I've decided to create my own Paradox Pokemon and to do this I'll be enlisting the help of an AI Generator to design my favourite Pokemon that we know are returning in the Scarlet and Violet Hidden Treasures of Area 0 DLCs. We will be using information on Pokemon we know are returning in the new DLCs. You prefer to keep the surprise of these Pokemon for when you play the DLCs maybe now is a good time just to skip over this video or even bookmark it for later when you've played the DLCs and see how close we can get with that design. Now I'm about to pick Pokemon that I'd love to see us get Paradox Pokemon for but I'd love to know what returning Pokemon you'd like to see get Paradox Pokemons in the new DLC. Even give them a typing and a name if you want and maybe if we do another video like this in the future we'll feature some of your selections down below. Right let's start off with Gen 1 I'm discounting any of the start of Pokemon I don't think they're gonna get Paradox forms and anything that's had a regional form in the past. Okay I've been through the list of all the returning Pokemon to the new DLCs in Pokemon Scotland and Violet. So the first Pokemon I'm picking is gonna be Arbok. It is an iconic Gen 1 Pokemon. I think this would make a great Paradox Pokemon. Next one is Snorlax. I feel like Snorlax deserves a Paradox form. It didn't get a mega evolution. It hasn't had a regional form either. It did get a Jackatomax form but we'll put that aside but it will be one of our Paradox Pokemon. The Gen 2 Pokemon that we'll be picking for Paradox forms are gonna be Lantern and Macargo. Macargo in particular because it just feels like it gets forgotten about. I feel like people don't remember that it's an actual Gen 2 Pokemon. It hasn't really been featured in many generations lately and I just absolutely love Lantern and feel like this thing deserves some sort of Paradox form. There's only one real choice from Generation 3 and that has to be Flygon. Big fan favorite. Always overlooked. Hasn't had any sort of regional form. Mega evolution or even a Jackatomax form. So in this video today, we are picking Flygon. I think another Gen 3 Pokemon that we're gonna pick is gonna be Metagross. Such a great Pokemon. I know it's had a mega evolution but I just feel like it's an iconic Gen 3 Pokemon. Gen 4 I'm selecting Gliscor. I feel like there aren't too many selections here with returning Pokemon. Gliscor one of my favorite Pokemon and something that I would love to see get a Paradox Pokemon. Gen 5 has so many good Pokemon. We are gonna go with Scrafty. All-time favorite Gen 5 Pokemon. Gen 6 doesn't have too much to choose from but for this one we're gonna go with Meowstick and I think it'd be fun to do like a future and a past form with Meowstick so that's what we're gonna go with. And to make it a nice round 10 from Gen 7, we're gonna pick Arachwanid. One of my all-time favorites. Super strong Pokemon. It was very close between that and Vikavolt but we're going with Arachwanids. So that would take us to 10 Pokemon selected for Paradox forms. That would be Arbok, Snorlax, Lantern, Macargo, Flygon, Metagross, Gliscor, Scrafty, Meowstick and Arachwanid. That's 10. If you do a past form and a future form for both Macargo and Meowstick that takes us to 12 designs so far and that feels like a good solid number like generally it feels like that could be a possible number of Paradox Pokemon that we get in the new DLCs. So with our 10 Pokemon, the AR Generator that we're gonna be using in today's video is Mid Journey. We're gonna head over to Discord. We've got it set up and try and put some inputs in to see if we can get some good Paradox designs for our selected Pokemon. Ancient form of Arbok. Let's give it the anime Pokemon style, smooth and vector. These are kind of cool. I like them. I like these a lot. Yeah, that one, the bottom left one looks really really good. Get these as close to Pokemon designs as possible. I think if we add the Command Qt in here, this looks really cool. This looks more like a Pokemon. I think the art style is great. Let's upscale this one. I feel like we've got the Arbok lockdown. Okay, let's go with with Snorlax. Futuristic robotic version of Snorlax. Look, amazing. These look insane. I can't believe how good these look. Okay, I think the one in the top right hand corner probably looks more Pokemon design like than anything other. Ancient form of Lantern. Let's see the Lantern. So an ancient form of Lantern. Oh my god. Do any of these to you look like a Lantern? They're both on the bottom look like birds. Ancient is not working out. Okay, let's try. Futuristic version of Lantern. I mean, what is that in the top left hand corner? That's just like some some anime girl, not a Lantern. And what is that on the bottom right hand corner? That is that just a machine. I mean, that's too far. It's not even fish like. Okay, I think we have to change the parameters a bit. Futuristic version Lantern Fish Pokemon. Cool designs, but none of them really look like Lantern. This is going to be tricky. Futuristic Fish Pokemon. Let's drop Lantern altogether. Blue and yellow color. Okay, these are getting closer. I guess like not really Lantern looking. Robotic Fish Pokemon. Blue and yellow colors. We got that down. Electric typing. That's more like it. Look at that. These look, these look way more like Lantern. I don't know whether or not you would just look at these and be like, that's a future version of Lantern. I don't think we're quite there yet. Okay, let's move on. Ancient form of Makago Pokemon. Anime style. None of these. None of these even resemble Makago. Okay, I think we can assume that the AI does not know what a Makago is. We're going to have to de-scale our description a little bit. Okay, let's try Ancient Lava Snail Pokemon. Oh, these look so much better. These look nice. And we're on the right lines now. We've got a Lava Snail. I think because we're going to do an Ancient and a Future form of Makago. Let's go for, we've done the Ancient one. Let's go for a Future one. Let's see how well we can do with futuristic robotic Lava Snail Pokemon. These look nice. I like that one in the top right hand corner. That is very cool. That looks kind of derpy, right? I like it. But this one in the bottom left hand corner almost looks like it could be a legendary Pokemon, but it's a bit too realistic to be a Pokemon. Like a Pokemon design. It doesn't really feel like it's got that kind of Pokemon anime style drawing about it. Okay, the fan favorite. Let's go for the Flygon. Futuristic Flygon. Let's see if it knows what a Flygon is with metal wings. That sounds futuristic. Pokemon anime style, vector smooth. Let's see the results that we get for this one. Oh, look at those. These definitely resemble a Flygon. Like the coloration is right. I feel like AI knows what a Flygon is. Let's try and just make it a bit more kind of Pokemon anime style. Let's see if we add the cute command like we did with the Arbok to see if that generates anything a little bit better. But this is very good. This is probably the best one that we've had so far, I think. Oh, these are, yeah, these are nice. I like them a lot. I like these a lot. This is cool. Okay, so I think we've got Flygon down. Ancient form with Metagross. Historic version of Metagross. Okay, okay. I can, I can, I, you know what? I can kind of see the Metagross resemblance here. Maybe not the bottom right hand corner one. Maybe not this one. That just looks like a Rockman. Let's change it to be more Rocklike. Rusty old version of Metagross. Got the words. It's like by Bionicle, man. Historic version of Metagross. Less metallic, more bug features, anime vector. So let's try that. Oh, these are super nice. These are cool. We're getting very, we're getting a lot closer. That bottom left hand corner one feels like it could be on the, on the right tracks. Version of Gliscor. Historic back Pokemon. Purple and Brown coloring. Okay. This is, this is more like it. Okay. That definitely looks like it could be an ancient form of Gliscor or Gligar. So this went on for a little while. We tried to get the 10 designs or 12 technically because we're doing a futuristic form and a past form for both Meowsstick and Macargo. This took a little while, but wait for it. Here are the final versions of these Pokemon. First up, we have the ancient form of Arbor. Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Barstrikes from Pokemon Scarlet. It is going to be a poison and dragon type Pokemon. It is going to be big. 3.5 meters. I thought this thing should be huge because it's part dragon. It's going to be big like based on an Anaconda. Let me know what you think of this Barstrikes design and if you think the name is any good. Next up is our Paradox form of Snorlax. It's going to be a Future Paradox form and this is it. Meet the new Paradox Pokemon, Iron Gluttonous from Pokemon Violet. It's going to be a normal and electric type Pokemon. I felt like it had to keep that normal typing and with the kind of big futuristic robotic aspect of it, it makes sense to go for electric. Next one is the Lantern and you know the struggles we had when we were trying to put inputs in for it. The journey did not recognize what a Lantern was so we had to play around with it and this is the best that we've got. Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Iron Finns from Pokemon Violet. It is a water and steel type. It's not the biggest of Pokemon 1.5 meter. It's still pretty big for a fish. Obviously with that quark drive ability as well. So this one I do like the design. I don't know if you would instantly say that is a Paradox Lantern but I guess this is the best that we could do with what we did. So probably one of the weaker designs but I really do like the design overall. Although I do think if we had a bit more time we could probably get it a bit closer to what Lantern looks like. Next up is Armour Cargo Paradox Pokemon. So we're going with the Ancient one first. Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Flameshell from Pokemon Scarlet. I actually really like this. We're going with the fire and steel typing so very similar to Hitran. I think it could do a good job but a lot faster. I think the idea of this Pokemon would be small, be super fast, be super powerful, super potent and with that Protosynthesis ability you get the sun and you get that fire typing which make it pretty strong and pretty threatening with that steel typing as well. And the future form for the Macargo. Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Iron Spins from Pokemon Violet. Fairy and fire typing had to keep that fire typing with it but I thought Fairy and Fire would be quite a nice combination here. Again, I think it's going to be more of a speedy Pokemon. Macargo was never really that fast in its base form so I think like both the Ancient and the Future ones just realised that they need some speed to do some work. Fire and Fairy pretty cool and I think this one, I do like this one. I do like both the Macargo designs so I don't know if this one feels like it's that much of a Pokemon design but I could potentially see it as one of these Paradox Future forms. Next up is the fan favourite and it is going to be Flygon. This again is a really cool design. I love it. This is Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Iron Jets from Pokemon Violet. Going to be a Dragon and Steel type as well just to play in with the futuristic kind of metallic form of it and I love this design. I think the AI, I think Mid Journey got this spot on with that bug typing that Flygon obviously has from its Prevolutions and then keeping that in this futuristic form. Obviously we've not went bug typing for its final typing but I think Dragon and Steel fits in perfectly. Next up is Metagross. Now we did an Ancient form of Metagross so this is Meet the new Paradox Pokemon Granite Claws from Pokemon Scarlet. It is an Ancient form of Metagross and we went for Bug and Rock. I think that's an interesting type combination. This is a Sleeper pick for me. I really like Granite Claws and I like the name as well. It feels cool. So I would actually kind of believe this if someone showed me this and said this is a Pokemon. I would believe this would be a Pokemon. I don't know whether I believe it would be an Ancient form of Metagross but I think Mid Journey did a really good job of this one. So that is Granite Claws. Next we've got the Ancient form of Glyscor. We meet the new Paradox Pokemon Dusk Wings from Pokemon Scarlet. I love this design and it feels like it's got that like Dragon, Gargoyle kind of look to it with the kind of hints of a bat to it as well which Glygal, Glyscor are. We went for a Dark and Dragon typing so it plays in with that kind of Gargoyle bat kind of theme with the typing and a Dragon type as well because in my head it just makes sense. So this is Dusk Wings. I really love the design of this again. I think Mid Journey did a great job with it. Next we've got our Ancient form of Scrafty. Razordash is its name from Pokemon Scarlet. I think we went here. We've lost the Dark Typing. We went for Fighting and Fire here because it just feels like fire could be a good typing on it. This one, like I say, one of my favorites. I'd love to know what you think of Razordash. What do you think of the name or would you have named it something different? Next up we've got our Past and Future forms of Meowstik. First one's going to be the Ancient form. I hope a lot of you like this one. This is Phantom Paws. I love the design of this one and although it looks small and cute, this is actually a pretty big dog Pokemon. So it's 1.8 meters. So it's more like the size of like an Arcanine. That's the idea I wanted to go with and we went for a Psychic and Ghost typing. I really like the idea of this typing on this Pokemon. I think like it could be Phantom Paws as well playing with that name. Obviously losing the pure Psychic typing and going for a bit of a unique typing on it. But the design itself aesthetically is so pleasing. I love this one. I think overall this is probably one of my favorite Past forms that we've done in this video. But the Futuristic form of course is going to be Iron Pounce and this is the Futuristic form of Meowstik. It's going to be a Steel and Fairy typing. One of my favorite typings. It looked convincing to me. It might not be as Pokemon looking as you would expect it to be. But I think this was as close as we could get it. And another one that we struggled with was the Arachnid. So we decided in the end to go for a Futuristic form. Here is Iron Web's Meet the New Paradox Pokemon Iron Web's from Pokemon Violet. We managed to get it with the Water Bubble over the top which was really cool. That was tricky to do in mid-journey. But I do feel like it's got the coloration of Arachnid. And this kind of could be a future version of Arachnid if it evolved into this kind of robotic spider Pokemon. We went for Water and Fighting typing. One of my all-time favorite typings. You get Keldio with that typing as well. It's a pretty big spider. Two meters. Pretty heavy weighing in at 185 kilograms. But I actually love this design. I think it fits in with Arachnid. It could be convincing. I don't know if it's just me because I know I'm doing an Arachnid design that I'm more convinced. But if you looked at it, I guess you could make the connection if you knew about Arachnid, right? Maybe. Let me know. But these are all the new Paradox Pokemon we've created. We've got six ancient forms and then six Futuristic forms. But let me know down in the comments section what you think of all of these designs. I would love to hear your thoughts on them. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's video. It was a lot of fun doing this. I'd love to do something similar in the future. If you've enjoyed it, please drop a like. Do subscribe to the channel for more of our Pokemon scholar and violet content. I will see you all in another video very soon. Until then, friends, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.


Love to welcome everybody back to the independent investor channel live stream on a Friday here. Great to see everybody in the gallery here, always continuing to footstomp this message. I'm always really trying to dig deep below the surface, try to find out what it is that we can continue to progress in our thought, in our dialogue as we look to help all investors look. I don't know who's gonna come in here week to week. I have no idea. But for you guys that are new to the channel here, I'm one of the first financial YouTubers on. I'm slow to grow, no problem about it. I mean, I'll be doing this for the next 20 years. This is part of me. It's what I do. I approach this in a little different manner in that I'm just here to administer the business and I represent you guys. I represent the hardcore workers every day, the people who are working hard to get ahead. And really just to identify those opportunities out there for people who may not think that there is opportunity. And I am in fact here to tell you that there is opportunity out there. And I really do charge people to look within. It's an expectation of mine. It's one of those things that I'm looking to aggressively challenge this idea that retail investors cannot succeed in the stock market. I think all the time I deliberate around this. I'm 43 years old now.  What would I tell myself? And we're never given that luxury except for the people who might come into my message and hear me rant about the importance of hard work.  I think the younger generation is just looking to find out what it is that they like to do with their time and that's just supposed to make them happy. I challenge a little bit of what our intent is is to challenge the idea that paying the bills might be one of those things that you might get smacked in the face with reality a little bit when you get out on your own, which I did. I don't come from money guys.  I congratulate you. That's lovely.  But for us folks that actually value hard work and are looking to put the grind on, all right? We wanna continue to footstomp this message of understanding what works and what doesn't work, okay? Just visited an article before I came live to now I'm talking about how people got overextended last year. Real estate market was really, really up and we just came out of the latter portions of a global pandemic that really set people down. Relief was provided, but people were buying and extending into homes that maybe was an extension of what they could afford. And now they're struggling. Now they're struggling to put a few dollars in their tank. Now they're struggling with regard to the products that we buy when we go to freaking Walmart to feed ourselves so we can actually survive in this life, all right? Why don't you retool your expectations and live a little bit closer to the best? Rerack your priorities a little bit and expect maybe that things aren't going to be all hunky dory into the future. Rerack your expectations into anticipating some hard times rather than expecting all the time good times. And I think this is a fallacy, especially here in the States and I don't mean to impugn my fellow countrymen, whatever the hell that means to each his own, do whatever you wanna do. But I think we suffer from a sense of entitlement in this country, I absolutely do.  It is part of you, it's in your DNA, it's ingrained. I would never, ever trade anything that I've been through in my life because it's defined me. And if I could give away the goods to the community, there's people out there that relate with me, man. I've got tradesmen, I've got electrical electricians in the group here, I've got truck drivers, I've got social media personalities in the group, a lot of content creators. People just looking to make a living here, man. The common thread amongst that is, are you proud of what it is that you do? Are you proud of putting in an honest day, man? There's nothing wrong with that. And I'm hard on the new generation, I get that. That's why a lot of people don't subscribe to me. You just be like, hey, these old people, they don't need to be judging. Look, man, I'm not old, I'm fine. I've got my life squared away. If you don't want to take a little tutelage from somebody like me who is built brick by brick, brick by brick from $1 to two, to four, to eight, to 16, and so on, no problem. Good luck on your own trying to make it, okay? The beauty of social media is that you've got folks like myself who take a pause every now and then, which is what this project is all about because when I'm on my day-to-day activity, when I'm on my daily grind, when I'm at the gym at five o'clock every single morning, like clockwork, that is for me. It's for me. It's for me. It's for my family. And I expect that your guys' daily routine is for you. Every single second of every single day should be focused on what it is that you guys do. I've identified the 16 pillars that I focus in on. Mine don't have to be yours. I'm always encouraged to engage in dialogue that addresses positive thinking and positive thought. Where is it that your mind is at when you're focused on me, me, me? I've heard some comments come through the channel that are talking about, hey, this market kind of pushed me a little bit and it kind of got me a little bit depressed. Yes, got you a little bit depressed? Guys, that is a movement away from those core fundamentals in life. That's a movement away. We have to fight that at all costs. It's no way to live life. It's no way. If I have 16 core fundamentals and the stock market just so happens to go down a little bit, then it's only affecting that one 16th of what I consider to be important in this life. Does it affect my relationships? Well, if it bleeds over, certainly. Does it affect my mood? Yeah, sure, right? The stock market being down, so I'm gonna lay in bed and feel sorry for myself. No, no, that's not how it works. And we have to continually grind this thing out because the fact of the matter is, retail investors, man, need tough love. They need it. I've said this many, many times if more people would come on and share a testimonial of success, I charge this group right here, this very community that comes in every single Friday, are you gonna be the core nucleus of independent investors? Those that answer to no one