Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to today's promotion ceremony honoring Lieutenant Colonel Ashley O. Gellner. I'm Chief Master Sergeant Michael Price, your narrator. Presiding Officer for today's ceremony is Colonel Rusty Ballard, Commander of the 182nd Airlift League. Before we begin, please allow me to extend a special welcome to Lieutenant Colonel Gellner's husband, Colonel Robert Gellner, Commander of the 183rd Airlift League. My parents, Mr. Don Jensen and Mrs. Laura Jensen. Her daughters, Ms. Bronwyn Gellner and Ms. Evelyn Gellner. And their cultural exchange of pair, Ms. Fernando Figueroa. We also give a special welcome to all commanders, chiefs, first sergeants and members of the 182nd Airlift League for being here to share this special occasion with Lieutenant Colonel Gellner and her family. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of our official party. We'll remain standing for the posting of the colors and singing of our National Anthem by Senior Airman Amelia Simonette. Present arms. Say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the indication by Chaplain Daniel Woe. Almighty God, thank you for this day and our 182nd community. Thank you for caring to bring us a leader like Colonel Ashley Gellner. We celebrate her promotion and would ask for your continued blessing upon her life and career and family. Please grant her your wisdom as she leads and cares for so many of us in the wing. Please also allow her new rank to open up to her even more opportunities to serve even more airmen. We especially want to thank you for the love and encouragement she's received from her family. May this promotion be experienced by all of them as a shared victory and confirmation of excellence and selfless service. We humbly ask for your continued blessing to rest upon Colonel Gellner's husband, Robert, and their two daughters, Bronwyn and Evelyn. May you also bless Colonel Gellner's parents, Don and Laura, as well as the Gellner family, Nanny, Fernando. God, thank you again for a day to celebrate this very special promotion, made inspire and motivate us as we work together as defenders of freedom. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. At this time, I'd like to welcome Colonel Rusty Ballant, the commander of the Lending Second Aerial Wing, to make a few comments. Thank you. Hi everybody, thank you for showing up today. Bob, thanks for coming up from the 183rd. Appreciate seeing you. Lynn, Evie, thank you for being here, supporting mom and the family. Thanks again to seeing you again for Family Day yesterday and hopefully you had a good welcome yesterday as well as today as well. And Fernando, thank you for coming as well. Testimony to the crowd, thank you everybody for showing up today. Nobody is here. Forcefully, are they? Yeah, Bob, yeah. I hadn't gotten that line yet, but I appreciate you holding your hand up there. But no, thank you for everybody. Not only supporting the 182nd Aerial Wing, great for your support to Ashley. A lot of you really haven't got to know her all that well yet, but we're going to shortly. And I appreciate you guys being here. First of all, Ashley, back in April, we were at the Air National Guard Senior Leader Conference. And at night, what you would do is your contingent for the state would go out to dinner and so forth, and that's what we did. That was the first time I got to meet Ashley. And we had the whole team together, the Tag Day Tag, the Wing Commanders, the Command Chiefs and everybody else. And we got the opportunity to sit next to Ashley and the whole family. The girls were there that night and immediately I got to know Ashley and it really started to like what I got to hear. The funny thing that I liked about her, she was in War College at the time and she was going to be looking for a job, which I knew. But it was nothing like trying to sell herself. It was actually the complete opposite. That's what I was drawn to her about, because I saw how humble she was. She was telling me a story, and my wife's story as well, about one time she lost one of her children. And she kind of laughed at it, and I know how decorated she is in her careers. And to me, that said a lot about her, and I like to hear that story because it was pretty funny. You have to share a beverage with her, ask that story, and you'll be entertained just as much as I was. So after we left that conference, I encouraged her because she'd mentioned she'd moved back to Illinois to apply for the positions we had when coming over. So then we had candidates for the Biscuit Commanders. We lost seven years of experience pretty much in one day with the last Wing Commander and Biscuit Commanders. It was going to be a lot of restructuring here on base, and I was pretty intimidated. That's a pretty big deal going into a UEI and everything getting ready to happen. But I had six candidates, and to be honest, each one of those candidates would have done perfectly well. All of them brought great things to the table, good people, and I couldn't work with them. And each one of those people, when I talked them through the interview, I opened it up. I said, listen, I'm interviewing for a job that I've never done. To work for me in a job, I have never done. So you tell me what does this job consist of? And everybody came back with their different stories or different iterations about how they would tackle it. And it was good. But I'll say on the hiring board, some of the things I was looking for is what we do currently and what we're getting to. I'm going to talk about her career a little bit, and a lot of those things kind of stood out. And as you meet Ashley in just the last month or so that she's been here, you're seeing that she's stepping up to the challenge. She's a perfect person for the position. So we went through the interviews. She said, gentlemen, Ms. Thomas is retirement. That was back in, I believe, mid-June. And we got to talk, and she was asking me, like, what is it you're looking for? What do you need me to do? And once again, I reintegrated. Listen, I never done your job before. I was just learning my job. I'm two weeks in.  Be a mom, be a spouse, be an Air Force officer. And if you just show up, I promise you that people will 180-second airlift with me will embrace you. And I hope you've seen that so far. Because it's great people. And you're part of that. So 9-1-1 means something to everybody in this room. It means more so to her family. There's four things that stick out to me with 9-1-1. First of all, 9-1-1 is whenever she had combat mission rated as the air battle manager for AWACS on that day, 9-1-1. So look how much her career changed getting rated on that. But you don't know, or maybe you've read an easy read, is she lost her hand on 9-1-1. On flight 77, in the aircraft hit the Pentagon, she was in the seat of 9-1-1. The third of four things that stand out for 9-1-1 is in 2016, 15 years later to the day, her and her twin sister Whitney were promoted Lieutenant Colonel in the chapel at the Pentagon at the crash site. Pretty significant. 9-1-1 today. 21 years later, getting promoted to 06. As a vice-win commander, 1-8 second earlier. A lot going on there, her 9-1-1. Really stands out to her family. So, as I mentioned, she has a twin sister named Whitney. She's a brigade commander, 06 currently in Poland for the Army. Pretty significant for two twins. I know that got five successful children, but those two that ranked more than the same. That's pretty impressive. Very impressive number of fact. She graduated from the University of Indiana in 1999. Dual bachelor's in Italian in polite signage. She was foreign exchange student one time, learning Italian. Pretty impressive. She got rated coming out of ROTC as the Air Battle Manager, flying AWACS. First duty station, she went down to Tyndall. She got rated there, like I said, 9-1-1. She was her first day being combat mission rated. She met Bob down there at Tyndall. Got married in 2000. First duty station after that was Tinker. And I think 330 combat hours, she flew for operation during freedom. She was flying missions over D.C., sporting a no-fly zone. A lot going on there in that first duty station. Followed it up in Kadina, flying over the Korean Peninsula. And basically on the missions proving that North Korea had nuclear capability. Pretty significant thing. She made it the captain yet. That's all the things she had done so far. Being a family, constantly moving around, dual status, our dual service, I guess, houses. 