What's up navigation traders welcome to this week's video update today's Friday May 17th This is our video review of all of our trades and alerts From the week before we jump into the alerts. Let's check out the community and talk about who got caught being hot this week We recognize one member of the trade hacker community for helping other traders This week we're recognizing a very new trader who's really just trying to figure it out asking a ton of great questions And I love this and I this is why I think it's helping other traders is because For every time that a new trader asks a question There's probably 10 or 20 others sitting there behind the scenes that don't ask the question because they don't want to feel stupid They don't want to feel like it's a dumb question But the reality is every question that somebody asked probably helps other traders as well So our member who goes by the name HB has been asking a ton of great questions Just really trying to figure this stuff out. We all remember what it was like when we first started trading It's kind of like drinking out of a fire hose. So Congrats to HB keep up the good work. You got caught being hot All right, let's go over to our membership area and check out the alerts from the week starting with Monday the 13th our first trade alert was a rolling adjusting trade that we did in NG Nat gas and we just rolled one of our sets of short strangles from June with 15 days to expiration Over to July with 43 days kept the strikes exactly the same our other piece had already been rolled So this was our Remaining short strangle that we just wanted to get over we're down under that 21 days to expiration We gave it a little bit more time because we were hoping it traded higher which it did So made made for a better roll So anyway, let's go let's go to the platform and take a look at Natty gas to start with So here it is remember we've got both of our put strikes at the three just because let me remind you why we did that So if we go to the strikes when you go deep in the money, you know, you start getting a little bit of a sparse Open interest in some of these deeper in the money So when we're when we're that far out, you know, the three was kind of the one with the most right around it Was was pretty sparse. So we wanted to we just stuck with the three on both of our pieces So you can see there's two contracts on three put and then on the call side, we've got 2.7 2.75 Which are pretty close as well. So we just kind of look at this as a combined position even though we're managing each piece separately So what we're looking at is we just need a little bit more up movement in Natty gas to benefit this position And we'll just continue to stay mechanical with that one Next trade opening trade and EWZ so implied volatility popping higher IV percentile at 65 at this point So just selling some premium in another diversified underlying this time in Brazil We did this in the June cycle with 39 days to expiration. So if we take a look at EWZ You can see we've got a little bit of profit since we put this on not much Just waiting for some more time to pass some more theta to the K and EWZ before we do anything Next trade rolling adjusting trade in Nvidia. So we had a short call vertical on in Nvidia We got a nice down movement in our favor. So we were well over 50% of max profit So we just needed to roll these strikes closer So we stayed in the same June cycle and just simply adjusted our strikes from 190 200 down to 165 175 and I mentioned here that Nvidia announced earnings and they did that after the market Closed yesterday on Thursday evening. And so we just held through earnings and so let's take a look at where we're at in Nvidia It's up slightly 0.62% today after the earnings announcement. So pretty Pretty non-event from an earnings standpoint We're up a little bit on the trade since we've done this role Just looking for a little bit more downside to benefit this trade after the couple adjustments. We've made We're basically a break even on the trade right now. So if we could get a quick move lower We'll we'll go ahead and book that one And so that's where we're at in Nvidia next trade rolling adjusting trade in the cues so we had a Remaining short call vertical left in the cues that was still in May with just four days to expiration so we went ahead and rolled that out to June and and then and we Adjusted our strikes accordingly And so let's take a look at QQQ. We've got two sets of short call verticals This is the first one here and so you can see price is pretty close to where we rolled that no no profit or loss on that So just holding for some more downside and then on this one It's basically it excuse me. It's barely out of range So just looking for some downside to get back into range for those new members who are trying to figure out What what we're doing here? These were originally part of iron condors and we've continued to keep the short call vertical side on for that short Delta exposure We like to have a short Delta exposure of anywhere from one to one To five to one on our ratio of short Delta to theta and if you're a new member and that sounds kind of confusing We've got some articles on managing our portfolio by Delta in our blog in our courses There's a couple blog posts that are good resources. One is how to manage your portfolio using Delta and the other is how to How to trade options like a professional and both of those kind of talk about the management of Delta versus theta So our theta to Delta short Delta to theta ratio right now is Just under two to one. So we're short Delta is almost twice as much as our theta And I can say we like to be in that one to one to five to one range. So we're in a good spot there So that's where we're at on QQQs Next trade rolling adjusting trade in ZW. So excuse me closing adjusting trade So we closed one set of our iron condors booked over 40% of max profit on that piece of the trade And then we are still holding a Full iron condor here, which actually was a later alert, which I'll mention here when we get to it But pretty dead centered here. Just waiting for some more time to pass in wheat Next trade closing trade in XRT So we had a short strangle on an XRT that we had we'd made several adjustments to Ended up booking a nice profit after those adjustments. So we were out of XRT at that point And you'll see later on here. We'll enter a new position on XRT and I'll show that when we get to it Next position closing trade in Apple. So okay, so we had we had a couple different trade two different trades That were pretty similar here back to back with Apple and Facebook So these were long Delta positions that we had put on when our short Delta was getting a little bit too short We put on these long Delta positions one in Apple, which is a Which was a short put vertical and then also a short put vertical in Facebook Well, obviously the big down move in the market went against these long Delta plays and so We ended up getting a sign the stock on those so when that happens typically We're just gonna close that out the other option which I mentioned here Is if you had the capital in your account and you wanted to hold that stock and start selling premium against it You could start selling 30 Delta calls against it and just continue to manage as such But in our case we just closed it out because we don't want we didn't want the long stock in our portfolio That wasn't the original idea. And so we're sticking to the strategy So we ended up taking a loss on Apple ended up taking a loss on Facebook and The interesting thing is here that you want to understand as soon as on the closed trades This is these are gonna show pretty sizable losses But even though we booked these losses our overall portfolio grew this week because we were we had more short Positions on then we did long of course when the markets got slammed down to the downside that smashed our long positions which is part of the deal we call those kind of our sacrificial lambs and they're just Just part of the game. So you're when you have a balanced portfolio with long and short positions sometimes you're hedged or you're You know part of your balance of your portfolio is gonna get hit whereas the other part is going to benefit so that's what happened here and then next trade was a Opening adjusting trade in wheat. That was the iron condor that I just showed you So we're just waiting playing the waiting game there and then this was a closing adjusting trade We had a remaining short put vertical on in wheat. We had a nice move up In price booked a nice profit on that June iron condor overall And so we were out of that piece But we're still in just this one iron condor in wheat that I already showed you on the analyze tab Next trade was a closing trade in Walmart. So we had a we had a pre earnings long call in Walmart I'll just take you to the chart Show you that and we put this on hoping for an expansion in implied volatility leading up to earnings Which we did get you can see implied volatility expanded But when we put this on here, I think we put it on It goes back in this air now It was actually in this area here and then Walmart dropped and they just kind of traded sideways We almost got out right here for a small profit to break heat. Excuse me. That was after earnings right here for a small profit or break even But we're we were gonna look for just a little bit of a pop higher the next day Unfortunately, I went down never had a chance to get out of this for a profit So we wanted to close that before the earnings announcement and we did so and just took a loss on that trade Next trade was an opening trade in XRT. So we were just we're just looking to add a little bit of short Delta into our portfolio In this case, we just bought a put We don't do a lot of buying options unless it's kind of like a pre earnings Call or something like that But in this case, we just wanted to add some short Delta exposure and buying a put made sense So if we take a look at XRT So what we're looking at here is we just had you know anytime you have a like a big push to one direction And then just a little bit of consolidation or a little bit of a bounce We'd like to see a potential continuation to in that direction So that's what we're looking for here is just a continuation to the downside So we just simply bought a put