the speech that I'm really, really looking forward to. Man, just to share a story, there's a guy who a lot of you guys are fans of. Eric Von Siedau, Hypnotica. And he said, Steve, you're hosting the 21 convention. You have got to hang out with this guy. He is, and I know him. He's a legend. He's been around way back in the day when we all got those David D'Angelo CDs for $20 a month. And a true, true man, awesome guy. And here, let's welcome on to the stage the Brent Smith. Thank you. Man, great to meet you. That's a lot to live up to, actually. I hope I can do it. All right, take it away, man. OK, hello. How are you? Everyone good? OK, I'm super excited to be here today and have this discussion with you. My glasses on here. OK, so today, I'm going to start out by giving you my most important piece of advice. And what I think is the secret to attracting hotter women into your life and having incredibly healthy relationships. And when I was talking to Anthony, I said, what is the most highest leverage concept that you've ever heard from me? And he said, well, by all means, it's this one. Stop chasing women. That's it. And that's all I want to say to you today. So thank you very much. No, but I could. If you just took this one piece of advice and did nothing else, your life, when it comes to dating women, would be fantastic. Because you'd save a ton of money, a lot of your precious time, a lot of heartache. But I'm going to go in and tell you exactly what I'm talking about. OK, so when you hear me say something like this, stop chasing women.  Why would I want to do that? How does that work? Will women even chase guys? And if I want to get women, how do I? I don't understand. How do I stop chasing them if I'm chasing them? I understand. It can be very confusing. But the reason we're having this conversation is because dating in itself is broken. The whole dating, according procedure, and process that we go through is broken. It hardly works for anyone these days. Even though there are a myriad of experts out there who have books and programs and appear on TV shows and are telling us all how to do it the right way, what they think is the right way, still most relationships end in divorce, most relationships end badly. And it's because we're doing things the traditional way. And so what's happening is men have become very pushy and women have become very passive. OK, so we do it a certain way that we've been taught. So there's the traditional way, which is man chases women and all the things that go into that. As men, we sit around in an obsess about, oh, I've got to meet women because it'll make me cool. How do I do it? Where do I go to do it? What do I say? How do I ask a woman out? How do I get a phone number? How do I get sex? How do I get a girlfriend? It's all about getting, getting, getting. And what most people teach is just a way to do this. I was trying to draw it kind of like a horse. So we know that this doesn't work really, the traditional way. We all have had experience. I've had tons of experience in the old way of doing things. And it just doesn't end in the results that we all want. But we keep beating this dead horse. And people keep teaching us things that don't necessarily work. But we keep following because we have no other way of doing stuff. No one else tells us anything different. So just a little background about me. I used to go on a lot of traditional dates and chase a lot of women. And I start out like every other guy, basically, which is with no skill set, very socially anxious, not known what to say. And I only knew the traditional way. So I didn't even know there was any other way to think about it. So I would go out, try to talk to women, try to get numbers, try to get dates, all the normal stuff. And what happened was I ended up committing a ton of time to it, and I became a master pursuer of women. So I was really good at it. I was a master number collector. That's all I did. But I got to a point where, even if I did a massive amount of it, there was very little return. So even if you're really good, you can ask the guys who are really, really good. Even if you have a high quantity of women you talk to and interactions you have and numbers you get, you're only going to convert a certain amount of them into actual dates, even the best guys. And I'm sort of lazy. So one day I was thinking, I'm pretty good at this, and it's happening for me, and I'm converting these things in date. But it's so exhausting. I'm out every night trying to collect numbers, and then, of course, trying to figure out how to leave them a message, what to say, how to respond, how to get them to do this, that, and the other thing. So I decided, I had a crazy idea, that maybe I would just do the opposite of what I had been taught.  And I'd go out, talk to people. And instead, when I talked to women of trying to get their phone number and trying to talk them into stuff, I would instead give them my number, have them chase me, ask me out, a pretty crazy way of doing things, except that it started working. OK, so I want to discuss with you why the traditional way of chasing women is not a good thing to be doing, just so for you why guys out there. So doing everything the traditional way sets you up as the provider. When I say provider, women will say, oh, I want someone to provide for me, and so on. And that's not what I'm talking about in that traditional context, because that's true. I do believe that you should provide for your family, and so on. But the way that most guys use provider is in that we give women things in order to get them to like us. We do things for them just in order for them to like us, because we think that's the way we have to do it. And I'll tell you something that I forget out along the way is there's absolutely nothing sexy about the provider, the provider I'm talking about. Absolutely nothing sexy about it. We've all seen this scenario of the rich guy who has a ton of money, he's got a nice car, he meets some girl, he asks her out, he takes her to an expensive restaurant, and then at the end of the night, he spends all his money on it, at the end of the night gets a kiss on the cheek, and he drops her off. OK, maybe some of you have done that. I've done it for sure. And then there's the guy, the other guy. He doesn't spend any money on a girl. He's not a great dresser. He doesn't seem to have many skills, but she's addicted to him and can't get enough of him. And this guy doesn't do anything that the other guy does. He's a complete opposite, so he's not the provider. He's more of the friend with benefits type guy. He's more carefree. He's not trying to push her into doing anything. And she's addicted to this guy, always trying to find out where he's at. What is he doing? She's texting him, trying to meet him. Where is he at this certain club or this bar? Going over and hunting him down. And sometimes this girl goes from the date with the rich guy and texts the friend with benefits guy on the way home, goes over to his house. So which guy do you want to be? It sounds simple to me.  And you guys know what I'm talking about. The traditional way that we're taught, especially when we're interacting with women, is we're out there and we're talking to them. We're kind of hovering over them and pressuring them. And I go, I've got to talk this girl into, I've got to get her number. And I've got to talk her into going out with me. And everything is about pressure. And everything is never letting up. And for those of you who say, well, will women really do that? Well, you probably wouldn't know because you spend most of your time trying to talk women into something they already want to do, but you're trying to talk them into it. So in other words, women don't meet this cool guy very often. They meet the guy who's over pursuing. He's relentless. I'm talking about in the creepy way, right? You know what I'm saying, right? We've all been there and done that. It's the guy who's desperate and needy and he wants something. He's trying to make something happen. And that girl's not going to be excited about being assertive. And what I find is that most women I talk to would love to be assertive. If number one, they knew that we could handle it when they are assertive. And I don't mean aggressive. I mean assertive in a very healthy, fun way. And they don't meet that guy. They rarely meet that guy. They always meet the guy who's doing the same thing as every other guy is doing. And when you're doing the same thing that every other guy is doing, that's competition. Guys tell me all the time, oh, how do I eliminate my competition? No, I'm in a bar. What about all these other guys and all that kind of stuff? And I said, well, if you're doing everything that they're doing, then yeah, they're your competition. But if you're this other next level guy that I'm talking about, they're not your competition anymore. And so that's something to think about. OK, so nothing sexy about the provider. Now, if you want to be the next level kind of provider, then the next level provider is a guy who provides women with an opportunity to be interested in him. So that's a provider I can stand behind. That's a provider that is sexy. A guy who provides, instead of talking at a girl about himself and all the great things and cool things about him and trying to get her interested, is providing an opportunity for the woman to talk about herself, asking questions, providing her an opportunity to be interested. That's really like the number one thing there. We talk at them, and we don't give them a chance to respond in the way that they would like to.  As you guys can imagine, we already talked about the situation. And it doesn't have to be on that grand scale.  