Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30pm Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure. All Bookmap Limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific, investment advice nor recommendations. This disclosure, trading futures, equities and options, involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also in Bookmap Discord, there's an Options-Doug Chat channel that's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Place. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the Options-Doug Chat channel is options, order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time motor flow in Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focused on an underlying asset, but setups can be taken any number of ways. For example, SMB500 setups can be taken with ES futures, SPY shares, SPY options, SPX options, or even ES options. So when I talk about the SMB500 today, again, I'm focusing on the underlying asset and that the setups would be appropriate for any of those forms of trade. Options, futures, or stock. Questions and comments are welcome. And I will be watching both the options-dog chat channel and Discord as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post and I'll do my best to answer your questions. My agenda for today, Tuesday, December 19th. First of all, I want to go over news items, economic data, and events for today as well as the rest of the week. Then I'll go through my positional analysis. Then I'll review some setups from earlier today. And then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. All right, let's get started with news items, economic data, and events. So today there were some, I guess, medium to low impact data. Housing starts came out at 8.30 a.m. eastern time and housing starts were greater than expected and greater than previous housing market picking up with the drop in interest rates. All right, for the rest of the week, tomorrow, Wednesday, consumer confidence is at 10 a.m. And then on Thursday, GDP report and jobless claims at 8.30 a.m. eastern time. And then on Friday, PCE data and durable goods orders come out. So PCE data could be a market mover. Again, that's on Friday at 8.30 a.m. eastern time. All right, so overall pretty light week for news and events. All right, let's move on to positional analysis. I'm going to start with the SB 500. This is the ES futures and book map. And before I take a look at a closer look at this chart, I'm going to take a look at longer time frame with the underlying asset. And I'm going to start with, so SPX is the underlying index, I'm sorry, underlying index for the SB 500 ES futures by, so let's take a look at a chart. This is a one day chart showing the rally that began on October 30th. IV collapse put Vanna Rally fueled by the November Fed meeting. I believe that was November 1st. Benign CPI reports. And now SPX has rallied since the beginning of November from around 4,100 all the way up to right now 4,760. And the call wall has moved up to 4,800. So that is the next potential target. All right, so very bullish move, great rally in the SB 500. All right, let's take a look now at the last portion of that rally. This is a 30 day one hour chart. I'm going to focus on levels on this chart. Let me zoom in a bit. So this is a 30 day one hour chart. I've zoomed in focusing on levels. First of all, the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. That upper weekly expected move may be difficult to see. There's a red line on top of it. That is the expected move for the week. I update that once a week over the weekend. It does not change until the next weekend, the next week. And then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. And SPX has been trading above that level right now. It looks like it's trading right around that level. That's updated once a day. All right, the dark red lines are showing spot gamma levels. These are proprietary spot gamma levels based on gamma weighted open interest. They're available to spot gamma subscribers. They're available for a variety of tap platforms, trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to focus on the key daily levels. First of all, there's the 4,500 level. That's the put wall. That's a strike with the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. The next level up is the volatility trigger. At 4,645, that is spot gamma's proprietary volatility flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, they have to trade against price, with price, to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to increase or enhance volatility. On the other hand, like SPX is trading now above that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to subdue or decrease volatility. So the SPX is firmly in a positive gamma position now. And note that level did move lower from yesterday. So now at 4,645. The next level up is the call wall at 4,800. And that is the strike with a large net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. So that is really the next upside target for SPX. And then finally, now the absolute gamma strike has moved up to 5,000. So gamma weighted open interest has been building at this level for a while now. And as price approaches, the gamma increases.  That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. So that's where most of the gamma weighted open interest is concentrated. That level did move up. Pretty substantially from 4,700 yesterday now to 5,000. So the call wall moved higher as well from 4,750 to 4,800. Both of those moves very bullish, moving that potential ceiling up, especially the call wall, moving that up. And the call walls have been rolling up as this rally continues. Those are the key daily levels. Let's take a look at one other SPX chart just to see the levels in play for today. So this is SPX, training in a very narrow range today. And let me just focus just on today. So this is a one day, one minute chart showing the upper daily expected move. SPX has been trading above that. And now potentially it acted as resistance before and potentially maybe acting as resistance again. And then here's a combo level below at 4,750. That was yesterday's absolute gamma strike. I'm sorry, yesterday's call wall. Right now, that is a combo L2 level. Combining SPX and SPY gamma weighted open interest into one level and here shown in terms of price for SPX. Acting as support earlier today. All right, let's go back to book map now. So a very narrow range here in book map, good long setup from the open. Right at VWAP, I'll talk more about this in just a minute. There's the upper daily expected move for ES. So I am showing my own cloud notes here. So I can show SPX levels. So there's the 4,750 level acting as support. That may not be the exact correct location that ES to SPX relationship changes a little bit every day. Right now I'm using 52 points. So ES minus SPX is 52. That's what I'm using. It's actually a little bit higher than that, maybe closer to 52.5. Right, so I also have SPY levels on this chart. There's the SPY 474 level. And notice the upper daily expected move for ES just below that and then point of control just below that. That's shown by this purple line here, solid purple line. That's the VPOT. And you can see the consolidation right around that cluster of levels. The 474 upper daily expected move and point of control just below those levels. So nice rally in the morning from VWAP up until about noon and then consolidation. Shifts and levels. So again, call wall and absolute gamma strike shifted higher for SPX. That's bullish. The volatility trigger did shift lower. And for SPY, the volatility trigger shifted higher slightly to 471. So SPX trading above the volatility trigger for the ES trading above the volatility trigger for SPX and SPY and below the call walls. The call wall for SPY is at 475. So there's room to run for the SB500 to the SPY call wall and then the SPX call wall. Let's just see where those are. So here's the SPY call wall just above and then the SPX call wall. And I did not label that correctly, that is the call wall. All right, that's the SB500. Let's take a look at NASDAQ now. Also trading at a very narrow range today. And first of all, before I take a closer look at this chart, I want to isolate the QQQ levels. And this is QQQ for today, one day, one minute chart. Right now it looks like this combo L1 level may be acting as resistance. It did earlier today. So that's combining NDX and QQQ. Gamma weighted open interest into one level showing it here in terms of a QQQ price. For QQQ, the call wall is at 410. So QQQ is trading below that level, has room to run higher. Looks like it's breaking out above the combo level. Note for QQQ, the absolute gamma strike did move higher. That's at 405, call wall at 410 that I mentioned. And then the volatility trigger shifted higher as well. So QQQ trading above its volatility trigger also in a positive gamma environment. Finally, let's take a look at NDX. Note NDX is trading above its call wall. It's the only of the SB500 and NASDAQ. It's the only index that's trading above its call wall. And here's this combo level acting as support, more or less. Combo all three. Again, combining NDX and QQQ, gamma weighted open interest. All right, let's go back to NQ futures. Trading at a very narrow range. And again, I have my own cloud notes so I can show NDX levels, QQQ levels, as well as any other levels of interest. So there's the upper daily expected move for NQQ. And the key takeaway from this chart is how these pullbacks to VWAP have been great entry points for longs, all day long. All right, so I mentioned shifts and levels for NDX. There were none. And then for QQQ, the volatility trigger and absolute gamma strike shifted higher. Again, I'll talk about setups in a few minutes. All right, let's take a look at gamma notional now to see how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day. Excuse me. All right, gamma notional. This is how market makers have precision on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day. This information is available in the Spot Gamma AM Founders note, which comes out early in the morning. It's updated once a day. So I'm looking at market makers position on the gamma curve for the S&P 500, NASDAQ, and Russell 2000. Note, all these numbers are positive. Spot Gamma assumes for an index that traders are short calls, market makers are long calls. They take the opposite side of that. And they have to trade against price to hash their delta exposure. That's in a positive gamma environment. And in a positive gamma environment, I'm typically looking for lower trading range, more mean reverting price action, and decreased volatility. These numbers did move around from yesterday. For SPX, gamma notional shifted