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So the dollar, now we're down a little bit from that kind of run up we've had. We were sitting around 107.30 until we came back down. The dollar also saw a bump up. Not earlier today, you know, the metals stock market in the dollar, or, you know, these are inversely related with each other, but we see some weakening signs in the dollar, which is positive for the metal market and the stock market as a whole. Copper futures kind of flat right now, light sweet crude down a little bit. Now we'll talk a little bit about that. It did shoot up over some concerns about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that's occurring when we see that pull back and just a little bit of the Brent crude down about the same as well. Tesla up 1.37% we'll talk a bit about them. They're looking at some of their quarterlies after releasing the cyber truck and some analysts aren't entirely sold on it. Steel Dynamics, we're back in that trading range about 105. See, we really saw it break this consolidation, which usually would be a bearish kind of signal, but it did come back up and shot all the way back up to 110 and that we're now floating at 105. So I'm keeping my eye on this to kind of see what will happen. I'd like to see some more volume action, rejecting really the 100 area. We might see a traversal back down to a sub 100 a little while. QQQ up 1.32%, Google up 1.53, Meta up 2.14%. Disney coming back a little bit. I say that a little bit at $85. We're still down pretty significantly from its highs. Apple kind of sideways, iPhone 15 sales were not so good in China as they had been in additions prior. Of course, the spy trading about 4.36, 4.7. We have some news with Lulu Lemon, they're shooting up significantly. As you can see with the volume up to about 4.20, they're trading at 4.18, 2.75 right now. So they're planning on joining the S&P 500. So people really want to get in on this. Vancouver Canada-based company stock is up over 10%. It's 4.15, 55 earlier in the session. Lulu Lemon has had a strong year despite weakness in the overall apparel industry. I remember when Nike was getting kicked pretty heavily, Lulu Lemon was pretty strong. And this has been a strong company for quite a while. Their prices are relatively high, but the quality is very good. And they're just dominant in kind of the athletic industry. Its second quarter results came in better than Wall Street expectations. And the net revenue increased about 18% year over year. Late September, Lulu Lemon set it at enter to five-year partnership. It was connected with the fitness platform Peloton for its content. Lulu Lemon will become the primary athletic apparel provider for Peloton, while some Peloton instructors will be Lulu Lemon ambassadors. The company said it also plans to stop selling its connected fitness mirror device, which it purchased for 500 million in June, 2020 when valuations for at-home fitness equipment like Peloton and Tonals were skyrocketing due to everyone being inside because of COVID. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor points out that Lulu Lemon unsuccessfully attempted to integrate the mirror acquisition, but the positive thing about this is that when something doesn't work, they cut it out and the stock always tends to blow up. We see that happen a lot with Meta as well when they've invested heavily in it. They cut something that's failing, people just tend to love it. They put their money somewhere. Obviously this is a pretty significant jump. It gapped up very high. And this is on a yearly here, so I mean it gapped way above its yearly high of 407 beginning of the year, probably trading about $28, excuse me, $286.57. So keep your eye out on it. I really would not get in at this level just because you had such a stark amount of volume at the top. You might see some kind of sell-off, but we'll be trading some new bounds here with that. On some crypto news, Tether has frozen some crypto wallets and this is like the scary thing, right? If you're like a crypto guy and the concept is you get this and it's kind of away from regulatory bodies. You can do with your money what you want and there's more freedom to it. Well, we're seeing now with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and certainly with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, that there have been some wallets that have been frozen that have been linked to terrorism in warfare, as it said. Second for this to not lag. There we go. So Tether has frozen 32 virtual wallets linked to crypto-funded terrorism in warfare in Israel and Ukraine. And what I want to say too, all right, I say this is bad news, like it's not bad news, right? It's good that these companies can like figure out which entities are, you know, supporting violence throughout the world and freeze these, right? It's just, I think what it does is it underlines again, kind of the inaccuracy of thinking that cryptocurrency is going to be some new liberation regarding finance. Everything's always gonna kind of get back to what it was and what I mean by that is the regulatory bodies we have now regarding money are the result of many years of people taking advantage of certain systems or doing things incorrectly. And so new laws always get put on top and new regulations always get put on top. And we're gonna see that happening with cryptocurrency as well. And I think these larger companies, obviously Tether is just the foundation that supports the kind of algorithm for this coin. But you look at things like all the different wallets that exist in the different kind of exchanges. Both of these guys are gonna, or both of these entities are gonna have to work together to kind of police what the people who are using their programs are doing. And that's going to allow these companies to kind of exist further, right? You know, if you're having a cryptocurrency that exists and it is being used for things like terrorism or kind of illicit activities and the people who are in charge of the algorithm don't do anything about it, you're gonna get governments coming for you essentially, right?  So this has to be kind of done in order to maintain longevity of the program. When we get back, we'll talk a little bit more about that. We have Steve Rhodes as well, which is great. If you have a question, you can talk to me in the den. You're not in it, you should get in it. TFNN.com under services, we have it there. Or you can email me at jacobtfnn.com. We will be right back. 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Yeah, so last week was the weekend after the beginning of the war in the Middle East, and so what we did was we took a look at how prior Middle East events have impacted, mostly the S&P 500, because I didn't really have chart data that went back that far for gold and crude oil, but we still took a look at what we could, and it was interesting because it kind of opened your eyes up to what traders are actually doing, what's really happened, at least in the past, versus what one might think is gonna do that. So what I thought we would do today is we would just take a look at crude oil and just focus on crude oil. And Jacob, this is one of the charts that I showed last week on Monday, or something very similar to this, and the result of taking a look at the way crude oil, gold, and the S&P 500 traded, what we had determined or what we concluded was to just trade the patterns. So what I do is I share with folks each day what the different patterns that I see inside the marketplace and patterns that help us to identify where the momentum is at, whether it's to the upside or the downside, when there's a top or bottom signal that's forming. So as an example here, in 2006, there was the Israel Hezbollah War. It lasted for 34 days. It was started on the July 12th in 2006, lasted through August 14th. And if we take a look, so I've identified here the beginning day of the war. Now here, if we were just looking at this chart, forgetting about what may have happened or didn't happen, we