The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. The brilliant. Yep. Shawlamaynegott. Andrew Schultz.  The marketing tools and analytics. Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business there are no hidden fees or price hikes and all websites are optimized for mobile. And it's so simple. Start with a design template and use drag and drop tools to make it your own. You can go to squarespace.com right now.   Now let's start the show. Let's get right to it. Showtree, what did you see this week that made you say positively brilliant?  Positively brilliant.    And arguably some might say I won't go there yet, but some might say the greatest athlete in history. Okay. I threw that question out there. I threw that question out there. Is Tom Brady the greatest athlete of all time? I think it's highly debatable. You know, I saw Robin Lundberg. Robin Lundberg was actually talking about Jay-Z because Jay-Z got a new verse coming out this Friday with Nipsey Hussle from the soundtrack to Judas and the Black Messiah. And Robin Lundberg said Jay-Z is the greatest rapper of all time. I forgot how he worded it, but I left a comment. I said it's not debatable. I said Tom Brady is Jay-Z of athletes. Notice I didn't say that the other way around, right?  Tom Brady looks up to Serena Williams. Now Serena Williams, absolutely one of the greatest athletes of all time, but I do not understand why people underestimate the degree of difficulty of American football and the degree of violence of American football. Serena is not one of the greatest athletes of all time. She's probably not even top 20,000. She's the greatest female athletes of all time, but she's not one of the greatest athletes of all time because she played soccer. She's admitted this. If I played tennis with guys, I wouldn't even come close to winning. So if we're just talking about completely neutral, you remove sex from all these things, you're not going to put Serena in a category with Jordan, Tom Brady, and these guys. I've never heard her say that. I don't know the degree of difficulty of tennis. I don't play tennis. It looks athletic. It looks like you have to have some speed and some hand-eye coordination. Female athlete? Absolutely. 100%.  I don't know, bro. I don't know the degree of difficulty of tennis. I don't watch it enough, but I'm not going to discredit her and say she's not the top 20,000. Hey, you want to know something? Neither do I. I'll discredit her. I can tell you what I can say with the utmost confidence. What's that? Male or female? Tennis ain't as violent as football. Not even close. You know what I'm saying? Not even close. That's all I'm saying is the degree of difficulty of football and the violence of football is what makes me say, man, I don't see how Tom Brady is not the greatest athlete of all time. Well, maybe we should say team sport to make it... That's the other thing. If you go into individual sports, it's tricky because in individual sports, the greatest athlete of all time is probably Usain Bolt. Because if you really want to look at competing, right, everybody in the world, not everybody has picked up a basketball. Not everybody has picked up a football. I grew up going to public school in New York City. There was no outlet for me to play football. We didn't have football teams. We didn't have a football stadium or any of that. We didn't have football field, right? We used to rent out our basketball court that we used to have. So not everybody has access to football. Michael Phelps, some people might say, oh, he's the greatest athlete of all time. He's like, yeah, the greatest athlete of all time that could take swimming classes. A lot of people can't afford to take swimming classes, right? You have to be wealthy for swimming to even be a hobby. Or you have to live near water.  So he is truly the fastest human being ever because we know who's running fast. Yeah, but he not getting tackled ain't nobody running after him. That's my I guess it's the degree of violence and football makes it different. This is the not for long. All right, then. All right, then. What about boxing? I mean, for me, if it's not him, it's Floyd. Floyd to me is the greatest great of all time. Boxing is up there. I'm not going to lie. Boxing is up there. It's an individual sport.  You know, I actually, and I respect Floyd. What Floyd has done is incredible. If I had to give it to a boxer, I would have to give it to Ali.  I'd have to give it to Ali. And when you look at Ali and how fast he is, his defense was second to none. He had power. He would bang with you. It got to a point where Floyd wasn't doing much banging. He was he was he was he was winning fights with his defense. Yep. That's true. But he dominated dominated dominated been hit a handful of times. We're talking about the hardest sport to be dominant as you get older.  As he got older and he started to slow down, Ali was getting pieced up. But Ali Ali took three years off, came back. So the Floyd was Floyd locked up. I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, he did get locked up for a second. Okay, so why not George for George foreman then? What about factor age into this shit, bro? I got you have to factor age, especially in boxing and football. Yeah. We're talking about 40. We're talking about a 43 year old man, bro. Yo, the most woozy I ever seen Tom Brady was today. Say he was walking at that goddamn bar. Drunk off the kills. Say what you really want to say, bro. He's a 43 year old white man, bro. I didn't even think about that. I don't get race. I don't got nothing to do with that. Oh, no, it does. We're going to age that great, bro. We don't have that great. There's not a I've never seen a 40 something year old athlete be that dominant regardless of what race they are. What about Lisa Ann? I don't even know who that is porn star athletes. That's not athletic, bro. That's not physical ability. You want to talk about violence, bro, taking them big old things, taking them big old things. I'm glad to see how much anal she takes. It's all about the anal. A lot. She's been taking big old things. I will say I do have a different respect for porn stars that do double penetration.  I respect the men. Not even flinching.  There's something going in. Like, God. There you go.  Really? Oh, colonics ain't no joke. When they shoot the water up in there? Colonics ain't no joke. Absolutely. That's why that's why that's why I hate when people, you know, disrespect me and say I'm gay. But I'm a bottom. Like, no, don't disrespect bottoms like that. I don't have that kind of strength.  Absolutely. I couldn't take it in there. Is that gay though? If you're a top? I don't know if that's gay. Gay-ish? Yeah. You're gay-ish.  You know what I mean? You know what I mean?  It's like I respect you, but then... Come on, bro. Nothing. You play pro in China, bro. You can't really play pro-ball. You're not really in the lead. Let's be honest, bro.  I'm gay, too.   I respect bottoms way more than tops. Like, if you're going to do it, do it, goddammit. Yeah, you got to go for it, bro. I don't even think they should be able to go to the parade. Listen... They got to spectate like the rest of us. They got to sit on the sidelines like the rest of us and then give high praise to the real gays.  Salute to all the bottoms, man. That's what I'm saying. I love bottoms that are proud to be bottoms. That's pride, bro. Yes. You taking it, bro. You know what I mean? You are taking it. You know what it is?  Be a man, bro. Be a man.  Yeah. Right?   I will say this, though. You know, it's going to be debatable whether Tom Brady is the greatest athlete ever. I don't... I don't... I really don't see why it's that much of a debate. Like, some of these people folks are naming. I'm like, stop. All right? Stop. What do you mean?  This is all I tell you. Let Aaron Donnell...  And then you tell me what kind of respect you got for Tom. Man, enough to be a bottom braiding. There you go. There you go. Matter of fact, Aaron Donnell sack you. You have a whole new respect for bottoms. That's a fact. Okay? They deal with that on a daily basis. Where do you rank Tom Brady as far as white men? I got him number one all-time. You have him number one all-time in history? Number one all-time. Number one all-time. We did a poll on the breakfast club the other day. Our white listeners were calling in. From our poll, the top five white men of all time, Tom Brady, Abraham Lincoln, The Undertaker, Christopher Columbus, and Keanu Reeves. I'm serious.  Hold on. Hold on. It goes Undertaker then who? Christopher Columbus? It was Tom Brady. How did Christopher Columbus get in there? I have somebody, the people will call it like you're Christopher Columbus. Tom Brady, Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Keanu Reeves, and The Undertaker. Y'all just think Christopher Columbus is dope because he didn't discover y'all. He's always on the white people. If he discovered you guys, you'd have a whole different perspective on Christopher Columbus. He'd be like, bottom five. Bottom five. That's the story though, right? Yo, Tom Brady, top five whites. What about George Washington, bro? G-dubs. You got to throw something at G-dubs. I knew you was going to say that. And that's what I said. The only people you'll hear people compare it to is the founding fathers. I think Tom Brady should be on Mount Rushmore. Not to Mount Rushmore of athletes, but his goddamn picture up there with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Who else is up there? Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln. Greatest white man of all time is Sean King hands down. There's not even... It is not even close, bro. Sean King up there. I'm going to tell y'all something.  When it's all set and done and they talk about civil rights activists, Sean King is going to end up being the most searched king of all time. I'm sorry. Listen, listen. Sean King is on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's heels. You know what I'm saying? Dr. Martin Luther King, God bless the dead. He ain't out here firing off new tweets, bro, bro. I know, bro. Sean King got it, bro. Nobody got him better. Way to go. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's legacy is solidified. Yeah. The bad part about having a solidified legacy you're not here to add on no more wins to it. That's right. And Sean King is just racking up wins. Yo, yo. He's racking them up. Bro, I'm not even joking. If you ask a certain generation of people right now, right? A certain demographic. I don't know what the age range would be. I'd say maybe, I don't know, 17, 25. You say, yo, who's the most famous civil rights activist king you can think of? Bro, I wouldn't be surprised if Sean comes on. Yo, I'm being honest with you, man. Are you saying that Sean King is the most relevant king when it comes to civil rights? There's an argument to be made. No, no, no. It's still Dr. Martin Luther King Junior hands down.  It's a good chance in the future. He'll never be number one on my list. He's never going to get a boulevard, but he could get like a road or something like that. Yo, I'm not going to stay Sean. I'm not going to get a boulevard. You think he'll get Sean King boulevard? Well, Sean King is out here, bro. Sean does a lot. Y'all playing with Sean. Yo, I'm not playing with Sean. I know he does a lot. I'm very proud to see my brother out there fighting the cause. Sean does a lot, bro. I'm just telling you, I think, is Dr. Martin Luther King Junior the greatest of all time. Got you. Not too many. He's one of the top transformative figures ever in the history of the world. Facts. But I'm just telling you, when it comes to civil rights activism, in the future, Sean really might be number two, bro. Wow. At least by name. By name recognition. He's definitely number two king. That's a fact. But can he take that top spot? What would he have to do to take that top spot? Get real legislation passed. That changes the game. Like the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Like the Voting Rights Act. You know what I'm saying? Stuff like that. You know, Martin Luther King Junior, even his assassination in a lot of ways led to an updated version of the Civil Rights Act. Well, I think if I'm not mistaken, they introduced HUD.  But, you know, Martin Luther King Junior did a lot of transformative things. You know, Sean would have to do stuff like that. What's more transformative than like being born white and turning black? Okay. This guy. Isn't that the ultimate transformation? Like, when you really want to talk about... John is black. What? Come on, bro. Listen, we all started in Africa. Thank you, bro. I've been telling people that. I'm African, dog. I got a 24 carat AK-47. If that ain't the most African thing... I see you with the J. Prince, AK-47. Say what? AK-47. I said the AK-47.  Fraternity, bro. Fraternity. That's the AK-47.   Yo, you fire it once and it just starts stomping the yard.  That's how you fire an AK-47. Yo, that's hard.  Yo, you're right, bro. Put it on Instagram. Like this, you got to shoot it upside down, bro. You got to shoot it upside down. Listen, though, I do think that we're not appreciating what we're seeing with Brady. I do think that. It's unbelievable. It's truly unbelievable. It's unbelievable, man. It's football. Yo, shows. Let's talk real for a second.  The Not For Long League, where people last six years, seven at the most. This guy's been around 21. He's 43. Max Kellerman at the greatest point. I think you might have said this last week. I don't remember. Well, Max Kellerman had the greatest point. He was like, even if you took the last five years of Tom Brady's NFL career, he's still a first ball at Hall of Fame. Oh, no, everything he's done since the age of 37. So from 37 to now, I think he's been to five Super Bowls after the age of 37. One, four.  Bro, he has more Super Bowls himself than any team in the NFL. That's the craziest statistic. That's wild. He has more himself and to go to another team and do it and then make Belichick look like an absolute useless tool. First year after leaving the Patriots. I mean, it's just unbelievable. Do you remember when Belichick tried to trade him? Because he wanted to start Jimmy Garoppolo? Do you remember that? Somebody was telling me that this week. I don't remember that one. Yeah, that's what happened, bro. Anyway, it is what it is. But that is absolutely something.  What did Robert Orr do? He said he welcomed Brady to the Seven Ring Club. Man, Robert, Robert, Robert. Listen, can I have respect for Robert Orr? I think Robert Orr is dope. But it's the difference between Robert Orr got rings, right? But it's the difference with Michael Jordan saying I got six. Or Magic saying I got five. And Robert Sandy, I got seven. I think you have to be the catalyst of a team winning those rings. Yeah. To be able to brag about it. Like, come on, Robert.  You know? And it's just like... What if she helped though? What? What if she helped? They do help. There's no question that wives help. Yeah. You know? But it's not the same as making it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? I'm not saying Robert didn't help.  Big shots. Big shot Bob. Big shot Bob. Gotta give him his credit. He knows it's different. People are just trying to attach themselves to greatness. That's what this is about. Like, you see LeBron doing it. That should have sad. LeBron is so thirsty to attach himself to Tom Brady's greatness, bro. Tweeting nonstop like a little fangirl. And I really think that that's about LeBron recognizing that he'll never do what Brady did. So he's trying to latch on to the identity of Brady to put himself in that same space because he knows he'll never be able to win seven like Brady. Listen, even if Bronn wins seven, even though I do think Bronn is going to win at least, I do think Bronn is going to win at least one more. One more, yeah. Sure. One more. Maybe two. Maybe two. I do, honestly. So that'll put him at six. Once again, I go back to the fact that the degree of difficulty in football is different than the NBA. And guess what? Even though Brady went to 10 Super Bowls, which is unprecedented in the NFL, he won seven shows. Do you realize this is the only time that Tom Brady has had a blowout victory in a Super Bowl? Yeah. Every game has been super close. That's because he was coached by Bill Belichick, who's a bum. And if he had a real coach, then he would have had a blowout victory like this. Notice his coach didn't even have a Super Bowl victory. Bruce Arians, oldest coach to win a Super Bowl. That's how dope Tom Brady is. He could take a loser, put him in the position as coach, and then win him a Super Bowl first year. It's brilliant. Belichick. I can't wait until the Patriots win the Super Bowl next year. Yo, yo, the Patriots will not... Bill Belichick will never win a Super Bowl again. Are you surprised if he makes it to the playoffs for the rest of his career? I love when you make those definitive statements like that, because the exact opposite comes true. Hey, bro, we got a lot of podcasts to do, okay? You know what I mean? We got a lot of time to fill. There's a lot of podcasts to do this week. I can't be reasonable and pointed in every one of my takes.   I like to take though. I like to take. To say. I don't believe to take you underestimate one thing and one thing only. The will of a white man scorned. That is a good-ass point, bro. Bill Belichick and even Robert Kraft, to a certain extent, they not going to want to feel like everybody thinks Tom Brady was the sole reason that they won all those goddamn Super Bowls. They about to spend top motherfucking dollar to do what they got to do to make the Patriots a contender. They can only spend so much. They can only spend so much. They spend so much. There's a salary cap, right? They don't got spit though. They ain't paying nobody now. Who they paying? They should listen. They had the opportunity to do something last season. I like they had a bum quarterback. They had a past MVP of the league, right?  The Patriot way is the Tom Brady way and the second Brady left, the Patriots stink. Honestly, Tom Brady is the leader of that team. I bet you Tom Brady was involved in the defensive schemes as well.    The guy does nothing. Nothing at all. Useless. I disagree. But we'll see. We don't see it, bro. And speaking of coaches, Tom Brady was greatly coached. Byron Lefwich, offensive coordinator. Todd Bowles, defensive coordinator. Both brothers.  What's that reporter's name, Taylor?  Motherfuckers interviewing Byron Lefwich.  Wow. He got to be the defensive coach, huh? Was it Michael Donaldson? Michael Donaldson. Byron Lefwich is like, uh, you got the wrong person, man. You need to ask Todd about that. It's just like, God damn, bro.  Who are the Beatles? Elton John, Sting, John Travolta and Keanu Reeves. That's a fire band right there, bro. That's the Beatles, bro.  I love saying, yo, man, Justin Bieber was always my favorite member of anything. I see what you did there, dude.  What is going on here? Don't act like your girl ain't make you watch that Britney documentary. Nah, she was watching it alone today. You said that. It's good to watch it for real.  He hit you? Nah, she said I'm watching. I was like, no. Yeah, they giving people a lot of flack for the way that they used to treat Britney. This is all secondhand information.    My homegirl, Erica America, you know Erica.  There's so much to so many people, bro. Bro, that's our Mary J Blige. You said what? Britney is a white people's Beyoncé. No, Britney's white people's Mary J Blige is different. I wish Taylor would stop saying that. And you know what's so... And I love Beyoncé. Britney Spears was way bigger than Beyoncé. Wow. Wow. I mean, at one point, she was the biggest star in the world. I mean, not saying Beyoncé wasn't, but just look at the album sales. Look up the album sales. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but I don't know who was bigger at their peak, Britney Spears and Beyoncé.  Big, big, big. Yes, like massive is a motherfucker. I will say this.  Her mental health was severely impacting and severely affected. I just thought it was because it's stardom. You know what I mean? I still think stardom plays a major role in it, man, because I really, truly do feel like, bro, let's be honest, man. Nobody's meant to be that famous.  Nobody's meant to be that famous. It's the same thing with social media. You're not meant to interact with millions and hundreds of thousands and thousands of people every day. And I just think that there's nobody meant to be that famous.  