2007, decided for the family, let's get off of that to do it. Let's go to the gardeners early, move, and we went to Dover. And that's what I see as a leader, she really started to decline. She was over, she was a DO of Aeroport Squadron, 104-plus people, she became a squadron commander there. She did that for a little while. Then eventually moved to California International Garden. This is another thing, she started adding on to that command experience. She was a F-15 conversion officer. She was the Wing XP, IG branch chief. I mean those three duties right there in that duty cycle go from a commander, XP, branch chief, conversions. That's pretty significant. If you look at any Air National Guard base, trying to stay alive, those are valuable positions to help us go into the future. These are all things that I learned during the interview process. So she took on that experience. Active duty, guard, reserve, part-time, full-time. And then she went to the Stat Tour program. If you ask her anything about the Stat Tour program, she's a phenomenal mentor on that. There's a lot of good things happening there. She's experienced it, so she's a person now. Hey guys, come on and have a seat. Please. Plenty of seats, come on in. So on the Stat Tour program, she started building her resume doing even more good things. She was NGB conversions branch chief. She was NGB A branch chief there over plans and programs of a $1.4 billion budget. She also did work with J5 in a joint position. Those are coveted positions, and they're hard to come by, but it really sends you on that trajectory of really excelling once you get named for that. And that was over Homeland Division Deputy Division Chief. And she was J5 representative to the National Security Council for all Homeland Samples Border Operations for Homeland Security. Following that, I think Bob went to Hawaii as the main district commander, went out there, and she went out there and did great things there too. So still raising a family. She was A5, A over strategic plans, and then a legislative liaison for the Indo-Pakhan Commander. So it's a four-star combatant commander, right? So that's what she was doing representing that area. Once again, look where the world's going right now. Russia and Ukraine and China and Taiwan and Pacific. She has touched just about everything that we're concentrated on right now, not only in the United States military, but at the 182nd Airlift Wing. Most recently, before selecting for this visit, she was at Naval War College. She graduated the top 10% of all Air Force officers in that program. That's where she got her second master's degree. So impressive. Good stuff. I like it. So, like I told you before, when you ask about what you wanted to do for the job, I'm asking, just be a mom, be a wife. Take care of the folks here and they're going to take care of you and we love having you. I'm looking forward to working for you. I guess you're working for me, but we're working together. Like I said in the beginning, you guys are doing really well or you can't keep a job. I'm not sure what it is. But what it is, I support you and your family wherever you're going. My goal is for you to love this place so much.  All right, so congratulations. Thank you. We will now proceed with the promotion portion of today's ceremony. The President of the United States acting upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Air Force has placed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, integrity and abilities of Lieutenant Colonel Ashley Gelner. In view of these special qualities and her demonstrated potential to serve in the higher grade, Lieutenant Colonel Gelner is authorized to assume the grade of Colonel, United States Air Force, effective 9 August 2022 by the order of the Secretary of the Air Force. Now we invite Mr. and Mrs. Jitzen, Colonel Robert Gelner and their children, women, men and any Gelner to conduct the pity. I thought about it. Oh, you've got it on already. This is theirs. Facing right? No, no, no. There we go. There we go. Don't worry about the way back. All right. I found her though. I'm sorry. All right. We're going to do a picture. Oh, we're going to do a picture. All right, jump down. Ladies and gentlemen, Colonel Ballard will now read Minister of the Oath of Office to Colonel Gelner. Hi, state your name. Hi, Ashley Gelner. Having been appointed a Colonel in the United States Air Force. Have you been appointed a Colonel in the United States Air Force? Do you solemnly swear or affirm? Do you solemnly swear? That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Then I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And then I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office discharge the duties of the office upon which I'm about to enter upon which I'm about to enter so help me God. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, Colonel Ashley Gelner. Thank you so much for coming, everyone. I think we need to work on bringing people forward a little bit. We've got to get rid of all these programs. Although I don't know maybe mom wants to take them home. Yeah, your grandmother's home ballard already alluded to this, but I would not be standing here today if it was not for my family and honestly for my husband on Memorial Day weekend of 2021. We were getting ready to go to Kauai. It was the only time that we could get off the island of Hawaii. Everyone we came from, you know, we had to almost two years in Hawaii, but we didn't get to see the island. It was almost the entire time was during COVID and it was not a great tour for us. We're very busy and it was just as traumatic I think for us as it was for everyone else sitting out here. You all have your own stories about it. But we were headed back to DC. We already had a house there. We are renters were leaving and Bob had interviewed for a Winkman position in Illinois and on the plane he accepted the offer of the Winkman position and so we literally changed our entire life in two hours, three hours. We did talk about it was always a possibility but you know, if you were at Lieutenant Colonel Bridget Soren's change of command today or assumption of command today, she talks about your life changing in a moment and that is exactly I think if you look at my career, our careers, that is always how our careers have had gone and the opportunity what do you think I should do? I mean, he's a maintenance officer and he's a Winkman girl a glass breaking ceiling as well on its own as just as much as we stand up here as the first female Vice Winkman or this Wink so I don't have any regrets about that whatsoever but I had already been going out to war college and so we had to change everything and Bob took over a brand new Wink and two kids and a new house and a new community and new schools and everything without me even being there so I can't even I can't even thank you enough it's not easy we had only one of the worst years of his life and I've won the best years of my life and then the kids of course, my kids, so it's because they come up here just real quick they have something for you so my parents have raised all of us to just be confident and just believe that we could do anything and I think we've been pretty successful all of us kids have been pretty successful with it but I have if you think I'm a strong female it's because I had such a great representation in you and being a feminist I didn't even know I didn't even think of it that way because it was just normal and so it was something that we passed on to our kids too so I have these two coins that I got that they belong to those from female officer mentorship group that I'm a part of and the Wonder Woman things you get one of them or I like to call it Wonder Win but this word comes out which I think is pretty cool and it says she wasn't looking for a night she was looking for a sword and so I just think if you guys live your lives that way there's nothing that you guys can't do either so thank you so much for wanting to support I'm also very keenly aware that I am standing between you and leaving for drill weekend so I will keep this very short thank you so much for the kind words for you say all those things and it makes me sound like I'm just this amazing person I did not do it on my own I had a lot of people behind me and my family mostly helping me along my way and I have had nothing but a very warm welcome from everybody at this wing Bridget said this morning and I can't even I can't even do it justice and say it better than what you did this morning because from the moment I came in here and I met people in this wing it's just been amazing and I just think that this wing has so much potential we're already incredibly effective and a wonderful wing and I can't wait to take it to that next level so thank you so much for having the faith in me to come forward and be your partner as we take this wing to the next level and thank you all for coming I know you didn't have to be here so I really appreciate it Chief, thank you so much for narrating Chaplin, thank you Amelia, thank you very much for the beautiful rendition of the National Anthem she's also going to sing a song her four song afterwards thank you very much and Fernanda, thank you very much for coming we're a host family this year she's from Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico and she is a cultural exchange student and also helping with as a nanny for our children this year so she's been instrumental and very very helpful in our families thank you so much thank you very much for coming join us in the deep back afterwards for some cake and some coffee so you can make your drive home a little bit more pleasant thank you so much ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's ceremony please rise for the singing of the Air Force song and the words please join us in nearly following in the dining facility to congratulate Pearl Gelner and provide a small reception and her honor please join me in singing off we go east of the pile moving under climbing high into the summer here they come to clean our thunder and the standing guys fighting our flames from under off with one nothing can stop the US Air Force thank you all for coming please join us in the dining facility drink drink


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Doing practical exercises for mental tasks to teach the guys to go tank ditches and take these dozers, D7s, to get rid of the causticino wire and breach the obstacles. Dozers are coming in, removing the causticino wire, digging down and building a road across the anti-tank ditch and going through the burrows so we can access the backside of the obstacle. And then they're coming out here and then they're practicing clearing a minefield, in case I tank minefield with D7s. I think everyone's doing a pretty good job. The experience level that we've had in the operating time with some of the soldiers. I think everyone's doing a fantastic job. We've had an opportunity to get out here and do good training and this is what our MOS is, is operating engineers is doing heavy equipment. We've had yesterday and today are two full days of good training.


