Good morning, Melissa. Good morning. I'm very good. Thank you. Are you still on Amazon? I am. I still have my Amazon and I have one spy and one of the queues. That's good enough. But can you imagine, there's certain trades again, not every gap is created equal.  So, you know, Yes, but that's, that's the mentality that I have been used to is just holding, isn't it? No, but that doesn't work for every trade. It doesn't work for every trade and you still have to watch what's happening. Like, if there was anything that was bad happening, I might have said differently, but it wasn't.  The problem is you've gone off the rails as far as how you read charts. You're not focusing on the stuff I taught you alone.  And then it kind of has created a problem for you exiting trades or getting out too early or getting out when you're down and then they go. But you know, you did a good job with this.  I would let this run today and then get out. That's what that's my plan of action for you.  Cause I mean, even if this continues this week, which it could, I think this is a great exit today. It's Wednesday. You know what I mean? Yes. Are you looking at exiting first thing or? No, go back to the basics. Rate the gap. As soon as you hang up with me, you got an hour and a half to the open. Rate these gaps. Rate them. This gap in the market today. You could go long as a day trader. I'm telling you right now. Well, I mean, I don't have to rate it. I mean, you can see it. You do have to rate it. You should rate it.  I still do it every day, Phillip. Every day I go through the process. You need to do that. But surely this is just under the continuation of the previous. I mean, this is a new gap today. You can go long this guy can train here. I don't know. I have to look at what I think would be even be the cost of this now and what I would do with it as far as Friday or next Friday. I mean, I just, I just opened this up and like, holy cow.  Yes, it is. Fantastic call. It'll be points through the strike into the open. Maybe more by the time it opens. So this could be a two. This could be a 290 by an hour. It's got an hour and a half. This could be a 290 by the time it opens. Right. So you would let this play out the whole day. Then come back at quarter four and close it. Whatever you have time to do. In other words, if you don't have time to focus on this 100% today, then get out into the open and call it a day. If you've got to walk away to do something, this, that, whatever. If you have time to focus today, then watch it trade out. And if you trust yourself to make the right decision about it, then, then, then, then, you know, then stay with the trade and see if the gap runs up all day. I believe that this gap today will be bought, but I can't tell you what time without watching it could be 945, could be 10. It needs to be early. But I'm just saying like yesterday, that gap held yesterday. And it was red for a good period in the morning. So if you are not going to sit here and watch this, then get it out into the open. If you feel like you trust yourself to read it right on your own and can have the time, then let it play out because I believe this gap today gets bought. Right. And the same with Lulu. Would you, would you shut Lulu or would you say that's maybe got a potential in it? I mean, obviously we've only got, well, three days. Lulu, I had gone over this before and I said this to the other people. If you're in, if you're in Lulu now, you may, well, you may as well just write it out. You're down in it here. So I mean, you may as well just, you may as well just write this puppy out. I don't think you're going to say much with this at this point. Anyways, write it out. See what happens here in the next week. Right. Right. Okay. Don't worry about this. Yes. Yes. How he moves today. If it looks positive, then follow it, take it. It's been great. If it doesn't write it off, you know. Right. Okay. So in Amazon, you would, you would, you would look at that as you would the spy in the cubes then. No, this isn't the same thing. So maybe you want to get out of them. But this, this is probably, if the market goes, this will go too. So if you want to stay safe, then maybe get out of Amazon into the open and then write out the market, but you could write it at everything. Cause if everything goes in it, everything's going to go. Yes. And you should have done this too. You didn't do this one either. You didn't do this. You would have been up another couple hundred dollars just in this. Yes. Yes. But at the same time, you have to be careful, haven't you? You can't just throw everything on the table. No. You've gone from one, you've gone from not being careful at all, not to being totally as careful as you can barely move. So it's like you got to find a way back to normal. And that's what I'm trying to help you do. You know, it's just find a way back to the midway point, but you really should be doing all the trades that I call. My self, you mean? Yes. One minute you're like taking out the risk in the world, taking all this risk and holding everything to the dream target. And then now that then in a couple weeks ago, you're like, oh my God, I'm happy if I get up for even. Now you're like, now you're like. You know what the problem is.  When was the last time that I even called three trades in a row that all were losers? Not at all this year. I can tell you that for sure. I mean, I just like. I don't remember them anymore. I pushed them out of my mind, Melissa. Well, I wasn't this year in 2019. I mean, if Lulu fails for you, fine. Some people lost in the Apple too, but I mean, I've called a million good trades this year. And in fact, I'm going to figure out the win ratio. I haven't had time to sit down and really figure out what the percentages is, but it's on my list of things to do. It's going to open. This is going to, this is going to get bought up into the open. I'm going to get going. I have so much to do today, but listen, I just wanted to talk to you. Great job on this. You've got enough to make it count. So watch these puppies here today. And if you want to get out of Amazon, maybe into the open and then hold the others, whatever you want to do. I think so. Great job. I want to hear some good emails from you today. Oh, yes. Okay. All right. Bye. Take care. Bye.


Okay, for those of you who are just joining us, it looks like we've now got 13 people in the session with me or 14 people in the session with me now. We're gonna go ahead and get started at 202. So go to wait one more minute. So come on in, make yourself comfortable. Feel free to introduce yourself here in the session chat. If you click on the session, this is session, and then click on chat, you'll be able to interact with other people in the room. Also, if you have any questions or if you wanna join visually as well, you can turn on your camera, turn on your microphone. I have room in this room for up to 19 other people to join me on camera. You're not obligated to though. I know sessions like this, you might not want people to see into your home or see you working from home. So no obligation at all, but if you'd like to join me here on camera, I welcome that. Again, I've got room for 19 other folks to join, but if not, we'll go ahead and get started now. Let me go ahead and share my screen. And I think they've opened this session, not only the people who are just Knight Foundation grantees, but who are also Perspective Knight grantees or other people that are joining the session. So if that's you, you're welcome to be here and drop in questions as well. If you've fallen, of course, into any of those buckets. But I'm gonna start just talking about communications in relation to being a grant recipient for Knight Foundation. So at Knight Foundation, one of the things that we really care about is help amplify your story. So one of several of our communications philosophies is that as we help you amplify your story, we'll actually be able to attract other people who are innovating that we can potentially invest in in the future. And so, whether that's through a press release or some sort of other grant announcement, anything we can do to say, hey, Knight Foundation is supporting your organization's work and really putting your work first, but Knight support second in terms of priority, but also just in terms of how we're talking about the announcement, that allows us to find other people, other innovators like you to invest in. So you'll kind of see that theme throughout this whole presentation, as well as when you're working with Knight as well. And yes, again, as the chat says, if you want to come onto screen, like Hitall, I believe has, feel free to turn on your video or your audio and you can ask any questions throughout the session. Feel free to interrupt me as well. You'll see that Jacqueline put a question into the chat. We'd love to have you drop in questions in the chat as well. So let me navigate to the next screen. So if you have a grant for Knight and you're joining us for this particular part, we'll start with talking about the Knight grants. What we want to do is help you talk about your grant in the most effective way. So regardless of what grant level you're at, whether you received a $20,000 grant or $2 million grant or more, we want you to be in touch with us before you publicly talk about your grant at all. I would recommend in general that you budget at least three business days. If you're mentioning us in a press release or anything like that for us to turn around approval just because we do get a lot of approval requests. But our involvement in your announcement in general will depend on the level of your grant. So if your grant is under $250,000, we usually let the grantee lead when talking about announcing their grant first. So you all can decide the cadence of the press release, the timing, generally stuff like that. We let the grantee decide and then we just support in whatever way we decide is most appropriate. For grants above that, so $250,000 and above, we much more prefer to approach it as if it's a joint grant announcement. So either we'll co-author a press release together, co-author a blog post, we might take on media outreach together, we might take it independently and we'll work with you on a case by case basis. So really how you work with night about talking about your grant will be tailored to the size of your grant as well as what we decide together is the best strategic approach. So at some point, once you decide, hey, I'm ready to publicly talk about my grant, your relationship manager, which I think in most cases here is probably Lillian Corral. We'll put you in connection with communications, with the night communications team and then we'll meet with you, talk about your plans, what you wanna do and then come up with a specific plan tailored to you. But again, these are the general guidelines, just talk to us before you actually talk about your grant on a public scale. If it's just a mention in a press release, give us at least three days to turn it around, if not more. And again, this will all depend on the size of grant. For approvals, whether you want a logo approved, you want a mention improved or anything like that, some people have a wall on their public space installment that they want to include night's logo on or night's name on. All of those can either go to Kenny Ma or Directive Communications and I put his email address here or simply communications at kf.org and everyone on the communications team will get it and one of us will respond to you. So those are the most efficient ways to get a hold of the night team for specific approvals or if you wanna start those conversations if your night grant relationship manager has already kind of made that introduction for you. This again, I put Kenny's email here. So if you wanna take a screenshot of this particular slide, this would be a site that I would recommend that you just take a quick screenshot of. Again, you can contact Kenny at Ma at kf.org or communications at kf.org. We have a team, our whole website which has the comms team, guidelines and different resources that we have available is at kf.org slash communications. I just realized I included an extra dot there right before the backlash, so sorry about that. But kf.org slash communications, our website will have everything you need and if specifically you're looking for our logos or our branding guidelines, you can also find that at kf.org slash logos. And yeah, so that's it specific to, thank you for dropping that in there into the chat. That's specific to talking about your grant with night. The next part of this session which I know was super quick, the first part was only eight minutes. So I wanna pause now to see if anyone has any questions. The next part of the session that I just wanted to talk about is how to think about talking about your grant or your work in general. I think one of the things that we have an advantage of here at night is just understanding how to talk about things strategically. So I wanna leave you all with any strategic tips but if any of you have any questions now, feel free to either drop it into the chat or unmute yourself and I'll pause for a minute or two so people can hop in. I feel like I talked super fast. So if I did, please let me know. And I can also repeat anything I said if anything wasn't clear. But wanna make sure you at least get a screenshot of this page. Our production folks have dropped into the chat, the emails as well as the links.  