My name is Kathy Flanders and today I want to talk a little bit about managing the stored grain insects with emphasis on wheat, because wheat harvest is coming up way too fast. It may not seem like it right now, but it is important to start making some preparations and think about what you need to do in order to have a safe and effective storage of wheat if you decide to store your wheat. It doesn't matter if you've got a small grain bin like this, or if you've got a really big grain bin, the kind of the principles for managing stored grain are all the same. Your goal is going to be to minimize the number of insects that you start with and then to make conditions within the grain bin unfavorable for the remaining insects to grow. That's the best you can do. You'll never prevent every single insect, but you have to do the best you can. So the fewer the number you start with and then the unhappier that you can make them with the various growing conditions, the better off you are. One thing to remember is when you get into a situation where inside the grain bin, where you've got all your grain inside, if you have insects in there, there is nothing that you can spray on top to get rid of the insects that are there present throughout the grain bin. The only way to really get rid, thoroughly get rid of the insects that are in the grain bin, you would have to fumigate. So that can be dangerous and it can be time consuming. Our goal really is to do everything we can to minimize the number of insects that we have. The principles that we have kind of boil down into keeping it clean and dry, keeping it cool, and checking it often. Keeping it clean, keeping it dry, and keeping it cool are all designed towards making the grain bins an unfavorable environment for insects to grow. So let me try to explain what some of these why we're saying these and what it means and what we're doing by doing these different things. So why do we want to keep it dry? The lower the grain percent moisture in the grain, the slower the insects reproduce. And so what this is, this is an old study from back in 1960, where they had granary weevils that they put in wheat and they left them at 80 degrees for five months. You can see that the number of insects that you have, there are more insects that were able to reproduce at 14 percent moisture than were able to reproduce at 9 percent moisture. For example, that's why for all the grains that we have, or if you look in my stored grain IBM guide, you're going to see some recommended moisture contents for storage of the different kinds of grains and for soybeans as well. Generally, the longer you plan to store a product, the drier we recommend that you get that grain to recognize that it's a trade off between getting docked a little bit for the shrinkage when you go to sell it versus the benefits you get when it's drier from not only insect control but also from the control of molds. So keeping it dry is very important. Look at those tables, understand that the longer you plan to store your grain, perhaps you need to be thinking about having it drier. Now, why are we talking about keeping it clean? Well, most of the insects that we have, most of them are home grown. There were a few that we fly, infesting in the field or flying in to find your grain bin later. But a lot of those problems that we have are from our own insects that are growing, that are right there on our stored grain facility site. You may not realize that even without food, some of these stored grain beetles can live for several years as adults.  They're going to just be able to sit there and multiply in all of that leftover grain. And then all of a sudden when you go to put new grain in, you know, they just be sitting there waiting for the new crop to come in. So the cleaner you can be, the better. We recognize we are limited with some constraints and it's hard to clean. All the nooks and crannies in a grain bin and things do fall down to the floor and we'll get down under the floor but the more cleaning we can do, the fewer number of insects are going to be there to infest that grain and to start the new cycle. So we talk about not cleaning the grain bins and not just the grain bins but make sure you clean the combines and the augers and any of the grain handling equipment. One of the great places where we can build up insects is like in the tank of the combine if instead of it's important to clean that out at the end of the season and not just leave some grain in there to let the insects build up. So clean all the grain handling equipment and the grain storage areas that's involved sweeping, vacuuming, power washing, whatever you can do depending on the piece of equipment to just minimize the number of insects that are just hanging out around the grain, the farm and the grain facility. Try to get as best you can, this is an actual grain bin that was cleaned out so you can hardly see a grain kernel in here and that's just really excellent. That needs to be everybody's goal. I know it's easier said than done but this is super, super important. The sanitation that you can do is going to just pay off big time later on. What that cleaning is going to include going and making sure we clean on the outside. You don't want to have any grain laying around on the outside like this is an extension agent that was able to find some kernels of corn that had been laying around outside. Weeds, any excessive bits of equipment or pieces of... It's tempting to just lean something up against the grain bin and think I'll come back and pick up that piece of metal later. But anywhere where the insects can harbor outside, you just need to get rid of that. And so it's important to just keep the grain facility clean and uncollected inside and out. Now part of that keeping it clean involves applying an empty bin and insecticide to kill any of the insects that are there. And this helps you and provides you a little bit of protection from anything that might be crawling up through the grain floor or for whatever reason. So spray that insecticide. Tempo-Wessy altar is the most commonly used inside the grain bin, wearing the proper spray equipment. And then go outside and spray it around the base of the grain bin and three feet up on the outside of the grain bin. And that's also going to help reduce the number of insects that we're starting with. So keeping it clean, everything we're doing with keeping it clean is designed to minimize the number of insects that we're starting with. All right, so then as we're loading the grain into the bin, we've got it at the proper moisture content and we're loading it into the grain bin. Grain protected and insecticide that is applied to the grain as it's being loaded into the bin gets distributed over most of the kernels. It's another layer that's designed to reduce the number of insects that we have and slow the buildup of population within the bin. So applying an insecticide is not something, if you put it on, it's not something that's going to last forever, but it will last for a while. Usually, you get at least a month out of control and sometimes more. But when we're thinking about storing wheat, we're really thinking about a month or two of control from our grain protected. But it's especially important to use a grain protectant when you're storing wheat. Storing corn, you may be able to get away without using a grain protected, but storing wheat, it needs to be mandatory to put something on as you're putting it into the grain bin. We have several choices and I want to point out that we do have some new products this year that we can actually talk about. Storicide 2, which is a combination of a pyrethroid, delta-methyrin and corpair of osmethyl, which is an organophosphate, has been the standard for years. Sentinel was registered not too long ago. That's just the pyrethroid delta-methyrin. We recommend if you use that product, you tank mix it with an insect growth regulator called the Diacon IGR. Suddenly we now have available Diacon IGR+, which is a premix actually of the Sentinel and the Diacon IGR already mixed up for you. And coming very soon, if you look at the second one there on the list, is an insecticide called Sensat. It's the active ingredient, which is spinosin. That is going to start being sold. This spring, so you may be able to get hold of it this year or it may be something that to be looking for next year. It's not available at the time we're harvesting our wheat this year. I want to show you just a few results to sort of show you how effective a grain protecting can be. And this is some data from Dr. Michael Tays at the University of Georgia. This slide is kind of busy here and it's from Corin, but you get the same idea and the