How does purple even relate to a crocodile? What happened to the lion theme? I don't get it. Um, so I'm finally releasing my analysis of Iron Guasi, which was announced for Bush Gardens Tampa all the way up in Florida. Bless them, they don't get to experience a cold winter like we do here. But nonetheless, Iron Guasi has been announced. We still don't fully know the entire like we don't have like an entire blueprint of the coaster, um, which is a little sad. I was kind of looking forward to that. I really wanted to see an entire layout. Um, but nonetheless, even without knowing the entire layout, I can comfortably say that this is going to be the best new coaster for 2020 in North America at minimum, um, which is super awesome. And I honestly have to come out and say I do love the design. It looks absolutely amazing. It looks like it's going to be fantastic. Obviously it's nowhere close to steel vengeance from what I'm seeing, but nonetheless, it looks like it's going to be a top tier RMC coaster. And I'm definitely super excited to get down there and ride it. It's definitely going to get me down there to go ride it as well. And that's all that matters and all that counts in the end. Um, I know that there's been a lot of criticism online about the name choice, the color scheme, and kind of like the theme with the crocodile versus the lion. Um, from what I'm seeing, a lot of people are confused by the iron in the name. Um, and they're confused by the purple and how it relates to a crocodile. And I'm going to try and make sense of this to the best of my ability. Um, the park themselves haven't come out and really made too much sense of the name choice and all that other than sticking to, um, kind of like the original name of the coaster, but, um, I do have a couple of ideas in my head to defend the coaster. And I definitely think that the route that they should go down that route could help explain everything. Um, but I definitely wanted to say, um, enthusiasts for a long time have been saying that they're kind of sick of the whole twisted and steel in these RMC hybrid coaster conversions. Um, so I think that finally having, you know, iron, I get it, the coaster is not made out of iron. Um, as a name choice, iron, quasi, it definitely differentiates itself from those twisted and steel names that have been used in a lot of those RMCs. And I'm just glad to see a unique name. Um, Zodra is a unique name and I love that as well. And I definitely think that iron, quasi, um, fits in. And we also have to understand that the average general public aren't going to sit here and be like, um, Guasi's not made out of iron iron. Guasi doesn't make sense. They're going to see iron and they're going to assume metal and they're going to see metal and they're going to be like, oh, okay, it makes sense. So for the general public iron, Guasi's fine. The name looks great. I definitely love the logo. I know I've seen some criticism online about the logo and the train design, but I have to say I absolutely love iron, Guasi's logo. I do like the crocodile theme. I know it doesn't really make sense, but I love it. I love the lead car on arms, RMC, Guasi iron, Guasi. We finally have a name. Definitely love the lead car. I think it looks really unique and I'm getting Louisiana vibes from this coaster, which definitely is one of the routes that I would love to see them explore to explain the purple and the theme and all that. Um, super excited though. Um, I definitely love, um, the color scheme. So I know purple doesn't really make sense. It doesn't make sense for the coaster that it used to be. It doesn't make sense for a crocodile theme coaster. Um, but I'm going to start to explain what I think could be going on here. So I love the purple. Um, it stands out in the skyline. It's definitely very attractive. And before we knew the name iron Guasi, most enthusiasts were in love with the purple color scheme. So I don't think that we should be angry about the color scheme or upset about the color scheme. Now that we know the name. Um, and I definitely think that a Louisiana themed this coaster with the crocodiles and, you know, purple and those bright colors that Louisiana is known for could help explain and kind of like bring this all together as a storyline. So I would love to see them like re-themed that whole area. I don't know the area. Maybe it already is. So correct me down below if I'm screwing up at all describing Bush Gardens Tampa, but I would love to see the little midway area themed Louisiana and maybe some Louisiana restaurants and just bringing that whole Louisiana vibe to this coaster would help correlate the storyline that they are trying to convey with the theme, the color and everything. So that would be super awesome. Comment down below if you completely disagree or if you kind of agree with what I'm trying to say. I think that Louisiana could help bring everything together and hopefully I'm not triggering anyone. I just think that that would be something really awesome to see over at Bush Gardens Tampa. Um, it is definitely, as I said earlier, still going to be the best new ride of 2020 in North America. Um, and I'm definitely loving, um, the fact that, you know, they took what used to be Rubble, um, a non-existent coaster. It wasn't being used, um, Guasi, and they transformed it into this amazing new, um, hybrid coaster. So we can't be upset about it. So definitely super excited as enthusiasts, you know, we tend to overanalyze everything and tear it apart. Again, this is a park that just announced an amazing coaster and definitely super excited to get on it. And I think we all should be as well. And we should stop overanalyzing every little detail. Every park has those coasters where the names don't necessarily make that much sense. The theme doesn't make that much sense. And maybe this will end up being one of those, but it's still going to be an amazing coaster. So, um, I think we definitely need to maybe take off our enthusiast hats, um, and, uh, see things from the general public's point of view a little more when parks announced coasters like this. Again, Orion was another example. We overanalyzed it. We were upset that they didn't break the records due to Millennium Force, but it's still an amazing coaster no matter what. Um, that's pretty much all I really have to say. Again, I don't know the entire layout and I'm not super talented in Planet Coaster and no limit.  I know there are some out there. Um, but, um, I can't personally do that again. It's definitely going to be one of the best coasters of 2020. Um, and I absolutely love it. Hopefully you guys enjoyed my analysis of this coaster. I'm not super enthusiast. So I can't go into details about the types of inversions and the forces you're going to feel and all that. All I know is it looks super awesome. The inversions are going to be awesome. Um, and it looks like an amazing coaster. Again, hopefully you enjoyed my video and views on Iron Guasi and hopefully you have some similar views as well. I don't like when I see a new coaster announced and it gets completely overshadowed by something as simple as a name, um, or color scheme or something like that. It's going to be an amazing coaster. Let's all go ride it, um, in 2020. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much for watching guys. Have a good one. Bye.


