah camp. I went to Utah State Camp And they were like, will you switch? They want to put me at safety. Will you switch? No, I will not I am not I am going to play court because I was kind of stubborn in it Like I was like to me honestly like it felt like I would have failed if I didn't Accomplish that because I set that as a goal and I wanted to do it. You know what I mean And so when finally colleges didn't come calling eventually I had to be like Okay, I'll play a different position and I'm thankful. I am I you know, I'm thankful. I get a play linebacker It's kind of worked out for you So thankful now, but yeah, it was I was adamant I'm playing quarterback And I could not throw but I was No, I love it like I I'm gonna do this and I may not be that great at it, but I'm gonna do it Yeah, I'm gonna do it. Yeah, so yeah, it took some more than just convincing. It took a failing Sometimes we learn our best lessons through failure That's rad there you go So good usage of the word So Tori dug this up That as you were transitioning to the defensive side you and your dad would have like Skype calls and Then he was like like many help you like accelerate the Progress like what were those? So he was he would go you guys did some good digging your college small town Idaho newspaper He um, he was chaplain for the Broncos and I was Or might have been even before that he was in Utah Then went to be chaplain Broncos my for those he spent two years doing that while I was two years without him and my brother at Idaho and Yeah, I would like it's my first spring ball and I started off horribly like horribly like awful like playing so bad like like not knowing what to do none of it and Yeah, he would he because obviously coaches over there would help me But I'm gonna have my dad's opinion on it. We would Skype and I was like show him the plays You know what I mean? Like what I need to do different. So it was pretty embarrassing. I was like dad help me You know what I mean, and um, yeah, he helped me. He helped me grow a lot obviously and he had when I was younger But again, I was trying to play quarterback the whole time and so getting the you know Get a little bit of coaching points from him after each practice was was really helpful. Yeah, what was uh, maybe something he said to you or like a lesson or one of those like early lessons of Watching in those like mini film sessions with him that you still to this day you think back on here Like it's a good thing. I learned that hands hands Told me I still don't believe him But he told me when when he was and when he got to college and because at first he went as a Tied in and basketball player to play at Utah He got offers for both and he's gonna do both then he ended up getting shifted to D-line and just did amazing so never played basketball and And He told me that when he you know started to play d-line He would go to like the corner of his room and do a thousand hand strikes every night and every morning He would do a thousand So when I was getting cooked he told me that so I started trying to do a thousand Yeah, I never got to a thousand. There's no way he'd got to a thousand. I do not believe it We need video 500 at night and in the morning and and it helped me and that's One of the best traits I have I think When you look around the league at linebacker I have one of the if not the best block destruction in my opinion with my hands and You know that's something that has carried me since Planet Idaho and getting cooked in spring ball And then you you know kind of eventually turned into an NFL draft pick and it's always Fascinating to me. There are so many different ways to make it in this league some are maybe easier fear than first overall pick And some are harder if you're a seventh round pick and you have to and you have to earn every little thing and to see What you did from again from the outside? I'm sure that you would work hard and earning respect and all these things in practice But to see what you did last season. I mean it was pretty incredible by any metric, right? But to get to that point, you know, you're working on special teams. You're grinding, you know Like what was that process like what was our level of self-belief like? Just give me a chance to stay on there for three downs when we can do this thing Yeah, what was that mental journey like for you from you get in and you're earning it to now you're doing it Yeah, and it's going really well. Yeah It was hard, you know, you guess my wife she probably like he's complained a lot You know what I mean But and I had moments where my linebacker coach coach Hodges could tell you also he Don't be the complain but talk to me a lot about this Not people like Trey Hendrickson who's a great player be like dude You should just move the defensive end put on some weight and go past rush because that was something that I was able to do Since I got to the Saints, but it was some of the other stuff that took time developing and learning And you know coach Hodges I'm really thankful that I was able to play under him these last four years because we have four years He's assistant, but Mike Nolan as well because he Really helped me develop as an off-ball linebacker Which was something that was was tough for me to do and something that made my dad couldn't help me quite as much with because At the end of the day, he was but he played in the trenches tight one-yard gap So some of this stuff was a little different and so having to learn how to see the offense how to Read and diagnose the plays quickly