I want to welcome you all to the 33rd annual conference of the Literary Managers and Dramateurs. My name is Ken Trinilia and I'm president of LMDA for three more days. About a year and a half ago as I was mad scrambling preparing for last year's conference in Berkeley, California with our amazing VP conferences, Coriana Moffitt. I got an offer out of the blue from our then VP of regional activity, Joanna Falk, to host the next conference here in Toronto bringing the conference back to Canada after five years, when it was previously in Vancouver, but back here to Toronto after 11 years. And I immediately said, like, yes, please. We're a volunteer organization and it's a heck of a lot of work to run the organization, but also particularly to plan a conference. And so I'm going to say thank you many times, but I want to start off the conference by saying thank you to Joanna and Joseph and Coriana and everyone else who's contributed to the running of this conference particularly to our robust group of volunteers who are just taking care of everything that the rest of us don't see. And so please extend your thanks to them soon and often throughout the conference because that's also a lot of hard work. So we can be here and gather and be open. I like to say that our two greatest assets at LMDA are our nimbleness as an intimate organization and the relationships that we develop in the network that we have. And so here I want to encourage everyone to get to know the rest of the people in the room, you know, just make a commitment every day to introduce yourself to three new people and get to know who they are and what they do. We've been able in our small but mighty membership to do a lot of pretty great things in the field and I think that's what we have to offer. So without further ado, I would like to welcome to the stage our conference chair, Joanna Falk. Hi, I love the microphone. Yes, hi, I'm Joanna Falk. I am the literary manager at the Tarragon Theater here in Toronto and yes, I am the conference chair. I'm so pleased to, ooh, I'm doing that with my mind. I'm so happy to see you all here. Welcome to Toronto. How many people is it first time in Toronto? Oh my gosh. Okay, I just want to give you a quick pronunciation lesson. I know it looks like it's pronounced Toronto. None of us say Toronto, we all say Toronto. So it's T-R-O-N-N-O. Toronto. You want to blend in if you don't want to look like, because it always in movies when they're like, I am from Toronto. No, you're not. So it's a big day, not just because the Elm Day conference is starting today. It's also National Indigenous People's Day. Yay. A big thank you to the Canada Council and the Toronto Arts Council for supporting our conference. It means a lot, it helps a lot. And of course, again, thank you to the volunteers. If you have any questions about where to go, what to do, where to go, where to eat lunch, where to get a coffee, where the U.S. Embassy is. We can, they want to, I won't go there. The full conference coordinator, Joseph, has created a fantastic interactive map. If you haven't already looked at it online as part of your conference handbook, he's mapped out every possible thing you might want to know about in the area. Oh, and Wi-Fi. Does everyone know that the Wi-Fi password is on the back of your, I know. I know. Yeah. We've got pretty much everything, hopefully. And you should only have to log in once, but if not, then it's right there. And all the addresses of all of your hotel, the pub, it's quite local. So if you have any questions about what beers they have on tap, Ryan will be the person to tell you that. Just to tell you a little bit about the setup of the conference. So this whole floor is ours. There's not going to be anyone else up here. As you may have noticed, there's only two rooms, seemingly, at the moment. But through the magic of technology, a wall will be created, ironically. In between sessions. So this will be called session room one. This will be called session room two. And in the back is session room three, which is mostly where this sort of academic papers are being presented. There's schedules posted on each of the doors. But if you have any questions about where you're supposed to be, again, ask a volunteer. The theme, crossing borders. I thought of that theme a year ago when I was in Berkeley. And it still is a theme that obviously continues to resonate. I didn't add a colon descriptor of what I meant by crossing borders because I wanted you all to interpret it the way you thought about crossing borders and what borders you may be crossing in your life, in your work, as dramaturgs, as literary managers. When I thought about crossing borders, for me, I've been a member of Elm Day for 20 years or so. And what I've really loved about it is going to the U.S. and learning a lot about what Americans are doing. Because it's quite different from what we all are doing. So I really wanted to encourage folks to think about what borders they're crossing and especially when our American colleagues are coming here to Canada to really engage with us about what we do here. We may all kind of look the same as you, but it's a whole other country. And we have a different theatrical culture. We think differently about things maybe than you do sometimes. But I think there's great value in that. And I really encourage all of you to go to sessions that aren't about your own country, that aren't about things you already know about. Buy a Canadian play if you've never read one. See a Canadian play if you've never seen one. While you're here, there's plenty of them going on. And talk to some folks that are from a place that you're not. I'm going to do that. And please talk to me. Anything else? Is there anything else, Coriana? You're good. Oh, thank you. Where we are right now, I'm going to ask Phalen Johnson to come up and do an acknowledgement for us. Phalen. So my name's Phalen Johnson. I am Mohawk and Tuscarora from Six Nations Reserve. That's where my people are settled now, but that is not always where we were settled. I'm a playwright and a dramaturge and a director heading in all of those directions, mostly a playwright and a podcaster now. So, yeah, I know, right? It's amazing how those things feed into each other. But we'll talk more about that later. So the land that we are on now is the traditional land of many Indigenous nations. And so I know we have some cousins from the south here today. And so Indigenous First Nations, Native American, Native American Indian, all of those terms sort of encompass that. And so on this day it feels really important to acknowledge our history. But not just today. I think on every day we need to acknowledge the land that we stand on. And the land that we stand on is not just about it being Indigenous land. It's about the land that we all stand on and stewardship and how we are all responsible for this land. A few months ago I had the opportunity to go over to the UK. And it was a really complex thing for me because I didn't know how to be on someone else's land. It was the first time that I was in sort of really aware of the fact that I was going to be standing on someone else's land. So I had to think a lot about what that would be like for me as an Indigenous person going over to the place where all of the papers were signed and all of the policy was made. And so that was a big light bulb moment for me in how I thought about that. And so what I thought was when I go over I will try and be a good guest. I will be polite. I will put my garbage where it goes. And I will walk softly. And so I think it's important that no matter where you come from and no matter how long your people may have been on this land that we all walk softly and take care of where we are. So this territory has been host to many different nations. How many people here are familiar with land acknowledgments? Damn. That's great. My land acknowledgments are a little bit different than you might hear. One, I try not to read them off a phone or a piece of paper. Two, here at this dramaturgic conference I wanted to give you a little bit of historical context as to where we are now. So Toronto is on Lake Ontario which is just down that way, right? I've never been in this building. And so that makes it part of the Great Lake system. The Great Lake system meant that there were a lot of nations traveling in and out of this area for thousands and thousands of years. There was trade. There was intermarriage. There was war. And so that means there were a lot of nations intermingling. And some of those nations you may hear about are called the Haudenosaunee. Sometimes called the Six Nations or the Iroquois. Those are my people. So they were in and out of this area. Also the Wendat, sometimes called the Huron. The Huron is sort of a term that has fallen out of favour now and is frequently considered derogatory. So I sort of try and steer people away from that terminology. And then the Anishinaabe or Ojibwe, as you may hear them called, most specifically and most recently, the Mississaugas of the New Credit, who were the nation who negotiated the Toronto purchase with the crime. So that's how that all works. When the Mississaugas of the New Credit did their negotiation, they did ask to retain some of the waterways for fishing and hunting, as well as the Toronto Islands, which were still kind of in dispute. A lot of people from Mississauga who now live right next door to my people say that they never gave up that piece of land because it was considered sacred. So I just want to put those, those sort of research things into your head and give you a bit of context about where we are. We are very close to the waterfront, which also means, you know, always means ceremony, always means trade routes. I ask you if you're a visitor or if you are settled here in this area when you walk through the city today to take into consideration things that you might not necessarily consider as monuments or landmarks, things like the Dawn Valley, which is very close to us, things like the waterfront. All of these things, these are monuments in our country and they are much older than any of the highways or roadways we have. Things like Young Street, built over one of the oldest indigenous trails in the country, things like Davenport Road. All of those places have history and historical significance. And I invite you to think about where your feet land as you walk through the city today. Thank you. Thank you so much for that, Galen. And if you want to know a little more about Toronto's indigenous history, there is still time to sign up for the first story bus tour. It's happening tomorrow from 2 to 5. It's going to take you through, it's a bus tour that, it's going to sort of go east in Toronto and talk about the indigenous history of the land. So if you want to sign up for that, there's still time. So being a conference chair is great because I get to invite folks to talk to you all that I love. And so our first session is about features three gals who do this amazing podcast called The Secret Life of Canada. If you haven't listened to it yet, it's this incredible podcast that I think dramaturgist Canada. I'm Canadian. I was born and raised here. I did my history lessons. But once I started listening to their podcast, I realized I really hardly knew anything about Canada. And what I perceive as Canada is not maybe the Canada that we are. The first episode I listened to was about