would have said at this stage here that price was bullish and it was bullish because in this case here where that first blue arrow is, price was trading above its oscillator and change line, which is green. That means that we had a rising price oscillator above zero. Those are bullish conditions, period. The second thing that we had was price trading above and closed above the top of its daily profile. So both of those two things are bullish conditions. So war, no war, the market was bullish at that stage. In fact, it was bullish for the next couple of days. And then two days later, really the following day, it triggered a roadsman-dominicator signal. What that signal tells us, Jacob, is that the market is stretched. Now, it's not that that stretch can't continue on or that it can't disappear because it can. So just a mere fact that something is stretched doesn't mean it's a top or a bottom. The way that we make that determination is we let the market communicate that to us. And the way the market speaks to us is it generates these bullish or bearish reversal candles. There's a bunch of them that are out there. What I teach subscribers are the seven bullish and seven bearish candlesticks. They're the only ones you really need to know. They simplify things. And one of those would be a bearish shooting star candle. And that's what identified the top here in Lights Recruit. So even though we had a war that was going on, it was only day number three where we got that sell signal out there. This still shows that was the top, regardless of the fact that the war continued on for another 30 days or so. I've got the identification out here of when that on August 14th, what crude oil was doing. Now it formed a bullish hammer candle there. That was the opposite of this bearish shooting star. So there's an expression out there that if you close below the low of a hammer candle, if you're long, you're wrong. But that wasn't, if we take, remember when we started this, we took a look at this green oscillator and changed on how price was above it. Here we get to the end of the war. We can see that price is now below red oscillator and change line, which continued to act as resistance. So it's another tool that I share with folks that's really helpful. So in summary, crude oil paid attention to its patterns. And so too did the S&P and gold. So it's really important to know that because now this is gonna help us navigate what's going to happen going forward. So if we take a look at 2021, this is kind of interesting because this was quite a wild market. But in 2020, it was a wild market when crude futures got below zero out there. But what happened in 2021 is crude oil confirmed a yearly by the D point pattern. Now I showed the A to B and the C to D legs out there. The way that I get a confirmation of a by the D point pattern, a Gartley by pattern, whichever one we want to refer to it as, is it confirms with a bullish reversal candle. In this case here, it was a bullish engulfing candle. Now, if we take a look at and go back a little bit further and we're still looking at an annual chart here for lights we had crude, these two black rectangle areas show consecutive closes either higher, in this case here we're looking at higher closes where the close of one year is above the close of a prior year out there. And we can see that we've got two instances, this takes us back to 1984, where we had two four bar rallies. Each year was a close above the prior year. Well, if we take a look at 2023, we're already trading above last year's close. We're likely to form bar number three this year of consecutive moves higher out there. So now you probably know what I'm gonna say next. And what I'm gonna say next is we're likely gonna see a rally inside of Lights Recruits that takes us into 2024. Now I'm not giving any price projections here, but we've had two other four year rallies out there. And so it looks like to me, we're going to have a fourth year. So I filled up my car on Saturday morning. It was $5.09 a gallon in the area that I live in. So it's much cheaper where you're at, but here they see you come in and up goes the price. So if I take this accordingly chart for crude oil, and here I also show the A to B equals CD pattern. Now the real cool thing about this crude oil chart is that when I eliminate pretty much everything, we can see a clear consolidation. And that's really helpful to us because if we're anticipating that crude oil is gonna be moving higher for the next year or so, where is crude oil headed to? Well, the first upside target in any kind of consolidation pattern would either be the top of the consolidation. Like the bottom of consolidation would be another target. So in this case here, this suggests to you and I that we should see $130 per barrel of oil sometime between now and 2024. Maybe it's sooner than later, but that is where price is likely headed to because this consolidation pattern out here now. When consolidation patterns get broken, whether it's to the upside or the downside, you have a measured move and that's equal to the original consolidation. So if we ever do break above that 130-ish area, 228 is the next objective. I am not making that as the call, but it is a pattern that we'd want to pay attention to. If I look at a weekly chart here, Jacob, we can see that 94.34 was a prior swing point. That was a rogment to Mindicator top was confirmed with this bearish engulfing candle. That is significant resistance. We already tested it four weeks ago, three weeks, four weeks ago, tested and rejected it, but prices pulled back and it's still holding that green oss that are in change line. Conditions here on a weekly basis are bullish. With a price consolidated with inside his profile, and if we see a close above 87.95, we should get up to that 93.26 level that gets us back towards 94.34. This is the initial A to B equals CD price target that I've got for Lights Recruit. And we can see here that this retracement, this B to C retracement, only 43%. That tells us this is likely gonna do more than a one-to-one move. Well, more than one-to-one gets us up to $120. So in summary, we're anticipating that crude oil is gonna trade towards the $130 area by next year. And that's gonna cost me both an arm and a leg. Fantastic analysis. You know, it is always so amazing to see these kind of like long-term patterns develop over the past years. You know, especially with everything going on, the instability that we're seeing, still in Ukraine and Russia, what we're seeing going on in Israel and Palestine, I mean, I think it's just amazing what you put together. So thank you so much for coming on and sharing that with us, Steve. You bet, Jacob, you're doing a great job and I always enjoy being with you. So have a Magnificent Monday and bring out your Perkins. It's gonna be cold. We'll get it right there, Steve. Thank you so much. We'll see you soon, all right? 