Hello fellow followers of Christ and welcome to the show that introduces you to the men and women behind history's greatest works of literature. Come along every week as we explore these renowned authors, the times and genre in which they wrote, why scholars praise their writing and how we as Catholics should read and understand their works. I'm Joseph Pierce and this is The Authority. Hello and welcome to The Authority where this week we'll be discussing one of the greatest of all English authors, sometimes called the father of English poetry or even the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer. So Geoffrey Chaucer was lived in the 14th century, was born sometime in the 1340s and dies in 1400. So writing in the late 1300s, he's a contemporary with the poet who wrote The Green Knight who was our focus in the last episode and just to remind ourselves he did a bit of comparison between whoever the anonymous poet who wrote The Green Knight is and Chaucer last week. But to remind ourselves Chaucer unlike the one that's a green poet, that's a Gawain and the Green Knight poet, living out in the West Midlands of England's you know, where cities like Birmingham are now. Chaucer was in London. Chaucer is at the heart of the politics and the court. So he was a courtier, he was a diplomat, he was a member of parliament. So he moved in the highest circles, the highest echelons of society. He was revered in his own lifetime. He was famous in his own lifetime. And he was the first poet to be installed at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.  You'll go to Poets Corner where many of the most famous poets in English language are buried where he was the first. So you know, he's called the father of the English language, the father of English poetry, the father of English literature. So perhaps he's appropriate, he should be the first person to be buried in Poets Corner. And when he was buried in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey was an abbey. Benedictine Abbey had been there for many years, centuries at that time, and was destroyed by Henry VIII, which was over a century after Chaucer's time. This is the century of Mary England, of Catholic England. This is the cultural backdrop to Chaucer's life. Now, why is he sometimes called the father of the English language or the father of English poetry? Well, it wasn't until the late 1300s that the lords, the ladies, the nobility, the aristocracy parliament began using English as the official language. It was always French prior to that. So the language of the aristocracy was French. The language of the university was Latin of the academics. The language of the ordinary people was English. And the first opening of parliament in English as opposed to French wasn't until Chaucer's lifetime. So what Chaucer does, he chooses to write in the vernacular. So he's not first writing in Latin. Dante, by the way, does the same thing. He also chooses not to write in Latin, which was really the language of literature up until that time, he chooses to write in the vernacular Italian. And Chaucer, following Dante's lead, and we know that Chaucer admired Dante, there's actually a quote by Chaucer about Dante, where he treats him as he should with the highest praise. So Chaucer chooses to write in English. But Chaucer's English is different from the old English, even the English of his contemporary, the Segre and the Green Knight poet is writing because it's now a fusion of two languages, the old English, which is Germanic, is now fused with the French, which is Latin in its roots. And one of the reasons for the richness of the English language is the fact it's really two languages that come together. So there's the word choice has obviously increased and just we can say freedom from the Germanic fry height, the German for freedom, or we can say liberty as in liberty in French. So we have that choice would Chaucer was the person who first if you like popularized this English, which was a fusion of the French and Germanic aspects of the language. He's best known for other works. He's best known for the Canterbury Tales. And that's what we got to focus on in this episode. Now it's an unfinished work. Now normally for works unfinished, you think, well, it's also in that case, not that good, perhaps, right, because it's not finished, except that in this case, the different tales are finished, one can presume what the sum of them are. And these tales stand alone as finished works. So the fragments of the unfinished whole are nonetheless, full, complete fragments in themselves. So some of these tales are finished works of art. So it's not spoiled, even though I keep using the metaphor of the missing piece, the jigsaw puzzle, well, these pieces of the jigsaw puzzle never existed, because Chaucer died before he could finish the Canterbury Tales, which was a hugely ambitious work anyway. But what's left is nonetheless one of the greatest works in the English language. I'm going to read what I wrote about Chaucer in my book, Literature, What Every Catholic Should Know, because sometimes I think I've said it the best I can already, and why should I garble something which I've expressed lucidly elsewhere. So this is talking about the general prologue to the Canterbury Tales, just very, very briefly. The idea of the Canterbury Tales is a group of pilgrims on their way from London, they meet up at a pub called the Tabard Inn in southern just south of the River Thames, not far from where later Shakespeare's Globe Theatre would be. And they are going to go on pilgrimage to Canterbury. And Canterbury, of course, is where the martyr Thomas Becket, that's where his shrine and tomb is, that's where he was murdered a few hundred or more years before this. And what they decide to do is they're going to tell each other's stories on the way there and on the way back. So you have this assembly of characters, most of whom are pretty miserable sinners with a couple of saints thrown in. And that's what I'm talking about here. So in the general prologue, we're introduced to the pilgrims before we get to any of their stories. The general prologue begins with an evocation of resurrected life. It is April. And sweet showers help to bring new life to every wood and field. This sets the scene for the resurrected spirit of people longing to go on pilgrimage. One such group of pilgrims meets by charts at an inn in London and decide to journey together to Canterbury telling each other stories along the way. We are then introduced to the pilgrims who are a motley group comprised mostly of reprobates who are evidently in need of the grace that a pilgrimage brings. There is the knight, a man of courage and martial prowess who joins the pilgrimage as an act of thanksgiving having returned from the wars. There is the knight's son, the squire, who has the courage of his father in battle, but is altogether a dandy in times of peace wearing the most fashionable clothes and hairstyle and delighting in music and dance. There is the less than holy prioress who is too prim and proper for her own good. Seeking the pleasures that opulence affords. Even worse than the prim prioress is the worldly monk whose wealth makes a mockery of his vow of poverty and whose heretical theology makes a mockery of his orthodox pretensions. As if the prioress and monk were not cause enough for scandal, the friar plums new depths of depravity committing acts of fornication and adultery, getting maidens pregnant and begging from the rich so that he can keep up his life of luxury and luxury. The role called of reprobates continues.  And yet in the midst of this doom and despondency, Chaucer kindles candles of sanctity to lighten our hearts and enlighten our way. There is the conscientious clerk, a student who prefers poverty and a life of learning over the comforts of the world. There is especially and magnificently the poor parson who exemplifies the calling of a good and holy priest, putting his hypocritical neighbors to shame and his life of simple service to the farthest flung members of his flock. And there is his and there is his brother, the ploughman, who living in peace and perfect charity, loving God above all, is the epitome of a true holy layman. And so it is that Chaucer seasons his largely objectionable menagerie of miserable sinners with a couple of saints, one representing the clergy and the other, the laity, who serve as candles in the dark, shining forth sanity and sanctity in the midst of the mayhem of the madness of sin. So I would particularly recommend if you don't read the whole of the general prologue of the candidate who tells at least read the passage which normally just titled the poor parson of the town. So the part of the general prologue which is about the parson, the holy parson, and I'm not going to read it because it's quite long, but I would recommend that you read it and there's no better place to read it than in poems every Catholic should know which is published by Tan books and compiled by yours truly here. So it's a chronological list of poems every Catholic should know and it includes the extract from the general prologue on the parson of a town. I want to talk about at least one of the tales while we're at it and my favorite probably is the nun's priest's tale. So this is you know the nun's priest, one of the pilgrims, a priest who's traveling in the service, a chaplain if you like for for the prioress. He tells a tale and it's a it's a fable. A fable of course is a story normally about animals but anthropomorphic animals in other words animals that can talk and think and of course these are normally allegories that teach moral lessons we think of esops fables for instance. So this fable is about Chantecler the rooster and Pertolote his favorite hen and and a fox amongst others. So Chantecler you know as with roosters if you've kept chickens and if you have kept chickens you will understand this even better than you will otherwise you know roosters are very pompous right prideful they they they look after their their flock they look after themselves first and foremost. So he suffers from pride and he has seven hens and again right we know that we're learning right our allegorical antennae are twitching seven hens well that might not mean anything straightaway but then when we come to see what it's about we realize the seven hens represent the seven deadly sins so he has a ha ha ha sure of seven deadly sins that he surrounds himself with all the time for his personal comfort now Pertolote his favorite Hen he is it signifies pride right the first and the worst of the seven deadly sins they it's the sin that once we have that gives us permission to commit the other six, right?  