except for themselves, are you gonna be that sample set? I would suggest perhaps that the information that we put through puts us in a potential to be a cut above, to be above what the status quo delivers. And that is people overextending, overspending, having poor perspective, not thinking about a successful mindset. I've said many, many times, guys, a lot of people will say the mind is strong, the mind is weak, it's easily manipulated, it's easily influenced, you have to continually fight that stuff. When was the last time you took a step back and defined what it is that's important for you in this life? If you do that, a lot of the things that I hear come in trickling through the channel and look from my perspective, we've been up week over week over the last couple of weeks. I took a little downturn today, gave back four grand today in the market, which actually would have put us up in all the accounts. We'll do the portfolio reviews, guys, but you have to keep this thing in check, you have to. And the reason why I've always done this project six, since six years ago, we're in year six, standing on the precipice of going back to the home of the independent investor channel, New York City, I'm super excited about that, man. I'm super excited about the prospects. Things really shook loose for me at my career, man. It only took 17 years, hard work, hard work, yep, yep. And I was convinced 100% that I would not make it, 100%. I'm a realist, I'm a realist, and it happened, it happened. You have to put yourself in that opportunity, man. Here's the thing, you can work hard your entire life. You can work hard just like a washing machine. You can work hard just like a dishwasher. And let me tell you, the sheer reality in this life is such that you may not make it working hard, okay? You may carve out a nominal life, you may have a family that you value, you may have other things that's more important to you, you may not make it on the financial side into millionaire riches, that of which here in this society is a measure of end all be all success.  But if you've got a few million dollars in the bank, man, you are a figure and a pillar of success in this society. I beg to differ, all right? But you have to keep perspective about this thing, guys. You have to stay locked in on this. And where there is opportunity, you have to keep it in check, you really do. You have to prepare for the bad times and every second of every single day, that you have that goes by can be minutes spent toward that end. I run out of time with my day. Successful people do that because they've got so many different things in way of organization.  And I'm consistently and continually evolving my schedule to get more productivity in my day than the average bear. And that's really the key is to try to carve out what it is in this life is important for you. In this video, man, we're gonna address some tough love, man, I'm gonna dig deep for you guys, really looking to make an impact. I really am. Household debt is skyrocketing in this country. We can't seem to get out of our own way. Prices pump go up a couple bucks and we lose our freaking mind. Our dependence to everybody else providing this life is amazing to me. And when that life hiccups a little bit and doesn't go quite as the way we planned, we freak out, we freak out. Oh my God, life is over. No, no, no, the sheer reality is you're living it right now. You're living your best life right now. Get to work. Some of you guys right now need to really convince yourself, man, you've gotta convince yourself. And I'm deriving a little bit of motivation, man. I really am. I use motivation from the community to turn that back and let you guys know, look, everybody in this community is doing at least one thing in this life that is independent to them, irrespective of what everybody else in this community is doing. And that right there, my friends, is the special aspect of this. You bring to the table different things. I've got one right here. My boy, right here, petroleum engineer. Great guy, self-made millionaire, under 30 years old, man, he should be proud of himself. He's hitting me up, right? And he's like, Ryan, man, this market got me, right?  Ask yourself, right? This will make us stronger, but this is the reality of it, okay? And this man knows how to invest. He knows how to invest, and he's very strong in the mind. But even the strongest of the mind, myself included, get caught up a little bit sometimes in getting used to a conducive market. And when it rolls off, it's a jar. It's like, hmm, this is interesting. What's going on here, man? This doesn't feel too good, you know? And it's like, okay, I can handle this for a week. Maybe two. Okay, a month, I'm over it, right? And then it prolongs and stacks on top of each other.  I can do without this whole getting a bootle. Maybe I should start retooling my thought process. And maybe I should just go all index funds. How about that? No, man, the secret is much simpler than that. See, here's the funny thing. Stock market investing, and thank you, Matt, it's great to see you, my brother. Stock market investing is not hard work, okay? That's the funny thing.  I don't care what you've got yourself convinced on how good of a stock market investor you are, okay? Stock market investing is a luxury. It is not a right. I've said this many, many times. I've never heard it from anybody else, but that's the God honest truth, and that's how I feel. It is a luxury and not a right, okay? So it doesn't mean because you've tripped and fallen into a luxurious activity, that it's gonna pan out exactly the way that you set forth in your mind the way it should work out for you. The chances are it's gonna mind FU, and it's going to do to you, and it's going to deliver results that you never saw possible, okay? We're gonna teach you some of the defensive strategies that go into building a program. I started the live stream tonight talking about if I could go back and do it all again, what would I do? I would index my money 100%. That's the God's honest truth. So for these people out there, these young people who think they've got it all figured out they're the woke generation. They were born with all the answers. There's no reason to seek out any more answers because they're already enlightened. I will tell you along the financial realm. If I was going to define my life and define what it is that's important to me, I would get a pad in the paper and I've shared through my Viper group specifically, my 16 elements of those things that are important in life.  When's the last time you actually put some real time into seeking out or maybe even finding a relationship, a meaningful relationship? Well, there's nobody out there for me, Ryan. No, no, no, that's not the question. When was the last time you truly, truly looked into that? The rewards can be insurmountable to have a family. When was the last time you truly looked at either upgrading or finding employment that you can be satisfied with and can provide you some upward mobility? When was the last time you truly looked for something like that? And I didn't say, bought into the cliche, that because I like to draw and color and do my side project, that this is what I'm gonna do and this is what I was put here on life to do.  You have got to carve out a living for yourself. It's super important, guys. Super important. And the quicker you can figure that out, finances can be the easiest thing that you ever engage in. And if you engage in it right, and I'm gonna give you the secret sauce to my approach, if I could go back and I could do it again, we could build a community of Howard investors that would rival all, they would rival all because we would not be succumbed to the volatility in the markets. We would not become emotionally charged in stock market investing, right? This has been tough on me. And I've had to rely on my risk tolerance to the market. Yes, in a capacity that would probably rival all, right? It would probably shake out 100 other investors if you took and provided them my portfolio and said, here you go, this is now your money, but you can't touch it. You have to react in a way that whatever the stock market doles out, that is what is going to be rendered in that portfolio. I think you'd have a failure rate of 100. And I think there's probably an easier way. There's merit and discussions too. The level of commitment that I have to indexing my money in my portfolio, it's super important I have a commitment to the dividend to growth strategy. I just pulled my TSP for all of you government workers out there and military workers alike. You guys can get on there and you can sign into the new TSP. I gave my spiel last week about the new funds. I would leave it alone. I would leave it alone unless you saw something that I didn't see, it's suspect in my mind. You've got to switch over to another site to opt into a mutual fund program. And I just think BlackRock got greedy on this one. I think people responded and said, we want more options and they didn't know what the hell they were talking about.  I think the best thing you could possibly do is just stay the course with your indexing of the core funds. Those core funds were, those were incepted to make sure that people had the best chance of building financial wealth for themselves and their families going forward. But that is available for all you guys. I really appreciate you guys stopping by, man. I'm all freaking fired up tonight, as you can tell. I'm gonna try to lay out the goods tonight. I've got 40 more minutes left on the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube and I aim to please tonight. Gotta find the perspective. That's what this game is all about. It's all about perspective. Think and grow rich, okay? It's one of my coolest books. I've got it right down by Napoleon Hill. It's one of my favorites. It's ready to pack. We're prepping to pack and move to New York City. So I'm super stoked on that. I'm gonna try to keep the downtime to a minimum on the channel. This is part of my DNA. This is part of what I feel like is part of my calling. That's why I suggest perhaps that I would do this channel no matter what. I do thank YouTube. I thank them for not promoting my stuff but also at the same token providing me a conduit to come on and provide me a microphone and a voice. It's just that simple because traditionally, people like me would never be able to have that voice and I believe my voice reciprocates. I believe that my voice actually represents those hardworking peoples out there that may not resonate with the YouTube thing. In other words, man, alive. This is Ryan.   I'm not. It's just funny. I like to speak around this topic. I like to teach. I like to coach. I like to mentor. I'm very motivational in my dialogue but I'm also not polished with my approach. I don't do skip jumping every two seconds to keep your attention. I don't do that. I don't karate chop you to death. If I wanna take a drink of coffee, I damn well will.  