We can't just be talking to random people, no more. Let's do it. Man, we bosses. So we had to talk to the biggest boss. Man, you see it. You know what it is. Today in the trap, we gotta have a play up hot in the woods. Ricky Rosez. Ow! Oh! Ricky. Ow! Bring me the wing, stop. Bring me the wing, stop. Bring me the damn wings, man. Oh, jeez, the hair's going on, man. How you doing, man? Much love. Welcome to the trap. Man, thanks, y'all. I appreciate you for being in here with us, man. You know what I'm talking about? Shit. You feel me? First of all, congratulations on everything. Much love, baby.  You taking over. Selling thighs now. Yeah, we selling thighs.  Over top. Selling thighs. Over top. If you heard them running out of chicken tenders. You better believe it. Come on, man. Everybody got a chicken. Chicken tenders. You have to do the channels, too, don't you? Better believe it.  You know what I'm talking about. Let's go. Them orange French fries. In the game. Better believe it. Better believe it. We just hustling, man. Trying to get our hands on everything. Definitely, brother. To a whole other level, my guy. Most definitely. You should appreciate it. You should appreciate it. Excuse me, man. Y'all know I rap. But we talking about perpetual. Why not? It's a long journey. Why not? You did what I'm saying. I think a lot of people be scared to it.  Because they scared you. Spending.  You see what I'm saying? I don't think no thighs are in this one, my boy. But we got some wings. We got some wings. We tried to wait on you, my boy. We are in a way great. We got to do better with our paper plates. It's a beautiful thing, man. It's used. No, it's a beautiful thing, man. It's a beautiful thing.  Man, I eat it all of that. Okay. I eat it all of that.   I pulled up in another city. Two days ago, you know down there. Art Basil in Miami. I pulled up. Got me a 20 piece. You know what I'm talking about? Okay. Do they charge you? They do. Oh, that's terrible. Do they charge you? I can no wait. No, that's just the way I like business. Okay, okay. I don't know how they go charge me. It ain't no problem. I'm gonna walk in there. You know what I mean? They said you gave your son one of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. First step, man. How was that going for him? Man, you already know. Really the situation is one of them things where anything that's mine is my little one's too. You know what I'm saying? And I was just encouraging the entrepreneurship and I'm turning 16. He still just got a focus on school. That's what I want him to focus on. But I let him know him becoming a young man. This will come with it.  You're not pushing. No, no, no. You got a restaurant running for what? Yeah, yeah. You got a grind. You got a hustle. This yours? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to make sure you keep going. But you started a lot. I don't know if a lot of people know you better.  So, you know what I mean? You had been rapping for years. So does that, does that change your perspective on how you go about it once you do blow up? Do you still have that old grind like when you're going from... I still got that old grind. This album number 11, you know what I'm saying? And I make sure...    It's album number 11 for Rose. And Rose could have been tapped out and just rode the horses all day if I wanted to. You feel me? But we still hustling. We still spending heartwraps and still take time out to sit with the real niggas that feed the real niggas in the streets. You know what I'm saying? I appreciate that too. Just even by blessing us with your presence. Man, I'm happy to be here, man. Uh-oh. That's it, man. I'm like, are you hearing me? All the way. You better believe it. It's real. I've been watching all niggas do your thing, man. I appreciate that, man. Now I got to ask my question. I was thinking about that. I said, as soon as Rose get here, man, what was the motivation behind the album cover? It looked like you from Bridgerton on that market. I'm going to keep it real. What it was was that was never the album cover. What it was was I took pictures. I had a dope-ass photo shoot with Jonathan Manion. Them were some pictures I took by the pool having fun. I got the gloves on. But the ring was what I wanted to show. That lion's eye. You know what I'm saying? That's a real, special, valuable piece.   And I'm like, yo, I'm finna announce the album. Let's give him an image right now.  It went crazy. I liked it. The memes and all is where they do it. That trail just got out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  You know what I'm saying? I'm happy to homie out. You know what I'm saying? That's a real solid nigga. It's been since the day I met him. Real talented. The nigga really rapping. The really real one. You know what I mean? And he just coming home. So, you know, I'm finishing what I'm doing.  You know, I done sat with him. But hopefully next year, you never know what's going to happen. And then, you know, you're being from the city. I'm from D.C. And he got that same type of element that I see that you have in Miami with the people from the city know that it's legit. That's real about you. You know what I mean? He really legit from the streets. You know what I mean? I'm talking all the way. I'm talking about from the day I met the homie. You know what I'm saying? It's always been what he said it was. Right. And that I always honor and respect that. Is that important for you and sign an artist? Most definitely. Like do they have to be what they say they are for you to work with them? I mean, for me, it's past. It ain't even about the money no more. It ain't even about that.  This for the culture.  Right. And that's starting with me. You got to inspire me straight off the gates. And if I know you make that happen, nigga, I know you can feed the streets. And do something for the streets. That's one thing I always did. Just admire the way you took your record label from the ground up. Not only from the ground up. You took your peers and the ones you signed from the ground up with you and you made them bosses. We actually saw that. Without a doubt. You know what I mean? Because me being in the position I am, it's real easy to spend money on a homie.  And that's what I did. I wanted it because that was one of my dreams.  You know what I'm saying? And that's what I seen with my homies. I've been rocking with day one niggas like Gunplay. Of course. Of course, man. Niggas. Without a doubt. Gun was popping. You already know that's family. And then when I signed Wale and Meek Mill, you know what I mean? And just watching the niggas blossom in, you know, what they brought to the game. I was, I love that. And one thing I'd say is that the difference between what you do and what you see, a lot of dudes who have regular labels do. A lot of dudes that signed dudes and just say, hey, he signed to me, but don't stand next to him and don't let him use the energy that you didn't create it with you being the star and benefit of that. But you didn't stood next to all of your audience. You know what I mean? You stood next to him, but worked with him and did. I wanted to see all my niggas win. I wanted to see my niggas win. Period, regardless. And it's still that way right now. You know what I'm saying? Whatever we doing, whatever we got to do. You know what I'm saying?  Whatever we got to do for my niggas to do what they got to do.    That's heavy. Especially like in the entertainment industry. It's always a one man sport. Everybody want that one. And I understand that too. I understand that. I watched how other niggas before me got ticking that vanity job. Then when they got him a position of power, they didn't know nothing else. You know what I'm saying? I was raised different though. I was a niggas talk to never really complain. And then you work your way out of whatever the situation was. You feel me? When I created MMG nigga, I spent that out of my pocket. You know what I'm saying? For several years on everything I had moving, made sure all my niggas were straight. You feel me? I see whatever. Let's make sure we are straight. Let's put in the work. The first deal I got with Warner Brothers, I only had two years because it wasn't the situation. It wasn't the perfect situation. Rosé wanted, but a real nigga grind his way out of that. We don't crab our way out of that. I ain't no crab. Oh, this side go. This side got to do it. Okay. Okay. Boom. Two years later, boom, we was at Atlantic Records. Heavyweight, you know what I'm saying? And it's going to always be that way. As a boss, you wake up every day trying to weigh the better your situation. And not just for yourself, but everybody that's around you. And not just for everybody that's around you, but for your partners as well. Once you become my partner, my nigga, I want to see us all eat. You do a motherfucking deal, and you're starting to deal with this, with Revolta, you want to see them eat as much as possible as well. To me, that should be the mindset.  