Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by James Foster. The Boston Massacre Events in Boston were getting out of hand. On June 10, 1768, the Liberty, a sloop owned by John Hancock, was seized for illegally importing Madeira wine. Hancock, a wealthy man, eventually accumulated around five hundred indictments for smuggling. Angry Bostonians responded by assaulting the customs officers. One of these officers, Benjamin Harrison, told the story. We were pursued by the mob which by this time was increased to a great multitude. The onset was begun by throwing dirt at me which was presently succeeded by volleys of stones, brickbats, sticks, or anything else that came to hand. In this manner I ran the gauntlet of near two hundred yards, my poor son following behind endeavouring to shelter his father by receiving the strokes of many of the stones, till at length he became equally an object of their resentment, was knocked down and then laid hold of by the legs, arms, and hair of his head, and in that manner dragged along in a most barbarous and cruel manner. I received a violent blow on the breast which had like to have brought me to the ground and I verily believe if I had fallen I should never have got up again, the people to all appearance being determined on blood and murder. This incident convinced Commodore Hood of the Royal Navy that Boston was on the brink of revolt. Hood wrote to his superiors in London, What has been so often foretold is now come to pass. The good people of Boston seem ready and ripe for open revolt and nothing it is imagined can prevent it but immediate armed force. General Gage, commander in chief of British forces in America, was of a similar mind. He wrote to the government, If a determined resolution is taken to enforce at all events a due submission to that dependence on the parent state to which all colonies have been subjected you cannot act with too much vigor. Quash this spirit at a blow without too much regard to the expense and it will prove economy in the end. Rumors circulated of plans to garrison soldiers in Boston and for once rumors had understated the case. Almost the entire British garrison stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, around 700 soldiers, arrived in Boston in September 1768 and an additional 1,000 soldiers were on their way from Ireland. As British warships sailed into Boston Harbor they lined up in a menacing battle formation, their broadsides facing the town. Bostonians were hostile but restrained. Local officials refused to provide quarters for the troops so the British rented various buildings scattered throughout Boston. This was asking for trouble. The brutal punishments inflicted by British officers on common soldiers made desertions a constant threat and now without a central barracks or bivouac where the soldiers could be watched they began deserting at an alarming rate around 70 in the first two weeks alone. Consequently the British tried to seal off Boston to prevent their own troops from escaping. Sentinels were ordered to keep a sharp watch and they faced hundreds of lashes if they let a deserter slip by. At night sentinels challenged passers-by who were supposed to respond by shouting, friend. Few Bostonians were willing to play this game so tempers flared as civilians confronted soldiers. Sam Adams was outraged by the military presence in his town. When these sentinels call upon everyone who passes by to know who comes there as the phrase is I take it to be in the highest degree impertinent unless they can show a legal authority for doing so. There is something in it which looks like the town was altogether under the government and control of the military power. And as long as the inhabitants are fully persuaded that this is not the case at present and moreover hope and believe that it never will be it has a natural tendency to irritate the minds of all who have a just sense of honor and think they have the privilege of walking the streets without being controlled. The civil rights of Bostonians were in jeopardy. Some responded by affirming their right to bear arms in self-defense. One anonymous Bostonian declared it is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves to keep arms for their own defense. And it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of government. Bostonians were getting touchy to say the least but they had reason to cheer on August 1st 1769 when Governor Bernard sailed for England never to return. Bostonians were not exactly sorry to see the governor go as they indicated by posting broadsides with this farewell poem.   Go join in concert with the croaking frogs or howling chorus with a pack of dogs. With monkeys go and chatter on a stage or turn a mastiff and each curring gauge. Better do worse, turn panderer, pimp, or slave, turn highwaymen, turn murderer, or nave. The military occupation of Boston caused many problems and solved none. By the summer of 1769 this was apparent even to General Gage. The people were as lawless and licentious after the troops arrived as they were before. They were there contrary to the wishes of the council, assembly, magistrates, and people and seemed only offered to abuse and ruin. Two regiments were withdrawn from Boston but two remained. Scuffles between soldiers and civilians became more frequent and tragedy struck on the evening of March 5th, 1770. A scuffle escalated and ended in the death of five Bostonians. Eyewitnesses gave conflicting accounts of the Boston Massacre, as Americans dramatically called it, but the subsequent trial spoke well for American justice. The British officer-in-charge, Captain Preston, was defended by John Adams and acquitted by an American jury. Sam Adams, a distant cousin of John Adams, disagreed with the verdict but he believed there was a more important issue involved. Incidents like the Boston Massacre were bound to occur whenever soldiers were garrisoned with civilians. Bostonians wanted the soldiers out of Boston. Thomas Hutchinson, the acting governor, partially complied. He withdrew one of the two remaining regiments to Castle William in Boston Harbor. This wasn't good enough for the Americans, however, so Sam Adams paid a visit to the governor. If Hutchinson had the power to remove one regiment, Adams bluntly declared, then he had the power to remove the other regiment. Adams issued a thinly veiled threat. It is at your peril if you refuse. The meeting is composed of three thousand people. They are become impatient. A thousand men are already arrived in the neighborhood and the whole country is in motion. Night is approaching. An immediate answer is expected. Both regiments or none. Thomas Hutchinson capitulated to avoid a perfect convulsion and Boston was spared additional violence. From 1771 to 1783 additional orations were given in Massachusetts to commemorate the Boston Massacre. These typically included condemnations of standing armies, that is, professional armies maintained in peacetime. Opposition to standing armies had long been an important element of radical Whig ideology, a political philosophy that animated the American resistance movement, and the Boston Massacre reinforced this traditional hostility. Consider this passage from the oration given in 1772 by Dr. Joseph Warren, a resistance leader who was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Soldiers are taught to consider arms as the only arbiters by which every dispute is to be decided between contending states. They are instructed implicitly to obey their commanders without inquiring into the justice of the cause they are engaged to support, hence it is that they are ever to be dreaded as the ready engines of tyranny and oppression. Most Americans regarded citizen militias, not standing armies, as the proper way to defend a free society. The Boston merchant John Hancock made this point in his 1774 memorial oration. Since standing armies are so hurtful to a state, perhaps my countrymen may demand some substitute, some other means of rendering us secure against the incursions of a foreign enemy, but can you be one moment at a loss? Will not a well-disciplined militia afford you ample security against foreign foes? From a well-regulated militia we have nothing to fear. Their interest is the same with that of the state.  No, they fight for their houses, their lands, for their wives, their children, for all who claim the tenderest names and are held dearest in their hearts. They fight for their liberty, for themselves, and for their God. Ironically, March 5, the day of the Boston Massacre, a tragedy rooted in American resistance to the Townsend Act, was also the day when a new Prime Minister, Lord North, opened debate in Parliament on revisiting the Townsend duties. English merchants had petitioned for repeal because they were smarting from an American boycott. Three positions emerged during the parliamentary debates. Some members, believing that the Townsend duties cost more and lost business than they brought in, favored total repeal. Hardliners, on the other hand, opposed any changes whatsoever, arguing that any compromise would amount to a capitulation to American demands. Lord North favored a middle course. He wanted to repeal all the Townsend duties except the duty on tea. This duty, which was quite small, should remain as a symbol of British authority and thereby reaffirm the right of Parliament to tax the American colonies. Lord North got his way. On April 12, 1770, the Townsend duties on glass, paper, and paint were rescinded. Only the tax on tea was retained, a symbolic gesture that would later have profound and irreversible consequences. Thank you for listening to Excursions. To learn more about libertarian philosophy and history, visit www.libertarianism.org.


