And welcome to Think Tech Hawaii on Thursday, September 16th, 2021. You are watching America finding its way. I'm your host for this Think Tech show, Stephanie Stoll-Dalton. Our show topic today is to inquire whether recent calls for investigations of the termination of the Afghan War by a bipartisan Congress congressional committee can determine accountability for and assign accountability for what was correct and what was not. Given how septic the formation of the ongoing select committee on the January 6th capital attack, the way its current work progress is being reviled and derogated, such as exercising its right to subpoena senior level White House officials, can information from the recent books published revealing alarming presidential incapacity and possible senior level military overreach be rationally or reasonably or fairly apprised and understood? So the question is, in this political climate, is the Congress committee process functional for purposes of establishing truth and assigning accountability? And if it isn't or not good enough, what is? So to discuss this situation, we have assembled informed Think Tech guests to discuss the challenges to leadership for establishing ways to get the facts and get to the truth and provide accountability for the purpose of interfering with it ever, ever happening again. So welcome guest Jay Fidel and Tim Apicello and Winston Welsh. So welcome to the program today. As reported, Republicans dismiss the January 6th capital rioters as engaged in peaceful protestation, peaceful patriotism as a defense of freedom and also as normal tourist visitations. Extreme riotists claim the rioters as political prisoners and want to bust them out. Why, with 57% of Americans calling the event an unforgettable attack on democracy, is this whitewashing of the January 6th mob attack persisting? And is it possibly a setup for this coming January 18th demonstration for justice for? That's September 18th. What was that, Jay? Would you repeat again? Make that September 18th. Oh, thank you. September 18th, that's where we are right now. Yes, of course. September 18th demonstration justice for the January 6th. So, Jay, what about the situation we have with just a complete denial of any culpability on the January 6th one? And as we approach the September 18th renewal and revisiting and respecting the effort of those rioters at the Capitol, what is happening here to us? What is this about? Well, my guess is September 18th is going to be a nothing burger. I think the government has learned how to deal with them. The government has learned much more from January 6th about how to deal with a crowd like that. And the crowd has learned how to deal with the government. Both sides will be more efficient and try to be more effective. But I think at the end of the day, next Saturday, I think it'll be a nothing burger. But it goes beyond that. To answer your question in a sort of a comprehensive way, Stephanie, to me, the government can't investigate its shoelaces anymore. We have seen so many investigations starting from the Mueller investigation to go off the track. We have seen so many things that should have been investigated by the Department of Justice in the Trump administration and now after the Trump administration that haven't been investigated. I don't think we can investigate our shoelaces. This January 6th event took place, what, nine months ago? And we really haven't gotten to first base. Now you can say, well, we had some dramatic statements by the Capitol Police. That doesn't address at all how it happened. I mean, who organized it? What members of Congress were involved? What organizations put it together? Who paid for it? They don't know. So then we wait for months. And now more recently, we see that the committee has issued subpoenas. And there'll be a big fight about the subpoenas. The Republicans won't abide by them. They'll have to go to court. And then there are questions about these subpoenas. So we haven't seen anybody appear on the subpoenas just yet. And I don't think we will for a long time. Bottom line is we're not getting anywhere, investigating January 6th. It's humiliating, embarrassing to the country. We can't seem to do it. But it's part of a larger picture of divisiveness and madness. It all seems to be falling down around us. Half the country believing the big lie, honesty, dishonesty, pervading in the government. And it leaks out into the community in general. Government has become a blood sport game, but certainly not government managing the country. And it's mean. And voting rights have been doused. That's the reality. And Congress hasn't done anything about it. Dark money is still ruling the elections thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United. Infrastructure, nothing, nada. Immigration, nothing, nada. Gun control, nothing, nada. I could go on. And meanwhile, half the country is arming up. Now, you may see your weapons here on the 18th, except I think the government has a telltale saying, if you see anybody carrying a weapon called in, we'll see what happens on that. Of course, the thing is, will that actually be the case? I mean, there could be weapons. And not only is this a request from the police here, the capital, it's also the city doesn't want any of them in here. They don't want it, nobody wants it, but these guys are coming to town. And weapons are their mantra. Weapons distinguish them from all the other citizens.  I mean, we're talking about the militia. We're talking about people who rule extra legally by force. And that's behind a lot of what the Republican movement is these days. So we have lawlessness, we have conflict, we have a problem about the COVID. It's incredible, it's madness. People killing each other for what? For cult, for Trump. And this of course is affecting the economy and the supply lines. Education is stuck, the kids in school, big controversy. Everything is a big controversy. Congress says it will never vote for a democratic bill or judge. They're gaming the system. I guess they're trying to show that Biden can't do anything. And that's all with respect to the next election, midterm and presidential elections. Supreme Court is completely out of touch. That case over Roe v. Wade was really terrible. And Joe Biden as good intentioned as he is can't get anything done. It's not getting better, it's getting worse. We here at St. Tech charge ourselves with connecting the dots. And as optimistic as we and especially Winston would like to be, there's not a whole lot to be optimistic about. In fact, I would say that if you're optimistic these days, you're living in a self-imposed alternative truce.  Fact is the country is going down. Rebuttal? Very good direct statement, declarative of our condition. And several remarkable books have been published recently and that reveal even more than the chaos in the White House on the occasion of the Capitol attack in January nine months ago and at other times. But for Evan Osmos, Osnos in his book, Wildlands, he says the former president's reluctance to call even slow down or let's talk, much less stop shows how the notion of the public good has been rejected. And that is critical in a democracy. It means that perhaps squarely in the, we are in squarely a state of political and social disorder. So Tim, do you agree or disagree that we are approaching the that status, political and social disorder? Yes. Is it past a tipping point? No, but are we there? Yes. Where yes means no.  And data doesn't matter, facts don't matter. It's when at all costs and what are the two main claims? The big lie, the election was stolen. And what's the other one? Vaccines don't work and the Delta virus once again as a hoax. You know, these are the things that we combat and they defy all lines of logic and reasoning and medical science. And yet they persist. Why? Because the standard bearer of that party named Donald Trump has deemed it so. And they have followed and will follow the standard bearer until the standard bearer doesn't isn't significant any longer, any further. We just had a recall election where Larry Elder did the exact same thing as Donald Trump attempted to tarnish an election before the first vote was counted. Why? These are the things that they do when you are following a line of propaganda from day one and you're now been sucked in and you are now in the tribe. Even if they know what they're saying is a lie or not true they can't be seen or perceived to be outside that border of the tribe. Cause that's a lonely place to be with family, friends and neighbors. And so they persist and they stick to it. That's why we're in the problem we're in right now. So it sounds like you're pointing out that in the midst of this chaos there is an affiliation. People are still affiliating but they're doing so with those who do not respect the social order. And when you have that happen with the mob approach like that you have something that is called anarchism. And that is tantamount to terrorism and nihilism. And these are the kinds of things that were rampant towards the end of the 19th