lower. And for SPY, shifted higher. And for QQQ and IWM, shifted lower. But all still positive. All right, let's take a look at the Vantamodel now so we can get a graphical representation of what this means. What this chart is showing is market makers delta notional, delta exposure on the vertical axis, spot price for SPX on the horizontal axis. There are two curves on this chart. The first, the light gray curve, shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes of price only. And the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation. That shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and applied volatility. And that change in delta with a change in applied volatility is the Vant effect. Vant is a second order Greek. Let's just take a quick look at this. SPX, currently trading right around 47, 61, pretty close to the bottom of the curve. So no Vant headwind or tailwind. And if price moves up, it starts to move up pretty substantially toward 4,800. Market makers will have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as their delta notional increases. They'll have to sell futures. Quick look at SPY, very similar, starting to move up on this right portion of the curve. And QQQ, right around 408, closer to the bottom of the curve. All right, one other note, before I take a look at setups, that SpotGamma has recently introduced this set of volatility tools. And as I spend more time with this, I will start to incorporate these new tools into my analysis. All right, let's take a look at some setups now. This is the SOB 500 hero signal. So the first thing I'm going to do is look at what options traders are doing today. I think options trades, market maker hedging activity, are key drivers of price for the ES futures, NQ futures, and many stocks. And I focus my attention on mostly large cap tech stocks, the Magnificent 7, as well as AMD and Netflix. All these stocks, again, have very liquid options markets. And price is heavily driven by options trades and market maker hedging activity in those stocks, as again, as well as the ES futures and book map. All right, so this is the hero signal. So everything that we've looked at so far, other than book map, has been based on static data that's updated once a day. Spot Gamma applies their own proprietary algorithms to come up with the levels, the Vana model, the Gamma Notional. And that's what I use for my planning process. So now moving on to execution, we're looking at real time data, first of all, in the hero signal here. This chart is showing price for SPX with the white line. The purple line is the hero signal. That's showing options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal for SPX by XSP and ES futures. And a rising hero signal indicates traders are taking positive delta positions. Market makers take the opposite side, so they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure. So this is what I use when I trade any form of the SP500. All right, let's zoom in on this chart. I'm going to scroll in just a little bit here. So this is the cash open right here. And note that ES and SPX options do trade before the cash open. And notice at the cash open, the hero signal is very bullish. Flow alert indicating significant options activity. Great warning there to focus on the SP500. All right, let's take a look. We can take a closer look at what traders have been doing and their buying calls. The rising orange line indicates traders are buying calls. Market makers take the opposite side of that. They're selling calls, and they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure. Sorry about that. Spotgamas continues to work on that issue a little bit too much. I just want to point out the notional value. Notice the notional value for calls at 4.18 billion versus puts that's shown by the falling blue line, the negative notional value at 1.1 billion negative. So call buyers much more aggressive today, helping to drive price higher. And note the total signal is the call notional value minus the put notional value, and that's right around 3 billion. So very positive order flow here, hedging flow, options trades and hedging flow, and shown by hero here in the SP500. And note that this is a very typical pattern. Often this shows up with stocks. Traders aggressively buying calls up until about 11.20. They take their foot off the gas that's shown by the hero signal that fails to make higher highs and prices consolidating. Let's take a look at the calls one more time. So from around 11.10 to 11.50, call buyers took their foot off the gas. Price levels off, and they've started buying calls again, started buying calls again right around 12.20. Let's go take a look at book map and Kaleed ask, can options market makers leverage speculated future prices? I'm not sure I don't understand your question. Market makers, when traders buy and sell options in SPX, SPY, ES, and also XSP, market makers take the opposite side of those trades, and they hedge their delta exposure with ES futures. And in Apple stock, for example, when traders buy and sell options in Apple stock, market makers will buy and sell Apple stock to hedge their delta exposure. Let's go to book map, go back to ES, and zoom in a bit. So here's the morning setup as traders started taking positive delta positions at the cash open. They were buying calls aggressively. So we know traders are buying calls, key driver or price action, and at the cash open just before the volume dots showing market buy minus sell. Magenta dots indicate they're more sellers than buyers. And price moves down to VWAP. Aggressive buyers start to come in shown by the green dots. Green dots indicate more buyers than sellers. Note the rising light blue line indicating buy iceberg orders. These are orders that larger traders use to hide their size. Spot gamma can, I mean book map, I'm sorry, a book map can detect these after they've executed. They're shown by the sub chart indicator, the light blue line, as well as the on chart indicator. So large traders, again, buying with iceberg orders, options traders buying calls, and aggressive buyers coming in that show them by the green volume dots. And notice price moves higher. The yellow line is showing buy stop orders helping to fuel the move higher. Also shown by the on chart indicator there. And price continues to increase. There were some large traders fading that move with iceberg orders shown by the light blue line there. But these orders got the move started. Option traders continued to buy calls. There's that pullback to 47.50. So not a big move. Again, remember it's positive gamma environment. Not looking for big moves in large trend days and a positive gamma environment. All right, but a nice long setup from the cash open and then price continues to consolidate right around that upper day they expected move. And you can see on the session volume profile that's where most of the volume for the session is concentrated. In my session, my data begins at 6 p.m. the previous day. Although, of course, most of the volume comes in at the US cash open. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ now. And I mentioned before VWAP, the light blue line there has given multiple three points all day. All right, let's go take a look and see what options traders have been doing. Let's go to the signal for NASDAQ. And NASDAQ signal not nearly as clear as the SB500 to separate outputs and calls. So this provides more clarity showing that traders, initially the orange line showing traders weren't doing much with calls right around 10, 10. They started buying calls, sorry about that. This won't stay still long enough to even show show the setup, sorry about that. Try that one more time. So anyway, traders start buying calls. Initially they were buying puts. They stop buying puts. Price moves up. Then they start selling calls and buying puts at this very powerful directional signal when both lines are moving in the same direction price typically is gonna follow. All right, so long setup in the morning right around 10, 10, and then short setup. Really more consolidation. All right, let's take a look at one other signal. So NASDAQ, this is a combined signal for NDX and QQQ. And this Mags7 signal is a combined signal. Let's go back so I can show this. This is a fairly new indicator, hero indicator that SpotGamma put together that combines options trades and hedging activity for a combined signal for the stocks known as the Magnificent7. That's Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla. And this is a great indicator. These stocks make up a very large portion of NASDAQ as well as the SME 500 and often drive price, especially in NASDAQ. All right, let's zoom in on this chart. Focusing on the morning, separate outputs and calls and note right around 9.50. Initially, traders were buying puts shown by the falling blue line. They were also selling calls. And right around 9.50, they start buying calls, stop selling puts, and then just after 10, both lines start moving in the same direction and price moves higher. So right around 10.10, they started buying calls pretty aggressively and start selling puts, both lines moving in the same direction and price moves higher. This Magnificent7 combined signal helping to drive NASDAQ. All right, let's go back to book map. So let's focus right around 10. Let's zoom in on this. So right around 10, there's one of your VWAP entries, magenta dots indicating aggressive sellers, more sellers than buyers. Green dot as price reverses at VWAP. So aggressive buyers start to come in as traders were taking positive delta positions, especially in the Magnificent7 stocks. And that's good for a pretty small move in NASDAQ, less than 50 points. So there's the long setup from this morning. Let's go back to hero. So overall for today though, the signal for the Magnificent7 is negative, negative notional value. So looking at the entire day, let's, and that is really mostly driven from the move lower up until about 10 a.m. And net for the day, they are buying calls and buying puts put buyers more aggressive for the day. All right, let's take a look at some stocks now. And the first stock I wanna take a look at. And I like to really focus on stocks more in a positive gamma environment. There's just typically more movement. So this is Microsoft. Notice 370 is the key gamma strike, acted as support as the hero signal shifted, wrong tool. The hero signal shifted from negative delta to positive delta. Note the very timely flow alert. Price for versus higher at the key gamma strike, 370. Nice long setup. Let's take a closer look and see what traders are doing. Gonna zoom in on this a bit. So notice traders started buying calls, shifted from selling calls to buying calls shown by the rising orange line, another flow alert. And then there were some large block orders, traders selling puts, most likely large traders, institutions selling puts right around at that 370 key gamma strike level. Those again, the vertical line there indicates a very large order, large block order selling puts. So net for the day, the hedging flow for Microsoft is bullish.  