Who were the ancient pharaohs of Egypt? We have postulated on many occasions that the evidence to suggest the Great Pyramids are far older than currently attested, and as such, far outdate those who academia currently claim as the builders is not only overwhelming but mounting by the day, the question as to who their constructors were remains elusive. Is their enigmatic mystery still to be answered? If one goes by this premise, is who were the mysterious figures who have been found dotting the valley of the kings? Were these jewel-adorned mummified individuals the actual original constructors of these awe-inspiring as yet unexplained ancient ruins? Not only is there strong evidence to suggest that the Great Pyramids themselves were built with an enormous exoskeleton of blocks stretching far into the thousands of tons, but that casing stones which now encase these original blocks are indicative of no less than two later stages of building, which we believe were in an attempt to conserve that which still remains at the site. It is undoubtable that whoever accomplished the original building of the miraculous structures for an as yet unexplained reason had a tremendous intellect far eclipsing that of modern man. It is interesting then to note that many of these ancient pharaohs, although rarely shared by academia, seemingly possess craniums far larger than that of our own human skulls. This extra size could be an indicator of a far greater brain mass than that of us and thus a far greater intellect. Possibly making this mysterious group of leaders, each possessing an elongated skull, likely candidates for being able to have accomplished that which we now look upon as seemingly impossible achievements of ancient architecture, often concealed by their headdresses, depicted on the many surviving statues of these individuals, which has allowed academia and indeed the many museums who display such ancient art to conveniently overlook that which lies beneath. Enlongated skulls have been found all over the planet, interestingly or rather compellingly, found within close proximity to the many now unexplained ancient ruins found all over earth. Were we visited by these beings, subsequently due to their enormous intellects becoming our leaders, and due to their astonishing capabilities, once perceived by ancient man as gods? Additionally, many ancient, still surviving tribes still practice a form of headbinding. The question is, where did these techniques originate from? Who inspired such practices? And were they in an attempt to replicate the appearance of the gods? Enlongated skulls, clearly as a result of these practices, are also found at sites around the world, yet these skulls are easily identified as that of humans, this due to the recognizable cranial napping or stitching of the skull, present upon all humans as a growth pattern. However, those of the Egyptian pharaohs, Peruvian elongated skulls, and a number of child sacrifices found high among the mountains of the Andes, do not share these same easily identifiable, deliberate deformations. In other words, these pharaohs and other elongated skulls concluded after in-depth analysis of their compositions seem to have actually been their natural shape, allowing for a brain mass far in superior to that of the human skull. Are these elongated skulls undoubtedly consisting of a far greater-sized brain space found among ancient ruins we cannot replicate, merely a convenient coincidence, or were they indeed an ancient race of beings we are yet to be made aware of by an academia clearly attempting to conceal vast portions of ancient history? We find the evidence to suggest such highly compelling. This ancient cemetery within present-day Hungary has perplexed anthropologists for the past few decades. Amongst the remains of some 51 individuals was the discovery of many apparently human yet elongated skulls. Although many elongated skulls unearthed around the world are mysteriously absent human skull-napping, indicative of skull binding, an ancient practice once initiated at a young age. These skulls, however, do appear to have these natural human-napping patterns. The mystery of their origins, even after DNA sequencing, has merely deepened. Individuals including adult males, females, and children had, quote, artificially deformed skulls with depressions shaped by bandage wrappings, end quote, making this place one of the largest concentrations of this cultural phenomenon ever found in Europe. Curiously, the strontium isotope ratios here are significantly more variable than those of other remains, including animal and prehistoric burials, which have since been uncovered in the same geographic region, this indicating that these mysterious people lived elsewhere during their childhood, yet where they originally came from remains a complete mystery. Furthermore, carbon and nitrogen isotope data attest to remarkable contributions of millet in their diet, although all the remains have now been dismissed as human. Intriguingly, some photographic studies of certain remains of particular interest are yet to be publicly disclosed. If human origins indeed be the case, it still does not answer the question as to where this ritual originated from, or why it seemingly permeated many of the world's countries, such as Germany, Malta, Russia, Hungary, along with many others. Were these ancient people trying to emulate a now lost civilization, possibly unknown ancient beings, they and many others throughout antiquity, not only perceived as but depicted as gods? Additionally, why are there so many mysteries surrounding this practice? Why is there such mystery surrounding the crystal skulls? And why are so many skulls we have personally examined seemingly absent normal human growth patterns? Were ancient aliens possibly found amongst these individuals within Hungary? We find the ongoing discovery highly compelling. Enlongated skulls have been unearthed in many places on Earth, linked to ancient cultures globally. To this day, artificial practices of accomplishing this striking deformation can be witnessed among remote tribes in certain parts of the world. Thanks to this, and indeed the remains that have been found and studied previously, we not only now understand how this elongation is artificially accomplished, but also anomalies found on some specific and rather special specimens. For example, if one exumes the remains of the ancient civilization of the Han culture, one is able to establish many things regarding the past technique, the individual skull which endured said practice. This can often be done by tracking the cranial napping found upon all human skulls. However, what makes others so intriguing, for example the Paracas skulls or the lost-believed stolen skulls of Malta, this napping that one would expect to see is either absent or if present not of a deformed nature, suggesting that the previous owners of these craniums had this naturally from birth, leading to many hypothesizing that they were either a now lost subspecies or possibly an ancient alien visitor. If we track the provenance of these beings, one can also argue this increased cranial mass as a possible contributing factor in increased intelligence. Many of the ancient pharaohs of Egypt exhibit this, and indeed the skulls found at the ruins in Malta with its astonishing acoustic properties, their burials evidence of them once being valued members of these societies, but also the possible contributors to the advancements in technology and architecture found at these sites. The most unusual, however, those with no evidence of binding have been found at many prehistoric sites, such as the so-called alien mines along the banks of Lake Superior. Lloyd Pie has also made a lucrative business promoting the discovery of a curious humanoid skull he found a few years ago. Although not dismissed as a deformity, many still strongly believe it to be that of a human alien hybrid. Regardless of the artificial binding which still occurs, questions remain. Why do some of these skulls appear to have been natural? Why is the ancient practice undertaken? Who inspired it? Why were the exquisite skulls of Malta stolen? Are we really looking at the remains of ancient alien visitors? It is an area of historical research which we find very intriguing.


