Okay, very good morning to you. Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. It is Monday the 20th of July So a brand new week and a look ahead then are some of the key things for you guys to be aware of Let's just start before we get into the EU commentary from the weekend as to how markets are behaving at the open today and Despite some of the deadlocked headlines that we're reading in regards to those EU Meetings over the weekend the euro is actually trading higher I'm going to get into the details there of exactly what's been happening because they've been Discussing and negotiating all weekend, but the bottom line here I guess is the fact that look the talks are not off completely and despite some resistance from the usual suspects the frugal four in particular With focus on the Netherlands it looks like a deal or some kind of compromise is going to happen So I guess as a net result that is a positive And therefore no one really was expecting a definitive deal to be struck this weekend Remember what we were saying at the end of last week Just the notion of the fact that they're making progress could in itself Turn out to be positive for prices and that's very much. So what we're seeing this morning So the likelihood is here is that they're going to go into further negotiations and probably look to wrap something up Towards the end of the month So the euro is trading positive as you can see here in the euro futures We've managed to break above a kind of area of key resistance really for the week of last week Breaking up through the R1 this morning and on a longer-term chart. This certainly starts to get Particularly interesting. This is that chart We've been looking at for a while which goes back all the way to the summer price activity from 2018 the retest At the beginning of this year and some of the fluctuations around the pandemic that we had In the recovery But we've managed to bust straight through that that trend line and area and cluster of resistance And these are weekly candlesticks here They've been holding price for best part of nearly two months has just been broken now with a bit more conviction And so forcing a push-up now towards the 115 handle Which would be that year-to-date high as far as the euro currency is concerned. So I'm sure Alex some part of our team who's been pretty bullish on this setup for a while It's getting involved in that for sure So on the week definitely keeping an eye on how the euro responded around this 115 Any breach above that then obviously it takes out some of those relative highs that we're seeing going back towards the summer of 2019 and opens up then the prospect of perhaps a deeper or higher run up towards then the 116 mark Which would push us back up towards where we were towards the back end of 2018 All of that would also be contingent of course within the currency pair your trading obviously two currencies So ongoing stability in the market would be almost necessary in order to keep the dollar in check From a risk perspective and so that the euro can get some clear blue skies on the upside in the equity market You know just interesting here is looking at the the S&P 500 this morning And in the near-term price action given some of the market movement we had last week with a bit of roller coaster with the South China Sea dispute that we saw then the California rollback of the reopening Caused a bit of a dip at the beginning of last week before then the Madonna news came We gapped up and we kind of have gone sideways. So we're still in a relative range here I'd say as far as near-term price activity is concerned so that S1 level which is around 31 97 that does mark up nicely with the overnight Asia Pacific lows And also the lows that we had towards the the back end of last week that helped support price And then slightly below there at 92 and three quarters is that kind of weekly lows That's quite a key area of support to keep an eye on as we go further forward and not just today But this week and then looking on a daily though. What's so interesting This obviously starts to look at the much bigger picture This encapsulating then the whole year-to-date view and Where we are at the moment and if you actually look here in the top right-hand Corner where my mouse is now we are in fact just consolidating really between really the one 32 handle just below there 31 96 and 32 31 And interestingly then this is upside cap We've had at 31 and a quarter in the S&P obviously marks those high prints that were resistance back on the 8th 9th and 10th of June But where we are at the moment means that we are pretty much scratch for the entire year Started the year at 31 21 or right there and thereabouts and that's where we trade right now So, you know, it's just interesting given the size of the volatility that we had in March You know the Fed have done a really fantastic job at basically just killing off volatility with all the different and scope than breadth of Tools that they've used to intervene in this market not just from the traditional but the unconventional That as well with the various fiscal policies that we'll discuss in a second as well as kept this market To recover Despite the economic reality that's obviously impacting lives across the world and in the US for sure With the jobless rates do incredibly elevated the markets are exactly flat So where we go from here? I'd say as we have seen over the course of the last couple of days It does make sense to me that we're in this kind of