Even small dates and expensive dates, if you start adding them up. And just because you're trying to impress them, it can get quite expensive and waste a lot of money doing that. It also takes up a lot of your time. Imagine all the time that you spend trying to figure out how to pursue women. It doesn't matter how much money you've got either. It's like guys at every level that I deal with. They all have the same issue. They're obsessed, obsessed with women. I've got to get more women. I've got to get hotter women. I've got to get this. You don't understand. This makes me a man. This completes everything. I've got everything but that. I've heard it all. And so we're obsessed with that whole chasing scenario. And we spend a lot of time to that. I mean, shoot, when you think about money, I'll just go back to that for a minute.  Again, competing with other guys. When if you just had this one mindset change of backing off a little bit and being the attractive guy rather than the pursuer, those guys aren't your competition anymore. You're in the league of your own. There is no competition unless you run into another guy like that. But then if you did, you'd probably team up with that guy because you're not about competing anymore. You're about collaborating. So it's not that other guys are bad and there's only a certain amount of women and it's a scarce resource, right? How we're all taught, oh, it's a scarce resource. You know, there aren't that. There are millions of women in the world. There's millions, millions of beautiful young women if that's what you want. Lots of them all the time. They're everywhere. OK, traditional chasing of women will cause you to overcommunicate. This is one of my favorite subjects to talk about too. Overcommunication. Oh my god. I mean, when we are chasing women, we just feel like we need to talk about things endlessly. Because especially if we haven't been together with them yet, we're trying to talk them in. I've got to keep her interested. Even if we have hung out with them, we want to keep them interested when I tell them all kinds of stuff. I have a saying and it is, the more you tell them, the more you repel them, OK? Now mind you, I've learned all this by doing it the wrong way, just in case you think that somehow I just made some of it up. I mean, I've taught thousands of people, both men and women. I've had thousands of interactions with people, done a lot of social experiments, and then done it wrong millions of times. And I can tell you that if you don't create a sense of urgency because you tell them everything, why would they get together with you? What's the point of that? They already know everything. If you're going to tell them something else, it should be when both of you are together, OK? And I'm telling you, I see these guys come up to me and they show me all these super long text message threads or instant message.  And I say, hey, so you guys got together? No, but I think I'm going to talk about it soon. We're probably going to maybe get together. I'm like, really, this is your problem. This is over-chasing women. This is the old way, and this is exactly why you're not getting together with her. I'm looking at all the stuff you're telling her, and it's the same thing every other guy is saying, right? It's how it's going. You're trying to tease her, right? You're doing all the stuff that they teach you to do in all the books. And you're arriving at the same place, which is generally bad results, right? So like I said, even if you do that a lot, and imagine if you're doing that with one girl, right? Most guys aren't doing that. They're doing it with two or three girls. Maybe if guys are good, he's doing it with more. But you can imagine, your whole life is on your phone, going back and forth with women you haven't even met up with, and you probably will never meet up with. So it's a horrible amount of time that's wasted for doing that. All right, so next thing I want to talk about is, so if that's true, then why, if what I said it was true, then why do guys still do it, why do we all do it the same way pretty much? So what's that all about? Well, the biggest reason that you do that is because you really don't have any inspiration to do it any other way. You don't see anyone else doing it a different way. Maybe hear about the random guy now and then who says, oh yeah, I just walk into a room and chicks come over to me, right? Which I've said before actually, but it's more complicated than that. It's not like that easy. So you're socially programmed to think this is how it works, right, from childhood. Everything we see in here is all about, is to support the traditional courting procedure, traditional dating. And I'll tell you that when I talk to couples and I ask them why their relationship didn't work out, I can always trace it back to a couple of things and one of them is always, oh yeah, he called me and he kept calling me and I said no and then I finally said yes. Which will lead me to something else I'm gonna talk about in a couple minutes. So you've got everything around you is leading to that. The media of course is a huge culprit. You can take your pick from magazines, TV shows, to commercials, everything's supporting the current way of doing things. Why do they do that? Because it's easier to sell you stuff when you say this is what I want, okay here we'll give it to you rather than no, let me show you something that you don't know you want and I'm gonna change your mind and then I'm gonna sell you something. So that's another reason that they would keep going down that road.  Well, or why are they telling me that? Because they have something in it for them, okay? So that's why it's like that all the time. They're trying to support all the stuff, right? You gotta get engaged, not get engaged to the right, I was gonna say there's a, I love this engagement ring store. Their message is get engaged. That's it, just get engaged because that's all they care about. They just want you engaged. They don't care if it's to the right person for the wrong reason. In fact, if it's to the wrong person, it's actually better for them because then you come back and get engaged again. Buy another ring, see? So I'm just kind of giving you an idea. I'm not mad about it and I don't want you to be upset about it. I just, if you're a why person and you're wondering why it continues, this is why. So it's nice to have a little bit of a, to know what's going on. So everyone's doing it. Everyone talks about it the same way. All your friends are doing it. And you got peer pressure too. Sometimes when I teach this stuff, my clients will say, man, I'm the only one in my group doing it this way.  And I'm finding a lot of, like that's why you would go back and do it the old way, right? So there's a lot of peer pressure. That's why guys go back. There's one person in the group that says, I'm gonna try a different way. I'm gonna try and experiment. And everyone else says, no, no, no. I don't wanna do it that way. Let's do it this other way. Goes back to scarcity too. So even if you knew there was another way to do it and someone showed that to you, because you're competing with other guys and you're afraid of loss, right? Oh, I don't wanna lose that girl over there to that other guy who's really, you know, on her. That's another thing. That's another reason that you wouldn't do it. Okay, and here's one that's also very important. Overcoming complicated situations. This is one of the biggest roadblocks for guys. Okay, so we've been taught, especially as men, that anything worth doing and accomplishing has to be something that's very difficult. So you wanna overcome unbelievable circumstances. Because number one, you'll feel really good about yourself, and number two, something you probably don't think about is the story you get to tell other guys is awesome, right? And since you wanna be popular and fit in, and maybe you didn't in high school and so you still crave that, you wanna tell this fricking story about how you overcame this stuff. So I will get messages from guys or questions from them saying, okay, Brent, listen. I could teach them a lot of ways to do this, very simply, and be attractive and attract great women into their life and have great relationships. What they wanna know is they wanna know how to do only the most difficult things, okay? So it's Brent, there's this girl, and she is on her laptop, and she's got headphones on, and she's blind. Okay, not only that, but she's sitting in the middle of a ring of fire. And outside of that ring, there's guys standing there with machine guns. How do I talk to that girl? I mean, seriously, you wanna know how to talk to that girl? Only that girl, I just wanna, because I may come across that situation sometime. So we crave complicated situations, okay? It's the old, the hero's journey, if you know what that is. It's the basis for every love story ever written, movies, television shows, and so on. Again, the guy, there's this guy, and he's going up against these insurmountable odds, and he has to escape all these death-defying things and to reign in the end to overcome everything in the end and then get the spoils of it, right? That's how we're taught. So that's the story we wanna tell. That's what we wanna tell. We wanna say, well, there was this girl. You don't understand, she didn't like me at all. She told me I was horrible, and told me to get away from her. So then what I did was I came up with this great line, and I walked over, and then I placed my hand over here, like the Vulcan mind thing, and then I talked her into it, and then we were an item. That's what you wanna tell. You wanna tell your guy, oh man, it was incredible. I mean, it should have never worked. There's no way. I mean, it was impossible. No other guy could do it on the planet, but I did it. I mean, we used to have competitions between me and my friends to see if you could overcome the biggest challenge, right?  