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The Euro at 106, the yen trading at 147, the British pound at 124, the one US dollar. iPhone number's<PHONE_NUMBER>, give us a call, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at them. This is, you got a consolidation happening here. There's going to be a battle right up here. So what we did out here yesterday is this. This is how you look at this. We had sign of strength here on the 26th. You go up the S&P, this is 83 million. You come down yesterday, you reject it at 70, OK? Today, you can see what's happening. You have 39 million, you went up. So you're going against 70 now with 39. That's saying, kind of price, you got to 447, you're at 444. That's saying it's going to come right back down and try to test this area again. And you know, I'm sure most of you has heard Tim Wood yesterday. This is the whole area. This whole area right here is where all the ticks and trend are coming out. So the more that we keep testing this, we'll see if the ticks and trend come up. But this is the area where the battle lines are set up. We're going to take a look at the NDX100. Same type of set up inside the NDX. Do you have at the NDX? Take a look at this. Now, the intriguing thing about the NDX folks is this. The NDX is still showing that we're stronger than the spy, even with Apple getting smoked. That being said, what you had is this. You're going into 58 million, and we did 53, 52. You rejected lower price. Now you can see what's happening now. Now we're going into 42, and you only have 27. So we're probably only going to do about 33. So that's going to be a rejection. You can't hold price. As soon as that happens, you're going to go right back down. These are the battle lines that are set up. We go to the note and bond market, because they're all moving together. The cool thing here is that there's a method to the madness here. You go to the note and bond market. Pull up the tenure first, what you're going to see. You're going to see what we had done. Let's pull this across. Okay, so we were going, the last Wednesday and Thursday, you were going into 2.7 million, and we only did 1.4 and 1.2. Now that being said, it got to 1.10.10 today. Couldn't hold price, and the 1.10.10 was going into 1.5 million contracts, and you only did 9.48. So that's also saying it's going to retest that area. We go to gold. It's going to be the same setup. This is a true battle line. There's no two ways about it. We take a look at gold. There she is. Come on, give me that. There we go, okay. So you look at the gold contract. Let me get the volumes on here for you. We were going into 170,000 contracts. On Wednesday, we did 149. Yesterday, we did 117. Now today we did 132, but the 132 was going to 193. Now the gold's not as bad as the other ones. You can see there was expansion of volume, but you're still going to 193. So this isn't done either, and it's all right here. All right, and this dollar. Take a look at the dollar. I'll put this up intraday first. What you're going to see intraday is that the dollar, let me put a daily up first and show you the magic number here. The magic number is this swing point. It's been trying, trying, trying to stay over it. And that magic number is the 104 699. Now intraday, we did get below it, just Bailey, and just Bailey for seconds. Okay, so if you take a look at it, you're going to see what happened is that we got down there, that was at approximately 10.30 this morning, and then guess what? It says, see ya, don't want to be ya. So the bottom line is that the dollar's running the whole ball of wax. You know, if you have a lower dollar, we'll have a higher market. You get a higher dollar, a lower market's coming at us. That's the bottom line. And it's all correlated around the aspect. 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You know, came to where we came down with high volume first. You know, come off the high of what? 194 gets down to 171, does a counter-trend move up to, what's that, 190? Comes down hard, gaps down with higher volume. Today runs to 180, has 52 million shares going against 82. So, what this is doing is setting up a potential, another ABC down. If you take a look at this, I'll put this on a weekly for a second. What you also have is that at this level, Apple is now in the range that it has been for almost two and a half, three years. It went out of the range, now it's back in the range. And the bottom of this range, by the way, on Apple is 120. That's how that sets up. You're at 150, 120 is the bottom of the range. We'll see how this shakes out. So, that's gonna be, that's a big one, man. That's definitely a big one because of the fact that everyone owns Apple. Every fund owns Apple, all of the above. You know, Apple was the leader on the way up, charge, charge, charge.  You know, as I said a little bit earlier, I think though that this is the area where the whole battle lines are taking place, right? You know, right at these, and this is the shallow retracement. So, you're gonna get a good understanding of how you take out the swing point. So, the swing point for all these ABC structures, well, on the spy, it's gonna be 70 million for the potential ABC down. And for the cues, it's going to be 52. And if you get that ABC down, what you'll see is that the next leg will just get you to the low of that consolidation at bottom, which is that 354. Now, this is the cool thing, right? So, we'll do a couple of different scenarios here. Let's picture that on Monday, Tuesday, you do take it out. ABC structures on the way down or on the way up, you got A to B straight line move, B to C is all over the place, C to D straight line move. Now, if you don't get a B to C all over the place, they're not as strong because what happens, they haven't built up enough cause. So, what tends to happen is that if we go straight right down, what you'll see is the volume will dry up dramatically because we're going at the 61 million. This is on the cues. If we mess around in here for a week or two weeks, then that could be more trouble. So, it's all about building cause, where it goes, meaning how long it can go. Because the longer you build cause, the more power the market gets on the way up or on the way down. Now, we had a question about the dollar, meaning the dollar hasn't even done a .382 retracement from the highs. Check this out. And this is where I might want to go because this is where it's gone on the last two uptrends. If you take a look at this, you're going to see it's right. It gave it up at the .382 from the high out here of 114 to the low. You can see that's the number. That's the next swing point also. The thing that is wild is that it's having a really tough time staying over this 104, 699. So, we'll see how that baby shakes out. But even a .382 retracement is a light retracement in a market, because I'm going to bring up the dollar again. Because in the bigger picture, the dollar's still on a downtrend. So, watch this. I mean, this just sounds hard to believe because the dollar's been going up so long. But when you look at this, let me bring this back, pull this this way. What you're going to see is that we come off the side of that 114. The first time you come down, you come down to the 104, no, the 100. You go back up to the 105. You come back down to the 99.50. And now we're dealing with, you get the 104, 699. And then it's going to be the monster number. Because the monster number, that's where that huge bar is. The bottom of that bar is 105, 321. The swing point is 105, 883. And that's just where it might want to go. And that'll be a big battle right there. Because you can see, in one month, that's when the dollar went from 113 to 106. So, the reason I'm taking some time with this is that the dollar's running everything. You can see it, it's so clear, it's the same. Because it has to do with, you're so picture, when the dollar goes down, you can see that bonds stay higher. So the bond market is trying to say, let's go look at the 30 year for a second. Because the 30 year kind of held today, which was interesting. So you pull up the 30 year, did 225,000. But see, that's not enough volume either. It just seemed that it held price. Yeah, it's not enough volume. Because you were going into 369,000, it did 220,000. Not held price, so it did better than a 10. So, if the bond market's gonna go up, that's saying that higher yield, I mean, higher price, lower yield, right? If you get higher price and lower yield, you're gonna have a lower dollar. That's how this thing's set up. You're also gonna have a higher gold, higher silver, higher market. 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Dow Industries right now, down five, you get the NASDAQ of 12, SAPs are four and a half, and if you saw the NFL last night, folks, your Super Bowl champs, Kansas City just couldn't do it, 21-20, you know, Detroit Tigers, man, Detroit Lions rather, pretty amazing game. I mean, just really amazing. And they did it at Arrowhead Stadium, which is pretty amazing. So, you know, these teams are gonna be a great year. That's the bottom line, sure. And I love Mahomes. I mean, he's just an amazing player, there's no doubt. Goff, the Goff is an amazing player. You know, they had Kansas City, he didn't have Travis though. That's like not having your best player, you know? And they say he's gonna be back next week. That's gonna be pretty wild, because, you know, in between the game, they're saying he had no power on his knee yesterday. Like, okay, I'm gonna do this in a week, but they do that in the NFL, you know? But I mean, we'll see where it shakes out, but what a game, no doubt about that. Let's go inside the Dow Industries and take a look at the strength versus the weakness. So, point-wise, inside the Dow today, we have Microsoft putting 26 positive points, Amgen 25, Goldman 16, Salesforce 13, taking away from it. Boeing minus 33, United Health minus 29, Travelers minus seven, no big deal. Let's go to the home business. We'll go to Home Depot, see what this is lookin' like. So, Home Depot, put this on a weekly. This is lookin' pretty good, actually. This has been built in a base now, you know, for about a half a year. And you can kinda see, when we get to these tops, now this is, yeah, this is pretty cool. This is where you can see that it is hard to break through ice. And, you know, ice is set up at a price point of $343, yeah, $343. And you can see when it gapped down, see it gapped down with 45 million shares. The first time that we came up here, you came up with 29, failed on price. Next time you come up with 17, couldn't hold it, that brings you all the way back down to the 280 mark. Now, we just had, a few weeks ago, you came back up with 22, 20. 