Welcome to the Bull and Bear Show, episode number four. And I wanna wish all the fathers out there, happy Father's Day. I wanna wish all of our friends in America a happy long weekend. And this is the Bear and Bull, or should I say Bull and Bear Show. Now, what do we talk about on the Bull and Bear Show? The Bull and Bear Show is a show where we're gonna talk about what's hot, what's not, what's trending every single week. Now, sometimes I'm gonna have guests on here. We've already got other guests that we're planning to get on the show. I plan to have Blaze join me sometime while we're live, but it's Father's Day. So people have plans, super busy weekend, and I'm sure a lot of you guys are probably with your father, so I totally understand. I just wanna wish everyone a happy Father's Day. But what I wanna do today is I wanna talk about the biggest breaking news of the week because we have some huge news happening and it's very important that we talk about it. Hey, happy Father's Day, Brian. Let's get you guys into the chat here as well. So I wanna talk to you guys about the biggest breaking news of the week and it's been a massive, massive week. So let's get right into it. And Blaze, if you're watching, just join me anytime and we'll get you right up in here. Cause I know Blaze, his girlfriend, it's her birthday today, so I wanna wish her a happy birthday and I know he's rushing to try to get somewhere where he has some internet and he can get on the show. So hopefully we'll get Blaze to join us as well from Florida. I know they got some bad weather there as well, so hopefully he'll be able to join us. And in the meantime, if you guys have any questions, please put them in the chat. I'm gonna go over all the biggest breaking news of the week and it was a monster week and we're gonna talk about it. And first and foremost, let's talk about the biggest news of the week first. Right off the bat. Here we go. All right, so the biggest news of the week right off the bat is this right here. You guys can see this. You know what, let me take this chat off for a second. All right, so this is the biggest news of the week. Federal Reserve officials announced a pause in the US interest rate hikes. This is huge because it was the first pause that we've had in 10 meetings, meaning the Federal Reserve literally had 10 meetings in a row where they increased the rates for the last year. So this was huge for the market. Amanda and I did a video on Wednesday when we talked about it. The market was red initially. We said that this will be a boom for the markets because this was the first pause in 10 meetings, meaning the Fed in America raised interest rates for 10 meetings in a row. So very bullish for the market that this is happening. Brian, I'll definitely tell you what I think about IDAI. I like AI stocks. We'll take a look at that one. We'll look at other ones as well. But I thought this was huge for the markets. I think this is huge for Bitcoin. And we're gonna talk about Bitcoin. We're gonna look at the chart of that as well. But I'm gonna show you a whole bunch of stocks that are essentially at 52 week highs. I'm gonna show you some stocks that are at all time highs. I'm gonna talk about why I believe we are now in a bull market. And why we can go way, way higher from here. Now, there's always a chance that the market can go down as well because we've had a huge boom in the market in 2023. And we've had a boom in Bitcoin as well in 2023. So there's always a chance we could go back down. What goes up does come down. That's 100% true. However, this is a boom for the market because the next Fed meeting is in four to six weeks, which means we've got a huge opportunity to see lift off in the market until the next meeting where they most likely will increase rates again. But we've got a little bit of a bubble here where we've got runway for the markets to run for the next month. And I think they will. And we're gonna talk about it. I wanna show you some stocks that are at all time highs, 52 week highs. And these are some of the biggest and the best companies in the world. Now, what is causing this bull market? Artificial intelligence has been causing this bull market and tech stocks. So if you're looking for momentum, you need to be in artificial intelligence and you need to be in tech stocks. So when you're talking about IDAI, a tech stock, I believe that's a tech stock. You're down 20K, still holding, we'll add more on IDAI. Okay. I'll definitely take a look at that and we'll figure out what's going on there. But I believe that we are going into a bull market if we're not already in one and we're gonna show you why. So let's go right into it. So huge news, the Fed Reserve official announced pause in US interest rate hikes. This is very bullish for the market. Now let's take a look at the markets right off the bat here. So we're gonna take a look at the markets. Sorry, I'm just gonna move the chat so we can make the market look a little bit bigger here. So you can see right off the bat, we're looking at the NASDAQ. So I wanna show you the all-time high for the NASDAQ, okay? So you can see the all-time high for the NASDAQ was in 2021 when everybody got checks for COVID-19, people weren't working, people were at home, which doesn't make a lot of sense, right? But the market exploded in 2021. We were there, we were there in the middle of a massive boom in the market in 2021. That was the move in the market on the NASDAQ in 2021. But 2022 was the complete opposite where it went in the other direction, it went down. That was 2022. So 2021, we saw all-time highs in the NASDAQ. 2022 followed 2021 with a massive crash in the NASDAQ, Dow Jones, S&P 500, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crip, all crypto pretty much went down. Housing had a little bit of a pullback. We saw a massive drop in the markets and specifically small caps, small caps took it on the chin, small caps crashed hard in 2021. So what is happening now in 2022? Now look at what's happening in 2022. I want you to zoom in, right? We're gonna zoom in and look at what's happening in 2022. We are now back in bull market zone. We're not where all-time highs are for the NASDAQ, but we are approaching there. And you can see if I zoom back out that we are now getting back into bull market territory. Essentially the trend of going up in 2021 that went back down in 2022, we started a new trend back up in 2023 and we're not that far off from all-time highs in the NASDAQ anymore. So I believe we could see all-time highs in the NASDAQ because this AI boom is just getting started. This AI boom is just in the first inning. For a while there, I thought it was gonna be like a bubble and it was gonna just end, but I was wrong. This AI boom is here to stay and this AI boom is real and I'm gonna show you a whole bunch of stocks that are really, really benefiting from the AI boom and it is many. Let's start with Tesla. So Tesla's all-time high is $414. Now it's actually been as high as $2,000 but it did a forward split. So these numbers are a little bit skewed because it did a forward split, went all the way back down. But let's just say for this chart that it's all-time high was 414 and it did this big move up. You guys can see this big move up here on Tesla. Huge move up followed by a big drop in 2022, which I told you guys 2022, everything dropped, right? So 2022, everything does the opposite, it drops. Well, what happened? It created a buying opportunity for Tesla. I told everybody to buy Tesla. I put Tesla in my top four picks for 2023. I personally bought Tesla at $108. Told everybody in our community that Tesla was a buy and I was 100% correct. Since that bottom in Tesla of $100 at the beginning of January, Tesla's been absolutely on fire. It's gone from $100 in January where it hit its bottom, right here. 101 in January of this year and today it's at $260. So Tesla's up more than 100% this year, actually up about 150% so far this year. So a huge move for Tesla so far this year, one of the best electric vehicle stories ever, the number one electric vehicle company in the world and the company that is, in my opinion, a tech company. They're not just an electric vehicle company, they're a tech company and they have one of the richest men in the world with Elon Musk leading the way. Most people consider him a genius. I believe he has to be put in that category as well and he's definitely done an amazing job with Tesla and for shareholders. So if you're looking for an EV play, if you're looking for an AI play, look at Tesla because Elon Musk said that Tesla is gonna have an AI story soon when his autonomous vehicles start hitting the road and you can hop into a Tesla, tell your Tesla to take you to soccer practice, take you to school, take you to work and your Tesla's gonna drive you. You're not gonna have to actually drive.  