Good morning. Good morning, sir. Are you all right? Yes, sir. Lovely. Let's try and continue talking about speech sounds in natural languages and we have seen during the last two weeks that all speech sounds can be broadly classified into two major categories. What are those categories? Vavels and consonants. Vavels differ from consonants, consonants differ from Vavels though there are consonants which look like Vavels, but don't behave like Vavels. There are consonants which behave like Vavels, but don't look like Vavels, but they are very few. You know nature always has exceptions to many rules. You read in a book of anatomy that most people have only 32 teeth, but suddenly you come across someone who has 34 teeth or you suddenly come across someone who has six fingers. They are, for want of better word, we call them the freaks of nature. But by and large consonants are consonants and Vavels are Vavels. How do Vavels differ from consonants? Vavels are voiced, oral and unobstructed. All the three things together, no exception to that. If they are not voiced, if they are not oral or if they are not or if they are obstructed, if they are not unobstructed, then they are not Vavels. Consonants on the other hand is everything else. A consonant may or may not be oral, may or may not be voiced, may or may not be obstructed. Yesterday we also saw that there can be different kinds of consonants. Do you remember major classes? Can you name any major class of consonants? Plosives. What are plosives? Plosives are those consonants which have total obstruction and major class of consonants actually major classes of consonants. So number one, we have plosive. What is the characteristic of a plosive sound? A plosive sound is produced with total obstruction and sudden release. Please write, total obstruction but sudden release. Then we have a class of sounds for neticians called affricate. What are they? How do you, how do you define affricates? What is the characteristic of affricate sound? It has total obstruction but gradual release. Marvelous. God bless you. And then we talked about fricatives. What are their characteristics? They have partial obstruction, partial audible obstruction because the obstruction is partial. So the question of release does not arise. We also looked at the English language sounds, major sounds, major classes in the English language. And we saw that English has about half a dozen plosive sounds, nine, sorry, a pair of affricate sounds and nine fricative sounds. A little too many, you know. In many Indian languages we do not have as many fricative sounds but we have many more plosive sounds. What is the lesson for us? The lesson for us is that nature has broad classes but each class, are you with me? I am trying to state a scientific truth. Nature has broad classes. Nature has major classes. In anatomy and physiology books you will see that all men have a nose, women also have a nose. But no two noses are alike. Races differ from one another depending upon the geometry of nose or trigonometry of nose. So you know, we have major class of sounds but local variations. English has nine fricatives but only six plosives. There are Indian languages which have nine plosives or a dozen plosives but only two or three fricatives. There are languages which have no fricatives. There are languages which have very few consonants, more vowels. There are languages which have more consonants, few vowels. All of these combinations and permutations are there in nature. But the fact of life is that there are these major classes of sounds that differ from one another. So far we have looked at English and we have seen that English has half a dozen plosives, a pair of fricative sounds and nine fricative sounds. So how many do we get that with? Seventeen, right? English also has nasal sounds. Sounds in the production of which vealum is, see this is vealum. Are you with me? Are we together? Please look at the screen and you know, just see the arrowhead. This is vealum or uvula. When uvula is raised, speech air passes through, please complete the sentence. When uvula is raised, speech air passes through the mouth, through the oral passage. But when uvula is lowered, speech air passes through the nasal passage and we produce nasal sounds. Many languages in the world, some languages have lot more. English has only three. Malayalam, Tamil have five each. Telugu has about three or four. Malayalam is supposed to have the largest number of nasal sounds. Anybody who speaks Malayalam in this class? If you have Malayalam speaking friends, ask them to produce nasal sounds. And they have nasal sounds from the lips, from the alveolar ridge, from the heart pallet, from the soft pallet, from pharris, from nearly everywhere. Americans also have more nasal sounds than the British.  It does happen, you see. So, there can be nasal sounds, there can be oral sounds and there is a third category. There can be nasalized sounds. When uvula or this, you know, vilum, this is only partially lowered, not fully lowered, not fully raised. Then what's the result? The speech here partly passes through oral passage and partly through nasal passage. Then you have nasalized sounds.   I have a friend, unfortunately. He passed away some years ago. And when we were boys, we used to make fun of him. But later on, all our lives, we kept apologizing to him because he became a very powerful person. You know, billionaire and all that through business. And we used to look up to him and we used to say, thank you. And he would say, welcome. These are the freaks of nature. It can happen. Look at the English language. So English also has, like many other languages, nasal sounds. What is the characteristic of nasal sound? All nasal sounds are produced when uvula is raised or lowered. Lowered. So that speech here passes through the nasal passage. Keep your, you know, like Hitler's salute. Keep your hand upward or downward near your nose. And just produce sounds like, do it or say, do you feel, where do you feel the air is coming from? From your mouth or from your nose? From your nose. It's the nasal passage. English also has nasal sounds. Let's see the English list. English has m. It's not ma. What is it? It is m. What is it? Both your lips tightly shut together and air passes through the nasal passage and you get the nasal sound. How do you describe it? Don't look at the screen and try and describe it. Attempt your own description, please. You know, in the end you can look at the screen. First try m as in met or as in mat or as in meat. And then say voiced. Then it's bilavial and then nasal. Wonderful, really. Voiced, bilavial, nasal. Okay. Let's go to the next. Don't look at the screen. Now attempt your own description and then compare with the given description. The best way to learn is these things is by doing it. How do you describe it? Voiced, place of articulation, alveolar. Great. But in our languages, in Indian languages, you know, we don't say not. We say nahi. Okay. We say na-na. We don't say na-na. Do we say that? Unless you go to an English medium school, of course. You know. We say na-na. We have it dental. But in English it is alveolar. Okay. And then nasal. So what's the three-term level for? Close your eyes and tell me, please, everybody together. Voiced, alveolar, nasal. Lovely. English has another sound. It occurs in only non-initial positions of the word. You don't have a word beginning with ng. Okay. Even in, as far as I know, even in Hindi and Sanskrit, you don't have a word that begins with ng. I think it is true also of Telugu. You don't have a word beginning with ng. But. Okay. This particular sound occurs in non-initial positions. Such as when you say ring, king, bring, long. Okay. In our languages also we have this sound. Ganga, changa. Okay. Right. So you know, how do you describe this sound? Do it, produce it. Don't look at the screen. Have your own description and then compare. Voiced or voiceless? Voiced. All nasal sounds are voiced. All nasal sounds are necessarily voiced. There is no exception. Okay. Then let's say place of articulation. Which part of your oral passage? Which part of the tongue creates obstruction? Back of the tongue touches the vealum. Therefore, vealur and nasal. Marvelous.  I hope you have a future in fanatics. Okay.  Some consonants are produced like vowels. Okay. What is the characteristic of vowels? Vowels are oral, continuous and voiced. Vowels are voiced, oral and unobstructed. Or continuous. There are some consonant sounds which come in one group. Okay. They are also produced like vowels. Like, you know, Yara Lava. In our alphabet also, we group them together in one corner. Okay. In Roman writing system, which is what English uses. They are all over. Okay. But we are not talking about writing. We are talking about speech. We are also talking about writing perhaps. All right. So, you know, these sounds are continuous. They are grouped together as continuous sounds. Or in layman's language, we call them semi-vowels. Continuance or semi-vowels. Okay. Now, how do you describe them? Very simple.  Okay. So, for instance, the first sound. Produce it. Okay. Is it voiced or voiceless? Keep your finger here. Voiced, obviously. Okay. I could have said continuous at the end. I should have said tap and trill. You know. How is it produced? Look at the mechanism of nature. When you produce. And you can have, you can have various kinds of. It's a broad class of sounds. There are smaller variations. You can have. Do it. You can only have as in road. But you know, in my part of the country, when sheffards take their goat and sheep for grazing and if the sheep get stuck in one particular place, then they drive the sheep through this way. And the sheep will start moving. Maybe, you know, they have some acoustic effect. I don't know. So, there can be a variety of different kinds of. But all. Is characterized by this particular articulatory movement. The near between the tip and the blade of the tongue. Okay. Let's call it the front of the tongue, the tip of the tongue. You know, curls backwards, this position. And then it touches the upper teeth. And sideways along the tongue, the speech air can flow. Okay. And as the speech air flows, the front of the tongue is released. And then comes back into contact again. Understand the process. Understand the mechanics, please. The tip of the tongue makes a contact. Sorry. The front of the tongue makes a contact in English with alveolar age, in Indian languages with upper teeth. And then it releases the contact. In this process, all along is speech air flows through, flows along the sides of the tongue. Because everywhere else, there is opening. But this contact, you know, can happen once. When you say road. Say it. It can happen several times in a second. When you say, do it.  