century. But- Can I just say one thing? Sure. You know, this book by Bob Woodward and Acosta is coming out shortly. And like the other books that have come out about the last day of Trump's administration you have those who have been appointed by Donald Trump those that were serving in the military General Millie that comes to mind. The Department of Justice. They all know that Donald Trump wasn't right in the head. And that, you know, behind the scenes they're working to preserve to some degree the Republic. Yet on paper and on video and on camera they are their loyal lackeys. So there's a disconnect. I guess it's the Emperor Kloh syndrome. They're not saying anything publicly that would displease the fearless leader being Donald Trump, but behind the scenes you're doing everything in your power to try him to prevent him from pulling off a coup d'etat. So this is the issue here. And specifically in terms of the congressional committees and that kind of oversight and examination. But what are we supposed to do about what are those people supposed to do in those situations? Where are they to go? I mean, with the Vinman discussion of the problem with General Millie. Yes, he did do things but didn't do them all right and that there is a process and a procedure and that supposedly that was supposed to be okay. But here we've got a situation where we can't get these congressional committees to produce as Jay accused them. And we have these people in the White House running around tearing their hair out and still smiling and doing whatever Trump wanted. So Winston, what is this situation we are in and what can we do? Well, you know, even though it's been claimed like the Chinese character for chaos, a crisis, an opportunity, and it's not true. I think right now what we're seeing is a, my seventh grade teacher, eighth grade teacher, she was 11th grade teacher says it's we have thesis then antithesis and then synthesis. So we are certainly now in the antithesis portion of whatever we used to know and out of this will come a new synthesis. And what that looks like is in large measure dependent exactly on us. As I've said, many times we are in a moral, spiritual, financial, political crisis of the first order in this nation where everything is coming off, the varnish is gone. We're seeing where we're weak. We're seeing and thanks to Donald Trump but it's not Donald Trump alone. He's a product of this as much as he is the instigator. We've had 40 years of hollowing out of our institutions of our educational institutions, specific, it's not to nothing about teachers but if you want to learn anything, if you want to know anything, we all know you've got to look for it yourself. You've got to try and find the facts. You've got to be able to read a magazine article like in the New York or something or the Atlantic that's deeper than one page. You have to be able to have some critical thinking skills and you have to be willing to look at what other points of view there are beyond the binary points of view to things that we may not even be considering. So what's happened is that we don't really have solid critical thinking skills anymore that allow us to approach things rationally. And Tim was saying the two big lies of the election was stolen and COVID and use ivermectin and it's a fake vaccine or control whatever that lie and all of that mess is this is just the newest, right? This is the newest thing that's just come down the pipe. That didn't exist a few years ago. Now did Donald Trump exacerbate that and flame that? Of course, all of his acolytes, yes, but there's a lot more coming from that and it's rooted in this decay that's happened but out of the decay, we... Well, I will be optimistic, Jay. I think that we can out of the decay watch the show on fungus and it was interesting how it changes, it takes what's dead and dying and makes something new and beautiful out of it and redistributes the organism. Would you say that we've gotten to the point of absence and suspension of government and that perhaps this is what the aim was because as we have an absence of governmental rules and arrangements and oversight, we move towards total absence of all of that which is then taking us into chaos and anarchy completely. Yeah, the answer is yes. We're moving to an autocracy. If you think it's a coincidence, just happening by some natural process, no. There are people out there that want this, the Republican Party wants this because they feel that it will benefit them. They feel that autocracy will benefit them and Trump feels that way. Bottom line is as soon as Trump got in, he started terminating people or letting their offices go empty. And we had one official from Hawaii went out to Congress rather to the State Department and noticed there was nobody home. The offices were empty. The place had been decimated and I suggest that happened through a lot of other agencies. And if you think that Joe Biden can correct that, reverse that, fill those offices again, it's not so easy. Even now, there are people in the government that he has not removed, including that U.S. Attorney from the state of Connecticut who's running the silly thing with Murk Talk. You guys saw that on the news yesterday. We have a lot of people in the government who should not be in the government but the executive has not seen fit to replace them yet or can replace them. Good point, Jay, but that is massive. The executive branch is massive, okay? 80,000, 100,000 people. And one of the signs of that quarry now is that is why there were so few passports or what are they visas delivered to the Afghans because Trump reamed out that section of state that put together that kind of a visa, which is like probably not even a day's work. I agree with Winston about the notion that it is decaying. It has decayed. It has been decaying a long time and Trump exacerbated the decay. No question about any of that. But what I disagree with Winston is this notion that it'll all come together in some sort of natural, bacteriological, bacterial colony process. It will all knit back together against some magical, natural law. But let me finish that for you. You may not like it though. That's- Exactly, that's what I'm telling you. It's not gonna be beautiful Winston. You said beautiful. It's not gonna be beautiful. It's gonna be different. And you won't like it. None of us here will like it. None of our friends will like it. And I think it's happening. It's just like the 19th century. We're gonna be living in a dictatorship. We're gonna be living in a place where there is no government. There is no rule of law. There is no constitution. And there's a lot of religion. The kind of religion, by the way, that allows you to get a written exemption to the vaccine requirement, okay? As long as you go to a church you've never been to before. Never walked in the door, have no connection with it.  That's the kind of religion that's gonna govern our new world, our new post-decay world. Well, my question is, and let's go to Tim, was this the aim of Trump? I mean, with this display and his lack of capacity in so many ways, here we are at this point, and then we can see the trail that's led up to it. So was this something he planned to do? What do you think, Tim? Well, his ex-wife in a book stated that on his, now, we didn't think Donald Trump read a whole lot of books, but she stated that on his nightstand was the book, Mind Comef. So if you look at what he's done, not just before he was elected president, he has followed all the rules of proper propaganda, like a minstrel, like an orchestra, a band leader. He has done so well to implement propaganda. And we did a show on this about two years ago. And yes, this was all overt, planned, concentrated effort to dismantle the institutions of our government, our democracy, weaken them, and then insert the big lie. Oh, I mean, everything he's done in four years matches up perfectly to the tenets of propaganda. And if we don't recognize that, we ought to. So I was thinking, that's very interesting, Tim, and explanatory to a certain extent, but what was coming into my mind as Jay was talking about this disintegration or dis-establishmentarianism, right? On the good side and going to establish another authoritarianism on the other side, i.e. totalitarianism, I was thinking of the French Revolution. So Winston, what do you think? Do you see any parallels like Jay and Tim have pointed out with the French Revolution or other sorts of disintegration? When I'm looking at the disintegration and the reintegration, the new synthesis, it's not towards the past that I'm looking. It's more, if I'm looking at the scary version, it's what China's got, and how everyone is monitored everywhere all the time. And maybe, you can look at the movie, the oath that came out in 2018 where Americans were supposed to swear an oath of allegiance to get their job. It was a dramedy in the end. I think what we're looking at is that. So that's the depressing version is that we got a lot of science fiction models about the future of what we might end up looking like. But an optimistic frame, because I will throw in a little optimism, is that we have this show. We have our mental capacities to reach other people, to help them understand that they need to educate themselves that we indeed have the power to shape our world as much as we can with each other. Now, are we gonna accomplish it? No, there's no certainty about anything. Is what Jay said happening? Absolutely, all around us. We're seeing this moves towards theocracy, autocracy, lack of democracy, and just people that I don't even think they know who the president, half the nation probably doesn't know who the president is or care. They're worried about how many followers they have on TikTok. And so we've got a really, the problem is so immense and how we approach it. I don't have any easy answers for you, except to say again, we've got it, like with this whole plague that we have going on right now. It's up to, while we do have collective responsibility, at the end of the day, we have an individual responsibility to educate ourselves, to protect ourselves, and to advance that understanding. And then join with other like-minded people. And it's the same, I think, could be said of our community, of our city, of our state, and of our nation. Part of it, don't you think Winston is speaking out?  