Now, how are we going to do it? Shit, just like that.  So how do you keep yourself sane and be like, you know what, it's still coming with a plan to try to make sure everybody eat. It's real easy. You got to put in work, ain't nothing for free. Ain't nothing for free. I cut my own grass, nigga, and you should be bringing eight different things to the table. Every time you come around, you should tell me about a new play. Hey, this what the play is.  As entrepreneurs, rule number one, you got to make motherfuckers comfortable with leaving your door open and letting people know they can bring an opportunity to you. You the type of individual where a nigga say, the homie Greg over there. Nah, that nigga got it down. We got to fix that. How you navigate that, though, that could be a lot, because you leave your door open and motherfuckers just get to running in there without that look, man. It's responsibilities that come with that now. You know what I mean?  The door open for credible individuals that's really about handling business. And what do you need to see to be able to accept it? Do they have to have something in place that you can recognize before they get in there? No, no, no. Your work should speak for itself. That's the beautiful thing about being out here on the streets. That's the beautiful thing about social media. You got to weave through all the holes bending over doing that one leg cocked up with the calf. That's hard to navigate through. And get straight to the paper, too. That's fact. It's value on social media. I could see the niggas you hustling with every day and could kind of halfway trust what you niggas got going on. Oh, that's the homie family. That's the homie. Hey, homie, I ran across a dog. Dog had a proposition. He $1,000. Yeah, he $1,000. Okay, bring that to the table. Come to the promised land with him. What make you think, what make niggas shy away from that? If your business ain't right and if you know you intentionally bringing bad business to the table, that could be a bad situation for you. All right. Big boy count. We only here for one reason. If niggas don't know, don't find out now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I got a lot of homeboy that probably like bring an idea to the table, but it's not really thought out. It's just a great idea. But if it's a great idea, bring it to the table. No, we can bring it to the table.  No, no, no, I just need a little bit of something. No, you told it to me, so now I got to be you. No, no, no, I just need you to be me financially. I can do that, but when I'm going to be you, when I'm going to have that time to do you. And when we win. But you just told me that I did, so you ain't thought nothing after that after you told it to me? Yeah, I thought to tell you. That's what I thought. And then after that, then what? It's us. Damn. Did you tell him? I did.  Don't forget about me. I did.  What did he say? He just said, what you going to do? Well, let me tell you the part he ain't tell you. He ain't hear anything. Hey, you know what I mean? For them type of conversations you have, especially like the responsibility of being a boss, I think from my perspective, what I didn't say is just a lot of people don't account for the liabilities that come with that responsibility. You know what I mean? It's a lot of liabilities that come with being a boss.  What do you put in? Do you have strategic ways you put stuff in place to make sure that you are covered on liability? Well, I feel like when you're a real hustler, you really understand the cloth where we really come from.  It's our responsibilities for the ones that's coming up. Honestly, when I was coming up, I was looking for ways that I could get next to a boss, get down with the team, because I'm going to protect the boss, I'm going to protect the big homie. Anything coming my way, I'm going to make sure straight. And I'm still that way now. When it comes to propositions that you bring and it's because I most definitely could take it to a whole another level. Rosé most definitely, you know what I mean?  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only way it go. And that go for the niggas in our cities. That go for the young dogs. We got to protect our little homies. Speaking of that, being good niggas and then on top of that, bringing so much to the community, to the tables. When you go to Miami, you see the influence of Rosé in Miami. You see the finger licking all the way to the businesses and all that. You got the one side you want to be important and you got to hate your city but on the other side it's so much danger because people are familiar with you how you navigate that. Man, it's just one of them things that you really got to understand.  That's just one thing that come with it. But one thing I refuse to promote is promoting fear into the youngsters and make them afraid to be a leader or to be a boss.  So I won't promote that, you know what I'm saying? And I know and I done been through you know all those sides but most definitely be the head of the family be the head of the house so take the squad to the next level don't be afraid to do it. You getting heavy in the book game now. You got one on the way now the perfect day to boss up. I saw it in the handboard this morning. We just released that one. It was in the handboard this morning. We just released that one. It's actually a New York Times bestseller Walsh Street Journal bestseller. They say the game is to be sold and not to be told. And we might have to change that in the future. We got to change that OG. We might have to change that in the future man because sometimes we just got to spill it on the nigga for nothing. I used to ask the nigga be like man cause I know I did cause I had to realize in any situation I'm like how can I make the move for money and be useful into whatever this is what is my purpose.   He took all the... When you told her later, her t-shirt looked like a v-neck and this is when you picked up the house. The hot, the hockey sticks, that, bruh. It was the way that niggas done walking. B2, man, I done been watching the app, man. If you ain't got the app, get the app. 1085, man, get the app. That's been my entertainment. I've been streaming the app crazy. Man, what y'all want to put on the app? Man, everything, bruh. I want some more content. Everything that I'm doing. The other big motherfucking entity said that they ain't want to feed it to the people.  We got a platform, man, and we can get these folks our ideas, our brains, man. I want to do a... You know how it's like the... What is it live at the actor's studio? You remember that inside the actor's studio? I want to do one of them for all of the niggas in movies that wasn't the main character, but that was like the niggas in the movie. Like, you know what I mean? You have one there first. First, it gotta be goddamn Eileen Cousin from Menace to Society, niggas. Man, that thing's so funny. I got to get that now that we got to sit down with Slim, man. He has been in everything, man. He's got to be so funny. The menace, yeah, exactly. All the way. He talked to them like that in real life. You know what I mean? I don't want to put you on home. I'm not having any crazy... Hey, one of my favorite characters that they never mentioned when they bring up Samuel Jackson is when he played Tatt on Menace to Society. Tatt, Tatt, Tatt, what the fuck, man? You want me some money, motherfucker? Nah, but here you go. That's what I'm saying. Them characters. Cutting from dead presidents. That guy said that, motherfucker. Get him on there and talk about cutting from dead presidents.  What? Did you say?  Look, little brother, I don't want no problem. Poop, knock that nigga down the steps. Cave down, took the gun out, nigga.  Yeah, she wasn't doing it like that before you went to the war, was she? Make you feel like a man, don't you?  Yeah, look at that nigga.    