phase of consolidation for the time being just given What's happened with the pushback up a little bit of that profit taking on the second wave fears has genuinely started to dissipate now Or be it the COVID situation is still under monitor Still in intensive care. Let's put it as a subject matter to to continue to monitor So this week really keeping an eye on the top end of that range Obviously any break break above there things continue to remain fairly bullish under those circumstances and you'd be eyeing the 3300 mark as the next kind of stop on any push higher on the pullback As I've said before I think in in some of the briefings last week I don't feel like we're we're going to see a catastrophic drop-off here Can't really see what elements can happen to instigate that type of move although we continue to monitor not just COVID But the trade war but even with that we've seen some quite intense Escalation and it hasn't really impacted the markets a great deal So even if we did break the near-term range, I'd still be looking for support down at 31 19 for this week And then in oil markets the final chart. I just wanted to have a quick look at we remain in pretty much the same setup As we have done throughout the last week or so if we look at the daily And that is that that squeezing in on that key 41 level on the upside From that March gap down that we had on the failed OPEC meeting. So Here price was really unaltered by the JMMC meeting and that Fade kind of rollback of distrigency of some of the supply cut As was though largely anticipated And so again continue to kind of put this in context of really what's driving this at the moment Is the fluctuation of a general sentiment about the economic recovery at this point? But technically that 41 although was broken last week momentarily is still under again Observation this week is as a key level to keep an eye on All right, well, let's get into some of the headlines That's kind of the overview of the charts and let's talk some some of the news and starting off with this European situation so the European Council president Charles Michelle proposed that the fund should include 390 billion euros of grants with the balance made up of low interest loans So that's the latest out of this morning a French official has said that the delegations now do see a path ahead for a deal and Talks are due to recommence at 3 p.m. London time today So remember the original schedule for just Friday and Saturday. That's now rolled over to Sunday. That's now rolling over to Monday So they've doubled up On their time dedicated to this which I think does show a lot of political will in order to get something done today And probably says a great deal about why then the euros Reacting in a fairly positive fashion this morning breaking this down then the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutt and his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurtz Rejected some of the new offers that were tabled at the weekend and stood by a pledge to limit grants to 350 billion euros So again right at the center of this debate is this idea about non-repayable grants So remember if you're of the frugal four you do not want to be handing out money willy-nilly Into countries without them being paid back So they've been more going down the avenue of trying to decrease the grants and look at look We're willing to help but it needs to be in a loan-based format that we eventually would be paid back Which obviously is meeting resistance from the likes of Italy for example So the frugal leaders on on Sunday basically proposed that amount should be cut back to around 350 billion This would be a far cry from the original 500 billion that had been tabled in the original plan As well as the Franco-German proposal, which was circulating back in May Most diplomats see and predict a final figure around 400 and hence the reason why you have that European Council commitment number this morning Around 390 so again this looks like the compromise. They've basically gone from about 500 worth in grants frugal four came in They wanted 350 they've now met somewhere towards the middle coming up towards 390 So again though the idea being that look it's not like there's going to be no grants It's just a slightly smaller amount But compromise is everything and they've managed to get a deal looking like it's going to go over the line One of the comments that I saw from an Irish political editor In terms of timing was suggesting another meeting potentially either next weekend or on July 31st And again, that isn't that surprising There was really no one was looking for a real one-and-done type meeting to get the whole entire terms around this deal concluded But as I said, it looks like they're now kind of honing in on the sweet spot that would keep all party members Satisfied from a European wide basis. So continue to keep an eye on this Of course, but I think the reaction kind of says everything this morning So euro higher the tax really has been relatively uninterested, but the Bund has backed off a little bit here It's just dropped down through Breaking the the highs that were seen towards the back end of last week And it's just remained under a bit of pressure sub the one 76 mark now as I as I speak Elsewhere I was going to quickly comment on US politics because as part of the calendar for the for the kind of week ahead This does pick up pace once again So policymakers will resume contentious talks About the ways and forms of which