The House of Squib presents Academy Award. Every week, Squib brings you Hollywood's finest, the great picture plays, the great actors and actresses, techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for, the famous Golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And now, E.R. Squib and Sons, manufacturing chemist to the medical profession since 1858, bring you the dramatic picture, The Keys of the Kingdom, which was nominated in five different classifications for the 1945 Academy Award. Our star tonight is the distinguished actor, Gregory Peck. Mr. Peck will play the famous role he created on the screen for The Keys of the Kingdom, and in which he was nominated as Best Actor of the Year for the 1945 Academy Award. This is the story of a man who served God in the way in which God wishes to be served, with humility. Of necessity, this is a short story of a long, full life, a vision into the heart of a priest, swiftly blurring. In the eyes of God, this man might be a saint. In the eye of the church, memory of his works might not survive his modest epitaph, but in the hearts of some men, there was the certainty that he'd received The Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. On a September evening in 1938, old Father Francis Chisholm welcomed a guest to the parish house of his little church near Tweedside in Scotland. This guest was Monsignor Sleaf, and his visit was occasioned by church business to investigate certain arduous irregularities in the administration of Father Chisholm's parish. To the Monsignor, it was a foregone conclusion that this old priest would be removed. Well, Father Chisholm, naturally I don't presume to be your judge. I can only submit my findings to his grace The Bishop for his consideration in reaching a final decision. And now, if you don't mind, I will go to my room. I shall be leaving the first thing tomorrow morning, and I have still some work to do. Would you be good enough to remind Angus I mean his grace in your report that we were boys together? The Bishop has not forgotten that, Father. He spoke of it only last week. Well, we'll mention it to him again, will you? Of course. I shouldn't like to leave here if it could be helped. Naturally. Good night, Father. This is my native parish, you know. Good night. Monsignor Sleaf finished his report early that night, but found himself sleepless. Near his bed was a shelf of books and magazines. To relax he sought to read, and idly his hand found a worn leather notebook. A journal of the years of Father Chisholm. Sleep forgotten he read on for the night. It would be pleasurable to record that I became an immediate success as a priest following my ordination. Alas, the facts were quite otherwise. I failed dismally in my first two curacies. There seemed to be little promises of success in my next, or ever for that matter. When one day there came a summons from the new bishop and my guardian angel of old, Hamish McNam. Francis, to me you've never been a failure. And I think you never will be. Well, thank you, sir. But don't ask me why. I'm sure I couldn't say it.  And I can't help thinking that you're in the church. Not by chance, but for a reason. I don't want you ever to change.  Well, you've made it impossible for me to say anything but yes, your lordship. Francis, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith has asked me to supply a volunteer missionary for China. China? Will you go? Why, I'll be, I'll be happy to go, your lordship. I knew you would. And you'll be a credit to both of us. Come to see me again before you leave. We'll pray for you. Oh, oh, wait. It's still raining. Here, take my precious umbrella. Take this with you, lad. It's a good thing to have. You never know when it's going to rain. Knowing the greatness and glory of China today, it's difficult as I think back to picture what awaited me upon my arrival. After ten days and ten nights up the Tawang River in the province of Chekau, a thousand miles from the sea, I found my mission. The blackened, ruined foundations. There were no converts, nothing but filth, starvation, and enmity. But in time, word of my presence spread, and from the hills came a few of the old converts to help me. Of these, one was a young Chinese boy who walked 18 miles to join me and help me rebuild the mission. His name was Joseph. He was a gift from God, a pillar of strength on whom I leaned. One day I heard his cart and then his cries for me to come out. Father, Father Chisholm, Father Chisholm, it's for you. It's for you. It arrived on the boat. What is it, Joseph? Medicine. Medicine? Here, let me see what's in that crate. Gauze bandages, iodine. Caster oil. Is it to rub on, Father? Oh, no, no, no, it's to drink. Look at this, a leather case of surgical instruments. Joseph, put that down. Don't drink that caster oil. Not bad. Have some, Father? Uh, no, thank you. No, I'm not thirsty. All these wonderful things. Such a treasure, surely, Father, an angel in heaven must have sent it. That's just what I was thinking, Joseph. Here's a letter. Your Holiness, it's amazing how religious you can make a man feel by fixing his bellyache. I'm sending you all of my secrets in a book of instructions. Cure what you can and kill what you can't. Signed Willie Tellock, M.D. and Heaven. Pierce, for practicing without a license, I shall, of course, report you to the British Medical Society, the Pope, and my Chinese laundreman, Willie. Father Chisholm, look. We are indeed blessed. The servant of the Mandarin. Please pardon my intrusion. I am here at the bidding of my cousin, the Mandarin, Mr. Chia. You will recall him? Yes, I met him on my arrival. I am to ask whether you will accompany me to his house. And may I ask why?   Well, you must understand that I'm not a trained physician. I treat only the most simple disturbances.  Your blessings are for all alike. My cousin asks only that you bring whatever blessings and do whatever good you can. Very well. I'll go with you. There lies the boy. The lower humors have gained ascendancy and have flowed entirely into one arm, distending it and leaving it blue. You will examine the boy? Yes, I'll need two basins, one of them with boiling water and a cloth. You intend to use the knife? Yes, I must lance the wound. It is most unexpected that Shen Fu would cut with a knife into the flesh of the boy. But there's nothing else to do. His arm is filled with corruption. Unless it's removed, it might spread throughout his whole body. Let us hope that corruption can be removed by cutting and squeezing. Let us hope that everything will be well. We are honored this afternoon. Look, it is Mr. Chia, the Mandarin. Well, bid him welcome. Shen Fu, I have come. Mr. Chia, please sit down. Thank you. To speak our first things first, my only son, whose life you saved, is well. He is able to run with his friends. I'm very happy to hear that. I am sorry I have not come to you before, but now I am here. Oh, why are you here, Mr. Chia? Naturally, to become a Christian. Have you come to believe in Christianity? In time, I will no doubt accustom myself to it. You have done the greatest good for me. I must do now the greatest good for you. If I become a Christian, all the province will follow my example. I'm sorry. I'm sure you mean well, but you would not be doing good for me, Mr. Chia. You do not believe nor do you desire to believe. My acceptance of you would be a forgery for God. Do you mean you reject me? I mean precisely that, and please, I do not feel that I wish ever to make any demands upon your gratitude. You owe me nothing. I regret that I am not acceptable. I understand that this is so because I am unworthy. Nevertheless, perhaps there will be some way in which I... It occurs to me to ask, has Shen Fu ever looked or walked upon Yandahil? Yes, often it's the most beautiful part of the countryside. The property is large in extent, more than 60 fields. It is called the Hill of Brilliant Green Jade. It is mine. I gathered as much. I could not help but notice that the grounds and buildings of your mission are in a disastrous condition. I beg you to honor me by accepting, as the property of your church, the Hill of Brilliant Green Jade. Mr. Chia. I beg further that you accept the use of 20 of my workmen and the materials to accomplish fully any buildings you may wish to carry out. Mr. Chia, my heart is too full to thank you. Before Academy Award continues, let's make a quick change of scene. Picture, if you will, a hot, dry, dusty road, and then imagine stepping off that road into the cool shade of the woods. How quickly a refreshment comes. Just as quickly in a few seconds, cool, fragrant squib dental cream refreshes your mouth. For the very instant squib dental cream touches your tongue, it refreshes with flavor. With the pleasant punch and tang of tender green mint, it wakes up your whole mouth, leaves it tingling. And as you brush the effective, velvet soft polishing agent in squib dental cream, helps to bring about a refreshing difference in your smile. That's why millions who use squib dental cream agree you can taste, feel, and see the refreshing difference. So for effective home dental care that's enjoyable too, ask tomorrow for squib dental cream, a member of the great family of squib products. Remember, it's the refreshing dental cream. Before continuing with part two of the Keys of the Kingdom, we want to thank 20th Century Fox for making this story available. Soon to be released is the 20th Century Fox production, Claudia and David, starring Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. Now the House of Squib presents part two of Academy Award, starring Gregory Peck in the Keys of the Kingdom. Let's hope that tomorrow will be as nice a day as this, Joseph. The sisters will be here. Selfishly, I imagine that in the years I've been away, I've come too long for the companionship of someone from home. You know, their private terrace needs another batch of bricks. Father can be proud of his workmanship.  