Good day everyone and welcome to the program agriculture under the move. My name Philip Sidney your host. My guest today is a very important one, one you're familiar with and you hear a lot from him today and he's none other than the Honourable Alfred Paul Prospe who is the Minister with responsibility for agriculture, fisheries, food security and rural development. Welcome to the program Honourable Minister. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah well thank you for taking time off I know you're very very busy but of course you always tell to Lucia what you're doing in your ministry. Very true and the farmers you know always the fishers the farmers everybody in the sector I'm sure they want to hear, they would like to hear what's happening. Definitely and of course we're starting on the ball one year into your helm, the helm of the ministry. A challenging one year. Challenging one year. It amidst the challenges Honourable Minister what were your main achievements? Yes and I must say it's good to celebrate this first year I mean as a new minister there were lots of challenges but there were also some very very good achievements and one of them that I must mention first is the state that we got the Manana industry when we came in. It was an industry that was almost lost. Our farmers had lost confidence in the UK market. Our farmers did not have the support to be able to allow them to buy the resources for the farms. The high cost of fertilizer, the high cost of other inputs, we had a problem with the NFTO you know not being able to have the financial resources to you know continue from where Winfresh left off. So these were challenging times and today I must say a lot of progress have been made. NFTO was you know we were able to assist NFTO with getting the 3.8 million dollars to assist them with their operations. We had a banana task force established to look into the whole industry where it is, where we want to go, what are some of the challenges. That task was completed by a banana task force. We had a special consultancy done to really review the operations of NFTO and then we moved further to re-engage the farmers to ensure that they produce the quality fruits that the UK market would get. And so far we've started, this week coming is the 10th week we've resumed exports of bananas. This is not something I will sit and boast because this is not where I would like to see the industry at this time. But it's a start. But it's a start. It's you know some progress but I really want to continue encouraging our farmers to produce the quality fruits that the UK requires and as well as the region. Currently we are exporting about 6,500 boxes of bananas to the region and I'm hoping that before the end of this financial year we can increase that to 10. We were happy to engage St. Sbrea. You know St. Sbrea has indicated to us they are more than willing to resume export to sign a contract with us but we want to see that a lot more you know you know will happen especially with the maintenance, the consistency with the quality, the consistency in volume. But at the end of the day our farmers too are under pressure. They are suffering because of the high cost of imports and every meeting I attend I know the call is what can government do and I want to say to them I really wish our government could do a little more but we have had the COVID to deal with and we now challenge by what's happening in Ukraine and Russia and we know the high cost of gas fuel to be exact and the government is subsidizing a lot in terms of the fuel, the rise, the sugar and so on. And it's a little unfortunate that the farmers are the ones suffering now but I'm certainly sure in the next few months, in the next, in the short term, I'm certainly sure government will try its best too you know ease the pressure on the farmers. I want to commend, I want to say thank you to the government tomorrow and we have of the government of St. Lucia for making available to us 3,944 bags of fertilizer and all of that will be given to the farmers free of charge. I'm hoping that that would be a relief for the farmers. And that's the vegetable farmers? Yes, well many of the vegetable farmers and I feel sorry that you know the banana farmers cannot benefit from it because of the type of the various ratio, the ratio is more appropriate for the vegetable farmers. In the fisheries sector we've made some progress, we you know there was a passage of the agricultural and fisheries incentives bill and it makes provision to for people persons who are in the seamos industry the fishes now can buy more of the products that they were unable to buy before the lines the hooks and all of those things have been made available in there. So that's a major achievement, achievement for the fisheries sector we understand what the fishes are going through now because of the high cost of gas and our ministry has been trying its best to get what we call the fisheries and reading device what we call the fads and we are really going to see how many we can get to spread around the island so it can reduce the pressure of the fishes having to buy gas to go too far out and so they can go around the fads and they can you know be able to still earn a livelihood. Currently we have three fads and we're looking forward to see if we can get at least ten before the end of this year so we can have as many fads as possible to assist our fisheries. Just a week and a half ago we were able to open a new fisheries facility in Sabans Bay and the opening of it was not just opening it and giving it to a private person but we gave it to the fishers so we have an MOU with the fishers because I want the fishers to be more involved in managing what belongs to them. We have the LBO that is closed now since last year December. There's Blue Ocean. The Blue Ocean and it is really impacting the fishers but I really want to see that this step that we took last week in Sabans Bay will be replicated in Souffre, in Grosile, in Dennery, in Miku so at the end of the day the fishers will be involved in managing what is theirs. You know this is the direction, this is my vision for the fisheries sector. We are putting together the vessel monitoring device. We are hoping that our fishers will take advantage of it. So when they have any problems at sea they will call and we will be able to reduce. As you mentioned that there is currently a gentleman in Souffre who is out at sea and maybe out there but he cannot be found. If there was that device installed there's a strong possibility he might be located. Very true. This is sort of the closure of the end of the project life of the BPIP and we have replaced BPIP with what we call a black cicatucca unit because we understand the importance of men taking control of the black cicatucca problem in our banana fields and if we have to maintain the quality we have to ensure that we continue to control and take action to deal with the disease. So we have that unit in place and we are still helping that and by the way before I forget I want to mention that all farmers who have quality fields will be getting a free cycle of oil from the BPIP. So I would like them to take advantage of that and start in the right direction as a means of reducing on the cost of production. So these are a few of the things. You have the seven crops program that was launched the second phase. It's a five-year program commencing this year until 2026 and to the tune of almost ten million dollars thanks to the Taiwanese government for making available those resources for us. And the whole aim of the seven crops program is to reduce our food import bill. Our farmers will be getting fertilizer at a subsidized price. We are training a number of young farmers under that program because I believe young farmers are important for this industry considering what is happening in the industry now. We are giving technical support to our farmers. We are having a number of farmers markets happening in Dennery and all over the island. This direction I'm hoping that our farmers can benefit and take advantage of this. I was happy we were able to launch and host a banana festival. Yes. You know our bananas so many value added products that can be made from bananas. I mean this was followed by a mango festival. You know and on a whole food day in October we are going to put together in Dennery at Fondo Park to be exact a CMOS festival. So we are really bringing together all those persons who are involved in those areas to really showcase the products that they are making and to encourage our people, our locals to be able to buy and consume those products. Fresh St. Lucian's best. Fresh St. Lucian's best. We are progressing very well in terms of the volet livestock station and we are hoping that before the end of the financial year we can move the animals to volet and we can start a program where we can improve the livestock sector so we can get our livestock farmers a lot more involved in the livestock sector and we can produce a lot of the meats that we consume. I understand the challenges in the poultry sector. I know the high cost of feed for the poultry and I know the 28 percent there are issues that we need to deal with but I understand what it is because I know the poultry sector like the livestock sector they have issues with the feed. I am hoping that you know some sort of assistance can come their way and we can make farmers a lot more you know comfortable that they can get the help from the government. They can get the support from the ministry and to be able to ensure that they can remain and be a lot more sustainable in the sector. In fact you know minister all that you have said there leads to one thing you know food and nutrition security that's where we are and you mentioned earlier on you know about the war in Ukraine and the food security is more apparent now because our food prices in the supermarkets are soaring right now if God forbid that something happened and the boats cannot come in to bring in you know the those products that we need to consume what are we going to do we need to produce local hours as much as possible to consume it and that is why the agro processing is crucial and he mentioned the Burdano festival and the mango festival these are things that we need to do to encourage people to do what we need to do and to eat what we grow I moving forward I heard you mentioned about the lockers at Savansby but I was so pleased to hear the prime minister mentioned about the new jetty for Miku and it's not a floating it's going to be a stationary one you know so tell us about that and it's a good point you're raising because it has I mean it's unfair to the fishers it is to be getting something that they are no path to play exactly contributed to it they never wanted it but it was forced upon them and it's just after just a few weeks and you're talking millions of dollars yeah but right now the announcement by the prime minister will give a lot of relief and hope the intention was the intention was good you know by suppose the assessment of the