And here's the general guidelines that we provide people. And again, as I mentioned earlier, this does feel a little more general but when you actually start working with us, when our boots are on the ground and we're talking about communications, we're gonna come up together with a much more tailored strategy and a plan for talking about your work on a public scale. Okay, so let me then move into talking about how to tell your story. So, oh, you only see the title slide. Okay, does everyone else only see the title slide? It should say telling your story right now. Do you see that? You see that, okay. Ray, I see a head nod for someone. So Ray, I would refresh your screen, sometimes hop in. This is just like a hop in function and sometimes it just gets paused. So I would just refresh it and then hopefully it'll work. Okay, so while Ray is taking care of that, thank you, Alexia and thank you, Don. We'll talk about telling your story. So one of the things that I really enjoy talking with our grantees about and just other nonprofits or other folks working in the industries in which we work is about how to tell your story because you, no matter what field you're working in, you have a story behind your work that someone's gonna find interesting.  So as you're thinking about that, I think the two modes to think about is first of all, how you're being innovative or the innovation that's just going on behind your work. Think about what you are doing as a smart city technologist or someone in data or whatever category you've fallen that's innovative and different. And then the other thing is to think about the community impact. In my opinion, the press tends to really respond to stories or in my experience, I guess, more than my opinion that have a human element to it. So you can talk a lot about data, for example. I think data at a very high level, you can talk about understanding all sorts of demographics of what citizens are doing, but the moment you are able to layer in an analysis or an understanding of what this means for people, either on a small scale or on a large scale, that's really when there's a story there to think about. So again, I'm kind of approaching this from a higher level just because I know there's such a broad swath of people doing different things, but I really think that there's interesting stories that everybody has to think about their work. So then as you've figured out, okay, this is our story either, the story and then also newsworthiness, which is a bullet point that I should have included here but I didn't, but maybe just write it down for own notes. What's timely about what we're doing? So oftentimes when we're working with grantees, we'll ask them to identify anything that's happening on their calendar that we might be able to peg a grant announcement to or peg a blog post to or anything interesting that's coming up. So even if they don't have anything on their own organizational calendar that's coming up, maybe they know of something in their community or something on a national scale that might be directly related to their work. So that also helps motivate and build a story as you're talking, as you're thinking about how to talk about your work. So generally at night when we work with our grantees, we look at storytelling in four different arenas. First in the press release. So a press release is just, as you know, a very effective way to get the facts to the press and just share about the facts either this is the facts of the grant, this is the facts of what our organization is doing if you're not talking about a grant. Here's the facts that you need to know to be able to write a quick news brief about this. Blog posts though, are also a really effective storytelling method. And at Night Foundation, we have actually found that oftentimes if we pair a blog post with a press release, you can actually have a really beautiful synthesis of being able to not only share the facts behind what's happening, but add that human element that I mentioned earlier, adding that narrative, adding the why behind it. I think it allows you to share a little bit more color than maybe a press release would. And that's something that we found really compelling too. And when we share press release and blog posts together, we always make sure that the information is linked, that they're all on our website, that if you're on one piece, like if you're on a press release, you can easily find the blog post in Marys Versa. The third thing that we often consider, but not as often as press release or blog posts is maybe pitching an op-ed to a publication. So for example, if someone was doing something really impactful with the data that could potentially change, let's say the way an entire industry or an entire city's functions. And there's really a compelling argument that they would like to make. So more than just the news and more than just talking about the color or the narrative behind the story, but in addition to that, being able to make an argument for a reason why a community should get behind an initiative or why a government bodice should support an effort or anything like that. Anything that gives you a little bit more of a persuasive gist, then that might be when an op-ed is appropriate. And the good thing is you can pitch op-eds to your local publication or to even national publications and get published as an author in that publication. And now you're viewed as a credible voice in the arena. So sometimes again, when there's more of an angle, like a persuasive angle that we think our grantee can take, we'll advise them to draft an op-ed. We might co-author an op-ed with them and then we can help them pitch that as well. And then the last thing is social media. So Night Foundation, we have a rather robust following on our social media platforms. And one of the things that we really like to be able to do is to help elevate the work of our grantees, specifically the night-supported work of our grantees on social media. So you can always send us, as you get to know us more as we're working together on your grant announcement, that's usually then an open door invitation to send us things that either you think we might be interested in sharing or ask for help for sharing. So we actually have a grantee now in our journalism grantee who just sends us DMs on Twitter, pardon me, with things that they think we might be interested in sharing. So I think that usually we're more than happy to help when we're able to fit it into our workflow and invite you to do the same. And then the last little note that I'll leave you with is something called the joy of missing out. And I can't take credit for this. I've actually heard it from a woman who does nonprofit communications training. And I heard it several years ago, but that's just something that I think as you're thinking of your own storytelling, just to think about the joy of missing out. So you might have often heard of the fear of missing out. People talk about that all the time. I suffer from foam on myself on a regular basis. But I think sometimes in communications we find ourselves stretching ourselves a little too thin and trying to do too many things and really being strategic and particular and a little choosy about what you're doing. First of all, it can make your efforts go further. And second of all, just make sure you're not doing too much by really digging into a couple areas and not trying to do everything all across the board but doing what you think might make the most sense strategically. You can have really effective communications efforts. And again, I feel like I'm talking at a super high level. So I really would invite you to ask questions. Now we still have about 40 minutes left. I have one more slide to go through but we have about 40 minutes left before I'm supposed to end the session. So I'd encourage you to ask questions, turn on your video and audio if you'd like or drop questions into the chat because I'd love to use the rest of this time just to kind of workshop together to talk through stories and talk through maybe how we can help you. And yeah, as the prompt says you can drop any questions here. So the last slide, after this session is over so probably next week after the whole Smart Cities lab is over, I mean. So probably early next week, we'll send you an email inviting you to participate in training with a man called Mark Fest and it's called Elevator Speech Training. Mark Fest is the former VP of Communications at Knight Foundation. I think he left about 10 years ago and he started his own program where he helps people actually come up with their own pitch. So their own Elevator Speech. And you might have heard like give me your Elevator pitch he'll actually help you develop that and practice it. Several of our Knight staff have gone through it. Several of our grantees have gone through it and I would really highly recommend you do. So we're happy to provide that to our grantees on a first come first serve basis. And we provide that with no cost to you as long as we have slots available. So again, we'll send an email for that early next week so that you or your organization can sign up but you'll hear about it here first so that you know to look out for it early next week. So yeah, I just wanted to make sure to note that and again, we'll send that email. Okay, so I'm gonna stop sharing my slide right now. Can you figure out how to do this? Okay, there we go. Hi, good to see you. Hey, Tal, is that how you say your name? Okay. So I see a question here from Meredith. So I'm gonna answer that question from Meredith and or at least begin to answer that question from Meredith but hey, Tal, if you have questions or if anyone else does bring them in here. Again, we've got plenty of time to go through them so want to make sure we get to those. So Meredith who asked these questions do you have an example of a grantee or program or project that has done a great job with storytelling in your view and why? I do and so Knight Foundation, before I share this example, I do wanna say pull back a bit and say Knight Foundation funds them three program areas. We fund in journalism, in the communities which Smart Cities and this program area falls under and in the arts. So I'm actually going to tell a story about a journalism organization but I think all of the examples that they've done can actually be applied to your work as well. So I think the organization I'm thinking of is Report for America and we actually had a similar convening to this at the beginning of the year for our journalism grantees and Report for America actually came and talked. They are actually have been done a very good job of talking about their work and sharing the work that they've done. So actually if you go to their Twitter account Meredith, I think there would be a great example. They of course I think have a larger communications budget so they're able to produce videos. They're able to, they have a whole cohort of individuals they work with and so they really do a good job of adding the human element of stories. It's a similar program to Teach for America. They're putting reporters in newsrooms, young reporters in the newsrooms. So they're actually able to talk really well about the human impact. And again, that note I made earlier, the human impact can make such a big difference in terms of people really grasping onto your story. So that would be a quick example. I'm happy to dive more into that if you would like. And then let me just answer on one's questions. Do you prioritize one social media tool over the other? So yeah, I think over time you'll understand where your audience is. I think for us at Night Foundation as an example, we know what type of posts we'll do really well on which platform. And we also know the kinds of cadence we need for posting on each platform to have success. And that I think is anecdotal to each organization. I'm happy to share the insights. I will share the insights for Night Foundation right now but I think as you spend time with your organization on your platforms, you might find a little bit of a different cadence. So we know at Night Foundation, when we post about journalism items or data or technology or misinformation on Twitter, that stuff takes off. When we post about communities on Facebook, people really grasp on the things about communities, especially the more hyper local we get. And then third, we know the Instagram and the arts kind of go hand in hand. So we cross host all of our information on all of the platforms, but we will really lean into Twitter for the items I mentioned or we'll try to beef up the arts on Instagram and stuff like that. Dawn, thanks for joining us as well on video. Do either of you have any questions or anything you'd like to discuss? A little bit project specific, can you hear me