This is the work of all of us. This is where the children will learn. Here is the heart of our future. For the future belongs to the children, and our children will belong to God. I shall want the children dressed in their finest and ready at seven in the morning. We must... Joseph! Father, the sisters have come by themselves. Well, Father, we might have proposed some welcome at the end of 6,000 miles of travel. Well, please understand, the letter from Angus, from Monsignor Mealy, I mean, said distinctly that you were to arrive on the 19th. That's tomorrow. Well, Father, have us shown to our quarters. My two companions are sadly in need of rest. But, Sister... Yes, yes, certainly. If you'll follow me, please. Reverend Mother, I had planned. I thought perhaps we could all dine together tonight by way of a special occasion. Thank you, but I think not. If we could be spared some milk and fruit after we have rested properly, we shall be fit for work tomorrow. Good afternoon, Father. The years had brought us a fine mission and the blessings of success. They brought other things I should have known were inevitable. War. The Manchew forces of General May and the hills behind us, the Republican forces in the city before us. And the Manchew cannon would spread death and ruin into the city. Almost with the first cannon shot came my dear friend, Dr. William Tellak, all the way from home. It was my place as a priest to help the dying. Dr. Tellak went down into the town with me. We did what we could. The sun's on its way up, and that blasted gun will soon go to bed. Another dawn is here. Another night is gone. I've fixed so many wounds. I'm going to write a book called, um... Six Days and Nights in a Chinese Abdomen. May? Oh, I must have dozed off for a minute. Well, I can't see why. Seeing you've had no sleep for almost a week. Why don't you leave today's wounded to the army in a minute?  That would be a pretty sight. The man of God taking his ease safe from harm. This is no time to worry about a pencil. Father Joseph! Joseph, what are you doing here? The mission. Last night they fired on the mission. A beautiful church, Father. No one was inside, but it is destroyed, eaten by fire. Some of the men were injured when we tried to save the altar pieces. You men? Tell the major I'll be back. Come on, Francis. We'll run for it. Keep down, Willie. Crawl, man, in the ditch. Crawl, Francie. When is the time has come to send for a priest? Almighty God. In your mercy. If you're praying for yourself, Francie, keep light on. If it's for me, you're wasting your time on the Almighty's as well. Well, we'll let him be the judge of that, Willie. I'm deep in the shadow. And Francie, I still can't believe in God. Are you mad at me? Of course not.  Your salvation would be your doing, Willie. Not mine. Then, when you get here, your kingdom, don't look for my name on the register. It would be fun to meet just by chance. I've never loved you so much as I do now, Francie. For I'm not trying to bully me into heaven.  Out of the depths, I have a crime to thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let tiny ears be attentive. If I could get near the gun, Shun Fu, I would demolish it. But I cannot. There is a way to get near it. For you, Major Shen, and soldiers of your Republican army, I've been ordered to bring food and money to the captain in command of the gun tonight, before midnight. Then, my friend, I must regard you as an undeserved gift from heaven. Is that exactly what is going to occur? Yes. In this sack is cordite. He must get it near the gun. You must be well away before I fire into it, or the concussion will be extreme. I understand. We're near the gun now. Hope! Oh, it is you. Yes, I've brought a load of tin goods, which I hope will impress you. And I brought money also. Put that sack over there. Give me the money. It's in my purse. I want some assurance that the mission will be unmolested. The mission will not only be unmoral, we will occupy it and place it under protection, particularly the women. But you gave me your promise. Stop chattering, foreign devil, and give me the money. Shen Foo, run! Save yourself! The sack! Keep him away from the sack near the gun! Oh, no, you don't talk! Refugee Shen, run! I'll fire it! Stop burning torch on it! Run! Here to visit us in a few days on a tour of inspection. I thought you'd like to know, Reverend Mother, in case there's anything you wish to put before him. I have only one request to make of him. I shall ask to be transferred to another mission. I feel that... that you upset my spiritual beliefs. Why, I... I have no idea. I assure you that you must have misunderstood me, to which specific beliefs do you refer? Do you think I have prepared a list? Your lack of doctrinal discipline. Your general attitude. For instance, when Dr. Tullock was dying. Yes? He was an atheist. And yet you seemed to indicate that he might have his eternal reward. He who didn't believe. How could he believe he never knew God? How could he reject a God he never knew? He was not even a Christian. And how do you define a Christian? One who goes to church one day of seven and prays to be forgiven his sins of the other six. God judges us not only by what we believe, but also by what we do. Willie Tullock died as he lived all the days of his life. Fighting the pain and suffering of other men. He was a fine and a sacrificing man. But still, I cannot condone his denial. Well, let's not make his memory the occasion of a quarrel. I wanted you to be happy here. I'd looked forward to your coming. But I imagine I am difficult to like. And my ways may be a bit odd. You've worked so magnificently. And the children love you. The mission will suffer terribly when you go over it, mother. Good night. When Senior Mealy came finally, it was a blow to us that he could not celebrate mass in our beautiful church. He seemed sorely disappointed too. I cannot see how you're going to rebuild your church, Francis. The society cannot let you have the money. I haven't asked for it. If only you'd been more successful with some of the better-class Chinese, the rich merchants. If only your friend Mr. Chard had seen the light. Well, he hasn't seen it, and he's given most generously. I shall not take another penny from him. Of course that's your affair.  Well, I suppose missionaries differ in their individual capabilities. Surely no one doubts your capabilities, Francis? It's in the way you do things, living personally in such poor style, eating in the kitchen and all that. You ought to impress the natives, make more of a show. The Chinese hate that kind of ostentation. And priests who practice it are regarded as dishonorable. Oh, you refer to their own low heathen priests, I presume. Heathens are not always low, just as Christians are not always high. Many of their priests are good and noble men. It's your own way, then. Good night, Reverend Mother. Good night, Francis. Father Chisholm, I must tell you something. And it isn't easy for me. I want you to know that I am most bitterly sorry for my conduct. Believe me, no apology was ever more abject than mine. Nor has anyone been less worthy of forgiveness. You needn't hire you. Please, please. It's easier for me to speak now. How strange at this moment of my greatest humiliation should bring with it the only peace I've ever really known. Tonight I intended to ask one senior mealy to send me away. But as I sat in this kitchen, as I heard him humiliate you and slight you, as I felt the magnificence of your faith, and the courage in your heart, as I saw you reflect the worldliness of this priest with unfit to tie your shoes. Have pity, Father. Pity me. Well, there's nothing for which I have to forgive you. I'm glad you no longer dislike me. You know, we're both children to God, and with his help we'll work in mature. Twenty. Enough at any rate. For me to know that I'd grown old in my exile. I was reminded of this everywhere I looked. Joseph, for instance, with three sons as old almost as he was, in that dark hour when he first came to me. Mother Maria Veronica, my friend, all the others. Even the trees, narrowed and ancient, as the ivy on the walls. The time had come for me to go home. Good morning, Father. Good morning, Monsignor. I hope you slept well. As a matter of fact, I didn't sleep at all. Your journal was on the bookshelf by my bed, and I must confess that I spent the night in reading it. I hope you don't mind. Oh, not at all. If anything, I'm flattered. I would have imagined that memories of a life as ineffectual as mine would guarantee sleep. In effectual. It is an honor to know you, Father. Goodbye, Monsignor. You won't forget to mention to Angus, I mean to his grace... There is nothing I will say to the bishop that will in any way alter your position here or your hopes for the future. Why? Thank you. Thank you. Father in Heaven. Thank you. Tonight Academy Award has a guest of honor, Erskine Johnson, syndicated columnist and Hollywood correspondent of Motion Picture Magazine. He is here on a very special occasion. The 35th anniversary of Motion Picture Magazine, 35 years of covering Hollywood, its pictures and stars. Mr. Johnson. Thank you. I am proud to speak for Mr. Maxwell Hamilton, our editor as well as myself. 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Those of us who knew him best talked about him often. I swear the stuff he pulled, sometimes it makes me sad though, and to being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be cherished. Their feathers are just too bright, and when they fly away, a part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, because we don't, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and they're going to be gone. I guess I just miss my friend.