So Ethereum has something called an ERC-20 token which allows you to create a standard for issuing tokens for things like ICOs. Yes. And we've seen a huge explosion of them in the past year for some not so legitimate looking uses and scams. And then just yesterday Blockchain Capital was the first venture capital firm to raise money with an ICO. So I'm just wondering what your thoughts are on the spectrum of all the activity that we're seeing specifically in the Ethereum world with ICOs. I think it's very dangerous and very premature. What we're doing is we're accumulating large amounts of money in a code base that is still relatively untested. And we discovered bugs in the DAO, or some people discovered bugs. I was a participant, but I didn't discover any of the bugs. I didn't understand them though, and they were pretty insidious, those bugs. So every million dollars you put into any token built on ERC-20 is now providing a $1 million honeypot test on the Ethereum virtual machine, the implementations of Geth and Parity, and the ERC-20 code base. And on top of that, whatever code you added to do the magic sauce that makes it your particular DAP. Everybody know what DAP stands for? DAP, Deliberately Audacious Ponzi Plan? It's the killer app for Ethereum. Now, I'm being a bit facetious. I'm a fan of Ethereum. I think it has enormous potential, and one of its main areas of potential is in reinventing the modern corporation. The killer app for Ethereum turns out is the DAO. It's decentralized autonomous organizations, not done that way, not as venture capital firms, but as means of creating ad hoc organizations that direct human activity and ventures in a way that completely reinvents the modern corporation. That is an incredible application, and it will happen, it will happen. In the meantime, we can launch a few shitcoins on the way. One after the other, and see how much money people can run away with. And the greater full theory says that there's another one just around the corner, and people feeling flush with money. Ooh, Ethereum's high in price, and they're putting all of this resource behind poorly tested code, and we're beginning to find bugs. They found the first bug, not in ERC-20 exactly, but in the implementation that exchange is used and validating the parameters to ERC-20, which allows you to withdraw 256 times the amount that you had in your account from an exchange by left-shifting by one byte the amount you put into the field. Oops, these things are gonna happen. So the problem I have with these ICOs is that we're taking code that has not yet been exercised, and the way you exercise code is you put $10,000 into it, you let it run for a year, and you go, how secure is this code? Well, Bob, I think by now we can say that this code is $10,000 secure. How do I know it's still there? Great, bring in the experiment version two. We're gonna put $100,000 into this puppy.  Well, I believe it is now $100,000 secure. How do you know it's still there? Okay, let's put a million dollars in it. Oh, money's gone, okay. So now we know it is somewhere between $100,000, but not up to $1 million secure. And hopefully we learn something, and we fix the bug, and we gradually escalate and build and build and build, until we have robust code that can actually carry enormous amounts of money. All right, Bob, how secure is Bitcoin? $20 billion secure. How do you know? It was a $20 billion, and the money was still there. Ethereum has to do that for every contract. That's the trade-off of doing flexible smart contracts. And these ICOs are now testing it far ahead of the ability to secure the network. Another ICO raised $17.5 million in 30 minutes. $17.5 million in 30 minutes. Now, if you understand anything about Silicon Valley culture, what happens to a brand new startup with a team of executives who've known each other for three months have a white paper and suddenly come across $17 million? I don't know, but it probably involves a lot of cocaine. And very soon, not many dollars, but a lot of cocaine. So this is, if you front-load an organization like that that doesn't have management experience, maturity, and anything other than a white paper, and you say, hey, here's $17.5 million. You understand why investors don't give out money like that, and why there are some advantages to having a tiny bit of pre-qualification, not for the investors, but at least for what they're putting their money into it. Now, many people in Ethereum have not yet learned this lesson. They will, the market will teach it to them when they lose their money. So ICOs right now, to me, are the biggest reputational risk for Ethereum. I think eventually, they will be one of the most interesting and explosive applications for Ethereum because opening up crowdfunding to a global economy is an amazing application when you have governance. But if you do it prematurely, every attempt that blows up on the launch pad tarnishes the reputation. Eventually, your launch pad is broken. Do you have a follow-up? Okay, a real quick follow-up. The what? You have DAF, something-something Ponzi protocol. A deliberately audacious Ponzi plan? There you go. Thanks. So right around the consensus of the industry conference in New York this year, William Mugiar, who published a book called The Business Blockchain, is organizing a token conference, basically telling people how to tokenize their business, create tokens, do ICOs. You know, what do you think about professionals who are in the industry, who are either venture capitalists or investors who are actively encouraging people to do this, where it seems like you think it's a bad idea? I mean, bad for who? Is it bad for the investors who put their money in? Well, caveat-empt or shouldn't have put your money in there. And sometimes those lessons have to be learned the hard way. Is it bad for Ethereum? If it causes more reputation damage than it does good outcomes? And by good outcomes, by the way, I don't mean a successful company. That's not happening. That's not gonna happen, no. What I mean is, before they go kablooey, can we collect some data? Like, will the telemetry rig survive the explosion so we can actually learn which bug blew them up? One of the problems with the data was the telemetry rig blew up, so all we knew is that the call function had a re-entrancy problem. We didn't find out anything about the actual code of the DAO, the split function, the governance model, the voting patterns, whether companies would be able to succeed, what kind of proposals might be interesting? Why didn't we find out? Because it blew up on the launch pad, and we didn't collect very good data. Those kinds of experiments are not very useful. I hope it produces good results. I hope somebody goes out there and says, I want $50,000. They actually take that and do something useful with it. Because it's such a small amount, it doesn't blow up, and they learn something about the security of the protocol. We all learn something. That's great. All of this experimentation creates exuberance and excitement, and if all of these companies blow up, we'll still be left with the knowledge. Just like the internet boom, right? It blew up right here, outside. You could probably see the big dollar-signed mushroom cloud out of this window in 2000. And the internet didn't die. All of the companies, they blew up. But out of the ashes came new companies that did interesting things on the internet, and the internet survived. So Ethereum will survive. It just may be set back by a year or two. Bitcoin survived Silk Road, it survived Gox, it survived Bitfinex. Actually, Bitfinex survived like this. It was a one-week dip. It was like, eh, whatever. So it will survive, but it will hurt a lot of investors. It will create some reputation damage in the meantime. If professionals are trying to advance that, you know, I hope they're reminding people while they're doing it, that what they're offering is not investment advice and that people should be cautious, et cetera, because otherwise they are going to get a visit by the SEC. The one rule you do not break with the SEC, the first rule is you do not promote securities to unaccredited public. You do not. That's what people go to jail for. And so that creates risk, mostly for them. I hope I'm wrong. All right, let's take two more.


Normally taken to prevent blood vessel blockage, so-called anti-platelet drugs increase the risk of bleeding in general. So they're widely believed to increase the risk of brain hemorrhage happening again. But new research suggests that might not be the case. Researchers came to that conclusion following a randomized trial involving more than 500 survivors of brain hemorrhage in the UK. Participants were mostly men over the age of 70. All had a history of diseases that caused blockage of blood flow due to clotting, but had stopped taking oral anti-platelet drugs after their brain hemorrhage. Researchers split those patients into two groups. Half were encouraged to start anti-platelet drugs, and half were encouraged to stay off these drugs. Over the course of five years, the researchers kept track of cases of recurrent bleeding and of any major event involving the blockage of blood flow including stroke and heart attack. Overall, fewer patients who started anti-platelet drugs experienced recurrences of brain hemorrhage than did those who continued to avoid these drugs. The number of participants experiencing major blood vessel blockage were similar between the two groups. Those findings appear to exclude all but a very modest increase in the risk of recurrent brain hemorrhage with anti-platelet drugs, a risk that could be too small to exceed the established benefits of these drugs for preventing heart attacks and strokes. But that isn't the final word on the matter. The results indicated that anti-platelet drugs might reduce the risk of brain hemorrhage happening again, the opposite of what was expected. However, the research team could not exclude the effect of chance on this finding. To be sure, further trials on larger and more varied samples of people are needed, some of which are currently ongoing. What does appear to be clear at least is that the widely held view that anti-platelet drugs are bad for survivors of brain hemorrhage isn't necessarily the case. Current and future research could soon narrow in on an even more definitive answer for the 2 million people worldwide who suffer stroke due to brain hemorrhage every year.