BAM, a beautiful spot that maybe some of you have spent some time in. And I learned a lot about the history of BAM. But in a way that was, on the one hand, made me feel bad that I didn't already know this, but Phelan and Leah, who are the hosts of the podcast, are so great and charming and funny and remind me that it's okay that Canada's history is not perfect and that it's useful and great to know as much as I can about this country. So I'm going to ask Phelan and Leah Simone Bowen and their research assistant, Aaron Brandenburg, to come up and they're going to chat about their podcast and the secret life of Canada. Come on out. We're going to try and not use the mic here. Okay. Yeah, okay. I'm a research assistant on some of the episodes. So this is like deep, deep, deep background. I'm more of a huge fan. That's it. She helps us out a lot. So the secret life of Canada is a podcast. It was one of the top podcasts in 2017 on multiple publications lists. Tell us about your podcast. Yeah. So the podcast Phelan and I decided to start this podcast last year. It was Canada 150, a big celebration of Canada essentially becoming a country. I'm using air quotes. So during Canada 150, a huge amount of funding in the Canadian art sector and the Canadian government went to telling stories of Canada. And we would meet periodically. We meet, we're both playwrights. We do a lot of writing that works in history. And we would meet often and just talk about, wow, I can't believe this weird thing got funding. And why are they telling this story again? And it was the same stories. We hear the same stories throughout our education. And those are usually the War of 1812, which yes did involve burning down the White House, even though we didn't burn down the White House. But it is a faith war in Canada and it involves a lot of, you know, the first prime minister or the second prime minister. It's a lot of those stories. And the stories that we would meet and talk about were not those stories.  So we thought, and you could jump in at any time, we thought, why don't we try and start a podcast because development, as you all know, of doing a play is like five years, you do it, five people come and say, I'll put it in your drawer and you know. And so we thought, well maybe podcasting, it seems successful, we could, you know, put out a couple episodes pretty fast and see if anyone responds to them. And so we took a workshop with a podcast producer who works on a lot of podcasts in Canada and immediately after she asked us, it was a two hour workshop, we did a little promo there, she asked us, can I produce your podcast? And we said, thank God, yes. So we put out the first episode, the first episode like Joanna said was on BAM and it's a place that especially the art community in Canada goes to, there's a retreat there and an art center and I grew up in Alberta and BAM is a place of magic for Canada. And the thing about BAM though is it was created, it was essentially built by internees, the Canadian government interned basically Canadian citizens who were of European, German and Ukrainian descent during World War I and they put them to work creating our Canadian park system. So people died there, they built the roads, it was, it was perilous. Not only that but the Indigenous people that lived in BAM and surrounded the area were kicked off the land, fenced off, prevented, they basically had park passes to get into their land to pick medicines or do any ceremony and for years we're not allowed into BAM except for one day which was an Indian day and they would be paraded out, tourists would take pictures and so that is BAM's history. And so we released this episode and our producer said, you know, for a Canadian podcast, Indy, it's going to be about 2,000 at the most people who listen to it which we thought, cool. She said, but maybe it's only going to be 100 and I was like, 100? What happened is half a million people downloaded that. We became apparent to us that this history that we thought was maybe only interesting to the people we had been telling these stories in and the theatre realm turns out that it was a lot more interesting and Canadians did have an appetite to hear, you know, how history has really been revised. And so that's the podcast. Yeah, and I think Canada 150 did us a ginormous favour of happening when we did our podcast. Let's just say it happened that way. It gave Canadians a different frame of reference. Like there was a definite, because the backlash to Canada 150 was so large, at least in the Indigenous community and I think Canadians started to question a little bit more and so I think that really did give us a bit of a the door open to crack and so we got to sneak through and say all these things and people were more, their ears were more receptive to hearing those things I found as opposed to doing it. I don't think we would get away with this like maybe even five years ago. I think the impact and the listenership would be much smaller. Maybe I don't need to explain but usually if you mentioned that you're doing a project about Canadian history, people's eyes kind of filling you up. Not interesting. Not interesting. Which I always found really ironic because I think there's so much fascinating history that we just don't know about and it's always, you hear these stories, you're like why didn't I know this? Why wasn't I taught this in school? Why didn't I know this fascinating history that somehow lost, or buried, or forgotten? I think honestly I know more probably about American history and British history than I do. I mean now that's changed but that's what I learned in elementary, junior high and high school. It was always framed as how we were perceived by these other countries and how they shaped us and less about how we shaped ourselves and what we're doing. And this building is a perfect example of how things are changing. So Toronto is a, as you may have noticed a city of glass and a beautiful city that I love that bulldozes and tears down any sort of any sort of brick building that has any bit of history or beauty. I'm not there but I'm not going to. And you can. Because they build something up and they call it the like, Rexall Center or the corporate name here center. And this building, which is very new this is a very new development. It's only been here two, three years now. This is named Thornton and Lucy Blackburn Center and they are escaped slaves from the U.S. They came from Kentucky went through Detroit. There's a huge amount of history. I won't go into all of it but they finally made it to Toronto and they lived kind of over over there. I can't really explain but they lived over there kind of at the corner of Cherry Street. There's a school there and they started a cab company after they escaped and it was the first cab in Toronto and then they got more cabs and more cabs and eventually those horse and buggies turned into cars and Thornton painted them red and yellow and they were really well known in Toronto and when the Toronto Transit Commission decided to build subways and build public transit, they painted it red and yellow because everyone knew Thornton's cab company and they knew that's public transit. That's what it's going to read as public transit. And Thornton and Lucy became millionaires. They were well regarded in their community. There was a huge community of escaped African-Americans and African-Canadians who settled here and the Irish also who were also basically like black people at the time meaning nobody wanted them around. So they all lived in this area. So this is a really interesting area and so when this building built and they called it the Thornton and Lucy Blackwood Centre I was like what? So it shows me how things are changing and how things, it's amazing that they would name a building after them. It's great. Yeah. So maybe that goes into No, I'm like what was the question? What was the question? People need to know. Everyone just went boom. Thanks, Leah. I think the question was why don't we know these stories? I think part of it is denial. Denial of history.  I think in America the genocide from indigenous people was done through bullets and killing pretty overtly. War was different. We have paper war. Those wars are both going on. I think America definitely has taken on more of a paper war now but those war still happen and I think there's something about that. The influence of the British on us and our politeness, our polite genocide I think that's part of it. I think there is but if we don't embrace those things one, we're not interesting. Let's just embrace those things that are the true history of what happened here because we need to know those to be better and to move forward and we also need to know those things so that we don't do it again and it's interesting history. Canadian history is interesting history.  Yeah. There's a lot of feedback from the podcast and mostly positive but a lot of the negative feedback is you have we do have a tone in our podcast we do have opinions and we do make a lot of jokes because it's hard history and it's hard to get through and that's how we talk about it so it wasn't like we were trying to get a prescribed way of being for us but it's easier to get through when you can take a break and tell some Britney Spears jokes and then jump back into but that was making well maybe we could go into a bit of the process how do you choose the stories how do you we have a lot we invite the Listers to write in and suggest things so we definitely have a stack of those like there is no shortage there's so many internet holes to fall down these days that like we'll be looking at one thing and then all of a sudden we'll be over here looking at a different thing so then that idea gets banked and then we'll be going this way and then we find something else and that idea gets banked and so we try to keep track of all of those things but once we find one that we really want to hold on to then the research really begins and so that we go to the reference a lot reference library in Toronto is really big and expansive and you know the other week or the other month we had a book from 1914 never opened, no one had ever taken it out oh god so and it had a twig on it had a little twig on the front this little detail and it was about the national park system because we're looking at that more right now and no gloves, no nothing just like flip through it and it tells you all about Canadian like the Canadian park system and why it was being built and you know what the mandate of it was and so we spend a lot of time there and talking to people for me I'm working on one in the Yukon right now so the first thing I did was email a vet my friend over there and say because she lived in the Yukon and I was like who should I talk to so a lot of that it's like we call it mox and telegraph so it's like we talk to each other so that we know we're talking to the right people and I'm getting the like I want to specifically for me I want to get the indigenous foundations of that place and I want to make sure that I'm talking to the right people so I called a bunch of friendship centers different cultural centers spoke to as many people as I could send emails to as many people as I could sometimes people answer you sometimes they don't sometimes they want to talk sometimes they do not and then you know and then Lee and I we start scripting it and passing it back and forth yeah I think