In today's video I have a very mysterious Yu-Gi-Oh mystery box. What's up guys we're back with another mystery box opening and yet again I have no idea what is inside. This thing is unknown, it's foreign, it's mysterious. And the cinder of this box is someone we know well, Lars. If you've missed Lars other mystery box videos go check them out on the screen, they were insane. So let's go ahead and crack this thing open and figure out what's inside. I'm assuming there might be some sort of note or something, I'm just going to open this up and find out. I don't see a note in here but Lars did give us a giveaway, a lost art elemental hero for stentatrix. All you have to do to win that like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, let me know down below your favorite item in here, there's a lot of great stuff coming up. Alright first off we have a tactical evolution, Labyrinth and I mere combo here which apparently used to be $11 at Toys R Us, RIP I wish it was still that much. This is a really nice item, contains the very weird packs, we're destroying the item as we speak but there's some cool stuff inside, the special edition is what they, I think they call it a special edition somewhere, yeah right there, special edition, old school type. Okay I dismantled that as best I could, it's so hard to get these promos out without bending them, it's a little bent already it seems so yeah okay, not a very good storage for the promo cards unfortunately. Don't worry we have some really nice stuff here, let's see what we can get out of tactical evolution. We did pull him a ghost or add one of these packs before, that was pretty amazing so if you guys didn't see that one go check it out, the only card right side up is right there, very weird so let's do it like that. Crystal's Penny, we have Strike Slash, this is gonna be a longer video, sit back relax grab your popcorn, enjoy the long video, thank Lars for the amazing mystery box, good content here, we have Crystal's Chicky, counter counter and double summon, pretty good rare but obviously just a rare, we're looking for better than that. Next up, Lavrent the Nightmare, I actually do have something I want to show you guys. So I always talk about how like you get the weird slimy cards with the train tracks on them, well I actually have a couple of cards here, we have Damage and Heavily played but these are out of the tactical evolution and let's see, there's one of the train tracks, it's only a partial train track but sometimes they'll go all the way down on two different spots like train tracks so this is a ultimate rare from there and then there's a LO in, so it was tactical evolution, this is a LO in, same thing, this one's a little bit more beat up but as you can see train tracks going right down the middle and that is not just because this card's really beat up, that is because they used to come out like that straight from the printing, they would look like that, it was pretty crazy so Jim and I elf print of this weird 2007 slimy print that I always talk about so I just wanted to show you guys that because I had that. Now let's see if we can pull one here, that'd be pretty cool if we pulled one right afterwards and it had the train tracks which I don't know if Lars would, because like personally if it was me I would kind of want the train tracks just because they're so unique, they're not unique to this like specific print but they are unique compared to you know most other Yu-Gi-Oh prints, the quality control is terrible but then you know the card's not near man or anything, we have Rock Spirit, we have Flame Dancer with this burning rope, fire sorcerer, bio mage, offerings to the dune, we have milk and look at the edge wear on some of these, gross ghost, not ghost, bonheimer and Jaugen the spiritualist, okay no luck on train tracks today, tactical evolution, one more chance before we move on to our second item in the mystery box which by the way there are a lot more items, a lot more, more where this came from not necessarily tactical evolution though, we have one two three four upside down, the only card, check out the back, looks like there is some some nastiness going on there, okay we have chrysalis penny, strike slash, we have the goggle golem, cocoon, rebirth, chrysalis larva, burn, venom serpent, volcanic rat and we have fossil tusker, we go over three on that blister, that's okay a lot more coming for Lars right now and speaking of weird blisters, we have force of the breaker special edition, check this thing out beautiful, look it has it has hair, it's like it's like when you put the Yu-Gi hair on there, they put the rucks and hair on there, rucks and hair on the special ed, okay I gotta stop, I don't know I don't know what's going on we gotta stop that, okay all right force of the breaker has invasion of chaos involved so pretty cool, I'm gonna try to get this promo out as good as we can without bending it even more than it already is, I think we did pretty good there so rip that open, get these packs out, force of the breaker has some pretty cool oldies inside as well as secrets yeah as you can see there's already like a dent there, phantom beast rock lizard not the craziest promo but doesn't mean we don't want to preserve it as much as possible okay I mean there are only foils we're getting right now everything else is going to be rare so at least it's been rare so hopefully we can turn that around for FOTB force of the breaker I believe you can do that, we have a little let's get a secret rare deck devastation, deck devastation virus but that's like maternity I mean eradicator epidemic virus there we go over other other world the A zone volcanic recharge crystal beast ruby carbuncle we have crystal promise mass hypnosis maiku master barriers crystal blessing hard-selling zombie and a destroyer saurus all right comes an ulti in this we recently bought an ultimate rare collection which I'm not sure if you guys have seen that yet had some destroyer sources in it it was pretty cool let's say bioc just because it'll be fun FOTB can you give us our first foil of the day because so far we are foilless without foils volcanic blaster we've got tornado introduction to gallantry seismic crap what in the world is that what happened to this card that is some crazy like print just gunk ew okay wildfire at least that was just a common pop a roach there we go we have crystal beast amber mammoth crystal abundance and we have a rise ultimate rare destroyer saurus again two in a row we are 0 for five to start this mystery box not a great star but we do have invasion of chaos right here a little bit of the 2007 print pretty cool I think these came out the boosters came out 2007 could have been 2008 but I'm pretty sure it's 2007 I know force of the breaker came out 2007 but this is an unlimited version so it could have been later amphibious bugger off right you kokey pretty nice card gala czar we have DD borderline ruckson special mold zombie salty gray primal seed green maju day isa and stray lambs all right not a bad start we do have well okay I said not a bad start we're over six it was a bad start but there's still hope in the next generation you yo gx generation next we have three different sets here cybernetic revolution elements of energy and shadow of infinity and then the white horn dragon so there is hope of brewing there's hope of brewing everyone you got to believe you can't just give up because you're over six guess what you just got to keep going for it got to keep taking your shots all right that one looks like it might actually not be in horrible condition does have a little little dent in it right there okay white horn dragon okay our third one not bad three packs let's do a little shadow of infinity let's see what we can do here can we get our first four these feel a lot newer for some reason even though I think these came out maybe the same year could have been there before tinkabay doshan under the sets did 05 and 06 and those sets silent insect we have at desfrock photon generator unit malice ascendant and there it is the classic divine dragon exceleon not a sacred beast I didn't even mention them I was hoping that they would show up by not mentioning them this is the only foil we can pull out of shadow infinity it's always a super rare one of these royalty it's just one of them every time elemental energy wouldn't mind to pull a great card out of here elemental energy I'm not going to say any names because I don't want to jinx anything I just believe that you're going to give us something good for Lars W wing dark deal ojah magic infernal incinerator zur not a dark world roll out Hydra gone we have feather wind and a whoa a super miscut hero barrier hello you are a rare and you are miscut very interesting one for eight but don't worry two for nine with an ultimate rare cyber in which I don't even know if you can get out of these blisters that would feel fine I would feel fine with that one two three four I'm sure Lars would settle for that giant kizaki come on arrival appears these are a little warped if you can tell we have a fusion recovery gyroid ruckson special jerry beans man jerry a bean soldier believes he is the strongest warrior in the world but his true abilities are still undestined we are testing you right now jerry pot of generosity from the pot collection very nice steam gyroid and dimension wall one for nine this is a huff start but don't worry guys blisters we got more special edition striking neos blister central out here we have striking neos we're gonna get forbidden yugioh card which we have pulled we pulled one forbidden yugioh card has been pulled on the gym okay I've done it it's happened but guess what not an ultimate rare so let's just throw that out there you know that could be a different level of success in terms of pulling something good okay let's uh what in the world oh man these are destroy wow okay these didn't even worse like the way they packaged these was even somehow beat the other ones in terms of badness so there's shrink that one is absolutely mall wow that's a nice promo okay very nice this one's looking good yep very clean psa 10 cyber and dragon right there not the most beautiful let's just do the element or the enemy of justice first because there are some good cards in here but striking neos you know that's the big one enemy of justice I believe in you you're going to give us that card you know Shining Phoenix enforcer ultimate rare that we never pulled we have bountiful Artemis here it comes misfortune search light man just an hero doom lord D shield swift bird man joe cyber kirin dimensional fissure ah super electromagnetic super electromagnetic voltek dragon that's what i'm trying to say it's electromagnetic and we pulled it many many times it's just a super yeah the supers in gx sets you you pull them a lot because there's only a few of them and you keep pulling the same ones at least in those uh ultimate rare only sets here it's a little different because there's secrets and stuff like that striking neos is heart i don't even really can it's gx but it's completely different let's see strike of neos you know what we want out of here i mean there's a lot of options i mean if it's a retail pack you get dd crow ultimate rare never pulled that either public plant got the glow moss come on anti fusion device chuchelain ruckson special change of hero zanji kaki ritual ceiling oh and ultimate rare twister all right i thought we had one more card ultimate rare has been pulled that is a retail pull wait strike and you have a lot of retail i think it does i think force of the breakers the one that doesn't that is amazing ultimate rare not first add but ultimate rare twister could have been well i don't even know if it could have been but mine could have been the forbidden you your card but we'll take the twister all right that's a nice pull for the mystery box it's been pretty rough pulls so far but it's nice to get an ultimate rare really help that out that can really make you feel a little better about it let's see if we can get lars something crazy here one two three four six samurai acel puppet plant neospatian glow moss we got yaichi firestorm prominence legendary ebon steed shins foot soldier and we have a gene warped war wolf okay we are getting foils here at least two in a row on strike of neos gene warped war wolf that's a 2000 attack four star back in the day i would have been like wow that is an insane card but you know it's in striking neos so it's a little bit late all right blister packs we have more special editions we have the gx special edition which is too tall you can only see part of it at once you guys can see a little bit too tall so i will remove this in the misprint elemental hero wildheart all right we have the packs out we have the misprint elements are a wildheart which does seem to actually be in good condition which is nice and the reason it's a misprint is it supposed to be secret but it's not it's just an ultra looking card with the secret name uh they're all like that though so nothing too insane let's start off with the lost millennium speaking of loss we seem to have lost our good polls let's see if we can find them in the lost millennium here we go one two three four we have grave lure impenetrable formation win the wind chamber we have medusa area burst in atrix desk wombat minefield eruption and a nitro unit rare two more packs elemental energy we've seen you today i don't think you gave us anything can you give us something big here this time some cool cards in here you can just bless us with one of them here we go one two three four we have zur night of dark world roll out hydra gone why am i saying hydra gone instead of hydra get on i would keep saying that