Positive Notional Value Traders are net buying calls for the day. They're also selling puts, showing by the positive Notional Value there. All right, let's go take a look at BookMap. Go to Microsoft, all right, I'm gonna bump up the volume dots just a little bit. Quite often with stocks, the opening print, there's so much volume at the open that it kind of dominates the volume for the entire session. Notice the volume profile right in the middle of that dot. And there's the 370 key gamma strike, a very sharp reversal at that level as traders shifted from negative delta positions to positive delta. Started aggressively buying calls and selling puts. So this level, the way you would look at that is as price approaches that level and an approach very quickly, anticipate that level may act as support. So I assume that any key spot gamma level like this key gamma strike may act as support if tested from above or resistance if tested from below. Here, of course, it did act as support as again, traders shifted from negative delta notional to positive delta notional. All right, let me check for questions. And David asked, hello, David, how do you use spot gamma for swings? I'm looking at swinging Tesla calls for a target of 275 with a March expiration. Well, I really can't comment it on specific trades. And I typically, right now I've been focusing more on day trading and longer-term trades rather than swing trades. So I showed the daily chart of SPX earlier long-term trades. I started getting long at the beginning of November, actually end of October, and that has worked out quite well. All right, so for swing trades, you need to look at, I would look at Equity Hub, look at the information there, look how the levels are shifting, and we'll take a look at Tesla in just a few minutes. That is on my list to take a look at. All right, GH, welcome, glad you're here. Ask how do we know which to follow with support and resistance lines? The five-minute timeframe is different than the one hour and et cetera. Which shall we use? There's a lot of timeframes and all support resistance is much different. I'm not sure I understand your question. First of all, I'm looking at book map, and really in book map there's no timeframe. I'm looking at, I can zoom in to the nanosecond level or zoom out and look at the entire day. So that's what I'm looking at. The spot gamma levels, I'm looking at those levels as support and resistance. Just like I showed here, the 370 key gamma strike anticipated as support, acted as support as expected, and options traders shifted from negative delta notional to positive delta notional at that level. And David, if you were long-term bullish or longer-term, whatever timeframe you're looking at for swing trades, that would have been a good setup, good entry point, perhaps for a swing trade. I'd have to look at a longer-term chart for that. All right, that's Microsoft. Again, focusing on a really a day trade here. You could, anything that I'm talking about depending on your timeframe could be used as an entry for a day trade, a swing trade, or a longer-term trade. I'm just talking about setups. GA ask, are all book maps needing a payment plan? Yes, there is a free version of book map that's digital only, I believe it allows access to one crypto exchange. Check on the book map website. But if you want to trade stocks or futures with real-time data, you need a subscription to book map, either global or a global plus. There is also a web version, I believe that's free as well, and I believe that is digital-only, crypto-only. Well, let's go on to the next setup. So bullish setup here in Microsoft. Nvidia, very choppy day. Let's go take a look at Hero, go to Nvidia. And traders taking negative delta positions in Nvidia today. Zoom in on the open here. Note the put wall down at 487.50. Very timely flow alert, right? Just a minute or two after the cash open as traders aggressively take negative delta positions. And they were selling calls, that's shown by the falling orange line. Not doing much with puts, but definitely selling calls. So taking advantage of the recent move up in Nvidia to sell calls. Let's go take a look at book map. I'm gonna zoom in, otherwise a very choppy day in Nvidia. Just the volume dots a little bit. All right, so there's the short setup. In the morning, traders selling calls and good entry points, pullback to 495. Another pullback to 495. And then price moves lower to the liquidity targets below, especially at 490. This is the heat map and book map, showing a history of the resting limit orders. And below these are limit buy orders, attracting price at 490, 491, 492. Note the large volume dot there at 491, 490, and even 489. All those buy orders absorbed, find the aggressive buyer start to come in and price moves higher. This high liquidity, especially for a higher price stock like Nvidia at the zeros and the fives, attracts price. So very obvious price targets here in Nvidia. 492, 91, 90, and 89, especially 490. All right, let's take a look at Tesla now. All right, Tesla bullish day in Tesla. Let's take a look at heroes, see what options traders are doing. So today, the hedging flow in Tesla is bullish, rising orange line traders taking positive delta positions, another timely flow alert, indicating significant options activity. Good for getting your attention, traders buying calls. When traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. This is very typical pattern. Starts anywhere from 11 to maybe even 10 to 12 or so aggressive call buyers in the morning, take the foot off the gas and then price either consolidates or starts to move lower. Note the large notional value for calls, 414 million positive, they are buying puts, but much smaller number, minus 9.4 million. All right, let's take a look at, let's take a look at one other thing for Tesla here. Let's go to equity hub and see how, so this, first of all, let's go back to book map. So we know that from the open, traders are buying calls.  So there's your long entry right around 10 a.m. Let's go take a look at book map. So here's the long entry, 10 a.m. We know that traders of buying calls, market makers selling the calls buying stock, flow alert indicates significant options activity. So that could be an entry point for, again, a day trade, swing trade, or a longer term trade depending on your timeframe and what else you're looking at. So let's take a look at some other tools in Spot Gamma to see what we could use to further inform the trade. This is equity hub. So this provides more information about individual equities. Let's take a look at Tesla. Let's go back to book map. So Tesla currently trading right around 256. So 260 is the call wall. So right now that is the according to Spot Gamma hero, that hero, Spot Gamma equity hub, this is the kind of the upper limit. Let's see how the levels have been changing over time. All right, so the call wall did shift higher to 260, remaining at 250 for, this is the history of the key daily levels for the last 10 days. And note that the call wall was at 250 for a number of days and then has shifted up to 260. So that's bullish. For Tesla, put wall also shifted higher up to 240. That's bullish as well. And the hedge wall shifted higher also, that's bullish. So three shifts higher and the key daily levels, that is bullish. Let's take a look at some of the other charts here. So we looked at the composite view. Let's take a look at the put and call impact chart. Can zoom in on this chart. So above right around the hedge wall here at 245, the orange bars that showing call gamma notional is dominating. There's hardly any put notional gamma above that 245 level calls, shown by the orange bars and the blue bars showing puts. That's also shown by this orange line above the blue line. Let's take a closer look at this. So I, looking at this, really has potential to run to maybe 280, 285. This is showing this orange line showing pretty rapid change in gamma notional in this range where the slope is steepest.  So according to this, there is potential for a move higher up to 300, although the call wall remains at 260. And let's take a look at this risk reversal. So there are two lines on this chart. This is the risk reversal. This is showing a price of a 25 delta call minus the price of a 25 delta put. A rising line indicates more demand for calls than puts. So the risk reversal line is rising, indicating there is a bullish demand for calls for Tesla. And let's take a look at this volatility skew. All right, so the skew is showing some demand for calls with the upward slope to the right. Again, I need to spend more time with this chart. This is something that's new. The shaded area is showing the 10th percentile to the 90th percentile. And then this dark line showing the current value. So I need to spend more time with this. All right, so David, I hope that answers your question. I am a bullish Tesla. I have a long position in Tesla. GH ask, is book map same as volume bars? All right, GH, I suggest, let's go back to book map. Let's go back to ES futures. Let's do one other thing. And GH, I suggest going here to bookmap.com going to this education area and start taking a look at these videos to get some basic information on book map. Also, book map offers a series of webinars every day. My focus is really on options. And so that's my focus. For basic information, you can watch some of the other webinars, especially Bruce. He's the director of education at book map. There's Bruce. And he has a daily webinar Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m. And he goes over a basic book map. And David, you're welcome. All right, so GH, that's a good place to start with all of these series of recorded videos in the learning center. And then if you want live streams, go to Bruce's webinars first. Again, my focus is on options and more of an advanced application of book map. All right, David, again, you're welcome. All right, let's go, let's just wrap it up here. ES continues to slowly trend higher, maybe trying to break away from this consolidation area up to the 475 call wall, also the upper weekly expected move. Let's check on NASDAQ and you're welcome, GH. All right, NASDAQ also still in the upper end of its consolidation range.  I wanna thank you very much for watching. Thank you very much for your questions and comments. And I will see you tomorrow. Thanks again, bye.