you can see we've got a little bit of profit here But just looking for a little bit of downside to benefit that The other option is you could have traded a short call vertical spread or a long put vertical spread Both of those would have been decent options But we're just look at we're just doing different strategies in our portfolio To just kind of diversify strategies as well as symbols as well as time and everything that we teach in our courses And Lastly, we did an opening trade this morning today on Friday in XLV Ivy percentile at that 60 level. So just wanted to sell some more premium Looked at short strangles, but the capital requirement per contract was a little bit high This is kind of one of those borderline prices where it's kind of in the 80s 90s where You know, you're using a lot of capital for a short strangle But it's not quite big enough for a traditional iron condor So what we did is we traded an iron condor and just kind of pinched in those short strikes to make it a little bit tighter So if we look at XLV, I'll show you what I mean So instead of instead of going, you know the way we teach in the course our traditional 20 delta iron condor We squeeze that up to the 40 deltas or in this case Well, when we put it on is about 30 and 30 that's about 40 and 26 But we just basically made those short calls short strikes closer to the current price So that we collected enough credit to make that worthwhile So you can see what it looks like here See prices moved up a little bit on us since we put this on But just waiting for for time to pass and some theta to decay in XLV So that's where we're at worth all the trade alerts from the week Let's take a look at some of the other positions starting with oil So we've got two different pieces on in oil Let's see This is our first one here So just looking for some downside to benefit that and then this one here looking for some downside To benefit that so just looking for a little bit of downside and oil and we'd be you know If we do get it a little bit, you know down to like 60 or 59, you know We're gonna be basically back to even on this trade Of course if if oil continues and rips higher We'll just roll up the untested side as we do and continue to manage as we teach mechanically ES is the next position. We've been holding this for some of that to add some of that short delta exposure This is a long put vertical because the price is still well within range here Just waiting for some downside to benefit that piece. I Mentioned Natty gas in bonds ZB. We've got a short strangle got some profit there Not quite enough to take off yet, but just waiting for some more time to pass in the ZB. I mentioned wheat DIA we've got an iron condor and DIA got some profit there not quite enough to take off yet So just play in the waiting game in DIA Eem we've got this short call vertical spread on here We're we are slightly positive on this trade overall after adjustments But I'd like to just hold this over the weekend See if we can get a little bit of a down movement in next week, and then we just take that off for profit EWZ I mentioned that one FXI we've got this kind of a tight iron condor similar similar to XLV Price is hanging out right here got a little bit of profit not quite enough to take off yet So just holding on that one Intel this one had busted out of our range after we put this on So we we put this on after the earnings announcement because implied volatility stayed fairly elevated price traded sideways for a little bit and then then Dropped this week with the rest of the market and that's kind of consolidating again. So we really need a little bit of a pop higher In intel to get back into range We've still got some decent premium in the calls So we're not looking to roll down those calls yet or make any adjustments. We're in June We've got plenty of time in June. We've got 35 days to expiration So not looking not looking to roll out to July just in holding pattern in Intel at this point IWM we've got an iron condor. We've got some profit in that one not enough to take off yet So holding on that IYR the real estate ETF. We've got kind of a tight iron condor here. So just looking for a little bit of downside movement to benefit that KRE we've got a short strangle here Price came all the way down. It did breach our short strike But there is still enough premium left in those calls that we did not make an adjustment and it's come nicely back into range So it could use just a little bit more upside and some more time to pass in kre before we do anything I mentioned Nvidia. I mentioned the cues SMH We've got this adjusted short strangle and SMH Which has come back nicely gotten back some profit in that one We're still down on this trade because we had a second piece on that we ended up taking off So we're still just managing this and we'll probably continue to Manage and roll if price does go close to one of these outside break-even points We'll probably add another centered strangle around that just to add some more credit and And keep that trade going but for now it's pretty pretty well centered. So we're just letting it decay SPY we've got a Short-call vertical spread originally part of an iron condor. We've got some profit since we've managed this one I'll be just waiting for some more downside and we may look to add another iron condor in SPY if implied volatility Stays high into next week XBI biotech ETF. We've got some profit on this iron condor, but just waiting for some more profit before we take that off XLK, which is the technology ETF. We've had this on for that short Delta exposure You can see price is still within range here, but just looking for it a little bit of downside to benefit that I Mention XLV and I mentioned XRT So those are all the alerts. Those are all the positions. Hope everybody has a great weekend. We'll talk to you next week


from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hi, I'm Peter Burris. Welcome to another CUBE Conversation from our outstanding studios in beautiful Palo Alto, California. As we move forward with digital business and generally the very notion of data better informing human activity, the role that AI is likely to play has become an enormous topic of discussion both from a standpoint of what it can do but also from a standpoint of what it should do and when it can and should be able to do it. Many enterprises are facing challenges that try to unlock the potential of these technologies as a consequence of a lot of technological, methodological and other considerations. That's what we're gonna talk about today is what can enterprises do to accelerate the appropriate and proper and successful use of AI within their business. And to do that, we've got Simha Sarasava who's the CEO of Usher with us here in the CUBE. Simha, welcome to the CUBE. Thank you, thanks, good to be here. So, give us a quick update, let's start. What is Usher? Usher is a broad platform to automate a number of different workflows for enterprise companies. So I started this a little over five years back with a vision to basically drive automated customer conversations. But the more I met with customers and understood the types of problems that they were actually looking to solve, it was apparent to me that the more business processes you attach in addition to the conversational automation that you can drive through some of the new technologies that we have available to us, you can actually impact a lot more different types of outcomes for companies. So we went on to create a very broad platform that automates back office processes as well as customer conversations for a number of different Fortune 1000 and Global 5000 companies. All right, but let's start with this notion of how these enterprises are going to use AI better because certainly our clients are struggling with a lot of this stuff. They're sometimes successful, they're often not. And the nature of the success is sometimes tied to a particularly successful development team or successful choice of a tool or something else. What is the problem? As you talk to customers, how would you generalize the problem in achieving those outcomes with AI related technologies? Yeah, so I always take this approach of understanding business problems that companies are looking to solve rather than just looking at technology and applying it for that specific problem. So as we go about learning about the industry and the transformations that are going on, every C-level executive or stakeholder in a company is looking at ways and means to transform their business. So you hear this term digital transformation that's used or it's in vogue in every major enterprise company that you talk to. Everyone is worried about how do they, number one, stay an incumbent in their line of work without getting disrupted? B, how can they actually run their business and transform their business using technology that is available to them? And also consumer behavior has evolved quite a bit over the past generation, past decade I should say. The ways and means that we connect and interact socially has evolved. Businesses want to interact with you in the same ways and means that you're interacting with your friends and family in a social circle. So there are lots of moving parts here.  