One of the very traditional Chinese experiences is it's better to do drugs than to do stock market.  Whoa, this stock trading guru just missed out on $100,000 while filming this video with us. I hope it was worth it. So today we're here with Stephen Dux.  He's gonna try to explain to us how he flipped $27,000 into $3 million. He'll also tell you what you can learn from him and how he likes to address his doubters on the internet. Let's go meet the guy. You know what's significant about this? Is that, Stephen, you're originally from Chongqing? Yes. Chongqing is one of the biggest cities in China. Correct. But it's in Sichuan. And we're here at Chongqing Yao Mei, which is a Chongqing hot pot restaurant here in Pasadena. And I mean, the food looks amazing, man. Yo, guys, I want to talk about this mushroom log right here. This is crazy, man. She said to cut the mushroom off the log and then it's straight into the pot. Straight into the pot. Let's do it. So you got the most known from turning $27,000 and flipping that in the $3 million. Yeah, in about two years. So we're way past $3 million now. Yeah, we're past $3 million now. So you go to Cincinnati. Usually when a lot of people they want to come to America, they may not choose Cincinnati as their choice, right? Yeah, my parents are very traditional parents. So they don't really know outside of the country. So we basically got scammed by this one agent. Scammed, OK. And it put me into Cincinnati. I had watched so many of your interviews and I didn't know that's how you ended up in Cincinnati. What are your first impressions of Cincinnati? You get there or are you just like, what? The first impression is why people here so big. Because I was looking for a different style of education because when I went to the Chinese school, everybody knows that it's very strict. You have to study the books. You have to finish the exam and get good grades. That's what you need to do. But in here, they give you the chance to create stuff. Then I was telling my teacher that I want to do a different mechanics for the prox, the proxing to the wall. And the teacher just smacked me and said, don't think about everything about that. Just get good grades. That's it. So you were trying to innovate on the systems that were existing, whether that was a new, electric one. I'm giving ideas, yeah. It seemed like from a young age you were always thinking a little differently. Yeah. So how'd you learn English so well? I had this one friend, Dante's. Dante? Dante. Other than that, I had an American girlfriend two years later. So that's how I guess I used to think a bit better. Nice. Yeah. Hey, girl? Yeah. What are the steps between that and like, yo, I want to become super successful and rich and wealthy and make my own way? At that time, it was hard cool playing this game called Starcraft 2. I got into very top tier and pretty much world championship tournaments. After that, I had this one girlfriend, which you guys know. We broke up, but I did put a lot of work in there. So once it broke, I was thinking myself, oh, I need to get better. OK, so you felt like it was something wrong with you? Or maybe something that you were lacking? Yeah. OK. So maybe I'm lacking money. Yeah, a very classic story motivated by women. Not wrong, it just is sometimes. I was looking for different industries to invest. I don't have that much money, about $20,000. When I look in the real estate, I have to recontract and stuff like that. My English was not good at that time then. So I just completely ditched the way. The second thing I looked at is the stock market. And the only thing you need to do is just to look at the chart. You don't need to talk to people. You don't need to read stuff. It's all based on technical reading. And I did another way of how to really use small capitals to grow into a bigger capital. Since $20,000 is not that much money, but it's not a very small amount of money. So you're stuck in that very awkward zone that you have no idea how to really grow. When you're trying to grow your money into all those Microsoft or Tesla, it doesn't really give you a really good risk award because they move so slow. They take years and years and years to grow. What are those called? Large cap? Large cap. Large cap is companies that are worth about $500 million or more. Most of the time we'll see over $1 billion. So those type of market caps, it's very difficult for you to invest. Either you have to invest in long term or you have a lot of money or hedge funds. But none of us have that kind of capital. At that time, I was thinking, OK, so if I pick a high risk, high reward, what if I can control the risk? Then I can only get the high reward. So if I can control the risk of low risk and low reward, if I control the risk to a very small amount, I still get the low reward. So I was doing research on small caps. I will say, OK, well, how much percentage can small cap grow in one day? Then I tracked about one month of statistics that small cap can grow 2,000% in a day. So if I have $20,000, catch that 2,000%, I can grow $20,000 into a lot of money. First trade, I got extremely lucky. I think I invested about $12,000 and made $40,000. The first day, I went into the small cap. Of course, the second, I think the third trade I pretty lost all the $40,000 again from the first trade. Is it like gambling? It's not gambling. To be honest, I've been tracking the statistics for almost five years. The pattern that I've been tracking has about, some of them has 93% winning percentage. So if I see this type of pattern, I size it in at least $300,000 and then make $150,000 per day. It doesn't really happen that often. It happens about five times a year. Have you developed it or you? Some of it I developed it, some of it I didn't. But some of it I improved it based on the basics. Yeah, a lot of people asking me, okay, so if you are making this much amount of money, this is three million to five million per year, why are you now working for a hedge fund? Very good question. Also, I can't get over like, for hedge funds, you're holding somebody else's money. So if you win, that's good. If you lose, you're losing somebody else's money. So that's why I can't get over that. I did get invited of a hedge fund before, but that's not for me. So you're not making the most money you possibly can? Cause I don't have that big of money to make 20 million dollars per day. But it will take me years and years to develop a new, different pattern because the pattern doesn't really work on the bigger caps. So you have to innovate more patterns. And that's just a whole different world, right? Yeah, it's a whole different world. It's more competitive too. When you mean pattern real quick, what is a pattern? Pattern is, let's say every time when the stock hits this specific level, it goes down. And you can repeat 80 times and 60% of the time or 70% of the time they win. So that's called the pattern. So you got a fix in the game? No, not a fix. I was able to calculate certain patterns using algorithms. The patterns are visual, right? Patterns are visual, yeah. Okay, so it's literally like a graph. It's a graph. So you're basically looking at the numbers and the visual data and coming up with a way to track the spikes and predict the spikes. Correct, yeah. That's the right explanation. Would you call yourself an independent stock trading team? It's like a retail trader. Retail trader. Yeah, so I started to build my own data to base on the first win trade that, okay, I wanna track this one trade, similar market cap, similar action, similar pattern, similar charts, everything is similar. I wanna track what's the exact winning percentage on this specific pattern that I just did of a lucky trade. So the perfect, perfect entry for me, for a further system is two. If it's machine, does it. And for human, it's about 1.5. So once you look at the human reaction and you look at the machine reaction, then you can find, okay, well, there's about 0.5 gap. Now next time, I'm going to try to improve based on the human action. So then I'm trying to get 1.7, 1.8, getting closer to the perfect system. So are you saying your ability, your huge advantage was that you're part machine? Yes, I will say the more machine like you can think.  One of the keys, and you guys, you always talk about this, is like taking the emotion out of it. When you get emotional, you make irrational decisions, you rush through things, you panic, you get frantic. Those are all things you want to avoid when you're dealing with stocks and money, right? I'll be honest, I try to dip my toes in stocks a little bit, which is on the app. And even me, I was like checking, I was like, oh, it went down today. Oh, it keeps going all weekend, it still went down.  And then already, I was like, oh, I'm being so emotional about this. I'm so not Steven right now. People go into the stock market blind. They don't know what the stock market is. They don't know what bigger cap or small cap is. They don't even know the terminology. And when they go in, they just basically throw money at people that are like us. Right. That's exactly what I did. What you're saying is pretty much the average behavior and forgive me for my language.  And the reason I can call them that is because when it comes, that's me. I am average Joe dumb.   