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I think the Ford CEO came out earlier today saying that this kind of needs to end or there's a lot of things that could go wrong for the company and people might not even have jobs afterwards until this week the union had been announcing additional factories on Fridays, but that changed last Friday. They told workers in a live video appearance that the companies started gaming the system, waiting until Fridays to make progress in bargaining. The UAW president said we'll be calling out plans when we need to, where we need to, with little notice. We're not sticking to one pattern or one system of giving these companies an extra hour or an extra day. They know what needs to happen and they know how to get it done. Crucised Ford saying that said Thursday that it reaches the limit of how much money it would be willing to spend to settle the strike and there was again kind of further reinforcement of that position by the CEO earlier today. They also had some other issues with their explorers where over 238,000 explorers had to be recalled to replace actual bolts that can fail after the US government had opened investigations, misplaced modifier on the headline, but still. Ford is recalling more than 238,000 explorers in the US because a rear axle bolt can fail and that potentially causes the loss of driving power or allowing the SUVs to roll away while in the park or excuse me, in park. Another recall comes after US safety regulators opened an investigation into the problem after getting two complaints that repairs didn't work and two previous recalls this year and in 2022. And listen, I'm definitely on this part of what I'm about to say. I am speaking on a position of ignorance, but it was, you know, again, I bring up the story like I was helping someone that I knew get a car, right? And they wanted a 2016, 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee and they don't like these cars and everyone has bad things to say about them. And fast forward a few months, the car turns out that it catches on fire after about 130,000 miles or at least that problem exists in them. And I'm kind of like, well, what goes on? Like what did changes so vastly in these automobiles that causes such critical failure? And the same kind of thing with these. I mean, a rear axle bolt, I feel like is a pretty standard thing. And again, if anyone kind of maybe gives some insight on what that is, I don't want to think it's just like they're trying to save money on maybe like cheaper parts, but I just can't understand why this happens the way that it does. So anyways, we don't see much of a decrease today in the price of Ford and obviously 238,000 is not a significant amount. I mean, it is a large amount, but regarding Ford's kind of ownership in that market, I think they'll be okay with it. So we'll move on. This is some good news. Say good, it's interesting news. It's coming out of Wall Street. So hedge funds must tell the SEC, which companies they sell short under new rules. The agency will publish aggregate information, giving investors a window into short selling activity. And I guess my AI that I use to get past the paywall didn't work on this one, but I will get a story. We can talk a little bit more about that when I open that on the next break. This is some news coming from Pfizer. And some of these medical companies are doing pretty well. Moderna also is seeing some positivity because there are COVID-19 drugs are gonna keep being purchased for time coming forward. This one's regarding Pfizer. The US Food and Drug Administration had approved Pfizer's drug to treat adults with an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis. It affects a lot of people and it's kind of nasty to have. The decision was based on data from a late stage study that showed a reduction in disease symptoms for some patients who took the drug when compared with the placebo. The drug branded as Velocity and chemically known as atrazimod, let's say it all together guys, atrazimod was the key asset that Pfizer picked up in its $6.7 billion deal for arena pharmaceuticals last year. Velocity belongs to a class of drugs that use to regulate the body's immune systems, excuse me, the immune response and is expected to compete with Bristol-Meyer Squibb's Siposia, which is approved in 2021. Pfizer said the wholesale acquisition cost of the drug per bottle is about $6,164 for 30-day supplies, pretty intense, adding that it is consistent with other ulcerative colitis treatments currently on the market. The list price of Siposia, which is that competitor drug, is about $8,386. So that looks good for Pfizer going forward. Something to keep in mind with it. Get some more news as well. We can take a look at Snap. They are up in a big way. And this is a company that I don't really like. I just, I think they're not great with their money. I think they've burned through it a lot. And I think the ways that they, how do I say it? They try to innovate, I guess, and get more people to join are just kind of low brow. They're very big on this news, right? So when you open up Snapchat, I don't have Snapchat, but when you open it up, you get, you basically just start scrolling, right? And it's all these different news stories.  And they'll obviously have ads put in that. I never liked that. They got a bump a little while ago because they were, I guess, driving more traffic because of these stories, but I think it's fallen off quite a bit. Regardless, they did jump today. It's about 12.15%. It's pretty significant on it. The company is expected to have more than 475 million daily active users in 2024, which is significantly higher than a lot of people had kind of assumed. The user number reported by the Verge on Friday, setting an internal memo from the CEO, even Schwiegel, to employees exceeded visible alpha estimate of 447 million. The higher than expected daily active users comes as a relief for Snapchat parent that has been struggling with tough competition in a weak advertising market. Snap also expects advertising revenue to grow more than 20% in 2024. As part of its stretch goals, the report said, putting it above Wall Street estimates of 14% growth. Bernstein analyst, Mark Schlisky, told Reuters that expectations from the stock are incredibly, excuse me, for the stock are incredibly low, but he added even that he has to admit that the stock would likely be material higher, materially higher if they hit this goal. Again, I don't think they have changed too much, fundamentally speaking. I still think they are kind of weak, compared to all the other competitors that do similar things. And we look at it as kind of online platforms that draw a lot of their money from people who are viewing ads on the platform. So obviously, you have more daily active users that's going to convert into kind of higher revenue because you can charge more for people to put their ads on it. I don't know. I think the demographic is weird. I think it's young people that are on it. I'm talking like young kids that are on it, which obviously don't have a lot of money, but you can still market to them in a certain way. And I just don't like the stuff they put on the app, but that's just me. So folks, stay tuned, we'll be right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities & Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. 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I just don't know if people don't know where to put their money or something like that. And I mean, this is not, I mean, it is significant volume if you look at the rest of the year, right? I mean, you obviously have higher days like in April, obviously in July, which are far greater than what we're seeing today in this gap up. But I still think long-term, this company is like sick. If you think about, you know, obviously companies are kind of going under some austerity, right? They're not advertising as much. They're being far more selective with where they're advertising. I don't think Snapchat wins that game. I don't think Snapchat wins that game against Twitter. I don't think it wins that game against Facebook or Instagram or any of these. You know, that's kind of just my point on Snapchat. And I think we might see kind of a retracing on this stock in the days to come. Some other companies that have taken kind of a hit recently, Hormel, I mean, this is a brutal stock chart on very high volume as well, just a massive red bar down as October 12th, this occurred. So that was the worst performing stock. Take a look at it here. That was Thursday, they make spam, skippy peanut butter and other foods. They basically released an updated strategic plan and settled new contracts with its union members and nobody liked that. At least the shareholders didn't, clearly. Hormel told shareholders at its investor day that it's aiming to increase operating income a more than 250 million in 2026. That includes 5% to 7% growth from its current business. It also expects more than 25 million in additional operating income through the transformation of its Jenny O Turkey Store business and merger and acquisition synergies. In addition, the company said it anticipates