on levels of interrelationships. And it's not as simple to arrive at a date and think that the war simply ends because of that. Because on the side of the government of Afghanistan, we have binding legal agreements with the United States in NATO, bilateral agreements, and of course, multilateral agreements nationally regarding assistance, trade, and others. The Taliban have a series of interrelationships that are below the surface. They have relationship with all known terrorist groups. They have relationships with the largest criminal mafia and on earth, which after cocaine is the heroin mafia. They have an organic relationship with the state of Pakistan that has provided them sanctuary, resources, support, and others. And they have patron-client relationship, them being in relationship with clientage with others. This is a cluster of relationships. US is committed to see a timeline to the engagements but to just think that the relationship has arrived, I think is exaggerate. We need to be able to get the relationship because the dimension that is national, namely the Taliban and the Afghan people and the Afghan government, must be resolved politically. But the dimensions that continue the violence and the reason that international forces are present in Afghanistan is not because of Afghanistan but because 9-11 on one estimate cost the US government a society of $500 billion. How do we deal with all the sets of relationship? We have a roadmap, we have detailed discussions. Let us not also forget that Ambassador Khaledzad, my old friend and special envoy, was not able to meet with Taliban representatives in Pakistan. That's Doha have that authority and the function of Ambassador Khaledzad's office is to bring the Afghan government and the Taliban into face-to-face discussions and negotiations. Within that, then the larger issues of US presence and other international issues will be addressed. But there is no breakthrough you are saying in recent days? Not in that sense. There would be, there's discussion but this discussion needs to be shared back. A discussion that does not involve the region will not last. Afghanistan is national dimensions, neighborhood dimensions, the regional dimension from India to Russia, the Gulf, Islamic and international. If we don't get all the pieces right, one piece alone doesn't suffice. How would you respond to people in America, maybe in other Western countries where troops have sent troops where they say this has gone on for 17 years, what have we gotten out of it? We have failed in some sense, they would argue. No, absolutely. But the first thing is the United States is not there because it's fighting in Afghanistan. It's fighting for its security. Second, we have engaged in a very open dialogue. The United States as a sovereign power, as a global power, is entitled to leave. But we need to get the departure right. Are the fundamental reasons that brought the United States to Afghanistan? Are those objectives accomplished? So the first issue is cost. We completely agree that the cost must come down, must become more efficient. So the first thing I request is that everything under the sun should not be built under the war in Afghanistan. When the US Navy needs money, when the US Army needs money in the US Air Force, it builds a tender Afghanistan. What's the cost of the war in Afghanistan? Second, the number of troops. We are engaged in a discussion, we initiated this, to see that the number correspond to the essential needs, because every US soldier essentially, at least, costs a million dollars a year on making it more efficient, on making it, this is crucial. And we understand that our relationship is based on mutual interest, which flows from mutual threats on the one hand, in mutual goals on the other. So my answer, first, I pay tribute to every mother and father who've lost their children in Afghanistan. This has included the highest levels of government, like Secretary Kelly, Chief of Staff, who lost his son in Elman. Second, over a million American soldiers, men and women in uniform have seen action in Afghanistan, we pay tribute. But the job that we started together needs to move. Thirdly, since I've become president, 100,000 troops left, over 45,000 Afghan security personnel have paid the ultimate sacrifice. The number of international casualties is less than 72. So it shows you who's doing the fighting and the support is mutual. We need to get as stable, I've understand, as an entity that can ensure security of America and Europe and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally, our own democratic rights and institutions and our right to live in peace and harmony. And if I look at Afghanistan today, what I'm struck by is, you have a functioning democracy. You're up for elections again in July. There have not been major terrorist attacks in recent months. The economy seems to be moving forward. Is it fair to say that Afghanistan has turned the corner? Afghanistan is turning the corner. My first tribute is to the Afghan women. Afghan women have come to voice their own. In 33 provinces of Afghanistan, there have been discussions in the last one. It'd be taking place now. We're going to have the first jirga, the gathering of all Afghan women in the coming months. These are people who grow, come from the grassroots. What do they want? A democratic orderly system. Second is the youth. The youth of Afghanistan has really come to its own. Please understand that Afghanistan of today is a very different Afghanistan in terms of demographic composition. And three are the poor. Different even from the Afghanistan on 9-11, 2001, right? Absolutely, because this generation, we lost three generations to war. This is the first generation that has gone directly from refugee camps and internally displaced people to the best universities on earth. Educational capability. We are now able to staff a modern administration and run it. So the ownership and leadership that has come. And it's also a networked generation. They talk, they are rooted on the ground, but they are able to talk with all our neighbors and to the global community in a language. And the economy is beginning to move fundamentally, but the most important thing is our constitution. As you mentioned, presidential elections will take place in July. The people of Afghanistan will select their leaders from 1747 when the last incarnation of continuous of one state is taken place until I succeeded President Karzai with a couple of exceptions. Every succession involved a conflict. And in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet-backed regime, there was no agreement on rules of the game. Kabul was destroyed. The country went to a level of deprivation and destitution that didn't know. Why? Because a number of people with all been friends could not agree on the rules of the game. The rules of the game are now placed in the Constitution. 390 laws have been passed only in the last four and a half years. This is a different country where I think I'm confident that we can turn the corner. And by 2024, it would be a country that would be able to pay for itself as a going proposition because you need an economic base in a country that has a vision of itself as a roundabout where ideas, people, goods can flow. After 117 years, we've again become an integral part of Central Asia. We have fantastic relationship. We look at every aspect of our relationship as an opportunity. So on the one hand, United States, our foundational partner. Western countries, NATO and non-NATO countries, but the region. We have come with a positive vision of good relationship with every single one of our neighbors near and far. So as you know, there's a great debate in the United States about nation-building. And there is a great frustration. And people say, why did we go into Iraq and Afghanistan with the idea that we could nation-build? I think what people really mean is not nation-building, but state-building, it's a democracy-building. Is it your view that the situation in Afghanistan proves that that kind of nation-building does work? That kind of nation-building works, but not through the foreign agent. Foreign aid needs to be rethought fundamentally. The key is both national ownership and international partnership. With that proposition, in making sure that things are not done for you, but that you can really take ownership. I just give you a very small illustration. Therefore, an agricultural sector is vital, but it's not received. Last year, we were the largest producer of pine nuts in the world, but didn't know it. So the international figures showed that our production was 3,000 tons. Actually, it was 26,000, because everything was going to Pakistan and then to China as it value. We created an air corridor. We've just sent, in three months, 500 tons of pine nuts to Shanghai. And 4,000 are going to be going to Istanbul to be distributed. This type of relationship is fundamental, so you get it right. And what is important, business administration has become a discipline. Political science, unfortunately, is still at the realm of theory. So state-building as a discipline is not consolidated. And we need to bring this a lot of people who work in international organizations. My former colleagues, I hope they don't mind, are amateurs. They are not disciplined. The discipline comes from democratic accountability. Democratic accountability is crucial to make a bureaucrat, a leader, responsive. It forces them into a national debate. You need to learn. At times I'm told, when I speak English, my international interlocutors thinks I cannot talk Pashto or Dariye or Uzbekye. And when they see me talking those languages, they're amazed because you need to connect. The vocabulary is different. The substance is the same, but the vocabulary changes. What is the biggest revelation to you, having been an academic who studied these issues as a practitioner who now has to actually live these issues? First is the nature of resistance. Short-term interest, unfortunately, Trump's medium and long-term national interest. And this resistance really needs to be taken very seriously. But the second thing, which is the pleasant revelation, how much a citizen-focused agenda gets response and how extraordinary the ordinary people are.  That is truly something that you cannot put a price on. It's worth billions.  