Head to the stream There we go. Just bring up a couple of stocks and let me just share in this room. All right, there we go You got so many windows up and running like I said always takes a while to get everything up and running But before we get started everybody just to do a little shout-out what a nice mover in the SYPR Damn we killed it this morning on this one in pre-market, huh? Beautiful stock from eight o'clock this morning the thing ran almost a hundred percent. Look at that went from three dollars to six fifty It was great. All of us in pre-market did well if you guys missed us on YouTube and Facebook live Sorry, you got to get to try you got to get in a trading room Just like his friend does and do a $9 trial just get in for the week and just see what we're doing But this one stock alone. I think most of us are pretty much done for the day. All right, but It's not even open yet. So we'll talk a little bit about it and then we'll talk about some other stocks up But before we get started, I just want to do um Want to talk about what happened yesterday? You know Powell came out and spoke The market crashed. Okay. I sold I took some hits and some stocks Okay, and then I got so ticked off because in a market start coming back I had to buy back into them and you know and thank and end up breaking even if I didn't sell yesterday I probably have been off maybe, you know, maybe five percent on my fold me More than five percent on the day on my swing trades, but I just like you know what it was coming out so hard It just the market just really took a huge hit Did pretty well in some swing trades You know on some day trade stocks that did that did bounce from that rally. I'm gonna talk about them specifically the airlines let me try a like Let's just try Delta for example right here and let me just bring up a five-minute charge You can see what I'm talking about so you can see that we had that big big correction right there where it dropped from 48 Over down to 46 and then just shot right back up. So and then in the afternoon. They did really well. So yesterday Airlines crew stocks, I mean you could see even carnival I Mean just like had a great rally Don't look at the day trading stock but look over here on the swing trading stock I mean listen since February $18 stock the stock literally is almost almost doubled. All right literally almost doubled here and You know, it took a big hit, but it just came right back down. So whatever that news when he came in I guess people started getting a little nervous. I'm telling you I said being the market going down is healthy It scares everyone, but you could see if people are still are still Feel positive about the market. I know a lot of people out there I know we have some old fellows and fellow traders in our trading room, you know You're not making money on yields. It's you're getting crushed on yields take a waste of time Everything is actually in you know, what's going on in the market. So Just just be a little on the careful side regarding about what you're getting because some things are risky Some are not but I told just a while ago I was a big fan going back in March, which is literally about a year ago and you look back on YouTube I was a big fan. I put all my nephews my nieces everybody into airlines And you know what they're just starting to pick up right now and I told you, you know, there were stocks up about 500% a thousand percent. Yeah, I know we missed the Teslas.   The government's gonna bail them out eventually. They bail out the financial district. You know the finance crowd They did it again, but anyway a couple of stocks just banging out some of them I want to talk about AMC also AMC was also a pretty fun stock trading, but you know what you gotta be careful I know a lot of people talking about AMC and trading it I trade I actually lost money on it and then I bought it back and I made my money back on it because I'll you know, listen the stock trade of four million shares the stock trades a lot of volume and You know, it's obviously news came out pretty good. You know here in New York Our governor Cuomo said he's gonna basically allow movie theaters to open up and that really made that stock rally from six and almost went as high as almost eight bucks so But it is pretty volatile, I mean this stock is moving 10 cents wings It's not an easy day to trade you're pretty much better off swing trading it But you know, but then she started getting pretty ugly in the afternoon, but the airlines obviously yesterday were just awesome I mean United Airlines American Airlines. I mean go down the list 1921 Those old did really really well first going into going into yesterday now on What are your thoughts, okay, we got it we got what we're gonna talk about that somebody's asking me right now on YouTube About ONTX. I'm gonna check that out in a minute But but just wanted to just cut touch upon some of the stocks that we traded Yesterday that you guys missed and and I spoke I've been talking about them the last three days Okay, since last week I said airlines airlines airlines, you know, I mean airlines look like they're really making a star making a push You'll hear too much about them, you know, but they are making a little bit of comeback Just be careful that not the easiest stocks to day trade. All right All right, so now let's talk about what's moving this morning. So let's go pop on our big winner right now The SYPR look at the stock breaking all-time highs right now. It looks like she's starting to break out She's got some nasty shakes. She hasn't been cooperative up until 845. You can see she's at like six six fifty She's moving pretty quickly now when I look over here, you know really it's kind of hard to see and monitor the stock on the Right remember we use two vehicles when we trade we use level three and we use level four Now some of you don't even know what the hell that is somebody like well I know what level two is which is on the bottom Which is all these yellows and greens and reds and you're probably looking at it like this thing is moving way too fast I can't comprehend fast of what's going on. I know I get it But this is what we teach on the right hand side. Another thing very very fast moving stock But what what we do see right here, which is actually working out a little bit better for us I'm gonna bring up the heat map Okay on the CTU book map right here on level four and you could see that now this makes a little more sense and For some of us we saw that there was a big big iceberg or let me just go back There was a huge iceberg order big block orders hundreds of hundreds of thousands share over a million shares Was sitting around 650 the guy got done it got hit once at 845 you can again hit again at 850 And then finally it took them out at right 905 Which you could see right now before we started and that's why it's breaking out Okay, so for some of you here like you're looking at this you like how do you know it's going up or going down? I'm gonna repeat it again. We follow the money.  That's why you got to have the right tools. Okay, so anyway, you guys did really well some of you probably should be done already Michael says Fausto was talking about this morning's runner. Yes. I'm talking about the sy pr, which is up right now And actually still strong. It's still really strong and I'm looking to hear on the level four. I mean I'll I'll share with I don't see any more sellers out there. I mean look I'm not getting I'm not getting any big block orders Like I saw earlier $10,000 at eight bucks Me I'm I'm trying to go $14. I'm looking I mean I'm not seeing any more sellers guy just came in here Yeah, I'm not seeing any more sellers.  All right So anyway, that's a good stock. We're gonna watch couple of the stocks which we did a we mail a lot of I forgot to Mention this stock.  Oh my god, who traded workhorse yesterday. That was awesome, right? I'm believe I did too actually Look at this for some of you on YouTube Facebook you probably like what we talking about this stock got halted and halted and Hold I think that the news came out of some other company did a merger and they over inflated at the company's not worth What it's really work and all these stocks that are all EV stocks I mean all these electrical car stocks got hammer This one went from 28 and listen This was at 3 o'clock it just dropped and it dropped and it dropped and then it and then all of a sudden Right around $14 $15 it started not getting halted so much. I know a lot of you guys got in I know not too much too many you got into the 14 ish but I think a lot of us got into the 15 and It went to like I know Josh did really well on it It ran it's like 15 50 $16 6 that went on to almost high is $17. So it was a great dead That's what we call a dead cat bounce.  Okay.  Come on. We teach that in class.  Okay? Right exactly the p-trader.  That's why we call it dead cat bounce So anyway, that was one of them that stock with the 28 it died it died it died And then all of a sudden when they hit the floor boom it bounced so that one was an awesome Dead cat bounce trade on workhorse All right, so um, but we did well on that one, but I want to watch it today Listen, it's coming back down to where it is if the stock holds you're pretty strong This stock could also be a pretty good stock to trade GGS AT's another one. There were a couple of stocks had really nice pushes this stock got hammered It's coming up a little bit. It's got some really good volume 10 million shares up 16% good spread I didn't like it this morning because you drop this high is like 218 and now she's coming back a little bit there's a lot of stocks that were in that big percentage gainers list and Not really seeing it. You know what I mean? Like I'm not I wasn't sold because if you look at here on the bottom left A lot of them don't even have that much volume, you know, like I saw this stock this RRD and I don't know It's just it's up 30% but you could see it's like down trending wasn't a fan of that all though Throw I threw that one in there had great after I was trading but this morning.  