same effectiveness for some of these or the trends in wheat as well. So one thing that I just wanted to point out is that we want to keep the number of weevils or lesser grain borers that we have below two live weevils per kilogram. As above that is when the grain becomes officially infested and you start getting docket problems from having insects in the grain. One thing I want to point out is just to kind of follow through as time goes by, they started in October. There's December, February, April, and it went all the way to August. So it went through almost a year. Gradually what happens is the populations build up, the weevils build up. And it's kind of hard when the grain temperatures are fairly cool here. I think that's why this is sort of showing that there weren't many insects present right there. It's just because they weren't very active and didn't get in the trap. So I think that's kind of a sampling artifact. But if you look, we have more insects in that untreated control. Generally looking here at the end of the season, you're also gonna see that some of these insecticides, if you look at the IPM guide, say that you can spread them on the top, just put them as a top dress to kind of provide some protection. Using a top dress alone is doesn't really provide adequate protection. You end up with that, you can end up with a lot of insects by the end of the storage period. What I'm getting at here is that effective grain protectants. And then here, store-side two is not registered on corn, actellic, which is perimapost metal, is registered. That one, execute is now what's being sold as SENSAT. And then that combination that I talked about using the combination product, your sentinel and your diacon. And then here is just what's using your delta-methyr and your sentinel alone. So let's look at this one first, this bottom, this lower diamond here. If you look, that one is not perfect, as we note here in this slide, as Dr. Tay's notes, it's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing. So that's a relatively cost-effective treatment, but it's not gonna provide you protection forever. You get greater protection from either using, in this case, the actellic on the corn or the SENSAT, the spinocid on the, those great protectants are gonna give you the best protection. The combination of the sentinel plus the diacon does a pretty nice job as well. So those are sort of the three best options there.  We've got these choices, store-side two for wheat, SENSAT will be coming soon, and then the combination of going with your Delta-Methrin plus your Methapyridic, it's gonna provide you with your maximum control. And that's kind of what you need, because it's, insects grow well in our warm summers, and so it's good to have the best protection possible for our wheat and small grains. One caveat for SENSAT is that, if you look in the label, their tolerances may not be established in all the countries, and so use this, it says on the label, and the crops and commodities intended for use in the United States, so that are going to a country that will accept this grain. So there's a little bit of a wrinkle there to just be aware of. Now, one more thing I wanna say about using those grain protectants, as I said, it's very important, especially for growing wheat, for storing wheat in the summertime or other small grains, to use those grain protectants. But if you have a grain dryer and the way your system works is that you're putting this grain in, while it's hot from the dryer right into the grain bin, don't put the grain protectant on that hot grain because it's gonna break that protectant down. So it's kind of a trade-off, and you do kill a few insects by the drying process, particularly the higher the temperature is possible. But just know that there's a little bit of a conflict between those two management techniques that if you've got hot grain that you're putting into the bin, don't try to put a protectant on it. So you need to be putting that on cool grain, those grain protectants. Okay, so that brings us to our next management tactic, which is gonna be to keep that grain as cool as possible. We wanna keep the grain temperature below 60 degrees Fahrenheit whenever it is possible. The aeration fans, we can blow cool air through those grain bins and it is a great management tool. Why is this possible? Why does this work? Well, most of these stored grain insect problems, these stored grain insects that we have are pretty cosmopolitan around the world and they tend to be from warmer areas and they just do not grow below 60 degrees. If you can kind of look at this little schematic here, this is where we started out with a certain number of adult insects and stored them at three different temperatures for several months. And if you look at this, you can see at 85 degrees, they were very fruitful in multiply, whereas at 55 degrees, we were just left with those original adults. They were still alive, but they had not reproduced. So keeping the grain below 60 degrees is a wonderful management tool. Easier said than done when you're in the South in the summertime, which is why it's such a challenge to store wheat and why when you're stirring wheat, you just gotta pull out all the bells and whistles. You really have to make sure that everything's clean, clean, clean. You put on your empty bin treatment, put your grain protectant insecticide on your wheat, that's gonna give you your greatest chances of success. But because we don't have this keeping it cool tool that we have available as we do for corn. Lots of information about aeration can be found. We actually have a guide on our website that Dr. Ronald Noyce prepared for us for some stored grain workshops years ago, but it gives you some guidelines on the principles of aeration and some advice on aeration. If you go to AlabamaCrops.com and you click on store grain, you will be able to find this publication and a lot more information about storing grain. It's easier to aerate if you have an automatic aeration controller on your grain bins. And it's even easier if you've got one of the fancy new grain bins with the thermocouples that are going up and down through the big grain bins that's constantly monitoring your temperature and moisture in your grain and that you have got these computer systems that will turn the fans on and off as needed to maintain those optimal temperature conditions. This is actually just an actual example of a bunch of the progs that were in a single grain bin starting in October. You can kind of see how they ran those the aeration fans were run and they kind of stepped that temperature down and it got that temperature until it was down below 60 degrees which is where we wanted to maintain a personal safe grain storage. So these new computerized bin management systems may get a lot easier to effectively use that aeration as a management tool for keeping your grain cool. It's important to know when you're running aeration fans that it doesn't just do any good to just turn the fans on for a couple of hours a week or something like that. It take, depending on the power of your fan it can often take overnight or 24 hours with our fans that most of the fans we have in the Southeast are pretty powerful to kind of blow what we call that cooling front through the grain to kind of move all that cool air through the grain. So it's important as you're aerating too if you don't have thermocouples to follow it up with getting a grain thermometer in there and just taking a temperature knowing what that grain temperature is to make sure that your aeration is effective. It can take days in the upper Midwest they use so much weaker fans because it saves the electricity but it can take three days for them to run the cooling front through a grain bin. So it's important to know the power of your fan and how long it takes to run that. And as I mentioned, a lot of that thinking is done for you with these new management computerized management systems that you can buy with your thermocouples in your grain bin. It's important the last sea that I had on there we were keeping it clean and dry we were keeping it cool and then the last sea was to check it often. That means monthly. Generally these generation time for these insects is about a month which is why you want to be checking it at least monthly to see what kind of insects are there. There are different ways to do some checking. One is to use these little pitfall traps that are called store guarded WB probe twos. You can get them from trustay.com. It costs about $28 I think the last time I checked for a set of three. We recommend you put three to five in a grain bin in each grain bin, leave them for a day, come back, look to see if they're these little pitfall traps. So when you set them up, you drive them into the grain vertically down until you can't see them anymore except the very top and you come back and you get them in an after a day and then the insects that we're crawling through the grain bin will fall into the holes and will be trapped and you have to see what is out there crawling around in your grain bin. We also have, I don't know if I have a picture, I don't. The old fashioned big grain probes that you can drive down into the grain and you can open them up and you can get a sample of the grain that then you can run through a sieve or a colander or an official grain sieve to kind of shake it out and kind of see what insects are in there with the grain.  