Frontier fighters, the stirring tales of the men and women who have pushed the frontier of North America ever westward. In the 17th century, France gave to America many great men. Soldiers, statesmen, missionaries above all the rest stands the immortal figure of Sir Robert Chevalier de la Salle. This gentleborn Frenchman's great ambition, his zest for explorations, his harshness and quick temper in the face of calamity, often got him into predicaments with his associates, his creditors, and the French authorities, both in Paris and in Canada. Hard pressed financially, La Salle meets with his former sponsors. The time is early summer of 1681. It's 20 minutes, 20 minutes. I remember my wife I'd be home for dinner tonight. Oh, so La Salle, you're here at last. About time, too. Your pardon, Monsieur, for my tardiness I was detained. What is it this time? Gold again? Yes, Monsieur, gold. Much gold to finance a grand expedition. He wants still more gold, not only for his next expedition, but to pay off his creditors for his last adventuring. You state the case perfectly, Monsieur. La Salle, you won't get a thin l'oeil from me. No, me. No, me. Monsieur, I implore you. It is for the glory of France. You told us when we financed your silly voyage down the Uriah River to find China. Listen, Al, you were insane then.  China in the Americas. Everyone knows where China lies. Very well. Where lies China? China? Well, China is somewhere south and west. See, Monsieur, there's your answer. What answer? The answer to all my adventurings in strange places, financed by your gold. When none seem to know where any country lies, I take it upon myself to find that. And what do you bring back to us? Nothing. Monsieur, every hand in the French provinces of Canada is a raid against me. Every hand, but that belonging to one great noble. Hand, pray tell us. Who is this great noble whose hand is still extended to you on friendship? The governor of his majesties provinces in Canada. Count to Frontenac. To Frontenac, the friend of Joliet, Marquette, and all the others of that deathless band of explorers and trailblazers, went La Salle. Friendless, panty-less, hopeless. Pierre. Yes, Excellency? Must I ask you again for that letter from the king forbidding new land discoveries? I have it here, Excellency. Thank you. No undoubtedly needed when La Salle arrives. Monsieur Robert, chevalier de La Salle. A bid you welcome, La Salle. Be seated. Thank you. I'm sure you appear to have lost your last friend. We shall bring Brandy. Yes, Excellency. I have lost all my friends, but one. And who La Salle may I ask is the lone survivor of your regiment of friends and supporters. You, Excellency. A great honor. Excellency, I stand on the threshold of the greatest adventure of my career. Yet I'm a bankrupt. Gold again, eh? Gold, yes. But not so much gold as recognition. With your official approval of my new expedition, I can get gold plenty of gold. Here. A letter. Yes, Excellency. I have here a letter from the king. I'll read you a portion of it. Here. Here, here. With regard to new discoveries, you will not address yourself to them, accepting in great necessity.  You make no mistake.  A bit short-sighted, perhaps. At the moment Louis XIV is engrossed with other affairs. Women are wager. One man to another, LaSalle. What new adventure is luring you into the wilderness? Gold or no gold, friends or no friends, supporters or no supporters. I intend to sail the entire length of the great water. And at its mouth, where it tumbles into the mighty gulf, I will plant the golden lilies of France and should the need arise, defend them with my life. Driven ever onward by that mysterious force which thrusts all great men toward unknown frontiers. LaSalle, at the end of August in the year 1681, had raised the funds for provisions and equipment, as well as men-at-arms, geographers, boatmen, hunters, guides and Indian servants to share his great adventure. Among the Frenchmen were Chevalier Henri de Tonte, an old entrusted companion of previous expeditions, Father Zenobi, a missionary to look after the spiritual life of LaSalle's band and Dottré, son of the Attorney General of Quebec. Suffering intensely from cold hunger and privation, LaSalle's party arrived at the mouth of the Illinois, February 6th, 1682. Detained by more ice in the Mississippi, LaSalle remained on its snow-covered banks until February 14th, when the river partially cleared of ice, he resumed his journey southward to the gulf. On March 1st, with the wind howling a gale around his shelters on the shore, LaSalle hears some distressing news. Monsieur LaSalle! Monsieur LaSalle! Who asks for LaSalle? What is it you desire? Where are you? It is I, Father Zenobi. The snow flakes blind me. Here, in the willows. Strange heavens I've found you. Ah, Father Zenobi. You're spent, Father Matron. Broadbombe, the hunter. He's missing since yesterday. Do not alarm yourself, for Dom will turn up. I fear he's been taken by this cavities. What makes you think that? My son, fear being watched, I feel it. That's strange, Father. I have the same feeling. Then you must protect those under your benevolences, my son. As usual, you're right, Father Zenobi. I must take measures. What measures? I'll start to build a fort at once. A makeshift fort of logs was hastily thrown together, and LaSalle's brave band herded inside its rough walls. One of the searching parties found Frutthome, who had gone after wild turkeys to make broth for a sick Indian child and had lost his way in the blinding snowstorm. Leaving the warmth and security of the fort, which he named Frutthome in honor of the hunter, LaSalle continued his voyage down the open channel of the Mississippi. On March 13th, after sailing 133 miles, LaSalle's fears of a possible attack by Indians were justified. Mr. LaSalle, Mr. LaSalle, rouse yourself. What does it do, Frutthome? It recommends me savages, sir, on the right bank. How come to their wardrobes? Well, certainly. I see fires, too. The taunty. The taunty. Here, go behind you. Come closer. Savages on the right bank. Sir, I hear the fires also. Give the signal to beat all the canoes on the left bank. We must prepare for an attack. To the left bank, all canoes. Seek something in the well. Left bank! Left bank! In less than an hour, the explorers had constructed another small log fort in which the entire party huddled. While LaSalle and the taunty watched a canoe carrying three Indians approaching from the opposite side of the river. How soon do you judge the canoe will reach us? In a few moments. And secure my calumet. Pipe of peace. I will offer it to the chief. If he smokes, all goes well. I have your calumet here in my belt. Give it to me. You've reached the canoe. Chief's disembarking. The two paddlers remain with the vessel. Are you composed to taunty? Savages are greatly impressed by a serene countenance. My features are composed. But I fear they are frozen not from here, but from cold. Chief approaches. Let us extend our right hand's palm outward. Where's the white chief of the many canoes from the north?  Your features tell me not. You bring peace or war? I bring peace. Will you smoke the calumet with me? I will smoke. Quick to taunty the plinth before he changes his mind. You first, my friend. My friend. Friend of red men. May the flame of friendship between the white men and the red men never be dimmed. Lausale remained with the Indians three days, replenishing his provisions from those of the Redskins. Native village after village was passed on the southward journey. On April 6th, the Mississippi divided into three branches. Lausale took the right branch, sending de taunty on the middle and de tré on the left. Six miles further south, the water was salt. Lausale had conquered again. He had found the mouth of the big water. On April 9th, 1682. King's banner de taunty. Here it is. Who speaks of banners? I, Lausale, your commander. But first, the cross of God. The banner, yes. But first, the cross. I plant the cross. The banner can wait. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, bless this land. Make it fruitful. Strengthen those great hosts who will follow us and let peace reign here until the day of your divine and righteous judgment. Amen. And now de taunty, the banner of the golden lilies. De taunty, you wield the mallet. Yes, Your Highness. In the name of His Majesty, I hereby take possession of this mighty river, all the streams which flow into it and all the territory through which these streams flow for our great kingdom across the seas, France. And in honor of our great Lord and mighty sovereign, King Louis XIV, I christen this land, Louisiana. It was by this historic act of Lausale, this intrepid son of France, that his mother country held her rights to her vast new world province. And it is by this act that the United States of America today not only holds the great state of Louisiana, but all territory north of the Texas line and west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Thus, westward the course of empire takes its way, guided by the staunch spirits of frontier fighters.


So a couple things I want to talk about before we get started and then I'm going to talk about today's topics. Number one is if you are new to trading or have any questions about trading, we have a direct line for you guys to ask us questions. So Tosh, who is one of our head moderators at MIC, he actually opened up his phone number for you guys. So please, if you have any questions, text him directly, do not call him, he'll be there to answer any questions you have about trading, any questions you have about MIC, if you had a good day, you need someone to talk to, you had a bad day, you had someone to talk to, hit him up, his number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. So what I want to talk about today is just basically what it's been like trading in this bear market, what it's been like waking up every single day and kind of just seeing what the market gives. So the common misconception is that a bear market means that there's no place. If anything, I have never seen so many stocks in play in my entire life. Every single day, we're getting five or six stocks jumping up and having massive amounts of range. And that's not just in small cap world, that is in large cap world as well. A lot of these stocks have so much range, even the big ones, Boeing, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. So if you are trading any type of market right now, it is a trader's market. This is the best, best, best market I've ever been trading in. Every single day, knock on what there's been so many opportunities. So what I want to talk about today is my trades on APT, my trades on SGBX, and then we're going to talk about this APOP squeeze. So number one is every single morning, I wake up around five or six in the morning and I make a watch list for the members. So what I do is I basically take all the guesswork out of the trades in the morning and I give you my daily detail game plan for all of these stocks. I look at the stocks, I do the research, I look at the technicals, and I give you the exact areas that I myself personally have my orders ready to short on these stocks. So basically what a lot of people do is they wake up, there's two types of people. Number one is they wake up and they don't do any work, they copy my watch list and make money. Whatever. You can do whatever you want.  