But there wasn't really that many stocks out there. I had this one the FSR I had second thoughts on it stock were from 21 this by the way, this is another stock like workhorse Okay, same thing that got that in the same car in your electric car business now Now you probably also know what you're hearing a lot about Bitcoin Bitcoin has been all over the place and You know when I bring up our Bitcoin stocks like riot The stock obviously gapped up really big this morning and boom. It's starting to go back down. Okay same thing with Mara Be care guys be careful with these stocks. Okay, don't screw these things are very very volatile You got to be a category five Trader you got to be one of the traders in here that averaging like listen this thing's doing seven eight dollars swings yesterday. I mean Right it was down like seven to 18 points wasn't it? I mean this thing was like Hammered me bring it up over here. You can see on a long-term chart. Yeah, this thing literally went from like $60 dropped down to 45 So and you got to be really really really careful to trade these stocks All right now on just one person out here brought the stock fast look at on YouTube says house.  It's a penny stock. I'm not really fan of it. It's not really going anywhere It's up 11% to me personally. It's right now. It's garbage not doing anything now things could change when the market opens up And as of right now not really good. It's the good stock to trade. Okay All right, any other stocks that I'm missing. I did not call out Anything else got 15 minutes. All right, so anyway, I want to make one No, I want to say thank you to Grant Brockway. You all know who Grant Brockway is Grant Brockway made this for me He sent this in and I like to thank him. It says the The 32-foot FF Falstow fishing team. Thank you very much Grant Brockway for that. That is a beautiful gift I'm gonna hang it in the office at CTU. I always appreciate you guys sending these gifts I know all of you. Andrea always brings us good Who likes to fatten us up on our diets, but we love his cookies and everything else the Great Baker from Canada You know, but Grant Brockway, thank you very much for that. All right, really appreciate it. Pretty cool. Yeah, absolutely So anyway guys, we're gonna be don't forget tomorrow open house 12 o'clock if you're on YouTube Facebook live Please register like us friend us on get the alerts everyone else out there like I said, you see something you say something to trading room and If you're new to here to cyber trade diversity John Kay Kennedy All you new trial members in here in the trading room. Please just be patient. Don't buy anything We call out just watch the traders remember we don't teach you how to make money in trading We teach you how to stop losing it Winners take care of themselves. You've got to learn how to stop losing. That's everyone's biggest issue. All right All right guys, so good luck. Happy trading. We'll see you back here at 2 30. All right Oh, and oh, let's forgot to mention traders talk yesterday Um is up now. So if you miss traders talk at 11 o'clock, it is up and running It's on the YouTube channel and you can get to watch that traders talk with Josh. It was a great class So don't miss that. All right. Thanks everybody. Good luck and happy trading and for everybody inside the group room We'll start commentary in less than less than 15 minutes


Hi, I'm going to show you how I teach young children about magnets, what attracts them to a magnet and what does not. First of all, I show them various kinds of magnets, a bar magnet, and one of these types of magnets, and we, of all, the circle magnet. And what we do is I show them some things that you could find in the classroom or in your house or wherever. I have a rock and some paper clips, a button, a key, and a little metal washer, and a pen. And I throw it in a bag, and we pretend like we're going on a fishing trip. So attached to a stick is my circle magnet. The kids think, what will, what will attract your magnet? I don't, they don't have any idea. So they go in there and they fish in the bag and see what they find. And they just kind of wait until they pick something up. There's some paper clips and a key, so they know that's what's going to attract the magnet. And they keep going in there and see if they can pick something out and nothing else comes out. So what we do, let's try one more time, and out comes the washer. And they keep doing it, keep trying and trying, and nothing else comes up. So then they empty what they have left in the bag, and they see that a button in a rocker left, and it didn't, the magnet didn't attract to that. But it did to things that are like this, and I asked them, what is it that these are made out of that's different than this? And hopefully we will talk about the things that are made of metal will attract, my magnet will attract to certain kinds of metal. And that's, and then we take this and we go around the room or in the class, in the home or outside and see if there's anything else that would attract to a magnet. And that's how we teach about what attracts the magnet and what does not. Thank you.


Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I will have another episode of Windows 11 Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to stop one drive from syncing everything on your computer. If this is your first time or if you visit, thank you for your support. On this channel I'm also trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box this is the channel to subscribe. If you're only looking for tutorial videos there will be links in the description box below. So I just upgraded to Windows 11 and the first thing happened to me is that you know my OneDrive cloud storage started giving me notification that my drive is full which could not have been because you know I just have a very limited files in OneDrive folders and out of 5 gig space I use only one gig. So what I noticed that when you switch to Windows 11 by default OneDrive starts seeking everything from your desktop or from your documents and as a result drive 5 gig storage was full within like 10-15 minutes and I had to delete you know all the files manually and it was a big hassle. So in today's video I'll show you how we can stop OneDrive seeking everything from your computer and this is just very easy and simple to do. So the first thing you're going to be doing is just click right here and here you're going to see OneDrive. Now if you do not see OneDrive then other way you can open it is just click on the search box and search for OneDrive and then here you're going to see OneDrive. So click on it and then it's just going to open OneDrive and then here you're going to click right click from here and then from here you're going to right click and then if you go to OneDrive then here you're going to go to settings and basically we're going to be dealing with this section but I'll just close this and go back from here the hidden icon. So just go here right click here and then here you're going to see help and settings and also here you're going to see settings so if you click on it then it's going to bring you to this tab or section where you're going to see settings it counts backup. So let's start with settings. If you want OneDrive to stop automatically you know start when you sign in to Windows then you can just uncheck that but I do not recommend that because that way it's not going to run every time you start your computer or sign into Windows and so you can just like you know keep it checked and we are going to move on to the next section which is accounts. Now if you'd like to unlink OneDrive from this PC then you have to just click here but the problem with this is that this is not going to save you're not going to be able to save anything in OneDrive if you'd like so you know I don't recommend that either and here the next tab if you go to backup and what happens here important PC folders here you're going to see that you know if I click on manage backup and by default OneDrive is choosing all these folders to save and as a result you know it fill up completely very fast so you have to just uncheck all these and then if you x that then it's not going to save those folders anymore and here you have more options that if you'd like to save automatically photos and videos then you can check that but I don't see any need for that because it's going to fill up your 5 gig free space very fast so basically this is what you're going to be doing and then just go back to account tab again and here you can actually choose your folders which will be available on this computer so basically let's say you have OneDrive synced let's say 10 folders but you don't want all folders to show on this computer so if you choose here it's going to show all the folders you want on this computer and let's say if you don't want some folders you can just uncheck them and those folders are not going to be available on this computer but they will still be available on cloud but you're not going to be able to see them on here so you might want to do that if you are if you don't need some folders to be appearing on this computer then you can do that so basically that's how you can un-sync or stop OneDrive seeking everything from your computer thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