You have to do critical thinking, you have to educate yourself, and you have to find your own way of dealing with it and keeping clear. But you also have to speak out and we speak out. This program speaks out. We are a living example of the First Amendment. And there are other examples too. But I wanna add this, and it's sort of very troubling. We have examples of media that tell lies, and they exist, and nobody stops them. And the people who might criticize them, don't criticize them nearly enough. Right now, we still have the First Amendment. But you know what's out of Shakespeare, maybe a turn on Shakespeare. The first thing to go is the media. And Trump attacked the media. The GOP attacks the media all the time. And when we get further into this, when we connect the dots on into this decayed deterioration, talking about the First Amendment is going to be undermined soon enough. You'll see what I mean. So these disaster fantasies, which they still are because we're not there yet, are helping us, or driving us to look to examples and see how it all went. And Winston, yours reflects the book I read by Ann Randa, We the Living. It was just that sort of thing. People individually and relating, and the speaking out was pretty dangerous, Jay. So we do have to get our bravery up and probably our guns out to go speak out because we're going to be definitely in jeopardy. But why don't we turn constructive here for the last few minutes? No. No. No. No. No. Lesses. Speaking out is the first constructive thing actually that we've done aside from the disaster fantasies, okay? So now we're talking about speaking out and how we're supposed to do that. And you must be referring to how about how we'd like to represent our dads. Speaking out, the ones that will have integrity and tell the truth. So how about some examples, Taylor? All right. Well, I'm going to take, you try to be constructive here, but it's going to be hard. To Jay's point about the media, to Winston's point about political fungus, there's media fungus. And when I think of fungus, I think of mushrooms. And what do you do when you have a mushroom? What does the media do when they are nothing but a media fungus? You keep the people in the dark and you feed them manure. And that's the bottom line. And we've been fed manure for far too long. And the FCC has fallen on its face to prevent bad medical advice about ivervectin and hydrochloroquine. And it's caused the lives of hundreds of thousands of deaths to misinformation. And I say, where is the FCC? They're way past the First Amendment boundaries as far as I'm concerned. And if you want to be constructive, let's get the FCC to attack the first problem. That is the information bubble of media fungus. All right, let's go with one round of last statements, okay? And they can be constructive and then encourage constructivism or other, if you please. So Winston, what would you say for your last round, Connie? I'm gonna leave us optimistic. So what's the show on fungus? It's interesting, it's on Netflix. But it's also about an interesting guy who is a stutterer, now he's like a world expert on this stuff. So he educated himself. He is respected by the establishment. They go to him for answers. He's come up with novel solutions. That's what we're doing here. That's what we need to do as a people. We have Joe Biden as our president. He's the president of the United States. We had Gavin Newsom soundly defeating a recall against him yesterday. There is a lot of good and right and positive things happening in this nation. We don't see it because it's not the noise that's capturing the thing on the surface, but it's happening all around us. And it's people that woke up and they're saying, no, no more. We need alternative solutions and they're creating those. And I think we need to look for those and focus on those. There's no guarantees. But you know, and you're right. Joe Rogan was talking about how CNN, he's gonna sue him for saying that he shouldn't take Givermectin or whatever he got sick. He has millions and millions of followers. Well, you know what? We're in a day and an age where every person can have her or his or their own media channel to disseminate news. And so we need to teach critical thinking skills. And that's something that each of us has to learn how to do and it's how we learn how to do it together because it hasn't been taught before. And in the olden days, we were spoon fed by three networks. And now we're, it's the wild, wild west. So, you know, individual responsibility here, folks. Wildlands, the book by Evan Osnos relating to your comments. Okay, Jay, how about you? Last comment. Yeah. The governor of California, what's his name? Newsome. Evan. Newsome.  California, at least in that election, was a piece of optimism. Thank you. And I think that helps us somehow to feel that, yes, we can have some control over this. And more than that, it offers us a presidential candidate. Because I don't think that Joe Biden's gonna run again. I don't think Kamala Harris is gonna run for vice president or could run. I think it's Newsome and it's Amy Klobuchar. That's a winning team as far as I'm concerned. We need that. And Newsome has the strength, I think. He's been through the fire and he has the strength. So that's good news. But I think it's contending factions, it's contending directions here. And the bad news seems to be, you know, greater and greater when we connected dots on this show. Tim will agree with me that back when we had the same tension of optimism and pessimism. And every time we looked, it was more pessimism. Every time we looked, our pessimistic projections were coming true. And now they're rampantly coming true. The country is in terrible shape. And half the people in the country are in this kind of madness. And the country hasn't figured out a way to deal with it. I don't have a good feeling about the future. So, you know, buy a lot of water and make sure you have a place to go when it really gets rough in your neighborhood. Get lentils. And I think, you know, Jay and Winston have brought up the Gavin Newsome win. And it seems to be a trouncing of Trump, a real trouncing of Trump. It's the beginning. That's my sense of it. And that's what I'm hearing coming through a lot of the presentation.  That's a scary thing to bestow upon me. You know, the President of the United States has great immeasurable powers, great powers. The president started a nuclear war, if they wish, of what we're finding out. Here's the deal. The president needs to exercise those agencies that he has at his beck and call to stop the tearing of the fabric of our democracy. And again, Jay said it perfectly, the media needs to be addressed. I also think that representatives of the government, be the legislative government, need to examine their oath to office. And that is the preservation of democracy, the rule of law and the Constitution. Those two things alone, if Joe Biden seriously addresses this and says, look, this is where we're falling down, we can start back on the path to getting ourselves back together again, but it's up to old Joe to do that. And back in the day, it was called Sleepy Joe. Wake up, President Biden, wake up, get the FCC involved in love this misreporting and fabrication of lies. And that's all it is. And so he needs to get this thing going and could be so timid about the exercising of his powers. Well, it's Aloha time and we'll have to wrap it up after the scintillating discussion. So thanks to our guests, Jay Fidel, Tim Apachella and Winston Welch and for their informative and interesting conversation. I'm your host, Stephanie Stoll Dalton, and for Think Tech's show, America Finding Its Way. We'll see you next week, same day, same time, same exciting topics. So join us again and mahalo everyone for tuning in today.


