Hello, this is Nation Beat, I am General Norville bringing you this brief on the pulse of our nation and highlights around the heart of St. Lucia. The Department of Health and Wellness addresses concerns surrounding the transitioning of staff to the Millennium Medical Complex. A concerted effort is underway by the Government of St. Lucia to ensure that projects embarked upon are achieved with greater efficiency. St. Lucia is interested in the hospitality sector and encouraged to take advantage of a new NAP initiative and count in the spin-off benefits of the Roots and Soul Festival. Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Wellness, Felix St. Hill, has cleared the air on a number of issues that have surfaced with regard to the transitioning of staff to the Millennium Heights Medical Complex. In a statement, St. Hill said these issues seem to undermine the efforts of the Department of Health and Wellness to advance or improve the provision of services within the health sector. Let me reassure all staff members of the three institutions which comprise the Millennium Heights Medical Complex, namely the Victoria Hospital which has been transitioned into the OKEU Hospital, the National Mental Wellness Centre and the Turning Point Rehabilitation Centre, that I have no directive to any of our staff members to resign depositions in order to facilitate applications to the new statutory organisation. In fact, often times the policymakers have tried to reassure staff members of the security of tenure and the fact that no one will be losing their jobs as a result of our commissioning efforts. As the administrative head of the Department of Health and Wellness, administrative directives which are issued to staff and management come under my purview and no other office. The issue of reapplication for any position at the Millennium Heights Medical Complex bears weight if the consideration of a public-private partnership is being explored and would be determined by the conditions agreed to in the public-private partnership. So there is nothing definite about reapplication for any jobs. It may be one of several options if at all we have to pursue transition in all staff to the Millennium Heights Medical Complex. A concerted effort is underway by the Government of St Lucia to ensure that projects embarked upon are achieved with greater efficiency and benefits to the people. The thrust is in keeping with the decision by the Caricum Secretariat to implement a results-based management RBM system to arrest the long-standing issues that have plagued the efficiency of the organisation and its agencies. The RBM system is a framework that guides the execution of programmes through sustained monitoring, reporting and accountability. The Ministry of Economic Development, Housing, Urban Renewal, Transport and Civil Aviation is preparing to introduce a delivery unit that will be tasked to accomplish the goal. The Caricum Results-Based Management RBM system is expected to benefit member states significantly. According to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Development Philip Dalso, St Lucia is looking to take advantage of the system. He explained that other measures will be taken to ensure a smooth implementation. The Permanent Secretary added that St Lucia is currently in discussions with the Caribbean Development Bank, CDB, to assist in this venture. We are actually in discussions with CDB to help in developing what we call a delivery unit, which would help us in developing that results-oriented framework. At the level of the public service, where I used to be the PS of public service, job descriptions are also being developed with a sort of results-orientation framework, performance-orientation framework. So that would align much more closely with the performance appraisal and development instruments. So when you look at a job description now, it's really results-based. The Permanent Secretary also highlighted the importance of the implementation of the results-based management system. Dalso explained that member states are tasked with a number of responsibilities, and with the new system in place, assessments can be conducted. The resulting reports will then be made available to stakeholders. We can see when the reports are prepared, where the bottlenecks are, who is falling short, and what do we need to do, what interventions we need to take to improve or remove those bottlenecks. So, yes, there are elements of RBM that have been introduced in St. Lucia, and we are also looking forward to working with the Secretariat so that we can help to improve the implementation rate as it relates to the regional development agenda. A big part of the implementation of the RBM system is sensitization. While a concerted effort is being made to sensitize stakeholders in St. Lucia, Dalso opined that there is still a lot of groundwork to be done. Thousands of students are back in the classroom as a new academic year opened Monday. The Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development personally welcomed students in a visit to several schools. More in this report. The annual allocation of just over $1 million for the repair of schools on the island for years have proven insufficient to alleviate the infrastructural issues of the large number of schools which require repair. As such, this year, government invested 10 times the usual amount to ensure the comfort of students and teachers alike ahead of the reopening of school. Minister with Responsibility for Education, Honorable Dr. Gail Rigabet, says while there is still work to be done, the $10 million allocated has been stretched well in improving 80% of structural issues in schools. Let me thank everyone who has been involved in delivering this rehabilitation program. I think across the island, the students and teachers are reasonably pleased. Admittedly, and I've said it before, $10 million only represents a quarter of what it is estimated that we would need to bring every school on island to an acceptable standard. But that injection of $10 million, of course, has gone a long way to bring some relief to our teachers and our students. One school in particular, the Miku Primary School, encountered some issues with lingering pain fumes in a few classrooms and caused some parents to express their concern and even pulled their children out of school. However, school principal Fern Donnelly says remedial arrangements have been sought to house affected students. I want to categorically say we will not be housing the students in the classrooms upstairs where the parents were concerned, in which the parents were concerned about. We will ensure that no student is allowed on that block from tomorrow. We had works done on most of our blocks. We have four blocks in total and three of these are totally refurbished from the inside to the outside. We have freshly painted walls. We have new ceilings. We have new light bulbs. Electrical works were done. We have new furniture. We have a brand new school and for this we are very grateful. The Education Minister, as has been her custom on the first day of class, visited several schools to witness first hand. The work accomplished and took great teachers and students wishing them well in the new academic year. She addressed the assembly of the grossly secondary, noting the school's recent successes in CXC-CSEC and its elevation to a center of excellence for sports. We remain committed to ensuring that all our graduates are exposed to some core subjects, but that they also have the option of pursuing certain subject areas, be it in the area of sport, in the case of grossly secondary school, and with respect to the Archer Secondary School in the area of creative arts and culture. The Minister says the remaining work on schools will be accomplished, utilizing weekends and the upcoming Christmas break. She expressed her satisfaction with her tour of schools and disclosed that Monday's meeting of Cabinet ministers was suspended to allow Cabinet MPs a chance to visit schools within their districts. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development, I am Chris Satney reporting. St. Lucian's, with an interest in the hospitality sector, are being targeted through an initiative spearheaded by the National Apprenticeship Program in conjunction with Monroe College. We get the details from Geraldine B.Sett-Joseph. The National Apprenticeship Program, NAP, continues to bring employment to St. Lucian's in the South. The National Apprenticeship Program was established in February 2018. The program was implemented due to the high levels of unemployment in the South amongst the youth. The initiative works by identifying the personal problems faced by those who are unemployed. Once these are established, the program works alongside private organizations and individuals to place those seeking employment within vacant posts where qualifications, personality and experience fit the criteria. The organization also works at developing the skills of the youth, allowing their potential to develop. NAP's latest venture includes a qualification and skills-based collaboration with Monroe College. Our other mandate has been to provide training in the field of hospitality. And we do appreciate that with the hotels that are on stream to be set up, to be developed in the South of the island, there will be a demand for persons. And so presently we are conducting some interviews with Monroe College. And I need to say that when we advertised this training opportunity, within two weeks we had more than 100 persons coming in to register. And Monroe has asked us for about 160 persons for the first semester to start off with. And we registered over 200 persons. And 200 persons are now being interviewed over a period of three days to start off training in hospitality. And this training will prepare them for work, not just within the local tourist industry, the hotels, but also for the cruise ship sector. We are looking at providing training for the cruise ship sector. And what we are doing at the National Apprenticeship Program to facilitate this is to provide the support to those individuals so that they can access the funds to pay for this training. Those who make the cut will be lucky enough to benefit from the funding process established by the St. Lucia Development Bank. Every individual who's accepted will be able to access the funding from SLDB to pay for this training. But the interesting thing about it is that they do not have to pay back the full amount. The government will provide part of this fund as a grant to those individuals. So they would only have to pay back a portion of it. But additionally, during the three months of training, we understand that these are persons who are unemployed and they have very little resources. And so we are also providing them with a monthly stipend to meet the cost of transportation, to meet the cost of food, and to assist them in getting themselves certified. For the government information service, I am Jolene B. Setjoseph reporting. The Ancelore Canaries constituency recently hosted its first youth and sports conference. The conference was aimed at not only inspiring the youth of the district, but also to give some indication of the avenues that can be taken for each individual to reach and obtain their goals. Organisers of the event, the Department of Youth Development and Sports brought together members from a variety of local clubs and organisations in an effort to give them a platform for expression during the event. The participants were encouraged to come together with the intention of bringing about a better tomorrow for all constituency youth. It has always been, will always be a challenge for young persons in any community because there are so many problems and issues that we have. But the good thing about problems and issues is that they can be solved. And I want to invite you today to take this programme very seriously and to start a journey of development, to start a journey of ensuring that whatever issues that we have that we can overcome them. National Youth Council President Jester and Andrew addressed the crowd by reiterating the message of working and building together. He encouraged attendees not to be afraid to speak out and make a difference. As young people, we need to be able to motivate ourselves. Self-motivation is something that is very important and if we can achieve that then we can always motivate those around us to propel themselves to achieving their dreams and their goals. The National Youth Council would like to wholeheartedly support this initiative, this programme. And we hope that the young people can voice their opinions, their concerns. Sometimes you may sit in your part of the community and you may have brilliant ideas, you may have things that you think can work and you don't get the opportunity to voice those concerns, those ideas in a setting where persons can come together and try to put together programmes. So today I would like to encourage every one of you to not be shy, but if there's something that you think can work in your community, whether it be more on the spot side of things or whether it be directed to youth development that you express yourself today and share and use all of the information that you have to put together programmes that will be beneficial to the young people in your community. By sharing a personal story which related directly to the event, Parliamentary Representative for Ancillary Canaries, the Honourable Dominic Fede, urged the youth to be inspired and act now.  