it's I mean for us it's how do we how do we extract first of all when you're looking especially in history textbooks and history books it's like reading reading through the material almost like you read the material and then you go like what's behind this material so it's often like such and such sir such and such did all of these things and his wife was also there and so I who was his wife and what was she doing and you know like it's it's reading between the lines so it is it is it takes a lot of time and I think because the project is really about changing the lens and changing the frame it's about looking at as many sources as possible so you know I try to read at least three if not five of the same story from a different different voices and then try and filter that to what is the actual what's the actual story here and yeah but I have to say one of the the biggest thing about this process that is interesting is how scary it is to work with history because we realize you know it's not just about putting together a script and making a funny podcast even though that is part of what we do but it is feeling a huge responsibility to the groups that we're telling because I think that one of the things that you said to me was like somebody had asked you you know we get a lot of just colleagues say like hey Lea um do you know any black people or whatever like hey Phelan do you know like a creeper or whatever and it's like well you know how we know is we went out into the work and we're not born knowing this information we have to do the work and we have to read and we have to do the research so why don't you do that I've gone off topic again I'm trying to I think that's important that we do position ourselves not as historians we position ourselves as curious people and I think that's really important because the knowledge is accessible the reference library is a public building like these stories do exist and it's not that hard to find them if you just dig a little bit and so I think for me that's a big part of it as well is inviting people to be curious about this place that we live in and what happened here and I think you're not only going to the historical records to the libraries you're reaching out to communities right so in a lot of cases these stories are known in specific communities like I happen to know about the Banff internment camps because my grandfather was part of one during anyway but it's grandfather was part of an internment camp in the Second World War that's what she just clasped over yes yes that kind of history is known in this particular communities and so you're not only referencing the books and the textbooks and things like that you're actually talking with people getting their side of the story which I think is also really lovely in addition to your humor and your personalities and your very charming when you explain these things it's also people who usually aren't a part of the story we hear about community history telling their own story yeah and it's weird because I think it is part of that I mean one thing I would say that is a stereotype about Canadians that might be true is the modesty and I think it plays out in different forms and one of that is that we're telling our stories in our communities and not maybe as much outright so you had the story about your grandfather and the Ukrainian community which I grew up around I had no idea that these interments camps happened and it reverberated throughout generations and so the podcast is really about pushing out those those stories because Canada in our history we like to we really like to promote the stories that make us look good and we don't have any sort of real critical conversations about the stories that don't make us look good and I really feel as a country just like as a person to get better you have to look at your flaws and go like how can I work on those and make them better I think we have to do that as a country and so that's the secret life of Canada is really for me a love letter to Canada even though we call Canada most episodes we criticize Canada a lot I feel like for me it is that's the relationship it's like a boyfriend you just want him to get better he's going to work on himself in this scenario we want to stay together we don't want you to break up with us and then marry the next girl you have to work in and never get married also the lovely part of it is you do celebrate it the episode talking about the snacks or the food of Canada which I think was a lovely some could say frivolous but I learned a lot about this country through the history of buttertarts and through the history of cuisine we wanted to do some later episodes because we do really heavy heavy material the episode that we did last month was on the statues the most popular statues in Canada because one of our mandates of the podcast is really to to promote the untold and undertold stories of Canada and that meant not telling the Prime Minister's stories not telling the general stories we've heard enough of those but more and more people said actually tell the full story of these men because they're not we only hear the good stuff so we did that episode which was really hard to get through and really difficult material it's actually quite a funny episode and so we counter balanced that with episodes about snacks we did an episode about feminism but we framed it all through this one book that won a Governor General's literary award which is a very esteemed award here in Canada it's called Bear it was published in 1976 and it's about a woman who has a sexual relationship with a bear and that was a really fun episode to do and people really responded to bear sex the words cartilaginous sheath are like forever broken in my head but on the other side of that the majority of the being real the majority of the episodes do have a heavy undertone and so it was something that I think we sort of struggled I don't know not struggled I think we found it pretty quickly but it was something that I know I definitely felt internally a struggle with like well how jokie can we be and how serious like how do we keep them listening without having them turn off and then also like what is the dramaturgical arc of this of this thing how do we keep the audience and how does that story become cohesive but it does you know it costs these stories cost you know there's it's hard to know all these things at a certain point so I understand why the majority of you know my many Canadians don't know this because it's a hard history and it definitely has torn a strip off us at that point it's like damn your broke me and that was only episode 2 but yeah it's really hard but I think that's the same with you know a lot of in terms of theater there are plays that cost a lot I think most of the time after you finish writing one or working on one you walk away and you were changed and I feel I definitely feel that there is something akin to that in this project well let's talk about that so you're both playwrights you're both performers, producers what are the what are the skills you use as podcasters for what are the things you had to get better at or learn to do this yeah I mean the funny thing is we've met a lot of Canadian media people now and they all say like how do you have these skills like how how are you doing this and honestly it's playwriting, it's theater the podcast that is what it is it wasn't a huge stretch for us to do it I think one of the main differences between doing a podcast and doing theater is in a theater mostly they can't leave I know they can but in Canada they're very polite here and so podcast they will turn it off so we had to figure out how to develop a way of getting out the history and then almost doing a mini break for the audience like do two minutes of history and then a break and two more minutes of history and then a break because that's our attention span now right people don't have a huge attention span to listen to this kind of material so that was an interesting thing to develop and so that's what we do with our scripts we put in all the history and then we try and kind of put an S through it with comedy and ridiculousness so people will stay with us is that improvised, is that scripted I mean like when you hear the show it sounds like you guys are just geniuses scripted totally scripted I felt scared to admit to people at first I was like no I'm just that smart well I'm not I'll only speak for myself no it's scripted like facts, dates, history because again we have a huge responsibility to tell the story that's already been told wrong to tell it better and so we attempt like we have to script it and then we have things written in the script that like I'll make a joke for Leah and then in brackets I'll say or something better and then she can come into the Google Doc and like write her joke or she can say well what about this here and so we, there are it's usually the jokey bits that are the off script if we're having like a particularly goofy day then like sometimes I'll just I'll have to be rained in yeah the jokes we do improvise we'll know the section that we improvise and talk but everything else is scripted and yeah we can't go off that script because it's history and we don't want to get letters you know but it is having the training as actors and performers and people who have to speak publicly to be able to lift off the page like you know being able to have that thing in front of you or the screen in front of you and lift it on your first try you know and part of our process is also there's one lead person who writes the script so Phelan will write a script and when she's ready I will basically go in and dramaturg her script and I'll go this doesn't make sense or I don't understand this part especially when we're telling stories that are closer to ourselves like any playwright sometimes I go I know this makes sense to you but you need to break it down like in very you know very clear for this audience because they're not going to have all the context that we have so sometimes it feels a bit simplified that we have to really simplify the history but you know learning very quickly that how many schools are using this podcast how many kids listen to the podcast we feel a big responsibility to make it clear and kind of digestible I just want to mention on the website are show notes for every single episode your sources are documented you've got more information there's web links so I think it's clear that we're not just pulling this out of the air for episodes one to four when we had we had money there was somebody doing that but we don't do that anymore because of time yeah so people but we hope at some point we'll be able to get that happening again but the lesson was so in podcasting what they always tell you is do show notes you need to have a website where they do show notes nobody reads the show notes that's what we've learned we've been told from other podcasters that people just don't go in so this is how it's this intimate like relationship that people are getting this information yeah I think we're going to open it up to questions now yeah talk more about what you've learned in terms of form this is an audio form as you've gone in being storytellers being people in a theater background which is a seeing place what is the podcast world and we're talking about the intimacy with this audio what have you learned about the audio form that leon does a