the roughness of the sea on the Atlantic side people that did not take that consideration for that kind of condition so I'm very happy you know that the Prime Minister said it will happen it will happen and currently we are in the process of we are working with the Ministry of Infrastructure where they are looking at the costings doing an assessment of the area and to be able to come up with a very good structure that would be sustainable and it would be cost effective yeah and I'm very happy for this good news that I'm you know coming from the prime minister and you know how that can impact the people of the fishes of Miku and you know as we speak they have another major problem affecting them it's a god I'm single oh my god yeah it's making life very difficult for them man yeah I just want to say to them that you know it is you know a concern that you know the entire government the cabinet has been discussing and we are hoping that you know soon from now we can you know be able to do something yeah give some relief to our fishes in Miku okay those along the eastern beautiful we are due for a break you're watching agriculture and the more stay tuned it will be back very soon the Ministry of Agriculture fisheries food security and rural development is placing heavy emphasis on the concept of food security it's our prosperity our future the enhancement of the efficiency of production distribution supply chain in the fruit and vegetable sector project more commonly known as the seven crops project is intended to increase local production of all selected crops and decrease our food import bill through the diversification of the agricultural sector and increased production of the targeted crops among the provisions as subsidized input sales seedling distribution introduction of new varieties introduction to new technology erection of weather stations and capacity building from more on the seven crops project contact the project coordinator at 468 8122 welcome back to the program agriculture on the move and it's on the move people if you the lots has happened and a lot is going to happen moving forward under the leadership of honourable Alfred Prostway who is here our Minister for Agriculture Minister we spoke a lot about your achievements and now we let's look at you know what is to come I know there's a cocoa project okay and they have been so many cocoa you know in the past and they just die natural death I had Mr. Eloy Alex say with me a few weeks ago and he mentioned about that new product he's the coordinator and then he gave some good reviews about that that project and I'm hoping is going to be sustained tell us about a project well this project is a project that was approved by during this for 2022-2023 the tune of almost I think it's 1.6 million dollars and aim is to propagate approximately 1 million cocoa plants to distribute throughout St. Lucia now currently we have lots large areas of cocoa but a lot of those cocoa plantations of those areas we have cocoa planted these are not been maintained so we have to focus on rehabilitation of almost 200 hectares to assist the farmers with you know inputs to be able to ensure that they get we get those plantations back into production now I know we have the cocoa pod disease that is a major pod yeah sorry the black pod thank you that is a major problem in cocoa and it seemed to be discouraged a number of farmers from wanting to maintain it but the thing about cocoa is that we have a big market in the UK for cocoa we cannot meet the demand of the market now given what is happening in the banana industry given what is happening in the whole sector in terms of food security I think that's a very good direction that our ministry is taking in terms of helping diversify you know the sector because I believe that you know whilst yes we have been dependent on bananas but within a few months a few weeks from now as we are in the rainy American season the entire plantations of bananas can be wiped off so our farmers must be able to diversify so they can they can depend on other crops grown on the same piece of land and just imagine about having a good mix plantation with bananas and cocoa the bananas as you utilize the trees that's why many things for me so I really want us to do it differently this time because I remember in the past 10 or more years we were given free plans to farmers but you see this one thing to do that but they must be maintenance and continuity yes you don't just give it to the farmers and turn your back so we have to be able to ensure that we take this project very seriously because I know it can impact the livelihoods of hundreds and hundreds of farmers especially those farmers who are on the way out you know they may be moving out of bananas but they still have some interest in you know going to the farm maybe once or twice a week cocoa would be an ideal for them because they can go in there they can do their treatment but they can also do their harvesting as the market is available and what I like about it too is that a lot I mentioned the shade trees yes you can use economic crops she crops yes that you can gain from it also exactly avocado, pears, citrus and so on as opposed to only Immotel yes so you have a mixed crop system that you know you know that would really benefit from it and even short-term crops you know while you plant in there you don't plant your short-term vegetables in between yes and what it can appear cover at least you're getting some money exactly and that brings me to the whole value added yes we have a cocoa from entry is sitting at Angers there that need be commissioned and I'm happy that you know I can mention now we have taken a decision to grant it to a group and soon from now the group will be taking this facility on and you know getting it operational very good we I just visited the the Balbo no the far so agro processing plant you know parliamentary regional but yesterday I had a good discussion as to you know how we can get moving in operation because there are lots that can be done there are so many you know I take machines that I saw there you know and we have to make use of it but a good thing is that they are persons who are knocking the doors of the ministry in the interest you know in wanting to take on the facility I cannot have such an important facility sitting there closed so we are looking at the possibility of doing that and ensuring that we can get into the whole value added agro processing you know because every time I participated in this festival in those festivals I see the value you know fascinated by that you know you know I mean these people deserve place in society where they can display their product and also think of exporting yes yes yes I mean watch what was your mountain money from the CMOS industry yes six million dollars with the help of export export St. Lucia you know and I when I look at the value I had a guy here with me you know on Wednesday and I saw they might have 20 products right here right there you know I mean it's amazing what you can do yes so we have to take those we have to move to the next step yes taking all those products and exporting yes yes definitely and the good thing about it look like the cocoa we have chocolate beans and I mean the rural women in in Miku there's a Miku chocolate we have we have can we have canries we have we have also have so Fred you know Jade Mountain you know and then the other other little you know cottage industries that they're doing it so we can do it and then of course don't forget the cocoa stick yes the big marketing and also in Martinique and Martinique I heard you know so we the market is available we need to take it and one of those challenges we have with you know the export market is you know transportation yes you know we need to really you know revamp and you know improve the transportation you know between countries so you can move you know easier processing is key in fact that's why after this this festival coming up on the 16th of October which is World Food Day which is the Seamos festival we are looking at the cocoa right back to back and we also looking at coconuts right so we need to show Saint Lucia what we can do and the rest of the world and what is amazing about our Seamos we produce that probably the best Seamos in the world yes yes you know and this is impacting the rural people so well that you know we must ensure that we you know we regulate it in a manner that there was a gold rush you know you like that drink of it I mean I had a lady here with me from from from Moshi and she said nothing to do nowhere to go they'll start walking the beach and he said let's do some Seamos and that is involved in a product there gummy gummy bears for the kids and Seamos and she will be at our thing too there is a lot and I and I just want to you know say that I am really looking for the resources that you know you know that are needed to really assist those persons in this because they need the support for them to be sustainable transportation you mentioned about which is market the market now we know that you had a trip to London not too long ago and you were told that there's so many other commodities that we can expect so tell us about that yes there is a there was a guy met and he's looking for mangoes avocados green and and and yellow coconut jelly coconuts plantain you know the yams and the dashes and hot peppers yes and and he's gonna be here sometime next month to go around to see how we can engage a number of the farmers to be able to you know generate some interest in being able to get those commodities you know exported but what I am I'm thinking based on my discussion of him I will be an excellent opportunity for the market board yes when grace this and begin the export of those commodities to the region as well as the UK because the demand is therefore a lot of the things we produce here and you know as you mentioned marketing board we have you know you've been having those farmers meetings they had one the other one night before yes night and limited ours I mean and I mean the feedback was really really really productive and a lot of it came to marketing of their crops and they have no well the that trust in marketing but it's still shaky yes so again I'm happy that you have a new a new manager and hoping that things might change because we need all what they need is to the assurance when they sell the following we didn't get the money you know yeah and that is a very good point you raising there as I always see the marketing board belongs to the farmers and the farmers would be more comfortable selling to what belongs to them but at the end of the day the farmers also have to think about their livelihoods they have to invest some of those funds from the sale of the produce yeah into into yes Peter Libber inputs and when you have a situation when the marketing body is unable to pay on time or unable to buy as many as much as possible it's gonna be for street in anti-motivating alright and the farmers in this case will have no choice but to go to Marcia and to