What's up navigation traders welcome to this week's video update Exclusively for pro members today's Friday December 13th Let's jump into the community get started talk about who got caught being hot this week goes to our friend Wes. Why? Wes shared a little scan that he set up in toss to do some Efficiency in his duck hunting and so if you haven't seen that go to the community I posted it here in this thread as well. So thank you Wes good stuff In any kind of little trade hack. I mean we are trade hackers After all any kind of little trade hack like that is always helpful. So thank you congrats Wes. You got caught being hot Let's go to the To the alerts for the week starting with Monday the 9th Let's get down here had quite a few alerts this week actually In comparison so first trade was a rolling adjusting trade in natty gas So we got down to under 21 days. We're at 17 days to expiration on our short strangle So we wanted to roll that out. We kept the strikes exactly the same We still have that inverted short strangle and so we just rolled that out to the next cycle So here it is Price is hanging out right here now if price were to continue lower We were going to add to this but price has moved up this week And so we're just holding for now. We may still add to this But for now we just have the one set of short strangles in natty gas Next trade closing adjusting trade in foreslash ZW which is wheat So we closed one set of our iron condors booked over 50% of max profit on that piece of the trade and We've got a another piece still on here. Let me check that out You can see prices hanging out right here in the middle. So nothing to do there except for weight Next trade was an opening trade in SPX. So we put on a new iron duck with 21 days to expiration And so let's take a look at that We had another one on we actually there's the closing bill We had another one on Or we have another one on excuse me that we put on today But the one that we put on earlier this week is this one here You can see price has run up the duck beak with this market continuing higher If we put this on the expiration date, which is 1231 If we move our price slice here to the edge of our beak You can see we still have a about a 30% chance that price could come back into that max profit area So not looking to take that off yet. However, if price does continue higher into early next week We might see a chance where we take this off early But but for now we are holding and then the other one we put on today. I'll kind of skip ahead to this alert We put this on with just seven days to expiration. So it actually has less Than the the other one that we had so price is hanging out right here Price came down a little bit since we put this on so still in good shape there But that expires next Friday So we've got one that expires next Friday and then we've got the one that expires in what is now as of today 17 days to expiration So that's where we're at on spx Next trade opening trade in rut. So we put on a double calendar in rut We did this with with nine days in the front week, which is a little bit more We like to be kind of in that six seven eight day range, but I just like the risk reward here So we went ahead and put that on Price is kind of bounced around in there, but we are still in good shape still well within range here Price is coming down in the Russell today And and so you can see we're down based on just the implied volatility movement But still within range here So hopefully we can ping pong around and book a profit in that one next week Next trade rolling adjusting trade in XLK's we have our long put vertical that we've been holding for that short delta Exposure we're about three to one on our ratio of short delta versus our theta when we beta weight that to SPY so In decent shape there. We definitely need a down move in this market. I mean, it's just been such an extended rally We need a little bit of two-sided action But roll this out adjusted our strikes accordingly prices moved up since we did that so it's just outside of our range here that The market's closed so that P&L graph is a little bit off so don't pay attention to that but That's where we're at in XLK Next trade rolling adjusting trade in XLK. Oops, what did I do here? Looks like I oh Oh, yeah, I had a correction here. That's right So what I did just to kind of further explain it what I did is I accidentally rolled this to the weeklies I just didn't change it on the on the platform and so I sent out this correction alert so We in we meant to roll it to the 37 days to expiration in the monthly cycle But we accidentally rolled it to the weekly with just 23 days and so we just went ahead and hold it held it Well, we'll we'll roll it again here as we get closer to expiration, but there was no reason to Roll it out again immediately So anyway, that's that's kind of what I did there So I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware that's in that trade Next trade we did a closing trade in booking and booked big profits in booking Price ran higher a little little chance to get back. So we're not gonna hold it all the way till next Friday We just went ahead and booked that big profit and freed up that capital Next trade opening trade in Amazon. So we put on a new duck in Amazon at that point We had nine days to expiration and so if we take a look at that We took off a one of our iron ducks in Amazon today And actually it's come down now towards the end of the clothes could get at it better prices Had we held a little bit longer, but we could get out at even better prices had we exited first thing in the morning So Just part of the game though. Don't I was having a conversation with somebody in the community this morning about, you know What's the what do we when we get to that expiration day? What's what should we be doing as far as exiting and What I said and I and and I want to reiterate here is that you know 90% of what we do is mechanical, right the setup the exits the management the the roles and all that stuff It's it's it's very very mechanical 90% of it's mechanical, but there's still about a 10% of trading that that's got to be subjective and What I mentioned here is for example on that on that Amazon iron duck, let me just actually let me just grab it and Put it up here so you can see what I mean, so What we had was this one on here. Here's the one we took off today Well, you know when we first got up price was right here We have a max profit of 606 on this trade and we were up about 450 bucks and then price ran higher It was out here in the beak and so That and I exited at about two o'clock today with about an hour or so to go In the day in the end till the market closed And so we went ahead and close that out booked over beak profit, you know, it's a profit that that's cool What, you know, obviously we in hindsight you could have made more now? What happened is after we closed it price moved back lower so we could have booked, you know $407 on the trade and so You don't don't beat yourself up. There's no right or wrong answer You don't know what's going to happen. And so just just exit when you think the best time is Be okay with it and move on. I mean, that's all you can do I mean you're dealing with such a short duration, you know When you get down to the last day that you know any little, you know price movement can have an effect on your P&L Either good or bad I mean I've had it the other way too where you know price was way out here on the beak and I held it all the way up until the bell and right literally right before the bell within the last five to ten minutes of trading Price is shot down and I booked full max profit, you know So it works both ways Just don't beat yourself up if you if you get out and then you kick in yourself because you could have done better That's gonna happen. It's gonna happen quite a bit So just have a just kind of determine when you want to get out and just do it and that's all you can do So hopefully that's that's helpful The other iron duck that we have here in Amazon is this one here You can see prices out here on the beak with this expires next Friday. And so let's let's mark our slices here Let's move this to 1221 and Then let's just look at what kind of probabilities we have if we move our price slice to the edge of the beak here You can see we've got about a 16% probability that price could get back to the duck head So price continues higher next week. We'll just book that take it off and free up that capital for other high probability trades Next trade opening trade in Lulu So we did an earnings iron duck in Lulu and this is kind of a same situation As what I just talked about with Amazon. I mean this one we had I thought we were gonna book a full beak profit But price ended up running higher in Lulu And we got out for about 30 you 35% or almost 40% of max profit in Lulu So could have done a little bit better there on our exit, but again, don't don't kick yourself too much That's just part of the game will win some and we'll lose some will do better on some will do worse on some That's just how it goes Next one closing trade in CL so we had another iron duck in CL booked a beak profit on that price ran higher just took that off because we had a quite a bit of time and Not much chance of getting back to the duck head Next trade closing a trade in Adobe So we closed our pre earnings long strangle in Adobe never really got the price movement or IV expansion that we needed in Adobe, let's take a look at the charts ADB E and let's go to our three month daily chart and So what you'll see here is, you know implied volatility from the time that we put it on we didn't get a pop but then it just kind of You know moved sideways and then price just kind of moved sideways And so we exited before the earnings announcement and I took a little loss on that one I did get somebody also posting in the community. Hey, you know, look at what Adobe did Shouldn't we have held this until after the earnings we could have we could have made money Well, that's hindsight trading. Don't do that. That's I mean We're never gonna buy a straddle for earnings. We're just not it's a losing game Through and through and you may have been able to book a tiny profit had you got up got out, right? When is it the top point of the day? But you can't trade like that. So We are out of that one Same thing in Costco.  