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Less supply, boost up that, a Ramco IPO. That's right. But guess what? We get the United States pumpin' oil, man. We sure do. We sure do. That is the wild card. Notes and bonds. You get the 10-year note down 8 ticks, trading $129.05, the 30-year off 19, that $150.804 in Kingdala. Kingdala down 195 ticks, trading $97.453. That's making, that's trying to make it to, it's a $97.107 lower ban there, folks. The year was at $110. The pound has caught a bid. That's $131 that broke out yesterday. And the yen is at $108.81. Let's go over to our man, Mr. Kevin. He's a TD Ameritrade. Think of swimmers who do every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And don't forget, folks, every trading day here. 11 to 12, Eastern Standard Time. You want to understand the options market. You want to understand strategies. You want to understand futures. All the above, defined risk. Really important in a market like right now. No doubt, Kevin has been shopping all week at Restoration Hardware. I guess so, man. He took those shots. There's a shot position, folks, of 39% in Restoration Hardware. Is that a big number? It is when it's up. Restoration Hardware right now is trading up about $14. Kevin Hicks, what's going on? Good morning, Tom. Good morning, Tommy. You know, I want to talk about something that you guys were talking about just a minute ago. And that is crude oil. Yes. Because, you know, there's an OPEC meeting going on right now. And what you guys touched on is very significant. And what it is, the number 12.9 million barrels a day. And that is what the U.S. oil crude oil production is up to. 12.9 million barrels a day. And since the beginning of the year, guys, that is up over a million barrels a day in terms of U.S. production. And so every single month and every single quarter that the U.S. produces more and more crude oil, any news coming out of OPEC and any news coming out of a meeting like this in Vienna gets less and less significant in terms of its ability to move crude oil. You know, isn't it amazing, Kevin, that you think we're in this spot? I mean, I remember, you know, when I first started at the Gold Report, and that's a long time ago, it was 2001, but that's when all those books are out about peak oil. Okay.  But that was supposed to be the end of the world also. And then all of a sudden, you know, I mean, the bottom line is that we really have production, you know, in a huge way now. Right. Exactly. And the U.S., they've got a Saudi Aramco IPO coming up shortly. They're going to do whatever they can to get crude oil futures as high as they can. But they don't have the fundamentals on their side. Right. They can, it's very difficult to measure if they're compliant. Yes. You know, so there's so many microeconomic issues affecting crude oil. But once you think about it, some Americans have gasoline prices. Oh, yeah. And right now we're going into Christmas holiday season with more and more people, with more and more money in their pocket, because gasoline prices are lower. That's like a raise to every American. No, it is. And that's the one consistency, I'd say, in all our lives. I mean, if you have a car and you have to go to work. I was just saying, I don't know how you avoid it, right? Whether you live in a house with air conditioning, heat, driving. I wasn't even thinking about that. Yeah. Right. And particularly now, you know, we're in the winter.  I mean, that's when some heavy-duty heating bills come into effect, man. I mean, heating oil is more eastern than the Chicago area Midwest doesn't have a lot of heating oil anymore. But still, gasoline prices, I mean, that affects every single person, especially in the Midwest, where there's still a lot of drivers. And we can have this debate about what the 20-year effect of electric cars and all that is going to be and millennials and what they're doing. But right now, gasoline prices, lower gas prices at the thought means more money in American consumers, pockets who already have a better job and are making more money and already have better, more money in their, you know, more disposable income in their pockets. So I think this is just going to be a pretty good holiday field for these retailers and American general. No, there's no doubt. And you know, we were doing the oil numbers yesterday, Kevin, right? Yeah. It was a dry down, folks, a big dry down on crude. But guess what? It was a build of 3.9 million barrels and gasoline. Yeah. And you see that a lot. Crude will go down, but gas goes up. And well, where does, what affects the American consumer? It's not necessarily crude oil prices and gas prices, right? Right. None of us buy barrels of oil. That's right. Exactly. Not yet anyway, Tom. No. It's just the driving deal. And we're familiar, Boston. They have some great infrastructure for, you know, the tea around there and so forth. New York as well. Born Florida, Kevin. Unfortunately, we don't have that. We have drivers everywhere still down here. Like you're talking about the Midwest as well. It's a little unfortunate. But in terms of crude, man, everybody's driving. We don't have that rail, that train system. New urban cities like Tampa is an up and coming new city. Still young in terms of, you know, compared to places like Chicago and big cities. You know, they don't have the infrastructure. No. You're right, Tommy. If you get to get commute to work, you are commuting in a car. We should hopefully we spend some, man, because we got some traffic around the roads, man. We can't even build roads fast enough. Great for the economy. You know, people coming down here, jobs, businesses. But man, oh man, trying to keep up on the traffic basis is intense around here right now. You have a wealth of riches in Florida and people want to move there. We love those tourism dollars in Texas. We do. What are we looking at today, Kevin? We still have some good names. Even though it's very late in the early season, Ulta. We love the dive into Ulta because it's such a fun stock to do. Like Folio is going to cover it. We're going to cover, you know, we got some great trades coming up. It's going to be a good one. Let's see what, what is the expected move? Because we just pulled up the chart, Kevin, and was it their last earnings? I think it was that they dropped basically. Pretty big miss, yeah. Let's see what they're one day. You got to love it. We go over the annualized. What is it, Kevin? $21. $21. There it is. It's right there on the thinkorswim platform. All right. 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Dow right now at R48, you get the NASDAQ R14, S&Ps are off two and a half gold. Gold's up about 90. We get the dollar and make its way down to that 97107 area. And as you come over to our website folks, at TFNN you are going to see right in featured content Tom's morning market report. So it's always nice man, when you have some things happening this morning. We talked about restoration hardware, right? We haven't gotten into dollar general yet this morning. So let's go up that chart man because things change a lot from when I do this update at 9 a.m. The headline was markets look to open higher on a nicely weekly jobless number. Haven't commented on this yet as well, but 203,000 for the weekly jobless claims. That number lowest since mid-April man. Pretty interesting especially ahead of the non-farm payroll number tomorrow. Man, we had a bad number yesterday. I was going to say, right? So you get a bad ADP number, only like 63,000 jobs added, but you get a great unemployment number for 203,000 and then we get the biggest number of all non-farm payrolls tomorrow. But to pull up where I think I had dollar general in here, because we had United, we have Nike getting an upgrade from Goldman. So there's dollar general this morning, right? We were at 157 even. You spiked all the way to 162. But man, oh man, you pull it up right now and dollar general came out with great earnings. They given it all up man. They're up less than 1% now after being up to 162.28. And I had a few of the accolades they had in here. Great numbers man, when you look at this, right? Net sales rising almost 9% to 6.99 billion above the estimate of 6.92. Net income, 365 million from 334 a year earlier. The expectation was a buck 38. So they come in a buck 42, buck 48. Same store sales, 4.6%. They were only looking for 3.34. What's it going to take not to sell it off? Isn't it amazing? Just across the board. So there's some more action in there for sure. And just to jump back, I don't think they've had the conference call yet because I always love one. That's their earnings number. And you'll see on this chart when the conference call begins, maybe they've got that scared till sometime today. I'm not sure. But check out the link. I'm putting these out most mornings. And red hat as well, man. Look at that number on red hat. Earnings per share, 279. They were looking for 223. Big number. Not fun to be one of the 39% that are short. Oh, that's right. No, that's right. I was jumping around now. This is red hat. No, I think that's restoration hardware. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Restoration. Yes, yes, yes. Thanks. That's a big number. Yeah. And the shot position in this stock, folks, okay, this is just, you know, 39% shot position and they're coming out with numbers like this. And, you know, I guess what's also happening here is that what I didn't realize, they're not changing their MO, but what they're doing with these lodge, have you been the one in Tampa? I have. They have one in an international mall that practically looks like a hotel. It's so... And so is it a big food deal there, too? I'm not aware. I guess what they're doing is that, I mean, they sell $10,000 coaches. Sure, right. That's what they're known for. But now it's also going, I was reading this thing, that they have all of that, but then in between all of that in these big buildings, right? They got a big restaurant going. You know what I mean?  