That's what I'm saying. That's been cutting from dead presidents, man. He said, you got to stop spoiling her like this, cut it. Hey, somebody's got to do it. But hey, I want to introduce you to my ugh, that nigga pool dog. Cutting one of the coldest niggas ever, man. We got to give, we got to share light on those characters in movies, man. Felicia from Friday. No cap. Yeah. Those people, the unsung for actors, in a sense. You know what I mean? My boy from, uh, uh, from the woods. Why be wearing the hat like Stacey? Oh yeah, Mama Stacey. You know what I mean? It'd be better to buy the shit, too.  I want you out of my house.  That nigga with a real Christian. That nigga wasn't having it. Grandma couldn't even help that nigga after that. Grandma, look at that nigga. Please tell me you have seen the HD version of Mr. Society on Netflix. Nah. It looked like a whole different movie. For real? Watch it.  It's the whole, it changed the whole movie, though, man. He said, grandma, y'all go keep me out. Through what they ask, would they motherfucking stop Dali because of that brother? I just want to ask that nigga, what motivated you to walk to the car like that? You know what I mean? Would that nigga walk to the car, got the car? Hey, let's go peel these niggas, cap that. Like that nigga, that, like, bruh. It's the only nigga.   I need to add that in real life. I need to add that in real life. OG Bobby Johnson. OG Bobby Johnson. And OG Bobby Johnson. Man, that's what, hey, man, that's one of my favorite scenes from any movies when they had OG Bobby Johnson in there. That mother of a sick. You got some business sticking your nose in Aryan Brotherhood affairs. Ah, King. It was like, that's a man. He's a man. He said, there's a grown man. He was like, well, I want 15 cases. Cigarettes, Marlboro, all whites. That shit, I love that guy, that movie. That nigga, that nigga, that's OG Bobby Johnson. Deuces.  A lot of, this old school. Hey, you ever seen the original game? I looked at it and the nigga said, I'm scared of you. What about him?  OG called, nigga. You ever seen the movie? What? The original game? Jimmy's only 10 years old.  At that age, they don't ask no questions. Hey. Where did we get you without this feeling, Bobby? I know a double-board nigga from, that nigga, Damon Wayne's character in Colors. Bro, what was that? Rocket? What was his name? Rocket. His name wasn't Rocket. What was his name? I don't remember his name. Yeah, but that nigga, you know what I mean? He's taking out Shlan, that is our job. And if you think we did crimps, then you did nothing, nah. And he was freestyling that Astro van. What? They did the first seat in the Colors in the Astro van that you had. Yeah, I miss my Astro van. Have you seen Colors? I've seen Colors. Yeah, I sure have. Yeah, man. But that would be a dope concept. He boss, yeah, I know him. Ain't nothing hitting on boys in the hood, bro. What? Going crazy. That Boys in the Hood was the, I think that was the first one that really, I don't know Colors though, man. When you watch Colors. My favorite scene on Boys in the Hood when the nigga was sitting on the porch lying. When the nigga was talking about how he had to shoot out at the mall.  Bitches running out the chopper. Man, I miss him. Big and live. Then they cut to the nigga, nigga live. He was like, big old country booty, big old country titties. I like what the nigga was yelling.  Make your walk back. They be like, get one of that. Kick him. They be like, what? You gonna get the nigga? Just kick him. I'm like, get him out.  Yeah, let me see. I think I'm like 18.   He ain't bothering me.  I don't know who held the money up better. Him or motherfuckin', what's my man name from Peyton Ford when he was going upstairs. Calvin.  That nigga, Calvin was walking up the steps. After he told that nigga, Ace, nigga, you need to start hustling.  Cold air, we gotta talk to the niggas like, that's what we gotta put on the app. They can have conversations with niggas like that. Calvin from Peyton Ford. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm dropping dime on them niggas. Had to drop it. Them niggas was in, what was they at, man? Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha, Nebraska. Is that your Niggas nigga in Nebraska? Hey man, we still got a name in the studio. It ain't 85 Studio. How's that? Oh, that's what we gonna do? I thought that's what the world like could be.  Where they going? They shooting out at 85 Studio. Is it one studio or is it like 85 of them? No, it's just 85 Studio. I think we gotta name it 85 Studios cause that's what we gonna have, right? I think we gonna get like 85 Studio. Yeah, we gonna get like 85 Studio. 85 Studio. We'll get like 85,000 acres or something. Yeah, 85 Studio. We got like 85 Studio. Hey man, y'all seen that Western on Netflix?  I liked it.  Hell yeah, now? Yeah, I have to say that. I love to be the low-down nigga in the Western but I gotta live so I can be in the secret. I want them to fake hear me. You feel me?  Turn it out, you just see the little line. Come back.  You gotta have some type of scar that's recognizable though like they did on there.  But then this one, I'm just seeking revenge and like, you don't remember me.   Maybe you remember me now. It's one fake or slim. I heard about one fake or slim. I heard about one. You know what type of movie I want to be and I want to be in a movie like Harlem Nights when that era nigga like that, that, that.   I got it. I want to be one of the first slaves to bat my freedom back.  What happened with us, nigga? We can't get out of here? I'm just saying that. You just watch you get your love. Yeah, no, no, maybe that's what it is. He escaped and then come back and buy us out of slavery. Oh my God.   You escaped because the cold is gone in the west. And then I just come still, y'all. And you come still us back, man.  I'm just always be angry. He never came back in time. He never come back in time when he says, I'm gonna always be angry. He's right after slavery about 1899. Right, you know what I'm saying? But nigga, we don't know if we're free. Niggas ain't free all the way. We don't know if we're free. Five years later, we are already free. He tell me, I came back to get you.  I got whip five times. You just got your papers, man. You just left us. I want them in the ship. I'll be right back. I gonna make us do promos. I figure. What about we do a movie from the 80s? Well, we like all big time hustlers, but we all get on the powder real bad. Get on the powder real bad? No, I don't want to be on that one. Oh, I don't want to be on that one. I want to do a 80s movie. I can play with you, Cracky. Me too. I don't know now, Cracky. I don't know Cracky.  See, that's the thing, Cracky. Like, that's the dope. That's the dope. What are you saying? We balling. Then we all start doing bad. Then we all go dope. You know what I mean? I'm telling you, we only bad, though. Man, I'm telling you, we didn't move back. No, baby, everything's bad.   But I'm a dancer, though. Like, I'm a choreographer. Every time I get on, I don't wear a mask. I don't pay.   All that, man. It's gonna be a nigga named Deeper in in 2000. He gonna get it. We all hiding it from each other. Don't none of us want to let each other know that we smoking dope now. Shit, I ain't hiding it. I can't do it.  I'm gonna get off it first, though. Why you want to see me? Why you got it? Why you got it?  I'm gonna get clean. It's getting flavory first. Then they can get off the dope first. So you're gonna get clean and I'm gonna get no more.    Give it to us then, since you don't like it no more. I don't like it. What up, man? We ain't nothing on this nigga. He ain't hooked no cable up. We all pull it together to hit one more lick. Oh, now you need a cracker.  You know what I mean?  I'm gonna talk about something I don't need to hit another nigga. You said first, so y'all can do that. Whatever, man. You ain't even give me no jumps, man.   Yeah, man.    I got nothing. How about one called Black in the Future? Black in the Future. High-Far in the Future. We've seen it already here. We're here now. We can do it, go back. A thousand years. We're at the end of the wall now. A thousand years in the future. Right at the end. Right at the end, 3,000. What if it ain't no black people in the future? What if it's all black people in the future? That can be any type of movie. That can be a drama, a horror, a comedy. The documentary. It's science fiction. It's science fiction.  That shit'll be coming. That might be on the horizon for real, nigga. That shit'll be on the cruise.  This nigga, this nigga, T.C. This nigga, T.C.     Zoom out of here, motherfucker. They found another earth in the galaxy. And they left this earth and went over there. The only thing it gives is they can't have no dogs over there. What, over there? Yeah. So they just, like, they just be coming over here so they can have dogs. They can have pit bulls, nigga. This nigga crazy, man. Can we go to this shit?   