Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. Hope everybody had a good trading day. So let's review just a day ago, right? A day ago we had a pretty, pretty boring, I don't think it's more boring, pretty condensed session, right? I think a lot of you guys will kind of agree with me. We talked about it yesterday. Stocks were kind of like stuck in the middle of their ranges. There wasn't enough kind of movement downward pressure yesterday to sell off stocks and there wasn't enough upward pressure because obviously we're in a sell cycle that they couldn't get the stocks higher. And the most important part that we talked about going into yesterday's video is a lot of the names, they didn't start breaking down even though they've sold off into the close yesterday. What we started noticing was if you did your kind of chart work yesterday, you kind of saw that they kind of mirrored the NASDAQ 100 or the Qs that the Qs didn't take out the previous days low and neither did the stocks. And today kind of started out exactly the same way only in a very, very different matter. And let's kind of review going back to the weekend update now, right? It's like one of those movies they say, well, two days earlier, well, three days earlier. Okay, so let's talk about two days earlier. If you guys remember two days earlier, we were talking about on the weekend update that the fact that we're down 10% on the NASDAQ will probably do for some sort of snapback rally. We didn't get that on Monday. Okay, because if you guys remember, they opened up flat, started to rally a little bit and obviously hit supply and they rolled and went red. And today, if you guys remember in the morning, we were up pretty big in the morning. Okay, we were up about 300 points in the Dow, close to about 180, 200 points on the NASDAQ. And it put in the move that we were talking about from the weekend video, but it didn't in such an unorthodox way that nobody was long overnight. Right? Like, especially if you remember yesterday's close, how can you possibly be possibly be bullish going into yesterday's close? We sold off pretty much at the lows. And oh, by the way, we're going to sell bias bear scenario. So the fact that we got this pretty big gap up to you can see the futures at four o'clock and four o'clock in the morning cues were up at 278 fifties really, really big move. And by the time the market opened up, right, they were pretty much challenging the previous days high. Here is the problem, right? And here's always the problem when you're talking about a bear cycle.  You never buy gap ups in a bear cycle because usually what happens in gap ups, they're going to get stuffed at supply at some point, whether it's daily supply, whether it's intraday supply in the 60 minute chart, but eventually you'll get nine out of 10 times, they'll get stuffed, right? It's very, very rare that you see a gap and go in a bear market. And that's exactly what we talk about over and over and over ever since the first time we lost a 50 day moving average about eight months ago or nine months ago, whatever the case may be. So coming into today, we saw, you know, my game plan yesterday was straight up everything to the downside. I mean, again, look the way we closed and we woke up today. This is what we were looking at. And true to form on every single gap up and again, we talked about this in nausea. If you've been watching these videos over the last eight, nine months, what happens in a bull market bear market into strength, right? So they slowly but surely they top ticked right at the open and slowly but surely they started coming in, coming in a little bit, nothing crazy, but coming in.  Everything's trapped again in the middle of the channels. The only difference was between yesterday and today, the sell-off didn't come into the close. Okay. And that's a very, very important point here. They didn't come into the close. It came at lunchtime. I'll show you this in one second. But the most important part was we started watching the cues gaining strength and all the stocks that gapped up this morning, right? That had some strength this morning, your apples, your Microsofts, your NVIDIAs, so forth and so on. They never made highs and that's the most important part. When you have an ETF and it's made up of a hundred stocks and you look at the leaders, right? The apples, the Microsoft, the Metas, the Amazon, especially Amazon. Amazon was weak the whole day today. We'll get into the pivots in a second. The most important part was they never took out the highs of the day with the cues. And now you're saying these stuff, well, let's see if we can actually get some value at some point through the day. Remember, when you're a trader, your window is only from 9.30. And tome out a trader, not an investor, not a swing trader. When you're an intraday trader, you have a window. Some people like to stretch it out at 2 o'clock. I personally like to believe that your most aggression is between 9.30 at 1 o'clock. That kind of ends the Eastern time zone lunch and then things start to contract. Unlike yesterday's sell-off and the close, today's best value came at lunchtime. It came around 11.30 today. If you guys remember 11.30, we started seeing notable weakness, especially in the cues. All the indexes as well, but especially in the cues. And there was a level there. There was a big line in the sand. And once that big line in the sand happened, this was the reality, right? This is what happened next, right? This was an absolutely phenomenal move. And the most important part was of this move. And congratulations for all you guys in the webinar. We didn't prostitute our money trying to squeeze out longs that weren't there. We didn't deviate from what we've seen, what we are seeing, where we are in a bear cycle. The most important part was we waited, we waited and waited. And when finally everything started to confirm the bottom channels, this was the really, really big result at lunchtime. You had the cues literally losing about five points within about a half an hour, 40 minutes. And where the craziest part about today's day was, pretty much the ETFs, a lot of names, they violated yesterday's low. But instead of closing at the lows, which it looked like it was going about to happen after the 2.30, I logged off around 2.30. Once they violated the lows, ironically today, they kind of rallied, right? They kind of rallied a little bit back, right? Here's the demise into the lunchtime hour, right? Here's the lunchtime hour. And here is the rally into the close. Again, I don't know if I want to use the word rally, but this is kind of the move into the close. They kind of rallied off the top. Now, the question remains is what does that mean going into tomorrow's session, right? And again, we'll get to the pivots in a second. Here's kind of where I'm looking at it. You know, I think any rally, right, any gap up, I think the playbook, and we've been kind of using this playbook for a long time, any playbook and gap ups have to be deemed sell areas, okay? Sell areas into supply, because that's what usually happens 9 out of 10 times. So I think that kind of moves out of the way. That's deemed until we reclaim back the 50-day moving average, which is, you know, which is, what, 30 points away? That's a long, long, long way. So again, this sell bias is going to continue for a while until we start reclaiming the 5-day on the close and still we contain the 10-day and the 20. You can see here all the areas here that orange line keeps on getting rejected. The green line keeps on getting rejected. See, orange, green, orange, right? Same thing over and over and over again. So you have to continue to believe it's a sell side market. Again, nobody's talking about we're going to crash. Again, guys, I understand social media is your only exposure to the trading world. But again, I want to say this pretty clear. Stocks are not going to the moon and they're not going to crash.  We get it. You're excited, but we're not crashing when I go into the moon. If a pandemic couldn't get us lower than trust me, we're not going to crash. If the mortgage crisis was absorbed after a couple of years of the economy pretty much crashing and actually going to hell, if that finally didn't knock us down, we're not going to crash. So stop using the word crash. Stocks going lower, stocks going higher. Be a professional, right? It's not like the, you know, it's not, and again, I love football. It's not, you know, Justin Jefferson doing the gritty every single time he gets the ball. That's cool. And that's cute. But you know what else is cute? We're also very cool. Barry Sanders getting into the end zone just handing the ball off into the referee. Be a professional, right? It's pretty obvious when you start screaming, crashing to the moon. Be a professional. If you want to be treated like a professional, you got to act like a professional and deem every single day as an opportunity and a risk parameter based on your own timeframe, your experience level and everything you have to go. Again, you don't need to get emotional. You need to fight in everybody. The market's the market's going to go up. It's going to go down. Whether you think it's going to go up or down, it's kind of irrelevant. It's all about price action. And the price action is kind of really screaming at us where we are. Again, we're not going to go straight down. Okay. That's obvious. We are getting moves, especially aggressive moves after two o'clock. That's why I always try to end my day right around the lunchtime area. So you want to kind of diminish your exposure. Okay. And the biggest exposure is always going to be after two o'clock. Random stuff happens. Market goes up. Market goes down. So you kind of want to stop really getting aggressive after two o'clock. Again, I've been always saying this, whatever you think you like in the afternoon you're going to love in the morning. It's the same setup, just a bigger average true range. So going into tomorrow, again, you have to be sell bias until we start getting a reason and start getting above this 280 level on the cues. It's very, very tough to get excited on the long side. Again, you're still getting a lot of value. And if you look where the biggest violence came today, it wasn't technology. Okay. And this is kind of an important part. It wasn't technology. It was consumer cyclical. So basically all the things you use, all the companies that you pretty much encounter or come across on a daily basis. Right? For all you guys out there, Procter and Gamble, right? Consumer cyclical. So you know, you're shaving, you're shaving cream, Colgate Palmol, right?  