All right, pal, you should be good to go, buddy. You hear me? Yes, yes, what's up, man? Hi, brother. And we are recording. Dude, I'm hopped up on frickin' caffeine, bro. I am hopped, man. I'm jacked to the tits. So let's talk about some stuff. What does even that mean, jacked to the tits? I don't even know anymore, man.  I'm seeing visions, man. I hear you saying it often, bro. I don't know why I didn't want that.    Oh, man, that's funny. Dude, the tits. Oh, man, I'm jacked to the. I got that from, that's a, what is it? Ryan Gosling from The Big Short. I'm jacked to the tits. What's even that mean, though?  I'm caffeineed up. Steroids. Exactly. Guys, this is your chance. You know, me and Bao, let's talk about, what do you guys want to talk about today? Hit me with some topics. I know we got some earlier. One of the first questions, Bao, that someone really wanted us to talk about is, oh, this is such a good question. Leverage. Using leverage, bro, is Bao, Alex, or you using leverage? Please talk about leverage. Bao, you want to start? We all use leverage. You sign up for code, bro. You get four to one buying power. I have $35,000 in the account. Why wouldn't I use leverage if it's a nail in the bell? Exactly. As long as you get it. People are afraid of margin.  You don't have to use leverage. I mean, that's the thing. If you have $35,000 in your account, right, you can use $35,000. That's completely fine. You don't have to. But I'm telling you, there is nothing wrong with using leverage if you use it correctly. If you're using leverage to average down on a play, then that's a problem. If you're playing to, you know, I mean, I don't want to keep $100,000 in my account. What if I blow up one day, right? What if I go crazy? I mean, I used to, I mean, dude, I used to have like $4 million in my account. Dude, I remember I've seen screenshots.  I mean, those are days when I was young.  Right now, if I were to lose that, you know, it'd be very difficult for me to get back because I'm not Alex's age anymore. You know, I have commitments, I have responsibility. I don't just have to worry about myself, right, guys? So as you age, unfortunately, you have more and more commitments and responsibilities and whatever else, right? Kids you don't even know about, right? Things like that, so. Well, speak for yourself.  I was going to cling for someone to knock on my door, dude. I have a funny story about that. My dad, man, he used to travel the world when he was younger.   Like, I just know it.  Now I'm gonna teach you training too, like. Wait, wait, wait until your dad hits the lottery. They're gonna all show up at the same time. Seriously. If you, you know, that's the thing, man. If your dad was a billionaire, then I'll be knocking some.  These were the days of our STDs, dudes. I'm like, how did you survive, bro? Like, oh my God. Hey, your dad might be a member right now listening to you, Tasha. I know, right? Steven, the reason why I haven't done 23 in me is ignorance is bliss, bro. I don't wanna know. I don't want to pay. I don't want to pay, dog. Why am I volunteering my fingerprints to the FBI? Yeah, seriously. So I think by nature, the guy that asked this question, Maksha, I think by nature, bro, an individual account where you can short, right?  It's all about risk management, but to use the leverage to your advantage if you know what you're doing based on a process based in, you know, a margin account is going to allow you to short. It's going to allow you to short. This is what I use margin for. I use margin to be able to trade multiple stocks at the same time without having to put the margin. Exactly, well said. So it's not because I'm loading all in on one position. I still use my risk management. I have a max size per position. I have a max, you know, that's what you do, man. You limit yourself. X number shares max per position.   And leverage is, you know, there's many ways to look at leverage. Leverage in a professional's eyes is utility.   So like use something to your advantage that you know how to use and that's what we do with trading accounts. Yeah, the same goes for real estate. I mean, there's so many ways to look at leverage. You know, you can look at it from a really negative standpoint or a really positive standpoint based on, hey, there's a lot of utility in this for the educated. Oh, that's how I'm going to apply this and that's how I'm going to use it to my life, right? Yep, child support is leverage, not for the man. That's leverage in a different way. Having more than one kid. Oh, serious. Who is that girl about that we found out that like, I think her name was like Bundle of Brittany or something with the NBA guy. Like she fought for divorce like in the first week and got like 250K in child support. Oh man. I remember we were talking about that like a month ago. We were like, that's man. DJ Washington, the basketball guy? Oh, that is the ultimate pump and dump if I've ever heard one.  Oh my God. That's like, that's like this chart on INDP. It's like you get married right here at 25 and then boom. That's a better service than what we were running, bro. That's get rich over quick. We need to open up the child support. Oh man.  Now, David just reminded us that you wanted to tell a story. Oh, yeah, man. So, I was taking a podcast about giving you a little sneak preview. Yeah, so this is how I know that we are disrupting people out there. Cause when we started, the thing is this, if you take a notice of all what's going on Twitter, you know there's big traders out there. They're just watching, they're just watching.  They don't show you any charts.  Not many people post jobs. I'm the only one that's been posting charts every day. And I'm by no means the best trader. I have shitty covers, but I make it work. But you have these guys which are much better than I am hiding in the background. They're using people to trade against them. They're not helping anybody. So the funny thing, it's kind of like, so I'm just trying to tell you about the MIC thing. When I started MIC, people were really pissed off.  So they blame me for popularizing short selling. Oh, people were pissed. Yeah, like what the fuck, man? Now, low-case are expensive, overcrowding. So they blame the zombie thing on me. You know? So that's why a lot of the guys kind of went quiet because short selling became very difficult for a while because the Algos knew how to squeeze them. Yep. Yeah, we're talking about big-time traders that we all know on Twitter, man. They were pissed. I know a lot of the big-time traders that don't talk to me anymore. I know all their secrets, bro. I was in their private rooms.   I mean, that's the difference with me than most of these guys. I grew up very poor. I was an immigrant. I mean, me having this is already way too much more than I ever imagined.    Dude, wait, now let me interject really quick and say, hey, did you get your gift? Dude, I didn't. I went to the mail because that's what I was gonna say. I was gonna laugh as I was like, the only time I've ever seen Baldy Designer as an entire life is that every time he goes to Paris, he buys me and Alex some type of Louis Vuitton. It's almost like a Gucci belt or a Louis belt. And it's so funny. It's almost like a jokie tier. They're great gifts, but dude, like literally Bao does not spend money on himself. Like it's insane, dude. So he says that, guys. He's not kidding.   Just know that, guys, we, I know that what we're doing is the right thing for society. But the right thing for society doesn't mean the right thing for the big guys. And so this is where politics come in.  And it's not because of our fault. It's because of shit, man. The bigger powers above, right? Just like penny stock trading, dude.   They literally changed the rules. So I'll tell you some of the rules they changed. Penny stock him out of his accounts, too. Like market makers, dude. Yeah, I got market makers banning me, okay? The thing is, market making is a private institution. So they can ban it. The way they ban is they, they throw in your brokerage and say, if you don't get rid of this motherfucker, we will shut down your entire account. And the market, you cannot get rid of like a night or citadel. Yes. You can lose everything. So let me tell you how some of the rules they changed over the years. So they had a rule. So before I was like, dude, I knew how to game the system is all legit, obviously. I knew how to move stocks legitimately. The same ways that the Algos are moving it. So I used to move the same stocks. And so they created this new rule where you cannot cancel any orders five minutes before the open.   You cannot cancel your order for five minutes until the market opens.  You like that's insane, dude. Yeah, dude.  And that's when I knew about the rule.   And they go, yeah, that's the new rule. And then they made another rule on me. They go, I cannot cancel. I had a two to one ratio of cancel.  They wouldn't fill me, right?  So you move your orders, right? And so what they did was they instituted a two to one ratio where every two cancels, I had to fill one. Otherwise they'll delete my account. So what I would do is I would create a dummy.   And this would retain my ratios. I always had a two to one buy, like one buy for every two cancels. Dude, that doesn't engineer as mine, man. I'm telling you, that is not for the normal retail trader.  Cause what happens is it's so unregulated, the penny stock world where, so the Wolf of Wall Street movie came out and it screwed everybody and all that.   Yep. And then also they had a rule where, so this is the reason why Fannie Mae trade was so good. Okay, it's not the money guys.  