Why not? So she represents pride and then the third character is the fox. And it's very important that he's a coal fox, c-o-l. And the thing about a coal fox, it has black tips on both ears and a black tip on its tail. And as regards to caricature, that will remind us of the devil, right? Horn's tail. And he certainly plays the role of the devil. This fable is in some sense a representation of the fall of the story of Adam and Eve. So Chanticlea has a nightmare. And in this nightmare, he sees that he's tempted to come down from his high roost by a fox. And then, you know, the fox gets him, right? It's the nightmare. So he talks about this nightmare to Pertolote, his favorite hen, who tells him that to solo the nonsense.  And then there's a very long part of the fable where they talk about dreams. And Chanticlea, we've discovered that Chanticlea, this rooster is a great biblical scholar, not just a biblical scholar, a great scholar of the classics and antiquity. He gives all these examples of how prophets have had dreams and how the visions in dreams have proved to be prophetic and true and how God sends messages via dreams. And so that dreams are not things that could be just dismissed. Whereas Pertolote has actually, she's not as eloquent. She's not very clever.  And she says, you know, all you need to get rid of all that nonsense is a good laxative to help you sleep, right? Everything can be solved with physical medicine, with physics as a physician. And again, we have Chorsus Schumer here and in Latin, he says to her, because she's not very clever and she doesn't speak Latin. So she says, he says to her, in principle, mulie est hominus confusio, which he says to her immediately offers, Madam, the meaning of this Latin is woman is man's man's whole joy and happiness. Now, of course, if you know the Latin and you know the meaning of the original words, that's very funny. Because in principio mulio est hominus confusio is in the beginning, woman is man's confusion. And I guess this is this is obviously an allusion to Adam and Eve, okay? Whereas he says to her, knowing that she doesn't know Latin, woman is man's whole joy and happiness. So he's being facetious. Now, when this actually happens, we're told, just below what I've just read. Now, when the month in which the world began, the month called March, when God first created man, had ended. And since this beginning, two and 30 days and nights had passed also, it charged that Chanticlea in all his pride, his seven wives were walking by his side, etc. What date is that? Well, first of all, the date on which the world began, March. Now, you have to understand again, the mystical calendar. March, the 25th is the feast of the Annunciation. It's also historically seen to be the date of the crucifixion. Historically, it's also therefore, as obviously the Annunciation and the crucifixion are connected to the Fall, that the Fall is also seen to date back to March. And therefore, we get the creation March. Now, of course, literally, that's impossible, all right? Because before the sun, before the earth is circling the sun and we're rotating on its own axis, there aren't days and years and months. So obviously, this is not meant literally, it's meant literally. So connecting the creation of the world with the Annunciation, which did happen on a certain date and the crucifixion, which did happen on a certain date after months existed. So it's connecting all these things allegorically and biblically, theologically. But what is when the month in which the world began, the month called March, when God first created man, had ended and since his beginning, two or 30 days and nights had passed also. So March has ended, but then since its beginning, 32 and 30 days and nights have passed also.  You're April the first. What is April the first? April Fool's Day. And April Fool's Day is an old festivity that goes back, certainly the Chaucer's Time. This is another joke because this is about foolishness. What is sin? It's foolishness. What is the fall of Adam and Eve? It's foolishness. We talked about sanity and sanctity being synonymous or sin and madness or sin and stupidity are also synonymous. So all of this re-re-re-presentation of the story of the fall which this fable is now going to present is happening on April Fool's Day. It's the foolishness of man or in this case the foolishness of a rooster and a hen who represent man in the fable. So I'm going to read how the fox plays on Chanticleer's Pride. It's Chanticleer's Pride that makes him gullible enough for the fox to fool him. So where are we? Is the white page? Oh destiny, none of us can avoid a lass that Chanticleer flew from those beams. Alas, his wife had no belief in dreams. So he didn't listen to the wisdom of his dream and he came down that morning and it was a Friday. He bought this adventure. Okay, so we're already connecting all of it to March the 25th to the crucifixion and to the cause of the crucifixion which is the fall of man and in this case the fall of the rooster. Oh divine Venus goddess of pleasure, seeing that Chanticleer was your worshipper, right? He doesn't worship God, doesn't worship Christ on the cross. He worships Venus, the goddess of erotic love of pleasure and served you to the utmost of his power, much more for delight than to multiply. So he's not interested in the sexual activity to have children but merely for the pleasure it gives. How can you suffer him to die on Friday of all days for its sure days? So of course it was Friday, but the day of the crucifixion is a date that's connected to the goddess Venus who Chanticleer worships. So here we have the connection with the fall and the crucifixion. I thought I was going to read where the fox plays on Chanticleer's Pride, one of my notes. It must be further down here but I'm not going to look for it because I can't find it, fair enough. But basically what he said, I could tell you what he says anyway, that he flatters Chanticleer. So he says, you sing so beautifully. I wonder if he sing as well as your father did. Your father had the most beautiful voice. One day he even sang for me in my own house to my great pleasure, in other words when he ate him. And then he persuades Chanticleer, look, why don't you show me how well you can sing? So what does that involve of your rooster? If you've ever watched a rooster, well it closes its eyes so it can't see. It stretches its neck so it's plenty to grab onto and crows. And of course, flattered by his pride, this is what Chanticleer does to show what a beautiful voice he has. And it's what his eyes are closing, his neck is stretched, the fox grabs him and flies off with him. The farm is thrown to chaos. They're all trying to find out what's happened to the chicken. I've been in that scenario with my, we actually saved one of our own hens from a fox's mouth once. So that's another story. But I can sympathize with the chaos that ensues with the sound of the distressed rooster being carried off by the fox. But the fox has got away with it. He's going to escape. But then, Chanticleer says to the fox, why don't you, you don't have to run now. You've already safe. You can, when you turn around and gloat, right, sort of, because you've, you've run, right? So the, now the fox represents Satan is seduced by pride. And of course, he turns around and he's going to gloat. And what's he do? He opens his jaws. Chanticleer is released from the grip and then flies up onto a tree. And again, if you look at the symbolism, flying up onto a tree is symbolic of the cross. So what happens? Satan is deceived by his own pride. He falls by his own pride not once, but twice. He falls by his own pride, first of all, from heaven. But also, he falls in a sense of being foolishness for the humility of God in believing that in crucifying Christ, somehow or another, God could be defeated. There's a wonderful analogy I'm going to resist the temptation to talk about now from the line in which an award wrote by C.S. Lewis. But perhaps we'll get to that in a later episode of The Authority. But this relationship between pride and foolishness So and then the moral of the every fable has to have a moral, of course. So at the end of it, so let's have a look. So the fox says, when now Chanticleer is safe up in the tree, you know, come down and I should tell you what I meant. And I'll speak honest truth. So help me God. This is a devil swearing to God that he's going to tell the truth, right? And Chanticleer's response is no, I'll see us both damned first before I come down from this tree. But myself first and worst, both blood and bones before you trick me oftener than once, you know, once bitten twice shy. You're not with your soft soap and flatteries, get me to sing again and close my eyes. Tell to him who shuts his eyes when he should look. And that on purpose, the Lord send bad luck. All right, there's the first moral.  