On the one side, this immense decency of the general public, the citizen. On the other hand, the short-sightedness. And the last issue is a lot of our international colleagues who provide advice are out of touch with the times. They provide you a turn of the 19th, of the 20th century, or mid-20th century advice. We need to become much more dynamic, much more people-focused. The short-term perspective, does it make you wish you had the kind of power that President Xi in China or President Putin in Russia has that way you could think long-term for the country? No, I think long-term for the country, democratically. We tried authoritarianism. We had one of the worst despotisms at the turn of the 20th century. And we had the Soviet style. No, Afghanistan, there was a man called Elphinstone who wrote a book in 1809, and he really got it right. He said, this country is most suited to democratic governance. Afghans have a sense of equality. When I talk to another Afghans, I'm her or his equal, and that moves me to tears. We're not sycophants, and authoritarian regimes might suit others, it doesn't suit our culture. Our culture is one of equality. Hierarchy, for the market we are willing to accept hierarchy. For the state, if we don't engage in discussion, we have a saying, if you put a meal in front of Afghans, but they have not been engaged in cooking it, they will criticize it. The single biggest strategic challenge you and your predecessor have had has been that you face an insurgency in the Taliban that has funding, training, and geographic support bases in the neighboring country, Pakistan. The Pakistani military has used this to destabilize Afghanistan to secure what it sees as its interests. There's a new civilian government in Pakistan, a new prime minister. Do you sense any change in Pakistan's attitude towards Afghanistan? We've talked on the phone, we have not met in person. The proof of the pudding is that the fundamental issue is in action. We've been promised repeatedly in the past so much as saying that next week there will be change, and next week we've seen an indication of the conflict. Afghanistan wants an engagement with Pakistan. Our relationship fall in three buckets. One, removing the shadow of violence. For 40 years there's been engagement. This engagement is against all international rules, all norms of decency. A neighboring country that recognizes and enjoys particularly close cultural relationship does not sponsor subversive movements in armed subversive movements. So that's one discussion. The second is what should normal relationship, cooperative relations between Afghanistan, Pakistan look like? We, I think, will be the greatest asset to a prosperous and stable Pakistan because we are the source of power from Central Asia and others and the source of transit and connectivity. And three, the joint issue. What do we do with the continuing problem of terrorism? We need to engage. The key is, Afghans, we as a nation and as a state, we are dedicated to overcoming the past. The question that Pakistani leadership needs to face is, is there conduct of the last 17 years benefited them, harmed them, isolated them, made them central and can they, how would they get to 2047? The year when they celebrate their 100th anniversary. An excellent analysis has been done by the World Bank. If they continue the current course, they will be a very poor country. But if they change and engage in regional, cooperative and fundamental economic and social political reform, they could be a middle income country. The choice is theirs. The Trump administration when it came into office in a way relieved you of some of the uncertainty of the Obama administration, which was always debating whether or not to stay in Afghanistan. And the Trump administration said, no, we're going to stay. We're in fact going to increase the intensity for engagement. But they said the same in Syria and rather bizarrely and dramatically President Trump decided to withdraw forces. Do you worry that you're going to get a phone call from Mike Pompeo saying, guess what? The president's just tweeted, we're going to leave Afghanistan tomorrow. Well, the first issue is President Trump and I have had an excellent relationship. The South Asian strategy was a very thoughtful response to a situation and let's not forget, the core of the South Asian strategy was to bring peace to Afghanistan. And we've welcomed this. Second, it's a condition based strategy. And this condition based strategy, we've interpreted as putting conditionality on ourselves, not to say that the conditions are going to be left to others to change. We've changed our security forces, root stock and branch during this. An inherent reform of the inherent law brought the age of retirement for a general to 56 years. Our four star generals now retire at 62, over 2,000 generals and colonels have been retired. We are really focused, we've used this and day by day we're gaining strength. Now, as I brought to your attention, a sovereign state. The world's most powerful has a right to disengage, but we don't think it's going to disengage. The reason is not because of wishful thinking, the reason is because of a dialogue that is based on reason and mutual interest. We've had this dialogue because you need to think in scenarios. The problem is that the public panics when they think when a scenario is reality. But as you know, the United States has 100 at least scenarios the defense department for every conceivable situation. One of them leaked, we've had discussions. The South Asia strategy is the strategy, proof. The level of cooperation that we've received from the US military and from the US security forces has been immense. During the past months, General Miller has leaned backward, the commander of the Resolute Forces, to remove uncertainty and to be able to work with us. But the ultimate goal, neither of the United States, nor of Afghanistan is to make this inter-permanent thing for ages. Our goal is to become a partner, not a dependent. Because of this, we need to be able to pay for ourselves, for our security, and to make sure that the relationships are such. Bottom line, our cooperation depends on the level in threat of terrorism. If that threat is lowered, of course, the forces need to be lowered and leave. But we need to understand, you're in a better position than all of us, is this threat over or actually other forms? It's morphing constantly, and as the latest says, is Daesh gone to version four? If you're talking about globalization four, we need to talk also about version four of terrorism. That issue requires the attention of all of us. And you, just to clarify, you were saying that Daesh, that is ISIS, and presumably the Taliban, the moradical elements of the Taliban, still remain real terrorist threats to the West. They do. Instead of taking my word for it, I think we need to arrive at consensus. To the region also, the problem with some of the regional behaviors, it's reverting to 19th century thinking. They think spheres of influence are a better concept. Let us not forget, Middle East, Southwest Asia, and South Asia, have still not arrived at a full embrace of the Westphalian system, where sovereign states interact with each other. My argument is that both for the economy, for environment, and for security, we need to arrive at state to state-centered relationship so our people can interact, our businesses can interact. But we cannot be seeing zero-sum games in interference as a way of securing our interests. The Trump administration has also done something which I assume you welcome, which is it has taken a tough stand on Pakistan. But has that been real? Again, there was a certain rhetorical outburst where the Trump administration and Trump himself threatened Pakistan with a withdrawal of aid and such. Have you seen an increase of an American pressure on Pakistan? I have. First of all, $1.2 billion were withdrawn. It's allocation that is never going to be restored unless it's future. Second, the level of engagement, the discussion quiet, but it's been very systematic and very focused. The level of engagement leaves nothing to be desired. It is principled and we welcome it, but it's also catalytic because it's not pressure for the pressure's sake, it's a pressure for the sake of engagement. It's an engagement agenda. Pakistan is a pivotal state in the region. Its stability is vital to Afghanistan's interest, to India's interest, to everybody's interest. We hope that Pakistani leadership would come out of the scars of its creation. Partition was painful. The wounds have been immense, but for South Asia to become whole, like Europe, they need to overcome this trauma of the birth. 70 years is enough time and in this regard, I think embrace of the 21st century by Pakistan will make all its neighbors and all its international partners and Islamic partners come to a supporting stand and come to co-operative. So we think the advantages of cooperation for Pakistan are immense, the advantages of confrontation are close to net, but if there are sections of Pakistani state that still think that, those we hope need to rethink. So you are that rare foreign leader who has had a very good and productive relationship with Donald Trump and you think his policies have basically been supportive and successful. Why do you think that is? Well, first, because I don't talk much. No, literally, in an area, you have to be able to get your main arguments in two minutes. And if you, President Trump is engaging and if you get your points across, cogently, then he asks you questions. Our first phone call, when he was President-elect, lasted 15 minutes more than we thought because it was a real conversation. One cannot dismiss the questions, the fundamental questions of a world leader and think when it's getting away with. In the other is you need to be able to represent your country with dignity. I don't ask, you know, I've never begged for myself anything. For my country, I want. And third, you need to know to show that you care a lot more about your country than your foreign friends and partners. And fourth, we are very lucky because we've had a very large range of American diplomats, particularly American military personnel and others, who've gotten to know my country and particularly me. During the years, President Karse, I was responsible pro bono basis for bringing the security transition of the US and international forces. So that gave me an opportunity to see both my country and to see the relationship. As part of this, modern leadership, particularly for one of the poorest countries on earth, is representation. We have to know the networks and when context changes, a lot of people fight the context. Our approach has been to say what are the opportunities in the new context? And that enables us not to be defensive. So when policy is made, you need to understand it's going to take a process. When the Afghan policy was being made by President Trump, a lot of my American friends came when they came to my room. They were very uneasy. This is taking too much time. And I assure to myself, to under President Obama, it took longer. You have a friend who understands that policy making and because of it. I pride myself of never having lost an international colleague and friend by because of short term worries. And when questions are raised, we answer them. So when Americans look back on this long engagement in Afghanistan, you think they can take pride in feeling that they achieved something? Enormous. First, thank God, there's been no recurrence of 9-11. It's not because of luck. It's because of the immense sacrifice and effort. Second, the Afghan people are a very different people. We are thousands years old civilization culture, but in terms of youth, we are one of the youngest countries. In three, the fundamental numbers have changed. Democracy, as you've written and articulated every other day on your program, is not an overnight dose that you inject or an injection. Democracy building requires that patients, and I think we are at the cusp with the elections. I hope that the transition will consolidate and we will be able to show that the investment that was made in us was worth it. President Ghani, pleasure to have you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2021 Panini certified football hobby four box break Two random teams each number 11. This is the second four boxes from a case of 12 So We will post one more of these last four boxes from the case Let's see what we get here though Six teams box room gets two random teams NFL and all cards ship looking for the stuff like this and then obviously Rookie patch autos here is our list of customers. Thanks to everybody for getting in on this Bennett down to Michael PCora and The teams from the Cardinals down to the Washington football team and one special Thing for himself tonight. We're also gonna give away $75 and break credit So thanks to everybody for getting this closed out one person $75 at the end Let me write a note for myself so I don't forget Before I fit Finish the video and then have to redo another one Wow Michael that's crazy So Since every spot gets you two teams Need to double this up. There you go. So Michael with two spots last spot mojo once and twice and Then the teams from the Cardinals down to the Washington football team. I'm very jealous of that Two and a three five times on both lists. Good luck fifth and final time from Michael down to William Five times on the randomizer now five times on the teams fifth and final time from the Seahawks down to the Broncos five times on the teams Five times on the customers five times on the dice So trade