I mean, I've been doing this thing for like two decades, guys, I used to just just mess up on purpose.  It's got, you know, making money, guys, actually, it's very boring, very systematic. So as human beings, we like to be in the action all the time, but that's how we get in trouble. I mean, how often do you lose hundreds, if not thousands every day, just bleeding because of entertainment, right, guys? And that's because we're bored in life. That's because trading has, you know, you do this for a while, guys, as with any job. Trading is a job. You may love what we do, but it's still, at the end of the day, it's a job. And I guess it's boring. Every job gets boring. I don't care what it is. We're very blessed to do what we do, but it's still a monotonous job. If we do our jobs right, it's boring as hell, guys, right?  And so how do you fix your mind so that you can continue to keep doing what you love but not get burnt out? This is the struggle that Alex and I have been doing for a long time. It's kind of like we love what we do, but then we get so burnt out because we devote everything, every time, every free time. We're passionate about what we do. I am there at night, and then after hours, Alex wakes up super early. So I'm on the West Coast, Alex is on the East Coast. And so, you know, we pretty much have 24 hours coverage, right? Alex wakes up at 5 a.m. over there, which is, geez, like 2 a.m. where I am, then when I go to sleep, he wakes up sometimes, right? So how do you not get burnt out? Making money, I'm telling you guys right now, making money is not that difficult. It's not that difficult if you have a discipline.  Go become a doctor. Go become an engineer and work for a startup that's going to give you stock options. I have a lot of friends that work for startups and now they're very rich. But that takes time, right? That takes a lot of energy, a lot of work. So it's easy only if you have the discipline to do it. So if you have the discipline, you can do anything you want to do. So apply that to trading, guys. I don't think there's any other profession in the world where you can make as much as you make in one hour, like Alex and I. I mean, today I made a few thousand bucks and I'm like, I'm pissed. You know, I gave up a thousand bucks, just kind of messing around because it's not enough. Every day is not enough money because I'm sitting around on board all day. And so we're trying to find things which excite me so that I don't end up treating my profession, treating my job, which trading is. Trading education is my job. Treating as entertainment. So you have to distinguish between entertainment and a career. So that's the first step, guys. So the first step I want you guys to go back and think about is, OK, am I trading? Do I want to trade for a profession or for entertainment? It's like going to Vegas. You know, I go to Vegas to gamble for entertainment.  Because, you know, the edge of the house is way stacked against you.  You're not going to put your life savings on. It's the people that can distinguish the two. They want to go make money. That's the people that lose money. Same thing with trading, guys. OK, I am trading right now for entertainment. And sometimes that's the problem.  I lose.  It doesn't really affect my life. It sucks when I think about it. If I add it up and go, dude, I'm losing like probably 100 grand a year off of entertainment, of sticking around and saying, oh, OK, I only lost 500 bucks, $1,000 back, right? But if you add that up, $500 every day is someone's income. So the first thing you have to understand with trading is this. Are you doing this for entertainment, gambling, or you want to really make it work? The moment I found out that, hey, I can actually do this for a living, which is a profession, right? I'm doing this as my career.  There was a point in my life. There was a point in my life where I didn't take a vacation for like two, three years, not a single day off, guys, for years.  I didn't go shopping. All my money I made went right back into the markets. I'm trying to build my bankroll. OK, and I'm going to recap how I started the same thing. So I was an engineer. I made decent money as an engineer, but I hated what I did. I was very good. I was so passionate. But then when you reach it, when you reach a certain level, it's kind of like, OK, what do you have to do next? I didn't want to work any harder. And so they and so I start, you know, I started to learn to day trade. And I loved day trading and I started day training and I started losing money because I thought it was entertainment.  So I would. So in the beginning, the hardest thing to the hardest hurdle overcome as a day trader, guys, is make money for five days straight. And then the next day you lose all of it back and then more. How often that happened. And that pretty much I figured out the secret of day trading is risk management in life and everything's risk management.  But you have to have risk management of your life. If you over drink, you will get too drunk.  Same thing with training. There's a limit to everything. So when you go out, you have to put the risk parameters in. I know I will get silly drunk, so I don't drive. I take an Uber. But should I ban these guys? Here, I'm going to ban these guys. And anybody that speaks in like these weird Iranian or Arabic, I'm going to block them all. Hide. I don't know if they're real or not, but I'm just going to hide them. So all these weird things. So. So in life, guys, you always have to risk management. If you want to go out on a weekday knowing that you will go to work tomorrow, you have to set your stop loss, go home. That's your stop loss. Let's say you don't go home. OK, because people cancel their stop loss. I have another drink. And so you pay the price.  I have one more drink. I just messed up my stop loss of my life, right?  So in trading, guys, this is the thing I never knew existed, right? Until until M.I.C. Is max daily loss set at the broker level. That is what saves everybody's account right now, guys at M.I.C. And this is something that no other service will ever tell you.  Other services don't believe in stop losses. They don't believe in some other service calls it training wheels.  Training wheels. But everybody has a bad day, guys. When you have a bad day, they do not make it a life ender.  Don't end up in the hospital and kill someone. So you have to mitigate your risk so that you don't end up there. Stop losses are fine. You get you people break that. But you need a fence to stop you from killing yourself because we're all humans. If we can get away with it, we will get away with it. OK, I'm going to start blocking all these guys. What are they saying, by the way? Is anybody can read this stuff? So stop losses. Once again, you set your stop loss just like your life. OK, meaning like, OK, I'm going to have a DUI. So a hard stop for me is is not driving. But you know what?  So you always need to have a max daily loss on your life. And that's where a tab comes in, guys. I'm telling you right now, I know that I mean Alex been trying to figure out how to prevent people from blowing up all these years, right? And we came up with stop stop losses, which OK, people use that. But the main thing, there's two things, guys. There is a technical. Technical, like the law, like I, man, I would go and people would go steal, not me, but people go steal and rob you unless there was a policeman. So that is like having a a max daily loss. The broker, you tell the broker, I do not want to lose more than $500 today every day. That's like telling the police, OK, you break the law, you go jail. So but at the end of the day, you can still get away with it. You know, there's many ways to circumvent that. You can call them up. You can do whatever. So the way to combat human emotions is to get a tab. Trading accountability, buddy. So Alex and I, we check up on each other.  But you know, sometimes I still lie to Alex and say, I'm doing fine, but I'm stuck in the stock of trading a zombie or things like that. So you have to know yourself. And so a way to trick that. So one of our moderators, his name is on, he's a doctor. He's a freaking smart guy, but he has disciplinary problems. He disciplined because he makes so much money being a doctor. It's just like our other doctor guy, Vic, there is no self control. And so he would make money and lose money back because he trained zombie are being rules. So he implemented like now his wife is involved. His wife is now his cab.   And so he implemented another one, Max, they lost, which he has. But Max, they lost would be. He tells the secretary physically come and pull the cable out of my computer because I cannot help myself. I am a junkie. I cannot help myself.  Because they have figured out what their issues are that prevents them becoming successful.  Okay, if you're partying too much, drinking too much, you need to figure out how to prevent you from even getting there. So an example is this, before you blow up during zombie hours, you should be trading during zombie hours. How do you prevent that? You prevent that by pulling the cable out of your computer, having someone physically come and take the cable so you cannot trade. Don't install the app on your phone, things like that. So you need to do preventative measures, guys. I'm telling you right now. And our tab program is so successful, there are big, big prof firms now copying our model. I don't need to tell you the names, but it was during the traders were caught. And when I heard that, like, you know what, man, that's pretty cool. We have done something that the big trading world has taken notice and is applying. Same thing with the zombie role.  Now everyone's using it, you know? And so in trading, guys, in trading, it mirrors life. And I'm telling you right now, discipline is the number one reason where why people become successful in life as well as trading. It's not because how smart you are. People think it's always about being smart. It's not about being smart, guys. If I'm having a routine, every successful person has a daily routine. They don't wake up and wing it. They're very regiment driven, okay? So just like the army, if you have a disciplinary issues, maybe sometimes you have to sign up for the military service. They will teach you discipline, okay? And so that's the first step in life, guys.  If your life is in chaos, so will your trade to be in chaos. So, I mean, sometimes you have to move away from a bad situation. Sometimes, I'm saying, if you're friends, so I'm moving because I want to surround myself with different types of environment. So the last place I lived at, it was a really great place, but it was known as a trap house, meaning the building itself was known to be one of the biggest drug dealing buildings out there. People selling weed. There were three guys who were shot. I saw blood on the elevator.  It's insane, dude. A SWAT team surrounded our building. And this is the most luxury high-rise building in Southern California, too.  