Estee Lauder makeup, right? Down six points. Makeup. And then look at Coca-Cola, right? Again, these are consumer cyclicals. So these consumer cyclicals start moving lower and continue. Look at me. Look at the wash in these consumer cyclicals. That is, again, another sign. There is a buyer strike. Nobody had to tell us this. We saw Target. We saw Walmart. We saw all these things. We saw everything, right? So this is continuation of the bigger picture sell bias mode that the market is in. Of course, you're going to have days that the market's going to have a dead cat bounce. Yada, yada, yada. Those are the days you try to be very, very light. Because everybody knows dead cats either last for a couple of minutes, a couple of hours, or don't last at all. And that's what I said. So most important part going into tomorrow, look at these groups, right? Start paying attention to these groups. These are the names. And I know there's a lot of technology names that still look crappy, right? Again, like Amazon still looks crappy. It held the bottom of the range here two days in a row. Names, for example, like NVIDIA held the bottom range here. Now three days in a row. Yeah, I'm still watching those. But look at some of these names that haven't really imploded yet. And it kind of goes into the theme of consumer cycle, right? Look at Coca-Cola. What I did today, right? Look at Coca-Cola. Now look at Pepsi's chart, right? Look how close Pepsi is to getting completely annihilated, right? Look at, for example, Archer Daniel Midland, right? They're involved with food. They're involved with the farming, right? The agricultural stuff. Look at that, right? Look at a name like a Dollar Tree, right? Look at Dollar Tree consolidating now for about a month or so. This thing starts taking down its earnings lows. Remember when we talked about the earnings lows plays? Once they close well, the earnings plays what happens? All you have to do is look at names like OKTA, right? Took out the 58, right? Took out the $58 on earnings lows. Went down to 53. Look at a name like AI. Again, we've been talking about this play for a long time, right? AI took out 14. Now it's at 13. So a name like Dollar Tree, if it closes below its earnings low, you're going to see multi-day, maybe even multi-weeks, potential downward draft. So those are the kind of names I definitely want to at least bring to your attention so you can watch. So let's talk about today's pivots. So this was kind of, I put these pivots on to the upside, right? Tesla, NVIDIA and Microsoft, right? Which basically the only one, yeah, it's Tesla. I mean, the video went up about 70, 80 cents, nothing there. Ironically, I actually lost a dollar in Tesla today. Don't ask me how I did to the upside considering it went from 285 to 289. Don't ask me, but I did. So these stocks actually, they didn't do anything, but here's the most important part. Put some upside pivots in case the rally holds. We will be super prepared and that's the most important part, guys. That's the common denominator every single day. You want to be super prepared on both sides of the market. It's not just, oh, futures are up, let's start buying everything. I go, look, just in case, just in case doesn't scream, hey, we're prepared for the long side today. No, that's the whole point. We will be super prepared on last night downside pivots if they pull, stay patient. And that's exactly what happened, right? You know, finally around 1130, the market basically imploded for that 40 minutes. It really did. Q's went down about five. The spies got murdered. So let's talk about the downside pivots. Disney, 98 held three times daily if it builds below can flush, right? Here is Disney. So here's Disney. Again, Dow stock. So it held this 98 level three times today. One, two, three. The third time was the charm. It closed within 40 cents of the lows into the 9580s. Again, if the market continues to go, Disney looks like 92, 93 coming up, right? Big move there. Q's, this was definitely the trade of the day. I'm not a big ETF guy, but this was standing out so clearly because we didn't take out highs. Stocks didn't take out opening range highs. And once this thing just started sitting there on that level, 276, it got hit really, really hard in a 40 minute interval. Definitely, definitely the move of the day, at least for us, at least for me, excuse me. So here's the 276, right? Here's the 276. And look at this implosion. This is on one candle all the way down to 72's. Really, really strong move. And again, it looks much more uglier on the five minute, right? If you look at the five minute chart, look what happened from 276. Look at this move.  So really, really nice move there on the Q's. Amazon, 1540, if it builds below, can flush. Again, watch the Q's for a reference. Once the Q's started building, Amazon started building. So here was Amazon. It lost its 1540. You could see the same timeframe. The whole, right? It lost its 1540. Here's the 1540. Really, really nice move into the $13 area. You got a $2.5 move on Amazon in 40 minutes. That's a great, great move, man. Congratulations for you guys who caught that as well. Spies, 363 held three times. Three times. Huge lie in the sand. If it breaks below, it can flush. Look at the spies from the 363 level. Same thing, right? Here's the 363. Excuse me, here's the 363. And look at the wash here on the spies all the way down to 361. Again, this was very, very aggressive pulls. It's a really nice move there. NVIDIA, again, I still really like NVIDIA for the next couple of days. So that's it. I mean, that's it. So the market continues to be very aggressive. Of course it's hard. Just think about it. Life is hard. Why would you think the market would be any different, right? Life is hard. Life is not fair. Market's not fair. So the key is to have a plan, take your research, and wait for that research to confirm. Don't guess. Don't anticipate. You might be wrong. You might be stupid, right?  But the point is, if you're going to stay in business and you want a career of more than five minutes, you got to let everything play out and give you the clearest path to the goal line. Guys, God bless. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Keep smiling. I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


What's, I guess, the process has been like, you know, the place that you had to show to kind of get back out here, and how do you feel like it's kind of going so far? Uh-huh. I'd say it was a long process, but I was taking it one day at a time, so it didn't really feel that bad. I wasn't trying to press the issue. I knew I can do time. I was going to be back, so it wasn't much to me. It wasn't stressful. I just knew it. I just had to take my time with it and just trust the process. Did you carry something from last year, or did you do something in the off-season? Not one of the times. Did you carry an injury over from last year, or did you do something during the off-season? Not during the off-season. Just training. How's it been, you know, the early days back, and is it kind of like riding a bike a little better? Are you still kind of working for technique and trying to get your conditions back? Um, I wouldn't say it was like riding a bike. I'd say because during my time, like before I came back, I was still doing drills on the side to like get back ready to fall this time for when I report back or come back into it full speed. So I felt like I just came back into it just full go and ready to go prepared. Last year, as a rookie, you were kind of working guard center. Something this year, a little more focused on center. Being able to, you know, focus more on that as opposed to last year. Like, what's the, can you kind of compare and contrast the differences? From focusing on guard and center, like just two different positions. Two different positions as opposed to one. And just as a rookie, how tough that was? Um, I wouldn't say like just as a rookie, it wasn't difficult. I didn't come in thinking to myself like as a rookie, I'm handling as a professional. So like, even from college, I was playing all three positions tackle, guard and center. So just coming in here, like their expectation was to know everything. So me playing guard, I was still knowing everything I needed to do as a center guard or tackle, like any position. So it really wasn't much of like, it wasn't difficult at all. It was just how we were doing it. And having a process of those different things. Did it still allow you to play as fast as you want? Oh, yeah, indeed. Cause like we all, when we all work as a unit, guard, tackle center. Like we all communicate without working as a unit. So like that, like us knowing everything we're doing is not slowing down. Like if you go to any other position, if you go to tackle, you still know what you're doing because you learn all of that. Being that means learning as a unit.   How did any of you play in one of those four games last year? How much help you've been doing so far? I say it helped me a lot. Like just really getting into that game, playing the real, my first NFL game. It just got me adapted to that speed. Like that's what it was. I say that's what I had took from that, from back then to now. It's just the speed of the game. Hey, everything goes. So these reps going to be for you over the next week and half, considering what the outline is going through right now, guys aren't in and all that stuff? Oh, they're going to be very critical. Like I just got to step up in my, like, and just take it, like take on that position, do all I can, just worry about what I can control at the moment. So like our guys be back and we're going to be good. So just tell you what I can handle right now. You feel a lot more comfortable this time of year than you did last year? I mean, you were kind of a bit of a surprise last year to a lot of people. Do you feel more comfortable about your situation? Yeah, I do. I feel more comfortable. I feel more at home, more comfortable with everybody, with the game as well. Did you kind of talk about that? I guess kind of working on the side, waiting your turn. What was kind of going through your mind as you were kind of counting the days to being clear to go?  Like I ain't took a real rep against somebody since the last week of last year, like the last game of last year. So it just felt good to get back out there and just get some contact going. I was prepared the whole time just knew, like when that time comes, I'm going all up. Do you have anything different from the body, standing point, sort of weight, strength? Weight wise, I'd say like I'm holding my weight better. Like I was up in the range where I was supposed to be, but I didn't broke and got to like a steady weight I wanted to be at.