window is open. Let's read through this full list Don't know how many of you guys are here late night. I know Michael and Brody are But we'll see how many of the rest of you guys are for potential trades Michael PCora Seahawks Jaguars Bennett Page Jets Michael PCora bangles Browns Vikings Bennett Page Packers Rams Travis Hildebrand Colts Bennett Page Giants Brody Vaughn 49ers William Davis Falcons Brody Vaughn Titans William Davis Washington Thomas Secafico Raiders Bennett Page Dolphins Travis Hildebrand Ravens Karen Steel Buccaneers Thomas Secafico Chargers Michael PCora bills Bennett Page Eagles Michael PCora Saints Bennett Page Texans William Rosenthal Cowboys Michael PCora Lyons Joe Locust Steelers Karen Steel Bears Michael PCora Patriots Chiefs Joe Locust Panthers Bennett Page Cardinals William Rosenthal Broncos Brody says one off from the Falcons. Yeah, but did you see who you got instead of the Falcons Brody? Come on Look at that. So there is the list trade window is open While you guys are taking a look at potential trades. I'm going to start ripping these boxes open in the interest of time for you You can see these in the four boxes They're X on here to show that these are all from the same case that we started You see the X is all there Brody says both of his teams are up for trade Michael's saying Bennett. I'll give you any team besides the Jags for the Jets. So Bennett if you're here I don't know if he is but Bennett Pretty much you've got whatever you want For the Jets other than the Jags He said multiple teams too So I'm gonna turn on the Nick cam so you guys can see the boxes still I'm gonna start ripping these open Brody said both of his teams are up for trade Brody had the 49ers and The Titans Yeah, I just don't I honestly don't think Bennett's in the chat Michael. That's the only problem But no rush because I'm gonna pop open all these boxes real quick pack stack them We got until the end of this. So hopefully if Bennett's listening passively in the background He said if it's just you two he'll take the 49ers. You pretty much have your pick of teams Little Cornell Powell, which why the bit by the way, he should by go by Colonel Powell Too good Just matches up way too good Michael saying chiefs for 49ers Brody anything you can have lions too You guys still got time to figure it out though I'm only finishing up the second one right now.  We got one more box to give you time to second-guess yourselves Little dude you want to lock the door behind you Yeah Yep Thanks, sir Little dude, I'll see you on Sunday Well, you guys will have to try to trade couldn't trade mojo. So anybody into UFC fighting I'm going to put a parlay on those main three fights I'm gonna look at the rest of the card as well and see if there's any other Winds I think I can throw on there But Valentina Chichanko I'm gonna go with Diaz and I'm going with the Vulcan off ski Okay, so there you go guys, there's all four boxes Um, I know you guys all said you're good. So let's go trade window closed one two three Good luck. Um, I think Mike the gate keys So what I would do is do this Locker So there are the boxes And here is the full list. Good luck everybody. Let's make it worth it for everybody You get say quanta 149 for the Giants Bennett page Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs Michael Picora You got Travis Kelsey to 249 for the Chiefs Michael Picora and Tom Brady Buccaneers Karen Steele We got a trip to color patch des Fitzpatrick. That is eight out of 99 It's out at 99 for the Tennessee Titans. Thank you very much. Let it have a great weekend or a good night Brody and the Titans there Alvin Camarra to 299 for the Saints Michael Picora and Dalvin Cook to 249 for the Vikings Michael Picora and Buccaneers nice three-color patch auto almost four colors Kyle Trask to 199 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Karen Steele Chubba Hubbard to 299 For the Panthers Joe Locas. We got George Kittle to 149 for the 49ers Brody Vaughn And Sam Hubbard auto to 149 for the Bengals Michael Picora Tyler Vaughn to 399 for the Colts Travis Hildebrand out of University Southern, California Mack Jones to 199 Patriots Michael Picora Herbert tag Chargers Thomas seco Fico. That's Mack Jones. You got Stefan digs out of ten That is one out of ten for the Buffalo Bills Michael Picora and AJ Brown to 299 for the Titans Brody Vaughn That is true They know how to how to make players good Marquez Valdez scantling the 249 for the Packers Bennett Page and Justin Herbert tag again for the Chargers Thomas seco Fico Kevin Byard auto to 30 Titans Brody Vaughn and Tom Brady Buccaneers Karen Steele Kyle Pitts to one target at 399 for the Falcons William Davis Patrick Mahomes chiefs Michael Picora, I know right Tyreek Hill to 50 for the Chiefs Michael Picora and Stefan digs to 249 for the Bills Michael Picora We got Ian book three-color patch auto. That's to 299 for the Saints Michael Picora and Jonathan Taylor tag for the Colts Travis Hildebrand Naheem Hines pieces of the game to 99 for the Colts Travis Hildebrand and Elijah Vera Tucker to 149 for the Jets Bennett page Tom Brady Buccaneers Karen Steele And Nico Collins to 299 for the Texans Bennett page Kevin Byard's a good player, but I get what you're saying You've got JK Dobbins tagged to 199 for the Ravens Travis Hildebrand and Jamar Chase To 10 very nice six out of ten Cincinnati bangles Michael Picora. There you go Michael.  To 249 for the the Browns Michael Picora chase young to 99 tag Washington William Davis and it's Jersey number 99 out of 99 99 You got Kellan Mond two-color patch auto. That's out of 50 So we've had all three quarterback RPA so far for the Vikings Michael Picora You've got Simi Fajoco out of ten also two-color patch auto Dallas Cowboys William Rosenthal and Tony Brown Auto out of 75 for the bangles Michael Picora Penae Sue well, that's to 399 for the Lions Michael Picora And JK Dobbins tag for the Ravens Travis Hildebrand You got Miles Gaskin to 99 For the Dolphins Bennett page and a Joe Burrow tag for the bangles Michael Picora again Patrick's retained to 199 for the Broncos William Rosenthal Patrick Holmes for the cheese Michael Picora And Tom Brady Buccaneers Karen Steele Okay, one more box to go Elijah Moore Relic to 299 for the Jets Bennett page Justin Jefferson to 299 for the Vikings Michael Picora Brady again Buccaneers Karen Steele Dazz Newsom to 399 for the Bears Karen Steele and CD lamb tag The Cowboys William Rosenthal Derek Henry to 249 for the Titans Brody Vaughn and Hunter long to 75 for the Dolphins Bennett page JK Dobbins to 249 for the Ravens Travis Hildebrand and Quiddy Pay is our first auto from the last box out of 25 For the Colts Travis Hildebrand and a Sante Samuel jr. 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I almost forgot I'm gonna take all of the People that were in the break randomize them top name 75 dollars in break credit back to them as well So thanks to everybody for getting that closed out tonight Almost forgot I looked over saw the tag that I wrote down. I wrote that I wouldn't I would have forgotten As you saw No, no Cornell Powell in there. So let's pop back over here We grab the list of customers names Actually, we'll use the original list That way it's the original 16 names and top name. So here is that list Top name 75 dollars in break credit. Here you go guys Top name after two and a five seven times Seven the final time William Davis there you go William. You're gonna get 75 dollars in break credit sent to you seven times on the randomizer seven times on the dice William on top and there you go guys that finalizes it That was 2021 Panini certified football hobby four box break to random teams each number 11 from jaspy's case breaks calm I'm Sean Jaspy's case breaks calm. 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I'll come back to another one if you are new to the channel. I'm Gold Pony and you do car trap SUV reviews on YouTube And today we were in the brand-new 2023 Lexus RX 350 courtesy of Bobby Ray Hall Lexus in Mechanicsburg PA for more information on their inventory Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below And so we are in this one today because the RX has been completely redesigned for the 2023 model year They are currently number one in sales when it comes to the luxury midsize SUV category beating out Acura MDX BMW X5 just to name a couple of them and this marks the start of the sixth generation RX as well So ultimately in this video We will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking steering field ride quality sound system exhaust clip all that fun Stuff so having said all that what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it And as always Let's start with pricing and so there are several trim levels for the 2023 RX 350 First one being the base starting at forty eight thousand five fifty premium for fifty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars Premium plus which is the one we have today starting at fifty three thousand one fifty luxury for fifty six thousand five fifty the F sport Handling all-wheel drive then for fifty seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars So besides that last trim level obviously all of those other trims actually come standard with front-wheel drive If you wanted to add all-wheel drive you can do that simply add sixteen hundred dollars then to any of those prices But regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant is going to be the same powering the RX 350 is a 2.4 liter turbocharged inline four cylinder putting out 275 horsepower at six thousand RPM 317 pound-feet of torque coming in at seventeen hundred RPM power sent to the front wheels or all wheels through an eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters Zero to sixty times going to differ whether or not you go with the front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive front-wheel drive puts 7.6 seconds all-wheel drive is going to put you at 7.2 with MPG numbers coming in at 22 in the city 29 highway for the front-wheel drive 21 city 28 on the highway for the all-wheel drive taking premium unleaded fuel All right, so before we do any kind of fun acceleration or paddle shifter test here in our RX 350 I wanted to mention to you guys the drive modes because they are available to access them. It's kind of tricky There's actually so you look at the big infotainment screen. There's going to be six little squares You're going to go ahead and hit that that's going to give you access to those drive minutes It will include normal eco sport and custom adjusting things like the shift points of throttle response and the steering sensitivity And so now having got all of that out of the way what we are going to do next here is Go ahead and put it in sport driving mode. I'm going to find a straight away first Let's test out the paddle shifters here and let's see how quickly they are going to react for us All right So before we do this paddle shifter test I wanted to mention one quick thing for you guys to put it in full manual shift mode because that does exist here So you simply slide the shifter all the way to the back straight and that's going to give you that full manual shift mode It's going to tell you what gear you're in up on the digital portion of the gauges there So now having found our straight away here. Let me go ahead and get down to first gear Let me go ahead and switch it to sport driving mode in three two one Yeah Things quick oh shift Okay, definitely a delay with the paddle shifters but having said that like I said this thing is quick even with the Paddle shifter, so I do still want to test out the acceleration though without me having full control here So I'm just going to slide the shifter all the way to the back and to the left That's going to give back full control to the RX here And let's do one more acceleration test here with the RX 350 having full control and let's see how quickly We can get this one here up to speed all right in three two one Gosh Yeah, that's plenty plenty of an