Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30pm Eastern Time. And before I go any further, let me 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 recommendation. Risk 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. And as a reminder, my presentation and the Options with Doug channel in Bookmap Discord is very focused and the focus is options, order flow, the impact of the 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 that is based on positional analysis. And I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions shift from day to day to help develop a thesis regarding implied volatility or implied volatility to be expected for the day as well as trading range and also a directional bias. And again, I use positional analysis. This is a new way of looking at the market and other traders may use technical analysis or fundamental analysis and I think positional analysis provides a significant edge. And the second part of my process is execution and I look at real time order flow in Bookmap and market maker hedging flow in Spot Gamma Hero to confirm my thesis and find and execute setups. And on topic questions and comments are welcome, very welcome. Please post your questions and comments in the options with Doug Channel and Bookmap Discord as well as in the chat in Bookmap YouTube. And I will watch both but I tend to watch the Bookmap Discord a little bit more than YouTube. So again questions and comments are welcome. Okay, let's get started. And my agenda for the day, what I want to talk about is first of all position analysis. Go over what I saw in the market this morning and this is primarily based on information from Spot Gamma and then we'll talk about some setups. And please forgive me, I have not had any running water in two days. The city where I live had a substantial problem this past weekend with freezing cold weather pipes and distribution facilities were severely damaged with the cold weather, the freezing and then the thawing. So again I have not had any running water for two days so I had to travel to a gym that was out of my area to take a shower this morning and also find a grocery store that was open. So anyway with that let's go ahead and get started and let's take a look at the S&P 500. This is the ES Futures. And thank you Trader HE and I keep expecting water any moment now and I get news that it's going to be another day or something. So anyway, I'm hanging in there. So anyway here's the ES Futures and the support and resistance levels that are in play are marked on the chart, on this chart. And I have two columns here of levels. And the first is the SG and that's the Spot Gamma cloud notes that are provided by Spot Gamma. And these are based on SPX levels. And that's shown here like this L3 3850, that's SPX 3850. And Trader HE indicates that the microphone is choppy. Is anybody else, how does my, how's my audio? Anybody else having a problem? Okay, thank you Bert, thank you Move Walker. Okay, so the other levels that are shown here are combo levels. And let's just take a look at this one right here. And that is a combination of SPX and SPY converted to an SPX level and then converted to an equivalent ES level. So right now Spot Gamma is adding 25 points to SPX to come up with the equivalent ES level. And then the second column is the C levels column and that's my own cloud notes. And what I'm doing is marking the key Gamma levels for SPY like the 384 volatility trigger and also the big round numbers in ES. And then finally the support and resistance levels that are shown in the Spot Gamma AM Founders note. So that is what I'm looking at for ES. And a couple things of note is first of all before the regular trading hours RTH open ES tested the SPX 3800 level and then moved higher. And now it's chopping around the 3850 level which was, and that's right here, which was resistance yesterday and also there was a test of the 3835 call wall that's the JP Morgan caller and before price moved on up to the 3850 level and above. So the SPX levels that 3800, 3835, and 3850 are definitely in play today. And Tom asked Audio Discord, there was a trader Ichi commented on my audio. Other people confirmed that it's fine. Okay, so that is the S&P 500 and those are the levels that are in play today. And just to note that the 3850, as you recall from yesterday, this is the ES from yesterday, the 3850 level was acted as resistance in the morning just at the open and then price traded lower after that. So that is ES from yesterday. Okay, and the next thing that I want to talk about is the shifts in levels. And there were just a couple but they were significant. And the first is the SPX put wall shifted down from 3800 to 3700. And then the SBY spy key gamma strike dropped down from 380 yesterday to 375 today. And let's take a look at that. Let's go to the S&P 500 charts. Let's take a look at SPX first. And these are the absolute gamma levels. And the put gamma is shown in the teal color below zero. And call gamma is shown in the black lines above zero. So the levels that are in play, there's the put wall, the 3700 put wall that is shifted down from 3800. And again, as a reminder, the put wall is the level with the largest net negative gamma. Then here, let's go up. The next level, well, here's the 3825 and that is the volatility trigger. And the next level, that is the call wall. That's the 3835 level. And that has been the call wall all week. And again, as a reminder, that's the short call of the JP Morgan collar. And I'll talk about that a little bit more and how the influence of that level is changing from day to day. And then this has been the case for some time. I will talk about that when the JP Morgan collar expires tomorrow. I'll talk about that and we'll spot gamma. Talked about that. So that's the playing field. And really, it's more the 3800 to 3850 and really the 3900 that's in play. And spot gamma has talked about that all week. That's the range that they were expecting for the week. So that's the SPX levels. And spy, again, put gamma below and teal, call gamma above. So you can see the dominance of put gamma. And we'll take a look at the gamma notional in just a moment and see how dominant that put gamma is. So here's the 375 put wall. That's a put wall and the key gamma strike. So that is also the strike with the largest absolute gamma. 380, that was the key gamma strike yesterday. And then 390 is still the put wall. All right, so speaking of data now, let's go take a look at the founder's note. And this is something that I look at every day. And this is gamma notional. And gamma notional for both SPX and spy have become more negative than yesterday. So yesterday SPX, the gamma notional was minus 408. Today it's minus 651. And yesterday gamma notional was minus 1776. And today it's minus 2326. So that, a couple of things to note there. First, that minus 2326 is a significant number. That's quite a large negative gamma. And also notice how much larger it is than the SPX gamma. And what this means is that traders are long puts, market makers are short puts, and they have to sell futures as price decreases to hedge their delta exposure. And the opposite as price increases, they can buy back those short futures. And that, so trader, market makers are trading in the direction of price action. And that tends to increase volatility. And now that does not imply a directional bias. It just, it's an implication for volatility. Meaning to expect a wider trading range today and more volatility. And for those who are new, we can take a look at, let's just take a look at this chart right here. And this is the SG index, which is related to the gamma notional. So as the SG index moves, or as gamma notional moves, so does the SG index. And what this is showing, here's the zero line. And this on the horizontal axis is the SG index. And then on the vertical axis is the one day return. And this is a scatter plot showing the, again, one day forward return, can be plus or minus. And notice that it tends to widen out as the SG index decreases, or becomes more negative. And again, it moves the same as gamma notional. So all the gamma notional is applying is a wider trading range and more volatility for the day. And let's take a look at the Vantage charts. And this is a graphical representation of pretty much the same thing. And this is showing how market makers delta notional or delta exposure changes as price and implied volatility change. And that is shown by this green line here. And that is the current expiration. And the way to interpret this is just to draw a line through here. And I'm just using a screen pen tool that makes sense through this line. And this is showing, again, how market makers delta exposure changes in price and implied volatility. And that's the VANA effect. So what this is showing is that market makers delta exposure increases as price falls. And again, they have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure as price decreases. And then they can buy back those futures as price increases. So they're trading in the direction of price. And there was a question this morning about delta neutral. And what this is showing, this data is generated once daily from information like open interest that is available overnight. And it's showing a starting point. So this spot gamma is assuming a starting point of delta neutral. But that's going to change constantly during the day. So that, again, market makers have to constantly hedge their delta exposure with changes in price and volatility. And then the black line is showing changes as time passes. And that's the next expiration. And that's the charm effect. So we can take a look back a couple of days and see how that has shifted to more negative gamma. And we can also take a look at SPY and see the steepness of the line. It's even steeper. Again, there's a lot more negative gamma in SPY than SPX. And you can see how that has shifted over time. Okay, let's talk about the J.P. Morgan collar. And first of all, there were a couple