how to you know footwork and really the eyes like all that was was tough And so, you know, it took a lot of time a lot of conversations about maybe I should just go be past Russia, maybe I should go do this. Maybe I should ask for a trade and go to 314 Maybe I should you know what I mean all these things I'm just thankful, you know at the end of the day would always, you know, we pray and God always just gave me a piece, you know, like a piece about it that now you're where you're supposed to be You're where your family is supposed to be, you know, I'm getting you guys ready for something for more things down the road and I Was able to Continue working continue sharpening those skills making the weaknesses not a weakness and making my strengths even better And then when I was given the opportunity to to go out there and play every down It came together, yeah together in a furious Tasmanian devil Tackles and 11 starts type of world There are worse things Yeah, I mean I so I didn't I knew about you, but I watched I watched a lot of I love Kate and Ellis film the last time and it's like it's like a heat-taking missile through the gap and the running back Just like I don't know if he ever sees you coming But I feel like you and Troy Anderson are gonna get along so well. Yeah, I agree Yeah, y'all are kind of cut from the same cloth Okay, we are wrapping up because you've been talking for probably an hour and a half at this point same with some of the other guys That's the job, right? We all get paid to do this There are worse jobs to have that is for sure. I agree But to end the podcast we always do a rapid fire So are you like nervous about this or sometimes rapid fires are tough, but let's go. Okay. You ready? Yeah. All right What was your favorite play of your career? Pressure's on I Oh, man And you can go I think I think it oh college too. Yeah, I just second Troy Anderson It was probably um I had brand and I you one-on-one in the slot He had an option route on me And for the longest time one of the reasons the Saints wouldn't put me on the field was because of open space coverage And I got him You know, he's an amazing player and you know, we'll run it back sometime. I'm sure and maybe we'll get the best Me next time. I'm gonna do my best not to let it happen. But I got him on that play and uh Da the defense coordinator came up to me right after like that time on the sideline was just like that was awesome You know what I mean? And that to me was just like Yeah, like the hard work paid. Yes. Yeah, that's me. It's like come on. You know, like we can like we got this Yeah, so can we take a small small pause? Sure You actually sector and Anderson the quarterback. Oh, yeah, because he was playing quarterback Yeah, he was I think I got a second half on him going Oh the second half I think so the film I Frank Busch your new position coach. He will definitely find the film There is no doubt about that. He will absolutely run that into the ground with how much he'll put that I'm very excited for this on the college highlight. So we go find it Or it's not your always probably It's always was uh running on us for like a hundred something yards. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Oh, my wife doesn't like watching tv. She like watches nothing. Okay. I love pokemon simple. I'm child. Oh my gosh I'm gonna tell my son that Yeah, I love it. Love it. Your kids win his pokemon for halloween. He went as ash two years ago and then Pikachu this time Yeah I knew I was doing something Okay, uh favorite player growing up I mean gotta be has to be there's no other option. I can't see him. I would save on miller. Okay Another really good one. We won't tell your dad. Okay. I said if I can't say Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you can't say him Yeah, don't cut that out of there If you had to uh, or if you could pick a superpower as a superhero, what would it be? I think I'd like like wolverine Oh, right. You know what I mean? Like that's a really interesting answer. I would like that a lot Yeah, because you could like get into some trouble and then Pop right back and you're good. I'm fine. You know what I mean? Exactly that is a true linebacker answer if I've ever heard heard it like the just you're just hitting people all the time I'm fine. I keep going. Yeah Yeah, um, okay last one. Okay, um, would you rather fight? One you're asking him this one.  Let alone a horse-sized duck I think yeah the other thing would get me fast that yeah, no, that's scary. You should talk to cow pits about his disdain for ducks He he's scared to death of them. Yeah, when you meet when you meet him when you're out on the field running around during Yeah He's gonna get so mad at us Please And report back And please please please all of you listening, please rate review subscribe to the Atlanta Falcons podcast network I'm scott. That's tory. That's kaden. Thank you so much for joining the falcons in focus podcast presented by ticket master This was a freaking awesome episode. This was fun. I hope you all enjoyed it too kaden. Thank you so much for the time Can't wait to see you in red and black