So Book that or close that one out before earnings as well Next trade closing trade in spx. We closed out one of our iron ducks and spx already mentioned that We booked a little bit over beak profit on that one if we go back to spx and Take a look. So we've still got that that one left that we're going to so that's the one we added today And then we closed that other one out already already mentioned that Next trade opening adjusting trade in ZB So we added a short strangle in ZB and then we are we're still holding our other Adjusted strangle, which is at the 161 straddle. So if we take a look at ZB, we've got these two different pieces here Here's the straddle got a nice move up today in our favor And so that's helping out that piece and then our other one that we just put on Got a nice contraction in implied volatility. So already up a couple hundred bucks in that one Next trade rolling adjusting trade in Apple Apple just continues to be strong We've been holding this for for short Delta exposure. So we rolled this that one Rolled this out to January with 35 days and then adjusted our strikes accordingly. So if we look at Apple here Here's what that looks like now You can see prices moved up a little bit since we put this on but still well within range So just looking for some downside to benefit that Next trade opening trade in SPX. So that's the other one. I mentioned we did that with seven days expiration Closing trade in Roku. So here's another one that I was hoping we might get a chance at a Duckhead, but we ended up booking just a bit over beak profit. This was a this was actually a reverse iron duck and So we closed that one out Today as well and then I already mentioned the closing trade in the Lulu earnings and the Amazon Iron duck as well. So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of our other positions starting with 6b So I was trying to close this out just for a small profit today. We're down to 21 days to expiration I mentioned on a video earlier this week yesterday, I believe that, you know, we're at 21 days So typically we like to roll our clothes once we get down to that point But we're you know, we're just I never got filled and So I'm just gonna hold this over the weekend if we can get a little bit of a down move will book book profits If not, we're just gonna close it out regardless Reason being is after the Brexit vote implied volatility just got crushed like we thought it would and so Let me see what happened today So implied volatility got crushed And so I don't I don't really want to roll this and manage this and just and try to fight this position With implied volatility as low as it is now So we're just gonna close that out early next week and either take the take the winning or the loot take the win or the loss in 6b Next trade whoops Next position. Yes, so we've got on this long put vertical here. Just holding that for short delta We'll be rolling this next week. We're down to seven days to expiration in our December trades We still have four different positions QQQ DIA IWM and and ES here, so we'll be rolling those We'll spread those rolls out next week. So oh and SPY as well. We'll roll those next week 4 slash GC. We've got an iron condor in gold. See prices hanging out right here We've got some profit not quite enough to take off yet. So we will you know if we get some more contraction in gold We'll potentially be able to take that off next week Nat gas I mentioned ZB. I mentioned wheat. I mentioned that Apple Amazon DE John Deere. We've got our long put vertical in Excuse me short call vertical in John Deere price hanging out right here near the break even so looking for some downside to benefit that I almost rolled this closer to price earlier this week prices way out here almost a 50% of max profit I was giving it a little bit more time and now price ran up So we're just we're still in good shape. Just looking for some more downside to get back in DIA we've got these two sets of short call verticals because he prices out of our range So just looking for some downside and like I said, we will be rolling these next week Same thing with IWM Same thing with QQQ. So like I said our short Delta Position we're about three to one on our short Delta versus our Theta. So Pretty short. I mean we could definitely use a down move Here's our rut double. I already talked about that shop Shopify Shopify continues its climb it moved into the duckhead area. We're up a couple hundred bucks We've got a max profit of 1,100 bucks on this one. So this would be a real nice duckhead to take home next week These expire next Friday. So we'll see what happens You know the one thing to keep in mind is we've got way out here You know past our break even before we get to our kind of exit point So we've got a lot of room to let this one roam Hopefully it just kind of stays in this in this range and we book a nice Duckhead profit, but that's where we're at in Shopify SMH had a strong move earlier this week moved out of our range But if we look at the untested side just the puts you can see we still got a lot of premium in those and So we're not looking to make another adjustment yet And we're not going to add to this one applied volatility is low it if we if we pop back up You know even if it's not quite to that 50 level, but if we pop back up earlier this week Early next week we will look to potentially add to that one SPX I talked about SPY. I mentioned same story. We're gonna roll that early next week and then already mentioned XLK So that's all the positions. We do have some dry powder We do have some cash sitting there ready to be deployed. So we'll be looking at some different options next week Some of the things that I'm looking at is Roku Let's go to a chart here or okay you Premium continues to be decent in there for especially for a hundred and thirty dollar stock. I mean the The options are pretty elevated. I mean we're able to easily do ducks and reverse iron ducks in there even though it's a lower price stock so The the monthly volatility in there is is really nice. So Roku Potentially add another one in Shopify We've got that that reverse iron duck and Shopify. So we may look to do another one there Google is another one. We'll be looking at Booking comm and CMG. So those are all kind of your your The list that we're looking at for iron ducks next week Last thing I want to cover is the expected move for next week. So let's go to my weekly expected move By the way, I'll be sending this out to members Just haven't yet working out a couple little Quirks in it before before I give it to you all but it's it's almost ready. So This is the weekly this is the expected range for next week. Look how look how narrow it's getting I mean look because of this, you know contraction and implied volatility the the Price of option just really getting compressed which affects our kind of our expected range here. So you can see You know, it's just up to about thirty two hundred and down to about thirty one thirty two thirty one thirty four in that range So as you can see compared to last week, which is this here This week is is gotten really tight and that's just due to the low volatility that we're seeing You know, I mentioned last week We just we had this really narrow range and then I'll send boom it popped up and what do you know right up to the expected move? And so we'll see what happens next week, but That is where we at. That's where we're at. The other thing we're really watching is bonds Bonds are really moving. I mean these are these are big moves for bonds and And so we'll see what happens the the expected range for bonds actually is more narrow Next week as well, but that has to do with the implied volatility contraction if we look at TLT You can see we had a big contraction the last couple days A lot of that has to do with the Fed announcement coming out and saying they're not gonna do anything for 2020 has a lot to Do with the ECB in the whole UK Brexit thing being over and done with so seeing some major Contraction in implied volatility across the board. I mean look at if anyone had a trade in Netflix I mean this thing just got crushed today. I mean the the Price didn't move and implied volatility just got annihilated. So a lot of fear coming out of the market. So beware and And so that's all I got for you. Everybody have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next week


Thank you everybody for the session and Emanuella for inviting me to come. What I want to do is give you an overview of our site and basically give you some of the highlights of our 13 years of excavation, including some of our new discoveries that we made just a few weeks ago. The overview of the site just so that you know where we are located, we're in the western side of Silicia in the Ghazi Pasha basin just on the southern fringe of the Ghazi Pasha basin where it is quite mountainous. It was rough silica or silica trachea in antiquity. In the period before the site was founded, it was involved with piracy, the famed Silician pirates who, and here's just a view of the site as it's undergoing excavation. Now the area was a haven, this coastline along the coast of Anatolia here was a haven for pirates in the late Hellenistic period who used the secluded areas, the secluded anchorages off the coast as places to anchor their ships as they waited for passing sea traffic where they would then capture and skedaddle into the redoubts up in the hills. I found some Silician pirates when I'm looking for them online. I even found a video game involving the Silician pirates which I found quite intriguing. But we also have these caves near Silinus as this one that we found anchorages where ships could be moored and I don't want to say that that definitely represents a pirate cave but it may certainly have served as such because these pirates were located throughout the coastline here. Mtyokia ad Cragum we know from our historical sources was one of these pirate bases and that was in fact the reason that drew us here back in the mid 1990s as part of a survey project to see if we can in part find evidence of the of the Silician pirates in a 10-year long survey in not just looking for pirates but we also did a region a large region survey in which we documented the archaeological sites and after that survey was over in the mid 90s sorry in mid 2000s and we decided to transition into excavation and for a variety of reasons we chose Mtyokia ad Cragum as the place that we thought would best answer a new set of questions that we had formulated. We were interested in underwater surveying of the harbors we see here from an aerial view. This is just taken last month by my colleague and myself this professor Townsend there in front but we have conducted three surveys of the harbor where we have documented various anchors that the one on the left dating back to the Neolithic period one on the right a Roman anchor and so we are able to show some forms of habitation or interest in the site from pre-history through through the Roman period and into even the Middle Ages. In 2004 one of our underwater survey surveys uncovered a bronze ship timber fitting that was in the form of the mythological figure Pegasus. A fragment of wood still preserved inside the socket was carbon dated and it came to approximately 120 BC right smack in the middle of the pirate period so we do have a smoking gun of potential pirate occupation usage within the within the harbor it's now on display in the Alanya Museum. The city itself would be founded about a hundred years after the pirate problem was Quell by Pompey the Great in 67 the site would be founded in the middle of the first century AD by Antiochus the king of Comognae who was a client king under Rome. Most of the major buildings that we have including the Great Bath who's still well preserved frigidarium we can now date to the end of the first century AD belongs. We also have a temple Professor Townsend will speak after I am done on the imperial temple of the site I just wanted to give you some of the a presentation of some of the other remains of the site including the Great Bath that we see looming here in front of you it is a a large structure that requires a great deal of time and energy to clear we have now been working on this for six years if we only have six weeks to two months each year to work on it does take a great deal of time to clear the entire structure but we have succeeded in clearing the entire frigidarium that you see here and we have begun working inside of the tepidarium one of the interesting aspects of the of the excavation not just of this building but several of the others is not just to understand the building as it was intended to as it was intended such as the bath it served as a bath for a good 200 years until it fell out of use but then would be repurposed and its its repurposing was that of a we say in turkish a sanay a light industrial area in this case the tepidarium for example we have found evidence of of ceramic kilns we have now five kilns that we have found within the bath complex two of them are here in this drone view one of them so well preserved you could still see the firing holes that allow the hot gases from the firing chamber to to heat inside of the chamber we know from the remnants of the ceramics that we're finding that many