20 versus, no, 20 versus 25. So that's saying that this needs more cause, man, to get through that. Now, that's on the weekly. Let's see what happens on the monthly. On the monthly, you can see that you're going into, okay, so we're going into 103, the first time we came up, 77, so 25% less. Yeah, this doesn't have to build more cause to get through there. That's what it comes down to. Let's see if Lowe's is probably set up the same way. We take a look at Lowe's, put this first on the weekly. I can't see much on the weekly, put it on the monthly. Now, see, you know what's interesting here? Is that Lowe's is actually stronger than Home Depot. That would make sense. The reason being is that Lowe's is really the store for the personal fixer uppers, more so than the contractors. You know, that's just how the business runs. And you can see Lowe's already made it through, or it's up at the top of ICE. The top is 232.28, we're 231. Now, the volume's dropping off, but you can see, and that totally makes sense, because you can see the aspect of across the country, I can see the contractors pulling back versus the fixer uppers, you know? And we'll see how Lowe, that shakes out the future, but that's kind of how it's set up. Let's go to Toll Brothers and take a look at Toll Brothers. Put this on a monthly. This is at all time highs, man. This is something else. And you know, what you have here is that they're building a lot of homes, they have their own financing inside of, let me pull this up and see what else is in there. So this one signal I just brought up, I can bring them all up. So let's see, who's up the most this year? So you got percentage-wise Taylor Morrison, okay? So let's pull up Taylor Morrison. TMHC, okay. TMHC, even though it seems down, it's up to the most for the builders anyway, yeah. They get volume up at these highs and they're pulling back with late volume. That's still a sign, man, that they want higher price. You know, I was talking yesterday about the aspect of mortgages and how the mortgage brokers are working right now.  And par just means that, let's say the mortgages are going at 7%, you get it at 7% and you're not paying points. The other brokers now are basically charging, you know, probably most of them are pointing half to two points. And the reason for that is that, so picture how the mortgage business works. You and I go get a mortgage, the broker writes up the deal, they, the folks they're selling to is always Wall Street, Wall Street will basically say what the, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac will say what the rate is, okay, they'll buy the mortgage out. What ends up happening there is that they're putting points on because if the mortgage gets paid off too early, there are penalties that are associated even with the buying and selling of mortgages if they get paid off too quick. So what ends up happening is that they want those two points so they know they're gonna get something out of the mortgage. And it's actually, you know, as I said, yesterday was just the opposite of what I thought would be going on because of the fact that there's not a lot of mortgages being written. And also a supply-demand aspect is one thing, but the market is looking and Wall Street is looking that lower rates are coming at us and they think there's gonna be a huge amount of refinances in the future, you know. And that's what, you know, everyone hopes, right?  Stay right there folks, we'll come right back. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. 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Hey, Tom, how are you, sir? I'm doing great, man, yourself? Always great, man, enjoying life. Not calling you from today, but back home in Michigan. Nice. Yeah, yeah, no, it's all good. So, no, the question I had is, UAW negotiations are coming up on the September 14th. Yes. They're on a hard line. What's your thoughts and what's your overall impact to the market relative to the auto industry size of impact? So, the battle lines are set up between the union, of course, and the company itself, which is basically the executive suite. I've always been a union person. My father was the general. Oh, you fostered and I got it. Yeah, he was the general chairman of the signalman, okay? And that's when the signalman folks, just check this out. So this was 1960. So the signalman basically had to walk the tracks then. That's when the signalman were only making $8,000 a year. 8,000, you heard that right. He got them up to 10,000. So, that was a big day in our house, right? That being said, the automakers themselves, I think the executive suites are out of their mind and they have been for a long time. So if you have the worker versus what these executives are making, Mary Bower, she's making $28 million. The guy from Floyd's making $20 million. It goes all the way down the line, man. Did you know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know, so. You're straight on. I mean, it's very interesting because transportation industry just signed up for a 40% labor increase, right? So very interesting to see if the UAW holds out for that as well. So I mean, I'm just interested as far as the disruption to the supply chain in North America, what will or what you're thought to will or will have because it might be impactful. Oh, it will be impactful.  And that's where we are, you know what I mean? So it is what it is. And you know, it's like who has built America? It certainly isn't the executive suite. It's the workers, you know. No, fair, fair, fair point. And I supported it 100% because again, at the end of the day, it's the people that matter. Yeah, no, but I get it in the context of disruption too.  I get all that too, do you know what I'm saying? You know, things change. Now, in the automotive business, it gets really wild because of the fact that, you know, if you really get into it, it's like, okay, GM shouldn't even be around. We already saved GM. The mind blow I hear that no one talks about is that, okay, everyone blew their brains out. GM got in the financing business. They went bankrupt. You know, you and I bailed them out without even knowing we bailed them out. They stopped again and nothing changes. So, you know. I mean, at least Cracer paid back their loan to the government. GM never had. Right. GM paid their loan. That's pretty intense. I didn't know that. That's pretty intense. Yeah. And you know, when you look at the numbers, I mean, I'm looking at the numbers right now. GM did 137 billion in 2019. This year they're doing 173 billion. If we look at Ford, they did Ford's in trouble. Okay, Ford did 143 billion in 2019. They're doing 164 this year. You know? Yeah. So, you know, it's gonna be a battle, man. And the battle's not over here, man. And you know, we'll see where the whole thing shakes out. But I think once you saw that, the, you know, Sean O'Brien from Local 25, when he broke, you know, the transportation deal and Local 25 is in Boston and South Boston, Somerville, the whole ball, I'm very familiar with them. That started the ball, man. It's like, okay. Right.  Well, guess what? Everything stops. You know? Right. And so, the balances always go different.  Now they take years and years because what I saw both sides, you know, my father was there, the workers were getting screwed. By the time I was like, so I was 10 then, by the time I was 30, I couldn't stand some of these guys, even in Local 25, because I knew they were ripping everyone off because it had tipped the other way. And that was, you know what I mean? That was kind of strange to me personally. And then, you know, guess what? Another 20 years later, they were getting screwed. And so it tipped the other way because now I'm in the finance business and I really understand, I mean, anyone that's in the stock market really understands like, how do these CEOs go from making, you know, let's say 10 times what a worker makes to like 100, 200 times?   Yeah, no, back in 09, you know, when the UAW made all their concessions, right? They have never clawed anything back, unfortunately, and inflation's upon us. And they're asking for a fair wage, for a fair labor. So it'll be very interesting to see, but it coming September 14th, and the executive leadership of the UAW has drawn a hard line in the sand saying, we're gonna stop. So it'll be very interesting to see. I just was looking to see what your overall impact was to the market on that decision. No, I'm with you. And you can see, you know, this turns into a financial and a political deal because right now folks, the UAW won't endorse Biden, which normally that happens, okay? They normally have a democratic deal because they know that that's the only card that they actually have left is for the administration to start leaning on the car companies, right? I mean, so they're all playing hardball, but we know that if there is a strike, it's a problem for all of us. That's the answer to your question. That's what it comes down to. I agree. Yeah, yeah. I unfortunately, and as the Sean Fain, the UAW president, local president, he keeps throwing all the contracts in the garbage. It's a very interesting conversation. So just seeing what people are thinking. You talk about shocks in the water, huh, man? Yeah. It's heavy. It's about as heavy as you can get, man. It really is. It's like, wow. There's a lot of capital at stake in the world. There is. There is. There's no doubt about it. And what ends up happening is that there's so many hidden places for profit. There's so many hidden places that, you know, you got the jets that they have. I mean, this is when they start digging into it. It's like, oh, really? Okay. They tell me it's this one, it's this, and it's this one, it's this, you know? So the longer that it goes, most times they find out more in the aspect of, okay, we're spending even more, wasting even more. But we know that the strikes are no good for the country. That's the other side of it. There's no doubt about that. Yeah. Adam, you have a great one and a safe one, man. All right, be safe. Okay, thank you. Thank you for all of you. 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I mean, we're only over it by, what, three by 400 ticks, which is about a half a penny, but when you do look at that bar versus this bar, it's like, you know what, man, this next bar is gonna be game, which is gonna be the 105, what? That's gonna, that really is the top of the range, and that's the top of the range going back to 2022, of May of 2022, that's how that shakes out. And the bottom right there, what is that again? 106, so 106201. Now, that's almost like a full point. We'll see where this shakes up because if we go up there, you're gonna see a lower market. If we fail at this point, you're gonna see a higher market. It's that cut-and-ride, that's what it comes down to, because everything's priced in dollars. They're all trading, oh, I know, there was another question that the correlation between gold and the dollar hasn't been there. But that's a positive correlation if you're into gold because gold, I've said this in the gold report, gold should be a lot lower, man, you know? What has happened is that the gold contract has not got smoked as much as I think it should have with the dollar at these all-time highs. So that's a positive divergence for gold. Always remember, folks, the bank and Clio hideout, the bull can run you over and thank God, there's always another trade. Health, happiness, and prosperity. Have a great weekend, folks. Have a safe weekend. Come back in nine o'clock, Monday morning, Tommy will be back sometime Wednesday or Thursday. Have a great weekend, folks, and a safe one. Real, look at him, folks.