But it actually means something and this is what I want to test with you. So every business constitutes its work, its workflows, its tasks, its organization, its value proposition and how it engages customers around what it regards as its most important assets. To us the very notion of the difference between business and digital business is a digital business treats data as an asset. Which means a digital business transformation is the process of reconstituting work, value propositions, engagement models, governance models around the idea of data as an asset. And AI seems to me to be an essential feature of that process. Would you agree with that? Yeah, yeah. So digital transformation is a very broad term but what it actually means is you're moving away from paper-based forms, from record keeping. The reconstituting work. Absolutely, you're redefining how work was done. How do you onboard employees, customers, partners from legacy forms to newer forms of engagement, newer forms of record keeping. And once they become digital, then you understand, know and can serve those, those constituents a lot better. And what happens with AI is the possibilities are that you can not only drive a lot of automated ways to onboard, administer and operate those relationships but you also learn, you learn from those, those engagements or those interactions and it gets continuously better and better with time. And that's the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning. So let me see if I can, cause a thought just popped in my mind about kind of the history or the evolution of some of these solutions where we had labor-based, physical-based activities. We digitized forms, so we digitized the things that people used in those activities but not necessarily the tasks that they performed. And then we ended up with things like RPA, process automation, whatnot, where we took a given set of tasks that happened on a screen because they're now electronic and we could turn those into robots starting to remove some of the non-discretion work to try to better scale and try to get greater productivity. AI seems different though, right? Because AI is not just doing things against a recipe. It's also inferencing. It's trying to, I hate the word understand, but it's trying to mimic at least human cognition in doing this. Is that kind of where you are now? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So these transformations have happened over decades, right? So cloud was one of the first things that came of age. Cloud started 20 years back but now in the past 10 years you've seen every major enterprise talking about cloud-based initiatives. And then if you evolve that from an automation perspective, 15 years back you had a lot of companies that started with RPA-type solutions. And now we are talking about intelligent automation or cognitive automation. And what that means is you actually bring the power of the ability to learn, discern, understand information, understand objects, understand images, understand language in ways and means that were not possible previously. Computing the access to big databases, big data handling technologies, analytics, all of these constitute and enable what's possible today with artificial intelligence and machine learning. And the way we look at it is we take these cognitive systems and they provide solutions to problems that were previously not possible. So for example, we can take a code intake process in an insurance company, something that would take two weeks for an insurance company to respond back to a code request because they have to look and assess the risks involved with that application process. Now, if you feed an engine like ushers with information that were made previously that ascertained whether this was adjudicated to be accepted or rejected from a risk perspective, now we can actually instantaneously provide a response to a new application that comes in rather than wait for two weeks. That's possible because we can learn and infer from past decisions that were done. And it actually drives automation and drives adjudication of that specific workflow, accelerates the entire time it takes to make a decision. Look, I talked to a lot of AI companies that make a lot of claims and each one tends to do a small part very well. And then they expand the importance of that. No, nothing wrong with that. Everybody's struggling to try to do this better. You're taking a platform approach. So when I think of a platform, I think of starting all the way out from how do I approach understanding a problem to the actual outcome being executed. But there's an enormous number of steps in between. Describe how those steps are being laid out and specifically how your company is providing tooling and automation to facilitate that process. I've done a number of software startups in my career. And one of the things that I've learned, Peter, is that platforms don't make good business models but applications do. But you have to have a broad vision and when you want to build a platform, you have to show customers how to use the platform. So what we do is we take a template approach or a use case approach. While our platform is extremely broad when we are talking to an insurance company versus a healthcare company versus a technology company, you have to show specific applications of how you can actually take this platform and use that platform for, let's say, automating the intake process in an insurance world or the claims process in an insurance world or an IT service management automation for a technology company or a prescription refill for a healthcare company. So these are all specific and definitive use cases that we have templatized. And we are just getting started and these templates are enormously useful for these companies to start with. And they get these companies a starting point to deploy a solution quick and rapid. But those use cases or those templates have historically been relatively rigid. And that's been one of the challenges that a lot of companies have had is how do I fit these together? The integration work historically has been very difficult. So what I think I hear you say is that, yeah, you need to be able to have artifacts and constructs that make sense in the context of the business problem which also need a simpler way to put those things together because increasingly these processes and activities are not siloed. They become in service to a customer and they have to be integrated so the tooling has to facilitate integration and that's the platform value. Have I got that right? Is that kind of the direction that usher's taking? Yes, and the way we do that is we have an orchestration platform. We call it as a zero code builder. It's a flow builder and that flow builder basically enables business teams to very quickly orchestrate their entire process flow and then you marry this or couple this into your existing systems of records whether they are standard platforms for customer service management or IT service management or HR management or vendor management. You plug this in into your existing systems of records. They could be standard platforms or they could be proprietary homegrown platforms. Irrespective of what you have in your existing back office we can plug usher into any of these platforms rather instantaneously. So you've got templates for integration as well as templates for outcomes. Absolutely, absolutely. And what's exciting about these technologies is the fact that you can actually demonstrate KPIs of 10x or more within the first six months to a year of deploying this. You are not talking about 30% cost optimization or improvements that are like 2x, 3x which was typically what RPA companies have demonstrated. Yeah, those are good numbers. Yeah, so not that they are, but we are interested in transformational KPIs, transformational experiences for enterprise companies and I don't want to touch any automation opportunity if it does not lead to companies either making a huge saving or making significant improvements in their top line. Well, so I want to talk to you about that because I think this is a very important point. I was talking over our CIO clients a couple of weeks ago and he said something very interesting to me. He said everybody talks about shadow IT. The way that his business is now thinking about it, what used to be shadow IT is now becoming IT and that central IT organization is becoming the shadow. And the rationale that they were using is that the function or business unit IT groups were becoming more associated with revenue in digital business, whereas that centralized IT group remained mainly focused on cost. How is AI becoming part of that revenue generation side of IT as you get closer to those outcomes? Yeah, so AI again is technology. So when you take an automation approach, you can apply this for a broad set of use cases. All the way from prospecting to servicing your customer, onboarding that customer, servicing that customer, retaining that customer and upselling and cross-selling. So when you take sales enablement and you apply these cross-selling, upselling opportunities with the platform, they naturally give you a significant uptake in terms of going after your top line revenues. You're able to service your opportunities a lot faster. So for example, for an insurance company, if you can reduce that quote intake process from two weeks down to an hour, it puts them in a better position to actually go and win that deal. Just by virtue of the fact that you're getting their work done faster. Customer sees value in the speed, shareholder sees value in the efficiency. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely. All right, so any last thoughts? Where do you think you're going to be in a year? Oh, we're just getting started. I've been at this for five years now and I think the space is incredibly hot. There's a lot of hype about AI and so part of my job is to educate customers on what is possible and what is not possible. We feel that we're just getting started. Like just like how 20 years back, cloud was a big deal and then we are still hearing companies talk about cloud and transforming into their workflows into the cloud. We believe that automation is an exciting phase and we are on the right side of where the industry is eventually going. The possibilities of applying transfer learning, supervised learning from what we have done in the computer vision world to linguistics is very promising. The types of problems that we are basically solving are phenomenal. The KPIs that we can impact are very, very exciting. I think if I look at this as a three to five year roadmap of where Asher is, I want to put Asher on the global map in terms of being able to take any workflow, take any work that goes on in the back office of an enterprise and how they service all their stakeholders whether they are employees, customers, partners, vendors and impact that through a combination of microservice and micro-engagement which is part of our secret sauce. Excellent. Simha Sarisava is the CEO of Asher. We've been talking about the evolving role of AI and some of the new tooling as businesses try to move from an orientation of understanding, to tooling, to experienced outcomes. Simha, thanks very much for being on the queue. Thanks Peter, thanks for talking to you. And once again, I'm Peter Burris and this has been a CUBE Conversation. Until next time.