The story you should wanna tell is the simple story, right? Hey, I walk, you know, everywhere I show up in life, I just show up, and people love to see me, and everyone I talk to, every girl I talk to is excited about talking to me. Sometimes I approach them. Sometimes they approach me. It always ends the same way. We end up getting together for attracted to each other, and voila, you know, but we don't wanna tell that story. That's the story you should wanna tell though, and that's how this has to change. If you really want an easy lifestyle, a lazy lifestyle, and I definitely do, that's it. Okay, so if what I've said is true up until now, then why don't women chase you? Why aren't they chasing you right now? Why aren't they knocking down the door here to get in to see you guys? Well, it's based on what I said earlier, is they don't meet that guy, okay? They don't, first of all, they don't think it's possible, right? Like I said, they don't think that if they came up to you and were assertive that you'd know what to do, you'd probably screw it up some way by trying to oversell her when she's already interested. Right, we've all done that, right?  No, I just wanna leave you right now. I wanna get together with you. No, no, you're going too fast. I have a process, steps I need to go through. That's how we are. And so they don't think it's possible, and they just don't meet any guys who are like that. They don't even meet any cool guys. They meet the same guy over and over and over again. Your competition, that's who they meet. And so, okay, so when they do meet a guy, let's say they do meet this right guy. So you guys are now self-developed. You understand this whole concept and you've gotten into it and you're doing it. Is it possible that women will just switch over immediately? Yeah, it is, because even though they're programmed just the opposite of the way we are, the passive way. So women are, of course, unfortunately programmed to be passive. So we become too pushy, they're too passive. So they kind of wait around, right? They've been taught to wait around and the right guy will approach you, or he won't, right? Now some girls are assertive and I applaud them if they are, but very few.  Oh, well, it's always the same kind of guy. So I must be a magnet for jerks, you know, or something like that, right? Because they're waiting around, they're passive.  They have a state change and then it compels them to be inspired to sometimes take the reins and be assertive towards what they want. The kind of guys they wanna hang out with. Okay, so what should you do instead? Or how should you do it when you're, if you're not chasing women? Okay, so a couple of very important things here you're gonna wanna listen to and take some notes. So there's some things you're gonna stop doing and some things you're gonna start doing if you want this to really work for you.  So that's what you're still gonna do. But you're not gonna be hovering over in them and hitting on them and trying to extract information from them in the way that you're used to doing it. So number one is you're going to stop asking them for their contact information and you're gonna give them yours.  Which is probably the biggest difference between how I do things in most everybody else.  I would get on that phone and just start calling and calling and calling until I could get it to happen. I thought, oh, this is exhausting and I'm just, I'm lazy and I'm bored and I don't wanna do it anymore. So I remember when I just started doing it I was like, yeah, it's been great talking to you. You know, just give me a call and we'll talk about getting together or something. And I gave it out a few times and it didn't work and then all of a sudden this girl calls me and she's like, hey, you wanna get together? I'm like, whoa, it worked, really? Even if the odds were the same, even if I had to give out as many numbers as I got numbers, I'd still rather do it the lazy way. That's how I was thinking. I mean, even if the odds were the same. But what I found out over time and over experimenting is the odds are not the same. The odds were well in my favor when I started learning how to offer it up in the right way, where I wasn't drawing attention to it and I wasn't forcing my number on girls which would be just like forcing a girl or keep continuing to ask her for hers. Right, it's like, it's creepy pursuing as far as I'm concerned. And I've been through it, I did it. So it has a much higher rate of return. And if you're all about return, which everyone tells me they are, oh, I'm all about return, man. I gotta get the most return on my investment, Brent. You know, I wanna have girls calling me and texting me and hunting me down. Well, this is the way to do it. So your favorite new line, or if we're giving that way of giving your number is really just under the radar. It's just, shoot me a text about it. Shoot me a text about that thing. So, which is what I say all the time. I'm always like, shoot me a text about it. I'll find me on Facebook. I'm very nonchalant about it. So I don't force it.  You don't wanna say, hey, don't you want my number? You can ask questions that lead to it. Okay, this is the way to do it. So I'm always asking questions of people like, so what's going on over here? What's on the agenda? What are you guys up to?  I'm always asking questions about escape and about fun things. And then whether someone asks me that about myself, I just offer up the information. Okay, so I say, well, oh, that's cool. Actually, what I think I'm gonna do, right?  You're welcome to join if you'd like. Just shoot me a text. Just shoot me a text, right? Same thing, if I'm moving on to the next place, it's like, hey, we're going to this other bar, we're going to this other club, this party. It sounds like it might be cool. Oh, that sounds great.  I'm doing this thing on Sunday. It's really exciting, it's really cool. Oh, that sounds good. Well, you're welcome to join. Just shoot me a text about it. You see how it's the same theme, okay?  So giving out your phone number is one of the things that you should try. And look, I'm just asking you to consider it in what you already do. Try it, see if it works for you, it worked for me. Don't force it, don't get the girl's phone out and or grab her phone and put your phone number in. That's as bad as making her, you're begging her for hers. We talked about, you wanna talk about escape and fun things, and if you end up, okay, so two more things about that. You wanna always end the conversation first. That's another big one, guys. Okay, so most of the time what we do is we wait around to women to dismiss us. I used to do it. I'd keep talking and talking and talking and talking until she either rolled her eyes, turned away from me, oh I gotta go to the bathroom and talk to my friend, you know, just blew me off completely. I didn't understand the power of not fearing loss, right, or being carefree and not being attached to this one girl, okay, so end the conversation first.  So it's applicable in business, other relationships. So as soon as, you know, the other person realizes that you're gonna dismiss yourself, that's powerful. So dismiss yourself and move on. Talk to someone else. Open up more opportunities for yourself. And if in fact you get in a communication string with any of these women that you end up talking to, over communicating in between getting together is a no-no, remember, right? One of the greatest things I have to tell you is when a woman is interested in you and they take action on it, I mean that's like, for guys, you know, you'll say that's the holy grail even though you may not get there or be open to the way I'm telling you how to get there. Really, I'd rather have someone in whatever kind of relationship it is, whether it's casual or other, who wants to be there, who's interested in hanging out with me. Not someone who I feel like I forced or tricked or manipulated into wanting to hang out with me or get together with me or hook up with me or whatever. Right, I know that's what we're taught and that's what we've all done that. But the next level is actually being excited about having someone who's interested in being there. And this is what this allows women to do. It allows them to be interested in being there. So in other words, if you text someone and the girl doesn't text you back, don't text her three more times saying, did you get my message? Just wanna make sure you got my message. None of that, guys. I've been guilty of that as well. Okay, and the other thing you need to do is you have to, so there's obviously a lot of intergame that goes along with this. You have to change your mind about a lot of things. So you have to create your own personal mantra that this is the only type of woman I meet who is attracted to me. So every time I go out, I run into women who are exactly my type and so what they do is this. I offer my number, they take it, they ask me out, we go out and that's how we roll. So you have to actually convince yourself that has to be your new mantra. Be on a shadow of a doubt that this is your new life.  You're just doing the opposite.  Just change the information you're telling yourself. Most of the stuff you're telling yourself is negative, how you're not good enough and how it won't happen for you and why it's not possible about everything in your life. If you just change that whole conversation, and right now we're talking about the context of women, if you change that conversation, it'll be super powerful. Okay, a couple last things I wanna leave you with here. How are we doing on time? Okay.  That's it, to make room for it, you can't be attached, you can't try to hold on to old relationships and stuff. If you want this new way, you have to be willing to clear the deck of everything you're doing. Now, that won't necessarily happen. I'm just telling you how to be willing to do that. So here's what I suggest. If you're in a current conversation somehow with a woman in whatever way you're doing and you're doing the traditional role, where you're chasing her, you're checking in with her, trying to make her interested, let's go out on a date. She's saying, no, I can't until next week. Okay, I'll check back with you. I want you to go dark. I want you to radio silence. No more communicating at all. Stop yourself, okay? Just stop. That's number one thing. Do not contact them again, okay? Until she contacts you. Once she contacts you, that's just the beginning of a whole new thing, possibly. Now, I'm not guaranteeing that this will work. These next two things I'm gonna tell you because you've already set yourself up as a person who chases, right? So there's a precedent and people don't like you to change the way things are done after the fact. They wanna know who you are to begin with, not later. But this works sometimes, okay?  