of notes this morning in the AM Founders note that I wanted to point out. And there was a much more in-depth or thorough analysis. And I'll leave that to SPY gamma subscribers. And talking about the gamma tied to the J.P. Morgan collar has strengthened at the money and weakened at the wings. And we'll take a look at the gamma curve, the call gamma curve in SPX and thinkorswim. And this will illustrate that effect. And let me check for questions. And Truman, I'm not sure I understand your question. Gamma Greeks, I don't know what that is. Gamma Greeks for options. Well, yeah, SPY gamma does have proprietary algorithms. So SPY gamma is what I use. And I don't, algorithmist ask about trading view API. I don't use trading view. I use book map and SPY gamma and then thinkorswim. And that's it. So I suggest you contact, you know, if you have any questions about API, contact SPOT gamma. I think they do have cloud notes for, or something similar for trading view. But I use book map, thinkorswim and SPOT gamma. Okay, so let's take a look at, and let me check YouTube. And the same question about gamma Greeks for options. I don't know what that is. But SPY gamma is what I use. And they do have proprietary algorithms. And we'll take a look at SPY in just a moment. And do I offer a contact email? No, I don't. But I am available on book map discord and SPY gamma discord, or discord in general. And my name in discord is Doug P. Capital D, OUG, capital P. And I'm also on Twitter at Doug Plus. Okay, so let's take a look at this JP Morgan caller. And I'm going to go through a sequence of days. So this is from the 27th. So this is two days ago. So this is Tuesday showing the SPX call gamma for four different expirations. And that is the pink purple line is the expiration this Friday, the 30th, December 30th. And then the other lines are the next three Friday expirations. January 6th, January 13th. And then the monthly expiration on January 20th. So that is for the 27th. And notice that the, first of all, the peak here is right below .006. And notice how it is fairly wide. So that indicates the influence of this is larger two days ago than we'll see today. And what that means is JP Morgan is short this strike. So market makers are long this strike. So that's positive gamma. As opposed to what we, what the, as opposed to the negative gamut today, at least at this strike. Again, market makers are long, long the call. So they have to sell as price increases to hedge their delta exposure. And they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure as price decreases. So that's the opposite of a negative gamma environment. So this is from two days ago. And then let's take a look at the same graph from yesterday. So this is the 28th. And notice now that the gamma, and I'm looking at this pink purple curve, has increased to just above .007. And the wings have narrowed a bit. So the influence is greater at the money and then diminishes further away. And then finally let's take a look at the gamma curve for today. And notice now that the peak of this curve is even higher above .009. But again, it's becoming more narrow. And the influence of this strike that is causing market makers to basically pin this area trade against price above and below is diminishes as price gets further away from that 3835 strike. OK. So that's the JP Morgan collar. And let's take a look at one other. So again, Spot Gamma did a more thorough analysis in the AM report. And I just clipped off a couple of lines from that. And this is regarding the question about what will happen after tomorrow and after. And what Spot Gamma is calling for is the JP Morgan collar and Spy Gamma roll off. And they were calling for quite a bit of Gamma to expire tomorrow. That was a source of pinning. And now may become a source of volatility as large positions are rolled. And this is particularly true tomorrow as hedges is just to the new JP Morgan collar. So there was a question about the JP Morgan collar in general. And my understanding is they put it on once a quarter and expiring at the end of the quarter. And the expiration dates, I'm not quite sure. All right. Let me check for questions. Question about what broker I use. I use thinkorswim for options. And I use trade station for stocks since it's integrated with book map. And well, since market makers need to keep Truman, one, two, three ask because market makers need to keep Delta neutral. I'm watching Gamma as an indicator of, yes, which way they hedge. And again, in a negative Gamma environment, that implies that market makers are hedging in the direction or price. And so that tends to increase volatility and just the opposite for a positive Gamma environment. And Bert asks, what is the reason behind it growing and narrowing? And that's just the characteristic of options. So Gamma is greatest at the money at expiration. And think of it this way. So Gamma is simply the rate of change of Delta. And expiration, any strike above at the money, the Delta is going to be zero. And for any strike below at the money, the Delta is going to be one. And that is at expiration. So again, Gamma will increase and change very sharply at the money, but then further out from at the money, it's not going to change. So again, think about what happens at expiration. Delta is either a one or a zero. Okay, Bert, I hope that answers your question. So this is just characteristic of options. Again, Gamma is highest at the money at expiration. Okay, let's take a look at some setups. Let me just check YouTube for questions. And RTRT asks, what does it mean to hedge in the direction of price? So let's take a look at the Vantage Art again. And this shows that market makers, Delta notional, Delta exposure increases as price decreases. They want to remain Delta neutral. So they have to sell futures as price decreases to hedge their Delta exposure. And then as price increases, they can buy back those short futures, again, as price is rising. So they're trading in the direction of price. And that tends to enhance volatility. Okay, and David is indicating options by are extremely active at 384 and 383. So we can, we'll take a look at spy in just a moment. So let's actually, let's go to back. First of all, let's go to Spot Gamma and go to ES. And I'm going to look at the total signal. So this is the, this is Spot Gamma Hero. And this is showing the hedging impact of real time options for ES. And it was combining, for ES, Spot Gamma is combining options trades in spy and SPX. And showing a combined view here for ES. So they are saying that options trades in spy and SPX are potentially driving price action. Again, market makers are hedging options trades in those two instruments with ES futures. So this separates out puts and calls. And this is showing initially traders were fading this move higher and they were selling calls and buying puts initially until about 10 a.m. And then they shifted and started buying calls. And there's been a strong correlation with price action and traders buying calls ever since then. Let's go look at spy. And spy looks just about identical to ES. And that's been the case recently is spy options trades having a larger influence than SPX. And again, around somewhere between 10 and 10, 10.15 a.m. traders started buying calls. And the way this works is when traders buy calls, market makers are selling the calls, and they have to buy futures to hedge their delta exposure. And if you're trading stocks and looking for a long entry, this is what you want to look for. And there was quite a bit of this going on today in the stocks of my watch list. And there was a question in Bookmap YouTube about the 384 and 383 and 384 level. And let's take a look at... Let's take a look at Bookmap. We'll take a look at spy. And there's the 384 level. And that is the volatility trigger. And let me just take a look at... So yesterday, 383 was a key spot gamma level and spy, but not today. That has gone away. So again, this 384 is the volatility trigger. And that was the volatility trigger yesterday for spy. So, nice trend up here in spy. And the first entry point was, unless you just caught the open, was this reversal back to 381. And that was before traders really started buying calls. Maybe we can zoom in and take a look at that closer. And then there were several pullback entries. And the primary target really would have been this... was this 384 volatility trigger level. And just as a reminder, the volatility trigger is spot gamma flip level and indicating market makers gamma position shifts to positive above that level and negative below. Okay, let's go take a look at some other setups here. And the next one was Apple. Kind of a choppy morning session. Let's take a look at Hero here. And really the clue was, or the first clue, traders started buying calls as price dropped down. So Hero made a higher high here while price was moving lower. So a divergence set up there. And then let's go look at Bookmap again. And so that was your first clue. The divergence set up. And then no clear reversal area here. No obvious reversal point. But there was a very obvious target. And that is the 130 key gamma strike and all the liquidity at that level. So nice long setup in Apple. And this will be a theme. You'll see the call buying and the nice key gamma strike or other spot gamma level strike and liquidity targets above. So that's the first setup. And an algorithmist, I'm not sure I understand. This is just for plotting the levels. I'm not sure I understand that. And Panamets ask, all those charts come with a spot gamma subscription. Yes, they come with a spot gamma alpha subscription. The next setup, AMD. And this is along the same line. Pullback, not as choppy morning session, more of a clear uptrend to the 65 key gamma strike and all the liquidity there. Let's go look at Hero. AMD, strong correlation. And again, traders are buying calls. That's shown by the rising orange line. Another divergence set up in the morning. Traders were buying calls from the open and price chopped