Okay. It strikes several times, this way. You know. Okay. So it is either tap or trill. And when you say tap or trill, it means that it is produced from the front of the tongue. Okay. So how shall we describe it? Simple. We will say, as in road, voiced, tap or trill, then continuant. Okay. Voiced, tap or trill, then continuant. You see, the manner features should have come last. I made a mistake by putting it in the middle. You can bring it to the last. Okay. As in road. But look at. Okay. What is the next sound? Feel your tongue. You just see how it happens. Do it alternately. Say. Do you feel tongue makes a different kind of movement? What is the difference? What is the difference? Come on. Please, somebody, allow yourself to be laughed at. Okay. What is the difference? Come on, please. The difference is when you say, the sides of the tongue fold. You know, imagine some sheet of cloth, some curtain. Okay. Which is still in the contact in center, but it folds like this. It folds actually upwards. Tongue folds is like this. It folds upward and this side and this side. Look at the diagram. You know, the speech air flows. This is your tongue. When you produce, then tip of the tongue is in contact with the upper teeth or alveolar edge somewhere in that portion of your mouth and sides of the tongue curl, sides of the tongue fold so that all speech air escapes along the sides of the tongue. Okay. And you get the sound whereas when you produce the sides do not curl. You know, the opening near the mouth lets the air pass or when you release the tap, when there is there is contact, but when you remove the front of the tongue, the air passes. Okay. That's the difference between road and load. Many languages, many people, you know. Like, you know, I told you about my cousins in my village. We don't distinguish between sir and many people in south, you know. When I travel from my home to Chennai by railway train, we know from the, you know, the voice of the vendors whether we are in Bhuvaneswar or whether we are in Visakhapatnam. In Bhuvaneswar, they sell coffee, coffee. But in Visakhapatnam, they sell copy, copy. Okay. They don't sell. They each place has its variations. Similarly in south station languages, if you go to China, Japan, many people, not everyone of course, you know, many people don't distinguish between road and load. So when they tell give you the car, they will tell you, well, you have a long load or they can say you have a wrong load when they mean you have a long road. How would you correct them if you want, if you have to correct them? Very simple. You will guide their tongue movement. You will say when you want to say l, you should fold the sides of the tongue. When you want to say r, you should release the front of the tongue. Very simple, you know. How shall we describe it? How shall we describe it? As in load, it is voiced because air passes laterally and laterally means sides of the tongue. So in literature, you will find it written as voiced lateral continuum. Okay. Simple. Look at ear. Ear is nothing but a combination of two vowels, e and a. Say it quickly together. E and a. Say it quickly. That is ear. And w, w and a quickly together. Just say w, w. So one is a diphthong from the front of the mouth, the other is a diphthong from the back of the mouth.  Very simple. Ear, as in yet, how do we describe it? Voiced, palatal, semi-vowel. Palatal, you could also say voiced, front, semi-vowel. No problem. Because there is only one. Or you can say w, as in wet. To say w, you have to round your lips. Round your lips and say w. You cannot say it with flat lips. Okay. Ordinarily speaking. So wet, as in wet, it is voiced, labial, because lips are involved. You could also say back. Okay. Voiced, back, semi-vowel. So English has three nasal sounds, four continuance. How many sounds does it make? 24. English, standard British English is supposed to have 24 consonants. But you see, it is not the case that it is all alike. You know, when next week, when we begin talking about phonology, I am going to contradict all of this. I am going to tell you what we have studied so far is science fiction. Reality of life, reality in nature is a little different. But at the moment, we are learning the terminology rather than a particular language. This terminology, the idea of using three-term labels referring to articulatory movements can be applied across languages. It is not that you can describe only English or Latin or Sanskrit or French with it. You can describe practically any language. You can apply it to the description of mother tongue. Say for instance, I have taken some examples here from my mother tongue. So, you know, I gave you the demonstration. The other day, you can take your own mother tongue. Think of a word beginning with right as I have written. K as in please and take a Telugu word. K as in Koti, you know. That is the first name that comes to my mind because of Hyderabad. K as in write it on the notebook in this manner. First write the sound, sound that is the speech sound. Then write the word where it occurs as in. Then because Telugu is not known to all, because Maitreya is not known to all. So, we give meaning, English meaning in within quotes. Like this, you know, meaning. And then we use three term level. So, for instance, I have said K as in con, which means ear. The three term level is voiceless, velar, plosive. Simple. I want you to take example from your mother tongue, not from my mother tongue, please. Okay. We also have unlike English another variety and that is where we have to use a different terminology. Say for instance, we have something called use superscript. When you do it on your computer, please use superscript. It is not parallel. Can you see the difference? Yes or no, please. Okay. So, it is not parallel. It is superscript. K as in con. I am using normal spelling, not phonetic transcription here. Con as in the meaning is mine. How do we describe it? It is still voiceless. It is still velar. It is still plosive, but I want your total attention. Are we together? Everybody please. Okay. When does ka change into ka? That is the question. So, what we do is as we release the obstruction, okay, say for instance, take pa. Both your lips are together, cheek puffs and you suddenly release it and you get pa. Okay. But as you release it, now see the mechanics, now see the turbulence. Okay. As you release it, you add another puff of, an extra puff of air. Okay. So, it becomes pa plus quickly. Yeah, pa plus quickly, very quick. So quick that it becomes pa. Okay. So quick that it becomes ka, agha, achha, atha. Okay. Another added extra puff of air. Because puff of air in Latin is aspiration, inspiration is taking in, throwing out is aspiration. So here, funerations call it, velar, aspirated, aspirated, plosive. Are we together?  Yes or no, please. Am I too rapid? Okay, if you don't please try it once again, you know. The difference between ka and ka is that in, in the production of the speech sound ka, we add an extra breath of air, extra puff of air, you know. Immediately after the release of obstruction. Release of obstruction is essential for the production of plosive sound. But when you add an extra puff of air, it becomes aspirated. Please make a note. Look at another very simple ka, ka. Let's take ga in Maitre. Okay. This is, what is it in Maitre? Gaam. You should be able to, gaam meaning village. How do we describe it? Come, give me the terminology please. Voiced, velar, then plosive. But when we take, mark the superscript, it is never parallel. Okay. But here in orthography, normal orthography, I am using Roman alphabet to transcribe the word. I am going to write it parallel. Gaam. In English it will mean sweat. Okay. How do we describe it again? Give me the description please. Voiced or voiceless? Voiced. Place of articulation? Everybody please. Place of articulation? Velar. Great. What is extra thing? How do you describe it? Aspirated. Plosive. It doesn't matter. You can also say plosive aspirated or aspirated plosive. But in many books you will find aspirated plosive. In some books you can also find plosive aspirated. Hardly matters, you know. What is required is voiced or voiceless, place of articulation, manner of articulation. Correct? Okay. Chur as in, you know, as in Telugu word. Can you give me a Telugu word with chur? As in... Okay. As in kuchur. Or as in chanty. Right. Please describe it. The symbol for chur is, this is the symbol for chur. You know, I have deliberately used lower case on the screen just to show that our chur is not affricate. Okay. In Indian languages, it is not affricate. Chur. Write it in this manner. Give me a word with chur. Come on, please. Which word? Chur chur. Is that Telugu? Chakram. Chakram. Or in Telugu, in Tamil, chakram. Sugar. Okay. What does it mean? Write. Wheel. Voiced or voiceless? Feel it. Just say ch. Voiceless. If you add a, then it becomes voiceless. If you say chur, then it is voiceless. Just say ch. Just say ch. Is it voiced? It is voiceless. Okay. Palatal. Manor of release of obstruction. Plosive. Does Telugu have ch? Does Telugu have this sound? In my mother tongue, we have. Do you have this sound? Chur. I think Dravidian languages, you can have Sanskrit origin words like Chhatram, the canopy or Chhatrapati, you know. But in my mother tongue, in many North Indian, Indo-Aryan languages, particularly North India, Northeast, we have ch. So, for example, I have said chur. Chur can mean quit. It can mean end. It can mean a whole lot of things. Different things. It is voiceless, palatal, aspirated. Plosive. Okay. Right.  We can urge her. We can describe. It may not be a bad idea to take at least six sounds from your mother tongue. Please describe it in this manner. Mail it to me. This is an assignment.  