zemer 41s late roman amphoras were just were made in in this kiln um we also have found very close by the remnants of a of a glass furnace and a glass workshop one of our one of our great finds was just directly next to the bath this was in 2002 while we were still conducting surveys one of our students stumbled on the field next to the bath and saw the remnants of a or saw a small fragment a small patch of mosaic that a local farmer had uncovered we we confronted the farmer and also notified the museum because they had they were in charge of the archaeology in the area and they did a very quick survey and found indeed a mosaic but when we were given the the permit for excavation we began work here and cleared this mosaic and as you can see it turned out to be quite a an extraordinary find um a mosaic that encompassed 36 meters long 17 meters wide this is only part of the excavation in one season we finished its completion in uh in this is 2013 uh with a swimming pool in the middle complete with steps that lead down into the uh into the the pool so bathers can sit or stand upon the step there just enjoy the water had fresh water flowing in through the draining system we explored we found over 100 coins uh many of those that have been able to be read indicate an early fourth century date a date in the Constantinian period and some gold jewelry as you see here this so this was an extraordinary uh extraordinary find that bespeaks the the wealth of the of the site one of the other areas we were interested in is adjacent to the back on the other side from the uh from the mosaic courtyard uh this area that is now covered with uh bushes we excavated and we discovered the odion and bulletarium which account for my question too um to um professor Sumner about the potential of this serving as a theater also it's a very small structure as you can see um with seating in a grandstand in a grandstand way in which they would have been on wooden seats supported by these radiating walls with an orchestra we have yet to clear the the pulpy tomb uh because that still serves as our staging area for the uh removal of soil from the site um but last year we found one of the brackets that would have held the wooden planks inside and uh and a piece of wood still adhered to the inside of the bracket which has now been carbon dated to approximately 120 ad so again we're looking at a building that is of close date to the early foundations of the of the city uh this was taken just uh uh month and a half actually just uh early in august um of a latrine that we found in between the great bath and the bulletarium so it would have served the for the the needed function where you have two congregations appearing uh the we can you can see that it too has a mosaic on its pavement mosaic or is kind of unusual in the sense that it is a kind of a joke full uh mosaic is something that would benefit or I suppose might be appropriate for a latrine it is full of bathroom humor in which we have a mythological figure of narcissists who is shown not admiring himself but is rather large phallus by the way this is the very first time this has been shown in public uh it hasn't been announced to the press yet although I don't think this would rise to the level of the New York Times uh we also have ganymede who is shown in this time not in in cased by zeus in the form of an eagle but rather by a heron who um and ganymede is holding on to a stick with a sponge at the end of it which is quite appropriate for a latrine while his phallus is being uh attended to by the heron with his own sponge so it is rather uh uh humorous in a somewhat of a sexual way um we began looking at a small bath located just outside of the main gate of the city this past summer uh this is a view of it at the end of excavation for this uh for this past season we were working primarily on the end here we go uh you can see on the on the hillside slope we have these are the cold rooms sort of an unusual arrangement this uh this bath so these are our cold rooms that then are placed with a large two isled um 20 meter long um exercise area but enclosed exercise area whereas on the seaword side we would have had the warm rooms so these are all cold rooms we began excavating inside of here also at the end of one of these halls the bottom of which we found mosaics in in each one you can see the uh the geometric mosaic at the bottom of this particular um of this particular cold room the exciting thing was that um this is how it looked on the first day of excavation approximately um two and two three-quarter meters of fill had to be removed but only 80 centimeters down we came across a coin hoard and not just one hoard but in fact there were two hordes of almost entirely silver coins with some gold thrown in and only a few bronze so it was quite a quite an extraordinary event that we found some total it was over 4 000 silver coins that were discovered all dating to we think deposit based on the latest coin that we are so far able to read of about 1620 so these are coins of all the major uh the states of europe including spain uh venice here andrea gritty the coin dated to um chest before 1538 we also have henry the fourth of france dating to 1600 1610 and many other coins you can see that so far we've been able to clean and and identify but the latest coins seem to appear to be around 1620 many more to go uh we'll be working on this sword for some time to come um but i think it is safe to say that these belong to um to a period in the Mediterranean in which piracy was in fact a major uh player yet again um the possibility in fact of barbaric coast pirates even though we're not on the barbaric coast themselves but ottoman uh ottoman pirates and captains were involved in the uh in the predations that occurred and it's not there for out of the realm of possibilities that we have some sort of an association so uh we like to think that we came looking for pirates and in fact we wound up perhaps finding uh some evidence of piracy here at anthill kiet cross thank you very much who knows what we're going to find in succeeding years thanks


Yeah, both for a teacher and a teacher like that, or like a water painting. Shouldn't it be at least this kind of thing? Yeah, yeah. Sorry, you're safe. Alright, so we'll still have prizes next event. I don't want to close this up. Spain has ideas for prizes. There's a lot of books around the world, because we all know that it's a KCD. Um, not the programmers. Other options. Record your screen. I think we're good. Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us here at Go To Supply. Thank you for Justin and Colin and John for kind of pushing me to give this talk. It's a topic that I think we've all had a little bit of experience with if you've worked in the tech industry. And it's just something that, something I felt like talking about. So first of all, I'm going to go over kind of an, kind of an overview of, I'm going to go over an overview of what some of the challenges we face and things like that. And we'll talk about a couple of ideas to help solve some of those challenges. So first of all, it's pretty universal. Job interviews are a stressful experience regardless of what industry you're in. If you're in finance, if you're in accounting, if you're, um, if you're, I don't know, if you're a rocket scientist, they're universally stressful. In fact, and so not only that, being under stress, like I am right now giving this talk, negatively impacts performance on skill-based assessments and anything where there is kind of a cognitive element to it, much like coding interviews. In fact, there's a NASA study where, where test subjects were shown to significantly slow the evaluation of math problems when placed under some form of, when placed under some form of stress. This is my opinion that coding challenges and technical interviews are not accurate nor are they unbiased. And the reason for that is because a lot of them either assess for skills that are either not required or in some cases are completely orthogonal to the, to the job that you're being hired for. Imposter syndrome is a very real thing. We're going to talk about it a little bit later, but the short version is it's this irrational fear that one day you, you may be uncovered as a fraud or, or something along those lines. But before we talk about that, let's talk about coding interviews. First of all, for those of you that aren't in tech, we should define what exactly a code interview is. A code, a coding interview is essentially a time skill assessment where a job candidate is, is asked to write code in real time either on a whiteboard or through a shared editor or through some other kind of automated tool of some sort. In some cases, the job candidate may even be remote and this could, and they could be communicating by Google Hangout, Skype, phone call, what happened? Now, the second question that many people outside of the tech industry might wonder is, why are these done? The answer is pretty simple. Companies want to make sure that they're hiring qualified candidates.  So, you know, it's, it's, so companies apply the same logic to coding interviews. However, coding interviews are hard work for everyone involved, not just, not just for the candidate, but also for the interviewer as well. In fact, many developers find live coding to be a very stressful experience for a variety of reasons. Candidates are exhaustively interviewed, sometimes about orthogonal topics. For example, if you're, if you're aspiring to be a full-stack engineer of sorts, a job interviewer may start asking you questions about, about the document object model or DOM. And more specifically, they might want to ask like internals and things like that. And the problem is, while having this knowledge is good, it's not necessarily a good indicator of that person's, of that person's capability or their performance on the job. It only demonstrates whether or not they were curious enough to look or that they've had some experience working with it. In my opinion, live coding is inherently flawed. What does it actually measure? Like, does it measure my ability to solve a problem in real time? It's my opinion, live coding is a distinct skill set separate from, separate from programming in and of itself. That, and it's a skill set that some programmers may not have. It doesn't mean that they're bad programmers. It just means they're bad at live coding. And that's okay because really, who live codes all day anyway. So, so given the proliferation of, of, of technical interviews and some of the background that some people have with them, a lot of people have put out books and online guides and things like that to help, to help people prepare for coding interviews. While these are helpful, it's a sign that there's a problem. In conjunction with the growing industry of boot camps, of coding boot camps, I'm sure we've all seen a whole bunch of these. There's, I've also noticed there is a parallel industry of, there's a parallel industry revolving around technical interview preparation and even a some degree technical candidate assessment. Maybe this is why tech interview practices haven't changed much. Let's, let's talk a little bit about like what the world would be like if other industries hired the same way that tech does. For example, auto mechanics.    The manager brings you into a room where this is waiting for you.  It must turn over, start and run. You will not be given any tools. You are not permitted to use any reference guides. You have one hour. Good luck. Meanwhile, what your actual day-to-day job is, is you're changing oil, you're rotating tires, you're checking people's breaks. Never in an ordinary work day would you be expected to put that together and much less in less than one hour.  