You shouldn't be so famous that, you know, you got to put masks on your kids and all that. Like, seriously, what kind of way is that to live? Because when you're rich, right, you're part of the 1%. When you're super famous and rich, what percentage is that? There's only a few people on this planet that can do that. Yeah, that's true. Who wants to live like that?  You can never have a normal life.  Yeah, that is a good point, especially if you do it as a kid before you know who you are. Come on.  So my heart does go out to earth in that aspect. I got empathy for her. Is she connected to white women? Gorilla glue. It's gorilla glue. Gorilla glue is what had me connected to white women. Can you explain this gorilla glue scenario, man? What happened, bro?  To suit gorilla glue? They're telling her to suit gorilla glue. I think I read some tweet where, man, where's that tweet at, Taylor? What happened? This young lady put gorilla glue in her hair. Okay.  Explain it, Taylor.  Okay, so basically she got confused. She thought that her spraying her hair where gorilla glue will be the same as her spraying her hair with the regular hair stuff. And honestly, I don't feel any sympathy for her because now I'm thinking about it. Gorilla glue is nowhere in the hair store. How do you even get that confused? She went to home detail. Exactly. You know, she went to CVS and wanted to be in there.    And that's why I say it's crazy for people to be telling her to sue. Like I saw somebody say something about gorilla glue. Black women use hair glue, right? And the person in the tweet emphasized this. He was like black women use. But no, he put hair glue, right? But that right there makes everything you're saying null and void because gorilla glue is not hair glue. Gorilla glue is not in the hair stores. Gorilla glue is not on the hair out.  No, but what do gorillas got to do with glue? I think that's what we need to be asking. Why do gorillas have anything to do with glue? It's the alliteration, bro. That's all it is. People love alliteration, bro. But show me there is a gorilla gel. No, it's not. It's called gorilla snot. No, well, when I looked it up, it said gorilla gel and it looked like the same type of. It doesn't. It's too totally packaging. Stop. You say anything, Taylor. Oh my gosh. Gorilla is called gorilla snot for hair. Gorilla snot gel. It's in orange too, right? You said what? Which one are you looking at? Because I looked it up yesterday. No, you did. You googled gorilla snot gel. And the first thing that came up was the gorilla glue clear spray adhesive that she shouldn't have been using. And that's what you were looking at. That's the orange. No, not OK. Well, this one's yellow, my bad. But and there's a gorilla on it. I'm listening to it. What? I'm going to send you to what I'm looking at. What gorilla? Gorilla snot. I'm going to put it in the chat. It's really not. The gorilla snot gel bottle is yellow.  Yeah, that's not the same. But she probably thought it was because it's two gorillas. That's all. No. That should have been similar, bro. That should have been similar, bro. No, it's not. But it literally didn't. She should sue, bro. I hate to be the only one defending black women on this show, but she got a sue, bro. I hate once again. Here I am. The only one defending black queens on this whole program, but she got a sue, bro. That black queen got her wig snatched by gorilla glue when she was just trying to gorilla snot. It's a foolish lawsuit. And she's 40 years old. She's not some young girl. She's 42. She's 42? No, I said no. Oh, she's 40. She's 40 years old. She should know better. Hair is no joke.  She should not be experimenting at this time in her life. She just shouldn't, bro. I'm sorry. But salute to Jessica Brown. We wish you the best. We hope that you know. So what happened? She had to shave it off.  She was able to cut the ponytail off, but I don't know if she shaved it off, but she raised 13,000. For what? Like what do you do in that? She says she, there's no description, but it said, she says she's going to eat it for her medical bills. Yes. Medical bills. Shout to her, man. No, salute to her. I do. I do. I do truly wish her the best. All right. Let's stop and pay some bills. 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Have you checked to see if you got antibodies? Because you know you can do the antibody test to see if you still got them.  Only last three months, they say, though. Well, I got it two months ago, so I'm still out here. That long ago? Yeah, December. So I got December, January, February. So I got a Rockthrough Black History Month with these antibodies. And then come March, you know, then we'll see what we got to do. But I think my antibodies are good.  They don't care that nobody else is doing it. Son, can I tell you something? They don't care. Everybody here has already had it. When you get here, you go out. You assume you're going to get it, okay? I can't say who might have gotten it or who might not have gotten it. It doesn't matter. But the point is you just go out. Somebody in the crew got it again? No, nobody got it again. That's also a myth. I don't think that you can get it again. But there's, literally, we're out. It is what it is. Everybody gets it. And then you just keep it moving. That's literally how they deal with it here. You just assume you're going to get it. You get it. You deal with it for a week.  I mean, clubs are open. Restaurants are open. Bars are open. It is life as usual, normal. People shake your hand when they meet you. You know what I mean? Like, it is life before Corona. And they are thriving. Let's open up a club down there, a comedy club called Heard Immunity. I love that. The HI. I love that. When you walk in Corona waves at you, you have like a virus mascot. When you walk in, he's just like, hi. Hi. Everybody comes in. They shake hands. They hug. You let them pass joints around. You know what I mean? Share hoocas. It's just the way to get their herd immunity going. Admit that you miss it. Admit you see it. You're like, man, I want to go out. I'm a recluse, bro. Listen, I'm a homebody. You talk about antibodies. I'm a homebody. You know what I'm saying? I'm a cancer. I like to be home.  I'm going to be honest with you. The only thing I do miss, honestly, the only thing I do miss is a good comedy show and a good dinner.  You've been to my joints. I like to have big dinners with family and friends. You know what I mean? We sit around, laugh and kick it. Other than that. Bro. Move down here, bro. What are you doing? Just move down here. You got to come down for a month. Come down for a month, see how it feels, and then do more. Simple as that. I'm definitely coming to Miami while you're down there. I'm definitely coming down there. I'm coming down there while you're there. I'm going to come for a weekend or something. I've got to get down. I'm just moving over. I'm in there, brother. When are you moving into the new spot? This weekend. Really? Excited or what? Man, that's such an interesting question. I was telling my wife last night, like this is the first house I ever bought. Prior to, you know, this, I rented a house. You know what I mean? I stayed in apartments my whole life. And then I rented a house. This is the first house I ever bought. And I was even telling my wife like, man, I'm so attached to this house. I wonder if we should have just kept it as a rental property. Right? And I was thinking about, I literally was thinking about this last night. That's why it's so crazy you asked me. It's like we've been living in this house for five years. And this is a house where like memories were actually created. Yeah. My second daughter is five. You know, my third daughter is two. This is, even though we've been here for five years, I can count on like, I think it's been like 16 people that have been to my house over these five years, like literally like 16 people, like, you know, other than like my mom and my dad and her mom and her dad, but like friends, right? And we've got good memories here. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm in the basement right now. We've had some great memories in this basement.  You know what I'm saying? Like, and it's just, you know, we got, like I said, we got good memories here. I've had great conversations in this basement. I've come up with great ideas sitting in the backyard. You know what I mean? Hugging my tree. I'm gonna miss my tree that I hug. You know, I got plenty of them where I'm going, but I'm gonna miss the one I hug. My sacred purpose, Coach Yachty, actually told me to bury some gems in the roots of the tree. So Debbie Brown sent me a bunch of stones to bury there, but yeah, I'm attached to this house because of the memories. You know what I mean? Yeah. My ghost will be, I'm not saying my ghost will live here. I'm saying there is a ghost of me that's here. You know, you ever watched those movies and they show like a scene where like things are growing up, but they show like Christmases and, you know, Thanksgiving and first time kids rode bikes. Like a lot of that happened here. Yeah. I'm gonna always have a lot of memories here. So, but yeah, I'm very excited to go create new memories at the new spot, but I am attached to this. You sold the house already? The house is sold, baby. Jersey real estate market is hot. Boomin. Boomin. Boomin.   So I turned half of it into like the bar, black privilege lounge area. Can we see? And then the other side is the gym. Oh. You know what I mean? And then outside I put the pergola. Yeah, you got that pergola, bro. Pergola outside. So yeah, I did a lot of different renovations to this crib. So, you know, it was prime real estate when it went on the market. But yes, it sold.  It's impressive, bro. It's honestly impressive, bro.  I only want you to see half of me, bro. What's wrong with just seeing half of me, bro? There we go. They say that, sorry to interrupt, but they say that moving is one of the most stressful things to people. Now, you're not stressed at all by this? Um, I was because I thought I sold the crib too fast because the new house, the renovations aren't done yet.  