Hey friends today. I'm hanging out at Hollywood Studios last time I was here I came to the conclusion that I kind of get in a habit of things that I do here I always come try to get on Mickey and Minnie's runaway railway It's linky dog dash rise of the resistance so today I want to focus on the attractions that I do love that I don't do that often and just have a great day, so Let's go do this Got a nice greeting already too. Look at this. We got Chippendale walking down the street Hey friends Thank you. Oh, hello Pluto and then here comes Mickey himself Look at there he is That is awesome What I mean when I say I haven't done an attraction in a while I mean I haven't done an attraction in a couple of months because I'm always here I'm always in the parks, but sometimes I'm not in the parks all day long So I only come in do like, you know the big time attractions and then leave so today Like I said, I want to do the ones that I do love that sometimes I just end up skipping Muppet vision 3d is definitely one of those attractions I love it because I love seeing sweetums come out at the end. It's a 35 minute wait So usually I probably would skip this but I'm making in a point today to actually Celebrate these beloved attractions and waiting it out. However long it takes I Remember days of coming here and vacationing at Walt Disney World and not leaving the park until I've done every single ride I missed that park open the park close I'd go at it all day long, but that was vacation mode it's a little bit different once you move down here because you're more at a relaxed pace and It was a big shock and adjustment at first But I absolutely love it now because I have that freedom to play with time and enjoy all of the amazing experience kind of at a leisure Normally Muppet vision 3d isn't 35 minutes, but it's still spring break. So it's still busy here A good thing though is when you have to wait in the queue you get to see all the cool Muppet signs that they have normally you don't have to come through here because you would just go in the front way Down there we have wild frogs, which is a joke on wild hodds, and then these are some of the older ones It's called from outer space and then over here the bride of Frog and Shrine It's miss Piggy and Kermit. Oh in Gonzo right there. Look at that The queue for the Muppets has such amazing little like Easter eggs and cool references As you see by those movie posters, but one of my favorites is the Gonzo on the brick wall Look at you can see Gonzo. That's the pipe and it's his nose. Isn't that fancy and he's wearing 3d glasses like we're about to put on Of course, this one's a popular one back in five minutes Key is under the mat and then you can kind of see there's the key under the mat. Isn't that fancy? Hope you got to pick up our glasses Thank you That's my spot there it is just in time for the show Something that I find challenging with the mask or watching shows where you wear glasses because I constantly get them Fogged up especially since I'm wearing glasses on top of glasses So you just got to put your face mask all the way up there and it kind of stops it. I Also appreciate how this whole theater is a part of the show like you can see the walls up here It kind of looks nice and shiny at the end of the show. It's gonna be destroyed a lot of people skip over it Because they don't like sitting down doing shows, but they don't know there's animatronics in there There's live characters. Sweetums is one of my favorite characters. I've ever met. He was so cool I met him out the outside of Muppets here at a moonlight magic, which I absolutely miss moonlight magics I wonder if they're ever gonna start those back up again. I Was gonna head to the back lot express next, but I think it's closed. Yeah, they close at 5 p.m That seems like a little out of a time 11 to 5 They're only open park is open till 8 o'clock But there was a lot of quick service locations and a lot of people just forget this this is here Because the back lot express was closed I went and checked to see if anything was open on the walk-up list and 50s time-time cafe was open How fancy is that so I ended up joining the walk-up place this at 55 minutes? And I think that's perfect because I have another ride. I want to do and I think we'll go to star tours next this ride I definitely skip over a lot because sometimes the wait is a little bit long right now it's about 30 minutes and a lot of people are more focused on Star Wars land and galaxies edge The outside queue is amazing here. I love looking at everything that they have on display. It's really cool I wish I can go up inside here though. That would be really fancy How cool would it be if they had a bar up in the tree huts right here? I mean that would be the coolest bar on Disney property and then of course who can forget this little guy right here Look at that footprint right there. I Love that they add that in there that really adds a nice touch I bet you a lot of people probably climbed up there and took a photo even though there's a rope here That would be a pretty cool photo What is it now? We have to grab spectacles for this ride too and it looks like we are in boarding group A For some reason though these glasses don't fog up as much and you know what I'm realizing a lot of the rides That I don't do as much make you wear glasses. They're like 3d rides Maybe it's more than what I'm thinking Time to board our ship and I got the fancy seat right here because we're gonna be right next to C3PO It's gonna be right behind this wall like C3PO is like right there I love how Disney uses like little car seat booster seats as their separators because that's so fancy They're actually seat belted in to Our frequency They're a spy in a trader to the first order You are no maps for the power of the dark side R2 what are you doing there? Rhetorical question listen up. There is someone aboard your ship the final to our mission Is this mission sanctioned? I love Star Tours the only thing I wasn't too happy with is when they added the new scenes to it They took out Princess Leia when she comes and delivers like the secret message I feel like they should just let her always be it you know what I mean I got pulled this time and I was just like oh no not Paul Now I don't want to wander too far away from the 50s primetime cafe because I did join the walk-up list It said 55 minutes. It's been about 40 minutes Maybe so I think they're gonna call me any second so I don't want to hop in line for anything So I might as well show you around like you know sunset Boulevard and oh there is one thing I do want to show you guys The other day I was at pop century and the big laptop in the 90s section had icons for all the Parts and one of the icons was MGM studios and I was like wow I'm like it still says MGM studios and that's really awesome that they kept it and then I was thinking like what other things Hey, MGM studios and there is a statue here that still says MGM studios The statues right here and it actually has a plaque and it's Michael Eisner's dedication speech for the opening day And at the very top it says Disney's MGM studios and I like how he ends this speech And he says we welcome you to Hollywood that never was and always will be May 1st 1989. Isn't that really awesome? And our reservation time was called so we're gonna head on into the primetime cafe. I love it here I missed the tune-in lounge like that was my favorite place to hang out and grab a drink and right now They use it for I think you still can get like drinks to go I'm not sure we'll find out But a lot has changed in here the menu is still the same the food is still good But there's a couple things they can't do like they used to you know, I Remember the waitress wouldn't give me the dessert menu until I ate my green beans the one time that was hysterical They also yell at you if you put your elbows on the table like they're really strict You know what I mean? But it's in kind of like a comedy fashion if you've ever eaten here before it basically It's like a 50s mom style where she's you know proper manners at the table and she yells at you I love it This is the old waiting area and it's kind of like a living room. I absolutely love the TVs though Like if these ever came available for sale, I would try to buy one so quick. It says Disney down here And then on the top it says WD videomatic Very cool. And then over here I Don't know if people remember these top like these style of tables But this table special because it has a bunch of hidden Mickey's on it Look at that They have one there and one there This is so cool Our table was called so now we're gonna head on in to our spot Looks like we're going back here. I've never been back to this side. Oh, okay. There we go Fancy by the window This is really cool. I've never been on this side So normally they have like kitchen tables where they have TVs and stuff like that. I'm a party of one I don't need to pick up like a big table there, but I really like it in here Let me show you around a little bit You can see they have TVs up in the corners here and it's like a separate room I've never been over here and I got this, you know to top against the window.  