saving at least 200 million through cost reduction efforts and normalization of its supply chain after recent logistics disruptions. The agreement approved by members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union will give workers, excuse me, workers raises of $3 to $6 per hour and other benefits. I mean, that is pretty significant. The shares of Hormel Foods on Thursday dropped nearly 10% to their lowest closing level since 2018. I do think probably is, you know, the wallets get a little bit tighter on the American public that some of these products, some of the prices will go to Hormel essentially, right? Like more of these kind of lower cost products. Obviously they have some higher quality products as well. I think like Justin's peanut butter is sold by them and that's a more expensive peanut butter brand. But yeah, the shareholders did not like mainly stuff to do with settling that deal with the workers unions. So I did find an article. Didn't leave you guys in the dark here. Let me try to get this up. So this is the new SEC rule, okay? So they rule to shine a light on short selling is what this headline says. First proposed in late 2021 and early 2022, the rules will require investors to report their short positions to the agency and companies that lend out shares to report that activity to the financial industry regulatory authority that is FINRA, self-regulatory body that police is brokers, of course. Okay, we obviously know what short selling is. Short interest in the US market totaled 927 billion as of Thursday. According to the analytics firm S3 Partners, the practice has long been divisive with critics accusing short sellers of trying to hurt companies and short sellers arguing that they help root out fraud and corporate misconduct. Short selling drew a new scrutiny from Congress in 2021 when retail investors drove up the price of shares in retailer GameStop, causing heavy losses for hedge funds that had shorted the company. In the wake of the saga, SEC chair Gary Gensler told lawmakers that he would increase the transparency of the market. He says given the past events, it's important to the SEC in public to know more about short sale activity and the equity markets, especially in times of stress or volatility. The new rule require institutional investors to report their gross short positions to SEC monthly and certain net short activity for individual dates on which trades settle. So I mean, this is the point I don't really get, right? Yeah, so what happened in GameStop is it was a short sweet squeeze. I forget the name of the hedge fund, but they took out a bunch of short positions GameStop and everyone drove up the price and it made them go bankrupt. So I mean, there's plenty of other instances where it would have been nice to know if there was like short selling going on. I'm not really sure how that's supposed to prevent something like GameStop from happening necessarily, but you'll kind of see what goes on. This is obviously going to affect all the large boys out there on Wall Street. Finra already publishes short interest reports collected from broker dealers, but the new rule will apply to institutional investment managers too, offering a fuller picture of market-wide short bets. The new data will also include a daily net activity on each settlement, data not currently available with Finra or the exchanges. The hedged funds represented by the Managed Funds Association said on Friday that the rules could expose investor strategies. Investment advisors will face more risk when selling short, which will harm investors, market participants, and market efficiency. In addition to GameStop, the... Sorry, sorry, got an email. In addition to GameStop, the rise of activist short sellers who publish negative research on companies in the hope of depressing the share price of also drawn regulatory scrutiny. That's obviously kind of hinting at Hindenburg since at least 2021. The Justice Department and the SEC have also been investigating potential manipulation by short sellers and hedged funds around the publication of negative research reports. Okay, we don't need to read the whole thing, but that is kind of the gist of all of it, and we'll see how that kind of changes. Even people like us in the den, how that's gonna change maybe some of our approaches to some of these equities and indices if we can see which large companies are really shorting them and what the volume of that short is. I think that's pretty interesting. Take a look at Boeing, let me pull it up quickly. Bop. Down, woo. So from August 31st, obviously we're at 230, trading all the way down to 184. They had some issues with supply. Well, that's continuing. Boeing is probing 737 quality issues, which is resulting in shares dropping. Boeing said it's continuing to investigate quality issues affecting its 737 MAX aircraft after a report on new inspections tied to a recent production flaw set the shares lower on Friday. Inspections of some MAX eight models will now include hand-drilled holes on a component that helps maintain aircraft cabin pressure right on. The air current reported earlier, a quality probe tied to the production flaw is ongoing and Boeing said this to everyone in an email. The US plane maker fell the most interday in seven weeks after the outlet reported on the expanded scope of the work. Spirit Aero Systems Holding Incorporated, which supplies the faulty assemblies, dropped the most in almost a month. We took a look at them as well when this news came out, which really caused this just descent to 184, which we're at now.  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Now, I will say, yeah, I'm younger, but I'm not Abercrombie and Fitch young anymore. This stock has done pretty well over the yearly, March 2023 down here. We're trading about 25 and we're all the way up at 62 and you have a lot of analysts looking around like a $65 area. So, first things first, they just did really well on their quarterly earnings. Revenue in last quarter was up 16% operating margin of 9.6%. And this was outpacing it pretty significantly. The year prior, let me get the exact figure for you. Yeah, so, and this would have been from the second quarter of this year at least, what I'm gonna say now. The company had a net income of about 16.6 million in the first fiscal, excuse me, that was in the first fiscal quarter, not the second. And that was compared to a net loss of 16.5 in the same period last year. So, they've really changed over and what I've noticed, I don't go to the mall that much, but I sometimes have to go there for whatever reason. And the stores that are still there have done like a massive rebranding, right? And so, they're looking a little bit more like, essentially like the Euro or like kind of like New York Manhattan stores, right? Very wide, like big open windows. The style is a little bit more modern now than it had been in the past, right? It always kind of gave me memories of like the early 2000s and what that fashion was, right? That that's kind of fall into the wayside, although some of the Y2K fashion is coming back among younger people. But I think they've just done exceptionally well. The quality of their clothes is not very good, but it is sold at a premium. So, I'll have to do a little bit more digging. I mean, this is just kind of my cursory understanding of everything going on with it. And I can take a little bit of a closer look and talk to you about it tomorrow. But I think they have pretty good margins, comparatively speaking. So anyways, thank you for the question. 