I had liquidity, baby. So what happened was Fannie Mae was a New York stock, exchange stock, listed stock that became a penny stock that went to the picture sheet. And so they were still using the same algo. So the Algo's had like 500,000 shares on the bid. Offer, right? You see the ECS right now, they spoofed with them. 100,000, 100,000. So there are no ways no one's gonna hit that shit, right?  It's all me and all that money.  And I stuck them with their own game. So the very next game, they turned off their algo. So now they started to hide shares. So as they're showing 100,000, 200,000 shares, they showed only 5,000 shares or 300 shares and hiding behind that a million shares. And then, so they got FINRA to help in with their scam. So FINRA created a new rule where you cannot hide anymore because it's cheating. Hiding shares are cheating. Okay, great.  And so if I put a sell 20,000 shares, it will show 20,000 shares. Cannot hide it anymore, right? Except what market makers can hide it. Oh my God. So only retail was exposed.  After that, retail was never found again. So I realized, it's fine.  It's fine. You find another market and eventually every market is going to be figured out. Okay? And small cab, same thing.   So now they started this, dude. So it's funny because I see these guys on Twitter crying.   Whereas now you're crying because you don't get your way. I mean, dude, of course the market's changed. They have to adapt. One thing that never changes is your risk management. Don't fucks. Risk management. That's one thing I keep telling everybody is a secret to longevity and success. Look at Alex. Risk management includes not trading past a certain time. That's risk management. Risk management means using the 30% rule. Risk management means keeping smaller account so you don't blow up, things like that. And the reason why is because no matter what market conditions happen, Alex is going to make money and survive. That's what a process does. Like these guys don't get it. It's not like they think that things will never change. It's not like Trump's going to be president for the next 100 years. Things change. You got to like roll with the punches, man. Like that's not gonna change. Check this out, man. People didn't even know. The markets used to be in fractions. Yeah, that's crazy. I don't know how. IBM was literally trading $88 and one eighth. One eighth, Jesus. Okay. So take a look at what the spreads are on one eighth or one fourth. One fourth is 25 cents.  So that's how they used to make money. They used to make money on the spreads. That's why they call it market making, right? You buy on the offer, you sell on the bid. Whatever, right? Yeah. And so that's how they made their money. So when decentralization came, it was a big deal, man. People were like, holy shit, how can I make money anymore? Cause they were playing the spread game. All they were doing, just making money on the spread. I used to be on the offer on the bid all day long on these penny stocks and making the spread.  It's like 8%, 5%, right? Yep. And so that's why penny stocks were great for me. Cause I was making, I was doing market making type of trades. That was a market maker. Now they introduced the PDT rule because of you.  Yep.  Cause they're like, fuck, man.  Cause these guys make too much money, right?   So my whole goal is to give back. And so when we started MIC, dude, you know what I'm saying? We had a lot of threats, man. We had a lot of trolls. We have people reporting us. You have no idea, dude.  You notice that we, me, I'm the biggest troll guy for some reason, right? People always wonder, why are you so trolled now?  Nobody trolls a non threat.  You're going to fade into the distance.  And I'm the most transparent guy.   I was trolled before MIC. So this, I mean, that, right? This has nothing to do with what we're talking right now. But it would just have to be due when you were talking, Tosh. And I just said, remind me, cause this is something that's great for the podcast. Well, it was about the get rich quick mentality bow of like consistency versus actually slowing down. Oh, yeah, we go. This is a topic guys. Flash or consistency. In my years, thinking about this, I am the one of the only guys still left over from the dinosaur age. I still out here helping you guys, right?  Or blow up her or are not here. Or blown up, most of them blown up already. So 90%. And so trust me, man, those guys who want to start a service, they, when I started, they laughed at me.  They call me a scalper, a piker. I'm just laughing. Okay, man.  Why are you threatened by me? And so they literally, they literally threatened me. They, and then, and then there's a surprise when we launch on that, how many people? Because the fact that dude, these guys, if you take a look at all these other services, right? If you guys are on YouTube that you're not in MIC, this is what, this is the thing I'm telling you, man. Take a look at why they start to service it. Is it for a money grab? Most of these motherfuckers are out here for the money grab.  If they did, they would stick around like I do every day to educate, win or lose. They would not disappear. They would trade like their members.  That's not the way that a guy with a $30,000 account should trade. You're still saying? So Alex and I actually started to trade the way that you guys should be trading. Because trading a million, $4 million account is much different. And so we can have that on the side, it's completely fine. But we actively trading with a $35,000 account.  I'm telling you, it's not easy. The hard part is this. The hard part is not making money. The hard part is being satisfied with the money that you make. I was making millions of dollars before.  So it's like on the $35,000 account I could be up $3,000 and I was like, fuck, that's not enough, right? Compared to before, right? For Senate.  And so this is what I'm trying to tell you guys.    You cannot do that.   I am not here to try to impress anybody. Right, you know, I am here to teach you how to make money for your family, for yourself. And the way you do that is stick to the process. Do not get greedy.  And I'm telling you guys, look at Alex, the process works guys. The process works. You need to level up the right way.  So if you are a short bias trader, stop at zombie hour.  So take a look at INDP. Take a look at the zombie hours.  I'll draw a line, I'll draw a line. I'll draw a line. Show them, Tosh, exactly what time INDP started moving. Guys, let me zoom in on this. This is pre-market, the shaded areas pre-market for those who are- Oh, this is INDP and also IRNF, IRNT. Guys, so this is- Oh, both of them, both of them. Let me pull up side by side one sec. I'll just do side by side. Take a look at IRNT, my God, 1030 on the dot. Yep, let me draw, let me draw. Just so you guys can get a visual representation, right? Here's the first hour, see that? Seven, 30, okay. Dude, dude, that's crazy on the dot.  So the whole point is it took us losing so much money over decades to understand this, to teach it. And then- This zombie effect is what kills short sellers. Well, and that's what I'm saying. And then once we taught it, like everybody in the world threatened this because they thought we were giving away the secret, holy grail. And then the good traders started blowing up and we're like, dude, we're just educating people on what the realistic sub-stock trading are. There's no bias. You're getting crazy.  It's not even- It's not a coincidence, guys.  Let me draw for you guys. Look at this. Shit, guys. Look at this.   Yeah, seriously. Simple as that, guys. Sir, 1030. Holy cow, man. This is crazy. Oh, man. Oh my God, Tosh. This is even- No, no. This is even crazy than I thought. This is nuts. This is nuts. I love when- I love that when it's like to the minute because it just shows guys that we're right. The process works even more. Like this one, obviously it was still very, very accurate. But my God, man. The two major stocks today that were up in the morning were INDP and IRNT that were near VWOP, over VWOP trend was intact and they were quote-unquote frontside, quote-unquote MIC process, hot chicks. Guess what they did? They were a headache to shorts all day.  I'm talking about they were a headache. That's what I'm talking about. The process works. Look at what Bao just posted. Draw a line, it's zombie hour.   Here is the INDP and 30 guys. Take a look at this, man. This doesn't, like, ooh. It just doesn't get more accurate than this. Look at this. Look at that. Look at that. These are the hot chicks of the day. You have one of these trades, you're done. Dude, don't get back in the well. Start to look for these type of plays if you're a long buyer straighter. Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Look at that. That was disgusting, dude. It's just crazy, man. It's just crazy because it's just solidified. Yeah, INDP was 19 bucks, dude. Sick. Think about that, guys. From where this zombieed 18 to 19, arguably, to 29 bucks. That's crazy.  So the problem is people keep getting into the stock and want it higher and higher. At some certain point, the risk-reward ratio is completely gone.  Dude, Baal's got so many freaking stories, man. David, it's so fun. Like, it's just popcorn time when Baal busts out the highlight reel of stories.  That's why a lot of these guys blew up. And then, but now I was talking about, also, let me talk about INDP. Why it got blown out and all that stuff, okay? So people were complaining like, why did it take so much? Well, this is all hindsight, obviously. All hindsight, obviously.  But to explain this INDP, basically it's a very typical fucking, this thing went from $8 to 28 bucks. So when you see a parabolic move like that from 21 to 28, it means that short sellers game blown out. Longs are not chasing this guys.    