The United Kingdom has signed a $158 million offshore asylum processing agreement with Rwanda. Anyone deemed to have arrived in the UK unlawfully since January 1, 2022 may now be at risk of transfer to Rwanda. Rights groups have condemned the proposal as barbaric, cruel, and inhumane. They have also drawn parallels to the offshoring policies adopted by Australia. Refugees were sent to centres in Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Nauru. Horrific abuses were recorded in detention camps including rape, murder, and suicide. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, UNHCR Assistant Secretary General Gillian Triggs denounced the UK's proposal as an egregious breach of international refugee and human rights law. Globally, only about 1% of refugees have access to safe and dietary settlement through the United Nations. This means that a majority of people are being forced to undertake previous journeys at risk of violence and detention by border forces. In 2021, nearly 29,000 asylum seekers crossed to the UK through the English Channel. This was more than three times the number in 2020. According to the UK's Border Force, an estimated 60,000 people are expected to undertake this dangerous journey in 2022. Under the proposed agreement, some of the people arriving to the UK through undocumented and irregular routes will be screened and flown to Rwanda. Kigali will handle the asylum claims process. If a person's application is successful, they will be granted asylum in Rwanda. If not, they will either be deported to the country of origin or a third country where they may seek asylum. The UK government has not clarified the criteria for determining which asylum seekers will be transferred. However, it has said that flights could begin in the coming weeks with an initial focus on single men who cross the English Channel in small boats or lorries. Operational command over the waters has been handed over from the border force to the Royal Navy. Rwanda has stated that the agreement in its current form is set to last for five years. The Foreign Ministry stated that the UK had already paid for housing and integration of migrants. People fleeing war, torture and prosecution have a right to claim refugee status in the UK under international agreements. However, they can only claim asylum on British soil. Once the new agreement is enforced, asylum seekers may be transported to Rwanda before even getting a chance to raise their claims. According to reports, senior civil servants within the UK Home Office had raised concerns regarding the offshoring proposal. These were overruled by Home Secretary Priti Patel who issued a rare ministerial direction to push forward with the agreement. The UK has tried to justify its inhumane policies as a crackdown on illegal smuggling of people across borders. Advocates argue that this emphasis distracts from the violent border policies adopted by states which push vulnerable people to take irregular routes. Rights groups and the United Nations have warned that such offshoring policies are ineffective and often violate international law. The UK is hardly alone in pursuing such violent and xenophobic policies. For example, Israel struck deals in 2013 to transfer asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea to Rwanda and Uganda. An estimated 4,000 people were deported under the scheme. However, a 2018 study by Oxford University revealed refugees had escaped Rwanda with many attempting to reach Europe. Denmark's ruling Social Democratic Party has proclaimed a zero refugees policy. In June 2021, Parliament passed a legislation under which refugees would be sent to a third country outside Europe for their applications to be processed. Over 150 organisations have written to the Boris Johnson-led government calling on them to scrap their proposals. This includes the widely opposed Nationality and Waters Bill, which is currently in Parliament. Many people come from countries that are connected to the UK because of war, invasion or colonisation. To send people seeking asylum to Rwanda is cruel and immoral and is the breach of the Refugee Convention, said the letter.


if I were that smart, I would tell everybody that, like, I've known Nick Elon for a few years now and he is legitimately like one of the smartest people I've ever talked to. Like, in fact, I went to him after the elemending became a thing. It's been a few years now and asked him how he would fix baseball just because he worked on the grounds crew for the Cincinnati Reds for a long time. Like, baseball is his number one passion and he came up with an idea that if it ever got implemented, I think would be incredible for the game. He just explains the dynamic strike zone, right? Yeah. I think it's great. I love the dynamic strike zone and let me tell you something. If that were tried at some point in the next year or two in the Atlantic League, it would not surprise me. It's really brilliant because you'd have to swing early on the count. You wouldn't be sitting there looking for a pitch. Yeah. Exactly. Like if you want to talk about, listen, we can talk about pitch clocks all we want. If you want to get the pace of play quicker, have guys swing earlier in the count. And if you are incentivized to swing earlier in the count, it's perfect. Like it is, to me, it is a flawless idea if you have an open mind about baseball. And the fact that it expands as you get deeper in the county advantage goes back to the pitchers. Incredible. Like to me, it's a perfect idea. Now, speaking of flawless, it has not been flawless the way Rob Manfred has handled this. And we've gone back and forth. And Don seems to think that his job could be in jeopardy. I don't think it is in jeopardy. I think his job is to make the owner's money. That has not been affected. Do you believe he's in any trouble at all, Jeff? I think your read on the situation, Michael, is perfect. I think until their money is threatened, that they, the owners, his bosses are going to let Rob Manfred continue doing what he's done, which is grow the game financially. And he's been really, really good at that. Now, you can argue, and I think you can make a fair argument that the commissioner's job is not just the financial one, but it's to shepherd the game in the right direction. But let me tell you something. Right now, I know this for a fact, right now, the Los Angeles Angels, who are opening their season at home against the Houston Astros are selling more tickets. I mean, lots more tickets. And you know why? Because Dodger's fans are buying them to go down there and through the Astros. Major League Baseball now, guys, has a villain. Major League Baseball has this unbelievably beautiful storyline, instantaneously built into its season. And the idea that more people are going to be interested in baseball, whether it is for the game being better or because you have these villains out there, there is still interest. And there is a very compelling, I think argument to be made that when it's all said and done, the cheating scandal is going to have been good for baseball. That sounds horrible to say it does. Like it makes it weird to me out saying that. But I think it's true. I think because Michael said the same opinion, Jeff, I think that's kind of wishful thinking. Number one, I'm not sure how sustainable it is because eventually it's just going to go away because baseball is not going to allow it to happen. You know, because it comes down to I'm going to like June 2nd, they come to City Field.  Warnings are going to be issued right away. Baseball is going to be right on top of this. So yeah, first game of series, it'll go on for a little while. Eventually it'll just peter itself out and we'll get back into the nuts and bolts of the baseball. But even during the controversies with football with the deflate gate and with spy gate, I never heard football fans saying I'm done with the sport. I'm hearing a lot about that, you know, with baseball fans. I don't know if they're telling the truth or not, but I think there's just as much a possibility. Listen, you got to be honest, Jeff, people, a lot of people are on the fence about the sport, that the game is a little bit too slow. Yeah, they're flush with cash, but attendance has been ticking down. You know, you don't want to tick off the guy that's waiting for a reason to walk away from the game. So I think it's very much up in the air. And if it does go further downward, it's it's easy to bang the commissioner, right? I mean, it's easy if he loses the owners. And if these players are upset, I'm sure owners are upset too. I'm sure the sign branders are not happy with him. I'm sure Dodger ownership is not happy with him. Nope. So if you end up losing the right owner, you can end up being out of a job. Yeah, I think I think that you make some some very fair points in there. I will say this. What we're talking about with fans saying I'm done with baseball. It's just anecdotal. And you know, it's also anecdotal. The the water cooler conversations that are happening right now where people are talking about baseball and the non baseball fans who at parties are saying, Hey, what's with this astros thing and are showing more interest in baseball? Now, again, in a controversy, but in something tangentially related to baseball, and they have in years. And and to me, the science feeling standard is almost the gateway drug into the game. And the thing that could again turn them off is the fact that the game right now just isn't what it can and should be. The game is slow. The game does have too many strikeouts. The game has all of these great athletes who I believe are better at actually playing baseball than anybody in history. And that is no disrespect to heavily and no disrespect to make the name of Babe Ruth, Henry and all of the greats of the past. But I think if you were to throw them into the game right now, we're taking a year to figure out how to help hit pitches that are, you know, 93 mile per hour sliders like nobody through 93 mile per hour fastballs outside of Walter Johnson and Bob Feller. There were a handful of guys who were throwing in the mid nineties back when you know, the golden era players were playing now. Everybody is throwing that hard. So the game itself, the athletes who are playing it are better than they've ever been. Maybe you fall in love with that watching it just one time. So you can see the dam astros. Now, there's something I think that is a real problem with this though, Jeff. As long as I've been covering the sport 35 years now, I've never seen big time athletes go on the record and destroy other athletes. I think that's an issue. I mean, Manfred has to do something about it because that's not a good look. Have you ever seen this in your time covering the sport? I'm coming up on 20 years now. I haven't seen anything anywhere close to this. Let's flash back to Alex Rodriguez, guys, when he's trying to get his 162 game suspension overturned. Alex Rodriguez now understand it was an individual decision to use performance and answered drugs. But Alex Rodriguez was not getting slimed in the public at all. And he very easily could have been by players out there. He did think ill of him, but they bit their tongues. No one's biting his tongue right now. And that is, I think that's something, Michael, that even Major League Baseball didn't anticipate when they went out and did this. I think, you know, on January 13 when Rob Manfred issued his report, the vitriol was not nearly what it is now. But over the last month, something's happened. I think players have looked at the whole of this thing and seen the Astros response to it and found it entirely insufficient. And having been here in West Palm Beach for the last 11 days, having spoken one on one with most of the Astros players who were there in 2017, I can tell you right now, they haven't been punished. They haven't been suspended. But the punishment of knowing that your professional reputation, if not ruined, is at least tarnished. That your peers whose respect matters to you as an athlete more than anything, nothing, nothing more of you than your cheer. That is something that you will carry for the rest of your life. So the idea that they've gone without punishment, I just don't buy it. Well, I mean, but they have and one thing I wanted to bring up.  