Autonomous vehicles is coming and Elon Musk is saying that Tesla will have an AI opportunity that will be massive and the market is recognizing that and that's why Tesla's absolutely on fire. Not at an all-time high, but at a 52-week high and I believe we can see Tesla go much higher. Not to say it can't go back down. Anything can happen from here. It's up 150% this year. But what I am saying is if this momentum continues in the market and all the top stocks continue to go higher, assume that Tesla will be a part of that because it is one of the largest and best companies in the world, okay? And that's where you wanna be right now with your money because that is where the smart money is going. They're going into good, big quality names and quality companies. So Tesla, amazing, amazing move for Tesla and I believe there's a very good chance that that will continue with Tesla. Now let's take a look at another pick that is absolutely on fire. Another one that I told everybody. Full disclosure, I bought it. I told everybody that it was a screaming buy. It was one of my top four or five picks for 2023 and it hasn't disappointed Apple. Apple, I bought earlier this year. I sold took profits and it has not stopped. It's been an absolute beast. Apple, congratulations if you own Apple, is now officially trading around at all time high. You can see here on the chart, this is a max chart. This is the highest Apple has ever been and I've been charting this for well over a few years and you can see I've even marked buy zones and sell zones and I've said it over and over again that Apple is one of those companies that's too big to fail. They've got too much money in the bank. They've got too many good quality products. Too many people have iPhones. Too many people have Macs. Too many people have Apple products and I believe that trend is going to continue and this is Apple now trading at an all time high. Apple hit an all time high this week at $186. So if you're looking for quality companies, you're looking for big names, Apple. They just hit an all time high, once again proving to you guys that we're in a bull market. Would Apple be hitting an all time high if we weren't in a bull market? Would Tesla be hitting a 52 week high if we were not in a bull market? Would you like to see more evidence? Would you like to see more proof? I got it, let's go. How about NVIDIA? I called everyone NVIDIA, was one of my top AI stocks for 2023. I told everybody NVIDIA was my number one stock for June. What has NVIDIA done?  We just had NVIDIA hit an all time high this week of $437. In the last year, look at what NVIDIA has done. It was at $108 in October. It's now at $426, which means that NVIDIA is up 300% since October of last year. That's right, 300% for NVIDIA, number one chip maker in the world. And right now I would say the number one AI stock in the world is NVIDIA, N-V-D-A. Numero uno, look at that chart. It's an absolute rocket and it doesn't look like it's gonna stop. I didn't wanna make them my number one pick for June, but how could I pick anyone else? These guys are just too hot. Look at that trend, look at the chart. It's going absolutely straight up. Now, am I gonna tell you to buy NVIDIA now, trading at all time highs, of course not. But if you're looking for a pure play AI stock, this is as good as it gets, all time highs, number one chip maker, they're talking about making $23 billion. $23 billion, that's why the stock is going up. They are making tons of money and this is the type of environment as an investor where you wanna follow the money and the money is going into the top AI and tech stocks in the world. And I just brought you guys Tesla, proved it to you. I just brought you guys Apple, proved it to you. Now I'm bringing you NVIDIA. Apple, all time highs, NVIDIA, all time highs. Tesla, 52 big highs. This is where you wanna be with your money. What did I buy this year? Apple and Tesla, I missed NVIDIA and it hurts. And every time I thought about buying it, I was like, let me wait for a dip. And then when it would dip, I live a little bit longer than boom and exploded higher. So yeah, I missed NVIDIA, but I got in on Tesla. I got in on Apple. I sold and taken profits and now I'm waiting for a little bit of a pullback but it doesn't look like it's coming. So as an investor, I gotta be patient. I gotta wait for my next opportunity. But when those huge companies drop and everybody was panicking, that was a buying opportunity. That's what we talk about here at Rich TV Live. We try to break down winners before they explode, not after they explode. And we've been talking about these picks when they were down so that you could position yourself and capitalize and I hope you did. But I don't believe we're done. I actually believe we've still got more opportunity for the next year, maybe two years to really ride all of this momentum in AI, tech and in crypto. I believe the greatest technology in the world right now is Bitcoin. I believe the greatest technology on the planet is Bitcoin and the blockchain. And I believe that I'm gonna ride this to unbelievable wealth. And I'm gonna talk about that and we're gonna go into that and we're gonna talk about why. But I believe there's so many catalysts for Bitcoin right now, too many catalysts to ignore and it would be silly not to be in Bitcoin considering the fact that Bitcoin, did you know that Bitcoin from low to high has been up billions of percent? That's right, not millions of percent, billions of percent. Bitcoin has been up billions of percent. So why would you not want to take advantage of that? Why would you not wanna participate in something that's gone up billions of percent despite the fact that only 5% of the world or maybe even lower own it? So if the other 95% of the world get into Bitcoin, what will the price be? A lot higher. Why? There's a finite amount of Bitcoin. There's only 21 million Bitcoin that will ever be mined. Which is one of the reasons why I'm extremely bullish on Bitcoin. I am holding Bitcoin full disclosure. And remember everything we talk about here on Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please, do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live. And remember, past performance is not always an indication of future results. Just because NVIDIA, Apple, Tesla and Bitcoin are up doesn't mean they're going to continue to go up.  That's not what this is about. I'm just here to show you guys what is bullish, what is bearish, what's hot, what's not, what's trending and talk about all the biggest news of the day and hopefully get you the people involved.  Please put it in the chat and I'll do my best to answer your guys' questions. We got some people coming in the chat. How you doing, Amanda? What's going on? How you guys all doing? Blaze! Blaze, my man, welcome! Blaze, how you doing, brother? What's up, bro? I just got back, man. Sorry about that. Hey, no worries, bro. I'm great to have you here. So your number with Bitcoin would be about 8 billion percent. So 0.06 cents always up to 69 grand. So at one point it was about 8 billion. Massive. Now let me ask you a couple of questions because I've been giving my opinion. I would like to get your opinion. What do you think about the Federal Reserve's official announcement of pausing on interest rates for the first time in 10 meetings? What do you think about that? Oh, wow. I didn't even know that was going down. Thanks for the news. The markets exploded and the reason why the markets exploded was because of the fact that the Fed decided finally for the first time in 11 meetings to pause on rate hikes. And stocks exploded because of it. What do you think about that? I love it. I mean, it gives people more options to actually invest and do things with their money, you know? Absolutely, 100%. Here's the news right here. And it gives more comfort to actually spending money at this point. 100%. Couple good things. Oh, I just lost them. Sorry, Blaze, I just lost you here. We get you back. Sorry, Blaze. It's all right. We're having bad storms over here again. Yeah, no worries. Blaze is in Florida. They're having crazy storms. Everyone, please be safe and, you know, go to shelter and please be safe. And I just want to wish everyone a happy Father's Day as well. Blaze, happy Father's Day, brother. Yeah, you too, bro. Hey, thank you. Appreciate it, man. Yeah, man, of course. So this is huge. We, Amanda says we are totally in a bull market. I believe we're in a bull market as well and the Fed pausing on rates is going to enhance this bull market because imagine the Fed increased rates for 10 meetings in a row and finally they stop for one meeting and each meeting is about four to six weeks. So we've got runway for the next four to six weeks for pretty much the next, you know, for the rest of the summer almost of green and blue sky, in my opinion, in the markets. And I think this is a great opportunity for investors. Typically in the summertime, the markets are really slow. But right now we've got a huge boom in the markets. So typically when everybody's on vacation and it's selling may go away, that's not what's happening right now. Right now is the time to make money. Like I just showed Apple at all time highs. Tesla, 52-week highs. NVIDIA, all-time highs. Stocks are at all-time highs, which means we are in a bull market. We would not see this many stocks in all-time highs if we're not in a bull market. Would you agree with that? 100% agree with that. I was actually thinking about that summertime would be a good point when things go up. So it's actually going down the way I expected it. Yeah, and because of the fact that the Fed actually decided to pause on rates, that's another reason why the market's gonna keep the one up because it's the first time that they paused on rates in 10 meetings. So the market is exhausted with these rate hikes. People are tired of paying more for their mortgage. People are tired of paying more for their credit cards. People are tired of paying more for their loans. Every time the Fed brings the rates higher, that means that everybody that has debt is paying more for their debt. It's not a good thing. No, not at all. Right? Not at all to pay way more than what the value is, you know? Amanda says, I worry about a pullback at these levels, but you never know. I have the same fears. When you see markets at all time highs, you see everyone talking about a bull market, you see the AI bubble, you see tech stocks