Welcome to, can everyone hear me all right? Yeah, cool. Welcome to Getting Started with Brun, for better front end operations. My name's Steven Bassett, I'm with a small firm out of Oakland, California called Calamuna. You can find me on Twitter at Bassett SJ, for Steven Jeffery, and also on GitHub under the same handle. So what is this thing called grunt? Raise your hand if you've ever used CodeKit or any of those other automation tools. So grunt basically is the same principle behind it. It's all about automating things we should be doing in our front end workflows or workflows in general, except it provides more robust APIs and is highly configurable. So why would you even want to use grunt? Well, it helps us do the things we should be doing easier by automating it, making it easier, and sharing it. It allows us to work in really small bits of code using modular JavaScript or CSS, all maintainable files. But then it brings all of that code together and compiles it and minifies it to help improve our website performance. It helps encourage quality assurance by linting, checking for errors, and also running unit tests. Raise your hand if you're writing any unit tests for JavaScript. It's actually better than I thought. Yay. Also, it helps us abstract our code using tools like SAS, less, stylus, what have you, all the same, roughly, and helps enable that. I think the coolest thing is it becomes part of the project and onboarding a new team member becomes really simple. All the configuration for these tasks live inside the project. I know that CodeKit has a standard, but CodeKit costs money. It's not cross-platform. There's a lot of pitfalls there. So some common misconceptions when I hear people talking about reasons not to use grunt. I don't need these things for my Drupal project or Drupal already kind of does it. There's not really a great build tool out there for Drupal. This is a great compliment to the stuff, to tools like Drush and things we should already be doing. Grunt uses Node.js. I don't know Node. It's pretty easy. If you're already a themeer and working with JavaScript and you have some basic programming experience, it becomes very easy to work with. I'm not a programmer. I don't know how to use the command line. It becomes really easy. All you need to be able to do is type in grunt on the command line. It'll run the default task. It's pretty simple to work with. Can you hear me? Sorry. Is that better? Good. Okay. I'm sorry. A little bit of a throat issue, of course, the day I speak. For this presentation, I came up with an example project. You can kind of follow it along. I tried tagging each step as I went through. It's not exactly perfect, but you can kind of look at it there. There is an example theme. It has some basic components to it. We're using SAS. We have some logic in the template. We have an index JavaScript file for all of our plugins. Steps to get started. We're going to first, of course, have to install Node, which is extremely easy, define our project in terms that Node understands, get the plugin, the actual tools that we need, configure the task, and then we win. Installing Node is extremely easy. If you use homebrew, type in that line, it pretty much takes care of it. It's really nice, big fan. Or you can just download the binary. Node will run pretty much in anything. If you are working in Vega and it's super easy to install, if you're working on a Linux box, easy. Runs pretty much anywhere, really nice. Now the package.json, this is kind of in Drupal terms it would be the module.info or in composer.json, exact same thing. We're basically just defining some attributes so that grunt and Node know a little bit about our project. Really nifty utility. Just typing in npm and nit will kind of guide you through a nice little command prompt that will even try and auto fill in some stuff. This is where you get remote is, or this is the home page, or this is the version you have. A really basic outline might look something like this, just answering where your main file is, some keywords, what type of licensing information underneath. There's really great documentation on the package.json spec on the npm docs. Now we're going to need the one global utility, the command line utility, so they broke off the interface that you actually run from the command line into its own plugin. So you need that universally, it will download and link it, and it should just be right available on your path. So you might just want to run grunt-version just to make sure that it's there. Now we need to install some grunt plugins. There are a ton of them, and later I'll show you great ways of finding them. And we also need to make sure that we install our local grunt package, and if you add the dash D capital flag that will also append it to your package.json, or the dash dash save dash dev will append it. So now you're adding instructions for fellow team members to be able to quickly get up and go. So if there's already a defined package.json, all you need to do is type in npm install. npm will figure out what things it means and take care of itself. It's really easy. So grunt is going to be looking for the grunt file. It can be either in JavaScript or CoffeeScript. For this demo I just used JavaScript. The most simple grunt file is just this. It tells you what the module is exporting and that it requires grunt. So let's go ahead and start configuring tasks. One thing that's really helpful is to go ahead and expose some of the project configuration through the package.json. And this init config is where most of our tasks will go. We're basically just assembling a lot of plain JavaScript objects. Let's go ahead and add the sass plugin. You'll notice in the name that contrib, that means it's maintained by the core grunt team, which is a good sign it usually means quality in general. So after we install that, you'll notice in the package.json that we have both grunt and grunt contrib sass, the version we've used, and it's all there. Sorry. Now for each task it'll have a name, and then underneath that is a target. So you can have multiple targets for each task, so a good example might be whether or not you want it compressed or not, or if you have different files you're associating with it. Each task will have an options object and usually a files object, and there's a hierarchy. If you set an option just below the task, it'll be inherited to the targets below unless it's overwritten. Now we'll also want to make sure that the node task, or the node plugin's available, so we'll have grunt load it with grunt load npm tasks as a method. And then we'll want to go ahead and define the required default action. The default action is whatever runs whenever you type in grunt. This most often is like building out a project, deploying it, whatever, and you probably want to provide a little bit of help information here to make it a little bit more usable for other people working on the project. But as you can see there's not really that much difference than just running sass. So the real power comes from adding more tasks and targets to this. So let's go ahead and do that. I've really been enjoying using auto-prefixer. It'll go out there to I can use, or can I use, sorry, a database that'll basically tell what browser or vendor prefixes you need for your targeted browsers. So now all of a sudden you don't have to worry about including mixins to get the vendor prefixes or writing them yourselves. You just write as you shouldn't be able to, and it'll figure it out for you. It's really nice. So as you can see, something really simple. You let the machine do it, and it's all there. And guess what? Ask for it, surprise. Most often I just Google grunt auto-prefixer, but I also like checking out the grunt plugin directory. So just go to the grunt website, and it'll sort it by most popular. You'll notice that all the contrib ones are at the top. It's really easy. And then the first thing I usually do is when I land on the project page, I scroll immediately down to the bottom. You'll pretty much find a template for the task that you want. You might have to change a few variables, read which properties you need to change in the configuration, copy and paste. So I kind of did that again here. So I found one that showed how to use the source map, which is really nice to be able to tell debugging where things came from, and just pointed it to the CSS directory. And then if you leave it off here in the documents it says, it'll just go ahead and auto-prefix the file itself so you don't have to worry about moving it to a temporary location and then moving it back over there. And then I, of course, do the load npm task and append it to the default task. So what becomes really helpful, and I think pretty much everyone uses the watch task in their grunt file, it's really handy for when you're developing. It waits for changes and does it. It helps save you time from going back to the terminal, typing in grunt or grunt target blah or task target. And it just really helps. So in our example, we would just configure it again to look at files in SCSS, the tasks, run the two tasks that are associated with it.  