That's number one. And number two, why isn't that title taken away? Forget about punishing the players. Why should they be allowed to call themselves champions? Why? Number one, blame my producer, Sean Fitzgeralds for that. He's a good man. He's a great man. He's the best. One A, of course, Oberman of all people was in my ear yesterday before the live shot, telling me to lift my left arm so I could put over the top 2017 World Champion. Like he was the devil on my shoulder. Literally. And number number two, why haven't they done it yet? You know, early on, I think we had a conversation about this where I laid out the argument why you can't strip or why you shouldn't strip a team of its title. Have you changed your mind? Um, I'm thinking a lot more about it now than I am. And here's the thing, like, I am okay changing my position on something if I feel like there's compelling evidence out there to change it. I don't feel like I'm being a flip flopper. I feel like my position is never in transit. And that I want to evolve as the facts reveal themselves more. And the truth of the matter is I can see an argument for doing that now. I really can't. I talked to enough people, enough people who I respect, not people who I think are really smart and thoughtful, who believe that to be the case. And if there are smart, thoughtful people out there who believe this, then at very least I need to reconsider my position. I'm not there yet. But I can find myself getting at some point. Now, we've heard from Manfred, I think he should be done. As far as you know, defending himself and defending the ruling we've heard from the players he's talking, he's talking again tonight, by the way. Well, I think that's another one. He does, you know, he does two, two media availability this spring, one in Florida and one in Arizona. His Arizona wanted this afternoon and I trust in my media brethren out there that they're going to ask a different set of questions and that continues to push this story along. So we will hear more from him today. He continues to talk, the players continue to talk. Don't you think it's time for Tony Clark to speak? Well, Mr. Legreppa, tomorrow he may or may not be at New York Met's camp having a union meeting with the Met's. So I believe that we are going to hear from Tony Clark tomorrow. See, that's... And I'm curious, I'm curious, Don, what questions or questions do you think he should be asked? Well, I think what should be asked is you have your players red hot at the few that the perception is you're protecting because, you know, Manfred said part of the reason he didn't go after the players is because it wouldn't have worked anyway. The players association would have appealed it. I wouldn't have had a leg to stand on as far as trying to discipline the players. Well, Tony Clark's got an opportunity to answer to that and what is he playing on doing in the future if something like this happens? Because remember, they waved it for the PEDs, right? Because the many overshadowed the few. He's got the same situation here where the majority of his players are upset. So I'd like to hear what he plans on doing. Would he talk to Manfred? Would he wave, you know, appealing if he tried to go after the players? If ever the 2019 investigation was reopened, which I think there is enough evidence, Jeff, that maybe the commissioner could reopen 2019 with the buzzers, that's where I want to know is how far is he willing to defend the few at the expense of the many? Okay, so there are a few points here to be made. And I want you to think about this and I want to give you some time to think about it because I don't know that you got a good answer for this, but I would love to know what sort of evidence you believe is out there. And don't answer the show. I'm going to finish my answer. But what sort of evidence do you believe is out there that proves the investigation should be reopened to look into the buzzers? Now, getting to your earlier point about standing up for the players, the union has a legal obligation to stand up for its members and to fight for them. And as much as in his heart, Tony Clark, especially the former player, may believe that what the Astros did was completely beyond reproach, the union would cease to exist the moment it does not fight for the players. So it has to do that. And that's part and parcel with this whole thing. Now, let's get back to the buzzers. What do you know, John LaGretta, but I don't. Because long before John Boy went and posted about buzzers, myself and other reporters at ESPN were looking at them, trying to find evidence that just did not find anything substantive enough to print. But what I do find curious is when the John Boy stuff came out and the commissioner was asked about it, he said we are already an investigator, it was already part of our investigation and we didn't find anything. Yes. Now, would that have been the stance like well after as more and more video started to go around? And I can I can I can tell you I can tell you right now. I know this for a fact every player from the 2019 Astros who was interviewed was asked about buzzers. Like they were asked about specifically buzzing band-aids. Now, maybe I take that back. I don't know if it was specifically said where they're buzzing band-aids, was there wearable technology? I don't know how it was praised, but well, that's important though, right from the semantics of it because it might not have been a buzzer. It might have been something else. And I'm technically not lying because it wasn't a buzzer. I mean, and here's the thing. The the lawyers at Major League Baseball are a lot smarter than anyone on this phone call and probably smarter than they can do. And so the idea that they would ask a question as narrowly as that is probably not real. I think if you make it as wide as wearable technology, that would make a lot of sense. Now, they were given immunity, right? So even if they had answered... They were given immunity in exchange for truthful testimony. If they are found at any point to have lied to Major League investigators, I offer you the case of John Copauella. My, you know, the majority of people listening probably don't know who he is. He's the general manager of the Atlanta Braves. Back when he was GM, they ran a foul of international signing rules by packaging bonuses. Now, this is something that under normal circumstances probably would have led to a one-year suspension. But John Copauella lied to Major League Baseball about it. Now, he has joined too with Joe Jackson and Pete Rose on the ban list. He is gone from baseball. So the idea that the the Astros players, if they were lying about this, would not be suspended. They will get suspensions and they will get long suspensions if their testimony is proven to be out true. But there's also the conspiracy theorist in me that believes that the players could have been protected. Because how what percentages are we working with? Is it 50% immunity so we can get information or 50% I don't want to I don't want to bust the players because I can't I can't do anything with them anyway because the players association is going to appeal it and I can't suspend them anyway. So it's convenient to talk about immunity when you weren't going to be able to bang them anyway. So here's the thing down there. They were they were granted immunity because of the lack of notice. Now that is a legal tenant and labor law that says that if something changes in your disciplinary track, you must be informed of it in order to receive it. Players were never informed of that because neither Jeff Luna nor AJ Hinch, who were tasked with doing that, told that to players. On the other hand, in this case, let me just finish. In this case, what would happen is they would be disciplined for lying to the commissioner. That is something that is not covered by lack of notice. And thus, the major league baseball players associate would have an impossible time trying to get that suspension overturned. Now you mentioned the legality of having to protect any player in your players association if you're Tony Clark. Okay, they did have some sort of wavering of that during the PD scandal where you're now allowed to suspend somebody for full year ban them from baseball because the player's association understood. No, but that was that was a collectively bargained disciplinary track. That's something that the Players Association and Major League Baseball agreed on, which is also something that's coming up. My point is, is that Manfred could still go to Tony Clark. Something can still be worked out here where at least Tony Clark is protecting the many. I mean, he's got players going on record and also some players, Jeff, going on record assuming that they wore buzzers in 2019. That's already been talked about too. So it's all the court of public perception. So we don't live in the in the real world here. We're living in the baseball world where the court of public opinion still matters and you've got players just assuming on record that they wore buzzers in 2019. So I think Tony Clark can sue this by the Players Association and the Commissioner to get together to at least allow in the future disciplining players who cheat. I can tell you right now that is already happening. One final thing. I think Rob Manfred is very bright. Why would he make a comment? Piece of metal. How could he be that tone deaf? I think that this is an unsatisfactory answer, Michael. So so please like please understand that breakfast. He screwed up. Yeah.   That's I mean, that's that's all. And I think I think he knows that and I think he admits that and I'm I'm sure that that he looks at that and says, God, did I make a mistake there? Because the last you know, the last thing that you want to do here is is be flip or be condescending and that that to players and the fans was just insulting and it was, you know, I it's unfortunate like it. But at the same time, the man is paid extremely well and it has a job to lead baseball in the right direction. So you have to be, you know, I was there that morning when I was talking with Carl Ravich talked to him for 45 minutes. I thought Ravi was incredible in that interview. There were no softballs there. He went right at him. And you know what? When you are getting grilled for 45 minutes to be on the entire time, I'm sure you guys go home every day and say, God, I wish I wouldn't have said that in the second hour. God, why did I do that? I screwed that opportunity up and we have a chance to make our mistakes better the next day. Rob Manfred at this point with as much scrutiny as on him has no chance to fix his mistakes and just has to wear them. In 10 seconds, you think that Manfred will reconsider and take away their championship? Will he reconsider it? Absolutely. I just don't know at this point if he's willing to go and take it away and I will try and be as quick here as possible. Here I think is the calculus. Will taking away the championship, Michael, be enough to satisfy the bloodlust of the public and further beyond that is satisfying the bloodlust of the public a proper reason to do something as big as taking away a chance. Not the public though, Jeff. The players. The players are upset that they're getting away scot free. Not the public. Forget about the public. The players are a judge. Cody Ballinger, Michael, you you you get you're right about the players, but you can't forget about the public because ultimately the public's judgment is what is going to shake the narrative. Okay, but I think that when star players do something they never do that that should be noted. Yeah, totally 100% correct. Good stuff, Jeff. Enjoy that sign again. Take it easy, boys. Alright, thanks a lot.