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So looking ahead to the joint practices how excited are you to kind of just go up against another team and have that environment? Yeah man super excited you know to be able to have the opportunity to go against some other players and it's gonna be a good week I think for both teams get some hot some hot competing in and you know see how you know other guys do versus competition they don't see all the time so I think both organizations looking forward to it I'm you know it's gonna be a good time. We're talking to Brian there's that line of like all right we're getting too competitive we're getting a little too intense how do you kind of stay in between those lines? I don't know if it's much of a line you know you can't go out there going crazy but at any day you know it's a job to be done on both ends and you know it's a competitive game physical game and you know whatever done will be done and you know that's why we do what we do and that's why you know guys play this game. You was talking about how the practices are kind of more chippy more interesting game maybe sometimes because it's a little bit of a different energy in the practice. Yeah definitely definitely more grimy definitely more grimy in practice and that's why you want to make it harder in the practice you know so and definitely down to the group of guys you got man you know we got some guys who willing to willing to buckle it up you know and so I mean it come down to the character of the team but a controlled aggression is probably what we want to go with the most. Do you feel like last year against Miami that helped? The joint practice? I think it was cool that was my first experience with a joint practice I had fun and to be able to see go against a competition from another you know organization in the preseason for a couple days was good and a good experience so I mean I enjoyed I enjoyed it and from my one experience that I've had so I'm excited to have two this year. It doesn't happen on every rep but when you have AO one-on-one against do you enjoy those that's two high-level guys going against each other how are those battles? Yeah you know it's been highly competitive between me and Chris for years and I think it makes us both better pros and both you know and but I mean just going against each one of them guys across the line man I mean a lot has been doing a great job for us man I've been encouraged to have him come in and do a good job and he's been a highly competitive dude and so I mean them two guys you know I can't get much better work than that so I mean I'm super super excited to have them on my team and but yeah I mean you know Chris is a special as a special player and he'll be doing doing good for a long time. Do you ever kind of have a dialogue with those guys if you win a rap or what they do? Is there any kind of back and forth like here? Here's how I got you that? I mean you can have a dialogue I don't I mean I think you can talk about it on time but it ain't really like to me the competitive nature you know it happened in a moment you know I don't think talking about it you got to make adjustments we pros out here you know I'm saying I'm not about to sit here and say oh well just but I mean you could talk about it but that ain't really my steelo you know and I just I just don't I wouldn't even ask for his you know I'm saying because I gotta do how I need to do what I need to do and he might have the different process but that's how I handle my business so I mean I don't know about that I think you know every day is a new day we just grinding stacking the days man stacking the days we in the middle of camp and just got two preseason games left you know you got guys competing for spots and guys trying to you know get better day in day out I think if you look at the whole picture it can become overwhelming so as long as you take a day in a day out and just stack the days everything else to take care of it so you know I mean a lot you know to have have my family support you know my mom hasn't never had never missed a game and you know she gonna make it happen regardless you know so that mean the world to me me having my first child having my son it's just been has been amazing my girlfriend his mother she's been amazing support for me and sort of my whole family so I mean it's been it's been really good it's been a blessing and it's been extended family as well you know people tap dead with me from you know all across the country just supporting me and wanting to see me do good and so I mean it mean a lot man definitely take a village and but but you know I could I could I couldn't be blessed with a better situation and I'm grateful grateful for that and I mean it's just super cool you know we had the open practice last night in the stadium and I'm just running around my little dude man is he got his Jared stuff old and just it's just it's really surreal you know because at the camp last time he was he was in that stomach you know I'm saying kicking that stuff I think he might have felt was going on but he ain't see it so just to see him becoming more aware and just see what's going on he come on the field and run around and so I mean like I said like I said the interview last year just talking about you know at this point in my life you know it's about leaving a good legacy you know for my family and building that and you know making making the family name great you know make people proud when they hear that name and so that's one of the biggest things I'm proud of is just pride that I can give my family and the experiences and you know it's about giving back they give me so much too you know so it's a definitely a team effort and you know thank God every day you know for them and for their protection and continued support and you know because it's a journey we all do together. I mean again this is our roster when you talk about the punt return room the returners we have we're very fortunate here to have a bunch of different guys that could catch filled punts which is not easy to do Mike and when you talk about that position the number one thing that we're looking for is one decision-making and ball security because anybody you can have a guy that's dynamic with the football but they're not making the right decisions and they're not catching the ball properly and having ball security then that goes out that goes you just throw that in the back burner when it comes up being a returner right now all of our guys are making great decisions when it comes to practice we only had one opportunity in the game but you get fast forward you could move forward let's talk about kickoff return like you had Cam back there you have Avery Williams back there I thought they did a great job this past week and making great decisions when it came to when to take the ball out when not to take the ball out so those are the two top things decision-making ball security What do you see on kick return translate in some ways to punt return and then making a decision maybe on the punt returners since the theory of Kodaro being a kick returner still exists I thought D-Lay was going to be the returner all right that's what we talked about that yeah on Madden right Madden okay I got to see that tape we got to pull that out return right we got a ball set up return right you went left all right so when you talk about that's good all right so when we talk about kickoff returners I know the two different spots because as a punt returner you can't control when the coverage is going to be downfield based on the hang time based on how far that ball is being punted on kickoff you think theoretically it's going to be about 30 to 25 yards of space when you do catch the ball so when it comes to decision-making they're two different things because there's two different ball flights there's two different rotations on the ball and the coverage is in different spots when you talk about when the ball is being caught so we try to you know match those guys up but I think that's why CP is a kickoff returner that's why there's guys that could do both that's why there's guys that could just do punt return and you just got to make sure that we're putting our guys in the right position understand the rules of the game and then making sure they're making the right decisions when it comes to that play. Oh yes yes you want to be able to when our defense makes a stop and we get to fourth down the number one thing is that we make sure we have the ball the next play we got to have the ball the next play our defense work too hard to get that stop and then that ball is being transitioned to us we have to secure the football and that's the worst thing that could happen is you get you put your defense back out there and now they're back out there and now that offense that we're going against has better field position so that's the biggest thing right there. He's been doing a great job you know getting in our program understanding what we want to accomplish on special teams on field goal punts kickoffs he's been great for the room he's been great for coup he's been great for our other core players when it comes to special teams and again his best days are yet to come in his profession and we're excited to have him. Reaction to when he got signed because he is an established veteran the guy who's done it that high level. As an organization I can speak for us we were excited to have a guy that's been a special teams captain Super Bowl champ you know he's had a great career so far and he's continued to get better and grow and overall he's a good human being you know both on and off the field like guys like being around him he's a leader by example he works hard at his craft and you can see he looks at helping others get better around them and that's what we're looking for here. I mean there's always those thoughts whether you know based on his workload based on what type of team we're going against and I know I've kind of answered this question before it's a week by week process and decision when it comes to who's gonna be our kickoff returner yes we love CP to be back there and he wants to be back there and do we want him to break the record or for sure we want to break a record the guys that are out there blocking for them once and they want them to break the record and but the number one thing is we want to help our team win just so happen if we do it while helping our team win that's a bonus you know but when it comes to that decision-making you know it's just a case by case week by week depending on what type of team we're going against let's say we're going against a team all they're doing is just hitting touch backs well there's no purpose if they're hitting it out the back of the end zone to put them back there when it comes to that but if we're going against a team and we know that we like what we have whether it's on our offensive staff what we were doing our special teams what we're