at all time highs, you have to be weary that at some point they're gonna get pulled back. So that's why it's important that we talk about it and we give our opinions and everyone gets a chance to kind of let us know what they think because we all have a different opinion, but it's important to see everybody's side of it. And I believe that there will be a pullback at some point. I just don't think it's gonna happen, at least in my opinion, until the next meeting where Powell has already hinted that there still will be more hikes. So he's doing one pause, but most likely he's saying that there's gonna be two more hikes this year. So I believe there will be more hikes and that's when the market pulls back. So I think we've got runway until the next meeting and then in the next meeting, if Powell then decides to increase the rates again, which I believe he will, which will most likely be in the end of July, that is when I think you see the market come back and that will be our buying opportunity. That's my target around July. What do you think about that? You guys agree? What do you think, Brian? What do you think, Amanda? Blaze agrees with that. Do you guys agree with that statement? Left to know what you guys think. All right, I wanna talk to you about something else, Blaze. So there's some big news that's been happening. And we'll get into more stocks and stuff, but let's talk about this. This is huge. I wanna show you this. Okay. Okay, so I'm just gonna hide this for a second. I'm gonna hide the chat for a second. Okay, so this is the news that just came out yesterday. Binance and the SEC strike a deal to keep US customer assets in the country. And everyone's like, why is Bitcoin exploding? That's why Bitcoin's exploding. Because the SEC went after Ripple and it looks like they're gonna lose. They went after Binance and it looks like they're gonna lose and they went after Coinbase and it looks like they're gonna lose. And why would the SEC strike a deal to keep customer assets in the country? What do you think about that, Blaze?  Not just that, they're hurting investors. Yeah.  Look at you hurt investors, right? If you hurt investors, investors can't make money and we can't pay taxes, right? Exactly. And why are you hurting investors? The SEC's job, Securities and Exchange Commission, their most operandi is to protect investors. How are you protecting investors when you're freezing their assets? It doesn't protect investors, that hurts investors. It's contradicting. And when they're contradicting. 100% it is. You know, I mean, the SEC can lose a lot of money out of all this mess. Of course they can because if they end up losing that lawsuit, they're gonna have to pay the lawyer fees for themselves and Binance's lawyer fees. That's gonna be very costly. And not to mention the fact the losses in capital that could be created. Ripple's lawyer fees have already told the $200 million. Ripple has spent $200 million on lawyer fees. So if the SEC loses that case, which there's a study that came out that said they're 97% chance the SEC loses that case. 97% chance. So if the SEC loses that case, they're gonna have to pay $200 million to Ripple to cover their lawyer fees. And that's crippling. Of course it is. Where's that money coming from? This is a company that's supposed to protect us, right? Now are going against us. And then they're gonna take a bath in a $200 million loss, maybe more. I heard maybe 250 by the time it's done. It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, cause it's not even finished. So it's still ongoing. Ripple is still spending millions of dollars on these lawyer fees. And it's still ongoing. So there's no end in sight. So this is what I believe is the reason why Bitcoin and cryptos exploded. And let's take a look at Bitcoin. I'm gonna show you what Bitcoin's done because Bitcoin made a really big move. And I was hunting the reason. I'm like, why is Bitcoin moving? What's going on? What's the catalyst here? And massive move for Bitcoin. It actually went down. I'm gonna do a five day chart. So it actually went down to 24,000. You can see here on my chart. It actually went down to 24,000. Hold on. That was my point. All the pros knew if I, yeah. Okay. So this is the Bitcoin chart. And you can actually see that Bitcoin actually hit 24,000. Okay. That was this week. It hit 24,000. Everybody started coming out. All the haters started coming out saying Bitcoin's going to zero. I'm like, are you for real? You know, there's a long way down from 26,000 to zero. So I have no idea where that comes from. It's virtually impossible because of a lot of liquidity with other wallets that are dead, people are gone. Yeah. And not just that. I mean, anyone that's saying that Bitcoin's going to zero doesn't have any. Let's be real, right? If you have Bitcoin, you're not saying Bitcoin's going to zero. You'll never say, that's a good call. You're right. The only people that are saying that Bitcoin's going to zero are the people that don't have it. Let's be honest. I'll tell you right now. Anytime somebody says Bitcoin's going to zero I always ask them, let me ask you a question. Do you own Bitcoin? They say no. Oh, so that's why you're saying it's going to zero. That's like me saying I don't own a house but the housing market's going to zero. We know the housing market's not going to zero. It'll never go to zero. So why would you say it's going to zero? Probably because you don't have a house. Well, if you don't own Bitcoin, chances are you might say Bitcoin's going to go to zero because you don't own any. Let's be real. The people that are saying that Bitcoin's going to zero don't own it. That's a fact, okay? Bitcoin is never going to zero. Never. This is what Amanda's saying. 100% agree. It's about to moonshot. Amanda believes that Bitcoin is about to moonshot. I agree. I believe her 100%. That's one woman right there. I'm not going to disagree with on certain things. Look at that. Look at that chart. So since the news came out that Benance had struck a deal with the SEC. Bitcoin has exploded from 24,000 to where it is today at 26,400. And there's some huge catalyst coming for Bitcoin. Let's not forget that Bitcoin's biggest catalyst is always Bitcoin halving. That happens every four years. And what's happening in 2024 in March? Please? Bro, you broke up for a second. I couldn't hear you. What's happened in March of 2024 with Bitcoin? Say that one more time. I'm sorry. What's Bitcoin doing in March of 2022? Oh, it's having. Bitcoin's doing its having. The biggest catalyst for Bitcoin is its Bitcoin halving. And the Bitcoin halving is happening in nine months. Nine months. Which means we are nine months away from the biggest catalyst that Bitcoin ever has every four years. We're only nine months away. And Bitcoin's already up this year 60%. So it's already up 60%. Jump. In nine months it's going to have the biggest catalyst it's had in four years. And the last time Bitcoin did its having, which was in 2020, it hit its all-time high in November of 2021. So based on that exact same history and pattern, I predict that we're going to see Bitcoin hit an all-time high in October or November of 2025. Which means, in my opinion, we have about, what? A year and a half? Not even. A year and four months? We've got a year and four months, a year and five months until Bitcoin gets to moonshot territory. I'm feeling probably within a year after it has. So I'm thinking maybe April. You thinking April 2025? Yeah. Because April is a really good month with crypto. If it's going to do something, I'm going to stick with April. Okay, I'm going to stick with, and we'll go back to this one day, but I'm going to stick with October or November 2025. That's the second good point. So if I wouldn't go with April, I would go with November. Because that's when Bitcoin hit its last all-time high. Correct. Like I can show you right here the exact date. I think it's going to stop running nicely a year, a little bit over a year later. The exact date of Bitcoin's all-time high, which was 69,000, was exactly on November 30th, 2021. Yep, I remember that one. So based on that trend, I'm going to predict that we're going to see an all-time high in November of 2025. And I'm sticking with it just because of what it's done in the past. Obviously things can change. It's always different, but I'm just going to stick with what's happened in the past because Bitcoin seems to be very seasonal, seems to be very trendy. It has these weird patterns that are very, very similar. For example, Bitcoin has a pattern that's very, very obvious. It goes up for three years, down for one. Up for three years, down for one. Up for three years, down for one. For example, it went up in 2019, 2020, 2021, down in 2022. Now we're in 2023 and it's up again. So this has been a trend and pattern that it's had, and I believe that that trend continues for another two years. So I believe we're up 60% this year. I believe this year we finish up, probably even higher than where we are now. I believe next year we continue higher, and I believe the year after that we go even higher than that. My prediction, which I've given you before, is that we see at least $100,000 of Bitcoin in November of 2025. I believe you predicted 150 to 250, correct? That was right, right? You predicted 150 to 250. I predicted at least 100,000. I firmly believe 150 to 200, 250 is possible. It's only because I believe as each year goes by, things get stronger in technology. And with new coins coming out under the Bitcoin blockchain, this is gonna be something different. Ordinosa's out and stuff like that. It's gonna be running tokens off the Bitcoin blockchain direct, bro. So look what happened with Ethereum when the ERC20 started pumping. So I'm just marking off the all-time high and the zone. So there's a lot of upside here, guys. Just to get back to where Bitcoin's been before, and I believe we go higher, we got a lot of room to make money. So for example, for us to go from where we are today to all-time highs, there is 154% upside in Bitcoin. 