Good morning ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the commanding general, welcome to the change of command ceremony in which Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Herman will relinquish command to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bowling Jr. Today's parade is being executed by the officers and Marines of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3. Please rise for the indication by Command Chaplain, Captain Greg T. Schluter, Chaplain Corps, United States Navy. Let us pray. Almighty God, whose glory is in all the world. We recognize that all authority comes from you and that without you there is no authority. We ask your blessings today on Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3 as we celebrate the change of command. Heavenly Father, we commend the squadron to your merciful care. Thanking you for the work you have done through your servant, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Herman during his tenure of command. We thank you for his faithfulness and ask your continued blessings upon him as he moves on to new challenges. We also ask your blessings upon your servant, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bowling Jr. as he assumes the mantle of leadership today. Give him your wisdom, guidance, and strength as he leads his squadron to do your will. Be with him in difficult times and help him to command this squadron as you see fit. As Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3 continues to fulfill its mission, we pray your continued grace and protection from every evil. All this we ask in your holy name. Amen. Thank you. Please be seated. Present day parades in the Marine Corps have their basis in both history and tradition. The mass formation of troops on one long line at close interval made possible the massing of firepower from the muzzle-loaded muskets of the past. The agitant forms the line of battle, and in those early days that line consisted of two or three ranks, much like in the parade you will see today. The agitant for today's parade is Second Lieutenant Danielle C. Eitel. Sound agitant's call will begin today's ceremony. The agitant has formed the line of troops for today's parade. The agitant returns to her position, facing the line of troops. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of colors. Thank you. Please be seated. The agitant will now command. Sound off. This will signal a band to parade forward of the assembled line of troops while playing military marching music. The parade agitant now presents the assembled command to the commander of troops. Now taking his position is the reviewing officer for today's parade, the commanding general, Third Marine Aircraft Wing. Major General Christopher J. Mahoney. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for honors to Major General Mahoney. Please be seated. Now taking his position in the reviewing area is the commanding officer, Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron III, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Perman. Now taking his position in the reviewing area is Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bolen Jr. Ladies and gentlemen, we now come to the ceremony's most solemn moment, the actual passing of the command. The battle colors of a Marine Corps unit symbolize the authority and accountability of command. Transferring the colors during the ceremony symbolizes the relinquishing of command by Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Herman. And by accepting the colors, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bolen Jr. accepts command and confirms his total commitment to the Marines and sailors that he will command. Sergeant Major Alena M. Rodriguez is delivering the colors to the commanding officer from commandant to the Marine Corps to Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Perman. Subject for Elinquishment of Command, effective 1004 June 2021. You stand detached as a commanding officer of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron III, signed David H. Berger, General, United States Marine Corps. From commandant to the Marine Corps to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bolen Jr. Subject, Assumption of Command, effective 1004 June 2021. You will assume duties as a commanding officer of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron III, signed David H. Berger, General, United States Marine Corps. Ladies and gentlemen, the commanding general of Third Marine Aircraft Wing, Major General Mahoney. A special welcome to the families, to the Bolen family, to the Herman family. And great to see you here. And we even let, we even let another wing Bolen into the, into the mix today, coming down, Thomas Brother. So we begin the summer ritual of transitions, PCSs, and today changes in command.  But to me, it was required and necessary to keep the blood pumping and to keep the organism healthy. So the change that you see today is part of the life cycle of the Marine Corps, and it's actually a good thing. That said, I want to welcome an accomplished and seasoned officer and aviator recognized a transfer of authority to him from another accomplished, seasoned officer and aviator. And that's what we're here to do today. But first, I'd like to put command in a little bit of perspective. When I was down in hangar one as CEO of VMFA 242, my mission was fairly precise, fighter attack effects in support of the mad cat. Very easy to focus. 250 Marines, zero major generals, zero colonels, zero left-handed colonels, seven majors, one E9, and about a dozen MLSs. Pretty easy to get that thing going in one direction and focus. Bit of perspective. MWHS-3, 588 Marines and sailors, a major general, 10 colonels, 20 lieutenant colonels, 32 majors, wait for it, 24 E9s, 24 E9s a band, and 153 MLSs, 153 different specialties.  Extremely challenging, extremely difficult. But I will tell you, we're here to reflect upon the fact that it was done to the first order by Lieutenant Colonel Harman and throw the challenge out in front of Lowe as we go forward. But it doesn't just happen. Everybody knows that. It doesn't happen because you got selected. It won't happen because you got selected.  So three things stand out to me about Lieutenant Colonel Harman. The first is engaged leadership. And that's not just a marquee. Now appearing engaged leadership, success will follow. It is in the name to me two things. You recognize the weaknesses you train to. You show them up and make them stronger. But you flip the coin over and just as important as not more important, you recognize your strengths and you exploit them to success. We saw that in space, that was Lieutenant Colonel Harman. The second thing is relationships and managing them. 24 E9s, 10 Colonel, they can handle it. Seeing on the commander is not going to be good enough. It's not. You have to develop relationships at a personal level and go as deeply as you possibly can in order to succeed. Now I'll tell you, from observation and from interaction, you do that in fine form. And lastly is something that might be a little bit more esoteric, but it's command and presence. You can't walk up to a colonel as a Lieutenant Colonel and say, I'm the commander. They'll look at his collar and go, that's excellent. I'm not, but I'm me and you're not. That sort of thing. So you have to have a presence that brings the authority to command to that point, to get your point, to get your effect, to get your objective across. And I want you to do it on numerous occasions. Very well done. So whether it was a pandemic that changed the way we work, the way we live, the way we behave toward each other, whether it was supporting numerous deployments, exercises, and the churn of everyday staff life, which is fairly fast paced at the Third Marine aircraft wing that gets after supporting 15,000 Marines and sailors that are out there in the field. You and your outfit with a quintessential enablers, which is codeword for unsung heroes, which by definition means you do your best, you get the job done, and you watch someone else take the line, just that role. You attack it and you crush it. And for that, my hat is off to you from the corner office. But talking about unsung heroes, hey, we know that you were 51% of that command team. And your efforts, believe me, do not go unnoticed. And the support that you gave to your husband and the way that reflected on the command was spurred. Now, be called to the point of friction at some point. I'm a little bit old. It may not be during my time, but it's going to happen. When you look at a command team like this, when you look at the effect that this command team had, I know that when that time comes, and it's a question of when, it's not a question of when. When we build and espouse command teams like this, that's what will get us to the objective. That's what will get us the main carnival. So once again, gratitude and thanks, Andy, superb job. All right, local. Welcome. Welcome to your family. Besides being a low country lad, you know, the heat and humidity of beautiful South Carolina, besides having the indelible length of the T-bolts on you, and the checkerboards, you come with a tremendous reputation, whether it's up at Top Gun, whether it's at the hallway, whether it's with the sweat hogs, whether it's with the T-bolts, or the checkerboards, like I said, or board ship. And when it knows who you are, they know what you're going to bring with you for talent, for force, some of the things that I just told you. It will be a challenge, and it will be fast-paced, but you are selected for the reason to bring out all those things and succeed at the predecessor. So welcome, welcome to everybody, and separate the deltas. Ladies and gentlemen, Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Harbin. Major Joe Mahoney. Colonel Harbin. Colonel Steele. Sergeant Major Wilson. Colonel's Commanders, Sergeant's Major, Master Gunnery Sergeant. Colleagues, friends, and of course family. Thank you so much for being out here on this glorious day to take part in this time-honored tradition. A year ago, we were doing this virtually, so it is very gratifying to see people in person, and I thank you for being here. But an event like this has not come together easily, and I think we need to recognize and keep participants, key people that put this thing together. Sergeant Major Rodriguez and our staff, the color guard, the setup, the tear-down rooms, all the external Marines that supported, and of course the third Marine Aircraft Wing Band, who just makes the ceremony that much better. So if I could get a round of applause for all of you. Major Joe Mahoney, thank you for your comments. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be the Marine Wing Headquarter Squadron 3 Commander. Thank you for giving me the decision space to meet our requirements and our challenges. I'm greatly appreciative. Marine Wing Headquarter Squadron has a rich history, and I am very fortunate to be a part of that squadron's legacy. But really the strength of this squadron and the 580-plus Marines, sailors, and civilians of Phyllis ranks, I've been inspired daily by their hard work, their dedication, and their sense of duty to do something that is greater than themselves. For that I'm honored to be a part of this. Like, personally say thank you and express my gratitude to some key individuals that helped me along the way in providing their time, their mentorship in my professional development. Colonel Steele, Colonel Jarrose, and countless others gave me your time, gave me your honest feedback and critiques, and you made me a better leader and better decision maker. I never thought or expected to face a global pandemic for the bulk of my command team. But as the nation's 9-1-1 force, the Marines did what the Marines did. They saw the challenge, they rose to that challenge, and they adapted as well as they could to get the job done. I'm extremely proud of their hard work and efforts amongst the changing policy and the myriad of changing actions that took place over the last 15 months. I certainly couldn't have navigated a global pandemic without the support and experience of Cap Shuiha, our wing surgeon. Sir, I thank you for our frequent talks, your mentorship, your expertise, your patience, and I'm so blessed to build a relationship with you to help me make better decisions as we've protected our force. So thank you. I'm not alone. I had an incredible staff at the command post that helped me out, and the maims are too many to mention, but a few do stand out for mentioning here. It's my three XOs over the two years, majors O'Driscoll, Weinfeld, major Christie. Thank you for turning ideas into actions leading the staff. Thank you for shouldering the load and providing me that sounding board. I appreciate it. My officers, Major Gravel, my young lieutenants, Lieutenant Hurtado, Ball, Ligon, Heard, Hytel, thank you so much for your energy, tireless work ethic, and relentless job accomplishment in pursuing a job well done. Keep up that good work. The Marine Corps is in great hands as you come up in the ranks. Finally, to Sergeant Major Rodriguez, who I know is probably putting out fire somewhere around here. I can't imagine a better person to have by my side for these two years. Actually, we definitely leaned on you for your support as we went through some challenges. We're grateful for the dog walking, the dog sitting, the taking care of the house, and other things as we live at the hospital. So I thank you very much for everything that you have done for us. We cannot pay it back, but all I can say is that we love you, and we appreciate your support. My wife, Annie, my son, Andrew, much for everything that you have given me. Your strength and ability amazes me daily. I knew that the home front was in good hands. It allowed me to focus on the Marines and Sailors at any moment would be a better commander, and I thank you very much. Lieutenant Colonel Bolen, this is a great day. I am so excited to see what you do to take the Marines and Sailors and civilians of this exceptional unit to the next level. Your past experiences, your reputation, you are set up very well to lead the next challenge that we face. You will be challenged in command, but I know that you will hit it head-on and your resolve will carry us through the day. I look forward to seeing what you accomplish. I wish you all of the best, and I look forward to working with you. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce the new Commanding Officer, Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron III, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bolen Jr. Thanks, Pee-wee. Colonel, Sergeant Major, Senior Enlicit Fellow Commanders, friends of family. Thank you all for being here today. Looking out amongst the crowd, this is truly an honor. I'm humbled to be standing here. General Mahoney, sir, thank you for the kind words. I'm ready for the challenge. I'm looking forward being part of your team and working with everyone as we go forward. I'd like to take a second to recognize a few key individuals that have been instrumental to me getting to this position. So returning the favor, Pee-wee, first off, thank you for the ridiculously thorough and professional turnover that you gave me over the past couple weeks. You and I didn't know each other three, four months ago, but there is absolutely no way that I would have been able to piece together the 150 different MOSes, the 18 different entities without the dedication and the passion that you have for this command was evident in everything that we did. I truly am grateful to you, to my parents, Tommy Lane, who came all the way from Maine. Thank you guys for being here, even though I know you guys, there was no way that you were going to miss this trip. It goes without saying, I think everybody knows that we're all a product of our upbringing, childhood, in some way, shape or form, good or bad. As I reflect on getting to this position, my experiences, I'm doubly, I know, you guys were instrumental in setting the foundation for my successes. The core values that we hold dear in our naval service were always evident because of you two. If you start something, make sure you finish it, commitment, do what you say you're going to do, take pride in what you do, honor, help those along the way that maybe need some help themselves, courage. Thank you both for the example that you set. Thank you both for doling up the discipline you did that was often needed, I'm sure. And thank you for the unconditional love that you guys continue to provide. I love you. To my sister, Liana, and her sweet little, my nephew, I guess, right? Avery, thank you for coming all the way to Boston. To my brother, Lieutenant Colonel Select, who is also known as a major in the Marine Corps, Marcus, thank you for being here. Thank you guys for your loving support. To all the Marines, sailors, civilians, everyone that I've sat down with over the past couple weeks in this command, thank you all for your professionalism and helping get me up to speed to face this challenge as we go forward here. To the Marines on the field, the ceremony field, I undoubtedly know that all of you volunteered to be out there. So with that, thank you for the time and effort and patience you have to make the ceremony the joy of what it is today. And finally, to the band, it's great to see you guys back in action. As I reflect again back to the ceremonies that I've had in my career and seeing, you never remember what the new guy says up here, right? But what you do remember are the feelings of pride and joy that you see in our band marching before us. So with that, thank you. To all the Marines, sailors and civilians of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3, as we begin this journey together, there's a lot of uncertainty in it and we can't, we don't know what will happen, right? But the one thing that is guaranteed and that we do know that has been stated and talked about before, underscored throughout history, evidenced by the pandemic that we all face, is that we can't predict what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day or the next. But what I do know is if we come together as a team, we put aside all of our egos, our self-interests, we have a bias for action, and we just execute the basics brilliantly. There's no challenge that we will ever face that we can't overcome. I need everybody in this command to be ready mentally and physically to communicate efficiently and effectively, to uphold and enforce and record standards, and every single day to get just a little bit better so that not if, but when our number is called, we do right by those that have gone before us and uphold the legacy of our core. I'm humbled to be standing up here before you all today. It's an honor to be a part of your team and I look forward to serving with each and every one of you as we start this journey. Thank you and separate for now. In blue flowers, the Herman and Bowen cameras will be making a donation to Rady Children's Hospital, Ronald McDonald House. All donations will be going on behalf of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3. The commanding officer of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bowlin Jr. Lieutenant Colonel Bowlin would like to invite all past commanding officers of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3 to join him in the reviewing area for the pass and review. As a reminder, please rise as the colors pass in from your position and remain standing for Anchors Away and the Marine's Hind. It is now customary that Marines present and who have served honorably, sing the first verse of the hymn. The commander of troops for today's parade is Major Calvin B. Padden, the aircraft wing bank under the direction of Staff Sergeant John Geary. The drum major is Staff Sergeant Zachary Hyde. Headquarters Squadron 3 Color Sergeant is Sergeant Anthony S. Jeter. Officers and Marines of Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 3, thank you for your attendance. Semper Fidelis would like to extend an invitation to join them at the officer's club for a reception.


