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What it do how you doing? I'm good, good. Alright, you know the last time we talked to you you're just getting in here. How do you feel like you have progressed from a personal state point to the last time you talked to him? I just say the game's slowing down a little bit more.  It might, that might be the biggest thing so far. For every day, he always kind of seems to bring it up. He knows God was super important to a guy like Richie. Yeah, almost definitely. I was, I literally was telling him last night, like, you know, I always been like the leader in the room, like even at UCF, my second year in, I was thrown into a little starting, starting job. I was the leader of the DB's.  Even outside of football, I was telling them like wife and kids, like I want that one day. It's just literally everything. Like they, they living, living in right now. That's what I want. And they just give me advice every single day. I'm soaking it up. Well, what's one piece of advice that you're on specifically here?  What, what specifically are you taking from it? What's one piece of advice that has given you that stuff? Pretty much, man, you know, coaches got high expectations for me. You know, multiple roles, things like that. So pretty much any and everything he tell me, you know, it don't matter what it is. Like how to eat my food. I don't care. Like anything he tell me, like, I'm like, listen, you've been leaving for a long time. I'm trying to do the same thing. So whatever he do, you know, I try to mark that, you know, as a little brother. But it's sometimes football.  You know what I mean? So it really don't matter what it is. You know, I ain't going to get specific about it. I think that's specific. You're joking about the food, obviously. Is there one, like, is there one thing though that maybe you are not expecting to maybe take from him that you have?  You know, he got his own little way of finding little things to critique and make better and stuff like that. So, you know, we roommates in the dorms, he's there some night and we watch film together. He was, you know, he'd give me certain tips on how to read, replays, read receivers, formation and stuff like that. You can just tell you a bit. On the side of the ball, what part of the game you mentioned is slowing down the most? Personally, a lot faster in terms of guys just, you know, it's all football. You know, it's your whole life now. There's no school, so you can study as much as you want or as little as you want if you want to get cut. But yeah. But yeah, so guys know what they're doing to get into the line faster. It's a lot faster transition. You know, you got to know personnel's because certain calls call for different checks. So, you know, it's just the speed of lining up and getting the plays out. You know, as a safety, we're the commander of the defense. So things like that. Say it again. Shoot. Nah, man, I just man, nah, like, man, I've been this, like I said, at UCF, man, I got thrown into the mix as a young guy, you know, and I was playing with a lot of seniors. So it's the same vibe. I got a lot of older vets out there and I want to let them down. So I'm just making sure every day I'm finding something to get better at, you know, because, you know, when the game on the line, I don't want to be the one looking at like, come on, Rook, you know what I'm saying, like, I can't let that be me. So that's why I always talk to all of them. Like, what can I get better at just to help me out? Play better. Yeah, yeah. Richie, I know you've been at Activision's Ben Stadium. Is that the first time you've been in there since the beach bowl? Yeah, that's the first time. Yeah, surely. Do you have to bring back any good memories playing in championships? Yeah, well, 2017, maybe we'll be done. That was a good atmosphere.  But it was like January 1st. So of course it was cold. But the atmosphere, man, like, and then the vets telling me how, like, and then some of the second year guys, they didn't have, you know, fans last year. So it was telling me how they love that.  Just cheers. You kind of mentioned it already. But just that you're being asked to do like a lot of different stuff, like we've seen you play. Do you like that kind of having that kind of varied role and you feel comfortable with everything that they're asking you to do? Yes, sir. I've always been a guy that, you know, bit all more than I could chew, but not in the negative sense. Just like, keep me trying with myself. You know, that's how you grow. I learned at an early age. Like, you know, you can't grow unless you put in uncomfortable spots to get better. So I've always been that type of guy.  So I'm trying to meet their expectations every day. Most definitely. I came in with the mindset, you know, like, wherever I'm going to play, I'm going to do the best of my ability. Like I said, it's just all about locking in and knowing where I'm at on the field and just adjusting to it. All that film study that you're doing, is that something, is that an aspect of the game with mental side of it? Is that something that you enjoy kind of getting into the... Watching film? Yeah. Most definitely. You know, they say the eye on the sky don't lie. So whatever that dear film say, that's what it is.  So things like that.   I feel like, yes, like, I did it, let's go. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm doing good for the vets, you know, stuff like that. But just the whole team and right now, defense, cause we're going to get each other. But anytime somebody make a play, you'll see me on the sideline.  You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm always happy for my guys because I know how hard it is. You know, it's not easy out there and we're doing the best we can. You mentioned that, I think it was last week at some point, you had a diving PBU in 101 and then Arthur Smith said, you got burnt on the sideline, like, later in practice. Is that just like, when you go back and watch that? Is that something like, you're like, okay, I understand that. That's kind of what life is going to be like for me now? Or like, what do you take from that? Like, the high and then the low? First, I love you, Coach Smith. But um, nah man, like you said, I had a great play on in the beginning and then they came back kind of the same route and he caught the ball. You know, I was there, but he still caught it. And it's just like, you just got to learn how to live with those highs and lows and try to eliminate some of the lows. That's what I took from it. Any time for a couple more? Do you know where you need some wristbands every year? Just talk about what the, what they would never say or how you need it. Yeah, um, you see a man, Coach Shannon, uh, at the every game or sometimes even like scrimmages, he'll give us some wristbands. I used to wear three. I gave one to my little sister, but this one say compete at everything. So I always been that type of guy. Like man, losing the part of life.  You just compete in everything. Just, it just carry over and then above the line. That's a wristband. It's like, uh, we had this thing where it started out with GPA. So every, every, uh, position group, you had to be above a certain line GPA wise and we all competed, you know, DB's D line. We all competed. So we had a high GPA and then it translated to football. Like a bullet in line would be like 10 guys run to the football and one guy, you know, loafing. Like he's not above the line. So being above the line just keep you accountable. Kind of. Yeah. I forgot what my third one was. Like I've been wearing these since sophomore year of college. Yeah. So been a long time. I don't remember, but it was, it was a little, I think it was silver or white. It was one of the, I tried to change the colors up. Yeah. I don't think I ever took these. I'm not going to lie to you. Unless I had to do like something medical where they like, you can't have none. Yeah. I don't think I ever took them off. You did this. Good job. She just a little sis. You know, I love this. You know, I just gave it to my little brother. He'd be around. He don't, he don't really ask for none, but I give him something. You want something? She, she just turned 20. August seven. Yep. Just turned 20. Appreciate y'all.