okay? Yeah, it's a little soft but yeah, I can hear you. So we got funding from Night for Documentary Film and it's about public libraries. It's about half history and half contemporary, half libraries are dealing with challenges now and serving their communities. What I don't know is has Night funded documentary films in the past and worked with the filmmakers on the rollout or will this be something new for you guys? Sure, so that, let me actually talk to my colleagues about the specific documentary element before. We've definitely funded documentaries before and we've funded in the library space. I think generally when we have funded projects like this before the storytelling projects, we let you do your own thing. What we wanna talk about is our support for you doing your own thing. So we don't need to be part of building the rollout or even part of the film project. We just wanna talk about how we can amplify your work and amplify talking about the fact that your documentary is a night supported effort. Does that answer your question? Yes, and if you have any examples of films that you've worked with in the past, I'd love to see some of those. Yeah, I'm happy to do that. Don, could you drop your email address in the chat if you're comfortable doing that or you can DM me? Here, this is where, I'm also a night foundation. So if you wanna DM me, the one that says this is where you send me a DM with your email address and then I'll do some digging and I'd be happy to email to you. Okay, thank you. I will save this. Okay, so I see a question from, wow, lots of questions coming in. Oh, hey Amanda, haven't seen you for a while. Okay, so Saeed, have there been any grantee story languages other than English? So Saeed, that's a great question. We, in Miami particular, I can say we do a lot of funding in the Spanish language. I know in our other communities, for example in St. Paul, there's a huge mom community. So we definitely have grants that we have made to non-English speaking grantees. I think for, or not not English speaking grantees, but for grantees who are working in languages other than English, I think it's probably a better way to word that. In terms of the products that Knight is producing, generally it will still always be available in English and then maybe we'll work with a translation company to get it translated into an appropriate language as needed. But still because the mass majority of people who we're working with are reading or writing in English, that's usually what we tend to default to and then translate as appropriate or as needed. I'm not sure if that answers your question, so if you want to follow up with any additional questions, feel free to. Julia, when Knight give grantees access to media outreach lists in specific markets, specifically Knight community ones, an additional media outreach partner outreach is really helpful too. Julia, that's probably on a case by case basis as we decide is, so I guess short story, yes, as long as we can talk through the strategy behind it, I think that generally what we do is try to work with grantees and Julia, your name is Reggie Obell so I know we've worked together I think. So, but I just can't remember what organization you're with so I'm sorry, but I think as we're working together, you know, like oftentimes I'm building, rebuilding media lists from scratch, not always but I'll work with an existing one and try to flesh it out, update it a bit and so there are some regular people who we try to target from the media regularly in our communities based off of relationships that we have. Usually with grantees, if I'm not gonna do that outreach directly myself on behalf of the grantee, I usually send them that information or make recommendations of who they should reach out to in a specific city or do sometimes send them a list, again, of recommendations of people who had to reach out to. So again, it's very much on a case by case basis, same with partner outreach lists as well. I think it really depends on what the need is and what we're able to provide that's accurate and up to date. So I'm saying that kind of like this because I'm not sure if I'm fully answering your question or if I targeted it rightly, but yes, long story, yes, but we would want to work with you specifically to talk through what you're looking for and how we can best support that. Yes, yeah, that would be great. Okay, Amanda, what are your measures of success for your digital engagement? Is time spent, number of clicks, et cetera? What is your overall approach for the measurement of the communications data? So this is funny because this is actually something that we talk about a lot in terms of understanding how to best evaluate our work behind communications. I think you're probably gonna get sick of me saying it depends, but it really always does depend on the effort. For example, how we might measure what we consider to be a smaller grant investment versus a larger grant investment in the success of that or kind of the scale that we're using for that might be different, but generally we're looking for engagements, we're looking so that includes clicks, retweets, likes, et cetera, specifically clicks, how long people are, or how much people are interacting with our content, and then on social media, we're also looking at impressions. So at a very high level, but we are looking at all of those things and just trying to understand, get a very high level sense of how our efforts are. We look, or how our efforts are being successful, or whether or not they are being successful, we try to look on a quarterly basis as well. What are some national press themes slash angles that you're seeing in the smart city space right now that grantees might be able to take on to? I would actually love it if other folks in this room, if you wanna put something in the chat or if Atal or Don, you have any ideas to put this into the chat or answer now, because I think Angela versus me answering that question, I think you have 30 other people here who are working in the smart city space that are gonna be exceedingly more knowledgeable than myself. So if anyone has any thoughts, again, the question is if there are any national press themes or angles that you are seeing in the smart city space right now, their grantees might be able to take on to. I personally think while we're waiting for folks to answer, there's a lot of questions, digital inclusion and equity. I think the themes actually behind the panels that we've had today are things that are major national conversations. I think digital inclusion and equity, like Amanda said, broadband access, I know we just have that. City tech services and COVID recovery is an emerging thing and it's a huge theme on one. I agree, especially around COVID recovery and preparing for future disasters, I think. People are thinking about a lot in this space. I also think that what I was gonna say is that I think people are often thinking about what's happening with data. And I think people have been thinking about that for a while, but safety and security behind their data or behind their information privacy is a big conversation right now. And along those lines, I think you could even probably include a little bit of misinformation in this industry too, or quality of information. Any other thoughts that people wanna share with Angela? And thanks, Amanda and Admin for dropping those in. Health, equity and access, misinformation around health amid COVID, yeah. And that's been a huge one that we've seen even outside of our smart cities work. For those of you who don't know, we currently have an open request for proposals for combating misinformation in particular in communities of color. There's been a tremendous amount of misinformation. So if you are doing that kind of work, you might consider applying for that RFP as well. Don says, I'm finding a lot of interest in changing the negative perceptions about government and what it can do. What's the future of public change, perception that private is better than the public? Yeah, agreed. I've seen that a lot as well. Awesome. Well, again, here to answer any questions you may have. When I'm just sitting in silence and hearing my own voice, I tend to talk to fill the space. So I'll be quiet for a minute in case anyone wants to drop in any questions or hit all or don if you wanna talk as well. Yeah, for those of you who don't know, Amanda is with A80 Cities, which is based in Canada. And yeah, I'm sure it is, Amanda. I'm curious to hear a little bit about how Knights changed, how they support grantees or their own focuses during the pandemic, or since the pandemic. Sure, particularly with communications or just in general? Either one. I assume your field is communications. Yeah. I was gonna say, it's a little more tricky for me to talk about just general grantee support. I know that in general, we tried, especially toward the beginning of the pandemic, we tried to give a lot of flexibility with our grantees, but yeah, I think in general, one of the things that I've just noticed and respected about my colleagues at night is that they try to really respond to the moment. So right now COVID is the moment and I've just even seen that in our grant making work and also just in our communications work, we actually had to totally pivot how we were doing, well, we were doing all digital communications in addition to doing all digital communications prior to that though, we also added a whole line of live programming which is led by our communications team by myself and my colleague Alejandro that we haven't done prior to the pandemic. So we realized that there was a need for reaching people and an opportunity to reach people with live stream conversations. And so at the beginning of the pandemic that started at four times a week and now it's once a week, thankfully it gives us a little more space to breathe but you might have heard of this through the weekly email that we send with live content. And so I think that's one of the ways that for cons we've responded to the pandemic, but yeah, just in general our general operations with grantees for communications have always kind of been on a digital platform. We've always done kind of zoom calls with them, done outreach to the press, even traditional press usually is by phone or email. So those kind of things haven't pivoted maybe our timelines have but adding the live programming definitely has been something that's been awesome but has been a comms pivot for us. Just to follow up, do you know if there's gonna be after the name of it that the big annual night convening that usually happens in the beginning of the year? Yeah, so we sent the date out for the night media it saved the date out for the night media forum. I think we sent it out last week or the week before it's going to be, let me see if any of my colleagues are able to jump in if they know this before I'm able to find it, I would appreciate it, but it's going to be either at the end of February or the beginning of March, February 22nd, 23rd and 24th. So, and again, it'll be virtual and I believe it will be on this platform as well. And also, I know we're in an online session now so I won't expect any of you to hang around here or till three Eastern, if there are no additional questions, we can, I can give you some time back so I don't want for us people to stay in here, but I'll be hanging out here for a little bit longer. Thank you, Rachel. Good seeing your words, Amanda. And again, I do want to emphasize to everyone our team, oh, thanks Marta. Our team really is more than happy to help with anything. So, if you do have any questions, I personally like talking through strategy behind things. That's something I really enjoy. I think the vast majority of my communications colleagues do as well. So, thinking through what might be the most effective way to talk behind about your work or talk about night support for your work is something that we enjoy and are happy to help with things through. Great. Well, I'll hang out here for a couple more minutes. I do want to say, I was given a talking point to say, so let me pull it up so I don't miss it, that the next session is going to start at 315. So, you can just click back on to the stage icon on the left side of your browser, and it's on equitable recovery for public spaces and city planning. And yeah, again, this session that I just did is going to be recorded. All of our sessions will be recorded and we'll put them all on our website, as well as for those of you who are in this session and might have missed the session with my colleague, Vicky, that should also be recorded and that's going over flux, our grants administration system reporting, things like that. So, yeah, again, I think in general, I'll speak for Vicky as well. We're always happy to help. So, any way that we can be a resource for you, especially talking about your work, more than happy to be that. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Take care. Thank you, Archie. Thank you. Have a good day. Okay, thank you all. I'm going to sign off as well, since it looks like most people are headed out and see you on the main stage shortly.