Thank you very much. Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, as most of you know, the decisions and policies set forth right here in Washington affect the lives of tens of millions of people of other nations. The President of the United States has an awesome job. Not only does he head the executive branch of the government in this country, but he must make daily decisions concerning the welfare of people halfway around the world. When you consider that burden of responsibility, we are fortunate indeed to have President Ronald Reagan on our agenda this morning. Please welcome him, not as a candidate for reelection, but as President of the United States. We like that too, Mr. President, reelection, but we just wanted to make that clear. But as President of the United States and a respected world leader, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you all very much. Madam President, I'll be sure and just keep that one hat on, not where the other one here today, but it's wonderful to be here and to see so many of you from out there in the heartlands of America here in Washington. I'm sure the city isn't looking its best for you, but it's just a little too chilly for the cherry blossoms yet. And most of the heated air that's normally found in Washington is moved out on the campaign trail. Now, there's one good thing about a political year, though, it's the chance to meet with so many of you who are not part of the permanent Washington establishment. And you should be commended for being part of the American Legion Auxiliaries Awareness Assembly and participating in the briefings that you'll be getting this week from government officials. But I hope that you'll keep in mind something that I've learned in the past few years. The conventional wisdom in this town isn't always on target. There's one informal survey I could give as an example that's mentioned in the book, The Real Campaign. And that was taken at almost exactly the same time four years ago during the height of the presidential primary season. Members of the Washington Press Club were asked to predict who would be the president of the United States in 1981. One candidate, and I won't mention any names, got 197 votes. Another got 65. And there were two others with 19 each. And then there was one other candidate whose vote total was so insignificant that it wasn't even reported. But I didn't let that discourage me. When we came to Washington three years ago, three years and a month or so ago, we came having announced that we'd challenge the conventional wisdom and show that campaign promises could be kept. We wanted to reverse a domestic policy of tax and tax and spend and spend, and end a foreign policy of watching the chances for peace with freedom, democracy, and dignity steadily retreat. So one by one, we dealt with the critical problems that faced our people. First, it was inflation, once at 12.4 percent, now down to around 4 percent. Then federal spending growth, cut more than in half. Now, we'd been told this couldn't be done. Then the prime interest rate, 21.5 percent, the highest since the Civil War, cut nearly in half to 11 percent. And then the unemployment rate. This one really shocked Washington's doomsayers. It's been dropping faster than during any recovery in the last 30 years. For 14 months, we have averaged 300,000 people a month going back to work. And on the foreign front, America is restoring her strength in words and in deeds. The decay in our military ships that couldn't leave port and aircraft that couldn't take off, a rapid deployment force that was neither rapid, deployable, nor much of a force, all of that's behind us now. That same uniform that so many of your fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, and daughters brought such honor to is being worn today with pride by millions of young Americans. And all of you know far better than most how important it is that these young men and women, poised and ready, are equipped with the best that we can give them. Their readiness and resolve are the greatest guarantee we have that our young people will never again see the face of battle. Bear the burden of war that we've had to do in the past. There have been four wars in my lifetime. None of them started because America was too strong. We're seeing to it that America stands proud again, that American citizens, whether they're Navy pilots in the Gulf of Sidra or medical students in Grenada, can no longer be attacked or their lives endangered with impunity. And about that Grenada rescue mission, wasn't it nice for a change to see graffiti on foreign walls that read God bless America, not Yankee go home. I have to interrupt and tell you, I just received a phone call a little while ago, about 2.30 this morning, Cap Weinberger arrived back from his trip to Europe and the Middle East. He had been out there on the vessels talking to our Marines and telling them how proud we all were, those who've been taken offshore in Beirut. This is the same unit that was also at Grenada. And then later he was walking through and among the Marines there and talking to some of them and he came to one that seemed a little smaller than the rest, he was pretty short and Cap asked him, he said, tell me, which do you think was the best and the most important mission? Grenada or Beirut? And the kid just looked at him for a second and then said, both. Across the globe, Soviet expansionism, once unchecked, has now been blunted. And for the first time in a long while, an American administration is leveling with the American people and the rest of the world about the crucial nature of the struggle between democracy and totalitarianism. Yet even as we've been candid about our adversaries, we've pushed forward a series of negotiating initiatives which I believe will eventually lead to not just arms control, but arms reductions. And we must continue working until that day arrives when nuclear weapons