But if you think this tale a Trumpery about a fox and a cock and hen, don't overlook the moral, gentlemen, for everything that's written says Saint Paul is written surely to instruct us all. So take the corn and let the chaff fly still. Now gracious Father, if it be thy will, as our Lord promised, make us all good men and bring us to his heavenly bliss are men. So as with the green night, which we discussed in the last episode, it ends with a prayer that God in his mercy may deliver us from sin and take us with him to heaven. Now, just to finish that this is just one of the tales. I want to focus on one of the tales. They're not all fables. But Chaucer chose to end with the Parsons tale, which is which is interesting for a couple of reasons. The Parsons, of course, the saint that we've been introduced to in the in the general prologue that we talked about, it Chaucer ends with with the saint having the last words. And what's interesting, it's not a story. It's not a tale. The Parsons are not interesting at telling another story. The Parsons is interested in giving it's a sermon on the seven deadly sins and the necessity of penitence. And basically, all the stories in some sense are woven on the theme of sin and the consequences of sin and the necessity of repentance. But the Parsons how ties it all together. And although the work's unfinished, but we know that it was Chaucer's intention that it would conclude with this sermon on the seven deadly sins by the saint in the company of the pilgrims, the Parsons. And although it was meant to come last, he seems to have written it first or towards the beginning. So it was always his intention throughout the whole thing that it would end basically with a straightforward prosaic non fictional story, just a sermon are treaties on the seven deadly sins and the necessity of penitence. And then we're going to end with Chaucer's retractions before he died, his own act of a penance, if you like, which shows what a holy man he was at least at his death, irrespective of anything else. So these are his words, slightly modernized, thankfully, because it would be difficult for me to read and difficult for you to understand otherwise. Now I pray all those who hear or read this little treatise, if there be anything in it which pleases them to thank our Lord Jesus Christ from whom proceeds all wisdom and all goodness. And if there be anything that displeases them, then I pray them to ascribe the fault to my incompetence and not my will. For I would gladly have spoken better had I the ability. As the Bible says, all that is written is written for our instruction and that has been my aim. And so I meekly beseech you for God's mercy that you pray for me, that Christ have mercy upon me and forgive me my trespasses, in particular my translations and my authorship of works of worldly vanity which I revoke in my retractions. Troilus and Cressida, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women, the Book of the Duchess, the Parliament of Fowls, those are the cantibutals that conduce to sin, the Book of the Lion, and many other books, if I could remember them, and many a song and a shivious lay for which Christ and his great mercy forgive me this sin. But for the translations of the Constellation of Boethius and other books of legends of the saints and works of morality and devotion, for these I thank our Lord Jesus Christ and his blessed mother and all the saints of heaven in treating them that they should send me grace to lament my sins and attend to my soul salvation from henceforth till the day I die and grant me the grace of true penitence, confession and penance in this present life, through the merciful grace of him who is king of kings and priest over all priests, who redeemed us with the precious blood of his heart, and I may be one of those who shall be saved on the day of doom. Those are the words of a saint, at least at the time he wrote those in true spirit of contrition and humility, and I can't think of any better way of ending this episode of the authority except with that wonderful prayer from this wonderful poet, one of the greatest English language, Geoffrey Chaucer. We can actually move from someone who is certainly trying to be a saint in Geoffrey Chaucer in the next episode to someone who has been canonized as a saint. In the next episode of The Authority, we will look at the work, the poetry of the great Jesuit Martyr from the time of Shakespeare, Saint Robert Suther. Until then, thanks so much for joining me in The Authority, and goodbye and God bless. This has been an episode of The Authority with Joseph Pierce, brought to you by Tan. For updates on new episodes and to support The Authority and other great free content, visit theauthoritypodcast.com to subscribe and use coupon code Authority25 to get 25% off your next order, including books, audiobooks, and video courses by Joseph Pierce, on literary giants such as Tolkien, Chesterton, Lewis, Shakespeare, and Bellach, as well as Tan's extensive catalogue of content from the saints and great spiritual masters to strengthen your faith and interior life. 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The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Hazel Chapman. Call now, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Yes, this is the Tiger Technicians Hour, and my service here is the opening call of the AD Newslet as for subscribers to my AD Newslet that goes out at about 8, between 8 and 8.30 every morning. It's so interesting. Years ago, I used to say, I can't send it out before the 8.30 report and whatever it is, there's always something inflation, interest rates, China, you name it, impeachment, everything, there was everything on the cards. And then for about a year now, I've seen myself, you know, if you go back all the way to M1 and M2 and M3, the M1 used to, Barons used to have this report out and there used to be a big fuss about it. And it was on a Thursday, and I remember waiting for the report. And over the years, I just found that, no matter what, unless there's a trigger point where the market is so vulnerable, it's about either to turn down or turn up. Whatever the Fed says or whatever the report says, it really changes the course of the tide that's in place. But what's really fascinating is that over this period, I found that just doing my homework and sending out the newsletter, it kind of avoids either my being influenced by the market or by what's said. I'm just looking at the charts and I found it's such a big help. So I had a question from someone just the other day is, how do you separate the emotion from the technicals? Well, it's almost like reading the paper. It's the news that you see in front of you that activates whatever impressions it's going to make is what you don't hear or don't see, which is a ton that really is behind the scenes. And that's really just keep the attitude that I'm looking at the chart and I'm just going to do whatever the chart says. So within that context, what I'm looking at here is now the dow is down 33 points and the nine-period moving average, let me go to the dow, flipped negative, but look at this. It flipped negative with a potential dreaded H-pat. In other words, this arch formation. I've got only a line, no bars, anything. This is the closing price of the dow. Look at the S&P, even though it's down right now about 17 points. Look at this. The nine-period moving average went negative, went pink right there, and then it popped positive yesterday and today it's still positive, but it is attempting to turn down. Look at the QQQ in the X100. So the S&P at that point was down 17 and 41, 20. The QQQ is at 322, 17, down $1.50. Look at that M-shaped pattern, but the nine is still way over the 14. Let's get a sip of tea there. So I'm looking at IWM Russell 2000. The opposite is being negative for some time and it's staying negative. Now when I sit in the update that this so far isn't bearish action on a very short term, just an intraday basis, absolutely it's bearish if it's going down, but wait a minute. We're looking at a very interesting situation here. We're looking at a huge spike here. It is on the Dow on Friday. I mean, look at this. You had a huge spike on the 27th of April and was followed through by another big gain the following session that a doji candle and a peak it turned out to be a peak year 34,257 on the 1st of May. And look at what happened. It had a huge down candle, another one. It broke the support level. It hit the 200 p.m. moving average, tried to rally, failed to rally, but what's really interesting about this is that the support level of this channel, inside check, remember I like to take two trend lines, narrow them up so that they look like a little mini channel, and that often gives you the parameters for where, what did I just, what did I look at a moment ago? I would like to show you right here at the top. Look, I'll drag the daily chart on the left across over the weekly arrow. Look, I joined the upper wicks to get a trend line in the daily chart from the high that was made back in March in about 32,572. I made a little inside track, repellent zone. It went right to that level and got repelled. Well, look how beautifully the support level was holding until it took it out the other day and now look how it's acting as a resistance. So when I say this isn't the kind of bearish action what I'm talking about is often move up like that. You see the red candles from the high that was made in 34,032 back in January, big red candle. Then a follow-up, big red candle, even bigger on the next day. And then a small red candle, then you made that low that was at the base, dashed line that I'm showing you here, and it started to rally. So what I'm saying is that at this particular point, the action that I would expect if we're going into a strongly reversed down phase is that today should close a day's young. It's only down 46 in the Dow. The Dow should close at about 170. And then I'll say, you know what, now we can get the Chatham Wave dreaded H pattern with a follow-through to the downside because the MACDs week, the stochastics only at 40% on balance volumes week, but price is the arbiter of the trend and the price is hugging the 9 and 14 period moving averages right now. So it's saying, I'm not too interested. So for subscribers, we've got about another eight minutes to go. We missed by just a fraction going along the Dow, one of the ETFs that we used. That's okay because if by 10 o'clock it hasn't done it, then it means that there's a chance that we could rally the rest of the day then we'll have to deal with it in a different way. But what's really important is that weekly chart is still holding very well. With the lines over the 14, the MACDs, the stochastics at 82%, I still see enough residual strength to kind of, I'm anticipating that we've got a rectangle formation here. And the rectangle formation says that the S&P has enough strength to kind of meander sideways, maybe try for the 4150s at some point the next few days, but it makes the 4100 to 40, I say 4087 to 82 is really important to hold. If you start to take that out, I suspect that the nine-period moving average between positive, the fact that it's gone underneath the inside track support level is important to me because now it's got to get above it very quickly. It did that for two days, Friday and Monday. Today it's under it. I'm watching closely because this could turn into a peak C1, C2, and we go into a rectangle here. In other words, I think that the upside is fairly limited. I see enough residual strength that it could be further pups to the upside, but I'm saying that I think it's more choppy choppy for the next week. 