other areas but I marketing bodies in a financial crisis now and it is a discussion that we have in the cabinet level and I'm hoping that soon from now we'll be able to you know relieve the marketing board in terms of giving them some financial support through what I say loan I think more likely it will be a loan right really get it back on his feet because the marketing board have quite a bit of money a few years back of course this export yes but you know it was mismanaged it was yeah those challenges are what you know the marketing body space now and I am looking hard to see how quickly we can get them to have the financial resources to be able to buy as much as possible from the farmers okay the farmers should not be asked to produce but yet when they are ready for office they have to wonder where am I going to sell it how much am I going to make you know who's going to pay me exactly exactly it is really I mean I am I'm I understand what the farmers go through it's not a nice thing for them but you know those challenges have been they are real really fine ways very critical definitely your constituency I know you have your fishers your farmers I know you have told them what you'll be doing as far as agriculture and fishing is concerned tell us yeah well my constituency I must say I am very thankful for you know some of the things that we have done I've been able to you know bring this the people in a conscience together and really make them understand this thing this thing is not about me on my own it's about everybody coming together and everybody coming to work towards the movement of the community we had this cleanup where most persons came and you know did this major cleanup on the beachfront we are now having activities trying to have activities every month to really revive and to get revamp the whole Saturday fish fiesta and two major events there we're hoping to have one at the end of every month until I can get the Saturday fish activity back to where it was I do not want to convince this activity this Saturday fish thing with the same you know tens and so on and I would like to see the ambience everything change drastically and we are working towards that at the council I must say thanks to them for the support but we are seeing the people beginning to embrace it they are happy with the activities we have and what we are doing is using a lot of our local talent and then we segment and look at the skills and really give back some of what you know they have I must say I've done quite a bit in terms of the whole social aspect the housing you know between August and now I've built almost 20 houses and I have paid quite a bit in terms of you know helping you know windows doors you know assistance with people building the roof etc I want to continue that and I want to you know urge the people out there and we really let them work together I am looking forward to improving just the fisheries facility the Daito because the conditions there in terms of the drainage in terms of the area where the fish cleaning has been done this place is in a very very bad state and I'm hoping that from funds that we that was approved for this financial year I can you know make some improvements there and other fishing facilities in St. Lucia I'm also working towards the whole land rationalization I'm in discussion with the people in the ministry to see how they can begin you know assisting the people in the obdainry who have been occupied in lands for more than 40 years they have huge buildings wall concrete buildings and they not own the land it's making it difficult for them to get a loan etc I'm hoping that we can begin that process to you know so that plus you know the young people building the capacity etc we look into is that I'm hoping the minister boy there's so much you can talk about it a lot but with our time thank you very much thank you for being here and I wish you success and I know in the new year coming in there a lot will be said and looking forward to get more projects thank you again I wish you success and God speed yes you've been watching every culture on the move with me of course on the black bread prospect minister for agriculture fish ways food security and real development telling us all his achievements and proposed projects to come thank you again remember our culture of business eat fresh St. Lucia's best I'm Philip Sidney goodbye I recall


The prices Data set today The plan I had to wave us to play around with all the three things which I learned today because I have not worked in either the D3JS or R And also that's what I have started doing. I did a little bit of a player on using D3Chance. I Did one this great time series thing Now I played also a little bit with Pandas where I was able to Load on the Ditas and I was able to do some kind of little bit of aggregation related functionality I have not played or much in visualization from Pandas. So now the plan is I'll start with R So my objective today is to basically use one data set try to play around with all the three options What I learned today in the morning and afternoon Hopefully I'll be able to finish our By maybe another three or four hours Thank you


Welcome, traders, to this week's installment of my weekly live market analysis. I'll just give it another 20 seconds here before we get going. Okay, just before I get started, if you can hear me and you can see the tick mill welcome screen, you can just type a Y in the chat box so that I know you've got a feed here loud and clear. Good stuff. Okay, so before we get started, obviously, I want to adhere to the risk disclaimer. Most importantly, with respect to today's discussion, the views and opinions expressed by me today are solely mine and they're not indicative of or representative of tick mill UK or tick mill Europe limits. For those that are here for the first time, brief introduction to myself. My name is Patrick Munlin after I graduated from university, I joined the city PLC consulting firm. I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found and ultimately exit a consulting startup focused on C-suite executive search for technology startup businesses. Going a front row seat to the dot com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the market, it's quite literally sometimes overnight. I decided to explore my curiosity for markets with some capital to play with and some time in my hands, I started day trading the S&P 500 or probably more appropriately day gambling. After some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck ran out and as the market phase changed, I began to manage down giving back all my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six figure hit my capital. To say this was a gut wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. I had to really stand back and figure out if it was really feasible for me to make a living from the market. So I decided to get serious about trading and sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years was a time during which I had a technical game in terms of developing a strategy that crucially suited my personality, back and forward testing strategy, all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. But most importantly, during the period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental game and probably most important watershed shift I made was from being a highly goal orientating individual focused on financial gains to becoming purely process oriented. So what does that mean? Well, it means I had to stop focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy, often times in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But I can tell you once you become process orientated and have a professional trading mindset, and you understand the true nature of trading being a numbers gamer which is simply playing the probabilities. You lose the emotional investment and that hellish emotional roller coaster of living and dying by the outcomes of individual trades. So I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of individual trades, or even a small string of trades. My focus on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence in execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. A multi strategy approach has delivered profitable returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've also been managing investor capital through a managed account service, delivering annual positive returns as well. I'm currently responsible for managing a multimillion dollar portfolio. Since 2010 I've mentored hundreds of traders have all experienced levels from complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to reap consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and mentoring, I'm also resident market expert exclusively providing market and trade analysis to tick bill. The passion project is leading trading education for a premier trading education brand called fxcareerswap.com. At fxcareerswap we don't just offer development and funding to retail trading talents. We really work beyond just developing market and trading strategy knowledge on mindset development for a structure program that culminates in managing firms capital at zero personal financial risk on a profit share basis. So that gives you a flavor of where it is I'm coming from. Just before we get started today, I would like to highlight a couple of new Facebook groups that I am delivering content to. The first here is the trade of blueprint. I'm going to put the link into the chat so that you guys can follow up and join these groups. This is a public group whereby I post my daily analysis and some other interesting bits and pieces with respect to the markets. So you might want to take a look at that one. The other group that I run is for tick mill and it's their futures group whereby I deliver daily trade analysis for the S&P 500. We've been doing, we've been running that group since April 14 middle of April and we're up over 270 points in the in the trades and analysis that I've provided. So take some take some time and take a look at those in your own time. Before we get started on the charts I just want to let you know that with respect to questions if you have any questions. Please note them down as I go through the presentation here and I'll open up a brief Q&A at the end if there are any questions that you'd like me to respond to. So let's get started with charts and we're going to start with the equity indexes. Here we have the S&P 500. What I'm looking for with the S&P now is either we're going to take out this 4245 to the upside without a pullback. And ultimately then I'm looking for a test of 43, 43, the ascending trend line resistance and I think from there we can see a more sustained correction but certainly between this this period now coming in next week heading into heading into the 21st of June I can see upside for these equity indexes. So if you ever get a pullback today, tomorrow certainly pay attention to 4145 on the downside bullish reversal patterns that set those long positions looking for 4370 