But here's the other thing. Is that everything is about getting together.  No more. That's out the window, okay? And having said that, and that leads me to the last thing here, and that's, and it's related. If you currently have a date, a traditional date with a girl that you have done everything the traditional way with, and you're gonna meet out, I don't know, three or four days from now or whatever, and you're gonna go out and have drinks or dinner or whatever, I want you to send them the following text. Or however you're communicating. Change of plan. Drinks, 8 p.m., my place, or their place, whatever. And then if you would just put your address in there or ask for their address, and that's it. You're gonna change the whole way things are done now, and so could women respond to that badly? Of course they could, but like I said, you gotta be willing to do that.  Then you know, yes or no. Don't continue trying to talk them into it. Don't have a 42,000 step system for doing it. Just move on to the next thing. Okay guys, that's all I've got for that. Hope you enjoyed it. Questions. Awesome, great stuff. Who has got questions for Brent Smith? All right, here we have, what if a woman forgets who you are between the approach and the date? Really? Then you haven't done a very good job of making yourself, making an imprint on her. If she forgets it, well give me, how would I know she forgot? Because you're gonna text her and say, hey it's so-and-so from the other night and she'll go who's this, is that what you're saying? Or what are you saying? Exactly. Because you're not texting her, you're waiting for her to text you, right? Yeah. She meets you and then you have a conversation and then she, and then another guy, she meets another guy. Exactly, and that's what I'm counting on. I'm counting on you not being able to wait and go after her. Because then you're the pursuer and you're not my competition anymore. You see, you have to be willing to just let it all go and give it all up. And you have to work on being this great guy when you're in her presence, who's carefree and funny and attractive and like I said, who gets it and then you won't have to worry about that. So you have to be willing to walk away, right? So I know there's that inclination, right? I had that temptation too. When I was first coming up with this idea, I thought, will I really be able to do it? Number one, I was really attached to all the girls that I was hanging out with at that moment because I had done a lot of work to get them, right? I'd gone out every night, got phone numbers, crafted great messages, talked to these girls, me didn't belated them a little bit, whatever. We get together and I'm like, man, if I switch it up on them, they're gonna all bail on me, right? But then I had to think, okay, well, if I'm willing to go this new direction, I have to be willing to let it all go. And it was very tough for me, I have to say, but it was one of the most important things I did. So my answer is, let it go and work on being a better guy and less about the one that got away. Make sense? I know it's tough, but you have to kind of, get to that point where you just don't care anymore. What happens if you really connect with someone and they lose your number or they lose their phone or something happens and they lose it? You just lost a connection because... Well, listen, if you come to me and you say, Brent, I know there was a connection and you tell me about the whole interaction and I know that what you're saying is true, then yeah, I'm gonna say, yeah, that's a different story maybe. So yeah, if you don't hear from her, maybe something happened, yeah, you could check in with her. Yeah, so it's not in stone if you, I'm just saying in most scenarios, in most cases from what I hear from guys is not that. Unless a guy says, oh, I know we had a connection and then they tell me about it and go, dude, that wasn't a connection. That was something else. You think there was a connection, but there wasn't. But if you really are that kind of guy who really connects with people on a deep level, so I could say that and I could also say this. I could say that you can have what you're willing to give up. So if you're willing to not worry about that one who you had a connection with that maybe she lost her phone. When you are kind of unavailable to giving in to worrying about those situations, then you will truly be on the next level. I could say that too. So my point is that if you could be willing to let that go and not worry about whether she actually lost your number or her phone or gotten a car crash or whatever, I don't wish that to happen. I'm just saying that when you have to just move forward, you have to always be moving forward and don't worry about those little things. As tough as it might be. Brent, thank you for the talk. This really resonates with me. I have two questions. The first one's really easy and then the next one's a little more complicated. What media do you give your number out? So if you're gonna leave the conversation and say, hey, yeah, here's my number, whatever, are you telling her? Are you giving her your card? In what capacity, how are you doing it? Yeah, number. So then it's an exchange. Well, to speak to what he has, the cards are easy to lose. They're easy to misplace. Not if she's attracted to you.  It can be an easy way out, an easy excuse. So then it is an exchange of numbers. Yeah, it's an exchange of numbers.  But I'm just saying that in most cases, what I do is I will just offer my number. The next thing was, you said not to overcommunicate. In your first encounter, if you wanna exchange numbers and say, hey, I'm doing this thing or Sunday or whatever it is, I'm going to this bar, how do you know between overcommunicating and mystery and saying, hey, I'm involved in this or I'm doing this? What's the balance there? Okay, well, when I'm talking to her, I'm watching her body language and seeing how she's reacting and everything I'm saying. I'm also looking for a little indicator of interest, of course, that's always best, right? If I talk about it and she says, oh, that sounds cool, that sounds fun, I love wine or I love this. I go, oh, well, it's like as an afterthought, as opposed to what I used to do, it's, oh, well, you're welcome to join me if you'd like. Just shoot me a text and we'll work it out or whatever. So I'm still not overly excited, but I'm inviting. That's the other thing. I'm never pushy, but I'm very nice and I'm very inviting and I'm like, oh, yeah, you wanna join me? Sure, absolutely, yeah. Shoot me a text and we'll try and work it out. I don't, also, I don't commit to it 100% because I don't wanna make her feel like she has to either, even though I know that that could be considered bad if you're worried about women flaking, but if you do this the right way, you'll have very few women flaking on you. Does that answer your question? Yeah. Okay. At the end, you said to just send a very blunt text recommending to come over for drinks or to go over to her house for drinks. My question is, I personally, if I got that text, I would be like a little like, oh my gosh, maybe scared. So like if she gets like scared or something like that, like is there a way that you would suggest like phrasing it or maybe like only say it to like a specific type of girl? I totally understand where you're going with that. Okay, so yeah, I mean, I'm assuming that if you're, and I'm, you know, again, this is all about experimenting and some of this will be, if you have a certain context with a person that you've already set, there will be some pre-context, right? So it's not gonna work in every situation. Someone is gonna say maybe, oh, I don't feel comfortable with that, right? Like I'm not meeting, let's meet out again, right? And I understand that. So in that case, I would be saying, you know, I don't know what you're doing, but I'm thinking about just staying in and maybe having a glass of wine or watching a movie or something. You know, let me know if that interests you, right?  But so what I'm assuming is that when I usually, when I teach this in a much, you know, deeper way where people, you know, the whole course about it is that you're building trust when you first meet someone. So there's, of course, no one's gonna get together with someone alone if they don't trust them, right? If you don't feel trust where you're not gonna meet up with a stranger at their house or you're out of them into your house. So I understand where you're coming from. So I'm assuming that there's trust built, but there is another way to go about it and hope that was helpful. Okay, cool. All right, most guys complicate things for the story. How do you decomplicate things and lose the story framework? You create a new story about how everything is simple, fun, and easy. That's what you do, okay? My life is simple, fun, and easy, meeting women and attracting them is simple, fun, and easy because I just show up and they feel a sense of trust and support for me and they feel like they can be themselves around me and be assertive and we have a great time and they feel my great vibe and stuff like that. So that's how you would do that. Tell yourself that it's simple, fun, and easy rather than, oh, it's complicated and I'm gonna overcome it, cool? All right, let's give it up for Brent Smith. Okay, thanks.