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All right cyber traders welcome back here this Monday March 15th shortly after 2 30 p.m. Eastern time welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting Feels good to be back myself. I should say great to great to see everybody Let's make sure my sound is coming in crystal clear great to see skip Michael I saw Phil and Kath just before and Lori coming in now perfect all our students and trial members joining us here live inside our Trading Room Stefan Norman will Jeff perfect All right, and and like I said for anybody joining in as well on social media Facebook live and YouTube welcome on back You know I have to appreciate after I thank Fausto I should say for giving me the day off on Friday was quite the gorgeous day It was a great day to take off so I really appreciate him for appreciate him allowing me to do so But it feels good to be back. We had a pretty strong morning But it's quite the busy day all together. We have class from earlier today And that should be on the dashboard later on this evening At least by the end of the market closed here today But we do have class ahead at 3 p.m. Eastern time for all of her and I wanted to correct this as well from the morning I know the Fausto it said gold platinum diamond I want to reiterate all of our bronze silver gold platinum diamond students here a part of CTU You have access to the phase one stock course that being this this afternoon So we'll make sure that the link is posted very shortly ahead from here But with that said though, I want to go right from top to bottom You know kind of like a lightning around addition, you know just scanning the market here I want to start with what's on the board though the OC GM We had called this out going into 2 o'clock 2 30 here to stock that we are all pretty familiar with at this point Just over the last like what like three months really really from the top of the year You know from the really beginning of January We ended up seeing this make a big pot from like a dollar dollar 50 and it squeezed as you could see it A hive like 18 plus going back into the end of January So, you know, it's treated us very well as a long it's treated as great as a short You know once we ended up seeing it dump back down. Yeah, but for right now I mean hey the news came out right before 2 o'clock eastern time here OC GM CEO says that it has plans to sell 100 million doses of indian vaccine in the u.s in 2021 It says it hopes to launch I guess launch their drug in the u.s in the second quarter Okay, so that led to this big squeeze up thus far from like roughly off the low It was kind of like stinking off the day here lower eyes pulling back down to make a lower low heading into You know pretty much right into right upon that news hitting So we saw a breakout from there. It squeezed up hit a high off 10 45 I saw a couple of us go short for about 20 25 cents I thought one of our so one of our traders michael d ended up doing that You know for right now, it's kind of holding off 10 here I wouldn't shock me if it breaks down a little bit lower before it does squeeze back up But just given the news we're pretty familiar with this trade just before we go from top to bottom We'll just put this on our main list to begin All right, cool So I I always like to see that at least you know news on a stock that we are all pretty familiar with A stock that has really good liquidity on the order books So if this doesn't make a big move in any direction later on today Then i'm just really excited to trade it for tomorrow and for you know this entire week really i'm happy We call it this you know right now on a monday So that said we'll just go from top to bottom the s glb, of course How could I begin otherwise? I mean ocg ocg was on the screen But you know, you know, we ended up doing really well on this trade not necessarily as much in pre-market It popped from the news in pre-market, but then fizzled out leading into the open It didn't it did make a pull back at first. It does look like it just popped right away It ended up kind of pulling back initially once the market opens up We always like to say that to wait the first like you know three minutes five minutes after the market opens up Here's your 930 opening bell It popped up at first they shook back down it did break under an over five And then from there it ended up running up getting halted as you could see here off the high here at the time Roughly off 582 Now a halt on the way up usually is a good sign But you got to be careful at the same time as well This couldn't have worked out any better at least off the reopen So you know ended up holding right from where it got halted from 582 as you could see And then squeezed up pretty nicely. So yeah for right now the s glb I don't know what the news is again. We're kind of doing this quick So I had the news for ocg and I'll do it for s glb, but otherwise I can't do it for every stock. Let's see here Oh Here we go s glb announces contract with lockheed marten Yeah, that's all I got pretty much I don't really know much more aside from the headline that I just said there I guess they announced some deals some contract on a product Nonetheless though, hey, we don't need to know the news is to you know make money on this trade So off the reopen god bless this ended up working as perfect as one could wish Ended up popping up towards just about 750 770 and pulled back and then broke even higher later on and even still at this point Pretty strong near ties. So I don't mind giving this a second look into the afternoon. It's not like super tight to its eyes But starting to push up off eight right now. So if this wants to make a pop I would say in the next like 10 minutes 15 minutes Let's get it going. So let's keep this train moving on the way up towards nine I'm sure it'll make a false breakout over and under nine, but we need to start Seeing more action really soon times the ticket on this trade So normally I like to see a stock like right near its highs going into the close at this time of the day You know, I'm going to put this on the list given this balance, but let's see more All right, the chk trade unfortunately as good as we did on this in pre-market At least we ended up seeing this make that pull back that that drop off once the market opened up Ruby's all over the place. Wow this thing ended. Yeah, I forgot about this So rich called this out at least going into the early afternoon making that second wind back up But we saw this off the morning the market open it ended up popping in first foul So it was you know, kind of a commandeering this one. He was like we're leading this one I should say, you know, it was squeezing up really nicely from 20 up to 30 got halted a few times on the way up And I don't know if it got halted on the way down But as you can see the the profit taking ended up coming in I think even before it hit its high and then from there just like came right back down So, you know, I made a second little squeeze back up like we always tend to see these top percent gainers make No, wouldn't shock me if check ends up making like a 50 cent move But I'm not as interested actually 50 and let's say like 20 wouldn't shock me if it makes like a 20 cent move this check trade But you know, it wouldn't shock me at the same time if it just pulls back. It's not worth trying to gamble We're not here to gamble. We always see these stocks pull back. Anyway, if it's not here, it's going to be tomorrow So, you know, at least for right now the sglb will put on our list. Just it's still pretty strong But otherwise a lot of these others we're just going to scratch off Ogc not not to be confused with ocgn. We have ocg and ocgn This one they're not tied together But ended up making like this like low volume squeeze up earlier in the morning ended up breaking out higher later on And obviously now at this point, you know, it's still making a sharp move up and down big spread here and there So I'll put this on our list. I'll try and separate it from the ocgn trade at least Make sure no one has like traders this dyslexia like like Fausto and myself So yeah, for the meantime, at least this ocg trade will put on our list, but this thing has got to find some support Now i'm just putting on the list given the afternoon volatility for right now But there's not really much of a support here on the bid A lot of volume came in off seven, but Again, it hasn't really been holding seven as a level So you don't want to guarantee that if anything I would want to see a big order on the ask it seven get filled Because that denotes a lot of buying and should that happen and then it holds over seven nicely Let's see a pop and then from there it can make for a nice trade But that's a lot of you know things to ask for in a row. You know, I'm going to put this on our list Given the volatility, you know, hopefully it does that But if it doesn't just be careful given the spread and the thin orders on the book here All right, okay, co fizzled out. This was a bust. I mean, there were a couple trades that were duds today I was pretty uh, you know not pissed about but you know, it just I was upset by like they're pretty inexpensive level one trades That you could load up on three four five thousand shares of the genius trade here I was this is like watching the grass grow right now, but even from earlier this popped in pre market leading into the open There was some news that came out. This was looking incredible Uh, the zom trade I would we'll just jump to right now because I had them in mind the lkco Is it the genius trade was it done? This zom was it done up until at least, you know, 1 p.m. And 1245 eastern time it broke out from like 245 ish You know squeezed up pretty nicely. I wish I could say I took the trade, but yeah for right now I mean it's still up 10 plus percent kind of near the highs I'll keep it on the side list for right now jump back to it at the end All right, so I kind of just went off course. They're just with lkco, but I wanted to uh, just jump back eight easy Yes made a nice pop going into the afternoon Made a new high off 160 ran up towards a high of 174 drop back down You know made a higher or low as of right now But needs to get back above I'd say like that last peak off like 160 ish 162 Then make the you know higher high from there Yes Tk t-trade making a pop for the afternoon kind of low volume big spread not