Hi, my name is Dany and welcome to esoteric moment today. I just wanted to do a brief update Video posting is always a little irregular. I try to post once a week, but Frankly, sometimes other priorities come up And I want this experience of like being on YouTube and engaging with all of you Lovely people to be something that I really look forward to it isn't like a drudgery or a to-do list So I try to like pace myself and really make sure that when I'm here I'm here because it is exactly what I want to be doing So this spring summer Brad and I have been mainly focused on buying our first place We have put in an offer that's been accepted. We finished inspections and we're just waiting for the tile search and the bank to kind of finalize their stuff and We will be getting our first place. It's very exciting. It's taking so long buying the house in general, I think you know it takes time It's a big purchase and deal not just the finding a place but like Negotiating and getting taking taking care of all those things you do before you actually get the keys in our case the seller wanted a Really long time before closing dates, so we're not even closing until August 1st It's good in some ways because it means that we can finish our commitments to community gardens and Other projects we're doing with friends and stuff locally Before moving because this is quite a move for us. It's about an hour away.  That's under a thousand square feet, which is perfect for us and it has about eight acres. It's really beautiful More importantly, the soil is really healthy It has some great pastures some oak trees and a little stream at the end So we're excited to get out there and start our permaculture Projects like more in-depth more long-term It already has some fruit trees that will need a little Rehabilitation but should be producing even the small when we get out there. That is our biggest project going on in life and you know takes up a fair amount of time the other thing that I'm working on is finishing up my obit grade through obon there is kind of a project an end part to this grade that's a little bit different from the bardic grade and I have Very clear ideas and expectations for what I want to do and I'm finding it a little challenging to actually Create that project in the way that I want to It will be semi open to you my regular audience on YouTube and also semi closed to just order members One of the things that came up in this grade for me in particular was that it is a Order that has mysteries and there are things that they keep to themselves and really Try to safeguard like you have to be a member you have to Show that you are ready for those skills and ideas before it's presented to you. I Am of the opinion that Spiritual knowledge should be free and easily accessible. It's one of the reasons why I'm on YouTube and talking about things. I Think that many People in today's world really appreciate open honest communication about all sorts of things including spiritual life and Growth and practices. So I've really struggled this year with the the things that are meant to be more quiet and part of the mystery elements of obon and my desire for everything to be open and Communicated clearly. Yeah, it's been a real struggle to kind of bridge those ideas and And I've reached a middle ground. I think and how I want to approach that I I can honor many things that the order wants to keep quiet and to themselves but I'm also going to work really hard to continue to be open and clear and sharing of What's happening for me personally and how the practices and druidry and and what's changing in my life is actually affecting my practices and Connection like that's that's the whole point can't have connection with your community or your or your spirit or your place of inhabitants without being honest and open so my Ovate project will kind of help incorporate that and show how I've come into Integrating this idea of like secret mystery and open honest communication I will give more details as soon as I've got things closer to being finished But there'll be some videos and some blog work and I'm really excited to share that hopefully by the end of the summer There'll be something for you guys to see on that So that is just a brief update on things that are happening in my life. We're buying our first place It's eight acres. We're really really excited, but it won't close until August 1st I'm working on my Ovate project. I hope to share that with you soon and I'm excited for it. I think it'll be really loved I really hope your summer is turning out to be a lovely one and that you are spending time Doing the things and with the people that you love in the comments Tell me what your big project or you know, what is happening in your life this summer? What it's kind of your main focus seems like this is a good year for changes and new things So I would love to hear all about it. Okay. Thanks for watching and as always may you find peace in the sacred grove


Yesterday on Reddit, this post got sent out. The image in the post strikes a very similar vibe to the original Backroom's image. And in this video, I want to break it down, kind of compare them and contrast them. And I want to see if this is actually the real thing, if this is what it's based off of. Obviously I make Backroom's style videos here on the channel, so it's pretty fitting. And since the original 4chan post about the Backrooms way back like six years ago, the search for the actual location of the image has been going on without success. There are a couple of great videos trying to triangulate where it came from, like Kylie Sumbert-Tobogli's video, which I was actually in, check it out. Like I said yesterday, on the Backroom subreddit, a new possible original image location might have been posted. And I think this is probably the most accurate image that we have that could be what the Backroom's image is based off of. We're not sure if it actually is it, of course, but I think this is the closest we've come. And I say we, but I mean, the person who posted the picture, but we works. Let me know if you think this is what the Backroom's image is based off of or something like this, or if it's not, I want to hear all your opinions in the comments. Without more blabbering, this intro is already too long, let's get into it. About 24 hours ago, on the Backroom subreddit, this post was made by user Headcrap0. I seriously believe that we might have found it, original Backroom's image location. And linked in that post are these images of what seems to be some kind of furniture store with gray carpet, fluorescent lights, and the classic light walls that open up to another room. Off the bat, you can see the very innate similarities between this image and the original Backroom's 4chan post. Initial reactions of the image on reddits from me and that the other two people are varied. Some think that it literally is the image, something that it's fake or AI, and I'm just gonna get into all that right now. The first thing I noticed is that the two walls in the front are very, very similar in shape and in size to the original picture. Also the lights in the ceiling are around the same spot. It seems more likely that an image like this, or even if it is this image, could have been the original base picture with some edits done to it to get to Backroom's. If you didn't know, the original image is definitely edited in multiple ways. Color grading, overall emptiness and glowiness, and all that stuff has been added to that original Backroom's image to make it yellow. There's no yellow office building somewhere, of course. But when you look at these images side by side, you can really start to see the similarities poking out.  Put your tinfoil hats on. Placing these images side by side, let's note a few small details. Firstly, where the carpet meets the wall on the right side of the image, you can see that little tiny gap. Both images have that in the same spot. Also in the door frame, where that little piece of carpet is missing on the right side, both images have that as well. Now let's take a look at the back of the image. As you can see this little wall here, it sort of matches up with the Backroom's image. Now assuming the original picture was taken from a different angle, I could see how it could be the same as well. The lights on the ceiling here in this image are also very similar. They're in close enough places to where you might think they're the same. The only problem is there are more lights in this new image than in the Backroom's image. As you can see, there's only one row of them in the Backroom's and there's obviously two or more in this image. Whether that's due to editing or whatever, we don't know. But the main section of lights down the middle are very close. Okay, so a little sleuthing has been done. Took the image into Photoshop as I do sometimes. And I zoomed up on this text here and it was blurry so I tried to make it as crisp as I can. And I believe this says ask sales associate for details, meaning that this is not an AI picture. This is not AI because I don't think it would be real text like that or maybe it is and I don't know. This right here says 12 months. 12 months. This is a markdown price. But this says ask sales associate for details. This says sale, sale, sale. And obviously there's red tag sales. I was hoping I could come up here and read what this text says. I'm not sure if I can. I can't deduce that, I don't think. Oh, it's so hard. I don't know. Okay, I've done a little bit more zooming up. This says something along the lines of wall art, home accents, and plastic trees are 30% off.  