the other one we have area vw tiger catapult the forces of darkness non-fusion area and we have rapid fire magician one that i have pulled an ulti of all long time ago it was like four or five years ago so it's been quite a while cybernetic revolution though it's been uh not that long actually since we pulled an ulti cyber dragon quite a lot less actually since we've done that we've done that how many times now like twice been pretty nice we've had a hot streak of those one two three four let's see if we can continue that right now we have pot of generosity from the pot collection ruckson special dragons beer we have cherry beans man the man who is being tested right now we have current soul desk okie we have the hound doidzu and we have magical explosion another off centered rare but okay another kind of a dud special edition there all right now we have one that's very hard to open it's in the old school plastic that we all remember from our childhood where you just chop off your finger if you try to like just rip it open it's very dangerous so i'm going to cut this open with scissors all right i think this will work there is like a booklet thing in here that i was trying not to cut but i may have cut it a little bit maybe i was just the front part let's see kind of hard to get out of here so i'm going to try to get this out okay it looks like that worked pretty well very nice good job ruckson everybody give me some claps in the chat or in the comments i should say okay we have a little ultimate begin our ultimate dueling guide beginners guides a different thing uh that's pretty cool how is it to tell us how to duel i might need to use this dueling history cool you can see all the decks look at this dueling history table of contents power-up themes dark revelation three checklist interesting yeah because we're gonna open that oh looks like there's some pretty cool stuff in here might have to uh hang on on this this is pretty sweet no i'm just getting i'll send that back to lars very cool i don't know if he wants that or not but either way it's pretty cool okay dark revelation glue off of here very old glue it kind of feels like silly putty now we have our promo which i'm going to try to be careful and get off without damaging i think i could do it there we go this yeah this glue is coming off easier than the previous times i've opened this yeah a little bit of a mark there that's still not terrible that's a really cool promo dragon master knight and the kind of the shame of this product is it only comes with two packs it feels a little bit lacking though they are bigger you know they have extra cards inside dark revelation volume three can you give us something crazy like the cover card the creator or a horse something like that all right uh no pack trick here because i don't know what it is you have a win the win charmer monk fighter element dragon goblin calligrapher deswambat oh an ultra rare perfect machine king okay let's just get right to it let's leave that guy up whoa that's probably one of the better pulls that looks amazing an ultra rare because there's nothing above ultras in here i don't think no secrets or anything heavy slump be soul swap really good card okay dark revelation showing up giving us something good let's see if we can go two for two is that a horse level eight back there can you get a horse out of here i don't remember that i bet it's not level eight i bet they give you like level six or something or level four but i'd love to be proven wrong let's see we have invasion of flames muddy god red eyes be chick white ninja awesome elemental hero avian nitro unit okay so just a rare only one single oh no there we go this is in the middle yeah one single spell card here interesting those dark revelation were pretty good funny enough we have another judgment of the like deluxe edition which i just opened recently out of a different box that somebody sent me that's funny that i guess you know chicolates kind of are my thing but it's still kind of funny that this is a pretty random product for two different people to send me pretty good product though i do like it so let's open it up see if we can get a ghost rare out of here let's open this up we have our packs of course and then you get your little sleeves you get your promo oh there's another pack that i missed another pack they're just sliding through the cracks and of course our beginner's guide is he trying to say something he's just sending me a bunch of stuff for the bunch of guides saying that i need help or something like a beginner i'm not a beginner i know how to duel i'm a pro at dueling okay obviously so yeah i don't need that stuff all right let's see what we got here we've got nine packs let's see what we can get out of this deluxe edition judgment of the light this is uh this is good stuff we got here so far i want that is a destroyed back card it's crazy can we get a chick a lot taste last time we opened this no chick a lot taste which was pretty horrible swell cycle pain betrayer sword we have landing we have the big scary and archfiend guy and a lot that was a ghost rare for a second number 66 master key beetle pretty nice card it's a hollow not guaranteed i'm happy about that let's see if the next pack can do as well or better one two three how about a ghost rare how about a star eater ulti something big super defense robot we got a chick a lot taste potential in here collaborator good you got you go we have the torbath been realm and a susan oh all these look like ghost shares for some reason ultra rare susan oh always makes an appearance in our videos opening and judgment of the light it's crazy that thing loves to appear at least it wasn't an ulti okay we wanted to save our ulti for something good sorry susan oh oh super defense we have umbra whore brotherhood of the fire fist super defense robot single purchase mech fanamese coat wing brotherhood of the fire fist kirin and umbral horror will owe the wisp will of the wisp finally we did not pull a hollow not that i didn't want to but we were two for two intercept tomato may there's so many classic commons in here spell recycler not one of them we googly azure i'm dragon that that's one of them that's pretty good intercept tomato obviously great wolf sarah ort we have xc's agent bujingi crane and a madoche chicolate chicolate it's been so long since we've had a chicolates opened up on the chip been very very long actually so we've got five packs left we got a chicolates this time so i can rest easy knowing that this was a successful opening oh i did i did four wait there we go i fixed it we have drum dragon bujingi armageddon glasses intercept tomato the atmosphere xc's agent underworld fighting a balmong and a bujingi turtle we're slowing down we were two for two technically we got a chicolates so i mean we're doing pretty good let's see how good we can do though junk blader come on xc's reception let's get something good for laura's atmosphere agent kujikaji kujikaji kujikaji we got cold wing we got the warble burger and the mecha phantom beast conquerorad conquerorado conquerorada conqueroruda well what is this that like neck and face look familiar i'm not sure i feel like that's on a different card like the the croco dragon you know it's kind of like a it's like two-year-old card or something i think it came out in eternity code maybe it looks like that one two three i wonder if it's similar or like related we have robot leo we have sage monkey uniform we have archer we got battlefield battlefield battlefield wise yugioh always a battlefield our two packs left can we get something else like another chicolates that'd be big fencing firefair we have black and white wave ghoul bujinfidel elephant flying sea star serif sword archfiend cavalry annexes revenge shuffle judgment of the light last pack of judgment of the light we have a couple things left after this as well so we're not even close to done we're pretty close but not that close shuffle we got bujinki war we got bujinfidel calibrator kujikaji kujikaji kujikaji elephant we got mermelio and spell recycler we started two for two and then went over seven after but we got a chicolates so that counts for one all right we got three more items in here we have what appears to be some loose packs and it looks like its first edition power of the duelist uh one two three four let's see if we can get something does oh oh oh all right our last items are two x saber power-ups you guys know you know the yugi most special these can have first edition packs in them that have contained ghost rare so yeah obviously that's what we want we're gonna open up one at a time lars has had a pretty good opening uh yeah we had a little teaser for another video he had those power of the duelist packs that i kind of showed you guys but i don't want to spoil what was inside because we're making that into its own video because of the craziness of what happened so we're gonna have another separate lars video shout out to lars for the supporting with the content let's see if we can get him something crazy here and these will be pretty awesome so we have the x saber full of night super another promo really cool here we go we have two let's actually let's do it one at a time because these can be first added so can the start us overdrive so we're gonna do the ancient prophecy first let's see if we can get that ghost rare ancient fairy dragoon three from the back we have quaki miru boulder slip of fortune dark sea float water hazard ancient leaf armored axon kicker oh a secret white knight dragon okay i did the wrong pack trick quaki miru and psychic emmer secret rare white knight dragon this is one of the best looking secrets look at this thing i love how this looks it looks so good i feel like it should be named like ice dragon or something not white knight dragon it looks like an ice like an icy card wow a secret this has been quite the opening lars okay reveal here oh first edition start us overdrive oh baby we're getting serious now that could be a really split if that's a first edition ghost rare card's insane i think it's like 750 bucks so that could that's potentially in there one two three okay so the pack trick last time was this ghost rare ancient fairy incoming we have dark sea float slip of fortune we have scary moth water hazard leaf axon kicker release your state wave we have dark sea rescue and a jester confit which is actually a few dollars things like four or five bucks that's a great super all right well done okay first edition all right you know what we're gonna do the hidden arsenal first let's do the hidden arsenal we should probably have started with that one uh could get uh what which one is this brianak yeah brianak on the front oh there it is right there i forgot it's at the very front miss valley shaman so no brianak we got worm we got xsaber and worm ninkles now for the big boy potential seven or fifty dollar ghost trim i do not have this one in my binder at the moment personally because it's so expensive i've just been like i don't know if i can pay for that right now okay i don't know where it would be it could either be here or here so i'm just going to do that so it'll either be second to last or last card quarky mirror see panther let's go slip summon ritual buster bolting escape time passage time passage ground spider earthbound revival okay so i think it'll be the next one let's see it's the first edition oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness that is one of our biggest pulls ever oh my gosh this might be bigger than the ghost rare this card is insane in its first edition oh lars oh lars i thought the power of the duelist was good that is nuts that is definitely going on the top 25 pulls of the year this is barely going to be before the end of the year that's one of our best pulls on the channel ever this man has the best like every pulls four ghost shares of the box he doesn't send me we pull insane out of the ones he does send me and then he sends another one with a christian it out of one pack one pack whoa okay one more what we got to check on this last i checked is like a thousand dollar card they of course made the qcr since then so it might have it might have hurt the price a little bit but that is still one of the craziest pulls that is amazing okay what like what do we even do now like i don't know how many minutes in this video probably over 30 minutes if you guys made it to this part yeah you didn't want to miss it so uh wow i'm sure i'll have some big thing like don't miss this opening or something in the title because wow that is insane whoa lars congrats my guy that is amazing oh my goodness that's so ridiculous that is one of the most expensive rock cards i've ever pulled that is absolutely insane okay uh let's see if we can get our except we're full of night that is crazy that is absolutely crazy dude so another full of night okay yeah okay sure cool let's get our hidden arsenal out i'm glad i didn't you know i went hidden arsenal first okay the secrets at the front so let's do that i got a little spoiler there but let's do like that okay just playing bell card wow i can't believe we just pulled that axel oh my good miss valley thunderbird this used to be money after a while it was like some sort of like uh isn't it like an omni to gate or something oh no it was it was like somehow used in yeah it was something weird okay let's go one pack of time see what's first dead okay not first dead this time i was looking and i was like oh man it's not a ghost shirt it's an effect monster when i was like pulling the card and then slowly i realized oh this is as good as the ghost shirt maybe even better one two three wow we know the pack trick too you know the pack trick we have a