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Okay, continuing our tutorials with HTML5 Canvas. I'm really enjoying this. I always want to mention at the beginning of my videos, first off this is a series. There should be an annotation on the screen to the playlist before you be sure you start at the beginning of the playlist or you might be a little lost because I'm going to assume that you've watched them. The other thing I want to mention is that I am learning HTML Canvas as I'm making these videos. I'm learning something and then I'm teaching a video on it. Hopefully I'm teaching everything properly. I believe I am. I believe I've done a pretty decent job so far. I think I'm grasping the concept. What's helped me grasp the concept is a website and I want to mention they did not pay me. I have no association with this website. It's just I found this to be a very good website plus my tutorials that I'm doing are very similar to theirs since I learned from their videos, not their videos but from their tutorials. It's html5canvasutorials.com and you can add the code right on the page making it very easy, simple to learn. I have tried other pages and I feel that I did not learn as well. I was a little more confused but they make it very simple to understand. Anyway, today we're going to be looking at paths. Paths are pretty much what we've drawn so far. Paths, arcs and curves both quadratic and bezier. You can connect different paths into one path to make more complex shapes and so let's go ahead and jump right in and we'll have a look at this. So I'm going to say context dot, if I could type today, begin path and then we're going to so begin the path which is what we've always done because all those elements have been paths. We're going to move to a certain position and that position I'll say 100 by 50 just making up a point on there. So we're going over 100 and down 50 pixels on the canvas. Now we're going to say context dot line 2 and we're going to draw a line from that position to another position I'll say 200 and I'll say 100. Now we also need to let's give the line a width. So context line width this will be the thickness of the line we'll say 15. Next we'll draw it we'll say context dot stroke and if you come up here into my browser chrome I'm going to refresh and you can see the line we just drew. Now I can take that line and copy and paste it just to save some time. I'm going to say we're going to go down 300 but I'm going to leave that other one as a 100. I'm going to refresh it so we went down and we didn't go down anymore we went over another 100 pixels so we can do that again and as long as these line 2's that we're drawing are before the stroke they're all going to be considered one path because they're within the begin path there if you did after you would see it because it wouldn't get stroked that did not sound good we're going to say 150 and we'll set this to 120 save that and you can see we went back that way let's actually go 350 go that way. Now as I said arcs and curves are also considered paths so we can put those in here as well so we did was we moved to this position and then we drew a line from this position and then from this position we drew a line to this position and then from this position we drew a line to this position so now we're going to draw an arc I'm sorry a curve and we'll start the curve at this position since that's the last position that our I'll say our paintbrush was at and what we can say is context dot we'll go with a Bezier curve no let's do a quadratic quad quad no are there drastic if I type everything right this should work curve to and we got to give it four numbers for two different positions because we already have the beginning of the curve listed here so we need the center control point and the end point so I am going to say I'm thinking trying to think I guess I'll just whatever yeah I'll say 150 comma 10 comma and then we'll say 100 comma save that okay boom there we go we drew an arc like that so we went here to here to here to there and then arced back to there we can also go let's put that at 100 see what that does I think I was going to give us more of a straighter line yeah so it's not as arced I wonder I haven't tried this so this may not work because normally when I try stuff in videos I haven't tried yet it don't work can I put a negative number in there and have the arc no it just goes up that way interesting I'm sure someone will comment on that um so once again we drew a line from here to here to here to here and then arced this way and of course we can give these this path a different color so we can say stroke style equals we'll say red and I did the same thing I did in another tutorial forgot the r in stroke it's nice when you make the same mistakes over and over again because they're easy to figure out now I'm going to try something else I actually haven't tried I just thought of so we have our begin path here and of course we can begin a different path after we stroke after we draw the line with stroke um yeah saying stroke this just was going to sound wrong um I think and I have not tried this I want to try something here I want to draw another line let's let's move this line put it down here after the stroke and I'm going to say here uh context dot stroke style once again I am learning myself so I could be way off on this but I just had a thought that if I continue the path and stroke it stroke it again I wish they didn't use that word even though it makes sense um if I call the stroke method again uh without creating a new path if nope nope it rewrote over the whole thing I thought maybe you could make a different portion of the same path a different color and there might be a way I thought that would work it didn't um so anyway as you can see all the different uh the paths that we've been creating can all be connected in different ways uh so I'm just going to leave that like this hope I remove the the width and that does why would that be let's move this oops let's move this back up here and once again context dot line width equals 15 save that boom okay a little sloppy of a shape but you get the idea I hope and uh I hope that you enjoyed the tutorial uh once again I'll be posting all these scripts on my pastebin account over at pastebin.com my username is is medilex1000 but I should have a link on my website my website is filmsbychris.com that's chris with the K there should be a link to that in the description I hope you're enjoying the tutorials once again I hope you're looking forward to where we're going with this and uh if you are please uh give thumbs up and comment below let me know that you're liking them because I'm I'm already working on more so I hope you do because there's more coming either way uh and as always I hope that you have a great day


Right. Okay. I was feeling a little unmotivated all last week, so I didn't really do anything. I went on Twitter and I was like, guys, I don't have any video ideas. I'm just feeling super unmotivated and I asked all of you, what should I do? There was a lot of suggestions and a lot of them were for another one of these randomly generated Nintendo Switch videos because y'all like seeing me empty my wallet out apparently. So this was not meant to be a segue.  There's a bunch of new designs over on the merch store. Also, check out the sponsor at this video, but we'll get to that in a second. You guys know how this works. There's a website called NSG reviews. After my first one of these videos, they actually added the feature of I'm feeling lucky. So I can press this button. A random game will pop up and I'll go buy it on the eShop assuming I don't have it already. Let's roll the dice on a few. Let's see what we get. First one is draw kitten squad. Why does this say it's zero dollars? Is it free? It can never be a bad game when it starts by searching the word kitten. Oh, I already have it. When did I buy this? Well, I've never played it, but I do have it. I don't know what the rules are there, but I'm going to go ahead and re-download it. Why is it taking so long? It's too much of an anticipation. Is it broken? Moonlighter. What a fantastic game that I already have and I've already reviewed. I love that game. Timberman, but it's 19 cents. I'm not realizing I could feel to this peach ball. Why do I feel like this video is about to get demonetized? Hey, Dems the Rose, and I definitely don't have it.  Oh, no, I hate shoot-em-ups. Okay. Oh, no, it's a text. Boring. I don't want that. Okay, that one could actually be good. I'm okay with that. That looked like a little hack and slash beat-em-up.  I'm so disappointed by this. Whatever. We're going to roll with this. 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I uploaded a video on my second channel in the time it took me to... what's that video, by the way? Made a box fort for my cats. You didn't know I had a second channel. It's okay, I forget sometimes as well. We'll start with Timberman vs. It actually has really good music already and visually I'm not unimpressed. Oh, look at all the characters. I don't know why I'm so impressed already by the music and this art style, but I am. We have a Timberman, a princess, someone with a banana. Okay, chop as fast as you can and avoid branches. The tree is my enemy? Why is the... what did I do wrong? I don't get it. Oh, I get it. I get it. You press left or right. Right, left, left, right, right, left, left, left, right. I feel like I'm putting in the Konami code. I am getting to 100.  I'm getting 100. Around that. This takes so much concentration. Oh, 100, baby. Come on. 100, 100, 100. Walking for that 100. I am way too into this. I kind of want to try and hit 200. I kind of like this one actually. Yeah. This game was really cheap.  