They can't come over here for no dogs.  Look at you, trying to integrate.  These dogs may be robot. Me, nigga, you work for them.  Me, nigga, you work for the white man.  People think they know me. They know about me.  I'm made for the black one. I'm made for more of you. All right, I got one like. Hey, y'all. Hey. Hey, look. Well, we all hit the Georgia power lotto. How about we write a book about how we invited the guests and they left us? Like who? I don't know. Somebody big. The biggest. We just write about it. Whatever. I don't know. They just left. But I'm just saying, like, well, how does it happen? I don't know. That was here. And then we like, we lit. And then all of a sudden we look up.  Bro, how can that even happen, man? That don't even sound right. I promise you. Just write a book about it. I bet that she ain't going to fruition. You know, we just call it. Disappear in that. Yeah, that'll be dope. Disappear in that. Who's going to believe that, though? They read. You got to have readers. It's a big thing. Another thing. I get to see the views a lot. Mind fiction. Fiction is fake. Mind fiction is real.  Fiction is fake. And none fiction is real.    When you talk to somebody to explain that shit, why would none fiction be real and fiction be fake?  Yeah, because it's just like, yeah, a nigga, no fiction. Fiction should be real and none fiction should be not real. Mm-mm. Because it's none fiction. Oh, yeah, it's not real.   I don't want to scrape the fiction. So a nigga be like, no, but you really need none fiction. No.  You've never been a non-fiction nigga, nigga. Now you're on that fiction. Now you're on that fiction. You're fiction to be on that fiction, nigga. So non-fiction is real. Non-fiction is real. Fiction is real. Fiction is non-real. You be all right, though. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I'll just go to the history side anyways. Hey, man, I don't know if you heard what you've been listening to, but we do have a new amp called Channel 85. Please go get it. Please go get it. Please go get it. What's another show you're going to put on there, man? There's another show we're going to put on there. We got to have a cooking show on there. What would you call it? Bacon with Bean. Bacon with Bean. Yeah, man. Bacon with Bean. Bacon with Bean. That's what it is.  I come on that mama. Bacon with Bean. Bacon with Bean.   That's what I want to see. I want to see you put something together with nothing like DC coming in and making pecan swirl French toast. How about a show like this, Chico? I would just have a show about old people, are you? I'm tired of you.  What would you call it? Old people, are you?  I ain't going back and forth. No, no. Set up, no, none. Just cut right to it.     No, no, no, no.         They call it a first job. When we get crack head. They first job. Nigga beer. That's impossible.  That's impossible. Working stuff, wait. You want some tuna?  Mega, mega. You know what that is?  That's nonfiction right there. That's real. That's real. First job. Get crack here. Get first job. You want to be a river? Come on. Let's be a river.  I'm going to give you a congregation here. Be a river. Hey, that would be hilarious.  DC Stickers hand out, hey, hey my man. What is it that you want to be? Here, a veterinarian. Well, come on. Got your first job. This is a show.  That check that ain't that bill check.  That's in that same vein.  I quit. And just showing niggas going in and quitting their job. You find people who this close to quitting. This close to quitting. I quit, man. That's going to matter when people quit. You're like, call them, call them, call them. I quit. I quit. China 85. Yeah, I got a big one. I got a new episode.  I hate this song that big. What you need me to do? I'll make sure the ratings go sky high. I quit this show. I know you want me to go big. You want me to go in there or you want me to go small. I can do it at 9 o'clock in the morning. I can do it. They got playing shows about people trying to lose weight. No, you're going there. We need a show about people trying to gain weight. People trying to go on skinny niggas. Yeah, skinny people trying to gain weight. That's a learn. Yeah, you know what I mean? Get your weight up. Weight up.  Get your weight up.  They had to get fat.  You a milk baby? You doing it the wrong way, my niggas.  What else you having, niggas? Only having cereal?  And put some bacon on it. Hey, that's the name of the show right there. You can get your weight up and put some bacon on it. Put some bacon on it. It's a whole show. It just, it ain't even no words. It's just food on the table. And motherfuckers, they ain't making to it. Like, what? And yes!    Have a show. Oh, we need a whole show. Have a show for Joe.  Just had niggas come out and identify lambs. Who's lambs is that? Oh, we need a whole show. That's what you see up there. That's shit! We need a whole show just called Income Tax Season. They gonna make people want to flip them. They gonna do it anyway. Income Tax Season to be dope. You got to do it like True Life. You got to do it like True Life, though. You got to follow this couple all the way up. Nah, I'm talking about from right now, like from right before Christmas, all the way up to Tax Season, to when they get to check, to when they come, bruh. What if they don't want you to see how they live? Huh? What if they don't want you to see how they live? You can't be on the show. That's it. You can't be on the show. This is the point of the show. Whatever the Income Tax Season is, the show gonna match it. Oh, yeah. Whatever they get back, the show gonna match it. Oh, just put yourself too much. Uh-oh. Somebody might need to get a tan.    Is that it?    I guess we got to match it. What do you think of this episode? Hell no. Nah. All right, man.  Everybody will get on, man. We got to do some promos. We ain't, you know what, the day when we leave, let's not say bye to each other. Nobody say nothing. Everybody just leave, bro. Nobody say they leave it. Nah. I just get up and just... I'm flightin' catch. Roll out, bro.  That's how we end the show.


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On Monday, August 28, the University of Pikeville began its first day of classes for the fall 2023 semester. Students are now focusing on their studies after being properly introduced to the U-Pike campus. U-Pike President Dr. Burton Webb shares his thoughts and expectations for the upcoming semester. It's great to have the students back on campus. It always feels to me like life comes back to the campus as the students arrive. You know, sitting here in my office, I can look across the plaza and the cafeteria is just across from where my office sits. So every day at about a quarter to 11, there's a line that starts and it comes all the way out the doors and snakes its way into the plaza as people line up for that 11 o'clock start for lunch. It's energy. It's just energy that comes back to campus. It's life that comes back to the city. I'll go to a restaurant in downtown and sit outside and watch the students all walking by with their dogs or with their spouses and it's just so much fun to see them come back onto campus every fall. Are you ready for a new school year? What better way to start a new school year off right than with a new device on the network that keeps our students and teachers connected? Appalachian Wireless. Whether you need a new smartphone, wearable, or an iPad, we have your back to school solution. Visit AppalachianWireless.com or go into one of our 26 retail locations for our back to school deals that'll help you show up and show out this school year. We are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Dr. Webb also comments on the diversity on campus claiming the student population is made up of individuals from 27 different countries. The university is happy to accept any student interested in joining. We actually have 61 international students this year from 27 different countries. So that's a really great way to introduce people who live here to the cultures of other places and we do occasionally have dinners on campus where folks get to come and make their own favorite dish and they share it with their friends and you know they talk about where they're from. The number of languages that are spoken on campus even in small groups is pretty amazing right now. Reporting from Outantop News, I'm Nick Colum.