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This is the SF Productions podcast network Streaming Wars the umpire strikes back from the pop culture bunker I'm Mindy and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife read comics on iTunes or on our website SF podcast network comm Believe it or not. It's been three years since we last provided an overview of the streaming services Since then the major players have consolidated their control But now new players are there are on the horizon and they got a lot of dough and there are several markets that Streaming players can buy for like the smorgasbord market vast programming libraries award seekers high and original Programming with a big push at award time court cutters Which are suppliers of over-the-top programming from single or multiple traditional broadcaster cable channels niche? Specific programming for tiny dedicated audiences not tiny midget people. Let's start with the established players Netflix has 130 million users or at least accounts There's a lot of sharing going on with 62 million in the US The cost is from nine to sixteen dollars per month with 27 billion dollars in 2018 revenues They spent 13 billion dollars on content 85% of which was for their originals their markets are the smorgasbord award seekers and niche So Netflix finds themselves in a race to replace their traditional programming sources TV and movie studios with their own original programming Before the studios finished creating competing streaming services There's also the question of what a Netflix program is is it a movie or is it a TV show when it comes to award time? And both industries are pushing back as Netflix encroaches on their award chances. They've done very well despite this black mirror The crown and Roma we've been Netflix subscribers since the days when you got your DVDs there But we're wavering on whether we'll remain or not especially as new services arrive Amazon Prime Video over 100 million users of Prime But only 26 million actually use the video component cost is 13 dollars a month or 119 a year But that includes the free shipping and a lot of other stuff their revenues mmm They spent five billion on content last year and their markets are smorgasbord award seekers court cutters and niche through bundling options like HBO go crunchy roll, etc It's difficult to determine how much Amazon actually makes with Prime video since it's part of a much larger Prime service We know they're a distant number two in terms of user base and will likely remain there for some time It's also unclear how much they make by bundling other streaming services It can't be a lot since the other services don't charge much or any premium for it It's more of a single bill convenience factor for users They also push for award eligible programming to compete with Netflix such as the marvelous mrs. Maisel We have Prime video as well, but we don't heavily use it. It's really more for the free shipping Yeah, Hulu has more than 25 million users in 2018. The cost is six to twelve dollars per month Their revenue is about three billion dollars in 2019 with 1.5 billion dollars in ads They spent more than 2.5 billion dollars for content in 2018 Their market is the smorgasbord award seekers and niche Hulu's always been an odd duck in this race created as a youtube killer by abc nbc and fox It wound up being the place where most per broadcast tv programming goes to stream with the exception of cbs Which we'll get to it also competes in the award space specifically the handmaid's tail after recent transactions hulu is now owned 66 percent by disney abc With 33 percent by comcast nbc cable town shineheart wigs and the latter will likely sell out to the mouse house We've had hulu for years, but we'll see what remains after corporate musical chairs comes to a stop Then there are the up and comers acorn tv at five dollars a month about 800 000 users and brit box at 6.99 a month About half million users their market is niche to different sources for uk centric programming acorn has deals with itv channel 4 and bbc worldwide along with producers in canada australia and new zealand brit box is an official partnership between bbc and itv and the closest we'll ever get to the bbc i player Only available legally in the uk neither includes any content you could get on bbc america One has to wonder if both services can coexist long term We did the acorn tv trial and it's decent, but not something we would keep as an ongoing service Maybe when a new season of a show comes out and then drop it CBS all-access cost is six to ten dollars a month eight million users including showtime streaming their market is Cord cutters cbs was the only broadcast player that avoided hulu decided to go their own way Which took a long time to come to market? They're hanging their hat on new shows based on cbs own properties along with runs of their existing broadcast shows Star Trek discovery supposedly pulled in a lot of people along with the good fight and the just released twilight zone remake They also provide live cbs streams in many markets CBS is mining star trek for a number of new all-access series Keep in mind that all-access is us only which means these new series are ending up on netflix elsewhere We've sampled cbs all-access, but it's hard to justify it so far even for us trekkies DC universe cost seven ninety nine a month seventy four ninety nine annually No real data so far on user base or revenues. The market is niche. Definitely As a long time dc fan see how i got my wife three comics on sfppn I was so excited to see what dcu would be It includes a selection of dc movies dc tv archive new original shows and digital comics We jumped in with an early pre-sale deal. I've enjoyed it so far Especially the original shows such as titans and doom patrol However, dc intends to sell those shows elsewhere after an initial period There's a titans blu-ray coming soon, which I think is cutting themselves off at the need There's also recent worries that upcoming shows are being reduced in length Plus the specter of warner media is yet to be announced service. Why would they compete against themselves? This makes dcu questionable long term ESPN plus five dollars per month or 50 dollars per year plus 25 dollars per month to add major league baseball and nhl sports sports sports sports blah blah blah An alternative is fubo tv, which is basically all sports not on espn for 55 to 75 dollars a month No interest for us only in the olympic season. Yeah HBO now slash HBO go now is 15 dollars a month go is included in HBO's cable cost HBO did a terrible job in marketing these two services So HBO now provides a library of existing HBO properties a la netflix HBO go allows you to watch regular HBO on mobile devices It's widely assumed that most HBO go accounts are being shared by millennials from their parents cable subscription We've never really gotten into HBO stuff Pluto TV Cost is free with a lot of commercials Pluto TV bundled a large group of niche channels some available on their own sites some curated for Pluto I'd often watch mst3k on their dedicated channel there The commercials are annoying often dropped into the middle of the scene and repeated endlessly But not bad enough that he'll watch the dvds that he also They're also about to add a dedicated bbc channel including classic dr. Who then there's the over the top bundlers of existing cable channels Hulu with live tv cost 45 dollars per month or 51 if bundled with hulu Add 15 to 30 dollars per month for a network based cloud dvr Live tv in a few markets plus a lot of cable channels Direct tv now cost 50 to 70 a month that includes HBO which at&t now owns along with direct tv And in a big hit to the service nfl network is being dropped along with a number of other channels At&t has their own long-term plans for streaming. So direct tv now's future is unclear By low tv cost is 20 to 24 dollars per month depending upon the channel lineup Basically the anti espn plus with a some cable channels sans sports It also includes an unlimited cloud dvr shows expire in 20 days Plus a lookback function that goes back 72 hours on any channel We tried the free trial and kept running into the same problem. There's so little to actually watch on cable I end up watching lawn order constantly PlayStation view cost is 45 to 80 a month depending on the channel lineup Local channels in some markets plus a lot of cable channels and a cloud dvr By the way, you don't need a playstation to use it. So why call it that worst marketing ever