And so, like, you know, my wife is getting a lot of renovations done, so I was stressed because I was like, damn, we shouldn't have sold this house because I thought I was going to have to rent a house to live in. But nah, we just going to live through renovations. We just going to thug it out. I love it. Because, you know, the house is pretty spacious. Okay. Okay. What area? The section of the house they're working on. It's a lot more house to live in. That's all you know. Can you tell me the area? What do you mean? Where you're living? Like, is it in Jersey? Can you... Nah, nah. Because you can't have what you holding in your hand in Jersey. You know what I'm saying? You can only have handguns. Oh. I can have that AK-47. Bro. You know what I'm saying? In Florida, bro.  In Florida, bro, you can do whatever you want.  Say what?  Nah, dude. I can't shoot Alex. My God. Oh, that shit's real? Yeah. The 24 karat gold AK-47, bro.   You know what I mean? Damn. So I had to come out here and flex in Florida with my peoples. You know what I mean?  What? Yo, your boy Trump about to get impeached. Man, I believe it when I see it. Nah? I haven't been following. I believe it when I see it.  I'm in Florida, dude. In Florida, people care. That's the home of politics. Say what? Florida is the politics capital of the world. No, bro. This is the home of Andrew Gillum and Motel Methods. Big AG. Big AG. Bottom podcast this week. Say what? I did Andrew's podcast this week. Make sure y'all check that out.  Did you ask him about the event? That ain't none of my business. That's not what I was on that podcast for. What were you on the podcast for? We were talking about a bunch of different stuff. You know what I mean?  That's all. You should read Andrew's story in GQ because it's a very interesting story. It goes back to what we were talking about. What were you talking about, you know? Is GQ short for LG Beak? He falls into that category? Oh, that's right. He said he's bi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He definitely falls into that category. He falls into that category. Respect. Respect, bro. It's a very interesting because you realize, imagine, you're getting the way you need to be. Right, Schultz? You're growing as a personality, as a comedian, everything. And let's just say right before you're about to do that one monumental thing that gets you where you want to be. In his case, it was Governor of Florida. It doesn't happen. You buy this much, like literally this much. You lose 30 something thousand votes, whatever, whatever. Then you went to a spiral. Thank God, though, real talk because Florida would be closed if Andrew Gillum was a governor. I doubt it. Bro, be honest. You think so? It's Democrat leadership, man. They're going to close it all down, man. That's what it is. What else is closed? New York. New York ain't closed. New York just dead. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. No, no, no. It's over, bro. You can't backtrack, bro. You already said it.  That's what you said.  It was overrated and overhiked. Maybe we found that out by coming down to Florida, my friend. By the way, like millions of other New Yorkers had. Noriega is like, welcome to the party.    Because if people didn't think Northwest painted that goddamn picture. She ain't paint that picture. Come on, bro. Y'all be hating. Why y'all hate so much? I mean, did she paint it? I don't really care. I don't know. I have no idea. I don't see why somebody would lie about that. Kim also just put a video up of her showing what she did when she was one years old to one of her designer bags. What? Hey, what? You have to go on YouTube. Kim put up a picture or video of North doing art on her designer bag and she like painted all over it. Yo, yo, yo, Taylor.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.   Yo, yo, Taylor, it's always been. Northwest painted the paint and the not. I will say this.  The media period. How does the sentinel wake up one morning and run a story saying that Lauren London is pregnant.    Well, I've got a rumor. What's the rumor? Pull out of thin air. Talk to me. Word on the streets is Chappelle's getting the rights to his show back from Comedy Central. That's the word on the streets.   Listen, say something. Yeah. That's Dave motherfucking Chappelle. That's true. That's true. Like, in this climate, the last thing they want is smoke with Dave motherfucking ship. That's that's also a very good point. And Dave has reached the level of folk. Here on this folk lore. Like he's like a mythical figure. You don't want to know. You don't want no problems with that. Like you don't. You don't want to be the guy that's holding on to the Chappelle show. You don't want to be that person. You don't want to be the person that Dave Chappelle is getting on stage going at night after night. Like, give him the right to the show back.  Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right. You know what I mean? Did you just lose my video? That's a battery exhaust. Damn. You don't. You don't want to be the guy that's that's holding on to the Chappelle show. You don't want to be that person. You don't want to be the person that Dave Chappelle is getting on stage. You're right. And listen. Dave said it himself. He said, um, It's crooked. It's business. Yeah. But is it right? It just depends how you look at it. I look at it as it's business. And I think what Dave is doing is business. He's got leverage because he's Dave motherfucking Chappelle. Yeah. Dave Chappelle.  I do. I wish he'd tell us more of the story though. Yeah. Nah, I hear you. I would, I would like him to tell us more of the story. Tell us how that happened. Tell us how he, you know, ended up in that position to begin with. You know. Yeah. I agree with you. That'd be, that'd be nice to know. But it was a really impressive chess move that he played. He basically made the show unsellable. Yeah. I just wish Dave would tell, you know, the full story.  But you know, other than that, I wouldn't even call it a chess move. It's just Dave Chappelle being in a position of power. You know what I mean? Leveraging his cultural cashing to get back something he wants. Yeah. I'm just saying the chess move is like by making the show radioactive, nobody will want to buy it, right? Because he will, he'll make those networks look so awful to the people that the networks want to support. And by doing that, if you can't sell a show, you might as well just give back the assets. Like a show is only valuable if you could sell it. You know what I mean? Yeah. If I can't air it, what's the point?   Let it sit in the vault? Yeah. Do you want to make some of that licensing money? The only way to make some of that licensing money is to give Dave back the rights to the show or structure the contract the way it's more in Dave's favor.  You know what I mean? Yeah, man.  But I'm not mad at it. You know, I've seen, I've seen this happen before. You know, like, like Jay-Z used his leverage once to get his masters back. Really? You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. When he became president of the Def Jam, I don't remember the whole story in detail, but I mean, that's what you do. You grow, you evolve, and you put yourself in a position of power to right a lot of the wrongs that you made when you was younger. The game is about. I think it's going anyway. That's my personal take on it. Yeah. What else we got? Aunt Jamama finally has a new name.  Pearl Milling Company. So if you're going to the store looking for Aunt Jamama Serp, that ain't happening no more. What else? Oh, Van Jones. Did you see Van Jones on the view? No.  They did Van. They jumped all over Van. For what?  They said, Sonny told him that a lot of black people don't trust him. Really? Yeah. And I mean, two things can be true, right? I mean, listen, I wouldn't call Van Jones a political opportunist. I would call Van, because all politicians are opportunists. Well, Van's not a politician. He's not even a politician, but that's what I mean. When you say political opportunists, it's like everybody in politics is opportunists. That's just the nature of the game. Right.  Ooh. And the problem with. Big shot. No, no, no. That's not a shot. It's just a way of phrasing something because. He's willing. To. Ride.   Usually.  If it's a guy showing a lot of love to a person.  You know what I mean?  Question.  You're the top. No. You're on top. Yeah.    The power bottom.  Yeah. The power bottom. Good point. Good point. Okay. So back to Van. No, just just with Van. It's just like, you know. Dick riding will never be a respectable form of reputation. And when people don't understand what it is you're doing, like, yes, Van gets a lot of people out of prison. You know, Van has gotten prisons. Van has helped. He's helped to get a lot of people out of prison. He's helped to get a lot of prisons, you know, closed down. He does great work. And he's willing to cozy up with whoever's in power to get the work done. Whether it's Democrat or Republican. He's been doing it for the past couple of decades. So, you know, people may not agree with his methods. You know what I mean?  I think I think it's that though, just the fact that he cozied up to the Trump administration. You know what I mean? It was like, people were saying things like you didn't have to be all in the White House smiling, showing your teeth.  So I can't, I can't judge that man because I'm not doing the work that he's doing. You know what I mean?  He does get things done. But I do think two things can be true. I think that he can do great work. But people can also look at him and say, Hey, bro, you're doing too much skinning and grinning, man. You don't got to do all that just to get something done. What is the negative side of doing the skinning and grinning if it gets the thing done? I don't think that the only negative side is all on Van. You understand what I'm saying? Meaning like the positive helps so many other people.  Positive helps those families to be reunited. The negative is Van got to eat that criticism. And honestly, man, if Van, if Van really cares about, you know, prison reform and getting people out of jail the way I think he does, that's just a small price to pay. Yeah. Because if you really care about prison reform, you're not going to stop caring about it because the opposition is in office. You got to care about that every single day. So you got to work with whoever's there. I mean, that's what politics is. That's the point of this game is work with whoever's there. This idea where you just go by humbug and then like cross your arms and refuse to talk to the people on the other side. That's not politics. That's not democracy.  