Tweet it at me. I'd love to see your score. All right, it's done. Castle of Heart. I can't skip the cut scene. So I guess we have to watch it. I really want to skip it. Yeah. Okay. There's no voice acting. So I'll just have to do my own. It seems that we are only okay. Apparently it skipped them on their own too. Okay. So it's obviously a side scroller. Oh, I can do wheel. Okay. My first enemy. I'm on fire. It's not bad. I'm actually kind of having fun on this one too.  Look, now I can speed run it. I feel like I'm getting that was comedic timing that didn't even need editing. Okay.  Oh, yeah. Give me whatever that is. Oh, big spear. Oh, I can throw the spear. I know I have other games to play, but I'm honestly liking this one. There is still a long way to reach the outskirts of the town. I need to get past the city walls. Cool. I really don't hate it. I'd say that's worth it. It's honestly not bad. You saw it. Let's just go to the next one. Okay. This video has taken an hour so far. I don't want to give my editor like three hours of footage. So we're going to have to blast through some games here pretty quick. Speaking of blast. Full blast. Slow down and prepare for combat, Private. Oh, I do actually kind of like the cartoony visuals. Very smooth gameplay. The enemy ships have some sea life. Okay. They're all kind of animals. All right.  I can see it now. Oh, yeah. Now we got a big gun. We got a big gun, Private. All right. You know what? It's pretty smooth. I'm not not having fun. These kind of games just aren't really for me. You know what I do like about this one? There's a brick and health bar, and it's not a one hit kill situation. That frustrates me so much in these games, because I am not very good at not getting hit. That being said, those were some smooth moves right there. All right. We get it. Didn't I pay 19 cents for that? Heck, if you're bored, why not? All right. I guess we'll play kitten squad while we wait for Fanta Rock to download. Oh, look at all the quests. Rescue Olivia the Orca. This is Olivia. She spent the first few years of her life exploring the ocean with her family. Then one day, life as she knew it suddenly came to an end. This is so sad. Oh my gosh. What are those? What are these? What is this Alice in Wonderland enemy design? I thought we were playing as cats and deers and birds and pugs.  Visually, it's not very pleasing, but I'll say that the gameplay is perfectly fine for a twin stick shooter. It just needs a complete visual overhaul. What does this have to do with saving an orca, by the way? Might I throw out there? Am I going to find an orca in the middle of these lush open fit? Now I'm seeing the orca. Oh no, I'm so dead. Oh, never mind. I got a freaking punching bag and now a lightning thing. It's honestly not terrible. It's better than I thought it would be. The gameplay is okay. It's just visually bad. These videos are so time consuming because it takes so long to download the freaking game. It's done. Finally. Oh no, we've downloaded a scary. I don't want to play a scary. I don't like scary games. I didn't know that's what I was buying. Oh my gosh. Oh, I don't like this. The next game is ready. We could go ahead and jump into that one instead. Why is there suddenly a giant eye on the screen like something can see me? Oh, thank you. I got a little lucky it was kind of strutting. You know, we have other games we could play. It's not because I'm scared. Okay, now we have a game that has two robots kind of canoodling. So really this could be anything. Oh, this is that visual novel text-based adventure game, isn't it?  What's the difference between a tech and a spider? I don't know. What is it? Some people like spiders. That's so sad. Why don't the humans like the robots? Wouldn't we have made them? I'm actually very interested in this world already. I think we're done here. I actually kind of like where that's going. They liked the writing there and I was actually engrossed in that world, but I'm gonna play that in my own time. This video is too long. I downloaded too many games. You know what? I don't even care about the battle cards one. I'm getting rid of it. I'm taking it off the table. What battle cards game? I never heard of it. All right, last one and then we'll play. Oh, I like this art style and I like this music and I like that the game got straight into it and I don't like that I'm already dead. Okay, I can dash. Oh, I can shoot as well. Oh, I like this. Oh, that's so cool. I don't know why I like that so much. Big guy. I like that this game just has no fluff, no filler. It just throws you straight in. It didn't even teach me the controls and I'm just slashing away and having a great time. $5 well spent. This might be my actual favorite one so far. I really want to know what X does. I love this game. I like that game. I can tell you now out of every game on this video today, that is the one I'm gonna play later tonight. I was actual loving that game and that is why I love doing these videos because I don't think I would have ever tried that on my own. And now let's play the moment you've all been waiting for, Peach Ball. Can we get Peach Ball hype in the chat please? Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm actually not live right now but if you wanted to have that kind of interaction, you could follow me on Twitch. This is a kind of game that like I wouldn't even want Kim walking in the room and catching me playing. At least I'd have an excuse right now. A flimsy one but I'd have one. Oh, why is there so much text?  Ah, I've been licked all over. What kind of game is this again? Is it volleyball? When do I get to play? I don't know if I can show this. I might have to blur this cutscene. I feel weird even dancing to this. Oh, oh, hi. So the game hasn't started yet. That was all like the intro cutscenes? Another load screen. This game makes you work for it. More cutscenes. Now we're back here again. Oh my gosh. Every time it loads something in, I hope it's the game. Another load screen. More cutscenes. All right, we found the game. Okay, can you not bring up tutorials in the middle of a pinball game? You know how frustrating that is? Why is that one stuck? My left flipper keeps getting stuck and it's not working. It's not working! What the heck? Oh no, what have I done? I don't know if it's a good thing, but I feel like I'm getting better at the game. Oh, yay, my second sexy challenge. Okay, cool. Great. If there's one game you're gonna buy today, I highly recommend buying, uh, Arcane. I highly recommend buying Arcane. I actually really like that one. Honestly, I didn't mind a few of them. I think I'm gonna keep playing subsurface. Castle of Heart wasn't bad either. Timberman Versus was fun for like 15 cents. Make your own mind up. Play whatever games you want to play. If I introduced you to a weird and exciting new world of video games today, let me know down below. Remember to check out today's video sponsor. I love you all so much and I'll see you all in the next video. I'm getting out of here. I'm gonna go take a cold shower.


What's going on everybody 2020 Bowman full case hobby number nine Quite a few teams sold via spot random. So those names will be pack nine The rest were taken outright. Good luck everybody Matthew share with the Yankees in this one a lot of my top loaders Into the abyss. Good luck everybody Time for a new break in that to Recap will be done at the end of the break Watching the red dot episode of Seinfeld right now Yeah, they just showed that that part the cashmere, but I went way out of context. I Didn't I didn't see it. I didn't see the episode I didn't laugh. All right, so we're going super frack. They're hunting Dominguez hunting. I hit a Dominguez purple auto number 250 Last night, so we'll see if we can hit another one and be a red auto that'd be sick. Good luck member no paper ships except wit Dominguez and the ace guy Possibly, so I'll try to keep this break under an hour here. Go sort of quick But the shipping team get every card penny sleeved that needs to be in any Cards I miss don't miss too much though. What's up Rex? How's it going? Just in time for a bowman hoppy case Gold Ronaldo Hernandez. Sorry. I was get these confused with golds. These are yellow. I think To 75 Tampa Bay Rays That is Ryan Shackleton Kind of Rex this one will take me probably till midnight But I said I would do the noir basketball random teams if we fill it up. I would do that break What's that phone ringing for? Bryce ball is our autograph refractor 313 of 499 That's Atlanta Braves that's going out there in McKenzie atomic Mason Denneberg for the Nationals Dominguez spanning globe Dominguez chrome. I was just watching that mr. Mike's daddy That episode was just on the red dot episode just got the tail end of it though. What's going on mr. Mike's daddy But yeah, Rex. I'll have the story loaded you got to get in gotta buy your spots early Rex Get in early and then watch late. It looks like a six minutes on that one to look at time 12 over 60 minutes Jason do something on there now. I saw another sign Phil's character passed away. It was the One of the Yankees front office guys Quinn cotton auto base For the Cincinnati Reds going out to Mike's homage We got an orange number 25 Justin Dunn top 100 ballman scouts Mariners Ian Anderson atomic What's it at Rex 18 left still? Goodbye all 18 spots Rex or if you you know Rex I would give I would uh Extend if you want to do a personal break. Maybe I'll do one personal break. I Do have a lot of stuff to post but I do that for Rex But no pressure be left tomorrow, so no pressure and Cornaciana 499 fracter Well if you have a hundred bucks for a new our random teams, but yeah, I get what you're saying For a personal that you'd want to do all good Rex all good a base immaculate 99 What's that? What's that set back for? Bobby with junior atomic. Whoo. 