Hello and welcome to our video summarizing everything you need to know about child language acquisition. My name is Barbara and in this video we'll examine the stages of children's writing development. Do bear in mind that we have plenty of other videos looking at other areas of child language acquisition including videos on theories relating to child language acquisition as well as case studies, so do make sure you check them out on our channel. However, let's get started on examining children's writing development. Now in the early stages of learning to read and write, young children compose before they know much about the conventions of writing and reading or have the skill to control a pencil or crayon or form letters. Children in preschool often write and read in unconventional forms using scribblings, drawings, letter-like marks and so on and these are not mistakes, in fact, young children are encouraged to write it without worrying about the mechanics of writing. Now one important theorist that has done a lot of work around children's written language and written development is Dr. Kathy Barclay who identified seven stages of children's writing. The first stage she identified as scribbling. Now in this stage, the children make random marks on a page and to encourage children at this stage, adults can offer blank paper and writing tools to talk with children about the writing. The second stage is mock handwriting and this often appears with drawings. Children produce lines with wavy scribbles and this stage resembles cursive writing and may be visited at a later time. The third stage is mock letters so children make letter-like shapes that resemble conventional alphabet letters. The next stage is conventional letters and at this stage the first word to appear is usually a child's first name. Adults will often see a string of letters across a page that a child reads as a sentence. This is known as an invented spelling stage in the next stage and as the child writes conventional letters, they begin to cluster letters to make words and although words may not appear conventional, children will often ask an adult, what did I write? Now in stage six, this is called the approximated or phonetic spelling stage. Children at this stage begin to associate sounds with letters and the final stage, the seventh stage is a conventional spelling stage and this occurs as the child's approximated spellings become more and more conventional and they resemble normal adult writing. Now when it comes to understanding functions of children's writing, there are the following five functions that children have to learn when it comes to the functions of writing. The first is called practical. Now most of us make lists, jot down reminders, write notes and instructions and of course children will learn this function. The next function is job related. Now this of course children might learn much much later on in their older however of course this function is related to professional and white collar workers who write frequently. The third function is stimulating. Now writing which helps provoke thoughts and organism logically and concisely. This is another important function of writing. The fourth is social. So most of us write thank you notes, invitations and letters to friends occasionally and of course children as they grow older realize that they can use writing to engage with other people not only through speaking and the fifth is the therapeutic function of writing and this can be helpful to express feelings and writing that can't be expressed by easily speaking such as journaling and of course this is when children are much older however this is a really important function of writing to bear in mind. Now when it comes to stages of writing development, learning to write is much more than a motor skill. It can be studied in conjunction with children's emerging cognitive, social and linguistic abilities and being able to write enables children to formulate thoughts and reflect on meaning and this is part of the process of learning and in addition to motor ability and functional awareness children develop structures of language in tandem. Now one other theorist called Kroll recognized four stages of development. The first which is takes place between four to seven years old is what he terms as the preparatory stage and this is where basic motor skills develop and principles of the spelling system are acquired by children to the start understanding the ABCs and so on. The next stage which takes place at approximately seven to nine years old is called the consolidation stage according to Kroll. Children at this stage begin to use writing to express what they can already say in speech and their writing closely reflects the patterns of spoken language. There may be colloquialisms in other words slang, casual language, strings of clauses linked by and as well as unfinished sentences so this is all very typical characteristics of their writing during this age. Now the next stage is the differentiation stage and this happens at nine years and older so here writing begins to diverge from speech and develops its own patterns and organizations although errors are common at first as children learn new standards and experiment on new structures they start to make less and less errors and the written work becomes fuller more diverse and they encounter the need to produce different kinds of writing for different audiences and purposes and of course do remember this is now tied into them understanding the different functions of writing. At this point children need guidance about structures and functions of written language and they realize that writing is a medium where there's time to reflect rethink and use language as a way of shaping thought and thus they begin to draft, revise and edit. The next stage is the integration stage which takes place at 14 years and older this is when children now become teenagers. In this instance writers will have such a good command of language that they can vary their stylistic choices at will and develop a personal voice and this continues to develop throughout adult life. Now it's important to obviously understand the features of the English writing system. Now the first is to do with controlling and holding a pen and of course children will need to understand this. The next is called directionality the idea that they need to learn that writing goes from left to right. Another feature that children will need to understand when it comes to the English writing system is the alignment of the writing. The writing will need to start going more on a straight line so very young children sometimes find it really difficult to write on a straight line and it tends to go quite wonky and it's all over the place however the older they get the more they understand the importance of aligning their writing. Also another feature of the English writing system that they learn is using upper and lower case in other words capital letters but also when not to use capital letters. Another thing they have to learn is to do with spacing words appropriately on the line or page as well as understanding and applying principles of sentence construction and children will also need to understand and apply the conventions of punctuation the need to understand when to use full stops, commas, semicolons and so on. Another important feature of the English writing system that children start getting used to more and more is letter directionality so many letters face a particular direction for instance b and d as well as s and the more they get older and the more they practice the more they learn the correct letter directionality. Also children learn more and more how to select appropriate words and use appropriate graphemic combinations to spell them and later they start learning how to produce cursive which is joined up writing as well as learning forms and conventions for genres of writing such as what they can write when it comes to a letter versus a story and they also learn more and more how to use skills of assessing to monitor and correct their writing as and when they make mistakes. Now when it comes to the different stages which have outlined it's it can be summarized in a very interesting and neat chart of this so as you can see here on the left hand side I've written the stage and then the center there's the description of this stage and then there's a little bit of analysis. Let's first start off with stage one which is drawing and sign writing. Now in this stage children often experiment with the kind of sign writing which they regard as being different from drawing they begin to understand that we use marks on the page to pass on ideas from writers to readers and signs show some characteristics of writing on the page such as succession of characters in a line. Now when it comes to analyzing this particular stage of drawing and sign writing now the first breakthrough comes when children learn to recognize that there is a difference between drawing and writing between shapes and signs. Children learn that writing in English is distributed along straight lines and direction which is from left to right matters and they learn that the distribution of blank space is also important. Now the second stage which is to do with letter-like forms is whereby we find that individual signs are produced and some have letter-like features. Now in this instance children start to recognize the different shapes for the alphabet and they copy these. The third stage is copied letters and here the child was able to overwrite, underwrite or copy letters sufficiently and accurately for them to be all recognized. Now this is a difficult task when it comes to the number of different upper and lowercase letters for children as well as them understanding the importance of minute distinctions relating to their relative size orientation and position. Also children at this stage learn to associate these with different sounds and names or in other words they learn to associate letters and words with different sounds and names however another difficulty that children experience comes from the fact that the same letters in English can represent different sounds in different contexts. The fourth stage is when it comes to child's name and them stringing together letters so children will start independently writing strings of letters usually including their own name and in this stage children start to recognize that groups of letters tend to occur together. Many first learn this in connection with their own name usually they learn it as a sight word without first being able to analyze it into letter components. Children also begin to recognize that otherwise they come across frequently have similar strings of letters at the beginning and at the end. Now the fifth stage which is called words. Now children in this stage learn the sounds