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Available to all Tigers and Tigresses for just $1 for the year. There's no catch or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Carlos, we're back. Just while we're looking at the commodity side of the two games, go right now. A question about natural gas. Natural gas, the UNG is down 0.01 at 2.22. This is very interesting because the technical aspect says that until the... Let me go to the natural gas continuous contract. Oh, that's what I got. Natural gas continuous contract. Until I see trading in the two... Actually, I'm going to be a little aggressive here. I'm going to say the 2.48 to 2.53 area. When I say trading, I mean over three days it doesn't drop below 2.20 because it's up in the 2.40s and then 2.50s. That would say to me, finally, the weekly chart is going to see a little bit of strength. I don't see that at all yet, but a little bit of strength to start the technical indicators improving and that can only happen if the data is... In other words, the data, the short term leads the next level of timeframe and I haven't seen it yet. So the UNG, let me give you that. Here we go. That is at the low of the day right now at 6.48 down 0.5. It's not that it's broken down. It's just that I need to see rallies that are sustained. Look, you can't have the sudden two-bar gap up and then fail, which it's done so many times and this is the third bar up. It had one gap, but this is the second bar after the gap up bar. So I'm just looking at this and saying there's no evidence yet that natural gas is giving you signs and of course it is also the wrong month, but that might not hold true at all. So what I was saying before is we were looking at the dollar and I said, the way I'm looking at this market is that yes, when the dollar rallies, very often you get a commensurate kind of a struggle in the market itself. There's a relationship there, but I suspect that the dollar is just stuck in a range that at this point won't go that far. And especially if you're looking at gold, gold right now is up only $1.7. It was up much more earlier on. It had 2040, now it's at 234. It's really not bad considering what's going on, but my suspicion is this right arm extension. It's almost like a rogue wave spike that ran on the third and fourth of May and it went to 2085.4, 2085. I think that's just a repeal. That top says to me that gold is probably going to have a tough time breaking that right now. It's more likely to fill in the lower part between I'd say 240 and 2005. If it breaks 2005 in the next couple of days, then I think that weekly chart is saying, okay, I'm going for this. Let me do this so you can see it. I like to repeat patterns over and over because patterns repeat over and over. And all you have to do is identify them. So here we are. This is going to be green. It's the inside bar right there. And now they are. So this is the same thing we've been seeing. Remember S&P? Remember this is the pattern we were looking at right there. You've got it in gold in the weekly chart, GC. So I'm just saying the way I'm looking at it, there's a rotation through the leadership. These sudden spikes when you've got fantastic news and you've got stocks like a meta screaming up. But look what's happened. Since it ran up, made the high. It's had five bars, mostly lower highs and lower lows except for today. And it is a leg E in the weekly chart. If you look at Microsoft, okay, I want to go through some stocks now.  I will be doing the two o'clock show. You'll have a bit of a break. He's been doing these two hours for a little while now. And I'll be doing my show tomorrow morning and then I'm out for a while. I'll try while I'm away to do a remote. If I'm able to do it and get it going to do. I hate changing all my instruments or the electronics because when I come back, I find the microphone is picking up on Skype on a different. It just gets complicated. So we'll see what happens. But we'll be here Thursday, Friday and next week. Then I'm back. So what I am looking at is a spike in Microsoft and that really helped trigger that big move up. And that says to me that big move up on Friday. Was it Friday? I think it was Friday. Tastes just seem to be flying by Friday. And now we're going to see what happens. So okay, I want you to show you when you're looking at when you're looking at the GDX. And we went through this the other day, but I want you to do it again. Look how well it's holding holding well sideways is fine. If there's no deterioration in the technicals and so far, there's only a slight deterioration. I wouldn't even say it's a deterioration. And I drew this in. I don't know why I didn't finish it to do it kind of a cup formation. Really should be much tighter than that. This just gives too much leeway. So let me go up there. Let me go there. And now you can see we're trying to make a cup formation. I'm watching it very closely. GDX, the gold miners. Look at the silver. Silver made a double top almost to the penny in the continuous contract. And now if you look at the technicals, oh, I didn't do this. I thought I did. The technicals on the left side of that mid-April high right there. And the technicals on three days, Friday's high. Look, the MagD deflected lower. The stochastics now under 80% at 73%. But that nine is still over the 14. Keep in mind to me, that's absolutely imperative to monitor. That's the thing that's holding the price up at this particular point in the next week. And going into next week, if the continuous contract of silver trading at 25.80 right now, actually it doesn't even have to close. It just has to spike into the 20, 26, 75, maybe touch 27. That's a different ballgame altogether. And then I would suspect that the dollar will be pulling back sharply again to retest the 100 to 99 level. At this point, the dollar is showing some strength, but it's really just sideways bouncing within a range. EUR, USD, I just want to get these done. It's because the rest of the day I want to be doing charts to show you what I'm looking at. EUR is pulling back. And that just hints to me that you've got in the daily chart. The weekly chart is still pretty good. Hints to me that you've got some kind of a digestive phase going on in the EUR, which corresponds to what I'm looking at in gold, and looking at the USDJPY, which is the yen, the USDJPY's yen currency pair. It did that beautiful double top. Oh, a lot of double tops. Double top to the 137.91 high that was made back in March. It went right to the 137s about a week ago. And now it's pulled back to the 200 period moving average. It looks to me like it can have a little bit of a bounce, but basically it's stuck in a range. And that corresponds to what I'm seeing in the dollar. Now I wanted to go to high grade copper, HG, down at the bottom, it's down 0.98%, down 0.03 at 3.89. Just going nowhere. This corresponds to Wood, the iShares global timber and forestry ETF, peak A. So let me show you here. You can do the exact opposite. You can say this low that was made around about the 27th of April at 24th of April at 68.75 had rising technicals when it made the test at 68.91 on the 27th. If it starts to close above, let's make it in the 73.25 area, it's at 72.07. That would be a bit of a positive for the global timber and forestry ETF. That was down 23, it has to be down 14. I'll be right back. 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Educating investors. Hi, folks. I was asked if I would look at XLI. XLI, this is really, in a sense, the true industrials. S&P select industrials try to find much more than the Dow industrials called the industrials. I mean, those days are gone. It's just the Dow 30. It's no more industrials. So this is trading at 99.21 up 6 cents. But if you look, I'm going to do this. I haven't done it for ages. We haven't had many of them. There's a technique that I've used for years and years, not years. Since 1986, I believe it is. I remember I had a good friend and he had someone on a completely different thing doing a business deal from this person from France and he invited me over just to discuss some things about the project that was there. And I can't even recall how it came about, but I suddenly realized that there's a pattern that I can look at that looks so much like a stalk.  And then the body has a neck, and the neck doesn't have to be all that long, and then there's a long beak. And I thought, wow, isn't that an interesting pattern. I've used this for years and years and years. So what happens is it cannot look like, look, this cannot look like a rectangle. Why? Because it's got slightly higher highs and at the bottom it's got slightly lower lows and now it's starting to come back to the middle, making a triangle in the middle. It really looks like a stalk leg, and this is the weekly chart of the XLI. And now what I usually do is I type in a leg, then I type in body, then I type in, and this has not happened yet, neck, and then I type in, a little later on, comes the beak. Now all of this can change, but what happens in this particular pattern is it does not take, this bottom doesn't get taken out. If it get taken out, it's done with the pattern completely. But if it holds, when it eventually breaks the top and starts the neck, that's where you've got to be careful because from the neck it comes back and tests either the top of the body, or it breaks that. If it takes out the bottom, that beak after the next form, the beak, if that beak takes this body out, it can go a lot lower. But if it holds steady, and basically it looks like this, in fact I'll draw it in now because it's such a fun thing to watch. It can fail. You're not the boss, remember? The chart is the boss. You're just following it as best you can. Like that, like that, like that. And then you get the neck. If the neck goes a little too high, it becomes a propeller shaft where one of the legs up and the body can have an equal ascent to the top and that becomes, it looks like a propeller shaft. And then the rule is that the beak, where it stops is most important. But when it does stop, it's extremely bullish for a very brief period and then you're on your own. So we'll watch this. Now I can say this particular point is still stuck. I don't see anything happening yet. I actually see it more arching over to retest the 98, 28, and 200-period moving average of the daily. If at any point in the next five sessions there's a pop into the 120 to 150 area, that's exactly what you want to see. You want to see another test of the daily rectangle formation and you know rectangle formation can last a lot longer than your patients. And then when it does break to the top, if it comes back and then takes out halfway.  