dark sea float we have scary mob oh scary we have more trotting seah i can't believe we just pulled that that is it we have not pulled a card like that quite a while magic cat fossil dig that is nutty nutty okay unlimited i'm up with for another stardust overdrive but if we get like the ghost shirt in one opening i don't know if i'll survive i might not make it i might not make it it'll be too crazy okay quacky mirror bolder we have imperial custom mistral fossil dig we have crimson eight i would still take the unlimited ghost right here for a inch very dragon scary moth quacky mirror tornado and discord shout out to the discord go check out my discord in the description you guys can go join there you guys want to see all kinds of cool stuff there you know have the cool little ruxing community there's some people in there we're over sixteen hundred members which is pretty exciting so go up in there shout out to the discord there we go very nice and finally the last pack of lar's mystery box which has been insane it is first edition yet again oh my goodness wow oh wow wow wow i cannot believe we just pulled that that is going to be one of our best pulls of the year probably our number one pull trying to think we've that's well we have had good pulls this year but wow that's going to be hard to top okay so it was the normal not normal but the kind of sketchy one like that okay dark spider iron core armor infernity necromancer woven sheep's clothing we have reptilian viper infinity force woodland archer and dark rabbit okay i don't have any expectations let's just see what we can get spider spider okay don't care don't care other one was totally worth it all right lar's huge shout out to you i'm sure you're going to be excited for this video also guys don't forget to subscribe and to thank lar's for some amazing content because we have this one and another video coming out in the future with some amazing pulls for lar's so wow that was fun shout out to tome foe show daxer puffins of doom rnesto dn america doidster leo guine 62 brad kk beats and unitai show ian musa junior marding robert f thomas baklain changelang and joey castle thank you guys for supporting the channel i'll see you guys in the next one peace


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Chris Leiden, who is in India. And one of the first to start podcasts, if not the first. We say the first. Is it the first? With another guy who is doing the thinking. And the technology of it. You know, podcast seems to be something quite simple to do. How is it that you people were the first to get this idea? And what made you come to podcast? We had to find something.  And they said, no way, you're fired. So I said I'd better study the web, the new technology. So radio means that you were doing actual proper radio shows? Yeah, regular show. And I'd done a television show before that. I'd done New York Times political reporting before that. Local Boston political reporting before that. But I had done a number of media and I thought, wow, I'd better figure this thing out. And then a guy came who really understood it, a programmer, Dave Weiner. And he came to this Berkman Center at Harvard where I was trying to learn the game. And he said, I wrote to him and I said, yesterday I couldn't spell blog. Tomorrow I want to be one, you know? And he said we'll do it. And he said, you understand radio? I understand syndication, programming. What the world needs, he said, is an MP3 file that can be circulated on the web and to a subscription list. And it took a month or two and we figured it out. And I said, now what do we do? And he said, you're going to interview me. That's the first thing. So I did. And then I started interviewing all sorts of people, especially the people who were remaking media. So basically an MP3 player being able to be downloaded and put into a website. And mailed. Mailed to be. Like you'd mail a document. But there was a funny, important other piece of this, Praveer. The political connection. For me it was all about the Iraq War. The end of 2002, 2003, we knew a war was coming and we knew it was going to be crazy and we knew that all the established legacy media were going to be for it. I don't know why. But the New York Times considered it to be experienced, enlightened papers. The Washington Post, the New Yorker magazine, our own Boston Globe.   And we couldn't stop it as it turned out. But, you know, there was worldwide demonstrations in February, February 15, 2003. And I went to New York and we discovered that, you know, Mayor Bloomberg had blocked off all the streets of the East Side so the demonstrators could not get, like me, ordinary bourgeois Americans couldn't get to the United Nations to protest. And the New York Times barely covered the story. But we realized that suddenly, no, there is an old order of things including media that wants this war. And we're going to have to remake media. And along comes the web. And that's the process that we're still working on, I think, is to reinvent a modern media that lets... Democratizes communication in some way. You know, it's interesting you say that because I was in the U.S. at that time just before the Iraq war was being declared. Probably three to five months before that. And I came back and told my friends, U.S. is going to attack Iraq. They said, why are you saying that? Because there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Everybody knows it. Why would they do it? I said, because not any media house in the United States is willing to carry the story that fundamentally there may not be any WMDs in Iraq. All of them are saying, the WMDs in Iraq, the only question is when will Saddam Hussein own up to it and if they don't then we have to take it out. So you know, this whole discourse has been set when is Saddam going to declare and if he doesn't, when, how do we take the WMDs out of Iraq? So this media discourse, as you were saying, convinced me that Iraq war is coming in spite of the fact that most people in India, including the elite, including media observers, did not believe it. Well, and then Tony Blair signed on. That was, for me, he's the one person in the world who could have said to George Bush, we have been to Iraq in the 20s, we made a mess of it. The imperial order is broken, is over, we're not going with you and we'll fight against it. If he had said that, I think the war could have been stopped. But in fact, it became this great moment when the United States took on the grand role of what was the tattered memory of the British Empire. You know, we go places and on it went. But the strange part for me, and we could get into this, is that American media, the legacy media, the old media, conventional print, but also the old owners, still have not realized that they're responsible for that war. The people understand it. And that's part of the reason why Donald Trump can say the failing New York Times. He doesn't go on, but people know that they were wrong on the disaster of our modern place in the world, including the torture, including, you know, now the drone war. We were good guys in World War II. We're now the monsters with these air attacks, killing vast numbers of civilians. And we don't care. We don't know the people. And we don't even get our facts straight. Colin Powell goes to the United Nations and says, this is what we're doing in Hawaii. They all cooked up bad evidence.  And the old media, to a great degree, has not said, you know, I'm so sorry. You know, Chris, that's the other part which surprises me sitting in India. That a media which disgraced itself during the Iraq war by supporting something which they knew was wrong. And now when it says the same thing again and again, that you have Syria, chemical weapons, you have X, you have Russia, Ukraine, you name it, the story goes on. And they seem to have remade the consensus which might have broken during the Iraq war or post Iraq war that there was something wrong with what the Iraq war evidence was. But they seem to have remade it in a way that, A, the media is today completely convinced that they need a war with Russia, both sides nuclear weapons. They believe they need to have regime changes all over the world. You have huge number of now commandos in Africa which comes out occasionally when there is a disaster and some people get killed, some of the commandos get killed. So how is it that the old media which should have said at least confessed to their complicity in the war, how did they still have become not only, shall we say, carrying the government propaganda, but actually wanting a war and a nuclear weapon... I don't know, some people think the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton, that generation wants a war with Russia. I can't imagine why, but they have not renounced... We don't talk peace in the United States anymore. That is not a goal. And it mystifies me. I think at a popular level, I think there's a tremendous anger about this. You know, those so-called red states and particularly the counties in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, places like that that for economic reasons, party reasons, should vote Democratic, they voted for Trump. And it's been very carefully documented that the counties that lost most men to those wars, Iraq and Afghanistan and the Middle East wars, those are the ones that turned for Trump.  I think the people know better, and I think sooner or later, it'll break through. But meantime, we have the story. I just want to say I am amazed, Prabir, at what is going on in India with new media. Not only the digitization of popular media, but specifically podcasting. I mean, I'm talking about news click, but also the wire, also scroll, also what the BBC is doing with podcasts, also what our friend, I've been undone, is doing at the news laundry. You are putting together sort of assorted independent voices on these new platforms. So it's not just one voice, like mine, but it's a whole magazine full of interesting, independent, non-commercial, non-sponsored, not imperial voices. I think they're going to transform your world, and I want to get in on it. I want to figure out what you're doing and how we can do it in America. We have some. Huffington Post looked like a site for independent writers, but then it became very commercial, and it was a lot of money. There were tons of money, and it got sold. There are things like Jacobin Magazine, others that do good reporting. It's alternate. It's good. There's a lot of... There's black agenda report. Truth dig. I mean, there are goodly numbers of them, but to put... My dream would be to put together a portfolio of conversation commentary on not an infinite number, but say start with... For example, people love to talk about music. It's something I've learned in doing radio. When people talk about music, they're really talking their religion. It's a sort of religion one step removed. It's indeed football as well. Or cricket. Exactly. And sometimes food. But literature, books, science. We live in really a world capital of medical science, computer science, genetic editing in Boston, Harvard, MIT, some of the most advanced workers. And nobody covers it. Nobody knows how to cover it. Artificial intelligence which may...  Exactly. Exactly. And we've done some of that. We're now putting artificial intelligence into weapon systems, which I think is a big danger. To get a podcast conversation going on that with people who know something and make it intelligible for people who don't know it, this is my new ambition. I'd like to have a sort of a whole grab bag of subjects in which the best conversation is on our site. And it would be interesting, I think, to you. I want to get Indian voices, Indian thinking. The next time we even think of going to war, we've got to talk to India.  But as you said, maybe you get a veto. I have always argued since U.S. President effectively becomes the most important or the powerful person in the world, you guys can elect the president, but the rest of the world should have a veto. Otherwise, we are all endangered by your president. We can work it out sometime later. As long as the United States recognises that its exceptionalism is actually endangering the whole world, not just the United States.  If you continue with the kind of nuclear brinkpanship that the U.S. is doing right now with Russia, you are really endangering the world in ways which you end humanity. And it's also interesting, the first time the media, by and large, has said there should have been no summit at all. Now this is that you don't want to even talk to another nuclear armed state is amazing to me. Of course, India and Pakistan are not behaving much better on that, but that apart. The question is that this tone of the media, that no talk, and we should take out Russians with what is it, cyber weapons. This is the kind of madness that is being talked about. But coming back to other issues. Israel and the Saudis should take out Iran with, you know, hacking, super hacking. Super hacking and with U.S. troops. Let's be also clear. U.S. missiles and God knows where the troops will come from, but the United States won't send troops for that. Saudis like to fight with mercenary troops. That's what they're doing in Yemen. And again, it's a huge, shall we say, blot on us, civilizational ethos that you have a country today in which one million people are affected with cholera. You have destroyed their complete water and sewage systems. And there is no voice in the world against it. Because the world media doesn't see it as an issue. The 20 million people at the risk of starvation and death. So I think there's something wrong with the world that we are in and the voices that we are able to raise.