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I imagine when it came out, but I don't think he's You know all the rookies that have come out since him, but it's still pretty nice card It might be worth holding on to The Ben Simmons if they ever come back to MDA, hopefully July It's gonna be crazy when basketball comes back. Yeah, I saw that they don't know where they're gonna play though, right? Maybe Vegas and then one other hub city for NHL Yeah, we'll definitely be doing hockey breaks probably during that time I just got a few Connor McDavid young gun 9-5s and then they also hopefully oilers Maybe advance far in that tournament for me Yeah, we'll be talking about Vegas and then maybe a Canadian city I had Comsea credit and I bought I bought those Sometimes I don't know if anybody else sells on Comsea, but I like to buy card instead of cashing out So then you don't get hit with a fee Gavin Luxe Cash out fee, which is like 20% Dylan Carlson atomic Cardinals There is for the Dodgers Atomic auto number to 100 Leonel Valera, that's John Samuelsen one of them in the Fat jumbo pack break fat pack break North Dakota, they've been saying huh interesting Interesting Brenna McKay number to 150. Yeah, that does seem kind of odd, huh? Is there like a lot of hotels? Is there enough player? Days I guess they would just stay in houses. I don't know Gotta think of all the team like the whole team staff and camera equipment people media No one jones number 150 Make magical the 150 Yeah, I heard like Vegas or like and then one Canadian city, but North Dakota would be interesting I was thinking maybe like Florida, but that's probably not good for any cell not a lot of teams in that area Just because of how many hotels and stuff Arenas and stuff, but I don't know NBA. I think we're probably in Florida, right?  I'd imagine knows Yeah, NBA should come back sweet 16th out. I'd be really cool Nate Pearson of 250 Brennan Davis To 150 blue Greg E with the Cubs George spring into 499 atomic Franklin Perez My trout Bobby Bradley for the Cleveland Indians go yellow auto to 75 Got myself there Bob Bradley Cleveland Mike Sommage 57 to 75 So nothing crazy in this case yet atomic Bobby Witt was nice non-auto though Dodgers atomic auto you had that yellow auto Still waiting on something crazy six Box of the case here we go. Yeah, we'll have more bowman jumbo in the store. We do have a bowman jumbo random teams We'll have a jumbo pick your teams. I'll probably pose a pack Break for That next bowman hobby to kill that Probably do one bowman hobby tomorrow to imagine one bowman jumbo probably do that for the next couple weeks Bowman case or two a day Keep the doctor away But yeah, baseball. I don't know it looks looks a little shapeless here We're coming back It's kind of disappointing. It's kind of crazy how quickly the NHL Created a plan. Although did the NHL PA agree on that? Dominguez Chrome? Is that like all set to go? They just need to find the hub city and stuff Or like safety stuff Atomic Glen Allen Hill, Jr. This is cool cheater downs Dodgers 46 of 50 forgot he got traded there 46 of 50 top 100 auto cheater downs. I think was in the Yasya Pui trade Matt Kemp Yasya Pui Dodgers is John S. There you go John couple Dodgers auto so far Like I said, I hit the Dodgers. I don't know why nobody took them straight up Dodgers hit a ton in this I fit I think every case so far I've done It's had some some type of Dodger auto plus you get like Gavin Lux chrome rookies and stuff Maybe not chrome rookies, but inserts Dominguez top 100 printing plate one-on-one Gus Varland. I don't think anybody gets Gus Varland On my one-on-one guests guessing game Don't think he was guessed Would have been quite a guess though Mike so much with the ace get the plate Not out of Gus Varland Yeah, he was in the Pui Kemp deal. Yeah, you know what they say I Could have beaten stumped a Schwab if I was old enough to go on the show and I'm pretty good with my sports encyclopedia knowledge Not even a not even a Dodgers fan baseball probably my weakest sport of the three just nailed that casual casual lob from three Wasn't even a thing What that happened three years ago, that's just in the back of my noggin can't do a lot of math or anything like that can remember Cheater downs trade he got sent to the Red Sox. Oh goodness. I didn't know that The reason I don't know that trade too well the vertigo Mookie Betts trade is Because I was in a fight for my life at the Bowman or at the top series one marathon So that's why I don't know that one Getting interviewed by Sports Illustrated mid-game on that one then not quoted in the article to pack stacking to ripping Facebook live Shipping renting car not getting quoted in Sports Illustrated even though I got Up out of my seat Interviewed for half an hour not breaking cases Right in the middle of the break No, they didn't even they didn't even mention us like they could have or a photo if they had a photo of me and did not have a Yet Did you see the breaking article John on Sports Illustrated a couple weeks ago that the Like the homepage was about case breaking like the main article And the woman who did the article did a good job I think was pretty good, but we weren't in it, so it's not good. Yeah, he was in it and a few other breakers Yeah, I didn't have that happen either Although we gave Pitalonzo Jassy's t-shirt. I don't know who asked him to sign it though. They were very strict about we couldn't get him to sign that you would have think we asked like for Pitalonzo to come fly back with us to Burdonda Beach and hang out They were not having the signature on the t-shirt to give away to folks who joined the Million-card rip party break sold a million cards. No big deal I think Pitalonzo's people were not happy with Jassy's so maybe that's why we're not in the Sports Illustrated article follow the money You know the Mets probably big donor of the There's Gerard and Carnation base auto Mike so much. I forgot what I was saying. I think there might be a Dominguez in this case. I don't know. I'm feeling it I'm feeling Dominguez Bryce Turing atomic Whoa, everybody loves Raymond Kings of Queen crossover. Oh my goodness. Look at the top camera. Look at it What is going on here? Crossover episode are you kidding me? I didn't even know they're in the same universe Bobby Whit to 499 I know crossover episodes. Isn't that crazy? A lot of nice wits in this case atomic a blue to 499 and a refractor 499 I know we got to get the top five hits of the month going back going again. I used to make those Yeah, Jerry stillers on right now actually and a Another like a different Seinfeld actor passed away last week to this week Is that like a sci-fi show well Rex I was born in like 1996 It's like I don't know a lot of the things a lot of the things. I don't know I'm not I'm not aware of a lot of the things Especially when it comes to shows and movies. I know Star Trek I don't know a lot of things Might give it a try I'm on this new not It's definitely not new. It's been popular for a while. I'm on watching Ozark. I'm on Season two episode one, so that's the one I've been going through Netflix Jason Bateman pretty good so far Lenzie Delgado refractor auto to 499 going out to the White Sox Michael K I Pinkies cramping up. I got a pinky cramp Glenn Allen Hill Jr. So nice and named them twice 499 gonna be on the IR Starlin Castro Nationals to 150 Did you just watch that Teddy? I got to watch that flower movie. You've been talking about Been intrigued by that I also got to watch the new Scooby-Doo movie maybe Late at night after some things are done Andrew Vaughn atomic legal things four boxes to go I Know I got it. I got a tap-in job for this one Trying to get this under an hour. I got 16 minutes to go That'd be four minutes of box. That'd be like percules, but I don't think that'll happen Yeah, the only cure would be to fill noir for my broken pinkie. Oh, there's a wait, so there's a There's a star movie So it's a TV show adapted movie Yeah, they weren't the noir is pretty nice, but yeah, it is kind of pricey I imagine we're gonna sell a lot of that Friday once everyone gets paid and stuff for some people get paid That's a lot of work Maybe the next day off. I'll do that July 4th or something next time. I won't be involved in Jaspie's Seha speckle auto for the Cardinals number 299 Michael K Yeah, a lot of people already got their stimulus Gotta call up Call them up John. I'm sure they got a customer service number, right? One person for millions of people Very good Tavares Rangers to 499 I got my direct deposit. Oh god that thing I got mine direct no check in the mail Dane Dunning the 125 Yeah, I mean it's expected right Rex our post office Person who comes Said yeah, it's like Christmas without the help, you know so many packages Antonio Cabello Yankees atomic Yeah, mine was instant direct deposit like a week after they announced it or two weeks. I Don't know I didn't I didn't like choose that option. I don't know why they did that for me. I Was checking them out every day for a check Spend it right on cards as to be expected Someone like me Three boxes to go. I guess I haven't hit the Pacific Northwest yet. Maybe it's going on there Yeah, I can't read saying Rex Something for Something for it, right? But yeah, it should be I mean I don't know how long the check here. I know some people here were like Saying they didn't get theirs yet. So it's weird. I don't know what the process is like Yeah, John's a school teacher Yeah, we had those days when I went to school here When I went to school in New York the teachers got paid really well, I think a lot of them made like six figures At a public school too And then I came out here and they did like yeah, they did Forget what they called it But yeah, it was just basically days that The students get off and the teachers don't get paid.  