acceleration the merging onto the highway You know what's interesting with that acceleration like you go up to 1,000 rpm because this is turbo charge you go up to 1,000 rpm There's like nothing and then what's 1,000 rpm gets hit you're like You're like thrown in the back of the seat. It's like boom now the power kicks in here We go so yeah once you get past that 1,000 rpm It is intense on that torque kicks in and you're just flying so yeah plenty of an acceleration Emerging onto the highway again zero to sixty and seven point two seconds is definitely plenty quick for an SUV But anyways to go along with that acceleration as always breaking is equally important So up front you will find 13.4 inch ventilated front disc in the back 13.4 and solid rear disc I did what I also mentioned though six piston front calipers coming on the F sport handling trim level That's some insanely large front calipers That's what was on my old fun for Mustang GT So they are quite large and as far as it's 60 is your stopping distance goes that comes in at 123 feet, which is 100% plenty respectable. Let me go ahead and hit the brakes real quick It actually leads a little bit more on the softer side of things although like I said that number 60 zero and 123 That's great. That's pretty much on par for the course a lot of SUVs Sometimes will even put you in the 130s as much as 139 feet for the Volkswagen Atlas So 123 feet is great for the RX. So definitely no issues there then touching on suspension and handling up front You're gonna get a McPherson strut front suspension in the back independent multi-link rear suspension front and rear stabilizer bars But I do want to mention though the F sport handling is gonna add some suspension components Hence the handling name that has in it I guess but that's gonna give you an adaptive variable suspension, which is gonna monitor each shock absorber Individually not only adjusting to the road and perfections giving you a smoother ride But it is gonna tighten up the suspension during heavy cornering really giving you the best of both worlds So that is a heck of a suspension component to have but also F sport tuned performance dampers as well So a little better handling yet again So you want to mention that with that particular trim level as far as ride quality goes It's pretty much as expected it feels perfectly fine It rides like a Lexus not as smooth as an adaptive damping suspension with the F sport handling But it does plenty fine So I haven't had any issues there as far as steering feel goes It is a noticeable difference dependent upon which drive mode that you put it in So if I were to put it in that sport driving mode like I still have it in right now It is a much heavier steering field than if I were to take it out and put it in eco driving mode So it instantly loosens up. So what that's way too loosey-goosey for me I'm actually just gonna put it back to normal here, but I love the heavier steering feel in that sport driving mode I will say that as far as cabin noise goes So we're going 25 miles per hour right now. It's a little bit of road noise But as far as cabin noise as far as wind noise, I should say that is perfectly been at bay so far today And it is pretty windy from time to time. So a little bit of road noise almost no wind noise whatsoever So I like that touching of visibility. It's 100% great. I can see perfectly fine out my rear view mirror So definitely not gonna have any issues there But in addition to that rain sensing windshield wipers do come standard on every single trim level across the baller So gotta love that essentially what that is is whenever the RX detects any kind of mist or rainfall It's gonna automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you So just one less thing you got to worry about there assisting with forward visibility to go along with that If you were to go with that luxury trim level and up you are also going to get a head-up display assisting with forward visibility So right now actually we have it I'm looking at my speed speed limit and safety features projected super bright up onto my windshield So better help me keep my eyes on the road. And like I said, it's one of the brighter head-up displays I've seen it quite a while. So I'm loving that. But anyways, that about rounds off the performance segment of this review guys Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Lexus RX 350. All right, you guys. So here she is the new 2023 Lexus RX 350 finished in Copper Crest In case you were curious of our exterior color name pretty cool color actually in real life So definitely a big fan of it But this one has been completely redesigned for 2023 the front end looks so much better in my personal opinion At least it looks like nothing else on the road. It's so different. It's so unique just like the color of this one But as always let's go ahead and start with where the RX is made taking a look at the VIN first number is the number two Indicating that the RX 350 at least for US customers here is built and assembled in Canada Interesting so anyways fun fact for you, but let's go ahead and start up front in this one again Redesigned front fascia with the overhang just above the Lexus logo Let me show that you guys real quick because it's kind of interesting So the hood line kind of continues down to kind of cover up that Lexus logo a little bit So kind of interesting design element. I actually like it I also liked how they kind of integrated the body colored grill elements to the rest of the silver grill elements up front as well So again, looks like nothing else on the road big fan But by LED headlights coming standard with LED days home running lights You get the automatic feature with those headlights as well Meaning when it starts to get dark in at night that will turn on automatically for you there and automatic high beams will also Come standard. So if you have your high beams on at night and since it's a vehicle coming in the opposite direction It's got automatically dim them back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone It's gonna automatically then bounce it back up to high beams Then you guys can see down below LED fog lights also coming standard for every single trim level across The board so they also look very good and I like that their LEDs and not halogens I guess as expected these days, but it didn't used to be that way back in the day when I first started reviewing cars Eight years ago, but front air curtains to the sides help a direct air around the wheel tire combination And you do kind of have that matte black front lip down below as well But again front fascia looks so much better than previously not that the last generation was bad But this new generation it just looks dang good up front of my personal opinion But anyways pretty much rounds out the front end. Let's not go ahead and make our way to the side All right, so but now since we are around to the side of this one silver roof rails coming standard on the premium trim Leveling up if you wanted them rear privacy glass coming standard across the board You got come some chrome windows surrounds as well floating roof line You guys can see that on the C pillar kind of just floats into the back of the vehicle there Take a look at the side mirrors. They are body colored power adjustable side mirrors They will be heated with LED integrated turd signals And they also come with the auto tilt down feature as well and the driver's side mirror is actually auto dimming And again all of that comes standard for every single trim level across the board So that is pretty darn cool. Take a look at the wheel setup 19 inch five spoke alloys coming with the base the premium and the premium plus That's what you guys are looking at. Of course 21 inch 20 spoke alloys coming with the luxury and then 21 inch 10 spoke alloys coming with the F sport handling So the other thing I really like about the rx is they made the fender surrounds Body colored element as opposed to the matte black. It probably would have looked good either way But I do like those body colored fender surrounds, but anyways that pretty much rounds out the side profile Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back of the rx And so now since you are around to the back of this one all the way to the top body colored shark fin antenna Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light just below that. I almost got confused there for a second I was looking for the rear window wiper affixiated to the rear glass But guess what it's not affixiated to the rear glass It pulled the old Chevy suburban and Chevy Tahoe trick and they hit it up underneath of that rear spoiler So it is out of the way of your rear view. So it's gonna assist with visibility because of that So well done Lexus. I like that design element. Of course, you got LED tail lights. I love these tail lights, too It's just one giant light bar essentially running from one side of the vehicle to the other You got Lexus lettering spelled out horizontally as well that looks good You got some silver trim accented found in the bottom portion of that rear fascia and then all the way underneath you have dual exhaust outlets Kind of tucked away wouldn't have minded if they made some chrome exhaust tips or something that shot out of the rear bumper That's my personal style, but a lot of manufacturers are doing the tucked away exhaust outlets these days But anyways, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next is always here is that exhaust clip It's something else since you are around to the back of the RX 350 when it comes to opening that rear tailgates There's several ways to go ahead and do that. There is a button on the key fob There is also a button kind of by the driver side left knee and of course a button on the tailgate itself But it is a power tailgate that does come standard on every single trim level of the RX 350 So I definitely like that and hence free power tailgate is gonna be optional for the premium trim levels and up But once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 29.6 cubic feet if that was not enough space There is a 40 20 40 split meaning the rear seats do fall down bumping that up to 46.2 cubic feet Then there is some LED cargo landing back there. There's tie-down anchors. There are grocery bag hooks There's also a 12-volt power outlet. Of course There is a cargo cover as well And then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor you will find a spare tire But also a decent amount of in-floor storage which you don't always get so I like that too Probably put an ice scraper back there or a tire inflator kit or something like that But then making our way up to the rear leg room. This is one of the big changes for the 2023 versus the 2022 RX Is there's no third row option for 2023 you simply have two rows Which quite honestly is probably the right way to go for the RX because if there was a third row There's no way it would be usable because the rear leg room would be non-existent So having said that rear leg room in this one comes in at 37.4 inches. That's a respectable number for reference I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I had back there rear center armrest with cup holders does come standard There is rear ventilation back there as well There's a couple USB charging ports to go along with all of that and don't want to forget to mention this Optional heated and ventilated rear seats.  