All right, let's get growing here coach. How are you doing today? All right, all right. Hey, um, CP in your reserve. Uh, is he, uh, uh, what's his status? Yeah, we'll just, you know, talk to him and the doctors and see, uh, you know, what the plan has on Wednesday. Uh, and, uh, Terrell and Hopkins, any updates, uh, hopefully we'll get them back. But hopeful again, um, see how that looks by Wednesday. And if they're, um, trending like they could be ready, they'll be out there. Any, I didn't have anything, um, anything out of the game. No, it came away, uh, pretty clean, thankfully, you know, a couple blocks and bruises, but, um, pretty clean. And, uh, you know, uh, just kind of settled, uh, any reflections on, on that wild game and, uh, what you had to talk to the team about today. Move forward onto, uh, the chart. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff we can certainly learn from. Uh, we could be cleaner. Um, same way I felt yesterday afterwards.  And, uh, thankful we came away with the win. What was the family reaction when you got home? Some anger about, uh, don't do that to him. Um, just kind of disbelief. Probably the reaction that most people, most fans, range of emotions. But, uh, thankfully, I said, sometimes you need a little bit of luck and things bounce their way, and we're able to finish that and come away with the win. How do you deal with that as a coach on the sideline? I mean, just the ups and downs? You've got to stay into it. I mean, it's, no matter what you're really feeling inside, I mean, you've got to make decisions and you can't lose your mind. You've got to be neutral. I mean, there are a lot of decisions you had to make, and things change along the way, you know. It goes from the Hail Mary. There's still enough time. You're looking. You've got to time out. You're thinking about possible chunk plays you need to call. And, you know, what you're going to get, and then you've got to make the decision that you take it then or take it on the extra point. Like I said, we took it there, and thankfully it broke our way. Is that one of the bigger adjustments you had to make from a coordinator to a head coach? Yeah. Changes where you got one of the balls? Absolutely. But that's why, you know, we have a good staff, and that's why you have great communication with the headset, you know, between upstairs and guys on the sideline. So everybody's got a job to do. And so as you're talking through, say, hey, look, we got to get ready for this possible scenario. You know, most of it you've practiced before, but you're in it and you're making sure everybody's good personnel-wise and strategy. Because even as a play caller, what you were going to call, if you thought you were down by one, you're in the game plays and having a time out to try to get cool out there to kick a game winner. And then when you realize you're tied, you know, you take a shot, we took a shot, you know, that's a different play. And you know, in overtime, and then you get your overtime thoughts and there's a lot that goes on there. What was the decision to use the penalty on the extra point? Was there numbers backing that up? Yeah, numbers. You know, that's when you look at it and you prepare, and then that was the percentage. I mean, he had had a history of missing some kicks in that range. And that's ultimately what's waited for me. The stats said they throw the PJ Walker since they started counting this air yard snake, 67 yards long as one. Did you think he was going to throw the ball that deep when you were watching that playing full? Absolutely not. Because of the situation you're in, at that point, you're just trying to keep it in bounds. Get him to check it down. Obviously you'd love to get a sack, but you're going, do you drop out of there? You know, do you rush for? Do you want to simulate pressure?   We've all seen that story. When he rolled out to the left and went to launch it. And that's what, no matter what, we got to stay behind that. That's pretty obvious there, but when he turned to throw it, I didn't think that ball was going to get there. I thought it was going to fall short and I thought maybe we had a chance to pick it, but made an incredible throw. I know what was that next gen was like 67. It looked longer than that. Like his front foot left at the, we ought to audit next gen. Because where his front foot was when he launched that ball, he hit that thing on a rope. What tune are you to like the emotions after play like that? Motions of guides on the field on the sideline. You can feel a bond. You know, it changes on you.  You got to coach the whole game.  Because it just, on a whim, Jeff, you know, you make the play. You can't let it snowball on you because there's still time left in the game.  I saw the flag and then that's when you start thinking, all right, we're going to use it here, use it on the kick. Kick off. Obviously, do you say anything? Yes, there's still time on the board.  You got to prepare that he's going to make that extra point, even when you move him back just to be prepared to work the end of the game situation. What is pleased you most about the C2A games?  Usually it's not perfect in the NFL, but just the guys that the belief and, you know, some of the obstacles we've been able to overcome so far. So we're not celebrating thinking that we've done anything special. But it's the reality is we've been able to overcome some things that have been in our control that, you know, we didn't go our way early in the year. And then they go on the road to Seattle. And like I said, at the time, that's a good football team. It's a tough place to play and they'd be able to bounce back after L.A. and get that win and then come home and playing better at home. But we're going to have a huge challenge, we know the Chargers, but just the resiliency of this team. Could you see things playing out the rest of the season like this? I mean, the way things are going in the division, the way you guys are having these up and down moments, it just might be that kind of year.   And we just need to continue to improve them. And we had a lot of things we got to fix, as most teams do. But yeah, I expect this thing to go all the way to the end of the season. You spent a lot of time talking about the offense for the first eight weeks. Numbers for the defense for the first eight weeks. Last and yards allowed, second to last and yards were played. Third to last and third down conversion by opponents and fifth to last and points. I don't want to say that just to say that we spent so much time talking about the offense.   What happens is there's times where, like a game like yesterday, you start out all right and then you start to give up and there's a lot of different reasons why on some of the critical situations as the game went on that we didn't do a good enough job. And it's not just one guy, it's not just one scheme, but it's our job as coaches to problem solve. And then what happens, you get certain games and like we gave a lot of yards in the Niners game and those were kind of like who cares. We had a 14-point lead and they went the whole distance of the field and came up with no points. So that adds to some of that Cincinnati game. I mean, it wasn't good enough and we ran into a bus all there and it gets you in that sum.  I mean, it just wasn't, we know it wasn't good enough, but that's the reality and we got to make sure we problem solve. There's a lot of things we can do to help that, even in the other phases. The way that Dean and Michonne played that final pass to DJ Moore, was that what you guys coached in terms of how they approached it or were those errors there? Is that a real question? Give me a real question, I'll give you a real answer. That's not a real question. That's a classic loaded question. It's a cover two. Obviously, nobody's ever coaching anything at safety, whether you're in cover three or cover four, cover two, two man, whatever you want to call it. Two invert, two slice. It's your deepest, deepest. So he got back there in regards to the call. So is that your question? Kind of keeping away from the sideline because in all, you guys want to keep it in bounds. The reality is nobody thought he was going to launch it 70 yards. Regardless, you can't let somebody get behind you. That's the best way. He was saying he was taking a calculated risk thinking he was going to come back to that sale route that was coming in. But again, you got to stay deeper than deepest, no matter what the coverage is if you're back there. He knows that, but he was trying to explain his thought why he didn't. He didn't think the guy was going to turn around 35 and launch that thing on a rope 70 yards or 67.8. That's what he was saying. Was there anything from yesterday's game that you felt like the team did consistently well when you called for quarters? Another loaded question. I mean, there's a lot of things. It's an NFL game. There's always a good. There's always some bad. There's always some ugly. Just make sure you don't have a lot of ugly on there and try to minimize the bad. But there are a lot of good things going around. There's a lot of stuff we got to clean up. And that's the reality every week. At the end of the day, some awesome way, we found a way to come away with more points. And we're thankful we got the win, but doesn't stop our mindset. We've got to improve. We know the challenge coming in this Sunday. We've got a team that's coming off a bye. Arguably, but one of the best young quarterbacks in the league. And we've got to be ready to roll in all three phases. Why do you feel like your special teams have been so productive this year? Well, there are a lot of reasons. One, you're in the secondary system and when you've got a lot of young explosive players, there's a lot of length and size out there. D'Angelo Malone and Troy Anderson, Lorenzo Carter and Felipe Franks. A lot of size and speed, youth and length out there cover a lot of ground. I mean, we almost got another point yesterday. Troy was close. That's what helps when you're building depth. And the type of players you're bringing in that eventually probably be starters, whatever, and you want to continue to make sure you've got depth on that roster. And I think that we've done a good job. That's part of the team building strategy as well. You mentioned size and special teams. Is that something that when Marquis is making decisions, or you and Marquis are making decisions? Well, it's a built defense. So if you want to have, again, there's a lot of philosophies. If you're going to be a 4-3, you're going to play a lot of 4-down. A sub-package, you know, where a lot of people do now. They essentially plan a 4-3 defense.  