You don't really know what crypto is. I really didn't know. I watched like three videos and I read like three pages, you know, like summaries. And it peaked when I was in New York, it peaked at like what is 1920. And I got it on the way down. And I was like, oh yeah, I got to get in on this game. And then it went down even more. It was just 6,000. So can you explain to me what I was thinking as Mr. Average Joe dumb? All the social media that not just you guys, those people that heard about Bitcoin is pretty much our moms and stuff like that. They have no idea. Even I have a clue of what Bitcoin is. And it caused like a chain reaction of people bound to basically chasing the stock. Now. The sheep, the sheep are chasing. The sheep are chasing. So now one of the very important behavior of stocks is you can see the stock trend is starts to speeding up. That means people are getting emotional. When the stock is spiking, people are feel like, okay, oh God, I missed the action. I need to get in this game. When the stock is starting to speeding up, there's more volume going in. More volume is more Bitcoin injected into the stock market. When the stock speeds to the certain point and you can track that how far or how much percentage beginning of the slower trend spikes and starting with that. You can track that starting point and track the end point for any type of industries. Typically they speed up about like, say generally 50%, 70%. At that 70%, you're looking for the first people who sell. So typically when the stock come up, they're a huge spike, they follow with a huge downtrend. Right, because people are, the other people who bought it earlier are like, this is my time to exit and make a bunch of money, right? Yeah. And people who are chasing it say, oh God, it's dropping. So, so, so, so, so, so. So when they kick sale and cause a huge downtrend and a lot of people did not get out. But the retail traders like you guys are stuck at the top of the game, at the top of the Bitcoin. I still didn't get out. I still didn't get out. You still have Bitcoin. When the stock bounces a little bit, I know, okay, well, those people did not get out when they bought at $20,000, I'm gonna show it. When you buy a stock, you expect the price to go up. On the other hand, when you short a stock, you expect the price to go down. Here comes the mentality. I bought at $20,000, the stock dropped to $15,000. I say, oh God, I gotta sell. And I cannot sell it right here, I'm gonna sell when I maybe get close to color even and I'm out of this game. So when the stock spikes, you will crash again because people are selling at that point and they don't want to cut it even. That's why I beg against it, then stock goes to $6,000. So you very much have a very strong grip of understanding of what Mr. Average Joe Dumbass is thinking. Yeah. If it goes bust, you can make 10 to one, even 20 to one return. No way. And no one's paying attention. Because I used to be a Mr. Joe Dumbass. I started from the beginning, I know exactly what you guys thinking because you guys are like me. One of the very important investing advice for like all of you guys is 90% of the people who are investing in the stock market lose money. And that 10% of the people always are doing the opposite of the 90% of the people are doing. So if you think, okay, all my people, all the people, all my friends and family around me are talking about Bitcoin, they're buying it, you know they are 90%. So you need to do the opposite. When they're buying Bitcoin, you need to not to buy Bitcoin. I should have talked to you like two years ago about this. Oh, you know what it was, David? We're like looking up MBA highlights and we're like, hey, should we get into Bitcoin? Yeah, yeah, maybe we should. That's not how you make money from Bitcoin. Mr. Joe Dumbass. Obviously Mr. Joe Dumbass probably got MSNBC or CNBC or whatever, you know, Bloomberg on. What do you think of that? If I'm doing the opposite the way of what they're saying, I can win about 60% of the time. So that means they're right 40% of the time. Yeah, even lower, even lower, that's the average. Based on prevailing sentiment, the market banks in popular culture, yes, it's a foolish investment, but everyone's wrong.  Do you think we can go? Can you help us move past the Joe Dumbass? Help make us help un-Joe Dumbass. Guys, on another note, this hot pot was really good. Really good. And guess what? That spicy side is really freaking spicy, man. Yeah, Chongqing has a little bit more flavor and Chengdu is a little bit more spicy. Yeah, I'm just saying, man, they give you the fresh mushroom log. Yo, it looked like a baguette. All right, guys, we're gonna finish up eating and then we are gonna get really technical and Steven is gonna help us take the first step out of the Dumbass. All right, Steven, we are here in an office and behind us is your stock trading platform live, straight from your computer. Things are going on and something crazy just happened. I was talking to one of my students that when the stock gets close to that 7.5 area, we were short. Now, so this is when you were attacked. This is where I was attacked at seven. Then I look at it where it at, it's at 3.5. So by filming this video, I lost about 150,000. All right, so on this part, Steven's gonna actually explain how on the car ride up from Orange County today, he missed an opportunity to profit $100,000. And these opportunities don't come around every day. Typically with, this is patterns color, one of the patterns called gap up short. And it's very one of the very strict, restricted criteria. And you pretty much admit about every single criteria. Only we call the high of 7.5 as a resistance. The high of 7.5 as a resistance. When stock drops about 75% of its own gain, repushes to the high and a little bit close to the high. So you wanna leave a little bit of range and the peak of around number, which is around seven. So if you put a seven line, that's right. That's exactly where the entry is. So if you short it here, size it a little bit, it'd say 30,000 shares or 40,000 shares. So you make about $3 to $4 per share. 40,000 times four, that's 160,000. That's the profit. You saw a second spike. And the second spike wasn't as high as the first spike, which leads you to believe there was gonna be a steep drop off. Yes. Now, if you take a deep look of this chart, all right. So when you look at the stock market, as soon as the market open, right, you see a huge drop, you're emotional. So people who bought at open got trapped. So they say, I bought at 6.2, now I dropped about 5.5, I'm nervous. Oh, you're panicking. I'm panicking. Think in your head, you already lost more. It's gonna drop more. So I see the stock coming back and I say, oh, I feel good. I feel good about myself. And once the stock keeps going, keeps going, then once it hits to a certain point, people right here starting taking profits because, oh, I don't wanna hold this anymore because I already entered around six. And when they see this huge red candle pop down, they say, oh, God, because this one was so fast. This one was about 30 seconds. So when it's 30 seconds, the stock drops about $1, you gotta be panicking. So the next reaction for you will be selling the stock. So it'll cause chain reactions, chain reaction keeps trending down because people keep buying it and people are buying it and keep selling it down. Do the people in the small caps, do they know anything about Austin Innovation? Do they know what it does? Like, do you study it? Or you're like, I don't even know what they're selling. This company, no, I have no idea what's the company gonna do, no. Right, you don't know if they're in medical or you don't know. So you don't have to know anything about the company. No, you don't know. Like, you don't have to know if they got a new product coming out or if their CEO is about to step down. No, not that. You're just looking at the pattern. Because by general statistics, 99% of the microcap always fail. So microcaps is around under 100 million. So it qualifies as a small cap. Small cap always fail in a long run. Right, because this is only worth 25 million. So it's very volatile. The graph, like maybe let's, can we pull up like a big cap company and see that it doesn't look like this today, correct? Yes, now this is a bigger cap. It's worth about 38 billion. And you see the range of moving. So this is Tesla right here. Tesla, yeah. So 219 goes to 212. If you enter here and exit here, it only makes $7 out of $200 stock, right? So that's about, what, 2%. But since as a retail trader, we don't have that much money. So buying this, it has pretty much a zero risk award. So it's basically like, if you have a small amount of money, it's better to play the smaller companies. Yeah. Because how many shares can I afford? Let's say I can only buy 10 of Tesla. Then I'm, even if I short it, I may only... Let's say 10, then you short here, you buy it here, you make $7. So seven times 10, you make 70 bucks per day. So this is basically why you would never day trade these gigantic stocks like Tesla and Amazon. Yeah, you invest at 20,000, you make 70 bucks. When did your parents say when you first were like, you know what, I'm gonna go into small caps. It's a lot more volatile, a lot more risk reward goes up, but I'm, I devised a plan to get more reward than risk. They said it's better, one of the very traditional Chinese experiences, it's better to do drugs than do stock market. What about the Chinese stock market? Is there any money to be made there? What you do? So Chinese stock market, it's regulated. So the maximum moving up percentage would be 10% per day. That's the maximum. He moves to 10%, then stock market stops for you today. And if he moves down 10%, stock market stops for you today. So this one is free movements. So you can move 50% down on one day. So you can make that gigantic risk reward in one day. Is it because China wants to kind of limit the volatility where they don't want the crazy gains and crazy losses? It's controlled market. For your style of investing that you've innovated and developed, what is the base amount that people need to be able to like even begin to test the waters? 5,000. So let's say $500. What should I do with $500? Is there anything I can do on any platform that would at least be helpful to me? Okay, so if you have $500, you gotta be really careful with the commissions because some of the brokerage rips commissions. So. They get money per trade, right? They get money per trade, like E-Trade, Shure Trader, or Robin Hood. Those three brokers need to stay away if you have like a very small amount of money. So with $500, micro cap I think is for you. Micro cap. Micro cap. So that's smaller than small caps. That's smaller than small caps. And you can focus on either you go extreme, billions of dollars of market cap, then you dip buy because dip holds much better compared to small caps. If you are using, let's say, a billion dollar cap loses 20% in one day, then you dip buy, you have a much better chance to make money. And for micro caps, it sometimes removes a thousandth of a percent. If you get lucky, you can make a lot of money. A lot of people say the micro caps, I think are like the little startups that just started that maybe have a chance to blow up. No, micro caps is anywhere between like under 10 million. So first you have to pick the right market. NASDAQ, New York Exchange, and OTC. You do not wanna pick OTC and pink sheets and that's not for you. Execution will be extremely bad. So I would recommend NASDAQ only. When I started, I spent about 10 hours a day. 365 days, I did not take a break. Zero break.  