doing of course we would love to have them back there and I know that he wants to be back there and everybody in our special teams room wants them back there to be our returner. What makes him that guy back there? What makes him a great kick off the job? I mean he's fearless and he runs full speed while people are running full speed at him. Anybody can run a 4-4 but it takes a different person and different mentality to run full speed while people are running full speed at them. You get what I'm saying with that aspect vision break tackle ability that's what it like comes to you and guys like and I think his personality is a big thing too who he is as a person because guys love going out there and playing hard for him you know you could have a guy that out there that doesn't probably doesn't have the best attitude or whatever and that guy might block but he might not block as hard because he doesn't really care for that person and in the locker room and on the field you can see guys are all working hard with each other for each other and C.P. is one of those guys that he's always been a great teammate to his teammates. That's a way to get a helmet on Sunday. If you're not starting on offense or defense you better be starting on special teams and you better put yourself in a position where you could help on all four phases five phases if possible and it could not just only be a court player it could be offense alignment helping us on field goal it could be a defense alignment helping us on field goal block or punt rush and again it could it's all across the board not just the late-round picks it's anybody that's on this team if you could help us on special teams and you could help us gain a first down in the return game or control field position in the coverage game we're going to put you on the field because it's an extension of our offense and defense. He's going to make his role whatever he wants to be we're going to continue to coach him provide him with tools to be successful on the field on all four phases and he provides a lot of versatility answer your question he's a physical player he could play in space he could run he could block in space so those things are attributes that he does bring to the table but he's a physical and aggressive player and that's the mindset and that's the that's what we're looking for on special teams Vernon is he a kid that has an inner field leg that you know probably you know sometimes you see guys get cut and they come back and other you know venues and so forth but is he a guy that you know might be a fit in that category one we're very blessed to have Seth here he does have a very strong and talented leg at the play at this level and you know I wish him nothing but the best and when it comes to that position and him you know playing in his future in the NFL but he is talented and he's gonna again his best days are yet to come in this profession and I'm excited for him whatever that may be yeah I think first and foremost there's a couple of things we want to accomplish with the quarterbacks get out there and get out of the huddle with tempo get us into the logistically the motion landmarks the right plays so we wanted to see that from a mental standpoint then physically right we wanted their instincts to take over so go through your reads your progressions and then obviously allow yourself to continue to move the ball down the field and you saw in the first drive with Marcus not everything played out exactly perfectly but he found a way to continue with the rest of the offense to keep the chains going and find the end zone and so for us right things to coach off of but more importantly we want to see these guys go out lead which we felt they did and you know there's things to coach on but we'll get better from it and the running back the one thing the one quote after the game was quadriceps there were lanes he looked like there were holes to run through i guess it might not have been and no i think what you know a cue obviously he had some runs there that allowed him to get some extra yardage and i think what we all did a good job of from the offensive perspective with the players uh their ability to execute what was asked and again nothing happens by one player doing something supernatural all 11 guys have to be on the same page and there was times that we were and there's times that we need to coach better and make sure they are but for the most part for the first outing i thought guys play fast what type of word you want to get when you all see the jits and they got another practice yeah yeah it's great to go against another opponent an opponent that you know defensively will give us a different look in terms of how they play their fronts some of their structures in the back end and for training camp it allows us to go back to some of our base rules and the quarterbacks have to apply them as well as the rest of the offense and there's always you know when you're a player and you go against the same guy over and over in training camp then you go against a different competitor and a different team in practice setting like it does bring a different element of energy um and these guys are all competitors they play hard between the whistles but they're also professionals know how to do that and it's exciting for all of us to go out there and compete against somebody else to get better and it allow us to challenge ourselves in a different way which these guys have done a good job of accepting challenges and moving how's the line uh progressing yeah I think from the line's perspective right and again I'm not the first person up here to say anything about competition but uh what you see out there is a bunch of guys um going out in different units and playing to the best of their ability and pushing each other and that starts really pre-practice all the way through and for right now what the guys are asked to do they're getting pushed by coach Ledford and they're responding and so we've got more weeks to continue to do that to gel but from where they're at they're pushing hard and they're challenging yourself with Brian Edwards back 100% what's the difference with having him on the field 100% versus not well I mean first and foremost just having him out there to go through the reps right and get the timing with the quarterbacks and that's really for anybody who's you know been in and out of the lineup this is what training camps for we're trying to build chemistry we're trying to build rhythm and so for him or anybody else who's missed time to come back out there obviously that's it's a good thing for the offense um and we're going to continue to grow with all the players that'll be on the field and it does obviously help from the quarterback perspective to to build that timing and trust when it comes to I know we're still a couple weeks away from a 53 man cut down but this wide receiver group I feel like is very interesting you have a lot of different body types a lot of different guys who can provide a lot of different things when y'all are going through these evaluation processes what is kind of going through head in terms of like who we need to win versus yeah I think that's a great question I do think for the most part what we try to set up is the ability to compete regardless of your body type right there's a certain way that we like to play football um and these guys are going in and first and foremost you got to know your assignment and you got to play with a certain intent and you see these guys go out each and every day guys are getting better from where we got them in the spring to where they are today and for the most part what you want to see is you want to see guys go out there and push not the judges themselves but each other that group right now they're pushing each other and it's great to see it's bringing out their personalities but it's also bringing out the competitiveness and it's a great battle on there right now I think it's really interesting that y'all I know Felipe is doing what Felipe is doing right now but you're only really caring to quarterback how do you kind of navigate that and making sure that you're not overworking someone in this very competitive time where you have them throwing a lot of runs yeah and I think we you know we make sure we monitor the amount of throws right first and foremost for anybody out there second thing is you know when it comes to the quarterback spot the way that practice is set up you know we have the ability to tempo how many throws are needed in between the team periods so we feel we're light one day we can push if we feel we're too heavy one day we can back off and obviously Felipe provides that flexibility for us in practice and in individual drills where he's still working his quarterback craft with obviously spending time at the other position he's accepted that role he's embraced it and I think the the other two quarterbacks obviously understand the uniqueness of that and they appreciate that from him one more for me how have you kind of seen Frank Darby kind of progress through this training camp yeah I mean you know we had Frank last year and you you bring him Frank as a rookie there's things that Frank showed on film that he came here and he showed there's things that Frank need to grow with just like any other player and just like all our players what you in this system another year there's definitely a comfortable level of what's asked there's no new voices in terms of me up there or coach Smith talking to him so it's one of those things where like just everybody in that receiver room Frank included those guys they brought a level of competitiveness and you see that from Frank and everybody else well you feel like he is Misaka and so you know obviously at the rookie there's kind of a learning curve there but you get a lot of playing time in college sure you feel like he's kind of step up and start to do some little things a little that you get into playing time and it has a lot to do with yeah and I think you know coach Petrie's done a great job of being able to facilitate the reps for the backs there's a great competition