You only got two traditional linebackers behind the ball. You may just, you may be drafting a lot more for speed. If you're more of a zone team, vision break. If you're more of a 3-4, you're going to have a little bit better size on special teams just by the nature of who you're drafting and where you're getting those special teams' contributions from. Ideally, you'd like to have a lot of them come out of your outside lineback or room inside linebacker room. And hopefully, you're getting some help from your tight end room as well, just the size. And then we've got, you know, Cadero Hodge, I think, is one of the better gunners. I think Mike Ford is, too. So you're getting contributions from them. It allows you to different personnel inside on your punt team. And when you combine that with youth, length, and speed, guys that can play in space, that usually helps your coverage. So it's all part of the team building, like what you want to be defensively and offensively that can help your teams. It's all part of the strategy as you merge it together. And then it goes with the football staff and everything. Coach, do you need to discuss the dimension that Demir Byrd has brought to the team, the guy who's, you know, on his fifth team and having trouble sticking in the league and through some stuff? I know you like people like that. Yeah, he's taken advantage of his opportunity, right? He's been in our program, works extremely hard. I wasn't getting a lot of snaps early in the year. And when his number's been called lately, he's been making plays for us. It made a huge play. And not just what you can tell sometimes, too, when you've got the ability to take the top off, and then they may give you a cushion which he had on that touchdown he scored. He was able to snap down, come back, did a great job with the run after catch. Kyle made a good decision. You know, when he comes in there and underrated, it's kind of a no-brainer, but he's able to make the smart play there and Drake's able to finish. No one to let go, and Demir was able to put the ground and score. Marcus had a lot more success passing in kind of off-structure situations. I don't know if that lines up with what you saw in film. I just remember there was one to break, kind of toward the end. Yeah, that was the one that was off-scheduled. A lot of those stuff, too, we were doing, and that's part of the game planning. We had showed something we hadn't in a while. And the things we were doing with some of the motions and clearing it out, he was able to progress and get down to them. Some of them were progressions, like the one he hit the Hesse, the one he hit the OZ, the one he hit the Kyle in the flat. Now, the one Drake was off-scheduled. But that was a good job. I mean, I thought our tackles played really well yesterday. They kept them clean.  I thought he made some good play action. The one he had to Kyle on the first touchdown drive and the pop pass we hit Kyle on. So there's a lot of different actions. I mean, even the one he had on the keeper kind of got us going, too. Believe it was to Bird. Burns was chasing him down and able to make that throw in the run. So there's a lot of different ways. Certainly, it may have looked that way. The way he was playing the pocket, I thought he progressed pretty well, though, too. I'm just wondering if that indicates any of you encouraging to see how many of those players play? Very encouraging. I know you focus so much week to week because of the opponent and things change. Are you the kind of coach that takes stock and where you started? Where are you pleading? Are there areas you look like where ahead of schedule or behind schedule of things? I don't know if it's not behind schedule. That's a good question. But it's more about the progress, right?  You're the ones with a good look. So, you know, if you're having success in the run game and say, what are you doing well? Well, they're going to make damn sure to try to stop that. Okay, what are you going to do to counter that? That's what I was pleased with yesterday. I thought we were able to counter some of that and showed some different things that I thought helped us. Sort of went perfect. So you're always, yeah, tracking your progress. Always stuff we got to work on.  Why do you think, how do you think you've had the level of buy-in that you've had that a lot of teams that rebuild in this kind of thing? I'll say the same thing. But sometimes they're not four and four taking into them season. Why do you think it's worked here so far? Yeah, I mean, I've got my theories, but I don't want to sit there and sound like I'm trying to, like, bat myself or pat all of us on the back. You know, we've just got a lot of good guys and we've got a stable situation and hopefully we can continue on this path. Your theories, you think sometimes other teams jump in? Money situations more? Been named more than... Yeah, I can always give you an answer, but my mindset, without trying to sound like I'm trying to pump my own tires here, I can't get inside. So my answer is that, Jeff. Are you pleased with the culture you've created here that allows guys to buy in? Yes. How would you describe that culture so far? It's something we work under every day. A lot of people, you know, you can put it on a slogan, you know, chirp to you guys about it, but if you're not implementing that with anything in life, can you implement every day? Not going to be perfect, can you persevere, can you be consistent? Those things, and whatever your belief is. There's a lot of ways to do it. It works for some places, it works for others, but a lot of things what happens is the day-to-day grind and the lack of endurance people have sometimes.  Like you're asking that, check that box.  What organizations you were exposed to either directly or indirectly impress you with the culture and the way they handle things and...   One of the things your players have said a lot is you talk about resiliency you've mentioned, is that something that can be taught or is that just when you're looking for guys you're able to figure that out that they might have. Like how does that manifest? Both. It's like if you want to be a physical team, you know, you look for physical players. I'm not a doctor and I can't do a heart transplant. So you try to find the right people and you try to foster the right climate and get the right type of guys. But it's both, you know, but if somebody doesn't want to do it that way you're probably not changing. Also that within a locker, are there things you're able to pick up either in a draft process or a free agency process that tells you that or is it... Yeah, there's a lot that goes into it. I mean there's things that you look for not only on tape but you know when you're going there all the evaluations, the interviews and it's a long, thorough process. Again, you're not going to be right every time and you're trying to minimize your risk and that's something like I said you got to work on every day as a collective group too. Katie, what kind of that is a collective? I'm not going to take you behind in what we do every day. No matter how you're trying to lead me into that, I appreciate the loaded questions. I just try to make sure I don't fall for it. That one wasn't loaded but you're trying to lead me into it like I'm a witness and you're the prosecutor. So I appreciate the hustle, Mike, but I'm not going to keep going. Do you have a list of questions for your prospects so you can share a few of them with us? Yeah, I may put you guys through it. That'll be an offseason project. We'll do an eval, see how it goes and then you guys can interview me on the same questions and see where we end up. I think we should do that. It'd be a good challenge. Do you want to look at the replay of the non-call at the end of the game? Again? I like your Halloween costume. I like your Halloween costume. I love your Halloween costume. Thank you. Anything else? Oh, you're back. You got to wake up and you need some coffee. Hey, the chart is coming off the bio-week.  What are some of the challenges that the four and three charges will present to you? Yeah, I guess that earlier. I mean, Herbert, I don't know if there's a better quarterback on critical down situations. The guy that can stand plays and live arm, he's got to be a challenge. You know, we get to come up with a good plan and we got to play well in all three phases. Obviously, we've got Cluel Mack, you know, the issue with Mack getting into an obvious passing situation so he can be a nightmare. It's a good scheme. They're coming off a bye. Like I said, glad we're at home. Looking forward to it, but it'll be a hell of a challenge.