You know? The first time that I saw it at international mall, I literally thought they had put a hotel in the mall because it had that type of a presence. And there's only, like, four of those in the country, you know? The ones like, yeah. The big monster ones, like this, okay? Okay. And by the way, they're doing something right.  They must be right. They're getting accused of a million different things by the shot sellers, but the reality has says that those numbers... And now they got Warren Buffett as an investor as well. Right, right. So the stock, even from the open, man, we've shot up from about 210, now trading at 218.43 up 6.2%, as you said. Like 40% stock. Yeah. And just so we finished it up with Kevin, but just to, you know, we talk about it occasionally, but the Analyze tab on the Thinkorswim platform. So here's Alta, and we talked about it briefly, the sell-off. We'll just put it on a four-hour. That makes it... We'll put it on daily. This, I believe, was their last earnings, coming out in August 28th. You were up at $337, and you then finished the next day at $237, a $100 drop-off. Now, interesting enough, because you go over the Analyze tab, you pull up Alta, the one-day market expect-and-move, $21.77, that's what Kevin was talking about. So that's basically the volatility that's priced in in either direction. That's a big move when you're talking about $240 stock. That's about 9%, but the last time they had earnings, they moved $100 down. So if you're going to be the one selling volatility, you're going to need some money, right? You wouldn't be selling it for peanuts, man. If you're giving somebody a defined risk trade, that's what you're doing when you're selling volatility, right? You're selling somebody else the ability to lock it in an option. So it'll be interesting to see Alta when they come out with their earnings. So we get natural gas, right? We sure do. Yeah, let's jump over. Perfect. Let's pull it up. It's cold across the country, but guess what? We get plenty of natural gas, so we'll see where this little natural gas market wants to go. We sure will, and there's oil jumping around a lot today. We'll jump in here in the market, jump into our commodities. We'll jump into natural gas. I'm going to refresh this real quick to make sure all of the spreads are available. Now, let's see where we're trading that. Natural gas. Talk about some volatility recently, right? Yeah. We'll jump into the 11 a.m. spreads first. We're looking at the January contract. We're trading at 241 right now. We got about five minutes until that number comes out. Okay. At 10.30 a.m. Eastern time. So a little bit of volatility. 2 a.m., we're trading at 240. We'll make it all the way up to 244. The 11 a.m. spreads, we do have the possibility of trading. It looks like they go from 245, would be the pivot point, upward or downward. Now, if you just want a straight future play, you know, you can always, the 235 to 255 spread is pretty much right in the middle of where you were. Oh, yeah. And you're not going to be paying premium. No, right. That's interesting, yeah. And then, so the new ones are going to be pretty much an identical trade. And that's because these are set into every five or 10 pennies. We haven't had a ton of movement just yet. Let's just see if we get a 240 price point. So here's a 240 price point. Now, if I'm bullish, I love the one where you're just barely in the money because you're not paying a ton of premium. It's just like an option where you get in, maybe 30, 40, 50 cents in the money. So you got your bullish... Not a lot of time left, yeah. No, you got the 230, all right. So you got a 240 contract. The contract's trading at 241.8. And this market's ticking at about 242.9, but 243.1. So you're paying, you know, the difference between the premiums, the difference from 241.7, where the market is 243. So about 13 ticks. Not a bad trade, though, when you look at that risk reward, right? It's not. Your loss is capped at 240. That's the reason why you're getting this type of a risk for this type of a reward. And that's $32 to 368. Yeah. And basically, you could almost call it unlimited profit potential because the odds that it goes above 280 by 230 is almost zero. And you're capped at 240. Not a bad trade. If you happen to be bullish on the flip side of that, you want to go out of the money. You're going to be paying a little bit more premium. As you can see, that on that trade, we were paying about 17 ticks, 16 ticks. You go out of the money, just as you would on an automated option. You're now risking only 16, but you're selling it at 238.3. The market's at 241.3 unless you're almost a full three pennies, which would be 30 ticks, right? Yeah. But you're only putting up $16. So there's your... And that's still 230 also. And as we're talking, this is moving right back down to that 240 strike price. So we can just kind of calibrate what it would cost if you want to do the stray volatility trade. You got your bearish trade on the left. You're selling it. You got your bullish trade on the right. You're buying it. 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Jumping over we got the contract trading up a bit. So we get a little bit of a spike. The contract was trading just ticking back towards about just under 241 when we came into that break at 27 past. You got January natural gas now trading at 242 40 climbing a little bit higher. And to recap what we're looking at here, if you took both sides of the trade pure volatility you were looking at almost four and a half pennies and movement you needed it in one way or the other to break even. So we're at about three pennies right now. Now what you could always do if you expected let's just say, you know, when you think about managing this trade. Okay, I was looking for a surprise number. I'm really bearish the contract overall but I made a volatility trade. Maybe you say to yourself, you know what, I'm going to take my money off the top side. Yeah.  Maybe you were in a 43 45 whatever it is. Right. And then you still have exposure. This contract stays active until 230. Which is a long time. It is a long time and you can even see that you can almost get right back out of break even right now. She had 37 on one side you had eight on the other side. So that's a tight bid off for spread. But if you just want to let this one run, if it comes back down even a few pennies you take that one off maybe you lock in a profit because maybe you say to yourself, you know what I don't see it running higher but guess what as we say that it's inch and higher man 2434 and rising at the price of that January natural gas. Wow. Yeah. Let's go take a look at so. One sec. So one of the biotechs out here today folks are just getting toasted and roasted in a huge way. Sage therapeutics spread. I've seen this in the past. Yeah. Rung of Bell when I saw the headlines this morning as well. So down 84 dollars you're trading $65 and if you want to see a mess of a stock anyway it's like. You want to talk about defined risk man. Oh my God. Does Nadex have any Sage therapeutics spreads because that might be a good place to trade. So high is January of 2018 $195 and then it tested this again only this summer. Yep. And that was $193 and that was after making it all the way down to a low of 79 bucks in December of last year. A little volatility right. A little bit. And what are you doing? You're coming right back to where it broke out from. So you know $59.65 is the breakout. You're at 56 and I rejected it. And we get into the news because. Yeah. Let's see. Any time you're down it's a monster failure. 60% in a day. Yes. Key depression study fails to show benefit. So it's unfortunate anytime you know these these biotechs fail because it usually means they have a drug that's gone to the wayside. Lost almost two thirds of its value after an experimental treatment for major depressive disorder failed to reach its primary target in a key study. The late stage trial dubbed mountain showed patients receiving Sage 217 didn't get more relief than those taking a placebo for two weeks. Well that doesn't get much more intense than that, right? When literally they show no result more than a placebo. The results cast out on the future of the drug which had been a key part of investors broadly on Sage. That's that stuff and it's just unfortunate man you know depression a big problem with a lot of people out there. It's always a shame when you know you have hopes out there for a drug and I think that you know he's talking Oh yeah they take it up and look at the earnings just burning cash man. Yeah burning cash. So let's say biogen biogen supposed to be coming out today. Now this has been highly volatile also with their Alzheimer's drug. Yeah look at this thing so that's when they let me bring it back because they have a drop they do. Yeah right. Yeah there you go. They came out and said that the Alzheimer's drug showed nothing they're going to take it off the table right and then. That was March of 2019. Yep and then they came back out just in October and said you know what further analysis of the data of the study showed there we are going to go to the FDA for approval and so what are they looking for? Let's see what does it say? Biogen stunned Alzheimer's research as a match when it said the highly weighted Alzheimer's treatment. The Duke kind of new bug. Was unlikely to work seven months later the company reversed course and said the drug did work after all at least in one of two large trials. That's not how it works isn't it? Isn't it supposed to be two of two large trials? So today on Thursday biogen scientists will present detail results from those trials for the first time a special hour long session at a meeting of Alzheimer's specialist in San Diego Okay. Much as riding on the presentation both for the pharmaceutical industry and for the millions of Alzheimer patients and their families grappling with the incurable disease. I mean many times you know you got a company like Target coming out with