they are currently implementing stimulus in their country And this comes as much of the stimulus that they have put into place as part of the proactive response to the COVID situation and the Huge downturn that's been seen in the US economy comes up for exploration And this does raise some interesting questions then Republicans and Democrats remain a standstill on a number of these key issues Including whether to include a payroll tax cut. So if you actually look there's a bit of a Combination of looming deadlines towards the end of July early August Where and need with this graphic on Bloomberg? I did share it on my Twitter account this morning, but it looks at what's ending and then basically what's at risk? so for example Households about whether or not they can pay next month rent and you know, there's estimates to be around 20 million households which would be subject to potential difficulties under those circumstances if some of these these these kind of short-term legislative processes come to a conclusion 116 billion dollars worth that was dispersed in June This is referenced to the amount of final payments That will come at the end of the month for an additional 600 dollars a week federal unemployment insurance And again last month's context that was around 116 billion that could vanish at the end of this month So there's a lot here to be done Some would say then that you know, you need this these types of Cliff edge scenarios in order for politicians to really start to take some action if none of this was to be kind of rolled over in any type of degree then obviously that would have implications for people's assessment about the The future trajectory of the economic recovery in the US So with that in mind you would think that the politicians on either side on Capitol Hill will come to some form of looking to to roll this out or Introduce some sort of new form of stimulus to keep keep the show going for the time being but quite interesting graphic here because such as with every Covid program that every government the UK Eurozone or the US is implemented at some point that has to stop It cannot go on forever And that in itself is quite an interesting juncture for the markets which have been predominantly supported by this Unprecedented level of monetary and fiscal stimulus. What happens when it ends and I guess with the monetary one They've kind of set the stall out for a number of years But in the fiscal side of things remember in a Western Market sense, you know politicians tend to be fairly short-sighted because they they serve relatively short term So they need to have maximum bang for their buck and the performance in economy is quite critical to their political fate So with that being said my logic would dictate then that they'll probably come to some kind of compromise to to keep Another of these programs ongoing until their economic recovery is more assured in its footing Elsewhere then the COVID situation. This was the US Things still particularly high on the COVID situation cases still north 70,000 on a daily basis I was looking at the weekend Texas joins the 300,000 case club So these rates obviously in the Sunbelt areas have continued to remain elevated One interesting thing that I was seeing this morning is I know this is a bit small to look at But this is looking at all of the individual US States and their reproductive or our rate if you remember in the UK you're watching those press conferences a few weeks ago Where Britain would every day update? What was the our rates and the key metric here was that this figure needed to remain below one? Now the virus is effective reproduction rate a critical point then of one Well, if you actually look at it This is actually got one two three four five six seven I've seen other reports that would suggest all but five of the US is 50 states is Is above one effectively meaning then that weighted by gross domestic product? About 95 of the US economy is affected by a viral reproduction rate That's greater than one i.e. meaning a cause potentially exponential rise in case numbers Now that in itself sounds quite frightening prospect for a market trying to fathom then the strength of an economy recovery because what we're saying here is that Nearly 95 percent of the entire US economy is being impacted by a situation where coronavirus at the moment is getting higher Not lower Now a couple of points here to act as caveats before we get to doom and gloom and that is that in the current wave The general lower levels of are so typically we've not seen levels go Go up to two above two three and so on like we did in the first wave We were as much more aggressive but a number of reasons really for that The age distribution of the infected groups has been younger the case Fatality rate within intensive care units has fallen this treatment has improved And don't forget just generally people are more kind of socially aware of this issue So they're able to act it and be more aware of the kind of Telltale signs of having contracted this Virus and so on so as a result political resistance to full lockdowns in the most severely affected states it's very much been a Key thing at the moment they continue to kind of press ahead and try to be very reluctant But as we saw with California last week and some of these other states like Texas under quite extreme conditions at the moment It continues to be something that I'd watch quite quite closely But as I've said before at the moment although that case