You will understand. So, I don't make it compulsory, but if you try describing some sounds in your mother tongue, one quick test. Can I give you one quick test for two minutes? And then I will say, thank you. Have a good day, nice weekend. Okay. And I'll pray for distinction to everyone without work. Right? Okay. Be ready, please. I am going to tell you the three-term level and you are going to write the symbol. Ready? Voiced, interdental, fricative as in English. Voiced, why English, you know? Voiced, interdental, fricative. Just write the symbol and compare with the symbol I write. Voiced, interdental, fricative. This is the symbol. How many people got it right? Raise your hands. Raise your hands, please. Nobody? Okay, at least two. I was going to jump from the third floor of this building. I have been shouting myself out. Okay. Voiced, bilevial, plosive. Voiced, bilevial, plosive. Right, the same one. Okay. Voiced, leviorental, fricative. Voiced, voiced, not voiceless. Voiced is one last. Voiced, veeler nasal. Voiced, veeler nasal as in king ring. Okay, actually you should have some practice using symbols. First write your name. Say for example, my name using phonetic transcription. What is your name? Write it on you quickly using phonetic transcription. What is the name of our institute? Indian Institute of Technology. Tell me what is it I am writing now? What is it? Technology. Okay, write Indian. Okay, you must have some practice in using these. If you have an English dictionary, you get symbols. I have already given you a copy of these phonetic symbols for English. You know, if you go to Google, if you just Google IPA chart, you will get a chart on your screen, save it, download it, save it, and use it for, and you see, you will have a new power. You will have learned an alphabet which only you and a few other people use. You can use that for conversation, for communication, for transcription, for a variety of things. Any questions please? Thank you. Have a good day.


The following is a presentation of TFNN The power trading hour with your host David white Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> now David white And welcome all to another excellent addition of the power trading hour. It doesn't matter where you're at What you're doing? What position you are at you could be standing on your head as long as you're here at this time The following takes place between 2 p.m. And 3 p.m. So what do we have going on today? Well, we got a good question already we'll get into stuff and Nancy wants to know is there is some kind of secret handshake that causes the Market to trigger a sell-off within a revel relatively short time frame such as the one that took place around noon east combed a east Coast time today some kind of secret signal maybe Maybe the drums like all the African movies had the drums telling everybody what to do and then of course If you're but Jimmy Buffett fan, they had to coconut Telegraph where people would tap on those but No, there isn't My understanding is That at least the one today That seems to be getting repaired Had to do with a rumor that I will not repeat That is not true But of course everybody's still wondering why it all happened, but we had a bunch of people instantly sell Handful of very concentrated big guys on Wall Street Thinking that they had something but not a whole lot there off of 23 on the S&P cash as we speak Dows up 85 the Nasdaq's off 190 and of course Yeah, it could have been a bear raid. Maybe they thought they knew something that they didn't know I'm gonna say that the rumor I heard was rather salacious and And Yeah, just about as much as every fake news story that we've heard for the last three or four or five years That after a number of times you just say you know these people are not telling the truth But you know people on Wall Street. They're they're very good at clicking that mouse And letting the dust settle and then coming back later But now I don't think as much is going on here We did test on almost no volume, and I'm gonna say light volume a lot of previous lows As Steve Rhodes said in the previous hour, so there's not a lot to add into that I'm really kind of looking forward because I don't think much has actually happened today That's gonna change much, but let's get into the sit rep. We've got Tim Ward on today, so we need to make sure and Be ready if you want to give him a call eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight He's got a handful of charts already sent to him But we'll see about that Okay anyway Big winner today, of course is a Taiwan semiconductor Up and seven percent I think it was up eleven or twelve percent earlier in the day When I was watching it very interesting to watch how this closes over the next couple of days the reason why is The people that are big fans of value stocks Dislike with a passion when these big companies start spending cash One of the reasons Intel got itself into the problem It got into was that no one wanted them to see spending any money to remain Competitive with Taiwan semi and slowly they fell behind and Generally the the people on Wall Street don't really care They'll just sell the stock when you've actually run out of gas As Intel did for a number of years and then you have to go back and start all back over But anyway, keep an eye on that because generally I can't remember a big running stock that at least didn't see a fairly Let's call it a minor to medium setback When the value crowd takes a leap and they tend to leap when you start spending money Because that means that that's not going to be money You're showing you're making next year and they can't jack the price up even further Great company are going to be spending 40 billion dollars billion with a B on CapEx over the next year and of course Amat some of those other ones to me. That's the safer bet Because I guess what it's not about CapEx for amat It's going to be about all that money Which about half of it is going to be from Taiwan semi if they're going to spend 40 billion because amat is the man On the chip circuit when you have to build stuff Anyway, that's kind of interesting KBH had a nice pop it had four days to cover It's up 16% I kind of figured that when it started off this morning There were a lot more shorts to squeeze As I said in the newsletter generally your short does several days Are actually a factor of three the three hours three days three weeks or three months early on shorting something I think you're a lot of the people who got short KBH are about three weeks early When that first rate hike happens in February, I think it'll be a different story Earnings tomorrow with a JP Morgan black rock Wells Fargo and city group We are closed Monday And I think a lot of people after the big rally up had decided that they were going to cash out today Before we get into three days also options One of the reasons why I sold my micron stock my options yesterday before the Taiwan semi Earnings, which we're probably going to be at least okay Was that we're going to see options premiums really decay Because instead of the normal two days you're going to get one more extra day because we are closed on Monday as we said But watch that very closely, I think that a lot of stuff may move later in the day But they're going to wait until they create almost always happens just like just like Look at it you watch you just know They'll wait until the premiums fade They'll they'll run the people out and then the their reversal will happen throughout the later part of the day But if you're thinking about getting options just remember that they're going to decay all the way into Friday and then they're probably going to open up Significantly at least for the premium part significantly lower on Tuesday if nothing happens, so this is a tough time to hold Options I've got one that I have that I started off with that the options were Literally, I think I paid 10 or 20 cents a premium for a week or nine days or something So I'm kind of sitting pretty with that there's not much that they can do with the premiums So that's it when we come back on Tuesday. 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You were born to be tfnn educating investors Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Turn we've got Tim or on the line Tim or it has been writing a newsletter for over 30 years Won many awards for timer of the year in many different disciplines from the medals to the indexes written in his book the the softs secret of price and volume that's available on Amazon and Yeah, always a pleasure to have you on the line Tim Thank you for having me on again I think so the charts over yesterday. I hope you got them. Yep Yeah, because I was actually I had appointment today I didn't really have time to so anyhow I got him done yesterday, but it really shouldn't make any difference one day in these charts, but You know We could take a look at this doc you sign Stock first somebody requested what they thought about it. Mm-hmm. Do you want you want to do that one first? I've got it up all right anyhow back in 2020 it looks like probably August September. I got a little note there. It says buying climax And that's when the market really shot up shot up over 280 and I came back down But the volume exploded you know I ball in it, you know, it's probably about 50% higher than the previous days around it And normally that kind of just stops the market that much energy in that short period of time Really puts a halt in the market That's what happened there. He had a buying climax and market flip sideways Oh, you know for the next, uh, you know six seven eight months didn't really do anything then Then uh, looks like about probably June of 2021 went back up again and tested that high of uh Of August of 2020 and if you notice volume was not even half and so That was kind of a warning sign normally when you break previous highs No matters on a daily weekly or monthly chart this chart's a monthly chart and you should at least break those previous highs on on Equal volume at least uh prefer a little bit higher and that's not what happened here. So that was kind of a warning sign That the market is having a hard time going forward What kind of turned everything bearish here? I got the bowlinger bands there and as long as The monthly bowlinger mid bowlinger bands going up I can start the stock in an uptrend when it closes below the mid bowlinger band Usually that's a warning sign that the market may be peaking Well, I went below the mid bowlinger band and also went below the previous lows of Eyeball and it looks like about 180 there those lows back in 2020 and to an early 2021 around the 180 there blew through those lows Actually, you had a sign of strength at the same time you also Find for a sign of weakness rather And those sign of weakness Is also a kind of selling climax So that will really