earnings it's just straight up dollars and cents and that matters in people's lives right you get retirement you get stuff like that but it doesn't matter as much as if a drug ever comes out like interesting because they're presenting in front of what you could call almost their peers right almost more important than like an FDA board those are the most important but you'll get a lot of reaction I think immediately about that presentation how it goes what the expectation might be in the future you'll probably have a lot of analysts digging hardcore into that you might get upgrades and downgrades depending on how that goes and it would seem that that would be the cleanest way to come out and say okay this is what I have and I think it's great so convince the specialists that are field right that are all time specialists yeah right because especially because just like I said at least in one of the two trials I'm not a specialist but drugs just can't work in one trial not work in the other so what is what is going to be the reason that they say it is going to work why didn't it work in all the trials why it work in one out of the two and can you convince the people who know the most about that field it's right because it's the right question to ask exactly exactly what is the difference what do we do and that's why a lot of the analysts in these companies that are brilliant you get a biotech analyst man a lot of times they'll have a background in that stuff because you got to because you got to know what's going on in terms of the field whether it's a biology background whether it's some type of medical background because you're always going to get a PR spin from the companies right you're always no matter what doesn't mean it's a lie you're just spinning things as best you can even if it's in a kind of spinning things as positive as you can but they're not going to spin they got a lot to spin in terms of what happened in March and tell us how that doll changed through October no no no no no let's take a look at some of the higher volume equities and we'll see whether we get volume in this market what we did do yesterday was get a contraction of volume as we went to higher price today what do you have out here you got what is this we couldn't for Slack technologies they came out with numbers 21 cents I believe the numbers were pretty good too Sage is the big move we're down 83 you got at home that's down that's a big one that's down three dollars yeah they got apples up a bit a bit buck 45 they continue to march on yeah okay you get that trans ocean that's still struggling let's dig into Slack if we can cause you were talking about them so down trends IPO broken this month potential support around 20 let's see if they get into okay that's that's not the link we got and we want I guess just go back so it is work we're work I'm just going to pull up the news on them Slack 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TFNN.com then hit watch Tiger TV for the latest market information welcome back folks now now it's down 47 now it's got 11 it's got two markets kind of just laying here it is we had a little bit of a sell-off around the opening bell and not too much action this whole hour it's got a lot of stock numbers so slack down pretty marginally today and we pulled it up you're jumping through so this is with the direct listing they didn't do an IPO they just kind of put the shares out and said trade wherever you may be that's why when you go into the issue price they actually don't have an IPO price that they went out to because they just released shares into the market you'll see some bad beatings out here oh yeah when we go from highs to low they came out we'll pull up the chart in a moment for sure 745 million to 760 the estimate had been 754 so pretty close fiscal year revenue 621 to 623 they were looking for 603 to 610 fourth quarter adjusted loss per share 6 to 7 cents the estimate had been 6.5 pretty close there as well pretty close numbers you know all things considered to the estimates they were looking for third quarter revenue 168.7 million the estimate was only 156 third quarter loss per share 16 cents and that was they had a big loss 98 cents quarter over quarter I guess I mean it really comes down to they're still not making money no no pull up there it is so then that burn is 85 85 to 80 million is that for the year though it's just a quarter that's for the year yeah so 2020 the fiscal 2028 they expected burn 85 million analysts re-sells that's a lot more tim than you see most of the stocks in this environment especially and to pull up the shares of slack that's where you see I think they went public in June and it's been cut in half since that time 42 to 21 man big number that is a big number they got a lot of competition in terms of you know you got Microsoft teams out there the last you want to hear a list of the companies I would never want to Microsoft Apple Amazon Google Netflix Disney you know and they'd all compete but man if you're competing with any one of those companies you better be hitting the thing you know your business plan on all cylinders because they're competing with you know and I'm not even Microsoft teams similar you know they're basically an integrated chatting I'm sure CRM Salesforce probably has something that they have in the works or something you know where there's a lot of companies Disney Amazon if they start seeing the slacks pulling in a billion dollars a year on a messaging platform to coordinate when's the Amazon slack coming out not totally so Nike we get Nike up a buck forty seven so what was the news they got an upgrade from Goldman I see yeah so they get an upgrade let's see what they said because I had the quote I had this on the front page destructive strategy earns them an upgrade let's see yeah so a long brand combined with the disruptive and innovative strategy these characteristics will position the athletic wear maker for multi-year growth expansion and margins and higher returns on invested capital they have the analyst Alexandra Wellvis wrote in a note she sees a sharp acceleration and earnings growth and predicts a four three year earnings per share CAGR of 19% versus just five in the prior yeah I wonder what the innovative deal is they don't have that and just the final price target of 112 versus 95 trading at about 95 right now might take they're they're crushing it online man we talked about it a little bit right in terms of direct to consumer online I had mentioned we were talking to our man Kevin Hicks at one point couple weeks back that I've purchased Nike shoes direct from Nike myself in the last two months online I actually purchased one pair I didn't like exactly how they look a little different one pair returned it bought another pair more closer what I expected they're not going to be selling them selling them on Amazon anymore they're kind of cutting them they want complete control of their brand and yeah the charge just been gangbusters man even back it up even a little bit more right like a five year look at that I mean just they really had it from two solid years that's October 17 you go from 50 bucks and you're flirting it with about at 100 big number man no doubt and you know sneakers man you just think about the amount of folks that wear sneakers especially in the U.S. man we love our expensive those Air Jordans man there's a reason why Michael Jordan's a billionaire has a lot to do with sneakers imagine that they got everyone used to sneakers pretty amazing it is eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight jumping around a little bit we're on sports do you see the Mets are probably going to play out nothing like another hedge fund billionaire coming into the Steve Cohen yeah so it looks like they're going to put a five year deal yeah so it's interesting how it's going to play out the valuation on the Mets $2.6 billion it looks like you can't argue with the fact that sports right now the amount of money they can sell their media for because you got to watch sports live it's only a matter of time until Amazon Netflix whatever streaming giants out there wants to compete for those packages and yeah so it looks like the owners are going to be able to kind of maintain their CEO Sun COO role for about five years make the transition easier and he's going to take about 80% of the big Mets it is a big number it is and that's you know I can see that that's a very easy way of selling it when you know you can hang there for five years too you know what I mean that was the big scandal with him and his partner with Madoff you know so they had to give back a lot of money at that point and they should have man because they might as well have known and been complicit so you know that's the reason why you hear about Bobby Bonilla his contract I think it's up to like 2047 or some insane amount of money because they were trying to push out every single dollar they had they were signing people like 30 and 40 year contracts because why would you not when you just took your money gave it to Madoff he's guaranteeing 18% a year and then you're paying out these people 40 years later on money that you're basically stealing from the market by giving it to Madoff but that's why Bonilla he still gets a million dollars every year he's been retired for like 12 years or something like that and it has to do with the fact the reason they were structuring contracts like that is because they were investing with Madoff and getting unrealistic returns if you're getting unrealistic guaranteed returns every single dollar you're ever going to pay anybody into the future right and so that's when you factor in that type of financial transactions that's not how the financial world works the fact that that's what they were doing they knew they were guaranteed money that the market couldn't produce so they were structuring their own payables in an unrealistic way that nobody else would ever do knowing that they were guaranteed money that the market couldn't