154% in this asset. So if you own Bitcoin or you're buying Bitcoin, today you have an opportunity to get 154% upside in Bitcoin. Massive, massive, massive opportunity for Bitcoin. Oh my God, yeah, I see really like a lot more people coming into Bitcoin soon. Now I got some more big news for Bitcoin. BlackRock has filed for a Bitcoin ETF. This is the next big news that I wanna talk about. BlackRock has filed for a Bitcoin ETF. Now I must remind you guys that everything I talk about is for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss, and past performance is not always an indication of future results. I don't hold the market up. I can't guarantee you this is gonna happen. I'm just giving you the evidence. I'm bringing you the breaking news. I'm bringing you all the reasons why Bitcoin is, in my opinion, going to explode and making people very, very rich. Now whether you take that information or not, that's up to you. But I'm just trying to share with you guys my opinion. What do you think about this? BlackRock, the largest institution in the world. Buying Bitcoin, apparently, in huge amounts and filing for a Bitcoin ETF. I think this is hugely bullish for Bitcoin. And if this gets approved, and just so you know, BlackRock has a history of getting ETFs approved, 99.9% of the time. So when they filed, they filed 576 assets with the SEC, 575 have been approved, only one time they haven't been approved. So I don't think this will be the second time. I believe this gets approved. Now what that means is once BlackRock gets approved, they're gonna bring in trillions of dollars into Bitcoin. Not billions, trillions of dollars into Bitcoin. And I believe that will be a massive catalyst for Bitcoin. That will put, that's what I am saying. It will bump Bitcoin up to about $240,000. Can you imagine? I would be so happy.  And BlackRock gets going with this one.  The largest institution in the world. Let's talk about this too. BlackRock, not only did they file for an ETF, BlackRock also decided that they're gonna put all of that crypto, all of that Bitcoin at Coinbase. Now why would they put it at Coinbase? Because they are on the stock market and they are a very trustworthy... Isn't it crazy? The SEC is going after Coinbase, but yet BlackRock is deciding, Hey, sorry there, Blaze. We're losing you. I guess you're having a bad storm there. Yeah, the lighting's bad, sorry. BlackRock, despite the fact that the SEC is suing Coinbase, BlackRock has said we want to build an ETF with Bitcoin and we're going to keep all of that at Coinbase. So obviously BlackRock doesn't think the SEC is going to be able to stop Coinbase. Nope. Because if they did, they would have put all their money there. Right? They're gonna help them. Yes, right here, MJB just says, if China wants it, then the SEC will approve. That's another thing, a huge piece of news. Apparently China and Russia are considering using Bitcoin as their currency for bricks. Could you imagine? If China, Russia, and apparently 20 other countries that want to work with them now decide that they're gonna use Bitcoin as their currency, it's game over, game over. Now, why would the United States want to take a backseat to China and Russia? Why would Canada want to take a backseat to China and Russia? They need to be at the front of this technology. They need to be the leader in this technology. They can't be behind China and Russia. Why would they want to be behind China and Russia? That makes no sense. So Bitcoin and the US took the lead. Russia and China kind of took a backseat. Now, the United States is going after Bitcoin and crypto and China and Russia are saying, you know what? Why don't we step up and become the biggest players in Bitcoin now? Like they were before. That's right. To me, that was a trick. China never planned to get rid of Bitcoin. They were just tricking everybody to think they were so that they could just own more of it. Secretly buying it, secretly owning it, secretly controlling it and now choosing potentially to use it as the number one form of currency with bricks. If you don't know what bricks is, it's Brazil, Russia, India, China and Saudi Arabia all coming together and Iran all coming together and saying, you know what? We don't want to use the US dollar anymore. We're going to use the Chinese currency, but maybe they're going to say, you know what? Let's just use Bitcoin. The United States doesn't like Bitcoin anyways. We'll use it then. This is a huge time in history. This is where Trump needs to become the president because sleepy Joe is sleeping at the wheel. America cannot take a backseat on Bitcoin right now. This will be a huge mistake. You cannot let Russia and China become the number one players in Bitcoin. That would be a huge mistake. And that's exactly what's happening with the leadership in Canada and the United States because Trudeau hates Bitcoin. In fact, he makes fun of it. Biden is always going after Bitcoin as well. So Biden and Trudeau have nothing good to say about Bitcoin. It's a ploy to be honest. It's a ploy to be honest. We're going to get the whole administration right now for us in Canada, the United States, and everybody knows it. Everybody says it. And China and Russia see it as well.  You guys fumbled Bitcoin? We're going to take that interception. We're going to take that fumble and we're going to run it in for a touchdown. You never know, Mexico might join them, too. That's right. 20 countries blaze. 20 countries Look at this crypto man is saying China already has a digital dollar that they will use but it will pair with BTC There you go. So they're gonna be pairing with BTC. Yeah, what is it? United States want to fall behind in this technological war Hey, I don't think we will as Americans that Ron DeSantis gets in I agree with you Ron DeSantis And you know another guy is That other guy the oh man the nephew of the guy that was assassinated. What's his name? Oh geez Kennedy yes, the Kennedy Yeah, Kennedy. He's all about Bitcoin. He's all about Bitcoin. So it's Trump. So there's four Presidential nominations nominees. We're good. We'll be in accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment America will be joining the group They should join the group. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. It's just we have a very terrible administration right now in Canada United States. Did you know that Canada just reached 40 million people? We just had a huge surge in growth in Canada. Why do you think please? That's a good question Well, I know why I can tell you tell me Canada is letting in tons of immigrants into our country because the people that are here Can't even afford to live here anymore Vancouver is officially I believe the most expensive place in the world to live So basically the immigrants that we're allowing through our borders are making their way up to Canada And not just that immigrants are coming to Canada and they're excited about having a new life They don't care about the cost of living. They're just excited about the freedom They're excited about the safety They're excited because a lot of them are coming from like war torn countries a lot of them are refugees So they're just happy to have a fresh start So these are the people that are voting for Trudeau It's like people that live here that are sitting here going like for me. I got kids I'm sitting here wondering if my kids can ever buy a house when you live in vancouver like I do and the average house is three million dollars How's an average kid that goes to school and gets a normal job paying 30 to 50 thousand a year going to buy a three million dollar home That's a good question Then you're gonna have the problem that we have here in canada So what do you do people don't want the jobs that are available people are leaving a lot of canadians are leaving A lot of canadians are looking for opportunities elsewhere where there isn't such a tyrannical government So what do you do people are leaving you open up the floodgates to immigrants? Let the immigrants just kind of say that All you all you nationals are going to be leaving while immigrants are going to be replacing them That's right at a lower rate And that's why we just broke 40 million canadians Despite the fact that we can't even house our canadians We have 40 million canadians and we have a housing crisis people cannot afford to live We have so many people that are home. Yeah, you guys average yearly income is about 51 thousand dollars Yeah, I would say the average person makes between 30 to 50 thousand a year Hmm Yeah, because I was checking out the numbers the other day. It's like 57 thousand in the usa 51 in canada poverty rate I'm seven to ten percent Which ain't bad Well, what immigrants come in and don't you think numbers are going to switch up? Uh, I don't know. I don't know what to think. I just know that if this country continues to go in this direction You know why they want to do it rich is because Canada wants to control people and when immigrants come in with opportunity they ease the other control True That's what it's all about You like you guys don't want to listen to us. I got another piece of news. I want to talk to you about here. It is front page us withdraws New charges in sam bankman freed case Punts them to 2024. So now the story is this guy who stole billions of dollars And we know someone chris who lost a hundred grand himself, right? and millions of people lost money The story is not only did this guy get house arrest and his parents mansion, which means he never went to jail living in his parents mansion Now the story is they're pushing the court case till 2024 And now the rumor is he might not get any jail time None What do you think about that place? I think that he paid his way out of it, man He gave some information about finance and that's the only thing that will get him out But isn't that crazy? That's crazy. That's that's once again How can you steal billions of dollars from investors? Millions of investors all over the world take losses and get away scott free How does that happen? How do we allow this to happen? How do we allow Biden To the story on biden coming out now taking 30 to 40 million in bribes I mean, this is real. I think he's taking more than that rich I think he's up to a hundred something with this one There's hard evidence that him and his family have taken all these bribes. He's the president of the united states Well, he knows he's going so that this is all happening and nobody's doing anything about it Now this guy in plain sight steals billions of dollars tells everyone he's broke.  