Like beautiful mind, right? Making charts everywhere. The creating patterns will be a little bit more difficult than learning a pattern. So I would say I already created a pattern. People only come to learn, then it will be much quicker for them to learn instead of trying to create a pattern. Let me show you a little bit more extreme. So today, look at this drop. Whoa! Nine to four. Look at how much range that can be made per day. Right, this is applied, this is ARCI and this is a micro cap, right? This is micro cap, correct. Because it's worth less than 10 million. Yeah, correct. So what happened? So you could have made a lot of money here. Yeah. But you didn't see, is this a pattern? This one happened right after that. People want to buy breakouts. So when a breakout happens, it used to pass the yesterday high. So people would buy the breakout above $7 area and when it goes down under $7 area, I know people who bought the breakout are all trapped. When they're trapped, they want to sell. When they sell, I will add another $7 pressure, make them even panic even more. So that's how I panicked. So I probably should have around $6 to $7 area and make about $3 per share. Probably about 35% of the investment. If you were watching this and you saw it jump to nine, I wouldn't be touching. This is not touching. Not touching because you don't know where the backlog is. You don't know where people are holding. But you don't know where people are trapped. As soon as the reaction happens, you know where the people are trapped. So you want to be patient, wait and see, wait and see, wait and see. That's where people always say impatient. Patient is a smart word for trading the market because sometimes you've been patient and not looking for the right pattern, you still lose money. What pattern is this? This pattern is like losing momentum for microcaps. One of the, this is not a very specific pattern. This is fake outs for microcap and loses entire momentum. You know what's funny when you talk about stocks? It's like, I don't know if you guys have ever watched when Kobe Bryant is breaking down all his offensive possessions on uninterrupted. Like he just tell, yeah, when Kobe Bryant is just breaking down every single possession when he's like, okay, my man was to the left. He had his right foot back. So I jab stepped here and I knew that he was gonna back up two inches because I had just driven, you know, got to lay up on him previously.    You just breaking down everything. Pretty much predicted. Yeah, what I do is when I track those patterns I will track the frequency of the pattern, how much, how many times they happen per year. I can generate a sheets that how much money I can make. It's a similar game, how much money I can make per year. So if I miss a play or I messed up a play, I won't be getting emotional because I know this is how much money I can make. You read, I mean, you can read it. You can read it. You can read the matrix. But you're saying that with any amount of study a person can also learn to read the matrix. Yes. So I would say people can, needs to put about like two hours to four hours. It would take them like a year or two to pretty much get all the technicals. Yeah. Okay. What is a hard stop, a hard out and you said you don't recommend it? Is that when you're shorting something and what does that mean? Especially on this ARCI, this ticker, when you want to short, you do not want to short like when it's on the breakout because you don't see any momentum. You don't see any pattern. This is why you are trading basically by reacting. But that one, OSN, it's pretty much predicted. So you will know the exact statistics. Right, because there was more spikes, right? Yeah. So it fit a pattern. It fit a pattern. But that one, it doesn't really fit a pattern. So you can kind of pick that which one has a pattern, which one doesn't have a pattern. So the one doesn't have pattern, it's more risky. That's why it shouldn't be shorting. You just said you have a criteria that something has to fit before you go in. Yes. And what you have to make sure it hits every single green light. Yes. But what is it? Is it a common mistake that somebody goes, okay hit five out of six green lights. I'm still going in. Students always do that. Always do that. They always do that. It's every time I do remind them, please make sure to follow every single criteria before you make a trade. You said your female students tend to wait all the green criteria are hit more than the male students. They're more patient. I feel like maybe not as greedy. Not as greedy as man, yeah. You don't really need to hit a home run every single trade. You can make decent trade about 30 times per year to make about 200 to 300 thousand per year based on a 30 thousand investment. We wanna talk about some of the criticism that people have on the internet. What's one of the main criticisms that people say? I'll say I'm not real. And you know they're saying your profits are fake. Everything's not true, but here it shows exactly how much. So this is literally a statement? A statement per one month. There's my name right here. So it proves it's my statement. Your real name is Dooshio Shan. Yeah, that's my name. So the reason why my name is Steven Dux is that. That's why. So that's my last name. And now. You are tricking people. So now you can see the beginning value of February 28th will be 40 thousand. So I started account with 40 thousand, right? The end of the March 31st value is 292 thousand. So in one month I turned 40 thousand into 292 thousand. This is month I'm showing you that it's possible to turn a small account into a big account in one month. And I'm not even talk about in a year. Where would you rank this as far as like how good you did? Like. This one's probably one of the best. Months I did. Based on how much capital I have. This is when I was placing a bet with my friend. He said, I don't believe you. Show me how you did it. This is another broker that I use. It's called Trade Zero. This is from January 1st to 29th to January 31st, right? Now you can see net profit. So net profit if it goes down will be 243 thousand in one month. My name, that's my account number. So. You should put it out there like that. I mean. So would you say this is generally how a successful sheet would look like? Zeros, gains, losses, more gains than losses. There's always losses. You can't really avoid losses in the market. As long as you win more than you lose. We read a lot of the comments and we were looking for some more criticism. So we found some and some of these are comicals. Some of them are funny comments and some of them are trying to dig deeper and trying to find something. But one of them is like, oh man you must be of the Chinese mafia. I'm not a Chinese mafia, that's number one. Let's say a proof. I have a lot of money at the beginning. But at that statement, it showed I had $40,000 at the beginning and grow to $292,000. So even though I have a lot of money, I don't have the skill to grow that. So you're saying even if you inherited a bunch of money, if that was true, then you can still show people you have the skills, the knowledge and the patience. You're right, you still grew the 40 to 290. To make money. How would you sell programs and why would you try to teach people if you're already rich? So that's a very interesting thing because I started this education service as a good intention because you can see my statements. I can make $200,000 to $300,000 in one month easily. So times the year, it's about $30,000 to $40,000. Two to $30,000 comes to conservatively per year. And when I make this educational program because the first thing that went through at the very beginning of my career, I spent a lot of money. As a broke college student, you don't have that much money as $14,000 but I basically used my tuition for the stock market and I almost haven't had enough to pay my tuition. So I don't want people to go through the same stage that went on a couple years ago. Right, because you went through a rough learning phase where you lost a lot of money. This is BS. These patterns I found on the market scribbled on some pages. No, there are armies of PhD quants looking at you like things like this and the bottom line is simply these patterns don't exist. The kind of day trading he's doing is heavily penalized by the tax system and the brokerage houses. It's corrupt, but that's the game. You not only have to beat the market but beat it by way more than institutional investors to see any real gains if you're day trading. Okay, so institution people that they probably call hedge funds, they have millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars. In this market, when they invest into the specific microcaps, most microcaps were 10 to 10 zero. They would do offerings, warrants and all types of stuff. When they invest, no matter how much money you will get taken out by the company itself. So it's basically they are investing in an empty shell of company. That's why the institution never wants to go into this type of play. For the patterns, you can go track your statistics by yourself. What if someone says, it's not quite that simple because even if Steven makes 50K in a day he's going to get a short term capital gains tax of 38% right off the bat. The tax percentage, yeah, that's about right. There's some way you can deduct the short-borrow fees and the commission fees if you are running an LLC so that percentage will go down a little bit. But yeah, if you just blindly just using the capital gains, that's about right percentage. Every Tom, Dick and Harry sounds like a genius in a bull market, but in a bear market, Tom, Dick and Harry gotta go look for regular jobs. Basically saying like what your tactics and patterns is, it's working because there's a global trend of a bull market, but once it goes bear it's not gonna work anymore. Well for that reference I'm shorting, so the more bearish market it is, I'm making more money. Now for different markets, they say bull market or bearish market, the entire overall market does not have any correlation with the microcaps. I have tracked about 20,000 samples altogether. It does not have any correlation. So let's say the overall market is dropping today about two to 3%, then the microcap stocks can still go up 1000% in a day. There's many scenarios like that happen before. 