Hi folks I'm Mike and I hope you're well. This is a continuation of a video I made recently when I had lost my voice. My voice is back so I feel I'd like to explore this subject just a little bit more and hopefully you will find it helpful. And I'm really asking the question with everything which is against us a lot of the time and how difficult it can be to be a musician why do we bother to make music at all. Now before we delve into this I'd like to thank the sponsor for this video DistroKid if you follow the link in the description down below you'll get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music to the world. I was rummaging through an old shoebox of Keepsakes recently and I found this old photograph of me holding my first ever electric guitar. I was about 15 years old at the time it was the early 1980s the UK was in recession my father had been unemployed and there wasn't much money around but somehow I managed to scrape together just enough money to buy this off of something called a Little Woods catalog. Now UK viewers may remember this it was a catalog which had just about everything for the house in it and for a weekly amount you could pay things off over I think 20 or 38 weeks and I managed to you know use some pocket money and doing some odd jobs and things managed to buy this guitar. The brand was Kay if I remember rightly and this guitar was an absolute piece of crap it was really awful it was basically a piece of plywood with some strings and magnets on there it had awful intonation awful machine heads the neck was bend you know it was just dreadful to play so much so that when I ended up doing my first gig my high school gig with my high school band which is we're in this photo here for the night I had to borrow a guitar off of a friend and it was a fender of some kind and I can still remember playing that guitar and it felt like absolute heaven to play a proper instrument but I battled on and by the end of high school I'd managed to buy another guitar but it was still not a very good guitar just marginally better you can see it here I think it was an encore or something like that the equivalent of a cheap sort of Chinese brand now that you may buy off of wish or something like that but it was more playable at least now I wish I could tell you that this story had a really nice ending at this point that although I had terrible equipment that I had loads of talent and it made all the difference but that's not true also in my shoebox of keepsakes I found this little note here it's from my high school music teacher who for some reason did an assessment of my high school band and for my part for the bad part he said that I would never be a great axe hero meaning I'll never be a great guitar player encouraging words hey but that was the bad part for the good part he said he he said that I knew my limitations and I played well within them that was the good but hardly encouraging words there so you would think look if I didn't have the gear and I didn't have the encouragement and I didn't have the talent you know why did I even bother past that point what I can say is that by that point I just had music in me and somehow I just had to do it so much of my 20s was spent playing in a band in the UK a lot of time spent in the back of a van at dingy venues but thankfully we managed to find some venues where we could play our own material okay and looking back I learned so much during those years about writing about arranging for a band about the way different elements of a band work together and I'm so thankful for those years as well as the camaraderie and just the experiences involved there now towards the end of my late 20s was the first time that I began to record some music at home on something you would call a door I think we were on kind of 486s or Pentium PCs back then and there was this piece of software called digital orchestra pro or plus or something like that and the point was not only could you record MIDI etc and had some onboard sounds but you could also record audio this was fantastic for me it meant that I could express myself in ways that I couldn't express myself with the band you know using string sounds or whatever I wanted to use and that was when I started this journey now there was nothing for me to work with in terms of tutorials I had been in some studios with the band but I didn't really know much about the recording process I just had to learn through trial and error there was no YouTube or anything that and that's what I did so in the early 2000s I came to Australia and that was the first time that I began to perform solo just my voice and a guitar playing small venues but still again playing my own material and thankfully I found places where the audience was receptive to that then sort of during that time through a series of chance meetings etc I ended up becoming the state coordinator for the Australian songwriters association so I was in contact with a lot of songwriters trying to encourage them trying to get exposure for them etc then through another series of chance meetings and circumstances I ended up being the producer on a local tv show which was about music creation about local music creation that's a whole story in itself but I really wasn't qualified for this position nor did I have the experience but I had to learn quick and learn the hard way very intense time I remember but you know there was an element of visual production in there we're live venues recording people and then there was some audio production involved with that as well and I started to get a little bit more experience but still to this day I would not call myself a music producer but it did add to my experience in that way so the next phase of my life I think it's going to sound really familiar to many of you I'm going to call it the break okay what happened was I got married I had some kids and I felt really strongly that I should probably provide a stable kind of life for them especially financially and the musicians life just wasn't that so I gave up music at that time and again through some chance meetings and some coincidences I ended up becoming a project manager and then finally a vice president of a social network in Asia I worked in Hong Kong and it's a pretty big social network at the time and that was kind of what my life was okay at one time I think you know I just hardly played guitar at all maybe for about five or six years definitely I didn't really make any music at all now I finally came back to Australia where I had a job as a project manager for a large ISP I think the largest internet service provider in Australia at the time and that was the life I was living you know the suit and tie working in the big glass building and it would have made no sense for me at all at that time to give all of that up and just become a musician again but that is exactly what I did now I didn't just become any type of musician I became a street musician or is it sometimes called a busker I think after working in the corporate world with all its restrictions and timetables I wanted the freedom of playing music on my terms I didn't even want to book gigs and turn up at a particular time and kind of turn myself on and play I wanted to play music in the way I wanted to play it now I have to say I actually made a very good living out of this surprisingly so I think even better than I had when I was doing gigs before to be honest with you and I learned so much during this time never looked down on a professional street musician it is a skill and an art and to itself I had nothing to hide behind I didn't use amplification it was just me my guitar and my voice and I learned something super important during that time which my high school music teacher hadn't imparted to us and that was I didn't really need to be like a virtuoso guitarist or singer I had to be able to be competent in it but the most important thing and the most important thing which made people throw money at me was playing with passion and emotion investing myself in the song every single time understanding what the song was about what meaning of it was and putting my all into that and connecting with people it was like a light bulb moment really it just changed the way that I played music for people and it was a really important stage of my life now I became like very proficient during that time because I just had to rely on me in terms of my music but I still was I'm still not a particularly talented or skillful guitarist or singer and you know at times I'll reveal to you that it can make me feel like a little bit of a fake to be honest with I'll give you example last year a few months ago I made a video about one of my guitars a Taylor nylon string guitar and in that video you may want to watch it later I played a kind of a pseudo classical piece of music which is not really what I do at all but I love the piece of music so much I really wanted to play it now I've since I put that out it's got a few thousand views I've received a lot of compliments on that video people saying how much they enjoyed it etc and this is the part where I felt a bit fake because I have to tell you that in order to play that