That's what we got today Heated seats coming with all trim levels and then heated and ventilated front seats coming with the premium trim leveling up But having said that Toyota and Lexus always do an amazing job with their seat comfort And that is certainly no exception with the RX 350 seat comfort has been amazing You're definitely not gonna have any issues taking this thing on a long road trip But then take a look at the steering wheel this tilt and telescoping it is power adjustable actually for all trim levels You know always find that leather wrapped for all trim levels as well But it didn't mention for the premium plus trim level and up like we have there is a wood leather combination So we do have that so it's subtle, but it is there So I do like that and then a heated steering wheel is gonna come on the premium plus trim level and up as well We have that on right now. So thankfully we got it because it's cold out But then make your way to the startup Let me start by showing you guys the key here You got your Lexus logo on the one side then when you flip it over lock unlock and the button to pop the rear Tailgate, but it is all keyless entry with a push button start So all I'm going to do here simply put my front of the break and press that silver engine start button located Just to the left of the infotainment screen anyways once started up when it comes to these gauges They look a pretty darn good. They're almost like a 3d gauge cluster, but fully digital in the center portion there I definitely like that got your digital speedometer How many miles you have left into the hit empty trip a trip B engine temp Basically the basics but the cool thing about the digital gauges here is that they do change color slightly Depended upon the drive mode that you put it in so eco is going to show up in a bunch of blue hues Normal is going to be gray and it looks like the Sport driving mode is going to be red so that is pretty cool But having said that wouldn't mind it a bit more customization when it comes to those digital gauges, but they still look good I'm just saying but then making our way to overall interior quality a power moon roof It's going to come on the premium trim level and up panorama glass roof is going to be optional for all trim levels multicolor ambient lighting coming with a premium plus trim level and up having said that there was Incredibly difficult to find how to adjust that ambient lighting You actually go into the settings and then you go to illumination not under lights But illumination and then you can finally find the different colors you can choose between but wouldn't have minded its own App or its own widget within that screen for the ambient lighting like most other Manufacturers do to make it simple So that was a lot of hopping between the screens to actually kind of find where that was located So I'm just saying that love that it's there though multi-zone climate control though Also coming standard for both driver passenger and the rear passengers actually as well Ash bamboo interior trim for the premium trim level and up love that Black open pour wood trim for the premium trim level and up as well suede interior trim for the luxury trim level and up And that's actually the headliner. So I definitely like that. We actually have that today. It's very soft I like it wireless phone charger coming on the premium trim level and up as well So overall when it comes to interior quality, it's pretty much got everything you could possibly want So ton of storage just in front of the cup holders to 12 volt power outlet USB charging ports, of course And that's where your wireless phone chargers located to the right of the shifter You do have there's dual cup holders and within the center armrest actually a decent amount of space within there So actually open up these doors by the way from the inside because everything's electronic on the new RX here You simply just press in on the interior door handles and it's gonna automatically open up then so it's not actually a handle itself It's kind of a button that you press to open the door and it's kind of the same way on the exterior But don't want to mention that as well You do have a homo link controls up to three different garage doors and there's an overhead Sunglass holder up there as well But now let's go ahead and take a look at the infotainment screen now We'll say it probably took me longer to figure this one out than any other manufacturer Not that it was difficult It just takes a little bit longer a little more getting used to I guess you could say so wouldn't have minded if Toy to set this up a little bit differently But 9.8 inch color touchscreen display coming with the base in the premium 14-inch color touchscreen display coming with the premium plus trim level end up That's of course what you guys are looking at Bluetooth and audio streaming also coming standard Wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay standard for all trim levels across the board So absolutely love that most manufacturers are still not making everything wireless like that So I like that factory navigation system also coming standard You can check out your driving statistics up there if you wanted to as well along with your ambient lighting settings Like I was just telling you guys also your radio information, of course So when it comes to the sound systems, there are 12 speakers that come standard on all trim levels across the board Having said that there is an optional of course mark leavenson sound system 21 speakers Optional for the premium plus trim level enough that also comes with 1800 watts that's bonkers, but anyways, we got the 12 speaker sound system with us here today So having said that what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and enable the audio to start Let's see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one Honestly, even without it being mark leavenson that was a pretty good sound system for the rx So honestly 12 speakers for I would say 90% of people out there is going to be perfectly fine 12 speakers is a lot when most suvs come with eight speakers or something like that So 12 is still a missed overkill 21 is ridiculous So that was plenty good sound system actually for the rx even with it being the 12 speaker one But anyways, last thing I wanted to mention you guys on that infotainment screen is when you do put the rx in reverse You will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board Panoramic view monitor is going to be optional Which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start the 2023 rx 350 Is an IIHS top safety pick plus which is the very highest designation given by IIHS That pretty much does it all right there front side side current airbags do come standard drivers knee airbag passenger seat cushion airbag and rear side impact airbags That last one's usually a six or seven hundred dollar option with Mercedes and BMW by the way It comes standard on the rx 350 also in the back You're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tethers or children for the rear car seats Rear child door locks temperature monitoring system, but also lexus safety system plus 3.0 That's going to come standard for all trim levels that includes dynamic radar cruise control with curved speed management Thank you somebody for doing that. Thank you lexus I'll tell you when you got adaptive cruise control on and you're about to hit that turn and it's not really slowing down for you That gets kind of scary But pre-collision system with pedestrian detection lane departure alert with steering assist lane tracing assist Road sign assist and blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert. So Overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the rx I like the front end a heck of a lap out of the whole redesign looks absolutely amazing. So very good looking suv Great safety as well. You can't beat an IIHS top safety pick plus. So I love that great interior quality as well There's nothing wrong with the interior in this thing very luxury esque as far as room for improvement goes The infotainment screen is probably the most cumbersome that I've come across It takes a little bit of getting used to there's a lot of different Hidden areas that you have to get to like the ambient lighting for example The other thing that's in the back of my mind with the new rx is this is the first year that the engine on the new 2023 rx 350 is now turbocharged whereas in 2022 and previously it was a naturally aspirated engine So that makes me question the reliability a little bit But having said that Lexus has always been known for their engines and I'm sure they put a heck of a lot of testing behind this new turbocharged 4-cylinder and they are after all still known for reliability It's just traditionally naturally aspirated engines last a little bit longer than turbocharged engines. So I'm just putting that out there Let me know what you guys think of the rx 350 in the comment section below and that is about it for this one You guys thank you so much for watching Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel Before it gets to youtube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button If you're into new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all Do appreciate you guys watching more than you know, and I will see you guys all in the next video Stay gold


What's shaken navigation nation today is Monday December 3rd in light of the Technical difficulties that we're having with our technology for Friday's weekly video update I just thought I'd come in here and redo it re-record it We are we're working on a solution to be able to broadcast live in the community because I think it's gonna be a huge benefit for everybody But unfortunately, I mean we've tried crowdcast as the one we posted with on Friday We've tried zoom Go to webinar, you know all the big names for that kind of technology and unfortunately The you know when you do it live, we're getting that blurry Visual we're we're getting kind of that delayed and skipping stuff that we we had on on Friday So it's just not quite there yet We're gonna continue to test different solutions and the the community platform that we the platform that we use For the community has talked about coming out with their own native Live video capabilities, so hopefully that comes soon because I really want to be able to do that for you all but Anyway, I'm gonna catch you guys up kind of redo this going back to next week's last week's trades through today Monday and And and so we are on it. We're gonna we're gonna find a solution But so sorry for that issue and we'll we'll make sure we get it get it right going forward but this will continue to be posted in the VIP pro group area and And then last announcement before we jump in here Don't forget markets are closed on Wednesday, so there will be no alerts on Wednesday unless there's a Major thing that we want to do primarily in the options on a futures market because the main equity markets will be Will be pretty much closed and if they are open those that are open for a brief period You know the liquidity is gonna be thin so we don't want to be doing a lot of trading on those days All right, so let's jump in to the alerts starting with the 26th, which was last Monday and Let's go through these first one was a rolling adjusting trade in EEM So we rolled our short strangle in EEM from December to January kept the strikes the same at that 37 42 level We were over 50% of max profit on that piece of the trade So we wanted to just extend duration and roll it out so Let's take a look at EEM on the platform It's up 2% today So you can see now this is up here kind of close to testing our short strike to the upside So if we get a little bit more downside movements more time to pass We will look at potentially booking that one Next trade was an opening trade in Ford slash 6e, which is the euro Ivy percentile at that time was at 53 and we've got a decent amount a little Decent amount of profit in here not quite enough to take off yet up about 175 dollars on a possible 625 so we are going to wait and try to get some more theta decay there Next trade it was a closing trade in Ford slash 4 slash 6e So this was one that we actually closed the previous Friday What happened was we we we left our resting order in the in the order queue by mistake He got filled after hours So that's why that alert didn't come out until Monday morning But we booked over 40% of max profit the good news is that you should have been able to book more Get out for even better prices. So hopefully you got