Howdy, most fans, and welcome to a new edition of Whiteboard Fridays. My name is Lydia Infante, and I'm the senior SEO manager at sanity.io. Today, I'm going to be talking to you about SEO gap analysis. And yes, I know it's a very unsexy topic, but bear with me because it's worth it. SEO gap analysis takes us to the first principles of what we do in SEO, because ranking on Google is not ranking in a vacuum. Ranking is outranking your competitors. You've got a very limited space on the first page of the SERPs, and you need to be doing better than your competitors to be able to rank there. That means that you need to know what your competitors are doing and how you're going to do it better. But first of all, you need to know who your competitors are, who they are really. We're going to be speaking about competitor identification in a different Whiteboard Friday in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that. Once you have your set of competitors ready, you're going to proceed to benchmark yourself against them. And we're going to be doing this across the three pillars of SEO. So we're going to be looking at content, we're going to be looking at links, and we're going to be looking at tech SEO. We're going to look at how our competitors perform for each of those and how we compare. So when it comes to content, the very first thing that we want to look at is the estimated traffic by type that our competitors and we have. So when I'm talking about traffic by type, what I mean is like, are they getting branded traffic versus unbranded traffic? Product traffic, editorial traffic, it's going to be very different depending on the vertical that you're in, so adapt it to make it yours. We're also going to be looking at the number of editorial URLs that they have, and how much traffic these editorial URLs are getting each on average. And lastly, we're going to be looking at the number of keywords that they're ranking for. We're not going to be looking at all of the keywords. We're going to be aiming for the range of one to 30. Again, you can make this yours. You know your market better, and you know what's relevant. But that should narrow the entire pool to stuff that's a little more relevant to your competitors. Then we're going to be looking at links. We're going to begin with the link app analysis. That is, we're going to look at how many links your competitors have, and how many referring domains are pointing to your competitors. Then we're going to use this to measure link growth. We're going to look at how many links your competitors had six months ago, or 12 months ago, if your market is a little slower. And we're going to get a percentage of growth out of that. That's going to indicate to you whether your market, your search market, is very aggressive with link building, and you need to make an effort to keep up, or it's a little bit more relaxed. Then we're going to be looking at branded search. So how many people are looking for your competitors' brands, versus how many people are looking for your brands? That's going to indicate the level of brand awareness that you have within your target audience in comparison to your competitors. And we're going to take it one step further, and we're going to be looking again at branded traffic. There should be a very correlated relation between branded search and branded traffic. If you're first for branded search, you should be first for branded traffic, and so on. But if there isn't, it might be an indicator that you don't have content within your site that's responding to the user's queries about your brand. So that's definitely a very quick win that you could action right now. Lastly, we're going to be looking at Tech SEO. And this is incredibly difficult to measure, because the requirements on Tech SEO vary from website to website, from vertical to vertical. I am personally in the SaaS market, so my requirements for Tech SEO is essentially make it readable and make sure that JavaScript's not blocking anything, classic crawling and rendering issues, and that's about it. But if you're in e-commerce, you're likely dealing with faceted navigation, you're dealing with filter management, and it's a little bit more demanding. So the best way that I have found to measure Tech SEO changes and performance is Core Web Bitals scores. We're going to go on the Chrome UX report on Data Studio, and we're going to look at the main three Core Web Bitals, grab the number, the percentage of good URLs, according to Google, and then we are going to average them out into one score. Then we're going to be looking at PageSpeed. You can do this with PageSpeed Insights, and we're going to be looking at the scores for mobile versus desktop. I don't average this out, because I think they provide really useful information of what issues your industry is running into when it comes to mobile usage of the team. And then lastly, we're going to do some manual checks. Take a look at the robots.txt. Take a look at the sitemap, how they manage canonicalization, and that's going to inform you better on how you could outperform your competitors. And if this seems very complicated, don't worry. I have provided a free template for you so that you can make it yours. Thank you so much for watching my Whiteboard Friday. My name is Lidia Infante, and you can find me on Twitter at Lidia Infante M. You can find me on my website at Lidiainfante.com. And see you soon.


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one time. Dig it out and get it done, put it behind us. And find a more sustainable way to. A, take minutes and be schedule our meetings. So that we're keeping up. And then, then we can work on changing the legislation, which is years. Thank you. Okay. So I would like to, I'll take a set of minutes too. For solidarity and out of Catholic guilt. But I do want to echo what Andrew is saying is that, you know, I think what we just did was unsustainable. And the idea, you know, and our meetings went from like three hours to four to five. And so now we're going to sit down and watch a five hour meeting. And we're going to be spending an hour on it. And so I never want to go through a summer, like what we just did. And at the pace. And, you know, I felt like we spent hours and hours, but I felt at the same time we were giving things short shrift. And agendas became very packed. And so I think we should reflect on how things were scheduled and why, you know, and I, I, you know, it does take a long time to, you do have to listen to the meeting again. And I think that's a good thing. Although my wife tells me you can run YouTube at twice. Speed and still understand it. I have yet to know how to do that. Okay. So Janet, I assume that's a legacy hand. Yeah. I don't see any more. Chris, do you feel like you've gotten what you needed for, for tonight? Yes. Thank you very much. Yep. Well, so thanks. Thank all of you board members who have, who are volunteered to pitch in. You know, Chris, I hope you'll, frankly, I hope you'll give us the shorter meetings. So that, you know, we have the pleasure of feeling like we ticked off one or two. Andrew. Yeah. Sorry, sounds like we're all kind of landing in a similar spot, but back to some of the earlier questions. And then do we need to get this done? And will we, are we willing to not meet again until the meetings are done? So that, you know, we protect our time. Chris. So you've already said you're going to meet on October 6th to talk about zoning of that parcel behind CVS. And I think they're, and that, and that was really it, wasn't it? We talked about having a presentation about demolition delay, but there's no real need to do that if you don't feel like that's necessary. So we could devote October 6th to that rezoning of, of that CVS parcel and not have anything else on that night. Except maybe minutes, minutes. We're lucky enough to get some minutes together. But to answer Andrew's question, ideally we would like to have them done by October 12th, but I think that's not realistic. We're going to put together the plan. We're going to send these, this person who complained from California. Our plan and we're going to copy the attorney general on that. And we'll just say we'll try to the best of our ability to get it done. You know, let's promise within 30 days. How about that? Does that make sense? It does. I mean, I, I would say we shouldn't meet until it's done. I mean, I would just get really firm with it and say October 6th, cancel it until we haven't done. And if we want to say it's, you know, we pick a date where we say it's, it's, it's over. And then, you know, all of the other town priorities that we're working on have to wait. And that's, that's, I wish you were in charge. I wish you worked upstairs. All right. Thanks Andrew. Yeah. I just want to say that. You know, I kind of went to bat for us. I feel like this past year. I added up, you know, just in 2021. The amount of time that we all spent and. You know, minimum was. Couple hundred hours. And I'm sure some of us spent. You know, 300 hours. In our duties. So it's been a, you know, exceptional year.   And I know how hard the town staff. You know, has been working.  And I'm glad that we didn't have the meeting last night. So I feel like there's, okay, there's some recognition there. Upstairs. With regard to what's going on. So, again, I thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. This is my swan song.  