associated with groups of letters and what they represent when it comes to familiar spoken words and they also learn to understand the principles underlying the use of the alphabet. Now this breakthrough to literacy comes when children learn to associate the sounds linked to groups of letters with speaking words that they know. They have thus understood the alphabetic principles and we can approximately represent the sounds of using letters. Now the next stage which is to do with sentences in this stage children have learned to write confidently and they can begin to express some ideas and writing that link several concepts together in sentences. They also need to learn how to use clauses and sentences to do this and thus once they do they can do this using capital letters and full stops systematically and in this stage children have to learn the conventions we use to show how groups of words are linked together in sentences but the systematic use of grammatical punctuation including full stops and a capital letter to start a sentence is something that almost always occurs after a child has began to write text confidently. In the seventh stage writing text involves combining clauses or sentences expressed related ideas and children learn to combine clauses and sentences to convey a sequence of related ideas. Texts are often defined as writing involving a series of related sentences and hence children can now start writing short stories in this stage and texts become more coherent in meaning and what they write becomes more cohesive in structure. It's not just a list of unconnected sentences they start learning at this stage how to really join up the sentences and also how to make the ideas in each sentence consistent. Now there's several different parallel systems that break down the developmental stages of spelling into understandable categories and this is one of the four stages although there are several other good systems divided into six and eight categories when it comes to the developmental stages of spelling. So now let's look at one of the popular stages that comes with the stages of spelling in a child's life. Now the first stage is called exploration and this is the pre-letter writing stage. You'll find here in this stage that children have lots of random writing on the page. There's letters, symbols and numbers and they may use repetition of familiar letters such as a letter in their name and they use left-to-right directionality as well as random sight words. The second stage is called the semaphonetic stage and at this stage children tend to leave random spaces in writing. They use few words in correct places for instance in names and they show some letter and sound correspondence. They can also use initial consonants and they can also use partial mapping of words so two or three letters. In the third stage which we'll call phonetic there's a total mapping of letter and sound correspondence and vowels tend to be omitted in their writing if they can't hear them. Also children start writing a bit more quickly and they start spacing the words a bit more correctly and letters are assigned strictly on the basis of br bar or prt party. Now in the fourth stage which we call transitional vowels appear in every syllable and the silent e pattern becomes fixed and you'll find that children have inflectional endings like s or i and g being used. Also common letter sequences are used such as a, e and o and children move towards visual spelling and they may include or but sometimes reverse some letters. Now of course there's so much to consider so when it comes to actually writing about child's written development here is a framework that you can consider when talking about children's writing. Now in your introduction you should attempt to describe the text overall paying attention to pragmatics and discourse so when it comes to pragmatics ask yourself what is the context of the text how much can you work out and how much cannot be known and of course this is when you're presented with a piece of a child's writing that you need to analyze. You should also ask yourself when it comes to pragmatics who is a child writing for when you're looking at this and is a text that you're analyzing determined by a teacher and does it show evidence of being guided. Also try and decide on the genre of the text that the child writes such as whether it's a narrative text or report. Now the thing of course related to discourse is look at the overall structure of what the child has written if it's a narrative piece or a report and how the ideas are organized and also how cohesive the text is whether there are discourse markers used. Also in your writing when you're analyzing a piece of a child's writing consider the lexis of the text so for instance ask yourself the following questions how appropriate is the register is any of the texts similar to speech is any of the lexis field specific also perhaps has the child prepared for this topic by reading about it to have they use conjunctions is the description and what kind for instance have they started using adjectives adverbs explanatory clauses and so on. Also make sure you consider the grammar of the text and ask yourself the following questions what sentence types are there are sentence boundaries appropriate how well is punctuation used and what tenses are used in the text are they used correctly or does a child change tense at the wrong time. Also is speech reproduced correctly in their writing and do they perhaps use passive as well as active voice in their writing. Also when you're examining a child's piece of writing do consider graphological features so look at for example the directionality of the writing does it get from letter to right top to bottom also look at the overall spatial organization so for instance the images included with the text are there any headings if this is an information text or title and consider how closely this matches the appearance of standard text in the chosen genre. Also consider the size of letters are they consistent and are they able to use upper and lowercase letters reversal of letters such as d and b for instance as well as joined up cursive writing. Also try and consider the spelling of their text so for instance use the terminology that you've learned in previous parts of this video to describe the spelling choices made by the child in particular consider how the phonetic the spellings are how much whole word knowledge the child has and how many virtuous errors they make which reveal a basic understanding of underlying spelling rules and also remember to take into account the type of words which the child is trying to spell are they high frequency words or are they more usual okay so that's it if you found this video useful would really appreciate it if you gave it a big thumbs up but also consider subscribing to our channel also make sure you visit our website www.firstreadteachers.com there you will find lots of useful revision materials for this topic as well as several other topics across english thank you so much for listening


In the South African context, we've got 42% unemployment on the expanded definition of 11 million people unemployed out of a population of about 58 million-ish, and the sort of solutions offered the whole time are more states, more welfare, nationalizing property and health care, that kind of thing. So I wanted to ask you about the South Africa, I mean, context is vital. So given South Africa's history of oppression, colonialism, apartheid, why is it not right or just to perhaps pursue some of those policies? Because some people got, you know, what they have now based on the color of their skin kind of thing. How does one deal with that sort of, that tension, I guess, as it were between welfareism versus free markets and people who say, well, apartheid was capitalism? Well, apartheid was not capitalism because if a part, if capitalism is the protection of individual rights, clearly a majority of South Africans' rights were not protected, indeed violated, en masse by the government. A part of it was no more capitalism than slavery was capitalism. Now it's true that there were parts of the economy, if you were white, that were kept relatively free, but as a system, it was anti-capitalist. Look, you can spend a lot of time trying to figure out, and to try to redistribute wealth from the wealth created through injustice over apartheid to the people who in injustice was committed against them. But I think it's much more effective and much more just and ultimately much more rewarding for everybody. If instead of focusing on the injustices of the past, we focus on not committing injustices moving into the future, instead of trying to equate people, what we try to do is create as many opportunities for wealth creation for South Africans as possible. So Black South Africans were clearly horrifically treated by apartheid. The solution to that is not to treat white South Africans horrifically. The solution to that is to treat all South Africans equally before the law, to treat all South Africans by protecting their individual rights, to accept that they all have equal rights and therefore need protection, and then allow capitalism to do what some people call its magic. Because where does wealth come from, where do jobs come from, how do people's lives actually improve? Wealth does not dramatically improve people's lives. On the contrary, it provides them with an incentive not to work, not to better themselves, not to try harder. It provides them with an incentive, in a sense, it provides them with an institutionalization of poverty when you don't have welfare. People start businesses, they find jobs, they work hard, they gain productive ability, they rise up in business, they make more money over time, their lives improve, they gain the self-esteem associated with having a job and putting food on the table, not living off of somebody else, and they have the potential to thrive. And it's up to them what happens. And if you think about where did jobs come from? Jobs come from entrepreneurs, jobs come from businesses growing, jobs come from an economy that's thriving and growing, jobs come from wealth creation. So what you want to create is an economy, what you want to create is a society in which there is ongoing, active, sustained wealth creation, a society in which entrepreneurs are starting, building businesses in which businesses, small businesses are striving to be mid-sized businesses and then striving to be big businesses. And that's how you grow employment, that's how you grow wealth, that's how people rise up. People's earnings don't rise up because the government says they should rise up. People's earnings ultimately can only rise when they are more productive. But how do you become more productive? By through investment, through investment in capital, through investment