much going on really on the order book This at least this one's trading more volume. What the hell's going on here? I'll jump to benzinga pro for this at least right now this knph trade Just checking my uh chap work right now inside the trading room See some call outs on blink and uh quadruple you will go to those in just a moment the knph trade All right, so all I have here from benzinga pro looks like back from friday They ended up reporting like pretty bad earnings, but they have really high short interest apparently like 71 short interest So that's what that's what's led to this squeeze up so far at the same time as we say that and we see this I mean don't be surprised. It should come crashing back down I and if it does look for a support to build, but you know if the volume dies off after I wouldn't expect for this to go anywhere like look at the daily chart You can just see that based on the daily chart here, you know just some of these runs up and down like these big gaps here This was like a pump and dump back from like a week and a half ago I forgot just you know popped up in pre-market here. I'm sure this morning dump back down Gap down lower next morning All right, so at least given the afternoon move here. I'll put the knph on for right now But if it ends up dudding off then I just move on to something else I'm checking on amc here AMC AMC off 14 Just so choppy it ended up making as you could see like a really nice pop from earlier It a slingshot from 12 broke under 12 hit a low of like 1185 But no under and over 12 ended up running from there. We'll talk about this trade. I'm short tomorrow inside traders talk I you know for right now for the afternoon. It's just choppy up and down I ended up doing well on the long trade, but that was after I ended up taking a bit of a loss on a short Or uh on a no, and I'm sorry scratch that Sorry about that Hey, I ended up taking a loss on a long trade from earlier and then I ended up making it back on another long trade from 14 My apologies. I was in from 14 34. I ended up averaging down here ended up breaking lower from 14 20 I ended up taking I think it was like a 13 or 12 cent loss And then I ended up making it back a little bit and some off 14, but just still it's so choppy up and down I'm happy to be out at least I told myself I was like, you know, you got to be out of this trade before the afternoon meeting before before You know, if I waste the profits on it while I'm like doing this, it would be pretty uh Pretty bad. So for right now at least yeah, the amc trade will kind of keep on the side This ends up running up while game stop like dumped off going into the early afternoon late morning Acer this unfortunately made the exact move that I thought it was going to make I Unfortunately at the same time as I say that I wish I could say I jumped in this I wish I could say I jumped in this from four. I did not ended up making like the perfect hold right off four I came to the trade when it was when it was at like 410 I was flipping through my level four my book map and I forgot about this trade It was at like 410 maybe 409 and I thought it was too late. I just didn't want to chase it So just ended up running up to 450 and now at this point flattened out But you know ended up dying off half to the market opened up and made the bounce from four from there All right, here's normans trade the quadruple you You you you you all about you Uh breaking a new high right now or just did before and trying to once again like 17k water on the s there at 7 17 All right, uh, all right, cool sos familiar name at least up 20 I feel like I've been going down the skaters list for so long right now Cheese obviously the market's up but not by a whole lot, but you know, we've talked about we've talked about a few trades from earlier today uh Yeah, I wouldn't expect for there to be a whole lot on the losers list here But we'll see if there's anything on that side in just a moment Ooh this mbrv for a nice level one trade the second that five minute chart loaded up on the left side. I knew right away Uh, yeah that this one looks really nice this mbrv trade It's like slower moving of course, but you know for a level one stock as a new student This would be like the prototypical type of trade you would you would want to watch going into the afternoon Also at the same time as I say that we talk about this more in our intermediate course the phase two classes Uh, actually last month we talked about it, you know potential gaffel here too in the daily chart What else we got here on the gainer side anything else? zk in this one this one ended up popping from earlier with the a zs trade I thought this was like another blockchain related stock ended up like popping from like right around like 10 30 eastern time Ended up kind of dying off pretty quick All right, uh folks if there's anything else that looks good, that's up type it in the chat board. Let me know I'm gonna hop over to the loser's list here That's not the loser's list there we go Uh, we got a few things that at least are short of all the fi and v I forgot I forgot about this one So this one ended up running up for us back on thursday if not mistaken. I was off on friday So I didn't really see what this did. I didn't even look at this going into the morning So back from friday last trading day We ended up seeing this kind of make a sling shot right from like 7 60 755 But I'm sure a lot of buying came in off the eight level Ended up kind of pulling back. I'm sure bitcoin this morning and some of the other fin uh fin stocks Uh, you know going into the market open today Held 8 20 then eventually eight and for right now at the low of the day here This could be a good short to see continue break lower Uh, I would say though at the same time though you have support right here practically off seven Uh, six 97 the low seven 708 So i'm sure right around like 705 seven bucks. Do you have a big support level sitting there? So for the meantime, I mean, it's like pretty flat, but we're familiar with the trade at least I want to jump to the uh, oops There we go Yeah, pretty flat over the last 10 minutes. I mean obviously hasn't moved but You know given we're pretty familiar with the trade. It's at the lows right now It is shortable. Perhaps we could see a breakdown to the seven level by the close I don't mind slipping on here for right now And I mean at the same time and like we always talk about this We always say this for a stock that's up big that's shortable And you know if it's at the highs like if it craps out the other way we could try and short it If this ends up squeezing back up God bless then we could try and you know get a dead cap ounce But you know just pointing out support here from the last like month year back in february Torch also, let's take a look at torch just really quickly. I mean, I know it's slower So, uh, yeah, just I mean, this is like a nice level one stock to keep on your side list torch level one to two Just not right now. We're gonna watch this but perhaps tomorrow. Maybe you know later on this week Uh seal There we go, uh, also from friday. I missed this one. I ended up making a big pop It looks like like once the market opened up taking off I saw the news on this for like price target upgrades like 14 bucks by a firm That's pretty outrageous from where it was trading. So, you know to get the squeeze up on friday. It was no surprise I hope everyone did well on this trade Uh, ended up dying off once the market opened up today. I ended up taking my It was like, I think maybe I took like four or five trades like before class started This was the first I ended up taking a loss on this before I jumped over to amc Uh, but yeah, this steel trade it was a small one but dumped off much more from there and just fizzled out Not a whole lot going on now I wouldn't you know always look to watch this day day today. Maybe I'll check in with it tomorrow But if it's doing nothing, I'll just move on from it quick Uh, game stop. You already looked at pretty quickly. We're not gonna like day trade that really as much I should have clicked this. I mean we're talking about game stop Uh, $188 stock lly. I don't know why I clicked this but Yeah, pretty flat All right, all right folks. I think that's all you got from me So if there's anything else that you see on the chat board or uh on social media facebook live youtube type it Type it there. I'll take a quick look Jumped to benzina pro actually while I do that Marcel calling out bingo, which I'm a fan of uh the call out. We'll see how it looks on the chart It's up three percent. Yeah, this not a whole lot to write home there Marcel If you're on a swing trade from a lower price and it's at the highs then that looking pretty good But as a day trade, it's like watching the grass go right now I mean, you know, if this ended up making a big pop then I would have definitely have put in this on the watch list I love this trade normally, but It's on my side list, you know day to day who's on it this morning and then dm Same thing Oh, yeah, that's right from Wendy. I'm sorry blink new high the day Uh, same thing kind of you know, it's it's one of those sideless stocks that if you do well on Consistently like not to say every single day, but like, you know week to week If you're doing all right on the stock then you know, put it on your personal watch list Same thing for uh, Marcel and bingo and Norman on nndm Just like it's like not a whole lot to write home about though looking at the trend or or at least looking at the Momentum good trends. At least I should say there Why vr? I still get called out before this one's up 42 percent So in terms of momentum, it's it doesn't seem like it's making like the the craziest pop right now But given where it's at going into the afternoon I don't know just probably just popped like while I was going from top to bottom here. That's why Yeah, this I mean I'd rather focus on this for right now going into the close compared to those for you know for the meantime so The why vr at least I'll kind of put on there I think this pop just before All right, I want to check back in really quickly bit two stocks we were going to check back in with before the end I mean really three uh kmph we put on our list, but we said be careful of a pullback and I don't this didn't get halted on the way to nothing I Yeah, just dropped off a lot more from where we from where from when we were last