around a bit and then started to move higher. And traders have not been doing much with puts and that's shown with the blue line. So there's the second setup, very similar to Apple. Traders buying calls and price targeted the key gamma strike and also liquidity at that level. Okay. And the next one, Google. And again, traders buying calls. And let's take a look at Bookmap. Okay. Again, similar theme except that Google has not made it to the 90 key gamma strike yet. But again, notice the high liquidity at that target. That's the obvious target. And pullback entries as traders buy calls. And again, as a stock trader, that's something that you want to look for if you're looking for a long entry. And the question about Spot Gamma website have explanation videos. The Spot Gamma website has an extensive support center on their website as well as a very good YouTube channel. And Spot Gamma, there's a lot of information there. It can be complex when you're first starting out. So if you're just getting familiar with Spot Gamma, it may take some time to become familiar and understand all of it. And I talk about it every day. And I try to provide simple explanations and show real live trading examples of how it works and how you can use it. And my videos are streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and on Bookmap YouTube, and they're recorded. So you can go back and watch the recordings of my webinars on Bookmap YouTube. So here's the Google, the third stock with the same theme of traders buying calls and a high liquidity target above at a Spot Gamma key level. Let's take a look at Meta now. And this time the target was the 120 call wall, which actually, now this is from yesterday, for some reason Meta was not in equity hub today. So I couldn't confirm any changes in levels. But yesterday 120 was the call wall as well as the key Gamma strike. So that was the primary target today. And again, notice the high liquidity at that level. Let's go take a look at Hero. Meta and a very strong correlation, steady trend up as traders are buying calls. So not doing much with puts, but definitely buying calls and that is driving price higher. So, you know, in the past few days, traders have been selling big cap tech and today they're buying and they're buying calls and that is driving price action higher. Again, as traders buy calls, market makers sell the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure. So stocks are often much easier to understand. The mechanism driving price action in stocks is typically much simpler than the price action in the S&P 500. So again, very simple. Traders are buying calls. Market makers are selling the calls and buying stock to hedge their delta exposure and as price keeps increasing, they keep having to buy calls. And Microsoft, and here it was really puts in calls, driving price. So traders initially in the morning as they were selling calls, they were also selling puts and then they switched just around 10.15 to both selling puts and buying calls. And it looks like that has been driving price action since then. Let's go take a look at book map now and we'll see another, see this key gamma strike target. So the theme continues. Traders buying calls and large cap tech today and there's the price target again at the key gamma strike and also the high liquidity at that level. Let me check for questions on YouTube now and RTRT ask, can you explain how divergence is and how it can signal a change of price? Yes, that is. Let's go back and take a look at Apple. I believe that was one of the stocks that had a divergence and let's go take a look at Hero. Back to Apple. And this is not, they're better divergences but what that means is that traders are doing something in the options market and price responds sometime later and I think that is a, that's one of my favorite setups and this is, again this was not as clear but what I was looking at and again there are a lot better divergent setups and the best divergent setups occur in spy where it takes some time for traders, for market makers to start hedging in the direction of the options market and that doesn't always work but it seems to occur more often. So what I'm looking at here is Hero, the call line, traders are buying calls. Here they dip out a little bit but price makes a lower high and then traders continue to buy calls. That's not the best divergent setup but that's how that works. So you look at Hero going for in one direction and that is the first step in a divergent setup and the second step is to look for an area of reversal and typically that would be a level of a key gamma level or a level of high liquidity or a round number and watch, I suggest watching some of my previous videos and I usually point those divergent setups out and question about does Hero work for SPX and let's see, I did have a problem with it yesterday and I'm not getting anything today and there's a question about the dash yellow lines. That is on my book map chart and I use an add-on available in the book map marketplace called price lines and that's what I use for my cloud notes to fill out a spreadsheet and the yellow dash lines are just at the round numbers and typically at the zeros and fives I'll have a red line unless it is a spot gamma level and then those are white lines so the yellow lines are just the round numbers. So here's Netflix, Strong Correlation and here are traders in the morning were buying calls and selling puts. Let's go take a look at book map. Go to Netflix. Nice, nice strong uptrend in the morning. Let's go back to Hero. No gamma levels as targets but definitely liquidity targets at the fives and zeros, 285, 290 and 295 and it looks like the final target here this morning was this 295 liquidity. Let's go back to Hero now and again as usual very strong correlation between options trades and price action and notice how as traders start or stop buying calls and selling puts price it's that 295 target and then starts to drop down and I've just got a couple of minutes left and let's take a quick look we'll take a look at QQQ and just like a lot of other big cap tech traders are buying calls in QQQ which makes perfect sense. Let's take a look at book map. So long entries here it looks like the 265 key gamma strike price passed pretty quickly in the morning a little bit of chop around that level then a breakout above up to the 267 level so far and traders continue to buy calls and let's take a look now at Tesla and it looks like call traders were driving price action and Tesla as well and let's zoom in on the morning so regarding the question about a divergence before here's I think a little bit more clear example it's very fast it didn't last very long but notice that traders are buying calls starting about a minute after the open and price decreases and then you know that's very short and then price starts to increase and let's go take a look at book map and look at that set up so here's the morning set up in Tesla and you'd have to be pretty fast to catch this first reversal as traders started to buy calls and you could look at this two ways there's a reversal at VWAP and the only thing kind of disturbing about that is all the pink dots there and then probably the safer entry was to confirm the breakout above that trend line and the move higher to the liquidity at 123 and let's see what is above looks like the higher liquidity is at 125 is a potential price target in the afternoon if well Tesla's moved down quite a bit so probably not so back down to the key gamma strike let's go back and take a look at hero the entire day so on net this this dollar level 61.4 is still positive but but it has dropped off from earlier and pushing price back down to the key gamma strike okay let me do a final check for questions so the theme of the day today was traders looking to get long large cap tech stocks by buying calls and that was driving price action higher again traders buying calls market makers are selling the calls and they have to buy stock to hedge their delta exposure and we saw that in a lot of large cap tech Apple, AMD, Google, Meta, Microsoft Netflix as well as QQQ and spy as well and let me just do a final check for questions and David you're very welcome I'm glad it's helpful I spent a lot of time studying this and trying to understand it but I find again it provides a significant edge in understanding how the options market is driving price action okay alright so that is that's all I had for today thank you very much for watching and thanks for your questions and comments and hopefully I'll have some water tomorrow running water in my house anyway thanks again and I will see you tomorrow bye