I was like, how can anybody afford it down there? So I moved now to this environment where the people here actually have jobs and money or whatever the hell it may be. So sometimes you have to physically move yourself from the party situation if you want. They're still partying here, but it's not where I live, you know what I'm saying? But we're there basically where I live. There's all these drug dealers and all that stuff, which is exciting at the time, but it doesn't really help me for my own career and my own sanity. Let me scroll through these. There's a lot of these. I'm gonna hide. If you're typing in Sanskrit or whatever, I'm just, because I don't know if they're a bot. Most of these are bots, guys. So let me show you around. Let me show you around. Some of you probably can figure out where this is. I don't really care nowadays because it's super high security here. So I moved to a very secure building now and right by the, this is pretty cool. So yeah, if you know where I live, keep it to yourself. Know what's that? Sanskrit. Is that what they call Sanskrit? I don't know. Is it Farsi or what's the language? Yeah, have you got, okay, I'll give you a little advice, guys. I'm gonna give you a little advice on etiquette. If you know where people live, don't dox them. Don't tell people where they live. Don't ask people where they live. Don't say that, hey, man, I'm right next door. Can I come over and hang out with you when I don't know you? Things like that, guys. Yeah, almost fell in the pool. So these are just kind of like motivation for me, guys. Seriously, I get so bored doing the same thing. So I'm like, dude, I'm gonna just try moving to a new place just to see. So the first step, guys, I'm telling you, man, you're like Alex said yesterday on his IG Live, your office is your sanctuary if you work from home. So I spend as much money as I possibly can afford without being stupid, obviously, on places I live, on my office, because dude, I worked at home, Alex works at home, we're at home pretty much like 20 hours a day, right, guys? Yeah, Alex, I'm just, I'm something new, man. You know, I've been doing this thing for a long time, man. And to be honest, I've sacrificed my entire life for other people, and I never really lived where I wanna live. So I'm like, dude, I'm pretty frugal, actually. Besides, I'm frugal on myself as you know, but I'm very generous to everybody else. So sometimes, you know what, man, you have to basically live life for yourself at some point, but I deserve this now, it's different, you know? This is like, I've done what I need to do, I'm still helping people, and I believe in karma.       My friends, my God, man, you imagine like, before MIC, man, I would have never started MIC unless some people, but it doesn't matter. My point being is like, you know what man, things happen for a reason. People come together, Alex and I and Tosh and everybody else. So, you know, we build a great community where, you know, who's in MIC? Tell everybody how it's a community.  We don't have a monthly option anymore, guys, so there's nothing to sell. But if you want to join as an annual, hit up Tosh, guys, hit up Tosh. We really don't need any more people, actually. We are turning people away. People want to join as a monthly. We say no, go somewhere else. And today I'll give you an example. Today someone paid, we found out they joined today. There was the last person that joined as a monthly when we cut it off on the $99 special, no less. And then they asked a question, Alex responded.  You reply to my question in main chat so quickly. And he's surprised, like, why are you surprised? Were other services that you joined in no reply? He goes, nah, dude, and I found out, we found out that he paid $1,500, $1,500 for three months at some other service that did not reply to him. He goes, dude, it's horrible. You guys are, and all he paid was $99 for the first month, guys. He got in on the last special, so now we don't sell those monthlys because to be honest, like, dude, this is not a money grab, guys. We want people to learn, and annual is actually a better deal that we had before. We raised our prices on purpose so that it filters out people. At the same time, it's like, dude, we're looking at these other competition and I think they're paying $1,500 for three months because they think it's better because it costs more. Think about it, you go to a store and you see two items and you're like, hmm, let's say you're looking for cleaning products and there's two cleaning products and you have no clue what they do, but one is only 50 cents more. And you're like, hmm, this must be better. It's 50 cents or a dollar more. It must be better. So you end up buying that product even though both of them work exactly the same. So that's just the human mentality. It's the weirdest thing, but we are tired of being the person that they paid $1,500 to for three months and then they have a lousy experience and they come to us after they lose their money. So you, I'm telling you guys right now, man, you guys are, the guys that are not in a current service are very lucky. You're not learning bad habits, all that. And if you wanna join, you're gonna have to join as an annual person through Tosh, okay guys? We raise our price significantly, but maybe Tosh will give you a discount today since we're doing the IG live and stuff. So hit up Tosh, man. If you don't know how to hit up Tosh, go to the website, myinvestingclub.com. So, yeah, dude, I mean, Amos, he's been around for, hey, let me bring on Amos, man. You're like one of the original OGs, man. I told Amos, man. He's original OG back in the day. And it was a long time, he's been a member for a long time, man. I'm trying to bring on Amos here. I hope he works. All right. Whoa, Val. Brother. What's up, man? Can you hear me? Yeah, dude, it's been like at least three years, right? It's been three years, yeah. It's been a while. It's been a while. Dude, last time we saw you was at the club. I saw you at the club and, where was that, dude? Brooklyn Mirage. Oh, dude. Oh my goodness. I stopped clothing. I stopped partying and drinking. So it's been a long time, but I remember that day. So tell everybody who you are and how's it going, man? Because, I mean, you've been a long time member, man. You went through a lot of hardships and stuff, right? So I hope things are better. Yeah, yeah. So I joined MIC when you guys first started, I think in 2017 or 2018 when you guys first started. I wasn't very successful back then. I didn't have a job and I thought MIC in training was gonna be like my saving grace out. But then I remember you had like a life coaching video and then you talked about how it's probably better that I get my life in order first. I take care of my family. I take care of myself. I take care of, do what I gotta do first and then you guys are always gonna be here. So don't worry. Trading's always gonna be here. So yeah, that's exactly what I did. I mean, I heard that like before, but then from other people, but then like coming from you it just like I felt it more in my heart. So I did that. I got my resume. I applied to a bunch of different banks. And then I started working at Bank of America. I got a job there. I worked there for about 10 months. I just saved up like all my money. I took care of my mom, my dad. Awesome. Are you still working there? No, no, I quit. I'm full-time day trading now. This is my full-time day trading.  You know what Amos, you did well.  Whatever issues they have, it will save their life. But when your life is in chaos, your trades will be in chaos. So you did exactly right. So Amos took a few months off and he got a job and dude, he's a totally different person now. He stopped, he stopped partying. He stopped jigging. You were raving like every week, bro. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I don't know how I'm gonna keep up with you at the next meetup.  I'm slowing down. Okay, so tell us. So this is what people really wanna know, okay?   And well, you made enough money where you took care of your personal issues, right? Yeah, yeah, I would say so. And so how is it trading now that you are, dude, because trading without a job, when you're starting out, it's very difficult and stressful, right? Yeah. So tell us how you make it work. Are you living with your parents? I live with my parents, yeah, thank God. I live with my parents, so I'm still, man, I don't gotta pay rent or anything. But I would say how I did it was, I never did paper trading. I just started small, like small size. I would do like 10 shares, 20 shares. That's good.  Read Alex's watch list, read Tom's watch list, and then just really just read the main chat commentary and take notes, go search up anything I don't know in the video library. After that, then maybe, then I can start DMing any of the mods to ask them questions or post it in after hours. If I'm not sure what's going on. So yeah, that's basically how I did it. And then I just, I stuck to what I knew would be most consistent. So I just stuck to low hanging fruit. Oh, so you're shorting low hanging fruit? Yeah, yeah. That's good. You're avoiding the day one low float boost there, right? Yeah, yeah, I lost, oh my God, I lost so much money shorting front side day one in the beginning. And then also going long, oh man that was, I stopped doing that and I just stuck to low hanging fruit for day two. So how are you trading now by limiting all of the risky trade? Are you consistently profitable now? I would say so for now, knock on wood for now, you know, so I did what you guys said. During zombie hours, I stopped trading or like I will size down to maybe like one-tenth size. You know, anything's there, set a max daily loss. I use, what is it called? Like market stop loss, like trigger orders. So every time I set a fantasy limit order, automatically my market stop loss goes in with that. Dude, that is awesome. You see guys, he create a system where he's not gonna blow up anymore because it's automatically has a stop loss in there. Yeah, yeah. So I don't even have to think about it because I know me, I think Harry said on one of his videos, like he's really stubborn. And then I'm like really, really stubborn too. And I need to admit that.  So, because I would take so many losses and I would never stop out. I would always be like, okay, at the next line, let's see what happens at the next line. And then I'd say, you always think like, you always think like, hey, this is it, this is it, this is gonna pay off.  Are you using, you have a max day loss set of the broker? Yeah, yeah, I recently just switched over to Cobra and I'm really excited, really happy to be with them. So that's awesome, man. So you're doing all the right things that we taught you. Basically the risk management was the key difference, right? The key difference maker is the risk management. That was the risk management is like, I think it's like game changing as a trader because no one really, some people talk about it, but they just don't emphasize it as much as you do. They don't know how to, I'm telling you. Because you know what man, the guys that in my opinion, anybody don't talk about risk management, I guarantee you they're not a good trader, they're not a successful long-term trader because they're weighing it, gambling. I mean, if you talk to every trader who's been trading for 10 years, the key is to not blow up, like not like one bad loss, wipe out everything. And that's why Alex and I keep a small balance in our account. You know what I mean?   