Good morning from Colorado, custom coach works, you know This doesn't look like a lot But there's a lesson here welding small pieces of sheet metal is very difficult This one took me three tries That one took me one try This is an all-day affair yesterday. I'm glad it was a pain in the butt. Anyways, that's what I learned Go thicker if it's a small piece Let's check in with miles with the tiles over here. How's it going, bro? Dude, it's looking awesome Yeah, yeah looks phenomenal This is gonna be you know, I don't know. What do you guys think about this? You think this could be better than mics? Baffin I think so you think this could be better than mics Right Equal or better, right? They're right. So it's looking amazing Miles is doing a phenomenal job in here The tiles super clean even though it wasn't red. I do like this. I do So anyways, let's go find you a bus. You should do red grout. Hmm. I don't know if that would work I think he's messing are you messing with me? No, I'm being serious. Let's do red grout. Uh-oh I'm thinking gray Okay, we'll settle down. All right. All right guys, here's a sneak peek of the bathroom still got there's part of a wall That needs to be done. I can't tell from outside. Actually, maybe the whole wall Yeah, and also we haven't left for I think we're gonna go up to Cheyenne. What's your mechanic friend say? Is he coming? Really? We're waiting on a mechanic friend having mechanic friends As you know is a great thing too bad. We didn't have Badger to check it out for us but So that may or may not happen today but This thing is looking good. I'd say we're about three quarters done. We just have this one wall here and Part of the wall here that looks excellent up on the wall they use part of the Which we'll call it the paper thing that I made to trace out that as a as a trace for that so if anybody has I'm gonna be takes off the front and back ones if you can hang on to them Just at least make yourself a trace because it's a lot easier once you're doing stuff. But God, that looks phenomenal. Good job Hey guys, we are now in outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. That's the correct address. We were pulling up to the property We had a very nice Kind of existential thought on the way Now tell me how you're feeling right now I'm like giddy. I'm out of my own skin. I'm so giddy. I know the feeling so there is the bus We're I think ten minutes early, so Hopefully the guy is Or we don't weird him out a little bit looks like a door to it is open Maybe should yeah, let's park here and oh, there's a couple cars. So 2010 I see a little rust hopefully it's not a rust bucket, but if anything else it is a good Practice for for something that we're gonna find potentially potentially potentially All right, so here's what we have. We have a 40-foot long bluebird all-american 2010 with a remanufactured 8.3 Cummins and Fired thing right up. It's pretty clean. We haven't really looked under it too much Here's what the inside looks like pretty pretty nice condition and Yeah, doesn't have like it's a 2010 so You know Not really any rust along that thing It's only eight years old It's a rear engine I've never actually driven one of these things before now I've sat in these before as a kid Bro, you excited? Yes All right, let's take this thing for a spin. This is gonna be my first try time driving a Flat-nose bus here goes nothing so much. Remember I told you about the air brakes Okay, hang on to that pointing toward me. We wait for this truck To pass are we recording? We are recording a sweet So this is the first time I'm driving a flat-nose bus, so steampunk Steve.  We're taking this bad boy for a ride 2010 8.3. Oh my god. This thing is smooth It's like driving a city bus. All right. I got Lord Looking out my rear view mirror side view mirror. No bizarre smoke coming out smooth transition lots of power. I Mean, I feel like I'm floating on air right now. I'm gonna have you drive this thing on the way back sweet Dude this thing drives nice. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I just floored right now a downshift a little bit We got plenty of power Super smooth. I mean It rides really really well This drives better than my bus like no joke really. Yeah, it's it's a smoother ride than my bus You'll see what I'm talking about once you get behind it. Okay, but I'm not sure what we're gonna turn around that horn has to go We'll get you there you go And now what do you think I think this is pretty cool pretty smooth, right? Really smooth. Yeah, very very smooth It's like I've been in buses gone cross-country On a bus. Yeah This is like a coach like a tour bus So we do have a little issue with the brakes. It's making a little noise the bus that could be from The the brakes just sitting and rusting and not being used We don't know but actuating the brakes is making some kind of noise So something to be aware of but I think we're just gonna take a little drive and We'll check in this drive so easy. Jen could drive this. Oh, that's the wife. The wife can drive the bus you hear that Yeah, this is a pretty it's a pretty good ride, isn't it? Piece of cake, right? All right, we're at the truck stop and guess what? All right, so what do you think man? Oh, this is surreal. It really is. All right Do you think Reed is crazy for selling his house and buying a bus comment below? Just like we took it on a test drive drives well I haven't figured out the bright and the not bright lights yet But we figured out how not to make the horn honk anymore You know that's an accomplishment in itself. Yeah, but Anyways brand new brand new bus 10,000 miles on a re-manufactured Cummins 8.3. It's a 40-foot bus You don't have to say how much it was, but I think it was a pretty fair deal. Oh, I got a screaming deal Joe. Thank you Yeah, so I called badge. I called Mike. I called a rocket bus life adventure I even gave my two cents and we got pretty much the price that we all ballpark right in between what everybody said So I think I don't get in trouble with my wife. Thank you Joe. Yep. So 2010 so we're gonna go celebrate with a burger and Drive back to Denver drive two hours back to Denver. All right, just had a little burger. I don't recommend this whatsoever But I've letting Reed drive his bus back to Denver The only reason I don't recommend it is it's nighttime and he's not used to it as you can see that bumpy-ass thing So um if you do Drive these things in the daytime get used to them first and then try and you know tackle it at nighttime All right by the way We're back. I stayed over at Reed last night. He's super pumped about that new bus And I am super stoked for him, but I'm also super stoked for these countertops Eric dude high five. You did a fantastic job on the table the epoxy Um, do you want to explain what exactly this is here again? It's yeah, it's a two-part epoxy resin mix you uh, you know There's a we'll have a video on that too with all the details and everything on your channel Yes on my excellent check out wander boom if you haven't on youtube and uh, but yeah You basically just equal parts of resin and hardener mix it all up for about four to five minutes And pour it on it spreads itself out pretty nice and then you hit it with a heat gun and spread it out to get rid of all the air bubbles and end up with a beautiful Glossy top. This is incredible incredible. So let me just run you through what I did so far I'm trying to help out Eric. Sadly. He's leaving us today, but I will see you in a couple weeks So, uh, I sanded off the the bottom part Which is this the little drippings and then obviously took off the uh duct tape here like so And uh, we're just getting it prepped and installed. Let's go have a peek what it looks like. All right Now I know the light is a little off, but you can get a pretty good idea what this thing is going to look like Installed so this is counter-dub number one I mean, this is this is awesome You could you could do a zamboni off of this table here this counter top So which please don't spill your drinks on my uh my counter tops But yeah, I'm gonna go work on the other one and then we'll have a peek once it's all installed All right now final thing I did was I touched at the bottom of this not that I care about the bottom of this But I care about the bottom of this because you can see it when you're walking from the back to the front So I just matched all that to uh You know Just to go together so the tops and the sides and the bottom look the same Eric, what is going on over here? I'm prepping for some legs here.  Yeah But then yeah, so the legs can close up underneath like that And they lock but they lock open Excellent excellent, so this is for the The chess table chess table slash dining table slash entertaining table slash whatever the heck table And it's going to slide under one of the benches All right, this is what uh The current situation looks like here. Eric is having some fun When I say but I use that term loosely deep cabinets. Yep. Yeah, he's having some fun drilling into the cabinets to um attach them to the uh Well drilling into the countertop from the cabinets. I think I said that correctly Uh So next one we have is over here. This is going to look a lot different once we're outside in natural light It's a little We're getting tense where we got fluorescent bulbs. I've got a flashlight, but um This camera does a pretty good job of you know, picking up a low light here So this is more or less what? It's like a Believe it or not the indirect works better. Um Yeah, so this is kind of an idea what everything's going to look like This is where the sink is going The stove is going over there Um But uh, you know color is like I said, it'll change a little bit depending on the light source Wow, that's some noise, huh? Uh Anyways, I'm gonna let uh, Eric Do what he does best. So by the way, Eric has been hanging out for Three weeks or so something like that. So I can't thank you enough for coming by It was completely out of the blue. We didn't know each other before this But now I feel like we're going to be lifelong friends. Absolutely. So, um He just uh secured the countertops to the cabinets Still got a little bit of work to do for the rest of the bus, but this part is pretty much done. Do you want to explain? What exactly is going on here?  