stop as you climb And uh and now at this month January we're testing the previous lows of that monthly chart Or that monthly bar in december and we're probably most likely we'll test their lighter volume The market's going to attempt to rally Um, what I think is probably we'll head back up to 180 area And probably stop And then now you're below the bowlinger band the bowlinger bands Um, you know are kind of turning down now So I'd have to say this stock is because of december Breaking below previous support and breaking below the mid bowlinger band on the monthly time frame This stock now is in a downtrend. It may get rally back to 180 maybe 190 But that's probably about it So until we get back above the mid bowlinger band, which is a long ways up around 220 You know this This stock is in my opinion in a bearish mode now So That's how I read that stock. Well, it's certainly bearish today. It's off another four or five percent. So Yeah, only only 20 days before it's free If you if you want to look at it that way um So, uh, but I still think we'll bounce here just because of the selling climax we had in december You know, it's uh the exhaustion to the downsides, you know is is Well, it's kind of exhaustion. This is exactly what it means. So it'll tempt to try to go up here, but This is the risk is not worth the investment. So That uh, we can move on if you want to let you want to talk some more about it. No, it's good Okay, um, I got two two other charts Uh, kind of people wanted to look at View of the bigger trend And I got two different charts and kind of two different methods And actually both are kind of saying the same thing and it could pull up the bullish percent index for the nyse I've got it All right, uh, this chart goes back to like 2001 and bullish percent index uh For the nyse what the bullish percent index does it measures the percentage of stocks that are there are on point and figure buy signals So the reading right now I got circled in red there is 56.81 in other words 56.81 percent of the stocks in the nyse They're on point and figure buy signal Well, it turns out That's uh, when you get below 60 percent where I got a or a 65 percent I got a red line drawn Lots across there on the bullish percent index And that's kind of a danger sign if you get below that and I got little circles and blue there at that 65 and um, and a lot of times those picked out significant highs, uh, if you go back and look at 2002 it Never got above 65 percent of the stocks above nyse gave on bicycles. That was kind of top in 2007 there, uh They look like it didn't even get above 60 percent stocks above this uh by the bullish percent index And in 2015, you know, I peaked out about 65 And they had another high in 2018. It didn't even get back to 65 percent And right now even though we're we're pretty much not far from all-time highs here on the nyse or on the spx the Holy percent index says that 56 percent So this is a you know, it's market's market weakens before it finally tops and normally when you get You know the 65 percent of the stocks and um Or below that are Or not in other words 45 percent of the stocks or below or higher On point figure sales signals that you got a kind of a big drag on the market And if you notice also if you look at the monthly spx chart You're way above the mid bologna band that mid bologna band is like a magnet You get too far above it you go back down to it if you get far too far below it You'll come back up to it and that's a long ways down from here. You know, we're at 40 700 area On the spx that mid bologna band is at 4000 so At some point, I don't know when but you're probably going to get sucked down to that mid bologna band at some point so Okay, I hear the music Yeah, if you want to uh look at uh bowing ba during the break and we'll talk about it All right You having fun trading the markets but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with Become an apex predator in the trading markets and join the tiger's den trading room only at tfnn.com The tiger's den is an exclusive trading room where successful traders from around the world come to exchange trades and ideas Join the den and surround yourself with the sharpest minds in the trading world Subscribers to the tigers den are also the first to have their questions answered live on air And can privately chat with our tfnn hosts live during their shows Interact with other tigers and tigers as they share trading ideas news analysis and discuss the market action all trading day Subscribe to the tigers den risk-free with our 30-day money back guarantee and become part of the tfnn trading community tfnn educating investors You could be making money off the stock market and if you're already making money off the stock market You could be making a lot more Check out tfnn and tiger tv and get expert investing advice to give you the power to control your financial future Go to tfnn.com and find the newsletter for you Whether you're into trading gold metals futures currencies or options You'll get advice and analysis to help you seriously get ahead tfnn also features trading services with a 30-day money back guarantee for new subscribers As well as tfnn's tiger den trading room trading software and educational webinars for all trading levels And make sure you check out tiger tv for free on tfnn.com or tfnn's youtube channel for live financial content From 8 30 a.m. To 4 p.m. Eastern on market days Stop watching on the sidelines while other people get rich and become the investor. 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I think when everybody gets Uh committed to Some indicator normal meal quit working But in the past if you're rallying into a holiday a lot of times the volume will drop out That holiday will turn into some sort of a high You ever notice july 4th? Uh time frames what you know, it's not exactly it's on the 4th But usually around the july 4th holidays either uh going into some sort of a high or going into some sort of a low Uh, this one we got coming up was president's day or something Um, we got or martin luther king. Maybe we got what it was anyhow Uh, if you go into a holiday usually people take off, you know traders take off early and a lot of times the volume Uh black so if you're going uh, mark is going up into a holiday And volume starts to drop off. That'd be a very sign You know, you don't make excuses for volume volume. You take it as verbatim Um, but you know if the market rally here into this coming friday to me, that would be a kind of bearish sign Because you know assuming volume will drop off. Are you still there? Yeah, can you hear me? Can you hear me? Hello? Are you hear me? I I I've lost about the last 30 seconds of you, but I've got you now. Can you? Okay. Yeah, all right. Well anyhow, um You can hear all right. Well anyhow volume a lot of times raw holidays drop off Because traders take off early for that holiday And if the market's rallying up into a holiday period a lot of times the volume will drop off That's kind of a bearish sign to its market energy to the upside decreasing so it could represent the top same If the market's going down into a holiday volume a lot of times will drop off and that'd be a bullish sign So if the market holds up into friday here Um, and we they're pretty much at this level a little bit higher To me that would beginning of expiration week which the next week would be kind of a bearish sign Um, actually I'm actually short right now. I got a short couple of days ago Just for other reasons but If we get hit here over the next couple of days Um, and the volume's not you know, I'll cover that I'll cover that short but You know historically though going around holidays Rallying into a holiday the volume lightens up that's bearish if you're going down into a holiday Volume dries up. Uh, that's bullish. So that's why I said years ago and and and it still kind of plays out um You know far as volume's concerned so um I know okay Anyway, we're looking at a chart of Boeing okay, um You know the chart's kind of goofy here, you know, obviously you look back at 2019 high. It looks like a head and shoulders bottom And it worked out to be the case you know, basically in late 2019 you you started closing below the Mid Bollinger band that kind of give you confirmation that's mark was going to go down and it did and you got um what Really went down in a hurry and kind of got a Some volume spikes down there kind of off of the market to the downside um Now you're above the mid Bollinger band, but the mid Bollinger band is still trending down so and you got the Bollinger bands on the month. This is a monthly chart. It's starting to squeeze here, too I mean they've kind of come together because Boeing You know over the last 12 months here really hasn't done a lot. I mean it's worked itself down a little bit but Movement really hasn't done a lot You know, I hadn't really gone up. It's gone down a little bit, but not much the last 12 months um I don't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't be long or short just just Following here just because it's not really giving a lot of clues what it's going to do next. So um You know my answer to this Chart would be neutral. Um, I mean it could probably do go anywhere the rally Uh from the 2020 even though it started off kind of good Uh, the volume didn't really stay with it as it went up And then when it went down the volume kind of just stayed lackluster Uh Okay, so why don't we take a look at or get started on this summation index chart you sent me All right summation index, all right Things can uh, I always put down trouble can happen when the summation index falls below zero And this chart goes back to uh 2014 and The top chart there is it NYSE summation index and I got a red line drawn at zero there and Uh, then I got blue, uh Vertical lines showing when the drop below zero And uh, and right now we're we're as this was yesterday a couple of days ago. We closed at plus 35 So that's not real decisive that We're really climbing above zero here, but it's in a danger zone And what you know, we did kind of is look at the bottom window the bottom window is the nyse mccallan osquator When it gets below minus about 250 is kind of selling climax And I marked those with the red circles Then uh coming out of those selling climaxes you want to call an oscar you get about 200 to show minus strength Well, we did get the selling climax But we really haven't got the sell of the the sign of strength off that