And there's no branding. So wall arts and then the home accents and the plastic trees are 30% off this location. And that is literally all I can deduce. This just says 12. That says bex metal or something. And I'm just zooming up to see if I can see any branding anywhere. I'm not seeing anything at all. Not seeing anything at all. But that's what I've been able to deduce that says. But I think this image is real because you can't really see this unless you sharpen it. So I don't think it's AI. But that definitely says ask sales associate for details. This says sale, this says 12 months. There's no branding though. I can't find any branding to indicate a store, which kind of stinks. But that's all I have for ya. When you reverse image search this, that's a mouthful, nothing comes up. I've sleuthed for hours trying to find places where the tags and the sales things are the same. The closest one I can find is Sam's carpet and furniture. This place's gallery. You can kinda see I looked up their Facebook. The closest thing I can find is this, but even then, I don't see the tags that are the same. The sales signs aren't the same. The wall colors aren't the same. And I scrolled back to the beginning of their Facebook. This is not the same. Does have places like this though, in the walls, where you might be able to see that entrance place. But I'm not sure if that's it or not. It's got different walls, it's not the same. Oh, it could be Sam's carpet, I don't know. You can also reverse search this. And you can find this exact bedspread, this exact, you know, room set. And it still doesn't come up with anything, except from Buddy's home furnishings, which if you look at their page, they don't have the same thing. It's similar, but the lights are different in the ceiling. It's not the same. All of this little fake tree here, they do sell plastic trees. And in this image from Buddy's, they have like a very similar fern thing here, which is interesting to say the least. I guess this picture could be maybe newer or older, because the room's not the same layout. The wall is kind of the same color, but it's not the exact same. And I don't see this lamp in it, and it's in a different orientation of course, but who knows. Okay, a little bit more sleuthing. As you can see in this image, there's like this massive sale going on. And I actually believe this sign back here might say moving sale.  We are reducing warehouse space by 50% super sale. Please visit our warehouse to see the unbelievable quality with sale prices, which does align with like all these things. I've never seen so many sales, you know? It's kind of crazy, they're red tagging everything. Could this be Sam's? Let's do some more digging real quick. So it definitely could be from Sam's carpet and furniture. If you look at that side by side here, you can kind of see the similarities in the ceiling, very similar tiles, very similar lights. And this little edifice in here kinda almost looks like the picture, right? Like that could be the entrance maybe, but the wall right there is different. It could be from the other side. This picture right here is from May 6th, 2015. Okay, let me bring this into Photoshop real quick. If we zoom up here, I'll put the side by side on the screen. The image might simply be taken from like the person standing in this room, facing out to this room. And this could be the furniture gallery, it might be. The picture that I'm showing you now from Reddit is probably a recent one, but you can still look in this room and you can kind of see in the ceiling how there's lights. And in the picture, there's more lights than in the back rooms. The only issue I see is that the lights might be facing in a different orientation, but if you're in here looking back in the original image, you can kind of see like this black side table in there. You can sort of see it there, but it looks very similar to say the least. It's the very same carpet, that's for sure. And there's a bunch of paintings and stuff on the wall and this one as well. I don't know, it's too tough to tell. It could be Sam's carpet and furniture in San Jose, California. In the OG back rooms picture, there's also a vent that looks like it's sticking out of the ceiling. And there's something kinda similar to that in this new image, except there's more vents here. And I don't really know why you would add more vents in a building if this was the same place and it's been remodeled, I'm not sure. But it's kinda the same. But now I wanna get into some differences that stick out to me. Obviously the famous wall outlet in the back rooms picture, it's right there on the wall on the bottom right. And it is not there in this new image. And typically you don't cover up wall outlets like that, even if it was remodeled. Although there are strange markings on the new image's wall that are in the kinda similar spot to where the outlet was. Maybe they put drywall over top, I don't know. But the biggest issue, of course, is this back wall area. As you can see in the original back rooms image, there is a path that leads further away, kinda back into a different hallway. And in this furniture store image, there is just one solid wall there. Now if this image is real, and if it's a recent picture, there could have been a wall put up over the years to close off that room or close off that hallway. That's not really a crazy thought. It happens all the time. American buildings are made out of cardboard. And if this is in America, I don't doubt it. Many houses when they get remodeled have different walls put up or different walls taken down, not that crazy. Maybe they were putting a wall up to close off the room or to enhance traffic flow or whatever, I don't know. You can notice on the left side of both images that there is an offshoot hallway that kinda goes off into a different edifice. This is very visible in both. You can see it side by side. The only difference is that back area. And in the image of the back rooms, you can see how the light and the wall are the same distance apart as they are in this new image. They're almost identical. And if you put up a wall in the back rooms image, you get something that looks just like this new image. The person who posted this image actually added a couple more images of this supposed store that all have the gray carpet, the light walls, and is definitely very back rooms. It feels like an old furniture store that doesn't get much business. These images are very, very similar. And the OG image of the back rooms is definitely based on something that looked like this new picture. Maybe when it was being sold, maybe when it was being renovated, that's what it used to look like. That's why there's no furniture or things like that in the original back rooms image. If you empty out this new picture we have completely and you take out all that furniture and you just leave it bare bones with some editing, with some color grading tricks, you can definitely achieve an image that looks very similar to the back rooms. Even the gray carpet right now has that same texture that the yellow carpet does in the back rooms. Walls are in the same place. And if you make it empty, it looks pretty dang similar. Now for the issues with this new image, there are zero exact results when you reverse search it on the internet. Nothing comes up for its origin, just Reddit and other furniture store looking things. Meaning it could be AI, it could be fake. The light here kind of sort of looks fake, like it's shining down in a weird way. However, like I said, even if the image is fake or whatever, it is actually probably pretty close to what the back rooms looked like before it was edited. If it wasn't this exact place, it was probably in another furniture store or something similar. And even if the image is fake, it might still help us find that original location. Because like I said, it probably looked like this to some degree. Even if it's a render, even if it's Photoshop, it can act as almost like a police sketch to help identify the real location. You know, now that we have this image of something that's not so empty and so edited, we might be able to locate the original location of the image. Maybe somebody will recognize it and come forward. Maybe a company will recognize, hey, that's my store. Hey, that's my showroom. And they'll come forward as well. Because if you just show this back rooms image that's been edited and doctored, no one's gonna know where it's from. But with an image like we have now, people might actually recognize it. It looks real. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if some business came forward being like, yeah, that's my furniture store. That's Bobby's furniture or something. I would be very interested to know what company or business or furniture store this is. And I hope that if it's fake, it kind of acts as a sort of guide so we can really figure out where it's from. But for now, I think this is the closest we're gonna get to the original location or something that looks like it. Thank y'all so much for watching to the end. If you enjoy this kind of breakdown video, leave a like. I know what kind of matte patty on there, like zooming up and connecting the red threads and stuff, but it was fun. I always enjoy stuff like this. I don't know if this was real personally, but like I said the whole time in this video and I repeated it a bunch, even if it's fake, it can still kind of help people find the original location by making it look more realistic.  But if you show them a picture like this, they're like, oh yeah, that's that store. So hopefully this works. Maybe that yellow area is what it looked like before this company bought it and remodeled it. I don't know. I'm not sure. If you're sure, let me know. Anyways, thank you for watching. I'm trying to hit 100,000 subs on my third channel by the way. So if you wanna get there before I do, subscribe. I upload like morbid documentary style stuff once a week on there, I really try. It's kind of my passion project channel. I know I'm self promoting, but who cares? It's a good channel. Tell somebody I love them because life is too short not to. And without further ado when you happen, I'm ending off the video here. Bye.