Let them out. Let them free What's this ftx thing? You know that ftx too, you know, they're trying to push this thing up They're they're they're trying to bring it back And right what they're gonna the only way to bring it back is to pay to hope that the case until 2024 When bitcoin has come on man, it's right out in the open There it is. So they all of a sudden there's a huge bull market in crypto All of a sudden ftx gets all this money They pay most of their investors back and then sandbank man freeze hands are clean They give them to 2024 because of the bitcoin they know he's holding Um, if it bumps up high, they'll have enough to pay people. I know what they're doing, man It's crazy. It's all it's all it's all just, you know dirty stuff in my book Of course You and I would not be able to get away from stealing billions of dollars from people They throw the key away. They drop us off. They gave him house arrest In his parents mansion house arrest For a criminal who stole billions. Well, think about it. He put a lot of money on uh, biden's uh election, right? That's right. He was one of the United States What are the results of the democratic party? Usually the governor can pardon you from crimes, right? But what what do you think the president can do? A lot more bro, of course So he owed him a favor and he's paying him up All right, so a lot of people are talking about a bull market right now in the stock market and in crypto When do you think crypto makes a massive comeback? Do you think this is the start of the bull market for crypto? Do you think it happens? Uh, this fall, do you think it happens next year? Do you think it's already started? What's your opinion on the next bull market for crypto or do you think it's already started? freezing interest rates s c c makes a deal to keep american funds in and then binance Uh, what was the other one with binance? Um, no s c c makes a deal of finance and black rock is backing up Bitcoin to put it on so we'll have four good reasons why Crypto goes up boom Uh, because black rock backing up Coinbase is uh a miracle right now Very investors huge. It is something that we said last week to stay positive, right? 100 and a week later. Look at look at the turn of events four Major things you talked about on this show is the reason why that I think crypto I mean, I'm not pimping out any tokens.  Rocket Everybody needs to do a bit says study pay attention Do not spend your rent money on any investment. Don't put yourself broke but always study. Do you do diligence? You know Keep an eye on the market. Don't take great chances, but take some chances. You know at the end of the day It's uh, we're giving opinions right now In my opinion I believe is where I've been finally waiting for a few years now where I'm gonna really do A lot different than I did in the past So my last piece of news that I want to talk about here in Canada and I know it's the same thing in the United States Here it is relief for long-term borrowers may be short as fed aims to hike rates to 5.6 percent this year So essentially what that means is even though we got a pause It's going to be a short pause Because it looks as though they canada and the united states are going to continue to hike rates even higher after this pause What do you think that's going to do for investors? Do you think that that's going to scare investors? Our investors scared in america about the mortgage rates right now because I know here in canada Since truto got into power interest rates have gone up 122 So interest rates are up 122 since we had our new prime minister take over with his regime housings out of control And people aren't making necessarily more money, but people are paying way more for their debts Their mortgages their car loans student loans their credit cards everything that they have debt on They're paying more on now food costs more gas costs more Everything costs more, but people aren't necessarily making that much more So how can people actually afford to live if the Fed continues to be very very hawkish Constantly increasing rates. What are people talking about in america right now? Is this bothering? investors is this A lot of people are going to sell and be Back to square one with this one, bro but I think you know it might hike But I think it's going to go back down. I really am very positive about this Because they can only choke people so much before they stop fighting back Especially in america Yeah, i'm surprised that america is going to lose money this way. Trust me. I'm surprised that america hasn't started fighting Over here all around the beach over here and stuff. They say I'll sell and just invest my money and I'll bank it. I'm done I ain't gonna give them nothing So a lot of people are talking about you know not wanting to kick in and give in Okay, before we say goodbye. I want to show you guys a couple more stocks that just hit all-time highs Here's microsoft Microsoft just hit an all-time high Microsoft one of the biggest best most powerful countries in the world companies in the world Microsoft just hit an all-time high. Look at this. Look at that move on microsoft So this is what I mean. We are clearly in a bull market You don't get an all-time high from apple an all-time high from navidia an all-time high from microsoft And a 52 week high from tesla unless you're in a bull market We're clearly in a bull market. You can see we are trading on top of the fibonacci's Look at the rsi sitting at 72 all of these indicators say sell But yet it's still going higher That is because we are in a clear bull market for large cap assets Institutions and investors right now Have an appetite for the best companies in the world with the most money in the bank Companies that are getting into ai and companies that are tech companies companies that are chip companies That is where all the money is flowing right now. It's extremely obvious I just showed you guys stock after stock after stock that are all-time highs I want to show you another thing that's happening IPOs are happening again. We had it. We didn't have any IPOs last year last year was a graveyard for IPOs IPOs stand for initial public offering. Those are new companies that are going public in the market kava brand new ipo Came out went up a hundred percent day one came out at $19 went all the way to 47 Huge move up in hype and what did it do the next day went down 12 percent. So how do you trade an ipo? You got to wait wait be patient If you can't get in right in the first initial run and then sell immediately day one You got to wait wait for a pullback Wait for all the selling to stop once it hits a bottom and gets into a goodbye zone Then you buy it. So I haven't bought this yet, but this is a new stock we can play with It's kava c a v a put it on your watch list put it on your radar a brand new ipo kava I've been watching that one And there's more ipos coming because now that this ipo started and it did well out of the gates Remember it was at $19 now a 38. So it's double. It's still a hundred percent. That's right So it's done extremely well for investors that got in early. They've all made money. So 1938 is uh 100 That's right. So what this means for investors is hey There's gonna be an opportunity for us to get more ipos going public. So who's gonna go public next Who's talking about going public reddit? Reddit and I know you love reddit I love reddit reddit. It's awesome, right? So reddit's talking about going public. So there's a lot of other I'm in no matter what reddit. You know who else is talking about going public openc Oh, wow The world for nft's openc talking about going public reddit talking about going public So there's some companies out there that are talking about going public. So even chat gpt Different uh open ai and artificial intelligence companies are thinking about going public So there's so many different Companies that are talking about going public right now because the market is changing We're in a bull market Stocks are moving again People are buying and guess what everyone is saying is going to explode next small caps Small caps are expected to explode next So what do we talk about at rich tv live? We talk about early stage undervalued underappreciated underexposed small cap companies and we try to talk about those companies before they explode So the investors can get an opportunity to get in before they explode That is the whole idea behind rich tv live is identifying undervalued underappreciated under exposed assets before they explode Not everyone is going to explode. Some of them are going to go up Some of them are going to go down some of them are going to go up and then down Some of them are going to go down and then up some of them are going to go sideways and around That's the market. Yeah, keep the eye on the prize guys, you know pay attention That's why you got to do your due diligence.  