You can't be like the other kids. Your time of going to bed cannot be the same time as the other kids. Your time to get up, to go on train cannot be like the other kids. Your diet cannot be like the other kids. Your lifestyle cannot be like the other kids. Those sacrifices must be made. You know, the lifespan of a sportsman is so narrow, very, very short. And usually it's at the peak here between 17, 28. That's a very, very short window of your life. And you know, when you pass that 28 threshold and you started to get to the 30 mark, you know that you're going down here. And so it is important to maximize the moment in your prime of fitness, in your prime of youth, in your prime of energy to make sure that you have the very, very best career. Representatives from the Department of Youth Development and Sports went on to say that the nation's youth are seen as those at the forefront of change and innovation with the spirit to make things happen. This is Nation Beat. Coming up next, the spin-off benefits of the Roots and Soul Festival. Did you know that one pint of blood can save up to three lives? Did you know that it is safe to give blood even if you have a tattoo? Did you know that the average patient uses two pints of blood? Did you know that giving blood can reduce your risk of cardiovascular diseases? Blood connects us all. Share life, give blood. For further information, you can contact the St. Lucia Blood Bank Service at 4525430. Email us at slubloodbank at gmail.com. Save a life, give blood. Children who eat unhealthily are more likely to become obese by the age of 14, suffering from type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and certain forms of cancer. Be aware of what your child eats and what they do throughout the day. This message is brought to you by the Belize Cancer Society, Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Childhood Obesity Prevention Alliance Belize and the Office of the Special Envoy for Women and Children. Just days after the curtains came down on the second installment of the Roots and Soul Festival, officials are assessing the benefits of the event to people. As we hear in this report by Anissia Antoine, local artists are increasingly sharing the main stage spotlight, along with due earnings. The Roots and Soul Festival is the third event classified under the St. Lucia Solle Summer Festival. The event, which took place at the Pigeon Island National Landmark over the weekend, welcomed hundreds of individuals who enjoyed a cultural-infused liner. In a post-briefing with the Minister for Local Government and Culture, she stated that the inclusion of more local artists and vendors allowed the economic benefits to be felt throughout the length and breadth of the island. We were heartened at the fact that we had a number of local artists who were able to perform and to be of international standard. We had Stacy Charles, Shane Ross, who performed on stage, Michelle Obertin, and also Tajwiks, who were locals, who were part of this cast of international artists that we had performing for us. And what we've always wanted, you know, as a country, is to ensure that our artists are given center stage at many events in St. Lucia. So we're able to achieve that, and I think that will continue to grow within the plans for, as we look to expand our festival. We also looked at the whole question of the opportunity for persons to participate in vending and selling St. Lucia craft and arts. And so all of these things are the type of things that we would want to continue to happen during our festival. According to the Minister, there was a large influx of persons who came to St. Lucia to be a part of the Solei Summer Festival with most hotels recording high occupancy rates. She highlighted the significance of the various summer festivals given that the lowest arrival rates are usually recorded during the summer season. What we wanted to was to deliver a successful event, incident free event, and that happened for St. Lucia. So we're quite happy with where we are going with the festivals. St. Lucia's are beginning to embrace it. When we started two years ago, it was a challenge because, you know, it's always difficult to accept change. But I think as we continue to evaluate our programs, as we continue to assess and infuse the suggestions that keep coming through from the public and persons who are interested in the advancement of our country, I think we can only continue to strengthen this program. In October, St. Lucia will be celebrating at San Heritage Month, the last event of the St. Lucia Solei Summer Festival. Senator Honorable Fortuna Bellrose noted that the public should expect a very diverse program to help discover who St. Lucia's are as a people. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Anzuan reporting. The Minister for Health and Wellness has called on St. Lucia to be more optimistic about their outlook on the HIV epidemic. More in this report from Miguel Morissette. The fears surrounding the emerging HIV epidemic in the 1980s largely persists today. Michelle Sidibe, UNAID's Executive Director, said, we must not be scared of the future. If we quicken the pace, we can reach 40 million with HIV treatment by 2020 and quoted, HIV is not a death sentence with the spoken words of Health Minister, Senator Honorable Mary Isaac, was addressing media personnel at the Caribbean Cytometric Analytical Society, 15th Summit Opening Cocktail Reception in St. Lucia. We still have so much stigma attached to persons living with HIV to the point where a lot of people do not even want to come out to be treated. And tonight, we have heard about getting tested and treated and that that is so very important and vital for that segment of society. Many St. Lucia still believe that HIV, being infected with HIV, is a death sentence. And it is good that CICAS is here to educate at least the people who will be participating. You know, to educate them that it is not a death sentence, that there is health, there is hope and you can continue to live a very healthy and long life even if you are infected with HIV. So for St. Lucia, this is a very, very important event that is taking place right here and I hope that it gets out to the public. Meanwhile, Chairman of the Caribbean Cytometry and Analytical Society, Professor Clive Landis, assures St. Lucia's and by extension Caribbean people, the HIV treatment works. Currently, we treat HIV patients and we can save their lives and I want to just repeat that because it's very important. HIV has long ceased to be a death sentence. You could live very well with HIV but the key point is that when someone is on treatment with HIV then they also become non-infectious because the HIV is suppressed in their body and cannot be transmitted and we know that because in the Eastern Caribbean and in parts of the Caribbean we've been very successful at suppressing HIV in women's bodies who are pregnant and they cannot transmit the virus to their own child. So there are now seven countries in the Caribbean which have been certified by the World Health Organization for having eliminated HIV transmission from pregnant mothers to their children and the basis of that is very simple. The treatment of HIV in the mom's bodies suppresses the virus to the point where it cannot be transmitted to the baby and the baby is free of HIV. And guess what? The same thing happens with sexual transmission of HIV. If the person who has HIV is on treatment then that person, he or she, cannot pass the virus onto their sexual partner. And so the minister has reminded us that we need to be, I think, a bit more positive about where we are right now in the HIV epidemic. We can save lives and when we place people in treatment we can inhibit the spread of this disease. Health officials are stressing the fact that the elimination of HIV is a community effort and are calling for the elimination of societal barriers as they deter people from coming forward for treatment. The SICA summit runs from August 26th to the 40th under the theme from care to cure towards the elimination of HIV. From the communications unit in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Miguel Morris said reporting. Residents of Grozile who have given dedicated service as community leaders, activists, youth advocates or simply inspired others have been formally recognized for their efforts as Chevroy Marius with the highlights of the inaugural Lille Awards. On Saturday, August 25th, 2018, the parliamentary representative for Grozile Honourable Leonard Montute held a ceremony to honor committed community members who have contributed towards community development and students who have excelled in the Common Entrance and CXC examinations. The student awardees were Trey Philip from the Dame Pellet Primary School, Ginelle Richardson from the Grand Riviere Primary School, Juanita Nathaniel from the Grozile Primary School, Amelia Rosemond from the Moshe Primary School, Cletus Adonis from the Grozile Secondary School and the top Common Entrance achiever was Ms. April Dagana from the Camille Rene Memorial School. According to the parliamentary representative, the initiative was well received and said that the new decision to recognize community heroes must be continued. It is my hope and my intention that these awards become institutionalized and that we have annual awards for generations to come. We have a number of pioneers in this constituency. We have a number of people who have made great strides. We have a lot of people who have made contributions very often unheralded, very often unrecognized, very often not even appreciated. It is time that we take some time off, not only to publicly make generalized comments about recognizing the stalwarts who have gone before us and the contributions that they have made, but to single out the people who, by and large, have been making their contribution quite quietly without any fanfare and without any recognition. Community members will recognize for their contribution to community growth and development in the fields of sports, youth development, business, community service, arts and entertainment, politics and long-standing community group service. The awardees receive gold and silver medals designed by Mr. Taddeus Montute. The Lillet Award ceremony was held at the Golden Palm Hotel, Rodney B. From the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, Empowerment, Youth Development, Sports, Culture and the Local Government, I am Chauvin Marius. And that's Nation Beat. Join us next time as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. I am Janelle Norville.