there just like the receiver room and really a lot of the rooms right and so what you see from him and everybody else is when they get their opportunity like they value it they understand that reps are a premium just because of how they're divvied up and again they're taking advantage it's not just him but they're all taking advantage of their opportunity you saw it in the game and you come out here and see it in practice so it's exciting to see where that group's going right now sure yeah I think right now obviously regardless of his Drake or another receiver where Brian Edwards was out a day or two yeah it just changed the rotation you know different guys competing at different spots but what's great about this group offensively is regardless of who is in or out of the lineup we mix in personnel's you either see guys willing to do whatever and wanting to compete that has been how we approach everything and you can see it in the receiver room and you can see it in other rooms and and they've done it regardless of who's in there who's not game out the way you've got a joint practice coming up you like it where things kind of are yeah I mean we're trending right we have obviously the ability each and every day to to work on something fundamentally we're obviously not there yet that's what training camps for we'll have a great challenge this week we'll have a great challenge next week and then obviously on week one to prepare for a great opponent in New Orleans what they provide defensively so this is what you do in training camp right you you get through the fundamentals you try to get better in and there's things x and o wise that you're seeing how they fit the players and obvious our job as coaches to make sure that we highlight their strengths and that's what we're trying to find out right now and some of the players and make sure that we're playing to the best of ability


A lot of that is revealing what the truth of your connection is and not trying to force it to be something in particular because you know if you care about someone or you like someone you're attracted to them you usually want a particular outcome but that can steer something in a wrong direction that it's not supposed to become just because you know you have that motivation there. What's up everybody and welcome to the show today. We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. When I had piqued my curiosity and why we wanted to bring you on is you put out a video and if I get the title wrong please correct me but it was 10 ways neuroticism shows up in men and in AJ and I's work in the last 15 years of running live programs we had given all of our clients a personality test which is ocean which is used in psychology at least for the best of everyone's ability to establish personality types and neuroticism usually from us sending it out and come up very high in our clients but that's also the amount of folks who are willing to admit that they have some neuroticism and one of the things that I enjoyed about your video was we have to first admit that we all display signs of neuroticism and it's on a scale and if we can perhaps destigmatize the word itself and discuss it that more people will be able to come the terms but some of these these the way they exhibit it and then go ahead and start to work on getting better at. Yes and it's not all bad right there are adaptive elements to having these traits and you can be both neurotic and also very confident and sort of wield it in a way that it's quite I don't I don't know like quirky and acute way you know what I mean there's a lot of high powered people that are fully embracing their neuroticism and it's what's made them successful so it's definitely not like an exclusive quality to being insecure and timid and unsuccessful. I think for a lot of our clients in their professional career it pays off to be neurotic to be highly motivated to be self analytical to show up in a lot of the ways that we're going to talk about here when it comes to interpersonal relationships and really having the trust in your actions and the way people are responding to you it creates a real barrier to creating successful relationships both romantically and socially. I just want to point this out as well we are we're now living in a post Seinfeld world and when I say that I mean that these these cute little traits that we find interesting or curious or attractive about somebody at the beginning of dating tend to get more and more how we say they go from cute to frustrating and then to unattractive there is a cycle there and so the the other thing is about once we can identify these these troubled areas that stop us from connecting we're able to start working on them and getting them under control so that they remain cute they remain quirks as as you were saying. Yes I think you know when it comes to getting to know somebody they can just really be the clutter in the way of connection so it's really important to be able to clarify you know your communication and the way that you are interacting with someone so that you can get to the truth of what that is right like I see vetting and you know people call it dating but vetting is really the getting to know you stage a lot of that is revealing what the truth of your connection is and not trying to force it to be something in particular because you know if you care about someone or you like someone you're attracted to them you usually want a particular outcome but that can steer something in a wrong direction that it's not supposed to become just because you know you have that motivation there so I think overthinking will just make that job even more difficult because you've got all this clutter in the way. Now Johnny and I are very familiar with the work that you do but I'd love for you to explain a little bit about yourself and your background for our audience as we kick things off. Sure I'm a retired mental health counselor and a retired marriage and family therapist so my PhDs in marriage and family counseling and when I retired my licenses I just wanted to work online independently and so it's it's very different work and it allows me to work location independently globally with anybody and I've really augmented what I learned formally with a lot of my own sort of autodidactic knowledge that I've acquired in my own life experience and personality and just being more directive and more like a mentor to my clients so they seek me out because they align with my values and we can really get straight to the work rather than spending a lot of time building trust they already trust me so it's great I really like this this type of work that I've been doing so I focus on mostly I would say singles although I do work with couples as well because the vetting system is really a whole life paradigm shift it's applicable in all facets of life so my book the vetting system is is not geared towards married or or coupled people but it definitely applies and so people who want to prevent a disastrous type of relationship that they have to either totally fix and transform or extricate themselves from really want to learn how to spot the things that matter in a partner so that you know who to invest in and how to escalate you know a relationship as it grows so I really reframe people or the process of dating as reserved for after you have more clarity around what your intentions are and vetting is more so the very beginning stages as you're getting to know someone we drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends yeah and we all know in dating especially in the online dating world that many of us will present a great first impression a very curated social media feed and then as we start to get to know someone the more time spent with them we let our hair down the honeymoon phase is over and a lot of these neurotic tendencies that we're going to talk about start to showcase themselves and unfortunately what a lot of our clients struggle with is when these signs are present the other person loses interest but the other person isn't often going to be able to articulate exactly why they're losing interest and a highly neurotic person is going to seek out those answers because they want to know exactly what it was that pushed the other person away and what it maybe could be that they can improve and in actuality that just creates a vicious cycle that hurts them even more and turns the other person off and we see this in a lot of our clients who come to us saying well i did everything you guys talk about i followed everything to a t and she's not responding to my messages she doesn't want to go on a third date with me i can't figure it out and this is a repeat pattern now with multiple potential partners and what can be very frustrating is there isn't that close feedback loop it's just the other person loses interest can articulate it and they're gone from your life and you're kind of left wondering well how do i pick up the pieces how do i improve and it could be a very frustrating process yeah i hear that a lot so that's definitely common from my my camp as well and i think too you know when people are overthinking things it's like they don't recognize that the other person can probably be a little bit neurotic themselves and so instead of having empathy for the other person and maybe thinking the best they always go to the worst case scenario but you know i i think it's it's obviously it's something that affects your in your entire life so it's you want to get a grip on these if it's anxieties and securities self-doubt self-consciousness just ruminative thinking you know where you're like what if thing scenarios constantly that's going to slow you down across the board so it behooves you to attend to this and try to clarify and create more effective self-talk and thinking patterns so we've kind of danced around it and johnny and i know it quite well but i'd love to start with just defining neuroticism as we said at the beginning it gets a bad rap many people would not want to self-identify as neurotic for exactly that seinfeld example but what is neuroticism how does it show up in her