3.5 million a year from a 19 year old stock kid. Okay, but there's an eight year old showing his toy cars from half eaten Kinder Eggs on YouTube and make it 22 million a year.  The stock kid, which is you, or the Kinder Egg kid. Yeah, there's people make a lot more money than me, but there's one thing I always had an advantage. I typically spend about 45 minutes every single day, that's it. And again, about three million dollars per year. That's so much financial freedom. I don't know, I do see a lot of haters at the beginning before I post my account statements and showing my like the audited statements and a lot of people are doubting, I understand that because people are like out of the industry, they're older than me, they're 30, 40 years old, and they see a 19 year old and doing better performances. It's really like, because they don't want to see you do it. Because they don't want to believe that they could have done it and they didn't. When you look at the people who are better than you, like before I started, there's one guy I'm really look up to, now he's one of the best friends. And at that time, I don't see him as like jealous or stuff like that. I look at him like, okay, I need to learn what he's telling me, I need to learn the message. And if you don't try to learn and try to hate, you will never become better, like that's just the fact. I feel like the way you're talking about it, man, it's no different than the way like Kobe approaches basketball. Kobe tries to learn the post moves from Akema Lajuan. He tries to learn some dribble moves from Chris Paul. He's really trying to build himself to be the best, you know. Different people have different talents, just be, what's the word, modest, there you go. Modest in- And willing to learn, but people who are better than you. Doesn't matter about the age, doesn't matter about where you're coming from. What was the first thing you bought with all the money that you made? Right off the bat, when I bought a McLaren, when I made my like first, I think it was the first million. Then after that, I bought a Ferrari, a Ferrari E8. And after that, I'm thinking buying another, the goal I want to buy is like a Koenigsegg. Eventually, I want to go into the energy sector. I want to build like free energies, go back to the engineering stuff. Oh, you want to go back to the engineering? Yeah, it's because at first, well, first it was the bro club, second is I have creative minds. Like I want to build something that I don't have enough funds to build. So after that, I will have enough funds I can build them all I want.  That would be more efficient. And she said, no, Steven, don't think like that. That's silly. And then you said, okay, let me make millions of dollars. Then I'm gonna come back to this idea. I don't really care about my legacy. I just want to, I care about like, how many people I can help and what I can do to this world when I like build stuff to benefit the world. The first minute I do get that like buying stuff is very fun and stuff like that. But once you had, what's the difference between let's say a $500,000 car and a million dollar car? Yes, there's a difference, but eventually it just comes down into showing off and as a driving tool. That stuff is like, it's fleeting. You get that feeling, but then that burst is gone. Yeah, that instant, it won't last over like six months. One thing I've noticed from me is that the people who are really successful and almost have this outlier tier of success, it's never those trappings that incentivize them because it can't, it can keep somebody going for a little while, a year, two years, three years, four years, five years. But once you get to a certain level, you gotta have something else that's fueling you. Where can people find out more about this? Because I had an amazing time even just researching this video. You can find out my website, it's stevendupsy.com and there's different tiers you can choose. If you are not feeling comfortable, you can choose whatever tiers you want. But if you want to really like dive into the market and starting with a small amount of money, then there's other programs you can choose. I like about Steven is like, did you just give it away? Yeah, I've been transparent. I don't really try to hide something. He is giving stuff away for free. Even though I give away for my account statements. He actually showed you his account number. You still will have to put it in the work yourself, right? Yeah, you still have to put it in the work of yourself. Like there's no free stuff that's coming. For me, my biggest takeaway from talking to you is that like you can't enter this world and not know anything about it. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. You know what it kind of reminds me of? And this is just the analogies from my world what I put my brain into. It's like taking a street ball player off like the court, even though they look good and putting them in the five on five in the NBA where they're running all these complex NBA play actions and sets and they're icing and they're running horns and they got all these complicated plays and the street ball guy is just completely lost. And he's like, dude, I thought basketball is basketball. Wrong. At an NBA level, the play actions are so complex. People are running zones, they're switching schemes, every other play. If you don't know what's going on on the court, you're gonna lose. Yes. Basically, if you want to win in any game, stock game or basketball and not end up like a Mr. Joe dumbass, you've got to increase your IQ and understanding of its inner workings. Steven Dux has a website all about it. You making this amount of money after putting that amount of work and thinking and studying and preparation is not crazy. It's not unbelievable. Put in the work to make it sound easy now after you did all the preparation, figured out the patterns, read all the books, spent money on all those courses first. You know, you went through all that. So that's why I think it's just because you're young, it looks like you haven't been through anything. Yes, correct. You started early. You started early. You went, you struggled early and then you made it out. Yeah, I know it's good to hear that you want to do something else after this. I think some people would think, oh, just keep making money, make 20 million, make 30 million, and then you're like, maybe I will, but maybe I won't. Maybe I want to do something else. Yeah, it's, yeah. Money's not the life goal at the end of the day. I don't know if you ever described your brain as a hard drive, but like I said, everybody kind of has a different brain, right?  But at the end of the day, everybody can make decisions as an adult about what they want to fill the terabytes of their hard drive with. What do you want to put in your hard drive? Definitely, if you want more information, check out the description in the link below. Tell us what you think. He addressed the criticism. And you want people to get at you in the comments, right? Yeah, I want people to give me the criticism. Hey, he said, come at me, bro. He said, how many more statements do you need to see? Aren't everybody thank you so much for watching that video, man. We a hop hop, we talked about your background. You talked about how to read the market, how you do things, and you even addressed the criticism that people have for you on the internet. And honestly, to address the criticism on the internet was an honorable thing to do because you don't have to. But anyways, guys, I hope you guys learned something because we learned a lot and I'm sure you guys have a lot of questions. If you guys have comments for Stephen, he'll read them. But thank you so much. Check out his information down below. And until next time, we out. Peace. So talking to Stephen today made me realize a few things. Number one, most people are like us, you know, the 90%. We followed what everyone else was doing and we ended up losing thousands of dollars in crypto. Pretty average human psychology, according to Stephen. We know about a lot of things, but stocks and crypto is not one of them. That's why we are one of those Mr. Joe dumb. Until we're not. And number two, there's still a lot of studying and practice involved in what he does. He's not just teaching you how to get rich. He's teaching you how to fish. And number three, you have to be patient. Wait for an opportunity that fits the pattern. Then make a move. Getting emotional about it is only gonna lead to irrational decisions. You gotta think like a machine. Gotta think like Stephen. So I major in environmental and chemical engineering. And one of my dream of the future is you can see a lot of people in the countries and countries fighting for energies. Never ending. Well, whether it's fossil fuels. No, fuels. If they can solve the energy that was coming from something that can generate tons of energy without costing too much of trying to fight, like countries trying to fight, then that would be my goal. To see that people not be fighting. You still play Starcraft? Yeah, still. Real quick, I gotta ask the, you know what, everybody was commenting. They were saying over all the videos you've made over the years on YouTube, your English got progressively better. It's because I'm practicing. Same thing goes to the stock market.