Oh, yeah, definitely got a definitely got a blender. Yep blend tech Yeah, so so now yeah, there'll be more of this material basically again kind of covering our The top here around the around the benches. Mm-hmm. And uh reed gonna be able to help out a bit on that Yeah, or if for some reason it's still not happening in a couple weeks. We could wrap it up down then Exactly exactly. Hopefully well read is a little excited. He's got a new bus. So He might be a little pretty focused where he focused But yeah, um, but yeah, this is incredible. So we're doing it.  We're gonna have to Cut out some of this Cabinet, you know for for some of this stuff, I think Yeah, that one might this one for sure. We're gonna have a little bit there But these things are incredible. I mean it almost looks like some kind of slap um Just awesome stuff. So I honestly I can't think of So much Yeah, likewise. So, uh, if you haven't already check out wonder boom Um, and also if you need some countertops or something like that, uh, he is uh four higher And it's gonna be traveling around and uh checking out cool places uh making videos with his lovely wife And uh, yeah, he's uh, he does great work. So if you guys are in the market for a countertop Yep, or any other fun woodworking tool, you know stuff. Yeah, so, uh, what what's your background? Well, yeah, I was spent up in 25 years in the trades of all different kinds and uh, uh We went a number of years doing fine carpentry and trim work and things so I can do anything on regular houses or on buses and vans and everything else.  Yeah or backgammon for Well, there you go, whatever, but if you're not a chess player, yeah I mean from uh, yeah from all the basic rough framing all the way down to trim carpentry. So, uh, Cabinets and all that fun stuff and yeah, all that good stuff. Perfect. Well, uh, I will see you in a couple weeks over at the van bill party. Yeah, absolutely And by the way, if anybody wants to come out meet, uh, Eric, uh hang out, uh with anybody that you've seen in the videos who said they will be there, uh, Steve Mojo bus, any of those guys, Jamie come on out. I will be there most of the month. I believe Um, definitely gotta finish up a couple things here Before I hit the road, but come on out hang out. It's a really cool group of people You might even be converted to a bus person afterwards. So yeah, it's a good time getting a Eric's card there We stapled in a magnet here. So for everyone to see oh, you stapled right over your phone number Anyways, there it is. Uh, Eric Vanderboom, Erick and his tools Realists, realists, you know, fossil name


Turkish Minister of the Interior Suleiman Soylu accused the US of planning to oust current President Regap Tayyip Erdogan during the upcoming May 14 presidential elections as a revenge for the failed coup attempts. We know that the US was behind the coup attempts in Turkey and they want revenge for the failed coups. We also know that they want to take revenge on Erdogan for destroying the system of power the US had built in Turkey since 1960s. Soylu said in an interview for Haber Turk. The US carried out coups in Turkey in 1960, in 1971 and in 1980 as well as on February 28, 1998. Furthermore, they are involved in the Gazi Park rallies in Istanbul in 2013. The US and the West infiltrated Turkish boards of power and controlled state officials. Erdogan destroyed this system so they won't revenge. It is the US in particular who developed the coup plans. The Turkish Minister continued adding that Washington uses the Kurdistan Workers Party as well as the FETU organization which Ankara holds responsible for the 2016 coup attempt. Both organizations outlawed in Turkey. The Turkish Minister of the Interior has become one of the most prominent figures of the ongoing electoral campaign. He accuses the US and the West of interfering in the pre-election situation in Turkey in order to outs Erdogan on almost daily basis. Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilikdaroglu are considered the key candidates for the presidential office.


All right, thank you everyone for joining me here today. So this should be a fun, hopefully entertaining conversation. I want to give everyone here a case study as to how Flixbus has gone through an agile transformation. The pros and cons, the awesomeness, the scariness, the difficulties with it. So to give you a very, very quick introduction of myself, my name is John Collins. I am one of the senior engineering managers slash people manager. I'll be diving into what this role means at Flixbus in our agile environment. Prior to working at Flixbus in Berlin, I worked at Microsoft on the Xbox hardware team and on the HoloLens augmented reality headset. And I also worked at Apple as a program manager for a few years and I also worked at Snapchat as a hardware program manager on the hardware team. So let's dive right into it. How many people here have heard of Flixbus? All right, cool, so about half of you. Okay, so we've recently been expanding into Sweden more. So there was an acquisition of Swibus and there is now Flix Train that's now coming to Sweden, which is really cool. But if you're not familiar with the business model, I just want to briefly give you an overview because that might kind of help you put your frame of mind and as a reference here for why we did an agile transformation. So as you can see in this picture here, across short mobility distances that we have all the e-scooters that you see all around Stockholm, we have Uber, we have Lyft, et cetera. But there's not a lot of competition, not a lot of innovation that's been happening across the long distance travel sector. And so this is where Flixbus comes in. We don't compete against, for example, the within the city transportation modes, it's all long distance. So we do trains, we do buses. We're now doing long distance car travel to compete against blah, blah, car, et cetera. So that's a little bit of the business model. But now let's talk about some of the challenges that's here. So this company has only been around for about seven years, really young. And it started off with just three co-founders and in just seven years, it's now up to about 4,000 employees. So hyper growth, every year we're growing 30, 40% year over year. Question is how do you keep that culture going? How do you make sure that you're retaining and gathering the greatest talent from around the world? We had one simple goal, and that was to paint the world green. And what we mean by that is that we want to Flixbus as in every country as possible. We want to be able to give affordable fun travel to everyone and make it available to everyone around the world. But with that challenge of growing, we realized that we needed the ability to scale. We needed a way, a working mode that would attract the best talent. So that was our big question. How do we grow? How do we retain our culture in this hyper growth state of mind? So we said, yes, we're going to transform into Agile, which maybe some of you are already considering or have recently done. And then let's dive into maybe some of the challenges that came out with this. So we based our decision of Agile on the book Drive by Daniel Pink. Maybe some of you have heard about this. There's a lot of different methodologies and different things, but this is the one that we tried to emulate. So we already had the role of the product owner. The product owner helps the organization to define a purpose. So what we found and based on the book as well, what motivates people for their job, what makes you be able to attract the best talent in the world is not money. Money makes people happy typically for a few months and then doesn't make them as happy anymore. What makes them happy is giving them purpose, mastery and autonomy. So that purpose comes from the product owner. We already had product owners, we retain the product owner role. By going into this new Agile transformation, we now have two new roles that we're coming in. So the first one was the people manager role.  So now we had this new role of the people manager that we're basing this off of the book Drive. And what this is, this is a servant leader position. So instead of being top down, this is now somebody that is going to enable the organization to be successful. Their job is to help people. And then we had this new role of the Agile coach. Some companies might call this scrum master, sometimes this definition gets blurry, but we call them Agile coaches. And their goal is for helping to make teams autonomous. Sometimes this can be really difficult, especially with people that might be introverted, maybe a little bit quiet. What does it mean to stand up and speak or to do retrospectives? This can be a difficult thing. And our Agile coaches that we were gonna be hiring, we're gonna be experts in this area. So this is great, we knew some new roles that we were gonna have in our Agile transformation. We knew we wanted to do this. Now let's talk about how we did it. So we had some concerns about this Agile transformation. Our first concern was that we knew some of the mindsets had to change. As we've been discussing today, Agile is a mindset. And sometimes people might not align to that mindset. And so that can be a difficulty. We also knew that realistically there might be some matrician issues. So maybe some people decide to leave, maybe we need to backfill. These are very difficult problems. It's like, okay, yeah, we wanna take over the world and we wanna have all these buses and we wanna hire 30% every year.  