personality a lot of times i mean it's just easy to think about it as over thinking so you're over analyzing things your i guess it's like very exhaustive analysis like analysis paralysis insecurities self-consciousness that puts you at the the center of every bad scenario basically taking the blame internalized blame for things always making things about you thinking other people are thinking bad things about you and yeah i think it's trying too hard as well a lot of people just really want to project an image that they think will make a good impression rather than just being present and being their best self in the moment so it's it's basically a way that you take yourself out of your body and you're just really residing in your brain and and that's not effective so you really need to have that integrated sense of self where you're connecting your body your mind your spirit and you're able to flow more naturally between them and not sort of hyper focus or obsess about your thinking interesting and i think that's where it plays the role anytime that there is clutter in the middle of that integration between all of those is where the the hiccups are and that's where it shows up and for those who are listening to this who are still not convinced that they show any of these trades we should go through them because even for myself and watching your video i was like oh i i do that from time to time or oh i i recognize when i do this so i think we should go through them and talk about how these things manifest themselves okay well i don't know if you have the notes in front of you i don't have any notes in front of me i i i do so okay so the first one was restlessness and impatience yeah i think people are very um fast paced they expect results right away and then they assume that things are reflecting something negative about them when it could just be totally irrelevant like some kind of external thing is happening and if you just uh if you're able to see the bigger picture step back slow down right like i think it's it's a lot easier to come to some kind of constructive conclusion about whatever event you're analyzing but when it comes to restless behaviors like twitches and stuff you know you'll notice people might be hyperactive hypervigilant they're fidgety and so they're constantly moving and it's a lot of these the things that i'm talking about are connected like i did a recent video on the four stress languages too and i talked about the the flight response and so when you're feeling emotionally overwhelmed right the stress is really high the flight response is about being overactive and restless so you're going to be running away from those scenarios where you have to be intimate with someone because it kind of puts you on the spot and makes you confront something and you're not you're not prepared for it or you're not ready for it so then you start maybe talking fast you you want to leave you feel suffocated or trapped and so they're very related that person who's feeling restless is might throw themselves into work you know just occupy their time in an obsessive way kind of procrastinating doing something else you know like if you're procrastinating dealing with one thing by doing something else so it can be rewarded which is part of the adaptive part element of it right like when you're restless sometimes you can end up doing something something positive but not necessarily what you're supposed to be doing by having the conversation with the person absolutely and we see it in our clients and much like yourself working with high achievers this restlessness this impatience will often lead to breakthroughs in your career will lead to you tossing and turning until you find the solution but that impatience with others when we're talking about interpersonal relationships will lead to you searching out youtube videos searching out the art of charm following whatever model is available to you and then getting quickly frustrated when you don't get that result as fast as you would like you don't get that date you don't get that girlfriend you don't get that boyfriend as fast as you would like and of course that impatience i'd love to talk about how it feels on the other side so for someone who's experiencing you being impatient it does show a sign of lack of confidence a lack of actual need for connection with the other person making it about yourself and that's very off-putting that's very unattractive when we're talking about a romantic relationship


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We're back. I'm Jay Fiedel. This is Think Tech, beginning another broadcast week. Wow! Gets better and better. Brett O'Brien. He's in faculty at the journalism program at the School of Communications at UH Manoa. He comes down to talk to us from time to time about very important issues relating to journalism, to try to help us understand not only journalism, but, you know, the sources and effects of journalism. So, because we engage with journalism. They are us and we are them, right? Right, Brett? Yes. We're all intertwined. And, you know, advertising, public relations, journalism, it's all in a mix, and we have to tease out what we want of our communication. So we have a couple of topics today, the first one being the MIT study reported in the paper, the New York Times I know, a couple days ago, you know, on when people are more likely to accept and pass on fake news, this is really interesting.  It's not an easy question. What is fake news? Well, I would argue any part of any story that's not true makes the entire thing fake. Okay. So you'll find, what we've discovered in research about fake news is that these Russian bots will actually scoop up a bunch of real news and circulate that as well to mix with their fake news. So they give this appearance that, yes, we're a legitimate channel, and then they will take these real stories and change a couple words or add a couple sentences right in the middle of it. So it's very, very difficult to figure out what's fake and what's not. But as a baseline definition, I'd say if there's one fake word in a piece, then it's fake news. Yeah, and that, looking at it from the reader's point of view, and I have had this experience, I'm sure you have too, I'm reading something that appears to be legit, and they got my email address from somewhere, they send me some stuff, maybe more than once, maybe daily. But I'm looking at it and it seems to be legit, it seems to comport with other news and then there's a clunker. Right in the middle of it, there's a clunker, and I say, well, let me look at that again. Let me see if I can identify that as fake news. And if I can, actually, Brett, I make the same analysis you were talking about. Well, if the one sandwiched among the good ones is fake news, I have to question all of them. And if I have to question all of them, I'm not taking that email anymore. Right, and this is the worst in social media because your friends provide you with these stories, they think they're real, so they add a layer of credibility to it that you don't get just from direct contact with the media source. Right.  And it looks completely real. You look at it on the website, and if you're not paying attention, if you're not being vigilant, if you're not doing your, you know, citizenry type work, then you easily can be misled. Well, what about a site? And maybe there is a site like this. I just wouldn't know about it. Maybe there's a site that identifies the Denver Guardian and others like that that are, you know, fake. What about that site identifying stories that are sandwiched in that are fake? I mean, my problem is I'm not sure I believe the site that claims to be able to identify fake news, but let's assume, you know, there is a certain amount of credibility on that site. Wouldn't that be helpful to have somebody come up and tell me where the bad guys are? Oh, it would be. But imagine how daunting of a job that would be when any person in any place at any time could change one sentence in any story and recirculate it. How are you going to do that? It's really, I don't believe a technological solution exists. I think it's a human awareness and literacy problem. And until people really take charge of their information again and become responsible for it, then we're going to have this misinformation and disinformation everywhere. Let me offer a thought on that last. You said there's no technological solution right now. But there might be. You know, artificial intelligence is, by definition, pretty smart. And maybe you could program artificial intelligence to spot the clunkers and notify you. And it would be dynamic. It would be every day. It would be every story that comes around. Or better yet, be every story that comes to you. So it said, wait, Jay, there's a clunker here. What about that? I would recommend we don't put faith in machines and algorithms because somebody has to write the program. Now, artificial intelligence, by nature, does learn from its own mistakes. But what is it learning and how does that benefit to humanity? That's a big question. I don't think we really have an answer for it. And we also don't have any guarantees that the machines are going to say the best interest of us is to make these humans and not know fake news. That's a pretty bleak picture you're painting, Brett. I mean, it's bleak for all of us, really. But it gets bleaker. It gets worse with this MIT study. Can you talk about what it said? Well, the summary of it would be basically that fake news travels much faster, much deeper than real news. And it's not the computers that are doing it. It's the other human beings in the system that are sharing with their friends or retweeting or whatever. And they're circulating this information as true, giving it a vouching for its credibility, like, if I share something with you, then you think, oh, Brett, share this with me so it must be true. It lets you put your guard down. And the fake information does its job. But sometimes, fake news, arguably, is pretty believable. I don't think a lot of fake news are close to the truth, but not quite. And so if somebody, as