But you can do more. Has anyone used live reload? Yeah. Best thing ever. Helped save refresh. So I recommend having grunt watch for the files after they're generated, especially if you're doing a lot of things with the files, you want to make sure that it auto-reloads the file once it's done with it. So once it's in the dist folder or whatever you call it, the build folder, go ahead and reload it. So in the projects, I'm going to go through these quickly just because it becomes a lot of the same. And I'll get to the good parts of how to do these things better. We'll probably want to minify the CSS, probably run JSent, browserify for using common JS style modules. You could also use kinkat, which would be kinkatenating the files together so you can work in really small ones. That's a really good place to start out with.  So the CSS min task, just go ahead and go through. And something really key is if you notice it's filtering out the non-appended with minified. So the expand will go through and look for all the directories. And within the dist folder and then append the min.css, so it doesn't run in a loop. And then JSent is really nice. I'm really excited to see that in Drupal 8, now that we have a JSent standard, go through and have it actually hint your grunt file, which can be good, especially with the task. So any of our theme as we code. And then browserify, go ahead and put that in there, aim at our index or main file, and go ahead and pull in the modules that we want. And then after we packaged, we bundled our JavaScript, go ahead and uglify it and put it out there. Really cool this banner argument here is if you can go ahead and use the built-in grunt dot templating engine, you can go ahead and go through and grab information from the package.json and be able to have, you know, like today's date, the version number, et cetera, appended to the top of each of your compiled files when you're done. And there are also some really nice PHP tools out there, and I'm sure there are many more beyond this list. Grunt PHP code sniffer will actually go through and check for coding standards. This would be good if you're developing a module or even just in the theme itself. I suggest using Composer to download the code sniffer itself, PHP Blunt, it's really simple, it just runs PHP-L, it's a nice little wrapper around it, but it will give you some really obvious syntax errors as you're coding, kind of similar to an IDE. And then for the upcoming PHP unit and Drupal 8, there's a nice PHP unit plugin as well. Also there's a really simple Drush plugin, and this could be really nice for, you know, making track of when you make changes in the templates folder, being able to just clear the theme registry when you need it and not constantly having it rebuild or, you know, getting started in development mode, turning it off, setting variables, it gets really nice there. So as you noticed, each time we add a new task, we have to hit the load tasks. There's got to be a better way to do that. Luckily there's load grunt tasks. You'll also notice that your grunt file becomes really long, load grunt config, grunt notify. If you're using watch and running unit tests on save, it'd be nice to know when it fails or some error happens. Grunt notify will plug into the notification center and growl to help notify you when there's an error. And then speed. You'll also notice as the grunt build becomes more longer and you start doing more advanced things that you might want to decrease your build time. So concurrent, grunt newer, and time grunt will all help encourage a faster build. So looking at grunt load tasks, you'll see it becomes kind of monotonous loading all of these tasks. You can change that and just load a single task right there. But even better is being able to split your config into individual files. And this includes grunt load tasks as well. So grunt load config is super nice. You just simply define a file, either a coffee script, javascript, or yaml that holds the single task configuration. By default, it looks at the grunt folder and for the file name to that task, you'll notice that it gives you a, it also has an alias file. So for defining the default task, it gets really easy. You can start creating, you know, tests. So it'll compile your tests template down. It'll run your QUnit or Jasmine tests quickly and report back. That's a nice way of grouping information together. And then if we look at grunt notify, awesome plugin. It's really easy to configure the notification messages on build and fail. And it works pretty much cross-platform. And then grunt newer, this one's really good for tasks that take a while. It will only process changes for newer files. Instead of a good example of where you'd want to use this might be like image modification or optimization. You might only want to run that on new files that have been added since the last time you ran that, and that way your build time, it doesn't have to do it all over every time you hit grunt default or whatever. And then grunt concurrent. This is a little tricky to get running well, but you can run grunt tasks concurrently. So you could, for example, compile jshent and browserify the files all at the same time and that can help save time. And the way to tell what's taking the longest would be time grunt. It gives you this really nice feedback letting you know how long the task took and which task took the longest. So there's a lot of, Gulp has recently come out. It's another awesome tool to help with this build process automation. So why would you want to use grunt when there's new fancy shiny option is out there? Well, there's also the fear of using the wrong tool. So either or just choose which works best for you. They both have a lot of good advantages. I said the plug-in ecosystems probably a lot more robust in grunt and a lot of projects are already using it. And if you're already using it, great. And many of the same principles apply. Just to take a quick look, this is what a very simple Gulp task would look like. It's a lot more, it follows a lot more of the node principles of loading in tasks just by using require, for example. And what allows it to be a little bit more performant would be the streaming APIs of moving the files and piping it from one process to the other. And it's a little bit of a, it's less configuration heavy and more focused on programming the tasks themselves. So that's it. Do you have any questions? There's a microphone right in the middle. Can you talk about when you would use Drupals, like default CSS minification and the JS minification versus the grunt? Yeah, definitely. So Drupal does do pretty good CSS minification and aggregation, which is nice and it'll actually handle that pretty well. As far as minification of JavaScripts, there are a few, I think there might be a contributed module that uses some sort of PHP library to minify PHP. But it only concatenates the JavaScript files themselves into bundles. It doesn't actually minify and nullify. So you're going to get better results using grunt over the built-in preprocessing of CSS and PHP and JavaScript and Drupal. Thanks. Yeah, no problem. So with, the mic is right there. So with JS and Drupal and combined, can you hear? Yeah, yeah. It's mostly for the video recording. Okay, sorry. With JS and Drupal, there's so many dependencies and oddities of what JS assets are loading, concatenation of files, you don't want to take everything in core and just throw it into one concatenated file. That is a huge waste of resources. Can you address how you instead of picking out each file, how you get to do that with grunt? I think that's one of those weird things. Yeah, I generally, like any of the core provided JavaScript, you just kind of have to accept that at least in Drupal will expose it to the window, right? So within the realm of like a theme or a project, that's when you can pull in different like packages and handle it on that level. So that's where you get the advantage of using grunt in that you can, you know, if you decide to use a jQuery plugin, you can pull it in and process it and then make it that much smaller and minified for Drupal to then handle itself. So it's like you're packaging it nicely and handing it off to Drupal and then Drupal repackages it a little bit and then throws it on the page. Yeah. Yeah, go for it. Uh-huh. How? I think it's being mindful of what you're including, obviously. So that's kind of like a lame answer. But you know, Compass takes a little bit longer to compile because it's pulling in. It provides a ton of tools for you. So if you are using Compass to compile your SAS and you're not really using Compass, maybe you should