in education, through investment in your own ability and your own skill, through training, through practice, through knowledge. Well, what kind of society allows for all that to happen and encourages it and sustains it? Again, that's capitalism. When people are free, they invest in themselves. They pursue their own interests. When the economy is free, capitalists pour money into making workers more productive. Because the more productive the worker is, the worker's wages go up. But the return on capital goes up at the same time. And under capitalism and the freedom, entrepreneurs are constantly thinking of new ideas, new businesses, new opportunities, new ways to make money. But all the new ways to make money are job creators. So the only way to get to a situation where unemployment is the equivalent of zero, the only way to get to society where wealth and standard of living and quality of life and incomes are constantly growing is to allow the maximum amount of economic freedom. And again, all you have to do if you're South African is to look around the world and see what works and what doesn't. Why, how did Hong Kong become on a per capita GDP basis as rich as America in only 70 years? Well, because it adopted capitalist principles. How did even China go from Mao Zedong to a middle class of hundreds of millions of people? Because in spite of the authoritarianism, they embraced economic liberty in some parts of China and to some extent. And the beauty of capitalism is to the extent that you apply it, to the extent that you engage in freedom, to that extent, you succeed. China would be a lot richer today if it hadn't been so authoritarian and didn't have so much central planning. So if South Africa wants to get richer and wants to enable its citizens, black, white and everybody else, to be successful, successful economically, successful from a personal perspective in terms of self-esteem and confidence and wants confidence and ability to feed one's own family and to feed oneself and to thrive as an individual. If South African government cares about a prosperity and quality of life and standard of living, then it should do much the opposite of what it's doing today. It should commit itself to private property. It should commit itself to protecting individual rights. It should commit itself to liberating, liberating the economy, eliminating regulations, eliminating controls, eliminating taxes, simplifying and basically getting the money, the government out of the way. And I know South Africans. South Africans are incredibly entrepreneurial. They're incredibly, have the capacity to be great innovators, they have the capacity to start their own businesses at whatever level and whatever size they can. And the South African economy would thrive, would boom. If only we got the bureaucrats, the regulators, the controllers out of the way, out of the way. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought. All right, before we go on, remind them, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  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Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good morning everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com weekend update show. A wet, nasty washout here in the Northeast and a lot of you guys are tackling the same weather. Again, not a lot of things could go perfect in life, whether it shouldn't be a reason that you don't continue to live your life to the fullest with the utmost in happiness. If you are brand new to the channel, we invite you to come along. Come along on this journey, subscribe, share, like this channel. Again, I try to give the most unbiased way to looking at the market. We don't fall in love with individual tickers. We fall in love with technical analysis and technical analysis when done properly, we'll love you back. So let's talk about it. A lot of things have changed since we last spoke. For all you guys who don't know, this broadcast goes out to the general public.  I need a kind of a brain reset for Friday session and then once on the weekend. This is your weekend update. A lot of things have really changed since Wednesday. If you guys remember the last video, we were teetering on the bottom of the range here when Microsoft came out with numbers. And if you guys remember, we had the lowest close in this whole formation on the 20-day moving average. It looked like it was, excuse me, wrong one right here. It looked like the market was about to fall off a planet. The news on Microsoft got sold. So he's turned around and say, well, naturally eBay is not going to, not eBay, but Metta is not going to save the market if Microsoft couldn't. This is why you play the game.  A lot of technical damage, especially in the semiconductor space. And you say to yourself, well, here we go. Earning season was the catalyst. We went through the banking mess. We're going through earning season. Surely Netflix, Tesla, they missed the market, sold off Microsoft on good earnings. Here we go again. The market's going to implode yada, yada, yada three days later. We are literally closed at the top of the range finally getting above the 404 highs. Of 321 63 will get to the pivots in a second. But if you look at the tape, right? If you look at the tape and look at the commentary, you know, you had good earnings this week from Metta and Microsoft did really, really well. Google and Amazon, not so much matter of fact. Amazon came out the same basic news that Microsoft went up on on cloud spending. Amazon came in and said, well, we're seeing customers a little resilient, excuse me, a little having resistance for paying for cloud and so forth and so on. And Amazon that had a really aggressive initial spike. If you guys remember, we were talking about it throughout the week, but especially the day they came out with earnings. They were really pounding the weekly 110, 115, 120 calls. So when they finally came out with earnings, Amazon absolutely exploded. Really did. It was trading the 20s for a long, you know, for about an hour and a half, two hours. And then when the conference calls started and the CEO started talking about the reluctant spending in the cloud space, the stock really started imploding. And what was up 10% at one point went down 4% very, very quickly on the conference call. And there was a whole discussion. We always talk about a lot of gray areas in the market. Buying the stock and selling the stock, that's the most basic part about trading. Anybody could buy and sell the stock. You don't even have to know what you're doing and you can buy and sell the stock. That's all it is. It's clicking a mouse. But for anybody who's going overnight on earnings, especially on earnings, right? Number one, you already know it's a gamble. Nobody knows exactly how the stock is going to respond. You can have the greatest, you know, you can have the absolute greatest quarter on the surface on paper. And then like the CEO of Amazon comes on. For example, I totally forgot I was in Bezos. But he came on and completely threw cold water on all the earnings. And here we are. We had a complete reversal. And it's something important for option players. We talk about this all the time. There's so many hours from the time that the earnings are released. So let's just say the earnings are released at four o'clock, right? A little after four o'clock. So you have between four o'clock to eight o'clock. That's four hours. That's including conference calls, all that other stuff. In that four hours, again, you're seeing so many different things happen. Other companies that are potentially warning other companies that are coming out with earnings. Maybe some political news that strikes out of nowhere. Maybe some global headline that comes out of nowhere. Some Fed headline comes out of nowhere. And between that and the overnight session, right? You have so many more hours by the time that 9.30 area. You're looking at 15, you know, 15 hours or so, 16 hours or so that anything could happen to your stock. And the one thing I've always said, especially in the webinar over and over and over again, if you are going overnight on something that has an event, right? And the stock goes in your direction. If you have the ability, and this is why we always say it's super important to have a fully funded account. What it means is as much money as you possibly could have in that account. Because if you're going overnight, like a perfect example on Amazon, it spiked up $10, $11. And if you didn't have the ability to short stock against your calls, right? If you didn't have the ability to short stocks against your calls, you woke up the next day or even an hour later and saw that Amazon was a completely huge reversal. Now you are out of luck. So if you are going into earnings or any event and you do get depreciation, or depreciation depending on what side you're trading, always consider, if you are long as stock and it's up 10, always consider shorting some equity, right? Shorting some underlying equity just to kind of start flattening out and pairing out your gains. Because again, as we saw on Amazon as a perfect example, you just never know. There's no guarantees. So as much as meta just exploded, right? Just exploded on earnings, right? And that's great if you had calls. But the other equation is, well, what happens if they pull an Amazon and your calls that would have been up exponentially at the 9.30 open now are, I don't know these were worthless, but they're much more in a full position that you wanted. So always consider, if you have the account balance, always to consider short some stock against your calls just to start pairing yourself out. Because again, in life, as in trading, there absolutely is no guarantee. So let's talk about the tape. So we did have the highest close in this whole formation. And keep this in mind. This is during six bank failures, right? The most recent one was FRC. They came out with earnings couple of days ago. But the key cock to the earnings report was that they saw a 40% drop in deposits, right? That's a big deal.  