But the argument to stay is look how much money and what do I have out there? I have nothing out there. These are all losers and we'll get that's an important important theme about this. All of the people playing the game for one reason or another, their fault or not their fault are losers. And they vote 50-50 and then one vote says to leave. So they leave. Now they have a chance to stay on the outside. They know what the game's about. They know it's a life or death. And yet 80% of them choose to return to the game. Even the people who voted to leave choose to go back because when they go back, they realize how lousy, crummy, horrific, horrible their life is on the outside. Now this is all set in modern day South Korea. Now in what sense are these losers? They're poor. They're in debt, all of them in debt, some form or another.  The gamble, I mean the hero of the show. The person who wins the squid game at the end. The guy who is center focus of the Thai series. Is somebody who cannot make a living. Who steals money from his mother who's dying throughout the show. In order to gamble. Who then loses the money he gambled to a pickpocket. Somebody who cannot, who has a daughter and a wife that have left him. He's trying to regain the trust of a daughter but can't.  He's poor. He lives with his mother. He's probably, I don't know, 40 years old, lives with his mother. His daughter's going to leave for America. He can't do anything about it. He has no money. He's massively in debt. The gangsters are after him. They're going to take his eye out and take his organs to pay off the debt. It's like Shylock from the merchant of Venice. They're going to extract a pound of flesh. And he can't do anything about it.  And then the money is stolen from him.  Nice guy in quotes because he's not really nice. He's an altruist.   And this is part of the theme.  He's constantly making decisions for the benefit of others where his life is at risk. He's constantly behaving altruistically for the sake of other people. Not to win and yet he's the one who wins. It has to be him because he's the only one who doesn't consistently constantly act to win. And the other main character who is the finalist with him at the end of the show is the brains of the operation. This is the smart guy. Now he grew up with our quote hero in the same slums. His mother works a fish stall in the slum. He started out dirt poor. But he is the pride of the neighborhood. He went to university. He got out. He got a great job. And his mother thinks he's in America on a business trip. What actually has happened and again crucial to the theme is he has committed fraud. He's embezzled millions and millions and millions of dollars. Money he can never repay unless he wins the game. But he is the example of the guy who got out. And yet didn't.  It's not clear why they're their husband and a wife. But of all the characters, there are only two that are, well, actually three that are sympathetic.  None of these people are decent human beings.  Somebody who doesn't actually love his mother because he steals money from it, doesn't actually love his daughter because he betrays her constantly. And yet this is the guy. Yeah, Ali, we'll get to capitalism, we'll get to that. I think the theme of this movie is far deeper than capitalism. I think capitalism is one of the themes. That is one of the themes is this question of capitalism. But I really think the theme of it is much deeper than capitalism and we'll get to that. So there are only three characters in this game, 456, that we get to know who are decent human beings. One is an immigrant from Pakistan, not very smart, strong, but no smarts who is ultimately brutally and disgustingly betrayed by the man he comes to respect and admire and form a friendship with, which is the smart one, the embezzler, the fraudster. And he is, he dies knowing that he was completely betrayed, he was cheated and betrayed. The second positive character is a girl who's there because she's been in jail. We don't see much of her. We see her in one episode really. We really get to know her in one episode and then she's killed in that episode.  Oh, I need to talk to you about this episode because it's a powerful episode. It's only episode that's really powerful, but it's also super evil.  So she's innocent.   Two of them are killed in episode six and the last one is killed in episode seven or eight.  Think about this game for a minute, right? Your odds of winning, let's say it's luck, is one in 456.  Who would play this? Who would play this? Yeah, like the Marvel episode is the best episode by far because it's the most touching, it's the most emotional. It's the most interesting and reveals the characters for who they really are. It's the most personal. They team up in twos to play a game, but they don't know what the game is going to be. So many of them team up strategically. The smart one goes with the guy who has a lot of muscle. And the idea is that they're going to be partners. They're going to play against other teams. Our hero teams up with the old guy who's dying anyway because somebody needs to team up with the old guy and it's the altruistic thing to do.  It's the losers thing to do. And the two girls team up because they kind of trust each other. But it turns out that the game is not against other teams. The game is these couples playing against each other. For example, a husband and wife have to play against each other where one of them must die. And this episode is hard to watch because the smart guy manipulates the strong guy even though they're supposed to be friends, uses his trust, abuses his trust and kills him basically. Our hero lies to the old man, which is the right thing to do in that circumstance because the old man is dying anyway and we'll get to the old man in a minute. Cheats him and the old man dies or at least we think he does. And the two girls after telling each other their life stories, the girl who was in jail basically commits suicide, gives in, loses the game on purpose so that the North Korean can live. The only act of nobility I think in the entire series, I'm interested in anybody else thinks otherwise, the only act, really noble act, the only act of any worth in the whole freaking series. Anyway, all kinds of games and they keep figuring out new ways to kill people so the violence is gratuitous. It's all the time. There's blood everywhere. They're mangled organs. There's brain splattered over the walls. You know, the bodies just pile up nonstop throughout the show. No, no thinking over more snow questioning just bodies upon bodies upon bodies. At some point the players in the game realize that they could kill each other even in their off time, even when the game's not on. So they start fighting among each other and try to kill each other and some of the key deaths happen not in the game but during the off time and that's not cheating. That's part of the game. Now of course, who is running this game or rich people? Why are they running this game? For their own amusement and we'll get to that in a minute. Rich people are being entertained by these people slaughtering each other, killing each other, dying for each other. So what is the theme of this? What is this trying to convey? What is the message that this is telling the viewer?  And the things that corrupts them beyond identification but beyond anything is money. Money is the root of all evil. To everybody, everybody there. It's less about the ruling classes. It's less about capitalism. It's much broader than capitalism. People are fundamentally evil and that evil is triggered, exacerbated, manifest when money is involved. It's not about the inability of the poor to rise up and become rich because the guy who goes to university and leaves the thing is poor, becomes rich but they need battles and commit fraud, right? Because money did it because he wanted even more. The guy who starts the game, the guy who invents the game, the guy who sets it up, the guy behind it all turns out to be the old man who was playing. And why did he do it? It turns out he had risen from poverty to wealth. He grew up good poor and he made it. He succeeded. He made a lot of money and then when he had a lot of money he was bored. He didn't know what to do with it. He was looking for something to do.  Of course, remember that the context here is altruism. So everything's in the context of why are they evil because they won't help a homeless man who's dying in the street. That's the standard, right? Yeah, I like that one of Friedman. Money kills, people don't. Well, money causes people to kill. People are predisposed to kill. People are evil and money brings it out in them. See, he's doing it because he's bored because he doesn't believe in human beings because they're all evil anyway. So why not have a good time? The people who come to watch the games are mostly Americans. I think maybe there's a Chinese there, they're wearing masks. They're just ugly, horrible, you know, caricatures of rich dudes who just want to see people slaughtering each other. It's the games of Rome, but there's a difference. It was hard for me to watch. So Landon says, how did you want stomach watching? It was very hard for me to watch. I did not enjoy it one bit. I did it for you guys. It was a sacrifice. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I got paid to watch it. I would have never watched it if nobody paid me. Because how truly horrible it really is, particularly in its theme. Again, the only redeemable characters are people who need money in order to save themselves, save their family because of North Korea, but you would think in a proper society, a refugee from North Korea wouldn't have to do this to save themselves. So it's definitely a criticism of capitalism that creates this. But in South Korea, there's this deep distrust of inequality that goes back to South Korea's history. South Korea's history of basically a feudal country in which they were lords and serfs. If you think about Mr. Sunshine, they are lords and they are serfs. And that kind of inequality is abhorrent and it's abhorrent to the South Koreans. And most of the TV shows that are good, that I found in Korean, that have been good, that I've really enjoyed have dealt with that. But this is, of course, modern South Korea, where many of those old, you know, fixed inequalities based on birth are gone. Where much of society, maybe not all, maybe still problem society is determined by merit. But there is still that ingrained hatred of inequality. You saw that in the Academy Award-Wording Movie Parasite, which I reviewed here, and you can go back and find the video of me reviewing Parasite. I think it was a really good review. But Parasite basically deals with the question of inequality and how inequality seems to inevitably lead to bloodshed. But Parasite was a brilliant movie, visually, dramatically. It was unexpected. It was beautiful visually. And it was somewhat interesting. I have to say that Squid Game has no redeeming feature. It is evil through and through, evil through and through. Again, the guy who wins the game doesn't deserve any of it. He was helped by other people in various times. He benefited from somebody being smart. He benefited from somebody being strong. He was mainly lucky, altruistic. He indeed actively engaged in activities throughout the show that should have resulted in his death, like teaming up with the wrong people. He did all these strategies wrong. So in the end, to win the Squid Games is a matter of luck and altruism. As in life, the winners, the people who rise to the top are lucky, not able. And the money is going to corrupt them. Here's another example of money corrupt. So there's a number of examples of money corrupt.  But then you've got people who rose up from poverty but commit fraud and stuff. Why? Because of money. Then you've got, by the way, Parasite is a good movie, but again, an evil, horrible theme. Parasite is worth watching because it's as aesthetic value, but the theme, the philosophical theme of the movie was evil. I can't remember what it was right now, but it was wrong. It was bad. It was no good. And then you've got the rich people who stay rich, but then they get bored. So they exploit people to the extent of killing them en masse, hundreds of people. By the way, in Squid Game, it is said that while this Squid Game was being played in 2020, it had started in 1988. It said it had been going on for 32 years. So hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of people had died. It had been, no, thousands of people had been killed because some rich guys were bored. But then, just to be clear of how corrupting this is, so you don't mistake this, the winner of the 2015 Squid Game lands up being the guy who runs Squid Game today. He too was corrupted by the money, corrupted to the point of joining the team that puts these on. By the way, the actor who plays that character is the lead actor in Mr. Sunshine. That was pretty horrible. But he's a good actor. He's good. His brother, by the way, in the show in Squid Game is a cop who's trying to figure out all this stuff. And season two will probably have the cop coming back because he was kind of killed, but we never saw the bodies. He's probably not dead. And he's learning all the secrets behind what's going on. All right.  And people are when they are desperate for money, when they want money, and when they get money. It's not that the poor are noble. The poor might be noble until, no, because the portrayed as scumbags.  