You know, I have nothing in common with Gretchen Wieners from Wiener, Wieners? Okay, great, that's gonna be on Twitter virally in a minute, from Mean Girls. Mean Girls, great movie if you haven't seen it. She's like the heiress to the toaster strudel empire in the suburbs of Chicago, and she tries to make fetch happen. And of course, Regina George is like, it's not gonna happen. I have tried four years. I sitting at the table that is in NFL offices, the good morning football table said, throw down round. I called it, every time it said divisional round, I think I would just say throw down round because I think it's a much cooler name. And it hasn't stuck, it got no love, got no divisional round stays. It, can we change it? Can we get this going? Do you have an even better name option for me? Let me know at either Hickey Adams or Up in the Adams show, but divisional round, so fetch. We gotta make it happen. Okay, some things that we are looking forward to this weekend in the throw down round, and that I think that we're underreacting to, doesn't it sound good? I know, around the league, first off in our underreactions, mid-season return of Tredavious White, and what it's meant to the Buffalo Bills who face the Bengals. Man, Trey, super bummer, love him as a person, a character, and then he's on the field doing his thing as one of the best corners in the national football league. He tears his ACL last season, later on in the season, it was around week 12, and he missed the entirety of the bill's playoff run. And I don't think it's a stretch to think he really could have made a significant difference in preventing what we saw from Patrick Mahomes in Buffalo's devastating loss to that team in the throw down round a year ago. So he made his return this season almost one year to the day, on Thanksgiving Day against the Lions and coincidentally, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. The same day the bill's defense suffered another brutal injury, losing Vaughn Miller for the remainder of the season. This all matters, because when Trey got back and he's back on the field, they're undefeated. They're seven and no, they've held opposing quarterbacks to the fifth lowest passer rating in the league. And while he didn't look like his all pro self right out the gate, you can't really expect that from him, and he's really looking even better as of late, making vintage Trey White plays. Look at this interception of Mac Jones. Now, granted, I could intercept Mac Jones, but this was week 18, a big game, lots of different energies with that bill Buffalo team, and they're trying to secure a two seed for the playoffs. It's an important game, and he looked awesome there, and I'd love to see it. And he really might be the bill's key in containing the Bengals' passing attack this weekend. And he's gonna see fellow LSU guys, you know, he's gonna see Jamar Chase and Buffalo's pass rush, as he surprisingly really had a tougher time getting home since losing Vaughn Miller. Saw this on Twitter yesterday. I wanted to bring it to everybody. Oh man, Vaughn Miller, like that's kinda mean, oh geez. Their pressure rate with a four man rush has dropped from third with Vaughn all the way down to 19th. I think this is per NFL research. I mean, this is, since that knee injury, that's a bigger impact than I thought. So it means that White and this bill secondary, they've gotta bring it. They're tasked with holding, you know, up longer in coverage, and against Joey B. and Chase and Higgins and Boyd and all those guys, that's gonna be a pretty tough task. So if Buffalo is going to get it done, I do think it's because Mr. 27, Trey White, one of those characters in the league, to be honest, has a big day. So underreacting to him, his impact, him being healthy at the right time, that's something to keep your eye on this weekend in the said throw down round. Okay, I wanna keep things focused on the secondary here because while the 49ers, number one ranked defense, has been incredible as a unit for the vast majority of the season, I think we may be underreacting to some of the struggles their secondary has had of late. Over the past month, they've ranked, man, this is bad, this is bad. They've ranked bottom five in pretty much every category when it comes to pass defense, and this is against Taylor Heineke, Carson Wentz, Jared Stidham. I mean, Gino Smith, David Blau is on this list, guys. Really, their DBs have made plenty of plays all year, leading the league with over 20 interceptions. They have 21. Lately, they've been giving up their fair share too, okay? We saw it on Wild Card Weekend, super Wild Card Weekend, sorry.  And I'm not saying it's time to panic by any means, we're picking holes in the team that I think has the easiest path to make it to the Super Bowl and win it, but if the Dak Prescott that we saw on Monday night shows up this weekend at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, you know, against that, and this guy, you know, the one that put up five touchdowns, that Dak Prescott against, what is a solid Bucks defense? I don't know, there's a world where the Cowboys could pull off a stunning upset here, and that would be the reason, and it might be up to both of them, the boys up front to make sure Dak obviously doesn't have time to take advantage of what might be the only weak spot in what is an exceptionally tight Niners squad. So that's another thing, I think we need to be keeping our eyes on, the past defense, the secondary of late, because Dak Prescott, granted, a different guy can show up, but if he's what he was Monday night, I'm worried. I also think we are underreacting just in general, we're talking about the name, Wild Card Weekend, and then it's become Super Wild Card Weekend. It has been so fun, in the past two years, right? The NFL decides to add an extra playoff spot in each conference, and there is so much concern from my family members, from fans, from myself even, what is this going to do to the playoffs? What is this going to do as far as parody, as far as good games, as far as product, as far as watering down the playoffs as a whole, or making the end of the regular season less dramatic? If you think about this though, if the playoffs hadn't been expanded, the entire playoff field would have been set before we even got to week 18, okay? We would have been robbed of the Sunday night classic between the Lions and Packers. This alone isn't enough for me to love this new playoff system, okay? And really, both of those teams would have been buried. I loved that the extra spot gave a couple of teams that caught fire late in the season, momentum, all the matter, a chance to get in. I love it, we've had the best football because of it. This weekend, there was concern that we'd have boring games.  What is this going to look like? Two teams playing without the starting quarterback, no two or no the more, heavy underdogs all around the Ravens and Dolphins. Those are the best games. They gave us two of the most entertaining ones on the entire slate and set the stage, by the way, for what's going to be remembered as one of the greatest plays in all of playoff history, the fumble in the jungles that we're going with or is it the immaculate rejection per Mike Florio? Because we credit Mike Florio on the show when he says something, we give him that love. So we're gonna witness something special that we never would have seen had we not had that. And let's not forget about Saturday night, either no snooze fest, the Jags, pull off one of the most epic comebacks. They pulled themselves out of a 27 zip hole, stunning the chargers. This is great, epic football people. And if that wasn't enough, oh, Doug Peterson, gotta love ya. The bulky resurgence, second story arc, we are obsessed with it. But we also made history, potentially. I'm not sure that anyone has ever made a reservation to Waffle House, okay? And so history was made this wild card weekend. It was a planned thing. Trevor said last week, quote, I told the team once we went against the chargers, we're going to Waffle House. And apparently his wife made a reservation for them. They walk in, this doesn't happen, guys. This doesn't happen without a health guard weekend. And I don't understand how anyone could ever want less playoff football. So everyone can keep yelling at their clouds.  So we just wanted to take a moment to celebrate what truly was an enjoyable viewing experience. I was on a plane for some event and I was so upset.  I could have just said that. I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. Oh, golly. Do we have any tweets? Anybody can check. Any tweets about Throwdown Round? No, nobody, anybody in, anybody out. How can we make this happen? Happened, happened. I don't know what I'm saying. What is it? Please be the show. We appreciate you. What do we got? Throwdown Round does have a nice ring to it. Thank you. Divisional Round seems a bit basic. Now I'm not against basic. I'm okay with things that I really am. I have a whole basic theory. We'll get into that in the off-season. I advocate, what was it that we changed? What? Changed it to Throwdown Round. Who do we have to talk to? Somebody get me roll up on the phone. Hans, get me to Kadele, patch me and Troy Vincent. Let's go. We need to change this and up it. Super Divisional Round isn't gonna work. Super Throwdown Round. Now we have something. We have a superstar up next, a super, super, super, super bull champ. That's right, four rings. Maybe another one down the line. But we have, down the line, we have the one and only Rob Gronkowski next.