curve total of confirmed cases in America keeps rising it's really the more tangible results of Going back into more extreme forms of lockdown that we had back in say April that would cause I think a more negative reaction in markets anything less than that I don't really see phasing things too much at this point going forward Elsewhere one other thing I wanted to mention was a few people have talked about a developing weather pattern in the Atlantic and Just wanted to add a bit of context. This is the National Hurricane Center. There's a Weather system hat that's at the moment just going over central Bahamas and central Cuba And it is heading towards over the Straits of Florida today and over southeastern Gulf of Mexico by Tuesday and across the central Gulf on Wednesday Obviously the Gulf is a particularly important area for any implications it could have on the oil and gas wells and refineries in this particular location. However, there's a 0% chance of a cyclone formation in the next 48 hours. So although this Has caused I've seen a few headlines It's unlikely to be a material impact to that particular Gulf region when it hits in the next 48 hours or so So just wanted to point that out From an earnings perspective just going to quickly jump over. I was tweeting about this at the weekend This is your earnings kind of docket for the week and What we have here are a few things. So there's 92 S&P 500 companies reporting this week and that eight of those being Dow Industrial components of the highlights here probably Tesla and Microsoft coming after market on Wednesday Will capture a lot of attention Tesla doesn't actually tend to perform in history as a guide That well in terms of its share price reaction to its earnings and particularly given the context of phenomenal Gains that their stock price has seen over the last couple of months. They'll be quite interesting one to watch Microsoft always as well being one of the largest companies in the world Twitter IBM A number of the major US Airlines reporting as well This week when it's been such a rough quarter for them being said to see their numbers and how that plays out Otherwise from a calendar perspective for today very quiet for today actually and for this week US data is particularly quiet That doesn't mean that there are a few things that I'll be I'll be monitoring. So for today, not too much is going on It's more focused around speakers. You've got ECB's to Gwendoz kind of second in command If you like under Christine the guard speaking at 9 a.m. This morning London time ECB's Lane later on this afternoon and then to Bank of England members How they the outlying I guess you can call him on the more hawkish side because he was reluctant to vote With the group for more QE at the most recent Most recent Bank of England meetings that we've had and then turn raro is also speaking. She's kind of Centrist slightly dovish of view. They'll be speaking together at a trophy select committee hearing Later this afternoon for the week ahead. This is what it looks like. So Monday's pretty quiet Tuesday We're going into overnight. You do get the RBA minutes UK public finance data Wednesday some housing existing home sale numbers coming out and then on Thursday Again pretty quiet advanced consumer confidence number at the Eurozone in the Bank of England speaker Haskell Friday really is the main event As far as the schedule is concerned. That's when we get the global latest flash PMI numbers So first chance to see the flash data PMIs for July So includes everywhere the Eurozone UK the US and just having a quick look at that This is what it looks like This is looking at the red line is the US the green line Eurozone the yellow line is China So China has seen the earliest and in some cases the most powerful recovery its number pretty much Tracks over and above all of the measurements In terms of the headline and its constituents against the US and Eurozone But let's just leave China aside for the moment looking at the US and Eurozone here We are looking for a continued recovery from these incredibly depressed levels, but Would I get Exceedingly excited about this not so much I'd definitely be more keen to see what the overall analysts ranges are and if we were Getting over and above that then sure maybe perhaps that's a little bit Assigned to get more optimistic, but anything short than that then probably not Looking at the employment situations. I mean these are ones particularly in the Eurozone which still Remain particularly depressed At this point in time so all the more reasons for them to get this recovery plan up and running that they've been debating all weekend All right, that is it from me any questions. Please do leave a comment in the chat Otherwise, I'll let you get on with your day and I'll see you again same time tomorrow. Thanks very much