piece of music for that video I started off learning it by ear and that took me probably a few months to learn it all the way through okay and then it took me a while to even be able to play it all the way through and then a little while longer to play it all the way through without any mistakes and then I spent some time trying to refine the kind of emotional approach that I wanted to put into the piece of music but quite a number of months really the best part of a year or something learning that piece of music now in the video it just looks like I play like that all the time I can promise you that look and the thing that makes me feel bad is I know that some of you out there are good enough guitar players that you could probably learn it within a week or two or maybe quicker maybe you could sight read it and just play it so um thankfully there's all the smoke and mirrors of video production and sound production but yeah um but that's okay I just I don't want you to feel bad if you feel like you always struggle to get things to that level I think for many of us mere mortals I mean it's still the case that we have to work pretty hard at it so I'm at a stage in my life now where I'm no longer seeking commercial success for my music at all I do make music and my target audience is just really a few family members and friends a few hundred people probably at the most and some of it you get to see some of it you don't some of it is just in that small group but I believe I put just as much effort into the quality of that music even though it's only going out to a small pool of people now I probably wouldn't bother to release it commercially at all to places like Spotify iTunes Amazon Google Play etc if it wasn't for the fact that it is really really easy and really really cheap I'll touch on our sponsor a little bit again DistroKid because I release my music through DistroKid and once you've created that piece of music it's just a matter of getting a bit of artwork which you know you can either design yourself there's different ways to create artwork you upload that to DistroKid you upload your song there's a bit of a form to fill in and then you know they do it all for you they get it out to Spotify and iTunes and Amazon etc for you so it's there's no resistance to releasing your music you know around the world and look if someone happens to discover that piece of music and they enjoy it and you know bring something to them then I'm glad it's out there doing that so I guess the question is and the point of this video is look if I'm not all that talented and I'm not looking for any commercial success like why do I bother making music at all so hold on to your seats folks because I'm going to get a little bit philosophical with you now some years ago when I was still a street musician I used to perform with my nephew Chaz who's a talented singer and songwriter and we did this duet thing together and it went down really well with the crowds and we had a lot of fun doing it most of the time but on this one particular day we hadn't really connected with the crowd it was awful weather and we were on our way home with not much to show for it and Chaz said to me Mike why do we do this and I said to him then what I'm going to say to you now it's not a question of why do we do this it's a question of how can we not do it it's who we are see this is the way I see the universe I see it is this kind of integrated organism with a lot of moving parts which are all really necessary we've got the flowers and the trees and the oceans and the wind and everything in the universe and one of the beings which is required in this universe at the moment is human beings and amongst those human beings we need the types which are going to be doctors and farmers and nurses and teachers and all kinds of different human beings and because human beings seem to love music so much we need some human beings who are going to be musicians the universe needs us to be what we are I want you to ask yourself not why am I going to keep doing this but how can I not do this I believe that for many of us it's almost like our destiny it's what we are supposed to be and I think if you honor that if you honor what the universe is asking you to be you're going to be a much happier person now even though you may not be the most talented or the most skillful on your instrument you can find a way to connect to people and that is the value in making music also the process itself is so much fun I really enjoy the process still I really enjoy making music in my home studio and the great opportunity we now have to do that and I hope you'll continue to join me on that journey now I'd love to hear from you now in the comments down below about your story with music where have you come from where are you going what does music mean to you why do you continue to do it thank you so much for watching this video and I'll see you in the next video


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chapters 59 through 66 of Isaiah, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org recording by Sam Stinson chapter 59. Behold Jehovah's hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you so that he will not hear for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue muttereth wickedness none sueth in righteousness and none pleadeth in truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity they hatch adder's eggs and weave the spider's web he that eateth of their eggs dyeth and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper their webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity desolation and destruction are in their paths the way of peace they know not and there is no justice in their goings they have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace therefore is justice far from us neither doth righteousness overtake us we look for light but behold darkness for brightness but we walk in obscurity we grope for the wall like the blind yay we grope as they that have no eyes we stumble at noon day as in the twilight among them that are lusty we are as dead men we roar all like bears and moan soar like doves we look for justice but there is none for salvation but it is far off from us for our transgressions are multiplied before thee and our sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities we know them transgressing and denying Jehovah and turning away from following our God speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood and justice is turned away backward and righteousness standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and uprightness cannot enter yay truth is lacking and he that departed from evil maketh himself a prey and Jehovah saw it and it displeased him that there was no justice and he saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him that his righteousness it upheld him and he put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon his head and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a mantle according to their deeds accordingly he will repay wrath to his adversaries recompense to his enemies to the islands he will repay recompense so shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west in his glory from the rising of the sun for he will come as a rushing stream which the breath of Jehovah driveeth and redeemer will come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob sayeth Jehovah and as for me this is my covenant with them sayeth Jehovah my spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed sayeth Jehovah from henceforth and for ever and of chapter 59 chapter 60 arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee for behold darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the peoples but Jehovah will arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee and nations shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising lift up thine eyes round about and see they all gather themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from far and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms then thou shalt see and be radiant and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee the multitude of camels shall cover thee the dramataries of Midian and Eva all they from Sheba shall come they shall bring gold in frankincense and shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee the rams of Nibbioff shall minister unto thee they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar and I will glorify the house of my glory who are these that fly as a cloud and as the doves to their windows surely the aisles shall wait for me and the ships of Tarshish first to bring thy sons from far their silver and their gold with them for the name of Jehovah thy God and for the holy one of Israel because he hath glorified thee and foreigners shall build up thy walls and their kings shall minister unto thee for in my wrath I smoke thee but in my favor have I had mercy on thee thy gates also shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations and their kings led captive for that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ye those nations shall be utterly wasted the glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee the fir tree the pine and the box tree together to beautify the place of my sanctuary and I will make the place of my feet glorious and the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the souls of thy feet and they shall call thee the city of Jehovah the Zion of the holy one of Israel whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man passed through thee I will make thee an eternal excellency a joy of many generations thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations and shalt suck the breast of kings and thou shalt know that I Jehovah am thy savior and thy redeemer the mighty one of Jacob for brass I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brass and for stones iron I will also make thy officers peace and thine exacters righteousness violent shall no more be heard in thy land desolation nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise the sun shall be no more thy light by day neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory thy sun shall no more go down neither shall thy moon withdraw itself for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light and the days of thy morning shall be ended thy people also shall be all righteous they shall inherit the land forever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified the little one shall become a thousand and the small one a strong nation I Jehovah will hasten it in its time and of chapter sixty chapter sixty one the spirit of the lord Jehovah is upon me because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken harness to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourn to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion to give unto them a garland for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness the planting of Jehovah that he may be glorified and they shall build the old wastes they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the waste cities the desolations of many generations and strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine dressers but ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah men shall call you the ministers of our God ye shall eat the wealth of the nations and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves instead of your shame ye shall have double and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion therefore in their land they shall possess double everlasting joy shall be unto them for I Jehovah love justice I hate robbery with iniquity and I will give them their recompense and truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them and their seed shall be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples all that see them shall acknowledge them that they are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bride groom decketh himself with a garland and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels for as the earth bringeth forth its bud and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations and of chapter 61 chapter 62 for Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until her righteousness go forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burneth and the nations shall see thy righteousness and all kings thy glory and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah shall name thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy land any more be termed desolate but thou shalt be called Heffsy Ba and thy land Bula for Jehovah delighteth in thee and thy land shall be married for as a young man marryeth a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee and as the bride grim rejoiceth over the bride so shall thy God rejoice over thee I have set watchmen upon thy walls oh Jerusalem they shall never hold their peace day nor night ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers take ye no rest and give him no rest till he establish until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine for which thou hast labored but they that have garnered it shall eat it and praise Jehovah and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary go through go through the gates repair ye the way of the people cast up cast up the highway gather out the stones lift up an ensign for the peoples behold Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth say ye to the daughter of Zion behold thy salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his recompense before him and they shall call them the holy people the redeemed of Jehovah and thou shalt be called sought out a city not forsaken end of chapter 62 chapter 63 who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Basra this that is glorious in his apparel marching in the greatness of his strength I that speak in righteousness mighty to save wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine vat I have trod in the wine press alone and of the peoples there was no man with me yea I trod them in mine anger and trample them in my wrath and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments and I have stained all my raiment for the day of vengeance was in my heart and the year of my redeemed is come and I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my wrath it upheld me and I trod down the peoples in mine anger and made them drunk in my wrath and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Jehovah and the praises of Jehovah according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses for he said surely they are my people children that will not deal falsely so he was their savior and all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bear them and carried them all the days of old but they rebelled and grieved his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and himself fought against them then he remembered the days of old moses and his people saying where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock where is he that put his holy spirit in the midst of them that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of moses that divided the waters before them to make himself an everlasting name that led them through the depths as a horse in the wilderness so that they stumbled not as the cattle that go down into the valley the spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious name look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me for thou art our father though abraham knoweth us not and israel doth not acknowledge us thou oh Jehovah art our father our redeemer from everlasting is thy name oh Jehovah why does thou make us to air from thy ways and harden us our heart from thy fear return for thy servant's sake the tribes of thine inheritance thy holy people possessed it but a little while our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary we are become as they over whom thou never bearest rule as they that were not called by thy name end of chapter 63 chapter 64 oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens that thou wouldest come down that the mountains might quake at thy presence as when fire kindled at the brushwood and the fire causeth the waters to boil to make thy name known to thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at thy presence when thou didst terrible things which we looked not for thou came us down the mountains quake at thy presence for from of old men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen a god besides thee who worketh for him that waited for him thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness those that remember thee and thy ways behold thou wasst wrath and we sinned and them have we been of long time and shall we be saved for we are all become as one that is unclean and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind take us away and there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast hid thy face from us and has consumed us by means of our iniquities but now oh johova thou art our father we are the clay and thou our potter and we all are the work of thy hand be not wroth very sore oh johova neither remember iniquity forever behold look we beseech thee we are all thy people thy holy cities are become a wilderness zine is become a wilderness Jerusalem a desolation our holy and our beautiful house where our father's praise to thee is burned with fire and all our pleasant places are laid waste will thou refrain thyself for these things oh johova will thou hold thy peace and afflict us very sore end of chapter 64 chapter 65 i am inquired of by them that ask not for me i am found of them that sought me not i said behold me behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name i have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people that walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts a people that provoke me to my face continually sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks that sit among the graves and lodge in the secret places that eat swine's flesh and broth of abominable things is in their vessels that say stand by thyself come not near to me for i am holier than thou these are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day behold it is written before me i will not keep silence but will recompense yay i will