No, I'm not. No, but hey, stop, stop talking like that. And Doug. Hit the ground running, man, you're doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jack. Thank you, Doug. I agree that we've been meeting a lot, but I also feel like there's a lot that our town needs from the planning board right now. And so, you know, I don't know, like, I think as long as we're making progress and advancing important things, like, yes, let's figure out how to make it sustainable. But I don't know, like Andrew, my thinking is like, let's just solve this problem and then keep doing the important work that is before us. So. Okay. Those are my thoughts. Thank you. Janet. So, so I'm, I'm actually interested in Andrew's idea about. Not instead of meeting next week, just all of us working on our minutes and, you know, we can control our calendar and schedule. And, you know, I don't have a full-time job like almost everybody else here. And, you know, I spend a lot of time working on planning board stuff outside of meetings and reading and researching and all these things. And so I think that the idea of, you know, can we move October 6th to the 20th? I mean, is that a full night or something like that? Or just can we move things off just to create some oxygen comply with the law, which, you know, I'm fond of doing. And we have to do. And so I don't, I don't, you know, I think we should just, I think we should take the heat off. Like the idea that you have to work full-time, balance your family commitments, have a four hour planning board meeting, and then stare at a transcript and spend, you know, seven hours putting that together. Sounds like a lot to me. Thank you. Johanna. Legacy hands. Sorry. Chris. So you've already committed to continue public hearing next week on the rezoning of that CVS lot. So I feel like, you know, members of the public are going to be expecting you to be discussing that. And. Town staff is going to be expecting to present that. So I would recommend that you at least. Have that on an agenda for the six and we can say nothing else. Yeah. So I really feel like it's, it would be hard to. Not have that meeting now that you've announced it. Right. Well, I mean, the other thing, I mean, we could also. Thank Andrew and. Janet for their offers and just, but still not assign them minutes. So that their, their current time commitment is not increased. Maria. I literally did tonight's minutes during the meeting and I will send it to Chris to distribute. And it's basically. Five pages, although we're not done with our meeting yet. And then maybe you guys can decide as using it as a model of life. Here is the succinct bullet point version of minutes moving forward. And hopefully it won't take you seven days. I think it takes him and Chris because of the amount of detail that for some reason. Was requested of them. I. I probably will review it just one more time before I send just to shorten it even more. Because I love that idea of, you know, click on this link to see full transcript or watch the full video. Because. Yeah, I am very put off by, I was worried there was some sort of. Weird ulterior motive, like they're trying to give us more busy work. So we can't push our agendas forward. Like I was thinking, you know, I'm starting to think like. Insanity here because I thought, why the world at this time. Do we need to produce these minutes? What could possibly be the reason for that? When they have full access to everything we've been through. So yeah, I'm kind of a sort of mental loss about this whole exercise, but I'm willing to just put out these succinct meeting minutes and hopefully there is a way to replay things. I think even triple time and. I've listened to CRC meetings in the past that way, just to get a gist of what they were saying. So, yeah, one big push to get these out of the way so that this open meeting complaint, whatever this is called is remedied and we can move on and keep doing the good work that we're trying to do. I agree with them. We can go on and said, yeah, I feel like we should not push on the brakes because I would hate for this kind of stuff to get in the way of the really good stuff that we're doing. So, yeah. Okay. Thanks. Jack.  Rustrup to pursue the ability to link minutes. To the video. I mean, it just, it's just, it's just the way we are right now, you know, and it seems antiquated to do a transcript. So I would like for you to pursue that. Thanks Jack. Chris. So Pam already does that. Pam already puts a link to the video in the minutes. And I think we could possibly, I don't know the details of it, but maybe we could work out a way to put it. Link to the transcript as well. I don't know Pam might be able to speak to that better than I can because I don't understand how zoom works. Yeah, so we'll, we'll do our best going forward and thank you to Maria for taking minutes tonight that takes a burden off of us. Great. All right, so. Jack, is that a legacy hand? No. Okay. So I just wanted to say that there, there is a way to pinpoint within a YouTube video. The time for each item. And you're done. You know, you just, it's just the technology is there. And we should use it. Because it'll, you know, it's, it's the best for all of us. And knowing your staff.  I mean, I know Andrew. I mean, you're, you're pretty savvy on this. So maybe you can add that, but. Thanks Jack.   And like, if any of us are doing it, like I feel responsible. Well, I mean, we all have different obligations. And I know you in particular do a lot of travel.  I, and I greatly appreciate that. Maybe I was going to say, maybe we can cap the meeting for next week. We do have the outstanding item there. Maybe we can say like, we'll wrap it up by seven 30 or something like. You know, really quick and we cannot be punctual with our comments with our comments would help a lot. And then, oh, I'm sorry. The other thing is it says, it's just for the assigning of minutes. Can we just make sure that we sign to people who are present at that meeting would help a lot. I think it's as you go through them, you definitely remember the meeting you're in.  That's a good point. Chris on the subject of next week's meeting and the presentation and the CVS lot. Do you think that we could predict the, what a reasonable cap would be? I mean, we're going to have some sort of presentation from Nate. My guess would be that it would be at least two hours. He might be able to, he might be able to get away with an hour and a half. I think you're going to have members of the public wanting to speak about it. And I'm sure something in Nate's presentation is going to be controversial or will arouse some comment. So, so, you know, I think, um, I guess my question, I guess for the board would be, can we leave it to Chris to, and Pam to take a look at the length of the different meetings. And maybe try to parcel them out in a way so that, you know, nobody's getting the, the five hour meeting we had on, you know, July 21st. But, you know, maybe Andrew and Janet get some of the shortest, you know, one short meeting. And, and then you maybe some of the rest of us who had a little more capacity, maybe get one or two meetings. And, you know, let's, let's see how you, how you can do that. Can we leave it there for tonight? Yeah. Yes, definitely. Yep. All right. Does anybody else want to say anything about this before Chris goes with Pam to think about how to get us through this. All right. I just want to say thank you. Well, thanks, Pam. Thanks for everything you've been doing. All right. So, um, moving on in new business, do we have any topics not reasonably anticipated 48 hours prior? Chris. So, um, yeah. So Doug and I worked on the report to town council on supplemental dwelling units or AD use as we've been calling them. And so we sent out the report to you all this week. And Janet responded with quite a number of, of suggested edits. And I would like to say that I agree with many of them and would be happy to incorporate them. But I do not want to rewrite the public hearing portion of the report. I do agree with. So we can go through with these comments bit by bit. If you want to, Pam has access to the, the edits now or the board could leave it to Doug and me to edit it as we think is reasonable. This needs to be done really soon. It has to be submitted to town council by Friday. And then we'll be able to do that. So we have a lot of work that needs to be done. So we have a lot of work that needs to be done. We have a lot of work that needs to be done. And I'm going to talk about these. Apartments. And I'm going to talk to you about that a little later, but, so there's a lot of work that needs to be done. So many of Janet's comments were. Good, well thought out things that I think should be included. Some of them I don't agree with. And I would consult with Doug about whether to include them or not. So we can either do it with that method. And then we'll have some other comments with us right now. Okay. Janet. I would love not to go through these right now, but I do want to say that. Being a veteran of five years of town meetings where we, where planning board reports are presented to town meeting. And then. Trying to explain zoning changes. Listening to explanations of zoning changes to lay people. I was really conscious of that. And so. So I thought in a way that this report was too long and read, like you'd have to, like that you kind of have to have a really good strong grasp of what was going on as you read it. And so a lot of my things was to put. Right in front of the town council. What are the changes. And the goal, the goal of the change, like in the front. And then I felt like. You know, I feel like. Sometimes changes were sort of alluded to, but not explained and things like that. And so I was really trying to. Be very specific about here's how the law changes. And I think the report did that really good about 60% of the time, but left other things out. And so I put a fair amount of time to put into this. I actually have, I'm going to start a four day class. And I would be happy. Like if this thing turned like you accepted changes and we looked at it again, but I don't think I have time for that. I don't think I have time tomorrow night. And I don't think I have time on Friday, but I do think. The part that was really hardest for me and seemed long to me was what felt like. Like minutes where like this person said this person said that person said. And I thought that it was. Not really great to name people's ideas and attached to them. Just that the ideas themselves are more important to the comments that the council would just get lost in reading back and forth of this back and forth. And I wonder if that could be summarized better. And I understand that takes time. I didn't have the time to really do all that. But I do think that. I think it's important to get to lay people. The complexity complex zoning changes in, in terms that they can understand. And then say, okay, I like that, or this is the part I don't like. I don't like that. I've never seen this with the red stuff accepted. So I haven't read a final draft of my own edit. So I think I'd hate the idea of doing this right now. But if Doug and Chris want to take a stab at it, I can look at it again tomorrow night. I'm happy to do some more editorial. Help on that. All right. Thanks, Janet. Chris. So one of the reasons that I included. And I think that was, as a result of. Criticism that I received on a previous report to town meeting that, or town council, I keep saying that. From a counselor. That she really wanted to know who said what, you know, and if I made reference to the board talked about this, and they talked about that.  