So, but anyway, another thing that people do because you can't with all these things you're poking around in the top of the grain bin, you really can't see what's happening at the bottom and the bottom with that bin, kind of that bin sweep area can be where we often have problems because of the insects that have been that we didn't get at through the cleaning in the spring and all that, that may be some that were harbored under the floor or something like that. So some people will unload some grain, try to get some of that grain out to take a look and sort of see what that grain looks like. But checking it is very, very important but it's also very important to understand what a dangerous environment a grain bin can be. Make sure you have a safety harness on when you're in there messing around, sticking traps in or probing around in the grain area. Make sure someone knows you're in that bin. Just take all the precautions necessary in terms of grain bin safety. But checking it often is very important. This is just an example to show when we were talking about that every 30 days because every 30 days in the summertime you get about a generation of these insects. This is a particular insect called the lesser grain borer on the left hand side. You're gonna see it says number of insects for 15 trap days. Well that means that I took my, I had five of those little probe traps that I showed you when I stuck them in and left them for three days. Five times three was 15. Then you can kind of see that. We put this grain in. This didn't have a protectant on it. And this one in particular, you can sort of see that we got through the first couple of sample periods, okay, and then between July and look like in early August or mid August we started being able to detect insects and look what happened one month later how rapidly that population had increased because of each generation they're just building up and so their growth is basically happening exponentially at this point. So another month this would have gone even further up but what happened is we actually fumigated at that point. So when the population went down but you can use these straps to kind of get a signal of what's happening in your grain bin. And find problems before they get to be economic problems. Another thing that you could do if you saw you were starting to build up it might be mean that that's the time you maybe want to market this a little bit earlier than you'd planned but if you're monitoring, if you're out there it allows you to be more proactive than just not knowing what's going on until it's time to sell the grain and you go out and then you find you've got bugs in it. So monitoring is a good idea. So keeping it clean and dry, keeping it cool and checking it often are our main recommendations.  Be careful on those ladders. If you're thinking about building bins think about building ones with a nice spiral staircase they're not that much more in the general scheme of things when you're putting in a big grain system and they're a lot more pleasant to go up and down on than these vertical ladders. Now, if you end up with insects in your grain and it's necessary that you get rid of the insects the live insects within your grain the only thing we really have left to do is to fumigate with aluminum phosphide. Might be possible if you have the capability to move your grain from one bin to another to re-treat it with the grain protectants you go through but a lot of the couple of the worst pest insects that we have are developing kind of inside those kernels and you may not be controlling those as you're doing that movement from bin to bin. So mainly the thing to do when people find too many insects in their grain bin and they have to get rid of them is they're gonna have to fumigate. So aluminum phosphide is a very dangerous product unfortunately it needs to be treated with respect.  So I always have to be cognizant of using and respecting this particular chemical. Here was another one that one that I just showed you was just last year at Christmas time I hear we had one from 2007. So unfortunately these headlines happen. People you really need to be careful if you're using this product you need to be aware of the properties of aluminum phosphide that are gonna affect safety and efficacy. You need to be sure you read that applicator's manual make a fumigation management plan and keep it on file. Yeah I should have put in here also you need to be sure that you're sealing your bin. If you don't seal your bin you're just throwing your money away and getting an incomplete fumigation. So there's just a lot involved with this. So it's better to rely on these other practices that we're doing to minimize the number of insects we have by keeping it clean and dry, keeping it cool and checking it often and using fumigation as a last resort. This is this showing the alabamacrops.com website. If you click on stored grains on there on the left hand side there'll be lots of information about stored grain. You can also access that stored grain IPM guide by clicking on the IPM we can test up on the upper left there and then clicking on stored grain you'll get right to the stored grain IPM guide which has all these different insecticides labeled that are labeled a list of who provides some tips on managing your stored grain.


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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Morning Market Kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Monday morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN. Just after 9 a.m. Eastern time, we got about 24 minutes to go until the start of trading and you have markets in positive territory to kick things off right now. You're the S&Ps up by about 21 points right now, trading at 43.78 NASDAQ 100. We catch a bid up by 47 points. That's about a third of a percent in the positive, trading at 15,167. The Dow nearing 200 points in the positive this morning. We just got earnings from Charles Schwab. We'll jump over to them in a moment. We get earnings this week. You're talking about Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, finishing up some of the banks. They're out with their numbers tomorrow morning. We'll go over some of the other companies, Netflix, Tesla, their numbers this week as well. As we get into the deep, really kicking things off for earnings season. So you get the Dow right now up by six tenths percent. You have the Russell up by eight tenths percent. The Russell been particularly volatile. You check it out on Thursday up to 1800. We're down to 1724 this morning. We're up a bit off of Friday's lows at 1744. Crude, how about it? We just got an 88 handle on the price of crude. We were at $82 on Thursday. The price of the pump coming down the lowest in like three months or something like that. At least I saw.  As the prices of the pump gasoline coming down, pulling back a bit from some of those highs of Friday up to 1946, quite the acceleration for gold this morning. We're giving back $10 at 1931. Volatility persisting on notes and bonds. I mean, you check out the action, right? Friday we were up to 108. This morning we were back down to 107.08. Right now we're negative by 12 ticks. And let's see where we are in terms of the yield on the tenure. 4.7 we'll call it, 4.69 exactly. 4.7 we'll call it on the tenure approaching 4.7. We're at 107.12. We're off the lows of 106 here, even putting it on a 20 day. There's your low. You're going back already to, went 12 days ago. We made that low in price that was the high in yield. But boy, where are we on this channel? We've talked about this channel on this program before. You put this thing on a daily. That channel's going all the way back to the highs of May 4th when this thing really started trading lower and all we've really been doing is bumping up a bit against the upper boundary line of that channel line. And listen, you could make the case. Okay, as it goes that this channel line might be a little bit higher. Maybe. Where's it rest? Nonetheless, you see the action right now where negative by 12 ticks, you have yields higher the tenure right now up by six basis points. So you're up, from what? You start the session at 4.63 we're approaching almost 4.7%. So higher yields persisting right now and you jump over to the dollar. As we kick things off DXY back to a short-term chart on a 10 minute basis, dollar pairing things a bit. And it's interesting how this is reacting, right? So what do you have going on right now?  