produce for anybody else really so yeah they well it's intriguing there I guess that Steve Cohen will pick up all that debt too you buy the company the bottom line you pick up the contract and it's not a lot of money compared to the amount of market cap of the entire business right right yeah let's go take a look at the XAU the HUI so bottom line is that you get the dollar coming down the lower end of the consolidation here we we did have the XAU as well as the HUI break top side on Tuesday you know yesterday the volume was a little bit lighter 26 million Tuesday was a beauty 40 million stay right there folks Tommy and I come right back I'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life it's the most common trade that we do it's the best of the best when it comes to managing your money let me teach 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So after the 1999 season 20 years ago right now Rockwell the the Mets owed Bonilla Bonilla's agent offered the Mets a deal Bonilla would defer the payment for a decade Mets would pay him an annual paycheck of 1.19 million starting in 2011 ending in 2035 totaling 29.8 million the owner Fred Wilpom accepted the deal mostly because he was heavily invested with the Ponzi scheme of Madoff and the 10% guaranteed returns it should say that the Madoff was promising that he was getting outweigh the 8% that the market was going to have payment to Bonilla for 5.9 and as a result it says it was a big inquiry and it should have been because anytime what I said to you red flag right you don't get guaranteed returns above the market guaranteed return anytime somebody tells you that folks wake up he's a smart businessman he should have known that something was going on there as many people seem like they did and making a deal like this even cements that further right but Bonilla good for him man because he's got a million 2035 and his last game played was 2001 not bad you got 35 years of a million bucks of pop coming to you after you play and he was an amazing player so it's a good deal Bobby Bonilla day July 1st he gets that paycheck July 1st until 2035 man pretty amazing it is let's go inside the NDX just before we finish up let's see what the strength versus the weaknesses so you get JD.com up 2.5 and you get a $1.2 in general with their earnings maybe Alexa pharmaceutical let's down 6 you got work day off 1.9 okay folks stay right there we got think of some coming up next I'm Ambas the Chapman Steve Rhodes Dave White I'll be back this afternoon thanks thanks man don't forget to check out the front page of T.F.N. folks morning mock report Tom O'Brien


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With record attendance, thousands of wreaths were placed at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery in Little Falls over the weekend. Our Sarah Winkelman has the details on the wreaths for the fallen ceremony. It's a national remembrance day where we remember and honor all our nation's fallen veterans. The wreaths for the fallen ceremony dates back to 2006 where they placed only five wreaths and since then have continued to grow each year. We have enough wreaths that came in in those trucks to put a wreath on every single veteran's grave this morning. With hundreds of volunteers that came out today, nearly 5,000 wreaths were laid in a record time of only 24 minutes. It's quite an example of teamwork and everybody working together. With many attendees being loved ones of the fallen veterans. There are families that have a daughter, son, father, wife interred out here and it means an awful lot to them.  This is my first year laying on the wreath and it's pretty pretty cool. For others, it's tradition and they've been coming year after year. It's great. It's fantastic. But for some others, they have no personal connections just a thankfulness for the veterans. It's really fun to come out here and lay wreaths because because you get to see how much soldiers died for you. There's no better way to honor these people. They've done a great justice. It's something the organizers and participants hold close to their heart. Being a part of this is just extraordinarily rewarding. It kind of even on a chilly day kind of warms the heart that that you can remember the veterans that that stood up for us when we weren't able to. It's a little gesture that means so much to so many reporting in Little Falls, Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. All of the wreaths were donated by individuals and organizations at a price of $15 a wreath. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


How do you calm down from a panic attack? It's one of the million dollar questions when it comes to dealing with recurring panic attacks, panic disorder, agoraphobia, or other chronic anxiety conditions. So today on The Anxious Truth, we're gonna dive into how to calm down from a panic attack. But there's a surprise twist, so let's get into it. What if I told you that you don't necessarily have to try so hard to calm down from a panic attack? What if calming down doesn't always require some sort of all out battle? What if in those moments embracing the panic might be the key to finding peace? Things that make you go, hmm, right? I'm Drew Linsolata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth, a therapist in training as of early 2024, specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders, and an author, a podcaster, and an educator in the anxiety disorder community. Let's explore this somewhat unconventional approach to calming down from a panic attack, shall we? But before we get started, I just want to take a moment to thank long-term viewers and listeners for being so patient while I go back to basics in this series to help the newer members of our community. I appreciate you doing that, and I appreciate you all more than you're ever gonna know. Also, if you'd like more detailed information about panic attacks and related issues, consider checking out my recovery guidebook, which is also called The Anxious Truth, or my panic attacks explained, agoraphobia, explained workshops, and other goodies on my website. I'll include the links for everything in the podcast show notes or in the video description below. And of course, if you're enjoying these videos or this podcast, consider subscribing to my YouTube channel, maybe liking the video you're watching right now, or giving the podcast a five-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It all really helps, and I do appreciate all that support. So panic attacks are often met with a standard set of sort of calming techniques. We've all heard them take deep breaths, practice mindfulness, focus on grounding techniques, put your toes in the grass, count five blue things. These methods undoubtedly have their place, and for people that see panic attacks as occasional unpleasant and scary interruptions, and yes, there are such people, they certainly can be effective. But in the community of people that develop an intense fear of panic attacks, and then engage in excessive avoidance and retreat that has serious negative life impacts, standard advice like that can sometimes become counterproductive and actually make things worse. So what if we challenge the notion that calming down always has to involve intense effort, urgency, and special tips or tricks? Can we find a different path to the other side of a panic attack? Well, let's start by talking about acceptance, which is a word that you might be tired of hearing by now. Instead of resisting the panic and deciding that you must quickly and urgently calm down from it, what if we embraced it instead? It may sound counterintuitive or even ridiculous, but accepting the fear and discomfort of a panic attack can actually be a powerful tool. Picture acknowledging the panic, embracing it as part of, say, the human experience, if you will, and allowing it to pass through you, like a definitely powerful and certainly scary but passing storm. It's not about ignoring the panic, which some of you are going to think it is.  This might seem completely impossible to you or even dangerous in some ways, but if you are watching this video or listening to this podcast episode, because you've been trying every possible trick and tip and hack to stop or prevent panic attacks or calm down from them, and none of it's working consistently, all I will ask of you is to at least consider the possibility that avoiding and managing of panic might not be the best way. Instantaneously calming down and finding ways to do that might not be the way to go, even if that seems like the obvious or common sense way. In the end, everyone gets to choose their own path here. So my job is not to convince you of this or to force you to face or accept your panic attacks. My only goal today is to maybe make you think that there might actually be a different, albeit scary and certainly difficult way to approach the calming down air quotes issue. Let's start by talking about the biology of panic attacks. Now, you might want to check out the other videos or podcast episodes in this Foundation's of Panic series for more on the mechanics and biology of panic, but we should recap a little bit because to understand this approach to calming down or not calming down, we need to look into the biology of panic a bit. Now our brains are marvelous and they are designed to interpret threats by triggering the well-known fight, fight or freeze response. Now, while this physical response to threat is certainly strong, it can feel really urgent and it will absolutely feel like something horrible is happening to you, the fight, flight and freeze response is also designed to end at some point. Our bodies simply cannot maintain that elevated level of arousal indefinitely. So please remember that all panic attacks have an ending biologically and chemically built into them. If you're watching this or listening to this, I can say with a very high level of confidence that every panic attack you have ever had has ended