I think people have unfair expectations of what they expect of others to provide them success. How's an oxymoron for you, man? Seriously, help me. Help me get the success that I seek in my life. Doesn't that just seem stupid? There needs to be more people out there calling for individual responsibility like I do. Individual responsibility. Look, if you make it and I'll tip my hat, the coolest people that I talk to are those self-made people. The self-made people even that don't even really even see it themselves, man. I put Matt on the table. I'm super proud of the guy and I don't mean to be condescending, man. He's a professional. I get it, but I'm 20 years, 18 years older than him, 14 years, something like that. I don't mean to be condescending, man. I'll pay the guy a compliment. He should have that, but at 30, I didn't have that perspective. I couldn't have done that. I couldn't have looked at this and said, man, maybe I need to take a step back and check my compass. There's people all over the world that would never even dream of having the opportunity to take one single dollar, even one US dollar and put it to work in the market for the hopes of a better tomorrow. And that's the perspective that we really need to operate. I think we bastardize that every single day. I understand in this society, in advanced societies, et cetera, and it's never enough for people. It's never enough. Always gotta one up the next person. Always gotta get that next new car. You get the car next year. You know damn well, you're gonna be getting another one because you always gotta be cycling through the image. Cycle through the image, all right? All right, what did Bruce Lee see about the image? Destroy the image, destroy the man, right? Into the dragon. I can't believe Bruce died right before that movie came through, man. Pretty amazing, but some of the struggles that successful people had to go through with discrimination, with really, really fighting, coming from nothing. And so when you wonder where the fight comes from, well, it comes from a very special place. And in my dealings, that doesn't discriminate. Opportunity does not discriminate, but here's the thing, hard work alone is not just gonna get you there. It's gonna take a little bit of timing and it's gonna take a little bit of luck, okay? Hate to drop the misery to you, but look, one out of those three categories, you can actually control yourself, okay? Through hard work and through devotion and dedication to whatever it is that you do to seek out, you're gonna put yourself eligible to enjoy the timing and potentially enjoy a little bit of luck, okay? And I tell you what, man, with all of the hard work that I've put in over my life, I look back and I got into a rut where I was like, well, I just expect bad things to happen all the time. So when the inverse of that happens and something actually good happens, it takes me a while to let it sink in. It really does, because it's like, man, alive, this is good, man. This is good, why? Because the root of it is, no matter what my mind says about how bad it is, the truth of the matter is, baby, it's all good. It's all good. It's all good, man. Yeah, we've got something special here. We really do, man. We're marching towards something great. I personally am, again, when I'm away from this opportunity, I'm working really, really hard to preserve what it is that I am trying to do in way of building wealth. It's a building wealth. You wanna get involved in the stock market and get lucky? Is that what you wanna do? You're in the wrong place. I'm not gonna teach you how to get lucky. I can't do that. You wanna get lucky? Go to Las Vegas for a week. Now we're talking. Go to Vegas. Blow it out. I'm down. I'll be there with you. I'm all good, baby. I'm all good. I don't just drink coffee. It's cool, man. Fantastic, Omar's in the house. Here's the last comment. Just decided to throw it up here anyway. Ryan as highly on is going to buy Glider trucks to do their own powertrain. I don't know. That's a good question. It'd be interesting to see how this story transpires. Stevie has caught a little bit of favor over the last couple of weeks, and it's been nice. It's been really nice. I think the Davos address, Thomas Healy finally dropped his interview this week, which was fantastic. I thought he did a great job. Couple key points in that interview that I picked up. I picked up when he was talking about the OEMs because all they wanna do is sell diesel. If you had to be listening, they'd pick up on that because he said it as a sidebar when the camera wasn't on him. And also the fleet owner talked about, well, if we could just get drivers in the truck, I thought Thomas Healy should have jumped in there and said, truck drivers have no problem getting into my trucks because, and it was before that, where he said, have you actually driven an electric truck? They're actually phenomenal, right? And that one fleet owner was talking about the aesthetics of the truck, which I've talked about all the time as being a real game changer. And Thomas at the end of it actually doubled down on it and said, I wanna change in anything with the truck.  It's still a Peterbilt, man. And it's beloved in the organization. Drivers aren't gonna have to get used to anything other than it being significantly quieter. But that's interesting. I have to look at that. Omar, thank you for sharing it. I appreciate you, man, really do. Let's kick in here, man, look at some portfolios. Rule real quick with either review and I'll do it quickly because I'd really like to engage with you folks tonight. I wanna stay on the plane. I'm always obviously fired up today. I just feel like there's a deeper meaning to why we're doing what we're doing. I feel like if we can empower one investor at a time, if we can reach one life out there that feels a little bit of spark and motivation to do good things in their life, they just don't know how. The financial piece is right smack on the top along with health and wellbeing and diet. It's right in the middle of my hierarchy. Right above that is my spiritual actualization and I enjoy that at different times in my life when I'm doing different activities, okay? Whether it be exercising, whether it be a nice win in the stock market where you're like, man, right on that worked out. Those are the times, man, that lets you know that it's not all bad, okay? It's worth reflecting on and it really is worth taking those small moments. Now they don't last forever. That's the problem is people think that they just can live on this euphoric cloud the rest of their life and that's not the reality. Expect to be coming off of your euphoric cloud, okay? Expect that it's not gonna last forever. No problem.  It's just that simple, okay? Don't be afraid to throw a right hook. If you need a bag in front of you, go find it. No problem. When was the last time you guys were in the gym? Go try it, man, it's riveting. It might be the very lifeblood to success as far as I can tell from my life. It makes me calmer, makes me a better applicator at work, makes me a better human being, makes me better all the way around as a human being. Being in the gym for the time that I spend and I don't wish upon anybody my work ethic in the gym because I tear it up, okay? I tear it up. But do what it is that you can do. Get that breath up, get that heart rate up, man. Get a little sweat going on, man, throw it down. And when you get done with that, it's an amazing way to start off your day. I can't get out of it, I can't, I can't, I can't. It'll start to condition your mind into thinking that you absolutely can. And once you get over that, then you actually crave it over time. It's a special thing. This one we're up just a little bit week over week. These are marginally up or marginally down. Not a lot of change. The $4,000 bill that we gave back to the stock gods, they're enjoying it tonight. The wine and the grapes are on me, okay? I'm drinking crown. This one's up a little bit week over week. Still got some growth, small cap micro growth is kind of looking like it's got a little bit of life and I'm monitoring it closely right now. I'm not in any way calling a bot, I'm at all. It's been a nice reprieve over the last couple of weeks. Cherry topped by today's roll-off. I thought that that was to be expected, but good times to come. I don't care if it comes next week or next month or six months down the line. I don't really care, I'm preparing for that end right now. I suggest you do the same, okay? Here's Roth one. This is just about a backup to that $100,000 mark. That's nice, this portfolio has not changed. I've really learned a lot through this downturn. This has taught me a lot. I'll come out of it a different investor as I would employ each of you to allow that evolution to take place within yourself. Okay, don't shut that out.   Don't do that, all right? Don't scoff at and throw in the towel and give up just like everything else that you've done in life. Don't do that, okay? Take the road less traveled, all right? It's okay, you do not get involved with stock market investing with the expectation that your portfolio will just hunky dory appreciate every single day. That's not realistic. I'm here to tell you that no investor is immune to stock market volatility and IE, your portfolio going down every now and then, okay? And sometimes it's a violent drawdown. Think about it in the acute. Never make your decisions in the acute. It's just part of the game. Keep your eyes to the horizon and keep that long-term perspective.  Even as bad as this has been, guys that have been with me for the last year or so, I've been coming on steadfast, man, beating the drum on the live stream. It's been pretty bad for me, okay? And it's been exacerbated. Hylion's been a tough holding for me. It's been tough. The portfolio has held in there. And even with all that said, I looked back on my portfolios where I was just three years ago and I was blown away. I was blown away. These accounts were around 60,000 each. 52, I think in mine and about 60 in my wife's. And that was in each of the accounts. Now look at them. And this is incurring a huge downturn, one that everybody's throwing in the towel on. I can't do this. I can't do that. Hi, this is Ter, this is, oh, oh, it's me.  La-di-da-da-da-da. You gotta tune into independent to get my life straight. No, you don't. You need to look in the mirror, okay? There's nothing that I can do. There's nothing that I can say. I try, I do try, but you have gotta find it within. To make this stuff make sense for you. It's just that simple, okay? Here's Roth too. This is mine, no changes to report. This is chugging along just as we have arranged it. You can see the spark lines that get down just a little bit week over week. No big deal.  Everything is down, always. It's just always down. It's always down. God dang it, I can do it better than this guy. God dang it.  