Also with this new role of the people manager and the Agile coach, where things aren't always so clear that they have a very strict deliverable with an OKR or a KPI. Sometimes that gets a little fluffy or a little bit blurry. How do you measure the success of those individuals? Those people wanna grow. Those people wanna get promoted. How do you handle that? These were open concerns that we had in our Agile transformation. But we decided to still progress forward with this. So the first thing that we did is we brought all of our employees together into one space. So we rented out a big hotel conference area just like this. This was also a very expensive endeavor. We had to plan out for this and make sure that we got budget for this, et cetera. And we got everyone into a room and all the managers stepped out. And then we had the product owners pitch for what they wanted to work on, what they thought would bring the best business value. And then our staff then, like musical chairs just up there, they lined up and they joined with the products that they felt aligned with their personal interests, what they were passionate about, what they were really interested in, what they aligned with. It could be maybe working with their friends was really important. Maybe it was that they wanted to work in a different office location. Maybe it was because they really aligned with the vision of that team. So we had a self-organization event and that turned out to be super successful. We still referenced this two years later that this was something that we felt like was important to give people autonomy for working on the things that they wanted to do. And everything was self-organized. And out of this, we had these new roles then the people manager, the agile coach, and we had product owners that then had people that were passionate about working in their area. What this also meant is that we needed to prepare that some people might be moving. So our staff was located in Berlin and in Munich, about 50% in each location, and that some people might be moving to Munich and some people might be moving to Berlin. And so we also needed to have that kind of that frame of mind that there's gonna be a cost associated with this. This isn't just free. This isn't just having stand-ups, et cetera. That this is a worthwhile endeavor. So what this meant is that employees then had this new way of thinking. Now that we're in an agile mode, that they could go down the path to their old ways. Maybe that's what they wanna do or that they would go down this new path for us. And we started wanting to think about how do we mitigate the risks of this agile transformation? So the first thing is that if we have people that might be leaving, we wanna make sure that we have recruiters, HR staff, et cetera, then we can backfill as fast as possible, especially because we're in this hyper growth mode. We also wanted to make sure that this agile transformation is not an endpoint. It's actually a beginning point. So what I mean by that is that we're constantly doing retrospectives every three months. How is this working? What do we need to change? What are our goals here? So today we've learned about what's important in agile, like in the manifesto, is that it's transparency. So that's one of the things, for example, that we saw, okay, we weren't being transparent enough. That's one of the things that we need to work on and continuously improve. Also, there was this open question that we had the people managers, and we have these agile coaches, and they're both trying to help out teams. How do we make sure, like, what's the line there? Is an agile coach like a people manager that's just kinda in the team? Are they not? This was a big open topic. We also needed to figure out, for example, that when we were hiring new people, not necessarily that they've worked in agile environments before, but how do they have that agile mindset? Are they prepared that they're gonna own it? For example, if they're developing software and that software breaks, it's not their manager that's gonna be the first one that's gonna be getting on them. It's the teams themselves. The teams are responsible. The teams own it, and the teams themselves are the ones that are gonna enable the product to be successful. But we also were seeing that there could be some concerns about some ambiguity in the roles, especially in a hyper growth startup mode. Not everything is always so clear that people might have to kinda wear different hats, so to speak. So, we didn't wanna be this guy. We did not wanna be managers that were micromanaging, that were very top-down, and so what this meant then is that people that were managers before, we wanted to give them the option that, okay, we're going into this new organization, and maybe you were the most skilled person in the room, and that's normally how it is in a hierarchical structure. Maybe it was that person that was an engineering lead, for example, so they're managing some people, and they're also an individual contributor. But we wanted to make sure that the people that were managers were really passionate about helping people, enabling people to be successful. And so, that was kind of also a different mindset. And we also needed to make sure that if we're gonna be doing this, there's a cost associated with this, and we needed to justify that cost. So, in a standard hierarchy, again, organizations may be plus or minus a little bit on this, but this is just kind of a standard. Is, let's say our organization is 250 people, 240 people, and in a standard organization, we're gonna have about 48 overhead roles, overhead being somebody that is not necessarily maybe like writing software code, somebody that is helping the organization. So, in this example, we're gonna have 40 teams, so typically a team is about anywhere from six to eight people.  In this new agile organization, we have less of these overhead roles. In our case, we have the same number of teams, so 40 teams, and we have 13 of these people manager roles, and we have 13 of these agile coaches. So, I'm gonna be talking a little bit about the breakdown and why we felt like that was the right balance. So, the value creation of having this people manager, why do we wanna do this? What we found is that there's kind of this sweet spot, this right balance of how many people report to one of these people managers and what is their objective. So, if a people manager has typically less than 15 people, we found that they get bored. Okay, they're helping out the team, they're approving their vacation, we kinda joke, and they're helping to get them to go on trainings, but it's like, okay, there's not that many people to be doing that with. We've also found that if you have a lot of teams, that balance is about over 25 people we found, is that you're just trying to keep up to date. Okay, yeah, this person's having this issue, this person is sick. Okay, this person is having a conflict with this team, for example. So, this right sweet spot we found where the people manager can be the most effective is when they have anywhere from 15 to 25 direct reports, and that's across three or four teams. This is the right balance between team effectiveness and people manager effectiveness. So, let's talk about why we decided to break this down and the responsibilities that happen from a hierarchical organization that has team leads in our agile organization. So, in a normal organization that has hierarchy, the team lead, this would be like the one person that's responsible for like the eight people in their team. Maybe they're the most senior person, the most knowledgeable, the most years of experience. They're responsible for team collaboration, the team maturity, getting them, okay, here's who we need in the team. Personal development, maybe, sometimes. They're also responsible for, sometimes firings, if necessary. Hiring is necessary. Also responsible for team budget and growth on top of doing their normal kind of day-to-day stuff of being a member of the team. So, contributing, for example, for writing software code. So, what we found is that typically when people get a team lead role, some people wanna do it, but a lot of people don't. So, what we're having is that we're having like our most senior engineer in the team that's now having to do stuff that they don't wanna do that isn't being used for their passions, their experience, and we're putting them in a role that they're responsible for people development when they might not even wanna do that. And instead, we decided to split these responsibilities. So, now we have the role of the people manager and the agile coach. So, the people manager, and this is a little bit different than the book Drive by Daniel Pink, but this is what's been the right balance for us, is the people manager is responsible for personal development. And at the end of the day, my role as a people manager is not to say no, my job is to help them say yes to things that they wanna grow into. So, if that