الحمد لله الحمد لله لديه هدانا لهذا وما كنا لن احتل ل الله هدانا الله اللهم سبحانه وتعالى رسوله على سيد محمد مفتاح بابرأبت الله عادلما في علم الله صراته من السلام انتلمين يتوامن بك الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن وعلاه مشرأ أنه الله الذي لي لا إله أنه الله وحبه لا شديك لك إله وعهرا ورب إن شاهدا ولأنا لو مسيمون والشلوانا سيدنا وحبيبنا وكرة عامنا محمدا عبده رسوله أرسل الله بالبداع دين الحق ليوتهر وعرد دين كله ولو كره مشركون أما ضعت يا إباد الله أني مسيقهم ونص إياه يا بيتك الله الحمد لله الله صبحانه وتعالى يردنا مع دينه ويردنا مع ربنا إلى الكرآن الكرين الذي يردنا المعرفة عن ربنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لأنه يصرح بكرانا أنه يردنا this Quran upon the heart the heart of the Rasool الله عليه وسلم وفي ربنا هذا المقابل ويكفي المقابل صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى صلاة صحابه ويردنا مع ربنا في كل مكان وفي كل مكان ويأتي إلى المقابل المسيحة من حقا من حقا من حقا إدفاع إلى أمه أمه ليس only in his time but the umma until yama qiyamah لأنه لا يوجد أفضل أن يخبرنا about that good صلى الله عليه وسلم ويوجد أفضل أن يخبرنا about that evil صلى الله عليه وسلم لأن هذا one of the great miracles of the life of these short 23 years that he spent as a prophet after receiving prophecy these years were by which that Allah SWT swears in the Quran أمرك وإنهن في سكرته من يأهون that he swears by the lifespan of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because in this blessed 23 years that we have guidance that was not only for his time صلى الله عليه وسلم as if we have in it guidance for every single time and this was the essential mission of Rasool الله عليه وسلم إلا ما أبو إبو معلما وأنه فقط أسطن as a teacher every single act of the prophecy صلى الله عليه وسلم was a teaching his movements were a teaching his stillness was a teaching صلى الله عليه وسلم his times of silence was teaching when he was standing he was teaching when he was sitting when he was teaching when he was traveling he was teaching when he was at home he was teaching when he was with his companions he was teaching every single moment of his life صلى الله عليه وسلم was a teaching and that the Sahaba had various degrees and to which they understood that they had various degrees and to which they tacked into an understanding of who exactly the Prophet was صلى الله عليه وسلم far from being a very disaffected type of distant relationship that they had a very intimate and close relationship with رسول الله and that they saw that there was something about the relationship with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that directly related to the relationship of their being is that they recognized is that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that yes he was a human being but he was not like other human beings that he received revelation from الله سبحانه وتعالى is that yes كل إنما أنا بشوره مثلكم say that indeed that I am a human being like you you ha'ilay but I receive revelation you ha'ilay I receive revelation إنما إلاكم إلاهم واحد that indeed that your Lord is one Lord and the foundational meaning of all revelation and all the branch meaning stem from our understanding of توحيد the oneness of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم and that our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم not only had توحيد in terms of belief but he had توحيد in the various degrees of توحيد such that everything that he did in reality he was a reflection an experiential reality the way he was experiencing that توحيد and this is why that we have توحيد with the Lisa but we also have توحيد that pertains to everything that we do because if we believe that الله تعالى has the 99 beautiful names and we attribute all of these great traits and qualities and attributes to our Lord سبحانه وتعالى but the way that we then interact with the world that we could have our actions بلاء what we believe deep down in our hearts that we beat when we move up to the higher degrees of توحيد where we have an experiential type of Eman this is at the very essence of our Dean this Dean did not come just so that merely we could memorize words on paper this Dean came so that you and I become transformed human beings as if we can change into people that even know that they're here on this earth صاحب الدنيا بأبدان المقلوب معلفة بالمدل عالى as Imam Ali فينا بطارب ساد تو كمال when he asked about who were the will of the أعملين and he said يمهجب بهم على حقيقة الأمر is that these are people that knowledge rush them to the reality of theirs فباشل روحة يقين that they were able to experience and feel the spirit of Jesus and certainty صاحب الدنيا بأبدانين yes they existed in this world with their physical bodies وقلوبهم معلفة بالمدل عالى but their heart were attached to the higher celestial realms they were attached to the meanings that was upon our تعالق bestows upon the electric creation and our Lord teaches us upon our تعالق through the Sunnah of our Prophet ﷺ is that even know that we are here on this earth is that oftentimes human beings can become very petty but we have not been created to be petty we have not been created in vain we have been created for a purpose that transcends any of these things that happened on this planetary realm is that how many human beings have existed from the first of creation from Adam our Islam until now how many human beings have existed and what has happened in all of these various examples of human history until this day and age and that how many people of all of these people that have existed until now have understood the importance of the word and the purpose for which they were created which is to know their Lord upon their time and one of the most important aspects of this guidance of our Prophet ﷺ pertains to having direction in times where many people are confused having direction in times where many people are confused and one of the greatest blessings of this guidance that our Prophet gave us is that there are certain things that you can latch onto in any given time as difficult as the time becomes as confusing as the time becomes is that you can have a positive whereby wish these things were absolutely certain about and thus focus on them and then from that basis that you then analyze and look out that we have grounding that we are centered people is that we have a centering and this is one of the greatest blessings because the modern man does not have any center and thus at least all different types of chaos we are centered we understand how human beings relate to the Lord we understand the relationship between the cosmos and man and how all of these things pertain to the whole reason that we were created we still understand this and we still have traditions that have been extended into this time where all of these great fruits that come from establishing a connection to our road and through our Prophet's supply center is that they appear within these human beings that still exist amongst us and this is one of the great miracles of this Dean that our Prophet came with us the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that he gave us this guy صلى الله تعالى mentions in the Qur'an لا يولد آمان لا يضركم من ضل إله today too إلا الله يضركم جميعا فينا بيعكم بما كنتم تعمنون is that oh you who believe that عليكم and فوصكم that stick to your own cells adhere to your own cells and perhaps a lie of all of these tribulations right now someone will bring to mind that how you want to say stick to your own cells when all of these things are happening in the Ummah of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم well there's a Hadith that we should all be aware that our Prophet told us صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّ بَيَدَيَ سَعْتِ فِتَنُ انْطَقِطَ عَلَى إِنَّ مُضْنَمْ indeed just before the hour there will be tribulations in trials like the successes darkness as night every little piece of night that comes it gets darker than the moment that comes before it if he said صلى الله عليه وسلم if he said القائم فيها خير من القائم is that the one sitting is better than the one standing والقائم فيها خير من الماشي the one standing is better than the one walking والماشي فيها خير من السعر and the one walking is better than the one running into them and the others understood from this is is that at times where there is murky waters that we don't understand is that our Prophet يس, there is certain times where you have to refrain from getting involved in tribulations because if you get involved in those tribulations like if you drop your keys in water and there is mud at the bottom of that water and you reach in too quickly is that you might murky up the water and have less chance of getting your keys there's times where things are unclear and our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is giving us guidance and this is a Hadith stated by أحمد it's alsoSP the Hadith تنسوا إردتك في حروطاتك و يقولون أولي هل تنسوا بالتجارة؟ تنسوا إردتك على قراراتك و إذا كان يأت in أمرك فيتر هو فأيبكن كفكلي إبنة أعادة إذا كان يأت إردت إلى أمرك even to take care of life then be the better of the two sons of Adam Cain killed Abel be like Abel be like the better two sons of Adam لماذا تقرأت الناس وقال المرحبا؟ هذا كان مظلمين هذا هو قرأة تبوية لماذا كانت؟ أنه كانت في المنزل وقال أن بعض المسجدين وعلي مجمعين ما يقرأت is that the way they just have us viewed one another نعم قال لحصن وقالت فرستان they were ready to shut their swords and defensive its man قال لهم لهم وقالت وقالت وقالت وقالت وقالت وقالت ç matter we have a written aspect that sacrifices the oral tradition. But the foundation is that we have the oral tradition and that oral tradition has been passed down generation after generation. These are people that have taken this dean seriously and they passed it down and that they help us to have the proper موارفة in the way that we stand and understand and read reality and respond to it accordingly. Also, our prophet is teaching us about this is that the foundational aspect الأشخاص that you are the workshops that we will be using in any particular time is yourself you are primarily concerned about your own self and how that you are going to rectify your own self and if you are helping other people to the extent of the detriment of your own self you are not following the guidance of the Quran because of all of our Lord teaching us�� فانو بهارة أكبر لارك أحون مجل الله يدفت للتوم it will not harm you it will not harm you is that if you are guided when other people go astray بأن أسحابة كانت أخبرتها عن ما يجب أن تطلق القدام وتقول أن أبو كرس ديك يقول أن مرة أخرى يتحدث عن المنبه وكانت فكرة أن يتحدث عن المنبه فإذا المسؤولين لا نعتقد أننا فكرة لا تتحدث عن هذه المثال ويطلق الآن وخذون حدث ويطلق القدام وكانت فكرة على المنبه وقرأت هذه хرام يقول أنه يقوم بإذن of فرندكم لا تنقذون من الذين يتحدث عن هذه الخرام و يجب أن تكون لديك حالة في الله أن يكون으 معروف لسه كان المعروف يكونه معروف بحيث أنه يكون من خطوحها ، أو الله سبحانه وتعالى يشكر بجميع النارfal علىنا بكم ، لكن إذا كانت تأثيرت هذه الحقله كان لديك مرحباً كما يتكلمون عن مجلساتك ، هذه الحقله ليست مرحباً لديك مرحباً لأنه، حتى فكرة لأنها كما بله كانت المجلسة لأنها مختلفة من الوقت when things are clear and that the time in which we live is the most confusing time in history. We live in the most confusing time in history and if you don't believe that you haven't read enough to understand what is really the state of the time in which we live. Really, to properly make a decision when we wait for these grand affairs on an individual basis that's something else and this is the heart of what we're trying to get at. Is that the platform whereby which we interact with all of these difficult circumstances of time is a platform for recognizing that the most important thing of all is your own state with your Lord. In the greatest way for you to bring change ultimately to not only your family and beyond that, your neighbors and your local community and thus the only of our purpose of the life is by beginning with that unchanging principle of focusing upon the transformative nature of this relation that is deemed in relation to your own self. And so having said that, that this companion said that he was asked about what this meant عليكم انفلوسكم that