You have dollar weakness and you have market strength. Yeah, that's correct. I had to recalibrate my brain. Not usually how the situation is usually working out, right? But boy, the dollar yet last week. There's your 20 day. And that acceleration we got on Thursday from 105.60 we really bounced almost got to 106.80 and we're backing off a bit on the dollar at 106.41. All right, I mentioned Charles Schwab just jumping over. They have their numbers out this morning. Basically unchanged up a bit out with their numbers not sure what the numbers actually are just before the program. But I was jumping around putting this thing on a five minute chart. You see the volatility on their numbers. You trade lower, you trade higher we're up by about 20 pennies positive with the market so far this morning. Okay, jumping over to some of the headlines we're gonna kick it off with, right aid. Filing for bankruptcy as debt load and the opioid risk rise. They've, they have a deal to sell their pharmacy benefit manager, Elixir, Elixir, Elixir and they filed for chapter 11 in New Jersey. They have a new CEO in there. I mean, nonetheless, you take a look at this chart, right? The company began in 1962. Single drug store, drug store Scranton, Pennsylvania. Scranton, Pennsylvania. That's where the office is, right? Scranton. 45,000 people, that's a bummer, across 2000 locations. Yeah, and it seems like that was a good business. They probably got it in 2015, the pharmacy benefit manager business, but that wasn't gonna save them. Yeah, debt swaps and pay downs. The reason why I bring it up in particular, right? You have to have the conversation rising yields, rising cost of debt. So they have some financing to go through that chapter 11 processes. They try and achieve all the value they can and they're paying 575 med impact for that benefit manager, plus assuming some liabilities. Nonetheless, you take a look at this chart, right? RAD is their symbol. So what, you're actually positive by a few pennies right now at 68 to 70 bucks. I'm not sure how that works when you declare bankruptcy. Does that open? But check out the chart, right? And that's just going back a year. There's your five year weekly, man. Up to the 3248, we've been chopping around a while. We're at 64 pennies right now. So what's interesting is this, you know, companies like this, the poster boy for maybe just managing the debt load they had for a company that was going out of business without a business plan. But if yields persist where they are, I mean, look at the acceleration of this thing just got to. Thought they had a lifeline, right? Something happened there. I remember some type of headlines, over $3.00, no. Nonetheless, they are going BK and it didn't take long after that lifeline. What else we got pulled up this morning? Yeah, we'll talk a little bit of Netflix. So they have their earnings coming out this week. You jump over to Netflix, this piece from the journal talking about video games and how they're ripping a page from the Hollywood script. What are they doing? They're making video games that have to do with their own brands, et cetera, like Squid Game, et cetera. And maybe that's where they do it. Black Mirror extraction. It's Sherlock Holmes series, right? So over the next several months, subscribers are going to be able to play games on their mobile devices based on hits such as the Squid Game, the supernatural comedy Wednesday, that's the Adams family, right? Have not watched that myself yet. And then you have Black Mirror, et cetera, even as Netflix creates homegrown titles, it's going to continue to license the well-known games from Bloons TD6. I'm not familiar to classic Solitaire. Used to play some of that when things first began. But video games, one of the pushes that they'll have to be accountable for. Now Netflix games have been downloaded 70 million times globally, as of September 20th, up from 30.4 million last September. I mean, you need some big numbers to compete in that arena, man. They spent about a billion dollars on games so far, probably not a lot of money in terms of what they're trying to reach. They're hiring game execs. We jump over to Netflix with the higher market this morning. Netflix shares backing off from that high of 485 when they were last reporting. Okay, you jump over to the Analyze tab, you jump over to the Earnings tab. They have their numbers Wednesday after the bell. So they're October 18th, you have to leave there after the bell.  Tesla, they're going to be on Wednesday as well. That'll be an interesting one. Tesla and Netflix. But you take a look at Netflix, back from the Tesla. 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And it seems like that probably is gonna be the case in my estimate, like I have any clue of what's going on. But it is interesting in terms you have multiple execs testifying against him. And it seems like they weren't able to dent you had the testimony from, excuse me, his co-founder, Gary Wang, and then his former girlfriend, Caroline Ellison. And she was the Alameda Research CEO. And so they both testify, they really don't dent that. They're probably gonna put them on the stand and I would imagine from his bravado in the interviews that he was doing ahead of getting a good lawyer when this all was coming down that I imagine he's gonna get up on that stand. So that's gonna be an interesting tantalizing moment. And I'm sure prosecutors are salivating over getting to ask him many questions on the stand.  And saying, you know, boy, it was a bad trade, okay? But man, it went so much, you know, as we broke down and we were both talking about it saying, as you go through it though, it goes more than that, right? It's more than a bad trade, which happens as in, you know, he uses their trading house, makes a bad trade, relies on customer funds to try and make that trading revenue back. That's one thing. I mean, this was a straight deal where he was just, I mean that $35 million penthouse in the Bahamas which I brought up prior, right? As the house was tumbling and as there was a bad trade and crypto was faltering, there was just money that was spent on lavish life cycles, lifestyles between the money for politics, the money for all of those. So what is worth? It goes beyond that. So I'm interested to see if this goes, I would be trying to watch that testimony if I can. And what they're arguing here, right? It's like, man, is that he hasn't been getting his full dose of Adderall in prison and they have to make this decision right now about whether he can testify and he's not on top of his game because he hasn't been adequately medicated for his ADHD and depression. Yeah, so nonetheless, there's gonna be more testifying and you're not gonna find out until he goes on there until the very second. Why would they say it in any other case? But nonetheless, that much is on. All right, what do we talk about? Let's talk a little bit of yelling. She's talking about rates being longer, man. Yeah, and they're talking about politics in here. I was reading earlier talking about, she also had remarks saying that rates are basically, could be longer in terms of for hire. And to hear that coming out of a Biden administration official, boy, you should heed those remarks, man, because they're always talking up their own book and hire for longer is not the book that you want when you're usually president in terms of putting pressure on the economy. Nonetheless, that one's talking more politics more than anything. Yeah, you know, I mean, how many articles, that's the China one we're gonna talk about. Yeah, this is the one that I was talking, reading as before I came on the program, this one out at like 7.15 this morning. And it's a tough deal, man. You know, a push by the U.S. and Egypt to open Gaza's border crossing with Egypt stumbled early this morning, delaying evacuations of Americans. You had dozens of trucks carrying international aid. It's just, things are only gonna get worse, man. And hopefully they can get everybody out. I think I saw a number in there, 30 Americans, 30 Americans dead in that initial attack, I believe, in Israel, crazy stuff that on a geopolitical basis, you hear terms thrown around in terms of escalation, right? So we'll see how that one plays out, hopefully for the best, man. Okay, what else do we have pulled up here? Yeah, let's talk a little bit of Apple. The iPhone, we've got two China stories here. Number one, we'll go back to this one. The U.S. is gonna tighten curbs on China's access to advanced chip tech.  