low And if we don't that would become a very sign. So I'm thinking we're we're kind of making a peak in here Uh, unless we get a sign of strength pushing this market higher We may be topping out right around this range in here And that kind of goes along with the bullish percent index On the chart I showed earlier On the nyse, you know, we're at 56 anything below 65 percent stocks are it's kind of a danger zone. So this uh nyse summation index hanging around zero Is another kind of a bearish sign, you know two different methods kind of saying the same thing so I'm not real bullish here, but uh Um short term it kind of varies but it still needs another week or two to really Clear the picture if this is a sniffing top or not Okay, why don't you let's take a look at nvidia nvda during the break and uh, we'll be back nv what d a v a nv d a nv n Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area including the surrounding st Petersburg tampa and clearwater markets tiger real estate llc is a firm that has extensive experience in the tampa bay area Whether you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value or you're in the market for a second home or investment property Tiger realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the tampa bay area to help buyers and sellers Make the most informed decisions across all price levels from the price You should be paying per square foot in certain up and coming areas to the type of cashflow investment properties are capable of creating Tiger real estate can help you make the best decision when it comes to all areas of the market Before you make one of the biggest decisions of your financial future call tiger real estate llc today at seven two seven 329 83 22 or email us at tiger at tfnn.com. 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Of course, uh a noted author available on amazon the secret science of price and volume And we are back Messed up the uh ticker a little bit there. So we won't bother with that one uh right now Did want to talk to you a bit about gold And uh What we've got going on here now, which is uh looks like Finally hold in 1800 and looks a little bit better than it did over the last few weeks ago Any thoughts on it? Yeah, there's uh Um, there's a head and shoulders bottom Um, we knew we were going to talk about it. I would have sent a chart over but there's a head and shoulders bottom Uh, that's part of a right shoulder of a gigantic head and shoulders bottom that goes back to 2011 And the right shoulder head and shoulders bottom has a neckline at 1850 So we're kind of not backing away from it. We'll get up to 1824 or 1825 here the other day Kind of backed away, but you should see a sign of strength through 1850 and it'll probably come news you know Some conflict somewhere in the world so that could be china or russia probably and uh, it'll be um, but yeah 1850 is an important number And uh, I don't know when that 1850 is going to be broke, but that's the neckline And it will see a sign of strength through it And uh, so I'm thinking there's going to be some conflict in the world probably within the next 30 days or less and uh, to really confirm that that pattern That that head and shoulders pattern dates back to august of 2020 That's where the head and shoulders pattern began. So we kind of look at and draw the the Neckline at those highs down. You'll see it comes in rather around 1850 So, uh, I'm thinking we are going to break through it. I just don't know when but I think it's going to be Not a year from now. You know, I think it's probably going to happen in the next 30 days I got some other stuff on a shorter term basis that Are on the buy signal Even though not a lot of price action has happened. I do got some bullish divergence and a few different indicators So I'm thinking something's probably going to happen within the next 30 days, so But the thing I was looking at was the g in the gld Which is one way that everybody can look at it Is when I'm looking at the monthly and going back it looks back the high on august 31st Last year in 2020 kind of set the high, but if you've got a trend line moving up That goes back to October of 2018 We're kind of now at least back into what I'm going to call it February of 2021 Kind of a big triangle setting up here when I'm looking at the monthly and it looks like we've made it to the apex Which is one of the reasons I've gotten kind of excited about it now It looks like maybe all the consolidation and hoopla is over of that retest of the previous high up to 194 but What are you looking at any of that stuff or? Well, I'm looking at for you looking at the daily or No, I'm looking at a month. I'm looking at a monthly going back to the august 30 for a 31st high right And You call them at a triangle Well, if you look at the uh march 31st low Right, I see a triangle over about I don't know 12 15 months or something whatever that is And now it certainly looks like an apex to me, right? Yeah, you're back And here you again, you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you Oh, yeah, kind of you're going in and out, but anyhow You see I got I see that too, but if you go back to august 2020 high And you connect those highs You'll see that that marked low of 2021 Or uh, yeah marked slow. That's what's ahead of a head and shoulders bottom Right, you can see that So then you've got the triangle pattern going on here to pushing out the apex A lot of times those first Excuse me the first moves out of those apex A lot of times those first moves are the opposite way the market really breaks, but So you might have a gyration before these big You ever notice these great big moves when they start They kind of like knock everybody out they knock the longs you knock the shorts out So I'm thinking there could be a gyration before this moves to the upside really begins So kind of a slap in the face before the rally begins and I don't know that's going to happen here, but um, yeah, it is time to get kind of excited and Uh, the apex that triangle, you know, I think the the market's going to make its mind up here and pretty short order you know could be You know days away or weeks away, but it's not months away So don't know when that break's going to come but it's going to come fairly soon. So And so yeah, I'm kind of excited here too because once that break starts And that right shoulder head and shoulders bottom is going Then you've then you got a bigger head and shoulders bottom being back 2011 um That you can look forward to too. So the the rally could be very big impulse rally Well, we've got about we've got about two minutes left. I've got a question About what your downside target is on the s and p 500 if you're short Uh, do you have anything there on this? Yeah, on my trade right now is how i'm telling my customers. I think we're probably on the spx go back to 4500 So I think you're probably finding support there um So I I don't think Usually markets we can first you really don't get big declines. So you at least get a five percent decline And we kind of had one back in uh that september high to the october low So I think Here, you know, the short one may play out to up you find support basically at the early december low Which is around 4500 if we get panic there in the ticks and trend and vix Then I'll probably be a worthwhile bottom there and we may rally back up to where we are right now again So I'm thinking down and probably back up again and the whole thing Could develop into where that december high of uh Or that'd be last year, you know, just a month ago Could be ahead and we're screwing around with a right shoulder pattern going on Which may take another couple of months to form Yes, that may change but that's kind of what may unfold in the coming weeks. So This the short that i'm on right now I think most likely we'll get down to the december low and most likely we'll probably have panic And mark is always bottom on panics if you don't have panic, you don't have a bottom But does panic does form in that 4500 area probably cover the short and the panic's strong enough i could possibly end up with a bison over there Okay, so I think the whole thing's kind of topping pattern here Anyway, we'll be uh, we'll see you in a couple of weeks tim, uh, tim right Uh at the or dash oracle dot com want to thank you for being back on again And uh, we'll see you in a couple weeks All right, thank you Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument You have to practice sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts at tfnn You'll get advice and guidance from the authority and technical market analysis And it's not just dry tedious text either tfnn airs live financial content streamed live on tfnn.com And tfnn's youtube channel with tiger tv live every market day from 8 30 a.m. To 4 p.m. Eastern for free Each host is an experienced trader and gives their take on the market while taking calls and questions live from around the world From the moment the market opens until the closing bell sounds tiger tv has eight different shows with expert hosts to help You make the right moves with your money Watch online at tfnn.com or on tfnn's youtube channel and become the investor you were born to be tfnn educating investors You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future right Like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts You might find that it's not so impossible after all For daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices selective stocks and commodities Subscribe to the opening call newsletter at tfnn.com The opening call newsletter is written by basal chapman creator of the trading methodology known as the chapman wave The chapman wave up down sequence gives you an edge in identifying price turns finding the peaks and valleys and stock prices Get the opening call newsletter by basal chapman and your inbox every day First time subscribers also get a 30 day money back guarantee If you're not satisfied, let us know and you'll get a full refund within 30 days of signing up tfnn.com educating investors Are you looking for a secured investment which pays you on a monthly basis the target first mortgage program Maybe the program for you the best rate on a five-year cd in the country right now According to bank rate.com is paying one percent per year or one thousand dollars per 100 thousand dollars invested The target first mortgage program pays seven percent per year paid monthly on secured high value Buildable properties in st. 