And I don't have time to rewrite that section of this report. And I don't, I have too many other things to do. So my approach to this would be to. Accept probably. 75% of the comments that. Janet has made. And not accept others and just send it in by noon time. other report. And I guess I should also say, and this has been a tough week for me and for Pam, given, you know, the really difficult way we started the week with the complaint of the open meeting law complaint. But I forgot what I was going to say, my mind is, you know, not working as clearly as it could, because I'm clouded by this cloud that's hanging over us. But I do have a tremendous amount of work that needs to be done between now and Friday. And I just don't have time to rewrite most of this. So anyway, I'll do my best, I'll send it to Doug, and I'll send it to Janet, and she can look at it tomorrow night. And then if there are a lot more changes after that, we're just not going to be able to accommodate those changes. And oh, I know what I was going to say, I remember now, because Maria, and other members of the Zoning Subcommittee used to write these reports a number of years ago. And the staff didn't write the reports prior to that, Jonathan Tucker wrote the reports. And the Planning Board would see them or not see them, but they would go right to town meetings. So at one point in the last few years, the Zoning Subcommittee took it on themselves to write these reports. And so we may want to consider doing that if if people feel strongly about what needs to be included in them and what doesn't need to be included. Anyway, so just to wrap this up, I will do my best to to accept the changes that I feel need to be accepted and to ship it off to Doug, and I will send it to Janet, and we'll see what we can produce by Friday morning. But I'm not going to be able to devote hours to this. Thanks, Chris. Janet, is that a legacy hand? Yes. Yes, sorry. Okay, Maria. I didn't send any comments when you asked for the comments, Chris, because I thought the draft report you wrote was just fine. So sorry, I didn't chime in with that. But I thought it was ready for prime time, honestly. Alright, thanks. So it sounds like we have a plan for getting this completed. You know, Chris will do as much as you can. And I'll get a short amount of time to look at it and hopefully Janet will too. Alright, so that's, I think the end of that topic on new business. Do we have any form A&R, A&R subdivision applications? We do. Unfortunately. Alright.  Actually, a lot of you are bringing that up. Does anybody want to take a break again or not? Okay, we'll keep going. Alright, so this A&R has to do with the property that's shown here. The old Starbucks building, which is now, I don't even know what it is right now, and then the building next door to it, which is Bistro 63. So we'll show you a plan of the site. And this is the plan. And is this the plan? This is not the plan with the new with the old lines on it. Is it, Pam? Show the colored one. The lines that they added are here. Okay, so this one is easier to read. So the two properties are the one that's outlined in yellow, and the one that's outlined in blue. So what the intent is, is for the owner of the property outlined in blue, to give the little leg at the top of the drawing, in other words, the one that's outlined in red and blue to the yellow property. So the yellow property will get bigger. And that's Bistro 63. The one that's next to it is owned by Mauro and Yellow, who used to have a couple of restaurants in downtown. Actually, I think he owned Bistro. But anyway, he's holding on to the portion on the left. And and and Bistro is acquiring that portion on the top. And so if we can go to the A&R plan now, we'll see that I guess there are, yes, I see existing lot lines is labeled there. So they are there very faintly. And this plan is showing what the proposed lot will be. So there's lot one, which is 4,069 square feet, and there's lot two, which is lot two, which is 5,438 square feet. So what you will be saying here is that this does not, does not consist of a plan that needs to go through the subdivision control approval. In other words, it is subdivision approval not required or A&R. So you would be authorizing Doug to sign this plan on behalf of the planning board to acknowledge that it does not require subdivision approval. All right, thanks, Chris. Chris, you cut out when you were explaining what's moving to what on this plan, this map. So I kind of missed some piece. So let's go back to the colored one. Yeah, the L shaped parcel, the top of the L, transferring over to the yellow parcel. Okay, okay, the yellow parcel would become a T shape. Yep. And is this in are these connected buildings in reality or is this No, okay. Pam, can you show the front the picture again? Yeah, they're separate structures. Is the plan to take that building, that white building down and build on the back of it or something? Or do you know what their plan is to do with both either of these buildings? We don't know what the plan is. Any comment from the board? Any objection to having me sign this on our behalf? I see no objection or and I see no hands. So Chris, can we consider that to be approved? Yes. All right. Next item upcoming SP SPR SPB applications. I can talk about an upcoming planning board application, which I'm very sorry I've neglected. It's an application that Rob Mara put forward for a parking lot similar to the one that he showed you the sweet Alice trail parking lot. So somewhere in my email is an application from him to have another parking lot approved for the town. And that will be coming to you probably in late October or early November. Other than that, I am not aware of any applications, but Pam maybe. Pam, I'm not aware of any planning board applications, but there are some things coming in front of the ZBA if you're ready to hear about those.  The first one is has to do with the South Point Apartments. That South Point Apartments has actually been bought. So the existing special permits that were granted to the owner Yoss Rex for construction of a new 47 unit building. They have to be transferred over to the new owner, which is going to be redwood construction in substantial construction has not started on that new building. And so that's why they can go this route. Then the other three applications all have to do with the very same thing. And that is they are all requests to have a condition from their special permits removed. The conditions all say this permit shall expire upon change of ownership or management. And so there are going to be three of them. One is for property at 19 Phillips Street. One is for property at 204 to 206 Belcher Town Road. And the other is for 192 to 194 Belcher Town Road. So basically, if the ZBA grants these condition removal requests, then the existing special permit can just continue under a new property owner. I did ask Maureen Pollock if she knew what was happening with these properties. And she did not she said that it was not specified. That's that. Thank you. Welcome. All right. Planning Board Committee and Liaison reports. Jack, you want to say anything about PVPC? Yeah, I unfortunately had a work commitment. So I missed last executive committee meeting. But the quarterly meeting is scheduled for October 14. But we had like an emergency meeting with regard to Kim Robinson and she's the director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. And she has done a stellar job. Just amazing. And so no, it was recommended that she had a recommendation for a salary increase. And that was unanimous. But basically, yeah, that's it. And I'm actually going to miss the next meeting. Because I'm not going on vacation at the end of October. That's all I have. All right. Thank you. Andrew, CPAC. Thanks, Eric. We have not met since that the initial meeting in August. I do know that we've got three applications so far. Two of them were for housing and one was for recreation. I'd not have a chance to read to read through those. But I know that the that the Amherst Municipal Affordable Housing Trust was responsible for those two. The two proposals relative to community housing. And then the third one was I think related to simple gifts farms. Again, I haven't had a chance to read through them, but be happy to provide details on those and future meetings if folks are interested in hearing about them. Just let me know. All right. Thank you. I have nothing to report on the Ag Commission. Tom, design review board? Sure. No, no surprise on the Ag Commission. Can I take a look? I got to put myself on mute here. The ARB did. We had four things to look at last week. One was the fence that we just reviewed for the Unitarian Society. The second one was the parking lot that Chris just mentioned, which was the Pigcock Coal Conservation Area, which is in North Amherst, which was approved as well. It's basically the same as what we saw. So, you know, it's the prototype of Sweet Alice being repeated, which is great. And then there were two signage projects downtown. One was signage replacing the high horse for the Drake. So signage on that particular building, which was pretty straightforward. And then another simple signage swap for where the Kaizu awning is that goes down into the basement. The most one of the most high turnover locations in all of Amherst that every three weeks is a new something. Some new signage on the awning there. So that was some pretty simple stuff that was all approved. It was a very productive and fast meeting. So figuring out how can we adopt those practices and bring them over here? But anyway, we'll see. Let us know. Let us know if you have any tips to share. So, Chris, CRC. So the CRC met on Tuesday. Yeah. Is that