If you look at individual charts, right, names like Amazon, for example, right, you can see here, they're right on the 50-day moving average. If you look at Facebook, they're right below, right, rising support just needs to clear out this linear regression line. If you look at Netflix, right, they're just one day away from testing the support as well. You look at Tesla, for example, closed right on 50-day moving average. Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody, and welcome to Tuesday, Tuesday edition of the access to trader.com nightly wrap-up show. Everybody had a good day of trading, so let's talk about it. Okay, so we really didn't know what to expect today, going into today's session. I noted this on the weekend update that the fact that the NASDAQ, again, I want to use the Qs as a proxy here, because again, 99% of the stocks that I trade revolve around the Qs. I kind of want to keep it a little basic. So the Qs had this really aggressive bounce. They really stopped just attached short of the rising 50-day moving average on Friday. The problem is they didn't do anybody any favors. The bounce was so aggressive that it left everything in the middle of the channel. So coming into today's session, I didn't like the value at all. I thought the value was very, very hit and miss. We actually talked about on the video that airlines were looking pretty good and cruise ships were looking pretty good. So beta was kind of like a 50-50 proposition. Again, we needed a little more clarity to try to figure out what happens next. And the most ironic part about today's session was that there was a lot of strength within the weakness. Again, you look at the final tally and you take a look and say, all right, the Dow was down 630 points. And as a composite, obviously, the hardest hit almost down 500 points. But there was really a lot of strength. And you saw really good early strength and names like BEYOND, for example. I just want to show you kind of, you know, this is the morning. You saw BEYOND very, very strong and Roku very, very strong and Peloton really, really strong as well. NKLA had news come out that General Motors are taking an 11% stake. And slowly, but surely, you really started to see good value. So at some point, like around lunchtime, I said, I go, wow, guys, we really have a lot of setups going into tomorrow, which is, you know, which is, you know, kind of four hours prior to the close. I go, if you're looking, if you really think about what the market is doing right now, we're not doing, it really does show you how much strength there was. Again, this is why we let everything play out. And slowly, but surely, and you can see by the cues, the market was getting stronger, right? They were bouncing, market was getting stronger. And the next thing you know, the last four candles of the day, this is the last four candles, one, two, three, four, really, really aggressive selling to the close. And it really does remind me of this scenario of kind of the chicken running around without its head, right? You ever see that this scenario, the body just runs around right before the chicken's about to die. And that's exactly what it kind of looked like today towards the end, that the chicken was just running around without its head. And now the body's about to fall. And the most amazing part about this business is just when you think something is about to happen, okay, it goes the other direction. And this is why we always talk about waiting for confirmation, have an opinion, but don't overthink, don't anticipate, because again, if I sat there and anticipated what was going to happen with tomorrow, again, this is 20 years ago, I would have got murdered. But the point is, again, we wait, we wait, and we wait. And the most crazy part about today's session was there was excellent value on the long side. Okay, it started out very, very good. It still did show speculation money was there, but it also showed you how fast it left. And if you saw the polls on the names, they were very, very strong in the morning, the Roku's of the world, right? I think that down $8 from the highs, the beyonds, the workhorses of the world, you know, stocks that had really, really strong moves today, what we're kind of in a very, very important place tomorrow. Okay, and I want to start out with the cues. We talked about it on the weekend update. There was a very definitive area that the bulls needed to defend. This is the 269 area. And if you look, this is exactly where the NASDAQ composite closed, or at least the cues closed, right? If you look at the diamonds, they're not there yet, right? They're not there at the day of reckoning yet, but they're getting there, right? You can see here, they're getting here slowly butchering to the 50 day moving average. If you look at the SPYs, right, the spies are kind of mirroring the Dow Jones industrial average. But since the NASDAQ composite led the way up, well, they're obviously leading the way down. And now we're at a crossroads. And this is, you know, this is tomorrow. I'm a hundred percent. And before I say this, I want to clarify this. From the value aspect, I'm a hundred percent sell bias for tomorrow, which basically means every single setup that I have for tomorrow is to the downside. It's logic. If you look at, if you go through charts tonight, again, show me one good looking chart that you would turn around and say, I must own it tomorrow, right? So we're just talking about from that point of view. But there is an area that if the market holds and starts to reclaim, the bulls and the whole bullish thesis could be intact. And I kind of want to go over that right now. So here's kind of what I want to see from tomorrow. If you look at individual charts, names like Amazon, for example, you can see here, they're right on the 50-day moving average. If you look at Facebook, they're right below rising support just needs to clear out this linear regression line. If you look at Netflix, they're just one day away from testing the support as well. You look at Tesla, for example, closed right on the 50-day moving average. So you're getting a lot of names that are mirroring the NASDAQ 100. They're a mirror. So here's preferential wise. If I had to pick how we're going to play out tomorrow, what I would love to see and if the market gods are listening would be nice. What I would love to see is a gap up in the futures. Because if we get a gap up in the futures, any stock that closed today on the 50-day moving average, again, Tesla, Amazon, Facebook, even names, for example, like Microsoft are below the 50-day moving average. Apple is getting very, very close to breaking that support. You could go through the names. There's obviously a lot of names. They're all in the NASDAQ 100. But in the perfect world, knowing this information that everything closed on support, if we can get a gap up tomorrow, it will be 100% self-biased, at least on that opening range, to confirm Friday's price action. Because if it does confirm Friday's price action, again, if you believe in the theory the stocks trade from supply to supply and demand to demand, then you can see any confirmation of the 50-day moving average on the Qs has a lot of room down. And you're going to see a lot of names. They're going to mirror and trade in tandem with the Qs. The problem lies, and it's not even a problem. It's more of a scenario part two type of scenario. If we gap down tomorrow, and we put in opening range lows, obviously those opening range lows need to be confirmed. The key is to the bulls tomorrow. And this is why I think it's kind of a two-sided play. And if you believe that the bull market thesis is still intact, if you believe that we didn't see the all-time highs and you believe that the market has to go back higher, well, if we gap down tomorrow and the bulls reclaim the 50-day moving average, you can definitely use the low of the day as your stop, which are Max Payne. And then you have all this potential back to the upside. So to say that tomorrow's session is going to be somewhat important for short-term sentiment, yeah, I think so. I definitely believe so. But the value definitely is to the downside based on strictly technical analysis confirming major rise in support. And if we do confirm that rise in support and fingers crossed that we get a gap up in the futures, then I think we'll have a very, very big aggressive value pull. Again, we think that's our opinion. Now we just need to see it happen. We need to see it confirm. Again, nobody's talking about we're going home short, 10-star short overnight. Again, we've seen how the market for the last two, two and a half years has completely brushed away any technical damage. Catch the bears, catch them again on the bottom channels and squeeze them right back to 52-week highs. Again, we have an opinion. Now we just need to see it play out. So today's session was actually pretty decent. I was actually very, very surprised, very surprised. And it was the most amazing part. It was pretty much to the upside. I would say 80% to the day was to the upside. And then obviously things started pulling at the end. But here's kind of like my tip and my tip, especially to the new traders, I don't want to use the word bear market. I think it's a very old school term. I think there's bull sentiment and bear sentiment. The one thing that works very, very well in a bear sentiment or a sell sentiment. Let's use that. If you guys remember going to March, and March was arguably one of more aggressive months to the downside, you can remember in a very, very long time. Excuse me. And what was working in March was any single time we would get these really big aggressive down, gap downs, 600 points, 700 points, 1,000 points, 90% of the stocks or 95% of the stocks will have a gap down approximately about 90, 95% of their average true range. So every stock trades with an average or true range. Some stocks like Amazon might trade with an average range of $80 a share. Some stocks might trade with a dollar a share, but 90, 95% of the time they're going to gap down their average true range. So what that does is it creates the value, even though the sentiment and the pressures to the sell side, it's going to create channels back to the upside. So when they confirm the channels back to the upside, the snapbacks are very aggressive. So what we were doing is from, away from March, and starting again doing that today, we saw a lot of great setups, really good setups back to the upside. And when they confirmed they had a lot of really good aggressive moves. So just think about this rationally. If a stock gaps down, you see 95% of its average true range. The sellers that are getting rid of their stock are retail. The people who are getting long the stock on these gap downs are value funds, hedge funds, mutual funds, index funds, and people who want to be long for five, 10, 15 years. So there's a lot of emotion, especially at the