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Hey, this is Brett and this 2017 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Long Box is stock number 12916Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, near new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2017 Ford F-250 has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine. This truck has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around in this video, inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood. Caraboo Brown Metallic is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. 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olutely adamant that we keep those social trails on the airport land um social trails are an an interesting issue um and i don't think that uh you know the there's this promise to build the fence uh but i just want to say that i've seen the defense of social trails the uh the the incredibly powerful defense of social trails um from a whole another camp of people so just a comment um i think that where i come down on the stormwater situation is this i'm very i i can really understand the concerns of the neighbors and appreciative of you all bringing us those concerns um and the the videos are very uh powerful testimony about the uh stormwater that you all are facing i think that as i see it there are a couple of options for the developer one is the annexation in which case there will be the enforcement of the 100-year storm catchment the other option and more homes the other option is that there will be eventually this this this area will be built on septic and there will be fewer homes but there will also be uh as miss young pointed out that the county only enforces the one-year stormwater runoff and so i think that given that and i understand um yeah so i think given that that i think that overall for the stormwater situation that you all are facing this is probably a better result um we don't know when it would be was developed later on septic but i think that's certainly it's sure to come i do think there's another important advantage of this that has nothing to do with you all or anything to do with um anyone that lives there now which is that a couple different things one is it's by annexing we need housing supply and as a community and by annexing there will be more housing supply which is an important need that we have it helps keep our housing affordability it's important aspect of housing affordability and the other thing is that this is a wonderful park and um we need it's it's good to have more people living in this kind of proximity to this park and i think that's it's the same as i feel like about central park downtown um that we've added a lot of density around central park downtown and it contributes to the number of people are able to enjoy it so i think that that is something that is also advantageous about this i do have one question for the developer um would you be willing to um provide the off-site improvement at trinity school or contribute to that improvement to reduce the runoff from the trinity school area mayor schul what type of contribution i mean i'm i'm clear financial a financial contribution to the school's i could current plans i'm you know mr gosh these aren't committed elements we know that they're all making promises so here's what i'm asking you if trinity school is making improvements or is considering making improvements to its drainage channel the channel that we saw in the video in order to reduce this runoff and that we know that the total volume of water coming off of kendrick although not the peak flow would be larger would be more significant given this given the development would you all be willing to make a financial contribution should trinity school go forward with this with this redevelopment with this uh improvement give me a second okay would you clarify again just the uh you mentioned the the piece about the additional volume of water without the improvement or the re-channeling of the corner could you just kind of walk through that i know you've had some some conversations with other other staff about you may not have to be completely versed what what your understanding that is that that would potentially cause you to have a maybe a little different opinion about the volume of water i think you said something about without that improvement the volume of water would would increase well so without the storm water device being proposed by the applicant with this i'm being required of the applicant if is what's approved tonight um there will be uncontrolled flow from every location north of where the device is proposed so the speed of the water the scouring it's uh how quickly the conditions that were shown in those videos we see high volumes of water running and scouring um would definitely be dramatically reduced but the overall total volume of water that would eventually run out of that device slowly controlled would be higher so am i i'm answering the then you made a comment something about but without some improvement to the the trinity school right so the the trinity school is making some very modest um i think it's adding a small one or two small buildings in the property they would not be required normally to to complete this conveyance essentially along the entire rear of the hope creek development which is what's being contemplated here to really help reduce the problem that the neighbors brought to you all tonight so um what um mr urwin our staff engineer told me was that um there's a relatively modest cost to trinity because they're doing other improvements they'll have equipment and and crews deployed so i'm still not sure i'm getting at your question but are there other more substantial improvements that that could be made there that would help the situation further than anywhere it really just requires piping and channelization of of the area that was shown in the neighbors video where there's standing water and running water that that be piped similar to what is upstream uh the first speaker uh homeowner one i'm sorry i forgot your name sir um had showed the uh the large the three barrel uh bridge that's really you know very high quality that's 30 plus inch pipe really would be matching that type of pipe um downstream to convey it through so that's what that's what trinity would need to do in order to help substantially reduce the the flooding condition that's yeah but since that's that's permittable yes okay it wouldn't be all channelized it would be a combination of riprap and piping but yes it is permittal thank you uh council member cubby arrow oh i'm sorry you're gonna respond to that first oh okay to the yeah to the prior question from mayor shul so i'm sorry i miss uh the conversation that was going on in the meantime so our understanding is that the school is working on um increasing the channel to match the upstream which i think is currently the issue and you know they're already working on that and basically if that's going to happen then uh don't think that there is a financial contribution that that baker residential could make that would help that anymore if that doesn't happen i think that is something that that uh you know baker could consider at that time but right now our understanding is that the the recommended improvement for trinity school is actively being worked on by mac Adams i should also mention that mac Adams also is the engineer for uh kendrick estate's project and our mac Adams engineer is here although he's not working on the trinity project but uh the understanding is that's what the school is doing already is increasing the channel to match the upstream so that's consistent with my understanding from talking to our public work staff i guess what i would emphasize though it's it's not clear to me that the city can require the full improvement that's being contemplated it is accurate as mr ghost just said that the trinity park is looking at doing that essentially trying to be a good neighbor for lack of a better term and try to benefit it also benefits their property they're having some of these same conditions that were shown thank you um councilmember cabillero and then council member freeman thank you i had a quick question because reading about the fence did i hear correctly that it would be wrought iron and five feet tall five foot tall it's the black aluminum that looks like right iron okay what the udo prefers yeah and it's a fence ordinance who prefers that okay in the udo that's the that's the time that's listed but you are allowed to do a like a eight foot tall opaque fence i suppose but the one that's mentioned is like a black aluminum fence okay because what i had been reading is that the idea was to have solid material not necessarily wrought iron i don't know if one of the um concerns is you know five feet is actually not very tall so you can still throw things over and critters are still going to come back and forth between wrought iron you might keep the deer out but if the goal is to kind of separate the wildlife completely from the park that's just out of curiosity no it's interesting that you mentioned that the uh i couldn't speak to the height i know one of the concerns was dumping uh like into the park area so uh maybe maybe five feet is not tall enough i'm not i don't know that there ever was a specific height that was recommended but the part of the issue was actually that this is a quarter a wildlife quarter so the fence does tend to prevent some of those movements and that's not what the intent is the intent is to prevent humans from moving into the park and in that regard i think the fence would work for that uh and then i have a second question are our folks going to be allowed to park the public going to be allowed to park in that cul-de-sac to access that um the trailhead right to yeah to the same it's a it'd be a public right of way that that calls that yes thank you thank you councilmember freeman um my question was for staff i was just going to ask um if you felt like it what it might be beneficial to hold on until trinity park or trinity um school actually completed the project to see how the improvements were having an impact in the in a neighborhood before moving forward with kendrick estates sure i'd really want to leave that to you all's judgment as i tried to state earlier in response to councilmember middleton's question um i look at this as a pre previously existing um drainage issue that primarily pertains to the inadequacy of the stormwater design of the hope creek subdivision the extent to which that this this is worsened is uh modest or negligible because it is improving the scouring and the flow even though there will be some modest increase in the water and that it does appear as if trinity school was pressing forward that's but if you all want to defer this until that action is completed prior to um completed by um trinity school we certainly respect that the um they would have to show on there there's a site plan currently under review they could depict it on the site plan but that they could always amend a site plan to remove it later and so really there won't be any guarantee um assure a hundred percent iron cloud assurance that this will be mitigated until that's installed which would very likely be you know six plus or minus six months at least so just so we're clear on the time timing that would be involved one other quick point on the fence if i might i'm sorry i know that wasn't directly a question councilmember freeman the design mr ghost referred to is certainly permissible but it's not required by the ordinance you know if it's except for the small portion that would be directly adjacent to the cul-de-sac and you'd be up to eight feet tall um that's which is allowable by the ordinance but the design is permissible that they described i was just going to say to my colleagues i mean recognizing that the residents in the community aren't against the development they're actually just trying to figure out how to make sure that the water is going to be mitigated and adding a development on top of it does feel like a heavy burden for the residents i recognize that i've had the same issue in my neighborhood i know lots of other residents who've had the same issue including um a resident on tanglewood who's facing the same a similar issue with three above ground sewer i would have it i wrote it down um raised sewer access in their inflow areas and so just noting like there's a lot of unmitigated items that could be brought into this situation that could need to be mitigated um just rushing through uh this process i do want to caution and just ask for um more time