even more than 40% of max on that one Next trade was a closing trade in IYR So we had an iron condor in IYR had to make several adjustments throughout a couple cycles But by staying mechanical booked profit of $500 on that trade Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in EWW So we rolled one set of our short strangles in EWW from December out to January and we adjusted our calls down from 44 to 41 and And then we were still at that point holding our other short strangle in December Now I'm gonna go to the platform and talk about EWW because today we ended up taking one of those off and booking a Profit on one of those pieces. So I'll get to that here in a minute Closing trade we did we bought back a strangle that we had in SPY booked over 35% of max profit in just 11 days on that one We actually re-entered a position in SPY today, which I'll also get to in a minute Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in SMH So we rolled our short strangle from December to January and then we rolled our strike call down from 104 down to 101 We were over 50% of max profit on that piece of trade of the trade So we just wanted to extend duration with 24 days left in December It just made sense to roll to extend that duration. So if we take a look at SMH show you where we're at now Price has moved up some today. It's at 1.8 percent stocks really strong today So we're kind of hanging out in the upper end of our range here But just nothing to do but wait and see in SMH at this point Getting a nice contraction in implied volatility here across the board with the with stocks moving higher So we'll just kind of wait and see on that one Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in IWM So we simply just added an iron condor in IWM At that point. We were still holding our other trade I'll kind of skip ahead here because we had a second iron condor This one we closed out booked over 45 percent of max profit on that one And then we're still holding this one that we added. So if we take a look At the platform here IWM moving up with the rest of the market today implied volatility contracting nicely If we take a look we'll see that uh prices up here to move to up out of center But still well within our range. So we'll just continue to wait and play that one as needed The next trade was an opening trade in netflix. So this is one where we added some short delta And we did that by selling a short call vertical in netflix and uh And so prices prices moved up since we put that on if we take a look See prices moved out of our range here And the reason we put this on I talk about this from time to time when we get directional Really what we're looking for is a pretty decent move in one direction And then we try to enter on a little bit of a pullback now we entered on the pullback But it did continue higher So, you know if netflix can roll over it was a big today now It's up just barely on the day a little over a quarter percent So we can get some follow through to the downside That will definitely benefit this trade but we We needed some short delta in our portfolio And to give you an idea of where we're at as of right now We were right at about one to one so With the up movement obviously you're automatically naturally going to get some short delta because our range bound plays as price moves up That increases the short delta on those positions So just kind of naturally we gained some that way and then we also gained Some short delta by adding this netflix position as well as one in invidia, which I'll go over in just a second The next trade was a closing adjusting trade in IWM That's one I already mentioned then we did an opening trade in EWZ selling some premium in the brazilian market And plied volatility continues to stay high You can see this is really centered and just since since then Plied volatility has contracted a decent amount and we're up about 130 of a potential 475 So if we get a little bit more profit quickly, we'll go ahead and book that one If not, we will just manage as necessary If we take a look at the charts, you know after today's big move You can see applied volatility is really starting to contract down below that 50 level after today So uh getting some good contraction in implied volatility across the board Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in facebook So we had an adjusted strangle at the 140 135 strikes 140 call 135 put And we were at 21 days to expiration at this point. So we just simply rolled this out to January and kept our strikes exactly the same So if we take a look at facebook, which has moved up a little bit since that point Since that roll so you can see we've got a little bit of profit since we did the roll But uh just waiting for price moves down a little bit waiting for a little bit more implied volatility Some more time to pass before we close that one out Next trade was a closing adjusting trade in fxi. So we had a call butterfly on In december and we booked uh over 20 percent of of profit on that trade And then we're still holding our put butterfly today We went ahead and added another call butterfly back on there. So i'll get to that when we get to that alert Next trade was an opening trade in invidia So as I mentioned another trade that we are selling a short call vertical and trying to add some short delta back into our portfolio In video was up really big today, which is against us. It was up over five actually it was up 6 at one point now. It's up just under four But you can see it's still still in our range, but it's moved against us a decent amount just with today's up Move in the market. So we need a little bit of downside to benefit that one And we'll just kind of hold and continue to wait on that. We are in january with 46 days to expiration. So A lot of time to go there Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in wheat So we added an iron condor in wheat and then the very next trade We closed out the one in our january cycle. So the one in january had 21 days We closed that out booked over 50 of max profit on that piece of the trade And then we added this one so you can kind of think of this as rolling our wheat iron condor Technically, we don't roll those because the platforms don't allow you to roll four-legged spreads But essentially that's what we're doing. So we closed out one rolled the other one out Excuse me re-entered a new one in the next cycle with 56 days to expiration at the time And so we've got that one iron condor on in wheat Which you can see is pretty pretty much exactly where we put it on No profit loss on no profit or loss on that piece at this point Next trade was a closing trade in gc and this is getting into today monday And so we closed out our iron condor in gold booked Over 35 percent of max profit. We were in this for less than two weeks So we are out of gold at this point If we take a look at gld the etf That's that's not a trade. That's just a theoretical position. I was messing around with so I'll take that out But if we look at the chart, you can see implied volatility is really contracted in gold So we're not looking to re-enter in there anytime soon unless we get a pop spike higher in implied volatility Next trade was a closing adjusting trade in eww. So I mentioned this earlier So we had One set of our short strangles that's already out in january. This one was still in december with 18 days left to expiration So we were uh friday It was 21 days to expiration, but we had already done several adjustments and rolls So we like to spread those out. So we gave this A little bit more time which is today and and we had this big move up today and eww Which is great because it allowed us just to close this out book a profit of over 40% of max profit on this piece of the trade and then we're still holding our other piece Which I will show you here So this is our uh, this is our adjusted strangle and you see we've gotten back a lot of a lot of that profit in there We're almost back to even on the eww trade overall So we're going to continue to hold this try to try to get some more profit out of this piece If we get down to a point Where we're close to that 21 days expiration, we'll go ahead and roll this one again, but we've got 46 days here So plenty of time Not looking to do anything at this point Now if the price moves, you know close to one of these break evens on either side Then we'll probably add another short strangle centered just another piece kind of like we we just took that one off We'll probably add another one depending on where implied volatility is, you know The ivy percentile is still at 93 So chances are it should be pretty high Continue to still be pretty high If we need to add another piece on Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in fxi. So this is where we added on another call butterfly We did this out in the january cycle with 46 days to expiration So now we've got the piece in december, which is with today's big up move has moved out of our range um, you can see right here It's well out of our range So if we could get a little bit of downside here and get back to even on that try to get out of that one We entered this other piece here To add some more premium and it's it's dead centered. We we're up a tiny bit since we put that on So we'll just continue to manage this as needed. Hopefully we can get a little ping pong option action between the the two different butterflies And uh, and then and get out of that profitably And then lastly last trade today on monday was an opening trade in sp y So we wanted to sell some more premium in the equity markets get some more exposure there Did this in january with 46 days to expiration IV percentile was at 73 if we take a look at where it's at now Uh, it's come down since then so it's at 69 now After the up move we're getting that contraction And you can see the iron condor here. We're up a little bit of profit But we'll wait and and look for about 30 to 40 percent of max profit on that one So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of our other positions I mentioned 60 oil having a big day for us Up over 4 and the market. Uh, it's got about What is that about a little over a little less than 40 minutes before it closes today? Um, and so here's one of our pieces to our oil trade. It's come back nicely into range And uh, so we've made back some of that Some of that loss on our oil trade And then our other piece Looks like this Price is trading right here. So if we can get price to kind of Stay in this range and we continue to roll for a couple cycles. We will get back Everything that we we need Obviously, we don't want it to continue lower because It's just had that crazy move down to the downside But if we can get it to kind of stabilize Right in this area above that 50 level and we can continue to manage and adjust those those pieces of that trade We'll be fine in oil And uh, and same thing in natty gas and before I get to that, let me just go in order here with the es We've got this long put vertical that we've got on for short delta You can see price has moved Well out of the range here. So just looking for some downside before we do anything there With these options, we've got 18 days to expiration. So Sometime next week or the week after we will potentially roll that Depending on where we're at with everything but with stocks moving higher that obviously moved out of our range And then natty gas our other problem child has has been playing very nice today Down over 5 and a half percent. You can't see the hash mark. It's right there behind that red behind that break even point But it's right here. So almost back into range on this piece And natty gas only has 23 days to expiration in this january cycle So here in the next couple days in fact probably tomorrow on tuesday We'll take one of these at least and roll it out to the february collect some credit on that And then continue to manage that in the february cycle Um, so that's that piece and then we've got this other piece of the trade And this one