have been banished from the face of the earth. Three years then, the direction of our domestic and foreign policies has been fundamentally changed. At the same time, we were dealing with the pressing problems of our economy and national security, the problem of crime and the career criminal has remained among our top priorities. The eight point program that I announced over a year ago is beginning to show some gratifying results. Drug related arrests are averaging 1,000 a month and convictions 800 a month. And federal law enforcement has taken out of circulation two and a third million pounds of illicit drugs and 20 million doses of prescription drugs. FBI organized crime convictions are up from 515 fiscal 81 to 1,331 in 1983. After years of decline in our investigative forces, more than 1,000 new investigators and 200 new prosecutors joined the fight last year against crime. We've improved state and local cooperation through local law enforcement, coordinating committees and the justice department's governor's project. We've added prison space and improved training opportunities for local and state police. We've brought the FBI in on major drug cases. Our 12 new regional drug task forces are bringing in the big cases against major drug traffickers and we've stepped up our educational efforts so we can take potential drug customers away from the dealers because just reducing the supply of drugs isn't good enough. We can't solve the problem until we turn off the customers. Our organized crime commission headed by Judge Irving Kaufman will put the menace of organized crime, well, where it belongs. Front and center on the American agenda. Our goal is a frontal assault on criminal syndicates in America. We mean to cripple the mobster's organization, dry up their profits and put their members behind bars where they belong. Through our victims of crime task force and the family violence task force, we have launched major initiatives to improve the treatment of innocent victims of crime and solve the problem of violence in American households. In all these things, we're doing our best to deliver on our promises and keep faith with the American people. We've shown that America's problem wasn't a great national malaise at all, but a failure of leadership in a nation's capital. Yet even all this progress, progress we've won together, hasn't satisfied some of the doomcriers who even now are saying that our country's on the wrong course. I just wish that those who were so pessimistic about America's future would remember the record of the last three years. You know, if you will forgive me a little story from show business world, some of these cynical professional pessimists remind me of the story of a young performer who was auditioning for a hard-bitten theatrical agent. He wanted to get into vaudeville and agents sitting out there in the theater all by himself with his cigar said to the kid, okay kid, let's see what you can do. Well, a young fellow walked up on the stage and then suddenly just took off and he flew up and over the balcony, circled a couple of times, flew around the ceiling, came back to a perfect landing on the stage and took a bow.  We have come a long way and success is in sight. The three-year record of this administration shows how dramatically we broke with the legacy of an awful, immediate past. This administration has a strong record, a hopeful record, it's open to scrutiny. We welcome it. You know, there are old rules in politics. For example, in a campaign year, don't get overconfident. President Dewey told me about that one. And then there's a very pertinent one, namely that the people don't want to hear so much about where we've been, but about where we're going. Not so much about what's been done, but what needs to be done. And the issue before the American people is the issue of the future. Will America return to the days of malaise and confusion? Will we go back to double-digit inflation, skyrocketing interest rates, and economic stagnation and decline? Will we return to self-delusion about our adversaries and retreat in the face of propagation and aggression? To the days of decaying defenses and shattered prestige? Or will we get on with the unfinished agenda of the 80s? This is the real issue before us. Will we continue America's progress toward a strong economic recovery at home, a strong defense abroad, a return to discipline and excellence in our schools, a crackdown on criminal elements in our society, and a renaissance of traditional values? Now, I'm sure you've heard some who are out of step with the American public on all these issues using words like fairness and compassion, possibly because they're stuck for something meaningful to say. I think it's time for these experts on fairness and compassion to answer a few questions. Let these experts on fairness explain to working Americans why it is fair to oppose tax cuts and tax indexing. And why they want to take those tax breaks away from the American people. Or let them explain why when the overwhelming majority of Americans favor a balanced budget amendment, they think it's fair to bitterly oppose it. And on another important constitutional amendment, favored overwhelmingly by the American people, will somebody get them to tell us why it is compassionate to deny schoolchildren or write even the members of the United States Congress have and that is to open each day with a simple prayer. And can they explain why they're so bitterly opposed to tuition tax credits and why they think it's fair for