If it takes that out and closes underneath the midpoint of the rectangle, there's a real good chance that it'll not only want to test the 200-period moving average in this case, but it'll test the lows. So the whole bunch of things to look at, I just think that it will be a little early. I would not rush to get in this. If you're looking at stocks like a Caterpillar, C-A-T, look Caterpillar, struggling sideways to down. If you're looking at deer, look struggling sideways to down. If you're looking at, let's go just coming this engine. I don't know if it's in there. Look, sideways to down. Let's look at the cyclicals. This is US Steel-X on the way down. Remember we spoke about this the other day? I was, Jane, want to know about NUE. I said, no, I don't like this. This is not working out well at all. I'd be real careful. I'd make a tight stop. And the other one she was looking at was Tesla. This is actually a problem. This should go into the cyclical sector because this is, I mean, autos, right? But it isn't. And this has also gone in a big arch formation. It's really struggling at this particular point. Look at the weekly chart. A to B equals C to D. That's the Tiger for National News Network lightning bolt pattern. And it's the same thing in a much larger context for the weekly, for the monthly for 1450 down to the two tennis area, bounces up to 320, comes back down and tests the most recent low at 100. So this is these patterns. I'm a little worried about the cyclical. I'm a little worried about the XLF. Although it's holding quite well when you consider what's going on. XLF is minus 17 and 32.22. Now the KRE, this is still in place. Although we did have a trade on this. I made such a tight stop. It took a little bit of a loss. I don't mind because there was the chance that this became, it didn't fulfill all my requirements for a Chapman Wave price of volume climax. But it still says the 34.52 low that was made on the 4th of May. That's how that holds is going to be really important. Because if the Israeli in the S&P regional banking ETF, and of course I asked myself, anyone would naturally ask, what are you thinking about? This has been under duress, serious duress. There's nothing yet to say that it's out of there. Well, we'll see what happens. But in the meantime, it's looking quite poorly. The arch formation is filled in the gap from the other day. So it's not looking too great. I want you to also do within this context, just because this particular pattern here, Chapman Wave price volume climax had this huge volume at the low and then gapped up and it held pretty well until actually even today, it's still not bad. It's just not doing exactly what I wanted. So that takes me to Schwab. I was asked, could you look at Schwab again? Schwab is trading at 47, 68. It was more than 28 days. It's about 9, 30, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 40, 41. It's about 44 days now, since the 45 round number low of the 13th of March. It's really struggling. So in that whole context, the financials are... I need to see the financials of the semiconductors start to lead at some point and there's no sign yet that they want to lead. Here's the SMHs. 118.57 was the low on the 27th. Nice bar yesterday, giving some of it back. Still with a red, nine-period moving average. If at any point in the next week, the SMHs, the seminars could even hit... I'd like, I usually say just touch it. 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This is the move that says peak A, peak B right now. This is the move that says if it's able to get to the further away, it gets from the 2.91-200-period moving average level and tries to tackle this reverse jet wave red Roman candle on the 20th of April 3.42. The sooner it can get to the 3, oh, I'd say 3 halfway marker with 3.24. If it can touch 3.24 and making this U-shaped pattern, so you've got a large U, this is not a proper cup, I've made it a cup only because I chose a particular candle high to make the cup formation, but there's a second one, it's almost like a cup, a big, deep cup in the handle pattern. I want to see if this is able, I actually I quite like this stock in terms of what's done with the sideways consolidation with the 9 now flipping over to green, that says if it's able to get to 3.24 we can make a full cup formation and that cup formation says that by about yes, as long as it holds 2.90 on a closing basis I must be a little more conservative, I'm going to do this left side, right side price time match, we'll go to the doji candle right there, speedies of the essence in this particular big bear dot ai holdings and I forgot to write down what they do make this green, whatever they do, they're doing something right on a very short term because it's holding very well. Okay, so I'm going to just move this out a little bit, that's my chap move inside wedge target resistance line, that's the line that you want to see, you don't want to see the dreaded H pattern right here go negative, one of the reasons why here we go, why this H that goes this lowercase H that goes to a beautiful cup formation works, is that if you start to see a couple of closes above the arch high, in this case above the 308 level that was made on the 1st of May, that says I'm going to go to the next level up the icon that's in the way which is inside wedge target resistance line which is way up here at 3, it depends when, 352. Alright another question was BBAI, BBAI which is oh, that was BBAI the other one was DoCN I believe, DoCN yes, DoCN has a little bit similar pattern, this is digital ocean holdings, cloud computing and infrastructure, service I think it's infrastructure for cloud this has a peak D in the weekly chart, peak E was made way back in April and then it came all the way from just under 40, about 39 down to the trough D in the 28 and now look what it's doing, it's got a nice candle today, is this the one that had earnings today, well it's holding very nicely, it's up 85 cents at 34.06 up 2.65, I like that action and that just says that if it can move even just a little bit higher than today's high which is 34.81 training at 34.15 in the next couple of days if it can get to the 35.23 ish area if it can get to that in the next couple of days, I would say by Tuesday the 35.97 200 period moving average could be hit but it must hold today's low of 31.50, alright next question I had was, oh I saw it earlier on there it is, okay question P-L-T-R so I read that Palantir that's the that was the Palantir Technologies Inc, that's the company that made those, that sold those very expensive bikes this is your health we're going to put that in there that's the peak A, right this can't be an A because it's the bar that made the low you have to make it trough before you can start your wave count so that's A, that's B so Palantir finally got the act together remember these are the guys that were stuck with all these bikes and they had this gym course that cost a bundle as well and everything that you could think of that could go wrong, went wrong suddenly everything is coming right up to 20% at 936, 20% on a stock like this Tommy Jr always talks about the power of round numbers sorry, the power of low numbers that the percentages always sound fantastic but when you're coming from the 9s or the 7s it's easy if you just pop up a little bit to say oh what a fantastic percent but look at this beautiful left side right side price time I didn't see this, I wouldn't have bought it I just I didn't know enough about this company it's always been a mystery to me but actually when I think about it and I don't do treadmill very often because I play quite a lot of tennis when I think of treadmill and how bored I get they are really dealing with that boredom very very nicely so it didn't take out that left side low that was made back on the 13th of March of 719 so it went all the way down to 7 28 9 cents higher 3 days ago earnings come out and now it's rocketed using the 200-period moving average as a springboard so this says to me it's in play but it needs to follow up I don't want to do the whole thing with gaps at this particular point I'm just going to say if it doesn't reach by Friday if it hasn't hit 987 it will probably touch 10 I'm just going to say there's a chance that this is a really good takeoff and says that things are starting to go right but it needs some backing and filling in the 850s to really get going so it's something to watch now it's in play because it did have an earnings report that was good so oh can you see what it looks like in your system thank you will it get to the mid-teens eventually yes I think it will there will be if this market is able to get on its feet and have a decent ready in the summer then even though there's outdoor activity and everything this is the area that should benefit some but if you're saying to me is this fantastic long-term buy I would say it needs more than one quarter of good earnings to really settle that part of the equation at this particular point the weekly chart is saying yes I could really I'd like to go above into the 12s above the high that was made back in August of last year I'm making the cup formation there's a left side, right side price time match which means we're kind of running out of time but all I can say is that this coming week which will be the week of May the 15th through the 19th depending on what goes on of course we've got a lot of things coming up you know the debt they do the whole debt crisis every single time and then it gets resolved how far are we going to be pushed this time I don't know I mean we just suck as we just sit there listening to what politicians are saying in the meantime back at the ranch I can just say that if somehow or other if you get through this there's parts of different things