really good American man accent show it to you later I'll let her American man it's really good yeah we do care we'll make each other do things to help create yeah to create the world to create interesting things with music and accents sometimes terrible accents but to help build that world one of the things that we also learned really early on was how to because I think we're used to writing stage directions but to write the lake of this place is this color and the dunes of here are like this and the trees are deciduous you have to learn to say your stage directions which was the thing that I was like oh yeah we have to describe the place so that they can see it in their head those were some of the first things that I learned learning how to make a historical quote jump off the page and so we found the best way to do that was to put some music underneath it and do the character even though it felt a bit ridiculous people really responded to us doing man man we basically just do a lot of women's stories were written down not a lot of play on a man yeah there was a question half a million listeners is pretty high so how did you get that quote to the audience we're being funded at that time so we did have a little bit of support but they weren't pushing it much they really didn't anticipate that the project would be as successful as it was which in some ways worked to our advantage later on because we got to be a surprise and how great is that I think one of the things is we released the first episode over Labor Day weekend was it Labor Day? and that's a weekend where people leave the city and they listen to radio and podcasts and so I think because it was released over that weekend people started sharing it because that weekend it went from not being on the iTunes charts to being on it to being number two it was above Oprah and this American life but not Joe Rogan yeah so I don't know it actually was quite organic yeah I'm curious about how you work with duration because there seems like there's a lot of freedom with podcast world where you can actually figure out how you want to tell a story and where stories beginning and end are and so are you is there more freedom and duration for you guys in terms of the work that you're doing and how does that influence your thoughts about playwriting and performance perhaps? we have a pretty strict policy of 40 minutes and under because I have no attention span like personally I try and create things that I want to listen to and so I can't listen to a podcast listen to a podcast I can't listen to things that are super long personally um you don't have you don't have to do it yeah so we try and keep it 40 minutes would be a long one we try to keep it between 30 and 40 because we just don't feel a lot of people really can sustain I mean there are podcasts that are like two hours long people listen to them in increments but it's really important the stories that we tell that you hear the full beginning to end um and that's also because personally I can't do like a three act play now that's hard for me to get it's gotta be really amazing with a bar max ironically I am writing a three act thing right now I'm working I'm working on an opera that is three acts it's an adaptation so I shouldn't have said that but yeah I just think that's we just want to make it as digestible for people and you also do these teasers do you call them they're kind of mini episodes mini shout outs so are those like just trying to get as many stories as possible well I think I mean it serves a bunch of purposes it gets us to you know usually like three to four minutes long sometimes a little bit shorter than that and they're about people usually people who have either done something important in Canadian history or consider themselves Canadian or live in this place called Canada and so those are just to yeah to get more information out to tell those stories but also in the world of podcasting is about content and how content is key right and to maintain generating content and to keep things going and to keep your feed active because that keeps people coming back and keeps people listening if they know that they're more frequently twice a month is what we do they'll be something new to listen to so they're sort of a practical and you know a content reason for that yeah we do other things so we can't we basically do it twice a month and one is a short shout out and one is a longer episode so I'm sort of ripping off what I can ask you but also looking at you as producers as writers and as performers and clearly you don't have a brother's dream problem where you gather the stories and one wants to censor them and one does them so they sound pretty like minded and yet I find most podcasts have a team that there's some kind of differentiation and they play against them off of each other do you have that creative tension vibe that you're different and does that determine who does which impersonation I think we're pretty like minded you have to push work off on each other I'm like you do it you do it you'll get the script and then all of a sudden they'll be like alright like Leah sings and I'm like Valen gives her current opinion on Justin Trudeau and the Canadian Government or whatever right? No we're lucky that we're really well together the only thing is I think like sometimes my jokes get a bit dirty because of the kids Leah's very aware of the kids and so my jokes sometimes my jokes have to go sometimes I fight for them to stay it's funny in the beginning I swore a lot I was like let's take everyone to task and I swore a lot and then people were like my nine year old just listen to your podcast and I was like okay let's censor ourselves the reason our podcast works is because I'm a first generation Canadian so I come in with that frame of mind and that Valen is an indigenous and so when we're storytelling I try when she's building this framework of indigenous storytelling in each episode I try to frame myself as the average Canadian that doesn't know anything because most of the stories that we find I had no idea so it's not coming from a place of pretending usually I'm researching and going I have no idea and I think that's another reason people connect to the podcast because even though we take the government and basically a lot of the Canadian people to task we do say throughout like oh I had no idea did you have any idea so we're not accusatory in saying to the audience you should have known this as well and you should feel bad it's like we all didn't know and so I think that's why the relationship on on air works I think it's also important to know that we we met working at a theater company in administration roles we've worked we met working at native earth performing arts so we already had a good foundation I was like she's good people but there's this there's this idea there's this thing that we get emails constantly but people say can you just do an indigenous one just do an indigenous one that tells me everything no right here you are and so that's like a big part of the starting because it's like whatever place we're in we're like okay well who was there first who were the first people who were in that area can we trace to what history can we trace there and then we start there so in you know I think by the very by the fact that we you know we start in that place every episode is an indigenous episode for me it is yeah and I we should say that event Nolan was sitting here who's the former artistic director of native earth is really responsible for this podcast but she hired me and she was very generous I was hired at native earth to be an outreach coordinator when I moved to Toronto I knew zero about indigenous history and that was my job was to create like the show what do you call it study guys and so I'd be sitting in the office and be like everyone this is all indigenous people did you guys know residential school it lasted until like the 80s and then you're like yeah that's what we try to be in the podcast not shaming it's not it's okay to not know because how would you know it's sometimes very well hidden and some of it's just coming to light and so it's not about how dare you not know this you're a racist it's not about that it's about really for us it's about sharing this because we feel really passionately about this stuff and we want to make something where someone goes I don't know anything about this I want to know something about this oh there's this I'll listen to this and then I'll know something about it have you got any black or you know the different tack you've taken on you know the history that yeah you can read our iTunes reviews yeah if you want to hear some native woman or I don't like it here go back to where you're from go back go back to where you're from and I'm like Barbados is beautiful and I'll go anytime line yeah I mean there are people yes we get a lot of negative feedback but I don't care so much about it it's surprising I don't know I don't care because if you weren't pissing people off you wouldn't be doing it right like if we were making everyone happy then we would definitely be doing something very wrong and that history is really an opinion it's always been opinionated it's always been told through someone with a perspective and a mindset and so this is our perspective and mindset and if you want to find that information or else you're welcome a podcast is a free thing we certainly don't make anyone listen to it except our family because we're theater people and that's what you got we're theater people what else any other questions though this must be an important one what you've already shared with us today I'm caught by your statement about the heaviness of the stories that the historical stories that you start out with and the ways that you lace them with liberate comedy to help your audience through a heavy lifting that means that you as makers have to do the heavy lifting without that so what are some of the strategies you've discovered to keep yourselves going keep yourselves healthy while you're taking that full impact on that kind of thing yeah we did shots that one time but I mean but it was more than that but it was more than that I think we realized very early on I think it was Ipperwash because I was really busted I busted myself which is a thing that I think many of us understand it happens like you hurt yourself by taking on the responsibility of a story that is so big and so painful and so hard to tell and you feel such a great responsibility to do it right and beholden to the people that you're speaking about that you combust yourself and so I think when we were about to record after I think it was after we recorded Ipperwash Leah brought a bottle of rum from Barbados and these little tiny Canadian shot glasses and after we were done recording we all just like looked at each other and said you know like let's take care of each other but I think it's you know it's like those it's the ceremonies that we make we're careful with each other we try to work in person more and not be so satellite so that we aren't so isolated because writing is very isolating and especially when you're telling these big hard stories and you sometimes get lost in your head so I think yeah like you know and it's also about turning off which you know I think I'm doing the things that for me I like to cook and I really like to make time for myself just to do something with my hands where