stick to yourselves and he says that indeed that I asked for خبيران I asked someone that was very, that was a great knowledge remembered by the Prophet ﷺ and he asked the Prophet ﷺ about this and the Prophet ﷺ said and he said until that you find that people are just following their desires and that they are, that they are just following the greed of their own souls they are following the desires of the dunya and that they are just preferring worldly things and that everyone is impressed with their own opinion and what did our Prophet ﷺ say that stick to your own self this is the guidance of رسول الله how else is he going to translate that meaning if the Prophet ﷺ wouldn't have said this whether they are not going to be a time wherever by which this was going to be a reality where things were going to become so confusing people weren't going to know what to do what are the problems that فعليك في نفسك that stick to your own self indeed there is coming a time that is going to be times of patience a صبر فيه نفس القبطن على الجمع being patient in it is like holding on to a hat hole للعمل فيه مثل اجري قمسين الرجل يعنونه مثل عمل he is speaking to the صحابة the one who does good deeds in this time is like someone who does is like someone who has a reward of 50 of the companions of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and that this is a time as a hadith in Sahih Muslim where the Prophet ﷺ said ورشفين الله تعالى in times of indiscriminate killing is like migrating to meaning what was the rank of the مهاجرين that migrated from Mecca to Mecca to Mecca and migrated all the way into مدينة المرورة for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى الله تعالى mentions about the مهاجرين and the Ans'a and everything our Prophet ﷺ is saying is that you can share in this meaning of hijra to the Prophet ﷺ if you are living in one of these times as he says تهجرة تنكلي that worst of Allah تعالى in a time of hush of indiscriminate killing where things are totally crazy he says in this particular time it's like he migrated into Mecca in other words if we give a more deeper analysis to this hadith is that in times of confusion where things have become crazy where people have made what is branching certain things that you do in the rarest of circumstances the usul of the foundation يجب أن يقوم بعمل جماع سُنّة when my ummah becomes corrupted as if he will have the reward of a hundred martyrs one hundred martyrs from sticking to the Sunnah of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then when you think about the Sunnah of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what does that mean? people have restricted that to a merely outward observance of the Sunnah yes that is extremely important that all of the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم are great but the greatest Sunnahs that have been neglected are the greatest Sunnahs of our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the greatest of all Sunnahs that pertain to detaching your heart from the love of this world that's one of the greatest Sunnahs of the Prophet of all is to be a person who is not attached to this world and to be a person that is separated from their hearts that all of these normal ways that human beings interact with this world and substitute the desire more with Allah to protect us as in store for the next world because if you look at death in this perspective as the Prophet taught us الموت التحف with the Mu'min as the Hadith says this is that death is the gift of the believer but this is a believer why is it a Mu'min? because he is someone that realizes what Allah has in store for the believers يوم القيامة what is in store for them as they move across the Surat and as they go to the heart of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم as they enter into the various degrees of paradise is greater وَلَأَخْلُوا إِخْرَيْرُوا أَبْقَى indeed the next world is good is greater and even better more everlasting is that when we take this into consideration is that there are the ultimate Sunnahs of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is that these are the focus in any particular time is someone that becomes blinded by their time but through their time that prevents them from implementing this aspect of the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is that we find is that what happens is is that they themselves want to do good but because of a lack of wisdom they end up actually causing more harm and they do benefit so our Prophet gave us that this guidance صلى الله عليه وسلم and this first finishes after a lot about it but it says إِلَا اللَّهِ مَرْجِ إِعْقُمْ جَمِيعًا that all of you are going to return to Allah إِلَا اللَّهِ مَرْجِ إِعْقُمْ جَمِيعًا and that He will surely let you know that everything that you used to do all of these things that become confusing now يَمَكَيَمَةِ there's no confusion everything is clear in Mecca why this happened why this person did what he did that what was the result of this what was the real intention behind this there will be no confusion in Mecca and if we may at this point that's in by saying that this whole idea and the problem of evil and so forth is that the reality that this is a type of nonsense of human beings to think that they can somehow understand that all of the reasons and wisdoms why certain things happen to other people it's that if you look at things from the grand perspective and someone in their own particular life and you don't understand everything that's gone into the everything from the background of this individual society and allows them or it means to do what they're doing in that moment that you won't be able to make a decision a rational decision if whether they deserve what came to them or not is in other words there's a lot of mystery that pertains to the human beings and that knowing that when everything is revealed on Yom Muqyam that you will see that everything that happened to every single person as what the poet said that I'll talk about is that your gifts are great every act of God ultimately is beauty how could it be other than beauty it's difficult for me to say this as people that are lounging and basking in the beautiful weather of California in the spring in Pleasanton is that every act of God is beautiful every tajalli manifestation of his beautiful name or his majestic name ultimately is beautiful because it's a tajalli of Allah and if we can get beyond that and start to understand that there's wisdom and why Allah SWT does what He does and everyone in Himself شكرا و رحمة الله وشارغنا سيدنا مهم لعبده رسوله انه قاعد يقرى الله إني مصيبكم ونسي يايا لتقل الله الحمد لله that the wisdom why we come by together on this blessed day of Juma is to revive these great meanings of the deans in our hearts as that we are in need of a renewal of our deen is that Allah ta'ad informed us that every hundred years that Allah ta'ad will send someone where by which they will revive the deen of our Prophet ﷺ and they will renew it but also that we need to go through these other types of renewal our prophet told us renew your faith say often say often every time you say you renew your faith if you bases it a hundred times you renew it even more than now we should meet people who say and you die upon the way that you live if you get used to say now when we're here in this world is that it'll be a means for you when we take our last breath to say و المدفع بين قرار و ليس كل بحياتا بالحامس بين شخص يفألون عن المحامس هو مدفع بين عالمين و العالم هو that love is the very essence of this entire Deen و الكرام بغض بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والهدف رحمة هو love و هذا مجرد ان الصحابة المسلسل with the Prophet ﷺ أنهم تفهم هذا يخبرونه يا رحمن الرحيم وال الله اذن لديهم أحبه انه يكفي على هذا احتباء الله على ما يقوله وما الذي قبول الله هل باتك البروط؟ ايجب ان تقوله انه سيده على هذا وانه يقول انه يقول اذاbare كل من يجب ان تح Ойي انا او ان صحيح سيأتي بهم اكثر اقل أشكر مصنع خطب لهم بجد ناسيا أغيركم أيضاً لو حف evaluating الله صلى الله عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم is that your life will be filled with tribulations and you will find very you will have difficult times but is that if that love is there is that that those tribulations will become sweet and in other words what our prophet is teaching us of Allah is that the primary way that we deal with any tribulations is by putting يجب أن يكون مستخدماً على التحديث فلن نفعل ما نريد وعلى أن نأمنا معه إلى أمة ما هو المستخدمة التي قلت لنا أن نتعلم أن تفلت نازل فتفشلوا فتفشلوا ونبهب ريحة كون لا يوجد طريقة لإنهاء إذا كنا لم نضعنا إلى أمة لا يمتل with أحد فتفشلوا فالتالي ستفل ونغطي وسيكون تغطي لن يكون لديك لن يستطيع القدوم إذا لم نتحدث بشكل معه كما أمه وأننا لا نحب هذا العظيم على أصدقاء أخي وعلياتها وحيث يتباقيهم بهم وحيث يتباقيهم على أصدقاء أخي هذا هو العقب مننا وحيث يتباقيهم على أمنا وأنه يمكنك أن تبدأ بأي شيء مباشر مباشر وأنه يتباقي من أسران وأنه يتباقي من أرحام أن تجدوا بشخصك وأنه يتباقي breathing out the night when other people are sleeping is the result? through religion you enter into paradise peacefully not difficulty never into into paradise放心 it's not very simple Islam is very simple it'sçekn if you build it upon it's foundations are very simple what is important, we actuarize today these realities and Allah단 الحول هل هذه سطفة اخذ شيء ياهبل الذين عانوا الصesters عليه الصoli متسريمة وبارك على سيدنا محمل WAY العالمك اللك خامر من مجيل ورادي اللهت علي السادة الخلفة رشدي وعلينا أم معهم وفيهم برحمتك يا أمر رحمين وعلينا معهم فيه لرحمتك يا أمر رحمين اللهم عزد إسلام ونصر مسلمين اللهم وفل المؤمنين ومناتها المسلمين والمسلمات الأهيات منه من المات ربنا تقبل من أنك تسمي العليم وتبع لأنك تنتواب الرحم يا أول الأولين يا آخر الآخرين يا درطوة المتين ويا رحمين مساكين ويا أمر رحمين انجز مرا رحمتهم من انديكة نسعادوا بها قدوني ورآخرة قرأوا افضلنا الاسفل في كل هذه الأفضل تسألوا بها بشراءنا الأهيات منه وأمر كلها ونمر عليهم خرص جيدا أن نفتح برسلوني ومرقموا على حقيقي العليات فلاحقوا نحو هذا الطريق وانتنا بضبط الم month of夺 بعد أحياننا الحياة لأفضلنا قرأوا بأن نتجز الم make all of us as we exit this world وإن الله يعمل برعادي ورحسان وإتاق القربة وإنهان أنت كحشان وموثي وإلطادي يعيدكم رعاديكم تذكروا وذكروا رعاديم يذكركم وشكرا عليكم وردكم الله


and the sheer misery of this whole deal in investing is that if you had just followed the crowd in 2023, you would have been absolutely misguided. There's no doubt about it. It's times like this at the end of the year where I reflect on the performance of the year.  I spend a whole hell of a lot of my time looking forward, looking to where I need to go, setting new goals, extending goals out into the future. That's my wheelhouse, that's where I live. No doubt about that. But if there is any consolation in the message that can be gleaned from 2023 and they are hard lessons learned, no doubt about it. It's been a very, very challenging year. It's been a challenging year for the I-2, but just until I am able to reflect and take account of some of the strategic goals that I put forward for especially the latter part and especially the latter quarter of this year, which was to consolidate risk, to consolidate accounts. We will do a portfolio review tonight for the first time in a long, long time. We are sizably up above the half a million dollar mark again, having taken a ton of punches, right smack to the face, a lot of kicks in between the legs, man, a lot of kick in the nuts this year and going back really at the tail end and through the pandemic, it's been tough going in the markets and I'm not gonna sugar coat this stuff either, but if there's anything that we can glean and you come onto the Independent Investor Channel, you get a little bit of raw, emotional, not privileged content. I'm one of those people that believe that it's okay to take a strategic shot every now and then. It is okay to live life hard.  