right? Yesterday. It seems like a long time ago. And they talked about zoning amendments. And they briefly talked about the rezoning of the parcel behind CVS. They didn't talk about it in any great detail. I think, you know, they're knowledgeable about a new concept being brought to them. And the other things I think I will save for my staff report later, because they all have to do with zoning, except for the other. The last thing was talking about Article 14. And Article 14, if you'll remember from last summer was something that we put in place quickly to allow restaurants to operate either on the sidewalk or in the street to accommodate the fact that people were worried about COVID and they weren't able to eat inside. So the thought is that we may want to extend Article 14. I think Article 14 extends as far as December of this year. So it works through December. But then the governor has put in place a similar or something to allow outdoor dining through April 1 of next year. But we acknowledge that, you know, people aren't really going to be eating outside between December and April 1. So anyway, we would like to put something in place to allow outdoor dining to continue to occur during 2022. So the CRC did discuss that. And the other part of my report I'll save for my report. Okay. Thanks, Chris. Report of the chair. The chair hasn't done enough yet to have a report. But thanks for letting me try this out. And I hope it works out. Chris, report of staff. Okay, report of staff. So I'm going to talk to you a little about zoning and how it's kind of evolved. And this is this is a result of the fact that the planning department was feeling very unsettled about certain zoning amendments that were being moved forward. And we felt that it was necessary to take a little more time to look at them. And so I'll list them in an order and then we can talk about what's happening with them. Well, the one that we didn't feel anxious about was ADUs. And so ADUs are moving forward, they're being considered by Town Council on Monday night for a first reading. And as we said before, some of us are working on getting that report on ADUs to Town Council. Hopefully we can do that by Friday at noontime. Mixed use buildings, we have uncovered some concerns recently with regard to the clarity of the description of the non residential uses and potential problems with interpreting the bylaw. And so we went to Mandy Jo Hanneke and we talked to her about these misgivings that we had. And so what we agreed to was to bring a new, a slightly new rendition of mixed use buildings with a couple of tweaks back to the planning board on October 20th. And then the CRC, which is required to, the Town Council is required to act within 90 days of the CRC closing its public hearing. And the CRC closed its public hearing quite a while ago on mixed use buildings. So they're going to have to hold another public hearing, which is going to be on October 26. So anyway, that particular bylaw is still in flux, but you will see a slightly revised version of it on October 20th. Apartments, the Apartments Bylaw also ran into kind of a little bit of a snare. We took the Apartments Bylaw that the planning board had recommended, and we went to CRC about two, I guess it was two weeks ago. And they made a change to it that we really didn't agree with. And so we told them that we would like to have an opportunity to work on it more. And they said, well, okay, but we would like you to put through the portion of it that changes the permitting for Apartments in the RBC Zoning District. So that was going from special permit to site plan review in the RBC Zoning District. And they also wanted us to put through the portion that goes from site plan review to special permit in the BG Zoning District. So so Apartments is being brought to Town Council on Monday night. And that was something that I just understood on Tuesday. So anyway, that's why I haven't written the Apartments report yet. But so those just those two aspects of Apartments will be brought to Town Council on Monday, the change in the RBC from special permit to site plan review, and the change in BG from site plan review to special permit. And I think the intent there is that we want to make it more easy to develop Apartments in the RBC Zoning District. And we want to make it less easy to build Apartments in BG, and therefore promote mixed use buildings instead of Apartments in BG. So the idea is that the CRC will be holding another. Oh, no, they won't need to hold another public hearing on that. So that's just that small piece of Apartments that's going to Town Council on Monday. The rest of Apartments probably won't be acted on until next year. So we have a lot of time to think about that and talk about it. The parking bylaw, it, it became clear to us that people didn't understand what we were trying to do. So we need more time to be able to explain the parking bylaw to people. And that included members of the CRC, they really didn't understand what the purpose was, what we're trying to do. So again, the CRC is going to hold a new public hearing on November 9th. But we would like to bring it a new, well, maybe not a new version, a slightly tweaked version of the parking bylaw back to the planning board on November 3rd for discussion. And then Town Council would have a first reading in December and a second reading in December. And then the CRCVS parking lot. Planning board still has its public hearing open. But the CRC needs to hold a new public hearing on October 26th. So the planning board is going to continue to talk about it. CRC will continue to talk about it. And it's expected that Town Council will hold a first reading in mid, just mid November or early December. So that's the latest news on zoning amendments. So we're in a little bit less of a rush to get these things through. And we're hoping to have more time for conversation and, you know, further consideration and make them better than they were previously. And much of this is based on things that we heard at the meetings, you know, people who spoke, members of the public who spoke. So that's, that's my report. Thanks, Chris. There's plenty going on. Jack. Uh, yes. So outstanding job, Doug Marshall. As a new chair. I mean, I just amazing. So and then kudos to the vice chair Tom Long. Amazing. You guys got this. So I'm so happy. And I'm proud of you are now in a cocktail.  Thank you for, for navigating us, you know, through this, through this time. So thank you. Okay, Jack. Thank you, Janet. So it sounds like the planning board won't see the apartment it's its own report to town council on the apartments change. I will send it out when I have it ready. It probably won't be ready till the end of the day tomorrow. So the planning board will see it. It's going to be not as lengthy as it had been as it had started out to be since the town council will only be seeing this one portion of apartments. I'll try to capture the the flavor of the discussion leading up to the decision to just have this one thing go before town council, but it's really just going to be focused on that aspect of the change. So one thing I think is, is, is, I think it'd be really good in that report to, to clearly explain the change between site plan review, scrutiny and consequences and then special permit.  Section 10 with special permit has sort of extra criteria and sort of extra powers for the board administering it to, you know, move things around. And then site plan review has, you know, review and obviously the board can condition. But then there's consequences in terms of like who makes the decision who gets to, you know, with the planning board gets site plan review. Once the site plan review permit is get issued, the appeal period starts with the building permit with the special permit. It starts, I think, 10 days after the special permit. So I really think like, this is that chart I keep on asking for is like listing out what the differences are between these two routes through the bylaw. And so I don't know if you have that, but I keep on asking for that. And I think that for lay people, it's sort of like site plan reviewers by right. And that kind of just sticks in their head. And they don't understand there's like really different analysis or special permit gives you extra control and analysis. So I don't know if you had that chart handy or, you know, kind of we can pull it off or something. But I do think lay people don't understand the differences between those two permits. And, you know, when we take something out of special permit, that means that a level of scrutiny does not happen. So that will not happen in rural village center zoning. And the ZBA will no longer handle that it will go to the planning board for a lighter hand and a little less control over the project. So I just think that that's the kind of thing I want to be in a report or just for us as a board or showing to the public like, here's the actual consequences of this move that just looks like a chess move, but it has a lot of real life ramifications. So anyway, it sounds it sounds impossible to do by Friday. What you've outlined what you've outlined for just, you know, your work in the next, you know, two days. But how did we get here to be on this track? And is this taking all year? Is this so important an issue to like push through to the town council like moving RVC or do you know what I mean? Well, it sounds like some of this came from CRC. Chris, do you want to comment at all? Yeah, so I just wanted to invite Janet to send me language that describes what she just said, because I, you know, after this week, I may not be able to retain what she just said. And I would like to include some of that. So please feel free to send me that language, and I will try to incorporate it. All right. Thanks, Chris. So I believe we have finished our agenda. I'm hopeful this is not going to be a typical meeting length. And we will try to it sounds like we really only have one thing on our next meeting agenda. And you really would prefer that we not cancel next week's meeting. So let's try to be easy on Andrew and Janet at least in terms of the minutes and the schedule for completion. With that, can we adjourn? Thank you. All right. Bye. Goodbye, everyone. Good sleep. All right. Bye, Jack.