price is right here. So, you know could still use a little bit more downside movement in natty gas to benefit that one But same thing here. We won't roll both of these pieces out to february the same day We like to spread that out spread our price points and our credits out over a period to kind of diversify that But here over the next week We will have rolled both of these out to the next monthly expiration cycle I mentioned wheat apple So apple's moved out of our range. We've got this long put vertical here for that short delta exposure It's barely out of our range here. So we could just use a little bit of downside and apple to benefit that piece DIA same thing. We've got two sets of short call verticals these were originally part of iron condors that we Kept on the uh, the short call vertical side for that short delta exposure With stocks being strong. It's moved out of our range But we're you know, we've got plenty of time left here 18 days. So we're not looking to do anything quite yet Eem I mentioned that one. We've got price hanging out here in the upper end of the range EFA another short delta piece Price is right here on our break even so we need a little bit of downside to benefit that same thing It's in december. So we've got some time before we decide to roll or close that one EWW I mentioned EWZ. I mentioned facebook. I mentioned FXI I talked about IWM Netflix and vidya cues. So this is very similar to DIA. We've got two sets of short call verticals here And with the strong price movement in stocks, it's come out of our range So just looking for some downside to get back into range there SMH, I think I mentioned that one. Yeah, we've we've got a little bit of profit, but just waiting there SPY I mentioned and XLK Another short delta short short bias position that has kind of broke out of our range So looking for some downside to benefit that piece So overall making back some of those, uh You know intermediate term losses that we saw in oil and that gas Hopefully those continue to play nice for us and we just play the game and stay mechanical Just to reiterate it's so important to stay mechanical Especially when the big moves happen and of course keeping your position size small is the key. So Keep up the good work everybody. Love your enthusiasm and engagement and participation in the community Keep that up loving it and we will talk to you soon. Have a good one. Happy trading


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What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. You're up in 22, 23, but then you can tender his basketball hobby, 12 box full case break, number seven tiered written team style. So look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Good luck. Let's do it. Here we go. Just trying further away from reality here. Box one. There's a Devin Booker 2.99 for the Suns. Sweet shot. It's Bradley Beal. There we go. Yolkich, Jalen Duren, legendary contenders, Charlie Ward, 18 out of 99 for the Knicks. What did you say? I was about to lose my mind. That's going to be a John Wald, 249 for the Clips, Russ, Keegan Murray, lottery ticket. We've got Jalen Williams, the 99. There we go, Thunder. Sam A, pick up a nice J-Dub. Congrats, man. There you go. Get that magged. That's sweet. The Yanis, variation. Dyson Daniels. Boyan McDonovich, premium ticket, Foltz and Kade. Box two. Yeah, no problem, Greg. You got it, buddy. Jaden Ivey, lottery tickets. Rondo. There's Sean Kemp to 99. Legendary ticket auto going to the Thunder again by way of the Sonics. What's up, snack? Cracked ice coming up here. And it's going to be LeBron James, 23 of 25. Nice one there. Congrats. Lakers. I'm AD on the cracked ice LeBron. That is Cav's jersey number, AJ Griffin. We'll send an empty box and wrap it. There's no name on that. Jimmy the intern, really not having a good time of these past couple of rakes. I think that's an issue with all the AJ Griffin, though, because that's not the first one I've seen. That's weird. That's specific to one player. But yeah, it's always AJ Griffin, dude. Jalen Durran, nice one there on the ticket variation. That's Ochi Agbagi, nice one there for the Jazz. Two out of 99. Sam killing it right now with his two tiers. Nice Jazz hit. Ochi Agbagi. Mar DeRosin, 299. Sweet shots. Jabari Smith, rookie of the year contenders. Ticket variation, Paul George for the clips. Johnny Davis. Got to 25. Cracked ice. Walker Kessler. Boom. Dude, Sam is killing it. Has the Jazz and the Thunder. Unreal, dude. Congrats on that. That is a nasty Kessler. Cracked ice variation. We'll get that magged as well. Good lord, dude. That's a good case so far. Clay. Yeah, that is on card as well. Oh yeah, legal. Oh yes, sir. Jalen Williams. There's Ticket Stubb Jabari Walker. 12 of 34 for the Blazers. Nice one there, Mao Di. 12 of 34. That's an eBay one of one, one, two, slash three, four. An eBay one of one of Iber, we're seeing one right there. There's Anthony Davis playoff ticket to 249. Superstar's Luca. So weird that the base is like choice this year. It's cool. Don't get me wrong, but it's just, I feel like it's odd, you know what I mean? Feel me? Feel me on that one? Yeah, it should be a holiday right now. We should not be working today in honor of Jeremy Guthrie. There's Deontay Murray. That is the man who has an entire paragraph dedicated to his worst start on Wikipedia. Lottery ticket Jaden Ivey. Base is Jaren Jackson Jr. to 49. AJ Griffin. There's Max Christie on card rookie ticket auto. Peyton Watson. For the nuggets. Some wet works. There's nice. Jaden Ivey. Permit to dominate. Super short print. Congrats on that. Pistons. There you go, Andrew. Nice one there, buddy. Got redemption is going to be a Caleb Houston, the finals ticket. I believe that's a 49. That'll be going to the magic. Caleb Houston will go to the magic. It's Jake's boy right there, Caleb Houston. I might get rocked with Louis Garcia tonight. There's Chris Middleton to 249. Go off time in dynasty. Jalen Williams. I've not actually illegal. Keldon Johnson to 199. There's David Roddy. The final ticket 2249 for the Grizzlies. On card. Congrats on that, Grizz. Mike Conley. Dude, you know what? You saw the auto I pulled out of this on the release day. Adam Morrison. Oh, yeah. I could not believe it, dude. There's some, there's some. James Harden. Weird ones in here. Oh, yeah. Some cool ones, though. I suppose they don't have like Chris Anderson or something. That'd be so sick, dude. The Birdman. We've got another license to dominate. Shaggildress Alexander for the thunder. Nice one against Sam. That's redemption is Christian Brown. Rookie variation playoff ticket going to the nuggets. Congrats on that, Denver. Davion Mitchell. Nicola Jokic. David Roddy. Variation ticket rookie. Keegan Murray. Rookie of the Year contenders. Jamal Murray. There's Ochaic Bahi on the premium ticket. Nice one there. Ken Sam with the jazz. Same killing it with those two spots, man. Rudy Gobert. Put up like 30 against the Magic. Only went. Unreal. Howard Gasol. Jaden Ivey, Rookie of the Year contenders. Primimodo Musa Diabate on the variation for the clippers. Eclipse, but Jokic. There's Zion to 75. Superstar LeBron. Chet, lottery tickets. Anthony Towns to 49. Jalen Williams. Kennedy Chandler for the Gris. On-card rookie ticket variation. Or not variation, just regular rookie ticket. My bad, my bad, not a variation. Yonis to 249. Should I answer the door and then like, welcome to McDonald's? Tyree's Halliburton. They might have thrown it for a loop. Oh yeah. Yonis. He might have taken it back to McDonald's. I know, honestly. Blake Wesley, rookie season ticket. Premium edition gold to 10. That'll go to the Spurs. Ice one there, John. You got McDonald's illegal. It took him two hours. Yeah. That is Therias Garland to 199. Superstar Luca. I mean, it was warm when I got it. Jalen Green. Yeah, hopefully, right. Walker Kessler. That's going to be a Benedict Matlin. 67 of 99 variation. Going to Shawn M. and the Pacers. There you go, buddy. On the on-card. Get that mag for a man. Hopefully, the drinks are cold. The drinks are going to be warm. Food is cold. There's Colin Sexton. Is it 249? Did you really? Oh, Jalen Williams. It's like, what? Christian's Halliburton rookie. Tyrese Martin. 87 out of 99. Extra tartar sauce? Extra tartar sauce. Yeah, bacon core pounder. Nice. Yeah, I got a 10-piece nugget and a bacon Mcdouble. I got to try for Melbourne tonight after work. Yeah, there's Evan Mobley. Serious? To 75, yeah. Can you get it, Murray? Oh my god. It's not that. It's, I mean, it doesn't take that long. There's nobody on the road, which is good. Russell Westbrook. Patrick Baldwin, junior on-card for the Warriors. Rookie ticket. There's Chris Duarte. Somebody ordered that, dude, here. Really? Yeah. Because I came in, there was a plate of this. Oh, I did see that. Yeah. And what? In the fridge, right? There's one in the fridge? No, I said it was in the fridge. Oh, god. No, I saw it just on the counter, on the table. Kate Variations. Jabari Smith. Bass. Mark Williams. Rookie Variations season ticket going to the Hornets. I saw in there Charlotte Jolbee. Hornets. Mark Williams. First Mark Williams, I think I pulled out of like five cases of this stuff. It's kind of wild. Kind of wild, if you ask me. Box 10. What do you get, illegal? Yeah, what's the legal's order for McDonald's? Palo. Nice one there. Otto is going to be Nikhil Alexander Walker, 29 of 99 for the jazz. Probably gets a salad. Gets a burger with no cheese. He's not even lactose. He just doesn't like cheese on his burgers. There's Marcus Smart to 2 to 49. Shade on sharp. It's a very important question. That is, tell a lot about a person. There's Jabari Walker. Nice one there for the Blazers on the ticket variation. Ochaic Bhaji. Superstars. John Moran got another cracked ice. Jaden Hardy, 12 of 25. There we go, Dallas. It's going to Josh J. Congrats, man. Second cracked ice to the break. I'll mag this one, I think. Most of the cracked ice is at this point. Very nice. 10-piece nugget. Spicy McRispy. Nice. There's Chris Duarte. It's a 99. I should have got the Spice McRispy. I think you can only order it past a certain time, though. If they don't, they stop serving it eventually. I don't know. That makes no sense. What? That's what I've been, that's what I've seen. It's not a breakfast. Right, I know they know all day breakfast. Makes me sad. Really sad. Stop serving it at midnight, see? That's going to be Jalen Brunson, Q49. Jaden Ivey. Yeah, that's probably true then. Here. Yeah, no, I'm sure. I'm sure that's true everywhere. E.J. Griffin. There's Ryan Rollins on card. Rookie Ticket Auto for the Warriors. Jason Tatum to 199. Luca. There's Ochaik Pahi. Legend for the Jazz. Variation. We've got Jalen Williams, J-A-Y, J-Will this time on the Premium Ticket Auto. Nice one there, Thunder. Sam again. This and this. Trey Young, variation for the Hawks. Jeremy Sohan. Paul Pierce, 11 out of 49. On-card Vet Ticket Auto for the Celtics. That's Sam on the Tier 2, dude. Unreal. Congrats, Sam. There you go, buddy. First like big Vet Ticket I've pulled. Nice one there. The truth. Terror is here. 2-249. Michael Porter Jr. 8 out of 99 for the Nuggets. And last pack. Good luck here, everybody. That's going to be Nicolay Jokic to 199. Keegan Murray, Rookie. And base. Do a quick recap here, everybody. We had five mags in there too. No, four mags just kidding. Shay and Jaden Ivey on your short prints. Mark Williams, Christian Brown, Caleb Houston, Blake Wesley. We've got Ryan Rollins, Kennedy Chandler, Max Christie, Patrick Baldwin, Jalen Williams, Ochaik Vaji, Musa Diabata, Sean Kemp, Charlie Ward, Nikila Alexander Walker, Michael Porter Jr. Tyrese Martin, Ochaik Vaji, David Roddy, Paul Pierce, Jabari Walker, Ticket Stubb. The Crack Dice LeBron, 23 of 25. The Lakers. Benedict Matheran, 67 out of 99. We've got a 54 out of 99, Jalen Williams. We had Crack Dice, 12 of 25, Jaden Hardy. And a Crack Dice variation, 4 of 25, Walker Kessler. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we're on to football.