I think we should put a spoiler alert. Many of you might have watched this new film which is quite a rage across India called Kantara and not just India. I've actually been on YouTube to search Kantara reviews and many of these reviews are by foreigners. Some of them sitting in America, some sitting in Sweden even and everyone loves this movie but it's got into a bit of a controversy in the last few days and even before that actually and it's been compared to a horror film which came out a few years ago. I haven't watched it called Tumbad which was also very popular at that time and the director of Tumbad has said that Kantara is nothing like Tumbad. That was a critique of or against the toxic masculinity and parochialism that Kantara celebrates and again we are back with Trina. Trina you watched the movie as well. Yeah I watched it yesterday and the director of Tumbad said that it's got toxic masculinity and to me when I watched it and I'm actually going to hold my views on it because as someone who's not a man, I would want you to, I mean I can keep claiming that I'm not masculine but people are saying you have a certain view. So did you find it toxic? I think the thing is that of course there are elements of this you know very macho personality of the hero and all of that but if you look at cinema in general and specifically cinema from the south like I haven't watched that much cinema from the south so I will I can't really comment on it but I've spoken to people like for example my sister who watches a lot of Southern cinema this is not out of the ordinary like the hero being very macho and having this sort of you know like very hypermasculine personality is something we see in cinema we've seen it a lot in our own Bollywood cinema we've seen it and especially through because this movie is set in the 90s so I think that's important to remember because especially if you look at Bollywood cinema even through like the 70s 80s 90s even the Bollywood hero has always been a very macho man so I don't think there was anything extraordinarily toxic masculine about it in fact for example like there are scenes where you know like one scene which is being called out is where he goes and pinches this girl of course that's very very problematic but I think we also need to realize that that may be very close to reality I mean this may be what is actually happening so just because something looks problematic we can't just take it out of a story we are telling which is set in a specific time where that is in fact but let me be the devil's advocate here and I agreed to a large extent with what you're saying here but let me be the devil's advocate you could still display that setting without necessarily him having to go and do that thing right to go and pinch the waist of the heroine yeah absolutely I mean I'm not I personally like I'm not a big fan of that scene yeah but what I think is that it may would you say it kind of sets the character in a certain sense it yeah it does it does because that is how the character of this guy Shiva is made who is this you know like very sort of I don't know I can't think of a word for it but like this very boyish he has very impulsive he does whatever like with respect to this woman but even with respect to like you see him getting into fights you know he acts on a whim on everything so I think that's part of the character that is shown as well obviously it's not okay I mean if you think about it in terms of whether it's okay to go do that of course it's not but we we can't only be showing things on screen that are okay because there are a lot of things which are not okay but they do continue to happen in society so how do you depict reality without showing some of those things and much of Bollywood was like that yeah exactly and I think even in this movie for example because even the women because like for example his mother she calls him out on his bullshit a lot like you see her always you know running after him even when there is a scene where he you know pushes this woman away and the mother immediately comes how dare you this is not how I've raised you and also sure there is masculinity but it's not like they've shown it in a way where it's glorified at least that's not what I would say they have shown a counter to it also where this person is being you know reprimanded for behaving in that way well you know one could also argue that this is this fits into a very typical thing where the son who's in in some ways a no good kind of person and never do well he drinks alcohol all the time he's always looking for some kind of meat to eat and there is a bit of a glutton thinks about food gets into fights all the time and and clearly is also shown probably smoking marijuana right it's not very clear but we can you can make out that his he goes into kind this kind of a days and that the man who gives it to him right is clearly always in this days he speaks in this kind of a situation where probably they stoned yeah so this character is being set up in a certain sense as being a bit of a lout right he fights and right in the beginning when he's gone and asked for the medal he gets the medal these given a lot of the all his friends they're also like him they all get these bottles of alcohol and they go away and he overhears two women walking past saying that one of them says my son is getting spoiled by this Shiva right yeah so Shiva is clearly the and right at the beginning those two people talking Shiva is a black sheep not only of the family but of the village itself and in some senses I mean he wanted to say that that is itself the story right here is a person who is a bit gullible he is a bit of a goon yeah right he is violent aggressive but at the same time he does not really see the different right from wrong and there is a turning point at one point when he changes yeah and maybe that is itself a thing to be set up right yeah and but but perhaps right yeah in hindsight the director probably would think unless they've actually tried to say this is what it is right and this is what it was and even now this is what it courtship is in let's say among the working classes or the poor that is how it and we should not bring our you know rational modern sensibilities about romance into that yeah necessarily because that is how it unfolds and so that is the thing I think we should revisit whether there is an anti-modern voice speaking at this movie I'm not saying necessarily that's bad yeah good but I'm just saying that so there is there is no doubt that this man is being set up as a very masculine character very macho character who not only fights with everyone but also fights with the representative of the state yeah when the the forest officer comes right and he is shown as both again the forest officer also has a certain matches more there yeah yeah for sure yeah and he's shown to be very rugged red often unkempt unshaved yeah and he right at the beginning when these two villagers go and say that oh we've killed one wild boar's hub but small so the meat is less and then he beats them and yeah and there is I think a very the film is very sensitive to reality rather than an imagined kind of thing right so an upright officer who is upholding the rule of law and representing the state yeah is also not necessarily good yeah right whereas there are these his seniors who come they are much more practical yeah they say don't do this do this do the the adivasis will go against her this will become a problem yeah um so that what did at any point did you feel uncomfortable while watching the film and I that is I think the question because I I really liked the film I was greatly I greatly enjoyed it but then I also like films in which you know old Hindi films in which the villain gets beaten badly and stuff like that and like I like the way in which it's set up for the villain to be really cruel and winning till the last second and then you feel the urge to actually take revenge as a viewer right yeah did any point in this film make you feel uncomfortable and also what are the points in the movie because I don't we shouldn't give away any spoilers for those who haven't watched but those who have watched they'll understand which are the points in the movie when you felt like exhilarated or felt yes or felt a lot of you know I don't know whether one could call joy but felt that identity yeah energy yeah I mean definitely one of the parts would be the end sequence but again I don't want to say too much about it and give it away yeah but the trans the transition that happens towards the end sequence and also the way it's been short and made uh it's it's a fight but it's also a dance yeah like so the way it's been done I thought was extremely good even in fact like I am not someone who enjoys action cinema at all but I feel most of the action sequence so you don't watch the Avengers and stuff like no I don't but I feel that most of the action bits in this movie have also been like I said it's always sort of a dance like the way it's been short like for example the first sequence after the buffalo racing yeah even in that mud when they're having a fight and you see those shots you know from the top where the water is flashing it's it's almost if you see that in isolation it's almost hard to figure out if this is a fight that's going on or that would probably bring take you back to the hong kong movies because those are the ones where the people are put up and wires and the fight sequences are often very choreographed they're almost dance yeah yeah exactly and again that's something I think in southern cinema which has always been there where the fight sequences are never meant to look very realistic yeah yeah they're not meant to be because actually if you see two men fighting it's not going to look that well done but over here you know there's always like there's a leap and then you hit someone they're all wired up and when they kick the man each person was flying back yeah you do like a backflip and you land on someone's head or something like that so but the last sequence without giving away what it is I think the last scene is is remarkable because it whoever has watched any kind of you know dance which is which has certain amounts of tribal elements right whether it is whether it is Yakshagan which emerges out of that kind of space or even dances that you see from Africa right there is that method used it's been it's kind of sitting on that and it's interesting because the director actor Rishabh Shetty I think was a Yakshagan performer so he emerged out of the Yakshagan tradition so he knows it and the location is actually although it's shot somewhere else probably but