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And what it taught me was that you can be extremely ambitious and that's amazing. But you also have to make sure that you're coming from a good place. That you're coming from a place where you can feel fine with yourself. You can sit in a room and be happy just to be yourself. Or else it's going to be like poison.  And so that's what happened. So in essence like the fact that it was successful and they got more and more successful and then it failed big time. And that would mean like a two year depression almost where I had to like really like build up my foundations back back again. But this time like do it from a place of like I feel good about myself like I love who I am I love the experience of being me.  We all will in some point in our life get to a rock bottom. We can call it like that. So what do you see that really help you to follow through and actually build rebuild yourself up there. Especially mentally because I can tell for myself I saw this like big vision of going to America conquer America and it didn't really end up the way I wanted it. So what you see helped you to overcome these inner thoughts negative thoughts and to start building yourself. Yeah. So for me it was very different than like the average story. What happened was I just spent like a whole year depressed and moved back to my parents house. I would go to sleep at 5 a.m. I would wake up at like 4 p.m. My mother would be at work. I would go to the gym literally stay at the gym from like 5 p.m. until 10 11 p.m. because they don't want anybody in my family to see me. And I was like in that loop for a long time and just hating myself and I would get calls from people that I owe money to and it would be like super stressful. And I was not willing to get a job or you know to do anything because I was in debt. But I thought no I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not going to you know get a job or anything and I solve it this way.  And also like it was even worse because I had I was very not very but I was relatively famous in Israel. So people would recognize me on the street and that even brought a lot of shame. So I really hated myself. So what what really made the change was I had to do a lot of inner work to kind of accept that this is just where I am right now. And that's OK. And I actually through a very long process of like accepting not accepting that like this was my situation. I'm going to be stuck here. But like accepting like this is what it is right now. It's just the reality at this moment and not fighting it all the time. That like relaxing helped me like I started feeling good just you know taking a walk and not doing anything or just like like looking at a beautiful view. And like that kind of brought the openness for new things to come in because I was not like holding tight all the time to like oh I had this identity. I was big back in the day. I was really successful and I have to get back to like it was not compulsive. And then just things started really changing on their own. Like suddenly I met this really cute girl who ended up becoming my wife and we have like a kid now. And so she gave me a lot of motivation because I just I didn't want to do it for me like I had no motivation to do it for myself at all. Like I could have just not worked for years and I wouldn't mind because I was just I became very peaceful and I didn't have any more motivation to be successful. But then you know if you need motivation to be successful just find a good woman. And she pushed me like like Robbie I love you. I want to be with you but you have to start making money like I want to have kids. I want to have a family. I can't have that if you just don't do anything all day. And it was a long process like I literally started out by getting a job built on my confidence a bit started like a small thing in business. Tried it you know it worked and then it didn't and then tried another thing and like kind of like built my confidence. So it took it took like two two and a half years to rebuild that confidence again. Yeah but now it's like rock solid because now it's like I've been through that. So so I know I know like I can come back from it and but yeah it was two and a half years of like like almost like somebody who had a car crash. And it takes them two and a half years of like physiotherapy to get back to where they were. But now it's like a much more solid foundation. Now if something just happens again they have such a strong body that like in such a good mind that like they're going to be able to come out of almost anything. That's amazing. And tell me a little bit about your new project right now and where these thoughts on this process when you start to rebuild your confidence and everything. Yeah so so I've done a few businesses businesses since then but it was always the same problem. So always it came back to like trying really hard and putting it like coming from a place of like really trying in an effort. And I would I would spend days just thinking of like how can I make money what's the business idea that's going to make me money. What's the strategy and it was very much mind based and I didn't feel good. I just felt bad. I was like I want to make money. I want to be successful. How do I get it done again. And nothing came up and anything that I tried it like came from ego. It was very like I want it. I want it and it didn't work. And what really changed it surprisingly was that I started meditating for like an hour a day and it might sound silly. But the fact that I started meditating gave me the ability to not think so much to just stop thinking and just be feeling really good and be able to calm my mind down and just be quiet. And the fact that I was able to calm it down suddenly I had creativity again. Like creativity comes back when you can stop thinking all the time and you can actually feel good in your body. So suddenly like things just started happening on their own. And I started doing something I wanted to do for a long time which was like a cold email strategy to close businesses online. And then I said OK you know I just learned how to program in Python. So I have like 10 years of experience in marketing and then I learned how to program as well. So I said what if I take like some part of what I'm doing and make it automatic. And I kind of programmed the thing in Python programming language and suddenly like part of my my work became automatic. And then I said what if I also automate the part where I send emails and I work coded that and then that became automatic. And then I thought like oh what if I can scale it. And so it's just like a very creative process. And it took like a month for us to build the system but it took me like 10 years to get to a point where I was able to do that. Because I've always wanted to leverage. I always wanted to do something that's extremely scalable. And suddenly we had this system and we have it now that's literally the most scalable automated marketing system on the planet. So that was like I can't even say how crazy it is that it happened. And I found the right partner at the right time. And I really think I really really think that it happened because I spent like 10 years just rushing after success. And always it seemed to like just evade me like I almost always almost got it. And then I tried holding it too tight and then he ran away and try again. But then when I learned how to finally like feel really good in myself inside myself and just be happy. And coming from a place of creativity and passion. And also the fact that I had a child, a kid born would give me the motivation to just work as much as it takes to make it work. And to really build something where I can have as much time as I want in the day. And as much money as I want and not have to think about that and just be able to be with my family. All of those together just made it work. So it's really like the right place, the right time, the right mindset. But again I tried like 30 times and every time was like it was the right time but it wasn't the right mindset. Or it wasn't the right business model. I wasn't okay or the clients weren't okay. It was always something missing. And I just kept trying and every time was like a different result. And now it's like click. And when you find the right thing and the right time, the right partner, the right mindset, then it can work.  Just like you said, like I had this business partner and everything. And I want to know a little bit more about what's the difference between what you're doing right now in terms of marketing than any other platforms. Right now a big thing is click funnel if you know. So they're very big about marketing and everything. So what's unique about what you're doing right now? Sure. So I always loved cold calling. And the reason I love cold calling was because you're able to control your numbers. So cold calling was something where I could pick up the phone, I could call somebody and I knew I had like a 5% chance of closing a meeting with that business owner. And what's really cool is if you're doing it to businesses, like business to business, then you can find that person's information online. So you don't need to get their information, you can just find it. Make a big spreadsheet and start calling businesses that are exactly the businesses that you want because you can choose which industries you want to work with and you just start making calls, you get good at it. And then suddenly you start closing meetings. And so I had experience with that last year. I started like a web design business. I did like 40 cold calls a day, learned from Grant Cardone how to do cold calling. And we closed like $10,000 in deals, I closed like in the first month because I just got good at it. Every day I would close like 5 or 6 meetings and these were really good business owners, had a lot of fun talking to them. And I controlled the process, so that gave me so much confidence. And that was the first time I really felt like, wow, I can control my sales. Like I don't have to beg anybody, I don't have to pay anyone, I don't have to hope that it works. I know my numbers, I know I pick up this many phone calls, I get this many meetings and I can always increase it if I want. So what we did with this system, unlike any other system in the world, this is a cold outreach system. So first of all it's not like Facebook or Google in the sense that somebody has to search you or you're not sharing somebody an ad. We're sending with our system direct emails to people. So that doesn't sound special because obviously people send emails all the time to businesses. The average business owner gets like 20 emails a day. So what we did, we actually created an automatic process where we work with a company, we help them identify the exact targets that they're looking for. So it could be any industry, any location, any company size, the system finds them automatically. It does it completely on its own. And then we have a team of copywriters that are extremely good at using our system to create personalized email templates where the business owner gets the email and they don't even know that it's not a real person. Like it looks so real because our emails, they don't have links, they're not spamming, they're short, they're very precise. And we have really good strategies to get these people to say, yes I'm interested, yes send me the video, yes I want to know more. And what makes our system really special is first of all, it has the same targeting abilities like Facebook or Google. So we can target extremely specifically, like very specific targets. We can test out many different email templates, many different industries at the same time, many locations. So we have an infinite ability to try as many variations as we want to see what works. And our most basic package is 1,500 emails a day. So imagine 1,500 emails a day going to the exact business owner that you're looking to talk to and sending them an extremely personalized email where they don't even know that it's not a real person. So we're getting amazing results with it. Now what makes it even better and that's really what makes the system special is that when you pay Facebook ads or Google AdWords, $500 a day and then you want to scale your automation.  