So, this is mainly for me, but I think for everyone. So we've learned over the last 10 years that we should build our own platforms, and we've learned that we can get into already established tools and reach people there. There's a growing conversation in the US about micro-concentration of the big platforms, and there are some examples now of you build something based on a technology underneath, like Facebook or Google, and then the algorithm change and then your product is gone. Do we have any evidence, more than anecdotes for that, and should civic tech have a monopoly policy position? Question. Yes, that's right. Thank you. Yes, pushing the button is right. It should be right. It should be right. That's it. I have to hold it down. That's great. Thank you. Welcome to the tech conference everyone. I think that's an awesome question. I think that we've been arguing for a while with little success that if, for example, we want a genuine digital public square, it needs to be built on public servers, or non-profit servers, you know, that with the exception of Wikipedia, every other commercial website tracks you and monitors you in a variety of ways, and there's very little evidence that people know what they're signing up for in the US. So that civic health quotient that comes with surveillance and tracking is really worrisome. And the good news is that we've passed the point of peak indifference to the issue, and now people are paying attention and asking good questions. I would say that in the Civic Tech Success Department, there are a number of both for-profit and non-profit projects that serve in a niche. I have a piece coming out in a couple of weeks about Front Porch Forum, for example, which is a neighborhood forum that is basically a daily email consisting of things that people write just in their close neighborhood. It's primarily, almost entirely in Vermont. There are several hundred forums by neighborhood or town. A typical one has about a thousand households or residents in it. And the state has, it's about 60% coverage. So 150,000 households in Vermont belong to a Front Porch Forum. And the quality of the dialogue is terrific. But they also have paid moderators for every forum. And every post goes through a human moderator before it gets cleared for posting. And there's no threading of comments. So even when issues flare up, there's a deliberate slowing down of the speed of information that flows through. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation just did a third-party study of Front Porch Forum users, 15,000 of them, and discovered that usage of the platform makes people feel more neighborly, more inclined to be interested in public issues, have a better sense of trust of their neighbors. I mean, there's no inherent reason that online platforms have to make people angrier, sadder, more polarized, or more misinformed. But that's because Front Porch Forum isn't solving for massive growth as its number one priority or monetizing its users as much as it can so its founder can get incredibly rich. So, you know, it goes to values and choices in the structure of the platform. And we are having a healthy dialogue about it now. I do think that our civic tech maker community is faced with a really hard dilemma because we know that the big platforms have reach, and if you want to go where people are, and you can get more civic information in front of them when they're looking, when they're interested, that you can have positive effects, right? And so this is a tension that's not easily resolved. But it's good that we're having the debate now, whereas before it was not even a topic that was discussed. And hopefully, look, my belief about this is that this is not going to be solved by tech or machine learning or really great data science. It's going to be served by lots more people acting like full citizens, asking questions about things like, how is my data going to be used? Why do I have to sign up here? What if I don't want to opt in? And that has to become a much bigger demand that we can only get from the user side. And then I think the market will respond if more people ask for it. Can I answer that? Yeah. Just to answer your question about whether we have empirical data on how algorithm changes affect that. Journalists have been very open with sharing that kind of information. Every time Facebook changes the news feed algorithm, they tend to share very specific and large numbers on how that's hurt their traffic. And then on the question of whether we should have standards in civic tech, make a start talking about the tension, I've seen in some of the failure, in some of the graveyard projects, sometimes the problem isn't relying on Facebook. Sometimes it's trying, it's like the sin of being too holy of let's use everything possible open source and then those projects get shut down. My colleague at Center for Civic Media, MIT, Charlie Dittar, made this amazing group deliberation tool called Intertwinkles, which is from the Occupy Intertwinkles. But it was based on the Mozilla Identity Standard specifically to avoid Facebook. And the Mozilla Identity Login was shut down. So Intertwinkles was shut down also. So I do think it's a balance of using what's popular and available and then ethical. It's definitely... Just to say one more thing about this. We have to get government involved in insisting on common standards. I mean, there's a reason, for example, why we all can share weather data, right? Because that's baked into how weather data is collected and made available. So if it's civic data, why are we relying on private platforms for things like identity, right? And it's because 20 years ago, Democrats and Republicans who all were free market ideologues decided to privatize the Internet. That's really the root cause here. And we're now dealing with the perverse effects of this. And we're only just at the beginning where there are enough people using the web to suddenly say things like, wait a second. The post office gives me an address. Why do I have to get an email address from a private provider? I mean, I don't know if Tom Steinberg is in the room. The only person I've ever encountered who's talked about this as a public issue was Tom. And our field is suffering because we're doing public work on top of private servers. We're really vulnerable because of that. Any other questions? Yep. This is for Christopher. Really interesting research. My first thought when you presented the question of why did the OGP fail in the Nordics? My first instinct to test that, or like, you know, to go about it, is to try everything. First, what does the OGP do? It makes governments more open accountable, participatory, and it allows civil society organizations to be a part of the process. Now, even the Nordic government already are ahead of the game in terms of being accountable, transparent, and participatory. And as you said, if civil society feel that they don't need the middlemen to accomplish their goals, isn't that the reason why OGP is failing? Maybe the OGP is not designed for countries that are doing already so well. And why should we care that the Nordics aren't doing well? Like, you know, where does your interest in this come from? And why should we care that the Nordics aren't doing well in the OGP process? Place the button. Right. Not the wrong microphone. I think that's arguable. You know, I think there's an argument to be made that the, you know, are we ready to say that high-performing, high-income countries shouldn't commit to doing things as progressively as less democratically developed and developing countries? I mean, that's an awkward argument to make, but I think it's worth exploring. On the other hand, there are enough civil society organizations in every one of the Nordic countries who say OGP should be helping us to make all these improvements, right? And if you look at the actual arguments about what the Nordics are doing well, it's all based on a early 20th century model for feeding into the very beginning of policymaking processes from explicit and short lists of organized groups. So it's about allowing the labor movement to have input into the very beginning of policy processes. And it doesn't allow for anything that, you know, feedback loops or monitoring and evaluation or open exchange of information and data. All of these things are really at the front of our minds when we think about open government. That's not what the Scandinavians are talking about when they say we're already doing it. They just feel as though that the established mechanisms from the beginning of last century are sufficient. And so I think there's lots of room for improvement and you could argue that OGP should be a good way to pursue that. Very quickly. Last question. Make sure it's a success in space and how exactly you're managing it. So thinking about the examples of, you know, if you need to report a notice, you know, it might be like maybe only one person took a note, but don't start to be, like, to show that, like, a thousand people are using it in a unit. You know, two people might be, you know, the second thing, you know, in other specific applications in which, you know, it creates a deliberative tool, something like 80 percent of the population is going to participate. Anything about the topic, you know, but it might be that it's not the 10-15, like NGOs that, you know, don't have the access to the table when the designer's not there. They can put an input somewhere. So just thinking about, like, how people have made decisions about funding, shutting down, and hopefully, how are you thinking about these, you know, these matrices of, what's this? Well, I mean, I think there's something that is fundamentally wrong in the way we approach civic tech in the sense that, I think you mentioned that 70 percent of the startups in Silicon Valley fail, right? Then we are saddled with this problem of always having to get grants to build some of these tools, and the donors don't have the same temperament as Silicon Valley investors. So they shut down the project once you can prove impact. But like you said, it might just be a community of 500 people that will use that tool to ensure that one piece of, one important piece of, one important civic duty is being done for all of us, right? So I think the problem is the way civic tech is understood and funded. Yeah, so I think it's distinguishing between two different kinds of metrics, right? There's the kind of metrics that we want to justify the work that we do in general to try to show that civic tech or open government makes a difference so that people will keep funding it. And there's a lot of different ways to do that and it's comparable in some broad sense. And then there's metrics that will influence how we roll out projects. It'll tell us how to design better in very specific niche environments. It will tell us how to adapt what we're doing while we're doing it. And those kinds of things are really hard to generalize. It's really hard to draw conclusions from one context to the other. And it almost always requires a really significant investment of time and energy and sometimes money. Some of it you can automate when you're using tech, right? You can put log data and you can pair that to external data and you can automate processes. But if a lot of it still requires investment and I don't think we'll ever have matrices for that kind of stuff or nor should we because it'll make it less useful. So I just make that distinction. Weird. Awesome. Thank you so much to all of the speakers.