So, seriously, I don't know how some people are able to have like so much discipline in self-control trading, that much money, that much size account, because I know if I had that in my account, it'd probably be a nightmare. And my own trading would probably suffer as a result of that. So I'm like, I'm just more comfortable trading, like much smaller size, much smaller account. And yeah, I think I'm really happy with where I'm at and just being a part of the community. Like everyone in the community is really helpful. Like if you post something in after hours or you DM someone, they get back to you right away. So it's just great. Okay, so the recap, man. This is a true success story.  Because you know what, man, you had so much stuff going on in your personal life that I'm like, dude, you have to take care of your personal life because it's gonna translate. So I'm telling everybody out there right now, guys, a part of the, to be a good trader, you have to, your mind has to be at ease, right?  So Amos did a great thing, move home, stay at home, no rent. So if you're serious about trading, guys, you reduce your spending per month so that you don't have like stresses from paying bills. So there's two ways to do it. Okay, if you want to start trading, guys. Number one, which is I recommend to most people is to have a job. Have a job which supplements your trading so that you don't have to worry about it during the time you learn. Amos was fortunate he has a family that he can move into so that you don't have to pay rent, things like that. And so, but Amos did, what he did was he went back to work to save every single penny so that he can live his dream now.  I'm going to use hard stops. I'm going to listen to risk management. I'm going to put the fences like I told you, right? So it's kind of like a guy that's driving it and go, I do not want another DUI, things like that. Because all traders, guys, have DUI, not a DUI metaphor, they blew up before, okay?  You could kill kids, you're fucked, man. A lot of jobs won't even hire you if you have a DUI, because that's just that discipline, right? And so, and if you have a DUI, you cannot go to Canada for 12 years, Japan, things like that. A lot of countries do not want people like that.  So I use that as an example.  This is a good success story, but guys, the last time I saw Amos was at 3 a.m. at a rave club, we were all fucked up, Alex was there, Kostas there, and we turned around, is that Amos? This is true, this is true, yep, yep.   And so, why is your, do you have a tab? How do you plan to keep going and progressing? What's your plan now that you've got here? I don't have a tab per se, but whenever I need to talk to someone, I just DM them in chat, so I guess I could use a tab or be a part of a tab group. I guess the plan, like my mindset, when I thought about it, I listened to what Alex said and what you said as well.  That's just how I look at it. You notice how now it's not difficult to make a few hundred bucks, right? The difficulty is being okay with making just two dollars. Yeah. Right?  Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, and being like, just like stupid, like when I know I should take a loss and then I keep adding to a loser, I'm not cutting it, that's one of the things that I'm trying to work on right now. Good. Man, it's like, I know to do it, to cut my losers and not keep adding, not keep scaling, and then only add to a winner, but then when it actually comes time to do it, I'm like, wow, this is pretty tough to execute in real time while trading, so. Yeah, it's the mental discipline. This is why I'm trying to figure out, you're using the hard stops, which is great, the finger orders are awesome. Maybe now, maybe you're ready for a tap. Who knows? You know what doesn't hurt? I'm telling everybody out there, okay? You find a tab, a tab could be your friend, like it becomes your trading partner or your friend in the club, right? If you don't like your tab or you don't get along or it doesn't work out for you, find a new tab, there's nothing wrong with that.  So, it's like, look at me, marriage, you can have as many as you want. And so it's all the time, the tab, I find that more eyes are better than one because what happens in the morning, Alex and I, we share a list of what stocks, which goes on the watch list anyways, but then there's plays that I see that he doesn't see and vice versa. And so sometimes it's good. And then you share, so part of the tab, all I need to know is, okay, what stocks, what stocks looks good to you? Make sense? And so if a stock looks good to me, but doesn't look good to Alex, I'm gonna find out why. And I'm like, oh my God, you're right, man. I didn't realize it was low flow. I didn't realize it was this, right? And then, and also, so, and also, okay, now that we decided on the same plays, what are the lines?  I'm too early, things like that. So having a tab actually helps you with your process to make sure that you are doing the steps that you should be doing as well, not skipping steps, because you are responsible for one another. So in all my years, I'm telling you right now, man, trading a loan is the most boring, lonely thing.  Idle hands are the devil's playground, which means like when you're bored, what should I do? I'm gonna drink.  With trades, it's bad. What am I gonna do? Oh, I'm gonna nibble here. I was just gonna say like, that's one of the things when I saw it during the boot camp this year, was that when you and Alex were trading together, it just like, it was a lot of fun, like being on that boot camp like, it just looked like you guys were having a great time.  So it works guys. You know, so, Alex, who is the new TAB manager? How can people in MIC get a TAB? Because Winnie is the manager, but I think it's too much work. So, you know, I don't blame Winnie, man. It's a lot of work. We now have thousands of people, so. Yeah. So if you want a TAB guys, how does one get a TAB, Alex, at MIC? There's a, I think there's a trading accountability buddy channel that you can say I'm looking for a TAB, or you can just post it into after hours. I'm pretty sure someone, now that people see you, Amos, on this, they're gonna be wanting a TAB, man. Tell you, tell you. Sounds good. I'm like, I'm pretty much in chat throughout the day, pre-market at the open, and then I'll stick around for after hours. So yeah, like if anyone ever needs to like hand me up, you could just send me a DM, and then usually I'll. Yep, we have the trading accountability channel as well. But even on top of trading, I mean, have you noticed that being in chat, I'm telling you, man, you now, it's like, we used to be bored. That's why we drink, right? We drink, we party, we're bored. Now you're like, okay, at least I law about the MIC. I can see what's going on, right? And people will talk to you. Yeah. For me, that's been a life changer guys, seriously, man. Because I'm like, without these IG lives, without just little poppings, hey, what's up? Sharing funny memes, or jokes, or daily inspiration, you know? It's kind of like, dude. And so, the next step is- It's just good people, good energy, and MICs, so yeah. Hey, Amos, we'll do this, man. I'll do this.  Over in New York somewhere, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm in Queens, but yeah, Manhattan, Brooklyn, anywhere around, New Jersey. Hey, man, don't, send the meetup. And we'll sponsor it, man.  You know, I want you to meet people from New York as well, because it's a lonely existence, man. And the best, so I told this earlier in the IG live, you want to surround yourself with the people that you want to kind of become, right? If you hang out with a bunch of party animals, then you have no choice, right? So, I go party, but I go. I don't want the party to come back to my house every day, right? So, things like that. And so, you're doing very good in your life, man. I don't want you to go back to that lifestyle. That's what I'm saying. If you want to meet, if you want to meet nice people like yourself that is goal oriented, I just, the best place to meet it is with an MIC, throw a meetup, meet them in person, see them get lost. And then, all you guys out there, guys, everybody is in the MIC. I want to throw a meetup. We will sponsor it in your community, okay? So, set up what you need to set up and hit up, meet myself and Alex, okay? If you want to throw it, whatever you want, man. Just say, hey, man, we will help you promote it, you know, because we can't be over in New York all the time, Alex is here and there. If he has time, he'll go, but sometimes he doesn't. So, it's okay for members. And we want members to throw these events and MIC will sponsor it. So, keep that in mind, my friend. Maybe I can host it at 235th rooftop as usual. Like, that's it. Yeah. Do it, bro. You guys usually do that, so, yeah. Let's do it. So, it's something fun for you, man. I mean, the weather now is getting decent in New York, I think. So, you've got to use it before the winter comes. Are you going to hibernate, man? Yeah, yeah, definitely before the winter, for sure. Yep, and we're going to do one in LA soon too, so before the winter comes. Hey, man, thanks, Amos. Any last words for anybody out there? Any encouraging, you know, because you've been there, man.  The only thing I would say is that if you're going through like a bad situation in life, look at it as a way to like grow and find strength in that bad situation. Because, you know what, if you can make it through that, then trading should be easy for you, you know.  Yep, and I remember, Amos, you were going through some tough times with your friends and personal, remember, you DM me as well. So, I mean, this is the comedian. You respond to it, sir. Yeah, so I mean, and this is what it is, man, because sometimes I need to vent. So I reach out, you know, I talk, you see me, man.   But you know what, man, that's what life is about, you know, having the people that you trust.  Not, I'm not talking about financial, the people that I've met, being able to, you know, do this, so I met people like yourself, which is part of me every day, man. Every day, I see, I'm like, oh, man, look at Amos, man. Okay, I remember how we were back then too, bro, so. Hey, man, keep it up, anything you need, let us know, man. Thank you, that's freaking awesome. You guys are the best. Thank you so much.  Thank you, guys. All right, thanks, man. All right. Thanks, Amos. See you later. All right, guys, that was good. So this is a great, next week we'll do the same. So basically today's, today's moral, the story is this, guys, surround yourself with the types of people you want to become. If you're hanging out with a bunch of people that just party, don't have their stuff together, you can still party, but that should not be your main set of people you hang out with every single day. If you want to become like a serious trader or just anything in life that doesn't, you surround yourself with that. So with MIC, you surround yourself with the type of character that you want. If you want to pump and dump, you join the discord room, that's fine. That is the person you want to surround yourself.   