individual wants to learn something new, maybe join a different team, I do everything in my power to help enable them to be successful because I don't wanna lose this person. And this is something that motivates people when they feel like their people manager really cares about them. Also about the interdisciplinary leadership, sometimes it's a fact of life, sometimes you have to do with firing, sometimes you have to deal with interpersonal conflict, especially when it comes to certain laws of certain countries, you have to have this role. So, that responsibility also falls from the people manager here. People manager is also responsible for the team budget, team growth, trying to get the headcount for things. Why do we wanna place the investment into this team versus another team? But they're not alone in this, they work with the team to be able to justify that. And also, the people manager isn't just doing people management stuff all the time. At Flix Plus, our people managers are also doing some individual contributor tasks. And we base this based on passion. So, for example, I'm really passionate about culture or about how we do compensation or how we do feedback. These are things that we find that the people manager can really help to contribute to. And our agile coaches, on top of doing some of that, like they can help out with the organizational activities as well, they are someone that is deeply in the team for multiple hours a day, and they're helping to transition teams from this forming, storming, norming, performing stages. You might have heard about this before, especially where we have brand new teams in this hyper growth mode. We have a lot of teams that are now forming. And having an agile coach that's there, getting people to talk about their issues, getting people to open up about how to solve these problems, is really, really critical for success of an organization. So, let's talk about the value proposition here. A little bit further about what is the PM versus the AC and what do they bring? So, this is after we did our agile transformation a few years ago. We found that the people manager helps to have a reduction in churn. We've had teams that really haven't had that people manager support. And when they have a people manager, there's less churn. So, there's less turnaround. There's less people that are leaving the organization. They feel like they're being supported. There's also the ensuring sometimes when we have teams, teams might be a little bit of a narrow focus when they're trying to hire. They're included on every one of the hiring decisions, but sometimes they might think, okay, well, we have this problem and this person can fit our problem. But our people manager really tries to identify what's the right cultural fit for the organization. What's the right cultural fit given these other personalities that are within the team? So, looking at a little bit of a higher level, we found that having a people manager and the team both be a part of interviews really, really does help. In addition to that, we found through surveys, through reflection, through retrospectives, that the people manager helps to improve our job satisfaction, especially when we don't have people managers that are micromanaging. This is something that we actively try to avoid. This is also something that as we're hiring people managers, we hire people that want to do people development that enjoy this kind of role. Some of our people managers have come from technical backgrounds. Some haven't. Some have come from HR. Some have come from the hotel industry, totally separate areas. But everyone is really empathetic and wants to help people. So this is also the mindset that we have for when we're hiring our people managers and the value proposition that they bring. In addition to that, our agile coaches help out with team effectiveness. Sometimes you can have people that might be a little bit more introverted, don't always open up as much. And so when we have a people manager, maybe that's the person that's responsible for their paycheck at the end of the day that steps out. People are much more open for working together to help to solve a problem being open about their problems. So in these ways, having somebody that's like a moderator in that discussion really, really does help. And just as I mentioned earlier, that transition of the teams from the forming, storming, norming is incredibly valuable. If we have teams that are all high performing, that's amazing, but that's unrealistic. So across our 40 teams that we have today, especially in this hyper growth mode, we're always gonna have teams that are in various stages. And you can have teams that go from high performing then into being a norming stage and vice versa. So we like to say that as a people manager, as agile coaches, if the teams are all high performing, fully autonomous 100%, then our job isn't needed. But realistically, there's always gonna be a need for us. And so we like to balance out and shift around as needed for the organizations and the teams that really need our support the most. At the end of the day, the agile coaches and the people managers both work to solve problems. So what that means is that our job every day is really different, and that's part of the beauty and the awesomeness of this job. And we're both hoping to scale the organization. So just a few key takeaways in the last few minutes here. In my mind, these overhead roles of the people manager agile coach, especially if questions come up, are they worth it? Yes, they're worth it. We found through surveys, we found through better attrition, et cetera, that these roles are necessary. In addition to that, we're finding that a dedicated people manager and agile coach roles help us to be able to split up that team lead responsibility. And it's also made it so that we can hire people that are people managers and agile coaches with that background that want to do this rather than making a team lead do something that they might not really wanna do or be that great at. In addition to that, just as what's been mentioned throughout this whole day, is that autonomy, trust and transparency are absolutely crucial. We're not saying that this is the end of our journey, we're not saying that we did this perfectly. What's important is that understanding what are we trying to do, what are we trying to do to improve and being open about those issues. In addition to that, teams are empowered. So we give every team a voice through constant feedback. The people manager, my role, is to just listen to the teams to help enable them. So there's never an issue with raising questions or concerns in the team. In addition to that, there's also the constant reflection and adaptation. So we're already trying to think about the future of how this agile journey will go. And is this right thing for scaling our organization? And so far we think, yes it is, but how do we do that? How are we gonna grow when we go from 250 to 1,000 technical staff? These are the open questions that we're exploring now. So in summary, change is hard, but in my opinion, change is worth it. So thank you very much.


Since 1962, the EU food system has been shaped by a single overarching policy. The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, was the EU's attempt at creating a more self-sufficient and stable food supply in Europe. But how has it achieved this? The CAP was first provided to introduce a safety net for farmers who face seasonal uncertainty and harvests. This safety net came in the form of subsidies or income support, and through guaranteeing that the price of certain foods would stay in the same range, creating a more stable market. On average, more than half of an EU farmer's income relies on these subsidies. It seemed like a win for farmers and a win for citizens, but it didn't come cheap. In 2018, around 38% of the EU's €41 billion budget was allocated to the CAP, 72% of which was devoted to direct income support for farmers. But the issue is that current subsidies are released based on the size of farms. Put simply, the larger the farm, the more financial support you receive. This favours larger farms over smaller ones, which is a notable issue given larger farms tend to have higher environmental impacts and favour a lower diversity of crops. Since the subsidies go to the major landowners, it often leads them to overproduction, creating food surpluses and driving prices down, ultimately defeating its own purposes. To balance these issues out, the EU buys back excess produce, stores it, or sells it to overseas markets at low prices. This is good for Europeans, but what are the repercussions for outside of Europe? Selling very cheap surplus foods to lower income countries outside Europe can create unfair competition with local producers, and world market prices can suffer as a result. To try and address both citizen and industry concerns, the CAP is reformed every seven years. The latest 2020 reform has been voted by the majority of member states to remain largely unaltered, but many argue that the lack of action for more sustainable measures in recent reforms favours big business over environmental concerns and small farmers, and that it neglects sustainability goals that were set in the EU Green Deal. The EU is, however, receptive to criticism to future amendments. Projects like the Citizens Dialogue and European Citizens Initiatives aim to give voice to both citizens and food producers. With final decisions on new reforms still under discussion, you can still have your say. So, what changes would you like to see made to the CAP?