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And this counts here as a beautiful hold for this to the downside. So if you're looking to buy this, it's the wrong play. If you're looking to get this to fill this gap or do something up here or buy it, the answer is no. It's a short. And when you look at the gap and you rate the gap and determine that you're going to do this, it's a short. And again, I use my 26-point system to figure out what to do with this thing, what way to trade it, what direction to trade it. And I also teach in the class that I do how to take the entries, okay? This was $15.30 to short it, so I was over $15.43 to put the stop. I do use stops. $0.13 is a stop. An advanced risk on this trade is $520. A beginner risk and an intermediate risk and advanced risk are the levels. If you're brand-brand new, you have to start out somewhere at the beginner level, then move to intermediate. And then after trading for a while, an intermediate to advanced. Exit again, three cents for the target, $14.86, perfect, $17.80 is a total amount of money would have made this trade with an advanced risk, which is a 3.3R risk. So that means for every dollar you risked in this trade in BAC, you made $3.38. That is a quality trade. This gives you an edge. It gives you an edge because you know what to do with BAC because you get up in the morning and you do all the analyzation and have all the things figured out before it even sets up in trades. And for people that like to scalp, I want to tell this thing as soon as it starts backing up, you're never going to make any money doing this. You have to know the trade is good and get the conviction. And how do I get the conviction? I get the conviction through the rating system. The rating system gives you the conviction to know that somebody's going to work and also to take the trade. People that are scalpers don't have the conviction in anything, okay? 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floor insulation 1500 bricks two tonne of sand 200 fibrolytes 37 Newton and Trent's block Right, it's Sunday morning, it's the 18th, I think, October First house in the concrete Jason's doing his proud there, got that sorted out for us Good morning. Yeah, it's me. I'm back Sunday morning, it's the 18th, I think, October First house in the concrete Jason's doing his proud there, got that sorted out for us I had to pay for it, I was getting out of the car park at the airport Yeah, we've just got back from the trip away, which is absolutely horrendous Won't be going there again That would be a terrible time, but that's another story So at the moment, everything's here I did ask if I would put the stickers far at the drive as possible so they put everything at the bottom of the drive Floor insulation 1500 bricks two tonne of sand 200 fibrolytes 37 Newton and Trent's block So all that here should have been here and then the bricks should have been up behind them and the insulation so everything's back to front So, customer can't get the car on We're governed by the shared drive So we've got this massive area at the top here with nothing in it because the insulation has just been flipped over The radio's just packed up It was working a second ago, not any working now So as of now, we've got no power I might as well just get the Trent's block loaded in for now and see how we get on after that and get the four inch block in and we'll need some browns for that end because that's where the door is because we'll have to do the outside again for the slab Here, the plan today was to get everything up to DPC one Trentch one four inch inside three Facebook on the outside it's six to damp So first of all, get the water out then we've got the two thing to do up there we've got the cut out for the vertical DPC which we can do with the two thing on that side cut out here, all the tires to drill in and hopefully get all that done today and try and get a grab to bring us some stone tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able to reach where that insulation is hopefully and then we can just bring it straight in and don't want to get it in bags it's too expensive and it's too awkward it's so much easier to spade off the ground so yeah, that's it for now get back to you a bit Right that is dead our IP GoPro it's over nothing and you're one of them orders it's died this morning I managed to get a bit of footage and then it's just gone won't switch on so, pictures in trench block are loaded it's set out got our corners and it's all squared that's the diagonal 6519 so now, I'm going to try and get this first course of trench down once I've transferred the levels around as I said in the last video, the house isn't level but we've got to work off this end because of the toothers so we're going to work off there for the toothers for the level and for the bond you've got to be careful when you do toothers if you go down this end and set out your bond without checking it drive on it back you'll end up with a half in it and that's not good and it's not massive if we do because there's doors in the middle but you still don't want to be half a half of the wall if you can help it just a bit of forward planning, check setting out got the bricks on the map one pack's very wet so, I'm going to try as best I can to record on the phone today and get it go pro-ordered tonight and hopefully it comes in time if you carry on recording yeah, that's it for now it's five to five and I've just collected all the stuff together to put away still on the GoPro back in the media mode switched it on to see what happens and it's come on so I've missed all day filming because of this damn bloody thing I don't know why it's not working, but it's back working again now so there you go, that's all done trenching all the block work done up to DPC so it's ready for slabbing facework up on the far end where the door is because you need that in for the flap, the slab not the slab, the slab if you do anything, basically it's over there, you end up with the slab so yeah that's basically ready for slabbing so we're going to see if we can get some stone tomorrow from Jane Apia, the grab wagon