That one is on, man. This race is on. And if you don't think the race is on for dominance when it comes to your defense department, your army, your technological dominance, you better believe that the race is on with China and the things that AI is doing right now with computers, it would make sense that this is gonna become a big AI arms race, right? Technology race, which is already is. You jump over to Apple's iPhone, now they different angle of what's going on in China, but a disappointing start in China. Excuse me, the iPhone 15 selling worse in China than its predecessor in 2022, down almost 5% in comparison. You're not gonna wanna hear that, man. Excuse me, and that's over the first, basically two and a half weeks, 17 days after the release. Yeah, the twin reports mark a potential blow to Apple at a time it's grappling with the weakest smartphone demand in a decade and a backlash from overheating models, right? Do you see that one coming out? I actually thought about upgrading. I think I'm on a 12 plus right now. This one is going back to when October 4th, so about two weeks ago. And they literally have an overheating issue. Anyway, for what it's worth, not what you wanna hear on these new phones where, I mean, imagine how marginal some of the tipping points are for people to buy a new phone, right? Like, I'm probably okay, I'm probably okay. Maybe I'll spend $1,000 for a new phone that I might not need. Not gonna do it if it might be overheating when my phones really works really well right now. You jump over to Apple, they were down almost 2%. On this news, yeah, and look at that, they get it back. I mean, you get the market up 25 points right now. You got five minutes until the opening bell. Apple shares are down about a dollar, so what's that? Half a percent, six tenths percent of the red. You see the spike on that report coming out six a.m. this morning. And longer term picture for Apple, man. Holding up relatively well to put it lightly, right? You're talking about highs from the market. That's where Apple's sitting right now. Apple's sitting where the S&P was at 4800 for some context, right? We've had many other pullbacks, but yes, we're off the high of 198, but we're still sitting at where the market was all-time highs, just for some context, man. Let's take a look. Apple, they bounced to the 382. This morning it opened out about a dollar. You jump over to Microsoft shares right now. Yeah, they peak, make an all-time high of 366. You see where they are compared to the highs in the market. Microsoft gonna be trading higher by about $2.40 in the pre-market. You jump over to Google shares. They're higher by about a dollar as well. Google not quite back up, but man. So much for all the talk of antitrust problems, right? All the talk of Google losing their monopoly, man. You were just charging back near all-time highs. We put it on the five-year weekly. You come into COVID for Google at 75. You're trading at 140, just off the highs, just remarkable. You're right at the 786 for Google. We jump over to Tesla shares. So Tesla's, Tesla, excuse me. Yeah, I think Tesla's got lower price, man. You know, you trade up to about 300 right on the dot, right? What'd you get to? 299.29, you got to the week of July 17th where Tesla shares you pull back a bit, but all the action is down here, man. 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That's positive by about half a percent. NASDAQ 100, you're positive by 52 points or about a third of a percent of the positive Dow up about seven tenths percent, trading up 215 points in the Russell up 1.1% right now. So jump it back. We were talking a little bit of China, right? We're talking Apple. Let's jump to Apple. See how they're trading this morning. As the reports are out that the iPhone sales down about 5% in China. Apple off 1.1%. Be careful today, folks. We got a lot of negative headlines right now in this market. We're coming into Tesla and Netflix earnings this week. Among many others, we're gonna go over the companies that are reporting this week right during this segment. So don't go away. But you have Apple shares off 1.1% on that story for China, right? And then we segue to some of the chip companies. Now, the video gets a little bit of a boost right now. We're up by half a percent. Let's see if it translates in. No, Andy's its own deal, Intel's its own deal, but it was going right into Nvidia shares. Down about half a percent. The story out there, jumping to the headline as we kick it off that the U.S. to tighten the curbs on China's access to advanced chip technology. Now what they talk about here is that this is aimed to close the loopholes from the curbs that they put in place last October. Remember when they put those in place? Can't believe that was a year ago, man. They are seeking to strengthen controls on selling graphics cards for artificial intelligence applications, which is why Nvidia is trading lower and advanced chip making equipment to Chinese firms. Now, they're going to impose additional checks on Chinese firms attempting to evade. Okay, so there's some details to this, right? I'm getting down to the part they didn't get. Yeah, here we go. So last October when they introduced these, okay, the U.S. did not get the support of key allies, notably the Netherlands and Japan. Not sure why, not sure what was going on. I'm sure it might be in this article right here. But nonetheless, which allowed chip equipment companies in those countries to continue selling advanced gear to Chinese customers. It doesn't work unless everybody's on board, right? So that helped facilitate China's progress in developing its domestic capabilities. And they talk about how Huawei just introduced a new smartphone in August and when you tear that phone down, they got a seven nanometer processor, which I guess is a big deal because that's not very large, a seven nanometer processor. The achievement cast out on Washington's ability to thwart Beijing's technological ambitions and spur political pressure for them to impose more sanctions. And I love they've begun a formal investigation into the phone. Now, doesn't mean you can't hinder what is going on there. And I think that's what's going to become a much bigger issue as you go forward. Well, the phone itself is not a major national security issue. This is a director for the Center for AI and Advanced Technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Man, check out that title. He's the director of the Waiwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. That's quite a title. Gregory Allen, well, he says the phone's not a national security issue. What the chip inside signals about the state of the Chinese semiconductor industry absolutely is these advanced chip production capabilities will inevitably be made available to the military if they have not been already. How could you think they have not been already? Thus, the breakthrough raises many tough questions about the efficacy of the current US approach. I would say so, right? So they're seeking to address several outstanding issues with the title rules, particularly the development of AI and the shipment of technologies through other countries. Well, I hope so, because AI is gonna run everything, man. And then that's a tough one to get out of, right? Okay, I said we were gonna get into some earnings companies. Let's break down the numbers in terms of companies. We really kick it off. Look at this market. Can't hold down this market. Look at NVIDIA. Look at NVIDIA, man. Even when they come out with stronger rules that's gonna be tougher for AI chips to making it to China. And NVIDIA is like, ain't no thing, man. I'm trading higher. NVIDIA shares up to 454. Let's check in on Apple. They almost get it all back. Reports are that selling less, 5% less phones in China. And they're gonna be worth more today than they were on Friday before that report. We jump over to commodities crude right now back enough a bit at 87.19. Gold back about $12, folks. My dad's got a new gold report out this morning. It's a great time to try it out right in the front page of TFNN. If you haven't tried it out you get a 30 day money back guarantee. Gold is rocking, man. New issues on Monday. A lot of the newsletters. Great day to try out any of the newsletters, folks. You come in on a Monday, you try them out. They all come with a 30 day money back guarantee. And I tell people, I encourage