simply because it must always end. But here's where the biology of panic gets strange like a lot of things around here get strange. Paradoxically, the more we try to forcefully calm down, the more we signal to our brains that there is a threat which potentially intensifies the panic or even triggers prolonged or undulating panic which will come in waves. And we'll address that down the road in other episodes because that's an actual thing. So what if we approached it differently? What if we acknowledged panic as a natural response that's scary but not dangerous and allowed it to sort of ebb away on its own? Difficult though that might be to do. I always wanna acknowledge that. I kinda wanna look at the idea of calm through surrender. We're trying to answer the question, how do you calm down from a panic attack? But really what is calm? What comprises calm? What does it feel like? How do you get there? I'd like you to consider maybe a different kind of calmness. One that arises not from a battle fought in one or a dragon slayed, but from surrendering to the present moment. It's about letting go of the need to control every aspect of that panic attack and trusting that in time, it will in fact subside because they all have. This doesn't mean maybe abandoning all of your coping techniques. You can still use them, but it really involves complementing them with the willingness to let the panic naturally run its course without accidentally adding to it by resisting it. Your coping techniques, when we add this acceptance and surrender, morph into navigation skills, not eradication skills. And those of you who've been following along for a while have heard me say that before. If you've been following along for a while, you've also heard me use the phrase surrender and the phrase willful tolerance quite often. This is why surrendering to panic might seem like completely ridiculous calm down advice for someone like me to offer, but in that surrender, we actually can find a calm that's based on knowing that panic is scary and difficult but that we can actually handle it and find our way through to the other side. This is a different kind of calm. This calm goes beyond the usual definition and the calm that you're probably desperately trying to feel and find. This is a calm that's rooted in feelings of competence, capability, and over time, confidence. That's the kind of calm we're looking for when trying to overcome chronic anxiety problems, recurring panic attacks and related struggles like panic disorder or agoraphobia. One thing I learned in my own recovery is that not trying so hard to calm down during panic is actually quite liberating. And at this point, you might be shaking your head or you might be leaning in and feeling like we are onto something here. Either way, take a moment to acknowledge that this can really look at face value like the wrong air quotes way to approach panic attacks that can be so scary and can feel so urgent and so dangerous and so important. But then also take a moment to consider that the right air quotes way probably doesn't seem to be working for you consistently no matter how hard you've been trying and that you've actually made it through every panic attack you've ever had even when that's been really scary and you felt like you had to instantly find a special way to calm down. I mean, I can tell you from both personal experience, my own personal experience and from the experiences of many thousands of recovered anxious people over the years, that there is actually a unique liberation in realizing that you actually don't have to try so hard to calm down by taking a brave leaf of faith and treating panic not like it's making you a victim but as a capable observer of a natural physical and emotional experience that's just triggered at completely the wrong time. That's true. You actually may find a surprising sense of relief and freedom. I cannot tell you how many anxious people come rushing into the comment section in this community be it on Instagram or YouTube or maybe Facebook feeling incredibly excited and like pumped up at superhero levels the first time they managed to actually let go and calm down this way.  You should check the other videos in the series if you need to. So now we get sort of to the billion dollar question which is how do you do this? At this point you might be asking yourself when I'm going to start to give you the steps on how to calm down from a panic attack but how is the next question everybody asks after they initially wrap their brain around the whole idea of what I'm talking about and here's the thing there really is no how in this situation there are no steps there are no special calming techniques. The how you're looking for here is really found in letting go of the frantic demand for steps and tips and instructions and techniques. In many ways the answer to how to calm down from a panic attack is paradoxically like so many other things here to not try to calm down from a panic attack. The steps here are steps not of doing but these are steps of not doing not trying to control not holding on not resisting not running not asking to be saved not treating panic like a monster or an invading army that is about to take you down. That's how we do this and for the record exactly none of that is easy. Sometimes not doing things is much harder than doing things because in this case not doing all the things requires a brave leap of courage and faith into what's going to feel like an incredibly risky or even dangerous territory for you. So how to calm down from a panic attack is about following a simple plan but one that's very hard to execute. It's not a set of tips I can give you in a YouTube video or a podcast episode. It's something that gets learned and practiced and approved over time. Learning the air quotes best way to calm down from a panic attack is really about learning how to overcome recurring panic attacks, panic disorder, agoraphobia and other related concerns in general. So you have to be patient and recognize that this is going to take some time and some practice and a willingness to do the opposite of what your frightened brain is begging you to do. Patience, self-compassion. If you want tips and steps try practicing those two things they're really going to be important.   That means that if you have been unfortunately conditioned by your past experiences to see yourself as weak, less than unworthy or generally incapable then letting go and allowing panic without resistance not trying to calm down which seems so obvious can be even more challenging and feel even more impossible or ridiculous to you. Emotions like that are bound to come up when you embrace this approach to panic attacks make room for them, validate them understand where they might come from that's important but also keep in mind that feeling weak or incapable because you've been told that you are is not the same as being weak or incapable. Part of this calming down journey is going to involve learning some things about yourself challenging some old beliefs and building a new view of yourself and anxiety and panic and how it all fits together. That's okay. Everyone goes through this. So if it gets frustrating or confusing at times take a break. Remember you're not the only one that feels like that it's really okay. So then how do you calm down from a panic attack? Well try taking some time to reflect on what we've talked about today and consider trying to approach your next panic attack with just a little bit of curiosity and a lot of compassion for yourself. What if in that moment rather than obeying the command to resist and retreat and escape you took a chance and allowed yourself to be okay with not being okay as much as I hate that cliche. What would happen if you took a chance on yourself and allowed yourself to find the strength that is baked into surrendering to the experience rather than resisting it? I know this is a whole lot to think about and probably not what you were expecting when you clicked into this video or this podcast episode. And guess what? This doesn't happen overnight. Things don't change instantly. You're gonna get it wrong. You're gonna wanna give up along the way. That's really okay. If nothing else I would like you to consider after listening or watching today that the way to calm down from a panic attack is to accept the challenge of embracing a new way then practicing it while allowing for all the ups and downs that come along with doing difficult things and learning new skills and going against your anxious brain and all its urgent demands and instructions and pleas for safety and resistance and escape. Recognize that to calm down from a panic attack this way, a lasting way that leads to longer, bigger change you're going to need to be brave and recognize that this isn't easy. Be kind to yourself if you're going to try this new approach. Take some time to learn, read, listen, avail yourself of all the resources that I and other people like me have made available to you. And above all, start to open yourself up to these experiences as ways to learn rather than insisting that you must find ways to run or hide or instantly calm down from panic and the things that you fear. So that is this episode of The Anxious Truth in the books. You know it's over because you hear the music. I hope you found this helpful even if it was a bit confusing or disorienting in some way. We'll continue this Foundation to Panic series next time with a little chat about avoidance and how wildlife might seem like common sense. It often can make things worse in the form of things like developing panic disorder or agoraphobia. But until then, remember that any step that you can take toward recovery and away from fear and avoidance counts, it doesn't matter how small it might be. That step will count today and it will lead to another step and another step and another step and those will all add up over time. Thanks for watching, for listening and I will see you in the next episode.