I love the wallpaper and the curtains Really really awesome. One of the best themed restaurants. I think at Walt Disney World still to this day I'd like how they have the menu actually in the app. It still goes along with how it should be So like if you get to the selections, it says from dad's liquor cabinet So this is all the alcoholic beverages that they have and then up top They have everything broken down by grandpa grandma. So oh, this is the kid entree It says grandpa's grilled chicken Grandma's macaroni and cheese and Betty's chicken strips But for main entrees and what I'm gonna actually get is a sampling of mom's favorite recipes So I'm gonna get the fried chicken. I'm gonna get the pot roast I'm gonna get the meatloaf with all the fixings my cousin Peter is actually gonna be waiting on me and He suggested for the chicken noodle soup. So I decided to order the chicken noodle soup now I've never had it before and on the appetizer side it I asked him if it was like a big bowl because I know I'm getting like a big sampling so I'm getting all of mom's Favorites, I don't know if I can like eat a big bowl of soup as well And he said maybe you can get the kids one and it was only three dollars three dollars They have three dollar kids appetizers and I was like, yeah do it. I'm in Here is the soup look at this. This is the perfect amount for three dollars. I really like it. No soup for you. I Love soup soup is one of my favorite things to eat Italian wedding soup hands down my favorite and I can't wait to try this Looks like it's got good noodles and good broth. I can smell it.  I wish my camera was running because I would have been hysterical But I love that she did that but cousin Peter is my reader She like peaked her head in here and she was just like hey, don't think you're getting your food until you take that hat off excellent And look at that my dinner has arrived. I went with the mash French fries instead of mashed potatoes. We got a little bit of chicken a little bit of pot roast a little bit of meat Loaf and then of course the green beans. This looks fantastic. Doesn't it? Wow, they never disappoint here I think I'm gonna try the chicken first So we'll just bite into it. Look I got a little gravy on there from the pot roast It's probably gonna be a good bite right there. That is so good I love the chicken here and they ask you if you want dark meat or white meat when you get the sampler So I asked for dark meat because I thought I'd get a thigh and that's perfect And now I think I'll hop on over to the pot roast here. That's looking very scrumptious as well I like the little carrots and celery that they have on top of the pot roast. Oh, that's perfect. It's gonna be good It's so funny how I'm just taking a bite of each thing So like one bite of chicken one bite of pot roast and next it's the meatloaf The only thing is with the meatloaf it has that tomato like sauce on top of it I'm not a big fan of ketchup. So we'll see how it goes, but I'm gonna try it without Meatloaf does it for me. I love it green beans are very good as well Everything is delicious, but the meatloaf was my favorite and then the the fried chicken was a close second Very close second because I love the breading But the only thing is they don't give you enough meatloaf. I think next time maybe I'll just order the whole meatloaf dinner Dad's meatloaf That was delicious, but now I think I'm moving along You know what I wish one day I'm gonna come here and I'm gonna be on the fridge So the first family the day gets their picture taken they used to put a picture on the fridge It would be there the whole day And I thought about coming and then like getting a picture of just me So then I could be the single family of the day for the whole day Oh, I feel like that was a mistake. I am so full now Oh, it was so good though. The chicken noodle soup was amazing meatloaf was my favorite I was gonna try to get a milkshake or dessert. There's no way I can fit that in so so good I love prime time. It's one of my favorite places to eat. Oh, and I did ask They don't do the family photo anymore. They actually stopped doing that. So it made me a little sad I don't know if I'll ever be able to accomplish the single man family of the day photo Maybe maybe in the future. They'll bring it back Now I want to head down sunset, but take a look at that sky Isn't it so beautiful out? This is really nice and now the lights on Sunset Boulevard are starting to turn on This is the perfect hour of the day right here folks. It is exactly 730 and just look at the skies. Look at the lights There is a new shirt that just came out today So I think I'm about going in the legends of Hollywood to see if it's there yet I absolutely love this shirt and if I find it, I gotta get it So we're gonna see if it's in that. I don't want to tell you about it yet though Where the stars shine and we'll take a peek see in here Nope, because that's an exit only so we're gonna go on this side. I almost walked right in there Yep, this looks like the entrance There we go Oh my lord, the shirt is here. I have to get it. Wait till you see Look at how amazing this is. We have a pongo in a perdita dress. Isn't it amazing? Look at how pretty she is Gracie would love it if I was wearing this shirt. Actually, I wonder if it has anything on the back Look at that pongo's pins I think I have to get it. This is $60 And then the dress Is $168 That is so awesome I had to get it There was no way I was walking out of this store without that shirt And with that, I think I am done here. I successfully got a new shirt Had some fancy dinner at primetime cafe road star tours and also watch the Muppet vision 3d show Sounds like a really good day at Hollywood studios. I'm really happy I came out today I didn't think I was going to be able to come to the parks As you know reservations are tough to get but I was trying and basically all afternoon and just around two o'clock I would say one of them popped open. So I grabbed it and said, uh, all right. Let's go do this So I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye You


What's good y'all Chris from jasperyscasebrakes.com doing 2023 toms chrome sapphire baseball five box half case Random team number two with at the very very end one of our MOB playoff promotion spot giveaways Being given away to one person at the very very top of that last randomizer But what's to the break first? Let's grab our spots from John all the way down Adam grab the last two spots We'll ask Bob Mojo and our 30 teams from the D-backs down to the Nationals Let's roll a dice and randomize. Good luck four and three seven. Thanks again y'all one two three four five six and Seven seventh and final time gonna be Adam down to Tristan And seven times with the teams one Two three four five six and seven Seven and final time angels down the Cubs So I'll give this one a minute or so for trade see if anybody wants to offer any team up But let's see how it all shook out It's like 82 There it is So Jeremy with the D-backs Adam with the Braves Jake with the Orioles Chris with the Red Sox Tristan with the Cubs Brandon with the Red Sox Jeremy with the Reds Adam with the Guardians Lauren with the Rockies Stacey with the Tigers and Astros Adam with the Royals angels and Dodgers Jake with the Marlins second half John With the Brewers and twins Josh with the Mets Chris with the Yankees and A's Tom with the Phillies Jake with the Pirates and Padres Jeremy with the Giants Lauren with the Mariners Craig the Cardinals Ryan the Rays Jake the Rangers Adam the Blue Jays and Josh with the Washington Nationals All right, we're gonna pause the video real quick see if there's any trade discussions I'll let you know when we come back and after that we're at five boxes the last half case of tops chrome sapphire Thanks, y'all be right back All right, we're back no trade discussions. We are all good to go with switch screens at our five boxes of chrome sapphire right here and our lists Jeremy with the D-backs All the way down the John with the Nats all card ship in this one y'all got some playoff baseball going on right now Six dominant innings from a that Chloe's given a one-run Phillies are up four to one going into the seventh I Was looking to even up the series of my next Few innings But Dodgers D-backs playing in about an hour or so being two of that series the twins with a pretty dominant game yesterday evens the Evens the series of the one and then the Rangers just back to back games. I've kind of show the Orioles who's boss What is your name car shark I got first box if you look Got a purple sauce off like you Purple Max Muncie two out of ten on the purple Max Muncie for the Dodgers and Adam Oh, yeah, Jake you've got Orioles Marlins Pirates Padres and Rangers I Start the nice purple Max Muncie out of ten There's a gun at Henderson. Let's look at your AL rookie of the year Not an orange rookie Wow sapphire selections orange 24 out of 25 Riley green usually one of these per case little shorter print here. That's for the Detroit Tigers and Stacey Very nice 24 out of 25. These are super cool. Nice hit Jake Smith also on the board with the gun or Henderson rookie Jordan Walker rookie and a gold stone Garrett 42 out of 50 for the Washington Nationals and Josh I'm also looking for some short prints. He's really another couple boxes from what I've noticed Jordan Walker going to the