you, go try them. Cancel them. Get your 30 day money back guarantee. And it's a beautiful thing. That's what it's there for. Don't keep it unless you like it and you plan on making use of it and you're gonna make use of what you're paying for. Gold off 13 bucks, but boy. Nothing like the run that we had last week to 1946. Giving back some of those gains. You take a look at gold on a daily. I think just traded from what, 1824 up to 1928 for that gold contract. Okay, getting into some of the numbers with the numbers. So, excuse me, some of the companies with their numbers. Now we talked about Schwab already had their earnings out this morning. They're catching a lift with the market. With the market though. Up by about a percent. Let's see how some of the companies that reported last week how they're doing. J.P. Morgan up with the market right now. Up by about six tenths percent right now. You have Morgan Stanley last week? No, Citi, that's right in Wells Fargo. Citi, up by about a percent. And Wells Fargo up by 1.5. Can't help myself, gotta keep my eye on yields. Yeah, we're continuing to drop. Higher yields coming at you right now. We got the 10-year at 4.71 right now, 4.71. Okay, the numbers, we kick it off. So we got Schwab today, tomorrow. We got Bank of America with their numbers. Bank of America this morning, up by about eight tenths percent. They'll be out with their numbers tomorrow. You jump over to the Analyze tab. Okay, and you're looking at about a buck 22 in terms of the price for that expected move. Yeah, you take a look. You're talking about a buck 42 for the week in terms of applied volatility. $27 stock for Bank of America. And if you're holding options through Friday, you're looking at about a buck 42. But we're just gonna focus on the market maker expected move for the event that's occurring, which is a buck 22. Okay, so they're out with their numbers tomorrow. We got Bank of New York Mellon out with their numbers as well. We get Goldman Sachs though. So you got Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Now Goldman, you're trading at 311 right now. You're talking about, I mean, percentage-wise, was that 3% move priced in either direction? Implied volatility move of about $11 for Goldman, trading at 311 with their numbers tomorrow. We also get Lockheed Mart. Yeah, they've been making some headlines, of course. Defense contractor jumps from under 400 to 437 on the Middle East. You've pulled back a bit, but their numbers are coming out on Tuesday as well, Lockheed Martin. You're looking at about a $15 move for their numbers. Not a lot of volatility priced into the earnings event. When you think about the fact that this thing just went from 400 up to 440. And I imagine that they might be asked some questions in that earnings call about the potential impact on their business, right? Going forward, you also get Johnson and Johnson with their numbers. So I mean, look at these companies, right? And we're skipping over a couple, man. JB Hunt is out there. Interactive Brokers is out there Tuesday. We're just jumping around. Johnson and Johnson. $6 move priced in for their numbers. You're trading at 157. You jump over to Johnson and Johnson. Quite the pullback from 175 down to 155. And maybe that's an area of support there at about 155. And you're talking about a $6 move priced from their numbers. All right, folks, stay tuned. We're gonna talk about some of the numbers coming out. We got United Airlines up on Tuesday as well. We haven't even gotten into Tesla and Netflix yet. Stay tuned. S&Ps up by 31 right now. We'll be right back, folks. 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This program is brought to you by Vista Gold, traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Welcome back, folks. We have the S&P up by 24 right now. NASDAQ 100 Kitches have been on the open, probably helped by NVIDIA trading up right now. NVIDIA up by 2.3%. NVIDIA just popped $7, $8 right there on the open, man. So much for the curves going into effect. Seems like the market is not too worried for NVIDIA shares. Dow right now, up by 2.3% of a percent, up by 6.10, see the, yeah, we're basically back till we started things off. You got the S&P is just spiked to a high of above 43.90 and we give up 10 points just like that. So volatility right as you kick off the market action. And we're talking about, so we're going through earnings. We jumped to Wednesday, Netflix and Tesla on Wednesday. So there's your main event of the week, man. Netflix and Tesla on Wednesday. You jump over the analyze tab. You're talking about a $27 move for a $356 stock. What is that? Yeah, $27 move. Yeah, 7.6%, that's a 7.6% move for Netflix shares that's priced in either direction. You jump over to Tesla, Tesla. You're talking about about a 6% move in either direction, $13.50. Tesla catches a bid on the open as well. Not by about half a percent right now. What else do you get on Wednesday? We get Haliburton with their numbers. Let's jump over to that. Why not? Talk about holding up well. COVID lows of $4, you're pushing 42, you're pushing the highs of last year. Let's take a longer term chart. Yeah, I thought that thing. All right, I'm not sure it's saying October 24th, but I have them up on Wednesday. Nonetheless, we jump forward. You got Las Vegas Sands with their numbers on Wednesday. Just under a 5% move, $44.76. You're looking at about a $2 implied move in either direction for Las Vegas Sands. Let's just put it on a five-year chart for some context. Boy, talk about a pullback from $65 to $45 right now. Kind of a no-man's land. Maybe you're testing this high of early 2022, but boy, it looks like you're on your way to those lows the last year, $35 for Las Vegas Sands. All right, we jump to Thursday. We jump to Thursday. We got AT&T with their numbers. Boy, these phone companies, man. AT&T, Verizon, it looks bad. You look at these charts. And I don't even think Verizon is in this week. Let's see what Verizon is next week. You have Verizon's next week. Eight days from right now, next Tuesday. AT&T with their numbers out on Thursday. Being very little volatility. Well, I guess that's almost a 5% move, right? You're trading at 14 bucks for AT&T. 70 cent move, price in either direction. When you come into COVID at 30 bucks, you're trading at 15. You drop to COVID lows of 20 bucks. And this year alone, you trade from a higher 22 down to $14 for AT&T shares. Be careful of these equities, man. Something's going on. Verizon shares, it looks bad, it just gets worse, man. Let's drop off from 50 to 35, $36. You started the year for Verizon at 43. You're gonna be down 30% in this equity right now for Verizon shares this year alone. And that's not counting last year. You went from 52 down to 42. I guess cherry picking those numbers. So be careful, AT&T Verizon, man. Not sure what's going on. And then you compare it to T-Mobile, right? Maybe that's what's part of what's going on. To some degree, they're related to put it lightly. Okay, so we get AT&T shares on Thursday. We get some of the airlines as well. We got American Airlines with their numbers on Thursday. There's a tough chart for you on American. You jump over to the Analyze tab. Decent volatility priced in $11.80 stock and you're looking at what? 6.5% move in either direction, 73 pennies for American on their numbers on Thursday. Some of the other companies on Thursday, see, Taiwan Semiconductor, truest, Union Pacific Western Alliance, good old WD-40. Let's check out WD-40. I love how they're a public company. Everybody knows WD-40, right? Boy, that's a tough one. Start the year at 160. Let's see where we are on a Fibonacci basis, man. Cause that was quite a low back then. Spike up. I was sitting right at the three at two. Look at that. It's WD-40, you're up 1.3% today. You jump over, they have their numbers on Thursday. There's some volatility for you, man. Yeah, look at that. So here's an issue, right? Where they don't have weekly options. Okay, they only have monthly options, but the monthly options happen to fall this week. Yeah, and this is where you gotta be careful, folks. Perfect lesson, okay? We'll do some quick lesson on options. You got a company like WD-40, okay? And what do they do? And watch this. On a daily basis, they're trading 90,000 shares. On Friday, they traded 48,000 shares, okay? If you ever trading options, watch the next two minutes, okay? You're only trading 48,000 shares on the equity for an entire day's trading, right?  