the name of that space is his village his real village where he grew up right so perhaps he knows yeah what it is and I read a little bit about the background of how that movie was shot and they wanted to kind of understand what people wore and the what is the kind of clothes they wore and what is the so the costume they did was by speaking to the local Aadi Vase even I read that they went and spoke to people what do they what they eat so it's in this kind of brings us to another part right which I think is a crucial thing to look at now again since the movie right at the beginning is set up for you to understand what this film is about right at right at the beginning there is this king yeah who is obviously should be happy he has riches he has a family he has a child but he cannot sleep he's not happy he has no peace yeah and he is sent out to look for peace and he tries all methods but he can't till he happens to be in the forest and he sees these stones yeah which are obviously the idol and it's a kind of rudimentary representation of the idol and he turns around and he feels peace instantly yeah and in that scene you can see that it's been done in a certain way because it's raining yeah and he instantly feels that peace and it's inside a forest and he turns to see these local people and we don't know who they are yeah right because we don't know whether they have a village right perhaps they're forest dwellers the adivasis right and he asks for the stone that he wants to take it back to the palace and they say no you can't because this is our god right panjurli deva which is interestingly and this might be an important thing translated as demigod which is not yeah in the super in the in the subtitle it yes you see it as demigod our demigod yeah and demigod by definition is not full-fledged god right demigod is a lower god yeah right has power and might even be a human being who has certain amounts of power right so it's a demigod panjurli deva and he says okay and and then we see immediately panjurli uh possessing one of these people and speaking yeah right so it's set up for us that panjurli can speak and says that yes you can take me with you but you give all the land till which my where my voice reaches and give it to these people right so in that sense it's probably setting up the village from that moment and he says yes and then panjurli warns him that i may forgive if you go back on your word i may forgive you but my uh what should one say my partner right uh guliga will not right so guliga is a ferocious thing and if you do a little bit of google search you see panjurli and guliga are represented guliga is represented with i think mud or black paint on the face and is a more ferocious yeah and then panjurli with yellow paint yeah so you see and the king takes it goes back gives them the land and till for more than a hundred years because this is starts in sometime in the 1850s and in 1970 or something yeah one of his descendants wants the land back goes to court and is warned by the bhutakola performer through whom panjurli speaks yeah that you will learn a lesson on the steps of the court so he dies with blood coming out of his mouth on the steps of the court and that is how it is set up now when you watch it you kind of already know what this film is about it's it's about that riches cannot get you peace peace comes when you share with people yeah uh the panjurli is in a sense nature because yeah he's deep in a forest yeah the spirit of nature can be benevolent right give you peace but also if you violate nature then nature has a disruptive side which is guliga and it's only this when you come to a balance between what you take from nature yeah and what you give to nature right is uh is when you can have peace and that is the balance right and so rest of the story you know is going to be something like that because otherwise and and when you see that the bhutakola performer right and is going with his wife and child right child who becomes shiva yeah later on he says that what we don't understand is that this is not ours right this is nature's yeah right so you see that okay and as you watch the movie you feel that there's a very progressive message here right yeah I mean what what message did you take out of it uh I mean like you said one one of the messages that's there is about this relationship and balance between human and nature uh that's one aspect of it but of course it's also about ownership of land yeah right because there's this there's this constant tussle between three parties which is the state the what they call the landlord towards the end which is descendants of the king who had given the land uh and the people who actually live there um so it's also about greed from the landlord to sort of take that land back because you feel a sense of and by cheating them yeah exactly because there's a sense of entitlement that I like my ancestors had given this away so now it's mine to take and and there's also a thing that you realize that he's he he's doing it because there's a survey team which is going to come and write down who has what land and he tries to cheat yeah he tricks them into like he pretends to be their savior yeah and through that tricks them into sort of giving up their land back to him so that when the survey happens that this is also an interesting thing it's a very subtly putting because the land rights actually come into existence only when the state surveys it and puts it on record right exactly because then like for example there are so many scenes before that before when they're talking about how the survey might happen yeah and the landlord's lawyer I think is there and they're asking people for their paperwork and you realize that most of the people have no actual paperwork for the land which is actually theirs and one of them actually comes and asks for rice thinks that this is they would do this is a ration exactly this is why have you got your ration card do I look like the ration shop yeah exactly so you see that actually no one has any kind of actual document document yet it has been their land for years and years and if you remember there's a scene where the the forest officer stops these people coming out of the forest carrying sticks and stuff right and he stops them and says that have you taken permission yeah and they said why do we need permission yeah he says yes you need the government's permission to take things from the forest is this your do you think it's your ancestors property right and that is when Shiva and his friends come and they said no no no no permission will be required right this is our yeah and the forest officer tells him that the this is the government's and he says that we have been around before your government came into existence yeah exactly so in a sense that if you look at it it puts on it kind of acknowledges certain issues which I don't think any other mainstream cinema ever even touches upon yeah I mean we would have seen these things in NFD you wouldn't have sorry but you know in the old days of Durdarshan NFDC movies made what would be called arthouse parallel cinema would touch upon it and it would have a very conscious non-commercial approach to it whereas this is an out-and-out commercial cinema but its themes are exactly what we would have seen in the 80s right in so-called arthouse films right the art film that Durdarshan showed which wouldn't actually find takers in cinema theatres yeah so that brings me to a question that you know and I want you to kind of respond to it that in the end we see that the landlord is killed and the land does not go to him right and there is some kind of a rapprochement reveal the end after saying we are not going to reveal it yeah sorry if you haven't watched this too bad for you you know there are some spoilers you can't do anything about and I'm sure that the fact that the landlord is going to come to some kind of a bad end is will be known to everyone that's true actually revealed a lot yeah too bad I think that's okay yeah I think we should put a spoiler alert right at the beginning but there'll be some spoilers if you don't want to watch this we'll let you know right at the beginning after this recording is taken okay so what I'm saying is but let's not give anything away so we see that there's some sort of an alliance between the forest officer who understands them and he comes to their rescue right what did you feel about that solution I'm actually unsure of what what I made of it it was interesting because this is the same guy who from the beginning has very clearly been set up as a villain yeah I mean it's not that you interpret him as a villain but the way he's presented is very clear that this is supposed to be the villain yeah it was interesting also because you do realize that this guy is just doing like we discussed is just doing his job so in that sense that alliance to some extent makes sense but yeah I'm not entirely sure about how I felt about so to come to your earlier question when you asked me if there was anything that made me like any point yeah so I wouldn't say it made me uncomfortable but it made me unsure this this kind this end where these two parties sort of come together to defeat the landlord or whatever it didn't make me uncomfortable but it didn't make me unsure of how I feel about this kind of settlement because like we said the rest of the film there were a lot of like themes and stuff which were based in reality I think this alliance is not is something I was not convinced by yeah like in the sense that this felt like like a compromise yeah yeah probably a compromise for the censors I don't know for whoever but to me I think that what maybe and it is interesting that a good film in that sense and that is why this is a good movie is whether you like it do you like the solution or not right yeah a good film is that something that makes you think later as well right when we were discussing that I think we should do a chat on this as a show right I mean we're not doing it about Rajababu although I have a lot to say about it but when we I think that I felt uncomfortable and dissatisfied with the solution and later on the more I thought about it the more I saw the symbolism there I felt in some ways that it was politically regressive and I say why I think that there are two parts to it one is that it and I'll go back to the idea of the demigod they don't say and maybe it's an English translation and that's the difficulty here that I'm not watching it I don't know what native Kannada viewer would say about it say about it hear it and I think there's nothing called Kannada right that already repeats so when the conscious way of