see what we can do so, got a bit more to left over corners up there I'm going to put a quick corner up here I'll just run these in use them up a lot of wet bricks over there quick finish off here I'll film the corner because I've not filmed anything else today I've just turned that stupid on the phone so I've filmed this and filmed this just so you've got something to watch so yeah, there you go up to DPC all ready for hardcore so we're all set up block work is level so we can gauge our brick work off the block work wait the bond out so we're level, we're square got our bond I'll have a corner on here so it's easy to get the profiles on when we start the brick work but tomorrow we'll be trying to get the stone and get this little back filled get around the edge of the stone as well so we've got somewhere to stand so yeah, that's it let's get this corner built and that's used up now so probably get the bottom course in maybe a couple extra so I'm going to get the line up now get this running get the old fixed bricks on nearly there wait a minute two, three, four, five brick short anyway it's time to tidy up and get home twenty past five so let's get tidied up we'll then brick in that side's finished joint is up hole's filled up corner ready for tomorrow if we do any brick work hopefully get some stone delivered tomorrow we'll see how the grad boys get on for us so yeah, time to go home see you tomorrow good morning yeah, it's me, I'm back we're back on the job testing, testing, one, two is it working? the screen says it is I'll hand you back to Alex see if we can get this to work on the GoPro GoPro? it's getting board locked out yeah, so where was I? Dad's got Dad got all the trench block in got the blocks in and got the door set out for this lab but unfortunately we can't get stone till tomorrow we can't really touch the inside yet so today we're going to try and get as many things set out as we can I'm going to get started getting the rest of the brick in Dad's going to grind out the vertical damp mix is in bricks are loaded out all you need to do is get a string string line load out and then should be ready to go that's the front side back it's going to be a window in the back solid wall and French door over here yeah Alex just got that side in we can't get stone till tomorrow so we're going to stone up today but everything's such last minute we've just come back of holiday and it's being Sunday-ish today I'm no room on the drive to put anything so it's Tuesday today so it's going to be next week before we get to slab it which has put us back a bit so what we're doing today is we're getting the brick work up level there's a door to go in here so we might just do the lintels while we're at it it's going to rain this afternoon I've got the trestles I might get them outside linteling 1.8 openings we're putting 2.1 concrete linteling both skins and I've just done the grinding here so the two then cut through and then all the halves are coming out and then we can still get a vertical damping then as well yeah so break time now right it's two o'clock what do we get done Alex got this side in as you can see down there it's hammered it down for a couple of hours it's only a joint in Bloodstone coming up with planks there's going to be wet spots I'm going to carry on the toothing now Alex is going to get this front in she's going to have to get herself some dry bricks because a lot of them are soaked I don't know why but planks are very good for covering up with save your wet ones for the bottom course yeah and then I'm just waiting to hear back about the stone for tomorrow so tomorrow we'll spend the whole day just getting it prepped so we're working now that was good for the full team for measurements but I've not got the wellies on there you go that's all for now catch you in a bit here we go we've jumped out while the wet main stock Alex has managed to level up he's just jointing up now some are soaked, some are dry so it's a bit difficult it might just be a wide brush job in there tomorrow we need to try and fill the holes up but uh Alex if you get the jointer where the holes are and prod you know it's filled with water if you prod it you might as well get the water to run down further down no no just make the holes bigger so it goes down into the next brick if you know what I mean the ruined face pin doesn't look too bad now it's jointed yeah well why brush it anyway yeah so Alex's got us leveled up and I've been okay yeah and I've had the crap job but it's done all the tools are out I'm nice to get them all done without any accidents that one there with the extra brick is the brick had a big chip in the corner of it so that's come out so yeah I've just realised our damp course doesn't go all the way through because it's only a it's only a nine inch grinder so what I'm gonna have to do is take the cavity out so the cavity runs through so I'm gonna get onto that now so um yeah we'll get that done now all the battery dies done so um too doubt and the cavity's open so you've got to continue his cavity into here and there's our ties so that's it jobs are good then that's the crap job out the way so we just need to get our stone tomorrow we'll have to ring up to see when that's coming Alex just cleaned the mixture out and he's filled all the holes up jointed up and watered down the cavity yeah so that's it I've got to switch off now before this camera switches itself off we can't switch it off today in case we can't switch it back on again yeah