looking at it Wouldn't shock me if it goes down to 10 even uh, I might even drop this from the list if that's going to be the case can't really short it From rjf. He's calling out the ebon And I I like ebon actually ebon. I end up trading also from earlier today that are right on uh, but just right now for the afternoon I wouldn't expect much more than what you're getting right now Uh, what else do we have we have the zom and amc trade that was it all right? so Zom yeah, just like it hasn't done much right Ended up making that run from like 1245 to like two o'clock eastern time when it moved from like 245 $2 45 up to like nearly 260 Again good sideless stock. We ended up trading this back from You know February as you could see gapped up over you know day to day to day Amc trade fallen off from 14 says jeff. He's doing pretty good on that short. I bet Uh, yeah, I mean that's a nice drop off right now So that could just be one that if you you know, I'd probably keep this in mind Alongside with like blink and all those others that we just talked about I'm not gonna like put it on the main watch list But it's one that if you do well on consistently then obviously keep plugging away at it right So, you know, we could say that with like all these trades the amd neo Twitter the airlines the cruise lines, you know, you name them All right, that's why I say though at least for the meantime between the ocg and the ocg actually I'll tell you right now. You can't see this right now folks But just if you could imagine this I have my notepad in front of me I write these stocks down on a notepad before I finish this meeting up.  I can't believe that so I'm scratching They got an ocg we have an ocg and both of them look pretty good I like the quadruple u call out that's looking pretty good now at this point so far compared to the others And hey, you know, if there's nothing else that really moves until 3 15 3 30 ish And then if there's something that rich sees or if anyone else sees you know from benzinga pro the radars whatever Then at that point work together, but I'd like this list to begin here folks All right, so, you know, I'm not going to be able to trade these going into the afternoon Because I'll be teaching in class most of us will be in class at least We'll be talking about order type market orders limit orders We'll talk a bit a little bit about stop orders You know stop losses perhaps at least first but uh, you know, otherwise We're going to post that link for class coming up very shortly for anyone on social media interested Make sure that you first join us and inside our trading room, uh, you know Don't just just don't don't just jump right into our classes head first You got to test our room at first to see if you like us But you know go right to the banner below the link on the banner below to sign up and then for all of us live Inside the trading room at least we're going to post and tweet the pics I know that rich and Faust will be back on the mic going into the market close All right, uh, I'll see most of us though coming up in class talk to you soon


All right, Jennifer asks, can you explain what you think would happen if someone bought an island and try to start a new free society on it? So people have tried to do this. First of all, it's impossible to buy an island because nobody will actually sell you an island with sovereignty. So the best you can do is you can create an artificial island in international waters so that nobody can claim sovereignty on the island. So basically, there's technology that exists. You can look at it in the Seasteading Institute. There are places that are shallow enough that you can actually put pillars into the ocean bed. And you can build a whole island that is an artificial island in international waters so nobody has sovereignty on it. And you can build your libertarian utopia on that island. The problem is that nobody's going to let you do it. So even if you went out there and started building and actually they let you build it, right, and it was established.  Then what would happen, right? Banks would be free banks and you'd be able to, you know, you have real bank privacy and, you know, you wouldn't ask them where the money came from and you wouldn't bother with money-launching laws and drug money, you wouldn't care and all the stuff that in a free society a bank wouldn't trouble itself with. How long do you think the United States of America would let you survive? You know, how long do you think that anybody would let you survive?   The status of the world, I'm not going to allow a truly free society to rise up amongst them without trying to annihilate it. People say, oh, but it would be screened on television and people wouldn't tolerate the violence. Really? Where do you live? I live on planet Earth in the 21st century and I remember when the world stood by and I'm not saying the world shouldn't have stood by, but I remember when the world stood by with very little criticism in the big picture when, you know, Slovaks, Syrians, sorry, just, you know, slaughtered Muslims and Croatians and whoever they didn't like. In Europe, in the heart of Europe. And what did cultural Europeans do about it? Complained. They went on TV and said it was awful. They didn't do anything about it. Nobody cares.  Nobody's going to stop them. So, yeah, which we shut down. So I've often said, half joking, half serious, that the only way to establish such a society is if you had a nuke. If this island had a nuke pointed to Washington, DC and made sure that, you know, you don't miss with us. We won't miss with you. Just leave us alone and let us live our free lives independent of you. So you have to be able to protect your freedom with weapons, with real weapons, weapons that people fear, because the bad guys will always use weapons. You have to be able to protect your life with weapons. And that's not a gun control statement about what kind of weapons you should have at home. That is a global statement about, in order to survive, you have to have weapons on your side. On your side, whether you own them in the house or whether you're part of the country with a military, they can solve the problem. All right, another question.


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What's going on everyone? Sam here, latent sports card, Drippin 22, Panini Daunress Elite Football Hobby 3 box break number 18, random team style. So again, at your random results, as always, you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. It's good luck everybody. Let's do it again guys, we are down to just 7 to go on choice. Teared random teams, mosaic, full 20 box case. Good luck everybody, what time does this go until? That'd be really nasty. Brock Purdy auto, Brock Purdy, what's it called? Turner essentially? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Joe Burrow, nice one there at a 24. I'll do you through my phone. All right, well I think of Big Poppy as a twin, I think of Yastremski as not even a baseball player, and then Rafi Devers I just think of in the minor league. So is it really, are they all really cemented? Kenny Pickett, or are we just lying to ourselves here? Why so far? That's what I think too. Khalil Shakir to 999, so that's not even really a true Red Sox triple. That is Jalen Tolbert, nice one there on the pen pals auto. That is going to be going to the Cowboys, congrats Dallas, Thomas R. Yeah, Wade Boggs is a ray, 100%. Mookie Betts is a dodger. Xander Boggs, I only think of him on the Padres. Josh Allen to 399. Chris Sayles a white sock. Manny Ramirez I think of as like a dodger, or an athletic. Now see, now you just sound crazy chillin'. A leadist is, or chillin', Barry Sanders. Johnny, yeah, Johnny Damon is a Yankee or an athletic. This should make these leadist casehoods if they're not alright. Josh Allen is to 399. No they're not. This should make them. They look too good to not be like a short term. Yeah, I kind of agree with that. Yeah, they're just like a normal answer. Face. There's no autos of those, are there? I don't think so. I haven't seen one. Take 1, Thornton, 299. Willie Mays is a Met, Tom Clavin is a Met. I think of Greg Maddox as a Padre. I mean that's just like normal. Who wouldn't think of Greg Maddox on the Padres? Smolts on the Red Sox. Gotta give the Red Sox somebody I guess. Obviously. Yeah, Barry Bonds is a pirate. Easy. I think Maddox is a Padre more than that, John. Brandon Cooks to 999. Nolan Ryan is a Met. Is there a meme I'm missing with Brandon Cooks? Yeah, there was this breaker a while ago. He got in trouble because he pulled a card and changed it out. He moved the camera or something. He took the card and right before he did that he was like Mr. Brandon Cooks to 999. Randy Johnson as an Astro. Snoop Connor to 399. Keep forgetting Randy Johnson is on the half. He has cards as an Astro. Randy Johnson as an Expo. Oh yeah, no, no, no. Devonta Smith. I'm just messing with Forrest. That is Eagles Devonta Smith. Nice one. Very nice. Now, Sail was actually good on the White Sox. Chris Sail was a freaking menace there. 75 is Miles Sanders. This is an Eagles box so far. He needed a turn of the century Carson Strong to come out and that would really be an Eagles box. Let's do a... Second year Smith.  I'm trying to think. Drake London. We got London on the track. Nicoby Deans. There we go. Yeah. Take either of those. I would imagine they have turn of the century yachts. Nicoby Deans speaking of to 999. Called it. Manifested that one. I should have bought this box. Yeah, I know, honestly. Watch there be an Eagles auto. Watch a turn of the century Eagles auto come out. I'll be mad. Die. Debo highlights and base. And Andrew Jones is the Yankee. They're banned from riding bikes. Turn of the century. Bailey Zappi. Nice one there for the Patriots to 999. Make sure you recappy this Zappi. Travis Kelsey to 399. Oh, my head hurts. Yep. Yeah, seven and a fourth. Seven and one fourth. This one's a little tight though. This is new. So I got to break it in. So pissed, dude. I ordered two hats and one came in and it's like not even close to my size. Is it one of those things where it's like a different company so the size is different? No, same company. They just, they sent it. They sent the wrong size completely. Oh, okay. Yeah. Like what Vaughn said. Yeah, no problem. No problem Regina. You got it. Absolutely. I appreciate your sympathy Vaughn. I need it. I need every bit of it. Thank you Regina. Yeah, Sanders is a red. There we go. I got tight enough. Yeah, you do have to tighten up. That's all. Am I like 5'10"? Not too short of me. I know. That's all I got. Trevor Lawrence to 999. Nice one there. It's all fun and games until you get some sort of ordering system in place with you and then... Wait, what? You just get defeated. So it's ordering something. I need a redemption. Kenny Pickett, I... I kept saying that honestly. What's my social? Hold on, let me get my card out. I'll show all you guys.  