one parochial or private school parents to be forced to pay twice for their children's education. And why these fairness experts and compassion crusaders have bottled up effective anti-crime legislation on Capitol Hill for two years in a row. Where's the compassion in forgetting the victims of crime? What is fair about holding up urgently needed reform of our bail and parole systems about refusing to revise the exclusionary rule or reinstitute the death penalty? The Senate has adopted a significant package of these very anti-crime measures. Now it's time for the House to act. And you know, if I could interject something here, I mentioned the exclusionary rule and I've discovered that a great many people aren't quite aware what we're talking about. We're talking about technicalities that are invoked in court to deny the introduction of legitimate evidence. And I'll give you an example. Happened in our own state of California several years ago, two narcotics agents based on evidence suggesting that a man and woman living in a home there were peddling heroin. They got from a judge a search warrant legally and legitimately to go in and search that house to see if they could find the heroin. Well, they searched and they couldn't find it. And then as they were leaving on a hunch, one of them turned back to the baby in the crib and took off its diapers. And there was the heroin. The evidence was thrown out of court because the baby hadn't given its permission to be searched. That became known as the diaper case. And of course the reward was out. That's where you can hide the heroin and no one can touch you. Well, I believe those who are so quick to find fault with what we and the American people have achieved during the past three years owe an accounting to the American people. Perhaps they can explain how under the guide of compassion and fairness, those who once stood for the working people have now divorced themselves from the concerns of everyday Americans and turned themselves over to the trendy politics of the special interest groups. Maybe they could explain why they're opposed to tax cuts, to the balanced budget amendment, to the prayer amendment, to tuition tax credits, to anti-crime legislation, to adequate defense spending. I think the debate now getting underway in America is an especially important one. That these days are momentous ones for our country. That the choices we make will have much to do with the fate of freedom and prosperity for the rest of this century. And I've often thought that the worst legacy of those grim years at the end of the 70s was the loss of self-confidence by our leaders in our institutions and people. More than a few of those leaders openly blamed their own inadequacies on our system of government and on you, our people as a whole. Well the last three years have shown just how wrong they were, just how resourceful the American people still are and just how resilient our system is and how willing the heart of America remains. Those of you here today from, as I said, the heartlands know what I'm talking about. Your organization and the dedication you bring to it is one of the many examples of America's enduring vitality and energy. You know, during the days of World War I, not long before the American Legion was founded in Paris, some of the allied commanders doubted whether the green American troops were really up to the job. And then during a great offensive in the Argonne Forest, the allies and the enemy found out just how very quickly these young Americans, they found out what they were made of. Now some of you may remember the story in that war of the Lost Battalion, a group of American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines who joined together, fought for days with incredible gallantry against overwhelming odds. And then when the surrender demand finally came, the reply came from the throats of those young Americans who united and shouted, come on over and get us. Well the enemy came over and they got nothing except defeat. 26 years later, not far away from that same World War I battlefield, another group of American soldiers would cheer when their commander responded to a surrender demand by an overwhelming enemy with one immortal word, nuts. In both instances, the challenge then before Americans was to win a war. Today, the challenge before Americans is to prevent a war. You know far better than most how important this work is, how high the price of war really is and how great the heartbreak that it brings. But you also know that in America, strong at home and strong abroad will never again pay that price or know that heartbreak. Only the strong are free and peace comes only through strength. With your continued support and help, we can keep America strong, free, prosperous and at peace. America is moving forward again. Let's keep her there. Thank you.  Thank you, Mr. President. We came to Washington to hear for ourselves about the issues confronting our nation. We appreciate you addressing these concerns. Because we feel America has turned a corner once more and we are together as a nation, the theme of the American Legion Auxiliary this year is hats off to America. And at this time, I'd like to present to you our commemorative plate with a theme on it in behalf of the American Legion Auxiliary and our thanks to you for coming this morning. Mr. President, and again, may we say thank you for coming. We appreciate it. We know you have a very, very busy schedule and we are proud to have you with us this morning. Thank you.