Sling tv cost 25 to 40 dollars per month plus add-on packages Yet another group of cable channels to get local tv. You need hardware and an antenna We actually did this they offered an android tv based air tv box cheap and it worked well for a while We it provided live tv a dvr It you just hook up a small hard drive to it and some cable channels since it was any android tv You could also run netflix hulu other services through it However, we never really watched the cable channels and dropped sling while keeping the rest But that's now become problematic because it seems like you can watch live tv for a few minutes And then the box randomly switches to hulu for some reason There's little official support for android tv and online searches turned up zilch. So we're looking for a new option now YouTube tv cost 50 dollars per month. It's another service with locals cable channels and dvr The only problem with this service was that it wouldn't run on amazon fire devices a feud between google and amazon now apparently resolved I keep getting offers for it every time I go into youtube Okay, so that's the players today coming soon the media empires apple tv plus cost Coming fall Apple made a huge introduction for this service Which has been anticipated for over a year major stars and producers were tripped on stage Reese Witherspoon, jennifer aniston, steve correll, jj abram, steven spielberg, big bird and Oprah Apple tv plus will go for the award seeking market with a handful of high budget high end tv shows What wasn't announced how much it would cost actual trailers for those shows when at all launch Maybe in the fall sometime. There's also an apple tv channel's app coming essentially apple tv plus bundling options The hoopla over apple tv plus quickly dissipated after we heard the details of Disney plus cost seven dollars a month available november 12th market smorgasbord What's included the marvel films the star wars films the pixar films the disney vault not so fast song of the south Decades of disney channel shows the fox library and the simpsons thanks to their recent fox purchase all 30 seasons Nat geoprogramming original series from star wars disney marvel Meanwhile, all the non-family friendly programming will go on hulu Convenient as disney will most likely own it outright soon So yeah, i'm thinking disney plus will do well It will be hard for any household with kids to avoid it I also think the planned price of apple tv plus just dropped Now there's a conspiracy theory that apple tv plus is fake and that apple will just buy disney outright Which they actually have cash on hand to do by the way that price is 247 billion dollars Also disney is tops in synergy so expect things like Discounted merchandise early movie tickets deals in the parks exclusive events like red carpet premieres Now there's also rumored services from warmer ner media and comcast neither of which have announced much But you can keep your eye open for them and we will tell you about them Meanwhile, you can check out our audio podcast how i got my way through comics on itunes Or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm indy and i'm art. Thanks for watching


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There's already 41 people that joined from the wait list before. So there's currently 59 more spots at that $100 off. And if you join today, I'm going to be doing a drawing for one person to win a free 45 minute one on one call with me if you join today, which is valued over $2,000. So once again, if you want to learn more, go to coachwithrob.com. Check it out, see if it's right for you.  Today, we're going to be talking about how to rewire your brain. We're going to be talking about something called neuroplasticity. Now, just so you have an idea, I'm completely obsessed with the brain. And over the past three years, I've been diving really, really deep into neurology, psychology, early childhood development and also neuroplasticity, because if I can figure out how those work and I can look at the anthropology of a human and then figure out, OK, 100,000 years ago, this part of our brain existed, why did it exist? Versus, OK, there's successful people, there's unsuccessful people, there's people that take action and don't take action. How can I marry the two of those and understand what makes somebody do what they're going to do so they can be successful or not be successful? And that's basically what I've been obsessed with over the past. You know, I've really been obsessed with it for the past three years, but for the past five years, I've really been diving into it. And I want you to realize this, we've all heard the phrase, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. I am going to prove to you today why that is completely false, because you can change your brain, you can change yourself at any moment in time. And we're going to talk deeply about neuroplasticity, which is the science of changing your brain right now on this episode, because your brain has over 100 billion neurons, 100 billion neurons. And what is used becomes stronger. And what is not used becomes weaker. So this is very important to know it's the difference between talent versus skill. You know, if you like sports, like I love sports and all of the time, you see someone that's like this incredibly talented, highly touted, incredible basketball player.  And the reason why is because they had a lot of talent, which is kind of like what they were born with, or they just had some, some extra, you know, talent that they had. But because of the fact that they didn't build up the skills that they really needed to improve, they ended up being a dud. On the flip side of that, there's people that are in the NBA that were not drafted. They weren't good, but just over and over and over again through skill and the difference between talent versus skills, talent, what you're given. Skill is what you build, but through over and over and over again at working on themselves and working on their movements and the connection between body and brain and hardwiring the neurons in their brain to be able to shoot and to be able to move a certain way. There's people that come out of nowhere that weren't supposed to be good. And they've developed the skills. They've developed the skills. And if you're not working on changing yourself and changing your brain and changing your actions and changing your thoughts every single day, then what you're really doing is you're just leaning back on your talent. But your life can change at any time if you want to become more skilled.   So it's like Einstein says to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results is absolutely insanity. The reason why it's not going to change is because you didn't change. Now, if you wake up and you say, I want to get really good at this and you put in the work and you put in the work and you put in the work, you'll develop skill.  I'm actually going to tell you the three ways that your brain changes today and teach that to you.   They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, completely false. It just takes a little bit longer if you're an old dog. So that's what you have to realize. Your brain's constantly changing if you're changing. The question is, are you changing it for the positive? I'm going to show you why in just a minute that you might have accidentally over the course of your life, hardwired yourself to be negative. You might have accidentally over the course of your life, hardwired yourself to be lazy, hardwired yourself to procrastinate, hardwired yourself to be afraid and not take action. And that can change at any moment, but you have to be willing to step up and say, I'm ready to change my life. Because if you're not, then nothing is going to change.  