What people do is they wake up, they create their own watch list, they compare it to my watch list and then adjust it as need be so that they could form their own process for themselves. So my watch list is a guideline for what you guys should be trading. So every single day, depending on what type of person you are, you are going to have at least three to five setups that you could potentially make money on if you have your orders ready and if you follow the rules. So coming into today, I saw APT was the top watch for me.  I have no idea what the news was, but APT found a bid. So what I'm looking for on a stock like APT is a dead cap bounce to short. APT, if you remember, is one of the stocks that I made $50,000 on when the company tanked and had its first red day. So I am very familiar with this stock. I've traded in the past, I've made money on it in the past. These people are waving to me. I've traded in the past, I've made money on it in the past and I'm used to it. So I have a sense of confidence with the stock. So coming into the morning, if you guys know, my favorite things to see pre-market are downtrending stocks. I want to see stocks that are downtrending pre-market because I know that they're going to have a blip pop and then come back down. This is a dead cap bounce that we looked to short. So if I see a stock pre-market tanking, if I see a stock pre-market tanking, I am looking to short that bounce if the range is there. So on APT, we have a massive move yesterday. Today gaps up pre-market, but it finds its way down. So in the morning, my plan was if the stock goes red, I think it was at $17.20. I put it in my watch and I said, if the stock goes red, short it. That's the plan. So pre-market, it broke 17.20. It went to $16. So you can make a dollar a share if you just traded a pre-market, but we waited. So in the morning, I adjusted my plan, I put it to the members, and I said, look, the stock is now trading at $15.50 and $16. If the stock pops towards $16.50 and $17, I will short it. The stock popped to $16.50 and then $17.10. So I shorted it. I had a $16.75 average. The stock's high today was like $17.10. So here I am, following my plan, laying out my plan two hours or an hour before the market opened, had my fantasy orders out and waited for it to fill me. Now, another thing that I want to make note of is I used size on this setup. Now, why did I use size on this setup? So it always goes back to the same thing. We are only allowed to use size when we have an edge. So on APT, I felt like this. The stock gave up pre-market. The stock went red pre-market. The stock tanked at the open. So here we have a stock that is weak, red, and tanked. So if it bounces, if it does a dead cap bounce, that to me seems like a trade that warrants a bigger edge, which allows me to size in bigger. So because it was a day two play, because it was red, because it already tanked, that to me gave me the confidence that, all right, you are allowed to size in on this stock because it's given you all the signals that you need to get in size. So I got a 1675 with size, 10,000 shares. I covered for a little less than a dollar a gain. What was my stop? My stop was if it went green and held green, I would have stopped. And the stock went like a dollar or two lower than me. So if I held, I could have made 20 or 30 grand, but that's also a problem that happens with mindset. So there's oftentimes that we make money in the stock market. And it sucks to say, but we make money in the stock market and it's not enough money. We feel like it's not enough. We want to nail the top. We want to nail the bottom. So when I have stocks like APT that tank a dollar more than me in the past, when I was more immature, I would feel like, damn, I was right. I knew I was right. I should have held. I'm going to short the bounce. I'm going to short the bounce.  These days, what I've done to refine my process is if I make a bunch of money early in the morning with zero stress, literally zero stress, I have to force myself to lock up. So that's kind of been a part of my process.  So today on APT, I followed the plan also. I also traded SGBX. So if you look at the SGBX daily chart, there's a lot of wind here, sorry. If you look at the SGBX daily chart, you will see that the stock was red, bounced towards green, and failed green towards $6 whole dollar number. So in the morning, it was a day two play. That tank bounced and failed green. So I shorted that around $6. Needless to say, I got out around $540 and it went under $5. So the point that I'm trying to make is that every single day when we stick to our process, there's so much meat on the bone for us to make money that most of the time it's going to tank even more without us and that's okay. If your biggest problem trading is that when you're making money trading and the stock is going lower, that's a good problem to have because it shows that you're making money, right?  One more do I want? So the key to all of this is mental sharpness. If you are not mentally sharp in the stock market, you are doomed. This is the entire topic that we talked about in last night's trader clinic webinar. So let me kind of give you guys some tips on this, right? So number one is this, every single day I stick to my process, right? My process is I have a routine. I wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning. I go back through and brush my teeth, drink my espresso. I get to the desk. I make my watch list. I do everything, right? But my biggest rule, my biggest part of my process is the zombie rule, 10.30. Every single day at 10.30 on the dot, I get up and I walk away. The reason why I do this is because based on my statistics, based on what I've tracked for myself, I consistently lose money on the short side after 10.30. So because I've eliminated trading midday, I've yielded to higher profits. So what everyone has to do, everyone has to track their own personal statistics. Everyone has to see what is working for them, looking at their strengths. My strengths are shorting stocks under $5 between 9.30 and 10.30 AM. I know exactly what my strength is. So because that's my strength, I eliminate everything else. I don't care to try to figure out how to trade midday. I know that there's plenty of long opportunities midday. But personally, for me, I'm sticking to what works.  Every single day, I walk away stress-free at 10.30. And because of that, the next day, I'm coming back with the proper mindset. If I am stressed yesterday, I'm going to probably be stressed coming into trading today. So every single day, I am trying to trade with the least amount of stress so that I could come back the next day and still be not stressed so that I could keep making money every single day. Because all this stuff makes sense, guys. If it makes sense, I see a light counter here.  But it's all this stuff making sense for you guys. Every single day, we're waiting for stocks to tank and shorting the bounce on something like APOP today, APOP. It is a low-float day one, SSR. Why the hell are you trying to find the top here? So what we did is we gave the members a process. We said if this stock breaks $3.30, there is blood in the water. If this stock breaks $3, you can short it. So we are waiting for these stocks to break the support and then shorting it. Currently, APOP is at $3.05. If broke $3.30, it's at its last support. So technically, you can be shorting here because the stock has broken down and you have a dollar worth of bag holders on top to give you resistance to keep it down. So every single day, guys, ask yourselves, did you lose more than $200 today trading? If the answer is yes, it's probably time to start investing in your education. This market like this is not going to be around forever. There's only going to be a certain amount of time that this market is going to stay this hot. And while you are home, while you are quarantined, while you are forced to not leave the house, don't you think it makes sense to start investing in a skill that is going to be recession proof that you could trade and trade and trade even when all the stores are closed out, even when all the businesses are down? Stock market is still open and we are making money every single day. Knock on wood.  I got to find some wood right now.  Hello. All right, let me see.  But you see what we're saying, guys? You see, oh, duh. Anyway, you see what we're saying, guys? You see what we're saying?   See, you don't have to be the sharpest tool in the shed to be trading. I don't consider myself a genius.   I wake up at 6 a.m. and Tosh knows I was messaging him till 1 a.m. market time last night. I told myself to sleep at 9 p.m. I was awake till 1 a.m. talking to Tosh. It's because I love what I do, guys.  Because remember, I am trading against you guys. You guys are trading against me. I am putting in the work all day every day so that no one is working harder than me because I know that the guy on the opposite end of the screen is trying his very best to take my money. So it is in my best interest to be as educated as possible, to be as sharp as possible so that I am the one that makes the money. Trading is a sport, guys.     But every single day, guys, I am doing my best to show you that I am being disciplined. I am putting out my watch list every single day for you guys. We are making videos every single day. Monday, I had a video. Tuesday, we had a Bow Instagram Live and a Joe Large Cap webinar. Wednesday, we had Tasha's new member webinar and a trader clinic webinar. Today, we have this video, an Austin strategy video. So during the week, seven days in the week, we are releasing 10, 11 videos. This is a full education every single day. This is like going to school every single day. If you want to make more than a doctor, if you want to make more than a lawyer, I made $11,000 today in one hour, right? Good luck trying to make that as a doctor in one hour.  And the sooner you start doing this, the faster you will see results.  