That's her job And I think she's been having to do it over Skype and like it's not the same Lot harder There's Justin Dunn to 499 Yeah, cost is living. Yeah, Bobby Whit jr. Paper. Yeah, this was Westchester, New York So it's like some of the highest taxes Adam Hall to 250. So, you know, obviously Bigger budget for the school Ian Anderson to 499 but even like I think my Think my gym teacher was making like something crazy. I mean they they were there for a while, you know They say that for 20 30 years. I think like a lot of them are making A couple hundred thousand dollars, but yeah kind of relative cost of living is higher There's Brennan Davis for the Cubs base autumn Greg E with the Cubs. Wow really Yeah, that's crazy Well, it's like sports, you know a Lot more important than sports leagues obviously, but like they don't know what what to do They're just spitball and plans hoping something sticks I imagine I guess the only bright part would be like I Don't know could kids really can't Don't have a super high chance of getting it, right, but they could be transmitters of it Don't want to bring it a home or to their Parents your grandparents there's Bobby Whit and these two more boxes No, Jason, but who did you say that? What was the pattern? I had a cotton auto base auto and I had a Incarnation base auto Jason does that mean I'm gonna hit a Dominguez Yeah, for younger kids it definitely sucks rex for like older kids High school, maybe not as bad Yeah, I hit two of those base autos Jason, so we'll see There's only two boxes to go I had a Brennan Davis base auto just now Quinn cotton base auto Gerard and Carnaciel base auto Yeah seniors it definitely sucked Speckle auto of say house There is a top 100 auto of Jeter Downs And a couple others the Dodgers guy atomic auto John's got the Dodger says that doesn't make super actors in one box is the rumor going around town I saw the Gavin Luck super fracture auto got hit But maybe Dustin may still out there All right, here's the auto it is Vidal Bruhan the Fractor auto to 499 so we only have one more chance to hit a Dominguez now Ryan Shackleton with the race It's a final Couple Bobby Whitson this one was a nice case for the Royals, especially we get a Bobby auto it all sassin Sassin a blastin Blastin a blastin Blastin a carol basket our fruit is Nova atomic I was at 58 minutes on this one. So I think I'll be around like 104. What was your time Jason? I'm not gonna beat that That crossover episode of everybody loves Raymond and King of Queens stumped me on this one I also had that sports illustrated a rant that threw me off a little bit For like a good 30 minutes. Nobody chatted. I was like just in a groove talking to myself here Okay, so recap 105 I think I'll be like Maybe 107 I also had a pinky cramp mid-pack to That's cool Rex Definitely, I'll be done in this with this in like 10 15 minutes and then I could do your whatever you get if you wanted to and then sign off Do we have prison cellos on the website? I don't know. I have no idea what inventory we have on the personals There's no dry time Yeah Adley rushman a 125 Orioles. Oh, man. You didn't know Joe was in the chat Jason Cellos is a fresh box cool. I Know we got to see the last Joe video. I think he did a hobby case. He'd be one solo this year. I don't know He says 130 130 That should be deaf. You're not 130. Come on That's good Joe does it up me and Jason just glide through Joe's like Andy Reed like not great with time management, but a good head coach The 40 minute jumbo case pack stacking is nuts. I wanted to see I want to do a jumbo tomorrow with somebody pack stacking for me I did a hobby case last night Joe pack stack both of my hobby cases. I think it was like 50 minutes What's up, Kevin? Bowman first edition is my enemy. I don't like those those packs are terrible terrible Jason It's a second Bryce ball of the case so blue auto number 150 Atlanta braves Darren McKenzie Yeah, the new our box the last box of that new our case was tough Although Jason backed me up on that. So I got some back up there So no Dominguez in this one unless it's like a I don't think you'd have an a flak auto or under armor auto Cool, so I'll do Rex's three cello packs and then I'll probably be it for me tonight Jordan Grossans Yeah, I think you got to hit the trifecta. I'll be hood forever I'm the new Sinatra Since I made it here I can make it anywhere Dominguez paper a lot of Dominguez paper and chrome though Was a cool That's cool. This is gonna get copyrighted for the Simpsons theme song AJ puck to 25 The second printing plate of the case Oakland A's Jorge Mateo for Mike Samich two printing plates in this one nice Jason Two printing plates in this case both non-autos Both A's to right. Yeah, Mike got a both. That's crazy So there you go. That was the break. Thanks everybody. Let's do a recap here. I'm at 105 Quick recap Alright Plate Jorge Mateo Bryce ball blew out of the 150 just to recap of the big stuff Adley Rushman 125 Bobby wit refractor There's another Oakland A plate Jeter downs of 50 gold. Sorry yellow Bobby Bradley with atomic Bryce ball and all their nana. So that is the break. Thanks everybody. No randomizer in this one Appreciate it. See y'all next time Jasper's case breaks calm


Ukrainian tank crew fires at Russians hideouts in Avdeevka cottages. The crew of a Ukrainian tank fired at the occupier's hideouts in Avdeevka cottages and forced the surviving Russians to flee. A video of a fragment of the combat work of Ukrainian soldiers was posted on social media. Tankers of the 116th Separate Mechanized Brigade wallop the living daylights out of the Katsaps in the Avdeevka direction read the commentary to the video. It should be noted that as Russia's wider war on Ukraine grinds towards its third year, both countries' tanks mostly aren't fighting as tanks. Hounded by drones and artillery, hemmed in by mines, Ukrainian and Russian tanks tend to hang back a mile or two behind the frontline, angle their main guns high and fire at targets their crews can't see. Like, tough little howitzers. That's not what's happening in one key sector. For two months now, the Kremlin has been hurling every available regiment and brigade at Avdeevka, a key Ukrainian strong point just northwest of Donetsk city in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. To make the Russians pay for every yard they advance, the Ukrainians have deployed tanks and they're fighting as tanks, rolling close to Russian assault groups to fire their cannons while Russian missiles explode around them.


Palantir up 14.5% today. Today alone, up 14.5%. The reason is Kathy Wood started buying. She bought, well, that's not true. She already had a position, but she's buying back in. She had reduced it. Now she's buying back in 13 million worth of Palantir. Now that it's $11, almost $12, is Warren Buffett, his rule of waiting for a fat pitch or swinging when it's in your strike zone? Is this still in the strike zone? I've got a worksheet and I punched in the EPS, the earnings per share for next year, not this year, next year, 26 cents applied a growth rate. And then you hit calculate, I'm using 22%. And it says 572 is a fair value for next year as in one times the growth rate for Palantir. Where is that? That's around down here, five to six dollars. So it's twice above that. Most likely this is at least twice the growth rate. So if you get to buy it down here in the five to six, a decade later, it's probably gonna be worth about, anywhere between seven and 10 times. So maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't make sense to buy it here, but I do believe it'll be lower one day. Let's look at this image that I drew up. Stock price momentum eventually is limited by business fundamentals, also known as reality. Momentum traders, picture traders, we take the stock up because it's working, buy on the breakout, buy, stop in, high goes higher, buy high, sell higher until it fails. Then the value buyers have to step in. This has happened before. That's how we got here, right? Momentum traders took stock, Palantir stock when it came out at 10 bucks, took it to almost 40, then it broke down. Now the value buyers stepped in. So the question becomes, if you bought it, do you let it go? And if you didn't get it already, do you chase it? Because potentially this could be what, a $70 stock, 60 to $70 stock in a decade, I mean, intrinsic value. That's what we're looking at, seven to 10 times in 10 years. And how do I know that? Because I grow out the math, and if you take one and you grow it out by 20%, and you do that for a decade, you're gonna get this number six times. So potentially a company that grows at 20% should grow its value by six times. If it doubles, that's good. If you dump it, you double your money, and you'll be happy, but you might miss out on the rest of the decade. If you don't get it, you might have to chase it or you can wait. You could just wait for when it's in a sweet spot, like Warren Buffett says, wait for your pitch. You don't have to chase these things. That's the, there's 16,000 stocks. You don't have to chase one because it's rising. That's all I got for now. Cheers.