You don't get 10 times more results for 10 times more money. You get maybe 2, 3 times more results for 10 times more money because the more you scale, the worse the company paying gets. And you have to approve it through them. They have to like what you wrote. You have very specific things you can't say. They can shut your account down at any moment. And I've managed ad accounts where it was $100,000 a month and they just closed it down. They didn't like something, they just closed it down. So you're always at the mercy of Facebook. They can always change anything they want. You're competing with everybody else. So the prices just keep going up and up. With our system, you're not competing with anybody and it's infinitely scalable. So what that means is we can just as easily send 1,500 emails a day which is our most basic package as we can send 15,000 emails a day. So and when you scale with us like let's say you want to get 10 times more emails you're going to get 10 times more results. So the results because they're directly to people they're actually proportional. So if you increase the emails by 10 times you increase the leads by 10 times. And we actually use the system to promote ourselves. So we don't spend $1 on advertising. We just send out like 3,000 emails per day. We get about 5 or 6 super high quality bookings every day. And over the last month alone we closed multi-million dollar companies. We closed massive businesses that work with super important people. I'm not sure if I can say the actual people right now but we don't need to do anything. Like we literally just have the system it sends out emails, people reply they automatically get like a video demo of our system or again when we work with customers we help them create like their own process that's automatic and they just get sales calls like every day consistently with like their exact industry their exact type of business that they want to work with and it's infinitely scalable. So already we work with multi-million dollar companies that basically said like okay give us a week or give us two weeks we're going to change our infrastructure and you can start sending us 5 times as many emails and they're just going to start getting 5 times as many leads. So there's no such system on the planet and on average if you just measure it like cost per lead business owners pay sometimes like $50 for a click on Google AdWords, you know? So we actually managed to get about 10 times better results on average than Facebook ads or Google ads in terms of cost per lead and the more somebody scales with us the cheaper the cost per lead gets because we actually give them a better package at the same time. Do you still think email marketing is something that is still working in the 2020? Just because back then it was like emails are like cool. So email, so that really depends like we hire a lot of copywriters to do the copywriting 99% of copywriters they do a shit work it's terrible because they write like it's like they're talking to a brick like if they write the right things click it and do somebody's gonna buy something and it doesn't work like that the moment somebody gets an email from you so first of all email is still worth. Do you get emails? Yes. Do you open them? Not me. Like if I open I open and that's no right. You open or you close, right? You either read it or you're like done. But if you feel like if you get an email and you immediately notice that it's a real person and it sounds interesting will you read the email? Probably yes. Probably, right? Because what if the email starts by saying hey Lidor I saw that you're a fitness coach in Israel and I noticed some things in your website and then it says the address of your website and then it has a picture. Very personal. Extremely personal. Like somebody took the time to write a very specific email to you and talk about something that's interesting to you. Like I noticed there's an error on your website here's the picture. I'd like to send you a two minute video to explain what the error is. Can I send you the video? Sure. Click. Lead. Just an example. So people have always read emails they're always gonna read emails. Does email marketing work? Like can you just send somebody an email or you like try to persuade them on the email? No. But can you send a very personalized email? A short email to a business owner that says hey I noticed you're in this industry I've got something that's especially for you I want to send you a two minute video to show you that and it's interesting, it's new, it's personalized, it's fresh, it's short.  Yeah, sure. I'm interested. So of course that has always worked because again it's human. Human communication always worked and always will work. Maybe the marketing tricks wouldn't work like back in the day you could just write a sales page get somebody to it and they'll buy. Now it won't work because we're moving towards human communication so it has to be personal. So what our system does it makes it so personal that it would be very hard for you to know that it's not somebody who actually sat down and wrote the email. And also you make sure that it's not going to spam, right? Yes our emails have an almost 100% deliverability they almost always reach the inbox and the reason for that is because first of all they don't have any links second of all each email is 100% unique not only do we personalize the emails but we actually take like small words like let's say I found your website we're gonna say that in like 10 different ways we're gonna say I found your website I landed on your website I clicked on your website I found your site I saw your site I searched for your site I'm gonna say the same phrases in the email in like 10 different ways and so there's like 100,000 combinations for the words that an email can have because it's like 10 different things that we changed for like 10 different options so it's like 100,000 options so that's number two so again number one because there's no links so Google trusts us number two we work with really high quality Google resellers so the accounts that we buy for our customers are from vendors that Google trusts that we buy the G-suits for our customers thirdly is that we again each email is entirely unique fourth is that we only send like 50 emails per account so we send like a very small amount we actually create like 30 accounts for every 1500 emails and we manage everything so emails reach the inbox and it's amazing but they can reach the inbox with imagine you can send out 1500 a day and get them all reached the inbox or you can send 15,000 a day and they're all going to reach the inbox so literally it allows us to scale to whatever size we want it's amazing to see how you converted like back then when we talked like you were completely different in terms of business as well right and now like you're doing that and do you really enjoy all of this what got you to get into this industry I always so first of all even when you met me my team was doing cold calls if you remember we were doing cold calls to set up meetings I've always loved cold calling cold email like anything where you initiated where you're not waiting for something to happen you create it that was always important for me because I always liked to fill the control the part where you can say create consistent results and control them now even somebody like Grant Cardone like the guy spends a million dollars a month on advertising but he has like a whole team cold calling and he says that's like 30% of their business growth so I've always loved that and I've always loved the idea of leverage so I always I knew there's this huge thing called the internet and I said look like at any point like from now till now about a million people clicked on something right so just knew if I just tap into it somehow then it's going to be amazing like you can get a lot of impact, money like it could be amazing but it always came from a bad place so because of what I told you about earlier with the meditation not feeling good so I tried things like manipulating Facebook and I did that very well by the way I tried things like what's called white hat marketing black hat marketing like but it always came from a bad place of like I'm lazy I don't want to work I want to have it automatic I want to just make money but then when it changed from like a bad place to a really good place a holistic place of like I want to help people I want to do something really amazing suddenly also because we tried using the system like we tried abusing it and like just sending out like a lot of affiliate links and just trying to get automatic sales it didn't work it's almost like there's like a holistic thing going on where you have to come from a really value giving place to make it work and suddenly when we just shifted the model and just said okay we're going to help business owners we're going to help our customers help their business owners then everything changed and so so it works amazing and even Google likes us so that's the crazy thing like Google hates