This all makes sense, guys. All right, let's open it up to Q&A. So if you guys have any questions, as I'm making my way back home, I will answer all your questions. How much do you recommend new traders start trading if they want to make around $150 or $200 a day? Number one is you cannot make $150 or $200 a day without proper education. So I would say you need to at least, at least have $5,000 to trade and making $100 a day isn't hard. It's just 10 cents on a thousand shares, right? You have a $3 stock, you short 1,000 shares, it goes to $290 and you make $100. But before you could do that, you have to learn the process of doing that. That's why education always comes first, guys. Always invest in your education first because it's gonna take time for you to learn, guys. Can you trade shorts from E-Trade? You could short large caps on E-Trade. You could not short small caps. Where do you recommend you get education from? I'm just gonna ignore that. Any other questions, guys? I think that's it, guys. I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. I don't wanna kind of take too much of your time. And if you have any questions, you could DM me on Instagram, alex-underscore-temis. I answer everyone's DMs. If you have any questions about trading or any questions about MIC, you could text us. It's not a robot. I had<PHONE_NUMBER>. So thanks, guys, for watching.  Thank you, guys. I appreciate everything, and leave a comment and let me know what you thought of this video. Thanks, guys.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with Layton's Forge cards. We've been 22, 23. Penini Flux, basketball hobby, six box break, number 15. Pick your team style. There's no random. I'm going to read off the list of our names and our teams. Got interest with the Blazers, Anthony C. Thunder, Brent C. With the Lakers and Wizards, Chris R. Sons, Daniel C. Warriors, G-Chen, Mavericks, Henrik J. Magic, Jacob M. Rockets, James L. Raptors, Jeff T. Hornets, Joe M. Hawks. So Joe MC with the Hawks, Joseph MA with the Clippers, Joseph S. Bulls, Cavs. Carl P. with the Nets. Keith B. Spurs, Klaus W. Pelicans, Leo W. Bucks, Matthew M. Celtics, Mitchell H. Grizzlies, Nicholas M. Pacers, Patrick G. Timberwolves, Rory C. Sixers, Shigunori Yu with the Pistons, Stephen S. with the Knicks, Vaughn, Kings and Jazz, Wayne P. Nuggets, and Yenju L. with the Heat. So good luck here, everybody. Let's do it. There was some bass in there, buzzer. The bowman I was just trying to get through, not get through, but I wasn't going to stop on every Lesko bass. Would have been a little puff. I think it might have gotten a little annoying, to be honest. Yeah, I got you. That is Down Goes A, Lou Dort for the Thunder to 75, the Dorcher Chamber. Jesus. Jonas Valenskunis to 49, and Joss Silver Fluid. Something funny over there. Laugh it up, clowny. Maxi Kleber, Sunrise. Marta Rosen. So easy to make Jake laugh, dude. It's actually like. You just got to like stare at him and break, dude. It's insanely easy. Silver Luka Donchich. Try him, Kawaii Leonard. That's all you got to do is just look at him. It's easy, man. I can't even look at you, man. Silver A.J. Griffin, Steele of Draft, A.J. Griffin, S.O.D. Griff, as Kyle Paulson. Rashid Wallace to 49. That's dope, going to the Blazers. Come in. Nice sheet, man. Awesome sheet right there. Russell Westbrook, red, and a Jalen Williams incoming. Let me drop you guys, I'm going to drop you guys a link to Fanatics Live with Kyle and Bofa tomorrow. Bofa. It is Sunday Scaries with Kyle and Bofa. Here's your link, Fanatics Live with Kyle tomorrow. And then you've got over here, starting at 5 PM, Forrest and Sean. That's a scary duo. Blue, 299, RJ Barrett. And you know the deal. If you guys get the brakes sold out, the trash list gets revealed. There are some new members this week. Silver, Jeremy Sohan, and LeBron James. Blue, Alfred and Shen-Goon, 299. Steph Curry, Fluid. Silva, Karis Levert, and Trey. I don't think so, K. The app isn't yet. Silver, Keldon Johnson, and rookie influx of Shade-on-Trap. But you can watch it on a web browser. If you type in Fanatics.live, it'll take you to like the, you just have to watch it on a web browser as opposed to an actual physical app. Yeah, I got you. OK, no problem at all. Box, those. And Christian. Nice. JDubb, going to Anthony. Let's go, Anthony. There you go. Anthony C, with the thunder. Congrats, buddy, rookie auto. JDubb, Jalen Suggs, and Christian Coloco. You know what your name looks like? Ylbert. I know, Ylbert. There's Jeremy Grant and Fluid. My name looks like Ylbert.  A Ylbert sandwich.  It's just Ylbert. You said Ylbert. Oh, is it Ylbert? It's just there's no T. You're adding letters. Practically, there is a Ylbert or a Ylbert. Is it Ylbert or Ylbert? Ylbert. It's Ylbert. It's not, it's Ylbert. It's definitely, maybe you don't pronounce it this way. DeMonte Graham, you could be right about that, Chet Rookie. I don't see a Kenyan Martin. That'd be dope. A Kmart for Carl. Call him Kmart Carl. There's Chet Holmgren and Chet Holmgren again. That is a Jamal Murray to 75, Keegan Murray, Fluid. Some of Miles Turner for the Pacers. Locke's Legend. Isaac Acoro to 25. No, 49, just kidding. And Walker Kessler incoming. Incoming. Can I add nada? Silver, Jared Vanderbilt, and Devin Booker. I'm getting so and for Cod, dude. He's ready, man. He's ready. So ready for Cod, dude. I'm so excited. All the new, all the, look at what we're walking into, the OG Fortnite map and Cod Modern Warfare 2. I know. My God, what a, what a, yeah, right. Great two weeks for games. What an era of gaming that we are re-entering ourselves into. My God, man, I'm going to be hitting wild trick shots on High Rise. Clipping stuff. I'm going to start my own clan. I'm going to 1v1 people on Rust. To 99, Cade Cunningham. And Silver, Benedict Mather. Everybody in this shop who works here, every employee needs to buy Cod. And every time we have a dispute of something, 1v1 on Rust to settle it, right? I think that's fair.  Silver, Kristoff Sporzingis, Paolo. Real quick scoper or no? No? He just ran around with a UMP, like a baby. Yeah, UMP had Marathon. Yep. There's Herbert Jones. 100%. There's Keegan Murray. Well, yeah, you didn't have the original model for two, right? Yeah, no, I didn't start playing until, like, World War II. Tarence Mann, 275. KD. That's what I'm saying, Rich, right? It's wild, dude. Keegan Murray, red. Nice one there for the Kings and Flow Motion. Don't want to mess with your kids. I have seen that. That is so funny, dude. That is funny. So funny. Keegan Murray, Keldon Johnson to 49. They're like, wow, they're all screaming or whatever. Jalen Duren. Oh, we're hunting Tim Tebow and Steven Strausberg. That's who we're hunting, Rich. Ty Ty Washington, Silver, Kenyon Martin Jr. and Rookie and Flux Paolo. Jared Allen, Sunrise. Jeremy Sohan. Silver Alvarado, Anthony Edwards. Next, I'll follow their Aiden. That is going to be Evika Zubak going to the Clippers. Oink, oink, Zubak. Ribbit, ribbit, Zubak. You get that or not. Johnny Davis and John Morant, never mind. Zupals, you never heard of that? Oh! Yeah. And then said it's Zubak. Isn't that where they was, like, the little animal faces you had on the plates? Yeah. Dude, that probably agrees. That would be great. That was a fire. Holy cow. You used some locked up hardware right there. Oh, yeah. He just didn't do that, no way. Silver Wendell Moore Jr. Oh, it happened, Vaughn. It happened, buddy. There's Mark Williams and Trey Young. Dallin Terry, 2 at 75. And Rookie Influx, Bryce McGowan's. Silver, Yusuf Nurkitsch. And incoming, Paolo Bancaro. Let's go, Hitless Facts. No, we got to hit it. We got to hit it. Bogdan McDonovich, Paolo Bancaro. Distributors secondary. Monday through Tuesday breaks up now. Let's go, Cole Anthony. And Don Mitchell, let's do my 10 box Tuesday, looks like. Live breaks. Spaceball. Ooh, ooh, there's two 10 box Tuesdays? Huh, nice. Budget mixer, let's go. Yeah, there's a $50 budget mixer. Budget ball.  Oh, and a series too, Jumbo. Stadium Club Chrome, Prism Select, Platinum Anniversary Light, nice, I like it. That's sick. I like it a lot. See what the football one is. Nice. I'm act photo, nice. I like photos. I like photos. I like them. That one's only $150. Exactly, man, exactly, Paul. Yeah, man. And we got Noir first off the line and Noir hobby on the basketball one. Yeah, if you guys still have the coupon remaining. You can use it right now. Use it right now on anything you want, whether it be Monday, Tuesday breaks. So $50 if you use the coupon gets you to $45. Yeah, it's not bad, honestly. $45 for that lineup. Yeah, pretty solid. You're going to get a lot of stuff. Ooh, nice, the round mound of rebound. Charles Barkley going to the Sixers. I don't know how to respond to that. Silver, Kara Silver, and Jalen Bronson. We do have a car shop, that's where you're at. Yes, yes. We do have a car shop, yes. Yes, I'm assuming that's where that was going. A long journey to get there, but I'm assuming that's where that's where we're going. If I didn't insert that incorrectly, didn't, sorry. Silver, Andrew Wiggins, and Julius Randall. Triumph. Yeah, yeah, we do have a car shop. Popka Flouda. Popka. Popka Flouda. Flouda. About 30 minutes northwest of Orlando. Yes, sir. Right off the term. God, I love Florida, dude. Right off the term. Yes, sir? Yeah, I kind of, right? That is going to be Boban Marzanovic. Red color match, auto for the Rockets. Jalen Sticks Smith and Colucco. And fluid of Jason Tinn. That was Forrest Gifts for filling us up for 10. Yep, Keegan Murray rookie. So much appreciated there. Thank you, Forrest. But yeah, thank you all as well. Joellen Bede and Anthony Davis. Appreciate you guys for that one for sure. Silver Orlando Robinson, Czech Holmgren influx. Sunrise of Wendell Moore Jr., Keegan Murray fluid. Bryce McGowan, AJ Green, 275. Walker Kessler incoming. Silva Steppen Curry and fluid of Trey Young. Silva IQ, Steppen Curry flow motion. Silva DeMar DeRosan and D-Book. Kobe rookie card, nice. Yeah, nice, man.  You a basketball fan or just Kobe White and Jason Tinn? All sports, she got. Blue, Cap 299. Barry Walker, Silver Austin Reeves and fluid of AI. Paul George Silver, influx rookie of Jaden Ivy. Jared Vanderbilt, flow motion, Ja. Silver Walker Kessler, Tyrese Halliburton. Josh Giddy, 275. Yes, sir. Giddy up, Giddy up. Benedict Matheran. Been a minute since you've had to do one of those. We got a green coming up here, everybody. It's a Irish Spring, green, green, green. That is a blue of Jalen Williams and a green. AJ Green, green, Irish Spring. Green, green, green. Oh, dude, green, green, green, green. Look at that. For the box, congrats Milwaukee. And the Bengals receiver looks different here. I can't believe you're tired. Wow, he was old. That is Jaden Hardy, rookie out of the 49 red for the Mavericks, congrats Dallas. What in the world is happening? I really don't know, man. That's 70 bucks, make sure. I know, it takes a toll on you. Desmond Bain and AJ Griffin. Feel the draft, AJ Griffin, that is, to all of you. Kobe Buffkin, feel the draft. That's Kevin Love and Marjon Bochamp. Now, I'm not gonna do the same thing for Kobe Buffkin. I'll do something, I'll come up with something. I think it's gonna be Peer Shooter, Kobe Buffkin. I don't know. I'll think of something now, something funny. Peer Shooter. That's two at five, AJ Green. Charles Barkley, Evika Zubak, Jalen Williams, Rashid Wallace, Boban Marjanovic, and AJ and Hardy. That is gonna do it for the, that's gonna do it for the break. Thank you all again for the fill. Up next is the next flux.