We talk about cryptos. We talk about nfts. We talk about news. We talk about politics We talk about everything here.  I was telling everyone to buy tesla Shopify facebook google amazon apple bitcoin Ethereum and what did they all do blaze did i not tell you about all of these last year all of them every one of them Every one of them and i bought almost all of them and i've sold all of them in profit this year All of them except bitcoins and Ethereum, which i will not sell right Not until at least 2025 Not until at least 2025 and even in 2025 it probably still won't sell Because i just believe in the opportunity that bitcoin has as the single greatest investment of our opportunities A single greatest the single greatest investment of our lifetime And why would i want to sell it if it has the potential to continue to go higher? It would be a huge mistake. So that's why i'm not even thinking about selling my bitcoin No, you can't in 2025 because in 2029 to 30 it's going to even go greater That's right. If we believe it's going to hit 100,000 to 200,000 maybe some people say 350,000 in 2025 Then what is it going to hit in 2030? My opinion is we're going to see a one million dollar bitcoin So if i can hold until 2030 i'd much rather sell when it's worth a million than when it's worth 26,000 like it is today or 69,000 which it might be in the future or 100,000 which it will be most likely in 2025 All these countries getting involved this suck is going to go. Hi, boy blaze We're out of time brother. Is there anything else you want to say before we say goodbye? Yeah, I just want to tell everybody look at uh, I sense a ball run coming Keep an eye on all the prizes out there your favorite stocks You want to target them? You want to research them? You want to make them move? And then you want to capitalize? Much love to everybody out there. Appreciate you all coming and listening to us And appreciate you guys go and follow and subscribe to blaze I will put the the description and the link to his channel in the description of this video Thank you for joining me today blaze. I know it's your uh girlfriend's birthday. Wish you a happy birthday for me And what's love brother? I want to wish you a happy father's day. I want to wish my dad a happy father's day All the dads out there. I want to wish you a happy father's day Go and wish your father's a happy father's day Us dads don't get enough credit and we work damn hard for all of our children out there and we deserve credit So all the fathers out there. I want to wish you a happy father's day You guys are amazing. You guys are blessed. Keep being great dads. Keep supporting your kids Keep supporting your wives your friends your family and your loved ones And thank you for joining us here on the bull and bear show on a saturday when it's a long weekend And father's day is coming. So I really appreciate everyone that's been here Thank you for all of you guys that have been here in the chat.  Thank you for watching the fourth episode of the bull and bear show blaze Thank you for joining us once again Always a pleasure brother go and subscribe to blaze investor on youtube once again I'll have a description and a link to his youtube in the description of this video And thank you guys for watching. It's your host of the most your boy rich from rich tv If you're not winning you're probably not watching bringing the winners bringing the news Co interviews chart analysis breaking news trending topics and we bring it to you first Have a great day everybody bull and bear show episode number four and i'm out


In fact, it's looking at the individual impact that starts to link us into that third category, which is the socio-cultural factors. So part of our society and part of the way our society operates is also affected by things like our obtaining and use of fossil fuels. So there may be issues around mining for a start and so we have things like debates around fracking, the use of alternate power generation. So that would include things like renewables. It also includes things like targets for greenhouse and so global warming and climate change. Each of these is important factors and they're associated with the use of hydrocarbons and there are all things that we want to have a little bit of a look at in a bit more detail. I think if you've got a question that's related to this particular area, you want to make sure that you've got a number of different factors and you want to look at some specific examples too. So one nice one which we will be having a look at particularly when we look at polymers later in this particular module is ethene and it's not just that ethene is a gas at room temperature and therefore it's not a key component of something like crude oil but through processes such as cracking we can cut large hydrocarbons into smaller hydrocarbons and therefore increase our proportion of desired molecules like ethene which can then be started molecules for alcohols and a range of different polymers. Find some good supporting evidence to help you with each of these different areas and thanks for watching.


Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode, it's the Rillar Thursday and this week I'm bringing you a story requested by one of my Darkness Syndicate members. It's Stephen King's short story, Suffer the Little Children. The story was first published in 1972 in Cavalier Magazine. Later it was published in the anthology Nightmares and Dreamscapes, which is where I'm reading it from tonight. While I know I always play a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode, I feel this one warrants a second disclaimer as it is extremely violent and touches on things that could easily trigger some people. I don't want to be specific as that would ruin the story, but if you are easily squeamish or easily offended, this is not the story for you. Please do not email or message me after listening to this to complain about the content. You have been warned. If you're new here, welcome to the show. While you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com for merchandise, to visit sponsors you hear about during the show, sign up for my newsletter and our contests. Connect with me on social media. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  Ms. Sidley was her name and teaching was her game. She was a small woman who had stretched her right on the highest level of the blackboard, which she was doing now. Behind her, none of the children giggled or whispered or munched on secret sweets held in cupped hands. They knew Ms. Sidley's deadly instincts too well. Ms. Sidley could always tell who was chewing gum at the back of the room, who had a bean shooter in his pocket, who wanted to go to the bathroom to trade baseball cards rather than use the facilities. Like God, she seemed to know everything all at once. She was graying, and the brace she wore to support her failing back was limbed clearly against her print dress. Small, constantly suffering, gimlet-eyed woman. But they feared her. Her tongue was a schoolyard legend. The eyes, when focused on a giggler or a whisperer, could turn the stoutest knees to water. Now, writing the day's list of spelling words on the board, she reflected that the success of her long teaching career could be summed and checked and proven by this one-every-day action. She could turn her back on her pupils with confidence. Vacation, she said, pronouncing the word as she wrote it in her firm no-nonsense script. Edward, please use the word vacation in a sentence. I went on a vacation to New York City, Edward piped. Then, as Ms. Sidley had taught, he repeated the word carefully. Vacation. Very good, Edward. She began on the next word. She had her little tricks, of course. Success, she firmly believed, depended as much on the little things as on the big ones. She applied the principle constantly in the classroom, and it never failed. Jane, she said quietly. Jane, who had been furtively perusing her reader, looked up guiltily. Close that book right now, please. The book shut. Jane looked with pale, hating eyes at Ms. Sidley's back, and you remained at your desk for fifteen minutes after the final bell. Jane's lips trembled. Yes, Ms. Sidley. One of her little tricks was the careful use of her glasses. The whole class was reflected in their thick lenses, and she had always been thinly amused by their guilty, frightened faces when she caught them at their nasty little games. Now, she saw a phantomish distorted Robert in the first row wrinkle his nose. She did not speak. Not yet. Robert would hang himself if given just a little more rope. Tomorrow, she pronounced clearly, Robert, you will please use the word tomorrow in a sentence. Robert frowned over the problem. The classroom was hushed and sleepy in the late September sun. The electric clock over the door buzzed a rumor of three o'clock dismissal just a half hour away, and the only thing that kept young heads from drowsing over their spellers was the silent, ominous threat of Ms. Sidley's back. I'm waiting, Robert. Tomorrow a bad thing will happen, Robert said. The words were perfectly innocuous, but Ms. Sidley, with the seventh sense that all strict disciplinarians have, didn't like them a bit. Tomorrow, Robert finished. His hands were folded neatly on the desk, and he wrinkled his nose again. He also smiled a tiny side-of-the-mouth smile. Ms. Sidley was suddenly unaccountably sure Robert knew about her little trick with the glasses. All right, very well. She began to write the next word with no word of commendation for Robert, letting her straight body speak its own message. She watched carefully with one eye. Soon Robert would stick out his tongue or make that disgusting finger gesture they all knew, even the girls seemed to know it these days, just to see if she really knew what he was doing. Then he would be punished. The reflection was small, ghostly, and distorted, and she had all but the barest corner of her eye on the word she was writing. Robert changed. She caught just a flicker of it, just a frightening glimpse of Robert's face changing into something different.  