And I'm just an enthusiast. Meanwhile, anecdotally, Mercedes-Benz AMG technicians, it takes a single technician a full eight hours to assemble one engine and that is with complete reference guides and tooling. Another example is a plumber. Let's say that you decide one day that you're going to become a plumber and I'm not sure what the process for becoming a plumber is like, so I'm not sure what kind of training or certifications are required there, but if it's like a lot of those professions, there's usually some kind of an apprenticeship component to it. But anyway, imagine if you walk into a plumber's office one day for a job interview and you're brought into the break room where that's waiting for you. And they say to you, well, this sink is clogged. You can't snake the drain. You can't open the trap. Here's a plunger. Good luck. I mean, just the fact that you don't even have the right tool to do the job or permitted to take the appropriate steps in this case shows that this is kind of flawed. What about locksmiths? Here's a paperclip. Go. You've got to open that in 60 seconds. Meanwhile, your day-to-day is copying keys, installing new locks. Never would you be expected to open a lock in 60 seconds for the paperclip. I mean, you would have the toolbox. Tax accounts. You have a client who needs a tax return in the next 30 minutes and is asking you to find all possible deductions. This book that's right here, which is the 2006 complete internal revenue code, you're not allowed to open that book. You will only be given their financial statements. Meanwhile, if you're in the real world, a tax accountant usually puts all that information into this fancy contraption called a computer that spits out a tax return in a couple of seconds. What do all of these interviews accomplish? Each one, without exception, puts the interview candidate under unnecessary stress. In the case of a tax accountant or mechanic, it causes careless mistakes that they might not otherwise make. People can become mentally blocked when they're under stress. I've certainly had that happen to me. And for people that may end up getting the job, they might think that, oh, man, I wasn't really that good at it. And they end up with imposter syndrome. We're going to talk about that a little more later. But first, let's talk about what these don't accomplish. They don't accurately assess people. They don't provide dependable and repeatable results. They don't verify that the candidate has the actual skills.  It's more performance-orange than anything else. What do all of these professions have in common? They're all skilled professions. I mean, I most certainly could not be an auto-mechanic. I certainly couldn't be a plumber. But all the practitioners in that field have to have a lot of rigorous training, certification. And in some cases, like accountants, life's the same requirements. And usually, failure to perform under pressure in those fields usually, though not always, does not result in loss of life. Question is, is good performance under pressure really necessary for software development? Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know. But we can talk about some professions where good performance under pressure is absolutely required. Cave diving's a good one. Imagine if you are 500 feet away from your nearest air surface, you're underwater, and you need to do task loading, like running reels, running lights, and keeping track of references. PS, I'm certified to do this, but I realize this isn't necessarily an occupation. It's just an hobby. However, pilots are a definite example of a profession where good performance under pressure may be a requirement. Another example, surgeons. You better believe that. And nuclear reactor operators. What do these have in common? The jobs typically come with high cognitive load. I mean, consider a surgeon. I mean, consider keeping track of all those of your patient's vitals. In the case of a nuclear reactor operator, keeping track of a whole bunch of gauges and values of where they're supposed to be set, they all come with a low margin for error. For example, nuclear reactor operators, surgeons, they can sometimes be a stressful work environment. Consider an operating room.  And in these professions, mistakes can cost lives, not just dollars. Does this describe what good software engineering jobs are like? I mean, not taking into account workplace culture or other organizational stresses. While software engineering does require a high cognitive load, mistakes do commonly occur. I mean, how many of us have checked in a bug or broken a code base? However, there's one thing that's different. We've gotten very good at catching the rigorous testing, continuous learning, and self-improvement. Performing under pressure, it's pretty well known that cognitive tasks such as programming are more difficult to perform under pressure. Recollection of important details get lost. People make careless mistakes. It doesn't correlate well with what we actually do. Can software defects be fatal? Yes, believe it or not, they can. Consider the Therax-25 radiation therapy machine or the Ariane 5 rocket disaster. Both incidents were caused by software defects. However, in response, several industry standards were adopted. However, none of those standards make any reference to developer skill levels and are more oriented toward organizational control and processes and procedures. However, let's be honest. If I check in a code that brings down your Ruby on Rails app, is somebody gonna die? I don't think so. So, with that in mind, let's talk about coding assessments. But first, what is a coding assessment? Usually, it is a take-home test that a job candidate will complete on their own time.  It's all the same thing. Are they a good idea? Yes, they are. And the reason why is because they provide a way for a candidate to evaluate the problem on their own with their own knowledge and expertise. They allow a candidate to think creatively and independently to use the workflow and the tools that they're most comfortable with. Now, I can hear some people saying, well, what if the candidate didn't actually do the work? What if they got their friend into it? Well, you can ask them questions about it. However, scope and complexity are sometimes a problem. For example, someone wants a very simple exercise, such as taking put data A, mutate it into format B. Others are more involved. Yet others place the unrealistic constraint of expecting a candidate to implement both a complete front-end and back-end in 48 hours in whatever frameworks they choose. Participation bias is introduced. For example, they favor people who usually don't have a lot of out-of-work obligations. So people who don't have children or are taking care of other people. Also, consider the case where I may be already employed and I have 24 hours to complete this. That's basically asking me to take a vacation day or work over my weekend. Sometimes the requirements for these things can be really, really, really unclear. And even in the event that they are clear, some of them, especially when sample data isn't given, provide the opportunity for additional bias decrepitment. For example, did it solve the problem? Yes, was it the most elegant solution? You use short variable names, whatever. Now, I've talked a little bit about why or about how things currently are. And what I haven't talked about yet is the rationale behind why we should even think about these things. And here's why. Mental health is a growing problem in the tech industry. The fact that sites like DevCrest, Barnard IO, DevRant, and the Mental Health channel on code and supply slack indicate this is a growing problem. And also, given that in recent years, the software industry has grown exponentially. This problem will only continue. It will only continue to grow until it's addressed further. I found a study that was conducted in 1990. So please take this with a very big grain of salt that suggests that 32 software engineers that they studied suffer from depression. Now, I can't entirely trust this study, but it is a statistic worth throwing out if only for the fact to encourage additional discussion. So let's talk a little bit about what imposter syndrome is. Wikipedia defines it as a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. The thing is, imposter syndrome is not an actual psychological diagnosis. It is not present in either DSM-4 or 5 or whatever the current revision is. While it's not an actual medical condition, it can exacerbate pre-existing mental health conditions. Another interesting statistic I found was that according to the International Journal of Behavioral Science, 70% of millennials have experienced imposter syndrome in one form or another. Now, consider when you look at a lot of tech companies, a lot of the folks that they're hiring are millennials.  Consider when you first start a new job. Consider how for the first three to six months, you feel like, oh, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know that I quite fit in, whatever. If you're mentally healthy, this subsides, and in some cases can be a motivator for you to learn. If you're already, if you're not mentally healthy, in some cases, you know, if you already suffer from depression or anxiety, you know, that anxiety can get in your way in the middle of coding. And if you're depressed afterwards, you may feel like your soul is crushed.  And in some cases, this feeling of, you know, feeling like you don't know what you're doing, whatever, whatever, can act as a very powerful motivator for you to burn yourself out. Studying, just relentless study. While studying on its own is a good thing, studying until the point that you burn out and are dissatisfied with your job and career choice is a problem. So it's one of these things, like, if you're in a job interview and you're given a task to perform, you subconsciously compare yourself against not just your interviewer or your interview panel, but also the company and other people you know that work in that field. Comparison and judgment can be very distressing. In fact, one of the best pieces of mental health advice is learning to be comfortable with who you are and more importantly, to stop comparing yourself to others. It's easier said than done. It really is. And it's even harder to do after a particularly grueling tech interview. In fact, this is what tech interviews are all about, comparing your technical abilities to the person that's sitting next to you. This says it all. We are our own worst enemies. But, you know, I can't talk about all of this if we don't discuss a couple of ways that we might be able to fix things. So for example, let's start and we'll talk about what companies can do. So first of all, admit it's broken.   They're called college fraternities. Companies should be transparent with their candidates. They should explain how they're going to be evaluated. They should explain what they're looking for and how they will be assessed. Not only that, they should also be transparent about the time frame. For example, instead of saying, well, we'll get back to you next week. Instead, you should hear from us by the end of Thursday. If you haven't, please let us know. Companies should be respectful. It shouldn't have to be said.  You really should pay attention to them. I've heard stories. I've actually experienced it where an interviewer was sitting there on their smartphone the whole time. It's a really off-putting thing. Secondly, interviewers sometimes, interviewers, and I've certainly experienced quite a bit of this in the tech industry, sometimes have a condescending know-it-all attitude and it is incredibly off-putting regardless of whether or not you get the job. And lastly, if you do coding assessments, if you do take-home coding assessments, why don't you ask your interview candidate about it? Don't just throw it away. Companies should collect and monitor interview metrics and statistics. So for example, what do your interview questions actually measure? Compare that against what you're actually looking for.  