I'm not looking at a screen and it's about tactile stuff you know I think it's just like any other kind of art form that you need to break from because it can get hard and heavy yeah I think I've realized because I was pretty much crying every episode like not on not while we were recording but I would take a break and cry and then be like hey da da da da let's do maintenance and so I realized like I needed to get that out before we record it so that I was doing the best for this community whoever we're talking about and getting out the story so I try and let it go before we record but sometimes it's hard especially when you're doing things you know we have accelerated schedules we'll have to record a couple all at once the statues the one that we just did on statues was really hard for me I don't know why well I know why this the history was really hard but I think when I'm really discovering new information for the first time or it's about yeah it's hard to get through so that that one yeah so Phelan just like would watch me cry and be like okay ready for another one yeah we go into it but we're still navigating that for sure yeah question over here yeah so you mentioned that the first four episodes you had some funding for so how are you keeping it going and how can people support you we have a Patreon and so yeah it's on our website yeah if you google us we're on twitter it's links to all that so yeah we have a Patreon that covers some of it it's not much but at this point like it's hard to not we're not putting it down we're going to keep going because it's there's a desire for it like we did a talk in Waterloo a couple months I don't even know when that was like a month or two ago and this mother brought her kid they drove from Dundas, Ontario so like not too far probably about an hour and the little girl she had such a great question she was like where do you find your sources so if you're not finding these standard sources where are you finding your sources well we're like great questions I let you answer that I was like oh I've got some excitement it was because she's a young she's a young person and so after what she came up to us and I guess her mom was homeschooling her and they saw that we were going to be there so they drove out and she was really excited and they used the shows part of their curriculum so those kinds of like that's although it's an immense pressure it's like it's also really a satisfying pressure to have put on you to know that there's a change and I can be optimistic about the world knowing that if this history goes out into the world then there are young people who are soaking it up and they're going to make this place better that's my hope anyway okay, yes I'm glad you mentioned that about the big young girl that asked about your sources because I was curious if you had a favorite tool or resource that you find yourself over and over to really dig into this history I find well it varies like Philan said I've tried to find a source that's closest to the community that we're dealing with right so there are a lot of Canadian history resources right out by the Canadian government and those are very helpful thank you, thank you for Dan Lewis I know right this is a second time this is a new episode right now oh really? how did you do that? yeah, just while we're here so Canadian government has a lot of resources but I always try and find the book or the website by the community especially if it's an Inuit community or First Nation or the Filipino whoever it is I find actually a lot of times when we're doing a culturally specific community I find their cultural association web page I always start with these like rinky web pages that's like the blah blah blah association and I look through all of their material and then I go from there because I want the main source yeah like I call I call the cultural center in Dawson city to talk to them and most people are like yeah let's talk and then they'll either email you a list of sources or like oh that book was published by us in our small community but I have a PDF I think I'll send it to you and then you'll get this PDF from this book that doesn't really exist outside the Yukon and you're like amazing for the Inuit for the north episode that we wrote so that deals with Canada's north which was a huge learning curve for me I think as it was for most as it is for most Canadians the north I think is one of our most misunderstood and it's just we don't know a lot about it the average person living in Canada doesn't know much about the north and so I went to a cultural competency training a two day training session where I sat there and they gave me history and I got to speak to an elder so it's like just keeping your eye out for those kinds of opportunities I like to look at the national film board website because they have films going back you know to like the late 60s and 70s and so there's something about just seeing footage of places and people in a time that helps put me in the mindset documentaries if I can find them are a nice easy way or sometimes I think easy and then I just have like page notes to go through but also like the library's been it's a place that I didn't really visit much until like I did when I was in school and then when I was you know Toronto reference library's pretty good the Jesuit archives are pretty terrifying yeah and it's been interesting how generous people have been to us to have the conversation really early on I didn't want to try to phone anyone like are they even you know say you're doing a podcast like okay everyone has a podcast but people have been really generous we did an episode on virtual Nova Scotia which is Nova Scotia's really one of the areas that a lot of African-Americans came to or were brought to and so there's a huge African-Canadian community there and I got to talk to Lawrence Hill who wrote The Book of Negroes who I mean that book is really about that area and that time and place and his parents are both scholars he was very generous not only talking to me but then being like okay check out this link if you ever need anything again I'm like are you busy like you're doing so much but thank you yeah like there are experts out there and all of this stuff it's just that we don't cross their work in a consumable way and so those people generally are pretty excited to talk about their work they're sometimes their life's work and have it put out into the world in a bigger way and especially you know if we do get to interview them we can accredit it to them that's like that's the bonus so I think we have time for one more question any burning questions out there? so it seems like a delightful radical research excitement that can take you a bunch of photographs and change your narrative idea and just sort of blow up a whole premise of our podcast so I'm just wondering practically like how long it takes you to research something and sort of like how do you create that in when you find things that are deviating from the topic you're talking about? Yes It depends I think sometimes things have to happen faster than I want them to but they have to happen so you know a lot of the time I think the nice thing is that what we can say is you know this is the history of this place we don't have time to tell you everything so we've just grabbed these things that we want to tell you about but we invite you to either like look at this book or check out this website or you know read this person and you can learn more about it but we've decided to talk about these things and so that helps us if the time pressure is like well I really want to talk about this thing but I'm not 100% sure about that fact but we'll leave it out knowing that hopefully that will either come back maybe later on in a shout out or another podcast or we can at least sort of address some things about that place or person or thing Best case scenario it's usually about a month from beginning research to end but it's hard with us because we've worked on so many plays about Canadian history we do have a lot of stuff in our back pocket where we go okay I remember this okay so we're going to put him in but about a month but we've done two weeks we've done a week that's hurt that hurts yeah and it's also you know because we do have like other things happening like work other work that has to happen and so you know sometimes it's really it can be a real crunch but and there's you know stress and no sleep you know what you guys do alright so what's the website so the website is secretlifecanada.com or .ca or you can find us on iTunes or any of the portals there's so many portals to get podcasts whatever it is we're there I like that our web domain crosses borders and that's one that would probably get cut feels okay yeah thank you very much


Assalamu alaikum, I am Dawam Magzumi and I am here to show you how the Holy Quran can improve your life. Allah says in this verse, if He has sent down the Quran upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from the fear of Allah. And these examples we set to present to the people, perhaps they will give thought. Do you know the benefits of the holy month of Ramadan? Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed so that what better time we have to reconnect with ourselves with Allah SWT through it. It was sent to mankind as a complete guide to guide us. Allah SWT indeed has blessed us with this holy Quran, from guidance, from the dark into the light, for us to recite it and to learn from it. Now what are the benefits of this holy month of Ramadan? Well let's talk about how the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. He has this khutbah, a speech specifically for the holy month of Ramadan and every year I am used to hearing it from my father and this year I decided to share it with you because when you read the speech, the khutbah that Rasulullah has given to the people before the holy month of Ramadan to remind us of how much it has benefits and how it has blessings, it makes you wait for this month and it makes you understand how special and how great of a blessing this whole holy month is. So refer to your Mafati-i-Hijjinaan, it's in every Mafati-i-Hijjinaan, it's available in the sections of the month of Ramadan. So in the beginning when you go to the section of the month of Ramadan, the first page, it's in small writing but it's the khutbah of Rasulullah of the month of Ramadan. Now I'll just give you six quick benefits that Rasulullah has said in his speech.   Your backs are heavy, why are they heavy? Because of the sins that we have. So what do we do? Rasulullah says, when you're in the posture of doing Sujood, imagine those sins fall out. So when you pray Rasulullah says, so remove those sins with your long Sujood. Allah has put so much emphasis and importance for the month of Ramadan because it is the holy month and we are guests to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. The prophet continues in his speech and he says, the month of Ramadan has come to you and it's giving you mercy and forgiveness. It is one of the greatest months, and the days are the greatest days, and its nights are the greatest nights, and the hours of the month of Ramadan are the greatest hours. It is a month that we are called upon to be the guests of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. What better benefits can we have other than that? Taqabbal Allahu A'malakum wa Ramadan Mubarak.