You can change the way that you think. And so I want you to think about this real quick. Right now in this current moment, OK? If you look back at the last 10 or 15 years of your life, would you say that you're more of a negative person or a positive person? Would you say you're positive most of the day? Or would you say there's an underlying bit of negativity? What I mean is like anxiety, stress, worry. Is there an underlying just a little bit, a little tinge of just negativity, worry, anxiety, frustration, agitation that's just bubbling under the surface a little bit. It might not be an explosion. But what do you think over your past five years? Let's just say five years. Would you say you're more positive? Would you say you're more negative? Because you have hardwired yourself to be that way.  You can hardwire yourself to be different. I would be if I'm completely honest with you before I really started getting into personal element, I was a very negative person. I was blamed everybody else. I always had excuses as to why I wasn't where I wanted to be and why I wasn't successful and why I didn't make any money. I was really great at blaming other people. When I discovered personal development, I would.  And so you have to realize if your brain is constantly changing all the time, you can change the way that you think. You can change the way that you feel on a daily basis. If you don't feel good, you can change that. Why? Because your feelings come from your thoughts. You can change the way that you feel. You can change the way that you act. If you think about it, if you procrastinate or if you don't take action or if you feel fear and you get paralyzed and you don't do anything, you can change that. You could change where you think you could change where you feel, you could change where you act. All of them can be changed at any moment in time based off the work that you put into yourself and the work that you put into your brain. The six inches that's in between your two ears.    You know, if you walk down a path over and over and over and over again, it's going to become a well-worn path, which means that it's easier to walk through the well-worn path than it is to go and create a brand new path. Right. So you realize if you do something over and over and over and over again, like being negative or being pessimistic or having anxiety or having worry or having frustration or having agitation. If you do it over and over and over and over again, you're actually hardwiring yourself. And I'm not going to talk about this deeply today, but actually becoming chemically addicted to those feelings. And you are chemically addicted to your negative thoughts. It's out of your body of anxiety and worry and frustration. It's like a well-worn path. If you've gone down and over and over and over and over and over again, then it's just really easy for your brain to just go down that path.  Because the most energy consuming organ in your entire body is your brain. There is no other organ in your body that consumes more energy. And that's why Harvard did a study and found out that 48% of what a human does is actually autopilot, which means that 48% of what you do is you just going through the motions.  And you don't ever remember.   But the problem is, have you hardwired the things that you don't want into your brain? Because what you need to do is you need to unwire those and start to hardwire the things that you do want, like feeling fear and taking action. Anyways, you know, feeling like, oh my gosh, I don't know what I should do, but stepping into the unknown and going for it. There's ways to hardwire yourself around that. So the brain consumes a ton of energy. What's crazy is we're not very self aware of all of the things we do on autopilot, you know, somebody can say something and boom, it immediately we become, it's called a reflexive thought or reflexive movement.  It's reflexive. It's, we don't even have to think about it. It's just autopilot. So that's how your brain, you know, just going into it, how your brain kind of works a little bit. Now let's talk about the three different ways to change your brain right now. Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. The first way is this is chemical at its most basic, basic function.  That's it.  And the functions are just chemical signals going from one place to another at its simplest form, less the way that you should know it. So the thing about though is that your brain can increase the amount of concentration of chemical signaling or the amount of chemicals that go between neurons and what, you know, the actual amount of chemicals that go from one place to another in one place to another, one place to another. The easiest way to think of it is this neurons that fire together, wire together. If you just continue to think the same thoughts over and over and over and over again, you're actually wiring that into your brain.  Once again, your brain can increase the amount or the concentration of signaling that takes place between your neurons. So you've got to be very clear as to what you want to take happen that have happened versus just allowing it to happen. Now chemical is basically improved. What it does is it improves your short-term memory and improves your short-term memory. Now you have to realize this. I don't know if you've ever done this before.  What happens is that your brain goes new thing, new thing, new thing. We need more chemicals to start to pay attention to this new thing because it's a challenge for us. And so you can improve and improve and improve. And after two hours, like, man, you're not incredible. You're not like the best guitar player ever, the best basketball player ever after those two hours, but you can see improvement because your brain has sent more chemicals to the neurons in your brain to start to get better at improving that thing.  There's almost no improvement right now. Why is that? Because you only changed the chemical structure of your brain for a short amount of time. You didn't change your brain. You change the chemical structure of your brain for just those moments, which means it's good for short term. Now, if you do something over and over and over and over again, and you continue to keep learning and learning and learning and keep sending chemicals and chemicals and chemicals through thoughts, what happens is your brain starts to change in the second way, which is the actual structure of your brain.  And during the learning process, you can actually change the connections between different neurons in your brain. So you can create brand new connections that were never even there a few minutes ago or a few days ago by doing it over and over and over again. So that's, this is where the actual physical structure of the brain changes and that takes more time. It doesn't just happen in one day. It's more of a long term play and it's for something like developing a motor skill. It starts to get better and better and better. The more that you put into it, the thing that you have to really realize about the brain is that the brain changes through repetition, doing it over and over and over and over again. So chemicals are the first way to change in that short term. The more long term way, if you do it over and over and over again, continue to send those thoughts and those thoughts and movements and movements and movements and chemicals and chemicals and chemicals, what happens is it starts to change the structure of your brain. And an example would be this. The cool thing about it is a couple of examples I'll give you people who are blind and read Braille have larger hand sensory areas in their brain. They weren't born with larger hand sensory areas in their brain. What happens is because of the fact they use their hands so much and the senses matter so much more than, for instance, me, somebody who doesn't read Braille, the brain actually, the hand sensory area actually grows in their brain. That's what's crazy.   