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There you go Just throw all those suckers in there. You got a g-fuel tube 30% out of check off. No, there was obviously something in the tube Pepsi perfect. Is that from back to the future wood? Thanks for all the great content you provide I thought we'd add this to your collection. I haven't noticed it in the background back to the future Yeah, hope you like it about the great work. Now. Is it bad Joe Rooney? Thank you so much that I really want to eat drink this I mean, I don't know how old it it's probably just actually Pepsi, right December 21st 2015 Well, here we go. Shh. No, I'm not gonna but thank you so much.  I'm looking at him poop. Wait, what is this made out of? The effort that went into just the packaging. He printed out like Mario stuff snowball fight How did both of those miss you? All right next one Simon you stink. All right, this is from Go crazy It's a button and a pin. I can't say it out loud But it's a naughty word on a blue shell from Mario and then it's a little a little waifu There's no note on it, but this bag is making quite a mess. Um, thank you. Well that stuff's like in my nose now I would please enjoy these socks since you've lost yours. I lost my socks When did I lose my socks and when would shy ruple have known that I lost my socks? I have a few joke about pairs of matching socks, but I've lost one All right, so we got some socks. We got tiger socks bear socks I got a set of actually kind of a fan of those and we got uh stripy socks. I think I'm gonna go with the bear socks.  Stephen. This is what he did last year He gave me the other elite controller for xbox last year And now he sent the newest one and I said not to because I don't think there's even a difference between them There is but nothing that I'm going to do.  Nonetheless. I'm very excited Thank you so much, Stephen. I look forward to yelling at Stephen on facebook again Oh, that's right. It comes with a carry case. Wow, it's still really heavy though Oh, it's so elegant. How do they make it even cooler than last time? So for those that don't know you can like tighten everything on this one The whole thing is completely customizable this time. Oh, I think it comes with I don't know what this is a charger Oh, so you just put it on charge when you're done. Oh, that's so cool Didn't need it, but I love it. All right. This is from jacob bramlett Oh, I didn't open this one whoever sent this right now was like, oh, oh, jacob. Oh, yeah By the way, jacob sent like five things. I'm pretty sure the tub is jacob Yeah, these three are from jacob who sent clearly a lot of stuff so much that the one tub couldn't handle all of it What i'm gonna guess they're just getting rid of their collection on there like I'll send it to wood Which is also funny because this happened last year too The fact that this has a bunch of genesis games and a gamecube in here How long has it been since we opened retro stuff on this channel? What is it 2016? A wavebird controller a gamecube controller. I gotta be honest I don't obviously don't need a lot of this stuff because I already have all of it other than the friggin gamecube Which I do need that will definitely be a lot of giveaways at the bottom of this video something really heavy in this one It doesn't smell bad. It just smells very spicy and I just went in with like a full sniff I don't know how long I've had this package for but I think we have some of grandma's salsa The whole package smells like salsa now that I give it a big sniff. I'm sure it's delicious. I'm just scared to oh wait He's got when he packaged it September 14th. That's fine. It's been a couple months. All right. I'm gonna open this other jacob package I don't have this nice Christmas themed background I kind of missed the green screen. Who knows where I would be right now if I stand really still maybe he can do something You didn't do anything did you? Dead to rights spider-man dead to rights soul caliber. Oh bait and kados. That's a fantastic game I actually Think I gave my baton kados to um biker for christmas a few years back Thanks. I've been meaning to buy that again. Uh everything else I do already have so again giveaways below But that's awesome. Thank you so much. I need to get to a note. Hopefully there's a note in the tub Maybe I should have started with the tub metroid tony hawk tony hawk I don't know if I have just the just the normal wind waker without their bonus disc metal of honor got a God of war gda spider-man. Oh, that's like my favorite spider-man game and a kid in a laden's palace What about letters? I didn't really read any of these letters I'm always careful Happy holidays wood kim logan and simon from isabella and there's a bunch of Snoopy characters. Oh, they all open. They're all little baby cards. That's so cute Thank you. These are from lee and adrian. I wouldn't kim. How are you guys doing? I've been a subscriber that beat him up since last year and for kim's channel I've been a subscriber since when she uploaded her first video in sent a little baggy, which What's this white powder? No, I'm just kidding.  No, it's really Well Hey wood, I absolutely love your videos. They always cheer me up when no one else posts videos But only when no one else posts videos. Otherwise, I have better things to watch I'm writing this the day sword and shield comes out. So I think it would be fitting to give you some pokemon cards Thank you so much. It's adorable. Ian. All right. I think this is the last letter Doesn't say who it's from from the outside Sometimes you got to see what you hear. Oh, look. It's a switch deer sand I mean wood you can read this on or off camera. My name is shaden I've been watching your channel for six months and I'm 10 years Wow, that's like most of your life you and kim have put a smile on my face. Oh, it's so nice. I'm good on bad days Thank you so much shaden. That's adorable. You know, whenever I get messages from like that from like 10 year olds Or something. I'm like, man, I'm gonna be nostalgic for them one day and that is really weird Oh, by the way, this is from rikado. I always love that name. Oh, wow There is a lot of stuff in here. Wow. How long has it been since I've even seen a vita game What are these?   Oh octa debt. Oh, there's some limited run games in here. Man. Those aren't cheap tacky on project I've never even heard of that child of light is a fantastic game guacamole Digimon cybersluth undertale. This is literally like a really cool collection And an ocarina, which I want to blast a tune on but I can't be 100% sure that someone hasn't previously Blasted a tune on it. I don't want to make out with rikado.  We have applied from destiny Knights of the art republic bring back that series, please Actually really don't have any of these video games axiom verge. Uh other stuff. Uh other stuff a bunch of video games I don't even know what these video games are Queen it's the Harry Potter. I don't know what kind of music he made Uh pac-man twilight princess metallica I love him I was emptying the box out to get all this b-roll and I found a letter I missed. Hey wood My name is ricky and I'm sending this all the way from miami I have been shrinking my collection and couldn't think of a better person to give these games to as I know You will preserve and appreciate them. I suffer from depression and your video has brightened my day So I hope everything is well, and I wish you the best with the channel and everything ricky. Thank you so much I literally I have like three of these vita games. So Thank you so much. Hey, watch me lay an egg It's from the pokemon center. Why did I you see how I did that? I do that every time I open a package I'm like letter possibly note with someone's name on it. Well, what else we got it is from myself It's a groovy shirt. I didn't order this. I'm guessing someone bought it for me and addressed it to me and also Acted like I was the one that bought it. It's really awesome. This embroidered badge is really cool What size is it even large? See I wouldn't have bought myself a large shirt either But I'm glad this one is large because it's a little too snug for me to wear on my body right now in the medium I put on a little bit of Christmas weight. You know what I'm saying. Thank you so much. Whoever got this For me. I really like it I love it. Apparently I already half open this one. Oh, yeah, because I thought it was uh, I bought it for myself But I didn't buy it for myself. Someone bought it for me. It is uh, the um the uh, the um, the um, the um It's from daniel and it is an s mini sd card from the tanner switch. It's the zelda themed one I might already have it daniel. It means the world to me, but I'm gonna go and put it in the Giveaway jakeb. Oh jakeb again Really? There was oh, wow. That's a really good one I like how there was one game left that he couldn't squeeze kram out of the three boxes He sends he would it's me jakeb again I find this game after I package the rest so I'll send it separate from the others another question Okay, I'm gonna I haven't read your first letter yet. I'm assuming it's in there So I'm gonna put carefully place this here and I'm gonna come back to this Actually, one of my biggest regrets is I found this in a thrift store of like a dollar And then I needed money really badly so I sold it But I wish I always wished that I didn't and now I don't have to wish that anymore. Thank you so much jakeb I hope your note in here explains why you sent so much stuff There's a nice Kimbroker plate. Hey, don't send us a plate Hi beat em ups. My name is jakeb. I haven't been watching long, but I've seen you're a nice guy a little about myself I've been sick for a few years So I thought I'd send some of my old games and if you already have them find a good home for them Okay, now maybe a couple of questions first. Do you have any old simpsons games for ness or sega? I think I have all the nes ones because just wondering I like those games when I was a kid If you want them message me on twitter and we can I'll send you simpsons games You have a wonderful life and uh, you seem like a pretty lucky guy a job. You love and beautiful wife That's so nice p.s. I sent you some soso. Let me know what you think. It's not that hot Well, I'm a baby with spice. Thank you so much jakeb. I really hope you get better sick for a few years scares me I hope you're okay. Oh my gosh. This this one seems like it's all out pokemon and breath of the wild Our posters obviously.  Heck. Yeah. I had that exact one. You do Oh, they're not I guess I'll give it away. You've been stashing power ranger swords from me knowing that I would play it It's time. We did a duel. Oh, we have a fanny pack There's a freaking blue game gear in here. I don't even know they made blue game gears. Is it painted? No, I think it's just actually blue. Let me double check Yeah, it's actually just blue bunch of game gear games and game gear cases. All right. Well, that's going in the collection Old school pokemon 10. This is like 98 this no 1999 I was nine years old when someone bought this tin for the first time.  That's so awesome I just bought a game boy color the pokemon game boy color I bought it off billy and I was like legit like I want to play one of the old pokemon games on it I'm totally gonna play one of these. Well, obviously not this one, but one of these two got some actual I can do. Oh gosh. I'm scared. I do not have This is so strange to me like I it's been so long since I bought anything retro And all of a sudden all of these gaps in my retro collection. They're just filling up pokemon blue again Do I have two blues now? A ds, but it doesn't feel like there's a ds in there. So I wonder what is inside Oh, I think it's just the box which is totally fine because I actually already have this ds So this can just be display purposes same goes with this toys russ wait. No, he said It's a wow. I guess the black one is a toys russ exclusive. My gosh. Just keeps going.   All right now this i'm scared to open Oh my gosh What is in these things games digimon mega man ruby leaf green I guess those boxes were all empty and the games are in here.  There's the fire red. There's silver There's even like a fancy stylus that has a legendary on it. Thank you so much Jacob that is insane. You need to hit me up I need to get your address either off one of these packages or from you so I can send you the Simpsons nes games if I have the ones that you need. That's insane I don't even have time to reflect on it because this battery is about to die Again goes without saying a lot of this stuff will be compiled into multiple giveaways So subscribe if you want to win this says open last We're gonna find out why if this camera dies. I'm just gonna squish down and look in this one for the rest of the Video. All right. Let's see what was so special That we had to open it last Sean Oh my gosh, I can't really see what it is, but it's in a really nice frame from Sean finally made good on my promise Hope you love it spoiler. You will I'm scared. This is such an elegant office frame Kim is going to see this before me. You guys are going to see this before me It got an all Oh That's so nice. He hashtagged it never alone. So this was from the stream like a year ago We're gonna have to hang this up somewhere. Thank you so much. That's so amazing. All right anyone that sent me anything Thank you so much. There's gonna be a lot of stuff.  This will bring the last one of these for the year So I hope you have a very uh, merry happy fantastically adorable Christmas and I hope you just had a great year Thanks so much for watching me this year. Again, I still have more videos this year But to be the last unboxing one of this year. All right guys. Bye