Hi there, my name is Reggie and I'm currently in the second semester of the first year of Bachelor of Theology at Ilburg University. When I first started studying theology, many of my friends and family were surprised and it invoked all sorts of questions on God and religion. They were often harsh and daring questions to provoke me, or maybe even to provoke themselves. And as this corona crisis started to unfold, I expected more of these kinds of questions, but the opposite happened. People started asking me how God sees all this, instead of why is he doing this to us? For me personally, studying theology is brought up my knowledge for sure, but it has also strengthened my faith, which is a great help in these turbulent times. Through these studies, I start to grasp parts of the answers to the big questions in life, like why are we here? What is the meaning of this? What should we do? I say start to grasp because the answers I know by now are very far reaching and all embracing. Following classes online is quite tiring. More tiring than real classes? Well, yes. You have to be multitasking constantly, listening, watching, writing, typing. Let's be honest, paying attention is so much easier when you're in a classroom together with the professor and your classmates, instead of at home with distractions like your mobile phone, computer or family members a close hand. Nevertheless, we've seen greater deptability and flexibility from our professors and students alike. I'm very proud of how we're all managing so far. The ones who weren't well acquainted with the online world immediately started practicing and asked for help. I really appreciate the blessing of modern technology because it allows us to continue our studies almost as if nothing has changed. And I say almost because I think this shows ever so clearly that being a university consists of many things that are never going to be replaced by technology. The hustle and bustle of a lively international campus roaming the grounds with classmates, studying in the library. I really hope that this will be again soon. But until then, I shall hold up my cup of tea. I wish you good health and a very fruitful day in your digital classroom.


Welcome traders to another TickMail live market and trade analysis session with me, Patrick Manley. Before we get going here, if you can hear me and you can see the TickMail welcome screen, just type a Y in the chat box so I know we're good to get started. Thanks very much. And before we get going, as always, we want to add here to the risk disclaimer. Material provided information purposes only and should not be considered investment advice. Most importantly, the charts and patterns that I'm assessing today are opinions held by me. They're not indicative of or representative of those held by TickMail UK or TickMail Europe Limited. So for those of you who are here for the first time today, just a brief introduction to myself after I graduated from university. I joined a city PLC consulting plan. I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found and exit a consulting startup, which was focused on C-suite executive search for tech startups. Having a front row seat to the dot com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the markets, sometimes quite literally overnight.  I started day trading or more probably day gambling, the S&P 500. After some early beginners luck, I racked up some solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck ran out as the market phase changed. I began to average down, giving back all of my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six figure hit to my personal capital. Say this was a gut wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. I had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the market. So I decided to get serious about trading and sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record, working with my mentor for a period of 18 months or two years. This was a period of time during which I'm not, not just my technical gain in terms of developing a strategy that importantly seated my personality, researching, developing and extensively back and forward testing my strategies, all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. Most importantly though, during this period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental gain. And probably most importantly, I made the watershed shift from being a highly goal orientated individual focused on financial gains to becoming purely process orientated. So what does that mean? Well, it means I had to stop focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy. Oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But once you become process orientated and have a professional trading mindset, and you understand the true nature of trading being a numbers game in which you are simply playing the probabilities, you lose the emotional investment and hellish emotional rollercoaster of living and dying by the outcome of individual trades. So I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of individual trades or even a string of trades. My focus is on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence and execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. My multi strategy approach has delivered profitable annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've also been managing investor capital through my managed account service delivering annual positive returns. I'm currently responsible for managing a multi million dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've also personally mentored over 100 private traders of all experience levels from complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to reap consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and private mentoring, I'm also a resident market expert exclusively providing trade and market analysis to techno. Most recently, I have been involved in what I guess is a passion project for me as head of trading and trader education for leading trading education brand called fxcareerswap.com offering development and funding to retail trading talent at fxcareerswap. We don't just develop retail traders market and trading strategy knowledge. We work on mindset development through a structured program that culminates in managing firms capital at zero personal financial risk on a profit share basis. And if you're interested in finding out more about what we're doing at fxcareerswap, you can call the number on the screen here that's the trade desk in London or you could drop them an email and they'll come back to you with information about about the program. So before we jump into the charts, I just like to say if you have any questions or you have a chart you want me to take a look at that I don't cover in my review here, then if you just wait till the end and I'll open up a Q&A and you can either type the chart into the chat or I can unmute your mic if you're brave enough to want to over the audio system. Okay, so this week we're we're going to take a look into some of these intraday charts if we can identify some opportunities using a basic Elliott wave overlay looking for impulse moves that are either coming to an end driven by a loss of momentum and price pattern completion or we're looking at the corrective legs whereby we can align ourselves with a broader trend. So we're going to start here with the dollar index. So the dollar index topped out into this 93 42 and since then we've had a what I believe is an impulsive decline down into the 1940 low subdivided quite nicely into five waves. So what we what we'd anticipate now is that if we had finished this initial cycle to the downside that we should see a corrected pattern that normally would unfold in three swings or five swings and so what we're looking at now is we've had this initial move off the lows and we had a pullback here and versus that pullback what we'd anticipate would be a an equality swing so an equal swing to the initial move which would put us up into this 9180 and then if we bring in the retracement tool here you can see that that brings us just shy of the 50% retracement so that's the target at the moment for for this for this corrected pattern to play out. Now obviously we're seeing a bit of weakness here in terms of the dollar index at the moment rolling over it could be technically that this that we the correction has completed because although it's not uh although we didn't meet the equal legs objective that we'd ideally like to see it do doesn't necessarily always do that and the fact that we had a pullback and made a marginal new high from a from a technical perspective that's sufficient to to suggest that the this correction could be complete. Now when we get the confirmation of that well we don't really get confirmation of it if we take out the current swing low at 1940 and then what would that allow us to do well it would if if this is the the first oh sorry if this leg is complete now let me just remove this and I'll show you the type of pattern you could expect to play out so if we don't hold support here at at 1980 and we start to get some momentum to the downside and we click that low then what you'd look for then would be an interim three-wave corrected pattern to align with the next leg to the downside and you want to be thinking in terms of the scope and scale for that type of pattern uh let me just draw this in and then I'll extend it and show you exactly what I've been looking for so so you can see here this move off the highs you can see these type of correct it well you we've got a three-wave corrected pattern here on the out if you if you went into the hourly time frame you'd be able to see this more clearly but technically that meets the criteria so if we think in terms of the next leg here we can we can use prior price action to give us some cues or clues as to as to what we could expect in terms of the setup and so we'd be looking at um five completed down we're looking at first of all we need to take out the lows two and seven guys we'll get there in the end so we want to see a new low in the cycle doesn't it doesn't have to be a major new low just needs to take out this prior low to confirm that we have a a play developing and then what we'd anticipate would be that we are going to do this scenario in seconds we use that up here so we then extend to the downside and we'll be anticipating an equal leg versus this decline so maybe we don't extend that for let's see we get something like that so that would be if if this cycle is complete here at this high and again we only get confirmation on a new low but if that is the if that plays out then the first correction will be an opportunity to enter the market to target an equality objective at a minimum to the downside there is on the weekly chart a bigger downside objective at 8750 which which I've been tracking but for now in terms of the the initial the immediate opportunity firstly it would be on a break of new lows and the first pullback would be an entry on the short side or alternatively we we hold support and we have an abc quality objective that takes us into the 50 to 61.8 per cent retracement zone which would then set up an opportunity on the short side you obviously you want I personally I wait for for price pattern to confirm a candlestick set up but that would then give you an entry and that also could could be the setup for the equality leg to the downside now if you