Hey guys, welcome back Today, I'm actually out in Toronto, which is why I'm in this car currently my grandma is having her 80th birthday party It's a surprise, but we have a lot of fun things going on for her right now She's actually out in a nail salon getting a pedicure done, which is something I did not want to do Because my nails are just perfect Who knew I want to talk about something really fun though, and that's the stub hub upgrade policy Now many other resale websites also have their own upgrade policy But we're just gonna focus on stub hubs because it is kind of like the standard baseline many others also have the same policy So it's kind of what we're gonna use as our discussion point today. Well, let's dive into it now very simply if you buy ticket on stub hub You're basically gonna get what is listed there, but if they're gonna be upgraded It's gonna end up being in that same section within five rows better So if you're in row 15, you could end up all the way in row 11 If that's what the ticket seller is actually gonna be filled for your tickets with it's just kind of a Standard upgrade policy for stub hub reason behind it is two-fold one is sometimes sellers will just inadvertently put the wrong row because they are just Crazy who knows it happens sometimes. I've done it before everyone's kind of done it I'm sure maybe everybody some people some people are perfect some people are just so perfect Anyway, I've made that mistake before so in if that happens to you not a big deal you can always upgrade within five rows better and It also sometimes is done for people who are trying to mask their actual role in their seats Reason behind that is sometimes some venues or events They don't actually they're very serious in terms of canceling orders If they find them being resold and so what someone will do is, you know, they'll push their tickets up about five rows higher Just to protect where their actual seats are so that when they're delivered the person who's buying the tickets We'll get the proper seats again As long as it's within five rows better than what is actually being listed and sold on stub hub Now it should be noted that this policy is not the case for every type of event Specifically with horse racing and auto racing the upgrade policy works in reverse So if you're bought a ticket in row 10 the upgrade policy will work if you're going up So if you if you bought tickets that were row 11 and they're fulfilled in row 15 That's considered an upgrade sounds a bit counterintuitive when you think about it But it actually kind of makes sense because what's happening is you're gonna get a better vantage point of what's actually happening at that event If you ever look at what's you know ticket prices for the Kentucky Derby are going for take a look in just a different maps You'll see that the higher you go the better vantage view you have and that's we're kind of all those You know millionaire row clubs and all the other fancy rich people with all their big massive hats That's where they're all sitting and so that's kind of how the policy works again horse racing and auto racing Higher row you go better seats you get within five rows no big deal now. Let's get into a few more things football concerts and So with football and concerts you cannot be upgraded into a row that is within the first 10 rows of the event Why is that hey good question? Hey reason behind that is because The vantage view just sucks in the first 10 rows So with football specifically if you're within the first 10 rows the problem You'll run into if you're in like kind of a lower bowl the problem is that you're just too low You can't see over the players heads. There's a lot of things in your way There might be cameras in your way It's just it can be a problem and then what happens is you just don't get a good view and so what they what saw how The preventing is from people going from you know row 12 and then try and push them into row 9 You know they don't want people to have that bad view You really want to be you know middle upper kind of sections in the lower bowl football So they are preventing people from getting that upgrade done same thing with concerts Yes, the experience can be a lot better a lot more fun if you're moved into that first 10 row area But your actual view is not gonna be as good because the stage is raised You might be too low your eye level will be at the stage level and then you're just looking up Not I do so stuff up has this policy in place to prevent that from actually happening So with all that being said what is it you should do if you're buying tickets on stuff up? First thing you should do is obviously double check the order that you bought versus what you actually received If you find everything's the same except for the row if it's within five rows better than what you purchased Nothing you can do there. It means you're getting a free upgrade Congratulations, you made it if you find that the row is actually worse though. Definitely call stuff of customer support right away They're gonna work with you to make sure you get the right tickets Sometimes it could have just been an incorrectly fulfilled order now if you're more of those special circumstances where it's Moving into the first 10 rows of the actual venue then always make sure that your contacts to have right away The policy specifically states they can't sellers cannot push you into the first 10 rows If you prefer those tickets by all means you're go ahead keep them. That's fine That's what you receive But if it's not something you want then you obviously have the right to contact stuff up get them to fix it And you will be made whole now last thing I want to mention is other websites have very similar types of fan Guarantees again, make sure you read all their different policies Sometimes you won't actually see the upgrade policies online because they're specifically tailored to the seller side But if you ever do have questions or you see that tickets don't match make sure you contact the customer support team right away they'll make sure that tickets you out are the ones you're supposed to get and That makes you a winner if you get some free upgrades everyone loves free upgrades upgrade upgrade upgrade I'll take it all day Amazing amazing stuff So if you like upgrades hit that like button if you love upgrades leave me a comment And if you especially love upgrades definitely subscribe because I want to make sure that you get the best tickets possible Every single time alright so that kind of covers everything for today and see you guys next time


It's not gonna focus. Why is it not focusing? Well, I don't know what's wrong with my phone y'all It's not focusing. I don't know what I'm gonna do Let's see. Maybe I can turn it around. Oh There we go I'll just have to do it backwards For some reason my front camera is not focusing Like so Basically, this is gonna be backwards See if I can move this a little closer for y'all What's up? How's everybody Sunday? Say her I started this last week Hopefully y'all can hear me. All right, I'm not gonna be able to see the Comments for some reason I I've got to get a new phone this My camera on this phone whenever I go like to snapchat or to hear It completely acts up and then it just disappears Wonder if I can get The laptop and just I don't know. Maybe I'll be able to see all your all comments here in a minute I have to step over bullies. I'll show you guys what I've been working on today This is a portrait Basically what I did I'll show you what I did with this So I have let's turn off all the layers And this is the original Cedar So it's of a girl smoking And I just kind of wanted to practice with this with the pen and Doing shadows and whatnot. So I just did a bunch of layers So I'll show you kind of the first layer So if you take away the original You can kind of see what what I've been what I was doing And then you can add another layer that I darkened and I added some More dark and then there's a layer with some Color, which is a lot of fun this is something that I could do and just totally forget about what I'm doing and Forget what time it is kind of thing But this is fun. This is I would love to do one of Erica. I have a picture of her Where she's let's see here. I might be able to find the one Of her face this one That I want to do I Want to make an NFT Piece with this Somehow if we can ever figure out how to do that on our own very difficult What's up, everybody? I'm sorry. I'm not reading the comments cuz let me I'm gonna bring up on this Where is? So at least I can see him on here Oh god Sorry about that. I know there's probably gonna be echo in there. All right, let's pop this out We can We able to pop it out. All right, at least I have some of you I can see your comments now. All right, so Originally for this piece I wanted this to be the whole piece which as you can see is a very It's a pretty good size piece. It's like I want to say 18 by 36. I think So it's a it's a pretty good size piece And I wanted it to be up with just eyes nose and a mouth And I really like this picture of Rock-hell Welch that do that is that's right walk out welch So We'll just go in and I'm just darkening I did these the other day This is supposed to be hair but the way I did it. It looks like Maybe she's wearing something and I liked it So I'm just literally just darkening I'm going from a graphite pencil to basically Softer graphite and charcoal And then using this this to kind of get some good shadows and my finger to kind of get some shadows and An exacto blade to kind of Scratch off and then I took a white Posca pin just a little bit And kind of put it where the highlights are So feel the rent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Sorry about that so What I wanted to do I wanted to see what this would look like if I just Wipe this It does That's what's fun about charcoal. You could put a dark charcoal down and Just wipe it and it lightens it so then therefore It's not, you know, you're not defining a line You're basically just giving yourself a shadow of a nice Of a nice reference where stuff should go And then you could darken it in if you like and what I use there is this big old piece of compressed charcoal Hello from Idaho What's up, Chris? Thank you What is that Mike I really wish I could pop this chat out For some reason It doesn't let me pop it out on the laptop. I don't know why How's everyone doing tonight on this Sunday? Let's not mention the Cowboys today. They had an off day I Really off day and see what's fun with this charcoal stuff If I wanted to I could probably erase that right like if I didn't really really like it Yeah, look at that. We can kind of erase that But as you can see It still gives you a little reference of Where everything is that let's work on this eyeball here Like I said, you could take this charcoal Like get some on your hand and where there's where there's a lot of dark Just give yourself a little bit of dark So that you know Where these dark parts are going to be Sometimes I work backwards I Feel like I'm sitting way too close right now And that's a good thing with this too. You can get in here Get your dark parts in here. You don't have to make these super dark lashes Eyelashes are fun. I like doing the bottom and the top You can define them and then just kind of smooth them out So you can kind of get an idea of where that bottom eyelash is eyelash line And then you can go in with a little bit heavier and define your They almost gives them a shadow where the eyelashes are give yourself a little bit of a I need to remember to blink When I don't blink what I'm doing this my contacts dry up. Oh, yeah What I've done here where it's really really dark I took a Posca pen and I basically just kind of made a line and then just kind of smudged it So that it wasn't a solid Line Yeah, Green Bay. I know it Green Bay in Kansas City Whoo, I think I need to get some Like glasses just for my artwork so I can be close Because when I get close it gets kind of blurry Especially when I have my contacts in because they're more for Far away I Think the left one is for up close just because I have such a bad bad left eye I really my left eye is like it's not blind, but it's It's definitely There's not a lot of detail in that left eye I'm talking about my left eye not this left eye. I'll show you guys mean I'll show you guys what I mean But when I say the Posca pen Normally You want to go a little darker before you start doing any solid black But then again I would love to try I know I've done it before It's just do just the dark parts. I'm talking solid black the blackest you could get and then Do do some detail with pencil and some charcoal and then go with airbrush and blend it all in I'm sure that would look awesome. You see when you when you get dark like this. What is this? See, this is just a 6b, which is it's pretty it's pretty soft. It's very dark I mean for a 6 for a 6b. This is This is still pretty dark, but I love it because you can smooth it in so if you don't want it to be so dark It doesn't have to be what's up everybody. Welcome.  