right it's twenty to five I know that because we've got to get on before five o'clock through our Covid tests I don't understand it all but we've got to do them before five o'clock today because it's two days after we came back from Paris I haven't got a clue but I'll just go along with it so yeah just fill the buckets up the rain's filled the trench up stone's coming tomorrow I don't know what time two things done brickworks all up to DPC profile holes are cut out ready for the profiles buttons up ready for the brickwork and DPC is in vertical DPC that's 150 damp that's why it's sticking out so far yeah that's what's for today tomorrow is stoning up and prepping for the slab there's our large ablate for the slab we've got the 19 mil stuff around the edge instead of cutting it like we usually do it's going to be a lot easier we're going to cut that 225 because we had a couple of comments saying cut it long enough so that the the horizontal slabs trap it in like that then you're sticking up and it's not falling over the place then so we're going to give that a whirl tomorrow so yeah that's us it'd be nice to get it slabs we can get it tidy get it all stoned up around the outside too and then we can get all in blocks and get them on the slab so they can get the drive back for it showing about the sand being down the bottom but it is what it is so yeah, catch ya later


Boulder, Council Bluffs, 578 miles. We got this. All right, so it is Sunday, July 14th. One week from today is the start of Rag Bride. This is the most beautiful pie I've ever seen in my life. You know what Rag Bride is? If you don't, I'll link some videos below, but it's a gigantic bike ride all the way across Iowa.  It is pretty much a rolling county fair of pure Americana goodness.  I'm finally bringing the people that I love most out to Rag Bride because I love sharing places and things that I love and we're all going together. And then I started thinking they're gonna drive out there. I was gonna drive out there. I don't have a whole lot to do this week, so I'm gonna ride my bike out there. Great idea, huh? Yeah, it is. The ride starts in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which is essentially a twin city with Omaha, Nebraska. I just plugged in those coordinates because I've never ridden out east from Colorado. It is 578 miles away, so pretty much 600 miles. I have six days to get there, so that is, that is 96.3 miles each day to get to Rag Bride on time. I think I can do it. Heading out east, there's not gonna be any mountain passes. It might be a little bit boring out there. I've actually never ridden through eastern Colorado and southern Nebraska. It is going to be hot. The temperatures this week in Boulder are Monday, 88, the 91, 93, 97, 96, and that's Boulder. Heading out east, it's gonna be even hotter, so it's going to be a scorcher. But there are some positives about riding a bike through hot weather. I definitely don't need to pack a heavy jacket.  It's gonna be way too hot at night. I'm just gonna bring a little silk sheet. Come to think of it, it's gonna be so hot.  USA, USA! Just kidding, I'm not gonna do that and I'm sorry you had to see that. So my packing list isn't gonna change much for this ride as compared to any of my other bike tours.  Olé, olé, olé, olé, frijoles, frijoles. This is a very special bag of beans. You can only buy them in Mexico and I've been saving them for a special occasion. I'm really excited about this ride and I feel fortunate that I have the ability to take a week and go traveling through Colorado. A part of Colorado that I've never seen before. What, how did you get into my house? My neighbor Riley just busted into my house.  So ladies and gentlemen, this is the sweet Riley. She is my neighbor. What are you doing here? Mm. Mm. She's taking what? Oh these? You're taking all of those. That's my cash for Raghbri so I can buy pie. If you take those, I won't have any money for pie. All right, you can stop counting my money. What are you? $13. $20. There's $14, $20 bills? That's great. That's a lot of pie. Put it down. I'll take all of these. Bye. Riley, get over here. Say hi to everybody. Say hi to everybody. Wait, I want to do something for a second. So Riley usually comes over for little treats. I buy her little candies, sometimes ice cream, but today I don't have any of that so why did you come over? Okay, really wanna know? I really wanna know. To dye my hair pink. To dye my hair pink? Yeah. To dye my hair pink. Yeah, that's what I wanna do. That's what you wanna do. What do you say? Should I dye my hair pink? I've never done that before. Yes, I should say yes. Say yes. Okay, let's do it. Down here. Sit down here. Over the years, she has put makeup on me many, many times. She loves putting makeup on me. Okay, so this is permanent dye. It is? Yeah. Okay. So you better be ready for it. So I'm just gonna do this part and this mark. Okay. Does it really look good? It doesn't look good? Cause I don't wanna mess up. Do you want me to mess up? No, I don't. Do I have like the top of my head, not the side of my head? I need to have blonde hair like you to make this work. Ah! Don't look!  So this is Summer. This is Riley's mom. Hi Summer. Hola. Hola. Yay, this is exciting. Yeah, why? You're painting his scalp. That's what I told her. She's just painting my head. It's fine. It's fine. Don't worry him. He'd probably will get into the gray hairs better than me. Yeah.  That's a great idea.  