You did 44,000 shares on October 9th. Some of the low days here. You're doing what, 47,000 shares. Yes, you get up to high days of 240,000. So what happens? You jump over to the option chain on an equity like this and you have mammoth bid ask spreads, okay? Let's say you wanna buy an in-the-money call that expires Friday for $200, okay? You're gonna have $3.30 of intrinsic value, right? Built-in value, because you have the right to buy it at 200. Meanwhile, the stock right now is trading it while it's jumping around. But call it 203. I mean, even look at the bid ask spread on the equity, folks. You have a $2.50 bid ask spread on the equity, okay? Don't, whenever that's happening, you wanna be entering your trade, at least in the middle of that market, if not trying to buy low and sell high as low as you can, right? The bid is a 201.85. Well, maybe you put a bid in there at 202. Put a 15 pennies higher and become the live bid in there and maybe you get hit, right? Don't buy on the ask at 203.56. And I bring this up because WD-40, that's a good company. Look at this. They only have monthly options, but the monthly options happen to line up that this is the week that they're coming out with their numbers on Thursday. They have a decent move priced in for volatility of almost $17 for a $200 stock. But here's the thing. You can try and get into this equity, okay? This is the last part of this. You try and get into this equity. You got a $3 wide bid ask spread. Percentage-wise, think about it. If the market's really close to $7 and you get in at 10, you just paid $3 extra on a $7 purchase, $7.14, $21.28. You paid like 40% premium. So be careful of that. And if you even get in folks, guess what? You gotta get out. That's the kicker. You gotta get out. How do you get out? That's the tough part on an equity that's illiquid. And then you accentuate that and multiply it on an exponential basis when you go into the option market. So I would stay away from that option, okay? 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Yeah, say hi to everybody. I know. Hi. Yeah. Right there. That's a little delayed the feed you're seeing but you'll see yourself. They're seeing you right now. All right, so Landon, we were talking about Netflix this morning. They have their earnings this week. Do you like Netflix or do you like YouTube more? YouTube. YouTube, yeah. YouTube. YouTube, all right. Tommy, what do you like? Do you like Netflix or do you like YouTube? I like YouTube. You like YouTube. You hear this stuff, folks? YouTube gets all the subscribers. I'm going back to YouTube. I'm going back to the stock market stuff. That's right. I'm going back to YouTube. What do you think? Hold on, let me back out. That's Google's chart right now, Landon. What do you think about it? That's YouTube. They own YouTube. Yeah. 139.63, what do you think? 139.63, so there's time going down and up. Okay. And then it's going up and down. Up and down, I know. I don't know. It's a strong chart, folks, and I think you're seeing the reason why. We're streaming Tiger TV on YouTube. The kids love YouTube. It went all the way down to up, down, up, down, up, down, and up, down. So the stock market's at 88 today. And what else do you like? Do you like dinosaurs? Do you like sharks? What's your favorite toy right now? FNN. What game do you like to play? Tell them. You know. I like Minecraft and Roblox. Minecraft and Roblox, folks. Let's pull up Roblox while we're on the program, Landon. Roblox. No, let's do Minecraft first. You know, I'm not sure. Folks, help me out. Who owns Minecraft? Is Minecraft a public company? No, that's not how you sell Roblox. I know that, but that's their stock symbol. See that, folks? That's a tough chart, Landon. Now, you like Minecraft more than Roblox, don't you? Do you? What's your favorite? Very favorite. Both. Both. That's a tough chart on Roblox. No, that's not how you spell Roblox. Do the back. I know that. 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Some of you may have experience when your voice is hoarse, or doesn't come out at all. Voice disorders is an emerging global health problem, affecting almost one third of the general population across the world. Voice is something you often take it for granted until you lose it, especially for people who use their voices professionally, like singers, teachers, broadcasters, journalists. Losing their voice can terminate their careers. Voice disorder often stems from the chronic injuries to the very delicate soft tissue called focal cost in your larynx. Personalized medicines remain an open challenge in voice care. For example, some patients may have an alternative form of a gene that makes them easier to develop focal scarring. In these cases, surgery is not going to help because it will only create more complicated complications down the road. In our lab, we decided to use computational technology to help the clinician to make better decisions in tailor their treatment for specific patients with voice problems. The idea is to develop a computer model to tailor each treatment to specific patients depending on their molecular profile and lifestyle profile. Computational medicine has been used widely, actually, in precision and personalized medicines for complex diseases, such as cancers and sepsis. Our research lab has developed such a computing platform to develop treatment diseases, a computational platform, to generate a spiritual patient with focal injury. Clinicians can look at the computer and test different treatment strategies based on the patients. They can test focal surgery, voice therapy, or any biotechable materials in the computer. When we develop the model, we take what is known in the biophysics and biochemistry related to information and healing and turn the information into a computer algorithm. Our computer models are pretty big. We have over 300,000 cells and molecules in our computational model. It also means that we need a very fast computing platform to generate or simulate this process. With our fast performance computing, we are able to simulate what happened in one week biological events in human body using 30 minutes with our simulation platform. Collagen and elastin are the structured proteins from connective tissues. We are interested in visualizing these components in our computer model because their distribution and densities is often related to tissue scarring. It also means that we need to handle many more data points than before. By using the same high performance computing, we are able to develop an innovative visualization protocol to observe how a scar tissue evolve over time and over space. We can inspect any specific cells or specific structured proteins in the computer model at any time as we want. Computational medicines have generated new insights into our voice treatment. In contrast to what people think of to the complete suppression of information, we find that a treatment design that allows a balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators actually can promote better healing. Patients are often asked not to use their voice for an extended time after the injury. However, our simulation shows that some early on focal exercise are actually safe and help their patients to realize their collagen fibers better in their healing tissue. Chronic inflammatory diseases like focal injuries, bronchitis, and arthritis are not easy to treat. However, they share many similar cell types and molecules. We are eager to share and transfer our computing technology to address other clinical challenges. Computational medicine can be used to simulate clinical trials or rational drug designs. People, if we can involve our computation technology very well developed and involved over time, will be able to dramatically reduce the use of animal testing or even for human pre-clinical testing. Patients are human beings and not merely a string of numbers training out from the computer. Personal interactions cannot be replaced by the computer, but I believe computational technology can help improve our care in a more precise and personalized way. Thank you.