recompense into their bosom your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together sayeth johova that have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills therefore will i first measure their works into their bosom but sayeth johova as the new wine is found in the cluster and one sayeth destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will i do for my servant's sake that i may not destroy them all and i will bring forth a seed out of jacob and out of juda an inheritor of my mountains and my chosen shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there and Sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of acor a place for herds to lie down in for my people that have sought me but ye that forsake johova that forget my holy mountain that prepare a table for fortune and that fill up mingled wine unto destiny i will destine you to the sword and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter because when i called he did not answer when i spake he did not hear but ye did that which was evil in my eyes and chose that wherein i delighted not therefore thus sayeth the lord johova behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry behold my servant shall drink but ye shall be thirsty behold my servant shall rejoice but ye shall be put to shame behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart and shall wail for vexation of spirit and ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen and the lord johova will slay thee and he will call his servants by another name so that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the god of truth and he that swearth in the earth shall swear by the god of truth because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes for behold i create new heavens and a new earth and the former things shall not be remembered nor come into mind but be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which i create for behold i create jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy and i will rejoice in jerusalem and joy in my people and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying there shall be no more than an infant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die a hundred years old and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed and they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them they shall not build in another inhabit they shall not plant in another eat for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands they shall not labor in vain nor bring forth for calamity for they are the seed of the blessed of jojoba and their offspring with them and it shall come to pass that before they call i will answer and while they are yet speaking i will hear the wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox and dust shall be the serpent's food they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain sayeth jojoba end of chapter 65 chapter 66 thus sayeth jojoba heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool what manner of house will ye build unto me and what place shall be my rest for all these things hath my hand made and so all these things came to be sayeth jojoba but to this man will i look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and that trembleeth at my word he that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man he that sacrifices a lamb as he that breaketh a dog's neck he that offered an oblation as he that offered swine's blood he that burneth frankincense as he that blesseth an idol yea they have chosen their own ways and they're sold a lighteth in their abominations i also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because what i called none did answer when i spake they did not hear but they did that which was evil in mine eyes and chose that wherein i delighted not hear the word of jojoba ye that tremble at his word you are brethren that hate you that cast you out for my name's sake have said let jojoba be glorified that we may see your joy but it is they that shall be put to shame a voice of tumult from the city a voice from the temple a voice of jojoba that rendereth recompense to his enemies before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man child who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things shall a land be born in one day shall a nation be brought forth at once for as soon as zion travailed she brought forth her children shall i bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth sayeth jojoba shall i that cause to bring forth shut the womb sayeth i god rejoice ye with jerusalem and be glad for her all ye that love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn over her that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations that ye may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory for thus sayeth jojoba behold i will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream and ye shall suck thereof ye shall be born upon the side and shall be dandled upon the knees and as one whom his mother comforteth so will i comfort you and ye shall be comforted in jerusalem and ye shall see it and your heart shall rejoice and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass and the hand of jojoba shall be known toward his servants and he will have indignation against his enemies for behold jojoba will come with fire and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind to render his anger with fierceness and his rebuke with flames of fire for by fire will jojoba execute judgment and by his sword upon all flesh and the slain of jojoba shall be many they that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go into the gardens behind one in the midst eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse they shall come to an end together sayeth jojoba for i know their works and their thoughts the time cometh that i will gather all nations and tongues and they shall come and shall see my glory and i will set a sign among them and i will send such as escape of them unto the nations to tarshish pull and lewd that draw the bow to tubal and javen to the aisles afar off that have not heard my fame neither have seen my glory and they shall declare my glory among the nations and they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an oblation unto jojoba upon horses and in chariots and in litters and upon mules and upon dromedaries to my holy mountain jerusalem sayeth jojoba as the children of israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of jojoba and of them also will i take for priests and for levines sayeth jojoba for as the new heavens and the new earth which i will make shall remain before me say of jojoba so shall your seed and your name remain and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me sayeth jojoba and they shall go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me for their worm shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an uproaring unto all flesh end of chapter 66 and also the end of isea american standard version


Good morning, everyone. Basil Chappan on this Monday, the 11th of December. We've got the down up 33 points at $36,280. Just on that trend line resistance we're looking at at this particular point, we've got the S&P. There was a very nice move up on Friday. The S&P has not taken out at Friday's high. It's up $1.24 at $4,605. The QQQ is at 39,393.92, the high of the day. It's just under the high of about two weeks ago. You're looking at the IWM, the Russell 2000, pulling back a little bit down 62 cents at $186. Let's go to gold. Gold is down at 2002. Remember that Chapman Wave Roman, red Roman candle, inverted Roman candle. We weigh underneath that low at this particular point. Looking at the dollar, the dollar's been showing a little bit of strength, not much, but a little bit. It's up 17 ticks at 104.15. Let's go to the bonds. Bonds are down 61. TLT is down 61. Therefore, yields are going a little higher. 93.95 at the market. It's still holding pretty darn well. Crude oil. Crude oil is down 20 cents at $0.97103. So, within that context, I do have a little bit of a problem with the chart, I believe. It's really unusual what happened there. I'll have to try to do that, fix it up for my show coming up, the Tiger Technicians Hour. Don't forget the Tiger Dollar Sale. Don't forget I've got a webinar coming up Wednesday a week. That's going to be looking at through this rotation that we're about to see and we are actually seeing in some areas what's going to work for the early part of 2024. So, with that said, I think we're just about to get to the music and then I can refresh and see if I can get all my charts back. Oh, it's just frustrating these technical problems that just seem to creep in. Oh, there's a minute to go. So, with that said, we'll look at the VIX index. VIX index is trading up a 66 cents of $13.01. It went to a trough E, a leg into the downside. It's in the lower range that it's been in months. We're going to see whether or not the VIX by Friday has started by Wednesday actually has started moving to the 14th. At this point, it's a $13.01. I'll be back in a moment for the Tiger Technicians Hour. Hope you can stay. It's all a lot to discuss.