Okay, so we're gonna start off this haircut by taking a right hand side parting Down to mid crown then across mid crown and down the parietal ridge What this is gonna do is give me a little bit of an offset kind of asymmetrical rectangle on the top of the head then I go straight down center back and separate the two sides clip it away and now I'm gonna work Diagonal forward partings and start my cutting so I want to work with the head shape here The the whole point of that is I'm collapsing the shape. So we're creating more of a layered bob This is from a previous haircut where we did a complete horizontal graduated bob now. We're switching it to a vertical diagonal forward Layered bob which is going to take out a lot of the weight in the haircut So depending on how your guests wants to wear their hair There's two different options for you. So just working bringing everything straight back To the previous section, so I'm working my way across the back just bringing it back Slightly about an inch back to the previous parting to make my cut now I work vertically so I shift from diagonal forward to vertical when I get to right behind the ear and I work that all the way back Bringing everything straight back to a stationary guide at this point What this is gonna do is push a ton of weight to the front So that's something that we're gonna address later in the haircut But just keep that in mind when you're over directing something all the way back to a stationary guide You're gonna have a lot of weight It as the end result when the hair falls forward So working diagonal forward still this the big switch here is that my fingers are now pointing down on the other side My fingers were pointing up the reason for that is it allows me to comb my new hair towards the middle of the head towards the guide You never we talked about this over and over again. You never want to comb the guide to the new hair because that shifts the guide from where it lives and if you do that you're Making the guide shorter, which is gonna make one side of your haircut shorter So to keep consistent you need to comb the hair the same exact way on both sides of the head So working vertically another key thing to look at is how the head shape curves up around the crown That's obviously gonna give us our graduated point So we we're layering the hair past the occipital bone to low crown And then when we get to the mid crown part you can see that the elevation of the hair is actually more at a zero degree angle So that's gonna give us our weight line there bringing everything straight back Pushing that weight forward Just keeping nice clean sections. I'm using the fine teeth of the comb That's helping keep more tension on the hair And that's pretty much it's a pretty simple Structured haircut and I think that this is a very common haircut that you'll see people doing in the salon The big thing that I want to go over in a little bit is how we can kind of make adjustments to that to make it have a More modern feel so we're gonna go through the back. We're gonna work diagonal back through the crown area What I want to do is take and just blend in the crown to the bottom more around the occipital high occipital bone area So I'll take my guide from top of the occipital bone and then just follow it straight up So keeping that weight line in there, but just blending it a bit Everything's being over directed back to that one point So you can see that there's a slight bit of over direction coming away from me Which is going to push that kind of weight around the corner and it's gonna be a little bit longer right behind the ear Which I like that feeling so everything's gonna come back to that guide It's gonna be stationary there so you can see in the bottom left diagram how I kind of angle the haircut So we're cutting short to long just keeping a little bit of extra length in there And you comb everything back until you run out of hair and then you're good to go All right guys, so we're gonna start off in our dry cutting portion of the haircut I'm going through with my vibrostrate iron just polishing out the ends of the haircut What this is doing is allowing me to see where the weight seems heavy And where we need to go in and just lighten it up a little bit So I'm gonna take a horizontal section throughout the side I already noticed that this side is heavy the sides are gonna be heavy because we over directed everything back to a stationary guide So now I want to go through and diffuse the weight So I go through horizontal Elevate the hair as high as I possibly can and just work Using a Mizutani puff-in dry cutting scissor. I love this scissor. It's a five and a half inch blade Goes in nice and deep into the section and just diffuses any Weight that's build up that I don't want so going through horizontally in the back as well doing the same thing Elevating it nice and high not trying to take or create a line at this point just Diffusing some of the weight. So what I'll do is I'll take that section I'll actually look in there and see where the density seems heaviest and then if I see a really dense spot That's where I'll do most of my point cutting. So I'm not going through there evenly and cutting I'm going through there and actually visually looking to see where it's really heavy. So right there You can see that part's heavy. So I'm gonna go through and diffuse that a little bit Same thing on the top work that line out a little bit go a little bit deeper just removing that weight creating that texture and a lot of movement and modernizing the haircut So same thing here going through you can see how the ends you can see light through there And then as it gets a little bit deeper, there's it's more dense So you're just going in there and polishing and removing that Now we're gonna do the same thing, but we're gonna actually cut a line But a nice broken line because I want to create a more side Angled fringe in the front nothing crazy I'm not trying to create a short bang in the haircut, but just something soft That lays across her cheekbone so working Diagonal forward section over directing it to myself to a stationary guide But the guide is is really diffused because we're doing some deep point cutting there now going through slide cutting using the same Scissor this is a good look at the Mizutani puffin Just going through gliding through the hair the reason a dry cutting scissor is so good is because the blade is so thick That it has a ton of power when you go in to cut hair So it can get through pretty much anything and that's what makes it a great dry cutting scissor So I'm just going through you can see how I push the top away And then I slide cut and then I pull the top back around That's because I wanted to almost disconnect the underneath You don't have to go through and slide cut the entire side of the head what you want to do is go in and just Diffuse the bottom then push the top over and it makes it look nice and soft Then I'll go through a little tease cutting connected all together same thing on the opposite side just going through slide cutting Just to break up and add that texture into the haircut I'm always going through and working with my hands when I move it with my hands It just allows me to see kind of how it's gonna fall and how that texture is gonna move within the haircut The last thing I'm gonna do I got my Mizutani type Z dual texture scissor So both sides have teeth and I just go through and glide into the back portion Just to add again more texture and movement and then I always blow out the hair to get all those loose hairs out of it And to kind of bring life back into the haircut. That's how that's how I see it So we're going through I've got the ergo paddle brush working through it and then I just finish it with a little bit of hairspray and She is good to go. So I hope you guys like this haircut if you do let me know in the comments Let me know what you want to see next. Thanks for watching