a credible source, or reasonably credible, a peer-group credible source, my high school classmate, for example, tells me he got this or implies he got this from a good source, I'm likely to believe it and not know, and not know that it's fake. This is very troublesome. That's me. I mean, it reminds me of a story with one of my graduate school professors told me about experiment he did. He studied rhetoric. And he would walk around the halls of the university saying, I read a story in the New York Times yesterday about how raisins cured cancer. And if everybody ate more raisins, they would, you know, there would be no more cancer. And he would just see what people would say. And almost every time, people would say, oh my gosh, really? I'm going to get some more raisins. You know, they would never question it. Here's an authority figure dropping down the second authority with the New York Times and some kind of healthy, sounding snack. You know, it just all works. Sure. It comes together. Yeah, it comes together. We've heard a lot of pieces of it before. Yeah. And people want to believe those types of things. They don't want to believe that we're out of control. As you know, we're out of control of the world. The world's chaotic when we can't save people from cancer. They want to believe we can do it. They want to believe that we can stop war. We can stop all sorts of injustice. And the reality is, we're in a very chaotic world. And without this clear, truthful type of public discourse, we're really in trouble. Public discourse, I want to get to that. But one thing first is that we both mentioned the New York Times. So if my classmate in high school says to me, I saw this in the New York Times, high credibility, absolutely high credibility. More and more, the New York Times is a leader in this sort of truth-giving. But how do I know that what he said about the New York Times is true? He may have that all wrong intentionally or otherwise. I have to go and look at the New York Times. And a lot of people see the New York Times as the oracle, but they don't read it. Right. They read the headline or subhead or something. Yeah. So I mean, this creates another problem in terms of the credibility aspect. I believe what he said. But we have to look like, why do we trust the New York Times? And the reason we trust it is because they have a process in place that is trustworthy. And very few people have that level of a system in place in the media. And they have maybe one of the most refined systems, where they have probably 10 editors that look at a story before it appears in their publication. They have fact-checkers for every fact. And they have a lot of discussions about what we include, what we don't include. And if there's some request for clarification or correction, they have a vetting process for that that is quite extensive and timeless in the sense they have corrected errors made 100 years ago. If they become aware of it and they look back at their coverage and they say it's wrong, they'll write a correction. And it's that process that makes it believable to us, not necessarily any individual at the New York Times or any publisher or anything like that. It's because of the system they have in place that they've earned that trust. Yeah, and they have a quote, public editor. They have a public editor who represents the readers and writes about the paper, about that process that you described, so it's interesting. Everybody has this kind of controls on the truth. Hardly anyone does anymore. I think there's only five public editors in the country now. And one thing I've noticed about the media in Hawaii is it's a very closed system. They're not transparent about virtually everything they do. And I think there's reasons to be skeptical of people like that. You can't take people's word for it that they're going to do what's right if they don't show you that they're doing what's right. And that transparency is the key to the whole issue, I think. So going back to the question of the speed at which fake news travels and the, what do we call it, the coefficient of distribution, if you will, this is fascinating. And I was telling you before the show, I see journalism these days and the response to journalism. In fact, everything around journalism has a study of sociology and psychology, of mass psychology. We have never had this kind of distribution of information the way we have it now. And it moves people. It moves political forces. It moves the economy. So it's all the more important that we get it right because it could move us easily and it does. Look what happened in the election. We've got to talk about that. But why does fake news travel faster? Why are people more likely to repeat fake news than regularly? This is just very chilling. And why do they move it in the first place or why do they move it faster? Two questions. Well, I can't say definitively why, but what I can say is that when you have information that's less tied to facts, it becomes more emotional. And I think the effective response of the information is what's pushing it.  And you want to spread that information so other people know about it.  You're running around telling people misinformation that you believe is true, but it's really not true.  Yeah, and you do that because you do that because it's worth the moment to dwell on it, on the word salacious. I certainly agree. Raw meat news travels faster because it appeals to some baser intellectual process. It's the kind of thing you want to repeat as gossip. It's when you send it to your friend, you're saying, whoa, you really want to hear about this one. Yeah, well, that's all pathos. And when you study argumentation or rhetoric, there's basically three legs that rhetoric stands on. You have the ethos of a person, which is their character and credibility. You have the logos of the arguments, the facts and how they stack together, and then you have the pathos of the emotions of it all. How do you, the emotional feels, yeah. And basically fake news is all geared toward the pathos. Well, could it not be? I mean, for example, Economic Report says the market went up 200, when in fact the market went down 100. That's not an emotional well for some people it is. Oh, well, but that's easy to check. If you say, President Trump is having multiple affairs with porn stars. That's salacious. Yeah, and you, how would you check that? It's gonna be, he said she said or whatever, and then it's very emotional because it really cuts to the core of the morality of our country's top office. Why, what is it about human psychology that makes us want to glum onto salacious news, want to glum onto that?  It's not from me so much. It's from my friends that I'm gonna distribute this. It's, I wanna give them a gift. I wanna give them something they don't know that they never expected. I want them to have the gifts that they can give it to their friends too. I wanna, you know, raise the buzz somehow. So I'm doing my friends a favor. And I feel this in my own self when I do forward an article or something. I'm not gonna forward every article. I'm not gonna forward stuff that's boring. I'm gonna forward stuff that's hot. All right. And I usually- People are gonna talk about. Yeah, right. Yeah, because that builds your esteem in the community. You know, you're the person breaking this news.  And then you have the ethos and the logos of the work, but you don't have any faithos. So you end up with a real orientation toward emotional, effective news. Yeah, it's very dangerous for society. You can't operate that way. You need a more measured intellectual analysis of it. And we're also, this is a way that we have been put at each other's throats. You know, you pick the most emotional issue and you fuel each side of it and makes something that was, you know, potentially solvable and unsolvable and it makes something unsolvable into a death match. Yeah, I wanna talk about that right after this break. I wanna talk about a couple of things that have sprung out of what you said so far. That's Brent Overgaard. He's the faculty at the journalism program at the School of Communications at UH Manoa. Comes down and talked to us. And I really enjoy these conversations. We'll be right back. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea comes on every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join us. I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii. Not just law, love, people, ideas, history. Please join us for Law Across the Sea. Aloha. Aloha, I'm Dave Stevens, host of the Cyber Underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers that just kinda scare you out of your mind. So come join us every week here on thinktechawai.com, 1 p.m. on Friday afternoons, and then you can go see all our episodes on YouTube. Just look up the Cyber Underground on YouTube. All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current, relevant information to protect you. Keepin' you safe. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We couldn't wait to get back. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Community Matters. This is Brett Obergaard from the Journalism Program at the School of Communications, UH Manoa. So a couple of things that sprung out of what you were talking about before. One is, one prescription, Rx, so to speak, for this emotional pathos kind of social reaction, and I mean on a large scale, social reaction, is that people should talk to each other like they did in the days of Abe Lincoln, where they sat around the, you know, the hygienic store, had conversations, and one guy would say, did you see that thing? And the other guy would say, I don't believe it. Or he would say, did you check it out? Do you know something about that? And as a result, you get a human kind of engagement test on whether this is right or wrong. I mean, how would that work in the 21st century?  