But more importantly, are you keeping track of why? And last question there is, if you're not doing these things, why not? Applicant tracking systems, you know, there's a whole bunch of them that operate under a software as a service model. Get one and use it. Companies always need to close the loop. In this day and age, you'd be surprised how many companies don't just say, don't just say, sorry, you're not a good fit. Once again, as I said, with modern applicant tracking systems, there's really no excuse for this. There really isn't. Technical interviews should have same scope and complexity lines. For example, if you're hiring a web application engineer, why are you looking for Hadoop? Wouldn't it be better if they knew more about Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Django, or any other web application framework instead? If you're looking for a DevOps engineer, do they really need to have all the Unix system calls memorized? Do you really, does your job really require you to memorize the entire, the entire Donald Knuth series of the art of computer programming? Really, does it? Technical interviews should not include live coding from scratch. I know that this is probably going to be a sore point with a lot of people. Think about it this way. If you're hiring an artist or a graphic designer, you want to see what their work style is. You want to see if their style, if their work is something you might be interested in. So what do you do? You ask to see their portfolio or a sample of their work, but you don't ask them to create new work on the spot. Why? Because it's certainly known that, so say for an illustration or something along those lines, it takes quite a bit of work and quite a bit of time to do that and to get it just the way that you want it. Programming is no different. Programming is exactly the same. You have to wrap your head around the problem and figure out a way to make it work. And in a live coding situation that it is incredibly hard to do that. It really is. Pair programming should actually be pair programming. If you're going to share an editor, it should be a collaborative effort.  You should actually be programming with them. So for example, if you gave them a coding assessment, why not pair with them and help them make it better? At the worst, you're going to teach someone something who may not end up getting the job but who may end up going on to do better things because you actually taught them something. And mind you, it doesn't have to be their code. It could be an open source bug that their company doesn't depend on. It could be any number of things. But pair programming should actually be pair programming. Coding assessments need to have same time limits. As I said before, 24 to 48 hours is not enough time, especially for candidates who are presently employed. Like I said earlier, this assumes that a candidate will take at least one vacation day or give up their weekend to complete your coding assessment. What if they have a family? As I mentioned before, children that they have to help with homework and make dinner for and everything else. Sometimes people who are very talented, they end up having a lot of these to complete and they may decide, well, I'm not going to do that one. It's my opinion that if you're going to give me a coding assessment to complete, you as an interviewer should complete it as well. You don't necessarily have to complete it in order to get hired. But before you start talking with me about it, you should have completed it as well. The reason why is this brings familiarity with the problem into... It brings familiarity in. And so, not only that, how do you know whether your coding assessment is actually at the appropriate difficulty level or if it's even solvable? I remember I had one where they gave me sample data and nothing I could do could reproduce that sample data. I eventually sent them an email back and said what was happening here? And they were like, they took a look at it and they realized your code's correct. Our sample data's wrong. It does happen, believe it or not. More importantly, upon successful completion of the coding assessment, I should be able to see other people's answers, including my interviewers. They need to have clear and concise wording. Ask a non-technical person to review the wording or to see if the requirements are clear. If they're not clear, rewrite your coding challenges. Remember, even though programming is inherently very math-oriented, not everyone has a background in mathematics. As I mentioned earlier, they should include sample input and output data. If the object is to mutate data set A and output B, you should provide your sample input and what your expected output is. Good candidates will just use this as a guideline to get things started. Excellent candidates will use this to set up unit tests. Coding assessments and their solution should be open source. Too many companies hide behind non-disclosure agreements for interview candidates. Too many companies hide interview questions. Why? Because your interview question is better than everyone else's or because you just want to stress people out. The candidate should be able to, but not required, but not required to put their solution on GitHub or some other social coding platform instead of uploading it to Google Drive or any other kind of shared file sharing service. Interviewers should examine a candidate's prior work. If I'm an applicant somewhere, I likely have a resume, I likely have a LinkedIn, and I also likely have a GitHub that has a lot of commit history associated with it. With that in mind, why don't you ask them to select a piece of code from it that they can use as the basis for their prior programming interview? There is a bit more time involved there, but you could certainly do that. In fact, an even better practice might be if your company has their own GitHub account. Why not put your coding assessment there and the candidate can complete it and then submit it with their application just to save you the time? That way they can complete it on their own schedule. Candidates should be able to use the tools that they're the most familiar with. As I mentioned in the Plumber example, you're given a plunger when really what you needed was a wrench to open the trap. Candidates find coding assessment tools sometimes to be off-putting. I mean, how many event users do we have in here? I like my keybibings. Thank you very much. The important thing here is that while learning new tools is a good thing, a job interview is not the appropriate time or place to do it. If you expect me to write code for any portion of any kind of skill assessment, I should be able to use the tools that I'm the most familiar with. Automated coding assessments shouldn't be used. The reason why is because it's automatic whiteboard coding. Tools like code wars, codility, true ability, they often have an unrealistic time constraint associated with them. Problems are either purposely confusing or at least I find them in some cases to be purposely confusing. They offer no opportunity for clarification or even collaboration. In fact, Codility's FAQ specifically prohibits that and there's another question in there that says, well, what if I misunderstood the assignment? It's up to the recruiter. Those are two things that in the real world, I can just say, hey, I just want to make sure I'm on the same page with you. Candidates should be given detailed feedback about why they did not receive an offer. This is kind of a sore point. And the reason why is, and so companies are very opaque about it. Now, I realize there are laws in place so that in some cases you assume some kind of liability for telling someone why they may not necessarily be a good fit at your company. However, if you're assessing someone in a technical context and you have all these dimensions that you want to assess them, you have the data. Why not share it? I mean, wouldn't it be better if instead of saying you're not a good fit, you've got something more complete such as? Your coding skills were good. You certainly knew your data structures, but your analysis of algorithms needs more work is specifically space complexity analysis. Candidates in general should feel empowered to ask very candid questions about interview processes. So for example, I found this thing called the Joel test for interviews. And I'm just going to read out maybe one or two of these from here. So for example, one of which is, do you have a qualified technical person conduct a non-screening call to explain the hiring process? Do you commit and adhere to a realistic schedule? Do you allow candidates to take home assignments on their own, on their own time? Lastly, we need to make programming fun again. Most of us got into programming because we find it fun and rewarding. Like many of you, there is an inexplicable joy I get from watching lines of output scroll past as a computer does respond to my wishes and commands. If you want a real-world example of that, watch your unit test pass. That green is kind of exhilarating sometimes. However, you know, doing all this prep for a job interview, it makes it really not fun.  I should be able to say, I have a therapist appointment with no shame. The same shame that I might say, oh, I can't go out to dinner. I have a dentist appointment later. And remember, each and every one of you are awesome. And each and every one of you deserves a fulfilling tech career. Thank you.


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Hey guys, we're in Crystal River. I'm with... Monkey. I'm ready to go in. We just stopped at a place called the cattle or something. What, what, no, what was it?  We go to this place, it's 330-ish and they're still serving lunch, okay. It's a steakhouse and they only had two steaks. They had no prices on the menus. We ordered our drinks, we was looking over the menus and really all they had was like a tuna sandwich and they only had three sides and I was like, man, I was in the mood for barbecue. Well, our drinks already came and we just had two sodas, two pops and she had a diet coke and I had a regular coke and that was five something. So we left there and we're coming over here to this other steakhouse. It's supposed to be good barbecue smokehouse place. So this is in the Dying Mall, which is right over there is where we're going in. We filmed this once before but we're gonna check it out, oops. We're gonna check it out again and then I may go over here and price some hubs for the boat. So, Monkey's got her camera. So we're gonna go in here and check it out and hopefully our food will be good here. Yay! Yay! But as you can see, I mean, there was a guy sent over here, go so she's waiting on that. There's Monkey, bone of course. I think there it is. Yeah, there's Burger. Great place. If you guys are down here in Florida or in Crystal River, oh, shoot. In the Crystal River Mall, the Dying Mall. And I know it's playing some music so I don't know if I'll be able to monetize this. Oh, it's lagging or not. So we're gonna walk around. I think she's gonna do a vlog too. This place is really awesome guys. It's the same as the Dying Mall. You know, and look at the, look, my phone went off. Kick-ass lightning. Wow. All right, I'll be back with you. Okay guys, there's a royal king down there, which they got the gates down and the lights are flickering. Hi. No recordings. No recordings, why? I'm outside of the building out there if you want to take a look at it. Wow. All right. Hey, how are you? Yeah. That's my house. Well, let me tell you. Tuesday. The manager. Problem public, right? That's the rules of the mall. The rules of the mall? Yeah. Supercede the laws of state of Florida? I'm asking you to argue, sir. I'm not arguing, I'm asking a question. You're the one's arguing, I'm asking you a simple question. What is public? No, this is public property. Whatever, then I'll go outside and film. You can't say nothing out there. Is she allowed to use her phone? Is she allowed to use her phone in here? She can't use her phone. That's what we're trying to record out. She's talking on her phone.  