And to recap, in general, a LFSR based on an nth order recurrence relation has period at most 2 to the power n minus 1. But its output can be completely determined if we find 2n consecutive terms. And this means we don't gain much security by using higher order recurrence relations. But could we simulate higher order recurrence relations? And for this, we'll introduce this notion of linear complexity. Suppose we have a sequence that, after the first few terms, can be generated by a kth order linear recurrence relation. If no linear recurrence relation of smaller order can generate the sequence, then the sequence is said to have linear complexity k. On the other hand, if no linear recurrence relation can produce the sequence, we say the sequence has infinite linear complexity. A useful result in all of this is that every periodic sequence has finite linear complexity. The proof is actually pretty trivial. If the sequence has period p, the recurrence relation an is the pth term before n generates the sequence. So there's at least one p minus first order linear recurrence relation that generates the sequence, and consequently the linear complexity is no more than p minus 1. So how can we improve our LFSRs for cryptographic purposes? So remember, one feature of LFSRs is that each term is dependent on the previous terms. But remember, one of the things that Shannon identified as part of a good cryptographic system was confusion. And that's basically reducing the dependence of any one term on the preceding terms. So to reduce this dependence, we'll add some confusion. And an easy way of doing that is we'll produce the sequence, we'll break the sequence into blocks, and then transpose elements within the blocks. And this goes back to a key cryptographic principle, we are stronger together. Greater security is achieved by mixing cryptosystems. So for example we might use the recurrence relation an congruent an minus 1 plus an minus 2 with seed 1, 1, and the transposition. And we'll use this to produce a sequence of pseudo random numbers. So first, our recurrence relation produces the sequence, and you'll notice that this is period 3 with a repeating block 1, 1, 0. Now we'll apply our transposition, and permuting the elements give us a new sequence. And something worth noting here is that our new sequence is period 15. And ordinarily, if we wanted to generate a period 15 sequence, we'd need a recurrence relation of degree at least 4. And this leads to the following useful result. If we apply a transposition on blocks of n consecutive elements to the output of a period p sequence, the resulting sequence has period np the least common multiple of n and p. And this suggests a way we could make recovering the recurrence relation much harder. We'll begin with a kth order recurrence relation that gives a period 2k minus 1 sequence of 1s and 0s. We'll find a permutation on p elements where p is relatively prime to 2k minus 1. And then we'll use the LFSR to generate sets of p terms, and apply the permutation to produce p terms of the pseudo random sequence. Another way to expand the period is to chain two or more LFSRs. For example, if A produces this output and B produces this output, we can add the output's mod 2 to get a new sequence. And as before, the period of the new sequence is the least common multiple of the periods of the two sequences we're combining. One particularly important variation on the LFSRs of following will take two LFSRs with different periods, preferably co-prime, which will produce two sequences. And you can think about this first sequence as a control sequence. It will determine whether or not we output our B sequence. So we might output our BI value if our AI value is 1, otherwise we'll output nothing. And it's important to recognize we'll still compute the B value, but it doesn't get output. Because the output sequence is shorter than the input sequences, this is known as a shrinking generator. And it's worth noting that we can use any sequence of ones and zeros. So we don't even need to have these produced by LFSR. This could be produced by LFSR with a transposition. So for example, maybe I have these two sequences and let's find the output when B is used to determine whether output A and the sequence when A is used to determine whether to output B. So let's use B to decide whether to output A. So we'll put down our two sequences, and remember B is controlling. If B is 1, we'll output whatever A says. So here B is 1, so our output C is the A value. Next, B is 1, so again we output the A value. Next, B is 0, so we ignore the A value and go on to the next. And again importantly, nothing is output. The next B value is 1, so we output the A value. The next B value is 1, so we output the A value. The next two B values are 0, so we don't output anything and so on. Similarly, if we use A to decide whether to output B, we obtain the following sequence. Again, our first two A values are ones, so we output the B values. Our next A value is 0, so we ignore the B value. We have another two ones, so we output the B values. The next A value is 0, so we ignore. The next two A values are ones, so we output the B values, and so on. And finally, there's one useful variation is the self-shrinking generator, where we don't actually need a second sequence. So if the output of a sequence is A0, A1, A2, and so on, we can use the even numbered terms to control the output. In effect, the even numbered term tells us whether to write down the next term or to ignore it. And again, it's important to remember we're still computing that next term, but we might not be outputting it as part of our sequence. So let's take our sequence 110, 110, and so on, and we'll find the output for a self-shrinking generator using A. And so here it helps to split up our terms. We have our even terms and our odd terms. And so our terms of the sequence are going to be 110, 110, 110, 110, and so on. And so we'll use our even terms to decide whether to output our odd terms, which gives us our sequence.


My fellow Americans, if you were tuned into the radio one Saturday in the middle of April, you may have heard me speak about one of the most compelling issues of our time, tax simplification. It was April 13th then, and I'm sure many of you were approaching those final moments before your tax forms were due, with a rising sense of frustration, even anger. Nobody's ever going to enjoy paying taxes, it just isn't human nature. But I also know that the American people wouldn't find the whole process so aggravating if they didn't feel our tax system was shot through with unfairness, inequality, and waste. The American people are always willing, even eager, to do their duty. But you quite naturally resent it when you see others shirking theirs. It rankles to know that your tax rates are so high because others, who can afford high-priced lawyers and tax consultants, are able to manipulate the system to avoid paying their fair share. And simply as insult to injury, when on top of a large tax bill to the IRS, you have to pay a professional to tell you how much you owe. The United States tax code is so mammoth, so incredibly complex that even experts can't agree on what it says. We've seen the damage an unfair tax system can do to our economy, our pocketbooks, our faith in American justice, and to our confidence in government institutions. Well, that's all going to change. Next Tuesday, we'll announce an historic change in the tax laws to remove the dark cloud of unfairness from our tax system. We're going to overhaul the whole rickety-jerry-rigged tax code and come out with a newer sleeker model that will not only be fairer and simpler, but will significantly reduce taxes for the majority of all Americans. Starting today, we're declaring the 1040 tax form an endangered species. Our plan is to make the paying of your taxes so easy that many Americans won't even have to fill out a form. We're going to do away with the inequities and the economically unjustifiable tax breaks, things like deductions for windmills and so-called educational cruises on luxury ocean liners. By closing such loopholes, we'll be able to lower taxes and begin to flatten the present steeply rising system of tax brackets so that you can keep more of each additional dollar you earn. We want to knock down the barriers on the road to success so that all Americans can go as far as their hard work, skill, imagination, and creativity will take them. Closing wasteful business loopholes will also allow us to lower tax rates on America's businesses and entrepreneurs. We stand today on the freth road of a new technological age that is already beginning to revolutionize our lives for the better and open the way to a future of almost unlimited possibility. By lowering rates, we can unleash an entrepreneurial explosion of business formation, job growth, and technological innovation that will rival even our most optimistic dreams. Our plan will also recognize the central role of the American family in preserving and protecting our nation's values. Raising a family has always involved hardship and sacrifice along with the love and the joy. But for most of these last four decades, the government hasn't been making it any easier. Since 1948, the personal exemption, which allows breadwinners to deduct a certain amount from their taxable income for every man, woman, and child who has depended on them, has dwindled to a mere fraction of its original value. The result? A tax increase of immense proportions that struck directly at the pocketbook of America's families. In effect, it's been families that have borne the burden of the explosive growth in government and domestic spending these last four decades. Well, it's time families got a little help, and that's what we propose to do. By greatly expanding the personal exemption, raising the standard deduction, lowering rates, and retaining the home mortgage interest deduction on principal residences, we're going to make it a lot easier for struggling lower income households and for the working poor families to climb up the ladder of success. This must be a priority of a pro-family, pro-opportunity society. The timid, the cynical, and the special interests will combine to say that what we want, fairness, hope, and opportunity is impossible. Well, they'll be wrong. They've been wrong so many times in these last four and a half years. Nothing can stop America when it hears the call to justice. No one can stop America from doing what it knows is right. On Tuesday night, I will be announcing the details of this historic tax package on nationwide TV. I hope you'll tune in and listen to what I have to say. This could be the single most important step we'll take in this decade to fulfill the American dream of hope and opportunity for us and for future generations. Until next week, thanks for listening. God bless you.