Wait till I get to the bottom line. I'll show you how as bad of an investor as I am. I'm bad. I'm bad. I'm not doing too shabby. Okay? Imagine what you can do with all of your glorious wisdom. Just imagine what you can do. Imagine the impact that you can make not only on yourself, but humanity as a whole. Yeah? Start a YouTube channel for yourself. Share that infinite wisdom, man. I'll turn on, okay? Tune into me and say, man, Ryan, you motivated me to start a YouTube channel, man. You spoke to me one night. You really gave credence to my $1,200 that I've gotten savings. Or actually, maybe I looked at it and I determined that I was actually in debt. For the first time in my life, I actually was able to look in the mirror and say, I don't have any money. I've got a couple of depreciating cars in the driveway and I've got a big ass house that every now and then, usually during Christmas and holidays, I get to brag to all of my family and friends that I own, but I don't really own it. See, the bank does. But as far as my personal wealth, all of the things that I go through line item and it goes into my net worth, I really don't have a lot of that, Ryan. I don't have a lot. Mm, yeah. Build, brick by brick. When you've done that, this will all make sense for you, okay? That's the thing is I don't know if we're at a place now where I can deem retail investors to have the ample knowledge to look at the investing opportunity as commonplace. They don't. They look at it as abnormal. They look at it as an activity only for the rich. They look at it as it's gambling. Happy! It's gambling, right? We can't do that crazy. It's stocky, stocky, stocky thing. These YouTubers, they're ruining people. No, we're not. No, we're not. I started this account two and a half years ago with $1,500. It's $22,691 right now. This is passive wealth. I've never touched this. Never. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. You're lucky, Ryan. Okay, I'm lucky.  Fine, I'm bad. Good. Let's look at the next portfolio. This was started about two years ago. Two years ago. This has got, I can't see, but it's got about $30,000 to $7,000. Anyway, compare that. I know that there's young people out there that are 21, 22, 23 years old who would have had the opportunity to start investing at 18, 19, 20 years old. And they would tune into my message and say, this old foggy doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't even need to tell me what to do with mine. The thing that's funny about it is I don't care. I don't care. I'm trying to help you. Make whatever decisions. If by nature of making the decisions that you have to make, you're able to render success far beyond what it is that you could have achieved doing maybe, I don't know, a path that I'm demonstrating for you, then great. I wish you all the best. The sheer reality is, and I truly believe this, I think over the next 20 years, this woke generation, this generation that seemingly just hard work they avoided. Nobody wants to join the military now. Nobody wants to join the military. I couldn't believe it. It came out of left field, man, to me. And I was like, I've been in 17 years. I said, you gotta be kidding me, man. We gotta give away opportunity that I fought for and it's been a blessing in my life for my entire life. You kidding me? Is that where we are right now? That's representative society now. Yeah, young kids don't wanna work. And I'm sure there's kids out there that are gonna watch this.  I wanna work, I wanna work hard. I'm not saying it's all. I'm not saying that. But you would have probably got that from the people who raised you. Because if you got it from society or you got it from YouTube or social media, you would believe that everybody out there is driving a viper, everybody.  They will. Mark my word. You have to fight every single day to keep that strategic edge to stay on the front end of that wave. I know I'm a successful person.  That's the type of ferocity that you have to operate with. And a lot of people may look at it and say, man, this guy's crazy. I don't wanna operate at that level. I can't do that. Okay, this guy must be on something. No, I'm not. Coffee. I have coffee. I'm naturally motivated. I'm naturally aspirated. I encourage you to get there, but this is wealth building. I got a dividend email today. I think it was like 12 bucks. 12 bucks. This is a hundred holdings of the best dividends that you can possibly get. And I do share this portfolio. I put it out there on the live stream. There'll be a thousand people that watch this. It's funny.  You wanna know how many people? You'd say hundreds, right, Ryan? It's, you charge for it, right? I'd pay you 25 bucks. No, no, I give it away for free. You wanna know how many people have asked me for it? One. One person. One person. And that's probably indicative to the statistics that would back me up to suggest that retail community will never ever hold the bar or be able to hold water with the standards that are necessary to succeed in stock market investing. That's the damnable truth. Chew on it. This is why I'm so aggressive because I do believe that there is a path. I do believe that there is a way. I do believe that there is fundamentals that we can increase. We can flip the odds on their ear. We can turn it around. We can put people who see it see themselves as their best product, their best brand, okay? This is mine. You can't add it. It's mine. But think about your own personal brand. Think about that one thing that you bring to the table that's worth sharing with the world or at least admitting to yourself that you bring to the table. Look in the mirror and tell you, man, hell, I'm good at this, man. I'm good at music. I'm good at reading and writing. I'm good at mathematics. I'm good at technology. Hell, I'm not good at any of those things. I'm good at this. I'm good at this. And I can stare right across from a YouTube audience and tell you, I'm good at it. If we can increase the odds for people, man, and we can show people that way to that prosperity, that is key. If I could go back and do it again, man, I would be wealth building in this manner. This is a dividend growth strategy. Very, very simple. My top three holdings I believe are AMGEN, VISA, and McDonald's. Those are the top three holdings. There's a hundred holdings in this. Hit me up via email. I'll send you the portfolio and it's entirely free of charge. We're looking to empower one investor at a time.  You fall into the category of people who will never get people like me. No problem. I bid you all the best. But for those of you who do tune in and you're like, is this what investing can be about? Maybe it's not what it is that I've heard it to be about. This guy breaks it down to be a lot more accessible. A lot more manageable. The portfolio I just showed you before, this one, no management, nothing. I pay zero for this. I take that back. I pay 0.09 is the aggregate of these sector specialty ETFs, about 0.09 of expense, i.e. insignificant. In the dividend growth portfolio, you wanna take a stab at what my expense ratio is? Zero. We looked to challenge a system that would charge you. The TSP, I talked about it at the very top, man. They have also sold out. I read the first article this week from Vanguard of all things. Buggles turning in his freaking grave, baby. Talking about how management is the key to a successful future and that people who go with management will end up better off over time. Now, the disclaimer was even funnier. It was as a result of a white paper trying to sell the managed service on the Vanguard side. Because if you haven't noticed, my most popular video on YouTube compared VTI to the, excuse me, if you look at the index funds and the ETFs, which are the best products that Vanguard has, kick over to their managed mutual fund side. They're actually very expensive. Why would you opt for those? Why would you opt for those? It only erodes your wealth over time and this white paper was aimed to provide visibility because everybody's hip to the procedure now, man. They're being provided a VTI product or a VTSAX product that is extremely anemic. And I think even Vanguard's getting tired of it. That's all good. I'm an independent investor, man. You give me that Vanguard product and my little Mitch here in Chesapeake, Virginia, I'm good to go. Thank you very much, Vanguard. You've just empowered the independent investor channel. And look, I come on every single week and I blow it out to a worldwide audience. So the secret's out.  It will erode your wealth and it will cost you money contrary to what the white paper would suggest, all right? Bond portfolio hanging in there down at two, three bucks. Nothing big. This holds in. This is fixed income, guys, not a big deal. The TSP after all of that is up close to 3%. I am up and this just really speaks to all of the risk tolerance that I have had to exercise over the last year or so. Was it necessary? Was the pursuance of higher than average returns and to incur losses greater than what the indexes could return, was it worth it? Was it worth it? I would say for the masses, no. I would suggest perhaps maybe when you tune into my message and you tune into how it is I seek my exposure to the market, don't try to follow me, don't. You can take different elements and aspects of my program but I wouldn't wish anybody the challenge of following me. I can barely keep up with myself every now and then, okay? I do this with ferocity and I'm just the guy to do it. This makes sense for me. It may not make sense for a lot of others out there but this just speaks to the power of those folks out there that have the 401ks, 403s, 457s for the teachers and healthcare workers, et cetera, across the bar, 403s, right? A TSP for government workers and military alike. This is actually freaking up year over year. Right now, excuse me, year to date. Year to date, this is up 2%, incredible, just incredible. VUG here, this is the Vanguard's growth ETF. This is a good one. I started these to be a little exploratory. To be honest with you, I'm a verdict to still out. I'll still enjoy the accounts, it's fine. I typically don't like to be so spread out but I did want to explore these accounts. Robinhood does not impress me. I'm sorry. For all the 20 million lemmings that are on Robinhood, I don't know what the appeal is. I don't get it. It's like being part of a cartoon. Anyway, here's Webull. This is the mid caps ETF, 1177. Nothing too big in here. Here's secure private data. This is a good one in Charles Schwab. It was one of the only accounts I could pick up the micro cap in. Crypto, my worst trade in the last five years.  I don't really care. I really don't. This was the worst investment. I've made some, you know, on the books, some poor investments and I've made up for them. Over time, I mean, three years ago, you would have said ExxonMobil was a bad investment. Look how that worked out. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. You know, some of these investments that I'm sitting on in oil right now are up over a hundred percent. It's silly, conical Phillips to name a few. Marathon Petroleum, a couple of others have just went off the hook. But crypto really just wish I would have not done that. That was outside of my profile. I'm not saying it's bad or good. I'm not saying it's bad or good for you, but for me, it did not work. But here's the bottom line, renderings here, $4.63, so I have no idea why you even follow me. I have no, here's the thing, man. I don't even care about this. I don't care. I've often said that renderings in a well-laid plan is the very pedigree that makes an investor who they are. And I'm very proud of this. And I sometimes have to remind myself of this when I go back and I look at where I was just three, four short years ago. Over the lifetime, that's a drop in the bucket. But me, I get caught up in the acute as well. And I hold myself to a very, very high standard. It's like, okay, I didn't really want to take a digression at this point, but I've weathered it pretty well. I've done everything right. I've strategically bought the market. Those two ETF funds and the dividend growth fund, we made strategic buys in those accounts. And we did it when everybody was talking about doom and gloom. So we've done it right. If it goes back there, I'll do the same damn thing again. No problem, I'll be there in the pocket. I'm not going anywhere, okay? And this is indicative of what happens when somebody remains in the pocket. And this is the commonplace methodology that is common amongst the really, really savvy investors that I earmark in the community. Matt's one of them, I'm calling out Matt tonight. He's one of those guys that gets it. He knows how important it is. He understands that as many of tens of thousands of dollars of days that he's had down, some of those days have crept up to $20,000 and $30,000 in a day down. How many of you guys could incur that? This is what you're signing up for, okay? Now if this is not for you and you don't want to be part of that, that is the sheer reality of it. Is it not Matt, okay? And he's not invested in willy-nilly stuff, guys. This is top tier products. We're talking about the Nasdaq. We're talking about some small cap. We're talking about dividends. We're talking about dividend growth. We're talking about major large cap companies that he holds big stakes in. That's just how it is. Nobody is immune to hiding from the volatility during times like this, okay? And it's revolving around these very realities that'll help make us tougher. When you get involved at that first $500 level, what is it that you truly expect? Do you expect to be at that first $10,000 at some point? Sure you do. Do you expect to be at that $25,000, $50,000, $100,000 level? Yeah, maybe a little trickier. But now I've got your attention because you're like, why are you talking $100,000? I'll never have that. You keep telling yourself that. Keep telling yourself that. In the short term, get to that first $10,000. You'd be happy that you did. You may surprise yourself about your own capability. You expect yourself to get to a quarter million dollars of net worth in your portfolio. And now we're talking about some serious stuff indicative of what a lot of retail investors are in able, unable, capable, yes, but mentally not able to do. They are capable, but they're just not mentally able. And they'll fail to meet those milestones. And then we start talking about 500,000 and three quarter million and the inevitable million now, it's ironic to me how everybody throws the million thing out. I just wanna do what I love to do, Ryan. I'm gonna be a millionaire because I'm on Instagram and it seems like everybody's a millionaire on Instagram now. I think you're gonna wake up one of these days when you're 35 or 40 years old and you're gonna realize that you're not a millionaire. And you should have probably spent some of your early life getting some of those fundamentals to find in your life as opposed to following those pipe dreams because I've always contended to get to that first million dollars you've gotta achieve your first $10,000 and let me tell you, it takes a lot of stacks of 10,000 to get to 100,000, let alone a million, okay? Some sheer reality for you and some tough love. That's the portfolio review for you guys. You get in here, rip out some comments here. I'm very cool. Rebecca is in the, she says, I'm sorry, I'm just tuning in now and boom, she gets a cameo. She's in the group. Oh, Becky's fabulous. It's just one of those incredible wealth builders that I know who has worked really, really hard over her life and is representative of a lot of others out there. And I use her as an example of the beautiful people out there that are working hard, looking to build wealth and have a financially secure future. That's it. And that is special. It really is. Where sometimes we focus on all the wrong stuff. Becky just represents all the right stuff. It's the highest compliment I can provide for this lady. It's great to see you, Becky. Thanks for stopping in. Really appreciate it. And dark shadows in the house, man. That's freaking awesome. Army man is in the house, man. I salute you, brother. That's fantastic. Love it, man. Welcome to the community. Welcome to the live stream. I appreciate it, man. Very cool. You guys have pounded in some comments here in the bottom. Let me cruise up here. See if I can get to some comments in the last few minutes. I do apologize. I was trying to say Hylion with his anime. There it is. I think Hylion needs to work closer with Plug to build the refueling right. I think you need to do some more homework. I try to stray away from a little bit of the Hylion dialogue during the live stream. I really do because I come out with that product. But my live stream has to be a lot more holistic. That way, if I have somebody that's 18 years old come in here and wants to understand a little bit more about the nuts and bolts of investing, then I can capture that mind. If they're truly willing to listen, I'm willing to meet you 50-50. I have a 50-50 rule, okay? I can sometimes go beyond 50 because I'm very motivational, but you've got to be willing to render some reciprocation, man. Okay? And I will be quick to say that I will not do it for you. I will not.  But I try to keep the live stream a little bit more neutral on my application. And there's my brother. Appreciate it. Give him a little cameo time while I take a little drink. We're building up a pretty special network here, guys. If you don't sense that there is something going on here, it's not just about me. It's about a wonderful network here that we're part of. And we're all trying to build something special. At the top of the iceberg, those network patrons like Kyle and a few others are really trying to accelerate that so we can leverage up into the next level and really take our message to a grander audience because I do enjoy the live stream, but to be honest with you, the message that I put down every Friday is worth a hell of a lot more than what I get, at least in way of monetary compensation. The reciprocation I get from people saying, hey, I enjoy it, gives me motivation, et cetera, et cetera. That's all great. That's lovely. It's really satisfying for me to get that, but this has the power to change lives. And I don't say that apologetic. I do not. People need to get kicked in the face with reality. They do. And I deliver that every Friday. I do. And if you don't like it or that seems pompous to you, then you can go find whatever it is you're looking for on YouTube on 500 other opportunities because you're only going to find one I do, only one that I can guarantee it. All right. That's simple as that. All right. Ryan should run for mayor. I'm a little above a mayor level. I really am. I think I'm enjoying being the CEO of my own company right now, to be honest with you. This runs my way. Right now I'm running really lean to be honest with you. I'm a little disappointed. I think if I had more time in my day, remember how I talked about my day is focused on raising kids and swimming with them at the pool. I have to devote time to that guys. I don't have time to wake up and just start cranking out YouTube. If I did, I would. I just don't have the time, nor do I want to devote the time to this. That's why you get my very best on the Friday live stream because I'm fired up to produce content. I really am. But right now I'm kind of lean and I'm getting a bridge to something a little bit better once time kind of progresses a little bit. Portfolios have a chance to really solidify what it is that I'm talking about. The verdict is out with me. If my program doesn't work, I will shut the independent investor channel down all together and I'll give you to the whims of the ways of social media all the way through. You can tune into and put a hodge podge meet Kevin and Jeremy with financial education and Graham Stephan all in a pot and you can mix them up and you can drink that Kool-Aid all you want. Like I said, there's only one of me. There's only one.  I hear you. I do work hard. I'm glad that somebody comes on and actually has a voice for me. And I think that's special. And I'll continue to beat that drum cause I do believe that it is in fact special.  We really want to go there. And once I hang this deal up, man I will be attending. I will be over in Europe for a prolonged amount of time undetermined at this point. But I certainly have some business here and the UK is certainly at the top of that and my significant others bucket list for sure to check out. I appreciate you coming in Ross. Thanks a lot, man. Really appreciate it. Was reading how Trevor men voted. Of course he does.  Luck and timing. Okay. I never accused Trevor Milton of being a hard worker or being a good person. Luck and timing turned him into what? A multi-million, multi-millionaire, 100-millionaire. I don't think he's a billionaire, but luck and timing did very well. The unfortunate part of for Mr. Milton is he's probably one of the most hated people on the earth. Yeah. How would you like to wake up and have that type of karma? That's lovely. What contributions did you make? Well, I lied to millions of investors. That was my contribution to society. Just lovely. And Victor's in the house. Great to see you, my friend. Look at a couple of minutes left here cruising through. I was kind of on a rant tonight, and I do appreciate you guys giving me the long leash to unleash the fury tonight. I really do. Ross has great message. I thank you. Eric retired in 2008. Yeah, but he's still working hard, man. It's all good. Eric's the man. Dude, I love this guy. He reminds me of my people when I talk to him. It's awesome. It's really cool. Yeah, I'd love to have some backyard barbecue with this guy, man, for sure. We're live after Ryan's. There's the Daisy chain. If you guys want to keep the party going, man, to make sure and kick over. This is the top of the pyramid that I talk about with regard to our network on social media. It's not just me. The war is too big to fight alone. 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What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebricks.com. 2021, Penini, Donner's Optic Football, Six Box, Half Case Break, Pikachu's number two just sold out, All-Cart Ship's second half of the case. Here we go. Last fall, Moja was Ben taking the Vikings in this one. There's everybody else right there as well. Pizzle, I'm always gonna bring you the luck. It's just whether you have treated Round and Bell Org nicely or not. I think that's what it really comes down to. You know? What have you done lately for Round and Bell Org? I'm just the guy that clicks the dice roll and clicks the randomizer.  