Push people around, too. Am I still doing something wrong? Am I still doing something wrong here? No need to be staying. You know, that's it. The villagers and they dropped me. Why they dropped me?   Staying there and stare. If we got to, we're being kicked out. Yeah. For filming. In public. I'm sorry you went through all that. I've been having... Okay, I'm outside.  All right, so if you come here, try... Don't film because he's trying to say it's illegal. So whatever. All right, so anyway, we gotta go to the truck. So, we're into the truck. That's where my parents, my mom's got it. That's the one between the villagers, too. I'll kick you back on when we're getting in the truck. That doesn't even make sense. Okay, so we're leaving. We were staying outside waiting on the rain to calm down. Yeah. I don't know, I turned you back on I think. I don't even know where I'm going. And so anyway. Anyway, so we're standing outside then waiting on the rain to calm down. So we go get in the truck and he comes out and said, the manager wants you guys to leave the premises. Said we are, we're waiting on the rain. But she wants you to leave now. I said, why does she want us to leave the premises? And he said, I don't know. He flat said, I don't know. You don't know why we're being asked to leave. Well, because you were filming. I'm alive. All right, okay, so I'm allowed to film outside. That's public. If I run through there naked, what am I going to get arrested for? Public indecency. So it's public. So, you know, they're, you know, private property, but it's public, okay? So no matter who owns it, it's in the public. It's in the eye of the public. So here's the thing.  So, I mean, it's a shame too.  You know, it's ridiculous, man. These people, what do they not want us to see or film?   I've never been asked to quit filming in a mall in my life, private property or not. It's still in the eye of the public because the public is allowed to be in there. So this guy just, you know, I'm just doing what I'm told.  I don't think he's called anything. I think he was pretending. I don't care if he did or not. You know, I don't care if he was pretending or not. He's not gonna tell me what I can and can't do in public. You know, I know more of the laws than he does. And people like that definitely should know your rights and, you know, the laws. You know what I mean? That's my first amendment right, that they're trying to take away from me.  So everybody, stand up for your first amendment right.  And then monkey's like, go on, go ahead to the truck. It's pouring down right, go ahead to the truck so you don't get in trouble. I ain't gonna get in trouble because I know my first amendment right. I know the law says, that's private property, but you are in the eye of the public because public go in there. It's been my hard-earned money at a restaurant and they're just a few minutes ago. Yeah. And it's a shame that they kicked me out because now I probably won't go back to that restaurant and they lose business and they're already in trouble as it is. Okay, all right. Okay, but that's a different story. But the point is, is yeah, they start kicking people out of there but then they can't go to that restaurant. That's right.  Yeah.   They need to do some searching and people need to start standing up for your first, second, all of our amendment rights. All of them. You know. The problem is they're not being taught properly in school and people don't know it and then they grow up and they think they know something but they don't know. That's right, they're not being taught their amendment, first amendment rights, second amendment rights, third amendment rights.   You know, I mean, there's a difference between private property in your own home or private property when you have a public business. Like I said, if I run through there naked or if I'm walking around there drunker than hell, you know. Yeah. They can arrest me for public in talks because I'm in the public, the eye of the public, whether it's on private property or not. So. I mean, you're out in public. I'm not going to be pushed around. Oh, oh, flashing lights. Yeah, we've got flashing lights. All right, guys, I'll be back with you shortly. Here we go, on the screen. Yeah. Now, let's starty one. Hang on, I wish I had zero.  So we just pulled in. We're at the house. Mm-hmm. We just pulled in and she got a thing asking how the crystal river mall was. Right. So she's going to fill it out right now. Well, I can only go to one. So one, that's the worst. And what would you like me to say? It just says I'm like, well, I wish they had zero stars. Option and just explain to them what's what's going on. Because though she's she's Canadian, she has a dual citizenship. So she has as many rights as I do. And she didn't know it until just now, did she?  So I did. So I don't think they want to get that involved because she'll call the embassy, won't you? I'm telling them that she was denied a First Amendment right being a citizen here in the United States.  And he's trying to tell me about mine. And he, right. I'll be back with you and we'll tell you what she said. OK, so I think we're a little fogged up here. Anyway, this is what she wrote. I wish they had zero stars. We were going to video the mall, which has a cool roof. We were told by the security guard that we could not film because of private property as a Canadian with a dual citizenship. I have the rights to like it just like Americans. Avoid this mall and find one that is friendly and hospitable. There you go. All right. But other than that, the restaurant was good, too bad.    And if anybody should know rights, it should be a security guard, a law enforcement officer, which they don't even know their own rights, let alone ours, they're supposed to uphold our rights, not, you know, try to take them away like the First Amendment right. You know, that's that's our right to film in public. That's that's, you know, the freedom of press, freedom of speech. You know, I mean, it's no different if you're any eye of the public, whether it's on private property or not.  Now, the public's not allowed in the house, so no. But if you if you have a mall, even though it's private property, it's in the eyes of the public. They can they can put all the rules and regulations they want. But rules and regulations do not supersede the laws in the United States, right? Yep. So anyway, that was our day. Never a dull moment.  Yeah. I don't understand it because all all we would have done is is maybe help them, you know, bring in more people to because it is a cool mall. It's just it's sad. They do call it the dead mall and the dying mall. And it's sad. And it's all over YouTube. It's just that the security guard caught us, I guess. Well, we have been in there before. Well, I've I've I've I've I did a whole whole film in there. Nobody ever said a damn word to me. It's public. It's public. I don't care about the property or who owns it. If you open your doors up to the public, they're allowed to film. If we if we have if we have a sale inside the house for the public to come in and buy stuff, we can't say anything about them. Filming now, but because we have opened our doors to the public. They need to be educated more. Yes, people need to be educated more. A lot more because it's sad that police don't even know their amendment rights. And and and they should have all people. They should know them and they're the first ones to try to take just like that crash when you was on the phone with the with the dispatch. He's telling you to tell me to go in the house. Yeah, no, I'm not handling nobody's investigation. I'm on my property filming across the street. That's my first amendment. Right.  No, it is weird.  Yeah, yeah, you know, because they got a badge and they just want to be able to push people around, tell people what to do. And that's not that's what our amendment rights do is supposed to protect us so we can be free, you know, and I'll be damned for anybody's going to take any of my rights away from me. I mean, it's not just not going to happen, especially her with dual citizenship. She has every every bit of rights as I do. And she didn't know that. So now she knows she was like, well, I can't get in trouble. I'll be deported. She ain't going to get in trouble for, you know, sticking up for your rights. And we all should do that. So, guys, please stick up for your rights. Right, Mama? What's going on? Oh, I'm doing a review on the advanced toy. Oh, yeah. They guys are great. Yeah, awesome people. They've helped me so much. They I really appreciate that. And I will always use them because of it. Yeah, they go all over Central Florida. So if you guys are in Central Florida, you need a tow or something. Yeah, they do a great job. They'll get their their on time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They just do a great job and very reasonable on price. And they did more than over and beyond. We had the boat tow. It was 33 miles. It cost $145. The first person I called because I thought, well, let's just call somebody here so they can get here quicker. It was going to be $257. It was $68 just to put it on the truck. And then it was going to charge a a surcharge on the fuel and all this. Well, we called our buddies here. They had a guy here. He said, well, he's just dropping one down. He can be on his way. He can be there for 45 minutes. He was there in about 45 minutes. Well, he said about an hour and a half just to be sure. But he was there in about 45 minutes. So he dropped the vehicle here in town and went and picked up the boat for us. So, yeah, advanced towing. Great job, guys. They have two rollbacks. I know they have a wrecker. They are towing and recovery.  They are a trip-way approved. So, yeah, they're awesome. So that's what she's doing now. So anyway, guys, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. That's our vlog for today. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right, we'll see you guys. Stay tuned. We'll see more adventures. Yeah, we'll love them. We don't create these. They just hop in there. They come to us. I know. It's crazy. I don't even leave the house when they're in my front yard. She's got some video that she's going to post. So check her channel out. Not much. I'll have a link right here on the screen somewhere here. You can click on. And it'll take you right to her channel at the end of this video. So I'll have a playlist and put up there. So check her out. She'll put what she's got anyway up, right?  Then I got her phone calls. So that didn't help me either. Well, they didn't cut me off. What I did was you can pull the eyepiece out on here, the viewfinder. You can pull it out, close your screen, and it'll still be recording. So that's what I did. And then the guy just kept standing there, standing there. Then we're being asked to leave for what? And I was on the phone. Yeah. I was talking to a patient of mine that called me. And I'm talking. And it's pouring out. So I figured, well, we'll wait until it stops raining. And I'll talk to them. And he's listening to my private conversation with my patient. Yep, that's privacy act.  And then say, there, dude, now maybe you better learn. OK, guys, we'll see you soon. Shea Bird, the main legend, gone for now. Check out Monkey 1,000. Oh, yeah, come right there. And we'll see you guys soon. Bye-bye and take care.