But let's say some of the poor are noble. They're noble until they either get money or they have the opportunity to get money. They're completely corrupted by money. They're no good rich guys. They're no good rich people. By implication, it suggests that capitalism is a system of luck. It's a system of zero sum. I mean, one of the things that Squid Game is illustrating is it's zero sum. Only one person can get that money. All the rest have to die. Talk about zero sum. Doesn't get much more zero sum than that. So this is, I don't think it doesn't really bring up capitalism. It brings up people getting rich. I mean, for all we know, they're getting rich by doing something else. We don't know. There's no economic theory here. Genomic Jam says, what do you think of Tim Paul's take made by someone who doesn't understand capitalism and actually demonstrate communism? I don't think it demonstrates communism. Or capitalism. Why does everything have to be political? In art, it's unusual that things are political. This goes to metaphysical nature of man. That's the theme. Man is rotten. It doesn't matter what system they're in. If they're in communism, they're rotten. If they're in capitalism, they're rotten. Whenever, and if there's opportunities to rise up, they're rotten. And even they'll do horrible things to their loved ones. They'll do horrible things to their friends. They'll do horrible things in order to advance, in order to achieve whatever it is that's going to be achieved. Because human beings are metaphysically horrible. That's the point of the show. That's what the show is trying to conceive. That is the theme. That is the point. And then of course, the criticism of capitalism is that capitalism is what creates inequality of wealth because money is the corrupting factor, the primary corrupting factor. That doesn't take much. But money is the corrupting factor. And of course, money is the symbol of capitalism. But no, this isn't communism. There's no communism here. You don't know how the rich guys made their money. Maybe they made their money by stealing it for everybody else. Maybe they made their money. But there is some criticism of, I think at the end in the final episode, the old man says something about, I made money lending money. So there's a criticism of kind of capitalist, the idea that making money for money is immoral and people that make money from money are the pinnacle of evil. But no, I think it's a mistake to view this as, but people will take it as a criticism of capitalism. People will identify it with capitalism. They'll identify the zero of some nature. They'll identify the rich and the poor. They'll identify this idea that, you know, one of the lead character tells a story about a strike when he was at an auto company where they were attacked by the police. They were striking and they lost his job and his life deteriorated since then. But these are all excuses because he has described in the show as a loser from beginning to end. So, yeah, you could view it as a criticism of modern South Korea to the extent that that's capitalist. Then it's of capitalism. It's a critique of any system that creates inequality of any kind. A lot of the, during the games, some of the rhetoric of the people organizing the games, the people putting them on, is here you're all equal. None of you have more than the other. But of course they're not because some of them are smart, some of them are strong. But that doesn't matter in there because in a sense the games are set up that no one characteristic will get you to win. A lot of it's just plain luck. But it's set up as if here we have real equality. Here there's real equal opportunity or equal outcome.  That's it. So it's not, it's definitely egalitarian in its projected ideal but then what it shows as egalitarianism is death and destruction. So the movie has, it's not advocating for anything. And really what it's advocating for, really what it's advocating for is nihilism. It's nothingness. It's death, destruction and really the worship of zero in Iron Man's terminology. This is, it's altruism is a virtue. Nobody lives up to their altruist ideal. Everybody, everybody is corrupt. The ones who are not corrupted just gonna die miserable. Everybody's corrupt. Everybody's corrupt a bill. Money is the primary means in which people are corrupted. What's the point? There is no point. There is no point fighting this. This, by the way, in the squid game there's a scene in which it's indicated that every country has its squid game. This is not just one squid game in the world but these things are going on everywhere in the world supposedly. The Americans say, oh the Koreans, they put on the best squid games. But what's the positive point of the movie there is not?  It's dark, depressing, violent, gross. Again, well made, well acted. I think particularly the episode about playing marbles is particularly powerful from a character development perspective and you get a sense of the characters, their emotions, their lives, their back story. But in my view, do yourselves a favor and don't watch it. Don't watch it. The real question we should be asking ourselves is why is this the most watched series ever on Netflix? It's got mixed reviews from places like The New York Times. The New York Times did not give it a good review, quite a negative review actually. But it's getting some very good reviews. Certainly on Rotten Tomatoes it's got a 90-something percent of score. Why do people like this? And I really do think this show reflects back to the sudden despair that people seem to have. A set of beliefs that are coming together in our culture, cultural value deprivation, very good Travis, absolutely. A set of, a sense in our culture that something in the world is very wrong. A real distrust of one's fellow man, growing sentiment towards capitalism, but towards money, towards inequality. There's the story about inequality that's been told now for over 10 years, for 12 years, over and over and over and over again about the evils of inequality. And it's become a cultural thing. And there's an idealism in the culture. There's an evil under the surface. Remember not that long ago, we had Nazis and communists pulling the trigger on innocent people, slaughtering them in massive numbers. And there are people like Richard Wolff who still defend those slaughters. They pretend they're not slaughters, but that's what they pretend. We have a world in chaos, a world where millions of people have died from a disease, nobody really understands, and nobody believes anybody about everything is suspect, everything is politicized. Some people made a lot of money during this period. Some people did not. Yeah, I mean, this is, this is, this series is about the nihilism of Antifa. This is, this is equity, not equality, not equality before the law and not equality of rights, but equity. Certainly this is a good illustration of the conservative equality of opportunity. Think about life. Life is a game. Life is squid games. You either succeed or you lose. And the way to succeed is to make sure others lose this, because only some people can win. Not everybody can win. I don't know. There's not enough food on the planet. There's not enough stuff. There's too much pollution. There's too much CO2. Not everybody can be winners. So the world is structured where only some people can win. And the winners win it all.  And, oops, it looks like I deleted some, that's one of your comments I deleted by accident. Can't un-deleted, unfortunately, sorry. It's completely zero sum. In a sense, it's negative sum. And that's just the world. That's just life. And I don't know. You know, the fact that this has done so well, the fact that this was so successful, it really makes you wonder about the human race and what it's coming to. And what values of any do they have? It's, I have to say, it's pretty depressing to know that the show was as successful, as popular as it turned out to be. Now I'm curious if anybody liked it. So I'm curious if anybody wants to ask a super chat question from the perspective of liking the show. But it's clearly a show about the evil of money and the evil deep in human beings' hearts. Deep in human beings' hearts. And again, nothing redeemable. The nice guy is an altruist. He's not a good guy. And at the end of the day, this is nihilism. There's nothing else. It's not the theme of the movie is not nihilism. The theme of the movie is the gravity of human beings. But the only positive message, the only positive idea that can come out of such a view of humanity is to hell with it all. What's the point? There is no point. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to youronbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. Those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


When the narcissist regrets playing you the narcissist showed interest in you But they were giving you false hints to play with your emotions They pretended to like you So that they could get something out of it that you wouldn't normally give them They deceived you and you may wonder if they will experience the same kinds of things that they have caused you to experience You may wonder if they will be able to replace you. You may wonder if they will move on and Find what they're looking for After they drained you and try to destroy you what you do with other people Will eventually come back to you Your future consequences are inevitably shaped by your present actions So they may move on They may find someone else They may create a new character for everything that happens to them Will always be a result of things that they have done in the past, which isn't going to be anything good Because they know the wrong they've done And when they're running away They're trying to escape the consequences They're trying to escape the results and effect of their actions They're running from themselves They're running from the damage and destruction that they have left behind Because they don't want to get caught in the blaze They don't want to experience the undesirable effects of that which they have caused So they remove themselves physically Because they believe there won't be any consequences They blame you To absolve themselves from guilt obligation and punishment But they don't realize that there is a spiritual aspect to it They don't realize that they're bringing negative the results upon themselves But karma does exist And there will be unwelcome consequences for their actions I've seen it happen many times in the past The energy they put out Always comes back to them in the end Even if they think they've moved on Even if they think they're safe They will end up in a more difficult and unpleasant situation than before they left you It's only a matter of time But they're constantly trying to gain an advantage through other people They're trying to find people to take care of them They habitually exploit and rely on other people So they're looking for people to fight them with what they need When they already had what they needed They had you You were their grade A source of supply But they messed it up Because they're maladaptive They refuse to adjust themselves to new conditions They refuse to take accountability Instead they blamed you and then they moved on thinking that they could do better than you Which left you hurt and confused Because you gave everything you had to them You thought you were building something with them You thought you had a future But this is just a part of the process of your healing and development It will only make you stronger and better in the end You have to go through the trials and tribulations To become better than who you were But they will never find better because they refuse to take accountability They will search for you in another person But they will never find you Even if they found the perfect person It wouldn't matter. It wouldn't make a difference They would only end up damaging them Because they're damaged so all they can do is damage other people Just as they did with you And that really is their karma They don't see it But what they did to you is a part of their karma They're already experiencing it And even though they may try to find someone to replace you It's not going to last for long It might go well for them in the beginning But eventually it's going to die out Because they're going to interfere with it They're going to cause disturbances and problems And then it's going to be no good for them But they're not going to let you see it They're not going to let you see what they're going through They're masters of manipulation They know how to create an orchestration They know how to plan and coordinate the elements of a situation To produce their desired effect They're not going to let you see them hurt They're not going to let you see them suffering They don't want you to see them weak and vulnerable So you're not going to see it But the way that they choose to live and treat people Will eventually come back to them They will experience the same disruption and destruction That they have caused to other people You may not see it But there's always things going on behind the scenes that you don't see There's always things that you don't know about And I've seen it myself I've seen them depleted I've seen them struggling When they thought they had found something better Which turned out to be a very unpleasant and frightening experience for them While they thought they were going to replace you So they will be constantly searching And they will be searching for you But they will never find you Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coach the Inquiries You can email me at coach.analex survivor.co.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


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