They really don't know about trading guys. They complain who's buying this. It's the short sellers that are stuck, they're complaining. Who would retail or buy this? So it's not the retail. So I keep telling you this all the time. Shorts is what makes stocks move up. Not longs, because if it's overcrowded long, it's gonna go tink down. So eventually, so when the shorts got blown out, it started to go down. So when it go down, the maker to break it is the $20 line to 19. So $20 line is the maker to break it. Take a look at the volume. What's the volume that right there is at 20 bucks? And at that time, I think the VWOP was like 18 or something. So it's pretty close, man. It's a toss up. So if you were to go along at 20 bucks, make sure that you're going small with a wide stock and have a stock, because under a certain point it's getting over $18. It's the last support line, guys. It's very obvious. Draw the line at 18 bucks. Let me draw for you guys. One sec. So like I tell you guys, line to line, man. All we can know is line to line. That's the most basic way to understand any stock. I like to draw circles, because circles is actually better for me to see than a line. So here's the last support line. Guys, I highlighted this because this is what Vow's talking about. Shorts are natural buyers.  This is what this is. That's how you get a major parabolic move like that. Here, let me draw this. So this is the last major support, guys. So what goes when it, so the way you figure it out is on the way up. On the way up, we'll determine on the way down. Vow's talking about this general area right here. It's 18 line. It's 18 line, man. That was what supported before the blast off. And it's kind of like a coupling factor, right? Vow, it breaks VWAP and breaks the 18 line. That's like a double factor, right? So this is the thing. This is why it's like, we don't really know it was $20, 18. So that is where the wide stop comes in. I would reduce the size significantly.  When a stock goes from $28 to $20, something's wrong. Something's wrong. Yeah, because think about how much overhead this is, guys. You have to think that everybody from here, so if you are buying at 18, you have to think that everybody in this gap right here who bought or under water. Look at that. Look at that. How many people are under water? So just be careful if you are buying this. Like you have to know that, right? There's a lot of people under water. And volume is declining. Yeah, literally. So like let's bring up the volume. As you guys, I posted a chart on a webinar. So you can see the chart and the volume profile and all that stuff. As you guys can see, the volume's even going down. And right here. The volume's very important due to the state of the shit the volume goes down as well as the price going down. You know, it's good. Yeah, seriously.  So no one knows anything IDNDP, but I just know that when I'm looking at that chart, shorts are getting blown away. And then there are no more shorts guys. When there are no more shorts and no more pumpers. What happens? No one left to buy. So when the shorts are gone, who's left to buy? Not the longs. The longs are ready to sell.  So you're looking to sell. And so what happens is when VWAP gets broken, everybody just want to get out for you, right? And so every uptake gets sold. Every uptake gets sold. So this ain't rockin' science, man.  Cause you, this is one of these anomalies happens once a week, but it's still anomaly where you cannot predict this. This is not something that's predictable. That's not something that's consistently predictable. So thinking your head all the time, is this consistently predictable?  Because we are not here to gamble. We are here to trade only predictable stocks. And that's why I call it conforming to the chart.   It's just too difficult. And think about it guys. The guys that are like, oh, I knew this, I knew that thing. Why didn't you short 200,000 shares right here at 28? If you did know, if you tout around on Twitter like you do know, then why don't you have a private island motherfucker? Like, come on, man. So anybody that tells you, oh, I knew this would go from 28,000 to 10 in the same day.  There's no way to know that unless you got insider information. And even them probably wouldn't even know. There's some dumbasses out there even with insider information. I might advise you if you have any information, don't share it with anybody, including me. Please don't share it with everybody. Please do not. We don't want that kind of story. I don't hear it, dude.  And the funny thing is about it's like, we don't even need it. Having insider information actually makes it worse.  You didn't know when though.  I mean, the time the offer comes out, you already stopped out.  I'm gonna take off my hard stop. And then guess what?  Guys, making money consistent and slow and boring.  Make your scalps, make your base hits, get two or three base hits a day. Do this for a hundred years, you're rich. You're rich.  Guys, do you have any questions on any of this? Any questions so far on anything that we talked about? Any, I don't see any on YouTube yet. Anybody, any questions for the members? Any questions, guys? These are some good examples, man. This is a lot of good stuff. There's a lot of movement right now. Oh, I do remember about one of the members was saying earlier in the morning of the webinar was can we talk about market conditions right now? Like what kind of market we're in?  I don't care who's the president or what the hell's going on. It doesn't matter, dude.   Take a look at FCUV. FCUV. Yep, failed pump. This is just someone trying to pump it up. Yep, just because INDP went. Correct. It's so freaking obvious. It's so obvious. Like it's just unbelievable, right? Tosh, what's your thoughts on life and what did you see on it? Let's take a look. Well, the thing about this, man, is like, look, Bal might have a different description of this, but let me go back to the pivot points, right? So I don't short anything on low-hanging fruit unless it hits my pivot points. So this just didn't do it for me today. Like this was obviously a low-hanging fruit because it broke down the day before, but unless it hits these levels, I'm not actually interested in it. Tomorrow, this looks like a possible balance candidate. Let me throw this chart. This is consolidated already. So this is, to me, a coin toss. Yeah, tomorrow, for sure. The bottom and it's starting moving up. So tomorrow, I'll be looking for short if it's going up high enough. But it's got to go high enough. It's got to be very clear. And unless it hits my lines, which are the pivot points, which we talked about in MIC, guys, and here's the thing about how pivot points work. If you short- I posted that my chart, which has a sigma source. Yep, yeah, yeah, exactly. If you guys short it 10, 26, 8 at the pivot point and it breaks through, guess what line-to-line means? You cut it and you're reshorted to the next line. And if you do it correctly and wait for ideal entries, you will most likely make way more than you lost on the first line because you are waiting for appropriate ceilings and or resistance levels. This was one of the keys to bow success over the years on low-hanging fruit is he's waited for the line. And then if it did break, you cut it and you attack at the next line. That is line-to-line trading. That is MIC. And there's a couple of lines, dude. There's the pivot line, which works well on large caps. It was better in large caps than small caps. And then there's just normal resistance lines that I use. So right now, 10.25 you see is a pivot line. That's the one that's next to it. That's a line-to-line or a bow's red line right there. The red line is, that's automatically drawn by the system that's pivot line. We have scripts for DOS and thinkorswim. So you can get those scripts from us. Yeah. Where are they, Tosha? They know what sites are there? Yeah, they're on the setting up lines, guys. So like here, I'll just actually show you real quick. If we go to the videos tab and you go under setting up lines, setting up lines. God, I haven't looked at this in a while. I know it's here, but it's somewhere. I haven't looked at the setting up lines. It's going to be right here in the TOS one. So if you guys want to see how I did that on TD Ameritrade, that's where you find it. And then we also have ones for DOS, which I have as well, but I always do these webinars on TOS because it's just so much easier to maneuver for me during the webinar. Yup, so there we go, guys. We have videos after videos. You just need to go and navigate through the video library, guys. Yup.  Let me talk about something about MIC. When we started MIC, we had the video library, but most video libraries out there, pretty much all of them, you cannot search. MIC is very unique, guys. We can search on it. We created a system where you can search our keywords. And this was a big operation. I was actually the one championing it.  Imagine you have 10,000 videos. It's useless unless you search, right? Right here. Search is the reason why Google became good. And so over time, guess what, guys? We're going to be the only ones with a huge library of trading videos that can be searched. There's nobody else that can search. So you guys are being MIC, the right thing to do is start to search, man, because you'd be surprised that we are the only ones that can search. Yup, exactly. And everything, like what's recycling shares? Boom, now we have a video on recycling. Like, oh, I didn't just click it, but you guys can see that we have a category. Yes, you should think the Moz, man. We spent a whole week. They divided up the work to each moderator to start tagging so that we can search. So you understand, man. Imagine the manual labor it took to tag all these videos.  