What's the word, y'all? The NBA gave us 15 games today. 15, all 30 teams suited up and I made it my mission to watch as much basketball from all 15 games. But as you can imagine, I mean, there was one point where there were eight games going on simultaneously. Eight games. Laugh, look in. This is six games plus seven at the same time.  What's going on here? What's going on here? Like, it's impossible. But I'm recapping 15 games. So as you can imagine, not one singular game got 100% of my attention, so I might miss some stuff. Either way, I just thought it was really cool that the NBA did this and one thing I really liked is the fact that they did it in 15 minute intervals. Sometimes we get to the game, or most of the times we get to basketball, we got three games starting at seven, three games starting at eight, and it's impossible to keep up with all of it. But now it's one at six, one at six, 15, one at six, 30. And it was completely free to the public. Now the app ended up crashing eventually. Josh Hart just hit his game winning, so I tried to move on to the next game, and I'm getting error messages now. So it was going well. It was going real well until right now. But for the most part, I would say W Knight for the NBA, especially with them trying to promote the message of voting. So shout out to the NBA for today. Before we get into it, let me tell you about our sponsor, PrizePix. Hit the link in the description, download the PrizePix app, and use code Kenny at checkout because they're matching all deposits up to $100 for new players. PrizePix is daily fantasy, where it's just you versus the numbers. You pick some of your favorite or least favorite NBA players. You pick something like points, rebounds, assists. You look at the number and you tell them if you think the person's going to get more or less than the number. It would a night like tonight where all 30 NBA teams are playing, the options were endless. And I spent a lot of time to create my perfect lineup, but I kept it extremely, extremely simple. And one of mine, I got three all-stars, like all of them going to perform. So I picked Dejante Murray, points, rebounds, assists. He got me that one with Trey Young being out. Jason Tatum, fantasy points. He ended up getting that and Anthony Davis' points without LeBron in the lineup. And I was all in the green. Of course it's not just basketball. We got the NFL, we had the MLB, but they done for some time. We got CSGO, we got NHL. It's a lot of different options on the PrizePix app. So you need to join in on the fund. So hit the link in the description, download the PrizePix app and use code Kenny at checkout because they're matching all the pods up to $100. Like I mentioned, some of these games got a lot more watch time than others. Like the first game of the day was versus versus Charlotte Hornets. This is one of those games. They're like, I could be a little bit late to the party because both of these teams are missing their star players, Bradley Beal, they helped us save the protocol. And of course we got Lamello Ball still out with his injury, even though his jewelry was crazy. There is very rare, it's very rare for me to be watching an NBA game and see a player on the court and think to myself, who the hell is that? It didn't happen this game. It happened a few days ago when Jordan Goodwin was getting minutes for the Washington Wizards. I had never heard the name before. I Googled it and it turns out he's an Illinois boy so shout out to him. But the reason I mentioned him today is because off the bench, he was seven for seven from the field with 17.5 assists and four rebounds and they ended up winning the Washington Wizards. The next game was a battle of two top three picks, Palo versus Jabaris Smith Jr. And if we just strictly going on that matchup, well Palo absolutely destroyed it with 30 points. Six rebounds, four assists. I mean, there are so many points where I watch Palo and I'm like, this dude is not 19 years old. There's no way. People are saying he's a Carmelo Anthony disciple because of the way he moves and his body size and stuff. And I could kinda see that of course. But boy oh boy, he's like in a league in his own when it comes to 19 year olds. I mean, I saw stat that he has put over 20 points up on the board in every single game in his career and it was like an elite club that have also done that but he got another 30 piece. And yeah, this wasn't just Jabaris Smith Jr. versus Palo Banquero, it was a lot deeper than that. It was the Jalen Green game, man. He's been somewhat slow to start off with for the season. But in this one, he ended up with 34 points. And early in this one, I'm like, man, Eric Gordon will not stop shooting. He kept hitting them. Alfred St. Goon is always gonna give you a good performance. And the Houston Rockets won this game. I don't think I don't love about the Orlando Magic at least in this game is Kavan Harris was getting minutes over RJ Hampton. It just, it didn't feel right, especially with Kavan not having a good game and RJ. I think RJ can at least hoop a little bit and enough to be in the rotation, not today, I guess. Okay, see, blew a game to the Detroit Pistons. And I was so very close to put out a tweet. I cannot believe how bad the Detroit Pistons look. And in the second half, they turned it all the way up. I liked that the Sadiq Bay was running a lot with the second unit. I think that helped out the fluidity between lineups a ton. I don't know if that was the first time Dwayne Casey had done it this season. I'm be candid. I haven't watched a ton of Detroit Pistons basketball at least until today. And they look, they look good, especially in that second half, man. Sometimes I'd be looking at Shay and I'd be feeling for him, bro. He's already locked in. He said he's down for the OKC rebuild, but like a game like tonight, we had 16 points in the first quarter and he ended up with 33 and not a single other person in the start and I'm cracked up with digits. I'm like, man, it's kind of rough out there. But then again, I'm looking at this game and not the previous couple of games where they were ended up winning.  You want someone else to step up and nobody else really did. And the Detroit Pistons really turned it up come second half. The Pelicans disappointed me tonight, man. They really disappointed me tonight. Given up 129 points to the Indiana Pacers, it's kind of crazy. I mean, I say kind of because the Pacers have one of the highest Pacers in basketball. They have Terry's Halliburton who's very good on the break. He's very good at fighting his teammates and everything. So, but it's still like, if we're looking at the talent between one roster versus another, you take the Pelicans a hundred percent of the time. But in this one, they didn't look good. I am actually somewhat worried about one thing in their lineup. And I know we're two weeks into the season, but the Zion Val Lachunas front court scares me a little bit because Zion is not a plus defender like we want him to be. And Val is not as fast on his feet. You know what I'm saying? He's more of a body on body center instead of a move your feet type thing. And I think they need a move your feet type guy in those lineups. I mean, Jackson Hayes to get no PT. I don't know if he's injured or something like that, but he kind of helps out a little bit there. But I mean, you giving up that many points, the offense is going to be like, I have no problems with the Pelicans offense, even though they take no threes. When you got CJ, Brandon Ingram and Zion, you're going to score a lot in the mid range area and in the paint was the, but like the defense, man, the defense, they have to buckle down if they want to do the things they want to do. But I had to get a lot of love to Miles Turner, bro. Giving up, scoring 37 points tonight is insane. Shout out to him. Jorlin B was back and they beat the Phoenix Suns. Now the Phoenix Suns is beat up as all hell, man. Cam Johnson, get well soon. He's going under the knife for his meniscus. I'm pretty sure Chris Paul went out with right heel soreness. Like they're already extremely, extremely thin right now. And then you cannot afford for Jacques Landel, Damien Lee and DeAndre Aiden. All of it be an extreme foul trouble, but that's what happens when you go against Jorlin B, 16 for 16 from the line from Joe Wale. First game back, he was dominant in that sense and drawn the fouls and get it to the spot that he needed to get to. And they ended up winning this game without a Tabrys Maxi game. He was four for 18, cause George Nieng off the bench. I don't know what the fourth quarter number was. I think he had five threes, five or six threes in the fourth quarter that's friend of the show, by the way. George Nieng was elite today. And it's a very big win cause I was wondering how they would look without James Harden.  And this roster is very similar and maybe even a little bit better than that one. So I think they'll be fine. Especially if Jorlin B is looking like an MVP. And even though a lot of them was at the free throw line, I say that this was an MVP caliber performance from Joe Wale. The Atlanta Hawks take out the last undefeated team of basketball. The Bucks have fallen. And this is the luxury that you have when you have a guy like DeGente Merrick cause there was no Trey Young today. And you keep reminding yourself, oh snap, DeGente Merrick was an all-star caliber player, all-star, not just all-star caliber. He literally was an all-star on Spurs teams last year that the talent level wasn't too crazy. And he ended up getting them into the play-in.  And today he ended up with 25, 11 and eight. One thing that I really love about DeGente season so far, even though he only shot 33% from the three this game, it's his willingness to take threes because he wasn't really doing that in San Antonio. He did his work in the mid-range, which he's still doing. But now he's taking more threes per game that he's ever done in his career. And I thought that was more just a product if him playing off the ball more with Trey Young. But in this one, he was ball handling. And there was a couple of times where he stopped in transition to shoot threes. I'm like, that's not the DeGente we know. And I think he hit one of the two in transition, which is really good. But we can't go and talk about this game without mentioning AJ Griffin. The man AJ Griffin popped up on my TikTok for you page a couple of days ago. And he was reading his favorite scripture. And I was like, okay, I see what you want off the court. I don't really see you on the court. And he got the opportunity today, 31 minutes, 11, I'm sorry, 10 for 15 from the field. He had two threes. He was getting into the basket. He was running the transition. Jalen Johnson has some really good possessions guarding Giannis. Like, you don't win this type of game normally without Trey Young and the lineup. But the Atlanta Hawks look damn, damn good today. They look really, really good. And listen, we knew the Bucks won going 80, 21, I mean, 80 to 1-0, but 81 and 1 is still a possibility. And Chris Middleton, every day, we're getting close and close to his return. Josh Hart. It wasn't even just Josh Hart, because Josh Hart hit the biggest shot of the game. But Anthony Simon's fourth quarter, what was it, 12 points in the fourth quarter. And the possession before Josh Hart's three, one of the people are looking over is Jeremy Grant, three-pointer in that corner. Damien Lillard only gave them 19 points on 33% shooting and the others stepped up, bro. It's happening again. Winds are winds at the end of the day. It don't matter if it's on a buzzer beater three or a buzzer beater five-foot jump shot from Jeremy Grant a couple nights ago. Winds are winds and they're stockpiling them right now. The Portland Trailblazers look good. And you know what, for the majority of this video, I was really shaking my head at the defense and it still wasn't great. And then in the fourth quarter, it got a little bit better. But the real thing come fourth quarter was the offensive explosion. Like I saw a tweet that was about their offensive rating in the fourth quarter alone. It was in the literal 270s. The offensive rating in the fourth quarter was 276, y'all. They was unstoppable from fourth quarter time. And again, Anthony Simons was heating up. Jeremy Grant hit a big time shot. And of course, Josh Hart with the open three down the stretch and he hit that. They doing the dame time on the wrist.  