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That's<PHONE_NUMBER> catch toml bryan professional trader and educator founder of tfnn also a special guest on cnbc Tom will bisect and dissect the markets the toml bryan show next on tfnn As we return A voice christmas past reg Glad to see you again out here and uh Big trader for a long time uh Gold question about this triangle pattern setting up and really for the most part It's just lower highs and higher lows coming out But I really like this pattern like as tim said earlier This is when the the market eventually has to make a Decision of whether or not it's going higher or lower And like I said, I kind of thought that gold looked as good as it has in several years Over the last couple of days, but we shall see Uh other things going on here. Did I get uh I accidentally closed that Maybe I I did uh I don't know what's going on here Having a weird things happening But uh, let's see there we go Anyway, uh, we're off, uh, 36 points on the s and p cash And uh, 250 on the nasdaq, but I I think that's just continuing on We had some rumors out around too I think a lot of people are still scratching their head about what happened and where it came from But uh, we shall see going into a three-day weekend I think a lot of people have decided today to just cash your chips in Uh, I haven't seen uh, I watched about five minutes of CNBC today to see that these guys are incredibly bearish at the moment And that generally means that they're probably a little bit early Um as most people are when they're getting short But uh, yeah, not a lot going on. I think tomorrow will be a light volume day Uh going into the three-day weekend when we come back Tuesday, I think we're probably gonna have A much better idea options, uh, really don't show a whole lot here in kind of just in this Kind of messy trading range, but uh, we'll see how the uh, how Friday goes Not a lot just yet at least See you tomorrow same bat channel same bat time remember to sell when you can not when you have to


Star Wars. Magical. Memorable. Cash-grabby. Disappointing. Tragic. It's a lot of things, isn't it? Today I'm gonna be ranking all the live-action films and not counting those Ewok things or the Star Wars Christmas Special or the Mandalorian because that's not even a film, that's a TV series. And since I'm wearing some Star Wars merch, obviously what I say is the absolute gold standard, right? That's how this works. I'm gonna try my hardest to stay focused and get this done in a quick, concise manner so we can get on with our day. Let's begin with the worst of the bunch. Before we get into what I can only imagine will be a 30 plus minute video, make sure to hit the subscribe. Force push that subscribe button like your life depended on it because I put out a lot of content and I think you need to be part of it. You need to experience this magic at work. I just tried to do this video, I attempted to do it a half hour back, but I got caught up on the last Jedi for 30 plus minutes, so I ended up making it its own video, going back and talking about how much I hate this thing. So for the sake of this ranking, I'm gonna be very quick about it. You can watch that and hear the entire 20 plus minute rant and enjoy yourself if you hate it as much as I did. For those that like the film, I don't know, I really don't know. I can see the merit from a visual standpoint, it's beautiful, it's probably the prettiest looking Star Wars film yet, full stop. Clothing, the sets, the music, everything objectively is good. It looks really nice, it sounds really great, the scale is immense. I just hated the story, okay?  It's a slow moving space chase where for some reason these things run out of fuel and the smaller ships can't catch up. None of it makes sense and I understand it's a space opera, it's a sci-fi like dramedy of sorts, it's not supposed to be super intense and serious, but it kind of takes itself that way for the most part, doesn't it? So I expect them to think through things a little bit stronger than they have.  We all thought it was gonna end up being Kylo versus Rey, no surprises at all. Ryan Johnson does this whole subverting expectations, but he doesn't at the same time.   Leia's flying through space, punching asteroids, flying into the ship, I guess she doesn't punch any asteroids, but in my mind she does. In my head cannon, she's flying all around the galaxy just like vroom, vroom, taking people out. Why not? She apparently has the ability, use it sister!    And it ruins previous characters. Great, good job Disney, thank you. I'm moving on. Why aren't the sequel trilogies down here, Adam, since you put the last Jedi in or shouldn't the other sequel ones be on here? No, because even though those movies aren't good anymore because Forrest Awakens was basically rendered mute thanks to the shitness of the last Jedi, that doesn't make the prequels any better. That's one of the things I will never comprehend in the comments. Did you know that the sequel trilogy can be a huge disappointment and the prequel trilogy can still suck as much as it did? One doesn't become better because the other one's bad. It still continues to suck. And I haven't changed my opinions on that, I'm sorry. I apologize. I know there's a lot of prequel people that either grew up with it because they were kids or jumped on the train because of the memes, and that's great. I'm glad you find enjoyment out of them. I wish I could, but I don't. I did a video not too long ago about my great experience going to episode 1 in theaters. I waited 8 hours, 8 plus hours to see this thing, left the movie scratching my head wondering what the hell was that, but still looking fondly on the experience because it was a blast just sharing in that moment in time and history after so long of waiting for a new film. So I still have good memories, but that doesn't mean the film itself is good. Just because there's an entire set of off-shot things like the Clone Wars series and some of the other animated stuff they've done in books, and other more competently written content doesn't mean the original shit's good now. No! No! I'm judging the value of those three movies. And the naysayers to me will say, but Adam, it's a complete story. It makes sense from 1, 2, 3, not like the crappy sequels.  If you like the prequels, that's fine. But if your first defense is to tear down the sequels, that's not a justification. That's nothing. Alright, well we have Anakin now much older, played by Hayden Christensen, no more of the little kid shit going on from the first movie that does absolutely nothing for the plot at all, other than saying he knows how to build a pod racer and apparently C-3PO. What did that do? What does that do for the original trilogy? Oh, there's C-3PO! Luke built him at one point, doesn't remember him. Good. The whole prequel trilogy has this really weird shininess to it that George Lucas was infusing. You know, it's got the state-of-the-art CG that hasn't aged well at all. A lot of the shots feature people walking in place in front of a green screen with lifeless backgrounds. So uninteresting to look at when these guys aren't interacting with anything real. At one point, a pear gets grabbed and eaten off of a fork. Awful, just awful. Unless that's in the third one. I get these movies confused because I just don't like them. We have that iconic moment where Yoda gets his lightsaber, starts flipping around, like a muppet on steroids. He's fighting Count Dooku or Count Chocula or whatever his name is. Listen, actor's great. Freaking Saramans in this. He's awesome, but the dude's old. He can't move. So the shots are just like him, like, huh, huh. And then Yoda's like, it's like a Benny Hill song playing in the background. Highlight of the film is obviously my girl Padme getting her torso shirt area ripped off so she has like a crop top, the belly showing. That's good stuff. Lucas knew what he was doing there. How embarrassing. Absolutely.  First, he throws Leia in that skimpy bikini and then he's like, I gotta get Portman in something, something good. Let's put in some tight-ass white pants. Get that midriff going. I respect the game, Lucas.  Is Attack of the Clones one where Hayden slaughters the sand people? And that, like the mom and the kids and everything? This is a guy, by the way, that I see people online defending when he's Darth Vader at the end, like Anakin's the real hero. He's the one that brings balance to the force.   Just because he kills the emperor in the final moments of his life doesn't make him a good dude or a hero in the slightest. He has killed billions of people. He slaughtered children. Younglings.  And you defend him?  Just really yelling at my audience today, I apologize. I got some soul searching to do. You know, Jingo Fett's in this, the son of Boba Fett. That's a thing that's happening.  People say he's cool, but he's never been cool in my mind, have you?  Somehow he was propped up as this awesome character. I'll never buy it. Captain Phasma was the most accurate representation of Boba Fett ever, because they're both complete jokes. The Phantom Menace. I'll never forget seeing it in theaters and wondering what the hell I just watched. It had nothing of the original intact. The feeling was completely disjointed from that original trilogy. It was clear Lucas wanted to do something new. Maybe he should have done it with a different movie property. Started something new altogether because that's kind of what it felt like outside of Anakin becoming Darth Vader and Obi-Wan of course being in there as his mentor. There's really nothing tying this to the OG trilogy. It doesn't look like it, which is something the sequels knock out of the park.  They look and feel like Star Wars. These films are so stale, so manufactured, so workshop-like. It just feels like a training simulation of how to make a new type of movie, and it doesn't work for me. Since it's the first though it does have the most practical effects and that can be seen in one of the most epic moments in the entire prequel trilogy, which is of course Darth Maul and that that lightsaber battle duel of fates. Still one of my favorite lightsaber scenes and there's obviously debates about how those fights should be. If they should be more, you know, brutal and intense and impassioned or if they should be more showbody, more acrobatic, more, um, I guess flamboyant. It's Star Wars. We're in space with laser swords. I mean, come on!  