With that said, with regard to investing, I think a lot of people can probably save themselves a lot of pain and anguish in just looking at some of the numbers that I disclosed to you and how a defensive posture in the stock market can give you a lot of, or avoid a lot of sleep less nights, give you a lot of sleep, easy comfort and understanding that the stock market is not as crazy and it's not as predictable, certainly as a lot of people would have you believe, but that's just the whole point. The Independent Investor Channel aims to put you in the empowered driver seat, you and you alone and for a lot of people, that's a scary proposition. I think if I were gonna say, hey, what do you think about the prospects of taking control of your own money? I think a lot of people would be attracted to that and then they wouldn't have the first foggiest clue on how to approach it. I break it down in the most simplest terms for people so they can really understand and embrace this idea of taking control of your own money, okay? You will not get a more deeper appreciation for opportunity, money in and of itself and understanding the value of that opportunity. The understanding of what it really takes to live day-to-day, take comfort in those things that are worth acknowledging that typically are far removed of any type of satisfaction that you could get through the rudimentary habit of spending money. I find that futile to try to come online and portray somebody who doesn't know anything other than just being bestowed upon opportunity in his life, okay? I've worked for everything I've got. A lot of people, that's all they know is success and being provided for their whole life only to come onto a social media opportunity and hope to convey that forward and convey a sense of a successful person and therefore people are supposed to follow the line and resonate with that. I challenge all that idea. I think the least amount of following you can do, the least amount of time that you can spend without your nose up somebody's asshole, the better off you'll be. 23 was a perfect example of that. I coached, I mentored through the last three years of volatility and at times I would do the Friday livestream and I didn't think there was gonna be anybody to come in and share in my message. The stock market can define extremes for you in the rost of terms and for a lot of people who aren't, they aren't accustomed to watching their money fluctuate in value. Most people are used to looking at the static state of a dollar bill and being satisfied with the static state of that dollar bill not wanting it to go down in value and taking comfort and solace in the fact that it does not leave their eyesight. They take comfort in looking at the dollar bill. We look deeper below the surface in understanding that by deploying that dollar bill and separating from the surface level euphoria you get from being way too connected with your money, you will understand that by releasing the power of your dollars over time is really the key in wealth building. I've separated so far from my money. I look at the wealth that's being generated. I look at some of the speculative investments that I've got on right now. Aduro technology is going to be the focus of our live stream tonight at the back end, but we are going to do a 2023 review of the Independent Investor Channel. People enjoy that. They wanna see how the money shakes out and how I allocate capital and I'm glad to share that. That's how I learn. By taking a tutorial from somebody it's always interesting to understand how others deploy capital with that said it's a topic that doesn't necessarily garner a lot of open conversation over wine spritzers, most generally, but more specifically you'll narrate a find a social media content creator and influencer is open as myself who will come on and drag people by their ears, kicking and screaming hesitant to the idea that, albeit, I never promised a straight line to success but I did promise success at some way whether it be through a long and winding road, whether it be through trials and tribulations and entering into speculative stocks like Hylian, which the verdict is certainly out but over the last three years has proven to be a significant drag on the portfolio. Somebody could learn from that perceived a mistake of mine and say, you know what, boy, that's a really tough beat and it was, it was a tough beat. Now the stocks doubled, I still own a pretty significant amount of shares in the company but quite frankly the holding has been ridden off because my focus now is on those companies where I feel like upper management is aligned with shareholders and shareholders' intentions and wanting to understand what value they hold in the company and the more aligned that we can get with the upper management in this cause the better off we'll be. And I have, Neriya, seen a company as well ran as Aduro Clean Technologies, which is the speculative play. I say speculative tongue and cheek, guys, when I look at it and assess the very aspect of where they are early stage in their evolution, I consider it a value play, no doubt about it. With the solidification in the financial statements that I do think will be forthcoming, which I think is the real bare case for Aduro Clean Technologies at this particular juncture, they really need to clean up and start to generate some revenues and the webinar that was released just this week was hosted by Abe Dyke, the head of investor relations with Aduro Clean Technology. The kind of championed and marshaled by the CEO, Mr. Ofer Vicus. Also on the call was Mina Bashay, their CFO. And finally, Mr. Eric Appelman, who quite frankly, I thought was the highlight of the show. Something that kind of irritated me and something that has not been talked about with the webinar is that there was 110. There was 160 patrons that were registered for the Aduro closing out of 2023. And there was 110 patrons to show up and show their interest. And what I think is one of the greatest ground floor opportunities. Now, one of two things, either people are not getting the message through the independent investor channel or they just don't care, all right?  I don't have a lot of sympathy for a lot of people. I think this is where a lot of people, when they do gain some level of success in this life and they realize what works, they get really, really burnt out in trying to bring people to the message because people prove over and over and over again that they just don't want to pursue any type of level of success. And for those people, I can't help you, all right? You're gonna have to come to the table with some level of rigor, all right?  All you gotta do is tune in, okay? But I tell you what, man, for the people who justify expenditures far greater than the free content that I give away every single week, I tell you what, man, I'd be hard-pressed to understand that you couldn't get better information from the shrink that you pay thousands of dollars for, you can get it here free of charge. But look, chair, feel yourself an adult cocktail and enjoy the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube. I love this job. I have fun doing this project. We're closing out seven years on YouTube. It's such an honor to do this. I have a deep conviction as to why I do this monetarily. It makes zero sense as to why I do this and that's why it's right. That is why it's right. If I was forced to come onto YouTube and create content, my content is not content that appeals to the masses. I don't mind kicking you in the teeth. I really don't. I talk in real life to people like this. I do business with people all the time. 2023 was silently my best professional year of any other year on this earth. I'm 46 years old, happy to share. Most of the year, you know, the stock market was very volatile, ups and downs and had its significant drawdowns only to enter into the last eight weeks of absolute freaking euphoria. And it wasn't till this evening where I took account of the run-up in the portfolio, and it has been monumental. No doubt. I do sin on over 25% in a duro profit. It's been the performer of the year in 2023. I declared to everybody that follows my message that the duro shares have went long. Now, that's half the position. I've actually doubled up my position here on another short position. Hopefully by the fall of next year, we can have a nice long suite of duro shares, just over 50,550 shares is the actual position. I believe in the description of this video, I have shared my buy points going all the way back to, I believe starting in November of 2022. So spurring back over 12 months of accumulating shares. I'm happy to provide that to you in way of transparency. I got accused this week of being a pump and dumper. That was so that was nice. I was able to, and see I'm the wrong guy to do that with. So I won't engage with you. What I will just calmly retort is this.  See, I don't have to put food on the table with doing something as trivial as YouTube to put food on the table. But I also doubled down and suggested that if the stocks that I talk about on the Independent Investor Channel are not good enough for your palette, number one, don't invest in them. Okay, don't invest in them. If you feel like that's the case and you've got everybody figured out everywhere else, and pointing your fingers everywhere else in the world, then no problem. You definitely wouldn't want to follow the advice of somebody who comes onto YouTube and pumps and dump. I'm up six grand in the name. I'm happy.  I don't care. I'm not your father. And quite frankly, I come on here. I'm not your friend either, okay? You can glean from this message what you will, all right? But I posed this rhetorical question on my Aduro recap this week. I've been putting out a lot of content because I think the timeliness of it is right. Sub $1, okay? Nah, it's a penny stock. I've had lots of bad luck with this. Fine and dandy, all right?   I get it. You're gun shy, okay? If you want to invest in the S&P 500, I can guarantee no greater than a 30% return over the next 30 years in any one given year which each of those years as they passed has an equal and equitable chance to be down 30% or more over the course of that year. Why do I suggest that? My largest position is in the S&P 500, all right? It is predictable. It is predictable wealth. It is diversified wealth. It is low expense wealth. And it fits right in with the perspective on the independent investor channel of being one of those cornerstones in the portfolio that can absolutely crush it for you. I will declare to you guys my TSP just this evening is approaching the $100,000 mark. I started investing in it in 2012. So just over 10 years ago, my goal was to have 100 grand in that account by the time I retired, it's been just over 10 years. We are approaching the 100 grand mark now. What do I do? What do I do? Donate it to charity? I don't know. Give it to the kids? Hell, I don't care about the money. I don't care. Some people will come in here and they'll be like, God dang, listen to this guy talk, man. Most people just say, I really wanna be a millionaire. It keeps me up at night, really? And you're not willing to do one thing toward that goal? Me, if you listen to how I talk, I have separated myself mentally from my money a long, long time ago, okay? I don't care. I do this for the business of it. I truly am wired like a businessman. It is the very plan that I deploy, which I take value in. It's what makes me click. It's the very lifeblood of what pumps through me, okay? It's not the rendering. I expect to make money with High Leon. I expect to make money with Aduro Clean Technologies. Does my desire guarantee me a payoff on the back end? No, baby, that's business, okay? Step into the really real world. This is the major leagues here, guys, okay? There is no minor league stock market, all right? If you wanna play this game, you have to start to wrap your mind around this idea that you can't be a baby, okay?  And you've got to try to define the fringes. You've gotta define the swim lanes that you're gonna be in. And I put those raw swim lanes out there to you.  He's kind of an asshole, man. That's because you've never been kicked in the head before. All right? I'm not gonna sugarcoat this deal for you. I'm not gonna do that for you. A lot of people seek out their guidance in the stock market by following everybody else. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.  I don't see those messages. Naria, will I ever see those messages? Why? Because that's what makes the Independent Investor channel unique in that I'm not looking to sell you on anything, okay? I'm looking to make sure that you take the ample opportunity to look yourself squarely in the mirror and ask yourself, do I want to do or not to do? And in true Independent Investor channel, as we close out 2023, I've got to pay homage to an old onus on the channel. It's great to have everybody on the channel, man. Be back with you in just a moment. There was probably a hell of a lot more than 110 sheep in that video. There's no doubt about it. I think there was probably 110,000 people that were probably looking for financial advice on YouTube, all right?  And it smells horrible, horrible, okay? It truly does, all right? Let's rock into some portfolio reviews. This is something that I enjoy doing. Sometimes this can, you know, I really try to put myself into the recipient of the message seats and, you know, like it's hard sometimes to justify sharing what it is that I do on the wealth building side, okay? But I think it really does drive home what I've been talking about with regard to pursuing financial thresholds. What are some of the different accounts that you'll define in your makeup, okay? And you're like, and he's like, you've sat through the last couple of weeks of independent I2 live streams. Let's say this is your fourth one.  There's no doubt about it. The last four have been really, really good because I really do talk about those cornerstones of application, okay? But this is a joint holding account that I've got. Now, all of these are with fidelity now. So keep in mind a little bit of framework and context around these declarations here. I have switched a lot of accounts. I've closed Robinhood, Good Riddance. I have closed Webull, Good Riddance. For the first time in my life, I have walked away from a business that I absolutely would recommend all the way, 100%. I am 100% satisfied customer with M1 Finance. However, with the goal of consolidating I have taken those accounts like and kind and moved them over to fidelity, okay? There was a couple reasons for that. The ease of simplification of consolidating the accounts, number one. But more importantly, the consolidation of and the pursuit of a higher interest rate on idle cash fidelity really delivers on that front. I know if you guys probably have looked at this and thought it's about time, Ryan, thank you. It's nice to join the party. Very good, man, seven and seven tonight. Cheers to you guys.  That's what I'm talking about, Clark. Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about. So very simple, some larger positions in this in Amazon, Google, 3M, AT&T, Blackstone Group, the BTI position is fairly new. And the Warner Brothers Discovery, that was kind of a cool announcement today that they're probably gonna merge with Paramount. So kind of cool there with a 10% kicker there of cash. Again, making about 2.53% maybe higher on that idle cash in the joint account. That's $62,643. Route one, back comfortably into the six figure mark. Now mind you, these accounts, they really took a downturn.  I don't mean to scare anybody off. These numbers that I render to you guys bottom line on being as transparent as I possibly can are made possible through the power of the stock market. All right? I don't know where I would be if I would have tried to save myself to these numbers. I have no idea. Hell, I was just paid tons of dividends this week. I think I made shoot almost a dividend every single week, every single day this week. It was awesome. One day I woke up, I got an email. I got a dividend for $1.05 on one of my holdings. I was super happy. I'll disclose to you how I've moved to those M1 finance accounts over to Pidelity, like in kind, the one has transferred, the final two are awaiting to transfer. A little bit of tricks there. They weren't happy with a couple of my original submissions, but hey, no big deal. But $104.03, nothing to shake a stick out here with BlackRock is the governing holding Disney. JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft. O&L was a spinoff of realty income. Pepsi, VOO is half that value, close to $45,000. A VOO in there, VBK is up huge. There's a nice $10,000 position in there. VNQ, nice $10,000 position there, et cetera. Pfizer, which is at a 52 week low right now.  So again, as a pump and dumper, I'd like to recommend to all the accusers of me of being a pump and dumper, they can go ahead and throw their entire net worth into Verizon and hopefully get a little bit better performance over the next five years, because I can guarantee you in five years, a duro, clean technologies, you wait. Just mark my word, okay? I will be reporting on that old girl for the rest of my life and I'm happy to do so. If you didn't watch the webinar, which look, if the odds are out of the nine billion people that are out of the world, the 110 people that were lucky enough to actually be on that webinar, I know I was one of them. I happen to probably know three or four other people, which we are gonna be meeting tomorrow on a webinar, kind of special, I'll post it as soon as we're done with myself, with Yazan Amsi, Mary Yusko Niitschkini, Penny Queen are going to do a reaction video. It's gonna be special, I'm gonna host it. I'm just the guy to host it, it's great, but I really wanna hear these guys' thoughts. I love all three of them. They're very, very sharp. I haven't talked to Penny for a while. She's an independent cover of the company. Mary Yusko has been just phenomenal through 2023 in really being the forward conveyor of the message. And that's why I just don't really understand how I can sit on a webinar. And I just about fell out of my FN chair. By some of the things that were said, I freaking couldn't believe it. The stock's trading for 90 cents, it does not go down. So good luck buying it on a dip if you'd like to do that. I've just initiated some new buy points and I started at 82 cents on the latest dip, picked it up as much as 86 cents. And I'm already up on every block of shares I've picked up. The stock has been on fire in 2023. Will that continue? Hell, I don't know. I'm not a freaking magician, all right?  That doesn't exist. But if there has ever been a more exciting opportunity in the stock market, I have never seen that except for what has been made possible through what Aduro Clean Technologies is doing. And it was conveyed in a way that was just absolutely beautifully separated from the industry by the words of Eric Appelman, their Chief Revenue Officer with Aduro, recently brought on the team from Brightland's Camelot overseas. Been with the company six months. He said, look, I looked at the company. I looked at the technology two years ago. I've been looking at it from a distance. I had my doubts on the onset. Then I was proven that it worked. Then I ran it through its paces and it just failed to fail over two years, you know? And he said, now looking at it, I'm even more excited than I was on the onset because the technology works better than I thought it did. And that was the real separator for me on the webinar, but really more to follow when I host the panel tomorrow. I invite all you guys. It's gonna be awesome, man. It's gonna be great to hear the insights. Mary Yousha, I'm a little more in tune with. Penny, I follow her message. She's a featured channel on the Independent Investor channel because of how strong they both are with their independent research in the micro cap space. I am not one of them. So I defer to them for their expertise in the space. But there are some grumblings in the Russell 2000. There's some rumblings in the small cap space. My small cap ETFs are on par this year in 2023 with the NASDAQ performance. So for you guys that have been sleeping under a tree for 2023 because Mr. Nash told you to take the year off, perhaps maybe again, you can cut that, all those umbilical cords off and start to maybe, I don't know, follow somebody that you trust to hell of a lot more than anybody else on this earth. And that's yourself, all right? Here's Roth too. This is mine. This took some damage from Hylian, obviously, but being with fidelity now, I was able to accumulate some of those shares. Double, boom, boom. Double, boom, boom. Double, Aduro with the Roth protection. Yeah, that's big, okay? See, you guys get to deal with some cool stuff that I had to deal with when I first started accumulating Aduro shares. And that was that it wasn't available on 50% of the brokers out there. Socked. I told the story. I went on to, I called Bank of America and I was like, hey, man, I want to invest in this company. I have X number of dollars. I would've dropped a 20 spot right there. I would've dropped a 20 spot right there. And they were like, oh, we're gonna write till the stock goes to $5 a share, $5 a share. Shit, the stock goes to $5 a share. I'm sitting on half a million bucks. Get all me crazy. I really didn't want to wait until the stock went to $5 a share. I value it now at $5.75 a share. The technology alone is a $250 million technology. The market cap of the company right now is a nice, cool $65 million USD. Dare I say more? Do your own homework? Do your own due diligence? But the beauty of social media is such that we can put these very, very real opportunities out there. It's real. It's not a pie in the sky. It's not a pie in your face.  All you have to do is step out and say, God dang, Ryan, all right, man. I wasn't one of the 110 patrons. Let me just Google search this. I don't know, man, I'm sitting here watching Game of Thrones with my wife. I can actually search this out. Say it, Aduro, God dang, they are real. I got a dang if they have a website. I'll be damned. Adurocleantech.com. Adurocleantech.com. Find out, follow them on Twitter. I got a dang, Ryan's right, man. They are right.  This is great, man. Click onto the webinar. Watch the four minute video. If you don't have an attention span past that of a P, watch the video at the end. It was really awesome, man. It's really awesome. Some of the private companies now that are offering less than standard solutions to the plastic problem through paralysis are doing so in the private market. And they have plants built now. They have engagement from major players like Dow Chemical, Dow DuPont, at Lyandell Basel, many others. Why? Because the major industries out there, both the oil and gas industry, as well as the plastic producers, they are looking at this problem very, very seriously. And they are looking at the technology that is available out there. It's gonna be exciting times over the next coming years. I'll sit on my haunches. It's no problem. I own my shares long. I'm not trading in and out. I bought them. I haven't sold one share. And that's something cool, man. We saw a big block order come through this week is selling at 90 cents. I think that could be one of the most regrettable decisions that you ever make in looking at this company long term. I really do. I think you could look at that and say, God damn, I held the shares. I'm back, I had it. And I think that's gonna be the most challenging thing going forward is actually sitting on something and kind of understanding how we deal with a material position in the company. Don't worry about it. I'll shepherd you through that whole process. Man, it's all good.  It's all good. Don't worry about it. All right, I'll take care of you. So now it's the Fidelity Sector Specialty ETF portfolio. This is comprised of the 11 sectors, the S&P. For you guys that got a hold of the M1 Binance account, congratulations.  This has been comprised of some surplus capital here filtering into these ETFs that I've owned for three years. I'm happy with the performance.  Gives me a barometer on what sectors are kind of hot and what sectors have cooled off. Gives me an idea of where the sector rotation comes from, pays me a touch of a dividend and makes me money over the long term. So it's a good thing. NERIA are looking to lead you astray on the independent investor channel. Just show you the facts. That's it. Fidelity dividend growth. So this is a combination of two, right? So one drawback of M1 Binance is that you can only buy maximum 100 equities per portfolio.  