You don't see us talking about our luxury cars and stuff, but it's okay. There's nothing wrong in life. My point being is like, the point of this is, this is how you get to become the person you want to become, guys. You surround yourself in that environment. If you want to become a day trader, surround yourself with day traders. So these guys that are not in chat rooms, so they think I don't need anything from any chat room, the chat room itself, it may not necessarily teach you the technicals, but you surround yourself every day in that environment. You eventually buy osmosis. And look at that word, osmosis. You become that individual. If you hang out with a bunch of bodybuilders, you will start going to the gym.  But you'll be a great trader or a great human being, things like that.  So you surround yourself with a person that you want to surround yourself with, guys. And that, to me, is the first step. Amos did that. When I first, remember, Alex met, we saw him at the club. He was drinking, was partying, all that stuff. And it was like 3 a.m. and he had his old life. He thought training was the cure to his problems. It was not. He needs to handle certain things in his life. He went back and got a job at Bank of America, saved up money and now he's in a good place. And that's what everybody should do, guys.  But if you want to trade, that is your goal so that you can have a motivation to get to that goal. Amos' goal was to be able to become a day trader. So he sat down that in order to become a day trader, I need to get a job. I need to stop drinking. I need to stop partying with those guys. Tom Diesel wanted to become a day trader. So badly. He had $700 in his account. He could not afford it. So what he did was he drove an Uber at night so he could day trade in the morning. He drove an Uber, okay? Making $100, whatever, he made 50 bucks. He saved every single penny so that he can become a day trader. And now he's, Tom is a true successor from $700. I remember now he bought a house. He's a vacation.  That is the mode. That is what basically you should always think in your head, life by design. I design my own life.  It's okay to have a day job. I'm not saying anything. You can still have MSP for free by going to YouTube, watching these videos and be motivated. Not everybody needs to be a day trader. Not everybody needs to be a full-time day trader. You can have a job. My advice for most people out there, stick to your day job and trade. Because trading, you don't need to trade much. I always trade an hour. I mean, I made $3,000 a day in one hour. You know what I mean? But for me, I enjoy it. I teach people. So that's my life by design. My life by design is still that everybody just leaves me alone and just let me do what I love, which is teaching people to trade and trade. And so that's why I'm in the room all the time. I don't have to deal with any membership stuff. I don't know the price of MIC. To be honest, if you want to ask me how much is MIC pricing, go talk to Tosh. And so that's my life by design, guys. So the first step for you guys to do is sit down, think about what you really want to do in life and create a goal to get there. Don't just say, I want to become a day trader. There are 10 steps before that, 20 steps. First step, okay, how you have that money. Save the money, things like that, guys. You cannot become a day trader if you have no money. I'm sorry, you cannot trade with a dollar. So all right, guys, I'll see you on next installment, but this has been a very good first week back to the life coaching and trading. All right, guys, we'll see you back in the room. Go to the website, hit Tosh for information about membership. All right, guys, see ya.


So to appreciate just the simplicity, life is nothing much more than actually what is in front of my nose. That's what life is. It is not more than that. And anything that attempts to be more than that is actually going against life, so it's going to cause misery anyways.


Hey guys this is Dr. Ahmet Ergin. Today I am going to talk to you about best and worst breakfast ideas for diabetics.  I'm not gonna tell you what to eat, what not to eat. I'm gonna give you some ideas and I'm gonna tell you what's right and what's wrong based on what I have seen also on Google and YouTube etc. And this question comes to me all the time anyways in my clinic and I try to tell patients it's individualized. Everybody likes different things but I'll tell you what I prefer in my diet and what I tell my patients to do. So let's get started. I'm gonna start with the best breakfast ideas. So the best breakfast idea is not a breakfast that has no carbs. Of course you have to have carbs. Who can eat steak every morning?  You have to have some carbs. That's how a breakfast is. Everybody has carbs.  That's not a good doctor. A good doctor knows their patient understand what their needs are. Oh okay so you hate carbs good for you but a lot of people are not like that right. So let's go with the best breakfast idea. So for example an avocado toast with a pumpernickel bread. So let's say you're choosing a bread. I would suggest just don't choose the white bread. You know that. You can go with the pumpernickel bread, azicule bread, a bread that has more fibers you know less than that carbs. Remember the more fiber you have the less net carbs you have. So you can actually subtract fibers from the total carbs because those fibers are eliminating and creating less net carbs. So remember that more fiber the better on your on your bread and pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel bread and I think that's the best thing you can do.  Now so I would suggest that's that's a good thing right. So the second one is yogurt. So you can have a yogurt. Now too much yogurt is not good. You have to stay in moderation and you have to make sure that it's not having a lot of added sugars a lot of like fruits and stuff like that they add a bunch of stuff but you have to make sure it's a low calorie low carbohydrate high protein Greek yogurt is another good breakfast idea. Now you can also have eggs. You can have as many eggs as you want except the yolks. So I'm going to give you one yolk maybe to kind of blend with the rest of the egg whites. So for example what I do sometimes I you know I work out I don't look like I work out a lot but actually I do work out. So so I eat a lot of eggs but what I do is I will basically have like let's say five egg whites and I'll have only one yolk so just have a little taste. I will mix it with some feta cheese like a low-fat feta cheese and that gives a good nice little salty taste and that's that's a great idea. So you don't want to just have anything bland because then you end up hating it right. So you have to have a little bit of a taste so you can have avocado next to it you know like egg whites a little bit of a yolk and then you can have some feta cheese. The best cheese actually you can consume is goat cheese. So you can use goat cheese in different ways incorporate that to your breakfast as much as you can because the goat cheese the fatty acids in the goat cheese is the best. Now when you are treating your diabetes you also have to always think about your heart because you cannot just treat your sugar and just mess up with the cholesterol. So that's not a good strategy. So you have to make sure that you take care of all it's a holistic way. Now another one that you can do for your breakfast is frittata. So for example frittata for I mean I can give you a quick ingredients right here but that's another great way of having a good healthy breakfast. Now one thing that I enjoy a lot and my wife makes that for me and I take it to work sometimes and I love it even my employees will sometimes be like oh what's that doctor it looks delicious. I sometimes share with them sometimes don't I'm like hey I'm too hungry right now sorry.  That's another great way of having a good healthy breakfast for diabetes. Again these are the things that I eat and I don't have diabetes but I'm telling you and even if you have diabetes that diet is going to be wonderful. Now Mediterranean type of breakfast is another good friend you know for you check it out.  As I said if you're having healthy fat in your diet that's going to slow the absorption and prevent the blood sugar spikes it's not going to be as bad. Also having vegetables like I love cucumbers I love tomatoes with some feta cheese that's also another great breakfast idea. You can have fruits in your breakfast. If you're if somebody is telling you that you can have fruits because you have diabetes you're banned from fruits of your life drop that guy because you have to have fruits. Fruits is essential in your diet you just have to control that again one cup of fruits are your best friend when I say one cup you know think about like a baseball. So the bottom line is you have to control your carbs though and I'm not telling you go just fill your plate with everything I said you have to pick and choose for what breakfast you want to have try to keep your breakfast carbs below 45 grams if possible and that's going to be a good breakfast for you. Now you can also use turkey bacon if you are into bacon definitely you can use turkey bacon at your breakfast instead of a regular bacon which has a lot more saturated fat.  The second worst breakfast is an oatmeal loaded with tops so oatmeal is actually not that bad if you're controlling your portion size but if you're loading it with like bananas the brown sugar some other fruits and this and that then then you are really you can lose control of how much carbs you're getting with that oatmeal so but if you're having oatmeal with some maybe a Splenda or some non super starchy fruits in a smaller size nuts on top of it will be a good choice as well totally against bagels if you are not gonna take a three mile walk after eating a bagel do not eat that bagel even if you put a cream cheese on top of it which is not the healthiest thing to eat because a cream cheese is a lot of saturated fat regardless though bagel is going to really spike your blood sugar if you insist on eating a bagel go get some whole grain bagel and do not eat more than half of that bagel and make sure that's the entire carbs that you're gonna have at that breakfast and of course the waffles is a no no for you I would say you know if you're gonna have a waffle that should be a really special treat you should not be having pancakes again because you cannot just have pancakes without any toppings but if you're gonna insist on having waffles and pancakes again go for the whole wheat or whole grain styles there are some of them are like loaded with some protein and if you can incorporate some healthy fat with it you can get away with it again that's based on your blood sugar response some people are not as bad in terms of blood sugar spikes with those foods but again I would suggest try to eliminate them and try to make them as a special treat but do not make them a routine breakfast for yourself definitely white bread is something that you have to stay away from I hope you like this video guys and if you have any questions please let me know again this video is for inspirational purpose only you may be different so some people will say oh I'm happy I'm perfectly happy with my bacon every morning well that's fine but I'm telling you that's not fine for your heart and if you are okay with eating same protein every morning let's say you want to eat turkey every morning be my guest but I think that's boring so you need to kind of think about what I'm saying and take it what you can try to give some trial and error to it everybody is different understand that and I hope you enjoyed this video I will talk to you guys later make sure to give a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe and we'll see you in the next video