Down the long path of history, crapping across centuries and continents, and the graves of kings and the necks of dictators, seeking always a way of life where the people have their freedom, believing, praying, fighting, dying. We came this way. The NBC University of the Air, a public service feature of the national broadcasting company and its independent affiliated stations, presents another chapter in the historical series, We Came This Way, a dramatic account of man's struggle down through the ages for a democratic way of life. For our listeners at home and overseas, we present chapter four, Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy, on We Came This Way. I, Walt Whitman, poet of democracy, the tendency of whose pages is to destroy those old landmarks, which pride and fashion have set up, making impassable distinctions between the brethren of the great family. To make us love our fellow creatures, and own that all those social distinctions place others far higher or far lower than we, yet our human beings alike as links of the same chain. Starting from fish-shaped pomonok where I was born, well begotten and raised by a perfect mother, after roaming many lands, lover of populist pavement, dweller in Manahatta, my city, or on southern savannas, or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess, and happy, having studied the marking bird's tone for the flight of the mountain hawk, solitary singing in the west, I strike up for a new world. The boy said you want to see me, Mr. Van Anden.  Pull up a chair. Mr. Van Anden, this is another warning about what you're going to let me put in the paper and what you're not. Be here, Walt Whitman. You'll grant that I am the proprietor of the Brooklyn Eagle. You're the proprietor, but I'm the editor. And I put whatever I please in the eagle so long as I am editor. Yes, but you listen to me for a minute. I've given you a pretty free hand. Not on the question of free soil. I've let you be any kind of a crank you wanted to be in the column of the eagle for two years now. You're getting out of hand, Walt. Mr. Van Anden, you make it sound as though I was some bird in a cage. I've never been in hand. Now, about that editorial concerning General Cass has led it to Nicholson. It's a fair proposition, Walt. I don't think so. Well, I agree with General Cass. As the new territories open up, let them decide for themselves whether they want slavery or not. And I say, well, you've got the editorial there on your desk. Yes. I was looking it over at the tenth time when you came in. And we don't have to go all over that again. It's a dangerous issue. And so we'll just devoid it. Mr. Van Anden, the new territories have got to be free by law. And I'm going to keep on saying that in the eagle just as long as I'm editor. Walt? You are not editor of the eagle anymore. Well, sorry, Walt. No regrets, Mr. Van Anden. And no hard feelings. I'll just move on. A foot in light hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good fortune, for I myself am good fortune. Henceforth I quiver no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road. It was 1848 and 49 that I was occupied as editor of the Daily Eagle Newspaper in Brooklyn. The latter year I went off on a leisurely journey and working expedition through all the middle states and down the Ohio and Mississippi River. What widens were then you, Walt Whitman? What climes? What persons and cities are here? What do you hear, Walt Whitman? I've got a whole new learner in this town. Fifteen years on the Erick and Hal. She's got a worker and a good old pal. Fifteen years on the Erick and Hal. I hear the workmen singing and the farmers wife singing. I hear in the distance a sound of children and of animals early in the day. Yes, and I hear also the breeze of the slave couple as the slaves march on. Fastened together with wrist chains and ankle chains. Yes, I hear America singing. The varied carols I hear. Those are mechanics. Each one singing his as it should be. Live and strong. The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank of beans. The mason singing his as he makes ready for work or leaves off work. Singing with open mouths their strong melodious song. What do you see, Walt Whitman? I see diminuets, farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads. I see the constructiveness of my race. I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race. I see the ranks, colors, barbarism, civilization. I go among them. I mix indiscriminate values and I salute all the inhabitants of the earth. I lived a while in Gay New Orleans. I worked there on the stamp of the Daily Crescent newspaper. It is time now to be set. I must go back to the Crescent office. No, you stay with Gretel. I want to macherise. But I must put down my impressions of the carnival for the newspaper. Let's skip down this side, and let's get out of the crowd. I must get to work. Already the gentleman owned the Crescent grumble because... Did you not like the piece you write about Gretel? No. It's not bad. I know. You go back to your Brooklyn. You leave Gretel, no? Now, my pretty, now, now. But you will? Suppose we go now to the place where the old woman sells her coffee. I have a poem. I'll read it to you there. Is it about Gretel? You wait and see. No. You read it to me now. Go. Well, all right. What is it about? It's about a city and a woman. Once I passed through a popular city and printing my brain for future use, but it shows architecture, customs, tradition. Yet now of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met there who detained me for love of me. Day by day and night by night we were together. All else has long been forgotten by me. I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me. Again we wander. We love. We separate again. Again she holds me by the hand. I must not go. I see her close beside me with silent lips, bathed in tenderness. After a time I fluttered back northward up to Mississippi in the round two and by way of the Great Lakes, to Niagara Falls and Lower Canada, finally returning through Central New York and down the hut. In 1855 I commenced putting leaves of grass to press for good at the printing office of my friends, the brothers Rome in Brooklyn. I had great trouble in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last. Well Walt, there's your book, the first copy of Leaves of Grass fresh from the printing press and it better be the way you wanted this time Walt. Andrew and I have made up our minds there'll be no more changes. It looks good to me James, very good. My brother and I think so too, but the real question is how many copies are going to be sold? How will folks take it? That depends upon the kind of folks they are. Professor, have you read the new book by this fellow Whitman? I regret to say I have and to think he calls himself a poet while the dreadful stuff doesn't rhyme. Besides, it's like sin just dribbles. Now my dear, I don't mean to gossip, but are you referring to that nasty book that Lucy Morris bought? Yes, I understand she keeps the hidden away in her bureau drawer for fear it will fall into the hands of her doctor. Or her husband. What does this letter say? If it's like all the others? It's not like all the others, James. No. Well who's it from? Ralph Waldo Emerson. No. You mean the Concord sage himself? Why, I always thought of him as sitting up there in that rarefied atmosphere and... Well, what do you say? Well, now let me see. Oh yes, this much will do. I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gifts of leaves of grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. Why, that's a mighty big thing to say. It's a mighty big book he's talking about, James. Oh, go ahead. What else does he say? Oh, Justin. I am very happy in reading it as great power makes us happy. I greet you at the beginning of a great career. Mmm, fine words, all right. But what I want to know is, will it sell the book? Sell the book or not, James, I'm going on in my own way as well as I can. I haven't waived it so far and I'm not going to. I shall speak my mind as God meant me to. What is the 13th of April, 1861? I have been to the opera on 14th Street and after the performance was walking down Broadway on my way to Brooklyn. Exchange, exchange! When I heard in the distruth the loud cries of the news boy. Exchange! Boy! Boy! Exchange! Special exchange! Boy, give me a paper. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's happened. They fired on Fort Sumter. The volcanic upheaval of the nation after the firing of the flag at Charleston proved a certain something which had been previously in great doubt and it once substantially settled the question of this union. Even after the bombardment of Sumter, however, the gravity of the revolt and the power and will of the slave states were not realized in the north except by a few. Walter, I know you say I shouldn't but I can't help worrying about your brother, George. I know you can't help it, mother but it does no good. This dreadful war. All this fighting is so wrong. Better to fight than to be slaves. You may be right, Walter but I'm an old woman. Just an old weary woman. You speak of age in a reproachful way. Can there ever be good in it? Of course. Listen to this, mother. Women sit or move to and fro. Some old, some young. The young are beautiful but the old are far more beautiful than the young. Oh, stop. I knew it. Don't you like it? Well, of course. It says that every woman is beautiful and I am a woman and an old one too which according to your point is something extra desirable. Every woman is beautiful and all women are men's equal. Perhaps, Walter. I know you've told me that before. I'll go, mother. Yes? Is this the home of Mrs. Louisa Whitman? Yes, I'm her son. Get the message for her. Oh, I'll take it. Thank you. Walter, what is it? It's a message, mother. I don't know what it is but... Maybe, maybe it's about George. Walter, maybe George is... Mother, it is about George and he's all right. Oh, thank God. He's been wounded but he's all right. He's in a hospital in Washington. I'm going there to take care of him. Washington, December 29th, 1862. Dear, dear mother, I succeeded in reaching the camp of the 51st New York. I've stayed in camp with George ever since. Till yesterday when I came back to Washington. And now that I've lived eight or nine days amid such scenes as the camp's furnish and had a practical part in it all, I realize nothing we call trouble seems worth talking about. How your heart would ache to go through the rows of wounded young men as I did and stop to speak accompanying words from the region. One young man was very prostrated and groaning with pain. What's the matter, soldier? I feel like I'm about to faint. Well, maybe if I... You're not a nurse. No, but I can try to help you, soldier. They had enough to be dying in a Yankee hospital with Yankee nurses and doctors. Easy there, easy. Don't wear yourself out being bitter. Maybe you'd like some of this fruit I brought along for my brother. There's some candy, too. No, no, I don't want anything. I just want somebody to write a letter for me. That's all. I feel like I'm dying. Don't think about dying, soldier. You'll pull through. I'm so sure. Of course. I can write that letter, just to say. You know, but I'm not a Yankee. I don't care who you are.  What's your mother's name? Mrs. Eliza Robin. Mrs. Eliza Robin. Dear mother, I... I want you to know that... that I'm here in Northern Hospital in Washington. I... I don't like being with Yankees, but I get stronger every day. I keep on thinking of you. Of you. Of the old place. Of the old place. Don't talk, boy. Try to read. Just lie back and... he's gone. Sharing the bandages, water and spine. Straight and swift to my wounded, I go. To the rows of cuts up and down each side, I return. To each and all, one after another, I draw near. Not one do I miss. I am faithful. I do not give up. I see President Lincoln almost every day now, as I happen to live very passersby. He always has a company of 25 or 30 cavalry, with swords drawn and held upright over their shoulders. Mr. Lincoln in the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-going grey horse, dressed in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty, wears a black stiff hat and looks about as ordinary and attire as... a commonest man. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark, brown face with a deep cut line. The eyes, always to me, with a deep latent sadness in the expression. They pass me once very close, and I saw the President in the face fully, and his look so abstracted happened to be directed steadily in my eyes. He bowed and smiled. I bowed and whispered. Mr. President. Far beneath his smile I noticed well the expression I've alluded to. None of the honest of pictures has caught the deep, so subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. The college rose prophetic a voice. Be not detartant. A section shall solve the problems of freedom yet. Those who love each other shall become invincible.  You shall yet laugh to score the tax of all the remainder of the earth. Once from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian's comrade. From Maine and from hot Carolina shall be friend, triune. So goodbye to the war.  It was not a quadrill in a ballroom. The real war will never get in the book. Its interior history will not only never be written, its practicality, its deeds and passion will never even be suggested. But all of the war was over in the nation of peace. In the midst of happiness and joy came... tragedy! I can't believe it's happening! It's super chaotic! That blanket that way, come inside the trampiece. The horse car business isn't very good tonight. And I... I want to talk to you. You're the only passenger, Walt. I guess the conductor can lay off work a few minutes. Sit down. Pete, I... I understand you were at the theatre when... it happened. Yes. I was there. Tell me about it. Well... everything happened so fast. I had a seat in the second gallery. The police had packed. But could you see the president? I could look right at him. Matter of fact, I was more interested in watching his face than I was in the play. I know. And then... well, all of a sudden I heard the pistol shot. Did you know what had happened? I didn't have any idea what it was, Walt. Or what it meant. The shot was sort of muffled. Then when did you know? I knew when... Mrs. Lincoln leaned out of the box and... shouted, Well... I'll ride to the end of the line... and then... back. I want a thing. By many has this union been helped. But if one name, one man must be picked out, Abraham Lincoln, most of all, is a conservator of it to the future. He was assassinated. The union is not assassinated. One fall, and another fall. The soldier drops, sinks like a wave, but the ranks of the ocean eternally press on. Death does its work to obliterate a hundred, a thousand, presidents, general, captains, privates. But the nation is immortal. Listen, Pete, there's only a little more. I'm listening, Walt. You're the only passenger left now. And you can give all your attention to my poem. Go on. Yet each to keep and all, reprievements out of the night, the song, the wondrous chant of the grey-brown bird, comrades' mind and eye in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I love so well, for the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and land, and this for his dear sins. Lila can star and bird, twine with a chant of my soul, there in a fragrant pine, and a seed of dust. What do you think, Pete? Well, it's hard to put it into words, but, well, it's big. It has to be for him. Yeah, and a common man, even a man like me, can understand it. I don't know, but I guess it was great. Sort of a masterpiece, maybe. What do you say you call it, Walt? It's called, when lilac slaps in the door-yard bloom. The times are full of great portents in these states and in the whole world. The horizon rises. It divides I perceive for a more august