Welcome back. It is nice to know that you're still watching. We told you that when we return, we're going to be having a conversation around the women in politics in Nigeria. There's been a lot of conversations worldwide about equality between men and women. And, you know, under international standards, both men and women should have equal rights and opportunities to everything, especially to participate fully in all aspects and at all levels of political processes. Globally, women constitute over half of the world's population and contribute in vital ways to societal development generally.  This is an unspoken slogan which has played over the years as we witness low participation of women in mainstream politics. Joining us to have this conversation is Paristar Juliet E.C. Kayere. She's the ADC House of Representatives candidate for AMAC and Bori Federal Constituency, Abuja. Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome. Hello and thank you for having me. All right. I hope that clears up while we continue. But quickly because how would you describe women participation in politics in Nigeria? How would you describe women participation in politics in Nigeria as of today? Oh, yes. It's been a tough one because all the time we've had, you know, a lot of women are interested in women participation in politics in Nigeria because of it. I'm saying we have a universe of women and constituents and people. All right. I think the viruses audio is really poor. I would have wanted to hear what she has to say about, you know, participation of women in politics.  First of all, if we're able to rejoin her with a better audio will bring her back. But for now it's we can't get anything from it. But women in politics, I think most of the problem of the participation of women in politics is on the women themselves. A lot of them think that it should be just a matter of handout to them. And then a lot of other ones do not even want to support the women folk. Maybe because the men who are involved in the politics have more money to spend. Maybe because of one thing or the other, they don't want to support the women themselves. That is on the one hand. Thirdly, I would like to say that what really I see as a problem for the women is their modus operandi in the political circles. For instance, you expect a very intelligent married woman, for instance, to be attending only night meetings of 2 a.m. all the time. Because no matter how we see it, as small as that is, it affects the home. And whether a man brags anyhow, the woman is still in charge of the home, whether we like it or not. She is the one that brings order to the house. She is the one that brings order even to the husband and all that. So when you now begin to do things that will not favor the woman, so many times they will now resort to sitting back and saying, OK, whatever can be given to me by way of percentage, by way of zoning, by way of handouts and all that. But I think the political situation in the country couldn't have been that bad that women do not want to participate. But like you said, people have the perception that it's a man's stuff. So when we are going there, we are just going to compete with the men. Not knowing that they have the same rights as the men and they should take the bull by the horn as it is because it is there. Is it really a matter of knowledge and acknowledgement of the knowledge? Because you just said they do not know that they have the same rights as the men. They do not think that they have the same rights. Is it really the same? Because look at the itinerary and a very regular day for a married woman and a very regular day for a married man. Do you think these two persons have a level playing ground, the same equal opportunities to participate and play politics to its core? You see, I pointed that thing out. That's one of the things that give me concern because if you want someone who is really intelligent that could have contributed, just because of the way that you operate, it gives that person a disadvantage. So they should find some kind of level playing ground. But you see, that is on one hand. But on the other hand, if you see like the last election or last nomination when people were buying forms and all that, some parties give their female intending candidates or aspirants forms for free and they ask them to come and get it for free. Or they reduce the price to like half or less than half so that women can participate as well. But there were still no women that were coming for to participate. So while we blame the system, while we blame political parties and the system, we also have to blame the women as well. So everybody has a blame, so to speak. Then some women are not deliberate about preparation to become office holders the way they should become office holders. Do they have what it takes to be that deliberate? Well, I don't know what you mean by being deliberate, what it takes because a lot of them, some women actually have more money than the men who have contested.  In what way? Apart from what I've pointed out.  A lot of men, even in her same political party, are looking at her like this one doesn't know she's a woman, you get? So you have the place of misogyny. I think it's a total societal reset that we need to do to get to that point. I think it's just defeatist on the part of the person who feels that because the society says this, that is true about me. Because if the man says, look at this one, she doesn't know that he's a woman. That is in words. It is apart from the actual, it is apart from the point of acting it out. Okay, but good. If you're going into a political space and you know that... Sorry to cut you short, Nyamgo. Let us say party ABC has a woman aspirant. And this person, let me take it up to the point where she has actually been to the primaries and she has, you know, emerged as a candidate. You know this person is a woman. How does your party come together to give her the support that she needs? That is when you see factions up and down here and there. That is when you will see people being aggrieved. That is when you would know that you have money to support women. So you go and rally other women against this woman. So you see it's not an individual thing. It's a collection. Not as I would like to agree with what you're saying. I will deviate a little bit. You have gone into the primaries, you've won, and you are now a candidate.   Can I ask you a question? Because if what it takes to remain there is to pull a lot of people down, is to fight inside a ring and everything, if you're not ready to do it, then you're not qualified. That's what I feel as a person. Let me ask you a question. What word are you from in your local government? The word I am from in my word one, a casual word one in my local government. So there are two candidates, a woman who is qualified. You know she has all the qualities. The man too does. Who would you vote for? I would vote for the person who shows that he can endure. You are giving it to the police. Listen to what I'm telling you. We have reached, we have arrived at a point where both of them are qualified. So it's now for them to prove to us that I can stand.  Maybe you have a hundred thousand to spend. The man has a hundred thousand to spend. And you think it's because I'm a woman they should give it to me. It's a lie. People will go to the person that they see as shown walking. So I'm not trying to say the political system or the political whatever it is terrain favors a woman or does not favor a woman. Things that can be done deliberately to give the woman a level playing field. But beyond that, it is left for the woman to prove it. So you don't think women have the political will to step out and play politics as it should be? Is that what you're saying? A lot of them have. But a lot of them also do not have. And then their problem will not even be because they are women. You're not picking it also. You need to pick it also. Listen, the problem is not even because they are women. But because the women folk themselves will not even support them. So when you're talking, you're talking and blaming the men like it's the men that make them look like they are women. How many women support women politicians? Anywhere you're from, tell me how many women have won because the women supported them. So we should add it to the list of changes we need to make. Is that what you're saying? Like you said, change the mindset has to be changed. But the women themselves have to change their mindset that we can do this. Whether the men give us or not, we can do it. This is a conversation we definitely need to have. I am hoping that maybe tomorrow or some other time we'll be able to have Barista EC actually have this conversation with us because it is something that is very important but is rarely talked about. I'm hoping that we will be able to bring her to continue this conversation. But this is where we try to cut in on today's edition of the run-up. It will return, but it will be tomorrow at 11am. My name is Uche Chuku Onado. We hope that you are going to be there to join us as well. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji. Bye for now.


This lecture is part of an online mathematics course on group theory and will mostly be about Frobenius groups. So as usual, we will start by classifying a few finite groups to see what interesting groups turn up, and we've done groups of order less than 20. So let's look at groups of order 20. And by now it should be fairly obvious what we do. We notice that there is a seal of subgroup of order 5, and the number of seal of subgroups must divide the order of the group and be 1 mod 5. So this subgroup has to be normal. So we see easily that G is a semi-direct product of a cyclic group of order 5 with a group of order 4. Now we just run through all the possibilities and see what, if anything interesting turns up, the automorphism group of a group of order 5 is z over 5z star, which is z over 4z. So now if this group of order 4 is z over 2z times z over 2z, there are two possibilities. First of all, the action might be trivial, in which case we just get a product z over 5z times z over 2z times z over 2z, which is not very exciting. All we get, one of these z over 2z's might act non-trivially on this, and then you can see we just get a dihedral group of order 10 times a group of order 2, which again is nothing to get excited about. So now let's look at what happens if this group of order 4 is z modulo 4z. Well, there are three essentially different ways that a group of order 4 can act on a group of order 5. First of all, it can be trivial, but in this case we just get a product of these two groups, which is cyclic of order 20, again nothing to be excited about, or we could have this acting as a group of order 2 on this group of order 5. So we get a group z over 5z, semi-direct product z over 4z, with a generator of this acting as an element of order 2 on the automorphism group of this. This is actually one we've seen before. It's actually the binary dihedral group of order 20. So you remember this means we take the group of rotations of order 10 given by the dihedral group and take its inverse image in the unit quaternions. So the final example is group z over 5z, wreath product z over 4z, with an element here acting as an order 4 automorphism of this, and this is the so-called AX plus B group. Here it consists of all transformations taking X to AX plus B where A is in z modulo 5z star and B is in z modulo 5z. So you can think of it as being the group of linear affine transformations of a line over the field with five elements. And this is the one that's going to motivate the rest of the lecture today. This is a Frobenius group. So what is a Frobenius group? Well, a Frobenius group G, so Frobenius group G is a group acting transitively on a set such that, first of all, no element of G other than one fixes two elements of S. I should say that fixes at least two elements of S. Secondly, S is not the regular representation.  So what examples have we seen of Frobenius groups? Well, first of all, we have the AX plus BY group over any field. Here the set S is the elements of the field and the group just consists of all transformations of the form AX plus B where A is in a non-zero element of the field and B is an element of the field. And this group obviously is ordered the number of elements of the field times the number of elements of the field minus one, least if the field is finite. So if the field is ordered two, well, this doesn't quite work because we just get a group of two elements. If F is order three, then we get the group S3 acting on three points. If the field is the field of order four, then we get the group A4. And if the field has order five, we get the group of order 20 that we just mentioned earlier. There have also been several other examples of Frobenius groups. If we take the dihedral group Dn for n odd, this is a Frobenius group. For instance, if we take D10, it's the group of automorphisms of a pentagon. And the set S is just the vertices of a regular pentagon, which or n-gun pentagon in this case, because the dihedral group acts transitively on the vertices. But if you fix two vertices, then that determines everything. If n is even, this fails. For example, if we take a square, then there is a non-trivial automorphism fixing these two vertices because we can just flip the square like that. So if there are two vertices that are diagonally opposite each other as happens for n even, then we don't get a Frobenius group. Another example is the example of the group of order 18 we had earlier. So we took Z over 3Z squared, semi-direct product Z over 2Z, where you remember this acts as minus one on Z modulo 3Z squared. And you can see this is a Frobenius group acting on, say, all the conjugates of this group Z modulo 2Z. So Frobenius groups are actually reasonably common. There are two basic theorems about Frobenius groups, which I'm not going to prove. The first one is by Frobenius. So suppose H is equal to the subgroup fixing a point. And let K be all conjugates. So all elements not in a conjugate of H together with the element one. So all elements not in a conjugate of H. This just means the elements fixing no points of the set S. And Frobenius proved this really rather remarkable theorem that K is a normal subgroup. So the tricky part is to prove that K is a subgroup, which isn't all that obvious. Once you know it's a subgroup, it's trivial to prove that it's normal. And furthermore, G is a semi-direct product of K with H. So this group K is called the Frobenius kernel. So Frobenius proved that the Frobenius group actually has a homomorphism to H with kernel K. And the proof is not all that difficult, but it uses character theory of finite groups, which we haven't actually covered. So I can't give the proof. And there's a much harder theorem due to Thompson, which says the Frobenius kernel K is nilpotent. Well, if you look at all the examples of Frobenius groups we had so far, the Frobenius kernel is not only nilpotent, it's actually abelian. It's quite difficult to find an example of a Frobenius group where the Frobenius kernel is not abelian. One example is the following group here. You take the kernel K to be all matrices of the form 111 nought nought nought star star star. That means there can be anything in gl3 of the field with seven elements. And we take H to be the group generated by one, two, four. So these diagonal elements. Then the group KH is a Frobenius group of order seven cubed times three. So we'll finish off just by doing groups of order 21, 22, and 23. So order 21, these groups are of order PQ of seven times three. And we saw earlier that there are just two possibilities. One is the order 21. And the other is a semi-direct product Z over seven Z, semi-direct product Z over three Z. And the only reason for mentioning it in this lecture is this happens to be another Frobenius group, as you can see. Order 22, there's nothing interesting. This is of the form two P, so it's either dihedral or cyclic. Order 23 is prime, so all groups are cyclic. So that leads us on to groups of order 24, which will be the topic of the next lecture.