You have a duel lightsaber? You're whipping around, flipping over your head? Yeah! God yeah! Absolutely! Then we have Jar Jar Binks, of course, to ruin everything good in this world and this is interesting. I saw a comment, I believe it was on one of my previous videos, talking about my Star Wars experience, who said, man, if we would have known today what we knew then, the actor who played Jar Jar would be in a much better place. He wouldn't have been, you know, bullied and be little to the point of suicidal. What world are you living in? We now openly attack people to their faces. Have you been on Twitter? Bruh? Have you been on Facebook?  It's a well done performance from both acting and special effects points of view. It was just very kid-ish. It was very Who Framed Roger Rabbit-ish. You put that with the very slow pace of the film, outside of a cool pod racing section that led to some fun video games and it itself is a very awesome sequence to behold. There's just not a lot of life in this. It's very dead. There's no celebratory feeling in the prequel franchise. It's all just very stale. They don't work for me. Let's move on. I'm feeling like a star. You can't stop me, Sean. I'm running in the town. I'm solo. I'm riding solo. I'm riding solo. I'm riding solo. Solo. Han Solo. The movie that exactly zero people wanted. Who asked for this film? I genuinely want to know. Outside of the executives at Disney that said, you know what? People like that solo character. I bet we can make a whole movie off of him. People will go to it. They have these super computers processing and you just put a name in. Computing. Working. Datifying. And then it does a print out. We can make money off of this. I'm not so sure they did on solo thanks to all the reshoots and the marketing expenses, but I also really, it's no concern to me whether or not Disney makes or loses money. At the end of the day, they're still fine. They're still fine.  This is where we're at the point on this list for me, that solo is a passable film. I could watch it. No problem. But I just ask myself why. Harrison Ford is Han Solo. There's certain roles that can't be replicated or they just come off as a try-hard or an emulation. And I just think it's kind of a slap in the face at the same time. This isn't a comic book character or anything. This is a character that one actor sculpted in a way that he saw fit. Harrison Ford just was just awesome as this guy.  To not use Ford, but instead use a younger version, kind of a cosplayer of him, that does a decent impression, but not at the same time. I just, I don't get it. This was so shitty of them to do. And the movie itself, it's got enough action. It moves quick enough. Like I said, it's watchable.  Like, who asked how we got his last name? Oh, you're by yourself? So you're Han alone? Han alone. That sounds like a home alone spinoff. Oh! Okay guys, we're coming in. You got cocky, kid. Donald Glover's the only saving grace of this thing is Lando. Again though, Billy D. Williams is Lando. So you're doing a great impression. But why? We learn Oh Han got his blaster. We learn why Chewbacca is called Chewy. We learn how he did the Kessel Run.  We have to tell you everything. I'm surprised we didn't find out how he ties his boots, how he puts his jacket on. We did learn about his dice though that for some reason in this new era of Star Wars is a thing now that I never thought was a thing before. But yeah, those dice, that's an important piece of Star Wars history. How can we forget that Darth Maul cameo at the end? It's so true. Just try harder. And he lights it up like pshhh. Remember? Remember this? It's cool. The Rise of Skywalker.   Some of you might be asking, Adam, why is it in the middle of your list then? Shouldn't it be towards the end? Well, maybe. I just think it's kind of a watchable, fun time at the theater. I don't, I'm so far checked out from Star Wars now that if I have to put one of these on, I'm gonna put the one on that's relatively quick to watch, easy to digest, has a lot of sounds and effects going on. And I don't have to think about it, because if I thought about it, I would just cry myself to sleep.  It's so utterly dumb. The gang's all back. Finn's killing his fellow Stormtroopers while going, Woo! Yeah! He's back with his bro. They're having a good time. And so I'm having a good time.  It doesn't matter. It's Star Wars. Raise Evil for a second so that we can put it in the trailer. Means nothing for the film. Kylo and her have this cool force linkage thing going on. There's force healing going on. We're just throwing everything out in the kitchen sink. We get that awesome flashback with Leia that I liked. There's stuff here. Lots of stuff here. And it moves quick. None of it makes a lick of sense. You have to find a thing to get to another thing to get to a final thing. And a fleet army of palpatines is watching in the crowd. I don't know what they are. Are they manifestations of the emperor? Did he make just little versions of himself to watch himself like a god? Or are these actual loyalists that have just been hanging out in this planet that has seemingly no food or resources of any kind except for all of these ships that they built?  Yeah, so it's dumb. It's loud. It's popcorn flick. Star Wars, baby. This is where we're at now. That's how much I don't like any of these movies. That I'll just, I'll put this in the middle and not even think twice about the placement. Let's move on. I'll take my boneback prequel fan. That's right. I threw it to you. I gave you this. Revenge of the Sith. Some people put this in their top three. Some people put this as their favorite. No reason why you should do that. Absolutely no reason to have it that high. It's not good, but it's at least... I don't know. Why? It's still following the same horrible storyline of the past two movies. It's just done in a more edgy way, I guess. So that means it's better by default, but we still have miserable scenes in this film where Anakin kills the little kids. He's a hero. Remember? He's the good guy that he's the savior that saves the forest. Who cares?  It was Anakin.  He's garbage. Horrible person. At least Rey was good. Who cares if she was perfect? Fuck. The reason Revenge of the Sith is higher on my list is because although the last two movies were atrocious, this one was a big step up. The saber battles were awesome. The space combat was really cool. The opening 20 minutes is pretty epic. It's good.  Palpatine's like, yeah, yeah, you're in now. You're all in now. The final fight on that volcano planet. I don't know the names of these, you guys. I'm not that invested, believe it or not. Really cool stuff. The showbodiness with like going around the back doing stuff.  Padme dying of a broken heart. Not the best writing, especially when she's legitimately saying that Anakin's killing her. Like, she's literally saying what's happening. I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about the... But as far as the overall picture is concerned, I do like that dark tone. It does feel super large in scale. Lucas definitely got a lot more right this time than he did in the previous two. His skills became more pronounced when it comes to this new technology. He started to get a grasp of it better, I think. So there you have it. Revenge of the Sith. Who knew it could get so high on this list? So disappointing this whole saga has become.  This was Disney's attempt to reinvigorate a franchise to say, hey, you know what, original Star Wars fans? We got something cooking we think you're gonna like because it's basically a new Hope 2.0. This rubbed some people the wrong way, but for the most part, the vast majority of Star Wars fans were on board with this. They said, yes, this looks like the OG Star Wars. It sounds like it. It feels like it. We have some of the original characters back. Chewbacca's in there. Han Solo has a decent amount of screen time. Leia's in the mix with the promise of Luke. The Jedi care dangled for the future releases. Was it formulaic? Yeah. Was it very samey? Absolutely. But it got the job done. It got people fired up for a new generation of Star Wars films. At least most. The film is beautifully shot. We have great new characters. Rey, Finn, Poe. Finn was the most promising of the bunch because he was something new. A Stormtrooper who has abandoned his post. He's decided, you know what?  I'm bouncing with this guy here. Some also saw the potential that he could maybe be force sensitive as he's wielding that lightsaber at the end of the movie. I never really thought that was the case. But still, there was so much we could have used Finn for. Especially if we did flashbacks to how he was pulled away from his family and his loved ones and assimilated into this program. This horrific scene. We never really see what the Empire does to these people behind the scenes. It's always just, Empire's bad. They're gonna take over this planet. Wash friends repeat. That's what Finn could have provided. But we don't even get one goddamn conversation with the guy about what he went through, what he experienced. We had two more movies to do that and they squander it. The Force Awakens moved down a spot for me because the film is almost entirely useless at this point. Unless of course you like the movies that follow. I don't know many that like both The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. It's like you like one or the other or you don't like both.  