get in if you get in on that type of trade what's proven to do is to make sure that by the 50 per cent retracement of the last leg you want to have your trade as a risk-free position why is that well it's because what we could see happen and plays out many times is that instead of taking out the prior lows and heading down immediately for the equality objective we could again see something we could see a slightly more complex double correction before we take off the game to the downside so what would that look like well we look something like this where we get up here and we get a pullback but we can make another move up into to complete the double correction and then from there we can look for the equality objective so what's important here is if we once we get the equal legs objective which was sufficient for the correction to have completed then we want to if we get a reversal pattern that meets our entry criteria then certainly at the 50 per cent retracement of that leg we want to get the position to risk-free to rule out being stopped out in a double correction and then again once we've got if once we have if we hold that 50 we know that there's a high probability then that we're going to see that double correction and so that's that would allow us to align again with the trend given given reversal pattern confirmation so those are the two scenarios I'm watching in in the dollar index at the moment euro dollar shared this one we could have I mean technically we could have a way for low in place here and a major wave too low in place again we're going to need to see prices extend through the price here at 2150 but equally if if we can take out this swing high here at 120 76 then we can start to think about playing the first pullback here to align with this bigger opportunity to the upside equally what we want to pay attention to is the potential that we are we have if the dollar index was going to be moving into a double correction then we want to factor the idea that once if we get up here into this 56 to 1.8 per cent retracement zone that the euro could be putting in a bigger corrected pattern like so before taking off to the upside so we let the price unfold and watch for the confirmation before before getting involved but certainly at this stage this move off the low equal to the dollar indexes move off the high has impulsive qualities and and at the moment we we want to be thinking in terms of the long side of the euro and the short side in terms of the dollar sterling a bit of wippy action today with the boe but ultimately what I'm looking for here with sterling is a test of this equality objective on 37 59 on 37 16 which has been this range support and I think that then could be the opportunity to get in on the long side in sterling and again position for this to be the advanced initial advance initial correction and we could see something impulsive to the upside here in terms of sterling so we have to wait to see how how we play out there donnie yen so this move certainly has impulsive qualities to the downside subdivides nicely into into a five-way pattern so what we're looking for now is a corrective pattern to play out so initially what we want to think about is we have this move off the low and second so we have this leg here matching this leg so we could see a 110 1103 there let's just retrace our decline over here so that comes in around just ahead of the 78.6% retracement so we could get again double correction potential here but whilst we hold this 10843 support watch for reversal patterns at 1103 11020 and again what we're targeting will be the equality objective versus this move so we can still this this could on the on the higher timeframe on the daily timeframe still be a corrective pattern but it's what we're looking at here are more of the intraday opportunities and so we we want to watch how price response here do we get bearish reversal patterns if so we've got a high probability shorting opportunity to to be targeted to move down to the 10670 zone. Ozzy again with the Ozzy if it's a little bit more the chart isn't as clean as some of those other patterns that we just looked at but we can highlight here a potentially impulsive move into the 78.16 and what looks at the moment to be corrective in terms of ABCs so it meets the criteria we haven't we haven't tested the equality objective and again we we want to watch for those setups because those tend to provide the best opportunities so we haven't quite so once if we hold 77.60s here and we get another leg down watch 76.48 as the equal legs versus this structure and set bullish what's the bullish reversal patterns there set long positions and certainly we can think about a retest of the prize here at the 80 level so where would this this is where would this be invalidated where would we start to be need to be starting to think about the short side but we'd have to take out 75 75 and if we did then what we'd be starting to think is well this is probably now impulsive and then what we'd look for would be to play that first correction there and take this into a new way five low and then we'd anticipate another three way before the next leg to the downside so the we've got some parameters here which would which would suggest that you know this pattern that I'm expecting to play out is invalid and that would be through 75 75 and if if we but if we do get the the bullish scenario here and we've completed the correction into this low then our next opportunity to short would be on a new high here through 78.50 sorry to get long we'd want to play the first corrective pullback in three waves to target then and move up into the wave three objective prior highs and we anticipate another correction before moving up into potential way five Kiwi cleaner pattern again like like the like to see how this plays out so again this and this is important process to be able to go through is one to be able to identify the impulse but then two to be able to think in terms of the corrective patterns and so technically the Kiwi could have completed its correction because we have this high this low this high and then this reaction low so that's sufficient for from a technical perspective for the correction to have completed where will we get confirmation of that well again we can only get confirmation on a new high and if we do get a new high that sets up the possibility of entering on the first three wave correction to play for certainly a retest of highs and probably on towards new highs so but whilst we hold 72.29 here and we're seeing a bit of congestion we can think about another corrected leg lower before a set before the next leg to the upside and where would that complete well if we hold if as we hold 72.29 we look for 70.59 back into the prior wave one high here as well so if that unfolds in three legs we want to watch for bullish reversal patterns here to set long positions same objective in terms of testing and taking out the prior highs again just a cleaner pattern easier to to visually grasp the structures there swissie so swissie again like the dollar index we have this clear decline subdividing into five waves we might have a new wave five low here and again what we're always watching for is this divergence so we I think we probably get some some divergence here into this potential wave five low let's another way of getting some target zones for that wave five is is overlaying the fibs here so at a minimum we expect the wave five to test the 127 extension to the downside of this prior corrected move so again let me just blow this up you can start to see who so it's clear you can see an abc structure there is it an equal legs let's have a look so yeah you can see we have an equal leg c and we're now looking like this could be an impulsive move to the downside to complete this wave five so here's the initial decline quick correction move there now we're in the wave three just wave three pause at 127 and we get another little correction to retest the prior lows before going to the ideal 161 extension and then setting up this pattern okay so that's what we're looking for there with the swissie the other the alternative scenario is we do a double from the lows here we make a double bottom but equally that just sets up the next trade to the downside so so again just waiting for these confirmations in terms of taking out these swing structures to let you know will give you a fair idea of what's to come and where the opportunity is to engage sterling yen I think sterling yen has the potential to have completed we can see this isn't looks impulsive it's not as clean as some of the other patterns but certainly you can think to yourself in terms of one two three four and five and now we're correcting so ideally what we'd like to see with this isn't just a straight move to the downside here so what we could anticipate is that we get an equal legs into so I want to pay attention to how to trade 150 72 bullish reversal patterns there and I think we can start to think about trading up to this 155 objective and the top side of what could be a broadening broadening top pattern there euro yen similar scenario here but euro yen has actually given us the completion of the correction so we've got a b equal leg c we went into the the target zone of the 31 20 to 30 90 we've got bullish reversal pattern so now we've got a potential wave for low in place and we look for a wave five here to develop so watch as as we extend here if we can get through let's see so if we can if we get up into this 78.6 take that out you can play a mini correction intraday to to get you in to play for the wave five extension to the upside because if this pattern is correct if this silo is correct then then we anticipate a move through 132 16 first pullback would set you up into the trade again the alternative scenario and we won't know just yet which one's going to play out would be that we have symmetry swing here that gives us this move so again we could be thinking in terms of a double correction symmetry swing versus that last leg so if we stall out here at 131 77 then we change our corrected target to the downside to give us this pattern which would have us back into 130 40 but still from there if if we get bullish reversal patterns then then we can expect our our load to be in place and we look for the move to play out like so so we just see if we get through this symmetry swing resistance then we can start to think about the first pullback to get long but if we stall out here then we've got a target zone where we'd be looking to to re-engage on the long side versus versus the double corrective pattern. As again not particularly clear here we're in a very complex correction but this is the type of pattern I would imagine plays out that we get a test into the top side and then we need to pull back to retest the trendline support here before we extend higher on the fifth wave. Cad Yen has been traded very well this was what Pat and I shared through the e-wave the tick mill e-wave videos we've got the ABC traded into the zone big bullish reversal first three wave pullback even I've just drawn this in for you so you can see how this thing works let's see we've got that ABC pullback and then we were in a or we had been in a wave three which I think we're we've seen the high of now we've seen wave three this can be this is our wave four low so now we're looking for a wave five so let's let's do the same thing and and get