No. Why not? We have all the whole family working on my head here. Dye my hair, not my face. All right Riley, are we almost done with this? Things to do. I'm looking pretty, pretty in pink. I'm not quite sure why I said yes to this, but thank you, sweet little Riley. All right, back at my house. I guess I'm gonna have a little bit of pink hair now. The things we do to make children happy. So, back to the bike ride. I'm excited about this. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Raggerized is gonna be incredible.  Like, I don't know how or where I'm gonna go every day. I'm gonna be navigating every day, sleeping wherever I sleep. It's all part of the fun. I'm sure I'm gonna meet amazing people as I go along. I always do. I'm gonna be sleeping under the stars and enjoying Mother Nature. Good morning everybody. Ready to ride way out east. It's, you know, not the typical beautiful side of Colorado. Usually people go west when they wanna see the epic Colorado landscape. But hey, you know what? I was that way, so I gotta go that way. I'm taking my priority 600 for this adventure. Got two water bottles up front. Two water bottles right here. Got two rear paniers. Couple little bags. Oh yeah, I bet you're curious about my hair. It's not like bright pink. There's a little bit of tint in there. Yeah, feel good about it. I'm using my friend Google Maps here to get me to Council Bluffs Isla. Pretty easy. Boulder, Council Bluffs. Hit the bike option. That's what you get. Looks pretty good. I think we're gonna see a lot of farm roads out there. No crashies, no whammies, no flaties. Let's do this.  But today I'm going on an adventure and it feels good. That's the adventure bell. And the thing about adventures is you don't know what's gonna happen. Like, I don't know where I'm gonna end up tonight, where I'm gonna sleep, what kind of food I'm gonna eat, what kind of people I'm gonna meet. All I know is I have to ride about 95.3 miles to be exact. What a great thing, huh? All I have to do for the next two weeks really is pedal all day long. Bye, Boulder. Love you. See you in a couple of weeks. That's probably my last view of my hometown Flatirons right there. There are some good-looking mountains, aren't they? I just found a heads-up lucky penny on the ground, but I feel like they bring me some sort of luck. I don't know what kind of luck, but it's kind of like a good omen. Kind of like the no-crashies, no-wammies chant. I feel like when I find one of these guys, it protects me in some way. Today is one of those choose-your-own-adventure days. My route is definitely not set in stone. I'm just gonna play it by ear. Play it by Siri's ear. That big-ass mountain right there is Longs Peak. Airplane, pause. Anyway, that big mountain over there, Longs Peak, beautiful. It's called a 14er. In Colorado, we have a lot of mountains over 14,000 feet tall. That one right there is the one closest to Boulder, so I've climbed it a few times. The view from up there is spectacular. I don't exactly know what this is now, but Google told me to go this way. It's a little rough, but who cares? It's an adventure. Did you see me fall? I'm gonna blame it on the loose dirt. Road 26 and a half. This is where I'll be if you need me.  God, that sucked. I was like trying to get smooth shot and like slapping around and wiggling around and trying to get them off me. Ah, the bad thing about farm roads are horseflies. Horseflies are the devil. They can just bite you right through all your clothes. 66. Can that really be true? I'm riding by this elementary school and it says it's 100 degrees at 10.30 a.m. Tempted to sit in that lazy boy. It just turned on the wind machine. This is so random. There's a mattress right here. Oh, look at this. I'm out here in the middle of nowhere. Laying on a mattress. Love and life, even though there's some serious headwind. That smells so bad. This is where you roll up the windows. This is the most amazing water I've ever had. I mean that with all my heart. Nothing like ice cream on a hot day. Mm, burrito. That is not the way I want the flags blowing. Bath and my Dairy Queen cleaning up. My name is Sticky Dude. This is an Oreo Blizzard. Look at that. Oh, I've been dreaming of this and I know that I already had ice cream today but today is a two ice cream day. It's a hard one. Look at that, Barlow Road. That's the name of my nephew. I'm pretty happy right now. You wanna know why? I have a big lane, big shoulder. I feel safe. It's gone down to a reasonable 85 degrees and the headwind is the number one thing. The headwind is gone. I like the feel of this town. Smaller towns are a lot of times more welcoming to travelers. I don't know why that is but I've found that to be true and their slogan when you come in here is homegrown happiness. So I like that. There is official camping here. They even have bathrooms and stuff and there's a pool right there. It's closed so maybe I'll sneak in tonight. Who knows? That was a long one. I'm excited to be done. So excited. This place even comes complete with its own shower and then right after I got out this nice leader of a Boy Scout troupe came over and said, hey man, why don't you camp at my house? It's five houses down. Anywhere perfect. Down here, you pick your spot. That's flat and nice. That's awesome. Outlet's there. Oh, perfect. Over there, water. You see you buff? Yeah. Me too bud. Yeah, go box. I'm sorry. Nice. Check it out. I got a new tent made specifically for bike packing. Pretty sweet. Nobody to cuddle with this time though. It's okay.