and recognizing that if trinity is already working to try and do some mitigation that we at least see what that looks like um prior to saying yes to a development at that location thank you council member are there any additional comments or questions from members of the council just one quick question for pat what assuming we did wait in trinity what went forward with their their plans bracketing out the political considerations what are the virtues from a planning point of view or or physically or that that could be derived from that in other words would that would that be a good phase activity in terms of actual physical impact on the problem sure so i i guess the the x factor here is i i don't have a sense really any sense of trinity's time frame on actually delivering the project site plans are good for four years so the site plans currently under review they would have is assuming it gets approved and say the next two or three months they would have up to four years um to deploy the both the building project that they have and the um the installation of the of the pipe so i just i don't have any sense of what their um time frame for to deliver that is and um without knowing that it's difficult to therefore assess the impact on on this development i mean you you need to talk to the applicant about their needs and that time frame but we really couldn't provide any kind of guarantee and and documentable reduction in the conditions you saw until that pipe would be installed and then operated for a pretty high intensity of rain event thank you and therein lies my concern i i appreciate the animating spirit of councillor freeman's um concern but without a representative here from trinity i mean two things i don't want to do i don't want to unduly reward a developer i don't want to unduly burden them either um and and without a representation from trinity as to when they know what the timetable is that here i i don't i don't know how operational i went that that speculation to be on my decision um tonight but i do i do appreciate the uh as i said the animating spirit of the concern thanks thank you initial would you like a motion madam impretum are there any additional thoughts comments great yeah i believe a motion would be thank you i i i'm appreciative of the uh all the different complicating issues i i don't think i think that the the alternative of leaving this unannexed and county uh will have potentially a worse stormwater effect on the on the neighborhood than the annexation with a hundred-year stormwater treatment um and i think that in many other ways this developer has worked very hard to meet the concerns that we asked for all the groups that we asked them to uh to meet with and um i'm impressed with that they need to keep their promises um yeah anyway so with that i'll move that we uh adopt the ordinance annexing kendrick will there be any discussion i believe we'll see if there's a second and then yes we can have discussion councilmember freeman so i just want to make note that i think um it's important to recognize in 1990 prior to the stormwater um regulations being put in place that these locations were all developed in the same manner based on rules and regulations and it's incumbent upon me to also note that that same floodplain was there and it was still developed in and as we move forward noting all of the shifts and changes that have not been addressed around stormwater um and the areas or the communities that have been set up prior to that 2002 2003 my growing concern is that we continue to to do more development in areas in which we know there was already water issues and they're not there's no plan there's not a clear cut way to address it and i considered i continue to have this issue i continue to raise this issue each time we talk about building where we know there's flooding or talk about um moving forward with developments knowing that there's flooding and so i just want to make a note there that um i cannot support this moving forward thank you councilmember um mademere oh are you gonna no you would you like to speak i would councilmember reese thank you so much mademere pro tem and i want to thank all my colleagues for their remarks so far i also want to thank all the folks from the journal public who came out to share their concerns about the development of this piece of property that's adjacent to what seems like a really lovely park i will express i will admit to some familiarity with this part of the city because for a very brief and lovely time my daughters attended the trinity school and so i spent a lot of time in the creek that we thought was a creek and now understand as a drainage ditch uh that runs through what the uh what the what the kids love lovingly called a hundred acres which is obviously much smaller than a hundred acres but they're kids it's okay um and um and somewhat familiar with this part of the city for that reason um you know we have this job is all about choices and um the choices in a case like this are as stark as we see them we've heard from our planning director that the property is developable at a very smaller number of houses um on larger lots um and that that the storm water requirements for a developer in that scenario are exceedingly small but we've also heard that developing this property as set forth by the developer in this proposal also has some significant problems and concerns not just for the folks who are downstream from them but also for a hollow rock park directly adjacent to them and i guess my deepest regret tonight is that our forefathers here in Durham did not see fit to obtain title to that property in some way shape or form at least settle it with appropriate easements that would prevent this sort of development from happening there but that is not where we are today um and so we have to figure out uh what is in the best interest of the city i will point out um to something that mr. Goche said about the fence that struck me a little funny and i went back and looked looked into this in terms of the folks who proposed the fence i don't believe the only concern was folks not being able to toss things over the side uh although certainly if that was the concern any five foot fence would be wholly inadequate for that purpose um it was also so that people could not see through the fence into the development um which a wrought iron or a looks like wrought iron fence would also be wholly inadequate uh and also to prevent um the domestic pets of the folks who live in the development dogs but also the most vicious predator we have in our urban environment the house cat um that they would not be allowed to have access to the park uh and um and impact the wildlife that is there now um so i just wanted to the i i caught note of what mr. Goche said and i wanted to make those observations um the the property is not currently part of the city of Durham we have um the decision this body the seven of us will decide whether or not it ought to become a part of this city um i don't think we should i don't think we should annex it to be a part of the city um i think that if we choose to say no tonight that leaves open lots of alternatives about how this part of the disposition of this property um some of whom some of which may be worse than what's proposed here and some of which might be better um but i don't think we should fool ourselves about the purpose to which this developer is here this developer is not coming to us saying please let us protect the stormwater interests of this piece of property for you oh city of Durham by by annexing us into you that's not where they're here and we all know that um and that's okay that's not your job sorry job to figure that part out i totally get that um but uh i don't think it's in our best interest to make this part of the city not today not under this proposal i'll be voting no thank you mr mayor thank you councilmember reese so we have a motion and a second um madame clerk will you please open the vote the motion passes four to zero four to three with council members freeman reese and caballero voting now thank you all right second move the consistency state by madame reese madame clerk you please open the vote the motion passes four to three with council members caballero freeman and reese voting now and i'll move the ordinance second let's open the vote the motion passes with councilmember caballero freeman and reese voting now thank you want to hit the gavel do i get hit i get hit the gavel wow they're being no further business before us tonight this meeting is adjourned at 9 53 p.m


Have you ever wondered why certain shows were off-limits to you as a child?  Well, that is true, but there's a deeper layer than that, for me, anyway. It all started when I was around six or so. At this age, I loved to do everything that was exactly opposite of what I was supposed to do. If you said, don't touch the cake I made for you and sweating, I'd probably end up devouring the entire thing in one sitting. So, obviously, when my mother told me not to watch the adult swim portion of Cartoon Network's lineup, I made it my goal to watch it every single night. I had gotten away with it for a few nights. Every night I would sit on the floor with the television remote in hand, giggling at how I was getting away with going behind my mother's back. Unfortunately, my fun didn't last forever. I would say I had only been sneaking to watch the channel for about a week or two, before my mother began to catch on. It started with her noticing that my various stuffed animals would be left on the floor in front of the television at night, then she began noticing that I was more sluggish than usual, a huge sign pointing to the fact that I hadn't been sleeping. But, the last straw was when she finally caught me awake my face glued to the television screen. I can't recall what was on the screen exactly, but I do remember the word penis being repeated over and over in a chant-like phrase. Looking back, that could easily have been any adult swim show that has ever aired. I mean, just the other day I was watching a Mission Hill episode where some pervert whispered the naughty word over and over in your payphone. Who knows? Maybe that's why I was watching then? Anyway, none of that matters now. Really, it didn't matter to me then. All that mattered to me then was that I was just caught doing something I was strictly forbidden not to do.  I could easily attribute all the throat problems I had after a day to that night. I'm pretty sure I busted a few things in my throat from crying so hard and long, begging for my mother's forgiveness. She stood firm in her decision, giving me an old-fashioned spanking before sending me straight back up to bed. It was always hard to make my mother angry, but once you did she could be a real witch. Well, at least that's what I thought then, I actually appreciate being said right when I was. After that night, I vowed to never watch a doll swim again. That, of course, was just one of many childhood vows I made to myself, like when I got that stomachache from eating too much and I vowed to never eat chocolate cake again. I probably could have kept that promise had the shows not kept replaying in my mind. They were so different from the shows my mom wanted me to watch. They were daring and forbidden, something I craved even as a child. Not only that, but all my friends were watching these types of shows at school, even though I were only in the first grade. About a week or so had passed after I had gotten caught. My dad had finally come for a visit. My parents had gotten divorced not too long after I was born, so I only got to see my dad when he would come out for a visit. It was the first time I had seen him in nearly a year, so I couldn't wait to hear the stories he had to tell. My dad was always on the go with his job, traveling all around the country to chase storms. Why he enjoys something like that I'll never know. But, to each his own, I guess. Anyway, after listening to what felt like a never-ending number of stories about tornadoes and other storm phenomena, it was finally my bedtime. Luckily, I wasn't confined to the usual 8.30 curfew when my dad was visiting, so my mom let me stay up as long as I wanted. My dad had always been a push-over when it came to giving me anything I wanted. I think he felt guilty for never being able to see me except for once every year or two. So, when it was nearing 1 in the morning, he had no problem staying up to watch television with me.  