Yeah, Warren Buffett says, put it in your top 10 horses. Look, I'm not Warren Buffett. All right. I never tried to be Warren Buffett. I think he's an awesome dude. I'd give him a big hug if I met the guy. Okay. However, I invest like me. I don't invest like anybody else on YouTube. I invest like me. If you don't like it, it's no problem.  What has been fairly rough markets? It's been tough. Okay. So 147 holdings, they're in the process of being in the stars. And once I bring those over to Fidelity, I'll have those all in one account totaling 46,384. I've held this account for two years, three years. What's the difference? Who cares?  What's the difference? Two to three years.  That equals what? 600? 600 paychecks I get for doing what?  Nope. Nope. Just coming on and putting content through like this when my energy is channeled just right, you guys are getting the super goods. But the fact of the matter is it's almost 600 dividends a year times four per equity holding that rotates back into the portfolio and pays me to own the stocks. All right. If you guys want me to disclose those to you, I certainly can. I don't mind sharing every 147 holding, but it's companies like Intel, Home Depot, Procter and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, Duke Energy, Southern, Linde. It does cover all 11 sectors, the S&P 500.  This is a dividend portfolio. So there's not one company in there that doesn't pay a dividend, right? And a lot of people may come to the channel and they're like, damn, I don't know squat about money, but I have a lot of money. Be awesome, I'm just your guy, right? I'm just down to earth. I don't come from money like you do. And I don't know if I would be who I am if I came from money. That's the cool thing about it. There's a lot of people love Tony Robbins, who is like a mentor of mine, but would he have been Tony Robbins had he not had the turmoil that he talks about openly from earlier on in his life? Yeah. Yeah, you gotta expand your who you are and your range of like how you operate.  It's okay. When you're really, really happy, be really happy, but don't go through life midline. Don't go through midline. Just kind of walk up through that bump. I still have some of the smell at the top and it smells sometimes.  Don't do that. Come on. Be a little more dynamic with your program, man. This is the account that just this year had dipped down with a six in front of it. It now has a nine in front of it approaching the one. And I always say, look, it's never as good as you think that it is, but I couldn't be happier with this performance started it in 2012. I contribute 25% of my pay to this. So I'm taking in house 75% of my take home pay that I make every single couple of weeks with my career, right? And that's just an attempt in paying myself first. And I don't miss that money a bit. Hell, I could push it up to 50% and still survive. And we're chipping away at that maximum contribution gap, which I think is what guys 24, five, something like that. And this is cool because these are all Roth contributions, man. Pretty awesome, pretty special for the government workers out there who understand the TSP, blah, blah. I don't want to bore you. This is a really small set by RA I started last year. I still had it, get a little surplus. I'll contribute to that. Here's the business account. There's where the majority of the Aduro shares are held in the business account. So about half 29,500 shares held long, but in a taxable account, unfortunately. So we'll have to dwindle those holdings off if it ever materializes in an SEHD 100 shares there. So that's a $7,500 block there. And then Voxster, which is a really good company. It just hasn't caught any favor yet. It's been beat down with every other small cap offering out there. It's been a rough year for the Russell, been a rough couple of years actually. And what's happened after the last couple of weeks is now inflows are coming in and people are like that. They've been through this routine before and this is usually what happens is those down sectors beat down and forgotten and discarded and absolutely kicked in the gutter. We'll gain favor, but 521-842, that's where we are, man, securely back above the half a million dollar mark for what a half a dozen times now that I've reported out on the Independent Investor Channel. To be quite honest with you guys, I really don't care. I don't freaking care. A lot of people, man, would look at it and say, man, that's a lot of money. I wish to get there, you never will. A lot of people would say, I'm there now and you won't keep it. A lot of people will actually look at it and gain the right level of motivation and say, you know what, I'm right on if this Johnson can do it, so can I. And that's the God's honest truth of it.  Like you don't have to be special to make money. All right?  It doesn't work that way. There's nothing special. I said a couple of weeks ago to some of the patrons that come by the channel, and like, money doesn't discriminate. Okay? If you choose not to pursue wealth, then that's on you. That's not society's problem. That's not anybody else's problem, but yours. Okay? You can't blame me. I do everything I can do on the Independent Investor channel to give away the goods for free every Friday. I'm the least of your problems. Look in the mirror. Very cool stuff. See who's in the group, man. And then we'll get to awesome conversation. Remember, tomorrow, guys, when I post the webinar, it's gonna be really cool. I'm really looking forward to talking to them, the friends through the network. One of the very many things that I'm very thankful for with regard to my ability to network through social media. You guys are absolutely a huge, huge portion of that. And I'm just happy to know you. No doubt about it. I'm humbled at the opportunity. I'm humbled to know guys like this because I don't know, Matt, if I ran into you at Walmart, would you say what's up? Probably not, right? Cause we're pretty busy fellas, but I tell you, me and you have built a pretty good relationship over the years. And I am thankful for you, brother. There's no doubt about it. I think it's cool to come in and I think it's cool to talk about and hang out with like-minded people. You know, the old cliche is surround yourself with people who are successful. And I am. If you'd like me to have one or two million dollars in the bank to somehow put that tag on me, then that's no problem, but you can call it arrogance of my part. That's no problem, but the deep level of success that I have, fortunately for you, and I will define for you now, has very little to do with the size of my portfolio, but rather the amount of lifestyle that I'm able to provide for the family. And that really is where I'm at and where it stops for me. But Merry Christmas, Matt. It's great to see you, my brother. It's awesome and it's great to have known you over the years, man, no doubt about it.  And Chris is in the house, man, very cool stuff. Chris has been with the channel long, long time. I'm just super, super, super thankful for your support over the channel and hopefully you get some, I don't know, some motivation or maybe some laughs out of the message. I don't know. I can be a pretty funny guy, I guess. I don't know. I'm laughing on the inside, trust me. I'm not sure what YouTube algorithm led me to this channel, but I'm grateful it did. I don't know what algorithm led you to it either, Steve007, but I'm glad to have you here, man. I'm not the one that is going to catch that slippery slope to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. You look at my featured channels, Matt's one of them. Matt's a good dude. Matt's a self-made millionaire. He was a self-made millionaire before 30. And I don't think he would mind me sharing that he's a successful career man in the oil and gas business. Those are the people that I wanna support.  No way. Now, this topic is very, very serious for people. Money is a very serious topic, okay? But the sheer fact that makes me funny is that I kind of throw that into the reality that this is FN YouTube, all right? How serious can it be for crying out loud? I wear the same shirt every Friday to prove a point. Would you take me more serious if I wore my suit and tie, you know?  That's not gonna help your bottom line, okay? My Oak desk in front of you and my fake plant in the corner and my awesome computer that I've got right here. That's not gonna help make you money. I'm a realist. Like I said, you wanna believe in the crystal ball? No problem. You can find 500 other channels out there. But I'm just hella glad to have you in the community, man, the greatest gift that you can give to the I do is to bring anybody on that you feel like could resonate with the message. It's a community environment, right? The very success of the channel is defined by every dollar that is made for individual portfolios, man. It's a freaking scoff at the man, right? It's a scoff at a system that would influence people to thinking the way that they would have you think and acting the way that they would have you think, all right? And being scared of things that you shouldn't be scared of and not pursuing things that you should be pursuing. Being independent, empowered thinker, man. It's super, super important. I don't care. And again, if you can render those dollars within your household, then that's the very success of the channel that we've always been striving for. No doubt. Horned dogs in the house. Fantastic. Right on, man. Yeah, Thomas in the house. This is Merry Christmas to everyone from New Jersey. Ah, throw a rock and hit you, my brother. Throw a rock, that was East, sorry. Throw a rock that way, all right? I can see Verrazano right out my window. Okay, he knows what I'm talking about. See, I'm very real, very real. You're from Maduro next year. We'll blow away from 38% green from this year. Yeah, so like if you review the webinar, I'm not gonna be, I may take not a bearish perspective. I'm obviously bullish in the company, right? There was a question that came out, when is Aduro gonna list to the NASDAQ? And I about fell out of my chair on that one too, because that would be the worst thing that would happen for the company right now. They need to solidify their financial statements. They really do. They need to start to generate some meaningful revenue on the top end. Profits not gonna come for a while, I don't believe. And with that much disconnect between what they're gonna make through tens of thousands, if not some contracts that might be a little more lucrative, 50 to 100,000. Ophir Vikas talks about this on the webinar. I'm just regurgitating what he said in the entry level customer, through their customer engagement program that they're gonna glean some revenue off of for three to six months time period, okay? Now that revenue increases once they bring them in and by Eric Appelman's admission is that this technology may sell itself, okay? And I don't wanna speak along the presumptuous lines. Aduro has to do a lot here. They've gotta do a lot, okay? Do I think that the stars are aligned enough to really put them in the driver's seat to be their own worst enemy? Yeah, I do, I do. I think they've really set a roadmap of the lot next three years to be the real tell. It will be a first look, either three years or $10 down the line. Either everything else until then is futile in my mind. But thanks for coming in, my brother, Merry Christmas to you too. It's awesome to have you. Very cool stuff, pump and dumper. I don't know, I laugh anymore. When you first start doing YouTube, man, it's like everything bothers you. And it's like, now I'm just entertained by it. I'm like, cool, man, don't buy the stock, man. You're the very type of person that I don't wanna see by the stock, don't buy it, okay? Go buy Verizon. Verizon is my hot stock pick conviction for anybody who