And the next day, there was rumors of the FDIC taking them over. They finally just basically threw in the towel. And now the FDIC is looking for receivership, which basically means they're taking them over. And then you saw just this humongous move down, traded under $2 at one point. There was chatter after the close. I don't know if you guys saw this, but there was chatter after the close that JPMorgan could be bidding on their assets after pennies on the dollar. So this is something that's going to be a big fire sale in a company like JPMorgan is obviously going to take advantage. The other big story, right? I never thought I'd be saying this, was the stock top, right? And here's another perfect example of new traders. And again, it's new traders. I don't know anybody. All my buddies are trading north of 20 years. I don't know that one person that even looked at this thing, it's too crazy. It's gambling. You could say what you want, but new traders, they're so fixated on instant gratification. They want the fast money, the aggressive money. They don't want even now. They want it yesterday. And here's a perfect gambling tool. I don't know what happened to the stock. I don't care what happened to the stock. But I did watch this thing on Friday. It was trading at a $7 spread. What are you guys doing? Honestly, guys, trading is supposed to be boring, lethargic, predictable. This is gambling. I don't care what you want to call this. This is gambling. This is the same thing of betting the money line on an NBA game. At least if you bet the money line on an NBA game, you know your money. You already bet your money. Your exposure is gone. At least you can enjoy the game for three hours. This is straight up gambling. Like I've said in times, look, you're all adults, right?  Nobody's going to tell you what to do. I'm not here to preach. I'm not here to judge. I'm not here to judge. But just understand that this is gambling. This is the purest form of gambling. I'm sure somebody made money on this thing. I saw some horrific, horrific things on social media, but people blowing out their accounts.  Call it what it is. If you're trying to make money, call it gambling, right? If you are trading, you shouldn't have any reservations to look at this thing. Because again, you're not in control. I don't know what the news was. I don't care what the news was. The stock went apparently from six to 250 back to $50 after hours.  But again, if you do want to be a professional trader and that's your aspirations, you have to put on the blinders and get rid of the get rich, quick, sexy, exciting stocks. I mean, you could be trading Amazon, Apple, Tesla. They're just so orderly. They're so orderly and their contingent move bases are in institutional money flow in the options market versus retail piling in, trying to make a fortune and hit the power bowl. Again, if you were trading for a long time, you realize it's all about the grind. It's all about the day to day, one trade at a time, one day at a time. Every day is completely different. You have different situations. You have different sentiment, different ways of looking at the stock market at any given time. Something like this is just, it's a shame. If you made money on this thing, consider yourself lucky. If you took the other side of the equation and you shorted this thing, look, you're going to bounce back, but learn from it. Don't make it a second, third, fourth case scenario that you're doing this over and over again. You're looking for another result. There's gambling. There's trading. Obviously, this is not trading. This is just something that you're trying to strike lightning in a bottle.  Other than that, we're deep into earning seasons. We are closed. We have closed at the top of the range. Even Tesla finally woke up a little bit. I'll tell you one thing. Tesla got saved. It really got saved. If you guys remember on Wednesday's video, this thing was sitting right on the linear regression line. It opened up green, one red, one downlink, two bucks, and then had a nice reversal. Now the stock is actually tradable from Monday. You probably get one or two more days of it, but that's the whole point. I trade Tesla in both ways. To the downside, to the upside, you guys don't fall in love with the stock. Fall in love with the range. If that range confirms, that's the best way to attack a trade. Again, I see so many people so emotionally engulfed in Tesla. No, this is a buying opportunity. You're crazy. It's a small bounce. It's going to go lower. It might. It might on both sides. But when you have a range, you want to take advantage of the range. For example, Friday, and we'll go over the pivots in a second. We knew that if it reclaimed the five-day moving average, it was going to start bouncing back. Is it possible it gets to the 168, 170 on Monday? Yeah, there's a shot, right? There's a shot. But I also am very, very open to the idea that, hey, it turns right back around. It loses back the five-day moving average. And now you have the bottom of the channel that had defended last week for a potential retest. So you always want to be very, very conscious of your environment. You always want to be very conscious of the ranges of the stocks. Trade both sides of the market. Be responsible. Be fiscally responsible. Again, trading is all about the grind. Basits, basits, basits. Manufacture runs. Get hit by a pitch. Take a walk. Maybe get on an error. Luck sometimes plays a part of it. And sometimes you will hit a home run, right? But the point is when you're trading a stock, when I say trading, when you're playing a stock like Top, you're going for the home run every single time. It doesn't exist. It's like an NFL quarterback at the first play of the game from its own 20 throwing a Hail Mary. Maybe he'll complete it one out of 100 times. He won't, but the point is he'll definitely put himself in a situation as being the victim instead of being the aggressive. So just be kind of conscious. It's super important. Trading, it's super important of how you proceeded this business of what you trade and how you trade. But it's very, very important to understand the risk before you put your hard earned money. So going into this week, let's look at the indexes. Very, very quickly. Again, you got Q's at the top of the range here in the middle of earning season. You have, let's see here, you have a lot of, obviously a lot of earnings coming again this week. On Mondays, you got SoFi, nothing big. MGM Grand, MicroStrategy is all tied up into Bitcoin. On Semiconductor, nothing really crazy. Tuesday starts up again. It starts up again. You got AMD. You got Ford, Starbucks, Uber, Pfizer, Serreptimatch.com. And let's see here, Wednesday, you got Qualcomm, Etsy, Sunpower, nothing really crazy. Thursday is going to be the big one. You have Coin, Shop, Square, and obviously Apple is going to be the setter of the tone for Friday's session. So as of right now, buyers are being rewarded for dips even when there's technical damage as we've seen here, as we've seen here. And again, the old joke is, hey, if you keep on buying the dip, eventually you'll be right. And then this market is proving that you are completely correct. And the most important part is it's continuously negating bad news. Again, six bank failures in the last month. I mean, it really does show you how aggressive the market is. All right, guys. So let's talk about the pivots from Friday. Again, Wednesday, I was super bearish. Came in short. Tesla went green to red, went down another couple of points, and then it reversed. And then it started reclaiming back the five-day moving average. And that's that 161 level. So 161, let me just show you the chart where this 161 came from. 161, if you notice, the last two highs, right? The last two highs into the five-day moving average was 160, 67. And the next day's highs were 160, 48. So we knew if he could get above 161, he could reclaim the five-day moving average, which is the shortest-term sentiment. 161 closed pretty much at the highs of the day near 165. I still think if they could get above these two channels here, I think there's a shot at 68, 70 for another near-term scalp. Navidia exploded towards the end of the day. 275 needs to build. Here is Navidia, right? Another example of a stock reclaiming and building above the five-day, right? This whole area here was the five-day. It reclaimed, took out the 75, closed at the high of the day, 77.5. It looks like, you know, if it doesn't die out this week, it looks like there's a shot here into the 280s ahead of its numbers in a couple of weeks. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Apple, nice move on Apple. 168, 60 needs to build. Here is Apple. Again, all these stocks just breaking out. Again, mirror image of the cues, took out the 68 area, went to 70. Again, if it starts reclaiming 70, it should go higher against ahead of its earnings. So that was that. TTD, not a big move, went from 6480 to like 6560s before it reversed. Microsoft has been awesome. We caught this great, great move from that 299, 57, 300 area. It just exploded, took runners overnight. And I said, listen, basically for all those who are long, a runner, 305, 20, yes, these highs, if it stalls out there, sell your runners. It confirmed that, you know, it confirmed very, very aggressively, put in a new base there and exploded. I said potential 308, 309 if the market continues. And Microsoft was definitely, definitely the move of the week. Look at the high here. Traded right to the three online level, big, big move. Congratulations to all you guys who took Amazon. I thought there was a shot. Amazon, excuse me, congratulations to all you guys that took Microsoft. There was a shot that I thought that Amazon could shake off the earnings, the earnings turnaround. It did not do so. It stayed red the whole day. Meta, there was a couple of areas of Meta. There was a bounce spot on Meta. It didn't take out the natural pivot. Guys, watch this 242 level for Meta this week. Stock has been acting really, really well. Great, had a great rest on the day after earnings. OSCR went up about a dime, nothing there. And again, here's the queues. $321.63, the daily range needs to build. And the queues closed at the highs of the day. A dollar higher above its range. Again, market looks pretty good going through this week. Again, here, because Meta read the green. There's a lot of times there as well. So that's it. That's it. If you look at the spies, you look at the spies. They're about to break out as well. Watch this this week. Watch this 418.31 level. The IWM, again, very, very completely different picture than everything else. Still under water. Again, the money is out of speculation, which obviously wouldn't even think so with all these crazy Chinese stocks flying. But that's what it is. And then as that keeps on going, the gravy train keep on going, keep fighting off the bad news. Again, to be determined. So all you guys have a wonderful, a wonderful weekend for all you guys who are planning to join us in the live webinar this week. Please do yourself a favor. Start watching the two workshops. And for all you guys who have not watched the workshop, it's completely free. There's two versions of it. It's about 8, 10 hours long. I completely break down the PS60 theory. And if you've been wondering or thinking about pivots, are they right for you? We have a 30-day offer. Try it out for 30 days. The only thing you have to lose is looking at, is kind of disconnecting yourself from this whole social media world and looking at the market completely different way. Guys, have a great, great weekend. God bless. 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