Robert looked at her blandly, questioningly. His hands were neatly folded. The first signs of an afternoon cowlick showed at the back of his head. She did not look frightened. I imagined it, she thought. I was looking for something and when there was nothing in my mind just made something up. Very cooperative of it. However, Robert, she meant to be authoritative, meant for her voice to make the unspoken demand for confession, it did not come out that way. Yes, Miss Sidley? His eyes were a very dark brown, like the mud at the bottom of a slow running stream. Nothing. She turned back to the board. A little whisper ran through the class. Be quiet, she snapped and turned again to face them. One more sound and we will all stay after school with Jane. She addressed the whole class but looked most directly at Robert. He looked back with childlike innocence. Who me? Not me, Miss Sidley. She turned to the board and began to write, not looking out of the corners of her glasses. The last half hour dragged and it seemed that Robert gave her a strange look on the way out. A look that said, we have a secret, don't we? The look wouldn't leave her mind. It was stuck there, like a tiny string of roast beef between two molars. A small thing, actually, but feeling as big as a cinder block. She sat down to her solitary dinner at five, poached eggs on toast, still thinking about it. She knew she was getting older and accepted the knowledge calmly. She was not going to be one of those old-made school marms dragged kicking and screaming from their classes at the age of retirement. They reminded her of gamblers unable to leave the tables while they were losing, but she was not losing. She had always been a winner. She looked down at her poached eggs. Hadn't she? She thought of the well-scrubbed faces in her third grade classroom and found Robert's face most prominent among them. She got up and switched on another light.  The face began to change, but before she saw exactly what it was changing into, darkness overtook her. Miss Sidley spent an unrestful night, and consequently the next day her temper was short. She waited almost hooping for a whisperer, a giggler, perhaps a note-passer. But the class was quiet. Very quiet. They all stared at her unresponsively, and it seemed that she could feel the weight of their eyes on her like blind, crawling ants. Stop that, she told herself sternly.  Again the day seemed to drag, and she believed she was more relieved than the children when the last bell rang. The children lined up in orderly rows at the door, boys and girls by height, hands dutifully linked. Dismissed, she said, and listened sourly as they shrieked their way down the hall and into the bright sunlight. What was it I saw when he changed? Something bulbous, something that shimmered, something that stared at me—yes, stared and grinned and wasn't a child at all.  It was Mr. Manning. He smiled apologetically, didn't mean to disturb you. Quite all right, she said, more curtly than she had intended. What had she been thinking? What was wrong with her? Would you mind checking the paper towels in the girl's lab? Surely. She got up placing her hands against the small of her back. Mr. Hanning looked at her sympathetically. Save it, she thought. The old maid is not amused or even interested. She brushed by Mr. Hanning and started down the hall to the girl's lavatory. A snigger of boys carrying scratched and pitted baseball equipment grew silent at the sight of her and leaked guiltily out the door where their cries began again. Miss Sidley frowned after them, reflecting that children had been different in her day. Not more polite, and had never had time for that, and not exactly more respectful of their elders. It was a kind of hypocrisy that had never been there before, a smiling quietness around adults that had never been there before, a kind of quiet contempt that was upsetting and unnerving as if they were hiding behind masks. Is that it? She pushed the thought away and went into the laboratory. It was a small, L-shaped room. The toilets were ranged along one side of the longer bar, the sinks along both sides of the shorter one. As she checked the paper towel containers, she caught a glimpse of her face in one of the mirrors and was startled into looking at it closely. She didn't care for what she saw. Not a bit. There was a look that hadn't been there two days before, a frightened, watching look. With sudden shock, she realized that the blurred reflection in her glasses of Robert's pale, respectful face had gotten inside her and was festering. The door opened and she heard two girls come in giggling secretly about something. She was about to turn the corner and walk out past them when she heard her own name. She turned back to the wash bowls and began checking the towel holders again. And then he, soft giggles, she knows, but more giggles, soft and sticky as melting soap, necessarily is, stop it, stop that noise. By moving slightly, she could see their shadows, made fuzzy and ill-defined by the diffuse light filtering through the frosted windows, holding on to each other with girlish glee. Another thought crawled up out of her mind. They knew she was there. Yes, yes they did. The little urchlings knew. She would shake them, shake them until their teeth rattled and their giggles turned to wails. She would thump their heads against the tile walls and she would make them admit that they knew. That was when the shadows changed. They seemed to elongate, to flow like dripping tallow, taking on strange, hunched shapes that made Miss Sidley cringe back against the porcelain wash stands, her heart swelling in her chest. But they went on giggling. The voices changed, no longer girlish, now sexless and soulless and quite, quite evil. A slow, turgid sound of mindless humor that flowed around the corner to hers like sewage. She stared at the hunched shadows and suddenly screamed at them. The scream went on and on, swelling in her head until it attained a pitch of lunacy. And then she fainted. The giggling, like the laughter of demons, followed her down into darkness. She could not, of course, tell them the truth. Miss Sidley knew this, even as she opened her eyes and looked up at the anxious faces of Mr. Hanning and Mrs. Croson. Mrs. Croson was holding the bottle of smelling salts from the gymnasium first aid kit under her nose. Mr. Hanning turned around and told the two little girls who were looking curiously at Miss Sidley to go home now, please. They both smiled at her. Slow, we have a secret, smiles, and went out. Very well, she would keep their secret. For a while, she would not have people thinking her insane or that the first feelers of senility had touched her early. She would play their game until she could expose their nastiness and rip it out by the roots.  This is awful, Mr. Hanning said. Terrible, are you? Did the fall hurt you back, Emily? Mrs. Croson interrupted. Mr. Hanning looked at her gratefully. Mrs. Sidley got up, her spine screaming in her body. No, she said. In fact, the fall seems to have worked some minor chiropractic miracle. My back hasn't felt this well in years. We can send for a doctor. Mr. Hanning began. Not necessary, Mrs. Sidley smiled at him coolly. I'll call you a taxi from the office. You'll do no such thing, Mrs. Sidley said, walking to the door of the girls' lab and opening it, I always take the bus. Mr. Hanning sighed and looked at Mrs. Croson. Mrs. Croson rolled her eyes and said nothing. The next day, Mrs. Sidley kept Robert after school. He did nothing to warrant the punishment, so she simply accused him falsely. She felt no qualms. He was a monster, not a little boy. She must make him admit it. Her back was in agony. She realized Robert knew. He expected that would help him, but it wouldn't. That was another of her little advantages. Her back had been a constant pain for her for the last twelve years, and there had been many times when it had been this bad. Well, almost this bad. She closed the door, shutting the two of them in. For a moment she stood still, training her gaze on Robert. She waited for him to drop his eyes. He didn't.  Why are you smiling, Robert? She asked softly. I don't know, Robert said, and went on smiling. Tell me, please. Robert said nothing, and went on smiling. The outside sounds of children at play were distant, dreamy. Only the hypnotic buzz of the wall clock was real. There's quite a few of us, Robert said suddenly, as if he were commenting on the weather. It was Miss Sidley's turn to be silent. A leaven right here in this school. Quite evil, she thought, amazed. Very incredibly evil.  