I'm telling you guys right now. Seriously, man. D-Rub, what's up, buddy? Okay, this is a really good question, right? So as a short trader, what's the max you're willing to allow a trade to go past your line before cutting it and reevaluating? So I'll give you two lines. What's that about? I like two lines. Yeah, I was gonna say two lines, but it's also like a coupling factor, right? Depending on how you look at it. These are two lines, but they're way too spread out to scale from here to here. So this scenario is a, oh, this didn't line, didn't work out, cut immediately, then hit the next furthest one that's very clear. Now, if that's not some, I'm trying to think of a really good example as like per like just one under view. Here, I'll actually, hold on. Let me go to, let me actually pull this up because I pulled this up a couple of weeks ago, but let me show you like a past really good example that I can just off the top of my head, right? So if we're trading something like right here and it doesn't have a crazy amount of rage like the low hanging fruit did on life or something, I would be willing to scale outer lines because I'm already starting a little bit outer, maybe 225 to 250, because it's all within the same. And you can see how they're kind of the same level of resistance, it's just this little pump and dump. Like it's not, it's not like, oh, there's a really, really big timeframe or whatever, right? So I'll create a scale zone, whether that's under view up because it's super broken. Like obviously on this one, the outer lines view up because it's trading way under and maybe, maybe I'll give it to 390 because if it breaks over 390, I'm probably wrong on this and then you could just continue to 430, right? Cut and then re-attack it outer lines.  It's not like, because here's the thing, man, you shorted 1026 and then you're adding like 10, like you're just a bag holder at this point, man. Now you're just hoping it comes back down. You know what I mean? You're really stuck. So there's an arc to the entry, guys.  So this is part of the pre-plan.  If you write down your trade beforehand, you can analyze it. Where are you gonna enter? Where are you gonna exit? When you exit, we're gonna exit for loss. We're gonna exit for win. So your entry is gonna determine where you exit. Dude, entry is always the first thing you need to master because exits, how much are we still trying to master exits after eight years, 20? Exes is fucking, one thing I can control is where I enter. If I enter too soon, the rest of my trade is fucked. Right, guys? Dude. If you have a really good entry, oh man, the exits become so much easier. Well, and here's the thing.  Like those guys on Twitter, they're just pouting big P&Ls. Sure, you might make money, but oh my God, the stress level that comes with it, you think that's worth it? That's no way to live, man. Come on.  It's like starting off like, I don't know, man. I was gonna say like a funny analogy of like if you're going into the night with a big group of party and like girls and stuff and you start drinking versus going into an already belligerent drunk, it's like, you gotta get off on a good footing, right? You got an easy way in. You don't wanna start the party belligerent drunk.  I don't know, maybe Val has something to say about that. I haven't drank in two years, dude. So I forgot, I forgot what it was like. Focus on the entry, guys. I'm telling you right now, man. Focus on the entry. It makes everything easier, guys. Oh yeah. It's so easy to relax and be patient for good covers when my average is good, such a good position to be in. Yeah, Stephen, Stephen, you can breathe easy when you know that at least your starter is the outer line that you're waiting for, man. Not something where you're like, oh shit, I think you can go to this level, so I gotta get some foam, I gotta get in, I gotta get in, and it was a FOMO starter. And now, by the time you add, even if it's within your plan, because you foam it in way earlier than you should have, you're on an edge, man.   Oh yeah. So I don't have FOMO. Like, what's a fantasy order on this? Here's a fantasy order on this, right? Oh, hold on, one sec. So when you have a fantasy order, you place it in. So if you don't place the order in, you're like, where should I enter? And when the stock comes to close, close to where you want it, you may be too scared to enter, or you get FOMO, you enter too early. Yep. Here's what the cost of a fantasy order to me is very important. Like, Val, where would you say on life today would be your ideal fantasy order? Because I see right here with this. Life? On where? Yeah, unlike life right here. Like, that's a good example of a fantasy order. Like, you got this resistance point, so maybe starting here. Life would be right now. Well, I meant more in the morning, Val. Right now would be 917. Well, yeah, right now, I meant kind of more like in the morning, like I want those perfect lines, dude. Like, I'll win. It would be 10 bucks. Yeah, yeah, exactly where I started, 10 bucks. Yeah. Exactly. Maybe even 995, undercut, Val. It would not feel 10 bucks as separate, would it, Phil?  Yeah, buddy. Dude, Alex, watch this as a fucking... Whoa, whoa, whoa, check out our chat. Webcam's chat, hot girls and boys video chat. Wait, what? Where you see that? This is on our fucking... On YouTube? Yeah, YouTube, just chat. Oh, I can't see, wait, I'm missing it. Where is it? Webcamchat.com, hot girls and boys video chat. Dude, sign me up, bro. 69, 65 months.  Well, we'll give you a free membership at MIC if you give us a free membership. You guys are awesome. Webcam's. Let's go.  Oh my God, that's funny, man. Oh, perfect, yeah. K-Trader, nice, nice. And here's the thing about being aggressive. There we go. Dude, there's people who do fantasy orders that are super aggressive and then super conservative. Unlike lowing and fruit like this, I'm super conservative. I want the outermost pivot. I love it, man, because this is so broken, bro, where you got to get in some, so I get in some and then the only time that I would have a FOMO order is on lowing and fruit. Because I know 90% of the time I'm gonna make money on it because it's gonna go down. It's a matter of where am I going to enter. So I have a little bit of position FOMO and I'll add where I want to add. Yep, exactly. See, my favorite bow are always the day ones that are so fricking broken, like the one I brought up in that example, it's trading so far under VWAP. Like those are the ones I just get so much FOMO on. The extrusionatingly broken day one where something else is taking attention and then I hit it at VWAP. Like that is my number one trade, man. So that's the thing, man, Mike, if you're a short seller, I'll tell you right now, trade only lowing fruits and broken stocks and you never gonna get vermin. You never get INDP, okay? For a visual representation of a perfect example, guys, bow's literally talking about this. Let me find it, the one I showed earlier. So lowing fruit like life and then something like this. Like look at how broken this is. What's an outer line on something like CYCC? Well, it's gonna be VWAP or something like this. Like look at how much overhead this has pre-market. What do you think it, like dude, what do you think's gonna happen on a pop? Gonna get sold off into or at least offer a really good nail and bail at that level if you wait for it. At the very least, in all you need is one or good two nail and bails a day. You don't need this to go from 360 to 310. You just need to get in and out. Like again, bow said, dude, what do we always say? Pike our way to millions, right? Like that's how bow made his fortune, man. Pike can scalp this way to millions of dollars. Like dude. Yeah, call us whatever you wanna call us, man.  The funny thing is these guys are holding for dollars and I'm like, I'm here channel trading it three times and making more than a dollar. Seriously, and if you channel trade it right with the right entries and you make 20 cents, 20 cents, 20 cents, that's 60 cents. That's a big move.   No, I love hearing this stuff. A.J. Jackson on YouTube just said I just came across this YouTube wallet work and I definitely wanna join. Bro, that's awesome. I'm glad that you got value out of this webinar, man. That means a lot to us. If you have any questions about joining A.J., just text me at my business line. Oops. Yeah, everybody wants to join Textosh? Yeah, they want to send dirty photos to Textosh. The webcam, they're gonna text me. Text me<PHONE_NUMBER>, brother.  Just text me and we'll figure something out for you. But I'm telling you, man, if you want to learn day trading, there's no better community than MIC. Dude, I'm getting chicken curry FOMO, man, on that frickin' plate. Dude, did you see this, man? Like who was cooking earlier? Where was it after?  I'm starving. I'm getting food FOMO, man. We all have FOMO at some point. Your rise is almost 4 p.m., dude. Is that crazy? The day flew by, man. Bro, I'm going up to, I need to change the scenery. I'm going up to Sedona this weekend, man, which is like three hours from me to just like do a calm weekend in a cabin, dude. I need to detach from tech. But I will still be at my business line if you guys need me just sporadically, man. I'm taking a breather in nature this weekend, man. Oh, I'm getting FOMO. Posh blocks out at 9.29 am for the best time in the region. That's funny. Stephen, where are you at right now? Where are you traveling, man? Dude, our travel mod just got to Latvia. That's sick, dude. Just, he came from Estonia, right? World travel, bro, how many countries have you been to, man, these days? Jeez. Stop pumping moonshine, moonshine on YouTube.   Hollow coin. Why don't these learn to trade, bro? Moonshine.  I'm not spamming people, man.  