Everyone shiver 1,000 here and monkey. We've got a package we're gonna open up here and It's a light it's a You write it in the title So we're gonna open this up. We're gonna check it out hook it up. See what it looks like She's really excited about it. So it's gonna be part of our light show Christmas light show this year. Hopefully right Yeah, all right, so let's open this up and check it out. All right, so I got this off of Amazon and It was like $25 with shipping and tax. It was about 30 bucks So we would like to do something different every year if we can so This year This is what's going to be different because past couple years. I haven't been able to put lights on the roof of the house because I Got tired going up there and have to fiddle fart around with them So I just quit putting them up there for the past couple years And it just looked because you can see the roof of the house from the road So we thought we need something up there. We was going to get a projector and I thought no I want something, you know that moves around Stuff like that. So there it is. Wow Small of this. Yeah So Soap this up And I wanted something light to you know that way I could Put it on tripod whatever There's the remote fort So I can have it doing something different It's got what like 60 some it does 60 some different combinations So I can have it doing something different every night So There's our little plastic Mount and I but anyway, I wanted something light There's the USB or little bolts screws Hold this on There's the unit Cool. These are lasers here red and green lasers It does all kinds of stuff. Is there any instructions? Yeah There is and a little tiny instruction booklet so Yes, we'll go on here So knees up It's going to be Cool if it works like it's supposed to but it's got like what is it four and a half stars or something? Man, I'm about tired of these gnats every year Come to Florida be prepared for gnats this time of year. Yeah, you know, they're trying to come in And uh out of out of the cold so I can't remember if you can turn this upside down or not, but It is also voice activated, which you know, it's like music So sound activated So it'll do stuff to music.  Well, if they want to consider that indoor outdoor.  All right Now We're gonna get this set up. I think we want to hang it up here on one of these screws. She's got some Lights up here above us that are like those She has them up for halloween So I think so I think we want to hang it off of one of them And Point it down here. I'll turn these off. Yes. These will be off and I'll turn it down here And we'll plug it in and see what it looks like. So it should be pretty cool Hopefully We watched a couple videos on it and it seems like it's Pretty neat. So But I like that it is small and light Plenty of cord and this just plugs into Oh, there's a mode There's your Mode right there.  You plug this in Right here.  We'll turn this on. That's how it looks. Okay. Okay, so Experience too big Tie a little bread tie to give you for that ratchet cord up This thing is very light and the fan is very quiet Okay, now we're going to set some lights now I want to check this out. I got to get I'm gonna get my phone So I can play some music. We'll see what it looks like So I shall be back with you guys in a minute. Okay guys. Here we are Yes, it's dark, but let's turn this on That is the strobe I'll turn the strobe off Oh, it's got different modes on strobe Wow, that's trippy. Okay. How do I get it off strobe mode? What you guys seeing in there? Yeah, that's pretty cool Okay, I gotta figure out how to get this off strobe mode. Okay guys I think I got it figured out now All right, let's turn the lights off This is just this is without the motor or any effects or anything. It's got red Green I was pointing it at the ground blue. I think that's Red and blue Here's a red and green Here's green and blue And here's red blue and green all together Okay, so Let's turn the motor on Okay, the motor's on that's pretty cool. What means the next one here That's pretty cool. It's changing. Okay, let's try auto one There's auto one And it changes and does different stuff There's auto two Uh-oh, there's auto three. That's pretty neat Isn't it then we've got We can do sound I just got some music from For copyright issue just off of just some of the Christmas music I used last year. Okay, so Check check. All right, let's see what happens here And my phone's not loud enough I'm trying to get the speaker up there. All right, let's do sound two. Let's do sound three That's pretty cool Monkey's liking it Check Whoa That's pretty neat Then I can stop the motor on any one of them Pause it That is pretty wild So I can change while it's doing its automatic thing I can change the different colors See there's red background There's green There's blue background. That's pretty cool Then I get red green and blue That is really really cool We