I probably shouldn't move this You see if we can maybe move it a little bit closer to what I'm working on Why that arm doesn't go over there, so We can make these eyebrows a little darker and and I've been doing faces for so long portraits That there's certain parts of a portrait that I love to do I love to do all the shadow in here I love to do this shadow and even if it's not on the picture and it can still make sense I would I'll do it Look at that. That is just oh, I think I put some charcoal up there. I think I put charcoal in all of this Huh hi from the UK. What's up Martin? Well, thanks for showing up. Go have some awesome dinner and your awesome Sunday in Australia right on Beethoven I Rarely do portraits of men I have before but I I have to want to Like the the the reference So I guess if I if I like the reference of Beethoven, so then this thing is the smudge You tinsel I have it to where it's kind of like I flattened it so I can get bigger smudges like up here if I wanted to Get some shadow up here. See look at that. I Just shadowed all of this right here The thing is I got rid of those eyelashes But that doesn't matter because the darker Stuff will come in here in a little bit and I can just go back and put those eyelashes back in there again Not a problem right on I appreciate it everyone But portraits like this I have to stop every now and again just stand back and just kind of squint my eyes because if you I see this all up close and I'm doing it and It doesn't look right, but if you step back Have your reference up next to your piece and you'll see what's wrong. You'll see what you like what you don't like Let's see. Where is the Sorry about that y'all you're gonna see a earthquake here in a second I forgot this So now I'm gonna go ahead and darken up all this stuff. I have a 10 B This thing is like right over my shoulder y'all. So I apologize if I hit that again I got myself a drink full Sunday night sippy sippy. Nothing wrong with Beethoven here Well, I I didn't say anything was wrong with him. I just said I Have to want to paint the painting paint the picture of him All right, so I'm gonna do this. So I apologize if I don't read somebody's comment But I'll definitely keep talking See look at that. This is just a little bit softer. So it's gonna be a lot darker So now I can go in and get these eyelashes but what I'll probably do is Take the Paintbrush when I'm all finished I'll probably get the airbrush out sometime at some point and Just hit it with a Like a smoke gray just to kind of blend everything in and then take a fine airbrush or a fine paint brush and do like the eyelashes the Eyebrows Get these creases. These are these are really dark right here, too as well You can get some of your shadows From the creases. I love to do all these shadows No shadows, it's what really makes a Portrait come together when you when you can get these shadows just right especially the nose This is tricky right here You guys can't even see the nose. Can you? There you go Ontario we don't get a lot of Canadians over here What's happening? What's happening? Tink-tink y'all Tink-tink I see people are thumbs up. I appreciate that. Thank you so much Now in a second, I'm gonna get the exacto blade And I'm gonna show you guys how to make highlights And to and to make an eyelash stand out and to make a shadow really stand out Like right here See what I should be doing is doing this with the airbrush But I'm not at that point right now that I feel like I want to do that Like I said in the beginning.  This is this is pretty small and All these all this stuff kind of Muffles your artwork kind of if you understand what I'm when I mean Yeah, we are almost to 50,000 subscribers And I'll show you how I did this eye and it's funny because it's already that color which really bothers me I did I did this eye with a posca pin as well Basically all I did was I dabbed it and then just kind of dabbed it with my finger so it kind of Smudge it a little and then as I would put it more towards the top it just kind of faded and then I just took some Some of the dark and just kind of blend it down so it kind of You can kind of see you can just blend that all that in But here I'll show you guys what I do with the exacto blade and it kind of We call it it definitely gets dull pretty fast because the the tip of these are They're very sharp, but they're also these are really crappy exacto blade.  I probably could use Some white charcoal too, maybe even right and then you get really good detail when you do Let's see here I'm trying to get this as close as possible Just do I'm just outside of your eyelash one little mark mark Just to separate them from the other eyelashes and It makes it stand out a lot See that and there's like a little highlight right here. There's If there isn't I normally put one just because it makes it stand out a little bit more So what do you guys working on anything new? anything old Did you have a chill Sunday? So I'm gonna take this Posca pen and hit this highlight right here. You just kind of dab it just to kind of Take down some of that white You just barely hit it and then you could go back in with your with some charcoal and kind of Make that not so not so bright Sorry about that. Mike Is texting me right now? We are going to Hawaii At the end of this month To go see Mike and the fam and see there's a little highlight right here I'm gonna risk it but just a kind of a bigger dot, but I'm gonna match it out.  Let's do some of this Her lips right here and see the airbrush would work really good with this as well See you get rid of that just just so it's not so harsh But it's just a hint of The highlight on her lips and she's got like some highlight right here And some of the highlight doesn't work because there's color behind you So if it doesn't work, it's definitely because of this color Which I shouldn't be doing anyways But I Wanted to highlight. I wanted to get some more definition in there All right, so what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna take This is like a really really super thin Posca pin like pointy very pointy What up Phoenix art flow welcome If you guys are new to the new to the our channel artist till death Welcome. I am Jeff Thornton Normally Erica would be here doing some sort of amazing Resin or alcohol ink or something She is out visiting Our fairy art mother See what I'm doing is I'm just hitting just the dark parts that I Like and then I'm gonna smush it.  This is just how I do it. I could probably get away with doing The eyelashes with this because this is a very fine point Let's see. I'm gonna Think it wants to this doesn't want to work on this where there's pencil And my eyes are getting blurry right now. I Think I'm just too close to the canvas But if you can see you can see that I'm just fairly darkening these in so that it just gives it a good definition I Might just get that airbrush out just Give this crease a nice dark Gives it more depth, you know And then we can do just the center of the eyebrows because I don't want to make them stand out too much I feel like my eyebrows don't have any direction So What I'll do I'll just fill in what I think where the eyebrows should go And look and then take the exacto And give it just a little bit more definition. Where is that exacto blade at? What Jeff? That is absolutely amazing Well, thank you very much Melissa. Yeah, we we might just have to stay there I'm telling you what see you can get some really good detail with this I'll bring that camera in a second to show you like you can really shape eyebrows And give you some good detail You got a really a nice sharp Can you see that? So what I need to do now, I need to darken in that eye Because it's very this is very dark eye right here. This is why it's looking so Different here because I don't have any shadow, but I could also do that with the airbrush, so So you just darken it all in All right here. I'll show you how I do that What's up? What's up Stephanie welcome and fortunately? It's the same color as this basically, right? This is just a Posca pin, but I want her eye to stand out a little bit more than what it is So I just tap just blend this color in Would that be fun to make it brown? Or maybe blue Should I make her eyes blue stick out a little bit more? I think that would be fun So Let's blend this in this is very not blended in here. I put the Marker on this and never blend it in I think it's really it's bugging me because I know there's a lot of shadow on her lip here And see with airbrush, it would be so much faster so much easier Sometimes I just don't feel like getting the airbrush out and I like to challenge myself. I like to I've done airbrush for so long that I feel like I just kind of It's kind of the easy route To blend stuff like this So I'd rather challenge myself and see if I can get a nice nice gradient with them With this, you know with a paintbrush. This is fun to me Trying to make a decent lip gradient If that's what that's called, I don't know How are the chiefs doing? Not bad little This little softness here and originally I I didn't want to do any hair detail Which I'm probably not going to do but I'll do a little bit here just to kind of Have the face in something I might do this to where it's like a cloth or something like a hood All right. Have a good night 13 7 awesome Right on This would be a lot easier with airbrush right here because this Her jawline is so gnarly her cheekbones Look at that like that's such a That's so rad What to do with this right here because I don't want to do a bunch of hair I don't even know what I'm going to do with this like This is probably just going to be a practice thing Thank you phoenix art flow I don't know why this is Take this again And darken Now let me draw on some parts very 80s art Very 80s art desk And I'm not doing it but always look at your reference Especially if you want to make somebody look like somebody Always look at your reference Yeah, it's just What's really bugging me is what I wanted to do with this and that is Make this make this image bigger Because when you do little stuff like this all this color background it muffles your artwork so That's it really I'm not really happy with that. I was going to do some eyelashes So Sorry about that. That's my text messages and it's not gonna stop unless I go check the text message and I don't want to get out of This because I'm afraid my camera is gonna. Oh, yeah, definitely Emma. She's a little brighter Yeah, I think I want to stop on that part Because I don't I don't want to keep