cold emailing they hate when people abuse their system but Google loves us because our emails they never get flagged to spam they always reach the inbox people reply to them so it's like even Google likes what we're doing because it comes from a value giving place so it doesn't hurt their systems it doesn't make people not like email so I guess that's what really changed I've always been interested in that but now it's like it comes from a really good place it looks like you got your passion back into yourself and it's really good I can see it from the way you talk the way you're using your body right now and it's good to see so how is life right now for you oh it's very different I have a partner he's the CEO of the company so I'm only in charge of growth in charge of like closing sales helping our customers making everything grow and he's the CEO so he deals with everything that I'm bad at I'm bad at management I'm bad at dealing with human problems I'm bad at bureaucracy and he does everything so it's also me finding the right partner that somebody I can trust that always has my back that things I'm bad at he's very good at so I'm feeling it gives me a lot of security and ability to just focus on what I love doing we're hiring a ton of people so every day there's something new that's taken away from me that I don't do it anymore somebody else does it for me so that's really awesome and because of ours it would get boring and life is really good I mean I've been in places like this where I've made a lot of money but in this case it's very different because first of all we have a marketing system that we know we can make as much money as we want so we literally have to stop marketing every month to just increase our infrastructure and make sure the business can handle more clients and every time we do that we get two and a half times more clients so we grow basically we grew in like a month and a half by three and a half times right now which it's unheard of for like a new company and we're gonna keep doing that so we believe we're gonna hit like a million dollars a month within like six months very easily it literally is the best problem you can have in business is we have an infinite amount of demand and we literally just have to be able to take up all these customers and that's really what we're aiming to do with all our customers as well and so it's very different like the fact that you can like you can spend money I can get a taxi anytime I want I can buy anything I want it's a very cool reality but the funny thing is I always wanted to do it so I can buy a lot of things and travel and feel like really cool about it but now that I actually do something that I love and again I'm not saying it works specifically because I love it I'm just saying like now that I'm doing something that I really love and really enjoy and I'm really happy with myself I can buy a lot of things but I don't want to but you don't need it it's like it's always the time you know like why would I purchase it, why wouldn't so yeah it's very interesting but what's really cool is like my wife for example so we have a six month old she's amazing like she basically deals with all the house stuff, the family stuff you know today with feminism it's like she's a bad woman because she's actually at home and taking care and she's actually happy like god forbid she's actually enjoying it and it's very fun to be like you know honey like you can buy anything you want pay as much money, you can get a babysitter you can get a cleaner you know you want to fix the car you want to buy a new thing, you want to buy furniture pay as much money as you want I don't mind, so that's a really fun feeling to let your wife, like to have a wife that you can trust that's not like she met me when I was broke like $2 to get the bus to go home because I didn't have any money at all and so it's good to know that and she's very financially responsible so it's good to know that like you found somebody that is with you because they love you because they met you when you had nothing and now she gets to you know I get to like reward her for the potential that she saw in me when we met so it's a really good feeling to be able to let your wife feel security, feel freedom to do whatever she wants it's a very good feeling and how old are you right now? either 26 or 27 I'm not sure, I think 26 that's amazing and really I really enjoy to hear all of this because we didn't talk for a while and I'm very happy for you sincerely like to see that you're growing and that you're in a good place mind and heart so where can people find you? well to be honest if they're not business owners then I prefer that they don't find me but just because we are really focused right now on growing the company but I have a YouTube channel Robbie Frank, I spent like 3 years growing it it has like a few hundred videos of me, I wrote a book about my life story from like age like 16 to 24 or something you can find that on my website or my YouTube 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We shall continue with our conversation on criticisms on Islamic modes of finance. We have already considered quite a few criticisms and have come up with some responses, some favorable responses and some not very favorable responses. In this module, we shall spend a little time on this criticism which is on this trading aspect of Islamic banks and Islamic financial institutions. According to this criticism, there is no real trading that takes place in Islamic banking and finance. Contrary to the claim by Islamic banks, they say it is all about money lending. This is a very strong criticism on Islamic banking and finance and we would see whether this is valid. Now before we go into details, I must say that even myself, an advocate and an expert of Islamic banking and finance, I get irritated when a practitioner, when an Islamic banker tries to tell me that as a bank, they are involved in trading. I know that they are not involved in trading in the sense of a trader. Their involvement in trading is for a reason. So, I am inclined to accept this criticism with some reservation. So, I would say this criticism is true to a large extent. This is true that trading takes place in the context of Islamic banking and finance. But the intention is always to create a structure which is Sharia compliant for financing. So, intention is good as well. Previously, we have looked into intentions. I am not questioning the Sharia authenticity of the intention. Intention is right as well. But what is that intention for? That is for financing, not for trading. Yes, trading takes place. So, at best what we can say is that Islamic banks merely finance trading and they do not intend to do trading even if they happen to be involved. So, at best the practitioners of Islamic banking and finance, they can claim that they are involved in trade financing. Not trade financing in the sense of trade finance product, but they are involved in financing trading. So, differentiating between trade financing and financing trading could be possible by way of saying that we are involved in financing trading and we are actually not traders. An Islamic bank, whether it happens to be in Pakistan, in Saudi Arabia, in Djibouti or wherever, they cannot claim to be traders because the regulators, they do not like this idea of banks trading in commodities, trading in cars, trading in homes, etc. They allow Islamic banks to get involved in a trading process if they are convinced, i.e. the regulators are convinced that Islamic banks' role is merely financing of this deal and not to do the trading per se. There are some countries where Islamic banks are actually involved in actual trading but strictly speaking, even when we look at those practices, it is not the bank which is doing trading, it is a subsidiary of the bank. As I mentioned previously, Kuwait Finance House has got the dealership of Lexus and Toyota in Kuwait. So, whenever a customer comes to a KFH branch looking for car financing, they ask them, what kind of car are you looking for? So, I want to buy a Lexus. They say, go to our Lexus leadership and they would sell it to you on a murabha basis. So, again, that Lexus dealership owned by Kuwait Finance House is involved in trading, not Kuwait Finance House as a bank. Kuwait Finance House as a bank provides financing for that trade deal. KFH subsidiary does that trading. Similarly, if a bank in Pakistan is involved in murabha trading, the murabha trading effectively is taking place between this vendor and with this customer. Of course, there is a role for the bank either directly or through an agency contract whereby it facilitates this trade. That role must be recognized but at best Islamic banks are financiers of trading and not the traders by themselves.