reconsider and use just straight up SAS and then pull in the assets. I find that auto-prefixer is way faster than including the SAS Compass mixins. And then you get pretty much the same result. And it updates itself. It's just really nice. So you saw we were using grunt-contrib-sass. There's also lib-sass, which is still being really heavily developed. But it's amazingly fast. It's a native port of SAS, so it's not using Ruby itself. You do lose some features, like extends. So it's not something I'm ready to switch over to, but it's amazingly fast if you can use it. I think, yeah, that's about it. Yeah, I think that's really good feedback is being able to, instead of watching every single thing and then trying to run all, like pointing it directly at your project route and trying to recompile everything all at the same time, is focusing on running the tasks that you actually need with Watch. And it becomes a lot easier to deal with and also really getting good at building, registering aliases or registering tasks when you do it. Any other questions? Yeah, so Omega-4 integrates grunt out of the box when you instantiate a sub-theme. OK. Are you familiar with that at all? Yeah, I think that's really cool, though. So and I think it addresses some of this. I've never gone through the trouble of using it other than to know that I see the Ruby of libraries a lot appropriately in the node. And PM, I'd be curious to hear if anyone has positive or negative experiences with Omega-4's grunt integration. Positive or negative? Have you felt a delay? And that also brings up another. Yo-Man is a really great tool that helps scaffold out different applications or projects. That might be a really good use for that. There's even just a specific Yo-Man grunt file generator that'll kind of scaffold out the very base tasks that you need to run. And that could be really good. Or you could just create a simple gist of a grunt file that you use over and over again. And that's a good way of getting up and going. But I'd say start really simple. Maybe just have grunt sass and grunt watch and go from there. The more you do it, the faster you can start writing out these tasks. And as soon as you realize it's all basically just a giant JavaScript object, it becomes really easy to understand. Any other questions? Yeah, it's always in the project route. You can have it point at, you know, you can pass it to, by default, it looks at the project route. And I think by convention, that's where it goes. Go for it? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would say look into using both. Goal does have faster build times, which is huge. You'll notice as you start getting more advanced with your grunt tasks that it does take a little bit longer. And you also don't. One of the biggest annoyances I have with grunt is you take this file. Let's say I have a sass file. It compiles it down. I put it over in temp dist or whatever. And then I have auto-prefixer move it over to another directory. Let me go back to the grunt tab, the goal example. Instead of doing that, I could just have in the actual task itself add another pipe to an object called auto-prefixer and pass in auto-prefixer. And it will do all the things before it even outputs a file itself, so it doesn't even read and write before the task is done, which is pretty nice. Go for it, Tiago? Grunt concurrent is pretty popular. Yeah, I mean, the amazing thing about grunt over a goal, I'd say, is just the plugin. There's already so many tasks that have already been built out there that you can probably find something for what you're trying to do. I've used grunt deploy sites. I've used grunt for my .files, for example. Bringing those around. It's pretty easy to work with. Any other questions? Please let me know what you thought about this talk. And the slides are available at that address up on the screen. And it's also on the session node. Great. Thanks.


From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar, yes, just a moment for you, mr. Dollar. Thanks Johnny dollar Bonnie Wilson here your hotel told me where to locate you I'd rather you located that car all police agencies in the state have the license number in description It'll turn up well the sooner the better It'll take more than a car to prove will you mark is still alive the dealer who sold it to him identified his photograph All right, but he bought the car two weeks ago. We know he was alive at that time In case you've forgotten mr. Dollar the fathom five sank only four days ago. That's when mark. It was murder. Okay, okay We're not gonna settle it by arguing. That's why I phoned. It's gonna be settled tomorrow morning You've petitioned for a hearing ten o'clock in judge Campbell chambers. They're making a mistake. See you in court mr. Dollar Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar from special investigator Johnny dollar location Miami Beach to the home office Delta Liability Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the fathom five matter the case of a cruiser mysteriously sunk off the Florida coast I Phoned the insurance companies legal counsel and told him that Wilson had petitioned a hearing to have William Markey declared legally dead Then I rejoined Mrs. Markey in the study She was tense and on edge pacing the floor and smoking nervously I watched her a moment without saying anything fully aware of her beauty and appeal and Fully convinced also that she and her missing husband were trying to swindle my company out of seventy five thousand dollars in life insurance. I Felt a little sorry for Markey. She must have been a pretty expensive luxury for a man who was going broke But then I stopped feeling sorry. I remembered that they tried to set up young Danny Haines as the fall guy for murder Well, why don't you go ahead and say it say what whatever it is you're thinking? I thought I'd already said it and pretty bluntly to You made some wild accusations not so wild I've got some fairly solid facts to back them up apparently the DA's office doesn't agree with you Wasn't that mr. Wilson on the phone? That's right And didn't he say he would ask the court to declare my husband legally dead He's going to try to but we'll stop him cold He hasn't got a leg to stand on well That's what you're hired for isn't it to find some technicality so they can get out of paying off on a policy Attempted fraud isn't exactly a technicality Mrs. Markey Now I'll repeat that advice. I just gave you get in touch with your husband. Tell him the scheme is off It won't work and don't file a claim for that life insurance You'd like that wouldn't you you just love to bluff me out of seventy five thousand dollars No, no, I just kind of hate to see you go to prison.  What scheme mr. Dollar He wanted laid right on the line. I'd like to know what you're talking about and just how much I figured out.  I'm not guessing there I got a report on him from a financial investigator in New York I knew nothing about his business affair that I wouldn't know anyway He thought he saw a chance to pull off a swindle on the basis of the only thing he had left that seventy five thousand dollar life insurance policy So the two of you worked it out together Did your financial investigator tell you that or would you be guessing your husband bought a car under an assumed name and Probably rented living quarters somewhere in the area under another assumed name So it was all set. It was just a matter of waiting for a morning when a heavy fog was down You have a fantastic imagination Meantime just in case the accident theory didn't go over you kept playing young Haynes along So it would seem as though he had a motive for murder and that part was a sin She was already halfway in love with you. You also have a rather nasty imagination. So finally four days ago conditions were just right Your husband took Haynes out on that fishing trip in the fathom five He anchored the cruiser and sent Haynes off along the reef in the dinghy Then he set fire to the boat open the sea cock So it would be sure to sink he swam a shore and drove off in the car that he bought for exactly that purpose As I understand it mr.  You mean that's something else you supposedly didn't know about What all that report from New York was more complete than you seem to realize William Markey has been a member of the Green Point Athletic Club for years He won in Silver Cups in the Long Island Sound Marathon swim three different times I knew he belonged to the club of course, but I assumed it was more social course He could swim that far that particular talent was probably what gave him the idea for the whole thing There's no proof you know Not one bit of real proof there will be if you try to collect that insurance We'll turn up enough proof to reach all the way from here to the state prison. So if you try to you, excuse me, please Yeah, sure. I'll be right back I let a cigarette and waited for wondering why I even bothered to come here.  