Good day, fellow investors. I don't think I ever mentioned it, but I'm subscribed to almost all out there. Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Morningstar and many others that I don't want to mention, not to publicize them, because most don't deserve my money. But still, even if I get a little bit from there, it's good. However, something nice that came in the email yesterday was, of course, Wall Street Journal and I'm subscribed to their DailyShut, which gives a lot of slides about what's going on in the economy markets, etc., which is always nice to look at on a daily basis. The title of the email was, what can cause the next recession and when it's coming. So I'll go through the slides, explain a little bit more in detail the slides for those who are not very familiar with economic things and we will explain what can happen and whether we will see a recession soon or not. So all sources from the DailyShut, Wall Street Journal. Let's start with the triggers for a recession. We see here the triggers, what triggered a recession since the 1850s. However, the dark blue is what triggered the recession post World War II and that's what's interesting to us. The top trigger was always monetary policy, monetary policy tightening. So higher interest rates, bam, you get a recession. Then we had asset price collapses, which could happen if the stock market continues to decline, but that was mostly pre-World War II and then we have oil price spike unlikely. Fiscal policy in this case is helping the economy and then we have investment, the leveraging cycle, a lot of that in the market, governments, etc. And then we have also foreign financial contagion that might happen. We'll just mention Italy quickly. So let's start going through these factors that have led to a recession in the past and see where we are now. Home sales in the US have been higher and higher every year since 2011, but they have quickly declined in August, September of this year. Why did that happen? Because home prices, home sales are related to the 30-year mortgage rate. You can see here from 2013, inverted on the right side is the mortgage rate and left are existing home sales in millions. As the mortgage rate kept declining, so inverted on the right side, you see it went from 4.6 to 3.4, home sales increased. When the mortgage rate started going up and going back to 4.6% because the Fed increases interest rates, we have seen also with the six months leg a decline in home prices as they usually follow interest rates. The first sign of trouble for the economy. Also, you don't want to own home building stocks when that happens and the Bloomberg America's home builders index is severely down. So you don't want to own home builders cyclical stocks in the late part of the economic cycle. Those might rebound, but you never know how deep will the recession be. Further, the job market. That's also crucial for the cycle. At some point, you can't hire more people. Thus, there is less growth. There is less fuel for growth. Further, despite everything, what Trump is doing, the trade deficit is widening. The trade balance is getting bigger. It's still negative month per month plus the real deficit trade in goods import, export is also widening. So that's not really working well for the states. As said, the Fed is increasing interest rates and we have already seen housing down. We are seeing now more volatility in the markets that we will see whether will lead to a crash or not. A crash mark might also be a trigger for recession. So a lot of crazy things going on there. Plus, these are the probabilities for a recession from J.P. Morgan's model. So you can see one year recession, 20, 20 something percent, two years higher, three years, four years, almost 100 percent chance of a recession. So I think we are in the late part of the economic cycle. When will that recession hit? Soon, later this year, next year, four years, doesn't really matter. Long-term investors know, okay, the risks are high. Also, something very important to note here is that the U.S. federal budget usually correlates with GDP growth and the deficit should be smaller. But now the budget is already stimulative. If there is a recession, the budget should go even lower to 8, 9, 10 percent deficit. And then that can be trouble because of interest rates. Most of the U.S. government debt is short-term. So with higher interest rates, the cost of financing debt, that increases. You can see here 66 percent of the U.S. government debt is below five years. Below 10 years is about 90 percent. And just 10 percent is long-term. So the government didn't take advantage of the extremely low interest rates over the last year, two years to refinance the debt for the long-term. Italy issued the bond of 50 years, the U.S. government didn't focus on that. So that might be another trigger, higher debt levels, slower GDP growth, higher interest rates, higher costs, less stimulation from a fiscal perspective in combination with less stimulation from higher interest rates from the Fed. Another point that we mentioned is foreign shocks. Italy is a ticking bomb in Europe that could bring trouble to the whole world. The Italian government forecasts 50 percent faster GDP growth than Goldman Sachs or the IMF. So I know it has been a great wine season in Italy. There is a lot of wine, good wine, a lot of sun, hot weather, great weather. But I think the government is still a bit high from perhaps too much wine as they are all comedians, aren't they? So to summarize the Fed's increasing rates, recession. Housing is down already, unemployment can't go much lower. Debt continues to pile as the government stimulates to counter the Fed tightening. That's just kicking the can down the road. A recession shouldn't be that bad and shouldn't be fear, should be normal, cyclical. We fall a little bit, we bring out the weeds and we grow stronger in the future. Kicking the can down the road is not good in my opinion. So higher debt can be much more trouble if rates rise and then globally there is always something that can happen. Be it Italy, be it China, be it something else in the world. When will a recession happen? With all the manipulation in this world, from fiscal, political to monetary, nobody knows. The only answer I have is be ready for anything, be diversified and think common sense and think how am I prepared to whatever happens. Thank you for watching, I'll see you in the next video tomorrow.


and welcome all to another excellent edition of the Power Trading Hour as always. We meet at the appointed time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. So what do we have going on today? I talked a little bit about it at the 2 o'clock update. We've had repeated tests of 3636, the last major low while back on the S&P. The first time down there up there we had 18 billion shares. We've been struggling to get 10, 11, 12 billion shares. We did have 12 billion shares into that huge push in the very end of Friday. That was the washout. Markets are pretty good about making you have to sweat all weekend. We were already at least in the daily newsletter long, a couple of positions, not indexes, but some other ones and they're both up another 5% today. So we're in the right sector. Could you still get a retest of 3636? You could. My guess is that you're probably looking at the next couple of days in being some level of consolidation of breaking or beating out a low at this 3636 level and that's my story and I'm sticking to it. We talked about the reversal of the TLT and it getting down to significant lows. I think that was leading the market a little bit and why another reason why I think I'm fairly bullish maybe through the end of the year. I think if we're going to have a really horrible thing going on it's probably going to be again probably after the end of the year. I think we've gotten most of the bad news in. We've had a huge move lower. The Fed's probably not going to do anything before the election. What we've got? Something like what, 30 days to the election, something like that, whatever, November 4th. Markets tend to like very divided markets, I mean very divided leadership between Congress, the courts and everything else. They don't like things moving very fast. We're probably going to have a fairly good amount of gridlock in Washington DC and each branch doing its job maybe. That would be it. Today also is the first day in October which is the Supreme Court. They've got probably five major cases that will impact stock markets and individual stocks. Almost all of these go to some of the cases that have been decided, six, three over the last couple of years. That is the major, and I'm going to think about it, major factors, major questions is what it's called. The idea was that Congress could relinquish power to unelected bureaucrats to run things like the EPA or the rest and not have enumerated powers in whatever the Congress passed. There's a lot of these that are going to go back and probably get solved in this court. We're also looking probably in the next month getting a reading, or not a reading, but a call up from the 11th circuits on exactly what media, social media stocks will be allowed to do on censorship. Generally there's some fairly good arguments on the behalf of the First Amendment, a little less from both courts on if there's a right to censor. We know that there's a right for free speech, but is there a right to censor? The question is whether or not you could wear a T-shirt from one side into a restaurant, but not the other. Well, that's been settled for hundreds of years. We'll see whether or not that stuff that's applied for forever will now start applying to a lot of these folks on social media. I think that over time will make them much better competitors in the market, not less well competitors. But that's kind of it. We've got the Golden Week with China, and yes, people have already sent me lots of juvenile jokes about that. Thanks a lot. Kind of like zero. Thanks for nothing. So anyway, we've got a lot of this stuff going on. I just think we're kind of going to go back and forth a little bit. We're going to consolidate this. More likely some kind of you-ish low down at these lows. Maybe we could go all the way back up to the end of the year, and then maybe that's the next big move in a bigger, longer ABC on the way down if the Fed continues to keep his foot on the break.