So we've been here a few months now. We moved in in April. It's now December There's been lots of little changes from the initial build out. So I'm mostly gonna cover the changes I'll leave a link below in the comments for the build out itself so you can watch that entire video and See everything we did to kind of turn this place into from raw and empty to built-up store and some little things But I figured I'd give a quick tour and take a look around There's a you know some products on the shelf and the usual retail stuff we also keep several other things up there not just the products on the shelf, but the Other store stock items like our unifies and commercial equipment You know we actually keep it up front even though it's not something people really walk in and buy It's just an easy way to keep it organized then behind you behind me behind you behind there We have some of our Fun stuff that we did some art projects that we like you know just make sure the place has the right amount of geek Appeal including like our business card holder old motherboard. We glued these down normally. There's pens in here, but The pens are gone people took all of our pens We just have the business card holder here and where the pens belong you gotta get some more in order closer look at our motherboard art and Some of our CPU collection art. We just found a bunch of the old CPUs and throw them all up here And then on the other side Just all the red retail cables and you know things that we have up there our laptop box has actually been empty We haven't really found that laptops have been selling that well So or computers in general to retail the retails just been going down a lot Which is something we're kind of fine with your mostly focused on businesses. We do retail But with computers being so cheap people have been buying them, you know at all these Black Friday sales and things like that. So we haven't really put put much effort and put a lot of laptops in there This is our shop and tech area. This area is still where we do a lot of business There's not too much on here right now Just a couple computers in for repair that we see over here in the background and this is kind of our cool wheelie around and island that we built to Facilitate all the tech work now. Let's take a little bit closer look at how that's set up So Kyle's chilling out over there, but these are all designated work areas including all along here Where we have a KVM? One monitor that articulates so we can face it different ways Bring you down here with me So we have all the machines can be hooked up all along here And this goes all the way around there's eight stations that can be connected Then all the network ports along the wall Over here and here and that allows us to easily plug in a network all the computers and in all the networking We have in the back where our main server is is very back We'll get there and then up front We have this with cool lights in it and as you seen maybe the beginning there's lighting underneath all of the desks in here So we have this couple 24-port switches up here. I Have a whole nother virtual lab network video if you want to know how some of this connected and yes You may have noticed there's some LED lights in there We also had some LED lights that are front of the store and these knobs give us control over the color now because they're on the outside of the store and they're an inside you may have noticed that the Color is changing up here When we change the color on this knobs it changes the color lights And this is how we see what color they are because we put a couple lights in here to match the colors that go around the store So when the computers are all down here, and it's just sitting at the desk normally They'd be sitting where you're seeing the camera. We have mounted underneath here all of the wiring And then the wires we have these little short wires like this Because when you reach across you can just reach over grab a wire plug in mostly because most of the service in retail is not Laptops most of that's what this used for. There's also a series of network jacks underneath here So that makes it easy to plug in a network jack plug that in plug the power in for the laptop and be able to be able to line up a lot of computers at once and then when we're done Behind there, and I'm not going to be too close. It's got all the customer data on the sheets That's our outgoing shelf for when all of the systems are done or when we're waiting on parts to be ordered We put it all together and just set them all over here Now my video I did about data recovery. This is our little dedicated data recovery station Transfer station or up here is where we actually shred out all the old hard drives So this is where you drop men drop, you know Give rid of all the data on them for reuse or down here to transfer just docking station basic computer And that's where the wonderful printer is We're big Ikea fans and these are all Ikea boxes up here We have nice labels and put everything away. So one is miscellaneous crap with the rest of them Like, you know USB cables miscellaneous cards a couple extra routers and switches now We've talked about it probably looks worse on camera, but it is darker because we don't have lights on this side versus This side goes all the way back. So it does get a little bit darker over on here But it's really not that big of a deal the camera may make it look worse than it is But we actually work mostly with the lights out whenever there's no customer stuff We like working with the lights out over here My office is mostly the same for when I did the video for my office Not much has really changed in here a couple more knick-knacks up here I have all the lights behind my monitors because I generally kind of same thing I like to work with the lights off in here and let the camera adjust. I Do have probably more knick-knacks behind me So they just the webcam is here. So when I record a lot of my videos, this is the background But this is actually what's up above is miscellaneous things like My really old hard drive It says cumulus on it, you know, they were cloud thinking this is like 30 year old hard drive here I said like miscellaneous things like Einstein poster and I don't know This that and the other this is kind of shoot for the stars. It's my daughter's she made that for me. I like it It's got it's thinking about space All right, so as my office will come down the hallway a little further We have Pac-Man on the hallway The Mac side cover with a band-aid on it Recently installed coat hangers didn't have those before we just didn't know where to put our coats We finally started putting coat hangers everywhere This little area we kind of call cube land because there's a couple cubicles over here We're Corey and Kyle said and Marvin sits back here. They got these cool little glass dividers over here We had a client give us all these that we have a client that does Cubicles so they gave us a bunch of cubicles and they're really nice and we have nice lights and everything under them So let me see all the lighting on there and it looks pretty cool when you turn the lights out We make Marvin do all the paperwork. So he's got two printers over by his desk and then Trinkets and things. He's got a Skeletor holding up his business cards But we threw all the paperwork at Marvin. So it's actually pretty clean, but we just we pile papers on here So when he gets back, he's got something to do all the time All right, now we'll go further back and we'll head to Steve's office Bright monitors Christmas lights. I'm gonna turn the lights on for a second. This is the red room It's a works with the amount of rage Steve likes to feel every day of his life But he's got a couch where you can chill out work on projects. That's a little trinkets Steve works on larger physical projects. So he has a much bigger office than me But this is where he hides most of the time and answers the phones and does all support stuff puts the headphones on and locks his doors Now we're in the very back, which is where the server is now It's normally kept locked, but I have it unlocked jump in there in a second But give you a quick spin around this room here about 10,000 feet of cable over here. This is part of it We have other spots we keep more of it, but we keep a decent amount of it here in the store Then this is like the furniture room the bathroom. We have two bathrooms That's the one where it's awful looking because that one's not been remodeled We remodeled the one that the customer see it's nothing wrong with it. It's not dirty. It's just Dink, I don't know. It's it's old hasn't been remodeled and won't get remodeled But we keep a lot of things in stock patch panels. We actually keep there's a few you stack of use switches over here It's handy when customers the switch dies right away It's sometimes a temporary one that will put in to keep things up and running for them now the server itself Got all the cool LED lights in it. And now the only problem is it's hitting the door So I went the time move maneuver around here when the server doors open We got to kind of put it behind this. Oops hit this with the door. You got to put it behind this door That door Swing that one open Nothing go over here, and you can see inside the whole server. Oh, I Have some videos where I cover detail what all these servers are I'll leave a link in there It's