saying it as demigod says that there's a greater Hindu tradition yeah right and these are smaller traditions within that Hindu tradition right whereas historically there's always been a conflict right it's not been that easy an assimilation between local religious beliefs some of which would be seen as going against what mainstream dominant Hindu tradition is yeah and I saw that there was some criticism of the usage of the om symbol within the yeah I mean again I don't know whether that already exists in the in the local no there was also some other with respect to this aspect of Hinduism entering the because so for example the director said something about that you know how this Bhutakola has been part of Hindu culture for a long time and blah blah blah but there was this other actor called I think Chetan Kumar who tweeted something about it and he said that and it was a I mean he wasn't being he wasn't trolling it or trashing the film or anything he said that it's great to see one of our movies making national and international waves and blah blah blah but it is important to recognize it is important to note that Bhutakola is not Hindu it has it is a practice of the Adivasis and it has existed long before this and it has been now so is it it's worth actually exploring I'm interested in looking at it and seeing what it means and you know historically this has been always spoken of the great tradition and little tradition and how local cults many small mother goddess cults have got incorporated and made into one big deity right yeah and I see that there is not necessarily a conscious attempt maybe that is how Shri Shetty sees it yeah the positioning of the om in the middle yeah of that title kantara and it comes and but at the same time and I'm not saying this is this is a very straightforward thing but I'm saying it's a very complex way in which the movie actually deals with it and establishes it because you see meat eating a lot of meat eating right drinking right it's not a puritanical religious and that to meet being born which is yeah which is not something even in like Hindu yeah apakas Hindu cultures and poke is considered dirty yeah yeah yeah maybe that is a play on the idea of the Bhutakola performer being the varaha yeah that is what and also they close the relationship with the with the forest and how they live off the forest so drinking meat eating yeah he comes and says that there's no fish yeah why is no so it's a very aggressively establishing non-vegetarianism as a yeah way of life right yeah and that I so it's a complex way in it but overall to me it sent it seemed like the local tradition has been assimilated into a larger tradition and it is being presented as that yeah that this is what we are and when we look at adivasi assertion or their their fights struggles to have their own rights which has often come up against the development state right and this is not new this has happened for since independence or even before that right and the solution to that to me seems to be driven through not just not community action but by one hero yeah the hero who does it right others are actually standing as supplicants and he kind of drives them to rise up he's the savior yeah he's the savior and he drives them to rise up against them yeah there is there is no team involved right this is one man yeah that's the overall sense of course people will point out no everyone was fighting there were these women also fighting but the point is that somewhere there was one man and then the man actually can only fight back yeah when a spirit right something supernatural comes yeah of course that could also be just an allegory it could be just a sense that he understands suddenly realizes the what it is all about right yeah so as i'm saying that i won't say that i accept that this is toxic masculinity or it is anti you know you know anti-modern and so that i think that there is something progressive about it but at the same time yeah i think that the solutions are yeah leave me uncomfortable and in some ways it is it can be seen as regressive and you can see that why the huge lot of people actually like the movie not for anything else but because the hero is so macho and he's beats people up so brilliantly yeah yeah it's almost as if this is no bit different from a Bahubali which by the way i love as well oh my god come on yeah you know i'll end by telling you the story about Bahubali when Bahubali too was released there there's a thing that went on on twitter and all that kattapa ne Bahubali kukyumar yeah that i've seen yeah and i remember anchoring and there was a story on it and i said what is this kattapa right and they said my co-anchor said you haven't seen Bahubali i said no so i went home and i switched on and i watched it on youtube Bahubali because it was not available anywhere else at that time and my wife who was sitting there saying what is this you're watching right this is terrible right and then slowly she also got dragged into it and she also watched it and then suddenly it says the next part is in two years from now right it leaves you hanging yeah there's no cliff angle like that i haven't thought of and luckily for us the next part was the next day so i so we booked tickets and went and watched Bahubali to the next day where you must watch it but what i'm saying the reason i said that there's and maybe a lot of this is because it is that new interest in south indian movies they're doing very well they're very well produced very well the cinematography acting is really yes i think a big part is also what we said is that i think what a lot of these movies do well is bring up these kind of issues in mainstream cinema yes because in bollywood there is a very clear distinction there's either mainstream cinema or there's this like art or alternative cinema which will deal with certain you know societal issues you very rarely see them converge and even those issues are largely small town issues which will appear in some multiplexes and then come on exactly they're not blockbusters like exactly yeah okay so uh you know maybe next time we should discuss rajapapu and bahubali so that's our chat today if you've liked it do like press the like button even if you've not liked it press the like button and just one press and do subscribe to our channel news click on youtube and then you'll get to know when a new video drops


Alright, folks welcome on back here this Wednesday top of the month everybody this June 1st great to see Kurt and Brian and Henry and Felix Wendy Chris and all this live inside the cyber group room great to see all of us once again on social media Facebook live or YouTube you could tell this is not the voice of one Fausto Puclisi I like to say my name is Josh Levitin if you're not familiar with the afternoon meetings But nonetheless I'm tagging in for him this morning and be tagging in for him tomorrow morning as well before I Actually a go on a small little vacation actually taking Thursday and Friday off You know to finish up the week myself Going down to Florida checking out a couple of apartments making the move I think I think well not I think we're absolutely moving to Florida actually in the next couple months So I look forward to that enough about me though Let's hop right to it here at least the TNX piece stock on the screen to begin It's up near 43% right now. Just tried to break a new high before You know try to did but you know ended up just kind of slumping back down momentarily making No temporary lower highs over the one-minute chart there the last five or six minutes But it still looks really strong in relation to its trend right? I mean I labeled this as a short squeeze stock earlier this morning And we ended up looking for support earlier before this meeting started now. I want to just Put this here and I'll tell you what if a student makes an excellent call out You know similar or Fausto does that you know I would do the same thing to them But this morning it just goes to show why it pays to read the chat board pays to follow the callouts really No, we're not just gonna call something out for nothing, right? You know for all of us on Facebook live and YouTube actually let me just copy and paste the same comments I made for all of them inside the live trading room that we have so you know I ended up making a comment at 840 Eastern time I had simply said looking for 330 to hold as support on the TNX pick All right now really quick for Brian and Jean Charles Michael I'm gonna make you folks do this me early here. It's me one time only today for me That's all so let me ask if I'm gonna look to buy a stock and I'm gonna jump into this TNXP trade My best entries to buy a stock are directly after what? Nina says a big move. Well, that's when that's when we see a stock break through a big level Nina that's another one of my famous catchphrases there You know when it breaks through a big level on the way up That's my you know best entries to buy a stock so with that you hope to see this 330 level get broken Which it exactly did this broke under and over and then from there I mean a couple shakes a couple points of you know concern here where it came back down I wasn't expecting that to begin but ended up doing its job and from there off and running She went I is anyone in on this trade right now I don't want to distract anyone if they are but there's that a curiosity if anyone's still in this trade I know mark picked up like 18 cents this morning in pre-market Kathleen and very nice grant in very nice as well grant I'm cooking I cooked up your backstrap by the way finally took about like a year and a half the venison backstrap Finally man. I got it for lunch this afternoon. Oh, it's gonna be nice Well grant and Kathleen in on the TNXP trade right now pushing on up So yeah for right now easily enough, we're gonna put this on the main watch list You know hey covering for Fausto this morning I had to push out the pre-market watch list early by like 745 Eastern time and You know I'm not gonna put too many stocks on the list to begin. I try not to well I only put three on there. It was VTV T It was the TNXP and then another one MULN from yesterday, which we'll get to but you know The top two on the gainers list were really just you know two-thirds of what we had on the pre-market list ourselves So it just made it a lot easier for us to just pin down on this TNXP and focus on it here off this 330 But for right now though, let's just go right from top to bottom We'll see what see what else is moving or what was moving from earlier, you know VTV T here up 77 plus percent right now You know at this point it kind of looks like a buyout to me and like looks so flat