some target areas here and we can see significant divergence here so this is an opportunity on the short side let's uh to measure so this in the the initial way I measure for a wave five high is using the wave one because more often than not you'll get an equality swing to complete so we've got 89 77 let's bring in the third tool again and see where we get you can see so we've got that 161 extension there that's that's coalescing with the wave one equality objective so I paid very close attention to how we trade 89 66 89 76 bearish reversal patterns there and then we've got an opportunity to play the corrective move and more often than not what we're thinking initially is uh it's a 38.2 percent retracement and to retest to the wave four low so we can be looking back to uh to 88 44 on uh for the initial move and then more likely than not we correct that before we put in the equality objective to the downsize but certainly because we've taken out highs here in terms of this cad yen there's a great two-way trading opportunity here there's the opportunity to to fade this this next high for a for an interim wave five high to complete we've got bags of divergence down here so that supports this the potential for this trade and then there's the potential to play the correction to join the the higher degree trend which which is still to the upside in terms of the cad yen at the moment so this is how you can start to map out where the opportunity is in advance and then you're just waiting for the price action to confirm euro sterling so the euro sterling has completed or is potentially completing a correction I like to be long euro sterling through these highs at 87 20 targeting the equality objective versus this structure here so this this low uh equal at 88 33 uh would be the uh this target for that trade I'm just cognizant of the time here um let's take a look at copper copper's another one that looks like it's coming into its wave five high it's been on a tear but uh clearly we can see that we've got plenty of divergence down here we can uh look at the pattern here we can call that one two three four and we're looking for a five here so let's again same process let's uh let's do this so if that's going to be our four low then the um the upside objective I'll just get that second so the upside objective is uh 4.6535 and let's just bring in our foot tool and again we have that 161 extension just below the 200 percent extension so this is the target zone here for copper to get a pullback to complete uh this what would then be the third wave of the higher degree time frame because we've got this move off the low so then what we'll be thinking is in terms of um this scenario next so from this zone we'd then be looking for this move and you can start to see how the bigger wave pattern uh starts to develop last but not least uh let's take a look at the s and p for today s and p 500 so what we're looking at here is um if we can get a move today through uh the 4191 level this could be a wave five extension to the upside here this little mini correction there we look let's get back into the highs here pull back pull back and we've got a target or I've got a target at the moment uh to get up into 42 44 in terms of uh in terms of this leg which would which would complete the cycle um this being our wave four uh and this one second guys so this is our this is the the interim uh wave one but then what we anticipate is that we get uh we get a pullback something like this getting in that prior wave four test and then I think we get uh we get a significant extension again to the upside in this type of shape to complete a much bigger cycle before once again thinking in terms of uh in terms of the downside or corrective moves so you see how you can build this stuff out once you understand we'll have a relatively simple understanding really of the structures and how the patterns play into each other and play into the the different cycles on the different time frames so those uh those are some of the charts I'm watching paying really close attention to this cad yen and copper uh watch watch this s and p today if we can get through uh that key level at 4190 dollar index and euro also on the radar and that key we also is a very clean pattern wanted to uh see how that plays out in terms of the structure so you can see there how you can very quickly identify some relatively low uh low risk opportunities on these intraday charts using this this type of technical overlay and I hope uh have you found that useful are there any questions if you don't have a question uh it's helpful for me if you type an n in the chat box equally if you do have a question feel free to uh type it into the chat box sterling uh swiss let's take a look at sterling swiss yes I mean this this again with this sterling swiss I I was in this earlier in the week and got uh got stopped on uh on the pullback but what I again we we'd met we'd met the criteria um for a low to be in place on this new low so thinking in terms of uh the pattern so we have a this was sufficient the fact we made a new low was sufficient to uh to constitute completion cycle what I think we're looking at now is um it's probably something more like this so until we take out 12820 um 12820 on the upside the probability the bounce probability suggests when you take a look at 12370 first and then watch for bullish reversal patterns there because that uh that would then complete this this cycle and then we could start to uh start to think about the next leg to the upside but equally get through 12820 and um and as as long as you know we've got an impulsive setup there it could be that uh this is what we can start to think about okay if there aren't any other questions guys I'm going to wrap this session up here hope you found it useful and keep an eye on some of these these pairs that we've talked about and see if you can start overlaying the patterns yourself and again always looking for that price action confirmation for uh before jumping in uh Derek Euroyen Euroyen so here's where I'm at with the Euroyen Derek if we can get through 130175 then you can start to think about playing the first pullback as we've probably got our way for low in place but if if we can't get through this 130175 I'd anticipate we're probably going to do a double correction and and if that's the case your target zone where you can look to get uh look for bullish reversal patterns will be down to 130 39 area bullish reversal patterns there should be the the way for interim way for low in place and then you can start to think about a test up to uh 132 does that make sense Derek okay good stuff I am going to wrap this session up here and uh we'll reconvene at the same time next week thanks very much and have a great week


Today we're checking out Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash number two from wild story and comics and Dynamite Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Ed TV We're all geek culture collides and if you're new to the channel make sure and hit that subscribe button So you don't miss out on future videos This is issue number two of the six-part mini series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash from 2007 The story takes place in December 2008 five years after the events of Freddy vs. Jason and 16 years after the events of Army of Darkness Ash has arrived at Forest Green formerly Crystal Lake home to the new super ultra mega Smart warehouse store sitting here by corporate to clean up the house where his department on his way into the store He flirts with the girls who passes in the parking lot But they all see him as a sugar granddaddy and a joke But he's only 35 Ash stumbles into the manager of the store Who's already irritated by Ashley's lack of punctuality? They've already wasted seven minutes outside on the consumer tarmac It's time to get inside and get to work while the two head inside the three girls run into Jason Voorhees who immediately Slices one of them in half and smashes the other two skulls together Ash hears the screams and goes running to help But he's too late.  It's a real holiday killer With that Jason begins his mission and stumbles upon carolers who are out in the snow Preparing for their night of singing door-to-door But just as a choir director is about to start them off Jason stabs one of the carolers from behind with a signpost And then slaughters the rest of them removing their heads as brutally as possible Back in the a smart break room Ash gets seduced by a gorgeous young blonde for his discount And even manages to get him to pay for all the supplies she and her friends need for their camping trip all by appealing to little Ashley but just after Ash loads everything into the car her friends ditch him and peel out leaving Ash alone in the parking lot a combination of stone and wood exterior with a massive bay window and a hardwood door welcome the group Darkness awaits them as they shut off the Mustang and begin to head inside the house Huh, I can't believe you worked that fossil into buying all that equipment for us What can I say when you've got tits like mine? You only have to tease a little and boys will do anything you say if they think they're gonna get some Once inside the group begin making their way in different directions One couple begin going at it on the couch in the living room before their friends even leave the room about that time Two other cars pull up outside One belongs to Ash Williams and the other belongs to carry Ash plans on finding the book of the dead the necronomic On ex mortis made of human flesh and written in blood able to open the gates of hell and bring the demons in prison there Here to wreak havoc on humans It can summon the dead and control them and it can grant limitless power to those who possess it Necronomic on 101. It's always in the fruit seller. Sure. It's okay Ash is down here with the spiders and the ornamental skeletal critters while they're up there having an orgy. Yeah Life's real fair day in school kids. You too could end up successful like me the kids upstairs are so busy getting their rocks off They don't even notice a deadly visitor has made his way home one by one.  Yeah, I see that but we're not Ash says as he kisses her passionately While Jason's makes his way up the stairs only to be shot by Ash The two make their way downstairs and outside to the Delta 88 Ash tries to get the car started in a hurry But it's old and warm-blooded. It doesn't want to start right away What did you guys think of issue two of the six-part mini series? We finally got to see Ash up against Jason for the first time even if it was just a short lead up to the actual fight I feel that dynamite and wild storm truly captured the personality of Ash It really seems like it could take place during the ash versus the evil dead TV series Even though he's a lot older in that TV series I think they made Jason a lot more brutal than he was in the movies as I don't really Recall ever seeing him actually pull someone apart at the waist or even pull their heads from their bodies Sorry, it's taken so long to get the second part of this series out guys It's been a hectic few weeks between Thanksgiving and working through a three-week bronchitis trip It's been hard getting new videos out lately Tune in next time guys when we take a look at Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash number three from wild storm comics and dynamite entertainment