on the upside. NASDAQ not quite as bullish than NASDAQ. I think whilst we hold 13,915 there's still potential for another leg lower here in the NASDAQ. So if we do get down into this zone here the ascending trend line support coming at 12,980. I'd be watching for bullish reversal patterns there as an opportunity on the long side but at the moment I prefer the setup in the S&P. So let's take a look at the Dow Jones here. Similar story with the Dow Jones, a little bit weaker than the S&P at the moment but any move that comes into this 34,000 level now whereby we have the ascending trend line support coming in from the March lows, the pandemic lows. Watch for bullish reversal patterns here 34,000 to set long positions and then I think we can take a run up to 36,000 before seeing a more sustained correction. So ample opportunity to profit there but need to get the confirmation of bullish reversal signals there at the 34,000 level. Looking to the DAX to test its internal trend line support here at the 15,350 level, bullish reversal patterns there again look for long positions. I think the DAX gets a run up to test 16,400 area before we see another corrective phase develop. The DAX, obviously the volatility index giving a sense of fear in the markets or potential fear in the markets. I'm looking for the VIX to actually trade lower to ultimately get a test here of this 14 level, and then I think we could see the VIX have a spike to the left side basically and that would coincide with these equity indexes getting up into those new highs before we see a pullback in terms of the equity index. Dollar index, obviously under pressure. Looking for the dollar ultimately to get to break down here to print a new low into this 88,70 area then I think from there we could see a corrective move in terms of the dollar index certainly up into test the descending trend line resistance coming in there at 1980. US 10 year yields, obviously inflation, big deal at the moment, and we're going to get CPI coming out shortly in an hour, an hour sorry. And I'd anticipate that you know that's going to run hot, but I don't think at this stage that the Fed are too concerned about that as they're focused on employment and they give themselves some cover in terms of the two relatively weak employment prints we've seen. So I hope for the 10 year yield to test this equality objective 142.50 before we can potentially put in the next leg to the upside to see a move up to test 2% zone. Looking for gold to to either break the 1905 here or get a pullback into the 1838 level, which would be a retest of this descending trend line resistance then act to support before setting up for this move to see a run up to test 1960 in terms of gold. Looking for silver to take out this descending trend line here so I'd like to be long silver through 2860 and looking for a move up there to test 3168 as the upside objective for that for that trades. And then looking for crude oil, looking crude to trade into this resistance zone 71 80 to 72 85, and then I think we can see a pullback into support at the $65 level before we set up for the next leg to the upside, whereby we should ultimately be challenging the $80 level in terms of crude oil. As a nice setup developing here, we have an ABC equality objective coming in at 42 50 so I'd like to see bullish reversal patterns that set long positions, ultimately getting a run up then to the 5000 level in terms of copper. Bitcoin obviously been under pressure, still hasn't tested the the conflict resistance zone here 41 9841,915 to 44,000. I still like, I still like Bitcoin for a test of the 20,000 level before I think we see any sustained move to the upside in terms of Bitcoin there. So dolly one held the support zone that I highlighted looking for it to break now through the monthly pivot here at 640 50 to get a run up there to test the 650 level. So waiting for that confirmation. I'm going to see a close through the 640 92 level to see the next leg of upside in terms of the dolly one. Well again, hugging this trend line so what I'd be looking for is a close through 109 15, which would give a nice opportunity I think on the short side to get a move back to certainly test support at the 107 50 level and potentially an equality objective versus this swing structure here, which would see us back down into 106 80 as the primary target for that move. So dolly Swiss coming through and Q&A here. If you keep the questions to the end and like I say I'll answer them at the end. Dolly Swiss potentially carving out an inverse head and shoulder scenario here, but certainly we need to see price back through the 90 50 level to to see further upside to ultimately to retest the monthly, sorry, yearly pivot from below at 90 180. And then maybe we might have a more meaningful bottom in place here in terms of the dollar Swiss. Looney remains remains under pressure here but I can, we can see we're trying to carve out a base here at the 120 level. And he moved back into 123 70 with bearish reversal patterns should set up another leg to the downside certainly think about 118 and maybe as deep as 116 80 before more meaningful correction develops the euro. We're a bit of pressure here we just had the ECB come out they we've got the guards press conference coming up shortly, and we'll see if she addresses the potential for talking about or thinking about talking about easing, or sorry, reducing monetary easing. But for now, whilst we hold this one 2220, we could see a pullback here in the euro to test the one 1970 support, but equally if we, if we take out this, let me just draw it in here for you. Trim line potential flag scenario. So any move through the top side of this flag will see us trade directly up to the monthly range resistance 123 80. And then I think we'd see the momentum divergence kick in. And then we probably see a more sustained correction from those levels, getting back into the trend line support at that 190 90 area. And I am a momentum divergence here, which, which is starting to weigh on the euro bit, euro yen. I like this on the short side through 132 80, and I think we're going to run down to 130 80 as the as the downside objective there before we set the next leg to the upside in terms of the euro yen. Testing the support and so I'm watching now for bullish reversal patterns in the euro Swiss. So, and I'll be looking to set long positions, initially targeting the trend line resistance one 1016. If we can get up through there then I think we've got a clear run back into the highs here at 111 50. So, keeping an eye on the euro Swiss now watching for a bullish reversal pattern to to get in on the long side. The euro is sterling looking for it to take out the 86 75 level, get a move up through there and again thinking long positions targeting the quality objective 88 10 to 88 30 is the is the upside objective for that but like I say, need to take out this 86 75 level to to encourage long positions there, you're always a watching for the potential to get a pullback to test this trend line support 155 55 think that then could could prove an opportunity on the long side, certainly thinking about a test up here into this price supports and where we broke down looking at 160 161 in terms of the euros but that's one that's just on the radar at the moment nothing can immediately setting up. You're a cat looking for another leg lower to test into monthly range support here at 145 and then I'd be looking at that one on the long side as well as will have significant momentum divergence to key off there. If that if that plays out. Anyway, seeing the potential for another move to test the trend line support here before we potentially get a run up into this trend line resistance at the 172 level, nothing really to do there as such at the moment sterling. If you're looking for long positions in sterling, if we can get a move into this trend line support and get a bullish reversal pattern. I think that sets up nicely on the long side then to get this final leg up into the 144 144 50 145 resistance to think about another a more significant correction but certainly watching for bullish reversal patterns here to to look to be to be long sterling sterling again. I believe we probably get another leg to the upside here to complete this pattern in terms of sterling yet and then I will be looking on the short side so any move back up into 156 to 156 60 area watch for bearish reversal patterns there to to get in on the short side in terms of sterling yen. Nothing doing here at the moment we're in very tight range and no clear setup. Certainly, the, at the moment the bias appears to be shifting to the downside here we've got the psychic indicator printing bearish, and we've got the VWAP candles also printing bearish so we can't get a close through the monthly pivot at 77 66 so whilst we hold there a break of the 76 30 area would be interesting on the short side targeting the equality objective at 74 19 on the downside that's versus this one structure here looking for that pattern to complete. Nothing to do in this one at the moment either let's take a look at the Aussie Swiss this one I'm looking, I'm looking to get along the Aussie Swiss. I did, I had a position on earlier in the week that got stopped out but I'm still looking at this area we've got the 38.2% retracement of the last leg to the upside we completed the equality objective here so we're in a clean area, whilst we hold there and watching the bullish reversal patterns and I'll go back in to that on the long side and certainly thinking about a test of descending trend line resistance at the 71 30 area as the upside objective for that move. I've got an order in play here to go along the Aussie cab through the 93 95 area, and I'm looking for a test of descending trend line resistance at 95 50 hasn't been triggered yet but bullish reversal from this support zone, which is the equality objective for this swing here so the ABC 9258 we're also sitting just above the yearly pivot and this this prior support zone here 9250 so watching for a break through that 93 95 to get along the Aussie CAD and initially targeting the 95 50 Kiwi. Similar to the Aussie really going nowhere fast we did take out this trend line, but we haven't seen very little follow through, and that's principally being driven by the low volatility environment we're in at the moment so it's making. It's difficult to get these these moves to get going without some follow through and we're not seeing that yet. I'd be looking for a break of the 70 90 level to encourage the potential to see an acceleration to the downside. The target then would be 67 99 but for now we're in no man's land. We've had this range 73 to 71 50, and we've been in it for the past couple of months and it's just digging around in there so no real edge there at the moment. Again, trying to hold this internal trend line support if we get a bullish reversal pattern here in terms of the Aussie yen, if we think in terms of risk sentiment in the equity markets moving higher. And I think there's an opportunity on the long