that are going on and the Dow can actually start to trading the 34,000 735,100 area that would be really good and it's helpful stuff I'll be back in a moment for the final segment we'll be doing the 2 o'clock eastern time TFNN has just launched their new trading room Tiger's Den hosted at Discord TFNN has been educating traders for more than 20 years with live programming hosted by a variety of professional traders during market hours and now they are expanding their reach with the Tiger's Den available to all Tigers and Tigresses for just $1 for the year 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we don't know of but if it's earnings surely it could be way better by now so I'm looking at this with the rectangle on the weekly chart and all I can say is if the earnings are good this thing could balance about four or five points quite quickly it really have to be a very negative thing for it to suddenly slide into the $124.123 area so so far it looks kind of good so let me just wrap it up I think that we having a sideways consolidation here it's the consolidation that we started in a sense yesterday of the big spike up yet spike up on Friday all I can say is that so far this is not the usual bearish with the downs down 380 to 420 points the recipes down 65 to 85 points that's not here at all and that just says this is residual strength for the markers trying to move up and that's the way I'm looking at it right now and within that context make it real simple if by off the 3 o'clock if the Dow is down more than 65 points it's going to be probably a negative closes I don't see how you get it ready at the end of the day but if it's actually up even 35 points just goes green and the S&P has come back from minus after now minus maybe minus 5 or even less I think there'll be some buying into the close I'm kind of liking what I see right now even though we missed by fractions getting into another and added position to our longs in the Dow the U Dow but that's that's the way it goes now the other thing to watch is the semiconductors are still weak down to 75 I'm not happy with that at all I want them to start leaving very soon so that's why I'm saying it's walking and I think for the next couple it's stuck to a great big range but a range nevertheless kind of goes sideways I'll be back a little later and I'll check out more before I get used to it and I'll see you later


I found the perfect architect, the project manager, for the series of buildings that we're going to build. And we're going to have him on stage right now to tell you about what he's going to do. Socrates, come on stage. I always kind of hate introductions like that. I'm far from perfect, I can guarantee you that.  There's always something to learn, it's terribly complex, and you're designing for a particular place and time that then changes and shifts over its evolution. So it's typically a snapshot in time, and so it becomes a very difficult and challenging thing to plan for an immediate need that transcends into a future one. But that's essentially what architecture does, and we need to actually design buildings that actually look at the life cycle of how they're going to be potentially be utilized. Anthony and I have had a conversation over the last three, three and a half years regarding culture, politics, and the environment in which 21 studios and 21 universities are finding itself. And it's driven a lot of thought and process as far as the business goes. At first I would like to discuss a little bit about the context in which we're talking, just a little bit of frame for you to guys that understand the general realm in which we're dealing with. We live in a tremendous age of opportunity. At no other time in the history of mankind have we been able to, at an individual level, communicate, connect, and share information. It is literally the digital age, okay? 21 studios, 21 universities, and 21 conventions is a ramification of this as an organization and as individuals. We would never have met had it not been for this capability. It is also the challenge of our time. The digital frontier is over. The social justice warriors have ridden into town and they intend to bring along leftist civilization and control with it. It is exemplified by a degree of intolerance and repression and the policies of self-destruction or a personal destruction, sorry. It is literally a new digital age inquisition. We are finding resistance to ideas and concepts and rationality based on doxing, literally an intelligence process to identify, name, shame, and destroy individuals. This is no longer about providing an alternative reason, alternative argument. It is literally violence over reason. Violence over civility, civility, sorry, excuse me. We're also seeing deep platforming. Anthony gave a great example of that where we talk about taking digital content and putting it into a ghetto, a digital ghetto. We look at a number of other things where we're looking at removing opinions from the stage of discourse. These are neither healthy or appropriate. We're also seeing demonetization, removing the means in which people can fund further exploits of ideas, concepts, and awareness. We're also seeing a degree of libeling, slandering.  Now we don't, those days are past. It's not even enough to do just that. We're relabeling you as a hate group, and then we're required to treat you as such.  You're pushing it.  These are pimps. We also see and have seen historically, and it's becoming more and more apparent, the physical disruption of venues and lawful assembly.  All these things are not only just being utilized, they're being celebrated in pop literature, absolutely discussed as how to stop thought movements. The last one is intimidation. Starts to boil down to this is the idea to deter individuals by compulsion of threats either directly or indirectly. Ultimately, it's not the external threats of removing my voice from this platform from that video. That's the aim. The aim is to remove it from you, attending, from you from having the thoughts, from you even thinking about raising a voice. And this is necessary. It is absolutely a requirement for your exploitation. You are being groomed to be exploited. You are being groomed to have your rights and abilities taken. They are treating you like cattle, and you are going to get milked and processed accordingly.  As men, you're expected to provide, and you will, and will tax you, and you'll be cuffed into servitude. The chains will not be literal, but you will still fill them. This is the environment in which 21 studios and 21 universities find itself. We are going to have to develop a range of applications and strategies business-wise to meet our needs, to continue to provide the content we have and to give to you. I'm going to give you an example. Approximately a year and a half ago, there was very real consideration about actually hosting this event today, the 10-year anniversary in the LA studios of YouTube, a facility explicitly designed to do this, to create content, to share that content, right? And we're not, for a reason, we're not welcome. We're not welcome because we stand opposed to the orthodoxy. We stand opposed to some of their central tents. And it is not to learn, share, or create content, because to be honest, there has been a tremendous union between YouTube and 21 studios and 21 universities, all right? There's a cost involved here, there's a physical cost, this room, this hotel, this ballroom costs money, okay? That's going to be overhead costs for organizations such as this that could have been shared in a facility designed to provide and host all this, all right? We have to create alternatives. Now luckily enough, we're already prepared to do that. Other organizations actually have to learn how to host and provide venues, assemble people, host them, and actually conduct the process of actually having a convention such as this. Luckily, Anthony started with this. The second one is going to be the higher individual costs. And it's not necessarily the ticket price for us to pay for this to cover the overhead. The real cost is, you'll never hear me talk again. You won't hear a Varela. You won't hear of the individual we're not even aware of. Because his voice will be silenced. His ability to reach you, you to find him or her will not be exist, and that is the intention. The good news is, we've been here before. We've absolutely been here before historically. This is not the first time we've seen this. I'm a massive fan of the Gutenberg press. The age of print revolutionized the world as we know it. Previously, it would take a single scribe, a year or greater, to create one document that was called the Bible. With this invention of the printing press, you're able to produce thousands in the same period of time under superior quality of conditions. It removed the ability to have an interpreter between you and the Word of God. Imagine the ramifications of that. A common man could read in his own language the word of God directly. You did not need a priestly class to do it for you. That concept would play out, moving forward, after the revelation of this technology. And this is where we come across the nice German monk. He was a decent fellow, and he had some issues with the church's practices of indulgences. So he wrote a letter and sent it off. It's kind of a litany of complaints and some rationalities. And it was meant as discourse, an objection to what was taking place. The pushback from the orthodoxy was rather extreme. And because of the pushback, his resolve and purpose was hardened. And he was further convinced. And it drove the direction of his thought process and created a movement. That movement was the Protestant Reformation, Torah Park the Church, Torah Park Europe. In the course of two years, that technology printed out over 300,000 copies of his theses and distributed them across Europe. And the cat was out of the bag. Mass communication, connectivity to people, to ideas unrestricted from a governing class. Ultimately, the Protestant Reformation led to a number of things. You're going to recognize them. Ultimately, it was a renaissance for Europe, the beginning of the European Renaissance. It also led to, quite literally, the age of enlightenment. It also led to the modern sciences as we know it. My personal pride and joy is that the age of enlightenment, the pinnacle of that was the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, removing tyranny and destroying human rights, individual. When we talk about our form of government, it is a unique study in this evolution. And it took several hundred years of tremendous amount of bloodshed to get to that point. When you can't argue through words, inappropriate means will take hold, usually resolving violence. We want to prevent that. We're not in support of that. We mean to discuss, and we mean to argue, we mean to proper ideas. 