We're both beauty gurus We both don't do not do that. I'm a beauty guru ask them Hey, don't ask them. I launched lipsticks. Oh, yeah, just like in outer space She made an advent calendar for her dogs and this is actually the exact one that I found at Michaels She made this one seven dollars and fifty cents and what a good time Julian told me as I was like I want to do that. That looks so fun. Q. He was like, I don't know what an advent calendar I don't I didn't know never had an advent calendar. No, I always thought they were just calendars It's to count down that what I think it's 24 days until Christmas We always have one when I was a kid that was like cardboard and it's just a little chocolate in it So each day you we my brother would take turns Okay, sometimes you eat my days and it really bothered me The reason that we got two is because these drawers are pretty small And I don't know if you know this this four dogs that live here So what we decided to do is that I'm gonna do the boys tree and you're gonna do the girls tree Or the oldest tree the youngest tree the ones without any teeth The ones with teeth the ones that don't owe me any money and the ones that owe me money P Jo's me money. Why have you let her owe you money for this long? She's been taking money from me She owes me money once January comes and we're done with this. These are going to be disgusting You don't want to put anything in there that like can't be left out in the air You know like a dog treat is fine.  Advent calendar In essence, this is an advent calendar for dogs. So like we can do nothing to it. They have no idea They don't even know that days are passing Are you upset that you've never had an advent calendar because we can get one for people if you want? um I was gonna do um yellow and blue and pink and purple and brown and black and green and white and silver to keep it simple I don't want to paint my tree white. I'm just giving myself a nice diverse palette here I know that the holidays for a lot of people is a really good time But for a lot of people the holidays is not a good time and it's very hard for them Which is why I feel like this is a good craft because it gets back to the real spirit of the holidays Which is dogs true giving dogs what they want. This is fun. I like doing crafts with you Well, I also like sorry. Hold on. I was on the blue tooth. What'd you say? I feel like I'm good at crafts and bad at art. Is that a thing? So I'm the art sky and you're the crafts guy.  Have you ever tried brushing your teeth in the shower? This is bunny's first Christmas with us So I think it's nice that we'll we'll give her a treat every day and then she'll get scared Christmas day Probably she's doing good with our tree though. She wasn't too scared of the tree I thought she'd be more scared of it.  No, it literally does. Do you not smell that? It smells so good. I love pad thai. You just want that You don't need to be careful.  Wait, are you paint? Why are you painting the plastic on the table? It's therapeutic. I the theme of this one is supposed to be pizza. These are going to be pepperoni I appreciate yours truly and I really do. I don't appreciate that stop I'm making it so that it dries out faster because if they're all in Piles it's never gonna dry, but if I spread it out, it's gonna dry real fast and then it's less dangerous Safety first. See now this is gonna dry in no time. Well sometime not no time Mine's better I got like a dark red very pepperoni looking shade of red It's like a nipple. It looks like a nipple Art it's just not bright fire engine red and it's not quite maroon. There's no depth to it It's just like a dark rainy day red. It's just awful It's a lot of paint No wind told you to use that much paint a lot of paint Well, there needs to be you know when you go to art galleries and you get up close to the Canvas and you see all the textures and that's what I like You kind of want to pick it off of the canvas and then the lachma police shows up You kick up in the lachma when the momma police ruin your vibe I feel like a craft video is a lot like a like a mukbang.   What are you gonna get karmic for christmas this year? A box of tissues It looks neat. It looks like someone got murdered over here. These are my little pepperoni is drying out Hi Do you want to see what we're doing? Yeah, did you finally come out to visit? Welcome. Welcome. I'm making you a present. Are you excited? Well, daddy's making yours. Oh, you're doing the numbers I'm gonna do mine in hieroglyphics. You want to add bank calendar? Yeah, how do I do hieroglyphics? Ask an egyptologist Hi, hello I'm gonna write merry crime is on mine. I've lost control. When did you have control? Merry crime is it worked out perfectly with the letters Yeah, what if we made a reverse advent calendar where I filled this with every single one of his crimes Each day it's filled with a new cry new cry new day no cry So for the crime is advent calendar. I got this So I think I'm just gonna little little and then jam it on there. Can I test the hot glue julian, please I think says christmas like going to the er Do you think they're Christmas decorations in the er waiting room? Yes, they probably do you want to find out that looks cute That's how I'm doing it But I know that you're gonna be really jealous because I know that I'm the only one that got this But I did get some crafting lights because I want my tree for my good boys To light up absolutely not also the letters have not dried But everything's fine besides on that because we're all gonna die someday. Thank you for coming to my ted yell What if they called it a ted yell and someone just got up on stage and started screaming? Oh, it's a pizza. It's a pizza Oh, no What is that I actually made the scariest Santa Claus in the world Show them Okay Oh, no He sees you when you're sleeping. How did I go so wrong? Why does he look bad because he looks like a Satan santa?  It's a rat, but it looks just like him. It looks like kermit This is my advent. I love your flamingo. I got a little flamingo walking around on the side. He doesn't care about gravity What's with the ring on the back the back needs to be appreciated, too It's really cute. I love it. Wait, let me just try to fix this really quick. Do you want to see my eye? Yeah, hold on. Just give me two seconds. Oh, no, that's worse Oh, no, I made it Okay, whoa, it's so bright And it lights up. Merry crime is may crime is oh my god, it lights up. Wow. I just got put to bed, dude You have to dunk on me like that Get dunked All right, what do you say since these are dry that we put some treats in them and we show the dogs I like that idea. What do you think? Don't worry bunny. I got a better one bunny. Come here. That's yours. What do you think of this one? Oh, she's already looking. So I feel like this this goes without saying but just in case you didn't know Don't put raw meat in your dog's advent calendar. Oh, this is from a feral cat Will you open up the first one? There's a dead bird in it I mean now that I'm actually doing this because I have little dogs that don't really have teeth I feel like I'm probably gonna have to throw this out at some point because it will have perishable items in it Yes I'm gonna open up the drawers Two in one for each doggo And shoot it. Oh Oh, no, when the hole in a cheer hits Do you think that this is like one of the more millennial things that we've done Making eyes and counters for our dogs. Yeah, I just like to think like, you know Like my grandfather was alive what he would think of me. I know my grandpa would love me, but do you think he would respect me? You know this just turned into a different video. So because it's the fourth they get four days of treats right now. What's too many? Each morning until christmas. What do you guys think? What do you guys think? Merry christmas On the first day of christmas, my mom gave to me four little treats Yeah, we should do this for a kermit's vetarol for his cushions disease. All right four. That's it, right? Yeah, so tomorrow they can start on five. Yeah, peanut butter Look at the nasty. Is he drooling or what? Oh Do you think it's cute? It smells like nae trees Only I could figure out that's an open crime of doors If you left them alone with this for five minutes, not even they'd work like rafters to open that thing Completely Is that fun? Are you happy? Good boy. All right, so we came into the room where bunny usually eats And we locked the boys in the bathroom. Look. Look what I got. There's a treat for you Look what I got day number two. Hold on. I gotta get it out. I gotta get it out Merry christmas bunny Bunny On the third day of christmas my bunny gave to me Oh, you're such a messy eater, aren't you? Is that good? Bunny, what do you think of this? Do you like the santa that daddy made? No, no one likes the santa that daddy made Jesus All right, is that it? Is that it for today? Is that it? We'll get this every single day. Okay, bunny? Every day, honey. It's a christmas.  Okay. All right.  Isn't he the rat king? He's the rat king. What a good idea The cutest thing ever right up my alley exactly the kind of thing that I want to spend my time and energy on And they're providing a months worth of festive for our dogs It's my favorite type of video to make because you just make a large thing to hold treats and for me Hi rat king Thank you, nicole concilio for coming up with that and for making it and for Inspiring me to do it for my dogs because I'd say they really like it. Thank you pizza for inspiring me to do mine Don't make a painful smile at me. Don't do that. What are you eating?  This is I enjoyed doing crafts with you. I know you like doing crafts. Stop eating glue though spit it out You said to spit it out. It's really fun to chew on have you tried? No, no, baby. Have you tried?  Can you? Yeah, I just did twice. Please stop. Please don't eat glue I'm not gonna keep asking you to spit out the hot glue Thank you for including me and letting me use the hot glue gun both for crafts and for sustenance I hope this inspired you to either get or make an advent calendar for your dog or your friend I don't know whoever just deserves one.  These socks are coming off with the paint stays here. Julian.  We are live on patreon Stop it. Um enough feet jokes about patreon. You're not a patreon.  See you guys next week. Goodbye.  Goodbye


On May 8th, 1911, Captain Washington Chambers convinced the Navy to buy an aircraft from aviator and inventor Glenn H. Curtis. This day is now celebrated as the official birthday of naval aviation. Our first plane was called the Curtis Hydro Aeroplane. We designated it the A-1. It was a wooden fabric plane, very minimal, however we decided that it would be able to fly land, sea and air, and thus it later became known as the Triad. Chambers worked tirelessly to convince the Navy of the value of airplanes to the fleet, and since then the Navy has gone through countless innovative technological advances. From the Triad A-1 to the F-35, naval aviation has bravely stood at the forefront of our nation's defense. For more information about naval aviation history, visit the Naval History and Heritage Command website. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Tony Rosa.