darkening it I think this is fine and I'm just I don't know what I'm gonna do with this If anything, I'll just spray some matte over it And then maybe put some more 80s Like some Some streaks like kind of how Erica does her stuff Maybe put like a big neon piece right here So, yeah, I think this is pretty cool As far as A practice piece I've been uh Gosh, that's gonna drive me insane I've been uh Wanting to do just larger pieces just up close stuff detailed Heavy contrast heavy shadows And this is not it So I think if I just continue to do stuff like this at the beginning and then go forward Maybe Doing the same thing because I've I've just done it on a bigger scale because I know where stuff goes How it should look I think that would be a An ideal thing a lot of texture in this that's for sure. Let's spray some I'm gonna spray some Workable fixative over it and it should darken it it should make it darker But but then I can go back in I could still go back in with airbrush Or I can go back in with Anything and be able to draw over this Charcoal because there'll be a layer of film in between it But once you put this stuff down You're sealing in everything I can't erase anything anymore. I can't Nothing Even these like I could probably get rid of these lines If I wanted to I could just wipe them down and erase it With this kneaded eraser because it's charcoal like it's very Very forgiving But I think I'm going to seal it in With this stuff here And this stuff always brightens everything makes a little stuff a little darker I'm gonna open the window real quick It was very very nice day today here in Dallas Whoo, I just picked this up and was about to spray it All right, make sure you pick up the right can Thank you, Joellen All right, so I'm just gonna spray this over everything right now and this does darken stuff in it like kind of Makes it very it kind of highlights the darkness, right? Oh Where's my respirator at I need that I would definitely Use a respirator It darkened it didn't it you have to turn the fan on Yeah, this side's a lot darker than that side. Thank you everyone. Thank you very much See I want to do this I have this piece that I put Alcohol ink on I'll probably do just a Shoot I knows in a mouth like just something oversized I don't know we'll see But that's originally I originally wanted to do this one And I started it and I hated it so I painted over it It was on a big round, which I'll probably do Because I really like this image. I love the darkness here the contrast But what I I started doing all the light parts And it just your your mind can't see it yet I mean, obviously you can see it here, but when you're working on it, there's just a It's it looks like a weird shape and Like I literally think I have to start this Like just use a black And just black and all this stuff in and just barely hit where this stuff is And then go in with airbrush and fade it all in I did not know that was energy or jolly and her name is right there That's how you can tell my My contacts are acting up All right, I think that's it. I think this is Let's see. Let's dry Look if we put some Look at that Fun is that Do some splatter with this I could totally turn this into an 80s 80s piece real quick And see now this is wanting to Because there's something That it can draw on now Literally, it's almost like I'm airbrushing this just because I'm doing dots I end up messing that up and then I'm not gonna like it So What do we got? What are you guys saying? Thank you casey. I appreciate that Judy Erica's on the way home awesome. All right Well with that said I am I want to stop because I'll end up doing something to this and I want to add something to this I'm not sure what but Let's just stop here and on a good note So I don't end up Smashing this thing or painting over it or something And then that way I can get this text message Um, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for hanging out with me um Especially on a sunday night. I know people are Getting ready for work tomorrow or just getting up if you're in australia So I appreciate you guys be kind of one another you never know what somebody's going through and always remember Here at artist till death studios we do the test So you don't have to You guys are awesome


Hello everybody, welcome back to another After Effects Tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to warp or use liquefy, something that you're used to using in Photoshop to create warps and wobbles. I'm going to show you how to do it to video instead of just photos. So let me show you what I'm talking about here. Here's an example. Here's the original shot. I'll just load the shot. Come on, Curtis, get to the correct button here. Here we go. Here's the original. Just got this girl dancing, doing her thing, whatever. Now I'm going to turn on the top layer and watch. Watch your face wobble and warp and just do strange things. And this is done using the liquefy tool. Let me show you how I did it. The first step is you just load in some footage like I've done here with nothing applied to it. The next step is you want to go to your effects and presets panel, go to the distort and then accept or take the liquefy option right here. There we go.  This is basically the forward warp tool, but inside video instead of inside Photoshop. If you look a little closer, this is a wave tool. This is the twirl clockwise anti and counterclockwise. That's the word. Pucker and bloat are here as well as a few others that you might be used to. Clone stamp, et cetera. Anyways, the one we want to use is this one here. And that is the forward warp. Even though you hover on it, you don't see it. When you do click on it though, you're going to get some options. Watch this. I'm going to show you. I'm going to go to the warp tool options and you can change a few things, including brush size. So right now it's default to 64. I'm going to turn it up a lot. I'm going to go to like 500 just to really show you the effect. So I've gone and done that. And I'm also going to increase the brush pressure. So this is going to do some extreme warping, some extreme liquefying. I want you guys to know also up front here that liquefy is massively CPU and GPU intensive. This takes a ton of resources and slows things down. So I hope you have a fast computer. All right, with that little preamble out of the way, watch this. We've moved our playhead to the beginning. In order to begin the warping and the wobbling and the liquefy effect, you want to turn all three of these stopwatches on underneath view options. Okay, good. And we'll leave distortion percentage at 100. Now also click on you when you're on top of the when you click on your layer. And the reason why you want to do that is because it'll give you these three beginning percentages or these beginning keyframes command C or control C to copy them because you want to keep those in case you ever, you know, you warp your stuff and you want to get back to regular and you're not sure how to get back. Just make a copy of these and keep that in your clipboard, so to speak. Now let's say that we want to begin the warping at the fifth frame. So right here, when she's doing her thing, I would click on this option here and then I'll begin to warp it.  Whoa, Nelly. Okay, see, this is a humongous. Maybe that's too much. What do you think? Okay, let's command Z or control Z. That's a little bit much.  Okay, this is just a just a, you know, whatever. It's a warp effect. And then as we get to the 10, I'm going to bring it back down a little and maybe I'll bring it to the right. So we're just going to warp. Again, this is just, you know, showing you how it works. And then at the end, at one second, oh yeah, she's got a bit of an alien face.  Okay, and then at this point, I'm going to hit command V. Remember when I told you to copy those things? If you hit command V, that resets it so that these were the original values at the beginning here. Now we've gone ahead and added them in. So let me show you what this kind of looks like. Let's hit space bar, warping, warp surface. This is how you do a dream trans crazy effect doing liquefy, just like you would in Photoshop, except on moving pictures. How awesome is that? I know. Anyways, guys, that's how you liquefy video and get that warpy wavy wobbly look using After Effects. Thanks for watching.


That's probably more than a plate on a plate. Here again in the White House, and guess what we're going to talk about. But I know the work of you and your staff, so we're done. I sincerely appreciate it. You know my belief in rebalancing our federal system and the national government should trust all of you and your colleagues as true partners in our intergovernmental system. Throughout 81 and 82 we've worked together many times on block grants, regulatory relief and a variety of other intergovernmental issues. I think we can be pleased by the progress that's been made thus far and how much we've all learned in the development of the federalism initiative. Let me review what I think we can all agree upon. That we need to return government responsibilities to the state and local level. These return responsibilities should be accompanied by commensurate revenue sources or an appropriate funding mechanism such as the federalism trust fund. There should be a mandatory pass-through to protect local units of government. The initiative should not be a vehicle for budgetary savings in either side. I know there are some areas where we couldn't reach agreement earlier this year but let me assure you I've made no final decisions in those areas and I'd like to hear your input first hand about any outstanding issues or other approaches which we might consider to achieve our mutual goals. As I said to many of you when we talked in August I thought it would be appropriate for all of us to take a step back and rethink many aspects of the initiative. I think it can be very helpful for you and your organization to develop all sort of good comprehensive plans and I look forward to receiving them. But I would like to do most of this meeting today is to hear from you, you know, Laura and Rich Willings and you will recognize the heads of each of the organizations that you represented here. Thank you Mr. President. We're going to start out with Bill Murphy, new president of the National Association of Counties. Thanks Rich. Mr. President, it's a pleasure to see you again. It's always nice to see you in such good health. Best wishes to go with you for much success. Mr. President, two things I'd like to address. You first with the 1984 budget and it's worth caution from county governments throughout this country. The recession is having a very heavy impact on those county budgets and as you know they are largely financed by real property taxes. Those taxes in almost all the counties in this country do have associations not to cut further into those programs that affect county governments in this country at least while recession is going on because we're in no position to be able to pick up the additional costs that those clickbacks would engender. At present time our welfare rules are swelling because of unemployment. Our Medicaid rules are going up in a rate faster than anyone could ever imagine. The food stamp program has obviously grown and now there's been a 60% increase in that. Our jails are overcrowded. Our criminal justice system is bad and I wish I could end it up by saying but everything else is okay, all right? It's a joke but it simply is not. So as far as the budget is concerned our strong recommendation would be no further cuts than if we can adjust to the cuts that have them down already until we get out of this recession and turn the corner onto this prosperity which I'm confident you're going to bring this country. Secondly, as it relates to New Federalism. It's good.