kind of a virtualization tour and what's in our rack tour. Most of that hasn't really changed much Well, I just did the virtual edition tour or Sunday So this is exactly the same nothing has changed at all since then but this is what runs everything We keep the locked and we also like a lot of stickers, you know I just any time I find cool logos for different things when I go and travel We put some of them on here. I've got some over there lots up in the front Here's the whole front of the case. I'm a sucker for Any type of Linux or a free software foundation logo? So pretty much top to bottom We've got lots of stickers and logos and everything on here. It just I don't know. I like to it feels better I mean making it look plain and boring would really bother me I'm drinking morty on here way better and even a penguin count logo Or mascot from one of the penguin kind events here being calm that org if you want to know what that is Now around the back of the server more stickers over here But if you're gonna show you in case anyone's wondering it's a little cramped back here The back of the cage is kept locked But we actually put this on and I call it an umbilical cord now I left the cable with a service loop. This is our Comcast cable that comes in it does not go in the umbilical cord But this is split tubing and it's just to keep it looking neat So these are all the wires from the shop that feed the server now the reason there's so much slack here It's on wheels, so I Can just move the whole thing and I can just give it a push It allows us to easily move around things clean under it or whatever we got to do And this is the power cord for the server, so it's on its own dedicated circuit with a twist lock Which means I can pull on this and it's not coming out but it's it's not its own dedicated right here circuit and that goes right into a UPS and filter system, so it's completely You know isolated if I pull this it doesn't blip doesn't affect the servers We got some decent amount of runtime on it, so it works well now It may seem childish, but it's humorous toss the plumbing is exposed in the bathroom And so is the electrical back there. It's a pretty sizable. It's full 88 size bathroom But this plumbing we painted it green and you kind of may have noticed the theme here The whole bathroom is super market of them like here This is actually the electrical box and yeah, some people like it's childish, but I don't care It's funny to me that it's like this So that brings us into the kitchen slash studio area Some shelves up there where we keep boxes and stuff like that kitchen sink Cooking spot over here toaster oven. That's all we really need besides the microwave oven we have right over here. Kureg George Foreman grill rice cooker We like rice kind of goes good with all the hot sauce feet So you can kind of sees a pretty big studio right here I don't remember the exact dimensions, but it's a pretty decent size We have this IKEA lamp here because we actually there's 550 watts Used and these are led it's still 550 watts for all the lighting in here And as you it's hard to tell from the video But when you go from this room to the other room It's more than twice the lumens because we use ultra bright lighting But that makes it really easy to film things in here now. Let me get closer to the studio area This is the boom for the microphone because of product shots, which we have some products right here We will make sure Let me get the camera straight we make sure that we have all the product shots Nice and clean so we light them up a little bit brighter with this another LED light here I don't think we have this shelf up here, which just has some miscellaneous things some of my old 2600 Magazines are on there and of course you may have noticed the sound changed a little bit in here We get the sound deadening and we have a Zumba studio next door cameras crooked All right, we have a Zumba studio next door and that is Bleeding through maybe a little bit when you're over there. They turn the music up We only have to deal with it about an hour or two each night Not bad, but a little bit of the noise will bleed through a little bit But once you get to the studio here because the if you're looking through there That's the tech area where we started once I close that door to sound ending here It means we can record and don't really have to worry about anything There's another business because we're in strip mall on the other side here But I think they have a rule of filing cabinets. We don't hear anything from them They're really quiet and if you've watched any of the other videos you probably already know what's in here the Wall of condiments and sauce now if someone is coming for and they are completely right and I they all fess up to it I tried a little bit healthier. They don't There's mostly our people here are consuming just mass quantities of chicken nuggets because the chicken nugget thing like Israel they have a thing for chicken nuggets And my wife is like don't they ever get tired of eating like four boxes these a day and their answers No, because they just use a different sauce each day. So that's that's the theory on it You know as that we do that, but we try to eat actually a lot here We got this cool kitchen table we set up, but we try to eat a lot here It's part of the culture here and part of how it's bringing us together We talk about things and if you've ever had to deal with support and doing it You know how agitating it can be sometimes because no one calls you because they're happy well Some people do but did most of the calls are like this ain't working. I might get fixed immediately I don't care what you're doing right now. My problem is a priority So you kind of have to run through and deal with that and sometimes that's a that's another video I may make a little bit of a rant about because it's not that they don't understand technology It's sometimes just the behaviors that they have Outside of that they can drive you a little nuts and I if you've watched any of my vlogs You've probably seen us rant a little bit about that from time to time. We did a couple posters Show me real quick. Can you guess what channel that is? We actually got stickers everywhere for it We got more stickers. We've if you were watching a video you may have noticed that they've been decorating a little bit around the walls Rick and Morty huge fans Love the cartoon. It's raunchy. It's awful, but I won't I like it. It's funny It's funny in a very wrong way The walls are still a little empty. I'm being picky about what goes on the rest of them We have some other artwork ideas. I may have my sister draw something I don't know that's that's all some of the future projects that we have Oh and hangers over here is where there's a stands on there And this is where all the photography equipment when we turn this into a meeting room for clients We have chairs that are kind of sitting over here Chairs over on the wall that are all hung up. We break these down. So we have client meetings So like we're really I'm really picketer about everything being like organized and clean in here So it's not like I stopped and scrub the place down just for this video We are it stopped by any time you'll see we're generally organized or if you watch a video made We don't stage anything keeping organized as part of being It's part of keeping my sanity. That's definitely part of it It's also part of being able to manage a business effectively I don't know how anyone works and just pure chaos of stuff everywhere I see a lot of computer shops like that and it just maybe it works for them Maybe they're really talented and just chaos is what works for them It's not what works for me having everything organized really really helps So we focus on each project on to each project organized and things are following step Oh one last thing to again one last one last last thing. I will do soon. What's in this cabinet? I'm not going to open up because this cabinet is a little disorganized Hmm, it's a little but it's still even disorganized for me is a few things are not in the box They belong in But I'll do a whole gear breakdown for everything I use to film and record and tools and doodads I have besides what's on here, but that's all this including our podcast equipment So if you watch the how we do a podcast video That is the table we do the podcast on and each time we're done with it Everything gets broken down into certain containers and organized and all put back in here on a shelf Because comes back to organization and it's the other thing up here is the the extra lights and things like that We have a large softbox for that. So that's it for our shop tour So if there's something more you want to see is there's something you want to see in detail Or you think I should do a video on if this makes you dizzy me panning around like this let me know in the comments below and I'll make a video about that and That's it. Thanks for watching if you like to content here like and subscribe Your comments and feedback are really helpful to help drive what I'm going to do next because I I don't always know I have a lot of ideas. I have actually probably too many ideas And I'll just keep creating content if you have nothing you comment on but if you have comments I will probably do them because I like you know making people happy and Shaping what people want to know. All right. Thanks again