21 Studios is a platform for those ideas. 21 Studios is absolutely in a similar cultural situation. We're facing an orthodoxy. That's restrictive and oppressive. And the responses is to censor and to mean. We also live in a transformational age. Unlike the printing press, the ability to digitize information and spread it globally is vastly superior. It is unbelievable. And this is something that's relatively new. It actually, I transcend this period. I was shocked by my first email after I wrote my first couple of blog posts. I was contacted in the middle of the night. Email comes through. Somebody read something. They found it profound, implemented in their life. And they said, we wanted to say thank you. It was somebody in New Zealand. I had no idea somebody in New Zealand would read anything I would ever write. Not only that, she was a female. I was distinctly writing for men, and women were reading. Not only reading it, found it beneficial and helpful. I had no idea. It escaped my concepts. It escaped my sense of reality, or potential, or penchantiality. I didn't think it was possible. This is the world that 21 studios exist in. I don't think any of us had an idea that this was possible. The results, though, of what Anthony's been able to achieve is right now today. There's over 125,000 subscribers. 125,000 people that will receive a message at a push of a button. There's over 20 million views and counting daily of video content. And he has a library of over 2,000 different videos of people providing content information that you have access to. This is an entire library, and it is growing. And he has absolutely every intention to increase this. Likewise, 21 studios in Anthony was initially it was the objections to the orthodoxy of the day. Feminism and feminism and franchisement was literally a discussion of objections of the removal from central tenants of human nature. It was supposed to be men as a discussion amongst people, men, women, about families, about their health, about their fitness, about their relationships, and how we relate to each other. But because of the pushback, this man has gotten greatly hardened by it. It has also solidified his resolve. It has also given him purpose. It also affects a lot of the alumni speakers. I know personally I have been transformed by a lot of this. I'm not the only speaker that has. It is also very much reflected in the current list of speakers we have for this convention. It is also reflective in the direction in which Anthony intends to take the organization. Ultimately, I think what you're going to end up seeing is a masculine reformation. You're going to see not only a rise of men, but a return to men. I hold a unique place in the 21 studios and 21 convention. It's something that a lot of people don't know about. I think even people who are close to the organization may not quite understand. And so I think it's fair to actually kind of discuss my involvement with that and with Anthony. And there are three primary areas in which I want to go through. I have a historical presence. I was with Anthony prior to actually the conception of it. I was involved in a self-help group at the time that he was a member of. We had started individually prior to Anthony, kind of a mastermind group kind of started doing it. We started changing and sharing information back and forth. We're holding each other accountable. And there was a tremendous growth in not only myself but the individuals involved. Anthony was part of that. Part of that, though, is that we actually expanded the number of individuals in the group and started to become fairly large. At one point, I would have five or six people. I'd have them in my house. We would discuss it over an evening and kind of move on very much like a book reading club. It ultimately evolved into about 30 or 40 people showing up at my house at one time. It wasn't just mine. There were several other individuals doing it. And we'd move from house to house every month, every year, every month. The problem is that it just became too encumbering. You just couldn't hold host that many people. So we actually started using a local library. We'd actually check out their local conference room, actually have a Fairleigh Science. And it was very similar to what you're seeing here, just absolutely not nearly as commercially-based. It was just picnic tables, your community library. And it was nice. It continued. And then, unfortunately, they decided to change the policy and they were going to charge us $35 for the room for two hours. I didn't think it would go anywhere. The guys actually did it. They paid for it. And it was successful. And it started to grow. We started getting more and more people. I thought it was interesting when we actually had guys from Tampa coming over specifically for the event. And I'm like, wow, that's kind of cool. After one of these meetings, we're coming out of the hallway, we're heading out. We're going to grab a bite to eat, probably a beer.  It was in that room.  We got to make this thing huge. It's got to be epic. I kept using that term, epic. I'll never forget. I had not known the individual very well at the time. We had known each other socially, online. I was more aware of his reputation within the group. Young, determined, tremendous amount of energy.  There was going to be no stopping. His idea, this young punk, was, let's run a conference room. Let's run a ballroom.  Make it enormous. I'm in my mid-30s at the time. I'm like, yeah, okay. How are we going to do that? Orlando's not that big. We're not going to get that many people. Don't worry about it. We're going to fly people in. We're going to fly people in. Yeah, we're going to make it over a series of days. Not just a couple of hours. Not a couple of days, but we're going to have it three, four days. We're going to even make it a week, possibly. They'll get hotel rooms. They'll fly. They'll cover the cost and the ticket price. I'm like, good luck with that. Have at it. I knew enough to back away. Let this 17-year-old punk go. That 17-year-old punk just spoke. That is that man right there. 17-year-old kid saw the vision of something, saw the value of the technology and the information and the ability to actually deliver it to people, executed on those deals and made it happen. For 10 solid years, 14 or 15 events globally. Each passing year, I was just amazed. I was absolutely dumbfounded, celebrated, and in no little way ashamed that at that time I took a step back. That's bothered me. It's bothered me for years. I had a chance of redemption. Several years ago, he actually asked me to speak, continue some of the thoughts I had and had me in as a speaker. I threw myself at him. So I had an involvement with him personally through a self-help group, how it evolved, and the personal accountability bit. I saw things happening. I had personal fears within culture, within society, about my relationship with women, my potentiality of being a husband, being married, my rights as a father, my ability to father, to be a decent father, to be a decent man, and I saw a culture that was very much at war with this. And the more you learn the anger you get and it's very tough to see an immorality, to see an injustice being in take place and not be angered by it, not to be disturbed by it, particularly when it's personalized. It's not an abstract immorality to someone else or somewhere else. No, it's one directed to you. So it was not an issue that I sat down and looked at lightly. And I had a decision to make. I could remain angry or I could be happy. And I had a choice and there were consequences of this choice. I also recognized that decent men don't stand around and watch history pass them by when they see an injustice. I take personal risks sitting here and talking. I felt those effects in all honesty to a minor degree, but it's a real and never-ending threat to my personal welfare and to this point to my family. And I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna lean into it. All right? The other, the secondary one is I have a very close personal relationship with Anthony. And it's not just because we're involved in the same self-health group and we're dealing with the community issues and we had kind of the same journey together, which is very, very true. It did occur. But we also shared ideas. And it was odd having that disparity of age to have a friendship. But what I saw is he had some tremendous things to give an older man. Energy, just can do attitude. He may not have had the knowledge or the wisdom at that time period, but he had energy. Not only that, he executed. In that group, there was never a harder working individual. That man had work ethic. And based on that, that was a token of my focus and intention. It was kind of the cost of it. If you don't try, if you don't put your effort out, I really don't have a whole lot of time for you. I don't have a whole lot of respect. So consequently, when I talk and see you guys, you guys are putting yourself out there to come here to be here. I have time for you. And so he did offer quite a bit and a friendship did form based on shared values. Also, I learned a lot. He's a better version of myself in those areas of taking risks, of putting himself out there, doing things and saying I have faith I can achieve that. I was ready to be conservative, very, very conservative. As an architect, you don't want your buildings falling down. Okay, so a lot of that I was taught. He didn't have that training. He wasn't, he didn't get that fear development. The other one is, and a lot of people note it, it's been discussed that after the failure of his relationship, his marriage, where he was just brutally, brutally betrayed, just the depth of injury that was inflicted and the poisonous nature of that relationship, which was truly singular. I had an opportunity to grab him. Saw a friend that was gonna be hurting. Saw a friend that was going through trauma. He needed to get out. And I said, you got his place. When I said I have your back, I meant it. At that time, I told him you need to get out. You have a place. My house is open.  