side in the Aussie yen want to get back through the monthly pivot at 79 20 before moving into long positions, and then we can be targeting to move up to 80 73 and 81 the monthly range resistance in extension. Again, holding this trend line support now Kiwi Swiss and I'm watching for a bullish reverse button if we get back through 64 70 and I like this on the long side to to retest the prize at 67 66 so keeping an eye on this is Kiwi Swiss whilst we hold above the trend line support here at 64 20 Swiss yen. On the short side if we hold this double top here looks like we're going to to make an attempt to test it, move back through the support here at 121 40, I think is a nice opportunity on the short side to play for a correction. Again, another one I've been watching hadn't had a signal yet might be setting up now to take another look at the upside here before potentially reversing so keeping an eye on the cad yet but no signal as such just yet. This is the other trade I'm in at the moment the CAD Swiss. So this is a charted through through tick bill got that bearish reversal pattern with the bearish site as shown down here, and we rolled over we're stalling a bit now but ultimately I'm looking initially for a move to test 73 55 we can get through there, then we can start to think about 72 50 as the downside objective. This is not least the evening SMP. Looking bullish here I'm looking for a breakthrough through 742 45 to target 43 50 on the upside. So we're going to break out and I'm looking any pullback into the support here at 41 78 again bullish reversal patterns here set long positions. I think we, we can get around to 43 50s heading into the 21st time window is what I'm targeting. So that so that concludes the, the charts that I'm watching at the moment certainly I'm paying attention to the equity index is metals. In terms of the FX side of things I'm watching this Aussie Swiss the Aussie CAD all trades I'm paying attention to and like I say I'm holding the CAD Swiss. There's a couple of others on the radar there that I've mentioned that I'm keeping a keeping an eye on I'll be updating through the chart hits through tick mill. Are there any questions, want to know what is the prediction later for CPI. I don't personally make predictions but I'm looking for a hot print. But like I say I think the market looks through it because the Fed have already indicated that they're not going to be driven by the short term spikes in inflation, which they believe a right that it's trying to do well. I don't know. And nobody knows is the is the actual truth. But at the moment, the markets believes that you know that that's going to be looked through and we're not going to see any taper talk into the June meeting, which is next week, because the jobs data isn't supporting the inflation data so until they return until the jobs, the employment situation returns to pre pandemic levels, then the Fed are going to keep an easy monetary policy in place. And so I really I think the earliest, we're going to see any potential talk, certainly from the Fed chair Powell who's the most important member of the committee is probably the Jackson Hole end of August. So we just see the ECB come out with their increasing their pet program. So they're keeping a large degree of monetary easing in place. And so I don't think these major central banks ECB, or, or the, the Fed are going to want to make a move just yet in terms of policy these, these, these data points like the CPI for example, they may cause a bit of short term volatility but they're not going to dramatically impact the overall narrative in the markets at the moment. Any other questions. You can type it into the chat box. That's fine. I'm happy to unmute your mic. Equally, if you don't have a question typing an N in the chat box is helpful so that I know we can, we can wrap this session up. I'm going to start listening to Madame Lagarde at the ECB. Okay, thanks very much for your time everyone. I'm going to start with euro sterling. Yeah. So the euro sterling Derek what I'm looking for is if we can get back through 8675 I like to be long euro sterling, looking for 88809 to 8830 as the upside objective. I just want to appear. I hope you have a great rest of the week and weekend and I'll catch you all the same time. Same place next week and like I say, check out the Facebook groups I've put the link in the, in the chat. And if not, I'll see you all the same time next week. Thanks very much everyone.


When I was a child, I was in love with the ocean. Okay, to be fair, I was obsessed maybe with the ocean. All of the different faces of the ocean, all the different animals, the colors, the textures, the sizes, they just, they absolutely fascinated me. That tiny little biologist inside of me wanted to talk with each and every one of them. I wanted to meet them all. I wanted to ask them where they came from, where they lived, why they look the way that they do. And I couldn't wait to get underwater. I wanted to meet everything from the smallest, most unassuming little creatures to the largest fish in the sea. When I finally did actually take the plunge, I was 12. And of all of the animals I met, when I was in those early years, it was the manta ray that left the biggest impression on me. It was absolutely gobsmacking. The first time I saw it, it was the most beautiful, most majestic animal I had ever seen on a land or in the water. And I wanted to know more. It was love at first sight. And unfortunately, I didn't know then that 15 years later I would describe a new species of manta. I would be devoting my life to protecting this animal. But that passion was there just from the beginning. Now, mantas are cartilaginous fish, like all other sharks and rays. And they actually are the kings of the rays. They get up to eight meters disc width, which is pretty big. I'm sure that you can imagine. Here's a photo of me taking a genetic sample of a female in Ecuador. They dwarf you when you swim next to them, I have to admit. But there's things about them that are more impressive than even their size. Mantas are one of the only pelagic rays in the ocean, meaning they swim all of the time. They never stop. They never sleep. Imagine that. We estimate that they live between 40 and 50 years, constantly moving, constantly. They have the largest brain of any fish relative to body size. A lot of people don't know that. It makes them really curious. One of the things that we notice is they seek out diver's attention. They swim through our bubbles. They engage us with what could only be described as play behavior. It is an awesome experience to have an encounter with one underwater awesome. I suggest it, all of you guys. They are planktivorous, so they're not dangerous. They feed on zooplankton suspended in the water column. And they feed day and night. They have to feed a lot because they feed on the smallest organisms in the ocean. Now, sometimes we see them in large schools, hundreds of them feeding cooperatively in these massive chains. And other times we see mantas going at it alone just by themselves swimming around in the open ocean. What we do know is that they're driven by the need to feed, but I wanted to know more.  And I can't just go up and speak to them. They're difficult to study. So what we decided to do is look at their distribution around the world and put a new technology on them, satellite tags on them. So we picked different spots across the globe in all three of the world's major oceans and we started slapping these satellite tags on them to find out where these animals went, what they got up to. And it's very expensive technology, but it opened the doors for us. It enabled us to see where they go, what they get up to every minute of every day. This tag captures information about the surrounding water that the mantas swimming through every 10 seconds. So we deploy them for sometimes four to six months. So we get this really up close and personal view of what the mantas are doing, where they live, how they feed, how they interact with one another. It's actually quite extraordinary. And every single one of these tags has delivered clues to how we can better protect them, how I can better see that the future generations will be able to have these encounters like I've had with them. And we now know that these animals make huge migrations across the oceans. They travel thousands of kilometers in any direction, making these massive cyclical journeys. We know that they travel up and down continental coastlines. We know that they cross international borders. They navigate into the high seas, really hostile conditions. They're actually an incredible ray. And one of the most interesting things is we thought they lived at the surface. We thought these were surface dwelling animals, but they're not. One of the coolest things we've learned about mantas is yes, they use these huge horizontal planes in the ocean, but they are also, as we've found out, some of the deepest diving fish in the world. They penetrate into the deep waters of the ocean up to an exceeding a kilometer from the surface. Incredible stuff. The more we learn about mantas, the more they fascinate us. Unfortunately, the more we learn about mantas, the more we realize that they're in trouble. Now, what are they in trouble from? Us, unfortunately. It's anthropogenic threats, again, that will be their demise if we don't act soon. Things like artisional fishing and developing countries, things like directed trade fishing and others. Manta populations across the globe are plummeting because people are now targeting them in huge numbers, extracting out all of their body parts to use in bogus Chinese medicinal products. Yes, just like our rhinos here in Africa. And as a result of some of this heinous behavior, unsustainable behavior, we've had to elevate the status, the conservation status of manta rays, both species late last year on the IUCN Red List to vulnerable to extinction. This is an animal we may not see anymore if we don't do something. And they deserve such a listing, very conservative life histories. The females only have one baby every two to three years. And that baby is very small and defenseless and may not even make maturity. So the take-home message here is these are not animals that can withstand human predation. They can't defend themselves from us or bounce back from our pressures. So I want to end with a positive note, which is that there is a ray of hope. These are charismatic species. People identify with them, divers the world, over love them. They could be considered easily the panda of the ocean. And we have proven that they are a lucrative draw card for tourism. They can be used sustainably. And we really need to learn from this animal. And I always say the plight of the manta ray should be looked at as a warning beacon to all of those people who still want to extract every last species of megafauna out of our oceans. We need to remember that the world would be a far, far lesser place without iconic marine species like these. So let's do something about it.