wants to make anemic returns and underperform the S&P 500 in 2024. There you go. Explain why the December 2023 milestone one deliverable for Prospero was missed. I have to look into it. I don't know. The last I had heard is Prospero was one of the five majors that they were working for. So as far as missing a milestone, I will take that back to my source and run that to ground for you, Bill. But thank you for bringing it to my attention, absolutely. I don't know, I can't speak on that, I can't provide any level of color or transparency on that. But I guarantee there's probably somebody on this live stream that will probably take that for action and I'll probably see a text come through my phone. But thank you, Bill, I appreciate it. I don't know the nature of that, of what you speak of, okay? I just knew that they were in relations with Prospero, but outside of that, I don't know about any type of missed milestones. Okay, thank you. Merry Christmas, fantastic. Appreciate you, Jamie, one of the Vipers in the group. Awesome, awesome. Matt's in the house. Merry Christmas, all cheers for investing in growth in 2024. Yeah, I don't know, we can't have it any worse. Good grief, if the last couple of weeks have given you any taste of how powerful the stock market is gonna, can be. You know, it's an interesting game we play. There's no doubt. I'm not gonna tell you that it's always all bad. That's not the truth. It's awful dang good. You've gotta keep a level head about you. There's no doubt. Acknowledge what went good. There was a lot of restructuring as I disclosed in the portfolio for you guys that haven't sat through that for a while. Saw some of the changes that I had made in the interest of higher interest on idle cash as well as consolidating the accounts down into something that was a little more manageable and not spread out all over God's green earth. Okay, glad to see the stream is live. U.S. large caps are where I'm comfortable investing. Oh, it's fun. It's fun. I get a little edgy on the independent investor channel. I'm not a regrettable person. I don't regret things. I don't think like that. I'm not gonna beat myself up for taking a strategic shot or, you know, not buying a house at the perfect time in the stock market or not buying 15 houses in Suburbia, Detroit when I lived there when houses were going for like four and 5,000 bucks. I could have bought 15 houses, you know? I don't beat myself up over that stuff, man. Life is just life and there's no promise that you'll have a perfect life. But I tell you what, through my determination, I tell you what, sometimes in the short term, it appears as if maybe I'm actually running in quicksand but over the long term and especially when I take a step, stop to reflect and I'm like, hey, everything's pretty good. Things are pretty darn good.  I'm super happy, super happy, you know? When you come from where I come from, man, it's like so sweet, man, I can taste it, man. I can only wish that upon others to experience what it is that I experience with the nature of the fulfillment that I get every day to do what it is that I do, man. And again, that speaking, not having a whole hell of a lot to do with portfolio. This is, I too, livestream time when we talk about stock, et cetera, but what I do on my own time, man, is really what gives me the most fulfillment in my personal life, no doubt about it. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. You're funny about this, man, Matt. I'm super stoked about, this is my last payment on my Toyota Tacoma. I have three, 30,000 miles on the truck. It's my dream truck. It's my second Tacoma that I've owned. And I own one, I own one more $500 payment and then I own it. So how about when Tacoma? Look, if I ever have the means to treat myself, it will be after I've acquired a main home. We have some plans after I get stopped owned by the government to retire somewhere, maybe in the Carolina region, right? Be close to an airport so we can do some traveling abroad, et cetera. But if I ever have the chance to plant a car in the driveway, it will never be a Lambo. I don't think I could wrap my mind around it. One thing that I would aspire to as far as a luxury item that makes no sense whatsoever is the new Corvette. And I've disclosed that through the channel too, but I could buy five of them now.  Let's tanger a tonight, man. Let's tanger a, tanger a, ginger ale. Ale, man, I'd make you one if you were here. Oh, in mind. Here in Manhattan, that's a $25 drink. Working the medello, fantastic Victor. Thanks again for all your support over the years. I'm thankful for you guys. Hair's on fire is a nice extra though. I know. Well, it'll be different if I came on and slept for 60 minutes. I don't think you guys would take too good to that. I've got myself over a thousand.  You always talk about those positions that if you just took a few hundred bucks and put a little strategic shot at it, I really do think that the hardest decision with this company, if they can circumnavigate not being taken over, which is a real concern for me at 60 million market cap, hell, they could come out of this game changer and just be like Shell has made us an offer that we cannot afford. They're gonna pay 850 a share. Now I make a half a mill on that deal, you know, and I just, would it be in the best interest of the company and the initiative and how good the technology would be to take it and just accelerate its performance and way of tackling the plastic problem globally? Yeah. Yeah, it would. Would it take longer for Adura to do it on their own? Yes. Yes, would there be more money in it for share owners? But, you know, the power of a thousand share position for a company that goes from the bargain basement price that it is at now to something significantly material, you know, two, three, five, 10, 15 billion in market cap, which the company could do with its model and working with large petrochemical, you know, if they do, they'll have the ability to diversify across the entire value cycle, which is what Eric Appelman talked about. You've got to watch the webinar. Catch the panel discussion tomorrow. What can I say, man? Exciting times. Exciting times to be able to provide that content to you guys and at least trouble them. It's not as much as you add. And don't, don't, don't worry about that. You don't have to do anything that reflects anything of what I do. You really don't. I'm in a different position when compared to my greatest, greatest competitor and that's myself, you know? It's just cool that I come on and share that stuff through YouTube. You know what I'm saying? It's cool. And I'm humbled at the opportunity. Don't, don't get me wrong. Don't, don't think I'm coming on and being like, you know, hey, I was this and that no, no, no, no. No, I deliver that stuff with some care and I deliver it with some understanding that you guys understand a little bit about where I come from. I'm not looking to take a pie in the sky chance here. No, Aaron, I'm not looking at that. Keeping an eye on Parcel Pal. Paws, Merry Christmas. Have a fantastic year and thank you. Yeah, the CEO just, he hasn't spoken with me. No big deal. He's probably taken the holidays off and the last I had spoken with him, the idea was to re-engage first and next year. And that's probably what we'll do. The funny thing about what it is that I'm doing now for companies, you know, it's funny because when I was working with another company, and I won't name names, I was happy to do the work for them, but when I did the work for them, all of those companies went down. And it was like, holy smokes, man, like, okay, I don't mind pushing it through. Investors need to make their own decisions, et cetera, but I take a black eye. Every single time I come onto the channel and I'm like, hey, take a look at this, do some research, don't invest in the company. I'm not that type of thing. And the company loses 99% of its value, you know? Aduro has been one of those companies that I've started doing content for them for free. And I'll continue to do that. I don't, atypical, yes. There's nothing for free in life. Yeah, I don't know. I do what I want because I want. I don't need somebody, nobody asked me to do that. I don't need somebody to be like, hey, this would be a great idea. I mean, to come out with a discussion piece on Aduro every week. That was my idea. I wanted to do it. I don't charge that off on Aduro. I have credits with them. I wanna preserve those credits for the big announcements. Those are the ones that I'll take the charge off and they have compensated me for that. But, you know, all is fair. I wanna make sure that they understand that they're getting a good deal. And at the end of the day, it's really that preservation of that business deal that I'm more interested in at the end of the day. All right, well, let's see if this one can actually materialize for us. It can be a lot of fun, man, for sure. I did it. I think you were the one last week that told me to do that. I already did it. That was a pretty awesome feature. So that's a really cool takeaway. You know, down to the last minute of the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube, Mitra dates in here every freaking week. I just appreciate the hell out of the support. Man, I really do, but I did that. And it was a cool, cool feature because it's absolutely something that I was willing to exercise. It fit really well for me, because I'm a builder, right? I don't care about the outflow so much. But that feature was huge. I dug it. I thought it was pretty awesome. So Mitra date will end on that, man, for sure. I'm gonna tighten it up in 60, man. I feel like going for another 60. I'm pretty fired up tonight, but I do not wanna belinger the point, guys, as we close down 2023. A lot, very dynamic year. When I look back and I say I did it hard, I'm very proud of what we were able to weather in way of a storm. I'm gonna tell you, man, it was not a banner year. In some blessings, in some forms, it was my best year ever. In other capacities, we'll live to fight another year. The project continued to deliver on all fronts for me spiritually. And I hope you guys received the message the same. You know, my message is being delivered very, very razor sharp right now. I'm very satisfied with the level of compassion that I deliver the message on. If nothing else, even bringing it back a little more to center about where the channel's roots and really where the focus needs to be for the vast majority of investors out there looking to grow a few pennies under their household roof for themselves. And that's what we look to do is empower those investors out there to realize that it's not as scary as the society would have you believe. It's a small pocket of YouTube as disclosed by one of our patrons this evening to suggest that it was surprised to even find the channel. Hell, I'm surprised. I don't promote myself. I expect referrals to come through. If referrals aren't provided for me, then I just guess I won't get any more growth on the channel and I'm totally fine with that too. I could do this channel for the next 20 years with 30,000 subscribers. Be totally happy with that. But guys, just in closing, man, I will re-remind you guys tomorrow to tune into the webinar reaction. Myself will be hosting. Mariush will be with me. Yes, Anhamsi will be with me. Penny Queen will be with me. We will all be on the same panel looking very much forward to that and getting a consensus reaction to the 2023 webinar that was just delivered on behalf of Aduro Clean Technologies just this week, guys. So Merry Christmas to everybody. Have a great, happy holiday. Be safe.  That's my advice, Clark.  All right, that's just government plastic between your brain and the ground below you. All right, so be careful. But if you do enjoy the content, man, and invite you to subscribe to the channel, it is the very least you can do to help us support the channel. Thank you so much for tuning in. And good luck, guys, in your investment future. We'll catch you next week on the live stream and the Independent Investor Channel. Be well. Cheers.