So you can imagine I now have a whole household. I have a family of five, a newborn and a friend who's going through a failed relationship, failed marriage. Yeah, I say this, not in light of my actions. I say this because I had an opportunity to repay an immense debt. I wouldn't have my daughter today if it wasn't for that 17 year old punk, to that man there. He allowed me an opportunity to continue my evaluation of society, culture, sex, politics, my place in it to evaluate my fears and insecurities to develop myself and a platform to share what I had with others with you, which ultimately drove my game, okay, which ultimately made what I do more focused, made me think about things and spend time on these thought processes in ways in which I would have utilized another means. And because of that, I developed the confidence to be able to have the relationships I wanted, to remove the people out of my life that were toxic that were gonna take me places I didn't wanna be, to secure the relationship I have today and give me the confidence to know there isn't a better man or father for my daughter. When I look in her eyes, I can thank him. So he's an alumni of the Big White Box, which is my house and home. There have been a number of friends who have stayed with me, been roommates. It's always kind of an experience. And I was immensely gratified to have him in my house and home for the short period of time that I did. The last one, which is the point of the introduction, is that I'm actually a professional architect by trade and practice. The nature of my work professionally is all commercially and municipally based. Primarily I've dealt with airport and transportation facilities, I've designed billion dollar terminals, billion dollar concourses, and to the extent of revitalizing an Eastern Bloc country's air infrastructure system to bring them into the World Trade Organization to bring them part of the EU. I was terribly proud of that. The other half of my career has been dealt with very large-scale civic and university-type projects. And we kind of have a joke that there are two types of architects. Architects that know type five, light gauge timber wood construction, and all the other building types. Building material types. I've definitely fallen in the latter. These buildings are fairly complex. They're bureaucratic in nature. You're responsible for organizing and orchestrating and orchestrating an entire team of professionals, as well as responding to a multi-tiered level of clients and having to manage that communication and project management associated with all that work. Design's easy. I mean, it's not easy, but it is very, very significant. So it puts me in a unique position when we talk about having a need for physical facility to advise Anthony on the built environment. What is the construction industry like? What is the process for it? How do you phase this? How do you actually gear towards financing this? How are these things done? What are the zoning and building codes? What are the implications of ownership? Hard, soft costs? All these sort of things. And this is the direction Anthony and I have been talking about for about three years that he's asked me to be fairly quiet about because he wanted to make sure that he was sensitive about going forward, but didn't want to reveal it too early. But ultimately I want to talk about the response to the 21 University is this, is that he's providing a first world solution to a first world problem that quite honestly has global and cross-generational implications. It's not just about improving your life.  Your families, your loved ones, the people you deal with. And ultimately with your family and your children going deeper into it. It also relates to multi-generational. I'm an older guy. We talk about the guys my age compared to the much younger guys and being able to relate and share those ideas that sense of presence, that the masculine culture that so much is lost, that so many people are striving for, that you just sit down when you're in with a group of great guys. You just feel at ease. Ultimately, 21 Studios is literally about self-improvement. Men improving the quality of their own lives, improving the lives of the relationships they have, healthier families and sounder children. The business model, unfortunately, is relying on other third-party institutions and platforms, the servers, the databases. We also have an issue with the platforms in which they're being viewed from. The fact that we have to rent space in a hotel, who very well in the future may decide business model-wise, that hosting an event like this is probably not in their best interest, okay? It also means we can't control the security of this environment. We can't control the crowd that's outside. We can't control the people pulling fire alarms. And we know these things are being done. How do we resolve this as far as a business model goes? To allow you to have continued content in facilities and to have the conventions we have, the discussions in the hallways, which are so important. Not so much what we say here on this stage, but the fact that everybody is talking in the hallways after the speeches. The actions today, we've taken several steps. Obviously, we've been discussing this with thought leaders and peers across the board. We are researching comparable businesses and businesses models. How are they doing it? So we're not reinventing the wheel. We've actually visited and toured several facilities. Last year, Anthony actually went out to LA and actually saw YouTube cities. He's got a personal tour, he was able to see it firsthand. Actually, it was more than a year ago. That's when we were actually seriously considering hosting the event there. But because of their terms of services, their contracts related, and the fact that at any time they can delete the content, we opted not to do it. We also talk about having a pro forma of the actual concept, it's a program. What would a facility mean and be? What would that look like? We also talked about the discussion of sequencing. How do you do this? How do you enact that? In most cases, most large projects don't happen all at once. They're typically phased. So we discussed that. The other is the evaluation and reorganization of the business plan, the business model. How are we gonna do it? And Anthony was talking a lot about that. Ultimately, what he wants me to show you today, when we're getting right to it now, is a three-tiered vision for the future for us. The first one is the smallest, most easily, and readily available. It's kind of the intuitive one. It's a LiveWork digital studio production facility. Obviously, we'd be having recording production and server hosting. We would want to look at corporate offices for this facility. We also want to make it a LiveWork facility. Anthony thrives when he just immerses himself in everything he does. He's not a guy that commutes to and from different ideas. He throws himself into it.  And I think there's some utility to this. He's not the only one that thinks this way. A lot of people who do digital media arts, there's a lot of this, there's a viable market for it. Not only that, you can affiliate lease. It has a, what they refer to as an NOI, a net operating income associated with it, so that the costs are actually load-shared with income stream. Not only as a business model, but additionally for these facilities that allows other people to come and use these facilities. Other speakers who don't have the capabilities themselves would naturally find a home here. The second is everything we just talked about in addition to having a stage large enough to hold a conference. That's terribly important to us. It was now we can actually host and secure our own events. So we talk about having a number of things. They also live work component of this. May include more than just a small executive suite for personal living. It may include guest housing to be able to have people come in, stay, host speakers, host individuals, and then have that stay. Now it's something about a think tank, about having people come in and discuss in a round table. Ideas, events, concepts, and be able to hold that internally and be able to host that effectively. The last one, which is Anthony's personal favorite because the man doesn't ever think small, is replicating something very similar to YouTube studios which is what you see here. A very large central stage. Other secondary tertiary stages as well, but obviously one in which you actually host events and an entire suite for post and production facilities. So we're looking at any number of things, but we're also looking at funding. And so it's terribly important for us to understand that we want to continue to provide great content, to continue to control the channels and distribution of that content, to produce more content and ultimately have the facilities on hand so we can actually meet and discuss and have that personal interconnectivity, that human element be central to what we do. Ultimately, men are gonna need to speak up. We're gonna need to act.  Decent men will not be idle to witness to the events and culture before us. You don't have to stand here, but you do have to enact through your values. That's virtuous behavior.  We're gonna need that support. Anthony has decided personally to take that mission on and he means for 21 studios to be a bulwark against this cultural shift, okay? Against the orthodoxy, against repression, against intimidation. We also seek to refine the services we provide. He's always been stellar with an emphasis on phenomenal video production. That's gonna continue. We need the ability ultimately to use language and reason for human discourse. The alternative is unacceptable. The alternative is uncivilized. It is uncivilized for people, it is uncivilized for culture, and it is uncivilized for people. I'd like to thank you for your time. I hope you enjoyed the presentation and the vision in which we are heading and I'd like to have Anthony take over at this time.