But he didn't have it. Sometimes you normalize it when you get on TV and you say things like, in that moment, Donald Trump became president. Like, you know, all that's debatable. I personally don't think he had to do all of that. I don't think he should have normalized Trump in that way. But once again, it's hard to criticize Van Jones because Van Jones is out there doing the work. You know what I'm saying?   They're not doing it for the optics.  That's the point. Van Jones, he did grow Donald Trump.  Wasn't there a song called Dick Ride in Obama? No. I never heard of it. Yes, it was. Wasn't there a song that went viral called Dick Ride in Obama? No. I mean, maybe. Who was it by? Yeah.  I'm tripping. Yes. The boondocks. The boondocks did a song called Dick Ride in Obama. It was from an episode of the boondocks. I think, actually, will I am? Will I am? Actually wrote it. I believe. Don't quote me on that. How does it go? Dick Ride in Obama was a song in the boondocks.   But how does it go? What's the song? Let me see if I can pull it up here. It's on YouTube, guys. Well, we'll get flagged. You can always start it. You said what? We're going to get flagged if we bring it up. Really? Yeah. It's only a minute and 12 seconds long. I think it only takes a few seconds before they flag it.  Let me see if I can find the lyrics. Dick Ride in Obama. Man, you got to watch the boondocks. That was you and your wife you need to sit down and watch them. Really? Over the Britney shit? Yes. Dick Ride in Obama. Yeah. Will I am in Thug Nificent?  Got up this morning, things were working right. I said I want to make a change. I said I want to fight. Obama walked up and said, yes, we can. I said I want to write your nuts because I think you're the man.  Obama, Obama.  Obama, Obama.  Obama, Obama.  Obama, Obama.    Fire, bro. One of the stories I don't think Van Jones is a political opportunist.  And it's fine. You know what I'm saying? He's willing to do that. Let him be willing to do that. Let him be willing to do that. They get motherfuckers out of prison.  Now tell her.  Wait, you're not done. You don't want to go more into like... Taylor. Taylor. Taylor.  I was just going to say y'all want to talk about the weekend performing at the Super Bowl? No. No? I didn't even watch it. You didn't watch the Super Bowl at all? I watched the Super Bowl. I was barely watching fucking... I was watching the Super Bowl. I was watching the weekend. And then that bow wow wants to become a wrestler? Taylor. Shit. We don't care about next week. Okay. Fine. All right. Hold on. Hold on. Taylor's just trying to stall. Taylor's going to have some stall. I do have some. Hold on. I'm waiting. Wait. Wait. Because it's in the story. Okay. Ready? This is from T.J. Bottle Pockets. Do y'all think the vaccine is going to be a social VIP pass for private events?  That's all I got to say.  Slanging antibodies like it's nothing.   What pays the bills is regular everyday motherfucking people. They want that vaccine in everybody so they can get the world somewhat back to normal. That's just ain't going to be for no VIP people. Hell no. It's not going to be strictly for VIP people. Why do you think that? Who ever think that is? I don't know. I mean, you know why though? Because one artist said that he wants listeners to get fascinated when attending his concert. Once things open up. I look at who it was. Tell him a grow up too. Next question. R underscore Maya 97 wants to know who has a shot of beating Joe Biden in the next presidential election. Joe Biden. Jeff Bezos. Mother nature. Father time. Yo, that's facts. Grim Reaper. Yeah. Now that's true. The new strain. What do you call it? The new variant? The new COVID variant? Biden's only doing one term, yo. You think he'll do the full term? I don't think he's getting through the full term. I'll take bets on that. Now that is a bet I'll take. I'll take. Two years. I don't think he's doing the full term. Two years tops. I mean two years tops. I can see him getting things in order. I can see them maintaining control of the Senate in the house. And then him passing the buck. You know what I'm saying? Passing it on to the MVP. Okay. Adam Vice President. Okay. I can see that. Kamala. I don't see him doing four years. It's something about Joe Biden that really feels very placeholderist, bro. I can't quite put my finger on it. Like it feels very like temp job-ish. Yeah. It don't feel like prominent President Tate. Yeah. I agree with you, man. I think he's out of here. A couple of years. And then Kamalita is going to take over. Okay. Let's give us a couple more. So. Okay. A lifestyle on this ground. Mike wants to know what's something you want to see change in the podcast space? Something I want to see change in the podcast space podcast behind paywalls. Oh, podcast behind paywalls. I just don't I don't think they work. We've seen it before. We saw it when a couple of a few years ago when brilliant idiots was being courted by a lot of companies that didn't work. You know what I'm saying? Quite a few companies were grabbing up podcasts and putting podcasts behind the paywalls and you lose listenership because to me when you put your podcast behind a paywall it's like and I don't know anybody who does it, but it's like it's like satellite radio. Satellite radio is cool and it has impact but it'll never catch up to terrestrial radio. You know what I mean? I think it's it's something about the podcast. It's something about this content being free for people. You know what I mean? And by the way, it's not free. We like we invest in this and advertisers invest in us. So being that the advertisers invest in us, we're able to give the content to the people, you know, for free. So yeah, I would like to see less podcast behind the paywall only because I think it's really it really stifles the growth of a lot of podcasts. I've seen a lot of podcasts go behind a paywall and lose a lot of listenership and I just don't think you know, this is something folks should be paying for. I think this is this is a great form of entertainment that you should be given to the people for free. I think so. What was the question again? What's something we want to see change in the podcast? Oh, some of you want to see change in the podcast. I don't agree with everything Charlotte said. Obviously, I have a very successful Patreon, but we do that not exclusively behind the paywall. Oh, that's what you meant exclusively. Yes, I would never go exclusively.  And that's what I care about is being part of the conversation to dictate the conversation. So like I wouldn't I wouldn't remove that connectivity to the to the people. Absolutely not.  Yeah, man.  And that's what I was very against doing that. You definitely said that you was like not not going exclusively behind the paywall. Now you give people additional content like you do because you on Patreon how long you know Patreon like four years? Yeah, man. Yeah, we've been on I don't know how long with two years or something like that. Maybe a year or something like that. Like what? The numbers are public, right? Yeah, public. Yeah, we got a bringing like 90 a month. Right. Yeah, yeah. We got over a million dollar Patreon, man. I think we're number. I think now we're number five in the world for Patreon. Wow. Top five biggest patrons in the whole world. So it's we've had an amazing amazing success with it. I think people should absolutely. I think you do it alongside your free episode. Yes. So that you could maintain. And you don't O.D. Yes. You don't O.D. You give them, y'all give y'all give a episode of Flavor and then y'all give the uncensored episode on Patreon two a week. Yeah. Good.  Hungry. It's a taste. It's a taste. It's a taste. It's a taste like y'all like this. Come over here I just don't think a podcast should be exclusively behind the paywall. If you're doing extra content, great. You know what I mean? Fine. Charge for it. But to exclusively be behind the paywall, like Luminary and the Devil was doing. And I don't know if they're still doing that, but at the time they were. Nah. They'll be out of business soon. Yeah. Nah, that's no point. I don't think that's cool. I don't think that's cool. You got one more, Taylor. Give us one more quick one. Um, am J.D. K.D. R. I want to know whether to be hated for the right reasons or liked for the wrong reasons. For the right reasons. 100%. Aided for the right reasons. I have no problem being hated for anything I've ever been hated for.   You know what I'm saying? If you're not, if you're not, if you're not bumping your head every now and then, like you really not, really, you're not rolling the dice the way that you should.   And sometimes you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. So, I would much rather be hated for the right reasons than liked for the wrong reasons.  They're probably telling you everything that you want to hear, how you want to hear it, just because they want that, that amen corner.   Also, like, when you, what was the, what was the initial thing? When you're basically hated for something that is the right reason, often history plays out to where you're loved for that exact thing you're hated for. You know, there's a lot of people who hated Martin Luther King for what he stood up for, right? And now he's a beloved figure in not only American culture, but just globally. He's someone who's admired. So, if you stand up for what you believe is the right thing, you're going to get hate for that. But eventually, that hate is going to turn to admiration. So, I would always say that, hated for the right reasons. Martin Luther King Jr. died with a 25% disapproval rate. Wow. I mean, that means he had a 75% disapproval rate. Think about that. Martin Luther King Jr. asked your dad, Andrew, when Muhammad Ali was alive, they didn't love Muhammad Ali. Yep. You know what I mean? But guess what? He was hated for all the right reasons. And history is always kind to those kind of people. Facts. Always. Facts. All right. As always, if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart, you think we're intelligent, you think we're brilliant, you're absolutely right.  You're right, too.  Thank you for listening. Peace. All right, guys. Hold on.