I know many parents no longer make their spawn aware of that fact, but I assure you that it is a true fact, Robert.  Little girls, too, for that matter. Robert's smile grew wider. It became vulpine. Do you want to see me change, Miss Sidley? Do you want a really good look? Miss Sidley felt her back prickle.  We'll get this business straightened out. There, on solid ground again, she waited for his face to crumple, waited for the tears. Instead, Robert's smile grew wider, wide enough to show his teeth. It would be just like show and tell, won't it, Miss Sidley? Robert, the other Robert, he liked to show and tell. He's still hiding away, way down in my head. The smile curled at the corners of his mouth like charring paper. Sometimes he runs around, it itches. He wants me to let him out. Go away, Miss Sidley said, numbly. The buzzing of the clock seemed very loud. Robert changed.  The head elongated, and the hair was suddenly not hair, but straggling, twitching growths. Robert began to chuckle. The slow cavernous sound came from what had been his nose, but the nose was eating into the lower half of his face, nostrils meeting and merging into a central blackness like a huge, shouting mouth. Robert got up, still chuckling, and behind it all, she could see the last shattered remains of the other Robert, the real little boy this alien thing had usurped, howling in maniac terror, screeching to be let out. She ran. She fled screaming down the corridor, and the few late-leaving pupils turned to look at her with large and uncomprehending eyes. Mr. Hanning jerked open his door and looked out just as she plunged through the wide glass front doors, a wild, waving scarecrow silhouetted against the bright September sky. He ran after her, Adam's apple bobbing, Miss Sidley, Miss Sidley! Robert came out of the classroom and watched curiously. Miss Sidley neither heard nor saw. She clattered down the steps and across the sidewalk and into the street with her screams trailing behind her. There was a huge, blatting horn, and then the bus was looming over her, the bus driver's face, a plaster mask of fear. Airbrakes whined and hissed like angry dragons. Miss Sidley fell, and the huge wheels shuttered to a smoking stomp just eight inches from her frail, brace-armored body.  She turned over, and the children were staring down at her. They were ringed in a tight little circle like mourners around an open grave, and at the end of the grave was Robert, a small, sober sexton ready to shovel the first spade of dirt into her face. From far away, the bus driver's shaken babble, crazier or something, my God, another half a foot! Miss Sidley stared at the children. Their shadows covered her. Their faces were impassive. Some of them were smiling little secret smiles, and Miss Sidley knew that soon she would begin to scream again. Then Mr. Hanning broke their tight noose, shooed them away, and Miss Sidley began to sob weekly. She didn't go back to her third grade for a month. She told Mr. Hanning calmly that she'd not been feeling herself, and Mr. Hanning suggested that she see a reputable doctor and discuss the matter with him. Miss Sidley agreed that this was the only sensible and rational course. She also said that if the school board wished for her resignation, she would tender it immediately, although doing so would hurt her very much. Mr. Hanning, looking uncomfortable, said he doubted if that would be necessary. The upshot was that Miss Sidley came back in late October, once again ready to play the game, and now knowing how to play it. For the first week, she let things go on as ever. It seemed the whole class now regarded her with hostile, shielded eyes. Robert smiled distantly at her from his front row seat, and she did not have the courage to take him to task. Once while she was on playground duty, Robert walked over to her, holding a dodgeball, smiling, there's so many of us now you wouldn't believe it, he said, and neither would anyone else. He stunned her by dropping a wink of infinite slowness, if you, you know, tried to tell him. A girl on the swings looked across the playground into Miss Sidley's eyes and laughed at her. Miss Sidley smiled serenely down at Robert. Hi, Robert, whatever do you mean? But Robert only continued smiling as he went back to his game. Miss Sidley brought the gun to school in her handbag. It had been her brothers. He had taken it from a dead German shortly after the battle of the bulge. Jim had been gone ten years now. She hadn't opened the box that held the gun in at least five, but when she did, it was still there, gleaming dully. The clips of ammunition were still there too, and she loaded the gun carefully, just as Jim had shown her. She smiled pleasantly at her class, at Robert in particular. Robert smiled back, and she could see the murky alieness swimming just below his skin, muddy, full of filth. She had no idea what was now living inside Robert's skin, and she didn't care. She only hoped that the real little boy was entirely gone by now. She did not wish to be a murderous. She decided the real Robert must have died, or gone insane, living inside the dirty, crawling thing that had chuckled at her in the classroom and sent her screaming into the street. So even if he was still alive, putting him out of his misery would be a mercy. Today we're going to have a test, Miss Sidley said. The class did not groan or shift apprehensively. They merely looked at her. She could feel their eyes like weights, heavy, smothering. It's a very special test. I will call you down to the mimeograph room one by one and give it to you. Then you may have a candy and go home for the day. Won't that be nice? They smiled empty smiles and said nothing. Robert, will you come first? Robert got up, smiling his little smile. He wrinkled his nose quite openly at her. Yes, Miss Sidley? Miss Sidley took her bag and they went down the empty, echoing corridor together, past the sleepy drone of classes reciting behind closed doors. The mimeograph room was at the far end of the hall past the lavatories. It had been soundproofed two years ago. The big machine was very old and very noisy. Miss Sidley closed the door behind them and locked it. No one can hear you, she said calmly. She took the gun from her bag. You or this. Robert smiled innocently. There are lots of us, though. Lots more than here. He put one small scrubbed hand on the paper tray of the mimeograph machine. Would you like to see me change again? Before she could speak, Robert's face began to shimmer into the grotesqueness beneath and Miss Sidley shot him, once in the head.  He looked very pathetic. Miss Sidley stood over him, panting. Her cheeks were pale. The huddled figure didn't move. It was human. It was Robert. No! It was all in your mind, Emily! All in your mind! No! No! No! No! She went back up to the room and began to lead them down one by one. She killed twelve of them and would have killed them all if Mrs. Croson hadn't come down for a package of composition paper. Mrs. Croson's eyes got very big. One hand crept up and clutched her mouth. She began to scream and she was still screaming when Mrs. Sidley reached her and put a hand on her shoulder. It had to be done, Margaret. She told the screaming, Mrs. Croson, it's terrible, but it had to. They are all monsters. Mrs. Croson stared at the gaily clothed little bodies scattered around the mimeograph and continued to scream.  Change, Mrs. Sidley said. Change for Mrs. Croson. Show her it had to be done. The girl continued to weep uncomprehendingly.  Dirty, crawling, filthy, unnatural.  She raised the gun. The little girl cringed and then Mrs. Croson was on her like a cat and Mrs. Sidley's back gave way. No trial. The papers screamed for one, bereaved parents swore hysterical oaths against Mrs. Sidley and the city sat back on its haunches in numb shock but in the end cooler heads prevailed and there was no trial. The state legislature called for more stringent teacher exams. Summer Street School closed for a week of mourning and Mrs. Sidley went quietly to Juniper Hill in Augusta. She was put in deep analysis given the most modern drugs introduced into daily work therapy sessions. A year later under strictly controlled conditions, Mrs. Sidley was put in an experimental encounter therapy situation. Buddy Jenkins was his name. Psychiatry was his game. He sat behind a one-way glass with a clipboard looking into a room which had been outfitted as a nursery. On the far wall the cow was jumping over the moon and the mouse ran up the clock. Mrs.  They smiled at her and drooled and touched her with small wet fingers while attendants at the next window watched for the first sign of an aggressive move. For a time Buddy thought she responded well. She read aloud, stroked a girl's head, consoled a small boy when he fell over a toy block. Then she seemed to see something which disturbed her. A frown creased her brow and she looked away from the children. Take me away, please, Mrs. Sidley said, softly and tonelessly, to no one in particular. And so they took her away. Buddy Jenkins watched the children watch her go, their eyes wide and empty but somehow deep.  Two little girls clutched each other and giggled. That night Mrs. Sidley cut her throat with a bit of broken mirror glass and after that Buddy Jenkins began to watch the children more and more. In the end he was hardly able to take his eyes off them. Thanks for listening. If you liked the show, please share it with someone you know who loves the paranormal or strange stories, true crime, monsters or unsolved mysteries like you do. You can email me anytime with your questions or comments at darren at WeirdDarkness.com. 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