An oil tanker carrying crude owned by the US was confiscated by Iran. It was noted that Iranian Navy in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the American oil cargo carried by Advantage Suite Tanker in the Persian Gulf after the court order was issued. The US oil cargo was seized from the Advantage Suite oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. A group of Iranian patients suffering from Epidermalus' Bulosa, a rare inherited skin disorder, filed a complaint against the US at the International Relations Legal Court in Tehran, the patients alleged that the sanctions imposed by the US and other Western countries prevented a Swedish company from selling special medical bandages and pharmaceuticals to Iran, causing serious physical and mental harm to them.As a result of the order issued by the court, an oil cargo belonging to the US was seized from the Advantage Suite oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The value of the oil shipment is estimated to be more than $50 million. The United States reinstated its sanctions against Iran in May 2018 after leaving a United Nations-endorsed nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic and five other countries. Since then, Molek Healthcare, a Swedish medical device company headquartered in Gothenburg, has stopped selling pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, including special bandages for Epidermalus' Bulosa patients. To Iranian companies, citing the unilateral US sanctions, the move has deprived Epidermalus' Bulosa. Patients of essential medical items killed many of them and inflicted serious physical injuries such as amputation to some of the patients the Persian Gulf has witnessed numerous incidents in recent years, such as attacks on tankers and cargo ships, amid escalating tensions between Iran and the United States. Three Red Sea data cables cut as Houthi's launch more attacks. Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen's Houthi rebels, official said. The Associated Press reported this. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden but caused no injuries. While global shipping has already been disrupted through the Red Sea, a crucial route for cargo and energy shipments from Asia and the Middle East to Europe, the sabotage of telecommunications lines could further escalate the months-long crisis. The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe One, the Europe-India Gateway, CCOM and TGN Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global, communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. It described the Red Sea route as crucial for data moving from Asia to Europe and said it had begun re-routing traffic. HGC Global Communications described the CCOM-TGN Gulf line as being two separate cables when it is actually one at the area of the cut. According to Tim Strong, a sub-sea cable expert with telegeography, a Washington-based telecommunications market research company, responding to questions from the Associated Press, CCOM said that initial testing indicates the affected segment lies within Yemeni Maritime Jurisdictions in the Southern Red Sea. It said it was re-routing the traffic that it was able to change though some services were down. Tata Communications, part of the Indian conglomerate and behind the CCOM-TGN Gulf line told that it initiated immediate and appropriate remedial actions after the line was cut. Other firms behind those lines, which provide data to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, didn't respond to queries. Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles UK. The UK believes Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles. Defense Secretary Grant Shaps indicated, according to Politico, in an interview with the House Magazine, the senior minister confirmed that Britain has information on the reported provision of surface-to-surface missiles from Iran to Russia but declined to get into the details. The Reuters news agency reported in February that the Iranian regime had supplied Russia with a large number of ballistic missiles, a report that sparked a swift warning from the US that, if true, Iran would be greeted with a severe response from the international community. Iran publicly denied supplying Russia with the missiles. Speaking this week, Shaps suggested Britain has intelligence backing up the claim. I do, I can't get into it. Shaps told the House Magazine when asked if he had any information on Iran's provision of ballistic missiles to Russia. But whether it's ballistic missiles or the Shahad drones that they supplied Russia with, we've seen that if there's struggle in the world, often Iran are egging it on or helping to supply the food chain in this case, he said. Shaps added they are a bad influence, not just on their region but in this case in Europe as well. Any supply of missiles from Iran to Russia would indicate a strengthening of military ties between the two countries. Tehran initially held off from offering Russia missiles due to the threat of further sanctions.


Let's see where 1,000 here is kind of the same day. It's still Wednesday. It's almost five o'clock in the evening instead of almost one o'clock in the morning. But yeah, we're going to be getting a storm. It's supposed to hit the east side of Florida later this evening. And it's supposed to hit at a cat one. So it's not a hurricane yet, but it's in a cold tropical storm. We had our warnings today, but we're still under advisory. But yeah, it's been getting breezier and breezier. So it's supposed to get like, yeah, we're supposed to get not us, but when it hits landfall, it's supposed to be 75 miles an hour wind, which is a cat one. But then it's going to come up. It's kind of going to come over into Citrus County, which is my county, and kind of go on up into Jacksonville and up into Georgia. It's moving at 12 miles an hour right now, 70 mile an hour winds. We're supposed to get some heavy gusts I don't know if you guys can see that, but it was really blowing a minute ago. I went in and got the camera in it quieted down a little bit. We haven't had any rain. They're saying it's mostly going to be wind. There's going to be some tornadoes and stuff. But it's supposed to get bad force over the night, like later on in the nighttime. I don't know if you guys can hear that. Yeah, so it should be interesting, because it's coming right forth. Florida has not had a hurricane in November since 1985. So it'll be the first one in that many years. So it's moving around up there, up there, watching that squirrel. But yes, it'll be, what, 37 years? Yeah, 37 years. I'm just kind of going to keep you posted. I think we're going to be OK, but I'm sure we're going to get a lot more of this wind. That's not our car. That's mom's physical therapist, monkey ran to the store. But yeah, the path that's chilling right now, it's kind of going to go right over top of us. But that could change, you know. But yeah, it's on its way, so early morning hours we'll probably get some heavier winds than this. So just want to keep you updated. Like I said, right now it's about 5 o'clock. I'll update you later this evening. I'll put this up, and then I'll take it from there and keep going with another video. So it's not too long and not too boring. So there's that tree branch I was telling you about last night. It was way down into about that fork right there. Yeah, so yeah, it's been breezy all day, but it's just now starting to get where I can hear inside the house. So we got that window open. We had the back door open earlier. Monkey did, and kind of let the fresh air breeze through the house. All right, guys, I'll be back with you stick around. OK, guys, it's about 8.30. And the wind has picked up significantly. Monkey said, we came out back, and Monkey said, you need to go get your video, whatever that means. It's like as soon as I grab my camera, though, the wind does down. It goes in waves. It'll calm down, and then it goes again. Yeah, it's starting to get nasty. No rain, though, but they're mostly worried about the wind. This felt the sprinkle in that stuff in the garage. Yeah, a minute ago, these trees were really blowing over. Yeah, they were whipping. Yeah, they were whipping. They'll do it again in a few minutes. It comes and goes. But that's the beginning of this. Yeah, it's the beginning. I don't think it's made a landfall yet. No, I don't think so. It's getting closer, though. Yeah. Where did I tell you, 600 miles wide? You wouldn't tell me that, but yeah, I heard you telling somebody that. So everything's still fair and well. But as it progresses, I shall progress for you with the video. And my grass is getting covered. Eesh. I don't know why. What happens to trouble with this thing? It went out of focus really easy for some reason. Yeah, I'll keep you guys posted, Frank Lincoln. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Tomorrow and Friday is going to be the worst. Well, Friday won't be bad for us. No. Maybe tomorrow or early in the morning. I was supposed to come right over top of us. Yeah. I got to clean my lens.  Yeah. Again, we'll keep you updated. OK, guys, it's about midnight. I did clean the lens, and now it's raining on it. Great. It's not as bad as it looks in the camera, but yeah, it is raining. See it on the windshield, probably. Real fine. We're not supposed to get a lot of rain. We're supposed to get some, but not a lot, so. And it's been pretty windy, huh, mama? Yeah. Yeah. It's just come out. Is it raining? Yeah, it's raining. That's what I just said. Oh, you did? Yeah. Sorry. I didn't hear you. I was just going to breathe. I literally just said that as you was coming out. Yeah, so it's coming. It hasn't hit landfall yet, but it will. Wow, look. The coldness. That's funny. I gotta turn that up. But it'll hit landfall here in a few hours, probably. Now, this battery went dead. Oh, no. Yeah. It's not the battery port. I got the other one in the charger. But anyway, it's going to go out. Yeah, it'll hit landfall here in a few hours, maybe early in the morning. It's running, what I say was, 13 miles an hour now, with 75 mile an hour winds sustained. And it was what, about 63 miles away. So a few hours that it hit landfall. So probably daytime, we'll probably see start seeing our end of it a lot worse than this. So I'm just going to wait and see what's going on. I'll film it for you in the AM. Or if it gets worse or trees start coming down, I'll kick you on. So, all right, we'll be back with you, right, Monk? Yeah, get wet. I'll tell you what, these Floridians, a Canadian Floridian, down here in Florida, I freaked out the first year I was down here, man. There's three raindrops. People are running. They don't want to get wet. Do they? No. No, people, they don't work in the rain down here. All right, guys, here we go. Not focusing again. There we go. Might be moving too fast. But anyway, guys, I'll