open. And that's why it creates pockets back to the upside. So when they confirm, there's usually aggressive buying. We'll talk about that in a second. So that's kind of like a survival guide. Now if you have positioned as a whole different store, if you come in short overnight, God bless. If you come in long overnight, really God bless. But this is kind of more from the intraday ranks. It's kind of a survival guide, how to take advantage of both sides of the market while there is very, very emotional levels heightened. So we gap down today and we started looking at channels. And the funny thing is, I think every single one of our pivots today backed with to the upside was literally every single one. And it wasn't like there was 15,000 pivots today. But the point was the ones that do confirm, they do very, very well. The ones that don't, obviously you stay away from. And if you look at today's session, was actually pretty good, right? Was pretty good. Caught some things. Peloton was really good. NKLA was really good. We actually caught the dip on Peloton on the rising 60 minute support. You're not going to see this on the pivot feed because I didn't put the pivot. I didn't feel like chasing into strength. So we bought it into that rising 60 minute support. But if you look at everything else, it was some pretty good action. So let's talk about it. This area right here, 326, 327 was potential bounce area. I actually revised that and I'll show you that in a second. COHN, it was a little too thin for me. So I didn't take this one. 22, 22 and a quarter needs to build. We talked about this one on the weekend update. This was a big move. And if you did take this tray, congratulations. This thing took out the 22, 22 and a quarter. It went to 25.  If you did catch a good job, it was just way too thin for me. This one never confirmed. COOP, I think it was a bank. $20 needs to build. Here was COOP. Right? So here's the $20 and COOP. Right up about 60 cents. Again, everything got pulled towards the end. Qs, again, this is the magic number here for tomorrow.  I cheated on CCL. I only lost 20 cents on the trade. It wasn't the point of the money. I knew, I knew it had a clear out supply and I kind of preempt the trade again, which I basically say, don't, don't anticipate. Right? I saw a call buying coming in, some airlines, I saw some call buying coming in on shippers and yada, yada, yada. I knew I was going with the supply and I still did a lost 20 cents. Schmuck, but whatever, brain fart, it is what it is. Workhorse was definitely one of the shining stars of the day. $20 needs to build and Workhorse went nuts. I believe I covered this on the video. But Workhorse went nuts. So here was the $20. Not only did it take out the $20, it took out the $23 and went almost to $24. Major, major move on Workhorse. Major move on Roller Coaster. Huge move. Really, really big move there. So $3.30 was the 50 day. If you guys notice, it closed right at $3.30. Unfortunately, it just didn't get there throughout the day. Here's a perfect example of a stock that gapped down, right? And I joked around pre-market. I said, who raised your hand if you want to short Amazon down 150 points? Again, me either. So it set up a channel. $31.90 needs to build. There was some good call buying coming in. Take on the way up. Next supply is $32.16. So here was Amazon. Again, here's a perfect example. Here's a perfect example of a gap down, right? A gap down. It put in an initial channel. It confirmed this channel and it went literally from that $31.90 area all the way to $32.50. It had a $60 balance. So really, really good. And that's kind of my point that you don't need to short into the hole. You can wait for channels to set up and go right back up. So that was a really, really big move there as well. Peloton, I caught pretty decent. And I'm shocked how strong it was. So 85, four times it needs to build. Some big call buying came in on Peloton. So here is the 85, right? You can see 85 into the 60 minute supply, right? 85, 85, 85, 85. So I said it got rejected four times. If it can reclaim, it could explode. So it exploded. I mean, this thing really, really exploded. Peloton went almost to $91. Really nice trade. Really, really nice trade. Again, it rejected four times. You had a really, really clear line in the sand. So a really nice move there. And I said, look, I'm just very surprised at the early value today. Again, we just did not see that coming. But again, if you are patient and you trust your process, usually good things are going to happen. Zoom was having an issue. Zoom was having some early issues street wide today. I think a lot of people couldn't get rejected. Obviously, you never got the 370. CCL, this is where I screwed up. BIGC's 111 supply needs to reclaim trade at the 1092. Again, very, very specific numbers. That's why they're so important. There goes KONH. Towards the end of the day, Tesla 342 sneaky area. If it builds below, can see the lows and stock close right on the 50-day moving average. Here's the 342. Here's kind of where I'm just telling you about. Here's 342. Let me just make this a little bigger. My e-signal for some reason still hasn't made its way from the split. So here's the 342 right here and it closed right at the lows and it closed right on the 50-day moving average. Going into tomorrow, again, I really love to see a gap up tomorrow because again, there's just so much value to the downside. But please get to morning strategy. I'll definitely put remount areas both on stocks and indexes. We know exactly what we're in for. If we get a gap down, we'll start looking for channels on the way up. If we gap up, we're going to start obviously looking for channels on the way down. So guys, have a great night, everybody. God bless you all. Stay safe out there. And with God's help, I'll see you all again tomorrow. Take


Good morning. Welcome back to theCUBE's continuing coverage of Snowflake Summit 22 live from Las Vegas Lisa Martin here with Dave Vellante. We are at Caesar's Forum having lots of great conversations As I mentioned, this is just the start of day two a tremendous amount of content yesterday I'm coming at you today. Two guests join us from Slalom now We've got Chris Samuels principal machine learning and Bethany Mudd senior director experience design Welcome to the queue guys. Thanks for having us. So Slalom and Snowflake over 200 joint customers over 1800 plus engagements lots of synergies their partnership We're here today to talk about intelligent products talk to us about what how do you define intelligent products? And then kind of break that down Yeah, I can I can start with the simple version right so when we think about intelligent products What they're doing is they're doing more than they were explicitly programmed to do So instead of having a developer write all of these rules and have if this then that right we're using data and Real-time insights to make products that are more performant and improving over time Yeah, it's really bringing together an ecosystem of a series of things to have integrated capabilities working together that themselves offer constant improvement better better understanding better flexibility and better usability For for everyone involved and there are four pillars of Intelligent products that let's walk through those technology intelligence experiences and operations Sure. So for technology like most modern data architectures It has sort of a data component and it has a modern cloud platform But here here the key is sort of things being disconnected things being self-contained and and and D decoupled such that there's better integration time better iteration time more Cross-use and more extensibility and scalability with the cloud native portion of that and the intelligence piece The intelligence piece is the data that's been processed by machine learning Algorithms or by predictive analytics that provide sort of the most valuable or more and most insightful inferences or conclusions So so by bringing together again the tech and the intelligence That's sort of the two of the pillars that that begin to move forward that enable sort of the other Two pillars which are Experiences and operations. Yeah, and if we think about those all of the technology all of the intelligence in the world Doesn't mean anything if it doesn't actually work for people without use. There is no value So as we're designing these products, we want to make sure that they're supporting people as we're automating There are still people accountable for those tasks. There are still impacts to people in the real world So we want to make sure that we're doing that intentionally So we're building the greater good. Yeah, and from the operations perspective it's it's you can think of traditional dev ops becoming ml ops where there's an overall platform and a Framework in place to manage not only the software components of it But but the overall workflow and the data flow in the model lifecycle such that we have tools and people from different backgrounds and different teams developing and maintaining this than you would Previously see with with something like product engineering. Can you guys walk us through an example of how you work with a customer? I'm envisioning, you know meeting with a lot of yellow stickies and prioritization I don't know if that's how it works, but let's take us through like the the start and the sequence you have my heart I am a workshop lover anytime you have this scratch and off like lottery stickers on something You know, it's a good one But as we think about our approach we typically start with either a discovery or mobilize phase We're really we're starting by gathering context and really Understanding the business the client the users and that full path of value Who are all the teams that are gonna have to come together and start working together to deliver this intelligent product? And once we've got that context we can start solutioning and ideating on that But really it comes down to making sure that we've earned the right and we've got the smarts to move into this space Intelligently yeah, and truly it's it's the intelligent product itself is sort of tied to the use case The business knows what the most what is what is potentially the most valuable here? And so so by communicating and working and co-creating with the business we can define then okay Here are the use cases and here are where machine learning and the overall intelligent product can maybe add more disruptive value than others by saying let's let's pretend that you know Maybe your ML model or your predictive analytics is like a dial that we could turn up to 11 Which one of those dials turning turned up to 11 could add the most value or disruption to your business? And therefore, you know, how can we prioritize and then work toward that that that pie in the sky goal? Okay, so the client comes and says this is the outcome we want Okay, and