I need to get myself together, girl. Look, this is my perfume of choice, Chanel Madame Spell. I've been wearing that for like 10 years. Let me do my makeup a little bit. Hi, how you guys doing? This is another chit chat, girl. Let's get that out the way, that's a little bit better.  I'm not even playing. My husband is home for the weekend. He can't home early, y'all. Um, he got, he got here early, y'all. Girl, look at these eyebrows, it's okay. He got here fairly early because, um, they wasn't expecting him this early. So while I was in the shower, Jamie runs into the bathroom and he's like, I'm scared, I'm over the head. Maybe he's got here a noise. Me being paranoid, we both paranoid. I'm like, ooh, where's the noise coming from? He's like, it's coming from the bedroom. I'm like, ooh. I said, okay, Jamie, let's go, let's walk in there. So we're walking together, y'all. Me and just a towel, I just hopped at the shower. Him holding onto me up on my armpit, we walk her through. And then he's like, Jamie's like, I think it's daddy. So Jamie checks outside, he's like, I think it's daddy, daddy's car here. I'm like, let me go get back in the shower. Get me all scared. So yeah, he came a little early, girl, than what we had expected him. So I'm like, I asked him, I'm like, what time did you leave Houston? He's at six o'clock. I'm like, oh, you could not wait to see all this, could you? Y'all know I'm fast. Anyway, I'm gonna show y'all some personal nails. I purchased some of it. I got from she and some of it. I just got from the store. And then one of them I got from, I believe five and below. This one's from five and below. This is just a white and gold shimmery look for 450. Next up is from, I think I got these from Walgreens. Now this is my favorite band, Brynn. Kiss, I prefer gel, but this one is the Jelly Fantasy. Really, really cute. Now all of these I'm gonna show you next are from She-In. This is so cute. This is like, give me like 80s feel, an Art Deco feel. All of these were less than $3. This is a purple look. They're very long, but I will more than likely trim them down. This is a nude and black look. That's cute, Rob. I got a silver gray look. And then I got another like nude and gold look. Very, very cute. So y'all, let's get into that. So if you don't watch my vlogs, I will let you know that, let me just go ahead and start taking my hair down that JV and I were, so for the past three vlogs I had been talking about, excited to attend my aunt's 70th birthday party that had a 70 steam and I had went ahead and bought this banging, really, really cute, shimmery purple outfit. I had the jewelry set. I had my nails set. What I was gonna do with my hair. I had everything set. My sister had randomly had spoke to my cousin who was planning the party and she's my unstarter. Not too long after my sister mentioned JV, my son, JV attending along with my sister's kid. And my cousin responded back to her and said, oh, no, no, no, no, no. He can't come, no kids are allowed. And so my sister brought me back. She's like, well, I'm gonna have to call you here in a minute because I spoke to so-and-so and she basically said that since we didn't RSVP JV for the party, he can't come. I do apologize. And I was like, what the hell? So in the midst of all that my mama was texting me about wanting to borrow some wig, like girl, I ain't got no wig. And so I called my mama up and I do apologize if this is redundant. For those of you who watch my vlog, but long story short, my mama was trying to get in touch with my aunt and she wanted to make the situation right and she's like, no, you guys should be able to come. Let me talk to my sister. And I was like, I shut that down. Let me tell you something. I've gotten to a place in my life where it's really hard for me to fake being nice. I can't do it. And especially if you come across as not having, I'm gonna be very transparent, you not having come since you can't troubleshoot a scenario like this, she could have easily said, okay, he can come, but unfortunately since he didn't RSVP, he can't eat. That's okay, I can bring his food. So in the same breath, I text my cousin and it was like, I do apologize. Look, I'm one to quickly handle a situation. So I since her text message and was like, look, I do apologize to understand that my sister didn't RSVP for JB. So you can go ahead and answer my RSVP. She was funny, Eric, y'all. Thanks for the cancellation with a heart shape, you know, hearts and smiley face. And I was like, oh, that's how it is. Okay, again, you would think this is family and not only that, but we just suffered a loss in my family. This is the same side of the family where my cousin passed away from pancreatic cancer just last month. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for anybody. This is my aunt's 70th birthday party. This is a time to get together and see people I haven't seen in like 15 years. But with that being said, you know, my mama was trying, my mama, I think, was trying to appease the situation. And I knew that she would speak to my aunt and eventually we would be able to go.  I really don't. So it was okay, y'all. It was okay, but it's not okay, like I said. So we ended up staying home and doing a couple of things. We've been going to a local bookstore. I'm pretty sure they're everywhere. Thrifted bookstore, JB loves it because they sell records, cassettes. Child, he was like, mama, they have eight tracks. I'm like, JB. Old school gaming stuff. I've been getting books. I have so many books I've been buying. I really want to at least have my neighbor to build me a couple of bookshelves. They go all the way up. But I know if I do that, I'm really gonna go crazy with the books. Let me start separating my hair, you guys. I'm gonna get wild, big hair. So anyway, that's that. Yeah, JB and I have been having a good time just by ourselves. My husband is in town for the weekend. What else, what else, what else? That's about it, y'all. Besides that, I could not stop laughing. I guess my husband was in a sharing mood. He sent me a picture a couple of days ago. At first I didn't really look at it because I was working. And so he was like, I like what this woman, what this girl is wearing. And I like her the way her hair is. She's showing some leg and some boobs.  So I looked at the picture, y'all.  Y'all know SZA has gains, picked up some pounds and she's cute now. And you know what's so funny is that I've gotten, or at least I've seen comments on YouTube and not on YouTube, but just on different forums, how people have compared my hair to the density of her hair. She's not in the four types. She may be like a 3C48.  Meaning the typing of the categories of the hair. But I guess my point is that we just have the same type of density, but her texture is totally different.  I feel like it's darker than my haircut.  I said, oh, I said, okay. Baby, you ain't got to tell me for once. So I went on, she in, found me a couple of dresses and looked like that. I said, okay, playboy, I got you. We're gonna go ahead and make sure this birth control is on deck. This is what I'm gonna be wearing when I come through in April. I'm not telling him and he's gonna be surprised about it. But yeah, that's what you gotta do. Date, forever date your spouse. So y'all, that's enough of that on a personal level. You too. About you too, my little stuff I heard on the radio. Chow, Shaka Khan, apparently, I'm getting my hair bigger now, y'all. I just fluff it up. Shaka Khan apparently made a comment and I guess she had said this years ago that Mary J. Blotch, after her song. I actually heard the video, the radio, of what she said, Mary J. Blotch, after her song. And she asked Mary J. Blotch, what time was it when you recorded that?  So Mary J. Blotch had, and she confirmed, it was like eight o'clock in the morning. And she's like, girl, you know you're not supposed to sing for a singing in the morning. Cause when you wake up, especially as a woman, your voice is deep, okay? And if you sing it, it's not a good thing to just start singing for a singing in the morning.  He is the son of, what is her name from Sweetie Pies? And she actually used to be a backup singer for Ike and Tina Turner. And this situation, it's just so sad. Ms. Robbie, Ms. Robbie is just so sad all the way around. He was found guilty of murdering his nephew, life in prison, 44 years old.   