There is no aspect of the law at which you can be bested. The word woman does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution. Nor does the word freedom your honor. You know I really do enjoy a true story but the way it's told is what really matters to me. My name is Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's going on everyone I want to thank you so much for tuning into my opinion slash review on the basis of sex I really do appreciate it. So we have on the basis of sex right here I went into this movie a little bit blind because I only saw like half of a trailer. I like to do that at times. This is a very important film right now especially with the climate of society that we're living in right now. The director of this film is Mimi Letter if you don't know her past work she did pay it forward and also Deep Impact which came out in 1998 with Morgan Freeman really did enjoy that movie so I was surprised when I saw her name attached. Like I said in my intro this is based on a true story and it is the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her struggles excuse me of how she's trying to get equal whites for women and you know just overcome all the BS so that she can become a US Supreme Court Justice. Now the main character in this film is Felicity Jones a very very great actress. She is an Academy Award nominee for a number of films and it shows in this film. If you don't know her previous work she did Rogue One which is my favorite Star Wars film in these new series that they have coming out every year. The theory of everything she was the wife of Stephen Hawking and also the amazing Spider Man 2 really in it there's really nothing amazing about that film other than the title. Now actually this role was going to go to Natalie Portman but for a number of reasons things didn't work out so it went to Miss Felicity Jones and this film right here deals with a lot it deals with race it deals with gender sex politics and all that good stuff and you know all of that will fall by the wayside if it wasn't for the actors on screen doing a great job and Felicity Jones she does do a great job that is the best thing about this picture that's really only the the good thing about this film that I you know that I enjoy it I mean it's not a bad film it's not you know just an outstanding film either but it is a great film just based off Felicity Jones performance and that's it and what I liked about Ruth is she's bold she's not afraid she's a fighter she feels strong about what she believes in and just won't give up until she gets equal rights and I can respect them and I can relate to her in this film not in the sense of a woman just in the sense of you know being discriminated against I mean it just it makes no sense you know you when you're born into this world you know you have a list of things that you have to accomplish in life if you want to so-called make it and Ruth she did everything that she was supposed to do she studied she went to school she put in the work and not only did she do that she exceeded all of her other counterparts all of her other colleagues and classmates and things like that all of her surrounding people she was number one but she was still treated like crap it just doesn't make any sense I mean some of the the treatment in this film is just so ridiculously rude I mean it just doesn't make any sense I mean you might as well just have some people come out of here and be like you know hey I'm a white supremacist I hate everybody including you no one use those exact words per se but if you read between the lines you know your jaw kind of hits the floor with this how unapologetic some of these people are especially dealing you know with this time where it takes back you know in the 1950s it's just it's really shocking you know but at the same time it's not shocking either but you know I like how miss Mimi letter the director she wasn't afraid just to you know to put them like you know hey you know this is what it is and then you have all these obstacles that women have to go through and it sucks it's completely unnecessary and it should not exist in the world today or this country but then again you have to think about it you know if it's that hard for white women you know there was one character that's moving like man it sucks for you guys you know but can you imagine I would much rather be you know you and your shoes a white woman than a black man like my goodness gracious they have it even worse which of course is true and I appreciate that they put that in the film but then you think about it what if you're what if you're a black woman I mean you already have it tough enough for being a woman but then you're a black woman so that's just that's double hardships but then take it even further not on what if you're a woman what if you're black but what if you're a dark skinned black woman that's even even worse you know I'm saying so shout out to all my dark skin beautiful black chocolate sisters out there I feel for you I got nothing but love for you but these are just some of the things that I was thinking about while I was watching this movie so the film takes place from around the years of 1956 all the way to about 1970 1971 I like the passage of time I like the transition of time they did a great job with the makeup and for as far as aging Felicity Jones it looked real it looked genuine you know I was convinced you can also tell even without any dialogue the mental strain uh that Ruth Ginsburg had to go with in those 10 plus years of her doing everything when she was in law school trying to become a lawyer trying to change society the the minds of the American people you know for freedom and justice for all and you know her not necessarily getting to the finish line that can take a toll on you mentally and there was just one scene that she's walking down the hallway and you can see it all over her face and just kind of shows you know just how great you know her performance was something else that I liked is how they separated the mindset of specific generations you know one being uh Ruth Ginsburg and then the other being her daughter I know Ruth went about things a certain way but when it became to the 70s and her daughter uh you know was becoming I guess a political activist and you know just trying to get involved with women rights and things like that they had completely different ideals and handle things differently and they addressed that you know and I liked it I kind of like the mother daughter relationship there but just to I know this is a true story but one thing I was really ticked off with the daughter I felt that she was completely disrespectful to her parents in a number of ways I'm just saying to myself okay there's no way in here I would be able to talk to my mother or father like that without getting knocked across the room so I mean that's that but you know it is a true story I should be talking about the movie itself one of the way they put it on screen you know I liked it it gave a life to a number of the characters Armie Hammer is in this film as well as her husband he does a great job as well you know nothing too special Kathy Bates is in this film as well and you know her performance is special as well and she's only in it for just a miniscule moment just for a brief few seconds but her involvement in this film was very impactful I liked it she's pretty much great in everything that she does and you know I like the message that this film was trying to deliver to his audience not just to women but to everybody it was a good message just to always just fight for what you believe in and you know just present facts and data you know what I'm saying I mean even if you know you have a mission that you feel strong and passionate about it may not work out the first time but if you remember why you started in the you know in the first place you know you can apply this to a lot of things you still may be able to accomplish something you know what I'm saying it's just also just a great example of reaping what you sow and what goes around comes around I am a believer in karma if you treat somebody like crap or if you treat me like crap I may not be able to see it down the line but I'm pretty confident that sometime in the future you know that's going to come around and bite you and you know those are just some of the elements in this film to be honest with you there were some times where it was dull and I was kind of clock watching or watch watching I was getting a little irritable in my seat actually got up walked down the stairs and got into the little hallway and was kind of stretching and things like that and trying to swing my arms around that's only the second time I've done it in my entire life I don't know why I was so tired but other than Felicity Jones performance you know there was just some other things in the film that just wasn't popping out at me it was a good film it wasn't a great film but Felicity Jones does deserve some type of recognition and the ending is great you know I liked it they had some real life footage Ruth uh but uh excuse me Ruth Bader Ginsburg is still alive today I think I read some news yesterday that she just you know got out of some surgery for uh to remove a type of cancer so you know she's still trucking along um if I had to rate on the basis of six out of a one out of ten I'm going to give it a seven out of ten yes a seven out of ten but guys that is just my opinion have you seen on the basis of six yet or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know 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