I doubt it but I didn't check news this morning So let me just do that really quick. I'm sure it's like some sort of phase three pharmaceutical news or whatnot Alright, let's see here. Oh Crap, I might be right VTV T shares trading higher after the company announced entry into agreements that include a $25 million investment by G42 investments So it's not a tech technical legitimate buyout, but with that though it looks like some sort of you know buyout agreement of some Sort so no it ended up popping early and then it was moving on up going into the eight o'clock move there You know bounced from like 730 Eastern time pushing on up over a dollar So at that point we put it on our list, but I didn't check the news at the time Nonetheless right now doesn't really look too tempting does it? So, you know, I'll put this on the side I'll come back to this at the end if I need to but just because it's up big and just because it's trading a lot of Volume and it's cheap doesn't mean it's gonna make for a great trade for us here after the market opens So, you know you hope for it to be but based off the news Yeah, I don't really I don't really know TNX P already we talked about this one. Of course this one is already on our list Probably at the top by the end of it all We keep going now MTP this one was a cheapy and pre-market I'd called this out prior to the meeting beginning like it was beginning to you know bounce back up here It seemed like I was just really kind of fishing like scraping the bottom of the barrel really at that point because you know hey TNX P We did pretty well on off the off the 330 and MULN could be in play here too, but otherwise it was slow We had to keep you know scanning the market you're looking for stocks to trade out there And with that, you know, I thought that this could have held support and you'll ran back up But obviously slump back down volume like kind of died back down there. So, you know pass Endo another cheapy. I don't really like the cheapies as much But you know ENDP is one that we're pretty familiar with over the years No, I mean the stock got smashed back in May But you know just up and down over the last years, you know five or so years We've been following this pharmaceutical with a with with a Tiva and Mylon back in the day and my LP folks recall that one But you know endo right now this thing's not really doing much of anything So, you know, if it moves up after the open, maybe I'd be interested in calling it out But for right now pass All right And we're gonna do a little bit more of this folks because there's not a whole lot out there on the gainer side really I mean she's like look at it your view VIEW. I didn't put this on the list, but you could see why right? CRM sales force so this one's pushing on up really nicely dropped off from like 300 plus all the way down to 150 nearly so, you know Just about a 50% haircut over the last six months You know you'd like to think in good conditions or off of news You know if you happen to see some big short covering for this to make a pretty interesting short squeeze So, you know, it's expensive obviously, but it's up over 10% pushing up nicely No, if you're gonna, you know do any calls on this that could be one thing Otherwise, you know, if you're not as interested in trading the expensive stocks Then listen don't put this on your personal watch list then, you know If you're not really interested in trading an expensive stock don't let it be a distraction to you then right? I'm sure you'd rather be much more inclined to follow TNXP. So I'll just do that, you know your own But for right now at least I'll put a little bit more spotlight on this as a potential short squeeze here into the open Alright, so the MULN stock from yesterday Let's actually go back to yesterday's chart because one of our students Norman had a question on it So we ended up seeing MULN yesterday We're familiar with this stock ended up making a really nice pump into the market open and then it you know Continued shortly after consolidated at first, you know, once the market opened up then from there took off So it made a really nice move now throughout the late morning early afternoon This was pushing on up to you know 150 and it broke above it came back down under it At that point Norman and this goes for all of us here You know just to say that in terms of your preparation of following any stock going into the open You know if you were looking at this trade and pre-market up, you know 70% percent thinking All right, well, you know, I'm sure that we're gonna look to follow this once the market opens Maybe I get my hands on it jump in a trade All right, we'll go back to yesterday's chart if it's relevant So, you know, I went back on book map and we ended up seeing like a big 150,000 share buy print filled at $1.52 All right, so why do I bring that up because I called that out prior to this moving up to 150 here You know is when it was at like 147 148 I'd made mention of that level So at that point well, it ended up popping above 152 but came right back down under it false breakout that resistance initially held But the more buying you happen to see off that price you could definitely anticipate a much better move So, you know definitely will put this on the list just 152 is a you know clear top level here at this point All right, I got Ricardo inside our live trading room calling out the AMC stock which we'll get to AMC will definitely get to here I didn't put it on the pre-market list But just very active from the last couple of trading days here So, you know, we'll definitely get to that here at the end. Let's hop on over to the loser side here We're kind of dipping around 5% category E-NOP, I don't know what happened here.  So right now I'll pass on this in particular the CNCE trade Yeah, this one's trading more volume.  You're off of like 520 Particular bunch of prints and then a couple of big guys here at 18k 15k See what else we have here in the meantime here. We have apps This one is easy to borrow at least for myself a lot more active of a chart trading almost triple the volume here as the CNCE trade so needless to be said apps will definitely put this on our list kind of near the top You know alongside the TNXP the MULN. I Don't have book map. I don't have level four up for this stock folks I do apologize. So I don't have my levels drawn out for this trade just yet But if I were to tape read the old-fashioned way, it looks like there looks like there's not just a lot of volume filled at 21, you know at the whole number, but actually at like a 2105 a lot of selling coming it off 2105 there. So, you know, keep that in mind as like a complimentary level perhaps Keep it going folks and with that, I mean not to sound lazy. I'm not just dipping under 5% category here We are pretty much finished up on the loser side Folks if there's anything else up down left right more than 5% that you'd want me to look at Just type it in the chat board. Just let me know Henry says GME is earnings today, which would take me to Ricardo's GameStop, right or Ricardo's AMC So, you know, it ended up making a big drop-off early this morning This is actually hard to borrow my platform today. Whereas yesterday was easy to borrow and we smashed this as a short It was a really good trade early on. You know, we thought there was a chance to continue as a runner You know going up, but you got to flip the script when when you need to and with that we ended up capitalizing on this AMC trade more as a short throughout the morning yesterday, but You know, it looks like I have to request the shares. It seems like you're I didn't realize that until now Needless to be said though AMC very active very volatile in a good way So if GameStop has earnings out today, you know, I don't mind slipping AMC on the main list for right now It's not up or down really much, but you know, very tradable, right? We know it will be either way Now you could say that on a bunch of different stocks But if there's anything looking as sharp as AMC, I'd be interested in trading it the SIGA trade Not exactly looking a sharp, you know, it's a sideless stock here and just kind of You know there it's gonna move after the open. It'll make some sort of move up or down I don't have my lines drawn out for this one either at least this one is hard to at least this one is Shortable still for me. So, you know, maybe I'll get my hands on this at some point my neo This thing was a chop fest yesterday and it's still chopping around right now So I'm really not too particular about my neo, right? So, you know out of those sideless stocks at least I like the AMC the most Now I get a few different chats here now from Dustin on YouTube welcome aboard Dustin and Michael or I should say Norman and Amy Saying the HS DT stock Bingo, there we go. Nice pop here after nine o'clock finally. We get a decent, you know move here runner Whatever you want to call it but yeah, HS DT definitely great call will put this on the main list Feels like this stock could also be a great short squeeze just looking at the daily chart back from Really the end of last year broke down below big support above 10, you know, probably around like 1150 12 that could be just shooting from the hip But ended up dropping all the way down even from there dropped down like 90% So, you know, what point does this begin to squeeze? I mean, I'm sure news came out to generate this Pump, but there could be a lot more left to this year coming up I don't look for a pullback first and support to build and then from there see if it could run higher But yeah, really good call here from everyone on YouTube and the live trading room Mike says VSCO pop on earnings. I Don't know if that's a pop. I don't know if that's a pop maybe after hours after hours after hours pop It's grinding on up in pre-market here. Not a whole lot to it here so far I'd rather put my focus on the others You know, there's a bunch that's moving off of earnings But if you put focus on these then you don't put focus on the ones that you should be or the ones that you would have an Easier time trading and with that you're not gonna make as much money So that's where I say just we need to be very particular with you know What to put on the watch list what to kind of put on the back burner, you know, you even heard it from me My lovely neo, you know, I love my neo stock and I'm putting it on the side list. It's choppy It's not really moving that great here so far So, you know, you got to pick and choose All right, folks that about wraps it up for all of us on Facebook live and YouTube I appreciate you sticking with me throughout the morning here today I'll be tagging in for Fausto once again tomorrow morning But if you have any questions feel more than free to send on over an email I always like to post my email here at the end of these streams Josh at ctu trading calm Otherwise if you wanted to join us inside our live trading room But whether it be today tomorrow or next week at any point Just go right down to the link on the blue banner below right there on the stream to get yourself started But for Norman Michael Amy Henry Robert and the 92 of us otherwise live there right now I look forward to talking to you folks just about 14 or so minutes. Got to refill up the water bottle here. 