You know, sometimes when we meet people, it is the worst day of their lives. Shots fired. He's bleeding everywhere.  I caught him molesting my 10-year-old daughter. Gotcha, buddy. We got to actually find some justice here. You wouldn't even have to pay me to do this job some days. It looks like a harassment by phone. Call him. Tell him I'm harassing you. Go ahead. I want you to do that. You are facing criminal charges for harassment. The burglary in progress to a residence. I don't want to get too cliche, but, you know, we have to trust our lives to each other. Theft in progress. We have quite a caper up here. The kids got autism, so we're looking at how a risk-adult situation. It actually makes it a felony-level crime. I suspect he stole somebody's phone and then went and filled out a job application. We got a pretty rockin' case here. Oh, yeah. This is awesome. Harassment by phone. She's getting multiple calls and text messages from her friend's boyfriend. You never really know until you get there what's going on. You could end up arresting somebody. You could end up advising your victim to get a restraining order. One by one, David. We're at code six. I know that he's going crazy. There is, like, probably five phone calls and there's three voicemails on there, too. And then the first text was right after. Call him. Tell him I'm arresting you. Go ahead. I want you to do that.  I'm not going to kind of deal with a psycho. Okay. I'm guessing you want it to stop and for him to see-saw contact with you. I'm going to call him and contact him. This is his official warning. If he sends one more message to you, one more phone call initiates one more contact with you. He's committing a crime. Let's see if he answers my phone call and we'll go from there. Okay. I kind of have a little feeling about this guy. He seems like he's got just this explosive personality in this history of, like, really violent and aggressive behavior. Voicemail. He's probably asleep. He tired himself out. This is officer Rachel Ida. I'm with the Denver Police Department, District One. You've left some voicemails and some text messages that are threatening and criminal in nature. You are facing criminal charges for harassment and any communication with her needs to stop. Don't text her. Don't call her. Basically, you need to leave her alone. This here is a protection order. Protection order, restraining order, same thing. If that's granted, then he crosses the line, he contacts them in any way, shape, form, comes to the house, text, whatever. Game over, he goes to jail. No questions asked. The hours are from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. on graveyard shift. So, especially during the summertime, it is busy, fast paced, exciting. There's always lots to do, and more of the bad guys come out at night. So, all the interesting calls happen working on the graveyard shift. I'll be in on a report, and can you watch me to that call as well? So, this is gonna be a theft in progress call. Kind of concerning. It sounds like it's a theft of a cell phone, which, in and of itself, is under $1,000 and it's not of huge value. But the victim, it sounds like, has followed the suspect to this location and the potential that he could possibly confront him. And now, we've got some kind of a person this time. Here's gonna be our complainant right here. You called, right? I did. So, my son just called me right now. He was at the Padrino. Somebody asked to borrow his phone. Took his phone, took off running. Okay. My son is autistic, so he's 19, but he's literally smaller than you are. Okay. Like the mentality of, about 12 years old. Okay. At risk, for sure. The guy that took the phone, he's wearing red shorts with a black top, oversized black top. Where do you think he is right now? He's in his back area over here. There's a barbershop. Code 6 on the barbershop. This is my son. Hey, sweetie. Can I ask you a couple of questions really quick? Did this kid knock you down? No, he did not. Okay, so you guys are at 38th in federal and this kid comes up to you and he wants to use your phone. Yeah. And you gave him your phone to use? Yeah. And then what did he do? He just took off? He took off running. And I chased him for about 15 minutes and then I lost him. You would recognize this guy if you saw him again, right guys? Okay. Why don't we do this?  I'll load you guys in the back of my car and we'll go over to Jenny's, okay? The victim is an at-risk adult so it makes it a felony that we're looking at here. So what we're gonna do now, briefly, is something called a show up. I'm just gonna take him with me and show him somebody. Okay. Okay, we'll be right back. They got somebody to come out of the barbershop that they think might be the suspect. We're gonna drive by kinda slow and see if he can identify the suspect. I'm just gonna ask you to look out the window and tell me if you recognize anybody, okay?


This video we're going to build a square footage calculator. It's fairly straightforward We just have column a grid with labels and spin boxes and as we change the values the square footage is automatically calculated All right, I'm gonna do this very very quickly drop into design view go to that add some controls I want a column and Admittedly, I'm going a little faster than I can talk here. So I'm a slow little bit down Gonna add a label grab a grid and I'm gonna zoom out here. There we go So our column let's add a 10 spacing Grid let's add a 10 spacing and I want two columns two rows Let's go ahead and grab some labels Drag drop drag drop and some spin boxes and First thing we're gonna have to look for that little white line drop it and Down at the very end look for that white line drop it Very very easy All right, let's scale this a little bit and I want to grab this label and let's stylize him Whipping through a lot of this because to be brutally honest. We have done a lot of this before All right, so with zoom way in I did misspell it height Let's actually Change the IDs. I'm gonna call this SB width. Let's call this SB height and let's change this to zero sqft Now we need to make some connections. So I'm gonna select our SB width select our SB height Drop in here, and we're just gonna simply make a function to you guessed it calculate it So I'm gonna say function calc and let's say very numb equal SB width I want the value not value not validator and Take our label here last, but certainly not least we go down here, and we just need to modify this on clicked Very very simple. We're just gonna change that to our function. We just created calc You may be wondering why I'm doing these in connections rather than inland like I normally do just showing different ways that you can Do it save and run and let's test this out Oh Something's wrong. We didn't oh, yes, we did not do this correctly. What did we not do here? This is on clicked we want on value modified Save run. Let's try that again Ta-da works What's up everybody? This is Brian. I hope you enjoyed this video It's part of a larger series out on you to me calm called QML for beginners the QML for beginners course assumes You know absolutely zero QML. You're just starting off and it's designed specifically for Qt 5 I will re-record the entire series when Qt 6 comes out and just know that it's over a hundred videos and 13 and a half hours of video on-demand. I'll put a link below so you can get a highly discounted rate and Before you dive in just understand it covers a lot more than what I can put into this list everything from what's QML to? Animations to C++ integration JavaScript and on and on and on but one of the requirements up front is you have to know Qt Core You should have some C++ under your belt and be very familiar with Qt 5 in case you have none of that I do have some courses for Qt Core beginners intermediate and advanced out on you to me as well Hope to see you there


Tuesday 28th of January. I hope everyone is doing well. Certainly a few things to update you on on the Wuhan coronavirus. As you can see here from our live updating map, confirmed cases now at 4,474. Total deaths now at 107. But more importantly, how has the market been reacting to this? Which is still the main dominant theme at the moment. And if anything, we are rallying this morning, which might sound slightly counterintuitive, but European US index futures have been rising overnight, despite those numbers increasing that I just mentioned. Now, interestingly, what I'm going to talk about throughout this whole briefing really is what felt like almost when I was reading the press coming in this morning, almost like a coordinated effort to restore a little bit of that keep calm and carry on type of attitude of financial markets, which is a combination of different things. And I'm going to talk through these articles in a second, but whether it's individual banks from JP Morgan to Goldman Sachs, whether it's looking at certain different types of indicators, whether technically with a nice trend line in the SMP or whether more term structure in the case of the VIX volatility inversion, which some people have been talking about, there's been a lot thrown out overnight to try and restore almost a sense of calm and this idea of that this isn't any different from what we've seen from previous cases. And so far, the fact that hasn't spread out into really that much into the numbers building external of China, that this is fairly controlled, at least for the moment. It does also come after Wall Street yesterday, basically that the main equities in the US had their biggest fall in almost six months on the concerns of this kind of fast spreading coronavirus, as people are a little bit fearful about the implications this could have, not just on Chinese but global growth. The SMP in the Dow did finish down about 1.6%. But certainly, when you look at the case of the SMP, having sizeable down days and back to back negative days is a highly unusual occurrence. And certainly those equity balls start to come out in force overnight just to kind of push that narrative that buying the dip might be on the menu for the session ahead. Otherwise, if we look at the other markets, crude oil is still nursing this generally the gap lower that we had yesterday. Certainly we didn't recover that and we're kind of mid the range that was seen in yesterday's session for the time being. Quite interestingly, some comments at OPEC yesterday talking about preliminary discussions to extend their ongoing output cuts for the moment. Otherwise, in the other markets, treasury is pretty flat, and that's pretty much echoed as well in the gold market. So, if anything, we kind of just restored a bit of balance after what was felt quite negative yesterday. Currency markets to Dixie has been rising very early as Europe's come into the market. The dollar index now moving back into positive territory. The one that does stick out a little bit and I'll leave Sam to look at a couple of downside technical levels to keep an eye on is cable. Cable is down about 33 pips, whereas Euro dollars basically flat at the moment. So, certainly looks like a bit of sterling under performance. Technically, probably a bit of a break on the range low from yesterday