It's okay. We get to teach them all. You know what, man? Scam someone out of $99 and join MIC. It's only $99 bucks, guys. First month of joint. Seriously. If you learn, it applies to crypto too, moonshiner. Moonshine's one of those crypto. Hey, type your phone number in there, Tosh. Yep, right here. Go to the website, man. If you don't know how to sign up, I don't know what to tell you. Guys, right here. Mine, sdclub.com, the information's there. Tosh's info is on there. Book a call, anything you guys need, man.  We're not gonna pump and shell some hollow coin you.  This is something that's been proven, man, for decades upon decades, not some new type of pump and dump scam, man. Like frickin' 99% of crypto. Yeah, we just like guys, so guys are in a MIC webinar and we were applying to YouTube. Is every Wednesday, this is a public, we give away a free public webinar? Yep. And whoever's smart enough to attend gets to learn for free.  Economist Mohamed just said, how to join a loss from 10K to 3K? Brother, stop trading real money immediately. Economist, join MIC, learn on a simulator, bro. Stop trading real money. If you don't know what you're doing for a week, give us two weeks to a month. Watching our materials, learning on a simulator, bro. And then when you feel confident, go back to real money, but join and learn, man. Don't gamble, don't turn that 3K into zero. Like, dude, be careful, man, be careful. Yeah, I'm telling you, man. Be careful, bro. The market is a jungle out there if you don't have mentorship.  To the moon. I got all these crypto guys, man, it's crazy. What's that? All these crypto guys. Everyone's a crypto trader. That's crazy. Yeah, because it's like, get rich, quick shit, right? Well, that's the whole, that's literally the whole topic of this webinar today outside of what we titled it, is the shiny object and, hey, let's make a million dollars this year so we can retire at 18.  People get lucky, yes, but building lasting foundation and things that are real, that's what it's all about, man.  Holocoin will be here for another week. That's it. Bitcoin might be here for 100 years. I don't know. Who knows, but blockchain technology is good. But dude, you pumping one out of 10,000 coins? Get real, bro. Ligma coin is worth ligma balls. That's funny. Oh, flex, oh man, that was funny, bro. I hope you're an MIC, man. You're our people. That was funny. Ligma balls, I love it, man. That is hysterical, bro. Yep, yep, yep. Dogecoin. The Doge. The Dogefather, Elon. Yeah, guys, be careful out there, man.   Like, dude, there is a pump and dump in every industry, man. And we- Dating, dating, dating, too. Oh, dude, I've been catfished on Hinge more times than I can count, bro. You show up to the date and you're like, damn, those are some filters.  Dude, I'm way too nice. I can't tell you how many times I've been on a date, man. It's literally happened to me like three different times where I'm way too nice, man.  So I'm gonna suffer this two-hour coffee date and then I'm gonna bounce. But I'm too nice.  I just can't do that, man. I wish I could. I don't have that trait in there. At least you get dates, bro. Be happy you get dates.  I guess there's always something to be afraid of before.    Yeah, but, pal, you can frickin' trade spreads like nobody's business, so. I don't know, I got, I got, that's like, you know. Dude, I'd rather, I'd rather do a different type of spreading. You're sick, Mark, I love it.  MIC dating 101. Oh, man, spread the cheeks, man. Hey, if anything else, guys, on YouTube, join MIC. Put Trader on your Tinder profile. Watch what happens. Dave Trader, boom, instant match. Instant match. Now, post that video with that girl that's like, I can't get enough of that video where she's like, God, girls, we have to stop dating date trainers. It's not in the rear. They're lying. Maybe we'll end the webinar with a laugh. Yeah, we'll end that one. Dude, that is the best video of all time. Trinder. Oh yeah, man, dude, Tinder is a jungle nowadays. That girl got dumped by, she got pumped and then dumped by her teacher. Oh, here's. The date trader did the pump and dumping. Yeah, seriously, Q, dude, you're telling me, man. Dude, look at this. We'll end with this, guys. Check this out. This is terrible. We have to stop dating date traders. Ladies, if a man says he's a date trader, cut it, go. You gotta leave. That's the same exact thing as them telling me that the Wolf of Wall Street is their favorite movie. It just makes me run in the opposite direction. And I encourage you all to do the same. That's not a career.  What happened was, is she was dating a trader who claimed to show P&L's and make a lot of money and she found out years later that he was a paper trader.   This one, man. Oh, this is more like a, dude, this is more realistic. Dude, hold on. I have to preface before I play this video. My dad's been a date trader for 20 plus years and he's been so cut in his ways of bad habits.  Still to this day, this is my dad.  Hold on one second.  This is like trading with my dad.  Go away.  Like you did to me last time, you fucks.   Come on.   You kidding me. I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. Not today.    Dude, I literally think that was my video. I think I filmed that seven years ago of my dad. Bro, I cannot tell you how many times I videotaped my dad like that and I lost the files on phones over the years but I used to videotape my dad doing like that.   Oh man.  We are all degenerates, let me tell you but if you wanna learn in your bit by the bug, there's no better place than MIC, man. Now what do you think, man? Is it lunch time? Any more questions, otherwise? Last minute, last minute questions? Kyle goes, sounds like me today on Amazon. Dude, during LOL, man, now taught me this many years ago, it's so much cheaper to just go online shopping than go back to trading and try to revenge trade. Any last, last minute questions, I got last minute, two minutes, last minute questions before we wrap this up. Those are so funny, man. Elijah goes, I joined MIC recently like a week ago. My plan before was to join and watch all the videos in one month, then leave but he's saying he's gonna stay. Dude, that's awesome. See the value in the club. You leave us. Don't leave, man, don't leave us. There's enough room on this door, Jack, I promise. Who knows that reference? Yeah, dude. I had the same plan when I joined, watch all the videos and leave, huh? There are a lifetime of videos. Now girls to try the junior mod, like go figure, man. I'm telling you, man, that's awesome. That is awesome. I can't tell you how many people that text me the same thing or call about the same thing. They're like, Tosh, I legitimately wanted to come in for a month, watch the videos and bounce but the community's so much fun. It's so funny. You people are awesome. You truly wanna help and the content's so good. I'll leave you with this. The thing that's, yeah, there you go, Fred, you got it. The thing that's so funny about traders who learn and then wanna leave is the fact that you're gonna realize as soon as you leave that the FOMO of the fun of the community and the people doing it together is what the community, like, dude, once you learn, doesn't mean you won't like, you go.  That's because people think that as a fraud.  Everyone's a fraud. And so they come in with the spec. Like, they don't believe it. So that's why it's very hard to get people in the door to begin with. But once people get in the door, you're gonna realize it's real. Exactly, man. Exactly, exactly. So I just think, like, it's funny. We all get FOMO of something, right? Like I said, when you leave in my seat and you're like, oh man, I got this. I don't need that. Dude, the FOMO is seeing the watch list every day, talking to the members, DMing your tab partner.  So, hope you guys learned something today, man. Bal, I guess one last question.  Ever? Yeah, I guess so. I'll tell you it for next time. This is not gonna be that. It's more, this is, join MIC. I'll tell you all the time. Too long to, just way too long to figure it, to talk about. Bal needs a good half hour to rant that one, man. I learned this, guys. I learned a lot of fake fucks out there. No offense to the fake fucks, but they're fake fucks. They scam people and it gives us a really hard time and this is why people, you know, this is the hardest part about trading. People think trading is random. It's gambling and because of the scammers. The moment you realize that, hey, man, you can do this, that it's not random, that there are people that make money pretty much every day, almost every day, right? And take a look at Alex, right? I mean, I don't want to post anything, but I'm using Alex because, you know, Alex was where you guys were. I met Alex when he was a kid. He didn't know much, mentored him and look at him now. Seriously, same thing with Tosh. Same thing with everybody. I don't like to talk about myself, because I mean, what use is that, right? So I like to talk about the members and how they're growing. So that's why if you go to the MIC Instagram account, you'll see so many testimonials. Those are the real people that are learning. And so when you see that, guys, it gives you motivation and so you work hard and so you stop gambling. But there are people that will gamble forever and that's just in their nature. This is why you have to have the max dating loss. You have to have these risk parameters in place, guys. Guys, go to the testimonial space. These are not us. They're not paid actors. These are members who joined and then got a lot of content or value. I mean, there's endless pages. Seriously, like when I say endless, I mean endless. Like we can't even count the amount of, like it's insane, dude. It's insane. So just check it out. Check it out. See what you think. It's up to you to decide ultimately, but you can get on a call with me. You can literally probably just go on Twitter and DM current members and ask what their experience is. See the testimonials, join these webinars. I mean, there's so much that we do. You know what's crazy, Tosh? We are doing a lot of the, I do the Instagram live every Tuesday. Alex does it on Monday. You do this on Wednesday. Obviously, we're a scammer. Someone would speak up if this is live. We have live for three and a half years. Are they? Three and a half years.  