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Flying the replica of a Curtis Pusher, what could you tell me about your plane? It was built by an EAA group at Deer Park, New York, who were six and a half years building on it and never flew it out of an airport. I've owned it about a little over eight years. I've flown it 326 flights and each flight is event as one of them was today. I've flown it at Reno at the Air Races of Florida a couple times, six times here, at Navy Base in Corpus at Omaha off of the Air Force. I've flown it quite a few places. Luckily I've gotten back intact every time, but it's not a very good flying airplane. It's not a lot of fun to fly when it's rough and hot. I've flown, started flying in 29 airlines for 28 years during the war. The last five years flew DC7Cs, which were capable of flying for a brand of airlines, capable of flying nonstop from Dallas to Paris if I had enough gas in. Also I flew Dallas to New York and Chicago, but I also flew some charter trips with the company, ad football teams and all during the war primarily flew Dallas to Chicago just past that field airplane. Now what else, Randy? Okay, do you know any information about the original Curtis pusher when it was built? You mean this one? The Curtis, of course, were built in from about 1907 or 1908 along and there and so forth and every airplane those days was a different size and type and they were still fishing. They weren't like Model T's where they all the same. This is about like they were in 1912. It's heavier than the same size airplane. Most of theirs were a little larger than this. This is all well that the inside if it were not pretty strong I wouldn't haul around the country and have fun with it. It looks enough like the original where if Glenn Curtis was here he'd know what we were imitating. Okay, do you have any favorite flying stories you'd like to share with us? With this? With anything. Well I'm just fortunate to still be here. I've had a lot of things happen down through the line whether it's the lightning, the burning antennas, the holes, the wings, the landing once with one inch and feathered and three of them in reverse on the final. Two complete radio failures due to electrical systems and so forth the baggage bin and the seats pull loose the cabin and thunderstorms and then ice up to where we kept reporting those altitude and couldn't hold it finally got the control of things. I've had a lot of things happen down through the years. How do you like your piece of flying being followed by the Concorde? It's a little beyond me. Instantly some of my buddies who used to fly a co-pilot with me flew Concorde for a while between Dallas and Washington and then the British foot in Washington, Paris. And I've talked to them extensively and they said it took about two months training to get through all the systems and be able to fly it. Of course any good pilot can fly another airplane if he's given an opportunity to get practiced up in it and learn the systems assuming he's a pretty good pilot to start with. And I've flown the DC-7C's that I flew with his large four-inch airplane that was being operated before the straight jets came. And then in the early days I have flown some trips when there was one round trip a day between Dallas and Houston a room for two passengers. That's all the service. Now there's about 40 or so airline trips a day back and forth and of course there's no railroad service. So I've seen considerable change. In the early days they didn't have runways. When I first flew into Love Field in Dallas they had no runways. It was the fielders out in the country now surrounded by billips and so forth. And the airplanes then had no brakes and they had no starters and they had no flaps and a lot of things. And nowadays people think they have to have no radio and nobody would tell you where to go when they do it. So there's a whole lot of difference. A person who flew in those days couldn't get the first base on some of this stuff but by the same token I sold the Bonanza to a captain in the Air Force who was based at El Laredo about three years ago. He paid the money I went out twice to show him how to fly and it was hot and gusty. He'd make a fine descent but he couldn't line up with the runway because he couldn't move the runner. Bonanza has a tail like this and it's kind of unstable and goes back and forth and then the jets on the takeoff they use the nose wheel steering and they don't use the rudder. So the result was we flew three times about an hour and a half of whack and he'd bought it and he finally went to El Laredo and made it. But that shows the difference. He'd been instructing two years teaching people to fly and that and it flew so much different than another airplane. So you explain your unique style of starting your plane with the help of two pullers. Starting to plane the engine itself with the two pullers. To start it if you stand in and pull it, hand pull it, you're too close to the propeller. So if you start it with the wires and things down here you might trip and get into it. If you stand back at this place it's too far out when you can't get a good chunk.  It starts every time even though usually when the starter man falls down but that doesn't matter. I warn them in advance. If you haul the airplane a thousand miles or so as I have and get ready to fly and it won't start you're kind of upset. But this way while we can really spin it and nine times out of ten I prime it, pull it through four compressions, wrap the rope five times, put three or four fellas on, bam it's gone. Okay that's about it unless you want to say anything else. Well I might tell you that I'm 81 and 1-6 and still trying to hold my two best buddies are playing the harp and they're going to teach me how when I get there and so it's kind of unpleasant going and playing it. They both of them were Air Force or Chief Pilot of Braniff and so forth and I'm traveling alone and it's a bit difficult. Maybe next year I'll have some other fellas broken in if I make it again. Thank you. The Concorde is British Airways supersonic jet that flies at Mach 2 which is twice the speed of sound. It was a major display at the 88 flying and made five local flights of one hour each which many consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After its four-day stay in Oshkosh it departed for London. Power is supplied by four Rolls Royce Smikma Olympus and five 93 engines which are mounted in pairs on each wing. Each engine is capable of generating 30,000 pounds of thrust. The Concorde carries 100 passengers, all for its class and cruise at an altitude of 55 to 60,000 feet. Its cruising speed is approximately 1,300 miles per hour which is twice the speed of sound. Bleistift, yeah. Do I have a Bleistift? No. Can I have my Bleistift? Bleistift? Ah, yeah. The life is beautiful, but you can also have it cheaper. But then it's no longer so beautiful. Life is nice but expensive. You can have it cheaper, but then it is not quite so nice. Yeah. People with a lot of brass don't have enough polish, right? Good, good. I don't believe that you're 87 years old. You don't believe that I'm... No, no. You don't believe I'm 87? Well, sometimes people are skeptical. Let me prove it to you, though, Fred. Fred, I've been flying since 1930 when I was 29 years old. This is my vintage license, my pilot license that I got in 1930. You can see what happened. The reason I look a little bit younger than 87 is because in 1932 I had a brand new travel air biplane. This is the travel air that I had. And I was a bush pilot up in the Northwest Territory, now called Alaska. One day I was out on a mission and a freak storm was approaching. So I landed on an iceberg. When I saw the storm coming, I jumped out of my traveler, began running and the freezing rain hit me and put me and my traveler into a frozen state of suspended animation. I just thought out last year and I saw that my vintage airplane, it was brand new at the time that I was flying it, had left. Someone had stolen my travel air but the tracks were going down to the lower 48. And so now I'm in search of my travel air all over the country. Have you seen my travel air? Not I. No? Not I. Well, I've flown in five of them since I've begun my hitchhiking journey around America but none of them fly quite as nice as mine did. Was it a 2,000 travel air or 4,000? It was a 4,000. No, now I saw a 2,000. You did? Can you tell me where I want to look this person up and see if it's mine? Well, at 91. My memory's a little old. You're 91. You're older than me. That's good. I like older men. Oh, that's good. Well, have you thought out yet? Pardon me? Have you thought out yet? I'm well thought.  But they don't really know me. I'm really a sane person. You're warm. You're warm to the touch now, huh? Yes. Real warm to the touch. No, wait a minute. No, no, no. Let's not get into that.  