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about Out Out, the poem by Robert Frost. Now I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as well as language techniques and contextual factors that you need to be aware of if you were analysing this poem as part of your exams or coursework. So let's get started. Now as I mentioned, Robert Frost authored Out Out and essentially this poem is about a New England community. Now do you remember contextually that Robert Frost himself, his ancestors were actually originally New Englanders, so a lot of his work has focused on the New England community including this poem. So let's begin by reading part of this stanza because it's only one whole stanza and then we'll talk about techniques that you need to be aware of and then we'll read the remaining stanza and also analyse that too. As the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled as it ran light or had to bear a load and nothing happened, day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said to please the boy by giving him the half hour that a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside them in her apron to tell them supper. At the war the saw, as if to prove saws knew what supper meant, leaped out at the boy's hand or seemed to leap, he must have given the hand. However it was neither refused the meeting but the hand. The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh and then he swung toward them, holding up the hand. Now this part of the stanza essentially focuses on the New England community initially and then of course narrows our focus down to the boy who's been working and then we learn of a horrific cut that he received his hand. Now the poem begins, buzz saw and the focus on the buzz saw really reveals the crude and primitive agricultural tools that this New England community are using. Furthermore it snarled and rattled and essentially this onomatopoeia is quite animalistic. It has really acoustic effects and it shows that the saw is almost possessed by devilish spirits. Of course already from the start there's this sense of foreboding that's created within us. We realise that this is a very dangerous object. Furthermore the alliteration dust and dropped really shows just how violent the saw is as it's cutting this wood and it's cutting of course these trees. Moreover the sibilants sweet scented stuff to describe the breeze that drew across it and carried the smell of the wood essentially is an interesting contrast with the saw. Now essentially frost mixes in the imagery of this really violent saw with actually a very rural utopic idea of this New England community so there's the sibilant sweet scented stuff in the breeze which do across it so this is symbolic of a rural utopia. Furthermore the alliteration and the enjambement here shows how busy the New England community is so it's stating there that those that lifted eyes could count because it's emphasising that actually majority of people couldn't lift their eyes they were so focused on labour they're only focused on survival so it's showing that in spite of this New England community living in what is really a rural paradise all they can do is literally survive because they are living in rural poverty. Also there's the semantic field of nature which really compounds the idea of the sweet scented and the breeze so there's the five mountain ranges of sunset and this semantic field of nature really shows how beautiful and scenic and utopic the imagery of the Vermont area that the New England community lives in really is. However this is in contrast to the saw itself which snarled and rattled snarled and rattled and this is a repetition of the first line snarled and rattled and a repetition of this onomatopoeia. What this does is it shows how repetitive and monotonous and relentless the work is and also how brutally difficult this work is. Moreover there's this sense of monotony that's compounded we learn that nothing happened so the work day is much the same every single day. Furthermore here the caesura shows the pause of another very busy day so the people that live in this New England community have very puritan work ethic they really survive and struggle hard to survive and this is Frost's way actually interestingly of dismissing notions of rural utopia so as I mentioned his ancestors are originally New Englanders however rather than depicting New England in this very nostalgic way as a rural utopia actually he's showing a very harsh element that probably his ancestors had to endure in rural poverty. Moreover the first person pronoun I in line 10 shows an anonymous persona we wonder who is this person. Furthermore this is in contrast to the boy that's mentioned so again this goes in with Frost's way of dismissing this rural utopia we're actually quite shocked at the child labor so the person who's holding this all isn't even an adult it's a young boy and this creates pathos within us as we're reading this. Furthermore there's work language related to him so this young boy already knows the labor of a man and even understands the language and the jargon related to get in a half an hour of a lunch break for instance so this alliteration emphasizes the work language and the rest break that he gets rather than being a child and just indulging in his childhood he is having to work. Furthermore the direct speech from his sister which says supper and it's a minor sentence this is what distracts the boy and it causes everything to change. Now this personification of this saw so in line 15 and 16 as if to prove saws new and then in line 16 it leaped out what this shows is just how horrible and vicious this animalistic saw really is. Furthermore there's this interesting qualifier that's coupled with this personification so it seemed to outsiders to leap towards the boy so this is an important qualifier which suggests to some degree that the boy had some agency in this matter he maybe is partly to blame for his severed hand. Furthermore this suggestion is coupled with he must have given the hand now this is a suggestion that maybe the boy offered his hand as a sacrifice to the saw maybe it's an attention seeking aspect because this is the only way he's going to get any attention from his family or the wider community who just see him in terms of labor. Also the exclamatory simple sentence but the hand really focuses in on his limb that's been lost and of course this is a fateful accident which causes the boy's life and he swung toward them holding up the hand and this seems almost like a cry for attention from the boy to his family to really look at him as a child rather than as a man. So let's carry on half in a pill but half as if to keep the life from spilling then the boy saw all since he was old enough to know big boy doing a man's work though a child at heart he saw all spoiled don't let him cut my hand off the doctor when he comes don't let him sister so but the hand was gone already the doctor put him in the dark of ether he lay and puffed his lips out with his breath and then the watcher at his pulse took fright no one believed the listened at his heart little less nothing and that ended it no more to build on there and they since they were not the one dead turned to their affairs so now this second half of the stanza and do you remember it's only just one stanza or one verse really shows that firstly the boy ends up dying and the doctor actually interestingly plays a role in this death because he gives him ether which actually causes his heart rate to fall dangerously low and this plays a massive part in his death in addition of course to the severed hand and blood loss but then whilst the new england community is really shocked and frightened at this they turn back to their work of course this shows that the poverty doesn't really allow them to do anything else now here the quote the life from spilling is a metaphor and it emphasises of course that the boy is rapidly losing blood and rapidly dying also there's a bit upon here the boy saw all so it's got a two-way meaning on the one hand he saw all he cut everything with the saw that could be the literal meaning however the other meaning behind this is that he experiences an epiphany a realisation about his life and his poverty and what life will really be like for him for the future also the literation big boy is a play on words what we usually say to young children to encourage them we say you're a big boy you're a big girl now so people perhaps use that language to encourage him to carry on working and using these dangerous instruments but also the community whilst they speak to him in a way that we speak to children they still treat him like an adult and of course this is what causes this strategy to happen also of course there's a contrast between boy and man so big boy doing man's work and this contrast emphasises he actually really shouldn't be working he should be a child he should be going to school he should be enjoying himself with his friends rather than cutting and felling trees in 925 he saw all spoiled and essentially what this does is it shows and emphasises that this young boy realises he will die and of course spoiled is a euphemism for death furthermore he we hear directly from the boy there's direct speech he's really frantic don't let him cut my hand off the doctor when he comes don't let him sister and this foreshadows how the doctor will play a role in his death he's actually fearful of the doctor who's supposed to be an expert again this foreshadows this quotation because in this phrase the doctor put him in the dark of ether we actually learned that he is correct the doctor does essentially cause his death and this is because the ether kills him as it loads his blood pressure too much more over here in line 30 the caesura really emphasises his death it's a pause and essentially this causes the watcher to take fright so the young boy has now lost his life and the watcher it's unclear who this is maybe it's his family perhaps it's even his father who's really shocked at what's happened however we we're not sure who this is also the simple sentence no one believes shows that the whole community the whole new england community is really shocked at this untimely death of the young boy furthermore the adjectives little less nothing show his diminishing heartbeat and this is of course coupled with the hyphens or the caesura and this shows how he gradually the life starts leaving his body furthermore the caesura here before and shows that his life has now ended and this is interesting how his life has ended and rather than they kind of pausing and maybe reflecting on their community we learn that they so this is a third person pronoun the community simply moves on so the poem ends on a very very sad note they turned to their affairs and the literation here turned to their emphasises the poverty and the limited options that this new england community has so really it's really interesting that frost actually depicts the new england community in a really negative way and what this shows is that he's really dismissing this idea that the rural countryside was a rural utopia it was like this perfect place away from the city actually there was a lot of rural poverty which he wants to emphasise and show so that's all if you found this useful do make sure you visit our website there you will find lots of useful revision materials for english and indeed other topics that you were studying thank you so much for listening