be back with you. It's Thursday morning, 9.30 AM. And we're getting some rain. Like I said, wind weren't supposed to get a lot. I mean, it was mostly around the lakes and stuff. They're worried about flooding. As you can see, this is what's going on. Now, Hurricane Nicole hit landfall around Vera Beach around 3 AM this morning. It hit as a cat one. It's now just a tropical storm because the winds are now at 70 miles an hour sustained in some places. I don't believe that. I think it's all pretty much a gust. And I'm not sure where it's at right now. I can't never get. Because where I'm at, let's face it. Our city's not big enough to know. I mean, that's pretty much it. It was like Hurricane Irma, you know? When we had Hurricane Irma, as soon as she passed Miami and Orlando, they immediately went into, on the news, about pictures of the devastation around there and stuff. And you kind of forget about us over here on the West Coast. Crystal River, Cedar Key, you never really hear about any of us. We're 16 to 18 minutes from Crystal River. And then they've got a hit pretty hard over there, the last bad hurricane we had. You didn't hear anything about it. So anyway, I'm not sure exactly where it is right now, but it should be pretty close to us. OK, guys, so this is what I come up with here. This is the path. Let me refresh this for you. As you can see, this is the path that, so she hit, she made landfall right here. Right here is where she made landfall. Vera Beach, sit around Lakewood Park, Fort Pierce. But Vera Beach is kind of, she went right into it. And this is the path she took. This was about 4 AM. That's about when I stopped hearing what was going on. I just happened to bring this up myself. Haines City, this is where we're at right here. Inverness, this is where we're at. This is Crystal River. This is Homassass Springs we camped out there. This is Cedar Key up in here. As you can see, her path is heading right through Cedar Key, right through Homassassa. As you can see, we're in this here. So apparently, this was, see it says here, this was at 7 AM. And this says Thursday at 1 PM right now. It's 9.56 AM. So when she gets right in this area, doesn't really tell me what time it says 9 AM. You know, it doesn't really, you know what I mean? Put this arrow here, and then it goes on. So Thursday at 4 PM, it's not telling me anything.  See, that's what I mean. It's not telling me anything. See, Max Gus will be, so this should be 1 PM. Max Gus will be 63 miles per hour. Max one will be 52. So, but see, I wanna, you know, I wanna know what's going on when she hits right in this area, cause this is where we'll feel it the most. And I don't know, it won't tell me. So that's what I mean. It's just, you know, but see like, like I said, it's gonna be coming right through Homassassa Springs. And then right through Cedar Key here, Cedar Key right here. She'll be coming right through here, see. And, but you're not gonna hear about that. You won't hear about Homassassa Springs. See, this is us right here. We're right in this general area here. So you can see how close we are to the coast here. Yeah. But that's all I can bring up for you. I'm sorry. So that's pretty much it. I'm sorry to say, but that's, yeah, that's just sometimes things don't make sense. I guess, that back to now. But yeah, so just kinda, kinda goes to show you. It's doesn't, they don't, you know, once, you know, like I said, here's where she made landfall right here and clear up here is Daytona Beach, New Smyrna, and you would say you're, we're still hearing all about Daytona Beach and she, you know, Daytona Beach is not even in the path. We haven't heard anything about Fort Pierce. We haven't heard anything about Vera Beach. None of these places here. We haven't heard anything about it. And as you can see, it's going clear through all these, you know, all these towns that you won't, you won't hear anything about, which is unfortunate.   It doesn't make sense. Therefore, city, that's just, just a couple of miles up the road from or well down the road, as you can see, just a few minutes. Like I said, Inverness to Crystal River, which is right in this area here. Well, actually right here's Crystal River. To go from here to this split right here is 18 minutes. It can be done on 15, 16, depending on traffic. There's Crystal River right there. So that's how close we are. But yeah, you'll never hear anything about home of Sassas Springs, Crystal River. You won't hear anything about Cedar Key, Rainbow Springs, Citter Springs. See, we're all in this path. Lake Pan, Lake Panosofky right here, Bushnell.  There's where our cemetery is, we went to Brooksville. That's where the, she'd always forget the name of that place. That was the abandoned subdivision that's all filled up again now and it's doing well now. State City, Zephyr Hills. Like I said, you don't hear about any of these places. A lot of people tell you, you know what's that? Here's Claremont. Okay, Claremont's pretty good size. Here's Leesburg. Claremont's a pretty good size city. You won't hear anything about that. And you know, they're in it kind of right here. I mean, so but yeah, I mean, according to this, I don't, you know, see this one's not spinning. This one's not spinning. This one's spinning. And that was at 7 a.m., which according to that was Heen City. So I don't know, guys. Like I said, it's just hard to find out. I wanna know where she is right now. And I really can't, you know, because I'm here, right here. And it's like they don't want you to know anything.  See, that was her. I mean, she lived right on the beach. They had a motel right on the beach. So you step off her backyard and you was on to the beach. But like I said, it just, you know, you don't hear, I haven't found anything about any of these cities, especially right here where she made landfall at 3 a.m., as you can see right there, especially right there. See, it's telling you category one. Now it's saying TS because now she's a tropical storm because winds are below 75 miles an hour. But look at that clear up through here though.  Haven't heard much about Orman, but yeah, there's Daytona right there. And here is where she made landfall. And I don't, you know, but we're hearing all kinds of stuff about Daytona. We did hear some about West Palm Beach, which is clear down here. We're hearing about that. We're hearing about Boynton Beach, which is clear down here. We've also heard, I heard this morning about some Bocher time. They're getting some high water and stuff, but all I've heard about Vera Beach is that that's where she made landfall. That was it. That's all. Yeah, I mean, it's not right.  You know what I mean? I don't get it. You know, it's like, well, the heck with them. Who cares? You know, but like I want to know and I want to know where she's at right this second because I knew she's not here because it's not 7 a.m. Where you can see right here, it's 10 o'clock in the morning. Good figure. All right, guys, back to the video. But like I said, it's hard to know. Didn't film anything after last night because, oh, it just got windy. So, but anyway, I guess she's moving at 14 miles per hour now. And of course, she's gonna, she'll slow down even more.  So it really slows them down. But as you can see, nothing's going on here except it is breezy, but it's been like this for, you know, two days now. That's some trees across there. But I've seen a storm like this, just a regular storm here. So yeah, this was probably, you know, unless something happens, this is probably gonna be, I'm gonna go ahead and get this out to you so you know what's going on right now. Because like I said, and anything you look up on it, it's at least an hour old at the minimum. And it's all, all I'm bringing up now is I can't even find out exactly where her, where, well, so it's a tropical storm now. I can't even find out exactly where she's at because once she came through that area and, you know, went past Flagler County, which she made landfall in Indian River County, I think it was.  They don't really talk much about it. We had, both of our phones went off with a, with a tropical storm morning, yesterday morning at like, I don't know, it was like three o'clock in the morning and that storm morning was only until noon yesterday.  And we had, you know, our warning was done and over with. So I don't get it. I don't understand how that works because it don't make sense to me how they could, you know, and this is worse than it was yesterday at noon. So I don't, I don't get it. Doesn't make sense to me. So I'll get this out to you and then if anything else happens, I'll, you know, I'll kick you on, but I think this is pretty much all we're supposed to get now.  Now let's move on to the devastation and then the cleanup. And meanwhile, you know, the West coast is getting slammed and it's like they don't care, you know what I mean? Like West two, you guys down there for to know what channel that is West two. Yeah, that's really all they covers their immediate area because we don't have any, you know, where we're at. You know, we're such a small town and we don't have any big cities in, in Citrus County. So, you know, there's no big news, news stations or anything like that to follow in anymore. And then it's just kind of like that's pretty much yet and everybody else forgot about, you know, it's not right. It's the money cities they worry about.  I don't know where the storm is at exactly right now, but she should be pretty close to us. But so anyway, as you can see, another hurricane. Haven't had a hurricane, kept Florida in November since 1985. So, all right guys, I'm gonna go and get this uploaded for you. I'll keep a watch on this today and maybe I'll do a live stream later. If it's, you know, if it picks up just to kind of let people, anyone in our area, you know, know about what's going on. Cause like I said, about four AM, that's the last I could find anything about where, where she was at. Well, she made it, she made landfall with 301 or whatever, you know, three o'clock and that was pretty much, I can't find her. If I don't know where she's at, nobody's saying nothing.  It's just, yeah. All right guys, so thanks for watching. Like I said, it starts getting worse. I will update on a live stream or something for you know, as far as viewers that might be close to this area or just want to know what's going on. Cause like I said, it's hard to find out. They just always talk about their immediate area and that's it.  They'll, they'll, when this storm gets close to Jacksonville, we'll start here, you know, they'll pick up more, maybe a little bit about Jacksonville, the Panhandle area, maybe. And then that's, that's pretty much going to be, you know, you won't hear about this where we're at right now. It could go right over top of us and there could be devastation entries down. You wouldn't hear about, you wouldn't hear about this town. You don't hear about Crystal River, Cedar Key. You won't hear about that. So anyway, guys, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Sharebearer the myth of Man of the Edge, I'm gone for now. We'll see you in the next one. Like you said, if it gets any worse, if I find out any more, I'll post something else later. But right now this is pretty much it. So bye-bye guys and take care.