I knew that my dad would let me watch whatever I wanted, especially since he was an advent fan of nearly every adult cartoon on the market. I even recall wearing a South Park shirts, which easily draped down past my feet when I was that age. My mom never liked that too much either, but I just chalked it all up to her being too overprotective. Okay, I'm draining off into my life, the mini-series, let's get back on track. I asked as sweetly and politely as I could, the best part are in my face that I could muster, if we could watch a new show I found. I told him the channel, he didn't hesitate to turn it over, even though I'm positive he knew no kitty shows were playing at that time of night. I remember I received a jolt of the same feelings I had prior to my mom pulling the plug on my after-hours television fund. I felt excitement, mischief, and that subtle sense of fear that I always got from watching those cartoons. You have to admit that most of the stuff that plays on those line-ups can be pretty scary to a six-year-old. During the commercial break, I heard my dad snoring in a signature snore that could easily be used in place of a popcorn. I was irritated by this, so I slid closer to the television in order to be able to actually hear the show. I sat there, watching whatever show was on for a few minutes. I started to feel my excitement fade and be replaced with that feeling of paranoia, which I often got when I saw these types of shows on television. I kept looking over my shoulder, making sure the characters weren't there. Why? I don't know.  I do remember the screen cutting from the show and transitioning to a black screen, which was pretty normal for adult swim-ass. Cassney usually began commercials this way, and had many commercials where the logo of the channel was displayed on a screen of black. This always caused my heart to stop a little. I hated the feeling of stillness and the silence of those commercials as a kid. It always made me feel uneasy. For some reason, the feeling was a little more intense this time. Not anything that would make me bolt out of the room, yet. I was sitting in the silence with that feeling growing stronger each second that the logo didn't appear. I noticed it was taking longer than usual, as if the station had gone into dead air. The screen bolted at that point, which I thought was a sign that the logo was going to appear. The logo in fact did appear, but it wasn't the logo I had come to expect from the previous times I had watched the channel. It was a simple logo, scrolled over the center of the screen with white lines. It wasn't too fancy, but the cleanliness and sharpness of the lines definitely made up for it. It was hard to tell what the logo was at first as it just seemed to be a bunch of criss-crossing lines held within a thick box. It looked a lot like the National Geographic logo if it had all of its color drained. As the logo began to fade into the black, the sound that you usually hear before most movies of the 80s or 90s blared. I believe it's the THX Deep Note. I was surprised it didn't wake up my dad. We now present our feature presentation. A man boomed, sounding a lot like the person that narrates over movies in the theater.  Instantly, I felt tons better. I figured that this was just how Adult Swim presented their movies. And after a day of watching nothing but Disney, I was excited to see the shows and movies all my first grade friends got to watch. The only thing I could think about was bragging to my friends that I had seen an adult movie on the Forbidden Channel, not to be mistaken with porn guys. The movie started with little droplets falling from a darkened sky. In the mixture of the translucent rainwear droplets of Scarlet, which were supposed to be blood, although it looked much more like the paint that's packaged in those old paint-buy numbers. Then again, you can't really expect much more than that from a low-budget Adult Swim film. Plus, blood wasn't exactly rare amongst their programs. It was just another reason why my mom didn't allow me to watch the station. After the shower of rain and blood, one of the main characters could be seen from the bird's eye's view. The hair was a rich and vibrant purple color, however, the color was fading. The rain seemed to be washing it away, as you could clearly see purple dribbles sliding down the character's body. The scene cut to a close up of the character's face. It was a young woman cartoon character. Her eyes were nothing more than sweats of black, resembling an electrical outlet. Actually, she herself resembled a huge electrical outlet, which was carried along by tiny sticks for legs and arms. Imagine the legs and arms from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, Frank and Doodle. That's the best way I know how to describe it. Her pitiful excuse for an arm lifted upward, the camera panning up the span of the stick, zooming upward until you could see a glass window. For whatever reason, her reflection wasn't present in the mirror, but as a kid I didn't give that much thought. Perhaps if I had paid attention to that detail, it would have unnerved me more than it did. While I felt a little frightened by the sharp camera angles, overly simplified character designs, and the European music drawing in the background, I was still determined to watch the movie in its entirety. I didn't want to face another day of school being called a mom's boy and a chicken, because I hadn't been watching things that were far out of my age range. The piano music seemed like it was coming from one of those old, busted record players. In fact, it was. As the camera pan ducked to the window, it steadily began to fade into the glass. It wasn't showing the contents of the room behind the window, it was actually showing the inside of the glass. Once inside the window, you could see an overweight character, drawn far differently from the female outlet. He almost resembled Santa Claus, having a long white mustache jutting from his upper lip and curling at the ends. Rosy red cheeks that looked as though they'd burn your hand if you touched them. Twinklin' baby blue eyes that glistened as if they were made of glass themselves. This detail drawing out a rip-off Santa stood next to a table that was considerably out of proportion to him. Sitting upon the table was an old record player. The base was fashioned from beautiful blocks of wood, detailed with small bits of gold. The man turned the small crank on the side of the box, creating that music that sent chills straight through my bones. At six, I was used to things like Mary Had A Little Lamb, not the type of music that laws played at funerals. Turn the crank. Turn the crank. He suddenly spotted that the camera resumed onto his hand turning the crank. The motions were agonizingly slow, forcing me to really feel the stillness of the moment. Turn the crank. Turn the crank. I was beginning to feel less thrilled and more anxious. I took a moment to slide closer to the couch, where my dad was fast asleep, completely oblivious to the content on the television. While I slid, a long cracking sound loss heard. It grabbed on for what felt like a lifetime, growing louder and louder as it continued. I turned back to the screen when the sound caught my attention. The crank that the unnamed character was turning was being wound tighter and tighter, straining the gorgeous wooden base. The base began to reveal tiny cracks as the crank turned. The cracks grew larger, the sound grew louder, and the crank grew weaker. Turn the crank. Turn the crank. The cheery man shouted with a creepy, joyful voice. I could only assume he had a smile on his face, but the only thing the camera would show was the record player slowly collapsing upon itself. Turn the crank. Turn the crank. My eyes were beginning to fill with tears. I remember how loud noises would always upset me when I was younger. I was an odd child, neither silence nor noise pleased me. If it lost to silent, I would be scared. If it lost to noisy, I'd be equally scared. Unfortunately for me, this movie had already manipulated both of those childhood fears. My teary eyes widened as the next scene of the movie took place. A beautiful record player finally gave out the crank breaking part into the jolly man's hand. The remaining bits of the record player began to sputter a violent amount of smoke, which surprisingly only hovered around the player, leaving every other inch of the room untouched. No more must I turn the crank. The man whispered, the camera focusing on his face, and his face alone.  Suddenly, those once sparkling blue eyes shattered, shards of glass falling to the floor. I was surprised that they didn't fling into the screen. They just sort of fell from the man's eye sockets. I later figured that the rain at the start of the film had actually been the glass falling from his face. The lonesome girl has finally sank. The screen cut to an abrupt moment of darkness, but only long enough to fade into the next scene. There was another bird's-eye view of the street where the female character had been walking at the beginning of the film. There were shards of glass completely coating the street below. All you could see were the very tops of some of the buildings, which were alternated with a very rusty shade of crimson, because of the massive amount of broken glass. The camera began to lower the view, zooming in by showing shot-to-lay cut frames, each one closer to the mess than the last. As the last frame was presented, I could see the outlook like character from the beginning, laying motionless in the midst of the glass you see. The shards that surround her body were a pale shade of purple, obviously caused from the color that had completely drained from her hair. By this point, I was bawling my eyes out. I may have been young, but I knew what a dead person looked like. I knew for sure that girl was dead. No one could survive being pelted by such an enormous amount of glass like that. The scene changed at that point, showing a close-up of an hourglass. The camera was slowly, gently pulling away from the hourglass, which had grains of sand sliding through its midsection. It kind of reminded me of that soap opera, Gaze of Our Lives. I'm sure you soap junkies know what I'm talking about, only it was much more grim and against a colorless background. She's perfectly fine, now don't you fret. Thanks for watching my show, kids.  At that point I let out such a scream that my throat loss still soared the next day. The scream was so sharp that it even forced my dad to bolt awake. He sat up to check on me, accidentally shifting his elbow onto the television remote, causing the channel to change. What I saw when the channel changed made me even more confused than I already was. The logo for adult swim flashed upon the screen and the next show started. It was as if the television hadn't been on Cartoon Network at all that night. My dad apologized for accidentally switching the channel, hitting the recall button on the remote. I was too busy sobbing with fear to stop him. When the channel finally returned to the station that aired that supposed movie, a message popped onto the screen. Programming not authorized. Please confirm that you are subscribed to the channel, or unplug your receiver to resolve the issue. If you continue to see this error, please contact your cable provider. We apologize for any inconvenience. The channel was apparently some type of late night movie network, exclusive to subscribed viewers, but that didn't explain how I was able to watch an entire film on an authorized channel. How it got on that channel, I had no clue. I guess it's possible that my dad made a bump to the remote in his sleep, but I think I would have noticed the channel changing. Instead, I only noticed an adult swim shell leaving for commercial and then returning with that horrendous film. I slept in my mom's bed that night, trying to block the images of the film strip out of my mind. The next morning I could hear my mom loudly discussing not letting me watch late night television with my dad. Looking back on that night nowadays, the film wasn't half-ass badass most of the enemies, crime shows, twisted cartoons, and morbid comics that I expose myself to.  Even though I have seen far worse, that film has left a bad impression in my mind. I mean, I still enjoy watching adult swim to this day, and now I can do so without getting into trouble, but I'm definitely on high alert for anything overly suspicious. Not only with adult swim, but with late night movie showing as well. I have no interest in ever seeing that film again, but I am curious about its title. I'd like to know the name so I can research any portions of the film I may have missed, and possibly discover the voice actor behind that demonic sandal like man. Maybe you guys can help me with that?