Cardinals and Craig All right, nice first box let's go box, too Tristan Casas rookie off throw a sleeve on As well for Ozzie got an orange Joe Ryan It's out of 25 for the Minnesota Twins and John 18 to 25 for the second-year pitcher Got a pretty solid season for going down to injury Casas going to the Red Sox and Chris Butler A gold coming up as well Toro comes up big in the ninth. It's a team quarter for the Seattle Mariners 37 out of 50 gold for Lauren Cal Raleigh on the left Toro in the middle J. Rod on the right nice looking card there Got a ball be rookie for the Yankees one more for Chris Butler 313 313 Another gold the Spencer Strider Which is a short print this is a short sprint and a nice one. Wow 50 out of 50. This is guardians edition Nolan Jones Guardians going to Adam. He had a heck of a season for the Rockies here a nice rookie here Cleveland though going to Adam Last card there at Francisco Vendor Strider short print going to Adam in the Braves as well It's pretty nice everything 2020 season for Jones, I think with the weed and outfield assists Ops above 900 All in like a hundred games. He's I think one to watch out for I have word for makes that if we do have another case of these I'm going to put it up Another five box break first five from a fresh case another purple For the white socks Lurie Garcia four out of 10. Excuse me four out of 10 purple for the white socks and Brandon So I can purple in three boxes not too bad. See if we can get a little lower though Future stars gold Ronson you can cherish 43 out of 50 for Pittsburgh It's another one for jake smith a little bit of a color match there, but we know hoppy rookie Matthew we were tour rookie I'll see what he needs to do a short print. No Just a cool looking card I don't know Jason had any reds And you have a five for a lower in the first half for the two please snap with her at these last two boxes Bending the first pack here Going to be brennan crawford nice little color match 23 out of 25 for the Giants and jeremy 23 out of 25 on the brennan crawford And another sapphire selections gold corbin carol Nice hit for arizona and jeremy Second of the case second on the last five boxes very nice This doesn't make sense eight out of 50 for arizona and jeremy and a gold column ran 42 out of 50 for seattle One more for warren carry carbon turkey had a pretty solid season for detroit All right, so that was sapphire selection and we got one last box fifth and final box Of this break if we have more i'm gonna post number three onto the site right after this Let's got one more box and then one more giveaway with a playoff promotion spot at the very very end What's up, man? Most likely i'll probably throw that into a filler a little bit after this christopher morrell rookie Care of mitri and another purple to wardo eskibar 10 out of 10 That's metz addition for ee going to go to josh third purple 10 out of 10 on the wardo eskibar nice Uh, it is not gone yet the playoff mixer is not gone yet. Well Which one i thought we had a couple going on We have the the three caser the playoff basal mixer 26 box. That was not gone yet Christopher morrell cubs going to tristan Christopher morrell last stack of cards here. Let's get another gold coming up Gonna be another nice rookie bread baity 34 out of 50 One more for the metz one more for josh a little metz box here Very nice bread baity on the gold Pretty solid half case y'all Some pretty good stuff three purples two sapphire selections one with them a big big name Corbin carol eight out of 50 on the sapphire selections purple lary garcia nolyn jones gold orange joe ryan And an orange sapphire selection riley green from the first box Maximum to gold a purple out of 10 nice stuff All right, let's switch screens though. Let's get to the fun stuff here. So adam down to tristan Our fresh dice are fresh like never top name only Get since the mlb playoff promotion giveaway right here So I'll throw the dice and randomized one and six seven times. Good luck one two three four five six and seven seventh and final time So two down to 30 sad times, but plenty more chances to get in I think it's only the third or fourth spot to go So plenty of chances to get into this one number two josh Under 30 jake sad times. Thanks given the shot though, but happy times and congrats to adam Who grabbed a bunch of spots adam gets in to our playoff post season promo? Yeah, this isn't the spot number four So congrats adam. Thanks again I'll make this number to our fourth spot into our playoff promotion $7,000 in prices being given away Get into it. We have a few more breaks on the side with it We'll keep up holding more as well at jasper's case breaks.com. Thanks again everyone. Goodbye


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss about the method for integration by substitution. A change in the variable of integration of a reduces an integral to one of the fundamental integrals. The method in which we change the variable to some other variable is called the method of substitution. Consider the integral i equal to integral fxdx. This can be transformed into another form by changing the independent variable x to t by substituting x equal to gt. This gives dx upon dt equal to g dash t that is dx is equal to g dash t dt. Now we substitute the value for x and dx in this integral. We get i is equal to integral of f of gt into g dash t dt. We generally make a substitution for a function whose derivative also occurs in the integrand. Consider the integral given by i equal to integral of cos of mxdx. Now here what we do is we take mx as t. This gives us mdx is equal to dt that is dx is equal to 1 upon m dt. Now we substitute the value for mx and dx in this integral. We get i is equal to integral of cos t into 1 upon m dt that is this is equal to 1 upon m integral cos t dt. This is equal to 1 upon m sin t plus c. Now we substitute the value for t we get i is equal to 1 upon m sin mx plus c. This c is constant of integration. So this is how we make suitable substitutions to find the value of the integrals. Next we discuss about some important integrals involving trigonometric functions and their standard integrals using substitution technique. First standard integral that we have is integral of tan x dx is equal to log modulus sec x plus c. Now let us see how do we get this. Consider integral tan x dx. This would be equal to integral sin x over cos x dx. Now we will make some substitution like here what we can do is we can substitute cos x as t. This gives us minus sin x dx is equal to dt or sin x dx is equal to minus dt. So we get integral of tan x dx is equal to minus dt over t which is equal to minus log modulus t plus c. Now we substitute the value for t equal to cos x. So this is equal to minus log modulus cos x plus c or we can also say integral of tan x dx is equal to log modulus sec x plus c. In the same way we will make some substitutions to get other standard integrals like integral of cot x dx is equal to log modulus sin x plus c. Then we have integral of sec x dx is equal to log sec x plus tan x plus c. Then next is integral of cos x dx is equal to log cos sec x minus cot x plus c. Let us try and find out the value of this i equal to integral sin x over sin x minus a dx. Firstly we put x minus a as t this gives dx equal to dt. So this i becomes equal to integral sin of a plus t over sin of t dt. This is equal to integral sin t cos a plus cos t sin a over sin t dt. This is further equal to integral cos a dt plus integral cot t sin a dt that is this is further equal to cos a integral dt plus sin a integral cot t dt. This is equal to cos a into t plus sin a into log of modulus sin t plus c. We have used the standard integral that is integral of cot x dx is equal to log modulus sin x plus c. Now we substitute the value for t as x minus a. So this becomes equal to x minus a into cos a plus sin a into log of modulus sin x minus a plus c which further is equal to x cos a minus a cos a plus sin a into log modulus sin x minus a plus c. So now the value for i becomes equal to x cos a plus sin a into log modulus sin x minus a plus c1 where the c1 is equal to c minus a cos a. Next we shall discuss integration using trigonometric identities. When the integrant involves some trigonometric functions we use some known identities to find the integral. Let's try and find out the value for this i equal to integral sin 3x into cos 4x dx. First let's recall the identity sin a into cos b is equal to half multiplied by sin of a plus b plus sin of a minus b. Now we will use this identity to solve this integral. Here we will take a as 3x and b as 4x and we substitute these values for a and b in this identity. So this becomes equal to integral of half multiplied by sin of 3x plus 4x plus sin of 3x minus 4x dx which becomes equal to half integral of sin 7x dx minus integral of sin x dx which is further equal to half multiplied by 1 upon 7 minus cos 7x plus cos x plus c which further is equal to minus 1 upon 14 cos 7x plus 1 upon 2 cos x plus c. This is the value for the integral where the c is the constant of integration. So like this we can use the trigonometric identities and solve the integrals. This completes the session. Hope you have understood the method of substitution for integration and integration using trigonometric identities.