drama than any of the past. All men have played their part. The act suitable to them is closed. Frontiers and boundaries are less and less able to divide men. The modern inventions are interlinking the inhabitants of the earth together as groups of one family. Never did the idea of equality erect itself so hotly and uncompromising amid inequality as today. Never was there more eagerness to know. Never was the representative man more energetic, more like a god than today. What historically knew more are these we are approaching. No man knows what will happen next. Who shall play the hand for America in these tremendous games? Would you like to know more of the life and times of Walt Whitman portrayed in the program you just heard? A handbook containing life stories of 13 great leaders in the struggle for human liberty has been prepared as an interesting supplement to the broadcast series. To obtain your copy, write for We Came This Way. Address your requests to Columbia University Press, Station J, New York 27, and enclose 25 cents in coin to cover costs of printing and mailing. Tonight's script was written by Myron Golden and was directed by Norman Felton. Original music was composed by Emil Sodastrom and conducted by Joseph Galicchio. The role of Walt Whitman was played by Mckay Morris. Others in the cast were Phillip Lord, Rita Ascot, Claire Baum, Art Seltzer, Bertha Creighton, Sidney Brees, and Art McConnell. This series is presented each week as a public service of the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations. Next week, We Came This Way will be heard at a new time over some of these stations. Consult your newspaper for complete details. Your announcer is Dave Rogers. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


Hello, this is Yanis Zolofakis addressing you from Athens on behalf of the Progressive International. This is the first time the Progressive International is in situ in Australia, in us, doing important things. And what could be more important than the Burmese tribunal on behalf of Julian Assange and the immensely important campaign to secure his freedom and his life on behalf of all whistleblowers, all journalists, all people around the world who care about free expression, free journalism and for the possibility that we may glean, just about glean the truth about what our governments do on our behalf in our name. But first a few words about the Progressive International. It was late in 2018 when Bernie Sanders myself and quite a few others met in Vermont, in the great state of Vermont, in the United States and issued a call, a call to all progressives around the world To do that which the authoritarians, the fascists and the bankers have been doing so successfully for youngs, unite in order to pursue a progressive agenda against the agenda of the nationalists, the racists, the fascists and of course the bankers. Officially the Progressive International was put together by DM25, the splendid pan-European transnational democratic movement that we set up in Berlin, in Europe back in 2016 and the Sanders Institute. Since then the Progressive International has spread its wings across the world with campaign against Amazon, against the exploitation of people and nature in Africa, Asia, in Latin America, in North America and Europe. It was about time we came to Australia. On a personal note let me express my utter jealousy as all of you who are gathered in a splendid great hall a stone's throw from the Meriwether building where I spent 12 good years lecturing economics and political economy at the University of Sydney. I mentioned that period of my life because it was in the 1990s. At the time I believe my great friend Philip Adams was also being made aware of Julian Assange's ambitions for creating serious problems for those who are trying to usurp power straight out of our hands and wield it in misanthropic campaigns. Reading about Julian Assange back then was a great relief for me. For the first time I felt there was an answer to what George Orwell was prognosticating in 1984. Since Big Brother was always going to gain the technological means to peer into our lives, to turn us into transparent beings. Julian's answer was to use the same technologies that Big Brother was turning against us to construct, think of it as a large-scale digital mirror which we turn towards the face of Big Brother. So while he is watching us we can be watching him. That was the essence of WikiLeaks and that is the reason why the global establishment is so inimical to WikiLeaks and so determined to destroy the life and spirit of Julian Assange. For us at the Progressive International, at TM25, here in Greece, Political Party Marriott 25, Julian Assange is not just a celebrated cause. He is a comrade, he was a founding member of TM25. He appeared on the screen at the Fox Brune Theater in Berlin with us when we introduced TM25 to the world. For us Julian Assange signifies and symbolizes resistance to exorbitant power and to a ruthless tiny oligarchy determined to destroy the world if needs be, to preserve its own power. Liberating Julian Assange, saving his life and his spirit is a duty for all of us. Speaking also as an Australian citizen, I want to call upon Mr Albanese, the Australian Prime Minister, to move heaven and earth in order to unsally the bad name of previous Australian governments and the Australian state that stood idly by while one of its citizens was effectively taken to the cleaners by a recalcitrant, violent series of American administrators. Mr Albanese, free Julian and bring him home. But friends, we are not here today simply to issue calls and to defend Julian, his body, his spirit and his legacy. This is the Belmarsh Tribunal. Our decision was the Progressive International to hold Belmarsh Tribunals, first in London, then in the United States, now in Australia, wherever we can. Stems from a prior decision, our decision to go well beyond simply defending a man whose only crime was to unveil powers, dirty secrets. We have pleaded for too long for them to stop torturing his body and mind. We have spent too long warning the good people out there that first they came for Julian, then they will come for anyone who tells a truth inimical to the interests of the very few. We have used too much energy trying to impress upon journalists who have not lifted one finger to defend Julian Assange that their profession is under threat if Julian's persecution continues. Enough. The Belmarsh Tribunal is all about trying those who are guilty of crimes against humanity and those who are trying to cover them up by persecuting Julian Assange. If we are truly in the business of allowing unalloyed truth to shine through, we must make the transition from defending Julian Assange from warning against the dire consequences of him being extradited to the supermax prison system of the United States. From explaining to the apathetic that their apathetic is feeding into their helplessness, we must make the transition to turning the tables against those who are persecuting Julian. We must turn the current judicial process into a process for trying those who killed innocent civilians who maimed and murdered journalists, who shrouded whole communities in pain and tears. We must turn Julian's prosecutors into defendants and in so doing allow the great jury out there a well-informed demos to reach the verdict that history demands. This is not hard to do. Thanks to WikiLeaks we have all the information we need. The evidence is at our fingertips. We need to remind even those who still claim to be liberal that to save what is left of liberal democracy's instruments we need to take the fight to Julian's accusers.  For this reason I salute the Belmarsh Tribunal, I salute today's event, I salute all of you for being here, either as speakers or as active observers. Above all, I salute Julian for having sacrificed so much so that we can accuse all those who deserved to be accused, as is our duty. Free Julian Assange.