If we were scammers, there'll be people logging in every day. This is why no one except us does these things. And we do it three times a week. Well, Val said at the best that anything could ever be said about scammers. Not scammers in this industry, right? Dude, we walk the streets. People want to meet us. We do in-person boot camps. Obviously when coronavirus isn't raging, like people who scam people don't want to meet their members, man. We don't want to walk in the streets and show you where we are. Like there's a very big difference. Yeah, so I mean, that's the thing, man. If we were scammers and stuff, the members here would be saying whatever, right?  Hey, farmer, where does farmer live? He has to hide in the woods somewhere, bro. Farmer's on Mars, dude, with Elon.   There's every, no one is seen in public. There's no one except us, for some reason. Come meet us, man. I can't wait to, dude, I've met, I'm not kidding you. I've met half of our member bases in-person shake half of these hands. And I can't wait to meet the other half. Like that's the whole point of what we do. Make sure you wash your hands after you wash them. That's a lot of people. But imagine like farmer giving meetups, dude. All his tinder dates, I don't know where your hands have been, bro. Oh, hey, don't ask, don't tell, baby. See where they are in Sedona this weekend. No, I'm kidding. All right, guys, it's been fun. I wish I could stay and keep chatting, which I could, but... I know you know we could, man. I gotta eat something though. Oh, dude, and Ray, that is one of the number one places I actually want to visit. Dude, we have to plan a Singapore one, man, seriously. I really, I've never been to Singapore. Singapore, that's where the three floors are. No way. We'll keep that for a real another time. Ray, tell me about the three floors. No, dude.  He knows where that is. What's up with the three floors of XYZ? We'll keep that for the next round of podcasting. I think Ray's typing. What do you think, Ray? I'll tell these guys who've never been to Singapore where the three floors are. If Ray knows what that is, he's truly excited. What rhymes with floors? Hey, what happens on the fourth floor? The three floors. Don't go to the fourth floor, dude. Oh, some guy go, what about the stuff on GuruLeaks Twitter?     Whoever believes that GuruLeaks does not belong in MIC. I don't wanna educate anybody that is watching and listening to trolls. Guys, you can put your focus on positivity or the opinions of others. It's just, Why, what do you think about the trolls?  But the boogeyman told me.  Dude, you know, Alex taught me years ago, man. He got, Alex got the most hate I've ever seen of anyone get in my lifetime when MIC was created.  Like we lost best friends multiple. Like it was so unbelievable, the amount of hate Alex specifically got and how many trolls. And since then, dude, he's become so numb. No, he's like, dude, I don't need to think about it. I don't comment them. Like, why would I focus when I'm doing so good in my life and focusing on such beauty? Why would I give them one even breath of existence? And I'm like, dude, I'm trying to learn that.  He's impervious. No, no, I'm fucking, let him laugh from his. In the bamboo, right? Wheels up, baby, from wheels up, man.  Dude, guys, give us a call, give us a text.   We are going to teach you real strategies. I'm telling you right now, get this while it's hot because we're getting tired. Val said he wants to retire one day. You never know, man. This could be the last year. You never know. Come get it while it's hot. But, dude, we'll do this next week. I think it's lunchtime. And Val, dude, I'll see you next week, buddy. All right, guys. See you guys. All right, see you back in after hours. Hell yeah.


Welcome to the channel. My name is Jordan. This is modern day muscle This is an update to the dogs dealership and what they did with my car. So they finally fixed The shaker hood. I got new bolts as you can see with the Mopar logo. See if I can focus up for you guys I was able to keep The shaker hood that I ceramic coated so I didn't have to come out of pocket for that. So that was great also to Was able to get The splash guards with these splash guards. I don't get half the dirt kickoff that I used to get when I didn't have them So I'm happy for that just to show you guys more proof that everything Was done free of charge and I didn't have to come out of pocket for a single thing You see there's the shaker install right there the replacement right and then the multi-point inspection which I guess that's something that they have to do every time they look at a car and Then um the mudflaps that I had asked for and as you can see if you come over to this side Everything is zero dollars so Focus that off for you guys. So just once again so I can show you guys that Why is it not focusing there we go? Just once again so I can show you guys that I did not pay a dime for anything Everything was taken care of At the expense of the dealership All right, so the model of the story is is when something bad happens to you or you just experience bad customer service Just don't give up. I mean this took over 30 days, which is a little excessive But as you can see I was able to get what I wanted even though it took me forever. It seems so That's the end of this video My name is Jordan. This is modern day muscle. Please subscribe and hit the bell notification. I'll see you in the next video


Digestive problems are probably in the top three most common issues I see in my patient base and if you've watched my videos you know that I got into Chinese medicine because of my own digestive problems. But in this video I thought I would enhance and embellish and speak more on this idea of spleen chi deficiency being one of the most common digestive patterns that I see and three different little subclasses or similar patterns to spleen chi deficiency because it's very very common and these are the three most common GI patterns that I see. Hey guys Dr. Alex Hein, author of the health book Master of the Day and Doctor of Chinese Medicine. So before we jump into this video there are two important links right below. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine you can reach out and contact my private practice that way and there's also a free guide which is four daily rituals that could potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine. So let's talk about these three patterns of spleen chi deficiency. So the general spleen chi deficiency pattern is really kind of a pancreatic enzyme deficiency in layman's terms because what do these people experience? Typically lack of appetite, often pale face, often more on the anemia side of the spectrum or certainly look that way. Bloating either constipation but not really hard stools. They're often irregular or soft when they come out. Sometimes soft diarrhea stools, liquid stools, bloating, food sensitivities is very very common, sensitive stomach, picky eaters, all of this really falls into that pattern of spleen chi deficiency. Now that's a very common pattern by itself. Food allergies and SIBO are big big issues I see in a lot of people today and that's not the only pattern though that I see that's kind of my pattern but there are two others that I think are important to know. The second one is called spleen yang deficiency. Now in spleen yang deficiency basically what we see more of is more abdominal pain and looser stools. So spleen yang deficient people basically will feel cold, tend towards pain and will have much looser stools. So what is the most common scenario that I see is people say my stools are always kind of on the verge of diarrhea or there's undigested food or they're having many loose bowel movements throughout the day. The most severe being for example ulcerative colitis which is not just spleen yang you know there's not just diarrhea 20 times a day there's blood in this pus it's really severe but in terms of spleen yang deficiency person feels cold so the actual immune healing force so to speak quote unquote is depleted to the point where their body cannot recover and much more frequent stools and often pain. And the third pattern here that I see is let's just call liver gallbladder constraint and spleen chi deficiency. So now what we see is more liver gallbladder involvement which commonly manifests in two or three ways. Most commonly some kind of stomach dysfunction i.e. reflux burping indigestion a lot of eukis in the throat but very often acid reflux indigestion picture is some liver or gallbladder involvement. The second way it shows up is in the stools. So alternating bowel movements hard and soft sometimes hard at the start then soft varying pebbles and then some days diarrhea stools that's more of that liver gallbladder pattern. And then for women varying menses or menstrual regularities or painful menses or variable menses all of that can fall into this pattern as well. So the difference here is that there's not just a lower GI pattern of bloating the food baby the food baby is kind of the archetypal spleen chi deficiency pattern but on top of that there's some dysfunction going on with the stomach for sure there is usually reflux going on here people will often say they get burning or acid reflux that kind of thing. So these kind of patterns are almost