should take it out and point it up at the house That's right Okay, we're gonna take you guys outside. So stick with us. Okay guys, so This is on the side of the house. Of course, it's not going to be on the side of the house It's going to be up pointing down onto the roof, right mama. Yeah, hopefully it'll show up It should with all the other lights I mean with all the other lights when they're doing their thing so it might even make it look better So let's play some music Looks really nice No There's just so many combinations, you know Yeah Dude does it doesn't have an all so you can like it goes through all of them Yeah, it's like right now. Yeah It'll just keep doing different things. No, well, that's cool I like that because then they get different things all the time. Yeah, that's really neat I love these lights. I think they're so cool these kind of lights Love them. Oh, it's got one hour Uh, three hours six hour and eight hour timer. Yeah. Yeah, so that's pretty cool. Yeah, that'll be nice. Yeah And it just does the same thing that's auto one There's auto two Okay, that's pretty cool. You leave it on that and it just goes through everything changes all the colors everything just That's cool. Yeah Strobe So, yeah, that's pretty cool, huh? Mm-hmm Oh, man, look at all the leaves on the back. Yeah, I know That's crazy. All right guys, we're gonna go back in the house We'll check you guys in a minute Okay guys, so there you go. We think monk. Yeah, I think it'll work nicely You like it? Yeah It's very cool Pretty oh Yeah All right guys, so yeah Big bonus footage at the end here. Yeah. Yeah, she came up with an idea and This couldn't tell her no, huh? Yeah Yeah, right Yeah, we'll we'll get Probably two more next year Yeah, I'm pointing in different places Yeah, yeah, we can have out the tree and wherever Yeah Seven wrong different places. Yeah So yeah, that'd be cool. All right guys. Well, there you go. There's the light so far. We like it seems to be What it says it it is that's pretty neat It just it does I go right now I got it on auto and it just doing its own thing So it'll just go through everything change colors and stuff. So it's really cool Yeah, it is it was 25 dollars. I don't know if I mentioned that but it was on amazon 25 bucks So 30 dollars was shipping and tax, but The thing itself is 25 dollars. So I think it's well worth it. Yeah. So pretty cool. All right guys She ever ever met the man alleged and go for now like so she's out. Hi y'all get check out monkey 1000 channel um She posts videos whenever She wants Can So all right, I have stuff coming Yeah It's just like she got in this team move stuff. Now. She don't want to film nothing else. I don't know I filmed all kinds of stuff. I filmed the other day and I filmed my painting and everything I don't stuff. We just haven't been anywhere I haven't either but I'd put up pretty regularly Mm-hmm And that's why I don't just like once a week, you know, it's just I mean because if I did that I've got so much stuff I can put out that if I did it once a week You know, you guys might be watching something that's six months old, which wouldn't make sense half the time, you know Follow what I mean Yeah, like if I'd say okay. Well, this is um You know, this is how much this cost, but that was six months ago could have raised up in price by 10 bucks, you know Yeah, you see what I mean something like that. Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying So that's why you know when I want to make a video I make a video. I put it out for you. So All right, good. Well, I mean, you know, that's why I've had people ask me Won't you just do one a week because I don't want to do one a week And like I said if I did some some things would be six months old, you know And then that would get confusing. Did I do this one? Yeah, or you know Then I'm I would always be having to look through stuff and I ain't doing that. So All right guys, so there you go. Thanks for watching appreciate it. And then you want to say monk about your channel No, but I got stuff coming. Yeah, you got stuff coming. Yeah, it'll be here this week He's gonna do any live streaming on on the lights this year I might I might yeah When I get to 500 I'm going to do a giveaway Yeah, she's gonna do a giveaway when she gets to 500 subs. So it's gonna be a mystery giveaway That's right.  Nope until you get it until you get it So that should be pretty cool. I haven't done one of those but that's pretty neat idea Yeah All right guys, thanks for watching Hope your weekend went well and we'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care. Bye All right guys, we just had to do this this was monkey's idea Oh, yeah Well, I'm gonna say it was monkey's idea