Maybe if the price were right and if you are you hope you never find it out All I wanted at the moment was to leave the house wind the thing up and get out of town I'm sorry. Mr. Dollar. It was somebody looking for an address. I mean they had a wrong address. I see Well, I think we at least understand each other now Yeah, I'm sure we do and I can say only one thing You're wrong. You're completely and absolutely wrong Maybe I wish you weren't I Wish my husband were still alive even under the circumstances you believe Maybe I wouldn't be on the verge of a nervous breakdown trying to hold on to my sanity Maybe I wouldn't be crying alone at night You have my deepest sympathy, Mrs. Markey For everything you're going through There's no use at all and trying to talk to you is there Not unless you care to tell me where to find your husband Good night, Mr. Dollar. I Left the house and turned down the dark road toward the Pompano Beach Hotel I'd planned to pick up a taxi there, but after that unknown visit it came to Mrs. Markey's door I'd made a slight change in the plans Whoever it was hadn't been a stranger that I was sure of She'd been too nervous when she came back into the room It was someone she hadn't wanted me to know about and I was pretty certain I could guess who evening mr. Haines. Oh You're mr. Dollar the insurance investigator mind if I come in well All right, sure you were to sleep were you know I was I was just reading been here all evening Yeah, sure. I've been here.  No, I wasn't Now look I've answered just about all the questions. I'm going to to you or to anybody else So what are you trying to get at? What's the point? All right forget it Danny sure forget it It looks like you're out to try the same thing Wilson's doing trying to tag me on a murder rap And you're trying to drag Edna into it Mrs. Markey.  I'll tell you one thing right now You better leave her alone and stop trying to push her around. She doesn't deserve it She's had too much of that kind of stuff as it is. Oh from home Danny from Markey That's from whom she told you that I suppose you'll claim.  Oh, not when anybody would see it pin it on him He was too smart for that But she told me about it and there were plenty of times I could hardly keep from smashing him in the face Oh brother, she's got you really set up good. What do you mean by that? If you talk this way to Wilson at the DA's office for two minutes He'd slap a murder indictment on you so fast it'll make your head swim.  Yeah, I know because he's still alive Maybe he is I don't know All I know is what I saw out there that morning and you saw only as much as he wanted you to see well, maybe so But I'll tell you one thing if he is trying to pull something crooked. He's doing it on his own She's not in on it. It'd be a little hard for him to collect his own insurance, wouldn't it? Oh Maybe he figured to get it away from her afterward I don't know what he might be planning on, but I know she's got nothing to do with it. She's a great girl I've never known anybody like her before no, I don't imagine you have I'd lay down my life for her if it ever came to that And I imagine that's exactly what they were counting on Good night, Danny Expense account item 16 a dollar and 90 cents taxi fare the following morning from my hotel to the courthouse. I Got there at 9 30 and went over the case with Jim Davis local council for the insurance company and at 10 o'clock the hearing on Wilson's petition Was open in chamber session judge AG Campbell presiding Judge Campbell kept the proceedings informal and the whole thing moved pretty fast Both sides presented briefs and additional evidence was introduced through verbal interrogation No witnesses were called by 10 30 the cases for both sides have been completed Very well There's no further evidence of fact to rebuttal the court will make its decision on the evidence at hand Now in cases of this nature Where it is requested that the fact of death be established by legal declaration It has been generally held that the substantiating evidence was said request must be essentially unchallengeable The president's a law too numerous to bother citing Now in the case we are considering here It seems to the court that the substantiating evidence is far from unchallengeable The point of fact it would seem That they bulk of the evidence indicates that William Markey may indeed be still alive Now the court would be powerless to act even in the face of a reasonable doubt And the contrary evidence here is a good deal stronger than a reasonable doubt Therefore in the matter of the request made here in that will you Markey be declared legally dead It is the court's decision that the petition not be granted If new evidence becomes available at some future time the petition may be resubmitted the court is adjourned I told you what would happen I sure do hate to see that kid get away with murder now forget it Markey is walking around somewhere just as alive as you or I Well, we've all got a right to our opinions mr. Dollar. I see he's floating around out there in the Atlantic somewhere That's what he meant for us to think maybe so, but I pardon me mr. Wilson a message was phoned in for you But they wouldn't let me in the courtroom. Oh, thank you old man We'll excuse me mr. Dollar. Sure go ahead and read it It is I step out of that office. Somebody's bound to start What's the matter mr. Dollar and coast patrol hold a man's body out of the surf about an hour ago been drowned So they got a quick check on his prints It's William Markey Now here's our star to tell you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow a dead man tells a tale, but not the tale. He was meant to tell and thereby hangs The wind up Join us won't you yours truly Johnny dollar doors truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking


Good morning cyber traders. Welcome back on this Monday. How's everybody doing? Good to see you Cheryl Mike? Good to see you all Kathy Chuck Bonnie. Good to see you all Don good to see you all Look at all those great people's great traders. Well, welcome everybody welcome back.  It was pretty fun and we'll back Well, it's ready to go back to make some money. So a lot of good things are moving on this morning Got a couple of good little stocks. I'm gonna check out and also talk about what happened last week So a couple of good things that are moving. Let's start off and I know we're all looking at the stock EROS right now and a lot of you guys are did pretty well on it so far There's a huge. I'm just gonna give you a heads up. There is a huge buyer right now He he is oh, he just pulled his order. No, mine. He just pulled his order I saw a 45,000 share buyer at $2 and 45 cents, which is right here You just pulled his order right now 270 I see about a 11,000 shares seller out there. All right, but the stock's been doing pretty well I know you guys already traded it right around 830 and was I sold cheap blue mover? I saw a lot of you guys doing pretty well stock went from like a 230 over to 270 start to make lower lows. So hopefully everybody's out of it right now But I'm not really seeing any buyers out there now that that big buyer pulled his order, but we're gonna come back We'll check out this one a couple of minutes. Let's go talk about what happened last week first. Let's start off with this little cheapy that we traded and What a nice moving stock this one right here you fixed a time frame So we had this stock that literally wearing from like 90 cents to a buck 60 Almost about 200% you could see it kind of gapped up from the day before Only issue is this You know, I wasn't a fan of trading this stock for just one one main reason I'm not a penny stock guy, you know, and if you look on the right, we have no level three quotes We don't know where the buyers and sellers are So kind of makes it really really difficult when you also deal with tens of a penny Not that that none of you guys made money with it but you know listen, I know some of you guys did really well on it, but It's just you had to be had to be a little bit be very very careful of trading stocks like that now What was more up our alley was like this stock this T. O. R. C. Now. Here's a stock that just literally just got Decimated went from eight dollars in pre-market down to three some of us were able to get to short and You know what you would never think of it But like, you know, I'm a bottom fisher so I thought the stock would bounce but you could tell just by pre-market and Sure enough it went from from my from 830 you went from two all the way down to a buck went down another dollar So it did make a little bit of move around one o'clock. It started making come up a little bit nothing substantial She really didn't go anywhere now. I'm a fan of the stock.  