In this video we're going to go through this robotics penny stock, so this is a penny stock involved in the robotics industry I think it's got a lot of potential, we'll go through the research, we'll go through the information I've got for you in this video including some of the benefits I believe that there is for this particular company but also some of the slight concerns but we'll go through all the relevant information in this compact straight to the point video if you appreciate the direct approach then do leave a like on the video, it does help it out get up into that YouTube search results and algorithms so that more people are shown to more people and more people click on the video so thanks for all the support on the channel, we're growing to that 10,000 subscriber let's go into the penny stock and get right into the information though so the company we're talking about is Titan Medical I recently mentioned this in one of my top list and I did say I was going to make a video on this stock and I'm following through with that promise and saying that I was going to make a video on this Titan Medical, what is it? Titan Medical, we believe that robotics assisted surgery technology can be greatly advanced we are committed to enhancing robotics assisted surgery through technology that requires only one patient access site our goals are improved patient outcomes, lowering operating room costs and applied technology that is both effective and easy to use, allowing medical professionals to perform their best our robotics assisted surgery system in development, the NOS single access surgery system so they're trying to produce this surgery system that actually reduces the patient trauma and scarring that can be reduced and make sure they recover faster, so going further into this information you've got this particular image that actually shows what the system is so you've got the 3D display which is to provide balance of surgical immersion and situational awareness in the operating room so it's got that 3D camera screen there of the situation that's going on it's got the differentiation in terms of it's got simplistic controls which is really important but also it's very efficient in what it does, so simplicity and efficiency it's also got an ergonomic workstation in terms of the natural handle interface designed to enable comfortable surgical posture even during long procedures so again this is important really as part of the surgery procedure process this gives this is a good unique selling point in terms of that it's a comfortable product to use as a surgeon now before we move on to more about this stock and some of the benefits and concerns I've got for it please do like the video to get it right up into the YouTube algorithm and I want to say thank you to everybody who's helping me reach towards that 10,000 subscriber we are getting so close to that goal so thank you for all the support let's get back into the information now a good point about this stock is the credibility of this stock partially because they've got many peer reviewed aspects here where the peer reviewed the actual system that they use and having these peer reviewed abstracts actually adds credibility to their products and what they're trying to sell which is really important when it comes to the medical industry in particular robotics in surgery right these are areas that require a large amount of credibility and having these peer reviews is really important as a process of that and again you can see more peer reviews here moving on so you've got the development and license agreements for what they're producing here so they're leveraging Titans technology an intellectual property with license payments of up to 41 million provided certain milestones are achieved first milestones met and the received actually already 20 million already Titan maintains IP rights necessary to independently develop and commercialize its single access robotic technology this is really important that they've got that IP there so that when they start to commercialize these products more and more then they're able to do that it's also established a US subsidiary and its purpose built space in robotics technology near the product development service provider serves as a US operational headquarters and then you've got the development so what was the development like so they've recruiting technical management and engineering talent this is key to the development and the improvement of the product to make sure it's the best product possible by actually looking at that expansion of talent and getting those staff involved in there that can help grow the company so it's to lead the next to keep product development in concert with service providers it's got growing intellectual property now over 150 patents awarded or pending this is great why make sure they've got competitive advantage because nobody can copy what they're doing if they've got it patent protected and it says here as I said 150 awarded or pending so what is some of the benefits of the company first of all it's in a emerging industry the robotics industry itself is an emerging industry and is only going to grow even further and particularly there's a great application for robotics when it comes to surgery procedures and what they're doing there I can really see the market for this and the potential market for this so I do believe that this is only an emerging industry and these might be one of those winners in this emerging industry it's also a useful product I mean if you look at the product itself what it's doing you know in terms of ease of use and what it's trying to do and I think that it's a useful product what they've got my only concern on this particular stock is of course the volatility on this stock I mean it is a penny stock so what do I suggest you do well obviously I always suggest to do your own research don't just take my analysis what I think about the stock for it as what you should base your decisions off never do that I'm not a financial advisor business teacher I understand some business fundamentals but I'm by no means an expert so do your own research and it's important to do that why because if you do your own research and you buy the stock and then it say dips 20% you're then not going to panic sell because you like me believe in the quality of the product and what they're doing so that's really important and you can always as if it dips heavily you can buy the dips en route to the run up as well so which is really important but I do think that this stock has got the potential to double fast this one of these penny stocks that could double fast in my opinion within the next three to six months I would say it's going to have that ability to double up from its current level at some stage okay now the current price what is the current price at so it's at $2.54 you got Titan Medical here the ticker symbol T M D I and after hours of $2.55 okay it did have this massive drop-off now between sort of the 27th 28th and 29th there was a bit of overall the overall market was down now because the overall market was down it has a bigger impact on these penny stocks okay so this is ultimately potentially creating a buying opportunity hit that $3.40 level it's come down to $2.55 I think if you can get it anywhere in these low $2 range I think that's a buying opportunity on the run up to $4 to $5 okay I really do think that I think it's got a lot of potential as a company so thanks for watching this video hopefully you appreciate the direct approach of getting right into the information for you and so do like the video if you did appreciate that then also subscribe to the channel and turn on the notifications so that you first get notified whenever we create a new video particularly on penny stocks which are very volatile right so thanks for watching thanks for all the support and I'll see everybody in the next one