<PHONE_NUMBER>, email me at path at tfnn.com. We already have a couple of emails already here. Okay. Got that. Got that. And I'm actually, we get a good close today. I'm probably going to go long in the tech insider one position. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see how the close comes. But I think it's start of the fall rally, whatever extent that's going to be. But I think we probably have three months of maybe a drunkard's walk higher in the market. I'm not bearish out here. Let's do a little history and then we'll move on. On this day in 1950, AT&T Bell Labs researcher John Bardeen, Walter Brenton, and William Shockley receive a U.S. patent for their invention of the transistor, which they had successfully demonstrated two years earlier. And of course, the first transistor in 1926, it would be another four or five years before volume production of that and actually huge production by 1958. So when we look at things or people email me articles about new batteries and everything else and some kind of new whiz bang, software, you get it done and it works, you just crank it out. Hardware, silicon, not as bad to double the power of it. Chemistry a much bigger problem and that's what took the folks at Bell Labs a long time to get done. So don't confuse chemistry, software, and silicon because the path on all three is wildly different depending on the resources you throw at it. But I had a bunch of questions about a new form of hydrogen. Yeah, doesn't show promise. Yeah, but it takes a while for all this stuff to get. We'll be back in a minute. Call me at 877-97-6648. Inflation. We have purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your hard earned money than in gold. 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That may just be a bigger trading range and at this point you could come back down to this area and then maybe blow it out, maybe things get better. But generally you want to buy when there's blood in the streets, when Putin is talking about nuking everybody and when everything seems as dark as it can get, remember it's always darkest before it gets 100% dark. That's my silver lining for you today. If you needed a little motivational speaker, that was it. So anyway, let's get back to a little bit. As we said, we were looking at the TLT. We finally got back to what should probably be that. I think that interest rates at 7% now on new housing are pretty much indicative of a lot of stuff going on. In the news, we had a few things happen and of course I was fairly busy with a market rolling and a hurricane in the way, so we'll look at it. But very interesting to see last Thursday and Friday, all the eBay folks, the executives at eBay, going to the Gray Bar Motel for some of the stuff they did. They weren't particularly enamored with First Amendment rights. So they decided to cyber stock some folks that were fairly critical about the business practices of eBay and its resellers. This is not the first time we've seen this kind of stuff, but yeah, a severed pig's head in the mail, lots of pizzas, huge amounts of bugs released into somebody's house. So we've got a couple of these guys. It didn't just last week or anything. It's been going on for a while, but I give the benefit of the doubt until you're convicted. But certainly we've got at least three in the C-suite headed for the Houskow. But from what I can tell, place isn't very much better than when these guys got pushed out. The same kind of culture is there, and it's not going to get any better. And of course, this bunch of folks pretty much the same bunch that split with PayPal a number of years ago, did I do that right? And it's kind of out here making some lows. They're doing some stuff that probably about half of the United States is not going to like. And they actually may end up running afoul of at least a handful of states who will make it very tough for them to do business here in the United States if they continue down the path that they are. So what can you say? Well, certainly it's going sideways. It's hard for me to get hot on PayPal. Nobody's talking about it. The executives pretty much got the stink from eBay still on them for some level of some of the stuff that they've done. And of course, you've always got cyber coins, which everybody's looking at a great deal more. Of course, in the news this morning also, we had one of the Kardashians, aren't they just the same kind of an amalgam, a Kardashian, who had to pay a million dollars for running afoul of pushing cyber security in the form of something. I don't know what it was, doji coin or whatever, didn't matter to me. I kind of lumped them into the whole bunch. The interesting part that I see is the precedent now where a lot of these folks that were pushing cyber cash may end up having the same issues with them and them having to get some cash back, give some cash back if not more. But we shall see. Chart doesn't look that bad. Again, a lot of these stocks are totally beat up, so could have a bounce. Yes, but if there's one that I like better than PayPal, it would probably be something like Ethereum, which maybe has a better chance. Very tough for me to see PayPal by itself. Vemo, which I think is partly owned some part. I'm going to have to go back and research that. But still probably better system than PayPal. The only people I know that use PayPal or eBay and a variety of other people doing nefarious things. Hard to see any of these things doing well as one of the gentlemen in the den once said, pilgrims tend to end up face down in the mud a lot with arrows in their back. Okay, I've got some more emails here. I think we'll take a look. You and G, you generally right now in the very seasonally good part of the year to be in natural gas, it's this that for the United States, there hasn't been the real cold snap that starts this generally get something early in September. We just haven't gotten it. You get a big cold snap that really starts getting stuff going. It'll be just like the way gold turned around today. I just haven't seen any sign. And again, I've been watching hurricanes a little bit closer that I've been watching the great white North and putting on toks. But what, first of October, just watch. Look for the first big minus 10 reading somewhere in the great white North. And that's generally a good time to start looking at going long in you and G. Of course, we've had some very good moves in energy. I went out to pick some stuff up for lunch. And I had to really scratch my head that if you love diversity, if that's all you can talk about. Well, we certainly have diversity in the price of gasoline. I saw it at $3.11 here. And then I noticed that it was also $7 in California. The old diversity in price. We'll be back in a minute. If you want to take advantage of this sector, now is the time to subscribe to my gold report. The gold report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold, which is the currency and bond markets. New subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose. 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But yeah, we're up 2.8% on the S&P, 2.5% on the NASDAQ. Dow up 2.9% Russell, crude up 5%. And of course, that's something else we've got going on this week, which is OPEC, who we're going to cut. As I said just before the break, talk about real disparity, $3.11 here today in Tampa, opposed to $7 in LA yesterday. So I don't know what it is today, maybe it came down a little bit. But man, talk about paying up, but certainly you get that. Anyway, question about UNG, I'm just waiting for that. Okay, I'll do that. I'll get that during the break, James. You can see what else we have here. Anyway, we've got that. Okay, other things going on. Let's take a look, someone wanted to know on Apple. As I said, I felt last week that a lot of the downgrades and Apple throwing shade on itself was something that was telling us that we had a low coming in. They did the same thing on the highs at 176, which is run out the shorts out by telling everybody that out of the rear ends only unicorns and rainbows were coming. Then they were telling everybody it was the seventh level of hell coming up last couple of days last week. So I just kind of do the opposite of what everybody tells me on Apple to do, just assuming that it's all self-serving. So I think we've got kind of that in. You've got a nice reversal day on the candle. You don't have a lot of volume. Do I think this means it goes back to 176? That's probably going to be tough, maybe 160 to 165. That could set up your ABC on a bigger leg down if they don't come up with some new products that generate a lot more revenue. Again, 95% of what they do is all about iPhones. They really need to get some other products that make it go better. How do I see fund buying playing out? Well, you're going to get at least three days of this probably holding up, even if I'm wrong about the market going and staying here longer. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, maybe you get some pullback on Thursday. But my guess is there are so many people so incredibly bearish that everything, as soon as they get a chance, the market pulls back a little bit, they'll be going 100% short again, and you'll get a lot of back and fill, and you'll get pretty much to the point where the market won't be able to go any lower because everybody that has been able to short a share has shorted it. And that's generally when you get the rip your faces off rally. I think there's a little of that today now. But yeah, I don't see any reason why you would want to be short during fund buying until at least Thursday, even if you think I'm all wet and not just partially wet.