and also the S1 on the daily pivots. Renewed kind of rhetoric coming out of Europe. Late yesterday, Michel Barnier, I think he spoke in Belfast and he was talking about the idea that the UK really haven't been forthcoming with any details about what they're going to do with these kind of regulatory alignment with Europe and so, therefore, getting a trade deal done in 11 months is wishful thinking. So, we continue to remain of that kind of stance at the moment. Let's get straight into an update then on this coronavirus. Where are we at at the moment? So, we've just looked at the numbers and so, definitely they are going north. But remember, markets move on expectations and yesterday, I think what we have been seeing is a lot of more of a behavioral reaction and this being kind of more simplified to a fear trade. The fear of the unknown in humans typically react quite negatively. We tend to over exaggerate and inflate then the idea in our head and this can be then reflected on market prices from a practical point of view and this is almost accelerated over the weekend because of this idea about the uncertainties of the incubation period where people might not have shown symptoms, allowing them then to go under the radar, leave then Wuhan as a city of origin of where this virus started and therefore, actually this could be far worse than what we had actually the numbers that we're seeing at the moment. So, that was a lot of what was happening yesterday, I feel. And as I said, it's from a trader's point of view, the death count if you like and the actual total confirmed cases. I don't really see that as too much of a definable black and white metric to kind of initiate any type of trade. Certainly the trajectory of how quickly it escalates the geographic regions of where that occurs, but also just trying to get a bit of a feel for what is it that generally markets perceptions are of this is what's quite key and that's why I think it's a very behavioral situation at the moment and as I'm going to discuss, I think that where we are right now this morning, the reason why equities have seen a bit of recovery from those lows is because of a few different things. One is, saw an incredible amount of graphics circulating yesterday and it was all kind of back testing, if you like, the historical precedence of various different assets when we have seen other pandemics before. So looking at SARS, swine flu, Ebola, Zika, so across different areas, China, Mexico, Africa and Brazil respectively. But this was looking at a percentage change in the local, basically the local market. The MSCI index tends to club together different stock indices of different continents. So if you're looking at Africa, it would combine a number of different countries. China is a collection then of different indices, but all for that region. And here you can see the three bars. So the one on the left, the dark bar shows that from the start of the initial outbreak to the crisis peak, that's where it's at its most kind of negative force on markets. And that's to be as expected, because markets need to reprice in the fears of the unknown. And that obviously is much more prevalent at the beginning when you're a lack of accuracy about the actual underlying severity of the issue. Then one month in, markets already start recovering. Give it another three months, and then we start recovering even more swiftly. And you can see the source here is JP Morgan. And reason for that is they've been getting a lot of airplay overnight. And that's because JP Morgan have come out with the latest research note. And they've basically said that these episodes do not lead to a prolonged period of selling and emerged as buying opportunities within weeks. And some of the underlying data that they're looking at, I know this is slightly smaller, but this starts to then overlay some of the metrics here of those four different viruses. So you can see from start to peak, if we were looking at say SARS, which had the biggest negative impact on the Chinese and Hong Kong MSCI index, on an average, they fell about 9%. One month after the kind of peak, if you like, of the severity of that, they then rose on an average about 12.5%. Three months later, they were up on an average about 22, 23%. So the point being here, and this is very much reflected across all four of these examples, that the market comes tearing back whenever there has been an initial negative knee jerk reaction in JP saying, and this could be an opportunity to just accumulate more shares on the cheap when it comes to equities from that perspective, they're not they're not on their own. Goldman Sachs have also come out. This is looking at a way of benchmarking basically the S&P 500 versus the 10 year bond. So this is looking at that kind of traditional mix between from a risk perspective, i.e. this index should be moving up if the S&P people are investing in equities, more high risk assets and go down in more risk off situations. And you can see here, again, the four lines are four different viruses, SARS, swine flu, Ivarian flu and Ebola. And you can see here the virus outbreak typically then tends to lead to our performance in riskier or in risk off assets like treasuries, for example. However, within one month, the market already is recovered and then starts to add some over a two month period. So from Goldman Sachs' calculations, then riskier assets have traded more poorly for roughly about four weeks. So we are what, into week one and two days or so of this coronavirus really becoming a market issue. So within three weeks, if this is to repeat, then any of this negativity should be brushed aside at that point if history repeats itself. The other thing that I thought was quite interesting was this. And I don't want to over complicate things. So I'll try and explain this as straightforward as possible. A lot of people look at the VIX, which is the volatility index as a measurement of people's fear or perception of fear in the market. It's a popular measure of stock market volatility implied by the S&P 500 index options. Now, the reason why this is being looked at this morning is there's been a rare VIX inversion. Now, when that has happened before, it points to the potential end of the US equity route. Now, this is a graphic that shows that a bit more clearly over the last 13 months. But Monday's slump in the S&P 500 created a rare situation where the term structure for the VIX inverted. As the VIX surged to its highest level on October, i.e. identifying then the fact that people were getting quite spooked, the equity markets sold off. So volatility is going up. The spot price exceeded the March futures price, which indicates then that perceived risk in the immediate term rather than the longer term. So kind of like when the two's tens inversion happens in the fixed income market, people are fearing the worst now and lower rates in the future. Whereas with the VIX inversion, what's happening is they're seeing the most maximum negative impact now, but actually a degree of calm later into the future is what this would be indicating to you. So this is, you know, when you put all of these things together. So we've heard JP Morgan, we've had Goldman Sachs, you've got this VIX inversion, you've got people looking back at the data about historical response in markets over the longer term when there has been a pandemic situation. All of this is kind of, again, talking up the market to almost keep calm and carry on type of philosophy. So again, when the markets in this behavioral type of period, I think this is particularly important to try and monitor these types of things. Particularly when we know that this type of data is particularly inaccurate and it's almost historical in the sense of the way of which the disease materializes in terms of its physical form and its symptoms. Okay, final thing was, and I think this was quite funny yesterday, I thought, you know, I'll put a poll out on the Twitter account on Amplify. And I'll just ask a very simple flat out question, coronavirus overhyped or underplayed. And it's almost bang on 5050. I think that was a pretty good reflection of a lot of the market kind of sensitivity yesterday was that rather than try to force your hand and think that, you know, this is it, this is the beginning of the end, or this is the perfect buy the dip opportunity, if you are unsure, and this goes for the more of the kind of new people to trading these types of episodes of this type of news, is that you don't have to trade. You can just wait, let the market kind of show some degree of conviction in either direction. And there will be opportunity from a technical framework to try and execute those trades. I think often there can be a little bit of a fear of missing out, particularly when you've had a daylight yesterday when the market fell almost the most in six months.  It only happens in that case twice a year to that type of size. But again, this is about, this is a marathon, not a sprint. May I remind you? So, you know, when, when the market is this mixed, it can be quite choppy. And what you're looking out for more is a more unilateral agreement amongst markets about fundamentally, there's a strong bias and that adds then more conviction behind then your ability to be able to just add some size or, or hold a move in that respect. Few other headlines then to be aware of. From an earnings perspective, thought I'd mentioned SAP this morning. Why have I mentioned SAP? Well, just remember, this is the DAX constituents and automobiles, which was the biggest sector in Germany for such a long time is now the fifth sector, massive fall in a lot of the German auto manufacturers for multiple different reasons, stretching from US tariffs to brexit uncertainty and beyond. But SAP is actually the biggest company at this point in time, market capital just over 100 billion. And they equate to about 10% of the overall index. They're Europe's biggest software company. But overnight, basically, they boosted their revenue and operating profit forecast for 2020. So worth noting that thought for the DAX, just given how large they are. Otherwise, the other stock news that I just wanted to bring to your attention was this, this is Apple. So reports overnight that Apple has asked its suppliers to make as many as 80 million iPhones in the first half of 2020, an increase of more than 10% from the prior year's output. And so, generally speaking, the iPhone 11 has been more of a success, particularly in the Asia and Chinese market. And so sometimes with Apple, it can be quite useful to monitor this supply chain, because the fact then that Apple has made this order, if you like, with their suppliers means that they first, they foresee a certain level of demand already, which is a net positive. And people will be trading that kind of story ahead of time. Why is this important? Well, Apple's earnings, of course, are coming out after the close today. So not going to mention too much on that now. I'll talk about that a bit later on in the day. The other big companies to look out for pre-market, you've got 3M and Pfizer are probably the most notable. And then as I said, aftermarket, you've got likes of Apple for