It's just truly sad because what we have here is a trilogy that's competently built. You know like all the things that you look for in a movie are well done. You know the visuals, the audio, all that stuff. But the story was so bad that even the prequels I can look back on and say well at least there is a like a cohesive story from beginning to end. At least the trilogy makes sense and adds up. I don't like it but I will respect that it you know it doesn't take respect though to look at a trilogy and say hey good job making a beginning, middle, and end. That shouldn't be the bar. That's the bare bones we should ask for. It shouldn't even be something we need to ask for. As far as Force Awakens go I really did like this movie when it hit theaters. I even enjoyed it when I bought it and brought it home, watched with the family. It wasn't until those later movies came out that just soured me on the whole thing. And I see how just superficial it all really is at the end of the day. It's in this higher position for two reasons. One, I do like these characters in this film. I think they were really well handled. Two, I don't want to watch any of the movies below this any more than this one so by that standard like if I'm choosing between solo or this I'm popping this in. If I'm choosing between the prequels or this I'm putting this in still. It's not really up to choosing between the two though I just watch a different movie all together. Star Wars Rogue One is the only film on this list that's gotten better over time for me. Initially upon seeing it I liked it. I wouldn't say I loved it. I watched it a few years later, got a newfound respect for it. You have a ragtag crew of misfits running around the galaxy trying to get these plans to Leia to essentially save the entire galaxy so the stakes are still there of course. It's just that a lot of the characters reminded me of The Hobbit where I don't remember any of their names and I like The Hobbit movies. I really enjoy them but I don't remember almost any of them. It had a sassy robot that one of the characters doesn't fall in love with and end up being part of the Millennium Falcon which is nice. It's another solo callback. This is a slow burn Star Wars film. It's one of the slower of the picture It takes its time building up these characters, building up this storyline to a final act that is just awesome. It's like an hour of non-stop action going on trying to get these plans to safety while they're being attacked on the planet. I mean it's good. It's beautiful too. This is easily one of the better looking Star Wars films right below last Jedi. I go back and forth on them. They both have their pros and cons. Actually you know what? I'd say this is maybe better because it doesn't have that whole ugly casino planet stuff that looks like it was thrown in later by a different company. This has a more cohesive look from beginning to end. We can't forget that hallway sequence either. As fan-servy as it was I loved it. Everyone's been waiting for a badass Darth Vader scene in the new generation. We hear stories about him. The legend who slaughters people by the masses but we finally get to see him Frankenstein it out down the hallway. Well Frankenstein's monster. I gotta be accurate but he kills a lot of people in a short amount of time. It's kind of freaky looking. He's like throwing dudes. One of the guys is like huh and just absolutely decimates all of them. It's great and then it leads nicely into a new hope. Seamlessly mind you as we see a very CG looking Princess Leia at the end. Why? Why did they think that CG was so good? God. Freakin' Tarkin looks like a Pixar character. He looks like a guy from Up. Keep him in the shadows. It's not that good you guys and it's gonna date so poorly in that aspect. All right let's get to the extremely predictable top three on the list. If the first half of Return of the Jedi kept that momentum going all the way through this could have been a contender for the number one spot. As it stands though after the prison break getting Han Solo to freedom the movie slows down to a snail's pace. We're introduced to the new cute furry little creatures the Ewoks which I love. I love those murderous little gizmos that run around slaughtering but it takes on a silliness halfway through. It's got cool stuff don't get me wrong the speeder chase is awesome through the forest we have the amazing final act where you know Darth Vader America's hero of course to some sacrifices his life to kill the emperor save the day for his son who he his son Luke you know the guy that dies on a rock alone because he's an asshole he was once good and he convinced his dad to be good as well he saw the good in him the same guy who later tries to kill his nephew because he doesn't see the good in him when when his nephew did far less bad things in fact I don't know if he did any bad things yet it's very consistent character good job good job guys gotta move on it also sucked that George Lucas felt the need to retell a new hope again with the Death Star he's like what's better though how do I top a Death Star and he just really worked his brain for an afternoon he's like no fuck it I can't we'll do another Death Star we got Princess Leia in that cosplay that will never get old today thank you thank you everyone involved in that decision Luke you you horn dog you as a whole though it was a very good ending to an awesome trilogy it's the reason why people consider the original trilogy still one of the best around and I can't fault him for that this is the one that started it all isn't it the reason why people have millions of dollars with the action figures in their basement and have transformed their lives to wrap around the molding of Star Wars it's why new generations of kids dress up for Halloween it's why decade after decade nerds go online to argue with each other about which one is the best a new hope was revolutionary it was amazing but how does it hold up today well not great if you put this side by side with my worst last the characters are so much more compelling in a new hope Mark Hamill is Luke Skywalker a little ranch hand out on a spice farm in the middle of nowhere it's a spice farm I think it is yeah I don't know whatever it is they they have they have blue milk and stuff there one day stumbles upon a couple of droids who have a message from a princess and he's the only hope well Obi-Wan's the only hope but it turns out Luke is in fact the real only hope as he is a Jedi in training such a cool concept of the young nothing rising up to take on the empire and eventually his father in the end the introduction to the lightsaber revolutionary it would go on to be mimicked and cloned and redone online in films time and time again and that John Williams score dear gods what is that thing so powerful so beautiful so perfect so while this movie has aged worse than day old blue milk it still has that spirit that lightning in a bottle that's so hard to recapture even with all the tech and all the talent in the world how can you compete with a couple of no-name actors that were drunk or high off their ass most of the days of shooting a stage actor who had zero shits to give about the film and didn't like it and a director who had a vision and was steadfast and headstrong to get it done against all odds at Star Wars a new hope baby the empire strikes back again what is there to say about a film that's been praised up and down the block i'm certainly not the one to eloquently give it the props it deserves over the countless scholars over the years that have looked back on this film and studied it and said you know what this is what we need to compare greatness to and it's been said time and time again this lord of the rings movie is the empire strikes back at the franchise this harry potter film is the empire of the franchise we go to empire as the definition of doing a sequel right as hitting the crescendo the chef's kiss of a film the stakes are so high in this movie everything is taken up about 10 notches we learn the deep dark secret that luke is in fact the son of the evil sith lord himself darth vader we see all these beautiful unique planets from the icy tundra of hoth to the lush rain forest of yoda planet i forget the name of that one too i could look it up but you know what i'm talking about called cities in this too we get betrayal we get the introduction to lando oh man this movie oh this movie so freaking good yoda i mentioned him why am i not talking about him the puppeteer work is out of this world the lightsaber battles are so much better even the final one against his father rivals that of anything in the whole franchise yes still dated by today's standards but because of how it's filmed because of the good choreography because of the drama of it all it works it's also one of the rare occasions when a franchise ends on such a like a sour note it's it's not complete we have a hero who's lost a hand who's learned that is his dad is just absolute trash or a hero depending on of course prequel fans in my mind there's nothing bad to say about empire it is it's the reason we continue to turn to it so yeah that's that's it that's the whole game right there folks this is going to be a long one i'm 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I think it was 90, 81 there for a bit. They had a lot of momentum. Um, but we just kept tripping away at it. And then, you know, it's sort of been, you know, a consistent theme with us when we're able to get stops. You know, we can really score with pretty much anybody. But when the defenses sound and we get stops, you know, this is night tight tonight happen. Overall, what was the message of the group when you see Katie go out and you guys having to kind of other guys step up and play? Yeah. I mean, first and foremost, you just hope that everything is all right with them.  Um, but then the second thing is like, you know, you got to be professional. Everybody's got to step up and that's exactly what happened. Could you give a chance to talk to him? Uh, yeah, briefly, but I mean, as much as, you know, I would say I'm a doctor and I could give you a thorough analysis on what happened. It's probably going to be too much help asking me. Yeah. Obviously, everything would change if he had to miss any stretch of time. What do you think changes the most if you guys have to play with that in a couple weeks?  Um, offensively, but even defensively, you know, he's been an elite rim protector this year.  But at the same time, it presents opportunities for everybody else. And we have a lot of depth for reasons like this, for everybody just to step up and, you know, collectively try and fill that void. You talked about everybody, even if he is out. Everybody has to do their job and everybody has to be professional. Yeah.  Are they in a better place, either roster-wise or mentally? I mean, I think it's hard to, you know, foreshadow exactly what's going to happen. We don't even know the severity of the injury. He's going to be out all that. So it's like a lot of hypotheticals, I guess. But what we do know is that we do have a lot of depth. So it's a positive for us. What was your reaction to seeing Royce do another putback, you know, basically a game-winning shot and then have that big defensive stop on the other end? Yeah, I mean, he just makes all of the household plays. He does it night in, night out. And, you know, for him to get his second one, you know, in the halfway point of the season, it's pretty incredible.