Okay, we're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech Tech Talks on Think Tech. Surprise. Okay, and we're talking about broadband. We're talking about how broadband is doing. The broadband providers are doing in the time of the virus. There's somebody who knows, there's somebody who's the founder and CEO of SurfPak. SurfPak is a broadband provider, among other things. Richard Zhang. Hi, Richard. Thank you for joining us this morning. Hey, good morning, Jay. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Here we are. We're actually not that far into it. When you start counting the days and the weeks, Hawaii hasn't had more than about three weeks or so in a serious virus. I think our first case was disclosed on March 6th or so. It's not that long ago. Our world has completely changed since then. Not only the cases, but the way we greet each other and talk to each other, the way we do business, of course. Our lives in general have been seriously impacted over that very short period of time. Tell me, how has your life at SurfPak been impacted in that short period of time? Yes, Jay. This is definitely a challenging time for everyone. Nobody would expect this, as you said, three weeks ago. After the first case in Hawaii, we made a lot of adjustments in the business and how to adapt to this because the customer demand is quite different from before. What? Well, certainly it's had that effect on every business I know, except we have distinction going on these days between essential services and non-essential services. SurfPak and broadband providers in general are clearly essential services. So how did this come to your attention as the CEO and what reaction did you have and what steps did you take and what steps are you taking now to deal with the extraordinary changes in our world? Yeah, I think when this whole thing started, first, just like everybody, we were like, oh, okay, it's some cases on the mainland. It's not a big deal in Hawaii. Then we started noticing people looking at ways to work from home because we provide the broadband internet services and phone services for businesses. So when some of the customers start calling and say, hey, what can I do? And I talked to some other businesses, they already started the contingency plan. What are they going to do in case that the office shut down and business shut down? So after a little bit, do nothing in the beginning, we realized, hey, this thing is going to hit us really quick, really fast. We see this avalanche coming towards us. So basically, we get our, lucky thing is we have a business continuity plan. We do every year, we do dry runs. So we just bring the plan and put it in place. Initially, we were thinking about, okay, have an employee go home, test the home internet to make sure they can still access the system from home answering phone calls. So during the day, we have a plan to do it a week later. Then in the evening, we realized, hey, this thing is going to be hitting us really hard. So we're like, okay, let's accelerate the plan and do the testing the next day. So that was a Friday about two weeks ago, but maybe three weeks ago now. Then after that weekend, we just send everybody, send email to every employee that, hey, if you can work from home, you should start from home. So that is actually one week before the city shut down. And during that week, we see our call volume literally doubled. We were swamped with phone calls and people say, hey, I need to work from home. I need to send all my phone calls to voicemail or play a different greeting. So it's lucky we have everybody working on our phone already. So we don't have to worry about our internal operation. So that free up all the resources we can go out and help the customers. You're talking about changing the connection from the office to the home. You're talking about educating people and helping them reconnect from home, both on broadband and also on voice over IP, which is really part of broadband, I guess. And so that would be reasonable to anticipate as soon as you find out that people are going to have to work at home, you know already that they don't have those connections at home and they'll be calling you because you offered telephone support. So you knew you put all that together immediately and you knew that you would have to be prepared for that kind of onslaught of telephone calls. And I suppose that people were slightly panicky and demanding. Right, right. I mean people, we always pride of our customer service. So when people call us, they can always get hold of engineer, talk to people. So we are not, I don't think any business is designed to have this like double call volume, literally overnight coming in. And we really struck in the beginning, we tried to get it back to the customer as soon as possible. And it is very challenging. So the team really step up every day, work long hours and over the weekend, get the tickets answered, get the problem resolved for the customers. How hard was it, Richard? How hard was it to connect all your people at home? That sounds like for you, it would have been pretty easy. Yeah, once, you know, the thing is, you know, people when they access, if they go home, use the Internet, they need to access the resources in the office. So we need to make sure this is secure. So for our managing network customers, we already have Firewall in place, VP in place. So it's just a matter of give change, give them a chill so they can, you know, put the VP connection at home so they can access the company resources securely from their home office. And the same thing with the voice IP phone, we need to, you know, set it up or give them credentials and get everything running. The biggest challenge is it's not hard, it's more like resource taking. We need to get engineers to set things up, talk to the customers. Everybody home connection is different, you know, we need to make sure that, you know, if there is any, you know, issues with their home connection or home computer setup, we need to work them through the different scenarios and get things running for them. So as I said, the hardest challenge is how do we get resources on our side to help people in a timely manner? Yeah, well, disclosure, you're our broadband provider at Think Tech. It's very important, central to our operation.  And you have always been good on support. So this is part of your brand.  And that's an important thing. Other companies, you can't get through. You can never get through, even on a good day. So you can always find an engineer, a technical support person at SIRVPAC. And I guess, you know, the question I have is, you know, it goes beyond just the broadband. It goes beyond just the broadband and the void phone. Because when people go home, they're using their computers.  Am I right? Right, right. Yeah, definitely. So we have to go above and beyond how people are on the issues. Normally, we don't have to resolve, right? But now, you know, before the phone in the office, we set up the connection, the network in the office, when they go home, it's, you know, totally different setup. So we have to really work through the steps and, you know, different issues and have different solutions. We had really nailed down to this.   Like, first I was like, yeah, you know, this is pretty technical. We probably cannot use it. Then we're like, wait a minute, you know, we have this, you know, huge volume phone call coming in, you know, we can probably train these people very quickly. They can get the customer information, you know, get all the tickets created so I can use all my engineers' time to solve technical problems. But in terms of communication, you know, gather information, and these people can handle it. So within, actually, literally within a couple hours, we get like three call center people up and running, and you know, set up VM, set up, you know, VoIP phones, so they, yeah, they have to work from home. So, you know, our, we have one engineer train these people, as I said, literally, then we have all the recording, actually, we have a transcription, we transcribe all the phone calls so we can review it to find all the problems.  So that is a huge thing for us because that free up all the resources for the engineer so we can really handle on the, handle those hard technical problems. Wow, that's a win-win-win-win. Yeah, you know, they still have jobs, you know. Exactly. They have jobs that owner don't have to worry about, oh, I have to, you know, follow these people, you know, these people have a job, they have pay, and to help our customer service and our engineers, you know, solve the problem. So, yeah, so this company wins, we win, and the customer wins. Yeah, absolutely. And there's a lesson, there's many lessons in there, not only for broadband providers, but for others. I mean, it's a service to the community, what you've done. You've pulled them, you've taken them off the streets, so to speak, and you've repurposed them for things they can do when you've kept them in the workforce. You've helped to, you know, modify the shock the community, the business community, would otherwise have on this.  We're not an essential service. Our employees have to go home. The way we do what we, you know, our business model does not permit them to work from home, is no way they can be helpful at home. So we're going to have to shut down on this, Richard. Do you have that experience, and what do you do?  So it is, you know, as a, as the CEO of the company, that's definitely a huge, huge concern for us. Yeah. Well, you know, there've been articles in both the Times and I think the Wall Street Journal about April 1, which is coming two days from now. And April 1 is the first of the month and it's, it's, it's bill payment day. It's paying the rent, it's, you know, it's paying all kinds of suppliers, it's, it's paying, you know, mortgages and loans, and it always happens on the first. And in both of these articles that appeared that I noticed, you know, they're, they're concerned, they're, they're concerned about, you know, what, what happens to the country when every, it's like, it's like, it's like Y2K, if you remember Y2K, it all happens on the same day, right? And nobody knows exactly what's going to happen. So April 1st, all these bills come due. And I mean, you may get a flood of calls and letters and emails and telling you that, oh, sorry, I can't pay, or maybe not. I don't know. And so, and the same thing with the banks and the same thing with the mortgage companies and so forth. So we're going to find out soon. And one of the things that you mentioned before we started was that this is not the kind of thing where you make a plan and then something happens like coronavirus. And so you adapt your plan. This, this is not monthly, monthly change in plan or even weekly change in plan.  