three grades of the same thing because one spleen chi deficiency can be pushed into spleen young deficiency or commonly people with spleen chi deficiency that then don't eat well don't eat good diets and they have that genetic template then we have the saying that an excess of chi becomes heat. Now a simple explanation is in layman's terms if you continue to eat over eat eventually you produce too much congestion right over eating basically harms the stomach when you continually do that for many of people what the experience is some signs of sourness or bitterness in the mouth from our experience that is where the liver and the gallbladder begins to get involved that is where their beginnings of gallbladder problems where even someone who eats a good diet if their spleen chi is really really weak the enzymes are really really weak what happens is that if they're not careful and they still eat a crappy diet then they can begin to have gallbladder problems and some people even if they eat a healthy diet will have gallbladder problems if they have severe spleen chi deficiency anyway. So these are almost a progression in many ways but I think they're useful to know because I see all three of them on a weekly or a monthly basis it's very useful very interesting to know and sometimes just by knowing what's going on it can produce a little bit more calm and a little more sense of security but three common GI patterns spleen chi spleen yang liver gallbladder and spleen that we see commonly in Chinese medicine that are worth knowing because they are really degrees of severity in many ways too that's all I've got for you today guys if there's anything else you'd like to see on dietary stuff just comment below and let me know all right I need some new ideas for you and I'll shoot whatever is the most interesting or the most appealing and otherwise watch these two related videos here more on the spleen chi diet


A few years ago, the Museum of Curiosities, Fine Arts and Natural History in Hackney in London acquired an object called the world's longest standing erection. Yes, it is exactly what you think it is. It is a preserved penis with an erection, but here's the weird thing. This penis was taken from the very last man to be hanged in England in the 18th century, and weird as still. According to the curator, whenever somebody is hanged, they nearly always get an erection. Apparently the phenomenon is known as angel lust, and it is often attributed to the pressure on the cerebellum, created by the noose that stimulates the nerves.  But apparently this was a real tradition amongst executioners because they believed that the different body parts of somebody who had been hanged actually contained magical properties. So for instance, there was something called the hands of glory, which was the mummified hands of an executed person because these were considered to be extremely powerful. This world is a very strange place full of very strange stories.


After being rescheduled due to the snowstorm in January, the Tug Valley area CVP will be holding their 5th annual Wilcon Comic and Cosplay Convention at the Southside Mall on Saturday, March 16th. We'll have a cosplay contest on the stage, we'll be filled with replica cars featuring the movie version of the Transformers Bumblebee, we'll be filled with about 20 or so vendors and it's going to be a good time as usual. Avalachian Community Care offers outpatient medication assisted treatment for addiction, counseling and behavioral play therapy for children, accepting Medicare and all major insurance. Recovery is hard, regret is harder. Avalachian Community Care, Pikeville, Whitesburg,<PHONE_NUMBER>, find them on Facebook. The event will host interactive entertainment, comic and collectibles vendors, artists and most of all, a cosplay contest. The convention is a way to celebrate all types of fandoms and showcase different collectibles. But more than anything, it is a space where children get the opportunity to participate in Comic-Con culture without having to spend hundreds of dollars and go to a larger gathering. We wanted the idea that we want to have a community show that's accessible to everyone. For example, this weekend, electricity and Comic-Con is going on and that's great, but it's very expensive, you have to pay for gas tickets and whatnot. We always intended to be a community based show, we don't want to have any barriers of entry for our locals, our families and our kids. The WilCon will begin at 10 a.m. at the Southside Mall on Saturday, March 16th. Admission for the convention is free. For more information, you can visit the WilCon Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsea Fidell.


So, this is Kim Doherty with the iSchool career area, and I am speaking with associate professor Dr. Michael Stevens, who is one of our most beloved faculty members here in the iSchool. And Dr. Stevens has agreed to speak with me today about the emerging technologies and digital services pathways. So basically I'm going to ask Dr. Stevens some questions, but I've also encouraged him to take us down any pathways that he feels are helpful for you to know about. So starting out, Dr. Stevens, first of all, thank you for joining us. I am happy to be with you today. Terrific. All right. Our first question, why do you feel this career pathway will continue to have relevance in multiple types of library or organizational settings? Okay. Well, it's very important right now that a pathway such as this, and it has two, actually two offshoots, one that focuses on emerging technologies and one that focuses on digital services. I just made a mistake. Okay. There we go. Okay. We're going to go back and we're going to do this again. Okay. Yeah. It's always good to get that out of the way early on. Okay. So we'll ask Dale or whoever edits just like in a second I'll be quiet and then I'm going to answer it for real. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I was looking at too many things at one time. Okay. That's a great question. What I see is that in every type of library and information environment, we will have connections to technology, to the emerging technologies of the day, which is fast changing and to how we engage with people around technology and services. And it can be any and all types of libraries, any and all types of information environments, K through 12 public libraries, university, community college, special libraries, everything in between museums, all of those things. Because one of the things that we are doing is we are helping people understand how the world works. And also the digital side of it all is understanding how digital literacies or I call them life literacies because we really need everybody needs to have a reasonable grip on how things work to get by these days. So understanding these life literacies and helping people, that happens across all the organizational settings that we're talking about today. So that's why you can come to this pathway from any interest and find something that works or some mild markers maybe to grab some classes from or whatever that might be. That makes a lot of sense because to your point, these are becoming life literacies. They're not sort of stuck in a box on the side as oh, you could go over there and do that thing. They're now interwoven throughout every aspect of life. So next question then, what particular particularly engages you personally about this type of work and career pathway? Okay. This is very much like the class I teach called the hyperlinked library, which is an emerging technologies class that is really a humanistic focused class. I really believe what we do in library and information services is tending to the information needs of our users. And that definition in my mind has changed over the last few decades and very specifically in the last few years. We are now talking about offering a safe space for every person who comes through our doors to learn and grow. We're designing welcoming spaces and services for folks who come together and collaborate and exchange ideas that might be in a beautiful, gorgeous building and might also be on a digital platform or some digital service that folks have created coming out on the other side of these pathways. It might be making digital communities and helping them thrive. And one of the things we do with info 200, which is one of the core classes, is we get our students thinking about what it means to meet the information needs of specific communities because eventually they may be building information resources, community platforms, et cetera, for various groups. And finally, I think everything we do points toward promoting learning and well-being. And that's why it really is not out of the question for a librarian well-versed in emerging tech user experience digital services to also say, well, yeah, maybe we should have the community closet, which is an example from the Capital District Libraries here in Michigan in Lansing where they have provided a space, a nice little closet space, beautiful door. You can go in and there are personal items that somebody might need. There are snacks, et cetera. So promoting well-being at the same time as offering information services, I really believe it goes hand in hand. Naysayers might say, oh, no, that's not the role of the library. I'm sorry. The library is one of the last places we can go where we're not paying admission, we're not spending money for some reason to walk through the doors and take advantage of services. So if we can offer through partnerships in the community or whatever, support via basic human needs as well as referrals out into the community to other services through digital platforms or through just a welcoming safe place in the library, absolutely. I am all for it. Now