Yo what up welcome back to another episode of I finally got all my film back from a trip that happened Basically four months ago. Will this be the catalyst that springs me into developing my own film instead of relying on a lab to do it? probably not Well, you may have heard about a recent trip I had coming up to Portland, Oregon But what you may not have heard is that a certain pandemic was and still is sweeping through the nation So we had to cancel and with it cancel a trip to the legendary Portland vegan strip club I'm just as bummed as you are So a new plan was hatched to put rubber to asphalt and drive up central California to the Sierra mountains and see what's good with All that fresh air towering mountains and abandoned buildings Caleb also agreed to come along so that this video would have more sex appeal If you haven't already seen his two videos from this trip his channel is called bad flashes There will be a link in the description so we had our plan But what cameras do I bring as you may know choosing what camera to bring on a road trip is one of those things that even Socrates and Plato couldn't answer much less someone like me who has an IQ equivalent to a loaf of bread Eventually I settled on bringing the dynamic duo the Mamiya 7 and the contacts T2 All I knew was I wanted to shoot medium format and I knew we're gonna be doing some hiking and exploring So the lightweight six by seven setup on the Mamiya 7 was ideal the insane amount of sharpness that comes with the 80 millimeter F4 was just an added bonus. So with that we hit the road in the swagger wagon, which is my 1990 second generation four Along the 395 highway we found some cool abandoned buildings. I just had to shoot. I loaded up some HP 5 and we got down to business to defeat the Huns I Shot my HP 5 at 800 ISO, which is one stop underexposed I did this because I wanted to add a little extra grainy contrast to the photos, especially considering the subjects This roll ended up having some light leaks every once in a while The Mamiya 7 will not wind a roll very tight Which maybe because I anxiously wind the film advance too many times after the roll is done The light leaks actually worked very well in some cases like this shot where they kind of perfectly frame the pole Which might have been a stripper pole should we have gone forth on that aforementioned Portland trip? Always get the feeling like For all my black and white needs I brought my go-to illford HP 5 But I also decided to try out some illford XP 2 which is a uniquely C 41 black and white film for all my color work I shot port for 400 and sent a still 800 T though the 800 T was mostly for shooting at night I also brought along a wild card film ectochrome 100 for 120, but we'll get into that a little bit later We stayed in Lone Pine for the first night and after we got to the hotel Disinfected the entire room and settled in we headed out to go shoot Alabama Hills, which is one of my favorite places to shoot I shot with Porto 400 rated at 160 ISO for some sweet over exposure as the Sun went down I shot closer and closer to box speed for that extra range The sunset was pretty romantic and I got to share it with the one I care about the most. That's right My Mamiya 7 Unfortunately earlier in the day Caleb had his Pentax 645 Just utterly die on him So like a good friend I told him just deal with it just kidding I wrap my arms around Caleb the sweet baby boy and whisper it into his ear Just use my contacts T2 for the rest of the trip So yeah, that's it for the contacts T2 shots for this video as we drove through town at blue hour We noticed a lot of hotels with cool neon signs and we just had to shoot them. Frankly.  The night before chugging whiskey Gossiping about film cameras and about how Kyle McDougal is the goat was also part of the reason Anyway, just like the Donner party on the Oregon Trail It was time for us to hitch up our wagon and hit the trail northwest Well, maybe not just like the Donner party because we didn't have any cattle We had some time to burn so we aimlessly walked around town until we couldn't take it anymore And we hopped in the car to check out some other spots So we hit this lakeside trail in what seemed like gale-froze winds After being constantly barraged with kicked up dirt that honestly started to feel like enemy shrapnel We finally arrived at this cool little beach that had these perfectly vertical rock formations If you're into geology, this is probably very interesting to you nerd Where I obliterated my portrait I switched to illford xp2 and again, I rated it at 800 If anyone out there is wondering I shot most of these shots at f11 because I found that the already sharp Mamiya glass is even sharper at f11. Anyway, we got back to town and took it easy in the hotel I loaded up the Mamiya 7 with some Cinestill 800T and took a shot of the toilet before we blew it up And if after that sentence you're still down to watch I commend you Anyway nighttime fell upon us and we went out to shoot some more So there I was taking a shot of this hotel lobby and a guy pulled up in his car obstructing part of the frame And while initially I was ready to punch him in the throat I actually think it ended up working out great making the composition and the story in the photo a bit stronger The next day we headed to a lake where it was literally colder and windier than the ice planet Hoth Are you ready to check it out? You have way more energy than I do Like an eager beaver. I loaded up the Mamiya 7 with some HP 5 While I did my best to get some long exposure shots The wind was kicking up some frozen lake water that was splashing my camera the lens and my nearly frost-bitten skin At that point I was right or die for the shot though I figured at the very least if I kept shooting some explorer would stumble upon my perfectly preserved frozen carcass Desperately clutching the Mamiya 7 at which point future scientists will study for years Why this primitive human decided to use an outdated technology and ultimately die of overexposure to the elements just for a photo that When developed was compositionally not that impressive So we hopped on the first train out of that town and headed even farther north Stopping only once to consider if we should keep going over the mountain pass because the conditions were getting worse And the past might close on the way back. So we said it. We're young dumb and broke from buying film cameras So let's just do it This is probably the most fun shoot of the day in my opinion We stopped at this abandoned house as it just started snowing I threw some XP to in the Mamiya and blasted through it in no time as the snow started to fall harder We raced up through the past and back to town like the Millennium Falcon in my favorite movie solo Star Wars story There was one more abandoned building along the way and so naturally we found ourselves shooting at it Again, I powered through a roll of HP 5 rated at 800 Back at the hotel Caleb and I thought it would be a good idea to drink whiskey on a completely empty stomach So yeah, we got drunk really really fast As the sun was starting to go down I figured now's as good a time as any to shoot some of the new at the time actor chrome for 120 You made a mistake bro asking me to do this I'm not really a slide film guy, but I was kind of drunk. So anything goes I guess of course I rated it at 100 though I was tempted to shoot it at 3200 like all the pros do then we headed out for one more round of night photography Of course, I was back on that Cinestill 800T goodness The next day the fun was over and it was time for us to head back to Corona Angelus Where reality was waiting to slap us back into gear or quarantine for four months as we'd find out But we couldn't resist stopping at one more location that we had spotted on our way up the other day I shot with my last roll of XP2 Inside one of the buildings I stumbled upon this perfectly placed boot on a mattress that just made for the perfect composition And I swear to Zeus, Aries, Poseidon, Matt Day, etc. that I did not place it there That's all it was nice to escape some of the craziness that was starting to happen as coronavirus ramped up at the time And now I'm back with some photos that I think don't entirely suck It was really hard for me to choose but ultimately I think this is my favorite photo from the trip I like the pastel colors of the Portra 400 and the framing on Caleb I mean, he's just standing there, but he evokes so much emotion, right? So yeah, that's it. I hope you all enjoyed and are staying safe out there. I'll see you on the next one Unless of course I get killed by a volcano before then Peace


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question that has come up a few different times and ways in the past couple of months, understandably so. He asked, can you revisit the implications of upgrading my Synology distation to DSM version 7? A while back you mentioned several preparation steps to make sure Plex and perhaps some other applications would keep working. I filed your comments away as, let them fix it all before I upgrade it. Now perhaps the dust has settled, and I should think about doing this. I'm a fairly light user, but I do rely on my distation for Plex, Dropbox and OneDrive syncing, and significantly sized photo collections in moments, which I understand will be deprecated and converted to Synology photos. Bottom line, is it a seamless upgrade or do I need to set an afternoon aside for fiddling around? So my short answer is yes, it is stable now and you're good to go, but please don't go and do that until you finish hearing the rest of my answer. You want to make sure a hundred percent of your packages are up to date. Most of them can be done using Synology's package manager and just letting it check for updates. Plex is not most of them. Plex for whatever reason, the package that often resides in Synology's repository is old and we've heard of people. Pilot Pete just ran into this back in December, so not that long ago, going through making sure everything's up to date in package center and then still having a problem when upgrading. So go to Plex.TV, download the package for your Synology from there, or launch Plex and look inside Plex. It will tell you if you go to the web interface, the Admin interface for Plex itself, it will tell you if there's an update. Follow those links. You're going to download a package. You're going to manually install it. That's how the upgrades to Plex are done. So you go manually install that. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. You will see a couple of warning messages come up and you, even though you know better, you are going to be so tempted to just click through them, do not do that. It's okay to click through them, but you're going to miss instructions because there's a couple of things that need to happen with Plex and permissions before you upgrade to DSM7. You can do all this on DSM6. DSM7 adds some sandboxing for all apps and Plex was one of those that needed to revamp the way they did things in order to work with the new sandboxing. Your life is much simpler if you migrate to the new way of doing things with DSM6 when Plex still has permissions across your disk station. Once you upgrade to DSM7, it does not have the permissions to easily migrate you and you have to do things manually. So make sure you get Plex up to date and that you've done all the things it tells you to do. The only other caveat I would have for Lefwin is that he is a heavy moments user and moments will be migrated to photos. You should be okay. I was and I did this on day one of DSM7. I of course was burned by the whole Plex thing as Pete was recently, but you can avoid being burned by that. I was not burned at all by the moments to photos upgrade. I did have to change the apps on my devices, of course, on my client devices like my phone, but that migration was smooth. So do you need an afternoon set aside for fiddling about? No, but I also wouldn't do this when you need to leave the house in 12 minutes. The upgrade is going to take probably, even once you get all your apps and you're ready to pull the trigger, it's going to take you probably a half hour before the disk station is back up and running and ready for you to log in and then you're going to want to log in and make sure all of your things work, including photos, but everything else. Your Synology Drive syncing, your Cloud Sync, which it sounds like you're using Cloud Sync is a great service for those of you that don't know of that. It will let you sync things like your Dropbox or OneDrive and others with your disk station. So having your disk station act as a client and then you can sync those there, then you don't need to run the clients on all your Max and iPhones and stuff because you can just get at it via Synology Drive. So it's a pretty cool thing. So hopefully that helps.