the chip makers, AMD, you've also got Starbucks, eBay, so a few other names as well, just to be aware of. Calendar wise, what's on the agenda for today's session? Well, this morning, as far as UK and Europe is concerned, it's particularly quiet. There's really not a great deal going on from a scheduled economic data point of view. But we get into the US session. We've got durable goods. We've also got US consumer confidence coming out later on this afternoon at 3 p.m. London and API inventories, as per usual, aftermarket close. Speakers, again, pretty quiet. A couple of Italian auctions coming out a bit later alongside also a 10-year gilt auction and a seven-year US dollar auction as well. But otherwise, I'd say kind of themes for the day, continued monitoring of the coronavirus from twofold. One, the actual numbers in itself, as much as we take that with a pinch of salt, but more so just in terms of the general mood that people and commentators are putting on this subject. As I said, my overall assessment is that analysts, economists, commentators, news agencies, they are all pushing this narrative that perhaps it's not as bad as feared and using those historical episodes as a reference point to validate that type of argument. So whether or not, you know, markets have already recovered a decent amount in Asia. Don't forget, Hong Kong markets were closed overnight. They're not due to reopen till tomorrow. Mainland China, remember, has been given an extended Lunar New Year break of three days as they attempt to contain this situation. So those local markets are still closed for the moment. All right. That is it from my side. Let me hand you over to Sam. He can look over the charts from a technical perspective. But I wish you a good day ahead. Thanks very much, guys. Yeah. Hi, guys. Good morning. Hope you're good. Hope we had a good weekend. Let's have a quick look over some of the currencies before bringing us on to the equities this morning. Euro, we've got the Euro one here. Bit of a bounce from those lows this morning has hit that pivot fan a bit of resistance. Just put this on the weekly chart in the future, isn't it? I just tweeted this going over one of the, let's get rid of all these lines as well, one of the important points that I'd have on just looking at the last few lows going back here to last year, sort of October time. And then let's just get this one on first. But going through here, you can see from last year's lows, let's just zoom in on that. You can see we're finding a bit of support in and around this trend line here. So keep her a watch on that for Euro. I would expect maybe a bit of a bounce into the end of the week. Obviously you've got the Fed tomorrow as well, but certainly a very key area around these lows. And as we put in the pivots, you can see the S1 comes in that area where it would be. So a couple of ways to obviously think about that. You've got the low of yesterday, you've got the potential trend line, a break of that could lead to a faster run down. But for now, I mean, FX was really, really quiet yesterday compared to other markets. So perhaps focus not too much on this for now. Looking closer to where we are, just above where we're trading the R1, a lot of resistance around there from yesterday, previous day and Thursday's low as well. So really key level if you're looking for a long, I wouldn't mind really getting along above that, to be honest. Then let's put this on a 15 minute chart. You've got the high of the day, you've got the pivot or the mix there as well that would have to go. So a quick trend line is not great on it. I mean, looking at this Euro, I know it would be a case of a wait and see, which isn't the most glamorous thing in the world. But yesterday's low pivot, the S1, sorry, and that trend line would be my wait and see. And unless we get above the high of the day, R1 is the next level that I'd really be interested in. The pound daily chart is coming back to that trend line. Just bring that in here. You can see, go back here to November last year, draw it up. We're not far from testing that now. It's down 33 ticks on the day. It's not a big move, but it could be if we break below there. It'd be interesting to see what you guys think about this. And again, just tweeted it, is it a buy? Is it a wait and see for a sell? Or is it just a wait and see, see what the Bank of England do on Thursday? But yeah, this would be the fourth down day in a row. And below that trend and the close, you could get quite ugly. You have to say for the pound and looking at this more intraday when it would not far away from testing that trend line. You can see, however, we have gone through it a couple of times. Most notably, had actually a close on the hourly back on the last Monday, a false break here on the 14th. So it's having a go a couple of times, but that daily close is what you'd want to see here. Above where we're trading, S1, obvious area where people could look for some sort of resistance now. And above there, you can see we already broke, retest and found resistance on yesterday's lows. So acting quite well, nice and smooth price action to the downside. Let's have a look what happens on this S1. But yeah, below there could be a further run. You know, there's going to be stops below there as well. Let's have a quick look over the Aussie, which of course yesterday continued its slide down and win now not far. Oh, well, yeah, we are nice and comfortable on that daily charts to get a better picture. But you can see we literally not far from potentially closing below this low that we had back in the November time, which would be quite significant just looking at this opportunity. But if stocks are to recover and we're seeing that by the dip mentality and the fears are raised, what opportunity it could be to buy. And amount of times people would be saying down that these lows August, September, October, we're going to push lower. We now support resistant work. So unless it gets below there, it's an opportunity for people to take profit. Looking at areas to potentially get short today, got the high of the day, got the pivot and yesterday's resistance points, which would all be attractive for now. Keep an eye on what happens on this low that we've already tested once though. Because of course there could be the opportunity for the break retest to get short. But with it being such a key longer term level, I don't think there's much harm in waiting to see what happens here and that could really alter the bias for tomorrow, depending on what happens. I'm going to look over at S&P here. It has pushed higher, but it's only at 18 and a quarter points. It's nothing drastic yet at all. I'm just bringing the Dow in here because there's a really nice trend line in the mix that held things up going into the close on Friday. You see that we've been break through. And now we're just testing the other side of that, which is pretty important area, you'd say, where along with some resistance from yesterday, found a bit of support initially now, if you're bullish or if you believe that we are the worst is over, this is an area you want to hold below there. And we're back into that sort of rangy territory that we were yesterday, where not too much was really going on. Decent push this morning in Asian trade, but yeah, keep a watch on that level, which on the S&P is really all those highs. But you can see here, and this now put this on a 15 minute, the price action around this point where the S&P is trading has been very key support, support, support. Yesterday we've been break through around nine o'clock by an incredible resistance all through yesterday evening. We come back down, almost hit the lows. And then we finally break through at six o'clock. So 32.56, a little test of that. Now we're keeping an eye on what happens there below there. You'd be comfortable saying we can drift lower if it holds, keep a watch on those highs of the day as well. And that's coming into play now. Gold. Decent opportunity yesterday when it came down. I think that was just after the briefing had happened. You can see hit that area support, push higher. That comes in today on the S1, so keep a definite watch on that. And this is always quite nice with gold when you have such a clear trending market to the downside intraday. And it was just marked up why that is, the higher the day. And then these couple of highs that we've had in around six and seven o'clock, just getting squeezed to the downside and the opportunity here could absolutely be on a break of that trend volume come in and we push higher, which we know gold like oil can do on those break of those trend lines and really targeting back up towards that pivot point as well. If we were to get above there, obviously keep a watch on those highs from yesterday and there could well be some potential trend lines to keep an eye on as well in the mix around that point. So pivot, you would expect some strong resistance, keep an eye on this trend line that's coming down, S1 yesterday's low, Friday's high, as big as level as you want below there. People will start talking about that gap field towards 1571s as well. Oil yesterday did, well, obviously it finished down for the day, but really didn't do too much, quite range bound. And let's have a look at this longer term. You can see some of those levels traded at, you know, we hadn't seen for, since October time, had a little bit of a bounce today. But again, this has put this on the 60 minute, you can see the opposite of gold here where you start to get these trends that start to appear like from yesterday's lows, this is probably get this trend line a bit more accurate to be honest. But how oil and gold work when the volume picks up and breaks at these levels could absolutely lead to further down. So keep a watch on this really from yesterday's lows to this morning's lows and an area on 53 bucks where we're testing now. So keep a watch on that below there. If it was to go now, I'm not expecting the fastest move in the world. So be sensible with any profit targets, lows of the day, pivot, the overnight low 5270, you've got some interesting areas to consider around there. But yeah, I don't reckon this market is out the woods just yet. So keep a watch on that. Quick look over the Dax just to wrap it. Yeah, there you go. Just coming under a bit of pressure over the last 30 minutes or so, that triple bottom from yesterday and then overnight. No, yeah, last night, keep a watch on that. If that is to get a test lower, where you can imagine those areas in the S&P will break as well. And the Dow obviously on that trend line as well. So keep a watch on that to get interesting. But as we know, the first 30 minutes of a cash open are not always a predictor of what is going to happen later on in this session. Yeah, and saying there, despite positive earnings, they're actually the biggest loser in the Dax at the moment, SAP there. So weigh in on things as well. But yeah, just be a bit careful out there. Don't feel like you have to jump in and trade this for now as well. Anyway, guys, hope you all have a good trading session. Any questions, please do get them in the chat. And I hope you will have a great trading day.