Yo, what's up guys? I'm here with my good friend Julian Thomas.  Well, I'm a fitness transformation coach.  So here we go Let's do it. Let's do this All right Julian. So, you know your Your clients will say are like high-powered entrepreneurs executives and you work with them on a day-to-day basis What would you say is the number one question you get asked? Number one question I get asked. That's a good question There's always a multitude of questions. I mean it revolves around like what's the best exercise? What's the best supplements? What's the best way of eating and underneath it all? I mean, it's a lot easier than you think I mean just like a mirror is always schooling young, you know, business is a lot easier than I make it out to be Overthinking things, you know when it comes down to following this certain set of principles, you're gonna get ripped That's your goal to get ripped There's certain key metrics you need to be tracking absolutely You know evolving around how many how much food are you taking and how much calories are you using or how much calories are you consuming? And making sure you're making continuous progress in your strength training I mean you need to be focusing on two main things if your goal is to get ripped All right, you need to be focusing on maintaining your muscle and you do that by Focusing on strength training and the second thing is you need to be focused on shredding off fat which comes from Lowering or controlling your calorie intake and you do that by tracking it.    Why don't you? Have an amazing body to go with that, right? Aren't you crushing it in the gym and being physically strong?  It's just a few key lifts. So let's talk about your You know, let's not over complicate something give us your top three suggestions or like master tips That someone can implement like today right now. I Would give the three components my program is based around one is your mental programming, okay? You have to really really this is very overlooked and a lot of fitness programs You need to start training your mind To be the person you want to become okay, so the first component of my program is actually mental programming So I have you visualize exactly who you want to become right and affirm that Every day every day and that's going to slowly guide your behavior you're getting into your unconscious subconscious mind and in the nature of that second thing is Metrics okay food intake tracking this stuff don't have to You know stay away from food you love. I'm not super dogmatic like that But so we can have cheesecake every day if you wanted Calorie budget I call it a calorie budget. That's good There's a certain amount of energy or calories are a lot of every day You'll find that some foods so you don't focus on macros and micros. Well macros. Yeah for sure Yeah, but there's certain ways of eating certain food choices make that would make your diet a lot easier So if you go with junk food You're gonna be hungry most of the time if you don't want to risk blowing your calorie budget versus if you focus on whole foods That will be a lot easier The third component is strength training, you know strategic training So what are the key lifts to do? What are the key things to focus on what's the training strategy? You know, I mean if you're trying to get ripped and you Doing a lot of arms high reps Not only are you gonna make your diet a lot harder, but you're not gonna get the lasting results Sustainable results you want because ideally you want to get to a body you're happy with and just do the minimum effect So let me ask you this if you're stuck on an island What equipment and you're only allowed to bring say one or two piece of equipment. What would you bring? Power cage But with barbell weights sure we'll include that we'll include that in there.  I Like that lift that lifts is a good full-body exercise. Um squats.  I'm not against them I just don't want a thick lower body sure I get aesthetic. I need to be mobile I you know I play volleyball. I do but with the guys with skinny legs, man Squats come in handy. Yeah, yeah, it's what's it great to stick it up your legs But really at the end of the day is it is are you happy with it? Right, are you gonna be happy with thick legs? You can be happy with a 30 inch waist and they can't fit into any jeans So you have to get 34 36 you said I mean these are things that you have to think about if you're trying to Just get big by any means and you're following a coach that recommends high volume training lots of lower body Focusing on the number on the scale versus how you actually feel and how you actually look right what I train my students in is an aesthetic look so give us like a rundown on a Diet plan in an exercise regimen for a week Okay, you're not eating for the first several hours of your day. You must be crazy Intermediate Powerful powerful methods to get shredded quickly. It's it is. I love it and it's very very Complementary to most entrepreneur lifestyles, right, which is go go go hectic The second thing I mean there's two routes you can take you can pre plan your meals Which I do for some of them or you can go which is a much more pragmatic approach Which is flexible dieting so in other words Eating on the goal, but you're tracking and you're making sure you're not blowing your calorie budget for the day So explain that calorie budget. So what do you mean like if I'm allowed allocated 2,500 per day or something? So there's a certain number That a number of calories that if you took in every day based on you know, your height your weight And your activity level that would just Maintain that that number would just maintain your weight. Okay, so what we do We want to do what I'll get you to do Right taking my program is to calculate that number and then you're going to shave Certain percentage off usually go with 20. That's the modern So in doing so and sticking to that new number that new level Right, your body has to release energy To make up the difference between how much you're actually taking in and what maintain will be so in that release You lose fat because fat is the stored energy that's being released so do you Gradually decrease calories or is like for example, let's say we find out it's 3,000 you take then you said 20% will be 2800 so is it for like the first month 2800 then the next moment be 26 more like I mean Maintenance for me based on my activity level would probably be around 25 2600. Yeah, I want to bulk. I'll go up to 28,000 right if I want to get shredded I would go down to 18 or 17 Let me ask you this what's your take on all these different camps out there the low carbs high carbs Keto although a question all those guys. I've had experience with just about every way of eating possible What about what about the seafood I heard that one see food I see and I eat it Okay guys at the end of the day What is enjoyable a.k.a. sustainable for you, right and What will get you the results without you hating yourself hating your life, right for me? Ketogenic works for a lot of people. I don't like it. That's a tough diamond. I try I try it for a year, you know, it's tough Yeah, so you know low carb with which is I mean it's effective, but My favorite foods involve carbs and I'm sure yours do too. So we have to find something else now I tried carb back loading which is eating carbs that you know the end of the day Tried all these different things. What I found that suits well with my lifestyle is a little bit of flexible dieting Right, but I track everything I eat right because I'm on the go a lot.  Yeah, it can help because you eliminate what you eliminate one meal though You can but it also allows you to have bigger meals when you do eat which is like a boss You know, it's a lot more stationing. So I'm not a big fan of like the six meals a day thing What's your take on one meal? Sometimes I have one meal a day, but it's a boss meal Well, again, I mean it's like literally all my calories and it's at lunch Because I won't sometimes all depends on why I feel and I would literally eat like probably like 3,000 calories in one sitting Like the warrior diet exactly exactly yeah, if it's enjoyable and it works for you. That's what I recommend Yeah, three pounds of fish. So I teach I mean if you go to my website join Thomas dot fitness You can see you know, I have a look I have that look that ripped look and I just show them the look man. I Teach what works for me. He's being modest. He's shy what I've discovered over the years that really works for me Okay, and that's it that's it So I mean if it goes well with you to gel as well and I find that it's been very effective for my clients and they happen Mostly entrepreneurs and executives and if it works for you great It works for them But ultimately at the end of the day, it's gonna take some trial and error to really find what works best for you But most of them there's about all of them you need to track those key metrics track How much you're eating if you're trying to get shredded if you're trying to build your business and not focusing on numbers You know mirror will tell you you're not gonna get anywhere, right KPIs, baby, right? So if you're trying to get shredded or even bulk up if you're not tracking numbers, you're just playing a guessing game That's it. That's a big takeaway for them for this message. I think sweet awesome turn this around right now So we get in frame All right guys, you heard it from Julian the Terminator right here Track your stuff track your food Try some IF try low carb, try paleo try whatever each person is unique, you know, for example myself I Like kind of seasonal, but then again, I'm kind of more in the low carb. It just for me.  You know, I mean and gorge out on all different sorts of food I think too many too many people make food a religion It's not religion. It should be fun. That's what food is breaking bread is fun. It's an enjoyment You should be happy doing it. So figure out what works for you. All right, Julian I know a lot of people they want to know how they can get a hold of you my friend Check out Julian Thomas. Fitness. That's my website right now and you can sign up to my email list and I send out Different just send out about an email every week on this kind of topics and just revolve all around getting shredded especially if you're Powerful ambitious man. I'm gonna help you. I'm gonna help do it. All right guys catch you guys later. Adios. Peace


Welcome to Hot Takes, a completely unoriginal show here on YouTube where I rank films from worst to best and viewers either fully agree with me or throw a fit in the comments. It's a terrible trend. Let's get started with Toy Story. There it is. Instant rage from the viewer. Nothing screams, you've got a friend in me. Quite like watching our childhood favorites almost burned to death in an incinerator. It's still a great time at the movies as long as you don't mind crying yourself to sleep at night. Ken alone makes this one worth the watch. This one asked the question I never even thought to ask. Do toys come alive when you're not around? Apparently, yes. They also have the same emotions and power struggles we do. Woody isn't content on letting some cheap imitation spaceman knock him down from his top spot. Not without a fight at least. This was a great looking film when it came out. When it came out. People are still guilty of underestimating Pixar, but they've struck lightning now four times with the Toy Story franchise. My money continues to be well spent watching Woody find himself in the later stages of his shelf life. Bringing back the lamest character from early films and giving her a walking dead Carol makeover was a smart play too. The bottom line? Pixar still has it. When assembling these ranked lists, which have definitely never been done before, people often put Toy Story 2 at the top. So I'm going to do that too. I remember being far too bothered by Buzz playing a video game that has the exact same graphics as the real world the toys inhabit. Outside of that little hang-up, everything else in this flick is cash. That's a phrase I'm using now. We get a great backstory for Woody, a dramatic introduction to Cowgirl Jesse, and some more wonderful music by Randy Newman. Well there you have it, my hot take on the Toy Story franchise so far. I suppose I could have gone for broke and added in some of those TV shorts they did as well. Let's be honest with this show's four. The subscribes and the likes. So thanks for watching. Make sure to subscribe. And I'll see you next time.