then you help them you gather the right people sort of extract all the little You know pieces of knowledge and then help them prioritize so they can focus and then what yeah So from there We're going to take the approach that seeing is solving we want to make sure that we get the right voices in the room And we've got the right alignment. So we're going to map out everything We're going to diagram what that experience is going to look like how technology is going to play into it all of the roles And actors involved we're going to draw a map of the ecosystem that everyone can understand whether you're in marketing or the IT sort of area once again So we can get crisp on that outcome and how we're going to deliver it and from there We start building out that roadmap and backlog and we deliver iteratively so by not thinking of things as Getting to the final product after a three-year push. We really want to shrink those build measure and learn loops so we're getting all of that feedback and We're listening and evolving and growing the same way that our products are yeah, something like an intelligent product is pretty heady So it's pretty it's pretty heavy concept to talk about and so the question becomes what is the outcome that ultimately needs to be achieved? And then who from where in the business across the different potentially different business product lines or business Business departments need to be brought together. What data needs to be brought together such that the people can understand how they themselves can shape This the stakeholders can can how the product itself can be shaped and therefore What is the ultimate outcome collectively for everybody involved because because while while your data might be fueling, you know Finances or someone else's intelligence and that kind of thing bring it all together allows for a more seamless product It might benefit more more of the overall structure Can you talk a little bit about how slalom and snowflake are enabling like a customer example a customer to take that data Flex that muscle and create intelligent products that delight and surprise their customers Yeah, so so so here's a great story. We we worked to co-create with Kawasaki heavy industries So we created the intelligent product with them to to enable safer rail travel more preventative more efficient preventative maintenance And a more efficient and real-time track status feedback to the rail operators So so in this case we brought yeah, the the intelligent product itself was okay How do you create a better rail monitoring service? And while that itself Was the primary driver of the data multiple other parts of the organization are using sort of the intelligent product as as Part of their now daily daily routine whether it's from the preventative maintenance perspective or it's from route usage route prediction Or indeed helping Khi move forward into making trains a more software-centered set of products in the future So taking that example, I would imagine when you running what I'm gonna call that a project I hope that's you know, okay So when I'm running a project that I would imagine that sometimes you run into oh, wow, okay to really be successful at this the company Project versus whole house. Yeah, the company doesn't have the right data architecture the right skills or the right, you know Data team now is it as simple as oh, yeah, just put it all into snowflake. I doubt it So how do you do you encounter that often? How do you deal with it? It's a journey So I think it's really about making sure we're meeting clients where they are and I think that's something that we actually do pretty well So as we think about delivery Co-creation and co-delivering is a huge part of our model So we want to make sure that we have the client teams with us So as we start thinking about intelligent products, it can be incorporating a small feature With subscription based services. It doesn't have to be creating your own model and sort of going deep It really does come down to like what value do you want to get out of this, right? Yeah, it is important that it is a journey, right? So it doesn't have to be okay. There's there's a big bang applied to you and your company's tech industry tech tech Ecosystem you can just start by saying okay, how will I bring my data together at a data lake? How do I see across my different pillars of excellence in my own business? And then how do I manage? Potentially this in an overall ML apps platform such that it can be sustainable and gather more insights and improve itself with time And therefore be more impactful to the ultimate users of the tool Because again as Bethany said that without use these these things are just just tools on the shelf somewhere that have a little value So it's a journey as you both said completely agree with that It's a journey that's getting faster and faster Because I mean we've seen so much acceleration in the last couple of years the consumer demands have massively changed Absolutely in every industry. How do slalom and stuff that come together to help? businesses Define the journey, but also accelerate it so that they can stay ahead or get ahead of the competition. Yeah, so one thing I think is interesting about the technology field right now is I Feel like we're at the point where it's not the technology or the tools that's limiting us or You know constraining what we can build it's our imaginations Right and when I think about intelligent products and all of the things that are capable that you can achieve with AI and ML That's not widely known. There's so much tech jargon and we put all of those statistical words on it And you know the things you don't know and instead really what we're doing is we're Providing different ways to learn and grow so I think if we can demystify and humanize some of that language I really would love to see All of these companies better understand the crayons and the tools in their toolbox from a creative perspective. I love it No, and I'll do the tech nerd bit So so there is you're right There is a portion where you need to bring data together and tech together and that kind of thing So so something like snowflake is a great enabler for how to actually bring the data of multiple parts of an organization together Into you know a data warehouse or a data lake and then be able to manage that sort of in an mlabs platform particularly with some of the press that Snowflake has put out this week things becoming more python native Allowing for more ML experimentation and some more native insights on the platform rather than going off Snowflake platform to do some of that kind of thing makes snowflake an incredibly valuable Portion of the of the data management and of the tech and of the engineering of the overall product. So I Agree about the need lack of imagination sometimes is the barrier we get so down into the weeds But there's also lack of skills that mention the organizational, you know structural issues Politics, you know, whatever it is, you know specific agendas How do you guys help with that? Can you bring in, you know resources to help and fill gaps? So we will bring in a cross-disciplinary Team of experts, so you will see an experienced designer as well as your ML architects as well as other technical Architects and what we call solution owners because we want to make sure that we've got a lot of perspectives So we can see that problem from a lot of different angles The other thing that we're bringing in is a repeatable process a Repeatable engineering methodology which when you zoom out and you look at it It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but what we're doing is we're training against it We're building tools. We're building templates. We're reimagining what our deliverables look like for intelligent products Just so we're not only speeding up the development and and getting to those outcomes faster but we're also continuing to grow and we can gift those things to our clients and and Support them as well and not only that What what we do at Salamis is we want to think about transition from the beginning Yeah, and so by having all the stakeholders in the room from the earliest point both the business stakeholders the technical Stakeholders if they have data scientists if they have engineers who's going to be taking this and maintaining this intelligent product long after We're gone because again, we will transition And and someone else will be taking over the maintenance of this team One they will understand, you know early early from beginning the the path that that is on and be more capable of Maintaining this and to understand sort of the ethical concerns behind Okay, here's how parts of your system affect this other parts of the system and now some sometimes ML gets some bad press because it's Misapplied or there are concerns or or or models or data are used outside of context and there's there's some you know There are potentially Some ill effects to be had by bringing those people together much earlier It allows for the business to truly understand and the stakeholders to ask the questions That they that need to be continually asked to evaluate. Is this the right thing to do? how do I how does my part affect the whole and and How do I have an overall impact that is in a positive way and is something? You know truly be being done most effectively. So that's that knowledge transfer I mean I hesitate to even say that it makes it sound so black and white because you're co-creating here But essentially you're you know to use the the cliche you're teaching them how to fish Yeah, not you know gonna ongoing you know do the fishing for them That thought diversity is so critical as is the internal alignment last question for you guys before we wrap here Where can customers go to get started to they engage? Solemn snowflake. Can I do both? You definitely can it's you can come through. I mean we're we're fortunate that snowflake has has Blessed us with the title of partner of the year again for the fifth time. Congratulations. Thank you We are we are incredibly humbled in that so so we do a lot of work with snowflake You could certainly come to slalom any one of our local markets or or or build or it emerge And we'll definitely work together. We'll figure out what the right team is We'll have lots and lots of conversations because it is most important for you as a set of business stakeholders to define What is right for you and what you need? Good stuff you guys. Thank you so much for joining Dave and me talking about intelligent products What they are how you co-design them and the impact that data can make with customers that they really bring The right minds together and get creative. We appreciate your insights and your thoughts Thank you guys. Yeah, all right for Dave Vellante. I'm Lisa Martin You're watching the cubes coverage day two snowflake summit 22 from Las Vegas. We'll be right back with our next guest