There was one particular play. Oh my God. I wonder if I can find this play. I don't remember what quarter it was in. I don't even remember who hit the shot. Josh, Justice Winslow said an amazing, matter of fact, I'm finding that shot, I don't care. This is a playing question. This was created because of Justice Winslow right here. And it was actually a really, really good set or play. I'll be misusing those words. Here we go. So we gonna start off with Justice Winslow getting downhill on Duncan Robinson because you understand, Trent Wofford with the pass and then the screen to set up an Anthony Simons three. Like that was a big time shot because at that point they were down by like 14 points a little bit before that. And they keep cutting into the lead. The heat and their, I think they said in the last three games of the heat it's all been decided within three points. This game was rough, rough for them especially. Cause like I said, they were up by 14 points and the offense just didn't really do the thing. And I mentioned the offense for the Blazers was so damn good. And that's partially because the defense for the Miami Heat was so damn bad. So they got to figure it out. And I do want to cut them some slack because I took this screenshot today. This was their bench tonight. This was their bench tonight. So without Tyler Hero being in the lineup it's a little bit rough. Duncan Robinson, Drew Smith, Nikoli Jovic, Hayward High Smith and Dwayne Datman. Those were their reserves tonight. So, you know what I'm saying? If you don't get a great game from Bam or Jimmy which you didn't, it was gonna be rough to win that game regardless. But when you end up up by 14 and then end up losing, it's not great. The Bulls, what a bounce back from the Bulls. I really liked these mini series that the NBA has been doing where it's one game against the same team, or two games against the same team back to back because it allows coaches to make adjustments and game number one against the Raptors yesterday. They dogged us an offensive glass. The second chance points was crazy and it was a point of emphasis for the Chicago Bulls to prevent that. And we did and we won. It's really that simple. It's cool to see Zach Levine have his first 30 point game of the season. Lowkey felt like a very underrated 31. I looked up and he had 30 points. It didn't feel like he had 30, but he did. Love that win for the Bulls. Can I wait for us to get relatively healthy? And I may just have him drumming back and having Kobe White back, you know? Those players, at least rotational players for us. The Celtics almost blew a game to the Memphis Grizzlies. There's only one moment in this game that I really care about that scared the hell out of me. It was Jama Rent dove into Jason Tatum's knee and Jason Tatum was on the ground holding it. And I was like, don't, don't you dare. Don't you dare. And he ended up proceeded to miss two free throws. But at the end of the day, they won. I mean, he missed, so he got hit. He held his knee on the ground. He missed two free throws and then he got cooked on the defensive side of the ball. I'm like, oh snap, not like this, not like this. I hope he's okay. I'm, I'm praying he's okay because Jason Tatum is super fun to watch. But the Celtics end up winning behind a Grant Williams two free throws down the stretch after he had went zero from zero from the field. He was, he played 37 minutes and then it's hit the shot until he got fouled for free throws with like three seconds to go.  I couldn't imagine it. I can imagine it. Like just playing basketball but not getting any looks at the rim. Selfless player right there. This is the point where league pass decided to walk out. So some of these games I didn't get no eyes on because I went like 30 minutes or so without being able to watch anything. But I did get to watch a little bit of Knicks versus Timberwolves. And I mean a little bit because once I saw Julius Randall hit five threes in the first quarter I was like this game is over. And that's saying something because Knicks have a reputation of blowing 20 point leads but I looked at who they were going against and I looked at the fact that they let Julius Randall hit five threes on them and was like this over. Tom Dibbadoe was evolving a little bit. I don't know if his job is safe for the remainder of the season but he started Cam Reddish. He started Quinn Grimes the night before the game before and Jericho Sims started because Mitchell Robinson was out. This is not the Dibbadoe thing. I'm surprised he ain't tried to make a trade to get Todd Gibson back on the roster when he saw a center go down but it said he played the young guys and the young guys helped them win tonight. The Timberwolves effort level is just like terrible. I know there's that viral clip of Anthony Edwards from the previous game. It wasn't any moments like that really but it's their effort is terrible. Angelo Russell has been bad even though today he had four threes so shut out to him. He's been bad. I know they're missing Carthony Towns but boy even with, I mean Acutown's a rude go bearer but I'm just not feeling good and I might make an entire video on the Timberwolves in the next couple of days. I made a TikTok about Michael Porter Jr. shooting 50% from three and today he shot 50% from three. So he's doing his thing. Yolkers gave us 26-10 and eight and the couple really get buckets down the stretch. This is one of the games where I had the two and out of because of League Pass or my apologies but eventually League Pass came back too and the Nets lose to the Mavericks. I just wanna say Josh Green we've made videos talking about Josh Green a couple times, one last season, one early this season. This might have been the best game of his career. 16 points, five rebounds, two assists, was chirping that Kevin Durant and everything and they ended up winning this game. This is actually one of the first games of the season where they shot over 40% from three. So they've been winning games without their star shooters hitting any shots like Reggie Bullock today 0-3 but like Dorothy Smith hit two, Luca hit five in himself. Actually I'm taking that back. If Luca's given you five of the threes this was a bad shooter performance from everybody else. Luca gave them five of them but especially then when he missed Reggie Bullock missed. They've been able to win games without their shooters really shooting which is a good thing. Eventually those shots will eventually fall. Luca still amazing. Kevin Red missed the free throw and he, I think I say he hit 64 free throws in a row before then and he missed it. But even with him missing it they still have an opportunity to win cause they get the offensive rebound and then Ray Sonio tries to do too much but I can't be mad at Royce. He's been really good post Kyrie suspension. I actually like watching the Brooklyn Nets a lot more. This feels like I'm saying I hate Kyrie basketball but like they feel more complete and team oriented with the lineup that they're running now and Brooklyn Nets fans y'all let me know if I'm bugging as an outsider but like even getting Cam Thomas finally getting some minutes after he wanted to be freed is dope. Royce O'Neill had two of his best games of his career back to back. You know why the knobby stepping up. Like this feels like Katie and the kids. I always say Katie and the kids because of the alliteration but like I'm on they got that too. Joe Harris is a bad Royce O'Neill is a bad yada yada yada. Kevin Durant and the kids dating back to like even last season or the year before that always feels cool because because of the way Kevin Durant has been playing or the teams he's been playing with it was rare that we saw Kevin Durant now with another star. You know what I'm saying? So this is our opportunity and he's been damn good if you look past the fact that he missed those free throws the Warriors beat the Kings behind a Steph Curry 47 point game 47 8 and 8 zero turnovers. Now Clay Thompson, Clay Thompson tried to sell his game. He fouled Kevin Herter. I'm saying that right now. He fouled Kevin Herter. I know the last two minute report is going to say that too. Kevin Herter should have shot three free throws and I don't know what's going to happen if he did get to that free throw line. Kevin Herter was over on the line for the game. I don't know what he's shooting for the season. It's a tough break for the Kings because they were leading in this one for a big portion of it. And then Steph Curry turned up and they got a couple and wands and wiggins to the shot here and Draymond coming out of halftime was looking really good defensively. And as A if you can run their starting unit 48 minutes a game, they'll never lose. But you do have to rely on like Anthony Lam today. I looked at the game, I kid you not I was attuned into that game. So Anthony Lam on the court and thought to myself, who the hell is that? Before they zoomed in on those faces I've just seen the number 40.  It was Anthony Lam. And Anthony Lam was getting minutes over Moses Moody. He was getting minutes over Jonathan Kaminga. That's not a good sign when you spend lottery picks on these deuces a couple of years ago and you're relying on them to hit the next step for you to be a championship contender again, if they were to lost his game, they would have got their own dedicated video on this channel, best believe it. And I might still do it because like I mentioned, Kevin Herter got fouled. The Lakers lost again. And I want to show you something because I knew the Lakers are gonna lose from one moment tonight. Let me show you to us. I just realized that the Utah Jazz are in first place. Oh my God, the Jazz are in first place right now. That is crazy to say out loud, bro. Shout out to the Jazz. They deserve their own dedicated video too. And I almost dropped one yesterday, but it was too late. This is the moment I knew they were losing this game. This is an all time bad starting lineup. This is an all time bad starting lineup. My boy, Mike, my boy, Mike was like, damn, I can't believe the Bulls gave up on Troy Brown, Jr. And shout out to him. He's been playing really solid. But I can't believe this is what y'all looking that Troy Brown, Jr. is like, damn, we stole him. You know what I'm saying? No LeBron, Russ came off the bench and had another good first quarter. I don't even remember what he did for the rest of the game. Yes, it's rough over there in LA for show. I probably still would make the Utah Jazz video while I can because they are, I just don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I mean, I do understand that they watched them in the last couple of games, but like it's still impressive as hell. Them boys move the ball as if they're a college team. They're a well coached. There's their selflessness. And that's saying a lot with Jordan Clarkson on your team. You know what I'm saying? Jordan Clarkson go get his shots, but he's been playing selflessly. Lawry marketing is still killing the game. THT's revenge, a couple of big dunks, some some pickpocket steals. Come on, man. You're love to see it. I love an underdog story through 12 games, through 12 games, the second best team in basketball. What the heck? Through 12 games is the second best team. I cannot believe it. Anyway, the Cavaliers blew their game. Boy, oh boy, that was a rough watch. You know what? They were up by 12 or four minutes ago and I was tempted to just start this video there. But I was like, you know what? Let's get the Clippers the benefit of the doubt because you never really know what happens because it's basketball at the end of the day. And the Clippers did the thing, man.  Terrence Mann had a really good game. It was at 16 or so points and a couple of those coming in the fourth quarter. And then Paul George, almost, well, he did foul and tried to get his game away. But down the stretch, Norman Powell in the fourth quarter, six for seven for the free throw line. They shot 22 free throws in the fourth quarter to the 14, oh yeah, foul game.  Yeah, we were talking about how good the Cavs are in the Clutch. This one wasn't a good one. They had a couple of crucial, crucial turnovers. Jared Allen missed the bunny at the rim. But even with all that being said, they're still eight and two and still looking damn good. That is a recap of all 15 games one way or another. Man, oh man, was that rough? You know what? No, it wasn't rough because my job is to sit here and watch basketball all day. So I'm extremely, extremely grateful. I wanna say thank you so much for everybody. There will be a video tomorrow, even though there's no games tonight. And I think this is where things get really fun because I gotta get creative. I can't just say, hey, this is what happened into nice, slated games. Let's get creative, baby. We might talk about the Warriors. We might talk about the Jazz or something. We gonna have something to upload. Best believe it.