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay. Okay. Got a bunch of, can I look at the TBT? I guess I could look at the TBT. I'm more of a TLT kind of guy, but certainly you have that. This is the short. You have a nice reversal there. That would put a little bit of the fear of God in me. When you really look at it, the fed's job is both on the way up and the way down is to keep the markets from going too fast and then blowing up and blowing up everything around them. They don't mind big bombs. They do mind nuclear and atomic weapons, and they try to keep it down to the bloodletting to something, NASFRADAMAS, NASFRUSH. What's the, I can't even remember the name of the undead these days. I better learn it before. October 30th, NASFRADU? Yeah. So, anyway, the idea is there's a lot of bloodletting. Of course, I call my doctor, Dr. Acula, if anybody knows that one. Okay. Since so many people don't get it, DR. Acula. Anyway.<PHONE_NUMBER>, path at tfnn.com, keep it coming. Okay. Anyway, on the TLT, you're back to where this thing had its giant reversal. So, I mean, resistance at about 3150. My guess is that the Fed is probably going to let the market settle down a little bit. Maybe through Christmas, people will probably go back up. Question is whether or not a lot of the inflation tames down a little bit. If it is a problematic on that point, maybe they go back whole hog after Christmas. My guess is they're going to stand back a little bit, even if they jawbone between now and the end of the year. Okay. What are my thoughts on gasoline? I love it. It goes in my car and takes me places. I'm exactly sure what they, what are my thoughts on gasoline are. I'm more of a big picture guy, so I look at Crude. Of course, with OPEC this week, they're going to discuss how much they're going to cut back to keep prices up. We're already seeing a bit of that because they've apparently agreed to at least some cutback. The prices, of course, in California are problematic because they've had some pipeline buss and other issues with transportation. No word if there was a Putin sighting out there in California. But again, I've had a lot of people ask me a couple things. And I was knee deep in hurricanes last week, so I didn't get a lot of it. But I want to start a conspiracy theory that both Putin and Biden got in a diving bell from the 1960s, 2000 League Under the Sea movie, hung off the back of the guppy from Gilligan's Island and did it all. But I don't know, rather involved for a conspiracy theory. But I think my theory is just as good as everybody else is, minus any evidence. But that is I,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Okay. Anyway, on gasoline, I mean, you can play the crack spread on it. I've always done better just looking at the crude part of it. And of course, this week, it's probably all about the crude part with OPEC. We'll be back in a minute. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. You have to practice, sure, but you also need excellent instruction from experts. 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This isn't a question from him, it's from somebody else that when I told him the 401, I think you, if you're going to make a stand, you're probably, at least you've got three months, you kind of have to go now, I think. And then, you know, I don't, somebody else asked me during the break in email, I don't have any position that I wouldn't have a number in advance that it closed below that I would just exit. I'm not going to write anything all the way down. I'd rather stop out even in a 401K and come back a couple weeks later and not worry about it. No, there's just no way I'm going to get in a position that's not got a stop. It doesn't have to be a hard stop because of course these days, you put a hard stop in just about any equity in the United States and it's going to get run by the machines. They're going to see your order and they're going to figure their 25 orders that people would sell at the same spot. So you really, I pretty much just have to say, okay, if it closes below that, I'm out. So there's a couple of questions there, hopefully that answers everything. We got that one, we got that one, a lot of talk about, they live, I don't know how we got on that in the Tigers Den, but I love that movie with Roddy Riley Piper, who I think when that movie came out, I remember that he had to lose like 50 pounds to get into that movie because he looked like a monster on the street. They didn't like it, but I think that was the end of it. He took too many drugs to be the size that he was before and I think he died of cancer because of it. But great movie, and of course, we're all out of bubblegum,<PHONE_NUMBER>, okay, yeah, we're probably going to get some back and fill. Like I said, I'm not a big fan of thinking this is a straight V low. I think we're probably going to do a little back and forth here, consolidate a bit and then start moving a little bit higher. But you know what, generally you don't get the change in attitude in the market for participants overnight, even when you get a bounce this big, even if it comes with a lot of volume. So as soon as everybody gets an opportunity to pile back in on the short side, I think we have a pretty much decent short squeeze out here, but that would be it, okay. We're talking about some of the stocks last week that even on earnings and even talking about some fairly bad earnings, you really didn't get much on micron on Friday. You got a nice bounce up here today, didn't hold it, got to 5308, but my guess is you're probably going to have some consolidations. When you come down this hard and this fast, you want to think about, you know, you're going to get some fairly quick moves, those would be short squeezes, but then after you consolidate and everybody gets bored with it for a while, then you can start moving higher. But like I said, I have a feeling we're going to kind of stumble. You had this discussion before, I mean, you can have a nice vertical line. We had a very straight move down for a lot of these stocks. And if you believe, I don't like a lot of the stuff with the Elliott wave stuff. In fact, I've never been able to figure anybody that knew how to actually make it work that wasn't looking in a rearview mirror, but maybe there is somebody out there. I just haven't met them. But certainly the idea has been, the one thing that I like that came out of it was that rule of alternation. That is, if you come down straight, you're probably going to have a very messy and congestive move higher, and that's going to be a lot of back and forth. So I'm not expecting a smooth move higher. I imagine we'll have a lot of back and forth as we stumble our way back higher. I just don't expect the Fed to be out saying horrible things before the election. If we continue to have really horrible news, maybe they'll do something after that. But I think they're out of the way for the next 30 days. I don't think they're going to say much of anything that will really move the market. And that may be all we need to get started. Of course, that will take us into November and then Thanksgiving. Generally if the markets are going to have a big down thrust into the end of the year, that starts a couple of days after Thanksgiving as retail sales take a powder, then sometimes you will have a down move. But I think a lot of that's already baked in, isn't it? Everybody knows you're going to spend four or five grand more than you did two years ago on heating your home. So maybe those prices that we've come off of, as they said, if it's already known, then it's probably in the market. We have some more emails here. We'll take a look at those. Okay. We looked at Apple, question about Microsoft, MSFT. Well, the best run, don't see much out here, kind of half-hearted effort today on Microsoft, about 16 million shares compared to 35. This one actually did see a lot of selling on Friday. So not surprised you're not getting anything more than kind of a move back. Kind of the high on this looks like about 265-ish. This gap down with a lot of volume on the 13th of September came down with 33 million shares. That's at 260. That gap goes all the way to 267 or something. So you're probably that's the level that you're probably looking at as being what you would get. 263-14 is the 50% retracement. If this was just going to be a dead cat bounce, you really don't get any volume on the way back up. Things don't change fairly quickly. That would be, I think, your opportunity to sell if you just go up very poorly through the end of the year. Okay. Question about the IBB. Friday saw one of the first really large settlements. And of course, why the U.S. government shielded vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits. Lawyers are pretty smart and they found some ways around that. 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The Tom O'Brien Show, next on TFNN. As we come back, a question about AVO, I guess that's how you pronounce it, AVO Pharmaceuticals, A-V-E-O. The big problem is when you have light volume, you had a million shares up at the top, actually 1.2 at $9. You've got some nice juice coming out here on the right-hand side. I don't know a lot about the company itself. You're back up to resistance. You wanted a lot more volume today. You had 1.4 million shares at $8.78 a year, what, $0.06 below that on a third, a little more than a third of the volume. So yeah, you had some nice volume off the low from September 23rd, you just don't have a lot here. Again, I don't know a lot about the company. Let's look at this real quick and see the profile. Oncology, so they're all about cancer, focusing on developing commercializing medicines. And oral next generation vascular growth factor, replacer inhibitor, which is used for the treatment. Dolt patients with relapsed or refactory advanced renal cell carcinoma, RCC, if you live in lutes. Company is also developing some other stuff and some other stuff. So yeah, you'd have to dig deep into this company to know about it if you're just looking on the chart side, light volume into the previous high of $7.87, osteovista barring any inside information which I don't have, I would be out. So when you can, not when you have to, we will see you again tomorrow, bright and shiny.