The following is a presentation of TFNN Trade what you see With Larry Pezzavento All now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Larry Pezzavento Okay boys and girls guess what boys and girls we are riding into the sunset really soon boy my days are numbered to doing this stuff I just can't take the frustration anymore. I worked for two hours getting this thing working And I had it all working and then when I get ready to start the show Nothing's working. I don't need this. I really don't I mean yesterday I did all kinds of work talking about natural gas and the importance of the valid trend line and also the 20-man line and all that stuff. I did about 13 different charts Do you know one person asked to see those charts folks that ain't worth it pal to me I'm telling you it just isn't but I'm gonna just talk today because I don't have any charts and I don't frankly I don't really care but if you'll take a look at Natural gas yourself and look at the ABCD pattern What we had was a break of the valid trend line and we made a perfect ABCD to the down today Believe it or not at 472 now the news and CNBC today Was that there was a very big natural gas shortage in China and they were buying handover fists Well, it went from 650 to 480 472 while they were buying handover fists They also they talk about rolling blackouts in China all total BS Gold coal has gone from 280 a ton to a hundred and forty a ton in in three weeks Okay, now the gold we talked about that yesterday the importance of 1847 that once we got above that It was very very bullish and we did we got up to 1870 the a be the large daily ABCD That I'm unable to post to you today Comes in at 1879. That's the double double ABCD's up there at that level. That's why we went above 1847 It had to be going to that level. We've been very very bullish gold We pointed out to those of you that were listening yesterday that the the pattern that we had on the gold market was just Extremely bullish because of the thrust that came out of the buy and at 1760 It just went straight up. I mean without any without any we've rallied over a hundred and ten dollars and ounce folks In a matter of four trading days. I mean that that's a tremendous That's a tremendous bullish thrust and not only that but open interest is increasing also So those are just a few of the things that we're watching the main one, of course What was the treasury bonds?  I flat out give up. I just don't I just can't stand the frustration I worked two hours today getting this thing done with the people at hot com. Everything's working great I did exactly wrote down exactly what to do when I try to put up the chart Nothing happens. Maybe Al can help at the break But frankly it just isn't worth it anymore to me I enjoy being with you guys here But not being able to communicate and whether you live whether you live believe it or not I don't really it's up to you. I mean you you decide what you have to do But it's just a little too frustrating for me Not I had a really nice email that I wanted to send you if you remember we had an email from our friend George We could last week about Tesla that he was bullish and he you know, he was long the Tesla from nine. I Forget what the price. I think nine hundred dollars. I guess it was trading at 1200 And he had the question about What what he should do with it and and I remember saying this right on the air to him I said George when you have to ask the question about what you should do with the position you're in doubt That's the number two thing on this painting behind me and that is never had to losing position as the first one But you know when you went in doubt get out So I said get out and you know he sends me the email and I have to read this to you folks because this was really quite Funny hold on hold on just a second here Let's take a look here. It says hi Larry the price Tesla dropped after you scream sell eight days ago. Thanks a million Folks if I scream sell it was a whisper like all I said was just be careful up there because if you have a question about it That's really what you that's really what you're looking at So there's nothing more that you could have regarding the the natural gas that that that was a textbook folks I mean that that chart was just absolutely so perfect and then it makes a perfect ABC to the downside Today and it's already rallied $1,600 now. This is the kind of stuff. I'm gonna be looking at when I'm doing the The last trading event with mr. Who guard hopefully will be able to get Tom in there with the technical stuff I'm not even sure but we'll do fine no matter what We had a couple of good things to look at The main one let this morning folks and it happened so quickly, you know gold went up to 1834 That was a smaller ABCD it dropped at $12 an ounce which all the corrections we've had over the last three days Have all been 11 or $12 so it stops right at 1822 and I'm watching this and I see that my beeper go off at 1822 okay, that was a place and the next time I had I didn't even I didn't even blink an eye It was trading at 1842 it jumped $20 that fast on its way and once we went through 1847 that was the number we talked about with mr. Z yesterday. Is it once it went above that? This smooth sailing and believe me folks. I Believe there were probably backed off $15 just a minute ago stopping exactly at the 382 At 1853 now as long as gold doesn't get below 1853 today I still think it's on its way up to that 1880 level and we get it once we get should we get above It's not when when we get above it 1880. We're gonna see new highs on gold By by Easter time would be my guess. That's just a wild guess. It has nothing based on cycles. It's just a Swag a sophisticated wild guess. That's the main thing. I'm unable to post any charts I'll try to work with Al on this one more time, but frankly It just it just literally drives me out totally up the wall the other one folks I sent out a special video last night to the 24 7 folks and I hope you took advantage of it because We became very bearish crude oil yesterday folks after it made that high at 85 If we looked at the total picture of the crude oil, in other words, if we looked at the natural gas excuse me if we looked at Gasoline futures and if we looked at heating oil futures And if we looked at crude oil futures, you saw a great big divergence And the fact that open interest wasn't increasing was one thing But if you looked at heating oil, just take you take a look at heating oil folks The high today was an exact went ten cents ten dollars ten US dollars over the 61 percent retracement Which was the cell signal and it's broken $2,000 today and the same thing with crude oil The crude oil went up went right to the 3a to buy by crude oil down another $1,500 and then and gasoline was the worst folks if you like the virgins and remember they're raising gas here 15 cents a day here in Tucson. We're up to 350 a gallon now from 287 Just about two weeks ago. All right, and now what we're doing now Look at the gasoline futures contract folks it like 20 minutes Like 20 men says the five human nature do the work yourself go look at the crude look at the gasoline contract the The the gasoline contract itself on the futures three lower highs perfect. We'll be right back You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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It's maybe it's short term the other one We talked about yesterday, of course was the bond market. We got up to that's 164 level We're now $1,500 lower of that was a perfect ABCD pattern And it was that was one that was posted in the room only partial chart But you could see the ABCD pattern that was there that was finished There's a couple of charts here that I was hopefully able to show but not able to I'm not able to bring them up One was in platinum. We're looking at suppose. There's a possibility here folks I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but these metals have woken up. I mean they're they They've started to move So I think it's important that you start paying attention to these Open interest has increased not dramatically but slightly in the gold and and the silver futures actually decreased which That was short coming. There's still no big longs in the silver market if they start to come in Oh my god, stand aside, especially if these dudes get up here with the With this Mimi or what do they call these things Robin Hood and all this other stuff You could you can imagine because silver being as thin as it is. It's 1 6th the ball Open interest of the gold. It could really get a little crazy. So pay attention Pay attention to that one for sure now. We've got a new IPO coming out today Riven RIV and that's a Electronic truck. I think it sells for 85,000 if I'm not mistaken correct me if I'm wrong But I I believe it's going to be I think it comes out for around 80 grand And then also the other thing is that it's being backed by Ford and Amazon It was Emma's Amazon has a huge stake in this and the opening indication I just saw a few minutes ago on CNBC No on Bloomberg that it with the open it was supposed to open at 122 So I don't know if it's open yet or not. Let me tell me look around here to see if there's trading it up Evidently the boss turned off the TV Anyway, we if anybody sees the first trade on ribbon if it's trading, I'd like to know What it's doing? So Just to see how these things react to these because they're they're gonna raise They wanted to raise 78 billion and it looks like they're gonna raise about over a hundred billion on this But it's been in business since 2009. So it's been a pretty good place so far They Now it'll be in the Z said it'll