Take 10 minutes and don't re-forward. And then, you know, I recommend finding someone outside of your bubble and saying, did you hear about this story? What do you think of it? And see if it matches their perception of it or their take on it. And then you can kind of find in the middle what really happened. So to immediately forward the story among your bubble and incite more rage and hate instantaneously, what do you get out of that? That's what I wonder. It's like, what do you really get? You get gratification. Well, okay. Maybe a little bit. You get a little bit of a savor. You got everybody excited. Yeah. You get energy, but it's not good energy. It's negative, destructive energy. And when you could be like a voice of reason, that could be the choice you make that I'm going to take just 10 minutes or 20 minutes or whatever or even a day to sit on this one and think about, is it true? And then what do I really make of it?  Because you enhance it when you make an affirmative comment that suggests it's true. Yeah, you amplify it. And that's in the social media tech world, they call it amplification. And they want to amplify all their content up until it drowns out everything else. This is part of that same thing with the social psychology, the amplification part. And the scary part about, to me the scariest part is these social media companies have created a monster that they have lost control of. There's nothing Facebook or Twitter can do right now to stop this Frankenstein's monster that's walking around, crushing everything in its path. Unless they can just turn the whole thing off and they're not gonna do that. There's too much money. Yeah, I mean, and if they start to squelch conversation or squelch whatever circles are in their platform, then what has already been shown is that people go to alternative platforms that are even more hate-filled, even more partisan, even less credible, which if that's possible, they go into these even worse circles and worse types of social media companies that are basically taking the drift off of Facebook and Twitter, and they're supporting it to try to get an audience. But then the audience is even worse than it's like condensed version of the worst of Facebook or Twitter. So it's just a disaster. Suppose, back to my artificial intelligence possibility, suppose I'm Facebook, and with various, you know, artificial intelligence analysis, I create a rating system based on the source of the information, the likelihood, possibility that it's in conflict with other news and all that. You know, with social networking analysis, I'm just looking at keywords like they do in Washington, you know, in the basement. You can find a lot about text, what the text is saying. And so suppose they came up with a rating, sort of like the ratings for a seller in eBay, or the ratings for a product on B&H Photo, or Amazon itself. I'm much more likely to buy a product or stay at a hotel or take an airline that has a five-star rating than a one-star or a two-star, or even a three-star rating. I want the highest possible rating. So if they did that, and granted, it wouldn't necessarily be completely accurate, but if they gave me ratings and stars like that, based on whatever analysis they could provide, that would affect my likelihood of transmitting this with a reinforcing, what you call an expansion, expansion comment, you suggest that he should listen to it. What about that? Well, it reminds me of the experience I had a couple years ago when I was in a new place and I wanted to go to a restaurant. And so I typed in type of food I wanted, and there were a bunch of reviews, like five-star, blah, blah, blah. And I went to the restaurant, it was by far one of the worst places I'd ever been. I mean, it was a, it was claimed to be a five-star Asian fusion mix of cuisine, right? I get in, it's a buffet table with the ice cream machine broken, squirting ice cream all over the place. So I have zero faith in these reviews because they've been rigged, they've been rigged, just like some media. Because when somebody's paying money, it's a problem. Well, they have trolls for everything, they have trolls for restaurants, that they pay people wherever, and they say, you know, write a hundred positive reviews about this place, right? For a hundred bucks, and then they get, so I don't have any faith in that kind of system. And then even the most fundamental part of that argument is, okay, you have New York Times, Fox News, what's gonna get the five rating and why? And then you're gonna have to debate that with all the people that watch Fox News or New York Times, and they're not gonna agree on it. They're gonna be in their bubbles about it. And it's just not gonna go anywhere, so. I'll tell you a short story. On January was the 13th of Saturday when we had the false alarm. My wife and I are sitting there and the phone rings and the false alarm. So we go into a protected part of our house, because why not? And we bring our puppy with us, okay? And now we've done really all we can do to respond to the false alarm. So I call my brother. My brother's on the mainland. He's a fair witness. He's not here, there's no emotional lay for him, layover for him. And I say, you know, this is what we got on the phone. What do you think? Do you think, what is the probability this could be true?  And it didn't take him one second to say that doesn't compute. This false alarm does not compute everything that he knows in the world. It's not consistent.   So I think it's part of what you were saying before about this need to have a trusted group, a trusted friend, who you can bounce it off, who is more likely, and who is at some distance really, who is more likely to be able to make a good analysis. Well, and it also talks about, it also directly hits on the emotional part of it. Like on January 13th, when we got the missile alert at my household, you know, my wife received it and was very concerned and almost a panic. My children are crying, we're trying to escape.  It's a survival moment. And there was, I mean, if I was by myself, maybe I would've sat down and rationally searched and tried to figure out, oh, why are the sirens going or whatever. But when you have this group of people hearing the same news as you, it seems believable because we've been told that it's believable by our own trusted government. And I mean, what are we expected to do? Not panic, I don't think so. This is like, you know, just about to be incinerated. Yeah, one guy put his children down a manhole. Oh, there's all sorts of stories about things that happened during that time. You know, I heard it, well, anyway. I heard a lot of really disturbing stories about what happened during that time period. And it reminded me of the War of the Worlds broadcast where there was a new medium, the radio, in the time of this broadcast. And people heard the story. They thought it was true. It caused an incredible chaos. And it's the same thing with mobile technology. It's a new technology that we haven't quite figured out. We're not accustomed to it. And we assume that if somebody sends us a message saying, a ballistic missile is going to hit us at any moment from our government and sends us this message, then we should believe it. And that's a dangerous thing to not believe. We have no, right, dangerous not to believe. We have no way of verifying. We have no way of verifying, we get a text message. We have a minute left. I want to ask you one other thing. And that goes to the Russians, we spoke about them. So the Russians in St. Petersburg, those young kids who write, copy American, you know, English language. And this somehow gets distributed in the US to targeted areas and groups and social media channels. And there's false news in there. And the news is intended to make bubbles, make controversy, create dissension, and affect an election. And I really believe they did. So the question I put to you is, what is the difference between those guys in St. Petersburg and some guy in St. Petersburg, Florida? Who does exactly the same thing? He wants to affect an election. He wants to affect public opinion. He wants to create bubbles and dissension and controversy. I mean, isn't that possible? And maybe isn't it happening anyway? What's the difference? Well, I don't think there's functionally a difference. But what I will say, and I saw this great quote from Jim Carrey, who's a comedian, and he quit his Facebook account. And he said that basically Facebook has allowed other countries to have a bridge into our country and to wage war on us. In the past, geographically, we had the ocean surrounding us. We had a tremendous natural resources. We had great advantages to protecting ourselves. In this case, Facebook, Twitter, whatever, they built these bridges all around the world that people can just walk right in without a passport or any kind of vetting. And they can do horrible things to us, including helping the people in St. Petersburg or wherever. They can be tricked into believing something that's not true. And I encourage anybody out there to look into these Russian troll operations. They're very, very dirty, very sneaky, and very disturbing when you consider about what kind of damage they can do. And it's not a stretch to say these are acts of war. Would you build a wall? Would you build a wall of an incident wall, such as the way China has? I wouldn't recommend doing that. That's a good question. I think there are lots of avenues that these social media companies can take, though, in terms of what kind of content circulates on their platform and what doesn't. And really, it gets back to my earlier argument that these are publishers. Facebook is a publisher. They need to be responsible for what they publish, just like every other publisher. The New York Times has to be responsible for what they publish. Twitter has to be responsible for what it publishes. And if not, they need, if they are irresponsible, then they need to be punished like other publications would be. So I think it's a loophole in the law, and that would be my recommendation. Move them into the camp of publishers, and I think you'd see a lot of different discourse on there than you see now, as soon as it has to be vetted. I agree, absolutely. Grant Overgaard, thank you so much for coming. Thank you. Always great to talk with you. Me too. Me too. Next time soon. Okay.