I was like, if you get a redemption, I am rooting so hard against you. I hate to say that, but I am like... I want just absolute chaos. Loki, that's why I don't want a redemption. I know. There's so much pressure on that. There is Japhonte Williams, Moxie Jersey for the Broncos. Playmakers Mahomes. I would like, call, make the order, and then you like, call back to it. Oh hey, I just called, I forgot the mixture. You're like, listen, there's a lot on the line here. I can't mess up. The person on the front was like, ah, okay. Garrett Wilson, nice one there, going to the Jets. Congrats on that Jets. There's a little piece of card behind it that slipped out of my hand. So I apologize on that Jets, but that'll get. Can't do anything, right? Talani Woods to $9.99 for the Colts. How good, what's Badaard's first name? Is he like, is he supposed to be like the next McDavid? Like is he going to, is he going to open on whatever, like open his career on whatever team he gets drafted to? Like no AHL or anything, no development, he'll just start. It's kind of cool. To like an underhand fake pass, they exploded it. Ooh, fancy. Connor, Connor Badaard. No pass, no. David Ojabu to $10 for the Ravens, nice one there. Yeah, I could drop another one. I think we're still at $7. Currently, $7. Seven of you, still on. You can drop it in Twitter if you don't mind as well. Wow, that's impressive, honestly. AJ Brown, $10.99. Thanks for the follow there, Luca. Then guys, only break with spots left currently. That is it. There's Roger McCreary to $9.99. Little World Juniors. Where's he from, Canada? Uh, Sauce Gardner, rookies on deck. That not number? Oh yeah, number 10 of $25. Nice one there, Jets. Try opening your eyes, Sam. Sick of this guy. This guy stinks over here. This guy's a pure steamer next to me. When we're talking about, when Sean makes his trash list. Oh, I'm obviously on top. Elijah Moore to $3.99. That's a very strange question. I don't even know where that's going, to be honest. I have no idea where that's going. It probably isn't good. That is Jaylen Petray to $3.99, but that is a very bizarre question. I don't agree to say that much, but I agree with it. Yeah. Then Cooper, that's pretty cool. Jermaine Johnson to $9.99. Vaughn is, Vaughn's 23 and he's 5'2". Jaylen Waddle to $3.49. Full throttle. Full throttle, Waddle. See that one coming. There we go. That wasn't predictable at all. Yeah, right. See that one coming from a mile away. Ooh, Jordan Brooks. Impact Impressions to $1.49 for the Seahawks. Kyle Pitts to $4.99. I don't know, Vaughn. I think you're 5'2". Forrest is also pretty tiny. Forrest is like 4'11". Forrest needs a booster seat for the braking chair. Can you imagine? Clyde Everett to $3.99 for the Chiefs. $4.11 on a good day. Justin Fields to $3.49. This guy's becoming interesting. That is, honestly. Take a shot to win or take a shot to the Packers? Christian Watson to $9.99 for the Packers. Hold the Bailey's Appy Auto. That's pretty solid. Wow. E. It's like one Thor in to $24 on the die cut. The Patriots plus poor Burrow out of $24. Solid as well. Winning a good cards. Always. I do those so bad to top load. It's like a nightmare. It's like why? Sam Williams to $9.99. Cowboys. Being a sports fan so much. I agree with that one.  Jeremy Rockert to $3.99. I know what you're talking about. Being a sports fan's great.  Eric Gazzucano to $9.99. For the Daltons. Cam Acres to $3.99. Romain Atlanta Hawks fan, dude. This is the most exhausting franchise to be a fan of. I'm guessing Varnes of Celtics. Yeah, Varnes of Celtics. Varnes of Celtics. Canadians. Red Sox. And then like Patriots and Jags. Also Jags like fallback team. Yeah, why are you also a Jags fan Varnes? Where did that ever come from?  Micah Parsons. That is elite coverage. And they did win this finals in 0-8. They've been very good since like Perg retired. And one of finals against like pretty much, not Prime LeBron, but Prime Kobe. Davis Mills to $9.90. Not necessarily Prime Kobe, but Kobe was in the league, and LeBron was in the league. And they won a finals. That's pretty impressive. It's Wandaille Robinson to $75. Boomed. Chaguar Steamed Cake for my ninth birthday. That's actually pretty cool. That's the truth. I'm in on that. I'm in on that one. Tristan Ebner to $9.99. Should have pen pals here, hopefully. Come on, baby. Show me the pen pals. So, K-Bon, you could be Eagles fan for the rest of the season. Yeah, James Cook. Nice one there. Going to the Bills on the rookie on-card pen pals auto. What's up, Elucis? What's up? Nice one there. Our resident chief, the resident chief's fan, Elucis. Let's do a quick recap. Jerseys, Micah Parsons. Javante Williams. Davontisman. As long as cheese can pass the bangles, juice won. James Cook, Bills. Eric has a comment. Dolphins. Jordan Brooks. Seahawks. Garrett Wilson. Jets. Bailey Zappi. Patriots. And Jalen Tolbert for the Cowboys. We'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, no huddle.


PSA, Rick ruins everything. I try. D× boring Hey, welcome back to our YouTube Reaction Vids. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. I make a follow so you can subscribe on Twitter for more juicy content, Like we listen on Patreon's, so let's create a crowd and try to make it beast squad.  Bang Cette we need subs for his intros no today we're reacting to a trailer it was a new trailer that came out a few days ago a few days ago a few days ago it's called kuda kuda hafiz hafiz kuda hafiz kuda hafiz kuda hafiz kuda hafiz kuda hafiz so it's a movie uh yeah it's with uh video video drama well kuda hafiz video drama let me see if there's a synopsis here synopsis what are you doing i have no idea cool uh i have gamey gamey gamey gamey a newly married couples life falls in jeopardy when the wife goes missing under mysterious circumstances oh cool here we go the entire world is not looking back there is no sector that is not affected by the crisis no recession recession i had no one's oil and water to see the recession water to see the recession and i want to go foreign countries that have nothing to do with it you are coming in five days i guess my name is samir chaudhry my wife is missing this address is wrong this is not kuda you know i don't know what i have been doing for the past two days my wife is always looking for me i am shirasi i am the real man shirasi the one who is responsible for the business thanks it's a very dangerous club that boy is with another client someone else you make a good fight scene I know we've seen him, I think he's from commando, and we've seen a few fight scenes from each of those commandoes, so he's the guy that can do a bunch of martial arts kind of similar to Tiger, and those who will have, I think the fight scenes were really good fight scenes from what I remember.  So this looks basically like taken, but it's wife instead of the daughter. Yeah, it's wife instead of the daughter, and then, I mean, it's not a certain set of skills. It's not an uncommon thing, but it's just something that's fun to watch. Just one of those, I would do that same thing in this scenario if somebody took my wife into the sex trade. And it feels good to watch them do it. And it feels good to watch them do that to other people. Get the bad guys, because, you know, you shouldn't do that to people, and the people that do that do that to people deserve that.  You want to see that kind of violence done to them. Yeah. 100%. I want to watch this. Yeah, so I'm hoping it has- It's the feel good movie of the summer. I'm hoping it's like a big action film, kind of like not like war, but like action, a lot of action, but with great fight scenes. Yeah, that they do stuff that really makes us pissed off just like he's mad. Yeah. And we're rooting for him to slowly dismember all of the bad guys. Faruk Kabbar. That was great. Gotta say, some of the more violent, gruesome acts we've ever seen in a trailer. Some of the bagai films would be similar. Those two things, the shoulder dislocation around the column, and then just grinding that guy's face with blood spurting out is fantastic. Yeah. And I'm wondering if they can do that because it's going to stream. Yeah! It's going straight to streaming, baby. No censorship. Woot! Woot! I don't know how Hotstar does it, it is Disney, so I'm hoping they also Disney Schmizny. I want to see Mickey get out his axe, chop up some bad guys, that'd be great. Yeah, so I don't know how long it is, because it doesn't show me. I'm hoping this type of film, hour and a half to two hours, yes, for this style of film, because you don't want it to get too lengthy. Yeah. What? I thought really? My brain. You said two things and I'm trying to get my mind back while you're at it. That's true. You would prefer it to be like a 90 minute thing. I would prefer this style of film. I agree. It doesn't need to be a three hour. It's a simple story.  Yeah. Great. Show up. Do it and leave. Great.  Yep.  Yep. Make some cool fight scenes.  