So what we have is a service for Ignite karaoke. So it's karaoke as a service. We have preceded some topics. The goal for it is you talk for each slide 10 seconds. You have no idea what is on that slide, but we give you a topic. So you need to role play and get into the game and talk about, okay, let's, let's take some pre-order. You worked first, we're the second. Fabian, you were the fourth and then you were the third. So can we have the names? Hi, my name is David Sager. Hi, I'm Graham. I'm going to hold it. I'll be excited for five minutes. I mean, very soon. My name is Nicole. Oh, my name is Fabian. Okay, awesome. So you get to go first. I'll give you the microphone. So I hit play and you just start presenting. Okay, for like five minutes. No, it's going to be two minutes. Okay. Ten seconds per slide. So it's going to be a total of 12 slides. Okay. Cool. Yep. Not going to die, but you're fighting for the beer. So you need to put this on. Okay, ready? Okay, this is a slide to young women playing. They are future. They're going to be the next SREs. How do you support them in school? Well, the secret is the... The secret is to make it as easy as possible for them to do whatever it is they need to do when I'm doing my SREs. And we need to make sure that they have the tools to do the job and the tools are robust and not easily breakable, especially if you hold them up. I think this slide is for itself. I'm just going to give myself a minute. Ten seconds for myself. Ten seconds. Bingo. Victory.  Thanks for the topic, it's change management. What do I name this slide? Change management. Change management. See, the reason I'm having things so good about this is because really, we should all be practicing immutable infrastructure. So there should be no changes. That's not good. Let's not stay stuck in the past. Immutable infrastructure for everyone. Bots. Bots. Even bots for robots. Only bots. Who were the questions asked before? Bingo. The dictionary. The entire media.  And these are the answers you get. Fails. All the way through. Parents. Family. Mothers. Yes, old fathers. And there is a lot of data out there. A lot of it's false as well. And such a guy kept increasing, further and further and further. And now we start drinking coffee too. The more coffee, the repeatability of getting a coffee jar in it. The drinking of the coffee, these are the important things in life. The water's a messy, messy place. The coffee doesn't help with this. And we have robots to get us coffee. And we're, you know, we're distilling coffee, it looks like. It's probably whiskey, but let's call it coffee. This is a business environment. And it triggers on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on. But we will have a freedom. And we get a freedom here. Obviously it's my slaughter in the beach. I mean, but now it's sad. Because the robots are not talking to us anymore. This is a big problem. And we just found out Santa's dead. Life is hard. We're all very sad. And we should try and scream at the robots because they don't care. This is thinking, right? This is one of those fair ideas that I think we need in the office. Like tiny little phone booths. Conversation in quiet. Walls skating from the shops. Thank you. Continuous delivery. Okay.  We don't continuous delivery. Continuous delivery. Because security has cut the wire. Okay. You ready? Continuous delivery. Ooh. So despite continuous delivery, you begin the moment you have to still meet the origin. Continuous delivery. No delivery is the best delivery. So we have to make sure that when you give your stuff, it's sent up in the right case by its own. So that's probably the concept behind continuous delivery. Bottle. I pass. I have a dream. Products are built and end up in the right place all by themselves. Some of the biggest things with continuous delivery is being able to put it across your organization, discipline, right? Leaching to the right audience at the right time. So complex parts, ideas. So continuous delivery is also about making sure our organization has transparency. You can have your breakfast peacefully. You know, it's not always the case because you wake up in the morning, you have to run through office, or that's it. So continuous delivery is about solving problems, of course, and it has to be gemmulistic as you can, right?  Thank you. Fabian, you go last. Sure. As digital transformation, my favorite topic. Digital transformati. Transformati? Yeah. All right, you ready? I'm ready. Okay, digital transformation. So how do we get from letters to storing into huge hard drives into USBs and now we're littering Earth with all these USBs? We want to do away with all these USBs. So we serve one another data by... We used to be, you know, serving it by hand. Now we're not. We're using emails. We're using Slack. And that does not look like a digital transformation. It looks like Autobots actually landed there. Yeah, that actually killed a lot of people. And bananas.  But that's kind of a digital transformation by itself. You also want to not have black and white photographs now because they're still awesome. Remember Instagram? They kind of transform how we look at cats. And they are now looking into Instagram and they have Instagram profiles now. So, wow, they're all digitized. So how much? You can do much more with a catabell. A digital catabell. You don't actually have to live the catabell to do exercise now. You can ask the app to do an exercise for you. So we have over 2.7 millions that just perform on Google each month. That's more than the questions you can ask your wife or your mom. Okay? So this person... Oh, awesome. Now, using robots and digital transformation, you don't have enough humans. So you do away with injuries. And you think big, you dream big. Because with all the DevOps tools and skills, there's no limit, right? And of course, now you can bring yourself outside of the world and look at Australia. Cool. Yeah, you never get to work on time. It's okay, because digital transformation. So I hope everyone enjoyed. It's a boost of energy. Now, they all are winners. So what shall we do? Shall we vote? Or we... I'll just give it to all four of you. There's three liters and you share it. That's four. Here you go. So now, to thank you again, guys, for doing the Ignite program. I love the lot. So I hope everyone else in the audience has a good mood. So if we get back into the program, we have three more open spaces. So at three o'clock, we will start the first open space. So that means we have about 25 minutes for bioregues and deciding on the topics that we want to discuss as a group. So what we will do is, as agreed, we'll pick up the top 12... Oh, that's interesting. So we'll pick the 12. And then we will work on the schedule. So give me five minutes. I'll write it on the sticky notes. Then we'll go to the white board, which is in the right corner. And then we will decide who wants to speak, who wants to lead any of these topics, who proposed it. And then we'll build a grid to make sure that everyone gets a chance to participate in those conversations. And I will call also the facilities to split the room. So we'll have four groups. We'll have four groups. So we'll split it in half. And then I will need your help to rearrange the chairs in circles.