Hello, I'm C.R. Howdy Schell, president at Visix. Excited to be participating in Green Lake Day. I'm joined by a valued long-term 15-year customer, Sreeni Vanga. He's vice president of information technology at W.R. Grayson Company. Sreeni, thanks for joining me today, especially in light of the $570 million acquisition completed yesterday. Congratulations on that. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your organization, and a bit about the relationship you've had with Visix? Sure. Thank you, Sreeni. Let me start with Grayson. Grayson is a $2 billion global specialty chemical manufacturing company. It's got two main business segments, catalyst technologies and materials technologies. Our FCC catalyst technologies help our petrochemical refining customers in producing mainly transportation fuel and petrochemical feedstocks. And our materials technology business delivers silica-based materials to our customers to improve their products and processes in segments like coatings, consumer, industrial, and pharma businesses. As C.R. as you just mentioned, we recently closed an acquisition and acquired the fine chemicals business of Albemar, which will increase our business share of pharma business. Coming back to me regarding myself, I've been with the Grace for 22 years. It's been a long time, guys. So I've been mainly in the SAP technology area and took over the role of the vice president and head of IT four years back. And I've been working with Visix for almost 15 years now. And it's been an excellent strategic partnership, C.R. Well, thank you. And we definitely appreciate the business and the relationship. So we'll move on to the next question. So what are the most important factors for you to be successful in the business? Obviously growth is going to be key with what you just accomplished with the acquisition, but what are the most important factors for you to be successful as well? Since Grace is a specialty chemical manufacturing company, it's very important for us to understand and sometimes even anticipate exact customer requirements and then quickly create that special material which helps improve our customers' products and processes. That's the most important thing for us. The company depends on me and my team to provide value to our business and helping them make decisions quicker and in real time and adaptable to the ever-changing market and the business needs to C.R. So that's the most important factor for me. Great, IT is obviously playing a bigger role as you move forward. Good. So what are some of the most, I don't like to use the word pain points, but I'll call them business challenges in your industry. So building on my previous point, so chemical manufacturing is not new and it has evolved over the years and with numerous mergers and acquisitions along the way, the systems and processes are not always harmonized or standardized. So keeping it moving together and in the same direction has always been a challenge. And added to that, COVID has affected most of the sector and our industry is no exception, especially in the refining sector. We need to be able to provide rapid customization to our customers, which means our business which needs flexible computing power to process and analyze huge amounts of these material properties data and allow them to come up with products that we can go to market faster than our competitors here. Right, got it. And obviously that's key. Yes. You touched on this briefly but I'd really like to hear more about how your business has changed in the last year. You mentioned COVID. So love to hear how things have changed and what you can share. So specifically about COVID, right? So about 50% of our employees have been working remotely since March of last year. Unlike other industries, we cannot go 100% remote because we have chemical plants to run and chemical labs to operate. So we'll always be at this 50%. So technology has enabled us to do that. We have done a lot of things remotely which we never thought possible. We did virtual factory visits for our pharma customers, remote plant startup for our polypropylene customers. And also did virtual annual customer conferences. In the end, some of this will go back to pre-COVID days but most of this is going to stay and stay here for good. Well, congratulations on that because I think the whole working remote, I think we're all seeing the challenges but obviously it looks like you've seized the challenge and it's gonna be more of business as usual going forward. Yeah. Well, congratulations. That's key obviously to the business. Also going forward with a hybrid model, I mean, many customers, a hybrid cloud journey. Will you share with us a WR, Grace and company journey for the hybrid cloud? Sure, yeah. When I took over this role four years back, I made a decision that I no longer want to be in this data center business. We need to focus on our core strength and core competencies as a chemical company. And I wanted IT to be spending more time helping our business manufacture and sell our products safely and efficiently. So working with our strategic partner, Advisex and HPE, we moved ahead with GreenLake which just solves mainly my problem of this getting out of the data center business. We now have a private on-prem cloud solution that is elastic, fully scalable and is based on the consumption based model, right? So that's very similar to what these hyper scale cloud providers have. And I love it. The consumption based model is what is great about the GreenLake that I have signed up. With GreenLake, I can scale up quickly and I can grow as my business needs grow. And it makes this a perfect cloud solution for Grace. That's great to hear, especially since we are a big part of it, I would have to agree with the words getting out of the data center business, we're hearing it more and more as we here meet with more customers. So with that in a hybrid model, there are a lot of decisions to be made on what goes in the public cloud, what should remain on-prem? And obviously this is the decision you had to make. This can be crucial when it comes down to business critical applications. How did you and your team approach this when you were looking at your SAP environment? Great questions here, but for me the answer is simple. As I told you previously, like I did not want to be in the business of data center, I also did not want to be in the business of developing custom applications. We retired most of our custom built applications in procurement, sales, HR, and replace them with the SaaS providers like Ariba, Conker, Salesforce, and SuccessFactors, which are all hosted in the cloud. These companies spend billions of dollars in R&D and come up with solutions that are state-of-the-art in these processes that I talked to you about. So unless I have a special need, which I don't in the finance procurement and HR, I don't need these custom built applications, which is the reason I went to these SaaS based applications, all of which are hosted in the cloud. That leaves me with my mission critical application, which is SAP and its peripherals, right? For business reasons, I wanted this on-prem. So I chose the HP GreenLake to host this on-prem in my own data center at our headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, but with a DR capability in the cloud so that I don't have to have a colo facility, which I have right now for my DR. So I use both on-prem and cloud, hybrid cloud for myself, for Grace. So I have very few custom built applications on-prem, and as these become more standardized, I'll certainly look at taking them to the cloud or even keeping them on-prem. So we wanted that inherent flexibility here. That's the reason we went to this model. That's great, because that leads in right into the next question I had for you. Many customers in this past year, they're all looking for the flexibility, right? And how important it is. Can you share with us the value you see from HP GreenLake and how that provided flexibility for WR Grace and companies, specifically to workloads that can easily scale up or down? The main thing that helped me make the decision for GreenLake is that GreenLake is sized with this 20% buffer that we can scale to in minutes. That would usually take weeks or even months to deploy. We now have that power and flexibility in mere minutes. When our business comes to us with a new requirement either for a new applications or new data analytics capability that needs computing power, I don't have to wait for two or three months to give them that capability. So it can be done right away with this 20% of flexibility. That's great and agreed. So this is a newer question with the event of your acquisition. How do you see that added flexibility when you're looking to integrate a new company? This is exact, you hit it on the head. So yeah, that's true. If I were to, if I had to bring this on with this additional computing power, I would have had to place an order, wait for the codes, come back in and do all that. With this 20%, I can easily fit in a new acquisition. That's great. And that really helps for the short and long run. I'm sure that helps the business. Yes, absolutely. The last two questions really is, can you talk about what really stood out for Advisix, with Advisix and about Advisix? Basically why Advisix and what you saw the benefit of working with us? Advisix, CR, you have a great team, CR. So I've been working with, I told you, right, for 15 years and I've been working with the same account manager for most of these years and the team as well, right? So the account manager and the team knows how I operate and what I expect of the team, right? So I can call them 24-7 anytime, day or night and they always pick up my phone and assist me in that time of the need. That's the most important thing. That's the reason that I've been working with Advisix and Advisix, I'll always propose good solutions to me either with HP or with other vendors. I can always trust them. We have developed a strong strategic relationship and more importantly, like I told you, there is this trust that is difficult to find and it has continued to endure. And I deal with a lot of IT vendors and I can confidently say that Advisix is at the top of the list from the customer service perspectives here. Thank you and listen, that means a lot. I know we've had some bumps, you know, I've been on the phone for some of the tougher times but you know, you get through those to the good times like now and really, really excited about what we're doing with GreenLake. So and most importantly, appreciate that relationship and I'm sure Marlon Acunha is gonna love the fact that you mentioned the relationship. So thank you for that. You know, finally, you know, any parting words of wisdom for other customers as they consider HPE GreenLake? Like I stated earlier, you must ask yourself, do you really want to be in this data center business? Ask yourself what your core businesses and what your core competencies are and focus your business acumen to deliver those that value to your business. I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusion as we did and take a good look at GreenLake for its flexibility. You'll be very pleased and happy with the value the solution provides to your business. I would have to agree. And what we're seeing with the best of breed solutions you can bring forward with GreenLake, we're excited about it too and look forward to doing more work with you and customers like W.R. Grayson Company. So I wanna say thank you for the time. As importantly, thank you for the business. Really do appreciate it and appreciate the kind words. Thanks and have a great day. Thank you, Ziyar.