be in the S&P just very very soon not to Not too much about that And they're only bringing out 15% of the float from what they're telling us here in the den If you have any questions folks, I'd be happy to answer them If you just type them in if you want if you want to call in, you know May or may not Al said the lines are fully open like they always are so if you do have any questions I'll be happy another chart that I that I really wanted to bring to your tension tension was the The way that the soybean market worked yesterday folks. I missed an absolute incredibly Easy buying opportunity because I had Pat I had port not only could I couldn't get the charts done right? I didn't have any data for part of the time by the time I saw it. It was too late We had a perfect ABCD in the soybean oil the December oil down there at 57 and change It's now trading at 59 the same thing in soybean meal. It backed off right to the perfect 382 at 330 it's now trading $1,300 above that and Those were a couple that I was just unable to get because the data didn't line up Line up everything but last night What what happened was one of our subscribers who does you know what we do here? Brought to my attention. He said look at because I don't trade gas I haven't traded gasoline but twice in the last couple years He said look at the difference between gasoline crude oil and heating oil and I did I said oh my god I said this is a this is screaming sell and you know if they say exactly where it turned out so I Appreciate Ralph sending that into me because I I hadn't seen it If I had I immediately sent out a video on it explaining to you what was explaining to the folks what was happening We weren't having big increases in open interest new buying was not coming in to the crude oil Then we see this tremendous divergence and heating oil which should be going crazy because we were started We got we got December starting disserve winter starts December 21st And this is when you know the the heating all should be going crazy And when you see news items like on Bloomberg today the first thing this morning at 4 o'clock this morning it said You know coal they're rationing coal in in in China and they're also having rolling blackouts in China Well, Sarah has friends in China and she chats with those people and believe me They're not seeing any rolling blackouts as of yet and we're talking about you know Shanghai and Guangzhou But that those are still you know 20 30 million people in each one And when you see that and then you see the price of natural gas go from six point five down to four point seven In the midst of what supposed to be the world's worst situation for supply demand. Give me a break That's why I'm a technician now today ABCD. It's still in an uptrend.  Hello. There was nothing down there at a dollar and a half now It's almost two grand higher than that. So that's just looking at the old Jesse Livermore stuff, you know Try to watch what the market's trying to tell you so that's the main thing of What we're looking at right here. Also, I'd like to show you some charts, but I can't so I'm just gonna talk about them Hold it. Oh, yeah, I'm a blessed man. There's no question about that The only thing I'm not blessed about Z is computers. They don't like me and you know what? I'll show you a magic trick. I can't show you that magic trick on the air. Anyway, but I really think that We're looking at something pretty significant coming down the road here In the gold market and whether that you know, but we're we're completing major ABCD is up here at the 1880 level. I'm talking daily stuff So that's why it's going to be really interesting and gold if gold is really bullish You're not going to see a trade below 1850 today If you start seeing it if you start seeing a trade below 1850, that would be the first sign That uh, oh, they maybe this is it, you know, maybe we missed the top end by By 20 or 15 or $20 that I don't know so we'll see, you know, you can see the silver Well, you can't see it. What am I talking about? Anyway, those are the things that we're looking at The gremlins are everywhere, especially with the computer. What's so frustrating is I got everything up and working perfectly I got it written down exactly what to do. I tested it three times One minute before the show. I can't get the I can't get it to come up How can that happen? But it did so That's something that I have to live with so if you do have any questions today Type in me and I'll chat with them if I can about this and that's really all I think, you know When I started doing this stuff. Oh gee whiz 19 1964 I got my first ticker tape. I had a western union ticker tape For the Chicago border trade that was much bigger than the Chicago mercantile exchange back in those days And so I was doing corn And bean we didn't start trading silver on the border trade until I believe 65 or 66 Is our recall but I would have that ticker tape. They would take a little break here. 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I was chatting about uh 1964. I got my first western union teletype Uh ticker tape actually, you know the kind you saw in the movies with a little globe over the top and the brass stuff is really cool and uh I had one for the board of trade later on They didn't do the one for the merc because it was just small and you only had to go live Didn't even have cattle yet. You did have uh, I think we had pork bellies in a believe Had a few things we didn't have currencies until 72 So it was really not much at the merc. It was a butter anyone trading in butter stuff like that But uh, the main one was uh, the fact that uh, we were doing at the board of trade We got a question in here from somebody. Is that true? And that is we have Zach from savannah. Mr. Z. What's happening? Zach? What can I help you with? Hi there, uh, abc is where I want to be larry You got it, brother There is no other than abcd fireway Oh, well, I have a twofer that deals with bonds and maybe a little bit of your experience from the 80s Um, one is about the spread between uh, the long bond and notes, uh the 10 year and the 20 year plus It seems like the 20 year plus and 30 the long bonds are much more bullish than the 10 year and sentiment is much higher and over suited Uh on the bonds than on the notes, but um, that's that's one It looks like, you know, we're looking at kind of a yield curve in version. Sure. And um Yeah, and the other the other is also about the bonds that's coming from Uh, a trader by the name of george angel in the 80s George angel, I know you ever hear of emmer. I know him very well. Yeah Okay, he wrote a note, um That said don't save the bonds after 130 central time Which you know 230 eastern and I guess I don't know if the 80s the bonds didn't trade as late as they do um, but um They didn't that they begin to trend in the afternoon and not to fade that trend What do you think about it or any other bond experience that you have? Well the bond the but the best time to trade the bonds is the first, uh The first half first four first first four first 45 minutes of the day The rest of it. I don't do that. Uh, george angel I believe he was the man who brought uh macds to us as I recall That's from memory and usually my memory is pretty good But let's get back to the relationship between notes and bonds and the spread Mm-hmm. Okay. Now. I don't know if you're watching on cnbc or on my uh, the the skype thing or not, but this uh This pencil represents a spread So you have the long side here and the short side here. This is how it was explained to me by my mentor john hill Uh, that was 50 years ago almost to the day from 1970 to 2020. He said larry.  It don't make any difference. Which end do you go from? It's going to get you in trouble. So just trade then The uh, and that that is no longer a bad word bake on based on the woke people But I I'm a I'm a flat trader. I trade the bonds when I trade the notes. I trade the notes I don't I don't straddle between crude oil and heating oil I don't straddle between the nasdaq and the s and p I trade each one of them separately. It keeps it simple enough to read And I'm in the business of trying to keep my losses as small as possible And when you have a spread on you've got two decisions to make long and short And the worst thing is when that thing starts to go against you sometimes it gets to be a real pain in the, you know, what? So that's why I that's why I don't do spreads at all. The guy who's really good at spreads Is rich anderson, you know rich is uh Well, he's been around for as long as I have almost but he's an incredibly good spread trader He fact most of his stuff that he does is in spreads on huge positions and he trades very large positions So that that person that can can trade with spreads and use options to learn how to sell options Learn how to sell options easiest business in the world once you understand that You can you can just take these focus a person that buys an option His chance of winning is less than 15 percent the person that sells that option 85 percent chance of winning that you don't get that on any racetrack or casino in the world. So I hope that helps act Well, yeah, I was thinking in terms of using it as kind of a barometer for market sentiment and the inversion of the curve is really Kind of a negative for markets. It tends to lead recessions by three to six months historically. So 30 years going below Uh 10 in terms of the market the rate is I don't I don't trade that spread the bond spread but I know people do and Your point about it's really great. Um, but I don't get involved in that per se there I use other vertical spreads or things but um, yeah, but I