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Alright, so I'm Anastasia, so I'm coming from an organization called Intersect and I'm managing the training portfolio. My background is in physics and as part of hard science person, my mind is always looking for kind of concrete solutions. So we're working a lot on the training impact and measuring that, like since I joined Intersect in 2017 or 2016, I don't remember anymore. So Intersect is a not-for-profit organization and it's actually providing its services in a few states in Australia, so in New South Wales, ICT Victoria in South Australia and one of the major things that we do is the training portfolio. So we provide digital skills training to researchers. So just to show you how much we do, this year we have delivered already 279 live hands-on workshops and we train around 5,500 researchers across different states. You can see the map in terms of like where these people are based and also historically we started like really like slow back in 2012. We turn people trained and then like start climbing and the more training courses we offer the more disclaims and we reach the milestone of 20,000 participants in 2021, which is incredible. So short-term evaluations, I'm going to talk like in this presentation about two aspects. So the short-term and evaluation of our training program and the long-term. So the short-term is something that we did almost since day one where we were trying to evaluate our training on HDR students, researchers and stuff. Here is our administration system. I don't want to over complicate things. I want you to focus on the survey part. So the survey part that we use is we use some questions with a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is not at all, 10 is extremely and then we evaluate our training based on a few different metrics. So one of the most common ones is the net promoter score that is widely used in industry, which is the typical question how likely is that you would recommend something, a service to colleagues or friends. This is like so if you see this question it's the net promoter score in other services. Then we use five different quality metrics for the training. So for example, we ask how was the training atmosphere, how comfortable was interacting with instructors, if the instructors were knowledgeable, if the instructors gave clear answers and if the instructors were good communicators. So we're trying to get the feeling of the teaching style and we use three additional evaluation metrics which is about worthwhile, attaining how likely is that you will use this technology and if you feel confident to apply what you learned. There is a tricky part there because like we know that people when they do training they feel super confident but it's good to capture it there as well. We capture also qualitative feedback which is used actually to evaluate teaching as well, improve the course material and get feedback on course development. So we get feedback on people like what they would like to see and what is missing in our course catalog. This is an anonymous survey so we only captured the course date, course name and where it happened. All trainers, all instructors asked the attendees to fill in the survey and the course but also we found that people who are leaving the course earlier they may miss the survey so to boost the numbers we created an automatic reminder that sent to all participants the following Monday. So all the participants who did the training last week and reminded the following week. Okay let's see some numbers now actually like what's going on so our net promoter score this year is plus 76 based on 2100 responses which is around 40% of the attendees which is a great response rate and then in terms of the metrics the five quality of teaching metrics out of zero from 10 like you can see that it's all of them more than 9.4 so we try to keep capturing all these metrics in order to understand better like if what we provide is really valuable for all the attendees and it gives a evaluate also like everything that we do all the different aspects of the teaching. Historically like you can see also that this is growing as well so it's here is improving but also our average NPS is improving so we're very happy to see that and it's based on 8000 responses so trying to get as much data as possible this way we can evaluate and we can feel more confident about like the story that we're saying and also like about the quality of the teaching but now like the biggest question like how do we evaluate the long term so short term is something that we feel confident that we capture quite well and we get a lot of feedback but what about long term so how do you understand the long term behavioral change and impact of digital skills training on HDR research and stuff so we wanted to capture what's the impact on the researchers workflows the long term one what support services the researchers use after training because like if you see literature like the confident of people like doing some digital skills training is very high in the beginning but then super fast drops down and needs some support in order like to get going and adopt the technology and then also like if there is a link with between tools and technologies and research outputs which is something that all the higher ups are looking for okay so what we did this year is we started with a team of eight people from Intersect to start this project there was initial discussions about how do we do it we checked the literature review we saw other initiatives as well so explore different metrics that are widely used and then we had some experts in the team who designed the survey and what is the best design how do we capture all these some things we distributed the survey for the first round we did some preliminary analytics and the goal is that we integrate this in our systems the survey it has three sections so the first one that the first section of the survey is about training impact so captured the long term behavioral change on researchers workflows the second section of the survey was about post training support so what services they use after the training and the third one is about research productivity so is there a link between all these digital tools and the research outputs and grants so the first bounce was sent to almost 5000 people we received 743 responses we're planning to send another bounce later this year and sorry about that and we're going to receive even more so hopefully we can reach a thousand responses by the end of the year so we had to set up all these it's an overwhelming dataset to be honest like after the 743 responses and so reach information there so we had to set up where we can store all these like it's in cloud and computing using like different tools as well to analyze the analysis can happen in different ways so it can be grouped by different faculties because we had this information it can happen in technology that they use in the role and position the competency and the number of courses so if they did one course or if they came to different courses and also there are different topics of analysis so the demographics like check the behavioral change the post-training support also like check the e-research services e-research analysis services that we provide to them and also like link the digital tools with the research grants and outputs and the last bit is like to provide a reporting so I'll talk about this like quickly so just to show you the preliminary results this is the what Katherine mentioned this is the Kip Patrick's model so we use these for metrics that you can see here reaction behavior learning and results I'm going to quickly show you that you know for the first one if you're attending the course was worthwhile so more than 75% said very worthwhile or extremely worthwhile I forgot to mention that this sent to people who attended a course at least a year prior to the serving so all these people are talking a year after so in terms of behavioral change so you can see how frequently they use it and the other two are the most important ones for me so confidence so more than 80% are saying that they feel much more confident or more confident after a year and to what extent it's the technology has been helpful you can see that more than 50% they're saying very helpful and if you include somewhat helpful is close to 90% so very good results very promising and trying to capture like with quantitative ways like the impact also I'm gonna show you a bit the link between digital tools and research outputs so we ask did the knowledge acquired in the course contribute to your ability to produce materials that led or made leads to the following research outputs so people could select one or more so here you can see the distribution of responses so most people answer general article followed by thesis presentation conference abstract etc so more than 80% almost 80% of the survey recipients respondents selected at least one research output which means like that there is strong correlation between all these digital tools and the research output so of course further analysis needs to be done but this is something preliminary just to show you actually like a bit of the data what's next so as I said we need to integrate this one and be an automatic procedure that we send to all people every a year after they do a training so hopefully we can get some thousands of responses we send it by annually so this is the second time that we're going to send by the end of the year we hope to produce a report with all our key findings and share it with the wider community our ambition was to do it by the end of the year due to all these things that are happening hopefully it's going to happen by early next year so we're definitely going to share our key findings with everybody and then of course enable our members to explore the data even further so we're going to share the data openly with our members and they can check the data and they can help hopefully like provide some more inputs on the training impact