Identifying a prospect's needs isn't always super easy, but one thing you can't do is you can't go in with one tool from the toolbox and try to blanketly cover everyone that you ever meet and that you ever run an appointment with. So what you should do is focus on them. Focus on building relationship with them.  You also need to focus on the value of what you're showing them. We always talk about the benefits, we always talk about trial closes. One of the step two of my four-step appointment process is fact finding. That's where you need to spend all the time identifying the prospect's needs, asking those tough questions. If I'm going to lose a sell, it's going to be on my own terms. It's not because they don't want to volunteer information. It's because generally we didn't ask the tough questions, we didn't find out enough information, we didn't ask those follow-up questions, we didn't get answers to the questions we needed. A good way to identify prospect's needs initially in the beginning is when you're transferring from warm-up to fact find is, hey, Ms. Betty, thank you so much for allowing me in your home. What got you thinking about this? And that's an opening to the question. It gets them talking, it gets you listening because again, you're not going to make sales if you're talking. You need to be listening. If they talk more than we do, guess what, we make the sale. So start out with what got you thinking about this, get them talking, get them expressing what their needs are, what their concerns are, what they're worried about. Another question is they may say, hey, you know what, I'm getting old and I don't want to leave the burden of my final expenses of my family or, hey, my brother passed away last year and he didn't have anything and I know I need something. If you don't make that sale, something's wrong. Another question is, hey, I help a lot of clients with final expenses, but also there's other needs and concerns that we need to talk through to make sure that you understand that. Do you have a spouse that you're relying on some income from or vice versa that we need to make sure we cover that lost income or do you have a mortgage? Do you have car payments? Do you have credit cards? Do you have loans? Is there college funding that needs to happen for the kids? Are there all these various things? Make sure that you talk about all that because if you just blanketly sell everyone a $10,000 in our policy, they may be 60 years old. For a 60-year-old female, they're probably going to pass away for like 28 years on average. So what's $10,000 going to do them in 20 years? 28 years, especially. You're doing them a disservice. If you don't try to custom-build something and make it super identifiable for every single person, yeah, you may have to ask tough questions. Yeah, you may have to pry a little bit. Yeah, you may have to get them to open up and talk and share. Be their therapist for a second. Get them talking. Get them answering those questions, those tough questions like, hey, who do you want your beneficiary to be? What's your plans? Is there any special plans that you have for when you're no longer here? One misconception, though, that I wouldn't do in the fact-finding portion, I wouldn't ask them, hey, how much can you afford? I wouldn't bring up price until you're given them options. Put all the focus on value. Put all the focus on building up the product. Put all the focus on identifying the prospect's needs. Identify their needs. Ask those tough questions. And when you start to identify those, continue to ask questions like the questions I've mentioned, along with other questions like, who's your beneficiary are you going to be? A scale of 1 to 10, I'm assuming that this is extremely important. How important is it to you? A lot of my clients are like at 8, 9, or 10, where do you fall? Just get feedback, get acknowledgement. Make sure they're a part of the process. Don't puke on them. Don't just tell them all about you. That's an industry misconception is that, hey, I'm going to bring out this PowerPoint presentation and this padfolio and this binder, and I'm going to puke on them for 20 minutes about why they should do business with me. Nobody cares about you. Care about them. They want you to care about them. Everyone loves talking about themselves. Get them talking about themselves. If you like this video, I would love a thumbs up. And I would also love for you to do a couple other things. Subscribe to our channel or our Facebook page so that you get industry leading content constantly. I always talk about being consistent week in and week out. Dude, who's more consistent than I? And our team. I mean like 14, 10, 12, 14 educational training videos every single week. Five live shows every week. Do me a favor. If you haven't been to our website, secureagementure.com. Go there now. I promise it'll be worth it. We've got tons of free stuff that'll help you be successful. Ask those tough questions. Identify the prospect's needs. And quit puking on people. Be a listener. When they talk more than you do, guess what? You make sales.