mean, you know, to me it seems like a Negative, you know in terms of market sentiment, um that we're looking at a yield curve inversion It's probably the language. I should have said Well, that that's that's all good now. Someone else that's good at that is larry williams once in a while larry will send out a You know a video or youtube or something about that and then I pay attention to that but Other than that, I just look at the chart if prices are going up. There's more buyers and prices are going down There's more sellers That's what I really want to look at and if I can't get that straight I move on to something that I can see and that's pretty what I pretty much what I try to do Keep it as simple as possible Well, hang in there. What's your tech issues that I look forward to your training next week? Oh, let me tell you pal. This is a pain and you know what I I have All of my frustration is business act comes from this These computers and I buy the best of what there is and yet this still doesn't like me and I have the The well, I worked with Kathy. Well, you don't need to know. Hey, thanks for calling in pal I really appreciate it and it keeps sending your emails. I enjoy reading them I appreciate all your support and your education. You're a great trainer and mentor. Thank you Okay, Zach. Thank you very much. All right, folks. We're looking at what's going on here right now We've got the crows down now about $2 and a half from the high that it made last night the cell signal came in today at 84 40 that was a 61 percent retracement when we were hitting that the heating oil was hitting the exact 61 percent retracement the net the gasoline contract was hitting the 385 38 percent retracement with two lower highs the 135 pattern And now it's down quite a bit So far the gold has held the 1853 level as long as it can stay above 1853 I believe we're going all the way up to Probably that 1899 1900 level folks when we get above $1900 and gold I don't make predictions very often, but we get above $1900 gold You just remember reading the book reminiscences of the stock opera. He was incredibly bullish the southern pacific railway Okay, he thought it was going to go to 250 and it was trading it like at 130 And he was trying to buy it at 130 and all he could see was 250 He said all I could see was 250. So I had to buy it So he bought it at 130 and of course it went to 250 before it went to 50 and dropped $30 a share And uh, he he he got out of it because he he violated his uh, his way We got another would we have another caller coming in? Are you kidding me? Uh March coffee may have bottomed at 201 Tuesday. Mr. Z has said and this is wednesday As long as it as long as that coffee can stay above 198. I don't trade coffee. I drink it But stay it's got to stay above 198 as long as you're above that you're okay Okay Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area? 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That's tfnn.com then hit watch tiger tv Okay, we're back folks and uh using my proprietary oscillating oscillator I just got a cell signal in gold at 18 60 The stop is 18 62 if I were doing the Daily trading like we're going to be doing on the 17th. I would be doing that risking two dollars And we'll see what's happening with that. So we'll keep an eye on it On the information that we have a covet in the family folks My daughter in Denver was diagnosed Evidently, I don't know how well she's around patients, but anyway She's doing fine. She's home. She's self medic. Well, she's taking care of herself. She doesn't need any help With anything so she's doing fine and our neighbor right across the street Rita who is 86. She's recently widowed. She also Has covered I think she got it from one of her Guard they play canasta quite a bit and I think that's where she got up. She's doing really good Also, so everything's fine. So we remind ourselves of you know, we'd be thankful that we don't get this This is the first two people that I actually physically knew That have actually had it. I went to my doctor yesterday for my physical and I had a really great check up he said he said I had the What what what it was something he said I had the mind of a 16 year old and a body of a 90 year old But anyway, anyway, I made it through okay But I go for twice. I go twice a year now Once I got over 75 they asked me to start doing it twice a year But I'm in really pretty good shape other than I'm not overweight I'm just 12 inches too small if I was 6 foot 4 or 6 foot 9 I think I would be be okay But right now and there's not much I can do about it, but I'm other than that I feel pretty good All right, let's move on to a couple other things. Anyway, I'd be short the gold here at 1860 with a buy stop at 1863 Risking three bucks on that. I would have booked some really nice profits in natural gas I'm sledding the crude oil run because that puppy looks like it's a dying ghost up here and with all the news yesterday about the you know drop in crude oil Barrels or whatever it was folks You you got you know, one of the things you've got to practice doing is if you if you're reading fundamentals and stuff You got to practice doing one thing and that's stop Because that stuff is late. I mean it is flat out late I I can remember going in Jim's office in When I was in in in graduate school and he had he had a parrot They mosker and the bottom of the pay at the bottom of the cage was the wall street Generally said it was the only use he could find for Was the bottom of the parrot cage and I have to believe that because when you see these news items You have to start thinking contrary to what are they really trying to tell us here? We've seen this over and over and over again And that that's why I don't try to pay attention to it I really don't you know, I miss a lot of stuff, you know, but you know When the push comes to tough you got you're going to have a few uh, when you get into that swamp Like grandma said you're going to have to kiss a few frogs before you find the princess, but you'll be able to do it And you do it on the old ab equals cd wagon. That's what you have to do. All right. Let's move on here any other questions we have Be happy to answer me here. We've got about 12 minutes to go tomorrow We will have paula on the line paula douglas On the line because this was our fun time of the year With mark. He moved here in the 96 and he was here for four years before they moved up to scott's dale And we uh, we spent every holiday with him with the exception of christmas and new years That's when we went with the grandkids But we had all the thanksgivings and esters were always with the douglas's and mark was a chef He was actually a master chef When he was at michigan state. That's how he uh, uh, took care of himself as far as uh Feeding himself in terms of a really great great chef. And so we would go down to the Gospel mission and we would cook turkeys for him on on thanksgiving to get there third three o'clock in the morning We'd be there till oh Seven eight o'clock at night and had a great time. I mean there's a reading really wonderful people feeding these folks That were having a a really really rough time and he continued to do that when he went up to Went up to scott's dale how we're here in the health health department wouldn't let anybody Come in to help unless they were actually working for the gospel mission itself And I wasn't about to take a job at the gospel mission So all we did was we uh sarah and I would buy the turkeys and some of the trimmings for the folks Yeah, it's a person Perfect example of this yesterday. We're in the show after we got back from the doctor We had to stop in and pick up some uh some uh eggs and uh the safe way where they were having a contest They were having a feeding contest and anybody that donated any money they would give They would give uh double the money in other words if they if you gave him five bucks They a safe way would match it for five bucks. They did this for a 15 minute period And so we were standing in line and she looks at me says how much you want to give I thought let's give her at least 20 dollars, you know, so I doubled that and gave it to him and that The bad part was the clerk gets on the air.  Some people are really having some trouble I'm just trying to make up things as we go along boys and girls because I don't have anything else to say I covered the stuff that I wanted to I covered the crude oil I covered the gold. I covered the bonds Folks, these bonds don't have any support. You might think that they do but they don't they're going to go down to quite quite a bit, uh, the natural gas has moved from 72 Up to uh, 96. I believe was it 96? Yeah, up to 96 It's now backing off to the 382 retracement here And that's pretty much it as far as the stock market the only way the stock market can be bullish now is that makes a new high And it can do that. I'm sure it can because it's got enough people out there I don't know has anybody seen the first trade of a rivi yet because I'd like to be, uh See was the question is 10 days straight. Oh, yeah Ruby's saying about mark douglas about he I remember that he was long silver He was long silver and he had too much on he only rated traded bonds after I met him But uh, he he was really good at short-term trading folks. He he really had that bond market figured out He watched the opening price on the bond like today. Perfect example in bonds day here. Here's a here's a really good idea Take a look at your 15 minute chart on treasury bonds You're going to see an absolute beautiful abcd pattern at 163 24 right after the open And look at it it breaks down rallies up to the 382. It's trading a thousand dollars under that So you're risking three dollars 300 bucks on a trade like that That's another trade that would have been today because you're in trading the direction of the opening at the exact 382 See look at the chart. I just posted it. Can't you guys see it?  