Hold on guys, Nick actually texted me something. Yeah, yeah, no for sure, cool. No, no, I'm just talking about a filler. I mean, Joe Pizzle is. I remember the old Pizzle days. He was buying out the V-Cup Hockey 1516 boxes and cases. Joe Pizzle came in here just guns blazing when he first got into the hobby. He's just like, I sold out five straight breaks.  Risk it for the biscuit. Devonte Adams and a nice red hot rookies. Trevor Lawrence, a little tealaw. Mac Jones, LaVisca Chanel, for sure. Mortgage company will understand, right? Darius Slayton. Can open up a new credit card. You'll have 12 months to pay off the APR, you know? There's a lot of ways Joe Pizzle. You can do it. Are you?  Your house that you got 10 plus years ago, it's probably worth a double now. Ezekiel Elliott, so you're just playing with house money. Number to 25 and another red hot rookies, Kelly Monk. Exactly, see Pizzle, what are we worried about? What are you worried about? All right, we got a redemption. And Robinson. Black, yeah, it is. Thank you. Quinn, Miners, J.K. Dobbins. Fields, as Poppy's calling it, Fields. All right, let's see. The rookies, autographs. Try number seven, Jamar Chase, actually. Hand with the Cincinnati Bengals.   Eagles just dropped their black helmet this year. So I think starting this year, everybody is entitled to have a second helmet color. And since Eagles ain't gonna do the Kelly Green jerseys until next year, they can still make a helmet so they decided to drop the black today. But they don't, I guess Nike doesn't have the color palette for the Kelly Green jerseys they're trying to do.  But next year the Eagles will have their Kelly Green. So a lot of the teams that are trying to throw some real throwbacks, if they don't do them this year, they'll do them next year. But it seems like most teams are actually just having like a black helmet. I seen the Jets dropped her helmet today too, right? Yeah, Carolina is really nice too. I like the Giants retro jerseys too. It's about time, I don't know why the NFL was so strict. It's not like they don't have the money to have like two color helmets of two different colors. Like it's easy when your helmet's neutral like the charges and you can have so many different color uniforms but the helmets stay the same. But it's done for like teams like the Eagles that want to go retro with a different color palette. And I felt could afford it. I don't see what the problem is. So I'm glad that they changed that rule. I don't know if we want to see players hit each other with leather helmets, Steve. We'll have concussions for years. Imagine like getting hit by like Khalil Mack with like a leather helmet. You only have a leather helmet. So it looks like Chad this year, what they're doing is they're kind of treating it like contenders.  And then the lower tier rookies that they considered lower tier will be stickers. And mainly all the vets will be stickers too. Nice Jalen waddle color. But that's the one thing that kind of separated itself with Optic is that it all used to be on card. I don't 175 there. But now it's kind of like kind of changing. I think certain products will be stickers too. Like the RPAs, I think are stickers as well. Anthony Schwartz, Ronald Jones, Omar Chase. We have a Devin Singletary. Another Red Hot rookies. This time it's T-Law. Amir Smith, Marseille for the Vikings. That's last Bob Mojo Ben. Yeah, some of these players need to be held accountable. I get it. At the time you couldn't do it. But you know, you should have a hard deadline. You know what I mean? If not bust like Leaf did with like CD-Lam and just sue them, you know? But I kind of get it though is that like the NFL is already partnered with Panini. And yeah, if they're busy training and stuff, they don't want to have to stop them from training to go sign, but it's their obligation, right?  But I feel like with all that, I don't know. It's just, I don't know. It needs to get a little bit better. It's like everybody, every other player like Trevor Lawrence, like those guys can sign everything. Is it, why is it that Chase can't?  You tell me he's more busier than Joe Burrell. You know, Joe Burrell was obviously a redemption in certain products last year, but he signed it really fast though, right? Like I remember I think an optic or one of those products contenders, he just didn't make the print run right away, but he signed it like literally the week after. So it's just kind of, it is annoying for sure. It's like, how could some quarterbacks that are big time, bigger players than you can sign but not you, you know? Like, it's like Brody can sign it and he's like the starting quarterback for the Falcons, but you know, Chad over here is a backup receiver, you know, for the Seahawks, but yeah, he's not signing any of his autographs. It's like, what? Yeah, a few times, plenty of times too. Well, the whole point is Chad, is that I guarantee you that they get sent books of stickers and they just kill it all at once, right? That's why stickers are used most likely throughout the whole year, compared to them sending them the batches of cards as it comes in every few months, right? So it's a little different. It's more like, in the beginning, they have like batches of stickers they have to sign right away. So that way they have enough for like certain products throughout the year, but obviously certain cards that they need on card, they send them as they produce them. I mean, obviously he signed on card in Flolos and stuff and NT, or at least Flolos at least. All right, next one, Santé Samuel Jr. Nice Felipe Franks color match. That's number to 99. Trey Lance and a little Josh Jacobs. Holmes. Whoa! Downtown, gold vinyl for the saints. One of one, how about that? Damn, I did not expect that. Hand with the saints. Holy, geez. There you go. Damn. That's what we were missing in this case. Randy Moss. Hopefully there's another one like that. Larry Roundtree. Kyla Murray, the 299. Drew Brees and stuff is still so underrated too. Kyle Trask. Nice Javonte Williams little color match there. Bronco that's going to Patrick. Scary Terry McLaurin. Retro series Troy Eggman. Nice Davis Mills to 125. Nice little hollow. That's going to go to Dee Porter and the Houston Texans. This was a very good box right here. Caleb Farley as well and a Trey McKinney. Is that right? That's crazy. Yeah, I don't know how they're doing that. All right, well that was a nice box right there. Let's continue on, guys. So again, guys, Picker team three and four are just in single digits as well. If it hasn't sold out already. We are at, yeah, two left in number three and five left in number four. Well actually, Adam, I don't know if you've seen that. Did you see that they had an opening a few weeks back for any redemptions that were over 120 days old? I don't know if you've seen and signed up for that but I know they had an opening for that stuff like that. It was like a few weeks back though, I think it's closed now. But if you went to the Panini Direct app, you could have seen it under events. But yeah, if it was over 120 days, you could trade it in for like other cards slash white box redemptions and et cetera like that. But you can still try though. I think they'll happily take them. And I know at the National too, they have expired redemptions that you can get in line for. You just have to get there early. And that's also one of the main reasons why, that's one of the main reasons why people buy the VIP passes because you get in like an extra 30 minutes to an hour before the rest of the customers or the rest of the general public. So the first thing that people run to is Panini. They go to tops, they go to upper deck. Wherever they're trying to get their redemptions redeemed and fulfilled for something else, so you really just have to go early. But yeah, I mean, that's something that you could do though. But the National in general, I mean, to get the full experience if you haven't been there, you know, right? You need a couple of days. It's just such a huge show and it's only getting bigger. Like the National in Chicago last year was wild. They got like, they added an extra couple more like areas to the main floor and the breakage really was even bigger. Well, that's the thing probably. I know they had openings for appointments, which is closed now, but I still think you can still get in line and ask. My house, Alvin Camaro, Jeremiah Owusu, to 40, for the bronze. Scary, terrifying, Lauren. I mean, if you get there early enough, Adam, you can probably kill them during the show in a day, but I think so you're not rushing and you want to see everybody, you know, everything. You do need a couple of days, you know? It's just such a huge show now. And I expect this one to be really, really big. But I mean, like I said, if you get there early enough and literally kill your whole day there from like 10 a.m. to six, then you can do it in a day, but it's just kind of gonna have to be rushing around. If you really want to see everything and if you don't care to see everything, just kind of walk through them. Yeah, probably kill it in a day. J.J. Watt, Ryan Tannil. No, I don't think so. I think it has to be like, I think it has to be something older. I don't think you can get a redeem there. Like if you just pull something today. Unless it's an older product from like beginning of last year when they started it maybe. And I think it has to be in the system already, right? You kind of need, it kind of needs to be in the system. Tyler Void, Felipe Franks, Pink Laser, or Pink Velocity, I should say. And a downtown Troi Valomalu, Steelers. That is Michael Galucci. Will Fuller, Zach Wilson, and Lovisco Chanel Jr. Yeah, you had to do it through your own account, right? Yeah, cause I remember I tried to do mine and I already had requested a redemption for my Miles Sanders one, but when I tried it, it didn't let me, I don't know why. I've had that thing for like almost three years now in my damn portal. Zidarius Smith, 2.99. Larry Roundtree, a little color match there for the Chargers. And we have a Mythical, that looks really nice. Ref Avare, for the Green Bay Packers. Justin Jefferson, for the Vikings. And a Brandon Ayuk, and Rashad Bateman, 2.99. On card for the Ravens. Rashad Slater, a lot of color for the Chargers, I must say, damn. Chargers did really well with color. Jaylen Wada, and a nice to fund bigs, Black Pandora, for the Bills to 25. Joltadun Retro Series, Joe Montaignea, Elijah Vera Tucker, for the Jets, 2.99. And Devin Singletary, 2.125. Yeah, I can leave a note for the shipping team, maybe. All right, last box, well, Joe Vez. So far, rookie quarterback wise, we got a Mac Jones in the first half and a Davis Mills in the second half. We did get a one-on-one downtown, Gold Vinyl, which was really nice. Was a vet, and then our second downtown was a vet. So, I don't know. Hopefully there is something else nice hiding here for rookie wise. But, this is my first case of doing this. You know, we'll see how the next case goes as well. Every case will be different, though. Devonte Smith, Patrick Sertain Hollow, another Devin Singletary, another Devin Singletary. 2.2.99. Collect a rainbow at this point. Whoa, Mythical Black Pandora? This guy just got paid. He's the second highest-paid quarterback in the NFL now. 19 of 25, Kyler Murray, nice one for Ryan there. Kyle Pitts, Quintin Williams. We have a Brandon Ayuk, Pink Velocity, Kevin Byrd, Titans, and I must say, this Black Pandora looks beautiful the way it is Mythical. White Hot Rookies, Trey Sturman. Really? Well, yeah, right? Is a Mythical case it, or do you mean the two downtowns? Jamar Chase, nice little Debo, Hayden Hurst.  Nice little hollow. Patrick with the Broncos. Secombe Bargley. Yeah, hip-rate buys everywhere, and they buy a lot off eBay. And they buy whole collections, like whole show booths, you know? How to fit the JJ Watt. All right, sorry about that, pop in. I was hoping some more Zach Wilson's for you. Just the White Hot in the first half, really. Got a lot of other color for other rookies, but not Zach Wilson. We'll get them next time though, man. All right, guys, so there you go. That's the first full case. So, Devonte, Kyler Murray, Bateman, Troy Palomala downtown, Davis Mills, and we got a little 101. And then, of course, some more colors here. With an auto there, Wosu, Devonte, Muir Smith, My House, Jalen Watt of Color. We did get a Jamar Chase, another Red Hot rookie there as well. So, appreciate it, guys. Jasper's Case Race.com.