Now don't maul the AVA tricks. AVA tricks. I just want to see if you're warm. That's all. I'm warm. Yes. I'm warm. Some of these guys, boy, you gotta... Aviators. Aviators. Oh, sure. You know, they had a cartoon. Some have the devil in them. You know, she's an ace now. She just bagged her sixth aviator. You gotta watch out for some of these aviators. Okay. But... Well, look, that's very nice. That is very nice. Let me see. Thank you. How did you come by that? I told you. Well, these are my... All of my instructors were Wilbur Wright. Longway Corrigan was my navigation instructor. And as you see, Roscoe Turner taught me Montefi. Montefi, that is nice. Thank you. Thank you. But... He's got... He's got white out on him. He's discovered the white out. I mean, official souvenir of the... Cleveland Airways. Yes. Okay. What do you have here? This is for you, for your travels. Oh. 101st Arrow Squadron. Gosh, this is so special. Well, whatever. This is so special. Well, I have something for you. This is lovely. I will wear this and cherish it. I have something for you also. You give me your pen. I will give you my pen. I will make you an air adventurer. Would you like to join my club? I'm starting a club for people who love old aeroplanes. Well, sure. Okay. Let me... Well, you better put it over. First, you must take the pledge, however. Uh-oh. Okay. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. This is my ability. To the best of my ability. I pledge to support. I pledge to support. The ideals and principles. The ideals and principles. Of air adventurers. Of air adventurers. And we'll do all in my power. And we'll do all in my power. To further the advance of aviation. To further the advance of aviation. Congratulations, Fred. You're our newest air adventurer. So help me, Richard Bach. And I will give you your air adventurer's membership card in a few minutes. All right. But in the meantime, for being so kind and giving me this beautiful pin from the Royal Air Force, I would like you to have an air adventurer's wing pin. Oh, that'd be excellent. These go to honorary members. Where would you like it? Right there? Put it right there. Okay. We'll pin it right there. Okay. Hey, how about this? You can button it. I will. Thank you. Thank you. You want to go to dinner now? I would love to go to dinner. I was smitten. I've been smitten by Harry Clinton ever since I saw him. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to go back in time. That's why I thought maybe I'd come up here. Talking to Martha Ashe. Martha, could you explain what you're doing here this weekend at the EAA convention? Well, I'm meeting a lot of the people that wrote me letters with regards to my barnstorming USA project. What I'm doing is I'm hitchhiking rides in vintage aeroplanes all over the United States of America for a six month period of time. Okay. Have you found any unusual things on your way? I sure have. So far, since May 28, when I began the journey, I've flown with 79 pilots through 19 states and have flown in three P-51s, three AT-6s. That's a warbird from World War II. I've flown in five travel airs from the late 20s and early 30s, four Wacos, let's see, Stearman's Cubs, and some one-of-a-kind airplanes like Channing Clark's Fleetwings Seabird from 1936. Okay. Besides the rain right now, we're having air shows going on. What are you trying to accomplish with your trips? Well, I'm just having a lot of fun, really. But action from people, notes from people about themselves. Your name, sir? My name is Fred Jung-Clause. Okay. Can you tell me a little bit about your plane here? Yeah. This is a replica of a 1918 SE-5A British World War I fighter. It was made by the Royal Aircraft Factory in Hinden in England. This particular replica and numbers flown by the oldest surviving American ace of World War I, who was the fourth ranked ace of World War I for the United States side, Colonel George Vaughn Jr., George A. Vaughn Jr. He flew for the 84th RAF squadron up until mid-1918, at which time he came over to the 17th U.S. Camel Squadron where he flew us up with Camel. The Camel that he flew was replicated at the Air Force Museum, and I thought it would be really a tribute to the time he spent in the RAF to replicate the SE-5 in his colors. In 1977, I wrote him a letter, an advice that he had no photographs of his airplane, but he did make a drawing, and he was 80 at the time of his squadron insignia and also the other markings. I had flown this airplane the first time on June 29th of this year. On July 2nd, I was able to call the general and tell him that the airplane had flown better for me than him, certainly. How many other events like this do you attend to plane? Well, I've only got 34 hours on this airplane, totally. Last weekend, I was able to go to the Dayton Air Show and show it there, so I've only been to Oshkosh and the Dayton Air Show so far, but that's again within about a 34-day period. It comes out to about an hour a day. What do you think about the program going on here? The biggest thrill of my life, one fellow said, I live in southern Indiana, he said, how long can it take you to come here? I said, 12 years. That's how long it took me to build this airplane, three times longer than World War I lasted. Okay, anything else you'd like to add? That's about it. It's just a tribute to General George A. Vaughn Jr., the highest-ranking American ace of World War I still a lot. Okay, thank you. Anything else, Martha, you'd like to see? Where are you planning going from here? If you wanted me to. From here, I've got to go across the top western states on over towards Washington and Montana, and then I'll zip back across the top and go through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, up into the New England states and then back down, and I should be back in Orlando, Florida where I began my journey. I should be there at Thanksgiving. Where you came up with this unusual plane? Well, my name's Jim Hay, and my brother actually came up with this unusual plane. It's his project or his creation. I helped him a little bit on it, you know. But I don't like to take credit for this. Too much. That's my son here. He's going to put some water in here so he's going over heat. Maybe you ought to get some more, huh? He uses quite a bit of water from flying too many missions. Right. Well, yeah. It's from sitting here idling in the sun. Idling in the sun, if you want. That's our cooling system right there. You just saw him put water in. That's our cooling system. What type of engine do you have? This is a Stover Farm engine. I don't know. From about 1923 or something, and it runs, I think it's about three horsepower. That's two and a half, three horsepower. Where did you come up with the idea? My brother had this engine and he wanted to put it in something, so he started out making this car. And he just ran it as a car. Well, then we were so involved in the air show, he thought, well, I've got to have put wings on it, you know. And what he built this for originally is he runs it a lot in parades. Stuff running in our local area. You think you have a pretty good patten here for planes of the future? Well, we tell anyone who wants to steal any of these ideas, feel perfectly free to just take whatever they want. Okay, as far as I can, is that operational? Well, it's not. It could be made operational, though, but it's not loaded, that's why it's not operational. You'd need a ball and some powder and a rag and a plunger rod, you know, to get it loaded, which means that the spider airplane, once you got it in the air, would really only basically have one shot.  Do you have any future plans for revamping or making improvements on this plane? Oh, I think it's gone as far as it can, technically. I mean, I think this is as much improvement as anyone would ever want to see made of this thing, possibly made to it. It's all made out of the finest oak and the finest rusty steel. One problem that's very common to aircraft is nuts and bolts coming loose. We found out that if you put just raw nuts and bolts on and let them rust down, they never come loose. You know, we've solved a lot of technical things that plaguing aviation industry for years. The front wheels used to be about, oh, about this much higher. They just keep wearing down. Any landings, take-offs? No, taxing tests. Yeah, we're not ready for landing a take-off yet. We figure about five to eight more years of taxing tests and they won't be ready for a take-off. Then we've got to find a runway that goes downhill about 45 degrees and ends with a cliff, you know, there. And then we need a five-pound pilot.  Do you have trouble finding crew members? No, no, we just recruited my son here. No, we don't have any trouble finding crew members. Finding clean crew members, you have trouble. There's oil sprays on his thing all over. I'm going to have trouble finding somebody who really wants to fly it, though. And we decide to fly it. We're going to have somebody... Put names in a hat or something? Jog Jog. There'll have to be something like that. I have to think of something more devious than that. Somebody you hate. They're like an odd man out contest or something. The biggest loser of the week, there's something like that. You know, we'd have to be the one to fly it. No, not anybody I hate, no, no.


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