It means really bad and knowing that's probably a pharmaceutical stock So, I mean these things just get hammered And we know they don't come back What else we had the AMR and that was another one a blast from the past this stock has just been literally Treating us so well lately. You could see on a long-term chart right here on the right 17 up to 20 up to 24 She had that really nice move, which I'm not really a fan of you know, a lot of us are usually done But for 10 30 in the morning, but she was she had a nice little move in the middle of the day You know one from 20 to 50 to about 24. She's moving again this morning not a lot, but listen From what we know as a day trader now this little became a little more of a swing trade actually But it's breaking all-time highs, but remember this stock is a very very fast moving stock You got to be a level 3 minimum level 3 Cyber trader You know to trade this type of stock now for some of you I know we have a lot of new members joining us But we you know when we teach you some stocks are more volatile than others Some of you think about oh, I can't trade the stock and moves too quickly and you know what you're right But if you trained how to eventually you'll know how to go from training wheels to driving a two-wheeler To a motorcycle and you know what it just takes time and patience but one thing I did like about the stock it had some really nice falstil flags and That kind of helped us out. The really nice one was the LK LK was probably hands-down the best stock out of them all You know what it got to a point with LK we're watching this thing just take off from 22 to 27 and There was times I was looking at them like do I buy it here? Do I buy it just did not want to back off It didn't want to back off until we got around like one o'clock Then it did its little shakes it busted up did a little shakes mean the higher highs But this stock hands down was the best stock. That's why I saved the best for last Listen, don't worry about it. Today's a new day, right? You know a lot of us come into trading and You know, it's like darn it. I missed that one darn it. I missed that one the day You're gonna get another shot. There's always new ones here. That's the beauty about day trading We're just focusing on the day's trade and making your days pay But this is something you have to look forward to so this was hands-down our best winner for Friday now What do we got going on to this morning? Listen weekend? Black Fridays coming around the corner, you know Thanksgiving biggest holiday of the year kids come back from college Long weekend, you know, then we got Christmas. So it's gonna get very active. You got the impeachment talking You know, you got a lot of stuff That's a lot of stuff that's happening a lot of earnings coming out People like to come out earnings right around this time of the year not during the holiday So we got a lot of action going on but just remember as Professional traders that we are we got to know what time of the day it is, you know What day of the week because some days are better than others. So let's start off with the one that we liked We looked at earlier, which is the E ROC S Wrong so that one you could see had a really nice push from the dip from yesterday mid-hire highs had a beautiful foul still flag She's starting to come back down to that support levels So I'm not really a fan of the stock anymore Until we see how it opens up because she's starting to back up But she's backing off a little bit right now from what I see from yesterday You know, you could see it. You could see it starting to come down. I'm not seeing any buyers out there You know any iceberg orders out there. So we'll see how she opens up my next My next favorite stock that I liked is obviously the one from last week that got destroyed the TRC Oh, maybe the CEOs are gonna wake up this morning. Maybe average down who knows but remember this doesn't mean like oh, you know what? Let me hold on for it. Maybe it's a good buy now You know, you won't know if it's a good buy for a long term until about three four five days until probably we stop breaking up About two two fifty. We got if you know, that's when you know You know, that's when you know the stock is obviously an investment when you start breaking higher highs What else we got this morning the KRTX came up on our radar is another nice little stock a little bit on the expensive side You know, we're not big fans of trading very expensive stocks, but the stock gapped up pretty big from 18 to 36 Stock is a little bit all over the place You may you were first thing you think is it a buyout? I Honestly didn't check the news yet, but when I see things that are Fluctuating on that pre-market I could tell you it from experience not even looking at the stock I would say it's not not only that but when you look at the level three over there on the right You're not seeing like big block orders on both sides So the stock obviously it's got some some wiggle room over there once again fast moving stock I Found this one to the CLBS. I don't know if I'm still a fan of it You know the stock we've traded a couple of days. You can see we're from to 220 up to 280 It's testing some major resistance levels right here Not really getting the greatest pre-market. I might scratch that, you know, you know, maybe I changed my mind on that Let me get rid of it X X net let's bring up that one So everybody remembers X net we killed it on this one a couple of weeks ago This that stock the one from 250 all the way to $7. So You could see it starting to back it back off a little bit To me this looks like a perfect short squeeze. That's what it was. I mean stock to go up, you know, three four hundred percent You know, that's what we do here, but doesn't mean now. It's a long-term play, but she's up a little bit this morning I'll be very very cautious on it. She didn't move that much on Friday She had that little pop from 460 to 490 and then she was done within 30 minutes But this is like one of those you got to like just take the money and run What else we got here? SLS is another one. That's the last one right there now I don't know if the stock is on your shortlist But this stock has just obviously been trending down beautifully. It's making lower lows continuing from Friday to today You know, you could see how it went from 660 close that right around $5 and look at that pre-market Just literally just going straight down. So nice little short, but once again I don't know if it's on your shortlist anything over under $5 Sometimes brokers don't let let you let you short it, but that one looks pretty pretty pretty nicely By the way, how much lower could the stock go people always ask? I don't know There's a number actually it's called zero. So don't ever think like oh, but I own it at, you know, $10 Listen, the trend is your friend. Don't buck that trend. All right, so Ben just posted up on the level four quotes AMRN You know up a maybe about 30 cents already on that stock. Good for you, Ben Nice job. Give him a round of applause. Always nice to start early. Make your money All right guys, so I think that pretty much does it I think we you know, listen It's not a big list on a Monday. That's perfectly normal We always have new stocks that do come up and that's why we'll go into a moment of silence remember start to The commentary once the market opens up With that said guys before we go remember it next week is going to be the classes So we're gonna do phase three next week on Monday and Tuesday this week Don't forget we got traders talk and we got Tom Sosnoff coming on closing bell from Tasty trade So if you guys want to know, you know Want a good options platform and you want to talk to the pioneer or built think or swim and launch is you know The next best thing don't forget make sure you register for that always look forward Tom's a very very good friend of mine You know, he doesn't do too many appearances on other third-party Educators but because you know, we're very good friends. He knows we do a great job He's gonna come on there. 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All right, so But at the end of the day, it's it really is for everyone But just watch what we do here watch the traders watch how they make money and how we control our losses That's the big thing you guys got to learn it's about you know, not about the winners about controlling the losers So sit back and then make sure you talk to education advisor and it'll tell you if you this is what you want to do We'll tell you how to move forward with it because it's not something it's a get-rich-quick scheme And you're not gonna learn how to do it in five days. Okay? This is something you'll be doing for the next 20 30 years takes time to learn it Just gotta have patience as long as you love it. You'll do great. Good luck everyone happy trading and we'll start the Commentary in about about 15 minutes. All right, go get your cup of coffee and hit the restrooms and We'll be back and go from there. Good luck everyone. Happy trading