So you're going back in prison with those hips. I hope you enjoy it. It's just sad because I remember I watched the series, meaning welcome to Sweetie Pies. And I even remember when Oprah had this, almost like a contest. Did she have a contest, you guys? Well, she was going to have your entrepreneurs and let me know what you do and the number one person gets her on show. And Ms. Robbie was on there. I remember she had on her year, her apron and she talked about what she does. There was a part of the scene of the series. There was a part of the series where her and Tim are walking down the street where the nephew was killed. What's his name, Andre? The nephew was killed. And they were basically talking about all of the other men and their family who had been murdered. And even Tim's own father was murdered just up the street. At one point, Robbie was trying, she didn't believe it. She was trying, she was fighting for him. Just sad, just sad all the way around. Like I said, just watching True Crime in general and that's really about it when I'm watching on YouTube. Not a lot. YouTube is getting a little slow, you guys. There's certain people that are not posting as much as I thought they would. And I know I've talked about this before. They do these videos, I'm back. Or life update and then you don't see a video from them for another five months. Girl, I get it, everyone's busy but your videos for the past year has been nothing but life updates. Just take a break and just stop, just stop. But I get it, I get it. All right, y'all, what I'm watching on TV. So I'm watching a lot, I have to make a list. First of all, on YouTube, I went ahead and read it, Mortal Thoughts. I love me a good, nasty old 90s movie. So Mortal Thoughts is the classic 90s mystery, thriller type movie. It has Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. Y'all, poor Bruce Willis. If you've been following with celebrity news, Bruce Willis has FTD. And I believe that stands for frontal temporal dementia. At first, his diagnosis was aphasia. I believe that's how you pronounce it. And then they come to find out that he has FTD. That is absolutely horrible. To be in your 60s and have dementia, it is just not, I mean, any age, it's just horrible and just tragic disease. This is, that is the worst disease. Dementia, Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia, all of that, it's just absolutely horrible to live through. That's just horrible. Bruce Willis, I say all that to say, girl, I'm sorry, Mortal Thoughts, I rented it. I'm gonna watch it either tonight or in the morning. I watched one of my favorite, I was trying to find a movie to rewatch. I was trying to, I was this close to rewatching the women of Brewster Place. It used to be free on YouTube.  So I love that series, it was a series, right? I loved it, I loved all of it. But that wasn't available. So I watched Waitress. Waitress is a cute little movie about a waitress who works in a diner and she makes these pies. She's married to a very, very abusive husband named Earl. And the husband was played by the guy that played in Clueless. He was Brittany, what's her name? Brittany Murphy's love, interest, rolling with the homies. He was the one that kicked Cher out of his Jeep, out of his car, that one. But anyway, he plays Earl. Carrie Russell is in the movie, she's so cute. I love that every now and then she daydreams off and she thinks about all of these recipes for a pie. But something that had, I was reading some of the comments. One of the actresses in the movie is Adrienne Shelley. She is the strawberry blonde waitress in the movie. And someone was like, the little girl towards the end of the movie is actress Adrienne Shelley's daughter in real life, R.I.P. And I'm thinking, oh my God, her daughter died? Girl, no, Adrienne Shelley is dead. She's been dead for a dang long year, 20 years. I had no idea. Adrienne Shelley, again, plays one of the waitresses, but she also played in another classic 90s movies.  She was pregnant. She was playing a pregnant fiancee in the movie. Again, cute little red curly hair. Child, it was a huge ordeal to where they thought she had committed suicide, but it turned out some teenager who had been working in the neighborhood or something, contract work, he actually ended up killing her. That is so sad. I had no idea she had passed away, but she wasn't like, you know, a big actress, but she was recognizable, you know what I mean? So, so, so sad. I watch also, I'm watching on Netflix, I am watching The Watcher, which is slow, but I'm liking it, so I'm gonna stay with it. They're murder, murder, murders, child, this whole mess. Of course, I know about the case. This is the father that has recently found guilty of murdering his own family. It's just a mess. The amount of murders surrounding this family, everything from the, is not funny. Everything from the little boy that was found dead on the side of the road to the, what do you call it, their housekeeper found dead at the bottom of this. It's just a mess. The whole family is a mess, but I am gonna continue watching this series on Netflix. Now, one movie that I was like, oh, this looks good, cause it's in the top, top 10 for the week. The Strays. The Strays based out of, it's a BBC based out of the UK. I'm thinking, okay, this got a good storyline.   I'm like, girl, you need to take that off.   So you get that she's hiding something and then you see her children in one scene, which is later on in the movie.  It's clear that she's black. So you see this mystery man just showing up this chocolate man. I'm thinking, oh my God, who is this person? He's out to kill her. You know, is this a ghost, Candy Man BBC? I'm trying to think what's going on. Let me tell you something. I'm not gonna give away the spoilers for when I take, save your time. First of all, it doesn't make any sense to have chocolate kids coming from, okay. It can happen. It's a dominant gene. It can happen. But it was just towards the end, the last, the last five minutes of the movie, I was like, wait a minute, what happened? Cause I had been drinking someone. I was like, wait a minute, what? Did she just, I had to rewind it. I'm like, and all the kids should stand with them. I'm like, did this just happen?  Don't watch the straights. Save your time, girls. Save your time. I'm still, I'm still recording them. I'm getting to towards the end though. So I'm going to go back and start watching The Witcher and Blood and Water season three, I believe it was.  I couldn't finish watching it. It's complicated with Mel Street and Alex Baldwin. Poor guy, I believe that he was charged with murder of that person on the set of a movie he was filming. Every watch, it's complicated though because it's just a really cute movie. The Informer started to watch that. The Verbs, another classic 90s movie. Emily, the criminal was really, really good, you guys. I enjoyed it. It was literally disturbing at some points, but I loved it. Snowfall, you know what, Franklin? This is a very interesting series, you guys. And what makes it interesting is the character development. It really is interesting. And so I don't know why Franklin is so healthy and I'm finding pictures. Look, pictures don't want to be found. And either Peaches, this is what I think, either Peaches has a crack problem or maybe he has AIDS, y'all. Yeah, he has a crack problem, he has AIDS.  But we can't be worried about Peaches. So the uncle, I'm not gonna give any spoilers. The uncle did something towards his last episode and I could tell that the uncle regrets has, this is the difference between the uncle and Franklin. And this is why I think Franklin is a, Franklin is a sociopath. The uncle is remorseful for his actions. He feels like he doesn't have a choice to do some of the things that he does and he wished he didn't have to do it. When there's a outcome that's not expected, he's very, he's very remorseful. Franklin on the other hand, it's like, well, they got in my way.  That is it, y'all. I'm gonna go in here and get started on, I guess we're gonna be playing as Mario with the chow, start cooking, and so that is it. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you as always to all of my new subscribers. Take care, bye.


oh my gosh hey jay the rest of the bill bars oh my gosh what do you mean you don't know um um they are tasty though you're speechless i kind of i was looking to see if we should order some more we can't order them till tuesday the 26th oh but they are good dough nice and fluffy oh my gosh i love marshmallow which one's your favorite i think you've had all of them so far i haven't had the strawberry oh that was good but i haven't had i think you had all those i only had one one there's only two left so you've been eating them all i i don't think so i don't think they sent us enough well we'll get more all right