Look at it It's posted right there in the room under mysterious circumstances All right, let's see what else we got going on right now. Um, let me see what we have right now All right, all right, if I were in this I would rate if I'm in I'm sure at the gold at 1860 I would raise my lower my stop down to 1861. I'd only risk Uh 100 dollars from where we are right now Shut the front door and raise the rent. I don't know if you know that comes from a movie called Support your local sheriff and the guy that said that was cleavon little. He was the sheriff. He was the uh He was the first black sheriff they'd ever had in the west and they were giving him a lot of a lot of trouble And so he was uh, you know where that derivation of that Shut the front door comes from folks. 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Honest to God it is I'm just not technically adept to pull these things out. I mean it was working perfectly tfnn helped me cathly at hot com helped me everything was working good And in fact, I was doing I was posting in the tfnn room. I think at 5 15 in the morning and some of the folks saw it but Evidently, I'll get it fixed But when it comes to pushing the button when it's actually happening, it's a little bit more of a Little more of a problem for me, but I'll get it fixed and I will stop PNM tomorrow And I think we'll be okay Try to help your folks your fellow folks out there that are getting covered and stuff folks Evidently more more people are getting it because of the fact that I guess more and more people have been exposed to it But the fact is not as many people are dying from it My first my doctor's practice, which is huge He's only had eight patients and six of those were severely debilitated. They could have died at any time So he only had two patients out of five thousand that And that's a big practice That that died from it. So just got to be careful and make sure that you You know keep your Distance when you have to and be safe live every day in an attitude of gratitude and may god bless And we'll see you folks tomorrow With paula douglas as our guest and I will have charts working tomorrow I don't know how long it's going to take me to do it But this frustration stuff is getting to be a pain in the you know what So what i'm going to do here is to Move my stop to break even now in the gold to 1860 And let you folks go on and have a wonderful day. Hope you can join me on the 17th of november We'll have five hours of some really fun stuff to work with And i'm going to be showing some of my super secret stuff and if you believe that I still have two shares of the brooklyn bridge Okay That's it. Have a great day and we'll see you tomorrow with paulis douglas coming on at around 11 30 In the morning on november the 11th, which is armistice day You


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Let's get over to our man, Mr. Dave Mazda, as you do each and every other Monday. And folks, Dave is the Managing Director Head of Product at Direction Shares. You can come over to our website at TFNN, you'll see the Direction Banner, hit that Direction Banner, and as you hit that banner, you're going to see that we've got a new infrastructure bull, DOZR. Dave Mazda, how are you doing today? Doing well, happy to be back. That's a beautiful thing. I appreciate you coming back, you know, and as I was hitting the banner this morning out here, I'm seeing, talk to me about, this is pretty cool, man. I know this bill didn't go through on Friday, but this bill's going to go through, man. That's the bottom line. This actually gives people, this is pretty cool, man.  So talk to me about this new ETF that you have here. No, no, appreciate you picking up on and appreciate the idea here is that there's a real opportunity from infrastructure standpoint. I think it was clear that for long-term investors, that's something that people might want to step into, particularly, you know, just thinking the fact that we know driving around, no matter where you live in the U.S., our infrastructure needs some work, right? Seriously. In fact, you know, we have a pretty low grade from a scoring perspective, but there's also a trading opportunity because as you know, this bill is likely going to go through, but it didn't. So these stocks got hit, and when it does go through, it's still unclear because we know how Congress works and exactly where this money gets spent. So traders might see that it can use this fund. DOZR is an opportunity to get exposed to the U.S.-centric infrastructure companies. And that's important here, particularly from a trading perspective because a lot of people see infrastructure. You think it gets these massive utility companies. They're more global, very European-focused. These are kind of your picks and shovels, U.S.-based companies that are going to benefit from a U.S.-specific bill that's likely going to go through Congress, whenever that might be. Totally. You know what is really cool about this, Dave and folks, okay, is that, you know, I would say that in a longer-term aspect, I mean, this is not only going to go through, this could start off slow, but these companies are going to have some good cash flows for five to seven years, which is really cool, man. You don't get a lot of shots. And I'm not saying, folks, things are going to go to the moon. What I'm trying to explain is that when you do have a policy shift and there's that much money that's coming in, well, everyone loves those green checks, Dave, and these companies will like them too. I mean, you know, so it's going to be pretty interesting watching this shake out. No, you're absolutely right. And look, at the end of the day, you know, we know the situation in Washington. In fact, you know, every side of the aisle points fingers at one another, but that's kind of how the sausage is made. It's uncomfortable to feel it and experience it, but the one thing that both parties are agreeing on is at the end of the day, infrastructure, whatever size it might be, it makes some sense. All the other things to be determined. And then at the other hand, state and local governments are going to be incentivized to be committing some more capital along with the federal stimulus. So to your point, the companies in this particular portfolio are going to see an opportunity from those recurring revenue streams, but the path to get there is going to be far from certain. So just like we've seen from an overall market perspective with some choppiness in October, a lot of these infrastructure names are probably going to be in an environment of really kind of some whipsawing, especially until we know with greater specificity, what's actually going to be in this package and where the check's going to go. There's no doubt. And at the beginning of the markets, folks, that's this kind of how it goes. Now, which is really cool. I mean, we have a tradeable market both sides, whether you want to read a bull or bear folks. OK, and this is where these direction ETFs really come in, because whether we could talk the banking sector, we can get into the oil sector. You know, we're talking some big moves in some of your ETFs here, Dave, which is really cool, man, because we haven't had a two-way market in a long period of time. You know, like I'm sure right now is a lot of folks that think we're going to take another leg down. A lot of folks that think we just hit a bounce and we'll go up. So in both cases, we got some really good action out here. Yeah, exactly. Look, September was an uncomfortable month. I think people were hoping October would see that that bounce, not seeing it today. Clearly, what's what's interesting is, though, for traders, this is really where the opportunities emerge is that you have this two-way market, right? And we have this real push pull, especially, you know, depending upon how you want to cut it, long duration versus short duration and fixed income, you know, value versus growth in the equity market sector wise. Look at the spread just today between energy and tech. And that's something we haven't seen in a while. So I really think traders can see a real opportunity where we're seeing real activity, probably not a surprise. A lot of activity happening in our energy funds, oil and gas, gush and drip, but also still happening in tech L, tech S, SOXL, SOXS. So traders haven't given up on this eventual semiconductor rebound. I think the next couple, the next two weeks are going to be a pretty messy market until we get into earning season. And that's actually when we're going to start hearing from companies again, what's really happening from the supply chain perspective. And that's really where some of these winners and losers are going to continue to emerge.  And then there's this kind of macro backdrop that's making the trading environment much more two-way than it had been for the better part of 2021. I know, which is so cool. I mean, it's and what has happened, of course, is that now we have the inflation deal that's out there, inflation, noninflation. I mean, we get some great movement, man. There's no doubt. Well, listen, Dave, it's always a pleasure. Thank you so much. You have a great week, safe week, and we look forward to having on two weeks from today. Thank you for having me. Look forward to chatting again soon. Absolutely. Have a great one. Have a safe one.


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