I talked a lot there. I want to make sure I answered your question. You did. And I think that one of the things that comes through is that digital platforms and emerging technologies are not the point themselves so much as what they enable this sort of multifaceted, multi-embedded community library to begin doing in ways that it couldn't do before. And that that will only continue as the opportunities for the library to contribute to their communities continues to grow and grow, which evidently and obviously it is. Absolutely. And I talk a lot in my classes about the Dock 1 library in Whirlpool, Stenmark. And I quote the director of that library that she said, we built our library for people, not books. And that's exactly what we're seeing now across our field. Right. I think that's a wonderful way to put it. All right. So next question, how do you see opportunities in emerging technologies and digital services evolving and are growing over the course of an LIS career? As I know, a lot of students are looking at a career pathway and saying, okay, does this offer the opportunity for me to continue to grow in knowledge, grow in expertise, grow in contribution and impact? And so a question would be, in what directions might students' careers go as the field continues to adapt to new technologies and challenges? Oh, absolutely. Okay. You may, at first glance, look at these two pathways and say, oh, this is for getting started in the field or these are the, like, where I might start, but I will leave that behind if I move up into management or leadership positions. To me, that is not the case because this understanding, again, I don't want to repeat myself a bunch of times, but understanding how we use technology to meet the needs of our communities, that cuts across all the various levels that we will find ourselves in our careers from, okay, the incoming, brand new, newly minted out of the SJSU program librarian coming into interview at a great, big, cool library somewhere showing off their skills where they understand where technology fits, how it works and how it meets the needs of people, all the way to someone who is moving into leadership. And I stress this idea of being compassionate and using your heart. And I think that can begin from the get-go as you come into the field as a new librarian, all the way up to being a compassionate leader, because I really believe we need that. We, management is much different these days than it was when I was in library school way, way back in the 90s. We really, yeah, we really need that understanding of the human experience, compassion, empathy, all of those things. And the pandemic has taught us that we need folks that can take all of these things and pivot very quickly. One of the things I did a few months ago is I checked in with some library directors I know and I said, so what's been the coolest thing that has happened in your library in because of the pandemic? And they said things like we pivoted to curbside and that worked out really well. We moved programs outside and we started circulating Chromebooks for people to use right in front of the library where they could take them outside in the fresh air. So what we need is somebody that understands technology, what people might need, and then to be in the leadership position to do those things. And I know that we will eventually come out of this age of the pandemic, but I think we will learn a lot from it, but there will also be future instances where this type of decision may be super, super important. And of course those pivots that we did from taking programs from the library auditorium to Zoom, we need that kind of thinking at the top level and as a compassionate leader to say, yeah, to all the people working on it, like maybe the people that the leader is in charge of, go do it. I trust you. I support you. I understand what we're all going for. This is what I want you to do. So I think it follows you having this understanding and we will grow. You grow as you move through your career, an information professional will pull in every experience they have, every new service they create, every service they get rid of because maybe it's not working anymore. All of those things will inform the next decision and the next decision. That makes a really good sense because if you consider someone who's moving up into a leadership role, that's all about strategy. Strategy informed by an understanding of what technology enables you to do and enables your organization to do in making those pivots and in meeting those needs. You may not have the coding language called, but if you understand what the enabling outcome of that technology is, then you are a much more effective leader and very much to your point. Then you trust your people and say, okay, I know you can do that with it. Go do it. You're the expert here. So that's a great point, Dr. Stevens. Right. Okay. And that is so important. You said that because sometimes we say no to things as administrators because we don't understand them. So carry all that knowledge right along with you. You will need it when you are a manager. Sorry. Very, very good point. Okay. Next question. What would you most want students to understand about this field to determine whether it might be a great fit for them or at least one to explore further? Oh, excellent question. Okay. I have a few things to say about this. Great. Do not. And I'm so happy that this will be put out for our students to hear, especially those that may just be starting like in the core and they're finding their way and they're making decisions.  Guess what? You came to the right place. This is where you can learn to do all of those things. And I think it's more important that you want to try than saying, no, this isn't for me because I'm not tech savvy or I'm not a techie or all those things that we've heard people say and it's totally fine. But if you're not a techie, guess what? Now's the time because it will help you, just everything we said before this, it will help you serve your communities in a much better way. There's an old, old article from one of the early versions of Library Journal by Patricia Paylor called The Heart of the Matter. And she said, the best librarians are those who find in their jobs whatever they may be, the excitement and adventure that reward only the adventurous in spirit. So back in the 50s, that was doing super cool things with the card catalog or whatever to get books in people's hands. And now we should be adventurous with technology and with how that might serve people. The other thing I will say just very quickly is I am all about the soft skills and I would much rather have someone come in with a high degree of curiosity that, yeah, they need to figure out how these things work because that helps so much. And yes, you're going to make mistakes and yes, you'll learn from them and you'll go on. I think curiosity is important. I say soft skills are heart skills. We actually did a program about that in, it was 2020 already, oh my goodness. Creativity, confidence, empathy, of course, which I've mentioned, compassion and just understanding how people use information. So don't worry if you're not tech savvy, you're in the right place. There are instructors across our curriculum that will teach you how to do various things that will give you gentle nudges when you need them. That's what I do in my classes. You should be curious and you should approach each thing, each platform, each technology, each new little social media, whatever with a sense of curiosity and that idea of, yeah, I can take this on, that I can do this. Right. Two comments that I make to my own students are, it's okay to say I don't know how to do this, as long as your phrase is I don't know how to do this yet. And the other one is the strongest skill and gift you can have going through your career is passionate curiosity. So I totally, totally agree with everything you're saying there. So one last question. What else would you want potential students considering this career path to know? Is there anything we haven't covered, say on the pathway page or in our discussion so far that you'd like them to think about? Absolutely. Well, I will say again, I'll say a couple of things again. Everything is rapidly changing. So the mindset and the basic skills are probably more important, including those soft skills or hard skills are more important than the individual tools. Those things are going to change over time, but if you can learn how to learn a new whatever, then you can just keep doing that and doing that. I think that will serve our students very, very well. The other thing, and this is something I've been talking a lot about recently with a colleague out in the field, out in professional practice named Stacy Levin, is bringing the power of joy to what we do in libraries, information centers, just bringing joy to people's lives. And that can come in so many different forms like learning experiences, exploring new topics, the way stories play out in all of their different forms from the printed word to audio to video and beyond to virtual reality and augmented reality and all of those things. It really is. And here's how I'm repeating myself one last time. It really is about people and the heart, how we go forward. That sounds like a wonderful way to approach both this sort of program in the in the high school, as well as a career path going forward, a wonderful mix of of high touch, high tech and tech as an enabling but but person centered tool. So that's wonderful. Well, Dr. Stevens, thank you for giving us this time. We appreciate it so much and wonderful. Well, I hope you have a wonderful rest of the day and week and month. Oh, thank you. All right. Take care. You too. Thank you. Take care. Bye bye.