So you're actually hard wiring and something in there in kind of rewiring or, you know, making the actual neurons smaller, another part of your brain. Another example is this. I'm right-handed. So your dominant hand motor region is larger and the part of your brain, if you're right-handed, it's that part of your brain. If you're left-handed, it's that part of your brain. So depending on if you're right-handed or left-handed, your dominant hand motor region is larger depending on what hand you use to write. Pretty crazy. Another example is London taxi cab drivers are not able to use maps. They actually have to memorize every single street before they can start driving taxi cabs and they have to memorize the entire thing of map of London and they have done studies on the brains of them and they weren't born this way, but because of fact, they have to sit there and memorize it. They have larger, larger spatial regions in their brain that are used for mapping. So literally by sitting there and learning and learning and learning and over and over and over the chemicals go and the chemicals go and the chemicals go and the chemicals grow. What happens is the brain, the structure of the brain actually changes.  It's just the region that you concentrate the most on will grow or shrink and that will shrink and it will, it will, you know, strengthen the actual connections between different parts of your brain. Is this not mind-blowing? Do you like to me, this is mind-blowing. I can actually literally change my brain. This isn't some woo woo wee BS. This is actual real science called neuroplasticity. So you have to realize that is that you can change your brain at any moment in time.  I want to change it. You can, and you can change it through changing your brain, which changes everything in the external. Maybe you love your life, but you're like, you know what, I feel like I have so much more potential inside of me. Guess what? Through working at it and working at it and working at it. That's how you bring it out. That's the beautiful thing.   In the third way to change your brain, if you've changed it chemically and you've done it so much, you've changed it structurally. The third way is you actually change the function of your brain.  And so what happens is without going too deep into it, is there's stuff called myelin that's built on the outside of a brain. And the easiest way to think of it is if you go up to a cord that's inside of a wall, right? You know, cords plugged into a wall. On the outside of it, you're actually, there's something, there's this rubber. That's what it is. And on the inside of it is usually a copper wire. The copper wire is actually where the signal, the electrical signals are sent through. Why do you have the rubber on the outside? Because it actually allows the chemical signal, it actually allows the copper signal, the electrical signal to transfer with less energy and move faster. The same way that if you think of the actual brain itself as you have the neuron, and then on the outside of the neuron, you have something called myelin that builds. The more that you do something over and over and over again, the more myelin that builds so that your brain can actually send an electrical signal from one place to another, even easier. And so the same way that you look at the cord that's plugged in, there's a copper wire on the outside of copper wire is myelin. If you look at the brain, the more that you do something, the more myelin that will build up. And myelin is the equivalent of the rubber cord on the outside of it. So there's a neuron on the inside wrapped with something called myelin. And that's the exact same as a cord. So the more you do something over and over and over again, the easier it becomes to do because myelin will build up, which makes it more energy efficient to send a chemical signal from one place to another. So actually changes the structure of your brain. Mind blowing, isn't it? You could change the structure of your brain, but here's the thing. When learning, you have to realize this. There's no drug that you can take for neuroplasticity. There's none. The only way that you could change it is that there's nothing more effective than practice. Doing it over, doing it over, doing it over. You have to put in the work. Your life will not change. Your brain will not change unless you step up to the plate and actually change yourself. There's no drug you could take for neuroplasticity. There's no secret sauce. There's no shortcuts. It's the work you have to put in the work because you have to change the chemical structure. You have to change a chemical. You can't use the way of structure because I'm about to use the structure. You have to change the other state. You have to change the chemical structure of your brain. Then you'll have to strange the actual structure of your brain. Then you'll have to change the actual function of your brain. And that's why if you see someone, you're like, God, they're positive all the time. It's because they've been positive and they've actually hardwired positivity into their brain. Or you're like, man, that person just takes action and they never second guess himself. It's because they've hardwired that taking action and not second guessing themself. And it's available to anybody. That's the beautiful thing about it, though. So here's the thing, though. Some of you have accidentally hardwired yourself for what you don't want for negativity, for worry, for self-destruction, for holding yourself back, for not taking action, for procrastination because you've done it so many times over and over and over again. And you didn't even know it, but you were actually hardwiring the habits, the traits, the qualities, the thinking, the feelings that you don't want. Now, that can change is what's the beautiful thing. You're not going to be stuck there forever, but you have to make a change. That's the thing that you have to realize about it.  So if you've let's just take it, for example, if you've been really negative your entire life or just had underlying anxiety or underlying stress, it's going to be there forever unless you make a change. But the more that you actually start to change towards the other side of positivity, of being grateful of whatever it is, you start to actually make the signals weaker for negativity or stress or worry or anxiety and make the signal stronger with more myelin on the outside for positivity, for love, for action, for happiness, for joy, for peace, for whatever it is that you actually truly want. Now, here's the other crazy thing. There's a part of your brain called the hippocampus. And the hippocampus is very important for turning you know, an actual doing something into a memory. And the hippocampus is extremely, extremely active when you sleep, which is why they say that 50% of neuroplasticity happens at the event of doing it. And 50% actually happens when you sleep.  You're triggering the change in your brain, but it's not actually changing your brain. You're triggering the change in your brain. Only through deep sleep or deep rest does your brain actually change.  So I don't have enough time to really dive into that.  But just know this, as much as it's important to do the things, it's also really, really important to have deep rest so that your brain can recover and grow in those moments. Just like when you work out, the most important part is working out in your diet and all of that, but you've got to get the sleep because your body has to recover because that's when it actually grows. So understand this, this is why it's so important.  So the way to change your brain, I'm sorry. The way to change your world is to change your brain. So what are the two things that matter the most?  You can change yourself, but you have to change. The only way to change yourself is for you to change, right? You can change at any moment. And the second thing is you can literally create yourself into anything that you want to be. That's mind blowing. You could create yourself into anything that you want to be. So realize, do it over and over and over again so you can change the chemical structure of your brain. You can change the actual structure of your brain and you can change the function of your brain. You will see all of the ways that the world is going to s**t.


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