Kill all the bad people. Yep. Yeah. I do want to know, because we haven't seen any of this stuff, but video, how is he as an actor? Yeah. Because we've seen like, the thing I compare him to just because of the fight scenes and the martial arts is Tiger. Tiger, he looks like he's comparable to Tiger. Yeah, but we know Tiger is not the strongest actor. Right. Of his stuff, but obviously he's really good at this stuff. Is he a step up from Tiger? How is his acting prowess? We don't know yet, because we haven't seen any of his stuff, so let us know that down below. This is written and directed by Furuq Qabbar. Qabir. Yes. Qabir. Furuq Qabir. I don't know if there's anybody else that we know, somebody from DevDos. Yep. I absolutely want to watch this. Yeah. Great trailer. Yeah. Great trailer. Great trailer, especially when it started getting going there. I'm hoping it's like John Wick. Yeah, John Wick meets Taken. Yeah. The thing that's great about John Wick that you can get by with, people have done it forever. Getting by with action films with bad actors. Yes. Sylvester Stallone's done it. Yep. And then obviously Arnold Schwarzenegger has done it many times because he's horrific. But Jackie Chan, he's not a great actor yet. Yeah. Although he can do comedy pretty well. Yeah. Gotta say he can. But the key is, you can't let him act too much. You gotta keep it pretty simple. You gotta keep it pretty simple. Unlike, that's one of the differences of like a Liam Neeson action film. Because you've got an action film with a guy that actually has some acting jobs. Yeah, Liam Neeson. He's a Thessian. He's a Thessian. I think he has theater training in his life. Yeah, he's a legit actor. Which is why it's strange that he's done so many of those style films. I know. I guess they're fun probably. When you reach that, it's like that's the same reason Tom Cruise is doing what he's doing. He's like, okay, when I'm in my 60s, I could have another 20 years of acting and be comfortable with it and just do the more dramatic stuff. While I still have my physical prowess, I'm going to do as much as I possibly can. Yeah, I don't consider Tom Cruise a great actor. I know you don't. I love Tom Cruise. So, I have considered watching Mission Impossible though. They're fun, man. I have. But not the second one.  It's only because I enjoy the series of films like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, the series that you can get lost in. Yeah. And I've watched most of them. Mission Impossible is a lot of fun. I haven't seen those. Except you don't need to watch the second one. It's garbage. You don't watch the second one. It's not con. One is fine. Three is when it goes up a whole notch because you've got Philip Seymour Hoffman. And then they just keep improving upon themselves. They're very fun. A lot of fun. Maybe. We'll see. I still hate Tom Cruise. Let us know about Vidyut and his...  I know he has a bunch of workout stuff that we haven't done yet. Got it. But he has workout videos, health. Obviously, he's a well-built man. Yeah. Like Tiger. Like Tiger. But anyways, let us know. Down below.


Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation, and in today's video we are going to talk about drills. We're going to have my trusty demonstrator, Karsten. He will be showing you how to do a drill, and this first video is going to be one of three. And so what we're going to do if you are not currently subscribed, hit the subscribe, hit that notification so that you can see parts two and three. And be sure to check out Throwing Chain Reaction System in the link below. Okay, so in today's video we are going to do drills 101, and the first thing that we want you to understand is how do you do drills? Most people are doing drills and they kind of have arbitrary movement, and what we want to do is give you a couple of simple tips that are going to help you to understand exactly how to do drills and how to get the most out of drills. Now what we're going to do is I'm going to have Karsten set up. We're going to set up this orange cone will be his six o'clock, and so this will be his 12 where he'd be starting his throw. And so what we're going to do is when we do drills, we want to understand that the first thing that we're going to do is set alignment. So what we're going to do, let's have him start with power position, which will be pillar five and six in our Throwing Chain Reaction System. So he's going to set up his throw. Now the thing that we're going to talk about here is that we're going to do what we refer to in the Throwing Chain Reaction is a stack. So we're going to go foot, knee, hip, peck. You see how he's here? And now we're going to have him create that angle, which he already did. He kind of sets. He's going to go into more of a squat. And the key thing that we're focusing on here is setting alignment, right? Then we're going to set up the right sequence of motion. And that's how we want to basically be doing our drills. Now, real important thing is we notice how we set this up because I'm going to have Karsten rotate now into his finish off of it on his delivery leg. And notice, because we set him up and we aligned him, it becomes very easy for him to train the right motion. So a couple of things. We look at this camera. We want to keep Karsten's shoulders, everything nice, level shoulders, level hips. We want to maximize his radius. And we're going to basically, like I said, set him up. So when we're looking at drills and we're setting up simple things like a power position, so I'm going to have you go back to the start. So when he sets up, you notice how we're creating this angle, double loaded legs. Now everything rotates around and into the direction of throw. Go ahead. And he's going to come around again, okay? So we would be teaching him this again as we call our pillar five, six. We are going to be trying to teach him how to set a stack. And we're going to be working pillar five, six because there's a whole bunch of stuff. And that's why we break the power position into two pieces. And so now, again, when he goes back, now what we're going to do is have him go through a half turn, we're going to go through the start of the throw. And then you're going to see alignment and setting up his chain reaction. So we're going to do what we call as our modified wheel or a half turn. So he's going to notice, notice how he set up. He set his foot here. This is going to be similar to where he would be setting up at the back of the ring in a full throw. Oftentimes one of the big mistakes that a lot of young throwers make is that they're putting this foot over here. So they're setting up the wrong path.  So from here, what we're going to do is have him go arms up and he's going to be working the lower body. Now, remember inside the throwing chain reaction system, we go through and this is going to be pillar three, four, five, six. And so what he would be working on is we're going to be, again, setting up alignment. Now notice he's got that nice shaky leg. He hasn't been doing a lot of drills this summer. So he's got this left hip socket on top of his knee. Now he's going to push off that left, push back into that same position. We were just in before. So go ahead and now he's learning how to come here. And what we want him to do is learn how to stay on top of the axis. So again, we have everything stacked up and now everything's going to rotate into the finish again. So now what we're going to do is have him go through a full throw real quick. So go ahead, we're going to set up positions and again, the big tips that we want to understand when we're doing a drill is we have to set the right position. We want the right alignment and we want to set up the chain reaction. So now when we do something, I'm just going to have him go through a full throw. So go ahead. He's just going to kind of walk through the whole throw and he's going to feel himself come through. And now you're going to see that. Now one of the things that he tends to do is he tends to pull down. So when we drill, we want him to stay again, level hips, level shoulders. But remember the key is we're going to be setting positions. So the first rule to doing drills correctly is understanding the proper position to be in and understanding how you're going to be able to put yourself in those positions. So again, from a stand throw to a wheel, any of our progressions, we have multiple types of drills. We have basically position drills and we have throwing drills. And so here, if we just have him do, let's do a block leg extension and twist drill. Okay. So Carson's going to set up and one of the key things is to watch. So here he's a good example. He's been one of my athletes in high school. He's now a division one thrower. And so look at the position of his foot. We want to have this foot facing nine o'clock. And remember when we position our athletes and we're doing drills or athletes and coaches, you're always the center of the clocks. Real important. So when he stands here, his foot's at nine. So that doesn't mean if he had a shorter base, his foot would be turned back. So I want this foot directly to nine o'clock. So he's going to be kind of here and the foot's going to be there. He's going to set his angle, set his stack. He's going to drop in. And now he's going to feel a block leg extension, twist here, lower body moves, the upper body. And you're going to see when we do the drills with him, he has a tendency to want to pull. He's been upper body active. And so what we want to do is go back. We're going to set it up and he's going to set this. So he's going to hold his upper body. He's going to, he's going to wind. So he's going to set himself. So he has the tension. Now his block leg goes first and the delivery leg goes second block leg extension and he twists through. Okay. And he's going to be coming through. So he's a little forward. You notice here, so we'd keep them shoulders on top of the hips, block arm coming down just a little bit. So we want the block arm coming down, not the shoulder coming down. So here's the point. When we do drills, we're going to set up the position. We're going to set up what we call is our chain reaction and set up the right sequence of motion. You notice there was a little bit of a foot position. What he was doing really well is setting up the stack. He understands that position, but then he has a 10 C to pull the upper body. So when we're doing drills, we want to understand set alignment because when we're setting alignment, setting up the right action and we understand the sequence, we're going to be able to move better and we're going to pattern better. In the next video, what we're going to do is kind of talk about a little bit more details on going through some positions and creating strength. And then our third part of the, of how to get the most out of your drills, we're going to be talking about going through full walkthrough, which we touched on a little bit here, but we're going to give you a basic sequence that's going to help you set up and train your footwork positions better. So thanks for watching you guys. If you liked this video, be sure to hit the subscribe button, like, throw a comment in the comment section, anything you'd like to see. Be sure to check out our throwing chain reaction system in the links below, upcoming events, et cetera. And we'll see you guys on the next video.