Tell me about how that works. Yeah.  So people have years of time to plan for this.   Yeah. So what really helped us, you know, we do have, you know, business continuity planning for actually has been going on for the last four years. So every year, you know, we look at our plan to see, hey, if there's something happening, you know, typically people don't plan for, you know, for pandemic, right? People plan for, you know, local disaster, you know, hurricane tsunami, maybe something like that. And this one, but those plans, although it doesn't apply to here directly, but definitely help us to understand, you know, what are we going to do when this thing happens? So one thing, as you mentioned, the changing, this thing is like changing so fast, right? Like we initial to send everybody home, but we're weak ahead of time.  Then we had to plan on Thursday, then Thursday evening, we look at news, we see the, you know, this thing is coming really hard. We're like, wait, we kind of wait for a week. So we decided right away. So Friday morning, everybody come in, we have a company meeting, then, you know, after lunch, everybody go home, right? Everybody send everybody home and, you know, take the computer, take your monitor, take the phones, then we test it, see how everything works, which is good because we found some problem, right? Some people didn't have good internet at home, okay? Somebody's, you know, router is not working well. So that helped us to really address the issues and get those problems resolved before we get huge amount of phone calls coming in.  Once I want to add, you know, we, in this whole process, we really communicate with employees, you know, we have the most workforce staying at home now.   The company has enough reserve, we're going to survive, you know, even for a few months, if we don't have, you know, customer payment, we can still survive. So it's another problem, you know, and, but, you know, if this goes even longer, then we might have a problem too. So I communicate that they're very clearly with all the employees and it's a very critical situation. Yeah, we live in strange and threatening times. You know, one thing is, have you been thinking about what happens at the end of the, you know, at the end, at the end of the crisis? I mean, hopefully not would, at some point, it's going to end. We don't have to figure that out right here now when it's going to end. Nobody knows when it's going to end. But let's say it's going to end in the space of a year, a year and a half. Oh my God, that's a long time. Do you have an idea about how, you know, you will reorganize yourself? Maybe it's gradual, maybe it's all of a sudden. How are you going to bring everybody back, you know, to your office premises? You can do it gradually and how are you going to, you know, get back to normal?  But I can guarantee you one thing, the normal is going to be different than normal. It's going to be a new normal. Yes. How would it be different, Richard? Do you have an idea about how it will be different? Well, I can only, you know, there's, you know, lots of things will change, right? So I can speculate on one thing, you know, like people will get used to work from home, right? The business owners will say, hey, you know, working from home is not a bad thing. Maybe more people can work from home. So, you know, definitely, you know, we will adapt to this. You know, our business has been adapted in all these years. We started 2004. We keep adding new services. So I'm pretty sure we're going to be different a year from now in terms of services we provide. But how is it going to happen? What's it going to be? You know, I think it's just like everybody's guessing. There's still a little too early to tell. Yeah.  That two-level kind of triage seems to me that's something that sounds so good and so useful and so helpful to your business is one possibility where you might continue that after things return to normal now. Yeah. So, you know, when we get hit by this, you know, lots of business to try to adapt to the new things, right? Even the restaurant, you know, in the first week, first weekend, you know, I want to support the local business, you know. I have the means so I want to, you know, to take out for some of my favorite restaurants, right?  So, I called them a week ago, you know, out of some food, no problem, the line went through very quickly.  So, as you can see, you know, this, everything is, you know, changing so fast. It really, it's really hard to predict, you know. One thing you can see from this example, you know, if you're doing well, you've serviced your customer well, people will come back to you, right? I mean, people will still take your services. They will love you. So, that's why in the last few weeks, we try so hard to answer every phone call we try our best not to send people to a voicemail or have them wait for, you know, long hours, you know, it's like, that's, you know, that's our job. We spend all the resources, answer people's calls, take care of them. I'm sure people will. Sure, it'll pay off, yeah. You know, when we spoke last, Richard, it was January 10th, I don't know if you remember, but ThinkTech always covers the Pacific Telecommunications conference. And we were there, we took some footage of you and all that. And you talked at some length with some great, great interest and excitement about your new data center. Then I wonder, you know, how your data center has been going in the throes of the crisis. Tell me about the status of it, yeah. Yeah, it's great. You know, I'm working at the Mealy Learning today. I still, you know, travel between the two offices. And I can tell you the project is at full speed. And, you know, I guess a lot of contractors, the subcontractors, they, they, the other work has slowed down. But our work, you know, since it's tied with essential services, data center telecommunications. So we are, you know, considered as an essential service. So all the contractors have been working and we didn't slow a little bit. In some cases, we actually accelerated the project because more resources. We do have, you know, have to make some adjustments. So when people work in the data center construction area, we all have to wear masks. So it is good because, you know, our understanding is this they're so hard to get. They may not be able to prevent the virus, but at least if, you know, if I'm sick or for whatever reason, I don't even know this going to block, I spread a virus to other people. So we basically have a policy, you talk about change, we have the policy overnight and we enforce it and they say everybody outside needs to wear these masks. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I wanted to talk about one other thing we have a few minutes left and that is where broadband fits from your point of view in the community.  What's going to stop first and second? And if business A stops, what is it going to be on business B and C and D? How are they all connected? And where does broadband fit in all of that? Where do you fit in all of that? What happens, and this is my big question, what happens in the ghost of Christmas future? If you can't do broadband, if we don't have broadband, what is life like here in these islands here in our community? Can you talk about it? Yeah, definitely. You know, the internet and the broadband is critical to, you know, before people talking about the importance, now people realize how important this is because, you know, people need to work from home, like my kids, in two days, they're going to start a new school and they're going to be learning. So they need broadband services. People, you know, had been building internet, but a lot of time we are not ready for this, you know, the bandwidth usage has been skyrocketing. And I heard like in Europe, the government has asked Netflix to drop the video quality from high definition to low resolution because their network just couldn't handle it. So now everybody knows the internet is super important and we need to invest, you know, the private companies and the government, you know, everybody needs to invest into broadband, you know, the whole internet infrastructure, be able to adapt to this new reality that lots of people will be working from home. Yeah, you think we could be in a situation where we have to give up resolution on our internet and our broadband, such as in Europe, such as with Netflix? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think sometimes when I watch Netflix, you know, the quality was not that great. Maybe it's automatically dropped or anything. Right. It's happening already. Well, I'm certainly hope this is an opportunity for people to realize the problem, you know, before the effort, just like we need to produce masks, you know, and, you know, other medical supplies, the same thing, toilet paper. Well, let me just add this last thought and that is, you know, it's really necessary, in my view, that we have broadband, that we have the availability of the internet in these dark times when we were all shuttered in and sheltered in, because life would be very tough without those things. But the other element, and I think it's worth mentioning, is that when we get out of this, when we see the light at the end of the tunnel, when we try to get back to normal, we're going to need broadband all the more to knit the community, knit the economy back up together. We cannot afford to lose it, because if we lose it, then it'd be really hard to bring back our economy, don't you agree? Yeah, definitely.   So those things can not only make us more efficient, but save people's lives. Yeah. Well, thank you, Richard. Richard Zhang, the CEO of ServPak, a great company, I can tell you from personal experience. Thank you so much for coming on our show and talking about these things. All the best to you and stay safe, and all your people stay safe, Richard. Aloha. Thank you.


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