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My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake, and this is the weekly dumb nice hat nice sweater nice jacket nice shirt What do you get the man that does everything? Something new stuff. Did the Rangers win the world series or did the diamond bags lose the world series? Both. I think Jim's right. Baseball's over Jim Good job good season Texas Rangers win the world series course seager really good could have been a future Yankee He wins a second world series MVP. That's kind of cool first person to do it in both leagues world series MVP Our reporter asked him a question. Why didn't the Dodgers?  Why did the Dodgers let you go? And he was just like Then a reporter was like you don't know No, dude clearly You're asked a dumb question the key to free agency for those that come to us for baseball knowledge Pay the player the most money, and I think that's why he left the that's why he went there Yeah, cuz they gave him the most money baseball That in the shot. Congrats to the Texas Rangers. They blared Creed. They sucked down on booze They celebrated winning the world series now baseball's over you won't hear from us about it ever again almost a break down Jam we've got a Wisconsin restaurant full of young ins must be the after-high school hangout or some because the crowd Look young to me in the video and a deer breaks through Everyone runs and disperses in such a good fashion. There's only one couple in the corner that just stayed anchored I love the dude in the inside. They've seen this the deer runs past him and all he does is he sees the deer and He turns back and he puts his hood up like that's the Visibility club. Yeah, the deer didn't hit anyone it goes into the kitchen sees what's going on in there Zach really like slows down in the kitchen. Zach really likes the kitchen like takes its time one. What's this? What's this about and leaves the back door? Yeah, and I was everyone freaking out about I just was coming through It's too busy for me. I'm out. I liked that this happened at noodles and co shout out to my dog I did like that they ended the article being like, you know Nobody was hurt and you know, they did a deep clean of the restaurant to make sure it's fine again It's like you know, they didn't some some kid mopped What's that feel the dreams back to the sports put blood on me? We have a new sport competition that has been invented has not been executed yet, Jake Jimmy We were nervous to give this the click but once inside we were delighted first-ever Florida man games in Florida and yeah, hey, don't we get it? You know the Florida man stuff has gone far Maybe we were proud of the problem. You give us a good Florida man link. We're gonna check it out It's the public police records. That's the problem there, Jake. They won me over with beer belly wrestling. Okay, sure That's easy. Let's get a couple guys topless and mix it up in there. Now. Hold on pause They said that was self-explanatory. It's just wrestling and you have to have a beer wrestling beer belly to partake You got it I first pictured it as like you weren't allowed to use your hands and you just were only allowed to use Your beer belly to like kind of take the other dude down. So there's a bunch of dudes bumping bellies So with that they've also very much leaned into the Florida man thing They've got an evading arrest obstacle course that made me nervous at first But they do have real police officers chasing them which makes me wonder what that means, you know what that is These actual law that's the police academy scout in their own I don't like that like if you send your police to this Florida man contest and the guy evades you you're out You're off the force and yeah This is literally the Florida version of a lot of stuff we do in our warehouse So I'm I'm all in you like it. I'm in waiting arrest competition.  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In this video I want to talk about the change of base formula for logarithms and gives us a way from changing from one base to another So suppose we have two acceptable bases like the so a and b so a is greater than zero But not equal to one b is greater than zero but not equal to one Those are both acceptable bases Then it turns out that the log base a of x is equal to the log base b of x divided by the log base b of a So b is your new base. You can pick whatever you want The old operand goes on top the old base goes on the bottom and this gives us the so-called law The the change of base formula for logarithms And it's a very simple observation how this works like if you take log base a of x and suppose This is equal to y switch it to the exponential form. This would tell us that x equals a to the y Then take the log base b of both sides of this equation So you get log base b of a to the y well on the right hand side the third law of Logarithms comes into play where you can pull an exponent out and put it as a coefficient So this becomes y times the log base b of a in the situation So what you're going to then do is you're going to divide both sides of the equation by log base log base b of A so that cancels out over here And so then what we see is you see that y is also equal to the log base b of x Over the log base a excuse me log base b of a so it's a it's a very quick It's a very quick Observation here that the third law gives us this change of base formula So how does one use the change of base formula now sadly the most common use for of it is something like the following approximate? log base 5 of 89 to 4 decimal places well You'll notice that there's no rational power of 5. That's going to give you 100 or give you 89 right? And so you console your calculator and you're searching you're searching But there's no there's no base 5 button for logarithms There's you'll probably see on your calculator a natural log button right those usually come equipped with a scientific or graphing calculator You might see one that just says log which will mean the common log right? But there's no log base 5 and so it's like what what do you do? And I swear it's like a conspiracy between like textbook companies and calculators that why couldn't why do we need both buttons?  You know a log b x button right where you type in two parameters b and x or something like that? If it's if the concern is you know space on the keyboard I think one button we get away from it you still have to have the common log You know excuse me the natural log you need so you make like a you need like a base e button Which probably is already there on the keyboard so Whatever but you know we live in these we live in primitive times where no one wants to put a universal log button on the calculator The change of base formula allows a convenient way to get around that because the log base 5 of 89 by the change of base formula This is equal to the log base b of 89 divided by the log base b of 5 for which that base can be any number you want you could switch it to the common log base 10 You could switch it to the natural log and so this is actually equal to the natural log of 89 over the natural log of 5 For which these are things you can compute on your calculator The calculator if you ask at the natural log of 89 this will be approximately 4.488 64 If you ask the natural log of 5 you'll get 1.609 4 4 And then if you take the ratio of those two numbers together again on your calculator screen You'll get approximately 2.7 8 8 9 of course rounding to four decimal places right there So that's how most students actually use the change of base formula as a way of just making up for the defect of the dumb calculator What were you thinking textures instruments? I don't know now. That's of course from a mathematicians perspective That's like the most useless reason to have a change of base formula one that could be easily fixed by a competent calculator factory Really the point of the change of base formula is how do you deal with log when you have different bases? Like what if you want to compute the expression log base 5 of 8 times log base 2 of 25, right? What if you have different bases? How do you work with these in harmony with one another? Well, honestly, you look at something like this. It's like log base 5 of 8 log base 5 of 25 Why couldn't you like switch the numbers around? Right? It would be a lot easier. I mean log base 2 of 8 That's pretty easy log base 5 of 25. That's super easy Turns out maybe you're not going to believe me here But by the change by the change of base formula you actually are justified in moving those bases around let me show you So we're going to take log base 5 of 8 and log base 2 of 25 I've used the change of base formula. I'm going to switch it to some other base and for lack of a better choice I'm going to switch it to the natural log. So this becomes the natural log of 8 over the natural log of 5 Right, so log base 5 of 8 becomes natural log of 8 over the natural log of 5 And we're going to find then also the log base 2 of 25 becomes the natural log of 25 over the natural log of 2 And Then what you can do is then you since this is multiplication you can swap locations could chink So you're going to get the natural log of 8 over the natural log of 2 And then you're going to times that by the natural log of 25 over the natural log of 5 Like so and now looking at the first fraction natural log of 8 over natural log of 2 That's the same thing as the log base 2 of 8 And then the second one the natural log of 25 over the natural log of 5 That's the natural log excuse me the log base 5 of 25 So what I said was actually correct. You were justified in swapping the bases in terms of multiplication. How cool is that?  That's the third power and what power of 5 gives you 25? That's the second power. So this product turns out to be 6 Something we can see of course when we use the change of base formula